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The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Congress in the New Year.

Whatever this new year may have
in store for the American people in
respect of natural activities like in
dustry and business, Congress can
determine a large measure OF the
public welfare by its attitude and ac-
tion on taxation.
A sound and reasonable tax system
is of more Importance to the country
in dollars and cents than all the
money that could be safely saved for
1t by disarmament. 1t is OF more i'm
portance, very much more, than the
interest owed on our Treasury loans
to foreign governments--of more i'm
portance in the long run than the
principal itself OF that foreign debt.
1t is of more importance than our
own national debt and all the inter
national problems which it is our lot
to share.
A sound and reasonable tax system
is essential to the welfare Of the gen.
eral public, because the nations in
dustrial plants cannot provide the
work and create the wealth upon
which the happiness OF the country
depends when they are impeded and
stalled by oppressive taxes. 1t is es-
sential to the financial ease Of the
national Treasury itself, which can
not draw adequate revenues from
sources that are dried up by wither-
ing tax methods. 1t is essential TO
our fullest cooperation in the work
ing out of the worlds problems,
which require our financial bounty so
dependent upon our economic vigor
and strength.
Congress will not hoe its row
in the work of industrial reconstruc-
tion and business revival unless il
so changes the excessive income
surtaxes and so modifies all tax re-
strictions as to stop driving capital
out of active industrial lines, stop
chloroforming incentive, initiative
and expansion-stop hamstringing
the wheel horses in the nations in
dustrial four-in-hands.
If Congress will free the economic
machinery which is now partially or
wholly deadlocked by unscientific and
indefensible tax measures it will
help enormously to start the country
on a new year of returning prosper
ity and growing happiness.
When the vicious and destructive
taxes are wiped out 1t will cost less
to get out raw materials from the
soil, the mine and the forest. 1t will
cost less to haul them TO the mill and
factory, to turn them into finished
products, to haul them in turn to the
distributing markets and sell them.
When IL costs less to do all this nee.
essary work il will cost less to eat, TO
rent houses and TO live. And when
It costs less to live every worker can
do more for himself and more for the
world.
New Years greetings to the United
States Congress, and may it do it's
part toward making this a prosper
Gus and happy New Year for the
country!
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
'The Old Arm Chair"
Eliza Cook Wrote the Song in Eng
land Eighty Years Ago.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The nine
line letter you printed about 1.-THE Old
Arm Chair bristles with error. Your
correspondent says II brought the
song to this country from England In
1879 or $780," The fact is. there wera
twenty-one editions Of the words and
music of "The Old Arm Chair up to
the year 1s4o. and it was copyrighted In
Washington, d. c.. by George p. Reed.
II fremont row, Boston.
He further says that "the song was
written by John Read, chairman of
music hall in London" unaware that
Eliza Cook, an English poet, wrote the
poem in 1888, that II was set to music
by the famous Henry Russell and Is
still, upward Of eighty years afterward,
a popular ballad. AS the author Of this
poem Eliza Cooks name. It is said, was
for a generation after 1888 a household
word both in England and America.
Russell composed nearly 500 songs. in-
Guiding I'm Ahoat" and Cheer, Boys.
Cheer
In England as a schoolboy THE O.d
Arm Chair" was familiar to me. often
heard 1t sung IN the fifth and sixth dec
ades of the nineteenth century.
B. b. VALENTINE.
NEW YORK, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

something else to do but also that the
coal famine forced scores OF private col
lectors to close their orchid houses.
Now the orchid is coming back to its
own: collectors are again invading the
the base of the Himalayas, and the most
wonderful OF flowers is regaining all its
former popularity.
New varieties of orchids are produced
from seed by means of cross fertiliza-
tion, process both tedious and difficult.
Some varieties have defied the collec-
tor in this respect, but II has recently
been discovered that the services of a
certain microscopic fungus are necessary
TO aid in the fertilization. 1t Is a dis
covery of which little Is known at pres
ent except to the experts. but one which.
am assured. is of considerable COM
mercial Importance.
One of the greatest OF English orchid
collectors was Alderman Bolton, ex-
Lord Mayor OF Liverpool, whose death
was recently announced Before the war
he had in his houses as many as 100000
specimens OF orchids at one time. and
his collectors went all over the tropics
in search OF now specimens.
The story of the search for orchids r.
full of romance. The finest specimens
grow in fever swamps. where a white
man can hardly live for more than a few
days at time. They are found near
the tops OF giant trees, and for every
three orchids brought to England IL ia
estimated that one forest monarch must
have been felled.
An orchid hunter searching through
the wilds Of New Guinea discovered q
brand new variety growing in n native
cemetery. But it was as much as his
life was worth to trespass there, and the
only way In which he could win perms-
sion was by huge bribe OF glass beads
offered to the chief
Another orchid hunter, M. Hamelin,
seeking rarities In Madagascar, found
that his only possible life insurance was
to become blood brother to a native
chleftain. Incidentally this process I'm
volved the risk IL the blood brother
died of the other having 10 marry the
dead mans wife and take charge OF his
entire family.
To find the plants is one thing: TO
carry them another. The plants are
wired to sticks and packed in boxes to
be carried to the coast. Tho worst risk
comes when the precious cargo has
been put aboard chip. IL slowed too
near the boilers or exposed to sunlight
or II not provided with sufficient air
every plant viii probably die.
Nor do the plants fetch as much In
tho wholesale market as might be ex-
pected unless definitely known to be
rarities. The price. for instance, II
the beautiful odontoglossum crispum,
which comes from New Granada, is only
about $50 a thousand.
The value of this orchid depends en-
tirely upon the markings on its petals.
While common white crispum is worth
shilling or two only. as mgch as 500
gulneas has been paid for a plant with
elaborately marked flowers.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Invention Of the Bronx Cocktail and
the Club Sandwich.

To THE NEw YORK HERALD: In tell
1r OF tho sale OF former saloon at
81 Brook avenue. The Bronx, YOU re-
orded that It "is said to be the place
where the FIRST Bronx cocktail was
mixed" other newspapers printed the
me statement, adding that BILLY Glib
son's Criterion restaurant also claims
that distinction"
what 7 desire TO know definitely and
accurately IL possible is the location OF
the saloon where the first Bronx cook
tail was really mixed. BY way of pay
ment I give in return the birthplace Of
tho club sandwich. 1t was at the Penn
syivania Club at Long Branch. when
Il was a gilded palace OF chance, that
the delectable combination Of sliced
chicken. bacon, lettuce and nayonnaise
had TIA origin. A. NJ. s.
Nsw York, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

us you arrogantly refused even to dis
cuss a situation which was as vital tc
the men you pretend to represent as II
was to us. We and they together are
reaping the result OF your folly.
Instead of needing our warning you
have deliberately concealed from your
members the fact that more than 70 pei
cent. of 4 normal weekly production OF
soft coal has been mined during this
entire year in the United States.
You have deliberately blinded them to
the fact that they could have had their
full share Of the nations business this
year and next year by accepting mod
crate wage reduction.
We have lost 100000 tons of our
business this year to the non-union
fields in addition to the amount lost on
account of the general depression.
Unless a reduction is secured within
thirty days ] warn you that you have
condemned the men in this field to
fifteen more months of the worst prfva-
tion the district has ever known. Our
only chance to secure orders and work
for them lies between now and March
for the succeeding year.
1t is a pity you have no conception OF
the present situation and know so little
of how coal is marketed. You allude
to five families in Amsbry who have
been asked to vacate our houses. No
tenant Of any of our dwellings has ever
been or ever will be removed under the
circumstances which you SO unscrupu-
lously picture. On the other hand. no
tenant who persistently connects himself
with an illegal traffic in liquor or in
terferes with the peaceful or social pur-
suits Of his neighbors will be tolerated
for long in our dwellings or employed by
the company.
I am glad to say that we are now
able at least to shelter. rent free, in our
houses several hundred families de-
prived of work by the rule or ruin
tactics of your organization. They can
not buy necessaries with war time wage
rates. 1 have been fighting for nine
months to get them pay envelopes. This
company has observed every rate and
condition Of the contract to which you
refer despite the many times It has been
broken by union leaders and committees.
Last week notified our people at
twenty of our idle mines that had ex-
llausted every effort to secure orders for
them at the present scale and had aban-
doned all hope OF starting work again
until reduction in wages was agreed
TO. They were entitled 10 know this
so they could decide how and where they
would live next wear
I now notify them IL any OF the men
at our idle mines come to me and ask
for work at reduced rates, which be-
cause OF the reduced-eost of necessities
permit them TO maintain the accustomed
standard of living, that then 1 will dc
everything in my power to secure orders
for them and help them all I can. which
is more than you are doing. In view
OF the tone of your telegram and the
threats made against me and my COM
pany, I do not care to receive any fur
ther communication from you.
Il. II. WATKINS.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
The Cedars of Lebanon.

The cedars look from Lebanon. where
deep in cleft and Granny
For ages long their mighty roots have
pierced the neither gloom:
Afar below they sec in flower the groves
of Zebadani,
The groves Of Zehadani with their
pink pomegranate bloom.
The cedars lean from Lebanon. their
boughs forever greening.
Whether the mountain winds breathe
low or shouts the streaming gale ;
Long leagues beyond the plungtng
slopes and levels Intervening
They mark the riven portals and the
shattered shrines of Baal.
The cedars lift on Lebanon their bolcs
that are as hoary
As are the giant temple stones that
Solomon built upon
When In Jerusalem he reigned, empan-
oplied in glory.
And when the Queen Of Sheba came
from Kingdoms Of the sun.
The cedars tower on Lebanon above the
gaping valleys
And through the wastes OF centuries
have ceased not to aspire,
Since from their piers of harborage
swept forth the feet cared gal
leys,
And watchmen on the wall cried hail
to Hiram, King of Tyre.
The cedars now on Lebanon with doml-
nant persistence
Have held their lonely eyrie though
their kin were sacrificed.
Their dearest memory being this
across the purple distance
They viewed the wonder OF the star
that told the birth of Christ.
CLINTON ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
A Mustache Cup.
II Is Carefully Guarded for Special
Occasions.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: There Is
at least one mustache cup in New
York. It was purchased over thirty
years ago for my daughter to give 10
her father. The decorations are blra-
and silver on very fine china.
retired II to the closet shelf years
ago 10 save It from the fate of its
predecessors. It Is now used only for
special occasions. Il was used on
Christmas day for after dinner coffee
and created quite little amusement
around the table.
1t is again retired to the safety of
the shelf T.. E. r.
NEW York, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

the hospitals OF the city either re-
ceived gifts during the year or had
bequests made to them. One Of the
most recent of these bequests was
that OF 100000 left by Miss HELEN
Cole to Roosevelt Hospital. A..
BARTON HEPBURN few days ago an
nounced the donation of 100000 to
the Hepburn Hospital at Ogdensburg,
to which he had previously given
100000.
The contributions to colleges and
universities were usually designated
for special studies or departments.
Mr.. BAKERS gift to Cornell was to
be applied to a new chemical labora-
tory. Harvard received a contribu-
tion Of 100000 from friend at Plym-
outh, Massachusetts,. to be devoted
to the investigation of the origin and
cure of cancer, and gift from the
Rockefeller Foundation Of $1,7S5,0
for the establishment Of school of
public health. Columbia University re-
ceived $2,000,0O0 from the same foun-
dation for its medical department.
Both the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Wellesley College re-
ceived large bequests under the will
Of FRANCIS A. FOSTER. Three meM-
bers of the faculty OF the University
Of Pennsylvania donated $500,00 in
cash and equipment to dermato-
logical research laboratory. The
Teachers College received two dona-
tions, one from FELIX M. WARBuRo
to found a chair of civic education,
another from Mrs. III. H. JENKINS for
the endowment Of department of
nursing. The General Education
Board gave to colleges and universe
ties s1S,205,0 for teachers salaries
and s271,210 for cooperation with
State universities and State depart
ments OF education in Southern
States in the field of secondary and
rural education. 1t expended s143,-
600 for educational surveys and
s1,134,700 on colleges and training
schools for the negro.
The total of the benefactions of
the year is less, no doubt, than that
Of 1920, when the Rockefeller gifts
aggregated $474,000,000 and the be-
quests of HENRY C. FRICK, estimated
at that time at s6o,O00,000, were an
nounced, and when more than $751;
100000 was distributed by the will of
GEORGE EASTMAN of Rochester. The
year 1914, when the total gifts Of
Americans amounted to 1915, 900, 900,
was another remarkable year in the
philanthropic annals OF this country.
One of the characteristics Of the gifts
and bequests of 1921 was the great
number of beneficiaries to whom they
fell. The benefactions, a man versed
in charitable affairs said, were more
diversified than is usually the case;
charitable persons made donations to
many institutions instead or confin-
ing themselves to one or two, while in
wills property was often bequeathed
to as many as thirty or forty different
institutions.
The amount of the unrecorded
benefactions was perhaps as great as
In any past year. One OF the best
evidences OF this was the generous
outpouring of gifts all over the United
States to bring comfort and help to
the poor and to the unemployed dur
ing the holiday season. America In
1921 responded TO the charitable de-
mands made upon her as she has
always responded, hard times or no
hard times, with open handed gen
erosity and liberality.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Bees for Central Park.
Recipe From Colorado for Turning
It Into a Garden OF Eden.

To THE NEW YonK HERALD: From
time TO time we hear complaints OF con-
ditions In Central Park While reading
Colorado paper I came across an
article on bees. Tho concluding para
graph seems to contain solution OF
the troubles that exist in the park and
one easy OF accomplishment. Here is
the paragraph:
Central Park. New York. Is one OF the
most emphatic Illustrations extant OK tho
absence of bees. Il has become practl-
caily treeless. grassless and floweriess.
II is absolutely useless for the authori-
ties 20 import soil. reseed soil and re-
plant trees in THE park. Bees would
mako Central Park another Garden of
Eden, with new trees, grasses and
flowers.
JAMES F. DoNNELIr.
RrcHMoNp HILL, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
The Light Heart.

In the morning
I am singing and prayer.
Lifted TO You
On the wings OF the air.
When tho night stoops.
fling open my blind
am a prayer
on the lips OF the wind.
I am Of earth
And my soul Il faun.
After day comes
And before II Is gone.
am OF You
AZ the dawn and the night.
Rising on wings
That are spirit and light.
ABIGAIL w. CREssoH.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
why Can't We Have II All the Yea


This time Of hope and Christmas cheer
OF peace on earth, good will to men,
why can't we have it all the year7
why can't we live the now way then?
why can't we keep the torch alight
Enkindled at the Christmas fire,
Which. though a gas log. burnoth bright
In every home and each desire?
Why can't we live. as live we must.
And love n little by the way.
And give Of courage, faith and trust
As almost ell do Christmas day?
This time OF smiles in homs and mart,
This time OF kindness, goodness, cheer,
This time OF warmth IN every heart
Why can't We have Il all the yearf
MsuarcR MoRpYa
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
With the San Francisco Minstrels.

To THE New York HERALD: In an
swer to question let me say the San
Francisco Minstrels gave their show
directly opposite the Metropolitan Hotel.
The minstrel firm was made up Of Burch.
Bernard. wambold and Baclus. They
all used to stop at the Metropolitan.
I remember when I was a kid that
went to San Francisco Minstrels mat
inee at which there were only six or
eight in the audience. They asked us
to come down into the front rows and
then told Jokes on one another.
WALTER NJ. DICKSON.
SCRANTON, Pa, December 81.
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To THE New YoRK HERALD: was
salesman at 557 and $50 Broadway in
1873 and 1874. A cafe located near by
on Prince street had n rear room where
favored patrons were served. Hero one
afternoon. assembled with four of his
friends. Wambold sang for them. I do
not recall the piece but was charmed
with his voice and manner. T.. II. Il.
NEW ROCHELLE, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
The Unknown Year.

OF all the years that fought and blsd,
or aiI the years that now are dead,
we wonder ~ there could be shown
A year that died for vs. unknown?
McTa W.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Marse Henry.

To TIE NEW York HERALD: How did
"Marse Henry" originate as applied TO
Henry Watterson? j. r. s.
SELMA, Ala, December 20.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
The Search for Orchids.
Expensive Hobby Full Of Peril and
UncerfnlntH.

Chvtstophsr Bsct n Lordon DdiIU Mail
OF all the hobbies hit by the war few
suffered more severely than the cult Of
the orchid. 1t was not merely that the
collectors who are always roaming the
steamy swannps Of the tropics found
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Through the arrest OF two men and
a woman It became known yesterday
FOR the first time that $1,40o,O00 was
stolen from the registered mall be-
tween New York and Washington in
July Of last year. The news that the
stolen valuables are in fair way
TO be recovered will reconcile the pub
lie to the concealment Of the news
of the robbery.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Dave Wambold's Song.

To THE New York HERALD: agree
with Mr.. Harding that Dave Wambold
never sang The Old Arm Chair" Mr..
Wambold may have sung very old
song in which appear the words:
love It, love It, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm ciair7
This latter song was revived in
Charles III. Hoyt's farce comedy "A
Brass Monkey" many years after Wam-
bold had retired from public life.
JOHN II. JAMES,
NEW York, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Sol Smith Russelps Song Of Honey.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I recall
having heard Sol Smith Russell sing the
ditty with the line 'Tf you want honey.
then you want money" in his April
Weather or Poor Relation"
w. c. Fox.
NEW York, December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Card index to prevent bigamy in the
Bronx.-NeDspupor headline.
Lives there a man with memory SO
dead that no fails to recall living
wife?
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Ten midget actors in a taxi, and the
press agent on the job too, constitute
a happy New Year party
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled
20 the use for republication OF all news dis
patches credited 10 N or not otherwise
credited IN this paper. and also the local
news published herein.
All rights OF republication of special ais
patches herein are alse reserved.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Reckoning the Cost.

From the Harrisburg Patriot.
Hens cackie after laying eggs because they
know the price We pay.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Those who bemoaned the dryness Of
New Years at midnight may rejoice
over II when they wake UP to-day
with clear heads.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Private Concert by Dave wamboId.

SCRANTON, Pa. December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Two Great Discoveries.

NEW YORK, December 81.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-19
TN LOCAL CT JJRCIES7

c- 81 !. Bloom viii act as soug
leader and F ii. Fry superintend-
emit wi1fSbe in charge. IA
ST. Peters Catholic
Services Sunday at St Peters
Catholic Church, Madisong AMI
jackson streets, Of which the Rev.
p H Gilsenan is rector and the
Rev. P. j. Devaney is assistant,
Will be a follows: Low masses at
1880, 9 and 1880 a. M. vesper
service at 1880 p. m.
First. Baptist
The Rev W. T. Eddy. pastor
OF the First Baptist Church. an.
nounced today that the, pulpit
would Sc supplied at the l0:45
services Sunday morning. The
Reverend Mr.. Eddy. has been IL
but will be with his congregation
tomorroy morning. Sunday school
will be held at $3.50 O'Clock il
Church of Christ
The tent meeting being conduct
ed b17 the Church Of Christ OF Col
umbia street at Fairfax and Marion
streets. have been closed. The time
and place for the next tent meeting
will be announced with in the next
few days. The Bible Class will meet
at ~ tomorrow III OIuIuks. .EAAAOl-
tation begins at 1880 followed by
the communion service.
First Presbyterian
The Rev. Arthur Gee OF Ph1ade1-
phia, who is officiating at the First
Church, Jackson and
jefferson streets during the alb
sence of the Rev H. G. Stoetzer,
pastor of the church, will deliver
his sermon at 1O:45 Sunday morn
ing on "The Third Great Argument
for Religion at the evening ser
vice at 8 O'Clock the Bible School
will be held at $3.50 am Frank
C Evans, superintendent, will be in
charge The business Mems Bible
Class will meet at the same hour.
The midweek prayer service will be
held at 1880 Wednesday evening.
The Gospel of Luke will be the
subject for discussion.
Diamond Street m. e.
Harry c.. Drum IS group Of the Bill
ly Sunday Club will be in charge Of
the service at 1890 tom orrow
morning at the diamond Street
Methodist Episcopal Church. Dia--
mond and Market streets, of which
the Rev. J. C. Buckley is pastor.
Sunday school services will be held
at $3.50 a. m. TIL ere will be no eve,
ming services.
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atsFestuss 81 Eexerb augh VIII be
dedicated onsSunday. August
The Rev.saJ !. E Scott d ormer
pastor, will have charge and Will
preach the dedicatory sermon.
There will be an all day service
2a3s False Report
;ss John a. Bro kS, manager of the
bathing beach here, received a
telegram announcing the death Of
his father atkins and left snl7
smediately to attend the funeral,
but when he arrived at Elkins he
found chat his father had left
.Morgantown and no one at home
knew anything OF his death It
proved to be a false alarm. Mr..
Brooks was at one time q resid dent
of this town.
Personals
Mesd ames Florence E. Tetrick
and Charles R. Atha were visitors
in Fairmont on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. a. Freel of
Annabelle were shopping in Nor-s
Ellington on Friday.
daughter Lillian returned on Fri
day morning from a two weeks
visit with relatives at Mount Yer
non, Ind
Col. T. G. Price OF Monongah
was a visitor in town on Thurs
day.
Ed. NJ. Philips of New Freeport,
Pa, a graduate Of Indiana Dental
College. has rented rooms IN the
Davis Building and will be ready
for business September i.
J. Wesley Phillips Of Downs
was visitor here on Friday