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The New York herald., 1922-03-15
Resisting Bandits.
Rout Of HoIdup Men by Man OF 40
in the Old Days.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
holdups that seem TO be prevalent are
due to the supineness of the victims as
well IS to the Sullivan law, which makes
a criminal of every respectable citizen
who dares to provide means for his pro-
lection. / recall an incident which oc-
cured some ffty-six years ago to my
grandfather, James III. Weeks, whose
residence, with no near neighbors, was
located at the extreme eastern end of
the village OF Yaphank.
He was the owner of an extensive
tract of land comprising a large portion
of the present Camp Upton and en-
ployed many men in cutting cordwood
for fuel for the engines of the railroad
company. OF which he had been pro-
moter. director and president.
In September, 1866. when he was
nearing the age of 20 years. he sold
for cash farm of some $50 acres
within his tract. He at once deposited
the money in his bank. Late one Sat
urday evening, several days afterward.
while seated with his aged wife in a
small front room OF his residence, a
knock at the door was heard. AS he
rose his wife opened it. disclosing four
men standing without.
Two of them with faces masked rushed
in, one pointing a pistol at him and the
other a similar weapon at my grand
mother. and demanded the money re-
ceived for the farm with threats to kill
on failure to comply. Without a mo-
ment's hesitation or uttering word my
grandfather grasped the pistol arm of
the nearest ruffian, hurled him violently
backward and instantly thereafter grap-
pied with the other. whom he partially
forced through the window sash, and
the next moment he threw them both
out of the door, the rear one falling
the foot scraper on the stoop.
Apparently amazed and terrified at
this unexpected resistance, the bandits
fed precipitately, their speed being ac-
celerated by the blowing by my grand
mother of horn which was kept at
hand ready for such emergencies. The
man who tripped lost his large felt hat
as he fell and 1T was recognized as be-
longing to fellow who was a noted
nothunter. game hog. poacher and tres
passer. The next morning my father.
William J. Weeks, trailed his tracks and
those of his associates along the dirt
roads to their respective homes.
No action was ever taken or COM
plant made, but the hat was duly pre-
served as a trophy. Neither my grand
parents, my parents nor anybody else in
the village has ever since been similarly
troubled. ARCHIBALD c. WEEKS.
BROOKLYN March H.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Is, 1922
Call the Troops Home.

The claim Of the United States of
s241, 100000. filed against the ac-
count OF German reparatfchs and
presented to the allied Finance Min
listers now sitting in Paris, came as
shock to the Allies. 1t is causing
wide discussion among them, but not
sufficient disturbance to have swerved
them from the scheduled distribution
OF the one billion German gold marks
to England. France and Belgium.
Before the American claim was pre-
sented the Finance Ministers had
made their distribution plans and
they went straight through without
change and without regard to or con
sideration for the American claim.
Apparently the Allies had accepted
II as a matter of course that Amer
ica would present no bill for the
services of her troops on the Rhine,
though why this view isn't clear. The
and from the press, is that, while
Americas position with regard to this
matter may have a measure Of jus
tice, yet the way for her to collect
the money on her claim Is exceed
ingly obscure.
One suggestion Is that America
collect it from sequestered German
funds in the United States. but one
Of the highest diplomatic and legal
authorities In the French Govern
ment has pointed out that Germany
cannot pay out a single mark with
out consent of the Reparations Com
mission and that should the United
States seek to collect this claim from
Germany the Allies would protest.
In view of the general attitude of
the Allies with regard to this S241,-
100000 claim il looks. on the face of
1t. as If Americas contribution t.
the military forces on the Rhine
hasn't been very good business for
her: looks as IL a continuation of
her troops on the Rhine in this situa.
tion would be worse business; looks
as il the sensible thing for America
TO do is to bring her troops home
without further delay.
This would have the effect of elimi-
rating discussion and misunderstand-
ing as to future charges for their
services. They have been there three
and half years and there is no con-
vincing reason why they should re-
main there any longer, there is no
convincing evidence that they are
performing any worth while service
by remaining there.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
DUTCH TENOR PLEASES.

Louis Dornay, Dutch tenor. was heard
in his first recital here yesterday after
noon in Aeolan HalE He gave a good
program. 1t included German lieder.
modern French songs. Coleridge -Tay-
lor's lyrics, Life and Death" and a
group of old Dutch folksongs.
Mr.. Dornay is an interesting singer,
although the resources of his voice are
limited. OF a barytone rather than
tenor quality. there was much throati-
ness of timbre in certain songs, while
the breath was often poorly used.
In producing sustained head tones he
was successful and the effect was musi-
cal. He showed an admirable under
standing Of text and phrasing. His die
ton in several languages was praise
worthy.
His French songs. as. for instance,
Fourdrains "Aux Portes de Seville"
and the "Dansons la Gigue"-at the
close of this song he himself applauded
the composer, who was in a box-were
given with much intelligence of style.
Too impassioned at times, his expression
OF feeling went over into the senti-
mental. But this the audience seemed
to like.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
Moonrise at Sea.

There is a subtle and pervasive scent
From some far land upon the port or
lee;
Rests on the waves a vast tranquility
AS though it we're through Gods arbl-
trament.
The gulls fly high as though their wings
were bent
Toward airy bourns to which we may
not fee,
Those happy havens OF the Blest which
Have dreamed OF, some aerial continent.
The harper of the sky evolles no tune
From any chord that mortal ear has
heard:
II word be breathed It is Gods holy
word
Sllence-as when the earth first
came to be,
And out of the wan east crept up the
moon.
A great fre opal on a silver sea.
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
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Spanking With Each Bath.
Firms Use Cedar Boughs on Bodies
With Good Results.
From Minneapolis journal.


"Our cedar boughs guaranteed i'm
ported from Boy River, Mimi"
Such might have been the advertise
ment that drew 11.1sS bathers last year
to the Finnish baths at Wells Memorial
House. the only guaranteed Finnish
baths in Minneapolis.
Though Finland, like Minnesota, Is a
land of lakes and forest, the true Fin
lander when he bathes goes at Il with
all the artifices and technique one might
expect OF person born and reared In
the subbasement Of skyscraper.
It's good bath TO take. Miss Mar
garet Chapman. head resident of Wells
Memorial House, said the other day.
Confirmed Finnish bathers, she ex-
planned, beat themselves vigorously
about the body with fresh cedar boughs
which have been steamed. Only cedar
bonghs will do.
A Finn doesn't feel clean until
soundly spanked from head to foot, she
explained. To Firms goes the outstand-
ing credit for solving the bathing enigma
OF how TO wash the human back and
make IL feel washed.
The baths are open to men twice
week and TO women once a week. The
Finlanders assert their native mode of
bathing is responsible for their splendid
physique and healthy families. 1--WE
would rather pay for baths than doctor
bills" one Finlandcr commented. Rhcu-
matism is practically unknown among
the F'inlanders because OF their attention
to bathing and exercise, Miss Chapman
said.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15

The Doukhobor leaders in Canada
who recently announced that they con-
templated killing their grandparents
and their babies as protest against
utes have now sought TO placatc pub
lie opinion by explaining that the
slaughter they had in mind was theo-
retical only. 1t is to be hoped they
have learned that even theoretical
murder is not approved in the old
fashioned communities that make up
most of the civilized world.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
Frances Eight Hour Law.


For three years. dating from April
90, 1919, France has tried the expert
ment of mandatory law compelling
an eight hour day and applicable to
labor in all branches of industry.
In operation it has proved unsatisfac-
tory. More than twenty-five chambers
of commerce and other similar or
ganlzations representing the coun.
try's whole business community are
demanding that the law be repealed
or so modified as to permit free con-
tractual engagements between EN-
ployer and employed. RAPHAEL
GEORGES LEVY of the Institute Of
France, one OF the highest French
economic authorities, discusses the
question at length in the Reuuc des
DcuT MondeS. reaching the conclu-
sion that a change is imperative.
The law prohibits more than eight
hours as days work for "laborers
and employees in all industrial and
commercial establishments. 1t ap-
plies to both sexes and to all ages.
That the law was too rigid was rec
ognized soon after its enactment. A
number of interpretative modifca-
tions followed, with results that in
some cases are confusing. But how
ever split up and rearranged, the
eight hour day and the forty-eight
hour week remain the limit for work
ers, to go beyond which is illegal.
The motive back OF the enactment
was admirable. The purpose Of the
authors of the law was to protect
wage earners from injustice at the
hands of employers and to protect
them from themselves as we'll. 1t
was insisted that they must have
sixteen hours out of the twenty-four
in which to do anything they chose
except work for their regular en-
ployers. Theoretically they were
supposed to devote this time to rest
and recuperation. theoretically, thus
invigorated, they would do more
work and increase the output in the
eight hours of their employment.
Theoretically the time limit would
increase the number of jobs open
and relieve unemployment.
Actually not one of these advan-
tages has been obtained. If the wage
Garner was industrious he went to
work somewhere else as soon as his
eight hours were over in one place.
Salaried men in one industry became
competitors for jobs in other callings,
thus throwing so many out OF en-
ployment that loud complaints were
made. Moreover the excessive cost
of production and the crippled rail
road service resulting from compli-
cations caused by enforcement of the
law compelled many establishments
to lose their markets. Increased cost
of production all along the line re-
suited in increased cost of commodi-
ties. Then began the vicious circle of
demands for higher wages, followed
by more living cost rises. Instead Of
greater vigor on the part Of workers
resulting from the shorter hours of
toll, precisely the reverse has been
the fact. Mr.. LEWIS statistics show
that the output has been uniformly
smaller in quantity and poorer in
quality.
All this has eliminated In a de-
mand for a change that has become
too insistent to go unheeded. Abso-
Lutte repeal of the law is not now
urged. Notifications Of its terms and
abandonment OF it's infiexible rigidity
to relieve industry from It's cramping
restrictions are what is sought.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
BelIlng the Cat.

no THE NEw YoRK HERALD: I have
a beautiful large seven year old Maltese
cat that is treated as a member OF tho
family. lie has q studded collar with
heavy silver bell so as to warn the
birds OF his approach.
1f bird lovers would keep heavy
metal bell on Puss and give him his
meals regularly both birds and cats
could live and be happy.
Mrs. E. r. LINEN.
BROOKLYN, March H.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15

ter to-day than ever before. The
question is. How shall she meet this
great Islamic power, power that
extends from the Congo to the Pa
cific, from the Black Sea to the In
dian Ocean. and that holds in its
grasp 250,Oo0.00o followers of the
Prophet? Can it be controlled and
at the same time led into the paths
of amity and peace?
The New York herald., 1922-03-15

II now develops that the bomb
thrown into the unoccupied winter
garden OF the American Legation at
Sofia, Bulgaria. Saturday, followed a
letter threatening harm to Minister
WILSON because OF the Sacco- -Vanizctti
case. But under the operation of Mas
sachusetts law SAcco and vANIzErTI are
still alive, protected in their struggle
for a new trial. The ways OF radical
plotters pass the understanding Of sane
men
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
OF the Class of 1855.
MIR. Levey's Course Of Reading Has
Lasted Sixty-seven Years.

To TIE New YORK HERALD: Writing
to your paper c. Stegmann says he has
been a faithful reader of THE NEW YORK
HERALD for sixty-three years and an
ticipates that IL he lives to be n CEN
tenarian you may award him cash
bonus.
YORK HERALD reader for sixty-seven
years, beating him by four years. !
think / will owe a cash bonus to you
IL live to be a centenarian instead OF
rccosTfns one. THE NEW York HERALD
was first delivered at my home at "a
Seventh avenue in 1855.
CLARENCE D. LEvEr.
ARLINGTON, March ~.
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The Gentle Gorilla.

Mans idea of the gorilla was gen.
orally that he was a peculiarly fe.
rocious beast whose savage onrusi
a rife bullet could scarcely stop and
whose role in his jungle home was
carrying African natives to his lair
or swooping down from treetops
upon unsuspecting hunters. He was
the picture of violent savagery; the
very embodiment of brute ferocity
DIR. CARL z. AKELEY, who has just
returned from Africa with five skins
of the biggest of the gorilla family
for the American Museum of Natural
History. says this is all wrong. The
so-called maneating gorilla is very
tame creature, ferocious only if cor.
nered, timid and rather gentle; and
it is no sport to shoot one of
his kind.
With all the opportunity that man
has had for studying this big simian,
he seems to have found out little
about him. The hunters of ancient
Carthage described the gorilla much
as the modern hunter does, but the
world has gone on confounding him
with the chimpanzee and the orang-
utan. PAUL M CHAILLU brought
back some pretty tall stories of the
gorilla's incursions on native villages
and his ferocity. But, even accept
fa M
preached the villages, the most Of
the really authentic information re-
garding his behavior was to the effect
that he ate the fresh grain and then
mussed up cane patch by making
his bed in it. 1t was his destructive
ness rather than his ferocity that
made the natives hate him.
The natives say that they seldom
see gorilla; he is too timid to come
often out Of his forest shelter. This
timidity may account for the fac.
that naturalists have always had
trouble in fixing the real extent of
his habitat. The natives, too, give
him credit for being a rather faithful
head Of his family. If he goes out
for walk in the woods he takes his
mate and young ones with him.
When he returns he puts them to
sleep in leaf nest in the top of the
tree and he watches at the foot for
his slyest and most formidable en-
emy, the leopard. III ever the two
meet 1t is a battle royal from which
only one comes out alive.
DIR. AKELEY says that he saw
group of four or five having a frolic
in an opening in the woods. They
were playing as children do and fed
only when they heard the click of the
camera. It is said that all of the few
gorillas in captivity were gentle
and docile, and showed the CHM
panzee's traits and ability to learn.
But these captives were all young
An adult gorilla might be expected to
object to being imprisoned and made
a show OF. That is a privilege to
which he is entitled.
The gorilla is monstrously big
fellow One of those killed by DR..
AKEIEY weighed $50 pounds, was
five and one-half feet in height and
measured sixty inches around the
chest. Such creature was built
and trained by nature for fighting.
Many men with the same equipment
might have been more quarrelsome
and troublesome. 1t is his looks
which have been against the gorilla
and which have given him his bad
name. We are glad DR.. AKELEY has
put US right on the matter and we
have no regret that he brought back
the skins and not the wild timid
creatures OF the forest themselves to
be captives.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Unsettled.
probably rain, and somewhat colder to-
morrow fair. fresh north and north
west winds.
For New Jersey-Rain and colder to-day
tomorrow fair; fresh to strong northeast
to northwest winds.
For Northern New EngIa aad-Generally fair
~ -uay and tomorrow; somewhat colder to-
uas moderate TO fresh northwest wnds.
ror Southern New England--Cloudy and
colder, probably rain to-day; tomorrow fair
irssn ts northeast 70 northwest winds.
ror western New Yorl--Far to-day and
TOMORROW; little change in temporal ature.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The disturb.
snce mat was over Ontario tonight moves
.apiuis eastward to the Canadian martins
ha n' while the southwestern disturbance
as ,,a moved directly eastward, and its center
was was over Tennessee tonight. The latter has
e,sn An attended by light rains In the middle
Atantic States. heavy rains in the Ohio,
middle Mississippi and lower Missouri yal,
,e.s ~. ana eastern Kansas, and showers and
Gulf Gus'orms s,stma n, IN Tennessee and the nNddlg
IN the north Pacific states.
A., h1 temperature was somewhat lower to-
ay Ss.y AZ tne lake region and the Ohio Valley,
put II continued considerably above norma,
over all sections east of the Rocky Moun.
sains. An area OF abnormaiIy high pressure
spread t,,o y inyer,n lower temperature has over
Ing a temperature OF forty degrees below
zero this morning.
,,al,o The Tennessee disturbance viii continue 70
move eastward. and 1t viii be attended bt
VaIley Ta,n tomorrow mo- & n the extreme upper ohIo
,ay' ,na.ey' me middle Atlantic and South Al
England. Otherwise fair weather will nr'-
M,n.,dg vnii during the next two days east OF the
MISSISSIPPI River. The temperature win b.
somewhat lower tomorrow in Tennessea
the east Gulf States and in the Atlantie
states north OF Florida. The temperat,,rs
VIII not change materially east OF the Mis-
sissippt River during Thursday.
Observations at United StaAe, w..,,..
Bureau stations. taken at p. M. yester.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15

The world is but a punching Bag
For those who pass its way.
o Pilgrim. bound YOU know not where
Get all the strength you may
From battering at the swinging globe,
That gives you energy!
But as for altering its shape,
For good or evil Nay!
Tis only n great Punching Bag
And meant for use that way
NJ. ". RuHIpn.
The New York herald., 1922-03-15
Philadelphia Men in Varied Program
John Alden Carpenters Pilgrim Vision Among Works
Played-Cabrilowitsch at the Piano.

hour which will permit 1t TO be heard
and considered properly something more
important may be said about it.
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Highest temperature, SIS. at las =. NJ.
Lowest temperature. IL. at midnight
Average temperature. 80.
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Aiib,.
Appraisement.

The March TIare-I may be mad, but
aven't proposed any bonus scheme.
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Bonus Cycle.
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The temperature IN this city yesterday.
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DANCING.

Mr.. PEMBERroN. FORMER y. 7. wIN-'
ter Garden star. partner 70 Gertrude Hor-
man. Mae Murray; lessons in all styles Of
dancing. Studio. 1850 Biitmors. Col. ceos
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