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The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Korea's Cause Hurt.

The accidental killing Of an Ameri-
can lady. Mrs. w. J. SNYDER, by
Korean fanatics who attempted
to assassinate Major-General GHcHI
TANAKA at Shanghai is likely to
result in great setback to the cause
of those law abiding natives of the
peninsular State who hope either
for representation in the Japanese
Imperial Diet in Toxic or for the
ultimate independence of Korea. The
~act will but stiffen the policy OF the
militarists in Japan and hinder the
good work of Premier TAKAHAsHI.
General GIIcHr TANAKA is a mem
ber of the very large family Of the
Tanaka folk; the name means Mid
die Field and is one of the oldest in
Japan. He was born in the same
province with the late Marquis TO-
was pet of his and was Minister of
War during the annexation and con-
quest Of Korea He should not be
confused with the younger man, Gen
eral KUNIsHIGE TANAKA, who was
recently in Washington during the
arms conference.
Great is the difference in the spirit
of the Korean Provisional Govern
ment in Shanghai and that of the Ko-
reans educated in America. The latter
believe that reason is in the long run
more powerful than the assassin's
weapon and that the pen is mightier
than the sword. The killing of an
American lady will estrange much of
the sympathy awakened by their
efforts in our country with an ancient
people whose culture, inventions and
missionary influence in medieval
eastern Asia form one of the forgot
ten marvels of history and one of the
most captivating romances Of hero
ism and altruistic endeavor.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Thor, Hercules and Ruth.

Those detonations in the southwest
are not peals of thunder. If the
youth of the world heard them many
centuries ago they would have said,
1T is Thor pounding with his ham
mer," or 1T Is the mighty Hercules
thrashing against a mountain with
his club" The modern youth is
wiser. He knows that it is Babe
RUTH knocking out home run.
Thor and Hercules were myths. Their
living rival, Babe RUTH, is a very
human fact.
There is no denying that Babe
RUTH has been raised to the status
OF a modern demigod and that in
time he will achieve the higher
status of a juvenile myth. The Babe
is Fortunes darling. Not so many
years ago he was the gangling in
mate of an industrial home for boys
in Baltimore. He showed no promise
in the schoolroom. The priests who
ran the school decided that the best
they could do with him would be to
train him to be cigar maker. They
feared he would not become an ex-
pert cigar maker, but they hoped he
would pass at the bench.
But while young GEORGE HERMAN
RUTH showed no aptitude for any OF
the arts or sciences he showed con
siderable capacity for play. In this
he was like Thor and Hercules, who
we're playboys at heart, though 1t is
recorded that Hercules did go to
work at one time in his career.
Playing the game he loved best is
bringing to Babe RUTH an income
that few industrious and serious
minded young men hope to attain.
There appears to be absolutely no
moral to the story of the Babe.
OF course it may seem deplorable
that rollicking youth without a
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
TUESDAY, APRIL 4. 1922.
Turn on the Tariff Light.

Whether the Senate Finance Com
mittee be against the American valu-
alton plan or for the American valu.
alton plan. this vital feature of the
House tariff bill should be thor
oughly debated from the floor of the
Senate 1t was scarcely mentioned
In the other branch of Congress, al
though it was reported out by the
Ways and Means Committee and
sdopted by the House. This is not
the right way to handle any Of the
legislative business of the American
people.
Legislation of the supreme national
import the tariff is never ought to
be jammed through Congress, it
never ought to be smuggled through,
and it never ought to go through by
default as the momentous American
valuation plan might do if the tariff
bill should go into the joint confer
ence committee of the two houses
without a complete discussion of the
valuation plan on the floor OF the
Senate.
If the tariff measure is thrown into
conference committee without full
and fair discussion of the valuation
plan and other important matters
before it leaves the Senate there is
a chance that it may never be de-
bated or considered in the open.
Whatever might be agreed upon in
the joint committee conference could
and in all probability would be ac-
cepted by both houses without the
general membership understanding
the meaning of the thing it was ac-
cepting or knowing what the country
thought about it or wanted done
with it.
Whether the American valuation
plan as part OF the new tariff is a
good thing or a bad thing for the
country, whether the Senate leaders
are going to put it through, are going
to kill it outright or are going to
sidetrack it, the tariff measure in
general and the valuation plan in par
ticular should be thoroughly dis
cussed and clearly understood by
Congress and should be disposed Of
only in the broad light of day.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
For Daylight Saving.
II Has Proved Popular With Office
and Factory Workers.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: A letter
in your paper protests against daylight
saving. calling it a calamity and a ne
farious plan that has worked untold
hardships upon all humanity.
different opinion is held by hum
dreds of thousands of office workers and
factory toilers who are very thankful
for the additional hour Of daylight that
furnishes Ian opportunity for out of door
recreation not otherwise obtainable.
Without daylight saving 1t is almost
impossible after the days work to go
from Manhattan to any of the nearby
beaches or amusement resorts and reach
there before dark. Where Is the ca
lamity in enjoying fresh air and sun
shine after an arduous period of labor?
Some of the opponents of daylight
saving are strangely bitter in their de-
aunciation of it, attempting to make
real mountains out of imaginary MOLE
hills, and 1t may be that much of the
opposition is inspired by religious zeal
of those who seem to see In the plan
something against God or nature, even
though such a viewpoint is far from
the truth.
The firmest supporters Of daylight
saving are those whom IL was intended
to benefit. L. c. QUINN.
NEW York. April 3.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04

Taking all classes Of building, the
average general cost ! construction
as late as February OF this present
year Of 1922 was S5 per cent. above
1914. This in spite of the fact that
there had been a drop in total con-
struction costs Of about 40 per cent.
from the peak of 1920 and in direct
labor costs Of about 20 per cent. Ex-
actly how much of the increase in
costs of materials over 1914 is due
to the labor costs in the materials
is not set forth. Obviously. however,
just as direct labor costs in putting
up the building scared to maximum
OF 100 per cent. above 1914. coming
back only 20 per cent. from the peak,
so indirect labor costs in the mate
rial must have acted correspondingly.
And for this reason, of course, re-
turn to the normal costs of building a
house must wait for return to
something like normal Of all the
labor costs involved.
Meanwhile little plain arithmetic
on the dwelling place which cost
$4,176 to build in 1914 and now costs
1854 to build shows how it works
out in rent.
With as low charges as per cent.
for money, per cent. for taxes and
5 per cent. for repairs, extinguish-
ment, insurance, &C., there is mini
mum annual charge of 13 per cent.
against the house. With no account
taken Of the land value, 13 per cent.
on the house at the cost of s4,176 in
1914 amounted to a rent of $542.SS a
year or s45 month. On the same
house now costing 1874 to build the
13 per cent. charge amounts to $95S.62
year. or about $50 month rent.
And this is how the inflated building
costs go straight into your rent in
cold dollars and cents.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Mexican Recognition.
The Chief Obstacle Concerns the
Rights Of Americans.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: I have
read with interest your Informative ed
itorial article OF March 20 entitled
Nearing Mexican Recognition"
In his formal statement of June q,
1921, Secretary OF State Hughes covered
the entire matter. In the concluding
sentence of that statement he refers to
the differences between the United
States and Mexico as follows: 1T Is to
be hoped that when the nature Of the
precise question is fully appreciated
the obstacles which have stood in the
way of a satisfactory settlement Will
disappear"
The precise question Is that Article
27 OF the Mexican Constitution Is an
abrogation OF the right of Americans
or any other foreigners to hold prop
erty in Mexico unless they disavow
their citizenship in so far as their
property rights are concerned and agree
to be bound in all matters by Mexican
law, in the face Of the fact that the
same article Of the Constitution which
makes this demand provides both retro
active and confiscatory measures for re-
lieving them of their property. 1t Is
true, as you state. that there remains"
In fact but one obstacle to recognition
OF the Government of Mexico, but isn't
that quite sizable obstacle?
In spite of the plain wording of Ar
ticle 81 the Mexican Government insists
that 1t is neither retroactive nor con-
fiscatory and denies that there Is any
intent TO make IL so by construction.
With all these assurances before the
state Department but confronted with
the plain wording OF Article ~ the
Secretary OF State has very wisely
asked the Mexican Government to place
in writing the assurance which has been
so repeatedly given verbally. The Mex
lean Government has declined to give
any such assurance. There the matter
stood when Secretary OF State Colby
was in office. There 1t stands to-day.
AS / said before, this Is not an -intri-
cate matter 1t is a very simple one.
And / might add that IL is very inn
portant matter since approximately two
billions OF dollars of American capital
have been invested in Mexico under
laws guaranteeing the rights of private
sproperty.
An effort has been made by the Mex
leans to give the impression that only
a question OF procedure stands In the
way-7that the question is whether the
guarantees and the recognition shall be
simultaneous or whether the recogni-
tion should come first and the guaran-
ties with regard to American rights
come second That is very pleasant
way the Mexicsns have OF putting It.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Alcohol and Art.
Emerson and George Meredith Cited
Against Joseph Pennell.

To THE New YORK HERALD: 1t has
been considered quite hazardous to pass
critical Judgment on the comments of
those conspicuous in art and literature.
But the negative position to the assump-
ton of Joseph Pepnell that alcohol
makes for the best art can be and is
without evasion sustained by authorities
that command equal respect.
The opinion of Emerson was. Never
can any advantage be taken Of nature
by a trick. The spirit of the world
comes not forth to the sorceries OF
opium or OF wine. The poets habit of
living should be set so low key that
the common influences should delight
him. His cheerfulness should be the
gift OF the sunlight"
George Meredith said in substance that
the notion of drinking any kind Of alco-
hoI as stimulant for intellectual work
can enter the minds of only those who
snatch at the former that they may
conceive a fictitious execution OF the
latter.
Alcoholized art and literature may
often be picked out by their abnormal
flavor. II you cannot have good art or
good literature without drink. as Mr..
Pennell insists, why did few at all en-
inent men write after drinking? Hamer-
ton proved that overhowing health is the
first essential of art. and drink does not
make for it, but perverts vision.
New YORK, April 3. ]. w. MYERS.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04

serious thought should not only be
so we'll paid but become perhaps the
most prominent unofficial figure in
the land. 1t may lead young men
who would otherwise be serious and
ambitious to say, what is the use?
We were not born lefthanded and
carefree." Instead of the free swing
ing figure of the Babe we should be
admiring the stopped figure of a
grave student poring over his books.
But mankind to-day picks heroes
for the same reasons that the Morse
men and the Greeks picked theirs.
for the ability to swat. Even as
poets sang of the deeds Of Thor
and Hercules, our baseball writer's
using a more complicated and more
picturesque speech than Morse or
Greek-chant the deeds of RUTH, of
RUTH triumphant, of RUTH striking
out or of Ruth scourged by the
wrath of LANDS, which has much
the look of Hercules being punished
by Jove.
There is nothing to do but to ac-
cept the modern demigod, chosen by
popular acclaim, and to hope that
when he reaches the mythical stage
his bat will hold place of honor
beside the hammer of Thor and the
club of Hercules. We may even
wish that he may be turned into a
constellation.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Save the Army and Navy.
The Time for Complete Disarming
Has Not Yet Come.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD. Your
editorial Save the Army and Navy" is
sound and wise to the core. | want 10
congratulate you upon the sentiments
expressed and upon its timeliness.
We can safely admit the hypothesis
that If our army and navy reductions
leave us relatively as strong as other
nations we may rest easy for the pres
ent in view of the need of economy in
all Government expenses But the COR
ollary plainly points to the fact that
our army should not be cut below the
safety line, that is, properly to police, as
you point out, our 10000 miles of coast
line, the Philippines Hawaii. the Pan
anna Canal Zone and the West Indies.
and such navy as we shall have left
should be completely manned, inten-
sively trained and kept in full commits
sion and in fighting trim.
To-day in a world of violence we are
menaced not alone by these conditions
but by large and powerful element Of
our own citizens at home, hostile to any
adequate protection of our very fire.
sides. who have hitched their pacifist
wagon TO star and an impracticable
ideal OF total disarmament.
1t is full time for initiative and action
by the intelligence of this land. when so
many are blinded and diverted by the
events of the peace conference to the
continued and imperative need at all
times of adequate national defense. and
the menace as Theodore Roosevelt
warned us. of a Chinafied America.
LINCOLN c.. CUMMINGS
BRooKLINE. Mass, April l.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Trotters That Trot.

In the early days of harness rae
ing, when many Of the fastest trot-
tiers had a strong infusion of thor
oughbred blood close up in their
pedigrees, it was difficult matter
for drivers to keep, them always on
the diagonal gait. r
Breaking into wild run from
which it was hard to get them to
resume the trot was matter Of
frequent occurrence. with such fine
performers as Lucy, Scotland and
Grafton, while in later day J. B.
Richardson was noted for the ease
with which he could go from a trot
to a run and back again to the or
thodox gait. This was also a noted
characteristic Of Goldsmith Maid,
long queen of the trotting turf.
In those days the judges deter
mined whether a contestant gained
or lost ground by one Of these
breaks: if they were convinced that
horse lrad been helped by such a
lapse the delinquent was penalized.
To-day, with the trotting Instinct
firmly implanted as result Of gen
erations of breeding like to like, the
trotting gait is so well established
that it is rare thing for even the
youngest of the campaigners to lift
their noses from one end of mile to
the other, no matter what demands
are made upon their reserves in
speed and courage.
1t is a triumph of breeding over
inherited characteristics. The trotter
of to-day trots as naturally as the
thoroughbred gallops, and at the rate
at which the speed limit is being low
cred the time is coming when trotters
for short distance will be able to
cover space at pace approaching
the speed Of the average galloper.
Peter Manning. 1:57A, the newest
trotting champion; Uhlan, 1:5S,
which he dethroned last year.. and
the ex-queen, Lou Dillon, 1854, all
have shown speed which if it could
be maintained for a mile would equal
the time scored by the average Sec
ond class thoroughbred of only a
generation ago.
The trotting family Of the present
day is a blend Of thoroughbred,
PAGER, roadster, saddle horse and cold
blood. Out Of this mixture has come
a type as tough and enduring as any
thing in the way of horse flesh the
world has ever known. The system
Of racing at heats is in some meas
ure responsible for this unusual
heart and lung power.
The evolution of the trotter has
been matter of less than seventy
five years, but in that time breed
of horses has been established pos
sessing such inherent quality that 1t
has become permanent.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
Ships Without Cargoes.

American vessels in February
measured ship tonnage more than
half of the total ship tonnage carry
ing our overseas commerce. But this
greater proportion Of our ship ton
mage did not carry most of the car
goes in the overseas trade OF the
United States. The tonnage move
ment is not trustworthy indicator
OF cargoes carried, anyhow, either as
to quantity or kind, because it in
cludes ships moved in ballast as well
as the tank steamships employed on
short haul voyages to bring oil from
Mexico.
Vessel movements in February
have not yet been published, but they
viii not vary greatly from the reports
for the month before. In January
American vessels of 4,0i3,000 tons
cleared and entered our ports, but of
these vessels an aggregate of 1,121,-
600 tons we're in ballast. Foreign
vessels aggregating 3,S65,000 tons en-
tered and cleared, OF which only 676,.
900 tons were in ballast.
The profitless voyages Of American
vessels were nearly double those of
foreign ships. With tanker tonnage
deducted the movement OF American
vessels totalled only 1.942,000 tons
with cargo, as against 2,sS0,000 tons
Of foreign ships with cargo. The
proportion Of loaded ships flying the
I American flag was only about 40 per
cent. OF the whole tonnage engaged
in what may strictly be called for
eign trade.
But even this 40 per cent of Ameri.
can vessels in the foreign trade did
,rot carry an equivalent share OF the
cargoes. The Department of Com
\ merce report for January shows that
I the value OF goods imported in Amer.
lean ships was only SO per cent. and
4 the value OF exports in our ships
only SO per cent. of the whole. The
painful truth is that the American
merchant marine Is carrying only
about one-third of our foreign com.
merce, including Mexican oil cargoes
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
EVENTS TODAY.

Public hearing on tho proposed establish
ment OF civic center devoted TO higher edu-
cation In music and the dramatic arts. City
Hall. 10:30 A. NJ. rs
Success" Town Hall. 123 West Forty-thrd
street ii A. NJ
New York City Federation of Womens
Clubs. meeting in observance OF "Conserya-
tIon Week" American Museum OF Natural
History, Seventy-seventh street and Central
Park West, p. NJ
Meeting OF Republican women. National
FeSao'ean 7. Il. o'u0' = "s'' '''''s'' Sss''
Maternal Aid and After Care Circle. meet
ing, home Of Mrs. Il. Van Raalte. 10 West
Eighty-seventh street. =. NJ
Marguerite Clement will speak at meet
ing OF the French Institute. 800 Fifth ave.
nue., 3: 80 j.. M.
Rotary Club, annual meeting and dinner.
Hotel Mclilpin. $3.50 p. NJ.
Dr. Alexander Irvine. lecture, Whats
Wrong with the worId?" Cooper Union, 9
New York chronological Society. meeting,
American Museum OF Natural History. Sew
enty-seventh street and Central Park West.
s P.M.
DIR. Samuel Guy Inman viii discuss Prob
lens in Pan-Amsrican Friendship" Broad
way Tabernacle Forum, broadway and
Fifty-sixth street. S:i5 +. M.
Mgr. John p. Chidwicls will speak on '.Qur
Holy Church and Liberty" Marquette Cisb.
Hotel Commodore, S:15 L. Nj.
Mrs. Marguerite Harrison, lecture. Scr.
many Russia and the New Social Order
Women's City Club. % Park avenue. S:'W
Il. NJ.
Frank w. Bayley win speak on ''C;iberi
Stuart" meeting OF the New York Iflstori-
cal Society, 40 Central Park West. $50
j.. NJ
Eastern Automotive Equipment Association,
meeting, Hotel Astor. all day; dinner. Pm
Ne,v York State Ice Manufacturers Associa-
tion meeting, Trommers Bushwick avenue
beginning at IL A. NJ; dinner +. NJ.
Export Managers Club, luncheon, Hotel
Pennsylvania, ] p. M.
American Pomeranian Club. meeting. Wal
dorf-Astoria, 1 T.. nj.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04

and all; but the American tonnage
required TO carry this one-third is
larger than the tonnage of foreign
bottoms engaged in carrying the re
naming two-thirds of our overseas
trade.
This showing is the result of high
operating costs on American ships
costs so high that they eat up all the
income and disqualify our vessels in
competition for low paying return
cargoes. Seafaring may come natu-
rally to Americans, but until the cost
OF running our ships is brought down
American ships will roam the seas,
much of the time with nothing but
ballast below deck, in vain search for
profitable business.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
.sTrend OF the Times" William u. Guthrie
az Wadlsfgh High School, 10th street. west
OF S~<enth avenue.
NJ ~ r. L., Woodstock Branch, $50 East
l60th street, The Bronx.
..washlngton the Beautiful" Clarence A..
Phillips, at Public School l6. EOS West Thir-
tCcnth street. Illustrated.
"The Tenement House Department" Frank
Mann, nj Public School GO. Eighty-eigbth
street and First averre.
"on in World Politics." Miss Myran l..
Grant, at Public School 1872. 1S2d street and
Wadsworth avenue.
'sTo the Shining Mountains and the Sunset
Sea- Gilbert McClurg. at American Museum
OF Natural History. seventy-seventh street
and Central Park West. Illustrated.
.'violoncello Recital" Arthur Zack. az
Hunter College. Sxty-eishth street and Lev
ington avenue.
"The Period OF the Great War" Fauer
Daniel g. Cunnion. at Public School 90. 2OIth
street and Hull avenue, The Bronx. sf
Romantic Composers" Miss Marie Jose
phine Wicthan, at st. Ansems Hall. linton
avenue, near 155th street. The Bronx.
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS.
"Trend Of the Times Miss Jennie NJ.
Davis az Bay Ridge High School, Fourth
avenue and sixty street.
Book OF the Hour" Prof. j. @. Carter
Troop, at b. r. L.. Pacific Branch. Marcy
and Putram avenues.
..Hamlet." dramatic reading. Miss Mona
Morgan, at Boys High School. Marcy and
Putnam avenues.
.,tIeaith--success.'' Miss Doris Doscher, al
Public School 30. Conover and woIcott
streets.
loan OF Arc,'' Harry Webb Harrington.
a. Public School Ia, Dumont and Alabama
avenues.
..wool and Wool Manufacture Samuel y.
weissbuch. at Public School o., old House
Lansing road. Little Neck, l.. l. Illustrated.
The New York herald., 1922-04-04

thirty-five in Manhattan and The
Bronx, one for each Assembly dis
trict. Now there are ninety of them,
including the women. A large com
mittee, many of its members hand
picked by Leader MURPHY, is easily
handled.
And the forceful old figures Of
Tammany have disappeared. OF the
noted men who held leaderships
when CHARLES F.. MURPHY became
the head of the organization, little
less than twenty years ago, Battery
DAN FINN, Little TIM and FLoRRIE
SULLIVAN, JOHN f. AHEARN, p. j.
ScuLLY, Patrick KEENAN, and JULIUS
HARBuRGER are dead. NICHOLAS j.
HAYES and THOMAS F. McAvoY have
retired. MURPHY, FOLEY, GOODWIN,
The McMANUs, HAGAN, DALTON, NAGLE
and CURRY are the only active men
left of the executive committee of
fifteen years ago. sss
The organization probably will re-
main, as FOLEY says, but its intimate
connection with the people is wear
ing out The half gods of the dis
tricts go and the gods doNnot arrive.
Instead the district leaders are faced
by inquiring women voters who have
not been brought up to heed the once
magic whisper Organization" No
myths for the woman voter-and
mighty little tradition.