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The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--H'air to-day
increasing cloudiness tomorrow, prob-
ably followed by showers in the after
noon or at night: moderate temperature
moderate shifting winds.
For Now Jersey-Falr to-day; tomorrow
unsettled, probably showers; moderate tenn
perature; gentle TO moderate variable winds.
For Northern New Englind-Fair to-day
and probably Tomorrow; moderate tempera-
ture; moderate westerly winds.
For Southern New England-Fair to-dayS
Tomorrow unsettled, probably showersi
moderate temperature;; moderate to fresh
Westerly winds. becoming variable.
morrow unsettled. probably showers; mod
crate temperature. moderate westerly winds
becoming variable
WASHINGTON. Aug. f5.-I-ressurs was
nlgn to-day over tho eastern nalf ~ the
country, and II was low and falling to the
westward except in the north Pacific States,
with centres OF minimum pressure tonight
over the Canadian Northwest and Arizona.
showers occurred within the last twenty-four
hours In the plains States. the Rocky Noun
talns sAd north plateau regions. Tennessee,
the south Atlantic States and the north
Atlantic states and the north portion of the
CUR states. Elsewhere fair weather pre-
vailed
The temperature was below normal almost
generally east OF the Rocky Mountains except
In the Gulf and south Atlantic States. The
western disturbance will advance eastward
attended by showers within the next thirty
six to forty-eight hours over most sections
east of the Mississippi River except New
England. The weather win continue fair to.
morrow throughout the Northeast States.
Temperature changes will not be important.
observations at United States Weather Eu-
reau stations taken at p. NJ. yesterday
sevsnty-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
A Puzzle for the Laboratory.

A New York chemist has made a
silk purse out Of sow's ear, not
with the hope Of finding profitable
market for the commodity but just to
show that the theoretically impossi-
BILE is possible.
Next we shall have ropes made Of
sand and razors that will cut grind
stones. Mr.. BURBANK ought to be
able to make figs grow on thistle
plants. Omelettes made without
breaking eggs may be a common sight
in scientific restaurants.
But what chemist can find drug
that will remove from the head of
WILLIAM M. BENNETT the delusion
that he is fit to be Mayor or that the
people of New York want him in
that place?
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
GRAY sAMARITANs TO SAIL.
Five Young Women to Return to
Relief Work in Poland.

Five Gray Samaritans, young Ameri-
can women of Polish extraction, Will
sail to-day on the steamer Old North
state to resume their child feeding work
with the American Relief Administra-
ton In Poland. They were the guests
Of the Hoover organization yesterday al
a luncheon at the Bankers Club. the
girls have been spending a vacation at
their homes In various sections OF the
United States, after two years service
overseas. The five young women are Miss
Anna Michalowska, Miss Zoliz Kosa-
bucka, Miss Mary M. Andrezejewska,
Miss Josephine Taskowska and Miss
Feliciz Krutawicz.
Edgar Rickard. director Of the Amer
lean Relief Administration. presided at
the luncheon. He congratulated the
GRAY Samaritans upon their achieve
ments and conveyed to them Secretary
Hoover's appreciation of their work. lie
also congratulated the Y. NJ. {. Az
which recruited the young women.
Miss Amy Tapping Of the Y. w. G. A.,
who has been working In Poland and
who returns to that country with tho
Gray Samaritans, was another speaker.
Mr.. II. NJ. Walcot also will sail to-
day by the Old North State, en- route to
Balboa, 'Stain, where he will take up
his Official work as American Consul
Other passengers will include MessrsS
Joseph G. and II. w. Minot Of Boston,
Admiral and Mrs. N. c. Twining, Prof.
and Mrs. II. M. Wagstafr and Miss
Frances Wagstaff.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Has Washington the Facts ?

Americans on learning that +. l..
THOMPSON has been in charge OF a
district in Poland for the American
Relief Administration, has been an
agent Of the European Children's
Fund is now an agent in the work OF
relieving Russian refugees in Con-
stantinople, and recently has been in
communication with Soviet authori-
ties in Moscow would suppose him to
be reliable witness as to conditions
in Russia. Mr.. THOMPSON said to the
Reval correspondent of THE New
York HERALD that he never found
more able, hard working men than
LEON TRoTzKY and GEORGE TcHITcH-
ERIN; that the Reds have the only
efficient working organization for
food distribution; that he was able
to buy some kinds OF food in Moscow
more reasonably than in London;
that it is a good idea to send relief
through 'Petrograd because great
canal system permits communication
with the famine districts"
On the same page as Mr.. THoMP-
soS's statement was printed the
statement given by the former Amer
lean Minister to China, CHARLES r..
CRANE, to THE New YORK HERALD cor
respondent at Riga. Mr.. CRANE said
that in Russia, which he has recently
crossed, millions are suffering from
famine: that as the transportation
system is bad and daily growing
worse food should be distributed by
as many routes as possible; that Pc
trograd is seriously menaced, lacking
flour and fats"
1t appears to be difficult to obtain
the facts as to food and transporta-
tion conditions in Russia Here are
two experienced observers, both re-
Gently in Russia, both recent visitors
in Moscow, who on the same day
make conflicting, in some respects
diametrically opposed, reports.
If, as is supposed to be the fact,
the Departments of State and of La.
bor have confidential agents in Rus
sia reporting on political and eco
nomic conditions there 1t would dis
pel much confusion in the public mind
IL some of those reports vouched for
by the Secretaries OF State and of
Labor were made public.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16

replace the existing Department OF the
Interior and the other to be a new
concern styled the Department OF
Public Welfare. This would keep the
Cabinets population at ten plus the
Vice-President. Ten Is the maximum
in our administrative history, and
ten, as has just been said, is too
large.
1t is not case of the greatest good
In the greatest number.
II is nonsense to maintain that
even a great and important depart
ment OF the Federal Government can
rot be well administered unless its
head sits weekly at the White House
mahogany. The Department Of Agri
culture was conducted, not merely as
q bureau but as full fledged depart
ment created by statute, for twenty
seven years before it had Secretary
and a Cabinet place.
II would be a decided misfortune
to the present Chief Executive and to
his successors II the effort for the
simplification Of administrative ma.
chinery and the elimination of unnec-
essary expenditure should not like
wise contemplate the reduction OF
Cabinet membership. This is the op-
portunity. We do not believe there is
President or Premier anywhere, or
that there has ever been such one,
who on the naked merits Of the al
ternative would not prefer for his in
timately associated council of helpers
a cabinet of seven. or even Of five, to
a small town meeting OF ten or q
dozen sages.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
CELTIC BRINGS THEATRE FOLK,
Mr. KIaubcr and Capt. Pollock,
English Comedian, Here.

After spending three years In British
hospitals recovering from severe wounds
Capt. Alan Pollock, English comedian,
who last acted her in 1914, arrived yes
terday on the White Star liner Celtic
to resume the work of entertaining the
American public. The play In which he
is to appear under the direction of
Charles Dillingham; is "A Bill of Divorce
ment," by new playwright, Miss Glenn
ence Dane. Several months ago, about
the time he found himself abe to got
around. Capt. Pollock got the American
rights to the play. It's chief recommend
alton SO far is that in England it sur
vived the theatrical depression due to
the GOAL strike. When here last Mr..
Pollock was leading man with Miss
Billie Burke in Jerry"
Adolph Klauber theatrical producer,
returned with the news that his wife,
Jane CowL will return In two weeks.
Mr.. Klauber Ill open the tour Of "The
Emperor Jones" In Washington. Here
he will bring Out James Gleason as
leading man in Like a King" zone of
Three" new comedy drama by Julian
Thompson. will be another OF his early
productions.
Others on board were Jordan III. Sta
bier, vice-president of the All America
Gable Company, and Mrs. Stabler Ca
valieri II. w. Greenough and Mrs.
Greenough of Albemarle county. Va.
Thomas b. Ismay, l.. Fl. Paul Chapin
and Miss Cornelia van A. Chaplin. Capt.
A. L. P. Dennis. Mrs. e. T. II. Talmadge.
| Prentice Talmadge and Miss Caroline B.
Talmadge and DR. and Mrs. Harold c.
Bailey.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Benehcent Surgery at Sea.

The recent pronouncement Of the
trustees OF Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore limiting the charges
Of surgeons to patients has called
out some severe criticisms upon
the medical profession. Most OF
these harsh utterances have been
unjust to the doctors. No vocation
contains a larger proportion OF gener-
GUS and devoted men who do their
work faithfully irrespective Of any
question OF fee or reward. In hun
dreds of cases, indeed, the surgeon
renders his services with an absolute
certainty that they must be per-
formed gratuitously.
Several striking illustrations OF the
helpful conduct OF medical men in
emergencies where no pay can pos
sihly have been thought OF are fur
nished by the recent records Of the
Cunard line of transatlantic steam
ships. In the Manchester Guardian
one incident is thus narrated:
when the Cunard liner Albania
was 800 miles from the Irish coast
on her recent homeward voyage n
wireless message was received from
the steamship Tamaqua stating that
one OF the ships flremen had had his
arm torn Off In ventlating fan en-
gne, that temporary bandages had
been applied. but that he was losing
blood rapidly. The message asked for
advice. and this was given. but could
not be carried out The Tamaqua
was about 100 mi away. but tho
Albania went 20 j, md the ships
surgeon, DR.. Z :. n. I lRRrs, brought
the injured MAJ way. An operation
was Immediately ,arried out on the
Albania. and three women passengers
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
A Misunderstood Expression.

One Of the minor Paris newspapers
absolutely and totally misappre-
hended the meaning of facial spasm
or muscle storm that contorted the
usually placid countenance of the
American Ambassador to the Court
of St. James's at recent session of
the Supreme Council.
The Midi, as eagerly transcribed
by our neighbor the World, represents
the Ambassador as pathetic figure
In Paris. Nothing could be more
pathetic" it says. than the silence Of
Colonel GEORGE HARVEY and a certain
contortion of the mouth which he
made during the sittings, lacking the
right to have his say"
Pathetic? Not by a jugful! Melan-
choly because he could not have his
say on the Silesian question of strictly
European concern? Let it not be so
believed in Gaul.
The observed contortion Of the Am
bassador's mouth was nothing more
than the effort Of dignity to keep its
face and conceal its inner mirth over
the thought of what the Hon. WooD-
ROW WILSON, his own immediate pred
ecessor in Supreme Councils and
sich, would have been saying and do
ing then and there If he had contin-
ued to occupy Colonel HARvEY's pres
ent post in international councils and
conferences.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Western Verse.
Called Superior to Eastern Poetry
Because Less SOPHISTICATED.

4 To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
poems reprinted on the editorial page
Of THE New YORK HERALD from West
crn newspapers Justify the attention
given them and by their merit institute
q comparison with the style OF verse
appearing these many years In the lead
ing American magazines Hdrpcr's,
Scribnc,'s, the Atlantic Monthly.
In the main the magazine verse has
in common the characteristic of sophis-
tication, the same quality that is the
most prominent feature of Edith Whar-
toms novel THE Age OF Innocence"
For social purposes sophistication may
be a serviceable If somewhat thin and
easily penetrated concealment of Under
lying qualities or lack of quality. Its
oyeruse by present day writer's has
become monotonous. and because of this
these Western poems reprinted in THE
NEW York HERALD are as refreshing as
oases in a desert.
Some time ago It was asserted in
print that one Of the Eastern magazines
had offered 70 II contributions Of verse
numbering many thousands. 1t Is hardly
conceivable that all these offerings
should be or the monotonous sophisti-
Gated type and shat none OF them should
possess those qualities that make this
Western verse worth while.
Professor Biloxi In his history of the
Netherlands says that when the great
Dutch poets. Vordel. from whom NIL
ton lifted" so much OF his Paradise
Lost" and the others, died they were
succeeded by host OF weaklings, who.
having nothing to say, tried to attract
attention to themselves by printing free
verse or by oyerdocoration OF their
rhymes about nothing--hligree work for
which humanity Lad no use and which
was not forgotten because 1t had never
been remembered
Possibly the Western verse may point
the way out Of a rut now we'll worn in
America, the same rut that Holland fell
into several centuries ago. C. Hur.
PHILADELPHIA, August is.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Colonel Ingersoll's Goods. !"
Date OF Publication Of Book and
the End OF Political Career.

To THE New York HERALD: Enthu-
siasm for the genial object OF his lau-
dation seems to have led the writer
OF your editorial article of August ii
on Bob Ingersolls Day" into some
inaccuracies. He speaks of having seen
Ingersoll buying a lot Of images of gods
In New York in the mid '7os, and then
SAYS that a year or two afterward In
gersoll published his "The Gods"
From that excellent work by Herman
E. Kittredge of Washington entitled
'Ingersoll" (Dresden Publishing Com
pany. New York, 1917 i find that "The
Gods" was published not after the mid
'70s but early In the '70s or In 1872,
Ingersoll left Peoria to live in Washing
ton In 1877 and in 1885 took up his
abode in New York city.
Even IL 1t Is true that little that he
said had not been said before by other
sceptics, still is 1t true that Ingersoll
presented his arguments against the
Christian religion with marshailing
of facts that his legal training made
possible for him. Not Paine. not Vol
talre. not Renan had the disciplined
legal mind that Ingersoll had. and there
fore he was able to give to his argu-
ments a biting directness the value OF
which is perhaps attested by the popu-
larity he enjoyed as a public speaker.
1t will be recalled that In his religious
discussion In the North Americans Re-
p;cto In the early sos with Judge Jere
Black OF Pennsylvania the great agnos-
tic proceeded against his judicial op-
ponent with the same method of argu-
mentation that he would have employed
IL they had been contending lawyers In
a suit at court II will be remembered
also that Judge Black after Colonel
Ingersoll> rejoinder withdrew from fur
ther discussion.
Is 1t legitimate to ask what new
things the ministers of to-day say that
have not been said by Beecher. Spur
geon, Calvin. Knox, Thomas Kempis
Savonarola, Martin Luther and other
great preachers Of the past? Are they
to be belittled because they clothe u
new phrases thoughts expressed hun
dreds OF years ago?
Standing In the Union Station. Chi.
cago. many years ago when I was little
more than a youth ! felt hand laid
upon my shoulder and. looking up, saw
the towering form OF the Rev. James w
Haney. a Methodist minister whom
had known in small Illinois city. sc
you've come up to the big city, eh?' he
asked. do you still admire Colonel
Irgersoll?"
When I told him did, he said very
solemnly MY boy, you cannot tio to a
better man." After ] had expressed my
surprise at his saying so, Mr.. Haney
said:
let me tell you something. My
father, the Rev. Richard Haney, was
one of the Methodist political wheel
horses OF the Republican party. At a
convention OF the party in Illinois at
which wac @ b. ramcd the Governor
Of the state lngersoll was candidate
and had so large . following that 1,
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
IRISH MUSIC AT STADIUM.

Irish music was heard at the Stadium
Concert last night by an audience Of
5000 or more. The Irish. Musical So
cfety sold most Of the tickets Rev.
Father Duffy, president of the society.
introduced by Victor Herbert. the con.
ductor and vice-president of the society,
spoke briefly and was applauded.
Thomas Burke, tenor. sang old Irish
songs, including Farewell to Sliey
Norma" and the orchestra played selec-
tions from "The Bohemian Girl" also
Stanford's Irish symphony. Irish rhap-
sody by Herbert. and other music by
the conductor.
For the last but one of the Stadium
concerts, to be given tonight, two new
compositions will be played by the or
chestra under Victor Herbert-Pau
Tietjens's Carnival" and Schroeders
March of the Gnomes." Isidor Berger,
concertmaster violinist and Jackson
Kinsey, baritone. will be tho soloists.
Mr.. Kinsey will sing the credo aria from
"Otello' and Mr.. Berger will play a Sc
lection by Sarasate. Henry 4. Hadleys
TN Bohemia" overture and the overture
to 'Tannhaeuser" will be among the or.
chestral selections.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Scoutmasters Called For.
Fifty Volunteers Wanted to Head
Leaderless Scout Troops.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Our at
teEtion has been invited TO the urgent
need for volunteer scoutmasters in Man
haitian. We are reliably informed that
at the normal rate of increase there
will soon be fifty leaderless Scout troops
In this borough. Such a situation would
reflect very gravely on the civic respon-
sibility of the community. But we be-
lleve that once the need Is known 1t
will be met.
The duties of a scoutrnaater are not
aiduous and are generally confined to
cne evening week. Such duties bring
man into close touch with boys at
their most mouldable period. TO help In
the making Of future Americans is ma
tlonal service, calling for red 'blooded
young men OF high character who know
what boys are like and who like boys.
Incidentally it trains the scoutmaster in
handling others. Every employer rec
ognizes the value Of such experience.
College graduates or men with good
education and ex-officers and ex-service
men of the army and navy, between
the ages of 21 and 35. are particularly
cially IL they are out OF doors men or
athletically inclined. Whatever techni-
cal training Is required viii be supplied
free of charge.
This Is not an appeal for money. 1t
is a call for men.
Those interested are urged to write
the Scoutmasters Committee, room 500.
So Wall street, New York city. which
viii gladly furnish all details.
JOHN II. FINLEY, FRANK l.. POLK, Nor
GAN j. O'BRIEN, WILLIAM BARCLAY
PARsoNs, r, FULTON CUTTING, IRVING
t. BUSH, FREDERICK RoY MARTIN
ROBERT p. PERKINS, EDWIN ]. MER-
RILL, GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM. ROBERT
w. DE FOREST, PHILIP J. McCooK
ALBERT SHAW, HAROLD l. PRATT,
CHARLES 4. HUGHES, Jr., JOSEPH IL.
CHoATE, Jr., ROBERT GRrER Cook, ED
WIN +. GAY, CAss GILBERT, FRANKLIN
HoYT, SAMUEL S. DRURY, HENRY l.
SrIMsoN, GEORGE w. WIcKERsHAM,
FRANKLIN REMINGTON, JOHN II. IsE-
LIN, DANIEL c. FRENCH, CHARLES P.
ROWLAND, CHARLES DANA GIBSON.
New York, August 10.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
Dishonest Bank Clerks.
Comment BY a Bank officer on a
Recent Sentence.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
sentence imposed In the case OF John
j. Callahan is a long step toward
making the occupation Of thieving more
honorable and will naturally result in
d large increase OF similar cases, and
surety companies viii be justified in
raising their premium rates on policies
for bank defalcations.
Callahan admitted In court that he
had been guilty OF committing a series
OF thefts from the Importers and
Traders National Bank, where he was
employed. amounting to $4,000.
The Assistant United States Attorney
then explained the circumstances, char
acterizing Oallahan's acts as errors OF
morals and judgment"
Judge Sheppard, after listening to the
explanations, said that he considered
the case called for lenicncy, adding that
Callahan had not intended to rob the
bank, tut erred through weakness; so
Callahan was sentenced to spend a
whole dreary day in the custody Of a
United States Marshall day In a
common jail with other thieves would
have been distasteful to him--and pay
fine of $500. which sum was readily
furnished by his friends.
The writer has been employed In
banks as clerk, teller and officer for
more than fifty years. and has been
cognizant of many defalcations. nearly
all Of which were marked by the same
characteristics as those related in the
Callahan case: namely, dissatisfied ~
with salaries agreed upon and small
amounts taken at first with the inten-
tion of restoring the amount stolen as
soon as their stock speculations or
profits from racing bets would permit.
But all these attempts to recover their
losses falling. as usual. they would dip
deeper into the banks tills until finally
caught.
The same old story of crime and dis
grace. now made almost respectable by
the above decision in this eminently
typical case. LUcIus +. SPENCER.
RIDGEwooD, N. j., August 15.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16
GOLF AT HOT SPRINGS.

Special Despatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
Hor SPRINGS, Va, Aug. 15.-The week
started with much activity on all golf
courses. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Folgor
were among those from New York play
ing this morning. also Miss Alice @.
Bush. daughter OF Mrs. Robert w. Bush.
REGINALD u. Huidekoper was with Mrs.
Huidekoper for an early morning two
some.
NIrs. Teran Haggin arrived to-day
from New York and DIR. otho Fisher Ball
arrived from Chicago to join Mrs. Ball.
Mrs. Walter s. Heron Of Pittsburgh Is
with her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Dawson
Gallery. AT the Pillars.
Mrs. Ira II. Wight OF ST. Louis enter
tained several friends at tea this after
noon at her cottage.
Alfred ". Sloan, Jr.. left to-day for
New York after brief visit with Mrs.
Sloan.
The New York herald., 1921-08-16

who are qualified nurses watched un-
remittingly by the injureS mans bed
side. On the arrival OF the Aibania
at Liverpool the fireman. WILLIAM
WARD of Hull. was removed TO Brown
low Hill Hospital. All the passen-
gers gathered on the deck as he was
carried off the ship. There was quite
an affecting scene as they bade him
good luck. many OF the women pas
sengers being In tears"
Curiously enough, on the same day
the surgeon of the Cunarder Maure-
tania. DR.. STEPHENS, was summoned
by wireless to render medical aid to
a sailor on the Norwegian bark Earis-
court; the steamship ran up to the
sailing vessel and set DR.. STEPHENS
on board, where he found the patient
in the delirium Of a protracted case
OF pneumonia. The ships lay by one
another until the visiting surgeon
had done all in his power for the
sick man and then proceeded each
on its way.
Occurrences Of this kind constantly
Justify the Scriptural admonition:
Honour physician according to
thy need of him, with the henours
due unto him;
"For verify the LORD hath created
him.
"There Is time when In their very
hands Is the issue for good"
How wireless telegraphy at sea
may be helpful not only in cases OF
sickness but even in cases Of death
is shown by a different sort of call
for aid recently received by the
Cunarder Carmania from the steamer
Canadian Trapper, 200 miles distant
at the time. There had been death
on the Dominion steamer, rendering
necessary burial at sea, but no one
on board had a prayer book or knew
any appropriate burial service. Being
informed Of this, the captain Of the
Carmania telegraphed to the captain
Of the Canadian Trapper the Order
for the Burial of the Dead out Of the
Church of England prayer book.