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The New York herald., 1922-08-03

Ii saves time and carfare. 1t finds
the lost child. II explains the missed
train. 1t completes business deals
and arranges social affairs. What
would civilization, which has grown
more and more complex in the tele-
phones life, do il the invention
should be buried with it's creator?
Mr.. EDIsoN said a number Of years
ago that he had long since aban-
doned the folly of experimenting
upon devices which would not be or
use to a great number of persons.
The success of his lamp. his motion
picture machine, his phonograph, his
duplex telegraph, to mention only a
few of his works, had shown him that
time was too fieeting to waste on non
essentials. To make life easier and
more interesting for the millions was
the thing to be desired. More i'm
portant economically, a great inven-
tion like the telephone or the mean
descent lamp not only gives broader
life and greater comfort to the whole
people but creates an industry which
supports millions. The telephone in
dustry gives direct employment to
perhaps quarter OF a million per-
sons. Indirectly, in the mines, the
rubber forests and the instrument
factories, it brings living to great
many more.
Mr.. BELL did not pursue the secret
of the telephone for the sake or OBJ
tanning riches but as a fascinating
scientific hunt. 1t was only after the
machine was in actual operation that
men began to picture. its possibilities
as an everyday factor for all. II the
theorists before BELL, who had played
with the idea, had dreamed OF the
fortune that would flow to the sue
cessful inventor they might have
persevered with greater sweating of
the brow. They lacked BELLS OBJ
session and lost BELL triumph, fame
and wealth.
1t is good to think that man who
did so much for the comfort, safety
and prosperity of the world should
have seen the greatness of his work
and enjoyed the fullness of his re-
ward. Not that BELL rested on the
laurels won by the making of the
telephone; he was forever adding to
the stock of the worlds wisdom, for
ever trying to do something more for
his fellows. But it is the telephone
by which he was best known and will
be always remembered. In every sec
ond house in this country there is
metal servitor made possible by
BELLS genius and bearing BELLS
name.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Life Of n Five Dollar Biu

From the Federal Reserve lfomthlv Revsep.
Paper money wears out rapidly and has
10 be replaced frequently. The life OF n Is
note, for example, Is on the average about
ten months. and In New York city 10 about
two months less than the average. owing
mainly TO the more rapid rate Al which Il
circulates. This same tendency r. seen IN
the higher rate ~ which bank deposits tura
over In New York city than IN other parts
Of the country
The work Of keeping the paper currency
In good condition Is done very largely BY
the Federal Reserve banks, which IN the
course OF their daily business handle all
forms Of currency and coin, eliminating that
which - unfit for further circulation This
service is large item IN their annual costs
Of operation. Last year, for Instance, the
supply OF currency and coin caused an cx-
pcnditure at the Federal Reserve Bank OF
New York amounting 20 about s2s7s 900, OF
which somewhat more than one third repre-
scented the cost OF printing new Federal RE-
serve currency to rcplacs worn notes In cir
culation and TO increase supple. unissued
and on hand.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
A Junk Shop.

Here Is the cradle where a baby slept
Until of poverty 1t pined and died,
And here's a rosewood table. cast
aside
Because its new rich tawdry owner
swept
All heirlooms out some woman surely
wept
TO lose this ring. perchance a lovers
gage;
A lost pet sang once In this lacquered
cage,
And in this box some maid love letters
kept.
Just odds and ends, as varied in their
way
AS were their lives to which they
once belonged
Lives merry. sad, cxtravagant or
wronged--
Whose discards. which so long since had
their day,
Are redolent OF griefs and gayeties
AS pages torn out from old diaries.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Open Camps and Fireplaces.

The increasing number of those
who spend their vacations in the open
is indicated by the demand for tent
ing outfits. The small motor car with
its trailer containing the cooking and
housing equipment of the party is
becoming familiar object on the
great highways leading to the forest
preserves of this State.
The establishment by the Conserva-
tion Commission of open camps and
stone fireplaces in the Adirondacks
and Catskills has made it possible
for tourists to stop in comfort in
regions where there are no hotels and
in some instances no other accommo-
dations Of any character. Only those
who have slept In one of those open
camps-three sides of rough hewn
logs or timbers in their natural state,
with snug roof to keep out the
rain-know the pleasure they con-
vey to men and women whose lives
are passed in the main in the great
centers Of population.
A bed of fragrant branches of bal
sam, pine or fir with an outlook on a
slowly dying fire before one sinks
into dreamless sleep is a certain
cure for tired nerves and insomnia.
That the number of such camps is to
be increased from year to year will
afford qualification to those who find
the vagabondage of these vacation
trips something worth looking for
ward to.
In addition to open camps the COM
mission has supplied more than 200
public camp sites with stone fire.
places for cooking purposes. These
are situated in spots where there is
an abundance of water and also a
supply of firewood. The fireplaces
are credited with reducing the forest
fire risk materially, as a majority of
forest fires have been attributed to
the carelessness of campers who
abandoned fires built in the open
while the embers were still smolder-
ing instead OF seeing that the last
spark was extinct before they left.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
In Washington's Footsteps.
Search for Spot Where He Threw
Dollar Across the Potomac.

To THE New YORK HERALD: AS to the
tradition that George Washington threw
silver dollar across the Potomac, let
me say that in his diaries in his private
office at Mount Vernon there are records
proving the mathematical accuracy
of the Father of His Country. his sur
veyor trained mind. He records the
width of the Potomac at Mount Vernon
as one mile and a quarter and says that
he measured 1t himself on the ice one
winter when the river was frozen over.
Another entry records that the front
porch tiled floor at Mount Vernon Is, as
] recall. los feet 10ls inches above the
Potomac's waters. In recent years
modern surveying instruments were ap-
piled to verify George Washington's
measurements made perhaps 13o years
ago. and his figures were found exact.
If George Washington asserted that
he tossed silver dollar across the
Potomac I will believe II. But not at
Mount Vernon. which is sixteen miles
down river from Washington. At
Washington. opposite the Lincoln Me-
morial the river is about five-eighths of
mile wide, or about the width OF the
Hudson opposite Hoboken. The Custis
family mansion, now part Of the Arllng-
ton National Cemetery and opposite the
Lincoln Memorial, is similarly on a bluff
above the river. but we'll back from the
water. Washington often went there.
for he married the Widow Custis. The
old Custis mansion later became the site
of the home OF Robert Z. Lee.
Mindful of washington's reputed
throwing of silver dollar across the
Potomac l selected thin circular stone
one day, while tramping on the Virginia
side. and. standing on the high bluff
near the river and mile or so up
stream from the Lee mansion. l tried to
throw 1t across the water and didn't,
although at that point the riYer is COM
paratively narrow.
Fourteen miles up river from Wash
ington and thirty miles up stream from
Mount Vernon are the Great Falls OF
the Potomac. a series of rapids drop
ping the river about forty feet through
a picturesquely rocky little gorge.
There Washington had small iron
foundry. the remains Of which are
marked historically for visitors. And
there doubtless Washington, or any
other man six feet two inches In height
and possessed of fairly developed stone
throwing ability. ought to have been
able to throw a silver dollar across the
Potomac. ARCHIE NICE
NEW YORK, August 2. -
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Britain's War Debt Note.

The difference between saying that
you will pay what you owe If some
body else pays you what he owes you
and saying you will pay what you
owe, but when you do that you can
not let the man off who owes you is
the difference between daylight and
darkness.
In the British Governments notice
to its debtor Governments it does not
say and does not intimate that it
cannot pay the United States unless
the Allies pay Great Britain. On the
contrary. the British Government
says it can pay, is going to pay and
has arranged to pay it's only national
creditor, the United States. But, the
note explains, paying so much that
the British Government owes in the
only quarter where it owes anything.
it cannot see its way clear to forgive
all that is owed to Great Britain.
Yet. at that, this is not the last
word either as to debt forgiveness
among the Allies or as to scaling
down the German reparations owed
to the Allies. English sentiment,
financial and popular, is very strong
first for canceling out some Of the
German indemnity obligation and
next for floating an international gold
loan to Germany to help put her on
her feet and make it possible for her
to pay in real money some at least
of the reparations claims, not now
worth much of anything. !.
French sentiment is not yet In tune
with English sentiment in. respect
of Germany indemnity revision. But
France owes England on war loans a
great deal of money-some two and
three-quarters billions of dollars.
This is more. in fact, than France
owes the United States.
A war debt that France owes Great
Britain is something real; a repara-
tions debt that Germany owes France
is thus far something rather fanciful.
Perhaps all the Allies will come into
accord with the British view of seal
ing down the German reparations
when there is a better chance that
way to resume consideration of re-
ducing or wiping out allied debts to
Great Britain.
England's diplomats may be get
ting their ship Of state up into the
windward position that is familiar
to them when the matter in hand is
international finance.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Rules of the Road.
Suggestions to Promote Safety on
the Highways.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: 1t seems
a pity that the simple and comprehen-
sible rule of the road in use In Eng
land for 500 years should ever have.
been departed from in this State. Prob
ably the variance occurred during the
time when statute prohibited consider
ing the English cases as precedents In
our courts an exhibition OF provincial
ism which provokes a smile now, for II
the decision was correct its origin does
not matter.
Stated in terms OF American condi-
tions-noting that right and left are re-
versed In England. Bohemia, Canada.
New Zealand and perhaps some other
countries-the. rules are:
The right half Of the road belongs to
the traffic going each way; the vehicle
ahead has the right of way; the one
behind must pass on the left of the
leader, as best he may and at his own
risk the pedestrian has always the right
OF way. and no rule of the road applies
to pedestrians.
If these rules are obeyed confusion
Is almost impossible.
Our Court OF Appeals. however, has
held that no rule OF law prohibits pass
inr on the right of the man ahead. This
IL n direct invitation to collision ana
nuIlifies the right TO the road OF the
man ahead. Certainly no right should
he founded on a presumption that the
man ahead will not obey the rule II he
does obey no right hand passing is pos
sible. Every Sunday accidents occur
from the leader leaving little space
on his right through which another vehi-
Gle attempts to pass
Restriction OF pedestrians Is In gen.
eral unwise, and certainly so unless mo-
torists obey the law. which cannot be
pretended now. The reason for Jay
walking should be removed; the prac-
tico would then cease. The reason IL
that II is safer TO cross In the middle
of the block II is only necessary 70
watch traffic in one direction at time.
At street corners often four and some
times more directions must be watched
"jay walking" statute was proposed
bv some enthusiastic motorist and pub
lie hearings were held here, but the
committee visited Fifth avenue and
Forty-second street and that ended IT
Below Fulton street the traffic officers
take some care Of pedestrians, but toe
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Crossing Fifth Avenue.
A Traffic Rule Which Was Meant to
Protect Pedestrians Described.

To THE NEW YORK HERAID: When
Oswald c. Herring described the traffic
conditions on Fifth avenue in his letter,
printed on Monday, he simply called at
tention to another city traffic order
which is not lived up TO.
When the white light Is burning all
cars on Fifth avenue move. when the
red light shows all cars must stop. This
means north. south. east and west, and
they must remain at stop until the
green light burns.
The same holds good from green TO
white again. The red light at all times
means "All stop"
There is certain class of automobile
operators who do not care for anybody
but themselves. These are the chief
offenders in the respect Mr.. Herring
refers TO. III. NJ. u.
New YORK, August 2.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
EVENTS TODAY.

= +.
Federated Textile Unions Of America, all:
day meeting, Hotel st. Andrew.
Thursday Club. luncheon. Hotel Pennsyi-
vania, 1890 p. NJ.
Conference on the teaching of mathematics.
Milbank Chapel, Teachers College. Columbia
University. 1880 p. NJ gg
Civitan Club, luncheon. Hotel Astor. 1880
p. M.
Southern Club of Columbia University.
meeting. room All. Kent Hall. r. M.
Or. Joseph Lippman will speak on Paris
as 1t Is" at a rally of the Bowery Wynnthe-
waws. Bowery Mission, 221 Bowery. r. M.
Vermont Club OF Columbia University, dill
ner, the Stockton. 306 West l09th street. o;So
Il. NJ. -
Teachers College, women's mass meeting,
Horace Mann Auditorium. Broadway and
l20th street, 1880 r. M.
Baltic American Society. dinner, at the
home of Robert J. Caldwell. 80 Riverside
Drive, $3.50 T.. NJ III
Pennsylvania Club of Columbia University
dance, Thompson Gymnasium, +. M.
Goldman Band, concert, the green. Column
bia University, S:15 Il. M.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03

often In other parts of the city the
machines charge at the crosswalk as
soon as the whistle sounds. Few Pc
destrians wear plate armor nowadays,
so they hesitate to try conclusions with
one ton battering ram run by hog,
though they have that right.
Why should not all the cross streets.
at least in Manhattan. be one way
streets? Nothing would simplify the
traffic more. or course the present OBJ
scure and often invisible sign should
be replaced by a four foot arrow or the
like. not here and there. but at every
corner. Eventually all city streets will
te one way thoroughfares. and the
sooner the better. It will be a long
stride toward slmplifed traffic condi-
tons. T. J. JOHNSTON.
New YORK, August 2.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Congress and the Tariff
The New York Herald's Editorial Article Which In
spired Senator Simmons's Tribute to This
Newspapers Consistency.

as much enthusiasm as Pennsylvania.
Illinois and Indiana.
Tariff or no tariff. the great staple
cotton industry of Texas is secure.
In the whole world there is nobody
that can raise cheaper cotton than
our own American crops. But
there have been no stronger pro-
tests against throwing any industry
to the free trade wolves than those
from the Lone Star State against the
sacrifice of its rice business. while
the Texan voice has been clamorous
for duty on oil. which never ought
to be. And the agricultural interests
of the Democratic South yoked up joy
ously year ago with the agricultural
interests of the Republican West to
haul through the emergency tariff on
farm products--and pulling together
they got just what they wanted.
But while a reasonable protective
policy has become more and more ac-
ceptable to the Democratic industrial
States as they have steadily built up
their great industries under such
national policy. Democratic states
men like Underwood and Simmons
and Glass are quick to see the ad-
vantage they can gain for their party
In the approaching elections out OF
an assault upon extravagant Fordney
tariff schedules and McCumber tariff
amendments that from the point Of
view of both economies and politics
are nothing less than irrational.
So the Democratic minority In
Congress puts 1t up to the American
people that the sky high Fordney
duties and the sky high McCumber
duties alike would drive UP the pub
lies cost of living; and that Is the
fact. They put 1t up to the Ameri-
can people that the excessive duties
and higher costs would kill off still
more of our export business and
that too Is the fact.
But 1t is not the fact that the coun-
try needs or that the country could
stand an extreme national policy Of
holding our tariff doors wide open to
cheap labor competition from abroad
while our own labor costs continue,
many Of them. at the war peak. The
Democratic statesmen. putting out
their minority tariff report. know It
Is not the fact. But IL the Republic
can tariff trainers in Congress cannot
make themselves realize that what
the country needs and what the coun-
try must have is the mean of sane,
protection and not the extreme OF q
prohibitive Chinese tariff wall. then
so much the worse for their own po-
litical careers and so much the worse
for the future of their party.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Threatenlns
with local showers to-day: tomorrow
partly cloudy, moderate temperature.
gentle, variable winds.
For New Jersey-Threatenng with
local showers to-day /; tomorrow partly
cloudy. moderate temperature, gentle,
variable winds.
For Northern New Engiand-Partly
cloudy, with local showers to-day and
probably tomorrow moderate tempera-
ture. gentle, variable winds.
For Southern New England-Threat-
eIing, with local showers to-day; to-
morrow partly cloudy. moderate tenn
perature, gentle, variable winds.
For Western New York-Generally fair
weather, without material change IN
temperature to-day and tomorrow,
gentle. variable winds.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Reports re-
ceived from the Far East to-day by
naval radio Indicated the presence of. q
typhoon of marked intensity northwest
of Manila. the Philippines. and moving
toward the China coast. The typhoon Is
OF the same general character as the
hurricane of the West Indies.
In the United States the pressure Is
quite uniformly distributed, with the
centers of minimum pressure off the midi
die Atlantic coast and the center of
maximum pressure over the western
plateau regions.
There have been widely scattered
thunder showers during the last twenty
four hours east of the Mississippi River
and over the Rocky Mountain and pla-s
teau regions. Fair weather continued In
other parts Of the country.
The outlook for the region east OF
the Mississippi River tomorrow and
Friday is for a continuation Of normal
temperature and generally fair weather.
but with a prospect Of widely scattered
thunder showers.
Observations at United States Weather Bus
reau stations taken at r. NJ. yesterday,
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Friendship.

Call me thy friend. Love is a fairer
word,
But friendship hath the vital ring of
truth;
Love moves the heart. but what calm
depths are stirred
BY friendship none may fully tell.
Since youth
Nor age may count the candles of the
sky.
Nor measure one by one the cleaning
sands,
So friendship is at once thing so high,
AS to exceed all limits. all demands.
Call me thy friend--I would go forth
to meet
Life's battles with the shield of per-
feet trust.
Who keeps his brothers faith may scorn
defeat
And rise triumphant from the very
dust:
Fearless to live--and when lifes day
shall end
Fearless to die. Call me but this: thy
friend.
HErEN FRAzEE-BowER.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
A Midsummer Dream.

From the Independence (no) Erdminer.
On tho White River between the Powersite
dam and Moores Ferry is n tall bluff draped
in ferns OF emerald green. From the top of
the bluff TO the water the graceful fronds
hang In overlapping mats. covering the rock
entirely for about a quarter OF a mile. At
the top Of the bluff is a spring and the water
from this spring. or rather series OF springs.
drips in silver ornaments from leaf TO leaf.
Those who live along the river say that this
fern covered bluff will be a sight to be found
nowhere else later In the season. Even now
It Is very beautiful and remarkable.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Uzal Knapp's Service.
Statement by Grandson Of the
Revolutionary Soldiers Brother.

To THE NEw YORK HERALD: Uzal
Knapp was the last surviving member
of Washington's Life Guards. as stated
by Robert Bruce in his letter. DR..
Carlos L. Godfrey OF Trenton. ". j., is
mistaken IN saying that tho story Of
Uzal Knapp was "a myth that has been
imposed upon the public for nearly a
century"
My grandfather. John n. Knapp. was
a brother OF Uzal Knapp. have heard
the whole history told many times by
my parents. Uzal Knapp died January
10. 1866. He was 9s years and six
months old.
] remember very distinctly the day he
was buried. The snow was two feet
deep and II was zero weather. Uxai
Knapp was buried with military honors
by the state of New York.
WALDEN, August 2. EDWIN KNAPP.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03

The United States Senate paid THE
New YORK HERALD the compliment
on Tuesday of debating and discuss
ing for a good part of the day edi-
torial articles which have appeared
in this newspaper since the Ford
ney-McCumber tariff monstrosity has
been before Congress. Among THE
New YORK HERALD editorial articles
referred to especially by Senator
McCumber of North Dakota and SEN
ator Mclean of Connecticut was one
published by THE New YoRK HERALD
on May 3, regarding the minority
fDemocratic) report on the McCum-
ber monstroSity.
1t seemed to be the idea of SEN
ator McCumber and Senator Mclean
on Tuesday that if that HERALD edi-l
torial article of May 8 did not indi-.
cate approval of the Republican
measure at that time, it did at least
strongly condemn and thoroughly
discredit the Democratic position
against the McCumber tariff mon
strosity.
1t gives THE NEW YORK HERALD
some satisfaction. therefore, to re-
print here it's editorial article of
May 8, and if any protectionist ex-
tremist gone tariff mad, or any anti
protectionist extremist gone free
trade mad, can get any comfort out
of it he is welcome TO 1t. The edi-
torial article, which reflects, in our
opinion, the sane, sound tariff views
Of the American people Of all parts
Of the country, both Republicans and
Democrats, follows:
From TIE NEW YORK HmaLD Of May 0.
DEMOCRATS AND THE TARIFF.
Senator Simmons's minority report
against the Fordney- Met cCumber tariff
proposals has been carefully prepared
as Democratic electioneerlng dodger
rather than an economic treatise. In
respect of that fact 1t does some
shooting that is as wild as some of
Its truths are bitter.
The Democratic party by and large
would TO more welcome to-day the
complete exposure OF American in
dustries to the cheap labor competi-
tion of aggressive foreign producers
than would the Republican party.
Louisiana is as rabid a ,protectionist
in behalf OF cane sugar as Michigan
or Nebraska is in behalf of beet
sugar. North and South Carolina
have come to have as big stake in
preserving their textile manufac-
lures as New England. Georgia, Ala
bama and Tennessee would welcome
unrestricted imports of British. Ger
man and French steel products with
The New York herald., 1922-08-03

The ordinance provides: "This sec
tion shall not apply TO non-residents
OF the city, but any such nonresident
may at his option procure such card
and thereby become subject TO the
provisions of this section" Under this
provision non-residents OF New York
city may or may not obtain cards, as
they please.