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The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Better Keep Moving.
Should Everything Stop at Once
There Might Be No Universe.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Here Is
your universe. Everything in the uni
verse is made up of invislbly small sys-
TENS of matter. every system revolving
under similar laws as the solar system,
the only real system OF matter that man
has ever seen.
Every member OF every system as 1t
revolves in its little orbit around It's
center or central primary is accompa-
MED by its own individual repell.ng force.
the only physical force that man has
ever known. And every member is In
creasIng its repelling force against other
members as 1t advances In its orbit
toward them, directly or indirectly. and
is Withdrawing its repelling force from
them as the member recedes in the other
half OF its orbit.
If at any instant all the invisibly
small members OF all the little invisibly
small systems of matter that make up
the entire universe should cease moving
in their little orbits or come to a
standstiI the entire universe would be
out OF existence and could not begin
motion again. There would be no mo-
ton, no temperatures, no light and no
force to cause matter to have form and
to hold It in form. Matter of the uni
verse would be as in its original con-
diton when first created and before the
Creator had said. Let there be light.
d. A. N. GROVER
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March IA.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
"Civic Virtue" on Trial.

"Statuary," said BRONSON ALcoTT,
lis crystallized spirituality. But
Mayor HYLAN seems to doubt that it
is in all cases. He is to hold hear
ing next week on the statue of Civic
Virtue. which is ready to be mounted
on its fountain base in City Hall
Park.
The tall youth done by Mr.. MAC
MoNNIEs in heroic marble has been
indicted In the Mayors mind because
the figures which represent Vice prop
erly scorned are female. There are
those who think that Civic Virtue
should be in the semblance of woman
and Vice in the form of man. Man
can stand it better, is obviously
the theory.
Mr.. MAcMoNNIEs, who has labored
over the statuary for more than ten
years, makes likely defense. Temp
tation, he says. has been allegorically
presented in female form since the
dawn of art. EVE started the fashion.
Man may be wicked, but he does not
tempt-at least not in art. Besides,
says the sculptor, these creatures
spurned by the righteous foot of the
athletic young marble man are not
all woman; each is half fish. Per-
haps this will rouse the Fulton Mar
ket Business Mems Association to
protest.
The Mayor will hear the women
who believe that their sex is wronged
in this famous sculpture. He should
hear the other side too, and doubt
less he will, although long ago he
expressed an aversion for "art
artists"
The incident should be a warming
to young men who think of going
into the statuary business. Here is
case where the design was approved
years ago by non-partisan and pre-
sumably intelligent Art Commission.
1t was executed by one Of Americas
most famous artists. The old foun-
tain in the park was torn away and
a new base of marble, adorned with
dolphins, placed in readiness for the
arrival of the largest single figure
ever carved from marble. Yet at
the last minute of these dozen years
the crown is withheld from the
artists brow.
Cautious sculptors preparing work
for the city hereafter may confine
their designs to twosomes: one man
and one woman, each beautiful and
good, but the female more so.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Great Magicians.
Entertainers of the Past Recalled by
the Death Of KeIlar.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your edi-
torial article on the passing of Kellar,
the magician. is dandy. 1t brings to
mind the Faker OF Ava-T. Harris
Hughes-who was kellar's preceptor be-
fore he worked for the Davenport
brothers. Ore of his announcements
reads
Faker OF Ava. The Pleasing Illusionist.
Free Presents This Season. $500 Plano
forte. $50 Suite of Furniture. SIS Sewing
Machine, $50 Set of Chamber Furniture.
$50 Cooking Stove. Twenty-four Barrels
OF Flour and Five Tons of Coal. One
Hundred Presents Every Night.
Sgnor Rubini was another distributor.
Rubini advertised as "The Great Euro
pean Conjurer-1,000 presents given
away, consisting of valuable horse,
worth $150-to be seen on the public
hams, vases. albums, sllverware. lamps,
dry goods and greenbacks."
The great McAllister advertised in the
same way. My parents took me to these
gift shows but never drew astonishing
prizes. Hermann the Great, who -four
ished in the sos and eos. was of an
other sort. depending entirely on his
necromancy, as did his reputed uncle,
a still greater Hermann, who lived in
Vienna and came to America on two
visits only.
l remember another deft illusionist In
1877, Robert Heller who transformed
the old New York Theater at 72S Broad
way into Heller's Wonder Theater and
mystified the public prof1tably for sew
eral months.
Robert -Houdin was a name to conjure
with in France. Houdin began when Is
years old in 1923. Our own incompara-
BILE Handcuff King. Houdlni, takes his
name from this magician. adding an |.
william e. Robinson. calling himself
Ching Ling Loo. stole some of the thun-
der OF the genuine Ching Ling Foo.
One of the best sleight of hand enter
tainers was the Moravian Signor An
tonic Blitz. who began at Hamburg In
1928, when a boy OF 13. Houdin never
crossed the Atlantic. but Blitz came to
America In 1884, and was a wonderful
success for many years.
In his book, published in 1872, he COM
plains that bills owing by false Blitzes
were constantly sent to him. There
were fourteen of these false ones. some
Of them being Sig. Blitz, Sig. Blitz. Jr..
sig. Blitz the Original. Sig. Blitz's 50
Sig. Blitz's Nephew, Signor Blitz The
Great, Signor Blitz the Wonderful. Si-
gnor BIitz the Unrivalled, Signor Blitz
the Mysterious, Sig. Blitz by Purchase.
Blitzs Gift Show and Signor Blitz the
Great Original. Some Blitz!
remember Anderson, the Wizard OF
the North, who alternated dramatic
characters on the regular stage but was
bad actor. not to be confused with
the sterling tragedian James r. Ander-
son. Howard Thurston and Horace
Golden kept right on after Kellar re
tired. The black art still fourishes in
vaudeville. HERBERT S. RENToN.
NEW ROCHELLE, March II.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
ATLANTIC CITY ARRIVALS.

Special Dispatch to THE NEw York HraALp
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., March IT.
Arrivals from New York at the AM
bassador include Mr.. and Mrs Lincoln
Cromwell. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dodge
Mr. and Mrs. w. B. Eaton, Cedarhurst
l.. l.; Mrs. r. l.. Sherwood and Mr. and
Mrs. Elkins Warner
At the Ritz-Carlton are Mrs. Russell
Hopkins. Mrs. J. III. Cornell. Mr.. ]. s.
Bache and Miss Kathleen Bache.
Among the New York folk at the
Traymore are Mr. and Mrs. r. c. Chris
topher. Mr.. Francis Atkins, Mr.. Phillip
v. Manning, who arrived from Brook.
lyn with Mr. James F. Brown; Mrs. j.
Henry Carson and Joseph Carson, Jr.
and Mr. and Mrs w. II. Basset. Mr..
and Mrs. e. G. Potter and Miss Beatrice
Potter.
Marlborough -Blenheim Mrs. Grace
Bliss Stewart. who is accompanied by
Mrs. c. r. Bliss Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Pratt, who are accompanied by Mr.. T
l.. Hughes and Miss Alice X. Heslin
Mrs Franklin Berwin and bliss Virginia
NJ. Berwin. Mr.. and Mrs. George How
ard Bruce.
Dennis-Mr and Mrs. D. J. Tomp-
kins, Mr.. and Mrs John P. Bruhn, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Craig of Kew Gardens.
Judge William Blaw and DIR. A. M
Stark arrived together from New York
and are at the Shelburne. Mr.. and Mrs
wills IN Young also are there.
Mr.. and Mrs. John French. Mr.. o. K
French and Mrs. o. X. Eldredge arrived
together from Brooklyn. They are al
the Chalfonte Haddon Hall.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
SATURDAY. MARCH is. 1922.
Sound to the Core.

The Association of German Uni
versity Students, representing all the
German institutions of higher learn
ing, according to a dispatch from the
Associated Press, has addressed an
open letter to high school graduates
intending to enter universities, ap-
pealing to them to go to work in
stead of becoming an insupportable
tax on their parents at this time.
The association urges postpone
ment of their studies for two or three
years and that meanwhile high
school students enter the industries
to help their parents over the present
period of stress as we'll as to help
Germany once more to her Indus.
trial feet"
The letter asserted that fathers
were unable to bear the cost of uni
versity courses for their children,
amounting to 10000 to 100000 marks,
and that university students were
now suffering extreme privations.
At the same time, the letter declared,
the whole country was urgently in
need of manual laborers.
THE illusion that only academic
work offers field for mental abili-
ties" it said, must vanish. You
must open your eyes to the fact that
practical professions-the farm, the
factory, the mines and industry-are
calling for men with vision"
This is an extraordinary document,
coming from the united body of uni
versity students of a nation-the
nation which has held education
dearer than any other. 1t shows a
rare grasp of the situation in Ger
many to-day and exhibits a breadth
and depth of wisdom that ranks with
the best and wisest counsels of par
liaments the world over. 1t breathes
sympathy for struggling parents
that appeals to the best there is in
us and shows an understanding Of
values in the fundamentals of re-
habilitation Of the nation that is as
sound as truth itself. Nothing is
more true than that practical profes-
slons-the farm, the factory, the
mines, industry-need men of vision;
it is, as the letter says, an illusion
that academic work alone offers a
field for mental abilities.
America can find good lesson in
this appeal of German university
students born Of the nations neces-
stiles. While no such keen edged
necessities obtain with us. neverthe-
less the truths of this utterance apply
here more fully than is realized.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Kansas Has a Mystery.

Kansas seethes and rocks with
mystery. A resident of that cele-
brated State has admitted to the
Collector of Internal Revenue that
he made enough money in 1921 to
bring his income tax up to $4,000, 900.
He has sent check for $1,000,000
on account. OF course the Collector
will not give out the name Of this
Kansas Cr9sus.
Two former Governors, WALTER
STUBS and ARTHUR CAPPER, will
point accusing fingers at HENRY
ALLEN and say that under their ad-
ministrations no lone plutocrat could
have waxed SO fat as the Rich I'm
known. Mr.. CAPPER will tell what
the Agricultural Bloc will do to the
magnate when it catches him.
The author of "A Certain Rich
Man," WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, will
be asked to explain whether he has
knowledge of the sudden and
mysterious millionaire.
A poem in free prose will be dashed
off by WALT MASON telling Of the
joys of poverty and warning Kansas
youth against the danger of imitat-
ing the nameless piler of pelf.
The course of Ed HOWE is obvious.
He will declare in print that it's
nobody's business who the heavy tax
payer is; that il other Kansans
would stop talking and saw wood
their incomes would be higher; and,
finally, that there isn't any such
multimillionaire because if there was
he, Ed HOWE, would have met him
at Palm Beach.
But it's the biggest Kansas sensa-
tion since Governor HENRY ALLEN
mined the coal.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Iowa Hens and Baptist Missions,

The Northern Baptists have re-
sourceful ways and means commit
tee. They have just issued call to
the Baptist women of the farm dis
tricts in Iowa asking them to con-
tribute to mission purposes all the
eggs laid on Sundays from now until
the first of May.
They picked out good State for
such a plan, for Iowa hens produce
about one-fourteenth of all the twenty
billion eggs that are laid annually in
the United States. The year round
average of the Iowa hens Is $4,000
dozen a day: but as this is the rush
season in the laying business it is
likely that Iowa hens will average
100000 dozen every Sunday between
now and the end of April.
AS one-twentieth of the church
going people of Iowa are Baptists
it may be assumed that, roughly,
5000 dozen eggs will be laid each
Sunday by hens of Baptist owner
ship. At 20 cents a dozen the re-
turns would be $1,000 Sunday, and
there are seven Sundays. At the
Northern Baptist convention here 1t
was estimated that the returns would
be $4,000 rather than $1,000, but
these predictions may have been
based on secret figures regarding the
large numbers and high productivity
of hens owned by Baptists.
II the experiment shells out nicely
the Baptists may we'll try it in Mis-.
souri,, where there are almost as
many hens as Iowa boasts and a
great many more Baptists than are
listed in Iowa.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
"Civic Virtue"

The pallid marble must have blushed
When Piccirlli chiseled II!
Truth, Truth indeed to earth was crushed,
The sculptor surely nzzled IL.
And now twill wither in the glare
Bestowed upon II by the Mayor.
Who knows, who better knows than he
The attributes OF civic virtue
The Interests" plotted impishly:
But fear not. ladies, they sha'n't hurt
you!
The marble lacked Phidias.
Says Hylan; IL is hideous!
In coming years when petticoats
At City Hall come to their own
They'll order by their grateful votes
A statue Hylanesque In stone,
And thus all controversy stun,
A man and civic virtue. onei
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Canada's State Railroads.

The former statistician of Canada's
Department of Railways, ]. l.. PAYNE,
IS quoted by an Ottawa correspondent
Of the Philadelphia Public Ledger as
saying that the Canadian Northern
Railroad alone has received to date
enough money from the Government
to have built ten Canadian Paciflcs.
Mr.. PAYNE is also authority for the
statement that since 1914 the Cana
dian Government has spent S763,000,-
900 on its railroads.
So far as reducing operating def
cits is concerned this enormous out
lay has had no effect whatever. On
the contrary, the deficits have grown
by leaps and bounds. In 1918 they
were S27,769, 900; in 1919 they were
S47,993.000, and in 1920 they were
s7O.3S1 900.
One OF the reasons given for the
failure OF the Government roads to
make a better showing Is because,
as compared with privately owned
and operated lines, they are heavily
overmanned. A railroad job is a
Government job, and the politicians
sec to It that the jobs are passed
out lavishly.
People in the West wanted rail.
roads and the politicians wanted
votes. The politicians to win cleo
tions backed with public credit any
ora railroad construction scheme that
promised to produce the ballots
Whether the territory involved was
capable of supporting the railroad
and what the cost OF building 1t was
we're secondary considerations.
Handreds OF millions Of dollars OF
Government guaranteed securities
were sold 10 build roads which cost
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
BEzaLAN SINGER RETURNS.
Mile. Aiics verIet dives Recital at
Carnegie Hall.

Mile. Alice verlet. q Belgian coiora-
ture soprano. who has sung In the lead
ing opera houses of Paris and London
and was heard here in recital given
years ago. appeared in a program OF
airs and songs last night at Carnegie
Hall. Her singing made pleasing i'm
preston upon her large audience.
She has a lovely natural voice.
although it seems to have lost some of
its freshness. She sang Mozart's two
difficult airs, "Batti. BATH" from Don
Giovanni" and the III Re Pastore."
with violin obbligato played by Xavier
Cugat, with a good knowledge of style,
although her florid work was not always
smooth nor her pitch correct. In GER
tain eongs in her list she showed much
charm and taste. Mr.. Cugat played
also Soma solos, John Warren Erb wss
at the piano for Mile. Verlet.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18

taxpayers nearly s40.000.O00 annually
because they do not earn enough to
pay fixed charges.
IF the experience of Canada
teaches anything" the Canadian au.
thority remarks, 1T is that the peo-
pie OF the United States should be-
ware OF Government railway enter
prises." But the people of the United
States do not have to go to Canada
for a horrible example of Government
railroad operation. They have had
one right here at home.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Men Big as Gorillas.
Two Native Americans Each OF
Whom Weighed 360 Pounds.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The
largest of the five gorillas killed in CEN
trail Africa and brought back for tho
American Museum Of Natural History
in New York city stood feet 6 inches
high and weighed $50 pounds In life. II
is interesting TO recall two native Amer
leans of some distinction each of whom
weighed just $50 pounds.
One was DIR. Oronyeteka, the famous
Canadian Indian whose eloquence In a
tribal address, made for the Five Ma
tions at the time of the old Prince Of
Wales's visit to Canada, resulted in his
being sent to Edinburgh University. DR..
Oronyeteka perhaps was physically the
biggest American Indian ever seen since
white men first settled in the Western
Hemisphere. Black haired. big chested,
with powerful voice. he was the head
OF the Independent order of Foresters.
a fraternal organization, he had Joined
when II had only about 5000 members
and which, by sheer personality and
driving appeal. he expanded to more
than 100000 members before his death
about twenty years ago.
The other $50 FOUNDER was the worlds
champion sixteen pound shot putter,
Ralph Rose, born in the small town Of
Healdsburg, Cal. Oronyeteka, the In
dian, was well above six feet in height,
but Ralph Rose was an even 8 feet
6 inches tall. or exactly one foot taller
than this biggest gorilla. And yet Ralph
Rose and the gorilla with the sixty inch
chest weighed exactly the same.
Oronyeteka had n medical degree
from the great Scotch university. Ralph
Rose had been law student at the
University OF Michigan and. prior to his
sudden death from pneumonia about
seven years ago. had been a police court
lawyer in San Francisco.
1t would have been of interest to sci
ence to have preserved records Of the
all round physical strength. and espe-
cially the arm strength. of Ralph Rose,
and then some time to have made sim
liar strength tests of $50 pound go
rilla. especially the power to pull with
the arms. ARCHIE RICE.
NEW York, March IL.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
Poe I'm Fordham.

To THE New York HERALD In his
letter about Poe In New York Henry G.
Alvord says that when Poe resided In
Fordham the nearest post Office was at
White Plains.
He is in error There was post office
in West Farms village, about two miles
from Fordham. Poe was a familiar
figure there. c. l.. C. D1TMARs.
NEW YORK, March IL.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Representative Ogden l.. Mills and DR.:
Henry Van Dyke will speak at the annua,
dinner of the Society OF the tennessee no,ei
Commodore, y. M.
Alfred L. Smith will speak on ''The Port
Authority and the Development OF the Port
of New York." Lawyers Club, 1lo Broad
way, T.. M.
Vermont Society, annual dinner. Hotel
Pennsylvania, =. M
Testimonial dinner In honor of William G.
Besler. Hotel Biltmore. Z. NJ
Women Lawyers Association of New York,
annual dinner. Hotel Pennsylvania, +. NJ.
Winchester Post. No. 197.. G. A. r.. open
meeting, Masonic Temple, Clermont and La
fayette avenues, Brooklyn. 3 p. M.
Demonstration of unemployed auspices Of
the Unemployment Council, Fifth avenue and
10th street, +. M.
Osteopathic Society of New York, dinner
and meeting, Waldorf Astoria, 6:15 L. NJ.
X. II. Boynton, lecture, Some Interesting
Plants Now in Flower" central display
greenhouse. New York Botanical Garden,
Bronx Park, 3:15 y. NJ.
Pageant play, auspices of the United
Neighborhood Houses. Hunter College, Park
avenue and Sixty eighth street, $3.50 F. NJ
Elm Club of Princeton University, dinner,
Hotel Biltmore, r. NJ.
John Graham Brooks, lecture. "A Great
Critic on American Democracy" Town Hall,
1913 West Forty-third street. IL A. M.
Charles Upson Clark viii lecture on "The
Development OF Spanish Painting" Metro
poltan Museum of Art, L. M.
L. NJ G. Adams will discuss 'The Latest
Word on Prohibition at luncheon OF the
Indiana University Alumni Association. Cafe
Boulevard, / +. NJ.
! International Flower Show. Grand Central
Palace. 10 A. M. to 10 =. NJ.
Society of Independent Artists, exhibition,
waldorf-Astoria, all day.
Foreign Policy Association. luncheon, Hotel
Astor, 1 p. M.
Societe des Beaux Arts. luncheon, Waldorf
Astoria, noon.
West Point Military Academy Alumni.
dinner. Hotel Astor. +. NJ.
University Of Michigan Alumni Associa-
tion. dinner, Hotel Pennsylvania. Z p. NJ.
/. United Fruit Buyers Association, dinner,
Hotel Biitmore, +. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
An Unparalleled Record.

One of the most astounding in
stances of mental stimulation il
human beings through improvement
of physical conditions which ha.
been brought to the notice of TIL
NEW YORK HERALD is reported in the
statement by the United
States Public Health Service:
Backward children are not al
ways. perhaps not often. backward
because OF either mental deficiency
or slothfulness. Many of them are
backward solely because of such or
dinary and easily remediable defects
as adenoids nearsightedness or bad
teeth
ported by the official representative
of the Public Health Service in the
eighth sanitary district of Vermont.
In which the Service is cooperating
In a rural health work project.
Medical inspection of one of the
graded schools in October, 1919.
showed that it had been thought
necessary to instruct in a special
room sixteen pupils who had seemed
to be unable to keep up with their
respective classes. Physical exani-
nation showed that each OF the six
teen had some serious hampering
physical defect (chiefiy enlarged ton
sils. adenoids or defective hearing
or eyesight) which. rather than any
mental handicap. was the probable
cause Of their inability.
Through the cooperation of the
school directors the facts were
brought to the attention of the par
ents or guardians of the children
and all were set right before the end
of the year.
"On reexamination OF the pupils
the next December (1920) 1t ap-
peared that all of the sixteen pre-
viously backward children had
caught up with their proper grades
and were keeping up in them with
their classmates. A year later, in
December, 1921. some of these six
teen children were among the men
tai and physical leaders in their
grades"
That mental backwardness in chill
dren and in adults is frequently tn
result Of disease or malformatiol
which responds satisfactorily to treat
ment is universally recognized. Th
place of the physician and the nurs
in schools, in shops, in offices, is nov
well established. But 100 per cent
success in the treatment of sixteel
backward pupils in one school con
stitutes, so far as THE New YoRf
HERALD knows, an unequaled recor,
in this department of enlightened
human endeavor, and as such 1t dc
serves the conspicuous display w
hereby give to 1t.
The New York herald., 1922-03-18
In Ways of Peril.

or famous wars he often reads
And men who've won renown and
glory:
He thrills as he recounts the deeds
or those who live in song and story.
The soldiers courage well he knows;
To tales of battle he's no stranger.
Fain would he counted be with those
Who do not finch in face of danger.
rroud is he too of every man
Who in the ways OF peace Is daring
lie as courageous as you can.
Be brave, he says. howe'er you're far
ing.
But I'm bewildered, for l know
So oft he shows a streak OF yellow
The tax collector scares him so
And he is such a henpecked fellow!
NATHAN M. LEVY.