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The New York herald., 1922-07-19
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Union Theological Seminary. second annual
conference for ministers and workers. Broad
way and 120th street. morning and afternoon
sessions --
Catholic Benevolent Legion. New York stats
Council. convention. 3e5 Hart ST.. Brooklyn.
10 A.. NJ.
John z. Riley OF the State Department of
Education will speak on Immigrant Edit
cation in Program Of Adult Education,
room 401. Kent Hall. Columbia University.
80 +. NJ.
Memorial services for former Mayor John
Purroy Mitchell. woodlawn Cemetery. 5:io
+. NJ
Building Trades Employers Association.
luncheon. 80 West Thlrty-third street. 12;1s
p. NJ.
John e. Wade, District Superintendent.
New York city will lecture on The De-
sirable Shifting Of Emphasis in Curriculum
Content" Could Memorial Library, New
YORK University y. NJ.
Dr. G. E Merriam Of the University of
Chicago will speak on The Position OF
Groups IN tho Modern state" New school
for Social Research. $50 West Twenty-third
street. r. VI.
Goldman Rand, concert, the Grecn Column
ha University. s:15 y. NJ.
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Darwin,s House at Down.

From the Manchester Guardiqr,
a somewhat Insignificant looking old house
IN remote Kentish village Is being offered
for sale. and were public funds available
they would be we'll expended in securing the
freehold as national possession. 1t was
IN 1912 that Darwin began his forty years
occupation OF Down House In the village OF
Down. or Downe, as II was spelled in an
Client times. Down Is only about eight
miles from Croydon. When Darwin discov-
cred this retired spot the only means of
approach to the village was twenty mile
coach drive. and Il was, to Some extent, this
inaccessibility which appealed to the great
scientist. Among Darwin's many visitors at
Down were 'Haecke and Mr.. Gladstone. who
was driven over one Sunday afternoon.
John Morley tells us that as the statesman
walked awaY Darwin. shading his eyes
with his hand against the evening rays.
said to me, What an honor that such a
great man should come to visit me- 80
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morning star but omitting the frogs ma.
1t did not become popular until five or
six years afterward when Dave Reed
and Dan Bryant started a craze making
"Shoo Fly" a byword like Down Went
McGinty" or "Tara boom de ay' In after
years.
"Shoo Fly" was on every; minstrel and
variety bill in the United States. and
variations we're numerous. One ! re-
member was. rousing chorus sung to
different tune:
Pull away. brave boys pull away;
Always shout with JOY and glee-
To all your troubles you can say
Shoe Fly. don't you bother me.
Minstrels and variety were expositors
of good cheer. There was as much room
for Russian gloom as for a bear in a
rain barrel in Dan Bryants time
HERBERT S. RENToN.
NEW ROCHELLE, July IS.
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An Old Chinese Painting.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
How gently. Tannyu, falls your Eve
ming Rain T.
1t smoothed the angry sea to satin's
shine.
The lonely. humble fisher furls his sail
And hastens toward the willow shell
tered cot
Where safely he can watch the noun
tains glare
Like hooded giants--athwart the rain
washed dusk
They sail unto the West through such
great seas.
Your river boatmen. by the -bordered
shore.
Though lotus blossoms here. Tannyu
and peach,
And peonies are ripping petaled thick,
Still--still---sad mystery Of space Is
here.
And near by seas are roaring wild and
blue.
EDNA woRTHLEr UNDERWOOD.
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Englandps Lawn Tennis Default.

England's decision not to send a
lawn tennis team to the United
States next month, and to default
TO Spain in the international COM
petition for the Davis cup, appar-
emily has created a greater sensa-
ton among British sportsmen than
it has, up to this time, among others.
The feeling outside of England
seems to be that il two Of England's
best players find their business pre-
Cludes their coming here, and >the
English tennis authorities find this
circumstance bar TO participation
in the later contests of the classic of
the courts. that is England's affair.
However, It Is to be regretted
greatly that for the first time in the
long history of competition for the
Davis cup the English have seen fit
to permit a default to be registered
against them. There never yet has
been a Davis cup contest without an
English team in It; it is to be, hoped
there never will be another. Inter-
national sport arouses more interest
in the United States when 1t means
a passage at arms with England than
when such a contest is lacking. I'M
perially. in the matter of tennis
technique the disappearance of the
English will be In measure COM
pensated for by the coming Of the
Australasians who, as was demon
strated in the recent tournament at
Wimbledon, just now overshadow the
best tennis talent in sight in the
tight little isle.
Less than ten years ago an inter
national tennis event without repre-
sentation from England would have
been like Hamlet" without the Mel
ancholy Dane. Twenty years ago ar
English default would have meant the
cancellation of the entire competition
when, in 1900 the Davis cup was Of
fered only the United States and Eng
land struggled for 1t. In other coun
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Story of "Shoo Fly"
Dan Bryant and the Other Minstreis
ExpositOrs of Good Cheer.

To THE New York HERALD William
Harrison and Rodgers's exposition OF
Dan Bryant's performance of. Handy
Andy at an early benefit in 1864 brings
10 mind that his first hit In an Irish
character was made the year before at
a benefit for that sterling actor William
r. Floyd of the Winter Garden and
Wallack companies at the Winter GAR
den.
Dan Bryant In Celtic characters had
a great reception in Dublin and Liver
pool in 1865. and in summer seasons at
Niblo's Garden and wallack's later. He
was a BETTER shaun the Post in "Arrah
Ma Pogue" at Niblos than the author.
Dion Boucicault, himself
Dan Bryant was minstrel for thirty
wears but he was barely AZ years old
in 1875. when he died. having begun at
vauxhal Gardens. near Cooper Insti-
tute. for his famous brother Jerry's
benefit at the age of IL. He was the
most famous expostor of that hop, skip
and jump affair "The Essence of Ole
virginny," a feature on most minstrel
bills. and a scream when danced by the
funny dwarf Little Mac.
The Cincinnati manager. w. w. New
comb-foster father OF Bobby Newcomb
and director of Newcomb and Airing
toms and other minstrel troupes--has the
credit for originating the Essence" but
no one used 1t as much as Dan Bryant.
His patrons wearied of II. When he
slapped down large shoe and com
menced TO drag 1t across the stage, pre-
paratory to ST. vitus jump. used to
say There goes that old Essence
again. / wish Dan would tumble y
The same was true of his duet and
dance with Dave Reed. "Shoo Fly" when
they belonged to Company B" so much
that we boys wondered why they did not
join some other company from to @
The author of "Shoo Fly" was the pop
ular songwriter T. Brigham Bishop. who
had charge OF a company OF negro sol
diers during the civil war.
He heard one say Use feelin' like q
morning start "A companion replied
well | feel like a frog that's lost lis
ma I" when bystander said go way
coon--shoo ny. don't bother me !"
Bishop wrote the song. putting In th'
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HOSPITAL WILL USE
COOPERATIVE PLAN
Physicians to Run NeW Insti-
tuition.

Construction of the new $25o.000
Women's Hospital of The Bronx will
begin early in September at Lafayette
avenue and Manida street. The Bronx.
Joseph Nj. Levine. president Of the Hos
pital Construction Corporation, an
nounced yesterday. The institution will
specialize in obstetrics and gynecologi-
cal cases and will be run by group of
prominent physicians under a coopera-
tive arrangement The hospital is one
of the first to be run on the cooperative
plan as private institution.
The architecture, furnishings and sur
roundngs will be designed to get away
from the hospital or institution atmos-
phere, and the attempt will be made
to make 1t homelike place, where spe-
cial cases are treated. The plans call
for sixty-two rooms or accommodations
for 100 patients. The building will be
four stories high. colonial design and
built on the wing plan." every room
being an outside one.
With the Sevilla Home, the Welfare
Building of the American Bank Note
Company and large apartment house
on the other three corners, the hospital
will be on a high and convenient spot
arm In quiet neighborhood.
Landscape gardeners will make the
grounds surrounding the hospital a
place of beauty where the convalescing
patients may take the air. The rooms
will be decorated like those of private
home than of hospital. There will be
no ambulance service; patients will be
sent to the hospital by their own ply
sicians and will be attended by staff
which Mr.. LevinesSays will include some
of the best specialists in obstetrics in
this country.
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Sergeant Uzal Knapp.
He Told DR.. Losing He Was One OF
WaShington's Life Guards.

To THE NEW York HERALD: DR..
Carlos T. Godfrey in a communication
published in your paper on July In
regard to the authenticity of the story
that Sergeant Uzal Knapp was one Of
Washington's Life Guards makes the
statement that Losing in his Field
Book Of the Revolution obtained his
information about the story during the
life of Uzal Knapp through another per-
son, which Is correct.
DR.. Lossing made three attempts to
visit Sergeant Knapp. the first time
when he, was gathering material for his
Field Book of the Revolution prior to
1850, and was then unsuccessful in meet
ing him-see page 119, volume H., OF
the Field Book" The third attempt to
see Sergeant Knapp was successful. and
in small volume by LOSING entitled
Hours With Living Men and Women
Of the Revolution" Funk Wagnalls.
1889. will be found chapter entitled
"The Last Survivor of Washingtons
Life Guard" page 115.
In this chapter is an interesting inter-
view with Sergeant Knapp. In reply to
DR.. Lossing's question "Were you with
Washington all the time that he was
at New Windsor" Certainly" he
said II was one of the Guard, and
believe I am the only one living"
He was asked when did you join
the Guard?"
mot long after the battle of Mon
mouth was his answer.
In Lossing's Book Of the Hudson
From the Wilderness to the Sea-" Virtue
& Lorston. 1866. page 2o2. will be found
| a reference to Sergeant Knapp as fol-
lows "Mr. Knapp was Sergeant Of
the Guard and was presented by Wash.
ington with Badge of Military Merit
the American Legion of Honor. In the
autumn of 1855 the writer was at a
public dinner where the old guardsmar
was a guest. He was then almost 81
years OF age. When he was about L
leave the table the company arose. The
veteran addressed few words. to then
and concluded by inviting them all tc
his funeral"
In footnote in G. w. p. Custis',
tsRecollections of Washington" edited
by Lossing. page 263, is the Statement
that Sergeant Knapp's death occurre,
on January IL. 1856. DR.. Godfrey gives
the date of his death as July 10. 1856.
YoNKERs, July IS. II. l.. JOHNSON.
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tries tennis was OF little moment to

tries tennis was OF little moment to
sportsmen.
Now, twenty-five years after the
beginning of the classic. the world
finds the English assuming the un-
usual role Of innocent bystander
while their colonial brethren from
the Antipodes and their neighbors
from France and Spain come here to
decide who is to meet our best for
the cup our champions won so brill
liantly last year Small wonder that.
according to cable to The NEW York
HERALD, thousands Of devotees of the
game of tennis in England are bitter
ly disappointed.
The New York herald., 1922-07-19

Thomas A. Edison is not interested
in old things. He mas given away the
original models of the phonograph and
the incandescent lamp. Only the future
interests him.
MIR. Edison was interviewed yesterday
on the forty-fifth anniversary of the in
vention Of the phonograph.> He sat at
his desk In his laboratory at West
Orange attired in a Palm Beach suit
working out problems In mathematics
while newspaper men quizzed him.
'The original model of the phonograph
is now In Soutn Kensing;on Museum
London" he said. Nobody around here
seemed interested in it, and the museum
wanted some things. ! also gave them
the original OF the incandescent light.
Nc. I am not interested in the old models
1 suppose they took so mucn time and
trouble TO make them right that lost
the sentimental interest. It's what Is
ahead that interests me-rot the past.
II believe have the phonograph close
to perfection. | can now perfectly re-
produce the piano. At present l am
trying for perfect reproduction OF the
Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, played
by seventy-five Instruments. ! cant
say when I will be able 10 do this. but
l think I will be able to do 1t. All
things come TO him who hustles while
he waits.
The reproduction of music Is very
difficult. There are still some small
defects in the phonograph. but people
do not notice them.
II don't think the radio will ever re-
place the phonograph. ] worked on the
radio after the war and used the ar-
paratus we had on the submarines.
tried II out for recording. but there was
too much mutilation of sound, which is
rather difficult to overcome. A low
voice or barytone carries fairly we'll
on the radio. but 1t is not perfect. Talk
ing is very good on the radio. because
of the even pitch"
Business in the phonograph industry
just now Is not so good. because so
many people are putting their money In
stockings and waiting to see more
clearly ahead. don't know when they
will open up. There are more than
fifteen million stocking banks In the
United States. This form of saving Is
very popular in France. and just now
1t seem to be in full bloom here"
The New York herald., 1922-07-19
Astronomers Challenged.
Proof Demanded That the Light OF
the Stars Travels 10 the Earth.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD Your edi-
torial article on "The Light of PAs-
kett' is in keeping with similar writings
in books of astronomy wherein the au-
thors constantly strive to amaze the peo-
pie with stories of how it takes five. ten
or twenty thousand years for the light
of certain stars to reach this earth.
AS travelling starlight seems TO be the
pet story of modern astronomers
would like to ask any one of them to
give proof that the light of the stars
travels to the earth. IL any one OF
them will take the trouble to do so l
will furnish proof positive that the light
of the stars does not travel toward the
earth. A decision may be rendered by
any group Of men with common sense.
NEW York, July IS. J. w. HANLEY.
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GERMAN-AMERICANS
FOR BEER AND WINES
Also Indorse BeDer;dge, Fra
~ zier and La Toilette.

CHICAGO, July IS (Associated Press).
The third German American national
conference, which closed It's sessions here
last night. adopted resolutions pledging
support to Beveridge OF Indiana. Brook
hart OF Iowa, Frazier of North Dakota.
La Toilette of Wisconsin, France OF
Maryland and Reed of Missouri for
United States Senator'S.
The conference also demanded re-
vision of war treaties, withdrawal OF
troops from Germany. approved OF the
inquiry into the Alien Property Gus
todian's office. indorsed Constitutional
amendment requiring referendum to
declare war except in case of actual In
vasion. and demanded immediate return
of beer and wine.
Heinrich Heine of Chicago is presi-
dent of the organization, and George
Sylvester Viereck chairman of the reso-
lutions committee. ~
Another resolution urged the appoint
ment of a United States observer to the
neutral court meeting to determine war
guilt. while others said:
1--WE request the Government =.
to use its good offices in order to obtain
the immediate withdrawal from occupied
Germany Of all colored troops.
mindful of the sinister consequences
of our original loans to European bel
ligerents, we unequivocally condemn and
shall oppose to the limit any loan to
Central Europe which under the guise
of reconstruction tends TO make the
United States the bill collector for the
uncollectible and fraudulent loans OF the
Allies. based directly or indirectly upon
the Versailles Treaty.
1--WE greer with satisfaction the first
steps of the Administration TO correct
the iniquities committed by the custodian
OF enemy alien property.
1--WE note with pleasure the nationwide
campaign 10 remove the taint OF foreign
propa ganda from our school books.
propaganda aiming at denationalizing
American citizens and destroying the
American Republic.
I'VE emphatically indorse the amend
ment TO the Constitution proposed by
Congressman voigt of Wisconsin for a
referendum before declaration OF war,
except in case of actual Invasion OF
| American territory.
"we demand the immediate legalizing
OF the sale Of beer and wine to end the
reign OF hypocrisy and corruption which
Is dsruptlng the very foundation OF
law and order in the United States
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Let's Mine the Coal!

Let's mine the coal
There's but one way
To mine coal--that's to mine III
Let's mine the coal!
We're past the day
When we can dare decline II.
Let's mine the coal
A nettle stings
Until you grasp and crush II.
Let's mine the coal
Past. wordy fiings.
Let's jump the job and rush IT.
Let's mine the coall
The President
Said yes, IL they declined it.
Let's mine the codll
Show them he meant
That yes" and we're behind 1t
MAURICE MoRR
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Charles r. Miller.

In the Qedtn Oh CHARLES II. MILLER,
editor of the New York Times, Ameri-
can journalism has lost one of its
most distinguished. disinterested,
conscientious and gracious leaders.
For fifty years his acute and highly
trained intellect was devoted to the
analysis and discussion of matters
of public moment. In that half CEN
tury his pen touched, always to IL
the imperative political
problems of a nation emerging into
it's full strength, and the social issues
of people which had achieved en-
during unity through war.
Mr. MILLER was of the sturdy New
England breed, a New Hampshire
man from Hanover, graduated from
Dartmouth in 1872. He went straight
from college to the work which was
to claim all his life. His good for
tune led him to the office of the
Springfield, Massachusetts, RepubH-
can; no better school for the train
ing of sound newspaper writer and
director could have been found than
that historic newspaper under the
direction of the second SAMUEL
BowLEs.
Mr.. MILLER spent three years In
that admirable school. Then he came
to New York and to the Times. JOHN
FooRp was then tor-in-chief of the
Times. Mr.. MILLER was at the tele-
graph desk of the Times the night Of
the Hayes election. And from
that fateful contest until falling
health overcame him. CHARLES r..
MILLER was of the fiber and sub
stance of the New York Times, in
fair weather and in foul, in prosper
ity and in adversely, in victory and
in defeat.
Mr.. MILLER succeeded Mr.. FooRD
as editor-in-chief of the Times in
1883, and in the years through which
he served in this difficult and
taxing Office he grew in experience.
in wisdom, in resourcefulness. His
service covered changes in national
politics, changes in social require
ments. revolutions in economic meth
DDS. 1t covered in the domestic af-
fairs of the Times changes proper
tionately great. And no change,
whatsoever it's nature was, found Mr.
MILLER wanting in vision to recog-
nize it, or lacking in capacity to meet
the new conditions it imposed. He
was a student of the Constitu-
ton. painstakingly informed on the
fundamental principles which ac-
tuate human conduct in the reia-
tions of man with man, and, inspired
by correct principles, his clarity OF
Judgment made the definition of pub
lie courses by him helpful and en-
/ tightening.
Professionally Mr.. MILLER was
splendidly equipped. He had learn
ing. scholarship, culture. His mind
was resilient, stocked with knowl-
edge. tempered by experience. His
literary style was clear and precise
without pedantry, bold without bru-
tality. He knew books as instru-
ments of his trade and as friends
of his leisure. His mind was rich
in the capacity to enjoy the best OF
art. literature, music. His manner
was gentle and his friendship, freely
given to those who were worthy OF
l it. was a treasure of human inter
course.
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MARYLAND,S BONUS LAW
IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Court Of Appeals So Rules on
$4,000, 900 Measure.

Special Dispatch to The NEW YoRK HERALD.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. July 1S.-Reversing
the decision of the lower courts. the
Court of Appeals to-day decided the
Maryland soldier bonus bill. carrying an
appropriation for s9,oOo,Ooo, to be un-
constitutional
The court held that the referendum
provision of the bill is a violation of
The New York herald., 1922-07-19
Fair Play for a Fighting Fish.

Sportsmen who believe in giving
their quarry chance will have little
sympathy with those residents of
northern New York whom the State
Conservation Commission prosecuted
recently for spearing black bass In
the st. Lawrence River and who
had to pay penalties amounting to a
total of $500.
II ever there was a gallant foe IT
is the small mouthed bass, which,
having taken natural or artificial
The New York herald., 1922-07-19

There will he those to smile at the sins
admitted by the followers of WILBUR
GLENN voLIvA, Overseer of Zion City
who has been hearing the confessions
of his people: attendance on motion
picture shows. gum chewing and sim
liar acts that to the outsider seem triv-
ial. Yet such is the power Of 1convic-
tion that these self-disclosed violators
of a voluntarily adopted code undoubt-
edly regard themselves as serious
wrongdoers and suffer accordingly.
The New York herald., 1922-07-19
For Mosquito Bites.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Aromatic
spirits OF ammonia, procurable at any
drug store at Is cents an ounce. is a
simple remedy for mosquito bites. APP
piled to a bite It gives instant relief and
prevents unsightly blotches.
The odor is pleasant. but the beasties
don't think so and give 1t wide berth.
NEW York, July is. c. M. G.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Partly cloudy
to-day; tomorrow fair; moderate tenn
perature: moderate to fresh west and
northwest winds.
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy to-
day; tomorrow fair moderate tempera-
ture; moderate 10 fresh west and NORTH
west winds.
For Northern New Extraordinarily
cloudy to-day: tomorrow fair: moder-
ate temperature; moderate to fresh
west and northwest winds.
For Southern New England-Partly
cloudy to-day; tomorrow fair moderate
temperature moderate to fresh west
and northwest winds.
For Western New York--Partly cloudy
to-day tomorrow fair; moderate tenn
perature; moderate TO fresh west and
northwest winds,
WASHINGTON. July 1S.-Pressure was
relatively low tonight over eastern Cam
was low and falling over the far
Northwest, while high pressure prevailed
over the upper lake region. the upper
Mtssippf and Missouri valleys and off
the south Atlantic coast. This pressure
distribution has been attended by show
ers and thunderstorms within the last
twenty-four hours In the West Gulf
States and almost generally east of the
Mississippi River, except in the upper
lake region. The weather became cooler
this afternoon In the lower lake region,
the upper Ohio Valley and the middle
Atlantic States.
The Indications are for generally fair
weather and moderate temperature to-
morrow and Thursday In the middle At
lantic and north Atlantic States. the
lower lake region and the Ohio Valley
and local thunder showers are probable
in the south Atlantic and east Gulf
States and western Tennessee.
The New York herald., 1922-07-19

Harem attendants in Constantinople
have gone on strike. for more money
and shorter hours. They are kicking
against the twenty-four hour day.
What is that heavy sound that is
waited over from southeastern Eu-
rope? is It a new war or the approach
of the strike breakers?
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. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
10 tho use for republication OF all news dis-
matches credited TO II or not otherwise
credited In this. paper, and also the local
news published herein. ,
All rights OF republication Of special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
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The safe Journey. q

Jonsh entered the whale.
II certainly hope this conveyance Ia
bonded" he cried.