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The New York herald., 1922-06-07
swat a Minute" Wastes.

Business men and telephone man.
ayers in Philadelphia have had a
henrt-to-heart talk on certain prac-
tices of telephone users which might
be corrected to the advantage of
everybody. OF the Objectionable tel
ephone customs none came In for
more emphatic condemnation than
the "wait-a-minute" habit. This be-
gins with A telling somebody in his
ONCE to get B on the wire. Then this
dialogue ensues:
lso "B-Hello.
"Operator--Is this Mr.. 3?
"B--Yes.
"Operator-Please wait minute.
orr. A wishes to speak with you"
Then, when A gets around to it,
perhaps in more or less leisurely
way--B meanwhile losing his own
time while A suits his personal con-
venience-there comes another
hello" and couple of "is that
you's,y and at last the communica-
tion.
Tt was agreed by both telephone
users and telephone company man.
ayers that this practice involves
tolerated nconsiderateness on the
part of A in asking B to waste his
time while A saves his own. Sec
ond, there Is a needless squander of
time at both ends in the exchange of
"hello' and "is that your" This
might be eliminated if A were ready
to talk the moment B answers, and
opened the conversation with "a
speaking" instead of the commonly
used and conventional phrases of
Identification.
A representative of the telephone
industry produced some startling sta
tistfcs. His companies, he said ham
died 30,000,00O telephone calls day.
BY. .cntting out the "hellos' at least
one second of time would be saved on
each call. On 30,oO0,O0O daily calls,
this would be equal to one mans
working time for 1000 days, or we'll
over three years. II one second we're
saved on each of Philadelphia
1000, 900 daily calls it would be equiv
I. .alent OF one mans time for month.
New York city has 4,90O0O telephone
calls q day; at this rate il second
were saved on each Of them, the total
wou1d amount practically to the
working time of six men for month.
AS for the "wait-a-minute" delays,
ng as they often do to from
-~cs,ds to a minute or over.
III of them to warrant
1T "wait-a-minute," "
iup OF the other
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Fire Fighters Didn't Strike.
Injustice Done to the Forest De.
tenders of WOOdbine, N. ].
From the Summit IN. - Record.

From the Summit (N. ID Record.
There was no refusal to fight the
forest fire at woodbine." said G. p.
wilber, state Fire Warden, on his re-
turn from an investigation of the sit
uation.
I'VE did find that there had been
both poor judgment and perhaps some
lack of initiative on the part Of the
local fire warden. which allowed him to
be satisfied with small crew when he
should have had large one. This was
the cause of the fire developing into
such a big one. When the division fire
warden. Leonidas Coyle. reached Wood
bine he found all those whom he asked
entirely willing to fight the fire.
"As a result of the widespread pub
iicity Of the false report a grave injus-
tice has been done the citizens of Wood
bine, who are considering organizing q
forest fire company TO extinguish wood
and brush fires. IL such a company Is
formed 1t will be the first of the kind
in New Jersey SO far as the fire service
knows"
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
s The Heralds Tariff Stand.

1.-The American Economist, which is
fhe organ of the American Tariff
League, is panied by the position of
THE New YORK HERALD toward the
rordney-McCumber tariff makers.
s&he American Economist thinks that
TIE New YORK HERALD returns to
ITS first love-" Free Trade, "the faith
in which it was established by JAMES
GORDON BENNETT, the elder, and main
tained by JAMES GORDON BENNETT, the
younger" And the American Ec0no-
mist sees THE New YORK HERALD 'as
pronouncedly opposed to the protec-
tive tariff as it was under the Bennett
regime"
What THE NEW YORK HERALD was
in respect of political policies. eco
pomic principles or anything else
under its former ownerships has moth
Ing. to do with its principles and
poisciest under its present ownership.
Asa matter of fact, the owner of The
NEw York HERALD is, always has been
and always expects to be believer in
sound, rational, workable protective
tariff for American industries and
American labor. s..,sT
THE New York HERALD, rejecting
the protective principles and convic-
tions of its owner, is consistent and
steadfast advocate Of the American
tariff system. But the owner of THE
New YORK HERALD cannot stand for
damn fool protectionism and THE
New York HERALD will not stand
for it.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Presbyterian Foreign Mission Conference.
Presbyterian Building. 1855 Fifth avenue.
fy 3. " M0"en's Board q r''slsn a.'"s Missions
New York University. commencement day.
University Heights, 1890 A. M: Veterinary
lowed by theatre party: Washington Square
College Alumni Association. dinner, Hotel
McAlpin. p. M; Commerce seniors class
. night, Judson Memorial Church. p. M
Morningside Heights. trustees procession.
10 A. M; comforting OF degrees and honors,
II A.. M; presentations, 1919 r. M;
alumni luncheons. p. NJ.
National Association OF Music Merchants.
convention, Hotel Commodore. 9:30 A.. M.
and 2 p. M; annual banquet and ball. $50
r. NJ. ea .s..
New York State Federation OF Music
Clubs, convention, Hotel Pennsylvania, 1880
A. NJ. and p. M. .-a .- 4.
National Plano Manufacturers ,Associs-
ton, convention, Hotel Commodore, 9:30
A. NJ; meeting Of credit men. p. M.
American Drug Manufacturers Association.
convention, Hotel Biltmore, 10 A. NJ. and
p. M. ~
luncheon. 80 p. M.
American Surgical Trade Association. con-
vention. 2 p. NJ; theatre party In evening.
Prince Hall Free Masons, convention. Zion
.Methodist Church, 136th street and seventh
avenue. II A. M.
Organ Builders Association. convention.
Hotel Commodore. $3.50 A. M. and 2 p. NJ
American Jersey Cattle Club, meeting. 10
A. M, Hotel Astor.
Wholesale Surgical Trade Association. con-
vention. Hotel Astor. 10 A. M. and p. M.
Eastern Association of Glass Distributors,
meeting, Hotel McAlpin. II A. NJ. and 4
p. M; luncheon. p. NJ. re
National Musical Merchandise Association,
meeting. Hotel Commodore. $3.50 A. M. and
2 p. NJ.
National Association of Music Roll Manu-
facturers. meeting, Hotel Commodore, 80
A. NJ
National Association of Band Instrument
naanufacturers, y an ~ meesins Hotel Commodore.
sisterhood of the Brooklyn Jewish Center.
luncheon. Hotel Astor, p. NJ
American Railway Engineering Association
meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, o A. M.
kiwanis Club. luncheon, Hotel McAIpin,
$50 =. M.
National Ladies Society. meeting. Hotel
pennsylvania, r. NJ. fTrl ~
American Society Of Civil Engineers. msst-
ing, Engineering Societies Building, 33 West
Thirty-ninth street, p. M.
Hebrew Technical Institute, commencement
exercises. Cooper Union, $3.50 p. M.
League OF Advertising Women rnotion ric-
lures. 220 West Forty-second street, 8 p. M.
New York League of Business and Profess
sional Women, dinner, Cafe Boulevard, g :30
=. M. ~'sN
Alumni Association OF the HOMEOPATHIC
Medical cohege OF Flower Hospital, dinner.
Hotel Astor, p. M.
Commercial Law League of America. u,es<.
ing. Hotel Martinique. p. NJ. W.,
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
The Railroad Shop Wage Cut.

The sixty million dollars a year
cut by the United States Railroad
Labor Board yesterday from the
wage scales in the railway repair and
construction shops will not become
savings to the carriers that are fore
handed business managers. These
millions are already mortgaged for
imperatively required reconstruction
work.
This is even more emphatically
true of the sixty million dollar wage
cut in the company shops than it was
of the fifty million dollar cut the other
day in the wage scale Of the mainte-
nance of way workers. The mainte-
nance of way wage savings were all
needed for long neglected work on the
railway roadbeds, ties and rails. The
shop wage savings are all needed, and
a great deal more, on the rehabilita-
ton of rolling stock that has been
allowed to run down by thousands of
locomotives and tens of thousands of
cars to a colossal mass Of practical
uselessness.
AS THE New YORK HERALD has re-
Gently shown, the railway expendi-
lures on maintenance of way-road-
beds--for the six months ending with
March 81 last were sS5T22,0O0 lower
than for the corresponding period in
the year before--down at the rate of
more than s171 100000 a year. The
expenditures on maintenance of
equipment-rolling stock, &c.--were
down S186,173.000 in the six months,
or at the rate of more than $372,-
100000 year.
On this foundational work of keep
ing up the roadbeds to carry the
trains and Of keeping up the rolling
stock to run on the roadbeds as trains,
the railways Of the United States
could not hold down their expendi-
lures to the extent OF more than half
a billion of dollars a year for very
long without endangering the very
existence of the carriers as physical
properties.
Nobody knows this better than the
hard-headed men charged with the
responsibility of maintaining the
roads while they operate them. They
have mot skimped the vital upkeep
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Labor Unions and the Laws.


The Supreme Court decision in the
long standing Coronado coal case is
very lucid in the fundamental prin-
ciples it lays down and very simple
in the specific application of the law
to this case.
The reason the union officers and
members involved in the suit are re-
lieyed of the damages imposed and
affirmed by lower courts but set aside
by the Supreme Court is not that
union acts are not amenable like other
acts to the law but that in this in
stance the Supreme Court finds it was
not proved on the one hand that the
acts causing the destruction of prop
erty were committed for the purpose
Of restraining interstate commerce,
and on the other hand that the inter-
national union officers had author
ized the strike, taken any part in the
preparation for it or paid any OF the
expense Of maintaining it.
But as individuals or as group bod
les, Incorporated or unincorporated,
labor union members and organiza-
tions are accountable under the Fed
eral acts forbidding the restraint Of
interstate commerce. They are sub
ject to the heavy financial penalties
prescribed for other offenders against
the law.
So far as concerns the general ap-
plication of the laws, therefore. it is
of little consequence to the public
and to justice as such whether in
this particular case there were errors
of procedure and failures Of proof.
The big thing, the very big thing, is
that everybody now knows where Ia
Dor unions, labor individuals and all
stand in respect of these laws of the
nation.
SAMUEL GoMpERs, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, is
credited with the declaration that
such decision would virtually de-
stroy the labor unions of the coun-
try. 1t need do nothing of the kind;
it surely will do nothing of the kind.
The unions, like other organizations
and interests, can observe the law
and continue to perform all their
useful and legitimate functions.
Wherever any of them violates the
law and is found guilty of violating
it, it can be made and should be
made to suffer the penalties of such
acts like others.
But SO per cent. of the Legitimate
and habitual business of the unions
of this country can be done and gen.
orally is done without. breaking any
statute law, Federal or State. Let
them go straight on along that path
and they will not suffer anything
they do not deserve to suffer.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07

Business sessions constituted the pro-
gram of the twelve associations anil
lated with the Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce at the Hotel Commodore
yesterday. when the more than 2.b00
delegates from all parts OF the United
States assembled for rne second day of
the seventh annual convention. which
closes on Friday night.
M. ". De Forest of Sharon, Pa,
president of the National Association OF
Music Merchants. in addressing that
body said
Music has been taken out OF the
luxury class and placed in the necessi-
ties class. where 1t rightfully belongs.
Our country has always been q great
country, and to-day 1t Is the center Of
the worlds production. distribution and
financing. But this Is not all. Ours is
a land where the best operas are pro-
duced; we have the finest singers and
players, the best music teachers. and
the best musical instruments IN the
world are produced here. In this we
lead in both quantity and quality.
More attention is being given to In
teresting the public in music. and tho
training OF boys and girls to the ap-
probation Of music forms an important
part OF their school work. Instrumental
as well as vocal music is being taught In
the schools. School bands are common
in most cities and nearly every school
has its own orchestra"
Other speakers at the early session
were Dr. Sigmund Spaeth and Ubert
Urquhart. Eddie Car4or of the Winter
Garden entertained the delegates who
attended luncheon following the ses-
~ roll <hot
music merchants had Joined the Ma
tionai Association of Music Merchants
within the last few weeks William G.
Heaton, second vice-president of the
National Piano Travellers Association,
presided.
Following the luncheon there was a
general-meeting Of the delegates from
all the affiliated organizations William
A. Durgin Of the United States Depart
ment of Commerce brought message
from Secretary Herbert Hoover. in
which he said it was the desire OF Mr.
Hoover and tho department to CO.
operate with the business men OF the
country and aid them in every way pos
sible. Continuing, Mr.. Durgip/ said
there is too much diversity In the pro-
duction Of many articles. that the manu-
facturer keeps on making different va
rieties of the same article to suit diff
ferent sections until he finds himself
making 500 varieties when he should
concentrate on ten. To do away with
this confusing method. the speaker said,
the Department of Commerce, is working
for Standardization in every branch OF
industry.
Urging them to adopt standard meas
ures for musical products Mr.. Durgin
said:
"At one time in recent years there
were 10000 different sizes. shapes,
widths and weights Of an ak in the
United States. Through the nation
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Lillian Russell.

LILLIAN RUSSELL was the most
widely known woman in the United
States. There was not village, we
should say, where her picture had
not been seen and her golden beauty
admired or envied. Hers was the
most popular of types in the lat
ter part of the nineteenth century
and she was the ideal of that type.
Indeed, until her retirement from
the theater ten years ago, following
her marriage to ALExANDER p. MOORE,
she was still vision of delight.
The public knew Miss RUssELL's
beauty and grace and enjoyed her
stage presence and the splendid quail
ties of her voice. They did not know,
perhaps, how hard she worked, how
conscientiously' she strove to give all
of her ability to whatever part she
played. For more than thirty years
she had each season to learn at least
one new role; sometimes three or
four had to be mastered. All these
tasks received. painstaking attention.
LILLIAN RUSSELL was no spoiled child
Of the public, venting temperament
and temper on managers and pro-
ducers, but an artist careful Of the
feelings of those about her. 1t would
be hard to name successful player
in American stage history who was
held in greater esteem by his or her
associates than Miss RUSSELL was
held by her brothers and sisters of
the theater.
There was third side to this re-
markable woman: her relation to So
Geological and public affairs. After
the war period, in which she gave
freely of her talent, magnetism and
energy eto war matters, she devoted
herself to the welfare of others.
Her study of conditions among the
working people in Pittsburgh was
followed by a commission from Presi-
dent HARDING to investigate the i'm
migration problem from the Euro
pean side. 1t was on the return Voy-
age that she suffered the injuries
which caused her death.
There will be deep regret at the
passing of LILLIAN RUSSELL, not only
in the hearts of her friends but in
the minds of those she delighted in
her stage career and to whom she
had been the exemplar of beauty
unfading.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Spontaneous Combustion.
No Authentic Cases Of Human Deaths
From This Cause on Record.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
correspondent j. b. Russell of Lowell,
Mass. asks IL there be any authenti-
Gated Instances of human spontaneous
combustion. Two novelists have used
this fictitious mode OF death---Dickens in
Bleak House; Marryat in Jacob
Faithful"
The Introduction of medical topics
into fiction Is purely casual. noninform-
alive and such topics are appropriate
simply as they are logical sequences or
are illuminative to the development Of
the plot or character of the players.
Dickens sought the most horrible end to
a most horrible character and made OF
Krook a sequence of dirt, drink, disease
and death. Despite the reply Of Dick
ems TO the criticism Of George Henry
Lewss the fact remains that there are
no genuinely authenticated instances Of
spontaneous combustion and with our
present knowledge of pathology the
thing is simply impossible.
HOMER Il. SMITH.
NEW YORK, June 8.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
In Distant Fields the Clover Brims
with Bloom.

In distant fields the clover brims' with
bloom
And daisies weave their dances on the
hills,
Along its silver bank the river spills
Pale sparkling ripples where the Will
lows loom;
Yet in the confines of some narrow room
Here in the town where tumult never
stills
we walk weary round of cares and
ills,
ITemmed by the city's walls as by a
tomb
oh. to exchange these pavements for the
rocks
That ramble down beside some wooo-
land brook
And for the roar and rushing In
the street
To hear the wind amid the great hem
locks
That guard the far flung heights, ana
f. oh, to look
Not on mans work, but Gods. pure
and complete!
ELIsAsrrH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Louis on City Life.
II Heaven Be Like 1t He Prefers
AnnihiIati0n.

To THE New York HERALD: More
than one spiritist has declared that life
after the present one will be the same
as we have lived here since birth.
Personally I would prefer annihila-
tion to having to 60 through the daily
routine here in New York.
What is IL? Awake early: at once I
am greeted with hundred noises as
sailing my ears from the street. look
out Of the window: stone houses left and
right and in front; not q speck Of ver-
dure anywhere.
After a tame breakfast I go out.
What confronts me? An interminable
succession of reisv automobiles. I
want to cross the stssos. have to wait
to let a, dozen paas. Two minutes Of
nervousness The sa<De happens at each
crossing; at times am in danger of be-
ing run over.
Walking for benefit is out Of question.
Some of the enervating crossings are
on Fifth avenue and Park avenue. where
a four minutes wptA ~ charitable.
The entire city II overcrowded with
automobiles: footing. smoking from gas
OA4ihD AuuiCos Nv WVuaSR &sNW ASARSe -
are irritable.
Then, to annoy our eyes. electric light
is used in all the stores. even when 1t is
not necessary, during the day. Next,
dust. dust everywhere, and gales.
Our city OF stone must be responsible
for the stone hearts OF New Workers.
Not a pedestrian has time for his fell
low man. There are no old fashioned
cozy cafes. In barrooms we confront
persons of stony gaze. all afraid to
chat; the same at soda fountains.
In short, this is no heaven. There
fore the next place to live In must be
different from New York.
Our city of noises. depleted Of all ver-
dure and homes. is somewhat like
Dante's place Of torture.
LOUIS M. ErLsHEMIUs.
NEW York, June 6.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
A Parsonage.

We met within those classic walls
Where men their education get;
We wandered through the ancient halls
And on the campus oft we met.
A willing hand he always lent
And pleasant smiles he always wore.
But he on learning seemed not bent
And study he cared little for.
He laughed at themes and theories;
The arts in him no thrill awoke.
He fouted the humanities;
He thought the sciences a Joke.
But still he was Of good report
And was at times our counselor,
And he won honors Of sort
He was the college janitor
NATHAN W--LEvr.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Stage Profanity.
Swearing a Cheap but Effective De-
vice for Winning Laughs.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Herbert
S. Renton. writing The NEW YORK
HERAIp from New Rochelle, declares,
after a righteous protest over the un-
common prevalence of swearing on the
stage Profanity does not add a bit
to theatrical effect, nor In the end pro-
Guce more of the coveted laughs dear
TO the actors heart"
whereupon l affirm that Mr.. Renton
is all wrong. And do not intend to
enroll myself among those who believe
that the stage should be made yehi-
Gle for profanity. merely assert what
is a fact: that playwrights and actors,
seeking to win laughs from their audi
eBce, often resort to this cheap device
and succeed. 1t is the fault OF the
audience, not the fault of the actor or
playwright. DIXIE HINES
New YoRK, June 8.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07

fellow and of the telephone business
means "wait two or three years"
The problem of suppressing waste
of time ON the telephone is intricate
and irritating. There is little hope
that the leakage will ever be entirely
stopped. But by education it may be
reduced to minimum, and when that
is done the better it will be for telei
phone users-and that means every
body in the country.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Tickling a Trout.
A Sport That Was Practiced in Eng.
land Centuries Ago.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The edi-
Stories in your issue of May I calls to
mind famous Shakespearean scene the
one in which MdlvoIio is played as a
trout by the serving maid Maria. When
Hd,fa places her great letter In the way
OF the man who had been "practicing
behavior to his shadow" for half an hour
because he was "sick of self-iove," she
says. Here comes the trout that must
be caught with tickling"
One OF the joys of Shakespeare is
that he wrote in an age when every one
understood the sports of hunting and
fishing. Hence conversation could be en-
livened and speech made vital by figures
drawn from these strenuous pastimes.
Even the servants knew why the term
trout was properly applied to foolish
person, easily entrapped. They knew. as
Cogan says In his Haven of Health
that this fish of nature loveth flatterie
for. being in the water. II will suffer It.
self to be rubbed and clawed and so
taken" Halliwell says: "Grope or tickle
is kind of fishing. by putting ones
dlu ifito Tue water WieiS Hsh iSe, anu
tickling them about the gills by which
means they'll become so quiet that a
man may take them in his hand and
cast them to land. or IL large fish, he
may thrust his. fingers into their gills
and SO bring them out"
All of which seems to show that, per-
haps, young Craig was not doing thing
remarkable enough to be called fish
story when 'he tied his line around a
tree, Jumped in after the trout and
grabbed 1t with his hands" II Ameri-
can trout are anything like Elizabethan
trout this must have been the very best
way to entrap his majesty.
CHARLOTTE G. MILLER.
CINcINNATI. Ohio. June 4.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Wisdom.

When love grows hard and cold wait
Here at this little tight closed gate
And pray to all the stars;
And to the moon that rises white
Along the purple of the night.
Until love comes again.
For have learned to be as still
AS placid summer on hill.
And not to talk and weep.
For / have learned to smile and smile
Although my heart may break the
while 3-srs-
That love may think me gay.i ef y
For once he thinks he is not missed
He will como running to be kissed.
Oh, have learned him well!
ABIGAIL CREssoN.
The New York herald., 1922-06-07
Heavily Laden Ships.
Panama Canal Figures on Three
Vessels Earning Their Way.

From The Panama Canal Record.
The steamship Willhilo OF the Will
Jams Steamship Company, passing
through the canal on May IL from New
York to Los Angeles. San Francisco and
Seattle, was reported by her master as
carrying general cargo amounting to
lO,075 tons. The willhiIo is a ship of
s,s1s gross and 1867 net tons, United
states registry measurement, 435 feet in
length by 57.6 feet beam. and was, ac-
cordingly. well loaded. She was draw
ing 25.s feet Of water at time Of transit.
During the calender year 1921 the 42s
vessels which passed through the canal