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The New York herald., 1922-02-28
Work for the Dali Eireann.

The Dali Eireann, which remains
in existence until the Irish Free
State is put firmly on its feet, returns
to work to-day under the leadership
of ARTHUR GRIFFITH. This Irish Par
lament has plenty to do in clearing
away obstructions which have fallen
in front of the Provisional Govern
ment. Carrying on the agreement
with Ulster regarding boycotts and
employment, ironing out dissatisfac-
tion in the Irish Republican army
and in general offsetting the work
of DE VALERA and his followers are
jobs for the Dali Eireann as well as
for the Collins Government.
Fortunately for Ireland GRIFFITH
seems to be as good in diplomacy as
he was in rebellion. He has returned
from London to Dublin satisfied, as
he says, that the British Government
is standing by the terms Of the
treaty; and to this he adds pledge
that the Sim Fein' majority intends
"to do all in its power to carry out
the treaty both in letter and spirit"
So long as GRIFFITH and COLLINS
hold together, so long as both main
tain an amicable understanding with
the British Government and so long
as Ulster leans at all toward future
friendship with the South nobody
need despair of the Irish situation.
OF course there are Mr.. DE VALERA
and his disappointment. The former
leader of the Sim Fein may be carry
ing out the letter of his agreement
with the Griffith party, but he is not
acting in the spirit of it. In Liner
lex and Clare De VALERA and BoLAND
are trying to paint impossible visions
on the Irish horizon. DE VALERA i'm
plores his audiences to tread the
narrow path of sacrifice" This
sounds very much like MAzzryI, but
De VALERA has neither the Italians
character nor his cause. DE VALERA
offers nothing but war. and, as the
Bishop of Killaloe said in his pas
toral letter last Sunday, "the bulk of
the Irish people are tired Of war;
they long for rest; they long to be
let alone. Unless we are careful we
may find ourselves one day without a
treaty or a republic"
1t happened that De VALERA was in
church and heard this wisdom, which
is probably the epitome OF Irish
thought. But hearing and needing
are not the same. The role of agita-
tor was sweet to DE VALERA and he
dislikes to lay it aside. So during
the three months which must pass be-
fore the Irish elections are held he
may be expected to talk good deal.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
A Lighthouse for Columbus.

The suggestion that monument
to COLUMBUS in the form of light
house be erected on the island of
Santo Domingo has an appeal aside
from its commemorative feature. II
built by subscriptions from all the
countries in the Western Hemisphere
IL would be in the nature of a bond
of union among all the Americas.
Whether the mortal remains of
COLUMBUS are in Santo Domingo or
Spain is immaterial. The proposed
structure would not be the tomb of
COLUMBUS, whatever it was called.
It would be a monument to his
achievement in revealing the New to
the Old World.
Concerning the nationality of
COLUMBUS, the place OF his birth and
the place of his final burial there
has developed an obscuring mist. 1t
has been said that he was an Italian,
that he was a Portuguese and that
he was a Jew. Genoa and half
dozen towns and villages around
about Genoa claim TO be the Column
bus birthplace. COLUMBUS himself
possibly knew as much about where
he was born as anybody else, and
COLUMBUS said and wrote and put
The New York herald., 1922-02-28

for the insane were mere places Of
detention was abandoned. They are
now popularity as we'll as profession
ally regarded as establishments for
the cure of diseases. The number
of patients Obliged to seek treatment
in them would be greatly reduced if
the public could be educated to look
on mental disorders as other diseases
are looked on, and not as Affections
to be concealed. Among many sem
sitive persons there exists morbid
reluctance to acknowledge the pos
sibility that member of the family
needs or can possibly need attention
from an alienist, and the delays due
to this feeling are responsible for
much unnecessary suffering.
Mental diseases imply no disgrace.
II this were commonly understood
a notable advance in public wellbeing
would be accomplished.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
Preventing Mental Breakdowns.

That certain mental diseases may
be prevented from developing into
serious Affections IL competent ply
sicians have opportunity to treat
them in the early stages Of their
progress is a fact well established
by experience. To avert absolute
breakdowns victims of such disor.
ders need only the care which can
easily be given in their homes.
In New York State mental clinics
are conducted by the State hospitals
for the insane. These patients may
attend for examination and advice.
Forty of these clinics were held in
1921, and 1929 visits were made to
them, 1928 of these being first Wis.
its. That in an appreciable number
OF cases these first visits prepared
the way for treatment that restored
the patients to mental soundness or
arrested the advance of mental dis
eases is recognized by all authorities
on disorders OF the brain. In many
Of these cases the sufferers, had they
remained unattended, would un-
doubtedly have become charges on
their families or the public.
In recent years there has been
marked improvement not only in
hospital treatment of persons whose
reason has become impaired but In
preventive work and in protective
treatment after the release of indi-
viduals whose condition has been bet
tered by hospital treatment to a de-
grea permitting their discharge.
Lohg ago the notion that hospitals
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
An "Odious Approximation"
A Forceful Complaint Against an
Unpopular Indian Administrator.
From the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Guardian.
While non-cooperation Is occupying
the minds Of so many in India, evidence!
of a desire for more cooperation be
tween the two races are not to be ig
nored. That this Is the desire of tn,
peasants in a certain district in tn,
south is evident from a letter that they
have just sent to the sub-regional officel
of the p. w. D., which opens:
As sufferers. we feel II our privilege
and duty to the humanity to bring to
yoyr hono-'s notice in a spirit of the
most earnest friendship the following
few lines which affords your honor
lasting cause for gratitude and happi-
ness from us poor ryots.
No Government is to-day so much in
the public mind In this part of the coun-
try as the superintendent whose unhal-
lowed existence Is echoing daily by his
new acts of fraud and deceit which
day by day continue to grow more and
moro. He appears to be the embodl-
ment Of an ideal dedicated to the
Satan's impurity and thraldom. His
stay here is an endless trouble to us,
the poor villagers. In fact he is
piece of impertinent correspondency. an
irrelevant thing In nature, an odious
approximation. haunting spirit,
doubling Of mind. and a savage creature
at our gates. Verify he is a blot on
the fair unstai1ed scutcheon of the
p. w. d. ard he is an ounce of sour in
a pound of sweet. In final he is the
one thing not needful. and a fly in the
elegant ointment, VIZ, the British
Administration.
This Irrelevant thing" It appear.
from further parts of a long letter. ha.
a very relevant habit, as far as tn,
villagers possessions are concerned, OF
demanding forced levies Of lambs and
steep. They ''humbly pray God that He
may convince you OF the sufferings We
undergo. New year Is coming and lei
us ring out the old and ring in the new
May you and your family continue ever
and ever to receive the unstinted HON.
age and alteration of the innocent villag.
ers and the Omnipotent simultaneously
1t would be a stony hearted official who
could Withstand such a petition.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

Friends and supporters of the Amert-
can Academy in Rome desiring to found
another musical fellowship in the insti-
tuition and to attach to II the name %
the dean of American orchestral con-
ductors. Walter Damrosch. gave an or
chestral concert in Carnegie Hal, last
evening on festival scale. The New
York Symphony Society. Philharmonic
Society and Philadelphia Orchestra were
massed on the stage. which had been
built out nine feet to accommodate them
Five conductors took turns In waving
the baton. They were Josef Stransky,
Artur Bodanzky and Willem Mengel-
berg of the Philharmonic, Albert Coates.
the visiting conductor Of the Symphony
Society, and Leopold Stokowski of the
Philadelphia organization. Their allot-
ments were as follows: Prelude to
'Tohengrin" and 'Ieonore" Overture,
No. 8. Mr.. Stransky; prelude to the
"Meistersinger" and "Rakoczy March -
Mr.. Bodanzky; finale of Brahms's first
symphony, Mr.. Coates; Liszt's Lies
Preludes." Mr.. Mengelberg. and fina.e
of Die walkuere,'S : Mr.. Stokowski.
There was much activity on the stage,
for the principal players Of each of the
three orchestras occupied the front
seats in turn. and the changing of
musicians was almost as conspicuous
as that of conductors. However. there
was an interval when DR.. John H. Fin
ley after the Brahms excerpt appeared
on the platform to present to Mr.. DAM
rosch a bronze plaque designed by Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney. The plaque
bears a striking portrait Of Mr. DAM
rosch and the inscription walter
Damrosch, New York, 1922. To COM
men,orate the services of Walter Dam
rosch to American music and to mark
the establishing Of a perpetual fellow
ship in the American Academy in Rome
to be known as the Walter Damrosch
Fellowship of Music. February 27, 1922.
New York.
DR.. Finley in his speech referred to
Mr.. Damrosch's residence of fifty years
in this country and his activity Of thirty
seven years as conductor of the SYM
phony Society. In his reply Mr.. DAM
rosch confessed himself overcome by the
honor paid him and rendered tribute
to the combined orchestras and the pub
lie spirited citizens who support them.
He praised the American Academy in
Rome for It's action in establishing a
department of music, of which the pur-
pose was to give promising young Amer
ican composers opportunity to work out
their ideals among sympathetic and IN
spring surroundings. The plaque. Mr..
Damrosch declared. made him look like
Roman Emperor instead Of a mu-
sician.
After Mr.. Damrosch's speech the pro-
gfam was continued. Each of the con-
ductors was heartily applauded, and the
huge orchestra, barring some occasional
excess Of sound, played very well In
deed. Mr.. Damrosch referred to this in
his speech as an evidence of the high
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
West Side Fifth Avenue.
Mr.. Ottinger Would Take Car Tracks
From Central Park West.

To THE New YORK HERALD: I thor
cughly agree with the suggestions made
by Copeland Townsend in his letter to
your paper on February 20. In fact
have always advocated them, even when
the Ottlnger law was passed. knowing
that the improvements suggested foi
Central Park West could be best at
tanned by removing the tracks.
I think that the tracks on Central
Park West should be removed. The
Eighth avenue cars should continue
along Fifty-ninth street to Columbus
avenue and then northward and through
Tooth street back to Eighth avenue over
existing tracks
This would greatly enhance the value
Of Central Park West property and
create a new Fifth avenue on the West
Side. thereby greatly increasing tax re-
turns to the city.
There would then be provided a splen-
did avenue for motor traffic, and of
course danger to pedestrians would be
eliminated. This plan might be supple.
mented by widening the roadway IN
Central Park along and near the westerly
wall of the park If 1t is desired to con-
tinue Central Park West as one way
street under the conditions here pro-
posed. The park road could be used as
an uptown street If necessary. l do not
stress this latter point. however.
By removing the tracks from Central
Park West and concentrating trolley car
service on Columbus avenue you would
also increase business values on tha,
thoroughfare and make it much more
profitable for shopkeepers, thus also in
creasing taxation values. This condition
would be further improved by providing
n long, continuous ride on Columbus
avenue.
would go still further in this direc-
tion by removing tracks from Amster-
dam avenue and permitting these cars
when feasible, either to continue up
Broadway at Seventy-second street or
else to divert them also to Columbus
avenue. By doing that the same desir-
able results would be accomplished on
Amsterdam avenue as on Central Park
West as herein indicated and the busi-
ness thoroughfares would be likewise
increased in value. IS.
OF course the economies that could
be effected to the railroad company by
reason of these eliminations of tracks
and cars are apparent without any fur
ther discussion.
Finally. during the rush hours in the
morning three subway tracks should be
used down town instead of two, that is.
two tracks for express trains and one
for local trains. Conversely, during the
rush hours In the evening there should
be three uptown ,rains-two express
and one local.
l believe that this would prove the
quickest, the least costly and surest re-
lief OF course, the crowds must be
properly handled and sorted and the
stations must necessarily be altered to
meet the new requirements.
ALBERT OTr1NGER.
WASHINGTON, February 27.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
Respect for Washington.
AdmirIng Manifestations Of the Older
Generations Of Americans.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: That was
a fine editorial article you printed under
the title "Washingtons Human Side.
You say truly and beautifully that "out
of the common carbon of character was
this fawless diamond crystallized."
I regret cannot say am one Of the
persons living who talked with eye
witnesses who themselves saw and
talked with Washington" but. neverthe-
less. 1 can say my father did so fre-
ouently. He was born early in 1876,
nearly four years before Washington's
death. so our Two lives cover parts OF
three centurHs, or 1875 years. OF Revo-
lutionary stock, he inherited feeling
of respect and admiration for Washing
ton that rarely finds utterance to-day
and maintained a reverence for his char
acter that be never failed to express.
Two instances illustrate this. In con-
versation with an extremely cultivated
and well read man. American born, this
gentleman remarked that he had been
reading some OF Washington's letters
and called attention to his precise at
tention to minute details. which. the
gentleman remarked, seemed to show
small mind"
This aroused my iathefss wrath and
he replied that On the contrary 1t
showed greatness that a man of such
affairs could descend to small details
clearly expressed, and that IL the gen.
tleman would read the lives Of the
worlds greatest men, Hannibal. Cesar.
Napoleon, he would find they never dis
regarded detail. adding. "And further
let me say, as an older man, that no
American should ever permit himself
to speak slightingly or disrespectfully
of Washington"
They parted witt some heat, but the
gentleman shortly addressed a note to
my father, thanking him for the rebuke
and saying that, after considering the
discussion, he had come to the conclu-
sion that he was wrong in his view.
And now for something closer TO Rev.
olutionary days. My father knew DR..
Eusts, who was attached to Washing
toms staff, afterward Governor of Mas
sachusetts and president of the Society
of the Cincinnati IT, that State, and DR..
Eustis told the following to my father.
General Michael Jackson. my great
grandfather, was stationed at West
Point, and on the occasion OF n dinner
rarty given by Washington DR.. Eustls
said, "Your grandfather was present and
after the cloth was removed General
Washington beckoned TO your grand
father 10 sit ut his right hand and un-
bent himself more to your grandfather
than I ever saw him do to any living
man."
[ can see my father before me now
as he was whenever he told this story.
lie would draw himself UP to his full
height-nea1Iy six feet--and impress
sively remark, II consider this greater
honor than any patent Of nobility"
Thus did our forbears honor, respect
ard admire the immortal, Washington.
In the late SOS II was said that Horace
Binney, the acknowledged head Of the
Philadelphia bar. was the only man
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
New York's Forestry Work.

New York, with record OF 6O,OOO,-
600 trees planted between 1908 and
1920, has taken prominent place
among the States in the work of re-
forestation. OF the other Eastern
States, Pennsylvania and Massachu-
setts are also among the leaders in
forestry, the latter having recently
purchased 100,0 900 acres of land, which
will be devoted to timber culture
1t is estimated that logging opera
tions are removing the timber sup.
ply of the country four times as
rapidly as it is being renewed by
natural and human agencies COM
bined. This means only one thing:
there must be a speeding up all
around or our timber reserves will
become exhausted.
While wide interest In reforesta-
tion has been awakened there are
still millions of acres of idle and cut
over lands which are available for
eAplDlidllOn. hC lhohhCi IL WhAN'
capital is being attracted to the in
dustry is encouraging to those who
understand the Importance of timber
conservation. Stock companies are
being formed to engage in the work
and hunting organizations which will
derive benefits in a larger supply of
game are improving their lands
through the planting of trees.
Requisitions for trees are being
filled by the conservation authorities
in New York State as fast as they
are received, and this method will
be followed as long as the supply
holds out. Up to the middle of Feb
ruary 1,4S1,0O0 trees had been or
dered. This is an increase of 81 per
cent. over any previous year.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
The Bullock Affair.

Canadian justice in the case OF
MATTHEW BULLOCK, the negro pris
oner held at Hamilton, Ontario, on
murder charge preferred by Amer
can authorities, is not likely to be
altered or diverted from its usual
course as a result of the hot declara-
lion by Governor MORRISON OF North
Carolina that he is not going to try
his States honor and integrity "be-
rore any judge in any foreign coun-
Try" in order to obtain BULLoCK's 8
extradition.
Judge SNIDER at Hamilton has de-
clined to grant the extraditicn of a
man described by Governor MORRISON
as desperate criminal" until some
evidence other than affidavits shall
have been submitted to prove that
the charges against the negro have
sufficient basis to justify his return
to the United States.
In this case, as in others in which
serious charges are made against a
prisoner held for extradition, the Gus
tomary rule has been followed and
oral evidence has been requested.
This assures justice to the prisoner,
a requisite equally important in the
eyes of the law as justice to the
State Of North Carolina. 1t is a pro-
lection against political persecution,
but it is not hindrance to legiti-
mate extradition proceedings. If the
man is desperate criminal it should
be no more difficult to produce wit.
nesses to prove this fact to the salts.
faction of the Canadian authorities
than it will be later to obtain the
testimony necessary to convict the
defendant on his trial in the courts
Of North Carolina.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
Europe's Balanced Buying Power

Studied from the perspective of
foreign exchange technique the rise
of the British pound to SAB, of the
French franc to 9.19 cents and of the
Italian Ira to 5.33 cents is con-
trasted with the decline within a
week in the German mark from half
cent to less than nine-twentieths
OF a cent. But this serves only for
gauging operations among traders in
the foreign money markets. They
follow reparations payments as a
guide.
The one substantial fact which
technical sophistry cannot obscure
is that for every small fraction of a
cent decline in the price of the Ger
man mark, which thus reduces Ger
man buying power in America,
there has been more than compen-
sating rise in the value OF the Brit
ish, French and Italian currencies.
with a corresponding increase in
their purchasing power here, singly
or combined.
The additional bushels Of grain,
bales of cotton, tons of copper and
coal the rise in English, French and
Italian exchange enables those coun-
tries to purchase here enormously
exceed the diminished quantities of
food and materials which Germany
can purchase for cash by marketing
German money and bills of exchange
in New York. The same thing ap-
plies with as much force to Canada
as to the United States.
This in itself indicates that the
foreign exchange balance wheel,
thrown out of gear by worldwide in
flation and by the reparat.ons pay
ments in dollars, practice now
abandoned, is returning to its normal
function. Cash taken from the Ger
man till to pay the Entente goes
directly and naturally through ex-
change channels TO the recipients
The New York herald., 1922-02-28

then living who had known Washing
ton and conversed with him and who
also knew Lincoln. Grant, Sherman and
the great men Of that later period. Per-
haps this may not be strictly correct as
to being the "only man." but it is GER
tainly a remarkable fact that Mr.. Bin
ney had met the Father of his Country
and lived to know a later generation of
distinguished and notable Americans.
Can we Americans born of the old
stock do less than exalt to the highest
honor and reverence the name and char
acter of Washington and strive to pass
on to coming generations the respect for
him and his views that we have had the
good fortune to inherit? Even abroad
he Is honored and his fame grows greater
in foreign lands as the years pass on.
CHARLES Il. JACKSON.
MIDDLErowN, Conn.,. February 27.
The New York herald., 1922-02-28
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Cloudy and
somewhat colder to-day; tomorrow un-
settled and colder; moderate west ana
northwest winds
For New Jersey-Cloudy and colder to-day.
unsettled. probably snow or rain tonight or
tomorrow. moderate northerly winds.
FOR Northern New England-Cloudy and
somewhat colder to-day and tomorrow, mod
crate west and northwest winds.
For Southern New England-Cloudy and
somewhat colder to-day; tomorrow unset
tied and colder, moderate west and north
west winds.
colder.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-To-night an area
cred the great central valleys. the plains
states and the Northwest and had its center
oyer Montana. whore the pressure as
nigh as thirty-one inches. An area Of low
parometer was central over the upper Rio
Gipnde Valley and moving toward southern
Texas. This pressure distribution has been
attended by unusually cold weather In tho
urper Mississippi Valley the Rocky Noun
tain and plateau regions and over the plains
lowest temperature reported to-day was
thirty-two degrees below zero at Havre
Mont. Moderate temperatures continued
to-day In the East and South States and on
the Pacific coast.
There were general rains within the last
twenty-four hours in the middle Atlantic.
the Ohio Valley and California. rains and
SHOWS In New England and New York and
snow In the region of the great lakes. the
south plains States and the plateau and
south Rocky Mountain regions. Shows were
genera In Kansas, western Oklahoma and
northwest Texas
In New England and New York the weather
VIII be cloudy and colder tomorrow and
unsettled and colder Wednesday. In the
middle Atlantic States the weather will be
cloudy and colder tomorrow. followed BY
rain and snow. In the south Atlantic States
the weather WIN remain cloudy during to-
norrow and be followed by rain and colder
weather at night and Wednesday. In the
east Gulf States there will be rains to-nnor-
row and clearing and much colder weather
Wednesday. In Tennessee and the lower
Ohio Valley the weather will be cloudy and
colder, with snow or rain tomorrow and fair
and much colder on Wednesday. In the upper
Ohio Valley and lower lake region the
weather viii be cloudy and colder tomorrow
and Wednesday. In the upper lake region
the weather will be generally fair and colder
tomorrow and fair on Wednesday.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations. taken at p. NJ. yesterday.
Seyenty-fifth meridian time.