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The New York herald., 1922-02-03
Family Railroad Tickets.
Fifteen Signatures and q Photograph
Called For by q New Rule.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Six
months ago the New York Central Rail-
road Company adopted q rule requiring
Communication tickets to be attached
thereto. There is a story current that
somebody fixed up picture of a goat.
horns and all. put it on his ticket and
got away with it. Now they are re-
quring photographs on family tickets
tickets good for all members of fam
ily. its servants and its guests.
AS it was obviously impracticable to
have group picture OF the holder sur
menservants and his maidservants, his
OK and his ass. it was decided that
fathers face or mothers face should
adorn the ticket, and that under the
photograph the signatures of all the
possible users should appear. The con-
ductor is required to question users. who
will then point out their signatures. and
in case OF doubt he may insist on their
writing their names and then compare
them with the originals.
In the writer's family there are ap-
proximately fifteen persons. including
one who does not speak English. Some
work for the conductor. who hasn't a
thing TO do! We are all In sympathy
with the company's efforts to stop the
dishonest use of tickets. but there must
be some better method than making fools
of us and the conductor too.
GERARD FOUNTAIN.
NEW YORK, February 2.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
EVENTS TO-DAY.

DR.. James II. Angel and DR.. Harry A.
Garfield will speak at the annual midwinter
dinner of the alumni of Williams College,
Waldorf Astoria. r. NJ.
City Federation of Women's Clubs, conver-
tion, Hotel Astor. beginning 10 A. NJ.
Section OF surgery. meeting. New York
Academy of Medicine. II West Forty-third
street. $3.50 p. NJ. ,rs
Association Of Stock Exchange Firms.
annual dinner. Hotel Astor. Z T.. M.
New York Microscopical Society. meeting.
American Museum of Natural History
Seventy-seventh street and Central Parl-
West, p. NJ.
DR.. Royal S. Copeland. Commissioner OF
Health. lecture. Progress In Public Health"
Arthur II. Murphy Association. S62 East Tre-
mont avenue. Tho Bronx. $3.50 p. NJ.
Employees of II. Hoe & Co.. entertainment,
arcadia Hall. Broadway and Halsey street.
Brooklyn. $3.50 p. NJ.
DR.. Woods Hutchinson will lecture on
Making Health Contagious League for
Political Education. Town Hall. i23 West
Forty-third street. IL A. NJ.
Mrs. Jackson Fleming, lecture, Foreign
Relations of the United Stntes." Town Hail.
1913 West Forty-tiird street. $3.50 r. NJ.
Everett Dean Martin. lecture. ''The
Psychology of the Economic Interests"
Cooper Union, +. NJ.
National Academy of Design Students As
sociation, Oriental costume ball. Academy
Building, 175 West Tooth street. p. NJ.
United States Daughters of 1912. meeting,
Waldorf-Astoria. 10 A. ".
Fordham University. dance. Hotel Bilt-
more. $3.50 p. NJ.
Peddie Institute. dinner. Hotel McAlpin.
p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
Stage Censorship.

The advocates in the theater busi-
ness Of various kinds Of dramatic
censorship seem to forget too COM
pletely one important and basic fact.
This is the fact that there never
should be need for any kind of dra-
matte censorship.
Every playwright knows whether
his play is clean or not. Every pro-
ducer knows, when he reads the play
and when he is putting it on, whether
it is clean or not. Every actor
knows when he is scanning his part
whether it is clean or not.
There is no press censorship, yet
the thousands of daily newspaper
for all the speed of their making and
the variety of the topics they must
handle-come out so clean that they
are welcomed in every household
Nothing offensive gets into the news
papers. because smut is easily recog
nized everywhere.
NO lldu uetuS n CcHsoi III Ills pUCi
ness unless something is being done
in that business which should not be
done. A clean producer might wei
come a censorship because it would
prevent a rival producer from put
ting on something that was profit
able because it was salacious. A pro
ducer who leans toward smut might
welcome a censor because the censor
could tell him just how far he could
safely lean.
Those who are supporting unoffi.
cial censorship mean well. But what
will their efforts come to if the un
official censors have no power? Nine
ty-nine managers, united in resolve
to keep the stage clean, might set ur
an unofficial censorship, but it would
not deter the hundredth manager, q
producer of vile plays, from going
on with his smut.
The ideal state of the theater would
be one in which no censor was
needed. Lacking the ideal state, the
censor should have teeth.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
KREIsLER WITH SYMPHONY.

The program OF the concert or the
Symphony Society yesterday afternoon
in Carnegie Hall consisted OF Bee
thoven's seventh symphony. the Brahms
violin concerto and the Dance of Kat
schei'' from Stravinsky's ballet "L'Ois-
eau de Feu.'' The solo player was
Fritz Kreisler. The distinguished vio-
Iinist has so identified himself with the
Brahms concerto that he brings 1t be-
fore his auditors now with an authority
not to be attained by younger virtuosi.
The work long ago outlived (except
in Boston) the cruel designation of
concerto against the VIOLIN" In the
hands of such an artist as Mr.. Kreisler
It seems to be the very voice of the soul
of the instrument. This is the result of
a performance which combines in
rarely accomplished balance technical
correctness with imaginative spirit.
His reading OF the cadenza of the
first movement, for example, never de-
scends to the level OF a mere display of
technical wonders, and, indeed, the man.
ner in which he plays the final phrases
leading to the return of the cantabile
theme is lofty flight of musical elo-
quence.
Again, in the last movement. his abso-
lutely correct enunciation Of the rhythm
Is veritable open sesame to the treas
ures of the entire movement. 1t is pos
sibe that Mr.. Kreisler has played the
concerto better than he did yesterday.
but it does not seem possible. Each
time he plays 1t one hears it as IL 1t
were a new disclosure. Yesterdays au-
dience was moved to great enthusiasm.
Mr.. Coates's reading of the seventh
symphony had one conspicuous merit.
1t shortened the concert. All four move
ments were taken in high. Second speed
was not used. The conductor shifted
into first i'm the trio of the scherzo. Tho
contrast was very sharp. The orchestra
came out OF the race in good condition.
To have played the scherzo. and still
more the last movement, at such dizzy
rates was to have proved itself an Or
chestra of successful speed law violators.
Perhaps MIR. Coates will be calmer when
he repeats the program tonight.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
DR.. Jowett's Resignation.

During the seven years of his pas
torate at the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church the Rev. DR.. JOHN III.
JowETT was an outstanding figure in
the religious life OF this city. His
thoughtful. vigorous sermons, always
marked with his own sincerity of
purpose, and his patriotic and stir
ring addresses in war time made a
deep impression, and II was with
feeling of great regret that his own
congregation and his many friends in
other churches learned of his inten-
tion TO return to England to accept
the call from Westminster Chapel,
London. An announcement received
here yesterday from London is to the
effect that. after three years service
and acting on medical advice, he has
resigned this charge.
DR.. JowETT came to the Fifth Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church from the
Carr Lane Church in Birmingham,
England, in April. 1911. He had been
eminently successful in this charge.
and the report of his contemplated
removal to America aroused unusual
interest in Great Britain, calling
forth n flood of letters advancing
reasons why he should remain in
England, a petition from the authori-
ties of Birmingham appealing to him
not to leave the city and expressions
Of regret from Bishops of the Estab-
lished Church at HIS departure from
England.
From the first his pastorate in this
city was successful and the services
drew crowds. His sermons had moth
ing Of the sensational. but they had
much OF the simple teaching OF re-
ligion and a genuine appeal to the
best in human nature. At the time
OF his acceptance Of the Westminster
barge Il was said that under him the
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
The Head of the Family.

"Ydu can give the Roman citizen
ship to men. but not to words For
Tx gathering purposes the Internal
.veAue Bureau has found it neces-
VITO stretch the ancient principle
Is laid down by MAIcELLUs.
EsAR's adviser was circumscribed
10y the hidebound idea of the pater.
familias, the head of the family,
whose right alone it was to pay taxes
and make laws for the household.
Anybody can be taxpaying citizen
nowadays; and by answering series
of hairsplitting questions under a
new ruling of the bureau the title OF
head of the family likewise may pass
TO o good many individuals who
would never dream of claiming it
elsewhere than on an income tax
blank.
The new Federal revenue act, with
its provision that the head of fam
iIy is entitled to an exemption of
$4,000 where the net income does
not exceed $4,000, has precipitated
upon the bureau an avalanche Of
queries. In previous tax regulations
the head OF the family was defined
as a person actually supporting zone
or more persons living in his Cor
her) household, who are closely re-
lated to him ler herr by blood, mar
mage OF adoption"
Now not only may the head of the
family be "a person who actually
supports and maintains in one house
mold one or more individuals who
hre closely connected with him by
blood relationship. relationship by
marriage or by adoption" but the
right extends also to an individual
A"whosc right to exercise family con.
troll ard provide for these depend
cnts is based upon some moral or
legal obligation"
The word moral is susceptible of
considerable elasticity, and it is here
that the extension Of the right to
claim exemption as the head of a
family ~ embodied. Legatees sup
porting dependents by the terms of
a WIN; common law husbands "
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
Vacationless Schools.
Effects on Children Of Scheme Of
Continuous Education.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Please al
low me TO answer NJ. d. Carols letter
on the subject of vacationless schools.
What would be the outcome of such an
institution? A nation full of Paul DOM
boys? One rational reason for school
vacations is that, as NJ. d. Carol says,
the children forget half they have
learned. What would happen IL they
did not? America would find her next
generation composed of neurasthenics. Of
idiots!1 For their brains would become
so overcrowded as to be unable to bear
the strain.
1.-THE mind" said the late DR.. w. T.
Harris, "can become so overloaded with
lumber that there is no room for a
workshop"
Do you know what Mr.. CaXton, hero
Of ''The Caxtons," said OF his sons edu-
cation? IT agree with Helvetius. the
child should be educated from its birth !;
but how?-there is the rub. Send him
to school forthwith! Certainly he is at
school already with the two greatest OF
teachers, Nature and Love-"
The vacationless. school system would
rob the child of both these teachers; for
how, If he were shut up day after day
in the school room, could he possibly
learn the wonder and beauty and peace
OF nature, or the wonder and beauty of
that divine gift, love?
Children are separated from their
parents too long now. 7 appeal to every
lover of children, from pabyhood up. to
protect them from this infamous idea.
HELEN ELMIRA WAITE.
New MILFORD, n. j., February 2.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
Cutting the Vast British Debt.

Great Britain's national deadweight
debt bulked last year to the incom-
parable total, so far as real money
is concerned, of more than thirty
eight billions OF dollars. Not only
was this the outstanding war debt
of the world but it was borne on
the shoulders of population not
nearly one-half so large as our own.
Yet in twelve months the British
nation succeeded in reducing that
staggering load by approximately
$1,000, ,000,000
II the United States cannot make
heavier cuts in our national debt
than the British have shown they
could make in theirs it will not be
because we lack the productive
power, the income and the resources
of Great Britain, for we have vastly
more of all those assets just as we
have vastly more of population.
But the United States, great as it
is in territory, superior as it is in
number of people and powerful as it
is in financial reserves. is not on
the road to getting out of debt when
it recklessly rushes into one new
spending scheme after another,
whether a bonus distribution or
some other. The way to save money
is not to spend it, and the way to
get out of debt is to pay UP out Of
savings.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

| The fourth Thursday concert OF the
Boston Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie
Hall last evening was rich in promise
but poor in fulfillment. The great ex-
pectations were aroused by the an
nouncement that q symphony by an al
most unknown composer would be pro-
-duced. This composer Is a Pole, karoi
Szymanowski by name. and the SYM
phony was his second. Reports OF large
drifted across the Western ocean. and
since Poles had done SO much in the
tone world no astonishment was caused
by the stories.
The symphony left the great expecta-
tions unsatisfed. It proved to be very
ambitious work, but not one which i'm
pressed any warm convictions upon the
minds OF its hearers. The composition Is
In two movements, the first an allegro
moderate and the second q theme ana
variations with q short finale consisting
OF an introduction and fugue. The COM
poser betrayed his eagerness for nov
city by beginning his first movement
with the proclamation OF the funda-
mental theme by violin solo,
The development OF the thematic ma
terial was sufficiently logical to entitle
Mr.. SzymanowSki to commendation for
his grasp Of form. If ne had been con-
tent to present his developments in
plain instrumental speech without dis
guising them In such a motley garb of
orchestration. strings divided so often
and In so many different ways. frag-
mentary exclamationS from so many
voices, inconSequential and rudely OBJ
trusive solo effects and mass combina-
tions apparently designed merely to
stun the ear, he might have given us
first movement with solid merit to COM
mend il.
But it quickly became manifest that
Mr.. Szymanowski's chief concern was
not what he was going to say but how
cleverly and yariously he could say it.
This was llsO the case with his theme
and variations. although in this move
ment he attained at times more gen.
timely musical beauty than he did in
the first. His introduction to the fugue
was violent in character but mercifully
short, while the fugue itself was a
fugue by courtesy only. 1t started as
IL 1t meant indeed to be fugue. but
speedily wore itself out
In melody and harmony the composer
proved himself to be quite up with the
contemporaneous procession. Broken
lines in melodic progression and har-
monic sequences built on separations
rather than relations are very dear to
all these young adventures. They tell
US that music is the youngest of the arts
and that it must make progress. This
indeed all music lovers admit. But why
so painting an eagerness to make music,
heavenly maid. old before her time?
Why not let her grow old gracefully?
Or better still, why not help her to re-
main pcrpetually youthful. fair and cap
tivating?
The pride Of celestial serenity is
humbled in the dust by these clam
crous makers of orchestral disturbance.
This music lacks repose, dignity, grace
The New York herald., 1922-02-03

their classics. The horse was accord
ingly sent to England, where he has
had a special preparation for what
has long been regarded as the stiffest
race in the steeplechasing world
1t is a contest which calls for every
ounce of energy, the last atom of
courage and the highest qualities Of
resourcefulness on the part of horse
and rider.
The top weight for this years run
ming is Sir JAMES BUcHANAN's Sir
Huon, an eight-year-oid gelding by
Huon H., son of the Derby winner
Lord Patrick, imported to this coun-
try by RICHARD TRIMBLE. and now in
the stud in Kentucky. His impost is
175 pounds, four pounds more than
is allotted to Shaun Spadagh. winner
of the event last year. Duettiste is
asked to carry 166 pounds, and in
view of his American record he is not
badly treated. He will have the ben
eft of the riding of the well known
expert ARTHUR EsCorr.
Duettiste will not be the only
American bred horse in the Grand
National this year, as The Bore, by
Ormondale, which ran second last
year, will go again. with his owner,
II. BROWN, as his pilot.
There will no doubt be strong
American deputation at Aintree to
hope for an American victory. but the
Irish have won the Grand National
SO often that they regard the classic
as their own. With the perform
ances of Cloister, Manifesto, Father
O'Flynn, Jerry NJ. The Wild Man
from Borneo and other great horses
from the Emerald Isle fresh in mem
ory the conclusion that the Irish
horses are we'll nigh invincible az
Aintree is inevitable.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
The Rise in Foreign Exchange.

Sentiment can have something to
DO with the price movements of for
eign currencies in terms OF gold or
Of dollars, but the recent rise of the
British pound, the French franc and
the italian lira, which has carried
them to the highest levels since the
summer of 1919, has been the result
of purely commercial transactions.
Among the financial capitals of the
world an exact balance of foreign
Exchange transactions must be struck
at the close of each business day.
When foreign exchange jumps up and
down 10 or 20 per cent. in a single
day, but records no gain, it is usually
the result OF professional purchases
and sales made for profit. These
transactions are IS rule closed with
the days session because the traders
cannot afford to borrow the huge
sums of money necessary to finance
their commitments from one day to
the next. These are meaningless
trades in ups and downs.
But when exchange rises several
cents day and holds the gain the
inference is that the requirements Of
omme-ce are being filled and that
toreign bills purchased are needed
or actual .s>de. This is not theory
lone. Our eA, ,rts to Europe were
mailer by two billions of dollars in
II than in 1920. The trend in the
ection of decreased exports to
;ope grew more marked in the last
Srter of the year. The consequence
y less demand for dollar drafts to
for American goods and a natu-
ID recovery of European currencies
a fairly stable level over that
The British pound at $3.50, the
French franc at S.36 cents and the
Italian Ira at 4.66 cents are consid-
erably above the prices for the last
quarter of 1921. AS these prices are
based on purchases of foreign curren'
cles and the sale of dollars to meet
the commercial demands of the mo-
ment, or the demands of not more
than two or three weeks in the fu'
fure, the conclusion is natural that
Eu~qpe's trade position continues to
improve. The significant lesson OF
the Exchanges, at which it will pay
America to take good long look, is
that Europe is by degrees pulling
itself out of the hole.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03

Fifth Avenue Church had seen its
greatest years in attendance and
in financial contributions to worthy
causes. OF his reasons for returning
to his native land he said:
Il can render there most help when
war is over. Five million men re-
turning from the front, and their
thoughts about everything revolu-
tionary, and especially with their
thoughts about religion either in utter
confusion or ordered and ranged into
tremendous strength-that will be the
time for ministry which aspires to
be the religious guide of men and
which seeks to impress the seal Of the
kingdom of Gop upon the kingdom OF
the world
1t was largely 10 this work that
DR.. JowETT devoted his energies on
his return to England. He spent con-
siderable time in reconstruction ac-
tivities in France. He suffered from
o nervous breakdown and the COM
plications which followed forced his
resignation from Westminster Chapel.
DR.. JowETr's duties never began or
ended with his sermon in the pulpit;
he worked constantly for the better
ment OF his charges. He was hard
laborer in one of the hardest worked
and most trying of professions, that
of minister of the Gospel. He was
a striking and brilliant example of a
martyr to its exacting duties.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
Bequests.

What will so down to history of these
times
OF science, and Of strange discoveries
OF how to multiply wars agonies;
Materialism bred in many climes,
And fortunes built Of selling souls for
dimes;-
OF theories. as heartless as brass tacks,
And creeds. engendered by host of
quacks,
And methods. stained by countless cities
crimes?
Where is that reverent attitude toward
art
That stirred the ancients? Where the
faith that glowed
From carvings. textiles. walls and
spires and flowed
From the expression of a peoples heart
One may PROFOUND to-day's hard fact
in reams,
But epochs are remembered by their
dreams.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-02-03
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair and
colder to-day and tomorrow; strong
westerly winds
For New Jersey-Fair and colder to-day:
tomorrow fair, fresh TO strong westerly
winds.
For Northern New Ergland-Cloudy and
colder to-day; Tomorrow fair and colder,
.-csh westerly winds.
For Southern New England-Fair and colder
to-day and Tomorrow. fresh westerly winds.
For Western New Yorls-Snow flurrles to-
day and probably tomorrow; somewhat
colder to-day.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-The storm that
was central over eastern Minnesota last
night moved rapidly eastward and its center
was Maine tonight. This storm has
be EN- attended by general rains in the Allan
States and rain and snow in the lower lake
region and snow in the upper lake region:
the upper Mississippi and the Red River or
the North valleys. 1t was also attended by
Valley and along the north Atlantic coast.
The pressure was high to-day west OF the
Rocky Mountains AID in the vicinity or
Bermuda.
The temperature continued TO rise in the
Atlantic States and the northern ftoobc
Mountain region to-day. while somewhat
colder weather overspread the lake region
and the great central valley.
weather tomorrow and Saturday in the
States east OF the Mississippi River except
that there will be snow fiurries in the lake
region and extreme upper Ohio Valley: The
temperature vii. be somewhat lower In the
Atlantic States. the lower lake region and
the upper Ohio Valley tomorrow, and it will
not change materially east OF the Mississippi
River during Saturday.
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations. taken at = l.. NJ. yesterday