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The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Saved From Flapperism.

The keen eye of Superintendent
BAKER has observed fiapperism adj
vancing upon the State Reformatory
for Women at Bedford and has
promptly attacked the intruder. The
inmates are forbidden to indulge In
"the practice of reddening the lips
and cheeks, blackening the eyebrows
and eyelashes and of using excessive
quantities of powder or other white
material on the face" What is an
excessive quantity OF powder? No
body knows, probably.
The coloring Of the face is not the
only sign of fiapperism against which
Mr.. BAKER warns his charges. Waist
fronts are not to be rolled back"
says Rule 4, "and dress skirts are to
be worn not more than twelve inches
from the ground" This agrees with
the ukase OF the Paris dressmakers
The girls may wear boomers only
when engaged in trough work"
hOy Aioot iiOt WVai ShCii otOthiht
rolled below their knees and must
not display fancy or other garters.' y
The wearing of breakfast caps and
curl papers at the table is forbidden.
Nothing is said about the bobbing
OF hair or the use of flapper slang,
but perhaps the inmates at Bedford
never went in for that sort of thing.
If Superintendent BAKER can save
them from the perils of rouge and
rice powder and the alarming style
of rolled stockings he will be doing
good deal. The breakdown of
moral fiber must be checked. DE
QUINcEY says that IL man once
commits murder he is likely to drift
into evil ways. A plunge into flap
perism by those not temperamentally
suited TO it should be prevented.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Canada's Indian Troubles.

The Dominion Minister OF the Inte-
rior, CHARLES STEWART. a few days
ago accepted the invitation Of the
Canadian Indian tribes of the Six
Nations and met them in a powwow
on their Grand River reservation.
Indian chiefs said that the reasons
for their recent dissatisfaction and
unrest, which had brought about
peculiarly uncomfortable situation
for the Canadian Government, we're
the encroachment OF the white men
upon their lands and the attempt to
force upon them compulsory enfran.
chisement. They said that of their
original grant of 100000 acres only
$4,000 acres we're left to them, and
these, they declared, they would go
to the limit to preserve. They said
that they were opposed TO the efforts
TO force citizenship upon them and
that they wanted to be let alone. The
meeting ended in a promise of salts
faction by the Canadian Government
and in everybody smoking the pipe
of peace.
There are reminders OF Colonial
days of America in this trouble with
the Six Nations. for these Canadian
Indians are largely descendants OF
the tribes which Chief BRANT led
from this State TO Canada about $50
years ago The old chiefs memory
is still preserved in Ontario by Brarf
county and Brantford.
The council Of the Six Nations at
the beginning Of the Revolution de.
clared for neutrality. but allowed to
each tribe the privilege of choosing
its own allies. The majority sided
with the British. The Oneidas and
part of the Tuscaroras, however,
went with the Americans. The Mo-
hawks and Cayugas under BRArr's
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Honest Post Office Workers.

Fifteen thousand men and women
are employed in the New York post
Office. A few of them are not honest.
To identify those who have joined the
service to rob the mails the Post Office
Department has decided to get photo
graphs and finger prints of all
its workers here from Postmaster
MORGAN down, and to look up their
records. If this turns out to be
worth doing here Photographic fln--
ger prints of the $4,000 post Office
employees outside the New York Office
will be taken, and their histories will
be investigated.
The Government is in duty bound
to protect the public from thieves in
post offices, and the photographing
and finger printing it is now doing
are likely to produce good results
but these precautions will have an
unfortunate and wholly unjustifiable
effect il they lead anybody to believe
that dishonesty is more prevalent
among post Office workers than it is
among other workers.
The post Office employees of the
United States are conspicuously no
table for their high standard of official
conduct, their devotion to duty and
their fine integrity. In every divi-
sion of the service. among clerks.
carriers, rural free delivery carriers,
in the railway mail, the parcel post,
the overwhelming majority of the
workers who comprise this vast or
ganization give their best efforts to
meet the requirements of the public.
They do this cheerfully, frequently
in the face of disheartening condi-
tions and for salaries and wages that,
by and large, are entirely made
quate
The public hears great deal about
an occasional thief in post office; it
hears great deal about an occa-
sional grab for spoils in the post
office by job hunting politician: but
It does not hear great deal about
the multitude of faithful post Office
employees who labor diligently day in
and day out to serve the public.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
The Call OF the Light.
From the Edison MontbIv.


All through the busy day II stands
Bronsed or lacquered, with jeweIed
bands:
Ruddy with copper or gleam OF brass:
Yet cold, as the sunlit hours pass.
But when the twilight haze IL rife.
Swiftly II quickens to glowing life
Till gently. subtly, It's silent call
In its magic circle has drawn them all 7
The schoolboy comes with his evening
task
In the mellow warmth OF its light 70
bask:
The tired mother sinks softly down
Father smooths out his work day frown (;
Grandmother peers with a smiling face,
Silver crowned, from her wonted place
And little ones gather with happy look,
For story or game or picture book.
The circle widens, as tender speech
Brings absent dear ones within its
reach.
As a pebble flung by careless hand
Sends the broadening ripples to distant
land.
steadily, Whitley. the home light beams
on hopes and wishes and eager dreams.
And peace and contentment set their
stamp
on the kindly glow Of the evening
PAULINE FRANCES CAMP.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Tuck-o'- o'-Dunt.
Meaning Of the Words First Attrib.
uted 10 Lady Astor.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Before
Lady Astor explained that what she said
was tuppenny dump your correspondent
"D-. Syntax" suggested that tuck-o'-
drum and not tuck-o'-dunt was Lady
Astor's expression.
But 81 do not care tuck-o -dunt" rs
lutte good sense. originating from the
dunt made by a tuck-o'- drum.
The best authority to consult for tuck
and dunt Is DR.. Joseph Wright in his
magnificent work the English Dialect
Dictionary. and although I do not find
the colloquial expression tuck-o' -dunt
there, l find (Ayrshire). Never shall
forget the dunt that the first tap OF
the drum gave to my heart' (page 2f3).
so that the two expressions are there
connected. and doubtless are amalga-
mated in tuck-o'- -dunt.
'T do not care tuck-o' -dunt means
'T do not care hoot" for a shower of
blows. for blow on blow for "A surfeit
Of blows. Dunt means blow OF any
kind. and tuck means n 1ll OF anything.
Your correspondent is quite right about
the meaning of tuck-o-drum and It's
constant use. but fancy the quotation
given above by me from an Ayrshire
colloqulalism adjusts the matter. and
probably the two expressions we're ANAL
gamatcd into tuck o. -dunt
II. c. HosKIER.
NEW YORK, May %.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Inpudence.
anywhere,

M. STEKLow, by virtue of his post
of Commissioner of Press and Pub
licity in the Soviet Government, is
LENINE's official mouthpiece. Moth
ing that LENINE does not want to be
published in Russia can see the light
of day without the Steklow stamp o.
approval. Anything that LENINE does
want to be published or otherwise
to go out to the people is made pub
lie when M. SrEKLow gives the COM
mand to the state controlled press,
bulletin boards, &c.
In view of LENINEs maneuvers to
renew relations with the American
Government and the American peo-
pie, therefore, the following version
by M. STEKLow at Moscow of why the
Genoa Conference failed and why
everything before it failed is an ex-
traordinary utterance.
Its because America has funked
her responsibility. Having deliber-
dNciJ GU tsOPt1h
and having to large extent as
sumed responsibility for creating the
absurdities of the Treaty of Yer
sailles, she suddenly decided to re-
enter her transatlantic shell and let
Europe go to the devil by whatever
road it pleased. Having garnered
the bulk of the worlds supply of
gold she sits still on her gigantic
hoard and clamors for more gold
from the nations that have none"
The American Government has not
been and is not unfriendly to Rus
sia, the nation. The American people
have been and are sympathetic with
the hardships and sufferings of the
Russian people. On any proper basis,
of morality, fairness and common
sense the American people would
like to help the Russian people. But
what possible benefit the Lenines and
Tchitcherins imagine they can 10
their cause in the United States with
such impudence as the Steklow out
burst is beyond comprehension.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Another Sanford on the Turf.

The victory of the race horse Ser
geant Murphy in the Scottish Grand
National Steeplechase recently was
the first notable success which has
come to the colors Of a young Ameri-
can turfman, STEPHEN SANFORD. Now
that the Irish bred jumper has broken
the ice the fortunes Of Mr.. SANFoRD's
stable in France, where he Is ex-
tensively engaged, will be followed
with interest.
The owner Of Sergeant Murphy is
a grandson and namesake of that
famous sportsman of Amsterdam.
New York, who for many years gave
the residents of that town a days
racing prior to the opening OF the
Saratoga season. None Of his horses
raced before the meeting at the Spa,
and they were asked for their best
efforts when they paradcd for the
citizens of Amsterdam. The occasion
was always holiday in the Sanford
mills and the owner of Hurricane, as
the stud which is now the property
of JOHN SANFORD of the Jockey Club
was called. was as eager in his enjoy
ment of the races as any of his
guests.
STEPHEN SANFORD the elder had
many fine race horses at Hurricane
and never counted the cost when he
wanted particular mare or stallion.
He seldom saw any racing away
from Saratoga, but spent the entire
month Of August there, renewing
friendships with sportsmen from
every part of the Union and taking
keen interest in the horses and their
racing tests.
Like many Of the best turfmen of
the old school, he raced only horses
of his own breeding, and when he
developed unusual specimens, such
as Mohawk H., the best two-year-
old of his year, or Chuctanunda, a
superb miller, he was amply recon-
pensed for the money spent. A fine
type of sportsman was STEPHEN
SANFORD, and his grandson bids fair
to follow in his footsteps.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Safeguarding the Coal.

Secretary HoovER's work in get
ting producing mine operators to keep
down the price Of soft coal is excel
lent so long as the reserve supply
holds out. The speculator who buys
in large quantities at one point of
supply to sell at big profit to an
other speculator for resale at another
point seems put out of business by
the cooperation of the mine owners
with Secretary HOOVER. Sending the
coal at a. stable price straight to the
consumer or to the agency directly
serving the consumer saves the con-
sumers from being plundered by a
chain of profiteers and exacts no
sacrifice from the legitimate coal
interests.
When the coal reserve is exhausted,
as 1t soon will be, however, an all
important thing will be price stim-
ulative Of production by the high
cost mines that cannot now operate
profitably, even though non-union
labor is available in their territory.
The actual production of the non
union mines to-day is something be-
low 100000 tons week. This,
without the rapidly dwindling re-
serves, would put the country on a
fuel famine basis. Every mine that
can produce coal and wants to pro-
duce coal when IL can do so at a
profit, therefore. should be encour.
aged to do so. With general indus
try showing tendency toward grad.
ual Improvement it would be a ma
tional calamity to have all business
collapse merely for lack of coal.
In national emergency stage
may be reached where the mine price
OF coal at given mines may have TO
go as high as necessary to get the
coal out. II could become a national
dnty to get out the coal regardless OF
cost. but consumers might very rea-
sonably object to being asked to pay
such a price when other consumers in
their own competitive field we're OBJ
tanning their coal at very much lower
prices. Industrial consumers, in
fact, could not pay much more for
their coal than their competitors pay
and stay in business.
This is exactly the situation where
a coming system, with pooled coal, the
fat carrying the lean, all authorized
and regulated by the Federal Gov
ernment, could take care of the coal
producer in respect Of his high costs
and at the same time take care OF
the coal consumer in respect OF his
uniform price.
Another thing quite as important
as holding down the price OF soft
coal while the reserve lasts will soon
be the control OF the disposal of the
coal, so that the consumer already
carrying a big surplus, although his
may not be an essential industry or
business, may not go on getting an
unfair share of the scant coal, at a
high price or low price. The pub
lie utilities and essential industries
should get the coal they need. al
The New York herald., 1922-05-23

When the Aquitania Of Nthe Cunard
Line sails to-day for Cherbourg and
Southampton she will carry total OF
1875 passengers. with many notable
persons among the 625 in the first
cabins. The ship will be crowded. as
practically every cabin has been en-
gagged
Lord and Lady Astor who have been
here a month. will be among the voy-
ayers Others on the passenger list
are Sir Charles c. Allen, Jr., and Mrs.
Ernest Fahnestock. Miss NJ. II. Fahne-
stock. Mr.. and Mrs. Cosmo Hamilton.
Mr.. L. Francis Hyde, Mr.. and Mrs
William r. Hearst and three sons, Mr..
Ashbel II. Barney. Mrs. Clifford A. Coch'
ran, Mr.. Clifford A. Cochran. Jr.. and Miss
Jean Cochran: the Hon. Mrs. Alfred
Littleton, Mr.. James c. McGregor Mr.
James c. McGregor. Jr.. Misses A. c.,
Margaret and Mary McGregor, Mr.. ].
Sanford Saltus, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Seligman, lir. w. Willoughby Sharp,
Jr. Mr.. Charles A. de r. Wissmann
Prof. L. Lbman of Mt. Sinai Hospital
Prof. and Mrs. Charles Noble of San
Francisco and Mr.. Bayard Thayer of
Boston.
Also Lieut., Commander 8. Nomura
of the Japanese navy, Mr.. Brando Laz-
arevich. Consul-General of Czecho-SlQ-
vakia; Mr.. Y. Rochira First Vice
Consul of Italy, Mr.. and Mrs. Milton
We'll, Mr.. Gustavus +. Swift, Jr. Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred c. Berolzheimer. Mr.
and Mrs. Irving Bloomingdale, Mr.. and
Mrs. George b. Douglas. Miss Rosetta
Duncan, Miss Vivian Duncan, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Fox. and Misses Mona
and Belle Fox. Mr.. Isaac Guggenheim,
Mr.. William Harris. director Ritz-Carl-
ton hotels: Nine. Frieda Hempel, operatic
singer. Mrs. George A kessler. Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Meeker, Don Guido
Pedrazzni, President Commercial Bank
of italy; and Herbert Rothbart.
Among those sailing to-day by the
Niagara for Vigo and Bordeaux are DR..
c. D. Daniel. Mrs. Louise NJ. Earle,
Mrs. Harry Clark. and Messrs. II. J.
Brown, G. J. Mack. r. p. Gray, and G.
+. Woodward
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Reading for Sailors.
Books Wanted for Ships Of the Amer.
lean Merchant Marine.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Tt cer-
tainly is hard to give everybody square
deal. Many OF the injustices one comes
upon are unintentional. For instance.
somebody has Just called my attention
TO the fact that the sailors off our boats
can get no books out OF the Public
Library.
Now. nobody wants to discriminate
against these chaps who are cut off
peculiarly from all the things that go
with home and fixed environment !:
but the fact that they have no address
in town prevents them from getting out
books. 1t seems as if this little difficulty
might be adjusted, for certainly no one
would agree that II was fair.
But ! see that the, American Merchant
Marine Library Association has come
to these sailors rescue and Is asking all
OF us to send our old books to the New
York Public Library next week to the
shipping entrance, II West Fortieth
street. These books will be put on the
ships of our merchant marine When
you think of what a good book means
to you when you are travelling on the
water you get some idea what 1t means
to these mon. Young boys of imagina-
tive minds and adventurous spirits are
particularly the kind that run off to sea
and they need books more than lots
ot stay at homes
So when we are cleaning UP at this
time of year preparing to move to an
other apartment or go to the country
let's Gull out lot Of the books that are
standing useless on our shelves and send
them to the above address marked for
the American Merchant Marine Library
Association. I'm going to.
Books FOR SAILORS.
NEW YORK, May 81.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Marine Wireless.

Time was along the shore keen eyes
would strain
To mark the black hulls lifting from
the rim;
Reporting stations lashed by Icy rain.
Or scorched when Augusts torrid
tides would brim.
Out from the stranger signal flags would
break,
Gay blocks of color whipping in the
breeze
Slow spelled identity for them to take
And herald fresh arrival from the
seas.
Then when the night crept down upon
the flows,
The snowy rockets tore into the skies
With train of drifting stars, green,
blue and rose,
A vessels passing thus to advertise.
All this is changed and now the wire
less spark
Filings longed for tidings through the
gusty air;
The names of steamers plunging through
the dark,
The transoceanic liners far out there.
THOMAS ]. MURRAY.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
For Three Minutes Only.

Speech is perhaps the gift that mar
has most abused. Hundreds of years
age the best minds recognized the
fact and inveighed against the evil
In the New Testament, in the works
Of AQUINAs and in other classics
there is reproof for the unnecessary
talker. But all in vain; nothing has
restrained the man who likes to
shoot off his bazoo.
The latest reformer in this i'm
portant field is the Quebec Board of
Trade, which has informed its men,
bers that hereafter no speech at any
general meeting is to exceed three
minutes unless the subject is so inn
portant that the prospective orator
can convince the board in advance
that he must have ten minutes to
make himself plain.
Under the Quebec rule a man could
go to public dinner with a SMILE
even under the dryest circumstances.
His soul would rejoice to hear the
toastmaster say: I'VE have with us
tonight, but for three minutes only,
the Hon. Jabez jazz" &c. The hard
ened diners habit of sneaking out
on the principal speaker would be
cured; anybody can stand anybody's
oratory for three minutes.
The Quebec plan is one of the
hopes of civilization. But it must be
enforced by chairmen of iron Wills,
assisted by accurate timepieces Chose
sand glasses used for boiling eggs
would do) and strong. heartless SER
geants-at-arms.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Spiritisn and After.
Relation Of Conan Doyle's Work to
That Of SwedenbOrg.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In an
swer TO your correspondents question
of April 25 on what is religion?" allow
me to say that in each of the quotations
Mr.. Youngman gives there is something
which stands for spiritual life.
How can a man "keep himself un-
spotted from the world" save by living
constantly in the spiritual. not the ma
terial. life? Does not the great COM
mandment exhort US first of all to be
spiritual? For we can only love God.
who Is spirit. by the spiritual part
of us. Even Micah in the Old Testa-
ment calls attention to the fact that we
are spirits in~telling US Ito walk hum
bly, with our God" For only those who
are spirits can walk with God.
But the quotations do more. They
show kind of naturalization Of the
spiritual and thus give us the very
foundation OF spiritualism.
Religion means a binding together.
but this binding is too often limited In
its meaning to the binding of man to
man here on earth. Real religion Is a
binding OF the material to the spiritual
in such a way that the material or
earthly thing cannot be spoken of or
thought on without a correspondents
speech or thought for its source or SYM
onym in the spiritual kingdom. Such
spiritualism Is indeed the very central
prop on which all religion is founded"
Work such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Is doing is good because 1t serves to
call our attention 20 the deeper and
more detailed teaching of the science OF
correspondence as enunciated by the
great Swedenborg. physicist and psy-
chologist. The laws OF Righteousness
and love depend entirely upon the spirit.
which is free and needs no laws.
Swedenborg in his science of corre-
spondences has completed for US the
golden words of Edmund Spenser in his
"Hymne in Honour Of Beautie": "Of
the Soul the body form doth take; for
Soul is Form and doth the Body make"
CHARLOTTE G. MILLER.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. May 20.
The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Parting.

There are so many partings worse than
this:
To separate with fond and grleving
eyes.
And little broken bits Of jest, more
wise
Than tears recalling memories Of bliss,
Or parting that is hallowod by kiss
That is a symbol OF unfailing trust I;
Or leaving one, whom Death ordains
one must
Through hour on lonely hour forever
miss.
Yea. there are partings harder far to
bear:
To live on daily at another's side
When mutual love and sympathy
have died.
And endlessly mask Of pleasure wear
That one may not the world about
them tell
II Is too late for caring--or farewell
CHARLOTTE BECKER
The New York herald., 1922-05-23

A shirtmaker in the city Of Annonay.
France, who for twenty years did not
fail once TO report for work, died the
other day. and from his papers It was
learned he was the Marquis DE MONT
LuzoN, head of a Gascon family IA
nous In the days of HENRY ~. and
by his birth entitled to high place In
polite society The qualities which
made him a faithful and dependable
workman we're the same that raised
his ancestors to distinction. and he
probably was as useful to his fellows
as the best Of them.