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The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Kansas Mobs Cost Money.

Under a Kansas law enacted in
1868 incorporated cities and towns
are made liable in damages for all
injuries to property and person re-
sulting from mob violence, and three
or more persons acting conjointly in
breaches Of the peace are defined as
mob. Court interpretations Of the
law have been very broad. 1t has
been held that injuries to person or
property in charivari frolic, or even
injuries to a prisoner in Jail by con-
certed action of his fellow prisoners,
are results of mob violence within
the meaning Of the law
AS stimulus to city and town au-
thorities to prevent mob outbreaks
the law in some instances may be
acknowledged to have been effective
But Kansas communities have suf-
fered from mob violence as have COM
munities in other States. The mob
damage bills assessed against several
Kansas cities and towns have run
into large figures. The rioting of
packing house strikers in Kansas
City, Kansas, for instance, threatens
to load the taxpayers there with a
bill Of nearly million dollars for
damages. Fifty-nine suits for sums
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 are
pending.
Bonner Springs has just paid S20-
600 in damages, court charges and
lawyers fees for the mobbing and
killing Of an alleged bootlegger whose
widow had to be compensated for the
loss of her husband. Independence
Kansas, has had judgments rendered
against it to the amount of S37 500
for injuries done by mob, and there
are two suits still pending. In the
coal fields many suits are contem-
plated as result Of violence com
mitted by strikers last fall and in the
early part of this winter.
The matter is engaging the atten-
ton of the League of Kansas Munic-
ipalities, which has recently made
a report giving statistics of the cost
of mob violence to communities. The
report shows very clearly that the
taxpayer is the innocent bystander
who is always hit when there is a
riot. If his town or city has to main
tain special force of police to pre-
vent mob violence the taxpayer has
to pay for it. If such force is not
maintained and the mob breaks loose
it is again the taxpayer who has to
foot the bill for damages.
Thus it is that in Kansas the high
cost of mobs is added to the already
heavy burden of financial perplexi-
ties with which Americans are strug.
Cling at present.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Dr. Alexander Meikejohn, president OF
Amherst College; Charles e. Mitchell and
Herbert l.. Pratt viii speak at the second
century banquet of the Amherst Associa-
tion of New York, Hotel Biltmore. I r. NJ.
Executives Club of New York and the New
York Chapter of the National Association Of
Corporation Training, conference, Bankers
Club, all day.
Bishop Herbert Shipman will speak at the
annual dinner Of the alumni Of Mlddebury
SS'l College. University Club. Fifth avenue and
t1fty-fourth street, +. NJ.
f. NJ Whyte will speak on Australia and
It's Railways before the New York Rail
road Club, Engineering Societies Building. 10
West Thfrty-ninth street, 8 p. NJ
David Hirshfield. Commissioner OF Ac-
counts. will resume hearings on the Town
Hall birth control meeting, Municipal Build
Ing, 1880 A. NJ.
National Motor Boat. Ship and Engine
Show, Grand Central Palace. opening p. NJ
Dean John w. withers will speak on ''Thc
Function of the High School in American
Education" Schoolmasters Club of Columbia
University. :1o p. NJ.
New York Travelers Aid Society, annual
meeting. home of Mrs. Edwin c. Jameson,
East Sixty ninth street, +. NJ.
One Hundred and Sixth Infantry Post,
American Legion. meeting, POI Willoughby
avenue, Brooklyn, s:15 p. M
Section of orthopedic surgery. meeting,
New York Academy of Medicine, II West
Forty-third street, $3.50 p. NJ.
St. Johns School: Manlius. dinner, Cafe
boulevard, .oV 4. NJ.
Prof Edward p. st. John, lecture, what
Anger Contributes to Character" Training
School for Christian Workers. Z Gramercy
Park. =. NJ
Emerald Association. ball. waldorf-As-
toria, =. NJ.
S. 3. Kaufman, lecture. "Our Tribute to
George washington" Recreation Rooms and
Settlement Forum. 1856 Chrystie street, 1880
p. NJ.
Everett Dean Martin. lecture. 1.-The Psy-
chology of Radicalism," Cooper Union.
p. NJ.
Mary Sandal. lecture, "Egotism and Its
Manifestations" Town Hall, 1913 West For
ty-third street. II A. M.
New York Nicroscopical Society. meeting
American Museum OF Natural History, Sev.
enty-seventh street and Central Park West
Z. NJ.
Catholic Actors Guild. meeting. Hotel
Astor, 2 r. NJ.
August G.. Glatzmayer, lecture. 'Our Grow
ing Borough" Arthur II. Murphy Associa-
ton s62 East fremont avenue. The Bronx
$3.50 +. NJ.
James NJ Beck, Solicitor General, lecture.
"Irranklin Statesman and Diplomat, Town
Hall, 1913 West Forty-third street, $3.50 L. NJ.
limited states Daughters of 1912, meeting,
Waldorf Astoria. 10 A. NJ.
Trust company section. American Bankers
Association. meeting, Waldorf-Astoria, 10
A. NJ.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
dinner, Hotel Astor, j. M.
woman's Forum. meeting. Hotel Biltmore,
10 A. NJ.
American Criterion Society. dinner, Hotel
Cou1uaodOrp q T.. Nj.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Commerce Turns to the Poles.

Commercial nations are manifest
ing a new interest in polar explora-
tions and In the vast, untraveled and
almost unknown regions of snow and
ice around the two poles. 1t would
undoubtedly be difficult at the pres
ent time to awaken deep interest
in dash to either of these extreme
points of the earth's surface; not only,
perhaps, because it is generally ac-
cepted that both of the poles have
been reached but because there ex-
lists more or less doubt as to the
practical value of such expeditions.
The new interest in the polar regions
is both international and national
in character-what are their infiu-
ences upon the remainder Of the
world and what are their potentiali-
ties from a commercial viewpoint?
Some of the most puzzling prob
lens in weather predictions all over
the world have their origin in the
polar regions. The absorbing ques-
tions of ocean currents and safety of
sea travel can find their complete
and satisfactory answer only in a
knowledge of the flow of the waters
of the ocean from the polar regions to
the equator. When a member Of sew
eral former polar expeditions in re-
cent address before the Royal Geo
graphical Society in London ex-
pressed the belief that the great need
of international commerce was the
establishment of scientific stations in
both arctic and antarctic regions for
the study of weather and current con-
ditions he awakened an unusual in
terest among seafaring men. The
value of his suggestion was not ques.
toned: the difficulty, as pointed out,
was the securing of international
cooperation which would carry the
plan into effect.
All the recent expeditions In the
polar regions have had definite COM
mercial designs. Last summer two
expeditions went from England to
explore Spitzbergen. The results OF
both were a revelation as to life on
the island, as to its mineral re-
sources and as to the possibilities of
commercial relations with IL. Sir
ERNEST SHAcKLEToN's last journey
to the antarctic region was under
taken not with the intention of ex-
ploring the land but of studying the
sea to find isla Is which might be-
come whaling stations, to open up
new channels to southern ships and
to map the antarctic coast line for
the benefit OF the mariners and com
mercial agents who may be drawn
there in the search Of trade.
There Is something of the same
spirit Of commercial adventure in the
intention of the Canadian Govern.
ment, which has just been announced.
to send a scientific expedition into
the arctic region to explore Files
mere Land. Since the exploration OF
this far north land by the Norwegian
Captain OTTO SvERDRUP in 1899 the
world has heard little of it until the
report Of this new expedition.
SvERDRUP's ship was lost to the
world for almost two years, but he
explained afterward that although he
and his men we're ice bound they
did not suffer from hunger, for they
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Pure Americanisn.
Remarks OH Debs's Release Please
Kootenai Post, American Legion.

A resolution in regard % the commuta-
tion Of the sentence Of Eugene V. Debs,
adopted by Kootendi Post, American Legion,
Department Of Idaho. No. H. Cocw d'Alene,
Idaho, January IL. 1922.
The editorial article in THE New
YORK HERALD of December 81, 1921.
having been read at length; after full
discussion and upon motion duly made,
seconded and carried. it was by Koote-
mai Post. Department of Idaho. No. a..
of the American Legion.
Resolved, That the post hereby COM
mends THE NEW YORK HERALD for it's
editorial policy in regard to the above
and hereby adopts the views Of said edi-
torial article as an expression of pure
Americanism to which the post hereby
subscribes. -
Dated, January 16, 1922.
T. j. ROBERTSON. Commander.
Attest; DAN l.. LINDsLEY, Adjutant
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

FOR Eastern New York-Fair and cold
Today Tomorrow fair and warmer,
diminishing northwest winds.
ror New Jersey.-Fair and cold to-day: to-
west winds is'"e "'' VI
ror Northern New Englard-Fair and cold
ishtns o.norrow tair end warmer, dimir-
'sn,hs northwest winds
For Southern New Enrland-Eair and cold
to-uey' to-morrow fair and warmer; dimin-
isnins northwest winds
ror western New York-Fnir and warm
'o-u"y tomorrow cloudy and warmer.
". MAslilNGTON, Feb. 1G-The coast storm
mas passed rapidly northeastward and 10
nignt It's center was some distance nortn of
bermuda and moving ACKNOWLEDGEMENT l.
las peen followed by clearing and dpcidedlv
Stnt Meatner throughout the Atlantic
the great lakes Wv -Ne'o" W
r. Another disturbance Is over the western
n 0anauian provinces, and IL Is attended by
with rain In northern California Washinp-
ton ana oregon and rains and SHOWS I'm thr
ihorthern Rocky Mountain region There mas
,es.nap ven pronounced rise IN temperature sinca
sssteruhy over practically all regions west
OF the Mississippi River
inc outlook Is for generally fair weather
10 70 morrow and Saturday in the States east
or the Mississippi River except tbat thero
VIII be considerable cloudiness I'm the Missis
stppl and Ohio valleys and the region of the
great lakes, with a probability of local SHOWS
~ Nm ihe upper lake region. The temperature
VIII rise Tomorrow and Saturday in the
legion OF the great lakes, tho Ohio Valley >
tennessee and the east Gulf States and much
WtIal WWaIrlner weather Is probable Saturday in the
storm warnings remain displayed on the
teras. va Va Sepo nat
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
The Up to Date Scrapbook.
1t Is a Modern Filing System With
Clippings Classified.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I desire
to have you know that Henry Collins
Brown has nothing on me in his New
YORK HERALD that is a sight worth go
ing miles to see on account of the scraps
that have disappeared from it; for I
sometimes have two NEW YORK. HER
AIDS entitled to the same distinction.
This occurs when there is something
on both sides of the sheet that / want
to save. How some of us scrap savers
would like to get publishers to put ad
vcrtisements on the back and only good
scrap material on the front!
And again Mr.. Brown has nothing on
us advanced scrap savers. for we learned
to scrap the scrapbook long ago. We
have substituted a modern filing system.
We have a place for everything and
everything in its place alphabetically
like the dictionary in one long series
from A to y, all self-indexed. We do
not have to scatter clippings on Money"
in hundreds of different places, but they
all go in one place. unless perchance we
wish to subdivide into "Money-Accept-
ances," "Money-Deflation," Money
Federal Reserve System" Money
Finance" "Money-Gold" Money
Initiation" "Money-Land Banks" &c.
And our scraps are not stuck fast.
but removable. and even redistrbutable
as we get new light for a better ar
rangement. And we do not consign our
fling system to the garret every six
months or two years, but string 1t along
in one endless dictionary like Nelson's
Encyclopedia for twenty years. nay,
sixty years. A mans filing system
should be his other self. Let the little
lads get the habit in early life.
EDGAR DAYTON BRrNKERHoFF.
EAST ORANGE, N. j., February 16.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17

who has as sound mind as any mar
in public life in America. He seel
clearly and expresses himself clearl!
and fearlessly. Speaking on Wednes
day on the proposed State bonus h
said:
Il believe that the imposition of
additional taxes would do the service
men more harm than the small
amount which any one of them would
get would do him good
1T is said there is a very large
number of unemployed ex-service
men. There is a large number of
unemployed people generally.
"One of the causes OF unempoy-
ment has been the drying up OF
sources OF capital for investment.
due to excessive taxation. Anything
that will add to that situation will
react unfavorably upon everybody.
including the service men, and the
very small amount which any one
would get would. in my opinion, be
a bagatelle compared to the general
harm that it would do everybody.
including the service men them
selves"
Paying the bonus as an entirety
means, we assume from the Presi
dents letter, bond issue when the
Government can float it, which, with
principal and interest, might very
well run up to twenty billions o.
dollars before being entirely wiped
thousand millions o.
dollars.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
PIANIST AND vIOLINIST PLAY.
Moore and Kortschak in joint
Recital.

Francis Moore. pianist, and Hugo
Kortschak. violinist, both known here
as individual players. combined their
respective forces last night in giving a
sonata recital at Aeolian Hall. The pro-
gram consisted of three sonatas for
piano and violin-Beethoven's opus 30
No. 2, Mozart's in B flat and Gabriel
Piernes opus SO.
The artists showed a good apprecia-
ton of ensemble work. Their tona]
quality, balance and precision We're gen.
orally commendable. The violinist's tone
might have had little more warmth
and his style might have been less ten
tative. But on the whole the perform
ance of the two players had under
standing. finish and nuance. Their play
ing was much enjoyed by a large audi
ence.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Siloti Soloist With Symphony Society
Albert Coates Conducts Tschaikowsl<y, Schubert an
Scriabne in Interesting Program

her own recent declaration that she Is
not singer, but a creator The music
of "Thais'' is poor stuff it is almost
sackcloth and ashes when Miss Garden
finishes with II.
But her delineation of the converted
courtesan has considerable amount of
theatrical significance. Whatever Miss
Garden does is vitalized by that singu-
larly interesting personality which has
been an important part of her equip
ment ever since she first disclosed her.
self to a New York audience. Her spell
was sufficient to attract large audience
last evening and to call forth long and
loud plaudits after every scene.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
The Lure.

II but knew the crocus,
Whose bulb / covered up
In a selected locus,
To spring would lift its cup
All glowing gold or scarlet,
I'd be a happy varlet.
II I but knew the onions,
4 most exclusive set,
The lettuce corn and bunions,
Now in the hot frame wet.
Would rise up in due season,
fear I'd lose my reason.
&c I but knew why Nature,
Despite the way ! WOO,
Confines her nomenclature
To the one word taboo"
In manner so despotic
I'd feel less idlotic.
If | but knew why. knowing
This goes on year by year,
l still keep planting. sowing
And reapng failure drear,
I'd give a--well I'd give farden,
And then go back and start my garder
MArrrcr MorRis
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONN.
'Trend OF the Times-Current Events" Ar.
thur u. Rees. at New Era Club. PA East
Broadway.
.pook OF the Hour, Andlzlus Hedulio."
Prof T. G., Carter Troop, at N. Y. +. L.,
Woodstock Branch, 100 East 16oth street,
The Bronx.
.'The Future OF the Motion Pictures" lee.
.ure. william A. Brady, High School Of Com
merce, 1876 West Sixty-fifth street. Illus.
trated.
"should Motion Pictures Be Consored?"
Canon william Sheafe Chnse. Wadleigh
n g. 115th street. west OF seventh avenue.
.rfs of American History" Samuel $.
c;rossman, at r. S. GO, Eighty-eighth street.
east of First avenue.
"ch,na In Her International Relations. "
prof James c. Ballagh. at y. s. 1872, 1921
street and wadsworth avenue.
cyan and other Islands OF the Pacific"
Mrs fnlian s. Fisher, at +. $. "a, Fordham M
street and City Island avenue. City Island.
Illustrated.
NAPOLEON the Great" Jonas '.ippmann. at
p. s. IS. Anthony and fremont avenues. Tho
Bronx. Illustrated
BROOKLYN, QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
''Trend OF the Times-Current Events,
Mrs. Mary II. Lease, Boys II. s., Marcy
and Putnam avenues.
New Zealand Capt r. Muir Allan, at
p s. o5. Van Sicklen street, near Neck road
illustrated.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
MISS GARDEN IN "THAIS."
Appears In the Familiar Role OF
the Famous Siren of Alexandria.

Massenets "Thais'' was presented at
the Manhattan Opera House last evening
by the Chicago Opera Company in gen.
eral and General Director Mary Garden
in particular. Miss Garden herself I'M
personated the famous siren of AleXan-
dria. as she had done many times be-
fore. Mr. Dufranne was the Athdndel
and Theodore Ritch represented the
gilded youth of the Mediterranean
metropolis. He was the NtEtds. Gapriei
Grovlez conducted the performance.
The record Of the performance might
he permitted to stop here in so far as
any possibility of news is concerned.
Everything was old and familiar. Miss
Gardens That's is known to many thou
sands of good Americans. She has acted
and intoned the role on the operate
stage, and she has pictorially amplifled
it on the screen. In it she fully Justifies
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Rest for Kentucky Hunters.

gio1uon ue,cs IN Louisville Courier-JourndI.
After January 81 there is no hunting sport
left but that of the coon and opossum
The law on the latter two goes off on Feb
ruary Is, which gives the hunters few more
days 20 hunt. All hunters In this section
shoot on Reelfoot Lake largely during the
duck shooting season, and the Tennessee law
prohiblts that. The shooting of ducks in
Kentucky went out on January 1, as did
also the shooting OF rabbits and squirrels.
This sport In every line. however. has been
exceptionally fine this winter
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Longer German Working Hours.

Longer herman working Hours.
When Socialist and other radical
leaders in Germany like HELMUD Won
GERLACH and HUGO LINDEMANN come
out for a longer working day than
the eight hours established after the
revolution their program challenges
the attention of all industrial coun-
tries.
The reawakening of Germany to
the law of economies and of sense
that mere wage scales cannot give
workers what they want without the
production by the workers to back up
the wage scales means that other
nations will have to face the same
fundamental truth whether they like
it or not. German productivity or
German unproductivity, British,
American or any other workers can
not let their own production decline
without having their standard of liv
ing decline, for the simple reason
that they can divide only what there
is to divide. The more there is pro-
duced the more there is to divide;
the less there is produced the less
there is to divide.
Germany's output Of food, clothes
and other necessaries Of life is not
enough under the eight hour system,
the foregoing labor leaders now
frankly admit, to enable the people
to live as they lived before when more
work was done and more of every
thing was produced. That being true
of Germany as to it's own standard of
living, something else must be equally
true as to German productivity in
relation to general productivity. This
is that IL the German workers speed
up their productivity either other
peoples of whom the Germans are
trade competitors must speed up
their productivity or the Germans
will conquer the world industrially
where they failed to conquer it by
force of arms.
Increased production, with a CORE
spending lifting of living standards.
may not always depend upon the
length of the working day. III one
country or in one industry where
productivity has oozed away through
men not staying on the job only
more hours of work can solve the
problem. In another where men are
putting in long enough hours but
not hard enough licks more human
steam will turn the trick. But
whether by longer hours in the one
instance or by closer application in
the other, the productivity of a ma
tion or of an industry must be pre-
vented from running down or its
population must have it's bread cut in
thinner and fewer slices. There is
no possible escape from that.
In this country Of all countries,
where hard work from morning to
night built up American industrial
power and gave the highest standard
OF living ever known to the world,
labor has been grossly duped by labor
union politicians and other dema-
gogues into the idiotic belief that 1t
could get good living without work
ing for it. 1t might as we'll expect
stones to turn into fruit for the mere
wishing.
Whatever the Germans do or do not
do in the way of longer hours to
bring them more of the needs and
comforts of life, the American people
are not going to get back to the liv-
ing ease which they had won by
century of manful toll until they get
back on the job in the old American
way, with square days work for
square days pay every workday in
the year.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
Fighting the Bonus.
Those Opposed to It Urged to Tele-
graph TO the President.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In regard
to the soldier bonus bill I notice that
Chairman Fordney says that nothing in
the world can stop IT, think that THE
New YORK HERALD should recommend
that the people who are opposed to this
bill or any general bonus bill should
arrange to telegraph direct to the Presi-
dent, registering their protest. and it
seems TO me that this should be done
at once. ii. s. POWELL.
UTICA, February is.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17

Two women are under arrest in New
York city charged with having col
lected $i00 to conciliate the bad
spirits" which, they asserted, were re-
sponsible for the illness of a boy. Such
incidents, masquerading in modern
legal phraseology as larceny, really
strike hands with the most somber
superstitions of the barbaric past. In
every community there individuals
whose veneer of civilization is alarm
ingly thin.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17

Is not that eminent reviser OF
history Commissioner of Accounts
HRS HFIELD too modest when he de-
crees that one newspaper reporter is
enough to record his contributions to
municipal government? Reporters
are gifted and they are tireless work
ers, but a civic luminary of DAVE
HIRsHFIELp's diameter deserves at
least a score of them to perpetuate
his fame.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17

The Catholic Encyclopedia says I'm
the numbering of the successors of st.
Peter certain differences appear in
various lists" According to the list
this authority prints Plus xI. Is the
261st Pope.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17

Troops are once more held on the
Mexican border to repress a possible
demonstration of Mexican revolution
lists. With OREGON shooting them on
one side of the line and Americans
ready to shoot them on the other,
Mexican revolutionists may find their
calling Improbable.
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
A Busy PennsyIvania Judge.
From thc phiiadeiphia Record.

FROM thc PhHddeIphld ReOord.
W. G.. Comstock Is one OF the busiest
men I'm Montrose. When he Is not attend
ing to his duties as Justice OF the Peace
he is acting as seaer OF weights and meas
ures for susauchanna county. chairman OF
the susquehanna County Republican Com
mittee or president Of the susauehanna
County Agricultural Society. He also con-
ducts chicken farm. on which he raises
The New York herald., 1922-02-17
A Winter Dream.

The white winds die. the west grows
pale;
With twitterings faint the starlings
fly;
A cloud barque with saffron SAIL
Goes slowly drifting by.
Like expresses the pine trees stand
Against the shimmering opal piue'
dream Of an enchanted land.
OF Italy-and you!
CLINTON ScoLLARp.