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The New York herald., 1922-06-11
COSTS A FRANC NOW
TO ENTER LOUVRE
Fee Charged Creates Prece-
dent, but 2 Days Are Free.

speciat Cable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1899. bv THE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, June 10.
An uproar has been caused In the
French press by the news that an en-
trance fee was being charged at the
Louvre and other treasure houses OF
art. The fee is only l franc. less than
10 cents. but 1t creates a precedent and
deeply touches Frances pride and repu-
tation as a free center of world art.
To placate the public the directors
are explaining that only 80 to 40 per
cent. of the visitors are French. the re-
mainder being foreigners and that
French critics. artists and other mem
bers of the intellectual fraternity are
to be given free admittance cards. In
addition there are to be two free days
a week. Foreigners II is explained, ex-
pected to pay for their education here.
The directors say that the $4,000 ex-
pected to be realized annually would be
used to make additions TO the collec-
tions.
For the first time in twenty years the
Louvre has just issued a catalogue of
art treasures and paintings consisting
of three illustrated volumes. two OF
sculpture and one of Middle Age and
Renaissance furniture.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
La Perle de Chicago Ex-
hibits Male Population as
Exclusively Millionaires.
A FARCICAL CLERGYMAN
Who Spends His Vacation in
France Searching for
Cocktails.

Special Gable to THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
Copyright, 1929, By THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, June 10.
Study the American types being
more and more frequently written into
French plays and you will conclude
that France does not know-as yet
much about big and teeming America,
but has gained its idea of Americans
and American methods apparently
from the showiest examples of the
5000 American tourists who step upon
French shores in the average week
during the summertime.
Here is the latest Partisan success.
La Perle de Chicago" wherein half Of
the characters are from America
strange America, whose male population
are exclusively millionaires, smoking
strong black cigars, every man pos
sessed of the magic wand called busi-
ness enterprise. which is evidenced on
the stage by raising the voice to a
great below; an America whose women
all are self-willed pleasure seekers. and
whose clergy-a comedy hit-spend a
vacation in France alternately hunting
cocktails and recovering from the
drinks they cannot get at home.
This play is more popular with the
public in the treatment of Americans
than two pieces offered to the boule-
wards last year, Les Americans chez
Nous" and Lair de Paris" IT bids
fair to have a long run. The central
figure is a gumdrop manufacturer who
claims loudly his product is guaranteed
to cure all human ills. His family
mother, son and daughter-accompan
by the Rev. McBattle are ruthlessly pur-
suing cocktails--and finding them, il
may be added, at every French bar
vdfse ff upon an impecunious French
family, including a handsome son and a
daughter who is about to be married to
an old man who will lend her father
money.
The Americans offer an enormous for
tune of millions to the son If he will
marry the manufacturers daughter, in
order to appear to carry out the pro-
visions of the will of an eccentric uncle.
The son already is in love with a French
girl, and the Gallo practical sense"
appears in the suggestion of the sons
French sweetheart that marriage in
name only take place between her fiance
and the American heiress and that q
divorce follow the acquisition of the
dollars. The marriage takes place. the
dollars are handed over but the divorce
does not take place, for the Frenchman
falls in love with his wife. To show
how happy he is he INDUCES in a boxing
bout on the stage.
The remainder of the American for
tune is then annexed by the disconnected
French fiancee, who. finding her plans
awry, marries the manufacturers son.
Loud voiced and blatant, rich, generous
and very susceptible appear "Ameri-
cans" to the public of the boulevards.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
OLD TIMER MISSED
BY LONDON DINERS
Chairman at Simpsons, in
Cheapside, Ill, Is Absent
First Time in 25 Years.

Special Gable to THE New YonK HERALD
C,on,1-ioht. 1929. by THE New YoaK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, June 10.
For the first time in more than a
quarter of a century II. Shelton was
absent this week from the chairman's
seat at Simpsons eating place in
Cheapside, where the regular customers
still observe the traditions that have
been in vogue for two centuries. Shelton.
who is s6, was attached to the secret
service during the Crimean War. He Is
i'll and the old customers alternate in
taking his place.
But the guests miss Shelton, opening
every meal with grace and returning
thanks, and presiding over the weighing
OF the cheese.
simpsons was started In 1923. be-
cause the Billingsgate men complained
that while they always sold fresh fish
they couldn't get any cooked In the city.
Simpson opened restaurant and sold
four courses--fres;l fish, joint. cheese
and salad--for two shiiiings. The price
remains unchanged, as do the old cere-
monies. making It one of the most un-
usual eating places IN London.
Every day, as the cheese is Drought
in. the customers guess the height, the
girth and the weight Of It If anybody
guesses correctly. which happens on the
average Of two or three times year.
champagne is served around the table
and case of 1t forwarded to the
guesser's home.
The cheese has never been guessed
correctly twice by The same person, al
though some OF the customers have
guessed regularly daily except on Sun
days for fifty years.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
STEEL FIRM IN LORRAINE
MOVES TO GERMANY
Setting Up Works Near Its
Mines in Westphalia.

spec,ol Correspondence to THE New YORK
HERALD,
New York Herald Bureau
Berlin, May "a.
A German steel concern, the Kloeck-
ner Company, formerly the Lorraine
Smelling Company, is building new
factory village near its coal mines for
10000 workers. at Raupel in Rhenish
westphalia- This firm produced over
1000 tons of steel a day in Lorraine
before the region passed over to the
French. The firm had five large
coal mines near Raupel on the Dort-
mund- -Oberhausen Railroad line, and
with their profits and the indemnity
they received from the German Gov
ernment they are transplantlng their
industry to German soil. The firm has
opened large cement works and brick
yards, and building is progressing rap
idly.
The five mines which formerly pro-
duced 5000 tons of coal daily are now
producing eight, and the output is be-
ing further increased. A large freight
railroad terminal and port on the
Dortmund-Em Canal have already been
completed. This intense industrial
development in the Ruhr and in West
phalia is In contrast to the general
decrease in German production to about
half Of the old normal output.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
FLAG OF WALES FLIES
WHEN PREMIER IS HOME
Cricciefh Pays Him Honor
Usually Accorded to King.

Special Cable to THE NEw YORK HEr,Lp.
Copyright, 1922, bv THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London. june 10.
The admirers of Premier Lloyd
George in his home town of Criccieth
now regard him to be such an impor-
tant personality in the country's af-
fairs that they extend him distinction
accorded only to the King. When the
Prime Minister stepped off the train
for the week end flag was hoisted on
Castle Hill bearing the Red Dragon of
Wales on a green and white background.
When he departed the flag was taken
down.
It is stated that In the future the
flag will always fly when the Prime
Minister Is In his residence at Bryn-
awelon so the people when seeing the
flag will say: The Prime Minister Is
here"
Prime Ministers constitutionally have
every right to have a flag flown where
they are stopping, but for many years
the ceremony has been observed only
for the King. Friends of Mr.. Lloyd
George say he accepts the flag cere-
mony as a touching tribute of friend
ship from the home town folk.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
OF LOCUSTS
IN NAPLES DISTRICT
Poison Gas and Fire Bombs
Used to Fight Insect In
vading Army.

Speciol Cable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1899, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Rome. June 10.
The people of the Neapolitan district
have turned out to fight a colossal In
vading army of locusts. employing all
the modern methods of warfare. Poison
gas has killed off the enemy over a
large area, and the farmers have
found that digging trenches prevents
the advance of the horde. In the viii
lagos the people trust no modern fash
ions of killing, but have gone back to
the approved methods of having the
locusts condemned by dignitary OF
the church or cursed by witch.
At Ischitella all the village priests
went out to the battle line, held by
millions of buzzng insects, and ex-
orcised them or communicated them.
In Ponta Maria. fortunate enough TO
possess a genuine witch, deadly curses
were pronounced by an emaciated old
hag.
However. most of the villagers find
the methods advocated by Prof. Sill
vestri director of the Agricultural Col
lege, near Naples, more effective.
Prof. Silvestri believes that the styles
of killing evolved in the late war are
also the most efficient means of rid
ding the country of scourge. Upon
his advice poison gas and fire bombs
such as were used in the war, have
been brought into play.
F--4fferfotusts already ha1e~eunoszn'
age estimated at 100000 lire in the
Neapolitan district. and have DESTROYED
so many pastures and gardens thai
Naples's supply OF vegetables and dairy
products has been virtually cut or.
THESE locusts are similar to the
cicadas infesting the United States
periodically, each females progeny
numbering about 500. According to
Prof. Silvestri, this variety develops Its
wings within a few days after hatch
ing. Therefore he has urged the farmers
to direct their greatest energy against
the breeders. Last year train from
Avezanno to Caserta was blocked by
huge piles of locusts. and could not pro-
ceed until workers and soldiers from
Rome had dug 1t out. as from snow
drift.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

Special Gable to THE NEW York HERALD
Copyright, 1929, by THE New YosK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London, June 10.
Baseball is a combination Of cricket
and FOUNDERS only very much faster.
according to a sporting writer for the
Epening Star, who reported the match
between the United States SEippins
Board team and the All England nlne'
which the Shipping Board team won
by a comfortable margin. Here IS
baseball from an English viewpoint:
Baseball! is a game with a laugh in
it. 1t gave me the funniest afternoon
I ever spent. Perhaps the players dld
not have much class compared with
American League idols. but some OF
them did great work. notably Stubel'
Englands center fielder. wEo actually
made catches while on the run.
For the benefit of those who do not
know baseball I will explain that 1t Is
a daring American selection of the
best in cricket and the best in round
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
PLANE MADE OF STEEL
LIGHTER THAN WOOD
British HaUe Machine Imper-
uious to Shrapnel and Bullets.

Special Cable 10 THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1929, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, June 10.
In seeking to devise an airplane
which will be impervious to shrapnel
and machine gun bullets and yet will
be speedy the Air Ministry has pro-
duced steel fighting machine which II
claims is superior to any all metal
machines yet produced.
Experiments have been conducted al
the Royal Aircraft Establishment at
Marlborough for considerable period
and the planes are now being sub
mitted TO severe practical tests. The
wings as well as the fuselage are built
Of corrugated steel. The main diff
Guilty was TO produce a fighting plane
which would not be heavier than the
wood machines, but il is stated that
this has been successfully accomplished
without loss Of power. The machines
are easy TO manage and can safely
make a loop. Authorities regard this as
a big step forward in air warfare.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
FLYING STIMULATES
MIND, SAYS AIRMAN
Capt. Sieveking Predicts In
tuition and Telepathy Will
Be Developed in Men.

Special Gable to THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London June 10.
That flying will evolve a new type of
human mind is claimed by Capt. L. G..
Sieveking. a distinguished flying officer
Writing in the psychology of flying in
the current issue of an English review
he says:
Flying Is not the natural state of
man. There will be noticeable in future
generations the evolution of a new tyne
of mind whose tendencies and capabili-
ties can be directly traced to the fact
that the men and their fathers have
flown about the sky and remained in the
upper air Cor many hours of their lives.
High up in the clearer air the mind
seems to be purged of certain glutinous
structures. 1t revolves with altogether
unprecedented velocity and perfect pre-
csion.
"The idea of death is regarded with
unconcern, and with this comes a certain
recklessness. The memory In some IN.
stances becomes dnlled and incapable OF
calling UP clear picture. but the gen
eral effect of constant flying is to stimu-
late and strengthen the mind. Such
qualities as intuition and telepathy viii
develop more quickly with the influence
of flight into powers us much In COM
mand of the individual as hearing and
tasting.
Capt Seveking suggests a clas,r
study of flyers and inquiry into their
minds after clashes, of which he thinks
many are caused by flaw that Is men
tai rather than mechanical.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
BASEBALL is DISCOVERED
BY ANOTHER ENGLIS4MAN
London Sporting Writer Describes Game as Combina
ton of Cricket and Rounders- Attaboy' From
Crowd Means Rush for Base, He Explains.

ers. The pitcher-bowler-ha to de-
liver the ball over the home plate,
which is seventeen inches wide, at q
height between the batter's knees and
shoulders. He sends it down at ter
rife pace with very big swerve. The
catcher-wicket keeper-and the UNI
pire standing Immediately bekind him,
wear body pads and wire masks while
all the fieldsmen have a padded glove
on the left hand.
Both sides have nine innings. In an
exciting rush for a base the crowd
cries .Attaboy!' Bad batting is greeted
with II wonder if hes got a hole in
his bat" and one good hit through the
fieldsmen always produces Send em
telegram when you're doing that
again.
"It was a delightfully."- American at
mosphere. Everybody was eating
peanuts and demanding iced drinks
which they amazingly drank with
straws in the bottles. Yes. it was the
funniest afternoon 1 have ever spent"
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
MANY CANDIDATES FOR
FRENCH ACADEMY
Eighteen Authors in Contest
for Three Seats.

8 cioi Cable to THr NEw YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1922, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. June TO-
The election of incumbents for three
seats 10 the French Academy is COM
mandinE far more interest in the world
Of art and letters than the elections 70
Parliament. which Will be held next
Thursday The seats Of the dead authors
Jean Aicard. Emile Boutroux and Denys
Cochin will be contested by no fewer
than eighteen ambitious authors. OF
whom Georges Porto-Riehe. whose
dramas are known on both sides Of the
Atlantic. is perhaps the most eminent.
The number OF candidates is unproce-
dented.
Next January the forty immortals will
vote 10 fill the seats OF the late Paul
Deschanel historian and former Presi-
dent Of the republic, and Mgr. Duschene.
the author.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Sir Ernest Benn Believes
Proposed Paperin Vienna
Will Aid World Trade.
NO PLACE FOR POLITICS
Plan of British Writers to
Issue Publication Should
Succeed, Says Economist.

Special Cable to THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1929, by THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London. June 10.
An international commercial news
paper, such as is soon to be published
in Vienna. is called by Sir Ernest
Benn, the British economist, an sim
perative and pressing necessity" The
newspaper purposes to deal with COM
merce, without regard to political in
terests, and, it is hoped, by the ex-
ploitation of new point of view. will
facilitate trade among nations. 1t will
be printed in English and written by
Englishmen.
Commenting upon the practically
of the idea. Sir Ernest said: News
papers hitherto never have succeeded
in divesting themselves of a definite
national character and bias. If Lon
don paper writes a leading article
about the French nobody accepts it's
statement as the French policy.
"This is especially marked in the case
Of small countries. They must express
the national point of view. In these
days the difficulty is grave because Of
so many small States with urgent prob
lens. The political news of any coun-
try Is always tainted with political bias,
but the commercial news Of the older
countries is fairly free of that deliberate
finesse which is the politicians stock
in trade.
but with States in the throes of
social reconstruction there is often a
wide difference of opinion. For instance,
reparations may make it wise to give
the outside world an altogether false
impression of the economic situation.
All Europe is busy explaining its pow
erty. Debtor and creditor nations alike
are interested to make the world think
they are on the verge of bankruptcy.
This is extremely damaging to business.
l--st Ulznnnnftanel newspapers cannot help
themselves. and they are prone to dis
tort and exaggerate. In politics. there
fore, an international newspaper prob
ably is an impossibility but as COM
merce Is in effect international, 1T will
be easier for a commercial journal to
acquire an international character. 1t
must inspire absolute confidence by its
impartiality and accuracy"
Sir Ernest believes English Journal
lists are best suited to fill the role of
umpire. Vienna was selected because
1t Is central point and removed from
English influence. He thinks the paper
can become an immense asset to the
business man.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
VIENNA BANK RUNS
LOTTERY IN FRANCE
Disguised Under Issue of AL
legged Reports Reops Harvest.

speciai Cable 10 THE NEW YoRK HER,tp.
Copyright, 1929, bD THE New York HrRALn
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, June 10. !
French public opinion has been
aroused by the appearance of huge
Austrian lottery under the name OF
the Vienna Bank Fritz Dorge." For
elgn lottery advertising is prohibited in
France. but the Vienna scheme cum
ningly disguised under the issue of all
legged bank reports, already has reaped
a large harvest of francs. The differ
ence in exchange enables the Austro-
syerfnan lotteries to make a huge profit
here.
The authorities are preparing to
make an investigation of the various
forms OF lotteries now flourishing in
the central empires with the view OF
forbiddfng the sending of postal
checks from France to any concern
that may be blacklisted. Banks COM
plain that the export of French capi-
tal for such schemes in the last two
Year, has considerably diminished
homo deposits.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11


Copyright, 1922. by THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. June 10.
Do you want your wrist watch to
keep time? Then carry II in your
pocket. So say observant French jew
elers whose repair shops are flooded
with wildly erratic time pieces worn
from swinging wrists. Through the
newspapers the Associated jewelers.
are advising the public that no watch
can long withstand the jigsaw life on
a wrist where the majority OF watches
have been worn since the war brought
in the habit.
The congestion In Paris shops where
one usually can't get repairs done In
less than ten days is due entirely to
this the jewelers. say, pointing out
that wrist wearing has destroyed the
traditional accuracy OF French
watches.
They say ordinary watches must not be
laid on a cold marble bureau top during
the night. as is the habit Of thousands,
for watches require a certain amount Of
warmth afforded by bodily heat in the
daytime and a cloth protection at
night.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
PLANS FOR CHILDREN
TO LEARN LANGUAGES
London County Council Ex-
tends Correspondence System.

Special Gable 10 THE NEw YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1922 by THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London. june 10.
The London County Council is PLAN
ming to extend TO other countries, par
ticuiarly 10 Spain. method OF inter-
national education whereby children
may easily learn languages, which has
been remarkably successful between
English and French children.
About 1000 children in the evening
institutes. in correspondence with
French children. have not only made
marked progress. but have become alive
with interests through friendships de-
veloped. and many visits have been ar
ranged, the parents concerned mutually
promoting them. The instructors say
that no system Of acquiring langua ges
ever has worked out so well.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
SUICIDES OF CHILDREN
INCREASE IN PRUSSIA
Average of is a Week Noted
in Mortality Report.

Special CobIe 20 THE NEW YORK HERun.
Copyright, 1929, by THE NEw YoRK HrRAuD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin, june 10.
An average OF sixteen children a
week have committed suicide in Prus-
STA in the last two years. according TO
the latest mortality reports. Tho au-
thoritles say that the report for the
last year will show an astounding num-
Der of suicides OF children under Is.
In 1919 and 1920 there were 1853
suicides in Prussia alone
The New York herald., 1922-06-11


Copyright 1929, by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. June 10.
American engineering which is sup
posed to have altered the course of
the Gulf Stream is blamed here for
England's hot weather. Like last
year, spring broke early, and for a
month the weather has been swelter-
ing and all heat records have been
broken Experts in trying to discover
the cause are asking these questions:
HAS America altered the British
climate?''
Are the new hot summers due to a
change in the direction Of the Gull
Stream?"
Has the change in the Stream been
caused by the sea railway from the
tip end Of Florida to Key West?"
Some of these questions are answered
with an emphatic yes by John Harrison
of the Clapham Observatory. In letter
to the Daily Express he says: The
course of the Gulf Stream has been
changed within the last few years by
miles long from the coast of Florida to
Key West Although some portion of
the railway is constructed on piles -
great and increasing part OF 1t consists
of a solid embanl<ment and the whole
effect is to narrow considerably on It's
western side the Florida channel outlet
through which the Gulf Stream flows,
thus at once concentrating the waters
of that stream and giving them some
what more easterly course"
He adds that the center OF the north
crn branch Of the stream formerly
struck the west coast of Ireland and
then went around the west coast OF
Scotland, but that it now passes south
Of Ireland and runs straight up the Eng
.ish and British channels. This, he sug-
gests. accounts for the recent remark
able summers and for the heat waves in
the south of England while there Is frost
in Glasgow. -
Mr.. Clapham adds that this also ex-
plains the "phenomenally low tempera-
cures in the Shetland Islands during re-
cent winters" and the recent invasion
of the British Channel by sharks. He
believes that the change in the British
climate will be more marked with the
conversion of the open portions OF the
Key West viaduct to solid embankments
or by the sitting up process
The dryness of the summer already
las caused fear that the water famine
will exceed that of last year and wide
spread appeals are being made to save
water. The winters rainfall was 10 per
cent. below normal and for the last two
weeks 1t has not rained at all.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
SKIRTS AND TEMPERS
LONGER IN ENGLAND
Cartoonist Says British Worry
Less Than Americans.

Special Cable n THE New YORK HrsALp
Copyright, feeg, by THE NEw York HrHALp
New York Herald Bureau.
London. June 10.
Both skirts and tempers are longer In
England than in the United states. ac-
cording to George McManus. the caitoon-
list. who sailed for home this weel. on
board the Majestic He added
THE English people are carrying their
anxieties better than the people OF
America They have quite as much "a
worry about. but they don't appear SO
unstrung"