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The New York herald., 1922-12-31
More Deaths by Violence.

Deaths by violence in the United
States show an increase in the NOR.
tality statistics of 1921, the prelimi-
nary figures OF which have been is
sued by the Census Bureau. The 1921
total of 1857 Is 5000 in excess OF
the total OF 1920. The total number
of those who died from violence last
year equals the population of Wilkes
Barre, Pennsylvania, or Knoxville
Tennessee.
The chief cause Of this mortality
was suicide, the deaths from which
increased nearly 30 per cent. over
tho figures OF 1920 and exceeded
the motor car killings by 11,136 to
fO.fss. In the case of both motor
ear Killings and homicides about an
even thousand victims were added
40 the record OF the previous year
Deaths from mine and machine shor
accidents decreased about one-auar-
Ter. showing that the safety first
movement fs accomplishing results.
a score of years ago the railways
we're usuaIEy held TO be responsible
rsr she largest number Of deaths
srom sorfsenfs due to preventable
eansex. with an annual record Of
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
By Theodore Roosevelt.
"That Evil Thing Which Is Called
Glass Consciousness

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: When
the Workers party of America appeals
to class consciousness by calling on the
revolutionary elements of the country to
rally under the party banner and go
forward ITO the victory of the Ameri-
can social revolution under the leader
ship and guidance OF the Communist
International" it seems appropriate to
quote the following excerpt from Theo-
dore Roosevelt, written back in 1908:
Every farsighted patriot should pro-
test first OF all against the growth In
this country of that evil thing which is
called class consciousness The ~dema-
gosue, the sinister or foolish socialist
visionary who strives to arouse this
feeling of class consciousness In our
working people, does a foul and evil
thing for he is no true American, he
Is no self-respecting citizen Of this re-
public, he forfeits his right to stand with
manly self-reliance on footing OF en-
tire equality with all other citizens ;
who bows to envy and greed. who
erects the doctrine OF class hatred into
a shibboleth. who substitutes loyalty to
men of particular status. whether rich
or poor. for loyalty to those eternal and
immutable principles of Righteousness
which bid us treat each man on his
worth as a man. without regard to his
wealth or his poverty"
Would that Theodore Roosevelt were
with us to-day!
ELIZABETH OGDEN WOOD.
NEW YORK. December 30.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Jail for Greedy Landlords.

Apartment house landlords who
can get coal to heat their properties
and to furnish hot water for their
tenants but who make the shortage
OF coal an excuse for not living up
to the terms Of the leases they have
signed and the requirements Of the
Department Of Health deserve ex-
actly the kind Of treatment the Court
OF Special Sessions is giving them
heavy fines for first Offenders, jail
sentences for persistent offenders.
1t is the duty Of everybody who
knows of an apartment house or
tenement house in New York city
III which heat and hot water are not
supplied by the landlord when the
leases require him to supply them to
report the case to the Mayor Of the
city Of New York at City Hall.
This suggestion is not made with
the idea of loading unnecessary work
on the Mayors organization but be-
cause every New Yorker knows
where the City Hall is, and the
Mayors executive assistants can,
without loss of time, refer the COM
plainants to the authorities empow-
ered to act promptly in each case.
This may impose some trouble on
the Mayors organization, but THE
New YORK HERALD Is certain that the
Mayor will be glad to learn Of all the
cases of willful and illegal failure to
furnish heat that are brought to his
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The New York herald., 1922-12-31

| one who aims to give q trustworthy ac-
count Of place names of all the coun-
tries must command a thorough knowl-
edge of the languages of their peoples,
of their ethnology and development, OF
their chronicles. folklore, superstitions
and religious belief, but above all he
must have a first hand knowledge of the
topography and geography OF the places
about which he writes.
In chart of the settlements of the
Celts, Saxons. Danes and Norwegians
in the British Islands and northern
France which I have before me I find
Ceits and .Saxons over Northumbria,
Danes oveI Mercia and Norweglans
along the Mercian coast the southern
part of Strathclyde and the northeastern
and northwestern shores OF Scotland.
Treating of place names my old
friend DIR. Walter Skeat once said :
"The wild and ignorant guesswork OF
the eighteenth century and some Of the
nineteenth century has filled our county
histories with many misleading theories
with the result that these 1nconscion-
able inventions have not infrequently
found their way even into the ordnance
maps" Many of the changes in the
forms Of names appear to have been
simply phonetic, and to this source
Taylor tells us that we owe Bakewell
from Badecanwylla, EPSON from Ebb-
sham, Boston from Bolts tun, Amer
sham from Agemondesham, and York
from Eurewic.
The Norsemen owe their loss to the
title Of originating the name Of York
to their own tardiness. for they were
closer to the shores Of Albion than the
Romans and might have descended
thereon long before them.
With their occupation of Britain the
Norsenien brought their language, but
Notwithstanding a tarriance which came
as a blight upon the land lasting for
nearly two and a half centuries. during
which they ravaged it, terrorizcd the
people, burned their homes, their
churches, their monasteries and schools,
the Scandinavian influence upon the
language was preserved only In the dia-
lects. The Morse element in personal
and place names is greater than the
purely linguistic element, although more
than Ave hundred Morse terms have
been appropriated by the language.
Mr.. Peterson's abusive reference TO
the great province OF Northumberland
being governed by the jarls Is right.
Indeed II was. In 491 Aelle and Cissa
beset Anderida and slew all that were
therein, nor was there afterward one
Briton left. Ida the Torchbearer as
sumed the Kingdom OF Northumbria
In the vearb47. He reigned twelve years
and fell in battle against the Britons,
but the ancient Anglican Kingdom Deira.
which extended from the Humber to the
Tees. does not appear to have been
founded previous to his death.
After all, what does 1t matter now?
Few of us care what the name may
have meant at the time Of the Morse
invasion. but many of us do want 10
know what 1t stands for to-day, and
who can tell? FRANK II. VIzETELLY.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

their isolation. The idea possessed
by many OF them Of the outside
world comes largely from traditions
Of theig, ancestors. A traveller who
visited the island as member of the
High Commissioner party said that
the men showed little curiosity re.
garding the world and that the
women were not interested in how
women elsewhere were dressing. The
island is dry, the dryest land in the
Pacific, it is said, as not a drop of
spirits has reached it since the mu-
tineers drained their last keg. The
inhabitants base their strict adher-
ence to prohibition on a deep relig-
ious conviction.
1t will be interesting to know what
changes the radio viii bring to these
remote people. What will the news
of the world mean to them, what will
be the effect Of the music and enter
tainment which most Of them will
bear for the first time? And will the
Pitcairn children sleep more soundly
under the spell of the radio bedtime
stories than they did before they
had that luxury? The radio brings
them suddenly into touch with
the world, but a world greatly
changed in the 1872 years which have
passed since their mutinous ances-
tors landed on the island.
At present a weary company Of
Russians, exiles from Bolshevist
ridden land, Is cruising the Pacific,
barred from all ports and absolutely
without a home. Perhaps these un-
happy persons will reach Pitcairn
Island and tell Of their landing by
radio.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Whence Came the Name Of New York
Rival Claims of Romans, Celts Norsemen and Other
Early Invaders of Great Britain.

Carl c. Petersons interesting letter
tracing the origin OF York to Jorvil
supports my view that there is nothing
more entertaining, nothing more mis-
leading than folk etymology.
| AS regards his explanation Of Jorvik,
exactly why the Norsemen should name
town situated fifty miles away from
the sea the Bay OF Horses Mr.. Peter
son fails to explain. And why they
should name it at all since it already
had a name when they arrived may be
a matter worth investigation.
York is known to have been occupied
by the Britons, the Brigantes, power
| ful tribe or confederacy that Inhabited
north Britain from the mouth of the
Humber on the east and of the Mersey
on the west to the Roman wall Of An
toninus. Thus the territory they occu-
| pied included Cumberland. Durham,
Lancashire and parts Of Northumber-
land and the greater part Of Yorkshire.
They are said to have been defeated by
| Publius Scapula Ostorius. who sue
ceeded Aulus Plautius about A. d. so,
Just four hundred years before the land.
fall Of the Norsemer.
When the Romans descended on the
| shores OF Britain they found that the
Celts and the Belga had preceded them
The Belge were a. Teutonic tribe whose
people In Casar's time possessed the
mainland Of Europe from the Rhine to
the Seine. This tribe, crossing the Chan
mel, settled in the southern part OF
Britain, inhabiting that region which to-
day comprises Hampshire, Somerset
shire and Wiltshire, but over the rest of
the land even to the adjacent country
Ierne-modern Ireland-the Celtic was
the dominating race. Certain Gallo
tribes inhabited eastern Britain, and to
the north controlling the basin OF the
Clyde lived the Cymry. a Bryttuonic
branch--Welsh-B Breton-of the Celts.
Possibly few Saxons or F'risians also
dwelt on the eastern shores Of Britain.
The common history OF York begins
with the Roman occupation notwith-
standing the fact that an early British
settlement existed there and the name
Ebcracum which the Romans bestowed
on the colony was not by any means a
new appellation. for the Roman Ebo-
racum, or as sometimes written Ebu-
racum, is derived from the old Celtic
form Eburacon, Of which the suffix,
aeum, aeon, is the possessive or COM
mon domanal form. Therefore, it does
not seem to me idle to speculate upon
the Welsh and Irish forms Of the name
OF York" As for iJorvik, later con-
tracted to JorlS, c. T. Onions in DR..
Nurray's New English Dictionary points
Ay.-A ~ a.t Ss.1~
flve hundred and twenty years later than
the Norsemen's landfall.
The science OF efymology is not an
exact science but a speculative one, and
therefore 1t is one which has suffered in.
calculable harm at the hands Of theoriz-
ing devotees who, carried away by their
enthusiasm for the cause. aim to pro-
vide some sort OF etymology,, for every
word in the language without regard to
the limits Of human knowledge. Any
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
DeIaware's Whipping Post.

The perennial discussion Of the
whipping post question has once
more come up in Delaware. For
years every session of the State Leg
islature has seen the introduction of
a bill for the abolition OF this relic
of Colonial days.
The coming session will be no ex-
ception to the rule. GEORGE B. MIL
LER. a member of the Society of
Friends, is preparing bill to abol-
ish the whipping post and he pro-
poses to introduce IL as soon as the
Legislature meets. His most deter
mined predecessor in this effort was
DAVID FERRIS, who during his long
service as a member OF the Legisla-
ture and up to the time OF his death
never failed to introduce a bill every
year to abolish the whipping post
and every year il was defeated.
But Mr.. FERms's efforts were not
entirely in vain. lie did not succeed
In doing away with the whipping
post. but he did succeed in doing
away with the whipping posts com
panion punitive instrument. the pill
lory. Eighteen years ago Delaware
consigned the pillory to the medieval
junk heap; but she has clung tena-
ciously to the whipping post.
The outlook for Mr.. MINERS bill
Is not promising. Already oppo.
sition measures confirming the use
Of the lash for certain types OF Of
fcuders against the laws, and even
extending it, are in process OF prep
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Six Weeks From Port to Port
Rapid Voyages Across the Atlantic
In the Eighteenth Century.
From the Saturday Revttv.


In his address to the wesleyans the
other day Mr.. Lloyd George was re-
ported ar having said that George
WHITEHEAD had crossed the Atlantic
thirty-seven times. Whether the mis-
take was that OF the speaker or the
reporter, Il IL rather odd that 1t should
have passed without comment. The
actual number OF voyages that white-
field made was thirteen. and even that
was a remarkable achievement In an
ace when an Atlantic passage which
only took six or seven weeks was a. ~
markably rapid one.
On wh.tcheld's first trip to America
he was actually held up for more than
a month. waiting In the Downs for y
favorable wind his second voyage out
lasted eleven weeks. Sir George Tre-
ve,yan In his admirable history OF thu
American Revolution reminds us that
even Generals and plenipotentiariess
travelling In the finest ships Of the eisht'
eenth century. thought themselves lucky
II they made passage Of only six weeks
from port to port General Riedesei
counted three mortal months from the
E,ibe to the ST. Lawrence.
The modern traveller finds II difficult
to realize the difference between n mod
ern liner and the BADLY found tub, with
cargo OF mIilstones and OF iron rolling
about below" which served the average
passenger to New York until lees than
hundred years ago.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

side so that the animals can have access
TO open outdoor life when the weather
is favorable. Under the front entrance
the hot water, steam. gas and compressed
air apparatus Is housed In fireproof,
well ventilated room.
The second floor has Ave rooms. One
room is devoted to routine clinical
laboratory work, another to routine
chemical work, another TO research
chemistry and another to a pathological
museum and TO gross and micro photo
graphic work, with a completely equipped
dark room adjacent The NTH room Is
a lecture room equipped with balop-
ticon. blaclboards, &C.. and has seat
ing capacity of about one hundred.
The third floor has'eight rooms. These
rooms are fully equipped with the best
Of modern laboratory apparatus to carry
on archaeological. sociological, pathology
ical and chemical research work in com
nection with the investigation Of prob
lens concerned in the understanding Of
disease processes in the body and in the
control Of these conditions through ra-
tional methods OF treatment.
On this floor there is a large built in
incubator. which is electrically heated
to body temperature for the growth Of
bacteria which cause disease, such as
the tubercle bacillus.
One Of the rooms on this floor is
the Office of the director. Another is
devoted to q working library in which
there are all Of the modern medical peri
odicals of value to the laboratory
worker.
All of the laboratory rooms are
equipped with gas, hot and cold water.
steam, compressed air and electricity.
Modern work tables and chemical hoods
are to be had In abundance. All Of the
apparatus, wherever possible. Is con-
nected up with electricity or live steam
to avoid the problem Of gas supply as
much as possible.
The building is ideally located. as it
has unobstructed access to daylight on
all sides and is of easy access to the
wards in the hospital.
The only ornamentation to this lab
oratory workhouse is a bronze door and
archway on which arc n basrelief OF the
donor, John Rogers Hegeman. and the
inscription John Rogers Hegeman
Memorial" This doorway well sets off
the sturdy and pleasing architectural
lines OF the building. The building gives
the observer a deep impression OF the
character OF the donor--his keen desire
to have mis- memorial be the benent to
humanity accrued through the solving
OF the problems of disease In the effi-
GENTLY equipped laboratory rooms rather
than highly ornamental gift In which
the miseries OF life find no relief.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Color of the Snow.
Plain White, Declares One Who Has
Often Painted It.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: Allow me
to make few remarks aliuding to your
fine editorial article praising snow.
My brother owns painting by q Hol-
landerA-a master OF 150 years ago--in
which the snow is not white but shows
the. delicate tints OF the sunset glow
bursting through the trees and past the
low Dutch houses. It Is skating scene.
Modern art II as old al the hills, only
examples of snow scenes OF old masters
are not so plentiful.
Why. painted snow before Redfield
Was born, away back In ithaca in 1882,
painted an oil without my having seen
any OF Sisley's technic In 1885. the
snow rejecting the colors OF the sky
and near color OF the objects. Exactly
his discovery. / was pioneer In the
modern viewpoint without my knowing
1t forty-four years ago.
Through the succeeding years until
now I painted more than fifty snow
scenes In different technics---just az In
tcresting as any of the other famous
painters. IL not more delicate.
Forgive me II do not agree with
your statement that snow Is not white.
OF course Il Is pure White. Ask the
scientists. On a gray day Il is gray
ish white. Hold a SNOWFALL In your
hand II IL pure white. Let the sunset
play on the SNOWFALL. the crystals OF
the snow at once are live with colofs.
This the painter knows and he puts
his colors into the white pigment.
A bed sheet is white. Place candle
In front OF II: see, II grows TO be faint
yellow and the shadows are biuish.
But the sheet remains white. sheet and
snow are the same.
LOUIS NJ. ErLsHBMius.
NEW York. December 30.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
What is a year?

w ldJ 10 Jcdl
A man given to cold science and
cosmic vision will tell you that a
year is the time it takes for this in
significant planet laboriously to make
its way around an inferior star.
"Laboriously" in this case means a
thousand miles a minute, the earth
meanwhile revolving on it's own axis
at the sluggish rate Of a thousand
miles an hour.
The spinning Of our world, its tire
less circling of the sun, the mad rush
of the WHOLE solar system toward the
end of the endless street Of the uni
verse-these have human effect only
it, the coming of night and day, the
parade of the seasons and the pass
ing of the years.
What is a year?
TO child it is a stretch of school,
broken by daily play, holidays and
vacations and frightened with a
birthday. 1t is measured by the sea-
sons and their sports, the studies and
their sorrows.
To adolescence 1t is something to
be parted with for a promise of the
future.
To youthful maturity it is flying
thing, gone before it seems well
started; Jewel to be tossed into the
cap of the beggar Pleasure or handed
grudgingly to sober faced Industry.
To middle age it is a coin the
worth Of whose predecessors was moi
realized.
To the old it is the measure OF the
long past and the brief future.
How dreary life would be without
the yardstick of the year! Exist
ence unbroken by the green hills Of
recurring spring. the brown plains
of summer, autumn's gold and win
ter's ermine were drab thing. Sup.
pose life began and ended with Time
unmeasured. 1t would not do.
For the years are the portions into
which the bread Of Hope is broken
If the last piece has fallen upon thu
floor of Failure, still there stands
Time, the perfect waiter, to help thu
guest anew.
we do not know how long old Time
has served the years to man. TIT
first wise Egyptian who discovered
with a stick and a shadow, what
wear is-he did not know, either
Nor can man know how many years
there will be before infinity over
whelms the calendar.
But we shall know when the bell
ring tonight that one more year Il
ours. All the years behind are al
Aar out of our grasp as the years o
RAuEsEs. of ALEXANDER or of CHARLIE
xAGSE. You cannot reach backward
and undo the plucking Of a blade o
grass. But you can reach forward
and change the fortunes of a life.
II is your year. No President o.
prince can have more OF it than you
For the old man with the hourglas
is the fairest of all the givers
Health. wealth. beauty. intellect
space--all these can be divided un
evenly; but to each man is given th'
same year to mold as he can and VIII
He makes it big or little.
After IL o'clock tonight 1872 be
longs to history, but 1928 belong
to youl
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
New Mexico.

| N0W McxfCO.s
As OF lands remote. afar.
Through New Mexico
Names may sparkle like Separ,
Onava, Cerro.
Then q bit Of Celtic blarney
Such as Dillon. Nolan. Barney
Jigs across II. oh
Or Yankee touch you notice
Elkins, Folsom, Springer. Otis.
| Watrous and Thoreau.
Viridescent hues all vanish
In New Mexico.
In a world that seems to Danish
Thoughts about zero.
There the only thing that's chilli
Is of burning heat;
AS a name there Alps sounds grilly.
Tinctured with deceit.
There the atmosphere is Spanish
New does not mean new;
There "mafana," watchword clannish,
Adds you to Its crew.
There the patting of tortillas
And the draping OF mantillas
Hold persuasive sway;
And you sink to your siesta,
Signing, "what q thing is rest. ah!
For the rest-good day"
But it seems that time is winging
And the flow Of ink we're slingiug
Hardly names a name.
That, you see, is quite New Mexic,
Putting off a thing perplexic--
'Tis a CRYING shame
Let US then haste to our labor
Ere the space runs out. .-
Dulce, Rosa--like tabor
With q guitar strummed as neigbbor
Arc the names that sprout.
Lava yeta, Mescalero.
Miera, Palmilla,
Las Colonias, Otero.
Malaga, Castillo.
I'ajarito, Cimilbrio,
Puerto di Luna,
Questa. Baca, Chico-trio
Wreathed into a rune. ah.
albuquerque. Tula Rosa.
Rayad, Alamiuo.
Pedernal. Abo, Hermosa.
Zufii, Bernadillo;
Caliente. Manuelito.
Volcano. Santa Fe,
Ojo del Anil. El Rito.
Ortiz, San jose
La Joya. Tramperas. Caseta.
Barranca, JemeZ,
Sabinoso, Servilleta,
Cabezon, PasqueZ.
Palo BIanco, Tucumcari,
Endee. Beenham, Bell,
Eddy, Levy-just to vary
Shoemaker. Roswell;
Ration. Ocate, Amargo.
Crcsco, Wagonmound,
Cabero. Embuda--cargo
or entrancing sound
Sounds that rise and ebb and flow
Throughout old New Mexico.
MAURICE MORRIS.