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The New York herald., 1922-11-05

shouting so loudly has little sub
stance in it. Thus In spite Of the sur
charged Democratic atmosphere In
this Tammany town and in view OF
all the facts, the cross currents and
mystifying elements 10 this election,
THE New YORK HERALD, with full
consideration of the merits of AL
SMITH, the acceptable Governor as
Governors go. and of NATHAN l..
MILLER, the great Governor, the very
great Governor. would not bet a
nickel on AL SMITHS election; no
more would it bet q nickel on
MuLER's election.
THE NEW YORK Herald presents
this picture of the situation. these
facts and deductions to the people Of
New York to think about. In the
political hysteria characteristic Of the
last days of a superhested campaign
it is just as well for people to keep
their feet on the ground and their
shirts on their backs.
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A Useful Senator.
Mr.. Calder's Services to the People
Of His City and State.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: No other
man in Congress has done so much for
people in this city and State--business
men as we'll as persons manually earn
ing their living-as Senator Calder He
has been accessible always. helpful al
ways, without question of politics. I re-
member once he and Goldfogle shep-
herded into the committee room all the
Congressmeu they could rally to hear
and to support the New York shippers
and boatmen and truckmen who came
over to get the North River bulkhead
and pier lines bettered from the Battery
up. Calder and Dan Riordan, of happy
memory and humor, Joined as many
Congressman as they could get together
to meet our Chamber of Commerce's
missionaries who went to the Capitol to
break bread and get acquainted with
our city Representatives.
Congressman Calder and Senator Root
rescued from the conference committee
and had made into n statute the bill
pledglng the United States TO open a
new and Strengthened channel for the
Harlem River whenever New York fur
nished the right of way. The same year.
1913, our Legislature passed an act to
furnish the right OF way. In 1920 that
act was nullified by amending out the
provision for providing tho money. In
the last session this elision was rectified
by an act appropriating the money to
furnish the right Of way.
Those charged with acquiring the
property. laid the delay In effecting its
acquisition to the neglect of the United
States Engineers. Senator Calder intro
duced and had passed, as appears in
the Congressional Record, a request TO
the Secretary of War to attend to the
matter. Thanks thereto the rcd tape
has been cut and the Improvement de-
sired for half century will be achieved
Is 1t good business to dismiss from
Office legislator whose achievements
and accomplishments show his worth?
WILLIAM r. MCCONNELL
NEW York, November 4.
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General Pershing's Duck Hunt.

General PERsHTNe need not be
ashamed of his shooting even, IL he
did finish third In a recent match on
the public ducking grounds OF Louis
lana with BERNARD M. BARUoH OF New
York and Governor JoHr M. PARKER
OF Louisiana. Both OF his opponents
rank as experts and they were rather
under their top form when they
scored an average of one duck for
every two shots fired.
Governor PARKER is famed as a
mighty hpter even in a State which
Is noted for the quality OF its hunters.
and he ranks with his friends HENRY
L. FUoUA OF Baton Rouge and EDWARD
A. MCKINNEY OF Averys Island in
the accuracy of his aim. He was the
companion of THEODORE ROOSEVELT on
many hunt. II was a Southern ex-
pert gunner who said that shotgun
shootin ain't nothin' but p'intin' no.
how" and that's how Governor
PARKER and all other fine shots in the
field use a shotgun. They keep both
eyes open, pull the trigger when their
instinct, judgment or whatever the
marksman's special sense may be
called, tells them the bird is covered,
and few misses are recorded.
The Louisiana Governor has always
been known as a hard hunter. term
implying tirelessness in the field
which wears down all but those in
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Governor Miller.
His Honesty, Ability and Courage
Reasons for His Reelection.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: OF down.
right honesty Of purpose, of pure Amer
icanism. Of sincerity. truthfulness and
courage, the Governor Of this State is a
living exponent.
If there is such a thing as breeding.
IL there Is such a thing as character, II.
in the long roll Of American annals a
gentleman has ever been produced. such
a one is Nathan L. Miller. How any
body after one full. long look into the
face of this man can doubt the integrity
of his soul passes comprehension.
Several years ago at the request or
Charles r. Skinner of Albany THE Sun
published the little verse by DR.. Holland
on God Give Us Men," 1t seems to me
that at this critical period you could do
no better than to print these lines again
for surely no riobler tribute could be
paid to Governor Miller than to class
him as one Of these men.
DE WITT VAN BUREN.
BROOKLYN, November 4.
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good condition. He is noted among
his friends for the fruGality of his
lunches on hunting tripA Disap-
pointment is certain to come to the
man who goes afield with him ex-
pectins to enjoy the contents Of q
well filed hamper when a halt Is
made at noon to rest tho dogs and
refresh the inner man. On all such
occasions the Governor. who loves
his little Joke. stipulates that he shall
provide the luncheon. There Is
twinkle In his dark brown eyes when
at the appointed time he hands his
guest a couple Of soda crackers and
q wedge Of cheese.
II he is a good sportsman and ap-
preciates the Joke the guest is later
welcomed to the inner circle of a
select company living in the heart
Of a region noted for its gastronomic
resources. Perhaps General PERsH1Na
had Parker lunch followed by a
typical Parker dinner.
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suniac.

Slain by the silver swords of frost
The last bright blossom lies.
Stripped OF their gold by robber winds
Bare boughs beseech the skies;
heard the wild geese in the night
Go honking overhead,
Lost in gray clouds that DER the moon
Like frightened phantoms fed
But in the brown d0serted fields
And lonely country lanes
Where but the withered memory
or summers green remains.
That ragged gypsy crone who goes
About foretelling snow,
November. keeps tho smolderlng blaze
or sumac fires aglow.
MfNNA IRvfNo.
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There Is such a thing a. being too
familiar with statute law and not
familiar enough with the Ten Com
mandments. Up in Fulton county
two men, one of whom had wife and
the other an-old fivver, decided to
swap. the wife consenting and the
fivver maintaining as dignifed a
silence as fiivvers can.
AT might have been wen II the par
ties had not filed the written contract
with the County Clerk, who refused to
admit the chattel status offa wife.
even that sort of wife. His iuvesti-
cation came too late, however, to re-
store the conditions prevailing be-
fore the contract was made. The new
owner of the fiivver had lost Il by
foreclosure. His wife refused to re-
turn to him and he Is compelled to
support their children.
Set this group down IN Wessex and
THOMAS HARDY could have made a
great novel of Il.
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One Hour in the Jungle.

Director WILLIAM BEEBE Of the
Tropical Research Station of the New
York Geological Society once found
1000 living things in a square yard
of tropical jungle floor. Life in the
tropical jungle is more varied and
luxuriant in its forms than the life
in temperate climates, but many au-
thorities comment upon the silence
and the absence of visible life which
have been impressed on them in
tropical wildernesses.
Recently Mr.. BEEBE walked slowly
one mile through the jungle for the
sole purpose of recording just, how
many forms of animal life he could
either see or hear In the course of his
walk. 1t is only when travel through
the jungle is interrupted to stand. sit
or squat now and then, he explains.
that the observer becomes aware of
the wealth of busy life about him.
Mr.. BEEBE took forty-five minutes
to walk his mile. In that time he
heard or saw 536 living animal or
ganisms. The list he sends to the
Geological Society Bulletin is an
amazing evidence OF what. trained
and informed observer can see or
hear and identify in so short time.
Some of the organisms he found on
leaves, some of them under leaves
Some few past him, some crossed his
path, others were in trees or on the
ground. Many he identified merely
by sound.
His list includes birds, snakes. ants
monkeys. bees, grasshoppers. caterpil-
lars, beetles, spiders, weasels, crick-
ets, squirrels and lizards. These crea-
tures were OF many varieties.
Occasionally his notes record jun
gle inhabitant as resting. but from
the list as a whole an impression is
received Of furious, milling activity.
All these hundreds Of living things
were making the most of their brief
lives.
Where Mr.. BErBB did not find them
feeding, mating. pursuing or devour-
ing one another. they were flying or
crawling or fighting. That is the
quiet OF the Jungle.
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There IL no road. but leads me back to
you,
For though walk where you have
never been
Il Is to see the things we once have
seen
When side by side we wandered. and
my view
Dins into quick hot tears. or II l go
About the little tasks OF every day.
Thinking OF naught but these, you ma
away
Tc come 10 me. and when at evenglow
The lamps are lit. how clear see your
face
Yonder you sit, child upon your Knee
For YOU loved children soft the hre-
lights CLEAN
Plays over you I glory In your grace
And in your laughter that Is melody
Sudden start, to fnd II all dream.
ELISABETH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

The mystery back of the poisoned
cake sent by mail to Philadelphia
address may be solved. The mystery
Of why people will eat things coming
to them from unknown sources is
past fathoming
It matters not how often cases Of
this kind are reported In the news
papers The lesson remains un-
learned. Recipients Of packages sent
anonymously go right on taking
chances. Sometimes they escape with
their lives, as did one of the Phila-
delphia victims: sometimes they die,
as did the other victim in this par
ticular case. But their fate avails
nothing. II seems to serve no pur-
pose az an object lesson.
Common sense suggests two OBJ
vious things to do with an attractive
looking article Of food coming
through the mail from nobody knows
where II can be thrown away or 1t
can be sent to chemist to be ana
lyzed. II the latter course is followed
IL is usually done after instead Of
before eating and the only advan-
tage gained is post mortem knowl-
edge Of the particular poison used.
This information is of only mediocre
value. It throws no light on the
real mystery--the mystery of why
people will persist In spite a. warn
ings in eating things sent to them
under circumstances that should in
spire caution. That Is the inexplica-
BILE thing. the true mystery in all
such cases the solution of which
might benefit the science Of psychol-
ogy even though 1t were Of little
value as q protection to society.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

Reward Awaits Rescuer Of Three at
the Thirteenth Street Fire.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD; am
writing this in hopes that IL published It
will serve to mako known the Identity
OF the wonderfully brave fireman who at
the risk Of his life rescued three of the
young girls who were trapped In the
fire which occurred Friday at Thirteenth
street and University place.
A-heroic soul. such as this fireman
proved TO be. should be rewarded. We
are willing among others who Witnessed
his great bravery to do something
toward showing that his deed will not go
unrewarded. At least my partner and
myself would like word 70 reach him
that we are most anxious to present him
with the best overcoet or suit we make.
free of charge. and TO shake the hand of
so courageous man.
A. NJ. FINKELsTEIN,
$40 Broadway
New YoRK, November 4.
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Milk for Hens Pasteurized.
That for Children Not Always 50
Treated Under the New Law

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: have d
flock of hens to which feed skim mia
given away to all corners at tho cream
cry. A new law compels me to pastsswS
ize this milk before taking. 1t away frcoA
the factory.
The situation is explained in q letter
have received from George r. Hosua
Assistant ComDiissioner of the Depart-
ment of Farms and Markets. who writest
Section 55 Article Of the farms and
markets law, as amended by Chapter
S7S OF the laws of 1922. provides:
Amy person, firm. association or car
poration owning or operating any butter
factory, cheese factory or other milk
plant. shall, before returning, delivering
or giving 70 any person persons any
SKINNED milk. whey, buttermilk or sep
arator slop, TO be used for the feeding
of domestic animals, cause such SKINNED
milk. whey. buttermik or separator stap
TO be uniformly heated to a Temperature
OF not less than $50 degrees Fahrenheie
and held at such temperature for at
least twenty minutes. No SKINNED milk,
whey. buttermilk separator slop from
such butter factory cheese factory or
other milk plant shall be used for tho
feeding of domestic animals until heated
as provided herein.
This statute was designed to prevent
the spread of tuberculosis among domes.
TIC animals. You ask Does the law also
require dairymen supplying whole milk
to families to pasteurize It, or Is Il only
designed to protect calves and pigs@
My reply to this question has been
answered as herein stated above. This
law does not refer to or include whole
milk being sold for human consumption.
L have no knowledge Of any State
law requiring the pasteurization OF
whole milk before being used for human
consumption. other than In specific cases,
such as where cattle are being kept un-
oer quarantine. New York city and
other cities of the State have passed
ordinances compelling the pasteurixation
of all milk before permitting IL 70 bs
sold within the city limits usually with
certain exceptions. such as certified mir1s.
Il believe you will see from this thsS
such regulations governing the pasteurh
cation Of milk when being sold for hre
man consumption are governed hy oity
or local boards of health
You will notice that young livs stocls
is better protected than children outside
Of a few large cities.
r. G. SAuNpERsoM
BERLIN, November 4.
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Hiding Gray Hairs.
Does Morbid Dread Drive Some
Persons to the Use Of Dye?

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In an.
swer TO my inquiry as to why we DO
not see moro gray haired passengers
in the subway two of your correspond
ents say it is because of hair dye.
People should not dye their hair.
While 1t may make tho hair younger, it
makes the face decidedly older, at least
in a little while. And once started tho
dyeing habit is not easily discontinued.
There seems to be a morbid dread
Of gray hair in some instances. In
China and Japan old people take a pride
in their age and are held in the high
est respect and reverence even. This
was also the case among the aborigines
OF this. country.
Gray hair, far from being a disflg-
urement. has a refining effect on the
features and in many cases lends an
air of distinction to them. HUMANE
New YORK, November 4.
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TosTHp NEW YORK Herald: Because
Of organized effort TO combat tubercu-
losis the number of cases is decreasing.
To continue the work there Is great need
OF warm clothing for patients about to
take the open air cure.
Articles for men, women and children
will be gratefully appreciated by the
auxiliary to the tuberculosis division OF
Bellevue Hospital and may be sent TO
Miss Sara E. Shaw. 41e East Twenty
sixth street. or will be called for on
request JANE b. HAY,
Chairman Clinic Committee.
New YORK, November 4.
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MotherPrayer to the God of the Forest.

God OF the suniit spaces.
God of the silent wood.
], who am weak, beseech Thee
Strength for my motherhood.
How shall he climb TO manhood,
Son OF my fraiity,
Save as he grows In wisdom
Nurtured and taught by Thee7
Fashion his feeble body
After the forest plan,
Even as strong trees flourish
Make OF my son man.
Even as forest wind storms
Lull at Thy calm behest.
Curb Thou the young emotions
surging within his breast.
Cradle his tihid spirit:
Even as Thou hast planned
Nurture for seed and blossom
SO shall his youth expand.
This is the prayer 7 make Thee
Out OF my mother-fear---
God Of the sunlt spaces,
God Of the wood, give ear
HELEN FRAzEE-TIowER-
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Boston's Finest.
The Hub Is Proud OF Its Rejuvcnated
Police Force.
From Current Affairs.


The holiday parade of the members OF
the Boston police force with some four
teen hundred men in line was a visual
demonstration of the fitness and all
round proficiency of what is without
doubt the ablest and best trained police
department in the United States to-day.
This statement might sound like jus
tiflable but nevertheless prejudiced COM
ment upon the superorities OF a branch
Of our local municipal government were
1t not for the fact that the Boston po-
lice force as at present constituted N
probably unique In the history OF the
country. And this for several reasons.
The Boston police strike OF three
years ago practically meant ths entire
replstion and reorganization OF the de-
partment. The strike occurred within
a year after the armistice and as a re-
suit the hundreds of young men who
entered the department at that time
were for the most part war veterans
men trained in the stern school Of war
and equipped physically and mentally 70
meet their tasks and assume their new
duties with minimum of adjustment.
Tho result of the police strike was
that when the entire affair had straight
ened itself out and the ranks OF the de-
serting men had been filed Boston found
itself in possession OF a trained body
Of men, all in the youthful prime OF
their strength, active, courageous and
efficient.
Now, with the lapse of nearly three
years, these men have been nodded
into a police unit which is second TO
none I'm the country. Under the direc-
ton of the older officers they have been
trained and instructed In the complets
details OF their duties.
The department was unfortunate to
lose its executive head last April when
the late Edwin U. Curtis died suddenly.
Police Commissioner Curtis was the
head OF the Police Department during
the police strike and 1t was primarily
due TO his courage and unfaltering de-
votion to principle that the strike was
terminated as II was.
Since April Herbert A. Wilson has
served as Commissioner and he has
shown himself AL executive and a fitting
successor to M. Curtis.
Police Superintendent Michael VI.
Crowley has served for years In the ds-
partment, working his way up from the
ranks TO the present position, which hs
has held FOR a number of years Super
intendent Crowley was Commissioners
Curtiss active aid during the period OF
the strike three years ago.
In the holiday parade which was re-
viewed ut the state House. at City Hall
and on Boston Common, the crisp. clean
cut alertness OF the men in the depart
ment was clearly evidenced. There were
In liue i.4o3 men. among whom were tho
superintendent, three. deputy superin-
tendents. twenty y-three' captains, thirty
three lieutenants. nlnety-eight sergeants
and i.245 patrolmen
The men had been drilled under the
direction Of Captain Patrick L. King. tins
department drill master, with the assist
ance Of Sergeant Louis #. Lutx OF the
superintendent office.
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Idaho.

Bitter Roots TO Pocatello.
Hip. hurray for Idahol
Names that emulate tho cello
Sound their way through Idaho
Minidoka. Card, Nah-wah.
Bliss, Owenza, Kooslia,
Rich. embroider Idaho
You may rough It to McCammoA
You may linger on tho Salmon.
You may hike II II you like it-Cariboo
Calls or buy a bronc and pack 1t
And set out for Yellow Jacket,
Nampa, walta. Hawgood, Jessie.
Kanilxsu.
But wherever you may hurry
You will find that Idaho
Lends a lyric measure-Murray,
Seven Devils. Gem, Lago;
Harken to the soft susurrus--
Sinker. Shoup, Stub Springs. Wilburus.
NOreana, Idaho.
II you wish to. slide from Santa
To Nicholia, Atlanta.
Postfalls. Gentle Valley. Dickey. Des-
met. Dairy.
Clar1ia, Mountainous. Lapwai.
Bay Horse, Duret, Leonai.
Neal. Kimama. Pebble. Little Canas
Prairie.
You may paddle the Koos-kooskis
Or Snake River, Idaho.
But 1t isn't any use-lxy.
For wherever you may 80
Nomenclature's simply drooiin'-
Katlka. Kuna. Ola. Coolin.
Reverse. Rudy. Idaho.
II you like it high and drier--
Boise. Bear. Bliss. Lardo. 0uyeN
Fornsy. Taney. Weiscr. Whitebird.
John Grays Stanto.
Ola Camp Lyon, Bonners Ferry.
Cassia, .Tunupa. Pagari.
Ticesla, Juliaetta--stop tho canto!
Ookonock. Rathdrum, Bonanza,
Cocolalla, Idaho!
Cleft, Kanoka runs the stanxA,
Lemhi. Latah. Howe. Aimo.
Sawtooth. Gimlet Oro Fino--
Strings Of pearls arc the terrene. Oh.
Rills and hills of Idahol
MAURICE MoKx1A
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

THOMAS NELSON PAGE was SO years
old when he died, but the associations
stirred by his name somehow convey
an impression that he was much
older man. The war Ambassador to
Italy inherited one OF the Oldest
American traditions. He had his
roots in the old South; he wrote OF
the old South; he reflected the best
of its traditions IN his own high
minded and charming personality.
His books took their character from
a United States which IL already fad
ing into historical perspective. They
are the furthest removed In spirit
from the work Of the middle West
realists among all the literary fash
ions in our history. 1t was Mr..
PAGES public service as Ambassador
which linked him to our own day,
and 1t is interesting to observe that
the novel he contemplated writing
upon his retirement was to include
within It's scope the reconstruction
period in the South and the years Of
the world war.
The line from which Mr.. PAGE de-
rived was one more mellow in its ira
dition than the Brahmin caste Of the
North. The tidewater families, Of
which his was one, transplanted the
life Of the English country gentle
man. Their sons, during the Colonial
period, were sent to Eton and OK
ford for their education. Often they
made the grand tour of the Continent
before returning to Virginia to take
their place at the council board as
members of ruling and privileged
class.
Mr.. PAGE was born eight years be-
fore the civil war began. early enough
to have imprinted on his mind in its
most impressionable period pictures
of that graceful yet narrow society
which was approaching an end. AS
boy too he watched armies march
past his home in Hanover county to
Richmond. He saw that society shat
tered and a new order rising.
The literary work for which he will
probably be longest remembered is
contained in the volume called I'm
Ole Virginia" a book OF the old
South which includes "Marse Chan,"
the story that first won him popular
regard. "Marse Chan" was a move
ment away from the highly melodra-
matte, profusely sentimental tales Of
the romantic South which were typi-
cal Of the first efforts to put its
charm to paper.
What PAGE wrote was still rose
colored in its vision but somewhat
more naturalistic in its method than
the work of writers who preceded
him. The glow Of sentiment was not
absent from his pictures of the old
South, yet he knew how to write with
restraint and he was faithful tran
scriber of tho dialect Of the Virginia
negro.
A man Of culture ana courfly man.
ners, with an inheritance moving
him TO public and patriotic service,
he represented this country with dig
nifty and tact in Italy for six years,
beginning in 1918. When Italian SEN
timent over Fiume grew white hot he
kept his balance and no doubt did
much to modify the development Of
strongly hostile feeling against the
United States. The war years were
strain upon him, az they were upon
WALTER H. PAGE. and the lives
of both men were undoubtedly short
ened by the burdens which they had
| to bear abroad.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

From the Popular Mechanics Magasine.
Curing stacks Of hay with an electric
blower fan outfit Is the method employed by
an English farmer-scientist. which enables
him 20 treat his large >crops without having
20 depend upon the suns assistance. The
grass s stacked as quickly as II can he
hauled TO the selected spot, the stacks being
built IN the usual manner. but having in their
centers an air chamber TO which the fan Is
connected.