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The New York herald., 1922-08-21
Institute of Politics Passes Test
Lives Up Its Principles for Free and Open Discus
sion-Round Tables Excite Dominant Interest

agreement to do certain desirable things
respecting her own affairs.
That perhaps Is the real issue. for In
the words Of Philip Kerr on Friday: ut
is an extraordinarily difficult problem
how America is TO play her part as n
world Power in helping to guide world
policy while avoiding entanglements
with the purely internal problems OF
Europe.
One outstanding feature of the entire
session of the Institute of Politics has
been that there has been no discussion
OF tho League OF Nations except matters
relating to inundated territories, the Saar
Basin and the free city OF Danzig. with
which the league has concern.
The institute has heard officially moth
ing that could be construed as criti-
cism or praise for the action which the
Senate Of the United States has taken
with reference to the League OF Ma
tjons. Domestic politics here is not
factor.
President David p Barrows of the
University OF California made two inter-
esting contributions to the discussions
of the round table on the policy the
United States should pursue in the
Philippines and on the spread of Boil
shevism In Siberia. He believes that
talk of Philippine independence is pre-
mature and that number of obstruct-
ing factors must be removed first such
as the problem OF the Moros and the
irborn independent spirit of the natives.
In the conference on the Pacific Ocean
and its problems, where DR.. George Fl.
Blakeslee of Clark University IL chair
man, the outstanding discussion OF the
last week was concerning the practical
value of the Washington arms confer
ence. DR.. Blakes1ee was an unqualified
defender of the value of the results. in
that it abolished competition in building
warships and deprived Great Britain OF
her mastery of the sea.
Rear Admiral w. l.. Rodgers, chair
man OF the executive committee of the
General Board of the United States
Navy, denied that America was now on
an equality of naval strength with Eng
land Oscar IT, Crosby asserted that the
Washington conference scrapped only OBJ
solete means Of warfare. But Admiral
Rodgers still maintained that the bat
tleship was the backbone Of the navy.
The New York herald., 1922-08-21

Special Dispatch 10 THE New York HERALD.
WILLIAMsrowN. Mass, Aug. 20-The
Institute OF Politics to-day enters on
sion with general satisfaction that it
has lived up to its announced principles
OF being an institution for free and open
discussion. The past week has de-
veloped a test of this idea. largely be-
cause OF the round table conferences
where diverse views have received
equally as strong and firm expression.
In general the distinct center of in
terest last week was ~ the speech de-
livered by Philip Kerr. former secretary
TO Lloyd George. Although Mr.. Kerr
is careful to preface all his speeches
with the explanation that he speaks only
for himself. it is never possible for his
audience to forget that he was for
time the alter ego of the man who has
had power longer than any of the war
Premiers or Presidents, and whatever
he says about the causes of the late
war and the peace conference takes
on an unconscious tinge and is inter-
esting as reflection of the viewpoint
of one who has been deep in interna-
tional secrets.
The socalled ''big" round tables. those
on rehabilitation and interallied debts.
the first part of the week. Their end
ing is awaited with special interest. The
leaders of the table on rehabilitation,
and possibly Oscar T.. Crosby, former
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
chairman of the table on interallied
debts, are expected to participate In n
final conference on Thursday night and
Friday morning. With the exception OF
David T.. Houston. former Secretary OF
the Treasury. the leaders OF the re-
Mobilization talk. namely. DR.. Il. Nj. An
derson of the Chase National Bank; Paul
ID. Cravath and Paul NJ. Warburg, are
expected here.
Mr.. Houston has left his definite pro-
gram in regard to the European tangie
with the round table. The program
evoked critical comment from Mr.. Cros-
by largely because of frank disagree
ment between the two men as to the
methods Of accomplishing some desir-
able ends. Mr.. Crosby does not think
that we should condition our aid or CO.
operation with Europe on European
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
The Return.

7 have won back to Gods wide out Of
To see the silvery green OF sycamores
waving beside the weir, and watch the
glide
or topaz tinted bubbles down the tide;
TO catch the glinting OF the white birch
boles
Beyond the gorge wherethrough the
river rolls.
Chanting INCREASINGLY day long, night
long,
The mellow gamut Of its oversong.
I have won back to dream, to wind at
The pathway leading to the cedar hill
Through the lush sumach tangle. past
the bars,
And up the slope where mosses hide the
scars
The jutting boulders make; won back
to hear
The wood thrush in the twilight fluting
clear
Under the mountain to the moon and
I have won back where Beauty builds
anew
Each day fresh enchantment in the
hue
OF multi-colored bloom, and in the line
OF marching peaks that at Tie suns
decline
Take on ethereal vestitures. and glow
In lovelier curves within the stream
below.
/ have won back beyond all dull employ
To visions of free fastness and fresh Joy
That lift the soul and clarity tho mind
And j go down each wafture OF the
wind
Like one transformed. my spirit cleansod
of stress
BY the Great VIII that works for love-
Illness,
Ely the Great Will which is Eternal Law,
Breath of all life, and moving man to
awe.
CLINTON ScoILAGp.
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The Skydragon.
Meandering Outline OF the Constella-
ti0n of Drac0.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: III we
wish to take short ornamental excur-
sion we should follow the meandering
outline of Draco's constellation. None
os its stars is brilliant. and we should
become accustomed to the darkened sky
before observing Draco.
This constellation is also known as
the Dragon, and it possesses a tail and
a head, as well as body. The star
at the tip OF Draco's tail is named
Lambda. and Lambda glimmers just a
trifle southwark from an imaginary
line drawn between the well known Dip
pers pointers and the North Star. Fro6n
lambda Draco extends in southerly
direction four suns. known as Kappa.
Alpha, Iota and Theta.- One of these
suns. Alpha. is also named Thuban.
which was centuries and centuries ago
the North Star. At present our North
Star Is Polaris.
After leaving Theta Draco extends
eastwardly three suns, Eta. Zeta and
Delta. Then it's course turns sharply
toward the southwestward. Here this
sky dragon ends in a noticeable triangu-
lar outline 1t is the head and jaws OF
Draco wide open in the direction OF the
large and dim constellation Hercules.
This triangular outline is formed py
the suns XII, Beta and Gamma, the
brilliant and blue star Vega sparkling
close by near the zenith
In conclusion, such ornamental ex-
cursion along Draco's constellation
should be taken around the hour OF y
p. NJ. CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
NEWTON, Mass, August 10.
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MONDAY. AUGUST 21, 1922.
The Tariff Bill.

The Fordney-McCumber tariff bill
has passed the Senate. Quick action
IS expected on the measure in the
House. Whether the wiser element
III the Republican majority there viii
he able to modify the Objectionable
features of the bill remains to be
seen. Great excesses remain in the
measure. The various blocs, with
their eagerness to make the public
pay high prices for the sugar they
eat and the clothes they wear, may
succeed in keeping the schedules as
they stand-schedule which seem TO
spell the addition of three or four
billion dollars to the living costs oil
the country.
AS only three Republican Senator'S
the bill ,and only three
Democrats supported it the public
will view the new tariff as strictly
rarty measure. Whatever its form
when it leaves Congress. the people
will pass Judgment on it and its
authors at the coming election. 1t
is for them to determine whether
this is the tariff they want. 1t is for
them to decide " neither the increased
revenue and the Industrial protection
afforded by the bin will compensate
for the higher prices which will be
charged for commodities unduly
favored.
Americans like to see their indus
tries protected against dumping from
abroad. They consider protection
real protection-necess for the
maintenance of the high standard of
American living. What they object
to in the Fordney-McCumber bill are
those schedules which, by shutting
out foreign competition utterly, leave
the consumer at the mercy of price
fixing manufacturers. Those sched-
ules were written into the present
bill by men whose political minds
are not living in the present
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
Germany's Task in France.

Tasks of reparation to be done by
Germany in France are rapidly being
planned, and the United States De-
Dartment OF Commerce announces
that the French Cabinet has approved
a report OF the Interministerial Com
mission OF the French Government in
which Is presented. a preliminary
scheme of development extensive in
scope and promising permanent ad-
vantage to French agriculture, indus
try and commerce.
Among the first enterprises pro-
posed for the Germans to undertake
are development OF water powers,
improvement of navigation and es-
tablishment Of irrigation works on
the Rhone, the Truyere and the Dor
dogone rivers, construction of an un-
derground passage to connect Saint
Maurice and Wesserling, and COM
pletion of two portions of the Nord-
Est Canal. All these projects were
under consideration in France before
the war. None has been put forward
merely to make work for Germans
to do. The NordEst Canal system
would connect the coal mines OF the
north and the Sarre with the indus
trial centers OF Alsace-Lorraine, and
would greatly aid the industries of
northern France.
1t is proposed to carry the repara-
ton works on under direction of
French engineers, German contrac-
tors furnishing the machinery, equip
ment and labor. In general two prin-
ciples have been kept in mind in
designating public improvements in
France for the Germans to do. These
are that "the undertakings must be
Of such nature as to become almost
Immediately productive OF revenue /;
and they must be such that the Ger
man workmen and personnel engaged
in the work can be segregated, for
easier handling and control. and
moreover kept in regions distant
from large French eenters." The
river projects above fulfill these con-
ditions, but the tunnel between Saint
Maurice and Wesserling, not of re-
munerative nature, was chosen for
important general economic reasons =
In addition TO the projects included
The New York herald., 1922-08-21

French people there was a strong
appeal in the fact that throughout
his brilliant and distinguished career
he should hold so Loyalty to his
youthful memories and the village OF
lis BIRTH
Saarlouis did not then obtain the
concessions which NAPOLEON had
promised. He was sent to st. Helena
and Saarlouis by the treaty of 1915
became a part of the Rhine province
OF Prussia. But the people them
selves never forgot this promise; 1t
came down as a tradition from gen.
Grafton to generation. When at the
end of the world war General MAN
GIN entered the town on his way to
the Rhine some Of the old inhabitants
reminded him OF the great NAPo-
Icons promise. AS he was neither
NAPOLEON nor NAPoLEoN's successor.
he said that he could only pass the
request on to the proper authorities.
Paris investigated the matter. 1t
may even have referred to Marshal
NEy's original application with Ma
favorable Endorsement upon
it unearthed years ago by the Bour-
bon royalists. And Saarlouis Is to
have the court promised to it III
years ago. not from sentimental
reasons but because of the real util-
ity of the court" But the little
town will accept it as memorial to
one of the heroic characters of
French history and its own most dis
son.
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
Jim Ledford's s Luck.
Another Account OF the Discovery OF
Copper Leaching.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Archie
Rice's very interesting letter in THE
NEW York HERALD of August 16 pur-
ports to give an account of how the
teaching process of copper recovery
was first discovered. SO far as the
principles involved are concerned NJ.
Rice ~ quite accurate, but he is not
entirely straight on his facts concern
Ing the lucky accident which brought
about the discovery by which millions
OF pounds of copper which formerly went
to waste are now recovered every year.
In November. 1889, there was dis
astrous fire in the copper mines in the
Butte district OF Montana. The heat
from this fire caused slow roasting
Of the copper sulphide bearing minerals.
exactly as happens in the first operation
in a smelter The resulting sulphate of
copper dissolved in the water which was
pumped into the mines in large quantl-
ties to extnguish the fires. Reaching
the surface this water flowed across
wagon road In shallow stream.
The local junk dealer. ono Jim Led
ford, allowed his wagon q stand for
some time IN this stream. When he drove
home he discovered a heavy deposit Of
copper on the iron tires OF his wagon
wheels. Jim was no metallurgist. but he
was keen enough TO see that he had
discovered something. He applied for
and obtained the right to control the
entire water supply from the mines.
This he diverter into a yard In, which
he stacked huge piles of junk. BY the
time his contract ran out he had c,eaned
ND about 100000. Later the handling
Of this phase OF recovery in the Butte
district became a company operation.
Leaching. as II Is called, simply IN
wolves the principle Of the precipitation
OF copper in solution. There Is eviGtnce
that il was practiced in crude way
many centuries ago at the famous Rio
Tinto, mines in Spain, but the CONNER
ciaI application OF the process in this
country only dates back to Jim Led
ford's discovery.
Curiously enough. another secondary
process Of copper recovery, known as
oil aotation, by which millions of
pounds OF tho metal are saved every
year. was discovered by accident. The
wife OF miner noticed that whenever
She washed her husbands overalls guam
titles OF copper in minute grains rose
to the surface Of her tub In the soap
bubbles. Engineers were quick to appre-
ciate the Significance OF this, and the
result is The great oil hotation plants
which to-day are recovering huge guam
The New York herald., 1922-08-21

in this preliminary report the De-
partment OF Commerce says 1t. Is
reported that the French Minister
of Public Works has plans to utilize
German labor and materials in build
ing several new railways, the Chan
mel, tunnel with the assent OF the
British Government), harbor works
in nearly all French ports. and in
ternal waterways. The estimated
cost OF the whole program is 1s,419,-
100000 francs, of which it is calcu-
lated that at least 13,000,000.O00
francs might be furnished by Ger
many (labor about 6,O0O. 900. 900 and
materials about 1000, O,O00,OOO) on ac-
count of her reparation debt to
France.
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
For Fresh Air Outings.
S2O,0OO Needed to Send Mothers and
Children TO the Country.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The ex-
cessively hot weather of this week mas
sent large number of mothers and
children to our Offices pleading for a
chance to be sent away to the country.
1t is hard indeed TO deny their re-
quest and we are making every effort
to say yes to at least the most needy
cases This we can do if we are able
to keep our Ave summer outing places
running at full capacity until the middle
of September.
The response to our fresh air appeals
has been considerably less this summer
than in former years. due no doubt to
the bad times which business has been
experiencing. and we have yet TO secure
some $4,000 II we arc to keep all these
places running at full capacity. Yet !
have thought that there might be found
among your readers some who might
help at this time II their attention could
again be directed to this urgent need.
BAILEY b. BuRRrTr,
General Director. New York Associa-
ton for Improving the Condition OF
the Poor.
New YORK, August l9
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
The Tiger City.

Behind the bars Of circumstance.
Denied the food OF dreams,
The city In Its tawny pride
A restless tiger seems.
Ensnared in meshes OF desire
or poverty and sins,
The Tiger City moves its jaws,
And swallows men--and grins.
A loathsome thing; and should fear
Destruction It imparts.
Did not feel beneath its skin
The pulse OF human hearts;
Did not know that back of all
The fury II expends
The Tiger has a kindly need.
That hungers most for friends.
SO / will stroke the citv's back,
And give II dreams to eat;
Some day the Tiger may curl up
A kitten at my feet
HELEN FRAzEE- Bower.
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
Napoleon's Promise Kept.

After Marshal NEY's execution in
december, 1915, by order of the ultra
royalist party, his enemies searched
the quarters which he had last oc-
cupied in the hope of discovering
among his secret papers some evil
dence which they could lay before the
French people in substantiation OF
the charge Of treason upon which he
was tried and convicted.
The statement was made, and it was
afterward employed by French
writer in one of his romances, that
the only secret papers found were
letter from a girl whom he knew
perhaps she had been his boyhood
sweetheart-at Saarlouis, his birth
place, and document with a promise
from NAPOLEON |. that he would grant
certain judicial concessions to this
little town. The discovery had an
effect just the opposite OF what the
Marshal's enemies had desired that
the search should have. IL showed
tHt nuludu Slut VI ANAIOIEbN Sitdt
Marshal and had it's part in establish
ing the popular regard in which NEY
has ever since been held.
Saarlouis was town of about 5000
inhabitants founded by Louis XIV.
and fortified by the great military en-
gineer ,vAUBAN at strategic point
In the Saar Valley. Here in 1863
NrY was born; the son of cooper,
and from here he went to Metz to
begin az a private soldier his career
In the French army. lie rose rapidly.
lie married at the request of NAPo-
.1roS Mademoiselle AUGUns chosen as
his bride by the Empress JOSEPHINE.
His name became almost inseparably
connected with the great Corsi-
cans campaigns. TO the sentimental
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
TCHITCHERIN SAYS u. S.
MISUNDERSTANDS REDS
Asserts 1t Wrong to Think of
Russia as a Vacuum.
HfraTu Bureau,
Berlin. Aug. 90.

Special Gable to TIE NEw YORK HERALD.
Copyright, I9e2, by THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin. Aug. 20.
George Tchitcherin. Bolshevist Min
lister Of Foreign Affairs, told THE NEW
YORK HERALD correspondent to-day that
Americans have the wrong idea about
Russia. He said nothing could come
out of the Hague conference because
the western Governments imagined Rus
sia was about to capitulate.
"They wanted US to give away what
we had gained by the revolution without
Offering us an equivalent. consequently
no agreement was possible" he said. 1T
H. the greatest error to imagine that
Russia Is vacuum when I'm reality her
economic force Is enormous on account
Of her land with its incalculable nat
ural resources. which are rapidly being
awakened. The second error Is TO ignore
the fact that the demands of Secretary
Hughes In his first note about non n-rccog-
milton have practically been realized We
already have a sane and profitable COM
oination OF national control and private
enterprise.
THE third error made by Americans
Is that they listen to the hostile propa-
ganda about the Moscow trial of social
revolutionists. The prisoners were given
the greatest freedom to defend them
selves"
Tchitchcrin does not object to America
recognizing the freedom OF the Baltic
provinces. 1--WE welcome II as the first
departure from ex-President Wilson's
system. which consisted in ignoring
changes brought about through the Mo-
vember revolution and other events" no
said. Tchitcherin continues 10 direct
Soviet foreign affairs in Berlin.
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
The Tmperishable.

There still arc boats with spreading
sails.
There still are folk who dream.
Not all adventuring must be
With hurrying steel and steam
There still are quiet country lanes
And simple folk who dwell
Content with peace and frugal boards
And ancient faiths to tell
The cynicism OF the town.
The romance OF the race
That bids men hurry. hurry on
From place TO crowded place.
All. this is life And yct--and yet
II wears a gay disguise
To hide. tho age old wistfulncss
For peace that dins it's eyes,
HILpA MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-08-21
Our Strike and Lockout Bill.

The Department of Labor's Bureau
of Cancellation and Arbitration
which is the official scorekeeper of the
great game of strike and lockout as
it is played in the United States, has
made public the figures for the six
years from 1916 to 1921 inclusive.
From these statistics it appears that
during the period under considera-
tion employers won 3.515 strikes and
employees 3,112, thus giving employ
ers a lead of 403. In total of
6,627 strikes to a finish this is hardly
wide enough margin for employers
to justify them in boasting.
To be sure two years Of the period
covered were war years, when the
employers will to win was weakened
by the then imperative necessity Of
getting work at no matter what cost
of money and of submission to de-
mands however glaringly unreason-
able. This situation is reflected in
the fact that out of grand total Of
10,254 strikes during the six year
period-an average of about 1,709 a
year-3,627 were compromised. They
were drawn battles.
In addition to the strikes there
were $50 lockouts, OF which the en-
ployers won 81 and lost S3. Here,
again, the score is so nearly even
that neither side is left in position
to be exultant. BY and large, the re-
suits in the total of 10,434 contests
were too nearly balanced to justify
broad generalizations as to the value
of the strike or the lockout as an
adjuster of industrial controversies.
The number of eight hour working
days lost from strikes alone in the
six years ranged from 25,077 in 1917
to 60,715 in 1919. Omitting the $50
lockouts, the total number of eight
hour days lost from strikes in the
interval covered by this report was
264 ass, or an average Of slightly over
$4,000 year. The amount of money
directly lost to the thousands of
strikers by the cessation Of wage pay
ments would run far into the mill
ions even at the lowest rate of pay.
What employers Immediately in
volved lost through interruption of
output and what was lost by other
employers and employees indirectly
affected can never, of course, be as
certained. The combined losses Of
all directly or indirectly concerned
in these industrial commissions the
country never will know, even ap-
proximately. 1t is case in which
the imagination may run riot in
large figures without fear Of sur
passing the fact.
What the country as whole lost
through diminished industrial activ-
ity at period when every ounce OF
the national productive power was
sorely needed is another field for
imaginative exploration with only
the certainty of finding nothing what
ever for cheering contemplation.