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The New York herald., 1922-03-20
Lauder on the Bonus,
Wrong TO Pay Able Bodied Men for
Services Gladly Given.

From the Louisville Cosrier-Journdf.
With moods variable az the spring
winds of Scotland, Sir Harry Lauder.
singing comedian. shed few tears the
other day over the worlds problems.
"Your American Government is dis
CT ssing a soldier bonus" he drawled.
1T seems so absurd! Take care of your
wounded and MANNED with pensions, yes,
and help your former service men find
work. But give healthy. able bodied
men money FOR something they did glad
ly? II is wrong.
what we need is firmer industrial
situation, both here and in England. /
am asked on every side: DO you think
America has forgotten the warp What
matter whether you forgot or not? II
is to forgive that matters. Those to
whom the war meant sorrow won't for
get, anyway. and to forgive is tho only
solution of tie present chaotic business
situation.
Bonus or no bonus-whisky or no
whisky" and his eyes twinklcd sympa-
thetically, this country is all right II
for no other reason than 1 am partly
American myself"
How much American"
Fifteen years American"
Sir Harry lost his only son in the war.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
5000 HEAR MCCORMACK.
Singer Presents Irish Songs With
Composer as Accompanied.

John Mccormack gave his seventh
concert of the season last night at the
Hippodrome. An audience of 5000 per-
sons occupied all the seats In the audi
torium and as many as could be placed
BON the stage The tenor's numbers in
cluded a rondo. Per Pieta non Ricer-
cate,,' by Mozart a group of German
songs, with Schumann's "The Soldier" !;
new song by H. O. Osgood entitled "On
Eribeg Island" and, In closing. the
ireland, Mother Ireland" from Lough-
borough.
The central number in the program
was a coup of four ancient Irish songs
arranged for Mr.. Mccormack by the
Irish composer, He-vert Hughes. WHO,
appearing for the first time in this coun-
try as an accompanist, was at the piano
for these lyrics. The four songs had the
titles. "Oft in the Silly Night THE
Light of the Moon" "Silent O'Moyle"
and "The Dear Little Shamrock" These
interesting old songs were beautifully
given by the two artists, and they were
warmly received.
Mr.. McCormack's appealing beauty Of
voice, fine vocal skill and excellent die
ton gave delight also in his other selec-
tions. Following the group Of German
songs he had to give no less than three
encores. Donald McBeath contributed
violin solos and Edwin Schneider as
sisted also at the piano.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
ny w. J. HENDERSON.

A good sized audience assembled yes
terday afternoon in Aeolian Hall TO listen
to Walter Damrosch's concentrated re
cital of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
1t was the first OF three discourses ex-
pository OF Wagnerian dramas. The
next viii take place on April on Par
sifaP' and the third on April on die
MefoteIsnger." The lecturer yesterday
devsfeJ some time to history OF Wag-
ners early struggles and his final de-
livery by the young King Ludwig OF
Bavaria
In laying before his auditors the eth
ical basis OF Tristan und Isolde" Mr..
Damrosch said that the work was In es-
sence photographed. because IL Wag-
ner had not married Mfnna Planer and
been completely misunderstood by her
and had not afterward met Mathilde Won
Wesendenck, who supplied the missing
understanding, he would probably not
have founded his drama on the solution
Of love difficulties through adopting the
Buddhistic doctrine Of Nirvana. or mega
tion of the will to live.
Mr.. Damrosch sat at the plano as he
talked, and having finished his oratorical
prelude proceeded to read portions OF
the text Gin EngliSn) and play pdrtS
of the music, principally those developed
from the representative themes. OF which
the score is mostly made. He quoted
voltaire's assertion that the chromatic
scale is effemnate and therefore suited
to the expression of love. Mr.. Damrosch
admitted that Wagner probably was un-
acquainted with the dictum of the French
friend of Frederick the Great. but pointed
out that his employment of chromatic
sequences perfectly fitted the purposes
of his great drama Of passion. Also the
lecturer acquitted Tristan and the Irish
Princess of all moral error and offered a
highly noble construction of their APP
parently shabby treatment OF old KING
Mark.
Occasionally Mr.. Damrosch. who talked
most Of the time. dropped into song,
when it was learned he sang like a
conductor He played the plano Wig
orously with occasional flashes of exqui-
site color. such as he was accustomed
to display in his early song accompani-
ments. The lecturer held the audience in
attentive mood and at the end was heart
lily applauded.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20

case is in every way TO be COM
mended from the standpoint OF pro-
fessional ability"
In view of all these facts and OF
the commendation coming from DR..
PERKINS it might seem to the lay
mind that there could be some other
way out than, putting the nurse in
the criminal dock. Not so. The law
provides that only registered physi-
clans may attend to sore fingers such
as this nurse cured, and the Board
of Registration has set its face as
flint against the slightest relaxation
in the laws enforcement. 1t has
demanded that this confessedly guilty
nurse be arrested as a criminal, tried
as a criminal and made to suffer the
penalty the law provides for her
crime.
The amateur curing of sore fingers
in Massachusetts, must and shall
come to an end. o shades Of
MoLIkRE!
The New York herald., 1922-03-20

garded as an immense atom and the
atom a solar system infinitesimal in
dimensions. Such a comparison may
appear unusual. but one must bear
in mind that dimension is quite as
much a conception OF the human
mind as it is a property of space.
The behavior OF radium illustrates
the modern conception of the atom.
Because OF causes not understood
the radium atom is practically ex'
ploding itself to pieces. With each
explosion emanations are given off
The most noticeable features OF the
emanations are their products. One
OF these consists OF helium gas !;
another consists of the electrons
which held the helium to the radium ;
the third is the energy or force OF
the explosion. The radium is merely
a stepdown from the atom of uranium
to the atom Of lead. With each ex-
plosion a shell of helium is ripped
off and the electrons which held II
in place are set free. When the lead
stage is reached the atom is pretty
stable.
The reduction OF tungsten, which
was recently accomplished in Chi.
cago laboratory, is hardly a case Of
transmutation: it is an instance of
tearing an atom to pieces by means
of heat more intense than that which
held together the parts Of the atom.
Heat is motion and the intense tenn
perature of the electric arc set up
motion that stripped the helium
shells one by one from the tungsten
atom. Incidentally the tungsten OF
chemistry still remains.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20

sequent essays In imported farce
were largely confined to the Park
Theater, where JAMES LEWIS with
his stock company produced such in
nocuous pieces as Champagne and
Oysters" Bouquets and Bombshells'
and Betsy" which BURNAND had
already disinfected for the London
market.
So there has always been a more
or less sincere attempt on the part
OF the managers to supply this sort
of drama to those theatergoers who
longed for it. The Frohman Come.
dians with ION and Or and "The
Girl From Maxim's" helped to con-
tribute to the supply at the Madison
Square, the Garden and the Criterion
theaters. Mr.. BRADY with "The Tur-
tie" had helped to pave the way for
these pieces. The descent was easy
then from THE Girl From Rector's,"
which brought Mr.. Woops on the
scene, down to "The Demi-virgin. .
So there have always been some plays
of this kind. They are not, however,
any more numerous than they were.
Nor is the demand for them such that
they are ever likely to exceed the
number of those dramas which are a
real credit to the theater.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
At a Railway station.

Here night is turned to day with CLEAN
or lights that burn INCREASINGLY; the
place
Throbs with the myriad footsteps of the
throng.
Here granite arch and pillar and facade
Echo the distant din Of giant wheels
AS the huge engines enter and depart.
Here pain Of parting and the ecstasy
OF fond hearts reunited may be seen
Here are the mysteries of joy and woe.
Few are the actors on life's varied stage
Who do not some time pass within the
door
or n vast railway station, but not one
can cease his work and throw aside his
mask,
Seeking the portal of that distant land
BY some called Paradise. but he must
come
To the one station that the world calls
death:
And vet through death all go 10 larger
life.
Thus. as one waits to hail an absent
friend
In a great terminal OF this worlds mold.
So /, when deaths dark threshold / have
crossed.
win wait with patience, asking only
this
That you. who reached the gateway long
before
knew your going. will be watching
there
To greet me gladly. as would greet you.
ELISABETH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
Syrians Want Palestine.
They Point to Their Own Progress
and Object to Zionist Claims.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: wish
TO answer the English gentleman who
rave his views on Palestine and the
Zionist question in letter which you
printed on March 5.
Captain w. Stanley Shaw not only
commits himself to exaggeration when
he describes Palestine OF thirty-iive
years ago as "a graveyard. desert.
over which the silence OF centuries hung
like a pail" but also bases his whole
argument favoring zionism in Palestine
on fallacious premises.
Every writer en- the Near East prob
lem worth quoting has recognized the
inherent virile, progressive, alert spirit
OF the Syrians. among whom of course
tho PaIestinians are included. These
writer's have not failed to notice that
the main reason for the baclSwardness
OF Syria, including Palestine, did not lie
in the people themselves but In their
former tyrannical, inefficient governors,
the Turks.
We need not go very far in history
10 show what a splendid record the
Arabs made in their contribution TO
civilization, art, science and industry.
In the Middle Ages when Europe was
in comparative darkness and Ignorance
hung over Il like n pail the light Of
science and liberal thought shone out
from Bagdad as from a lighthouse. The
great service which the Jews rendered
TO Europe then was to translate and
introduce the works of su uch Arab think
ers as Avlcenna and Averroes. The
renaissance OF Europe. which was the
dawn OF modern civilization, was effec-
lively stimulated by Arab culture and
Arab philosophy.
What is strange about people being
for a period OF time arrested in their
natural development? When we remem-
ber how many times Syria was overrun
by barbaric hordes is II TO be wondered
that the vitality 'of It's inhabitants was
sapped and their national spirit detected
and they themselves forced TO submit TO
superior brutal force? The people OF
the Near East for moro than century
were anxiousiy awaiting the day Of their
deliverance 1'h!r dry promised to shine
10 them from behind the thick clouds OF
the great world war. but, alas. their
dsappoinsment he's been too bitter for
words: they were saved from the slavery
of the Turk only 70 be turned over TO a
regime not OF tacir own choosing.
Furthermore, II is not true that Syr-
ians have shown no signs OF progress
even under the Turks. To careful OBJ
The New York herald., 1922-03-20

American Legion unemployment day. by
proclamation OF Gov, Nathan L. Miller.
Paul d. Cravath. John Foster Dulles and
Prof. Harold c. Moulton VIII discuss The
Genoa Conference" at p dinner OF the Eco
nomic Club Of New York. Hotel Astor. J
II. NJ.
William =. Bryan will speak at prohibit
tion law enforcement meeting, Marble Coi-
legiate Church, Fifth avenue ana twenty
ninth street, p. M.
Lenten service. auspices of the New YORK
Federation OF Churches. Palace Theater. 1864
Broadway. noon.
American Academy of Dramatic Arts and
the Empire Theater Dramatic School gradu-
alton exercises, Lyceum Theater. T.. NJ,
American Ladies' Hair Dressers' Associa-
tion, annual exhibition, Palm Garden, Lex
ington avenue and Fifty-eighth street, open
ing 2:30 r. M.
Italy America Society. annual meeting. 25
West Forty-thrd street, 7. NJ
Alice It. Coseo will talk to high school
classes on ''Civic Beauty Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of Art. p. NJ.
Raymond l.. Ditmars win speak at a dn-
ner Of the lleptile Study Society of America.
Cafe Boulevard. p. M.
Charles S. Allen VIII discuss "The Coal
situation" City Club, IS West Forty-fourth
street. s,i5 p. NJ.
DR.. John l.. Elliott will speak on The
Younger Generation" Park Community
Council. =. S. 81, Eighty-seventh street and
Park avenue. S:i5 p. NJ.
Edwin MarkhaNi viii give n poetry read
ing, Christadora House, 14T Avenue y, 80
l.. NJ. s
Martin McCue viii speak on 1.-Two Fistcd
Patriotisnr" Star Democratic Club DIT
Whitlock avenue, The Bronx 8 80 J.. M.
New York Chapter of Hadassall, anniver-
sary meeting, Hotel Astor. $50 r. NJ.
Section of medicine. New York Academy
of Medicine, meeting, II West Forty-third
street. 8 80 r. M.
New York Academy of Sciences. meeting
OF section OF astronomy, physics and chem
istry American Museum Of Natural HIS
tory Seventy-seventh street and Central
Park West. r. M.
Edward Howard Griggs will lecture on
"Dante After six Centuries" Town Hall, III
West Forty-third street, ~ a. M
Society OF Independent Artists. exhibition.
Waldorf Astoria. all day.
Sorosfs, annual breakfast, Waldorf-As-
toria. II A. NJ.
New York ladies' Hair Dressers' Asso-
citation, meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania 5 L. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT
Manhattan and The Bronx

''rrond of the Times" by Prof. Nelson p.
Mead, at Washington irving High SCHOOL,
Irving place and Sixteenth street.
,.Trend OF the Times by Prof William
n. otis, at Pilgrim Hall. Fifty-sixth street
and Broadway.
",rrend OF tho Times" by Arthur ID. Itecs.
nj Morris High School, 16dth street and Bcs-
ton road, The Bronx.
"Books That EyI.y One Should Know
Il az NIIgerables'" bs Victor Hugo, by Prof.
J. q. Garter Troop. at r. $. 165. 80 West
10sth street
"The Marvellous Valley OF the Amazon"
hy Herbert Muirhead. at T.. $. 40, l36th
street and ST. Nicholas avenue. Illustrated
.yyhat 10 Look For In Illustrations and
Prints by Ernest Knaufft, at r. $. 30, 2es
east Fifty-scventh street. illustrated.
Great Pyramid and Sphinx" by l.. DOW
covington, at r. s. 1871, 81. Nicholas avenue
and 127th street. illustrated.
breeding the Family" by Mary Dunnlns
Rose, at Labor Temple. Fourteenth street
and Second avenue. Illustrated.
"songs OF Yesterday" by Esther benson.
AT 81. COLUMBIA Hall, 343 West Twenty-fifth
street.
ENTER Madame dramatic reading. by
Gladys Lott, at Evander Chiids High School.
1sith street and Field place, The Bronx.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
poLIAKIN,s VIOLIN RECITAL.

Miron Poliakin, a Russian violinist
who trained with Auer in the class with
Elman. and was first heard here some
two weeks ago, gave his second recita
yesterday afternoon in Carnegie Hal
before large audience. In the arrange
ment of Vitali's "Chacoane" by Charl!er
Mendelssohn's concerto and other pieces
including Wieniawski's "Polonaise" in L
major, Mr.. Poliakin showed again ad-
mirable breadth Of conception, accurate
intonation and a general intelligence
His playing in the Vital music had
some lack of tonal smoothness, but in
cisive rhythm and a bold freedom OF
style made it thoroughly interesting
His performance in the concerto had
taste and fine musical feeling.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
Undesirable Citizens.

When the United States went to
war against the Central Empires
there were many a.iefls resident here
who had taken out their first papers
but had not completed their naturali-
cation. When conscfiption came con-
siderable numbers Of them refused
to take the responsibilities of that
citizenship for which they had been
pleading. These aliens stuck on their
foreign status to escape service.
The registration boards put them
in a classification known as Class
5F. Relegation to this list told the
whole story. 1t was a list of those
who to escape fighting for the coun-
try for whose citizenship they had
just been seeking sought the protec-
tion Of their native country's flag,
which they had just been trying to
repudiate. Now 1t turns out that
this ST list is very much blacklist,
and it is satisfactory to know that
citizenship is being refused to these
fair weather suppliants and foul
weather skulkers whenever they ask
for it.
A United States Commissioner in
Hartford, Connecticut, in refusing
naturalization to one of these aliens
recently, put the matter in nutshell
when he said that men like these
were about as much entitled to con-
sideration as would be the man who
accepted the hospitality of a house
and then, IL the house caught fire, re-
fused to help put the fire out on the
ground that he did not belong to
the family. In the United States
Court at Boston still more recently
Judge MORTON refused naturalization
to another of the same sort, and this
decision bars about fifty more who
were applicants before the same
court.
These are wholesome examples.
They should be initiated in similar
cases everywhere in the country.
There is no room here for those
whose response to the imperative
call of 1917 on American citizens
so accurately and so thoroughly de-
picted the undesirable citizen as did
the response of those of the ST group
who are now very properly being
excluded from American citizenship.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
Setting Tigers Free.
a Reformed Gangster" Explains
WHY Criminals Are at Large.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In an
editorial article in Fridays HERALDson
the murder OF Patrolman John III. Nc
Mail by one Tony Rabasovich the
writer says. "Rabasovich had been
convicted twice for assault and robbery
and each time was freed on suspended
sentence. Why?" ! can answer that
question Because he belonged to a
gang. The leader OF a gang is the only
man who can deliver votes In large
punches. Just before election the ward
leader inquiries of the gang leader-thcre
isn't a keli of a lot OF difference BE-
tween them-"How many men have you
got and how much do you want for
their votes?" He pays the price. the
votes are delivered, and after election
if one OF the gang of the Rabasovich
type commits assault or robbery the
ward leader steps between justice and
the thug and he is turned loose.
REFORMED GANGsrER.
New York, March Is.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
The Policeman's Pistol.
lie Should Be Able to Draw Quickly
and to Shoot Straight.

Te THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
average patrolman has not the skill in
the use of firearms which should be pos
sessed by a guardian Of the peace.
Although required to buy reliable
weapons the policeman's choice Is not
supervised closely enough Barrels of
insufficient length for accuracy and
sights which have never been adjusted
for accuracy are the rule.
Although superior in actual firing. au-
tomatoes have drawbacks which are not
fully understood by many policemen who
carry them. The policeman who carries
hammerless automatic has made
dangerous and very doubtful choice.
Most policemen carry their firearms in
hip pocket, the fayorite location in
melodramas. Buttoned under blouse and
overcoat a pistol is worse than useless.
for the characteristic reach will draw
an opponents fire.
Policemen ought to carry double ac-
ton 3S special, "A or AS caliber re-
volvers with six inch barrels in belt
holster worn outside of all clothing. This
is the method used by all soldiers and
law enforcement officers except the city
police.
Every policeman should be required to
flle up or otherwise correct his sights
until he can make a group target OF
specified size. He should be required to
score every three months so per cent on
five inch bull's-eye at fifty yards, slow
fire, and a proportionate score for rapid
fire. The same thing should be required
on silhouette targets at unknown ranges
and a respectable score on moving tar
gets with the same conditions. All such
practice should require drawing from
the holster and firing.
When a patrolman is shot in a station
house with his own pistol, or two officers
are killed as Luther Boldly killed his
captors, 1t is a pitiful waste Of life.
In contrast recall Lieutenant Horton,
who died "in the smoke and took his
slayer with him. the detective who re-
Gently shot two holdups who had the
cold muzzle on him. and the private
policeman who shot it out with a four
gun man and beat him at his own game.
These men knew how to handle pistol.
Where a policeman and his gun are
concerned knowledge is more than
power; It is life. A. w. M.
NEW YORK, March is. G. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
The Packets.

The packets The packets!
The iridesccnt Jackets,
Repositories OF the seeds
That--maybe---'ll spring and sprout.
The packets! The packets!
III you have got the lsnack, it's
No labor to supply ones needs.
Directions leave no doubt.
The packets The packets!
The names you'll find in brackets.
But don't be sure as YOU are born
That printing cannot lie!
The packets The packets
May raise all sort Of rackets:
Yes, where you look for early corn
May sprout the plant called pie.
The packets The packets
In iridesoent jackets
Have al the glamour Of romance,
The thrills and the fun,
You plant 'em and hoe 'cm--
They shoot-it's a poem
But don't think To know EN-
No, that isn't done.
MAURICE Monrrs
The New York herald., 1922-03-20
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Rain and
warmer to-day; tomorrow fair and
colder. south shifting to west and north
west gales.
For New Jersey-Rain and somewhat
warmer to-day: to-morrow fair: south shift
ing TO west and northwest gales.
For Northern New England-Rain or snow
ana somewhat warmer to-day; tomorrow
south winds ana probably gale.
For Southern New England-Rain and
somewhat warmer to-day; tomorrow fair
and colder: southeast and south winds.
For Western New York-Rain to-day.
colder In west portion: tomorrow cloudy
ond colder; westerly gales.
WASHINGTON. March 19.-rhe disturb
ance that was central over eastern Kansae
last night has moved east -northeastward
with q marked increase in intensity and i
was centered over north Indiana tonight
a severe storm. 1t has been attended by
general precipitation, mostly in the form OF
rain over the eastern half of the country.
except In the north Atlantic States and the
Florida peninsula and by strong shifting
winds and gales in the lake region and the
great central valleys. There were also rains
to-day In the north Pacific States in connec--
tion with disturbance that moved inland
from the north Pacific. ~
The temperature was higher to-day in the
north Atlantic States. the lower lake regions.
the upper Ohio Valley and the Rocky Noun
tain and plateau regions, while colder
souri, valleys and the south plains States.
The storm over the middle West. viii con-
tinue TO move ast-northeastward. and It
Will be attended by strong shifting winds
and gales in the eastern States tomorrow
and by rain in the Atlantic States and rain
or snow in the lake region and the upper
Ohio Valley.
Following the passage OF this storm colder
weather will overspread practically all sec
tions east of tho Mississippi River and gen
orally fair weather is probable during the
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