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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-01-06
ITEMS FROM MATOY

Mr.. and Mrs. Burns of Wade vis-
tied Mr.. Felmet and family Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tussy gave New
Years dinner Sunday and it was re-
ported that about 40 eat there.
Misses Jessie and Alberta Roberts
Misses Smith, Ollie Felmet, Leona
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-01-06

tie and Marie Slaton Sunday night.
Bryan Jones from Cade was visit.
ing his brother, Tom Jones durinr
Christmas week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Richie OF
Lehigh were visiting Mrs. Riches
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. I. Hatcher
returning home Saturday.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05
RELIEF SHIP RATES
TO RUSSIA DOUBLED
Charter Profiteering Il
Charged to Operators of
American Vessels.

Charges that American ship operators
have combined to raise charter rates for
ships to carry relief supplies to Russia
to "prohibitive levels" were made last
night in statement issued by the Pur-
chasing Commission for Russian Relief.
AZ Broadway. The Shipping Board. il
was said. would be called upon to supply
the necessary tonnage at the going mar
ket rate. The statement said:
Offers now being made by independ-
ent American ship operators are so per
cent higher than charters already made
by the Purchasing Commission for Rus
sian Relief to independent American
ships. and they are loathe to see millions
Of dollars intended by Congress for Rus
sian relief expended in rates which are
a. least double the going commercial
rates for this business.
Our understanding Is that the inde-
pendent operators had a meeting and
advanced rates to prohibitive point.
end to expedite shipments the commits
sion Is requesting the Shipping Board
to make available sufficient tonnage to
carry the next purchases at the going
commercial rate James +. Goodrich
Ex-Governor OF Indiana and vice-chair-
man of the commission. leaves for Wash
ington tonight to care for this matter"
So far enough tonnage has been char
tered. IL was said, to carry $4,000 tons of
grain. This business has practically all
gone to private operators. None OF the
ship brokers or owners who have been
negotiating with the commission could be
reached last night for a statement on the
The New York herald., 1922-01-05
instead of six years under present con.

instead of six years under present con-
ditions.
The convention was clearly OF the
opinion that the compensation of Su-
preme Court Justices and Judges of rhe
Court Of Appeals at the present time Is
inadequate. II points out that their SAL
aries were fixed many years ago and
since that time rents and living costs in
all parts Of the State have increased
enormously.
The convention was also emphatic in
its denuuciation of the practice which
has prevailed In some OF the upstate
counties. permitting a District Attorney
or assistant to appear as attorney or
counsel for defendant In criminal
case outside Of his own county A clause
specifically prohibiting this action Is
recommended in the report.
With reference TO the Children's
Courts. the convention approves tre in
clusion IN the judiciary article of the
constitutional amendment passed at the
last election. Other recommendations
deal with an amendment enabling the
Legislature to take the office of the
Commissioner Of Jurors out of politics
and vest II In the hands of the courts,
end a suggestion that the "Torrcns
System OF Registration" be adopted and
State guaranty Of titles to real prop
erty.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05

amendments deemed absolutely neces-
sary were included In the report.
In fact. the convention points out that
constant legislative tinkering" Is one
OF the evils OF the system, being respon.
sible in a large measure for the delays.
uncertainty and expense in the courts.
This and the failure to enact scientific
legislation Is the Legislatures part OF
the blame, according to the report.
The Senate members Of the conven.
ton are Senator'S Burlingame. Whteley
and Gothic; the Assembly Is represented
by Assemblymen Cole. Donohue and
Duke; the Appellate Division. selected
Justices Lambert. Laughlin. Putnam and
Woodward the Supreme Court Justices
are Justices Benedict. Borst. Crouch,
Kellogg. Marcus, Newburger. Rudd. Saw
yer and Young and the Court Of Appeals
was represented by Judge Cuthbert w.
Pound, the chairman.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05
LARGE ASSETS SHOWN
BY u. S. MAIL CO.'S LINES
Millions Among rs Subsidia-
ries Revealed by Referee.

Assets Of several million dollars In the
twenty-eight companies affiliated with
the United States Mail Steamship COM
rany were disclosed yesterday in pro-
cecdings on behalf Of creditors before
John J. Townsend, referee in bank
ruptcy. 293 Broadway. In some in
stances. however. liabilities exceed as
sets. according to Stuart Mcintosh, an
official In most of the companies. who
occupied the witness chair.
Louis H. Strouse, attorney for the
creditors committee. said at the con-
clusion of the testimony that a large pro-
portion Of the assets disclosed might be
legally applied to settlement of claims
against the United States Mail Steam
ship Company. as the interrelation Of the
various concerns had been clearly shown.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05
Christmas Mail Up 40 P. c.
Here; Cost $500, 900 Less

Special Dispatch to THE NEw York HezALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c.. Jan. 4.
rTHE Post Office business In
New York city for the i'm
mediate Christmas season
was 40 per cent. greater than for
the same period n year before.
Also the Government saved $780,
600 In New York on extra clerk
hire for the quarter ended Decem-
Der 81. This is practically repre-
sented by the Christmas period. as
most of the extra clerks are en-
ployed for that period.
A rough estimate of the entire
postal receipts of the whole coun-
try for December. 1921, shows a
gain Of 7h per cent. over the
month Of December. 1920.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05
DIES IN GRAND CENTRAL.
Miss Susan Venable Stricker
Seated ON Bench.

Miss Susan Venable, a5. Of 27o West
Ninety-third street. daughter of the
late George Venable, member of the
wholesale whisky firm Of venable &
Heyman, which went out of business in
this city about twelve years ago. died
suddenly yesterday of heart disease
while sitting on a bench In the Grand
Central station.
Samuel b. Thomas, a lawyer. of rs
Cortlandt street, said Miss venable was
employed by him in a secretarial capac-
ity. and that she suffered from heart
trouble. which was aggravated a month
ago when an attempt was made to rob
her apartment.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05

matter. Besides Mr.. Goodrich, members
OF the commission are Herbert Hoover.
chairman: Don Livingstone OF the Farm
Bureau Federation. Edgar Rickard of
the American Relief Administration and
Edward M. Flesh. treasurer OF the
United States Grain Corporation.
The New York herald., 1922-01-05
TO DISCUSS HOME MISSIONS.
Three Day Conference VIII BE
Held Here Next Week.

Missionary work in the United States
and parts OF Canada. Porto Rico and
other places considered to be In the home
field, including the problems of Indians.
negroes and immigrant population. will
be discussed at the annual meeting OF
the Home Missions Council and the
Council OF Women for Home Missions
in the Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth
avenue and Twenty-ninth street, next
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
There will be a conference tomorrow
and Saturday on Christian work among
negroes In the United States.
The New York herald., 1922-11-12

constitute a unique success in the elusive
art of telling "a story "just So Little
children are the most critical audience in
the world: and woe betide the luckless
narrator who mfsplaces word or dis
torts the rhythm of a well loved tale.
The "Just So Stories" bear the stamp
of having been slowly fashioned through
many patient repetitions. Mr.. Kipling
owes something both to Esop and to
Mother Goose, for he has written fables
of talking animals according to the word
patterns Of Peter Piper. 1t matters not
whether such a phrase as great, gray
green, greasy Limpopo River" carries a
clear picture to the youthful mind; chill
dren rejoice at meeting words that they
only half understand, and the rich recur-
renee of sonorous syllables adds a color
full mystery to otherwise understandable
stories of animals children who are
snubbed and scolded and spanked upon
occasion. in a painfully human and familiar
fashion.
r In these days, when education is tending
more and more toward the practical and
ScleitlAc, the Ialry tale is more tnan ever
an essential antidote. Fairyland is a pre-
cious prerogative of childhood, and a world
deprived of fanciful elves and gnomes and
pixies would be as dull as a world with
out dolls or tops or marbles. "Grimm's S
Fairy Tales and Hans Andersen rank
among the great books because between
them they contain practically all those
traditional fairy tales without which no
childs education is complete. unique
fairy tale in verse, curiously neglected in
recent years, is "The Culprit Fay" by an
American poet. Joseph Rodman Drake,
whose grave is in the little park named
after him in The Bronx. This poem was
The New York herald., 1922-11-12

written on a wager, to prove that a fairy
story could be written entirely within
the fairy realm, without the intrusion of
a single mortal. 1t was not purposely
written for children; but it's wealth of rain
bow-tinted, gossamer fancies has by ac-
tual test seldom failed to hold the imagina-
tive boy or girl spellbound.
English literature is fortunate in
possessing several classics that blend the
qualities of fairy tale and allegory-won-
derland adventures with deeper meaning
behind them. 1t may sound odd to class
together books of such widely different
aims as 1.-The Pilgrims Progress" and
"Alice in Wonderland, yet the technic
of the two is much the same. The Slough
of Despond, Castle Dangerous, Giant De-
spair are as purely imaginative creations
as the Rabbit Hole, the Mad Halter and
the Cheshire Cat. In Bunyan's master
piece, however, the preachment behind
the allegory is so everlastingly trying to
occupy the whole stage that it is not
strange that "Pilgrims Progress" has
ceased to be popular with a generation
that rebels against sugarcoated sermons.
Charles Kingsley's Water Babies while
at its best delightful fight of imagination,
is also to considerable extent handicapped
with interludes of preachment and satiric
digressions that modern youth is sure to
skip altogether But "Alice in Wonder
land" and Through the Looking Glass
are volumes without a flaw, masterpieces
of imperishable nonsense. constructed with
unfaltering logic around a pack of cards
and game of chess. Children read them
solely for their whimsicality. Grownups
go back to them with new zest, delighting
page by page in the discovery of hidden
meanings they had never before even
SUSPECTED
The New York herald., 1922-11-12
What Are the Great
Children's Stories and Why

not see the world through the narrow
brain of an Orang Titan, or the facetted
eyes of fly; but Mr.. Seton accomplshes
an almost similar prodigy by making us
see the life of the wild through the sensi-
writer to make us realize that to all
the creatures which roam the forest the
whole earth's surface is an intricate and
fascinating record of crossing trails, from
which each can read in proportion to his
keeness of scent, the recent presence of
friend or foe. which way they went, where
they fingered, the whole intimate history
of their daily life. OF woodcraft as the
Indian or trapper knows it, an abundance
may be found in many an earlier book
But to open up the intricaces of animal
psychology. to reveal the processes of
their reasonIngs and their instincts is
FAR subtler achievement, and it is this
which gives Mr. Seton's stories their
their unique value
The Jungle Books on the other hand,
are the age-old type of anthropomorphized
beast story. drawn straight from the orig
inal fount of fable. They were wrought
from the crude substance of Hindoo folk
lore transmitted by a magic alchemy into
wonder books, fraught with the essence
of the mysterious East The boy or girl
who has not yet made the acquaintance
of Mowgli, nor learned the Law of the
Jungle nor listened to the age-old wisdom
of IA, the serpent, has been defrauded of
something that was his or her rightful due.
Even more important than the Jungle
Books are the Just So Stories, which
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Continued from Preceding Page.

impressions of early childhood. If per-
sistent survival means anything, Aesop's
Fables ought to have a leading place in
every childs library, for the stories and
anecdotes that we now know under that
name have through slow migration from
their birthplace in India endured upward
of 1000 years and undergone many meta
morphoses in form and language as they
were gradually being cut and polished into
the finished gems that we now know.
France, luckier than ourselves, had her
own great fabulist who set these gems in
a purely French setting of inimitable wit
and charm. La Fontaine has been the
enough he sounds in English garb more
foreign than the genuine Aesop that has
come to us through Sanskrit, Arabic, Greek
and Latin. Aesop in simple English prose
is part of every child's rightful heritage.
But it is one of the books that suffer fire.
quently from critical age limits Give
these fables to a child a little too soon or
a little too late and he will miss the golden
magic of them.
AesOp naturally reminds us of the two
modern classes of animal story: the tradi-
tional sort in which animals still talk,
best represented by Kiplings Jungle
Books and the strictly realistic type.
among which Ernest Thompson Seton's
wild Animals 1 Have Known" is still
without a peer. 1t may be true Ito quote
Anatole France once more) that we can
The New York herald., 1922-11-12
Fifty Poems for Children
Selected by BURTON E. STEVENSON.
Editor of "The Home Book of Verse"

Rhymes o Childhood.
Ophant Annie. Jamesw Riley.
The Man the Moon whicomb Riley
hitcomb
Seem Things Eugene Field
Wynken Eugene
a Visit Nicholas
Jest fore Christmas Eugene Field
Nonsense
The Jumbl
The Pebble Who
The warus Carpenter Lev
The Duel. Field.
worId.
Wonderful World William Brightly Rands
The Worlds Music
OF uss Lowe
Dandelion.
l Wandered Lonely Cloud William Wordsworth.
a
TO a skyark Percy Bysshe Shelley.
n Rhyme.
PauR Reveres Ride Henry wadsworh Longellow
in Armor Henry Longfellow.
Herve
How They Brought Good News Ghent AK Robert
The Inchcape Rock Robert Southey.
The Pied Piper of Hamein Robert Browning
Judgment a Wicked Bishop Robert southey.
The Dverng History of John Glpin William Cowper.
Loyalty
Darlington Macauay
Drum Henry
Sir Humphrey Gilbert Henry Wadsworth Longfelow
Charge the Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson
Greenea Whittier
Kearny at Seven Pines Edmund Clarence Sedman
sheridans Ride Thomas Buchanan Read
Horatus at the Bridge Thomas Darlington Macaulay.
Lessons
A Psalm o Henry Longelow
Wadsworth Longfelow.
Abou Adhem Leigh Hunt
The House by the Side of the Road Sam Walter Foss.
Character of the Happy Warrior William Wordsworth
He Fell Among Thieves. Henry Newbot
William Henley
If Kipling.
The chambered Nautilus oliver Wendell Holmes
a William Cullen
Waldo Emerson.
On His Blindness. John Milton
Tennyson
The New York herald., 1922-11-12
Just What Children's Book Week Means
BY FREDERIC G. MELCHER,
Chairman of ChiLdreu,S Book Week

Chairman of ChiIdren's Book Week Committee.
HOSE who love books
easier for all to have
want them That
of
print How
be opened each will
with
books there
reading
chidens
OF
better
m books thrilling books noble books waiting the right
the reading
those who helpful
Every
has its midst
Their knowledge
children e gamers
been studying the problem getting books
of booksellers that
of readers and with the
There difficulty rayng
how few the homes with libraries The national
public libraries
reading and they heartily responded Librarians
that their responsibility
library DOORS.
publishers promised posters promotion
Pamphlets,
interested
widespread
Scouts and Girl Scouts
schools found
spontaneous the subject chldren reading
decidedly in line with their fundamental
OF is
but the emphasis o
those who know books and love children who believe
the of
the best
The New York herald., 1922-03-30
Jay Gould Beats Brother
In Squash Tennis Match
George, Jr.. Makes Creditable
Showing Against Champion.

In reaching the final round or the
Columbia Club squash tennis champion
ship yesterday. Jay Gould, title holder.
defeated his brother. George Could. Jr..
in three straight games. 15-6. 15-I1.
15-s. Considering his comparatively
limited experience the young brother
made a very creditable showing. He
stroked powerfully. set fast pace from
the start and did some remarkable get
ting. Jay, however, was too skllrul q
court genera. for him. and in the rallies
found his openings with greater case.
In the title round. which Is to be
played tomorrow. jay Gould is to meet
f. w. Putnam. a former club champion,
who advanced as the result or victory
ever Milton l.. Cornell. The latter match
went four games. with the score 10-15,
15-4. 15--5, 17-16.
George Gould, Jr, was also a COM
petitor in the C.ass B division of the
club tournament I'm which he also sue
ceedcd In reaching the semi-final round.
He was within a stroke or two OF beat
ing Harold Kellock in straight games
when the latter launched a successful
rally and pulled the match out OF the
nre. winning eventually by a score OF
5--15, 5--15. 1S-16. 17-16, 15-s.
In the Glass r championship match
Kellock is to face Kingsley Kunhardt,
who defeated II. q. Larson, Jr., in the
other semi-final. 1s--15. 1917, 3-15,
15-12.
The New York herald., 1922-03-30
George Nichols Again to
Lead the Sound Yachtsmen
Two Tickets Nominated and
the Regulars Win.

At the annual meeting OF the Yacht
Pacing Association Of Long Island
Sound held last night in the Harvard
Cub, the regular nominees for officers
were elected.
George Nichols. representing the Sea-
" anhaka- -Corinthian Yacht Club, was
reelected president OF the association.
In the other offices some radical
changes were made. The nominatin {
committee submitted ticket. which
vas: Vice-president. Charles A. Mars
land, New Rochelle Yacht Club; secre-
tory. James ID. Sparkman. Larchmont
Yacht Club; treasurer. Donald Cowl.
Manhasset Bay Yacht Club; members
or the executive committee, Adrian Ise-
In I'd, Port Washington Yacht Club;
Philip D. Mallory, American Yacht
Club, and clifford d. Mallory. Indian
Harbor Yacht Club.
After the votes had been announced.
on a motion made by II. A. Jackson. the
vote was made unanimous.
The schedule of regattas adopted Is as
follows:
May 30, Harlem Yacht Club.
June 3. Knickerbocker Yacht Club: 10. Man
Yacht Club; ~. Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club
July |. Indian Harbor Yacht Club: 3, Ameri-
can Yacht Club: 4, Larchmont Yacht Club
1sarchmont Yacht Club race week: 20.
Stamford Yacht Club.
August 5. Orienta Yacht Club, IL. Huguenot
Yacht Club 10. New York Athletic Club
&c, New Rochelle Yacht Club.
September ., Scawanhaka Corinthan Yacht
Club: 4. Larchmont Yacht Club: o, Indian
Harbor Yacht Club 49, Manhasset Bay
Yacht Club; %, Hampstead Harbor Yacht
The New York herald., 1922-03-30
Reds to Start Season With
ss NeW Men in -Four Places

as IL Jake will have to warm the bench
while the sweet singer from Portugal
gambols around the first station.
Bohnc has shown enough to warrant
the belief that he will take good care
OF the keystone. lie is a pretty good
fielder and good hitter. Sammy was
born a Cohen-and as John McGraw put
it not so long ago. I'D have him out
there as Cohen IL he were playing for
my ball club"
Caveney and PineilI are graduates OF
the Pacific Coast League. Cavcney
whose real name is Castiglioni. has indi-
Gated that he will do In the field. but 1t
remains to be seen II he will hit major
league pitching. He has a snappy way
at short and is particularly effective on
grounders which take short hop. Cave
ney was purchased from the San Fran
cisco club for something like $4,000.
Pinelli bought from Oakland for $685.
900. has been up before. Hughey Jen-
nings had him at Detroit and he proved
a failure as a hitter. He is a peppery
customer in the field and handles him
self like a real ball player. II may be
that Pinelii at last has found himself
but at that he Is not a Groh or even
first baseball cousin of the Heinie boy
now with the Giants.
IN lUe ouillclu. WIN ltOuan out,
Moran has Duncan in left. Neaie in right
and Burns in center. Ncale IS the weak
brother OF the trio and there Is nobody
among the rockies strong enough to give
him battle for the job.
The pitching staff has gained ono new
member IN Johnny Coucn. bought from
San Francisco. Vic Johnson. a soldier
bought out OF the Army for 800, is the
only other rookie who has shown any
thing al ail--and he needs more cxperi-
ence. Moran has Jack Scott. obtained
from the Braves IN the trade for Mar
guard Eppa Rixey the long left
handler: T.uque. Pete Donahuc. the brill
liant young collegian who was a sensation
last season. and Cliff MarlSle. who Is not
so brilliant. lie is not over strong in tho
box and IL angling for another finger
Moran's catching STAFF remains un-
changed--Wingo and I1argrave. The
clubs outlook FOR q place IN the first
division Is as dark as a black night at
sca--and II may have.a hard time beat
ing the Phillics and the Cubs for sixth
place.
The New York herald., 1922-03-30
Americans to See Two Of
Worlds Fastest Runners
Hyll and Bessent to Tour Here
This Year.

Special Cable to THE NEW YcRK HnaALp.
copyright, 1922, by THE NEw YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Paris, March 60
Two of the fastest runners in the
world will leave Europe In a few weeks
for spring and summer tour of the
chief American cities and colleges. They
are Albert q. Hyll, Olympic champion
at Antwerp in the 500 and 1900 meter
events and present holder of the British
amateur mile record, and the hitherto
unheard of amateur Bessent. who. the
English hackers declare. is able to out
class all sprinters. regardless of age or
weight
Both have signed an ironclad agree
ment with Fred Mitchell. the noted
sportsman, providing them with a share
or the gate receipts but insisting that
the tour must be under amateur regu]a-
tions. solely for the purpose OF showing
British racing style to the American
public.
In an interview with THE NEW YoRx
HERALD correspondent to-day Mitchell
declared he was negotiating already
with the principal Eastern universities.
including Cornell, and hopes to match
Bessent against American record hold
ers IN some Eastern city for the benefit
of charity.
The party also will include probably
the English jumper Baker and the noted
coach Mussbini, who will give film lee
lures on athletics at all the schools Wis.,
tied.
But the chief interest will center
upon Hyll and Bessent," said Mitchell.
AS far as the latter Is concerned we
are convinced he is the specdiest man
alive to-day
During the war Mitchell obtained the
temporary release OF Georges Carpenter
from the French army to box for the
American Red Cross in New York. but
those plans were spoiled by the anti
ring campaign in 1917.