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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-22

ton, 5, received fatal injuries Thurs day beneath the wheels of an auto mobile owned by her uncle, W. II. Grafton, an undertaken. Her skull was crushed. She died several hours after the accident.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-22

and local police Thursday charged with conspiracy following seizure of thousands of labels, similar to those placed on whisky and gin bottles by the distillers and the Canadian Eov- ernment.
 SCULPTOR DIES
 BOSTON-Alexande Doyle, 65, widely known American sculptor. died here today. Since his retire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-22
REID aTILL ILL

LOS ANGELES. Cal.-The condition of Wallace Reid. motion picture ac- tor, who, his relatives said, has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-22

had returned indictments charging Clifford G. Mekeel. navy yard em- p1oye, and Gerald Lee Clark, Brem- erton merchant, with stealing equip ment from government warehouses.
 PRINTERS ARRESTED
 SYRACUSE, N. Y.-Proprietors of two large printing plants, two printers and an engraver were ar rested by federal prohibition agents
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Bug Immigrants

Washington, after all, has been
having a quiet conference of it's own.
at which Europeans have been rep
resented. 1t has discussed plant i'm
migration. Europe has pleaded that
the quarantine restrictions on plants
and bulbs be lessened and America
has replied by pointing to the ray
ages resulting from the earlier pol
icy of throwing wide the doors to all
foreign plants.
The most familiar recent example
OF the evils of the old policy is to be
seen In the case of the chestnut
trees. Woods which twenty years
ago contained magnificent stands of
chestnuts arc to-day bare of all save
the dogwoods and other lesser trees
that once filled in between the chest
nuts. The chestnut blight, which
wrought such damage, came into the
On1'eo States in small shipment of
Oriental chestnuts, and has now
Killed practically all the chestnut
trees from northern New ENGLAND 10
the Appalachisns. According to
estimates of the Department of
Agriculture. half the American
stand of chestnuts has already been
destroyed, and it is predicted that by
l940 not chestnut tree will survive
east of the Mississippi.
1t is true that neither as lumber
nor nut producers did the chestnuts
nave great financial value. But
other more valuable crops. such as
cotton, fruits, potatoes and white
pine, suffer annually terrible dcpre-
datlons by voracious insects import
ed IN foreign plants. The San Jose
scale. which costs orchardists at least
$l0,ooo,0o0 year for spraying
came in with some Chinese Towering
peaches forty years ago. The Ori-
entail fruit worm came in 1911. and
has since cost fruit growers millions.
The annual board bill Of the boil
weevil--another bug Immigrant
amounts to about s2oO,ooo,o 900. and
the pine blister rust, of German orr
gin, now threatens to wipe out our
entire white pine forests.
The total annual loss TO American
agriculture. according to the Denart-
ment Of Agriculture, amounts to
about two billion dollars year from
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
lndividualizing Radiograrns.

The announced "individualizing"
of radio waves, if successful in
practice, will go long way toward
solving two of the most perplexing
problems which have thus far beset
aerial or etherc communication.
The most obvious ADVANTAGE of
Mr.. Hammond's invention is. of
course, the secrecy which it gives TO-
private messages. At present one
flung out is accessible to all who
have receiving instruments adjusted
to the same wave length. II will
be great thing to have radio mes.
sages substantially secure from
meddling.
TIE other great ADVANTAGE is
that it will largely avert the danger
OF overcrowding the air with mes.
sages. The vast increase of the wire.
less system and the MULTIPLICATION
of amateur plants have caused con.
f1ict in the air, often with deplor.
able interruption of important sery.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29

ice. Official orders have been is
sued forbdding "broadcasting'
save by certain designated stations,
and in other respects restricting the
activities of amateur operators.
Though such action has seemed nee
essary, it will be welcome thing to
have the air again made as free
as it is provcrbialIy reputed to he.
Divested of technicalities, the cx
planation of this reported invention
is that it provides for individualiz-
ing each message by investing it
with a certain 'tone color of its
own--the very thing that hitherto
operators have tried to get rid of
and to keep free from. OF course
such individuality is detrimental TO
"broadcastng. which requires
pure and simple wave-tone that can
be received by any operators ad-
justed TO that wave length.
And even this, however success
full it may be. is by no means to be
counted the 'last word' in electrical
inventions in this age Of scientific
wonders.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
What Readers Are Think;no

trains will carry them. Personally 7
shouldn't blame them for sitting in the
hrst car, to arrive a fraction of sec
ond sooner. They might even get q
permit to ride in the engine.
Many have found Main Streetv a de-
pressing book, even those who think
WIZ Lewis is right. One hates to admit
the truth, feeling that he exposes a
form of mental narrowness that is as
Encurable as if it were a physical do
tect. 1t seems indelicate to refer ia Il
Strangely enough the true "Main
Street" character does not recognize
itself, and remains unoffended. When
ASKED Tor an opinion one of them re-
plled: Wasn't that girl an egotistical
lool TO think that she could change
"nole town." She accepted the rest
or the characters as entirely natural
and merely remarked: "They talked
anout each others clothes in a rather
narrow and silly way. Wait a minute"
she added, going to the window. "I
want to see that girl--she lives next
door That's the red hat she wore all
last spring" MD
New York, May %. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Billiards. Acquittal

William Blizzard S acQulttal IN the
Chsrlestown court shows once more
how difficult it is to convict in this
country on the charge of treason.
, The court and the jury took a
strictly technical view of tho case,
omitting the larger considerations Of
constitutional decadence and out
lawry in West Virginia. But even
on the narrowest. grounds Blizzard
was set free.
The judge had ruled that since an
indictment for treason had been
brought in Logan County only overt
acts committed by the defendant
within that county could be regarded
as evidence of guilt. The testimony
on this point was weak. Blizzard S
presence within the county being ex-
planned BY him and other witnesses
as tending to compose the troubles
there rather than to aggravate them
The American view of treason is
extremely guarded. 1t must consist
in levying war against the United
States-or. in this case. against
state-in adhering to the enemies of
the nation or of state and giving
them aid and comfort. This offense
must be established by overt acts
testified to BY two witnesses. No
case meeting these requirements
could be made out against Blizzard
any more than it could be made out
more than a century ago at Rich
mond against Aaron Burr.
Was there "war" in West Vir-
glnia? The leaders of the union
miners who marched against Logan
and Mingo counties were manifestly
trying to take the law into their own
hands. But the group of non-union
coal operators, controlling the local
government in the two counties. had
already taken the law into their
hands. They had established an en-
barge on the activities of union or
ganlzers. and had denied workers in
their mines the rights of free speech
and free assembly guaranteed to all
citizens by the state constitution.
If "state of war" existed it was
a dual "state of war" Government
in West Virginia had, in fact.
broken down and it's power had
passed III part to an oligarchy of
mine operators who had suspended
constitutional guarantees. Was it
treason on the part of others to
protest against this transfer or to
resist it?
That is the main issue raised in
the CharlestoWn prosecutions. Biz
zard has been found not guilty. of
treason in the restricted sense.
But what broader verdict is to be re-
turned on general conditions in West
Virginia?
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29

bodies Of their children grow with
out aiding them by systematized
development. They have accepted
the national passion for sports as
proof that their children were re-
ceiving physical development, where
as in reality those trained by sports
are few in comparison to those who
should have for their physiques the
same supervision and discipline that
they have for their minds.
There is no computing the good
to the future citizens which will
surely follow when a proper sys-
tenn of physical education is in
vogue throughout the entire coun-
try, for girls as we'll as boys, in
private as we'll as public schools.
The rapid spread throughout diff
ferent states in the last four years
promises we'll for the future
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Tariff and Clot,ue

Many Republican Senator'S arc re-
luctant TO support an appropriation
and tariff bills cloture rule. Such a
rule would give majority hereafter
the power to limit debate on all tariff
and appropriation measures. Some
limitation on debate is as necessary
IN the Senate as in the House, and
the country heartily approved the
moderate tWo-thirds vote cluture rule
adopted couple of years ago by the
Senate.
It is evident that filibusterins is
noXious and inexcusable on measures
which present simple issue. when
that simple Issue has been sufficient
ly thrsshed out. In the past fill
clustering has been employed to pre-
vent action within a certain time
limit and to defeat the will of an
admittedly large majority. Even the
Senate tired of this abuse and ended
IT.. But to apply cloture to bills con-
tanning hundreds, or even thousands,
of disputab!e and amendable items
Is to invite reckless, wholesale legis-
lation. The tariff bills which the
House of Representatives has passed
under rigid limitation of debate and
amendment have usually been undi-
gested and full of lapses and patch
work which the Senate has been
obliged laboriously to correct.
Moreover, cloture rule such as is
contemplated would hardly. hasten
action. 1t would create an embit-
tered, Fictitious opposition and make
the tariff bills path thornier than
ever. AS Mr.. Underwood has pointed
out, if only one amendment were Of
fered to each item in the tariff bill
and a roll call were demanded in
each case the Fordney-McCumber
act would not be sent to conference
before next fall--if then.
a tariff bill is not the sort of bill
which should be railroaded through
Congress. 1t affects a vast variety
OF Individual and group interests. 1t
touches nearly every citizen. The
more open and exhaustive the dis
Cusslou on it the better--if the dis
cussion is honest. Not even Mr.. Nc
Cun,ber claims that the Senate
measure is error proof or that it
should be taken as anything but a
guess at what the country really
needs in the way of protection.
A tariff bill at this session would
be gift of little value to the party
= or the country A steam rollered
ariff bill would be challenge tc
Iparty discomfort and public indig.
nation.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Vacations for Horses

To the Editor of The Tribune :.
Sir: There is no need for 8 s'ns'.
work horse to go without at least wv
weeks vacation and s greatly neeae'
rest while the Horse Aid Society q
tends to every horse an invitation
be its guest at its Rest Farm d. W.
wood, n. Y, where there are p'eA*
cf grain, many acres OF refreSh'n,
grass and clover fields and plehtS
cool water flowing from five spfiIs.
There are thousanda Of human "
ings restored to health by rest cu'..,
why not tho tired. overworkeo ''T "
horse? In the majority OF cases :,
the horses need is rest and gooo wv.
but in cases of lameness and slcAh'..
our veterinarian will see that
horse is given whatever is requires
Any one knowing Of horses IN nse'
Of our help will kindly send the 0sa -,
ers name and address to the HORSE ." :.
Society office. 131 West Thirty-sn',
Street, or phone Fito Koy o.. - =,
further particulars. Any one wisn,s
30 contribute to this greatly nee's'
work may do so. Any donation
gratefully received.
MRS. j. NJ. EHRLlCh' 8
President the Horse Aid Socle'y
New York.
New York, May IS, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
By Arthur c. Staples

graveyard. But most of those old
time river drivers were rovers and
often wastrels who had no family con-
ncctions and none to claim them or
give them burial
There is something impressive in
these places Of the dead. The birds
nest about them and the camping
grounds of oldtime drivers are near
at hand. I climbed up on top of one
OF the granite mausoleums and looked
over the winding stream, now babbline
along. In the days of the drive it is
a rushing torrent, the waters running
through the bushes; the logs piling in
huge pyramids, swaying beneath the
power of the flood. Often eight
hours would change it from one con-
dltlon to tho other and sharp rain
would make it appalling as the drive
came tearing in and the jam mounted
to the skies. 1t was then no time for
tho boss to say "go"; he must saw
come Men lived in the water. silent
on the bare ground in soaking clothes.
often in the snow; lived on rough fare
and hard work and yet had their
triumphs, their joys and their rap.
lures.
Some one ought to write a book on
oldtlme river bosses and contractors
tor log driving. never was so inn
pressed by it as I was by q summer
tramp over their now silent land. It
seems to be passing business-or
rather a shifting business, new yaria-
tlons and new quirks to it. It has
become more gentlemanly; more busi-
hesslike and more considerate Of
human life now than then and in
better condition. Tales of such old
timers as Russ Loveland, OF Bangor
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Labor and the Law

The Appellate Division Of the Su-
preme Court has sustained, by d
vote of four to one, the order of JUS
tce Wagner restraining the cloak
suit and skirt manufacturers of New
York from violating their agreement
as to wages and hours entered into
with their employees in 1919.
1t was the refusal of the employ
ing garment makers TO stick to the
terms of this agreement that brought
about the garment workers. strike
last year.
The decision of the higher court
gives TO labor renewed assurance
that it has the same rights as cari-
tai in the courts of law In his
opinion Justice Wagner went deeply
into the case, reviewing it from the
signing OF the original agreement
He gave it as his opinion that the
employers were bound by the terms
of their contract and must live up to
it. whether or not they suffered loss
by so doing.
1t was the first case in which labor
had resortcd to the injunction
method, SO often employed by capi-
tai against it in similar disputes.
AS far as the employees have car
r'ed their case they have found the
courts disposed to support them.
Public opinion has been behind them
from the beginning.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Me, would make good reading for thei,
human ir+eres+ ord .L.;s L,-

+ Me, would make good reading for thei,
human interest and their humor.
All told, there is something in buck
ing up against Nature that is different
from buckirg Up against the town.
Here is nature as cold and cruel as
life and death. The rain and the srer
pay no attention to ones suEeri.n.
There are but few things for shelte,
and none for comfort. Hunger il ta
handspring Of life. Want Is the tunda-
mental OF economics. These men lying
under the stones by the voiceful river
are soldiers in the cause Of humanity
as much as IS TIE soldier under the
poppies. Hearts that are sore for
those who lie afar may perhaps get
some comfort from the thought o.
these chiseled letters by the river Of
the north. One may well believe that
thousands of memories turn daily
countless times to distant memorials
over graves Of the dead. So ! an
pleased to turn a thought to these
rude stones Of forgotten humble men
who gave their lives for humanity |.
was battle against Nature. II WAS a
part of the economic law OF life
So many things in this vor-i
compensations. l have been aa
these old river drivers this wsea
many os them yet in the game and
showing deep pride in their past as
men OF accomplishment. Others have
graduated TO operators, men OF wealth
and influence, bankers and farmers
and yet all OF their talk is OF the con-
quest Of things.
am convinced by these rude stones
by the etchings of kindly hands IN
memorial, by the lives OF power, 'hs'
the law OF life is work and that the
only abiding Joy is in Accomplishment
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Streets for Fairgrounds

% the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Any one who has had the heart
rending experience of seeing a little
child run over by heavy truck will
join with me in demanding the return
Of "Closed-to-traffic streets" where
children may play in safety.
"Five hundred and fifty children in
our city to-day are doomed to be
killed in automobile accidents during
the next twelve months" is the essence
of news item in your paper.
Normal children must play. Nav 7
not urge upon the members of the
Board Of Aldermen, and especially upon
those, like myself, who have children
OF their own, to revive a very simple
expedient in protecting the lives of our
children?
Close certain streets to vehicular
traffic and save the lives of the men
and women Of tomorrow.
LOUIS A. LAZARUS.
New York, May 25, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Compulsory Physical Training

An interesting and valuable by
product of the war is the extension
of compulsory physical training in
the schools of different states. Ac-
cording TO d bulletin of the Bureau
of Education, before 1916 there we're
three states which had laws relating
to the physical education of school
children. Largely as a result of the
interest in military training, eight
more states adopted legislation dur
ing the years 1915 to 1918 providing
for compulsory physical training in
the public schools. So successful were
the results. rather from the point of
view of civilian than Of military
benefits, that since that time seven
teen other states have followed suit.
making total of twenty-eight
states up to date which provide for
the physical training of children.
There are. of course, numerous
differences in the scope and meth
DDS of training employed. Nor has
the system in any particular state
yet been altogether perfected But
the tendency is significant, and the
fact that practically all have the
same purpose shows that the under
lying spirit is the same. The OBJ
ject is not only to promote the health,
vigor and physical soundness Of the
children. together with their at
tendant effects upon character, but
also to teach knowledge of the
human machine and Of the impor-
tance Of proper hygiene Of the body
and the home.
The mere instruction in physical
training, of course, is not in itself
sufficient to accomplish all the de-
sired results. But it is one Of the
most important features which have
so far been ignored in American
education. Whoever doubts this
need only refer to the draft statis-
tics. showing the large percentage
Of physically unsound men who were
examined for duty. Americans have
been too much inclined to let the
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
The End Of Fort Washington

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The suggestive and gracefully
written article by Eleanor Booth SIM
mons published in The Tribune of May
60, entitled as above, has led the writer
to make the following comments:
The story Of the one solitary memo
rable day in the history Of Fort Wash
ington was such that very little regret
will be felt that its remains are to dis
appear and its site is to be occupied
by streets and dwellings. In view of
tie facts connected with it, pictures and
relics are certainly not worthy of
preservation.
If Washington had not been unduly
Influenced by several of his generals
and by the colonel in command of the
fort its garrison would have been with
drawn in safety and added to his main
army. But he failed to depend upon
his own better judgment, and the worst
disaster of the Revolution was the re-
suit. He always regretted his mistake
most bitterly, realizing when it was too
late that he was not justified in leay-
ing so small number of soldiers on
the island when he moved his army
across the Hudson
1t may be truthfully said. however,
that had the garrison stood it's ground
and fought with anything like the valor
which has distinguished trcoops Of
many countries, including our own,
under similar circumstances, when
commanded by officers possessing the
requisite ability and courage, the
American flag would in all probability
not have been lowered on that dark
day. Had Colonel Magaw carried into
cfect his grand reply to General
Howe's demand for the surrender of
the fort and used his troops to the best
advantage he might have beaten off his
assallants with great loss to them. But
not single Shot was fired from all
the many cannon, large and small, with
winch the fort was armed, and not 2
single musket or rifle was discharcad
at the enemy. The detachments at
the outposts fought bravely, but the
fort itself, the new and Strong cita-
del, as it was called, with at least
$500 defenders and all its precious
stores, was surrendered without anv
defense whatever.
so let streets be cut through its dis.
credited site and dwellings be built
enereon and as far as possible let the
history of the place be forgotten.
TRlSTRAM COFFIN.
New York, May 25, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Graues by the Riuer

All along the way of a Maine stream
far from civilization, which we
tramped last spring, We're occasional
stones, huge blocks of granite on
which were chiselings Of dates, names
or initials.
These were the mausoleums of
drowned river drivers, thus memorial
lied in granite far more glorious than
those of cemeteries of the rich-for
they were by the sides of the streams
in which they lost their lives and with
in sound Of the running waters.
One of these huge stones weighed
possibly two hundred tons, its crest
twenty-five feet high over the stream,
its base in the tapping waters. This
was on the Wassataquoik stream, a
quiet brook i'll August, yet raging
torrent in the spring. On the very top
of this huge rock was lodged log,
left there by the receding waters last
spring. 1t hung thus, far above the
river and silhouetted against the sky
line. On this rock also was the name
of q drowned river driver
Coming down the ford, one of the
guides picked up the skull of a
drowned man-one who was lost in the
drive about year ago. These
men were never brought out to their
homes in the olden days, though they
are brought out now if their bodies
be recovered. Times have changed for
the better or the worse, as you may
estimate it. Personally, ! would pre-
fer to have my name chiseled on one
Of these giant rocks, sleep beneath it
within the sound OF the many waters
and the radiance of the evening suns
and the dawns magnificent, than be
buried IN some neglected country
New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
The Main Street" Topic
To the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: When Sinclair Lewis wrote
Main Street" he started an argument
that can never be satisfactorily
finished. It's all in your point of
view. Yet while the sting of pub
lcity lasts those who feel that he
has been unjust will continue to
bristle, for when he hit he hit hard.
A significant statement in Arthur
Davis's letter is From the small
towns come many of our most eminent
citizens" "Come" is correct. When
ttey can they come as fast as the