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The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-16
aREAT RRITAM ACTS.

WASHINGTON. Oct. I6.-Great Brita5n, sinDs coinmunicstion deliy- cred to the State Department today is understood -fo have declined to asree with Secretary Of State
The New York herald., 1922-02-24

safety. But while these safety zone
markers are in place in the daytime
the Police Department is uncon-
sciously abetting lawless driving by
placing the markers much too near
the car tracks, so near in fact that
there is scarcely space for human
being to stand between the safety
line the markers draw and the side
of the surface car.
What is usually referred to as the
"eight foot law" is a regulation which
was designed to put on drivers one of
two responsibilities. Such drivers
on approaching a halted passenger
car from behind were either to come
to a full stop or else leave at least
eight feet of room between their We
hicles and the car. Just so long as
this law is nullified by placing the
safety zone markers less than eight
feet from a car track just so long will
drives be tempted TO violate this i'm
portant protective enactment.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.


"Trend Of the Times" Arthur d. Kees' AZ
New Era Club. 274 East Broadway-
"BoolS ot the Hour," Prof J. q. Carter
Troop, nj NJ Y. r. L., Woodstock branch
75a East 1G0th street, The Bronx.
,prescnt Day Highway Construction,'
Norgan Hand Jr., at II. s. OF Commerce,
tb5 West sxty-fifth street, Illustrated
"schumann. Mendelssohn and Idszt," Miss
Ma rio Tosephine Wiethan at Wadleigh H. 81
ft5th street west Of Seventh avenue.
"Tbe Future Evolution OF Man" Prof.
Samuel G. Schmucker. AT p. s. B6, Eighty
eighth street east Of First avenue.
"Modern Literary Gems" Mrs Blanch {;
PENNINGTON. ~ r. S. 1872, 1920 street and
wadsworth avenue.
.,The Freedom OF the Slaves, Father
r,ontcI O. Cunnion, at p. s. II, Fordham
street near City Island avenue CITY island
Illustrated
.,rhe Human Voice and How 70 Use It,"
N,iss Marie van Gelder. at p. s. IS, Anthony
and fremont avenues.
nnooKt,YN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
"rrond OF the Times" MR.. Mary y.
tease. M the Boys IT, s., Marcy and Put
nam avenues
The House Of Uncle sam" Or Harry
webb Farrrgton, at +. > 10. van Slckleh
street near Neck road.
"picturesauo Japan Miss Ellen Y ste
vens. nj T. s. ss, Catalina avenue and Fresh
pnnd road, Ridgewdod Heights J.. |.
.t1oi,i" by Mr. sydney NJ usher r. s..
% ttaberton aVeuue. Port liichmond, staten
Island illustrated.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Guards Who Don't Shoot.
Lack of Training With Weapons
Makes HOIdups Easier.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The fire.
uuency of street robberies and the ease
with which they are committed in broad
daylight-the case of the Greenwich
Bank messengers is an instance-sug-
gest a singular lack of care in trans
porting large sums of money through
the streets Though usually the bank
messengers are armed nothing happens
when the familiar command Hands
up! Give me that bag and be quick
about It" Is given.
When mel are equipped with weapons
for self-defense and the protection oil
valuables. money jewels or what not II
is distinctly up to them to be prepared
tc act on short notice or none at all
That they didn't have time to use thelr
weapons shows lack of training or abso'
lutte unfltness for the job.
In every case where such precautions
are deemed necessary the guard and
messenger should be instructed in the
quick use of weapons at any moment
and should have them ready for service.
In most cases the fault lies with the
employer in not training his men oi
lack OF judgment in their selection.
EDWARD WILSON.
NEW YORK, February 23.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
EVENTS TODAY.

DIR. Henry Van Dyke will speak at rally
benefit OF the Woodrow Wilson Foundation;
the Playhouse. noon.
Bishop william T. Manning will officiate
Mt the conservation of st. Simeon's Episcopal
Church, 165th street and Sheridan avenue
The Bronx, II a. M.
New York city committee of the National
Womans party. meeting. home of Mrs.
fdG,f" =. NJ A'"''0nn' ''i f'''n avenue o.
Or. Wellington Koo and Or. Harry Emer-
son Fosdiok will speak on The Study by
Americans Of China's Life, Language, Arts
Straight. 1880 Fifth avenue, $3.50 p. M.
Sunday school of St. Thomas's Episcopal
Church. pageant. Aeoian Hall, "a West
Forty-third street, $3.50 p. M.
Improving Conditions on the Lower East
side,' Recreation Rooms and Settlement
Forum. 1856 Chrystie street. 1880 p. Nj.
Everett Dean Martin will lecture on The
Dread OF Responsibility" Cooper Union.
James A. Hamilton. Commissioners of Cor
rections will speak on Modern Prison Man
agement," Arthur II. Murphy Association,
s62 East fremont avenue The Bronx s'"o
r M.
child welfare Work conference. Cafe Bou-
levard. all day.
University Of Michigan Club of New York.
dinner and meeting, Aldine Club, $3.50 p. M.
Ridgewood Democratic Club, annual en-
IT,
Cooperative Fashion Exhibition. Civic Club.
IL West Twelfth street, 10 A. M. to 10 p. M.
Y. M. C. A. speakers class, banquet, Hotel
Martinique, p. M.
IAN American Looks at His World" lee.
ture by Glenn Frank, Town Hall, 123 West
Forty-third street, II A. NJ.
Solicitor General James M. Beck will lee
ture on 'Franklin. Statesman and Diplo.
mat" Town Hall. 1913 West Forty-third
street. go P. NJ
Representative Nathan n. Perlman VIII
| discuss "Ininigration In the Light OF Recent
| Tlvents'' auspices OF International City CLUB
| library, 203 West 115th street, s:1o 7. NJ
Kiwanis Club. entertainment, Hotel Astor,
| +. M.
Amherst Alumni Association, entertain
ront. Hotel Commodore 80 p. M
oberlin College Alumni Association. con-
| cert Hotel Biltmore, $3.50 p. M.
Wholesale Statloners Association, conven-
/ tlon, Hotel McAlpin, all day.
Motor Corporation OF America, dinner,
| Hotel Commodore, T. M.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
DR.. Benes and Western Europe.

In its message on the forthcoming
LLOYD GEORGE and the French Pre-
mier, M. PoINcARE, the Paris bureau
OF THE New YORK HERALD says that
the semi-official newspapers Of Paris
give credit to DR.. BENfs, the Czecho-
Slovakian Premier, for aiding in
bringing about the meeting. DR..
BENEs went to London in more or
less unofficial character to explain
the central European situation. He
evidently did more than make the
favorable impression" credited to
him by London reports, for lie Temps
of Paris in congratulating him upon
the result of his efforts to arrange
the Anglo-French meeting says that
while "in London he did splendid
work as a conciliator."
It is an interesting phase Of Euro
pean politics that man almost un'
known in international affairs until
few months ago and a representa-
tive of one OF the succession States
Of Austria should have the credit of
bringing about a conference which
men better known had signally failed
to arrange.
The Importance of the meeting and
IT'S far reaching effects may be judged
from the statement Of our Paris
bureau that It is generally regarded
as n sure indication that the Anglo
French differences have reached the
stage where Mr.. LLOYD GEORGE by per
sonal contact can bring about full
agreement" VEvIzELos might have
had the strength to effect such a
state OF affairs, but there are few
other men in central or southeastern
Europe who would have been believed
| equal TO It,
DR.. BENEs is the youngest Premier
of Europe. He is political child Of
/ MAsARYK; he was his student at the
/ University of Prague and he has been
his firm adherent and disciple since
he became President. BENEs's ser
vice as the actuall head of the
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
ny w. J. HENDERSON.

Fevriers opera Mona Wanna" so
long postponed, was performed at the
Manhattan Opera House last evening
The postponement was caused three
weeks ago by the sudden illness OF
Lucen Muratore, the French tenor OF
the company. There was no substitute
for him. He alone could impersonate
the commander of the Florentlne forces
engaged in beleaguering Pisa.
NJ Muratores indlsposition was not
one of the ordinary congested vocal
chords or three day colds of opera sing
ers. 1t was appendicitis and the eminent
tenor had to be put into an ambulance,
hustled off to hospital and subjected
to an operation, just as If he had been
one of DIR. Frank Markoe's patients in
the days of the golden past
1t was given forth after the operation
that If it had not taken place then ana
there NJ Muratore would have ceased
to sing in opera for all time. But hav-
ing passed through the operation trium-
phantly NJ. Muratore proceeded to make
recovery which not even the most
rhapsodic of press agents would nave
dared to predict. All along Broadway
as late as Wednesday evening bets were
placed that he would not sing. But
when Fortune Gallo. Rufus Dewey and
Howard Potter all appeared at the Man
haitian that evening wearing full eve-
ming dress and sunrise smiles there was
much earnest hedging.
So last evening M Muratcre and
"Monna Wanna" were restored to the
stage amid paeans of joy frorn large
audience. When he was seen at the
table in the tent on the rising OF the
curtain on the second act there was ap-
plause, which was speedily hushed in
order that the opera could 60 IN. There
was applause after each of Nj. Mura-
torres important passages in the act,
and after the fall of the curtain he was
recalled maany times. He Was also re-
called after the opera.
There was nothing in his singing or
acting to betray the fact that he had
just emerged after surgical operation.
He seemed to have his usual vocal vigor
and, although perhaps he did not stride
about the stage as much as usual, ne
was sufficiently free in movement to
make his action seem thoroughly spon-
taneous. 1t does not seem necessary to
comment beyond this on his Pt'inseUdHe.
1t is a we'll known impersonation and
will remain a pleasing figure In the
memories of operagoers.
Miss Garden as the heroine was not
in her best form. She was suffering
from a cold, which perhaps had no seri-
Gus effect on the quality of her tones.
but made her singing more labored than
usual. Mr.. Baklanoff repeated his ad-
mirable impersonation of Guido. Mr..
Polacco conducted.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Slaves of the Piano.
Too Many Children Are Forced by
the Vanity Of Parents.

To THE NEW York HERALD: As a
entire agreement with your editorial
article regarding slaves of the piano.
There are far too many children being
forced to practice their piano lessons
that they may perform a few tricks for
friends and relatives to boast about.
You say that usually the mildest and
most obedient child is picked out for the
sacrifice. You are quite right, and this
is just where the parent makes the first
mistake. In the end money would be
saved IL all of the children were given
q fair trial. Then IL one of them showed
an interest and love for 1t he should
be allowed to continue and the others
stopped. Very ofteh It is the wild and
seemingly inartistic child who quickly
develops taste for music If given
fair chance with the right kind of
teacher.
The hope OF their child being poten-
tial Paderewski is where the other mis-
take is made. Unfortunately the fam
lily that progresses from poverty to mod
crate circumstances knows music as a
rule only as a series Of tricks performed
upon an instrument. They pick out a
teacher who makes a reputation for pro-
dIcing pupils who can pound out page
after page of the blackest music. II
by any chance the child falls into the
hands of teacher who attempts to give
him a small insight into the real beauty
of music the parent soon complains that
his child is not learning to play enough
notes or to play them loudly enough to
create any impression.
If the lessons are filed with tears
Instead OF smiles II is almost always
because of the ignorant and insistent
demands made by the parent for results
that his Ignorance can see. A wave OF
understanding seems to he sweeping over
the parents in the last year. The par.
ents OF foreign children in this country
understand what musclanship mean.
and they desire the best and slowest
training for their children. When tho
parents Will learn to have more faitr
In the teachers judgment then we will
have music lessons with smiles and
children who will know and understand
the best In music, although they will
never try to playa Paderewslxi program
RUSSELL SNIvELY GILBERT.
ORANGE, N. j.. February 23.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
The February Garden.

The February garden is the garden l
love best.
It's the easiest to lay out, plant and
sow.
And about the only money you are called
on to invest
Is for pencils and sheet or two, you
know.
1t doesn't make your back ache, for 1t
doesn't grow a weed.
It laughs at fungus, frost. mildew and
scale,
And whatever you may plant there is
quite certain to succeed
have never known a single thing to
fail!
You may have your choice OF corn and
beans. tomatoes, lettuce. beets;
You may have the brightest buds that
blow and bloom.
And all the whhe-which makes 1t the
most wonderful of feats-
You sit there snug and cozy in your
room!
So get out your pad and pencil IL you
haven't yet begun
The spade and hoe and rake and such
can wait.
You will find no other indoor sport in
wolves such scads of fun
Don't put 1t off, or it will be too late
MAURICE NORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
The Coal-Rail Labor Alliance.

The 100000 railroad workers,
coal miners and longshoremen plan
ming an alliance of their forces could
do themselves a high service by con-
sidering and aiming their movement
for the good of the country. What is
bad for the country cannot but be
bad for them as for all others. What
is good for the country is sure to re-
dound to their advantage when they
do their part in working out the well
fare of the country.
There is no possibility that rail-
road workers can gain lasting or
genuine benefit from imposing such
excessive operating costs on the
American transportation system that
farm products cannot aow freely to
the nations 110,000,000 consumers.
There is no possibility that it can be
to the largest interest OF the railroad
workers that the transportation tax
should prevent the normal movement
of general materials and goods from
industry to industry and from fac
tory to market in the volume and
with the regularity necessary to make
employment for wage earners and to
supply the needs of the public.
There is no possibility that coal
miners can support themselves and
their families properly by insisting
upon maintaining war wage scale
that makes the high cost Of fuel pro-
hibitive of industrial activity, shuts
down the coal mines aad multiplies
the ranks of the unemployed in the
coal districts.
There is no possibility that when
excessive transportation costs and
excessive fuel costs throttle the in
dustry and business of the country
there can be enough export trade or
any other trade to keep the long
shoremen busy and prosperous.
What the wage earners of the
United States most need, exactly as
all others need it, is chance for the
country to go to work, .abor and
capital alike. The country cannot go
to work so long as the brakes are on
its productive wheels. And the
brakes cannot be thrown off so long
as workers in essential Industries
keep them clamped on with prohibi.
tive costs.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24

Czecho-Slovakian Government has
been comparatively short, but in that
time he has attracted the attention
of the Governments of western Eu-
rope. He was recently described as
''impeccably honest, wholly without
vanity, clear and MOS s-ank." To
these qualities he owes his political
success.
With the post of Premier he has
combined that of Minister of Foreign
Affairs. He succeeded in bringing
about a series of commercial agree
ments with his neighbors which now
represent treaties that bind together
those nations which arose on the
ruins of imperial Austria-Hungary
He has increased the influence of
Czecho-Slovakia and at the same
time he has materially aided Aus
tria in her recuperation. He has
opposed and defeated fantastic
schemes for a Danube confederation,
and he has held fast to the principle
that the Hapsburgs shall not regain
a footing in Austria or Hungary. To
him Europe owes the conception Of
the Little Entente and the fact that
its union Is strong enough to make
its power felt.
With the passing from power of
VENIzELos the Balkans and the small
States of eastern Europe lost their
most able representative. In their
present critical situation they need
a strong man. 1t would be too much
to say now that BENEs Is that man,
but perhaps not too much to say that
he comes nearer to being a successor
to VENIzELos than any other man
who has arisen in eastern Europe
since the world war.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
The Rhythm OF the Sea.

love the mystic rhythm Of the sea,
It's soft cnsuras, it's majestic beat,
It's swift advance, its thunderous re-
treat,
Its broad expanses rolling full and free.
Was IL not wrought for mighty melody
IL we but hark. its voice your ear
shall greet
Not only with loves lyric low and
sweet,
But with the chant, the whispered elegy
In It's great hymn becomes artlculate
All that man knows of Gods omnipo-
tence,
The past, the present and the vast
to be
And through its songs the solemn voice
of Fate
Speaks in prophetic syllables, ant
hence
love the mystic rhythm Of the sea
ELISABETH ScotLARp.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Mans Descent.
Evolution in the Light of the Ves-
tiges of the Remote Past.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Charles
r. Skinner says: Our schools have
enough to do to-day without teaching
the mad theory that man is a descend
ant of monkeys. This is fad. Let us
keep II out of our schools"
That man is a creature Of evolution
descended from an arboreal or from a
ground ape is not mad theory or
fad. The story of the creation of man
as told in Genesis goes back something
less than 5000 years. The Trinil ape
man of Java, Pithecanthropus erectus,
whether he was a direct or an indirect
ancestor of man, takes us back some
two hundred and fifty to five hundred
thousand years.
The Cro-Magnon race with its highly
developed stone engraving and carvings
on bone OF the then extant but now
long since extinct animals takes us back
say from fifteen to thirty-five thousand
years before the Christian era.
The Heidelberg, the Neanderthal, the
Grimaldi bones and relics with tons of
handworked stone implements are con-
crete and visible evidence that man, a
very primitive man or sub-man, perhaps
devoid of articulate speech, coexistent
with the mammoth, the woolly rhinoce-
ros, the saber toothed tiger, &c, inhab-
tied central Europe as long as two
hundred thousand years ago, perhaps
longer.
If Mr.. Skinner will visit the Museum
Of Natural History and ask to be di-
rected to the Hall of Primitive Man he
can see for himself the cast of the skull
fragments of the Piltdown man, Eoan-
thropus, the Dawn Man, who resided
near London about one thousand centu-
ries ago. He will also find there an In
teresting collection of skull casts and
reconstructions of the Heidelberg, Ne
anderthal and Cro-Magnon men and
their implements.
This is not mad theory. It is a clear
and self-evident fact that man or a
sub-man existed at least a hundred
thousand years before the Biblical Gre
alton. 1t is not a fad to discuss and to
teach what eminent scientists have dem
onstrated by and from the discovery OF
fossilized human remains In geologicai
formations that may be more or less
definitely placed chronologically.
1t can hurt no Christian to learn these
truths nor should they impair his faith
in God the Creator. According to the
biblica! account God created the world
in six days. 1t is not necessary for peo-
pie to believe this statement literally.
The days of the creation may each mean
an aon; the sixth day when He created
man may measure full million years
of evolution A. a. DAL MoLlN.
NEW York, February %.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Booths Own Story.
He Wrote That He Cried "Sic SEM
perr Before Shooting Lincoln.

To THE NEW York HERALD: In your
paper / find a letter from Mr.. Renton
wherein he says he was informed by
certain persons that John Wilkes Booth
did not say "Slc semper tyrannis." or
anything else. when he was In Ford's
Theater. April IA, 1865. the night he
SHOT Lincoln.
This assassin Booth was pursued by
n portion Of the Sixteenth New York
Cavalry and captured at CARROTS barn
in virginia early in the morning of April
26, after he had been shot by Sergeant
Boston Corbett. In Booths pocket after
he was dragged from the burning barn
was found his diary. In this diary.
which has been preserved in the archives
of the Government, the assassin wrote
these words:
"I walked with firm step through
a thousand of his friends was stopped,
but pushed on. A. Colonel was at
his side. shouted sic semper' be-
fore I fired. In jumping broke my leg.
/ passed all his plckets rode thirty-six
miles that night. the bone of my leg
tearing the flesh at every Jump
Booth says himself he used tho words
that have always been attributed 20
him. The Washington papers on the
morning OF April Is, 1865. reported the
words used by Booth as "sic semper
tyrannis."
was in Washington on duty as n SOL
der and on the morning OF April IS
1865, visited the theater where the trag-
edy took place and the house where
Lincoln died in the room on the ground
o. street floor hired from Mrs. Petersen
by Sergeant Clark, Company u, Thir-
teenth Massachusetts, Infantry / made
record of these events in my own
diary for 1865. T. H. ROBERTS.
BRooKIYN February 20.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Hudson Bay.
Authorities In Geographical Spelling
Cited for q Teacher.
Jew YORK, February 23.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: A teacher
writing from New York city asks
Which is the correct form, Hudson Bay
or Hudson's Bay?
The maps published by the United
States Government have Hudson Bay
so have the official Canadian maps. The
title OF the article in the Encyclopedia
Britannica reads Hudson Bay-less
frequently, but more correctly. Hudson's
Bay" The charter Of the company, ac-
cording to a copy in my possession. was
granted TO Hudsons Bay Company. In
the literature Of the Atlantic Monthly
Press, which may be followed safely, the
form Hudson's Bay is used.
One may use either form and be In
good company,
]. w. REDwAY, r. r. @. s.
MOUNT VERNON, February 23.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Pleading for Pu,s.
Justice for House Cats as Well as
Sympathy for Birds.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: It is
strange that certain persons have such
intense sympathy for the birds and none
whatever for the poor house cat
A bird killing cat is an exception to
the rule. and If any do form the habit
the owners are to blame for II. This
persistent and continuous clamor against
the cat is kept UP by prejudiced few,
and 1 hope the New Jersey people will
Asee fair play and not permit the pas
sage OF the proposed license law.
The birds have their own sphere and
they have enemies in that sphere. Cats
rid the house and garden of the real
pests, rats and mice, and without their
vigilance our homes would be under
mined and ruined.
Even human criminals have the ben
eft of the doubt and it should also be
given to the cat. Every lover of the
cat should protest against the proposed
law. Cruelty against cats should not be
tolerated for moment. c.
RIvERDALE ON HUDSON, February 23.
The New York herald., 1922-02-24
Helping the Knot Hole Club.

That somebody with heart Is as.
sociated with the st. Louis Baseball
Club is evident from it's custom of
admitting boys free of charge to a
section of the bleachers on certain
days. 1t is good business also. En-
couragement given to this so-called
Knot Hole Club will build up a
supporting sentiment for one of our
most popular pastimes. The boys
who to-day are admitted free to the
bleachers will be the paying specta-
tors tomorrow. They will feel a 10y
atty and enthusiasm for the home
team which they would not feel had
they been harried by the special police
who have a way of putting in an ap-
pearance and driving fellow from
his own particular knot hole at a
critical stage of the game.
st. Louis has always been an ex-
cellent town for baseball. Back in
the old days CoMIsKEY, BOBBY
CARRUTHERs, BUsHoNG and LATHAM
were conspicuous members of an
almost unbeatable nine. st. Louis
may not succeed in winning<the pen
nant this year, though she has a
strong aggregation with the great
HoRNsBY as a star performer, but II
is safe to say that every member of
II L II.
rooter for BRANCH RIcKEYs team.