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The New York herald., 1921-01-26
Upton Sinclair Writes.
Not In Very Good Hum0r, He Dis
cusses Capitalism.

To THE New YORK HERALD: My at
tention has been called to your editorial
article in which you have fun with me
because discovered that 1t was neces-
sary to have capital In order to run a
book publishing business. will be
very charitable and assume that 1t is
ignorance on the part of your editorial
editor. and that he really. does believe
that any Socialist is enough of a boob
to think that a business can be carried
on without capital. Let me patiently
inform you that all Socialists agree with
all capitalists as to the fact that no
business can be carried on without cap
ital. In fact. the Socialists realize it
even more keenly than the capitalists.
because the Socialists as a rule have
no capital. and. as you doubtless know,
the hungry man thinks about food much
more intensely than the man who has
three square meals day without the
need OF worrying. The only difference
between the Socialist and the capitalist
is that the capitalist wishes to keep cap
ital for his own personal use and BEN
eft. while the Socialist wishes capital to
be socially owned and socially controlled
for the benefit OF all.
Moreover, every Socialist perfectly
we'll understands that he Is living under
the capitalist system. and any Socialist
author, who wishes to publish his books
for social purpose and at a low price
rather than at a high price for the
beneit Of some private capitalist. per-
fectly well understands that he can only
get this capital by the small contribu-
tions OF those who are sympathetic to
his purpose. He perfectly understands.
on the other hand. that when he issues
such request he exposes himself to the
contempt and ridicule of those who have
hired their brains to the capitalist sys-
tenn, and are obliged in what they write
to do everything possible to make it ap-
pear that capitalism is wise and just
and necessary, and that Socialism is a
form of lunacy. UPTON SINCLAIR.
PASADENA. Cal, January II.
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Psychoanalysis of the Kiss.

Discussion in the Senate of inau.
gural expenses strangely but fortu-
natcly produced this brief and inter
esting colloquy between two distin.
guished statesmen:
"Mr. REEp--Bcfore leave the floor
want 10 cxonerate President LIE.
COLIN from tho charge that he was
extravagant when he kissed thirty
four young ladies representing thirty
four states.
'Mr. KNox--Tt was not a charge
II was aprivilege.
"Mr. REEp--It must be conceded
that LINCOLN could do that without
suspicion and ] take II that he did
II without offence or expense"
Here, II Is needless to point out, Is
touched upon a matter Of temnera-
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Those Who Investigate.
Should They FirsteBe Investigated
rs to Their Qualification?

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your re-
cent articles on the multiplicity Of COM
mittees and commissions of investiga-
ton have appealed 10 me. as ! suppose
they have TO the majority of the think
ing population of the United States,
and 1t has occurred TO me of what
benefit Il would be to the United States
II Congress could be made TO see the
wisdom OF passing bill by which all.
members OF commission or commit
tee OF investigation must first qualify
by being investigated themselves as TO
their moral, business and practical abil-
ity TO serve properly in an investiga-
ton. In other words. let us adopt
Christs charge of first pulling the
mote out of our own eye before looking
for the mote in our brothers eye"
CLARENCE b. SruRGEs.
New YORK, January 20.
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ment, taste and certain effects of
masculine beauty and its absence
which have caused much learned spec
ulatlon and discussion.
That LINCOLN could do that With
out suspicion" intimates that LINCOLN
was so splendidly austere in features
no suspicion attaches to the thirty
four young ladies that. they kissed
him emotionally that they kissed him
without suspicion" because he pos
sessed none of that appearance of
wildly fascinating beauty or softly al
Turing charms which wrongly-utterly
wrongly--is by the unanalytical sup
posed to make man kissable In the
opinion of women.
Sentor REED in his psychoanalysis,
in his study of emotional precipitates,
erred in his Interpretation of the OBJ
served phenomena, the sentient reac-
tions. He was wrong, we have said,
and. If the Senator, ever eager for the
SNoNt u Will lCtilNSh Lie AoSuits
obtained in his psychic laboratory he
will discover his error. The thirty
four young ladies were willing to kiss
the President for reason exactly the
opposite OF those Senator REED sug-
gests; for the reason that it is known
to every young lady, come she from
Virginia, New York, California or
any other State, that there is a deal
more devllishness, using the word
in a ladylike significance, in the kiss
of a plain man than in one given by
Il pretty fellow.
Senator KNOX, himself a man of
rugged features-no pink and white
beauty, he-saw the error and
promptly pointed it out. The young
ladies paused over no penance; they
inmDed at privilege.
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Henry James Stumped.
Shakespeare Was Impossible, II
Wrote, but so Was Bacon.

To THE NEW York HERALD: I note
that among the letters of the late
Henry James to Violet Hunt (Macmil.
Ian, 1920, VOL l.. page 432) occurs
the following:
am "a sort Of haunted by tho
conviction that the divine William was
the biggest and most successful Fraud
ever practised on q patient world.
The more I turn him round. the more
he so affects rae. But that fs all--I am
not pretending TO treat the a'iersion or
10 carry II any further. II br<sts,s with
difficulties. and ! can only express my
general senss by saying that I find II
almost as impossible to conceive that
Bacon wros1 tho Plays as TO conceive
that the HAN from Stratford--as we
know the man from 6tratford--did.--
Dated August 20. 1908.
Were any OF the American Shake
spearians living! But. save only DR..
Appleton Morgan. president of the Rev
York Shakespeare Society, they are
gone where all these questions are
solved. DIR. Holmes. Judge Nathaniel
Holmes. Judge Henry Allen. Mr.. Don
molly, w. ID. OConnor. Edwin Reed
Dr. Isaac Hull Platt, w. II. Edwards
all doubted more or less. as Henry
James now first Is found to have ex-
pressed himself Were any OF these
distinguished protagonists, or oven the
late Hamilton Mabie. living TO hear
Henry James so iucidly 9nd directly
range himself among the Doubling
Didymuses AS 10 Gargery would have
said: "wot inrx"'
HENRY ALvonp wEDB.
NEW YORK, January 25.
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Australian Axemen.
Cutting Of the Big Gum and Pine
Trees of Tasmania
From the Field.

Australians are proud Of their axe
mauship, and Tasmanians lead in this
respect. Chopping matches are popu-
lar rural entertainment, and are excit-
ing to watch, but / should attend more
of them were not the general rule a cou-
pie of minutes chopping and then half
an hours interval for drinks before the
next heat The conditions are les
strenuous than In the past. 1t is rare
for logs larger than Is inches diameter
TO be used nowadays. whereas two feet
used to be hewed through. Fifty-fve
seconds Is accounted only fair time Tor
a fifteen inch lying log.
Most of the axes used here are Ameri-
can and have stamped on their heads
specially tempered for use on Austria
liam hardwoods'' Even green gum wood
does not cut very we'll because OF its
wetness, and once 1t has become even
partially dry II takes lot OF getting
through.
Nearly all rural Tasmanian men are
fairly dexterous with the axe. In the
back blocks It In a necessity OF life, one
of the settlers first jobs being to con-
struct hut or house out of the growing
timber surrounding the site. On farms
fencing posts are sure TO be required,
and splitting them out of tree trunks
still demands skill as well as energy.
though the older post and rail- fence. tho
all wood rabbit proof fence. and the
"chopping block" log fence still in vogue
in heavily timbered districts required
much more nice axe work than the post
and wire fence now generally erected.
In Hobart the old fashioned looking
shingle roofs have not been entirely
ousted by corrugated iron. and palms
roofs are common for outbuildings. The
saw milling industry Is important in
Tasmania. and timber prices are at least
100 per cent. In advance OF a few years
ago. while quality has declined. Wages
have greatly advanced, and 1t is neces-
sary to go further and further back into
rough country to get the timber. The
almost entire absence OF competition
from Scandinavian and American TIM
ber owing TO the shipping shortage,
may also be partly responsible for the
increase. II seems singular that In this
colony. n great part of whose area is
forest, 80 much timber used TO be I'm
ported. The reason was that the native
WoDbS alu gioStiy wv tithNy W hoaN-
the cheapest means of timber transit
and being so hard. they are not. though
OF admirable quality, very easy or cheap
to work up.
American axemen always wear braces
Australians very seldom There are
really big trees IN Tasmania. recall
stringy bark Eucalyptus obliqua)
which has remarkable cavity. It's d.
mensions are height. $50 feet clrcun-
ference 1--WE feet from ground, o5 feet
cavity % feet by 20 feet / know sew
era instances OF such cavities being
used as residences, while their employ
ment as stables and pig styes is not
infrequent. The quickest growing Tas-
manian species are the swamp gum (E
regnans) and the blue gum tE. giobu-
ius). which may attain 100 feet ir
height In sixty years. Unfortunately
our most valuable timber trecs--ccnifcr'
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No Bird, No Cherry.
And Eventually No Farmer, Accord
ing to John BurrOughs's Theory.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your
correspondent Blue Grouse" thinks
song birds ought to be killed Off because
they eat cherries.
OF course there wouldn't be any cher
ries IL there were no song birds The
bird puts the cherry on the tree why
shouldn't he eat his own cherry? The
farmer only holds a second mortgage on
that cherry. He may think otherwise
and kill the bird; then the bird won't
get the cherry and neither will the
farmer.
The worm viii get the cherry, the
aphis, the slug, the mite. tho blight,
will get the cherry and the farmers
second mortgage will. according to John
Burroughs, shrink not to inchoate right
of dover. not to contingent remainder
but to nothing. and If the performance
should ever be acted with a full cast
the farmer himself. AYERS Mr.. Bur-
roughs. who knows. will In the end
shrink to nothing.
In other words were the millions Of
bushels Of bugs which the song birds OF
the State consume for food In one sea-
son released the forests and crops would
be presently wiped out and with them
the life OF the people.
I can hear your correspondent come
back with the spray. One might as we'll
undertake to rnoisten Arizona with a
medicine dropper as to clean all the
trees of all outdoors with spray. and
IL 1t were possible. how would the cost
birds eat? Better feed the birds and
spray the cats.
HOWARD NJ. CANoUNn,
Chairman Netherwood Bird Sanctuary
PLAINTIELD. ". j.. January 25.
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Higher international Postage.

The recent International Postal
Congress in Madrid, Spain, ut which
practically every country with an or
ganized postal system was repre-
sented, approved some radical
changes which will have an important
bearing upon the Interchange Of mail
matter between the nations of the
world. One of these was an increase
in rates and placing these rates upon
gold basis, and another was the
granting to each member Of the
Postal Union liberty to fix its own
international postal charges.
In the past the Postal Union made
It's rates and insisted that they be
followed except in cases OF special
agreements between governments. The
United States has such an agreement
with Great Britain, Canada and Mex
leo and some of the Central and
South American countries. 1t had
also two cent postage rate with
Germany before the war. England
has q special agreement with different
parts of the British Empire. Now
each country may modify its rate
upon short notice. so long as.it does
not exceed fixed amount. The rea-
son Of this Is that since the new rates
are on a gold basis countries with a
deprecated currency can not main
ltoi nfr FOL a
previous charges.
The highest international letter
post rate which can be charged under
the new rules Is fifty centimes. This
is practically twice the previous
amount and normally about ten cents,
or at the present rate Of exchange
six and a half pence in England.
Both Germany and Austria, 1t is said,
will announce an increase in rates as
soon as a satisfactory charge can be
agreed upon. The Postmaster-Gen-
eral Of Great Britain is expected to
make an official statement regarding
the new rates before the end of the
month. The impression at the Madrid
Congress was that all of the Euro
pean countries would increase their
international postal rates, and that
some of them would double their
present rates.
SO far this country apparently has
taken no official action in the matter.
1t may continue to let the five cent
stamp carry letter to the further
most post Office in the Postal Union.
1t may. however, find it advisable to
meet the changes made in other coun-
tries. If it has not the reason of a
deprecated currency to offer it has
the other reason, the increased ex-
pense Of the service. 1t Is very evil
dent that the universal blue stamp,
whether twenty-five centimes. twenty
pfenniger or two and half pence.
has lost its far carrying power and
will need help to get over its native
border.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

.'Trcnd OF the Times" by Hon. Henry II.
Klein. at Cooper Institute. Eighth street and
Fourth avenue.
Trend OF the Times" by Prof. Nelson +.
Mead. Pm. D., at Townsend Harris Hall. z.
=. ~. Y, Amsterdam avenue and i36th street.
''The Book OF the Hour." by Prof J.. q.
Carter Troop. PHI. D., at New York Public
Library. Forty-second street and Fifth ave-
nue..
''The Golden Doom and Tho Glittering
Gate" by Mr.. Jerome Howard. at +. S. i01,
1i1th street, west OF Lexington avenue.
what L. an American7" by DR.: Harry
Webb Harrington. Mt Central Jewish Inst-
tute, 125 East Eighty-fifth street.
american War Songs OF Yesterday and
To-day" by Nine. Bertha Van Welt, at Hun
ter College. sixty-eighth street and Lexington
what Astronomy Has Done" by Mr.. Gar
rett p. Serviss. at Y. NJ. Q. A.. Harlem
branch. 8 West ic5th street stereopticon
views.
''soine Phases OF the Labor Problem" by
Mr.. Michael Green, at j. 3. 40. Prospect ave-
nuc, Jennings street and Ritter place. The
Bronx.
''rhc Function OF Government in Relation
20 Industry" by Hon. Frances Perkins. at
L. 3. %. Brown place aud 135th street, The
Bronx.
THE Industrial Peril and the Way Out"
By Mr.. William u. L. Bliss, at L. s. 46, i96th
street. between Bainbrldes and Briggs ave-
nues, The Bronx.
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Treasures Bolsheviki Spared.

The impression that the Hermitage
galleries and museum at Petrograd
had been rified of their most valuable
paintings, documents and antiquities
was so general that the assurance
given recently by the Paris Bureau Of
THE NEW YORK HERALD that many
of these treasures We're saved comes
as gratifying surprise.
In their first mad spasm of de-
structiveness after entering Petro-
grad the Bolsheviki seized the Her
mitage, burned piles of historical and
literary documents they found there,
slashed the portraits of Romanoff
rulers and Russian mobiles on the
walls and carried on their bayonets
through the streets canvases depict
ing the luxuries and pomp Of court
life. This was pointed out at the
time as an evidence Of the Bolshevist
determination to blot out all remind
ers Of patrician and bourgeois exist
ence and to institute new history
beginning with the Bolshevik rule
in Russia. But before this design
could be completed some leaders
who they were will, perhaps, never
be knOwn--stopped the devastation.
They overcame the mob violence so
far that they were able to isolate
some of the galleries and the museum
from the other apartments Of the
palace, to cover the statues and paint
ings and to save many cases of docu-
ments, ancient Russian books and
antiquities.
In this condition ALEXANDRA BENoIr,
one of Frances leading art experts,
found the collection. French canvases
by painters of the eighteenth century,
such as BOUCHER and FRAGoNARp,
seem TO have especially aroused the
Bolshevik ire. Most of these We're
either destroyed or mutilated. The
manuscripts of the works of voLTAIRE
and DIDERoT, two men who 1t might
be thought would find favor with the
revolutionaries, were torn up. The
paintings Of the Dutch and Flemish
schools, In which the Hermitage was
rich, seem to have escaped, as we'll
as the fine examples Of the art OF
MURILLo and vELAsoUEz and later
painters Of the Spanish school.
Unfortunately. however, we have
so far no report upon the condition
of the Greek and Roman sculptures
or upon the great Kertch collection.
This collection Of jewelry, statuary
and pottery, which was unenrthed In
the Crimea. was the museums great
est treasure and the most complete
and best preserved collection Of an
tiquities of the middle Greek era in
existence. The fact that M. BENoIT
ms not reported the collection dis
ersed has been taken ns an indica-
don that he has saved at least some
Of the valuable pieces.
Throughout his work Of reorgani-
zntlon NJ BEEorT had to contend with
much opposition from different Boil
shevist factions At one time he was
reported to have been forced to aban-
don entirely his efforts. The world
may we'll congratulate itself that he
has succeeded In preserving and re-
organizing to as great an extent as
he has these priceless Hermitage
treasures.
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A Brooklyn Legislative Programme.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
present housing laws are vicious and un-
fair to landlords and owners of realty.
The policy OF police powers of the
state and city" Is used without regard
to right, reason and justice.
The Socialists In the New York Legis-
lature should be expelled--not allowed
to take their seats.
Socialists and anarchists are un-Amer-
lean and should be suppressed and null
lifted with firmness.
Householders should be allowed with
out cost or permits 10 have arms In
their homes - protect themselves from
thieves and burglars.
DAVID d. SATHERwArTr.
BRooKLYS. January %.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--Partly cloudy
and not quite SO cold to-day; to-mor-
row unsettled, with rising temperature;
fresh and strong north and northeast
winds.
For New Jersey--Cloudy and not quite so
cold to-day; tomorrow unsettled. with ris-
ing temrera ture; fresh and strong north and
For Northern New Bngland-Partly cloudy
ana not quite 50 cold to-day: tomorrow
c,ouoy, sst WITH rising temperature; fresh north
For Southern New Enyland-Partly cloudy
anu not quite so cold to-day; Tomorrow
northerly winds
For Western New York-Partly cloudy to-
day; tomorrow unsettled: slowly rising tenn
perature.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.-The storm that
was central last night over Kansas moved
was over Alabama This disturbance has
been attended by rains in the Gulf and south
snow and rain In the lower Ohio and central
Mississippi valleys and snow In the Missouri
Valley and upper lake region; Another storm
and 1t has been attended by rains and strong
winds along the north Pacific coast.
1ds, Ths .ea weather nl. has has become considsrabiy
the Ohio Valley and the southern plains
States and warmer in the Northwest.
will be partly cloudy tomorrow and un-
settled Thursday, with gradually rising tenn
perature. In the middle Atlantic the weather
vii, be unsettled. probably with snow south
OF Pennsylvania
In the south Atlantic States there viii be
rain tomorrow and probably Thursday, with
cooler weather in Georgia and Florida. In
the east Gulf States the weather will be
cloudy and colder tomorrow and fair and
colder Thursday. In Tennessee and Ken
lucky there Will be rain or snow and colder
weather tomorrow and cloudy weather
Thursday. In the upper Ohio Valley and the
south lake region the weather will be un-
settled Tomorrow and Thursday. with prob
ably snow. In the upper lake region the
weather VIII be partly cloudy tomorrow and
Thursday. with slowly rising temperature.
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
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Otherwhere.

There is magic trip to take
When woes oppress and bubbles breal
And worries I'll tho mind;
When lifo Is full OF cark and caro-
take a train to Otherwhere
And leave myself behind.
No folders do ] have 10 scan.
No luggage pack. no tables plan,
Nor fuss for route or fare
Perhaps n book--perhaps a friend
VIII take me to the journeys end
or gladsome Otherwhere.
And SO I hop aboard with gieo
And travel far away from me
Where all is bright and fair,
But one connection can go wrong.
For II take myself along
I fall of Otherwhere.
McY,Avpsurou WILSON.
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News From London i'm 17oa.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Crime
waves are not peculiar to modern times.
In the Halcyon Lumimary, published in
in 1872 and conducted by a
Society of Gentlemen" there appears
the following:
The metropolis of England In repre-
scented IN some of our London papers to
be in a state Of CONSERVATION and hor-
ror unexampled IN the history OF that
country. The commission Of murder anu
robbery there Is 80 frequent that in the
language OF the editor OF the Statesman.
no person OF either sex can 10 20 bed
without he apprehension OF being be-
reaved OF life and property before the
next morning.
FRED SIDNEY MAYER.
BALTIMORE, January 25.
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such as the celery top pine. Huon pine
and King William pine, whose soft
wood timbers are unexcelled--are very
different in this respect. A friend who
has been studying their growth says It
does not exceed three inches year. and
estimates from its rings that pine
three feet in diameter was 600 years
old. Before long the existing trees will
have become nearly worked out and
they will never be replanted
A. GARNErr.
CAMBRIDGE, Tasmania.
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influential portion Of the population.
The Germans have spent large sums
of money in propaganda work, one
of the slogans of which is IF We lose
Upper Silesia we lose the war sec
ond time; another declares that
"Sileslan coal is the bread of Ge-maa
industry"
One report is to the effect that the
election will be held within a few
weeks. Strong pressure Is being
brought upon the commission to have
the matter adjusted as quickly as
possible, for until 1t is satisfactorily
settled Silesia will remain centre
of discomfort and unrest