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The New York herald., 1921-05-24
From Main Street to Cathay.

From Greenwich Village we hear
the murmur of women's voices calling
for liberty, destiny and careers anu
lamenting that women are not free
Then we see the list Of assignments
Of the Woman's American Baptist
Foreign Mission Society and wonder
why the yearners of the Village, keen
as they pretend to be for an en-
larged horizon, do not seem to go
out as far in the field OF adventure
as these young missionaries who do
not bob their hair, wear smocks or
put lemon invariably In their tea.
A girl from Hilton, New York.
starts for South India this summer
One from Stanford, Kentucky, will
labor among the Buddhlsts In the
Burma hills. One New Jersey girl
IS going to Bengal TO talk to the
Hindus, another to South China. One
girl is leaving the shadows OF the
great Smoky Mountains in North
Carolina TO work In the hunger
stricken part of China. A girl from
The cornfields Of Kansas Is slated for
Japan. A Detroit girl is going to
Africa, a Bayonne girl to Burma. A
young lady goes from Rockford, MI
nois. where there Is nothing more
dangerous than the butter market, to
Assam, where there are tigers and
earthquakes
Oh, for adventurei sighs the VII
lager at her spaghetti at the sign OF
the Cerise Chipmunk. Meanwhile the
young woman In Gopher Prairie looks
up the shortest route from Shanghai
to Cheng-Tu and packs her bag.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Slate in the Coal.
Improper Preparation OF Anthracite
Increases the Cost.

To THE NEW Yogx HERALD: A phase
OF the coal situation which is OF great
Importance Is the way the domestic
sizes OF anthracite are prepared.
Stove size cost delivered Sc a short
ton ten years ago; that would be s12
to-day, but the present ton OF coal con-
tains from 25 per cent. 10 80 per cent.
of bone, slate and dust, which brings
the cost up TO sl6. to say nothing OF
the cost and worry OF keeping the kitchen
range clean.
II we could have clean coal, which
means the mining OF coal. not bone and
slate, and the picking OF the same as
during the days OF the late '90s and
early In 1900. would not object 10 pay
Ing around sl2 for my coal.
The retail coal dealer cannot help us.
for he has to deliver what is sent him.
but the operator is not preparing the
coal. but Is charging price which coy-
era all such expenses. Personally
worked underground. In the breaker anj
afterward on the selling force and acted
as deputy coal administrator during the
Coal Administrator. X. p. EMMoNs.
New BaroHroN May %.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Tickets for Memorial Festival.

Memorial Festival -rinted pro-
grammes, together with tickets, will be
sold to-day In the hotels theatres and
other public places by very nearly 100
girls simultaneously tickets will be
distributed by the Victory Hall Assocla-
ton from It's headquarters, East Forty
third street, which has become also the
headquarters of the Memorial Festival
committees. The sales are under the di-
rection OF Miss Isabel Lowden. director:
Col. r. w. Galbraith, Jr., chairman; Mrs.
Charles Fl. Ditson, chairman OF the
women's committee. and J. Noble Bra.
den, secretary. They predict that tho
capacity of the Twenty second Regiment
Armory will be taxed 10 It's utmost on
Thursday night
Posts OF the American Legion are to
send delegations, and the Y. NJ. c. A..
Y. W. G. A. and the Salvation Army
have already promised cooperation In
the distribution of programmes and
tickets groups of girls are being headed
by Mrs. Frederick L. Lutz. who Will have
charge of the hotels. and Mrs. Philip +.
Levey, who will conduct the sales In TIE
theatres.
The rehearsal of the festival will be
given tomorrow, al 1.-The school children
assembling in the armory to sing tn "a
choruses and go through their pa5 IS.
There will be 1000 boys and girls in
the chorus from the high schools and
nearly rs many younger girls from the
grammar schools, who will serve as
flower girls and will throw flowers on
the caisson covered by an American flag,
drawn by soldiers, sailors and marines
as 1t circles the armory floor.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Saw Many Theatres Burn.
Mr.. Osborne Has an Unusual Record
In Attending Fires.

To THE NEW York HERALD: would
like to know if there Is anybody who
remembers seeing the ruins OF old Niblo's
Garden and Theatre. / saw g. balloon
ascend in 1S48 from the open ground
where the theatre stood before il was
burned in 1886.
i wish to know II anybody remembers
the burning Of the old Park Theatre in
Park Row In December. 1s4s. was
going In the stage door in Theatre alley.
had free access there through know
ing the stage doorkeeper. Mr.. Sims. The
smoke began to come out of the win
dows. and I got on coal box opposite
The alley in Ann street and saw 1t burn
down.
1 wish to know If anybody recoilects
seeing the Old Bowery burn down in
1s45. ! lived within four blocks OF 1t
and with my father saw II burn.
I saw the burning of the Crystal Pal
ace In Forty-second street, the burning
of Niblo's In 1872 and the burning Of
tho New Bowery Theatre and the Acad-
emy OF Music. T. e. OSBORNE.
HoBoKEN, N. j.. May 2s
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Dropping Into American.
English. French. Germans. Italians
Obliged to Use Our Words.

TO THE NEW oRK HERALD: During
n four year sojourn in Canada often
used to read the leading French Ian
guage papers Later in France / fire.
quently perused the French newspa-
pers. For years have occasionally read
tho German language press. I daily
hear conversations in French. German.
Italian and sometimes English.
submit that It is apparently impos-
sible to write or converse In any OF
those tongues. especially in the realms
OF business and sport. without tho use
Of words and phrases lifted bodily from
the American language. In England
Itself the natives would often have 10
drop into American in order TO convey
their exact meaning.
To me this indicates that American
il more fitted than English. French,
Esperanto or any other language 20 be-
come the speech OF all the world. Lot
tho slogan be America for the Ameri-
cans and tho world for the American
language" RICHARD p READ.
Nnw YORK, May %.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Magic in Reconstruction.

Oppressed by the tremendous vol
une Of reDaystioas Germany has un-
dertaken to pay to the Allies some
simple peasants in Mssurenland. East
Prussia, have become convinced that
relief for their country may be won
by uncoverlng q city of gold which.
according to legend, Satan buried
under three mountains in days Of
remote antiquity. A woodcutter leads
his neighbors in prayer to exercise
tre guardian devil and uncover the
fabulous store the restoration OF
which TO human control they ingenu.
ously believe would solve the problem
of their debt.
Persons more sophisticated than
these naive peasants will smile al
this tale and wonder how much artless
,confldence can survive ln i practical.
workaday world well equipped with
economists. But the praying wood
cutter Of Masurenland and his neigh
bors are not the only searchers foi
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
A Steady Hand at 81.

His hand, when ii was not at
work, was as motionless as marble" I"
said one of the critics. "As steady
as a church." said another. They
were speaking OF Mr.. HARRY WILL
IAAfs, who In his eighty-eighth year
was still practising the profession
which had engaged him since the
civil war.
Mr.. WILLIAMS, when questioned as
to the steadiness of hand which he
enjoyed, paid tribute to his habits Of
conservatism. He neither smokes nor
drinks. Careful avoidance Of these
bad habits Is rewarded by Nature.
The macrophages which cssail the
tissue cells of all beyond eighty years
are foiled by the temperate habits of
Mr.. HARRY WILLIAMS. His hand does
not tremble. his eye has not lost its
acc0mmodative ability.
The admiration of the men who
found Mr.. WILLIAMS busy at his life
work on the Fort Lee ferry the other
day was not dimmed by the fact that
they were policemen and that Mr..
WILLIAMS was picking pockets. 1t is
wonderful to have hand as steady
as church at ST whether the owner
picks pockets or paints portraits. 1t
is the cause of the steadiness that
piques curiosity; and Mr.. WILLIAMS
assures the police that ahstemious-
ness is the secret.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Beth Fatuous and Futile.

Governor Cox OF Massachusetts has
signed the bill making labor organiza-
tlons, among others, legally RESPONSE
BILE for their acts. Under its pro-
visions all voluntary associations COM
posed of FIVE or more members,
whether of employers or employees,
may be brought into court to answer
for acts which would bring an indi-
vidual there.
Hereafter such organizations in
Massachusetts may sue and be sued IN
their common names and may be
reached by service, In one ciass.fica-
tion on trustees and in another on
president, secretary, treasurer, man
ager or any officer in charge Of their
affairs. Ii is only the organization as
such which may be thus reached by
the law. Under this statute real and
personal estate owned by members Of
the association is exempt from attach
ment or execution In any suit against
the association.
BY this enactment Massa chusetts
lines up with thirteen other States OF
the Union which have similar laws.
These thirteen include such highly In
dustrialized States as New York. Con-
necticut, New Jersey, Michigan and
Ohio.
Labor unions have opposed the pas
sage of these measures with all the
resources at their command. In Mas
sachusetts the fight was conducted IN
House and Senate with much HtTi-
mony, and when the bill passed both
chambers the contest was carvie,l to
the Executive Chamber, where a de-
termlned effort was made to induce
Governor Cox to withhold his approval
from the bili. Even there the strug-
Gle does not end. The labor unions
now propose to attempt repeal by n
referendum vote In 1922
Eliminating tabor serfdom," ''riv.
citing shackles on Industrial slaves
and all the other demagogic phrases,
the impellIng motive or the labor pol
itlcians who oppose such laws stands
disclosed as resistance 10 the levelllng
down of n class heretofore privileged
In legal responsibility to the status Of
the plain, everyday American citizen.
An individual Is responsible for his
acts and IL a group Of individual iudl.
viduals desire to act as a collective
unit they must assume collective re-
sponsibllity That is what the Law
means. Just that and no more. As
Governor Cox put II, the bin recog
nlzes the principle that in the eve oi
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
"Is His Nibs In?"
Tim Campbel's Question Put to
Colonel Daniel s. Lamont.

To THE New YORK HERALD: There Is
no alleged saying of Tim Campbell which
in my opinion coni. s up to the standard
Of East Side classics as the question he
once addressed 10 Daniel 8. Lamont
when the latter was private secretary
to President Grover Cleveland.
Campbell was a member of the State
Senate while Cleveland was Governor.
Cleveland took a liking to Campbell.
although he vetoed many OF Campbell's
bills And Campbell always spoke Of
the Governor as a good fellow. Any
how. Campbell never had any difficulty
In being admitted to the Executive
Chamber or Executive Mansion ut AL
bany while Cleveland was Governor.
1t so happened that Campbell was a
member OF the House OF Representa-
tives when Cleveland was serving his
first term as President. One day Camp
bell went to the White House accom-
panied by n Grand street constituent
who desired the honor OF an introduc-
ton to the President of the United
States.
Campbell and his Thirteenth ward
friend were ushered into the room occu-
pied by Lamont. AS Campbell approached
Lamont this query was fired at the
Presidents secretary:
Dan. is his nibs in?" j. w. NJ.
NEW YORK, May 23
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
True Education.
1t Teaches How to Do Things. Not
Merely to Know Certain Facts.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Mr.. Edl-
son is dealing with single aspect of
education and at best we have only
his Impressions of what constitutes edu-
cation. Let us see II his theory is not
In part a misconception. / quote from
William James:
Education consists in the organizing of
resources In the human being. OF powers
of conduct which shsll fit him TO his
social and physical world. An unedl-
Gated person is who ls nonpiussed
by all but the most habitual situations.
One who Is educated is able to extri-
cate himself from circumstances In which
he never was placed before. Education.
in short cannot be better described than
by calling II the organization of ac-
quired habits OF conduct and tenderrics
TO behavior.
In other words, education Is the or
ganization and right use of powers and
faculties.
Let us go deeper than james: Edu-
cation is the manifestation OF the perfac-
ton already In man. II Is already
coied up IN man. As lie goes through
life he oyercones obstacles and unfolds
It. Education and progression simply
mean taking away the obstacles and by
It's own nature the power within man
will manifest itself
The momentum Is not from without.
IL comes from inside. Education cannot
be superimposed on man. II u not TO
be found in books. We md in books
only what we already know. our own
alienated thought brought back TO US.
We take from books only what we can
absorb. Books are the hints, the sug-
gestive element
The questions submitted are no test
of mans capacity for thinking with
precision and accuracy nor of his per-
ceptive power. his deductive power or
his mind values or power to act and
react. Take him into tho laboratory
and let him unfold what he already has
within. Training OF the mind does not
consist In cramming with facts but in
drawing out Its powers.
What we need is man making edu-
cation. institutions for making men and
men for making institutions.
VIII Mr.. Edison tell us what power
It is that makes the lungs function I?
What is the ultimate cause OF sound ?
What is the ultimate cause OF electro
magnetism What is the ultimate atom
Is time the fourth dimension and is Il
the equivalent OF the other three dimen-
sIcns2 EDWARD SHAuoHEEssr.
NEW YORK, May 90.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
TUESDAY, MAY "a. 1921.
This Timber Starved Country.

To the American public needing
more houses and paying excessive
rents ii may seem Incredible but it is
fact that Congress leaders want to
tack one dollar a thousand tariff
duty on rough lumber and two dol
lar duty on finished lumber.
Never mind the housing shortage in
the United States, with an estima ted
lack Of suitable shelter for 1,250,000
families
Never mind the timber shortage in
the United States, with yearly
growth equal to only one-seventh Of
the country's requirements.
+ Never mind the prospect that, as
production and consumption are now
measured. the timber supply OF the
country will be exhausted in fifty
years.
Never mind the fact that the ma
tional forestry department, which is
spending 100000 a year planting
trees and trying to help the growth
of timber, declares our only chance TO
save Amer;ran forests Is meanwhile
70 use what wood we can from
abroad. every tree imported as lum-
ber being equivalent 10 an American
tree saved as standing timber.
Never mind the protests Of many
intelligent, important and patriotic
lumber men themselves, who declare
the country cannot get along without
foreign supplies.
Never mind the public, never mind
the country, never mind anything
slap a duty on lumber for the par
ticular interest that wants to make
hog killing on its bunch of timber.
This country is lumber starved !;
starve 1t all the harder!
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Plain Loot OF the Railroads.

Among the many railroads of the
United States undoubtedly some have
ADLER managers, wiser spenders and
better result getters than others. But
the man who says that the enor-
mously increased railway receipts of
recent years have been eaten up by
wasteful management either does not
know what he is talking about or
Is not honest
The managers, whether good, bad
or Indifferent, never had a chance to
use the colossal funds that rolled In
on them from the increased traffic
charges on anything but wages, fixed
upon the carriers by the Government, !,
coal, 20 per cent. of the cost of which
is wages, and taxes collected by Fed
eral, State and local governments
These charges took 1T all and much
more.
DANIEL WILLARD, president OF the
Baltimore and Ohio, put the exact fig
ures before the Senate Committee on
Interstate Commerce last week in a
way which nobody with straight
mind can misunderstood and which
nobody with d straight conscience
win dlstort.
IN 1915, as Mr.. WILLARD showed,
the operating revenue of the roads
was S3,596, ,S65, 766. The increase of
revenue in 1920 over 1915 was $2,574,-
627 ,535. But the wage increases In
1920 over 1916 were So, ,229, ,639, ,957, or
all but some S345, 100000 of the total
increase of revenue. The cost Of fuel
increased $452, ,229, ,229 So that the
increased labor and fuel costs wiped
out every penny OF the billions of in
creased operating revenue and one
hundred and seven millions of dollars
besides.
But the taxes of the roads. hire Of
equipment and rents also increased
in 1920 over 1916 more than Sal ,000,-
000 So that these principal items
over which the roads had no control
wages, coal and taxes--swallowed
up all of the more than two and a
half billions of increased revenue
from the heavier traffic charges
against the public and approximately
a quarter of billion of dollars more
on top of It.
1t was pure and simple loot of the
American people-loot by the billions
of dollars, not for the benefit OF the
railroads, which got nothing and
worse than nothing out Of 1t, but for
the labor unions and the tax collectors.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Notables Among 2,640 Sailing To-day
Aquitania's Passengers to Include Lord Eveagh,
Christopher Bland and E. Francis Hyde.

Many notable persons will be among
the 2,S4o passengers sailing for Europe
this morning ABOARD the Aquttania OF
the Cunard Line There viii be 7s0 pas
sengers in the first cabin and 700 in
the second.
Miss Muriel Mccormick, daughter OF
Mr. Harold r. Mccormick of Chicago.
will start abroad by the Aquitania to
Join her mother who has been in Eu-
rope some time. Business details In con-
nection with future plans or the Chicago
Opera Company. or which ne Is direc-
tor. will keep Mr.. Mccormick In this
country until June 1, when he will Join
his wife and daughter.
Mr.. e. Francis Hyde. who has not
been in Europe in several years, will
sail. to pass several weeks at the Clar-
idge Hotel In London.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ayrault Hazard
and their son, Mr.. w. T. Pelton Hazard,
will attend the international polo
matches mt Hurlingham on June Is,
20 and 25. In Mr.. Hazards party will
be his son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles r. Leonard. and Mr..
Leonard's father, Mr.. Charles w.
Leonard.
Lord Iveagh and Mr. Christopher
Bland, who have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, are returning to
England by the Aquitania.
Other passengers will be Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip D. Armour, Gwendolyn and P. d.
Armour 4th, Mrs Bernard NJ. Baruch
Misses Belle and Renee Baruch, Mrs. AL
fred Beadleston, Helen and Alfred
Beadleston, Mr. and Mrs. +. Ambrose
Clark, Miss Dorothy Bostwick, Albert
c. Bostwick, Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre c.
Cartier, Miss Marion Cartier. Mr.. and
Mrs Sears b. Condit and family, Mr..
james w. Corrigan, Mr.. and Mrs. John
S. Dairymple and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Marcus Daily. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
De Zaldo and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Guggenheim and daughters, Mr
and Mrs. William f. r. Hit Mr.. and
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Mr.. Foxhall p. keene,
Miss Virginia Latrobe, Lieut.. Col. and
Mrs. William Littauer, Miss Catherine
L. Littauer. Mrs John w. Mackay, Mr.
Clarence Blair Mitchell, Mr.. Oscar
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Partly cloudy
with rising temperature to-day; to-
morrow unsettled. probably showers ana
warmer fresh east winds.
For New Jersey--Cloudy and not quite SO
cool to-day; tomorrow unsettled. probably
showers and warmer, fresh e2sterly winds.
For Northern New England-Fair and ris-
Tag temperature to-day; tomorrow cloudy
and warmer. followed by showers. frcsl
easteTiy winds.
For Southern New England-Cloudy ana
cool to-day, probably followed BY showers
Diminishing northeast winds.
For Western New York-Partly cloudy and
somewhat warmer to-day; tomorrow showers
ana warmer. fresh easterly winds
WASHINGTON. May 23.-Ths weather be-
came considerably cooler to-day In the mid
die Atlantic and New England States and
the upper Ohio and upper Mississippi val
leys. Warm weather continued In the MID
die plains states and the central hissis
last twenty-four hours there have been local
rains In the middle Atlantic and New Eng
land States. the region OF the great lakes,
the upper Ohio and upper Mississippi val
lcys and over the Rocky Mountain and
central plateau regions. Tonight the pres
sure was high over the New England States
plateau and south Rocky Mountain region
and relatively low In the upper Mississippi
Valley
In New England and New York tho
weather will be partly cloudy with slowly
rising temperature tomorrow. and unsot-
tied with local showers and somewhat
warmer Wednesday. IN tho middle At
lantic states, the upper Ohio Valley and
lower lake region ths weather will be IN
settled. wi.n local showers tomorrow and
Wednesday,. with rising temperature
Wednesday, In the upper lake region and
Indiana there will be local rains to-mor-
row and clearing weather Wednesday. with
somewhat lower temperature. In the lower
Ohio Valley. Tennessee, the south Atlantic
and east Gulf States the weather VIII os
generally fair and warmer tomorrow and
Wednesday.
Observations at United States Weather
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
HARDING TO GIVE DIPLOMAS.
President to Attend Naval AcnS-
cmy Graduation.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HEsALp.
ANNAPOLIS. May 23.-President Her-
dirg and Secretary Of the Navy Denby
Will pay their first visit to the Naval
Academy on Thursday OF next week. the
occasion being the graduation Of the
first class OF midshipmen. The Presi-
dent win deliver the diplomas 10 the
graduates and Secretary DENLY viii
make the address.
The graduation OF a class OF 266 mem
bers marks the return OF the Naval
Academy to prewar conditions. as half
of last years class was graduated after
only three years at the academy.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24
Prophecies Come True.
A Question for Mr.. Edison and One
for Mr.. Rockefeller.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Seem
lhgly the proper questions 10 put to men
are not ora thousand and one about mat
ters with which they havo no concern
but questions strictly connected with the
business In hand. whatever IL may be
For instance, good test question foI
Mr.. Edison himself would be this, Who
was It that wrote April "a, 1892: I'VE
have no doubt before another century Va
completed a talking and a singing ma
chine will be numbered among the con-
quests of gcIence"7 Now IL Mr.. Edison
can't answer this ofrhand. how can he
expect somebody else to reply to ques-
tions ab3at everything under the sun?
or, let us say. this question is pro-
pounded to Mr.. Rockefeller. What poet
more than 200 years ago Illuminated an
lms sginary building with petroleum. "a In
the following lines:
From the nrched roof
Pendant by subtle magic many row
or starry lamps and blazing cresssts fed
with napntha and ssphal;us yielded light
As from a sky.
Now again. II Mr.. Rockefeller doesn't
Instantly reply to this query, SO aston
ishiy comprehensive IN describing the
extent OF his business. who can be ex-
pected TO answer It? E. o. WEEKS.
TENAFLr, N. j., May 23.
The New York herald., 1921-05-24

Mitchell. Mr, and Mrs. Hugh A. Murray,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander II. Revell oc
Chicago. Mr.. and Mrs. Isadore Saks,
Mr. Charles Thsrley. Mr.. John Van
Dyke. Mr.. and Mrs. Addison Van Tyne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lauriston Ward and Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander Whltelaw.
The stage will be represented aboard
the Aquitania by Mr.. and Mrs. Hale
Hamilton (Grace La Rue), Miss Frieda
Hempel. opera singer; Arthur Hammer
stein and NJ. Lawrence Weber, repre-
senting the managers; Mitzi, who has
closed her season in Billy and is cross
ing for three months rest. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lucien Muratore Gina Cavalieri),
opera singers.