The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1921, Page 21

Was Here Higher in New York Than in London—Both of Them— ays Archibald Marshall, | Writer of Romantic Coun- try Life Tales, but Never- theless He Is Certain the) Girl of To-Day Is All Right. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Archibald Marshall admits that the Wuildings and the skirts in New York have gone up, since he paid us his last visit, some twenty odd years ago. | Archibald Marshall is the wuthor| et “The Hal! and the Grange,” “Tho | Honor of the Clintons,” “The Squire's | Daughter’ and many other fictional | etudies of English country life, which | | have been widely read in this coun- try, for their serene and—from an American viewpoint—romantic charm. It IS romantic to most of us—his Placid picture of the English count wide, where there are no servant problems, no profiteers, no subway: me struggle for existence, and where every girl marries a title without half trying. As a clever American reviewer put it: “We join Mr, Mar- shall’s Lotus-Eating Lullaby League, and we murmur, “This is the life!” Now Mr, Marshall is paying us his first visit since 1897. At that time he came over with R. C, Lehmann, M. V.,| when the latter coached the Harvard! crew. He is so much more interested im the country than in the city life that he frankly admits he doesn't) have a particularly clear mental pic- | ture of the New York of ‘97, But he concedes, smilingly, that we have} grown UP during his absence and he never saw such short skirts outside Paris as he has beheld since his arrival “in our midst” about a tS ago. “They don't wearthem so short in| London,” he told me when 1 met, at! the Yale Club, this pleasant Britisher, who has a foursquare face and figure, and whose eyes, suit, necktie and soft- collared shirt all exhibited harmo- pious shades of blue. “It's more like Paris, you know. And I can't say I care for them so extremely short,” he added, when 1 pressed him for an opinion, However, Mr. Marshall is not one of the prophets of evil who think the modern girl as short on morals as she ie on nether garments, “I'm fond of girls.” he admitted, with his disarming smile; “perhaps because I have four daughters of my own. I can't say that I agree with the critics who say such harsh things about the girl of to-day. I think she’s about the same girl always was: certainly she’s just as charming as ever.” “But I'm sure the advanced you don’t care for young woman," I mentioned, with some confidence. ‘There isn't 2 feminist in al! Mr. Mar- aall's novels. “[ don't” he admitted. “I always have been an admirer of the Vic torian age and the Victorian type —in moderation, I mean to say, I assure you my daughters are mot shrinking, blusiiing creatures, who can do nothing else. And I'm not opposed to Suffrage, although I vealize it will bring changes—for the better, I hope. | “But the home—that seems to me the most important thing in life for women,” Mr. Marwlal! confessed, with a little lightemng at the cor- ners of his wide, mobile mouth. t they want to do things in the world ah, well, J] wouldn’t stop them. Bur they ought not to be forced out of the home. “Aren't we all being forced out of it?” I asked him, “Isn't the after-: the-war world too restless for the| traditions, ideals and homes of yes- | teryear? I don't know where we're suing, but aren't we on the way to| it--away from the placid country life! you have described so beautifully?” | But unlike so many modern men of letters Mr. Marshal] thinks the sal- vation of society—although he proba- bly would not use that ambitious phrase—will be brought about by ge ng back to the simple life instead of going on to something more complex. “Immediately after the war," he explained, “there was a quite natural rood of reaction in society, when everybody threw away money like water and sought the wildest pleas- ures. But isn't the world working out of that frame of mind? Certain- ly in England many of us are going back to the simple life in the coun- try. We haven't enough money to do anything else. “The normal lfe for men and women, as I see it, 15 a country home| where one can have children, dogs and flowers, where perhaps one can farm a bit-although farming is a very expensive occupation — where one has rea) neighbors and friends with whom one can exchange kind- nesses. In the country one gets away trom the city aristocracy based on money—something for which I have a pecullar dislike “It is much easicr to be good in the country, away from the constant round of artificial excitement, pleas- ure amd money spending. It is easier to have friends; in the city most of the ms to whom one is not indif- ‘Yeren\ are persons whom one hates, ~e | forced to the front of the c Buildings and Skirts | Both UP Since Author 20 Years Ago x RAC HI BARD MARS HALA. against whom one struggles. 1 is possible in the country to stay in one place; in the city there is a con- stant temptation to go quickly to # place other than that where one is. I dislike movement,” middle-aged Mr Marshall“admitted, in parenthesis, a twinkle in his exceedingly bright blue eyes. “And when I do move I much prefer to walk, as one can do so de- Ughtfully in the country. Although when I was taken to one of your coun- try clubs the other day T was amazed | at the number of private cars lined! up there. New York, of course, has become a motoring city since the last] time I saw it. “There is the servant problem to solve {n country life. Not long agc I was staying at a certain large English estate where, before the war, there were innumerable servants. ‘There are now just five men. But you in America can teach us so much about home conveniences that sim- plify life and make it possible to have servantless homes. We shall have to come to that, even if it takes us| longer than it does you." As Mr. Marshall intends during his stay here to make a special study of country life in America, from Long Island to Virginia, from Newport to the Middie West, he doubtless will be able to take back to England glowing | accounts of the latest thing in fireless cookers and vacuum cleaners. Mean- while, is he right in foreseeing for the world a r¥turn to the simple life and the old Kentucky home? Perhaps. | Anyway, It’s a new point of view! | —————< —— ‘ IF MUZZLE IS PUT HARVEY ESCAPE? (Continued From First Page.) y Denby of the Navy Depa:t-| ment to Admiral Sims asking for a statement as to whether he was cor- rectly quoted and an explanation of je speech. The inquiry is in itself an implication of disapproval But the handling of the Sims speech has been made doubly difficult for the Harding Administration be t| lately saw fit to ignore an n- | discretion in the speech of pr | American official abroad—Ambassa- | dor George Harvey. The latter jold| the British people at a public dinner that Americans didn’t enter for humanitarian or poses but “to save our own skins,” and he criticised the United States for not entering the war sooner than it did. This speech offended a great body of American citizens and pa the war] unselfish pur- ticularly ay members of the Amer ican Lee some of whom adopted resolutions asking President Harding to recall the Ambassador. S> the Harding Administration confronted with the problem of mu ing its officials abroad or at least | quieting their oratorical impulses ims is rebuked, the movement reprimanded will a Unquestionably the Sims be renewed speech has stirred up more of a hor- | nest and is regarded eas al much greater indiscretion than that of Harvey, but the true inclination of | folks bere is to tell not only Harvey | and Sims but all Amertcan officials broad to refra after from commenting on things that are likely to rekindle the fires of partisanship and controversy at home Everything was going along nicely here with respect to the Irish ques- tion when Admiral Sims's speech came along, The Administration was tree from picketing. The Irish had not tormented the occupant of the White House with pleas to recognize the independence of Ireland, as wus the case under the Wilson Adminis- tration, No resolutions had been lendar in ‘atroci- in her the Senate disapproving the tes” in Ireland, In short, everything was peaceful and the Harding Administration was hoping things would continue that way when of a sudden Admiral Sims revives the entire controversy and brings the Irish question to the doors of the White House again. Secretary Denby will be guided by the President in the action ho takes, and the Irish on this side of the At- lantic will not be satisfied until Sims is formally and sufficiently reproved Senator Medill McCormick and others in Congress have made it plain tha they do not Intend to let the matte drop. Admiral Sims bas a splendid war record, but hasn't learned that discretion is the better part of valor, + IN and, whieh yond England again say what he judging by the | demands, tha . disregard ances ar the ¢ t he will b boldness wit 1 previous that he wi remain silent only for another year| questions put by Mr, Untermyer and | or so until he is on the retired jist,| made him ut them. But when when some more observationa on the there was pat swer, easily made,! Irish question will probably be forth.|/ he had no difienity in getting th | { coming. question instantly. j The Administration can hold him | ‘Mr. Austin said it wasn't true that in line for another year only. He-|his bank made loans on the basis of free to go t anywhere ¢ BANK HOLDINGS OF (Continued | closely these expec gres ally | vestments. company From And as the has something 0,000,000 of assets It 1s | to this community to see that amore First DRYDEN ARE TO BE Page.) tied up with the affairs of) business, I gues life insurance comp antes, | in the relation to their in-|®%ked Mr. Untermyer Pruden now ove! importan substantial part of its money is in veste in th fe State of New in mortgage on redl prope York. T am accordingly communicating with th uperintendent of view of getting certain its vast deposits. “I think there what subject as to the amount of deposits of the Prudential in { find it stated generally that the deposits are so many millions in| assets, he said, are in real estate and banks. of the year. dence shows. that on a particular day, the end of the year, there was so much money | m on deposit. The amount that went n and out during the y nstitutions, hundreds of million it appears $16,37 of which about $1 these three institu National posit 000,000 were in the Union Fidelity the National Bank of Commerce, the being consolidated tions, the two former now in has ¢ Insurance with information as to the real holdings of Mr. in the various panies in which the Dryde' banks and trust com- Prudential ha. Iso been some- a misunderstanding on thi That is not what the evi- | building loans and very few of them The evidence shows|#re in New York City. probably 1914 Trust into one institution “It does not mean that that $16,000,- 000 was all that was handled by those banks, or that $12,000,000 was all that was handled by the three institutions It was easily te times that amount during the year,/article, and it is for sale, and it de- from which you can gather some idea of how much money would be likely to be made upon such traneactions.” FAILURE OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS |©"ing the market. during the year. Of the failure of the United States] tion was “on the market all the time” Attorney General to act op Lockwood committee Untermyer said: ‘st ne’ authorities, Q. Has it become a general cus- “it is seven months or more since I| tom of the banks, Insurance com- Wied attention of the then At-|Panies and financial institutions in y General of the United States to| New York to require borrowers to the situation and asked for co-opera- tion, We received plenty of promis: but no co-operation, It is about six months since we turned over to th Jeral authorities all the evidence | onnection with the cement manuf: brought th was th se of th | biggest in the country, to trial. I authorities ar With all due re alre ind the wh » has been an ind TO ACT. evidence Mr. le iron erectors, » lead of the cement c he indicted peopl mady prepared these than understand t yariou r in thes aggregate cumstances? (Laughter.) Company and] Q. It depends on who the corpora- tion is? (Laughter.) “We have been unfortunate In our] sons who were willing to buy real jexperience with the Feder: | ties, There were® more ’ nation-wide criminal conspir covered by this committee upon whic! no action has yet been taken by the Wederal author! steel com- your undesirable property? A. Oc- mpanies. | Suionally, yes, air tment in} Q. De you think that tends to mpany, Dut) stimulate ‘building? A. We are not hong the | jooking it in the Hight as fo e yet been) whether iv stimulates building or not i} muring the | Q. So long as you get rid of prop- | . the case erty, that is the main theory? A have been brought to trial. “Ww ith respect to the iron erector: involving | formation before the Grand Jury in a most ex- le in traordin| defendants before the ¢ som the United Sts that that « ry fashion, C were allowed of the biggest steel|that would prevent you from taking my in e was pu rtain of the to. testify nd Jury, which 1 be- iy | interest, instance, 563 were on de- Bank, twenty ho The heav: bank set, whit Ihe wa ed unable te haired up-State a bit deat” He uncomfortabie u | delivering Liberty a \° ash bonds instead of | don't know what William A. White & Sons did or sald about Liberty bonds,” he said, “but we loaned cash and took back cash as | ‘extra interest’ In consideration of the jlong term of the joan, and the added | expense of our doing business down here.” Mr. Hubbard of White & Sons,” Mr. Untermyer observed, “said you insisted on going through the form patriotic BUSINESS.” | “Oh, { guess there isn't anything! | in that,” replied Mr. Austin chuckling | and then breaking into open laugh- ter.” ‘There isn’t any patriotism in “You speak for Albany in that?” | Well, I learned it down here,” said the old gentleman, taughing stil! r|more—“learned it in New York City ¢|and. took it back there with me.” Mr. Austin refused to cail these sums “bonuses.” -| “They are on our ‘books as ‘extra and that's all I'll call ‘em,” he said. | Mr. Untermyer read to the witness ja letter to William White & Sons, | | signed “Thomas Austin,” insisting on piyment “on a basis of 30 Liberty Loan bonds at par." jot me pretty (ght that time,” said the banker, chuckling and shak- sling his head, Mr. Austin said his bank never |charged more than 6 per cent. In Albany and never charged “extra in- terest” (“Now don't you try to make me say ‘bonus,’ Mr. Untermyer, ‘cause e|1 just won't do it!") to Albany borrowers. Sixty-five per cent. of the bank's s They have loaned over $7,700,000 since 1917. Mr. Austin said his bank never de- ded “extra interest.” We accepted it when it was of- e| fered,” he said, “Been foolish not to, ‘| don't. you think?" Q. You know if an individual did this he could not recover back his principal? A. Yes, sir, .| @. Don't you think corporations ought to be in the same position? A. It would depend entirely on cir- Q. Tell me this: Is it your opinion there should be no usury laws in this State? A. 1 do not. know; it is a very peculiar question to ask me. Q. Do you think there ought to be any usury laws? A. I would answer that in this way: In my judgment money: is a commodity, money 1s just njas much a commodity as any other pends ‘upon supply and demand. 1 think the rate of interest should be| advanced to a proper amount consid- William Knox, Vice President of the Bowrey Bank, said the institu- buying and selling Liberty Bonds at correct prices, He said it was proper for the bank to limit its loans to per- {-| estate the ban he sald was n-| stockholders.” Q. How many depositors has the | Bowery Bank? A. About 160,000. did not want, Thiis mere justice to (he twke property that has been taken in by these institutions by foreclosure 1 condition of making loans? A. 1 X| don't know whether it has become @ general custom or not, but I ‘know that it Is done. We do it Q. That is the way you get rid of| 1 |Our main idea is to get rid of the property, not to stimulate (building. Q. What would you think of a law ; |ftdvantage of the necessities of the] borrower in that way? A. Why, 1| would rather answer that when there | is such a law proposed, Q. Do you think that 4s a just and proper thing to do to make borrowers Heve is withott precedent—at least | Prye 3 7 [have not heard of any preeedent in | ‘ke property? A. We do. his man | the Federal courts; as a result, no in- 7 dictment w should be put before tt in the ordinary way | offenders are treated, s ndequate. | dictment happ mpugn the nt of ernment. nv." The p jad much am ‘E.2 I s found. But Gra, in wh pen to know that but to sus’ money take care of th say this without intending motives of any of conmumal eneral to learn wh for th to find enough men to 1 Jur: othe the proo! not only to sustain an in- in a conviction with the At sth it i Federal Govern and ficials « Federal Go: 1 emphasize the minittee and the audienc ement from the testi ident Thomas Austin o vings Bank of Albany DAIR pli that cannot berdashers a "stamped on The Thos. dept he gart Taylor ¢ think it | djerty bonds at GARTER. & @ Wipe For Comrort (Gramercy piece of property if we will make him vie loan, és Qils {t your idea that ta not sort of | coercion involved in sach a transuc- | ,| tion? A. None, whatever, Q. You get rid of your and the man gets his A. Absolutely. =| DOUBLE DEAL IS ONE TRANS-| ACTION. | @ You make no bones of | A. None whatever, | Mr. Knox sald Das Meanan bor. | rowed $80,000 in % 1-2 per cent. Lib- | pur on No, 440 West He volunteered to accept property money” ‘bth Street it in bonds, Q. Do you mean tf tt was an av modation, he would rather hi or make a loan of bonds and t HURL y for veins and muscles—wear a garter d. Wear the mfortably to the shape of the le, it conform Tho only x Bridgeport OaKa) not of money? A. Yes, sir, bonds | the bonds cost us par, and we gave | them to him at par Q. You know you could veprod' them and substitute them below par A. But we didn't Peter Stadtmutler, walking deiewate of the House Shorers and House | wreokers’ Branch of the Dockbutlders’ Union, now in the Tombs awaiting sentence (or extortion, was waken to the City Hall to-day by Special Dep- uty Attorney General Richter and two deptity sheriffs, He wanted to tell the committee all he knew about his for mer chief, Robert P. Brindell, who | eerving a Sing Sing sentence anu awaiting trial on further indictments Mr, Untermyer talked with Stadt- muller and then decided the commit. | tee had not time for further ‘evidence | regarding Brindell, but that it might | well Interest the | District gee | | Stadtmuiler was then excused. —_>— FEDERAL ATTORNEY HERE IS ORDERED | TO AID LOCKWOOD | Instructions Follow After Confer- | ence of Mr. Hayward With At tomey General Daugherty. WASHINGTON, June 9.—Feder! District Attorney Hayward at New| York City has been instructed to) offer to the Lockwood committee in- | vestigating the New York building | trades the closest co-operation of the | Federal Government, Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty said to-day. The in- structions were given at a conferen here last night between the Attorney General and Mr. Hayward, at which the State investigation was discussed fully. Mr. Daugherty eatd the Departmen: | of Justice had been following closely | developments in the building trades situation in New York and was pre- pared to be of every possible assist ance to the State officials. i TRAIN KILLS COMMUTER. Platform at Peekskill Sees Tragedy. H. J. Sharoff, fifty-eight, a commuter, was struck and killed by the passenger train he was about to take in the New | York Central depot in Peekskill yestor day morning, | It was said that his anxiety to get a seat cost his life, As the train rolled in he rushed jn front of several young | women and the engine struck him. He | was instantly killed. Several young women shrieked and became hysterical. | Sharoft was a piano salesman. He leaves a wife and daughter. bas Sohal Ae WIRTH PLEADS FOR WORK. | BERLIN, June %.—"It is not memo- ries of battleflelds or new wars that point out our future paths or destina- Crowd tion; only intense work and produc- tion’ will help us win back liberty for the Fatherland.’ Chancellor Wirth thus addressed « lenary session of the members of the | jourse yesterday in’ an appeal to that body to support the new Government's programme for carrying out the terms, of the London ultimatum. The Chancellor briefly outlined the new tax measures which the Cabinet is | drafting and which will be presented for the approval of Parliament next week. He assured his hearers that he wan opposed to indulging in experi- | ments. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921. REG, U.S. Py . 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