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The New York herald., 1922-02-16
Farm Wages Down With Prices.

Farm commodities have been dras-
tically liquidated and farm labor has
been correspondingly liquidated with
them. Average farm wages are
shown by data of the United States
Department of Agriculture to have
settled down before the close of 1921
to $50 a month with board and s43
without board.
The farmer did not get the full
benefit of these wage readjustments
on his business of last year. The
labor costs did not become thor
oughly liquidated until the major
part of the work on his crops had
been done, while the bottom fell out
of his market before the crops were
sold.
And Of course the labor cost is not
entirely represented by the wage
scale. In many instances the farm
laborer who now works for the aver
age SAB month without board gets
allowances from his employer such as
milk, live stock, pasturage, firewood,
vegetables, &c. But the same allow
ances prevailed at the peak Of the
war wage scales, so that the wage
comparisons are a fair measure of
the reduced labor costs.
With all those items taken into ac-
count the Department of Agriculture
figures that in 1921 labor hired by
the month without board dropped 33
per cent. and day labor with board
outside of harvest time 40 per cent.
Although in the North Atlantic
States the average decline was only
27 per cent, in the North Central
States 33 per cent. and in the Noun
tain and Pacific States 35 per cent,
the average farm wage decline for the
whole country was approximately 81
per cent. This is very heavy drop,
as may besjudged by thinking Of 1t
in terms of wages, say, inthe build
ing trades. A building trades wage
going up 100 per cent. from $4 day
would reach sS day. Dropping 81
per cent, 1T would fall back to about
S. day.
Nothing like that has happened ex-
cept in agriculture. Yet 1t will have
to come to pass. With farm labor
and farm commodities so heavily
liquidated the country cannot fail to
fall into lire as to other wages and
prices. /, IS not an economic posi-
bility for the American farmer TO go
on carrying single handed the great
burden of dragging the nation back
to earth again with normal work and
normal costs.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

Lalo's lie Roi d'Ys" was given at
the Metropolitan opera House last eve
ming for the fourth time. The cast was
that heard in the previous performances.
Miss Ponselle interested the audience
with her strenuous delivery of the lyric
utteranees of the maddened princess,
who tried to express her emotions by
drowning half her fathers subjects and
finally consigning her own precious self
to a watery grave.
Nine. Aida was again the good little
sister, who comported herself with
decorum, sang peacefully and was ac-
cordingiy given in marriage to the tenor.
Mr. Gigli was the songful warrior who
returned from foreign conquests to find
that he had made two tenderer ones at
home, and who distinguished himself
chiefly by singing a domestic ditty of
great charm.
Mr.. Danise clustered about as the
hostile prince whose plans all went
awry, and who never had much of a
chance in the opera anyhow. Mr..
Rothier was the king and father. The
performance was conducted by Louis
Hasselmans and was received with ap-
plause by a considerable audience.
With Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White was
his daughter, the Countess Hermann
Scherr-Thoss, who was Miss Muriti
White. Mr.. Carl A. de Gersdorff and
Mr.. Walter White also were members
of the party.
Count and Countess Massiglia and Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel NJ Hyde were with
Mr.. e. Francis Hyde.
Mr. and Mrs. f. Reeve Merrtt's
guests were Mr.. and Mrs Arthur De-
lano Weekes and Mr.. and Mrs. Archi-
bald M. McCrea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd 3. Sanderson and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolcott Warner
were with DR.. and Mrs. Ernest Fahne,
stock.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. De Lancey Coster.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Morgan Barnwell. Miss
Ellen Parks and Mr.. Alexander NJ Had
den we're guests of Mr.. Shipley Jones'
Mrs. Charles Mather MacNeill. Mrs.
Gustave Schirmer and Capt. Charles
Quicke were members of the party in
the Wilson box.
With the British Consul-General and
Mrs. II. Gloster Armstrong were the
recently appointed British passport con-
troll officer to Paris. Capt. Maurice
Jeffes. and Mrs. Jeffes.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Pavenstedt, Mrs.
William F. Sheehan and Mr.. Robert T.
Mckee were with Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lowell Putnam in the Vanderbilt box.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Willets, Miss
Audrey Hoffman and Mr.. Richard Rich
ardson formed the party in the Steele
box.
Mr. and Mrs. John Munroe and Mr..
and Mrs. John Elliott w5re members Of
party In the Alexander box.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
A Groggy Congress.

Washington is giving us the spec
tacle of groggy Congress. A week
ago Congress had everything rigged
FOR tobogganing through the soldier
5onus to the tune of Let the People
Pay" A week ago Congress had
everything rugged for a five billion
dollar loot of the Treasury-five
thousand millions of dollars. A week
ago Congress had everything rigged
20 cinch the bonus vote for this falls
elections.
But something has happened. The
nation is aroused and in bitter pro-
Test has bombarded Congress as it
has never been bombarded before.
Counting on a patient, supine public
Congress went ahead and committed
Itself to the bonus propagandists
without knowing where or how it
could get the money to pay the bonus.
And the bonus propagandists COM
mitted themselves to vote right in
: the fall elections.
Now Congress finds itself in tight
place with an aroused public on the
one hand ranged against the bonus
bill, and the bonus propagandists on
the other hand demanding that Con-
gress keep its word.
If Congress doesn't deliver the
goods to the bonus propagandists it
sees itself losing the bonus vote in
the elections this fall. If it does de-
liver the goods to the bonus propa-
gandists 1t sees itself buried by
public avalanche. This is what has
made for a groggy Congress, so
groggy that it can't see straight.
1t is a good rule in business and
should be a good rule in politics when
one finds he is in wrong to get out
before he wrecks himself, and get
back on right lines. This is what
the present Congress should do. II is
its only chance to continue itself in
craftsmanship.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16

he crossed Greece on foot. He went
thence to Switzerland and studied
the Alpine glaciers.
Soon after his return to Philadel
phia he started for the west coast OF
Africa and made a caravan trip to
Dahomey. When he got back home
again in 1s47 the Mexican war was
in progress and he plunged into it
He had horse killed under him and
received a lance wound in his first
engagement. Hurt as he was he
courageously defended Mexican pris
oners whom the guerrilla band to
which he was attached was going to
kill. Among them were two officers
whose families cared for him until
he had sufficiently recovered from
his wound to be transferred to a
hospital in Mexico City.
Then at the age of 80 he began
his arctic explorations. He accom-
panied the first Grinnell expedition
in 1850 and the second in 1852
Forced to abandon his ship in 1858
after two years Imprisonment in the
ice. he and the remnants of his crew
made a journey of eighty-four days
in boats and sledges to the Danish
settlements, where he was rescued
by a warship sent in search Of him
But the strain was too much for
him. On his way to Havana to re.
cuperate he waS seized with an at
tack from which he died soon after
landing.
DR.. KANE's modest, self-effacine
story of those two years in the ice
and Of the fainting, staggering strug
gle of nearly three months to reach
civilization is an epic of self-denying
heroism that has few parallels.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
A Monument to DR.. Kane.

To-day Is the sixty-fifth anniver.
sary of the death in Havana, Cuba, of
DR.. ELISHA KENT KANE, one of the
most interesting figures in a field of
exploration and adventure in which
the achievements of Americans have
been conspieuously brilliant. 1t will
be marked by the dedication of me-
mortal in the shape of a tablet on
the house in which he died. The To-
cation of this house had been forgot
ten and its identity was determined
only last year.
The Masonic order will have large
share in the commemoration. Ma.
sonic lodges all over the country are
named for DR.. KANE. From ten of
these and from Franklin Lodge In
Philadelphia, where DR.. KANE was
made a Mason, a delegation Of more
than 300 American Masons has gone
to Havana to take part in the dedi-
catory ceremonies.
DR.. KANE is so closely identified
with the last Grinnell arctic expe
dition in search of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN
in the years 1926 that his earlier
career is obscured. The arctic ex'
petitions, however, we're only Incl
dents in life of astonishingly varied
and dramatic adventure. DR.. KANE
was only 81 when he died, but he
had packed into few years enough
stirring activities to make a well
rounded life of achievement for an
octogenarian.
Physically he was so frail that at
the age OF Is he had to abandon his
studies in Virginia University and go
back TO his Philadelphia home. Here
he took up the study of medicine
with such energy that in less than
two years, although an undergradu-
ate and not yet of age, he was made
visiting physician to the Pennsyl
vania Hospital But again his health
broke down. He was appointed a sur
geon in the navy and sailed in the
warship Brandywine for China as
physician OF the American legation
at Pekin. Or. KANE used the oppor-
tunity to make excursions into India
and Ceylon. He went to the Philip
pines, crossed Luzon from coast to
coast. and descended into the crater
of the Taal volcano, feat which sew
eral white explorers had attempted
and in which he alone succeeded.
AT his China post his health once
more gave way and he started for
home. On the way he visited Borneo,
Sumatra, India, Persia, Syria and
Egypt In the last named country
he was severely wounded in a fight
with Bedouins, In which he lost all
his baggage and papers. Then he
had an attack Of the plague in Alex
andria. While barely convalescent
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
New York's Dog Show.

With almost half century Of sue.
cess to confirm its leadership among
societies of its kind in this country,
the Westminster Kennel Club in its
1922 show in Madison Square Gar
den this week reveals an entry list
of dogs big and little imposing in
numbers and quality.
In the exhibition are champions
and potential champions Of the vari.
GUS breeds and all are to be seen un:
der conditions which leave little to
be desired, though greater space
another year would be welcomed by
those owners who were forced to
bench their favorites down in the
basement.
Canada is making a fine showing
Airedales have scored strongly for
the Dominion. This type and the
shepherd are now particularly popu'
lar with the public. They have al
ways been regarded as splendid ex'
amples of all around dogs. Their
general use in the war increased
their vogue so that they are now in
greater demand than ever.
There is comfort for American
fanciers in the knowledge that many
Of the homebreds in this years show
are of such good quality that they
are holding their own with imported
specimens. This indicates a sound
ness Of judgment in breeding and
adherence to the best types which
augurs we'll for the development OF
the various canine breeds in this
country.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
Coal Costs and Coal Jobs.

The leaders Of the coal unions that
are threatening strike say employ
ment in their industry is precar1ous,
and that is true. But to argue, as
they do, that uncertainty of employ
ment is a reason for not readjusting
their wage scales is to approach the
trouble from exactly the wrong angle.
The very cause of so much unem-
ployment at the union mines is the
excessive cost Of getting the coal out
Of the ground. The dear cost coal
cannot be sold except in emergencies
or other special instances, so the
mines are compelled to slow down
or to close altogether.
On the other hand, in the non-union
fields, where the wage scales have
been readjusted to meet the needs of
coal consuming industries, there is
generally full employment with good
weekly, monthly and yearly earnings.
The non-union mines, in other words,
are getting more of the business and
the non-union workers are making
steadier earnings by very reason of
the readjusted wage and other costs
which permit the mines to send, their
coal to market at price at which it
can be sold.
That a wage cost can be high
enough to stop the work of the wage
Garner is as elementary as that a
commodity price can be so excessive
as to kill it's sale. But either the coal
union leader does not comprehend
this simple fact or he does not want
his followers to comprehend it. Else
why does he insist that wages should
stay up when it is those very wage
costs which make the unemployment
of which he complains?
The plain truth about the coal sit
uation is that IL the mine owners
should agree to continue the exces-
sive wage scales the thousands Of
unemployed miners could not get a
cent of earnings out Of such wage
scales because there could be no jobs
for the men when the mines could
not operate under their prohibitive
costs.
The coal jobs depend upon the coal
costs.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
A Revolt Against Ridicule.

The city of Philadelphia and the
State of Nevada have risen in re-
sentiment against certain kind of
standardized foolery which they be-
lieve has worked to their detriment.
They have in indignation declared
war on the jokesmiths.
The campaign was opened in Phil
adelphia few days ago with a spir.
tied editorial article in the Public
Ledger. The resentment therein very
forcibly expressed met with hearty
local approval. Philadelphia has
been long and heretofore acquies.
cent sufferer from that particular
form of so-called fun making which
IS cast I'm molds and may be applied
Geographically to any section, com.
munity or State which seems TO pre-.
sent peg on whicn to hang II. But
Philadelphians have got tired OF It.
The long lane OF their patience has
reached it's turning. From now on
the actors, lecturers, newspaper hu.
morists who dig up the remains OF
that long accepted Jest about Quaker
City slowness will expose themselves
20 retaliation.
In Nevada 1t is the state journal
Of Reno which raises the standard OF
revolt. In a two column article a
writer for that excellent newspaper
serves notice that the limit of Ne
-suas patience with the Jest makers
has been reached. The people of the
state, he says with an emphasis thai
mems business, have borne taunt'
as long as they are going to. NE
vadBns who love their state" h,
adds, from this time forth will figh
untl the thing stops and until those
who are responsible for the evil done
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
Justice to Binnini.
Its Rum Running Reputation De-
clared TO Be Undeserved.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: have nc
interest in Bimini outside of the fact
that II Is an old and favorite fishing
and cruising ground and that it is one
of the most delightful small West Indian
that in justice to II certain facts should
be stated.
There was no more drinking at Bimini
than In any other island or country
where there is no prohibition. Havana
or Nassau. for instance. And the rum
running is not done from Bimini have
spent many weeks on my yacht in that
section. and I know. The liquor ships
load up at Nassau. New Providence
Island. and run to Gun Key. an island
about ten miles south of Bimini. From
here they sneak across and land their
contraband on the Florida keys or else
where along the Atlantic coast.
Bimini Is closed port and a vessel
requires clearance papers to land or
leave that port. / saw nine schooners
lying at Gun Key last winter loaded with
Scotch whiskey. never saw any at
Bimini.
Had Bimini when 1t was first exploited
by promoters been taken over by people
like the Florida East Coast Hotel Com
pany or Carl Fisher of Miami, whom the
public knew and trusted, they could have
made another Catalina Island out of Il.
They have fine hotel there and under
proper management it could be made a
high class popular resort.
Bimini is delightful island; there
is native population of about 500
negroes and the fishing is truly superb.
In loyalty to 1t, from the many happy
days I have spent there fishing and
boating, even before It was doomed as
a resort, I want to make clear that II
does not deserve the rum running repu-
tation which has been assigned to It.
AS a pleasure resort Bimini can fall to
pieces. so far as am concerned, but for
truly splendid big game fishing, de-
lightful climate. wonderful bathing and
tropical scenery 1t will always remain
close to my heart. One hates to see
a stigma placed upon place which does
not deserve 1t at all.
VAN CAMPEN HEILNER.
New YORK, February Is.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16

Trust Companies OF the United States,
meeting. waldorf-Astoria. all day; dinner,
Z 80 =. NJ.
Bali of the Fine Arts. auspices of the So
ciety of Beaux Arts Architects. Hotel Astor
D p. NJ.
Maine Society. dinner. Delmonico's. P. NJ.
1.-THE Port OF New York-Its Health and
Sanitary Problems will be discussed AT
stated meeting of the New York Academy of
Medicine. II West Forty-third street, $3.50
z. NJ.
Ellhu C. Church and John p. oBrlen.
velopment OF the Port of New York" Park
Community Council, P. s. 81, Park avenue
and Eighty seventh street. s:15 p. NJ.
The Port Of New York" ,..,s lecture ,,,l' by
School. Sixteenth street and Irving place.
Illustrated.
Mury Club annual dinner. Aidine Club,
T.. NJ.
"The Federal Tax Law" will be discussed
at a meeting of the New York Credit Mems
Association, Hetel Astor, :45 p. NJ.
DIR. William L. Mosher will discuss I'm
employment" at meeting OF the New York
State Federation of Business and Profes-
sional women's Clubs. Hotel Pennsylvania,
s p. NJ.
Miss Janet Richards will lecture on Topics
of the Hour before the Ely Club. Hotel
Biltmore, IL A. M.
Gov. Nathan l.. Miller will speak at tho
annual reunion and dinner of the Cortland
County Society, Hotel Pennsylvania, p M
American-Hungarian Democratic Club. din
ner to Morris Cukor. Unica Hall. 1891 Sec
ond avenue, z. M.
Alfred e. Smith will speak at a Testimonial
dinner in honor OF Magistrate Charles A.
Oberwager, Hotel Astor, p. NJ.
New York Bird and Tree Club, meeting.
American Museum OF Natural History, Sew
enty-seventh street and Central Park West,
g:30 Z. M.
Herman a, Metz viii disco, ,Tss, The Amer, ri
Lions Club, Hotel Martinique. IL 80 P. NJ.
Miss Janet Richards and Mrs. Francis
Rogers will speak at meeting under the
auspices of the Girls Protective League at
the homo of Mrs. Otto IL. Kahn, 1100 Fifth
avenue, $3.50 T. M.
Illuminating Engineering Society, meeting
of New York section. Engineering Societies
=. NJ.
G. II. Dooley will lecture on Training
Executives" before the Bureau of Personnel
Administration, II West Forty-seventh
street, Il. Nj.
Memorial service in honor OF DR.. Samuel
lege, b2j West 120th street, p. M.
societe des Beaux Arts, luncheon, Waldorf
Astoria, noon
New York Life Insurance Company, lunch
con, Hotel Commodore, II :45 A. M.
National Industrial Conference Board,
meeting. Hotel Astor. $50 A. M.
Rotary Club. luncheon. Hotel McAlpn.
IL 3e r. NJ.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
meetings., Engineering Societies Building. 20
West Thlrty-ninth street, all day.
New York Wholesale Grocers Association.
meetings. Hotel Pennsylvania. 1890 a. M.
and . 80 Il. NJ.
Italian Chamber OF Commerce. dinner.
lot Ui1trnOro p M.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
are taught summarily the lesson they

are taught summarily the lesson they
need"
Just how the seventies of Neva
da's displeasure are to be visited
on the jokers is not disclosed. The
evil they have done the State also
lacks specification. 1t in reality can
scarcely be very great. 1t is difficult
to imagine any serious damage being
done to the State by jokers. Chicago
and Kansas were long the targets OF
machine made wit. So too were Osh,
kosh, Kankakee and Kalamazoo. All
of them have thrived.
A good deal of what is called Amer
lean humor has two defects. 1t is
not humor and it is not American.
1t is that kind of humor of which
Philadelphia and Nevada have been
made the targets. Both are too big
to be harmed by ridicule of this sort.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
The Silent.

Not only those who speak are given the
power
To waken dreams that move our eyes
to see
Earth curtained splendors OF eternity.
have gained more by watching one
small flower
Than learned men can teach In many
an hour.
And I have found how vast Gods love
can he,
Wandering silent by lonely ses,
Though wise men talked TO me on
heavens dover.
Rooms I have found more eloquent by
far
Than tongues OF men who sell their
speech for pay
And standing on misty. wave washed
bar,
learned the way that God would have
us pray.
Then, too. I've found more mystery In a
Than men can put into an acted play.
VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Snow. fol-
iowed by clearing to-day; tomorrow
lair ana cold. strong northerly winds !;
gale off the coast.
ror New Jersey--Snow. followed by clear
naio inf anu colder to-day: tomorrow fair and
ooIu, strong northerly winds.
for Northern New England-Snow to-day:
,.aw .o-horrow fair and colder; strong shifting
For Southern New England-snov. followed
py clearing and colder to-day; tomorrow
iaE[ For ana Wss,o cold strong strong northeriy winds
colder to-day; tomorrow fair; strong norm
erly winds. "
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.-The storm osn-
tral last night over the west Gulf OF Mnx-
leo was central tonight over South Cara
ma and moving northeastward, and another
G Glsturpance was at the same time off Cape
,ou. Ihese disturbances have been attended
Dy general rains In the south Atlantic and
,iuit states, snow and rain In Tennessee and
tne Middle Atlantic States and snow in the
uppw Ohio Valley and the north Atlantic
State General and heavy rains have
fallen throughout the south Atlantic and
east auf States and Tennessee.
Anoher storm Is approaching the north
Pacirio coast, attended by general rains In
northern California, Washington and Oregon
,,a me temperature has fallen decidedly In
inc east Gulf States and upper Mississippi
valleys and the upper lake region 1t has
changed little In other regions.
IN the New England States, New York
tomorrow will be followed by fair and colder
weather on Friday. In the middle Atlantic
states clearing and colder weather to-mor-
row VIII be preceded by snow tomorrow
morning and Will be followed by fair
weather on Friday. In the south Atlantic
states clearing and colder weather to-mor-
row VIII be followed by fair and cold
weather on Friday. with a cold wave in
northern and central Florida and along the
Georgia and South Carolina coast. In the
east CUR States. Tennessee, the Ohio Val
ley and the region of the great lakes fair
ana cold weather tomorrow will be fol-
on Friday. i"'a's
The New York herald., 1922-02-16
NEW SONATA Is PLAYED.

Bronislaw Huberman. violinist. gave
his third recital last night at Carnegie
Hall, with Paul Frenkel at the piano.
He began with a sonata in B minor
for piano and violin by Ottorino Res
pighi, it's first hearing In America, 1T
was announced. Respighi Is best known
here as the composer Of '"The Fountains
of Rome"
His sonata, in three movements, is
quite elaborately written for both In
struments. Largely melodic in form its
character is apt to take on a rhapsodic
coloring. Certain sections Of the score
seemed somewhat labored, but as
whole the music was interesting to hear.
The two players performed the work
with much sympathy. and 1t was well
received. Mr.. Huberman's solos in
cluded the unaccompanied "Adagio e
Fuga," in c, of Bach, and the Souvenir
dun Lieu Cher" by Tschaikovsky.