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The New York herald., 1922-02-13
Coal Strike and Coal Slump.

What folly it would be for the lead
ers of miners unions to call strike
in the depressed condition of the
coal industry is further emphasized
by the January shipments of anthra-
cite coal,
Presumably there were some con-
sumers who, overfearful lest their
supply might be cut off with the walk
out of workers, sought to buy and
store coal in advance of the trouble
Yet, as matter of fact, whatever
such anticipatory buying amounted
to, the total anthracite. shipments
for January, in the face of the threat
ened strike at the end of next month.
were only 4,S4S,O53 tons, as against
5,74o,53S in January last year.
When it is recalled how mild and
almost summery the winter was a
year ago and how many frosty days
there were in January this year a
loss in January anthracite shipments
of nearly 100000 tons, or IA per
cent, as compared with 1921, is a
sharply significant warning to reck-
less strikers to watch their step.
Either anthracite coal consumers,
judged by their slow buying of coal,
are perfectly willing to get along
with very small supplies as long as
the strike might last. or thew are
convinced that with hundreds of
thousands of unemployed men hunt
ing the country high and low for any
kind of work strike in the anthra-
cite coal mines could not last long
enough for anybody but the strikers
to know that it had taken place.
The man who does not stick to a
good job in these days as long as
the good job will stick to him is a
reckless gambler with fate.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
Old Travel Routes Revived.

The official time tables which are
now issued by the railways of conti-
mental Europe have somewhat the
completeness OF those of pre-war
times. The publication of time tables
was continued even during the world
war; but the train schedules then
as well as for year or more after
the armistice were a mockery to the
travelling public. They did not carry
the assurance that passenger could
even find a comfortable place on a
train or that IL he did he would ever
reach his destination. The recent
compilation by an international tour
ist agency of the schedules furnished
by different Governments appears to
offer for the first time more or
less coherent guide to the altered
travel conditions in Europe.
This is not unlike the reopening
OF land closed for eight long years,
land, though, in which many of
the familiar pathways are materi-
ally changed and others are yet grass
grown. There is still an Orient ex-
press; that Is, an express train from
Paris TO Constantinople; but it is
not over the old route so long asso-
ciated with international politics and
Near East intrigue. The new name
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
Taxicab Insurance.
Loscalzo's Bill Is
Called Unfair by q Cab Owner.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Assem-
blyman Loscalzo of Queens has intro
duced a bill in Albany compelling all
owners of trucks, commercial cars and
taxicabs in fact all cars carrying pas
sengers, to take out a liability and col
lision insurance to the amount Of $4,000
for the former and 1000 for the latter.
This bill should not pass. 1t is not
fair because it does not affect private
cars.> A private owner might drive his
car reckessly into mine and get away
with it under this bill, but should be
unfortunate enough to hit his car l
would have to make good.
There are about 10000 taxicabs in
New York city. of which about 1000 are
company owned and 5000 privately
owned. The latter are just barely MAX
ing a living at present owing to hard
times and great competition. If this
bill should pass it would mean the elimi-
nation of most of the 5000 owing to the
great cost of the insurance of to-day.
This insurance would cost from $500 to
$500 a year. TAXI OWNER.
CORONA, February IL.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
Dogs and Vivisection.
1t Is Declared Experiments Do In.
vOlve Pain to Animals.

To The NEW YORK HERALD: John J.
Zeitler in upholding vivisection says
'and the animal has not even the slight
est suffering" I should like to ask what
Mr.. Zeitler means by that sentence.
Ernest Harold Baynes. who is carry
ing on campaign in defense of vivisec-
ton, tells us that when an anasthetic
would defeat the object of vivisectors
experiment no an@sthetic is used. That
is. whenever vivisector wishes to do
so he operates on a live animal without
giving the creature anything to dull its
feelings.
Not only does Mr.. Baynes say this
but the vivisectors themselves say 1t.
Does Mr.. Zeitler mean to say that there
Is no pain in such case?
The vivisectors in descriptions of their
experiments plainly tell of the pain and
suffering of the animals. They also
plainly tell of the cries, struggles, means,
groans. howls and screams of their VIC
Tins. NELLIE CIrprpr
HAYWOOD, N. j.. February IL.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
New Jerseys Excess Crew Law.

Proposed changes in New Jerseys
law governing the manning of rail.
road trains, like the proposed changes
in New York, contemplate the equip
ment of all trains with full crews.
The New Jersey law as It now
stands makes mandatory their equip
ment with excess crews. 1t forces
railroads to carry on their trains
3S4 trainmen whose labor is riding.
They are not merely deadheads.
They are deadheads who are paid
high wages for being deadheads. The
full crew runs the train. The excess
crew rides on it.
Ultimately. of course, the cost OF
paying these high salaried travellers
falls upon the public. II is no incon-
siderable sum. Careful computation
puts it at s629,000 every year in New
Jersey. The New Jersey law since it
went into operation has cost the
passengers, shippers, farmers. truck
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
CONCERT IN HONOR OF LINCOLN.
Plays Works o
Beethoven, Wagner and Liszt.

The Philharmonic Orchestra observed
Lincoln's birthday in Carnegie Hall yes
terday afternoon by giving at its regu-
lar Sunday concert a program of works
by the three composers whose names
are known to be double starred within
the bounds of the society's musical
creed, namely. Beethoven, Wagner and
Liszt Mr.. Mengelberg, conducting, re-
peated for the opening selection his dra-
matte reading-as was heard from him
ten days ago at concert by the society
of Beethoven's Pastoral" symphony.
The central number was filled by the
orchestra's performance of the impress
sive and superbly eloquent "Siegfried
Funeral Music from Wagner's "Goet-
terdaemmerung." Liszts Symphonic
Poem,'' played by the orchestra, brought
the program to fitting close
The audience. deeply impressed by all
it heard filled the auditorium This
concert falling on the birthday of
Americas great President, recalls the
fact, as announced by the society, that
"the only Philharmonic subscription
concert ever Cancelled was the one
omitted on account of the assassination
of President Lincoln in 1865"
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
What Is a Fellow to Do!

"a St Valentines Day LAMENT
Now what is a fellow to do?
All the verses were long ago writ.
Each old as the oldest old shoe.
And so with the fancy and wit.
True loves have been coupled with doves
Till the latter no longer can COO.
have purchased the candy and gloves,
But-what is a fellow to do?
Yes, what is fellow to do
When the pen and the purple ink fall
Though tho passion my heart knows for
you
Put in writing would burn up the mail !?
I can only sit silent and think,
While the atmosphere burns deeply
blue
And my tears are diluting the ink.
What-what is a fellow to do?
oh, what is q fellow to do
When there isn't thing left to say,
Since Prior and Locker, that crew.
Have swept all the laurels away?
/ might say "Be mine I" in refrain
Mrs. Nickleby's swain could do that,
Although he was lacking in brain.
lAnd-by Jove, / will Where's my
hat7
MAURICE MORRIS
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
JOHN MCCORMACK SINGS.
Gives One of His Characteristic
Programs at Hippodrome.

John Mccormack. the always popular
tenor. who recently was compelled to
cancel concert engagements in the West
because of cold, gave one of his char
acteristic programs last evening in the
Hippodrome. The violence of the storm
made no apparent different in the size
OF the audience, which. as usual. at Mr.
McCormack's concerts, occupied all the
seats in the auditorium and as many as
could be placed on the stage.
The tenor caught cold from a drop
Of about fifty degrees in temperature
while going from Oklahoma to Mime
apolis. The cold did not affect his
throat, but attacked the bronchial
tubes. He may have experienced some
slight difficulty with his breath control
last. evening, though it was not to be
discovered in his singing. while it was
certain that his vocal chords were in
good condition.
Two airs of Handel, sung in admira-
BILE style, and with perfect pronouncia-
tion. opened the entertainment. Other
numbers well sung were by Rachman-
inov, Zandonai, Mrs. Beach, MacFay-
den, Gleason. Winter Watts and old
Irish folksongs. Donald McBeath con-
tributed violin solos and Edwin Schnei-
der played the accompaniment.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
Migrations of Fish.

From Seattle comes the informa.
tion that the Strait of Juan de Fuca
and Puget Sound have been invaded
by rare and unknown species of fish.
Perhaps the descriptive adjectives
should not be taken too seriously. So
far as the appearance of species not
native to a given region is concerned
the occurrence, though not common,
has been noted in pretty nearly every
part of the world. In some cases the
cause of the invasion is clear: in
. other cases 1t is not.
In several instances predatory spe-
cies have invaded waters to which
they were not native in such num-
bers that the native species have
been killed or driven off. Mariners
have encountered fish fleeing in i'm.
mense schools from pursuers.
1t is probable that the sudden mi.
grafton of species and also the ap-
pearance of strange species are due in
most cases to change in the tenn
perature Of the environing waters
and perhaps to a change in their
saltness. The Goldfish of the Banks
keep within cold waters. The spe-
cies found in warmer waters off the
southwest Of Europe will not live in
Mediterranean waters. 1t is thought
that the boundary line is one of
salinity.
1t occasionally happens that steady
winds, long continued, by their sur.
face friction drag warm water into
regions where the surface water is
normally cold, and vice versa. In
such cases the fish, or some species,
are apt to migrate. Perhaps this
may be the explanation of the visit
ing schools in Puget Sound. The
hypothesis that their intrusion is due
to submarine earthquakes is inter
esting, but it cannot be substan-
tiated by any known facts.
Years ago, about 1S79-SO, the tile.
fish came to notice along the north
east Atlantic coast waters. For a
year or two tileflsh were abundant.
They became a considerable factor in
the fish food supply of the commu.
nifty. Suddenly tilefish were found
floating at the surface, dead, in i'm
mense numbers; then the species
disappeared from the waters where
for little while it had been plenti-
fuf Nobody could explain the cause
of death in the cases of the tilefish
that succumbed to disease, shock, un-
favorable environment or deep sea
enemies. Nor could anybody explain
the temperance of tilefish off the
North Atlantic coast when, a few
years ago, they were again encoun.
tered by fishermen. Why did they
quit these waters? Where did they
go? And why did they return? An
explanation wholly satisfactory is
yet to be found.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1922
A Billion Dollar War.

There Is a war on which does not
deserve the attention of the Hague
Tribunal, the League Of Nations or
any other body which concerns itself
with producing peace. 1t is the
Billion Dollar War, the war between
the princes of the tractor industry.
Mr.. FORD and Mr.. MCCORMICK.
We call it the Billion Dollar War
because the combined resources Of
the International Harvester Com
pany and the Ford interests must
easily reach that large round figure.
General FORD was the aggressor.
He crossed the frontier two weeks
ago, cutting the price Of his tractors
from s625 to 1895. Last week the
Harvester Company reduced the price
of its tractors $3.50 ana offered to
throw in, free, three furrow plow
or a tractor disk harrow with each
purchase.
Mr.. FORD says his aim is to sell a
million tractors a year. HAROLD
Mccormick, who has put grand opera
aside for the time being and is sing
ing the song of business, tells his
staff that the Harvester Company
must outsell FORD.
Consider the dazzled farmer. He
stops sorting seed corn and watches
the battle of the giants. Every gun
fired shoots money into his pocket.
He will not attempt to arbitrate. He
will pick the tractor which suits his
needs and his purse.
A war like this may be hard on the
treasury of Ford or Mccormick,
but it is good thing for the coun-
try. Reduced prices mean bigger
sales. Bigger sales mean busy fac
tories and fewer unemployed. The
money comes from the farmer, and,
after passing through two or three
hands, goes back to him. Tractors
solve the farmland problem. Trac-
tors result in diversified crops.
Tractors mean a bigger production
of food and more to eat for every
body at lower prices. The increased
use of tractors stimulates the iron
and oil business.
IL Mr.. FORD and Mr.. MCCORMICK
can stand the war, who shall de-
prive them Of their pleasure?
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Sir SIR Horace Plunkett will lecture on The
irish Free State Town Hall. 12s West
forty-third street, IL A. NJ.
M aioert G b. Fali. Secretary Of the Interior:
Ut. Charles X. Brown and Mrs. Medill
Mccormick will speak at the Lincoln dinner
or the National Republican Club, Waldorf
Astoria. +. M.
DR.. Antonio Stell will discuss .'Tbe Jnn,;-
grant and the Health of the Nation" before
the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. New
,,t, YORK academy Of Medicine, II West Forty
third street. 80 p. M. X
Representative Alice M. Robertson of Okla
homa VIII speak at Lincoln birthday
luncheon of the womens Republican Club.
Hotel Plaza. IL 80 p. M.
Alumni of Columbia University. rally, Hotel
Astor. 80 p. NJ.
y. II. Outerbridgc and George McAneny
will speak at meeting of the United Real
P. NJ
William C. McAdoo will speak at the birth
day celebration of Peter Cooper Cooper
Union, p. NJ.
Solemn requiem mass for deceased mem
bers of the New York Fire Department.
Church OF st. John the Evangelist, Fifty
fifth street and First avenue, II A. M.
Raymond L. Ditmars. curator of reptiles
OF the New York Geological Park, will give
the annual Darwin lecture, chapel. New
p. M
Mrs. Douglas Robinson will speak on Your
Country" Central Branch, Y. w. c. A., 6i0
Lexington avenue. p. M.
Scottish woolen Trade Mark Association.
dinner, Hotel Bltmore, 1880 p. M.
Alice T. Coseo will lecture on Industrial
Life in Ancient Egypt Metropolitan
Museum OF Art. p. M.
Miss Lillian d. Wald will speak at the
Community Church House. Park avenue and
Thirty-fourth street, s15 p. NJ.
Demonstration Of the unemployed. 25 Front
street. p. NJ.
Prof. william B. Scott will lecture The
Isthmus of Panama and It's Influence on
the Animals of North and South America
before the section of biology, New YORK
Academy of Sciences, American Museum Of
Natural History. Sevcnty-seventh street and
Central Park West, S:15 p. M.
Robert Won Nordorff will give a public
lecture on 'The Colors of Polarzed Light
Labor Temple, Second avenue and Four
teenth street, S:15 p. M
Daughters OF Ohio. meeting, Waldorf
Astoria, T.. M.
Edison Disc Jobbers Association, meeting.
Waldorf-Astoria, 10 A. M.
Congregational Club. dinner. Hotel Nc
Alpin. p. M.
Macy Managers Association. dinner. Hotel
McAlpin, p. M.
Northwestern University Club. dinner, Hotel
McAlpin, p. M.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
Gold and Paper Money.
Experiences of America and of COun.
tries in Europe.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The as
sociated banks of the State of New York
suspended the gold standard on Decem-
Der 29 1861, and were followed on the
first Of the New Year by the United
States Treasury and the banks of the
other large cities Of the country. In or
der to start business. which had come to
a standstill, Congress passed the legal
tender act of February 25. 1862.
BY it the gold standard was sus-
pended for twenty years. The date of
resumption was anticipated by two
years and took place in 1879. But the
resumption of the gold standard was
not accompanied by resumption of gold
circulation and we have no gold circula-
tion now. May / ask why? The expla-
nation given is convenience. Is that an
explanation or an excuse?
Few people are familiar with letter
written by Voltaire to Albert Gallatin
describing how he made money In Paris
though living in Geneva. l quote from
memory, as 1 have not the book with me.
He had friend a director in the Dis,
count Bank of Paris. This friend wrote
him when money was going to be scarce
and sold his holdings in the speculative
articles of the day. When the bottom
had been reached this friend again wrote
him that money was going to be easy
again, when he bought for the rise.
But there came a time when the paper
of the bank came In for redemption
faster than it could be paid out at the
paying teller's window. and though a
panic was avoided at the time it ended
in revolution, as the Government had no
revenue except its own dishonored paper.
The same process has been worked
out in Russia and is in process in Ger
many. Witness the account of the Ger
man railroad strike.
Z. S. BRowNsoN, Sr.,
BROOKLYN, February II.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13

is the Simplon-Orient express. The
time from Paris to the Bosporus is
still about four days; but the new
route instead of passing for much of
it's way through what were once the
Central Empires now traverses the
countries of the allied nations as
far as the Bulgarian frontier. 1t
passes through Milan, Venice, Trieste
and Belgrade, and then through Sofia
and Adrianople to its destination.
For any person who should prefer
the old route there is now service
across the battlefields of France and
through Nuremberg and Munich to
Vienna and thence by way of Buda-
pest to Belgrade. From the Serbian
capital the traveller may now reach
Athens by rail, for the missing Gre
clan link, finished about the time the
world war began, is now in opera
tion. Apparently, though, the express
goes no further east than Bucharest
in Rumania, and from there the old
connection with Constantinople by
way of the Black Sea port Of Con-
stantza is not yet restored. The train.
service from Paris to the south OF
France is back to former standard,
as is also the famous old express to
Madrid and Lisbon.
But the train which was once
held up as an example Of Europe's
finest long distance service, the North
express, from Paris and Berlin to st.
Petersburg, is merely a ghost Of its
former self. The time. tables would
indicate that there is good service
from Paris by way of Berlin and
Riga to Petrograd. Perhaps so; but
pleasure travel is not in that direc-
ton. Neither is it southward from
Petrograd to the Black Sea resorts,
into the Caspian region, to the Far
East or over the Trans-Siberian
Railway.
The shifting of boundaries by the
peacemakers has brought many
troublesome changes in frontier Gus
toms inspection. The Apennine repub-
lie of San Marino, with probably the
oldest international boundary in Eu-
rope; Spain, with her Pyrenees from
tier undisturbed since 1853; Holland
and Switzerland, both with long ago
established national lines, are about
the only countries which were unaf-
fected by treaty territorial modifica-
tions. To-day the traveller finds him.
self routed out at wayside stations
of which before the world war he
never heard, and he encounters a
multitude of customs officials of en-,
tirely new groups of States.
The time tables may be too opti-
mistic in their promise Of swift, COM
Portable and easy travel, but they
do one thing at least, they show
an indication of the return to pre-
war conditions and of the effect Of
reconstruction work in continental
Europe.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
The Lincoln a Boy Saw.
How He Made Two Converts and
Determined an Appointment.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The
celebration OF Lincoln's birthday takes
me back in recollection to his first inau-
guration as President on March 4, 1851.
/ was then a private in the ranks Of
the Potomac Light Infantry of George
town. ID. c., one of the militia compa-
nies of the District of Columbia 1t
was standing joke to say that Light
Infantry" was an appropriate name for
the company because 1t contained so
many boys. Our Captain, however, was
the senior officer Of the District militia
and as such we had the right of line Of
the militia, marching after the Regular
cavalry which surrounded the Presi-
dents carriage.
Owing to the fear that an attempt
would be made to assassinate President
Lincoln most of the Regulars were sta
toned at points considered especially
dangerous and on the housetops along
the line of march, so that the military
parade was made up mainly of militia,
and for that reason our company was
nearer to the Presidents carriage than
otherwise it should have been, and the
President himself was in our sight nearly
all the time during the march from the
White House to the Capitol.
/ remember standing in the pouring
rain during the Inauguration ceremony,
at the east front of the Capitol, and
although rather proud of shedding
water for my country was more con-
cerned in trying to keep my musket dry
and in wishing it was all over. OF
course at that time 1 had no realization
OF the enormous Importance of the oc-
casion nor of the character of its chief
actor. The people Of the District of CO.
lumbia were Overwhelmingly Southern
in sympathy, and about all I knew Of
the political situation was that one of
the Black Republicans. as they were
called, named Lincoln, who had been a
rail splitter and stood low in the social
order. had been elected President.
Not long after the Inauguration the
Potomac Light Infantry was destined to
pass out of the field of action In rather
an inglorious manner. A call had been
made for the enlistment of militia or
ganizations for three months service and
our company was marched over to the
War Department to be mustered into
service. When General Stone came out
to administer the oath of allegiance
nearly the whole command, as if by
preconcerted action-as probably 1t was
stepped three steps to the front and
laid down their arms. leaving less than
a dozen OF us standing at attention.
That was the end of the Potomac Light
Infantry. Most Of the seceders after
ward Joined the Confederate army and
many of them never came back.
The stories and incidents connected
with Lincoln are numberless; but / may
be pardoned IL relate one incident
which came under my personal observa-
ton. On the occasion to which 1 refer four
of us, two Union and two Confederate
boys, were walking through the long
hall of the old State Department Build
ing. which stood just north OF the
Treasury Building, when we saw com