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The New York herald., 1922-02-20
Feet on Taxicab Seats.
Remarks Prompted by an Account
of Recent Arrest.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: There
are women who seem TO think when
they are riding in taxicab that they
are entitled to put their feet on the
cushions or seats and thus to soil and
deface them.
Now l am not favoring the taxicab
chauffeurs, for as a general rule have
little or no use for rs per cent. of them.
but to give the devil his due and in
justice 10 the other 25 per cent, who
are mighty fine lot OF men trying
to make an honest living, let me say It
Is an outrage on the part OF any pas
songer to deface the interior of any
public conveyance by placing his or her
feet, muddy or otherwise. on seats or
cushions BY offending In this way the
passenger may not only destroy prop
erty in the taxicab but may injure the
clothing of others who ride in the vehi-
Gle aftcrward
The taxicab driver at the Plaza the
ether night had perfect right to act
as he did. Passengers who put their
feet on seats deserve no protection.
NEW York, February IS. III. NJ. u.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
BY w. >. HENDERSON.

The first of a series OF concerts in aid
of the Caruso American Memorial Foun-
dation took place yesterday afternoon
In the Metropolitan Opera Fowse. An
elaborate program had h n ~ pared
with many of the disting lislled singers
of the company as soioists, accompanied
by the opera house orchestra After the
eighth number on the list, the duet La
ci darem" from don Giovanni" sung
by Miss Farrar and Mr.. DE Luca, Will
lam j. Guard, publicity manager of the
Metropolitan. introduced to the audience
George Gordon Battle who is a member
of the memorial committee. Mr.. Battle
made brief address setting forth the
purposes of the foundation.
Mr.. Caruso. he said, had been an in
fiuential agent in cementing the ties be-
tween Italy and the United States His
devotion to his own country had been
manifest. but Americans had come to
regard him as one of themselves. He
had deepened this feeling by marrying
an American woman. Mr.. Caruso had
cherished the idea of establishing an in
stitution for the assistance of deserv-
ing. but poor. students of musical art
and for spreading the appreciation of
music in this country.
The Caruso American Memorial Foun-
dation. Mr.. Battle continued had been
planned to carry out these ideas of the
famous tenor. A fund of $1,000, ,006
was needed, and while the concerts
would yield something It would not be
enough. Those present were invited to
subscribe to the fund. and the speaker
told them how to go about doing so.
Subscription blanks with pencils and
envelopes were given out with the pro-
grams The speaker concluded by thank
ing the artists and attaches of the opera
house who had all volunteered to help
the good cause.
After the address the orchestra played
the Italian and American national an
thems. The concert was long and lib
eral In its offerings. although some
slight alterations had to be made In the
list. Giovanni Martinelli and Orvlle
Harold were indisposed. The former
was to have sung an air from La Forza
del Destino." but II was omitted. Mr..
Harold was to have sung in trio
from Il Lon bardi." the last number on
the list. with Miss Rosa Ponselle and
Jose Mardones, but a duet from la
Forza del Destino" for the two remain
ing singers was substituted.
The program began with the over
ture to Il Vespri Siciliana" conducted by
Giuseppe Bamboschek, after which Leon
Rothier sang the Cardinals air from
LA Juive." with Louis Hasselmans con-
Quoting. Miss Jeanne Gordon followed
with an air from Bembergs Jeanne
dare" Miss Ponsele sang Pace.
Pace from La Forza del Destino," and
Mr.. Danise ''Er; tn" from "Un Ballo in
Maschera." Nine. Aida followed with
'L'altra notte" from "Mefstofele." and
Mr.. Didur sang an air from "L'Elisir
d'Amore." Then came the duet for Miss
Farrar and Mr.. De Luca, already men
toned.
The prelude to the last act Of la
Traviata," played by the orchestra and
conducted by Mr.. Moranzoni. prefaced
the polonaise from "Mignon" sung by
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
Well Dressed Presidents.
One of Mr.. McKinley's Outfits Shown
at the Paris Exposition 1900.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In re-
gard to the letter Of Smith D. Fry of
Washington. d. c., dealing with we'll
dressed Presidents, in which he takes
Marion. Ohio, tailor to task for pub
licly claiming or having it proclaimed
for him by a Washington newspaper
that "he has made Harding the best
dressed President that ever lived in
the White House" l venture to say
that while President Harding is finely
proportioned man and carries his clothes
we'll, yet there have been others.
I had the honor and pleasure of maxi
ing President McKinley's clothes for
several years. An outfit of his was
exhibited at the Paris exposition in
1900. all Europe bowling to the excel
lence of American tailoring at that time
and to the United States was awarded
a gold medal.
President Mckinley carried his clothes
with grace and distinction. as did Presi-
dent Chester A. Arthur and other occu-
pants of the White House.
JOHN J. KENNEDY.
New YORK, February IS.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
EVENTS TO-DAY.

"Fiesta and Fandangoes." benefit of the
Society for the Prevention. and he,ei OIL iu-
berculcsis, Inc, Hotel Bitmore' all oay'
State Senator schuyler Meyer, Comptroler
cha ries t. Craig and Howard w. Nudd VIII
discuss the Meyer school bill at Forum
meeting, auspices of Public Education ASS ass,
citation, Town Hail. 123 west for9-'h'"
street, S:15 =. NJ.
American Institute OF Mining and Metal
l,irgical Engineers. annual meeting, Ensi-
neering Societies Building, 70 West @ @Inir,y-
ninth street, beginning 10 a. M sHohef'
S:15 p. NJ
tion 40 Lafayette street. l 80 +. M.
Senator George Wharton Pepper OF Penn,
syvania win speak at the annual dinner ul
the Traffic Club. Hotel Commodore M'
Lewis s. Nudge will speak at meeting OF
the Presbytery of New York, First rresoy,
terian Church. Henry street. near Sia'N
street, Brooklyn, 2:3o p. M.
Luncheon OF Presbyterian business men,
Downtown Association, I p. NJ.
PRESBYTERIAN Union. dinner, Hotel Astor'
p. NJ.
snecial nerformance Of ''Martolaine. bene-
IN Of clergy OF the city. Broadhurst Theater'
30 p. NJ.
union, Prospect Hall. Prospect ana fi'ii
avenues Brooklyn. s:1o +. NJ.
william Howard Gardiner Will speak on
IAN Appraisal OF the washington Conc
ence." City Club. 80 West fof'y''ou''"
street. s:l5 p. NJ.
Dr Joseph Fort Newton win lecture on
.Mark Twain" before the Marquette Ciup'
Hotel Plaza. s:1o +. NJ.
Tennessee Society Of New York, ball. Hotel
Plaza. q p. NJ.
Dr. chester A. Reeds will lecture on Sets
mographs and Earthauaks Records S,. oet1re Msrs
the section OF geology and mineralosy. rev
Ynr,. Academy OF Science, American Museum
OF Natural History. s:15 P. NJ.
section OF ophthalmology. meeting, New
york Academy OF Medicine. II West rory
third street. +. M.
Alice T. coseo will lecture for i,,sh @ schSci sm
,cln sses on 1.-THE Moor in spain, MetroPo4s-
tan Museum Of Art, p. NJ
Prof. walter b. Pitkin WIN sneak az a
dinner of the League OF American rem
women. Republic Restaurant, 14so broadway'
6:30 p NJ.
American chronological Society. meeting.
sms, sa,en, seventh street and Central Park
West, s:i5 p. NJ
Chief Sanitary Inspector E'cnaro =. WEI wv,,
win sneak nt a meeting or the rev rorN
ladies Hairdressera Association' ioo "esS
Seventy-ninth street, 4. M.
paumgardt will lecture on Racial
r,,nas e., the Progress OF Civilization pefore
.he League for Political Education'. TOWN
Hall. 1o3 West Forty-third street. IL ~ NJ
Merchandise exhibit. seventy-first Regiment
Armory. Park avenue anu
street, opening day.
Maryland Society, mee'i"s'
toria, 8 J.. NJ.
National safety Council. meeting Hotel
Commodore. 10 a. NJ.
n,ui,arv order OF the World War, meeting,
Hotel Astor, +. NJ.
rordham Alumni Association. dinner, Hotel
Commodore. y. NJ.
Holy Cross College Cluo, uinler' '0'u
= .9n NJ
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
Opera Stars in Concert for Caruso Fund
Elaborate Program Given at the Metropolitan in Aid
of Memorial Foundation.

Nine. Galli-Curci. Mr.. Gigli sang 20
Paradise" from IL 'Africaine" and Nine.
Matzenauer 20 don fatale' from Don
Carlos" after which the duet from La
Forza del Destino' brought the program
to its end. All the conductors except
Mr. Bodanzky took turns In directing
the accompaniments. On account OF the
length of the program no encores
were permitted. but several times the
audience showed a desire to break the
rule
The house was filled, the standing
room being all occupied and the up
per ties crowded. The total receipts
amounted to a little more than $15,0 900.
Many Of the regular habitues of the
opera were in the boxes and other parts
of the house. Mrs. Enrico Caruso and
her small daughter Gloria were in the
box with Mr.. and Mrs. John Aspegren.
whose other guests We're Mrs. oliver
Hartman, Capt. Francesca M. Guarda-
bassi, Messrs. Antonio Algara and Law
renee S. Butler. In another box which
Mr.. and Mrs. Aspegren had taken were
Mrs. Daniel Bacon, Mrs. Henry Martyr
Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. Phoenix In
graham and Mrs. M. Lawrence Keene.
Mr.. Albert Norris Bagby's guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolf Payenstedt, Nine.
Emma Eames and her niece. Miss Claire
Eames: Miss IAary Pearsall Field and
MIR. William Matthews Sullivan. With
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul d. Cravath were Mr..
and Mrs. James s. Larkin and Mr.. and
Mrs. John M. p. Thoatcher DR.. and Mrs.
Fellowes NDavis were with Mrs. Richard
Il. Wilson.
With DR.. and Mrs. Antonio Stella.
who represented the foundation, were
Senator Luigi Albertini. delegate to the
conference in Washington, and Nine.
Altertini Senator Schanzer and the
Italian Consul General at New York, T..
Il. Bernardo and Nine. Bernardo. Among
others in the boxes were Mrs. Willard
Straight, Mr.. and Mrs. T.. NJ. Cattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Mrs.
Howard Carroll, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Duer
Irving. Mrs. Otto II. Kahn, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Church Osborn, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles S. Whitman, DR.. and Mrs. Sam
uel w. Lambert, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M.
Boomer, DIR. and Mrs. Leland Eggleston
Cofer, Chevalier and Nine. Stefano
Mielo, Miss Florence Perkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles F. p. Richardson, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Gordon Battle, Mr.. Jerome
Herskovits, Dr. and Mrs. William IT.
Nichols, Mr.. and Mrs. Atwood Violet,
Mrs. Adrian Iselin and Mr.. and Mrs.
Horatio s. Shonnard, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
3. Gawtry, Mr.. Louis Simmons and
Mr.. Calvin G. Child.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
The Bolshevists' Secret Police.

The Cheka, the most notorious of
the institutions for enforcing the
orders OF the Bolshevist rulers, has
been suppressed, according to
message from Moscow. The Cheka
was in reality the secret police or
ganization which came into existence
almost with the establishment of the
Lenine-Trotzky regime and became
a successor to the spy system of I'M
perial Russia and reminder OF the
secrecy and the exactions OF the
police agents Of the most autocratic
of the Cars.
The Cheka was supposed to keep
order throughout the country; and
Mrs. MARGUERITE E. HARRISON, in a
recent work upon her experience at
Moscow, gives it full credit for re-
storing order in the larger cities and
making them safe so far as lawless-
ness and robbery are concerned. But
at the same time the Cheka does not
make individuals in these cities or
any part of the country safer from ar
rest. or the persons arrested through
its operations many were charged
with being counter-revolutionists. II
the evidence was not clear against
them they were held for months for
the most trivial reasons, sometimes
as witnesses and not infrequently for
the purpose of isolation during po-
litical agitation.
FELIX DJERzHINsKY, who had been
q revolutionary since 1905 and who
spent several years in prison during
the reign OF NICHOLAS H., was the
head OF the Cheka practically from
It's formation. In appearance he is
described as bearing a remarkable
resemblance to RoBEsPIERRE and as
having many OF that French revolu-
tionist's qualities of leadership. He
frankly admits that as an organi-
zation the Cheka duplicates in many
respects the Okhrana, or secret police
OF the Gear, but he declares that its
existence is justified by post-revolu-
tionary conditions in Russia.
1t would be difficult to estimate
the number OF arrests for political
offenses the Cheka has made or to
say what has been the outcome OF
the trials of those persons who have
been compelled to face this secret
tribunal. No public report of the
proceedings has been issued. Within
the last few months DJERzHrNsKY said
that the majority of executions have
been for desertion from the army.
brigandage and espionage. He as
serted, too, that few persons have
been shot for political offenses and
that the majority Of these offenders
we're sent to the internment camps.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New Yorlr-Clearing to-
DAY. colder by tonight; tomorrow fair
and colder; fierce south to west winAA.
For New Jersey--Fair to-day. colder py
to-nisnt; Tomorrow probably fair and
colder: fresh westerly winds.
FOR Northern New England-Rain or snow
IN early morning, followed by fair to-day;
tomorrow fair and colder; fresh south,
shifting TO west, winds.
For, southern New Misunderstanding To-
day, colder ~ night; tomorrow .air and
colder; fra south TO west winds
For Western New York-Fair and colder
winds.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1e.--There has been
further rise in temperature over all dis
tricts east of the Mississippi River and
high temperatures continue over the South
western states. The weather has become
considerably colder over the northwest
plain States. There have been rains and
SHOWS within the last twenty-four hours IN
westward to Minnesota and Iowa and rains
in the Ohio Valley, the middle Atlantic
States and on the Pacific coast.
Pressure was abnormally low tonight
north of the region of the great lakes from
the Pacific slope and off the Atlantic coast
and over the north plains States. The out
look Is for generally fair weather to-nior
row and Tuesday In the States east of the
Mississippi River. The temperature will be
considerably lower tomorrow In the region
OF the great lakes. the Ohio Valley and
Tennessee and colder weather is probable
at night and on Tuesday in the middle At
lantic and the New England States. Warm
weather will continue in the south Atlantic
and east Gulf States.
Bureau stations, taken at =. M. yesterday.
Seventy-fifth meridian time.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
Germany's Export Surplus.

From the official report for Decem-
Der it appears that German foreign
trade Is not going to be knocked into
a custard pudding either by repara
tions, which will be paid chiefly in
goods, or by higher wages and pro.
duction costs, which will be paid in
paper shinplasters. Exports for that
month we're priced at 14,600,0 900, 900
marks, imports at 1900, 900, 900: the
result was a favorable export balance
OF 900.000,00 marks, the first trade
surplus in considerably more than
q year.
December was deemed a crucial
month, and for this reason the export
surplus is all the more significant.
ALAN G. GOLDSMITH OF the United
States Department OF Commerce
writes that labor costs have in
creased from As to 67 per cent. in
Germany within a year. German
industry" he says. finds itself in a
serious condition on account OF the
exhaustion of practically all stocks"
Because these stocks must be re-
placed from abroad at the greatly
deprecated exchange rate of the
mark the opinion is we'll founded.
Mr.. GOLDSMITH thinks, that the in
crease in costs of raw materials. la
Dor, fuel and transportation will bear
so heavily on German industry as
10 reduce markedly its advantages.
80 frequently cited, over the indus.
tries of other countries"
Possibly by all the rules something
ought to happen to kill German trade.
but itaoesn't. In December the in.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
England Readjusting Fast.

Ordinarily, with all trade sails
bellying in the wind and no ominous
signs on the horizon, the way for
British bankers to hoist the English
pound to par Immediately would be
to raise bank rates and attract gold
to London. But ordinary methods
are in these times as ineffective in
controlling the currents of finance
and exchange as canoe paddle
would be in steering ship.
British bankers know that il they
encourage industry and trade with
cheap money, industry and trade will
in turn respond with enlarged pro-
duction which will fetch far more
substantial support to the British
pound than a bid for gold through
higher bank rates could ever bring.
This fundamental British faith in
cheap money for trade and industry
explains the new reduction in the
Bank of England discount rate to
Az per cent. A Az per cent. rate
at the Bank of England means indus
trial money and trading funds for
British enterprise at less than 4 per
cent, which is normal interest
charge even in the traditional cheap
money market of London.
With the wages of capital, the
wages of labor and all other produc-
tion costs and overhead charges
working back to normal, as they are
now doing in the British Isles, the
course is clear for Britain to steer
straight fop prosperity.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
Puss Has Her Place.
Testimony From the Farm Of Good
Work Done by Cats.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Several
years ago. when I was on n farm. was
of the same opinion as the New Jersey
ished her from the farm. Result: Rats
and mice invaded the barn. wagon house.
granary. hen house and dwelling.
could not feed a horse or COW but a
dozen rats would jump into the manger
and eat up the feed. They killed 200
chickens, sucked eggs and did other
injury.
/ could not stand that. so went to
the neighbors and got some cats. Things
took turn for .he better right away.
The rats began to disappear.
AS they had killed all my spring
chickens I thought 1 would raise some
fall chickens. I had an old hen that
hatched eighteen. She was taking good
care of them and they were growing
fine But they began to get fewer in
number until the flock was reduced to
nine or zen. knew 1t was the work
Of rats.
One day I was out in the barnyard
and I saw the old hen scratching around
straw stack feeding her flock. She
was about twenty feet from the barn.
About halfway between the hen and the
barn lay my favorite cat. fiat upon the
ground. intently watching the founda-
ton of the barn. / said TO myself
"Chickens, you are to be saved. Old
pussy will stop that rat" j went around
then about an hour aftorward came
back to find dead rat in the barnyard.
The cat had done her work.
Pussy has her place in the world
Don't extermlnate her.
THEODORE +. HOWELL.
WAsHINGToNvrLLE, February Is.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
The Aurora BoreaIIs.

The torches Of the north flare up the
sky:
A burning loveilness without name
Enfolds the armament; now faint and
shy,
Now glowing like vivid frozen flame
The light expands; not brighter nor
more fair
Cleans the Aurora, goddess Of the
dawn,
Than she who now behind the giant
Bear
weaves on her tapestries of rose and
faun.
Yet as we watch, the rays fade out and
nse
Across the calm Of nights star spsngled
ELISABETH scoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
War Veterans in Congress.

When KNUTE NELSON recently came
out against the bonus scheme some
of the newspaper dispatches referred
to the Minnesotan as the only civil
war veteran left in the United States
Senate. This was an error, for Sem
ator FRANCIS e. WARREN of Wyoming
served in the Forty-ninth Massachu-
setts Infantry from 1862, when he en-
listed at the age of Is, until the end
of the war. Curiously enough, both
the Senate's survivors OF the Rebel
lion were present at the siege Of Port
Hudson. Corporal WARREN on May
81, 1868, volunteered for an assault
on the Confederate works there and
bore himself with such gallantry that
he received the Congressional Medal
of Honor. Seventeen days later
KNyTE NELSON of the Fourth Wis
consin was wounded and taken pris-
oner not far from the scene Of Cor
poral WARREN's exploit.
The House of Representatives, for
all of its large membership, can
boast of no more civil war soldiers
than the Senate. Representative
HENRY z. OSBORNE of the Tenth Cal
ifornia district enlisted at the age
of 16 in the 1921 New York volun-
teers. Representative CHARLES M.
STEDMAN of the Fifth district Of
North Carolina, who is 81 years old,
fought in the First North Carolina
Regiment and was with LEE at Ap-
pomattox. 1t seems strange that Mr..
SrEDMAN should be the only Confed-
crate veteran in Congress, consider
ing the tender years at which South
ern lads enlisted and the South's
custom of rewarding its soldiers
with public Office.
Twenty years ago there were two
dozen civil war veterans in the
United States Senate and the ma.
jority of them came from the South
Some of the deeply Democratic
States elected them in pairs. Ala
bama sent MORGAN and PETTUs; Ar
kansas, JONES and BERRY; Florida.
MALLORY and TALIAFERBo; Missis-
sippi, MONEY and McLAuRIN. BACON
of Georgia, BLACKBURN Of Kentucky,
McESERY of Louisiana, BATE of Ten
nessee, and DANIEL Of Virginia added
to the goodly company of those whom
their colleagues called the Brig
adiers. The Populist HARRIS Of Kan
sas was a Confederate veteran, too,
having fought with the Virginia
troops. At the same time there were
ten Union veterans in the Senate.
These, besides WARREN and NELSON.
we're NJ. S. QUAY of Pennsylvania,
FORAKER of Ohio, PRocToR Of Yer.
mont, ScoTr Of West Virginia,
BURRows of Michigan, HAwLEY Of
Connecticut and SPooNER and
QUARLEs of Wisconsin.
Now, fifty-seven years after the
close of the war, there is not a Con.
federate veteran in the Senate.
JOHN III. BANKHEAD of Alabama, the
last of the Brigadiers, died two years
ago at the age of rs. Twenty years
after the war ended only thirteen
States were not represented in the
Senate by at least one veteran.
BENJAMIN HARRISON sat for Indiana,
JOHN A. LOGAN for Illinois, WARNER
MILLER for New York, General
SEwELL for New Jersey. In 1886
every man representing Mississ .ppi
in either house of Congress had been
a Confederate soldier or a member OF
the Confederate Congress. -
Although oply four civil war
fighters remain in Congress, that
body contains a good sprinkling OF
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
NMr. HEMpEL IN RECITAL.

Nine. Frieda Hempel, soprano. and
rita Ruffo. NYrytone, gave joint re-
eitoi las, night in the Hippodrome. This
was the distinguished barytone's only
concert appearance here this season.
Th, two singers gave very nttractlve
nrorram. Nine. Hempels beautiful voice
and finished skill were heard first. with
flute obblgato. in Adams's variations
ON a Mozart theme-sung In place OF
.I,e "sonnambula" air announced IN the
nrinted ljst---and as an encore In Licur-
auoes charming song by the Water 90
NirnetonSa." Her numbers further
wore Benedicts Carnival of Venice"
aria with flute obbligato and four
sonns--s;chubert' Ave Maria aud
"JIork. Hark. the Lark" Grieg's sol
vegTs song" and Arditi's I'll Bacio.'
MIR Rumo thrilled his hearers by the
,.icbness and power OF his tones in an
air from Thomass Hamlet" In the
"Toreador Song" from Carmen" and
In the lyrics. "Novembre." by Tremsot
and "Relauaro," by Dados. Tho list
closed with u duct from "Rigoletto.'
Coenraad Bos was at the piano for
Nine. Hempel and Charles Gilbert
spross for Mr.. Ruffo. Louis Fritze was
tho flutist. The audience was large.
The New York herald., 1922-02-20
He Heard Booth Say 1t.
An Eye Witnesses Recollections OF
LincOIn's Assassination.

To THE New YORK HERALD: have
read with much interest the article
WHICH you printed on Sunday last by
Mr.. Burnham entitled Americas Great
est Tragedy" and also the letter refer
ring to it written by Herbert S. Renton.
In reply to the question did John
Wilkes Booth cry "Sic semper tyran-
mis- I" l would say that was In Ford's
Theater the night of Mr.. Lincoln's as
sasslnation. seated in an orchestra chair
close to the stage and saw Booth leap
from the Presidents box. and before he
struck the stage remember distinctly
hearing him say "Sic semper tyrannis !"
DANIEL IL. VEADER.
New HAVEN, Conn, February IS.