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The New York herald., 1922-05-26
Plays Less Gloomy Then.
Once Upon Time Even Melodrama
Had Its Lighter Side.

To THE NEW York HERALD: VIII
somebody explain why in depicting hum
BILE life the theater OF to-day must
swarm with hairy apes and dreary
slatterns of the waterfront, Lilioms and
the like?
1t is true that in tho old days we
could beat this stuff four ways from the
jack. with such melodramas as The
Barber Assassin and the Pie Woman of
Bell Yard" in which the barber dumped
his victims through a trap to be robbed
by the pie woman: but we had farces
as an Offset the same night. such as
1000 Milliners' and BOX and Cox"
the printer and the halter, with hum
dred more merry skits.
In the gruesome plays humorous char
acters and comicalities relieved the ten
sion also. Edward Eddy as the police
spy or In "six Degrees Of Crime" incul-
Gated moral lessons. Then we had some
wonderful players. J. b. Studley. w. H.
whalley. George c. Boniface. Mrs. w.
G. Jones. Fanny Herring, Rachel Denvil.
Lucille Western. whose Modoe the Cad
ger in THE Child Stealer" was a mar
vel. They appeared In trade plays
THE Blacksmith of Antwerp" "The Car
penter of Rouen.'' The Physician Of
Paris" The .Locksmith Of Lyons" and
Tho Ragpickef of Paris"
Joe Proctor as the Jibbenotndsdy in
Nick Of the Woods" was thrilling. but
he was no less great in "Gio. the Ar
morer of Tyre" John Brougham
adapted Sylvanus Cobb's NeU York
Ledger story. THE Gunmaker Of Mos
cow" and acted In the play delightfully."-.
We had Chanfrau as Nose the fire lad
die in "a Glance at New York." and
that wonderful comedian as we'll as pam
tomimist, George L. Fox. as Gregory
ThinbIctccH in Tho Tailor Of Tam
worth" Then we had the Shoemaker
of Toulouse" Tho Stonecutter of Lis
bon." The Miller and His Men," '-rhe
London Apprentice" and Tho Long
Strike" with that rare thespian ]. II.
stoddart as Moneypemny the lawyer.
Mrs. r. b. Conway produced The Me-
chanics of Brooklyn at her little Park
Theater before the bridge was built.
with "a real machipc shop in full oper-
alton" Talk about effects The boys
all wanted to be machinists. They loved
Lotta too as The Little Detective" at
the Conway Park Theatsr.
When John L. Toole. Britain's IDEAL
comedian, visited these shores we had n
glimpse In 1874 OF an engineer who
could cure the Crouch of the most mis-
anthropic in "Down the Line" at WAL
lacks. The fascinating Lester Wallack
was admired as Ssr Charles CoIdstream
in Used Up," but Charles Fisher in the
same play won our hearts as John IRON
brace, blacksmith.
There was play, The Old Straw
Man Of New York." about a real charac-
ter unbelievably quaint and grotesque,
and Street q Smiths New York
Weekly story Of Bertha the Sewing
Machine Girl" was capitally staged at
the Bowery Theater. While naive. Ber-
tha was vastly superior to the unwhole-
some vamps of to-day.
No matter what the play. 'Rosedals"
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
The Duty on Gloves.
Proposed New Tariff Rates Would
Raise Prices Here.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: A large
majority Of tho American people favor
a reasonable tariff that will provide
revenue and give protection to domestic
industries. They do not want a tariff
that will prohibit the importation of
foreign goods in order that prices may
be increased for the beneft of manu-
facturers many OF whom have shown
their ability to compete with other coun-
tries by selling their products in all the
markets of the world. Tho difference
between protective and prohibitive du-
ties Is the difference between statesman
ship and log rolling politics.
Sweeping charges OF a general nature
against tho Fordney- Nc Cumber bill re-
ceive little or mo attention from the
average voters. To awaken their inter-
est they must see specific instances of
tariff taxation gone mad. Here Is one
of them:
The duties on the cheaper kinds of
ordinary kid gloves for women have
been fixed in the pending tariff bill at
from so TO 20 per cent ad valorem, In
some cases the new duties amounting
to more than 400 per cent above the
present rates Gloves OF the style and
finish mostly worn by American women
have never been successfully manufac-
tured In this country. and would not be
made even with the embargo by the pro-
posed prohibitive duties.
The net result will be to make mill
ions of women pay much higher prices
for gloves that are less desirable than
those they are accustomed to wear. DO
the Republican party leaders think that
tariff legislation Of this kind Is likely
to help them secure the support Of the
women voters In the coming elections?
NEW York. May 25. VIC.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
The Music Of the Spheres.

How poor earth's sweetest anthems are
To those who. with anointed ears,
Hear drifting down the voids afar
The choral music Of the spheresi
The noble spirits Of all time.
II they but be supremely great.
Are gifted with a sense sublime,
With the Divine are intimate:
Elijah who was lifted up.
Homer who sang yet could not see,
And Socrates who drained the cup.
And Christ who died on Calvaryi
'Tis such unselHsh souls as these.
The lofty singers and the seers.
Who penetrate life's mysteries
And know the music Of the spheres
CLINTON ScoLLARp.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26

WASHINGTON, May 35.--Approved By
President Harding. campaign against
grade crossing accidents will begin on
all the railroads Of the United States
and Canada next Thursday and con-
tinue for four months under tho auspices
Of the American Railway Association.
President Harding has written the
following letter:
The complete scope Of such an
effort would mean the saving of
thousands of lives. the prevention of
many more thousands of injuries and
incidentally the prevention of great
property loss. OF course the ideal
solution is elimination of grade cross
ings. to which all possible energy and
means should be INCREASINGLY directed
But the extent of our country and its
railroad mileage mako It apparent
that not for many years Of utmost
effort could this be effected.
There should be constant pressure
for elimination Of tho danger spots.
+. POI bASdAaAiy SAc AiOAC POPNAOeS
areas, pending which there is need
for just the kind OF preventive ef-
fort that your association is planning.
Among these measures tho most ef-
fective would seem to be to arouse In
the minds Of drivers a sense Of their
personal responsibilities. When
thoughtlessness is allowed to usurp
the place of vigilance. as too often
happens, the scene Is set for tragedy.
Reminders and still moro reminders
Of the need for caution at railway
crossings are needed.
Surely the effort you are under
taking is appealing and It ought to
have the most generous and general
support.
Accidents at highway grade crossings
have been increasing alarmingly in tho
last few years. according to records Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
In 1921 there were 1.072 fatal accidents
Of this sort and 4,s1S persons werc in
jured. The great majority of tho acci-
dents involved automobiles.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
The Tariff on Your Feet.

Until the Fordney-McCumber reign
of tariff frenzy the most reckless
makers of inordinate customs duties
shrank from loading down the feet Of
the American people with tariff
weights. What UNDERWOOD did not
do nine years ago. even PAYNE did
not dream Of doing twelve years ago.
Truth to tell, even FoRDNEY, with all
his tariff madness, dared not do 1t.
But when the F6rdney measure
reached the Senate Finance Commit
tee McCUMBER threw off the tariff
brakes. Hides-and imported hides,
because this country does not nor
mally produce one-half the quantity
consumed here-are the basic factor
In determining the cost of leather
and shoes. 1t had been a traditional
policy of American protection that
because of this fundamental fact the
raw material going into shoes must
never be tariff taxed to burden
American feet.
The average live, sturdy, perpetual
motion American child can kick out
pair of shoes in a month. Millions
Of American workmen have in the
family from three to dozen live,
sturdy perpetual motion children
capable of breaking up shoes at the
rate of pair a month each. The
annual shoe bill of such families O.
American workmen is at best heavy
and painful load. So it came to be a
national axiom even with high pro-
tectionists: Never touch with any
tariff the shoes of the American
workmans family!"
But McCUMBER, self-consecrated to
smashing all tariff records to atoms,
was moved to sacrifice 110,000,000
American wearers of shoes to the in
terests of a few hundred slaughter
pens and packing houses, two-thirds
of all the American hides that go to
the tannery coming from these few
great slaughter pens and packing
concerns.
McCUMBER put duty OF two cents
a pound on green hides and four
cents a pound on dried hides, al
though the Fordney and the Payne
Aldrich, like the Underwood tariff,
had left them free.
McCUMBER put duty of twelve
cents a pair and five per cent. ad
valorem on "boots and shoes, chief
value, Of hides of cattle OF bovine
Species" although even FoRDNEY, like
UNDERWOOD, had left them free.
McCUMBER put duty OF 40 per
cent. on boots. shoes or other foot
wear. the uppers of which are COM
posed, chief value, OF wool, cotton,
&c." although there was no CORE
spending provision in either the I'm
derwood tariff law or the Payne
Aldrich tariff law.
McCUMBER made hide and leather
and shoe tariff the full cost of which
TO the American people in shoes alone
nobody can precisely state now In
mathematical terms. Nobody can
! state Il exactly because such duties
were so absolutely undiscoverable
and unheard of in previous tariff leg
islation that there is nothing in past
schedules and nothing in the shoe
and leather business on which to
base comparisons.
But one thing everybody in the
hide and leather industry does know.
1t is that under normal conditions
only half the quantity Of hides. in
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
The Daniel Webster Highway

New Hampshire paid a graceful
tribute to distinguished son when
a few days ago she officially named
the principal road through the State
the Daniel Webster Highway.
AS a road named after DANIEL
WEBSTER should be. this highway is
broad and of truly practical value to
the State. II begins at Nashua, on the
border Of Massachusetts,, where the
dedication services we're held with
The New York herald., 1922-05-26

II patrons of post Office stamp win
dows hear sighs of relief from clerks
on duty they can safely be attributed
to a change in the color of the twelve
cent stamps. Former issues pictured
DR.. FRANKLIN's cheerful countenance
and flowing locks in color so like the
two cent Franklin that hurried
clerk often gave out stamps Of the
larger denomination for the smaller.
In the new issue OF the twelve cent
stamp Poor Richard has his fea-
lures and hair dyed a ripe plum, shad-
ing into chocolate. and clerks will
make fewer expensive errors In selling
the stamps they adorn.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
TO ARRIVE ON CoNTE Rosso.

The now Lloyd Sabaudo liner Conte
after q swift trip from the Mediter-
ranean. Jas among her voyagers John
Ball Osborne. American Consul General
at Gen,a, and Mrs. Osborne Mrs. Emily
Ladenburg Of westbury. L. L.: Mrs.
John Morton. the Misses Eleanor Bab-
bitt, Betsy Blair. Margaret Morris. Anna
and Sara Burdick and Virginia Durham !;
Conte Adimari, Robert Brown, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hopkins. Edith May Wellesley.
Henry Wyman, Mrs. Ella Wright. Bar.
bara Durham Wayne. Josephine Under
wood and Marie Whitney.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Unssttled
probably showers to-day and tomorrow
moderate temperature. with moderate to
fresh westerly winds. becoming variable.
For New Jersey-Unsettled, probably
showers to-day and tomorrow; mod
crate temperature; moderate to fresh
westerly winds becoming variable.
For Northern New Ensland-Cloudy
and unsettled to-day; tomorrow prob
ably fair; moderate to fresh west and
northwest winds.
For Southern New Engiand-unset-
tied; probably showers to-day and to-
morrow; moderate temperature moder-
ate to fresh westerly winds becoming
variable.
For Western New York-Cloudy ana
unsettled to-day and tomorrow; prob
ably showers not much change in tenn
perature; moderate to fresh westerly
winds becoming variable.
WASHINGTON. May 25.-Pressure re-
mained high to-day of the Atlantic
coast. Showers have occurred within
the last twenty-four hours in the lake
region. the North Atlantic States, the
great central valleys. the North Pacific
states and the northern plateau region
and at scattered points in the South
eastern states. The temperature was
somewhat lower to-day in the lower lake
region, and decidedly cooler weather
overspread the interior of the Pacific
States. Nevada and western Idaho. In
other parts of the country there was
little change in temperature.
The outlook Is for unsettled, showery
weather tomorrow and Saturday over
most sections east OF the Mississippi
River. The temperature will not change
materially during the next two days
The New York herald., 1922-05-26

or "Rienzi." "Mazeppa" or Macbeth" !"
we went home in spirit Of exaltation.
determined to eschew evil and emulate
the good. That is not tho effect pro-
duced by the stun called realistic
drama to-day HERBERr g. RENroN.
NEW RocHELLE, May Is.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26

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The New York herald., 1922-05-26

The mercury reached s1h degrees
in Paris on Wednesday Just TO show
how warm a welcome Europe can give
to bankers who are qualified to speak
with authority about real money.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
Safety Drive Is Approved by Harding
He Declares Railroads Should Be Supported in Move
to'Lessen Crossing Accidents.

The slogan Of the campaign win be
"Cross crossings cautiously"
The New York herald., 1922-05-26

Highest Temperature, u. at 2 p. M.
Lowest temperature. 80, at 6 A. M.
Average temperature. eS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-26
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature in this city yesterday, as
recorded by the official Thermometer. 10
shown in the annexed table:
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
What's Behind
ActiUe Stocks /?
135-Hupp Motor Car

The Hupp Motor Car Corporation
was Incorporated In 1915 to acquire
the property and business of q
Michigan company of the same
name. 1t owns or controls the
American Gear Manufacturing Com
pany, the Detroit Auto Speciality
Corporation, the II. g. NJ. Body
Corporation, and the Hupmobile
companies of New York, Nebraska
and New England. It has plants in De-
troit and Jackson, Mich, and Wind
sor, Ont, the first named plant COW
ering approximately twenty acres.
The company's record has been one
of progress without the aid of new
capital issues. In the six-year
period 1915-21 property and invest
ments increased from $1,020,000 to
$5,436,000 while the capital stock
actually decreased nearly $500, 900
to a total of $e,065,900. The ex-
pansion indicated was made pos
sible by plowing earnings back into
property. Earnings in the six years
ending with 1921, aggregated $6,-
$4,000. and dividend disbursements
in the same period amounted to ST.
$4,000. Earnings in 1921 were at
: bnS 1dLC OI $LpsSc VIZ tbS Yo,1CNsAUV
common stock--par value $40. At
the end Of 1921 there was profit
and loss surplus of $4,905,00o, and
current assets exceeded current liza
bilities by s2.5l8,00O. Net tangible
assets applicable TO the common
stock amounted to $6,068,000, or
SlIo8 a snare, after deducting
goodwill! and trade names, carried
separately at $3.50 600, In thb
first quarter Of 1922 earnings were
equivalent to ia per cent ON the
common stock fhe common stock
Il preceded by Ss63,S00 OF per
cent cumulative preferred on which
dividends have been paid regularly
since 1916. The common has re-
ed ~ a year since the beginning
Il ( 1920. Range Of common stock:
high, 23js In 1920; low, III In
1917: last sale price, 21M.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
In Wall Street
Judge Gary and the Market

The optimistic note sounded by
!. Judge Gary at the American Iron and
steel institute meeting yesterday was
believed in the Street to have had an
important influence in turning the
course Of stock market prices upward.
professional operators have been bear
ish All week and still predict that the
stock list is headed for lower levels.
But when they found yesterday that it
was not so easy to depress values, MS
ON the preceding day they started a
covering. movement that resulted In
substantial gains at the close. Ono
OF the exceptions, however, was
STANDARD Oil of New Jersey, which
was sold heavily throughout the mar
ket session aad suffered net loss OF
3h points. The selling in this stock
IS attributed to the view that recrp-
lents of the 400 per cent stock dividend
Wl!l in reality get no more than the,
mad before, as no provision has been
made for an increase in the cash
dividend rate.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Money and Credit

Call money opened and renewed yes
tArday at 51s per cent. The usual in--
crease of offerings as the week end
apeYoaehed caused decline shortly
alter noon to per cent. Rates for
time funds were unchanged and the
hrainAsa dnna WAS siipht.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Foreign Bonds
ae Argentina ,. ,oo,t ,n.v ~
B. r. T. Net for September
Shows S45. 900 Decrease

- Net income of the Brooklyn Rapids
transit Company for the month ofs
Septemoer was more than $45,000 less
snan ina. ior the corresponding month or
ment issued by the company yesterday :
Last months net income was sIss 17s
compared with s215.o7s for September &
=, i,
For the three months ended Septem- !.
Der 10, however, the net income wa =
about $4,000 greater than for ths.s
corresponding period of 1921. The
hgures for this year were s772 fss
against $7o2,362 for the preceding
year. Gross income for Septembers
was $90S,057, against s92s,4I8 for Sep
tember, 1891. Total operating revenues
amounted to S2,92s.84s. compared with
$2,B05,308 a year ago.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Campbell Sees Big steel Demand

:, James S. Campbell, president Of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company,
who was among those present at the
,semi-annual meeting Of the American
Iron and Steel Institute yesterday,
agreed with Judge Gary that the volume
OF steel business ahead would be linz
tied only by the ability of the railrads
to carry the products. "About month
ago." he said, 81 believed we would
have fairly quiet winter, but now !
see we will have all the business we can
ship. However, expect more trans
portation and fuel troubles later on
from the shortage Of railroad equip
ment, particularly locomotives. Steel
prices will probably show little change.
They have fallen back little, but they
cannot go any lower. Labor has had
at raise in wages, which it deserved.
1t is now time for the stockholders TO
get something. We have made one
slight increase in dividends and IL
present earnings continue we will soon
make another" ME-. Campbell was nom
committal regarding reports that his
company was in negotiation for contr i
OF the Steel and Tube Company Of
America.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Producers and Refiners

Conditions affecting The Producers
and Refiners Corporation are reporte !
to have taken sudden change for the
better through the discovery of oil on
areas that were formerly regarded as
wildcat" and by the acquisition of
proven acreages. Most important of
the recent developments is said to be
the discovery Of oil in the Lost Sol
dier-Wertz field in Carbon County.
Wyo. This discovery is declared
to be so important as to warrant the
construction of new refinery at Fort
Steele, Wyo., on the Union Pacific
Railroad. Work has already started
on pipe line from the Lost Soldier
Wertz field to that point.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Curb Prices Rule
Generally Firmer
In Quiet Session
Oils in Improved Demand,
but Industrials Lag Be-
hind; Selling Pressure Is
Lifted; Magnolia Rallies

An improved tone marked trading on
the. curb market yesterday, but trans
actions were in the smallest volume in
some time. Oils were in better de-
mand, but industrials Jagged.
Magnolia Petroleum attracted attens
tion, with an advance of IT points.
Standard Oil Of New York was
stronger. but others In the group were
unsettled. New England Fuel Oil
scored gain of point. Midwest
Texas was active and steady on the re-
port that negotiations for acquisition
Of additional property were under way.
Vacuum Oil gained points.
Gillette Safety Razor held steady,
but Kuppenheimer common sagpea.
Lucey Manufacturing dropped another
point. Stutz Motors sagged fraction
ally. Hayes Wheel was stronger.
Yr1 - -
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
rices Take
Inward Turn
Ii Stock Trade
Most Marked
tho Better Grade
lndussriala; Covering
IN Shorts "a Factor

ntsrusticnai market .onditioas hay-
g hssn restored to better balance by
4. s4eline in prices that had persisted
.avhout the week. and there being
1Ainx in the news to cause fresh
r,.x Of securities quotations on the
- Exchange turned upward again
sss.say. The reeovery WIS most
sssLsa IN ths better grade industrial
.s.ts. ranging from healthy fractions
..,srai points. whereas the rails as
lam made less headway. The aver
=. rrics isvei was advanced precisely
,s,us, but was still we'll below the
q force preceding Thursdays
- hses.
cxvssing Of short commitments was
S.aar and IL is also probable that
q. sxyics d commission houses that
- ss.s 10 buy had come attracted
.or.. fo,lowine. A renewal rate Of IA
- cant for call money was inauspi-
lao. for the rise, but was Offset in a
sas.urs BY the advance in Federal Re-
..rve ratios. Whatever the signifi-
,,nee Of the latter, the trading COM
.unity is always inclined to interpret
!; y meaning easier money conditions
.assd. The rate, moreover, was
narked down to per cent shortly
,Asr noon. The news was, apparently
I'M the standpoint Of market influ-
xee. colorless. Evants abroad were
au'scted; the additional railroad earn
Au reports were largely conhrmatory
( What had gone before. Judge Gary's
,id,ass before she American Iron e.
;ssl Institute, however, might have
,splisd some inspiration for traders.
lor the moment independent courses
no taken by speculative and invest
n4st securities. Whereas the former
anied somewhat, the irregularity Of
IL bond market was stressed by fur
.ar sharp marking down of govern
sent bond prices, the new Treasury
Ms touching %. Other divisions also
xsysred or tended downward. In the
an Of Liberty bonds, such buying
oswss as may potentially exist is ap-
p,rsatly being withheld from the mar
III pending further determination Of
tAs price trend. There was a slight
r,severy before the close yesterday,
bat hardly Of significant proportions,
issly's political disturbance was ac-
s,rtsd calmly in the foreign exchange
nsskst, where the necessity for reliev-
inn the impaired internal position was
,araAount. Lire rallied l3 hundredths
ia cent on the day, closing at 4.o3A
cats, and francs climbed above 7 cents
utn. Marks were a shade higher not
vSAHanding another record-breaking
israse in circulation reported from
armany. Sterling netted gain of
iA cents to $4,46M - Thescomprehen-
,ivs character Of the recovery was en-
hAsized by the unusual phenomena of
dvanees scored by virtually all Eu-
,pean currencies. Drachma and Jugo-
Law crowns were unchanged, Polish
arks and Rumanie lei 3 declined a
,iHe; all other exchanges advanced.
Cotton trading was rather hesitant
fair and after an irregular movement
rices closed IL to 10 points lower.
gheat prices were strong in sympathy
nth Liverpool and on expectations of
ncreased European purchases, finish
ng with net gains Of 1B to 3 cents.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Shelter Negotiating Small Loan

Bond circles heard yesterday that
the American Smelling and Refining
Company was negotiating for the sale
OF small issue of bonds, probably
amounting to between $5,0O0,OOO and
S6,O00,000, in connection with certain
requirements arising from it's Mexican
relations. No details Of the loan were
available, but it is expected that, if
arranged, the financing will be under
taken shortly. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. are
mentioned as the bankers.