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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
The Pier Anglers Want.
The City Asked to Build $500 Foot
Structure ut COney Island.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: For many
years the United Anglers League OF this
city strove for the construction OF free
municipal pier at the foot OF Ocean
Parkway which should afford among it's
varied facilities ample opportunity to
spoftsn1en. young and old, for fishing.
We were delighted by the active inter-
est taken In the project two years ago
by President Hubert, who was then
Commissioner or Docks and Ferries. and
now we rejoice that Mayor Hylan is
firmly in favor of the plan.
The advantages of the pier, both to
the public and to the city. are obvious.
We have now at the foot Of Ocean Park
way a great pile of rocks which are OF
no use except to keep the waves from
eating into the shore. The pier can be
made to serve the same purpose and
at the same time create new beach.
BY extending the full width Of Ocean
Parkway $500 feet into the ocean one
mile Of water frontage is made avail
able for the parking of automobiles.
There is no doubt that the pier can be
made self-supporting by renting and
concession privileges. This proposed /,
pier il constructed with beautiful ap-
proach and monument would add great
significance to the entire project as a.
memorial TO those who made the su-
prerle sacrifice in the late war.
The Department Of Parks reports that
more than 100000 persons visited the
impfovised recreation piers of this city
weekly during last summers months.
Can we estimate how many hundreds of
thousands more will seek to enjoy the
cool ocean breezes and the opportunity for
free fishing? There is considerable mum.
Der OF men who love angling more than
any other outdoor sport but who can
not afford the pleasure because OF the
high boat charges at Sheepshead Fay.
Wreck Lead and Long Beach. The
municipal pier would solve this problem
for them and might even open up a
new sport and activity in the form Of
angling for the boys in our public
high schools.
Let us all who are interested in the
pier make our appeal direct to the
Board Of Estimate now, while 1t is ia ,
vorably disposed to the construction OF
a model, modern municipal pier
CHARLES DREscHER.
New YORK, April s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
Wilkes Booths Words.
An Interesting Note From a Member
OF the Ford's Theater Company.

To THE New York HERALD: have
had many articles sent me by friends
about the assassination of President Lin
coin and have made no reply to errors
in them, but want you to make de-
NAL OF the statement male in the letter
signed Washington Heights.
I was a member Of the Fords Theater
company and played a prominent part
that night. ] saw Booth in the audi
eice before he shot the President. What
he said after jumping from the box was
"Sic semper tyrannis.'
lie passed me on his way out TO the
alley. I had just left the stage ! have
articles and letters to prove all say.
There were Ave members of my family
In the theater that night, my father.
sister and myself on the stage and two
brothers sitting in front among the audi.
ence. may at some time give state
ment in detail concerning this, but not
at present.
On the stage 7 was JEANNE Gourlay.
Mrs. ROBERT STRuTHERs.
MoNrcLAiR, N. j.. April s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09

The commission on revision OF tho
Book OF Common Prayer evidently is
impressed by the numerous evil
dences Of womans desire to be con-
sidered equal with man in every
thing. AT least it has recommended
that the promise to obey be stricken
from the Episcopal marriage ritual.
1t would so change the form that
bride and bridegroom would make
the same pledges regarding each
other--to love, comfort, honor and
keep in sickness and in health.
A good many old fashioned church
people will incline to the opinion
that the removal Of the brides
poetic promise to obey is not
weighty enough to excuse a change
in the classic Book OF Common
Prayer For women do not obey
their husbands in the sense OF ac-
cepting orders. They haven't done
that for a long time. The man is
rather the obedient half and his oc-
casional poses as master Of the
house are about as sad as they are
prehistoric.
The revision commission seems to
try to balance the proposed omission
of "obey" by eliminating the bride.
groom's phrase. With all my
worldly goods / thee endow." The
man, giving up the theoretical obedi-
ence of his wife, is to be recon-
pensed by not yielding his wealth to
Ter. OF course if "obey" disappears
the dowry phrase should go also But
it seems a pity. 1t is link with
very distant past, relic OF the
pagan days when the young man who
stole a bride paid her father and IL
he wed her without stealing her
gave to her the money the father
would have exacted. When the pres
ent King of Spain, ALFONSO Kill,
was married he gave thirteen gold
pieces to his bride.
A third change proposed would end
the giving away oil the Drlue. roS-
sibly this would be relief to fathers,
uncles and brothers, but it would cut
into the frock coat business as well as
destroy an old, harmless and fire..
quently pleasing custom. 1t will not
do to go too far in the elimination Of
ancient things just because they are
ancient and possibly pagan in their
origin. The wedding ring is particu-
larly pagan, but what woman would
see it done away with?
Revolutionary, these proposed
changes, but so far they are only pro-
posed. They cannot be adopted I'M
less they are approved by two general
conventions of the church.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09

A correspondent interested In the
letters printed on the editorial page
OF THE NEW YORK HERALD in defense
OF the cat as a killer OF rats and
mice and in condemnation OF it as
a destroyer of bird life asks Where
did the cat come from, anyhow"
Indians apparently did not attempt
to domesticate any of the numerous
wild cat tribes OF this country. His
tory does not say IL COLUMBUS had
cat on any one OF his ships or not.
Early correspondence of the Pilgrims
indicates that cat may have come
over on the Mayfiower, one writer
saying that il was MARY CHrLToS's
pet, another that it belonged to
PRISCILLA MULLESs--the cat shown
at her feet in an ancient cut as she
spun with a distaff. IL there we're
witches at Salem they must have
had black cats as companions.
The Moslem story OF the origin OF
the cat, that Allah had the lions on
the ark sneeze and from their breath
formed two full grown cats which
kept the mice on the ark in subjec.
ton, is almost too fantastic for
twentieth century belief. There is
question too regarding the story
from ancient Olympus that Juno's
ridicule turned Apollo's lion into
cat. There seems. however, to be
no doubt that the domestic cat
thrived in China before the Chris.
tian era. For centuries, though, this
Oriental cat did not get further west
than Persia. The Persians liked Il
20 we'll that they kept IL and il be.
came the progenitor Of an aristo.
cratic branch of the feline tribe.
We scarcely strike solid ground on
the question OF the cats origin until
We reach the Pyramids and the Nile
Valley. For centuries before tho
Christian era the Egyptians we're
picturing the cat on their enduring
monuments. The domestication OF
tho African wild cat, somewhat
temperamental and vicious little
creature. has been referred to as one
OF the most interesting conquests Of
man over wild nature. eve can
but surmise," SAYS AYLMER G.
STRONG, an English naturalist, how
many reiens. generations. dynasties
were required TO win over creature
OF the crafty. wary feline tradition
and 10 make Of mankinds arch en-.
envy mankind's delight
The Egyptians had high sppre-
citation OF tho cats ability to save
their crops and garnered grain from
their rodent foe. They built tenn
pies FOR !, aud had priests to look
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
A Sprinstime Picture.

Peace over all the land a faint wind
Among the trees that lift their hands
on high;
Peace, and the pealing OF vesper bell,
And starlight in the sky.
Peace while the river sings it's silver
song
As IL flows onward toward the dis
tant sea.
Peace. and the land lies waiting, wrapt
in dream;
Then night fades silently.
When breaks the dawn clear as daffo.
dill
Fresh as new blown rose, one may
behold
The world transformed; each fair, ma
jestic hill
Is outlined as OF old
Against the far horizon; over all
Springs mantle, like velvet robe
is flung;
Amid the orchards hear the bluebirds
call
The apple boughs among!
Down every winding lane the cattle
stray
To verdant pastures laden rich with
dew.
AS sunlight fills the valley and the day
All bright and new
Begins In earnest then the simple folk.
Whose dwellings dot the greening
countryside.
Take up their toll, yet take no heavy
yoke:
Their view is wide.
Not narrow, as the city jewellers think.
For those who live with mother earth
apart
Share with the Infinite COMMUNION drink
From the Eternal Heart.
ELISABETH ScoLLAnD.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09

The effect OF modern legislation and
the social changes brought about by the
late war make it opportune perhaps to
consider the present state of the law as
to tho criminal responsibility OF married
women, especially in view of the result
OF the Peel prosecution at the Central
Criminal Court. From the earliest times
the legal textbook writer's assumed hug
band and wife TO be one person In the
eve Of the law, "unica persona duia caro-
una ct sanguis unus,' and from this
standpoint was deduced the legal fiction
OF the immunity OF a wife from punish
nlent for crime committed in the pres
ence and therefore under the presumed
coercion OF her husband. so great a
favorite," says Blackstone, "is the female
sex of the laws OF England"
Regarding the mode in which such
rules of law are formulated. Mr. Sheldon
Amos says t'fScience Of Law" p. 49), "a
spontaneous practice is first followed
and, IL good and useful, Is generally
copied over and over again. the more so
as habit and association always render
the imitation of an old and familiar
practice easier than inventing a new and
untried one" but as SIR Henry Maine
points out ("village Communities" D.
$50, IF tradition be not kept steady
by corresponding practice it may be
warped by all sorts or extraneous infiu-
ences." Again, Mr.. sheldon Amos OBJ
serves (ibid., p. 1879, 1.-THE same course
Of legislation must be pursued with re-
spect to the legal distinctions between
men and women as between men and
men. This Is not a question Of policy
but OF moral necessity, and it will,
sooner or later, be recognized to be So"
Leaving the academic for the more
practical side Of the question. we would
draw attention to the case of r. vs.
Hughes, in which Baron Thomson laid
it down that if a wife commits felony
in the presence Of her husband the law
out of tenderness for the wife raises a
presumption prina facie and prima
facie only that the felonious act was
done under the coercion of the hus-
band, but it is absolutely necessary that
the husband should in such case be
actually present and taking part in the
transaction. This presumption. how
ever. may be rebutted as it actually
was in the case last referred to by evi.
dcnce that in committing the felony the
wife was the more active party.
The authorities upon this question do
not unfortunately. provide any definite
or reasoned classification of the cases to
which this presumption applies. With
regard to this Lord Halsbury said in
the case of Brown VS.. Attorney-0
for New Zealand that the decisions on
the subject have not been entirely uni
form. 1t is said by Blackstone that
married woman is responsible for all
crimes which though committed in the
presence or her husband are. like MUIR
der. mala in Sc: but this dictum is OBJ
viousiy too wide. for the presumption of
coercion has been applied 20 such TEL
onies as burglary and larceny.
The law as to whether this presunlp-
ton OF coercion may be extended to OF.
lenses OF misdemeanor scents TO be no
less nebulous. Blackstone's opinion
was that in all misdemeanors the wife
may be found guilty with the husband.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09

after its welfare. Soldiers bore home
for burial the bodies Of cats that died
in battles. At one time person who
killed cat lost his own life. The cat
was held sacred in ancient Egypt, 1t
was consecrated to the goddess Pasht.
When il died the body was embalmed
and placed in a specially prepared
monument. In 1890 about 100000
mummified bodies of sacred cats
were taken to Great Britain; all the
museums of the world were supplied
with as many as they wanted, so that
everybody could know what an
Egyptian cat really was.
The cat won its way by helping
man against one Of his most trouble.
some and despised Of small animal
foes. According to one authority, it
was brought to Europe from Egypt
by Phnnician traders. 1t was sup.
posed to have been brought to Eng
land by sailors from the Island OF
Cyprus. Ancient paintings and mo-
sales indicate that the cat was not
the rat and mouse killer Of the early
Romans. Neither was it for the
early people of central Europe. Some
other small animal acted as de-
stroyer until the cat came. II the
Egyptians or some other people with
more patience than Che Europeans
possessed had not domesticated the
wild cat we might have been depend
Ing for animal assistance in vermin
destroying upon the marten, weasel,
stoat, polecat, ferret or mongoose.
Any OF these might have been made
as useful for this purpose as the cat.
None OF them would have been so
agreeable as fireside companion and
none would have found any morefavor
than the cat has with the various
Audubon and bird societies. The cat
is not likely now to be displaced by
any other creature: 1t has stuck to
its own real occupation since it
joined forces with man; 1t has never
lain down on its job and in unnum.
bered centuries it has never once
changed it's methods.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
Fitting a Name to It.
"Cl,ic Virtue Might Please ii Called
"The Revolt Of Man."

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: All art
lists consulted have, believe. approved
of the statue OF Civic Virtue" as work
OF art
The main objection seems to be to
the name; that, as virtue is distinctly
feminine characteristic. the dominant
figure should be that Of a woman rather
than of man. To meet this objection
it would be simple enough to change
the name.
I suggest, then, that the group be
called The Revolt of Man." The two
scaly creatures at the feet Of the young
Hercules might we'll be known as the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth amendments.
AS such the composition would be very
effective.
AS a prophetic conception this figure
might prove a blessing to humanity by
inspiring the growing manhood OF some
future generation to rise up and regain
the rights which we OF this day have
SO supfnely surrendered. OF course we
must first get the consent of Mayor
Hylan and the ladies' to this change Of
title. II. II.
BABYLON April s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
Ny Maryland.

There's Gallant Green and Baltimore.
Maryland. my Maryland
Annapolis, Groom, Eastern Shore.
Maryland. my Maryland
Manokin. Csloptank. ChaptIco.
Nanjemoy, Sassafras. Grape,
And Mattawoman. Honga. oh.
Maryland. my Maryland
Patapsco. Brightscat, Nsnticoke.
Maryland. my Maryland
Aauasco. Bowie. Pocomoke.
Maryland. my Maryland
ST. 1nigoes. where tides make moan,
And Sparrows Point. an eagle grown.
patuxent, Issue. Great Backbone,
Maryland, my Maryland
Boxron. Blvalve Rockawalkng,
Maryland. my Maryland
tIsbnab, Danes Quartcr--now you're
talking
Maryland, niy Maryland
Madonna, skipnieh. Accokeek.
spesutie. Bodkin Point Popes Creek,
And csirdletree. Fords store "a squeak ,
Maryland my Maryland
MAURICE AIokkis.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
Postal Speed Record.
A Letter Mailed and the Reply
Received Within Six Minutes.

To THE NEW York HERALp: AS the
United States never likes to be beaten
on any record the following story.
clipped from the London E1press, is
something for the postniasters through
out this country to study, and naturally
to beat:
1.-THE Post Office has beaten a record
for delivering a letter. A letter has
been posted. delivered and answered
within six minutes.
1T sounds incredible, but this Is the
way 1t was done. Captain Robert Gee,
v. c., NJ. T., while in the House Of Com
mons last week wanted TO send a mes
sage TO Sir Hamar Greenwood. who was
sitting on the Treasury Bench. SO he
wrote a letter and posted Il IN the post
office at the House. 1t was stamped
and delivered at once.
give minutes later Captain Gee was
called to the post Office from his seat in
the House, and reply written by Sir
Hamar was handed to him." T.. s. @.
NEW foRK, April s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
Obsolete Fairy Tales.

Something must be done to stimu-
late the jaded imagination of the
blase child of this day and genera.
ton. THE Arabian Nights" the
tales of HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN,
the GRIMM brothers and JULES VERNE
have been made obsolete by modern
inventions. The boy of to-day read
ing critically over the fairy tales that
enthralled his parents will say i'm
patiently "Old stuff" and turn to his
radio telephone, his newspaper or
the moving picture house around the
corner for thrills the old writers no
longer give him.
OF what interest could the story
of the Seven League Boots" or 1.-THE
Magic Carpet" be to the boy who has
been taken in an airplane by an
indulgent and INDUCING parent from
Palm Beach to Bimini and back?
What charm had the mythical Prin-
cess Goldilocks that are not incar-
mated in MARY PrcKfoRD?, Could
.
Prince Charming OF the fairy tale
swing by chandeliers and vault tables
while on his way to foil the ogre and
rescue the princess? Not according
to the GRIMMs and to HANS CHRIS.
TIAS ANDERSEN. Scenario writer's
have made these Ssrrulous old gray.
boards seem dull and prosaic.
The parent OF the modern boy can
recall when he shipped in fancy with
Captain Memo on the Nautilus. His
son would have no appetite for such
cruise. Now the submarine is a
reality. Tales of planets talking to
planets do not arouse him when he can
sit in his own nursery in New York
and by twisting knob on a wireless
receiving set listen to all the voices
of the night, voices from distant
cities and from ships far out at sea.
Aladdins Wonderful Lamp would
serve him no useful purpose, for
there is nothing Aladdin ever asked
the Servant OF the Lamp that modern
invention has not brought to the
nursery door OF the modern child.
You cannot make the modern girl
child believe Little Red Ridinghood
ever was in any serious danger from
the wolf. The modern little girl has
seen THE Perils OF Pearl at the
moving picture theater. she knows
of more fascinating dangers that
Turk in the paths beauty must travel.
Why sympathize with a mythical
heroine whose stcpmothei- or cruel
aunts forbid her to 90 TO the ball
when your own grownups take away
your lipstick and say that you cam
not have summer furs?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
Neighborly Old New York.
Room ApIenty Indoors and Toes Not
Trod On Abroad.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Admit
ting the improved sanitary condition OF
Manhattan to-day the better paved and
lighted thoroughfares, the greater ell.
cheney In all public work, as we'll as
many other advantages OF value TO its
citizens, the New York OF fifty years
ago, with its large neiyhborly middle
class. pleasant streets and attractive
euburbs was n moro agreeable town TO
live In. affording roomy quarters ut mod
crate rents, where the dining rooms did
not require condensed milk TO ec6nomize
space. all within easy walking distance
of ones business. The excellent apart
ments for merchants over their stores
did not compel them TO commute TO
bungalow somewhere between Harlem
and Cohoes.
outside OF the Five Points and conn
paratlvely small district on the lower
East Side any sober person could safely
venture after shutdown TO walk through
any part or the city II not too boastful
about his fire company and his political
party
An agreeable custom Of those simple
tobacco chewing days was 10 keep TO
the right on the sidewalks. liz the cob
plestones and fashionable calfslSin boots
did develop corns they we're our excu-
sivo property, free from trcspass by per-
aons who don't seem TO let their left
foot know what their right Is doing 10
provoke wrath and violent language by
day and night.
Harlem Lane on fair day was the
Spgodtyay whore ali Tho we'll known
men could be seen in contests with their
celebrated trotters. an interesting spec
taclc for the saints and sinners or old
Gotham, who gathered on Thanksgiving
eve nj Gabe Cases for turkey rafflcs
ana to meet Tom and Jerry.
New York April s. r. A. PALMER.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-09
The Killing Coal Costs.

JOHN BRoPnY, president of Dis
trict No. 2. United Mine Workers of
America, and one OF the ablest and
most powerful leaders of the union
coal miners. gave some solid cold
facts on Friday when he spoke before
the Labor Committee of the House
Of Representatives. There are. he
declared, too many mines tTyings TO
operate in the bituminous fields-too
many by thousands. There are too
many miners trying to scratch a liv-
ing out of working in these mines,
too many by tens and even hundreds
of thousands.
Miners in some Of the greatest coal
districts of the country have not av-
eraged much better than $14 week.
They were getting the very high
wage scale of $3.50 a day for their
labor. but they were getting only
two days OF work week. Mr..
B.opny well says men cannot live
in these times on an average income
of about 81 a day for all the days in
the year. He admits. however, that
coal produced by labor at wage of
$3.50 a day. with the mines operating
only one-third of the time, costs more
to get out OF the mine and to send to
market than consumers will or can
pay for it.
That's the killing disease to-day
or both operators and operatives in
p general bituminous fields. The
len cannot live on the wages they
get in only two days OF work week.
They would be very much better of
at 81 a day, six days week or $2i
week, than at $3.50 day, two days
in the week, or SIS week.
Nor can the mines live on two days
of operation week, fully manned,
or on six days of operation week,
one-third manned. Their interest
goes on just the same as il they
were working to capacity, their taxes
20 on just the same their insurance
goes on just the same, their items
Of personnel overhead expense go on
Just the same.
And the public cannot get cheap
coal on any such basis as that with
all the overhead expenses applying
not TO the 100 per cent. OF coal that
ought to come out of the mine in a
week but to the 80 per cent. that &C.
tually does come out. The public
il the loser with miners livings be-
ing charged not against the 100 per
cent. of coal they ought to dig in a
week and would dig il they had the
chance, but the SO per cent. of coal
they actually do dig because that Is
all the public will take at the inordi.
nate price asked for coal that is pro-
Iced under such impossible condi-
tions. 4
The killing coal costs must come
down so that consumers will buy
more coal, miners can get work
enough to earn a decent living and
operated coal properties be able 10 do
enough business TO make fair profit.
And the radical reorganization which
all this calls for in the whole bitumi-
nous industry must begin at once
with lower transportation costs and
lower labor costs--ton costs--of the
coal. Then should come the reshap.
ing Of the country's coal mines on
the group system. as already sus-
restcd by THE NEW YORK Herald,
with the fat mines Of a group dis
*trict helping to carry the cost OF
tret1sng coal from the lean mines. and
WHY the selling price thus made by
Nns general production cost instead
ANp6 now by the highest production