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MIR. Roots Prophetic Warning.

In an address to the American So
ciety Of International Law in Wash
ington on April 27, 1916, the Hon.
ELIHU Roor said something that is
forcibly recalled by events of the last
week in this country:
"The peace and order Of the world
require that each nation shall mind
its own business and refrain from
attempting to impose its ideas Of con-
duct upon other equal Independent
States"
There could be no more clear and
succinct protest against the weird per-
formance of the Government in its
attempt to censor the sealed cargoes
of foreign ships that enter American
waters on honest errands.
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City of Honolulu's Luck.
Nine Fires on the Burned Steamship
While Being Rec0nditioned.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The fire
on the steamship City of Honolulu re-
calls to my mind other fires on the same
ship--then named the Huron-while she
was being reconditioned hero under the
supervision of the United States Ship
ping Board.
1 organized and supervised the guard
ing force for the Shipping Board in
June, 1917. when It took possession Of
the interned enemy alien ships in this
and other cities along the Atlantic coast,
and up to the termination OF my employ
ment in March, 1920, a great many fires
were discovered and put out by the
guards on this big feet, both day and
night, some slight and others dangerous
and suspicious, particularly those In the
early hours OF the morning.
From November 13, 1919. to March
Is, 1920, four months, the official rec
ords will show that there were twenty
three fires on nine ships being recondi-
toned In dry docks here, all Of which
were discovered and put out by the
guards except in one instance. when the
fire department was called.
Nine of these fires were on the steam
ship Huron. and she became known to
the guarding force as the hoodoo of this
large feet managed and operated by the
Shipping Board. w. H MooRR.
NEW YORK, October "A.
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Green Creeks Oak Condemned.

The people of Green Creek, Cape
May county, New Jersey, are dis
turbed over recent decision of their
local authorities. A venerable oak
tree, one of the oldest and largest in
the Eastern States, has been sem
fenced to death by the Cape May
county Freeholders on the ground
that its condition is such that high
wind might blow 1t down, with great
resultant damage.
So far as the old age count in the
indictment is concerned there is
nothing for the tree to do but to en-
ter a plea of guilty. It is 200 years
old IL it is a day. Probably 1t is
much older. 1t is eighty feet high.
It's reach OF branch is enormous. A
large meeting could be held under it.
In fact, many such meetings have
been held under the protection of its
splendid canopy.
Tradition has II that the Indians
held their powwows under its wide
spreading branches years before the
white man set foot on this strip Of
Jersey shore country. No longer ago
than 1910 WOODROW WILSON in his
campaign for the Governorship Of
New Jersey made a political speech
to Delaware River fishermen assem-
bIed under the Green Creek oak.
General GRANT made special trip to
visit II. so did President HARRISON.
Generations Of south Jersey folk have
assembled In cordial, neighborIy
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gatherings in its shade. And now it

gatherings III lls SHdue. Anu HOW III
must go, ii seems.
There are not many of these ancient
trees left in this part Of the country.
There is one in a churchyard at
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and an
other close to the old Tennent Church,
which was used as a hospital for
American soldiers wounded in the
battle of Monmouth. Both were large
trees away back in the Colonial days,
and both have been carefully cared
for and protected. The late Senator
DRYDEN took great interest in the
BaslSing Ridge oak and had it in
spected and treated by the best arbori-
organization which is taking care Of
the Tennent Church is giving the oak
close by that interesting edifice every
attention necessary to preserve it,
But this old oak Of Cape May county
apparently has no such powerful ad-
mirers to defend 1t. To be sure, the
neighbors for miles around are pro-
testing against its destruction. They
may succeed in awakening sufficient
interest in the State at large to
cause the Freeholders to stay their
hands. Surely they will have the
support of all who care for the few
survivors that are left of our ancient
forests, for these monarchs Of the
forest enlist the sympathetic interest
Of all enlightened men and women.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

Doubts Awakened by Mayor Hylan's
Estimate Of Their Profits

To THE NEW YORK HERALp: Tina
Mayor is reported as sart,s th=t -
Board OF Estimate would not grrnr
franchises to private operators of bus
lines. as suggested by the Governor. tA
legalize the operation of municipality
supervised, bus lines because 'such
grants. Whether for long or short Pc
riod. would mean the turning over OF
franchises worth millions of dollars to
private control" If his Honor really
believes what he says, why does he not
offer the franchises at public auction?
Certainly IL they were worth millions
somebody would be willing to pay mill
ions for them. The millions thus OBJ
tained by the city COULD be used to
reduce the amount of taxes levied upon
the taxpayers. 1t would be a fine stroke
OF business IL the city could sell for
millions of dollars franchises to operate
bus lines over an emergency period
or course anybody with millions of
dollars of real money to invest in such
franchises might desire to be Informed
as to the basis OF such valuation, and
1t would require but a very superficial
investigation OF the subject for him to
discover that. for very apparent rea-
sons, such franchises were not worth
one dollar OF anybody's money. And IL
they are valueless for purposes of sale
they are equally valueless as municipal
assets. In other words to assign to
them any value whatsoever is pure. un-
adulterated political bunk.
AS a reason for rejecting the Gov
ernor's suggestion that the operation of
municipality supervised busses be legal
lied the statement quoted above is alto
gether too thin. r. A. C.
NEW YORK, October IL.
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The Duck Season Extended.

State game laws which conflict
with Federal game laws are con-
stahtly source of trouble. A recent
illustration Of the complications they
brought about is supplied by the
Fenner duck law enacted at Albany
Last winter.
rvfor TO the passage of the act the
state and Federal laws regulating the
taking of waterfowl were similar, the
dates of the open season being from
September 16 TO December 81, except
on Long Island, where the season
does not close ill the end of January.
rho Fenner law forbids the shooting
OF ducks until October 16 in that part
OF New York State south Of the New
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The Moon Over Grafton.

Like a galleon the moon over Grafton
goes down;
Il tinges the tips OF the spires of the
town;
The Mlchaelmss daisies seem dreamily
white
In the lure OF its light.
The Lake Of the Ripples is sheeted with
gold;
Away to wachusett the splendor ia
rolled,
While on the horizon burns brilliant
afar
One scintillant star.
A vision to CHERISH vision TO keep;
The soft hand of slumber. the night
growing deep;
And like a bright barque on the skye
great lagoon
over Grafton the moonl
CLIEroN ScoLLARD.
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West Virginia.

Great Cacaponl
West VA
Omps. Lot Poppa,
Shoals, Redmud, Clay.
Little Georgetown, Philippi,
Falling Waters, Drag, Shanghai.
Brosius, Darkesville, Lavalette,
Horsepen, Squire Jim, Fayette.
Seenly, Okonolso, Speed,
Pursley, Kyger. ANNA. Freed,
Copen, Ooger, Coninss, Pride,
Cluster, Muddlety, Lindside.
Harpers Ferry-Brownish spot
Otia, Arlce, Guyandotte.
Thacker. Kabler. Rippon. Princeton,
Elkins, womelsdorf, Nease, Shinnston.
Terra Alta, Addison,
Kenova, Panther. Brushy Run,
wanless, Flat Woods. Middlebourne,
Caperton, Clendenin, Corn.
Ruddle. Dorcas. Adaline.
Job. Erbacon, Palatine.
Lefthand. Uler. Peeryville,
Sleith. Kanawha, Sweedlin Hill.
Barn, Removal. Samp. Bergoo,
Gales, Tyrconnell, Odd, Janelew,
Messy. Lizemores, Belva, Pink,
Launa, Kentuck, Bee, Eye-wink
Duo, Dingess. Sengs Cheatbridge.
Travellers Repose. Loveridge.
Sioto, Beauty, Sattes, Matthias,
Hinch, Burnthouse, Foote, Fourteen, 10
siahs.
Sisters Valley
Efie, Zinnia.
Eva, Sarah (Sallie)-
West Virginia! MAURICE MORRIS.
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Friday the Thirteenth.
Columbus Day Prescribed as m
Antidote for Superstition.

To THE. NEW YoRK HERALD: Almost
coincident with Columbus Day comes
tho warning to look out on the morrow
for that dire conjunction Friday the
18th. The very juxtaposition should
suggest, It seems to me. a Knockout
comparable TO that administered by the
great navigator TO the ignorance and
superstition of his day.
II ever anything was lucky. IL ever
the element of chance was throughout
favorable. II ever the blind god smiled,
1t was on that epochal voyage which
started from Palos, Spain, Friday, Aug
ust 3. 1492, and ended at Guanahani,
West Indies, Friday. October ~, OF the
same year. If anybody wants to cure
himself Of the Friday superstition all
he has to do is TO think of what Co.
lumbus Day means.
CHARLES WILLING.
PHILADELPHIA, October a.
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Plays in Book Form.

III occasional surprise is felt by the
layman at the number Of novels put
on the market every year how much
greater must be the bewilderment
caused by the number Of plays issued
in book form. These are intended not
for the use of actors but for the
library.
Some of the dramas thus brought
into competition with romances in
other forms may be said to begin their
existence on the book stalls, since
often their life on the stage is very
short. If the author is well known
as a writer of fiction of another kind
the play is certain to be issued in book
form, however complete may have
been its failure in the theater.
Few contemporaneous plays are Of
a literary quality high enough to
justify their preservation in books.
The average dramatist indeed usually
keeps in mind the old theory that the
better play reads the less effective
it is likely to be on the stage. Play
wrights of course prefer success on
the stage. It's rewards should be
much greater than those the best
seller yields. What may accrue from
the sale Of the published play is likely
to afford more satisfaction to his
pride than profit to his pocket. So he
writes with the theatrical rather than
the literary idea in view.
No drama seems too unimportant
nowadays to find publisher. If there
were a standard of merit to which
these works had to conform their ap-
pearance in book form might be more
readily understood. 1t has been for
years the pleasant practice Of gifted
authors to publish their tragedies at
their own expense. 1t is not, how
ever, such works that cause surprise
by their appearance in the shops. The
contemporaneous and the mediocre,
acknowledged failures and untried
plays, all seem to certain publishers
worth the risks Of publication.
Long before the custom was trans
ferred to the English language the
French dramatists were In the habit
of publishing their works. 1t was
practically when the example was set
by PINERo that Englishmen began
to initiate them in this respect. Some
playwrights have won their place in
foreign countries through the publi-
cation of their works. This is notably
true of IBsEN. His fame in the Eng
lish speaking theater rests on the
knowledge theatergoers have gained
of his works in their printed form,
not through their production on the
stage. But there are few Ibsens rep
resented among the dramas which the
publishers to-day consider worthy of
their attention.
One purpose does appear to be
served by this means of preserving
the text of ephemeral dramatic writ
ings. 1t seems to be an established
popularity of metropolitan taste that
the play which has already been acted
is forever after useless, whatever its
success at first may have been. There
is little or no patience with revivals.
Repertory is rare adventure in the
American theater and II it we're not
for the salvaging OF these works by
the publishers they might be lost
altogether.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

There's nothing astir in the sunny air
OF this dreaming October afternoon
Save the bevy of butterflies whirling
there,
Pale as the light from yon fragment
moon;
Vanishing soon.
But il seemed as watched their flick
ering play,
They were ghosts OF my comrades of
long ago.
or gala time, of an idle day
Borne as the winds OF fancy might
blow
Dancing and clrcling. they vanished
away
Even so. EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

A Criticism and an Answer in Regard
TO the V0lstead Act.

BcnJarlin s.. Dean. yarestotor, N. Y.
DEAR SIR: note your letter In THE
NEW YORK HERALD on the Eighteenth
Amendment, which, as understand,
SAYS Intoxicating and not alcoholic"
therefore do not see why modi-
fcation of the volstead act, which has
arbitrarily and dishonesty fixed . per-
centage of one-haif of per cent as in
toxicating, would not bring about at
least improved conditions, and there-
fore will not vote for any candidate, to
Legislature or Congress, who does not
favor modification. rruNTER WYKEs.
NEW YoRK, obtober z.
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The Summit.

In Chamounix we scarce believed the
guides
Who pointed out the summit of Mont
Blanc,
SO many other more aggressive peaks
Seem at such distance to surmount the
dome
That lifts its tempted SHOWS above them
all.
But when we climbed. ah. then we
proved their wordi
Through meadow paths at start, to rock
bound trails
They led us. that nrst day. until we
faced
The Glacier des Blossoms yawnins clefts
And must be roped between our escorts
forms
That held like iron stanchions our small
strength.
That icy barrier passed. tho Grands
Mulets,
Black rocks like burdened beasts In
snowy waste,
Revealed a tiny hospice on their crags
Where rest and smoking supper brought
their boon.
But yet the summit seemed scarce
nearer drawn
For all our day Of climbing; white, aus
tere,
II loomed beyond our lodging for the
night
A summons broke our scanty snatch o,
sleep
While stars still ruled the glimmerins
Alpine heights.
And we must plod with lanterns through
the dark,
Like yellow glow worms on those mon
strous SHOWS.
What instinct led our guides up their
wild slopes
That seemed to us as pathless as pale
seas?--
Unerringly as doves wing to their cotes
They found safe passage. though
crevasses deep
Spread pitfalls meath tho crust. ant
long aretes
Gave meager foothold on their bleal
ascent,
With thin gales scourg1nE all tho mar.
row ridge
As though to throttle breath in gaspinr
lungs.
The pearl OF daybreak that had Quenched
our lamps,
Yet left the valleys gulf in blue-blacl
night,
To ever richer. lucent saffron merged
Beyond the aiguilles' mighty palisade.
And welled I'm waveless hood OF ambe,
light
Against the silver outposts OF tho stars
Until there smote--ah, how can word.
To tell such marvels?--on tho pallid ar<
OF that surmounting rondure OF tn,
crest
And eminenoe of everlasting snow,
Tho first encrimsoned ray OF sunris,
flame
And roseate altar fire Of the the dawn
o far and silent, shrine Of burning ice
With glory OF auroral ruby crowned
Against the azure depth of crysta
heaveni
Tho guides were right tho summit 1,
By splendor of that ruddy accolade.
And all the lesser peaks must own I'll
sway.
Then as the luster on that lonely heigh,
Descending blended its gratl light with
gold,
And reached the attendant serried pin.
nacles,
These caught tho morning on their
sharper crags
Like spear points of archangels, rank on
rank,
That guard the portals Of celestial day.
And yet we tiny climbers dared press
on,
As II to pass the gates OF Paradisei
Yes, though the ascent spread league
on weary league
OF scorching snow wastes In the glare
OF sun,
And though at last tho hard won crest
was swept
With dread bruyard, that gale from
outer space
That hurls It's needed leo like shrapnel
spray,
We reeled across the summit in IT.
teeth,
And stood an instant where tho glory
was.
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the chain OF communication between
the Atlantic and the Pacific. So
it is to-day. 1t was an important
factor in the upbuilding and develop
ment of the nation and around it
clusters wealth of tragic and dra-
matte episodes in the history OF the
great West.
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stage Coach in which Greeley Travelled
From the Hutchinson Nz,os.

The old stage coach. which was recently
shown In Hutchinson. is tho identical coach
which used to ply on the stage limo between
Bent's Fort, near the present site OF Las
Animas. Col, and Denver. in the pioneer
days. 1t is now the property OF Bent county
Colorado, having been purchased by that
county six years ago. Tho stage coach Is
the one in which Horace Greeley Travelled
through Colorado In 1867. The coach has
been kept In Colorado over since.
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MY DEAR SIR: l am opposed to the
Eighteenth Amendment purely upon the
proposition that II is an invasion OF
the fundamental rights of the several
Istates-independ nations in so far as
the rights of citizens are concerned
The courts are not governed by quib-
bles. IT may be that the Volstead act
places the percentage below the point
necessary 10 prevent intoxication, but
that is merely matter Of degree. In
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No Escape.

From the zonesviIIe (0hio) Signal.
Folks who are planning to go South for
the winter don't have to worry about their
coal bills, but there are hotel bills down
there that have to be paid.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

How far coddling the criminal has
gone is well illustrated by the ap-
plication made by a convict now
locked up in Sing Sing to have his
record corrected so that it shall re-
veal him as a habitual criminal. The
news report Of his case says that "as
a first offender he received an inde-
terminate sentence Of from two and
one-half to FIVE years, while profess
sional criminals get fiat terms. Mon
TAouE's point is that, properly recorded
he would have been given fiat term
Of two and one-half years instead OF
a minimum. II he wins his term will
be reduced four months" II is truly
an astonishing provision of law under
which n hardened offender is treated
more leniently than a person making
his first adventure in crime.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

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20 tho use for republication of all news dis
patches credited TO II or not otherwise
credited IN this paper, and also tho local
news published herein Al,
An rights OF republication OF special ais
patches herein arc also reserved.
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A Deal in Futures.

Judge-Ten dollars or ten days.
PrIsoner--Judgc, can't l owe you ten dol.
lars or ten. to-morrows7
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TIE NEW YORK HERALD was founded by
James Gordon Bennett in 1885. 1t remained
the sole property of its founder until his
death, in 1872, when his son. also James
Of the paper, which remained In his hands
until his DEATH in 1918. THE HHsALD be-
came the property of Frank A. Munsey, its
present owner. in 1920.
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The fireman who owned helmet IL
and lost 1t in a collision on Friday
should not be blamed for flying in the
face of superstition az the rules Of the
department would certainly have pre-
vented him from leaving it behind
whatever the day might be.
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-08
Ripping Rhymes
RESPECTING THE LAW.
By Walt Mason

The law decreed in olden times that
witches should be burned; the courts
abhorred their mystic crimes, and all
their pleading spurned. My grandsire
thought they ought to ditch all stat
utes of the kind; he thought the burn
ing of a witch was not a sport refined.
But while such laws are in the book, ;
my grandsire used to sigh around
us daily we must look, for witches we
may fry" Was there a beldame any
where, who owned a cat or snake, my
grandsire traced her to her lair, and
tied her to a stake. He said: "The
law must be obeyed while men for
Justice seek, and though l hate to
burn a jade, / burn one every week.
doubt if witches really work much
evil and distress, although they're
roasted by the kirk, and by the law
and press. But it is not for me to
say what laws are right or wrong;
I've built a roaring fire today, so,
witches, come along" The law he
doubted was repealed long since, as
fierce and vain; old women now may
go afield with black cats in their
train. And if some acrobatic dame
can on broomstick ride, the people
will applaud her game, and point to
her with pride. The law that's evil or
absurd will from the volume fade;
but while it is the nations word, let's
see that it's obeyed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-08
TABLETS TO RECALL
FIRST CONTEST OF
ARM0RED WARSHIPS
(By Associated Press)


NEW YORK, Feb S.-Memories of
the stirring days of the sixties will be
revived March when dignitaries of
two nations gather here with technical
and civic societies to honor Captain
John Ericsson and his partner, Cor
nelius H. Delamater, on the sixtieth
anniversary of the battle between the
first armored batleships, Monitor and
Merrimac
Four tablets will be erected to the
designer and builder of the first tur-
reted battleship, and in the evening an
Observation-Disclosures banquet will be
held, to which have been invited Presi-
dent Harding, Secretary of the Navy
DENLY, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt
and other representatives of American
officialdom as we'll as the minister and
consul general from Ericsson's native
Sweden. The occasion will be cele-
brated simultaneously in Stockholm by
the Associated Swedish Engineers,
members of the Swedish royal family
and American diplomatic representa-
tives participating.
! One of the tablets to be erected here
will be unveiled at the Phoenix Foun-
! dry, where Ericsson built the first iron
+ boats constructed in America, and also
| brought out his then-ridiculed screw
propeller
| Another will be unveiled on the site
I of the Delamater Iron Works, where
1 the engines for the Monitor, the first
self-propeller torpedo, and the first sub
marine were built.