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The New York herald., 1922-04-18
An Era of Sport.

We are living in an era of sport.
Newspapers devote columns to out
door pastimes. Other periodicals
treat games lightly or seriously, as
suits their purpose-but most Of the
pictorial sections of the press at
home and abroad present reproduc-
tions of scenes full of interest to fol-
lowers Of racing, hunting, baseball
boxing, football, tennis and other
sports.
The doings Of men and horses of
exceptional skill or capabilities that
fill the public eye are chronicled in
detail. Their names become house
hold words. Who, for example, has
not heard Of Man o. War or Norwich
among the horses, or Of Babe RUTH
and JACK DEMPSEY among the men?
When Man o. War was making rec
ords in 1920 his pictures in action
and repose were flashed on the screen
in every motion picture theater that
sought to be up to date. Everybody
felt on intimate terms with the regal
chestnut whose feet had carried him
faster than any other thoroughbred
| in the annals of the turf in this
country. The desire for knowledge
of Man o. War has followed him to
the stud. The public want to know
about his offspring.
1t is much the same with Norwich
to-day. Crowds watch his training
at a metropolitan course, and the
camera follows his every movement
while on the track. The people of
remote hamlets know as much about
him as those in the cities. is
fine thing for racing and incidentally
for horse breeding. In California,
where Norwich was born, HERBERT
FLEIscHycKER, leading banker and
one Of those interested with ADoLPH
SPREcKELs and RUDOLPH SPREcKELs
C. X. G. BILLINGS, A. X. MAcoMBER,
d. G. JAcKIING and FRANK J. KELLEY
in promoting the Pacific Coast
Jockey Club, has bought the unborn
brother or sister of Norwich from
ADoLPH SPREcKELs, who owns Run
nymede, the sire, and Hymir, the dam,
respectively, of the present day turf
sensation.
There must be a powerful sporting
impulse to prompt such a course as
Mr.. FLEIscHAcKER has pursued. 1t
is thoroughly characteristic Of the
day. While full brothers and sisters
in the horse family are not of equal
merit, there are many that will hope
that success will reward the Western
sportsman's enterprise.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
Firrnness Needed in Ireland.

The attack in Dublin on MICHAEL
COLLINS was an incident indicative
Of the boldness OF the rebels. The
way the head OF the Free State met
the attack and the manner in which
lie and GRIFFITH are going about
their work, regardless of rebel
threats, are signs that the leaders
upon whom Irish peace depends are
fearless men.
And yet they will have to be even
more than fearless. They must be
firm. The poison which DE- VALERA
and his followers are spreading in
Ireland must be stopped If Ireland
is not to become like Mexico in its
worst days. COLLINS and GRIFFITH
should remember. whatever their dis
inclination to stern measures, chat
they have been intrusted with the
government of the island. The treaty
with England put in their hands the
responsibility for Ireland's peace and
prosperity.
That worst Of bad losers, De VA
LERA, continues to inflame the peo-
pie against the Free State, although
he has nothing to offer them in its
place except bloodshed and the neces-
sary return of British control. He
IS not even q genuine republican but
only a trouble maker. The worst
thing about DE VALERA is his weak
ness. He is starting something that
he cannot stop. lie is lending his
voice to the warfare OF the dynamit-
ers, the irreconcilables, who have
lived on war for four years and
would find themselves unhappy in
peace.
Fortunately for Ireland, De VALERA
and his followers will get practically
no support from this side of the
ocean. On Sunday night at meet
ing in this city the Clan-na-Gael and
the Friends of Irish Freedom adopted
resolutions declaring that they con-
demned "the collection Of money in
America to enable one set OF Irish
men to fight other Irishmen." That
should end any hope which De
VALERA and the rebels may have had
OF being financed over here.
The majority Of Irish in Ireland
and the majority of Irish sym
pathiZers in America want the Irish
Free State to have a fair trial. And
they viii not disapprove any meas
ures. however severe, taken by
COLLINS and GRIFFITH to clear the
way for that trial. The Free State
should be a firm State. Paltering
with rebels-rebels who have no
moral excuse for rebellion-may only
set Ireland back to her old place.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18

that Lord KITCHENER was really lost
off the Scottish coast. Years after
his reported death General GORDON
was said 10 have been seen alive il
Central Africa. The decision of the
Vienna court that the Austrian Arch
duke JOHN ORTIZ died at sea did not
settle the mystery of his disappear
ance for hundreds who asserted they
had met him years after his supposed
shipwreck. Only a few weeks ago
Tennessee paper published many let
ters which attempted to prove that
JOHN WILKES BooTH escaped from his
pursuers and lived to an advanced
age as a Baptist preacher in the
Kentucky mountains
The list of the "undying-the dead
who never died" seems. limitless.
These cases Of mystery give rise to
controversies full Of speculation and
curious theories. They furnish ma
terial for endless arguments because
undeniable proofs are no longer
available.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18

wreckage and the rebuilding OF cor
dial intercourse and friendships is
the work of the world after world
catastrophe. The official peace that
concludes a war should mean the end
Of that war. There can be no end to
war when it is constantly fought over
by the peoples OF both sides of the
truggle-fought over in bitterness
and acrimony by press and politician.
General GRANT had it right when
he said after our civil war LET us
have peace" Peace is what the world
wants. and that nation which from
the kindness and humanity of its
soul does most to wipe out bitterness
and bring peace to the world will
loom larger in the Great Court Above
than any other
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
Hughes Calls Firebrands u. S. Enemies
Secretary Lashes Editors and Public Men, Who Attack
Foreign Peoples.

WAsHrNGToN. April 17.--"The true
significance Of the recent armament con-
ference is to be found in the fact that
there never has been manifested a finer
spirit OF International cooperation than
was evlnced by the nations represented
fore the thirty-frst annual convention
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution in thanking them for the
use Of Memorial Hall FOR meetings OF
the conference.
Discussing "the fundamental matter
OF education" and referring to results
of the intelligence tests IN the American
Army during the war; indicating that 20
into service could not read and write
English well enough to understand a
newspaper or write a letter. the Secre-
tary said:
with the incessant flow of sensa-
tional narrative, with attention fixed
on stories of crime and human frailty,
what proportion Of our voting popuia-
ton is able TO observe with intelligent
discrimination the eQurse Of political
events and is preparefadcquately to dis
charge the duties OF citizenship? How
many have the necessary equipment of
information which enables them TO APP
praise the actual working Of our system
of government--to discern defects and 70
judge of remedies?
1T must ever remain true that the
most necessary and difficult study of
free peoples is democracy itself. Yet
with all proper emphasis on the con-
stant need of instruction and Of a better
understanding of our institutions, we ara
constantly reminded that mere knqwl-
edge is not enough. We need the Give
wisdom which can only come from ths
long practice OF a people imbucd WITH
the highest patviotsm and the spirit
OF loyal service.
Public opinion should demand not
only Of our public servants but os al
those who try to influence the pubic
either on the platform or through the
press, u sense .of civic responsibility.
Nothing is more regrettable than the
apparent lack Of it at this time. IN the
field of international affairs rocSlsss-
ness OF statement Is especially injurious
to the interests Of the country.
"Some OF our editors and public men
write and speak as though what they
said of foreign peoples and their gov
ernments could not be seen or neard be-
yond the three mile limit The first
duty Of a people that desires peace is 70
cultivate good WILL and the only cure
for Incorporate statement is the resent
meut of an Intelligent community
let it be understood that those VINO
indulge in datribes against foreign peo-
pies and their governments, who hold
them up to ridicule. who inpute TO them
base motives and asperse their honor
are enemies first Of their own country
and as such deserve universal censure.'
At the opening session of the congress
Princess Cantacuzenc, granddaughter
OF Gen. II. S. Grant, made an appeal
for aid of the Russian iptellectuals and
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
Eight Million Metropolitans.

When O. HENRYs second volume
OF collected short stories was pub
lished in 1906 he called it "The Four
Million" because that was then the
approximate population Of Greater
New York. Now your literary man
would be justified in doubling the
figures in q similar title, for the
New York Census Committee, at
tempting TO compare New York's met
ropolfan area with London's, de-
clares that 7,S20,676 persons were
living within nineteen miles of our
City Hall on January 1, 1920, when
the national census was taken
Surely by now the population in this
great circle has passed the eight
million mark.
The local census committee used a
circle with a nineteen mile radius
for its calculations because that is
the size of London's metropolitan
district, with Charing Cross as the
center. Greater London had popu-
lation in June, 1921, of 7,476,16S, or
nearly 350,OOO fewer inhabitants than
Largest New York--as the commit
tee calls our metropolitan district
had eighteen months before.
A circle with a nineteen mile ra-
dius and City Hall as its center takes
in more Of New Jersey than some
loyal Jersey folk would care to yield
to New York. And yet II Is really
metropolitan territory, for much Of
the wealth thereof is CLEANED in Man
haitian and carried home by thrifty
commuters, who once year render
tribute TO New York through the
state income tax. IL to circle are
such large cities as Newark. Jersey
City and Paterson, and a multitude
OF Oranges. Montclairs, Hackensacks,
Nutleys. Elizabeths, Englewoods and
Rutherfords. Who captures Newark
alone captures a city OF more than
100000 souls.
on the north the Largest New York
line takes In not only The Bronx but
the proud cities Of New Rochelle.
Mount Vernon and Yonkers. On the
east II embraces not only all Of
Queens but some OF the choicest
suburban regions in Nassau county.
And on the south all OF Staten Island
except the very tip is included
A wonderful world is contained
within this circle, any point OF which
can be reached from the center In an
hour. You can find I'm il the most
cougested places outside OF London:
and you can also find. near the north
ern edge, deer and trout, although in
limited numbers. You can find the
greatest business district in the world
here, and you can find too farming
lands, regions where intensive culti.
walton produces from $1,000 to IS, 900
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
An Age of Conferences.
Luncheon Meetings Which Take Up
the Time Of Business Men.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Your edi-
torial article Business Men and Humor"
calls attention to phase through which
many business man OF to-day is forced
to pass.
Most OF. those who attend the lunch
con conferences now so frequent don't
do it from choice. Smith. meets Jones'
and convinces him that the subject he
has on his mind ought to be brought be-
fore a conference OF business men and
the luncheon meeting with long and di-
crossing speeches results. win not this
be known as the age Of conferences? :?
Are not these meetings sponging up the
time of business men the consequence
OF the sempiternal League of Nations
conferences?
We will get out OF them soon. They
are but a phase, as was the resolve Of
the Plckwick Club to organize society
for the Improvement of everything: the
activity, half generation ago. of the
efficiency expert.
One of the latter had reformed the
business system of small Southwestern
manufacturer The filing system with in
dex cards was of the latest pattern. The
manufacturer was actively working on
the system when customer called and
asked about business conditions. Said
the manufacturer Business? We are
not doing any business. we are attending
to the filing system
But the efficiency expert has now
Joined the Pickwickans.
FRANK DEEDAIEYER.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April IS.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18

or room. His landlady cannot cash such
a check, especially as others from a
half dozen or score more men may be
offered to her lio may want to buy
necessaries. but finds il dinlctdt 10 make
payment with 4 check
In groceries and butcher, shops house
wives are confronted with the sign NO
checks cashed" anda even were shop
keepers inclined to rescind the ruie in
turn the demand on them would be COM
plicated though liability Of fraud. and
dangerous because they would have 70
draw large sums from banks. ana that
would furnish a new field for bandits
Lastly, many concerns have from 100
to several thousand employees, and the
task Of drawing so many checks would
be vastly greater than paying S2ie equiv
alent In currency. IT, T.
NEW York, April H.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
Fighting tuberculosis.
Education and Money Two Weapoms
Insuring Victory.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD Our in
clination is to offer you the thanks OF
the New York tuberculosis Association
for your admirable editorial article on
Tuberculosis in Manhattan" based upon
our sanitary survey, just issued. AS
matter of fact. however it is the thanks
of the entire community that are due
you.
Our work Is fully rs much educa-
tionalsas it is remedial and therefore
every particle OF sound information that
can be given to the public regarding the
fight against tuberculosis now going on
In this city Is of the highest value to
all the people. In such articles as that
printed In your newspaper the service
performed is essentially to all New
Workers..
Indeed. the benefit does not stop mar
rowly within our own borders. The
problems Of tuberculosis are the same
everywhere. and it therefore becomes
true that wherever a great newspaper
like THE New YORK HERALD may circu-
late the message that it carries cannot
fail to do good. We shall be very glad
of that, since If anything with which
we had connection may be enabled to
lessen this needless scourge, whether
here or in the most remote part OF the
country, knowledge of that fact will be
most welcome here.
Perhaps you may permit lis to point
out that the fight against tuberculosis
in this city Is a winning fight. There Is
great encouragement in that knowledge,
But this only means that those engaged
In the struggle must work all the harder
to keep up the work of saving lives. To
slacSen means more disease in this city.
more deaths of men, women and chill
dren. more peril 10 the community !.
while TO maintain existing efforts or.
better yet, to increase them means on
the one hand fewer deaths. better city
TO live in and a better mode Of life for
thousands Of our people.
And now here Is consideration Of
the very highest Importance. namely. to
quote that true statement OF the De-
partment OF Health: Public health Is
purchasable within natural limitations
a community can determine its own
death rate"
1t seems crude and raw to say so. but
the plain fact is that the more money
we can raise the more lives we can
save. Aside from the sale once n year
of Christmas seals practically our only
means OF raising money with which TO
carry on our work is through member
ships in this association. Our present
membership Is relativelY very moderate.
considering the great work OF life saw
ing to be done. We really need thou
sands more OF members in order to push
the effort to still greater intensity and
completeness of cutting down New
York's needless death rate and making
this city Of ~ours a better place to
live in.
NEW YORK TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION.
NEW YORK, April II.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
The Useful Birch Tree.

None Of our trees has more varied
uses than the birch. It's bark fur
nished the North American Indian
with material for his canoe and took
the place of writing paper for early
settlers.
Fashioned into furniture and
stained, its wood resembles mahog-
any: it is admirable for paneling,
while for veneer purposes it is un-
surpassed. AS a purely ornamental
tree the birch is beautiful, being
especially decorative when it is set
off against planting of evergreens.
In Europe the birch has played its
part in saving life in the famine
stricken areas. The leaves and bark
when ground with other vegetation
and mixed into paste form a So
called famine bread. Dried in the
sun it was for time practically the
only food to be had in certain dis
tricts Of the province of Samara,
which has great areas of birch
timber.
Many of the farm implements now
in use in backward, poverty stricken
lands are made from the birch, suit
able branch stripped of its bark being
utilized, for example, as three tined
pitchfork. Shoes are woven of strips
from the inner bark. The birch also
furnishes material for OK bows or
yokes for cattle, and the same wood is
carved into combs and other toilet
articles.
These are some of the uses of the
birch tree in Europe which are de-
scribed by Director JOHNSON of the
New York State School Of Applied
Agriculture, who recently returned
from a visit abroad. Not only for its
beauty but also for its utility the
extended cultivation of the birch is
worth undertaking in every country.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
r.nrA1. wrArnER REcoRps.
EVENTS TO-DAY.


Dinner to Ijr Nicholas Murray Butler hy
Columbia College class Of 1882 Clareruont
Casino. r. M,
National BUDGET Committee. annual meet
Ing, Hotel Astor.
Times square Association, luncheon, Hotel
Astor, II so T.. N.
National Republican Club. annual meeting.
"a West Fortieth street, T. NJ.
Miss Mary Rutherford jay WIN speak on
English Garden Methods before the Horti-
ural History $3.50 4. n.
New York chronological Society. meeting.
+. american Museum o. Natural History. 3
z. NJ.
nard, the Bowery Mission 81 Bowery,
Horace &. knowles VIII speak on What
ought We 10 10 About Haiti and Santo Do-
i. III
Radio conference. National Retail Dry
Goods Association, Hotel Pennsylvania, ~ 80
a. NJ
Junicr Emergency Relief Association, work
ine class meeting. Hotel Biitmorc. a. 70
Hotel Association or New York city. spaa.r
dance, Hotel Commodore, ~ I. ~.
Conference anthracite miners and coal on.
orators subcommittee. Union League club,
f0.30 a. NJ.
luncheon, Bankers club. 1880 Z. y.
Export Managers Club, mcheon, Hotel
pennsylvania. noon.
Howard n. Payne. lecture ''The Admins
traitor 81 Jefferson" Deems Memorial
Chapel Wcsterleigh. staten Island. u n.
n W. Mcicpif win speak a. Aspects ~
Modern aducatlon', before the Parents So
rity OF Miss Mnrks's School / West Ninety
second street +. NJ.
Prof. Joseph laSrow wlll speak on "Tho
Psychology q Social traits before the Poo
pv'e Institute. Cooper Union. r. NJ
Lehigh Club dinner to Prof Mansfield Ncr-
rimat. Aldine club, $50 =. NJ.
Drive for 81 100000 for Williams College to
be started ri : dinner, Hotel Astor, T.. NJ.
Crime conditiqhs win be discussed by tho
Fiathtsh Chamber Of Commcrce, 2i3i Church
avenue, Brooklyn, =. III.
Women'a Trade Union League, vaudeville.
supper and dance for the home clubhouse for
laboring wornen. Hotel Pennsylvania.
=. N.
Smoker ana entertainment. Police Depart
ment Holy Name Societies OF brooklyn anil
Quorns. ST. Nincents Hcme IoeriA place
and Stnte street. Srooklyn. I. NJ
Nauo1al Metal Trades Association. conven-
tion and alumni dinner. Hotel Astor, 10 a.
~. aud Z T.. M.
Chemical Bank Club. dance. Hotel McApln.
SP. n.
Great south Bay Yacht Association, dinner
Hotel McApin, i. NJ.
Womou'ss League Tor the Protection of
ltivcraiae Drive aununl lncctins,- home Of
Ara. John G. Kerr, @e0 PARK avenue, ~ NJ
Public meeting, called ny ne women's
Prison Association, Isaac A. Hopper Home
10 Second avenue l.. NJ
Hamilton Community Council, meeting. 5o3
West tl5th street, S,i5 +. ~.
Hubiusten Club, concert and dance, Wal
doff-Astorin. q J.. NJ.
Mnnhattan Matinee club, bridge. Waldorf
Astoria, s T. NJ.
Daughters Of Pennsylvania, bridge, Wal
dorf Astoria. = l.. ".
New Norly Teachers association. meeting,
waldorf Astoria. 3 Il. NJ.
society of Michigan Women, meeting, WAL
dorf-Aatnria 2 y. NJ.
Keuutiy soclety. luncheon, Waldorf-As-
toria. Il A. 81
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
The National Beverage Now.

/. The quantity of coffee imported by
the United States in the calendar
year 1921 was 1,345, 100000 pounds, an
increase of $4,000 900 pounds over the
imports for 1920 and nearly 100000
600 pounds more than the average
imports in the years just before the
war. After deducting the 34,0OO,0OO
pounds reexported in 1921, the amount
which went to satisfy Americas de-
mand was 1911, 100000 pounds.
Tea imports declined 14,000,000
pounds and cocoa 40,000,00O pounds
compared with 1920.
Our parents and grandparents were
not the prodigious coffee drinkers we
are to-day. Divided into individual
portions, the average annual con-
sumption in the decade ended with
1870. according to the National City
Bank, was less than five pounds per
capita. In the five years preceding
1895 the annual per capita consump-
tion was eight and one-half pounds;
in the six years preceding 1912 it
was nine and one-half pounds; from
the beginning of the war up to 1921
it was ten pounds, and last year the
average individual consumption was
twelve and one-half pounds.
Measured in dollars the annual cof-
fee bill has reached the substantial
sum OF $143,000,000 compared with
an average Of s75,Ooo,oOO just before
the war.
If coffee is the enemy of sleep
America ought to be a wide awake
nation:
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
pLAx FOR TRAVELLERS AID.

The annual play Of the Dramatic So
ciety Of the Kirmayer school for Boys
will be given At the Plaza Hotel on Tri-
day at $50 i n. FOR tlte benefit Of
the New York Travclgrs Aid Society
Among tho patronesscs are Mrs Hugh
Auchincloss Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. j.
T. Cotton. Mrs. t. u Cockcroft Mrs
John Henry Hammond, Mrs. Arson w
Hard. Mrs. l.. c. Jameson, Mrs Oliver
Jennings, Mrs. James Laidlaw. Mrs.
Church Osborn, Mrs Ernest Poole. Mrs
James r.. Sheffield, Mrs. w r. rrmbe
and Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb The officers
Of the New York Travellers Aid Society
are Mr.. William F'sllowes Morgan. Mr.
James McAlplu Pyle. Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Harris and Mrs. William Church Os-
born
The New York herald., 1922-04-18
The School Room Globe.

So many children in the circled years
Have fingered voyages or sought to
trace
Outposts in Zanzibar; where Shasta
rears,
or torrid islands where the wild seas
race.
With dreaming eyes discounting time
and space
They sailed the ocean lanes to alien
shores.
out past the misty rim with eager
face,
From Mendocino TO the blue Azores.
Then when the tides across their lives
had surged.
Fate Knocked their yearnngs through
dcspairing days,
And one whose restless blood had ever
urged
For Turing trails Is bound to narrow
ways,
While lie who cherished native hearth
and home
Far on the worlds high road is doomed
70 roam
THOMAS J MunRi-.
The New York herald., 1922-04-18

Seven persons were killed in acci-
dents on the highways in and near
New York city on Easter. five of them
being victims OF railroad grade cross
ing accidents. AS the elimination of
grade crossings over night is finan-
cial and physical impossibility. the
only way TO avoid such slaughter is by
care on the part<of railroads and mo-
torists. The fact that gates guarding
such crossings are frequently smashed
by reckless motorists running into
them gives a clear picture Of the folly
OF some automobile drivers