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not 50 serious, after all, as is the per-
petual burden OF interest and pen
sions which the war has entailed. II
will be some time yet before pension
accounts are adjusted and the annual
payments fully determined. For
France alone pensions on this ac-
count are now amounting to around
$lt7.000,000; while the interest upon
her war debt. exclusive of the debt to
her allies, is calling for the equivalent
of s1,767, ,000.0 900. This does not in
clude interest on the debts to the gov
ernments of the United Kingdom and
the United States which, figured at 5
per cent. is accruing at the rate OF
around three hundred million dollars
a year.
The war left England with an in
creased debt charge. excluding interest
on her debt 20 the United States ac-
cruing at the rate of about 5000. 900 900
year. equal to about $500. 900 o0o,
and with additional pension payments
of around five hundred million. Italy
has 10 cope with an increased debt
charge. not including interest at the
rate OF about two hundred million a
year on her debts to the United States
and the United Kingdom. OF around
sS01. 722, 600 and additional pension
payments OF over $500. 900. 600. our
United States expended Sl04,671 900
on veterans vocational training alone
in the fiscal year ended June 30. 1921.
We face an expenditure for the new
veterans bureau and for vocational
training Of s443. 900. 900 in the fiscal
year ended June 80. 1922 while similar
expenses for the following year are
estimated at s4e1 900, 900. This is quite
apart from the proposed soldiers bo-
nus. which, II granted. will run into
ten figures. Our war Interest burden
for the year ended June 80, 1922. was
s96i.0oo.000. Thus we find the total
annually recurring burden due to the
war, 10 the principal European En-
tente nations and to the United states.
for interest ana pensions alone, cx-
pressed at exchange PARTIES. to be
about s6,413.o0o. 900. which amount Is
exclusive Of around $700.000.000 more
accruing on governmental debts.
This does not take into account the
greatly increased cost of civil govern
ment entailedsas an aftermath OF the
war. Investigation shows that follow
ing past wars such expenses have
tended to establish n new level well
above the pre-war basis. Every indi-
cation is thaRthe same conditions will
result in the resent. instance.
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Tales From the Sea.

There are daily refutations Of the
notion that romance passed forever
from the face of the seven seas with
the development of steam and the in
ternal combustion engine. The eter-
nal and immutable elements of isola-
ton and power still brood over the
earth's waters, and mans passions
and his love of adventure rise as high
to-day as ever they did.
What tale from the old days when
sails alone whitened the ocean can
surpass the recent experience OF the
crew of the British steamship Ar
beco, which crashed ON the Renewa
Rocks off Cape Race? The officers
and men leaped on a patch Of rock
and stood huddled together watching
the tide rise until it almost swept
over them. Seeing that their ship was
bound to sink, they cfambered up it's
deck and cut away a boat, only to
have il fall on the rock, breaking the
mates leg and staving hole in the
bottom of the boat. Once again the
seaman's habitual readiness in over
coming difficulties rose superior to
this combination of circumstances
and the sailors patched the boat and
made their way to land.
From Toxic comes a tale of GER
tain Captain WAABDE setting sail for
British Columbia in a twenty-three
ton Chinese fishing junk, thirty-eight
feet over all, with only three Chinese
fishermen for his crew. The painted
eyes on the sides of his little ships
PROV will stare out over the great
billows of the Pacific as the eyes OF
other iunks may have stared long
ago; but they will be the first ones
to watch over sneh passage for a
time so long that no Pacific sailor
can remember a like voyage.
Where in the old sea tales could
reader find any narrative Of a
wreck more tragic than the fate OF
the steam schooner Arctic, which
crashed into the hulk of the steam
ship Whittier, lying, battered shell,
on Saunders Reef, seventy miles
north of San Francisco? Where a
story OF the sinking of vessel like
that OF the Spanish steamship Le-
onica off Gibraltar last year? Bought
in America for s105,000 she was in
sured for 100000, and this sum was
claimed by her owners, but the insur-
ance company declined to pay.
Here in the days news is a tale
Of a fisherman out of Boston who
was brought back TO port after being
adrift for four days in his dory, and
on the same az ta seaman~-yas
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A Maryland Gretna Green.

Whether Elkton, on Maryland's
Eastern Shore, can read its title clear
to being the Gretna Green OF the
East, as some people down in that
part of the country are now calling
IL, or whether the distinction belongs
elsewhere. the fact remains that Elk
ton is doing rushing business in the
marrying line. The marriage fees
collected during July are reported to
have amounted to $4,000, or upward
OF SOS a day.
One Elkton clergyman. who is de-
scribed as the dean of the local
marrying faculty, is reputed to have
made record OF more than $50 in
fees in single day. These figures
suggest that he is by way of having
established something like monop-
oily in the business. Just why he is
thus favored is not clear.
An explanation advanced is that
he has made IL rule not to kiss the
bride. This theory is open to ques-
tfon. Possibly the favored clergy
man has established a cut rate fee.
Maybe by eliminating bride kissing
and other superffuous accessories he
has made speed record in knot ty-
ing. circumstance that might have
weight in Gretna Green weddings, in
which expedition Is often desirable.
But all this is purely speculative.
1T is as mysterious as is the popu-
farity itself Of Elkton with bridal
couples. There are plenty OF other
places on the Eastern Shore equally
available, plus the advantage of less
publicity as a marriage while you
wait center. Not that Elktonians are
complaining. Far from-it. They well
come the coming spinsters and bach
elors. widows and widowers, and
speed the parting married guests.
II is not merely the officiating
forces who are pro6ting by the mar
riage boom. Bridegrooms are pro-
vertically lavish with their money
HotIs, restaurants, shops OF all
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At Parting.

Come. let US take another walk together /:
Just one last walk, then go our separate
ways.
The primrose beckons from the hill slope
pasture
And all the autumn woods are set ablaze
With sudden glory Of dream departed,
A dream Of summer days forever fled---
And we. who would return to life whole
hearted.
There Is SO much we have not even said.
One task remains--one last funereal
rite
And we must do II. you and /. this night.
oh. gently let us lift the dear. dead
hours
And clasp them to our hearts where
none shall see.
Then silently along the primrose path
way
Wen bear our well loved burden TO
the tree
That we have named our own. on yon-
der hilltop
1--WE shall not need It more--this Is the
last).
There. with no spoken word Of parting,
Ar-tenderly, we'il lay away the Past.
And laughing as two children we shall
20
Back down the hlll--so none will ever
IIuf q 49, lrp A 1pv -TSoxwnp
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In the portrait gallery of the Irish
Revolution ARTHUR GRIFFITH, who
died yesterday in Dublin, will al
ways figure as one of the most in
teresting characters. Physically. he
could tower only among pygnlies, but
his short person had the dignity Of
breadth. OF sturdy stockiness and Of
fearless carriage. There was a sug-
gestion of the Rudyard Kipling type
in his llabftual expression of watch
full and not overfriendly aloofness.
He was. no orator, but a writer of
force and of humor like iced yitriol.
He came to power in the politics of
Erin with the principal aid of his
pen and his newspaper and not by
means Of his larynx; and he held a
foremost, place through al the ka-
Ieidoscopic changes because he pos
sessed discernment, courage and conf
mon sense and did not dream the
impossible.
1t was a union of qualities which
not only gives distinction but gen
orally commands success. GRIFFITH
has been pronounced by some of his
admirers to be the ablest leader in
the Irish cause since PARSELL. This
is rating which will or will not be
accepted, according to the point of
view. 1t is certainly true that he
succeeded alike as an agitator, as a
political martyr, as tacticlan, as
negotiator and as parliamentary
leader. He built up the Sim Fein
movement from an object of derision
8 to controlling power. He went to
: prison as TRANQUILITY as he would go
to dinner at his club. He brought
about state of affairs in the huriy-
burly which enabled him to cut under
and upset the extremist plans of the
more emotional and pretentiously pa
triotic De VALERA. When the door
of opportunity opened in Downing
Street he displayed the ability of a
sophisticated diplomat; and he dies
as the President of the Dali Eireann
Cabinet, that is to say, virtually the
chief of a self-governing nation.
Thus it is ARTHUR GRIFFrrH's luck
tc pass into history at period when
his career is at or near noontide and
his prestige unimpaired by the cloud
accidents of the late afternoon of a
strenuous lifetime. And it is a mat
ter of considerable interest to Amer
leans to believe that the hand that
opened for GRIFFITH and his sane as
sociates the door of opportunity at
the psychologist moment was that of
MART1S H. GLYNN of Albany. former
Governor OF New York.
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Woman the Booster.
What WIN Befall the Race II She
Ceases to Urge Man Onwardl

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your edf-
torial article on athletics for women
suggests another menace to the race OK
which nobody, so far as know mas
yet taken account That is the dete-
rioration OF the male as a direct result
of the emancipation and development OF
the female.
For generations untold woman has peen
devoting all her Unsuitable interest, her
tireless restlessness and her stupendous
energy to lifting, boosting. pushing'
coaxing, nagging and otherwise driving
man to do the things that custom would
not permit her to do herself. Modern
conditions have changed all that. To-
day, when the glitter of some high en-
prise attracts her ever wandering fancy,
she does not, MS Of yore. cast about for
q suitable man and urge him on TO
victory. not she. She fares forth and
turns the hitherto forbidden trick her.
self, leaving him to keep the pace, TO
lag at her heels or to snooze by the
fire. as best suits him.
Thus deprived-or relieved, as one
pleases-of his one tiine> galvanizing
force. man finds himself stranded on
the shoals OF his own inertia. and un-
less he watches his step the next gen.
era tson of males is going to be set
of sluggish nincompoops.
Think it over. boys! OBSERVER.
NEW YORK, August IL.
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On the Old Scotia.
Records OF Two Trips Across the
Atlantic on q Sidewheeler.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In regard
to trips across the Atlantic lin side
wheelers in the '7es let me Say that
out Of eighty-eisht voyages I made two
crossings on the Cunard Line steamship
Scotia. The daily runs were as follows,
Left New York May !. 1873: May s. 2s5
miles: Q. 800: 10. $50; II. 800: II. Sis.s
10. 3i4: IL. $40: -. go; 10. 3i4: II.
Queenstown. =. NJ: IS, Liverpool.
. r. NJ.
Left New York May 9. 1874. a:i5 A. M
May :. 32i miles. 8. sol; .. 32s 10. $50;
IL. $40; ~. $40; -, 800; Il. 3ff. 10.
Queenstown. 1c:30 A. NJ; 16. Liverpool,
eio A. NJ.
A contrasting trip was that made on
the screw propelled steamship Cuba. the
record OF which was rs follows.
December ~. 1872. left Liverpool Is.
left Queenstown: 49,. $50 miles; IL. 155:
is. tsi; 70, 2as: 20. 2os: 81. 294; 80. 2t7:
%. 200: -, 1888; 2J. i4j: ~. 13s; n. sn4.
-, Halifax for coal; 20. left Halifax
A. M; 60. 254 miles. 81. 50; 81. dock.
9 T.. M.
GEORGE n. BLISS.
GLEN RIDGE. n. j.. August ~.
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Trading in Alaska.
An Incident Of Woman Rule Among
Natives OF the Far North.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD The as
signment to outlying work in Alaska of
one of the first two Red Cross nurses
to be maintained by the Jane Delano
memorial fund suggests a little incident
OF life in the arctic region.
Molly, known to all early sourdoughs
in back of Nome. lived on Dexter
Creek. She was the daughter of great
warrior chief of a tribe that went TO
war so often that only Molly and her
sister Emma and their mother remained
OF that tribe. Molly. being married and
mother. had three blue-black tattoo
marks radiating down from the middle
part Of her lower lip.
Molly and her husband and Emma.
were being hospitable. and the husband
Alaskan Indians in the matter Of trade.
For silver gray fox skin he had
traded recently Winchester rifle and
200 cartridges to an Indian who had
come on snowshoes from a place 500
miles inland and to the eastward. Tho
Indian had left the fox skin and gone
back, taking the rifle and cartridges.
But the buyer could not be certain for
weeks Of permanent possession in such
trades -
About two months later that Indian
returned with the rifle and cartridges
protectiveiy wrapped and unused. He
placed them on the floor, remarked sins
ply "Squaw no like" motioned that he
wanted his silver gray fox skin back
and departed. Altogether that Indian
had travelled about 1900 miles. or as far
as from New York to San Francisco
on that shopping expedition. and be-
cause "Squaw no like" the trade was
off. II is into that kind of woman
rule country that Miss Bertha r. Ste
vens is going as emergency nurse in, a
district of vast distances.
Having related this incident of your
money back IL not satisfied" Mollys
husband said something in Eskimo to
Molly. She withdrew and after few
moments spread out for my amazed in
soection a bedrobe. about nine feet long
by about six feet wide, and the entise
thing sewed by Molly and all of 1t made
of ermine skins. l did not ask ''Squaw
no like" but assumed that in some re-
spects the female Of the species is not
so very different in the arctic circle from
her sister in more civilized circles wherel
extravaganza rules. ARCHIE RICE.
NEW YORK AuEust 70 =
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brought into San Juan, Porto Rico, ia

brought into San Juan. Porto Rico,
after surviving a two days tight for
life clinging to an empty barrel.
Coming up the English Channel, only
the other day, the second officer or
the British steamship Ikala saw a
mirage Of inverted vessels with their
tunnels resting on other ships, and
aboard the American steamship Half
Moon the officers observed a huge
area of ice with breakers plainly Wis
ible, yet the nearest reported ice field
was $40 miles away.
In one days news from the sea
we read of motorboat pirates stop
ping an auxiliary schooner OF Gun
Key in Florida waters and killing
her captain; OF ~swordffsh tearing
a hole In the planking of a Boston
schooner off Georges Bank and Of
the officers and crew Of the American
freighter Stonewall being presented
with medals for rescuing the crew Of
a Canadian fisherman in a gale on
the Grand Banks. And as il to pre-
serve something Of the spirit of
humor of the days Of sail, the ship
Mazatlan, on arriving at Tacoma re
Gently, reported that a small brood
OF chickens and ducks was Matched
out of the cooks store of eggs while
the ship lay in the doldrums with the
mercury in the thermometer stand
ing at 102.
Captains courageous still sail the
seas, and tragedy and romance are
their ever present companions.
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of others has been greatly changed.
Russia Is in the hands Of the Bolshe-
visits and very likely they have de-
stroyed her books of account. In any
event her accounting system is thor
oughfy dislocated. The former Cen
trail Powers. Germany excepted, have
not published statements for the war
period.
In the case Of France we have only
the budget appropriations as a guide,
as the actual expenditures for the war
years have not yet been published.
We have made a careful study of all
available data, actual figures where
published. appropriations, increase in
public debts and official and semi -offi-
cial statements made from time to
time in the parliaments. in the public
press and otherwise. AS a result OF
this study we are led to believe that
the gross direct money cost of the
war approximated. perhaps exceeded.
223 billion dollars. apOortioncd about
140 billion TO the Entente Allies and
the United States and about SO billion
TO the former Central Powers. In
these totals internally loans are elimi-
mated.
These figures are obtained by con-
vcrting the estimated expenses for
each country from their national cur
rencics into doliarsNat the par of ex-
Change. That is. the franc and the
Ira are valued at 1913 cents, the pound
sterling at Sf.s6. the mark at 23.S
cents. and SO on.
However, in view of the depreciation
In the purchasing power OF all currcn-
cies 1t is necessary In order TO obtain
an accurate statement OF the cost of
the war to reduce the statistics to
some common basis. Especially Is this
necessary II we are to institute COM
parisons between the statements Of
the different nations.
No absolutely scientific basis has
been devised for obtaining a common
denominator for this purpose. Still
we will be in good company If we fol-
low in the footsteps of economists and
statisticians who have made a COM
narrative study of commodity prices
and have devised what are known as
price index numbers" These num-
bers are based upon combination
and averaging of the prices Of groups
of. commodities which enter into COM
mon use. The prices of the year 1913
are taken as normal. at any rate as
prices not affected by war conditions.
These prices are taken az base 600
per cent?. and tha prices for sunns-
The New York herald., 1922-08-13
Sign Posts Of the Sky.
The Dipper's Pointers Aim at Arc.
turus as Well as POIaris.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: Most Of
us have read about or seen the so-called
pointers in the starry Dipper, which
aim. more or less directly, toward Po-
laris, that is. the North Star. These
pointers are named Alpha and Beta. and
are also known as Dubhe and Merak.
The Dipper is easily recognized as an
outline of seven noticeable stars, spar
king around 10 p. NJ. In the northwest.
The two suns nearest to the north are
Duhhe and Merak. and an imaginary
line drawn through them toward the
eastward will pass by the star Lambda
in the constellation Draco, and then close
to the North Star and Ursa Minor
But the famous Dipper--it Is also
called the Plow-possesses other stars
which are pointers besides the better
known Dubhe and Merak. These other
pointers are four in number, or Ave IL
we include Dubhe.
Starting from Dubhe and going south
westwardfy. these other pointers are
named Megrez. Alioth, Mizar and Benet-
nasch They point in the general direc-
ton OF the very conspicuous sun Arc
turus Of the constellation Bootes. This
great and glitterng star is easily
found in the west. In the case of Dubhe
and Merak these two suns point east
wardly in straight line toward Polaris.
whereas Megrez, Alioth. Mizar and
Benetnasch aim in a starry curve,
southwestward, toward Arcturus.
One of these four stars, Mizar, is
very interesting. 1t has a close COM
panion sun and one possesses good eye
sight If one is able to discern Mizar's
companion. whose name is Alcor.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
NEWTON, Mass. August IL.
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Virginia.

Names that stud all the Old Dominion
Stir the fancy to spread its pinion.
Fredericksburg-a bloody struggle
winterpocket. Rio. Tuggle,
Nassawadox, Powhatan,
BuclSroe Beach, Midlothian.
Michipongo. Crewe, Gossan,
Shenandoah. Lively. Screamer.
Charlie Hope-no doubt a dreamer
Seven Fountains. No.taway.
Cherriton. close to the Bay,
Spottyslvania-sho and shell
Sandy Level. Lowmoor. Dell,
Hotwater, Brookneal. PAGES. Weems.
James-or. being natural. Jeems-
Disputanta. onancock.
Birdsnest, PhGbus. Corners Rock.
virgilina, Rapidan.
Manassas, where the fight began,
Blackwalnut, Ordinary. Cobb,
wilderness--Grant on the job
Interior. El6o, Quantico.
Rural Retreat--sing soft and low
Stella. Kibler, Aaron. Stith.
Shippers. Alberene. Skipwith.
Crozet, Proflt, Rappahannock.
Handsonn, Brodnax. Tappahannock.
Balcony Falls. Raines. Natural Bridge
Bermuda Hundred, Ben, Blue Ridge.
Louisa. Laurel. Boykins. Hawk,
Appomattox, Guinea-squawk--
Leplo. Salt. Tim. Swordscreek. Bum
pass,
Prince George. Hinkle, ~Pocahontas.
Names that stud all the Old Dominion
Stir sweet Fancy to loose her pinion.
MAURICE NORRIS.
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Swedes to Sail Old Course.

The Swedes propose to celebrate
next summer the sailing of the first
Swedish emigrants to America, al
most 800 years ago, by reenacting as
far as possible this historic voyage.
According to a cable message from
Gothenburg Sweden will reproduce
an exact, full sized model OF the
Kelmare Nyckel, the vessel in which
these early emigrants made the voy-
age, man Il with their descendants, II
possible, and sail it over the original
course to the Delaware Valley, where
the first Swedish settlements in
America were established.
This proposal recalls an interesting
chapter of early history Of this coun-
try and a Colonial adventure which
THOMAS WILLING BALcH in his re-
Gently published Cradle of Pennsyl-
vania" believes IS worthy Of more
serious consideration than it gener-
ally receives. The Kelmare Nyclel
expedition was sent out in the reign
OF Sweden's famous ruler, Queen
CHRIsrISA. In 1898 it reached the
present site of Wilmington Here
Fort Christina, named in honor of
the Queen, was built and the first
Swedish settlement in America was
laid out.
Four years afterward Colonel JOHN
PRINrz. one of the heroes OF the
Thirty Years War, was sent over to
be the Governor of the colony. He
explored the Delaware as far north
as Trenton and changed the capital
Of New Sweden from Fort Christina
to Great Tinicum island. On the ISL
and he built fort, houses for settlers,
mansion for himself and the first
church, says Mr.. BALcH, "of any
branch of the universal church with
in the bounds of Pennsylvania"
The settlement which Colonel
PRrNTz established on Great Tini-
cum Island was the first permanent
white colony founded within the pres
ent limits of the Keystone State, the
cradle of what is to-day the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania" The
island was annexed by conquest in
1865 by the States General of the,
United Netherlands and in turn was
acquired, likewise through the for
tunes of war, in 1864 by the King of
England. 1t was granted by this ruler
to WILLIAM PENN. The fact that
the Quaker statesman had no trouble
with the Indians was largely due
to the policy of fair dealing which
was inaugurated by Governor PRINrz
at Great Tinicum and faithfully fol-
lowed by the Swedes during their
years of occupation of the island.
There have been several sugges-
tons of plans to honor the memory
Of Governor PRISTz. One is the
naming after him Of a highway from
Philadelphia to Wilmington: another
is making State park of the whole
or part of Great Tinicum Island. The
sailing Of new Kelmare Nyckel
over the course taken by the first
Swedish settlers to America will be
a material aid in refreshing the MEM
ory of Pennsylvania and Delaware in
regard to this bit of their early his
tory and also their wise and capable
first Governor.