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The New York herald., 1922-12-06
We Want Day Labor.

Secretary Of Labor DAVIS defends
the rigid immigration restrictions
which are keeping the American
farms from getting the manual labor
they need to raise the crops, keeping
the building trades from getting the
heavy labor they need for digging
and carrying, keeping the railways
from getting the section hands they
need for repairing the roadbeds.
keeping general industry from get
ting the rough labor 1t needs to as
sure employment for skilled labor.
Secretary DAVIS says that under
the existing law twice as many i'm
migrants could have come to us from
England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales in the last year as did come
to us. So he thinks we have no COM
plant against the Immigrant exclu-
sion act; the fault is with the people
of England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales who did not want to come
over here.
But England, Ireland. Scotland and
Wales are for the most part done
with sending US their day labor. They
have no great supply Of day labor
to give US, and day labor is what we
want. II we do not get 1t permanent
mischief will be worked with all our
industry and all our higher grades of
labor, which cannot be kept steadily
st work unless the foundational work
is done for them to build on.
And Secretary DAVIS says Norway.
Sweden. Denmark and Holland did
not send us all the immigrants they
could have sent us under the quota
allowed each Of those countries by
cur immigration law.
But here again the trouble is that
the Scandinavian countries and Hol-
land have been more largely drained
Of their day labor than OF other
grades. They have farmers left to
send us to be proprietor farmers, and
clerks and bookkeepers and walters
and cooks and general servants. But
what we want is the day labor we do
not get and cannot get from them.
but can get II our immigration laws
will let 1t come in from Italy, say, or
some other country that has millions
of Industrious, willing, hard work
ing day labor TO spare.
This country needs huge supply
Of the day labor that is ready and
anxious to flock here from abroad IL
only we will open our closed gates to
it, and If the Government does not
let 1t come in this country is going
to get tied up in economic and indus
trial hard knots.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
Saving by Law.
A Theory Of the Cause OF Many Fall
ures In Life and the Remedy.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Stats
ties snow that OF every hundred young
men who start in life only about three
succeed What is the dominating cause
OF such a vast number of failures =?
From knowledge and observation /
should say without hesitation. specula-
tion and gambling.
Twos or three dollars week laid by
regularly would make a nice compe.
tency In OLD age. but the average young
American doesn't bother about old age.
Besides, the process OF saving tsItoo
slow for him. Instead OF building his
fortune as house Is built. he would
fain rush IL up in day. Hence he Is
an easy victim for the get rich quick
exploiter.
Mines. oil wells, wonderful inventions,
race horses. roulette and what not eat
up ;1!s little surplus week By week. And
so he reaches middle life without even
laying his !ounda ton. Then IN the vast
majority CT cases hope Is at an end. and
If the victim survive his disappointment
he drifts into needy old age.
Can anything be done TO remedy all
this? The laws against sw'ndl!ng or
exploitation are now very drastic, 60
there is hardly any use proceeding fur-
ther In that direction. Neither DO I
think that the multiplication Of warn
ings against the danger OF speculation
or gambling would do much good. The
popular desire for riches is too deep.
The only thing l can suggest Is a law
obliging young men TO save. that Is. to
give up certain percentage OF their
salaries every week or month. to be
day. CoNsEIL.
NEW YORK, December s.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06

terial purchased and a dollar of SER
vice for a dollar Of pay. And after
the example set by the Harding Ad-
ministration's businesslike admins
tration OF the national Governments
affairs the businesslike work will go
on In all probability under later ad-
ministrations. That Is one Of the
good things-the lasting results
achieved by executives who put any
business. private or public, on a
sound business basis.
So il the United States Govern
ment builds its own post Offices
where it now rents quarters there
is a good chance for it TO get Its
post Office rental costs down several
million dollars year. The taxpay-
ers' pockets need that sort OF relief
when the Post Office Departments
operating deficit, as the Postmaster
Generals report shows. has beepfun-
ming at the rate OF S5.0e0,000 q
month.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
Post Office Handicaps.
Christmas Mails Affected by Service
Conditions This Year.

To THE NEW York HERALD: On be-
half OF the members of the New York
Letter Carriers Association ! have been
instructed to convey to you our thanks
for and appreciation of your editorial
article on the early mailing of Christ
mas mail and parcels. You struck the
right key when you spoke against the
employment of the temporary employee,
the man who has no interest In the
postal service.
Fortunately the service in New York
City is free from this blight. The depre-
dations committed by some employees OF
this class during and for some time
after the war were so large that IL would
have been far more economical had
Congress during that period made some
effort TO make working conditions bet
ter in the postal service by increasing
the salaries of the most efficient en-
ployees, many of whom left the service
at that time, not because they wanted
TO leave the post Office but solely on ac-
count OF the insufficient remuneration
paid to postal employees.
Many OF these men loved the postal
service, but sheer necessity compelled
them to leave in order TO gain liveli
hood sufficient to maintain themselves
and families in the manner In which
decent Americans want TO live. Never
have the letter carriers In New York
city at least been properly paid as re-
CARDS salary. Men with the intelligence
OF the average letter carrier in New
York city are commanding a great deal
more pay for far less work and more
congeniai working conditions in other
lines OF endeavor.
The working conditions at present
are very hard on account Of the ex-
treme economy practiced by the Con-
gress. While In most lines OF Industry
when the volume of business increases
extra help Is obtained to conduct the
business properly, not so In the post
Office. The business OF the post Office
is increasing in leaps and bounds yet
the force Is curtalied rather than In
creased. 1t has got to the point where
the men are getting discouraged and
the morale Is being undermined. IT is
too bad TO see these flne fellows having
the heart taken out OF them by the
driving and nagging tactics Of super
visory officials this attitude on the part
of the supervisory force being the result
of the most extreme economy ever prac-
ticed in the Post ONCE Department. not
through any fault of the postal officials
but from the failure OF Congress to ap-
propria,e the proper amount of money.
l am dwelling on this phase OF our
affairs so that you may be properly In
formed as TO where the blame belongs
for the poor service which at times oc-
ours. II is practically impossible for the
letter carrier to extend himself further.
as he has about reached the limit of his
endurance. JOHN }. BofLAN'
secretary New York Letter Carriers
Association.
NEW YorR. December 3.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
Orchestra Leaders.
WOuld the Audience Benefit II They
Were Suppressed2

To TIE New YORK HERALD Now that
the season OF opera and concert has
opened I think attention should be given
to the way the average conductor leads
the orchestra.
The average conductor saws the air,
shakes his head and fine crop OF
black hair, swings his baton wildly and
generally draws the attention OF the
audience away from the performers. The
old and great Damrosch hardly moved
when conducting his orchestras. You
seldom saw a gesture, but the result
of his leading was magical Some OF
those who lead the Metropolitan orches-
ira are sparing OF calisthenical exer-
cees, but the reverse is true OF the
greater number OF leaders.
How could we do away with the con-
ductor or leader? What joy II would
be to lovers of music to sit and listen
to the wonderful and thrilling or quiet
ing effects of the musical instruments
OF a well trained orchestra without the
distracting appearance OF the leader
The man or woman who gives us the
real music would be more appreciated
and would come into his own. so long
denied him by the personality OF the
leader, and we who ray the piper would
be rested and benefited by the music
that came direct and not through the
Opaque body Of the leader.
The leader would then be a true
leader His work is generally done at
the rehearsals and the performers would
he real nerfor1ners and an innovation
would be recorded OF a movement In
the right direction. JUDEx.
a-Ew YORK, December 8.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
For Kin of Prisoners.
Mrs. Ballington Booth Seeks Christ
mas Cheer for the Innocent.

To THE New York HERALD: May 1
once more reach your readers with a
plea for those to whom 1 have conse-
Grated my life's service-the prisoners
Of this country and their wives and little
ones? The men DO not need food. cloth
ing and gifts. but they do need the COM
forting assurance that their little ones
are remembered, and this sympathy, /
find, makes them realize that In the
future by honest life and hard work they
may return in gratitude the kindness
Of their friends.
These little ones and their mothers
are the innocent sufferers who appeal
to our sympathy even should we lack
interest in the prisoner himself.
I have been working for them for
more than twenty five years and know
their needs, for I have seen the bare.
comfortless homes, felt the hopeless,
cheerless atmosphere, and have seen the
empty cupboard at time when so many
are preparing gifts and good things in
their warm, happy homes for the chill
dren who have such good cause to love
Yuletide.
May I beg those in fortunate, happy
homes to remember these prison shad-
owed lives and help me to help them?
Gifts of money. clothing and toys ad-
dressed to Mrs. Ballington Booth 81
West Twenty-eighth street, New York
city, will be most gratefully received
and an official receipt will be sent from
our treasurer's office.
MAUD B. BOOTH.
New YORK, December &.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
NEW CELLIsT IN CONCERT.
Nine. Roema ct n osanoff Makes
Debut Here.

An excellent cellist made her debut
last evening in the person of Nine. Marie
Roemaet-Rosanoff. who gave a recital
in Aeolian Hall. Her program consisted
Of sonata by Sammartini, Dvorak's
Concerto, a suite in c by Bach, two COM
positions by Faure and one by Hure
and Davidoff.
Clarity, vigor and expression marked
Nine. Roemaet- t-Rosanoffs playing. Sam
martins quaint old sixteenth century
composition was delightful. and 1t was
played with appropriate charm and feel
ing. This young cellist appeared equally
at ease in difficult technical feats and
lyric passages calling for delicacy and
repose. There was plenty of warmth
and color brought out in Dvoraks con-
certo many of the passages suggestive
of old negro melodies. Nine. Roemaet-
Rosanof's technic is excellent and she
possessed resources fully able to cope
with the difficulties OF her program. Her
tone was adequate in depth and purity
and essentially lyric I'm quality. A word
of praise is due Raymond Bauman. who
did well at the piano.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06

sist that the forefathers should share
with them in its nightly use. In our
day II is uncommon, although 1t is
worn as "a rule by the Scandinavian
women and children and now and then
by the men. Many people do not un-
derstand what 1t Is.
I'm some Of the hospitals where a
Swedish patient win protest that she
cannot sleep without a nightcap the
nurses are accustomed TO descant on
the fact that alcoholics are not to be
had In the wards except as regularly
prescribed by the attending physicians.
but a real solid fact
''1f We take the trouble to think /,
out We will find among tho old histori-
cal facts that of old nervous disorders
were far from being as customary as
at present. And those were the night
cap days, or rather nights. IL / had
a well made postulate at hand would
not be afraid to make connections and
suggest the probable fact that because
nightcaps were worn nervous distem-
pers were scant.
IL my oDSerNdlAOu III the course
OF treatment of such diseases that q
patient who wears a nightcap will awake
in the morning notably refreshed, and
more so than one who does not weai
this night time headgear.
Again, petient who habitually
wears a nightcap during sickness i'm.
proves or holds her own more rapidly
than one who doas NOT
And again, when, at my request. a
patient who has not been In the habi,
OF wearing nightcap dons 1t and con-
tinues to wear 1t there is a marked
Improvement.
so have got accustomed TO pre-
scribe the use OF this article both in
treatment and asa prophylpctic, not
alone in nervous diseases, but whenever
! am attending case. II find that
the patient does not do so / at once
advise that sheer he, for that matter
shall wear a nightcap."
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
EVENTS TODAY.

American Society OF Refrigeratng Engi-
neers. meeting. Hotel Astor. morning and
afternoon.
Union Made Garment Manufacturers Aeso-
citation. meeting. Hotel Astor, morning and
afternoon.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Er,nigineering En- Societies Building. 20 West
Thirfy-nintil street joint session in the
pociation: business meeting and tea, after
noon: joint meeting with the American Eco
nomic Association, evening
Association OF Life Insurance Counsel
meeting Bar Association. 10 A. NJ and q
T. M; dinner. Waldorf-Astoria. 1880 p. M.
National Association OF Brass Manufac-
turers meeting. Hotel Astor.
American Association of Wooden and
Worsted Manufacturers. meeting, Waldorf
Astoria, p. M; dinner, p. NJ.
International Association of Garment Manu-
racturers, meeting. Hotel McAipin.
Sheet Metal Ware Association meeting
Waldorf-Astoria, 40 "A. NJ.
Grand Lodge. Z. o. t. g.. meeting. Ho,s,
Astor. 10 a. NJ.
Kiwanis Club. luncheon. Hotel McAip.n
II 80 p. NJ
Laundry Board of Trade luncheon, Hotel
Pennsylvania. ~ 80 p. VI.
League for Political Education. Eleanor
Markwell on National and International
Topics" Town Hall. II A. NJ
Molly Pitcher Club. luncheon. Dclmonico's
r. III. La Guardie and Irwin s. Cobb
speakers, IL 30 p. NJ.
American Museum of Natural History. Iec-
ture for public school children ''The Court
ship OF Miles Standish." 2:30 =. NJ.
Civic Club. Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaunl ON
'Psychoanalysis and Every Day Mistakes"
II West Twelfth street. 5 Pm.
? Department of hygiene, c. c. n. y, din.
ner. Hotel McAlpin. $3.50 i. NJ.
National Society OF Patriotic Women. meet.
ing. Waldorf-Astoria. p. NJ.
New York Patent Law Association, dinner.
Waldorf Astoria, y. NJ.
New York League Of business and Profes-
sional Women. dinner meeting, Psychic
Fakery," Arthur Delroy. Cafe Bouievs I'd.
8 80 =. NJ.
American Woman's Association anifiver-
5ary ball. Hotel Plaza. Z. NJ. rttsy
Association of Retail Credit Men, dinner.
Aldine Association. $3.50 p. NJ
ST Nicholas Society of Nassau County.
dinner, Brooklyn Chamber OF Commerce
$50 p. NJ.
New York \ Entertainers and Canteer
Units. Woman's Overseas Service League.
ball. Twenty Engineers Armory, f8eth
street and broadway, 80 p. NJ.
Order OF Foresters OF America, reception.
Brooklyn Labor Lyccun, s;i5 Pm.
Jersey city Teachers Association, dinner
and dance Hotel Astor. Z r. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
The Home Of Light.

From the Los Angeles Times.
He sought for JOY among the noun
tains;
He looked for Truth in the stars
He hunted Peace on the burning desert
And roaned the world In search of
Love.
He thought to find on the restless ocean
The source of life and the key to
power.
In vain he scanned the scroll OF ages
For light TO bless his day and hour.
But Wisdom Ned as he approached her
And Truth appeared like phantom
light
And when he tried to capture Pleasure
She laughed and vanished from his
sight.
Yet still he stumbled. staggered onward
TIL. IN the valley OF despair.
Hope he stabbed and Fear he stianglcd--
And buried all hts idols there.
Tho search was done. the fever ended /:
lie feared no loss. heSsought no goal
Yet suddenly. with eyes turned inward.
He found all good within his soul
NAMES NJ WAHNAcK. :
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
II Costs You a Million Day.

The city budget for 1928 has been
adopted by the Board OF Aldermen.
That makes it final.
While the Aldermen did not lay out
the municipal spending. for that was
done by the Board OF Estimate; and
whether the spepding will be too
much, about right or not enough, it
will be good thing for the people of
New York to fix in their memory
what 1t Is that their municipal gov
ernment in 1923 will be costing them,
what your city will be costing you.
There is an easy way to remember
the total of s353,350, ,975.s7. That is
approximately million dollars a
day-what you pay for your city gov
ernment.
One million day.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06

The United States Treasury received
in the fiscal year just closed $50 on
account of the seven-thirties of
1861 and 500 on account OF the
fve-twenties Of 1852 for redemp-
ton OF the first named issue $4,000
is still outstanding; of the secono
s105,250. That a small traction OF the
money lent to the Government re-
mains unpaid---the loans in question
amounted to $654.T1 .350--is not sur
prising. The accidental destruction of
securities in the hands OF inexperi-
enced persons and retention of bonds
or coupons by souvenir collectors
would easily account for 1t. Yet Il is
interesting TO speculate on the cir
cumstances which have caused s27.-
sse.77 of the sS0,oss.397.15 6 per cent.
stock Of 1890 to be withheld, while all
except s32.52 OF the s9.07o,3s6 I per
cent. stock Of 1915 has been paid Off.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
The Day IL Shall Not Bind Nc.

The day II shall not bind me
With its laughter and It's light.
I shall slip into the silence
Where all dreams of wonder are,
I shall leave the dawn behind me :
For lonely breath Of night
And the heart Of heaven breaking
With the beauty OF star.
The world no more shall WOO me
With its glamour OF romance.
have need OF drinking beauty
From the quiet lips OF dreams
And the day shall not pursue me.
For the moonlight Us lance
That shall cleave the voice Of bondage
with It's silver pointed beams.
The hush shall not be broken
In the night that coYers me,
When the shadow Of new daybreak
Slips across the farther hill,
But the wind shall be a token
That my spirit is set free
Free as mist above the valley,
Hanging damp. and cool, and still.
HELEN FrAzEE- BOWER.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Trend OF the Times" Arthur D. Rece
Cooper Institute, Eighth street and Fourth
avenue.
Public school o7, Forty-second street east OF
Third avenue.
Book OF the Hour" Prof. Carter Troor.
New York Public Library. Woodstock
Branch. $50 East ieoth street. The Bronx.
THE Body Perfcct-Key TO Health and
ton Irving High SCHOOL, Irving place ana
sixteenth street; continuous course IN
BODY Building"
American Humor." Francis 7. Ketcrars.
Public School 1ol. 1iith street near Lerinr.
ton avenue. Recitations.
Hamlet" Miss Mona Morgan. Pubic
School f5I. So. Nicholas avenue at 1870,
street Dramatic readings from the princf-
pal scenes Of the play. A
'"rhe Underlying Principles Of Radio Com
munication," Raymond Francis Yatep.
American Museum Of Natural History. Sew
enty-seventh> street and Central Park West.
Demonstrations and apparatus.
'schumann. Mendelssohn and Lisst." Mig
Marie Josephine Viethan, Central Jewish
Institute, 1875 East Eighty-fifth street. IL
fustrated az the piano.
.'Hlgh Lights IN Modern Poetry" Mrs.
Mae Fowler Gillian. Townsend Harris Hat.
g. g. n. ". Amsterdam avenue. fcsth anc
i39th streets. Recltations
Marie An,olnette," Jonas Iippmann, PUB
iic School 10. 1ehth street and Bainbridce
avenue. The Bronx.
Concert by the 'Algard TRIO" Pubic
School - Freeman and Chisholm streets.
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Miss Cora Cook. Recital.

Miss Cora Cook. who designates
herself mezzo-contralto, gave song
recital yesterday afternoon In Aeolian
Hall. She presented good program,
although in some respects it made
exacting demands on her powers. The
most important number was Schu-
mann's cycle, "Frauenliebe und
Leben," which calls for vocal and in
terpretative ability of the highest or
der. 1t was therefore in this group
OF lyrics that Miss Cook most COM
pletely revealed her artistic posses
sions.
These are by no means slight. She
has a good voice. warm sympathy with
the poetic content OF such songs as
Schumann's, and considerable skill in
communicating her conceptions to an
audience. Her pronunciation was de-
lightfully clear. her distribution of
shades and accents intelligent and her
tone at times well suited to the senti-
ment.
But It was in the department OF
tone that she showed the need of fur
ther experience. Her voice frequently
sounded CONSTRUCTED -and became not
only cold but unsteady. At such times
she was, of course, not successful in
probing the depths lof Schumanns
music. But on the whole her recital
was creditable. Frank La Forge played
accompaniments admirably, as he al
ways does.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06

plain and wholesome food in modera-
tion, wearing the proper clothing in
doors and out of doors, getting
plenty OF rest. calling a physician
promptly when the health seems i'm
paired and refraining from worry.
Neglect of minor ailments should be
avoided. as they may open the way
for pneumonia to develop.
If everybody will behave with in
telligence and take reasonable pre-
cautions against the disease the
pneumonia rate will soon recede
from the abnormal height it has
reached.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
Evolution.

Winters Ice and snow.
March winds that blow.
Springs life from death,
The summer breath,
The falling leaf.
The golden sheaf,
From seed to flower,
All show the power
OF laws OF God
Beneath the sod.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06
Dates of THANKSGIVING,

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: &c. j.
L." is Informed that November 80 fell
on Thursday in the following years In
this century: 1905. 1911. 1916 and 1929.
II will not fall on Thursday again until
1893.
The intervals are alternately six and
eleven years, except as leap year inter-
feres. These intervals apply to other
dates as well. The leap year interval
Is Ave years. OBSERVER.
MOUNT yEREoN, December 8.
The New York herald., 1922-12-06

a marked increase IN the numD
of cases OF pneumonia in New Yorl
city has led the Department OF Healtl
10 publish this warning.
"The outstanding feature OF the
mortality for the week ended Novem-
Der 25 was the increase In the num-
Der of deaths from pneumonia, over
the Immediately preceding week and
very much over the corresponding
week Of 1921.
During the week there were 1863
deaths from the pneumonias. as COM
pared with 14O In tho Immediately
preceding week and ios in the corre-
spending week OF 1921. an increase
in the former case Of IS per cent.
and in the latter an increase OF "a
per cent.
Attention was called two weeks
ago to the Increased mortality from
the respiratory diseases and the sug-
gestion made.that action be taken adj
vislng the public 10 use all precau-
tions to escape pneumonia infection.
There is no doubt that Il would
be advisable to cali the attention Of
the public again to the necessity of
taking such steps as would minimize
the danger OF contracting this dis
ease"
To reduce the danger Of con
tracting pneumonia to the low
est possible degree Is not Difficult,
All that is necessary is 10 obey tb,
rules OF personal hygiene
This involves keeping clean. eatini