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The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Toronto Choir Sings Sea Symphony
r. Vaughan Williams Composition Based Whit
man Poems Heard Here First Time.

TO take the part. According to previous
announcement Mr.. Ruffo's place was
taken by Mr.. De Luca, as he had done
twice before this season In the same
part and always because OF that singers
indisposltion.
Mr.. De Lucas familiar imporsonation
of the gay and active barber gave again
genuine pleasure. He called forth warm
applause for his delivery OF the Largo
al Factotum' air. Miss Angeles Ottein
in the role of RosfitG again aroused In
terest by her correct appearance as a
Spanish lady. her ease of manner. her
prodigal display OF coloratura and a good
voice In the medium, with very hard
and high top notes.
The large audience followed the per-
formance with evident delight.
Col. and Mrs Edward NJ House, Mr..
and Mrs. Francis Burial Hoffman and
Mr.. Emerson Smalley were with Mrs.
Charles A. Childs.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Whites guests
were Countess Scherr-Thoss and Mr.
and Mrs. Altar, Appleton Robbins.
Mrs. w. Seward Webb's guests were
Mrs. Fl. Casimir de Rham, Mrs. }.
Henry Purdy and Mr.. ]. Louis Webb.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Ronald Tree and MT.
Frank A. MunSey were with Mr.. and
Mrs II. Thornton Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman ID. Kountze.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles M. Connfelt and
Mr.. Philip Rhinelander were with Mrs.
Arthur Ryle.
Mrs. Richard T. Wilson'S guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Philip Bernhard. Mr..
and Mrs. Allen G. Wcllman, Major Luke
Doyle ard Messrs William T. Eldridge.
Thomas Curtis and Frazier Jelke.
With Mrs. Louis II. Hoyt were Mr.
and Mrs. Columbus Cd. Iselin, MISS
Bramwell and Messrs. George Lediie,
Percy Bramwell and Shipley Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Evans and
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Beard were with
the British Consul General and Mrs. II.
Gloster Armstrong.
With DR.. and Mrs. Ernest Fahne-
stock were Mr.. and Mrs. John McKesson
Camp and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence =.
Mchalis.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Canadian Farmers Don't Kill Them.

To THE New YORK HERALD: IT 1t were
not for the snake. the owl and the skunk
the field rodents would multiply to such
an extent that good crops would be i'm
possible. The subscriber never saw as
many snakes out of captivity in one day
as he once saw in the Canadian wheat
country, and the farmers do not kill
them.
The use OF the shotgun as recon-
mended for snakes in your editorial
article was practiced years ago on quail
in Colorado, with the result that the
Colorado beetle commonly known as the
potato bug, has spread all over our
country and millions of dollars is now
being spent for paris green each year to
protect the potato fields.
All hail to the scientists who can
spread useful information relative TO
the economic value of anything that
walks. crawls. flies or swims.
ii. d. SILvERMAN.
EAST ORANGE, N. j., April 5.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

The second concert of the Mendelssohn
Choir of Toronto took place last evening
in Carnegie Hall. The solo singers were
Miss Florence HinlSle, soprano, and John
Barclay. barytone, and the philharmonic
Orchestra supplied the instrumental
support The program consisted of K.
Vaughan Wiiliams's "a Sea Symphony
for soprano. barytone, chorus and or
chestra: Faning's How Sweet the
Moonlight Sleeps" for double chorus
unaccompauied; the Spanish ballad,
THE Silversmith,' for chorus alone
Siberian Prison Song" for chorus and
orchestra; Godfrey O'Hara's Wreck
of the Julie Plante," for barytone solo
and chorus, and the choral from the last
scene OF die Meistersinger."
Mr.. WilIiams's sea Symphony" was
heard for the first time here. The text
Is taken from several different poems OF
Walt Whitman, and the work is con-
structed in four parts, with the titles "A
Song for All Seas, for All Ships" "On
the Beach at Night Alone" "Thc
Waves and 1.-The Explorers" 1t is well
made music, characteristic OF the choral
festival and the lard where the names
or Handel and Mendelssohn are still
held IN daily worship.
The sea Is proverbially treacherous.
Composers have bravely adventured
upon 1t from time immemorial, and II
has usually welcomed them as ii well
coined Byrons man without a grave.
unkrellcd, uncoffined and unknown" 1t
remains a pretty clearly demonstrable
fact that the ocean Is larger than music
and that no composition has yet been
created which could bear one instant's
comparison, with a full grown Atlantic
storm wave III the roaring forties.
Literature has done much better with
the sea. and IN the case of last evening s
work there is hardly a line of Walt
Whitman that Is not so large and so
mighty that 1t does not crust, the music
with which MIR. Williams has united 1t.
In the last section of the composition
there are a few moments in which the
composer seems to approach the real
feeling OF his theme. but most of his
score is just excellently made compost
ton, which might have been written by
any one about anything. especially un-
der the stimulus of a commission from
the festival of the Three Chors or some
other sacred source.
The work was admirably performed
under the direction of Mr.. Frickcr. the
capable conductor of the Mendelssohn
Choir The soloists discharged their
their duties zealously and the choir sang
brilliantly. But as seems almost in
evtable when the sea is celebrated in
music one thought only of that safest
OF all seas in which they say no man
can sink
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Death for Miss CavelPs Betrayer.

About the trial and execution of
EDITH CAvEIL, the brave English
i.urse who gave up her life at Brus-
sells early in the war to serve her
country. there has always been much
mystery. The trial was conducted
by the German military governor of
Belgium and almost the only real
friend she had to see that the pro-
cecdings were carried on with fair
ness and justice was BRAND WHIT
LOCK, then American Minister to
Belgium. But the nature OF the
evidence against her and the person
or persons who betrayed her we're
not known during the war and have
come TO light only since the trial OF
ARMAND JEANNEs on the charge Of
espionage and high treason.
JEASNEs. with all his shrewdness
and bravado. had the habit OF talking
too much. 1t was his boasting just
before the armistice was signed that
first turned suspicion upon him and
led to his arrest. To Nine. WERREs,
at whose house he was living in
Liege, he said:
Il have been instrumental In the
French and British by German
court-martial Among them was tho
Cayeli orranIzation"
This was. perhaps, the first definite
statement regarding the nurses be-
trayal which was made public. The
loyal -Delg!ans returning to their war
SCARED homes were not long. after
obtaining the information, in bring
ing to trial this traitor to their
country. BESIDES this discriminating
statement they obtained confirma-
tory evidence from the part which
JEANNEs had played in the trials OF
other men and women arrested dur
ing the German occupation OF Bel.
GUM. Further evidence was discov-
cred in the German archives seized
at the time Of the Germans hasty
departure from Belgium.
1t developed at the trial that
JrASNEs was sent to spy upon Miss
CAvELL principally owing to the ar.
rest Of one of her associates and the
finding in the associates notebook
or certain details OF the assistance
Miss CAyELL gave TO allied sol
diers. With this clew JEANNEs
made out his case against her.
Another interesting feature was
the revelation OF the secret es-
pionage organization maintained by
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
THURSDAY. APRIL 6. 1922.
Liberty Bonds at Par.

Liberty bonds are at or around par,
while not many months ago some OF
the issues OF this premier security
Of the world were selling i'm the open
market almost down to so cents on
the dollar.
At present quotations the Second,
Third and Fourth Liberties must be
bought on a basis to yield about 4.30
per cent. on the investment while
late in 1920 the general Liberties
were to be had on basis Of per
cent. This difference makes them
look dear now, but the present high
prices OF these bonds of a not too
early maturity will look cheap few
years or even months from now.
With the interest rate of money
falling to lower and lower levels and
with the permanent investment mar
ket hungry for sound securities at
reasonable rates such an incompara-
BILE investment as these obligations OF
the United States Government are
headed for 31s perhaps a 8 per
cent. basis, irrespective OF their tax
exemption privileges. The only
thing that can now restrain Liberties
that pay Az per cent. on their face
value from going well alpve par is
the early redemption datc'of such OF
them, like the Thirds, as will be re-
deemed in six years.
A Government bond like the
Fourth Liberty, not due until 1888
48, however, is as sure to go far be-
yond par as Swiss Government 8
per cent. bonds have reached III
and Swedish bonds also paying s
per cent. have sold at 113.
The longer term Liberties are soon
going above par because the expert
enced investor who had the iudg-
ment. the courage and the cash to
buy Fourth Liberties and buy them
to the limit when they were down
near so, getting the greatest bar
gains ever found in the history of
sound and safe investments, knows
that he still has the best investment
on earth. He could cash it in to-day
with profits that stock market specu-
lators would envy. But the shrewdest
investors will not cash in on United
States bond that they know will
never be so cheap again as it is to-
day--a bond having from eleven to
seventeen years to run and that they
foresee can soar nearly as many
points above par as it was points be-
low par when they in their wisdom
bought it.
Never again is there going to be
anything like the chance the people
of this country had to pick up Lib
berty bonds for song.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
The Peaks nj Dawn.

From tho Los Angeles Times.
Through such a hush days fittingly
ascend
To look on that which no days over
come:
Athens and Thebcs, we say. their
mighty sum
or grandeur likewise hold, and not de-
pend
On hours or nations. but forever send
Down centuries their tale. serene. un-
scathed.
While every dawn in which their walls
arc bathed
But looks toward evening to forctell It's
Its end.
We scale ourselves so with what com
pass these?
Here eartli's deep masonry from mists
uprcarcd
Sterniy outsoarn al times iniautiee.
Only by God and his deep tcmpests
scared
And shall so stand when called from
toll or ease
Humanity's last sail from time has
cleared.
WILLIAM FOSTER ELLtoT.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
The Peary Memorial.

Thirteen years ago to-day ROBERT Z.
PEARY accomplished a feat which for
800 years explorers of many nation
alities had been attempting, and at
tempting in vain. April 6. 1909,
PEARY, accompanied by MATT HENSON
and four Eskimos, succeeded in reach
ing the north pole. After nearly
twenty years Of dogged, persistent
effort he unfurled the American flag
where the flag of no other nation had
ever flown, where there is no east
and no west; and due south is every
where else on the face Of the earth
This epoch marking date in the his
tory Of geographical research is to be
fittingly observed in Washington to.
day by the unveling of monument
over the great American explorers
grave in Arlington National Gene
terry. The President of the United
States. the Secretary OF the Navy
and hers1conspicuous in public life
and in the field of scientific investi-
cation will participate in the cere-
monies Mrs. EDWARD STAFFORD.
daughter of the explorer and once
known as "The Snow Baby" who has
the distinction of having been born
farther north than any other white
child, will unveil the monument to
her distinguished father, monu-
ment the design of which he himself
suggested a few days prior to his
death in Washington on February 20,
1920. 1t is memorial as distinctive
and as far removed from the conven-
tional as were the life and ambitions
OF the man it commentaries. 1t is
granite globe OF large size, represent
ing the earth with carved outlines OF
seas and continents, and bearing
bronze star at the spot which CORE
spends to the north pole.
For nearly twenty years the dream
Of PEARY's life was to reach the
north pole. In expedition after ex-
petition he had endured all the rigors
and privations of arctic exploration
only to be baff1ed. But he was
never discouraged. In one of his
earlier explorations he crossed the
northern ice cap of Greenland, 1900
mile journey. This alone was an
achievement to insure his enduring
fame among geographers, for 1t es-
tablished to certainty the fact that
Greenland is an island and not a
continent reaching to the pole, a
theory which heretofore had been
accepted.
From 1891 all his amazing energy
and stern fixedness of purpose as we'll
as every dollar he personally could
spare or raise by inspiring others
with his own enthusiasm were de-
voted to the great objective Of his
life. Finally the triumph came. In
1908 on his specially constructed
steamship Roosevelt he started
off on what proved to be the final
attempt. He planned campaign
against the tremendous polar barriers
with such perfection of detail that
victory was his at last, and the me-
mortal unveiled in Washington to-
day is a fitting testimony to his
success.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
MISS CROSBY, SOPRANO, SINGS.
Gives Program of Excellent Quail
ity and Is Heartily Applaudcd.

Miss Phoebe Crosby. soprano. who
gave q song recital yesterday afternoon
in Aeolian Hall. was received by
friendly audience of considerable size.
She presented a program of excellent
quality although it was somewhat ex-
acting and perhaps not altogether
iudicious for a singer of her equipment.
The opening group. which comprised
two arias and canzona by Donaudy,
showed Miss Croby at her best.
In these three numbers tho very
rretty quality OF her voice was less
obscured than in some of her other
selections. She sang Donaudys music
with a generally good tone. accurate in
tonation and smoothness of style Later
in some German leder she seemed TO
find difficulty with the pronunciation,
and this undoubtedly injured the 1nusi-
cal character OF her singing. she was
heartily applauded after every song.
and it was evident that the audience
would have liked TO hear the Strauss
serenade a second time. Walter Golde
played admirable accomplishments.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
The Winter Agriculturist.

He swung a mean and mighty hoe
While yet the frost was in the ground,
But with the melting OF the snow.
soon as the frost began to go,
lie melted. too. without sound.
He said he'd early start TO plow
The whole back lot yes. miles and
miles:
But where you find him blowing now
The only furrow In his brow
is in his paper for spring styles.
lie said that he would scatter seeds
Where far horizons softly blcnt,
But what the present mostly needs
TO scatter round are kindly deeds
They arc the seeds. he says. he meant.
Abundantly he Is on tap.
Now that the birds begin to sing.
We know him as the city chap
Who IN the winters full, OF snap.
But stops his farming in the spring.
MAURICE MORRIS
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
..Trond Of the Times" Sydney N. Ussher,
nj Labor Temple. Fourteenth street and Sec
ond avenue.
Trend OF the Times George a. Hastings.
al Evander Childs High School, lS3th street
and Field place, The Bronx.
.The Book Of the Hour Prof. J. @. Car
ter Troop, at Pilgrim Hall, fifty-sixth street
and Broadway.
",Neath Italian Skies" Harry G. Ostran-
der. at Washington Irving High School, Try
ing place and Sixteenth street. Illustrated.
"Chopin.'' Giuseppe A. Raudeggcr. at pub.
lie School 4G, 1JGth street aud st. NICHOLAS
avenue.
Romantic Composers" Miss Marie Josc-
phinc Wiethan. at Public School %, Broad-
way and Academy street.
''peslgn in lettering Miss Sally y. Tan
nahIll. al Public School -. 2os East Fifty
seventh street Illustrated.
Batter Films and How toN Get Them"
Mrs Maudc q. Truesdalc, at PuOlic School
81, Hester, Essex and Norfolk streets. Illus
trated.
.Recollcctlons OF q Greenhorn." Jonas
Iippmann, at Public School o3. Amsterdam
avenue and Ninety-third street.
''The Merchant OF Venice. dramatic read
ing, Miss Mona Morgan. at Public School
1876. 2a5 West l0Sth street.
what Is the Matter with the World To-
day" Miss Myran T. Grant, at Young
Womcn's Hebrew Association. 81 West 10th
street.
Beautiful Ireland" Miss Kathleen
Mathew, NJ Morris High School. i6sth street
aud Boston road. Tho Bronx. Illustrated.
BROOKLYN, QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
..rrsad of tho rlnles," Prof. Nelson =.
Mead, al traSmug Hall IT, s.. Flatbush ave.
nue near Chufcl avenue
'''rrend of tile Times" Mrs. Mary Eiiaa-
beth I ase, ~ Manual Training III. 81 Sey-
anth avenue and Fifth street.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Leviathan; a New Chapter.

Weather favoring, the giantess OF
the seas, Leviathan, will cast loose
from the Hoboken pier to which she
has been tied up since September 8.
1919, and under her own power will
sail on Sunday for Newport News,
Virginia, there TO be recondltioned
for passenger service under the Amer
lean flag. Thus will open q new
chapter OF her eventful career.
When 1t became apparent to the
German Government that war be-
tween the United States and the en-
pire was inevitable this vessel lay
in the Hudson under the name Water
land. She was included in the
general order issued to the masters
OF German ships tied up in American
ports to damage the machinery of
their ships SO that repairs would be
impracticable, IL not impossible. The
story of the restoration OF her en-
gines to serviceability is romance
of marine engineering familiar to the
world. New methods and new appli-
ances were used to fit her for the
task OF transporting men to Europe,
and her trial trip was ended months
before It was generally believed she
could get to sea.
Aa transport she made three trips
Ia J,iyerpool and seventeen to Brost,
carrying 94,S70 soldiers, including
1921 officers. to England or France
and S9,393. including 1870 officers,
back to America. Besides the sol
diers, she transported 10,709 naval
passengers. 1,043 nurses, 949 civil
fans and 2.2se unclassified passen-
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Natures Kindness.

Not as OF old looks Arak still
From It's high climbing Moab hill,
For Time, Implying of hand.
Has smitten it with ruthless viii.
Only a single banner there
Its bravery unfolds In air:
There waves on every wind that blows
spray uf hyssop. amber fair.
Thus Nature shows her rapt regard.
Though fate relentless seem and hard,
BY healing Times unsparing wounds
With green caresses golden starred.
CLINTON SCoLLARp.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

Government ownership OF railways
He asked whether Federal control
would be "only one-forty-eighth as
Objectionable or forty-eight times as
Objectionable" as control by each in
dividual State. He continued.
Assuming Federal Government
control. can you picture the fun Cali
fornia newspapers would have In
relating the building OF a railroad
extension into some potato fields in
Maine and the compliments hurled
back across the continent because of
similar expenditure OF public funds
to get a railway line to some orange
groves?"
This condition under Federal con
troll need not be confined to an i'm
aginary picture. Such things actu-
ally happened during the period OF
Government control OF the railroads
in this country during the war. The
citizens OF certain sections of the
country complained of discrimina-
tion in passenger and freight SER
vice due to the change Of train
routes, with whole railroad systems
thrown out Of joint in consequence.
Had Government control contin-
ued long enough in this country we
undoubtedly should have had rail
road pork barrel raids, railroad log
rolling skirmishes in Congress and
an interminable sectional war OF the
potato fields and orange groves far
outdoing Australia's battle of the
gauges.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

In Ludlow. Vermont. the town hall
burned up yesterday and the records
of the probate Office were destroyed, a
loss probably of irreplaceable docu-
ments. Yet larger settlements are in
no position to rebuke Ludlow for keep
ing public records in an unsafe build
ing, for in Washington itself invalua-
BILE documents are exposed to fire peril
because sufficient care is not taken to
protect them.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Vanderbilt on m Old Ledger.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: We have
on ono OF our old lcdgcrs. 1S3i-iS35.
several transactions with Captain Jacob
Vanderbilt and also with Cornelius Van
derbilt, the name being spelled the same
as 1t Is nowadays
A. G. BENEDICT & Co.
NEW York, April s.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
BIacksnakes Worth SO Each.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Among
the reports issued by the Bureau of
Agriculture at Washington is one which
states that every blacksnake is worth
$40 TO the farmer on account OF the
vermin II eats which are a menace to
his crops. BURNIAM w. KING.
NEW YORK, April 5.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

From uc Kansas CITY Star.
"a bunch of White Caps went over be-
yond Mount Piggy tutlicr night aud drug a
fcler out of bed that was suspected or
making bone dry licltor and whipped him."
related Gap johnson OF Rumpus Ridge
"Did they find any lickcrgr interestcdy
a sked IN acquaintance
mighty little. They drunk up what there
was and then whaied him for having skarceiy
enough 20 go once around"
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
DE LUCIA SINGS THE BARBER
Takes Role In tho Opera OF Tttta
Uufro, Who Has N Cold.

III Barbcre di Siviglia' was sung
for the sixth and last time this season
at the Metropolitan Opera House last
evening. Titta Ruffo was to have made
his final appearance with the company
this season in the role of Figaro but
the distinguished barytorc was still suf-
fering from the cold which prevented
his singing at his concert last Sunday
night in the Hippodrome and was unable
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Police History.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: When
did Inspector Byrnes and Captain Alex
Williams retire? In what year was
Colonel Roosevelt Police Commissioner
and who was Mayor OF New York at
that time? OLD SUBSCRIBER.
NEW YORK, April 8.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Changing the Hours OF Work.

To THE NEW York HERALD: To
change the time Is annoying and con-
fusng. The trouble can be obviated by
stores, factories and offices opening an
hour earlier and closing an hour earlier.
CLARENCE y. LEvEY.
ARLINGTON, April 8.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

When there is n crime wave in De-
ccmbcr II Is attributed to the burglars
desire for Christmas money. Now.
maybe. Easter bonnets are his incen-
tive and stimulus.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

superintendent Byrnes retired May
81. 1895. Inspector williams, May 81.
1895. Colonel Roosevelt was presi-
dent OF the Police Board 1S95-97 and
William l.. Strong was Mayor.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Missouri GaIIantry.

From the Faystte Advertiser.
diplomat Is fellow who always re-
members a womans birthday and forgots
her age.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
Sizing Up the Political situation.
From az Ashland Rnol.

From the Ashland BuOie.
II man who knows how to be Governor
OF Missouri should announce his candidacy.
people who don't know how 20 be Governor
of Missouri would defeat him.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication OF all news Sir-
patches credited 10 Il or not otherwise
credited IN this paper, and also the local
news published herein.
Al rights Of republication Of special dis.
patches herein are also reserved.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06

Highest temperature, 80. at ~ r. NJ
Lowest temperature. ~. at a. M.
Average temperature, 4S.
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature in this city yesterday, ai
recorded by the official thermometer, l.
glnt.n In nn taf
The New York herald., 1922-04-06
FITTING the Punishment to the Crime.

ARLINGTON, April 8.