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The New York herald., 1922-05-10
Game Birds as Fighters.

The wild things of the field have
a rare combative quality, the result
OF their environment and the heri-
tage from generations that we're COM
pelled to battle in the struggle for
existence.
The extent to which this quality
exists is shown occasionally when
wild ducks are confined with domes.
tic fowls. Wild ducks are not quar-
relsome II unmolested, but once their
rights are invaded they will put up
an energetic fight.
Their manner OF attack is some
what unusual and carries surprise to
the domestic bird, which may have
regarded its wild rival as an easy
prey. A yearling Rhode Island Red
rooster in the yard OF Connecticut
fancier got the surprise OF his life
recently when he assailed a wild
mallard drake which with three
ducks had passed the winter In amity
in the same house.
The coming OF spring probably
made the rooster ambitious to show
his wives what mighty fellow he
was and he attacked the drake. peck
ing him furiously on the back Of the
head. The drake was surprised and
FOR a moment seemed to look on II
as some sort OF play. Then suddenly
uhirling he sprang for the ROSTERS
head and fastened himself to the
pendent wattles of the bird. 1t was
en- astonished rooster that tried in
vain TO dislodge his enemy. He ran
about the yard for a minute or so
with the drake clinging to him. The
enemy was finally shaken loose. but
tho now thoroughly angry drake
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
Club Restaurant History.
NJ. Plumepatte Points Out the Errors
Of an Amateur Manager.

To THE NEW York HERALD: After
three months of extensive. expensive
and, according to some OF the members,
wholly unnecessary alterations, the clubs
dining room was once moro open Tor
business. It was New Years Day.
Sitting on comfortable chair. all
puffcd UP with self-importance. the new
$4,000 a year amateur headwaiter was
giving orders to his assistant. who In
turn was transmitting them to the cap
tain, a gigantic Englishman OF the
John Bull type. Bewildered. all out OF
gear by this infringement upon their old.
every day routine, the regular club
walters were aimlessly moving to and
fro, wondering what all the excitement
was about. A couple OF them took
refuge from the turmoil behind an i'm
mense Japanese screen at the end OF
the French dining room and had quiet
chat One was saying:
These two fellows make me tired.
Such a fuss about that culinary display
Ono would think 1t is a marvel. Why,
II is not even half as good as the lunch
the club used to give free at the bar
before prohibition, and look at those
stiff prices: $1.25 for a slice OF cold
roast beef, which used to cost only rs
cents before these two guys took charge"
As a matter Of fact. the walters re-
marks were correct. The display. al.
though we'll put up and appetizins.
lacked variety and originality. In order
should not be broken tho chef had tried
to make somc suggestions. but had been
ordered to do what no was told, namely.
to cook and decorate ono ham, two
tongues, ono set of roast beef. one
turkey. two pheasants and a few mis-
cellaneous articles, such as canapes.
salad and pastry--a poor showing for
paying set New Years lunch. espe-
cially when one remembered the munif-
cence OF the free lunch OF the past on
the same occasion.
The maftre d'hoters assistant, who
was also manager in a downtown club,
was gyrating like top around the table,
, moving this and that. looking proudly
with an air of superiority at the watt
ers, Just as II to say '1Iey. you fellows.
you never saw anything like this be-
fore, did your"
All Of a sudden he got greatly excited :
something was wrong; terrible mis-
take had been made. The chef had
gent an ordinary apple pie. instead OF
the original deep dish PIE OF old Eng
land. Downstairs he rushed nll flushed.
to give n roasting to the chez
Lunch time was at hand and with II
came a great disappointment to the
dining charge d'affsires. The attend
ance was very small. Besides very few
OF the members could be induced to par
take OF the cold stun. and they did not
care to eat any OF the two special ready
hot dishes. Nearly everybody ordered
a lunch In carte, to the stupefaction
o. our friend. The maftre d'hoteI thor
orghly Disguised. disappeared from tho
dining room long before the lunch was
over.
1 forgot to tell you that the cold
buffet was one Of his innsvatssns and
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
Change.

Ou6ASCs
May comes this year In the same guise
That May came in year ago,
With dawn flushed cheeks and violet
eyes;
The apple blossoms drift like snow
About her feet. and faint winds blow
Her mantle fiecked with butterflies.
The river rushes still and deep
Beneath the willows in the sun.
Across far hillside pastures steep
The cattle wander one by one;
The green gold hours Of daylight DONE
Night comes to wrap the world In sleep.
But you are gone. and In your place
A pain never knew before
without you May has lost her grace;
What means the sunlight by my door?
I would give all springs gold and
more
For one fleet glimpse of your dear face
ELISABETH ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
A Maine Boys Prowess.
At SO Ex-Minlster Thomas's Reputa
ton for Muscle Scares Thieves.

From the Portfond, Ae., Evening Ne,ps
The Hon. William Widgery Thomas
Of this city. who for many years was
Minister to Sweden. and is now visiting
his Swedish home at Karlshamn, recently
gave a demonstration of physical yigor
and prowess that bellies his SO years.
when singlehanded he rowed for three
miles fishing boat with two masts and
sails, heavily ballasted with granite.
Mr.. Thomas was stroke oar on a
crack Bowdoin eight In his college days
when Bowdoin crews were of world
wide note. and apparently has not lost
his facility with the years. He evil
dences vigor unusual for his age in
all his daily activities. lie takes per-
sonal supervision of the work of forty
hands who carry on farming In his
great Swedish estate.
Only recently he attracted widespread
notice in the Swedish press by going
out into the forest on his estate all
alone In pursuit OF two lumber thieves.
IIo caught the men on tho shore as they
were hurrying out OF the woods with a
log. and 70 great Is the Swedish respect
for his muscle and Drawn and for his
purported intrepIdity that the two men
threw down tho log and saw they
were carrying and fed into tho woods.
They left their fishing boat. which an
swered to the description above.
Mr.. Thomas pulled II three miles to
the harbor OF his villa and there an
chored IL. The boat was turned over 70
the police. the thieves came and claimed
~ apd that anrved a. nxIdcro. aco A, -
them when Mr.. Thomas appeared In
court and personally prosecuted the
case with a legal astuteness rs remark
able for his age ns his physical hardi-
hood.
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1922.
The Soviet Cost to Russia.

What Russia has lost in foreign
trade and why the Soviet Govern
ment, say what it will, is striv-
ing to resume relations with the out
side world can be strikingly seen in
National City Bank statistics.
Russian imports the year before the
war amounted to s6S7 ,000,0O0 and ex-
ports to 100000. Expressed in
gold rubles those prewar figures of
imports were 1,375, 200. 900 and OF ex-
ports 1920. 100000. The pitiful show
ing in 1921 was exports of 1915, 900
gold rubles or $S,367,50 and "pur-
chases abroad of 157,0O0,O00 gold
rubles and actual imports Of 1884,
100000 rubles." or, in the latter case,
$67,O00,000.
Russian imports last year, there
fore. were only tenth part of what
they had been in 1913, and Russian
exports not much better than hun
dredth part.
But the loss suffered by Russia
through the virtual obliteration Of her
foreign trade cannot be pictured
merely by the vanished trade balance
in her favor for 1913 of some $751;
100000; nor yet by the balance
against her for 1921 OF more than
s5S,O00,0 900.
This net change against Russia of
$131, 100000 on foreign trade bal
ance from the pre-war period to pres
ent Bolshevist rule is only fraction
of what the appalling cost was to
Russia internally. For what she was
sending abroad in the old days was
some of her foodstuffs, lumber, hides
and skins, wool and flax and various
natural resources of little or no use
to her at home because of her vast
surplus of such articles. But she was
exchanging them by her foreign
tured into finished products worth to
her people many times the exchange
value of the raw material: into agri-
cultural implements multiplying the
fruits of her soil for still greater ex-
ports; into locomotives, cars and
other railroad equipment for the fur
ther development of her immeasur-
able natural wealth; into manufac-
lures of iron and steel, hardware,
clothing, furnishings-necessaries and
luxuries for the use and comfort Of
the largest national population in
Europe. All that and besides $73,-
600, 1000 to her annual credit abroad
In gold.
And now nothing.
Russia, contemplating the colossal
foreign trade cost of Sovietism may
we'll turn her face toward Genoa,
straining her eyes to discover there
signs of the international sun rising
for the Soviet miserables after long
and dreadful night.
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
For a Ship Subsidy.
Officers Of Ocean Vessels State Their
Views to Congress.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The Amer
lean Ocean Officers Conference. which
includes the Neptune Association with
approximately 1000 licensed masters
and deck officers: the Ocean Marine En-
gineers Beneficial Association. No. So
numbering about $500 members: the
J United Association Of Masters. Mates
and Pilots, numbering 1900 members,
and the United Radio Telegraphers As
ISOLATION with about $500 members. has
sent to the Joint committee of Congress
on the ship subsidy bill this letter:
This conference wishes to go on rec
ord as being in favor of the ship subsidy
bill. We believe that a subsidy Is nee
essary TO maintain our merchant marine,
and that great country like ours should
have merchant marine to guarantee
the delivery of the nations goods in
times of peace. to furnish the navy with
auxiliary ships in times Of war and to
prevent a repetition Of huge expendi-
lures of our national wealth on shipping
in another national emergency.
IF the money that was spent In tho
upbuilding Of an American merchant
marine during the war when labor and
materials were expensive had been spent
over a period Of years before the war
we would have at the present time a
much better constructed fleet, a better
balanced feet and more useful fleet
than the Government now has on its
hands. There would also be a more ex-
perienced and better trained personnel.
During the late war 1t was proved that
good ship could be made much quicker
than good officer.
! I'VE feel that the men In some way
should be subsidized and IL naval re-
serve feature Is Incorporated into this
bill we believe that as a peace time
measure the captains should receive the
rating Of a commander, the chief en-
gineer that Of lieutenant commander.
the first mate and first assistant en-
gineer ratings OF lieutenants, the second
mate and second assistant engineers as
lieutenants. Junior grade; the third and
fourth mates and engineers as ensgns
and the radio operators as chief radio
gunners and chief petty officers. This
would give the men the same relative
rating they now hold in the merchant
marine.
MANY of the men now employed are
not receiving the Shipping Board or the
Steamship Owners scale Of wages and
due to the depression Of business many
OF the men are out Of employment. Ow-
ing to the poor shipping conditions and
small salaries being paid many Of the
best officers have left the sea.
| 1--WE believe a subsidy will revive
shipping and make it possible for more
ships to be put into operation and incl
dentally give a greater number of men
employment.
I'VE hope that the gentlemen who
compose the joint committee will re-
member that it takes good men as we'll
as good ships to give the country a
successful merchant marine. We be-
lieve that the present bill as presented
to Congress will directly or indirectly
benefit and aid every citizen in the
United States Of America. and we urge
an early passage of this bill.'
3. l.. TODD,
/ Chairman.
JOHN F. MrLLIKEN,
Secretary-Treasurer.
New YoRK, May ..
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
A Fairy Scene worth Photosraphinr,

From the London Morning Post.
Across tho links, intent and slow,
The heavy footed golfers go:
They do not laugh. they do not talk:
And by their side the caddies walk.
But n. by chance, tho careless things
Should dint and mar the mystic rings
Where twinkling feet and elfn grace
Choose every night their dancing place
Then. iron, tho dinele where they lurk,
The vengeful gobins spring to work
And snatch and hide. with impish glee,
The ball far driven from the tee.
In vain the caddies scour the course.
BY ditch and bunker. pond and gorge,
The wand rcr. lost to mortal eyes.
Safe In some nook Of lIlhand lies.
And that l. Why, when stars are bright,
with nice new golf balls round end white.
The merry goblins may be seen
At baby bowls ON every green.
L. M. n
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
BY w. J. HENDERSON.

The second evening of the engage
ment OF the Russian Opera Company al
the New Amsterdam Theatre. which was
last evening. was devoted to presenta-
tion of Rimsky- -Korsakov's ninth opera
THE Tsar's Bride" This work was FIRST
performed in the Solodornikov Theater. a
private institution. in Moscow in 1899
Ippolitov-Ilvanov conducting. 1t had
a great success. The libretto is founded
on play by Leo Mey, with supple
mentary matter by Tumeneff.
The story is founded on an ancient
custom, the right of a ruler to choose
a bride from the fairest of his subjects.
The maiden in this instance Is Martha,
daughter of SobGdkin, rich merchant
of Novgorod. and already betrothed to
LykoU, a boyard. G1ydS,toy, who has
fallen in love with her ant- vowed that
she shall never marry another, obtains
love portion from q physician. but
Grydsnoy's discarded mistress. La bdshG,
becoming acquainted with the plan,
bribes the same physician with her
favors to give her a potion to destroy
her rivals beauty.
Plot of the Opera.
The Tsar's choice falls on Marthd.
Before she learns Of it GryGznoy admin
isters the love potion to the girl. Then
follows the announcement of the Tsar's s
choice. The girl falls Ill. LykoU is sus-
pected of poisoning her and Is executed.
MartItd goes mad and thinks Grydsnoy
is Lykof, to whom she addresses loving
words. GryGznoy, finding his plan a
failure, Is ready to give himself UP to
justice, but now discovers that Lttbdshd
h.,o frto rA1 I. on1 t,ot
ceived the beauty destroying potion. He
stabs LubGshn and rushes away, while
Martha, still believing him to be her
Lykof, cries wildly for him to return
to her.
Altogether the plot IS quite as melo-
dramatic and horrible as any old time
operagoer could desire. Miss Rosa New
march in her book on Russian operas
discredits the theory that this opera
should be regarded as Rimsky- -Korsa-
kov's recantation Of his earlier accept
ance OF Wagnerian ideas. She holds
that its lyrical style is the natural
application by the composer of methods
suited to the play. The nationalism
which IS found in much CT Rimsky-
Korsakov's music is noticeable also in
this score, though the melodies are his
own and not borrowed
There is much more dialogue in
Rimsky- -Korsakov's opera than in that
Of Dargomijsky heard on the previous
evening. but there Is about the same
number of inconsequential choruses,
haphazard entrances and exits, and pro-
longed vocal numbers. One of the best
tunes in the opera Is that made famous
in a Beethoven quartet and heard in
Boris Bodunov" and another is the ex-
cellent unaccompanied solo of LisbGsho
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Mostly cloudy
and unsettled to-day and probably to-
morrow; not much change in tempera-
ture; moderate variable winds.
For New Jersey-MostIy cloudy to-
day and Tomorrow. probably becoming
unsettled: not much change in tempera-
ture; moderate variable winds.
For Northern New England-Mostly
cloudy to-day and tomorrow, probably
becoming unsettled; not much change in
temperature; moderate winds, mostly
northwest and north.
For Southern New England-Mostly
cloudy to-day and tomorrow. PROBABLY
becoming unsettled; not much change in
temperature; moderate variable kinds.
For Western New YorI-Croudy and
unsettled to-day and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature; moderate
variable winds.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The barometer
has remained high from Hudson Bav
southwark to the south Atlantic coast.
This pressure distribution has been at
tended by local thunder showers in the
upper lake region and the middle Ohio
Valley. Snow fell in north Arizona and
portions OF Utah and Nevada. Else
where the weather remained fair.
The temperature was higher to-day in
the northern border States from North
Dakota eastward to Maine The indica-
tions are for considerable cloudiness to-
morrow and Thursday in the Atlantic
States. the lower lake region, the Ohio
Valley. Tennessee and the east Gulf
States. but no precipitation OF conse-
quence Is. probable. The temperature
will not change materially during the
next two days.
The New York herald., 1922-05-10

seized the rooster by the tail and
clung to 1t tenaciously.
Once more the rooster took to his
heels and this time he only got rid
Of his enemy by darting through a
small door. leaving portion of his
tail in the jaws Of the victorious
drake, which since that day has been
monarch OF all he surveys.
1t was a fine illustration OF the
fighting spirit which comes through
nature and the training wild things
have for their seif-preservation.
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
Outline of H. C. Wells.

Thanks to the enterprise of the
National Civic Federation II. G..
WELLS may see what the history
sharps Of America think about his
great attempt, "The Outline Of His
tory" Stirred by the fact that
WELLs's admirers were engaged In a
movement to introduce the Outline"
into schools and colleges as text
book, CoNDR B. PALLEN, chairman of
the Federation's Department on
Study of Revolutionary Movements,
sent letter of inquiry to number
of American historians and profes-
sors of history asking them what
they thought of the dependability Of
WELLs's statements Of facts and de-
ductions therefrom and of his quail
fications as historian; whether they
considered that WELLs's philosophy
made him a reliable leader OF youth,
and whether the gripping qualities
Of the book were $50 important as to
render it's accuracy and philosophy
of little moment
The Federation has published in
pamphlet form the replies favorable
to Wells and "a considerable part Of
those unfavorable." Even with some
Of the unfavorable answers omitted
the Nays seem to have it; yet WELLS
may be proud Of few testimonials
given to his history. President
THwINc Of Western Reserve Univer-
sity declares that the interest, and
fascination even," of the Outline"
more than meets any objections. Pro-
fessor MARY WILLIAMS of Goucher
College says that IL the book could
be taught in all the colleges OF the
world "the war drum would never
throb again." Professor MARTIN of
Stanford University thinks the book
could be used to advantage in some
college courses.
Among the dissenters Professor
TRyoN of the University Of Chicago
finds in the Outline" too much
WELLS and not enough reliable his
tory. Professor SWEET of De Pauw
is cruel enough to say that WEILs's
few paragraphs on Feudalism are
taken almost verbatim from the
Encyclopedia Britannica" Professor
WILLIAM STARR MYERS OF Princeton
remarks that the Outline" is 'inac.
curate, misleading and calculated to
appeal only to ignorant or thought.
less people" If he wishes to read his
torical fiction, he adds. he prefers
ScoTr. Another OF the Princeton fac
ulty, Professor CoRwrN, regards
WELLS not as historian but as O
pamphleteer and propagandist--
usually quite muddle headed. but the
master OF an attractive and brilliant
style" A third Princetonian, Pro.
fessor WILLIAM MuIIGAN SLOANE.
who wrote life of NAPOLEON, whom
WELLS minimizes, considers the "Out.
line of History" neither accurate mol
dependable; "still less erudite OF
philosophical"
In an essay of 1000 words on the
Outline" Professor J. s. SHAPIRO
Of the College of the City Of New
York says some kind things about
WELLs's work: Gle has interested
the average intelligent reader In his
tory: no professional historian now
living has ever done IL or could dc
it," That is true. Our Parkmans
and Fiskes are dead, and JAMES FoRr
RHODES has not the drawing quail
ties OF natural publicity man like
WELLS. Professor SHAPIRO is fairly
gentle with WELLS, for he realizes
that the task which the novelist un
dertook would require the industry
OF a Ranke. the versatility of Leo
nardo da vinci, the learning of a
Mommsen and the style Of Macau'
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
Nebraska's New Capitol.

The new Capitol of the State of
Nebraska, soon to be erected at Lin
coin from the designs of Mr.. GooDHuE
Of New York, would be an astonish-
ing structure anywhere in the United
States. It's main feature is tower
so lofty and so ornate that the low,
plain offices OF state which stretch
In square about 1t seem merely
to be feeders for 1t.
In addition to this tower there are
grand and imposing portal, not
unworthy Of st. Sophia's in Constan-
tinople, and decorative arrangement
of steps leading to a spacious terrace.
These features will later lend them
selves admirably to adornment at the
hands Of sculptors, always a point
to be considered, and will undoubt-
edly answer we'll as backgrounds
for pageants and spectacles, but the
anxious student of the plans, lost in
admiration of these daring novel
ties, is liable to be chilled at the end
by the discovery that the actual halls
of the Senators and Representatives
cut only small figure In the out
ward effect. The real purpose of the
building, in fact, is not to be read
in its silhouette. This is somewhat
disconcerting.
1t is truism in architecture that
building should show its use.
There is nothing in this idea that the
ordinary man in the street cannot
grasp, yet, strange to say, our most
excellent architects continually over
look it. 1t is palpably absurd for a
church to look like theater or a
hospital to look like jail. Appro-
priateness is the rock upon which
architectural style is built.
The jubilant Nebraskans are al
ready so enthusiastic over what they
call Mr.. GooDHUE's new note in arch
itecture that it seems heartless
cruelty to disagree with them even
for a moment Yet dispassionate
critics in the East are sure to feel
that the irresistible quality of this
rev note is the fact that it rises
four hundred feet into the air. 1t
must have seemed deliciously metro
politan to the committee of choosers
to have a slyscraping Capitol, but
with all the will in the world to be
sympathetic, what on earth has the
skyscraping form to do with a hall
for State Legislature?
Skyscrapers in the congested areas
of great cities are an economic ne
cessity and, born as they have been
Of necessity, they have forced our
architects to brilliant achievements,
of which New York more than most
cities is prone to boast; but how is
the believer in the Ultimate-Arrival-
of-Good- Taste to be convinced that
the necessities Of this crowded city
are those of a prairie State?
The New York herald., 1922-05-10
sunflower State Advice.
From the watheno Times.

A correspondent reports that "a certain
young lady Is learning much about house,
work while her mother Is not able TO work.
1t may seem strange that a sick mother
makes better housekeeper out of her
daughter than a well one does, but such Is
often the case. II we DO say II as shouldn't,
young man II you value a good cook. marry
the girl with a sicltly mother, for she will
available.
The New York herald., 1922-05-10

The bill authorizing transfer OF the
Washington Botanic Garden. now near
the Grant Memorial. TO its new site
came up in the House Of Representa-
tives. A member explained the need
Of it's immediate consideration; it was
urgent, he said. Mr.. STAFFORD ques-
toned the urgency. The transfer. he
reminded the House. had been first
proposed only twelve years ago. Yet
people talk about Congress being lazy!