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The New York herald., 1922-11-24
The Little Church in Song.
Custom OF an English School Re,
called by DIR. Houghton's Jubilee.

TO TIE NEW YoRK HERALD: II IS
timely, now that the Rev. DIR. Houghton
is celebrating his silver jubilee at the
Church OF tho Transnguration. to inn
part TO him boyish story Of the Little
Church Around the Corner.
At the school OF Holy Trinity at
Southampton, England, in the '70s. we
boys used to sing with great gusto a
song "God Bless the Little Church
Around the Corner" In singing some
picture would bo created of church
somewhere or other around corner
but really VIC never knew tho true story
about Il. and perhaps 7 am the only
one OF those boys who ever became ac-
quaintcd with IT. | certainly did. for
was married In the Church OF tho
TRANSPORTATION.
When I want TO carry my thoughts
back to those school days l always re-
sort to the old song. but l have unap-
preciative children, for I overheard ono
daughter warning another ito beat IT,
for father was getting out the Little
Church Around the Corncr"l
Three OF my schoolinates became
Mayors of Southampton. but what was
this compared Go my fortune In much
intimacy with tho Little Church Around
the Corner, and even having my picture
taken beneath the lofty elm in its very
churchyard THOMAS j. DIXON.
BROOKLYN, November 23.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24

been sacrificed because Of the artificial
barriers to the distribution of the popu-
lation of the world. The United States
needs population needs honest and in
telligent men and women to develop it's
resources, but a narrow policy, dictated
by fear. is retarding our progress. send
ing America out after the markets of
the world and increasing the causes of
war.
The American system was system
OF practical philanthropy not a nurs-
cry for paupers, but an inspiration for
ambition. 1t improved the United States.
1t aided the laborers of Europe by lin
iting the available supply of labor. thus
tending to increase the relative demand
for that which remained. and II main
tained a high standard Of citizenship
and of general welfare for laborer and
capitalist alike.
1t required no ship subsidies, no ques-
tionable trade propaganda, no violation
of sound principles of government. II
was a sound system so long as 1t was
permitted to produce its legitimate re-
suits: It is contemplate when It degen-
crates TO its present status.
BENJAMIN 8. DEAN
JAMESTOWN, November %.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
A Plot for Hergesheimer.

Life can never resist the tempta-
tion to come to the rescue OF the
novelist. She will speak out in de-
fense OF him whether his fiction take
the form OF book. or mimic life on
the stage or pass before its enthralled
observer in the swiftly changing pic
lures OF the cinema. Maybe she is
jealous Of the reputation preserved in
the proverb that life is stranger than
fiction.
The imagination OF the writer who
told as fiction the story OF Mrs. VIOLA
Cook OF Provincetown, Massachusetts,
would have been praised anywhere;
few would have detected reality in
the dark folds OF the web he spun.
Pathos dwelt in the picture of the
demented wife staring with longing
eyes through the windows OF the de-
serted cottage toward the sea, which
was destined never to return the hus-
band she passionately awaited Trag-
edy spoke in the mad language Of the
woman, who did not know that the
waters from which she expected all
life held for her 60 come back again
had cheated her forever.
Yet there had been a little mercy
in the seas way of subjugating a
woman's life to the invincible pow
ers OF nature. Two years in the fee
hound north took from her. along
with the ability 90 think and under
stand, also the faculty Of realizing
that her former husband Captain
JonN Cook, had left her. Devotion
had taken her on the whaling trips
that carried his boat to the realms OF
icc. Long imprisonment there had
bcreft her OF mental powers. She
could no more understand that he
had for this cause divorced her than
that. by taking another wife, he had
condemned her TO be always alone.
That was the mercy OF nature
Mrs. COOK could still strain her eyes
for sight OF his boat coming back
60 her over the sea that had been
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER "a. 1922.
No Labor for the Farm.

JAMES r. HOWARD, president Of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
tion, adds his strong protest to
that Of manufacturers, builders and
others already raised against the
drastic restrictions in the immlgra-
tion act That measure, Mr.. HOWARD
warns the country, is stripping the
farm of its manual labor. This
means the crops cannot be raised in
adequate quantity.
With general shortage of common
labor the manual worker on the farm
is now drawn in unusual volume to
the great industrial centers by urgent
wage bids for him there. For years
this drift Of labor from the country
to the city has gone on, but hitherto
a new supply for the American farm
has flowed constantly from the agri-
cultural districts of Europe. With
that supply now shut out by the
rigid immigration law, the American
farmer has no place to get his neces-
sary labor. He faces directly the
danger of not being able to get his
heavy work done. And when the
American farmer cannot get his work
done the American people will not
be able to get their food at prices
that will be bearable.
Congress has not listened to the
manufacturer, who has complained
that he could get no labor to do his
work. Congress has not listened to
the railroad operator. to the road
maker, to the general builder, who
have all protested against an exclu-
sion law which prevents the country
from doing its foundational work
and keeps productive machinery from
running full speed.
But when the American farmer
serves notice on Congress that the
country's food supply is threatened
by an immigration policy which
shuts out the labor that is needed to
till the farms and raise the crops
Congress will do well to take heed
of the warning. When the American
public's cost OF living begins to soar
because Congress will not let the
farm have enough labor to do its
work, the farmer and the consumer
up in arms together will be mighty
serious thing for any national legis-
lator to contend against or any polit-
ical party that stands for him to
contend against.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Bird Sanctuaries in London.
Plots Set Apart for That Purpose in
Public Parks.


The committee on the establishment
of bird sanctuaries In the royal parks
has already added TO the amenities of
London. Early this spring small In
closures In Hyde Park and Kcnsingtou
Gardens were prepared by suitable feno-
ing. a small amount OF planting and
exclusion of tidying gardeners.
The birds accepted the hospitality: nc
fewer than twenty species. including
willow wrens, great and blue tits, red
breasts and lesser whitethroats. spotted
flycatchers, carrion crows, tawny owls
pheasants and moorhen, nested there this
year. II is proposed to extend these
successful experiments.
In Hyde Park the bank near the
frame house and an inclosure beside
the magazine are to be allowed to grow
wild and some planting of suitable
shrubs Is TO be carried out The ares
on the east side of the Long Water ir
Kensington Gardens and a smaller In
closure on the west side are to be sane
tuarles. The Duck Island in st. James.
Park. two or three sites in Buckingham
Palace Gardens. by consent OF his Ma
josty, the islands in the lake In Regent,
Park. the wilderness in Greenwich Parl
and the Isabella Plantation in Rich
mond Park arc all to be prepared and
reserved.
These admirable sanctuarles. due e
the initiation OF Mr.. Harold Russell. 4
we'll known London ornithologist cos'
little. give pleasure 20 many and will
not incommode even the London cats
for tho committee, after consultation
with the Office OF Works, decided thai
there was no practical cat proof fence.
But war is declared against the gray
squirrels. absolutely to determination IN
Richmond Park and Kensington Gar.
dens. Public sentiment will be on tn,
side OF these pleasant rogucs. Th,
charge against them. OF being habitua
robbers OF nests. is not proved. but
were 1t so, there arc fences in the Lon
don Zoo which retained them. and
which. therefore. could exclude then
from the sanctuaries.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
EVENTS TO-DAY.

National Hotel Mems Exposition. Grand
Central Palace, all day.
New York State Hotel Association, golf
Club. 1890 A. NJ; luncheon following; an
r. NJ. w.
Taylor Society. meeting. Engineering sccis-
ties Building. 20 West Thirty-ninth street.
$3.50 A. NJ. 80 and p. NJ.
Academy OF Political Science. meeting,
Hotel Astor, morning and afternoon ses-
sions; dinner. p. NJ
League for Political Education, Randolph
Bedford Of the Queensland Legislature will
lecture on Politics in Australia"
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Study Hour
for Manufacturers and Designers" GrscA
Cornell, 10 A. NJ.
United States Daughters Of 1912. iectur~s
Waldorf-Astoria, 10 A. NJ.
Public Question Club. current events talk,
Miss Janet Richards. Hotel Plaza. 1o:h
A. NJ.
Century Theater Club, meeting, Hotel Cons
modore, 80 r. M.
Book committee on children's libraries,
benefit. Hotel Ambassador, afternoon
Interfraternity Conference. Hotel PennsyI.
vania, 8 +. NJ.
Princeton University football team. tfnners
Hotel Commodore, p. M.
Prof w. 3. Dlnsmoor win lecture on
Rebuilding the Acropols at Athens" roor1
sos, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia Univer<
sity, s:1J r. NJ.
mission will speak at the Perfumery, Soap
and Allied Industries Association dinnoN
Knickerbocker Grill. p. M.
University OF Michigan Club OF New York.
dinner to DR.. Royal S. Copeland. AldnA
Association. 200 Fifth avenue. $3.50 p. NJ.
American Institute OF Electrical Engineers,
meeting, Engineering Societies Building. "a
West Thirty -ninth street. p. NJ.
Second Battalion. Naval Militia. New York,
review and twenty fifth anniversary oelebrs-
tion. Armory, First avenue and Fifty-second
street. Brooklyn, $3.50 r. NJ.
Teachers Union, meeting, Ethical Cuituro
School. West Slxty-fourth street. Sis
II. NJ.
New York Teachers Square Club. meets
ing Hotel McAipin. s:t5 +. M.
Washington Heights Taxpayers Associs-
tion. meeting, 3TSJ Broadway, s:f5 T. NJ.
william u. Foster viii speak al the Second
Labor Defense Conference, Beethoven Hall.
10 East Fifth street. T. NJ.
Thirteenth Coast Defense Command, re-
view, Armory, Sumner. Jefferson and Puts
nam avenues, Brooklyn, $3.50 r. M.
College OF Mount st. Vincent. ball, wai-
dorf- f-Astoria, 3 l.. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Montenegro Record.
The Centuries Old Struggle for In
dependence Continued.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Monte
negrln exlles all over the world will be
indeed thrilled with gratitude for Whit
ney Warren's splendid as we'll as timely
book on Montenegro. which is a tribute
to a people who will not be submerged
by the indiscriminate as well as unlaw
full decisions of selfish diplomats. Your
review of this book is the first editorial
defense of this apparently lost cause.
but 1t may be the first gun of fight
for justice for the people of the Black
Mountain wlro for centuries have fought
for the principle OF nationality.
Americans viii naturally ask what
they can do. Well, while they send
millions of dollars to China, to Russia.
to Armenia. to Rumania. &C.. for ma
terial relief they can send some words
of spiritual encouragement to those in
Montenegro who are still fighting
against Serbian aggression for the lib
critics which their ancestors preserved
against aggression by aliens. The al
lied attempts to keep the Turk out of
Europe are but continuation OF the
successful fight of the Montenegrins
who defended their lands against the
Turk for six centuries
Those who have read Mr.. Warren's
book will realize that the United States
Government has moral obligation in
the promises made by ex-President Will
son to tho effect that Justice would be
done to Montenegro. Americans might
urge that their Government be just as
generous to Montenegro as IL has been
to Germany and Austria.
The legal position of Montenegro as a
sovereign State has been assailed but It
has not been destroyed. So long as one
man in Montenegro cries out for justice
to his country. as promised by her allies,
the cause of Montenegro still lives. On
the contrary there are thousands OF
Montenegrins in the United States who
want the independence of their country
restored. The voice of America should
be heard across the seas In Montenegro's
behalf. LUIGI CRIsCUoLo,
Delegate Plenipotentiary of Montenegro
TO the United States.
NEW YORK, November 20.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Clemenceau's Fine Reception.

! The popular reception OF CIEMEN-
cEAU is all that was predicted and
hoped. He has had the center of the
stage since his arrival. His every
move, his lightest word, have been
watched and listened for. His early
rising, his heroic breakfast OF onion
soup and hard boiled eggs, are mat
ters of joyous comment In every
household. Where the Tiger rides
the crowds acclaim him. The chill
dren come out of school by the hun
dreds of thousands to view the
mighty Frenchman. Their elders are
jealous of the privilege OF seeing and
hearing the man who took the helm
of France when he was 76 years old
and who now, at 81, displays all the
enthusiasm of youth as he pleads his
country's cause.
America likes CLEMENCEAU because,
like most nations, 1t likes strong
men and particularly strong men that
are picturesque. This country in its
youth had plenty of picturesque
tatesmen-character who looked
the rugged part they we're playing in
history. Since LINcoLN's time we
! have been lacking in them, for even
RoosEyEIT, whom CIEMENCEAU re-
sembles in several respects, did not
! look his part as the Frenchman looks
/ w A1r lilo ~
fleets the country from which he
sprang. He has the physical charac-
teristics of the rugged Vendee; not
| its spiritual characteristics, for he Is
as radical as the Vendee is conserva-
tive and as cynical, sometimes, as the
Vendee is devout.
There are other reasons why
Americans are so eager TO do honor
to the head Of Frances Victory Cab
met. He represents, more than any
one man except the great FocH, the
spirit that refused to be conquered.
the wind that famed into new flame
the torch of patriotism, the voice that
made France forget defeat and look
forward only to victory. 1t was a
paradox that it should have taken an
old man to make his country stay
young until the hour of triumph.
This spirit Of patient courage is one
that Americans admire, for their own
finest historical memory is WASH
INeToN at Valley Forge.
Surely CLEMENoEAU can report to
France that the reception he received
here was worthy of his nation.
Surely he will report that his every
word was listened to with the most
profound respect. And IL he has not
gained what he came for, IL there is
no political victory to add to his per-
sonal triumph, II he has not swept
the American people off their feet in
his presentation Of European political
problems-then it is not because he
has not made better Job of his err
rand than any other man could have
made. 1t is because the American
people have unalterable ideas, based
upon principle and tradition, OF
their duty to abstain from interfer-
ence in European affairs.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
One-sixth of U. S. Income Goes to Taxes
National Industrial Conference Board Sees Threat to
Manufacturing if Tendency Is Not Checked.

! and tho changed price levels in each
country.
Generally speaking. the cessation OF
hostilities did not radically reduce pub
lie expenditures largely because of the
huge growth in the outlays OF state di-
visions of the Federal Governments and
of provincial and local bodies, particu-
larly In the United States, the United
Kingdom. France and Italy. Reduced
to a pre-war purchasing power basis, per
capita expenditures in the fiscal year
1920-1921 were $45 for the United States,
SCI for the United Kingdom, $77 for
France. s26 for Italy. s56 for Germany
and 81 for Japan. Tax burdens have
grown along with Government expendi-
lures In all these countries. The per-
centage increase during the ten years
from 1903 to 1913 was largest for Japan,
s5 per cent. and lowest for the United
Kingdom. Is per cent Germany showed
an increase of so per cent. In per capita
taxation, France SO per cent. United
States 81 per cent. and Italy 27 per cent.
Since the close of the war the burdens
imposed by local governments have in
creased very rapidly. and this clrcum-
stance has ain some cases offset the
amelioration in national taxation that
has resulted in the case of the United
States and Japan, for instance
In the United States Federal taxes
alone totaled 1925 millions in 1919 and
in 1921 they amounted to 4.430 millions,
a decline of 1f.2 per cent Inasmuch as
the 1921 dollar had a purchasing power
of 26.9 per cent less than the 1919 dollar
the Federal tax burden in 1921 was actu-
ally Is per cent. higher than in 1919.
Comparing the total per capita tax
burden on the pre-war purchasing power
basis with the pre-war national income
for the six countries studied, 1t is found
that in the fiscal year l920-1921 about
one eighth OF the pre-war national in
come of the United States was diverted
into tax channels, one-ffth in the United
Kingdom. one-half in France, one-six-
teenth in Italy one-eighth I'm Germany
and slightly less than one-fifth in Japan.
AS regards the United States, particu-
larly in the fiscal year 1913-1914, taxes
paid to the national city and local gov
ernsnents represented Ga per Jeent. OF
the national income. BY 1919 the ratio
had grown to 10 per cent. and by 1920
to 1913 per cent In the calendar year
1921 about one-sixth of the national in
como was diverted into tax channels.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Descent of the Bayards.
Phoebe Bayard Heroine OF the
American Revolution.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The Bay
ard family derived the surname from
their chateau In Dauphine. France, six
leagues from Grenoble.
The family name was Du Terrail. At
the death of Pierre du Terrail Seigneur
de Bayard, the chevalier sans peur ct
sans reproche. April 80, 1924, his col
lateral kinsmen adopted his arms and
being Seigneurs de Bayard bore that
surname.
1t can be no detriment 10 the Ameri-
can descensants that they had ances-
tors somewhere prior TO 1647, when
Nine. Anna Bayard came with her
brother, Governor Peter Stuyvesant, to
America. Judith Bayard stuyvesant.
the Governors wife. was sister OF
Anna Bayard's husband.
Perhaps Phoebe Bayard would meet
Eugene Seegers approval. She was
quito American. played an important
role in our national history as friend
Of Washington" assisting in the equip
mcnt of Pennsylvania troops in Wash
ington's dire hour OF need--the flower
Of the Pennsylvania line. She was a
HNIOiu, u thD -AihSi iNdh ieeNolutiOn'
-1'or this her wedding dover was used.
legacy from her grandfather. James
Bowdoin. one OF the wealthiest men
In Boston of that day, and father OF
the Massachusetts, Governor and also
founder OF Bowdoin College.
She married Major General Arthur st.
Clair stanch Federalist. and for four
teon wears Governor OF the great North-
west Territory.
A. b. ST. CLAIR RoRIsoN.
NEW York, November %.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24

tendency Is to develop exactly the
kind of workman who is most valu-
able to his employer.
In practice the theory appears to be
working out satisfactorily. In one of
the associated companies one-half of
the employees are saving not merely
10 per cent. but from 20 to 80 per
cent. Of their earnings. They have
found that they can cut out good
many things for which their money
formerly went and not miss them.
Some, of course, have thrown up their
hands and quit. One of these admit
ted that he had been spending $1625
a month for soft drinks for his fam
lily, and another that he had paid SIS
taxicab fare to go to baseball match
in an adjoining town. When II was
shown to them that the elimination
of few disbursements of this kind
might enable them to keep right on
at work under the 10 per cent. rule
they thought better of quitting and
are now putting aside the required
percentage without missing It.
Encouragement of voluntary thrift
among employees is, of course, a long
settled policy with many of the larger
employers of labor. In most in
stances the results have been fairly
successful. The Kansas enforced thrift
experiment is something Of a novelty.
Expansion of the experiment to wider
fields would probably be beneficial to
all concerned. That its tendency
would be to promote industrial peace
is probable.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24

I hear the cold November rain
PIT pattcr on the window pane
Like little ghosts that as they pass
Tap gently on the lighted glass
The spirits OF tho summer things.
Bright butterflies with jewcled wings
Tho golden bees. the blossoms gay
Noddlug a greeting every day.
Lot they are dead. their shells ant
shards
Are scattered IN tho fields and yards
Their tiny wraiths IN viewless flight
Go speeding onward IN the night
To some far on celestial dell,
And since loved them all so we'll
They pause a moment fitting by,
To tap the pane and say rcod-by
MrrrA 1nvrru.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
D ally Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Partly cloudy
and much colder to-day; tomorrow fail
and cold west and northwest gales.
For New Jersey-Fair and colder to,
day; freezing temperature tonight; to,
morrow fair and colder. west and north
west gales.
flurries, followed by clearing to-day,
much colder tonight; to-mor1 ow fail
and colder, northwest winds and prob,
ably gales.
For Southern New England-Fair TO.
day. much colder by tonight; to-mor-
row fair and colder, northwest winda
and probably gales.
For Western New York-Generally
fair to-day and tomorrow, much colder
west and northwest gales.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IA disturbance
of marked intensity was central to,
night north of New Foundland and
another of equal intensity was central
over the upper st. Lawrence valley and
moving rapidly eastward Pressure ID
high in ,aI Western districts. There
have been snow flurries within the lasi
twenty-four hours In the regions of ths
great lakes.
The storm that was central tonight
over the upper ST. Lawrence valley WIZ
move rapidly eastward attended b
west and northwest gales ON the Al
lantic coast north of Hatteras and bt
followed by generally fair and decidedly
colder weather over all districts east
of the Mississippi tomorrow and Saturs
day.
Storm warnings are displayed on tht
Atlantic coast atN and north OF Cape
Hatteras and on the great lakes, ext
cept extreme southern Michigan and
western Superior Cold wave warninga
have been ordered for the extreme NORTH
portion of east New York
Observations at United States Wcathes
Eurecu stations, taken at r. NJ yesterday
seVenty-fifth meridian timc
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Covered Heads in Elevators.

There is sense In the proposal Of
Mayor KoHLER OF Cleveland that men
keep on their hats while riding in
elevators though the conventions are
against him. He wants men to re-
main covered in the municipal build
ings Of Cleveland The Mayors argu-
ment is that the doffing OF hats in ele-
vators causes unnecessary crowding
and interferes with passage in and
out. lie would make things more
comfortable for everybody by having
men wear their hats, in accordance
with the old theory that the best
courtesy Is that which causes the
least embarrassment to others.
The general practice in THIS matter
Is not without its absurditiea. The
man who takes off his hat in an
office building elevator Is the excep-
tion: in hotels the man who does
not soon feels uncomfortable and fol-
lows the majority. This may appear
illogical, but what Of the inexorable
custom which bids man replace his
hat as soon as he steps out Of the
elevator? 1Io is still under a COM
mon roof with the members OF the
other sex whose presence he has OBJ
served. lie may be walking down
the same corridor with them, but he
wears his hat.
There is no good reason, aside from
the fear Of drafts and dirt why
hats should be kept on In railroad
trains and removed IN elevators.
Why taks OF ypur hst IN an elevator