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Federal Road Money.
Where Uncle Sans S190, ,000, 900 FOL
Modern Highways VIII Go.

A statement by the U~stsd States Department
Of Agriculture.
Federal aid for road construction will
be continued as a result Of the authori-
xation Of additional appropriations for
this work. Tho post ONCE appropriation
bill. signed by the President June 10.
authorizes expenditures Of $4,000. 900
In Federal aid for road construction.
Fifty million dollars IL authorized for
the fiscal year beginning July and
$65. 900 and 100000 respectively
for each Of the. two succeeding fiscal
years. In addition $4,000. 900 is au-
thorized for forest roads for the two
fiscal years 1928 and 1924. Tbs funds
will be administered by the Secretary
Of Agriculture through the Bureau Of
Public Roads. The apportionment to
be made in the fiscal year ending 1923
to the various States is approximately
m follows:
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unappropriated public land provision is

unappropriated public land provision Is
made for an increasc in the amount to
the mile. The act also provides for the
extension Of Federal aid to the con-
struction Of structures required for the
elimination OF railroad grade crossings.
States must maintain adequate high
way departments. Funds to match Fed
eral aid must be placed under the d.
rect control Of the State highway depart
ment. The type Of surface constructed
must be adequate FOR the traffic antici-
pated, with reasonable grades and
curves. States must obligate themselves
to maintain all Federal aid roads con-
structed. In case this Is not done any
Federal funds available for new prof.
ects may be withheld until they are
put into satisfactory condition. All Fed
erai aid funds must be spent on con-
hected system Of roads consisting. of not
more than 7 per cent. of the total mile
age in each State and. divided into pri-
mary or Interstate roads and secondary
or intercounty roads.
Plans for the proposed system have
been received by the Bureau Of Public
Roads from all but eight States. and the
State systems are being coordinated so
that when Joined together they will
serve the best interests Of the whole
country. In the meantime only projects
certain to be on the proposed system
are being approved.
The new appropriation comes at a
time when several States are nearing
the limit OF funds available. The au-
thorization Of funds for three years In
advance will be of great benefit to ali
States in that 1t will permit them to lay
their plans for some time ahead. Un-
certainty as to future Federal aid is re-
moved and provision can be made at once
for raising State funds to match II.
Heretofore $3.50. 900 has been ap-
propriated. On May 81 1900 miles of
road had been completed and In addi-
tion nearly 14,5o0 miles were under
construction. Federal aid roads in all
stages total nearly ss.7oo miles, costing
over $2s7.50o.0o0 OF Federal aid To
match this fund the States have appro-
priated approximately $3.50, ,0oo. 900, max
ing a total Of see7. 500, 900.
All types Of road have been con-
structed with Federal aid to meet the
varying conditions in the United States.
The average cost a mile has been ST.
12o, and Federal aid has amounted to
43 per cent. Of the total cost.
It Is estimated that the $3.50. .00o. 900
lately authorized Will result in the con-
struction of more than $4,000 miles of
improved roads. which. added to the
$4,000 miles that is expected to result
from previous appropriations. makes a
total Of 1900 miles, or nearly 40 per
cent. Of the estimated 10000 miles OF
road in the system OF Federal aid roads
now being outlined
The New York herald., 1922-07-10
"What Far on LONELINESS Have /
Known"

What far OF loveliness have I known
That so elusively my hours disturb
With fragments. as from quaint. mar
cotic herb
Visions OF half remembered things are
grown;
Out Of nowhere a sudden wind IS blown
That watts dim fragrances and echoes
faint
OF ancient melodies low minor plant
That seem to be peculiarly my own.
A silver shaft Of moonlight may reveal
Some pleading. speechless and famil-
lar shape.
Or the vague theme Of some old lyric
steal
Across my heart, although its words
escape: tff ~+rs'
Are these just fancies by my dreams un.
furled
Or memories creeping from another
world?
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
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When Katmai Blew Up.

Although the Katmai volcano in
Alaska blew up ten years ago, on
June 6, 1912, It was not until re-
Gently that an adequate account Of
the tremendous violence Of the explo-
sion could be given. Expeditions
sent out by the National Geographic
Society to study the region about the
volcano have made reports which DR..
RosERr F. GRIGes, president of the
society, has summarized in an ad-
dress before the National Education
Association In Boston.
To convey some notion Of the force
Of the eruption DR.. GRrGGs said that
had 1t occurred in New York city the
sulphur fumes would have polluted
the air as far west as the Rocky
Mountains. The roar would have
Jared all the central States to the
Mississippi River. The lower Hud-
son River region would have been
devastated. There would have been
no need Of rescue work, for there
would have been neither human be-
ings nor property left to rescue. Oc-
curing where IL did not life, not
dollars worth Of property was lost
Situated on the Alaskan mainland
near the Shelikoff Strait. Mount Kat
mai is some ffty miles from Kodiak
the nearest large settlement.
But II no man made property suf-
fered there was not immunity from
loss in natural resources. The blasts
let loose when the volcanoes top was
blown off leveled mainland forests
for 1900 square miles. Over an area
larger than the State of Delaware
ashes were strewn to q depth of more
than q foot. Great ash slides started
avalanches which thundered down
the mountain sides for several years
after the volcanic outbreak. Streams
were obliterated and the Katmai
River, formerly navigable by boats
drawing five feet Of water, became
maze Of shifting quicksand five
miles wide.
The great volume of dust elected
encircled the earth and so obscured
the sky that party studying solar
radiation In the Desert of Sahara had
to abandon it's observations for a
year. Incidentally two cubic miles
of solid rock are missing from the
mountain top. having vanished Vith.
out leaving trace unless 1t be ir
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Needles and Pins.

Perhaps when the arch@ologists Of
the fiftieth century are poking about
among the ruins of our civilization
they will discover what we have not
discovered: the resting place Of the
billions upon billions Of needles and
pins we have manufactured for our
use and later have discarded. not
knowing where or how. The census
of manufactures. with figures for
1919, reveals that $4,000, 900 needles
were produced in that year, and
s,431, ,025, ,040 pins.
1t may be that the archeologists
will have a good laugh. In that pre-
sumably moro enlightened century
the laundries may have learned that
96 pins are not required to do up
shirt, or perhaps there will be no
laundries at all In the fiftieth GEN.
tury. 1t may be a period OF perma-
nent linen, an era in which there
will be no dirt. 1t may be.
There Is an annual production OF
nine billion pins and yet they are
always being borrowed. What do
people do with them? And what be-
comes Of them? The laundries do
their best, but they can't use them
all. A few, of course. are picked up
by bright boys in the street. who
thereby attract the attention of mill
ionaire bankers and thus get their
start on the road to wealth; but this,
after all, is limited category.
So is that composed of the pins
which are swallowed and Of those
which are bent into fish hooks No
modern boy would fish with bent
pin, anyway. The known avenues OF
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Texas Mountains.
Badly Peak the Highest Summit East
Of the Rockies.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: In your
editorial article headed 1.-TWO Mighty
Mountains" you named Mount Mitchell
in North Carolina as being the highest
east Of the Rockies. This. I
know. Is the general impression. but 1t
is incorrect. 1t is the highest mountain
east Of the Mississippi. but not the
highest east OF the Rockies. for Texas
claims preeminence In that respect with
Baldy Peak, which attains the very
respectable altitude OF s.3s2 feet. show
ing an elevation Of 1871 feet higher
than Mount Mitchell.
Texas Is SO often regarded as a
prairie State that most people have over
looked the extent Of its mountain alti-
tudes. Texas has more mountains with
an altitude of more than 1000 feet than
any other State in the South. even ex-
ceeding North Carolina in that respect
by thirty-nine. Texas leading with 433
mountains of more than 1000 feet ele-
walton and North Carolina following
with 394. Virginia comes next with
375 and West Virginia with 1854.
But mountains of 1000 feet or over
anu uIIucT <tOOO ACCt ai0 AtHiaAJ WV 80
being classed as mountains in COMPARE
son with the lofty peaks exceeding 5000
feet which are so abundant In North
Carolina and Texas and in the Vir-
ginias. North Carolina has forty-hve
mountains or mountain peaks with an
elevation Of more than 5000 feet and
thirty-two with an elevation OF more
than 5000 feet. Texas has eight noun
tain peaks over 5000 feet and under
5000 feet, with five having an altitude
Of between 5000 and 1000 feet. with
six over 1000 feet but under 5000
feet, and one, Baldy Peak. running. al
stated. to- $3.50 feet.
North Carolina has thirty-twc noun
tain peaks between 5000 and 1000 feet
in elevation. Tennessee has sixteer
under the same classification, and Texas
as stated, has five. North Carolina. witt
it's superb mountain country, has so Ions
been esteemed as having the highest
mountains this side of the Rockies thai
it Is time for Texas to be known for 1T
prominence In that respect.
RICHARD H. EDMoNDs,
Editor Manufacturers Record.
BALTIMORE, Md, July 8.
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Before Judge John c. Knox In the
United States District Court Thursday
will be argued writ OF habeas corpus
involving the right of an immigrant to
entry under q new yearly quota when
that immigrant arrived here In excess of
last years quota This test OF the Dill
lingham per cent immigration act has
never been made in the courts before and
the decision will be of international i'm
portance. The Department Of Labor. Of
which the immigration service is a bu-
reau. has ruled that immigrants arriving
In excess of one years quota cannot. by
prolonging their stay on Ellis Island
upon pretext of appeal or otherwise.
claim admittance to the country under
the new quota of a succeeding year.
The aliens in whose behalf the law
Is to be tested are Elizabetta Miraglia
and her brother, Giuseppe: Giovanni Ca
rosia and his wife, Ida. and vincenzina
di Gregorio. all from Italy,
When these immigrants were first
landed on Ellis Island from the steam
ship America. June n, they said they
were. actors. The law exempts actors
from the quota enforcement. Something
about the manners. airs and general ap-
pearance Of this little band Of aliens.
however, did not satisfy the inspector
who boarded the ship or the other in
spectors at Ellis Island that they were
bona flde actors. Admittance was de-
MED them until they could establish be-
fore a board Of special inquiry their
rightful claims as actors and actresses.
Before the board the aliens admitted
that they had never acted on the stage"
In Italy, but stoutly maint ined that,
despite their lack of experience and
training. they had como to America to
make their debut In the glare of the
footlights.
They gave a sample Of their art, but
their appeal was dismissed and the
aliens were ordered deported. When
they were all packed up and started from
the Ellis Island detention quarters the
women screamed aloud their grief at
leaving the shores Of America. where
live their relatives. Lorenzo Miraglia.
a brother. Is a merchant In Rochester.
Elisabetta Miraglia became hysterical
and tore out great locks of her black
hair, and threatened to jump overheard
from the launch which took them to the
steamship Colombo. sailing Saturday.
s. J. Rotondi and F. A. Margiotta,
lawyers, of so Court street. Brooklyn.
engaged by relatives of the immigrants.
procured writ Of habeas corpus from
Judge Knox in time to serve 1t upon the
captain Of the outgoing steamship. This
stayed the deportation and they were
taken back to Ellis Island late Saturday
night.
Immigration officials say that the
crime Of perjury would exclude the
The New York herald., 1922-07-10

Representative FEss in his canvass
for the Republican nomination for the
Senate in Ohio has made the inter-
esting statement that some Of us now
are seriously considering the necessity
of requiring all discussion in forum or
press. where governmental questions
are considered, to be carried on in the
English language and In the presence
of a Government OFFICIAL" Mr.. FEss
and his friends should seriously con-
slider how obedience to such require
ment could be compelled. Would the
Government officials be appointed un-
der civil service regulations?
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Crown Diamonds.

The twilight stealing from the trees
Lets fall a flmy veil of gray
Ger misty field and dreaming wood
And velvet lawn and garden gay;
From blade and bush and, ,verdant vine
The fireflies In the dewy gloow
Drift out across the sleeping flowers.
The growing shadows to illume.
Above the tallest naples. oaks
And blrches darting to and fro.
Like Jewels In the summer dusk
They sparkle, scintillate and glow;
Rosettis Blessed Damozel
From starry towers looking down.
Behold has dropped in purple space
The yellow diamonds from her crown
MINNA IRVING.
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disappearance are all like that-far
too slender for the tremendous guam
titles Of which they bear away only
few samples.
Measured by the annual value of
its product or the number of per-
sons employed in It the industry
which turns out our needles and pins,
our hooks and eyes, 10 by no means
large one, as American industries
go. But 1t has few rivals in the null
tiplicity of its output.
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General O'BeIrne Told the Story.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: Appleton
Morgan will find recorded the tradition
that Poe liked to go to Mount Tom In
Professor Harrisons Biography Of Poe
in his edition of Poe's works. volume L..
page 225--on the authority Of General
James r. O'Beirne. 1t is not likely that
such a rock as Mount Tom has been
wooded In the last century. ! have a
notion 1t bears glacial marks, as do
similar rocks in Central Park.
THOMAS o. MABBorT.
COLUMBIA UNrvERsrrY. July s.
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JERSEY WOMEN PLAN
TO BLOCK PROFITEERS
Will Publish Wholesale Farm
Prices for Public.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
TRENTON, July o. Prominent club
women of New Jersey have Joined forces
with the State Department Of Agricul-
ture, through It's Bureau OF Markets. In
an effort to check pronteering in food
products. The purpose is to inform the
public by means Of publicity. as to the
fair price of eatables. To accomplish
this about thirty women. affiliated with
the State Federation Of Womens Clubs.
composed of about 200 women's organi-
zations In the State and the New Jer-
sey League Of Women Voters. have
offered their services.
The particular duty of the women Is
to ascertain the retail prices of various
farm products In their respective COM
munities, to inform the State Bureau
of Markets weekly as to the average
prevailing prices and then to aid In dis
tribution OF the information thus OBJ
tanned.
The Bureau of Markets, through .
corps of correspondents. obtains SINH
lar reports as to the wholesale prices.
While 1t has been found that the public
ity given these reports has had marked
effect in curtailing excessive profiteer-
Ing, IL mas Decn Ioun0 tnat dltnOuBH
the retail market reflects almost I'M
mediately any upward trend in whole
sale prices. It is generally slow to re-
spond to any downward trend.
The commit. 5es were named by Mrs.
Mortimer J. Gross OF Crawford. chair
man of the home economies committee
of the State Federation OF Women's
Clubs. and Mrs. John s. Douglass OF
East Orange. chairman of the production
and distribution OF commodities commit
tee OF the State League Of Women vot-
e-s.
Among the women actively Identified
with this work who represent the two
organisa tions are Mrs. A. b. Davies.
Mrs. A. L. G. Marsh and Mrs. Lindsey
Best. of Plainfeld Mrs. William o. yay-
lor and Mrs. w. III. Williams OF Meth
Plainfield; Mrs. L. Barkley of Mouophir.
Mrs William A. Calhoun of 0gAnge.
Mrs. John Morris and Mrs. T. c. Bowen
of West Orange Mrs. Arthur Williams
of Bogota, Mrs. Fl. d. Reed a Norris
town, Mrs. william E. Riley OF Eliza
beth. Mrs. J. w. Fithian. ues. NJ. A.
q lbert and Mrs. M. F. Indderon of
Camden: Mrs. Frank johnson of Bur-
Iington Miss Carrie r. Applegate of
Bridgeton and Mrs. James Q. Stanley
of Trenton.
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An l. w. w. Fourth.
The Day Celebrated BY . Denuncla-
tion Of Our Government

To THE New York HERALD: Freedom
to express ones opinions should not be
allowed to take the form Of disorder
on the public streets. On the Fourth OF
July l saw motor bus parading up
Fifth avenue covered with inscriptions
denouncing the Government for keeping
the so-called political prisoners. who are
really desperate I. w. W.. In jail. And
my ears and those of my wife and
daughters were outraged by the noisy
singing Of I. w. w. songs by q crowd
OF young men and women on the bus.
Should such things be permitted. espe-
cially on the sacred day which COM
memorates the birthday OF constitu-
tional government In the United States?
BROOKLYN, July s. JOHN CooxsoN.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--Fair and
warmer to-day; tomorrow, unsettled.
prorably sh ,wers and thunderstorms:
southerly wind increasing by tomorrow
For New Jersey-Fair and warmer to-
day; tomorrow. unsettled. probably
showers and thunderstorms; southerly
winds. increasing by tomorrow.
day, warmer in the interior; Tomorrow.
showers; moderate southeast and south
winoA.
For Southern New England-Fair and
warmer to-day; to morrow, increasing
cloudiness. probably showers tomorrow
afternoon or night: moderate to fresh
southeast anc south winds.
For Western New York-Partly
cloudy and warmer to-day, followed by
thunderstorms to-night or tomorrow:
somewhat colder tomorrow; moderate
TO fresh southeast and south winds.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-Pressure re-
mained high to-day over the Southeast
ern States and or the South Atlantic
coast and 1t was high and rising over
New England and the Canadian mari
time provinces.
The temperature was somewhat lower
to-day In New England. the Northern
plains States and the Rocky Mountain
region. while higher temperature pre-
vailed In the lake region and the Ohio
and Mississippi valley.
In the Middle and North Atlantic
States the weather was generally fair
with rising temperature tomorrow and
unsettled, probably with showers and
thunderstorms Tuesday. In the South
Atlantic States the weather will be
partly cloudy with scattered thunder
showers Tomorrow and Tuesday. In
the East Gulf States the weather will be
generally fair tomorrow and partly
cloudy with scattered thundershowers
Tuesday.
The New York herald., 1922-07-10
Quartermaster- General Rogers.

Ugly reports are thick in Washing
ton about the high and vastly i'm
portant ofice of .Quartermaster-Gen-
eral which THE New York HERALD
regards as incredible and until the
facts prove the contrary will prefer
to regard as incredible. These re-
ports are that General HARRY L.
ROGERS, Quartermaster-General dur
ing the greater part Of the war and
since the war, is not to be reap
pointed: that his post is coveted as
political spoils for somebody with no
record or experience at all In the
great supply field and enormous
spending agency of the Quartermas-
ter's Department.
OF General ROGERS himself it is
only necessary to say that with the
exception of General PERsHING there
is no army officer that is better and
more favorably known to our men
who served in France, to Congress
and to the American people. He Is
known to and beloved by our over
seas soldiers and he is known to and
admired by all their families and
friends because of the way he fed,
clothed and supplied the needs for
an army of 100000 men separated
from their base of supplies by 5000
miles. He did this with a record
that never has been equaled by our
army in any other war and that was
not surpassed by any other army in
the late war.
General ROGERS is known to and
respected by Congress, by the budget
makers and by the department chiefs
as relentless foe of graft and waste,
a genius for organization and an
achiever of great results, with re-
duced expenditures all along the
line. AS an example Of his excep-
tional ability for working out big
things and at the same time econo-
MIXING he made twenty-one recon-
mendations to Secretary Of War
BAKER under President WILSON for
improvements and economies in ad-
ministration. Secretary BAKER OPP
posed them at first, but afterward
adopted nineteen of the twenty-one
commentators, and within the
next seven months $60.000.000 was
saved to the Government.
General ROGERS was picked by
General PERsHING from among the
younger officers to 60 to France on
his merit and record In the way
PERsH1Na picked all his Generals, re-
gardless of age, position or political
influence. His service on the field in
taking care of our 100000 troops
there was so brilliantly exceptional
and SO immeasurably helpful in win
ming the war that there never has
been a whisper until now that his
place could be wanted for anybody
else-wanted for political or any
other reasons, so long as his youthful
vigor carries and his exemplary fit
ness continues.
If General ROGERS, one Of the great
figures of the war, should be relieved
OF the detail Of Quartermaster- Gen
eral to give place to an obscure. un-
tried man for political reasons the
event would be a cardinal national
scandal. Not to reappoint him In
any event would be military mis-
fortune for the country.
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Ericsson Patented It.
Credit Given Him for Inventing the
Propeller as Il Is To-day.

To THE New YORK HERALD: In an
swering a question about the Great
Eastern you say: THE principle of the
propeller was known and used by the
ancients. Credit for its modern appli-
cation belongs to Ressel. an Austrian In
ventor. 1t was later improved by
Ericsson"
This is incorrect. John Ericsson was
the inventor and patentee Of the propel-
Ter wheel as It Is to-day. He patented 1t
in 1896. and 1t was used on the first
steamship. the Ericsson, between Phila-
delphia and Baltimore. via the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal. G. w. P.
NEW York, July 8.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Columbia University. opening of Summer
School.
American womens Association. dinner
Hotel Pennsylvania. z p. M.
Barbara Frietchie Post, A. L., meeting.
Hotel Pennsylvania. p. M.
Goldman Band. concert, The Green. Colum-
bia University, S:1b +. NJ.
DR.. A. A. Goldenweiser viii speak on
Race Culture In the Modern World" Me-
norah Summer School opening. New School
for Social Research. 465 West Twenty-third
street, 3 80 p. NJ.
Union Theological Seminary, opening of
second annual conference for ministers and
workers with supper. g p. NJ. Broadway
and 120th street.
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Diamonds and Peaches.
Fror, the Arkomsas Gazette

Pike county. which has the largest peach
orchard In the country. has the only dia-
mond mine on the Western Hemisphere, has
bed OF asphalt and an oil well. and "a now
producing sapphircs. b. Garner. a farmer
near Bills. was In Murfreesboro last week
and showed three beautiful sapphires which
had been cut by an expert gem cutter.
These sapphires are said TO rival diamonds
In brilliancy.
The New York herald., 1922-07-10

DR.. CHARLES p. STEINMErz. the dis
tinguished scientist who has been
nominated for State Engineer by the
Socialist and Farmer Labor parties,
says he is too busy to take the stump,
shares tho affection all New York be-
slows on AL SMITH. and. though he
doesn't know Governor MILLER, can
discern very little difference between"
the present Governor and his prede-
cessor. Whatever DR.. STErNMErz's po-
litical beliefs may be--the State has
not yet been favored with an exact
definition Of his principles-he cer-
tainly is not fevered partisan.