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The New York herald., 1922-01-07
The Sled.

I covet not a limousine. nor motorcycle
fast,
Nor cutter with its Ginning bells. nor
leo yacht scootlng past.
Nor plane careering to the stars; I only
want low
And rakish bobsled on hill well packed
with crustcd snow.
No velvet cushion does IL need, nor
silken tapestry,
A strip of carpet for a seat Is good
enough tor me.
When racing down the steep incline the
frozen road unreels.
A ribbon OF velocity--below. the curv-
ing steels.
What 10y TO hear the runners sing and
see the fences fly.
And feel upon a Redeemed cheek the
wind 20 whipping by.
And II the final burst Of speed is nm
ished in spill
In clouds of glinting diamond dust II
adds another thrill
Then I'D the icy slope again beneath a
moon full grown.
While some ones warmly mlttened hand
holds tightly TO your own.
Get out your cap and mackinaw. oh
who these winter nights
Would sit and doze beside the fire when
such n sport invites
MINNA fRvrNa.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
The Show and the Motor Car.

Depression checked the sale of au.
tomobiles last year, but IL did not
diminish the zeal or decrease the en-
thusiasm of motor car makers and
users. The automobile has become
a part of modern life. II is charac.
teristic OF the times: il serves lux
ury, business, pleasure, economy. va
riety and the spirit Of touch and go.
The demand of the public is that
brains, energy and money be not
spared 10 bring the motor car as near
as possible TO perfection.
To comply with this demand there
will be put on exhibition at the Ma
tional Automobile Show, which opens
to-day in New York city, more kinds
OF gasoline driven passenger cars
than have ever before been assembled
under one roof. There will be ap-
proximately ninety-two exhibits of
complete cars, thirteen of them new
models, and about $50 displays Of
accessories and parts. Four floors Of
the Grand Central Palace are de-
voted to the display.
On all models, from the most luxu-
rious town car TO the least expensive,
lower prices have been fixed. and this
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
The New Silver Dollar.
Better Than It's Predecessor, but Not
All the Nation Deserves.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Your
quick success in causing the erasure OF
the broken sword from the design of
the so-called Peace Dollar saved us a
national humiliation. but 1t was beyond
even your power to obtain for us in the
new coin an artistic product worthy of
the United States. The work Is good I;
when that has beer. said all that can be
said for it has been said. Unfortu-
nately we cannot hail this piece with
enthusiasm or point to it with pride.
1t is obvious that great annoyance
and considerable losses would inevitably
result from frequent changes In the
coinage. and nobody wants to have new
designs put in circulation every few
months. 1t would be worth while, how
ever. to adopt. If ever 1t is submitted. a
design for the silver dollar which shall
typify the might and dignity of the
United States regardless Of the period
which had elapsed since the preceding
change.
None of US will regret the passing of
the familiar cartwheel, but many will
wish its successor were more in keeping
with the nation It will serve.
New York, January 6. COLLECTOR.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Former Gov. Martin II. Glynn will speak
at at a testimonial dinner given, py the Amen
WaISnr, V41hsr IN honor Of Edward p Mitchell.
. Roosevelt Memorial Association, dinner.
Waldorf Astoria, 8 =. M.
Senator William NJ. Calder Will speak at q
public installation of officers of National
Lodge, No. 200, f. and A. NJ. Masonic Tenn
pie 90 West Twenty fourth street. p: NJ.
zenith Century" Metropolitan Museum Of
Senator William II. King of Utah and Rep
resentative Simeon ID. Fess of Ohio will dis
cuss Limitation Of Armaments and Pacific
ican Club, - West Fortieth street. ! p. NJ.
Fourth Division Association. annual
smoker. ssSsr Hotel Hotel ses Mrtistes. West Sixty
DIR. Sidney L. Gulick. DR.. Paul S. Reinsch.
and Henry w. Taft will discuss The Wash
ington Conference and the Far East" at .
Hotel Astor. IL: AS p. M.
The Kerryfnen's Protective and Benevolent
opePa s,rees and Thra
Terence BELOW McManus branch. Friends
Honovan's Grand Circle Hall. $40 west
Fifty-ninth street. 8 p. NJ.
Grand concert. auspices Of Msnorah SO.
oias terrace, s p. M.
Dramus Club. meeting. Hotsl McAipin.
Sanford Griffith win speak on Tho New
Industrial Reorganizs tim In Ruesia." before
ths New York Camarader1o. Civic Club. II
West Twelfth street, p. M.
Police square Club. entertainment. Hotel
Commodore, 8 p. NJ.
Maine Women. meeting. waidorf-Asteria.
r. NJ
Aiumrae of Mount Holyohe Colisss rscso-
tion, Hotel Astor, 2 p. NJ
brotherhood of Travelling jewelers.. meet
,ngs' assembly room Of the Merchants' Asso-
ciation. 233 broadway, 2 p. NJ.
Phi Delta Sigma. dinner. Cafe Boulevard.
Z. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
SATURDAY. JANUARY 7. 1922.
Will 1t Be Senator Schwab ?

Governor SPRoUL of Pennsylvania
has a chance to do good thing for
his State and big thing for II e
United States Senate. Governor
SPRoUL, unwilling himself to take
the place made vacant by the death
of Senator PENRosE, must appoint
some one to fill the vacancy. CHAREs
M. ScHwAB is under consideration
for this appointment. Mr.. ScHwAB
would bring a business experience
to the Senate of greater breadth
and wider contacts than any man
has ever brought to that body.
Mr.. ScuwAB has had this vast ex-
perience and these wide contacts
solely because Of his great inherent
business qualities. Mr.. SCHwAB began
life on a farm in the hills of western
Pennsylvania. He had no backing.
His advancement came solely from
his extraordinary capabilities. Once
these capabilities were recognized by
Mr.. CARNEGIE Mr.. ScHwABs progress
was meteoric.
II Governor SPRoUL names Mr..
ScHwAB as the successor of Mr.. PEN
ROSE the Senate will not only have
the benefit of the experience of this
extraordinary man, but will have in
its councils the extraordinary genius
that has made possible the business
experience he has had. Mr.. SCuwAB
with his intimate knowledge OF af-
fairs, his intimate contact with the
great problems of the day, with his
alert mind and clear, quick way of
getting at the heart of a situation,
would bring a new note to the Senate
and would become a most useful pub
lie servant.
The question is, however, could
Mr.. ScHwAB eliminate himself from
his tremendous interests and give
his time to the service of the Gov
ernment as he did during the war?
But that was when the life of the
nation was at stake, that was when
SOOQ IHcu dHu otiOu6 hiCh ahu Po"Si
full men were giving their services
to the Government. Mr.. ScHwAB
alone can determine II the offer is
made to him by Governor SPRoUI.
whether he can justify himself or not
at this time in accepting it.
President MCKINLEY held firmly to
the idea that when man had made
money enough for his necessities and
reasonable luxuries he owed his life
to the State. No one can doubt that
Mr.. ScHwAB has made money enough
for his necessities and his reasonable
Injuries.
THE NEW YORK HERALD hopes Gov
ernor SPRouL will honor Pennsylva'
MIA and do honor to one Of her great
sons by appointing Mr.. ScHwAn
United States Senator.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
BY w. J. HENDERSON.

"Lohengrin'' was sung at the Metro
politan Opera House last evening. Two
features of the performance call for
used by the principals and Mime. Marie
Jeritza was the Elsa. In the previous
representations the principals and the
chorus sang in English, a version pro-
duced by the combined efforts G. several
scholars and containing many aSSorish-
ing lines. But Nine. Jeritsa>has mot yet
entered the ranks of English singers
and in order that she might be heard as
singers revert to Wagner's text or offer
one of those polyglot deliveries which
pique the curiosity Of audiences but do
little for the cause of art.
The chorus last evening continued to
hold fast to the strange language which
1t had previously used. but as no one
cares what choruses say and indeed
rarely knows, little harm was done.
The dialogue of 'Lohengrin" sounds
much better in German than in English,
for the excellent reason that Wagner,
who had high opinion Of the value of
vowel sounds in singing, fitted his music
to his German text and no translation
can preserve the vocal colors which he
produced.
The principals seemed to enjoy the
freedom offered them by the Wagnerian
text and they Gang generally with a
declamatory effect which was by no
means so clear and convincing in the
English performances. This was espe-
cially noticeable in the singing of Mr.
Sembach as Lohsngrin and Mr.. White
hill as Telrdmund In the cases Of Mr..
SchleSel as the Herald, Nine. Matte
Eauer as Ortrud and Mme Jeritz as
Elsa the comparison could not be made.
since they were not implicated in the
English proceedings.
Nine. Jeritza's Elsa calls for less COM
ment than might have been expected. 1t
was dramatically most admirable. 1t
must be admitted that Elsa is not a role
permitting its interpreter to create a
brilliant effect Of delineation. It's gamut
Of emotion is not large nor its passions
Of a tumultuous nature. All that could
be done through the employment Of the
theatrical devices of facial expression
often lost in the Metropolitans large
spaces-pose. gesture and general action.
Mime. Jeritza did. Her Elsa was the
tragic donna curiosa," rich in gentle
feeling and womanly tenderness. and
driven to her fate by the one uncon-
trolable impulse.
Her singing of the music was the
weaker element of her performance.
She sang 1t intelligently. but she lacks
the purity and steadiness of tone. the
large command Of the phrase and the
subtlety of accent necessary to a sue
cessful delivery of the essentially legato
role Of Elso. She was better in the
more fragmentary bits of dialogue than
in the fluent melodic passages
The performance as whole was
commendable. Mr.. Bodanzky conducted
and kept things moving at fairly good
pace. In some rather uncertain spots
he held his forces together with great
skill. The audience. which was large,
seemed to be well pleased.
The Countess of Annesley attended
last nights performance. which she
watched from Mrs. Vanderbilt's box, No.
81. During the intermissions the box
was the objective of most Of the box
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
American Oil Diplomacy.

Trouble broke out in Persia several
months ago and before the political
atmosphere had cleared a new Prime
Minister and new Government
found their way to power. The re-
suit was the abrogation Of the Anglo
Persian agreement and the institu-
tion of what British politicians
feared would be the equivalent of a
Persian alliance with the Soviet Gov.
ernment of Russia.
Lord CuRzoy. British Secretary for
Foreign Affairs. making a gloomy re-
port on Persia in the House of Lords,
closed with the opinion that IF any
noble lord asks me how I view the
situation thus created I am fain to
confess that l regard IL with feel
ing of disappointment and one Of
almost despair"
There must have been some ground
for the Foreign Secretary's belief
that Soviet Russia had broken its
agreement with Britain not to inter
fere in Persian affairs, for Lord CUR
zoN wrote q note to Moscow calling
that Government to account. But
another cause of Lord CURzoN's dis
appointment may have been based
on a more practical and tangible
premise. The report Of Sir CHARLES
GREESwAY, chairman of the Anglo
Persian Oil Company, in his annual
address to stockholders helps to an
understanding OF the situation.
Sir CHARLES says that 1921 was
a highly prosperous year for the
company. its profits amounting to
nearly f5,000,000. He discloses that
one we'll in Persia, known as the
Fl, has produced 26,000,0 900 barrels
of oil in the last ten years and is
now flowing at the rate of $4,000
barrels day, or nearly 100000 a
year. The well has been allowed to
flow more freely. and the chairman
says, $50 far as my knowledge goes
no other well of equal producing ca.
pacity and continuity has ever been
known in any field producing ligh.
gravity crude, and, as l have said
before, we believe we have many
other as good or better wells"
But Sir CHARLES GREESwAY Is as
impatient with the Persian Govern
ment as was Lord CuRzoS, because
certain concessions of the company
have been invalidated by the new
Government and they have been In
negotiation with another company
for the grant to IL OF new conces
sion covering the same areas ant
also two additional provinces
This reveals that some OF these
other wells. "as good as or better
than the largest light oil producing
we'll in the world. were In danger oi
falling into other hands. There Is nj
company in Russia to compete for the
wells, but there is the Standard Oh
Company in the United States.
II is an illustration of the use OF
smoke screens in diplomacy. What
could be further from the plain citi
zen's mind than suspicion that the
British Foreign Secretary's alarm
over the possibility OF Persian
Russian agreement was q warning
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
How He Sang It in 1912.
A New Workers. Eighty Year Old
Version of "The Old Arm CHAIR

To THE NEW York HERALD: can
truth In his letter about Tho Old Arm
Chair" for when I was a child, before I
could read, I was taught to sing It at
evening gatherings of the family and
friends In 1912 and 1s43. They let me
sing 1t as learned 1t from them. When
/ learned to read I found 1 had made
mistakes which they never corrected
but seemed to enjoy.
Here is the way I sang 1t; I have
often been told of It by members of the
family now long since passed away:
love II. love II. and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm
chair?
Two treasured II long as n sacred prize.
I've bedewed II with tears and bcdarned
II with sighs.
IT'S bound by n thousand ties to my
heart.
Not tie will break. not a link will
Would you learn to spell. n mother sat
And a sacred thing is that old arm
chair
The family did not correct my
changes but smiled among themselves
and had no idea Of what had done.
Afterward I was often told about my
change from "embalmed" to "bedarned''
and from "the spell" to ito SPELL
/ presume / have the words and notes
in my house. but I have not seen them
for at least fifty or sixty years.
New YORK. January 6. r. II. q.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
Stanfords Great Horseshoe.
A Model Stadium Columbia Univer.
sity Should Study.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The news
Of gift of 100000 from an unnamed
friend to Columbia University certainly
comes as glad New Year greeting to
all lovers of amateur sport and collie
giate games. 1t makes possible the pur-
chase of the Dyckman tract Of twenty
six acres near the northern end Of Man
haitian Island, providing site for a
$500 stadium seating $4,000, a $125.-
900 baseball field with seats for 10000,
three athletic fields at a cost of $780,
900 and with seats for from 5000 to
5000, and a $4,000 field boulevard
where from 1000 to 1900 automobiles
can be parked on high for an all COM
pretending field view.
But may suggest that at Stanford
University an amazingly novel horse
shoe stadium seating $4,000 and having
about it's top rim an automobile boule-
ward and slope at the open end able
to accommodate $4,000 more spectators
was completed and used last November
after only four months of tremendous
engineering and construction work and
at the surprisingly low total cost of
s204,600. including the smallest final de-
tails OF tree planting on the outer slopes
of the craterlike hill formation, the
turfing of the playing field and the prep
aration of the interior quarter mile
track and lateral 220 yard straight
away? Such an engineering creation.
surprising all economies heretofore be-
lieved possible in stadium building. was
accomplished by the Stanford engineer
ing department and the work was SUPER
vised by a Stanford graduate. using all
the great contracting concerns on the
coast.
The opening game there November
10 gave Stanford alone approximately
100000 from tickets, $4,000 from the
sale of football souvenirs and $500 from
n refreshment booth. total S107,500 for
Stanfo.d's share from the first game
on the new Stanford horseshoe. Such
economy in engineering accomplishment
seems worthy of consideration and In
ouiry before more than three times that
amount is spent by Columbia for a
smaller stadium minus the quarter mile
track and straightaway. Next to that
stanford stadium 1000 autos were
parked on the day Of the game.
NEW YORK, January 6. ARCHIE RICE.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
ARRIVALS AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Mrs. Gouverneur Morris Joins Mrs.
Marshall Russell.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YoEK HnRALD
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Jan. 6.-Ar-
rivals from New York and other cities
to-day indicate that there will be large
crowd here over Sunday. New Eng
land Is contributing to the activity at the
Ritz Carlton.
Mrs. Gouverneur Morris OF New York
has Joined MRS. Marshall Russell and
Mrs Augustus +. Kountze at the Ritz
Carlton. Others there from New York
are Mr. and Mrs. Leslie c. Bruce. Jr..
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel King. Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip McFadden OF New York and
Philadelphia, who are accompanied by
Miss Mitchell MIR. George II. Whigham.
Mr.. J. c. Thaw, Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Lud-
lum, Mrs. 4. S. Wheeler. Mrs. ID. ..
Cowles
At the Traymorc arc Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Il. Dickinson. MIR. Frederick
Dwight, Mr.. John Irwin Hamilton. Mr..
Charles A. Boston and Miss Katherine
Boston. Mr.. and Mrs. j. i. Drake, MIR.
william A. Maphen, Mr.. and Mrs. John
J. Kemp. A Brooklyn party at the Tray
more includes Mrs. James Guthrie shaw.
Mrs. II. M. Adams and Mrs. Walter
Glib.
Col. Ballington Booth of the volun-
tcers OF America has Joined Mrs. Booth
at the characterization Hall Other
New York folk there are Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerome Beatty, Mr.. and Mrs. X. y.
Madden. Mrs. Henry Hall Forbes. who 10
ACCOMPANIED by Miss Rhcda Forbes.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
PLAYS That Don't Survive.

The director of the Comedie Fran.
caise has just returned to their au-
thors plays submitted thirty years
ago and kept in the archives Of that
institution ever since awaiting a
possible date for their production.
He gave the playwrights poor sub
stitute for the pleasure of seeing
their works on the stage. The delay
in getting a play before the public
is one of the hardships playwri ghts
are prepared to meet. II rarely hap
pens, however. that they are asked
to wait third of a century.
Any drama dealing with a social
topic, for instance, would have lost
all its significance after such q
period. Moreover. the methods OF
dramatic writing in the course OF 30
many years would have undergone
radical changes. Plays founded on
classic themes in the manner Of the
numerous French playwrights who
have written NEUROLOGICAL and his
torical tragedies might be as timely
in one generation as in another. The
beauty of its poetry might be the
saving grace of drama in verse.
Yet in the case Of the average play
thirty years might be long enough to
destroy it's value altogether.
There have been during the cur
rent theater season several opportu-
mites to witness plays which were
-,,scesses of the past. None of the
plays had attained the ripe age
OF thirty years. A decade or even
less makes a play old in this
country.
Successful as some Of the revivals
are, It is dificult to say what the re-
suits might have been bad every play
lived as long as those which the
Comedie Francaise returned without
The New York herald., 1922-01-07

against Persian dealings with Amer
ican oil interests? Yet when the
note went to Moscow no doubt there
were we'll informed oil men in the
United States who knew exactly
what it meant. The Americans were
not excited. They succeeded in their
negotiations for the development of
fields in northern Persia; yet their
tact was such that Sir CHARLES de.
clares "our relations with the Stand
ard Oil Company are of a perfectly
friendly nature" in regard to oil
questions. The Anglo-Persian OIL
Company. controlled by the British
Government, has, with other British
concerns, acquired in recent years
some rich oil fields in many parts of
the world. But the oil flow is not all
going one way.
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
The Whisky War.
Distillation the First of Our Tariff
Protected Industries.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Kindly
allow me to comment on the letter con-
cerning the prohibition amendment writ
ten by Benjamin S. Dean.
1t may be news to some people. and
yet It is true. that the first American
industry protected by tariff was the dis
tillation OF liquor. The 100000 popu-
lation of the thirteen original States
found the Revolutionary debt as great a
financial burden as our 50,000.000 people
did the financial debt incurred by the
civil war. Accordingly almost the first
thing considered by our first Congress
was the matter Of revenue by which the
new Government could be run until our
lid land. which the States had decided
over to the central Government. could be
marketed. This. It was calculated, would
take about twenty-five years.
The tariff which Congress adopted was
strictly for revenue. being levy OF
about per cent. on all imports, with
some exceptions classed as luxuries. such
"a family coaches. These were taxed
upon a higher scale, about 25 per cent.
as were French brandes. Jamaica rum
and other liquors. 1t was well UNDER
stood at the time that to eliminate the
nrotectIon TO the domestic whisky stills
an internal revenue tax must be levied
so as TO put domestic and imported
liquors upon an equality In the home
market.
Az soon as the collectors OF this in
ternai tax upon domestic whisky began
10 make their appearance I'm the Penn
sylvania mountains the mountaineers OF
that section arose in open rebellion un-
der the leadership OF Albert Gallatin
Al once Washington and Alexander Ham,
iiton. together with Governor Mifiin.
sent an expedition of the Pennsylvania
militia, principally Philadelphia regi-
,nents. into the mountains 10 restore
order.
Upon arrival they found that the only
industry Of that section was the growing
OF grain, which. practically speaking
had no market except domestic consump-
ton. In order to market their surplus.
therefore. they we're compelled to convert
IL into higher values so that II could
be sold at a price which would realize
something over cost TO the grower. They
accordingly distilled II into whisky. which
was transported by pack horse through
the mountains to philadelphia and Balti-
more, where II paid for iron rods, crock
cry and other household and farming
necessaries. Accordingly the collectors
were withdrawn. Albert Gallatin was
elected to Congress from that district
and under his leadership the interna
revenue tax was repealed and the dis
tillation OF liquor became the first Amer
lean Industry TO be protected by tariff.
Since then we grew to point where
grog was forbidden In the navy and tho
army, ladies' no longer withdrew from
the table to allow men to get drunk and
The New York herald., 1922-01-07
A Murderer on Parole.

The notorious "cop fighter" who
murdered two detectives Thursday
was a criminal with long record.
on parole from the penitentiary to
which he had been sentenced for
burglary. When he was arrested by
the policemen he killed he was max
ing his periodical report to the off,
GERS to whose custody he had been
committed. He had in his pocket a
revolver of large caliber. Thus while
he enjoyed the lenity Of the law he
was violating a penal statute of the
State.
The parole system was designed
and put into effect to provide a
means by which persons convicted Of
crimes but OF whose intention to re-
form there remained hope should
have opportunity to prove by their
acts their good faith in repentance
and thus to reestablish themselves as
lawabiding citizens.
It was never intended that under its
operation habitual criminals should
be promiscuously let loose to prey on
society. When the parole system
does release such men from prison
and permits them to wander about
the streets 1t is perverted from its
purpose. 1t then becomes a menace
to society, not an aid to the reform
OF misguided individuals.
When system established to re-
habilitate unfortunates sets free
dangerous lawbreakers to prey on
the public it is time for revision of
that system to restore 1t to its orig.
inal function and to strip 1t Of the
danger to society that has become
attached to IL through carelessness or
weak sentimentality.