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The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Princeton's Democratic Step.

Princeton has made democratic
move the wisdom of which might
well be followed by other universi-
ties. 1t has not directly forbidden
it's students to keep motor cars, but
it has expressed its opinion on that
practice so plainly to the parents
of the students that the growing
evil doubtless will be ended.
1t is obvious that the young man
resident in college does not need an
automobile. His hours of recreation
ought to be spent at something bene-
fetal to either mind or body. When
the students class hours are over
he can find plenty of amusement on
the field, in the gymnasium or the
library, or in walking over the coun-
tryside. 1t would be bold under
graduate who would contend that his
motor car brought him anything
more than joyriding.
OF course the evil does not lie so
much in the joyriding as in the ex-
travagance and the display. That is
why President HrBBEN of Princeton.
in his admirable letter to the par
ents of students, emphasizes the value
to young men in college of Sim
plicity in living and the elimination
Of unnecessary luxuries." Conditions
in the world to-day, as DR.. HBBEN
points out, make it undesirable that
young men in the formative period
should indulge in high living. In
deed. there never will be a time, no
matter what world conditions are,
when the youth of the colleges should
let their purses run away with their
brains.
In the earlier stages Of American
university life student luxury was
expressed in loud clothes and blooded
bulldogs and particularly large ac-
counts with the local taverns. Later
came the craze for expensive living
quarters. Not until the motor car
arrived, however, was the son OF in
dulgent parents able to 1aunt his
money 10 the greatest extent. More
over. the car enabled him to put
ground rapidly between himself and
the scholastic environment whenever
study irked.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04

of the st. Lawrence at Quebec in
honor of ABRAHAM MARTIN, the first
Scotchman and Kings pilot to arrive
from England and act as pilot on the
st. Lawrence River. The American
proposal is to build a lighthouse
in Santo Domingo in honor Of
COLUMBUS.
If the French plan is carried out
the memorial will be the first thing
of it's kind known to the sea, and it
will be a reminder of the Lusitania
tragedy to all those who pass it. A
memorial to a pilot is an act of gra-
ciousness from shorekeeping folk well
worth while. In America contribu-
tions to the same object are preserved
in the pages of Mark Twain and
JOHN HAY.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS has an un-
official lighthouse monument on San
Salvador or Watlings Island, for it
is one of the legends of the West
Indies that the Watlings Island light
stands 900 feet from the spot where
COLUMBUS is supposed to have landed"
New York has done its part in con-
tributing to unusual nautical monu-
ments through the memorial at the
Battery to the wireless men who lost
their lives at sea.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Ford's Nitrate Plant Offer.

HENRY FoRD's offer for the Govern
ment's power and nitrate plants at
Muscle Shoals does not look like a
good business proposition for the
| Government. It carries no assurance
of benefit to the American farmer,
this feature of it being the reason
Congress and the Administration
have shown so much interest in the
Ford scheme.
There is nothing in the proposal
as it is laid before Congress to show
that FORD binds himself either to
produce fertilizer nitrates cheaply
| for the farmer, or even to produce
any fertilizer nitrates at all. The
Government is asked to pour fifty
millions more into the war plant,
getting back very low interest rate
on the new money it puts in. But
when the only thing that could pos
sibly justify further expenditure
would be the assurance Of ample
fertilizer material for our agriculture
at lower cost no guaranty what
ever is given of any such thing.
AS matter of fact, the common
sense thing for the United States
Government to do with the Muscle
Shoals project is not to spend an
other nickel on it. AS war emer-
gency expedient, begun to get eXplo-
sives which had to be obtained at
whatever cost, it was necessary
measure. If the war had continued
the Government might have had to
spend hundreds of millions of dol
lars more on Muscle Shoals and the
money under such circumstances
would have been rightly spent. But,
the war over and no further Govern
ment use for the plant existing, the
Governments course as sound busi-
ness organization is to get out, get
out quickly and at the minimum
of cost.
Instead of sinking fifty millions
more of the taxpayers money on the
Muscle Shoals venture the Govern
ment would better sell it outright,
lock, stock and barrel, to HENRY
FORD, or to anybody else that wants
it and makes the highest offer for
it. Let the buyer take it and invest
his own money in it in trying to make
the thing business success. For
the matter of that, the Government
would do better to give the Muscle
Shoals white elephant away, If it
could not sell it for cold cash, than
to pour any more of the taxpayers
money into it.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
1t Would Be a Serious Mistake.

Speaker MACHoLD has done so well
in his high legislative post at Albany
that it is a pity to have him make the
grave mistake of including the Lock
wood committee in the collection of
investigating bodies that were better
dead than alive.
No committee that ever came out
of the Legislature to. examine into
affairs and conditions needing correc-
tion anywhere within the boundaries
of the State of New York has done
more signal service for the public
than the Lockwood committee. Its
great work, extensive and successful
as it has been, is by no means fin
ished. 1t may be that it is only well
begun. Scarcely does it hold ses
sion without uncovering new abuses
wrongs and outrages committed
against the public by combinations
of employees and employers alike,
by principals and by agents, by con-
tract conspirators and by trade con,
spirators, all bent upon gouging the
hapless taxpayer and consumer with
out a trace of scruple or limit or
greed.
Not merely the people of this city
but the people of the State demand
that the Lockwood committee shall
be permitted to go on with its able,
fearless and effective Investigations
so long as there are rotten practices
for it to discover and lay bare, so
long as there are crooked men for
it to hold up to shame or start on
the road to the Grand Jury room
and States prison.
The Lockwood committee all
through it's splendid work has kept
faithfully out of politics, has firmly
resisted all pressure brought to
swerve it from its duty. If politics
or any other influence now tries to
stop the committee from carrying on
its work to a finish by putting it out
of existence when every other attempt
to thwart it has failed, New York
will be struck by one of the fiercest
popular storms that ever shook and
ratified any political structure OF
whatever party from roof to founda-
tion. No, Speaker MAcHoLD, what
ever else is done or is not done in
Albany, do not permit the sacrifice of
the Lockwood committee.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY A, 1922.
Bonus Bill Taxes.

It is an easy thing to spend the
other fellows money; it is equally
easy for Congress to spend the peo-
pies money. When Congress votes
away five billions of dollars, be it for
soldier bonus or any other extraneous
matter, the Government has got to
find the money somewhere, somehow,
to meet the raid of Congress on it's
treasury.
The Government is already carry
ing as big financial burden as it can
i carry without squeezing more income
out of the people; indeed, as it is, a
deficiency in Government income of
S300,00O,000 is expected for 1923, and
the people are struggling with and
staggering under the load of taxa
tion fixed upon them.
Secretary of the Treasury MELLON.
criticized by advocates of the bonus
for stating how the money could not
be raised instead of stating how it
could be raised, now responds with
suggestions to Congress as to how
the money could be found with which
to pay the bonus. His suggestions,
and we are bound to agree with him
that they would do the job, are that
letter postage could be increased from
two cents to three to produce $780,
100000; that second class postage
could be increased to produce $780,
100000; two cent stamp be put on
bank checks to produce $30,000,000;
a license tax on automobiles to pro-
duce $100,0O0,000, and stamps on
documents to produce S40,000,000,
with a further tax on the already
heavily taxed cigarettes and tobacco
to produce S25,000,0O0. More still
would be needed to cover his esti-
mate that the cost of the bonus would
he S425, 100000 a year for the first
two years; but recommendations of
tea and coffee taxes, although he did
not approve them, had been made to
supply the other S125.000,000.
If members of Congress are con-
vinced that the bonus should be paid
to the soldiers they should cast a
vote for the bonus. be the cost to
them in the votes OF their constitu-
ents what it may. On the other
hand, if they look with favor on the
bill not conscientiously but with re-
gard to the vote of their constitu-
ents, what is the answer they are
likely to get when every one back
home sending out a letter has to add
SO per cent. in postage because of
this bonus, when every one smoking
cigarettes or smoking pipe of to-
bacco or using the plug has to pay
additional taxes because of this
bonus, when every user of automo-
biles has to pay additional taxes,
when everybody that writes a check
has to pay additional taxes? 1t will
become a boomerang.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Power Going to Waste.

Within the area whose boundaries
are roughly indicated by the lower
Potomac River, the cities of Sunbury
and Utica, the sources of the Hud-
son River, and Portland. Maine, there
are $4,000 manufacturing establish
ments, of which three-fourths have
power plants with an average rating
of $50 horsepower. Within this area
also are SIS electric utility plants.
Fuel, chiefly small sizes of coal, fur
nishes about two-thirds Of the power;
water, largely through hydroelectric
plants, furnishes the rest. The region
has $4,000 miles of railway, single
track measurement, of which 10000
miles might be electrified with profit.
On account of its extensive manufac-
turing and transportation facilities
this area is the chief consumer of
power In the United States.
The electrical power actually used
is only fraction of the power which
can be developed by utilizing the fall
of the rivers within the area. BY ex-
tending the power area to the St.
Lawrence and Lake Erie hydroelec-
trio power may be doubled in the
near future.
At the present time and for some
time to come coal from the Pennsyl-
vania region will be the chief fuel
used in generating electricity. But by
better conservation and by the use Of
unmarketable sizes there may be a
possible saving yearly of about $4,000
tons of merchantable coal.
The total power which may be de-
veloped within this area is not to be
created it already exists, and a tre-
mendous proportion of It has been
running TO waste. Several years ago
at the request of the president Of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad and w. S. MURRAY, a con-
sulting engineer, the late FRANKLIN
X. LANE. then Secretary of the In
terror, authorized survey OF the
region under the direction of the
United States Geological Survey, with
the purpose Of ascertaining the avail
able power and the probable cost Of
its development
The report of the commission has
just appeared. For generating and
transmitting the available power
within the area not yet used the cost
is estimated at si.tO9,5s4,OOo for the
power in the area extending TO Lake
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
The Horseless Era.
A Friend Of the Horse Would Like
to Hasten Its Coming.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
editorial article entitled Putting the
Horse in His Place" made me wish the
writer could have been about town
after the recent snowstorm to sec y
horse-bless him slipping, struggling
straining and perhaps too frequently
falling for broken leg or sprain, to
say nothing of his plight in the heat
of next July and August.
Then if statistical expert could
have reckoned the thousands of hours
daily of lost time because of horse
drawn vehicles holding back the lines
of motor vehicles in the congested
streets / am inclined to think you would
write another editorial article urging
the approach Of the time when our city
should follow the example of Seattle and
rule the horse Off the streets. C.
New York, February 3.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
A Problem in Killings.

"a State had 319,774 automobiles
in 1920 and 372,79O in 1921. In 1921
these automobiles killed 544 persons,
of whom 1876 we're children. In the
same year 3,443 children were in
jured. If the number of automobiles
increases in the same proportion in
1922 as in 1921, and il the same
standards of carelessness in driving
are maintained this year as in last,
what will be the total number OF
persons killed, how many of these
will be children, and how many
children will be injured in 1927"
Here is a sum" in arithmetic
which the Massachusetts, State Regis
trar of Motor Vehicles is asking
teachers of the State to submit to
public school pupils. The figures
submitted are the 1921 actualities Of
Bay State automobile registrations.
killings and injury infections. The
State Registrar recommends the
problem not only to the study of pub
lie school pupils but to that of au-
tomobile drivers as well. When these
last have worked out the presump-
tive child slaughter and maimings
for the year he suggests that the
drivers keep in mind, as a guiding
rule, that whenever a child is seen
on street or sidewalk the machine
be at once brought under such con-
troll as to insure instant stop If the
child does what it probably will do,
and that is the wrong thing.
It is an interesting suggestion, but
what effect It will have as restraint
on reckless driving Is another matter.
Responsibility for deaths and injuries
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Associate Justice John III. Clarke VIII
speak on "Some Observations and Refiec-
tions Covering Five Years on the Bench OF
the United States Supreme Court at the
annual dinner OF the alumni of the New York
University Law School, Hotel Biltmore'
p. NJ.
Gov. Nathan l.. Miller and Gov. Edward
7. Edwards will speak at the annual dinner
OF the Real Estate Board OF New YORK,
Hotel Commodore, p M.
Silk Association of America, annual din
ner, Hotel Astor, +. M.
Senator James J. Walker, Rupert Hughes
and Joseph Levenson will discuss state
Regulation of Motion Pictures-Publlc Morals
and the Film at a luncheon, National Re-
publican Club, 5f West Fortieth street.
l.. M.
"rrance and the European Settlement"
will be discussed at luncheon of the For
eign Policy Association, Hotel Astor, 12;4o
T.. NJ.
United States Lawn Tennis Association.
annual meeting. Waldorf Astoria, 10 A. M,
dinner Z 80 p. NJ
New York Anti-vivisection Society. meet
ing. Hotel Martinique. s:15 p. M.
Abraham Cahan will discuss why the
fore the New York Camaraderie. Civic Club,
Ii West Twelfth street. p. M.
Demonstration of unemployed ex-servies
men, auspices of the Unemployment Council
of New York. Ukrainian Hall. 217 East
Sixth street. 80 j. M.
s. X Ratcliffe will speak on 'The Settle
ment in Ireland" Town Hall, 123 West
Forty-third street. IL A. M.
Maine Women, meeting. waldorf-Actorias
. L. NJ.
Testimonial dinner to John J. O'Reilly,
Hotel Astor, Il. NJ.
Adelphi College Alumnae, luncheon, Hotel
Commodore, ] T.. M.
New Rochelle Yacht Club. dinner. Hotel
Astor, r. NJ.
George ii. Chase will lecture on POTTERY
from Sardis,' Metropolitan Museum of Art,
4 l.. M.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04

One of the consequences of retrench-
ment in United States expenditures
is the disappearance of many en-
tertaining and enlightening publica
tions which in the past have eased the
lives of soldiers and sailors. OF these,
the Tennessee Tar, from whose col
umns we have often quoted is typical.
and its suspension, announced in its
Christmas number, which is dated
at Bremerton, Washington, brings a
sense of real loss. The editors of these
publications can produce them without
direct expenditure of Government
money, but to print them without en-
ploying Government machinery and
Government personnel is impractical
BILE. Perhaps some executive genius
will find way to restore these engag-
ing periodicals without violation of
regulations that make for economy.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

Willem Mengelberg conducted the
Philharmonic Orchestra yesterday after
noon In Carnegie Hall. He had resumed
his post at the head of the organization
on Tuesday evening when he shared the
direction with Artur Bodanzky. Yes
first interpreted the Pastoral" sym
phony of Beethoven and later the over
ture to Der Freischuetz." Between
these two stood Mendelssohn's violin
concerto, which served to introduce a
young performer, Miss Erna Rubinstein.
This addition to the long list of violin
virtuosi now exciting this country is a
Hungarian, and according to the unim-
peachable testimony OF her passport
fifteen years of age. standing where
the brook and river meet" she may still
be regarded as a Juvenile prodigy and
music lovers will be invited to be aston
ished by her performances. And prob
ably they will.
Miss Rubinstein is a tall, fragile look
ing girl, fair haired and generally mod
est in demeanor although at the ends Of
some passages there were movements of
the bow which betrayed the self-con-
sciousness of the budding celebrity. 1t
would be a pity if this recognition of
her own superiority should acquire too
much prominence in the young woman's
mind, for she has splendid talent and
may become a great artist.
Her tone is beautiful, though not large,
her intonation excellent, and her bow
arm is admirably flexible and sensitive.
She has a musicians sense of rhythm
and fine perception of phrasing. Her
performance of the Mendelssohn con-
movements by reason of the beauty of
the tone, the smoothness of style and
the nice distribution of accents. The
finale would doubtless have sounded
better If played at a slightly slower
tempo.
There was nothing dubiously preco-
cious in Miss Rubinstein's interpreta-
tion. 1t was not that of an abnormal
child; neither was 1t thst of a grown
woman. 1t was what might be expected
of normal girl of her age, well trained
and possessed of an exceptionally great
talent for the violin. Her performance
had unusual beauty. but it was the
beauty of violin playing. Nothing else
should be asked of the girl now. Her
debut was a delightful incident of the
season, and music lovers are sure to
become interested in her.
Mr.. Mengelberg gave a dramatic read
ing of the Pastoral symphony, and
his thunderstorm was, with the kind
help of ten double BASES and two pairs
of tympani, almost tropical in its exu-
berance. The Philharmonic musicians
played very well indeed.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Nautical Monuments.

In France, Canada and the United
States within the last month three
movements have been started to erect
memorials Of men and events chiefly
connected with the sea and with
nautical affairs.
The French plan is for a floating
monument to those who lost their
lives through the sinking of the Lusi-
tauia. This is to take the form of a
sculptured group of symbolic figures
to be mounted on floating structure
anchored off the coast of Ireland and
connected with the shore by cables
so the memorial can be lighted a.
night
The Canadian scheme Is for the
erection OF a monument on the bank
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Philadelphia Minstrels.
The Institution TO Which the Quaker
City Is Still Faithful.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The in
itials as. s. 81 are strangely reminis-
cent of the name of the man who prac-
tically gave Philadelphia the beginning
of what has subsequently proved to be a
permanent minstrel organization in the
Quaker City. 1t was the late Sam S.
Sanford who instituted minstrelsy in the
old Eleventh Street Opera House.
But 1t was not more than seventy-fivc
years ago, as IS. s. S." says. The date
was April 23. 1855. or a little less than
sixty-seven years ago. Nor is the thea
ter now occupied by the Emmett Welch
company the same he visited IN the
early SOS and where he heard Chauncey
Olcott sing. The old theater was torn
down about ten years ago and Frank
Dumont--died March II. 1919-moved
to what was originally the Arch Street
Opera House. built for Simmons and Slo-
GUMS Minstrels and opened by them
In 1870.
1t was at this house that my father,
the late William Henry Rice, made one
of the greatest hits in his minstrel career
OF fifty years, just forty-one years ago
last month, when he gave his burlesque
on Sarah Bernhardt. who had made her
American debut two months prior at
Booths Theater. New York city. 1t is
at this Arch Street Opera House that the
Emmett Welch troupe now holds forth.
But 1 must put as. S. s." right about
some more OF his dates. If, as he says,
he visited there in the early SOS he saw
Carncross's Minstrels. not Carncross ana
Dixey's. as the latter retired in the very
late '70s. And Olcott was not born in 1860,
regardless of any and all Who's Who's
published. And Hughey Dougherty is
dead only three and half years. Chaun-
cey Olcott was with the Carncross COM
pany from about 1882 to 1884.
EDWARD LIE ROY RICE,
Author OF "Monarchs Of Minstrelsy, from
Daddy Rice to Date"
BROOKLYN, February 8.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHE1

For Eastern New Y% MOSTLY
cloudy to-day; tomorrow fair. strong
west Winds
For New Jersey-Fair to-day and to-mor-
row, not much change In temperature; fresh
10 strong westerly winds.
For Northern New England-Mostly cloudy
anu colder to-day; tomorrow fair, fresh
For Southern New EngIand-Mostly cloudy
ana colder to-day; tomorrow fair, fresh
westerly winds.
For Western New YorlS-Cloudy to-day and
10 morrow; probably local snow to-day; not
much change in temperature.
WASHINGTON, Feb 3-The storm that
was central over Matne last night has moved
northeastward to the Gulf of st. Lawrence
Win further increase in intensity and snow
ilurrles, anu strong west winds have con-
tlnued In the lake region during the past
twenty-four hours. Over the remainder of
the country generally fair weather has pre-
vailed. except that there were local rains in
northern Florida and along the north Pa
cific coast and light SHOWS in the north
plateau and north Rocky Mountain regions
The temperature has risen in the Dakotas
and 1t has changed little in other regions
during the last twenty-rour hours.
The indications are for generally fair
weather tomorrow and Sunday in the States
east of tho Mississippi River. except that
STOW flurries are probable in portions of the
lake region and local rains in Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi.
The temperature will not change materi-
ally
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations. taken at p. NJ yesterday.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
FRENCH SOPRANO pIEAsEs.

Mile. Fanny Rezia, a soprano who re-
Gently came to this country from France,
gave a song recital last evening in
Aeolian Hall. Her program included
older airs, modern French and American
songs and operatic airs, with the
Shadow Song" from "Dinorah."
She disclosed good natural voice of
lyric quality. Her scale was uneven
and her tone production insecure. On
the other hand she had a rare feeling
for the Interpretation of the text. She
used no little discretion in her phrasing
and she impaired charm and grace to
her delivery. She is an interesting
singer and should be a good one with
more study on her part.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Song In Mldwinter.

The ground Is firm as adamant;
The rll forgets It's lifting fow;
Behind the hills the wild winds chant
The swelling sagas Of the snow.
From height to height the echoes peal
And round the gables make their mock
The sky Is like an arc of steel,
Yet 1t appears to reel and rock.
1t Is as though, from quiet banned.
Nature had madness in her mood;
1t is as though throughout the land
The tabled furios were at feud.
But ono day all of this SHALL pass.
And TO our rapturous surprise
The earth will seem singing lass
With April shining in hor eyes.
CLINTON ScoLLARp.