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The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Police Etiquette.
The Rules Forbid Patrolmen DOffing
Their Caps to Women.

To The New YORK HERALD: One
morning recently ! saw a policeman at
City Hall Park rush across the side
walk to a woman standing at the curb.
He put out his hand, grasped her hand
and shook 1t heartily. But he did not
lift his cap as Is the custom of civilians
when meeting a woman friend on the
street
\ / was curious to know. whether there
was a police rule which forbids officers
In uniform from doffing their caps to
women. I asked about half dozen men
II they knew OF any such rule and all
said they did not know: that they
thought there was no such rule.
Not satisfied with their replies, on my
way to the ferry that evening I asked
a young policeman standing at Vesey
street and Broadway the same ques-
ton. He told me that there Is a rule
forbidding them doffing their caps to
women while in uniform and that the
same rule applies to firemen in uniform.
Both departments follow the military
custom of saluting women on the street
while in uniform.
Probably there are many other civil
ians who are just as ignorant of this
rule as l was. So when you see a
policeman or fireman in uniform fail
to lift his cap when he meets woman
do. not assume he is ill hammered.
OBSERVER.
NEW YORK December %
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
High Pay of a Football Trainer.

Through it's ambition for gridiron
triumphs Salem, Massachusetts,. has
started a discussion which is spread
ing all through New England.
Salem pays its Mayor $500 year.
It's superintendent of schools re-
ceives $4,000, the principal of the
high school $4,000, it's City Councillors
$500 each. Now 1t has engaged a
coach for the high school football
team at guaranteed salary OF
$500. 1t has gone to Haverhill and
brought back BILL BRoDERIcK, a sue
cessful trainer of highly efficient
elevens, at salary which will top
the city payroll and exceed the sal
aries that most of the pastors of
the town receive.
The school forums of New Eng
land hum with discussions of this
state of affairs. Educators think they
are face to face with a new phase
of serious evil. Hitherto the fact
that the salaries of many football
coaches exceeded those of the presi-
dents of the colleges the teams of
which they trained presented a prob
lem for colleges alone. Now public
high schools are confronted by the
same situation. Some educators de-
clare that the Salem case furnishes
additional evidence of an unhealth-
full overemphasis of sport in schools
as well as in colleges
The New York herald., 1922-12-26

freight terminals will of course require
the approval of the Port Authority and
the entire plan for bridge and rapid
transit also of the local authorities on
both sides of the river, with whom
agreements are necessary for the local
franchises. The North River Bridge
Company has the necessary Federal
franchise for the work, but II can be
carried out only in cooperation with the
local authorities on both sides of the
river.
omy over the present method of freight
transportation into Manhattan and also
decided economy. greater convenience
and expansiveness for passenger and
rapid transit transportation over any
plans studied before
These plans relating TO Manhattan
should therefore be At subject not
merely for the city OF New York. but
for the examination of the Interstate
Commerce Commission when it looks
into the problem of unitication of rail-
road terminals for the port of New
York. 1t is city, State and national
question, indeed. the transit question
and street problem Of New York city
itself cannot be settled properly until
the Hudson is bridged and New York's
transit lines are connected with similar
lines over the whole metropolitan area.
including New Jersey.
1t should be obvious that no unified
freight terminal plans in the port of
New York can be carried out that do
not show a decided economy over pres
ent methods. For arriving at n safe
conclusion on this point the judgment
of the railroads concerned as a guide
cannot be ignored; on the contrary. they
should be consulted with at every point.
and I might further say that If railroad
net earnings had been satisfactory for
the last dozen years they would be in
sisting upon 'he Improvement and
cheapening OF freight and passenger
traffic movements in and out Of the
port of New York
GUSTAV LINDENTHAL,
President and Chief Engineer North
River Bridge Company.
NEW YORK, December %.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Useless Free Seeds.
congressman Have Sent Them to
People Who Had No Garden.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Accord
ing to press dispatches from Washing
ton. the House has. by narrow mar
gin of votes. eliminated from the agri-
cultural bill an appropriation OF $780,
600 for the, distribution of free seed.
If the same cor-se has been followed
in recent years in the distribution Of
free seed which prevailed some years
ago, then the action of the House is to
be commended.
few years ago ! was keeping
bachelor apartments in an apartment
house near Columbia Heights In Brook
lyn. The Congressman of my district
sent me several packages of seeds for
which l had absolutely. no use. as there
was no soil available in which / could
plant them. might have planted them
In boxes placed on the fire escape, but
that would have been a violation of
the fire laws. I have known of other
people who received seeds for which
they had no Use.
The press dispatch also states that
later session of the House may re-
store the appropriation to the agricul-
tural bill. If free seeds are to be sent
only to persons who can and will use
them it might be well to restore the
provision, but II seeds are to be sent
out Unfortunately. as in some cases
in the past. 1t would be better not to
restore the provision.
Why waste the taxpayers money?
HENRY RICHARD.
TEANEcK, N. j., December 23
The New York herald., 1922-12-26

Soviet Russia is holding its
tenth congress at Moscow and M
KAMENEFF, President of the Moscow
: Soviet, in surveying the world finds
that it might we'll be worse. Russia
has not, It is true, been recognized
by the Powers, but nevertheless
Russia in the last year has CONF
back into European councils, If only
by the back door.
At Genoa LLOYD GEORGE "shooB
hands with murder"-as his oppo-
nents phEased it-and the Russians
were admitted on footing Of equal
ity to the commission proceedings
OF the conference. At Rapallo they
signed with Germany their first big
international agreement. Since then
they have been regular travellers Jon
the conference train. They have
been at the Hague economic meet
ing and are now at Lausanne where
TcHITcHERIN and RAKowsKY, if they
wish to show the stability of the
Soviet regime, can point to the fact
that they are the only two delegates
who took part in the Genoa discus
sions, and that since then every other
country represented, with the excep-
tion of France, has changed its
Government.
Soviet Russia has also made prog
ress toward economic recognition.
German and British concerns have
signed extremely important trade
agreements with it and even in
France there have been signs of a
desire at feast to study conditions
in Russia. The Marquis DE LUBER-
SAC, an extremely go ahead man Of
business, who has negotiated an i'm
portant reconstruction agreement
with Germany in the person OF
HUGO SHINES, has visited Russia,
as has also M. HERRIoT, Mayor OF
Lyons and leader of the Radical
Socialist party.
M. KAMENEFF boastfully says that
Russia has been able TO get along TOT
five years without recognition and
insists that the worlds economic
troubles cannot be settled until the
Russian market becomes open once
again. He forgets, however, that the
rest of the world also has got along
without Russia for five years and
that without having had to face an
appalling famine. A part cannot be
greater than the whole and Russia
has much more need of the world
than the world has of Russia.
Countries have struggled to the
death for freedom. Martyrs have car
ried the hunger strike to the grave
for Ireland. But nobody, least of all
an entire nation, is going to starve
itself to death for an economic doc
trine, and bad one at that.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
JAPAN SUGGESTS THREE
POWER NAVAL TREATY
With u. S. and Britain If
Italy and France Fail.

TOXIC, Dec. 25 (Associated Prcss) -
If France and italy fail to ratify the
Washington naval treaty an agreement
for carrying it out might be arranged
among England. America and Japan. the
peers were told by Admiral Ide. speak
ing In place of Premier Kato. He ex-
planned that such an agreement would
be made easier as Japan already was
preparing for the naval reorganization.
He added that as long as America did
not alter her progress for auxiliary ships
Japan would maintain a ship ratio of six
to Americas ten.
He said Japans navy was superior to
Americas in speed and the accommoda-
tions of dockyards
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
White Hair.

II Nine. JEANNE PAoUIN of Paris
succeeds in her attempt to persuade
women that there really is beauty
In white locks she will accomplish
an important aesthetic and economic
purpose. The gradual emergence Of
the gentleness and tenderness indis-
pensable to certain ideals OF beauty
has often impressed the beholder Of
familiar features crowned with nat
ural whiteness after the deceptive
coat Of color has faded.
Unluckily IL is only the eyes of the
beholder that are cheered by the nat
ursl loveliness which results from
such a change. This is not an era
of gray haired beauty. This is the
period OF the youthful grandmother.
Certainly notions of age have slipped
away from the former arbitrary
standards. One need not be old in
the present understanding of the
word even IL one has grandchildren.
Few women alter their dress. much
less their conduct, for any such do
mestic reason.
Nor, for that matter, need one be
old to have gray hair. One condition
is as possible to comparative early
middle age as the other. Yet it is
not easy TO persuade a woman that
white locks are not suggestive OF
ege, whatever impression grandchil-
dren may make. She is likely to
ward off as long as she can this out
ward and visible sign OF years. Here
enters the disguise against which
Nine. PAouIN has begun to battle
She will teach women to realize, as
the rest OF the world does. that they
The New York herald., 1922-12-26

Territory. At Chitina. in the copper
valley. the thermometer climbed to 81
degrees. at Eagle. where the mer-
curry had touched "a degrees below
zero. il rose to Sc above. At Ram
part, which. like Eagle. lies in the
Yukon Valley, IS degrees, the highest
figure for the summer in the Terri
tory. was recorded. Barrow. on the
Arctic Ocean, basked in the warmth
of IS degrees.
The worst thing that can be said
about the climate OF Alaska concerns
the annual rainfall at Ketchikan. In
the year covered by the report 1875
inches of rain and snow fell. That
is precipitation unequaled on the
Amazon and duplicated at only few
points along the equator.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Coal Crisis Seen by Church Council
Research Department Finds Trouble Is Deeper Than
Conflict Over Hours and Wages.

The coal problem has, enlisted the in
terest of the Federal Council OF
Churches The research department of
that organization made public yesterday
results of an inquiry conducted during
the last few weeks to determine the at
titude of the public toward systematic
regulation of the coal industry The
conclusions, based upon interviews with
and detailed replies TO specific questions
received from employers. labor repre-
sentatives. technicians, editors, edu-
Gators and church leaders in various
parts Of the country are herewith sum-
married. In part:
Fear is expressed lest the Federal
Coal Commission may not pursue its
inquiry to the full extent of the powers
given 1t by Congress that specifically,
1t will not secure the facts concerning
investment and profits. The law cbvi-
ously contemplates that the commission
shall utilize the data in the hands OF
the Federal Trade Commission and the
Bureau of Internal Revenue and shall
supplement- this as necessary by direct
testimony
1T is likewise apparent that II the
question of the relation of civil liber-
ties 10 the control of the mining indus
try, with particular reference tc por-
tions of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia, is not fully canvassed by the
commission. there will be much dissatis
faction with Its findings of fact.
Question of Regulation.
The public Is apparently we'll aware
now that the crux Of this whole matter
in so far as the labor controversy Is
concerned Is the question whether the
miners are to be allowed to unionize or
are to be permanently arrayed against
each other in competing union and nom
union fields. Some persons recommend
the latter alternative as a matter of
public policy.
There Is remarkably widespread
conviction that what is wrong with the
industry goes far deeper than those
natural periodic conflicts of interest over
wages and hours which arbitration might
adjust. 1t seems to be generally recog-
nized that because of overdevelopment
and seasonal demand In the soft coal
industry some form of Government regu-
lation Is necessary.
THE replies indicate no organized
public opinion in favor Of Government
troll Of the mines. 1t is felt, rightly or
wrongly that Federal operation Of the
railroads was accompanied by waste and
inefficiency. and that industrial progress
in general demands as little Federal in
reference as possibe< There HAS been
much talk Of naturalization among the
miners themselves but official spokes-
men for labor are by no means OF one
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Last Of the Tourist Printers.

From The Ho,ccH County tHo) GdScttc.
West Plains was visited recently by
"Brooklyn joe" known all the United
States as the last OF the tourist pripters.
brooklyn Joe" was working in New York
when the first linotype machine was manu-
facturcd. For thirty years "Brookiyn Joer
las travelled from coast to coast, seeing
thousands of these typesetting machines.
Long years ago scarcely week passed that
some tourist printer didn't come along who
wanted 10 throw In case OF type. set No a
column or two for dollar. feed and n bed.
and then drifted onward. Most of them are
gone now. There was the Immortal J..
NJ" Red Doolin, Thin Space Jones,
so named because he was SO thin, and
Pussy" Reynolds. 'Broollyn Joc' was
locking for winter berth and went from
here TO Mountain View. where he has a
situation with the Booster
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
REPORTED ENCOURAGING
Labor Shortage in Textile and
Steel Mills.

WASHINGTON. Dec 25.-The employ
ment situation is encouraging and
prospects are bright for the remainder
of the winter. according TO n survey by
the employment service of the Depart
ment OF Labor Nearly all States re-
ported n condition much better than at
this time last year. and the situation
was described as fair to good In NOSE
sections.
states affected by seasonal suspen-
sion Of logging operations or farm work,
and those where transportation js ham
pered by strikes and car shortages.
were the only 'nes reporting -unfavor-
ably, and In al Of them Improvement
was expected soon after the first OF
the year.
Building opera tions throughout the
country were reported holding a pace
almost unprecedented. only few
States In the North showing slowing
up because of the weather.
The manufacturing States. almost
without exception. reported shortages
OF skilled mechanics. Textile mills
we're running full blast and needed la
Dor. The automobile industry also was
running 100 per cent. but the labor
supply about eq,ialled the demand The
steel industry showed general ex-
panslon. with demand for all kinds
of labor and the call for metal workers
generally exceeding the supply.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
D ally Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New <York-Fair and
moderate temperature to-day; to-mor-
row unsettled. PROBABLY rain, moderate
10 fresh south and southwest winds.
For New Jersey-Fair to-day; to-mor-
row unsettled. probably rain; little
change in temperature; moderate south
and southwest winds
For Northern New England-C!oudy
to-day. probably followed by local rain
o. SHOWS tonight or tomorrow; colder
Tomorrow. Moderate to fresh shifting
winds, becoming southwest and west.
For Southern New England-Fair and
somewhat warmer to-day; tomorrow
unsettled, probably rain. Shifting
winds. becomink fresh southwest
For Western New York-Cloudy to-
day and Tomorrow probably rain or
snow and colder tomorrow; moderate
south and southwest winds.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.--Fair weather
prevailed during Christmas Day except
that there were light rains or SHOWS in
portions Of Colorado Southern Wyo-
ming. Utah and Nevada. The tempera-
ture has been considerably above nor
mai, especially in the great central val
leys, the plains States and the West
Iui; States.
Generally fair weather will prevail
IN the Atlantic and East Gulf States,
tennessee. the Ohio Valley and the lower
lake region Tomorrow but the South.
western disturbance will move east
northeastward and 1t will probably be
attended by rain over much OF the
washington forecast district tomorrow
,iight or Wednesday Mild temperature
VIII continue until Wednesday night ex-
cept that colder weather will oyerspread
the lower lake region.
:, observations at United States Weather
~ ~puusau stations. taken at s p NJ YESTERDAY.
seVehty-fifth meridian time
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Minimum Wage Laws.
Testimony That They DO Not Tend
to Keen Down Women's PAY.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The
women who are opposing the minimum
wage and eight hour laws for women
are using arguments which have been
exploded for years. Mrs. VOLTS argu-
ment, presented In your paper on De-
cember Is, that "if a minimum wage law
were passed In this State women's pay
would remain at the minimum and 1t
would establish a precedent for paying
low wages TO all classes of women
work that way.
For the facts refer Mrs. Wolff and
her followers to the official reports OF
all minimum wage commissions in this
country. In Canada, Great Britain, Aus
tralia. New Zealand and any country
where minimum wage laws are in
operation. She will find statements
such as the following taken from the
fourth annual report of the Minimum
Wage Commission of the District OF
Columbia for the year ended December
1921 "The minimum wage has not be-
come the maximum wage approximate
ly 81 per cent. OF the women and minor
employees covered by the orders are
HOW IeccNiilE f1OTe IMAM tne minimum
wage. - A proportion so substan-
tial as this warrants the statement that
the minimum. far from becoming the
maximum. is scarcely even the standard
wage"
We were not aware that IL was neces-
sary to establish precedent for paying
women low wages. We had thought
that a precedent was established when
women first began to work, years and
years ago. What we need is to estab-
lish a new precedent. a living wage
precedent. and minimum wage legisla-
ton will do that very thing.
We believe that women who oppose
protective legislation have perfect
right to their opinions. All We ask is
that they make an attempt to ascertain
the facts before they circulate supersti-
tions long since exploded.
CLARA MoRrENsoN BEYER.
Executive Secretary the Consumers
League.
New YoRK, December 23.
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The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Attacking the State Troopers.

The General Organizer OF the
American Federation of Labor, Will
LIAM COLLINS of Yonkers. has sent
remarkable circular to the central
bodies and affiliated unions of the
Federation In this State
The circular declares that "the i'm
portant question before the workers.
now that they have elected their
candidates to Office. is to see that the
platform upon which they were
elected will be carried OUT; and it
lists, under the head of supposed
promises Of the Democratic State
platform, the following.
1.-THE matter of abolishing the
State Constabulary, or amending the
present law. which will confine them
to the work they were originally sup
posed to do. rural patrolling."
Some of the union men who re-
ceive this circular may be gulled by
it. but everybody who read the Dem
ocratic State platform knows that
it contained no pledge whatever in
relation to the State Troopers. Far
from promising to abolish their use
or restrict 1t to rural patrolling, the
State convention, in giving its "un-
qualified approval" to the record of
Governor SMITH, Endorsed the use OF
the State troops in the quelling OF
disorder wherever the local authori-
ties could not cope with it alone
Governor SMITH and Governor MILLEE
both used the troopers in such emer-
gencies, and used them we'll.
Even more astonishing than this
invention with regard to the Demo
cratic platform is charge made in
the circular, as follows:
I'VE find upon information fur
nished by affidavits that these Co.'S
sacks ride into the houses and stores
of citizens and club women. children
and men in the shelter of the sacred
portals of what Americans think Is
home. 1t is time that an organized
activity was aroused against the
Prussian tactics of these troopers"
No. particulars of these alleged out
RACES are given, but the circular says
that "a number of affldavits have
been furnished that will be presented
to the Legislature next spring when
legislation is introduced correcting
this evil condition"
Why wait until spring IL the
charge is true? II any evidence ex-
listed of such oppression as is de-
scribed the sufferers had only to go
to the Grand Jury of the county In
which the outrage occurred. Indict-
ments would have swiftly followed.
1t is probable that Mr. CoLLrNs's
"affidavits. are as well founded as
his statement concerning the Dem
ocratic State platform. And the
Legislature is not likely to be fooled.
1t knows the reason for the attacks
on the State police. The troopers
keep order when strikes and other
disturbances get beyond the control
of the local police.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26

Rio Grande. Give him a sluggish
stream or the marshy banks Of a
lake and there he will make his home.
And there is another thing to be said
N his favor. He is distinctly and
exclusively American. Nowhere in
the Old World has he ever consented
to live.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Aftermath.

After the merry Christmas bells
That tinkled DER the snow.
After the glittering Christmas tree
With twinkling lights a-glow,
After the Christmas turkey plump
With oysters overstuffed,
After the spicy Christmas cake
with frosting capped and cuffed,
After the Christmas mail that mad,
The postman worn and gray.
After the Christmas holly wreaths
with scarlet ribbons gay.
After the Christmas mstletoe
With osculatory thrills
Comes New Years with its "Please re.
nit"
And sheaf of Christmas bills.
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
On Harlem Lane.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: Among
the men who drove fast horses on
Harlem lane in the old days I recall
Shepard Knapp. Mel Knapp. Charlie
Redmond, Frank Work and Tom Worth
the cartoonist. and from Fort Washing
ton James Gordon Bennett, II. r. Per-
kins. Bleecker Rathburn. Old Man
Bixby and the Connolly boys. c. NJ. C.
TROY. December 23.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
The Smallest Thing.
From the Ncto Witness.

FFOW nc NftU WItNcSS.
! have seen purple sunset
Ger the hills that line my home,
l have seen the stars Ia triumph
Pierce the color scattered dome:
| have watched the woods In summer,
Bird and bud and flaming flower
While the fears of man lay conquered
In the stiffness OF an hour
] have known the sound OF laughter
Turn the heart of foe to friend:
But ] know mid all NY folly
That the greatest things must end.
Lord, lived and loved and wondered
While Thy mercy held the sky:
AT Thy banquet | have feasted.
'Tis Q ANAL thing left. to die.
,. ID. GLEBsoN.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26
Up the Road In the Rain.
Up the road in the rain


Never break in the gray
And yet rill. in Its voice thrill.
Singing beside the way.
Up the road In the rain
Under the mountains brow.
And yet bird. with its lyric word.
Caroling from bough.
Up the road in the rain
Far from the town apart,
And yet loves beat. to our trampins
feet,
Keeping time in the heart!
CLINTON ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1922-12-26

Those American girls who are study
ing singing at the American Con-
servatory at Fontaineblcau may i'm
peril the decorations Of the historic
palace by smoking cigarettes. but 1t Is
certain that they will not improve
their voices by the indulgence.