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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
No Ban on Women Smokers.

The mo smoking by women" incl
dent was short, quick mystery,
easily explained. BY mistake a clerk
sent to Police Headquarters copy OF
a freak ordinance which had been in
troduced in the Board of Aldermen,
but not passed. The police hurried
out and warned the hotels and restau-
rants that. under pain of imprison-
ment or fine, or both, they must not
permit smoking by women.
OF course it was wooden work. But
if brain of even Glass d quality were
functioning at Police Headquarters
the supposed ordinance would have
been examined and found to lack the
Mayors Signature, and an intelligent
management of the Police Depart.
ment, conversant with the general
goings on of New York, would realize
that no such ordinance could be put
through without attracting plenty OF
attention in the newspapers.
The stupidity of Police Headquar.
tiers served some purpose, however
Thanks to the utterance of the false
ordinance, the town had chance to
express itself on the subject of the
latest phase in the attempted limit
ing of personal liberty. The com
ments from men and women on the
fictitious ukase ought to put that sort
of freak legislation to sleep.
Perhaps the mistake of Police Head
quarters has shown the way to a new
kind of referendum.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
Too Much Sickly Sentiment.

District Attorney BANToN is right
in his opposition to the Westall bill,
now before Governor MILLER. This
measure would give to the Parole
Board the power to release all first
offenders after they had served one
year in prison. This would include
murderers, burglars, highway robbers
and assailants of women.
Even if il could be assumed that
the Parole Board would exercise such
power conservativefy the law would
be a bad one The fear of long
Imprisonment which now restraints
many a potential criminal from an
act of violence would be materially
lessened.
There has been too much coddling
OF criminals. The sweep of rufflan-
ism is in part a result of this senti-
mental regard for the scoundrel. Let
the State look to the safety and COM
fort of the citizens who do not break
the laws, for they are the people who
make the State itself.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29

Oh. never was there such day!
My soul was carried quite away
To frolic In the central blue
With all Aeolus's wanton crew:
To hide itself in those white nests
OF clouds like snowy pigeons Breasts |:
To join the robins chanted glees
And curtsey with the poplar trees:
To dance beneath the naples shade
Where merry nimble sunshine played:
To kiss each willing buttercup
And sip the dew 1t offered up:
To float above the fields and pass
Into the mood OF blowing grass.
All, but my soul was rapt away
So brave and bright and blithe the day!
And Phyllis I" cried ]. Phyllis, come
Come out and taste the golden sum
or all the joys that summer brings.
Come out, and let your soul take
wings!"
Sweet Phyllis came and turned her eye
Up to the sudden paling sky:
She marked the cool and billowy air
That swayed her frock and tossed her
hair:
She saw the galleon clouds. and heard
The song OF many happy bird.
And through the naples sunny showers
She viewed the blowing grass and flow
ers
Sweet Phyllis! how her eyes grew
bright
How lit her face with clear delight
Ny soul came honing straight and
fleet
To kneel in waiting at her feet
TIL off by hers It might be led.
"A lovely day to wash" she said.
GoRroN vEEpER CARRurHt
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
Chicago Men of Guile.
They Used the Masonic Temple to
Swindle Visiting Strangers.

To THE New York HERALD: I read
with interest the account OF the sale OF
the Masonic Temple in Chicago. The
famous building was. I believe. the first
skyscraper In the country. The many
purchasers of the Masonic Temple were
not all gullible rustics by any means.
The Logan statue in Chicago was
once sold to man for junk for $3.50.
He brought wagons to cart It away, but
was stopped. and told his story. There
was a base rumor circulated that the
purchaser was from New York. but no.
body believed that outside Of Chicago.
During the Worlds Fair in Chicago
hundreds of people paid from - to IS
to see the Masonic Temple turn round,
as even at that time the Temple was
considered to be one of the sights of
the city. Several confidence men would
stand across the street from the Temple
and seeing people stop and look with
wonder at the building one OF the men
would approach and remark about the
wonders of the high structure. casually
asking if the visitor had ever seen 1t
turn round.
The answer would Of course be mo"
The dupe would then be told that the
building turned around every hour. the
time selected for the trick always be-
ing ten or fifteen minutes before the
hour. Almost invariably the person
spoken to would say he could not walt
so long. whereupon the confidence man
would say. Il know the engineer very
well and / think I can Ak 1t with him
for few dollars to turn the building
right away" and the bargain was usu-
ally completed. The obliging gentle
man would then take the money and go
into the building. and that was the last
seen of him. w. J. T. MrLIAR.
DERBY, Conn. March rs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
Henry Ford's Strokes Of Genius.

HENRY FoRD's five day week may
be only another proof that his bust
ness genius blazes undimmed upon
his own automobile Industry in
which he is the worlds incompar.
able inventor, manufacturer, sales
man and publicity agent.
1t cannot be that HENRY FoRD has
failed to discover, along with so
many other employers, that the Sat
urday half holiday wasn't any good
as half a work day anyhow. The
workers report ready to quit before
they begin, with their eyes on the
clock and their minds on what they
are going to do after their midday
release.
It cannot be that HENRY Ford has
failed to consider that even he, ex'
actly like other employers, couldn't
get half a day OF work out OK his
men on Saturday for half day of
NY.
II cannot be that HENRY FoRD has
failed to speculate on the very gooa
chance that he. the man who is always
speeding up production, can so speed
II up further that he will get as
many cars out OF his 10000 men
>yorking Ave days week, with a
correspondingly smaller pay roll, as
ba before got out OF them working
five and one-half days a week.
vother employers couldn't do II with
their clerks and possibly the average
labor. for while such workers can
speed down on Saturday forenoons,
With their eyes and brains full Of
the half holiday Ahead Of them, there
i no Henry Ford dynamics to speed
them up the other days. HENRY FoHr
can. His acres and acres Of massed
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.
D'AIbert's concerto Played I
FIRST 'CeIlist OF Orchestra.

Eugen d'Albert's cello concerto in c
major, played by Cornelius Van Vliet, a
first eellist of the orchestra, was the
second number in Mr.. Mengelberg's pro-
gram at the Philharmonic concert last
evening in the Metropolitan Opera House.
Mr.. Van Vliet played the music with
exquisite finish. taste and a polished
style. At the close he was recalled four
or five times. N
The orchestral numbers - both re-
peated from ~. Mengelberg's recent
programs-were the B minor suite, No.
Q. of Bach, which is scored for strings
and flutes, and Tschaikovsky's Pa
thetic" symphony. The Bach music, in
which Mr.. Mengelberg plays the con-
tinuo on a piano transformed to repre-
sent a harpsichord. was received with
delight. His reading of the symphony
is always dignified, yet brilliant, and
brings him genuine success. The audi
ence was large.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29

THE Abuse OF Outdoor ADVERTISING" dis
cusson, Municipal Art Society. Town Hall,
s:15 p. M.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi
Masnes VIII speak at mass meeting on
''Ghandi and World Freedom" Engineering
Societies Building. 20 West Thirty-nintn
street, +. NJ.
Conference on the characterization OF I'm
migrants. Hebrew Sheltering Immigrant Aid
Society, Has Building. 425-4S7 Lafayette
street, +. M.
Or. VIII Durant will speak on Social
Psychology" Labor Temple, Fourteenth
street and Second avenue. s 80 r. NJ
Testimonial dinner to Herbert S. Houston.
Hotel Commodore. p. NJ.
Travel Show. Grand Central Palace. after
noon and evening
Cavaliers. reception and dance, Leslie Ball
Rooms. Eighty-third street and Broadway.
80 T.. M.
Opening OF four day conference on "Edu-
cation and the Public Schools" Community
Church House, Park avenue and Thirty
fourth street, 3 10 Il. NJ.
Fifth Avenue Association, luncheon, Hotel
Biltmore. 1880 T.. M.
Bank Of Manhattan Company. dinner and
dance, Hotel Commodore. $50 p. NJ.
Emmanuel Lodge. U. o. 7. s.. luncheon,
Hotel Aston. p. M.
Hallenback Council, L. A., dinner. Hotel
Jeweiry Craft Association. dinner. Hotel
Aston, p. NJ.
Ice Publicity Association. dinner. Hotel
Aston. z T.. NJ
Columbia Varsity Show. Hotel As,or. I
p. NJ.
Diamond Settlers Protective Association.
meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, s p. NJ
PanchiakI Society, entertainment and
dance. Hotel Pennsylvania. 8 p. NJ.
New York State Laundry Owners Associa-
tion. convention, Hotel Pennsylvania.
New York Medical College. class of 1892
thirtleth anniNt airy dinner, Hotel Commo-
dore, Il. NJ.
Society Of Independent Artists, exhibit,
Waldorf-Astoria, all day.
Hebrew Shelterng and Guardian Society
and Guardian Society OF Pleasantville, bridge,
Waldorf-Astoria. +. NJ.
Klwanis Club. luncheon, Hotel McAlpin,
IL 30 l.. NJ.
Prudential Insurance Company, dinner,
Hotel McAlpin. go p. NJ.
Margaret Inez Ford win speak on your
Undiscovered Self Union Methodist Church,
233 West Forty-eighth street 2:3O p M:
Harriet l.. McCollum Will speak on How
to Grow Brains" S:i5 p. NJ.
Prof Marguerite Clement, lecture. 1.-THE
Partisan Workman" before the League FOR
Political Education, Town Hall, ii A. M.
Mrs. Jessica Lozier Payne win speak on
current events, New York Diet Kitchen Asso-
citation, Aeolian Hall, 1915 A. NJ
Morten r. Porsild. lecture, ',The Flora OF
Greenland Torrey Botanical Club, Museum
OF Naturay History, 3 80 T.. NJ.
DIR. Bernard Clueck will speak on Mental
Hygiene" Federation for Child Study Eth
tcal Culture Meeting House, West Sixty
fourth streeA $3.50 =. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29

has sincerely endeavored to restore
order and peace in Mexico and that
he has met with a higher degree Of
success than other Presidents since
DIAz has been accepted as true by
all who have studied the Mexican
situation for the last quarter of a
century. 1t may well be hoped that
the present effort of the two Chief
Executives will bring about a set
Element which will assure the future
friendship and the commercial rela-
tions between the two countries.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
Government Regulation Drying
Up Railroad Revenues.

The railroad that tries to sell Its
transportation at too dear a rate
measured with the rate of competi
tors, finds itself in the same dilemma
as the coal mine, the pork packer or
the power plant whose product goes
to market above the market price;
the dearer goods or the dearer ser
vice will not sell.
Because OF their very high freight
charges. compared with water trans
portation, the transcontinental rail
roads have had their lumber, coal
steel and similar shipments taken
away from them by the Panama
Canal route to the extent of thou
sands and tens of thousands of
carloads. Even fish, according to
the Fisheries Service Bulletin of the
United States Government, has begun
to come in quantity all the way from
our north Pacific seaboard to Atlantic
ports through the canal. The reason
is the age old business reason-cost.
Railroad freight charges on fish
from Seattle to New York, as quoted
in the Bulletin, are s57.S3 ton, in
Guiding icing charges. But the
charges by the great refrigerator
ships in the business now total only
1920 ton. On fish cargoes sent
through the Panama Canal, there
fore, they offer saving of $20.63 a
ton, and as the big vessels in the
traffic carry as much as 5000 tons Of
frozen fish each cargo of fish like
that represents saving to the ship
pers of more than 100000.
Where traffic, freight or passenger,
cannot shift to other transportation
vehicles like boats or motor cars
to get lower rates it is materially
curtailed. The Travelling Salesmen's
Association reports that its 100000
membership has reduced its travel
ing 30 per cent. because of the high
railroad fares.
But the worst of 1t for the railroads
thus losing their business class
after class, hand over hand, is that
they cannot, under existing circum-
stances, help themselves. The Gov
eminent through the United States
Railroad Labor Board fixes the wages,
which are the principal cost of 6per-
ating the roads. The Government,
through~t Interstate Commerce
Commission, regulates the traffic
rates, being compelled to make them
excessively high to pay the wage bills,
but thereby driving away or drying
up the business of the roads by those
excessive traffic rates.
Operating costs must come down
to permit the freight rates to come
down; and the traffic rates must come
down to save the business of the
roads. That's the proposition in its
simplest form, and 1t is up to the
double action Government regulators
to work out the problem for the sal
vatien of the roads or to give the
roads the power to work it out for
themselves,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
West Side Rapid Transit.
Two More Up and Down Subways to
Relieve Present Congestion.

To THE NEW YORK Herald: In the
matter OF better rapid transit why waste
so much time in useless talk about the
present subways which can only be
improved by running a few more trains
Why not get busy and make plans to
build Immediately two more needed
straight line subways on the West Side
to relieve the present congestion?
These two lines should be built the
one under Eighth avenue and Hudson
street, the other under Amsterdam ave.
nue., Tenth avenue through Gansevoort
Market and Washington street to the
Battery and out to Brooklyn.
This plan would give the West Side
much needed Improvement and outlet
and would pay for itself by Increased
valuation of property for taxation pur-
poses. CRUSHED SUBWAY RIDER.
NEW YORK, March 2s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
joyful Birds.

The robin twitters In the tree,
The bluebird on the fence.
The wren is chatting Of the house
She'll own a fortnight hence,
The scarlet crested woodpecker
Is tapping 10 his mate ~
A telegram about a nest -
Upon an early date.
The catbird, too. is full of jazz
And chuckling Of a new
And charming residence he's found
That has garden view,
And having chosen his abode
The thrush In song relaxes--
No wonder all the brides sing,
They have to pay no taxes.
MrNNA rRvrNa
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
Who Invented Jazz?
A Claim That at Least Negro Band,
Have Made It Famous.

To THE NEW YORK Herald: wisa,
to challenge the statement OF your cor
respondent Herbert S. Renton. who says
that jazz is white mans invention
fastened on the negro.
If this is so the white man has been
long time claiming It. 1t was not until
a few years ago, when this music be-
came the rage In France as the result OF
its introduction by the negro bands. that
the white man ever thought of recogniE-
ing t. II 1t is a white invention, as
stated by Mr.. Renton. the white man
is not making the most of II, for all OF
the leading productions prefer to have
the negro orchestra that can play this
music with the rhythm unequaied.
CLEVELAND G. ALLEN.
NEW YORK, March 2S.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
Medicines to Help Russia.
Surplus Supplies Made Available for
Relief Organizations.

From the Jo.y7tal Of the American Medical
Association.
Surplus medicines medical, surgical
and hospital supplies held by the War.
Navy and Treasury departments and
the Shipping Board will be made avail
able for the Russian relief under an
executive order issued by President Har-
ding. The order is in accordance with
the resolution recently adoNed by Con-
gress. The supplies will be delivered to
the American Relief Administration
within four months from the date Con-
gress passed It's resolution, January 20.
1922, and win not exceed 100000 in
original cost to the Government.
The Relief Association In authorized 10
make tho distribution OF the materials
through its own agencies or those OF
other relief organizations operating in
Russia which may be found in better
position to distribute the supplies TO con-
tralized lotalities
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29

Professor verrill Gives an interest.
ing Account Of Shipworms.

INK ACCOuub Va DnAPWOAAAAcs
To THE NEW York HERALD: Having
.ust read the letter of z. Lenttlhon en-
titled ~Teredos in the Hudson" wish
70 say that I am not dead. as no says
but am very much alive and active.
very well remember the interesting
teredo bored section of large pile that
he presented to the Yale Museum many
wear, ago when / was in charge of It.
That specimen remained on exhibition
until the museum building was torn
down a few years ago to make room
for the Hardness Memorial Building.
That particular teredo is very
large and destructive kind, known scien-
tiacally as xylotrya. It grows to the
length OF a foot or more and makes
equally long holes often half an inch
In diameter.
IL has been known as common on the
southern coasts OF New England many
years, living as far north as Cape COD,
where it was recorded more than eighty
wears ago. 1t was formerly very de-
str,sotiye TO piles and other woodwork
In the harbors of New Haven ana
Bridgeport. but city sewage has prob
ably killed most OF them by this time.
"a Il has most other marine life. II Is
martial to the somewhat brackish water
OF harbors.
Another much smaller kind Is also
common In our harbors and In Long
Island Sound, northward to Cape Cod.
This Ia the famous shipworm or teredo.
both OF this country and Europe. known
I'd science. as Teredo navalis.
It Is the most common and destructive
kind AZ far north as Cape Cod. This
one becomes about six inches long and
n quarter of an inch I'm diameter. but II
can grow to that size I'm one summer. It
ia 80 abundant that II can completely
honeycomb and destroy woodwork In a
short time.
In my own experiences In Long Island
Sound near New Haven l put down
spruce and chestnut wharf tenders June
rs and took them UP September 10. In
these three months those that we're Ave
to six inches in diameter were com
pletely honeycombed so that they would
scarcely hold together when handled
Planks two inches thick were destroyed
even more quickly.
Hickory timbers six inches thick were
entirely eaten off close down to the mud
in water six feet below low tide mark
In two seasons. IL Is well known that
this teredo works far below low tide
I have dredged wood filled with II from
depths Of forty feet or more. The lob
ster fishermen suffer constant losses by
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
A Pennsylvania Meteorite.
IL Was Big Enough to Destroy q Ship
Of the Size Of the CycIops.

To THE NEW York HERALD: hereby
offer evidence in favor of Rossiter John
sens belief that a meteorite struck the
Cyclops.
In 1884 / myself witnessed tho fall
OF meteorite on land Just eight miles
away from whore and the hotel folks
stood. II occurred at Milford. Pa. The
next morning a farmer discovered the
gigantic meteorite in hole In the
ground twenty-five feet wide.
So You see that the size of a meteor.
lite and the tons OF weight could easily
destroy vessel.
LOUIS M. EILsHEMrus.
NEW York, March rs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29

the teredo boring in the stats of their
wooden traps even when set in twenty
Ave feet or more OF water.
Five different kinds OF teredos are
found on the New England coast. Some
of them live as far north as Cape Ann.
Mass. Therefore it is not strange that
teredos are found in New York harbor.
Probably more than one kind is to be
found there.
I may be permitted to add that the
teredo is not worm at all in spite OF
its name. 1t is bivalve mollusk,A re-
lated to the common long clam. 1t has
bivalve shell, but Its shell is small and
covers only a small part of its long.
soft body. 1t bores in wood for shelter.
not for food. A. E. VERRILL.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, March 2S.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
The vizetelly Who Sought Stanley.

To THE New York HERALD: For the
sake Of the record may state that II
was my brother Edward who was for a
time European correspondent OF THE
NEW YORK HERALD and was sent by Mr..
Bennett TO ind Stanley not his younger
brother. Ernest. who died In London,
March 80? FRANK II. vrzETELLr.
NEW YoRK, March 2S.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANftaIIAN AMI Ifth BRONX.
Trend Of the Times" Arthur ID. Reea.
Cooper institute, Eighth street and Fourth
avenue.
plays OF the Hour" Miss Ada Sterling
American Museum OF Natural History
Sevenu-seventh street and Central Park
West.
Samson and Delilah," Miss Marguerite
II. Potter +. 9. 81, Forty-second street,
east of Third avenue. Illustrated by arias
on the Victrola and stereoptlcon views.
Dental Hyelene--What Your Teeth DO
for You and What You Should DO for Your
Teeth" Maxwell T.. Chodos, II. ID. s., r. 8.
10i, i1ith street. west Of Lexington avenue.
Motion pictures.
Tho Mouth, the Guardian Of Personal
Health" Alfred Asgis, y. y. s.. and Ber-
tram Ball, -. II. s.. +. s. 1911. 81. Nicholas
avenue and 12Ith street. Stereoptcon views.
IAN Evening of All American Song" Mime
Bertha Van vliot. Central Jewish Institute.
f25 East Eighty-fifth street. Vocal seleo-
lions.
"The Merchant OF Venice" Miss Mona
Morgan. Townsend Harris Hall, q. @. N. Y.
l38th street and Amsterdam avenue. A
dramatic reading Of the play.
THE Prevention q Cancer" william
Friedman. p. 8. 40. 100th street and Balm
bridge avenue, Tho Bronx. Motion pictures.