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The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Bombarding Caterpillars.

Experiments in Ohio have raised
hopes that the caterpillar and other
pests which have wrought such havoc
in orchards and forests in various
parts of the country may be exter-
minated by bombardment with chem
icals from airplanes. After six
acre catalpa grove near Dayton had
been stripped bare Of leaves by cater
pillars in two successive seasons,
and defoliation in the same manner
had begun for the third time, the
Ohio Department of Agriculture con-
ceived the idea of turning airplanes
loose at the caterpillar front.
The United States Army Air Ser
vice detailed to the task Of spraying
the infected trees Lieutenant JOHN
A. McCREADY. who holds the worlds
record for high altitude. Flying
low and carrying a sitter charged
with 500 pounds Of arsenate Of lead,
Lieutenant McCBEADY maneuvered
his aircraft along the windward side
of the grove until he had literally
showered the entire plantation with
the poison.
The next morning millions of dead
caterpillars were found on the ground
Incidentally. the oatalpa trees also
died. But Il was not the chemical
that killed them. 1t was just a case
of calling in the doctor after It was
too late to save the patient. The
trees had been so weakened by the
three successive caterpillar assaults
that they died of exhaustion. 1t is
the belief of the foresters that earlier
use of the poison would have saved
the entire grove. Faith in this air.
plane treatment was, in fact, SO
firmly established that it is TO be
applied to another catalpa plantation
near Troy, Ohio.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has now become inter
ested in this method OF fighting for
est pests. Experiments in treatment
OF trees by airplsne operator are to
be made Captain ROBERT z. KIM
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
The World To-day Is Lovely as .
Dream.

The world to-day is lovely as a dream,
More lovely than a dream. for dreams
are feet
To ny or nee on light fantastic feet,
But trJs 10 q reality: the theme
OF beauty laughs from every winding
stream
Or waving grass plume. sings within
the sweet
wild rapture OF the lark amid ths
wheat.
And sparkles in the sunlights shifting
beam.
June IL departing. yet ere she 10 gone
She seeks TO All our ears with melody.
To give US visions Of such lowell.
That. In some day when she Is far
Withdrawn
She may live on, enshrined by mem
ory,
And by that memory our lives may
bless. Ei.isASErH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Noisy Riverside Drive.
1 Sigh for the Lost Agreement Made
Under Mayor Mitchell.

To THE New YORK HERALD: T have
4 fellow feeling for your correspondent
who complains of the noise from the
trains on the Riverside Park v01nN
front as we are also sufferers from
the same cause.
1t is all the more exasperating wheH
we realize that II the agreement ar.
ranged by the Mitchell administration
had been adopted we would to-day have
a beautiful park extending nesx.S to the
waters edge. With TRANS operated by
electricity shrouyf tunnel, thus elina-
mating noise and dirt.
But the present city government wouldA
nave none Of it and howled about the
usurpation Of the city's rights by tha
railroad and boasted how property worth.
300. 100000 would be restored tosthe
people.
The first round in the fight was q.
complete Knockout for the city, as the
Appellate Division Of the Supreme Court
rendered unanimous decision confirmS
Ing the title Of the railroad to all the
land occupied by 1t on the Hudson River
front, and there isn't a Chinaman's
chance that this will be reversed on
appeal.
The net result is years Of lost time
ana the possibility Of the railroad being
much less amenable than it was before
its title was legally confirmed.
may be wrong. but 1t seems to mo
that power must be vested in the State
to compel the railroad to substitute
electricity for steam, and the matter
should be brought before the next Leg
islature and pressed to a conclusion.
Nobody who does not live in the vie
cinity OF the river front has any concep-'
ton OF the noise made by the trains
Cay and night. but can assure you It
is so great that 1 am compelled every
night to cease reading aloud to my wife
for several minutes. as she cannot hear
me while the trains are passing.
Can you imagine "wooing the drowsy
god" under such conditions with any
degree Of success?
ANOTHER SurFEREL
NEW YORK, June "a.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Utah.

From the Minnie Maud to Matlin.
From Raft River down to Bluff.
You can take your affidavit
She's the stuff
Curfew Valley, Grouse Creek. Mile
Pass.
Solitude. Sphinx, Scipio.
Koosharenn. saleratus Creek. Mt. Was,
Mammoth. Rozel. Corinne, Seco.
Paradise and Brigham lying toes 70
heels
Brigham that was one day young =
Cannonville, Kanab. Comb Creek. Neels.
While very close has Providence up
sprung.
Pink Cliffs. Deseret. Joseph. Juab.
vernaI, Coyote. Patmos Head. Price.
Mt. Lena. Loa, Kannara Valley. Moab,
Kwiant. Yogowatsi. Escalante-nicc !!
santaquin. Coal Mines. Elsinore. Echo,
San Rafael. Swell.
Kanosh. Parowan, Assays. Provo.
Wales. Brock. Ranch. Cliff-well!
BIacktaii. Soius. Lower Gross. Thistle,
Uintah. Cainville, Paragonah.
Heber. Teardale. wanship-whistle
Bear River. BAifour. oasis. Mona.
Salt Lake City. Bonneville, CISCO
Promontory. Hanksville. Dolphin.
Ombey.
Meadow. Tooele. Antelope, Pinto.
Feron. Bovine, Toquerville. Ouray.
From the Minnie Maud TO Manti,
From Raft River down to Bluf.
Though YOU take your pick particular
she's the stun
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

Of it. cabinets devote their discussions
to it. And in all these discussions
Standard Oil has a conspicuous,
often determining. part.
This great congeries Of corpora
tions with which the name of Rookie
feller is indissolubly associated did
not reach it's present tremendous
proportions by magic. No mystery
envelops its history. 1t is the Gre
alton of unflagging industry, Sleep
less energy. the devoted care OF the
men who saw their opportunities and
had the strength and courage to seize
those opportunities and to make the
most of them. Work, hard and un-
remitting, put the Rockefeller crea-
tion in its commanding position. and
work has kept 1t there. In doing this
work many men of many minds have
had share. They were unlike in
their tastes. pleasures and habits.
They differed in almost everything,
but they were one in that they knew
that labor and labor alone could
build as they sought to build and
hold the rewards of their labor.
Among these men WILLIAM RocKE.
TELLER was long outstanding. 1t is
useless to attempt to Ak his exact
contribution to the success won by
the group at the head of wh,dll his
older brother towers. But his part
was an important one, and it brought
him into relations with other great
enterprises, railroads, mines. ship
ping, &C., in which he became known
for his boldness, his pertinacity and
his determination.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Inventions Developed Slowly.

Some of the most useful discov-
cries and inventions arc cumulative
growths, covering even centuries Of
time. 1t was about 1872 when NEW.
TONS discovery of the decomposi-
tion of light into prismatic colors was
made known, 1t was a century after
ward that WoLLAsToN used narrow
slit instead Of a round aperture
through which to pass the light to be
decomposed; it was nearly another
half century when FRAUNHorER inter-
preted the black lines that crossed
WALLAsToN's spectrum. Thereby
NEwroN's discovery grew into spec
trum analysis, the science whereby
the light OF heavenly body reveals
its chemical structure.
The invention of the telephone was
not the result of a single impulse Of
discovery; it grew from the applica-
I tion of several discoveries, among
which two were of material impor-
| tance.
AS early as 1897 DR.. PAGE, Massa.
chusetts scientist. discovered factor
which escaped MICHAEL FARADAY-at
least. it was not mentioned by
FARADAY-namely, that a sound is
produced when the current Of an
electro.magnet is interrupted. That
was a starting point. twenty-five
years later. or thereabouts. German
experimenter, PHILIP REFS, discov.
cred that sound impulses differing in
quality resulted when the current OF
the electro-magnet was alternately
weakened and intensified. An address
delivered at Frankfort on the Main
bore the title Concerning Telephony
by Means of the Galvanic Current"
This seems to have been the first use
Of the word telephony. Many sup.
Elemental discoveries have been
added. but PAGES discovery and
RErs's modification are the essentials
Of modern wire telephony.
Unless credit for discovery Is given
to JOSEPH HENRY for what appar-
emily is an inference, radio.telegrap ply
and radio-telephony may properly be
described as discoveries OF the last
half century. Professor HENRY no.
ticed that at distance OF several
yards an electric spark magnetized
steel needle within a coil OF insu.
lated wire. II he recognized the fact
that an electric spark set into mo.
tion the impulses now known as
Hertzian waves he failed to mention
It. The discoveries of RUDOLF
HEINRICH HERTZ in the field OF the
electrical waves which bear his name
gave to the world the foundations OF
radio transmission Of thought; radio
communication is the application Of
his discoveries,
The internal combustion engine is
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Hope Springs Eternal.
And Men Continue to Think That
Life Is Worth Living.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Scarcely
day passes but what we are con-
fronted with the problem rs life worth
living?" With many Of us II has the
most roseate hue. In passing through
the wards Of one Of the great hospitals
In this city a few days ago. talking
quietly and cheerfully with many Of the
sick and disabled, discovered but few
cases where the utmost hopefulnese was
not in evidence. All seemed to be look
ing forward to the time when they
would be restored to their former selves
Where a lack of hopefulness appeared
in a patient observed that his neigh
Dor on the next cot would invariably
offer words Of comfort and encourage
ment. My friend on whom I called re-
Gently had one Of his legs amputated.
In the course Of our conversation he
joked with me about the time when
he would have to walk with the aid Of
an artificial leg and how awkward he
would be in getting about He said,
MY hope urges me on and tells me
that tomorrow will be so much better
than to-day" Were II not for optimism
In our daily contact with the world there
would not be much in life for humanity.
In every stage OF mans existence he is
constantly looking ahead. hoping and
thinking that there is something brighter
and better beyond. Hopefuness is the
best possession that one can have. None
is completely wretched but he who IL
without hope. II is the mighty hopes
that make US men.
GEORGE WILSON JENNINGS.
BROOKLYN June "a
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Penny Ballads.
When the Song Statesmen Hung Their
Wares In City Hall Park.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD Those
ballads that used to hang like hand
kerchiet wash on the iron fences OF the
City Hall Park were made special
feature in Augustin Days Under the
Gasligh.." produced in 1867 at the New
York Theater 72s Broadway. a year or
two before he began as a manager.
saw a revival OF the play In 1888
In which Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Conway
played Byke and Laura Courtlnnd.
Charles T. Parsloe, Jr, had the comedy
part Of Bcrmudos, a bootblack and
newsboy. who was chased away by the
irate ballad merchant for learning the
songs without paying"
you are reading all the profit of my
songs" he complained There were sew
eral ballad sellers who hung their
penny sheets. ornamented with deep
black borders. along the fences extend
ing from Chambers street to the Astor
House and up Broaaww. there being
no post ONCE building. then. and the
particular stand patrSniScd by Bermu-
dds was supposed to be the one oppo-
site old Tammany Hall and French's
Hotel on Park row. close to the present
Brooklyn Bridge entrance.
Bermudds had rich selection of
pieces to memorize as often as he could
evade the vigilance Of the ballad huck-
ster: Pat Malloy." Mora O'Neil," "Oft
in the Silly Night" The Meeting Of the
Waters" "Tassels on Her Boots" THE
Bell That Goes Ringing for Sarah,''
Captain With His whiskers." Pulling
Hard Against the Stream" mo One ia
Love-" Shabby Genteei." Jockey Hat
and Feather" mot for joe" "oid Dog
Tray" "old Uncle Ned" "Oh. Susan
nah." The Gypsys Warning" and
scores OF good songs forgotten now.
There we're many popular war songs
Battle Cry of Freedom" Tramp,
Tramp. Tramp. the Boys Are March.
ing" "Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground" "Just Before the Battle.
Mother" John Browns Body" &c.
an old melody drifts through
the mists Of years and words come to
mind:
What Is the use Of repining.
For where there's a will there's a van
And tomorrow the sun may be shining,
Although II is cloudy to-day.
There was more real music IN q
couple Of these old songs than In q
modern musical comedy. but the ballad
copies are extremely rare.
HERBERT S. RENror.
New ROCHELLE. June "a.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Has the City Lost?
A Lament for the Fate Of an Upper
West Side District.

To THE NEW York HERALD: II the
city OF New York had planned TO de-
stroy It's own tax income and also the
value OF the lots contained In this once
choice section Of Washington Heights
from 167th street to 10th street. Edge
ccmbe avenue. Jumel place and Arnster-
dam avenue. II has accomplished II by
filling 1t up with garages. stables, ice
plants and similar structures.
This section was suitable for the erec-
ton OF the finest apartment houses
that have been built on Washington
Heights and would have paid the city
hfty times more In taxes than this de-
stroyed section will ever bring. with
proper judgment the destruction Of this
once choice property would never have
occurred. ONE or THE LOT owsrRs
NEW YorK, June "a.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
1T Is Up to You"

The subjoined letter is from q
reader who has no patience with ex.
pressions unless they bear the hall.
mark Of purity:
ITO THE New YORK HERALD:
Through the columns of THE NEW
York HERALD, because it justly prides
itself on the use of English undefled.
l take the liberty to protest agains:
the expression, all too frequent Of
late, even on state occasions, ut is
up to you" That expression was
used by the reverend speaker who
addressed the graduates Of Hunter
College. Surely on an occasion of
that sort, especially. the use Of slang
should be taboo. I refer to this mat
ter moreover. because the expression
here complained OF is employed with
so much seriousness and in such a
matter Of fact way that 1t is eviden:
those who use it believe it is per-
fectly correct. j. E. S.
"BLYTHEBoURNE, n. Y. June 21."
1t is true that the dictionarie:
class the criticised phrase as slang
Dictionaries are slow to welcome tine
new to their pages. A dictiorar,
would have you say 1T rests with
you or ut is incumbent upon you
rather than 1T is up to you." But
does either of those phrases convey
the strength Of the phrase which
Father WILLIAM B. MARTIN used a
Hunter Colleges commencement ex
ercises? We doubt it.
1T is up to you" is of honest par
entage. It's words are all legitimate
1t means what it says. When some
thing is up to you 1t is close ant
confronting. The slang has been IL
use for a generation. In ten o.
twenty years the dictionaries will &C
cept it il the people continue to us'
it. So it is up to the people.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
The Moth.


Her rare white beauty made the pear
seem dull
And ala baster. too, less beautiful.
Crystal without flaw. and ivory fine
Were pebbles when compared with her
divine
Perfection. while ignoring all the arts
OF coquetry she walked on broken
And mine was one; Love met her high
She passed and was no naore-the fair
Elaine.
A little while we mourned for her and
wept.
Remembering her beauty as she slept
Among the lilies. purer than the flowers.
Then we forgot her. she was never ours.
Too proud was she to mate with com.
mon clay
And bear a woman's burdens and grow
gray
We thought Of her with youth that
would not wane
And married TO q star-the lost Elaine.
Lo! as conned one night the problems
dread
OF spirit trafic with the conscious dead
I heard the frantic futtering OF wings
Sounding the terror outer darkness
brings.
A white moth beating madly on the
glass
Sought blindly through It to the light
to pass,
shreddins its fragile downy wings in
A snowy moth. white as the whits
Elaine.
Tattered and spent ere long It dropped
from sight
And vanished in the velvet void Of night.
And at my ear heard whisper low.
A whisper that in volume seemed to
grow
Until 1t filled the chamber with It's
sound
And held me hand and foot with horror
bound
THE white mota beating a. your win II.
dow pane.
The moth SO like q snowflake was
Elaine"
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
White Birchcs.

six dryads have stolen from their homes
In the six white birches:
I can see thcm dancing
ON the hill in the moonlight
Like silver ripples on a river. =.
I can feel the breeze made by their
hair
AS they whirl madly in and out
Among the shadows.
II move. IL I speak.
They will be white birches again.
Lifting cool arms TO the stars.
Their hair ripping all gently
About their shoulders
Their swaying feet caught 70 earth,
Prim pointed as a stately court isdy's.
ABIGAIL CeEssor.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
William Rockefeller.

Just as the civil war ended WILLIAM
RocKEFELLEE came to New York city
TO sell the oil his brother. JOHN D..
and SAMUEL ANDREWS were refining
in partnership with him at Cleveland,
Ohio. Their firm was not more i'm
pressive in available capital than
many Of its competitors. 1t owned a
refinery called the Standard Oil
Works. but Standard Oil did not mean
in particular in those days.
Yesterday WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
died at 81, rich man among rich
men, financier powerful and re-
spected in scores of enterprises.
Standard Oil is household word not
only in the United States but in all
civilized. semi-civilized and many
savage lands. Wherever man has
learned to use oil the intricate dis
tributing system built up by the
Rockefellers and their associates
serves his needs. Railroads. steam
ships, pipe lines, motor trucks, OK
teams, porters-there Is not an i'm
aginable means of conveyance that
is not used to carry to customers the
products of this vast manufacturing
concern. In many remote spots no
American concern except Standard
Oil is known.
In these years oil has ceased to
he mere domestic and industrial
convenience and has become the
vital need Of international commerce.
On It depends prosperity in peace.
safety in war. 1t has emerged into
world politics; parliaments take heed
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

commonly regarded as a modern In
vention. but the first patent therefor
was taken out in England in 1894.
The fundamental principle was
clearly stated, namely, that an in.
fiammable gas mixed with air Is ex'
plosive and that It's volume is enor-
mously increased at the moment OF
explosion. An American patent Of
1926 was based on this principle.
Gas engines were made in France
In 1860 and were fairly serviceable.
II remained for DR.. OrTo, the In
ventor Of the engine which bears his
name. to apply the principle demon
strated first by BEAU DE RocHAs.
This was the result Of many expert
ments; It is the four cycle engine Of
to-day.
DR.. Orro's engine was perfected In
1875. eighty.two years after the hrst
patent was granted. Since then the
gains have been not in discovery but
In efficiency. One feature alone. the
ignition Of the explosive mixture by
an electric spark instead Of q fame
Jet, has made the difference between
failure and success in its operation.
Here are three inventions that have
wrought far reaching changes In the
life Of the world. No one Of them Is
the discovery Of the present genera
tion. but each one Of them has been
a product Of the thought and applica.
tion of the present generation. They
have changed the methods and the
trend Of commerce; they have
changed the habits OF domestic life;
they have revolutionised the worlds
means Of communication. Without
the internal combustion engine the
motor car could not have reached its
present efficiency, and the airplane
would have remained a scientific toy.
Americans have been great as dis.
coverers: they have also been tre-
mendously great In perfecting the ap'
rlications Of discovery.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
The Rathenau Assassination.

Again, this time in Germany, the
assassin has struck blindly as we'll as
madly. WALTER RATHENAU, German
Foreign Minister, shot dead on his
way to his Office, was achieving more
for the industrial and financial re-
Mobilization of his country than per-
haps any other man in Germany.
For DR.. RATHENAU, while holding the
Foreign Office post, was man Of
exceptional business experience, a
superb organizer, trained banker
and a world distinguished economist.
In all these fields he was up to the
very moment of his death an inces-
SAINT and powerful toiler.
Known in his own country during
the war as "the wizard of the en-
pire," because, while the man power
of the nation fighting on the battle
field was exhausting the food and
treasure of the country, he was able
to keep the people back home eating.
although blockades were drawn
tightly around the Central Powers
known. indeed, as master OF war
emergency measures and devices,
DR.. RATHENAU was as versatile, vigor-
Gus and successful after the war in
bringing order out of economic chaos.
II was he who achieved with
France businesslike arrangements
and financial expedients in the mat
ter of reconstruction payments that
no one else seemed able to formulate.
1t was he who preached incessantly
to the German people the gospel OF
work as the only way out both in
the payment of reparations to the
Allies and in the rescue of them
selves from economic collapse.
And it was he who convinced the
Allies, by the strength of his poll
cies and the courage of his convic-
tions to drive them through, that
the European family of nations could
again be brought to travel the inter-
national highway of peace.
Theory and vision were the high
inspiration of this remarkable
dreamer and creator. But practical
sense and dynamic force were the
weapons with which he gave form
and substance, in huge material
achievements, to the various and
varied pictures leaping out of his
boundless ina aginaton.
What DR.. RATHENAU might have
done for his country and for all Eu-
rope but for the assassin's stroke can
be judged only by what he had done
before. Few men had gone further
than DIR. RATHENAU went before the
war. None surpassed him in the i'm
peratively necessary work behind
vast military machines during the
war. And, in the estimation of the
soundest statesmen of Europe, no
one in his own country equaled him
in brilliantly conceived and trium-
phantly executed plans of the first
magnitude after-the war.
In the two great rival German
| CdlHpS, ds Nlue apart do tie pOieo,
he was equally hated and feared, for
with his lion courage he no more
hesitated to expose and denounce the
economic waste and physical loss of
militarism than the fundamental fall
lacies and weaknesses Of socialism.
Yet such was the brilliance of his
intellect, the power of his personality
the value of his service, that he had
come very largely to dominate both
the shaping and the fulfilling of all
German policy.
1t is such a man, with his work
for Germany and Europe only just
begun, in truth, who has been sacri-
feed by the mad act of an assassin.