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The New York herald., 1922-09-24
knowledge in Rhyme.
History Taught Painlessly by the
AcrOstic Method.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Rossiter
Johnson's letter concerning the old time
professor who turned all learning into
rhyme reminds me OF former professor
who has evolved the acrostic method OF
teaching history in painless way 10
the youth of our fair land. For example ::
Lexington. Battle Of
Indian war.
Boston Tea Party.
Enthusiasm OF colonists.
Retreats of British.
'Tconderoga.
Yorktown CORVALLIS, Surrender OF.
Reading down from the top we md
the word Liberty" not now
possessed by the founder of this system
of teaching history. as he is an adj
judged incompetent person at the pres
ent time. being an inmate of hospi-
tai for the insane. HENRY PECK.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, September %.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Half a Century of Block Signaling
Robinson's Great Invention First Used at Kinzua in
Northern Pennsylvania.

way; and if wire broke or other
connections were interfered with the
signal would not mark this but would
falsely show a clear track.
Mr.. Robinson spent almost two
years more in remedying these de-
fects. But when at last he finished
this task he had in reality developed
new system, the one which is in
separately associated with his name
the closed track circuit system of au-
tomato electric signaling. He re-
ceived patents for this system in
France, Great Britain and the United
States, his American patent being
dated August 20, 1872. The install
lation at Kinzua was changed to
meet the requirement of the closed
track circuit, and the advantages of
the new system were clearly demon
strated in practice.
To the present generation, more or
less familiar with the operation OF the
automatic electric system in the sub
ways of this city and on most OF the
railways of the country, this state
ment, in letter Of Mr.. Robinson's s
referring to committee Of rail-
road men sent to inspect his inven-
tion, will be interesting. They
were all very much pleased with
the signals, but their operation
seemed such surprise that |
Judge it will take them several
days to think over and. realize the
actual operation and Importance OF
the thing" Dom Pedro H., Emperor
OF Brazil. at the time of his visit to
this country in 1876 travelled from
New York to Somerville, Massachu-
setts, to witness the operation of the
system. The Emperor's questions"
says report of the day, displayed
profound scientific knowledge, and
he fully cornprehended the system.
He invited Mr.. Robinson to commu-
nicate with the Brazilian Govern
ment with a view to introducing the
system in Brazil"
Mr.. Robinson's invention is recog-
nized as the forerunner and at the
same time the basis of practically
every automatic electric block signal
system in use on railroads to-day
1t must have been a great satisfac-
tion to him to see the development
of his ideas and the great benefit it
conferred upon humanity. This trib-
ute to his work appeared i'll a recent
report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Perhaps no single in
vention in the history OF the devel-
opment of railway transportation has
contributed more toward safety and
dispatch In that field than the closed
track circuit"
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
The Concord Road.

Over Waban the dawning giowed
As we took the curve of the Concord
Road. >
Westward bending and westward bound,
Through the uplands we wound and
wound.
There was never wayfarer to hail
our sweep through the streets of Au-
burndale.
Above the Wellesley hills the mist
Was braided amber and amethyst.
At Weston and at Wayland still
The wand OF slumber worked its will.
An aged wight blinked drowsily
Out of a pane OF Sudbury,
Where the cocks clarion, clear and thin,
Had reused the guests at the Ways,de.
Inn.
Balsam and sweet clover scent
Eddied about us as we went.
Affairs breathed from the late mown
grass,
Tansy tang and sassafras.
And heavy the apple orchards hung
With fruit where the early warblers
sung.
Like Furnished lapis-lazuli
Walden Pond lay under the sky;
Then vividly the matin fire
Touched the tip OF the Concord spire.
Swiftly and smoothly we bore down
Through the heart OF the ancient town;
Glimpsed the green God's-acre where
Hawthorne lies in the hallowed air;
Saw the gabled Manse, and came
At full flood of the mounting flame
Where DER Concord Water the midge
Threaded dance by the Battle Bridge,
Threaded a dance--and stream and trees
Murmured as though no memories 49,
or sanguine struggle and deadly feud
Clustered here in the solitude;
Clustered here forever, and made
A pilgrim shrine in the sun and shade
A pilgrim shrine. since Destiny
Here greatly wrought for the years to
be-
Goldenly still the morning glowed
AS back we turned by the Concord Road.
CLINTON ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

hlood is mixed with that OF the
Arabs left after the decline of the Arab
dynasty at Sind, OF the Mongols who
stopped their western march on the
shores of the Persian Gulf, OF negroes
descended from medieval slaves, and
stragglers from every central Asian
tribe. Where in all the world could
there more easily be found crew
for an adventure in slave trading or
piracy? And when civilization made
these vocations too perilous, what
crew would so willingly turn to gun
runninge
If the dhow owner could land bis
cargo on the sands Of Makran itwas
the task of his eonfederates to pack
i; inland to Persia, central Asia and
eastern Turkey by caravan. Some
times he failed. "a British warship
not long ago towed twenty dhows
ladcn with guns out into the gulf
and sank them with their cargoes.
A recent report says that a British
officer found in a cave on the Makran
coast guns enough Ito fill a palace
ROOM When the English consider
these facts they understand how
British rifles reached Angora. There
is promise of another interesting con-
test between the Arabian lateen
rugged dhow and British steel war
ships, between Arabian and central
Asian cunning and British discipline
and seaman skill.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
How Kemal Got British Guns.

The British public was surprised
8 few days ago when a report from
the Near East said that some of
KEMALs soldiers who marched into
Smyrna carried British rifles. They
were not rifles which the Greeks lost
in their flight or surrendered, and the
very earnest inquiry was. How did
Britain's enemies get British guns
and war munitions?
The same question was asked when
recently the hill tribes of northern
India and British Indian soldiers
we're fighting one another with prac-
tically the same weapons and when
caches OF the Indian revolutionaries
we're uncovered and found to contain
largely guns bearing British stamp.
1t came up again when a member of
the House OF Commons asked the
Under Secretary for the Colonies
whether it is correct that all the
rifles used by the dervishes against
the British forces in Somaliland
were made in Birmingham"
There is no mystery in this to the
British naval officer whose station
has been in the waters of the Gulf of
Oman or the Persian Gulf. Along
these shores, especially the Beluchi-
stan coast, to which the name OF the
Makran coast is given, gun run
ming has been carried on for years
and has reached a perfection such
as it has nowhere else in the world.
Through this region passed the
weapons that eventually found their
way into central Asia, Arabia and
northern Africa, and there Is reason
10 believe that through IL passed,
TOO. the contraband rifles that arm
KrMALs forces.
How the guns got out Of England
is a problem that the gun runner
himself might explain. From the
vessel which carried them to the
East they we're transferred some
where off Muscat. in the Gulf Of Oman
or perhaps in the Indian Ocean to
Arabian dhows. The trick then was
10 avoid the British naval patrol and
land thcm on the Makran coast.
Nature could have aided no more
generously than she has these gun
runners.
The Makran coast Is almost forgot
ten by the modern world. When Eu-
rope sought to open up the Orient in
tho fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
adventurers from every nation
locked to Il. built towns, opened in
dustrics and tried TO squeeze from the
natives wealth Of gold. precious
stones and Eastern products. Then
civilization swept on east and the
-fakran coast was stranded.
The few inhabitants now there are
fotsam and jetsam left by the civili-
zation which passed over il. They
arc tho descendants OF the Portuguese
advcnturcrs who conquered Muscat
and captured the island OF Ormuz and
Illshm. and Of the Dutch, French and
spaniards who followed them. Their
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Home Talent Overlooked.
A Triple Artist, Native Born. Finds
New York Gold 70 His Work.

To THE NEW York HERALD: j. l..
Blacks serious letter is timely. lie
states facts that are true but too little
known TO the majority Of us American
born citizens.
My contribution to the state of immi-
grafton affairs relates mainly to the fine
arts in which 1 am interested / should
think that the American artist in the
seven arts ought to be the first to be
encouraged and the immigrant artist
second. But he is not.
Within the last few months have
read long articles embelished with por-
traits and pictures about the foreigner
OF only a few years stay in our city.
Again ] have heard Of societies newly
formed with hyphenated names.
Now. this Is not fair to the born
American. who seldom receives such
tributes to his art talents. No one wrote
up Blakelock. Whitman. Poe until after
they were dead. But the young, newly
arrived foreigner has fame thrust at
him while in his twenties. Something
out OF place here.
Not that / am jealous of all the pub
licity given the foreign sculptors and
painters. However. 1t Is no more than
Just that, for instance, should be
written about in fame awarding articles
as well. What IS tho use OF my being
an American born triple artist when
through my long life not one of my fell
low countrymen has ever bought one
OF my 1000 paintings, asked one word
about my 100 volumes OF literature, nor
cared jot for my music. No inter-.
viewer, save ono. twenty-five years ago.
cared jct for my music? No inter-
works, wcll.- tho foreigners who we
laudeG TO Sthe skies have no hope to
emulate them.
LOUIS NJ. ETLsHEMIus.
NEW YORK. Scnicmhcr %
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
South Sea Shadows.

1t must come as something of a
shock to those who have been be-
guiled by the distant enchantment Of
the South Sea to learn that the sim
pie Inhabitants of the Marquesas,
whose lives we have been led to be-
lieve are reduced to the simplest ratio,
actually have suffered from the dep
redatory activities Of middlemen.
Still more disconcerting it is to
learn that the French administrator
of the Marquesas means to attempt
the rehabilitation of the natives both
morally and materially. Commercial
opportunities and schools are to be
established for the inhabitants, and
direct steamship connections with
San Francisco are contemplated. The
islands are said to have great COM
mercial possibilities, with Expansive
valleys Of unsurpassed fertility" 1t
all looks very much like plan to
make the poor Marquesan work.
Visitors to the Marquesas inform
us that the moral and physical de-
terioration OF the native stock dates
from the invasion of the islands by
the influences Of white civilization.
Before the French came, say the writ
ers of the South Sea books, the Mar
quesan lived in the Garden of Eden
and knew not the serpent. And now
the uplift!
No doubt the French are acting
wisely, if somewhat taydily, in their
plan to save O dying race. And no
doubt the Marquesas. producing
bumper crops of cocoanuts, breadfruit
and bananas, would be more valu-
able possession Of the French republic.
But il the Marquesans respond to
the urging of the uplifters, If the
bumper crops are planted and gath
cred and shipped, il the Marquesans
go in for part time schooling and
town boosting, if they make bid
for a worlds Rotarian congress in
1910, where on the earth's surface
can the drifter go, what lotus eating
land remains to beckon the fretful,
and the weary?
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Autumn's Healing Silence.

With the coming of cool nights
that permit living room windows to
be closed dwellers in New York who
are sensitive to noises find blessed
surcease from the roar and the
sharper overtones coming up from
the streets. More than ever are they
impressed. through the contrasting
comparative silence, with the ex-
traordinary and constant musical
sounds they have been listening to
all summer, strains that give COM
plete denial to the oft repeated charge
that Americans are not musical
people.
The world war, with its develop
ment of concerted public singing,
pretty well exploded this accusation.
The many exhibitions we had of
marching hosts OF soldiers, sailors
and relief workers pouring out their
voices in stirring unison, and the
public musical festivals showed the
American people could really sing il
sufficiently moved to lose their ordi-
nary and musically depressing self
consciousness.
In the residential districts Of New
York there are few periods Of sum-
mer days and summer nights when
music is not in the air. The tireless
phonograph, the mechanical piano,
the apparently unwearying student OF
singing, the amateurs of the violin,
the radio outfits, all unite in what is
individually meant to be concord
ref sweet sounds. In combined reality
the result is worse dissonances than
are reached by musical modernists in
their very best achievement. 1t Is
reminiscent of the complaint recorded
in the diary of LASGDoy CARTER oil
Williamsburg. Virginia, who wrote
down his plant, in the middle OF the
eighteenth century, against the con
stant tuting" that was going on from
one instrument or another in the be-
ginnings of the city.
Yet the obvious pleasure these OPP
orators and actual musicians get
from their instruments is too evident
not to be appreciated by their har-
assed auditors. And there IS an
added extenuation and comfort in the
fact that you must live in New York
in the summertime really to know
the city at its most picturesque and
happiest best.
Folk who leave it in April and re-
turn in October miss all New York's
outdoor and open window life which
reveals these phases. They are in the
case of the art critic who, discussing
statue of ADAM and Eve by con-
temporary sculptor, said New York
ers were not equipped to judge such
a work. since they did not know how
to make love in public. Luckless and
III informed man, he had never rid
den in trolley car or Fifth avenue
bus on July night or wandered
through a city park in August. Our
town has to be summered in as well
as wintered in before it can be known
and become a real friend.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Anatomy Turned Into Verse.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The let
ter from Rossiter johnson suggests an
addition to his story. only the scene
changes to New York. / think it was
DR.. Holden who used to visit our
school in West Fifty-second street in
my younger days. I also recall two Of
his verses:
Eight carpal bones In ranges two
Join hand and arm. for good to do.
The tibia and fibula
Above unite near patela
At knee with long os femurus
Whose analogue is humurus.
l second his nomination for the Hall
of Fame and wish also that i could
recall more of his verses.
z. NJ. HENDRIcKsoN.
NEW YORK, September 23.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Croker's Occupation.
An English Encyclopedia Calls Him
a "Statesman."

To THE NEW York HERALD: Editors
of English encyclopedias are not always
unkind to distinguished Americans. The
following is copied from the Everyman
Encyclopedia
Croker Richard (A 1919. an Amer
lean statesman. born i'll Ireland. AT a
very early age he was taken 10 America
and was educated in New York. where
from 1865 to 1900 he was appointed to
several public offices. among them those
OF Alderman and City Chamberlain. After
his resignation in 1902 he returned to
Ireland
And the American Who's Who calls
Charles +. Murphy politician
BROOKLYN. September 30. c. e. II.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Beloved, II Is Night.

Beloved, ii is night. Lift not thy face
Pass through the garden with muted
voice.
This Is the hour OF dreaming This the
place
Where out or time tho One Dream Of
our choice
May suddenly be born. But speak no
word
Let fall one whisper even, and the rose
That blooms by yonder easement would
be stirred
To dream Of things not any flower
knows.
Lift not thy face, Beloved II is night
Dusk and a silence in the garden
blend.
But in thy face is wonder born of light,
And in my tieart a song that knows
no end.
A light a song ~. Beloved turn
away.
Lest all thc garden wake and call 1t
HELEN FRAzEg-Bowgn.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

TO THE NEW York HERALD Watches
and ordinary clocks can be turned back
without impairing their use. Time clocks.
however, are so constructed that 1t is
impossible 10 1irn them back without
injurlng them. The pendulum should
De stopped for an hour and then put IN
motion. r. &. MooRE.
NEw yoEK, September 2s.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

The audience at the Harvard Oxford
debate on the League of Nations is to
award the decision by fling through
exits marked Eyes" and NO. thus
indicating its choice OF the affirmative
or the negative side. Why not adopt
the idea for first nights and have the
audience file through exits marked
Good and Rotten?
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

If the talking motion pictures. the
"phonofilm," should ever become the
accepted form of film entertainment
how would the audience learn to catch
the emotional eBb and flow Of the
picture without the aid of the organ
or orchestra?
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

Somebody with passion for useless
statistics might discover how many
kinds OF yellow taxicabs there are in
New York.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

Backward. turn backward, Q Time,
in thy flight; make 1t stay light again
Just for Tonight
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

There are 9.467,S74 private motor
cars in the United States and each
owner thinks that there are 9,467,S
poor drivers.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
The Kind That Doesn't Wear Ont.

FroW INC H0NsuS INV 7fNIta, - :
Sheriff Joseph NJ. lsgin member OF theos
Elein family % T,ay county, has hickoi1-
bottom chair which has been IN posscssioittt- \
u his family for I25 years. II was brought
from Kentucky In i5pI and stii is In cxs-is
ecicnt repair.
The Associated Press IL exclusively entitled
to the iisc for republication OF all news Dis
patches credited TO II or not otherwiss4s
credited ~ this paper aud also the local
news published icrcin
All rights Of republication of special diss =
patches herein arc also reserved. .vss
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Over Waban the dawning glowed
AS we took the curve of the Concord
Road.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

Don't Turn Back n Time Clock.

new YORK. September 20.
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resident; Erwin Wardman. Nce-Presdent
'nl. r. pewart, Treasurer; II. ii. Tither-
igton, Secretary.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
If the Turk Comes Back.

SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER "a. 1s22.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Mrs. Coburn Shows That
There Is Romance Also
Ia the Commonplace

1T was the romance Of the common
place in Bronx Express" that appealed
strongly to Mr.. and Mrs. Coburn when
they first read the English translation
of Ossip Dymow' play. They felt that
the Russian author had done unique
thing and they were anxious to see his
brain child appear before the foot
lights.
"One does not have to look for cas-
ties in Spain in order to find romance. -
said Mrs. Coburn in discussing the
play. at is all around us. Romance
touches elbows with US every day in
the crowded subway trains. The men
and women who go back and forth on
the subway are the principals in little
dramas OF real life as thrilling as those
that are presented upon the stage, If
we only knew the real facts.
There IS romance in the commercial
sife OF America, just as Mr. Dymow saw
1t in the subway. AS a matter Of fact
1t takes just as much creative ability
/ to succeed in commercial life as in
the arts. All the talking down Of com.
mercialism makes one rather weary
we must have commercial success to he
happy people. A good business mar
must have plenty Of imagination if he
is to succeed in big way. The reason
we are an optimistic people is because
we are successful people.
"The time will yet come when pron
erty will be locked upon from the po;n,
OF view Of we'll being. The soul can
not be developed unless the BODY !,
we'll cared for. Russia to-day is dyin.
because the people are too hungry tx
develop their souls. There is more rea
son why great art should develop il
the soil Of so-called commercialisr
than in more sordid soil where the
soul has baen hampered by extreme
poverty"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Finest Mother ON the Screen
Has Her Rellearsals at Home
She Always Is Busy al Being ideal Parent and
the Director Has Only to Bring Along
Camera and Shoot


IS ne appeared on tho screen, When
Mr. Briggs produced scme pictures .
Few seasons ago. Master Carr was
shose'' ss Skinnay and the name has
stuck TO him ever since. Even when
his mamma. who ought TO know if any
enc, assured MS that that tall, hand
sclGe youug iaan was actually Skinnay
il was difficult 10 believe. 1t seems
only yesterday that those pictures were
8 made and at that time Master Carr
was very small hoy.
Neither was his mamma as famous
as she is now. for the fates had not
yet decreed that she do a mother part
I She sort Of ran to squaws. she said,
and played two Of tl.em in Rex Beach $
picture, The Barrier" whch was pro-
dueed about the same timc that skin
nay went into the cciluloid.
Backward,
Turp Backward
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+he staoo AZ, Of NV n.o,1o ;ns;s.aa ~,
INV bcinc , to,cher apd 7 ,o,osa =. ho
an actress: So finally. ! took INV cour-
are in both hands and snnliod ., +bo
stage door Of the theater which bousod
stock cornanv nlav,,g in pb;lado,-
nhia far tba spn,nc, rho .,oco NAV
To ,nlsv jnpenno loads and occor+od
the cneaeement. How truly fools r,sb
in, The first tbino. y,o ,,loood v,as .Thn
Two Orphans-I was Louise.
"ln that stock conpanv wore Laura
Nelson Hall. Wedroyood Novel; sbel.
don Lewis. Ffie shannon and lot Of
other stars. That was twentv-f>.o wars
ago, and never have been idle since
frat ,;no s+o,od 49, 49, .tae.o ,.;,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
The Playbill
Continued from preceding paxe)

ducing organization with Offices in the
Knickerhocker Theater Building, Is
seeking new plays, preferably the works
Of American authors, especially those
who have never had plays produced
The association has already produced
Robert Larkin's "The Gorilla" in STAN
ford, and plans to use it for its first
New York offering in September. sThe
Gorilla" is a meiodrama, the theme
having been taken from James Barnes's
Through Central Africa Janet Bar
rington's "The Invincible," Algernon
Tassins "The Craft OF the Tortoise. .
a play by the late George HazeIton,
and one by Anne Morrison are under
consideration for early fall production.
Mr.. Larkin is writing play for pro
duction in December. Gabriel Raya-
nellie, who has been associated with the
late Charles Frohman and also with
William Fl. Crane, will be the general
stage director.