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The New York herald., 1922-04-20
New York's Infant Mortality.
Only Two Large American Cities
Show a Better Record.

From the Weekly Bulletin Of the Department
o; Health.
The provisional figures for the vital
statistics of 1921 OF England and Wales
have just been issucd. These figures
show that the infant mortality rate of
London for 1921 was 70 per thousand
births as compared with an infant NOR
tality rate of II per thousand births
for New York city for the Same year.
London Is the only city in the world
that can or should be compared with
New York city in regard to mortality
ratios. The large cities of the United
States show such a broad contrast with
New York city as regards extent OF
population and consequent population
problems that adequate comparison OF
total mortality rates or infant mortal
ity rates is hardly possible. In this
connection it is also interesting to call
attention to the infant mortality rates
OF the ten largest cities of the United
states for 1921. as follows:
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
What Makes Street Killings.

The Aldermen may have had the
best intentions in framing the new
automobile speed ordinance, but the
result io likely to congest traffic with
out appreciably reducing accidents.
The ordinance prohibits speed Of
more than eight miles an hour south
of Houston street. There are certain
wide thoroughfares in that region, for
instance Lafayette street, where a
good driver might safely go at the
rate of fifteen miles an hour between
the cross streets and by these spurts
keep traffic from clogging. A fat rule
of eight miles will tend to choke the
roads. The general prohibition Of
more than fifteen miles an hour in
congested districts is fair enough;
and the Aldermen wisely raised the
maximum rate in the sparsely settled
districts to twenty-five miles.
Far better than complicated ordi-
nance which both drivers and police
have difficulty in remembering would
be a brief and sensible declaration
that all driving must be done at a
reasonable and safe rate in congested
districts. Then let offenders be se-
verely punished for driving at un-
reasonable and dangerous speeds.
After all, an ordinance amounts to
nothing II it Is not enforced. New
York has prohibited speed of moro
than fifteen miles an hour in its
crowded streets, but every day, in
every street, at every hour Of the
day, that ordinance is violated by
practically every taxicab driver. If
these Jehus know the law they ut
terly disregard it. They evidently
have no respect for life or limb or
rules of the road. An accident. is
little to them, for their cars are
hardy, inexpensive things and are
usually we'll insured. An arrest fol-
lowed by a fine would mean little to
them.
There will be no reduction Of the
motor Killings ana malmlnSS IN New
York until two reforms have arrived.
One is the enforcement OF the ordi-
nance against all reckless drivers
without fear or favor and with par
tictJar attention to the taxicab driv-
ers who have had free running too
long. The second reform must come
from the pedestrians.
There are too many jaywalkers in
this town. They plunge into the
street stargazing, with no thought
or consideration of what they are
doing, and it is only through the
skill OF motorists that thousands o;
such persons, not fit to be trusted out
alone, are not killed every day.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Break OF Morning.
From The Yafc Rcuietc.

from tHc lutc heCteW.
Sound the invisible trumps. In circuit
vast
The passive earth like scene Of dream
Is set.
The small birds fit and sing, their dark
hours past,
And their green sojournings with dew
drops wet.
With giant boughs outspread. the oaks
on high
Brood on In slunbrous quiet In the air.
Sole In remote inane OF vacant sky
Paling Arcturus sparkles wildly fair.
Sound the invisible trumps. The waters
weep.
A stealing wind breathes in the mcads.
Is gone.
Into their earthern burrows the wild
things creep
Cockcrow to thinning cockcrow echoes
Avert thine eyes. sleep ridden face Nor
scan
Those seraph hosts that In divine array
Girdlc the mortal masked empyrean:
Their sovran beauty Is this break of
day.
Theirs is the music r an call Silence
here
What wonder grief distorts thy burning
eyes?
Turn to thy pillow again--in iovo and
fear
Not thine to see tho Son OF Morning rise.
WALTER DE LA MARE.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Exterminator, Wonder Horse.

Exterminator, the greatest money
winner OF all the geldings known in
the history OF the turf. with more
than s130,000 to show for five years
OF strenuous campaigning, is one Of
the wonder horses of the day. He
has not only won more money than
any other gelding in the world but
IS so sound in wind and limb that
he seems good for many years to
come.
Slim" as he is called by the col
ored lad who takes care of him, was
sold for $1,000 as a yesrling at Sara
toga. He blossomed >into S12,500
threeyear-old few days before the
running OF the Kentucky Derby four
years ago, w. s. KLMER Of Bing.
hamton buying him when his French
bred candidate. Sunbriar, showed
signs OF lameness. One OF the smart
est men In racing sold slim and
he was surprised when the big. lathy
chestnut plowed through the mud to
victory that had no contingencies
attached to 1t.
Though long legged and somewhat
slue footed In front, Exterminator's
splendid heart and lung power. to-
gether with his perfect action, soon
put him in the front rank OF our
thoroughbreds. especially over long
distances. RE showed fine form on
good tracks as. we'll as bad tracks,
and with the passage of time at
tracted following that was both
numerous and loyal. Last summer
there was talk OF sending him to Eng
land to run for the Ascot Gold Cup
aud other distance tests that set the
seal OF greatness upon horses capable
OF winning them, but nothing came
OF it and slim" is ready to battle
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
A Bird Harbor Of Refuge.

A harbor of refuge for migratory
wild birds at Kingsville, Ontario,
Canada, has been in operation long
enough to show the utility Of reser-
vations OF this kind. Kingsville Is on
the north shore Of Lake Erie, about
thirty-five miles southeast Of Detroit.
II is on one of the many broad high
ways Of migratory bird flight be-
tween the Hudson Bay regions and
the shores OF the Gulf Of Mexico and
the south Atlantic States waters.
Like many other places on both
shores of Lake Erie, it Is a great
resort for hunters of wild ducks and
wild geese. This fact was one of the
reasons which led JAMES MINER to
establish a bird reservation there.
In their long flights between their
winter and their summer homes Mr..
MINER felt that the wild fowl we're
entitled to place where they could
have respite from running the shot
gun gantlet. Such a refuge he has
made for them. To begin with, he
has provided a pond where they can
feed and rest in safety. To get them
to come he began by setting out a
free lunch for them in plain sight.
They we're shy of it and shy of him at
the outset.
But there are venturesome spirits
even among wild fowl. A few OF
these alighted, fed and got away
without a feather rufied. Others
came. and still nothing unpleasant
happened. But II was slow proc
ess, this banishing a distrust we'll
grounded in long and bitter expert
ence. II was years before Mr.. MINER
mad gained the full and unhesitating
confidence Of the birds.
But persistent patience won at last.
Now the Miner half way house is
known and recognized as a hunter
proof harbor OF refuge for wild fowl
in transit. They 20 there by thou
sands and men and women for miles
around visit the reservation to see
the spectacle when the full food tide
OF bird travel is on. or their host
himself the older birds. which have
frequently been his guests. have no
fear. They swarm around him aud
he ties tags on their legs.
In return the birds carry the tags
far and wide. Tags have been sent
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Improving the Colleges.

The New York University NeiCs
has canvassed the colleges and uni
versities of the country on the sub
ject of an intercollegiate platform
dealing with the question of how to
get the best results from collegiate
training. The questionable was ad-
dressed solely to students and the
responses came from student publi-
cations. AS printed in the NeUs
these answers make an. interesting
educational document.
In their totality they form plat.
form of sixty-four planks. Revised
and edited with discretion these
planks could doubtless be compressed
into less space without losing essen
tial elements of the suggestions made
by the students.
The suggestions are chiefly grouped
around three topics, namely, courses
Of study, collegiate government and
discipline and athletics. On these
subjects there is a remarkable con-
currence OF opinion. Broadly sum-
married., the answers strongly favor
increased emphasis in college courses
of study on the old fashioned humani-
ties, that is, literature, languages and
philosophy. rather than the present
tendency toward specialization in
purely practical fields; the adoption
OF an honor system and the devel-
opment of student self-government;
strict elimination of professionalism
in college athletics.
In addition to these propositions,
on which there is notable unanimity
Of view, there are recommendations
for greater diversity in athletics,
with less concentration on football,
and for expanding participation in
athletics to the entire student body
as against the present leaning to-
ward narrowing such participation
to a chosen few. While the question
OF the study of Greek and Latin is
not directly raised, 1t is fair pre-
sumption that the demand for more
attention to the humanities and cor
respondingly less to specialization in
technical directions may include in
its purport a mild protest against
the latter day inclination to curtail,
and even partially to eliminate, the
study of the ancient classics from
the curriculum.
Taking the suggestion as whole,
the impression conveyed is of an en-
couraging breadth of vision and of
wholesome standards of undergradu-
ate responsibility.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Polish Barrier to Disease.

The European Health Commission,
which has just ended its conference
at Warsaw, has formulated plans for
erecting barrier at the eastern
border of Poland against the spread
of disease from the famine and plague
stricken regions Of the Volga and
southern Russia. i. has estimated the
cost OF such barrier and proposes
that the expenses should be shared
proportionately by interested nations.
The commission sees danger in the
situation il the westward march OF
disease is not checked, but 1t holds
that there is no need for alarm IL
the proper preventive measures are
employed.
The Polish Government called this
conference at Warsaw in order to
acquaint Europe with the exact con-
ditions and to give to the commits
sion an understanding of the task
which lay before it. Poland's dam
ger comes at present principally from
the repatriates who are returning
from Russia. Many OF these repa-
triates are Poles who saw service
iu the Russian army and upon being
released from the army in eastern
Russia were retained there by order
of the Soviets. Others are Austrian
or German Poles who were pris-
oners in Siberia until about seven
months ago. Since that time they
have been tramping across Russia.
MANY OF these" says a Warsaw re-
port. "may endeavor to emigrate by
way Of Belgium and Holland to Amer
lea and thus constitute danger to
western Europe"
SO far Poland has been able to
cope with these conditions. She has
detained her repatriates at her east
ern border and has endeavored to
furnish some comforts in their quar-
antine stations. B,H they are still
coming like swarm OF locusts," !"
says one description. and the fear Of
Poland is that. in the first place, she
alone will not be able to care for
their ever increasing number and, In
the next place, that with the coming
OF spring she will be confronted with
great exodus OF people from the
Ukraine and the volga district.
The present barrier extends from
the Rrmanian oorde. northward
a.esg the frontiers Il Poland, Latvia
and Esthonia to the Baltic Sea, and
II Is the preservation OF this in its
entirety which the commission seeks.
Rumania apparently IS in no great
danger. The broad Dniester River
is easily guarded and Rumanian au.
thorities arc earnestly intent upon
the establishment OF quarantine
which will protect their country
from the westward march Of dis
ease. The Allies on the Turkish
Straits have the situation well In
The New York herald., 1922-04-20

back to Kingsville from as far west
as Saskatchewan and as far south
as Louisiana. They have even been
returned by Indians in the far Hud-
son Bay north. In this way. and by
answering every letter inclosing one
of his tags, this Canadian bird lover
is spreading his efforts to prevent
bird killing for mere killings sake.
1t is a work with which all true
sportsmen will heartily sympathize.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Lexington Avenue Changes.
It Is Proposed to Extend 1t Down
Town Besides Widening 1t.

To THE New York HERALD: / read
the letter in your paper from Samuel j.
Bloomingdale advocating the widening
of Lexington avenue in accordance with
the plan suggested by the Borough Pres
ident as means OF relieving the traffic
congestion on Fifth avenue.
have always contended that Lexing-
ton avenue was not doing its share to
relieve this congestion, and / believe the
principal reason for this is that Lexing-
ton avenue Is shut off at Gramcrcy Park,
and again on the south side of Four
teenth street. In addition to widening
H. Lexington avenue should be extended
through Gramercy Park into Irving
place and through Fourteenth street into
Fourth avenue. connecting with Lafay-
ette street at Clinton place.
This would give practically new wide
avenue north and south from Brook
lyn Bridge and could be accomplished
at much less expense than any other
plan vet suggested. This would not
neccsstate doing away with Gramcrcy
Park. as two small parks could be MAIN
tanned each side OF the street. If this
extension were made the Lexington ave-
nue. surface cars could then continue
down Lexington avenue and connect
with Broadway at Astor place, instead
of turning Off at Twenty-third street
and Lexington avenues. as they now do.
Another great benefit to the city for
the purpose Of relieving the traffic con-
gestion would be the connecting OF Mad
ison Square with Union Square by ex-
tending Madison avenue from the south
side of Twenty-third street to Union
Square.
trust the Borough President will
give this plan consideration IN connec-
ton with the widening OF Lexington
avenue WRIGHT BARCLAY.
NEW YORK, April 10.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Farm Labor Supply Grows.

Defiation in the United States
brought wheat from the peak war
price Of $3.50 bushel to as low as
81 bushel. The drop in other farm
products was in the same proper
tion. The farmer was hit carly and
hit hard, but as the process Of read
justment continues the inequitable
differences between farm prices and
city prices are slowly but surely dis
appearing. Most important Of all to
the farmer is the fact that whereas
he could not get workers at any price
two years ago to carry on the work
OF spring plowing and seeding he
can now get all the seasonal assist
ance he needs.
The Department Of Agriculture re-
ports that on April last the farm
labor supply was lila per cent. Of
the demand; last year at the same
time the ratio OF supply to demand
was 10S.S per cent. Two years ago,
with city wages tempting thousands
Of workers away from the soil, there
were only 68 men to each 100 Jobs
offered on the farms.
This year the farms are employing
S9.3 per cent. OF the normal number
of hired hands, as against S7.0 per
cent. In the spring of 1921.
Deflation of agricultural prices
came suddenly, despite artificial
measures to stave 1t of. The seal
ing down OF farm wages and farm
costs to bring them in line with the
prices Of farm products and to re-
store normal farm profits is not yet
an accomplished fact, but it is well
advanced on its way.
When deflation, with it's varied
compensations, shall have run its full
course the farmer will not have
cause to believe, as certain self-seek-
ing politicians have tried to tell him,
that the nation has special grudge
against agriculture, necessitating
protective blocs in Congress and
special representation on the Federal
Reserve Board.
The imitation balloon is coming
down, that's all.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
DRIVE ron DIET KITCHEN.

Mrs. j. Frederick Eagle. president,
and Mrs. Walker D. Hines. secretary of
the Babies Auxiliary Of the New York
Diet Kitchen Association, $40 Seventh
avenue, are launching drive to swell
the membership OF this organization.
which now has SIS members. Little
citizens" under four years of age are
eligible, and upon receipt of 81 annual
dues will be admitted to membership
through the central Office of the associa-
ton. or may register with Mrs. Eagle,
e35 Park avenue. All children over
four years old viii be entered in the
Junior auxiliary. The object Of the club
is to aid In making 1t possible for the
6.s15 babies In the associations six dis
tricts to have the best care that spe-
cially trained baby doctors and nurses
can give.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Rottl. Me..as. Found After s Years.

Vienna correspondence London Times.
A bottle incloslng message from the
Austro-Hungarian north polar expedition
OF 1874. commanded by Captain Julius
Payer. has just reached Vienna. The ship
Tcgethof. which carried the expedition. was
jammed In an ice pack on the coast OF the
newly discovered Franz Josef Land In April
OF that year. and the crew was compelled
to abandon her. a letter reporting the fact
was written at the time by the first officer
and sunk under the ice In bottle. Last
summer tho bottle was found by Russian
colorists at Nova zembla and eventually
reached Copenhagen, whence II has been
sent on to Vienna. The letter Is well pre-
served and has been identified by the one
surviving member Of tho expedition.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
TO HELP IN MUSIC WEEK.
Oratorio Society to Give "st. Mat
thew's Passion"

OE&tOrAO Soclety 10 uANc So MAJ
thew's Passion"
The Oratorio Society is to figure
among the participants in New York's
Music Week that begins Sunday. April
80, and ends the following Saturday eve
ming. 1t will give in the Great Hall Of
City College, on the evening of Thurs
day, May 4. "St. Matthew's Passion"
Albert Stoessel conducting. Two hun
dred and twenty-five voices Will be in
the chorus, Frederick Shattucls will be
at the piano and Philip James q; the
organ There will be five soloists.
among them May Allen. who is the con-
tralto of the Church of the Incarnation.
Among the weeks most striking fea-
lures win be the gala concert staged in
the negro colony under the auspices Of
the recently organized Students Circle
of Arts and Literature. The concert will
be given in the Rev. Mr.. Sargents
church. 135th street and Seventh
avenue.
The Inter-Racial Council, whose chair
man Is Felix M. Warburg, is arrang-
ing another Music Weeks feature. IN
the shape of two concerts. to be held in
the auditorium of the American Museum
of Natural History.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
BY w. >. HENDERSON.

"Die Walkuere'' was given at the Met
| ropolitan Opera House last evening. The
audience was of good size and its atti-
tude betokened warm interest in the
work. The cast was one OF no small ex-
cellence despite the fact blown In the
glass German Wagner singers were con-
spicaously absent from 1t. Nine. Claus
sen. the Brwennhilde, is Swede. Nine.
Easton. the Sie0Ii,sde, is English. Nor
gan Kingston, the Sieomund, is a Cana
dian. Mr.. whitehIll, the WotGn, and
Mr.. Gustafson. the Hunding, are plain
products Of the United States.
The performance of the music drama
had some striking merits. Nine. Eas-
tons beautiful Sie0Ii'tde again gave
great pleasure to those who care to take
such interpretations seriously. Mr..
Kingston confirmed the favorable i'm
preston made by his previous appear
ance as the Voisung. He might easily
be developed into very serviceable
Wagner singer. or Mr.. Whitehill's
Wotdsl it is possible to say again that
1t is a well conceived and effectively
executed impcrsonation of the troubled
god.
Nine. Claussen was Br1senn1Ilde OF
the type familiar In the theaters of the
smaller German cities She worked
very hard, but the results were not al
ways what she seemed to desire. AS
for Miss Grace Bradley, who essayed
the role of Frickd. nothing need be said
except that she made a courageous first
attempt at a leading role. The playing
Of the orchestra was one OF the delights
of the evening. Mr.. Bodanzky con-
Quoted.
Mrs. Richard Gambrilps guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Gray Griswold. Mrs.
Whitney Warren and Mr. Bronson Win
throp.
Mr. and Mrs. r. Burial Hoffman, Mr..
and Mrs. F. Ashton de Peyster and Mr..
Arthur Floyd-Jones were with Mrs Ar
thur Ryle.
Mrs. Charles p. Alexander's guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Scott,
Mr.. and Mrs. Algernon Coolidge and MT.
w. Rhinelander Stewart
With Mrs. Charles A. Childs were Col.
and Mrs. w. G.. Bates, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Gordon Crawford and Mr.. George Led
lie.
Bishop and Mrs. James Henry Darl-
ington, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles T. Darl-
ington and the Rev. and Mrs. Gilbert
Darlington were in Mr.. e. Francis
with Mr. and Mrs Ten Eycl< Wendell
were Mr.. and Mrs. George Leary and
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha G. Tower.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Wilfour.
Mrs. Horace l.. Balch. Mrs. Horace L..
Brannin and Mr.. George A. Whiteley
were with Mr.. Purdon Robinson.
Mrs. Louis II. Eoyt'e guests were
Mrs. William Warner Hoppin. Mrs.
Henry Asher Robbins. the Rev. Edward
Devoll, the Rev. Samuel G.. Trexler,
MIR. Robert G. Hone and Mr.. Shipley
Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hadcock. Mrs.
Louis Kinney. DR.. George Lenox Curtis
and Mr.. William G. Hoffman were with
DR.. and Mrs. Frank Northrop in the
Gould box.
Mr. and Mrs. e. Reeve Merritt, Mrs.
J. Howell Carroll, Count and Countess
Dru Mongelas. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Pulitzer, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B.
Thomas. Capt. and Mrs. II. Gloster
Armstrong also were ir the audience.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
The Useful Birch.
Once Highly Esteemed MS nm Element
I'm Education.

To THE New York HERALD: There Is
one use OF the birch which you failed to
mention In your editorial article about
this tree. II was much in vogue in
past generations; it is the birch rod
which when applied to certain parts OF
the schoolboy's anatomy was very effec-
tive in mpressing lessons of obedience.
punctuality respect for authority and
even of piety.
Unfortunately that use OF the birch Is
no longer permissibie--tle more's the
pity.
1t Is the missing element In the
schools to-day. Ex-TEAcH Err.
HARRISON, April 10.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
The DanodII.

These garden ways arc bare and brown
and scar,
Hinting OF autumn rather than or
spring.
And yet to-day I heard robin sing
His inmemorial song OF warmth and
cheer.
The wind Is plaintive; scurrying storm
clouds paes
Across the sky as day fades out and
yet
1t Is not dark, for madcap March has
set
ELISABETH ScoLLAKp.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Potpourri.

Here is the beauty Of a host of Junes.
And here is Joy that blossomed with
the rose,
And here the lyric vows that lovers
chose
To give and take beneath the summer
moons
Here are the notes OF merry, lifting tunes
That mating thrushes in the naples
sung
And here the sweets that dew-drenched
twilights flung,
And here the evening winds faint, visit
ful runes.
Gathered into the hearts of countless
blooms,
And treasured in their petals fragrant
fold,
Even as old Aunt Waitstill's faded
rooms
Seem tended like some precious shrine
to hold
Housed in the confine of a narrow jar
This essence Of all lovely things that
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-04-20
Die Walkuere' Sung at Metropolitan
Mme Easton's Beautiful Seglinde Again Gives Great
Pleasure to Audience

the Waldorf-A Astoria tonight. The clubs
include the Glee Club and Instrumental
Club. Dancing will follow the concert
The following viii ~ patronesses /:
Mines. Henry Harper Benedict. Samuel
Hopkins Adams. Abel Edward Blackmar.
George Emerson Brewer. William Nc
Laren Bristol. Robert N. Brockway.
Daniel Burke. Charles Harwood. Warren
Isbel Lee, Norman James Marsh. Bay
ard Livingston Peck. Elihu Root. Elihu
Root. Jr.. Oren Root, N. Archibald
Shaw, Jr.. Alexander Coburn Soper. Joel
Jay Squier. Lloyd Paul Stryker and
Cyrus Van Ness Washburn.