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SPORTS EDITORIAL FINANCE CLASSIFIED BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE THEATERS RIAN JAMES MUSIC LETTERS NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1930. 19 Protests Grow Stories of Old Brooklyn Sales Tax Plan $17,400,000 First Fire Fighters Banded Here in 1 785 Doctors Reject Insurance Pact InWarmDebate Tactics of Compensation Carriers Denounced in Kings County Meeting After an hour's heated discussion, Even the Cassowary Honors Big Pet Show Almost Extinct, It Vies for Honors With Cows, Cats, Dogs, Porcupines, Ducks, a Baby Elephant and 300-Word Parrot at Garden By JANE CORBY Do porcupines pet? Ask the man who owns one you'll find him at the Pet Show, along with owners of assorted pets of all kinds from the common house cat to the uncommon cassowary. Un SEEKS HOME RULE Washington engine No. 1, the first fire apparatus ever used in Brooklyn. Department Organized in Home of Widow v- 5nr Margaret Moser 'Goose-Neck' Engine That Threw Water 60 Feet Provided hy Taxation By MAURICE E.

McLOUGHLIN "Bevare der vldders!" said Sam Weller to his son, using the words that the Immortal Dickens had put into his mouth. This warning has been quoted millions of times, but as It was published many years after the first hardy settlers came to common All but extinct, the cassowary Is. This may well be your next-to-the-last chance to see one, this second annual five-day National Pet Show, which opened yesterday at Madison Square Garden. Of the hundreds of pets on exhibition, two cows accept the publicity with the greatest calm. Munching contentedly among the cornstalks In their miniature farmyard, they spare th; visitor only a casual contented glance.

Cats Show Reactions The cats there are 300 of them on display react with every possible emotion. A midnight black, golden-eyed Persian stares at the crowd with diabolical resentment; a cream-colored kitten arches Its back, yawns pinkly and rubs an engaging shoulder against the wire screen; a white Angora all but disappears from view behind the draperies of its cage. Siamese cats snuggle close, brown-tipped ears and noses and tails hopelessly mixed. A magnificent chinchilla tries to do a steeplejack up the side of its compartment. A youthful blue Persian registers abandon, lying on its back with upturned toes.

Ordinary short-haired cats, as a class, are represented by several dignified specimens, which have brought along In many cases an Impressive number of ribbon trophies acquired In previous cat shows. They are very conscious oi their honors, exhibiting none of the deplorable flippancy that prevails among the Persians. Ducks Go Into Huddle Off in one i irner a group of Long Island ducklings, very ducky, have gone into a huddle. They agree with the Chihuahuas in thinking that the Garden air has a bit of a chill. The Chihuahuas, however, have come prepared for emergencies they are all muffled In sweaters, their pink toes showing beneath the sleeves, their anxious small faces friendly against frilly blue and pink choker collars.

The five-year-old baby elephant, "Babe," requires no such coddling. She thumps around her enclosure, serene In her gray birthday clothes, concerned only with the possible peanuts to be wheedled from passers-by. The children pat her complacent head. A Strpt.lority Complex Close by a four-months-old lion cub crosses his forefeet and shuts yellow eyes In the bored face he turns on visitors, superiority complex written all ever him. Lions make lovely pets, the man In charge will tell you.

They always recognize real mastery. Natural psycho-analysts, that's what they are. All Speak English Over In a corner Tom, Dick and Harry whistle to keep up their courage. They ire Indian mynahs, black birds about the size of robins, but with more of a streamline effect. They have touches of lemon yellow and bright orange beaks.

In India they are very popular with the Hindus, for they are taught to talk as readily as parrots and In that country they take the place of our pretty polly. Tom, Dick and Harry all speak English, having been brought up in this country. They rate 150 apiece. The show's most expensive canary Is a pretty bit of pale yellow fluff, with a brown cap. In addition to Brooklyn, It did, not affect the plans of those settlers when they decided to organize a fire department, for it was in the home of a widow that the first meet ing for that purpose was held.

Margaret Moser was the widow and it Is recorded In Stiles' History of Kings County that she "kept a house of entertainment on what is now Fulton near the ferry." The "entertainment" referred to was probably supplied In glasses of a generous size, filled with amber fluid. with a very thin froth at the top. The smiling widow, wearing a boad white apron, probably stood ready to replenish the "mtertainment" whenever it was necessary. Engine Made In This Country At any rate, the meeting was held and It was regularly moved and seconded that a fire company be organized. Henry Stanton was elected captain and Abraham Stoothoff, John Doughty Thomas Havens, J.

Van Cott and Martin Woodward were the charter members, It was also resolved at the first meeting that the sum of 1d0 pounds sterling be raised by taxation to buy a fire engine. It appears from the records that one, Jacob Roome had Just established himself in the business of manufacturing fire en glnes in New York Cltv. Before this time all similar apparatus had been brought from England. If the reader will glance at the Illustration he or she will be moved to wonder how folks would put up with such a crude machine tor the purpose of putting out tires. How ever, it was as good anything that could be procured and, unlike the curl In a pig's tail, it was more for use than ornament.

It was a good many years after this period that the fire companies Began to have their engines gayly decorated with oil paintings and gold-leaf scrolls. In 1785 more thought was given to the usefulness of the engine than to Its appearance, and It was with this thought In mind that Captain Stanton and his associates gave the order to Mr. Roome. The engine, as described by His torian Stiles, was square and heavy and reinforced with bolts and iron bands. The condensing case that enclosed the works was three feet high, with a "goose-neck," or elbow, at the top.

When the engine was at work an iron pipe was attached to the "goose-neck" and through this pipe the water was directed on the flames. Modern firemen will perhaps wonder how the "vamps" of 1785 got along without the flexible hose, but they did pretty well, as the houses were not very high and this engine, working at Its full ca pacity, could throw a stream 60 feet, although the pipe was only six feet long, with a -inch nozzle. Even the suction pipe had not come into use, and the water sent through the nozzle had to be poured into the engine from buckets filled at the nearby wells and carried by the firemen, who emptied them through an opening In the side of the box, placed so that it did not interfere with the working of the pump handles, on either side of the machine, which called for the services of four men to a side. The capacity of the box was 180 gallons, and It can be easily Imagined that the members of the company made up a mighty busy bucket brigade. The engine was tested regularly, and every fireman who was absent was fined eight shillings.

If the captain failed to turn up, his fine was 16 shillings. See Gang Peace Uicn Caponc Sister Weds Chicago, Nov. 19 (Pi The Tribune said today that the prospective marriaee of Malfalda Capone, 18-year-old sister of Alfonse Capone, gang leader, to John Marltote, 23, Is expected to banish any possibility of future dissension between the Capone and Frank Diamond factions of gangdom. fllCKOK Over Barnard Studio Eviction National Sculptors Council Head HohU Action Unfortunate While Oeorge Grey Barnard, the sculptor, looked on sadly today at the studio on Port Washington Heights, Manhattan, where he has worked for 15 years on a great granite-and-marble Arch of Ar and Peace, and from whic K-i to move on Friday, with i.i work undone, protests rose all city against his eviction. The latest came from '1 Na tional Sculpture Society.

In adopted by Its coun i meeting at the Archltectura iarfte. 115 E. 40th Manhatt i. last night. The resolution of tr sculp tors' body expressed profou' i sym pathy for Bnrnard, and Ac iph A.

Weinman, president of the vxictjv added: "It is unfortunate, ii dicd. that any sculptor of Mr. Barnard a standing should be placed in the position of having to move from hia studio when a very large work Is In progress." The legal agreement for turning over the Fort Washington Heights plot on which the studio is located by John D. RockefcUer who owns it. to the City of New York for a public park, was reached yesterday afternoon.

It Is this trans fer, according to Charles O. Heydt, the Rockefeller real estate repre sentative, which makes It necessary for Barnard to move 10 that the studio may be razed. Barnard to Abandon Modrls Plaster models of about 100 figures for the arch, some of them nine feet high, will be abandoned in the studios by Barnard, who insists that he cannot continue with the work elsewhere. Numerous letters of sympathy for his plight and protest against his forced removal have been received by Barnard. Pompeo Coppinl, sculptor, of 210 W.

14th Manhattan, inclosed a copy of a letter to Mayor Walker In which he wrote: "I warmly beg you as the head of the most powerful city In the Union and the center of America's learning of art. to allow Mr. Barnard to retain his studio. "There are left In any number of city's own property, dedicated to park and boulevard, unsightly old buildings and shacks, used as storages or employees' residences by the Park Commission, and It would be pure persecution to Insist on the Immediate destruction of a still useful art temple, dedicated to our own age and immortality as we are the most powerful country, why not show that we are also the most cultured and the most appreciative of our own genius? "For American art's sake let Mr. Barnard's studio remain an long as he needs It for our own glory." Rays Studio Not t'nslghtly Mrs.

Jessie Phay of 1795 Riverside Drive, Manhattan, wrote: "An artistic studio such as your studio beautifies rather than detract from the landscape. It would be a crime to force you to move. Von will have the sympathy and the support of everyone who knows about the sltiMtion." Renee Prahar of 309 W. 4th Manhattan, wrote: "The great French sculptor Rodin occupied a suite of studios In the Hotel de Byron In 1911 when he and the other tenants of the building were given notice to leave because the city desired the chateau for some governmental purpose. The attention of the officials was called to the fact that Rodin had In his studio many unfinished works which could not be conveniently moved.

The decision was promptly reversed and the chateau was given to Rodin for the rest of his life. It Is today the Rodin Museum. Viennese Incident Cited The sculptor Ambrussl has bern given hy the Viennese government, free of charge, a private museum for his works and a studio tn the Prater, a public park. Compere thin treatment by European uovernments nf their artists with that arccrded by New York to George Grey Barnard, a sculptor whose work is internationally known and acclaimed." J. Monroe Hewlett, president of the Municipal Art Society, wrote to Mayor Walker and Park Commissioner Herrlck: "This work Is being carried on In a way that would be impossible In any more restricted quarters.

It la the committee's Judgment that the interruption and transference of his work to another site at this time would seriously Interrupt the creative labors of that artist. "It Is your committee's belief that the society should bespeak on the part of the municipal authorities having charge of the work of this site all possible elfort to arrange the constructional work In surh a way ax lo postpone as far as practicable Mr. Barnard's ejection from his present studio. The board of directors of the society at a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

concurred In this recommendation." Winifred 8ackville Stoner. child educator, wTote from her home, 418 Central Park West: "America has contributed few Internationally recognized sculptors. Why, then, should our city healtate for a moment in putting the, mind of our great-souled sculptor. George Orey Barnard, In a peaceful stater The city does not need his studio, where he has worked so hard to produce the lights lo give him inspiration. But the city does need hla great Inspirational suKKCstlon lor N-are, that shows what peace ran do to inspire while depicting the horrors of mar.

"Our city does owe something to our geniuses even as she does to the starving In her gates. Perhaiw we are starving for beautv. and we should show our appreciation of the great before It too late." Asked for Dry Enforcement Includes Cost of 500 New Agents Vote of Bar Ass'n for Repeal Washington. Nov. 19 OP) The better enforcement of prohibition planned for next year Is to cost more than ever.

In contrast to the considerable sums which both friends and foes of prohibition in Congress have sought to appropriate from time to time, the Government's enforcement officials plan to ask for a raise of $3,400,000. Tho appropriation requests pre pared by the liquor bureaus of the Justice and Treasury Departments can for a total of approximately $17,400,000. For the increase they intend to offer the taxpayers 500 new dry agents and 90 more medlcl nal liquor and Industrial alcohol In' spectors. And there will be larger staffs of clerks to handle the work turned In by the new agents, which the dry chiefs confidently expect will be more extensive and efficient than ever. Of the total, the Justice Depart ment's enforcement unit under Di rector Amos W.

W. Woodcock is asking $11,200,000. During the current fiscal year the unit Is getting $9,000,000 out of the $15,000,000 al lowed by Congress for prohibition work. If Congress grants his request. Woodcock will have 3,000 regular agents, plus 200 special men for big conspiracy cases, several Inspectors ana the 24 Instructors who now are teaching the agents just what to do and how not to act.

The Treasury's industrial alcohol division, headed by Commissioner James M. Doran, seeks about $200. 000 on top of its current $6,000,000 share of enforcement money. Sal aries and administrative expense In volved In adding the 90 Inspectors will account for that. As this planning was being completed and the Law Enforcement Commission went on in private with Its prohibition task, the Women's National Committee for Law En forcement came out with a state mcnt, saying: "While we await the report of the Wlckersham committee as interesting and important, we do not expect it to do more than supply valuable information." A plan for modification of the lat ter was espoused yesterday by Sena tor Glenn, Republican, Illinois.

He suggested the law be changed to permit States so desiring to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer Bar Votes for Repeal Chicago, Nov. IS (P The attitude of the American Bar Association toward the ISth Amendment, as de termined by referenda of Its mem bershlp, is in favor of repeal. With approximately three-quarters of the organization's membership voting, the vote was 13,779 to 6,340 In favor of repeal In the opinion of Federal Judge Orle L. Phillips, chairman of a subcommittee which counted the votes, however, the question whether any definite steps will be taken toward urging repeal probably will not be determined until the next annual meeting. This will be held In Atlantic City next September.

The question as to whether there should be a vote at all was submitted simultaneously with the re peal proposal Itself, and the mem bers voted 14.783 to 5,625 In favor of passing on the Issue. Belasco Crisis Not Yet at Hand; Foes Drop Suit Producer's Condition 'Un-rhanged' Truce With Theater League Signed The condition of David Belasco, 78-year-old theatrical producer, who Is ill with pneumonia, was described as "unchanged" this morning, with the crisis "not yet In sight." His Illness kept Mr. Belasco from the opening In the Belasco Theater last night of his new production, "Tonight or Never," the first of his own openings he has missed In 50 years. Meanwhile the League of New York Theaters has temporarily withdrawn its injunction suit to prevent Mr. Belasco from resigning from the League and from selling tickets for "Tonight or Never" to unaccredited ticket brokers, according to Harlow D.

Savage, executive sec retary. "We wish to do nothing that will Interfere with his chances for recovery," Mr. Savage said. No Benefit in Kepeal, Says Jane Addams Gangsters and prohibition are discussed by Jane Addams in her new book, "The Second Twenty Years In Hull House," which the Company published yev terday. "To abolish the 18th Amendment now or to modify It seriously," she aald, "would be to obtain not even a negative result, and would mean thtt we never could be clear as to the real effect of national prohibition." IRISH MINISTER ARRIVES Sir Edward M.

Archdale. Minister of Agriculture In the Oov ernment of Northrn Ireland arrived here on the White Star liner Baltic yesterday to attend the con- ventlon of the Orange Society of the United States. He Is grand mas- tr of the Imperial Counrll of the Orange Society of Ireland. Draws Protest By Big Stores Whalen.f or Wanamaker, Warns Commission It Would Drive Trade Off Representatives of the larger de partment stores in the city ap peared before the Legislative Com mission on Tax Revision today and objected strenuously to the proposal to levy a sales tax. The principal speakers were Grover Whalen, general manager of Wanamaker's.

and B. Earl Puckett. vice president and general manager of Loeser's. Both Whalen and Puckett argued that a sales tax would be Impractical and encourage the buying of goods in other States where no tax exists. Puckett admitted the inability of the merchants to make constructive suggestions for tax re lief but declared that a sales tax would discriminate against business In New York State.

Other speakers at the hearing which was held In the Bar Associa tion Building. 43 W. 44th Man hattan, were Bernard Gimbel, president of Gimbel Brothers; J. Pridday, president of James Mc- Creery and S. W.

Reyburn, president of Lord Taylor, bena tor Seabury C. Mastlck, the chair man, Will Drive Trade Away "A consumer sales tax as a State measure will force our people to purchase outside the State," said Puckett. "This is easily possible through the medium of mail order business, and I would also like to bring to your attention the fact that at least 75 percent of the total in habitants of New York State live within one hour's riding distance from the State border. This alone is an unusual condition. "Most of the arguments advanced by proponents of sales taxing in any form are totally unsuited to its operation In a single American State.

There Is almost no worthwhile American experience. This Is a repetition of movements that have been started from time to time for many years. Although this method of obtaining Federal revenue has been discussed many times In this country It has always beerylis- Recommendations looking toward relief from the present burden of taxation on real estate were made today by the Brooklyn Real Estate Board at the hearing. Lewis H. Pounds, chairman of the board's tax revision committee, offered proposals advocated by the Brooklyn organization, including an increase In the rate on gasoline, a higher tax on motortrucks, omnibuses and trailers; some form of sales tax, the widening of the base of the personal income tax and a variable tax rate for other sources of revenue besides real estate.

He asked the commission to con sider relief for the industries of the State, and referred particularly to the high franchise tax on foreign corporations. He also asked that the present system under which many properties are exempt from taxation be studied by the commission. A report submitted by the Brook lyn Real Estate Board stated that taxation authorities have repeatedly pointed out that real estate 'representing only about one-third of the State's wealth Is compelled to bear at least 75 percent of the tax bur den. "In view of this," Mr. Pounds said, "there Is no question about the need for materially lessening ths tax burden on real estate." Gyroscope Stabilizers For New Sabaudo Ship Gyroscopic stabilizers, to be Installed at a cost of (800.000 by the Sperry Company of Brooklyn, will be part of the equipment of the new Lloyd Sabaudo liner Conte di Savola, now under construction In the yards of the Cantiere Tecnlco Trlestino at Trieste, Because of the expense Involved, such stabilisers have never before been installed on a big ocean liner.

The stabilizing plant will Include three gyroscopic wheels, each 13 feet In diameter and weighing 100 tons, which, when working together, are said to be capable of holding the ship on even keel In the roughest North Atlantic weather. Ilesterberg Will Ask Restoration Of Parkins Sijrns I Proniiura FlathiiNh Group Hiss Aid in Getting Order of Mulrooney Clumped Borough President Henry Hester berg today assured a delegation from the Flatbush Dependable Merchants that he would make every effort to have the parking signs restored to Flatbush Ave. The signs, arnlng of the one-hour parking rule, were put on the electric light poles by the merchants but removed by order of Police Commissioner Mulrooney. Donald Carr. president of the Flatbush Dependable Merchants and the spokesman lor the delegation, said Hestcrberg's attitude would be conveyed to Commissioner Mulrooney at a conference to be held at police headquarters tomorrow.

Among those alio called on the Borough President were Alderman Victor P. Banner. Warren Ross, Samuel Akelmacher. Walter fiawlck and Jack Conn. They told Hester- berg that violations of the parking ordinance Interfered with their business.

the Kings County Medical Society last night rejected a proposal approved by Its committee on medical economics to operate hand In hand with Industrial insurance companies, by means of a "gentleman's agreement in arranging fees and treat-men for workmen's compensation cases. The agreement Is the same that has been offered to other county medical societies. It was recently accepted by the New York Medical Society. According to Dr. Thomas A.

Mc- Goidrtck, chairman of the committee on medical economics, its aim is to put an end to friction between the compensation carriers and the doc tors as to the size of lees, a ques tion settled usually by recourse to referee of the State Compensa tion Board, and to cancel the prac tice of "lifting" cases. Threats Alleged This practice. It was said, Is used by Insurance companies to persuade injured workmen or their employers to transfer their cases from the fam ily physician to clinics conducted by the compensation carriers. The prac tice was the subject of a Dltter denunciation from Dr. John J.

A. O'Reilly, who declared the carriers unethical in their relations with medical men and threatened an in junction if the agreement was ap proved by th society. According to a number of physicians present, the carriers are alleged to have frequently threatened injured workmen with loss of compensation if they persisted in remaining with their family physi cians for treatment, of sending their own doctors out ths patient of sending automobiles to lure the patient to the company clinic ana of compelling him into the clinic through his employer. The operation of clinics oy tne Insurance companies was declared illegal by the counsel of the society at last night's meeting in the sense that the carriers were practicing medicine without a license, and threats of a test case were made by several members to establish the fact. A symposium on the effects of exercise.

Dreventlve. physiological. remedial and facial, was presented by Dr. Arlie V. Bock, assistant pro fessor of medicine In charge of tne exercise laboratory at Harvard University; Dr.

R. Talt McKenzle, director of the department of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Charles E. Barker, physical Instructor to the late Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft. Officers Nominated The following officers were nominated to serve in 1931: Walter D.

Ludlum, president. WtllUm Linden, vice president. Jsmes Steele, secretary, Joseph Raphael, associate secretary. John L. Bauer, treasurer.

Augustus Harrts, associate treasurer. Jnrques C. Rushmore, directing librarian. Frank Babbott, associate directing librsrlan and curator. Luther PKke Warren, N.

t. Dattelbaum and John B. D'Alban, trustees. New Members The following physicians were declared elected to the society: Eugene Vltsgllano Thomas Caeloppl Harry B. Weseley Oeorge Campana Louis J.

Weseley Louis U. D'Amato Arthur Zahn Wolf J. Domiky David Zelenlco Loula Frelmark William Zimmerman -Walter 1. Oarr John i. Bot tone James J.

Haves Rudolph Chess Samuel Kaplan Barry M. Cohen David Kaufman Leonard R. Donne Jacob Monto Isldor 8. Pelmteln Bernard Friedman Russell C. Kimball Morris M.

Miller Philip R. Miller Gertrude SHvermsn Robert Tuby Jck Welnsteln Ale. 8. Wiener Edward B. fforton Philip Ollstelu rniup raiew L.

Oaston Papae Prederlck A. Plul Brholom Ramm Jacob T. Sherman Reuben B. Sllveratein Ethel T. Bokal William Stark I'Hli o.

Aide Nsthsntel Appelbsum Charles Stcrnseheta B- F. Benenson Francis J. Tsrsney Padlock Decrees Signed for Seven Brooklyn Places Three More Are Required to Tost Bonds Against Future Rum Violations Padlock decrees against seven alleged speakeasies In Brooklyn and another in Queens were signed by Judge Mortimer W. Byers in Brook lyn Federal Court today. The Brooklyn places and the time for which they were padlocked are 0101 3d 10 months: 4102 3d one year; 193 Nassau three months; 4800 8th three months; 1373 Fulton six months; 326 Oreenpoint four months, and 49 Franklin six months.

The alleged Queens speakeasy, at 85-13 Roosevelt Elmhurst, was padlocked for one year. Three other Brooklyn places were required to post bonds against liquor law violations in the future. They were 778 41st 1,000 bond for three months; 53 Kent $500 bond for three months, and 171 Clinton $500 bond for six months. Red droit Prefmret Booh for the Blind The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross list among Its activities the binding and transcribing of books for the blind. Support the Brooklyn Chapter In this humanitarian effort by taking your roll call membership In Brooklyn.

I Old Maids a Minority On St. Catherine 'sDay The Maharajah of Bikaner, one of India's most powerful warrior statesmen, agreed with Sir TeJ Bahadur Sapur and M. R. Jay-aker that India's salvation was in home rule. This was stressed at the first day's business session of the Indian Round Table Conference In London, England.

the regular canary repertoire, he pipes a German tune, "Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?" with wistful clarity. He belongs to the rollar canary family and has a price of $200 on his head. The most voluble parrot in the world, Stubby, a green Amazon par' rot claims to be. He has a vocabu lary of 300 words and phrases. His claim to distinction may be admit ted when It is realized that the most wordy ordinary parrot never learns more than 100 words.

In addition, Stubby's enunciation is beautifully clear and well modU' lated, he doesn't screech as less cul tured birds often do. Speaking from the standpoint of actual poundage, the rare goldfish are probably the most valuable pets on display, since a single pair oi Lion Heads bring as much as $500. They are bright gold in color, about five inches long and broader round the beam than common goldfish. Japanese Calicoes are another type of rare fish, decked out in gray with gold, black and red spots, and elabo rate ruffled nns and tails. They have telescope eyes, and the more telescopic the eyes, the more valu able the fish.

Black Moors are vel vety black, on a foundation of gold scales that glitter with every whisk round the bowl. Turkeys that will never have to undergo the humiliation of being listed on a Thanksgiving menu, proud white peacocks, trailing gay pheasants, checkered bunnies, snowy Samoyeds from Siberia, friendly and silken haired; chipmunks and fitches, a groundhog and a skunk, a pair of sleek little beasts wearing, as nobody has a better right to do, mink coats; a strawberry finch as large as a cherry, starlings and gazelles, macaws and monkeys, a pair of storks off duty. provoked well, dead men tcH no tales." When the Boy Scouts left for England, more than a year ago, It was Harry who led a group of young Communists against them at the pier. He was arrested and sent to the Jewish Protectory at Hawthorne, N. Y.

The Children's Congress In Moscow elected him to the honorary Presidium for his work. He stayed at the reformatory for eight months and came back to New York. He waa here Just 30 days before he was on his way to Hawthorne again. He was accused that time of hitting a horse and spitting upon a policeman. He had already been expelled from one school for Communist activities.

He came out of Hawthorne last week after six months there, boasting that he had preached se dition In the reformatory despite the vigilance of the guards. Tonight, before the ship tails, there will be a meeting and dinner In his honor and then the Young Pioneers will march to the pier. Harry was born In Russia and came lo this country eight years ago. His parents, both dead now, were active In the Russian revolu tion. Every Midinette in Paris Nowadays Dons and Throws Dull Care to Winds on Cap Boy Red Off Tonight To Study Revolution Nov.

23 and Nohody Knows Why By GUY Paris, Nov. 9 Without bring self-conscious about it, Paris has an annual girls' holiday on Nov. 23 the feast of St. Catherine. Twelve days after the grim celebration of the Armistice, Eisman, 16, Who Kicked Horse and Spat Upon Cop, Sails for Russia to Improve His Technique of Revolt Under 'Scholarship Sixteen-year-old Harry Eisman, young Communist leader, is doing today Just what has been suggested to a number of other Communists with less success he's going back to Russia.

But Harry expects only to study revolution there when statesmen mumble platitudes and cannon rumble in the forts about the city, the streets suddenly fill with laughing, dancing, gaily costumed young women who have an Immense faculty for Inexpensive happiness. Nobody Knows Why Nobody can furnish a very logical explanation of St. Catherine's Day. In that respect It Is a little like our own Halloween. The rites are pleasant and always the same, and nobody troubles to reason why.

The rites are definite enough. On Nov. 23 the little seamstresses from the big dressmaking houses put on bright St. Catherine's caps of lare and ribbon and run around town In groups, dance away the evening and go back to work the next morning with heavy and often aching heads. In theory the caps should be worn only by girls who have passed a 25th birthday during the year to be on that day ceremoniously confirmed as old maids.

In reality they all wear the caps, and those over 25 have quite as much fun as their Juniors. High Heel Rare With llatboses All this has only the remotest relation to anything In the life or history of St. Catherine, although for some reason she Is the patron saint of the mtdtnettrs. A group of them alwajs climbs the side of Mnntmartre during the day tn leave flowers under a small statue of her there. A recent addition to the rather unorganized festivities of the day is a race In which girls with big hs heel and toe from Mont- parnasse to the Moulin de la Oalette at Montmortre.

This is sponsored by one of the dally papers, and though there is no rule that she should, no midinette would disgrace herself by running the race In anything but high-heeled shoes. Fan Begins at Noon Unlike most other holidays, this one begins with punching the time clock and getting to work. It Is not until noon that the fun bruins. Then the managers have "andwlrhes and cakes brought In for a light lunch on the nork tables, masses cn long stems are distributed, and each girl Is poured a glass of Cham-paune. There Is only one glass of It; but even one glass is a luxury in the life of a 89-a-week seamstress.

There is a speech or two from the "patron," and a lot of lggllng as the lace raps are tried on i compared. There Is occasionally a m-lup of a ceremony in the capping of the 25-year-olds; and then out Into the street they go to join streams of glils from other establishments. As there nra srveral hundred thousand midinette, the exodus makes a great fluttering along the boulevards. Some of the Ihi aters admit them free. A lot of them go to the cheaper dance halls.

Some go to the parks. A few dressmaking houses try to be dignified and rent hotel ballrooms for the afternoon, hoping to keep their girls Inside. But these danres are attended only bv the upper erust of the house employes The little seamstresses nt tc go where their employers are not. and then return to this coun- try. He sails tonight on the Hamburg-American liner New York for Hamburg and from there he will go to Moscow.

He will spend the next two years studying revolution and revolutionary methods under well-versed Communists, and at the end of that time he will return to this country, presumably a finished revolutionist. "Know Oppression" "I am of workers' origin," he says. "I am a worker'! child. I know oppression. I have served In picket lines.

I have visited mills. I know conditions. Communism is the only way the workers can throw off the capitalist yoke." There Is something steely hard about this young Red. He Is olive-iklnned, with flushed cheeks, and has keen, brown eyes. He was packing the last of his effects In his second suitcase this morning In his tiny room at 1800 7th Manhattan.

"I will study all revolutionary methods." he said In clipped phrases. "Revolution Is the only way. We will effect the revolution by peaceful methods If possible. But if we are.