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The Washington herald., 1921-07-26
FORD MUST CHANGE
POWER PLANT OFFER

Henry Fords offer to relieve the
government of the nitrate and power
plant Muscle Shoals, Ala, must
be modified before it can be accepted,
Secretary Weeks has decided.
Mr.. Ford asked that the govern
ment guarantee equipment which
would generate 100000 horsepower.
The government will decline to
make any guarantees, Mr.. Weeks
said.
Suggestion of another bid has
been received by the War Depart
ment," Mr.. Weeks said. In the
meantime Secretary Mellon is pre-
pairing a report on Mr.. Ford's offer.
We will not act in a hurry"
The Washington herald., 1921-07-26
Ex-Envoy's Wife Buried.

oWEGo. N. Y, July 25.-Funeral
services for Mrs. Helene Bakhme-
ten, wife of Boris Bakemeteff,
the last recognized Russian ambas-
sador to the United States. who died
very suddenly here Saturday morn
ing, were held privately at the home
Sunday afternoon. The body will
be placed in a receiving vault until
the arrival Of Bakmeteff from San
Francisco,
The Washington herald., 1921-07-26
BOlsheuik Agents Steal
MOnmchisfs' War Plans

BERLIN, July 25.-Seven appa-
rently Bolshevik agents, who Wis
tied the home of Col. Van Freyberg,
local representative of Gen. Kem-
eneff, anti-Bolshevik leader. in the
guise of detectives and confiscated
his papers, secured information OF
great value to the Lenin govern
ment
The Washington herald., 1921-07-26

CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.
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CONTINUED on FACE THREA
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
American Valuation.
Defects of th Present Method Of As
sessin, Import Duties.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Under
the present tariff law we fix the rate
Of duty and foreigners fix the value OF
the article to be taxed. Importers think
this is the proper method. but American
manufacturers favor q change and arc
urging the American valuation plan OF
assessing duties.
To those who favor the present sys-
tenn I would put this question: After
the city tax rate has been determined
would you favor allowing the property
owner to determine the valuation Of his
property to be taxed? I realize this
sounds absurd. but 1t is no more SO than
the present system OF collecting import
duties. We fix the rate and foreigners
fix the value. and the Government suf-
fers In not receiving the revenue In
tended by the law.
I cannot see how any person without
gainful interest in import trade should
oppose a change. c. y. WAGoNER.
NEW YoRK, September 20.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Fixing the Price Of Imports.

To THE New YORK HERALD: One Of
the serious objections by importers to
the American valuation plan of assess
ing ad valorem duties is that the new
arrangement would make 1t impossible
for them to tell what their selling price
would be in advance or know what the
American selling price would be on the
date of expectation Of their merchandise
from abroad.
cannot see where there would be
any greater risk to the importers under
the American valuation plan than under
the present foreign valuation plan. I'm
der the present law the importer pays
duty on the foreign value at the date
Of exportation. although contracts for
the purchase OF the goods may have
been made months in advance. The for
eign price Is just as liable TO fiuctuate
during these months as the American
value. In fact more so with foreign cur
rcncy so unstable.
American valuation eliminates the
possibility Of undervnluation OF imports.
r.. ID. DODGE.
NEW YoRK, September 20.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21

in the saving would be labor. which
is the overshadowing cost in all the
processes OF 'service"-the shipping,
handling. packing, &C. This is, OF
course. the much abused middleman,
together with all hts assistants and
workers who are counted in the
millions.
But If ii were possible, not to men.
tion desirable-and IL is not-thus
70 eliminate all the labor engaged in
the secondary and later processes OF
making useful and valuable the pri-
mary production OF the farm. the
forest and the mihe-if II we're pos
sible to obiiterate all the labor,
which is the great majority OF the
country's population. then. along
with 1t, the consuming power which
now takes the primary products In
their final finished form would dis
appear. The farmer. the miner and
the lumberjack, with their consum-
ing markets gone, could not I'm
crease their profit 100 per cent"
They could only go broke"
Some easy things are not always
so easy as they look.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
The Perfect Match.

Feminine consumption OF imported cgs ~
greatly Observation-Disclosures.
When Albert sought my heart to storm,
/ felt my maiden pulses flutter;
Heroic In his uniform,
The Yes" I almost came to utter
But when / found him take to cigar
citing,
said no. firmly. but with some re-
GREETING.
Next Thomas came; a millionaire.
Blunt and direct yet not unpleasing.
He swore to smooth my every care
And all the wheels OF life be greasing.
But he to Pittsburgh stogies was ad-
dicted,
And how could 1 accept one so afflicted?
Then Frederick, debonair and gay
Gained as by magic my affection.
But when his brand I bade him cay
How poignant is the recollection =
He blushed and hung his head like any
happer-
Domestic filler and Sunnatra wrapper J"
And so 1 have foresworn romance.
Bill IS baldheaded. fat and forty;
He cannot golf or drive or dance;
His taste in clothes is much toe
sporty.
Bill is not perfect-ah! but his perfecto
My story's ended. I'm his bride elect,
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Harvard Freshmen Enrolment Record
More Than 1000 First Year Men Expected-Four As
sistant Deans Selected-CIassi6cation Revised.

/ ber down to capacity. Last years en-
rolment of 1856 almost taxed the uni
versity to its limit. pur room has been
made for q few hundred additional. 1t
Is announced.
The selective system has been put in
effect In the College of Arts and Pure
Science, the College Of Engineering. the
day division OF the School OF Commerce
and the Medical College. The psyche
logical tests II Is said, determine with
great accuracy the chance the student
has of getting enough out Of uni
versity education to benefit him and be
credit to the institution.
A new department this year is a
dental preparatory course. with an en-
rolment limited to 1870. This was over
enrolled a week ago. Nine new courses
are added to the School Of Education,
of which six are In the new department
of elementary education under Dr. Mar
garet c. Noonan. Night classes In the
School OF Retailing will be held the first
time this year, at the New York Evening
High School. Tenth avenue and Fifty
ninth street. and Brooklyn Evening
Technical High School Officials Of many
commercial and financial houses of the
city will lecture In these courses.
Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown
will open the school year formally with
an address to the students at IL this
morning In the Gould Memorial Library
Auditorium, University Heights.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21

Special Despatch to THE Nrw YoRK HERALD
CAMBRIDoE, Mass. Sept 20. - Har-
wards freshman enrolment the coming
term will be . record breaker. accord
ing to indications at Cambridge. More
than 100 applicants have already been
admitted as freshmen on the results of
the June examinations than were ad-
mitted last fall.
The record OF 739 freshmen made ten
years ago is certain to be surpasse,
The class is due for an increase in size
anyway on account of change in the
system of classification which will throw
into the first year body of students sew
eral scores OF men transferring to Har-
ward from other colleges who were for
merly rated as unciassified students
More than 1000 first year men are
expected TO enroll under these condi-
tions.
There win be four assistant deans To
aid Prof Chester y. Greenough, '9S, who
was elected dean upon the recent resig-
nation OF Prof. Henry A. Yoamans. 90.
They are Philip p. Chase. 1900: Ken
meth B. Murdoch, 10; Edward A. Whit
ney. IT, and Edward r. Gay. 10. The
first three will have advisory and dis
ciplinary duties, while A4r. Gay will be
In charge of records.
George w. cram, 90, VINO lot many
years has kept the college records under
the title of recorder, is to continue as
secretary of the faculty of arts and
sciences. He also will be In charge OF
the college stables of eighty-five stalls.
now being constructed on Soldiers Field
to accommodate the horses used by the
military department of the university.
under Major r. c. +. Goetz. The site
chosen is opposite the university boat
house, between the tennis courts and
hockey rinks. Here. in addition to the
stables, are being built quarters for the
enlisted detachment of twenty men and q
gun shed for equipment and material.
The department will have on the field
sites for riding rings, jumps, polo
cage and a gun park.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Latin Americans Here.
New York's Spanish Speaking Colony
Is Large and Growing Rapidly.
From the Grace Log.

From the Grace Log.
The growth of the number of people
of the Spanish speaking races WHO for
various reasons have found New York
city an attractive centre for business
ard pleasure has been exceedingly rap 1
during the last few years. The inn
proved steamship service between South
and Central America and New York has
brought the Spanish and English speak
ing peoples of the two sections of the
continent easily and quickly together.
Many South Americans who have been
accustomed to take trips regularly to
Europe are now coming to New York,
often for the first time, spending a cer-
tain period here on their way to Euro
pean capitals.
We're In Greater New York Spanish and
Portuguese speaking Latin Americans as
follows: From Cuba and other islands
of the West IndieS-not including Porto
Rico-S.302; from Mexico 2,4s2; SIS
Central Americans and 6,742 from the
republics OF South America. There
should be added also to the Spanish
speaking population 10.9S3 Spanlards
who make their homo in Greater New
York. while with the number of tran
sient travellers, business men, buyers,
students and others more or less con-
stantly to be found in New York it is
estimated that at present there are up
ward of 10000 Spanish and Portuguese
speaking people In the metropolis.
Among the forces making for more
intelligent relationships between North
and South Americans are the students
who have been coming increasingly from
Latin America to study in North Amer
lean colleges. While for more than fifty
years students from Latin American re-
publics have been enrolled In the col
leges and universities Of the United
States the war brought many students
from our southern neighboring States TO
American institutions of learning.
1t Is estimated that fully 1000 stu
dents. representing all the nations Of
South and Central America, are nov
studying in the United States. About
one-fourth of this number enjoy a Gov
ernment scholarship. while others are
supported by their parents or are work.
ing their way through school Engi-
neering Is popular study with abo Z
onc-half Of the total number of students,
while many others are pursuing courses
In commerce. agriculture. dentistry,
naval construction and education.
The Consul-General from Peru H.
forms us that there are at present about
thirty Peruvian students studying In the
length of their sojourn in this country
is two years. 1t is estimated that there
are 2o3 students from Latin America at
present enrolled in institutions OF learn
ing In New York city.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Basis of the Rent.
Difficulties OF Making Proper Dis
tributIon of the Cost of Repairs.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Are Mr..
tinent to the question or how to fix
rents? II applied to a manufacturing
plant owned by the manufacturer him.
self / should agree with him. but the
case of the landlord and tenant Is diff
fercnt in many respects.
As a general rule the land upon which
the building stands does not depreciate
but rather appreciates. II the value of
the land be deducted from the accepted
value OF the property as a whole. then
the rate for depreciation should be the
residual value divided by the estimated
life OF the building. which might with
much reason be placed at thirty years.
1t would apparently be fair to include
such an item with the expense items,
but this should take care OF all items
OF ment--"extraordinary repairs"
would perhaps be better understood by
the average layman.
With reference to the last paragraph
OF Mr.. Growers letter. would the rule
suggested be practicable In the event Of
such an item as an entire new roof
costing more than the gross rental In
any one year? Such a condition is not
by any means Impossible. Furthermore.
would not the application of such a
rule inevitably lead to claims for re-
duced rentals in the following year and
as consequence new cases for the
courts to pass upon?
HERBERT w. GwYN.
BROOKLYN, September 20.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Play Hits Must Be Quick.

One of the indispensable features
of New York success this season
is that It shall please the public at
once. A hit must be, as it we're, born
and not made. A play which in the
opinion of a manager may possess
the qualities to bring ultimate sue
cess cannot be carefully helped on
toward Its supposed destiny. 1t must
show signs Of vitality at once.
Such has not been the experience
OF former years. BY changing the
scenes of a play that did not meet
the highest standards of the public,
by adding here and deleting there, by
advertisement and propaganda, the
faint spark Of popularity has bee
famed into an enduring glow. Such
results were not accomplished with
out energy and expense. In the end
the effort was found to be profitable,
although 1t is by no means certain
that the greatest of the theatres sue
cesses came into existence and won
fame in this way.
There is little probability, however,
that any winners of that kind will be
created this season. Managers have
shown no disposition to coddle their
unpromising enterprises in this fash
ion. They have been indeed impatient
and rather ruthless. A failure had to
be as promptly removed as possible
in order to make way for a more
promising attempt. The present sea-
son will contain in it's list of sue
cessful plays none that was created
by the efforts of its producer after a
disheartening beginning.
This system Is indeed too costly
for the present means Of the mana
gers. The public has shown no dispo-
sition this year to spend its money
on any but the pronounced successes.
1t is not willing to take any risks
when the price of the ticket Is in
volved. Yet 1t was Indifferent on this
point only short time ago. In the
prevailing prosperity the cost Of tho
theatre was not a matter OF such
importance. 1t was easy to foster
and strengthen the dramatic weak
ling In such fat days.
Evidently the public has decided
that the theatre is a luxury 1t can
dispense with. At all events it has
money only for the sure thing. 1t
will make no experiments.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Bowery Talk in Court.

Illness squawk makes you
laugh! The newspapers are merely
kidding HINES along and II he ever
gets on the ballot it's a shame what
they will do to him."
This is not the report OF a political
speech from the tail of a cart at an
open air evening meeting on the East
Side of this metropolis; but IL is an
extract from the argument of an at
torney and counsellor at law, mem
Der of the bar in regular standing,
addressed to a Justice of the Su-
preme Court OF the State OF New
York, in opposition to an application
for an order to open certain ballot
boxes used in the primary election
last week--to the end that 1t may be
ascertained whether one of the can
didates has been defrauded of his
nomination or not.
The use of such language as we
have quoted. by counsel supposed to
be learned in the law, in a serious
legal proceeding which may involve
the right to a place upon the official
ballot as a candidate for an impor.
tant public Office, is novelty in the
Supreme Court. IL is going far be.
yond what good manners and respect
for the court permit to denominate
legal application for relief from
an alleged wong a "squawk" by the
injured party.
Such denunciation and ridicule as
counsel INDUCED in on the argument
OF the motion in the Hines case had
no bearing on the question before
the Supreme Court Justice who heard
and subsequently granted the appli-
cation. To call the motion "a
squawk" did not help the Judge to
decide 1t. Counsel ought to be al.
lowed all the freedom OF speech in
argument necessary to the effective
advocacy of their clients rights; sbut
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
Moneys Increased Efficiency.

Encouraging signs Of an increased
efficiency Of money and credit can be
discerned in the report by the Fed.
eral Reserve Board on the money
turnover in the United States for the
week ended September IA. For that
period the money turnover, which
Is classified as debts to individual
account. was $7.135. .00O, 900, compared
with $6.094. 100000 the week before
and with $685.. 900, 900 in the CORE
spending week Of 1890. The figures
are for 154 clearing house centres all
over the country.
Since September of last year Fed
eral Reserve notes have decreased
from $3,295. 100000 to S2,517, 900. 900,
or % per cent. with a corresponding
decrease in the quantity of money
and credit outstanding. The % per
cent decrease in money thus con-
trasts with the 90 per cent. decrease
in the money turnover.
<1A 6AiON6ACc Iluot dloO bC Lud0S
for the drop of about 35 per cent in
prices since last September. At this
years prices. a money turnover 35
per cent under that Of last year
would suffice to finance the same vol
ume Of trade. But the money turn
over decreased only 20 per cent, at
testing an increase in the volume Of
trade for the period this year.
1t appears. therefore. that while
the country has % per cent. less
working capital than it had last year,
dollar for dollar, as well as in the
aggregate, the smaller volume Of
money aud credit now outstanding.
working at lower interest rates but
at higher speed OF turnover and with
higher purchasing power. delivers
more efficient service than the larger
volume of money and credit did a
year ago.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
The Necessary Middleman.
ARTHUR BRISBANE says:


What do you get for your dol
lar as you spend It? Congress
sional investigation gives you par
tial answer-37 cents represents
what you pay the person that pro-
duces the goods, 40 cents represents
what Is pleasantly called Service
handling. packing. etc; II cents
represents profit Cost Of service
means cost of distribution, and there
Is the great waste In this country.
out of that waste you could increase
profit for farmers and others 100 per
cent. and cut cost to the consumer
% per cent"
1t is a fact that distribution In all
its stages is heavy cost, but it also is
a fact that II is as much part of the
economic process of useful production
of things as making the things them
selves. A crop of wheat on the farm,
with no way to get 1t to the mill,
thence to the -four market and thence
to the bake oven where are con.
sumers in numbers, would not be
worth red cent to the primary pro
ducer. Raising his wheat the farmer
has only begun the economic work
OF putting bread into the public's
hands.
A ton of coal at the mouth OF the
secluded mountain mine would not
boil half a pint OF water in the dis
tant city.
The cotton bolls in the fields OF the
Georgia plantations can attain their
largest utility and their highest
value only months and years later.
clothing the hundreds OF millions OF
population in Europe and Asia.
II takes five tons OF iron ore, coal.
lime and other materials to make a
ton OF steel. Each ton OF those essen
tial materials after being produced
must be handled and shipped on the
way to the steel mill to get into the
steel. Then the ton OF finished steel
must be reshipped and rehandled to
be OF any use to the consumer and of
any selling value to the producer Of
the steel and to the producers of all
the materials that went into the steel
Six tons altogether, mind you, have
had to be handled and shipped over
and over again to give in single
ton any market value to and ultimate
consuming use OF any Of the COM
ponent parts originally produced.
Naturally and inevitably all that
makes the handling and distributing
cost OF the ultimate ton Of steel
heavy, and gives IL its value.
Again 1t Is a fact that II you could
save the cost of distribution, hand
ling, packing. &C.. the element which
would be the most largely eliminated
The New York herald., 1921-09-21

'You ell did see that on the Lu'
percal / thrice presented him a
kingly crown, which he did thrice
refuse: was this ambition?"
What Marc Antony ENEIGHT Of
fered Caesar HYLAN was, of course.
not kinglv crown, but royal es-
cort and the trumpetings Of a Major
General.
Ta-ra-ta-ta-ra!
Ahead Of Hizzoner would gallop a
Lieutenant and thirty-four picked
men. IAN escort which will be in
keeping with your Office"
Wherever Cesar went the band
would tear off "flourishes and ruff
fles, these being the same as the
honors paid to a Major-General of
the army"
Ta-ra-ta-ta-ra.
Old CAIus JULIUS had slave to
stand behind him as he drove
through lines of cheering Romans
and to whisper: Remember. Caesar,
you are but a man." This detail
Mr.. ENRIGHr overlooked.
Modest as JULIUS, JOHN F. did not
accept the fiourishes and ruffles, and
there is no record that at the police
games the crown Of Major-General
music was held out again. On that
occasion, which was more refined
than the Lupercalian festival, hired
songsters beloved "HYLAN, oh Hon
We Love YOU" This rarely happens
to a Major-General.
The Enright idea of army music
for Hizzoner was a bright one. II
should be amplified. Let US have q
great popular trumpeting for Mr.
HYLAN's administration. The even
ing Of November is the time.
But no "fourishes and ruffies.
Just taps"
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
A Culinary CourtshIp.

Folks say ought to settle down."
A youthful gourmet cried.
"And yet between tho girls l know
Alas! can't decide.
Helene can make delicious cake,
And Madge such mayonnaise.
Her chicken salad fills my soul
with tenderness for days.
Though little Jane Is rather plain
When she concocts a pie
/ feel I'd be a happy man
with her to live and die;
And Mary's biscuit nicely Drowned,
And feather-light and hot,
Have often all but made me pop
The question on the spot.
80 since each maiden fair excels
In some especial dish.
That is as perfect of Its kind
As epicure could wish,
I'll not select one girl and win
Her promise TO be mine,
But keep on courting al Of them
And always stay TO dine
MiNNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1921-09-21
AMERICANS IN PARIS.

Special Correspondence 60 THE NEW foah
HERALD.
PARIS, Sept 5.---The following Ameri-
cans are registered at the ONCE OF 1ho
Ne,o York Herald of Paris:
From New York: Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Lederer, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Det-
telbach. A. NJ. Reid. Mrs. J. 8 Enrich
Miss Ruth ]. Enrich, Miss Bertha fieish-
man, Miss Pauline English. Miss Mar
ruerIte English. John Frederick Conan.
Carr r.. ISayan, Pasquale Nardi. Law
renee ]. Nardi Mr.. and Mrs. s. d. Fried
man and family, Miss Cecilia s. Mish-
kind. DIR. and Mrs. G.. Gray Wood, Jr..
Miss Dorothy +. Eising. Mrs. James A.
Brod,e. Mrs. c. S. Baylis. Miss Blanche
a. WE'LL, Arthur Kaufman, M. w. Ray
ems and Miss Elsie Rayens.
From Brooklyn: Ralph s. Voorhies,
Dir. and Mrs. J. Silverberg. Master Ju-
iian X. Silverberg. Mr.. and Mrs. s. Vice.
gle and Mr.. s. Edelstein.
From Philadelphia Mrs. T. Ashby
Blythe and Dr. and Mrs. William S.
Higbce.
From other places: Mrs. John c.
Roth, Miss Louise Roth, Chicago: Mrs
A. Ingersoll Lewis. the Misses Lewis, A.
I. Lewis, Jr., Mr.. w. ". Casgrain. De-
troit; Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan ". Gress.
Misses Alix and Gretchen Gress, Jack
sonvillc, Fla; Judge and Mrs. Louis b.
Hart, Buffalo; Arthur r. Dayton, Plain
seid; Mrs L. NJ. Pickett. Atlanta; Miss
A. S. Rice, Baltimore.
Mrs. Arthur Kahn, Miss Carmen Kahn.
Sedalia. Mo. (: Mr.. and Mrs. Max Hey
man. Miss Selma Heyman. Fred Her
man. Mount Vernon. ". Y: Miss Weth-
erbee, Miss Martha Wetherbee, Boston !:
Dr. w. M. Osborn, Miss Georgia Osborn.
Mr.. and Mrs A. L. Block, Indianapolis.