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The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Jack Dempsey's Hardest Task.

2 In power of attack JACK DEMPSEY,
who sailed for England this week,
so far outclasses the other heavy
weight fighters Of the present day
that the talk of matching him with
BECKETT or any of the other English
pugilists is idle if the spectators are
to receive anything in the way of a
run for their money.
AS for another match between
DEMPSEY and CARPENTER, the differ
ence in weight between the two men
CARPENTER is little more than a
middleweight-wou make the fight
so one sided as to be unsportsman-
like. A man of $50 pounds can hold
his own against one weighing 200
pounds, but the pugilist who scales
165 pounds has not one chance In a
thousand to overcome an opponent
1S5 pounds in weight il the two men
are nearly equal in skill, height and
reach. FITZsIsiMoNs was the only
top middleweight that could do the
trick, and the freckled Antipodean
was the exception that proved the
rule. He was a freak of nature.
More than feet. with the torso of
heavyweight and the legs Of a
lightweight, he packed a punch in
either hand that carried victory with
it whenever 1t landed.
Somewhere in the United States,
but at present unknown, there is the
future conqueror OF DEMPSEY, whose
powers must wane with the passing
Of the years. DEMPSEY has been for
tunate in reaching the top of his
fame at a period when capable heavy
weights we're scarcer than at any
previous time in a generation. He
will be wise IL he saves his money
for his old age.
Saving in the heyday of prosperity
is a difficult task for fighters, ball
players, jockeys and others to whom
money comes rapidly as reward Of
success. Those who do It are few.
In this DEMPSEY is facing as hard
a task as he ever had in winning a
fight, a task calling for more self
control, will power and endurance
than will be required to defeat any
man he will meet In the ring In
Europe.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Another Booze Accident.

A trusting exporter in Quebec,
wishing to send 5000 bottles of Scots
whisky--the real pre-war stuff--to
Havana. routed it by rail to New
York and by steamer from this city
to the Cuban capital.
On the arrival Of the barrels con-
tanning the bottles OF whisky at the
pier from the railroad terminal in
Manhattan it was discovered that
they contained nothing but the harm
less liquid known to the trade as
cream soda and contemptuously re
ferred to by the hardened as pop"
or soft stuff
What will Canada think OF New
York? Is this great port not to be
trusted? Is carting whisky through
this city like sending a mouse for
q walk in an alley full OF starving
cats? And it was 1902 Scots, full
twenty years old.
Consider also the disappointment
at the Cuban end. Six thousand
quarts of Scots whisky is enough to
keep the American tourists in Ha-
vana happy for nearly week. What
will the bars of the Plaza and the
Inglaterra be without the lost treas
ure? The Cubans themselves avoid
whisky, sticking to distilled cane
juice and the rare, fragrant old (but
wicked, mind you) sherries of Mother
Spain.
Maybe CONAN DOYLE could solve
the mystery in the Adventure of the
Three Truckloads Of Scots.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Consigned to Oblivion.
Classic Precedent for the Punishment
OF an Assassin.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: When
the great Temple Of Diana at Ephesus
was destroyed by fire-the historians
always take pains TO tell US that It was
the same night IN which Alexander the
Great was born. $50 B. C.-the young
incendlary was asked why he committed
so great a crime. and he answered that
his sole motive was to make his name
immortal. Thereupon law was enacted
which forbade that his name be ever
written or spoken. But two historians.
more smart than able. recorded it--for
which caper they should have received
stifr prison sentences.
When President Lincoln was murdered
the circumstances made it extremely
probable that the assassin's motive was
largely. IL not wholly, the same as that
Of the young Greek incendiary. He could
not suppose that his crime could in any
way assist the South, for Lees army
had been surrendered a week before and
week before that the Confederate capi-
tai had been abandoned and the entire
Confederate Government had scattered
and fed. There Is no reason to suppose
that that Government in any way sug-
gested or countenanced the crime. II
the assassin wished merely to kill the
President he had abundant opportuni-
ties to do so without immediate detec-
tion, for Mr.. Lincoln was in the habit
OF visiting the War Department nearly
every evening and returning late. The
unnecessarily spectacular manner in
which the deed was committed showed
plainly craving for that notoriety
which criminals often consider fame.
What then became the plain patriotic
and humane duty Of our journalists and
historians? Should they strive to give
for his crime? Should they not only
write his name in full every time that
Lincoln's death is mentioned but at short
intervals through half a century pick
up or manufacture every possible ancc-
dote or reminiscence that would give
an opportunity for thrusting again be-
fore the reading public a name that
should long since have been allowed to
go to oblivion? TO keep 1t alive is to
offer an induccment to the next fanatic
that Is capable of such a deed. And
lHOSc WHO 40 IL Ildke themselves access
sories after the regicide OF April. 1865.
and before those that have followed and
those that are yet to follow.
or course the historian must record
the death OF Lincoln. but it is eDough
TO designate the murderer as simply
''the assassin" At least one American
historian has done this.
But" says friend at my elbow
your argument comes too late now,
The mischief Is done and is irrepara-
ble." Not so. Stop the foolishness right
here. Then walt patiently about half
q century. BY that time every news
paper and nearly every book that is
printed to-day will have perished-
dropped to dust-for they are wholly or
partly Of wood pulp. which carries its
own destruction-an inanimate suicide.
RossITER JOHNSON.
NEW YORK April IA.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
EVENTS TODAY.

! Col. Charles X. Forbes. director OF the
United States Veterans Bureau. and Cornc-
Illus w. Wickersham will speak at the for.
NAL opening of United States Veterans Iyos.
pitai No 81, kingsbridga road and Sedewicj.
avenue. The Bronx, p. NJ.
New York League Of Women Voters.
flower sale and tea, home of Chsmberiai,,
p. NJ.
Travellers Protective Association OF Amer
lea. meeting OF New York division, Hotel
Brevoort. . +. NJ
DR.. II. A. Gleason. illustrated lecture
"Botanizing In British GUIANA" lecture hall
OF the museum building, New York Botaf,,csi !
Garden. Bronx Park. 4 r. NJ.
Miss Mary Heaton Worse will speak On
Tho Russian Famine. meeting OF New
York Camaraderie. Civic Club, IA West
Twelfth street, r. NJ.
osteopathic Society of the City OF New
York. dinner. ..Waidorf-Astoria, 6:i5 p. M.
The Bohemians. dinner. Hotel Bitniore
New York state College Of cbiroprao,ie
lecture by DIR. J. c.. Grcggerson Brvept
Hail Sixth avenue and Forty-second stsc,t
Amity Lodge. Knights OF Pythias. IAN
p. NJ. N
New York Lodge No. /, r. r. o. e. en-
tertainment. home Jos West Forty-third
street. $3.50 r. NJ.
Downtown Chamber OF Commerce. en,sr.
tainfnent, Hotel Astor. $3.50 p NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
GOV. MILLER APPROVES
ELECTION FRAUDS BILL
Vetoes Measure Reinstofin9
Police and Firemen.
Special Dispatch to THE New York Hrurp.
New York Herald Bureau.l
Albany. AuriI IA

Special Dispatch to THn New York Hrrrp.
New York Herald Burcau.l
Albany. April IL.
among the bills signed by Gov. Miller
to-day. was one giving to the Attorney
General broad powers to investigate ana
prosecute violations against the elective
franchise and for enforcing tho election
law under another bill signed. The bill
appropriates $4,000.
The Governor also signed the bills
appropriatng $1,000 each for the legal
expenses OF Abraham L. KatlIn In de-
Tending his seat In the Senate from the
Eleventh district and OF Daniel Carroll.
the unsuccessful contestant
Other bills approved provide that
captains of the New York Police DEPART
ment shall be selected from lieutenants
who have served one year as such In
stead of three.
Tho Duke bill. making It a penal Of
Tense to sell gambling devices, including
put and take tops, was also signed.
The Governor vetoed eight bills, pro-
viding for the reinstatement of police
men Edward J. Lafrerty and Patrick
McDonough and OF Daniel G. Barnes. a
former electrical inspector in tho Fire
Department, and making general pro-
visions for the reinstatement of en-
ployees who served In tho world war.
He said such measures are vicious
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Our Colossal Fire Losses.

The 249 fire insurance companies
which report to the New York State
Insurance Department paid s452,-
$4,000 to their policyholders in 1921.
These companies do nine-tenths of
the fire insurance business of the
United States. The sum they paid to
policyholders last year is the largest
sum ever disbursed to policyholders
by these fire insurance companies in
a calendar year.
Figures compiled by the Spectator
show that the fire losses were s97,-
1S1, 900 in 1908. In 1920 the losses
we're 1891, 100000. The jump OF
SCI, 100000 In 1921 losses compared
with those OF 1920 was an increase
unparalleled even in 1906. the year of
the San Francisco disaster.
Including the 10 per cent. OF
losses not embraced in the reports,
and other fire losses not covered by
insurance at all, the destruction of
property by smoke and flames last
year must have reached at least
5000, 100000. Capitalized at per
cent. this sum would pay the inter.
est on more than $4,000, 900 900. a
figure equal to the aggregate assessed
valuation Of all the property in New
York city.
Before the era of great fire insur-
ance companies. which had its begin
ming Immediately after the great con-
fiagration of London in 1866, fires
were considered as acts of Con to be
deprecated only in reverent prayers
for relief. Two and one-half centu.
ries have passed since then; great
progress has been made not only in
protection against fire losses but in
the discovery and invention OF ways
to prevent accidental kindling OF
flames. Some unavoidable fires may
still be deemed acts of Con, but the
destruction wrought by these is in.
significant in comparison with losses
due to fires which could and should
be prevented.
In spite OF national, State and local
fire prevention campaigns, the con.
slant efforts Of insurance companies
to keep down property destruction
and the extensive legislation on this
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
The New Housing Laws.

or the eight Lockwood housing
bills Governor MILLER signed and
thus made law yesterday, the one
which authorizes the insurance COM
panies to invest 10 per cent. of their
assets in apartments to be rented
for not more than 50 month room
will attract the widest public atten-
tion. The other measures generally
extend, modify or supplement emer-
gency legislation already in effect;
this records a social enterprise novel
in it's conception and fraught with
tremendous possibilities.
Under the provisions OF this law
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company will invest 100000 900 i'm.
mediately in gigantic building en-
terprise to furnish homes for 100000
persons-as many persons as lived
in Yonkers or in Utica or in Sche-
nectady in 1920. These 1000 per-
sons are more in number than the
Inhabitants Of the fifteen principal
cities and towns OF Wyoming, and
more than the whole population of
the State of Nevada.
In constructing these homes the
company is to have the assistance
OF contractors on the one side and
of labor unions on the other. Thus
the enterprise is to be in a sense
cooperative. 1t represents conces-
sions made by contractors and labor
leaders and by the State, for hitherto
the State has rigidly prohibited in
surance companies from engaging in
building operations.
The enactment of these bills, par
ticularly of the insurance bill, adds
another great success to the labors
of the Lockwood committee. 1t has
exposed abuses, revealed conspira-
tors. jailed lawbreakers and forced
through the Legislature measures
the housing emergency dictated. II
now has to its credit this construc.
tive experiment the satisfactory
working out OF which Is predicted by
some OF the ablest business men in
New York.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
BY w. J. HENDERSON.

"Parsifar" was performed yesterday
afternoon In the Metropolitan Opera
House. 1t was Good Friday. and ever
sikce the reign OF Heinrich Conried 1t
has been the custom to invite the magic
spell to work on that sacred festival
day. The drama was given with the
English text. In so far as Nine. Easton
as KundTy, Mr.. Whitehall as Anifortds
and Mr.. Harold as Pdrsifal were con-
cerned. 1t was real English which could
be understood.
Robert Blass as Galrnemons also sang
English. and doubtless quite correctly.
but much of his text--and there is so
much Of it--might as we'll have been In
the original German. AS fc- Mr.. Leon
hardt, who impersonated the wicked
Rlingsor, his English was Of the most
pronounced Gothic type. II might be
to the point to say something about
the entirely regular and 5us,nesslike
flower maidens but flower maidens are
not what they used to be. not even on
Broadway.
There was a very good audience. The
attitude OF "Parsifal' worshipers con-
tinues to be reverent. The performance
Of the work is exempt from serious
criticism. 1t Is regarded as a solemn
1LOS6 WHU ltci lii<tl thc
solemnities are unnecessarily dull should
not emit comment which may wound the
feelings OF the devout.
In the evening the house was COM
pletely filled when Catalanis "Loreley"
was sung for the last time this season.
How many seasons this opera will re-
tain its place In the repertory is a matter
for conjecture, but Mr.. Gatti-Casazza's 8
judgment In reviving Il Is sufficiently
proved by Its present favor. II is not o
work OF artistic Importance; but the
patrons of the Metropolitan like It,
The handsome mounting and the ade-
quate performance OF the opera have
done much for 1t. Miss Muzios Loreley
is one of her most successful achieve
ments and 1t is ably seconded by Mr..
Gigli's Walter. Mime. Sundelius as Anna,
Mr.. Danise as Hermann and MIR. Mar
dones as Rudolph command praise. Much
pleasure is given by the dancing OF
Miss CALI. Mr.. Bonfiglio and the ballet,
and In the wedding scene the chorus
adds to the general merit Of the per-
formance. Mr.. Moranzoni conducts the
opera well.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Ambrose Alwaysright.
From tho Westminster GaSettc.

From tho Westminster Gazette.
! murdered Ambrose Alwaysright,-
BY request, on Monday night.
Ambrose was male nonstrosity
Simply oozing with pomposity.
He was very avaricious,
Mean. unmanly and malicious.
He used every one. He used
All the people he abused.
He would dine with A on sunday
And abuse the man on Monday.
In a grill room he would grumble.
You would pay and he would tumble.
Decency he would resent
And dismiss as sentiment"
So I killed him. When committed
1 was instantly acquitted.
When acquitting me the judge
Did not hesitate or budge-
SMITH" he said. ''how good your nerve
is;
You performed a public service
Come and dine tonight; another
Alwaysright (the dead mans brother)
VIII be there, at o'clock
I nodded as 1 left the dock.
GEorFREY DEARMER.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Spending for Soldiers.

If the New York State Soldier Re.
lief Commission, which is to spend
the million dollars appropriated by
the Legislature to help veterans who
are not receiving Federal aid. keeps
its promise and gets on the job
promptly it will do something the
United States authorities have never
succeeded in doing.
Colonel CooKIS0HAM, the executive
director of the commission. hopes to
have $50 Deputies at work next week,
each authorized to make immediate
payments on being satisfied that a
claim is valid.
Red tape Is to be avoided, and the
fact is to be remembered that help
delayed often means help denied.
The Federal authorities have never
been able to get quick action in their
efforts to aid sick and injured SER
vice men. They have been victims
of red tape and indecision. The men
needing care have suffered from this
in many instances.
Fox Hills offers fine example of
the consequences. of Federal hesita-
tion and lack Of determined pur.
pose. 1t was ordered closed overnight,
without due provision having been
made for It's inmates. though the au-
thorities must have known for
months that it should be abandoned.
When the order was issued to re-
move the patients from the hospital
appropriations had been available for
months to build a hospital for tuber-
cular patients In the Adirondacks,
but not even Its site had been chosen.
Consequently the sick men must go
far West, to Sea View, against which
they are prejudiced-and their pref
udices are worthy of consideration
or elsewhere to the temporary quar-
ters provided for them.
If Colonel CooKINGHAM can spend
a State appropriation for soldiers
promptly and effectively he should
be employed by the United States as
an instructor.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
CONCERT FOR vASsAR FUND.
Large Audience Expected mt Met
ropoIitan Tuesday Night.

The gala concert OF the Mendelssohn
and the University Glee Clubs, assisted
by Miss Rosa Ponselle. to be given for
the benefit Of the Vassar College Salary
Endowment Fund next Tuesday night
in the Metropolitan Opera House. prom
ises to attract a largo audience.
Among the boxholders are Mr.. Her
bert Satterlee, Mr.. julius Barnes, Mrs.
Elon Huntington Hooker. Miss Isabel
Skinner Mrs. Cleveland Dodge, Mrs.
Ferris ]. Meigs, Mrs. +. F. Thompson,
Mr.. Emler Ellsworth Brown. DR.. Henry
Noble MacCracken, Mrs. Charles W..
Halsey, Mrs. John t. Gillespie. Mrs.
Edward Il. Hutton, Mrs. William Henry
Hays and long list, including similarly
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Music of the Palms.

Opera in a foreign tongue will
always be an exotic in any country
that supports it. Furthermore, 1t
will inevitably bring some of its ma
tive characteristics in its train. The
claque is an essential element of ali
representations OF opera in the Latin
tongues. 1t is as much a part of the
performances as the singers them
selves. 1t has a deciding influence
on the quality of operatic produc-
tions, so potent is its effect on the
temperament of the artists.
The self-control OF an English
speaking audience is disconcerting
to singer accustomed to the DEM
onstrations of French or Italian hear
ers. In the French opera houses the
sharp clatter OF applause like the
fire OF musketry greets the appear
ance of a singer. 1t does not come
from the spectators. 1t is wholly a
professional tribute from men hired
by the institutions.
However Licking in spontaneity
this greeting may be, 1t is so reas-
suring to the French singer that the
custom of the claque has been car
ried all over the world in the trail OF
French lyric art. The same applause
usually recurs after thd noted num-
beTs Of the score, with the same stim-
ulative effect on the singer, who is
quite Indifferent as to the source OF
this expression OF approval.
The Italian is equally dependent
on the emphatic expression of APP
proval. He needs the sound OF the
audiences favor in his ears. He is
lonesome and discouraged without
the echoing "Bravos," ard the "Bis!"
The public out beyond /, footlights
seems to him hostile when its APP
proval is indicated with the reserve
OF tho American audience. There
must be some outbreak to give a NJ
lip to the applause. The sound OF a
rNtHlDiidu DIdfiS5llHO. WdIIu5 his
heart. He thinks he sings the better
for IL. Maybe he does.
Artists OF other nationalities seem
less dependent on these manufac.
tured outbursts OF favor. They even
seem able to perform without them.
Then the modern operas without the
conventional set pieces OF lyric art
have limited the opportunities OF
the claque. Nevertheless the claque
persists. The singers OF the Met.
ropolitan Opera House are the best
In the world and they languish with.
out some popular acknowledgment OF
their eminonce. They can afford to
pay for the luxury Of applause en-.
forced. The shouts and the cheers
and the racket OF sympathetic listen
ers have echoed throughout the au-
ditorium OF the opera house this year
as they never did before. While the
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Easter Song.

oh. l have seen the daffodil
Dance up and down the April hill.
And have watched the wind flowers go
Where trod the ermine footed snow.
And I have heard the bluebirds spill
The silver OF their song
Along
The reedy banks beside the rill
The seal is broken; ecstasy
or life on earth again Is free
For you and me.
out OF the sky. out Of tho sod,
There looks the conscious face OF God.
GLrNroN ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
TO AID MUSIC WEEK

The Salvation Army has been asked
to cooperate in Music Week. which will
be observed by the churches and kin
dred organizations In New York the
first week In May. The armys terri
torial staff band OF thirty pieces, under
Staff Capt. George Darby. will play at
various gatherings. Stephen Marshall.
commander OF the metropolitan prov
ince, and Col. Ben Nelson. head OF the
Eastern Scandinavian territory. are
com mpleting arrangements for concerts
in various parts OF the city.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
head, fires rage in the United States

head. fires rage in the United States
at the rate OF one every minute every
hour in the day and every day in the
year. The necessity for greater eau
tion and foresight as the fire hazard
increases with the population has
yet to be borne in upon the under
standing and appreciation Of the peo-
pie. The nation is paying a tremen-
dous and crushing levy OF more than
half billion year, tribute which
is steadily increasing. as penalty
for sheer carelessness.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
BILL FOR SHEEP SOLD
TO WASEIINCTON,S ARMY

HARRISBURG. April IA bill was pre-
sented to the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania to-day for f100 for two head
of sheep purchased for the use of the
American Revolutionary Army under
what Is termed the army act of June
/, 178o."
The bill was sent to Attorney-Ge
George E. Alter by Oliver Fayle Of
Philadelphia with a request that he be
informed whether II was collectable.
The copy received here shows that it
was q. note executed July 2, 1880. by
David Davis. commissary OF purchases.
Mr.. Fayle estimates that the value of
the note to-day in American money IL
about s266.
state fiscal officers said they had no
record of such note.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
WELLS COLLEGE ENDOWMENT.

The alumnae OF Wells College, located
at Aurora, N. ". have secured $4,000
moro than the $4,000 required to meet
tho condition under which the General
Foundation gave $2250O0 to the $1,000
endowment fund. This make a total
of $730,000 secured toward ultimate
goal of $1,000 900. of which tho final
10000 is to be used for buildings and
equipment The campaign closes on
commencement day, J.ne Is.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
TO SING AT WHITE HOUSE.

Mario Chan,lee. the young American
tenor OF the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, has just received a personal in
vitation to sing before President Har-
ding at the White House on April 80.
This will be the second occasion on
which Mr.. Chamlee has sung before a
President OF the United States as when
q soldier OF the Seventy-seventh Divi-
sion he was the chief soloist at a con-
cert given In Paris during the Peace
in honor OF President Wilson.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15

Burglars who succeeded in penetra-
ting the mystery of secret bureau
drawer in which a resident OF New
London kept his $4,000 of Government
bonds must have complained bitterly
when they found these valuable in
struments to be registered, and hence
non-negotiable. Their ingenuity and
skill were demonstrated, but they won
no reward. This makes the record OF
their exploit a story of crime with
truly happy ending.
The New York herald., 1922-04-15
Chicago Hail.

To THE New YORK HERALD: In Chi
cago in the afternoon of the first Fri
day in July, 1902, there was sleet
storm OF such force as to shatter the
doors OF the Ashland Block at the north
east angle Of the Court House square,
I measured one Of the hailstones 1t
was seven-eighths OF an inch in diam
eter. The center was cloudy and slightly
soft. the surface clear and almost as
hard as an ordinary pebble.
+. J. O'KEEFFE.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. April IL.