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The New York herald., 1922-04-23
A Glory of Middle Age
II Is Conspicuous at Lectures and In
Other Intellectual Pursuits.

To THE New York HERALD: In giving
an account OF Sir Arthur Conan Doyles
meeting in Carnegie Hall you record
that about nine-tenths OF the audience
was composed of women, the majority OF
them of middle age or upward"
I know that is correct, although
was not there. Go to whatever lecture
or meeting or service or concert or
bridge party or what not, whether 1t be
at Carnegie Hall, Horace Mann or Have
meyer hall at Columbia. at the bali
rooms OF the Astor or the Pennsylvania,
the audience is always composed of mid
die aged woman with here and there
a man whose wife has dragged him
along either as company or to appear
intellectual.
Are the middle aged women the only
ones who are musical or clever enough
to understand lectures or interested in
the Great Beyond?
One does not expect to see the pop
eyed. pigeon toed Flossie E'lapper or
Charlie Cake Eater, that your reporter
referred to in describing the Easter
Sunday parade but where is the young
woman or where the young man that
will be the middle aged woman and tho
bald pate of twenty years hence?
ONE OF THE OLD MAIDS
NEW YORK, April %.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
A Cloud of Birds.

A moving cloud we saw one day AZ
morn
a. cloud by no wind borne
From south to north its hasting course
IT held.
From in itself impelled
It's waving lines were beautiful to see
Like guidon or the free
Free. yet twas ordered. too. as though
by plan
That airy caravan;
And when its pilot spirit gave command.
IT lowered DER the land,
And then we knew, the cloud no menaco
bore
or rain or sleet In store.
But. mystic as the pillared sign OF old
That Israers journey told.
There from sweet noise OF many nut-
tering wing
Forcshadowed the promised Spring
Who else so rare a token ever knew
AS this from out the blue?
A cloud OF birds their mingled twitter-
ings fell
And held us with their spell
"All halt" they seemed TO say. and
then, "Adeu!
We cannot stay with you"
The god 'of winged ones knows where
they nest
But be their dwellings best
EpIrH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Careless Persons Counted.
at Street Crossings Oh.
served From an Automobile.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Reading
the newspaper reports as well as your
editorial article on the new automobile
speed ordinance just passed by the Board
of Aldermen, both recalled my conclu-
sions why so many accidents occur to
pedestrians.
Just to illustrate: hurt my foot and
was forced to ride in the front seat OF
an automobile. Noticing the large num-
ber of pedestrians who had some very
close shaves from being hurt. my curios-
ity caused me to count the number OF
pedestrians who stepped off the curb
without looking either way to see IL they
had clear road.
OF the first one hundred So walked off,
as If they were the only persons within
five miles of the place. or the second
hundred 5S persons stepped off and OF
the third hundred Ga persons stepped off.
These figures were taken going UP and
down town but not at corners where the
police were regulating traffic.
from the foregoing it rs evident that
many pedestrians get hurt from their
own careless indifference. OBSERVER.
NEW YORK, April %.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Better Horses Promised.

by one of the unexplained workings
OF nature most of the thoroughbred
foals of this spring are fillies, a fact
which gives satisfaction to the pru-
dent breeders of the country.
The United States once had more
than 5000 thoroughbred dams in the
various studs in Kentucky, Tennes-
see, California. Virginia, Missouri.
New Jersey, Maryland and New York,
the States in which most thorough
breds were produced. Their number
was reduced greatly during the pc
riod of hostility to racing through
which the country passed between
1908 and 1912 and the recovery has
been slow. Mares seld to Argentina,
Australia and Europe at that time
have had to be replaced, largely
through our own stock, importations
from abroad having been almost
negligible.
The tillies which are coming inte
the world this spring are the brood
mares of tomorrow. The far sighted
breeder who knows their potential
value to the blood stock interests of
the country will not murmur because
the balance inclines in favor of the
females in his stud. AS yearlings
the young mares will not command
as high prices as the colts in the
sales ring, but every breeder will
share in the general benefit which
will be achieved when they are re-
tired from racing to take their place
in the blood stock studs.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Aiding Mail Order Trade.
Practical Effect Of Statutes Like the
Sullivan Law.

TO THE NEW YoRK Herald Your edi-
torial article entitled 'Are Playing Cards
'Devices'?' was read with especial inter-
est by me.
had the pleasure Of being in business
in New York when the Sullivan law was
put into effect. I dealt in firearms of all
descriptions and was put out of business
by the silly law which prohibited New
York merchants. rent payers and prop
erty owners from selling arms, but as
you say Increased the vast output OF the
Western mail order houses. who paid no
rent to New York.
The same thing will happen II they
put the gambling devices" law over
II will cover any game, even old maid,
and then the mail order houses will clean
up again.
am still selling firearms and can
ship to my old customers in New York
without interference. But New York
loses my taxes and rent. FLORIDA.
PAssAGRILLy, Fla, April IS.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

bend was twenty miles or more; the
distance across the neck was less
than a quarter of mile. Now Pal
myra Bend is half filled oxbow lake
and Davis cutoff is the river channel.
A similar happening occurred at
Vicksburg. On one storm ridden
night Vicksburg was on the bank Of
the river. The next morning it over
looked a slough, and the village Of
Welton, which had been below Vicks-
burg, was above it.
That is the way the Mississippi
does business, and that is its legiti-
mate work. 1t has been doing just
that way ever since the river was
born, and it will continue to do busi-
ness in that way until everything
within reach of its head waters has
been washed away. When there is no
longer any head water material to be
removed the river will then be able
to attack its flood plain and carry it
away. IL time lasts long enough even
this may occur, for this is the history
Of streams like the Mississippi.
In spite of the tremendous losses
by destructive floods the gains more
than balance them, for the material
which the river scatters over its
flood plain is nutrition, and nutrition
is life. An acre of bluff soil may be
coaxed to produce as many as twenty
bushels of wheat; but an acre of
bottom soil will produce nearly twice
twenty bushels. And the acre Of
flood plain land will produce nearly
twice as much cotton as the bluff
land. The cotton goes to pretty
nearly every people under the sun,
and the wheat competes i'll western
Europe with the grain from India.
When one considers the natural
laws which govern the floods Of such
rivers as the Mississippi such a
thing as man made control of the
floods seems inconceivable. In other
words, the alternative is to change
the laws of nature.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Vaudeville To-day.

This is the week set apart for the
celebration OF the first third of a
century of Keith vaudeville. Vaude-
Vile is one Of the most characteristic
fields of endeavor Of the American
theater. 1t is distinctly national. 1t
Is a development from our own the
strical conditions. No other coun-
try possesses anything like the nu-
merous vaudeville theaters which are
so important a part of amusement
enterprise in the United States.
OF course vaudeville existed before
the Keith name was stamped on 1t
along with the traditions of that
name. II was always a potential
power in amusements which had to
be developed. 1t was not always the
domestic diversion it has become to,
day. There is no longer any sugges-
tion of the risque in it's brand Of en-
~tertainment. In its day vaudeville
has not always been above reproach.
Yet it needed none OF the censoring
that has been found necessary for the
cinema and which is soon to be ap-
piled to the theater. Vaudeville did
the job for itself In its previous
forms it could enjoy only limited
popularity. Now there Is no more
question OF the correctness OF vaude-
Vile than OF that of any regular the
ater. In the past thirty years 1t has
thoroughly censored itself.
The stwo a day" has drawn the
famous opera singers into its service
and the actors who have distin-
guished the stage. 1t has served as
the great source Of supply for the
theater. Scarcely an eminent come
dian in the musical plays OF to-day
failed to serve his apprenticeship in
vaudeville. TO name its graduates
would be TO recite list Of the emf
nent funny men OF the period. They
served their apprenticeship in an ex-
acting field. To find success there
was to reveal capacity for it any
where. So the vaudeville stage has
been the great recruiting field Of our
comedians. II has also helped on
the distaff side.
The programs OF vaudeville are
more than entertaining; they are in
high degree expressive of Ameri.
can national taste. The average va
ricty performance abroad, whether II
be cNled cafe chantant or tingeltan.
GEL u as unvarying in its methodS
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
War Killings and Deaths From
Influenza.

According to tables prepared in the
State Adjutant-Generars office New
York city lost 6,944 men in the SER
vice of the United States in the world
war. or this number more than half
died OF influenza in the pandemic Of
1918. This one disease claimed as
its victims more lives, many of them
in training camps in this country
than were destroyed by the enemy
on the field of battle.
This fact vividly illustrates the
stupendous harvest death reaped
through influenza in 191S-1919. Med
ical authorities put the duration of
the pandemic at eleven months, from
May, 1913, until March of the sue.
ceeding year. The total number OF
deaths directly attributable to it is
put in excess of 25,00O,0 900. There is
only one plague recorded in history
which produced such death list
the Black Death which ravaged Eu-
rope in the fourteenth century.
The latest available statistics put
the number of killed in the world
war at 7,66S,300. Hostilities lasted
fifty-one months. The monthly aver
age of killed was 100000. Influenza
took it's toll for eleven months with
a monthly death roll of 2,436,Ooo,
Influenza was more than sixteen
times as deadly as war.
In the armed struggle 1914-191S
man used every invention science
could devise, every implement hu-
man ingenuity could fashion, to de-
stroy his fellows. In combating in
fiuenza every resource Of the medi.
cal art was employed to protect the
victims of the disease. The outcome
seems to prove that nature as de-
stroyer is far superior to man.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
On the Choice of a Wife.
The Use Of Tobacco Not One of thu
Points to Be Considered.

To THE New YORK HERALD: .'T. e. ~
asks IL any self-respecting young man
can choose a young woman to be his
wife who smokes.
MY answer is most decidedly yes. A
woman who smokes does not show lack
OF good breeding; quite the contrary,
she shows she is familiar with the habits
of polite society. unless of course she
disregards general custom and makes
herself conspicuous by smoking in the
streets, in church, at funerals and on
other formal occasionA
Only. narrow mindodness can see any
evil or impropriety in woman's smok-
ing. IL 1t is wrong for a woman, it is
wrong for man as well 1t is now
a general and approved practice for
ladies to smoke. and 1t has been for tens
OF years in the very best society through
out Europe, and in questions of manners
the accepted use by the generality of
polite people is the only law. L.R.H.
New York, April %.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

FROM UW uuuFcod " COtoHct thuftcS
There is little new under the sun,
One OF the charms OF living in this fine
old world Is the discovery again and
again OF what Is seemingly very new
but which is really very old.
The oldest railroad In III ) country is
the Baltimore and Ohio. Its corner
stone still standing at .Montclare In
Baltimore was laid on the Fourth of
July, 1928, by the venerable Charles
Carroll Of Carrollton. who fifty-two
years before that day had participated
in another epoch making event, the
signing OF the Declaration of Independ-
ence. Frttingly enough this pioneer
railroad was a pioneer in store door de-
livery and collection, a service which II
began in Baltimore in the year 1861
easy for me to remember because in
that year i was so fortunate as to be
born.
In 1872 the Pennsylvania built the
Baltimore and Potomac into Washing
ton, and there store door delivery was
established. Both Baltimore and
washington for upward of forty years
had store door delivery by the Balti-
more and Ohio and the Pennsylvania.
The service was rendered in both cities
by local transfer companies who had
contracts with the railroads. and the
freight rates in certain tariffs included
the store door delivery and collection.
The normal practice was for the trans
fer company to act as agent OIL Inc
railroad and to handle the freight bilis
ty,4c aS
goods themselves 1t is alleged that
some abuses crept in, that sometimes
privileges of delivery or collection were
used as a means of rebating. This ] am
not prepared to disbelieve. for / have
vet to see human institution which IS
either foolproof or immaculate. This
is illustrated by the earliest consumers
in the Garden Of Eden abusing the stor-
age in transit privilege accorded the
apple traffic.
Be that as it may this store door
delivery in Baltimore and Washington
became an established institution and
gave a reasonable degree of satisfaction
10 all those concerned But this happy
institution met q tragic fate. In the
first decade of the twentieth century
came hysteria of regulation of corro-
rations. came the bureaucrat, came an
increase of tax eating ofiicialdom irpos-
ing upon a tax paying Government and
Government ridden railroads. The In
terstate Commerce Commission with a
lust for power and dominion was ex'
treme in its rulings. As Oliver Twist
was born to be hung. so the railroads
at that period existed and created prac-
tices only to be wrong presumptively'
and too often conclusively. The stagger-
ing effect OF full responsibility had not
then its judgments.
So it came about that IN the city OF
Washington there was an Italian fruit
dealer who had fruit delivered just OUT
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Dressln, Up.

Gee whlz! hate to hear ma call:
TITS time to go now-come. ge,
dressed r.
An have to quit my play, an wash
An dress up in my Sunday best.
"I've laid your blue suit out" says ma.
Your Elton collar an your tie! I"
"A stiff white collar !---have heart!
Aw, must / wear II. mar" says I.
An ma says. "Yes--go wash, now quick
An let me see your ears an neck
When YOU get through---wash clean Z
Says I,
"I1l wash the dirt of. every speck!"
But when go an show how clean
I've washed 'em, ma says, Mere,
me.
wy. Sam, they're black--they1l never
do.
They would disgrace the family!"
Jaw, ma. that's snnburn--that aim
dirt,
Honest. IL ANTI" But ma, she takes
The wash rag an she scrubs an says:
'uIere comes the sunburn OF - In
cakesp"
"An' don't forget your nails" she says.
AN brush your hair an brush your
hat
An brush your teeth an brush YOU
shoes
Gee do have TO brush all that?"
wisht I could lay my fingers on
The fellor that invented close,
An drcsein' up Jist wish I could -
You bet IA bloody UP his nose
RosELLH MERcrrR MONTGOMERY.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Motor Car Accidents.
Jaywalkers and Incompetent Drivers
Blamed for Them.

To THE NEW York HERALD: read
with interest your editorial article In
reference to the traffic rules recently
instituted with the object of reducing
the present number of accidents.
I have driven In and around the city
for rpany years and close observation
discl6ses two causes for nine out of ten
accidents. The first Is the absolute lack
OF care taken by pedestrians at cross
ings. the impudent assumption that the
motorist must do all the watching. The
second Is the issuing of licenses to mex
perienced operators.
A moro drastic examination must be
had by any applicant. The so-called
jaywalkers must also be held liable to
some regulation.
revocation of license for reckless
driving is the ultimate solution.
J. RoDERIcK BUCHANAN.
New York. April %.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
No Cats in the Bible.
References to Them Are Many II
Shakesneara,s PLAYS.

To THh New YORK HERALD: The
cat is not mentioned in the Bible.
Strange. is 1t not7 The Israelites were
long dwellers in Egypt and must hava
seen and known II in its most favorable
habitat.
Our Shakespeare. however. knew we'll
the value OF the cat, for he refers to it
many times In his plays. Tie makes
Antonio In THE Tempest" say Of the
prolctariat that they take suggestions
as cat laps up milk" He makes Claudio
say that if Benedick had just little
more mettle than a cat he could kill
care. All OF us know Shylock's refer
ence to the cat In tho trial scene. that
as there Is no firm reason to be rem.
dcred In the case OF the "harmless neces-
sary cat as to. why people get mad at
It and hate Il, so he will give no reason
why he hates Antonio. Hamlct said,
let Hercules himself do what he may,
the cat will NEW. the dog will have
his day"
All lovers of. cats will regret that the
Bible. so perfect in all else, has this
great hiatus and leaves us unsatisfsA
by not even mentioning the cat. Could
IL be possible that the omission II 3uss
on account OF the fact that the animal
was not domestic but sacred with the
Egyptians? CHARLOTTE q. MILAN.
crNcrNNATr. Ohio. April 20.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
The farmers Alarm Clock.

Late sleepers whose morning slum-
bers in the country have been broken
by the strident call Of the guinea
fowl are prone to denounc1 the bird
as warmly as on occasion they praise
it when it comes to the table in
casserole-or broiled.
Good as the tame guinea fowl is
TO eat, its relative which has never
known civilization is its superior in
gastronomic excellence. When hunted
with dog there is nothing that
furnishes better sport than the wild
guinea fowl, which is found in abun-
dance in certain districts of Cuba.
These birds will "lay" to a dog in
much the same fashion as a grouse,
and when flushed will get under way
with the palpitating whir which dis
tinguishes that sturdy warrior which
is often but enormously called the
partridge but is properly described
by lovers OF the autumn woods as the
ruffed grouse. Many fine bags are
secured by Cuban sportsmen and
visiting gunners.
The guinea fowl, even after a long
period of domestication, exhibits a
liking for the wild life of it's ances-
tors. The birds love to steal their
nests and at odd times they will take
to the wing and fly like wild birds.
They have been called the farmers
alarm clock because Of their peculiar
grating call at the earliest sign Of
dawn, but they serve another and
most useful purpose, as they are un-
surpassed as destroyers of insect
pests in the fields.
The sportsman who has never
hunted the wild guinea fowl in its
native habitat has something to live
for.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
SUNDAY, APRIL %. 1922.
Chauncey Depew.

Eighty-eight years ago to-day a
child was born on the banks of the
Hudson.
On that same day countless other
children were born to the world, a
million, let us say. Few of these
are now alive, and few. if any, save
that tiny human entity, the offering
OF old Peekskill, ever grew to mans
full stature.
The elder Depews named this child
CHAUNcEY. Many other children
have been named Chauncey, though
they never registered on the tablets
of time.
But there is nothing in name.
II the child DEpEw had been chris
tened John, Peter or Paul he would
have stood out as luminousiy, as
great a world figure, as CHAUNcEY
DEPEw stands out to-day.
An individuality. mentality, a
culture, a personality that give one
distinction and compel a command
ing place among men, among the
great of the earth, mean rare inherent
endowment, mean a persistent and
incessant development, mean work.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw, flung into this
world to make the course fixed for
man, came with brilliant mind, a
scintillating wit, wealth of good
humor and good fellowship that have
counted much with him.
But to these inherent qualities he
has contributed the study, the obser-
vation, the reasoning. the analysis,
the experience of eighty-eight years;
eighty-eight years of human en-
deavor, lightweight years that mel
low and enrich and refine and ripen
man; lightweight years of optimism,
of faith in man, of love of life, OF
friendships, Of great associations, OF
aspiration and Inspiration; eighty
eight years Of inspiring laughter and
good cheer and confidence and hope
IN the world.
This is the picture we get of Sen
ator DEPEw, the man DEPEw, at
eighty-eight. and still going strong.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

and also OF spiritual part. and II this
material part, being ectoplastic. holding.
combining the spiritual part, be with
drawn, what becomes OF the latter wnen
the vessel enfolding and containing it
is gone? Would 1t still be the soul?
While It is true that some alchemists,
Chaldean and European. believed in the
possibility OF separating the supposed
indwelling soul or spirit from the mate
rial with which they labored, there does
not appear, as far as my Investigations
go. that they taught the dual compost
ton OF the soul, the material and the
spiritual, except SO far as the theories
OF Plato may have Influenced the views
OF some of them. Here we seem to note
another effort on the part of the spir-
ituallsts. as indeed OF many others OF
the lists" to wander into the East,
there to find some religious or phiio-
sophie theory by which to prove their
claims. FRANK DEEDMEYER.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 10.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23

and programs as table d'hote menu.
1t is sure to be about the same in Italy
as it is in Norway. Here the ma
tional tang to the entertainment is
strong. Vaudeville is a department
of amusement of which the American
theater may well be proud. Its the
aters possess every material advan-
tage. Its programs are designed to
provide the highest grade OF enter
tainment to all it's patrons, and it
has the distinction of never having
to be threatened with censor. 1t
cleaned its own house and has kept
it clean.