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The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Wheat for the World.

The United States to-day is the
incompatible wheat growing country
of the world. Its great good fortune
in respect of its vast wheat crop,
however, is not the unsurpassed
quantity we have TO sell to the rest
Of the world. 1t is that we can supply
all our own bread and then have
wheat left over to help feed nations
that cannot supply their own bread.
AS a matter of fact, out OF our
crop of S10,O00,000 bushels Of wheat
this year we require for our own
consumption, for bread and for seed
ing, about 60O,OO0,O00 bushels, That
leaves about 200,0o0,00O bushels for
sale abroad. But Canada, with crop
OF about 90,0O0,00O bushels, can sell
about $50, 900. 900 bushels because the
other 100000 900 bushels is more than
enough to provide the bread for
Canada's population.
There is much the same story to
tell of Argentina with a crop OF
1S0,000,000 bushels and Australia
with 132,000,000. There are rela-
lively few mouths to feed in both
those wheat growing countries put
together. While only 25 per cent. OF
our wheat crop is in excess Of our
home requirements, about IS per
cent of their wheat output Is in ex-
cess of their home requirements.
Canada's population of 100000
good for 800, 900, 900 bushels of wheat
Argentina's $500, 900 population. good
for 1S0,000,000 bushels. and Austria
LAS 5,5O0.00e population. good for
1872 100000 bushels-this means only
% ,000, 900 people to feed at home
with more than 7OO,000,000 bushels
Of wheat at their own doors, as
against over 110,000,000 population
with S00,000.000 bushels of wheat
That is why this country is not the
source of the worlds wheat export
supply, because we don't sell ours fol
the most part; we eat it.
And this is why Canada with her
imports again held down and with
some 35O,0OO.000 bushels of wheat
to sell abroad at better than dollar
bushel no longer has any problem
of heavily depressed foreign ex-
change to distract her industry and
business. Canada's currency, in
truth, even as measured in United
States gold, has been quoted in New
York recently more often at pre-
MUM than at discount.
When you sell the goods the other
fellow pays you-that's the exchange
problem in a nutshell.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Stromboli in Eruption.

Cable dispatches report that Strom-
bolt. a volcano of the Lipari Islands,
is unusually active in its eruptions.
AS a matter OF fact. Stromboli has
been in eruption ever since the be-
ginning Of written history. The glare
OF the lava within its crater reflected
from emitted steam has made the
volcano the traditional lighthouse Of
the Mediterranean.
The crater of Stromboli is in the
side OF a cinder cone built of lava.
Its height above sea level is more
than three thousand feet and its
base Is in Mediterranean waters off
the coast OF Sicily more than six
hundred fathoms deep.
Years ago a crag overlooking the
crater permitted one to peer far into
its depths; and occasionally there
was a fair view of what constituted
the eruptions. A bubble of lava would
rise in sight, remain quiet for a
moment, and then burst; cloud OF
steam with clots OF white hot lava
would be hurled into the air and then
quiet would be restored, while the
glare of the lava was reflected from
beneath the cloud of steam.
Just before the rise Of the bubble
Jets OF steam and curling wreaths Of
sulphureous vapor came from the fls-
sures and crevices near by. sound
like blowoff Of steam followed; ;
then came the explosion Of the bub-
ple OF lava, almost simultaneously.
with every bursting bubble a fresh
surface OF incandesccnt lava was ex-
posed; and the glare wasNmuch like
that occurring when the locomotive
fireman opens the door Of the IRE
The New York herald., 1922-12-11

International League of Professional Base
ball Clubs, meeting. Hotel Commodore. all
day.
New York State Wholesale Baker, Asso-
citation. meeting Hotel McAlpin, morning and
afternoon; dinner, y. NJ.
Middle Atlantic Fisheries Association,
meeting Hotel Pennsylvania. r. NJ; dinner.
meeting. Waldorf-Astoria, 10 A. NJ and
p. NJ.
Insecticdo and Disinfectant Manufacturers
Association. meeting. Hotel Astor. all day.
Brooklyn Negroes Business and Industrial
Exposition. Cosmopolitan Baptist Church
Fleet street and Flatbush avenue extensions
Brooklyn
New York City Mothers Club meeting.
Hotel Pennsylvania. 80 p. NJ.
Daughters OF Ohio. meeting. Waldorf
Astoria, p. NJ.
Ohio Society OF New York, meeting, Wal
dorf-Astoria. p. NJ.
Society of New York State Women. meet
ing. Waldorf-Astoria.- p. NJ.
American Guild OF orgsnists. reception.
Waldorf-Astoria, 8 r. NJ.
Maryland Society. meeting. wsidorf-As-
toria, p. NJ.
Officers. dinner. waldoTf-Astoria, 8 r. NJ.
National Automobile Conferences, Hotel
Pennsylvania. 10 A. NJ.
Chicago women's Club. meeting, Hotel
Astor, +. NJ.
Raymond L. Ditmars, curator at IN. Bronx
Geological Gardens. will lecture on "Evou-
tion.' All Angels Church. parish house.
West End avenue and Eighty-first street,
i. NJ.
Meeting of former marines under the aus
pices of the Marine Corps Veterans Associa-
ton, Public Library. 1870 Amsterdam avenue.
T. NJ.
Allied Business Mems Protective Associa-
tion, meeting, Greenwich Hall, Christopher
and Hudson streets, y. M.
state Society of Certified rsiblic Account
ants. dinner meeting, Yale Club. $3.50 p. M.
City Club. 55 West Forty-four street.
Turkey Under the Armistice.' William A.
Lloyd. SIS r, NJ.
Academy OF Sciences. section Of biology.
meeting, THE Mechanism of Control OF the
Ordinary Movements of Respiration" Prof.
+. ". Pike and Dr. Helen O. coombs, Amer
lean Museum Of Natural History. Sis r. M.
Society of Medical Jurisprudence. meeting.
THE Mental Element In Crime" Justice
Robert ]. Johnstone. Academy of Medicine.
IL West Forty-third street. 80 y. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
M'CORMACK'S LAST RECITAL.
Tenor Closes New York Series
with HippodrOme Program.

John Mccormack gave his fourth and
last recital in New York until the fall
OF 1928 to a packed house at the Hip
podrome yesterday afternoon. A large.
and enthusiastic audience occupied every
seat. filled the stage and would not
leave without numerous encores. Mr..
McCormacks offerings. announced as
Special request" program, consisted of
two selections. Imperial Solomon" and
Sacred Raptures,'' from Handers Solo
mon; Brett ueber mein Haupt." by
Richard Strauss; compositions by Rach-
mannoff, Paladihle and Arnold Bax,
group of four Irish folk songs and four
American and English songs by Cole
ridge. Osgood, Edwin Schneider and Dix.
Mr.. Mccormack sang with all his
familiar technical skill and delightful
enunciaton of text. Evidently suffering
from a slight cold, Mr.. McCormack's
voice betrayed little hoarseness in the
recitative and air from Solomon" but
as the recital progressed the voice
emerged fresh and clear. Generous with
his encores Mr.. Mccormack sang beau
tifully in a thoroughly musical style.
Rudolph Bodreo. violinist, played several
compositions by Achron, Kreisler, Ravel
and Wieniawski with precision If not
with brillianoe. and Edwin Schneider
again proved an excellent accompanist.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Constitutional Amendments.
The Stability OF American Political
Institutions I'm n World of Change.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Gin offer
ing to you, my countrymen. these coun-
sells OF an old and affectionate friend"
said Washington in his Farewell Ad-
dress. II dare not hope they will have
the strong and lasting impression l
oou1d wish; that they will control the
usual current of the passions. or pre-
vent our nation from running the course
which has itherto marked the destiny
Of nations" and ! confess to some sur
prise that THE NEW York HERALD
should urge the temporary and perhaps
misguided anger Of the people as a rea-
son for urging an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States. The
very object Of written constitution is
to prevent violent changes; to insure de-
liberation and the exercise not of the
passions but the reason of the nation.
No Congress can enact Legislation
which the succeeding Congress may not
modify or repeal. and an experience of
more than a century and a quarter fur
nishes no instance Of any serious inva-
sion of the rights Of the people by re-
tiring Congress- any serious loss to the
lives, liberty or property OF the citizen
by reason Of delay between the cleo
ton and the induction into office of the
members Of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senators in Congress. The
fact that there is no precedent among
other enlightened popular governments
Of the world" for this delay is not con-
elusive: there is no other popular Gov
ernment in the world that has survived,
without serious innovations. for the
same length Of time that the United
States of AVerica has operated under
written constitution.
France has been overturned by four
or five revolutions during the period,
and even England has lost more than
it has gained by its appeals to the pas
sions Of the people. finally overthrowing
the real conserving power Of the House
of Lords. 1t has been the glory Of the
United States that 1t has not followed
precedent the Constitution undertook to
avoid the precedents which had resulted
In disaster to the previous experiments
in government.
Toward the preservation OF your
Government, and the permanency of
your present happy state" says Wash
ington. "it Is requisite not only that
you steadily discountenance Irregular
oppositions to its acknowledged author
ity but also that you resist with care
the spirit of innovation upon its prin-
ciples. however specious the pretext.
one method of assault may be to effect.
in the forms Of the Constitution, alter
ations which will impair the energy of
the system. and thus to undermine what
cannot directly be overthrown. In all
the changes to which you may be invited,
remember that time and habit are at
least as necessary TO fix the true char
acter of governments as OF other human
institutions: that experience is the surest
standard by which to test the real
tendency OF the existing constitution of
a country that facility in changes. upon
the credit OF mere hypothesis and opin-
ion, exposes to perpetual change. from
the endless variety of hypothesis and
opinion"
In the language OF st. Paul, Think
on these things" BENJAMIN $. DEAN.
JAMESTOWN, December ..
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box and the glow therefrom reddens

box and the glow therefrom reddens
the steam shot out of the stack.
Not always are the eruptions Of
this character. however, When tho
barometer is high the increased pres
sure forces the lava far down into
the throat of the crater; with lower
ing pressure the lava rises and the
bursting bubbles seem in angry mood.
1t is merely question Of the weight
of air. These manifestations are
evidence that the column of lava
within the volcanic channel rests
upon gases far down in the channel.
The same phenomenon occurs in the
crater of Halemaumau, volcano OF
Hawaii.
There is nothing analogous be-
tween vulcanism and the ordinary
process of burning. There is neither
fire nor smoke except as white hot
lava may set fire to inflammable SUBJ
stances with which it comes in con-
tact. The smoke of volcanic erup-
tions consists of steam. mixed with
lava blown into fine dust. In various
instances this takes the form of a
summer cumulus cloud, and from
that same cloud torrential rains may
be falling.
The greater number of volcanic
eruptions are>-Rsrely explosions OF
steam. Sulphur gases in many in
stances are present, and when steam
and one form of sulphur gas come
in contact they decompose each other
and sulphur is liberated. AS mat
ter of fact the worlds supply OF
sulphur comes largely from volcanic
deposits.
The difference between the explo-
sion OF steam bubbles within the
crater throat of Stromboli and an
eruption of Vesuvius is mainly one
Of the degree Of energy. Were the
steam valve of Stromboli throttled
until a tremendous bursting strain
had been overcome, the resulting ex-
plosion would be Vesuvian in type.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Implanted New York Scenes.

Unlike the artists of Paris, the
painters of New York have paid lit
tie attention to recording our great
social spectacles on canvas or in
etchings. Where DEGAs and MARY
CAssATr won fame through their
paintings of the Paris opera and
theater, where MADRAzo pictured the
picturesque gayeties Of opera balls,
where RENoR painted scenes at the
fashionable racetracks around the
French capital, to New York artists
similar scenes here are still un-
painted spectacles.
In view of the vogue of DEGAs and
RENOIR among our younger painters
it is strange that the example set by
these admired French masters has
never been followed in recording the
splendor OF the interior Of the Metro
politan Opera House at an evening
performance, gala day at Belmont
Park or one of those formal recep-
tions at the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art at which the noble central stair
case is filled with moving mass of
women in evening dress of every con-
ceivable tint thrown into the higher
contrast of beauty by the mems black
dress coats.
Nobody has preserved any Of the
great spectacles at the Madison
Square Garden with the exception
of few Horse Show studies Of small
size by WILLIAM ]. HAYS, and the
prizefghts and military tournaments
are also unrecorded in paint or in
line. The fascinating play Of light
in the Opera House while the per-
formance is going on is practically
the same as that which interested
DEGAs, and out OF which he made
charming pictures. Such a scene as
he painted ola trapeze performer In
smoke filled music hall used to be
common sight in the old Atlantic
Garden, but 1t is preserved only In
mems memories.
1t is true Troy KINNEY has painted
delightful little watercolors Of opera
ballet rehearsals and that THERESA
BERNSTEIN painted a scene of the
gallery at a symphony concert. But
in each case individual types were
represented rather than great So
cial spectacle.
II such social spectacles as these
were not public possessions there
might seem to be justification for the
neglect of them by our artists. But
in view of the enormous interest In
such gatherings, in view Of the color
and human animation which they
exhibit, in view Of the distinction
won by foreign painters Of such
scenes, the Indifference of New York
painters to them is inexplicable. To
paint such pictures would be to aid
in honoring the city that is their
home and would add to its reputa-
tion as the greatest art center of the
United States. Moreover, there is a
splendor of beauty about these un-
painted spectacles well worthy of the
brush OF any artist.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
A School for Native Chefs.
Dining Cars Train Cooks to Work in
Cramped Quarters.

To THE New YORK HERALD: There is
a school for the American chef which
none of your correspondents has men,
toned. In at least one part of the
country graduates of this academy are
in great demand.
i refer to the negro cooks who learn
their profession in the dining cars. In
the smaller hotels of the South board
ing houses of the first rank. restaurants
including the cafeterias, the possession
OF negro cook who learned his busi-
ness in the contracted quarters OF
kitchen on a dining car is something
of which the proprietor is very proud.
And. might add, his pride In the
possession OF such an aid to the COM
fort of his guests is, so far as my
experience goes. entirely justified.
NEW York, December Q. BuoNGusrI.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Fairchild Hears Symphony in His Music
Orchestra Gives American Composers Lady Dragon
Fly Ballet Score-Mme. Hempel Is Soloist.

slips. The Brahms variations. how
ever. We're excellently done.
The soloist was Nine. Frieda Hem
pei, whose lovely voice was in good
condition. She sang the familiar air
"Leise, leise" from der Freischuetz''
admirably indeed. She was afterward
heard in group which she has used
in two or three programs of late.
But no matter what Nine. Hempel
sings, it is always a delight to hear
her smooth and transparent tones and
to respond to the infectious feelings
glad or sad. which she puts into her
interpretations
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
The Moon Road.

Upon the highway to the moon old
friends you'll surely meet.
Cinderella with her crystal shoes still
twinxling on her feet;
Red Riding Hood and Mother Goose and
swarthy buccaneers
With cutlasses and sashes gay and sill
yer In their ears.
Mischievous Puck. Titania--it is the
frosty light
or diamond dust upon her wings that
makes the moonbeams bright
And Santa Claus with bells and furs
and bulging pack of toys,
And Pan the hairy god of spring still
piping Of its joys.
The highway to the moon Is strewn
with scores of broken things.
First dolls and trinkets, china cups and
hearts and jeweled rings,
The blue silk dress you used to wear,
the flowers you tended. too.
The old piano that you loved before
you got the new,
The dear canary Gagged no more but free
of woods and streams.
The little dog that frolcs yet through
all your lonely dreams.
And letters sweet with lavender and
faded valentines
With roses and forget me nots and gilt
around their lines.
The highway to the moon Is made of
rays the witches spun 4.
When flaming comets, sun and stars
r4h hoH haen dnnn
It's woven of tho sheen of pearls. the
opal's milky veil.
The snowy pinions of the moth, the
moonstone's luster pale.
And drops OF dew and bits OF Ice and
4. lengths of bridal lace.
And fakes of iridescent foam where
limpid waters race.
And lily petals waxen pure and mist
above a pool,
And all things beautiful and rare and
white and bright and cool.
The highway to the moon is climbed by
mortal folks alone
When Fancy's sandals to their feet with
scarlet threads are sewn.
Then up and up the sllining road that
never has an end
Between the hedges of the stars they
easily ascend.
And meet again the rainbow crowned
immortal host once more
From bold adventures glowing page
and books of fairy lore,
And find the treasures Father Time has
stolen day by day;
For on the moons enchanted road 10!
Memory leads the way.
MrrNA IRVING
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
vaEaries Of London Fog.
From the London Times.

From The London Times.
Although dense fog prevailed over large
part OF the London area yesterday. causing
considerable disiocation Of trenic. brilliantly
fine weather with only a little mist was
experienced in many OF the outlying dis
tricts. Throughout the day fully lighted
motor cars were to be seen emerging from
the deep gloom Of the metropolis 70 the sun
1T streets OF the northern suburbs. The
fog was widespread In southeastern. eastern
and central England and was in some re-
gions accompanied by bitterly cold condi-
tons. the therrpometer at bennington not
rising above 30 degrees.
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ny w. j. HENDERSON.

At the concert of the Symphony So
ciety in Aeolian Hall- yesterday after
noon Walter Damrosch produced the
music of Blair F'airchild's ballet pam
tomime entitled Dame Libellule"
(translated LADY Dragon Fly"). Mr..
Fairchild is an American who lives in
Paris. though he was here yesterday
and sat in box listening to his own
score He studied music at Harvard
and afterward in Florence, then de-
serted melody for politics and served
as attache at the Embassy in Con-
stantinople, and two years later re-
turned to art. In Paris he studie9
with Widor and Ganaye.
The ballet heard yesterday was first
performed at the Opera Comique on
December Z, 1921. and will be given
again this season. 1t has not yet
found its way to the stage on this side
of the Atlantic, which is a pity, for
the music distinctly calls for the
terpsichorean action to give 1T full
vitality. The story is fanciful. 1t
tells of the coquetry of a dragon fly
who excites the admiration of a toad
and beetle and is herself much in
terested in a green lizard until a
many colored butterfly floats into
view whereupon she flies off with
him into the sunset while the poor
toad dies and frogs sympathetically
weep over him.
Mr.. Fairchild has not dwelt in Paris
for nothing. He has learned how the
Frenchmen write ballets, and he has
blithely followed them, but without
sacrificing his own identity. There is
even a suggestion of the good old
canebrake of home in one of his.
melodies, and OF this no boulevardier
could have thought. The thematic
material of the ballet is clearly drawn,
and it furnishes subjects for a deal of
clever musical descant in which poly
phonic strands deftly woven into an
ppulent web, ingeniously colored yet
perfectly sane harmonies and warmly
tinted orchestration all play their
parts. The composition has pictur-
esque quality and suggests ballet
action which should be highly effect
i've if intrusted to good mines. The
work was cordially applauded, and the
composer acknowledged the tribute
modestly.
The other orchestral numbers on
the lis. were Weber's Der FTei-
schuetz" overture, Brahmss "Chorale
ST. Anthony" variations and the over
ture of Lalo's "Le Roi d'Ys." OF the
first of these Mr.. Damrosch gave a
reading" 1t is a perfectly compe-
tent overture when let alone. 1t does
not call for any reading" All that
is necessary is a good technical per-
formance. Give that to Weber and he
is quite able to take care of himself.
The technical features under the
reading were not flawless. The or
chestra sometimes plays with fewer
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
D ally Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair with ris-
ing temperature to-day; tomorrow
cloudy and warmer, variable winds be-
coming fresh southerly.
For New Jersey--Fair with slowly ris-
ing temperature to-day; tomorrow In
creasing cloudiness and warmer: mod
crate east shifting to south winds.
For Northern New England-Fair ana
warmer today; tomorrow increasing
cloudiness and warmer; probably local
showers in northern Vermont; gentle
variable winds becoming southerly.
For Southern New England-Fair to-
day and tomorrow. with rising tenn
perature; moderate variable winds bs-
coming fresh southerly.
For Western New York-Fair and
warmer to-day; tomorrow cloudy and
warmer; probably local rains or snow;
moderate variable winds becoming
southerly.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Pressure was
abnormally high tonight over the At
iantic States, the lake region and the
upper Ohio Valley. Precipitation has oc-
Cured within the last twenty-four hours
In the middle Atlantic and south At
lantic and east Gulf States. the Ohio
valley eastern Tennessee. the Pacific
states and the northern plateau and
northern Rocky Mountain regions
There was reaction to higher tenn
perature to-day in the upper lake
region, the upper Mississippi and middle
Mississippi valleys, the central plains
states and the central Rocky Mountain
region.
The outlook is for mostly fair weather
but with, considerable cloudiness to-mor-
row and Tuesday in the Atlantic and
east Gulf States, Tennessee, the Ohio
valley and the sower lake region. The
temperature will rise tomorrow and
Tuesday In the middle Atlantic and
north Atlantic States. the lower lake
region and in the southeastern States.
except Florida peninsula, during Tues
day.
Observations at United States weather
Bureau stations taken at p. M. Yesterday
seventy-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Wash Day.

II 1 could wash my foolish thoughts r
And hang them fresh and white
Upon the line across the yard
10 catch the wind and light
They would not seem so dull, think,
SO weary and so old.
Once they had known the winds clean
touch.
The sunlight's sudden gold
think that could put them on
And wear them gladly then.
And teach myself the way ia laugh,
The way to smile again.
ABIoAiL CREssoHs
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
lave been started, nothing has been

have been started, nothing has been
done. The Transit Commissions
great plan for a double deck, eight
track trunk line in Eighth avenue
was held up in City Hall.
Truly the new administration at
Albany will have grave problem
to face; particularly grave from a
political standpoint because a dis
appointed public is losing patience.