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The New York herald., 1922-05-17
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Conference between coal mine operators
and union representatives. Union League
Club, 10: 80 A. M.
Jane B. Walker. lecture. "st George and
the Dragon" for deaf children. Metropolitan,
Museum of Art. 10:30 A. NJ.
international Sunshine Society, eonven.
tion, Hotel Pennsylvania. 10 A. NJ.
sse% nna saps HH%s snsst MSn n%
eign Mission Society. joint meeting, Baptist
Temple. schermerhorn street and Third ave-
Mission Society. $3.50 A. M; other sessions.
and p. M.
Casualty Actuarial Society. meeting, Hotel
Pennsylvania. 10 A. M; luncheon. p. NJ,
Street. Fair in aid Of the Association for
to Fiftieth street, afternoon and evening.
Reserve Officefs Training Corps. New
York University. Field Day and Review.
University Heights. p. M.
Meeting Of the Building ,ss,s, and Sites Com c
avenue and Fifty-ninth street. p. M.
Shoe styNe Show. Hotel Commodore. af-
ternoon and evening.
Gov. Miller will be the guest Of Senator
Brooklyn. noon; the Governor will speak at
a dinner OF the Kings County Republican
Committee. Hotel Commodore. evening.
Twentieth anniversary celebration Of the
p. M.
S. stanwood Menken, president of the NaA
Eop,a of Morals s % 'psa
building Trades Employers AssociatiOn. a.
West Thirty-third street. p. M.
Manhattan Matinee Club, luncheon, Wal
dorf-Astoria. 1890 p. NJ.
Pauline Consumptive Relief Society. lunch
con and bridge, Hotel Pennsylvania. p. NJ.
Kiwsnis Club. luncheon. Hotel McAIpin.
IL 80 p. NJ.
NJ p Les seizure 4Stpn rsrn Hioon
lyn, p. NJ.
st. Brigid's Church. minstrel show, Ar
cadia Hall. Halsey street and Saratoga ave.
nue., Brooklyn, p. M.
American Society Of Civil Engineers, New
York section. annual meeting. discussion OF
The Need Of Regional Planning for the
New York District. Engincering Societies
Building. sS West Thirty-ninth street. 1880
r. NJ.
Dinner In honor Of James Il. Herman,
State Commander of the Veterans Of For
eign Wars, Staucfs. Coney Island. z p. NJ.
innate pa 81 w LABOR S e.:
Second avenue and Fourteenth street. $50
p. NJ.
Plans for a non-partisan, municipal poll
meeting sesilsa BY Joseph NJ prce Mo,.
Commodore, r. NJ
Tho Sun. Alumni. dinner. Manhattan Club.
7:30 p. NJ.
Columbia University Orchestra, concert.
Earl Hall, Columbia University. 8 p. NJ.
"Art re'' ana " Poetry" % !" % Deaf Mutes "''' Wn,cn
League. 143 West fe5th street. 8 p. NJ.
Blessed Sacrament Alumni Association,
Dance Hotel Pennsylvania, 8 p. NJ.
william Mckinley Lodge. r. A. NJ,
meeting. waidorf-Astoria. g p. NJ.
Equitable Merchants Association, meeting.
Hotel Commodore, p. NJ.
ri Delta Fraternity. dance. Hotel McAipin.
+. NJ.
Commerce Catholic Club. dance. Hotel Nc.
Alpin, p. M.
Amateur Fencers League Of America.
meeting. Hotel Astor. s:30 r. M.
Foreign Commerce Club, dinner. Hotel
Astor. p. M.
National american Council. dinner. Hotel
Astor, Z p. NJ.
Garment salesmsn's Association. smoker.
Hotel Astor, s p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Trade Barometer Rising.

One Of the significant industrial
straws is the report from Michigan of
the opening Of the iron mines in the
Menominee, Marquette and Gogebic
ranges after nearly year of idleness,
with thousands of men out of work in
that great ore district. For two gen.
erations steel has been known as the
barometer of trade, but as iron ore is
the basis of steel 1t might we'll be
called the foundation of industry.
There is no better way to judge the
condition of the fundamental ore
business than to study the railway
traffic in, that basic commodity, for
you might almost say that every ton
of ore that comes out of the ground
must go on a rail journey before it
can become useful. The railroad
traffic records show that during the
nationwide depression the ore indus
try all but sank out of sight. These
records show also the extraordinary
fact that while other industries had
been gradually picking up for weeks
and months ore, which in the very
nature Of things should have been
the advance agent Of other returning
activities, Jagged behind. even far
behind
In~the first quarter Of this year
agricultural traffic increased to 607,-
41S cars from 503,6S2 for the CORE
spending period year ago. Coal
loadings going up from 1,s15,776 cars
in 1921 to 2,173,291 this year were
in big measure due to the threatened
strike of miners. But forest prod
ucts increased from 594,140 to 59G,,
003 cars: merchandise from 2,304,220
to 2,60S,377 cars; and miscellaneous
freight from 2.593,535 to 2,69S,4S9
cars.
But in striking contrast with the
general gains in shipments coke, one
OF the main factors in steel making,
went down from 103,442 to 96,375
cars. Loadings of ore, the greatest
factor, were not far from being cut
in half for the earlier part Of the
first quarter of this year as COM
pared with the first quarter of last
year. Even with slight gain for
the latter part of the quarter, the ore
loadings for the full period dropped
from 92,911 to 54,321.
Ore movements of late have been
increasing rapidly with steel move
ments. IL the coal strike does not
deprive the steel mills of their neces-
sary coke supplies the signs Of the
day point to a steady rise of iron and
steel output. The barometer OF trade,
in that event, will mean what il al
ways has meant-better business for
the whole country.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

in the elementary grades history
should be the means to an end, build
ing up in the child love OF order,
respect for authority and institu-
tions; failure to describe the most in
spring events in our history; the
inclusion Of such statements-mis
leading to a child--as that JEFFERSON
was a demagogue and JOHN HANCOCK
a smuggler; the insertion OF the au-
thor's personal views on debatable
subjects; and the use of offensive
illustrations, such as cartoons of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
In short, the authors are accused
OF having overlooked the prime pur-
pose of books intended for young
minds; of having neglected ideals
and exposed unimportant weaknesses.
HANCOCK was smuggler to the ex-
tent that his sloop evaded British
law; but in the teaching of the child
HANCOCK, for his fine conduct in the
cause of the Colonies, should appear
as a symbol of boldness and gener-
osity. JEFFERSON sometimes played
to the public, but in elementary his
tory he should be remembered chiefly
as the author of the Declaration Of
Independence and the father of the
Louisiana Purchase. There are weak
nesses in most great men, but the
school child ought to be allowed to
profit by their strength.
Propaganda, no matter how benev-
olent its intent, should be kept out of
American school books. The writer's
of school histories might well heed
the example of JOHN FIsKE, who
knew more about the weaknesses of
the great than any present day his
torian knows, but who submerged
trifies when he wrote school history
Of this country and presented to the
youthful mind clear picture of the
high spots. He built q frame to
which the child in later years could
add as much as it wished.
The school years are the impress
sionable years, but some of the au-
thors Of text books for the young
have forgotten this.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Home Making.
The Wife's Three Requisites In
Meeting the Husbands Ideal.

To THE NEW York HERALD: 1t would
be a splendid thing to have new
clause inserted in the marriage con-
tract, something similar TO this; "Are
you willing to be housekeeper?'
Every man who marries has in his
heart picture of a home as the out
come. Any girl, fapper or what not has
to have but three requisites. desire. a
cook book and persistent effort. and a
good housekeeper will be the result
I know a woman who. from the age
of sixteen to fifty kept books for one
firm. She married with absolutely no
experience or knowledge of cooking or
housekeeping. In one year her store
room of jellies. jams and canned things
would make you sit up and want to
do likewise. Let girl just want to be
and she can be. It's the grandest thing
in the world to be real homemaker
Cora H. COLEMAN.
MOUNT VERNON, May IS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Poem.

How futile my attempts at poetryi
Words are inadequate. I do but Jest
When I would try to give the world
my best;
Last night I wrote and wrote, when
suddenly,
Thinking of you, seemed at last TO sec
My efforts worthless; you are thought
expressed
In such perfection that this endless
quest
OF mine in writing seems absurdity.
write OF life--you arc poem Of life !!
/ sing of joy--you arc song of Joy |!
The very atmosphere you breathe is rife
With beauty, beauty pure, without
alloy
And you have taught me to be glad
/ live
What more could any poem, e'er writ
ten. give?
ELISABETH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

DIR. within l.. Ettinger. Superin-
tendent of Schools. yesterday praised
the report % the committee OF twenty
one on school histories as one Of the
most thorough and commendable docu-
ments OF its kind ever prepared. Its
conclusions. he said, not only would be
applicable to New York city. which has
heterogeneous pupil population. but
undoubtedly would serve as a guide for
text book writing throughout the coun-
try.
The report Is In the hands Of the prin-
ter and probably will not be available
for public perusal until next week, but
the history committee has prepared a
summary of its findings that shows the
general tenor OF the inquiry without
tacking any specific charges on an au-
thor or publisher
AS predicted in THE NEW YORK HER
AID last December the committee has
not welded the whitewash brush so
lavishly as many seemed to think at the
time the inquiry was started at the d.
rection Of DIR. Ettinger There was
general tendency to regard the charges
as the product of rabid anti-British
sentiment, fostered largely by Irish
that the criticisms--some OF them
leveled at some OF the standard" text
book authors--would be rapidly dis
missed.
Many Statements Out OF Place.
The results proved quite the opposite.
The committee has been at work since
November, sitting carefully all the
charges and even delving into those
books which did not come under the
censure OF the critics. The members
have found that while not adhering to
the charge Of deliberate pro-British
propaganda there are nevertheless
many statements In these books that are
not appropriate to be made to youthful
pupils desiring to gain true perspec-
tive Of America 8 past.
There is significant paragraph In
the report which explains just what the
investigators feel toward these books:
"There Is no evidence to, support the
charges that the textbook writer's whose
books were examined were intention
ally unpatriotic. However, the para
graphs complained of in their books
indicate an attitude Of mind toward
the founders of the Republic which, IN
our judgment. is entirely reprehensible."
Dr. Ettinger feels that the investiga-
ton was supremely valuable In that 1t
how these sentiments, con-
sidered by the committee detrimental
to the pupil mind, have been able to
creep into the school histories almost
unnoticed, until in the aggregate they
have become fIagrant violations OF
what the authorities consider the proper
manner Of imparting historical knowl-
edge.
Not only has the committee reported
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
WEDNESDAY. MAY II. 1922.
Why America Stayed Out.

1t Is by no means certain that the
Genoa Conference has done wise
thing in, calling the Hague Confer
ence for further consideration Of
the Russian question just now.
The primary purpose in calling
the Genoa Conference was to take
up the Russian problem with the
view to opening the door to Russia
to come back into the family OF
nations under conditions that i'm
posed no sacrifice of national pride
and national dignity.
The Conference met and the re-
ception accorded Russia by the other
nations was cordial and reassuring.
This opened the way for Russia to
put herself right with the Conference
so far as concerned her international
relations. 1t could all have been
done in few words.
A statement by Russia saying she
would pay her foreign debts in full.
given time, saying she would hold
herself responsible for confiscated
foreign owned property in Russia, to-
gether with statement setting forth
her present economic and financial
condition and her imperative need OF
large monetary help from other ma
tions, and her work in the Confer
ence would have been well nigh COM
pleted and the big work Of the Con-
ference would have been achieved.
The arrangement for loans and gen.
eral help would have been a detail
and the arrangement would have been
made. The help Russia needs would
have been assured.
But instead of this simple, direct
way of meeting the situation, meet
ing It in accord with the established
custom of meeting obligations, and in
spirit of appreciation of the inter
national olive branch held out by the
Conference, Russia chose the way of
a diplomatic duel. She quibbled and
protested over her foreign debts and
her responsibility in the matter OF
confiscated foreign property, reveal
ing herself generally in a >disappoint-
ing attitude and with chip on her
shoulder.
She made the recognition and pay
ment of her debts and other obliga-
tions, in such measure as she might
agree to meet them, conditional upon
the big cash loan she demanded-and
this to an assemblage of nations
which know no conditions in the
matter of sacred obligations. This
was the thing on which the Confer
ence broke. And what is there to fur
nish hope that the Hague Confer
ence will not break over this same
thing?
1t is question if calling the Hague
Conference to come in on the heels
OF the outgoing Genoa Conference
isn't a psychological mistake in view
of Russias impossible attitude.
In this situation President HAR
DrNG's Administration has decided
wisely in declining the invitation to
attend the Hague Conference, for
after all as it now appears it is but
continuation of the Genoa Conference,
which America declined to attend.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
A Simple Railroad Lesson.

In his annual report for 1921 Mr..
Z. Z. LOOMS, president of the Le-
high Valley Railroad, describes with
some bitterness the condition in
which the company's rolling stock
was returned TO it after the, disas-
trous experiment with Government
operation
The Lehigh Valley is not a vast
transcontinental system required to
own and maintain for a sudden burst
of business a surplus of locomotives
and, cars running into the hundreds
of thousands. 1t is a compact car
Ner well situated to gauge its nor
NAL and its emergency needs to haul
traffic. Yet in 1921 this railroads
cars came back to it out of the well
ter of Federal control in such a state
of wreck that the company felt COM
PEELED to spend in prompt repairs on
the broken down engines, cars and
floating equipment more than twenty
five millions of dollars.
put, dltCi NhC NOhoiSiOh Va
goodness or of badness in which rail-
road rolling stock was cast back
upon the hands of the owning COM
panies after the ruinous reign OF
Government operation is not the
real story of railroad hardship. RAM
shackle equipment is mere incident
of what is the matter, what is the
very serious matter, with the Amer
lean transportation system. Broken
down rolling stock can be put
in repair again il the funds are
available. Even collapsing road
beds can be built up anew by compe-
tent and conscientious management.
But organic trouble is very differ
ent question.
A single, simple example from
President LooMIs's report will illus
trate the evils that permanently
affiict the railroads of the United
States to-day under a national pro-
gram Of stunting, blighting and all
but fatal Government regulation.
OF the Lehigh rolling stock de-
manding immediate rehabilitation
after Federal control and operation,
1876 cars were sent in 1921 to vari-
Gus car builders for general repairs,
and this necessary work cost the
company $69O,274 less than 1t would
have cost if the company had done
the work in it's own shops, under
the rates of pay and expensive re-
strictions governing working condi-
tions for railroad employees pre-
scribed by the United States Rail-
road Labor Board
And the United States Labor Board
now denies the right of the carriers
to save money with such a common
sense handling OF repairs.
1t is in this way that excessive
Government regulation tells a road
what it must charge for the work it
does but tells it at the same time
what it must pay for the work that
is done for it. And that is not all.
it tells the road how many men 1t
must employ and what they may be
permitted to do for the employing
carrier. 1t tells the road how 1T may
get and carry its traffic, borrow its
money, make its extensions, better
ments and declare its dividends, If
it has a chance to earn them.
And this overdose Of regulation
which strips the management of au-
thority, strangles initiative and
breeds bankruptcy is more than any
business undertaking in the world
could stand.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Fumigating With Cyanogen.
Greater Precautions Urged to Protect
Workmen and City Fire Fighters.

From the Monthly Bulletin Of tho Depart
mert Of Health.
There are in New York city two plants
used for fumigation of commercial prod
ucts with cyanogen. Cotton is the prin-
cipal article that is fumigated for the
'purpose of eliminating the boil weevil.
corn and furs are also fumigated
in very small quantities.
Briefly. the process Is as follows The
material to be fumigated Is placed in
large tight iron tanks. each capable OF
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Increasinr
cioudiness followed by showers this
afternoon or night and tomorrow: littla
change In temperature fresh southeast
and south winds.
For New Jersey-Showers to-day ana
probably Tomorrow: not much change
In temperature; fresh east and southeast
winds.
For Northern New England-Fair to-
day. tomorrow showers: little change
In temperature; moderate to fresh south.
east and south winds.
For Southern New England--Increas
ing cloudiness followed by showers this
afternoon or night and Tomorrow little
change In temperature; fresh southeast
and south winds.
For Western New Yovk--Incressins
cloudiness followed by showers this
afternoon or night ana tomorrow little
change In temperature fresh southeast
and south winds.
WASHINGTON. May 1s.--An area Of
high pressure has moved southwark over
New England during the past twentys
-FOUR hours. while the barometer has
fallen decidedly over practically all
other regions. There have been local
thunder showers within the last twenty
four hours in the upper lake region.
The temperature has fallen in southern
New England and the interior of the
South Atlantic States.
Unsettled showery weather will pre-
van almost generally tomorrow and
Thursday In the States east of the Mis-
sissippi River except that the weather
VIII remain generally fair In New Eng
laha until tomorrow night The tenn
perature will rot change materially
during the next two days
Observations at United States Weather Rt-
teau stations. taken at s p. NJ. yesterday,
seventy-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

ingston county afford fine sport
every fall. The ruffed grouse is an
other game bird fond of the haunts
OF man. Many OF them enter barn
yards in severe weather to feed with
the fowls. Their numbers also could
be increased under proper conditions.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

A westchester man has been sued
for separation on the ground of "cruel
and inhuman treatment" because for
five years he did not take his wife to
the motion pictures. If this consti-
tutes cruel and inhuman treatment,
what is the offense of men who refuse
10 take their wives TO the opera?
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
The Natural Inference.
From the Kansds Citv sfor

from thc Kansas CITY Star.
II hear tell" related n neighbor, ''that
the newcomer from Kansas that bought the
old shagbcrry place has got four pairs OF
britches."
Great day In the morning. astoundedly
calculated Gap johnson of Rumpus Ridge
what do you reckon he aims to do with
'em, start clothing store7"
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
e. G. ELLIOTT TO HEAD PURDUE

= LAFAYETTE, Ind. May 16.--Edward
Charles Elliott. chancellor of the Uni
versity Of Montana. has been selected as
the new president of Purdue University
torfill the vacancy caused by the death
of Dir. w. Il. Stone who was killed last
summer while mountain climbing In
Canada.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

An early golfer at the Geneva Coun-
try Club drove ball which hit and
killed an early robin just as the.red-
breast was devouring an early worm.
The moral of this incident seems TO
be that early birds on golf links
should learn the meaning of Fore"
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

The Associated Press In exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited 10 II not otherwise
credited IN this paper. and also tho local
news published herein.
All Fights Of republication of special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Spring Connections.

Knicker-Now we have dandeion wine and
rhubarb wine.
Bocker-Gracious. they will make wine out
Of that tired feeling next.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
Making an Arkansas Record.

Dale netrs In Cforksuifrc Herald Democrat.
Who can beat J. +. Yeager trading7 Last
week he traded four head of cattle for
seventeen head.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

THE New YORK IIERALp was founded by
James Gordon Bennett In 1885 1t remained
the solo property of its founder until his
death. in 1872. when his son. also James
Gordon Bennett. succeeded to the ownership
OF the paper which remained in his hands
until his death. In 1918. THE HERALD be-
anne the property of Frank A. Munsey. its
present owner. In 1920.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

Highest temperature. 20. at 11.10 A. NJ.
Lowest temperature, 81. at midnight.
Average temperature, 81.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-04-05
Sugar Content of
= - = = -
VaNeyBeet Found
= = = = =
ToBe l4.75 Sugar
Especial TO The Herald)

ALAMO, Tex, April Sugar beets
grown gy j. w. Stanbridge. Alamo,
showed If.75 per cent sugar content
of 75.7 per cent purity. in an analysis
made by the state chemist at College
Station. The findings Of the analysis
were received yesterday by Mr.. STAN
bridge. This is 2-per-cent higher
sugar content and is the same purity
percentage as the average Colorado
grown sugar beet. The trial patch
was planted early in October and har-
vested March Is.
Mr. Stanbridge states that. with a
little additional machinery. the sugar
mills now making sugar from cane
could he used to make beet sugar.
II is said of this particular kind of
beet that il never squeaIs, even at
death, and that it therefore, beats hogs
in that nothing il lost in turning il
into finished and by-products. The
tops are baled and fed to stock. The
pulp is fed TO stock or is put away in
silos for future feeding.
Mr.. Stanbridge, like many other Val
lay growers, Is of the opinion that the
sugar beet industry may he good one
for the Valley to get into. The ques-
tion has been up before, but never has
been pressed to an answer, for lack of
any exhaustive inquiry into its possi-
hilities.