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The New York herald., 1921-12-05
Bumps for Speeders.
A Plan to Reduce Accidents From
Reckless Motor Car Driving.

To THE New YORK HERALD: To reduce
the number of deaths from automobile
and motor truck accidents let me pre-
sent simple, effective, practical plan
which automatically would compel ad-
justed speed in those congested areas
where careless driving has been reaping
its greatest harvest of little victims.
1t is a simple engineering feat to de-
termine the gradient necessary to COM
pei slowvp of a speeding car to any
degree desired. Where there Is open
country let the highways be level a1d
smooth. Where there are public schools
or bordering homes with little children
or aged folk let there be erected cross
wise ridges.
These ridges need be less than a foot
high and with easy slopirg sides to COM
pei driver to ease up or break a
spring or damage his car. In towns
traversed by through highways let there
be such cross ridges at half block inter-
walls or at such spacing as will insure
the speed limitation thought desirable.
With such a system speed signs and
warnings and traffic watchmen on guard
would be unnecessary or very much less
needed. Instead of constant alertness
to cause the observance OF a law for
the safety of the masses of the people
and especially children and the aged
there would be a gentle ridge to pass
over easily at slow speed but terrible
bump to negotiate at Illegal speed.
ARCHIE RICE.
New YORK, December 3.
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
To Abraham dc Puyster.

Oh. Abraham de Puyster,
You who sit in Bowling Green
Like king or duke and through curled
peruke
Peer out at the passing scene,
You make an imposing figure
with your runies and sllken hose,
AS you rest at ease In the lowered lees
or Broadway's crowded close.
Say. Abraham de Puyster,
What thoughts turn in your head
AS your vision clear, past the Battery
pier,
Sees the bay in the sunset red?
Are YOU longing for night to enter
Each silent and sllvered street
That you may step down and view the
town
which once felt your rule dlscreet2
oh. Abraham de Puyster.
The changes you might have seen
II they'd righted your view and not
turned YOU askew
When they set you In Bowling Green !
But to all the Aladdin magic
Your broad bronze back you show.
And unless as boon you can turn in
the moon
Your town you will never know
MAURICE MoRRts.
The New York herald., 1921-12-05

solely for the purpose of doing agricul-
tural work
Third: Owing to the presence of a
large negro population the conditions
prevailing in the South are widely diff
ferent from those existing in other parts
of the country. The truth of this state
n,ent is made plain when we read daily
of the crimes committed by negroes all
over the South" 1t is hard to convince
Southerners that as many or more crimes
are committed by whites in the North
The last statement appearing in the
letter, that "the South owes it as a duty
to itself and to future generations to
come to uphold white supremacy In the
South as against being submerged BY
an inferior black race" is a serious but
very common misconception OF the mean
ing OF self-government. There never
has been any evidence that black men
have voted for black men because they
are black they did not even in the days
OF reconstruction. Give them the op-
portunity and they will vote for exactly
the same reasons white men vote,
namely, In the long run Cor the best gov
crnment. Give them the opportunity
they have never had it up to the present
time. If the only question before the
electorate in a Southern State is
whether a black man shall be guaran-
teed his liberty. his civil rights or his
political rights. as guaranteed in the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments, the black man will vote
for the man or the party. whether white
or black, that will maintain such a
guaranty.
Those familiar with the policy of re-
construction in the South know and will
admit that the only reason why the COL
ored vote was solid through all the
years from 1868 to 1877 was Seoause the
white man had declared by violence. by
fraud and by the grandfather state con.
stitutions that the colored man she-ii
not have the liberty. civil rights and
political rights guaranteed to him by
these amendments.
Given these rights the colored vote
will be split All honor is due to the
President for his good sense in raising
this question once more before the
South and for his courage in predicting
that given now conditions the colored
vote will be srlit: which we confidently
believe will be as great surprise to
some very good but very preJudiced
southerners as IL will prove to be a
permanent benefit to the cause OF free
and good government in our country.
New YORK, December 3. I. ii.
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The South and the Negro.
Answer to a Southerner's Criticism
OF the Presidents Speech.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The let
ter signed "Southerner" criticising the
Presidents recent speech on the negro
and the South deserves the answers il
has received, because it states with mod
Grafton and evident sincerity certain
dangerous fallacies in regard to the re-
lations of the white and colored people
I'm the South which still persist among
the better class of Southerners even as
long as sixty years after the civil war.
"Southerner' says "How impossible
it would be to share the responsibilities
of government with negroes without also
sharing social equality with them"
This is a fallacy. White people do
not share social equality with officials
because they are officials. whether high
or low in Office. Office has nothing to do
with social equality except so far as
certain empty formal politeness on for
NAL occasions calls for 1t. on the prin-
chile that "a cat can look at king
and the king can look at the cat. look
ing Is all the social equality each shares
with the other. Booker T. Washing
toms lunching with Theodore Roosevelt
nj the white4House is che best illustra-
tion OF the kind of relations which exist
between a white man who represents
the responsibility OF government and
distinguished colored man. 1t was an
act of respect, not of social equality,
from President Of the United States
To n leader OF the colored people. II was
official and even ethical-not social.
To make the distinction clear in an
other way. men are socially equal by
virtue Of birth and breeding alone. They
may be and usually are on terms Of so
ciaI equality with men for whom they
have not the slightest respect morally.
rolitically or intellectually and whom
they consider In all that Is high and
good beneath the lowest colored man.
Second: "Southerner" says: When the
negro has any education worth speaking
Of che seeks other employment than
working in the fields"
This Is fallacy 1t is a statement
which is true Of neither the whites nor
the blacks. 1t goes without saying that
"southerner" would not wish to keep
class Of whites In the North uneducated
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
When ManNmnn Takes Office

From The Manchcster Guordlcn
Ono OF the most quantity wordcd oaths Of
office still in use In the British Isles IS that
which will be administered TO the two gem
tiemen. Mr.. G. II. Calow and Mr.. f. M.
La Mathe, who have Just been appointed
Deemsters OF the I7le of Man. II runs
"By this Book and by the holy contents
thereof, and by the wonderful works tha,
God hath miraculouely wrought In heaven
above and In the earth beneath In six days
and seven nights. swear that will, with
out respect of favor or friendship, love,
consanguinity or affinity. envy or malice
execute the laws OF the Isle Justly betwixt
our Sovereign Lord tho King and his sub
iccts within this isle. and betwixt party and
party. rs indifferently as the herring back
hone doth lie IN the ni'ddle Of the fish So
help me God and the contents OF this Book. -
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
New Jerseys New Peace Force.

New Jerseys State police go on
duty to-day for the first time, troop
Of seyenty-four picked men who have
been in training at Sea Girt for six
months for their task Of maintaining
order and pursuing criminals in all
parts of the State.
For years the need of such force
has been apparent, but its creation
has been blocked by labor politicians
who pretended it was to be used
against strikers. This powerful op
position was overcome only by thS
imperative necessities arising from
conditions created by modern meth
DDS Of transportation.
The automobile has proved boon
to criminals. 1t affords quick pas
sage for thieves from one place tC
another and means of escape from
the scenes of their depredations; and
the great number of trucks carrying
valuable merchandise have provided
new opportunities for highwaymen
The police of small towns have been
unable to provide the protection
needed under existing circumstances
Effective cooperation among them has
been practically impossible, not from
lack of zeal and good will, but be
cause Of the nature of their organi
cations. A mobile force, covering
the whole State and under one direc
ton, is the only weapon that can be
used in present circumstances with
hope of success in law enforcement.
Such a force can be successful only
If politics is absolutely excluded from
it's management. It's members must
respond to no influence except the
call of duty. They must obey nc
orders except those given by their
officers. They must be sure of their
jobs as long as they do their duty
intelligently and fearlessly. They
must be convinced that promotion
will come to them through merit, not
through pull.
New Jerseys new State guardians
begin their career under the best OF
auspices. Their future lies in their
own hands. They join an honorable
company, for the State constabu-
laries have won splendid regulations
for integrity, resourcefulness and
courage.
The New York herald., 1921-12-05

A collection OF rare Americana now
on view at the American Art Galleries
and to be seen there until the date of its
sale. December i and 7, includes a
wealth OF material bearing on nearly all
important periods of earlier American
history. as well as an unusual and in
/ teresting group of oil portraits OF cele-
brated Americans, done during the
lifetime Of their subjects. The items
shown. 74S In number. are from various
private collections. including those of the
late Prof Edward Tuckerman of AM
Plainfeld. N. j.; Frank NJ Bristol of
Chattanooga, Tenn. and the American
Antiquarian Society OF Worcester, Mass
Listed among the items relating to the
American Revolution are the first proc
lamation issued by the Provincial Con-
gress October 22. 1874. without sanction
Of the Royal Governor, the first procla-
nation of Massachusetts advocating open
hostilities against Great Britain, Janu-
airy 10. 1776 the first official Massa-
chusetts issue of the Declaration of In
dependence, and an unpublished manu-
script form. with signature by John
Hancock, of a Resolve Of Continental
Congress-" June "a, l776.
A rare broadside relating to st. Clair's
expedition to Canada in 1746 is among
the French and Indian war period mate
rial. A manuscript fee book of Peter
jefferson, father of Thomas Jefferson,
relates to the Virginia militia during
this period, and there is proclamation
hy Gov Phips 1855, concerning Brad
docks defeat. A proclamation of Gov.
Pownan 1859, deals with Wolfe's expe-
dition against Quebec. and another OF
Gov. Bernhard bears on the Indian
Confederacy' under Pontiac
There are autograph letters OF Lincoln
and letters by members of Lincolns
Cabinet and men Of the day. as we'll as
a number of memorials, biographies ana
works relating to Lincoln.
large collection of autograph letters
by sgners of the Declaration of lnde-
pendence Is of unusual interest because
many of the letters were written on
official business in connection with events
of the time.
There is an unusually large collection
of works by and relating to Tom Paine,
who is now recognized as one or the
outstanding figures of the Revolutionary
period. A fine autograph letter of Benz
jamin Franklin shows one of the mathe-
matical problems he worked upon in the
course Of his scientific laborS An ad-
mirable group of engravings by Paul
Revere includes "The New England
Primer, or an Easy and Pleasant Guide
10 the Art of Reading" printed In Boston
in 1889, with woodcuts in the text and
n woodcut portrait of George Washing
ton. An important and interesting secret
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
Crisis in Patent Office.
It's Work Far Behind and Its Tech
nical Experts Resigning.

To THE New YORK HERALD: We be-
Rove ii a matter OF public duty at the
present time TO draw attention to the
disaster with which our patent system
IS threatened owing to the breaking
down of the Patent Office.
WITT $1,000 applications for patents
awaiting action and an inadequate tech
rical staff and conditions getting worse
every day, Congress must act and act
romptly If the Patent Office is to be
saved. The chaotic condition is caused
by the continuous designations of the
experienced and competent members OF
'be technical staff. which Is not to be
wondered at since there has been only
10 per cent. increase In the salaries
of that staff since the year 1S4S, and
those salaries are to-day far below the
salaries of the corresponding technical
staffs OF other and more modern but
far less important Government depart
Eients and are utterly inadequate.
For several years last past bills to
upon Congress and favorably reported
but have failed to pass. and many of
the older examiners who had stayed on
from sense of patriotism and duty
have yielded to the necessities of fam
lily obligations. feeling that the indiffer-
cnce or the inertia of Congress makes
the Pre- spects of a career within the
Fatent Office hopeless.
Not only inventors and most of our
industries arc vitality affected by inc
situation but the public at large. which
has its best protection against improvi-
IDENTIFY issued patents and against patent
litigation in an efficient and adequate
technical staff in the Patent Office. The
Lroper functioning of the Patent Office
is essential to the proper functioning OF
cur patent system
WILLIAM HOUSTON KENYON,
Chairman of the Patents Committee
OF the New York County Lawyers
Association.
NEW York, December 8.
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
Two Soldiers of Fortune.

References to JERE DUNE and PAT
SHEEDY in stories about BILLY BOYLE,
the former keeper of Chicago's most
famous chop house, who died the
other day, recall memories of these
celebrities OF another period. The
men were great friends, but there
was striking difference between
them in character and disposition.
DUNE had the reputation of never
turning aside when trouble con-
fronted him. Yet the predictions that
he would die with his boots on were
not fulfilled His feud with ELLIOTT
the pugilist in Chicago earned him
the wholesome respect Of other bad
men of his day. 1t would have taken
courage of high order to face the
squat, broad shouldered man who
was most dangerous when he smiled
through the square cut beard OF
mixed black and gray, long familiar
to freuuenters of the Tenderloin. He
had the ideal physique for a rough
and tumble fighter. Although far
from quarrelsome, DUNYE, when he
thought he had a grievance, would
go to almost any length to provoke
an encounter.
He had a grudge against JAMES f.
CALDWELL, the starter at the various
race courses around New York a gen
Grafton ago. Caldwell was a Ken
tuckian and was supposed to be n
fighter, but DUNNE was unable to
taunt him into a fight, though he
assailed him whenever they met in
public. DUNNE was racing few
horses at that time and believed that
he had not been treated fairly by the
starter. He died about the same time
as CALDWELL and always regretted
his inability to settle his trouble
with him.
II was said OF SHEEpY, on the other
hand, that the world lost great
diplomat when he turned soldier Of
fortune. Smooth OF face, suave Of
manner and distinguished in appear
ance. he was credited with being the
best dressed in group OF sporting
men who made sartorial adornment
their avocation. His range Of ac-
ouaintances included the highest as
well as the lowest OF the land, and
his reputation for honesty was so
well established that it is recorded
that on one occasion while in New
ENGLAND town he negotiated a loan
from the president Of a bank on his
simple promise to pay.
While the story was probably told
originally about somebody else, SuEE.
pY's name has for years been used
In the tale OF the man who was
etopped as he was about to enter a
Gambling house and warned that the
game was crooked. The reply that
\ it couldn't be helped because it was
\ the only one in town would have
matched the peculiar mania SHErDy
/ had for losing in somebody else's
rame the money he won in his own
zane. lie was never happy away from
the atmosphere. of the gaming table,
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and it was not choice that led him
to become a dealer in pictures but the
virtual suppression of the gaming,
which was widespread in the days
when CANFIELD operated the Saratoga
Casino and there were half dozen
big games running wide open in
New York city.
Like CANFIELD, who had a fine taste
in the arts and was one of the best
judges of period furniture in the
United States, SHEEDY knew a good
picture when he saw it. He achieved
international fame through the part
he played in the restoration in 1901
to its owner of GAINsBoRoUGH's por-
trait OF the Duchess Of DEvoNsHRE.
The canvas was stolen in 1876 after
1T had been purchased for the then
record price of f10,065. SHEEDY got
the credit of bringing about it's re-
turn TO Agnew & Son of London
through the Pinkertons. ADAM
WORTH, a crook Of international
notoriety, was said to have known the
hiding place of the picture. the great
value and reputation of which pre-
vented its being offered for sale.
SHEEDY and DUNE belonged TO
that period when it was considered
part of the education of a man Of the
world to know something about the
mysteries Of gaming and to be abb
to defend himself under any and all
circumstances.
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
Trains That Pass in the Day.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Mr. Sly
OF Wopowog, Conn, wishes to know how
many trains an east bound train from
San Francisco would meet and pass 1!
there were trains each day each way
taking six days for the crossing.
A train pulling out for New York
would meet one just coming in from
New York and would meet and pass
eleven others on the way. 1t would
arrive In New York just as twelfth
train for Frisco was leaving.
JOHN GRAHAM.
LEoNrA, N. j., December 3.
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Winter in Rainier Park.

II is twenty-five years since the
324 square miles including and sur
rounding Mount Rainier became a
national park, and now for the first
time there has been planned enter
tainment for winter visitors. II in
wolves dog sleds and reindeer sledges
drawn over tremendous snow fields.
There are steep cliffs TO be scaled
and long. frozen slopes to be climbed,
snow bridges spanning glaciers TO be
crossed and an altitude OF $500 feet
10 be reached.
A fine, breezy, hearty out OF doors
jaunt, one which will well repay
those who are able physically to un.
dertake It. But it is for arctic trav.
elling that the visitor must come
prepared. lie will need warm fur
clothing. He must follow Eskimo
styles in this respect, and he will
need. besides, an Alpine mountain
climbing equipment But il will be
exhilarating. 1t will set the blood
tingling.
There will be plenty Of side diver
sions--slSi jumping tournaments on
the long mountain slopes, snowahoc
hikes. tobogganing and skating. In
cldentally, It viii be an all American
affair down to the last detail. The
eight reindeer TO draw the sledges
are from our Bering Sea Government
farm In Alaska. The Eskimo boys
% skipper the dog sledges arc Amer
The New York herald., 1921-12-05
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Generally
rair to-day and tomorrow. not much
cnange in temperature. Fresh to strong
northwest and west winds.
for New Jerseys air to-day and to-rnor-
row; slightly warmer to-day; fresh TO strong
west and southwest
For Northern New England-Partly cloudy.
possibility snow on east Maine coast; to-
perature: fresh TO strong lortherly winds.
for southern New Ensland-Partly cloudy
to-uay tomorrow cloudy; not much chang
IN temperature strong north and northwest
WINDS and gales off the coast. diminishing
'oleay and shifting to west tonight.
por western New York-Generelly cloudy
.o-say and tomorrow; probably local SHOWS
to-day; not much change in temperature;
Aresh 10 strong southwest and west winds.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-rbe disturbances
tnat was central over Louisiana Ast night
moved rapidly northeastward. increased
srsaly ssl,ssiy III intensity and was central off tho
virslhia capes tonight. II was attended by
rains IN the Southern States and by snow in
the ohio Valley. the north portion of tho
middle Atlantic Statea and along the Now
-.+land coast. The snowfall was heavy
over portion Of this area. Another dig
turbance was central north of Lake Superior
Tonight moving rapidly eastward, and was
attended by light SHOWS In the upper lake
region. Under the influence OF an area OF
high pressure OF great magnitude generally
fair weather prevailed over the western half
OF the country.
Much colder weather overspread the Gulf
States and Tennessee to-day and the tenn
perature was somewhat lower In the middio
Atlantic and north Atlantic States, while
there was a reaction 10 considerably higher
temperature In the Pacific States and the
Mississippi Valley.
The Indications are for generally fair
weather tomorrow and Tuesday in the
States east OF the Mississippi River except
that local SHOWS are probable in tn, lake
region and northern New York. The tenn
perature will be lower Tomorrow IN the
Florida Peninsula and along the south At
lantic coast. while Il win be slightly higher
In the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the middle
Atlantic States tomorrow and In the .ast
Gulf and south Atlantic States Tuestey
Storm warnings az displayed on the Ataitlc
coast from Cape Hatteras to Boston.
Observations at United States weatha
Bureau stations, taken ct 8 p. NJ. yesterday
geVenty-fifth meridian time. /
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SNOW AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Mr. Edward p. Grosvenor Joins
,rrs. Grosvenor mt Resort.

sreciof Despdtch 20 THE NEW YoaK HErALD.
ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. 4.-The first
snowstorm Of the season visited the re-
sort today.
Arrivals from New York at the Chel-
sea include Mr.. Edwin p. Grosvenor. who
ioincd Mrs. Grosvenor Mr.. and Mrs.
Montague Wilkinson, Mr.. and Mrs. J..
c. l.. Murphy, Miss Ethel II. Wttlock.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Kellogg Trowbridge os
Bedford Hills, N. Y.
Ritz Carlton--Mrs. N. X. Winston.
Mrs. e. l.. RoclSmore. Mrs. Charles
Kohler, Miss G. Burnett Mehlin and Mr..
O. +. Mehlin, who came together by au-
tomobile, Mrs. Keith Lincoln and Mrs.
Louis Peck, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sell.
Marlborough h-Blenheim--Mr and Mrs.
Walter J. Salmon. Mrs. @. w. vande-
grift, Mr.. and Mrs. j. III. MacMurdy.
Mcssrs. Kenneth j. Kerr and Henry J..
Terbell Brooklyn; Mr.. and Mrs William
A. Wilsnacl.
Ambassador-Mrs. Margaret Merwin.
Mrs Albert Lewis and Mr.. Il. G. Wool
folk.
shelburne--Mrs Il. II. Clarke. Mr.. anj
Mrs. J. A. Kirk and Mr.. John Pepper.
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tion to accommodate home demands
and satisfy the indemnity claims as
wen, by the time 1872, 900, 100000 gold
marks had been paid this amount
would actually have been deducted
from the nations wealth.
On the other hand, if Germany
could regain only IS per cent. of the
margin between her 24,400,000,o00
gold marks of national income as
estimated now and her 40,000,000 900
gold marks pre-war income she could
pay the 2.OOO,OOO,OOO gold marks re-
quired for reparations and neither
her present national wealth nor her
present standard Of living would be
impaired.
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A Victorian Heroine.

Feet crossed upon a wool embroidered
stool
She sits serenely in ner Gothic chair.
Her fingers toying with the ringlets
fair
That frame her cheeks smooth oval.
pale and cool
AS the wax lilies on crystal pool
That grace her mantel With n
naughty frown
She turns all too presuming suitors
down,
Yet her aloofness makes of each her
tool.
Her strongest mental diet is the verse
OF Mrs. Browning. or the melting
That al the Keepsake; and her mus
ings nurse
A hidden fancy for the Prince II
Wales:
In this worn tome. pressed 'twixt prin
Joys and woes.
Her flavor lasts, like spice of some old
CHARLOTTE BECKER