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The New York herald., 1921-06-01
COLUMBIA CONFERS
ITS DEGREES TO-DAY
Seven Honorary Decorations
to Be Granted at the 167th
Annual Commencement.
NINE. CURE is ON LIST
Awards to Be Made to 5000
Students in Departments
Of University.

Seven honorary degrees will be con-
ferred by Columbia. University this
morning at the 18TH annual commence
ment. With the exception OF Nine.
Marie Curie. who is to receive the de-
gree suf Doctor of Science. all those hon.
ared ave Americans.
Gov. MILLER, together with Dr. James
Rowland ANGEL, President-elect OF Yale
University and Judge Julius M. Mayer
of the Unit,sd States District Court, will
receive the segree of Doctor Of Laws
The degree or Doctor of Letters will bs
conferred upon Robert Grant. author
and that Of Doctor of Science upon John
Campbell Merriam, president OF the Car
negie Institution lof Washington, and
Samuel waldron Itambert. dean emeri.
tus of the faculty of medicine at Co.
lumbia.
Three thousand degrees will be
awarded in the various departments OF
the university For the first time In
Columbia's history wotnen will be given
the Degree or Doctor ,of Medicine. Six
are to be graduated from the College
one of them. Mrs. Gulla Lindh Muller. a
Barnard graduate in the class Of IT,
leads the entire graduating class In medi-
cine. The others are Miss Emma Eu-
genia Corwin, wellesley. IA Miss Doro-
thea EstelIe Carnow, Barnard, IT; Miss
Susanna e. S. Haigh. Vassar. is. Mrs.
May Rjvkin Mayors. Barnard, IL, and
Miss Elizabeth Wright. Barnard. IT.
Yesterday was occupied largely with
The New York herald., 1921-06-01

Phi Beta Kappa meetings and exercises.
Barnard held it's class day.
AT the Phi Beta Kappa exercises. in
Havemeyer Hall. last night the poem
was read BY Robert Frost, and the ora
tion delivered by DR.. Cassius jackson
Keyser. Adrian professor of mathemat-
les, who took for his subject "The Ma
ture of Man."
DR.. Keyser discussed a new philo-
sophical doctrine. the creation of Count
Alfred Korzybski. the Polish engineer.
which he predicted would effect world
change in thought and open UP new
epoch In the worlds progress.
He described as the basis of this doc
trine the idea of man as "a time
binder" as the only living thing which
binds its cnain of experience together
under a law OF ever increasing better
ment Count Korzybsld believes. ac-
corning to DR.. Keyser. that the human
race has been hampered from earliest
time by the false notion that man is an
animal or the equally false one that he
Is a miraculous mixture of natural and
supernatural.
DR.. Keyser said that plants are
storers of solar energy and binders OF
the basic energies of the world animals
distinguished by their power to move.
are the space binders, and man. with
his peculiar capacity to initiate cviliza-
ton. is the time-binder.
"All that is precious in our civiliza.
tion." said DR.. Keyser, has been ac'
complished IN spite OF these false notions
The war was a demonstration OF human
ignorance of human nature. This new
manity's manhood. Education will have
for its supreme function to teach the
children of men what man is. The state
which may ultimately embrace the
world. will rescue itself from ignorant
politicians and commit its destiny to the
guidance of honest men who know"
Gov Miller was the guest at dinner
last evening of President Nicholas Muir.
ray Butler at the presidents house, SO
Morningside Drive.
Those who were invited to meet the
Governor were Judge Mayer, Judge
Robert Grant Of Boston. President t-elec,
Angel. DR.. Merriam, president OF the
Carnegie Institution at Washington
Dr. Samuel w. Lambert, Col. william
Barclay Parsons, Bishop William T
Manning, John G. Milburn, Dr. Walter
b. James, Stephen Baker, John 3. Pine
Frederic r. Coudert, Robert S. Lovett
Henry S. Pritchett, Darwin P. Kingsley
Consul-General G. Liebert. M. Marco
Knecht, Profs. George S. Huntington
James W. Jobling. L. Baekeland George
B. Pegram and Henry e. Champion.
The New York herald., 1921-06-01
BROOKLYN REGIMENT
AT TARGET PRACTICE
Twenty-third Settles Down to
Encampment Work.

PEEKsRILL, May 31.-The Twenty
third Regiment. from Brooklyn, began its
second day at the State National Guard
encampment with target practice. The
first company TO go out on the range
for this work was Company L. One
company is to take the rifle work each
day.
The New York herald., 1921-06-01
JURY PICKING SLOW
IN BOYS MURDER TRIAL
II-Year-Old Before Bar in
Indiana Court.

KNOX, Ind. May 81. - Previously
formed opinions delayed the work of
selecting a jury for the murder trial OF
Cecil Burkett aged IL, in the Starke
County Circuit Court here to-day.
The boy is charged with shooting
Benny Slavin, z. playmate.
The New York herald., 1921-06-01
FRANKLIN MOTOR CAR co. of NEW YORK
AX Prices +. O. b. Syracuse

GLENN A. TISDALE, President
Telephone
JAMAICA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
EXPERIMENTING TO GET INCREASE
 IN PRODUCTION

Riga, Latvia, Aug. 20.-Many ex- periments are being introduced in the mana cement and supply system of Russian factories in 4n effort by the Bolshevik government to increa SC production in order to obtain products to exchange with the peasants for food.
 Some time ago a piece work scale was introduced in the hope that this would incite individual workmen to increased efforts. According to a Moscow dispatch, all factory man agements have been ordered to carry it into effect urgently and immediate ly.
 In many industrial concerns a col lective radoning plan has been sub stituted for the. old system of grant ing individual rationS. Under the new method whole factory is grant ed a monthly allowance of foodstum and money on the condition that it turns out a stipulated amount of goods.
 If the factory is able to produce this quantity with smaller number of workmen then estimated, the sur plus of foodstuffs and money can be distributed among the workmen as premium
 Unions has issued a circular pointing out that increases of wages in money paymnets are inadvisable at this time because this would necessitate an in crease in the output of currency which the government is even now unable to print in sufficient Quanti- ties. The governments fs said to have 900, 900, 900 rubles of paper money month. This amount has been in creased to the maximum possible out put of the printing machines.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
OLD BUFFALO TRAILS OF CANADA MADE INTO
 ROADS
(By International News Service. )

(By International News Service.)
 Winnipeg, Man., Aug 20.-"A na- tion .S as strong as it's roads, said a highways expert discussing Canada s comprShe ensive programme which is turning twisting buffalo trails into a network of white-ribboned roads.
 New market channels for crops are being opened in Western Canada Hundreds of light trucks loaded with produce now chug over the country side. New roads have saved the far mers millions of dollars by making short cuts to market
 In the last year municipalities of Manitoba, according to a. recent sur vey, spent $2.452,694 on highways The Government financial aid amounted to $1,19A,512. The munic- qualities previously had spent 5,0OO,- 900 and the Government s2.00o, 900. A thousand miles of road and 130 concrete bridges have been construct ed in 12 months Expenditures this year will be twice as large. Every farmer in the rich agricultural dis tricts rapidly being settled is a good roads enthusiast Work is being puhSed this summer.
 Saskatchewan is carrying out an ambitious programme that will give the province 1,607 miles of paved highways 15 feet wide. The cam paign is costing $24,oO0,0o0.
 The Banff-Lake Louise road. a link in the Through-the-Rocki chain, has just been completed The Can adian Government appropriated s20,- 900, 900 for roads. It is intended to cover a period of five years The provinces initiate the project and, on approval, the Government pays 40 per cent of the cost
 The greatest immediate benefit is to the farmers in moving their bum per crops to market.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
German Counterfeiters of
 Gillette Blades in Prison

An interesting decision was re- cetnly rendered by a German court to the effect that counterfeiters of Gillette safety razor blades not only injure foreign dealers selling the genuine blades but also compromise the German reputation in foreign trade. The court also held that the original Gillette patent on the old type Gillette razor has expired, is still an individual trade mark for the razors and blades manufactured by the Gillette Safety Razor Company and cannot be used by others.
 The defendant purchased from a German cutlery manufacturer un- known Gillette blades. He then stamped the blades with the same markings as used by the Gillette Company and enclosed them in en- ve1opes and packaes exactly duplicat- ing those of the American company, even to the mark, Made in U. S. Az The blades, which were of poor quail ity, he sold in Germany and other countries as genuine Gillette blades. were identified as counterfeitS while in the customs house in New York. The Gillette company sued the inn porter and the United States District Court ordered them destroyed.
 After long drawn out proceedings brought by a foreign agent of the Gillette company and eliminating in a criminal action, the chief culprit was brought to trial and the Berlin inprisoning him for one year and de- priving him of civil rights for three years. His accompliceS were given lesser sentences.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
TO DEDICATE
 "PEACE PORTAL

Blaine. Wash, Aug. 2O.-Dedication of huge Peace Portal" built across the Pacific Highway where it crosses the boundary line between Canada and the United States here, will take place Sept. 6.
 The portal was built to commen- crate the century or more of peace between Canada and the United States. The dedication will be attend ed by representatives of the Canadian, French and American governments, as we'll as by hundreds of residents of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.
 The ceremonies will also include dedication of the Pacific Highway. which runs nearly 2.000 miles south from Vancouver, B. C., across Wash ington, Oregon and California, to Tia Juana in Lower California
 The Pacific Highway will be paved it's entire length by 1925, it is ex- pected, making it the first transcon- tinental road in the nation to be hard-Surfaced every inch
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
FINDS PROHIBITION IS CAUSING SOME MEN
 TO GET FAT
(By International News service)

(By International News Service)
 Akron, O., Aug. 20.-Wayne Wheel CT and Andy Volstead may have in creased crime, as New York crfnfn- ologiSts say, but a brand-new offense is charged up to their account by an Akron c1othier.
 It's deep secret and shouldn't be divulged, but the men are getting stout. He explains it this way:
 Men who used to drink didn't eat much. They satisfied their long ing for something by the call, Come on boys, the next rounds on mel! and while women were panting and starving to keep their sylph-hke forms, the fellows did it in sim pier and pleasanter way"
 This is all changed now, however, and men can't do much but eat, the clothier declares, and as a result he finds it necessary to purchase more and more suits built on the general specifications of a barrel. and less every season for the male form re- sembling a beanpole.
 The only return to normalcy noted is that prohibition has deffated the bay windows affectionately worn by those who loved the stuff that made Milwaukee famous. Men simply aren't wearing 'em any more and won't unless something is done to give them the medicinal beer author ized by Mir. Palmer.
 Candy eating, which has become popular, makes for stoutness, but it distributes the adipose tissue pretty we'll over the entire frame.
 Hence, more stoutness, but better distributed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
STEAM DRIVEN AIRSH!P IS WORKABLE, SAYS
 AERIAL EXPERT

London, Aug. 2o.-Driving an air ship by steam is the very latest stunt evolved by a former expert of the Royal Air Force.
 Captain w. P. Durtnall, who was formerly Staff Captain in the Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Department of the Royal Air Force. claims to have figured out a method by means of which airships can be driven by steam.
 According to a very conservative account of the invention, as given out by the Air Ministry, it does away completely with the ordinary boiler, steam being generated by means of internal combustion power or heat en- ergy.
 The superheated steam heat ener- gy is supplied to special steam mo- tors, which are reversible and can be controlled from a central control station. Heavy oil is used as fuel and it is claimed that the driving machinery can be safely placed in side the frame of the airship instead of in separate gondolas, as at present.
 This will bring about a great re- duction in air resistance and will therefore reduce the power required for propulsion.
 It is claimed that the new system will function at attitudes hitherto Gpattainable with the ordinary type of internal combustion engine.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
NO RADICAL STYLE CHANGE
 NEXT SEASON

Yesterday afternoon saw the end of a weeks conferences of sales man. agers from all parts of the country of Ine Warner Brothers Company at the saleSmen of the concern have gath cred together, but this year only the heads of each district attended. The only sales managers who were unable to be present were the men from the San Francisco and the new Brussels leans, and Montreal were represent ed.
 D. H. Warner was in charge of the conferences which also included the heads of the various factory depart ments. Meetings began every morn towards evening. The main recrea- tion of the visitors was to run out to the Country Club after work and play golf. The first few days were taken up in discussing the styles of Redfern and Warner corsets and brassiers that will be shown in the fall all over the country by the sales men. The last part was given over to a discus ssion of general policies of sales, advertising, etc.
 Speaking about new styles l.. l.. Warner asfd: "Our company is not making any radical change in styles for next year. One hears a great deal of talk about new fashions in corsets. As a matter of fact the styles in cor ests have been revo1utionized in the past half dozen years. but the change has come so slowly as to be almost imperceptible. America today is set ting the fashions for this industry and has been for the past ten years. As far as our company is concerned the corsets which we are making now for wear next spring will hardly diff fer at all from what is being worn nowh
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
ADOPT 'ISCHI'
 AS PET CHILD

Hono1u1u, T. H.. Aug. 2o-Ischi- ogonus is only about a uqarter of an and pugnosed, but he has been adopt ed by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters association as one of it's pet children.
 ''Ischi'' is a bug. He is British by birth, having appeared originally in Australia, but he is fast becoming naturaIized wholesale in Hawaii He is being imported in job lots by the planters to wage war on their enemy and his, Syagrius F'ulvitarSis.
 ~ ''Sy'' is a sca1e-armored insect that ruins the sadIeria fern on the noun tain sides of the islands. Since the ferns are necessary to preserve the watersheds and water is necessary to the sugar plantations, Ischiogonus is proving a valuable ally of the plant CTS, according to scientists of the planters association experiment sta tiOn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
STEEL CUTS LABOR
 TO 30 CENTS HOUR

New York, Az. 20.-Reduction of the general wage rates of day labor to 30 cents an hour, effective Aug. 29, United States Steel Computation. on Other wages will be adjusted accord ingly. The present general rate scale is 37 cents, and this has been in eff feet since May 16 ,at which time a 20 per cent. reduction in all wages and salaries was effective. On July s all overtime over and above the eight-hour day, at the rate of time and a half was abolished. The rate scale during the high price level of 1920 was 46 cents per hour, and in pre-war times 22. to 20 cents an hour
 A statement by Judge Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the Board, says:
 1n view of the prevailing low sell ing prices of steel, as compared to costs of production, 1t is necessary to make reductions in wage rates, and therefore we will recommend to subsidiary companies that the gem eral rates of day labor be decreased to 30 cetns per hour to become eff fective on Monday, Aug. 29, and that adjuSted.''
 As compared with the reduction of wages. the prices of steel products have suffered the more material re- auctions. The average price per ton for the eight principal steel products is now S49.63, as compared with $65.03, the high level quotation. The pre-war price was S35.s0-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
HULA-DANCE LAND NOW FORBIDS DISPLAY
 OF LEGS

Honolulu, Aug 20.-Hawaii, once famed as the land of the seductive Hula dance, shows indications of be- ing about to suffer a. severe rever- sal of form, of becoming absolutely Puritanical in fact.
 few weeks ago the territorial leg islature of Hawaii debated with more or less gravity and decorum and fin ally passed the famous Bathing Suit bill, prohibiting the display of the human figure and neither 1imb-or limbs-on the streets of the residen- tial district abutting on Waikiki Beach.
 As if that were not enough, res olution has now been placed before the Board of Supervisors of the city and county of Honolulu requesting g that body to pass an ordinance pro- hibiting the exhibition of ''racy'' shows in any public place and provid- ing suitable penalties for infringe ment of the law.
 Every cloud has it's silver lining, however, and an increasing tendency on the part of fair bathers to neg lect to button their wraps when pa rading the streets en bathing suit is the bright interior of this particular cloud. Perhaps, figure the opumists, they'll forget to censor the shows af- ter they ban the rough ones-if they do.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
WANTS DAMAGE
 FOR SONS DEATH

An advance "echo" of case that will in all probability be reached at the coming term of the Criminal Su- perior court is damage suit filed Friday afternoon in Superior court by Rosine Varone asking damages of S1O,O00 from Fracesco Vangno, ac- cused of wilfully and premeditatively shooting and killing her son, Fred erick V. Varone. The shooting, ac- cording to the writ, occurred on June 8, last, in Stamford, where both part ies reside.
 The accused is alleged to have shot the boy down on Spruce street. death occurring three days later in the Stamford hospital The coroner or dered Vangno held
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
WHAT JELnHFIsH BITE IS LIKE

(By International News Service.)
 Boston, Aug. 20.-The jellyfiSh ebite." What is it? Is it dangerous What are the symptoms of it's vic timS?
 These questions were answered by pr. C. F. Sylvester, of Allerton, who has treated scores of persons bitten" by jellyfish at Nantasket- He de- scribes the sting as "an anaphy1ac- tic reaction due to the entrance into the pores of jeI1yfish protein
 The poisoning is only temporary, he explains, and, while extremely ir- ritajting is not serious.
 .'The irritation comes in the form of red rash on any part of the body where the fish touches he explains. It has no serious after effects and, but for the pain. is of no conse- quence.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
TRADE MISSION FOR MOSCOW.

London Aug. 2O.-A British made mission of IT members, headed by R. M. Hodgson, formerly British consul at Vladivostok, has left London for Moscow, where quarters have been secured to house them.
 They took with them six weeks food supply, and large stores of office and household furniture including tables, brooms, pails, dusters mad even pens and ink.
 we don't know what may happen to us," said MT. Hodgson to a re- porter, ESQ we are going prepared. We are taking two cars, in case we find the raifzRaySe -0 theGEack
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
WESTP0RT

Westport. Aug. 2o.-The first of three performances of children's plays in aid of the Vassar Endowment Fund, will be given at the residence Westport, on August 18th. The plays announced to begin promptly at four in the afternoon and the spacious grounds and beautiful amphitheatre open at 3:3o to allow proper seating before the performances begin. The entire staging and directing of the plays will be done by Mir. George Nit chell, the wei known author and play wright, who Is the author of the first play on the program, a one act fan tasy for children and entirely enacted by children. entitled Twill O. The Woods.'' The other play ''The Queen And Her Temper" was written by Miss Doris G. Buliard, vassar 1e12.
 This presentation will be the first given under the auspices of the Vas sar Endowment Fund and is in charge of the local members of the gomery Is chairman and Mrs. Charles E. Cutler. Miss Ethel Wakeman, Miss Margaret Judson, Mrs. Harrison Sleeves and Miss Ethel Taylor are tee. Mrs. Joseph c. Drum and Miss Ethel K. Wakeman are in charge of publicity.
 Response to the efforts of the "eStpoIt AIuHlnae are most grdt1fy- Ing. Miss Wake1nan is enlisting the services of the local members of the Boy Scouts and groups of young col lege men and women for placing posters and advertising matter, to help out the campaign over the top. The price for tickets Is within the reach of all. those for adults being placed at $1.00-children at 25 cents. These may be procured from mem bers of the committee, and Miss FL wood at the Westport Library. Per formances will be given on September 1 at the residence of Mrs. A. H. Coles in Norwalk, and on September at the UnQuowa school in Bridgeport
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
MAY USE PISTOL RANGE.

Through the cooperation of Police Superintendent Patrick J. Flanagan, postal and railway mail clerks of Bridgeport will be allowed the use of the police revolver range at head quarters. Arrangements for the clerks practise with firearms have been made iQ every New England city. Competitive contests are planned for which prizes will be awarded the best shot in the six New England dis triCtS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED s1oo.

Found guilty of operating a motor car while under the influence of liouor, Michael J. Ryan of 654 State street was fined S100 in the City court Ryan appealed the case, and bonds were fixed at $500.
 He was arrested when he stalled his car at the intersection of Park avenue and State street. He was un- able to start it, and an officer who approached to aid him detected a strong odor of liquor, and placed Ryan under arrest
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
LAUNCH TROPHY DEFENDER

Detroit, Aug. 2O-Speed boat en- thusiaSts gathered today at Algonac. a little port nearby on the St. Clair river, to witness the launching of Miss America II, defender of the Harmsworth International Trophy, captured last year by Miss America I.
 Mrs. G. A. Wood of Detroit, wife of the owner, was the sponsor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20

The sign painter who printed one sign on the sidewalk at the corner Of Barnum avenue and Beach street need never give a guarantee. Work. done several years ago is still intact The sign reads, Have you bought might still get some purchasers
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20

The battleship is '-sti11 the back bone Of the fleet and the bNlwark of the nations chief defense,'' according to General Pershing's- analysis of re- cent bombing tests off the Virginia CapeS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20
MAKE NEEDED REPAIRS.

Some much needed reapirs to the wood block paving on Noble avenue opposite Washington Park are being made this week.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-20

Annual tobacco report of the Gen sus Bureau shows that total of 61,- 859, ,eo0.0o0 cigarettes were manIfac- cured d&n< the sInited,sSta EeaE>