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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-15

Prof George D. sayer, Columbia universH education is to
Have he dignity deserves must have
= the Presidents cabinet Education needs department ITSELF
The New York herald., 1922-02-04

Erie and the St. Lawrence River the
cost is estimated at S1,294. .000, 900.
Tho investment. it is calculated,
would yield an income of s416, 900, 900
over fixed charges. or this invest.
ment more than S400.000.000 repre-
sents plants and facilities already
existing. These plants are not to be
scrapped; they would remain integral
parts of the greater system under the
control of their owners.
The entire power area would be
organized in separate unit systems,
each with its own load centers. The
load centers would be interconnected
so that power might be shifted from
any center TO any other without loss
of time. Tho various unit systems
would be similarly connected by tie
lines.
The estimates OF the commission
indicate that with the completion of
the system in the smaller area the
yearly saving would be $4,000. 900; !;
in the extended area planned for 1880
it is estimated at $239, ,000, 900.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Clothes for COnYaIescenfs.

To THE New York HERALD: At pres
ent the wards OF Bellevue Hospital are
extremely crowded with an unusual
number OF pneumonia and Influenza
cases who when discharged should be
sent 70 the country for convalescent
care " their cure Is TO be complete.
Owing TO the very large number of
men out OF employment this winter the
majority OF these cases come into the
Social Service Bureau TO be eouippcd
with proper clothing before being sent
10 the country. ] hope that some OF
your readers may bc able to help us in
this situation. which we no longer have
the resources 60 meet. We badly need
warm clothing OF all kinds, especially
underclothes and overcoats, or money
with which 10 buy them.
Contributions sent to Miss Mary Il,
Wadlcy. Social Service Bureau. Belle
vuc Hospital. viii be gratefully re-
ceived. MARGARET s. TRuEspALE,
Chairman General Welfare Committee
Convalescent Relief Division, Belle.
vue Hospital.
NEW York, February 3.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Nautical Monuments.

In France, Canada and the United
States within the last month three
movements have been started to erect
memorials of men and events chiefly
connected with the sea and with
nautical affairs.
The French plan is for a floating
monument to those who lost their
lives through the sinking of the Lusi-
tania. This is to take the form OF q
sculptured group of symbolic figures
to be mounted on a floating structure
anchored off the coast Of Ireland and
connected with the shore by cables
so the memorial can be lighted az
night.
The Canadian scheme is for the
erection Of a monument on the bank
The New York herald., 1922-02-04

of the St. Lawrence at Quebec in
honor of ABRAHAM MARTIN, the first
Scotchman and Kings pilot to arrive
from England and act as pilot on the
st. Lawrence River. The American
proposal is to build a lighthouse
in Santo Domingo in honor of
COLUMBUS.
If the French plan is carried out
the memorial will be the first thing
of its kind known to the sea, and it
will be reminder of the Lusitania
tragedy to all those who pass it. A
memorial to a pilot is an act of gra-
ciousness from shorekeeping folk well
worth while. In America contribu-
tions to the same object are preserved
in the pages of Mark Twain and
JOHN HAY.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS has an un-
official lighthouse monument on San
Salvador or Watlings Island, for it
is one of the legends of the West
Indies that the Watlings Island light
stands 900 feet from the spot where
COLUMBUS is supposed to have landed"
New York has done its part in con-
tributing to unusual nautical monu-
ments through the memorial at the
Battery to the wireless men who lost
their lives at sea.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Avenve and Copernicvs.
Spelling Of Architects Impaired by
Their Classical Lore

To THE New York HERALD: Permit
me to concur in the objection made to
the use of the letter in place of the
letter u in the expression 'In God We
Trust" on the new peace dollars. If
these were Roman dollars there might
be some excuse for the liberty the de-
signer took with the English language.
This habit OF trying to tie everything
up to classical lore sometimes reaches
ridiculous heights. One of the most
prominent houses in the city of WASH
ington is that once occupied by the
late Levi P. Morton. formerly Vice-Pres
ide7t Of the United States. This house
is sNiuated at the corner of Fifteenth
street and Rhode Island avenue ana
bears on its corner the expression 1880
Rhode Island avenve." If the intention
to be classical had been carried to its
logical conclusion the Latin word for
island should have been used and the
Arabic numerals 1900 should have been
expressed by MD. even though Mr.. Nor
ton never pretended to be physician.
Around the coping of the buildings of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are
the names of many scientists and en-
gneers OF bygone days. In every case
where the letter u belongs in the mans
name the architect has substituted the
letter V. Some of these are very funny
In one case we have the word Copper
nicvs. SIDNEY G. KooN.
NEW YORK, February 3.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Power Going to Waste.

Within the area whose boundaries
are roughly indicated by the lower
Potomac River, the cities of Sunbury
and Utica, the sources of the Hud-
son River, and Portland, Maine, there
are 10000 manufacturing establish
ments, of which three-fourths have
power plants with an average rating
of $50 horsepower. Within this area
also are 56S electric utility plants.
Fuel, chiefly small sizes of coal, fur
nishes about two-thirds Of the power;
water, largely through hydroelectric
plants, furnishes the rest. The region
has $4,000 miles of railway, single
track measurement, of which 10000
miles might be electrified with profit.
On account of its extensive manufac-
turing and transportation facilities
this area is the chief consumer Of
power In the United States.
The electrical power actually used
is only fraction of the power which
can be developed by utilizing the fall
of the rivers within the area. BY ex-
tending the power area to the st.
Lawrence and Lake Erie hydroelec-
trio power may be doubled in the
near future.
At the present time and for some
time to come coal from the Pennsyl-
vania region will be the chief fuel
used in generating electricity. But by
better conservation and by the use of
unmarketable sizes there may be q
possible saving yearly of about $4,000
tons of merchantable coal.
The total power which may be de-
veloped within this area is not to be
created; it already exists, and a tre-
mendous proportion OF it has been
running TO waste. Several years ago
at the request Of the president of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad and w. S. MURRAY, a con
sulting engineer, the late franklin
x. LANE, then Secretary Of the In
terror, authorized survey OF the
region under the direction of the
United States Geological Survey, with
the purpose of ascertaining the avail
able power and the probable cost of
it's development.
The report Of the commission has
just appeared For generating and
transmitting the available power
within the area not yet used the cost
is estimated ct Si.109,5e4, ,0OO for the
power in the area extending 20 Lake
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Ford's Nitrate Plant Offer.

HENRY FoRD's offer for the Govern
ments power and nitrate plants at
Muscle Shoals does not look like a
good business proposition for the
Government. 1t carries no assurance
of benefit to the American farmer
this feature of it being the reason
Congress and the Administration
have shown so much interest in the
Ford scheme.
There is nothing in the proposal
as it is laid before Congress to show
that FORD binds himself either to
produce fertilizer nitrates cheaply
for the farmer, or even to produce
any fertilizer nitrates at all. The
Government is asked to pour fifty
millions more into the war plant,
getting back very low interest rate
on the new money it puts in. But
when the only thing that could pos
sibly justify further expenditure
would be the assurance of ample
fertilizer material for our agriculture
at lower cost no guaranty what
ever is given of any such thing.
AS a matter of fact, the common
sense thing for the United States
Government to do with the Muscle
Shoals project is not to spend an
other nickel on it. AS war emer-
gency expedient, begun to get explo-
sives which had to be obtained at
whatever cost, it was a necessary
measure. If the war had continued
the Government might have had to
spend hundreds of millions Of dol
lars more on Muscle Shoals and the
money under such circumstances
would have been rightly spent. But,
the war over and no further Govern
ment use for the plant existing, the
Governments course as a sound busi-
ness organization is to get out, get
out quickly and at the minimum
of cost.
Instead of sinking fifty millions
more of the taxpayers money on the
Muscle Shoals venture the Govern
ment would better sell it outright,
lock, stock and barrel, to HENRY
FORD, or to anybody else that wants
it and makes the highest offer for
it. Let the buyer take it and invest
his own money in it in trying to make
the thing a business success. For
the matter of that, the Government
would do better to give the Muscle
Shoals white elephant away, If it
could not sell it for cold cash, than
to pour any more of the taxpayers
money into it.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Princeton's Democratic Step.

Princeton has made democratic
move the wisdom of which might
we'll be followed by other universe
ties. 1t has not directly forbidden
its students to keep motor cars, but
it has expressed its opinion on that
practice so plainly to the parents
of the students that the growing
evil doubtless will be ended.
1t is obvious that the young man
resident in college does not need an
automobile. His hours of recreation
ought to be spent at something bene-
fetal to either mind or body. When
the students class hours are over
he can find plenty of amusement on
the field, in the gymnasium or the
library, or in walking over the coun-
tryside. 1t would be bold under
graduate who would contend that his
motor car brought him anything
more than joyriding.
OF course the evil does not lie so
much in the joyriding as in the ex-
travagance and the display. That is
why President HIBBEN of Princeton,
in his admirable letter to the par
ents Of students, emphasizes the value
to young men in college of Sim
plicity in living and the elimination
Of unnecessary luxuries." Conditions
in the world to-day, as DR.. HrBBEN
points out, make it undesirable that
young men in the formative period
should indulge in high living. In
deed. there never will be time, no
matter what world conditions are,
when the youth of the colleges should
let their purses run away with their
brains.
In the earlier stages of American
university life student luxury was
expressed in loud clothes and blooded
bulldogs and particularly large ac-
counts with the local taverns. Later
came the craze for expensive living
quarters. Not until the motor car
arrived, however, was the son Of in.
dulgent parents able to faunt his
money TO the greatest extent. More
over, the car enabled him to put
ground rapidly between himself and
the scholastic environment whenever
study irked.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04

does not of course always rest on
automobile drivers. A liberal per-
centage must be allowed for individ-
ual carelessness. But even when this
deduction is made the death and in
Jury toll to be charged against care
less and incompetent driving is still
a formidable one. Possibly the edu-
cational effect of the mathematical
problem proposed might have some
restrictive tendency. But the work
ing out of that problem involves rea-
soning faculties and a basic sense of
personal responsibility. The motor
driver who is drunk or under the
sway of speed mania has neither.
The only way to reach the place in
his mental and moral anatomy where
the conscience and intelligence ought
to be and are not is by increasing GER
tainty and severity OF punishment.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Song In MIdwlnter.

The ground is firm as adamant:
The rill forgets its lifting G0w;
Behind the hills the wild winds chant
The swelling sagas OF the snow
From height 20 height the echoes peal
And round the gables make their mock
The sky Is like an arc OF steel.
Yet It appears TO reel and rock.
II IL as though. from quiet banned.
Nature had madness In her mood:
1t Is as though throughout the land
The tabled furics were at fcud.
But ono day all Of this s.iali pass.
And to our rapturous surprise
The earth will seem singing lasl
with April shining in her eyes.
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
ono Of the consequences of retrench-

One of the consequences of retrench-
ment in United States expenditures
is the disappearance of many en-
tertaining and enlightening publica-
tions which in the past have eased the
lives of soldiers and sailors. OF these,
the Tennessee Tar. from whose col
umns we have often quoted. is typical,
and it's suspension, announced in its
Christmas number, which is dated
at Bremerton, Washington. brings a
sense of real loss. The editors of these
publications can produce them without
direct expenditure of Government
money. but to print them without en-
pioying Government machinery and
Government personnel is impractical
BILE. Perhaps some executive genius
will find a way to restore these engag-
ing periodicals without violation of
regulations that make for economy.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
The Horseless Era.
A Friend OF the Horse Would Like
to Hasten It's Coming.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
editorial article entitled Putting the
Horse in His Place" made me wish the
writer could have been about town
after the recent snowstorm to sec =
horse-bless him slipping, struggling,
straining and perhaps too frequently
falling for a broken leg or sprain, to
say nothing of his plight in the heat
of next July and August.
Then if a statistical expert could
have reckoned the thousands of hours
daily of lost time because of horse
drawn vehicles holding back the lines
OF motor vehicles in the congested
streets ] am inclined to think you would
write another editorial article urging
the approach of the time when our city
should follow the example of Seattle and
rule the horse off the streets. C.
New York, February 8.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922.
Bonus Bill Taxes.

It is an easy thing to spend the
other fellows money; it is equally
easy for Congress to spend the peo-
pies money. When Congress votes
away five billions of dollars, be it for
soldier bonus or any other extraneous
matter, the Government has got to
find the money somewhere, somehow,
to meet the raid of Congress on it's
treasury.
The Government is already carry
ing as big financial burden as it can
carry without squeezing more income
out of the people; indeed, as it is, a
deficiency in Government income of
$500, 100000 is expected for 1923, and
the people are struggling with and
staggering under the load of taxa
tion fixed upon them.
Secretary of the Treasury MELLON.
criticized by advocates of the bonus
for stating how the money could not
be raised instead of stating how it
could be raised, now responds with
suggestions to Congress as to how
the money could be found with which
to pay the bonus. His suggestions,
and we are bound to agree with him
that they would do the job, are that
letter postage could be increased from
two cents to three to produce $70,-
100000; that second class postage
could be increased to produce $780,
000. 1000; a two cent stamp be put on
bank checks to produce $30,000,000;
a license tax on automobiles to pro-
duce s10O,000,000, and stamps on
documents to produce $40000,000,
with a further tax on the already
heavily taxed cigarettes and tobacco
TO produce $25,O00,000. More still
would be needed to cover his esti-
mate that the cost of the bonus would
he s425, 100000 year for the first
two years; but recommendations Of
tea and coffee taxes, although he did
not approve them, had been made to
supply the other S125,000,000.
If members of Congress are con-
vinced that the bonus should be paid
TO the soldiers they should cast a
vote for the bonus, be the cost to
them in the votes Of their constitu-
ents what it may. On the other
hand, if they look with favor on the
bill not conscientiously but with re-
gard to the vote of their constitu-
ents, what is the answer they are
likely to get when every one back
home sending out letter has to add
so per cent. in postage because of
this bonus, when every one smoking
cigarettes or smoking a pipe of to-
bacco or using the plug has to pay
additional taxes because of this
bonus, when every user of automo-
biles has to pay additional taxes,
when everybody that writes check
has to pay additional taxes? 1t will
become a boomerang.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Associate Justice John ". Clarke VIII
aDaak on nSofne Observations and Reflec-
tiona Covering Five Years on the Bench or
tha uuifed states Supreme Court ~ ths
annual dinner IA the alumni of the New York
University Law school, Hotel biitmore'
TIN
Gov. Nathan u. Miller aud Gov. Edward
r. Edwards WIN speak NJ the annual dinner
N fhc real Estate BOARD Of New York,
Hotel Commodore, y. ~
euk Association Of America. annual din
ncr, Hotel Astor Y. NJ
Senator James ,. walker. Rupert Hughes
Regulation 90 Motion ricturcs-rublic Morals
and the i'iitn" % y luncheon, National Re-
puhiican club, "a West iortieth street. 4
H.
s'r'fance aud thc European Settlement"
v lil he discussed at a luncheon Of the for-
eirn Policy Association. Hotel Astor, l2;fo
P.M
United states Lawn Tennis Association.
annual meeiine Waldorf Astoria, 10 A. NJ,
dinuor 80 4. NJ.
New York Anti-vivIsectlon Society. meet
ing. Hotel Martinique. si3 +. NJ.
Abraham cahan win discuss Why the
forr The New York Camaraderie. Civic Club.
~ West Twelfth street. y. NJ.
prgnonftraiion of unemployed ex-servics
mon. auspices OF the unemrloymens Council
~ New York. bkrainian Han, III East
sixth street, 30 y. NJ.
s. X. Ratcllffc wiil speak on Tho settle
mrut in Ireland" Town Hall, i@3 West
Fory-tiiird street. n A. NJ.
Maine womcn. meeting. waldorf-Artorias
er. ~.
Testimonial dinner 20 John y. oReiliys
Hotel Astor. H. ~.
Adcipih college Alumnae. luncheon. Hotel
Commodore, J A.. NJ.
New Reshelo Yacht Club. dinner. Hotci
Astor, 4. ~.
George a. Chase WIN lecture on Pottery
from sardil," Metropolitan Museum OF Art.
4 A. Al
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
ny w. ,. HENDERSON.

wiliem Mengelberg conducted the
Philharmonic Orchestra yesterday after
noon IN Carnegie Hall lie had resumed
his post at the head OF the organization
on Tuesday evening when he shared the
direction with Artur Bodanxky. Yes
terday he was alone IN his glory. He
first interpreted the "Pastorar' sym
phony OF Beethoven and later the over
ture 10 Der rrel-chuetK" Between
these two stood Mendeis&ohn's violin
concerto. which served 20 introduce a
young performer. Miss Erna Rubinstein.
This addition 20 the long list of violin
virtuosi now exciting this country Is a
Hungarian. and according 20 the unin-
peachable testimony ~ her passport
fifteen years OF age. standing where
the brook and river meet" she may still
be regarded as n Juvenile prodigy and
music lovers will be invited 10 b. aston
ished by her performances. And prob
ably they will.
Miss Rubinstein Is a tail. fragile look
ing girl, fair haired and generally mod
est in demeanor. although AZ the ends of
some passages there were movements of
the bow which betrayed the seif-con-
sciousness OF the budding celebrity. ~
would be a pity II this recognition Of
her own superiority should acquire too
much prominence In the young woman's
mind. for she has a splendid talent and
may become great artist
Her tone is beautiful. though not large.
her intonation excellent. and her bow
arm is admirably flexible and sensitive.
She has a musicians sense OF rhythm
and a fine perception OF phrasing. Her
performance OF the Mendelssohn con-
certo was exquisite In the first two
movements by reason OF the beauty OF
the tone, the smoothness of style and
the nice distribution OF accents. The
finale would doubtless have sounded
better IL played at a slightly slower
tempo.
There was nothing dubiousiy preco-
cious in Miss Rubinstein's interprcts-
ton. 1t was not that of an abnormal
child; neither was II thst of a grown
woman. 1t was what might be expected
of normal girl of her age. well trained
and possessed of an exceptionally great
talent for the violin. Her performance
had unusual beauty. but IL was the
beauty of violin playing. Nothing else
should be asked of the girl now. Her
debut was a delightful incident of the
season, and music lovers are sure TO
become interested in her.
Mr.. Mengelberg gave a dramatic read
ing of the Pastoral symphony. and
his thunderstorm was, with the kind
help of ten double BASES and two pairs
of tympani. almost tropical In its exu-
berance. The Philharmonic musicians
played very well indeed
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Ii Would Be a Serious Mistake.

Speaker MACHoLD has done so we'll
in his high legislative post at Albany
that it is pity to have him make the
grave mistake of including the Lock
wood committee in the collection of
investigating bodies that were better
dead than alive.
No committee that ever came out
of the Legislature to examine into
affairs and conditions needing correc-
tion anywhere within the boundaries
of the State of New York has done
more signal service for the public
than the Lockwood committee. It's
great work, extensive and successful
as it has been, is by no means fin
ished 1t may be that it is only well
begun. Scarcely does it hold a ses-
sion without uncovering new abuses,
wrongs and outrages committed
against the public by combinations
of employees and employers alike,
by principals and by agents, by con-
tract conspirators and by trade con-
spirators, all bent upon gouging the
hapless taxpayer and consumer with
out trace of scruple or limit or
greed
Not merely the people Of this city
but the people of the State demand
that the Lockwood committee shall
be permitted to go on with its able,
fearless and effective Investigations
so long as there are rotten practices
for it to discover and lay bare, so
long as there are crooked men for
it to hold up to shame or start on
the road to the Grand Jury room
and States prison.
The Lockwood committee all
through it's splendid work has kept
faithfully out of politics, has firmly
resisted all pressure brought to
swerve it from it's duty. If politics
or any other influence now tries to
stop the committee from carrying on
it's work to finish by putting it out
of existence when every other attempt
to thwart it has failed, New York
will be struck by one of the fiercest
popular storms that ever shook and
ratified any political structure OF
whatever party from roof to founda-
ton. No, Speaker MAcHoLD, what
ever else is done or is not done in
Albany, do not permit the sacrifice of
the Lockwood committee.