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The New York herald., 1922-03-10

When they were reeling through the
marshes singing I'VE won't go home
until the Eoccne Period" our hero
was in the hav. He slept with his
window open, took cold shower
after brisk exercises, stopped coffee
when the doctor told him to. drank
buttermilk whether he liked it or
not, avoided rush hours in the sub
way and ate an apple a day.
And so he is with the world still.
MARTIN SHEFFIELD, the American
prospector who reported the beastie
to Professor ONELLI, says it had a
neck like a swan. This ends the re-
semblanee to Annie Laurie, but we
have no doubt that when the plesio-
saurus is caught he will prove to be
thoroughly graceful, a credit to his
forbears and cause of regret to
Kansas that it has lost such inter-
esting fauna.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Representative Mills Honored.

The House OF Representatives has
wrought well for itself in honoring
young OGDEN MILLS by making him
a member of the Ways and Means
Committee.
This is Mr.. MILLs's first term in
Congress. He was elected in 1920
and took his seat April IL, 1921, less
than year ago. To be made men,
her of the most important committee
in the House on so short service
is most unusual
The answer to this action Of the
House in respect of Representative
MILLS is that he has the qualities
which override precedent and COM
mand position.
Mr.. MILLS will come to be very
valuable member of this major COM
mittee as he grows in legislative ex-
perience. He has the brains, the
temperament and the genius for work
that make this certain.
Only 3S years of age, and with a
zeal for public life, rich with well
trained mind, member of the New
York bar, en- rapport with big affairs,
OGDEN MILLS has before him most
useful and brilliant career.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Age of the Earth.
An Estimate of Billion Years Since
the Globe Became Solid.
FROM seienes Progress.

From Science Progress.
Lord Rayleigh considers that the most
accurate estimate OF the age of the earth
can be derived from the rate OF radio
active dislntegration. Uranium passes
through series OF successive stagcn
during It's disintegration which terminate
in an isotope OF lead. having an atomic
weight less than that OF ordinary lead,
but chemically indistlnguishablc from it..
The order and ratio OF this disintegra-
ton through successive stages arc known
with high degree OF accuracy. so that
a determination Of the amount OF the
isotope OF lead present IN minerals con-
tanning uranium enables the time when
disintegration commenced TO he assigned
without very great uncertainty. In this
way an age OF about ono thousand mill
lion years is derived from prc-Cambrian
rocks.
HclIum is another product OF disntc-
grafton OF uranium, and tho helium con-
tent OF radioactive minerals can also be
utilized. In this way only a lower limit
~ the nge ~ tnc mineral can be as
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Senate Appropriations Reform,

Congress always has been a stick
Ter for system until the time came
around each year for making appro.
priations. Then, according to ancient
custom, the annual free for all
scramble for advantage took place.
The results were sometimes grotesque,
sometimes serious from the view
point OF national welfare.
A dozen or so of committees in the
House and the Senate, all authorized
to recommend appropriations indie.
pendently and without knowing or
caring how their several recommenda.
tions would fit together, always did
exactly what they might have been
expected to do. they quarreled over
the petty spoils while big money mat
ters affecting the whole country
were neglected.
The House corrected this evil last
year by centering all appropriations
in the hands OF one committee. The
success Of this plan and the result
ing efficiency in framing appropria-
tions has prompted the Senate to
take similar action by naming as
ex-officio members Of the Senate Com.
mittee on Appropriation three mem.
bers of each committee now empow-
cred to frame money bills.
This scheme will work after the
fashion of an interlocking director.
ate and should make for the economy
OF time and money. 1t will render
possible between Congress and the
Federal Budget Commission degree
of cooperation which could never
have been attained under the old
hydraheaded system Of framing
appropriations.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10

der, that most OF the thirty-four out
breaks in India in the last year were
due to his influence. that he has
issued provocative mandates and that
he has broken every solemn promise
he has made.
The contention of Mr. MoNTAGU's S
critics is that a., this could have been
avoided by the suppression of GANDHI
if necessary by his arrest. To these
statements OF weak administration
is now added the affirmation that
GANpHI was largely responsible for
the appeal for a revision of the
Sevres treaty and also that Mr..
MoNTAGU had foreknowledge that
this appeal was to be made. 1t is
thus evident that the entire onus for
the embarrassing features OF the
present situation is laid upon the
shoulders of the Secretary of State
for India.
Great Britain has by no means
been united in approval of the Gov
ernment's policy as regards the Near
East. There is an unmistakable feel
ing that in backing Greece against
the Turkish Nationalists Great Brit
ain backed the weaker party. Even
those who consistently favored assist
ance to the Greeks condemned the
lukewarmness of the help afforded,
declaring that it merely made British
support the subject Of ridicule. In the
meantime both France and Italy car
ried on successful negotiations with
the Nationals. leader. MUsTAPHA
kEMAI Pasha, which gave them de-
cided advantages over Great Britain.
France especially received territorial
concessions that secured her position
in Syria and Cilicia and which will
advantageouslv facilitate her trade
when the Bagdad railway is again in
complete operation.
A summary Of the Indian appeal
indicates that the demand for the re-
vision of the Sevres treaty seeks
not only the restoration to Turkey
of Smyrna, Adrianople and Thrace.
awarded to the Greeks, but also the
restoration of Constantinople and the
Turkish Straits to the Sultan. In
other words, the Turk is to be re-
established in Europe upon the same
footing he was on before the world
war. 1t is doubtful If British public
opinion would approve any such
wholesale changes in the Sevres
treaty. Again, there is no good rea-
son to believe that GANpHr represents
India in this demand. There is in
that country great population which
is not Moslem-the Mohammedans
number $4,000 900 of a total popula-
tion of 81, 900 000-and to which the
question of the Caliphate and the
Sultanate is of no material impor-
tance. The appeal bears the marks
of another effort of that shrewd revo-
lutionary and disturber further to
harass Great Britain by involving
her in a serious religious and inter-
national complication.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
ny w. J. HENDERSON.

The concert Of the Symphony Society
at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon
was heard by one of the largest audi
ences of the season. The program con-
sisted of Dances OF the Sixteenth Gen.
tury." arranged by Resltghi. Cesar
Franck's symphony. fantasia on
themes by Thomas Tails composed by
Vaughan Williams. and the first piano
concerto OF Sergei Rachmaninov with
the composer as tho solo player.
According to the information supplied
in the program Tails In 1851 wrote eight
psalm tunes each in a different mode.
The psalter contained a characteriza-
ton OF these tunes declaring that the
third ragged and brayed loudly. This
third was the one selected for treat
ment by Mr.. Williams, who found so
little braying in it that he fashioned
his piece for strings. The work was
written for the Gloucester festival of
1910.
IL is an excellent composition in its
kind The ecclesiastic character Is well
preserved throughout lin spite of the
modern Instrumentation by the reten-
ton of the old harmonies. The treat
ment is rich In beautiful effects, espe-
cially in the employment of the indi-
viduality OF tone furnished by the
violas. There - some well conceived
solo passages. What is best of all IS
that 1t is pleasing ,'lusic. dignified and
even grave at times and possessing a
church!y flavor suggestive of devotional
moods. 1t was admirably performed.
Mr.. Rachmaninov played his first con-
certo with the New Symphony (after-
ward National Symphony Orchestra on
December %. 1919. He had played II the
previous season with the Russian SYM
phony Society. His newly revised ver-
sion was then heard for the first time.
The concerto, even though improved. Is
not quite the equal OF the composers s
later works in the same form. but 1t Is
well worth hearing. 1t is particularly
interesting when Mr.. Rachmaninov him.
self is the solo player, because he is
one Of the most impressive pianists be-
fore the public. an artist of splendid
technical skill and a mastery inter
prefer of other mems music as well
as of his own.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
The Four Power Treaty.
A Remarkable Document Because
Both Short and Simple.

TO THE New YoRK HERALD: There
probably never was another treaty so
important as the four Power treaty
which was so short and so simple in its
language that il was capable of being
telligence.
To the man In the street the treaty
means this: Four neighbors owning adj
joining property meet at the home OF
one of them and confer together re-
gardng their mutual interest in a
neighborly fashion. The decision that
they reach is that the title OF the
property of each of the four is good
and they agree not to dispute It, snd
also that they shall not trespass on the
property of each other. Should any
difference arise in the future over any
question of the title or trespass be-
to confer and talk 1t over in a friendly
manner.
The four neighbors. having thus agreed
as to what they shall do In case OF
a disagreement, further agree on what
course to take in case any outsider
attacks the title or trcspasses on the
property OF any one OF them. Again
they agree to come together. to confer
and to discuss how bess to aid In the
defense Of their neighbor. In entering
this conference they make no pledge In
advance to act either Jointly or sep
arately unless the result OF the confer
ence commends itself as something
that each can lawfully do and is FOR
the best interest OF each.
1t is an agreement to respect and
TO confer. but is not an alliance.
HOWARD IRVING.
New YORK, March ..
The New York herald., 1922-03-10

some news, some will send mixed
programs, as at present. The ambi-
tious young clerk who Is studying
law at night will hear his lectures
in bed. The tired business man will
be soothed of an evening with chap
ters from a Phillips Oppenheim novel
read to thousands by the author
himself.
The theaters, and particularly
those devoted to films, will find some
of their patrons won over to the
fireside and the radio. Already the
wise showmen are using radio con-
certs to help out their programs.
The newspapers might shudder at
the thought Of the wireless broad
casting of news if it were not for
the obvious difference between the
spoken word and the printed. The
eye can pick and choose, the ear
cannot With one glance the news
paper reader selects from the printed
page the story or article that is to
his taste The others do not disturb
him. But in broadcast radio news
the person at the receiving end has
to wait until his pet subject comes
along in its turn.
The newspapers are not jealous OF
the radio and never will be. They
are strongly for it. inexpensive and
popular wireless service means a
quickening of the public mind, a
wider interest in the best things of
life. And those are the very things
that add to newspaper circulation.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
No Beginning, No End.
Evolution in the Light OF the Elm
stein Theory OF Relatively.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: Evolu-
tion as generally understood by scien-
fists and philosophers does not concern
itself about the universe as whole
1t is content to explain the origin and
course of development of the world. the
solar or. at most, the sidereal system
which falls under our own observation.
With the aid of the theory of RELATIVELY.
however, it seems TO me, the final philo-
sophie form of the doctrine may now
be fixed.
If we make the hypothesis that the
universe of matter and space Is finite
and that in the neighborhood of matter
space is curved. then II follows that
nothing can ever pass out OF the cosmos
or avoid coming into interaction with
other objects of nature. A line drawn
in such univerlc must inevitably re-
turn upon itself.
Motion as well as matter being fixed
In quantity, the change in the distribu-
zion of matter which motion effects COM
ing to a limit in whichever direction
1t Is carried, the indestructible motion
thereupon necessitates a reverse distr!-
button. The forces of attraction and
repusion produce now an immeasurable
period during which the attractive forces
predominating cause universal concen-
tration, and then an immeasurable period
during which the repulslve forces pre-
dominating cause universal diffusion
in other words, alternate aras of evolu-
tion and dissolution.
If now there is this Attenuation of
evolution and dissolution in the totality
OF things we can no longer regard the
universe as having a definite beginning
or end or as being isolated. 1t becomes
one with all existence before and after
Thus from hour to hour we ripe and
ripe. from hour to hour we rot and
rot" And this ripening and rotting
shall go on forever. always the same
in principle and possibly the same in
concrete result:
Moreover. no external force the world con-
trolls,
Nor are there thought beyond the reaches
Of our souls
HENRY l.. PHILLIPS.
FALLS VILLAGE, Conn, March ..
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Mixed Juries a Mistake.

This country is having its expert
ence with mixed juries and the re-
suits are not at all inspiring.
In st. Paul five women were locked
over night in a jury room with seven
men, the cots on which they slept
separated by curtain. 1t is no
wonder that Minnesota men are pro-
testing against the compelling CT
their wives to serve on juries: 10
wonder that the Governor OF Mime
sofa declares that he would not per-
nit his wife to serve on jury un-
der such conditions; no wonder that
Minnesota Judges denounce the oc-
currence as disgraceful.
In Trenton this, week a jury of
six women and six men was locked
up all night because of disagreement.
One of the women described the ex-
perience as follows.
I'VE tried for several hours to
reach verdict. but in vain. Then
we sent out for cards and news
papers and played cards with the
men. and read the papers. After
we got tired OF this we took the
cushions off the seats and took maps
about the room. The men were very
consideratc Of US. All the women ac-
cepted the experience good naturedly.
but some OF them expressed anxiety
as to how matters were goins at
home. One woman told me her hus-
band had put the children to b.d and
in the morning lad dressed them. pre-
pared their breakfast and Sent them
to school"
There's picture of progress and
emancipation for you. The wife
passing the night miserably in a
jury room where half the jurors are
men while the husband, at home,
dresses the children and prepares
their breakfast.
1t is futile to say that sensible
officials would have provided privacy
for the women jurors. For centu
ries 1t has been the custom not to
separate a jury. In this and most
other States the law provides that
the jury shall be kept together II
the custodians of jury were to sep
arate the women jurors from the
men the losing side of the case could
claim mistrial.
The mixed jury will not work. II
the courts are determined to haye
women on iuries, or IL women are de
termined to get on juries, let 1t be
so arranged that the iuries will be
all women or all men.
New York State. which has not
opened tho jury gate to women, can
learn lesson from the experiences
in Minnesota and New Jersey.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Justice Holmes.

If Associate Justice OLIVER
WENDELL HOLMES Of the United
States Supreme Court, who cele-
brated his eighty-first birthday yes
terday by doing a full days work
for the august tribunal Of which he
is a member, found time for a brief
review of his career he found him
self better equipped with things
worth remembering than most men
would.
He was born in 1871. and won his
Harvard sheepskin just in time 70
let him enter the Union army in the
Twentieth Massachusetts, Regiment.
He got two wounds at Balls Bluff,
won promotion early, and was cap
tain when at Antietam in September,
1862, he received the breast wound
which started his father, DR.. OLIVER
WENDELL HOLMES, off on the search
for him that he immortalized in the
tale my Hunt for the Captain
Therein DR.. HOLMES reveals with
fine delicacy the deep affection that
bound father and son together be-
meath the frigid New England ex-
terror of conventional restraint. The
story is not OF these two alone but
universal in an undemonstrative
people.
A lieutenant-colonel in 1864, OLIVER
WENDELL HOLMES entered Harvard
law school, from which he received
a degree in 1866. To him the law
was no dry and dusty task, no un-
changing set of uncompromising for
mulas, but living. growing body OF
concepts based on principles yet
adaptable to the everyday needs OF
sentient men and women. 1t was
hard for some disciples OF unbend-
ing precedent TO reconcile this view
with their own less broad interpre-
tations; and though in 1882 HOLMES
became a member of the Massachu-
setts Supreme Court and seven
years later the Chief Justice OF that
bench, there was talk about the NOM
inee's radicalism when in 1902 Pres
ident Roosevelt named him to sue
ceed Associate Justice HORACE GRAY.
lie took his seat December 8, 1902,
and since then The court has had no
more faithful member.
In 1913 Justice HOLMES became
entitled to retirement. He had even
then a long and honorable record;
he had earned a rest. But at IL he
was not ready to quit, and 81 finds
him still indefatigable in his labors,
devoted to his duty and active in its
performance.
Great talents. great industry. great
sympathy and great understanding.
based on a fine tradition. has JUS
tice HOLMES, and nobly has he Of
fered his gifts In public service.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
His Badge.
a valiant Warrior

March Is valiant Warrior;
lie strides across the field
Knee decr, in melting snow and bears
a flashing crystal shield,
Which he opposes gsllsntly
TO volleys OF the hail
And spears OF slcet that all in vain
Its icy front assail.
lie drives tho fierce old winter hence,
For 10 \! he comes TO free
The snowdrop and the butterfly.
THE crocus and the bee.
In token Of his knighthood true
Upon his breast behold
The bright and shining badge OF spring
daffodil Of gold.
MfNNA fRylNu.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
A Policeman Who Knew How.

A detective sergeant, WILLIAM },
HAupTMANN, was attacked by two
armed holdup men in the dark hall
way of tenement house which he
had visited on business. He was in
civilian dress and the thugs took
him for collector for an installment
house.
One Of the criminals pressed re-
volver against the policeman's breast;
the other put weapon to his back.
A man less brave and resourceful
would have thrown up his hands.
But HAUPTMANS, pretending to col
lapse from fright, fell to the floor.
AS he dropped he reached for his
pistol and shot both thugs.
IL New York had more policemen
like HAuPTMASN. quick OF wit and
trigger finger, the appalling crime
record of this town would begin to
have q change for the better.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Trend Of the Times" Arthur n. Rees, NJ
New Era Club. 2I4 East broadway.
Book OF tho Hour" prof. j. q. Carter
Troop. at N. Y. P. L., Woodstock Branch.
T59 East i6oth street. The Bronx.
"As You Like IT," q dramatic reading Of
the play. Miss Mona Morgan, At wadieigh
III. s., ii5th street, west OF Seventh avenue.
"Aii In a Garden Fair" Miss Laura scdg-
wick Collins. nt r. y. 6H, Elghty-clghth street
and First avenue; illustrated.
'Crieg and scandinavian Folk Songs" Mrs
C.url Lennborn Smith. at r. 5. 1872, 1921
street and wadsworth avenue.
"The Period of the Spanish American
War" Father Daniel G. Cunnion. M ~ s.
~. Fordham sucet and City Island avenue.
illustrated.
wild Birds and Their Human Appeal,
Paul n. Mann, at Y. s, g. Anthony and
fremont avenues. The Bronx: illustrated.
BROOKLYN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
"Trcnd Of the Times" Mrs. Mary Elisabeth
Lease. AT Boys II. s.. Marcy and Putnam
nvenucH.
Indian Lfo and Customs" ". X. Dhal-
want. AT y. 8. %. Van Slcklen street near
Neck road.
reg o. MY Heart" dramatic reading
OF the play Miss Gladys Lott. ~ Y. s. ss.
Catalpa avenue and Fresh Pond road. Ridge-
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The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Patagonia's Plesiosaurus.

1t is cheering to read that the Ar
gentine scientists are going in search
OF the plesiosaurian monster that is
reported to live in Patagonian lake
near the Andes. Our South Ameri-
can brethren are not afflicted with
that cold cynicism which has hold OF
the professors in the north. Up here,
as soon as the huge reptiles discov-
cry was made known to the geologi-
cal sharps, they threw cold water on
st. They said that no plesiosaurus
could live $4,000 years, and, besides,
that the western part of Patagonia
was not the natural habitat of such
an animal.
These objections can be dismissed
ms frivolous, irrelevant and imma-
terial. The scientists in Buenos Aires
do not contend that the reptile seen
in the lake in the Chubut region was
the individual contemporary of the
Cretaceous saurians. They suggest
that lse Is the descendant. AS for
Chubut not being the natural place
for a plesiosaurus to live, which of
the professors lives in a natural
place? Can't an honest. hardworking
plesiosaurus go where he likes?
The chances are that the Patago.
nian monster comes of an old family
that once lived in Kansas, where pre-
historic skeletons are disinterred
every time Governor ALLEN sends
his men out to dig coal. For old Kan.
sas was the happy hunting ground
OF all tho Sauros family. Out there
have been dug up the bones of an
elasmosdurus with D neck twenty
two feet long. Seeming the future
OF Kansas, and particularly ARTHUR
CAPPER and his agricultural bloc, the
TIesiosaurian families of the pctter
sort left Kansas and went south.
IL may be objected by the pessi
mistic professors in this region that
III there we're one or two plesiosau
ruses In Patagonia there would be
+, plenty in other parts Of the country
This would be reckoning without tho
human equation. The monster which
Professor ONErLI and his colleagues
are going forth TO capture was, very
likely, beyond his fellows in wisdom
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
RUSSIAN TENOR HEARD.

Theodore Kittay. a Russian tenor.
now a naturalized American. gave a
song recital last night in Aeolian Hail.
Mr.. Kittay has sung in many opera
houses in Europe and America. He
was assisted by Gottfried Federlein at
the piano and Eugene Bernstein at the
organ. His program comprised Handeis
air ''Omhra Mai Fu." old Italian airs,
operatic selections and French. English.
American and Russian songs. He dis
closed a fine natural voice, although
his tone production was often throaty
and uneven. He sang with some knowl-
edge of style and excellent musical feel
ing. More study in the niceties of song
delivery should take him much further
in his art.