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The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Sacrifices for Humanity.
Men Who Die in War and Dogs That
Die In the Laboratory.

To THE New York HERALD: I read
with interest of the ffty-seventh con-
vention of the New York City Fedora
tion Of Women's Clubs at the Hotel
Astor at which a vigorous protest was
raised against the use Of dogs for vivi-
section purposes. 1t seems to me that
this Is solely matter for the medical
expert to decide. DR.. Simon Flexner
says dogs are preferred to other animals
for this use because the dog approaches
nearer to man in bone construction,
blood, &C. In view of DR.. F'lexner's po-
sition in tho medical world, that to my
mind pretty well settles the question.
But what is a dogs life. after all?
Did not some $4,000 of the best men of
our country stain the fields of France
with their blood to the end that the
principles of democratic government
should prevail on the earth? Have not
thousands suffered the worst physical
tortures for the word of the Nazarene
How many have willingly given their
lives to science; how many have for
gotten self in the service of humanity +?
Where would this sad old world be to-
day had not these noble souls lived and
sacrificed to advance human life?
A human life is not dogs life. If
the dog loses his life his is certainly a
glorious death: he gives his little life
for a cause infinitely higher, in the great
struggle to eliminate disease from hu-
man existence, and surely nothing is
quite so noble.
And after all only few Of the dogs
die. a number infinitely small compared
with our war loss And the animal has
not even the slightest suffering.
The doctors should be allowed to carry
on their great work unmolested.
JOHN ]. ZEITLER.
KENILwoRTH, n. j., February 8.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
EVENTS TODAY.

Columbia University Law School and alum
nj dinner Hotel Pennsylvania. r. M.
Major-Gen. John +, o'Ryan viii dedicate
q war memorial ta6iet Erasmus na', ! IdnS aish
lyn. r. NJ.
David Hrshfield. Commissioner OF Ac-
counts. viii resume the hearing on the Town
Hall, birth control meeting, Municipal Build
ing, 10 a. NJ.
Hiram Percy Maxim will lecture on Radio
for all the People," before the New York
Electrical Society. Engineering Societies
Building, 10 West Thirty ninth street, +. NJ
Special traffic committee. Board Of Alder
men, hearing on proposed ordinance limiting
speed of motor trucks. City Hall. p. NJ
p. l.. Gerhardt will discuss THE Relation
of the Public Warehouse to transportation, s
meeting of New York University Transporta-
ton Club, 90 Trinity place, +. M
DIR. Joseph Fort Newton will lecture
Abraham Lincoln" Church of the Divine
Paternity. Central Park West and Seventy
s. r. Kaufman will speak on Abraham
Lincon's Message 20 U.s. Recreation Rooms
and Settlement Forum. 1S6 Chrystie street,
1880 T.. NJ.
''The Washington Conference" Gould Me
mortal Library, New York University, Uni
versity Heights. II 80 A. NJ.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson will speak on IN
innate "reminiscences" before the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2.6
West Fifty-clglth street, $50 p. M.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson will speak on Two
Great Americans" Dwight School, 12 Park
avenue, p. NJ.
Everett Dean Martin will lecture on ''The
Psychology of Conservatism Cooper Union.
3 r. NJ.
Lewis H. Pounds will speak on The Port
Authority" Twelfth Assembly District Re
publican Club. 400 Ninth street, Brooklyn,
S:15 p. NJ.
Pageant. 1.-THE Open Door" benefit OF At
anta University, Brooklyn Academy OF
Music, s 80 y. NJ.
The Priors. first annual luncheon, Hotel
Astor, y. NJ.
San Salvador Club Of the Bronx. Inc. en-
rtainment, Central Opera House. Sixty
seventh street and Third avenue, 80 7. Nj.
Pagan Rout the W." Webster Han, 1l0
East Eleventh street. T. NJ.
Section OF Qtology, meeting. New York
Academy of Medicine. IL West Forty-third
street, =: $50 T. NJ
Judge Thomas c.. r. Grain will speak on
Honor In Public Life" before the Arthur
II. Murphy Association. s62 East fremont
avenue. The Bronx, 80 7. NJ.
George Battcn Company, Inc. convention
Of clients, Hotel Biltmore. all Gay.
Prince Alumnac Association. meetings
Hotel Pennsylvania. 10 A. Nj. and 80 p. NJ.
women's Democratic Club, meeting, Hotel
Commodore, y. VI.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Ath-
letic Association. entertainment, Hotel Astor,
+. NJ.
Berea College Alumni, dinner. Hotel Astor,
Z i. NJ.
Confeotloners and Ice Cream Manu.actur.
ers' Assocla Ion, dinner, Hotel Astor +. Nj.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10

the chief deterrent. Englishmen are
hesitating over the scheme for
tunnel chiefly because it will leave
Great Britain no longer as an island
kingdom isolated from the Continent
by the sea. Whether this would even
tually be benefit or a curse is what
Englishmen are trying to figure out.
What would have happened il we
had had the tunnel years before
1912" asks the Guardian CONNER
ciaI. ''Is it not at least extremely
probable that all our General Staff
plans would have been based upon
the tunnel and designed to insure all
possible concentration toward 1t, to
the neglect of all those alternative
means of action which our island
situation gives us, and consequent
loss of flexibility?" If then the tun-
mel had failed the General Staff would
have been stumped.
The same argument applies to CON-
merce. II Britishers forget that the
sea is the source of their commercial
power and turn to tunnels and other
devices of the landlubber, is there not
danger that the island domain would
fall into decay as an independent en-
tity and become mere appendage of
the Continent?
The sea and the Channel have
given the British Isles a boundary
line whose very limitations have
forced Englishmen to build up
mighty free trade nation, with great
seaports and unequaled merchant
marine. The building of a tunnel
which might bring sweeping changes
in this position is naturally a project
which calm judgment compels Eng
lishmen to contemplate carefully.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Greenwich Village.
Washington Square Put Within Its
Bounds by One Of Its Sons.

To THE New YORK HERALD: /, as an
old Greenwich Village boy, have found
an error in A. W. Earle's letter concern
ing the geography Of the Village. was
born at 20 Cornelia street in 1867, when
that street and Leroy. Barrow, Grove
and Morton streets were the homes of
the elite of the section.
Washington Square was then the very
center OF Greenwich Village. l can re-
call the wooden pavement blocks that
surrounded the square in front of the
homes of Mr.. Cooper and his neighbors.
The square was my playground and al
most nightly could be seen the then
fashionable homes abaze with lights for
some social function. The canopy that led
over the sidewalk TO the door at such
a function was generally a cause for a
number Of boys to take peeps at the
elegantly dressed women as they left
their stylish turnouts.
The Golden Swan was then at the
corner of Sixth avenue and West Fourth
street and was the rendezvous for big
men of the Village. Dinky cars ran
through Christopher and West Fourth
streets, while Bleecker street was trav-
eled by two-horse cars with conductors.
The people from the river came clear
over to old st. Joseph's Church at Wav-
erley place for services The favorite
swimming place of boys was at the
West Tenth street dock. / can well re-
membsr the first tenement house being
built in exclusive Cornelia street.
JAMES EDWIN KERR.
AIKEN, S. c., February 6.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Smoking in Theaters.
Special Objection to the Practice In
Moving Picture Houses.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Why is
smoking permitted In photoplay houses
Do the authorities not realize the dan
ger of the practice?
A few nights ago / sat In a prom
inent moving picture theater and saw
a man in one of the boxes strike a
match four times during tho evening
and then carelessly throw IT aside. IL
by chance a program or anything in
hammable should happen to be lying
where lighted match fell what would
be the result?
II n man cannot go to a show with
out smoking then he had better remain
outside. / am a smoker, but I do not
attempt to smoke in a place OF amuse-
mont. l was an usher in the Brooklyn
Theater when that terrible fire occurred
in 1876. and every time see a match
struck in n theater 1t brings back to
me scenes which I do not relish.
Smoking should be stopped in all
places of amusement. w. B.
BROOKLYN, February 0.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10

conditions. This depot has served
as a recruiting ground for most Of
the other stations. Horses are fitted
for their duties there before being
sent to the farming communities. 1t
is to this country what the Graditz
stud was to Prussia.
In Fort Reno the Government has
an ideal plant in country adapted
by nature for the rearing of good
horses. Mares and foals roam over
a region once trodden by the restless
feet of myriads of buffaloes. OF the
Western stations it is the one best
adapted for the important work which
the Federal remount service is car
rying on with the cooperation of the
farmers and horse breeders of the
country.
No member of the Committee on
Military Affairs knows the need of
good horses better than Senator
WApswoRTH, for it is in his home
neighborhood in the Genesee Valley in
this State that the system was evolved
which has brought applications from
every part of the Union for Govern
ment sires. 1t is believed the annual
appropriation of $150,000 for horse
breeding which it is expected will
be provided would have additional
value if the best of the experimental
stations were maintained. II public
opinion approves the undertaking
they would be, as in the past, i'm
portant assets in a policy which
brings widespread benefits.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Mrs. Asquith's Mistake.

TO THE New YORK HERALD: am a
Britisher but an American citizen also,
so perhaps can appreciate with some
fairness your editorial article entitled
Mrs Asquith's Mistake"
Your position is reasonable. Mrs.
Asquith ought to talk sense and not
take UP peoples time with twaddle
about horseback ride and an inter
view with the King. This brilliant lady
could do better and ought to do better.
AS you very properly say, there are
lots of interesting subjects she could
talk on and about.
Mrs. Asquith is brilliant enough to
know that we want something more
than merely to look at her. Let her tell
us something Of interest and cut out the
cheap ciaptrap. N. ". KING.
BRookLrN, February 2.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Arnageddon.
The Turks Destruction and the Full
fillment Of Prophecy Forecast.

To THE New YORK HERALD: wish to
call attention to important statements
regarding the date of Armageddon and
the fulfilment of prophecies in Rev.
elation and the Old Testament. These
statements were printed in the Pail Mall
Gazette in reply TO an assertion that the
Turk would be destroyed and Daniel XII.
IS. be fulfilled not later than the Jewish
New Year of 1922. which falls in Oc-
tober next.
This the writer says is wrong. Even
the date July 2s, 1926, cannot possibly
be the day on which the Armageddon
will commence. for that dread "War of
that Great Day of God Almighty" can
not commence until the Jews have been
at least about three years in the Holy
first six plaques have been poured out
In fulfllment, literally, of Revelation
xvi. / to 16.
The Armageddon is not a war with
Mohammedanism, for that thing will be
put out of business before the Jews re-
turn to, the Holy Land. The Arranged
don is the mad attempt Of the nations to
blot restored Israel out Of existence and
will be ended by the appearance of the
Lord Himself and all His saints in full
fllment of Zechariah xiv, 5. last clause,
of Colossians ill.,, 4, and Revelation xix,
IL to 20, 4.
1t is further predicted that the Turks
will defeat the Greeks, drive the French
out of Syria and expel the British from
Jerusalem. France and England will be
compelled to destroy the Turk. England
and recover Jerusalem.
After the return of the Jews there
will be an abortive attempt TO set up
the millennium by resolution of an as
sociation Of nations. This will be the
elimination of the peace conferences of
the past fifty years. and will he the final
funlment of Isaiah H., TO 5, and
Micah w.. TO g.
For about three years this will seem
10 be n decided success. After its fail
ure the call TO the battle OF Armageddon
will 60 out in fulfllment of Joel ill.,. to
II, and Revelation xvi. 10 TO IA. the
angels will be sent down i'm fulflllment
Of Joel ILL.,, II. and of Matthew xiv. 81,
kill, 30 and 40. Mark kill, 81.
Then will come the battle of Arma-
geddon, to close which our Lord Jesus
Christ will appear with His true church
in glory in accordance with Zechariah
XIV. 5, last clause. Colossians ILL.,. 4. and
Revelation xix. II to 20, 4. >.
LONDON, January "a.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
The Gray Road.

! must follow the gray. gray road.
Dark prisons on each side;
I cannot take the flowered path
Where gay, bright spirits ride.
But I have the rains soft fingers
And over hill or hollow
can still turn me TO the sky
And find star TO follow.
The prisons hold so many
Who have never seen the sky.
thank God for my sad road
And the star fIe leads me by.
ABIGAIL w. ericsson
The New York herald., 1922-02-10

1t has long been contended that the
fraud who solicits aims in the name
of a good cause and spends the pro-
ceeds in dissipation is the most con-
temptible of swindlers, but his pre-
eminence will be imperiled If the De-
partment of Justice is able to prove
the allegation that Bolshevik agents
are collecting money here ostensibly
to relieve starving Russians but actu-
ally to finance revolutionary move
ments in the United States.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10

on the triies, or even. in some cases,
on the graces, of life.
None of the men I have described
have any of the airs of office: you look
in vain for those little tricks and man
nerisms that mark in nine cases out
of ten the English politician when first
he becomes a Minister. This has been
the note of the ceremonies.
The meeting at which the new Pro-
visional Government came to life lasted
less than an hour. The speeches were
all confined to two or three sentences
simple. dignified and to the point. The
four deputies for Trinity College were
present, one of them supplying the only
froct coat TO be seen. Professor Thrift
made a brief speech. declaring his anx-
iety and that of his friends to serve
the Free State. One of those present
said afterward at would have been
more regular if this meeting had been
summoned by British writs.'' do you
suppose" was the answer. that any
Irish Government that allowed that to
be done would last twenty-four hours?''
On Monday the neY Government, hav-
ing shown its power within twenty-four
hours of taking office by averting the
railway strike, took over the keys OF
Dublin Castle. Michael Collins and his
colleagues. dressed simply and plainly,
passed not with banners and drums but
in half a dozen taxicabs through the
gates which. have guarded from Dub
Inns eyes some of the most terrible of
the crimes of tyranny.
In a room up stairs Lord F'itzalan well
coined the leaders of the revolution, and
an hour afterward they reappeared
amid the cheers of the citizens of Dub
lin. who thronged around the gates. while
children poured into the dreaded yard
that few Irishmen have entered during
the terror except as prisoners. That
night Collins issued a manifesto to the
Irish people congratulating them on the
surrender of the Castle, and issuing
orders I'm the name of the new Govern
ment. With so simple a gesture was
this tremendous symbol deposcd.
Dublin Castle will be remembered by
the Irish people as the fortress in Milan
was remembered by the people Of Lom-
hardy or the Naples prisons by the
may be demolished, or they may be
turned into a museum Of the Irish
revolution--like the Carnavalet in Paris
or they may he converted to the
peaceful uses of commerce. They will
rever again be what they have been
Nor centuries. the citadel from which
England has kept it's grasp on the life
of Ireland.
The manner of these events has a
significance which must not he over
looked. There is common belief in
England that Irishmcn like the pomp
and circumstance Of court and that
there Is nothing repugnant to the Irish
nature in the splendor and the tradi-
tions of the Office of Lord Lieutenant.
Modern Ireland, or the Ireland that
counts to-day has no such taste All
its instinct for color and romance goes
into the pursuit of Gaelic culture. The
spectacle OF n great social power, dis
pcnsing hospitality and exerting influ-
,nce. offends its sense OF seif-respect,
and all the memories OF the institution
are associated with the dlsparagement
Of Irish institutions and Irish life. II
the Free state Is to live 1t must be
freed from thesc traditions once and
for ALL
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Austrian Debt Extension.

Trade Commissioner UPsoN at vi
emma telegraphs the Department of
Commerce that strenuous efforts are
being made by the Austrian Govern
ment to set its finances in order and
check the imitation of the currency.
The consent of all political parties
has been given to legislative pro-
gram to this end Among the meas
ures already passed are acts increas-
ing taxes, stopping food subsidies,
curbing speculation, limiting deal
ings in exchange and requisitioning
foreign bills Of exchange which will
be used to Offset the unfavorable
trade balance.
But these enactments will avail,
nothing, in the opinion OF authori.
ties on Austrian finance, while Aus
tria's available assets, which might
De used as collateral for foreign
credits, remain in escrow against
advances by foreign governments i'm.
mediately after the disintegration of
the old Austro-Hungarian Empire.
These early loans were used to pur.
chase foodstuffs for the relief of
millions of Austrians thrown out of
employment by the industrial paral
ysis which followed the severance
of commercial ties among the sue
cession States.
These foodstuffs credits were Sc
cured. But to liquidate the security
and enforce payment at this juncture
would mean to aggravate the very
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
TOM BURKE AS THE DUKE.
Irish Tenor Substitutes for schipa
and Acquits Himself Well.

At the Manhattan last night the Chi
cago Opera Company giving "Rigoletto''
for the first time this season and with
several of Its tenors indisposed was
obliged to go outside it's ranks and find
a substituting tenor for Tita Schira,
suddenly i'll, who was to have sung the
Duke in the performance. The substitute
singer. found at the last hour as II
were. was Tom Burke, Irish tenor. who
has sung the role at Covent Garden.
In the circumstances he acquitted
himself with much credit in the part.
His voice was light. but of pleasing
quality, and In appearance he fitted well
into the general ensemble. Miss Mason
as the GildG was commendable, although
not at her best in the colorature pas
sages of her air, "Caro Nome"
Mr.. Baklanoff as the jester won sue
cess by the dramatic power of his sing
ing and acting. Mr.. Polacco was the
conductor.
The New York herald., 1922-02-10
Compers's Views on Coal.

If SAM GoMPERs's declaration OF
why the American Federation Of
Labor will back nationwide coal
strike expresses his honest views he
has weirdly distorted conception Of
economic conditions in the bitumi-
nous coal industry.
GoMpERs says there are more than
enough idle miners to bring into
being an ample and more than ample
coal supply" But il he does not
know that right now the supply of
soft coal, which is the coal used by
the country's industrial plants, is
larger than the demand for it, he
does not know anything at all about
the bituminous coal situation.
If GoMPERs does not know that the
miners are out of work because the
coal they ought to be producing can
not sell at what it costs to mine and
market it, he does not know what
every mine owner in the union coal
fields knows by the bitter experience
of not being able to do business.
If GoMPERs does not know that the
bulk of what soft coal is being sold
is now produced in the non-union
districts, he does not know what
every man, woman and child in the
union districts knows by the bitter
experience of widespread unemploy-
ment.
GoMPERs says there are more than
enough railroad men to maintain
and operate enough idle cars in which
to haul that coal to market" But
if GoMPERs does not know that the
idle cars never can be put to hauling
the coal that cannot be sold because
it costs too much, he does not know
what pushcart peddler knows about
the laws of economics.
GoMPERs says the American Fed
Grafton of Labor will be with the
United Mine Workers If they go into
a fight over the proposed wage re-
duction. But if GoMPERs does not
know that the non-union miners will
go right on mining coal at the lower
costs which now give, their product
command of the market, will, in fact
if the union miner strikes, go right
on mining more and more of it,
he does not know what he could not
help knowing if he were in the very
least competent to discuss the coal
question.
IL GoMPERs does not know that for
eign coal is now selling on the At
lantic seaboard for less than it costs
to mine and ship domestic coal to the
Atlantic seaboard, he does not know
what the coal miners of England,
Wales and Germany now know by
reason of their mining increasing
quantities of their coal for shipment
to the American market.
II SAM GoMPERs does not know
that American costs of mining BIZ
luminous coal. of transporting btu
minous coal, of handling bituminous
coal from start to finish, must come
down and come down hard or the
soft coal industry of the United
States, bad as it now is, must get
worse before it gets better, he does
not know enough about the coal sit
uation in this country, or in any
other country, to warrant him In
opening his mouth about it. :