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The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Jewish Put and Take.
Maybe Pyramid Builders Taught He.
brews to Spin the Top.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your
Of put and take and its probable an
tiquity suggests that "the Egyptian
pyramid builders may have played the
game"
That is very likely. The contempo-
raries Of those ancient builders. the
Hebrews of the Exodus probably took a
knowledge of it out OF Egypt with them.
The Jews all over Europe have always
had that spinning top. 1t was custom
airy to play the game especially during
the week Of the Hanukah festival.
1t was played by the whole family.
The top was generally hand whitfield
out of wood, though occasionally, but
rarely, 1t was of ivory. 1t was four
sided and had one Hebrew letter on each
of its four Sides, slgnifying nothing,
half. all and put.
The stakes where the children played
were generally nuts or pennies. Even
for older people the stakes were small.
When the play began each player put
the same specified sum in a pool and as
the top after spinning fell on its side
tne spinner tooh lroin lhe pooi ihe
amount indicated by the letter or put in
the amount originally contributed If it
fell on put" When a player won all a
new pool was opened.
Sometimes success was immediate and
sometimes 1t took many rounds for the
whole company playing ard was very
exciting.
We have such an old wooden top in
our possession and are amusing our
selves by playing the game as I write.
NEW YORK, January 8. A. X.
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taking the st. Leger and Sandown
Eclipse in 1909.
Stefan the Great and Sarchedon
are gray in color like their near
relative Refine des Peches. The for
mer was a Middle Park Plate winner
and by no means great horse, going
wrong in the race for the Two Thou
sand Guineas of 1919. Sarchedon
won the Bedford. Coventry, July and
Clearwell stakes and dead heated for
the Criterion Stakes.
Whether Refine des Peches goes to
Mr.. WIDENER's French stud or re-
mains in England for the present, it
is to be hoped that ultimately she
will be brought to the United States
to augment the splendid group Of
thoroughbred matrons at Elmendorf,
near Lexington, in the blue grass re-
gion of Kentucky, where the Phila-
delphia sportsman has one Of the
most attractive establishments to be
found in this country.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Justice Woodward's Resignation.

When January ends the State of
New York will lose the services of
Justice JOHN WOODWARD Of the Appel
late Division Of the Supreme Court,
Third Department. 1t is loss the
State can i'll afford.
Justice WOODWARD has served the
State on the benAh for twenty-six
years. He sat as trial judge for
two years. He was a member Of the
Appellate Division, Second Depart
ment, for fifteen years. He has been
nine years a member Of the court
from which he will withdraw through
resignation this month. Justice
WOODWARD is the senior Appellate
Judge in the State in length of SER
vice. No other Appellate Judge in the
history Of the State has equalled JUS
tice WooDwARD's length of service.
He has displayed integrity, learning
and humanity in his judicial acts. He
has accumulated store Of expert
ence invaluable to litigants and hence
to the people Of New York.
There is no mystery about the
cause which has impelled Justice
WOODWARD to decide to resign. 1t is
the cause which has deprived the
State of many gifted, diligent, highly
trained judges. The State does not
pay enough to keep in its service men
lacking private fortunes with which
to provide for their old age apd for
those who are dependent on them.
The State takes from them much and
gives to them little.
AS long as this condition persists
judges like Justice WOODWARD, judges
of established usefulness, will con-
tinue to serve the State through pa
triotism, through liking for judicial
office. through keen sense of responsi-
bility, until their personal require
ments are inescapably borne in on
them, and when this happens they
will leave public Office for the re-
wards Of private practice, just as
JOHN WOODWARD purposes to do.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
MUSEUM BUYS DRAWINGS.
Spanish Views by Vernon III. Bais
ley Acquired by Hispanic Society.

1t has Just been announced that $50
drawings made In Spain by Vernon Howe
Bailey have been purchased by the
Hispanic Society Of America and be-
ginning next Monday will form part Of
the permanent collection of the Spanish
Museum.
Mr.. Bailey Is a well known American
artist especially noted for his drawings
OF architectural subjects. He has re-
Gently returned from a visit to Spain,
which he explored with great thorough.
ress in search of picturesque material
In Madrid the Duke of Alva made !.
possible for him to gain access to many
notable buildings not always accessible
to the foreigner. Several drawings in
the collection taken by the Hispanlc So
ciety are of the wonderful Castle of
Toro. In the north OF Spain. owned by
the Duke of Alva. 1t is highly inter-
esting ruin.
Other picturesque spots that yielded
many subjects for drawings are Cuenca,
Segovia, Sepulveda, Salamanca, Zamora,
Toro. Seville. Cordoba, Burgos and OF
course Toledo.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
A Baby Turk in Law.

The United States is about to give
its solemn attention to baby prob
lem which might have interested
SOLOMON but certainly would not
have stumped him.
The baby's parents are Russians.
About a year ago, little while be-
fore the baby was born, the parents
left Russia. They were in Constan-
tinople when the baby was born. Re-
Gently they came to this country and
encountered the law.
"You may come in," says the stat
ute to the parents. because you are
Russians. But the baby can't come
in because, having been born in Tur-
key, he is a Turk"
However, a special board of in
quiry will discuss the case. Then we
shall know whether baby born on a
poultry farm must be regarded as a
chicken.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
BY w. ,. HENDERSON.

Leopold Stokowsld. the tall young
man who conducts the Philadelphia Or
chestra. is undoubtedly a musical Mil
tonian It has been said that the melody
OF Chopin Is like that of Swinburne. but
that of Brahms like the organ music
OF Milton. Mr. Stokowslxi gives many
of his days and nights to Brahms, and
last evening. when he and his company
of artists from Broad street gave their
fifth condDrt OF the current season in
Carnegie Hall, the voice OF Brahms was
again heard. This time 1t was the third
symphony, of which Hanslick wrote:
1T repeats neither the poignant song
or fate of the first, nor the joyful idyl
OF the second; it's fundamental note Is
proud strength that rejoices in deeds"
Hanslick strove to find In the work
or at least in the first and last move
ments--a character similar to that OF
Beethoven's "Eroica." But in these days
none except young critics who suffer
from overcrowded memories occupy
their time in observing the resemblances
between Brahms and other great mas
ters 1t is much easier and much
pleasanter to note the differences and
above all to accept without the inter-
position Of defensive barriers the beauty,
the deep. noble feeling and the lofty
thought that Branms left u.s.
The performance of the symphony last
evening had most, If not all, the well
known characteristics of Philadelphia
Orchestra performances under Mr.. Sto-
kowski. There were peculiarities of
tempo. for without these no conductor
can construct his own reading. There
were also that translucent clearness
and that mirrorlilse smoo thness which
mark the best playing of this admirable
organization.
After the symphony Miss Elena Ger
hardt. the distinguished German So
prano, sang Wagner's three familiar
songs, I'm Treibhaus," "Schmerzen"
and '~Traeume" with orchestral accom-
paniment. 1t was not Miss Gerhardts
happiest evening. Understanding of the
songs and sympathy marked her deliv-
cry, but so also did much bad intona-
tion, considerable forcing OF disagree
able lower tones, some carrying upward
of the medium and some very labored
breathing.
The program was brought to It's con-
clusion with the concert suite which
Stravinsky made from his ballet,
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Our Constitutional System.
Prohibition as n Consequence Of Pre-
yiOus Innovations.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: States
men and publicists have always pre-
dicted that wars would destroy our writ
ten constitutions, and 1t must be appar-
ent that the most serious innovations
upon our constitutional system have
been due to the emotionalism aroused
by wars.
The effort to enfranchise the negro by
the Fifteenth Amendment was clearly
the forerunner of the like invasion Of
the sovereignty OF the several States by
the Nineteenth Amendment, which found
it's surest support in the chaotic condi-
ton OF the. public mind at the time
Il was finally submitted for adoption.
The Seventeenth Amendment, following
a high state Of political excitement, re-
moving the conserving influence of the
state Legislatures. opened the way for
the precipitate action of the Congress
in proposing the Eighteenth Amendment
under the abnormal conditions growing
out OF the world war.
II the Senators had been obliged to
consider what the legislators Of subse-
auent years would think OF this action !;
II they had been compelled to justify
themselves to the real representatives
OF the people I'm the years to come, when
the measure of statesmanship was to
be taken. there would have been a dis
position to delay action until the people
themselves had become adjusted. But
the brakes were all off, there was n
race for headlines in the newspapers,
and the rights of the States to deter
%, he tr1ta NJ
their peoples was forgotten in the mad
rush for prohlbtlon---on paper.
A national prohibition party had ex-
listed for years. never able to command
the ballots OF a sufficient number OF
people to be seriously considered in the
political life OF the nation. but with the
masses of the people filled with the
spirit of the "drive," and our statesmen
competing for notoriety, the amendment
was brought into being and was ratified.
becoming effective on January 16, 1920,
and we have now had one year of con-
stitutional prohibition, with what result
It Is hardly necessary to state.
One of the great pleas for national
prohibition was that it was going to
save our boys; that while It might not
be possible to save those who were
addicted to the evil Of intemperance we
could at least prevent the forming of
new habits. Has this been accom-
plshed7 Was there ever time In the
history Of the United States when
drunken debaucheries we're so common.
not alone to boys but to girls? Was
there ever a time whom so many ordi.
narily good, substantial citizens were 80
prone to disregard tho letter and the
spirit OF the Constitution and laws7 The
records OF the police courts, the daily
tragedies growing out OF the illegal
manufacture and sale Of intoxlcants,
the social sanction which attaches to
home brews and other forms OF intoxi-
oants, afford the answer.
Under the regulated systems prevail
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Queer Ways of Carpentry.
How Chinese Methods Differ From
Those of the West.
From the London Daily Moi.

From the London Daily Mdu
A newcomer to China can never fail to
be interested in watching the work that
goes on in a carpenters shop. The
methods are SO different from those to
which we are accustomed, and at the
same time so simple and practical
To begin with. there is nothing In the
nature of clamp or wise for holding
worked upon.
II II Is quite small It is simply placed
against a stop on the bench and held
firm by a string which passes round the
carpenters foot.
For larger and more awkward pieces,
such as an old beam which has to be
stood on end for saving into planks, the
carpenter will rig up some impossible
Heath-Robinson arrangement of levers.
weights and ropes which fulfills its pur-
pose surprisingly we'll
Circular or band saws are almost un-
known-labor is far too cheap-and
II Is a common sight to see huge logs
being made into planks by two men,
This is done by leaning them in sloping
position against n rough trestle, one end
resting on the ground. One man stands
balanced on the log and the other stands
or sits on the ground underneath, while
both work a long saw up and down be-
tween them.
The moo -jeang. ms the carpenter Is
called, is very skillful with a form of
tool which may best be described as a
cross between a European hatchet and
a pickax. 1t has a sharp cutting edge,
perhaps four or FIVE inches long as I'm
the former case, but the edge of the
blade is at right angles to q long handle
as in the latter.
The man will stand on the piece of
wood he Is shaping and use the tool in
much the same way as n navy uses o
pickax. swinging II no as TO strike into
the wood few inches In front of his
foot. 1t Is terrible business to watch.
for II seems as II sooner or later he
must Inevitably make n slight misjudg-
ment and cut off his toes. But he never
does. Quite intricate shapes, such as
the paddles for boat, are made In this
manner.
The Chinese device for making holes
is drill. consisting OF a steel bit
mounted in the end of a wooden rod
about foot long. at the top of which
is a pivoted socket for pressing the drill
down into the wood by hand.
Two strings are wound round the rod
In opposite directions. one from the top
and the other from the bottom, and
these are attached TO the ends of stick
which crosses the drill at right angles.
BY working this stick TO and fro across
the drill after the manner OF violin
bow one of the strings is unwound,
thus rotating the drill, while the other
is wound up. and the bit is made to turn
rapidly first in one direction and then in
the other.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04

as an alternative to the treaty ex-
cept war, and that is something
which few Irishmen, no matter how
militant, want when they can have a
Free State for the asking.
Unofficial canvasses indicate that
the vote in the Dali may be close. but
even If the foes of the treaty should
beat it in the Parliament there is
not the slightest doubt, as Ireland
thinks and talks to-day. that tho
people will follow GRIFFITH and
COLLINS at the polls.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
RARE ANTIQUES EXHIBITED.
Early italian Furniture shown nt
the Anderson Galleries.

The firm of Nannelli of Florence.
formerly of New York, IL showing a
collection of antiques in the Anderson
Galleries which will be sold at auction
tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
The collection contains many speci-
mems of early italian workmanship OF
the kind our interior decorators know
how to employ The cabinets, chests,
tables and seats have the familiar mas
siveness relieved by ornamental carvings
that are always plastic. The refectory
tables. the walnut credenza, the Tuscan
and other writing desks, the quaint
mirrors. the iron brackets and gilt
candlesticks, all evoke pleasant memories
of the past.
There are also In the collection many
interesting pieces of old glass, of pottery.
small bronzes. damask chair covers and
objects of Oriental art.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Winter Song.

Now that the winter airs are shrewd and
keen,
Beloved heart and true,
Across the snowy leagues that intervene
My thought goes out to you.
Goes back to days---how weary are the
ways
That part us, and how longl--
When all the world seemed III by golden
rays
And life was like a song.
II / might SEQ the rapture OF your face,
You whom / so adore,
Tho world would wear again It's golden
grace.
And life were song once more.
cIzNror scoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Electric Drive Engines.
Used on a Car Running From Chi
cagO to Milwaukee in 1891.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Strange,
after all, how small this world is. The
letter referring 20 sightseeing auto
mobiles with electric drive engines calls
TO my mind a 40-foot car which I op-
Grated from Chicago TO Milwaukee,
Wis, In 1894, using the electric drive,
and a little later. about 1897 Or 1898,
the four wheel electric drive with the
same source Of energy as the straight
electric drive.
While on this subject It may be in
teresting for your readers to know that
the first electric illuminated sign came
out in New York city at 63 Fifth ave-
nue. In 1889 Edison was all 1t said.
NEW YORK, January 3. ii. NJ. u.
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Recorder Hackett's Cure.
He Imposed Heavy Sentences and
Stopped Garr0ting.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In the
decade from 1850 to 1860 and later
Washington Square was the scene Of
garroting as bad as or worse than the
holdups to-day. 1t was not until Re-
corder John X. Hackett was on the
bench that garroters quit.
The fashion came from London, Eng
land. Recorder Hackett's sentences
were the limit. He prescribed hogging
In a couple OF cases. That is, as there
was no specific law authorizing such a
punishment he ordered an investigation
to see IL It could be lawfully done IL
so. II was to be done.
His heavy sentences stopped garroting.
CLARENCE d. LEVY.
NEW YORK, January 3.
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Get the Coal Price Down!

Labor leaders in the anthracite
industry declare that pay increase
of 20 per cent. will be demanded for
the new wage scale year beginning
with April. They say that while
some contract miners make $3.50 and
more day the general workers
range from a minimum of $4.20 a
day to $3.50 a day, and that they
cannot live on their earnings.
The operators say that it is not
unusual for contract miners to earn
S400 month and more. The aver
age earnings of 439 contract miners
at twenty-five operations show a
monthly average Of S26S. Common
unskilled labor in and around the
mines, the operators further say,
gets 52lR cents an hour, as against
25 to 35 cents an hour for similar
labor in other industries in the same
locality.
The labor leaders say that the
price Of coal in the anthracite fields
advanced rs per cent. from 1912 to
1921, while the wage rate of anthra-
cite contract miners, the largest
group Of the various occupations in
the industry, advanced 1899 per
cent.
The operators, on the other hand,
say that the increase in the hourly
wage rate from 1915 to 1921 was
114.5 per cent, and the increase over
1912 was much more than that.
But, however the mine wage and
the mine coal price increases COM
pare, what concerns the consumer is
the price of coal that has landed on
him. He knows that in this commu.
nifty coal for which he paid S. and So
ton delivered in the cellar not so
many years ago, now costs him $14
and SIS ton. He demands that the
price of his coal come downtown
not by cents, but by dollars a ton
And 1t must come down.
If, however, the reports of the
Federal Trade Commission are accu-
rate, and there is no reason to
doubt they are, the margin on which
the anthracite operators had to de-
pend for their profit, interest, selling
expense, Federal taxes, &C., from 1913
to 1918 was only AZ and $40 of
cent ton. If the operating figures
OF the mine owners are correct their
average margin in the anthracite
region does not now exceed so cents
a ton. Many Of them do not have
nearly as much as that left over after
paying the cost of getting out the
coal
When the price to the New York
consumer ought to come down by dol
lars rather than cents a ton, it is
perfectly obvious that a reduction
which ought to be expressed in
dollars cannot come out Of the oper-
ator's margin of 60 cents or less a
ton? Out of what must it come.
then? Clearly out of the cost items
which have forced the consumers
price up the dollars, the many. dol
lars. ton. This is partly the 4tual
railroad transportation cost, which
has nearly doubled, and this cost is
chiefly labor. 1t is partly the actual
local delivery cost, which has much
more than doubled, and this cost is
chiefly labor. 1t is partly the actual
mining cost, which has much more
than doubled, and this cost is chiefly
labor.
The prices of coal to the consumer
can come down to any worth while
extent only by getting down the ac-
tual cost Of mining, shipping and
handling the coal.
Get the coal prices down,
The New York herald., 1922-01-04
Royal Marriages.

Marriages between members Of
European ruling houses in recent
years have been few; since the world
war began there have been only two
and both of these were between
princes and princesses of the Greek
and Rumanian royal houses, the mar
| riages early this year of the Duke of
| Sparta, CoNsTANTINE's Oldest son, and
Princess ELIZABETH of Rumania and
that Of Princess HELEN of Greece and
the Rumanian Crown Prince CAROL
There is thus more than the usual
| social and political interest in the
reported engagement of the pretty
Italian princess, Princess YoLANDA.
VICToR EMMANUEL's oldest child, and
the Belgian Crown Prince, the Duke
of Brabant.
These young people are about the
same age, twenty, with seniority of
five months in favor of the princess
Four years ago Princess YoLANDA
was said to be engaged to the Prince
of Wales. The objection reported to
that engagement cannot be made in
the present instance, as both fami-
lies are Roman Catholic. Neither
cap the state reason which called
forth an immediate denial from the
Italian Government when YoLANDAs
betrothal to Archduke FERDINAND of
Austria was reported be urged
against the marriage of an Italian
princess to the member of a royal
family aligned during the war on the
Allies side.
The world war brought about a
great dearth of princes and mobiles
and shattered the romances Of many
princesses. The Russian grand duch-
esses, OLGA, TATIANA and MARIE, two
OF whom It was said would sit on
thrones, perished with the imperial
family. With the overthrow of the
German States princes and princesses
OF long lineages lost their titles and
many of them their fortunes. Aus
trian archduchesses and Hungarian
mobiles fed and found their honors
and titles OF little value in the strug-
gle with new conditions, while the
ancient names of the German media
tized families lost all their potency
in the matrimonial market. AS re-
suit the royal matchmakers have
found IL difficult to find suitable
mates for their princes and still
harder Job to find royal husbands for
their princesses.
Princess MARY of England has
solved her own problem by choosing
her husband from a noble English
family. Her action proved so popu.
lar that It IS suggested the Prince
OF Wales may follow her example
and find the future Empress in the
British Isles. There are two unmar-
ried Kings, BoRrs Of Bulgaria and
ALEXANDER of Serbia. BORIS recently
declared that he was too busy and
too poor to wed; the young Bourbon
princess whom the matchmaker had
chosen for ALEXANDER said that she
preferred the quiet Of her Partisan
life to the uncertainty Of that at
Belgrade. state reasons appear to
be the chief motive urged for the
marriage Of both these young rul-
ers; ALEXANDER, 1t is asserted, would
strengthen his power by marriage
with a Greek. Rumanian or Bulga-
rian princess, and BORIS would have
better chance of holding his throne
n he chose bride from one of the
Balkan royal families.
How far the dearth of suitable
mates 10 responsible for marriage OF
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Years. Ends.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Mr.. Craig
marveis that the last day of the week
and the last day OF the month and also
of the year all fell together in 1921, and
asks when this will happen again.
l guess 1927. but here's another ques-
tion When will a year end except on
the last day Of the last month?
NEW YoRK, January 3. ]. .H.C.
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Tried mt Schenectady.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD c. J.
Brown writes to you about what pur-
ports to be an original idea relative to
short haul transportation by means of
gasoline electric driven locomotives.
This means of iocomotion is not new
idea, it having been used by the Della
ware and Hudson Company on the line
between Mechanlcvilie. N. Y. and
Schenectady, N. Y. some ten years
back. GEORGE i. TAYLOR.
ALBANY, January 3.
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Kentucky Discover. the Spotted Serpent.
From the Georgetown Ncws.

from Wc Ge0TOct0irn Nous.
Charles Kirkpatrick, farmer living on the
Loxington-G Georgetown Pike, killed snake
Saturday on his farm which measured six
feet In length II was n spotted snake, he
said. but he did not know the name OF H.