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The New York herald., 1921-03-14
SymnI,ony Society Concert.

The programme Of the symphony So
ciety Concert in Aeolian Hall yesterday
afternoon consisted of Glinka's Russian
and Ludamilla" overture, Mendelssaaln's
italian" symphony. Roger Ducasse's Z
spring nocturne called MA Chere Maison
a. Champs" and Chopin's e minor
piano concerto. The solo player was
Ignaz Friedman. 1t was very pleasing
arrangement of music Mendelssohn's A
major symphony is not heard too often,
and consequently comes with ingratiat-
ing elegance before an audience not too
eager to leave the springtime and the
entertainments of outdoors.
Perhaps 1t was with a fellow feeling
for those longing for the bursting OF the
buds that Mr.. Damrosch put the Roger
Ducasse number on his list In this one
hears brides OF all sorts and conditions
initiated by various and sundry instru-
ments, from an oboe TO horn and listens
with keen sympathy to the sighings OF
melodies that breathe the very heart Of
the lodge in some vast wilderness"
Mr.. Friedman rudely awakened all
these dreamers. He smote the first
chords of the Chopin concerto not indeed
like fate knocking at the portal, but
certainly like Thor with his hammer
1t may be that this pianist is fond Of
Chopin. but he did not play him so as TO
create that impression. He went at the
concerto as if he had it in for" the COM
poser. Or perhaps Chopin had been adj
vertised to stand up against him for
three movements. He did it, to be sure,
but he was going right from the start.
If Mr.. Friedman had been steadier with
his swings and less highty in his foot
work he would have put Chopin out in
the first.l
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Making Office Holders Work.

One immediate, concrete result OF
the Harding accession to power i
the opening of an era of real work
in the public offices at Washington
There is long held theory among
4 the Office holders down there that, as
recent despatch in our news col
umns put it, 1T is foolish to work too
hard when Uncle SAM is the en-
ployer" 1t appears that the new de-
partment heads do not believe in 1t
at all. Secretary HUGHES has been
turning up at the State Department
at 8 A. NJ and the Postmaster-Gen-
eral, the Attorney-General and the
Secretary Of War have been equally
early. The President appears ut his
desk at $50.
Now, what is a poor job holder to
do when his boss chooses to appear
az the office ''in the middle of the
night" but get there too? It is hard,
but safety first is maxim nobody
dares ignore at the beginning Of a
new Administration. Getting to work,
however. is not the worst of 1t. Work
itself seems TO be expected, a whole
days work every day, and the day
lasting on to regular closing time.
Nor is there much hope Of a letup
when the newness wears off. There
is sad feeling through the corridors
of the department buildings that this
IS a business regime, though the
cynical speak of new brooms and
/ dream of easier times.
SO the whole army of Federal Office
4 holders are preparing themselves for
busy times. 1t may take some of the
joy out Of life, but most Of them had
rather forfeit their leisure than their
salaries. AS FOR the man in the street,
he really cannot repress his chuckles
TO have the Incidence of public Office
iarred into activity Is fun enough in
itself. 1t Is also the first step to
economy, to saving the public money
I
employee can be made to do n fair
days work the payrolls may be re-
duced perhaps as much as 30 per cent.
There is another and broader phase,
besides. to the awakening of depart
mental zeal and activity. 1t Is n
much needed example. practical les
son to a large number of the peo-
Die who think this is the time to loaf
on bloated pay. 1t is nothing OF the
sort. The thing the country needs
above everything else is full value in
OUTPUT for all the salaries and wages
paid in every industry. The stimula-
ton Of the nations employees will
have 4 serious suggestion for every
body. after the first laugh II will
help impress the idea that the duty OF
every man and woman who draws
pay for any service Is to give full
value for the money he draws.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14

Emo Dohnanyi, pianist, gave his sec
ond recital yesterday afternoon In the
Town Hall. His programme was one
OF liberal character. Ii contained two
Beethoven sonatas. namely. the - Nat,
opus 81. No. 5. and opus 81, No. 2,
known to every schoolgirl as the Moon
light" There was also Schumann's
Carnival which is whole piano re-
cital in itself. But Mr.. Dohnanyi added
to these passagaglia Of his own make.
four short pieces of Bella Bartok and
two of Brahms.
Much has been printed about the art
Of Mr.. Dohnanyi, and doubtless much
more will be. What seems most inn
perative is a plea for general recogni-
tion of the fact that he is not a mere
pianist. with brilliant technic and magi-
cal touch. He is a profound musician,
who searches out the inner meanings Of
the compositions before him and reveals
them to an audience with clarity and
poetic warmth.
Some pianists and hearers doubtless
disagreed with the distinguished artist
in regard to some of his tempt in the Il
flat sonata of Beethoven, but there will
always be differences of opinion about
such matters. What seemed to one lis
tener to have more weight yesterday was
a want of beauty in the players tone at
certain critical points and q slight ir-
regularity in rhythm at other points.
But probably the blemishes were 50
small as to escape general notice. II
hearers were not SO sure that everything
would be just right when Mr.. Dohnanyi
was playing, these little flaws would not
be observed by even one. Meanwhile
the serious lover of music can go to this
artists recitals with certainty that
the mere performance is not the ultimate
i'm Of the pianist. Interpretation is his
purpose. and he seeks to interpret by
beautiful playing. He has grown much
since his previous visit and his arrival
at a recent date has brought fresh life
and interest into the waning season.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14

been derived from export duties and
90 per cent. of these from the tax on
nitrate exports
The protection given by the new
import tariff viii encourage home IN
dustry and The revenues from II will
provide for the Governments actiyi-
ties under new department. the
Ministry Of Agriculture, Commerce,
Labor and Social Welfare.
In addition 10 the new tariff Chile
also is preparing to adopt an income
tax law. This is step never before
contemplated. The Chileans have
lived and prospercd and the Chilean
Government has until now drawn
ample revenues from taxes on the out
going commerce Of what is practically
a one product country The fume %
ChiIe's immense nitrate deposits
reaches round the world. This prod
uct will remain one of the principal
sources OF income both for the people
and the Government.
But Chilean statesmen recognize
that increased and diversified produc-
ton will be necessary to provide for
the growing population and the de
mands for higher standards Of living.
The war and the world shortage Of es-
sential commodities taught Chile the
value of home production.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
New Policies in Chile.

Those who guide the destinies Of
the Republic Of Chile believe thai in
its economic development the country
has reached turning point which
calls for an important alteration In
It's import tariff and Internal taxa
tion policies. Accordingly the new
national Administration has put into
effect import duties ranging from 30
per cent. 20 200 per cent. higher than
the previous imposts The new tariff,
the Government announces. Is dawn
chiefly to protect domestic industry.
but 1t also will help clear up the
deficit in revenues, which reached
S150O0,000 last year
Chile Is In a position like that in
which the United States was half q
century ago, when our Industries were
IN their infancy and without pro-
teciivC tariff would have been extin.
guished by foreign competition. The
Chilean import tax has been prlnci.
pally for purposes Of raising revenue
even in that respect II was Of minor
importance From A. per cent. 10 60
per cent. Of the Chilean revenues nave
The New York herald., 1921-03-14

International Flower Show, Grand Central
Palace. opening this afternoon.
Borough President Henry IL. Curran VIII
speak on the housing situation at the Seventh
Assembly District Republican Club, 222s
BTpoadwaym Il this -, evening III, a,.o,,.a ..r,,o
Relation OF the Medical Man to the Public"
before the Society Of Medical Jurisprufence,
Academy OF Medicine, II West F'orty-thlrd
THE Traction Problem viii he discussed
BY Ogden T. Mills, William A. Prendcrgast
and Travis H. Whitney at tile monthly meet
ing of the speakers bureau OF the Republican
County Committee Cafe boulevard, T.. NJ
Or. Wilbur II. Crafts will lecture In ne
Old Johr Street Methodist Church, A. John
Dr. Frederick s. Penfold viii lecture on
The Dirty of Catholic Churchman 70 day
in the Church Of the Transfiguration. rwcn-
ty-ninth street east Of Fifth avenue,
John s. Sumner and Frederick, Boyd steven
viii speak AZ a meeting 10 discuss the
motion picture situation y ihe .city and
Fifty-seventh street. T.. NJ.
National Federated Workers FOR ni.aTcd
Soldiers, meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania, 1890
DR.. Harry Emerson FosdIck will speak a.
2. missionary rally, under The auspices q ihe
deavor Society, Chelsea Presbyterian Church.
Seventh avenue and Twenty-third street,
Thomas W. white win lecture on "T,c
state Income Tax," y. S. 46. ST. Nichoas
avenue and i56th street, s.io i. NJ.
lllnNff 10 NNe lioMtF SHOW lhNEths iiNANt
Commodore. T.. NJ.
Dante League Of America. free study claas,
National Arts Club, - Gramercy Part, Z
T.. ~.
John IT. Irwin WIN lecture Oh how 70 iude
people by their faces, Merton Institute aH
Fifth avenue, T.. NJ.
g. W. Price VIII lecture on shop Light
ing" nj meeting of the Metropolitan Safety
Council. Engineering Societies Building. -
West Thirty ninth street, l.. NJ.
Alice n. Coseo viii talk TO high school
classes Oh Design in Minor Arts" Metro
pClitan Museum Of Art. Y. NJ,
George II. Sherwood VIII give an illustrated
lecture, "The Wond1 rful Work Of Water.
for children. American Museum ~ Natural
History. Seventy-seventh street nnd Central
Park West. 80 T.. NJ.
Edward Howard Grggs VIII lecture on
"The Future FOR Labor: Rights and Duties
Of the Artisan" Town Han, 113 West Forty
third street. II a. NJ.
New York Academy of Sciences. meeting
cf the section Of biology, American Museum
of Natural History, seventy-seyenth street
and Central Park West, S:i5 y. NJ.
National Association of Waste Dealers,
convention. Hotel hstor. all day.
George McAncny win speak Some
Pressing Problems of City Government
under the auspices or the Laymen's League
Of An Souls Church, i0i East Twentieth
street, S:tJ II. Nj.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
MONDAY. MARCH IA, 1921.
American Rights Again Safe.

1t sounds like the old days, the old
rugged American days, to hear the
State Department announcement that
the United States has not surrendered
and will not surrender single right
that it had before the war or single
right that it acquired as result of
the war.
This applies not merely to the zap
mandate which Japan thinks is hers
because the Allied Council said it was
and which the League Of Nations also
thinks is hers because it confirmed
the Allied Councils disposal Of the
island of Yap. 1t applies as well to
our interests and rights in Mesopo-
tama. 1t applies to our cable rights
at Emden, Germany. 1t applies 10 our
interests and rights everywhere.
No one ever had any authority to
surrender any Of the rights of the
United States in the cable contro-
versy, in the dispute over the ISL
and of Yap, In the Mesopotamia oil
controversy or in any other matter
in which the United States was be-
fore the war or has been since an
Interested party. All matters involv-
Ing rights of the United States, in the
Harding doctrine, are subject to treaty
negotiations between the United
States and any other interested party,
and until treaties are drawn up and
properly ratified by the United States
all these rights will be rigidly main
tained and protected by the United
States Government.
All of which will leave a refreshed
md grateful American public conf
dent that American interests, rights
and honor are again as safe as a
church in the watchful keeping Of
an Administration sound in It's ma
tionalism to the core.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Ode to the Ciearers-U Up.

To you,
Cloarers-up after parties. picnics. ban
quets and jamborces,
Where others had all the fun.
a poem. all your own
Colored boys dragging hotel tables and
chairs back into place after late
dance
Dumb with sloepiness, and no laughs
left.
Walters hosting tons OF soiled dishes
and silver after the banquet's last
sputter Of speech-making.
And the red-eyed, furrow-cheeked dish
washers below, buried alive in
mausoleur1s of china.
slovak women cleaning out smoking cars
after the commuters card games.
Tiders-up OF theatres al the close ot per
formances.
And OF bazaar and hrmess rooms clut-
tered by cyclones OF disorder
Washers OF excursion-boat cabins and
decks after chowdcr parties.
Boys Juggling away empty ice-cream
tubs.
Back-split street-cleantng mon boosting
garbage cans into high carts.
Street-sweepers lighting avalanches Of
rubbish after paradoa and celcbra-
tions.--
some day / hope you are going 90 have
d party. picnic and jamborec all
your owl,
And IL ought to be Some Blowout
ELIOT WHITE.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14

the Shipping Board itself is in doubt.
The tendency of opinion in official and
unofficial quarters is in the direction
of altering its powers. A scheme 10
transform the board into a Depart
ment Of Marine and deprive it Of all
authority as an active ship operator
has found support among members of
Congress and is warmly supported by
independent shipping interests.
Pending the settlement of this ques-
lion the shipping community must
await decisions on the disposal of Gov
erument tonnage, which is domi-
nant factor both in the open market
for tonnage and in the laying down
Of new keels. The application of
the section of the Jones act which
directs the President to abrogate
treaties which prevent the United
States from granting preferential du-
ties ON goods imported i'll American
bottoms is another troublesome factor.
President WILSON declined to obey
the direction contained in this section,
and it remains for President HARDING
to decide Il matter which should have
been cleared up last September.
The policy with regard to the allo-
cation of Government ships is equally
in the air. 1t is almost certainty
that the board eventually will be COM
pelled to substitute bare boat charters
! for the operating contracts now in
| force. The operating contracts pro-
vide for share in the profits by the
Shipping Board with the operator, but
in case Of loss the entire sum must be
borne by the Shipping Board. Its linn
tied funds will not permit the board
to continue this practice indefinitely.
but until some decision is reached
private concerns will be in the position
of competing with subsidized Govern
ment ships which can be run without
concern for profit or loss.
To work out all these difficult prob
lens and to pass legislation for needed
changes in the Jones law or In the
status of the Shipping Board will take
months. A board to supervise the
operation of Government tonnage and
the administration of the merchant
marine act in the interval will be an
absolute necessity.
Shipping interests already have suf-
fered great inconvenience as a result
of the suspense concerning the Gov
ernment shipping programme. Pres
ident HARDING's stout stand for an
American merchant marine second to
none is now strengthening assurance
that shipping will have his sympa-
thetic attention.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Two Montezumas Perhaps.
One of the Name Fast Clipper of
the Black Ball Line.

To THE New YORK HERALD: In a let
ter to the Philadelphia Public Ledger
which you reprinted with the title clip
per Ship Records" -. d. b. says that
his grandfather was in command OF the
Montezuma in December, 1927.
Captain a. III. Clark. who Is a recog-
nIzed authority on such matters. says in
his Clipper Ship Era" that the Monte
yuma was built BY Webb & Allen in
New York in the early '40s that is, after
1S40
Is it not possible that the dates given
by u. d. B." are in error or are mis-
quoted?
on March IL or = few days later in
1913, when / was six years Of age. J
with my parents crossed from Liverpool
to New York in the Montezuma, Captain
A. B. Lowber, and she was then COM
paratively new ship.
] have in my possession receipt
dated March 16. 1s4S. signed by Captain
Lowber for $50 for cabin passage
for 49, and family.
The Montezuma that I refer TO was
one OF Marshalls Black Ball packets,
which were distinguished by o large
painted black ball below the close reef
band OF the foretopsail.
Captain Clark refers to the Monte
yuma AZ "onc OF few clippers that
have made the passage from New York
to Liverpool in less than fourteen days.
the others being the Patrick Henry and
Southampton"
Is Il possible that there We're I've
Montezumas at different epochs?
c. ON.
yv.eutNaroN. March IL.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Sings with Philharmonic.

With Joseph Schwarz. Russian barry
tone. as the soloist the philharmonic
Society gave the last concert but one
of its Sunday series at Carnegie Hall
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Schwarz, recent
ly heard in two recitals. made his first
appearance in New York with orchestra.
He sang the "Eri Tu' aria from The
Masked Ball. of Verdi with a rich quail
ity of voice. commendable style and ad-
mirable dramatic power and he won
much favor from the audience.
In the evening at Carnegie Hall the
National Symphony Orchestra gave the
first of it's regular pair of weekly con-
certs. Sergei RachmaninoV, as the
soloist played his third piano concerto.
The orchestral numbers were four move
ments from Mozart's Haffner Serenade
Emusic written when the composer was
twenty years old for the wedding of the
Burgermester Haffner's daughter), q
suite of nine parts from Richard
Strauss's music to Moliere's lie Bour-
geois GentiIhomme," which was new
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Artists Behind Time.
A Protest Against Diseourtesy to
ConcertgOers.

To THE New YORK HERALD. II is
time for Il vigorous protest to be made at
the increasing lateness OF concerts. The
opera begins punctually as announced,
whereas concerts are anywhere from ten
10 twenty-five minutes late. Recently
one artist appeared on the stage ex-
actly twenty minutes after the time an
nounced This is not only dlscourteous
but inexcusable and means that many
persons especially commuters, are
obliged to lose the later part Of the
concert
our audiences are not to blame for
arriving late. as long experience has
taught them that the concerts never be-
gin on time. These same audiences,
once they understood that the music
would begin as scheduled, would very
soon make their arrangements TO ar
rive punctually.
This condition Of affairs has been
going on for several years, and it is
high time that it should be stopped. ]
nope the matter will be taken up by
music critics and the newspapers and a
much needed reform instituted.
Mrs. J. WEST ROOSEVELT.
New YORK, March i2.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14

surface Of which was covered with
their bodies.
Every sportsman who takes his
quarry in the open. giving the bird 4
chance for life, objects to such eXhi-
bitions Of wanton slaughter. The pro
hbition Of such pictures by Federal
or State laws would have the indorse,
nient of large majority Of the citi-
zens Of the United States.
II the man in New Jersey who was
recently fired 5000 and sentenced e
jail term Of ten days for killing
wild geese out of season was ade
quately punished there ought to be !
much longer prison term and heavier
fines for these violators of the migra-
tory bird law on the Pacific coast.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Frederic Warren's Concert.

The large audience at Frederic War
rens fourth ballad concert in the
Longacre Theatre yesterday afternoon
gave evidence of the steadily increasing
public favor shown the series. The
programme as heretofore, instead OF ad-
herring strictly TO the ballad field. com
prised long and miscellaneous list OF
good airs and songs by various writers.
Norman Jollif. barytone. sang with
resonant voice and clear diction the old
English tune. "A Sailors Life" Miss
Edith Hallett Frank, a Scottish soprano.
gave in native costume. and with 2
fresh voice and spirited style. such num-
bers as Angus Macdonald"
The New York herald., 1921-03-14
Rapid Transit Ignorances.

Local newspapers and politicians
that object to giving the new Rapid
Transit Commission power to make
emergency fare changes object to Civ
ing it power to hold the different
parts of the transportation system
together. They object to giving it
power to avert two, three and even
more fares on routes where there now
is or should be a single fare. They
object to giving it power to keep the
companies in such a position that
they can be taken over by the city
as a unified system.
All this is so because where GER
tain rentals cannot be paid, certain
bond interest cannot be met and GER
tain maturing debts cannot be taken
care of, pending the working out and
acceptance of the general plan,
leases, ipso facto, must be surren-
dered or cancelled and foreclosures
instituted. Then more through lines
must be broken III two, with separate
| fares charged on each part of what
before was the whole. Properties
now under virtually perpetual leases
must go back to their original owners
with new and perhaps insuperable
difficulties arising to prevent the city
from acquiring these properties, or
properties now held and operated by
companies which would be amenable
to the Rapid Transit Commission
will be thrown into the hands of the
courts as bankrupt, receivership scrap
heap affairs.
If this city wants to cling to the
present transportation routes until it
can bag them all for its own, when
the new plan is worked out; if this
city meanwhile wants 20 preserve as
many through routes at one fare as
it is possible to preserve; IL this city
wants TO escape jumping from the
transit frying pan into the fire, then
this city must want the new commits
sion TO have the emergency power,
pending the working out Of the plan,
TO put into effect a fare change only
where and when it may be absolutely
necessary to save the day for the city
itself
| IF the commission Is not to have
this power, to be exercised, as we say.
only when and where it may be nee
essary to enable the city itself to
hang on to a route about to break up
into two or more parts or about TO
land in the courts, then almost to n
dead certainty the scheme of a unified
system with a single fare will 90 by
the board forever, and in all proba-
bility any hope Of general improve
ment In the shocking rapid transit
situation will be doomed to bitter
disappointment.
Whether politician or newspaper,
the abusive critic of Governor MIL
LER that does not know the foregoing
truths are irrefutable and the fore
going facts are Intangible simply is
grossly ignorant of the local transit
charters, contracts and conditions as
well as deliberately blind TO the aims
and provisions of Governor MuLER's
great rapid transit measure TO meet
In the only way ii can be met the
desperate situation which confronts
this long suffering city.
The New York herald., 1921-03-14

Those who framed the Covenant fof
the League OF Nationsl have seen It ac-
cepted by the competent governmental
authority OF nearly every country in the
world and that is the first real test OF
success, and when / say nearly every
country l include my own, for so far MS
the Lodge reservations made changes In
the League they were of a wholly minor
character; they left its structure intact
and they would have interfercd with It's
working not at all--DAvID II. MILLER in
an address IN Philadelphia.
Mr.. MILLER may not recognize the
voters Of the United States as com
petont governmental authority" but
what they did TO the Covenant in No
vember did not leave it's structure in
tact as far rs this country is
concerned.