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Family Prestige.
john Adams Thought IL Stronger In
Republics Than in M0narchies.

To THE NEW YORK NERALD: Reading
your editorial article "a Fine American
Family" I am reminded of John Adams's
discussion of the well born" i'm his
History of Principal Republics" (Vol.
T., p. 110). where after pointing out the
advantages OF wealth in respect to po-
lltical matters, he refers to the effect
Of birth and says:
THE truth is that more influence is
allowed to this advantage in free re-
rublics than in despotic governments. or
Than would be allowed to it in simple
il severe laws lad not been
made from age 20 age to secure it, The
children OF illustrious families have
generally creator advantages of educa-
tion and earlier opportunities to be ac-
quainted with public characters and in
formed Of public affairs than those OF
meaner ones, or even those in middle
life. and what is more than all. an
habituat veneration for their names and
the character OF their ancestors de-
scribed in history or coming down by
tradition removes them further from
vulgar Jealousy and popular envy, and
.
the affection and respect of the public.
"Will any man pretend that the name
OF Andross and that of Winthrop are
heard with the same sensations in any
village OF New England? Is not grati-
tude the sentiment that attends the lat
ter and disgust the feeling excited by
the former? In the Massachusetts,
then. there are persons descended from
some Of their ancient governors, coun-
sellors. judges, whose fathers, grand
fathers and great-grandfathers are re-
membered with esteem by many living,
and who are mentioned in history with
applause. as benefactors 70 the country,
while there are others who have no such
advantage. :.
eco ipto every village In New Eng
land and you will find that the Office
Of justice of the peace, and even the
place Of representative, which has ever
depended only on the freeest election
OF the people. have generally descended
from generation to generation, in three
or four families at most. The present
subject is one OF those which all men
respect and all men deride. 1t may be
said Of this part Of our nature as Pope
said OF the whole:
"of human nature. wit her worst may write,
We all revere it in our own despite"
The Roosevelt family--which did not
begin and end with Theodore-is an ex-
ample and the Smith family seems to
persist BENJAMIN S. DEAN.
JAMESTOWN, November II.
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little problems that are bound to
arise in any human relationship. 1t
is not enough for Harvard to an
nounce that there is no chance of a
break with Princeton this year. 1t
behooves the higher councils of both
universities to get at the basic rea-
sons for the differences between them
If such differences really exist
and TO establish unalloyed cordiality
between the Crimson and the Orange
and Black.
1t would be disheartening rehec-
tion on our intercollegiate sports
were two of our largest universities
to announce that they cannot con-
duct their relations in athletics with
aRsSDlte friendliness and the best of
understandings.
The New York herald., 1922-11-20

WASHINGTON, Nov. - President
to-day at the White House sets aside
the week of December to as Ameri-
can education week. He recommends TO
the appropriate national State and local
authorities that they give their cordial
support and cooperation. and also calls
upon parents to enlist themselves in be-
half of closer understanding between
the school and the home. The text OF
the proclamation follows:
"The ideals of democratic government
and democratic education were planted
simultaneously I'm our country. The
fathers rightly believed that only peo-
duties could develop and maintain the
institutions of popular government. The
system OF universal education estab-
lished in the beginnings has developed
with the country and become one of the
characteristic features of our life. In
1t we have laid the foundation of that
system of American culture which has
enabled us to absorb and assimilate mill
lions who have come to us from many
countries and bringing the traditions of
widely varying institutions.
I'm order that we may keep in mind
the need constantly to improve our edu-
cational system 1t is proposed that the
week of December 3-9, inclusive, be set
aside for special observance as Ameri-
can education week. 1t is recommended
to the Governors of the States that they
cooperate with the educational and civic
of their commemorative to
make the week a period FOR revival of
interest in the broad work of national
1T is gratifying to know that In
time when public burdens have lain
very heavy upon the people there has
been everywhere a determined purpose
to maintain education 'unimpaired in
order that the coming generation may
be equipped. regardless OF sacrifices in
the present, for the increasing RESPONSE
bilities which 1t must bear.
Without vision the people perish.
Without education there can be little
vision. OF education 1t may be said that
1t is twice blest; It besseth him that
gives and him that takes. 1t viii be
greatly worth the effort IL, as an Incl
dent to the observance OF education
week. we can impress this thought upon
The New York herald., 1922-11-20

tion OF the outward and visible prod
ucts and instruments of the civiliza-
tion OF this continent at the time
Of CoLUMBUss discovery.
There are more than 100000
specimens of. one kind or another on
view. 1t can thus be seen that there
is no lack Of thoroughness in the
plan OF the new museum. 1t is
storehouse OF all that the individual
and tribal life, the religion and the
ambitions of the Indians in their
final expression have brought into
existence.
For every American there is deep
interest in all that pertains to the
Indian. He throws shadow over all
the first years of American boyhood.
He is often the strongest stimulus
to the Imagination of youth, and
interest in the life and achievements
of tho Indian resides in every adult
mind.
The generosity Of ARCHER NJ
HUNTINGTON provided a home for
the unique collection made by
GEORGE G. HEYE, and New York now
possesses an institution in which the
Indian culture of this country can
be studied thoroughly.
New York has in this latest addi-
tion to her list of artistic and an
thropological institutions another
potent attraction for the thousands
who every year come to the city to
study or to inspect the great collec
tions housed here. The new museum
deserves to take its place by the side
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the American Museum of Nat
ural History as one of the notable
monuments of the city's generous
and varied interests.
The New York herald., 1922-11-20
Maine's Boundary Mystery.

Just what Sir ANDREW MoPHAIL OF
McGill University, Montreal, meant
when he said few days ago that had
we Joined the League OF Nations we
should have had to meet a claim by
Canada to the State Of Maine may be
classed among the sufficiently abun-
dant mysteries of the day. He said
this apparently as pendant to his
sea was destined to become a bone
of contention at no distant day.
Did Sir ANDREW mean that our
membership in the League would have
reopened the boundary controversy
definitely disposed of by treaty with
Great Britain signed, sealed and ap-
proved eighty years ago? Out OF our.
1888 peace treaty with England there
emerged a difference of opinion as to
where the Maine boundary line should
be drawn The controversy remained
in fluid and occasionally an ebul-
lient state for tifty-nine years.
Then, in 1912, came the Washing
ton treaty which presumptively set
tied the question for all time. We
yielded a small part of the territory
Great Britain claimed, and in return
Great Britain yielded Rouses Point
to us, together with free navigation
of the ST. John River. Presumably
about the average number of people
were satisfied with the compact.
Everybody was not, as matter of
course. But as international treaties
go this one left in its wake no un-
usual number of malcontents.
And now, Sir ANDREW seems to
assert, we only escaped having the
whole controversy resurrected and
fought all over again by our refusal
to join the League of Nations. In
an address before the recent meet
ing of the Transatlantic Society in
Philadelphia Sir ANDREW revealed
the narrow escape we have had. But
the revelation remains obscure. Can
il be possible that the Maine bound
airy question is still live issue across
the northern border?
Just before he left England JOHN
WILLIAM FoRTEscUE, the historian
who was not permitted to deliver a
lecture at West Point. announced
that he too was going to look into
the Maine boundary question. lie
confided the fact to London news
paper interviewer. Now nobody
would think of grouping Sir ANDREW
MoPHJL with Mr.. FoRTEscUE in their
sentiments toward this country. Yet
here they are both of them barking
back to that gone and ought to be
forgotten Maine boundary dispute!
Why they should do so is one of the
unsolved puzzles of the day.
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The EverIa sting.

Across brown upland pastures where the
wind
wanders at will, the everlasting blow,
Like shadowy prophets Of oncoming
snow.
Their waving feathery blossoms bring
to mind
Some heeting vision OF far Off shore,
Foam fecked and tossed by the eter-
nal tide;
Again amid their blooms there seem
10 hide
Glimpses Of a white rosebush by door.
They llnger in defiance OF the cold;
The bitterest wind 10 them is but a
song;
Undaunted still they raise calm
eyes above,
knowing that mystery old, yet never
old
That pain, II understood, will make
them strong
To grow again when comes the
spring they love.
ELISABETH scoLLAEp.
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Montenegro's Future.

To the Montenegrins their country
still lives, though by the decision of
the European Powers 10 recognize the
merger of Montenegro with Serbia
her name and independence passed.
The founders of this Black Noun
tain nation were brave men, as were
their successors, for only brave race
could live in that rugged highland.
To-day handful of them are fight
ing against Europe's decision, fight
ing for their freedom and national
life.
When Montenegro entered the
world war it was in defense of Ser
bia and before even Russia or the
other Powers of Europe had gone to
Serbia's aid. Serbia may count on
the unlimited help of Montenegro in
this critical moment" said King
NICHOLAS. Montenegro was overrun
by the superior forces of Austria, as
was Serbia, her King as well as the
Serbian monarch was forced to leave
the country and her army was driven
to the mountains. Allied Europe said
in effect that the courage and devo-
tion Of Montenegro, the smallest of
the Allies, should not be forgotten
or go unrewarded Yet two weeks
after the armistice representatives
of Serbia proclaimed the annexation
Of Montenegro to Serbia. The Pow
ers did not recognize this annexation
and the Supreme Council declared
that Montenegro should be reinstated
when the political situation cleared.
But this was never done. The whole
treatment of the Montenegrin State
WHITNEY WARREN in his able and
sympathetic work upon Montenegro
describes as the crime of the peace
conference.
The Montenegrins are Serbs, of
the same race as the people of Serbia.
They have the same race traditions;
they fought at the battle Of Korsovo
and they honor as heroes and leaders
LAzAR andsthe great DUsHAN. But
they were never, as were the Ser
bians, in subjugation to the Turks,
for the founders of their nation re-
tired to the forbidding Black Noun
tains rather than come under the
yoke of the Sultans.
The Montenegrins are not infre
quently referred to as the flower of
the Serb race. GLADSTONE, in his
memorable address upon the Turkish
situation, thus epitomized their his
tory: "a band of heroes such as the
world has rarely seen, who from their
stand on the rock of Montenegro are
ready now as they have ever been
during the past 400 years to sweep
down from their Businesses to meet
the Turks at any odds for the re-
establishment of peace and Justice"
The sympathy of much of the world
is with the Montenegrins in their
valiant fight. Their opponents will
yet discover that it is not easy to
wipe out with the stroke Of a pen
nation born from love of freedom
CT a people who fought five centuries
in their mountain Businesses for in
dependence and whose history and
traditions are a record OF brave
deeds and self-sacrifices in defense
of their homes and their State.
The New York herald., 1922-11-20
Harvard Princeton Relations.

Harvard, Yale and Princeton have
too much in common to persit a
break in athletic relations in that
famous trinity to be contemplated
without alarm. The so-called Big
Three are the leaders in Ameri-
can college sport--prime movers in
the unceasing battle TO keep inter-
collegiate athletics on a high anna
teur plane. Were Harvard and
Princeton to sever relations the in
stitutions themselves. the three uni
versities, college sport in general
would suffer.
other colleges look to the Big
Three to set the standard in every
thing that has 20 do with athletic
competition. This includes sanity
and cool hesdedness in tackling the
The New York herald., 1922-11-20
Old Shakespearean Casts.
Famous Actors Brought Together in
the Cincinnati Festival.

TO THE New YORK Herald: The AL
most total lack of Shakespearean actors
not only, I'm this country but abroad rs
q distinct loss to the present genera
tion. Men and women Of 60 or more
recall with pleasure the halcyon days
of the Shakespearean drama forty years
ago when such actors as John McCul-.
Tough, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett,
Salvini, James e. Murdoch, Louis James.
Charles Plunkett, Edmund Collier. Otis
Skinner, John a. Lane. John A. Ellsler,
Mary Anderson, Marie Wainwright.
Clara Morris, Kate Forsyth and Mrs.
Plunkett were in their heyday. Many
Of them appeared together in the Shake
spoarean festival in Music Hall al Gin
cinnati in April and May. 1882.
/ have retained a program of the fes-
tival for more than forty years and It
shows that the plays given include "Ju-
lius Caesar" Monday evening. April 30,
1882; Romeo and Juliet" on May /;
Julius Cesar" on Wednesday for the
matinee Much Ado About Nothing"
Wednesday evening; "Othello," Thurs
day evening Hamlet" Friday eve-
ming: "The Hunchback." Saturday mat
inee, and "othello." repeated on Satur-
day night.
The casts for these plays were ex-
ceptionally brilliant and TO my mind
they have not been surpassed except
once. In "Otheilo" these actors ap-
pcared
The New York herald., 1922-11-20
Museum of the American Indian.

New York is now richer by the
possession of one more institution
devoted to a special branch Of
science. It's newest acquisition, the
Museum of the American Indian,
Heye Foundation, occupies a building
at 155th street and Broadway and
has been formally dedicated to public
use
Besides its other cultural aims the
new institution has set for itself the
task Of investigating the mystery Of
the aboriginal red mans beginnings
It is the only museum in the world
exclusively devoted to the preserva-
The New York herald., 1922-11-20
Winter Stars.

In childhood at rare times I climbed by
night,
With my two brothers, a wide common
where
Above Us throbbed the lone Immense OF
air
Pouring its plenitude OF silent light.
The hands that held my own l grasped
more tight
And in my heart 1 breathed my bed
time prayer,
Bent down my conscious eyes, nor yet
would dare
To lift them on that glittering awful
Until heard the whistling Wind arise
Then, all at once, I seemed so we'll to
know
How, up and up. 1t climbed to fan those
skies
Ny Friendly Wind that shook the heav-
ems so.
And, to myself. I laughed to feel it
Tho naming starlight keen against my
eyes.
Above me reach the frosty fields OF air.
Stripped of their leafy luxurles, the
trees
Their branches raise In slender lattices.
The winter stars are up the jeweled
Chair.
The belted Hunter; yonder. the Great
Square;
The arrowy Swan; the glimmering
Pleiades.
Oh I must cry the constancy of these
The steadfastness that changeless holds
them there!
For since those olden nights climbed
the hill
And trembIed at their splendid awful
host,
Ais changed within this human world
OF mine,
And / amid vast loneliness am lost.
The Wind unfriendly has with me its
will.
And Winter Stars do but the colder
shine.
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
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Clemenceau's Home Here.
Where Did He Live When in New
York Sixty Years AgOl

To THE New York HERALD: Your
reporters do not need suggestions Tor
questions TO put to distinguished Wis
itors, but l venture 70 suggest this. to
be addressed to Mr.. Clemenceau: just
where did he live when he was a New
Yorker nearly sixty years ago? There
have been contradictory statements IN
recent sketches. Let us have street and
number. j. A. ID.
NEW YORK, November is.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Trend OF the Times" Prof. Nelson p.
Mead. Washington Irving High School.
Irving place and Sixteenth street.
Trend OF the Times" Arthur d. Rees,
Morris High School. 166th street and Boston
road, The Bronx
Book OF the Hour" Prof. Carter Troop.
Pilgrim Hall, Flfty-sixth street and Broad
way.
"The Truth About Blayds,"A Miss Gladys
Lott. Public School 4G. 156th street and st.
Nicholas avenue. The third OF three dramatic
readings OF stage Successes of 1021-22."
''Retracing Americas Greatest Trail,
Prof Howard r. briggs, Public School 1oI,
ST. Nicholas avenue and l2'th street. Stere-
opticon views.
How Artists Work. Ernest Knaufft.
Public School 165, 22J West 10sth street.
Stercopticon Views.
Copper and Gold" Prot w. l.. Esta.
brooke, Labor Temple, Fourteenth street aud
second avenue The first OF n course on
"Our Most Common Metals Experiments
and motion pictures.
"Thc Spirit OF the Autumn" Miss Laura
sedgwick Collins, st. COLUMBIA Hall, 343
West Twcnty-fifth street. Readings ana
musical selections.
Songs OF the Moment" Miss June Mullln.
Evander Childs High School, 1Sith street
and Field place. The Bronx. Vocal selections.
BROOKLYN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
Current Thought" Dr. Alexander Lyons.
Boys High School, Marcy and Putnam ave-
nues
"Trend OF. the Times" Sydney N. Ussher.
Eastern District High School, Marcy avenue
and keap street.
: Trend OF the Times" Miss Myran l..
Grant. II. T.. L., Greenpoint Branch, Nor
man avenue and Leonard street.
''Trend OF the Times" Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth Lease Richmond Hin High School.
stoothoff and Ridgewood avenues. Richmond
Hill. i. !.
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D ally Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Cloudy and
colder to-day. tomorrow fair and colder:
fresh southwest shifting to northwest
winds
For New Jersey-Cloudy and colder
to-day tomorrow fair and colder; fresh
west TO northwest winds
For Northern New England-Unset-
tied weather, with rain on the coast and
rain or snow IN the interior to-day;
tomorrow cloudy and colder fresh east,
shifting to north and northwest winds.
For Southern New 1ngland-Cloudy
to-day, colder tonight; tomorrow fair
and colder fresh south, shifting TO
northwest winds.
For Western New York-Rain. pos
sibly changing to snow to-day. colder
to-day tomorrow cloudy and colder;
fresh west to northwest winds.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19.-The disturb
ance that was central over Minnesota
last night moved eastward and was
central tonight over the lower lake
region. 1t has been attended by rain
and snow in the region of the great
lakes and snow in Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and the Dakotas There have also
been showers in the South Atlantic and
East Gulf States and on the North
Pacific coast. Moderate temperatures
prevailed generally Sunday in the
Eastern and Southern States and in the
far West.
The outlook is for rain possibly
changing to snow, tomorrow along the
northern border from Maine westward
to the lower lakes and for generally
fair weather elsewhere in the Atlantic
States tomorrow and Tuesday. Colder
weather will overspread the Atlantic
and east Gulf States, Tennessee, the
Ohio Valley and the lower lake region
tomorrow and Tuesday.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at =. NJ. yesterday.
The New York herald., 1922-11-20
The Wild Rose Sweeting.
Story OF Names Lost Apple Was
Written by c. A. Stephens.

To The New YORK HERALD: / note
that you credit Arthur G.. Staples with
the authorship of the story of Names
lost apple, the wild Rose Sweeting.
have been constant reader OF
Youths Companion since my early child
hood. and many years ago that paper
contained the story or the, wild Rose
Sweeting. by G. A. Stephens.
The story. as repeated In THE NEW
York HERALD, is also in book of
stories of Life on the Old Farm" by
G. A. Stephens, which was published
two or three years ago.
/ am as familiar with those old Maine
people as am with my own family, and
L hope c. A. stephens Will have the
credit he deserves.
Mrs. JAMES r. MCKINNEY.
DURANT, Okla, November Is.
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MONDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1922.
The Country's Need of Labor.

A report of the United States De-
'partment of Agriculture shows the
minimum and maximum wage rates
for common labor paid on the roads
building with aid from the national
Government. Wages established to
carry on Federal or Federal aid roads
may be assumed to reflect the gen.
eral standards of the different sec
tions of the country where this road
work is under way.
The wide variation of the wage for
such common labor is noteworthy.
The range for the Federal aid road
work in the country as whole east
OF the Rocky Mountains is from 10
to So cents an hour, although in a
few instances the rate runs as high
as 43 cents an hour. In country dis
tricts, where the bulk of the road
work is done, ten hours is not an
unusual working day for common
labor. On that basis the 10 cent rate
would give daily wage of S1.90, and
this undoubtedly would be found
chiefly in the South, where day labor
is supplied by the negro and living
costs are lower than in the rest of
the country.
Certainly a wage of $3.50 a day
with food, shelter and clothing cost
ing what it still costs in the northern
and northeastern parts of the coun-
try would not be sufficient to support
properly the average laborer's family
in our great industrial centers. But
wage rate of $3.50 day for COM
mon labor on the ten hour basis is
a higher level by good deal, as COM
pared with before the war, than the
present cost of living increase.
AS for the As cent rate, or on the
ten hour basis S4.30 a day, such a
wage must be caused by a limited
supply strongly bid up by an urgent
demand. With common labor at such
figures as S4.30 a day anywhere and
at $3.50 generally in the North there
can he no question OF the acute short
, age OF such labor throughout the
Gountry.
And while there continues to be such
shortage of fundamental labor there
will continue to be a heavy check on
the industrial agencies that supply
the public's necessaries of life. There
will be natural obstacle to the free
output Of the higher grades Of pro-
duction. The skilled trades cannot
continue at full employment without
an adequate supply of the work and
materials that are dependent upon
rough labor. So with a lack of
the common labor, the fundamental
labor, necessary to start and to keep
in motion at top speed all our eco
nomic machinery the nations indus
trial life is in danger.
Our immigration laws must be re-
vlsed to let in the labor the country
imperatively needs. Canada, whose
lawmakers laid wiser restrictions on
incoming labor than our own Con-
gress did, has come to a realization
OA Tire ldCt IndI even uHuer heI re-
strictions she cannot go ahead in
dustrially. She cannot do her work
without more labor and she cannot
get it except from abroad.
Canada, therefore. is going to take
up this question in her Parliament in
the next few days. Our Congress
should do the same thing. II cannot
fail to do ii without deep and lasting
injury to the industry and business
OF the country When this nation
doesn't get its work done it goes to
oond
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Perhaps.

- From the Kansas ctr star.
Perhaps in years to come you may
With longing think OF me
Perhaps, dear heart. when far away,
Your tears may fall-maybe
Perhaps my voice WIN call to you.
In whispers OF the wind
Old friends are better than the new,
Though seemingly unkind.
And even though my grave Is deep
And hid with grasses green
My hands would reach TO touch youI
own
Through all the years between
CLARA S. McCULLEr.