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The New York herald., 1921-03-11
AIDA and "Blue Bird" Sung.

Aida" at a special matinee and The
Blue Bird" at night We're the opera Of
ferings yesterday. An incident Of the
afternoon was the return 70 the COM
pany OF Renato Zanellil who gang the
role of AmonGsro az his first work for
the Metropolitan this season. Miss
Muzio Mr.. Crimi and Nine. Claussen
were his associates
Miss Axman as the mother Miss Ellis,
Nine. Delaunois, Mr.. BOTHER. Nine.
Berat and Mr.. Ananian were principals
in THE Blue Blrdn
With Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence l.. Gil
iespie in box at the evening perform
ance were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry 3. IL.
Ripley and Mrs. Eugene S. ReynaI.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horatio s. Shonnard,
Mr. and Mrs George Hedges and AIr.
Frederick Potts Moore were In box -.
Countess Bondo OF tho Swedish Le-
cation IN Washington. Miss Eckstrom
and Mr.. j. Norman lie X. Whitehouse
We're among the guests OF Mrs. Charles
Mather MacNeill in box 81.
Among others in the audience were
Mr. and Mrs. Newbold Morris. Mr. and
Mrs. John S. Rogers. Mrs. William b..
Osgood Field, Capt. Warren c. Beach
and Mr.. Shipley Jones.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
Transit Measure Progress.

On the day the newspapers record
the reporting out of committee Of
Governor MnLER's traction measure
they contain more revelations OF the
collapse of the New York rapid transit
situation which Is like the breaking
up Of hard winter. The transit
measure is making progress but the
transit lines are going 70 the dogs.
The receiver OF the New York Rail
ways Company makes a statement TO
rhe Federal Court that four more
leases may have to go. If he does
have to surrender these leases the
Lexington and Lenox avenue route
will be cut in two at Twenty. Sc cntE
street, and the Sixth avenue route
will be cut between Rroome and
Canal streets and between Church
street and West Broadway. The re
ceiver will have to abandon the whole
Broadway and Seventh avenue route
and the Seventh avenue rourc from
Central Park to Macdougal street.
In addition to other inconveniences,
confusion and service default caused
by such changes. every one OF those
lease surrenders and route disrup-
tions means, Of course, more fares to
he paid by the public using those
lines. The five cent fare farce. in
deed. would be sure TO become more
nwat
cent fare tragedy for thousands OF
New Workers.
In view of all these possibilities
and probabilities. therefore, II Is es-
sential to give the new Rapid Tran
cit Commission such broad and sweep
Ing powers. as the amendments now
provide, that whenever Il may become
necessary 1t can regulate fares in any
particular locality when nothing else
will save the travelling public from
paying great deal more.
II is Of no use 70 fool ourselves
about the desperate degree Of this
rapid transit situation. Nobody
wants fares 10 20 M anywhere X
that result can be avoided. The ideal
Is a single fare on 4 unified system
end a rate that will enable the fat
routes to carry the lean routes for
the benefit Of the public as \ whole.
But until the general rapid transit
plan can be worked out by tho ron-
mission. accepted and put into effect,
n must have the power and Il must
exercise Il, when an emergency de-
mands such action, to keep the pres
ent system from falling into perhaps
half hundred different parts, Civ
Ing worse and worse service 10 the
public but costing the public more
and more.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11

Society OF Independent Artists. prismatic
costume ball. waldorf-Astoris. $50 p. ~.
will speak on THE OLD Regime in Russia
and Russia To-day at a meeting OF The
Genealogical and B,ographical Society. a2t
"ss5 f1st.a,s stose os
uee,ins saH EnsinssTns a SOCIETIES. sse'A Baians =
West Thirty ninth street. s:15 r.; M.
:. Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait vii spsak e.
t1s West Fortythlrd street, 80 T. NJ:
Conboy and Philip p. Gaynor viii speak r.
school hall, ib9th street and Brook avenue
The Bronx. $50 +. NJ.
Everett Dean Martin win lecture o.
''Nietzsehe: the Social Meaning OF .Art
wiiliston Alume Association. annus
dinner. Hotel Pennsylvania. Z r. NJ
immigration Commissioner Frederick \
Ecsnome Ess S PPSSism sPeSE Z" Ma Marble cosss
Church, Fifth avenue and Twenty niutl
Andre Tridon viii lecture on .'Problems Of
Childhood" at Rumford Hall. so East Forty
first street. $3.50 p. NJ
Dutch Treat Club, annual dinner and en-
tertainment. Automobile Club OF America
John Graham Brooks viii lecture on '.spe-
cific Attempts at Readjustment,' Town
Hall. 1i3 West Forty-thrd street. II a. "
Bridge party for the benefit OF SeaburS
Grace Cornell viii conduct study hours fol
practical workers. metropolitan Museum o.
Art. 10 A. NJ.
Pennsylvania State College, dinner, Hotc
McAlpin, p NJ.
Architect Lodge No. 40. r and A NJ.
supper and dance. Hotel Astor, y 80 +. NJ.
United States Daughters of 1912, reading
women's Democratic Club, meeting. Ho.
tel Commodore, $50 T.. ~.
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The Town Hall Debt.

The Town Hall has Aeea established
as focus or correct information
upon public topics. political social
economic. industrial. financial, Now
hat Il exists. its managers argue. III
would he un~ise 30 clrcumscliue it.s
usefulness. As long as partisanship
and sectarianism are avoided it1 OPP
nortunity for good lies Ia It's f:llcs,
use for discussion Of ideas and dis
semluation Of exact knowledge.
In the spirit OF this purpose the
League for Political Education. which
owns and manages the Town HAL, IS
appealing to the public FOR funds TO
finish the building on West Forty
third street and free II from debt
about $500. coo is needed 10 finish and
equip the two upper floors. When
this Is done these floors will be- in
come producing md Il is expected
rhat they will afford sufficient income
~ make the building self-supporting
II the existing debt can he cleared
IN. This debt lis S5Do,000 in the
form Of 4 mortgage
rhe League therefore sollcits public
subscriptions 10 2 total amount Of
S1.1oo,Oo0. This. il II believed, viii
render unnecessary any further de-
inands on public generosity. For the
nresent, running expenses. including
interest on the debt, arc met by leasing
nc main auditorium for ordinary lee,
tnres and entertainments. But this,
naturally. restricts the use of tho
NAH for it, projected purposes. Not
only mus larae number OF after
Moons and EVENINGS BE- given MP 20
..oumcrcial use but the dates must
he fixed long IN advance. regardless
~ emergency demands fo opporu.
uity 10 discuss questions of uraenf
,opular interest 'lae pIace you'd
become commercial enterprise and
not town hall.
The desire Of those behind the prof.
nc4 is to make Il a modern srbsti-
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
Songs by Nine. Guiibert.

Nine. Yvette Guilbert, who had not
been heard in recital here for some time.
gave programme of "Chansons du
Ciel et de la Terre" Yesterday in the
Thirty-ninth Street Theatre before q
large audience. Her list OF songs came
down through French life from the
twelfth century to the present time.
One especially noteworthy group, en-
titled 'Legendes Dorees" Golden Le-
gends). she gave on a stage richly hung
with steel blue draperies and herself
sumptuously attired in golden wrought
lace, yellow stuffs OF silk and flowing
headdress of red. Her speech. whether
in French or English, was such as only
she can give. and her gestures most
descriptive. In this same stage setting
followed "The Golden Images, In
"Chanteries des Images des Cathe-
draiea' impersonated by students of
Nine. Guiibert's school. a number en-
tirely effective and beautiful TO the eye
The New York herald., 1921-03-11

has always been a serious one 10 the
Bolshevist War Ministry. So long
rs DESlKISE and KoLcHAK were both
able to present strong front the
Red armies sent against them made
comparatively little progress. II was
only when DENIRINE's army became
so weakened by desertions and inter
nal strife as 10 be no longer formi-
dable that the Red army which had
confronted il was sent against koI-
cHAK. With victory in Siberia it
was IN easy matter to defeat the rem
nant of DESIKINEs army by turning
against ii the successful and vastly
superior force which had annihilated
KorcHAK. The same situation ap-
neared when General WRANGEI took
advantage OF the diversion OF Red
troops 10 the Polish frontier TO adj
vance north from Odessa. The Boil
sheyiki paid for their final victory over
WR.SGEL by losing their advantage
in Poland. No one perhaps knows the
exact strength or the efficiency of the
Red armies. but one thing Is certain,
so far they have not been able to
carry on successfully war on two diff
ferent fronts. Whatever else may be
the outcome of the Petrograd revolt,
it is likely to affect seriously the
vaunted spring military advance OF
the Bolsheyiki into western Europe.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
"He Don't" Has Friends.
4 Western Defence Of the English
Taught in Chicago Schools.

TO TigE NEw YoRK HERALD: Certainly
no critic can apply to any given case
standards oths" than the ones he has
himself been taught TO accept as correct
since YOUR criticism upon superintendent
Edward J. Tobin is based upon wholly
false standards may ] attempt TO set
YOU right?
THE locution "he don't" is survival
from the days preceding Samuel Pepys
gentle diarist and man Of letters. You
may have forgotten that Pepys in the
famous Diary uses no other form tnan
,sho do" or "he do not" Somewhat later
the southwestern dialcctic form does
drove out the form do" IN the tnrd
person singular. But, and this u the
crux OF the matter. doesn't did not
have similar success with The don't" So
that here. as Dr. Thomas r. Louns-
bury pointed out to me ~ personal
latter We have an instance or two
locutions or Identical force existing side
by side.
You can hardly be unaware that many
Of our best scholars have long defended
"he don't" Among these are prominent
Professor B-ander Matthews OF your
own Columbia, Or. Richard Burton Of
Minnesota University Theodore Lowe
De Winnie. master printer Of America"
who printed the Century Dictionary, and
DR.. James X. Hosner, author and man
of letters
NJ is peculiarly Illuminating 20 note
the words OF this last named writer OF
elegant English. He says y consider
he don't a far more desirable locution
than lie doesn't because il is shorter
ana more in accord with the genius Of
Igpalish which has always been quick
IL igc upon the swlftest and most
oioct means possible
III weight of testimony l. wished
would mention Albany Fonolanque, edi-
tor. historian and man Of letters, who
adorned the pre-Victorian days. The
great New 15nglisn Dictionary Of OK
ford cites Fonblanaue as saying (isao)
In English Under Seven Administra-
lions" "God don't suffer them now"
Nevertheless, American critics of to-
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
To Change Rainier to Lincoln.

\ dispute which has been wa2ed
for the last thirtv-eight years between
the towns OF Seattle and Tacoma and
in which much Of the remainder of
the State of Washington and much Of
the Pacific coast have taken sides was
brought before the United States Geo
graphic Board few days ago when
q petition WAS presented 10 1t for
changing the name OF Mount Rainier
to Mount Lincoln.
It should be explained that Lincoln
Is a sort of compromise name, one
which both towns agree would dig
Nifty this mountain. While the people
Of Tacoma admire their own name
for the mountain, Tacoma, more than
they dislike the name Rainier. the
people of Seattle merely dislike the
name Tacoma more than they like
Rainier. This picturesque 1900 foot
snow tipped peak apparently got the
name which geographers now give II
as far back as 1892, when Captain
GEORGE VANCOUVER a few days after
his discovery of it wrote in his jour
nal II distinguished It by the name
of Mount Rainier after my friend
Rear Admiral RAINIER
This name. however. never meant
much to Americans and not many
took the trouble to trace Ii 70 It's
origin. The Western plainsmen and
mountaineers did NOT very generally
accept IL. Their name for the snowy,
dominant giant was Old lie, and they
cared nothing for official designations.
But in 1885 the Northern Pacific Rail
road had published in the Northtcest
.U0qdsine Il statement to the effect
that in the future the Indian name
Tacoma would he used in all publica-
tions or the railroad .instead of Raj
nier which the English Captain VAN
coUvER gave to this magnificent peak
when he explored the waters Of Pu-
get Sound"
That was the beginning OF the trou-
ble. Tacoma stuck for Tacoma and
Seattle stuck for any other name but
Tacoma. The war ragged along the
Pacific coast and more heads were
battered and eyes blacked in this
mountain strife than over any other
civic question. Five years ago the
Geographic Board, after laboring with
the question. decided that the name OF
Rainier was well established and
firmly fixed by right Of discovery. by
priority and by universal usage for
more than century.
If the board thought for an instant
that the matter would end there 1t
was sadly mistaken. The quarrel Is
as fresh to-day as 1t was thirty eight
wears ago. One of the members OF the
board YEARLY remarked, when again
the question was dragged before it,
"If there is any chance on earth or
Seattle and Tacoma getting together
and ending the controversy | am for
that" The rest of the country viii
agree with him.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
The American Language.
A Habit Forming Campaign Advo-
Gated to Establish Its Name.

To TIVE NEw yoeT HERALD: The
phrase "the English speaking peoples. ;"
often quoted. wlll in the near future be
constantly reiterated. IL Is phra 70
with such iusinuating power that II
sometimes affects good but susceptible
Americans.
The Romance languages come from
Latin. but geographical situation and
awakened national consciousness eventu-
ally determined their several names.
There Ia no law compelling the nam
ing OF a language in Difference to its
origin.
English IL highly variant In the small
area OF England. where various sections
claim to be the centres in which the
true English Ia spoken Americans have
noted that some cultured lecturers from
England in their efforts to iinpsrt sonor-
Gus qualities to their voices have emit
ted unintelligblo sounds az irritating as
the whistle Of peanut roaster.
The language Of America is homo
geneous and 81 uniform in expression
and accent Il is often difficult 10 tell
the home states OF Americans. Unaf-
fected Americans are never mistaken for
English.
America has its own language aud that
language should be designated Amcri-
can.
Let MS form the habit and inculcate
and encourage IL in others Of thinlSinF
persistently OF and referring 10 the
speech of America always as tho Amer
lean language.
Patriotic organizations through their
branches could assist tho endesvor by
passing resolutions in accord with such
= project and chairmen and orators al
pr6ilc meetings might create helpful sit
uatious. CLAUDE WALTER CrtteN.
NEN WORN. Maicn I0
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
Early Income Tax Payment.

Most income lax payers save no
monsy !. p0stponins uuril the Last
moment the fling Or their returns
Wit, payment ~ the amounts due 10
the Government Persons and CORPORA
tions who must pay thousands or tens
OF thousands or dollars lind it profit
able ia wait until the last moment.
These individuals and institutions are
comparatively few in number. The
vast majority Of those who must sat
isfy the Internal Revenue collectors
on or before March Is will be as well
of op March 10 If they square their
accounts to-day as they will be II
they put off the day of settlement.
Early payment Of the income tax
does make a difference in the offices
Of the collectors, however. The citi-
zens who get their money in before
the rush Of the last TWO or three days
save themselves Inconvenience and
save the officials from unnecessary
RUS. and congestion oi labor. Under
the best conditions the last day for
payment o. the tax and the forty
eight hours preceding it are hard on
the Clerks, cashiers ana technical adj
yIsers who help Uncle SANS nephews
and nieces to meet their obligations
TO that benevolent but inexorable old
gentleman.
The Internal Revenue collectors
and their assistants ask US TO pay
early. Most Of US can do it without
difficulty We should heed their call.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
Nine. SaImarOff's Recital.

Nine. Olga Samsroff continued her
series of recitals devoted to the thirty
two piano sonatas of Beethoven yes
terday at Aeolan Hall ny playing opus
70 in @ major, opus STA IN r flat, opus
81 in + major and opus 81. "Appassion-
alta" in Il minor. In the last work In
the list there was some aggressiveness
and not sufficient poetry. but her gen.
eral performance had her accustomed
taste, intelligence and clarity to COM
mend II. Her audience seemed deeply
interested in the music presented.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11

day are so falsely fastidious as to think
they know more about the English Ian
guage and its proprieties than did the
careful scholar Albany Fonblanoue.
AS regards TT is me-" reason, his
tory and logic" have no least thing to
do with the matter. Historically 1T is
you" is quite as ungrammatical as is
1T is me- But we discarded the Bib
lical thou and ye and accepted an OBJ
jective form in their place. Why do we
not allow common sense a voice in the
matter and cease to set up impossible
and absurd standards? The French say
"C'est moi' and make no fuss about IL.
Just try vocally TO substitute nomina-
tive for the objective in this line from
Whittier;
Her world was love and him.
How do you like the sound of it. Her
world was love and he"? II makes one
laugh even to hear the oddity.
The greatest trouble with our schools
to-day is that so many teachers take
just the position that you have taken.
These teachers are sincere in their mis-
taken views. But they do not go 10 the
wide field Of English literature for their
information. and they DO go unluclsiiy TO
some little school manual that lacks all
the authority of great scholarship.
English Is the worst taught subject in
the whole curriculum, yet the largest
amount OF time is devoted to It. There
Is reason for all the Ills OF American
schools, but it does not lie on the sur
face Of things.
JEAN SHERWOOD RANKIN.
MfNNgAPoLfs, Mimi, March s.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
Mr.. Watjen Protests.
The Use Of His Name at the Garden
Meeting Was Unauthorized.

10 THE NEW YORK HERALD nave
been shown a copy n the official pro-
eramme of the mass meeting held in
Madison Square Garden ON February IS
to protest againet the presence OF
Moroccan troops on the Rhine, and find
that it includes my name in the list of
honorary vice-presidents.
Will you permit me 70 make use OF
the columns OF your paper TO say em-
that not only was the use
OF my name entirely unauthorized but
I have absolutely no sympathy with the
object OF the meeting or the sentiments
OK pressed there? on the contrary con-
slider the whole affair a disgrace to the
city and country. Louis WATJEN.
Ngw YORK, March 10.
The New York herald., 1921-03-11
Cure for Burlesonism.
Fourteen Reforms Called For in the
New York Post Office.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Thou
sands OF postal employees rejoiced 10
read that Postmaster-Gener Hays pro-
poses to redeem the service from Burle-
sonism. As regards the New York post
office make the following suggestions:
First-Eliminate the multiplicity of
scheme study which has been imposed
upon the clerks by the local authorities
and which is the immediate cause of
untold dissatisfaction.
Second-Return the individual lockers
which We're taken away from the men
IN the General Post Office last fall. As
q result of the present unsatisfactory and
unsanitary system of checking the em-
ployees' clothes many of the men have
not only had their good wearing apparel
ruined but in many instances garments
have been lost and nobody seems to be
responsible for the damages.
Third-Have a bona fide merit system
esta blished. thereby eliminating the pres
ent so-called merit system, which is ram
pant with favorltism.
Fourth--Do not depend too much upon
the information of conditions as pre-
sented by the high officials. but get into
close touch with the rank and file, the
men who really do the work.
Fifth-Remove the bosses who brow
beat the employees.
Sixth-Get rid of the class of gunnshoe
and would-be bosses.
seventh--Remedy the unssnitary con-
ditions in ALL the large terminals
Eicnth-Remedy the heating defects
in the large terminals so that employees
can work IN comfort during the cold
winter months.
Ninth-Reestablish the pneumatic tube
system so as to remove the dangerous
mail wagons and their reckless drivers
from the streets
Tcnti-Reestab blish the mail boat ser
vice TO its pre-war statue, for by meet
ing the steamships and removing the
mail at Quarantine it neans to New
York business saving Of from twenty
four to thirty-six hours in delivery of
city mall and to persons in Philadelphia,
Baltimore Washington, Chicago, St
Louis or San Francisco saving in
time of from thirty-six to forty-eight
hours.
EieVentn-1lNe the NinuoW JoDS "
those OF seniority in the service. such as
those who have served from twenty to
twenty-five or more yeare, instead Of 10
women or men who have been in the
service less than Ave years.
Twelfth--Separatc the handling of
parcel post from that Of ordinary mail.
Thirteenth-Stop wasting money with
experimenting with airplane mail and
devote that money TO improving sys-
tens known TO be reliable.
Observation-Disclosures political influence
and favoritism 70 a minimum
A POSTAL EMPLOYEE.
NEW YORK, March 10
The New York herald., 1921-03-11

Journeying down the centuries OF mu-
sical history, Walter Damrosch and the
symphony Society Orchestra arrived
yesterday afternoon at the port Of un-
formed art, namely, these United States.
1t was evidently Mr.. Damroseh's design
to give examples OF the craft OF as many
American composers as possible, and
therefore his programme was almost "a
thing OF shreds and patches"
A more satisfying effect might have
been obtained by the performance OF two
or three large works rather than OF sew
eral small ones and parts OF others. The
list comprised Chadwick's "Sinfonietta"
in y, the dirge and Village Festival
from MacDowell's Indian suite. three
movements from John Alden Carpenters
In u Perambulator," Loefflers villa
nellie du Diable." GrffeS's 'DThe White
Peacock" familiar excerpts from Mr.
Damrosch's "Electra" music and John
Powell's Negro Rhapsody" with the
composer at the piano.
The selections were well chosen but
doubtless many would have been glad
TO sacrifice something else in order to
hear again the whole of Mr.. Carpenters
captivating portraits Of babyhood, This
suite belongs to two or The seven arts.
for It's progTa NINE is piece OF delicious
literature. And this grand old baby,
born with gray hair and philosophizins
OF dogs. policemen. nurses. hurdy CUR
dies and other important factors in the
great struggle OF existence, is one Of the
best creations OF American fancy.
Or. perhaps, others would have pre-
ferred to hear all OF Mr.. MacDowelrs
suite, which SOME Of his admirers re-
gard as his best work. 1t wears fairly
we'll The two movements heard yester-
day have lost none of their quality OF
musical suggestion. And Charles Mar
tin Loeffler's devil cavorts as gaily as
ever. But the programme left the i'm
preston that the foreigners had the best
OF It. Perhaps this might not have been
the case il a more substantial list had
been offered But there are so many
American composers, and what is q
poor conductor to do? II he leaves any
OF them out, they must again raise the
outcry that there is discrimination
against native talent.
Mr.. Damrosch might have left himself
out. Why should he? 1t was his or
chestra and his concert, and what is
more, his music was good. This is no
age for false modesty. The programme
wes well presented and the audience
seemed to be pleased. although at no
time over excited