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The New York herald., 1922-12-04
Communist Activities Here.

In its news columns to-day THE
New York HERALD begins the publi-
cation of a series Of articles on
communist activities in the United
States. These articles are not alarm
ist. They seek merely to acquaint
the public with facts which the peo-
pie and their Government should
know.
The Red plotters are as vicious as
they dare to be. They would like to
do to the United States what the
bolshevist group did to Russia. That
wretched country is their model.
Fortunately they have in America
a different people with whom to deal.
The universal poverty, ignorance and
despair of Russia are not here
Communism is not welcome doc
trine in country where half the
families own their homes. half the
families have savings bank accounts
and half the families own motor cars
and where most OF the other fami-
lies are on their way to owning
homes, having savings accounts and
buying cars.
But any revolutionary movement,
no matter how hopeless its chance
of success, is likely to make mis-
chief with its efforts. That Is why
the doings OF the communist agita-
tors should be known to the Govern
ment and the people.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
EVENTS TO-DAY.

College and Church Of St. Francis Navier,
pontificai military mass, 10 A. NJ; alumni
Sixteenth street near Sixth avenue. sP NJ.
the week.
women's Christian Temperance Union Of
Square NJ. Il. Church. 1873 West Fourth
street. 10:3o A. NJ. 80 and 7:45 p. NJ.
Grand Lodge. United Order Of Trus Sisters,
meeting. Hotel Astor. morning and afternoon
sessions.
Automobile Salon. Hotel Commodore, con-
tinuing through the week.
National Association OF Mutual Casualty
Companies. meeting. Hotel Astor. 10 A. NJ.
American Society of Refrigerating Engi-
neers, meeting, Hotel Astor morning and
afternoon sessions.
Union Made Garment Manufacturer Asso-
citation. meeting. Hotel Astor, all day.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
meeting. Engineering Societies Building. 80
West Thrty-ninth street, 9:3o A. NJ. and
$3.50 P. NJ; Joint session with the American
Society of Refrgeratng Engineers. evening.
Kansas women's Club. bridge. Waldorf
Astoria. 2 Z. Nj.
Prof. J. Duncan Spasth. of Princeton Uni
versity. Censorship Of Literature and Art"
II A, NJ.
Democratic National Committee. meeting.
Hotel Pennsylvania, p. NJ
Conference on Fire Protection, Joint Board
Of Sanitary Control. isi East Seventeenth
street, 4:30 p. NJ.
sorosis, luncheon meeting. aldorf-Astoria.
George Grey Barnard on ''The Service Of
Art" p. NJ.
New York Tuberculosis Association, health
entertainment for children. American Mu-
scum Of Natural History. 2:S0 p. NJ.
Sons of the American Revolution, annual
meeting, Fraunces Tavern. $50 p. NJ.
New York Academy OF Sciences. meeting,
American Museum OF Natural History. s:i5
T.. NJ.
West End Association. meeting. Hotel An
sonia, u. NJ.
City Club. discussion of proposed improve
ments about the Grand Central Station by
Julius Miller. Borough President and Amos
Shaeffer. consulting engineer. 55 West Forty
fourth street, s.15 p. M.
Sunrise. Club. dinner and discussion of the
Fordney- McCumber tariff by Wilbur II.
Wakeman and Geor-t Haven Putnam. Cafe
Boulevard, U:55 7. ~.
Big Brother and Sister Organizations.
meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania. 8;t5 p. M.
Presbyterian Union. dinner. Hotel Astcr.
+. M.
Insurance Federation Of America. meeting.
Hotel Astor. p. NJ.
Holland Society. smoker. Hotel Astor. Q
p. NJ.
Catholic Daughters Of America, card party
and dance. Waidorf-Astoria. 8 p. NJ.
Orange County Society. annual meeting and
supper. Hotel Biltmore. r.. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
From a Foe of Motor Cars.
He Would Bar Automobiles From
Crowded City Streets.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Side
walks were originally made to confine
trafiic; small minority comprised of
automobile owners Is now trying TO con-
fine pedestrians to the sidewalks, depriv-
ing them of about four-fifths of the
width or their own streets.
For man to claim gangway on a
crowded sidewalk and threaten arrest to
those who crossed his path on the
ground that he had n s2s5 watch In
his pocket would be ridiculous, yet q
few men, comprising less than 10 per
cent. Of the population of New York
city. are doing this very thing because
their property Is in the form Of a 1886
automobile Instead Of watch.
II 1900 pound mass OF steel and
rubber can acquire human rights the
Woolworth Building ought to be sacred.
The automobile is the greatest eco
nomic waste In the history OF the United
States Figures purporting to show
that most OF them are used for business
are a Joke. Any motor dealer will tell
you that cars are built to please the
women because they have the say, and
there are mighty few business women
using cars In their business. II is said
the farmer saves time by running to
town In his car, hence II Is n business
car. No farmers time was ever worth
81 an hour--and his errands must be
many to save the cost Of car q year
at that rate.
The automobile has killed moro peo-
pie than the revolver. yet we legislate
against the revolver but not the car;
vlolators of the prohibition law are de-
nounced because they teach lawbreak-
ing, but the automobile driver Is the
greatest teacher of iawbrealxing In the
country. defy any driver in the city
who has covered 5000 miles to take
oath that he has never. not even for an
instant. exceeded the speed limit driven
without his license or otherwise broken
tho law.
We should exclude all passenger
automobiles from downtown New York
and the busy uptown sections abso-
mtely. All commercial vehicles and
what passenger cars are permitted In
town should be fitted with locked and
sealed speed regulators set at ten miles
an hour. All motor traffic should be
confined to marginal streets such as
West and South streets down town and
should be allowed across town only in
the most direct route to destination. 1t
should be against tho law for any auto
mobile driver to delay any pedestrian
for an instant in crossing the streets
either at intersecting points or else
where. A. w. NJ.
New YoRK, December 2.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

In a day of much music a great
musician stood forth conspicuous.
Sergei Rachmaninoff. the distinguished
Russian composer and pianist, gave
his first piano recital of the season
yesterday afternoon in Carnegie Hall.
He submitted for the consideration of
large audience a popular program,
embracing such numbers as Weber's
"Rondo Brilliant a Chopin group
containing the B fiat minor sonata.
two short pieces of his own. and even
the Schulz-Evler transcription of
Johann Strauss's BLUE Danube"
The recital offered material suffi-
cient for a column essay, but alas!
1t was a day OF much music. The per-
formance Of the sonata was perhaps
the forthstsnding item. though the
exquisite cameo Of the valse must not
be forgotten. But the B fiat minor
sonata has suffered so long and so
bitterly at the hands of mere artisans
that every time master plays 1t the
composition is born anew.
There ought to be book or at least
pamphlet about all the readings"
since Rubinstein's. Rachmaninoff had
his own conception and his own lido
syncrasies He made not dramatic
but badly theatrical pause between
the first part of the funeral march and
the cantilena. He played the can
tilena anything but battuta. There
was much leaning about between the
bars. No one. not even a newly risen
ghost or trance conjuring psychic.
could have marched to It.
And that was Rachmaninoff's point.
The cantilena. according to him. did
not belong to the march. Well, the
caprice of the artist has always ex-
listed. But 1t was more than caprice.
Say, better. the royal prerogatives Of
genius transcend the privileges OF
mere talent. Rachmaninoff thundered
the procession to the grave. There a
serene voice sang a requiem. Then
the cortege moved away, receding
slowly into the purple distances of
hazy sound till silence fell and the
The New York herald., 1922-12-04

few thousands used ii, there has been
a remarkably wider perception of its
beauty and usefulness by the public.
There were more than 100000 visi-
tors last season. 1t will be money
well spent to make IT larger, to build
new drives and trails and new docks
on the Hudson, to make more lakes
and to clear more playfelds and pic
mic sites.
What the people of this city have
enjoyed in the Palisades Interstate
Park the people in the western part
Of the State seek to enjoy also. Buff
falo and Rochester together have a
population not far from 100000,
and there are 100000 more people
within a radius of 100 miles Of the
Allegany State Park, for which the
first purchase was made in 1921. So
far only 5000 acres have been ac-
quired. The purchase area contains
$4,000 acres.
These would be the most impor-
tant needs to be cared for by plan
such as the New York State Asso-
citation committee proposes. There
are others which it has in mind, such
as the enlargement Of the State res
ervation at Niagara Falls. a park
system for central New York in the
Finger Lakes region, and the compile
tion of the parkway from New York
city to Bear Mountain Park.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
A Thief and a Drive.
Different Methods Which Left Two
Working Girls Nearly Penniless.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Two
working girls who y~roomed together
started out to work one morning. Each
had only dollar and some small change
in her pocket. for their wages were not
high and they had to send home money
to their mothers.
They separated at the street corner.
Soon one girl was confronted by a thief
who told her to hand over her pocket
book and be quick about 1t. THAT Is
all i have" she said. But no took the
dollar. leaving ner some OF the change.
The other girl reached her factory ana
as she passed IN the foreman stopped
her and said II want a dollar from you
for the"--namirg a large institution
which was making drive for money.
'I can't" said the girl; tits all have to
buy food with till payday" Il don't
care what you have. ] want a dollar
from you. The boss said this must be
a 100 per cent shop, and IL you
know what's what you'll hand over the
dollar without any more words" SO she
handed him her last dollar. She under
stood that II she did not it might mean
her discharge.
That night the two girls returned TO
their room and had a sandwich and
coffee for their DINNER AS each told
her story to the other about how her
dollar had been extracted from her they
could see no difference between the
methods. Nor can any decent man or
woman. Except that the thief was the
brave man and took risks. while the
other method was an indirect method in
which power over the helpless was suf-
ficient. No need of threat Of pistol
there threat OF losing ones position
was even more powerful. more success
ful and how much more refined It was,
with no risk whatever.
used to think there was no devil.
but have changed my mind. For moth
ing short Of devil could have put such
cruel. brutal method Of extracting
money from helpless girls and men and
little children ana orphans than this
100 per cent. method of raising money,
or rather OF extracting It from the pock-
cts of the poor and helpless. Any one
who has seen II practiced In the public
schools Of New York city. among the
children Of the very poor. or among fac
tory or mill or office workers, knows
that the people guilty Of getting money
that way have nothing on the Turks or
on any other barbarous nation or peoples
since the world pegan. CONTRIBUTOR.
New YORK, December 2.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
State Parks and Forests.

A committee of the New York
State Association has made a report
in which 1t recommends the adoption
OF a comprehensive plan for the de-
velopment OF State forest and park
lands. II looks well into the future
and lays out for early execution prof.
ects which are certain to be made
more difficult OF realization IL not
soon begun.
The bond issue OF si0,000,000, ap-
proved in 1916, for the purchase OF
land for the Forest Preserve and ad-
ditions to the Palisades Interstate
Park is now exhausted. Not only
is a greater development of these
State projects advisable but there
are other undertakings OF a similar
nature which have been either very
feebly initiated or have not had a
start at all.
No intelligent person denies the
necessity for continuing the extern
sion of the State Forest Preserve.
Americans cannot be reminded too
often that they are consuming their
timber supply four times as fast as
it is grown. The Federal Govern
ment is working hard to overcome
that handicap, but IL seeks and should
have all the cooperation that every
state can give. Nor is the timber
supply itself the only matter of con-
Germ in the extension of the State
forest lands. These forests protect
the watersheds OF northern New
York This concerns among other
things the water supply OF this city.
The Palisades Interstate Park is
the best of arguments for further
development and purchase Of State
park land. Since 1914, when only
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
Cermany's War Supplies.

nj. CLEMENcEAUs war alarms
sound over here for the admiring
but unconvinced American people
have been taken up and duplicated
uproariously by some European
voices, notably the London Daily
Mail. But, as THE New YORK HERALD
has said in regard to M. CLEMEN-
cEAu's charges Of Germany's secret
war material, there still is little war.
active or potential, in such list as
he submitted to us as specific proof
of Germany's deliberate preparations
for a new war with France.
On the contrary, now comes Gen.
eral Sir FRANCIS BINGHAM to confirm
this papers view that the hidden
war material on M. CLEMENcEAU's
list was inconsequential and that In
any event the allied Powers have such
matters completely and unescapably
within their own control. General
BINGHAM 10 chief of the Interallied
Military Control Commission, with
headquarters in Berlin. 1t Is the
business Of this commission, through
it's deputies, inspectors and other
agents, to watch and examine every
munitions factory, every producer Of
military supplies and every method
of war preparation in Germany. And
General BINGHAM says that NJ. Gle
MENcEAU's fears of large stores Of
war materials in Germany are
groundless because:
The whole Of Germany has been
divided and subdivided into military
control districts. with officers OF the
Allied Control Commission living
right inside the war material plants.
The reports of these officers of the
Allied Control Commission show that
the small arms and ammunition
hidden in Germany are insignificant
compared with the stocks being de-
stroyed."
General BINGHAM declares his con-
viction that Germany has been swept
clean of "all war supplies worth men
tioning" and does not feel that M.
CLEMENcEAU's charges are a compli-
ment to the allied Powers commits
sion, whose duty it is to see that
Germany does not do and cannot do
what M. CLEMENcEAU has told Amer
lea Germany can do and Is doing.
M. CIEAIENCEAU is a splendid
Frenchman, a great statesman and
charming visitor. The American
people, who have welcomed him so
warmly and listened to him so
attentively, have lost none Of their
admiration for him, none Of their
affection.
But, with all the kindly feelings
that 20 out to him from the Ameri-
can people, they do not see the Euro
pean problem as he sees 1t. They
want no more war. But at the same
time they do realize that war can
be caused, not perhaps in the near
future but eventuslly, If great Euro
pean Powers do not mitigate but en-
courage the causes Of war.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
Christmas Coins.

The United States Treasury will
not frown this year upon the use Of
gold coins as Christmas gifts. In
fact, the Federal Reserve Board, act
ing under instructions from the
Treasury. invites a revival Of the
practice. which has not been in off,
cial favor since the country went to
war.
Consequently this Christmas Day
will be enlivened by the discovery
in purses and bags of gifts within
the gifts, and everywhere the gold
pieces will be put back with very
temporary resolution not to let them
out into circulation. Then will come
realization that the holidays brought
whirl Of spending which, though
pleasurable. was perhaps not wise
and certainly not prudent.
Surely and not slowly the gold,
having performed its function in one
Yuletide. will gravitate back to the
banks, where 1t will await another.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHArrAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Trend of the Times Prof. Nelson J..
Mead, Washington Irving High School.
Irving place and Sixteenth street.
Trend Of the Times.'' Arthur ID. Rees.
Morris High School. i66th street and Boston
road. The Bronx.
"Book OF the Hour" Prof. Carter Troop.
Pilgrim Hall. Frfty-sixth street and Broad
way.
''Probisms IN eons Broadway Dramas"
Mrs, Winnifred II. Cooley. Public echoA' 40.
i5Gth street and st. Nicholas avenue.
.Tho Coiors of poiarized Light" Robert
Won Nardroff. Public School 151, ST. Nicholas
avenue and i27th street. Tho third OF three
lectures on Light and Color" illustrated by
stercopticon Views.
art in Advertising" Ernest Knaufft.
Public School f65, 225 West l0eth street.
Stereopticon Views.
'.rhe Evolution OF Mind Frederick
schleiter. Labor Temple. Fourteenth street
''psychology and Culture
''How to Know the Starry Heavens Ed
ward +. Bigelow. st. COLUMBIA Hall, 3&3
West Twenty-fifth street. Steroopticon views.
"sir James Barrie as Great Constructive
Force In Modern Drama Harry Irvine.
Evander childs High School, 1s4th street
and Field place, The BRONX. Dramatic read
ings from IA Kiss for Cinderella"
"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 kNap street.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
A Fortunate Surrender.

The Republican Senators were
wise to drop the anti-lynching bill.
Aside from the fact that they thus
ended the Democratic filibuster and
permitted regular legislative busi-
ness to go on there is the more i'm
portant fact that the Dyer bill is not
necessary to the statute books.
Each State should cope with lynch
ing In the same manner that 1t
handles ordinary murder or riot or
conspiracy. If State finds itself
unable to stop lynching or to punish
lynchers. then It has the right and
the duty to call upon the Federal
Government to act.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
GIVES CAT HOME, RECITAL.

Marguerite Sylvia, mezzo-soprano. gave
a novel 'at home" recital at the Broad
hurst Theater yesterday afternoon. Nine.
Sylvia offered five groups of French,
German. Spanish and English songs.
Her offerings included airs fran Monte
verdis "Orfeo" and Gluck's "Armide''
and songs by Fourdrain. Mason, Vein
gartner. Wolf. Osma, Stevenson, Cad
man and others. Interspersing her songs
with comment on the program and bits
of information concerning the musical
world, Nine. Sylvia succeeded In pleasing
a large audience Her voice was effec-
tive and her Interpretation Of group
of Spanish songs was done with much
spirit and dramatic ability.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04

clared purpose to reduce transporta-
tion rates through amendments OF
the Esch-Cummins law, embracing
changes in the rate making clauses,
there is this TO be said: 1t is to be
presumed that IL these men are hon.
est, if they comprehend the railway
situation OF the United States and
il they are going to do anything
with it. they know what has caused
and still causes the excessive rail-
road rates. And If they do know and
do sincerely propose to get those
rates down, then they must be able
to show how they can get them down.
And this is something that is gov
erned by cold facts.
AS the great bulk Of all the rail-
road receipts goes directly into rail-
load wages and indirectly into the
labor costs of the coal and other sup
plies consumed by the railroads. not
to mention the taxes paid by the
railroads, either the insurgent bloc
proposes to cut all wages to the bone
so as to get railroad rates down
or the insurgent bloc. if not abso-
lutely irresponsible. is not on the
level.
Out Of every dollar that the Ameri-
can railway system took in during
1920 about so cents went straight
into railroad labor proper; about II
cents went into coal, the cost of
which is chiefly labor; about 171a
cents went into materials and sup
plies. So per cent. of the cost Of which
is labor, and Az cents went into
taxes.
Those four items alone thus ate up
about SO cents out of every dollar
that the railroads received for haul
ing the countrys freight and pas
sengers. And still the roads, to keep
out of receiverships, had to pay out
of the few pennies that were left OF
their dollar losses and damages, in
juries to persons, depreciation and
retirements, insurance, not to for
get interest on mortgage and other
debts.
Since 1920 there have been some
wage reductions, as also there have
been some rate cuts. The wage ad-
justments saved some, not all, OF the
greater roads from insolvency. But
the railroads. as a whole, are not
earning to-day better return on
their investments than investments
in Government bonds and savings
banks deposits pay. And hundreds
of thousands of miles of American
railroads are still financial wrecks.
II the Congress insurgents do not
know that cutting the railroad rates
without cutting railroad labor pro-
portionately will plunge them, as a
whole, into colossal bankruptcy they
do not know single thing about the
railroad problem. And if they do
not know that the American people
cannot get essential transportation
service from a national railway sys-
tenn that is in colossal bankruptcy
they do not know much of anything
about the imperative needs of the
country.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
Writing on the Sky.
Feat Of Art Smith at the Panama EX'
pOsitiOn Seven Years Ago.

10 THE NEW YORK HERALD: 1t has
osen asserted that the smoke writing In
the heavens above Manhattan on Tues
day and Wednesday by member of the
British flying corps was the first dem
onstration Of the kind ever witnessed In
the United States.
In The interests Of accuracy permit
me to say that I was one Of 100000
skygazers at the midnight closing of
the Panama Exposition In San Fran
cisco seven years ago when all the cleo
trio lights were suddenly turned out
and the daring stunt aviator Art Smith
appeared high overhead and plainly
wrote in the California heavens Good
by" ARCHIE RICE.
BArsIpE, December 2.
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
Flowers.
From the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
Beauty but adorns herself
when Youth pins flowers In her hair.
But the crimson loveiiness OF blossoms
Lays a kind hand
On tho trembling heart Of Age.
And says:
Never mind. Let a grave lie bit
And beauty blossoms above II.
Conqucring in a sweet warfare
Whatever Is not OF It's kind"
Maybe that is the reason
Old women love gardens
And old men pin reranlums
Brss MUM,
The New York herald., 1922-12-04
Paddy's Bscki

Paderewskfs here again
Paddy'e back
Hark Arpeggios fall like rain.
White and black.
See the fragile fingers go.
See the colors drip and flow.
Faint. then mounting to a glow
Paddy's back
Paderewskrs here once more
Sos Chopin.
Polonaise. nocturne-encore
In the van.
Let the muses.. hand In hand.
Trip rejoicing through the land
Sound your masters In command
Paddy's backi
MAURICE Morris.