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The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Mercury Showed Hard.
The Earthquake Explained by a Man
Who Saw 1t Coming.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
little planet Mercury can make us sit
up and take notice occasionally. II
took the tail from Halleys comet on
May Is, 1910: and now the same little
planet has touched Off an earthquake.
When Halley's comet came around the
curve from west of the sun and passed
under the earth that night it met the
repelling force of the little planet Mcr-
curry coming around the curve from
east of the sun. This suddenly forced
the comet outward from the sun. which
lowered the comets temperature and
caused the tail to condense and rain
back toward the comet.
But the Pacific coast earthquake was
started by Mercury in the following
manner:
As predicted in THE New York HER
AID October Z. tho positions Of the big
planets Neptune. Saturn and Jupiter
would cause volcanic and earthquake
activity to be due two or three days
later than the date the Pacific coast
earthquake really occurred But while
the tremendous repelling force of the
three big planets was increasing against
tllo car III anu HcdIiHE LIS udnScT pClnt-
Mercury came around the curve sud
denly at thirty-fve miles a second. and
advancing toward the earth II added its
greatest repelling force upon the earth
January 20 and 80.
This resulted in the earthquake or
contraction next day, the instant the
repelling force wac relieved by the carth
moving outward from Mercury and the
sun. II resulted in bizzards and also
In the atmospheric contraction or colder
spells of weather at the same time, as
predicted in THE New YORK HERALD
January 90.
This kind OF earthquake usually oc-
ours just before or just after such posi-
tlons as Quadrature, stationary and OPP
position of planets: or any other in
stant that great amount OF repelling
force against the earth Is suddenly
decreased. d. A. N. GROVER.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, February ].
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives has defeated a bill the
ostensible purpose of which was to
exempt devotees of checkers and chess
from the penalties imposed by law on
persons who play games in public.
The measure had the support OF the
Massachusetts State Checker Associa-
ton, and consequently it's respectable
ity is not open to question. but expe-
rienced lawmakers are wary in indors-
ing such innocent looking proposals. A
Sunday circus or theatrical perform
ance may be hidden behind an appar-
entity innocuous measure.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Rain or snow
to-day. tomorrow cloudy and colder !
fresh to strong southeast and south
shifting to west winds.
For New Jersey--Rain to-day: to-morrow
cloudy and colder; fresh to strong southeast
For Northern New England--Rain or snow
and slightly warmer to-day: tomorrow
cloudy es, ,na and colder fresh south. shifting 70
For sorhcn New England--Rain or snow
to-day; tS-morgow cloudy and colder; fresh
TO strong southeast winds.
colder by Tonight; tomorrow nurries and
much colder; fresh to strong southeast
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--Pressure was low
tonight almost generally over the eastern
half Of the country and the south Rocky
pressure over Michigan. the middle Mssis-
sippi Valley and the Texas Panhandle.
while there was decided rise IN pressure
the central and north Rocky Mountain region
and the plateau region. Pressure also was
high off the Atlantic coast.
Rain has fallen within the last twenty
four hours IN the Ohio Valley and the south
States; rain and snow In portions OF tho
middle Atlantic States and the lake region
and local SHOWS in the north plain States
and the Rocky Mountain and north plateau
reeion.
The temperature was higher in the lower
lake region, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys
and portions of the west Gulf States. while
colder weather overspread the northwest.
Indications are for rain tomorrow in tho
middle Atlantic and south Atlantic and east
Gulf States and Tennessee, rain and snow In
the Ohio Valley, the lake region and norti,
Atlantic States, followed by generally fair
weather during Tuesday in the States east
OF the Mississippi River. except that local
rains are probable in the Florida Peninsula
and local SHOWS in the lake region and the
extreme upper Ohio Valley. Considerably
colder weather will overspread the upper
lake region and the lower Ohio Valley to-
morrow and tomorrow night, the lower
lake region, the upper Ohio Valley. Tennes
Tuesday and the Atlantic States during
Tuesday.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at p. M. yesterday.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
The Fall of BottomIey.

Fate is sometimes deliciously
vengeful in keeping the cup of truth
and justice level full. HoRATro w.
BoTToafLEY, former member of the
British Parliament, publisher of the
periodical John Bull and writer
who in one short article could heap
more calumny on the United States
than this nation could be guilty of
deserving in century, has been
brought up with a round turn at the
bar of justice.
Among his other activities during
the war the belligerent BorToMIEY
engineered prize bond scheme into
which small investors In England
poured millions Of shillings. The
scheme ran afoul Of the French Gov
ernment and the British Home Office.
eventually winding up in bankruptcy.
In suit for libel BoTToMLEY brought
against one Of his accusers he heard
Sir CHARrREs BIRoS, the eminent
Magistrate of Bow Street. say:
AFTER carefully considering this
case. and with due sense of the seri-
BUSINESS Of what I am saying. 1 am
unable to believe Mr.. BorToMLEY on
his oath.''
This country will not long remem-
Der Mr.. BoTToMLEY or his abuse of
its institutions and people, but among
the thousands of small investors In
England there Is to-day an exact un-
derstanding of the value that should
be put on the anti-American outgiv-
ings of the man who was thus sting
ingly characterized.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Llquit Language.

Tho books that peruse to-day
Arc rich and vital as they glow
About Palm Beach and Tampa Bay
And light tho Gulf OF Mexico.
The vivid reds and blues and greens.
The Language lurid. hectic, lush
One drinks in avldly such scenes
AS might have dripped from Gauguin's
brush.
This book AYERS the golf Is fino
At pinehurst. where there is nc
drouth
All say the air resembles wine
Substantially throughout the South.
Although UP here It's bleak and bare.
Perhaps I'D better keep in touch.
Who knows, II should drop down there
might not take drop too much7
MAURICE Monms.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
EVENTS TODAY.

Albert Sarraut, Ambassador Jusserand md
Maurice Cascnave viii speak at tho annual
dinner of the French Alliance, Hotel Plaza,
+. NJ
Dr. Leon Campbell will lecture on Recent
Advances In Astronomy" New York Acad-
emy OF Sciences. American Museum OF Nat.
ural History, Seventy-seventh street and
Central Park West, $3.50 p. M.
George McAneny will discuss Tho Trans
portation Problem of the Greater New York
District" Polytechnic Institute, 90 Livings-
ton street, Brooklyn, $3.50 p. M.
wallace Thompson will speak on ''whst
the Mexican Question Is,'' City Club. 30
west Forty-fourth street, 6:15 P. III.
Lieut.. Col. Charles a Court Repington will
speak at dinner of the National Ars
Club. 10 Gramercy Park, p. M.
Marquette Club, meeting. Hotel Plaza. s:io
p. NJ
American Steamship Owners Association.
meeting. II Battery place. p. NJ.
Government Club. meeting. Hotel Astor.
+. NJ.
United States Railroad Administration Ac-
countants. meeting, Hotel Commodore,
A. NJ.
Jewish Federation Of Charities, luncheon,
Hotel Biltmcre. p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
On Making Gold.
Scientific and Economic Phases Of
the Alchemist's Dream.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: There
are two phases of knowledge respecting
the transmutation of baser metal into
gold. Nobody knows to a certainty
whether It can be done; nobody knows
how to do 1t.
So far as the first premise is con-
cerned the discovery that tho atom Is
divisible points to the possibility that
the atom OF gold may be produced At
this step the second premise must be
considered.
Granting that the chemical atom Is
composed OF smaller units Of structure,
no one knows what the essence OF those
units may be nor yet their physical ar
rangement in the atom. In several IN
stances, notably cobalt and nickel. the
cioseness of their atomic weights Is par
alleled by similarity OF chemical and
physical properties one might reasona.
bly, suspect that either can be changed
to the other--if one only knew how. On
the other hand. potassium and argon
have atomic weights that are quite as
close as those Of cobalt and nickel. But
chemically and physically argon and
potassium are at opposite extremes in
their properties.
The use Of the term synthetic gold
indicates that atoms of lesser weight
or of simpler structure are to be built
up or consolidated so as to produce the
gold atom. Is It possible? Perhaps.
But IL the energy given out by the dis
sociation of the radium atom Is a critic
rion the energy required to accomplish
the building OF an atom OF gold will be
at prohibitive cost. So far as syn
thetic gold is concerned the probabili-
ties seem to be on the negative side.
Is analytic gold possible? Perhaps
indeed, the dissoclation OF the uranium
atom to an ultimate lead atom--theo-
retically, at least--opens the door To
many possibilities. If analytic gold is
produced the likelihood that 1t will be
produced from an atom Of greater weight
Is strong. Only few atoms are heavier
than the gold atom. and OF these bismuth.
lead and mercury are the only elements
OF common occurrence.
Two clements, iridium and platinum.
have properties similar to those Of gold.
Their atomic weights are pretty close to
that of gold. There is possibility that
a transmutation to gold of either might
be brought about. They are rare ele-
nents whose market price Is much in
excess of the fiat value OF gold.
All this may possess scientific interest
but it does not reach the real question
at ISSUE namely. the fiat value OF gold.
This is measured not by physical prop
critics nor by economic utilities and only
in an indirect way by rarity. The fiat
value of gold is measured by the cost of
labor and effort In getting it; and IL the
product is averaged In. effort and daily
wages the total returns will not figure
into the realm Of usurious profit.
Whose discovers a process Of trans
muting lead into gold will bring gold to
the price Of pig lead plus effort.
OBSERVER.
Afarf-c,r VrpNo>- rra1,rr,ar
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
by w. j. HENDERSON.

The concert OF the Society OF the
Friends OF Music In Town Hall yester-
day afternoon was less important than
that which the same organzatioa gave
a few days ago in CarneG.c Ilgii. The
program contained two novelties. One
was collection OF four sacred songs by
Lazar Saminsky, a Russian. and the
other Der Abend," by Samuel Thew
man, for soprano and contrnlto solos,
chorus Of women and instrumental ac-
compartment. Mr.. Saminsky's texts were
two Hebrew, "El hibne' and Ami
hadal"; one Russian (by Pouskin)
"Naprasno Ia STRENUOUS" and one eccle-
sastic Latin, a Sanctus.
These sacred songs called for the full
chorus and orchestra. They were made
by a man who was acquainted with
his business. but who has not been
driven by the unsparing lash of genius
to lofty utterance. The best of the four
songs was perhaps the first, founded on
a dance tune of the Palestine Jews.
Saint-Saens may have heard the same
tune before he wrote the chorus of old
Hebrews In the first act of Samson ct
Dalila." The people can generally be
trusted to make good tunes, and wise
composers will borrow them. Mr.. Sa-
minsky conducted his own compositions.
of a text by Schiller. The composer
is now one OF the stage managers at
the Metropolitan Opera House. He has
had experience In Europe in composing
and conducting and his work showed
that he was no inexperienced writer.
The accompaniment required a chamber
orchestra of violin. cello. flute. English
horn. clarinet, bassoons horn. piano.
harp and celesta-
The solo singers were Miss Alice
Miriam, soprano, and Miss Marion Telva.
contralto. Paul Efsler operated the ce-
lesta and Wilfrid Pelletier the plano.
The audience was courteous in its re-
ception OF both the novelties, which
seemed to call emphatically for the
services Of Friends of Music to give
them q hearing. The concert began
with weber's "Abu Hassan" overture
and ended with Schubert's B nat SYM
phony About the music Of these old
hands It Is unnecessary to speak.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

The Canadians, a Montreal hockey
team, had to be escorted from rink
In Ottawa under police protection to
avoid angry fans after three Ottawa
players had been severely injured in a
game which was won by tho Ottawa
team, 4 to 2. An incident which re-
calls to mind the facts that baseball
is not the only game which stirs the
angry passions and the United States
is not the only land In which sports
are sometimes taken too seriously.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

OF the appropriation. California will
receive $2,164693, Idaho $2,1s6,550.
Oregon $1,S75,664 and Washington
1922. The allotment for Alaska
is $1,02o,493. In Montana $1,453,501
is to be spent, In Colorado $1,053,-
AIS. in Wyoming s746,1O1, and Ari-
zona and New Mexico are next with
ss7s.911 and $s77,s1O respectively.
In the East Virginia is to get $72.-
652 and New Hampshire S59,570.
Maine, once great timber producer,
will receive s7,514, only a little more
than Porto Rico.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
MISS CLAIRE DUx IN RECITAL
Soprano OF Chicago Opera Com
pany Sings I'm Carnegie Hall.

Miss Claire Dux. soprano Of the
Chicago Opera Company. gave her first
song recital here yesterday afternoon
in Carnegie Hall. Miss Dux, as the
soloist, had been heard on the concert
platform here this season in a program
led by Richard Strauss. Her compre-
hensive list OF selections included older
italian lyrics. five songs by Schubert
and an air from Bizet's Pearl Fishers" ("
A group OF songs-all marked new
were ''Silent" and Forever" by the
Swedish composer Sioegren, which were
sung in English; IT Once saw the
Wind by Kromolicki. and Lullaby
by Hans Herman.
Miss Dux was heard by large audi
ence and her performance received en-
thusiastic applause. Concerning her
vocal delivery. 1t was less successful
than when sustained by an orchestral
support. She seemed troubled by nerv-
BUSINESS, which increased as the recital
advanced. Her phrasing was sometimes
short and her voice often lost Its good
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Memorial 10 stephen Ioster.

From chs philadelphia Record.
The city OF Pittsburgh has received the
bronze tablet which II Is 70 present 20 the
people OF Kentucky IN honor OF Stephen G.
Foster, the song writer. Tho design was
selected by the Historical Society of West
ern Pennsylvania. Tho tablet viii be placed
In the old home OF Judge Rowan at Federal
Hll, near Dardstown. Ky. where Foster
wrote the words and music OF My Old
Kentucky Home In 1853. The bronze hears
a bas relief of Fosters bust with the
legend. 'Tn memory Of Stephen c. Foster.
born In Pittsburgh, Pa, July 4. 1890. who,
on n visit to Kentucky in 1858. wrote. IN
this house, the immortal song, My Old
Kentucky Home Presented by the city OF
Pittsburgh. Pa. facc."
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
when Angels Disagree.

To an angel once prayed:
"Give me gra~ for little days
Grant TO me the needed aid
In the common plodding ways.
For the great day brings Its strength
Fifty measured to the fate"
Spoke the angel then at length:
"All the days Of men are great"
TO another angel still
Once again / made a plea:
"Of myself / may fulfill
What the small day asks OF me,
But the great days overwhelm.
Help me lest faint and fall"
Spoke the angel from his realm:
"All the days OF mon arc SMALL
McLANoBURGH WILSON.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
GIRL GUESTS ARRIVE
FOR YALE PROMENADE
Annual Junior Class Event
Tomorrow Night.

NEW HAVEN Feb. 5.--"Prom"\ guests
from all parts of the country. many OF
whom were young women, began arriv-
ing in New Haven last night for the
seventy-first annual Junior promenade
at Yale University and the attendant
events, the first of which is to take place
tomorrow afternoon.
The prom this year Is attracting un-
usual attention. partly because 1t Is tho
first 10 be given under the administra-
ton OF President James r. Angel and
partly because the great war has been
pushed far enough into the background
so as not to interfere with the brilliancy
OF this, Yale's greatest social event OF
the year.
Informal teas will be given at the diff
ferent society and fraternity houses to-
morrow afternoon from to p. NJ. The
germans also will be held tomorrow In
the Shelf. houses and at Beta Theta ri.
The sophomore german will be held at
the Hotel Taft and the junior-senior
german at Byer's Hall. Informal teas
similar to those tomorrow VIII be held
on Tuesday afternoon. The junior prom
enade win be held Tuesday night in the
Yale dining hall.
All evening fv-actions this year have
been ordered 20 close not later than
A. NJ. and II Is further understood that
the students and their guests will not
appear on the streets in evening dress
after daylight. This rule was formu-
lated following criticism OF citizens OF
New Haven who met prom" guests
strolling about In evening clothes the
morning after the dance.
The Yale Dramatic Association Is 70
give tomorrow an afternoon and an
evening performance of George Bernard
Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra" mt tho
Shubcrt Theater. Besides the play to-
morrow afternoon there will be hockey
game at the Arena between Yale and
Dartmouth. On Tuesday afternoon there
will be a basketball game between Yale
and Harvard in the gymnasium, begin
ming at o'clock. and at . o'clock the
Yale swimming team will meet wes-
leyan in Carnegie Pool. In the inter-
mission before and after the relay the
two halves Of the water polo meet with
tho New York Athletic Club will be
played. Before the dancing begins Tues
day evening the concert of the Yale
Musical Clubs win be held in the Shubert
Theatar. beginning at 40.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
SCHUBERT RECITAL HELD.

A recital In honor OF the one hundred
and twenty-fifth anniversary of the
birth OF Franz Schubert was held at the
Ambassador Theater yesterday after
noon. concluding the celebration of
Schubert memorial week In New York.
Yesterdays program at the Afnbas-
sador included Carl Schlegel. barytone,
of the Metropolitan Opera; Miss Estelle
Lieblin, soprano. of the Chicago Opera
Germaine Schnitzer, pianist, and Ber-
tram Peacock. barytone. who sings the
role of Schubert in Blossom Time"
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
COATES CONDUCTS SYMPHONY
Orchestra Plays Program OF Un-
usual Musical Variety.

Albert Coates, guest conductor of the
New York Symphony Orchestra, gave
a program OF some unusual variety in
style and color at the societys concert
yesterday afternoon In Aeolian Hail.
The pieces. all known here, were Glin-
HAS Russian and Ludmilla" overture,
tho 'Siegfried Idyl" of Wagner. Ravel's
"Rhapsodie Espagnor and Strauss's
"Til Eulenspiegel." The "Cortege des
Noces" from RimslSy- y-Korsakoffs "Coq
dor" suite. which had been announced
for the program, was not played.
Mr.. Coatess reading of Strauss's
symphonic poem was disappointing. 1t
was virile. straightforward and power.
full rather than subtly brilliant. The
audience filed the hall.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Friends of Music Hear Two Novelties
Four Sacred Songs by Lazar Saminsly, Russian, and
Der Abend by Samuel Thewman Sung.

quality outside the middle range or
fell a trihe below the pitch. On the
other hand, she accomplished some ex-
cellent singing. as for instance in diff
ficult and seldom heard air from Mo-
zart's opera ''zaide," with which she be-
gan. Here there were admirable
smoothness of tone and commendable
style.
Miss Dux's Interpretation OF the clas-
sic German songs needed more light
ness OF touch, but she sang them with
intelligence. Frederic Person was at
the piano.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
CONCERT FOR BRAZIL FUND.

The second concert for the benefit Of
Bishop Lucien Lee kinsolving's educa-
tional work in Brazil was held last night
in the studio of Mr.. A. A. Anderson,
so West Fortieth street. The artists
were Miss Anna Louise David. harp;
Miss Evelyn MacNevin. contralto; Mr.
Wolfe Wolfinsohn. violin; Miss Mary
Gillies, organ, and Mr.. Del Negri,
Brazilian tenor.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

wINsLow HoMDR's painting Eight
Bells has been sold for $4,000, which
Is believed to be a record price for
an American artists work. twenty
three years ago the picture sold at
auction for $4,000. As n commercial
undertaking this incident OF encour-
agement OF American art may be con-
sidered successful.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

In will contest now in progress in
this city much evidence has been
heard which confirms an alienists
saying that his practice and observa-
ton lod him to the conclusion that a
man who met every requirement OF
the popular standard OF normal mind.
taste and temperament would be re-
garded as q pronounced eccentric.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
DAMRosCH SAILS ron LONDON

Walter Damrosch sent cable mes-
sage to friends in New York after the
concert of the Stockholm Symphony Or
chestra in Stockholm which he directed
February 2, that because of the strike
of railway employees he Is sailing by
way of Goteberg for London, where he
is scheduled to arrive to-day. His fare
well appearance this season in London
as guest conductor Of the London SYM
phony Orchestra Is announced for Feb
ruary 13.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

Dean RANDALL Of Brown University
has startled the academic world by
giving it as his opinion that college
students are better behaved now than
their predecessors of a generation ago
were. The Dean may be right, or ne
may only have been listening to the
"reminiscences Of old grads displaying
their exploits through the magnifying
glass OF Imagination.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
zinc Proof.

The Count of Monte cristo declared tho
world was his.
maybe so." agreed Uncle Sam, "but 7
don't notice YOU getting any pressing invi-
tations 10 attend conferences.'
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Personal Journalism in the orark..

Pea Ridge correspondence Osork Democrat
Enterprise.
Lag wednesday morning Miss Eva Buck
uer made her bread 90 salty Il wasn't fit 10
eat; ehl eva. next time use more flour and
less salt. ..l, ......
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

The Associated Press II exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication OF all news dis
matches credited to II or not otherwise
credited ~ this paper. and also the Local
news published herein.
All rights OF republication OF special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
The Diver.

First Merna,d-Here comes man.
Second Mennaid-Goodness. he looks as II
he had scrapped himself.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Pines In Winter.
hills the wintry light

Is sparkling clear and cold.
And yet the pines along the height
Their vernal hues unfold.
Set but your ear against bole
And there will throb and sing
The rhythm OF an undying soul,
The sempiternal spring!
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
mus @ indicates below se.c.
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS

Highest temperature. IS. at r. NJ.
Lowest temperature. 80, at 4:30 A. M.
Average temperature. ~.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
"BUTTERFLY. ron HOLIDAY.

'Madama Butterfly" will be given as
matinee on Lincoln's Birthday with
Miss Geraldine Farrar, Mines. Fornia
and Egener and Messrs. Crimi and
Scotti
Bisbee daily review., 1922-09-14

NEW YORK FsrsishsS by [. J. OVERLOOK. BROKRM Covs6toNdeNt LoRaN G BCyss