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The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Verdant Lane.

A narrow little road called verdant lane
ran along the northern boundary of the
Astor tract. little above what is now
Forty-fifth street. from the Bloomingdalo
called Hudson. Real estate nctoc IN Tur
NEW York HERALD.
A century and more ago
A powered footpath crossed the town,
The rose above. the turf below.
The turf with little blossoms strewn
And there was heard the lowing kline
And smelt the smell of eglantine.
There lovers strolled hand clasped in
hand.
whenas the moonlight flooded down,
Until they came at last to stand
In silken hose and fowered gown,
The rivers silver flow beside
And heard the tapping OF the tide.
Who now shall turn the yellowed page
That told the score OF verdant lane,
And in new and needless age
Revalue all It's loss and gain
Tho rustic peace. tho green cxpanse,
The nights of glamour and romance?
Now Broadway CLEANS. a scImitar,
Athwart the iridescent way
That only fancy conjures far
From that forgotten ancient day.
The ceaseless throng, the endless flow
Pass with no thought of long ago.
Time sets swift pace beneath the spur
OF New York's restless ardor. yet
Tho while we aid we feel stir
Far 6o1yt, IN cf faint ro0rcf.
Regret that, somehow, tempers gain
We never can know verdant lane.
MAURICE NORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
SATURDAY. JUNE II. 1922.
Hindsight at Arverne.

Mayor HYLAN, after inspecting the
ruins of the Arverne fire, announced
that the Fire Department was greatly
handicapped because of bad water
pressure. The Arverne supply, the
Mayor was careful to say. comes from
private water company; and he
added that he would have the city
water system extended to the Rock
away region.
Isn't it strange that the Mayors
Fire Department did not discover
some time in the last four years that
the Arverne water pressure was not
great enough to cope with fire like
that of Thursday night? Is 1t neces-
sary to have two million dollar fire
to learn what might have been
learned through simple tests?
Nor is this failure to know the
pressure all. According to the Euen-
ing Posts news story, 'even with the
reduced pressure many hose lines
burst, seriously handicapping the fire.
men and at one time endangering the
lives of several who had entered a
burning building covered by pro-
teetive SCREEN"
What good would high pressure
have been with rotten hose?
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Local showers
and thunderstorms to-day; tomorrow
fair, not quite so warm, fresh southerly
winds.
For New Jersey--Partly cloudy a.
warmer. probably local thunderstorrns
to-day; tomorrow fair. not quite so
warm fresh southerly winds.
For Northern New England-Showers
to-day; tomorrow fair; mild tempera-
ture; fresh southerly winds.
For Southern New England-Showers
to-day; tomorrow fair; mild tempera-
ture fresh southerly winds.
For Western New York-Showers and
thunderstorms to-day tomorrow fair
and cooler; fresh southerly winds.
WASHINGTON, June 16.--A disturbance
of considerable intensity was centred
tonight over Lake Michigan and moving
eastward. 1t has been attended by
showers snd thunderstorms within the
last twenty-four hours In the region of
the great lakes and over the Northern
States westward to the Rocky Noun
tains.
The outlook for the middle Atlantic
and New England States is for generally
cloudy and warm weather, with local
thunderstorms Tomorrow and generally
fair weather Sunday. In the upper Ohio
Valley and the lower lake region there
will be showers and thunderstorms to-
morrow and fair and cooler weather
Sunday: in the lower Ohio Valley and
Tennessee the weather will be generally
fair Tomorrow and Sunday with sc,.4Ss
what lower temperature on Sunday.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Modern Dangers.
A Thought Recording Camera De-
MES Priyacy's Last Rights.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: So now
our thoughts are being photographed
This is the last straw, and we are sink
ing. What with Sir Arthur telling us
what has been, the fortune tellers let
ting us in on what will be, the prohibi-
tionists commanding what we must not
do. the tax collector debating what we
must do, and now the French scientists
showing us what we are. can any one
truly believe the great war was not
fought in vain?
He says he loves her After he is
gone she snatches the little camera
from the hidden recess in the hollow
tree and develops the plate. The pot
of gold looms large. "Scoundrel He
wants me for my money" / say it isn't
fair.
The world is no longer safe to live
in, or 1t will not be very long. Old age
has accumulated another consolation.
HoLYoKE, Mass, June 15. II. e. B.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17

ATLANTIC CITY, June 16.-Calling on
Senator La Toilette to lay aside 'the
livery of the two historic political
parties" and to put on the livery which
he should wear, and take both the name
and the uniform Ola destructionist."
DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler president of
Columbia University, tonight replied to
the Wisconsin Senator's speech before the
American Federation OF Labor in Gin
cinnati yesterday, in which he urged q
constitutional amendment for Congress
sional veto OF United States Supreme
Court decisions.
II Senator La Toilette wishes to make
war upon our form of government. we
shall provide him with all the light he
can stomach but let him stop boring
rom within and be compelled to attack
America openly from without"
Quoting that part of Senator la Fol.
lette's address in which he said the pur-
pose of those who founded the Govern
ment was that the will OF the people,
expressed through their duly elected rep
resentatives, should be sovereign" Dr.
Butler declared the Senator's speech was
$50 false. and announces political pro-
gram that is so revolutionary as to de-
mand a quick reply"
Our forefathers took care to do
something quite different to what
Senator La Toilette says they in
tended" he said. "They erected a Gov
ernment OF strictly limited powers and
functions. divided into executive. Judi
cial and legislative branches. each one
of which gives effect to the public will.
The power OF judicial review and pro-
lection is distinctively American and
without it we should be swept hither
and yon by the swiftly shifting tides
OF mere opinion"
AS matter Of fact. DR.. Butler
asserted. the legislative branch Of the
Government has come to be less repre-
sentative of public opinion than either
CT the other branches. This is due, he
said, to ''parochlalism, sectionalism and
various forms of self interest and
fanaticism."
1T is far from certain" he con-
when Congress or a State
Legislature passes a law, that that law
has the support of public opinion. For
example, no one but Congress favors
the bonus and few OF them favor 1t
When the Congress meets
the public's heart sinks; and when the
Congress adjourns public paeans rise to
heaven.
Senator La Follette's program is not
new, but it is ominous that 1t should
have been cheered at q convention Of
American workingmen, for those of us
who work have most to gain from the
Of the American system of
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
The Three Mile Limit Wetness.

Whatever the provisions Of the
volstead act are and however the
Department of Justice interprets
them, Congress can very easily settle
the question Of whether American
ships on the high seas may be wet
or shall be bone dry. The mere fact
that under existing shipping laws
and economic conditions American
ships cannot operate as Govern
ment business enterprise without
colossal drafts on the Treasury and
cannot operate as private undertake
ings without heavy subsidies to cover
their losses puts it into the power
of the legislating and appropriating
Congress to control absolutely what
the ships must do to get the financial
help they require.
But trying to dry up the wet for
eign ships sailing in and out Of our
ports is a very different matter. In
the first place, the American Govern
ment has and can have no regulatory
powers whatever over the foreign
ships outside the three mile limit.
In the second place, there already Is
carried on a vast and lucrative trade
Of transshipping liquor beyond the
three mile limit.
This thoroughly organized busi-
ness Is now conducted of our shores
to promote liquor smuggling into the
country. 1t could, however. serve
foreign vessels as it serves American
bootleggers with all the wet goods
needed by them and It would serve
foreign ships II they thought 1t worth
their while to stop on the way In to
store what might be left Of their sup
plies after the voyage across to US
and to stop at supply ship on
the way out to take on stocks for
the return voyage.
Nobody need fool himself abou. the
impossibility Of our keeping wet
goods off the foreign ships inward
bound or outward bound. It is
waste of time to 1egislate, talk or
think on the subject The question
for Congress to tackle in respect of
wet cafes on the ships, therefore. is
how big subsidy it is willing to
grant an American merchant marine
to make up for the losses caused by
being dry on top of the losses caused
by our very excessive construction
costs. maintenance costs and operat-
ing costs.
II might cost the American people
fifty to sixty millions of dollars a
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
ShacIsleton's Grave.

From the London DAILY MdH
The death of Sir Ernest Shackleton wns
absolutely painless and peaceful, said Cap
tain Hussey. who was at tho deathbed
" Tho Boss was very happy In his last
days on board he declared 'As the
Quest. on the Journey down from Rio. ap =.
preached the familiar coast of South
Georgia he told me how no reveled in
every minute of the voyage that brought
him nearer 10 his beloved south. and how
grateful he was to Rowett for making It
possible"
The dead explorer We. laid to rest at the
foot of the frowning heights OF the Gate
OF the Antarctic" on a placid "autumnlike"
afternoon which Unexpectedly followed days
Of snow and tempest. Many OF tho humble
whalers, some OF whom sailed forty miles
20 pay him the last honors. were moved 10
iearo Mt the gravesldc. "Shacklcton." said
Captain Hussey. lis name to conjure with
In the Antarctic. and to the end OF time tho
rough Norwegian whnlers In the long. dark
nights will tell OF his epic boat journey from
Elephant Island TO South Georgia"
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Return of the Batwing Tie.

This summer finds the windows Of
mems furnishing stores full Of bat
wing ties. The shapes are as con-
servative as ever, but the colors run
riot. All the combinations which last
winter appeared in the regimental
four-in-hands are now found In the
batwings.
There's reason for the return Of
the batwing. It is safer in summer
than the four-in-hand.- More than
half the male population discards
waistcoats in June. That same male
population works and plays. The
man who works where there is ma
chinery is courting disaster, accord
ing to the Safety Institute Of America,
il he wears four-in-hand, for "hun-
dreds OF workmen have been killed in
accidents caused by the entangle-
ment of Tapping tie in rapidly re-
volving machinery
The man who plays prefers the bow
tie in the season when the waistcoat
Is laid aside. The end of four-in-
hand, flying in the face of golfer,
puts him off his game. That same
Tapping end is pest in the drivers
seat Of a motor car, whether it is
worn by the driver or the man
beside him.
What's even more to most men, the
batwing looks better and cooler in
summer than it's vertical cousin the
four-in-hand.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
u. S. RECEIVES TACNA
DISPUTE TO UNRAVEL
Chile FollolDs Peru and Hands
Case to Hughes.

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Associated
Press) The tangle enmeshing the
Chilean-Peruvian conference finally was
handed over to the American State De-
partment to-day for unraveling.
Chile. following a lead taken by Peru
more than week ago, took the step
necessary to insure American participa-
ton in the discussions when Chilean Am
passador Matthew visited the depart
ment and laid the Chilean side OF the
case before Secretary Hughes.
Just what the Ambassador told Mr..
Hughes was kept a secret. but there was
an understanding in we'll informed con-
ference circles that the Chilean position
had been outlined in such conciliatory
terms as to make department officials
highly confident of a final settlement.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Confidence.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
/ stay from haste, / take my seat and
wait
Outside this door whose key hold. nor
shall
Unlock, nor enter there. No word I'll
give,
Nor send commands; instead. the act
neglect,
That falls so easily from. nut the hands.
DO ye that are so driven by your desire.
And your immediate need TO do. rush
by
a sentinel will not be moved by thoughts
That sting him---let them swarm and
hive again:
For byo-and-bye, when all has fallen
quiet,
When vast plans have evolved them
selves. and waxed
To bright orbed fulnoss, comes tho
messenger
To seek them that would be the instru-
OF COD, and shall not find me here to
serve,
Unless watt
MARGARET TnorLr CAMPBELL.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
New York Girls.
This Admirer Believes They Are the
Friendliest in All the World.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Having
travelled to all inhabited parts of the
globe and to some parts that are not
inhabited. believe that am especially
entitled to my high opinion of the girls
of old New York. one of the best resorts
of all.
I believe that there are more friendly
girls in Gotham than elsewhere and,
believe me, the friendly girls are the
best. 1t is the friendly girl who makes
friends. real friends, wherever she
goes. and. what's more. she retains
them. Bright and cheerful. she enters
fresh, laughing, and with that happy
impartiality which chases the blues out
OF the window. for they simply cannot
endure her sunny presence.
She never throws cold water on your
plans and even suggests way to make
them even more delightful. so sweetly
and modestly that you really think 1t is
your own suggestion.
She sees the droll side Of things and
has whole hearted way of describing
them that is good to hear. and she has
the humorous eye, which is a gift.
She is receptive and responsive and
prefers to consider all the world honest
and glad until 1t proves itself otherwise.
She gets along too. for folks like her,
she is so captivating. And when she
marries all her friends are glad and
shower her with good wishes.
Here's to the friendly girl of the great
metropolis May she live long and
prosperl JOHN E. SUTHERLAND.
Hot SPRINGS, Va. June Is.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
IN PARIS ON MISSION
FOR THE PRESIDENT
Friedsom Finds France Not
Sinking Responsibility.

Special Gable TO THE New YoRK HERALD.
Copyright. 1899. BY THE New YonK Ii1RAfr.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, June 10.
Michael Friedsam, president of b. Att
man & Co. of New York, who is on a
special mission In Europe for President
Harding. assured THE New YORK HER
AID correspondent this afternoon that his
plans were not fully defined. but that
so far he was satisfied with what he
had learned of Frances situat tion.
My associate. John S. Burke, has
been here for several weeks preparing
data. and from what I've seen and
heard this country is neither shrinking
responsibility nor effort and seems to
be waiting simply for some definite
stabilization in Europe before proceed
ing full speed ahead" said Mr.. Fried
sam.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
With the Police in Jamaica.
Many Watch Lodging Houses. Leav
ing Few to Catch Thieves.

To THE New YORK HERALD: live
in Jamaica and pay my percentage of
taxes. as every one else does The po-
lice service is very inadequate here and
it Is next to useless to report burglary
to the police.
Man power in the force is wasted in
useless details and sinecures. We have
six men who waste. time by watching
two lodging houses Of about ten rooms
each. These men cost the taxpayers
more than $1,000 n month.
When my house was robbed / endeav-
ored to find out why the district / live
in was seldom visited by the police. I
was told that they did not have enough
men.
1t is high time something was done
about the lack Of service here.
A. c. APPLICABLE.
JAMAICA, l.. l., June IS.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Y. w. C.. A. BOARD NAMED
ON NEGRO RACE PROBLEM
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
or the Committee.

A joint committee Of white and negro
women has been appointed to study the
history of the negro race and the present
day problems Of the race. 1t was an
nounced yesterday by the national board
of the Young Womens Christian As
ISOLATION Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Mrs. John Hanna Of Dallas. Mrs.
Beverly b. Mumford of Richmond and
Mrs. Richard Ward Westbrook OF
Brooklyn are the white representatives.
Those Of the negro race are Mrs. Char
lotte Hawkins Brown of Sedalia. N. c.
Mrs. George Z. Haynes of Washington.
Mrs. Frank L. Williams of st. Louis and
Mrs. Ruth Logan Roberts of New York.
The committee will be known as the
Council on Colored Work. Miss Eva d.
Bowles. head of the National Board for
Colored Girls and Women. has been
appointed secretary.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
For Vacation Makers.

With the vacation season in full
sway 1t would be well for everybody
to have knowledge of the Federal
laws regulating conduct in bird or
game preserves.
Many persons ignorant of these
regulations have been thoughtless
offenders, while others have been
wanton in their disregard of the code
laid down for the protection of birds
and wild beasts. Every man and
boy expecting to spend part of the
summer and autumn in the country
should paste in his hat the list OF
things that are forbidden. These
are:
Entering any game inclosure with
out permission.
Carrying firearms without permis-
sion.
Permitting dogs to run at large.
Building or setting fires.
Cutting. damaging or removing
timber or trees
Allowing domestic animals to enter
without permission.
Injuring or destroying signs.
fences or other property of the
United States.
It was the custom at one time for
hunters to riddle trespass signs with
shot, but as UNCLE SAM makes 1t his
business to run down offenders and
punish them severely this practice
will now be abandoned, at least by
those with a knowledge of Federal
justice.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
Columbus and America.
A Protest Against Describing Him as
an ImpOstOr.


To THE NEW York HERALD: Nor
dic'' In his letter says: I'VE are COM
PEELED to protest against the effort to
pass resolution In Congress declar-
ing October ~ legal holiday to be
known as Columbus Day. because we
are required to pay homage to an i'm
postor."
SO to 'Nordic" Columbus is an inn
postor. just because in his four voyages
set foot on North American soil But
am sure all the islands around Amer
lea are considered parts OF the North
American continent.
Any Italian who has the ambition to
send a communication to a newspaper
knows that Left Ericsson was the first
white man who discovered" America,
and no italian will call him an inn
postor just because the people of his
time did not take advantage of his dis
covery. We Italians do not call Hudson
an impostor because he entered the big
river eighty-four years later than Clio
vanni de Verrazzano, who had not the
luck that was reserved for Hudson. who
saw the people of his time take advan-
tage Of his discovery.
II Congress passes the resolution to
make October IL a lega, holiday it will
be only an act Of Justice and Of rever-
ence for man who dared all, who suf-
fered all. for his great idea, an idea
that opened the door of opportunity and
freedom TO millions of human beings.
Personally ! think that "Nordic" Is
one of those who ought to be grateful
to Columbus. more than to Ericsson. be-
cause only after Columbus did the Euro
pean people cross the ocean in quest
OF freedom and opportunity. OF.
NEW YORK, June 16.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
DR.. Butler Attacks Senator La Toilette
Coumbia's Head Opposes Proposal for Congress te
Veto United States Court Decisions.

from the American Legation were re-
fused permission to enter the building
while the delegates of the Russian con-
ference were in session.
When Judge John Bassett Moore came
out from the meeting Of the Permanent
Court of International Justice he was
greeted by his fellow citizens. He found
that the Leader of the party. Harry
Graham, former Collector Of Internal
Revenue at Wilmington, Deia-. hailed
from his native State. An informal re-
ception followed. The other members
of the party were Mrs. Graham, c.
Anderson of Boise City. Idaho, r. G.
Shreve and d. e. Whaling. both OF
Rochester, n. Y, and their wives.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
The Revolving Photograph Stand.

To THE New YORK HERALD: In the
middle of the SOS there was somewhere
on Broadway photograph gallery
where the patrons were arranged on
revolving platform. When the subject
arrived at the proper position the pic
ture was taken and tn. platform "lnoved
on" Will you ask II any of your read
ers can tell mo whose gallery It was?
NEW YORK, June 16. G.. 10. Il.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
On n Modcrn Sfnnmshin.

From the Nation and the dthenneun.
Tho other day great liner, equipped with
all the modern necessities. Including n palm
court well filled With the varied blooms
that spring up In the Atlantic field set out
ON her voyage to New York. The captain.
ascending snngway. met a venerable but
unknown figure wearing the company's cap
and uniform. Are you Of the ships COM
pany. my inan?' '1 am. SIR" what f.
your rating7' pursued the astonished skip
per. please. cir. rm'thc ships gardener"
was the reply.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17

The first case to be tried in Kings
county under the new law which per-
mits annulment of a marriage If either
party thereto be missing and impos-
sible to find for five years has re-
suited in the dissolution of the marital
ties of a man who has not heard from
his wife since 1900, when she disap.
peared after a disagreement concern
ing their place Of residence. This case
will certainly not strengthen objec-
tions to the law based on the fear It
may work for undeserved. collusive
annulments.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17

year to keep their merchant marine
going, wet. 1t might cost them sixty
to seventy millions of dollars year
to keep it going. dry. But at that,
If II seemed worth fifty to sixty
millions of dollars a year to the
American people to have a great
national merchant marine somewhat
moist, they might think 1t was worth
it to go on up with bid Of another
ten millions or so year as the price
of having 1t as parched as a burn
ing desert.
The New York herald., 1922-06-17
U. s. CORNERS ICED CARGOEs.
American ships Carry All Refris-
Grated Goods IN I,oudou

American freight and passenger ships
are now carrying all the refrigerated
cargo moving to London, 1t was an
nounoed yesterday by George III. Wells.
traffic manager of the United States
Lines. Vessels in the weekly service to
London are averaging close to 600 tons
OF packing house products per voyage,
taking virtually all the refrigerated
cargo space.
The provision rate TO London Is so
cents a hundred pounds. which Is more
remunerative than most current freight
rates, SO there Is keen competition
among the lines for this sort Of cargo.
The Reardon-Smith Line. which Is not
bound by conference tariffs. IL carrying
most OF the lard moving to London at 40
cents, but without refrigeration.