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The New York herald., 1922-06-05
The Power of Comedy.
It Defeats One McCumber Item In
the McCumber Bill.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
correspondent who recently suggested a
Senate tariff debate as basis of a
comedy should make a scenario out or
the only item of tariff tax which the
committee lost. that on cyanide. which
was placed on the free list. l don't
know just what cyanide Is, but 1t is
made out Of air, as / gather from read
ing the debate. by Niagara water power
ir two plants, one on each side OF the
falls, and the product is chiefly used
in peace times for getting gold and
silver out of ore. the plant on the
American side is owned, so 1t was as
serted in the debate. by the Roessler
e. Hasslacher Chemical Company; the
plant on the Canadian side by some
Yankees in Maine corporation.
The American side plant wants pro-
lection from the Canadian competitor
because. according TO Senator Stanley,
the law OF gravitation works more
cheaply on the Canadian side accord
ing to Senator williams. he water in
the Canadian falls has teen pauper-
lied. From that start a learned dis
cussion followed. some Senators assert
ing that the well known low cost of air
IT Canada put those who make cyanide
out of the higher priced American air
at disadvantage which only a tariff
tax could cure: others declare that Ca
madam electricity drudged night and day.
while the American sort played all night
doing radio stunts and in the day time
had no pep to snatch nitrogen out Of
the air.
All. the power OF comedy The tax
on an air product was joked to death,
whereas those items iaboriously and
solemnly scolded either sit tight in the
schedules or go higher up. FREE AIR.
EAST ORANGE, N. j., June g.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Coddling in Prison.

There Is good deal in what JUS
tice MARTIN of the Supreme Court
says about the relation between
crime waves and the change in prison
methods. 1t is one thing to make
our prisons sanitary; quite another
thing to make them attractive.
Some Of the prison reform people
have gone too far in their efforts to
soften the life Of the convict. JUS
tice MARTIN truly says that it is
ridiculous to send men to Sing Sing
and then let them enjoy tennis, mo-
tion pictures and other pleasures be-
yond the purse Of the poor man who
is robbed on the streets. And the
Judge justly condemns the bringing
of high school boys into a prison to
play ball with convicts.
Society locks up the malefactor to
protect itself and, through his pun
ishment, to deter others from COM
mitting crime. It's duty toward the
prisoner lis to preserve his health
and show him his error. But when
it coddles him and leads him to
think that there is little to choose
between freedom and Imprisonment
it is encouraging him to resume his
offenses and it is multiplying the les.
son which his punishment should
be to others.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
When the Supreme Court Acts
on Laws.

When the financial mint in Wash
ington turns out coin we know that
II is good; 1t is final, authorized. in
disputable. Any one of us would be
willing to take thousands OF these
coins or have them forced on US
without a protest.
When the legislative mint, called
Congress, turns out law it is not
final and indisputable. 1t may cir
culate for years, affect the life and
conduct of thousands for good or for
i'll, for justice or injustice. and be
unquestioned. Then some day some
one regards it critically and detects a
dull, leaden gloss on it; it does not
sound right when rung on the
counter.
1t is taken into the testing room
of the nation, called the Supreme
Court, and it is weighed in the bal
ance of the Constitution and de-
clared TO be unconstitutional This
means ii is no good, counterfeit or
worthless as lead nickel.
1t would be a good thing II this
testing could be done before passing
it instead of years after. But surely
that would mean scores and scores
of Supreme Courts passing on hun
dreds of thousands of bills dumped
upon the Supreme Court by ignorant
and careless legislators. So that
could not be.
In 1919 Congress passed the child
labor law. The other day the Su-
rreme Court decided it was null and
void because unconstitutional. 1t
was intended to restrict the employ
ment of children under ID in any
mill, cannery, workshop or factory,
or in any mine or quarry under 16
years, by imposing an excise tax of
10 per cent. on the net annual profits
of those employing such labor.
The law was held invalid as an
attempt by Congress to regulate
through its taxing power something
entirely within the jurisdiction of
the various States. The intent of
the law was humanitarian, the end
to be accomplished was commend
able, but the passage of the act was
wrong. Congress had no power to
forbid child labor in the States. 1t
had no constitutional right to make
child labor a crime or misdemeanor ;
therefore it should not have acted
at all. The tax was a form of pun
ishment, penalty. But as Con.
gress could not make law forbid
ding child labor 1t was manifestly
absurd to punish for breaking law
that did not exist.
1t was subterfuge, an undignified
attempt to get around the Constitu-
ton. Reformers, honest and jealous,
we may assume, often weary at the
slow growth of reform snailing it's
way through forty-eight States, seek
Federal action, either forgetting or
not knowing its limitations.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
The Refrigerating Star.
Colder Weather Predicted for Both
the Sun and the Earth.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Here is
the first mathematical explanation of
fifty year weather cycle.
The sun moves in an immense or5i.
Ground the giant sun sirius. as is
proved by the axial positions OF planets
cnd certain eccentricities and inclina-
tions of orbits And the Companion of
Sirius, another sun, moves In small
orbit around Sirius once every flfty
years, like the little planet Mercury
around the sun every few months.
In 1862 the Companion was In that
part of its orbit where It began NOV
ing toward us. thereby repelling or fore
ing the earth, sun and solar system
outward little from Sirius. a great
source Of heat. and cooling the tenn
perature of the solar system, which re-
suited In Increased sun spots or holes
in the fiery cloud of the sun. where
portions of tho fiery cloud condensed
and rained back to the main body Of
the sun. thus leaving spaces or holes
in the metallic clouds called sun spots.
1t not only resulted in colder weather
on the sun, but 1t caused colder weather
on the earth. as. for example. tile cold
winters Of the '70s and sos.
In 1918 the Companion of Sirius was
again at it's greatest distance east Of
Sirius and began moving in its orbit
il idirectly toward u.s. resulting in in
creased sun spots. and it will be followed
by colder winters on the earth. scat
tered through the next twenty years.
The normal annual temperature at
Kansas City Is about 81 degrees. but 1t
was about 81 degrees in 1869. 1873. 1875.
1888, 1884 and 1885. being from seven
to twenty-three years after the advanc-
ing of the Companion began repelling
us away from Sirius in 1852.
The difference in the positions Of our
planets now and fifty years ago will
vary the monthly result some, but much
colder winters will be scattered through
the next twenty years.
d. A. N. GROVER.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-. June 2.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05

of town celebration, especially II
the season mad been a successful one.
The slump in the price of whalebone
and the substitution of mineral for
sperm oil put an end to the roman
tic days of whaling; whalers became
derelicts and their captains turned
to the prosaic coast trade. The de-
parture of the Herman passed prac-
tically unpoticed.
Her captain is both whaler and
trader. Built of Australian iron
wood, his ship can withstand ice foes
and bergs and can carry the Ameri-
can flag to Wrangell Island, around
Point Barrow, to Mackenzie Bay and
along the north Siberian coast. To
those far north ports she is and is
likely long to remain the lone whaler
Of the Arctic.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Last of Old Pacific Whalers.

The marine news of the San Fran
cisco papers recently reported in a
brief paragraph the departure of the
ship Herman Captain G. T. PEDER-
SEN, from that port for the Arctic
regions The Herman, it may be re-
membered, in 1914 went under the
same master in search OF STEFANs-
SON and his exploring vessel, the
Karluk, and in 1920 she was the res
cue ship Of Captain RoALD AMUNDsEN
and his crew after their shipwreclS
on the north Siberian coast. The
stanch old vessel has yet another dis
tinction in that she is the last rem
nant Of the fleet of sailing ships
which more than half century ago
left San Francisco yearly for the
north Pacific whaling waters.
Whaling is apparently still profit
able in parts of the Pacific, but 1t
is carried on by entirely different
methods. Stations along the Wash.
ington and British Columbia coasts
last year reported an unusually pros
porous season. Whale hunting and
the preservation OF whale products
are now largely under the control
OF companies which send out steam
ships equipped with special machin-
cry for carrying on the industry on
an extensive scale. In this modern
industry there remains little of the
excitement and romance OF the days
when the sails Of the great fleet of
wooden whalers whitened San Fran
cisco harbor.
Ships gathered there from all ports
OF the world. The more adventurous
masters from Nantucket and New
Bedford went there to make try at
fortuna-in Pacific waters when the
Atlantic fisheries were beginning to
fall of In production. San Francisco
was then In the widest days of the
gold rush and its waterfront was at
its wickedest Many were the strange
tales OF adventure brought home from
the Pacific by the Yankee sailors,
tales of seamen shanghaied and car
ried away to the north of mutinous
crews and scuttled ships, of boats
crushed by harpponed whales, Of
fights over prizes and of fortunes in
oil made in voyage.
The sailing of the fleet was a big
event in San Francisco and the whole
town watched from the hills until
the last san disappeared. The re.
turn of the ships was the occasion
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Success in Growing Rubber.
Depends Largely on Planters Ability
TO Handle COOlie Labor.

Malaga correspondent London DAILY Mail
ANIL mani. Dorai'' Give O'clock
sir). The watchman's voice. at last
penetrates my dreams and l sit up in
bed. rub my eyes, work my way out
of the mosquito net and-the planters
days work has begun.
AS / hastily consume a cup of hot
cocoa from the vacuum flask the first
faint flush OF dawn tinges the eastern
sky and 1 sally forth to muster"
Muster consists chiefly of about one
hours work compressed into the space
of ten minutes.
On many estates the labor force is
made up of three nationalities-Tamils,
Telegus and Javanese. They are di-
vided into gangs of tappers, weeders,
drain diggers and pests.
The names are called, absentees noted.
leave is doled out men are allocated to
special jobs and all are sent away to
work with the least possible delay.
Daylight Is soon upon us and the
work is done as much as possible in
sometimes even cold-and the trees
yield more rubber than later in the day
when the heat is more evident.
Having despatched the coolies to
work, the planter holds court, that is,
he inquiries into small complaints such
as wife beating. pilfering and debts
and deals out Justice with firm hand.
Here delinquents are brought before
him and punishment is meted out to
them. More serious cases are usually
heard at the bungalow later in the day.
Breakfast takes about half an hour,
and from then until noon the time is
spent in trudging around the estate and
experimenting tapping operations. which
require very careful supervision. and
the various field works in progress.
The rubber is received at the fac
tory about noon and after tifiin and a
short siesta there are the field gangs
to visit. and IL is seldom that home and
welcome tea and cold bath are gained
before o'clock. Then there are books
to make up. a task which probably
takes anything up to an hour.
There is usually a club somewhere
near to which one can go to play bridge
or billiards. and. IL one is lucky, get
some dancing.
Some large estates have their own
club. and IL there are any women folk
in the district the planter can lead
quite n pleasant social life.
The successful planter must be versa
tile in his accomplishments. He must
know one language pretty thoroughly
and have a smattering OF another.
His other requirements must include
at any rate the elements Of agriculture,
bookkeeping. medicine, first aid and
mechanics.
He must also be tactful, confident
and resourceful His job depends on his
relations with his coolies, who are OF
various nationapties and require skill
full handling.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Pictures of Royalty.
They May Interest Even the Most
Consistent Democrat.

To THE NEw York HERALD: To one
whose Amerlcanism is not measured by
his hatred OF some other country the
pictures of foreign royalties published
in our American newspapers are quite
MS interesting as any other pictured
phase of foreign life.
In these times In enlightened coun-
tries kings do not govern either with or
without the consent of the governed, and
the peoples OF these countries aspire to
maintain the institution not because It
is forced upon them but apparently be-
cause they like 1t.
That the newspapers Of America are
In a conspiracy to force a kingship upon
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Lilies Of the Valley.

We love the sheltered shady hooks
Whore green and tall the grasses gro "
And dewdrops gather on the blades
Like beads of silver In row.
Each flower upon our slender stems
OF emerald is an ivory cup
Filled with wonderful perfume,
Which fairies In the moonlight ssup.
Reclining on our silken leaves
They sing and gossip while they sip
The fragrance from our goblets so
Delicious to an elfin lip.
And 10! when Queen Titania Puck.
And dainty little Ariel
Have quenched their thirst. we're
washed and all
Hung up again by Tinker Bell
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05

Definite and far reaching plans TO
bring about a comprehensive and con-
else restatement of the existing laws.
both Federal and State, and. to unity
the methods of teaching law In all
schools and universities. were announced
yesterday by the American Academy of
Jurisprudence, an organization founded
In 1914 to cooperate with the American
Bar Association in simplifying the laws
and the machinery for the administra-
The project is being financed by the
legal profession, and the profits accruing
from publication and other sources will
revert to an endowment fund created
by the American Bar Association and
the Academy of Jurisprudence for the
perfection of the work of restatement
and other activities for the Improvement
of law and the administration of justice.
Bearing upon this. the academy intends
to establish central office in New York
to assemble and distribute legal knowl-
edge throughout the country.
Noted lawyers identified with the
movement include William II. Taft.
Charles L. Hughes, Elihu Root. Alton
b. Parker, Martin w. Littleton. Paul D.
Cravath, Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard
Law School; Hampton L. Carson. Will
lam Brosmith and James b. Scott, Sec
retary of the Carnegie Foundation for
Peace, and many others from all parts
OF the country. James De Witt Andrews,
chairman of the American Bar Associa-
tions committee on classifcations and
restatement. has been in active charge
of the work.
The proposed restatement is contained
In a comprehensive library made up of
three units coordinated by a common
classification providing easy reference
from one TO the other The first unit
consists Of two volumes with an institu-
tional. philosophic analysis of the law,
bringing out all elemental relationships
as we'll as rules and leading precedents.
The second unit contains twenty vol
umes. embracing a restatement of the
whole body of the actual law as 1t now
exists. with exhaustive references and
citations to authorities. Unit three Is
made up of 100' volumes, containing
cases selected by leading legal scholars
from the American and English reports
beginning with the Year Books and ex-
tending through to the present and cur
rent reports, thus giving continuous
account of the growth of the legal
system.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Marion Harland.

j. would be as interesting as it is
Impossible to know exactly how much
benefit; to humanity resulted from
the work of MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE,
who died the other day at the age
of 81. Few knew her by that name,
but American wives and their moth
ers and grandmothers knew the
works Of Marion Harland, the name
under which she wrote.
Not many writer's have had pub.
lished more volumes than Marion
Harland, None exceeded the span of
her literary productiveness, which
stretched over seventy years. She
was famous novelist ten years be-
fore the civil war. and it was only
three or. four years ago that she
rested from her labors. To visualize
the length of life like hers we must
remember that when she was born
JACKSON was beginning his first
term; General MONROE was still
alive; LINCOLN had just moved to
Illinois: POE was a cadet at West
Point. JAMES G.. BLAINE and CHEs-
TER A. ARTHUR were born the same
year, 1880.
But work is more important than
years. Marion Harland took full
advantage of time. Her novels, be-
ginning with Alone" which she
wrote seventy years ago, entertained
tive generations. And her cookbooks,
her household guides-how many
homes were made happy by them,
how many brides were saved from
shipwreck by these charts Of the
treacherous culinary seas
Mrs. TERHUNE was a fine old fash
ioned woman who was able to inn
part the wealth her wisdom and the
sweetness of her philosophy to mil
lions. The reward of her zeal and in
dustry was not small She must have
known what was true, that there
was no American city so great, no
crossroads village SO remote, but that
the name of Marion Harland was as
familiar there as II she had been q
President of the United States. Not
only familiar but accepted as the
name of friend.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Generally fair
to-day and tomorrow; mild tempera
ture; moderate south and southwest
winds.
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy, prob
ably local showers In south to-day; to-
morrow fair; mild temperature; eeutle
southeRly winds.
For Northern New England-Fair to-
day and probably tomorrow; mild tenn
perature; gentle southwest winds.
For Southern New England-Generally
fair to-day and tomorrow; mild tenn.
perature: moderate south and southwest
winds.
For Western New York-Generaliy
fair and warmer to-day and tomorrow,
gentle south and southwest winds.
WASHINGTON. June 4.-The air pres
sure was high tonight over the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts and local over the
region between the Mississippi River
and the Pacific. with the maximum de-
preston of the barometer over the west
ern Canadian provinces.
The temperatures have risen since
Saturday over the Northern States
There have been local rains within the
last twenty-four hours in New England
and the Atlantic States south of Mary
land, Alabama, western Texas and upper
Michigan.
The outlook is for continued fair
weather tomorrow and Tuesday in the
north Atlantic States and unsettled
weather and showers tomorrow and
Tuesday in the south Atlantic States
NO important temperature changes are
indicated for the Eastern half of the
country during the next forty-eight
hours
=, ooservations at United States Weather
bureau stations, taken at 8 p. M. yesterday.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05

of high commercial value. Under
one roof and spread over an area the
equivalent OF four city blocks will
be displayed and marketed at whole
sale such a variety of merchandise
of the kinds specified as probably
never before has been got together.
Manufacturers and retailers from
every State in the Union will come
into personal contact and enjoy op-
portunities of great potential advan-
tage to both.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Reeds by the Lake.

Reeds that sway in the wind
BY the limpid marge of the lake.
Would that the secret I might find
or the melody that you make
| would catch II to heart.
But it ever eludes my art
Yet one day (who can tell7)
The mystery Of the spell
The golden spell--may break,
And shall capture
The rapture.
Then once O once again
The orphlc chords will quiver. and
wake
The slumbering ears OF men
CLINTON ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-06-05

Some of the Industrial Workers Of
the World who left America in March
to engage in a communistic expert
ment in Russia under the direction Of
Big BILL HAYwooD and LENINE are
already dissatisfied with conditions
under the Soviet and are seeking
means TO return to this country. They
are like many other radicals" who
long for revolution without knowing
what revolution means. Most of our
ambitious destroyers OF society would
reform. their notions 10 enthusiastic
conservatism II they had first hand
knowledge of the plight of Russia
The New York herald., 1922-06-05
MONDAY. JUNE 5, 1922.
When the Coal Pinch Comes.

There are two distinct phases OF
the coal strike situation, one having
to do with the anthracite, the other
with the bituminous product. AS the
hard coal supply very largely con-
Germs householders and their heating
no crisis will come from that source
before frost, although virtually no
hard coal at all has been mined for
more than two months.
Very different is the bituminous
situation. Soft coal does not merely
provide heat in winter for the mass
of Americas population throughout
the South and generally west of the
Allegheny Mountains; it is the driv-
ing power of American industry
everywhere all the year round.
Since the first day of April the
railroads and the power plants of
the country have been consuming
twice as much soft coal every week
as has been taken out Of the ground.
The moderate surplus supply which
was on hand when the strikers
walked out nine weeks ago has so
dwindled, therefore, that without a
big increase in non-union production
national industry will begin to feel
coal shortage pinch before the
Fourth Of July.
ho h tt,v,, iv,o no q a
doing much of anything to resume
production in the union fields or to
speed up production materially in
the non-union fields they are keep
ing the fact dark secret. On the
other hand, the anthracite operators
are forcing the issue with their strik-
ing miners by putting it up to the
strike leaders that since the two par
ties cannot reach an agreement the
owners will leave the whole case,
wages, working conditions and every
thing. to a commission to be named
by President HARDING.
II the strike leaders refuse this
proposal they will put themselves in
an awkward. position with public
opinion. The anthracite burning pub
lie will not suffer from lack of heat
until late autumn, but the coal must
begin to go into the bin before sum
mer is over so that the fuel will be
available when freezing weather does
arrive Let the anthracite strike
leaders reject the operators offer to
have Presidential arbitration body
settle everything and the public will
demand that the strike be broken,
IL necessary by force.
Without public sympathy no strike
involving necessaries of life can ever
get very far. With the public hostile
to the strikers their cause is hope
lessly lost.
While the anthracite situation thus
takes on better aspect from the
point OF view of the public's interest,
the bituminous operators will have
to do something vigorous and effec-
tive before many more days have
passed to get out the coal needed to
keep the wheels of American mills
and factories turning and to hold the
wage earners in American industries
in their jobs. II they do not the pub
>lic will scarcely fail to demand that
the bituminous owners agree that a
Presidential commission shall do
with their mines what the anthracite
owners offer to have done with theirs.
The country cannot be allowed to
run out Of fuel. When the coal pinch
comes something will have to be
done to get out the coal.