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The New York herald., 1922-03-03
History in Scrapbooks.
American Progress Depicted in a
Series OF Volumes.

To THE NEW YonK HERALD: In re-
gard 70 scrapbooks, have collection
which comprises several volumes proba-
bly, diffeg 1t from any others in the
world.
In them are seals, coats of arms. let
terheads and similar things from all the
States and Territorial possessions of the
United States except Yap and one or
two other minor islands; from Congress,
the White House. all the Cabinet de-
partments, the army and navy. the Su-
preme Court, thirty-tive legations and
many United States consulates.
College and historical societies have
given a large quota. and there are hun
dreds of pictures and other items rep
resenting the progress OF the country
from the time OF Columbus. particularly
the Revolutionary and civil war periods.
For the pages devoted to the civil war
there is a wealth of material from both
sides of the conflict. Among these are
clippings from the original newspapers
OF the draft call. Second Inaugural Ad-
dress. Gettysburg Address. accounts OF
the surrender OF Lee and trial of JET
ferson Davis. They are all pasted in.
or natural products are flax, cotton.
raw silk, hemp and cloth from the coll
oEies made of cocoanut and pineapple
fiber, also one Of Mr.. Burbank's flowers.
and for sentiment heather and edel-
weiss.
Through these books there are a great
many autograph letters and signatures,
but there is special volume of other
autographs which have come to me.
These include such names as President
Harrison. President and Mrs. Cleveland
President and Mrs. Mckinley. President
and Mrs. Roosevelt. President and Mrs.
Wilson. President and Mrs. Harding,
several Vice Presidents. Cabinet officers,
Uncle Joe Cannon. Chief Justices
Fuller and White. Generals Miles and
Wheeler. Admirals Dewey, Sampson.
Schley, Evans and Fletcher. Cardinal
Gibbons. John Hay. Thomas a. Edison.
Andrew Carnegie. John Wanamaker.
Jacob A. Riis. Judge Lindsey, General
Goethals. Edward Everett Hale, Henry
van Dyke. Edward Box. Harvey b.
Wiley. William Marconi, Clara Barton.
Jane Adams, Ida Tarbell. Admiral Sims
and General Pershlng.. Surely names
or people who have done much for the
advancement OF our nation. Besides
these are the signatIres of several dis
tinguished foreigners. L..
SUMMIT. n. j.. March 2.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
LincoIn's Assassination.
An Unusual Meeting OF Two Wit.
nesses OF the Tragedy.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Herbert
S. Renton Is correct when he says that
Sothern did not play the part OF Lord
Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin" at
Fords Theater on the night of Llncoln's
assassination and that e. A. Emerson
had this role. Mr.. Emersons name is
opposite this character on the program.
In fact Mr.. Emerson he for many years
after this tragedy and a.iil has, II he Is
living. the program which he picked up
under Mr.. Lincon's chair after the trag-
edy and which has blood spots still on
it. I knew Mr.. Emerson for years both
in my boyhood in Lynchburg. Va. and
after came to Washington in 1891. !
have seen this program repeatedly.
After retiring from the stage he lived
in Lynchburg for many years. where he
had a prosperous bookstore. Later he
moved to Washington Some years ago
I gave a small luncheon at the Cosmos
Club in Washington at which he was
the guest of honor. He brought his
bloodstained program with him.
Another guest was the late DR.. A. f.
A. King OF Washington, who was in the
audience on the night Of the tragedy.
I brought these two gentlemen together
to have them compare their testimony
face to face of what they actually wit
messed of the scene---the actor on the
stage and the beholder in the audience.
1t was most interesting and Is perhaps
the only instance Of such a confronting
of witnesses.
Their testimony. in the main identical
differed only in minor details, particu-
larly about Laura Keene. who. Mr.. En-
erson said, was much enraged and in
dulged in violent language. He was
standing by her and heard her. Mr..
Emerson was not before the footlights
at the time but was waiting in /the
wings for his part and saw the whole
occurrence from where be stood.
Booth was not playing that week but
Mr.. Emerson rad seen him at the the
ater that morning and had talk with
him. He had read an account of Mr..
Lincoln's trip to Richmond and was
much exasperated at his having occu-
pied Mr. Davis's official residence in
Richmond. the White House Of the Con-
federacy.
He was never known or addressed as
wilkes, but always called John Booth.
He was in love with the daughter Of
John p. Hale, Senator from New Hamp-
shire. who frequently sent him flowers
from the audience.
ROBERT L. PRESTON.
LEEsBuRG, Va, February 2S.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
The Case Of Poor Young Man.

With practically a unanimous vote
the recent conference in Washing
ton on educational requirements for
admission to the bar went on record
with the declaration that the law
student should have at least two
years of college training to his
credit in addition to the regular law
school course. For this conclusion
the legal profession OF the country is
largely indebted to ELIHu RooT, who
overcame what at the outset OF the
discussion seemed to promise a for
midable opposition.
The opposition was based chiefly
on plea for the poor young man
with natural ability enough to be.
come good lawyer but without
money for a preliminary college edu.
cation. This point was urged by
several speakers. but Mr.. RooT's state
1nent Of existing professional con.
ditions and his appeal for their
improvement convinced the confer.
ence OF the desirability OF the
proposed requirement. Evidently
the opinion OF the conference was
that IL young man lacked
money for college education the
Tzy vas open for him to make up
sae deficit with work. Moreover, a
young mans will to work his way
through the required years Of college
training was regarded as in itself q
character building quantity OF as
much value, perhaps, as the book
learning involved
In the case OF JoHS c. o'BRrrS.
whom Governor Cox has just ap.
pointed District Attorney Of Suffolk
snunty. Massachusetts. in place OF
Mr.. PELrErTER, lately removed from
office. there is striking evidence in
support Of this view. Mr.. o'BRrEN
Is 35 years old His father was a
foreman in one Of the Boston city
departments with a small salary. lie
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
Governor Lowden Recognized
the Portrait.

In August last year THE New YoRI
HERALD. in discussing the importanc
Of Germany considered in a diplo
matte sense, suggested the kind o
man America should send as Am
bassador to Berlin. Here is what i
said.
I'VE shall need an Ambassador in
Germany who has eyes that see and
a brain that can understand that
country and a tongue that can speak
its language. Germany Is setting a
pace industrially and in general
activity that has no counterpart in
the world to-day.
Her recovery from chaotic after
war conditions, the output OF her
industries and the measure of world
trade she has already regained have
no parallel
THE reason for these achievements
rests with her people. They are
workers. They know that II the
Fatherland ever pays its colossal in
demnity and reestablishes itself as a
free and independent nation among
the nations Of the world work alone
can accomplish it-intense, unspar-
ing work. And these German people
are bending their backs to the task
uncomplainingly and with viii to
surmount all obstacles.
"To this field of regeneration and
vast outreach for industrial world
supremacy America would better
send no Ambassador at all than TO
send a man incapable of understand
ing her economic strides and her
vibrant business activity in every
phase OF her rcawakened life.
"our Ambassador to Berlin should
be a man of sound business instincts.
with the vision OF the statesman and
the sensitiveness of temperament to
interpret all about him.
ITO send college professor. lit
erary man or a professional political
incubus to Germany at this time
would be wholly without excuse.
THE NEW YORK HERALD makes
these observations with a keen ap-
probation of the Importance OF tho
Berlin post and without any knowi-
edge OF the intentions of the Presi-
dent concerning this post. Indeed.
considered In respect OF It's opportu-
mites for service to America, II is a
question if our Embassy in Berlin
will not be the most important OF all
our embassies.
"Germany's rejuvenation. Ger
many's looming position in world in
dustrios and IN world trade. Ger
many's progress in scientific knowi-
edge and development. Germanys
genius FOR organization and Ger
many's relation with Russia--with
all that this may mcan--make Ber-
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
BY W. J. HENDERSON.

Walter Damrosch, having III bed his
vacation and been made to guest OF
honor at concert in aid of the musi-
cal department OF the American Acad-
emy in Rome, resumed his duties as
conductor of the New York Symphony
Society at its concert in Carnegie Hall
yesterday afternoon. The audience APP
peared TO be glad TO see him. He was
welcomed with long and hearty APP
plause when he made his entrance, and
IL he received less after the first num-
ber on the program it was without
doubt because the peaceful character OF
the music was not conducive to ac-
ciamations.
The program consisted of three works
by Beethoven. his first and sixth SYM
phonies and his T. flat piano concerto.
The pianist was Josef Hofmann. II
was a program requiring no exegetic
essay and no encomiums. All that IS
necessary Is record Of the fact that
Mr.. Hofmann performed his share OF
the Emperor" concerto in a manner
that must have brought delight to all
fudicious listeners.
1t did not occur to him that because
the work had been named the EN-
bGTOT WAS GSSeHtldi " tntCAPlCt ~
in an imperious way. with militant OUT
bursts and the general bravado Of the
man on horseback. He contented him
self with playing it with exquisite clar-
ity, with continual beauty of tone, with
artistic sensibility and with fine dig
nifty. It was an admirable interpreta-
ton and the audience appeared TO
recognize that II was.
AS for the two symphonies. it may
be said that while Mr.. Damrosch en-
deavored to emphasize some points he
made no attempt at revealing any
hitherto unsupported wonders in either
the unpretending first or the gentle
sixth. Even the thunderstorm was re-
stored to its traditional proportions. In
these days 1t is the fashion to intro
duce a few extra flashes OF lightning
and to enlarge the might of Beethoven's s
crashes. Mr.. Damrosch permitted them
to go their own way. It was the kind
Of thunderstorm we used to have be-
fore the war, but not quite as gorgeous
as now required by the American
standard of living.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
Fruit Eating Birds.
A Special Breed OF Cats Wanted by
a Market Gardener.

To THE New York HERALD: Your
correspondents have countered so often
or the cat in the last few days that
IS quite evident that these gentlemen
have never tried to grow cherries or
Strawberries for the Asbury Park mar
let or they would change their opinion
on the cat question.
The gentleman from Trentor gives a
list of grosbeaks, buntings, goldhnches,
&c. raised where cats were numerous,
that would compare favorabiy with the
statistics OF any poultry plant between
Cape May and Point Pleasant. lie also
doubts the ability Of the cat to catch
the rat in the open. Well, a rat IN
confinement needs no catching, and II
the cats in the vicinity OF Trenton are
unable 10 catch rats in the open the
birds ere quite safe, think.
Every body loves the song Of birds
especially when one is not trying 10
sleep in the morning, but birds that
sing occasionally and destroy fruit con-
stantly are not much thought OF among
market gardeners.
What we need Is breed OF cats With
special liking for redbreasts and red
breasted grosbeaks--red' internally and
externally during the strawberry sea.
son--and then the city dweller will not
have to pay 60 cents for a quart OF
Strawberries in season.
WIN. BELsHAw.
Hon PINES, n. j.. March ..
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
Cairo Short of Lamps.
British Seek Substitutes for Those
Smashed by Rioters.
From the E,yptian Nal.

From the EJvptidn Nal.
When professional demonstrators are
bored in Cairo they 60 forth into the
city and smash n few lamps. SO that
new since the recent uprising the Brit
ish residing in the shadow OF the Pyra-
mids are faced with the problem OF
finding substitutes for 5000 missing
lamps. The conditions are exactly re-
last years of the war with Germany
when in darkness lay safety. The Brit
ish in Cairo need light, light in every
street. alley and courtyard.
1t will take three months for the new
lamps to come from Europe. In the
meantime the commandant Of police has
requested the people to place lanterns
at thcir doors. but as this is a MOURN
ing custom among the Egyptians the
idea has met with little approval. Other
proposals have been that the contrac-
tors who arrange fetes and carnivals
should be called upon to turn the prin-
cipal streets into a blaze OF false fes-
tvity or that householders be compelled
tc string electric wires like vines, with
lighted bulbs for nocturnal biossoms.
over their balconies and keep them
burning all night at their own expense.
The editor of the Egyptian Mail him
self proposes the use OF powerful search
lights. placed. on conspicuous points like
the citadel sweeping over the city with
disconcerting effect on the unlawful. He
doesn't say what he thinks the effect
Of this rather military measure would
be upon the Egyptians, who are now in
different to the professional demonstra-
tors. nor the effect on the artists who
first see searchlights on the Nile.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
England Progressing With Her
Dream of Empire.

The thoughtful onlooker in these
days of political passion experiences
restful feeling when he turns his
eyes to that association of peoples
which is geographically known as
the British Empire. 1t was their
own Victorian poet who described
the ways of their unwritten consti-
tuition as Slowly broadening down
from precedent to precedent" The
old is good until the new is proved
and found better. A new precedent
has been established in the case Of
Egypt.
The protectorate found necessary
or expedient during the war has been
ended. Egypt is free but remains
within the sphere of British protec-
tion. No friend Of the Egyptians
could wish it otherwise. Time and
the intelligence of the people Of
Egypt will do the rest. The sensible,
thinking Egyptians know that their
freedom is no less secure because
they retain the shadow Of British
rule along the Suez.
In a world half crazed as a result
of war the thinking onlooker notes
that the men in charge of England's
destinies have not lost their heads
nor have they forgotten the past that
made their empire what 1t is. a
commonwealth for all within it.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the
Union of South Africa, are not sub
ject States but daughters in their
mothers house-each mistress in
her own.
It was not so long ago that BoNAE
LAW informed the House of Com
mons that the dominions were free;
free to stay in the Empire or free to
go, and, though their going would
raise regret, no violent hand would
be raised against them. They will
not go.
There have been empires before,
founded on the sword, held by the
sword, but the dream of the men
who laid the foundations of Britain's
greatness was to carry for
ward the reign OF law to men less
fortunate, to teach rather than to
rule.
South Africa was astonished when
CAMPBELL L-BANNERMAy extended his
hand to the late foe. The foe grasped
1t and has had no cause for regret.
The Irish Free State has taken Eng
lands hand at last in friendship and
association, and unless the future be-
trays the past Ireland will not regret
1t. Egypt now, and India next.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
New York's Big Spendings.

New York may well reflect on the
real meaning Of the figures before
boasting over the fact that in 1921 for
the first time the yearly gross finan.
cial transactions Of the city govern
ment passed the billion dollar mark.
The s1,05O.sis,5i2 or cash receipts
poured into the city till last year
consisted of more than one-third in
direct and indirect taxes. one-ffth IN
fresh borrowings and about one-half
in the proceeds OF new loans which
replaced old ones
In the year before the war IL cost
less 70 run the entire Federal Gov
ernment than was spent in 1921 by
tie city of New York. Last year the
taxes, fees nnes &C., collected and
spent by New York city exceeded
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
The Guide.

He wrote a learned treatise called
The Knickerbocker Guidebook.
lie worked at It TIL he grew bald;
1T was indeed his pride book.
lie knew where Peter Stuyvesant
Had worshiped, sworn and sws..
gercd;
He could rebound the Dongan grant
And tell why Broadway staggered.
He knew why Tenth is south of Third
And where was Wall streets ferry;
Where too the shortest street occurred
why oak street wasn't Cherry.
You couldn't ask a single thing
About New York and stump him.
From distant points, like Ossinine,
Folk pigrlmaged to pump him.
And then one day downtown he went
Where Pearl and Pine dissever,
And though his family millions spent,
tlc disappeared forever
MAURICE Morris.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
- - @asass7saa
A March I sstel.

Pellucid pools In pastures lie.
And mirror the blue depths OF sky
Where the white clouds go racing by.
There Is a stirring OF fern fronds
Beneath the moss. and by the ponds
Brighten the dull gold willow wands
The lIchens CLINT. the sod suspires;
Giimmers a hint of coming fires
Upon the tips OF tangled briers.
One hears crow clamor from afar,
And when night falls. bar after bar.
The starlings twitter to the star.
And torywhere are whisperings
IN upl.i. slopes. by lowland springs,
0C lovely and Of lovelier things.
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03

$3.50. 100000. almost exactly half as
much az the total taxes collected
from the whole country by the Fed
eral Government in the fiscal year
1914. and New York's municipal
taxes last year were ten times as
large per capita as the Federal taxes
in 1914 calculated in the same way.
Residents of this city do not have
to be told that the expenditures of
the municipal government are grow
ing faster than the city's population
and that taxes are galloping ahead
of the taxpayers capacity to pay.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
lin 4 preeminently Important Am

lin a preeminentiy important Am
bassad,rial post for Us at this
juncture."
In this article THE New York
HERALD described a type, not an indi-
vidual, but so admirably did the
description tit ALANsoN B. HoUGHToN,
then a Representative in Congress
from New York State and now the
accredited Ambassador of the United
States to Berlin, that on reading 1t
Ex-Governor FRANK 0. LowDEN Of
Illinois at once recognized in it the
Congressman from New York, and
In a letter to brother-in-law Of
HoUGHToN wrote.
.tAccept my congratulations on the
appearance OF this editorial article
in THE NEW YORK HERALD. It de-
scribes IIouGHToN to a IT,"
Representative HoUGHToN is a
Massachusetts man by birth, a Bige-
low on his mothers side. He is a
graduate of Harvard, and has had
the advantage of post graduate study
at Gottingen, at Berlin and at Paris.
Adding to his fine academic educa-
tion the training that comes from
management of large manufacturing
establishments and great businesses,
and acquaintance with public affairs
which he gained through public SER
vice eliminating in two terms as
Representative in Congress, Ambas-
sador HoUGHToN, rich in his expert
ence of affairs, carries to Berlin In
tellectual equipment and vision that
hold high promise for his service in
the diplomatic field.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
Blue Sky Laws Not the Cure.

What the Legislature of New York
should keep in mind regarding the
so-called blue sky laws is that sew
eral States have tried the blue sky
laws and found them much worse
| than wanting.
The determined or reckless swim
| dler is not afraid of the severely re-
strictive blue sky law any more than
the professional gunman is afraid of
the law forbidding anybody to carry
arms without license. But, just as
the anti-gun law does deprive the
law abiding citizen of self-protection
against the law defying gunman, the
severely restrictive blue sky law, it
has been proved by experience, tends
to drive the honest and careful dealer
in securities out of business while
not deterring the swindler from get
ting into the business for as long
as he can last.
Furthermore. the fact that the
swindler is in the business, perhaps
has managed to obtain license by
hook or crook or has forged license.
makes it all the easier for him to
convince the credulous and the fool
ish that he is reputable, responsible
and backed by the law and the police
power of the State.
THE New YORK HERALD has been
and is as keen as District Attorney
BANToN to clean out the stock market
crooks, root and branch. This news
paper has been waging relentless war
against them, and the District At
torney himself attributes much Of
the success OF his legal campaign
against the swindlers to the start
ling exposures THE New YORK
HERALD has made of their roguery
I@and crime. But THE New YORK
HERALD does not agree with Mr..
BANToN that the way to suppress
swindlers is to hamper honest brokers
who are members of exchanges in
good standing and to fix paralyzing
restrictions on the legitimate busi-
ness they do.
The New York Stock Exchange CO.
operates with newspapers like THE
New York HERALD to keep crooks
out OF the brokerage business. The
New York Stock Exchange cooperates
with the District Attorney to put in
Jail the crooks that sneak into the
business and rob the public. A con-
tinuation of such cooperation against
crooks, with a strengthening of the
laws to punish them when they are
caught, and sure provisions of the
prosecuting machinery and funds to
run them down, will do more than
blue sky laws that never restrain the
crook who knows he is on the road
to jail anyhow or thinks he is cum
ming enough to cheat any law.
The New York herald., 1922-03-03
AMERICAN SOPRANO HEARD.

Miss Swea Hanson. young American
soprano of Swedish parentage, gave her
first song recital here last night In
Aeolian Hall. with Gustave Ferrari at
the plano. She sang French, English
and many Scandinavian lyrics includ-
ing a group OF Swedish folk songs ar
ranged by Gustaf Hagg. Miss Hanson
disclosed a voice of mezzo quality. OF
good power and range, but with little
tonal variety. Her style had more as
surance than finish and her diction in
the French songs was faulty. Her ease
of manner while singing was note
worthy. She was warmly received.