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The New York herald., 1922-03-08

The Philharmonic Society gave the
sixth of It's Tuesday evening subscrip-
ton concerts at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night under the direction of
Artur Bodanzky, guest conductor. The
program comprised Wagner's "A Faust
overture, Beethoven's eighth symphony.
Tschaikovsky's overture-fantasia, ''Ro-
meo and Juliet and Berlioz's 'Rakoczy
March,"
Although the compositions were all
familiar their hearing received some
novel zest, perhaps. by means of Mr..
Bodanzky's baton and the operatic
auditorium in which they were per-
formed. The Wagner overture, 1t is
true. had been heard in this theatre
nine years ago in program led by
Toscanini and played by the Metropoli-
tan Orchestra reinforced. The youthful
Wagner fragment seems to continue to
hold its own, although in place OF 1t
Rubinstein's "Musikalisches Charakter-
bid" on the same theme would be in
teresting to hear sometimes by way of
comparison. The orchestra played 1t
well. In Beethoven's THE Little SYM
phony in F. Mr.. Bodanzky's perfor-
nance was not particularly inspired, but
the melodies were well brought out and
the balance and dynamics were gen.
orally good.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
Onions.

Hundreds of acres of fine onions
last year were plowed under in terri
tory within a few hours ride from
New York. The high cost of hand
ling and of transportation so dis
couraged the growers that they de-
cided their crop was not worth har-
vesting. The use of the ground on
which the onions were grown was
lost, the labor and money spent in
their cultivation was lost.
And now, after growing and throw
ing away our own crops, we are i'm
porting hundreds Of tons Of onions
from foreign countries. Australia is
one of the fields from which we are
drawing. An Australian steamship
now due in San Francisco has 450
tons of onions on board. Others SIM
ilarly laden are to follow. Foreign
growers are getting the money which
our own farmers would be getting il
they had harvested their onions.
Notwithstanding their experiences
in 1921. farmers here in the East
are preparing to plant heavily this
year. Cumberland county in south
ern New Jersey leads our neighbor-
ing State in onion culture, and onion
sets are now going into Cumberland
county in carload lots.
This is a cheering exhibition Of
the American farmers capacity to
rise superior to disheartening ex-
periences. Last year many growers
said they would never put another
onion into the ground. This year
they are putting more onions into
the ground than ever before.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
Memories of a Minstrel.
Charles Sturges Recalls Ale Houses
and Theaters OF Old New York.

To THE NEW York HERALD: was
talking recently to a neighbor who be-
lieve is more familiar with old New
York history than anybody else | know
and 1 have read all the letters which
have appeared in THE NEW YORK HER
AID for some years back.
This neighbor is Charles Sturges, who
was a member of the San Francisco
Minstrels in 1859 and 1870 and later
Joined the Harrigan and Hart company
and remained with them when they
moved uptown.
In 1854 Mr.. Sturges lived on what
was later the site OF the Herald Build
ing at Thirty-ifth street and Broadway
The building then existing was called
Townsend's flats and was erected by Mr.
Townsend, who then lived In n mansion
at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth ave-
nue, on the site OF which was built later
the A. r. Stewart mansion.
Mr. Sturges recalls the old English
ale houses which we're In Manhattan in
the early SOS. In these places he and
several other actors who later became
prominent started their careers by sing
ing and dancing with the assistance of
a piano player who was always on tho
PREMISES. Some one II the patrons in
the place would call ut Somebody sing
a song" and among others who would
oblige were Gus Williams, Billy Scan
Ian, Harry Van Demar, George Merritt
Charley Sturgcs ard Roach. who had a
very fine voice. These places We're fire.
uuentod mostly by Englishmen Harry
Clifton's was on Crosby street just be-
low Grand the House Of Lords at the
corner OF Crosby and Houston streets,
and John Ireland's in Lispenard street
just west of Broadway. Lindenmuller's
was on what was later the site Of Tony
Pastors theater. The Canterbury Music
Hall was built by George Lee. and was
nj 5s5 Broadway. II was later occupied
by the san Francisco Minstrels and still
later by Tony Pastor as his theater
Who remembers tho Richmond Hill
Theatcr at Charlton and varick streets
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
The Dream Walk.

Last night in dream l walked with you
again
Down the long dip of maple bordered
Over to Ten Mile under the mountain
wall.
To-day I see the snowfiakes hutter and
fall.
But the dream holds me as your aster
eyes
Held me upon an amber afternoon.
Still call the waters with alluring tune
And in the coppice thrush to thrush
replies.
We pass the bars and thread the sumach
tangle
With the frail frondage of the fern at
root;
Amid the leaves above there is the
spangle
And now we reach the margin of the
stream
And the old trysting tree-this in my
dream
And there recline and let the hours
slip by
As do the ripples making melody;
And though within your hand you hold
a book,
My only volume is your loving look;
And though bird. river and breeze are
like a choir,
Your voice is all the music / desire.
Beyond the current is farmstead gar
den
That a neat tended privet hedge en-
folds,
Wherein housewife, like an aged war
den.
PAGES and snips the cleaning mari-
Colds.
Though the winds toss around Manhat-
tan towers,
We watch the woman gathering her
flowers;
And though we are afar we both are
there
This in my dream-and though we are
apart
take you for a moment to my sbeart-
And kiss the ray of sunlight on your
hair
Linger, o dream. and hold me in your
thrall
There by the Ten Mile under the noun
tain wall
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
The Cry in the Night.
One California Lion Held. to Equal
Twenty Dramatics Sopranos.

To THE New YORK HERALD: / was
born in San Jose, Cal, and during my
boyhood days I heard people say that
the California lion could ventriloquize
and that therefore there was no use
looking for the lion in the direction
from which his cry came. This is true.
My personal experience is this:
! was once hunting in the dense woods
near the summit of the Santa Cruz
Mountains fifty miles from South San
Francisco. / had retired for the night
in barn the upper door of which was
open. Soon / was startled by the most
awful cry that had ever heard, a cry
which could only come from some pow
erful animal The tone resembled a
womans cry in awful distress. The vol
ume OF tone would equal twenty dra-
matte sopranos in unison. all screaming
at high pitch. The vibrations all but
shook the barn.
/ was terrified and leveled my gun on
the open door during this serenade and
long after II had ceased, for ] expected
at any moment to see the lion appear at
the door. AS / recall, the scream was
given five or six times and in such
broad phrases that 1t seemed that each
cry was on a half minute breath.
/ had graduated in vocal music in
Italy and have made a study Of tone
production and can say that / never
have heard such tone as / heard that
night, before or since.
w. r. HERvEY.
FAR RocKAwAY. March Z.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08

istrationl and the gradual develop
ment of self-governing institutions
with a view to the progressive reali-
zation of responsible government in
India as an integral part of the Brit
ish Empire" 1t is an ambitious pro-
gram where speed may spell disas-
ter in a land where substitution Of
the idea of government by law for
government by ,volition may break
India in pieces.
India is continent as large as
Europe west of Russia. 1t has 224,.
100000 Of people engaged in pasture
and agriculture. 1t has tens of mil
lions of prosperous peasants and tens
Of millions of naked poor. There
are more Bengalis than there are
people in France; the Hindus alone
outnumber the population of the
United States; the province of Ma
dras has population of 41,000,-
900; Agra and Oudh are more popu-
lous than the United Kingdom. There
ere in India 100000 trained soldiers
in native service. If conscription
we're applied there would be six mil
lions in the barracks.
The fact of the matter is few real
ize what unrest in India may mean
for the whole world. The East has
survived the Greek, the Roman, the
Crusader, and returned to its own
ways. 1t will require all the pa.
thence and wisdom OF British states
manship to deal with the present
discomfort.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
or the old theater at Leonard and

or the old theater at Leonard and
Church streets? The Old Broadway
Theater was at Worth and Broadway.
The dressing rooms at the Comique
at 514 Broadway were situated on the
ground floor, south side. In front of
the dressing rooms was Sandy Spencer's
bar, from which drinks could be had by
opening a window and calling out The
auditorium was upstairs and there was
an exit to Crosby street. A great many
who may have seen the Harrigan plays
will recall Billy Gray and his song, "The
Old Bowery Pit" which he sang with
such feeling and expression the words
were by Harrigan and music by Dave
Braham. M. E. FOLSOM.
NEW York, March 7.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
The Hokum of the Bonus.
The Question Is One of Quick Money
Versus Good Money.

To THE NEw York HERALD: The ex-
service man who wants the bonus Is
after quick money, not good money.
His taxes will be heavier il he gets 1t.
Quick money has to be paid for sooner
or later by good money dragged out of
the pockets of the American citizens,
and during the process the pocket nerve
will be dancing a ragtime.
Money doesn't rain down from heaven
like marina. II can only be produced
by the sweat of the laborer's brow, your
brow as well as the other fellows.
II the bonus asking agitator gets what
he wants he will soon find himself forced
TO pay more for everything he uses.
Why? Because the money has to come
from somewhere. 1t won't grow on
bushes Nuts do, but not money.
The increased cost of living will cost
the man who is clamoring for this quick
money a high rate OF interest which can
never be rebated.
AS for the unemployed ex-service man,
he will soon realize that his quick money
Is an expensive luxury. The rate of ex-
change he will have to pay will prove
disastrous because 1t will be computed
in dreary months of idleness.
Good money paid through weekly
wage is worth holding on to even as an
idea these days.
Neither must the bonus getter deceive
himself into thinking that his bonus is
only coming out of the pockets of the
capitalists, for it is eventually comins
out of his own.
To the man with big income 1t will
be OF minor Importance whether the
bonus bill goes through or not. But to
the man in the street 1t will be a mat
ter of major Importance because 1t will
develop higher taxes, dearer food and
fewer jobs.
Increased business prosperity on the
other hand will provide good money for
everybody.
The capitalist cannot get 1t all. even
If he wants to. and the man who will
suffer the most from hard times will be
the man who now believes that he should
get quick money at any price.
1t is just because I am that mans
friend that l want him to look at the
situation as it us and not allow himself
to be fooled by the sophistries of office
seekers, of editorial writer's and of
hokum advisers.
ELISABETH MARBuRY.
New YORK, March z.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
ThIrty-tI,ree Feet Of Rain.

From the National Geographic MdOastne.
Seasons near the equator are not marked
by changes in temperature. but by the
amount Of rainfall. Generally speaking
the year II divided into wet and dry sea
sons. known respectively as lnvierno (win-
teri and verano tsummer). though there Is
much variation ms regards the time and
duration Of these seasons, particularly in
mountainous regions. There are also areas
where II rarely. If ever. rains. and others
still where rain falls practically every day
in the year. In the Pacific coast region OF
Colombia the wet season is continuous, and
there Is recorded rainfall at San Jose
Of 4oo.ss inches, little more than thirty
three feet
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
Protection From Anthrax.

Ever since several cases of anthrax
in human beings were traced to in
fected shaving brushes made of i'm
ported horsehair the Public Health
Service has been seeking a means
of sterilization by which this prod
uct might surely be rendered in
capable of transmitting the disease.
Such sterilization is possible, but the
process requires for success rigid
adherence to high standards, and 1T
has been found impossible to enforce
such standards commercially.
Because of this Secretary MELLON
of the Treasury Department has now
recommended to Congress the enact
ment of a statute declaring it unlaw-
full to import into the United States
or to ship in interstate commerce any
shaving or lather brush containing
horsehair. Secretary MELLON in rec
ommending the proposed legislation
to Congress said that there is gen.
eral agreement among brush manu-
facturers that the prohibition of
the use of horsehair in shaving
brushes is desirable.
A great many Of the cases Of an
thrax in human beings which have
been attributed to use Of infected
shaving brushes have been of doubt
full origin. At no time has there
been substantial cause for public
alarm on account of the disease. But
a single death from anthrax COM
municated by a shaving brush justi-
fies resort to the most rigorous meth
DDS to prevent the appearance of
another case. The legislation advo-
Gated by the Secretary of the Treas
ury to suppress this source Of dan
ger is justified as a measure to pro-
tect the public health and should
be enacted.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
The Unattalnable.

I like a phllosophic work
And with much pleasure / turn to II
I'm fond OF Spencer. Hume and Burke
take up Plato and go through u.
Kant, schopenhauer and Carlyle,
Montaigne and Pater-all enthrall me
Bruyare and Emerson beguile
The sorrows that at times hefall me.
Yet though for weighty stuff look
And find the reading easy sailing,
To-day friend sent me a book
SO deep that gave way to wailing.
May he find all his comforts gone.
May Fate confound the sorry Joker
For sending me these pages ON
The Rules and Principles of Poker
NATHAN M. LEVY.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT,
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.


"Trcnd Of the Times" Arthur d. Ress,
Cooper Institute. Eighth street and Fourth
avenue.
plays of the Hour" Miss Ada Sterling.
American Museum of Natural History, Sew
enty-seventh street and Central Park West.
Stereopticon vicws.
.Il Trovatore," Miss Marguerite r. Potter.
p g. "a rorty-first street. east OF Third
avenue. illustrated by arias on the victroia
and stereoptcon Views.
"Indlan Songs, Dances and Folk LORE"
Princess Watawahso. p. 5. 10t, 11tth
street west of Lexington avenue. Given in
costume.
''The slavonic States OF SOUTHEASTERN Eu-
rope Prof. M. =. Stanoyevich, r. 3. 15T.
al Nicholas avenue and 127th street. The
first OF course OF three lectures on South
eastern Europe" Stcreopticon views.
.'The Romance Of the Pyrenees," Garrett
p sorviss, Central jewish Institute. 125
East Eighty-fifth street. Stereopticon Views.
''why the Municipality should Own and
Operate all Transit Lines In the City of New
York" Commissioner Grover T. Whalon.
Townsend Harris HAN, q. q. N. T., l3Sth
street and Amsterdam avenue.
"Indian Life and Customs N. x. Dial
want r. s. 90, i08th street and Bainbrldge
avenue. The Bronx. Costume and songs.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08

marks are required to buy as much
food or clothing in Germany as one
mark would buy in 1914. The pur-
chasing efficiency Of dollar when
converted into paper marks and
spent in Germany is therefore one
third higher than the purchasing
efficiency of that same dollar when it
is spent in America.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
Gerrnany's Actual Price Level.

Measured in deprecated paper
marks, which in gold are worth less
than half an American cent each, the
cost OF living in Germany to-day has
risen to twenty times what it was in
1914. Prices in the United States are
less than twice as high as they were
in 1914, the latest Official index num-
ber showing an average of IT'S for
the whole country. But because prices
have gone up more than twenty times
in Germany and are up one and three
quarters times here does not mean
that German prices are ten times as
high as Ameri IAN prices when both
are reckoned in gold or in undepre-
ciated United States dollars.
Because a German to-day can buy
only a couple of rolls with the Same
number Of marks ii took before the
war to buy a good dinner does not
mean that the actual price level in
gold has advanced: it merely shows
that people do not swap bread or rolls
for paper money as readily and on
as reasonable terms as they did before
the war, when there was something
behind the paper besides the good
wishes and the empty till of the
German Government.
In a discussion of the subject by
London bank it is said that in 1914
''ten marks paid for an elegant dress
shirt, now It buys collar; for rs or
so marks one could obtain breakfasts
for a month. but that sum has now
ehrunk to where II is merely tip to
a waiter for serving a breakfast"
All Of which might be disturbing
news to Americans intending to
travel in Germany next spring or
summer If these Americans now pos
sessed nothing better than depreci-
ated paper marks. But an American,
or anybody else, taking gold or up-
deprecated American paper dollars
to Germany will find that the actual
price level in that country is very
little ii any higher than IL was in
1914. and that IL is actually about 80
per cent lower than the price level in
America to-day.
The internal purchasing power OF
the mark and It's actual value in gold
are explained by Berlin bank In its
circular for January thus:
"The complete price statistics being
available, II Is now possible to deter
mine the purchasing power OF the
mark al home and abroad during
1921
"On the average taking into con.
sideration an factors. It ls estimated
that AT the end OF the year the
domestic valuation Of tho mark had
dcpreciated twenty-seven fold. the
foreign valuation forty-four fold. The
decline in the domestic purchasing
power Of the mark consequently
amounts to little less than two
thirds Of the depreciation Of IT'S for
eign valuation"
Stripped of technicalities, the moan
ing OF this Is that, while "A marks
are acquired to buy rs much gold as
/ ~ Sgk would buy in 1914, only 27
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
MISS vERYL GIVES RECITAL.

Miss Marian Veryl, soprano. gave a
song recital yesterday afternoon in
Aeolian Hall. She sang airs by Mozart
and Granados. and songs by Franz,
Brahms and others. Her voice proved
to have light volume and pretty quality.
and her audience gave kindly encour-
agement to her singing. which be-
trayed lack Of experience
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
TITTA RUFFO RETURNS.

1t was announced at the Metropolitan
Opera House last night that 1itta E'affo.
who has just returned from an ex-
tended concert tour in the South, is In
excellent health. He has assured Cen
eral Manager Gatti-Casazza that he
would sing the title role in THE Barber
of Seville" at the Metropolitan Opera
House or Friday evening, with the new
Spanish soprano. Nine. Angeles Otteirr.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair and
colder to-day; tomorrow increasing
cioudiness, northwest gales diminishing
to-day.
for New Jersey-Generaly fair and colder
.o-dhy; tomorrow increasing coudiness,
piuJja,piy becoming unsettled by tonight, d.
| eriy by Tomorrow
eo,Sar E9r Northern New Engand-cloudy and
strong westerly winds
oa,s hor Southern New England-Cloudy and
WESTERN, 'o,aay y Tomorrow probably fair;
For Western New York-Iocal SHOWS to-
,,an .ay somewhat colder In east portion; 10.
easterly by Tomorrow
WASHINGTON. March 7.-The storm that
was central over Eake s,Iperior last nirht
mas moved rapidly eastward TO the 81. Law
,,ehnc Vailey and New England during the
~, ,.en sweIl.y-Ionr hours and has been attended
~ general precipitation east OF the Missls-
Pup, LIVER and by shifting gales in the At
,anhr states, the upper Ohio Valley and tho
,Sas - aslon. Inc highest velocity reported
was feVehty-two miles an hour from the
south at New York city, and sixty-eicht
City 'H a. @Ni'ah'io
Another disturbance hns developed over
the far West. and It's center was over coIo
rado tonight. 1t has been attended by rains
IN the north Pacific States and local SHOWS ii,
iANeetH diu uoTlHefn ROCKY Mountain
gions. Pressure was high over tho Mlsss-
sippi and lower Missouri valleys, the Gulf
states and the Pacific States
,.ne me weather became colder to-day from the
Mississippi River eastward except alonf. the
immediate Atlantic coast. where mild tenn
pareture continued. West of the Mississippi
there was little change in temperature
Generally fair weather will prevail cast OF
the Mississippi River Tomorrow except that
there VIII be local SHOWS in the lower lake
region and the extreme upper Ohio Valley.
The weather will again become unsettled
Thursday as the Colorado disturbance moves
eastward toward the middle Mississippi Val
ley, and rain Is probable Thursday night in
the Ohio Valley. Tennessee and the east
Gulf States and in the Atlantic States south
or Maryland. The temperature will be lower
In the middle Atlantic and north Atlantic to-
morrow. and 1t will rise in the upper lake
region, the lower Ohio Valley. Tennessee and
the east Gulf States. No important tenn
perature changes are indicated for Thursday.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08

Babe RuTH's income will be limited
only by the number of home runs he
can peIt out at $500 each, which sup.
plies the tax collector with a brand
new, unassailable excuse for taking
afternoons off to attend all the games.
The New York herald., 1922-03-08

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