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10 TTTE BROOKLYN PATLY EAGLE, KEW Y0TITC. WEDNESDAY, DECKMBETl 12, 1023. NO, NOT EVEN A SPARROW FIGHT! Founded by Isaac Vnn Anden In 1041. (Trada Mark Eagle" WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 12, 1D28.

R3 the Arizona delegation shows a disposition to yield In some degree, it will hardly light to the bitter end against any compromise that materially Improves the workings of the bill for that State. The effort of others to compel Arizona to accept the weak party's share of the bargain has come to naught. It rests, legally, on the renunciation of rights In the Colorado River embodied In the Arizona constitution, a renunciation of doubted validity It failed because the Arizona Senators made full use of the powers of their position in the Senate to paralyze legislative business by the methods occasionally employed by small but determined minorities. The effort to determine the shares of respective States in the benefits of Federal Improvements is always a delicate business. Arizona has had some sympathy from States apprehensive that they tn turn might some day suffer similar treatment.

Si composite is a creditable whole though like nothing else in this metropolis. "Yeshiva," or "Yeshlba," means a college of higher learning, originally an institution for the education of rabbis. Bagdad, Babylon, Cordova and Amsterdam have their Yeshlvas. For almost tho whole of the Twelfth Century the Yeshiva at Narbonne In Paris was a mecca for students of Jewish culture. Minsk and Vllna and every Russian town where there were many Jews had a Yeshiva.

The first to be established in New York City was "El Hayylm," at 85 Henry street. The second was Rabbi Elnathan's, originally at 156 Henry street and later at 301 East Broadway. The latter is now consolidated with the college. Orthodox Jews are to have their own cultivation broadspread from a center that Is at once dignified and Impressive. The buildings when completed will, in addition to the collegians, accommodate 2,500 high school pupils.

There will be an athletic field. The faculty will offer temptations to draw Jewish scholars from all over the world. Already the library is a rich storehouse of books and manu Entered at the Brooklyn Postolftce as ficcond Claas Mall Matter. THS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS. Ths Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use Vr republication of nil news dispatches credited to It or ui otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local tewa of spontaneous origin published herein.

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It was worth while for Rabbi Simon Shkop to come from Grodno, Lithuania, to be present. It was worth while for President Frederick B. Robinson of the City College to deliver an address at the dedication. For every institution that revives and reanimates a culture to which the world owes so much as It owes to Jewish thought and Jewish ideals Is a credit to New York City. A FARCE THAT SHOULD END.

INFLUENZA ON THE WARPATH. It will surprise many persons In this part of A COOL RECEPTION. The proposal that the Legislature undertake an Investigation of police conditions in this city stirs no enthusiasm in the bosoms of Republican leaders. Mr. S.

Kingsland Macy, the Suffolk County statesman, who projected it, must be discouraged when he reads the news of the prevailing coolness which approximates frigidity. The astute Mr. Koenig, who heads the New York County Republican Committee, replies: "I am not prepared to say anything about it at present." Our own Jacob Livingston is similarly noncommittal. Mr. H.

Edmund Machold, chairman of the State Committee, lifts his eyebrows in surprise and announces that "the first I knew about it was what I read in the newspapers," to which he adds the unnecessary assurance that "the proposal originated with Mr. Macy." Mr. Machold has no "personal reaction" and "knows nothing about it." Speaker McGinnles has so far received no intimation from any of the New York City leaders "that such an Investigation 'is wanted." Mr. Macy's purpose in suggesting the investigation was apparently less one of service to the public than of service to his party. An Investigation controlled by a Republican Legislature might conceivably do something to promote Republican chances in the municipal election next year.

On the other hand, its necessarily partisan character might have just the opposite effect. Republican leaders with more wisdom than Mr. Macy know that liability and do not propose to Invite it. They are eager enough to hit Mr. Walker's Democratic administration, but not by launching Inquests conducted under palpably prejudiced auspices.

the country to learn that an influenza epidemic the interior has become so severe as to oblige three educational institutions in as many States to suspend classes. Among the three Is the University of Missouri, which has about 5,500 students. In Kansas the Topeka Board of Health reports the presence of 13,596 cases of this disorder in the past week. Twenty-six States are I I rV, affected, and the number of cases Is reckoned to exceed 200,000. Two Canadian Institutions have closed, in addition to those in the United States.

An epidemic so widespread may well draw at tention of the health authorities of this city. The people of this city must be getting very weary of the farce which Is being played at intervals at the City Hall with the Police Department as its pivot. The old and familiar dialogue came from the mouths of the actors again yesterday when reporters asked Mayor Walker and Commissioner Warren concerning reports of the letter's resignation. Mr. Walker and Mr.

Warren conferred at the City Hall for twenty minutes and following the conference, the former was asked: "Is Commissioner Warren's resignation in your hands?" The Mayor: "It is not." "Have you demanded his resignation?" The Mayor: "I have nothing further to say." Commissioner Warren was asked: "Is it true that you have resigned?" The Commissioner: "Any statement regarding my resignation will have to come from Mayor Walker." "Do you deny that you have resigned?" The Commissioner: "Yes, I do." Meanwhile reports are in circulation that the Mayor has decided to replace Mr. Warren with Mr. Grover Whalen, who has been conspicuous In public life as the city's official welcomer. The iubstitution might be a happy one. Mr.

Whalen has been successful in business and might be equally successful in reorganizing the Police Department and catching criminals. Anyway, if a change is to be made it should be made quickly, Mayor Walker has served ultimatums on the Police Department and then withdrawn them They can do nothing to exclude It, but they may have means to reduce its prevalence In case it should come. Fortunately the epidemic In the Middle West appears restricted to the ordinary and entirely mild type of Influenza. Nothing similar to the outbreak ot eight years ago Is to be apprehended. Modernity has added Influenza to its worries.

A generation ago few persons made any distinction between this ailment and the common cold. We may take It as a sign of increasing freedom from more serious concerns when the milder epidemic disorders come to claim atten tion. For all that, influenza is worth avoiding, even in Its least severe forms. It interrupts work and study; it may undermine the health sufficiently to prepare the way for some more seri Former Pennsylvania Governor Discusses Forest Conservation ous ailment. Those naturally prone to take precautions will unquestionably plan to avoid need House of Representatives In Washington.

From the investigations ordered we were under the Impression that such a system has been In operation there for years. Paris, Where Theater Fires Are Almost Unknown, May less exposure, either to the weather or to contagion, in case the unwelcome microbe now occupied in the Midwest opens up for business in New York. while District Attorney Banton did the work in The Chinese Fossils Ban Playhouse Smoking MODESTY IN MONUMENTS. In a competition of seventy-three sculptors and architects the design of two New Yorkers, Messrs. Jones and Rich, has been selected for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.

The specifications for this monument did not call for vastness or magnificence, and the nature of the rjroblem prescribed restraint, not only in treatment but in the employment of space and material. Congress, wisely as it seems, set $50,000 as the approximate cost of the work. This very moderate figure does not bear any relation to the Nation's estimate of its unknown dead of the late war. It signifies that the tomb must bear the characteristics of Intrinsic fineness rather than of display. For this reason the competing designers have had a difficult task.

It has rested, with them to produce a design of which the excellence lay in the conception itself and In the taste and propriety of the treatment. The unanimous verdict of a competent Jury warrants the hope that the winners of the competition have indeed evolved a design of the sort desired. The great sums at the command of monumental enterprises in this country very commonly bring forth works of a more imposing type, in which the lavish use of work and material tends to overwhelm the finer essential qualities that should islation, the police should suddenly clamp down on the music halls and "SKIP-STOP' AS SUBWAY RELIEF. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company car musical snows, me managers wua, ried 83,000,000 more passengers and collected more fares in the last fiscal year than in Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. By GUY HICKOK.

Paris, Dec. 12 Frightened by the Madrid theater Are, which cost more than 100 lives, the Purls City Council has formulated a regulation, not as yet in force, forbidding smoking in the Rothstein case that the police should have done through the Detective Bureau. The business of intimating that a change is to take place and then qualifying the Intimation should cease. The Mayor should either make up his mind that he is satisfied with the present administration of the Department and definitely say so, or make up bis mind that he is dissatisfied and definitely say that. The decision may not be an easy one, but to make it one way or the other would be better than the present policy of drift.

the year before, but provided no more cars. Con surely beat them in the courts, pieao-lr hv ri'stom." In quantity at least Paris has plenty uesignea to pievent fires in theaters. There are no less than 227 article of regulations to safeguard audiencej fronted with the evidence of rush-hour service lower than the standard fixed by the Transit Commission, it now promises to hasten repairs of disabled cars. It also proposes, and the sug the city's theaters. Until now smoking in the audito Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: For the last decade and more the essential fact about the forest situation in America has been winked at or overlooked in most public discussions of the subject.

This fact is that our forests are disappearing at a rate that involves most serious danger to the future prosperity of our country, and that little or nothing that counts Is being done about it. Out of 822,000,000 acres of virgin forest only about one-eighth remains. Half of that remaining eighth, roughly speaking. Is held by the Government and is safe from devastation. The rest is being cut and burned with terrible speed, And there is nowhere in the world anything like a sufficient supply of the kinds of timber we use to take the place of what we have destroyed.

The foregoing statement is taken from the Introduction to a pamphlet by Maj. George P. Ahem, entitled "Devastated America." Major Ahem established the Philippine Forest Service, organized the protection and utilization of 40,000,000 acres of public timberlands, and not only laid the basis for a perpetual succession of timber crops, but earned cash enough from lire, mey were an maae iuh and it is not until Article 205 that tobacco is mentioned, and then verv briefly. "it Is forbidden to smoke in tha Interior of these establishments ex (Washington Star. A dispatch from Peking states that the Chinese authorities have released the 85 crates of fossils excavated in the Gobi Desert by the Andrews expedition and seized and held temporarily on the protest of the Chinese historical preservation commission.

It was urged by that commission that curios of the character unearthed in china. It was uko intimated by by the Andrews party should remain the Peking political commission which joined in the protest that the leader of the expedition had explored for oil deposits as well as for fossils. Now the matter is apparently settled In favor of the explorers, so that unless the authorities at Peking change their minds which Chinese authorities have been known to do frequently in the past the great collection will be shipped to this country for study, mounting and exhibition. There is some reason for sympathy with the protest of the Chinese his riums, and during performances, has been unrestricted in all Paris music halls, In all vaudeville, houses, in most of the moving picture theaters; In fact, in almost all theaters frequented by visiting foreigners. cept, in lUC vi nyv.iai Ization accorded to such an establish- ment, and in such a part of it as is designated." So reads Artlole 205.

It Is one off those rules to which almos every- thiig is an exception Paul Rcboux, a distinguished author and critic, declares that the new res Inhere in the design Itself. Size and material in themselves express but little. In such work as that projected at the Unknown Soldier's Tomb may be attained a richer expression of monumental significance than In an acre of the most elaborate and massive construction. It is to bo hoped that the designers have in this case profited by the limitation which Is an opportunity. ulation soon to be enforced also r.ai an exceoiion clause quite as uruau as the old one: exceDt in cases of special authorization for part ot 1 NEED FOR RESTRAINT.

There are two ways of handling the news situation that arises from the desperate illness of King George. One is to take the medical bulletins issued from Buckingham Palace and employ the same caution of statement they contain, while the other is to supplement them with dismal reports that bear the doubtful stamp of being "unofficial." We have lately had a good deal of the latter method with positive statements from correspondents that the King is dying. Against these statements are to be set the official declarations that seem to encourage rather than to dissipate hope. What the truth Is nobody knows, not even the doctors themselves. In the absence of the truth a little more restraint on the part of the alarmists would not be amiss.

The Opera, the Opera Comique, and the Comedle Francaise, to which a minority of foreign visitors go and those more as a duty than for pleasureare among the limited member in which smokers could indulge their small vice only in the smoking rooms. Cigarette Didn't Start Madrid Fire. The City Council's measure is a reaction of frightened bewilderment lather than of common sense. The Madrid theater fire was not started by a cigaref.e. There is no lecord that any fire in any Paris theater was ever caused by tobacco smok-lnj.

There have been very few fires of any kind in Paris theaters, and these few were from other causes from gas lights in aniient times and more recently from short circuits in the wiring. As a safety measure, therefore, the torical preservation commission against the removal of these fossils. In one sense they belong to the Chinese soil. But they are not ex gestion Is accepted by the Commission, to offer the "skip-stop" as "relief," and to close car doors at the end of 30 seconds whether or not the waiting citizens have got aboard. We are inclined to think that few observers of actual conditions see anything but an aggravation of public irritation lrf running trains past a station, and few see anything but an Invitation to public disorder in the attempt to shut doors on waiting passengers who have paid their fares.

More station men will be needed, and apprehension of violence is not unjustified by like experiments In the past. Yet the informal statement given out by the Commission, and printed December 1, explains its present attitude: The Federal statutory court Injunction Issued last May, the Commission has been advised, is an effective bar to all relief. Under the terms of this injunction the Commission has the power to Investigate and make whatever orders it may deem necessary, but has no power to enforce them. One appeal has already been made to the court to modify the injunction, but it was denied. So far as the public is concerned, then, "Don't shoot the Commission; its members are doing the best they can," is the maxim fairness ought to follow.

Until the litigation now before the Supreme Court at Washington is settled, one way or the other, the prospect of effective regulation of Interborough traffic is negligible. clusively a matter of Interest to China. Indeed, their removal to an other place, one in which there are facilities for their study, is in the Interest of science. There is no particular likeness be or the whole or tne estaoiisnmeni, accorded on the request of the direc 1 tor and after approval of technical experts." Police Cling to Tradition. It appears that, as before, the poltca will follow tradition.

Reboux and some of his fellow critics are trying to bring common sense into, the regulation. "It would be so simple," he says, "ta divide theaters into categories, thosi with concrete or cement floors and with metal seats without upholstery, where smoking might be permitted, and the others." Opnonents of this pronosal insisJ that fatalities are not caused by fires but by panics." "If that is true," Reboux replies, "let smoking be permitted anywhere, but enforce the old law on exits, which says thnt there shall be of them and tha they may be easily and immediately opened by anybody, even children." Aside from all this discussion the fact that Pnris is a citv prictically wlfhont fires. One mav live for years tween the fossils of the Gobi Desert and the treasures of the tomb of King Tutankhamen brought to light a few years ago in Egypt. The Egyp prohibition of a practice which has never yet been numbered among ths causes of Paris playhouse conflagra tian treasures man made, were, indeed, part of the history of Egypt, tions is somewhat absurd. Yet they And it was right anr1 proper that they should be kept in that land in the environment of their origin.

The creatures that perished in the Gobi Desert, and the bones of which have cannot forbid electric wiring, can they? More absurd, however, is the present system of theater smoking per PEDESTRIANS AND CROSSINGS. By a divided opinion 3 to 2 the Appellate Division of this district has sustained a $50,000 damage verdict against a taxi company in an action brought by a citizen who had been hit at an open street crossing, a crossing at which there was no traffic policeman. The case depended on the "right of way." The Police Commissioner, acting under powers vested In him by the Legislature the State, has declared that at unprotected crossings the pedestrian always had the right of way. Under this rule the plaintiff was entitled to collect. But the answer raised a very broad legal question.

The common law gives equal rights at crossings to pedestrians and vehicles. Was the Legislature competent to delegate its powers to a certain official to such a degree that his ipse dixit could supersede the common law as regarded cases where neither he nor any of his force were on the spot? The court might have decided this in the negative without lessening in any way the powers of traffic policemen at crossings or elsewhere. This issue as to. the delegation of powers is one of vast importance under our form of government. Without some decree of such delegation government might be unworkable.

With the degree unlimited autocracy might be proclaimed by any legislative body. Finality in Interpretation is to be desired, and it is well that the above case is to be appealed at once to the tribunal of last resort in the State of New York. Just been found after many centuries, mits. In the absence of precise laws or regulations, there has grown up 1 without hearing the racket of flie opparatus. Winner of the Nobel Literary Prize $42,000 Mrs.

Slgrid Undset lives up in the Norway mountains In a house built of timber in 1590; cares for her own home, teaches her own children, and is to give the whole of the prize money to charity. That she Is the right sort of a feminist is a were not necessarily peculiar to the soil, Those bones are not part of the history of China any more than of the history of other lands. Fossils of the remains of giants have been found all over the world. Those of the Gobi Desert are larger than any previously unearthed. Their real importance lies not, however, In their size but in their exceptionally fine Oxford and Moliere.

I i to pay all the expenses of administration, all the expenses of the Philippine Forest School (which he founded), and $4,000,000 to boot for the public treasury. This outstanding success in forest conservation in the Philippines was built on government control of lumbering. That is and has always been the foundation of such success throughout the world. And throughout the world the right of the government to exercise such control In the public interest is recognized. Forest devastation in the United States can not be stopped without it.

Forest fires are steadily growing worse in America, and fire prevention is absolutely indispensable. But the axe carelessly used is the mother of forest fires. The axe and not fire is our greatest danger. Until the axe Is controlled there can be no solution of the fire problem, or of the problem of forest devastation. Over the national forests, which cover one-fifth of our ultimate possible timber-growing area, we have established government control of the axe.

These forests are safe, they are well handled, and they will produce larger and larger crops of timber as time goes on. Over the other four-fifths of our forest land the axe holds unregulated sway. Either we must control the axe on these privately owned lands, or the forests that are left will follow the road of those that are gone already. The lumber industry is spending millions of dollars on propaganda In the effort to forestall or delay the public control of lumbering, which is the only measure capable of putting an tnd to forest devastation In America, It Is trying to fool the American people into believing that the industry is regulating itself and has given up the practice of forest devastation. That is nit true, and Major Ahern has proved it beyond question In his most valuable paper.

We are still sowing the wind, and the whirlwind is not far off. GIFFORD PINCHOT. Milford, Pike County, Nov. 28, 1028. Too Much Mot Air Atlanta Constitution.) An immense sum is being spent In Installing a ventilating system in the a tradition throurh many decades that only in theaters presenting spoken comedy and drama and In the two opera houses shall the addict tr.

nicotine be denied his pleasure during the show. An Incongruous nulin.7. If the show Is suna; and danced In stead of spoken; if tne spectacle is r. musical revue, such as the Folios or the Moulin Rouge, or a variety performance such as that at ths Empire, pipes, cigars and cigarettes have the right of way. If, on the other hand, a play, even a rollicking; farce, were to state of preservation, and therefore, the opportunity is afforded by them for a study that will thro wllght upon COMPROMISE ON BOULDER DAM.

Those who have watched the proceedings of Congress for the past two or three sessions must realize that strife over the Boulder Dam bill, particularly In the Senate, has cost heavily in time and in consequent delay to public business. The measure probably holds the championship as a time killer, although the McNary-Haugen bill and Muscle Shoals make strong bids for the distinction. The Senate has itself come to realize the disadvantage of endless controversy over this matter, to Judge by its latest action. Efforts toward a compromise between the demands of California and those of Arizona have been under way. Senator Johnson of California and the Arizona Senators reached a compromise this week on tne portion of the yearly water flow from the completed work to be allowed California.

They settled on 4,400,000 f.cre feet, splitting the difference Between the two states' ideas of the matter. All went swimminjly up to the point where it turned out that the Arizonians would not renounce, on the basis of this compromise on one point, their contentions on other points of the measure. Senator Johnson then rejected' the one-point coin-promise and declared for further hostilities. At this stage of the dispute the Senate took a hand. Senator Bratton of New Mexico offered the compromise as an amendment to the bill; the Senate promptly passed the amendment, in the of the California Senator, by a substantial majority, chiefly Democratic.

If the Seriate can dispose in like manner of points of difference over the project it may conceivably reach the stage of enactment in the present session. The Senate gives signs of having become thoroughly tired of seeing Its time consumed in bickering on the subject. Either side can still summon the means to carry on a fill-buster against the bill. But a compromise will offer California considerably more than standing out for all she wants has yet brought her. And the state of life upon the earth in far remote times.

This study could be conducted in China, but it Is as sured that it would rx far more effectively conducted in this country Stephen Collins Foster, author of "The Suwanee River," "Old Uncle Ned" and "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," almost starved In Pittsburg, though he died in New York. If Pittsburg erects a $500 000 shrine In his memory, as planned, the post-mortem recognition of genius will be strikingly exemplified. Plant and Structures Commissioner Goldman's effort to secure from the Sinking Fund Commission approval for a ferry from the foot of Atlantic avenue to Jersey City deserves praise. Some of us remember the old "Annex" ferry from the foot of Fulton street to Jersey as a public convenience for which no substitute has yet been offered. and It is to that end that these old, old bones be brought here for research and for final exhibition.

YESHIVA COLLEGE. Th Oxford Dona forbid tha playinn ot 1 MolIeH rcperloira by M. Copeau'a Com-any on the bnnks the Isis, unloaa each ay la censored by thslr superior taste and wisdom. Newal There Is no heir to great Moliere With humor this event to No nlmbus-Usht can show up right Thls.curlous Oxford censoring. With Bowdler-club the Dons would drub This Frenchman who was sent to slni The dlrse of key-hypocrisy By satire, not by censoring.

Were Gilbert still olive to kill 1 All sham, be would be bent ta spring At silly Dons with lexicons, 1 Who mock Moliere by censoring, But Britain now can but avow, No wit she has dissent to bring, Nr belted knight with lance so bright To puncture Oxford censoring. Yet some men may most fondly snf That, with a tongue that's meant to George Bernard Shaw might bring to tnw The prigs who try such censoring, J. A. Rightly Mayor Walker said at the dedication of the first building or Yeshiva College: "You have brought to the skyline a new achievement In architectural beauty." The structure at 186th street and Amsterdam avenue, Manhattan, is unique. Architect Henry Beaumont Herts owns his debt to archeology, his debt to research Into He Will Faint Again Loulsvllla Courier-Journal.

1 The Georgia printer who fainted when informed that he had inherited $250,000 probably will wish they had left him unconscious until the Inheritance tax was deducted. take place In any of these same the aters, smoking would be banned. There Is no logic In this discrimination, and nobody pretends that there Is. Given the same auditorium there Is no reason why It should be less Inflammable when the Tiller Girls prance and sing than when an Ibsen company plays "John Gabriel Bork-man." Njr Is there any discernible reason why if "John Gabriel Bork-man" falls to make money and is followed by a motion picture, smoking should again be allowed. "Tradition" Sole Explanation, French theater men in a researching spirit have tried to learn the origin of this strange "system," and have not found it.

The only explanation is "tradition," which lias existed so long that It has almost the force of law. If, without new leg- architectural history. He has used broken lines freely. He has used color freely. His little sharp-pointed towers and domes and facades have been called "mosquclike." Yet to this in Canadian wild life is the atmosphere of the work which wins in Paris the Prix Goncourt.

Interesting is the personality of the author, Maurice Constantlne Weyer, native of France, who spent twelve years in Canada 83 hunter and rancher, hurried home to get Into the World War, suffered fifty-four wounds, won a Legion of Honor medal, recovered and bought a Poitiers newspaper. After all, experience is the best background for worthwhile fiction. novation several centuries have contributed their features and the Influence of the old Assyrian 100 Percent Plus Boston Transcript. The trouble about being a 100 percent American is that there is always some new Americanism coming up that we have to take on. And 100 percent i all there Is.

and Egyptian trends may be noted. Byzantine, Romanesque, Norman and Gothic motifs have made their contribution. Critics think that the.