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The New York herald., 1922-05-19
Report on the Statue.
After Viewing 1t an Artist Would
Send 1t to Central Park.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Last
Saturday / saw the Civic Virtue statue
right on the spot.
ruminated as follows: The sirens
ought to have our pity, because their
poses are actively painful and almost
impossible for any one mot contor-
ZIONIST to hold without dislocating some
tendon or muscle.
The entire lower part of the statue
is a tumble of inharmoniously placed
objects which are incomprehensible to
the average spectator and almost to my
self. They are out of place as SYM
boliZing civic uprightness.
The statue is unsuitable as symbol
of civic virtue. 1t is too large for the
low two story City Hall and for the
smallness of the park
The Rough Guy should be placed in
Central Park in view of one of the lakes.
1t should be labeled call it whatever
your fancy suggests"
LOUIS NJ. EILsHEMIUs.
NEW York, May IS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
A Government Eight Hour Day.

President HARDING has under con.
sideration an order putting Govern
ment clerks on an eight hour work
daylight hours of actual time on
the job exclusive of luncheon. 1t is
estimated that If this sound business
practice were established in the ad.
ministrative departments they would
require 10000 fewer clerks than they
now require to do the Government IS
work
AS the average clerk is an annual
cost to the national taxpayer of about
$4,000, salary and overhead items
taken in, on this basis the eight
hour working day would save the
Treasury $25,000,000 a year. But,
large as a single item of $4,000, 900
year is, something vastly more i'm
portant is involved in the question
of what constitutes fair and square
working hours for Government EN-
ployees that have work to do. There
is involved the question of working
hours for all men that have work
to do.
A job that does not deserve eight
hours of earnest, diligent, faithful
effort is not ever going to be worth
very much to the man that is on 1T.
And man that Is not willing to put
in eight hours of solid, conscientious
work on worth while job is not
ever going to be worth very much to
the job.
If President HARDING issues his
order for working day of eight
full hours he will do more than to
put the working force of the United
States Government on a solid bust
ness basis; he will set standard of
honest work for the whole country.
Such measure of the working day
is needed to-day outside the Govern.
ment as we'll as in the Government.
The un-American tendency to want
to hold a job without working on it
and to expect a living without earn
ing 1t has been widely and danger
ously indulged in recent years. The
workers who built up this nation did
not achieve their incompatible re-
suit Of making it the worlds first in
dustrial, financial and moral power
by putting any time limit on their
work. In their way Of going at the
job they did not know what a clock
was. They put into their work the
time they needed to put into it to
get 1t done right-put in the time
and kept up the steam all through
the time.
Under the impetus the American
manhood of the past century gave II
this country may be able to move
ahead for years; but without the un-
yielding purpose and the driving en-
ergy that those giants of work gave
to their nation building America can
not set the pace for the world, while
the French, the Germans and others.
with their minds fixed upon repair
ing the war ruins, bend to their work
with all that is in them.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
The Armenian Question.
England's Honor and the Gateway to
India Involved in Its Solution.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The an
nouncement that Great Britain has
asked for the cooperation of the United
States. France and Italy in investigat-
ing the Armenian atrocities may be in
terpreted as an important strategical
move.
The establishment Of the Russians In
Transcaucasia by the treaties of Turk
manchaf (1S2s) and Adrianople tS29)
opened the modern phase OF the Arme-
nian question. Eighty years later the
anti-national measures Of Prince Galit-
zin drove the Armenians into the revo-
luton OF 1905.
Despite Turkish promises OF reform
in the treatment of Armenlans since the
Crimean war and the Treaty OF Berlin
in 1873 no amelloration has taken place
in the condition of these subject peo-
Pile. The. frightful massacres in 1895
and 1895, in which more than hun
dred thousand Christians perished. have
been eclipsed horror by the attempted
deportation to Mesopotamia of the
Armenians en- masse. In the massacres
which followed between seven hundred
thousand and million men. women
and children perished. The Young
Turks had failed to establish a chain
OF buffer states under Turkish sover-
eighty on the Russo-Turkish marches
by winning these brave people to their
support and so determined upon their
destruction.
Postwar settlements of the Armenian
question constitute a record of inaction.
delay and positive betrayal of this desc
lated people. The Franklin -Boullon
treaty In October. 1921. has been fol-
lowed by an exodus OF upward of a
hundred thousand Armenians from Gill
Marsivan are fresh In mind. The Arme-
nion mlnorities are in imminent danger
OF destruction between the upper and
neither mlllstones of Bolshevism and
Turkish rule.
British reviews have been urging as
a solution of this difficult problem the
guardianship of the League of Nations
in favor of Armenian minorities, free
from interference by the Turkish Gov
ornment. but 1t is clear in this new ap-
peal to America that the failure OF
Alllcu plcukts, tut iHtNtCutlpli VI tnt
Treaty OF Sevres, the continuation OF
the Greco-Turklsh war and the entente
of Soviet Russia and the Kemaiists have
concurred In rendering this plan impos-
sible of execution. IL Is a question or
establishing a national Armenian home
and Of safeguarding the Armenian race
from extinction.
This new protectorate must be inde-
pendent OF the Armenian Republic of
Erivan, forclbly compelled In 1920 to
adopt Soviet institutions. Indeed. the
whole question Of Caucasian Armenia
cannot be dealt with apart from that
OF Soviet Russia. This is, in abort. the
situation confronting England, In which
are at stake her national honor and the
security OF the natural gateway from
the Mediterranean TO india. Lord Bryce
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TO ARRIVE ON THE PARIS.
Gen. Gassouin, Formerly of French
Army, Among Passengers.


Gen. Gassouin. director of the Com
pagnie Standard Franco-Americain, the
French subsidiary of the Standard Oil
Company. who went to the Genoa con-
ference at the request of the French
Government to represent 1t as an oil
expert, will arrive on the Paris to-mor-
row. Travelling with him Is Henry C.
Bedford. Jr., European representative OF
the Standard OIL.
Gen. Gassouin. who was director OF
transport for the French army during
the war. supervised the transportation
of most of the American troops in
France and on this account was pre-
sented with the American Distinguished
Service Medal by Ambassador Herrick
last week.
Other passengers are Mr.. ]. A. MUIR
phy, Mrs. Esthel l.. Ellsworth and
George A. Simard. who has been in
Europe in the interest of the Quebec
Liquor Commission, of which he is
president
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The Pneumatic Mail Tubes.

The pneumatic mail tubes have
been closed down in New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia since June 80,
1918. They were closed down by
Postmaster-Genera BURLEsoN. Soon
after Mr.. HAYS became Postmaster
General in President HARDING's Ad-
ministration he took up the question
OF reinstating these tubes in the
postal service of the three big cities.
That was fourteen months ago.
Congress has just now passed a
bill to restore the tube service in
New York on July l. No provision
has yet been made for restoring the
service in Boston and Philadelphia.
The United States Government
through JoHN WANAMAKER, Postmas-
ter-General under President HARRISON,
contracted for pneumatic tube mail
service in Philadelphia. The work
was completed and the pneumatic
mail service installed in 1892 under
Mr.. WANAMAKER.
This service continued throughout
President CLEvELAND's second term,
and we may assume was found salts
factory to the Government, for in
President McKINLEY's first term the
Government contracted for the in
stallation of pneumatic mail tube SER
| 1T, L.. -. In, IN
Boston in 1898.
This service continued in full oper-
alton and with evident satisfaction
to the Government under President
ROOSEVELT in both his terms, and
under the direct control of his five
stmasters-General: CHARLES EMORY
SMITH. HENRY G. PAYNE, ROBERT j..
WYNNE, GEORGE p, CoRTELYoU and
GEORGE Won L. MEYER. The same
service continued under President
TAFT with his Postmaster-Gene
FRANK H. HrTcHcocK.
1t was not until Mr.. BURLEsoN came
in as Postmaster-General in 1913,
President WILSON'S first term. that
the pneumatic mail tubes were found
to be unsatisfactory and not desirable
for the Government.
1t is claimed by those financially
interested in these pneumatic mail
tubes that Mr.. BuRLEsoN's stand
against their use was taken on po-
litical grounds. and IL would seem on
the face OF II that they are we'll sus-
tained in their claim BY the long
approval the mail tubes had from
1892, covering five national Admin
istrations that carried the indorse.
ment of ten different Postmasters-
General.
If. as is asserted, Mr.. BURLEsoN
closed down the pneumatic mail
tubes, actuated by political prejudice.
clearly It was very reprehensible
thing for him TO do. II, on the
other hand, II was demonstrated to
Mr.. BuRtEsoN's satisfaction that the
use OF these tubes for handling the
mail in New York, Boston and Phla.
delphia was economically unsound
for the Government, clearly he
shouldn't have continued to operate
them.
But in this event what shall we
say of the conduct of the Post Office
Department so far as concerns the
use Of these pneumatic mail tubes
under FIVE Presidents and under the
direct control OF ten distinguished
The New York herald., 1922-05-19

their rider. 1t was a frequent say
ing in the days when Miss Woodford,
George Kinney, Hanover, Kingston
and other great horses were winning
races for the Brooklyn owners that
JIMMY was the best horse in the barn.
This tribute to his skill was de-
served. A capable, conscientious
rider is great factor in the success
of a racing stable.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
TO SAIL FOR NORWAY.
New Workers Among Passenger
Going on the Stavangerfjord.

The Norwegian American liner Sta
vangerfjord will sail to-day for Bergen
Among her first cabin passengers from
New York will be Mrs. Hemi Aaltio
wife Of the Norwegian Consul in New
York. accompanied by their son and
daughter; Miss Esther Anderson. Mis-
Kathryn Baldwin, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
H. Grant, Mrs. Marie Harvold and
Misses Marie and Thelma Harvold.
Other passengers will be Hans Fay.
Norwegian Consul General at Los An
geles; Hans Guldmann, Danish Consul al
Galveston Mr.. and Mrs. William
Knapp of Rye. N. Y; Mrs. Rosey st
John Mildmay of Philadelphia. MIS-
Almo NJ. Nelson of Chicago, Mr.. and
Mrs. George S. Vedeler of Boston and
Edwin Rund of Pittsburgh.
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Uncondensed English.
The Waste in Ordinary Conversation
Estimated at 20 Per Cent

To THE New YORK Herald; ]. 3.
Faulkner. after referring TO the sugges-
ton to substitute daysav for daylight
saving. proposes sataft for Saturday af-
ternoon as means of economy Of the
spoken word.
nine out of each hundred of us waste
our breath and the time of our friends
with an exhaustless verbiage. seven
tenths of which could be profitably omit
ted altogether? JAMES II. KENNEDY.
NEW YORK, May is.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19

there is a resolution of the trustees to
the effect that full professors shall re-
tire on reaching the age when they be-
come eligible for an allowance from the
Carnegie Foundation. the rule has been
ignored in this case.
In accepting the offer of the trustees
Dr. Van Dyke said he might desire TO
take up other work at the end OF the
next academic year.
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why She Won Him.

She couldn't knit.
She couldn't sew:
She had no wit,
Her mind was slow.
She couldn't paint
(Above her hair)
Her voice was faint;
She had no air.
She couldn't dance.
She couldn't sing.
Nor throw n trance.
Nor anything.
She couldn't bake,
She couldn't stew,
But, mercy sake,
How she could brewi
N.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
, vOYAGERs FOR BAHAMAS.

Among the passengers sailing on the
Munargo Of the Munson Line to-day
for Nassau. Bahama Islands are John
B. Basciano. Mrs. Rebecca G. Graves
Mr. and Mrs Charles Marshall, Miss
Evelyn Marshall Miss Edith L. Knowles,
f. S. Long, II. w. Snyder. Mrs. A. V.
johnson. William p. Bates and the Rev.
F. r. Dennis.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
VAN DYKE REAPPOINTED
TO PRINCETON FACULTY
Age Retirement Rule Waiued
-Offer Is Accepted.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
PRINCETON, May 1s.-President Hib-
ben has announced that DR.. Henry Van
Dyke has accepted reappolntment by. the
trustees to serve on the Princeton Uni
versity faculty next year. Although
The New York herald., 1922-05-19

Babe RUTH has still TO prove he has
not lost his batting eye or weakened
in his home run muscles, but the fans.
Hitherto not clamorous this year for
baseball. who bought out the box office
in the hope OF seeing him play to-
morrow have proved he still retains
his drawing power.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19

The Railroad Club celebrated its
fiftieth birthday last evening. On
every line out of New York city there
are commuters ready to swear that
equipment sold to the carriers before
the club was organized is still in use.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
Percentage Of decrease. a.,

Except through abnormal growth In
the remaining months the business of
the complete fiscal year 1922. ending
June 80, will be materially less than in
the fiscal year 1921. when 2,s92 ships
made the transit. II will apparently be
about the same as for the calendar year
1921. In which the commercial vessels
using the canal numbered 2.7s3.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
TO the usc for republication OF all news ais.
patches credited 10 II or not otherwise
credited IN this raper, erd also the looas
news pt hlished herein.
Al riass ~ republication OF special dis-
patches herein ore also reserved
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
Example.

First chicken--fs 1t 5afe 20 dig up his
seeds now? -
Second Chicken-yes. the boss has gone
motoring 10 tear some blossoms off Trees.
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

Highest temperature. 6s at l2:45 p. NJ.
Lowest temperature, % at l A. NJ.
Average temperature, CO.
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Temperature
1--s ~
Rainfall

Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at 8 p. NJ Yesterday
seventy fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
BANKS REFLECT TRADE
RECOVERY IN u. S.
Business Betferment More
Marked in Cities.

Evidence of returning business pros
perity Is shown In a survey by the Ma
tional Bank Of Commerce in New York
based on recent reports Of national
banks to the Comptroller Of the Cur
rency. Recovery has been more mark
ed in cities than In rural communities.
Banking prosperity. 1t Is commonly
assumed. bears a well-defined relation to
general business prosperity" the bank
says in the July number Of its maga-
zine, Commerce Monthly. "A study OF
the condition of the banks OF the coun-
try compared by geographical districts
should. therefore, give some important
indications of the relative position Of
the business cycle In different types
Of communities.
THE recent moyement of loans and
discounts would Seem to Indicate i'm
proving business conditions In some
communities prior to the call of last
March. For instance, loans for reserve
city banks In the Pacific region have
recovered considerably since last Sep
tember. and slight Improvement In
cities of New England, the Middle West
and the South can be read in the figures
since the end of last year.
THE increase of bank borrowings for
many months after the depression De-
gan Is Indicative Of the strain imposed
upon the banking community In meeting
the demands of liquidation. Indirectly
such an expansion OF borrowings evi-
dences the desirability Of a banking sys-
tenn which keeps power in reserve to
meet such unusual shocks.
Deposits In recent months have
shown more tendency toward improve
ment than have loans. II appears that
the process of liquidation has put COM
mercial firms in possession of funds for
meeting current operating expenses
without resort to borrowing"
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
FOREIGN TRADE NEWS
TO BE SENT BY RADIO
Government to Try NeU
Method of Distribution.

WASHINGTON, Juno 2e.-Distribution
Of foreign trade news and dispatches by
radio as means Of informing American
business men Of developments in the
fields of industry and commerce abroad
will be tried next month, It was an
nounced to-day by the Department Of
Commerce. The possibility Of a Govern
ment foreign trade news service by radio
as a permanent practice was indicated.
On July IL and IL. the Department
stated. the latest cabled news OF foreign
markets and trade opportunities received
from abroad will be sent by radiophone
to the meeting Of the New England Shoe
and Leather Association In Boston and
an import and export exposition In New
York
For the guidance Of all receiving sta
tions, the Department announced. the
time for broadcasting will be p. M.
eastern Standard Time) on both days.
the station Arlington (NAA). and the
wave length $3.50 meters.
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
THE EQUITABLE
TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
GERMANY RECOVERING
HER TRADE WITH CHILE
British Fear IL More Than
American Competition.

LONDON, June 26.-The rapid recovery
of German trade with Chile since the
war is emphasized In n report of the
Department of Overseas Trade. Chile,
like many other countries, the report
says. owes to British enterprise and
capital Its position as factor in the
worlds markets to-day.
The first British firm was established
there three-quarters of a century ago
and was followed shortly by many
others. The Germans were not long in
taking up second position In the field,
followed in very recent years by the
United States Some years before the
war Germany became n strong competi-
tor of Great Britain. and the United
States steadily gained ground. From the
outbreak of the war. however. every
thing went in favor. of the United States
and from 1915 to 1919 they obtained all
Germany's lost trade, plus about 10
per cent. of the British.
There is every Indication" concludes
the report, that the British manufac-
turer has now much more to fear from
German competition than from Amer
lean. German imports to Chile in
creased from only $4,000 In 1919 TO
f1.5S0.000 in 1920 and very marked
progress will probably be noticeable In
German trade with Chile when figures
are available for the present year."
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
CHICAGO CAPITALISTS
BUY SOUTHERN TIMBER
Lumber Operations to Begin
at Once in Mississippi.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
CHICAGO, June 26.-For the first time
since the war Chicago capitalists inter-
ested themselves to-day in the purchase
Of timber holdings in the South for in
vestment purposes.
Identified with the revival Of lumber
financing are Stanley Field, c. X. G..
Billings. Ernest A Hamill. Watson F.
Blair. Arthur Meeker. DR.. Frank Billings
and d. Mark Cummings, Chicago Gus
tave Pabst, Milwaukee; c. A. Goodman
and r. b. Goodman. Marinette, Mich.
and Edward J. Young OF Madison, WIS.,.
who have purchased $4,000 acres in
Stephenson. Miss, and will Immediately
begin lumber operations.
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
TO RECLAsSIFY STOCK.
Metal Company
Change Par Values Also.

At a special meeting Of the american
Metal Company. Ltd, stockholders 1t
was voted yesterday to reclassify the
present authorized issue OF stock OF the
company, consisting Of 100000 shares
par value 500. all OF one class, into
$1,000 shares of per cent cumulative
preferred stock par value 800 and 200.-
800. y
Shareholders also voted TO change the
common stock from s100 par value into
no par value stock and authorized that
be issued be 100000 shares. The new
no par value shares are to be exchanged
for the old common stock at the rate of
Ia shares for one share OF the 800
par common now held.
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
ARMS AND HARDWARE
COMPANIES MERGE
Winchester Forms Union With
Simmons Concerns.

Special Dispatch to THE New YonK HmALp.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. June 26.--The
Winchester Repeating Arms Company Of
this city has merged with the Associated
Simmons Hardware Companies. II was
announced here to-day.
A great deal of manufacturing OF Sim
mons products will be carried on at
the great Winchester plant here when
the merger Is In full operation. The
working force. now 5000. will be largely
increased and this. together with. the nor
NAL increase In the number of hands
which is gradually taking place, perhaps
will double the present force at some
time in the future
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
ABsoLvED OF b.4oo swINDLE.

Four men arrested by Detectives Bar
ron and Marin after James Fortey. a
real estate dealer of Melbourne. Austria
liza, who is at the Hotel Woodward. had
reported that he was swindled out of
$500. were discharged yesterday by
Magistrate Ryttenberg In Yorkville court
when Fortey failed to identify them.
Tortey said he and chance acquaint-
ance' had found a pocketbook on the
Cunard docks. 1t contained the address
of a man at the Park Avenue Hotel. TO
which they went. AS reward" the
owner took them to a pooroom and
let Fortey in on a sure thing" bet on
the races. Fortey put up $1,000. but
everybody in the room disappeared.
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
FINANCIAL NOTES.

J. s. Judge. Rformerly with Stroud Co..
OF Watson & White. members Of ths New
York Stock Exchange.
Petitions have been circulated on both chs
New York Produce Exchange and the Coffee
and Sugar Exchange to close these boards
OH Monday. July 3.
The Metropolitan Trust Company has been
Milwaukee and 81. Paul Railway per cent.
equipment trust certificates.
Stacy a Braun have announced the opening
OF an office In the Bankers Building. Boston,
in charge OF Lawrence G. Tighe.
Samuel Mccreery Co. OF Philadelphia
announce that Joseph A. Hsaiey 10 now
associated with them In their bond Depart
nent.
The United States Mortgage and Trust
Company has been appointed registrar Of the
common and preferred stock OF the Powell
OIL Company.
Moore 4 Schiey, members Of New York
Stock Exchange, have prepared for free dis
tributlon 10 investors q manual OF tobacco
stocks.
william west a Co. have moved from the
eighth floor OF q Pine street and have taken
the entire front OF the sixth floor OF the
anne building.
sbe Empire Trust Company and Leroy W.
Bak,win have been appointed trustees under
an Issue OF SIS 900, 900 first mortgage gold
tcnks the initial issue being fs.00o.ov0 series
A. Nearing 9 per cent. Interest
Ths\H,bernia Securities Company. fnc.. cf
New Ofieans Announces >the opening OF an
office a. Atlanta. In ehasro OF j. W. speas'
The New York herald., 1922-06-27
EASTERN STEEL co. TO
BUY WARWICK STOCK
NeW Financing Proposed in
Purchase Plan.

A meeting of stockholders OF the
Eastern Steel Company probably will be
called for some time late In August or
early September to consider new financ-
ing In connection with the proposed pur-
chase by the company of the Warwick
Iron and Steel Company for s1.500.00
or $40 a share and accrued dividends.
The plan to be discussed and acted
upon Is the creation OF a new mortgage
with the authorization for $4,000, 900
bonds. OF which amount $4,000 to
s4,500.000 soon may be issued. 1t Is un-
derstood that about s2,000.0o0 OF the
amount would be used to refund the out
standing per cent bonds under the
present existing mortgage, which are
callable at 10, and the proceeds of
about $1.500,000 new bonds would be
used to pay the Warwick company.