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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-09
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL.
A Spectator of Recent Game Sees a
Public Demand for 1t.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Notwith-
standing the increased size of the sta
diums wherein the great college football
games are played the popularity of the
game has increased so rapidly that the
tickets for the big games are practically
all taken up by the graduate and under
graduate bodies, with the result that the
general public has little opportunity Of
witnessing any high class football.
Why, then. should we not have profess
sional football such as was played at
the Polo Grounds last Saturday between
Jim Thorpe's Canton eleven and the Buff
faloes? TO be sure there has been OPP
position to professional football on the
ground that II might tend to corrupt un-
dergraduate players. but inasmuch as
the various professional organizations
have announced firm policy against
any such tactics and IN several specific
instances this fall have turned down
fatty the offers of certain undergradu-
seem that such opposition Is without
foundation.
The spectators at Saturdays profess
sional game " ere trea ted to an exhibit
ton of long distance, punting low hard
tackling, brilliant open field running and
fine team play. In short. it was an ex-
hibition of high class football, such as
New Workers have not been privileged to
witness in a decade. and although the
play was II all times hard. that 1t was
clean is evidenced by the fact that only
one or two penalties were inflicted dur
ing the game.
We have professional baseball: why
not professional football? Certainly the
personnel of professional football teams
made up as they are of college trained
and educated men. is such as to war
rant the belief that any games in which
they participated would be aeanly played
and decided on their merits.
HENRY SEDLEY.
New York, December s.
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eArlier could never create. Thus is
Manhattan Island for the first time
made to dlvulge what little of pie
turesqueness there is in long lanes
nf homes. ISL
Probably this new taste for the I'M
common in the site and form OF n
city home will not soon pass away.
Conversion of old houses into new and
OF neglected blocks into the semblance
OF some foreign avenue seems destined
to continue until this tendency has
an effect on the appearance of the
city. 1t Is only to be deplored that
this present taste for unconventional
architecture did not show itself
earlier. Yet it is not difficult to un
derstand why this tendency was de.
layed until the present in its express
sion. The material Of course existed
Then there was always an occa-
sional desire for change in the
design of the less costly dwellings,
But the automobile did not then exist
as it does to-day. Comfortable, ex-
peditious TRANSPORTATION consequently
was not within the reach of as many
jewellers on Manhattan Island as 1t
now is.
With the arrival of the taXicab, how
ever, distance to the east or the west
became a matter of Indifference. 1t
was then made possible for the first
time to journey toward the banks of
one or the other of the two rivers
that bound the island east and west
end not be long about 1t. 1t Is the
automobile more than any other factor
which has made possible the city's new
residential colonies.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-09
CRIMINAL COURTS BLAMED.
Policeman Compares Justice In New
Jersey and In New York.

To THE New YORK HERALD: From
time to time one reads in the news
papers of the alarming increase in crime,
and at the same time the public is told
that II is all due to laxity on the part
Of the police The trouble is not with
the police but with the courts Of Justice
Take the case of certain criminal.
who. If he had his, just deserts. would
be doing life Imprisonment. The only
thing that may be incorrect with his
record Is that all of his many crimes are
not listed
He started on his career twelve years
ago. For twelve felonies committed by
him-eeven in this city--he has been
imprisoned only twice, once in Hoboker.
N j., where he received a sentence of
from four to fifteen years for robbery,
of which he did the minimum, four
years. and once in New York city. when
he received a sentence to Elmira Re-
formatory and was a free man again
in less than five months. So you see
for the eleven crimes of which he was
accused in New York he has done five
months Imprisonment. whereas in Hoo
boken, where they know the meaning
of justice. he is arrested but once and
receives a Jail sentence Of not less than
four years.
In his record there are seven cases
where the disposition of the case Is put
down as unknown. Whatever ii was.
he did not receive a jail sentence. 1t
is very easy for gunman of this tyne
to wriggle out of a crime that would
make the ordinary law abiding citizen
gasp. When one of them is arrested
some politician is interviewed. and he III
turn makes all the arrangements to have
the prisoner discharged. or else to have
the case. pigeonholed.
When policeman makes an arrest for
a serious crime he will nine times out OF
ten risk his. life In doing so. Then he
spends a lot of his own time going TO
court. where case is usually post
poned anywhere from three to ten or
more times. Then after all this II Is an
almost certainty that the prisoner viii
come out on top and laugh at the po-
liceman. The criminal whose record
have reviewed always knows before COM
hitting a crime that II caught every
thing will come out to his satisfaction
Don't YOU think a policeman will soon
get disguised with enforcing law and
order when he has had several cases OF
This kind? A DrsGUsTEp PATRoLMAN.
Nrw YopK December s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-09
BRUTAL HAZfNG AT
ANNAPOLIS COLLEGE
Students Accused of Violating
Pledge; Four Suspended.

Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YoRK HFnALn.
ANNAPOLIS. Dec. SIN spite OF pledges
OF abstaining from hazing given by all
the students OF St Johns College as a
condition for their return after their
strike" of several weeks ago. II has
become known that the practice has been
resumed TO a greater extent and Of n
more brutal character than before.
Faculty and board OF governors are TAX
ing drastic action to end II.
Four students have been suspended
and their dismissal recommended to the
board. They are James T. Nelson and
J. Il. Mcdonald. Baltimore III. r Davis.
Berlin. Md. and Joseph Il. Wilson, An
napolls II was stated that their Of
,nces were related to hazlng or similar
practices.
The chief incident which is being in
vestigat ted is the serious whipping with
bedslats OF n number OF freshmen by
upper ciassmen. which happened last
Thursday night James NJ Munroe.
States Attorney Of the county and n
member Of the board Of governors OF the
college. has been taking part In the in
vestlgation, and criminal prosecution OF
the offenders is likely.
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Bootleg whIskey Cheapest.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Aside
from the use OF various forms of alcohol
as n medicine the way II can be obtained
the cheapest. even for legitimate medi-
cinal Use, is Of serious Importance. This
ia not BY way of the doctor and his
prescription.
A pint OF whiskey prescribed by the
doctor. even without his fee, will cost
more than quart llllcitly bought. SO
why pay the extra price7 Ask any drug
gist and he will tell you that the pre-
scriptlon business In whlskey dropped of
lust as soon as cheaper means of OBJ
tanning II were found. This is the rea-
son why there Is q falling Off in the
demand for prescriptions.
Moreover. the physician who honestly
wishes to prescribe alcohol in a legal
way Is put to such annoyance in getting
his permit that many will not take the
trouble to procure one. PHYsIcrAN.
NEW YoRK, DecemDerys.
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New CITY Residential Colonies.

New Workers. continue TO search for
the home which shall not only be off
the beaten path Of traffic but more or
less different in design from the pre-.
vaillng style of domestic architecture.
Economy, 1t may be added, is an
other element usually present In the
new demands of the house hunters.
1t has not been observed that the New
Yorker to whom expense Is not a
consideration selects for his dwelling
q remote uelghborhood and the street
different from the majority Of the
city's residential thorouEhfares. He
Is generally content with the most
fashionable parts of town.
Various causes have combined, how
ever, TO bring into use residential
quarters which in the past were not
regarded as attractive sections for tho
rooftrees OF modlsh tenants. Here
italian facades facing gardens with
bubbllng fountains and picturesque
pines are accounted sufficient compen-
sation for a journey of n block or
more away from the familiar abodes
of fashion. Picturesque and spacious
apartments serve in another new col
ony as a substitute for accessibility.
A vista of the East River with its
lively water traffic and the decorative
spans Of its bridges 'awakens an en-.
thusiasm which tho mere possibility
of reaching home a minute or Two
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IDLE AMERICAN SHIPPERS.
A Mother Who Does Not Think Her
Son Has Had an Easy Berth

To THE New YORK HERAIbl As YOU
print letter saying there are in New
York one hundred American ship mas
ters who cannot find job I would like
to state the case of my son.
He served twelve years In the United
states Navy, six years In the submarine
service. and was one of the first to go
to the Cambridge school of navigation
when the call came for officers in the
merchant marine.
He has been around the world several
times. carried medical supplies to France
during the war. has been to Monlevideo
South America. In all of sixteen long
years he has been constantly at sea
has never had a shore position. and has
never lost a trip He did hard driving
work to get coal into Boston when the
people were freezing. his boat being
sometimes covered with Ice.
My son Is a captain and he has been
so close at work on the sea that l have
not been able to see him one week In
all the sixteen years. Now does the
person who signs his name Operator"
think he mas had an easy berth? Should
not man with n record like my sons
be preferred to an allen for the COM
nand OF an American merchant vessel?
It's no credit to America to have cap
tains who are American born out of
employment while aliens get the Jobs.
It's time some sentiment was brought to
bear on this situation. The United
States Is the only country on earth
which constantly discriminates against
its own born citizens.
In sixteen long years, many a Christ
mas have rushed to some port to see
my son for just one hour and gazed after
him on his boat going to sea. who
thinks this is a soft snap for our sons ?
Mrs. ELISABETH SUTHERLAND YOUNG.
PENSACOLA, Fla, December 4.
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HIGH PRICED FOOD.
Immigrant Workers and Cheaper Fer
tlllzer VIII Bring Its Cost Down.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: / read
with great interest and pleasure your
editorial article of December on inlmi-
grafton and food prices. l wish every
Congressma could see 1t and vote
promptly for a measure that would al
low the better class of foreigners 70 come
to our shores to help on the farm.
The scarcity and enormous wages of
foreign laborers are driving many farm
ers to town Another reason to discour-
age the farmer is the high cost of fer
tilizer. If the Government would bring
a few shiploads of nitrates from South
America and some potash from Ger
many 1t would bring down the prices
of fertilizer and encourage larger acre
age of foodstuff.
Fertilizers at present are $50 to $40
ton. and at this rate the usual number
of fifty acres of potatoes. for instance,
planted by the ordinary farmer would
cost around $4,000. Add to this the cost
of seed potatoes. labor. m chinery. &c.
and you can readily understand why the
farmer is going out of business.
RICHARD w. HERBERT.
WIcKATuSK, N. j., December 3.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-09
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
.'Trend OF the Times" by Mr.. George A.
Hastings, Public School G2, Hester ana Essex
streets =.
USHER, at Labor Temple. Fourteenth street
and Second avenue.
''Trend OF the Times" by Mr.. Ernest ID l..
Hammer, Mt Evander Chids High school.
tsl t~cc' ard ~ ID plar'. tn " =:
IAN Assertion for American Music BY
Mr. Giuseppe A. Randcgger, az Wa"hlngton
Irving High School. Irving place ana SIX
tcenth street. m.
some American Composers and Poets" BY
Miss Sally Hamlin, at Public school %,
broadway, Academy street and Vermiyea
avenu<. .
John G.. Bowler, ut Public school o. rs
East Flfty-scventh street; illustrated.
''Purrnn Java and the Malay states" by
Mr Harry G. Ostrander. at Public School lis,
tT7th street, near Audubon avenue; Illus
tratcd
Mr.. Frederick Paulding. at Public School 1876.
e2N West t0sth street.
''What the Tenant Gets for Ills Rent" oy
Mr. Edward r. Doyle, ut Manhattan Trade
s topl for Girls. i2I East Twenty-seoond
dThe Miracle Of Irrigation" by Mr.. Lewis
Association, a West 10th street; illustrated.
FAMOUS free concerts. under the direction
OF Charles ". Isaacson director Globe Music
Department, at Morris High School, 166th
street and Boston road. The Bronx.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-09
Free Speech No License to Use Bad
Judgment.

In letter accepting the resigna-
ton of dissatisfied member of his
staff of speakers Director CRANDALL
of the New York city Education De.
partment's Bureau of Public Lectures
has recorded an opinion which should
be considered by all advocates and
practitioners of free speech. He
wrote:
THE essential point of difference
between you and me seems TO be that
you apparently regard the right of
free speech as involving the right to
use bad judgment"
1t is fact of common observation
that many of the controversies over
the right of free speech have their
origin in utterances which might have
been left unsaid without harm to any
individual or any cause, or the sub
stance Of which might, with q little
thought, have been put in way which
would not have wounded the feelings
or bruised the sensibiities of others.
A courteous debater finds no diff
Guilty in making his points clear. or IN
pressing home his argument, without
boorish and offensive words. There Is
no man in the United States to-day
who has taken part In a greater num-
Der of spirited controversies than
CHAUNcEy Nj. DEPEw has engaged in :;
there is no man who has more vigor
ously upheld in public and in private
bis conception of what was right and
just; and there is no man who has
created fewer enmities.
Not all those who discuss public
problems can have the ease and grace
which characterize DR.. DEPEw, but
every person can, If he or she will.
bear in mind that the right to free
speech does not confer the privilege OF
using bad judgment without rebuke
and good judgment invariably coun-
sells observance of the rules of ordi
narily polite behavior.
This is important, because the quar-;
rels which, have their origin merely
in uncouth.. boorish language obscure
the real issue of free speech, which 1t
IS imperative we should preserve.
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Aunt Hester's Kitchen

A low. dark raftcred, homely. cosey room.
Gay with long rows OF polished pots and
pans
Nrd quaint blue figured china Jars and
cans
In the deep window stills are plants IN bloom
Geraniums and musk and yellow broom,
Whose fragrance filters through the spicy
scent
OF juicy goodies. with the leisure bient
That knows no hustlng oity's stressful boom
Here friendly neighbors drop in FOR chat
And favored children stop to beg sweet
And stroke the drowsy. purrlng tabby cat
Who keeps herself 30 clean and sleek and
neat.
fear,
And goes home comfortcd with warmth and
cheer.
CHkRtorrp BEcKrs.
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Reservation Indians Who Are No
Longer Noble or Red.

Those to whom the Indian IF
CooPER's tales Is an admirable char
acter will not find much comfort In a
report by DR.. SAMUEL A. ELIOT of
Boston which is printed in the annual
report of the Board of Indian Com
missioners. He went to the New York
reservations to view the noble red
man and found him changed, even in
color.
These 5000 reservation Indians still
retain q certain tribal independence,
says DR.. ELIOT, but many of them
could hardly be distinguished from
white persons. II doubt" he says, 'if
more than 10 per cent. of these So
called Indians have as much as one
half Indian blood, and there ale
probably no fullbloods at all"
DR.. ELIOT does not approve of the
existing conditions And he does not
base his objections on the mere de-
scent of the Indian from the full
blooded aristocracy which prevailed
when that league of nations the Iro-
quois Confederacy was in the height
If its power and represented the kul-
tur as well as the cruelty of the North
ern Indian ut his best and worst. DR..
ELIOT objects because the Indian, pam
pered by the State, goes to the devil
without State permission
ent and distinct racial groups which
are in the State of New York hut not
of 1t, segregated groups of people not
amenable to the laws of the State. but
retaining a curious and intolerable
- independence On the reservations
crimes go unpublished save by the
feeble revenge of the aggrieved par
ties; marriage and divorce laws are
openly dHregarded health regula-
tons cannot be enforced; school at
tendance Is purely voluntary For
forty years intelligent State and Fed
eral commissions have repeatedly in
vestigated and reported. but the chaos
only grows worse"
Or. ELIOT believes that the welfare
of the Indians and the rights of their
white neighbors would be better
served by the abolition of tribal gov
eminent. the division of tribal funds.
the extension over the Indians of all
the State laws and the granting Of
citizenship and the franchise to all
indians adjudged competent. Until
that is done, says the Investigator, the
reservation Indian will continue In
surroundings which encourage laZi
ness, ignorance and immortality.
In separate report on the Shin
necock Indians DR.. Eliot declares that
the tribe on the reservation is more
negro than Indian, and he sees no rea-
son why the State "should continue to
care for this community of colored
people"
In other words. the noble red man
of the New York reservations is no
longer either noble or red.
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ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.
A Physician Who Believes 1t Alone
Can Save Life in Some Cases.

InySlCliu w HV ~ t'VhS
Can Save Life in Some Cases.
To TIE NEW York HERALD: l agree
to much you say In your editorial arti-
Gle entitled Showing Up Alcohol as a
Medicine" On the other hand. | do not
agree to some statements made or in
ferences drawn.
Many Of the wisest and best physi-
clans still pin their faith on alcohol in
many instances Of great stress or i'm
minence, and they know of nothing which
will take it's place. |, for one. have toe
often sat by the bedside of a patient i'm
minently III with pneumonia. diphtheria
typhoid fever, and seen him rescued from
death with the best brandy or whiskey
not to be absolutely convinced that any
other teaching is vain and wrong. In
some dire emergency such as occurs no.
infrequently In our city alcohol at times
and alcohol alone In the forms I have
mentioned, will help save life when prac-
tically nothing else will.
The reason doctors In large numbers
no longer apply for permits is simply be-
cause they cannot purchase the best
brandy or whlskey. and ag In because
foolish. very wrong legislation has made
II difficult and onerous for busy prac-
titioners to withstand the loss of valua-
BILE time and the most annoying restric-
tions which have been made necessary
to every physician who tries to do the
best he knows.
earnestly hope and pray that the
majority of voters may be able later
to change things. so that the great and
good medical profession may have the
power, as II has now the ability. to save
fellow men and women, frequently. from
impending death or disability.
BEVERLEY ROBINSON. NJ. ID.
Nrxv yopK December A.
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Two Battleships Almost Ready.

Besides the eleven battleships and six
battle cruisers building, there are under
construction ten scout cruisers, seventy
one destroyers and forty-seven subma-
rines Some of the destroyers have been
delivered since last June 30, Only two
OF the eleven battleshipS building are
expected to be delivered next year. thu
Tennessee and Maryland. The Colorado
is to be delivered in 1922 and the others
in 1923 or later.
Admiral Taylor devotes part OF his
report to tests conducted with some OF
the German submarines turned over to
the United States for experimental pur-
poses and says on the basis of these
tests that ION the whole these vessels
could not be said to be superior in de-
sign and capabilities to corresponding
vessels of the United States Navy
This is matter of interest" the Ad-
miral says, lin view OF the exaggerated
IDEAS of the German submarine prevalent
during the war, when they were still 2
mystery"
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what In Place Of Alcohol

To THE NEW York HERALD Prohibit
ton | think was a necessity and bless
ing. but the abolition of alcohol in mcdi-
cine certainly. In my judgment and
knowledge of chemistry, physiology and
pathology, means many an untimev
death. For no one has come forward
and told us what will take its place
WILLIAM II. PORTER, M ID.
NEW YORK, December s.
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May @, 1910; March IS, 1917; Novem-
Der II, 1915.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: Please
print the following dates: /. The death
OF King Edward VII. OF England g.
The dethronement of Gear Nicholas OF
Russia 3. The death OF Emperor
Francis Joseph OF Austria.
A READER.
MoRRIsrowN, N. J.. December s.
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Secretary Of the Treasury HousToN
was urged ito cut the red tape" and
sign the contract with the State OF New
York to build a hospital on Long Island
for the treatment Of ex-service persons
disabled in the recent war In tele-
gram from r. w. GALRRAiTH. Jr.. ma
tional commander OF the American I.e-
gion.--Nejcs from SO. Louis.
Out OF all the structures which the
Government controlled in this neigh
borhood two years ago was there none
which might have served this purpose7
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Total .................1,7;

The third item on the list suggests
an appalling rate of illness among
kinspeople of sailors. Is It possible
that every eighth bluejacket who over
stays his leave has found a relative
so sick that the return to the ship
is delayed? Or does the navy. refus-
Ing to BE cynical, take an ancient
excuse at its face value?
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