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The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Another Asteroid.

The planetary star recently dis
covered by Professor HARTMANN of
the observatory at La Plata, Argen-
tina, is not a planet as the term is
ordinarily used. 1t merely is one of
the planetary bodies whose paths lie
between those of Mars and Jupiter.
That is, it is one Of the asteroids.
The respective distances of the
planets from the sun form series
long known as BODIES law, named for
it's discoverer. But because a gap
existed in the series 1t was long be-
lieved by astronomers that a planet
would be found between Mars and
Jupiter in the apparently vacant
position.
This opinion became so strong that
an association of astronomers planned
a systematic search for it. The dis
covery was made on New Years Day,
1901, by PIAzzr, an Italian astrono-
mer. Rather singularly, PIAzzI was
not a member of the association. In
the following year another asteroid
of the group was discovered by Or.
BEERS, German observer, and shortly
afterward two others we're discovered.
Since 1S45 about six hundred have
been found and their elements COM
puted, and the list is growing at the
rate of about thirty year. Two
American astronomers, PETERS OF
New York and WATSON of Michigan,
are among the most successful dis
coverers Of asteroids.
The asteroids are comparatively
small. Not one approaches the moon
In size. Ceres, the first discovered
and one of the largest, is about 400
miles in diameter. Some of the
smaller members of the group are
not more than two or three miles In
diameter.
The orbits in which the asteroids
whirl around the sun, like those Of
the planets. are elliptical, and in
many cases the orbits are very much
elongated. The orbit of Eros is so
elongated that when nearest the sun
It approaches very closely to the o.
bit of the earth. This occurred dur
ing the winter of 1s93-94.
The asteroids are best sought with
the aid of photography. The photo
graphic telescope with exposed cam
era plate is focused upon a fixed
star within the area of research AMI
the telescope is adjusted by its clock
movement SO that the star is appae'
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
The Oysters Worst Enemy.
Natural Food Resources Imperilled
by Pollution Of Streams.

To THE New York HERALD: Refer
ring to your editorial article IAN Up
hill Struggle we are indeed thankful to
You for taking up the battle against
pollution of streams and in the interest
OF our fisheries and shell fisheries.
The evils of pollution are the greatest
menace to these valuable natural food
resources and, to quote your last SEN
terce. These evils. at least. are within
reach. of the laws arm" Nature pro-
vided against the ravages of the star
fish. borer. drill and drumish by making
It possible for each female oyster to
deliver millions of eggs each year. and
rrior to the Introduction OF sewage and
manufacturing wastes into our rivers
and harbors the oyster industry was
built up to high state of production.
regardless of the natural enemies but
nature made no provision for the fish.
shellfish or their larval young to with
stand the poisonous and suffocating at
tacks of sewage, oils and acids. And
the oystermen know OF no method OF
fghting these enemies except with the
arm of the law.
The effort to bring about legislation
to eliminate the pollution of streams
merits the support Of all OF Americas
press.
THE CONNECTICUT OYSTER FARMS Co.
CHARLES Il. WHEELER.
MILFORD, Conn, December 3.
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emily motionless in the field. All
fixed stars therefore appear on the
Photographic plate as dots. But Il
an asteroid is within the field Of ex-
posure the progressive motion in its
orbit makes a short but clearly
drawn line on the plate.
The rate at which the number of
known asteroids increases year by
year leads astronomers to the belief
that the number of undiscovered
members of the group is very great
and that because Of their small size
countless number will remain un-
discovered by the methods at present
employed. The late Professor NEW
COMB held this belief, and it was his
opinion that the smallest of them
were not larger than the meteors
which become incandescent when
they strike the earth's atmosphere.
The discovery made by Professor
HARTMANN possesses but little astro-
nomical Importance.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Opinion Of an Actor.
He Blames Managers for the Present
Theatrical Situation.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: AS a
strollng player-emphasis on the stroll
ing at present. am interested in watch
ing the cause and effect of the theatrical
game and the wild lament of our present
producers.
Mr.. Brady announces that the theatre
IL facing a crisis and that a frank dis
cussion of how to meet It is essential
and asks the leading managers to meet
and probe the situation. Let US hope
that they will take off their blinders and
look the situation in the face and realize
that in this day and age the public is far
more discerning than It has been given
credit for being. The time has gone
when because Of personal interest any
producer or group of producers can pro-
mote individual vanities or lean back and
say This Is what they liked ten yeaM
ago"
It is appalling to note how many bad
plays are being produced. Very often
good plays are damned by their totally
r,iscast company, owing to the Ignorance
OF the manager. who should know his
game but who is too lazy to work at II
and let's his assistants do the casting.
Do managers know or do even the critics
know whether it is the play or the inn
personation OF characters which is at
fault when a production fails? DO they
realize how one part thrown out OF key
changes the whole tone of the play?
No, my dear managers, you are at
fault in not being alert and knowing
your own game. or in letting personali-
ties creep into big, noble profession. IN
not putting the right person in the right
place. What lot OF unhapplness and
misery you could avert by knowing what
was needed in the first place Consider
the feelings OF the actor: Is there any
thing more humiliating than to be ap-
preached and accepted for a part that
only the manager knows anything about
for IT'S seldom that they let you read a
play these days--and then dismissed be-
fore the entire company because OF the
managers lack of Judgment
To be successful knowledge OF the
theatre is required, and this wonderful
city, the centre now OF the world of art.
is going to show managers that to get at
the cause of the present situation they
have got to go deeper than attributing
II to the hard times. AS.
New YORK, December 3.
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The Artists Signature.

Grieve not. to offer to some reignint
power
Though tits but of the hour.
Deeming this must we do. TO make oul
way
Until some Reckoning Day!
For so 1t happens much the same to US
As once to Scstratus.
His story? Here II Is in brief annexed
Reduced from Lucian's text:
He builds a lighthouse on a sharp fang'd
reef
Where many came to grief
When they would enter AleSanSria's
Bay
He builds, and builds to stay! -.
Outside. the Pharos bore a monarch,
name
(ISng lost Of mocking FameD.
But mason work the marbles face DER
laid,
And in some years betrayed
Then, gradually. but sure, there came to
light.
Cut in the n,aS'ble white.
Another charactery. unread before,
From wave OF from the shore:
II. Sostratus. this Pharos did erect
To them who do protect
The Mariner - These words out.
standing wrought
Magic in all mems thought.
But most the artist's-that the makers
craft
The last of all had laughed!
Build to the Gods (if build we CAM,
Care not
How long your names forgot!
Make of Obscurity willy friend
Far in her shadow bend;
Expediency-she. too, you hate so much
Has her own salving touch
The works your own. your signature in
here's
o trust it to the Years
EDITH M. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Enforcing Federal Game Laws.

Federal game wardens are enforc.
ing the provisions Of the migratory
bird treaty act in way that will
meet with the approval Of every citi'
zen interested in the matter Of game
bird conservation.
There was a disposition once to
wink at infractions Of the game laws.
In some communities the authorities
were either friendly to the hunters
or lax in the performance Of their
duties. Birds were killed out OF sea-
SON or taken in traps in great num-
bers. Being a game warden in some
places meant being good fellow.
There was a disposition also to re-
gard that particular provision Of the
law prohibiting the sale OF game
birds, ducks chiefly, as possessing
elastic qualities, and there was
scarcely locality where professional
hunters did not carry on their occu'
patton openly.
Then came the tightening Of the
lines by the Federal authorities. Last
season severe 'punishments were i'm
posed on offenders. A resident Of
New Jersey was fined 5000 for shoot
ing geese out Of season and a jail
sentence was threatened for second
offence. Jersey justice has just been
surpassed in South Carolina, where
man who offered wild ducks for
sale was fined $500 and sent to jail
for three months--a severe penalty
but one that should deter other gun
ners from violating the law.
According to the reports of the
Biological Survey Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture
there were ffty-seven convictions dur
ing October for violations Of laws
relating to game birds. There were
in addition los cases reported by the
Federal game wardens, and these will
be prosecuted. The penalties imposed
vary in severity in different parts Of
the Union. North Carolina hunters
who shot ducks from a motor boat
were fined $50 each and costs, while
a gunner guilty Of like offence in
Maryland was fined So. An Illinois
man who trapped ducks escaped with
"a fine of $40 and costs amounting to
s2S.s7. This offence is in the same
category as shooting ducks after
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

scattered from one end of the country
to the other.
Granting that the crop will be eigh;
million bales. with this years carry
over OF not much over six million bales
Of spinnable cotton, making fourteen
million bales, this will barely meet a
normal consumption.
You can be assured that there is no
hope for many years to come of any
thing like normal crop. because the
live at home policy is being put into
effect in the South.
Farmers are making food and feed
crops the fret consideration. leaving
only n third or at most half of their
acreage TO cotton. W. M. STEELE,
Secretary American Cotton Associa
ton. Louisiana Division.
New ORLEANS, La, November 80.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Ponzi Dividends.

Trustees for CHARLES PoNzI, Bos-
toms get rich quick operator, have
announced their intention to pay a
dividend of 10 per cent. out of funds
sarvaged from the wreckage of his
alleged kitlng Of foreign drafts from
one country to another and making
huge profits by converting them into
gold. Maybe the losers will eventu-
ally get back 25 per cent. OF the
amount originally fed into PoNzI's
multiplication machine.
II 10 per cent. or 25 per cent. is
paid II will not be because PoNzI was
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Archery Practice.

While autumn showers thresh the noun
tain lake,
Each silver drop descending, arrow-swift,
1 watch about It's stroke a target make
or ripples that IN Furnished circlets lift.
So every time with faultless marlNsman-
ship
From myriad tiny bows the missiles fly.
Each through the dlmpling bul's-eye
sure to slip
Augments the perfect score unerringly.
You say, "of course an arrow cleaves
It's mark
II it creates it's target with its blow"
Why not then such an obvious lesson
bark,
And mend my shooting from a random
bow7
NY verses, comments, sailies. shafts OF
wit.
Henceforth ohslll make their bull's-eyes
where they hit! ELIOT WHITE.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Boston's Population Grievance.

Boston has the misfortune to DOM
mate group city. Within a radius
of from ten to fifteen miles from the
centre of the city lives, in compact.
connected communities, population
! of 1,772,254. This is an aggregation
of individuals in excess of that in
any other American city save New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia. II
all these persons lived under the mu-
nicipal government of Boston that
city would rank as the fourth in
stead of the seventh among the cities
in the Union, to which place the re.
morseless census figures relegate her.
The census gives a population of 74S,.
600 to Boston.
| Under this rating Boston falls be-
low not only the three largest cities
named but below Detroit, with $685.
739; Cleveland, with 796,S36, and St.
Louis, with 772,S97. Boston only es-
capped being led by Baltimore, and
thus showed back into the eighth in
stead of the seventh place, by the
narrow margin of about $4,000. The
census gives Baltimore a population
of 1885.
Bostonians keenly resented the cen
sus figures from the moment they
were published. Led by the Mayor.
strong representations were made to
the Census Bureau. The enumera-
ton of the city directory was offered
In evidence. On the basis Of per-
centage Of actual population to direc-
tory names, heretofore shown to be
reasonably accurate, it was asserted
that the number of people in Boston
itself was largely in excess of the
census total. But the Washington
authorities were obdurate. They
refused to revise their count. They
! ignored estimates based on city
directory percentages. The Boston
complainants we're left powerless, but
they were not silenced. They refused
to accept the Government count.
They persisted, and still persist, In
the fixed belief that the census Of
1920 did Boston a grave injustice.
Now comes the National Geo.
graphic Society with words of conso-
lation. This body takes the ground
that in group urban communities
like Boston the relative rank among
cities as regards population should
not be determined by the number of
people in the chief member of the
group. 1t should be based on the
aggregate of all the Immediately con-
tiguous communities. Detroit under
this method of computation would
have a population Of 1,165,163. I'm
der the same method of enumeration
Boston would beat Detroit by more
than 100000. The City of the Straits
would then be crowded back from
the fourth to the fifth place. New
York of course would count as it's
population all suburban residents.
THE New YORK HERALD believes
this census grouping Of closely knit
communities is the only true meas
urement of urban populations. 1t is
such a good idea that it ought to
be adopted.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Servants Wages.
Unemployment Might Be Less With
Lower Scale of Pay.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The rea-
son so many servants are out Of employ
roent, as / see ft--and many with whom
have talked agree with me--is that
wages have been and are ridiculously
high. The employment Office fees are
beyond all reason.
The household servant has all food
supplied, good, comfortable room Of her
own and many privileges. If wages were
cut in half servants would still be well
off and all would find employment. Many
employers who could afford to pay $40
month cannot afford to pay $50 and
therefore have to do without servants.
Before the tremendous rise in wages
employed six servants in my own nome
but have had to reduce my staff to two.
I should like to go back to six, but the
present wage does not permit this.
HousEH OLDER.
NEW YORK, December 3.
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An Atom Of Immortality.
The Ruling Particle in the C0mmu
nifty That Is Man.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I submit
that no fact throws more light on the
subject of the Immortality OF the soul
than the discovery that matter and
energy are but different aspects Of the
same fundamental entity. The connec-
tion between this entity and mind stun
lies in the fact that thought and feeling
are forms Of energy.
Biologists and scientists generally con-
tend that our whole mental life is the
joint result of the combined activities Of
n1yriads and myriads Of infinitesimal
nerve cells or soul cells every one of
which Is an Independent living person
specializing in mentation and banded
together to build and to preserve man.
In other words. they look upon man
as only apparently an individual but in
reality collection Of individuals. a COM
rnunity. Where and how the transition
is effected from the manifoldness of the
collisions Of the myriads and myriads of
the individuals to the unity Of PERSONAL
ity they do not say.
On the contrary, we believe that this
unity resides in each atom; that the
various atoms vfbrate In unison with
atom which is our personality or it's sub
stratum. We are conscious of only one
personality. but being In touch with all
the others we share their experiences
as they do ours, though neither we nor
they may know the origin of thesa
experiences.
Is 1t hard to believe In n multiplicity
Of personalities ruled by a single per-
ecnality? Is it not more in conformity
with the facts and with common sense
than that countless millions of units re-
siding in that part of the brain called
the fold of broca lord it over all the rest
of this many headed community occupy
ing other parts of the brain. the nerves,
the muscular and other systems and the
sense organs?
To sum UP, we believe our personality
is inexpugnably bound up with an atom
that this atom is. as we believe, ind
visible and indestructible. our personal
ity is immortal.
Hence we refuse to give up our pre-
cious dead to perpetual night and ami
hilation. We will continue to love and to
long for them. to mourn at their graves
and confidingly and joyously to look for
ward to the time when our loved ones
shall be restored to us in a world more
perfectly ordered. where the ties that
were so ruthlessly ruptured here will be
knit anev, never thereafter to be sum
dered. HENRY l.. PHILLIPS.
FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. December 1.
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Motor Car Speeding.
Let the Police Watch Where the
Danger Really Is.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your edi-
torial article headed "A Bad Motor Or
dinance" was the best I ever read on
this subject.
An ordinance furnishing all speeding
with a Jail sentence would certainly
open the gates to considerable bribery
and blaclsmail.
AS I see it, the reason for motor
vehicle laws is to protect life. Why
doesn't the city pay more attention to
the wild trucks and taxicabs which dash
through congested business streets? As
IL Is the police make arrests in isolated
parts of the city. in the parks and the
suburban districts where the conscience
of the average motorist tells him what
he should do. But. no! This is where
we find the officer Sinking behind bushes
or camoufiaging himself to arrest a mo-
torist who may go a few miles faster
at this point. The judge in turn makes
no distinction in such cases and the
maximum fine is imposed.
c. F. DEGRAw.
NEW YORK, December 3.
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The Fairest Things.

The fairest things are those that silent
come,
You may not hear the irst approach
OF morn,
And though you listen as the golden
sum
OF hours fade into dusk. no sound is
borne.
When the stars dance on high no bugles
blow;
The footsteps Of the flowers fall silent
ly,
Az softly come the blossoms of the
snow:
And clouds float by in pale tranquil
lity.
No voices herald moonlight on lake !;
The silvery dew is still these gifts
are given
AS quietly as Christ, who for our sake
Was sent to US, the greatest gift Oh
heaven.
renderly now, as in the yesterday
He leads earth-weary children In His
way. ELISABETH ScoLLARp.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

dark, which the Mississippi authori-
ties treated with more leniency than
was shown in South Carolina. GER
tain hunters who were convicted of
the offence escaping with a fine of
$40 and costs of sat each. 1t is to
the credit OF the Georgia authorities
that three men who hunted doves
out of season were fined $50 each.
If game birds are taken only in
season and in the measure prescribed
by the law there will be a great in
crease in the supply for all. Federal
supervision is doing much for the
game conservation movement.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Dangerous Lenity.

1t took forty minutes to get a jury
in the case of LOUIS LIVELY, accused
Of the murder Of seven-year-old girl
in Burlington county, New JERSEY,
and it took two days to try, convict
and sentence him to death. Here
Jersey justice lived up to its best
traditions. But in repeatedly turn
ing this man loose upon society on
previous occasions. although he had
been convicted at different times of
crimes covering q period Of more
than twenty-five years of the thirty
seven years of his life and ranging
all the way from incendiarism to
murder, New Jersey furnished a
striking instance of the danger of
showing lenity to criminals.
LIvELY's criminal career began
with incendiarism when he was
barely twelve years old. Convicted of
this crime, he was sent to the James
burg Reform School in 1894. Three
years later he escaped and resumed
his incendiary operations at Bridge
ton. Again tried and convicted, he
was returned to the reformatory. At
ter short detention he was linden.
tured to a farmer at Dayton, New
Jersey. A few months thereafter he
attacked a young woman, murder
ously assaulted the farmers son and
stole money and other property.
For this series of crimes he was
sentenced to fourteen years imprison.
ment. After serving only a part of
his term he was again set free. He
had been at large only year or so
when he was convicted in Camden
Of carrying concealed weapons and
making threats. He was sentenced
to seven years Imprisonment, but in
a year was again out on parole. Two
years later he murdered ERNEST MAD
DEN of Burlington, New Jersey. The
crime was committed in Philadelphia,
where a sentence OF from two to
three years Imprisonment was i'm
posed on this confirmed criminal.
Before his term ended he was again
paroled. In less than year, on the
night of June last, he committed
at Moorestown, New Jersey, the MUIR
der for which he has just been SEN
fenced to death.
Here was man who for a quarter
of century demonstrated his incOr-
rigible propensity to the worst forms
of crime. Over and over again he
was tried, convicted and sentenced
to prison; over and over again he
was turned loose to commit other
crimes. New Jersey is not alone
in showing lenity in cases of this
kind. The same tendency is seen in
many other States. But 1t is doubt
full IL any other State in the Union
can show a more fragrant example
of blindness to reiterated demonstra-
tions of error than New Jersey has
exhibited in this case Of LOUIS
LIVELY
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
On the Boardwalk.

To THE New YORK HERALD: For those
purists who object TO Aren't IT.
would submit the following which I
overheard on the Boardwalk at Atlantic
city:
A young man and his wife meet an old
man and his wife and by way of greet
Ing the young woman kisses the old
woman but shakes hands with the old
man.
"Na." says the latter. "she she kisses
and mo she shakes his hand" G. II. M.
NEW YORK; December Q.