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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
A Patriarch's Descendants.
They Proved That the Taint Of In
sanity Ebbs as Time Passes.

From the journal Of the American Medical
Association.
Mignot gives q table of four genera
tions Of the family of nineteenth CEN
fury French patriarch who had twenty
two children by nine women.
The family lived on an island In the
West Indies in restricted environment,
geographically and socially, and the 151
descendants of the patriarch included
twenty-six who were mentally abnor-
NAL; ten of them committed suicide and
three committed murder; there were
seven insane; four addicted to alcohol.
The table shows that the psychopathic
faint affected only males. and was trans
mitted only by males.
The eight daughters Of the patriarch
and their issue to the fourth generation
were normal. The patriarch himself
and his parents were normal; his father
was q. French colonist, his mother an
African negress. The latent faint APP
peared in the issue from seven of his
unions. all at the prime or his life.
These seven women were mulattoes.
Several among the 125 normal descend
ants were of superior mentality; two
were mathematicians of renown and
one a statesman. One OF the patriarch's
grandsons is now informed in Mignots
service on account of a dellrium of per-
secution. The psychopathic faint was
most prominent in the second genera
ton and was ebbing In the third; four
teen of twenty-six men In the second
generation were abnormal and only six
rra
Grafton.
The transmission of the faint did not
follow Menders laws regularly, but the
force of the transmission is evident. The
ebbing of the faint is consoling for all
interested in the families Of the insane.
and it calls for caution in yielding to
the clamor for legal sterilization of the
abnormal Several cousins intermarried
but the offspring OF these consanguinous
unions were all normal
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
SEEKS TO REORGANIZE
POSTAL SERVICE HERE

WASHINGTON, June s.--Mail service
out of New York city was declared to-
day by Representative Rossdale (Rep.,
N. W to be growing worse each day.
and unless II is remedied will become a
scandal" At the same time he intro
duced bill providing for the reorgani-
zation OF the postal service in New York
and the grouping of all post offices there
into one postal district. There would DO
Ave subdivisions. similar in boundaries
to the five boroughs. ~
The bill asks for a postal engineer,
with two assistants, to maintain eff
cheney and improve service, with each
borough subdivision supervised by an
assistant postmaster The measure pro-
poses these salaries: Postmaster, s12.-
900 assistant postmaster in New York,
$4,000 assistant in Brooklyn. $4,000;
assistant in The Bronx. $500; assist
ants in Queens and Richmond, $1,000
each !; postal engineer. $4,000; assist
ant, $1,000.
Mr. Rossdale asserted that there was
no protection for the mails in New York
and that robberies were the result OF
stupid lack of proper facilities" Eight
thousand pieces of mail matter wero
lost or stolen daily in the New York
Post Office. he said, with losses running
into millions of dollars every year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
At Bluefie1ds Camp.
G. A. R. Veteran Finds Disabled Men
Happy without Bonus.

To THE New York HERALD They call
themselves the Come Back Club"
There are 800 Of them. They are all
Columbia University students or have
been. There is not q sound man in the
bunch, and not crouch that i saw or
heard of during the twenty-four hours I
spent at Bluefields. BlauveIt Bonus? I
spoke of it myself. but everybody
grinned. What do you mean, bonus?
We get a hundred a month from the
Government" Ten men Of the thirty-five 1
saw and talked with support wives and
dress decently out OF that Grub, and
good grub at that, costs them 81 per
week. Married couples live in shacks
they build themselves out of lumber
given them, i don't know by whom.
The single men sleep in tents
AS you get OF the train you see a
lofty water tower standing oat like a
sore thumb. A short climb brings you
to rambling building 200 feet long and
75 feet wide just under the tower. Big
kitchen and laundry, all concrete fioored,
shower baths and toilets in the base
ment. Electric lights. pool tables and
beautifully fitted library given by the
INcu SroSs, HOStesS nOuSc Dy some Ia
dies In Englewood, and a so far un-
necessary hospital. Swimming pool and
golf links both being put in repair.
This Is not sob story. nor will give
names. 1 was In effect asked to not do
so. Joe. who fired 10000 rounds out
Of a machine gun after his leg was
busted and three pieces of shell had
pinked him. quit then only because his
left arm was gone and he couldn't work
his lever. I saw him dancing with his
wife last Saturday night. George danced
pretty well too. although his sight Is
gone. Another Joe lost his legs, yet he
Is Quartermaster of the camp and
wheeled his way to his dugout to get me
some cigars. The executive officer looks
about IS. He brought my coffee before
rushing to the kitchen to help wash the
Saturday night dishes. Two hours later
while dancing with his wife he stopped
near me to adjust the double brace OF
his left leg.
1t was hard to realize that every
mothers son had been badly wounded
in the war. While there saw no
badge, button or ribbon. except the G.
A. r. button wore in my own lapel.
NEW YORK, June 8. @. w. s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
CORNELL GRADUATES
CLASS or 43 DOCTORS
DR.. Farrand Urges All to Con-
finue Their Studies.

At the twenty-fourth graduation GER
emonies Of the Cornell University Med
ical College held In the assembly room
of the college at Twenty-seventh street
and first avenue yesterday, Livingston
Farrand, president. conferred the de-
gree Of doctor of medicine upon forty
three graduates.
DR.. .Farrand was the only speaker.
His message to the graduates was an
appeal for them to continue their
studies and use every means within
their power to prevent disease.
Prizes were awarded as follows:
John Metcalfe Polk Memorial prizes
Ainsworth Lockhart Smith. first prize,
$500; Carl H. Smith. second prize. SIPS;
julius Nathaniel Craig, third prize; SIS.
For Efficiency in Othology.-Carl III.
Smith. first prize, $50; Charles Stahl.
second prize, SIS.
William NJ. Polk Prize In Gynscology.
-Ainsworth Lockhart Smith. first
prize, SIPS; Leon Isaac Levine. second
prize. SIS; Edwin Toal Hauser. third
prize, $50
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
CONGRESS MEMBERS SEE
DRILLS AT WEST POINT
Nery Buildings Also Inspected
By June Week Visitors.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD
WEST PoINr, June s.-The board Of
visiting Congress- members. who are
here officiaily during the June week"
exercises. saw to-day exhibition drills
in artillery, infantry and riding. The
board Inspected several buildings and
the new construction work. peeped into
the cadets rooms in barracks. ate at
noon In the mess hall with the cadets
and heard an organ recital in the cadet
chapel. At the midday meal those
cadets who are here as appointees to
the academy by the members of the
board acted as hosts.
Tonight the visitors were guests OF
General and Mrs. Macarthur at dinner
IN the superintendent's house.
In the competitive infantry drill yes
terday G Company of the Second Bat
TALON proved the best. Companies B.
NJ and l. finished In the order named.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09

Entries for the Public Schools Ath-
letic League track and field champion
ships, which will be held at Brook
lyn Athletic Field tomorrow, indi-
cate that it will be the biggest .ath-
letic meet from the point of view Of
numbers ever held. Nearly 1000
schoolboys of Greater New York.
from Cherry Hill to Riverside Drive,
from Flatbush to The Bronx, will
take part in forty contests.
Numerically the entrants will make
up meet more impressive than the
Olympic Games. 1t is more impress
sive from other standpoints. The
meet will be striking contradiction
of the notion that the sons of the
tenements and the apartment houses
are weak and an@mic breed, for
Director OF Athletics JOHN McHUGH
has statistics to prove that the track
and field athletic records Of the New
York schooIboys compare favorably
with the records of the schoolboys of
the mountains and the plains.
The Public Schools Athletic League
was initiated and fostered by the
great friend of the boy. General
GEORGE w. WINcATE. 1t hes done
much for the future citizens Of New
York. The league games help to de-
velop healthy boys and to instill
ideals of clean living. On the field
the boys get American ideas of fair
play and learn to be good sportsmen.
A good sportsman usually makes a
good citizen.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
The June Crop.

Spring weather made the questions pop,
And that Of course increased the crop.
The moons clear silver overspread
Brings matters always to a head.
The sun was there to do his share
When twilight tempered his bright glare.
The lowered hat and fluffy gown
Were tools brought many victim down.
And glowing cheeks and flashing eyes
Are cultlvators none despisc.
To market next, the crop in style
Each father digs deep in his pfc.
The churches shine the organs play,
The parsons mutter "Love--obey."
The rice Is flung, the tears are shed,
"Good-bys." God bless yous," choking
said.
And Farmer Cupid cries with pride,
June brides June brides Who wants
a bride?'
MAURICE Mosara
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
The Little Woman.
Certain Possibilities Of Practical
Nature Suggested.

To THE NEW York HERALD: THE
Mystery Of the Little Woman" furnishes
in your columns to-day suggestions that
stir the imagination. Was the woman
clothed in the sun the author or editor
OF Revelation" tells of. ectoplasmic +;
was she clothed in scarlet. living be-
ing or a psychic creature? Are these
voices in the air" and spirit messages
reliable evidence Of positive influences
in personal experience or public life?
DO frigid ectoplasmic bonds envelop our
statesmen and paralyze our Congress?
Are the seats Of government haunted !;
or would more be accomplished II our
legislators went ION circuit as did our
Jays, Marshalls and Storys century
or so past and so escape the dread hyp-
nosis?
Imagine for a moment the tentacles
Of astral life reaching from remote
sources to one Of our great International
conferences, be 1t on the links OF
Cannes or in the agreeable gardens of a
Sassoon. Can one blame the unbeliev-
able vacuity Of our counselors at these
moments of supreme decision? Can one
understand why one can make plans for
the world more simply on ones pet
Corona" than put them into practice
when we struggle against municipalities
and powers of darkness?
Who will invent the plasrnic proof
mind which can send its projections Of
thought straight to the root of world
troubles and emancipate men from the
thralidom and inertia Of spiritdom. from
the helplessness OF the blind? One could
well say at this time OF some OF the
greatest names in the world: Man that
is in honor, and understandeth not. is
like the beasts that perish"
JOSEPH WHITLA SrINsoN.
NEW YORK.. June 8.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09

- Give the people genuine political
issues that bulk big and there will
be no lack of deep interest in the
politics of the country-in the bust
,'Hess Of the Government.
-r-rArtificial issues, politically manu-
featured issues that are just sheer
sham, get nowhere with the Ameri-
can people. The American people are
Sick and tired of political pretence,
sepolitical humbug. The ghosts of de-
eRsrted issues that still stalk across
,rf1le national stage are insufferable to
;tne American people when there is
real work, big work, to do.
The tariff is real issue, great
Issue. In the present financial and
Industrial condition of the world it
r1a.a greater issue than it ever was
before But instead of treating it as
an economic issue, which it is, and a
,bAsiness issue, which it is, the poll
ttcian statesmen handle 1t like a
storchlight parade.
1dACS diC lCdi ioouCy hOW Gil
abiding, deep seated issue. The is
sue Of taxes comes home to every
citizen every day, with every meal
he eats, every stitch he wears, every
cent he spends and every cent he
earns. But instead of regarding this
asa problem to be courageously Crap
pied with and honestly solved with
sHpund treatment to ease enormously
and permanently the burdens of the
staggering national taxpayer, the
.pp1itician statesmen run away from
the actual solution of the tax prob
lem and hide behind smoke screen
<of' demagogic hot air.
ESQ the hard headed but long suf-
Afering people of the United States
rebel against the sham and humbug
Ief. the politician statesmen, too cow
nBfdfy to face or too incompetent to
deal with the genuine issues and the
pressing problems still before the
rountry.
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vate AFFAIR they might have been as
primordial as they pleased.
Even so, if they were really in ear
nest about 1t they should have chosen
a really wild wilderness-some patch
on the earth's surface where the ear
cannot catch the hoarse wall of the
upbound train, a place where one
kills for food. or is killed, a wild
where there are no game laws or any
other laws.
Then Mr.. SUFFER- might have
emerged from his wilderness, slapped
himself on the chest and proclaimed,
II am he-man," and everybody
would have applauded. But as it Is
it will be rather humiliating to be
taken out of the woods without even
good coat of tan.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09

existing creditors who are now pre-
.ferred creditors as to the reparations
debt but are not getting hard cash
out of it.
Under these circumstances It is in
credible that the reparations credi
tors il they want their money, which
must come from the loan, will DELHI
erately and finally make it impossi-
BILE for the loan to come into being.
1t is far more likely, il the Allies
expect to get the money some Of
them say they cannot possibly do
without. that they will clear the way
for the international bankers in the
way the bankers say it must be
cleared.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
Clark Stockings Thanks.
An Old PIainsman and Guard Says a
Word for Doc Peirce.

To THE NEW York HERALD: have
read the article you published written
by DR.. e. T. Peirce OF Hot Springs
s. d. AS II is about the only printed
history ever saw OF myself 1 wish to
thank you and dear old Chief Bear
Tracks for the pleasant announcement
he gave me.
Yes. Doc Peirce and I secuted and
roamed over the bad lands together,
sometimes hunting fresh meat and some
times hunting robbers, and will say
that Old Chief Bear Tracks was as
good a plainsman and as true a man
as I ever saw on the frontier.
CLARK n. STOCKING, Old Guard.
Los ANGELES, Cal, June /.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
The Geddes and Ricci Incidents.

At this juncture the questioEs that
have arisen regarding the conduct of
Sir AUCKLAND GEDDEs, the British
Ambassador, and Signor RIocI. the
Italian Ambassador, may not be. as
it chances, of overshadowing diplo-
matte or political moment. But with
the kindliest feelings for both these
distinguished gentlemen, THE NEW
YORK HERALD calls to their attention
the traditional attitude of the Amer
lean people toward any outspoAen
intermeddling with their national
sffairs by foreigners resident in this
country and reminds them of certain
historical incidents in connection
with this national attitude.
From the time of GENET, French
Minister, with his violent political
and incendiary propaganda flung de-
family in the face of the nation more
than a century ago, to SAcKv1IhE
WEST, a British Minister when
GROVER CLEVELAND was President.
with his merely stupid blunder or
giving a trick questioner advice IS
to how he should vote on the tariff
question, there has been no variation
in our national attitude. The Ameri-
can spirit has never suffered in pa
thence such foreign propagandist
communications with the public.
1t is a fact, to be sure, that Ann
bassadors and others specially cons
nissicned by their Governments
abroad to take up treaty or trade
questions with our Government have
always been at full liberty to discuss
from all angles the subjects under
such consideration with the Presi-
dent, his Secretary of State and other
officials representing the Chief Ex-
ecutive. Otherwise there would be
no way to get the business done.
Even formal statements of the mat !
tiers presented are given out to the
world through official channels.
But this, of course, is matter of
formal and official negotiation be-
tween the Governments concerned
subject in this country to all the Gus
toms and restrictions ranging from
the unwritten code to Senate
ratification.
The American people have been
jealousy insistent that such foreign
business should be done only in such
ways and under such circumstances.
They have been quick on the trigger
with vigorous protest against any
foreigner that ventured in this coun-
try upon any other course.
And few have been the diplomatic
sojourners from abroad going to our
people out in the open with their
missions, their messages and their
views on affairs and acts singularly
falling within the province of our
Government, executive and legisla-
tive, that have long delayed their
return to the country whence they
came. They have departed, what
ever conventional explanation and
however politely or graphically
phrased may have been given for
their untrumpeted withdrawal.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
Onelda's Nonagenarian Veterans.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Among
the civil war veterans in attendance at
tho state Encampment, q. A. r., in
Utica this mIdweek are two over ninety
years old. They are James II. Corey
of Paris Hill, Of, the oldest veteran
present. and Seeley F. Hills of Vernon,
aged 90.
Comrade Hills came to the encamp-
ment thinking he would be the oldest
man, but Comrade Corey ran away
with him to the extent OF few months.
Both Paris Hill and Vernon are in
Oneida county, in the northern part of
which lived Hiram Crohk the last sur
vivor of the war of 1912.
ROBERT BURKE.
CLINTON, Oneida county. June s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09

The international banking loan for
Germany may not be in SO low a
state Of health as appears on the sur
face. 1t is true that the heads OF
the. worlds great financial institu-
tions now gathered in Paris find in
their path an obstacle which they
feel they themselves should not be
called upon to derrick out Of the
way. This obstacle is the failure OF
the, Reparations Commission to reach
a unanimous agreement as to how
far the international bankers may
go with their arrangements looking
toward notifications of the original
reparations terms and conditions.
The commission itself emphasizes
the net that its majority vote is
wa1ra Mt enough for the bankers to
go ahead with their program for the
present. But this is not good enough
for the international bankers as they
see It and they are right to take the
stanG they do about It,
WiEat the bankers ask for is the
solid approval of their program by
the Preparations Commission so that
no obstructive tactics may be in
obliged in later. The determining
facts I'm the situation being what they
are, II Is difficult to conceive how
anybody can hoodwink himself as to
them in the last analysis. 1t will be
amazing If the bankers do not get
the support they ask Of the Repara-
tions- Commission when the repara-
lions payments of the immediate fu-
turc NOW depend almost wholly on
what help the international bankers
are willing to give Germany to make
the PREPARATIONS payments.
Nothing could be clearer than the
positionl of the international bankers
in this matter. They are not seeking
this loan They have been urged to
undertake 1t. 1t Is not to their ad-
vantage. There are many undertake
ings in world finance that are vastly
more attractive to bankers and in
vestors than a loan to Germany.
They are trying to do this, not for
themselves but for Germany and
the Allies.
Furthermore, as one Of the bank
ers has frankly put 1t, the banks are
not lending and could not lend the
magnitude of money required to do
any real good to Germany and any
real good do the Allies that will get
the money as reparations from Ger
many. Tine bankers must get these
stupendous sums, il they are to be
got at all, from the people Of America,
of Great Britain and elsewhere.
The peorDe of America and the rest
Of the world in a position to lend to
Germany for PREPARATIONS or other
purposes will not put their money
into q loitn that the international
bankers cannot recommend to them.
The bankers will not recommend the
loan IL it ltas no prime security be-
hind Il and. IL none OF the resources
Of Germany can be employed as n
prior oblisation in paying off the
loan becauso all those resources are
demanded for reparations to the
Allies in addition to the loan. chiefly
going TO the Allies.
That is the essence of this inter.
national loan situation. The lenders,
the people whose money is indispen-
sable to the flotation Of the loan,
must be PREPARED creditors or they
win not comet to the rescue Of the
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lire was offered for the best answer.
Many contestants preferred Mother
EVE. Others favored the repentant
MAGDMEN. HELEN of Troy polled a
large vote. One woman wrote. IL
would simply wish to be myself, and
that is humble, good housewife"
She won the 5000 lire prize.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
Burning School Histories.

Former United States Senator
LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN says that
school histories would shed more
light on disordered world in bon
fire than in the school room" He
declares that If all of them were
burned 1t might be possible to teach
new ideals and save civilization from
being extinguished In another dark
age of the world. M
School histories have recently been
subjected to much criticism. Most
of 1t has been unintelligent. 1t has
been directed chiefly upon what are
said to be evidences of a pro- British
bias in telling the story OF the war
for independence. Some of the
critics appear to think it is much
better for children to be taught that
there were no slackers in 1875. Mr..
SHERMAN goes further than they do.
He wouldn't rewrite the school histo-
ries. He would scrap them altogether
He is quoted as saying:
1.-THE ancient and medieval history
taught the pupil is menace soiling
the mind of child. Principally it
is an approved recital Df crime by
wholesale, mitigated by Individual
virtue at long Intervals
Mr.. SHERMAN complains that bat
tlefields are depicted as scenes of
human progress. He fears that chill
dren must conclude the best way to
develop people is to put most Of
them to death.
1t is an odd historian, we think,
who writes approvingly of the num-
Der Of men killed in the Napoleonic
wars or who injects hearty note
OF appreciation when he describes the
losses in the world war. And it is
an odd child who carries into adult
life an ambition to. emulate ATTILA
the Hun or the Emperor NERO, how
ever much in his infancy the per-
sonalities OF these eminent individ-
uals may appeal to him.
Children's minds are not so easily
soiled. They do not turn cynically
from their study of history, con-
WINGED that the sad old ways Of a
sad old world are the ways which
must forever be followed. All that
they retain of that early learning
are few picturesque bits, the char
acters and Incidents that happened
particularly to engage their fancy:
the Spartans at Thermopyle; ARNOLD
Won WINKEIRIED and the Austrian
pikemen; NApoLEoN's retreat from
Moscow; WASHINGTON at Valley
Forge. Usually the things they ad-
mire are things that are worthy OF
admiration. M
No. If Mr.. SHERMAN had his way, and
the school histories were burned,
how would he teach the new ideals
he considers necessary? Perhaps he
would not have any more histories
written until mans performance IS
fiawlessly noble. But the children
Of that perfect day would not need
to read them.