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no longer needed them in the air they
sought pursuits less dangerous.
The greater safety Of the heavier
than air machine is the target at
which the experts should aim hence
forth. The Government, in its mill
tary and mail services, should strike
closer to the mark, and we have no
doubt that the men interested in COM
mercial aviation are doing their best
every day to find the ideal. This is
the nation of inventors; it usually
gets what it goes after. So there can
be no reasonable doubt that some day
the human mind will overcome all the
difficulties of aerial navigation.
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Girl Athletes Brains.
They Work as Rapidly as Those Of
Other Students.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In re-
gard to the English contention that
girls who participate In strenuous
sports have slow working brains" let
me give you the results as worked out
II, our statistics class In scholarship
standing among our students.
The scholastic average made by girls
Of Florida state College who did not
participate in our athletics was lower
by two points (per cent? than the aver
age made by our athletes.
OF our fine best athletes this year
only one had an average below So per
cent, and the one best all round ath-
lete this year has made 9o.1 per cent.
IN her three years Of college work here.
The girl holding the highest average
In scholarship IN this school (95.6) ~
one OF our best basketball and baseball
players. She also ranks FIRST as a shot
putter.
or the all round athletes Of six pre-
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A Berkshire Holiday.

When wavering green clad all the trees
I came to Mrs. sSeabury's
In curves and crooks and sweeps the
road
Dipped as the river dipped and flowed |;
The patient toilers with their hoes.
Worked in the long tobacco rows.
Like tossed and tumbled wreaths of
smoke
The mist hung over schaghticoke,
Then suddenly dissolved and thinned
And few to eastward down the wind.
From its big bouldered double gorge,
Like the great roaring of a forge,
The voice of Housatonic flung
Echoes the heights and glades among.
Its waters eddied down fiume
Edged with tall grass and elder bloom.
And bore the amber coloring
OF meadows on an eve in spring.
There was an ancient bridge where
shade
It's old abiding place had made,
And where, as in some eldritch dream,
The spiders hung from beam to beam
Their dust gray tapestries. Beyond,
Past sumach bough and bracken frond,
Lifted slope sheer to whose crest
Marched pointed cedars breast to
breast.
Now to deploy, now to combine,
Symmetrical In every line.
Here might one taste all tonic things
or earth, and sense the unseen springs
Whence natures rarest beauty flows
The harebell and the frail wild rose;
Here, sunk upon the sun-sweet moss,
Forget disquietude and loss,
Feeling the touch of solitude
A balm for every aching mood.
I love that hill. 1t gave to me
Something as dear as sympathy.
Beneath sky that knew no flaw
I looked into the depths of awe,
Becoming conscious of the grace
OF the close presence of His face.
When wavering green clad all the trees.
These, and more precious things than
these,
l found at Mrs. Seaburys
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
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Women's Political Chance.
They May Be Able to Put the Brakes
on Reckless Snending.

To THE New YORK HERALD: What a
chance women have in politics now!
Their natural inquisitiveness could be
put to good use by establishing head
quarters directly opposite Congress. they
should have committees appointed to
check each item Of expenditure and APP
preparation made by Congress. and in
vestigate where the money goes. Their
husbands. brothers and other relatives
are taxed to death. and there seems to
be no real reduction in sight.
This particular field never having been
exploited might bring to light consid-
cradle amount of very valuable data for
public consumption and at very small
expense. I'll warrant that If they once
set their minds upon such investigation
the results will be very surprising.
PUBLIC ECONOMY.
NEW YORK, June IL.
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ceding years we have the following rec
ords in scholastic standing:
In 1916 all round athletes average
was above IS per cent. in 1917. 81 per
cent in 1918. SO per cent in 1919. Sc
per cent; 1920, IS per cent, and In 1921
9o.1 per cent.
In 1921 we enforced a ruling that
no girl could enter our competitive ath-
letic events during the year IL she failed
in any of her studies. and this ruling
eliminated only two Of our good ath-
letes.
We have had only one girl who stood
highest In athletics and at the same
time failed in college studies, and this
was our best athlete in 1920. who was
eliminated by the ruling in 1921.
OF the five girls standing highest In
all round athletics this year only one
made an average lower than SIS In any
OF her studies in the college.
We have here an upper class honorary
fraternity. Sigma Delta Pi. and of the
twenty-one girls who are members uino
of them participate in strenuous nth-
letics.
In regard to the contention that girls
can do anything boys can do" 1 am
doubtful. In our athletics we have had
to rule out pole vaulting as injurious.
but we engage in competitive running,
throwing, jumping and the games OF
basketball. volley ball. soccer and base
ball. have never known one of our
girls to be seriously injured through par
ticipation in these sports.
KATE MONTGOMERY.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, June 5.
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In Kobe Harbor.

In Kobe harbor the ships lie close,
Huggng each other beam TO beam.
While all about the sampans dart
And overhead the eeabirds scream.
Grimed with the salt OF the Seven Seas
The steamers rest In brief content
AS winches rattle and coolies grunt.
Shifting the wares OF the Orient.
Here is the mart of the far and wide.
The great exchange OF the world at
large.
where dollars and pounds take on new
shapes
AS oargoes drop in the waiting barge.
Though Kobe harbor Is long away,
II calls the ships from the distant
shores
To come for the treasures of far Cathay
And pours them out from Its ample
DON G. Snrrz
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the annals of crime of the South
west, annals that recorded the deeds
of the savage Apache and Comanche
desperadoes. He killed wantonly and
frequently with less cause than a
rattlesnake strikes.
But about the time when Red
Whiskers was fighting the Arizona
Sheriff it was discovered that of the
party under the leadership of Sheriff
PAT GARRETT which in 1880 crawled
over the snow covered arroyo to the
New Mexican rock house where BILLY
and his gang were resting only one
man remained alive to-day, JIMMIE
EAST, Of Douglas, Arizona. PAT GAR
RETT had avoided the notoriety at
tached to his capture of the young
desperate and EAST, to keep the rec
ords of this famous case clear, made
statement of this expedition, of
the Kids escape from Jail by MUIR
dering his two guards, and OF his
death finally at the Sheriff's hands
near Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
He said, too, that for all the crimes
he committed, for his highway rob-
berries, his murders, thefts and cattle
stealings, the only reward the Kid
had at the time of his arrest was his
rifle. This he gave to one Of his cap
tors. He was buried with a member
of his gang in the military cemetery
at Fort Sumner. All the bodies but
these were afterward removed to
Sante Fe, the cemetery became an
alfalfa field and now no one knows
where the Kids grave is.
PAT GARRETT said when BILLY the
Kid was dead, There will never be
another; the lines run out" When
the Sheriff and his deputies found
Red Whiskers dead, his back to a
rock, his finger on his rifle trigger,
some one remarked, HE was the
last of his kind" But was he?
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To THE New York HERALD: In THE
NEW YORK HERALD OF June s some one
asks about an American driving five
horses and a mule through Hyde Park.
London. years ago. IL recalled to me
that when I was a boy DR.. Price of
Treforest near Pontypridd in Wales.
drove twenty-four billy goats In harness
two abreast In the streets OF London in
1851 at the time the celebration was
held there.
He caused much talk the world over
when one of his. daughters died by hav-
ing the body cremated on his own
grounds near his own house. This was
the subject Of serious discussion in those
days. though II would pass unnotIced
now.
A READER OF THE SUN AND HERALD.
NEW York, June IL.
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Strength From Sleep.

The most important news for the
general public that ever came from a
pugilist's training camp is that which
asserts that man training for a
much discussed prizefight, found to be
Overweight, has been restricted to two
meals day, breakfast and dinner,
and that he will doze at the noon
hour and while sleeping he will easily
pick up the strength food might have
given him."
The epoch making decision to sub
stitute sleep for food as means Of
maintaining and Strengthening hui
man being in training chiefly for the
purpose of building up strength to
endure a terrific and possibly pro-
longed physical struggle was not
made by a faddist or scholar of a
new school of medicine but by ex-
perienced, hardheaded trainers Of
prizefghters. That the grain and live
stock markets did not react to this
news in a panic is not to be quoted
by scoffers who prefer to believe that
bread and meat, not bed and sleep,
are necessary to bring bone, muscle
and blood into condition to with
stand a righthand swing, a vicious
left uppercut, violent prod in tho
neighborhood of the belt buckle. What
do traders in the wheat pit, on
the floors of exchanges, know about
sleep, anyway?
If the Public Health Service has
not already recruited sleep squad
for purposes of observation and bulle-
tins it is neglecting its duty. Who
knows? 1t may be that the green
specialized horse of tradition which
succumbed after long diet Of pine
shavings may have come to its I'M
timely end because Of lack of sleep,
not from acute indigestion.
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The Blue Lotus.

Blue lily OF the ancient Nile
UNFOLDING in the slime
When earth was but a ball OF mud.
You saw the birth Of Time.
The barges OF the Ptolemles
Have brushed your leaves aside
AZ canopied with silk and gold
They drifted down the tide.
You knew the secret OF the Sphinx
And Memnons morning lay
And you beheld two-headed gods
Appear and pass away,
And Cleopatra, supervamp.
Has plucked your sacred blooms.
And you have had your image carved
To deck the royal tombs.
Oblivion claims the double crown
And seals the temple door.
Isis and Ammen- Ra--behold !
Men honor them no more.
But still your azure blossoms rise
From foliage ever vernal,
To prove anew the lasting truth
That beauty Ia eternal
NINA IRVING.
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One of the demands OF the unions
in the present strike was that If they
agreed to the new wage scale at
reduction of only Is per cent. from the
high level reached as result OF the
war, that wage scale shall remain in
effect for a year. Thus to peg" the
American wages at just twice the
British level would make permanent
the disadvantage Of American ship
ping and increase this disadvantage
by whatever amount the wages on the
foreign ships still further decline.
Such an arrangement Is uneconomi-
cal and would be cruel to the eng1-
neers and other officers and men by
defeating instead Of promoting their
welfare, as it would force American
shipping out Of business and leave
American officers and men Jobless.
With a large number Of idle European
officers and seamen willing to work
at the European scale, 1t is doubtful
IL the Americans could find employ
ment even on European vessels at
any pay.
The disadvantages of the American
merchant marine at the present Tune
are, therefore, as follows:
Excessive capital cost and carrying
charges Of tonnage built during and
since the war. This applies particu-
larly to Government vessels, costing
upward of 5000 a ton, which must
meet the competition Of the bulk OF
the worlds shipping. built before
the war.
Even where these vessels earned
high freghts in 1919 and 1920, the
excess profits tax took large part
of their earnings and owners were
not permitted to deduct more than
per cent. per annum from their
taxable income for purposes or de-
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Chestnut Tree Revival.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Two
years ago saw on hillside on the
shores of Lake George a grove of chest
nut trees in full leaf and blossom. I
wrote at once to the Department o.
Agriculture, asking If perchance these
were in some way immune from the
blight" The Department replied that
these and many other small groves had
escaped the blight owing to their iso-
lated position, and that the Department
was conducting series OF experiments
with various kinds OF chestnut of for
eign origin, including some from Japan
and Spain.
No doubt those interested can get
recent reports. bulletins and other data
by inquiry at the Department.
JOSEPH d. HOLMES.
NEW YORK, June IL.
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Cap'n Sam Comes Back.

His name of record is Captain
SAMUEL M. DENNY. But nobody calls
him that. During the more than
seventy years that he navigated the
lower reaches of the Delaware River
everybody knew him as Cap'n SAM
and everybody called him Cap'n SAM.
This was partly because everybody
liked him and partly to distinguish
who likewise was a Delaware River
navigator.
While it is true that Cap'n SAM
began boating on the Delaware sew.
enty years ago, it is inexact to say
that he kept continuously at it for
that length Of time. When the civil
war came Cap'n SAM went. He en-.
listed first in the Thirty-fourth New
Jersey Infantry and afterward in the
more congenial naval service. He
did an American bluejacket's part on
the old forty-four gun frigate Mime.
sofa and saw some warm lombard.
ment work along the James River
and elsewhere.
That was the only vacation from
Delaware River steamboating Cap'n
SAM had during the seventy years.
For matter of fifty seasons he did
fine business carrying shad from
the Bay to the Philadelphia market.
In this he made record. He bucked
heavy incoming and outgoing tides.
He CROPPED through thick, blanketing
fogs. He weathered storms, some of
them pretty stiff ones, and he never
once was late in delivering his load
of shad at the fish market. More
over, he never had collision or any
other accident that put life or boat
in peril
He knew that lower Delaware In
all its moods and lenses, all its shoals
and channels. He lived on it and
with 1t and by it. He began his
acquaintance with 1t before he was
10 years old. 1t became a life init
macy. Furthermore, the river brought
Cap'n SAM a competence. He not
only sailed boats but he owned them
-freighters of all kinds and tugs as
we'll. In fact his first boat after he
came back from the war was a tug,
the Annie M. Wood, gone from the
glimpses Of the moon for many q
long year. Then he ran five other
tugs and no less than thirteen
freighters.
A fine record, that of Cap'n SAM
but he made mistake at last al
We all do some time or other. Cap'n
SANS error was in going ashore and
imagining he could moor there In
idleness for the rest of his days. He
was only so years old, but he had
the means and he thought IL he built
him fine home overlooking a broad
expanse OF his much loved river hi
could sit on his porch and smoke
contentedly while he watched other
people do the steamboating. So hc
sold his boats; sold Denny's wharf
Of Penns Grove.
lie had been a river boat captain
since 1856. He had owned and op
Grated more Delaware River boats
than any man living. He had earned
a rest and thought he was going t.
take it. But he thought wrong. He
did not know himself. He imagined
he could watch Delaware River
steamboat doings as a mere detached
spectator. It was fundamental mis-
calculation. It left out of the &C
counting all the curiosity provok
ing newfangled things ahoat. There
were the oil burners becoming more
and more numerous. They had
points which kept Cap'n SANS pro
fosslonal interest stirred up.
His first step on the downward
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The Loquat Answers 'Present!,

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: For the
last two months we have received mod
crate shipments of loquats from Cali
fornia. We have sold the fruit TO Peter
Martori Of 27e Washington street. at the
corner of Warren street II Fruit
Lover will call on Mr.. Martori, or tele-
phone to him, he can obtain information
as to where loquats may be bought at
retail.
VICTOR L. zoRN COMPANY, INC
NEW YORK, June IT,
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probation. The Treasury has made
it impossible for purchasers of Ship
ping Board vessels to write down
their excessive cost out of earnings.
Excessive pay of officers and men
approximately twice the British
wage scale, which is the highest of
that Of all competitors, Japanese
and Scandinavian scales being con-
siderably lower.
Handicaps imposed by the sea-
mems act, requiring larger crews and
restricting service. Supposed to ap-
ply equally to tonnage Of all nation
alities calling at American ports, but
In practice bearing more heavily on
American vessels.
Relief from all these handicaps is
possible through governmental action.
The Government owned tonnage is
such a large proportion Of the total
American merchant fleet that the con-
ditions agreed to by the Shipping
Board would necessarily be forced on
private owners. Therefore the Board
should make no concession either in
amount Of wage or fixing wages for a
year that are not justified by sound
business practice.
The Board is already mourning an
enormous deficit and the guarantee of
uneconomically high wages to officers
and men of Board vessels will mean a
further deficit to be met by taxpayers.
Not all the seamen's act Is bad. The
quarters and food for American ships
are superior to those on any other ves-
sells and will remain so, but the con-
ditions demanded by the unions in the
way Of overtime and limitation OF the
service Of each class are such as
would be tolerated In no other indus
try. MARINER.
NEW York, June II.
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Theatre Laughs.
Are the Facetlous Lines Written
Especially for Women2

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I read
In a paper last Sunday that people do
not laugh in the theatres any more.
This Is only true of men. The women
laugh more than ever.
attended a comedy the other eve
ming and there was almost a constant
ripple OF feminine laughter through the
house. The men sat silent and glum.
The reason was not far to seek. Nearly
all the wit was evidently intended to
tickle female ears. A few facetious
references to prohibition-evidently also
thrown in for the benefit of the men
fell nat. That appears to be no
longer joking matter. srRrNus.
NEW York, June IL.
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Pittsburgh's City Council has voted
to erect bronze tablet In the Bards-
town, Kentucky. house in which
STEPHEN G. FOSTER, the author Of "Old
Kentucky Home" and many other en-
during American songs, lived after he
left Pittsburgh. Fosters fame grows
with the years. His genius is recog-
nized to-day by a greater proportion
OF the population than has ever been
the case before. His native city does
well TO honor one of its great children.
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The President has been requested
by the Senate to invite foreign coun-
tries to participate in an exposition
at Portland, Oregon, in 1925. The ex-
position will celebrate the completion
of transcontinental and Pacific coast
motor highways, the centennial of the
invention of the electromagnetic and
the development of hydro 'ectric
power. The movies and the jazz, both
Pacific coast arts. calmly ignoredl
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The United States has built a great
mercantile fleet, the cargo vessels of
which favorably compare with those
of other countries. A large and credit
able passenger feet has been built by
the Government. whose ships. while not
equalling the largest transatlantic
liners, are comfortable and fairly fast.
They have been placed in the runs to
Europe, South America, China, Japan,
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GEORGE NJ. CONAN is the best maker
of exits on the stage, as those who
have seen the last curtain OF THE
Tavern will admit. GEORGES exit
from the show business, while a fine
bit of the dramatic, is like The Vd0a-
bonds departure. We feel that he will
return, just as he returned to the
Friars after vowing he never would.
GEORGE cannot quit forever; he likes
work too much to stop II.
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stamp with Newspaper Mans Picture.

Sofia correspondence London Times.
The English firm OF Bradbury & wilkin-
son has gained a Government contract to
supply 14,ooo,ooo stamps bearing the head
OF the late Mr.. Bourchier. the Times corrs-
spondent in the Balkan Peninsula. and also
representing Mr.. Bourchier in peasant cos
tune.
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The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication of all news des-
patches credited TO n or not otherwise
credited In this paper. and also the local
news published herein.
All rights Of republication OF special d.
patches herein are also reserved.
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The oldest disable motor car is for
sale by its French owner. 1t was
built in 1891 and 1t can do twelve
miles an hour at best. Friends Of the
New York Americans should buy 1t
for Mr.. RUTH.
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Uncle Sans Handicapped Ships
Comparison of the Wage Schedules in American and
British Vessels.

the Philippines and India. Whether
either cargo or passenger vessel can
remain in service depends largely on
the pay of officers and men of the
American vessels and the service
which they give.
These issues are all involved in the
present strike of marine engineers.
The great disadvantage Of American
as compared with British ships ap-
pears in the following wage tables:
MARINE WAGES FOR CLASS C STEAMERS.
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The PessimIst,s Howard.

From the GALVESTON Ne,Ds.
About the only reward TO being a pessi-
mist Is that everything comes on. ,u-t Is
you expected.
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Ohio Is the Mother of National Pro-
hibition Commissioners, with a per-
centage of 100.
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American.
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Effective
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COMPARATIVE RATE, 1s14-1s21, c

5000 $500 5000 $500 1900 $500 72E
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Directors and officers: Frank A. Munsey'
President Erwin Wardman. Vice-President'
VIM r. Dewart Treasurer; r. H. Tither-
ington, Secretary.
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NEW YORK HERALD

PJBLISHED BY THE SUN-HERAI.D
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Twelve Pairs Of Billy Goats Abreast,

New YORK, June IL.