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The New York herald., 1922-02-08
Racing and Churches.

That an English church has just
been built upon brick foundations
which were formerly part OF the
grand stand of the racecourse at New
ton-le-Willows is an incident which
illustrates the popular character of
racing in England.
The old racetrack had been aban-
doned for better course at Haydock
Park. When the people of Newton
Common decided to build a new
church, Lord NEWTON offered them
the material in the old grand stand.
The women of the parish, many of
them doubtless the wives and daugh-
ters of men connected with the breed
ing and racing of thoroughbreds, vol
unteered to clean the bricks and
turned $4,000 of tir-1 over to the
masons in perfect condition.
In Great Britain and Ireland many
churchmen take keen interest in the
racing and breeding of thorough
breds. RICHARD CROKER, during his
recent visit here, said that nearly
every priest in Ireland owned thor
oughbred mare or two. Clergymen
In England attend the running OF the
Grand National, Derby, st. Leger and
other classics. Many Of them hold
the belief that backing ones own
opinion within bounds-so long as
the transaction does not entail
hardship on any dependents per-
missible from a moral viewpoint.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy in
this country has included some
authorities on horse breeding. One
HENDRICKS of Rochester, whose pen
name was "Aurelius." lie was long
an owner and breeder OF trotting
horses and his contributions to the
horse literature of twenty years ago
were highly educational.
"Parson" ARNETT was once a IA
miliar figure on trotting tracks In
Michigan. lie bred trotters, named
them after members OF his own fam
lily and piloted them in races as eff
ciently as he guided the members OF
his congregation from the pulpit.
Another preacher with love. for a
good horse WAS the Rev. p. c.
STAcKHoUsE of Kentucky. who bred
many good trotters and lost none of
his standing in the community in the
process.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
Wicked 1921.

The number of convictions in
courts of record and courts OF Special
Sessions in New York State in 1921
was nearly 40 per cent. greater than
in the preceding year. The total Of
40, sol in 1920 rose to 55,516 in 1921.
The convictions for intoxication
nearly doubled, going from 5,2S7 to
10,291. Opponents Of Prohibition
will shake wicked finger at the
increase. But those who study the
drinkers Of the Prohibition era are
not deceived. A man who in the old
days would get drunk enough to be
happy, but not drunk enough to be
arrested, is likely now to become
roaring drunk whenever he gets hold
of bottle Of hard liquor. What's
more, the stuff the bootleggers sell as
whisky is the stuff that crime is
made Of.
Why should there have been an in
crease of 10000 convictions outside
OF intoxication cases? The police
may say that the figures are evidence
of their greater skill in catching
criminals. The District Attorneys
and the courts may claim a share of
the credit. The pessimist will say
that there being more crimes there
are naturally more convictions, and
that the increase in crime is due to
the war, the deflation in wages and
widespread disinclination to work.
The sterner sex is still the wick
eder. For every woman convicted
fifteen men were found guilty. But a
cynic could cast shadow on even
these cheerful figures. For what do
men steal? he could ask.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
Burning Up 334,54O Dwellings.

In the FIVE years ended with De-
cember, 1920, the direct losses from
fires in the United States, as re-
corded by the actuarial bureau of the
National Board OF Fire Underwrit-
ers, reached the stupendous total of
$1,33S,17S,142. This is the record
compiled from 3,S02,930 adjusters'
loss reports. 1t does not tell the
whole story OF destruction wrought
by fzmes. Losses from unreported
fires and from fires damaging or
destroying property not insured are
conservatively estimated at quar-
ter of this total. Thus it is figured
that in five years the direct money
damage done by fires in the United
States reached $1.672,722,677.
The damages considered by fire un-
derwriters are direct losses on prop
erty. They take no account of indi-
rect losses resulting from interrupt
tion of business. They take no ac-
count of inconvenience or of actual
want caused by suspension Of en-
ployment because of fire. They take no
account of the manning and killing
of men and women and children.
If money to the amount lost in
fires had been invested in dwelling
houses the nation would be better off
by 334,540 homes, each costing $4,000,
and each comfortably sheltering a
family Of five persons. IL 1t had
been put into schoolhouses at 100000
each the United States would have
1921 OF these structures. But the
money went up in flames and smoke.
In the United States reckless ex-
travagance has been shown in many
things. Fertile lands have been
worked to infertility. Forests have
been destroyed. Game resources have
been exhausted. In such cases ma
ture has exacted the penalty improv-
idence must always pay. And when
man by his folly and carelessness
burns down structures of his own
creation, and by his heedlessness de-
stroys the fruits of his own labor,
he must pay the price, just as he
must pay it when he abuses natures
gifts. The fire loss imposes a con-
tinuous, burdensome, unnecessary
tax on American enterprise, and in
that heavy tax we pay the cost Of
our folly with fire.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08

among the first to welcome the Brit
ish in India and put themselves
under British protection.
Princesses of India have generally
figured more in romances than in
real life. MOORE gave the Western
world in "Lalla Rookh" with it's
strong Oriental color the ideal pic
ture of the Eastern princess when he
described the journey of Prince
ALrRIs and the daughter of the great
AURENGzEBE into the valley of Cash
mere. History furnished the story
of two Indian princesses who held
England's attention at the time Of
WARREN HAsTINGs's trial. One Of the
charges against this Indian admins
traitor, the charge which constituted
the affair of the Begums of Oudh,"
was that he obtained money from
the Begums' palace at Fyzabad by
severe measures against two of the
princesses and by beating and i'm
prisoning their confidential eunuchs
who were guardians of the treasure.
The princesses were, however, gener-
Gus enough to make an appeal to
England in HAsTINGs's favor.
Modern history Of the Orient tells
of no more interesting women rulers
than the Prince Of Wales's hostess
and her two predecessors.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
Arkansas Has a New Day

Governor THOMAS G.. MCRAE Of
Arkansas in proclamation issued
from the "Gubernatorial mansion" at
Little Rock set March % as No To-
bacco Day in the State. Arkansas
Chief Executive has rather a fond
ness for selecting a special day to
call attention in IA sweetly paternal
way to a weakness of the people Of
his State and then giving them a
whole twenty-four hours to think
the matter over and reform them
selves. Last autumn he proclaimed
November / as legal holiday to be
known as the Day of Faith and en-
Joined all good citizens to acknowl-
edge the rights and virtues of their
neighbors and at noon reverently to
speak the allegoric words my neigh
Dor is perfect"
There were no reports on the fol-
lowing day to indicate that Gap
Johnson OF Rumpus Ridge came out
of his cabin with less caution than
usual or that he called out the Gov
ernor's CHEEKY words to the neigh
Dor on the next ridge to the east.
Neither is there any proof that Colo
mel Yell Bowie rode the lanes Of his
Arkansas valley plantation spread
ing sunshine along the way. But
Arkansas took rather kindly to the
idea OF making Faith Day a legal
holiday. The month of November
had only two holidays and why
should it not have another?
But sowing the seeds of altruism
and stopping mountain feuds is a
different matter from attacking a
state custom as general as the use
OF tobacco. Arkansas in proportion to
its population is reputed to be one of
the greatest tobacco using States in
the Union. The Arkansans do not
care much for the effete cigarette,
but not infrequently children's first
teeth are cut on plug of tobacco
in the glorious Ozark region, while
the last solace for old age at the win
ter flreside Is invariably the corncob
pipe of the pioneer forefathers. Lady
Nicotine had feminine followers and
dcvotees among the Arkansas noun.
taineers years before the women OF
American cities lighted their first
cigarettes in cafe or cabaret.
When the Governor declares. as he
does in his proclamation, that "the
general use OF tobacco by men and
women from youth. generation after
generation, is contributing 20 unmis.
taxable and certain dcgcneracy" he
may find that he has been too per.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08

ing at rock bottom and being asked
to buy up in the sky, the farmer had
no purchasing power in the national
markets.
The consumer had to wear clothes
and use other articles, and the stores
supplied these necessaries of one kind
and another known as general mer-
chandise. Yet there was not enough
of this to keep the nations wheels
humming.
But coal loadings went down from
1O,2S1, 900 cars to s,151, 900; coke went
down from $4,000 cars to $4,000,
and forest products from 3,105,000
cars to 2,533.O0O. Ore loadings went
down from 2,423.0O0 cars to $4,000,
and miscellaneous loadings went
down from 16,7Ss,0o0 cars to 13,0S5,-
900 cars.
Industrial America, in other words,
as shown by the foregoing car
loadings Of materials and supplies
shipped to and from the basic in
dustries of the country, fairly col
lapsed. Economic readjustment was
needed to put their products back
into the competitive export markets
and even to keep them in the home
markets in anything like normal
volume. But economic readjustment
was resisted by interests and infiu'
ences laboring under misconception
as wild in economics as the halluci-
nation in physics that water runs
up hill.
When the key to the situation was
lower costs and when the fact was as
clear as sunshine there were those in
the greater as we'll as in the humber
walks who challenged that solution.
1t was the stubborn insistence by
labor upon maintaining excessive
wage costs and by some capital upon
maintaining prohibitive prices that
brought our industrial stagnation.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
The Story of Car Loadings.

What was the drag on business and
what made unemployment in 1921 is
shown in striking contrast by the
number OF freight cars loaded on
American railroads last year and the
year before.
The American farmer shipped his
crops TO market to get what he could
out OF them at denation prices, for
2,326,0O0 cars we're loaded with grain
and grain products as against $780,
900 in 1920; even livestock was
loaded to the extent OF 1880, 900 cars
as against 1,5S6,000, while merchan-
disc in less than carload lots was
loaded to the number of 11,045,O
cars as against 9,143,00O.
The farmer had to sell and did sell,
as the consumer had to cat. But sell.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08

1t was not necessary for Mayor
HyLAN in Florida to telephone to his
underlings here instructing them to
make war on what HIRsHrrELD calls
''the educational crowd" All the Hy-
Ian outfit knows the Mayors school
policy. 1t has been in evidence for
four years. 1t is the policy of playing
politics and abusing everybody who
tries to do anything for the schools
Of New York.
Governor MILLER's speech to the
Real Estate Board was the prod that
drove HYLAN into a fury. The Gov
ernor, with that courage and frank
ness which have characterized his
public career declared that when
ever an effort is made to drag the
Shiny trail of politics through our
schools, then the time has arrived
for the State to say 'Stop!'"
The Governors remarks were in.
spired by the belief that the Board of
Education of this city would fail to
reflect two Associate Superintend
ents whose terms soon expire-vet-
eran educators whose adherence to
the best standards of their profession
have annoyed the Hylan politicians.
1t is a pitiful thing that the chill
dren of New York should be at the
mercy of an administration of which
HrRsHFIuLD is the intellectual head.
II is shameful thing that the Board
Of Education should be the tool of a
man who is willing to throw out of
Office teachers whose only offense is
their failure to play politics.
There is still time for the Board
of Education to save itself from dis
srace by cutting away from HYLAN,
the dictator, and HIRsHFIEID, the
clown. But if the board does not
sever these illicit ties we still have a
State and "A Governor. If the city
will not protect it's children, then the
State must!
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
Weber and Fields History.
How John 4. Kelly Got Twice the
Salary lie EXpecfed.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: first
saw the late John T, Kelly at Ben Trim
ble's Variety Theatre in Pittsburgh
about 1878, when he was one OF the team
Of Kelly and Ryan. we'll remember
their act and the song they sang, I'VE
are the boys that carry the hod." 7 last
saw Kelly at Weber and F'leldss Music
Hall and had long talk with him at
that time, when he told me how lie came
TO be engaged by the famous comedians.
IL appears that he was In New YORK
doing nothing. when one day he met Lew
Fields on Broadway and Fields told MIN
that he and Weber we're going TO open
the music hall and would like 10 have
him in their company. Kelly asKeo
whom they had engaged and Fields told
him the names of several OF the stars.
AS Kelly related 1t TO me he looked at
Fields in astonishment but Fields asked
him his terms for six months engage
ment. Kelly. although a great adnn,ror
OF Fields. thought he must be suffering
from some form Of delusion and as the
easiest way out of tho situation ho mem
toned figure that he regarded as pro-
hibtive. When Fields at once agreed TO
II no was quite sure there was some
thing wrong.
However. as he was doing nothing he
decided to humor his friend and 10 APP
pear for week or SO. thinking he might
get half the sum agreed upon. be-
lieve his engagement lasted FIVE years
and after the first six months his salary
was largely increased.
remember Kelly at the music hall as
the Cardinal in 'The Red Globe" in
which he was very funny and made a
big hit. w. 7. T. MrLLAn.
Ngw York, February Z.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Board Of Education. meeting. Park avenue
and Fifty-nnth street. p. NJ.
Col, Repinston, British military expert.
WIZ lecture on Personalities IN Europe"
1is west. Forty-third street. s:i5 p. NJ
Eliot V3dsworth, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury. will discuss national finances.
Woman's Department. National Civic FEEDER
alton, Waldorf-Astoria, . r. NJ.
Conference committee OF managers of East
ern Railways. will meet In room 3o36. Grand
Central Terminal. TO review the status OF
railroad wage negotiations. r. M.
Republic Neighborhood Association, meet
ing, home of Mrs. Oliver G. Jennings. So
Fifth avenue, 3 p NJ.
Prof. Leigh Hunt, lecture. "Preraphaelite
Painters" College OF the City OF New York.
St. Nicholas Terrace and 13oth street. 4:f5
T.. NJ
Oswald Garrison Willard will speak before
the atudents OF the Washington Square Col
legs OF New York University. II A M.
The Rev; Matthew g: Gleason. chaplain U:
alumnn Of St: Gabriel's Academy. waldorf
Astoria, $50 T. NJ.
operalozue by DR.. Clement b. Shaw on
'Mignon," Educational Alliance. 1917 East
Broadway. 7. M.
Marquette Club, mdwinter dance, Hotel
Plaza, $3.50 +. M
Or. julien ]. Champenois. lecture. French
Charseterisiics rLs,t rsc and Their Relation e
Hr aso,s ron ,bss urs for Tn,s
Sixty-fourth street. 8:45 +. M.
James " Kilroe. lecture, "The Revision OF
tho History OF the United States" Knights OF
Columbus Institute, 81 Hanson Place. Brook
lyn. s r. NJ.
Spring Fashion Show. Retail Millinery As
ISOLATION OF the United States, Hotel Astor.
& y. M.
National Retail Dry Goods Association. con-
yention, Hotel Pennsylvania. all day and
Toy Fair. Hotels Imperial and Brcslin, af-
tcrnoon and evening
water Power League OF America. meeting.
Engineering Societies Building, all day.
Eastern supply Association, meeting and
luncheon, Hotel hstor, ~ A. ~
Prince Alumnn Association. meeting. Hotel
Pennsylvania. morning and afternoon.
Life as Fine Art Club. meeting. Hotel
Commodore. +. M
Third Panel. sherifrs Jury. dinner. Hotel
Commodore, 1870 Il. NJ.
Westchestcr County Chamber of Com
mcrcc, meeting, Hotel Commodore, . L. M.
Eclectic club, meeting and luncheon. wal
dorf-Astora, III A. NJ
Browning Society. meeting. waidorf-As-
toria, II. NJ.
Thecria. luncheon, Hotel Astor. noon.
Sigma Epsilion Delta Fraternity, dinner.
Hotel Astor, J.. NJ
1ienry clay and Mystic Tie lodges. +. and
=. 4. NJ H. dance ana 'o''''' ''0''' N''0''
Kiwanis Club. luncheon. Hotel McAlpin,
i2 30 +. NJ.
Technology Club. dnncr-danco, Hotel Me-
Alpin, j.. NJ.
Tho m ucv. Joseph H. McMhhon, lecture,
s'Teligious Psychology In the Old World and
The New Catholic Library association. a.
H. H.: Auditorium, i6s West 1i3d street. i;lJ
L.. NJ
Food Dealers Credit Union. dinner. Kismet
Temple, o. lierklmer street, Brooklyn, $3.50
r. NJ.
Alfred w. Martin. lecture, Ideals Of Life
az Revealed IN Great Historic Periods"
West sixty fourth street. s:i5 T.. NJ.
Mrs Msrgot Aequlih. lecture, People I
Have Known" Brooklyn Institute OF Arts
and Sciences, Academy OF Music, s;i5 T.. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
BY w. J. HENDERSON.

The sixth concert Of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. given In Carnegie Hall last
evening. had the unusual aid OF a solo
singer. She was Miss Maria Ivogun. the
light soprano OF the Chicago Opera, who
recently made her debut here as Rosii,G.
Miss Ivogun sang two numbers, Mozart's s
concert air, mia speranza adorata,"
and the recitative and air. Crosse
Maeptise Prinzessin," from Richard
Strauss "Ariadne auf Naxos.' She
received vast amount of applause from
her auditors. TO whom her extraordinary
high tones seemed to be something quite
beyond ordinary experience.
Miss Ivogun decorated Mozart with
some flights into her birdlike upper
scale. They did not appear to belong
to the style Of the music, but styls Is
something now almost out Of style. So
there need be no comment. Otherwise
the soprano sang the air pleasingly and
with some admirable phrasing. OF
course florid sopranos with soaring
voices love to sport with the cheap aria
of Strauss. 1t is exceedingly thin stuff.
but the extras may be as numerous and
as expensive as the soprano pleases.
Miss lvogun sang the music very skill
fully, and some Of her high trills were
indeed astonishing.
The orchestral numbers were Beetho-
ven's "Leonore' overture No. 8. Schu-
mann's D minor symphony and the
dance Of SdIome from the Strauss opera
bearing the name of the doubtful hero
inc. Mr.. Stokowski's Encouragement Of
the seating plan OF his orchstra. intro
ducd to us this season, did not work
entirely to the advantage Of Beetho-
ven's overture, which seemed to be pulled
apart In places and distorted in balance
In others.
The Schumann symphony suffered
from the suddenly disclosed tendency on
the part Of some conductors to hasten
matters. The first movement was taken
at a very vivacious tempo. which af-
fected It's character unfavorably. The
finale was also hurried. The two middle
movements we're done extremely we'll.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
CONTRALTO IN RECITAL.

Miss Ida Geer Weller. Pittsburgh
n,eazo contrslto, who sang here last sea-
son, gave a song recital last night in
Aeolian Hall with Emil PolalS at the
piano. Hor program presented four
songs by Holmes entitled Les Heures''
and specified each In color as rose
dor do pourpre,' "d'azur,'' several
gypsy songs by Dvorak, songs by Schu-
mann and among other numbers an air
from Bemberg's La Mort de Jeanne
D'Arc." She sang with a good voice,
not always flexible. knowledge Of style
and musical feeling. Her large audience
enjoyed her work.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
A Hyacinth Bulb.

Roots are unsightly things to most OF
eyes,
And so TO mine. till something turned
my thought
Upon a day OF wonder and surprise.
When home some bulbs o; llyacinth /
brought.
a pot of earth was ready at my hand /:
"a few weeks Sleep" 1 thought. land
they will spring
stand.
And their sweet bells OF rose or azure
fling"
But. as implanted, they before me lay.
My glance fell on one bulb OF ivory
tone.
That storing beauty for a future day.
Still had a present beauty all its own.
For like a small stout amphora. close
sealed,
il seemed, as 1t might hold ripcn-
ing wine;
And all around its mellow ivory field
Concentric ran a family crimson line.
BClleNe or not but III tlat lHSldHt >
time
The bulb was quickencd. ere it touched
the mould
While / stood gazing, UP its flower did
climb
No second bloom like that shall I
behold.
For it was rosy-with a rosy fame,
And living sweetness shed upon the
And all went swiftly, as it swiftly came,
Till but the bulb OF hyacinth was
there.
Oh. let the initiate OF Buddha hold
The power OF thought the Secret Force
can see.
Before its date, the hidden flower un-
fold
/ only know this thing that chanccd
to me.
EpITH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-02-08
President Monroe's Home.
A Plan to Rehabllitate It for the
Monroe Doctrine Centenary.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: If one of
the prominent foreigners now visiting
this country should happen to stroll up
Lafayette street as far as Prince street
he would see singular spectacle.
Next to Washingtons, no Americans
name is better known to Europeans than
that Of James Monroe. Borno on the
great principle which no proclaimed
while President OF the United States, his
name, IL not his fame. has been carried
TO the ends OF the earth. 1t may be
said to be known everywhere.
Yet here, at the intersection OF La
fayette and Prince streets, at SO Prince
street to be precise, the homo in which
that distinguished American patriot and
statesman lived and died is falling to
pieces before our eyes the windows are
broken, the doors off the hinges, the
roof leaking, the walls tottering and the
whole place has the sad and forlorn
appearance Of some venerable sanctuary
that has been battered to pieces by
shells.
One thing, It is true, marks the spot as
place apart On the front of the house
some patriotic society has placed
bronze tablet on which the many and
valuable services James Monroe rem
dered his countrymcn in the early days
Of the republic are paraded at full length.
We arc reminded how he fell bleeding
in the streets of Trenton during Wash
tngton's famous attack on the Hessan
forces In the early morning of December
26, 1776; how as the first American
Minister to the French Republic he was
received with acclaim on the floor OF
the Convention; how he acted as one OF
tho American negotiators in the Louisi-
ana Purchase; how as American Min
lister to England he faced the bold, inso-
lent and unscrupulous George Canning
in the dark days that followed the un-
warranted attack by the Leopard on the
Chesapeake : how he served as Congress-
man, Senator, Secretary of State. Secrc-
tary of War, Governor of Virginia and
President of the United States: and An
ally, how, worn out I'm the service of his
country. sick, decrepit and poverty
stricken old man, he returned to this
ancient house, owned at that time by his
son-in-law, Samuel Gouverneur, to lay
down and die.
NVuiu ~ StOiy tHdil lIdt De lOlu
OF any patriot? Even tho most conde-
scending foreigner would be thrilled by
it; yet If after reading It he glanced at
the present condition of the house in
which the great American died, amid the
mourning of a nation. on July 4, 1881.
he could hardly be blamed for remark
ing How much he did for them-how
little they think of him!"
On December 2, 1923, one hundred
years will have passed since the an
nouncement by President Monroe in his
annual message to the Congress of the
great international principle now known
as tho Monroe Doctrine. To celebrate
this event OF world wide import what
better way can there be than for the
city TO purchase this house, So Prince
street, to preserve it always as an in
spiration to the American people and
tribute to the memory of James Monroe?
CHARLES O'SULLIvAN.
NEW YORK, February