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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05

car to the work of the police are
familiar to everybody In the city, but
what the internal combustion engine
has done for policing suburban and
country districts is seldom considered.
ALI motorists-and who does not mo-
tor as host or guest f--know that every
crossroads has traffic policeman, not
all OF them know that every police
force has Its motorcycles ana motor
cars by the use Of which the area Of
country patrolled has been greatly
extended. All day long In districts
remote from crowded cities khaki clad
motorcycle policemen ride the rural
roads, sharp ~eye out for wrong
doors of all descriptions.
They are ready to summon a speed
maniac to court, protect farmhouse
from rufianly wanderers, stop brawl
on the road, tackle robber or a MUIR
derer. Their patrols are sometimes
timed to bring them to schoolhouses
when the youngsters are assembling
or leaving. At such times they be-
come traffic policemen. These officers
are steady, resourceful, straight
thinking lot. They rely a good deal
on their own judgment; their custom
is not to seek for records of numbers
arrested but to keep order by good
counsel, by timely warnings, by their
mere presence.
Other police may be found o. night,
two, three, or four together, industri-
ously riding through the towns Of
their employment, turning unexpect-
edly into unfrequented lanes to pass
exposed dwellings, visiting lonely
homes in the outskirts. The late way
farer is scrutinized, questioned, iden-
tilted by these very mobile patrolmen.
The porch climber and the burglar
never know whether the motor COM
ing down the street means that the
dance at the assembly hall is over or
Sergeant Doe and Patrolman Roe are
about to pounce on them from 1t.
Lawbreakers perhaps got the jump
on the police in the use of the motor
car. All the lawbreakerss had to do
was to buy or steal car The police
had to wait until the Board Of Alder
men or the Town Council acted. But
the police are pretty thoroughly mo-
torized hereabout now.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05

marvellous changes in transportation
that came In his lifetime. Instead of
the single line Of the Pacific Tele-
graph Company, which put the pony
express out OF business, that part Of
the country Is now covered with a net
work of wires. Fast railway trains
now run over the route followed by
the pony express rider. The modern
trail rider travels by gasolene on soft
cushions, and instead Of depending on
jerked buffalo meat and a canteen Of
water has the best accommodations of
present day hotels. But despite these
reflnements and comforts Mr.. GooDrNG
may have found some satisfaction in
the fact that his successors did not
clip much more than day of the
pony express riders best records.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05
An Old Book.

'once-it might be quite thirty years ago
rt was loycrs gift Dear Peg from joe
But. dog cared, battered, covers broken
loose.
Long since II passed from constant. careful
use,
To lie for years upon dusty stall
where other lovers now and then might fall
Upon its quaint and formal ancient rhymes
And pictures clad In ways OF other times
To while away a happy. laughing hour.
Perchance OF refuge from sudden shower:
Until one day IN an unwonted bout
OF cleanliness. tho shopman threw II out
Upon heap Of dirty trash and rags,
Where, sorted later by uncanny hngs.
One, younger and less quav'ring than the
res-
Hid Il within her timd. skinny breast,
And bore u 20 her room where want and
grief
Know seldom any succor or relief.
But where 1t brought faint. memorial
glow
This time lovers eift from Peg to joel
cuAnorrr Bpcxm.
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rs MRS. WHARTON WRoNG?.
A Club Box ut the Old Academy and
a Monumental Ada Dyas.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I'm not
so very old. but I'll confess that in my
teens, during the early '70s, I spent
many half dollar to climb up the
/ winding iron stairway Of the family
circle i'm the old Fourteenth street
Academy of Music to listen to Campo
mini. Del Puente. Minnie Hauck. Ger
ster and their tuneful companions. I've
just been reading Mrs. Wharton's new
story OF the New York of those days,
and she begins it with an evening at
the Academy and Nilsson singing in
Faust"
Mrs Wharton describes her hero as
| coming ipso the opera at the garden
scene when he Opened the door at the
back of the club box" Where was "the
club box" at the old Academy? I
thought the opera club was Metro
politan invention. I wonder If Mrs.
Wharton knows the box scheme of the
old house.
| AS 1 recall 1t there were nine stage
boxes. and then round what was the
| balcony two rows of boxes or seat en-
closures like those at the present Man.
haitian Opera House In West Thirty
fourth street. Back of this were rows
or ordinary aisle seats. There was
nothing at all like the boxes Of the
golden curve of the Metropolitan. She
seems to write as IL she thought there
was a similarity.
Then again. writing of performance
of THE Shaughraun" at Wallacks, she
describes Ada Dyas as "a tall red
haired woman of monumental build
Seems to me that the lovely Glare, who
played such havoc with the handsome
| Captain MolyneauG's affections, wasn't
no such pusson.
I wouldn't be SO inpolite as to con-
tradict lady, so just put the ques-
tons up to your readers.
WILLIAM DRYsDALE.
NEW YORK December 4.
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"THE SCOTCH WAR"
Races That Served With the British
Army in America.


To THE NEW York HERALD: I would
like 'veritas" to name the English pub
locations calling the American Revolu-
ton the Scotch War" If the High
landers did service in the British army.
1t was their duty. The Irish and Welsh
were also with the redcoats
And what is the name of the British
officer whom he quotes as writing "Our
Hessians and our brave Highlanders
TO see with what alacrity they des-
patched the rebels with their bayonets
after we surrounded them so they could
not resist" This was in the battle of
Long Island. ''Veritas" is not veritas
in this instance. as there were no Hes
slams in the British army at that bat
tie. which took place in 1875. The Hes
slams were in the attack on Fort WASH
ington, under the command of knyp-
hansen. The merciless jailer ''veritas'
mentions as the Scotch Cunningham was
an Irishman.
In the South Carolina campaign, also
referred to, he does not state that Lord
Rawdon and two new Irish regiments
landed at Charleston in ITS to reen-
force the British army. Rawdon was an
Irishman. All of which can easily be
authenticated.
At the surrender of Cornwalsss army
at Yorktown General O'Hara, second in
command, took over the job Of surren-
dering, as CORVALLIS was not feeling
very well that morning
Much has appeared lately in different
newspapers extolling the part the Irish
played in our Revolution, one writer
stating that about one-half of the Amer
lean army were Irishmen. as the names
that the rolls of the army were destroyed
by the British at the burning of WASH
ington in 1914 will prove how reckless
is such a claim.
There was quite sprinkling of war
hawks of European nations who came
to help. There were about 100 Portu-
guese in the crew of John Paul Jones's
ship. the Bon Homme Richard, but the
Portuguese do not write to the papers
about it.: Then the French who came
to help us never made any appeal to our
gratitude. even in their distress in 1870,
nor ever a single boast about il.
General Hugh Mercer, who was killed
at the battle Of Princeton, was n Scotch
man in the American service. There
was a real Scotch war in the time Of
Henry VIII, which eliminated in the
battle OF Flodden Field.
All the English writer's who speak of
the Revolution call II the American war.
WILLIAM HARRIS,
Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
Ohio Commandery.
JERSEY CITY, December l.
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POEMS WORTH READING.
The Haven Magnificent.

Why do I work. Because I suffer BE
cause l am dizzy at the thought Of the I'm
mensities beyond our little lives;-becaus.
miracle whose commonest thing tires my
brain with wonder.-Van bearing Perrine.
/ = I. THE STATUE.
IN the profound gloom of the harbor al
night.
The Statue OF Liberty.
Lifting the steadfast flame of her torch
against the dark.
And with aspirant figure. green as jade with
the srugo OF Its bronze,
Illumined by Notwithstanding shafts OF
white glory
From battery of concealed calciums encir-
4r cling her pedestal,
Suggests some great exotic lily.
With fire-tipped beryl spadix
Hinged with incurving white petals Of mystic
The imperious efflorescencs of creative
beauty
That floats untrembling
On fathomless ebon CUFFS OF oblivion.
II. ANGLE OF VISION. ~
The turbid water isoa
Between the ferry-boat and the splles of the
slip
Is the cold green
or a cats Iris
Or clouded absinthe.
But out In the free tides,
Where It is struck by the thin November sun.
1t crinlSles into restless facets and Fittings
or dazzling gold leaf.
IT. THE CITY FROM MID HAEBoH.
Jutting sharp-based from the hydrangea-blue
levels of flood tide.
But with cleaning white and buff slopes
softened by the autumn haze
To the mellow ivory and lilac tones Of an
Oriental mirage,
Tho stupendous pyramid OF lower Manhattan
buildings,
Seen from the ferry-boat deck,
Surges between river and river
BY Jagged thrusts and resistless climax
10 the incredible eminence and delicate
golden hazard
or Its central towers soaring apex
The new worlds Gizeh pile,
Flashing exultant helograph challenge
From a thousand windows agitter with the
lowering sun,
Across harbor and open sea,
To that battered Cheops tomb at the desert $
marge.
The very resurrection body. aflame with
vitality,
or that moldering wedge OF death against
the Egyptian twilight.
And see! for symbol of this tameless life,
A snowy-breasted seagull volplanes above the
ferry's wake
On outstretched wings that span the city's
breadth
And seem to lift the whole vast form.
We1ghtless as drfted vapor.
To some far-ranging flight and wonder OF
the soul.
ELIOT WHITE
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Motorized Police Forces.

New York's police is to have eighty
motorcycles with side cars for the
use of officers on inspection duty.
Acting Commissioner LEACH believes
that by using them the efficiency of
the force will be increased to a de-
gree which will make IL unnecessary
to hire $500 men who will be needed
without them.
The side car motorcycles can be
bought for $4,000; the $500 patrol
men would cost not less than three
and half million dollars a year. by
all means let us have the motor
cycles. They viii quickly become
known as "shooflles," for 1t is the uu-
popular but necessary "shoofiy" SUI
pervisors Of patrolmen who are to
ride In them.
Already the police have all sorts of
motor vehicles to help them in their
business The Commissioner and his
deputies ride in very handsome, ex-
pensive cars when they go forth on
official business Joy riders trying to
see what thay can got out of the old
bus are plnched by patrolmen on mo-
torcycles. Those who make the trip
from the police station TO tell It to the
Judge ride In gas engined patrol wag-
ons. There are police trucks 10 haul
supplies around. Daily reports are
gathered by men In motor car.
When riot call Is sounded the re-
serves rush Zip by motor and the row
ends before It is well started
A pstrolman on horseback looks
handsomer than a motorcycle patrol.
man, but no does not arrive % soon
after the perturbed householder
screams Burglars
An these adaptations of-the motor
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THE PREACHERS LIVING.
His Training Units Him for Work in
Shop or Factory.

To The NEW YORK HERALD The
statement you print from the Rev. B. A.
Sherwin of Cleveland. Ohio. makes clear
two conclusions: First, there was little
ground for the opinion attributed to the
Judge to the effect that mo able bodied
preacher had any right to support a fam
lily of a wife and five children on 500
a month" Second. there was little basis
in fact for your editorial comment to
the effect that liable bodied ministers
should in many cases enter a trade"
The rare exceptions cannot prove the
rule. Among the 100000 or so yninis-
ters in, the United States it might be
hard to find 100 who are making live
lihood in factory or shop. Public SEN
timent would not long approve Of such
uses Of talent trained for other neces-
sary service by public schools. colleges
and seminaries.
Managers of factories and shops inva-
riably halt minister at the door with
the inquiry, why, with all your training
and experience in your special work, do
you not secure a church or service kin
dred therefor" The burden of proof is
then on the minister to show good and
sufficient reasons for such departure
Employment secretaries and personnel
departments are slow to recognize the
minister's argument or appeal for such
a. change in his life plan.
Then the rank and file Of the minis
tiers, in America especially, are not
trained for mechanical jobs. They can
not qualify as specialists or experts in
any sort of trade or job Choice Of
position. then, would be in the ranks Of
unshlled labor. where the minister must
begin as an apprentice and on a small
wage. and only in rare cases could he
work up TO an adequate salary. So the
minister. like the cobbler. should stick
to his last CLERrcus.
New YORK, December A.
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FAIR THEATRE PRICES.
The Line Between Good and Bad Ticket
Agencies Drawn at Fifty Cents.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: There
has been much agitation among New
York theatregoers to do away with tho
atre ticket agencies. Letters have ap-
peared IN your paper saying that extra
charges of from 30 cents to 80 have
been asked for tickets. Fifty cents extra
for a good seat isn't so bad. but any
one who pays SIS extra is certainly being
robbed.
The city government attempted to
abolish ticket speculation. This attempt
was unsuccessful. and It strikes me that
it Is just about up to the public to do
away with the exorbitant charges for
tickets. II people would stop going to
the theatre unless they could get seats
for reasonable prices the apparent COM
bine between some producers and the
Legitimate agencies would soon be
broken. BY Legitimate agencies L
mean those that charge more than so
cents above the face value for tickets
The legitimate agencies are really a
good thing The visitor TO New York is
saved the trouble of losing himself in
going from one theatre to another, and
the New Yorker is saved tho inconven-
ience OF chasing about town looking for
good tickets by going to these agencies
In other words. the high class. legitimate
theatre ticket agency functions in about
the same way that the Federal ticket
offices did during the Government con-
troll of the railways. That is. they CEN
tralize the buying of tickets Consider
ing the saving sn time and trouble to
the theatregoer / think that the high
class agencies have, a perfect right to
charge 80 cents premium for good seats.
might suggest that the persons who
desire good seats at box offic, prices
go to the theatre. say half an hour be-
fore the curtain rises, and the chances
are that they will obtain tickets turned
In by those who cannot use them.
CHARLES DANA BENNETT.
NEW YORK, December 4.
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With professional pride the Internal
Retenu Commissioner announces
that bis collections for the last fiscal
year made n record. They totalled
sy.407, 5s0,251.
They came from income taxes, ex-
cess profits taxes, tobacco taxes,
liquor taxes, stamp taxes. capital
stock taxes and the various other
taxes that the ingenuity Of the great
taxing minds of Congress devised for
the squeezing Of the money sponge.
The public may also have a peculiar
kind Of pride in this collection Of Eve
and half billions. It may be proud
that It lives in a country that can put
up such an amount without going
hungry or tattered. But mingled with
The pride must be sorrow that such
Ahpgs levy is necessary fcr.the pay
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05
BROOKLYN VICTORY
BODY CLOSES BOOKS
Turns $4,000 Ouer to Soi-
diers' Memorial Fund.

Tho Brooklyn Victory Celebration
Committee passed out of existence on
Thursday when John J. Delaney. chair
man. turned over check for S14,001.30
10 Gen. George Albert Wingate, presi-
dent Of tho American Legion Kings
county Building Corporation, in tho OF
Acc OF Borough President Riegelmann
in Brooklyn. :.
Tho check represented the balance OF
the collections made by the COMMITTEES
for tho welcoming homo OF New York
soldiers and the erection OF q memorial
10 the soldiers OF tho borough. That
memorial will be In the form OF soiA
diers club supervised by the American
Legion Kings County Building Corpora
ton. The committees final report shows
that ahe collections and interest totalled
s44,262.93. and that tho Disbursements
amounted to $30,2G1.63.
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ment of old debts wastefully con-
tracted-
Spread evenly over the population,
the internal revenue taxes would
amount to SAG for every family. And
most families pay not only the taxes
mentioned but pay also State income
taxes real estate taxea road taxes.
schoo, taxes and taxes on The dog and
the fffvver.
The taxpayers fifs has been made
"bttter with hard bondage" and he
longs for a Moses to lead him into a
land where there VIII be fewer Egyp-
dan Office holders This time there is
no Pharaoh TO pursue, for the sea en-
gulfed him a month ago.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05

The biography Of DAVID 3. HILL IS 70
be written by GEORGE 8. BIxBr Of Platts-
burg. who appeals 10 persons having
documents relating TO Senator HILL to
send the originals or exact copies TO
him for use an data In his task. All
originals will Of course be safeguarded
and returned to their owners by Mr..
BIxBY. Senator HILLS career was rich
in incident and achievement: his bioE-
raphy will cover a period Of history
In which Tammany did not completely
control the New York state Democ-
racy and direct it's policy.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05
Invention.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
The Mind that invented the sunrise
Invented the song OF the lark,
Invented the high light of day and the twi-
light.
Invented the mask of tho dark;
Invented the song OF the thrush and
The red of the tanager's breast
Invented the thicket where chirrups the
cricket
And soothes him, when Man is at rest.
And you who invented the seaplane,
And you who plough holes through the sea,
And you who spark fires through the air
without wires
And dream or the marvels 20 be:
Come. make me n tr1l in n songbird,
Or one drop of dew on the sod
For the most you have done is as stars 10
the sun,
To single invention OF God
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-05
Fairy Gold.


From, the Philadelphia Bulletin.
In the lore that Is known TO our childhood,
The beautiful story IL told
That under the foot OF the rainbow
The fairies have hidden their gold.
Forever eiuding but tempting,
The sunshine is bright on the rain,
And over the hills and the valleys
We follow the glory-in vain.
Though we stand where We thought ~ had
rested
Yet distant IL ever appears.
For what seems tho rainbow to others
To those at Its foot may be tears.
The strongest OF charms Is upon ~.
This treasure. which never is gained:
And bright, with n glory celestial,
Is the goal that IL never attained.
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MEANING OF THE VOTE.
The Result Of the Election Not Par.
jsan but-a National Victory.

To THE NEw York HERALD: The re-
suit OF the election comes yelled as n
great party victory, whereas IN reality
Il is the profound protestation of a vast
majority of six millions OF the patriotic
men and women of the United States,
irrespective of party afriliatlon. given in
response TO the question OF whether they
were ready 10 surrender their free, sep
arate and independent station among
the nations OF the world and become n
subject people.
The vote cast on irrelevant questions
was merely negligible. Never since the
civil war have the people been so deeply
moved. The great vote polled shows
conclusively that the people arc welded
TO the traditional policy of having 'as
little political connection as possible
with foreign nations.
GEORGE w JOLLY.
Ovvr~aurfpd Wv December
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LOT WHITE
Amenities.

Is you feelin' purity good, Mis- Linkuta1
You suah is lookin' fine to-day;
Somebody tole me. guess he was n iiah.
You had done pass awa-ay!
How you come heah, Mis- Johnsong7
How yous comm heah to-day?
Is you voodooin'? Use got wax an wiah,
Some one gwine pass awa-ay!
WILLIS STEsLL.
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From the Atlanta Constitution
A shelter rude and 0 crust of,bread
But your hand In mine on the way tread
And the red blooms over the roses dead
And Love, and the light Of Morninel
A Sorrow. thrilling the lonely years,
But your smile like light In a rain OF tears
And your sweet firm faith and your whls.
pered prayers,
And Love. and the light o, Morning!
And so we rninrle. and 40 wa meet,
And shall-tll the journey ~ last complete
we rest, with the beautiful dreams and sweet
In Love, and the light OF Morningi