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The New York herald., 1922-01-20
Song OF tho Subway TurnstlIe.

Crosus. vain your banknotes proved,
They have left me quite unmoved.
Rich men. put your gold away.
Neither can your silver pay.
Poor man. take your coppers back,
Stll I bar you from the track.
Beggar. close your empty palm.
You can hoof II for your balm.
Maiden, vain your glances burn.
! have got no head to turn.
Camel. useless tits to try;
Easier the needles eye.
All distinctions disappear,
All the world is lcveled here!
But nickel turns me around.
More or less is worthless found
McLANpHuReH WILSON.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20

compared with the records OF a sub
urban laboratory presents an inter-
esting result. In the suburban town
the temperature of the air is nearly
two degrees higher during the warm
est hours of the day than in New
York city; but after midnight the
suburban air is a little more than
two degrees colder.
The explanation is obvious: the
smoke and dust pail over the city
intercepts some OF the warmth which
the suburban town receives during
the day and 1t prevents the more
rapid radiation which occurs at night
in the suburbs.
Whether or not the death rate Is
affected by the variation in tempera-
ture is not known. The general
death rate in New York city in 1920
was about the same as that of the
suburban town; the child death rate
is slightly lower in the suburb.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
Law School Standards.
Should They Be Adjusted to Restrict
the Number OF LAWYERS?

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Harlan
+. Stone, dean of the Columbia Uni
versity Law School, was quoted recently
as saying that numbers may endanger
the efficiency of law education in this
country, that ''the most obvious method
of selection is that now employed with
increasing effectiveness by raising the
standards of scholarship exacted OF all
students in the school," and that "it is
the duty of law schools to dissuade the
man of ordinary ability and mea9er
education from beginning law study"
From this It might be supposed that
men of ordinary ability who entered the
law school a year or two ago are now
TO be weeded out by raising the stand
ards. Just after Mr.. Untermyer has
succeeded in forcing the plasterers and
masons unions to allow men of ordinary
ability to become apprentices. it has
apparently become Dean Stones duty
to dissuade men of ordinary ability from
studying law.
] should like to know how In this free
country of ours It becomes the duty of
anybody to dissuade another from taxi
ing UP the study OF law, plastering or
plumbing, and who is able TO decide
whether youth OF twenty or there
abouts possesses ordinary or extraor-
dinary ability. What chances would
Abraham Lincoln have had II he had
tried to enter Columbia Law School. or
would tho dean have instantly recog-
nlzed In the rawboned youth n man OF
extraordinary ability and education 4?
Men of plain, everyday common sense
and of ordinary ability. in my Judgment,
make the best lawyers.
IN the dean refuses to allow mcn TO
graduate or refuses them certificate
that they have successfully completed
one or two years, OF the prescribed three
year term. they cannot take their bar
examinations; they lose the valuable
years they spent in his law school and
must begin all over again. This seems
wrong. p.
New YORK, January 10.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
The Landlords Profit.
Courts Trying to Do What the Legis-
Iature Failed to Do.

To THE New YORK HERALD: There
seems to be a misunderstanding OF the
effect of the rent case decisions. The
decision of the Appellate Term, Second
Department, in the Kelly case caused
an impression that there could no longer
be 10 per cent. profits. The decision
held nothing OF the kind. 1t held that
where the jury set a profit In a par
ticular case Of something more than 8
per cent. the Appellate Court could not
say as a matter of law that II was in
sufficient. That does not mean that the
court would have held IL per cent. or
10 per cent. excessive.
But there is no doubt that the courts
have all along felt that something In
the neighborhood of 10 per cent. Is a
proper figure that II a verdict de-
parted far fron, that figure either way
the appellate terms would hold sucn
findings either excessive or insufficient.
as the case might be.
In other words, the courts have been
trying indirectly to do what the Legis-
lature ought to have done, that is, to
set definite return upon real estate
as it has done in respect Of the inter-
est upon money. 1t was possible for
the Legislature to have done what the
courts have tried to do. and if the
Legislature had done so the congested
conditions In the courts would not have
occurred. The incalculable economic
waste caused by holding great numbers
of citizens in court day after day. as
has been done for several years now,
xuould have becu avoided.
Under tho present laws whims and
not reason decide rent cases. Justice
Spiegelberg said recently that there had
been a case before him where he was
certain that the landlord deserved no
increase, but the jury awarded 35 per
cent. Under the original rent laws many
landlords who were making more than
10 per cent. Immediately demanded and
got 25 per cent. more because Of the
requirement of the statute that increases
Of no more than that amount put the
burden on tenants to show that 1t was
not justified.
The present rent laws are cumbrous
and cost the community tremendous
sum. II there f. any desire to clear
the courts of rent cases 1t can easily
be done by etating how much the land
lord IS allowed to make and providing
tenants with simple means of finding
out whether he Is a rent usurer or not
II is not much more difficult to make
such provision than to show whether
one Is violating tho usury laws In re-
spect OF money. DON CARLOS BUELL..
NEW YonK, January 10.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
The Automobile and the Lady's
Necklace.

The furry made by Treasury De.
partment agents over the presence in
this country of pearl necklace said
to have been worn by CATHERINE III.
of Russia is an interesting sidelight
on the wonderful success of one COM
paratively young business.
The Treasury Department men say
that this necklace, consisting Of 3S9
matched pearls and valued at $685.
600, was the gift Of the late HORACE
e. DODGE to his wife; that he gave it
to her when he and his brother JOHN
sold their interest in the Ford Motor
Company for $27,0Oo.0OO.
The DODGE brothers and HENRY
FORD were grown men before they
ever saw a motor car. 1t was not
until the motor car was a sure thing
scientifically and fairly good gam
BILE practically that FORD and the
DoDGEs went into the business. They
were poor in pocket but rich in the
Yankee genius for mechanics and
hard work.
The DODGE brothers are dead, cut
off at the zenith OF their careers.
They left huge fortunes, beside
which the much discussed necklace
is trifie. HENRY FORD is not yet go
years old and he is so rich that
Americans do not marvel so much a:
the size of what he has piled up as
at the size of the prices he offers for
new fields to conquer. And he is
still the marvel If not the despair
of the automobile world, what with
his production of a million cars a
year and his periodical reduction OF
prices.
If there were not another motor
car manufacturer in America the
business established by FORD and the
DoDGEs would of itself be vast in.
dustry. But with the scores of other
plants the yearly output has grown
to approximately two million cars
worth two billion dollars.
Just as the pearl necklace is but
an incident of the Dodge fortune, so
the fortunes amassed by enterprising
men like FORD and the DoDGEs are
but incidents of a great industry
Making automobiles gives work to
hundreds of thousands OF men. 1t
keeps them busy in the mines, the
mills, the shops and the forests.
1t is all scarcely a quarter OF a
century old, this swiftest of bust
nesses, and 1t promises to be just
as lively when that other fat young
ster, the motion picture business, has
been superseded by some amusement
now undreamed OF.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
In Ireland's Cabinet.

The hardest two jobs in Ireland
for the moment are those of the
Minister for Finance and the Minis
ter for Home Affairs in the Pro-
visional Government of the Irish
Free State. The first of these has to
find the money to carry along the
Administration in its early and
somewhat unsettled period. The sec.
opd Is expected to keep order.
Mr.. COLLINS has taken the finance
Office for his own task and has shown
his aptitude by quickly borrowing
fl 100000 from one of the Irish
banks. This should tide things over
until the returns from customs and
excise, which no longer flow to Lon
don, fatten the Irish Treasury.
The Minister for Home Affairs, e
j. DUGGAN, has the delicate job OF
directing the police and constable
forces. II these had been recon
structed the work would be easy
but the Provisional Government has
to get along for the time being with
the old personnel. One of the anoma.
lous phases of the situation, as THE
NEW YORK HERALD's Dublin bureau
points out, is Sim Fein admins
tration finding the Royal Constabu.
larry temporarily on its hands with
perhaps the necessity of using this
erstwhile enemy.
Making over any country, and par
ticularly one so full of fire and i'm
agination as Ireland, is no picnic.
But there is every reason for both
the Irish and their friends abroad
to feel encouraged. The disorder is
slight and the leaders are going
ahead like careful, competent men.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
In Winter.
From tho Arkansas Gazette.

From tho Arknnsds Gazette.
Do they remember, these gray woods
forlorn
That lie so empty meath the ashen
skies.
Their far-off faded beauty that is gone? I?
Do they recall the ancient ccstasies
or whispering leaf, and grass. and censor
flowers,
or Hitting brook and birdsong soft and
clear.
Or that swift splendid pageant OF the
The glory of the passing Of the year?
What loveiincss may hold the speeding
year
What beauty stay the passage OF the
hours?
A little space OF glamour. and the clear
Clean sweetness of tho long days
genmed with flowav~
And nights of silver dreams and costa
sizes
And youth--and then so swiftly il Is
gone:
And memory broods beneath the leaden
skies
And waIke old ways. forsskeu and
forlorn 4 {. I. DAVIS
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
Another Object Lesson.

\ Chicago invested s2,7OOOOO in a
municipal repair shop plant. The
plant has just been closed. failure.
Chicago is rich. An investigating
committee of Aldermen found that
with all its wealth Chicago cannot
afford to pay 900 per cent. more for
repairs made under applied social
istic business theories than the same
repairs would cost under private
business management. The investi-
cation disclosed that this 300 per
cent. cost excess was what the city
was loading on itself every year It
ran it's own repair shop.
A water valve that would cost Si2
in the outside market cost sS5 in the
city owned and operated plaut a
rolice automobile bell which dealers
unhempered by socialist theories
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

Miss Erika Morini was the Philhar-
monies soloist at the society's regular
Thursday concert in Carnegie Hall last
night, playing Bruch's G. minor violin
concerto, of which she gave a musical
and effective performance. For the
opening number in the program tne
orchestra. under Mr.. Stranslky's baton.
performed Memberships overture Fin
gals Cave" Debussys "Faun" ana
after the intermIssion Tschaikovskfs
"Pathetique" symphony. The house was
sold out The program will be repeated
at the society's concert this afternoon In
the same hall.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
LIBERTY CHORUS CONCERT.

The second gala concert Of the Peo-
ple's Liberty Chorus Of New York. Lo-
renzo Camliere conductor, took place
last evening at Town Hall. The occa-
sion served to celebrate the sixth birth
day anniversary of the organization:
Mrs Douglas Robinson In her note Oh
acceptance to Mr.. Camiliere to be the
guest Of honor at tho concert said:
am only too delighted to show openly
my appreciation Of the splendid work
YOU have done. / feel that music ana
its influence mean more to great city
than almost any other art, and l con-
graduate you on what the Peoples
Chorus Of New York has achieved" The
soloist of the concert was Miss Luella
Melius. whose beautiful. clear voice
seemed to delight the audience. Sne
sang an air from Bellini's Il Puritani
and songs which included Strauss's ser
enade" and. with the chorus. Fosters
"My Old Kentucky Home" The ad-
vanced unit OF the chorus performed
music by Praetorius. Haydn and among
the selections from other composers
Handels "Come, Ever Smiling Lioerty'
and Camiliere's "Home Is Best"
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
Bank Loans.
The Proper Field Of Operations OF
the Federal Reserve System.


To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Allow
me to congratulate you on the following
excerpt from the editorial article on
"Fc 6eral Reserve Board Danger:
'imce the Federal Reservel systems
assets begin to be DETECTED for whatever
purpose from the state of liquid and gen.
eral reserves for the use of all into par
ticular and frozen chunks OF privilege for
this or that special class the whole sys-
tenn will start to slide from its very
foundation.
This voices a most important none
tary principle. Loans are not to be
made for the purchase of fixed assets.
A nation whose citizens are in debt for
their buildings, machinery, vehicles, to
say nothing of their land, Is on the
downward incline. People who have no
fixed assets have no business to be In
business. A banking system should not
encourage such Indebtedness. People
who have insufficient fixed assets should
add to them out OF current profits and
not by borrowing.
The only legitimate ground for the
issue of bank currency is to supply the
needs of current business. largely sea-
sonal, and for payrolls. The basis must
be wealth, OF the fixed or quick variety.
but the purpose is properly operation
only.
And, incidentally, the farm land loan
banks are step in the wrong direc-
ton. The purpose for which the loan
is contracted often violates the princi-
pie that THE New YORK HERALD has so
happily stated; while loan based on
land is to the last degree a dangerous
policy. for the reason that land has no
value except a Fictitious one--I am not
here discussing use value. but exchange
value. EDGAR DAYTON BRINKERHoFF.
EAST ORANGE, N. J.. January 10.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
ArIington's Unknown Dead.
There Lie 2,111 Unidentified Soldiers
Who Fell in the Civil War.

To THE New YORK HERALD: With all
that has been written and said about
our Unknown Soldier. so signally and
fittingly honored on Armistice Day, it
seems strange that no prominent men
tion has been made OF another memorial
at Arlington on which is inscribed:
Beneath this stone
Repose the bones of 2,111 unknown SOL
diers gathered after the war from the
fields of Bull Run and the route to the
Rappahannock. Their remains could not
be identified. but their names and deaths
are recorded In the archives OF their
country. and its grateful citizens honor
them as Of their noble army of martyrs.
May they rest in peace.
September A. d. 1866.
j, II. NErrLEroN.
NEW MILFORD, Conn, January 10.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1922.
Stupendous Facts and Figures on
American Growth.

In his address before the American
Society of Civil Engineers last eve
ming HOWARD ELLIOTT, chairman OF
the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, gave some astonishing facts
and figures about the country's de-
The steam railroad mileage increas-
ing from $4,000 miles in 1870 to 253,-
600 in 1920 showed growth Of 375
per cent. But Of the increased track
age of 100000 miles $4,000 miles
were built in the western district,
with 10000 in the southern and 34,-
O00 In the eastern districts, the gain
in the western district being SIT
per cent.
Meanwhile the population Of the
country going from 3S,000,000 to 105,-
100000 showed gains Of 13S per cent.
in the eastern. 1872 per cent. in the
southern and 299 per cent. in the
western districts. Meanwhile also
the country's urban population, which
was 2S.6 per cent. of the whole in
1880, had risen to 40 per cent. in
1900 and to 51.4 per cent. in 1920.
Obviously the railway haul from the
country to the cities was correspond
ingly growing to feed and other
wise provide for the urban dwellers
and workers. But the railroads were
keeping ahead Of the population tide
both as to mileage and as to other
transportation power.
Population alone, however. does
not express growth of the country
and the increased work required of
the railroads by that growth. In the
fifty years national wealth expanded
from thirty billions of dollars to
three hundred billions of dollars;
money in circulation from $685.
100000 to $4,000, 100000; value of
farm animals from $1,000, 100000 to
$500 900, 900; wheat and corn from
q billion and a quarter bushels to-
gether to four billions of bushels;
cotton from four million bales to
twelve; coal from 29,000,000 tons to
576,000,000 tons; petroleum from
221,0O0,000 gallons to 1S,600,000,0 900
and steel from $4,000 tons to 34,-
100000 tons.
Manufacturing materials increased
from a billion dollars of value to
fourteen billions of dollars in 1914,
and the value OF their finished prod
ucts from less than two billions to
more than twenty-four billions of
dollars. Railway freight tonnage
went up from 141, 200, 100000 tons
one mile in 1900 to $4,000, 1000, 900
in 1921.
In another fifty years, Mr.. ELLIOTT
estimates, the population of this coun-
try will be 250,o0O,o0o. At that time
an average transportation ton mile
age not even so high as that Of 1921
would mean the movement of $780,
600 100000 freight ton miles a year,
plus the added passenger travel. This,
in his judgment, would call for TWEEN
ty-fve billions Of dollars Of additional
railroad investment to provide the
needed transportation capacity and
efficiency. And Mr.. ELLIOTT aptly
suggests that perhaps the only way
TO get this stupendous amount of
wealth TO go into further railroad
building and equipping will be TO de
clare ten year holiday in the cease
less investigation OF the transporta-
tion question and let the undivided
attention and energy Of owners. man
ayers and employees be devoted to
maintaining. operating and perfect
ing this engine Of civilization-the
wonderful railroad system OF the
United States"
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair and
colder to-day; tomorrow cloudy; fresh
westerly winds
For New Jersey-CIoudy ana colder TODAY.
tomorrow fair. fresh west aud northwest
For Northern New England-clsaring and
colder to-day: Tomorrow cloudy, fresh strong
westerly winds,
Tor southern New Ensiand-Fair and cold
~ to-day; Tomorrow cloudy. fresh strong
WMgfsriy winds.
For Western New york-Fair and coldss
to-day; Tomorrow fair.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1a.--The Western
cold wave has spread eastward over the up-
region 20 ,ns and tS the h ohe VALLEY and
weather continues throughout all the West
ern districts except in Montana and the Da-
sotas. where the cold has moderated. Freez-
ing temperature prevailed tonight as far
south as San Antonio, Texas. and the tenn
pesatares pesata were oelow zero in eastern MIN,
southeastern Idaho. Warm weather con-
tinued to-day In the Atlantic and east Gulf
There have been generally rains within the
Gulf States. Tennessee and the Ohio Valley
and SHOWS IN the region Of the great lakes.
the upper Mississippi Valley. New Mexico,
northern Arizona and the far Northwest.
northern border and over narrow @ lSa Seit en. ea.
tending from New England southwerd to
Alabama. The pressure remained high off
tne south Atlantic coast ana over the plains
States and the western plateau region.
In the north Atlantic States the weather
Will be fair and colder tomorrow and cloudy
and cold on Saturday. In the middle At
lantic States the weather will be clearing and
much colder tomorrow and fair and cold
on Saturday. In the south Atlantic States
there will be local rains and colder weather
tomorrow and clearing and colder weather
on Saturday. In the east Gulf States, Ten
nessee and the Ohio Valley and the lower
lake region the weather will be generally
fair and considerably colder tomorrow and
fair and cold on Saturday. In the upper
lake region there viii be snow fiurries with
strong westerly winds and cold weather to-
morrow and Saturday.
Cold wave warnings have been continued
In the east Gulf States. eastern Tennessee,
West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations taken at p NJ yesterday
seventy fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1922-01-20
Titta Ruffo Sings at Metropolitan
Appears in Barber of Seville and Is Welcomed by
Many Friends in Large Audience.

first scene. Mr. Malatesta was an &C
ceptable DR.. Bartoto. The performance
as a whole had plenty OF spirit.
Mrs. Arthur B. Twombly's guests IN
box II were Mrs. Frederic Nelson, Mrs.
Charles A. Childs. Messrs Percy Bram-
well, Shepley Jones and George Ledlie.
With Mr.. and Mrs. James 8. Cash
man In box IL were Princess Eugene
RrspoM and Mrs. Minturn Pinchot.
DR.. and Mrs. Leland Eggleston Cofer
and DIR. and Mrs. Walter Anderton were
with Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Morris In
box 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Moran and Mrs.
John Nicholas Brown were members OF
tho party in box 81.
With Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Whitredge
In box IS were Mr.. and Mrs Snowden
A. Fahnestock and Miss Louise Iselin.
With Miss Louisa Steedman Wilson
In box / were Mrs. Richard Stevens,
Miss Cariotta Havemeyer, Messrs. Sid
ney Dillon Ripley and Richard Louns-
Lcry.
In box l3 were Mr. and Mrs George
Henry Warren, Jr.. Mise Urquhart and
Mr.. David UrQuhart.
The New York herald., 1922-01-20

Bang goes too many a saxpence for
the price of their whisky, the Scots
complain. so they are substituting the
cheaper though less authoritative port
for medicinal purposes. This has
more than an academic interest, even
here How will the substitute affect
their golf?