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T H E E A S T H A M PTO N S T A R , F R I D A Y , D E C E M B E R 3, 1926 a rhetorical parrot. R e c e n tly the THE STAR president o f a university in a w est ern state rem arked, as he appeared P u blished every F r iday m o rning ; b e fore a convention o f som e sort or Entered at the Post O ffice at East other, “ This is my fifth speech today.” H am p ton, N. Y ., as second-class . And the day was but tw o-thirds gone m a tter _ | w hen this confession was m ade. W h at is this but oratorical dissipation? Looking ‘Them Over LITTLE PEN-O-GRAMS [B y “ One o f Ours” ] B. E. BO U G H T O N , ............... Proprietor W E L B Y E. BO U G H T O N .......... Editor Subscription Rate A year, if paid in advance ......... -..$2.50 W h ile it m a y be an easy w a y to dispose o f rubbish, leaves, etc., by sw eeping it into the gutter or road w a y it is a practice that has very little to com m end it, even from the point o f expediency. T o a large de gree, a com m u n ity is ju d g e d b y the appearance o f its streets and roads. In fa c t the passer-through, either on fo o t or in a car, has not, except per- The present-day m erchant w h o is (haps, the yards and homes, any other at all justified in the hope o f m a k ing (m e thod o f judgm e n t, a success o f h is business is already,' And streets and roads that are PRO BLEM FOR M ERCH AN T S Public speakers who are in constant demand m ight profitably soliloquize a f t e r the fashion o f H a m let, thus “ To Speak o r N ot to Speak, That is the Q u e s tion.” W h ich is to say that pop ular orators m ight well consider de clining a decent percentage o f invi tations to orate. LIT T E R IN ST R E E T LO W ERS HOM E V A L U E w ell “ s o ld” to the idea that he must do at least a reasonable am o u n t o f new s p a p e r advertising in attracting patronage to his store. H is real problem ' is to decide ju s t what percentage o f his gross business should constitute his appropriation fo r use in buying advertising space in the newspapers which are distributed in his city and trade territory and how this appropriation m a y be used to the best advantage. This problem is presented w ith par ticular fo r c e at the opening o f the holiday season when largely increased buying m a y be anticipated and when each m erchant is particularly anx ious to attract the attention o f pros pective buyers to his store and to the lines o f seasonable merchandise which he is showing. W ithout doubt, there is a danger o f som e m erchants goin g fu r th e r in space than they are justified in doing on the basis o f reasonable expecta tion o f gross business during any cer tain period. This danger is en c o u n ter ed as a result o f either a failure to give sufficient thought to the su b ject o r to fa llin g a victim e o f the high pressure m e thods em p loyed by some so-called ‘advertising m en’ tem p ting to sell the largest possible am o u n t o f advertising space w ithout studying the m e rchant’s real needs and offering such suggestions as m ight be really helpful in the m a p p in g out o f an advertising campaign. There are times when the full- page advertisem e n t or the double page “ s p read” m a y be the very thing that is required in directing atten tion to som e extraordinary selling event, but it is m o re frequ e n t ly the case that the day-after-day consis tent use o f sm a ller space w ith w e ll- prepared copy, attractively displayed, will go m uch fu r t h e r in securing the desired reader-response, than will the large expense involved in carrying occasional page-ads, follow e d by days o f retrenchm e n t in order to equalize on the total apportionm e n t. It is doubtful i f any East H am p ton m erchant is justified in allow ing a single issue o f the new s p a p e r o f his tow n to be distributed am o n g its readers w ithout containing his ad vertisem e n t in som e form , even i f it be in small space, as m em o ry is a rather fickle thing and patronage is m u ch inclined to g o w h ere it is being invited by new spaper advertising. The Star goes each w e e k into hun dreds o f the homes in this tow n and vicinity w h ich are n o t reached by any other newspaper. TW o-thirds of the buying pow e r o f this com m u n ity is represented by the homes into which The Star is w e lcom e d and carefu lly read each week. The direct response attainable through Star ad vertising is n o t questioned b y adver tisers w h o have been consistent users o f space in this newspaper. It is the sincere wish o f The Star that it be o f real'serv ice to the m e r chants o f this tow n in offering sug gestions, i f desired, and co-operating in secu r in g the best possible results from the m o n e y invested in advertis in g in this new spaper, but it is fa r from ‘ our wish that high-pressure selling m ethods be em p loyed in an effort to oversell any m erchant be yond his real publicity requirem ents filled w ith unsightly\ litter, whether it is in piles or spread about, lying here and there, is not an inviting sight, to say the least, and is m ore apt than otherwise to give the be holder a very p o o r idea o f the lo cality. In the larger cities the sw eeping o f refu s e into the street is an o f fen s e that is punishable by a sub stantial fine and there is really no good reason w h y it should not be the same in the sm a ller towns. It is only a question o f each one keeping his own fro n t clean and if this is done by everybody the labor and tim e vJill be so sm all that it w ill not be w o rthy o f com p u tation.— Ex. SO SA Y W E A L L The editor o f a w e e k ly newspaper in a tow n o f 1,200 people in Ohio, took a few days off recently and w e n t to Philadelphia to attend the exposition. R e turning hom e he stated that he enjoyed the show, but would have had a better tim e if he hadn’t missed the old hom e tow n so m u ch. The day he started back the hotel clerk asked him, by w a y o f conver sation, w h y he lives in a small tow n when there is still plenty o f room in the big ones. A n d through his paper he answers the question: “ I live in a small tow n because I p r e f e r it to a big c ity ; because I have m o r e frien d s ; I live better, and I am happier; I have m o re opportunities fo r im p r o v ing ray mind and I get m o re pleasure out o f life than i f I lived in a city. E v e r y tim e I spend a fe w days in a big city and see how m a n y o f its people live I am thankful when I get hom e that I live in a small tow n .” A n d we can endorse every w ord that this w e e k ly editor has uttered. — Ashland (V a .) H e rald-Progress. The publisher who refuses to ask the m erchants to advertise is very m u ch like the m erchant w h o refuses to advertise because every one knows he is in business. i Tw o w e eks ago the death o f G e o r g e Sterling, S a g H a r b or-born poet, shook the w est coast. The east which w e p t over Valentino but scarce noticed the passing that same w e e k o f cx-P r e s ident E liot o f H ar vard, naturally m ade very little fuss over Sterling, the voluntary exile, new at his going. N e w Y o r k papers gave the tragedy fo u r or five inches; the Star had as lon g an article as m ost eastern papers; naturally the Sag H a r b o r paper gave rather m ore. But San F r a n c isco friends have sent me a dozen clippings o f fron t page articles on “ C a lifornia’s poet-laur eate,” as they claim him. He was be loved and appreciated there. A r e we easterners all tainted w ith a tabloid taste in new s ; can’t w e understand serious p o e t r y or oth e r a r t ; or is this another case o f “ a prophet n o t with out honor save in his own a country and in his own house” ? Until a year ago all I had ever heard o f S terling w a s the story o f the skull and crossbones hauled up the church steeple in Sag H a r b o r ; that was told in hushed ton e s b y old er folk s hereabouts as the extrem e lim it o f boyish badness. N o b o d y ever m entioned tha't he had since then made a real nam e fo r him s e lf in lit erature. B u t that’s not particularly eastern; it’s sim p ly sm alltown. A n y vijlage sees its sons in negligee, so to speak; has a backdoor view . The Star* has tried, in this colum n , fo r the past fo u r years to bring hom e to its read ers what the outside w o r ld thinks o f East H a m p ton’s sons and daughters; o f her visitors; to foster pride in achievem e n ts o f local people, and to com b a t the com m o n tendency to be little what is fam iliar. T h e r e fore it is very gra t ifyin g to read these praises sung o f Sag H a r b o r ’ s son. W e are glad to print a few extracts: “ The w h o le literary w o r ld m ourns the passing o f G e o rge Sterling— But he lives in his deathless verse.” “ A saintly, whim sical, vagabondish m an— alw a y s a b o y .” “ San F r a n c isco’s best-known citi- zzen.” H. L. M encken, editor o f the Am e r ican M e r c u r y , in w h ich m u ch o f S terling’s recen t verse was published, was to have been S terling’s guest at the Bohem ian Club on the very day o f the p o e t ’ s death. S terling had been ill fo r several days; and was bitterly disappointed that he w ould not be able to entertain M encken. M encken arrived from Southern C a lifornia ju s t too late to see his frien d alive. He w r o te a beautiful tribute to him. G o u v e r n e u r M o rris, another close friend, did likewise. The papers described Sterling as He grow s form a l with m en, and with w om e n polite, A n d distrustful o f both when they’re out o f his sight. Then he eats fo r his palate, and drinks fo r his head, A n d loves fo r his pleasure, and ’tis tim e he w ere dead. A correspondent takes exception to the view s o f m y old Manchu friend, Ku H u n g M ing, as expressed in a colum n o f a few w eeks ago. “ It was mos.t surprising,” m y A m erican friend w r ites, “ to read his archaic opinions about his own country, as he had been trained in a European university. Certainly China is a fo r c ible illustration o f the result o f being le f t to herself. It needs no close stu dent o f history to see the resultant dry rot. W h ile w e s tern nations m ay not entirely w o rk to her advantage we m a y safely asume n o nation left to itself can keep isolated and ad vance— it is the law o f nations a; well as individuals” . I am delighted to find a reader in terested enough in this subject— China— which is so close to m y heart, to argue w ith m e abou t it. I did not agree m y s e lf with all that the oid Oriental scholar said; som e rem arks provoked argum ents on m y part, w h ich I le f t ou t in w r iting o f him ; but, in the m ain, w h a t he said about China and the effect o f foreig n in fluence upon her was true, as most foreign e r s w h o have them selves visit ed China w ill adm it; and I cannot find his opinions archaic. T o begin with, the w o n d e r o f it was that he would talk frankly w ith a W e s terner at all. W h ile charm ing com p a n ions, practically all the Chin ese that I m e t kept their real thoughts hidden behind a screen o f flow e r y Oriental politeness. A ll o f them, from F e n g Yuhsiang,- the \C h ristian G e n eral,” to M ildred Sung, a young wom an w h o had graduated from the same B rooklyn school that I did, in 1917; had gone back, m arried, had tw o fa t Chinese babies and becom e com p letely Chinese again. I hadn’ t the faintest notion o f what was g o ing on behind th e ir suave exteriors. There w e r e ju s t tw o excep tion s ; I was taken behind the screen b y ju s t tw o O rientals. One was the pretty, discontented sister-in-law o f the late Sun Y a t Sen. I m e t her in Shanghai, and saw her daily in Peking w h ile her fam o u s brother-in-law was dyin g in a hospital there. She, though A m e ri can college-educated, had not found happiness in learning, and said often that she w o u ld gladly change places with her amah, w h o knows nothing. She had plunged h e r s e lf into political - , , . , reform on her own, cou n try; writes im p ract,c» l ; 'n r t a _ g ° od m erchant a „ d w o r k , v c r y ^ But she o f his w a res. H e w o u ld sw e a t and toil over a sonnet fo r m o n ths; then give it aw a y to a friend. Less than one hundredth o f his stuff saw p r i n t /’ “ He was v e r y popular with all sorts and conditions o f p e o p le; generous, often givin g a helping hand to aspir ants to literary fam e. U p to the past five years a p o w e r fu l man physically; clever boxes, good at sailing a yach t; a m ighty w a lker.” He never fo r g o t his early h o m e ; cynical, has little faith either in the East or the W e s t ; the second frank O riental was this same Ku H u n g M ing. H e m ade the statem ent that fo r eigners have done China n o good. W e ll, and have th e y ? M ost nations wtoo w e n t in there didn’t go in out o f love and helpfulness fo r C h ina; but fo r business reasons. E v e r y o n e knows, who has read recen t Chinese history at all, that G reat Britain fastened one o f his m o s t recen t verse. One ar ticle says o f him : “ The epell o f the sea which came Q ( t 11 17 *° *be blood o f his seafar- ouftolk r armers ing ancestors, the h e r o ic splendor o f Plan December 7 Meet[Pu.ny man battling with stout heart and staunch hull against the m ighty his w h a ler grandfather was a life - j tradc upo„ China (o r her lon g hero to him, and the su b ject o f 0WI1 gain w h e „ ch in a was trJ b )g ^ Dr. A . F. W o o d s , D irector o f R e search o f the United States D e p a rt m e n t o f A g r iculture, a form e r presi dent o f the M a ryland A g r icultural C o llege, w ill be the principal speak er at the evening session o f the an nual m e e ting o f the Suffolk C o u n ty Farm and H om e Bureau A s sociation, in Riverhead on Tuesday, D e cem b e r 7. Dr. W o o d s w ill deal with the econ om ic situation as it relates to agri culture, and his address is sure to be real treat. T h e evening session w ill be a join t m e e ting o f the farm and bureau de partm ents. A one-act play, entitled Thursday E v e n ing,” w ill be present ed b y the Sound A v e n u e Players, and there w ill be vocal and instrum ental music. The hom e departm ent will m e e t in the F irst Congregational Church at 2:30 p. m., and the farm departm ent will m e e t in the high school auditor ium. The aftern o o n sessions w ill be devoted to reports, election o f direc tors and discussion o f p r o je c t work. Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, State leader o f hom e bureaus, w h o is class ed as one o f the tw e lve greatest w o - or to the exten t o f having an un- men in A m e rica, and Miss Am elia stabilizing effect on his finances. The holiday advertising campaign or the year-round advertising cam paign, which fails to take into ac count the vast buying pow e r repre sented b y the hundreds o f East Ham p ton people who are exclusive readers o f The Star, cannot fail to fa ll fa r short o f a cam p a ign which takes this into consideration and in which space j s purchased accordingly. TO SPE A K OR TO NOT SPE A K P r o b a b ly there is no g i f t m o r e fas cinating than that o f fluent speech. N o r is there any other g i f t so likely to lead its possessor into excesses and indiscretions. A n oratorical tem perament, coupled w ith really marked ability, is a com b ination o f peculiar p o s s ib ilities A cynic once said that when the Lord gave a man a high tenor voice he seldom gave him any thing else. B y the same token a musical speaking voice and extra ordinary fluency are not always a c com p a n ied b y studious habits and sound judgm e n t. M ost gifted orators speak t o o often . N o man, not even a super-m an, can • g o on forever speaking fo r the edi fication o f his hearers. Either he will suffer physical breakdown or becom e Bengston o f Colum b ia U n iversity, will deliver addresses at the afternoon session o f the hom e departm ent. Miss B e n g s ton’s su b ject w ill be “ Foreign C o n tributions to Am e r ican L ife .” H a rold H e erem ans o f Riverhead, will render an organ solo, and Miss Edwin Skinner o f Southam p ton, will fa v o r with vocal solos. A m o n g the speakers at the session o f the farm departm ent in the a fter noon will be P r o f. P. H. W essels, Dr. E. E. Clayton and H. C. H u ckett o f the L o n g Island V e g e table Research Farm at Roanoke, near Riverhead V illage. Dinner will be served by the ladies o f the First Congregational Church in the lecture room o f the t^iurch at 6:30 p. m., during which m u sic will bo furnished by the R iver head High School Orchestra. Miss Kathleen M cBride, m a n ager o f the Suffolk C o u n ty H o m e Bureau, and Edward C. Foster, county agri cultural agent, and the officers and directors o f the tw o bureaus, w ill pro vide a very interesting program fo r all sessions. M ORICH ES RECORD SOLD H a rry A . T. H e d g es, ow n e r and editor fo r m a n y years o f the Centre M o riches Record, has sold his new s paper and printery to M y ron Buys and Carl W. H yland, em p loyes o f the Suffolk C ounty N ews o f Sayville.1 They will conduct the paper and print shop. forces o f wind and w a v e, the love o f the sandy strand, the cool, gray, evan escent fo g , the . j o y inspired by beauty, the Jovian laughter provoked by the human spectacle, the wise, tender, understanding brain o f the poet— these are the G e o r g e Sterling who survives, the S terling no grave can swallow, the S terling w h o walks w ith his friends with each rem e m b e r ed son g .” In speaking o f Sterling’s suicide, one paper said that a favorite poem voiced his own life-w e a riness. That w as S w inbum e ’ s “ P r o s e r p in e ;” the last tw o verses especially expressed what, his frien d s thought, Sterling had lately felt. A boyhood frien d o f G e o rge Ster ling’s this w e e k sent me another poem , by John B o y le O ’ R e iley, em bodying the sam e idea, saying that finding this in an old scrap book he was at once rem inded o f S terling’s untim ely death. It follow s : E x p e rience The w orld was m ade when man was born. He must taste fo r him s e lf the fo r bidden springs; H e never can take w a r n ing from old- fashioned things. shake it off. And the great British- A m erican T o b a c c o Com p a n y , which has introduced the cigarette into the innerm ost recesses o f China, didn’t do it out o f altruism ; to be sure, cigarettes m a y not be deadly, but a people on the brink o f starvation are not helped b y the habit. E v e r y nation in the w o r ld, alm ost, but Am erica, has grabbed off “ concessions” fo r herself. A m e rica, with her missions and her schools and hospitals, has been sincerely frien d ly ; the Chinese appreciate that and like Am ericans better than any other race. B u t our representatives are often stupid, and dictatorial as the old gentlem a n said, in a w a y that is bound to give offense. M y correspondent says that no na tion can rem ain isolated and advance. True enough; but is China a nation? W a s it ever a nation? W e have no idea, till we g o there, o f China’s im mense size and the differences be tw een various parts. It’s alm o s t like calling all A m e rica, N o r th and South, a nation. China is the E a s t; Europe and A m e r ica are the W e s t ; w h ether the twain will or should ever m eet, is very much o f a question. I d o n ’ t think, fo r m y part, that w e have any m ore right to go over there and try to make over the East accord in g to our own notions, than they have to com e here and rem o d el us. Japan is a horrible extomple o f the East m aking itself over a c c o r d in g to w estern m odels, ju s t as fast as pos sible. M aterially, the cou n try has progressed m a rvellously. Spiritually, her people have gone backward. Y ou He m u st fight as a boy, he m u st h y p o c ritical, ^without the drink as a youth He must kiss, he must love, he must swear to the truth, O f the frien d o f his sou l; he must laugh to scorn The hint o f deceit in a w o m a n ’ s eyes That are clear as the w e lls o f Paradise. dignity and honesty o f ttte Chinese. They cop y our ways, m onkey-like. The Chinese are, at least, themselves. But this su b ject is far, fa r too big fo r me. M y Am e r ican frien d flatters when he says that I have had my finger on the pulse o f the Far East in new spaper activities &nd can give new view p oints on this vexed ques- And so he goes on till the w o rld tion. Goodness n o ! M y tiny little fing- I n grow s old, Till his tongue has grow n cautious, his heart has grow n cold ; Till the smile leaves his mouth and the ring leaves his laugh, And he shirks the bright headache y o u ask him to quaff. could have stayed a lifetim e in China er on that great throbbing pulse— I and then been sure o f nothing. N o body knows anything o f China till he has been th e r e ; and then he is sure he knows less! “ One o f O u rs.” H U N T E RS FIN ED $25 G e o rge and Law rence M u rdock of Bay Shore, paid fines o f tw enty-five dollars each on Friday o f last week, when they pleaded guilty before Jus tice o f the Peace W h ite in Sayville, to possession o f a shotgun and an electric headlight o f the type used by^ielighters to hunt deer at night. The men were found by State T r o o p ers on the State P a r k preserve at 'G reat River. Ethics are things a m an uses until he gets into a tight place. SE L L SA G H A R B O R SITE G eorgia A . Y o u n g s, executrix, has sold to E. S. K e o g h o f F reeport, for $13,612.07, ninety-five acres on Hampton road, w ithin the in c o r p o r a t ed limits o f Sag H a rbor V illage. The property is next w e s t o f the Jewish Cem etery, and know n as R y e Lot and Chatfield Hill. K e o g h executes a m ortgage to Y o u n g fo r $9,250. Italians are pretty poor shots. M ussolini has been shot at three times W e predict the seventh will be the one that takes him. Jacob Post Offers Site For Freeport Hospital Jacob Post, president o f the C iti zens National Bank, F reeport, has offered a site fo r the proposed F r e e port Com m u n ity H ospital and the am ount originally deem ed necessary in the drive fo r funds will be low e red accordingly. The drive was to have been fo r • $500,000. Som e persons behind the p r o ject have declared that the hospital can be erected fo r $250,000, since there will now be necessary no ou t lay fo r land. The raising o f a small endow m ent fund is also advocated. Village President Cruickshank w a n ts a build ing costin g $100,000. The site offered by Mr. P o s t is declared b y the F r e e port correspondent o f the B rooklyn “ E a g le” to be located on the B a b y lon Turnpike, over the village line in M errick. A site in Stearns Park has also been offered b y H u g o Stearns. Mr. Post was the purchaser last summer from G. L. H a ight o f Ireland’s M ill Pond, A m ityville, and at the tim e prom ised reservedly that it w o u ld be developed fo r large dwellings. A W A R N IN G TO P O T H U N T E RS Justice o f the Peace John Deans’ fining o f two pot hunters tw e n ty dol lars each fo r shooting song birds in this tow n should +>e a w a rning to others to keep away from here. One o f the fellow s had a robin in his pocket and the other a blue ja y , one o f our m ost beautiful son g birds. Gam e P r o t e c t o r A r v ie E ricson de serves credit fo r capturing the law violators. N o tices have been posted by the N orth Shore Gun Club and G reenlawn Gun Club w a rning poachers to keep off the lands o f the owners, but it needs a w a tchful care and energetic action to put a stop to the raids o f these pot hunters who do not stop at I *be hearings. (B y P e ter K e e g a n , Special Corres pondent o f the Star) Tax reduction plans are still very m u ch m u d d led. President’s plan still has f e w frien d s , not enough fo r adop tion. It will gain support but only b y inclusion o f com p r o m ise with D e m o c r a tic proposals fo r perm a n e n t reductions and prospects fo r even such a com p rom ise are doubtful. Pressure fo r special appropriations, particularly farm relief, w ill pu t off final action on tax reduction until late F e b r u a r y and possibly prevent it then. Charges that the A ll-A m e r ican Co operative Com m ission, an organiza tion com p o sed o f farm e r s ’ m a rketing co-operatives and allied societies and organizations, was prevented from presenting its protest against the proposed sale b y the Shipping Board o f governm e n t-ow n e d ships, have been causing considerable discus sion in W a s h ington. A lb e r t F. C o y le, executive secretary o f the com m is- I Twenty-Five Years Ago in the Star T w o handsom e w ild ducks from N o rth C a rolina d r ifted in to our ! office on the arm o f Just :e Sher- | rill, Tuesday. T h e y proved to be | as good as th e y looked to be, w h ich goes to show that w h e ther dispensing ducks or ju s tice, Jus tice Sherrill alw a y s gives a good article and plenty o f it. T h e euchre season w a s inaug- | urated yesterday aftern o o n , when | Mrs. S. A . G r e g o r y gave a card | party at her hom e on South Main | Street. A b o u t a dozen ladies w e r e | present and the prizes w e r e w o n j by Mrs. H iram Sherrill and M r /, j Jennie H a llock, respectively. T h e postponed horse tro t took | p lace on S a turday last, and the j three races w e r e w o n b y W . O. | R a c k e tt’s N e llie French, J. M. j Stron g ’ s c h e s tnut and W . O. R a ck- | ett’s L ily Pond, respectively. j Miss C o o lidge, a f o r m e r teacher in the East H a m p ton Union School, spent Thanksgiving in tow n as a guest o f Mr. and Mrs. French. A num b e r o f her old pu pils spent an en joyable evening w ith her on Saturday. The alarm o f fire w a s sounded at 9 :3 0 this m o r n ing, and inside o f tw o m inutes the fire depart m e n t and the w h o le village had taken to heels and headed tow a rd the Gdlmartin house, w h ich was said to be burning. T h o s e w h o w e r e the fleetest w e r e the first to | learn that a sm oke house had | burned to the ground. sion, has published an affidavit to the effect that he had requested to be ad- O W L K I L L E D ON P O S T E S T A T E vised when hearings w e r e to be held by the Board but that t h e first definite new s he had was when he read an a c c o u n t o f w h a t had taken place at shooting wild animals, but have been caught killing barn yard fow l and other dom e stic anim als.— L o n g Is lander. STR IK E S W A T E R A T 110 F E E T Tests bein g m ade fo r R o c k v ille C entre’ s new w a ter supply on the site recen tly acquired, the old L o n g Island Traction Com p a n y pow e r house property, are resulting fa v o r ably. V illage President Richm ond announced last w e e k that an e x c e l lent flow o f w a ter was fou n d at a depth o f 110 fe e t . A t sixty-five feet white sand sim ilar to that on the ocean fro n t was discovered in large quantities. T h e State Conservation Com m ission has given the m u n icipal authorities pow e r to utilize the new site. W illiam B o n n e r, ow n e r o f ad jo i n i n g property, had entered protest at the hearing before a State official last week. R IV E R H E A D T A X R A T E $5.22 A m e r ican farm e r s , a c c o r d in g to C o y le, w e re d irectly interested in entering a protest against the avow e d p o licy o f the Board, which is to place in private hands as soon as pos sible the A m e r ican ships w h ich now give som e com p a r a tive advantage in transporting this cou n t r y ’ s agricul tural products fo r sale abroad. The People’s R e c o n s truction League has taken up the case fo r C o y le and it looks as if the farm e r s ’ side o f the argum e n t w ould begin to get som e attention, even though it was not heard directly by the Shipping Board. Easy job s in W a s h ington are not alwnys what they seem . Take the case o f one governm e n t em p loyee whose principal duty was to guide into the elevator persons w ishing to ascend the W a shington m o n u m e n t. The first o f the tw o m en w h o have com m itted suicide recently by ju m p in g from the m o n u m e n t’ s top, crashed to the pave- A large w h ite ow l, m e a s u ring fo u r fe e t and eleven inches fro m tip to tip , was shot one day last w e e k by the fam o u s gunm a n , Thom a s Jacob son, on the estate o f W . K. P o s t in Bayport. The w h ite ow l is a rare specie on L o n g Island and is supposed to h a v e , been driven dow n from the A r c t ic regions. They are very destructive to quail and partridge and gam e o f this kind. Mr. P o s t is having the bird m ounted. The ow l was seen by H a r r y Smith o f Sw e z e y & N ewins, Inc., Patchogue, in Sayville, early on the day it was shot. East H a m p ton M u sic Shop opens today, D e c e m b e r 3, in Edw a rds Theatre Building, East H a m p ton. See our com p lete line o f ortho-phonic victrolas, records, radios, etc.— A d v . was bad enough, but within forty- eight hours, the second suicide whiz- The total tax rate in R iverh e a d ' him, barely m issing him. In this year will be $5.22 on each $100 o f assessed valuation. This rate is $1,134 low e r than last year. R iver head T o w n ’s budget this year totals $345,812, which is greater b y $32,- 08.43 than that 'of 1925, but the assessed valuation o f the property in te township this year is approxim a te ly $900,000 higher than last year. The Prudence Bonds C orporation announces a first m o rtgage loan in the am ount o f $750,000 to C ircle D e velopm e n t C o r p o ration, Frank H. D avol, jr., president, Eugene E. Lig- nante, treasurer, on the new thirteen story co-operative apartm e n t hotel now in the course o f construction at W est 58th Street, Manhattan. The plot fron t s 128 fe e t on the north side o f 58th Street betw een Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The building, from plans by Caughey & Evans, contains 229- room s exclusive o f baths aifd serving pantries. The loan was ne gotiated by Hughes & Ham m ond. A W y o m ing citizen was pastor o f the Baptist church, ju d g e in the p o lice cou r t and operator o f the local grain elevator. H e killed his fam ily and com m itted suicide. H e is exon e r ated— call the next case. Congressional Com m ittee within the next couple o f m onths, if a certain Representative follow s his present plans. This Congressm an has becom e m e n t within ten fe e t o f the, sp o t , e x trem e ly dissatisfied w ith prohibi- w h e r e the guard was standing. This tion en forcem e n t conditions in his state and plans to take A n d rew s to task fo r the situation in a w a y that he hopes w ill be productive o f re sults. The program fo r attack on the dry ch ief, as outlined in confidence to this correspondent, calls fo r the m a k ing public o f highly sensational allegations* W h e ther o r not they prove to be correct, the investigation should furnish m a terial fo r headlines throughout the nation. M ills’ handicap is a certain caustic it, which often accom p a n ies mental fa c t , the concussion when the body hit the pavem ent lifted the skirts o f the guard’s coat. T w ice in tw o days was too much, and the custodian o f the m onum e n t had to hire a new guard, with stron g e r nerves. Friction betw e e n president and Mr. M e llon? N o, not officially. It is sim p ly a case o f the president dicta tin g a fiscal policy, instead o f leav ing it to Air. M ellon, as form e r ly, and nb,llty “ b o v e the average, especially fo r c in g the Treasury into line re-| when its Possessor happens to be not luctantly. M ost Treasury officials only a m u lti-m illionaire but a Har- d o n ’ t approve president’s plan, buf they can’ t say anything. There is no confirm a tion, one w a y or another, o f the M ellon resigna tion rumors. U n d o u b tedly he w ill not retire w ithin six months- while big jo b o f refunding m a turing Kovern- m ent obligations is in hand. Mr. W in ston, U n d e r -Secretary o f T reasury, m ay resign in spring, his frien d s say, and might be replaced by form e r R e presentative M ills o f N e w Y o r k . A num b e r o f influential business groups are preparing to insist on re organization o f the postal service fo r econ o m y and efficiency, paving the w a y fo r rate reductions. General Andrew s, czar o f the na tion ’ s prohibition en forcem e n t forces, is due fo r a rough session b e f o r e a vard man. The question President C o o lidge and his advisers are fa c in g now is w h e ther M ills, w ith his sar casm , has m ade enough enem ies to hinder his successful fu n c t ion in g in the im p o rtant T reasury post. Capital flappers have been attract ed to the W a shington m o n u m ent in droves by its recen t suicides, and seem to en joy, m o re than any other feature the fam o u s edifice, a sign in the observation room . This reads, “ G entlem en are kindly requested not to sm oke in the m o n u m ent.” N o t one o f the m odern young w o m en, reading this w arning, but sm ilingly produces a cigarette case and, a t least makes m o tions tow a rd lighting up. T h e y __ ually don’ t smoke, but like to show the guards that they can if they want to.
