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The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Wants Anti-Cruelty Campaign
To the Editor. The washington HeraI:

To the Editor. The Washington HeraII:
While attending the annual meet
ing of the Washington Humane
Society at the Shoreham January
IL I was reminded Of the fact that
many people think OF the society
more in connection with prosecut-
ing casesof cruelty to horses than
in any other way. and that the need
for such an organization is much
less than formerly when the motor
truck was not so much in evidence.
The Humane Society is still needed;
its work is not decreasing. In fact,
there should be more agents than
there are to guard against the cru
elites constantly going on in our
midst. 1t is true that horse cases
have decreased somewhat, but there
are still plenty Of old. abused, un-
derfed and overworked horses used
in ash and junk carts: there are still
scores Of shacks used as stables
which need inspection.
A few visits in the forenoon to
one Of the Saturday auction stables
will prove my point. Here may be
seen the pathetic little groups of
killers" half-starved, worn-out-
not always so old-or diseased serv-
ants brought in from the city or
sububrs, and bought up to be con-
verted into fertilizer or skinned
and the carcasses fed TO the long
suffering animal prisoners at the
zoo. I have just come from my
weekly noon visit to a certain sta
bic. Already awaiting their last
journey were two typical specimens
of kfllers-a very small. thin, white
mare. with the hair off in several
places, and mango half closing one
eye. and a gaunt bay. one eye out,
a great raw place on the withers
and the left foreleg swollen to half
again its normal size. They both
reached out eagerly for the apple I
divided between them.
To be sure, IL is better thus than
that they be worked until they drop
in harness. but the ingratitude for
faithful service in causing this last
condition should not be allowed.
Both the Humane Society and the
Animal Rescue League. the latter
through it's horse purchase fund,
have mercifully rescued and put to
death a great number of these, but
more money, agents and members
are needed to see that hundreds of
others are given the care they de-
serve at mans hand. Many of them
have been family pets in bygone
days.
That the Humane Society's prose-
cutting power is needed more than
ever to investigate and remedy
other cruelties. such as live stock
abuses IN markets and the wrongs
of animal acts In theaters and cir
cuses, Is very evident to any who
will but observe.
Every day on my way to the
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

AUTOMATIC control Of locomotives. making
"A impossible their running through block
signal seemed clearly indicated as, necessity on
our railroads good while before the Interstate
Commerce Commission issued an order directing
forty-nine systems to equip congested portions Of
thsjr trunk lines with such devices
Serious accidents have been materially re-
duced in number by devices already employed, but
there is wide room for further Improvement points
out the Rochester Herald, which goes on to rccite
the commissions finding that 'many wrecks would
have been avoided had such controls been installed
Fourteen years of study service tests under
varying conditions and results obtained through
the operation OF these control devices have clearly
demonstrated their practcability and usefulness.
Such control has, the commission insists long since
passed the experimental stage and safety de-
vice, such as the automatic coupler, the air brake
and the automatic block signal was perfected to
as nigh degree as automatic train control before
they were ordered installed or voluntarily adopted.
Railroad accidents of serious character have
been materially reduced in number by safety de.
vices already employed. There is, however, wide
room Tor further Improvement for greater pro-
lection OF travellers. None of the roads can have
reason to hnd fault with the commissions order
for, let the installation cost what it may, it is
bound in the end to prove a good investment
-eN>' Aoi SAdhPicJ d WIcCk on tnc fnilaQclphia
and Reading in December in which twenty-three
people were killed and many more injured That
wreck would not have occurred had there been
adequate automatic control, and it cost the COM
pany more than the outlay that would have been
rqured to install that control
1T mnst be the aim of every road to- protect
ITS patrons and all should welcome the new move
in that direction. The constant increase in the
number of trains and passengers adds to the de-
mand for safety, for the employment of every
possible device that will contribute to that end,
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
FARM SCIENCE
IS BACKGROUND
FOR CONFERENCE
Agricultural Policy of
Future Will Be
Shaped.
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The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Safety Zones.

TUE traffic bureau Of the Police Department
Il is to be congratulated on finally deciding
upon some arrangement to make it easier for
pedestrians to get the street at Thomas
circle.
Temporary halfway stations have been erected
on which the person who walks from necessity,
or for the pleasure of it, may pause while the
cars whisk by instead of having to Jump and
dodge as the vehicles close in from nine directions
In the past it has been common thing to OBJ
serve throngs on their way to work. or home
from work, stand on the curbing for five and ten
minutes awaiting break in the traffic, or muster
ing up sufficient courage TO negotiate the motor
rapids.
The experiment has been in operation at Scott
circle for several months and proved so successful
that the temporary wooden platforms were re-
moved and permanent concrete walkways con-
structed. Probably the same thing will be done
here.
The safety zones, halfway stations, serve
the purpose almost of automatically directing
traffic. They narrow the thoroughfare so ma
teriaHy that the usually are compelled to
pass through in single file and in the same direc-
ton The pedestrian then has only to look for
danger from one certain direction instead of being
compelled to twist his neck 10 much the same
manner as an owl and deplore the oversight of
nature in emitting eyes in the back of his head
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Youth and Marriage.

IS THINK them statistics are just lovely" de-
i clared the gushing widow in one of o.
Henry's stories to the swain who had learned by
heart book of facts and figures while showed in
through Idaho winter.
That doesn't apply to all sets of tabuations.
Some are dryer than dust Others pulse with life,
including ones bank balance and statistics of
matrimony.
The Buffalo Evening Times carries some en-
crossing figures in matrimony in these United
States, to wit:
How many Americans, more than so years
DID, are unmarried? About 100000 reports the
Census Bureau. 1t estimates that only 100000 of
them will ever marry.
rs Cupid losing his aim? Probably not
Chances are, the percentage of the population
that goes through life single is about the same as
ever. Love and marriage are instructive, and in
stnct requires more than decade or century to
change it.
One thing is certain and the census shows
1t: The age of marriage is being raised. Not like
grandma's day, when I6-year-old brides were not
unusual.
About 10 per cent of our women marry be-
fore 20 A tenth of these widowed or divorced
within few months. Men marry later in life than
women, more than half of them waiting until after
they're 3o"
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Activities of the Vatican.

THE message expressing pleasure and con-
graduation sent by the Pope to the Dali
Eireann after that body had approved the Irish
settlement reminds one that the Vatican has been
showing more than ordinary interest and activity
of late. During the war Britain sent an envoy to
the Vatican and that connection is being MAIN
tanned. In December, France resumed relations
with the Vatican. 1t December IS that
Premier BRAND, speaking in the French senate,
said "If this debate the resumption of relations
with the Vatican is not closed tomorrow, it will
have to be concluded in the absence of the gov
ernment" and that taken to mean that, if his
policy not approved, he would resign The
next day the debate closed in his favor by a
vote of ia to I7o. On December 20 the French
senate adopted credits for the embassy to the
Vatican by a vote of I83 to 100. When Prince
Hrohito of Japan in Rome, he paid visit
to the Holy See. According to information re-
ceived in Washington in November, at the time of
the elevation of the prince to the regency on ac-
count of the continued illness of his father the
apostolic delegate here received instruction to go
to Tokyo to congratulate the prince and, at the
same time, to thank the prince for his visit to
the Pope. 1t is thought that these intercourses
wiIt,lead to the establishment of diplomatic rela-
tions between the Vatican and Japan. 1t has
been the desire of Roman Catholic Japanese to
hayE closer relations established between the two
powers and is thought not without significance
thai, almost all the Catholic churches in Japan are
und direction of the priests OF the French Mission
The Vatican has been eyidencng interest in
the league OF nations The decision OF the Italian
Po..uiar lor Catholic) party in November to exer,
Is influence in favor OF the league OF nations
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Electrifying the Rails.

g ONE DAY in the future when the dreams of
- electrical engineers have been translated into
miles of copper wire, carrying the energy of water
and coal leagues from these cnergy-producers
themselves, will have all freight and pas
senger trains pulled our railroads by silent,
clean, and efficient locomotives.
The engineers who have been making the
superpower survey, who have been translating
dream into cold hard facts and figures have seen
and have set forth the advantages of electrihca-
tion of railroads, particularly in the superpower
zone, extending from Boston to Washington
Their report, issued by the Geological Survey says
in part:
q, These advantages include the conservation OF
national resources, both coal and labor; an in
crease in the capacity OF main and yard tracks;
an. improvement of the physical condition of
terminals and an increase in the value of the
property, as shown by the New York Central and
Pennsylvania terminals in New York City; benefits
both to the travelling public and residents along
the route through the elimination of noise and
smoke; the possibility OF providing mutple-levcl
terminals and freight warehouses; and economy
in operation through the of fuel and machinery
for, generating energy by few skillful operators
in economical stations contrasted with a large
number of technically ignorant operators with
small, uneconomical machines.
THE speed of different classes of trains run
by electricity will be more nearly uniform. Much
heavier trains can be handled, and at the same
time light freight trains can be moved the speed
of local passenger trains 1t has been proved that
for the heaviest freight service, such as mountain
grade work, the electric locomotive is superior to
the steam locomotive but its superiority in handling
light freight at high speed is not so generally
understood.
"As the electric locomotive is simple and as
all the electric locomotives of given class are
identical and more skill is required to operate
them than is demanded of an ordinary chauffeur,
al those locomotives will be pooled, so that the
total number required will be materially reduced.
"a considerable saving in time and hence an
increase in capacity under the superpower system
will be made by lengthenng the operating divisions
which will be from to 400 miles long instead of
100 miles. An electric passenger locomotive will
run in the morning from New York to Boston and
q total run of $50 miles day. A similar round
trip will be made between New York and Wash
ington, or New York and Syracuse. The electric
locomotive be kept at work the road for
20 hours day, and If operated at an average
speed of IS miles an hour it 500 miles a
day. This mileage, however, is double that of the
electric passenger engines used on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford line and is higher
than would be obtained average, but there
is every reason to believe that with unified opera
ton average between $50 and 500 miles tan be
made.
an word, steam operation cannot salts
factorily meet the conditions OF the crowded
terminal described as the superpower zone electric
operation can easily do it."
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
The Nationals.
0 the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
When practically all OF the major
baseball clubs recently made public
a statement Of their earnings. the
Washington club withheld this infor-
nation, or rather this should be quail
ifed by saying that it was not pub
lished. ! understand. however, tha,
the profits for last season were in
the neighborhood of $4,000. Since
professional baseball is as much an
amusement as vaudeville, would II
not be fair TO the patrons Of the game
in Washington for the management;
to invest some Of this money IN In.
proving the club by the purchase OF
betters players? Il is true. am in
formed. that a Sood portion OF last
years profit is being invested in en-.
lsrging the seating capacity of the
park. But what good are the seats
IL one has to see again some of the
thoroughly stupid exhibitions Of las,
year? What do the bugs think o.
this?
A FAN
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

once more in the markets Of the
world. -....
''The problem of reconstitutins
Russia could also he faced"
Sir Philip also made a survey of
the international situation. The
Washington conference and the
Irish treaty. he thought had
sounded "a bugle of hope" given
people the courage to believe that
the world was once more headed in
the right direction.
The Washington conference had
not gone to the root of war, he
said. nor made war impossible. but
1t has prevented decade of COM
petition in battleship building and
has done away with the Anglo
Japanese alliance. The end of the
latter, together with the present
situation in Ireland. made him be-
lieve that a genuine Anglo Amer
lean friendship Is now a possible
thing.
England. he said. has in the past
few months forced its leaders to
turn away from -'the promises, the
crazy arithmetic. the>-insane econ
omies that bad guided them before.
and face facts
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

perate need of German peparations
that she must continually be press
ing the Germans. That's where
England come into it; for Frances
pressure on Germany prevents Ger
many from recovering, but also
keeps the value of the German
mark down-so low, in fact, that
England is unable to compete with
her former enemies in the markets
of the world.
All in all. 1t is a strangling
chain on the whole of Europe, and,
I fully believe. Russia is the key"
Then he offered his solution.
Russia" he said. has given up
communism. >On October II last,
Lenin made one of the most re-
markable speeches that a statesman
ever made. This man who had es-
tablished communism over a ma
tion of .15o.0o0.0o0 people, this ruth.
less fanatic. this terrible brain, now
admitted. In terms sufficiently bru-
tai, that the whole business had
been CHASTITY failure.
Communism has failed in Rus-
sia. Since October IL. the whole
system has been swept away.
Lenin has put in force code CT
rules of capitalism.
Russia, fully believe. iS ready
to accept outside aid, and to ac-
cept it under drastic conditions.
feel spre that she would accept. as
one OF those conditions. the de-
mobilization of her armies. Even
now, she does not enjoy maintaining
them, but aeither she nor Poland
dare take the first step In disarm-
ing along the border.
eff the Russian army were de-
niobilized. then Poland could be
persuaded to demobilize hers: at
least, France would no longer feel
required to pa, tor. IT. This would
release the strain on France. which,
IN turn, could go easier on Ger
many. making possible German
recovery. German marks would rise
and England be able to compete
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

Here's story from Rear Admiral Samuel
MCGOWAN, U. S. N, retired. It's title is
Discipline
Some years ago" he said, "there was
an order issued in the Boston Navy Yard
No Dogs Allowed few days later the
Dolphin came alongside flying the flag of the
Secretary of the Navy. The captain left the
boat to pay his respects to the commandant,
but half way up the yard he met the COM
mandant on his way to pay his respects to the
Secretary of the Navy. The captain saluted
the conlmandant and said, Good evening ad-
miral,' whereupon the admiral replied in one
breath. Good evening captain, whose awful dog
is that The captain looked behind and to
his amazement beheld the most bedraggled-
looking, bench-iegged dog in the world,
which he had never seen before, but quick as
fash he came back: Why admiral that's
the Secretary OF the Navys dog Ea,tally
quickly the admiral said: Why it's nice little.
dog. come here little doggic como here little
doggie-it certainly is nice little dog"
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

IS sent the open Court, Department b.
George Sands JokRsoH.
The sea grows calm and the wind
blows fair,
And the East unfolds serene and
bright,
While ships put forth with a buoyant
leap.
Kissed by warm glows Of the golden
air,
And lulled in dreams by the musing
deep
Flooded with glory Of lustrous light.
Amid the charm of the peaceful scene.
The roar Of the raging tide grows
still.
Wild waves are hushed in a wondrous
, spell
That wraps the dunes in a placid
sheen,
While ,,; shs pilots heralded all is
With visions OF Gods majestic will.
AS magic gates of the sunrise lift.
And fountains of splendor spill
through space.
Me thinks how glorious life would
be,
When peace shall shine through a
righteous rift
Cleaving dark bars of barbarity.
And Illuminate all the human race.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Silk Hat Hint.

To the Editor. The washingtos Hersli:
In your otherwise excellent narra-
tive OF the demonstration for former
President Wilson in your paper OF
Monday. the wfiter said. Mr.. Will
son was wearing a high silk hat on
his head" Where, oh. where. in the
name OF common sense, should he
wear it? CIV
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
RUSSIA EUROPEAN
KEY, SAYS GIBBS

In my opinion. Russia is the key
to the European situation" So de-
clared Sir Philip Gibbs. famous
British war correspondent and au-
thor. who has just returned from
the famine valley of the volga,
whittier he had gone as commits
sioner of the British relief commit
tee. The opinion was expressed in
a recent address in Boston.
Russia has under arms on the
Polish border" said Mr.. Gibbs. "a
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

news disCloseS Like our oNa
Roosevelt. his retirement to private
life was only a greater opportunity
for aggressive public service.
Born in Bar-le-nuc August 20,
1860. Raymond Poincare was 10
years old when a Prussian army
marched past his fathers dOoryard
on the way to Paris. German SOL
diers were sbilletted in his parents
house. The scars OF invasion from
beyond the Rhine were deep and
ragged on the countryside. and like
wise they were ingrained in the
mind of young Potncare.
AIwsy, AntI-Gernsn.
With such a heritage OF hatred Il
is not surprising that in public life
his attitude toward Germany has
always been consistently bHter ana
uncompromisinG.
Since he first entered the cham
Ter of deputies Poincsre's utter
anoes have revealed q singleness CT
purpose. He thinks and talks only
of France. Humanity and world
peace are abstract phrases to him
He brushes them aside. Nothing
outside Frapce is 70 be considered
wheu her own interests are al
Stake.
In the chamber OF deputies Poin-
care lent his energies TO the prob
lem OF French finance. Here m
1890. as reporter for the budget. re
first won recognition as a national
figure Three years later he was
appointed minister Of public educS-
ton. and from that post he ad-
vanced TO head the ministry OF
finances
Outside OF politics Poincare
mesnyhile was forging ahead at
the bar, and while still in his thir-
ties he was recognized as the lead
ing corporation lawyer OF France.
with NJ. Millerand as his chief op-
ponent. His fortune was built
largely upon his legal successes.
In 1903 Poineare was elected
senator from the Meuse. and in
1906 he gave evidence OF his grow
ing importance by refusing 20 col
laborate in the cabinet OF Georce
Clemencezu. IL was Joseph Call
laux, who subsequently stepped In
TO head the government, and he in
turn was succeeded in isi, by Poin-
care himself.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
Sweet Doris Blake.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
A great many OF US (girls) down
here in the Navy Department are
quite interested in Doris Blake, who
answers the letters to the lovelorn
in your paper. She must have had
a dreadful lot Of experience with
sweethearts 70 be able to answer all
Of the questions asked her. Per
sonaily we wonder II she really Is
she" or IL in fact she Is not
one Of those horrid old fat men who
pose as women in the columns Of
newspapers. but who make great Jokes
OF all the little questions Of love
which giris-contide to them. At any
rate. Doris love affairs must have
been pretty uaushy. don't YOU think? I?
BETTY.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

force Of 100000
men. With the
press Of a button
that force could
be increased to
100000. On the
other side of the
BORDER are mil
lions of armed
Poles. Poland, a
bankrupt nations
Is able to main
tain this force
only through the
a n a n C ial aid
given by France.
1t Is b e C a u s e
France gives this
financial aid to
Poland that she
a
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
WHO'S WHO IN
THE DAYS NEWS

When Raymond Poincare in Jan
uary, 1890, stepped down from the
presidents chair at the conclusion
Of his seven-yesr term, he said:
Il do not think l have arrived
at the time for inactivity: ] shall
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18
LECTURE ON AUDUBON.
GREAT oRNITHoLoGIsT.

A lecture was recently delivered
at the Park View School by Dr. X.
w. Shufeldt on Audubon and his
Work" Pictures were shown on the
screen of famous paintings OF the
great ornithologist. together with por-
traits Of his descendants, and various
Audubonian relics.
"
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

mercy and respecting the rights or
man and beast. and so help them
in building a firm foundation for
the citizenship OF the morrow in
which they will take part.
VIRGINIA W. SARGENT.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

caused Italian politicians to believe this the FIRST
step of the Vatican toward eventual admission into
the league
Forthcoming events connected with the Vatican
are the visit of the King and Queen Of the Bel
gians to Rome, where they will call upon the Pope,
and the creation OF new cardinals.