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The New York herald., 1922-03-16
Club Restaurants.
The Member With Carte Blanche and
Case OF BIackballlng.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: With the
passing of the bar as source OF rev.
enue the directors OF our prominent
clubs were facing this problem: How
can we manage to make up for that
loss and save the members from an
assessment?
Nothing easier, said voice in GER
tain CLIQUE of the know IL alls who are
to be found even in the most exclusive
clubs, and a genius coming out Of their
ranks offered his services on the follow
ing conditions:
First OF ALL" he said, II want carte
blanche and authority to do as l please.
For the paltry sum of $4,000 year /
am willing to rcorganize the kitchen and
the dining room and promise to make
the restaurant pay. What's the big idea
of losing money in the restaurant when
| can operate it at big profit?"
Taking the speaker at his word and
worth the new would-be head waiter was
given complete charge. He first 'remod-
clcd the dining room at great expense
and threw out the old kitchen crew just
like so many dogs. although the major
ity of them were faithful employees Of
more than fifteen years standing. Next
a big boost was given 10 the restaurant
prices and portions made smaller. The
hash was slung on plate instead or
dressed on a dish. As raw food prices
in general were lower than during the
two years following the war il appeared
quite possible that the boastings of the
amateur head waiter would be realized
But alas. one short years time and all
his efforts came to naught. Financially
the experiment was a failure exit tho
genius; into the soup his theories. The
rest taurant losses through his manage
mcnt amounted to more than $4,000 :
add his salary and tho cost Of rcnovat-
ing the dining room 10 this and II Is
obvious that the experiment was quite
an expensive fiasco.
A number OF years ago another New
York club had much better cxpcri-
encc. The head waiter OF then promi-
nent restaurant was engaged as manager
for that club. Under his supervision the
service and financial standing OF the or
ganization improved wonderfully.
A few lucky operations in Wall street
made the manager n comparatively rich
man. with the new riches his am
bition grew and he resolved to become
member OF the club. a miniature hall
storm OF blackballs In the ballot box cut
short his aspirations Broken hearted.
the disillusioned manager resigned and
embarked for Europe, never to come
back.
How times have changed Nowadays
a club member takes charge of the ros-
taurant az good salary and makes
fzslc out Of It but Is still member. ON
The other hans. - ~. good cid times en-
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
The Vanished Steamship.
Story of the Loss Of the Rio de
Janeiro or San Francisco.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
facts about the loss of the steamship
City of Rio de Janeiro in San Francisco
harbor are that she anchored four miles
outside the heads for the night. and at
o'clock on the morning of Washing
TOMS Birthday 1901. upanchored. and.
with Pilot Jordan in charge, steamed
directly toward the Golden Gate, about
six miles distant. But when abreast the
Cliff House she encountered tule fog,
ran on a rock and was sunk. She took
down with her 134 human beings and
about $1,500,0o in treasure. none of
which nor the iron vessel herself ever
has been located. Our assumption was
that while sinking the Rio was carried
outward and settled in bowl depression
about 32o feet deep and about half a
mile outside the Golden Gate.
There were many survivors. especially
among the Asiatic crew, almost all of
whom were up and fully dressed at that
early hour, while the passengers were
asleep in their berths and had to be
aroused and got out in the few minutes
that interviewed between the ripping of
the hull ana the final plunge.
ARCHIE RICE.
New YORK, March Is.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16

Russian peasant in a former famine
was laid before him, uttered remark
which has since been accepted as so
thoroughly characteristic OF the peo-
pie. They are like a great good
natured boy who tries to smile in his
tribulation because he is inspired by
the faith that in the end all will come
out WELL" he said.
The Russians faith in the future
is not OF that Oriental tinge which
trusts entirely to fate He helps
work it out himself. He arises in
the extremity and he is then a host.
With the recovery of his strength
may he not find the power to relieve
himself OF the heavy burdens he has
borne?
The Moscow Soviet has given up its
hold on northern Persia and 1t has
retired from the Caucasus before the
small group of patriotic people who
have demanded the right to rule
themselves. LENINE no longer traf-
fcs with the Turkish Nationalist
for the extension of his power on
the southern coast of the Black Sea.
He has affairs nearer home to watch.
The Republic Of Archangel has
grown in strength and union OF
the northern States has threatencl
the Moscow powers. The Cossacks.
the Soviets' natural enemies in the
south, have again published their de-
mands for freedom from the Mos
COW rule. On the west TaoTzKY's
lieutenants have been. struggling to
repress the growing spirit of indc.
pendence in the Ukraine.
May not the day of redemption
have at last arrived-the moment for
which the good natured boy has
waited and upon which he has pinned
his faith?
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
THURSDAY. MARCH 1s. 1922.
Let Us Have the Test.

Acknowledgement DAUGHERTY's plan
to take over the work Of enforcing
prohibition is a wise one. Enforce
ment Of the law should have been
lodged with the Department of JUS
tice from the first. This enforce
ment rever should have been lodged
with tie Treasury Department.
Thoroughgoing enforcement OF the
prohibition law is one of the biggest
jobs the United States Government
has ever undertaken. Until now the
Governments handling of prohibit
,tion through a bureau largely domi-
mated by the Anti-Saloon League has
been neither satisfactory nor con-
vincing, though not because of lack
of zeal and earnestness on the part
OF the League and the bureau.
Suppression of the rum traffic. sup
preston of the Illicit still, the elimi-
nation Of poison beverages, the elm
ination of the bootlegger, changing
over night the habits of strong,
virile people bitter in their rebellion
against the Volstead act and the
Eighteenth Amendment, is much too
big piece of work for private or
ganizations-perhaps too big a piece
Of work even for the Government
itself.
Apart from a great war, no single
undertaking Of the Government has
ever put it to greater test than the
test it now faces in the enforcement
Of the prohibition law. Direct han
ding of the enforcement problem by
the Department of Justice will show
what the Government with all its
resources can do, and the sooner the
American people come to know the
better it will be all around.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
From the Arkonsos Gazette.

From the ArkonSus Gazette.
Tho quest is done the overwise have
stripped the tale OF truth
Yet who, remembering, rcgrets--he sacks
the Fount OF Youth.
/ know little shallow pond, a stil and
etagnant water.
That slumbens in the shadows where
the archlng willows grow,
And no one knows its storied past OF
storm and stress and slaughter
Save those who bravcd It's wrath with
me. such distant years ago
When here were docked the duinuui-
remes OF Askalon and Tyre.
And here the privateers were launched
to clear and hold the Main,
And here the Viking galleys sacked the
coast with blade and fire
And richly laden caravels came sail
ing home to Spain
When here outbound armadas watched
the farng coast lights dying
The trading ships OF Nineveh. the
banked triremes OF Rome
And fighting fleets passed in review
with flag and pennon flying
While childish treble voices conncd
the battle squadrons home.
All. vain and valiant childhood dreams
tho brooding years have BAN
ishcd!
All. alchemy that touched the past
and made its fancies truth
The golden dreaming days are done
the necromancy vanished
Yet who remembering, regrets still
seeks the Fount OF Youth.
G. T. DAVIS
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
Intelligence Tests Assailed.
DR.. Elinor Nee. Gamble Tells O
Results at Wellesley.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
1t Is refreshing to see professor OF
psychology courageous enough to go on
record as doubling the complete relia-
billty OF the so-called Intelligence tests,
which in some quarters, especially dur
Ing the war. were exalted so far beyond
their possible value. But 1t is not so
very surprising, after all, to any one
who has seen these tests in their proper
perspective.
1t was, however truly sweeping
arraignmcnt of them that DR.. Elinor
McC. Gamble OF Wellesley College made
before the Boston branch OF the Ameri-
can Association OF University Women
in Radcliffe College, when she said il
had been found tl.at 80 per cent. of the
girls who receive mark above the
average in such tests at Wellesley fall
below the average on mid-year exam
nations. and that, on the other hand.
80 per cent. OF those whose marks are
below the average In the Intelligence
tests receive marks above the average
on the mid-year grade. Perhaps II Is
more sweeping arraignment thaa the
professor realized. for it practically
amounts TO a statement confessing their
entire unreliability and uselessness.
1t Is. however, just one more example
OF material mode or method being
advertised as all embracing in it's line
OF procedure and then being proved, on
accurate study, TO be 10 all intents and
purposes absolutely valueless.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
The Fourteenth Street Tunnel.

While the Transit Commission is
in the business of addressing polite
notes to the women's clubs OF New
York asking their cooperation to re.
duce the number OF shoppers using
the subways during rush hours. the
women themselves might send an ap-
propriate note to City Hall inquiring
why the city administration has
repeatedly postponed the approval Of
bids for completion OF the much
needed Fourteenth Street Eastern
District Tunnel.
New Workers have long since
learned to accept meager square
foot of standing room as the acme Of
subway travelling comfort, but on
the Canal street line of the B. r. T.
standing room has been condensed
into jamming room. Never has New
York known anything like the mob
rule that obtains on the cars and at
the stations on this line.
The congestion would be greatly
relieved by the opening Of the Four
teenth street tunnel connection with
the Eastern line which runs parallel
to the Canal street line and serves
practically the same territory in
Brooklyn. Work on the tunnel is at
standstill because the city ad-
ministration refuses to approve bids
totalling $343,1S3 for special work
which must be completed before the
tracks can be laid and the tunnel put
into commission. The bids include
S241,416 for completing stations in
Brooklyn, s2S,7OO for track ma
terial; $4,000 for tie plates, ard
$57067 for transfer passageway at
Union Square.
Bids for this work have been at
City Hall for months back, but the
administration has refused to ap-
prove them on the ground that prices
have come down since they were sub
mitted. Meanwhile new bids have
been asked by the Transit Commits
sion at the request Of City Hall; the
tunnel is standing idle; the jam on
the Canal street line is growing
worse and the city is losing some
thing like $4,000 a day interest on
the capital invested in the tunnel
project.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
About Women.

In Germany high military official
has sued his wife for divorce because
since the revolution she has devel
oped radical tendencies. The Pots
dam Court has recognized political
incompatibility as a proper ground
for divorce.
A Judge in The Bronx denounced
the wife Of a man found guilty of
receiving stolen property. Modern
women" he said, ARE using the
dollar mark to steer their husbands
into Jail. The greed for diamonds
and furs Is the curse Of the times"
These two cases are illustrations
Of the attitude OF some emancipated
women to-day. The German dame
must have her own style in politics.
The Bronx wife must have fine clothes
70 wear--even to wear in court when
her husbands honor and very liberty
are at stake.
An incident even more clearly
showing the progress woman has
made in the way OF independence
comes from England. Captain PEEL
end his wife fleeced bookmaker by
tclegraphing bets on races after the
results we're known and inducing a
postmaster to put false time stamp
on the kilograms. The Captain was
found guilty and sentenced to year
in prison. but his wife was set free.
The famous jurist Justice DARLING
held that she must escape under the
old law which declares that IF
wife commit an offense in the pres
once Of her husband 1t shall be taken
for granted that she was coerced."
This law goes back 1900 years and
Is based on the ancient theory that
q wife would not dare TO do anything
except by her husbands command.
1T is absurd" remarked Justice
DAZZLING, TO say that woman does
not dare to contradict her husband,
but | am bound to administer the
law" AS tho result OF Mrs. PEEL's
escape the London newspapers are
demanding revision OF the law. I'm
doubtedly the advanced women OF
England are enraged to think that
they cannot break the law in their
husbands presence without the legal
presumption that they have been
coerced. Mrs. PEEL of course may be
Of different mind
Except when they are on the stat.
ute books the laws OF King CANurE
and even the social laws Of our grand
parents are null and void 1)men
o. progress want to think. talk, vote
and dress as they like All man has
to do in the case OF the advanced
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Motion Picture Directors Association. din
ner. in honor of VIII ii. Hays, Hotel Astor.
p. NJ. Ne
James T. Davis, Secretary of Labor. win
speak at a meeting of the woman's depart
ment of the National Civic Federation. Wal
dorf-Astoria. p. NJ.
Charles ]. Doherty. former Canadian Min
ister of Justice. will speak on "Canadian
Constitutional Law" Bar Association Build
ing. AZ West Forty-fourth, street, S:1o i. NJ
George McAneny. walter stabler and Fred
erick Lee Ackerman will discuss The Tran
sit Problem and the Tenement House lues, /,
tion," luncheon OF the Womans Municipal
League. Hotel Astor. l +. M.
Friendly Sons of ST. Patrick OF Brooklyn,
annual banquet. Hotel Bossert. 7. M.
Peoples Liberty Chorus. concert, Town
Hall, 123 West Forty-third street, $3.50 7. NJ.
County Judge Louis d. Gibbs will speak
at a luncheon of the Bronx Board of Trade,
Hotel Commodore, 1880 T. M
New York Credit Mems Association, meet
ing. Hotel Astor. 7:45 p. M
New York Academy Of Medicine. stated
meeting. II West Forty-third street, s;SV
r. NJ.
DR.. Henry C. Metcalf win lecture on
Transfer. Promotion and Dismissal.
Bureau OF Personnel Administration. II
West Forty-seventh street, . r. M.
John Godfrey SAKE will speak at meeting
OF the New York League OF Women voters.
Hotel Pennsylvania, S:15 p. NJ.
Senator ". Rolando Ricci. italian Arnbas-
sador, will speak at the Catholic Club, 100
Central Park South. $3.50 p. N.
Phi Beta Kappa Day. Columbia University:
exercises afternoon and evening.
Rostrum Club. meeting. Rumford Hall, 80
East Forty-first street. =. N.
Catharine Street Merchants Association.
entertainment and ball, Palm Garden, Lex
ington avenue and Fifty-eighth street, $3.50
p. NJ.
Louis *. Anspacher. lecture. The World
as Temple or Process. the Modern View OF
Life" Town Hall. 123 West Forty third
street. III A. M.
j. ID. Flynn. lecture. Preparedness,
Bowcry Mission, +. NJ,
on Mind in the Making" Isotos Club. Ito
West Fifty-seventh street, p. NJ.
Manhattan Club, annual meeting. 4 =. NJ.
Lyman Abbott win preach at the commun-
ity Jenten service. Church OF the Holy
Trinity, Montague and Clinton streets. Brook
lyn. IL los p. NJ.
Prof. Earl Barnes. lecture. "TIie Strength
and Weakness OF France" auspices OF the
Associated Alumnn OF Hunter College. at
the college, Lexington avenue and Sixty
eighth street. Il. NJ
International Flower Show, Grand Central
Palace. 10 A. NJ. to 10 l.. NJ
Portia Club. meeting, Hotel sAstor. . r. NJ.
Society OF Independent Artists, exhibition,
Waidorf-Astora, all day.
Rotary Club. luncheon. Hotel McAlpin.
IL 80 T.. NJ.
Penn State Alumni Association, dinner,
Hotel Pennsylvania. 7. NJ.
Associated Manufacturers of Electrical
Supplies. meeting, Waidorf-Astoria. all day.
dinner, l.. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
Birds Increase; Cats Also.
Observations From Garden in the
Philadelphia Suburbs.

To THE New York HERALD: We have
been living in the suburbs Of PhiIadcl
phia for the past thirty-three years. We
were troubled by rats and mice from
outside the house for couple of years.
We procured and have ever since kept a
cat and the rats and mice have entirely
disappeared
We feed our cats as regularly as our
selves and some OF them have lived long
lives, one seventeen years, a female, and
vigorous to the end. We have found the
male cat useless as a protector, except
when comparatively young, but the fe-
male keeps us safe. Occasionally they
bring in bird, more frequently sparrows
or fledgling robin fallen from a nest
which would probably have !, cd anyhow.
or young blackbird, but many mice or
young rats from the garden. especially
from the shocks after the corn is stacked.
When we first moved out the absence
OF birds was noticeable. Now there are
many cats. but bird life has increased
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, flickers. thrushes.
cardinals, starlings and blackbirds-sev-
eral varieties by the thousand. But the
bluebird has practically disappeared. 1t
is increasingly difficult TO get full crop
OF Strawberries, cherries or raspberrics.
and the pesky sparrows some seasons
almost completely despoi tho peas as
they break through the ground. The
blackblrds and robins were very de-
structive last season to my ripening
pears.
Now IL the cat is so destructive OF
bird Iffe, as some OF your correspond
cnts assert, why does not my locality
show the effects OF Il? / believe many
OF the Same birds return season after
season. as an Englishwoman living close
by with several tall poplars close to her
garden got into tho habit OF throwing
out bread to the birds as they came in
the spring. and the earliest arrivals
continue to flock to those same trees.
which they did not do before she fed
the birds For several years we too
have been feeding them and now they
also frequent our grounds in the early
spring.
The foliage has increased very much
in our time and TO this fact attribute
largely the great increase in bird life
which we are witnessing.
/ therefore agree with one Of your
out of town correspondents that Pussy
has her proper place in life and should
not be extermnated.
/ should like to ask II the English
sparrow has learned 70 migrate. He has
been absent from us for several win
ters, and although I am always on Ia,
lookout | now find him very rarely. even
in town. BILLY PENN.
PHILADELPHIA, March IS.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
by w. J. HENDERSON.

Rimsky- Korsakov's fairy tale opera
"Snegourotchka" was repeated at the
Metropolitan Opera House last evening.
There was a large audience and the APP
plause was more frequent and hearty
than at any previous performance. The
opera seems to grow In popularity, and
this is a subject for felicitation. because
II ic an art creation quite different from
these which have apparently fastened
public attention. 1t is now shown that
local operagoers are ready to welcome
something fanciful in substance, delicate
In sentiment and full of grace and charm
In treatment. 1t is not necessary that
excitement should be aroused since
pJeasurable emotions of u gentler sort
seem to be satisfactory.
A very good performance was given.
Miss Bori was not in the best or voice,
but was equal to ell the demands OF her
part. She brings TO the impersonation
of the unhappy little snow maiden a
captivating personality and much appar-
cntly ingenious acting, which. however.
Is not improved by her growing employ
nent OF manner of gesticulation much
affected by a famous opera manager
Orville Harold was the Berondey
C-ar. Mr.. Diaz had assumed the role
in some representations. but Mr.. Harold
was the original. The part is not
long one, but its vocal demands are
exacting Mr.. Harold. as operagoers
well know, fears nothing. He sings
everything and usually in such way as
70 please the auditors. Thomas Chalmers
now replaces the lamented laurent as
Mi-guir. and acquits himself with credit.
Nine. Delaunois as Lei, the shepherd,
who sings some OF the best songs in the
opera Miss d'Arle as KoupdId, Nine
Howard as BobyIickG and Mr.. Rothier
as Winter continue their laudable doings
in this opera and Mr.. Bodanzky presides
at the conductors desk.
Mrs. Richard Gambrill's guests were
Mr. and Mrs James Lowell Putnam.
Mrs Richard Stevens, Mr.. Henry l..
Eldridge and Mr.. w. Forbes Morgan.
With Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry Ham,
mond were Countess Hermann Scherr-
Thoss, Miss Alice Z. Hammond. Mr..
Beekman Hoppin and Mr.. Charles I.
Mathews.
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Perry and Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert M. Hyde werc with
Mr.. Il. Francis Hyde.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence G. White, Mr..
and Mrs. LIE Roy King and Mr. Henry
@. Barley were guests Of Mrs. w. Bay
ard Cutting
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Harrah. Mrs.
Jose Aymar. Miss Welles and Mr.. An
drew A. Bibby were guests of Mr.. Ship
ley Jones.
Mrs. Richard t. Wilson's guests were
Mrs. Alfred N. Beadleston. Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen and Mr.. and
Mrs. Allen G. Wellman.
With Mr.. and Mrs. e. Reeve Merritt
were Mrs. Percy Fearn. Miss Leila
Morse and Mr.. Nathan Lord.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
Colored Comedians.
A Denial That They Can Be Initiated
Exactly by White Actors.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Permit
me to disagree with the opinion about
colored comedians expressed in your edi-
torial article on the late Bert Williams
and in the letter on the same subject by
Herbert S. Renton.
The tendency of white men to pre-
sumo they can think and feel for their
colored brother is amusing in the ex-
treme. I am inclined to doubt IL any
white actor has ever been able truth
fully to portray the character of col
ored comedian; from the viewpoint OF
white audience some may have done
so. but from that of a colored audi
ence. never.
There are certain expressions Of
speech and various mannerisms charac-
terizing colored comedians, readily un-
derstood by colored audiences. that can
not be initiated by white comedians or
understood and appreciated by white
audience. For example. in the play
Emperor Jones" Mr.. Gilpin makes use
OF the phrase monkey chaser How
many whites understood its significance?
In Shuttle Along" the chief of police
says OF the Mayor that he will get him
told" The colored portion of the audi
ence understand and enjoy that express
sion. which is unintelligible to the white.
White actors and actresses who as
sumo blackface roles in drama or moving
pictures are simply grotesque in every
sense Of the term. because, being con-
scious of their part of the play, they
overdo the character they endeavor to
portray, hence are exceedingly unnatu-
raj. The gradual introduction of colored
people for required parts into the films
indicates that moving picture directors
are cognizant Of this fact.
An excellent test of this statement
would be to have white and a colored
comedian appear before colored audi
ence together. l would guarantee that
within less than two minutes the audi
ence would readily say which of the two
was white or colored. Mr.. Renton will
learn much of the foregoing to be true
IL he will make the rounds of the colored
vaudeville houses In Harlem.
BROOKLYN, March Is. II. A. w.
The New York herald., 1922-03-16
"I Heard Spring CALI

I heard Spring call across the gray
And broken clouded sky to-day;
a crocus pushed through mold its
head
TO listen for Springs airy tread,
a stray bird chirped a measure gay.
A breeze came blowing down the way
The leaves first fragrance to convey,
Again. as by my door Il sped,
heard Spring call
What matter IL the gardens clay
Holds nothing now but shriveled bud
Soon win each barren, twig strewn bed
with bloom and scent be tenanted---
Since. from the road where Love once
led,
/ heard Spring call
CHARLOTTE BEcKr-.