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The New York herald., 1922-05-21

Two red letter anniversaries in tht
history of the theater fall four months
apart. In January came the fortieth
anniversary Of the beginning of the end
of once famous institution known the
land over as wsJlaek's. On May ! oc-
CURED the seventh anniversary of the
closing of that theater forever.
1t was on January 4. 1882. that the
| third and last house to bear the Wal
lack name opened it's doors with a per-
formance OF 'The School for Scandal
enacted by a cast including John Gill
bert Rose Coghlan. Osmond Tearle, Ag-
mes Elliott. Harry Edwards. Dan Lee
Lester Wallack, then in his sixty-third
year, did not appear with the company.
but during the course of the evening ad-
dressed the audience, 1t was a notable
assemblage that gathered that winter
night to pay homage to the veteran ac-
tor and wish him Godspeed in his now
home. an audience typical Of those seen
at openings in former years, when a
first night at the theater was a matter
Of consequence.
An old record book of wallaclSs The
ater with list of the notabilties who
were present on that occasion contains
the names of Algernon Sidney Sullivan.
General Dan Sickles, General Shaler, c.
J. Osborne, Henry Clews Lloyd Aspin-
wall. Rufus Hatch, Henry Bergh. Clar-
ence Seward. Pierre Lorillard, De Ian
cey Kane. d. o. Mills, Jose Mora. Theo-
dore Havemeyer, Justice Barrett, Sid
ney Dillon, Judge Arnoux, William Win
ter. Joseph Keppler Frederic Coudert,
George Gould, accompanying his father.
Jay Could D. D. Withers. Peter Marie,
F. F. Gunther, Hermann Oelrichs, w.
X. Vanderbilt. Jacob Vanderbilt. Cor
nelus Vanderbilt. David Dudley Field,
Frank Work, S. l.. M. Barlow, Jesse
Seligman. Joseph Howard, August Bel
mont and his son, Perry Belmont. 1t
was thoroughly cosmopolitan gather
ing, combining the leaders of society.
eminent members of the bar, the lead
ing bankers Of the day, persons noted
for their charitable work and men
prominent on the turf and In other
sports.
When Lester Wallack decided to
move up town from his Thirteenth street
theater to new location in the upper
part Of the city he gave to THE New
YORK HERALD an interesting review OF
his life in the theater, in which he spoke
Of his contemplated move, saying; AS
New York changes Its theatrical center
every twenty-five years, one must keep
abreast Of the progress of events. The
new site for wallack's is in the vicinity
of the large uptown hotels. convenient
OF access by many of the street rail-
roads. and nearer by fifteen or twenty
blocks to the majority of theatergoing
people,"
The progress to which Mr.. Wallack
referred was the fact that the amuse-
ment center Of the city had been grad
ually establishing itself In that section
lying between Twenty-third and Thirty
fourth streets, movement that began
In the SOS when Christy's Minstrels
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

The Harding Administration again
reports lower Government expendi-
lures than estimated. The expendi-
lures for the fiscal year ending next
month will be very close to $780,
100000 This will be reduction Of
about s1,715,O0O, 900 as compared
with the past fiscal year 1t will be
$145,000,000 better than Budget Di-
rector DAWES recently estimated it
would be.
But while the present business
management of the Government
saves, and saves by the hundreds of
millions, as it set out to do, it does
not claim credit for savings that are
not really savings from the business
point of view Under the ancient
form of accounting still used by the
Government any money that goes out
of the Treasury, even il it be an
investment, is an Expense" The
latest unexpected reduction in the
Governments Expenses" is due
chiefly to the fact that the Govern
ment has not had to advance as much
for farm loans as it estimated IT
would advance, and the Harding Ad-
ministration honestly says so.
But the Governments real expenses
will be Down from last yeat upward
of s1,60O,O0O,O 900 nevertheless, and
that is q whale of spending reduc.
tion.
L. is not hard to understand how
the Government as a whole has cut
down it's spendings so vigorously
when it is realized what was
, done on economy lines right In
the White House. Although the
United States Governmentibishthe
biggest business in the world, the
White House executive establishment
itself, with its secretaries, clerks and
others, is small But to the practi-
cal business man President HARDING
Is economy, like charity, begins at
home, big money or little money. So
in the ten months OF this year he
held the purely executive expend.
lures within his own household, so
to speak, down to $1S2132 as against
an outlay in the corresponding pc
riod last year of $310,6S4.
To be able to cut $12s,552 from
sS1O.6S4, or more than 40 per cent /.
in the White House is explanation
enough of how the President got the
hundreds of millions saved elsewhere
in the Government.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Crop Values and the Bonus.

What the bonus politicians in Con-
gress want to present to the bonus
seekers out of the pockets Of the
American people may be judged by
a comparison with some of the coun-
try's stupendous figures of work and
production.
All the vegetables grown last year
on all the farms of the United States,
from cantaloupes and watermelons to
potatoes and cabbages, had value Of
a little more than $1.000,000, 900.
When, therefore. the bonus Congress
men propose to make bonus distri-
button of five billions of dollars it is
just as if they asked all the owners
and all the workers on all the vege-
table farms and gardens of the whole
country to give up all they produced
for five years.
1t is as if they asked all the wheat
farmers of the whole country to give
up all their crops for more than
five years.
1t is as if they asked all the cotton
planters of all the cotton growing
States to give up all their cotton
crops for more than five years.
The wealth of this country is based
On the vast agricultural crops un-
equalled anywhere on earth. But
there was no American crop last
year that multiplied by five would
have been enough in farm value to
pay the bonus.
This gives some faint idea of what it
means to the farmers and the manu-
facturers and the merchants and the
workers when the bonus vote hunters
in Congress, free and easy with
the public's money, calmly propose
to take out of the American taxpay-
ers for the bonus loot five billions
of dollars-five thousand millions of
dollars.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
The Return of Spring.

Now that your feet, o heart of love. are
turning
Back to the ways which we together
trod
When we beheld the maple torches
burning.
And saw the beacons Of the golden
rod.
would go too
That l might share with YOU
Along the dear paths of our wandering
The gracious glow and glamour OF tht
spring.
would 20 too and watch the silver
birohes
Unfold their banners of soft green
and gray;
would go too and from their hidden
perches
Hear the woodthrushes sing the shut
Of day
And lark the call
or the white waterfall,
A chantiag voice melodious and deep.
That never ceases while the mountains
sleep.
How rich and radiant was the autumn
splendor
The slope and swale enrobed in pag.
cant dress
But fairer far the tremulous. the tender
Revealing of the young years lowell.
ness -
a gladder birth
OF beauty upon earth
From which we sense that divinei
thing
" axes in the soul with the returning
spring.
GuSNror SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Secretary Denby's Junket.
Defense by Nasal Officer OF the
PrOp0sed Trlp to Janan.

To THE New YORK HERALD: trust
you will print this letter in justice 70
the naval service.
The Senate has just adopted a reso-
luton condemning what it chooses -
call junketing trip on the part OF GER
tain members of the class OF 1881 Of the
United States Naval Academy on boans
the naval transport Henderson TO Ja-
pan. The Henderson is making her reg
ular trip; in other words. would have
gone anyhow, and every one of those
going pays his own board and expenses
from the time he steps on board until
he leaves the ship.
This trip does not cost the Govern
ment or the taxpayers one cent. so where
does the junl<eting come in? Senator
Mccormick seems to be imbued with
the idea that naval officers. when on
board ship are fed by the Government
and are otherwise an expense--a pa
'thetic picture of man holding such
position. A NAVAL OFFICER.
NEW YORK, May 20.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Art Neglects American Sports.

Outdoor sports as practiced in
Great Britain and the United States
were practically unknown in France
until that country reused to inter
est in them in the nineteenth GEN.
tury and took to itself racing. driv-
ing, cross-country running, boxing
and many other pastimes along with
the British afternoon tea.
For years these sports have occu-
pied much of the leisure time of
French men and women; and in ac-
cordance with the French bent for
seeing the picturesque in everything
they have acquired a considerable
place in French art, striking exam
pie Of this being the superb paintings
by DEeAs of racetrack scenes and his
sculptures of horses and jockeys. One
OF the notable features Of the cur
rent Paris Salon is the display OF
pictures and sculptures representing
sports of this kind, one French ar.
tist showing no fewer than seven
paintings inspired by boxing, tennis,
ice,hockey, swimming, high jumping
and skating.
Considering the vogue OF sports in
i the United States and the enormous
number of men and women who take
part in them, either as spectators or
as players, our painters and sculptors
pay almost no attention to the pic.
toris1 or sculptural qualities of out.
door pastimes. DR.. TAFT MCKENZIE
OF she University Of Pennsylvania is
n marked exception to this with his
sculptures of athletes and football
players. WILLIAM J. HAYS occasion.
ally shows small pictures of riders
fallowing the hounds, and GEORGE
nu.Lows once tried his hand at rep
resenting a polo game.
But the colorful picturesqueness OF
the racetrack; the animation Of an
intercollegiate rowing race; the iso
lated graceful figures at an athletic
meet, such as the discus throwers
hurdlers and high iumpers-all these
are neglected by our painters and
eculptors as a rule PERCIvAL RossEAu
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Some Notorious Quacks.
Yenders OF Wonderful Remedies and
Cure.aIIS.

From the Manchester Guardian.
The list of those whose methods have
been outside the ordinary paths of med
ical science as usually practiced is very
curious. Pride of place goes to Cagli-
ostro. Grand Cophta. Prophet. and
Thaumaturge." who sold his Egyptian
pills" at thirty shillings the box and
professed to cure all ills. to heal every
disease and to abolish wrinSles, as wei,
as foretell future events.
In the eighteenth century we had
three great quacks in England. all
celebrated by Goldsmith. One of them,
DR.. Walker, was always cautioning the
public against quacks and proclaiming
incidentally that IL people would only
come to him there is not such another
medicine in the world as mine."
Dr. Rock, another of the trinity, had
no excessive modesty either, for he pro-
claimed that he could cure any disease
at any stage, claim hotly contested by
the third, DR.. Timothy Franks. who
called his rival "Dumplin' Dick"
To the eighteenth century also be-
longs DR.. Graham. of THE Temple of
Health" who valued his medicine at
$1,000 a bottle, prescribed mud baths
and had other brilliant ideas. though.
alas he was destined to die in poverty.
Then there was DR.. Brodun. Of the
nervous cordial" and. little earlier,
DR.. John Case. celebrated by Garth.
Late in the eighteenth century flour
ished DR.. Katerfelto, the influenza doc
tor. who claimed also to be the greatest
philosopher since Newton. In the six
teenth century Nostradamus could point
to some actual achievements. There was
Sir william Read, the illiterate tailor.
who set up as IAN oculist and was en-
ployed by Queen Anne and George ].
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
A Beauty Parlor Course.

Out on the Pacific coast education
has gone forward with a hop, skip
and jump. A course in manicuring,
massaging and hair dressing has been
added to the curriculum of the Grand
avenue public school in Los Angeles.
There will be no tuition fee; the
State pays.
Well, why not? The schools teach
cooking, but is food half so impor-
tant as the fairness of woman's face
They teach forestry, but trees are no
more beautiful than woman's hands.
They teach art, but art is as nothing
beside the crowning glory of wom-
ans hair.
The Los Angeles educators are
up with the age. They realize that
women are devoting more and more
time to their appearance and that
men are more and more attracted.
When there are more artistic hair
dressers there will be less bobbing.
Surely the course at the Grand ave-
nue. school will include lessons in the
gentle art of superimposing rouge
upon cold cream and the massaged
face will not be ruined by amateur
daubing.
The establishment Of course like
this shows that the educational
world is getting down to essentials
Eventually there will be courses in
other important subjects. The pub
lie schools might turn out auction
bridge teachers fit to impart the sci
ence of ruling to the eager multi
tude. And golf instructors too; the
stance of the whole country would
be improved. What is even more
urgent is the training of professors
able to translate flappers' slang into
plain American.
Important advances such as the
Los Angeles school people have made
remind the world that education Is
still in its infancy. The new wave
now that it is started, ought to be
permanent.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Three Notable Nights at Wallack's
Opening Last Phase and End of Institution That
Made Theatrical History in New York.

opened their little theater on Twenty
| fourth street adjoining the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel. being the first amusement
enterprise located above Twenty-thiri
street. Banvards Museum. at Broad
way and Thirtieth street, followed in
1857. Next came Apollo Hall, later
known as the ST. James Theater. which
stood on West Twenty-eighth street; IL
was erected in 1865 and replaced by the
New Fifth Avenue Theater dedicated by
Augustin DAILY in 1878
The San Francisco Minstrels Hall was
opened in 1874. This was followed in
1878 by the Eagle Theater near Thirty
third street. house more widely known
In after years as the Standard, and
then as the Manhattan. The Brighton,
on broadway opposite the new Wal
lacks location, began a somewhat va
ried existence as a variety house in
1873, which terminated in 1880, when
the place passed into the control of
Colonel John A. McCaull and Charles
Ford. who made extensive alterations
in the structure and started 1t on a
more distinguished life under the title of
the Bijou Opera House.
The last Of the amusement undertake
ings to be entered upon in this vicin-
ity was the Imperial on West Twenty
ninth street, opened in 1892. In 1896
this place came under the control of
Weber and Fields. who. after providing
Broadway entrance established their
famous rendezvous, Weber and Fields's
Music Hall.
For many years the heart OF New
York's amusement life circled about
Broadway and Thirteth street, and it
was not until Wallack's closed its doors
on the night of May /. 1915, that the
last of the numerous resorts which had
made this neighborhood famous passed
out Of existence. Many who were pres
ent on that evening may recall the last
lines spoken upon its stage as Rose
Coghlan recited the epilogue written for
the occasion by oliver Herford:
Just one word more, dear people. as you 30
Again into the clamor and the glow
OF Broadway, pause for one last look upon
This Honored House: Tomorrow 1t will bs
gone.
An epoch In the annals Of the stage
took place on the night of September
8, 1852. when wallack's Lyceum. at the
corner Of Broadway and Broome street,
entered upon its distinguished career as
the most notable theatrical enterprise
the country had known. Its supremacy
never varied. neither did it deteriorate
during its career. which continued until
April, 1861 when its fortunes were
transplanted to the house at Broadway
and Thirteenth street, in September.
1861 where a triumphant course was
continued for some twenty years.
The name of Wallack conveys naught
to-day but a memory. for the fame of
the actor dies with him. but doubtless
there are many who remember with
pleasant reflections some Of those rosy
nights spent in the thea.er when the
art Of Wallack charmed and the sur
roundings Of the theater were Bit diff
ferent from those which prevail in these
jazzy days. CHARLES BuRNHAM.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

paints field dogs with success that
should point the way TO other artists
to take up sports for both financial
and artistic reasons. There must be
hundreds OF men and women who
would take keen delight in pictures
of this order to one who only con-
siders painting from the viewpoint
of art. The animation, the color,
the social aspect of American out
door sports simply cry aloud to be
recorded on canvas.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

tionably have in marked degree as
a natural gift. Whether women are
temperamentally equal to the nerve
strain of prolonged surgical opera
tions is another matter. But that in
the control of their emotions at the
sight of physical suffering and in the
maintenance Of GOODNESS of head at
critical moments in an operation
they are the equals of surgeons OF
large experience they have demon
strated in trying hospital scenes Of
every war and never more convinc-
ingly than that greatest of all wars
recently ended.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Minor Crueltles.

believe there is only one sin that Coz
Will not forgive, and that is cruelty
Stephen Graham.
unused upon those words. Could on'
be sure
That one had not been cruel. it wer,
well:
But. since heard them. certainty de-
parts
There are so many ways Of cruelty!
There is one way Of loving kindness
one.
And easy it's to know 1t, and to take
All Powers Of Good that round about US
move
Do counsel to 1t, and incline our mood
There are so many ways of cruelty
SO many bypaths, where We stumble on
And, In the dark, such lingering mis-
chief do
Unobvious harm, which but the hurI
one knows.
While he who wrought the hurt knows
all too late,
Or knows not ever save some memory
wake.
Tor, call it other-consciousnes
own,
That ambushed lay. and watched upon
his course.
To speak, and harrow HMM after
time.)
Who suffers cruelty oft cruel proves.
For induration oft the hurt succeeds.
Sometimes l think, for lesser cruelties
The less remission we may hope to win
Great passions bear along great cruel,
The wild, beast fang that bit down
through the quick
Transmits a venom TO the sufferers
blood,
Who shall. in turn. wound in kind in
f1ict.
Some lighter cruelties more wantor
seem.
And such do I remember, from young
years;
Though you might trivial call them-l
do not,
Who have a keen, IL very tardy, grief
For certain acts OF mine done long ago
That now look large, because remedi-
less;
AS. on that summer day would not
take
Ny little sister with me-fung hel
hand,
With warm and tight locked fingers
from my own
mo, no, you shall not come with me
r. go home!''
Her blue eyes swim with tears-I see
them now
And once 90 Youth y, my heady AFRO
gance,
With words. pulled down the simple
faith of one
To whom, such as l had I could not
give:
This now know for prideful wanton-
ness-
And once-ah, once. my friends friend
turned my way.
And gave me more of love wal
not kind:
There was moment when the power
had
To leave the tide at full between those
two.
That power I did not use. Is selfish
greed
In friendship but minor cruelty?
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
In 1920 and 1891 pile worms did dam

In 1920 and 1891 pile worms did dam
age of s15,000,0oO there.
Creosoting. metal sheathing and i'm
bedding heavy nails in the wood have
been tried, and IL the application is
thorough and upon timber uninfected al
the time the results have been fairly
satisfactory. But in spite of all efforts
to eradicate the pile worm it has con-
tinued to increase to such an extent that
the National Research Council, in con-
junction with several regional port COM
mittees. has organized nationwide
campaign against It, T.
BARNEGAT, ~ j., May 20.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Saving Time.
The Change to the Crowded Subway
Express Explained.

To THE New YORK HERALD: A for
eigner was visiting a friend in New
York and on trip seeing the city they
boarded a partly filed local subway
train. At certain station they got
out and transferred to a much crowded
express train. The foreigners courtesy
weathered the test. so far as manners
went, of the pushing and crowding. but
upon leaving the train he could not
resist the question:
why did we leave that first comfort
able car for the one SO crowded and
uncomfortableT'
He was told, "Oh, we save three min
rtes getting downtown
"Ah" said he, "and what arc we
going TO do with the three minutes?'
NEW YORK, May 90 III. c. II.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
The Bathing Boys Critic.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Has Il
not occurred TO the gentlemen who arc
giving 20. y. Server" an epistolary pom
melting that he may be an unattached
sister whose desk overlooks the city
fountain?
II sounded that way to
NEW YORK, May 90. A. w. OMAN.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Selling Wild Flowers.
Signs Along Motor Roads OF Injury
to Plants and Trees.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Person
ely ] see no objection to picking wild
flowers, provided 1t is done by individ-
rals who do not destroy the roots; but
the wholesale gathering of wild flowers
by those who offer Them for sale is
probably the root of the evil. A law
making 1t a misdemeanor to offer wild
flowers for sale would be beneficial.
1 have observed that trailing arbutus
was sold on the streets Of New York in
the early spring in closely, packed
punches, and / have no doubt that this
means the destruction of a large num-
Der of plants.
Those who gather flowers simply for
profit are very careless in the damage
they do, particularly as 1t Is not on
their own property. On any Of the main
automobile roads running into New
York on Sundays will be found boys
offering dogwood. apple blossoms, wild
azalea and other flowers. have no
ticed on Central avenue between the
Mount Vernon trolley line and Bronx
Vile road large groups Of these boys.
and have frequently seen LOT OF dog
wood and apple blossoms discarded by
the roadside because they were not able
10 sell them.
The motorcycle police patrols this
road, and IL there was law against
the sale OF wild flowers it could easily
be prevented. There is not any doubt
that these boys a-e gradually destroy
ing all of the trees and plants which
bear these flowers and blossoms.
II YOU will give me the names Of any
societies organized for the purpose OF
improving these conditions I would ap-
preciate 1t. RoBERr p. kEHoE.
NEW YORK, May 20.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Back to Pioneer Days in Missouri.

From thc honsos CifV Times.
Willard Loller OF Grand River Township
killed big timber wolf pioneer fashion
recently by shot through the window. He
was aroused early TO find the wolf fighting
with two Of his dogs. lie knew II he opened
the door he would scare the wolf off. so he
shot II through the window.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

A newspaper headline says the
"Msssacres of Christians by Turks
Continue" The more the Turk
changes the more he remains the
same; he probably will be killing
Christians as long as there are any
left on whom he can wreak his fanati-
cism with safety to himself.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Accommodating Kanssn,.

From the Haas Frve Press.
Fat" King and others were the recipients
Of bad checks passed in Hays Wednesday
by Ell out Of town lady.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication OF all news dis
patches credited TO II or not otherwise
credited IN this paper. and also the Local
news published herein.
All rights Of republication Of special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
The sstisfied Ones.

Fron the Conroy Lon cabin Democrat
These rains arc fine on hired hands snd
puddle ducks.