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The New York herald., 1922-05-14
BOULEVARD BEAUTIFUL
TO REPLACE HUCKSTERS
Silks to Rustic Where Fouls
SquaS0ked in Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 10 (Associated Press)
South Water street, where about a
billion dollars worth Of turnips, cheese,
ducks, eggs. onions and other foodstuffs
are bartered In a year, is preparing TO
pick up its squawking fowls. its smells.
its babble of tongues, its slippery cobble-
stones and move. A twenty million dol
lar double decked street-boulevard
above, traffic way beneath-is to replace
II. The street extends six blocks along
the river through the heart of Chicago.
Promoters of the Chicago beautiful
plan say the crooked riverside street
will give way to boulevard that will
rival Michigan avenue In beauty. The
gay limousine will flash where heavy
hucks4r wagons and delivery trucks
rumbled. Silks will rustic where the
commission house cat purred top an
orange crate. South Water street. more
or less known wherever people eat, will
become a reminiscence.
The new street. like the old. will begin
at the site OF Fort Dearborn. the original
nucleus of Chicago, and connect with
other boulevards about half a mile to
the west, close to where the pavilion or
wigwam stood in which Abraham Lin
coin was nominated for the Presidency.
1t will wind with the Chicago River, and
the lower deck will have docks.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14


Wilmington. ID. c., May -.
Wholesale prices of building materials
average 46 per cent. lower than two
years ago. according to special compu-
tation made by the Department of Labor
and based on a continuous investigation
of price levels. To the avetage family
this is hoped to mean Fastening of the
time when the nationwide housing short
age will be but memory and exorbitant
rentals of the war period will have
passed.
High rents are beginning TO pass now,
Ii is shown in reports to the Government
ali of which indicate the beginning of a
building boom that is sweeping the coun-
try.
Prices have dropped steadily on lum-
Der. structural steel, common brick and
practically all other building materials.
The decline is encouraging the letting of
contracts for apartment houses and
dwellings at rate not equalled since the
prewar period More than $4,000. 600. 600
worth of new buildings will be contracted
for this year il the present rate of build
ing continues. In New Jersey building is
going ahead faster than mechanics can
be obtained to do the work in some sec
tions.
Construction is making work for thou
9e"AtN'o VI ihei III every section Oh
the country. according to reports reach
ing the United States Employment Ser
vice.
The Labor Department computations
show the cost of building declined about
SO per cent. in 1921, compared with
1920. The peak OF high building costs
was reached in 1920. The average cost
of dwelling now is somewhat above
$4,000. year ago the average was
we'll above $4,000.
Residential building is leading all
other construction work Single and
double dwellings were built during 1921
at rate nearly double that of 1920.
The rate at present is estimated to be
in excess of that OF 1921. Exact per-
centage returns for 1922 are not yet
available.
New York and Minnesota are lead
ing all other States. In New York
building went ahead at double speed in
March compared with February. The
April rate is in excass Of that of March,
And the rate for April probably wiz
snow 100 per cent. increase over April.
1921. preliminary reports indicate.
The country emerged from the war
period with shortage of family shell
ters estimated at from ] 10000 TO
100000. To catch UP throughout the
country may require several months.
Until that time rents will continue to
be higher than in the pre-war period.
but a big dent already has been made
In the housing shortage and rents have
begun TO drop.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
COST OF EDUCATION
MOUNTING STEADILY
Walter Dill Scott, Northwest.
ern President, Describes
Situation There.

EVANSTON, ILL.,, May 13.--In the first
report issued since he became president
OF Northwestern University Walter
Dill Scott emphasizes the fact that
Notwithstanding the generous gifts OF
many benefactors, the cost of education,
mounting higher year by year, makes II
Imperative that an endowed educational
institution pay out much more than is
received from students. President Scott
says that this Is true at Northwestern
University
years ago the university" he says,
bound itself to the production of men
and women trained in mind and charac-
ter to certain standard. The cost Of the
product has risen. In university finance,
unlike the business world, there is little
connection between the cost of the prod
uct. education. and the income of the
educational institutions.
Student fees cannot be increased in
number or in the individual amount
We cannot take care of any great in
crease in the number of students, even
If it could be gained without educational
sacrifice. Practically every school Is
working to its physical capacity. We
are working at the point OF greatest
economy and efficiency. Yet at present
the school deficit is $143.S00.
Throughout the university for every
SO the student pays the university 81 Is
paid out in actual teaching expenses for
him by the university, taking no account
Hof general administration charges. rental
for the use OF the campus or buildings,
interest or fixed charges. This S4 is an
actual expenditure for every student,
and Will only increase with the increase
of student numbers.
IF to the actual teaching expense a
fair commercial interest were added.
based on the actual value of the educa-
tional plant, it would appear that the
university spends on the student So for
every 81 he pays in"
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
CHINA Is ADOPTING
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT
Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell
of Methodist Church Tells
of His Visit.

CHICAGO, May 13.-China is becoming
more self-assertive and self-dependent
since the early days of the Washington
conference. says DIR. Francis j. McCon-
nell, resident Bishop of Pittsburgh of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, who mas
been visiting in China recently.
Bishop Mcconnell is a member OF the
Educational Commission of the Missions
Board of America and Great Britain
who were sent to China six months ago.
His statement was made public by a
committee on conservation and advance
of the Methodist church here.
There are sure sins OF the stirring
Of a Chinese public opinion and OF
Chinese national sentiment in advance
of anything yet observed there" the
Bishop said.
Speaking of the relations OF the
Japanese and Chinese, Bishop McConneli
said: THE Japanese have MADE one
notable failure and that is they nave
failed to make a friend of China one
does not have to be in Chinese city
long to note the intensity OF the enmity
of the Chinese toward the Japanese. lie
is utterly blind who rates this enmity
as of no practical consequence in view
of Japanese superiority in arms.
"The Chinese have found in the boy
c,tt a powerful weapon. With consum-
mate genius for non-cooperation and
passive resistance China can free herseii
from all outside influence which she
chooses to ban--when the time comes.
And the time is coming soon In the years
Just ahead when China Will inevitapiy
come to self-assertive, self-respectlng
Independence of foreign nations. This
il a plain as day fact that stroller
on Chinese streets cannot miss.
II do not think there Is danger OF
another Boxer uprising. At least IL
there is such a rising the weapons used
will not be swords and guns"
Bishop Mcconnell declared that the
presence of an ever growing liberal sem
timent-not necessarily a liberal party
lin Japan is not a myth. If Japan
does not embark upon a career of inn
perialistic conquest of China in the next
ten years it is not likely that she ever
WILL" he said. by 1882 the democratic
forces will probably be if not irresistible
at least so effective as to make it i'm
possible for war plans to be carried
through in the old high-handed fashion"
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
FRENCH CRITICS START
WORK ON MAIN STREETti
Comments on Sinclair LeUis's
Book Begin to Appear.

Special Gable to THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
Copyright I9ee, by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureasz. (,
Paris. May 10.
The French critics are beginning to-
comment upon Sinclair Lewis's Main
Street" and although the reviews show
they have no conception of the reality
Of the Lewisian types of those persons
to be found in the thousands of smaller
cities in the United States, some are
going even so far as 10 compare Main
Street" with Flaubert's great psychologi-
cal romance, Madame Bovary" .~+
Claude Perton. writing in the Figaro,
hopes a French translation soon will
be arranged in order 10 give the public
an idea of the evolution of the Ameri-
can soul through a single century. He
insists that Carol is merely an Ameri-
canized Emmd-without adultery or
tragedy but nevertheless tempted. her
ideals tormenting her during periods
Of super-sentimentality II is "A docu-
mented study he considers. related to
talent truly great.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

written into the appropriation bill within
two months the pay of the officer per-
sonnel will revert to its 1908 status. The
only argument / have in this direction
is the question: 'IIow would you like
TO receive your 1908 pay from next week
instead of your 1929 pay?"
American and British Pay.
There may be those who, unac-
cualnted with the facts, will ask IL the
navy is not too Well paid already. An
Admiral of the fleet in our navy receives
$4,000, while in the British navy he
gets close to $4,000. In many instances
officers of the French and Italian navics
receive more pay than their compare
tive ranks in our services. II the British,
French and Italians can pay their Off
GERS more than the United States, the
richest country in the world. things
have come to a pretty state indeed
TO sum up the entire situation in a
few words, the United States Navy is
being starved to death. despite the man
dates OF the Limitation of A-maments
Conference. 1t is a matter of the pres
ent as we'll as of the future. Our navy
has been practically destitute of fuel
since the first OF the year, To-day only
one battleship of the Atlantic fleet is
at sea. the Maryland. The others are
tied up at various navy yards. The
Wyoming and Arkansas are at Brook
lyn and the other ships distributed along
the coast.
The destroyer forces are tied UP in
great punches at the Philadelphia yard.
One of our great picture gathering agen-
cies received photograph of 100 of
these vessels tied up at that yard. Be-
lieving that because the boats are tied
up without crews they. are to be
scrapped. the agency papered the coun-
try with a statement to that effect.
However, we are not to scrap a single
destroyer.
The picture should have been cap
hundred and nine destroy
ers, which might as well be scrapped,
even though they are necessary to main
tain our ratio under the naval treaty,
for Congress refuses to provide crews
or fuel for them.'
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
FLOWER MART IN ST. PAUL'S.
VIII Aid Midday Clubs for Bust
ncSs women and Boys.

A flower mart will be held in the por-
tico of old st. Paul's Chapel. Broadway.
between Fulton and Vesey streets. on
May 23 for the purpose of raising funds
to reestablish the midday clubs for busi-
ness women and the boys grill, which
recently were wrecked by the fire at st.
Paul's parish house. IL will he the first
time in its history of 1873 years that the
church in which George Washington
worshipped will be the scene of func-
tion designed for profit.
The old parish house was the home of
a club for business women for fourteen
years and last year n similar club was
established there for boys. Both were
self-supporting In all respects except
that they were housed by st. Paul's.
When the parish house was wrecked by
fire the furniture. kitchen and library
were destroyed and both clubs were left
homeless.
II Is hoped TO raise sufficient funds
through the flower mart to reestablish
the clubs with modern equipment after
the parish house has been repaired.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
COLUMBIA ALUMNE ORGANIZE
Form Organization of Those Living
I'm New Rochelle.

New Rochelle women graduate stu
dents OF Columbia University have or
ganized as the College Club of New
Rochelle. Mary Shaugnessy OF the class
of 1919 has been chosen president and
r. Marion Brennan, 1921. vlco-president.
Lillian de la Tore Bueno 1921, Is Sec
retary and Florence o'Grady 1918, is
treasurer.
Philippe de la Rochelle OF the De-
partment of Romance Languages and
Mrs. -Estelle II. Davis have been elected
to honorary membership. The move
ment to organize the New Rochelle
alumnm was directed by the Misses V.
A. waldron. NJ. shaugnessy and M.
Hogan of the class OF 1919 and the
Misses V. Mcintyre, A. Byrne and l..
Bueno, Of the class OF 1921.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
TO UNEARTH METROPOLIS
OF THE CLIFF JEWELLERS
DR.. J. w. Fewkes off for Fur
fher Search of Ruins.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Dr. !. Walter
FewSes chief of the Bureau OF Ameri-
can Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
has left Washington for the Southwest
to continue the exploration and repair
Of the cliff houses and other prehistoric
ruins on the Mesa Verde, National
Park, Colorado.
Special attention will be given during
this seasons field work to large cir
.cular ruin situated 200 feet southeast
Of Far View House, pueblo OF the
Mummy Lake group, and to a metropolis
near by whihc offers valuable returns in
archaeological specimens left by these
earlyIndians.
Preliminary examination indicates
that the buried building belongs to a
type not used as dwelling. but con-
structed for some unknown communal
ffc.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

ment from July Is to September Is.
The planes will take off from the peak
called Puy-de-P de-Pommegrasse.
The experiments will be watched close
by aeronautical engineers of every coun-
ly and discussed with deepest interest
try in the world.
Training Airship Pilots.
The United States Army Air Service
has established schools for the train
ing OF airship pilots and balloon OBJ
servers with the threefold purpose OF
providing an adequate officers reserve
corps. to educate the modern young man
in aeronautics and to promote CONNER
cial aviation.
In discussing the lighter than air
craft the Air Service Neios Letter, the
organ of the Service. states that the
development of sources of non-infiam-
mable helium makes the airship with a
lift of fifty to seventy tons practically
as safe for transportation as the present
railroad express. A transcontinental
line within ten years Is regarded as a
certainty by Air Service officers.
The course OF instruction at the bal
loon schools at Ross Field. California,
which covers period of ten months. Is
all the primary training necessary for a
reserve commission. Cadets are paid
at the rate of SIS month, exclusive
OF board. lodging and clothing. Appli-
cants should be college or high school
graduates. not more than 30 years OF
age and unmarried.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Big BRITISH AIR Line
is STRONGLY BACKED
government Gets Proposal
to Run Craft>to Australia,
India and Hong Kong.
PARRY 100 VOYAGERS
Baltimore Flying Clubs
Meet OH May 30 to Be
Next Large Event.
ARMY is MAKING PILOTS
France Emulating Germany in
Its Experimenting With
MOt0rless Planes.
ARMY is MAKING PILOTS

A definite proposal for a great air
inc from England to India and Aus
ralia, backed by the largest engineer.
ng and oil companies in Great Brit
lin, has been made by Commander c
Dennis Burney, in England, follow
ng his investigation of the present
development of the airship. Com
nander Burney laid his plan before
he British Government.
The binding together of the Brit
sh Empire by means Of swife COM
nunication and transportation has al
ways engrossed the attention Of the
statesmen and people of Great Brit
bin, and Of late aviation has been re-
garded as the surest means Of pre-
serving the empires unity. The fight
from England to Australia of the late
Capt. Sir Ross Smith was made as
an experiment in the use Of airplanes
on long land and water routes.
In recent statement on the subjec,
Commander Burney expressed the opin-
ion that recent inventions had made
feasible an imperial air line to India,
Australia and China on a true CONNER
cial basis. He said the time of trans
port could be cut to one-third at cost
per passenger of slightly less than the
present first class fare.
The proposal made to the Govern
ment by the Commander, who has the
support of Vickers Ltd, and the Shell
OIL Company is the formation OF a
company having available a capital OF
"a, 900, ,000 to be divided into 1880. 900
in ordinary shares and f2.200.000 in de-
bentures. Each of the two companies
mentioned was 10 subscribe for 100, 900
shares at par The Government. for Its
part, was to guarantee dividends and
interest for a period of years, the SUBJ
sidy to cease when the profits of the
company were sufficient to pay them.
Wants Government Equipment.
The Government was also to transfer
Ito the company all airships. airship ma
|terial and airship bases, such as Pull
ham. Cardington and Howden. Tht
proposal of transfer was made after
the Government had decided to discon-
| tinue airshps as part of its program,
land to turn over all its lghter-than-air
|craft to the Dsposals Board.
The ships thus turned oyer would
not start the long air route. Instead
they would be used for short flights.
land for the training of airship officers
land men. New ships. vastly better.
would be built to carry 100 passengers
land eight to ten tons OF mall. The
|cruising speed of these new craft would
be sixty miles.
Under the plan proposed the schedule
maintained and the present time Isl
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
ROSE BUSHES

years old. $3.50 per dozen postpaid
Francis Scott Key. Premier. Ophelia
Madam Butterfly White Killarney. Mrs.
Aaron Ward; bloom from these bushes won
first prize Flower Show. New York. March
18th Hardy Chrysauthemum plants. SIPS
per dozen. all colors Honorable treatment
guaranteed. REYNOLDS FARM, SOUTH
NORWALK. CONN. 20
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
LANGUAGES.

SPANISH conversation; easy. rapid instruc-
tion; $40 monthly; evening commercial
classes forming, D :35 and $50. PRUNERA, #,
Studio $50 Broadway cort. 6526. Branch.
166 West Goth. -
While getting larger quarters ready .,
for the SERGIO SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
PROF. SERGIO is teaching at Hotel La
Sale, 80 East GOTH St. Suite 12-C.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

At Montauk. advantage will be taken
of the opportunity for surf bathing and
bath houses will be erected on the
beach. One of the features of this camp
will be course in horsemanship, for
which large number of artillery horses
have been obtained.
The signal corps camp at Camp Vail
will specialize in wireless telegraphy
and radio phone. At Camp Dix the
cavalry will be coached by regular cav
alrymen in the monkey drill" which
includes the formation Of pyramids
mounting and dismounting at full gallop
and other bareback stunts
Recruiting will close May 21
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

The airships would make no stops on
the way to India. and only three stops
Ito Australia. B-weekly servise to In
lola is suggested at first. and later alter
mate day service to India with a weekly
|extension to Australia.
The annual subsidy required would be
|diveded as follows: Great Britain. f9l.-
loco: Australia. 100000. and India, 4OO00.
Commander Burney based his decision
as to the practically of the service on
the development of new carburetor
which will permit the useful load Of
ship to be increased by 40 per cent;
the increase in the life of an airship
motor rom $50 70 400 or 500 hours: the
reduction by new process of the cost
OF hydrogen to 4 shillings per thousand
cubic feet instead of 20 shillings, and
tho reduced cost OF airships due to
standardized design and the drop in
general prices
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
sign Guides for Aviators.

Kentucky has come TO the fore as one
Of the most progressive States by adopt
ing resolution calling upon every
town and city of the commonwealth
to have painted in large letters on the
top of building or some other emil
nence the name of the place so that
aviators pasinb overhead may check up
on their location.
The action of the State was taken in
order to prevent the type OF accident
which occurs when a pilot who has lost
his way swoops past the railroad station
center of che city at low altitude In an
effort to read name which will give
him a clew to his whereabouts. Elec-
trio light wires or the tops of buildings
sometimes cause a crash. The resolu-
-tion was passed by the Legislature
through the efforts of Capt. Harry b.
Founders. United States Air Service
established at Camp Knox, Ky.
PROGRAM for Logan Field Meet.
The next big event in aeronautics in
this country will be the meet of the
Baltimore Flying Club at Logan Field.
Baltimore. on May 0. This is the fourth
annual meet of the club.
The contests win ibe divided into four
classes--for commercial planes carrying
useful loads OF $50 pounds or more for
sport planes seating one, two or more
passengers for ships piloted by army
navy or Marine Corps pilots and for
ships of the National Guard. There will
also be an event for flying boats. as the
clubs airdrome Is within a few hundred
yards OF the Patapsco River.
The contests will emphasize efficient
design and precision flying. but speed
and range of speed will be important
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
NEW YORK LEADING
STATES IN BUILDING
Wholesale Prices of Materials
Average 46 Per Cent. Less
Than i'm 1920.
RUSH ON IN NEW JERSEY
Big Dent Already Made in
Housing Shortage and Rents
Are Due to Fall.
Nnw York Herald Bureau.
Wilmington. ID. C., May 13.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
MotorIess Plane Tests.

The successes scored by German in
centors in remaining in the air and
anuuarly gaining In altitude with motor
rcss planes have aroused France to ef-
forts along similar lines.
Trials Of planes without motors will
b emade on an extensive scale in the
Department of Auvergne, in central
France, during the coming summer. The
municipal council OF Aydat, near the
lake OF that name. has just authorized
the Auvergne Aero Club to organize in
the parish an airdrohie for the use OF
the Experimental Congress of Motorless
Airpianes, which is to meet and expert
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

There are certain duties undertaken
by our navy which congressman should
remember when voting on the nava'ap-
propriation. The navy has duties wnicn
are not in the least military. but which
sap the life ou of the military organiza-
ton. The service administers the GOV
ernment Of the Virgin ISLANDS, Guam
and many other Islands.
IL operates a great wireless conf
munication service. which Is invaluable
70 our merchants Those OF you who
use this service relative to merchant
shin movements can estimate it's value
10 the nation at large. Then the navy
is charged with the care Of lepers. All
thesa duties take a certain number or
men. and whether our ships are manned
or not Congress sees to II that these
non-miltary duties are fulfilled.
We should also remember that the
navy. I'm its prime essential, is the fleet.
But first this fleet is weakened by the
lack Of men VINO are charged with nom
military duties, and by the crews and
fuel taken up with providing small
squadrons for foreign duties at, the re-
quest of the state Department. We have
naval forces in Europe, In China, in
south and Central America that are
entirely too expensive to the real navy
If we are to have q navy Of only $4,000
men should not Congress provide for an
other floating and administrative SER
vice for the state Department?
Another thing TO which the attention
of Congress must be directed Is the pay
OF the navy. /Unless relief measure is