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The New York herald., 1922-12-20
The State and the Coal Supply.

Anything that state Senator
STRAUs or anybody can contribute to
a faster transport and better deliv-
cry of coal should be welcome. 1t is
not clear, however, that the State
Government could improve the situa-
ion by taking SIC, ,000, 900 OF its funds
and going into the business of buy
ing and selling coal. 1t might make
matters worse.
The point made by the Fuel Ad-
ministration as to Mr.. STRAUSS pro-
posal seems TO be well taken. Only
a given quantity OF hard coal is
available whether IT be dealt in by
the State or by those now handling
It. /. And in the matter Of the man
who buys in very small lots. carry
ing the coal home with him, 1t is
hard coal that Is needed. But IL the
state were able to buy a million
tons OF anthracite II would not be
providing an extra million tons. 1t
would not be providing an extra
pound Of anthracite. 1t simply
would be taking q million tons away
from those who are now distributing
IL through their established channels
and diverting it into newly arranged
channels under the contro! of the
State.
As for soft coal. tho small con-
sumer who buys in 100 pound or zoo
pound lots does not use Il and cam
not use it so effectually as the buyer
of big lots who can mix the hard and
the soft coal. ton for ton, or who can
cover the crate bars OF furnace
with a mass of anthracite and then
spread soft coal in quantity on the
glowing anthracite. Since the State
cannot make more coal. the small
consumer wants to be able to get his
share OF all the coal there is.
What the small consumer needs
when all the available coal is COM
ing and what TO certain extent the
larger consumer needs is an abun-
dance of emergency relief stations
we'll scattered throughout the whole
city. These are now being arranged.
Part of the available supply Of
hard coal and an abundance of soft
coal can be carried at these cmer-
Rncy stations TO be rushed TO nearby
cSnsumers in desperate need OF fuel
\The state Fuel Administration
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
Advantages Of the Proposed Lexing.
ton Avenue Extension.

To THE NEW York HERALD have
read with interest that my plan for the
extension OF Lexington avenue through
Gramercy Park to connect with Irving
place, and further extension Of Irving
place across Fourteenth street to connect
with Fourth avenue at about Eleventh
street is now being considered by Bor-
ough President Miller.
This plan was first suggested by me
through THE NEW YORK HERALD and
also the Record and Guide In 1910 and
again in 1912. and was under consid-
Grafton by the late Mayor Gaynor. In
April. 1922, 1 again wrote TO THE NEW
York HERALD advocating this proposed
plan for the relief of traffic congestion
as the same could be accomplished at
a smaller cost than any other plan.
Lafayette street Is now the principal
street used for automobile travel to and
from the lower business section OF the
city. and also the greater percentage
of travel to and from Brooklyn uses
this thoroughfare. and the proposed i'm
provement would give direct avenue
north and south for this trPffic.
WRIGHT BARCLAY.
NEW York, December 10.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20

King TUTANKHAMUN. Photographers
from our own Metropolitan Museum
will make pictures OF the treasures.
In the Western Hemisphere DIR.
WILLIAM GATES has revived hope OF
deciphering the Maya writings and
learning much about the great lost
civilization OF Yucatan.
The future is getting a lot Of at
tention these days. Busy statesmen.
dozens of them. are wrinkling their
brows over the political, economic
and financial problems of Europe and
Asia. But the photography which
will show what an Egyptian Kings
tomb looked like five thousand years
ago will not show what European
peasants pantry will look like five
months from now. So the future has
to be dealt with in figures and
phrases. The figures are often un-
Gerstandable.
What of the present? Well, the
scientists and the statesmen leave
that to a great extent to John Smith.
He views the. past with a proper
amount of respect. He regnros the
future as something that will catch
up with you if you wait for it. But
the present is the Big Time. And he
is right, for the man who takes care
of the present creates respectable
past and makes probable first class
future.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
BY w. y. HENDERSON.

The fourth concert of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra. which took place
last evening In Carnegie Hall before
a large and demonstrative audience.
breathed at least a suggestion of the
spirit OF Christmas peace. The pro-
gram comprised La Cour des Lys"
from Debussy's lie Martyre de Saint
Sebastien." Chausson's B fiat sym
phony. Tschaikowsky's piano concerto
in B fiat minor and the finale of
"Goetterdaemherung."
Here was variety and some spice.
but the gentle and reflective measures
of Debussy, dealing with the celebrated
mystery" Of Gabriel d'Annunzio, re-
called one Of the famous legends of
the church. which melted hundreds Of
painters to dot Europe with pictures
of monks looking up to heaven, while
arrows protruded from sundry parts
of their bodies. A beautiful old legend,
indeed, that of the martyrdom Of the
chief Of the imperial archers, but
Mark Twain and his ipcorrigible in
nocents touring Europe spoiled 1t for
many persons afflicted with tactless
memories.
The Chausson symphony comes
around occasionally in the shufi1ing OF
the orchestral cards and at each re-
turn it impregses upon the hearer Its
narrow escape from becoming impor-
tant. 1t Is a lovely work and exqui-
sitely scored, and when it Is performed
as it was last evening by the admir-
able orchestra from Philadelphia It
gives genuine pleasure. But it never
hits one between the eyes, as the
painters say. 1t leaves one happy. but
not exalted.
Tschaikowsky's i fiat minor con-
certo for piano and orchestra has had
to stand much wear. 1t is a hardy
composition and its fiber is still tough,
but it suffers now from too much un-
derstanding. 1t was first performed
in public at @ concert given by DR..
Hans Won Buelow in Boston on Oc-
tober 25, 1875. which makes it forty
seven years old. The Boston COM
ments on it astonished .TschaiKowsky.
who perceived that his art was un-
comprehended. Now every one has
the seed. This concerto has been
prattled, hammered and even battered.
and occasionally it has been inter-
The New York herald., 1922-12-20

can do good work in this field by
seeing that the trained coal distribu-
tors amply equipped with delivery
trucks maintain such emergency
relief stations and make prompt and
effective distributions atthose points.
The State probably could not set up
the new distributing machinery as
quickly as experienced coal dealers
can, and 1t possibly might bungle
the whole business because OF the
fact that it knew nothing about the
business of handling coal.
In all the circumstances the State
Governments best job would seem to
be to drive at the mines and the
railroads to get the coal here and at
the established local distributing ma
chinery. to get it delivered where 1t
is most needed.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
A Third Avenue Subway.

Mayor HYLAN's proposal to build
subway in Third avenue Is piece
yof good sense. New York is con-
fronted by two grave problems. the
lack of subways and the lack OF
street surface. The Mayors plan
would help to solve both puzzles.
Once subway was finished through
Park Row, the Bowery and Third
avenue from the downtown business
district to The Bronx the Third ave-
nue. elevated structure could be torn
down and New York would have a
broad. direct highway from the bot
tom Of Manhattan to The Bronx
That is something which does not
exist at the present time. All our
East Side avenues have their south
ern terminals at or north of Hous-
ton street. All except Third and
Fourth avenues end so abruptly as
to check traffic. Third avenue flows
naturally into the wide Bowery. In
the other direction 1t goes straight
as an arrow to the Harlem River at
the southerly tip Of The Bronx. Rid
of the elevated railroad, the surface
Of Third avenue would offer much
relief to the congestion of north and
south motor travel.
The East Side needs another s
way. The Lexington avenue line is
so badly choked now that the Tran
sit Commission is resorting to the
expedient of lengthening the local
platforms. The lines congestion
would appear even worse except that
the philosophic public compares it
with the jam on the West Side sub
way. In less than ten years, even If
the West Side trunk line proposed
by the Transit Commission were
tuilt, the growth OF The Bronx will
demand all that the Mayors plan can
give It. The Bronx has gained 300.-
900 population in the last ten years.
1t will gain half million In the
next ten. W
The Mayor does very well to sug-
gest Third avenue subway rather
than the First avenue scheme he re-
Gently proposed. The First avenue
plan carried the line only as far
south as Tenth street. AS lower Man
haitian is the great target Of traffic
all big new lines must aim at it.
First avenue, as surface street,
cannot reach City Hall. being shut
off by the heart of the old East Sides
narrow streets. But Third avenue
and the Bowery and Park Row make
up a straight broad highway from
Harlem River to Brooklyn Bridge.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
The PIaythine.
From fhe North American Rsvie,c.

From fhe North American Hsvio,c.
do not so much mind that you took my
heart OF youth away:
Perhaps II was a foolish thing for me
20 keep so long
And know 1t was untidy, with its tags
OF gauzc and tinsei
Spun from scraps OF fairy tales and
wonderings and song:
But ] wish you had not thought that
you'mus. takc away my laughter !;
Perhaps you thoteht II Stiffness. bright
beads slid down a string
suppose you could not guess II. with
It's gilt and silver glitter,
That looked so like toy, 20 be very
useful thing: A
For hard roads do not matter, nor tho
tragfcs1 great sorrows,
Nor mile high hills that weary you,
nor stones that cut your feet.
If you can toss II up and. down. your
glittering bright laughter.
And mock at all thei curious things
and stately things you meet;
But now that have lost II. black and
huge beneath my fingers
Is my little world I played with. that
was like a colored ball
And wish, " you please, that you
would give me back,rry laughter.
Because must 20 on and cannot find
my way at all.
MARGARET wipDEuEE.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
The Sound Naval Policy.

The naval appropriation bill passed
the House of Representatives in a
sensible form. The Administration
gets the money it needs to the ex-
tent of about s300,000.000 to main
tain the navy on its present basis,
and the President is left free to con-
slider another international confer
ence for the further limitation Of
ornaments.
Since it was President HARDING
and his Secretary of State who called
the first conference and led the whole
way to its conclusions and agree
ments, they can reasonably be re-
lied upon to do what else may be-
come necessary or desirable toward
perfecting the limitation work al
ready achieved. 1t is a fact that
there can be no sound national pro-
gramme on the 5-5-3 naval ratio
hosis that does not include all the
auxiliary craft and weapons that may
be necessary to balance the ships Of
the line.
This is no more and no less true
Of fast armored cruisers and scout
cruisers and destroyers than 1t is Of
submarines, aircraft and floating car
riers of aircraft. The country can
not have the defense required by it's
population of more than 100.9n0,00
souls, its vast interests and its widely
scattered possessions, unless it is the
equal of any sea Power in all the
arms that go to make up modern
naval equipment Of offense and
defense.
And while this country need not
be first, IL must never be content to
be second in respect of naval strength
and naval effectiveness at any and
all points. But who for the time
being is in better position to de-
eide whether the solution Of this
problem Is to expand our own navy
in all its branches as others expand
theirs, or to induce them to reduce
theirs while we correspondingly hold
ours down--who is in better posi-
tion 10 determine this thar the Presi-
dent, guided by the country's naval
experts, the very man wno brought
about the first great limitation con-
ference?
Meanwhile the world should not be
left in doubt that it is the spirit of
the American people and 1t will be
the policy OF their Government never
to let the American navy sink into
second rank.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
EVENTS TO-DAY.

National Association of Waste Materia,
Dealers. meeting. Hotel Astor. 10 a. NJ. and
2 go NJ. luncheon. L. M. - g
Kiwanis Club. luncheon. Hotel McAIpin.
o:30 y. NJ. re@
Manhattan Matinee Club. luncheon. Wal
dorf-Astoria, j. 80 p. NJ.
Eclectic Club. luncheon and meeting, Wal
dorf-Astoria. II A. M. Fe~w ~
New York Eiee,rica' League, luncheon.
Eastern Hollow Building Tie Association.
meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania, 2 p. NJ.
Eastern Union. luncheon. Hotel Pennsyl-
vania, +. NJ
Metropolitan Museum OF Art, story hour
for helpless crippled children. "A Christmas
Fairy Story" Anna G.. Chandler, $50 p.
Elise p. Carey, p. NJ
Mrs. Amy Storer on. Some Facts About
Food Red Cross auspices. Bowery Mission.
..7 Bowery. s. p. NJ. /.
+. +. Mackay on. Shakespeare and tlse
Law Hotel Astor, s 80 r. NJ.
Society of Arts and Sciences. dinner. Cap
Donald Macmillan. Carl Akiey. Capt. Rober-
a. Bartlett and others. speakers; Hotcl
Astor. p. N.
City Club. dinner; discussion OF Economic
conditions In Europe. by NJ. Albert Thomas.
K. J. Phelan, and Ernest Greenwood. %.
West F'orty-fourth street. 7 r. NJ.
American Society Of Civil Enginorrs
meeting, Engineering Societies Building. ~
West Thirty-nin street. 8 p. NJ. sF'
Rockefeller Foundation, dinner and dance.
Hotel Astor. p. NJ. hN
National Navy Club. dance. Hotel Commo
dore, $3.50 u. NJ
Fog. y. Club Of the Battery Park Ma
tional Bank, dance, Hotel Commodore, $50
L. NJ. a.-
women's Hospital Nurses Aiun,nae, dance
Waldorf-Astoria, p. NJ . Ast
conyerters Of New York, dinner. waldorf
Astoria. : 7. NJ.
Devoe Reynolds Company. meeting, wal
dorf-Astoria. 10 A. NJ: dinner, p. M.
Motor Truck Association OF Amer
meeting. Automobile Club OF America, 5
L. NJ. Hf.f
Brooklyn Museum. Eastern Parkway and
Washington avenues: Deming collection or
pictures and bronzcs OF American Indian sub
jccts, exhibition OF contemporary Engiisi.
and French paintings. seventh annual exhibit
tion of the Brooklyn Society OF Etchcrs, be
ginning to-day. tf 30
New York Association OF Manufacturers
Representatives. annual grocery trade din
ner. 1922 and the Outlook for 1923" Paillp
c. Stab. Henry koh, and others. Hotel
Pennsylvania, 6:30 r. NJ. f
Brooklyn Hadassah, fifth anniversary ceic.
krinlsky, speakers, Jewish Center, G67 East-
ern Parkway. brooklyn, s:f5 II. Nj.
Brooklyn destitute of Arts and Sciences.
lecture. Louis pastcur.' DR.. Ernest La
Place. Academy OF Music. s;t5 T.. NJ.
osceoia Club. 1919 Madison nvcnue. PRO
gressive Democracy and the New York Vie
tory" Frederick 4. Wallis. $3.50 p. NJ.
Civic Club, "A West Twelfth street. Christ
mas party. $50 =. M.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
Philadelphia Orchestra in Varied Music
Also Some Spice in Program of Debussy Tschaikowsky
and Wagner

preted from Boothbay to Santa Cata-
lima. But there is no one who can be
puzzled by it.
The pianist who performed the solo
part last evening was Nine. Olga
Samaroff. between whom and Leopold
Stokowski, conductor of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra. there is surely an
excellent musical accord. since they
are husband and wife. Nine. Samaroff
discharged her duties in SO far as the
first movement Gall that this reporter
heard) with judgment and with a
great deal Of beauty in touch and
tone.
Some music lovers have heard a
more potent proclamation of the con-
tent of the composition. but it was a
very charming delivery of the music
and was received by the audience
with manifest pleasure. The "Goet-
terdammerung" excerpt, it should be
noted, was that arranged for or
chestrn, unaccompanied by the voice
Of Brucnnhilde. who sat In box and
wore evening dress. AT. any rate her
familiar representation. Mime. Mates
nauer, did.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
Empty Mental Tanks.
Lesson OF the Experience Of Mark
Twain and Abbott III. Thayer.

To The NEW YORK HERALD: A dis
closure of an authors psychology that
seemed to mo OF unusual interest is
made by Mark Twain in his autobiog-
raphy. 1t shows that not merely the
writer but his book itself appears to
become weary.
He declares that Tom Sawyer made
a sudden and determined halt at page
400 of the manuscript and refused 20
proceed another step. although the dis
appointed author knew that the story
was far from completion. The reason.
as he discovered, was very simple my
tank had run dry" Inventive resource
and vitality were temporarily consumed.
But after letting the manuscript lie in
{, pigeonhole for two years he found the
needed material and zest abundantly
available and "the book went on and
finished itself without any trouble"
1.-THE Prince and the Pauper' and "a
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court" both struck work in a similar
way, and each book required an interval
OF two years for the reservoir to be re-
plenished before completion Another
story had two breaks. the second OF
which was four years IN length.
The famous teller of tales became con-
vinced by reiterated evidence that when
his tank ran dry he had only to let IL
alone and it would refill. He says that
while he was at work at other things
and even while sleeping this "uncon-
scious and profitable cerebration" was
going on.
Similar testimony is furnished by an
American painter. The late Abbott IL.
Thayer in letter to n friend, published
in your Magazine and Book Section OF
August 13. declares that after spelling
many canvases through feverlsh per-
sistence even to exhaustion of strength
and inspiration, he finally became aware
that all his successful work was achieved
in the first three days and that in what
he calls the bloody fight" that followed
hc accomplished nothing.
He gradually learned wiser use OF
his resources and faced the truth that he
had only three day powers Therefore
he would abandon his studio when hts
tank was empty, climb Mount Monad-
mock. study birds or throw himself into
some other entire diversion until tho
reservoir OF ms artlstc liHpulSe naNlnS
renlled itself he could return. "pounce
on the copy and give it three day
shove again" lie kept several canvases
in progress together in this way. alter
mating in work upon them TO maintain
his zest toward each unimpaired.
Docs It not seem probable that pro-
fessional and business men also who
would observe this psychological truth
would hold fast their mental and spir-
ituaI freshness and rcsiliency toward
their often exhausting work. To give
the wonderful reservoirs of mind and
personality opportunity to bo. replen-
ished again after being Grained dry
seems an intellectually valuable ftem OF
efficient self-management. Aud perhaps
one definition at lcast Of sipcere prayer
is the holding OF the human soul like q
cup for tbc fliing 'ofvits emptiness and
need from an inexhaustible divine supply
ELIOT WHITE.
NEW YORK, December 10
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
AL Smith No Santa Claus.

The speech made by AL SMITH at
the Tammany victory dinner is as
encouraging to the State as it is om-
inops for Fourteenth, Street., The
promises to summon
"the best talent and the best brains"
to assist him in his administration.
The Tammany Hall crowd that
spends its life looking for jobs is no
toriously short on talent and brains.
Obviously Mr.. SMITH will have to
look further, among the upstate
Democrats, the Republicans or the
Independents, il he lives up to the
spirit of his words. And there is
every reason to suppose that he will
do that very thing.
Mr.. SMITH is the creditor. not the
debtor, OF the local Democratic Or
ganization. Whatever he owed Tam
many Hall for its fostering Of his,
political youth he paid years ago.
His victory over Governor MILLER
last month was no more Tammany
Hall victory than the sweep Mr..
HARprSG made OF New York city in
1920 was a Republican organization
victory. II every Tammany Office
holder, every member Of every Tam
many district organization, had
voted against Mr.. SMITH he would
Still have been elected Governor.
The task OF Mr.. SMITH will be
hard. He made a good record, as
Governor in his one term, but his sue
ccssor, Judge MILLER, surpassed that
record in economy and in his way Of
getting things done. Governor again.
Mr.. SMITH will find that duplica-
tion OF his own performance will not
satisfy the State. The people are not
easy taslmasters. They will expect
him to equal. IL not to outdo, the ad-
ministration of Governor MILLER.
Perhaps AL SMITH can do this. He
has a genius for spotting the human
problems OF government and an i'm
clination TO drive straight at them.
In his coming term he will not face
an overwhelming Republican ma
jority in the Legislature. The
Senate is Democratic by one: the
Assembly is Republican by only four
teen. And in some matters. particu-
larly transit, the Republican MEM
bers OF the Assembly from New York
city may vote with the Governor. ac-
cepting his large vote in this town as
mandate. The less the Governor
is confronted with In the way Of a
powerful opposition the more the
people Will expect Of him in the way
of accomplishment.
Another factor in the job ahead
of the incoming Governor is the plat
form on which he ran. The Syracuse
convention. fearing that the radicals
might bolt a conservative like SMITH,
put in the platform everything they
dared TO use which might be bait
for socialists and ncar-socialists
So-called home rule in the control of
public utilities; repeal of the Miller
legislation relating 70 public service
corporations: legislation thst would
put cities, towns and villages In the
bus business; operation as well as
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
DUTCH BARITONE IN SONGS.

Jan Van Bomme. Dutch barytone.
gave recital at Aeolian Hall last eve-
ming, Louis Robert was at the piano.
The program included Beethoven's In
quest tomba oscura" "Stornello" by
Ciamara. Sibella's "Sotto II Ciel." songs
by Daleroze Delibes. Foardrain. German
lIeder by Schumann, Brahms and Rich
ard Strauss, and a group of songs by
Mann, Dirk F'och, Loeh- and others. The
program closed with Acolphe Adams's
Noel with organ accompaniment Mr.
Van Bommel made a very agreeable i'm
preston Possessing a voice verging
.on a high barytone, with wide upper
register of excellent quality, he sang
we'll with a good deal Of warmth and
feeling. Beethoven's In quest tomba
oscurar and several earlier offerings did
not receive full justice. apparently due
to lack OF confidence on the part oil the
singer. but the French and German
groups OF songs were delightfully."- sung.
Mr. Van Bommeps French diction was
not always of the purest, but his SINGER
ty and warmth, combined with voice
used with judgment. did much to make
an enjoyable recital.
The New York herald., 1922-12-20
New York's Traffic Problem.
Objection to the Use OF Park Land
for ROadways.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: There
are suggestions by Borough President
Miller in regard TO relieving consested
trafic that should be fought by all asso'
cations of New Workers having infiu-
encc in such matters. They are:
Extension o. Lexington avenue through
Gramercy Park 10 connect with Irving
place. ..t se.
Providing an outlet for Sixth avenue
through Central Park.
Removal Of all parked spaces from
the roadways Of Park avenue from Thir-
ty-fourth street TO Ninety-sixth street.
and the removal Of other parked spaces
contemplated,
While adding to the Fairgrounds for
poor children. why not leave parks and
breathing spaces as they are? We have
too few Of these green spots to delight
the eye and add beauty and healthful-
ness to the city.
JEAN r. X. WILSON.
NEW YORK, December 10