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The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Lenine Back on the Job.

After "a retirement OF several
months owing, it is reported, to ILL
ness LEVINE has returned to his du-
ties as head OF the Council OF Com
missaries at Moscow. lie takes advan-
tage of the occasion to inject himself
and Soviet Russia into the Near East
situation by denouncing the attitude
of the capitalistic governments OF
Europe regarding the Dardanelles.
He is somewhat mistaken, though,
in assuming that the outside world
has bIockaded the straits to keep Rus.
sia in or out, as the case might be
The present blockade has grown
out OF the attempt Of his friend
KEMAL to get back into Europe and
TO obtain control of these straits. The
purpose OF the present activity in
the Near East is to keep these waters
open TO commerce and to give the
advantages OF their use for all time
10 every nation of the world.
There appears to be no inclination
among the Powers Of Europe to de-
stroy the economic life of the Black
Sea States, as LENINE suspects, or
to deny 10 them seats in the con
ference which will settle the fate o'
the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Ir
tact, Great Britain, France and Italy
have declared that the Black Sea
states should he represented because
they believe that a lasting settlement
of the controversy can he best Sc
cured by consultation with all the
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Ten Billions of Real Estate.

Natural pride by New Workers in
the fact that the real estate valua
tions of their city, as set up in the
tentative assessment rolls, have
passed the mark of ten billions of dol
lars will be tempered in the case OF
taxpayers who fear the increased val
uations will hit their pockets more
heavily.
A net increase on all real estate OF
S642 ,626,S07. making the exact total
S10,466, ,121,6 1927, is a huge sum. 1t is
more than the entire real estate valu-
alton of many substantial American
cities. For the matter of that, when
the various communities now COM
posing the city's five boroughs were
thrown into Greater New York the
valuations of all of them were two
and half billions of dollars. The
total seventeen years ago was under
five billions of dollars.
But very considerable part Of the
present increase is accounted for by
the new construction which has been
going on during the last year. In
creased valuations for assessment
purposes, moreover, need not mean
r1uch heavier tax payments to be
made on given property holdings II
the tax rate is kept down. But will
i: be and can it be kept down?
Municipal expenditures have been
climbing by leaps and bounds, and
with the cost of local government
going up, not down, there is always
danger to the New York taxpayer OF
both larger valuations and a higher
tax rate. In such situation there
is little encouragement for the New
York taxpayer to glow with pride over
his city's ten billions of dollars of
real estate.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
TUESDAY. OCTOBER .. 1922
Miller's Prohibition Stand.

The manly, straightforward refusal
Of Governor MILLER to let his name
go at the head of the Prohibition
ticket must commend him not only
10 Republicans but to all citizens who
value principle and honor in any
man. The nomination which he re-
lected would have been worth thou
sands OF votes from Prohibitionists
who resolutely vote their party ticket
straight year after year no matter
what the other issues of national and
State campaigns are.
Governor WHITMAN as the nominee
OF the Prohibition party in 1918
polled 1874 votes on its ticket The
Prohibition party, in fact. gave him
$4,000 more votes in that year than
be had gained two years before from
his nomination on the independence
League, American and National tick
cts. which, all put together, gave
linn only 1920. And it is reasonable
10 assume that on his record OF dry
enforcement the Prohibition party
would have given Governor MILLER
inore votes than ii gave Governor
WHITMAN when there was no dry
law to enforce.
But Governor MILLER's fine sense
Of honor could not permit him to
take Prohibition votes under false
rolors," as he expressed it in his
frank letter declining the nomina-
ton. In the performance Of his
sworn duty as Chief Executive of the
State Governor MILLER stands for the
enforcement of the dry law as he
stands for the enforcement of all
laws he is in duty bound to uphold
whether he personally thinks they
PRE- wise laws or unwise laws. But
Governor MILLER candidly tells the
Prohibition party he does not believe
in the principles of the prohibition
ret and will not put himself in the
POSITION where members Of the Pro-
Libition party might vote for him
under the mistaken impression that
be is in sympathy with their cause.
All New York can be proud of a
Governor who stands so straight and
true on a question of personal honor
BIS NATHAN l.. MILLER stands, al
though his attitude may cost him
thousands of votes offered to him
as a pure gift.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03

actual passage through the sea, because
IT Is also seen when the sun disappears
behind land horizon.
We note with interest that the first
printed description Of the green flash
that can be traced is contained in a novel
by Jules Verne entitled, lie Rayon
VERT" and published in 1882. Perhaps
some readers Of Nature can verify the
lett motif Of the story, taken appar-
emily from Scotch legend, according
to which those who have once seen the
green ray acquire the power of seeing
what Is in the hearts Of others as well
as in their own.
III the authors investigation OF the
scientific literature is as exhaustive as
1t appears to be The first scientific no
tice of the green fash was published
only in 1885, when Chevreul communi-
Gated to the French Academy observa-
tons made In the Indian Ocean by
Treves, who adopted the erroneous the
ory of Complementary colors. Accord
ing 10 Professor Mulder's own view a.
complete explanation is still wanting,
although he agrees that Il must be based
on the dispersion theory. But / would
suggest that his reservations depend al
most entirely on tho Importance he at
taches TO discrepancies IN the descrip-
tions by different observers and in their
estimates OF the duration OF the flash.
Apart from real differences in atmos-
yheric conditions that may be very con-
siderable II Is not to be expected that
men not specially trained in such OBJ
servations could tell with any degree OF
certainty whether an outburst of light
lasts tenth of "a second or two seconds.
Some Have described the flash as ap-
! pearing In the form OF n short line,
While on others It has left no impress
sion of shape. The author, who has
been a professor of ophthalmology, is
| not likely to have forgotten the possible
effects of astismatism. but even a per-
feet eye might SEQ point of light drawn
out into a vertical line if the eyeilds
have been partially closed to screen
them from the glare Of direct sunlight.
When seen through a telescope the
appearance seems to be much more
regular. the green coloration first ap-
pearing at tho corners of the cusp that
remains above the horizon. There seems
no reason to doubt that dispersion COM
olned with absorption of light completely
accounts for tho effect.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Clark of the Oregon.

II America had had a Kipling or
4 Newbolt in 1898 he would have
sung a mighty song of Captain CLARK,
who died Rear Admiral on Sunday,
and his ship the Oregon. Theirs was
an adventure fit for an epic; prose
could not sustain the weight of time
and storm.
Captain CLARK was no youthful
hero when he ran the Oregon from
San Francisco to Florida in record
time. He was 54-not as old as
FARRAGUr was when CLARK served
with him at Mobile Bay, but we'll
erizzled. He was in command of
the monitor Monterey at San Diego
in March, 1898, and when war with
Spain seemed inevitable he was or
dcred to the Oregon. He took her out
of San Francisco Bay on March 19
and began forced voyage toward
the Caribbean, where the navy needed
or thought it needed-one more cap
ital ship to match CERvEEA's fleet.
The Oregon encountered near the
Strait OF Magellan the kind OF seas
that battered the Aquitania the other
Day. In the strait she contended
with storm and fog while the looli-
out watched day and night for a
Spanish torpedo boat. The Spaniards
we're unaware that the Oregon had
started for the Atlantic, but CLARK
could not know Of their lack of in
formation.
So eager we're CLARK and his men
10 get to the scene OF possible battle
that at the coaling ports of South
America officers seized barrows and
wheeled fuel. The engineers doubled
their watches to keep speed up. The
plen in the engine rooms collapsed
! from heat. only to be revived and IA
crawl quickly back TO their posts.
Not until ne reached Rio de Janeirc
on April 80 did CLARK hear of the
declaration of war. AS the Ore
gon flew further north she had &c
watch for CERyERA. II CLARK hac
met him he would have fought The
Spanish feet alone; would have
turned tail and pitted his stern fire
against the Don's bow guns. III
could have opposed thirteen-incherf
10 the Spauiards eleven-inch arma
ment. Such strategy, said JoHN d
LoSG. who was then Secretary of thu
Navy. would very likely have re
suited in CrRvrRNs defeat and per
laps annihilation.
But the Oregon was fated TO NEE
the enemy with SIMPSONS forces
She reached Jupiter Inlet, Florida
after a voyage Of $4,000 miles in six
ty-eight days and was ready, afte
coaling. to join the fleet and shar'
grandly in the triumph Of Santiago
She had won race against time
war and storm. She had proved TIL,
staying qualities OF her type. Auc
she is still afoat and may remain
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Let Me Smile Brayely.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
My song is stilled-I have no heart 10
sing.
Age and the world press hard; the
day Is long.
Tired my breast that once would throb
with song
Thrilled by the fire OF youths unending
spring
And ], who raced with Life on Joyous
wing,
Plod the dull streets amidst the weary
throng.
And yet I would not always, free from
care,
Put on the cap and bells--souls grow
from tears.
Courage from tribulations draws its
breath:
take from life what have planted
there,
And IL no harvest greets my ripenine
years
Let me smile brsvely--even unto
death
" X, r..
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Special Dispatch 10 THE New YORK IIERALI
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. a.. Oct. 2.

Washington. ID. T.. Oct. Z.
Expansion Of the British navy, due
10 the troubles in the Near East, will
be put forward b. the Navy Department
when hearings start on the 1928 appro-
priatlon bills as a reason why the per-
sonnel of the United States Navy should
be increased TO at least $4,000 men.
This l. the figure Secretary DENLY takes
rs the basis for navy appropriations
The Navy Department is without def
mite Information as TO the extent OF the
British expansion. but that additional
men have been taken into the British
service is known. The assumption is
that the British have called into service
several thousand reserve officers and
men. making the total well above the
104, 900 mark. which was being main
tained when the Turkish trouble began.
Congress, It will be recalled. reduced
the navy personnel TO $4,000 men for
the current fiscal year. but only after a
fight in the House, during which the
small navy" group attempted to cut the
number 10 10000 men, a similar fight
is expected this year.
Under the 5-5-3 ratio established at
the armament conference Secretary Den
by insists that reduction TO less than
SO, 900 men puts the United States in an
Inferior position to Great Britain and
almost on a par with Japan, which, with
navy two-fifths that OF the United
States has $4,000 men in the service.
OF course. the 5-5-3 ratio is not yet in
effect. due to the failure of France and
japan TO ratify the limitation treaty.
The treaty has been indorsed by the
United States Great Britain and Japan,
although none of these nations is COM
pletely abiding by it. particularly in re-
gard to the scrapping of ships. The
treaty provides that ratifications must
be exchanged in Washington before the
treaty Is in effect.
The question OF American personnel
will come UP November 10. when the
hearings will start before the House Ap-
preparations Committee. Secretary
DENLY, Admiral Coontz, director of op-
erations, and other high naval officers
will appear to support their assertion
that the personnel should not be cut
below 96 900.
Navy and army circles have been
reused by the charge that the naval and
army subcommittee on appropriations
in Congress have agreed secretly to
further reductions next session of Con-
gress.
The charge is made in the current is
sue Of the Army and Ndvy journal,
edited by Henry J. Reilly, Brigadier
General of the officers reserve corps Of
the Illinois National Guard, who COM
manded a regiment during the world
war. Commenting on the alleged secret
understanding. Brig.-Gen. Reilly said:
THAT group of congressman could
contemplate any such means of keeping
secret details OF important legislation
and having il become a law without
Congress or the country fully under
standing It's provisions must thoroughly
alarm every American who believes in
representative government"
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Four Rich Men.

Income tax returns are Government
secrets, but every year the Internal
Revenue Bureau tickles public Curl
osity by issuing figures which allow
guess at the income of the richest
men in the United States and, indeed,
a guess at the identity Of the men.
Washington tells us that in 1920
four Americans had taxable incomes
in excess of s5,0O0,00O and that two
CT them lived in New York State and
two in Michigan. The tax paid by
the two New Workers was on total
income of s16,463,642. Guessers i'm
mediately conclude that the elder
MIR. ROCKEFELLER was one OF the two
but nobody knows except few Gov
ernment officials and their lips are
theoretically sealed.
When Washington says that two
Michigan men paid taxes on incomes
tctalling $13,456,335 every guesser
decides that one of the Michiganders
is the flivver wizard, HENRY FORD
His companion in woe may be some
other motor magnate, for Michigan is
full Of them.
These payers of huge taxes may
have incomes far greater than the
revenue figures indicate-incomes
from non-taxable securities. But,
even if it were assumed that any one
American had a yearly income OF
$50, 900 900, what would it mean?
Only that great tide of profit
flows to one point and flows out
sgain. 1t would be a good bet that
not one of the four men credited with
incomes of more than $5,00O,00O a
ear eats more than three meals OF
smokes more than so cents worth OF
tobacco in day. 1t would be good
let that none of them spends more
than a thousand dollars a year on
clothing; that none of them devotes
as much money to amusement as the
average $4,000 a year man.
They get it in hunks and they
keep it," says the unthinking man
who envies the big taxpayers. The
Bay of Fundy gets water 'in hunks
but II doesn't keep it. And in the
same way all great tides of wealth
flow back to the sea Of business. Mr.
RocKErELLEE' profits go into more
oil production, but he burns no more
gasoline than a man who makes $50
:. week. Mr.. FoRp's profits go int
automobile production, but he car
ride in only one car at a time. The
Astor wealth goes into more houses
but Mr.. AsToR can't live in more thar
two or three.
After all, the wealth OF the few
men who pay huge income taxes II
only a fraction OF the general wealtl
Of this country. No individual ha'
acquired billion dollars, but th'
wealth of the United States is three
hundred billions And in the process
of piling up that huge wealth-s'
great that all the gold that has beef
mined since 1892 would not pay 70
one-tenth OF it--no individual ha
accumulated a fortune so large tha
IN two or three generations after hi
death It has not been broken up int
pieces.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
The Hahn Defended.
Not POky Little Craft, Thinks ;
Former Member of Her Crew.

To THE NEW York HERALD: AS a
former member OF the crew OF the sub
marine chaser Hahn--S. G. 415--permit
me to make brief reply to the letter
signed John T. Tuthill, Jr.
Mr.. Tuthill is very much In error
when he says the Hahn is poky little
craft that cannot make eighteen knots
Our complement was fifteen men. with
still room for one or two. and vessels OF
her class saw service in Russian waters
during the war. Not very poky. that.
AS for not being able to make eigh-
teen knots, the Hahn showed this speed
on more than one occasion and the
other S. c. class boats can do 1t too.
Ex-GUNNER u. S. c. G.
EVERGREEN, October 2.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
COLLEGE TEACHES ART
OF INSURANCE SELLING
University Hopes to Make
Business Real Service.

New York University yesterday began
to teach the young how to sell life
insurance. There were sixty seven
students
Veteran solicitors who have gained
their experience by hard knocks might
look doubtful. but at the university
there are no doubts.
I'VE believe our course in life insur-
ance will turn out solicitors with a true
and sincere regard for the best interests
OF the public, as we'll as for their own
commissions, said the head of the de-
partment. I'VE teach our students to
examine closely and sympathetically into
the situation Of the prospects, Proba-
bly, most people that carry life insurance
carry too little. Such problems we went
to get at in advance. 1t is service in
the best Sense that we are trying to
teach.'
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Dredging for Gold.
Methods That Reclaim Minute Ouan.
titles of the Precious Metal.

10 The NEW YORK HERALD: How tiny
are the driblets of gold nuggets and
dust that in the aggregate form paving
quantities in a surface mine may be in.
terred from an unusual condition at a
mine visited in 1899. 1t was operating
dry dredge. the only one / have ever
seen or heard of. NO water surrounded
the barge on which the dredging ma.
chnery was set up.
More than half the metal caught on
the amalgan plates proved to be lead
in the form OF little pellets Of birdshot
1t then became obvious that this little
field on the mountain side probably had
been shot over often enough In the pre-
cedlng fifty years OF quail and rabbi,
hunting to have left tho topsoil strewr
With shot. II each shotgun charge had
been gold nuggets or gold dust it would
have been equivalent to twenty dollar
gold piece. But. although no more in
quantity than the lead, there was
enough gold in that ground to make the
gigantic gouging and sitting processes
profitable.
The dredge as mammoth machine
for surface or placer gold mining on a
gisantic scale first came into practical
use twenty-four years ago along the
Feather River in California. I. applied
the Heretofore we'll known principle or
the steam shovel by mounting electric
driven machinery on toatabie barge,
creating about the barge an artificial
pool and operating a clam shell scoop.
and later and more successfully an end
less chain OF small steel buckets goug-
ing out alluvial soil and gravel to q
depth as great as sixty feet below the
surface.
This method implies an initial expen-
diture of sum aroun1 100000 or moro
for each dredge. Where as many as
eighteen such giant machines are work
ing night and day in one group in q
field or along a river bank or channel,
rs / have seen them working, the re-
jected cobbles that pile house high be-
hind the dredge and bleach in the sun
constitute in few years vast area of
permanently useless landscape. hideous
to contemplate. especially IL one remem-
Der that sections Of it once we're beauti-
full vineyards or productive orchards or
lovely orange groves.
These dredges are going thoroughly
over the lands that the early placer
miners, using only pick and shovel and
pan and unable TO penetrate below the
water table, abandoned about half a
century before the dredges came. In
the one year 1853, when placer mining
reached it's world record for numbers
engaged. there were $4,000 individual
miners there in California. each wear
ing a red flannel shirt and working for
himself. and in that one year they
penned out ss3,ooo.ooO in nuggets and
dust. ARCHIE RICE.
NEW York, October 2.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
America To-day.

We have a myriad faults OF course, but
we.
Though as a race We wrangle and
dispute.
Yet ofttimos stumble on the hidden
root
That. pluclSed in time, averts wide trag.
edy:
And IL those older lands across the sea
May term our eager projects immature
or lacking in conditions that endure
still do they call on our humanity.
SO varied we in type so proud OF each
New revelation Of development,
SO noisy and so hurried in our speech.
But, realizing through all effort spent
To-day is only won from yesterdays
Experimenting on untrodden ways.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Thoroughbred Shows Endurance

Blood triumphed in the recent en-
durance test for horses of all kinds
in Colorado. The course covered 900
miles and the thoroughbred gelding
Norfolk Star, ridden by his owner,
Captain II. e. WATKINS of Fort Rus
sell, Wyoming, won over a field of
competitors which included half
breds, three-quarter breds. saddlers,
grade standard breds, polo mounts
and COW ponies of unknown lineage.
The test, which carried a money
prize of $4,000 and trophy, was ar
ranged along lines similar to those
of the endurance test held in the
East every fall. Sixty miles consti-
tuted days work, with minimum
OF nine hours and a maximum OF
eleven hours in which to cover the
distance. Speed counted 40 per cent.
and condition so per cent. at the con-
olusion of the five day period. Each
horse carried 200 pounds.
The experience Of the race was that
orses with faulty gaits, such as in
terfering or padding. had these de-
fects exaggerated when they grew
tired. The straight, true actioned
lorse was the only one to come into
quarters at night without cuts or
bruises.
Students of blood stock breeding
will be interested in the pedigree OF
Norfolk Star. The gelding was born
fr 1915 and was sired by Tim Payne,
a son OF imported Star Ruby and
Lady Bug, by Hayden Edwards.
which raced In the colors OF Lucky
JACK McGfNNIs of Brooklyn. Nor
folk Stars dam, Cheridsh, was by
Bannockburn, son of Hayden Ed
wards, out OF Betty Blaine. by inn
t,rted st. Baisc. The greotdam,
Sister Josephine. was b. Hanover,
cut OF Hypatia. by Waverly. Among
her produce was Nealon. winner Of
the $4,000 Suburban Handicap in
1907. Nealon carried the colors OF
G. T.. DuRSrLL, but was generally be-
lieved TO be the property Of the late
JouN w. GATES. who was credited
with with winRIns a huge wager on the
Norfolk Star may come to New
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
HEAR PERSHINC PARTY
VIOLATED GAME LAWS
Bay State Officials Investigate
Deer Slaying.

Special Dispatch 20 TEE NEW York Hnnp.
Bosro~, Oct 2.--Tho State Fish and
Game Commission Is Investigating a
charge that wholesale violations OF the
game laws occurred during @ hunting
party given last Thursday by W. Cam
eron Forbes, former Governor OF the
Philippines.
Numerous prominent army men and
civilians. including Gen. Pershing. were
engaged In the hunt, according TO infor-
nation received by members of the com
mission. II occurred on the private
game preserves OF Mr.. Forbes In his
hunting lodge on Nausion Island, or
Woods Hole Fifteen deer were slain.
tie commission has been informed.
Tho deer ecason has not opened yet
end the fact that deer wero shot on
private preserve does not render the
hunters less liable, It is said.
Gen. Pershing is on the island for the
purpose of writing his memoirs, having
gone there after his original plans were
upeet by too much publicity.
The New York herald., 1922-10-03
Miramandel.
Miramandel.
When the twilight's necromancy
Evokes its dreamy spell,
I am off on the Barque OF Fanc

When the twilight's necromancy
Evoies it's dreamy spell,
I am off on the Barque OF Fancy
For the coast of Miramandel.
There with a rhythmic motion
The banyan branches sway,
And there by the ancient ocean
The tides Of time delay.
The fragrant breath of spices
Is sense enrapturing,
And a melody entices
From birds of crimson wing.
Radiant rainbow showers
Drift down the warm monsoons,
And there are rapturous hours
Under the red-gold moons.
Visions of vain regretting
Take on the garb OF joys
Forgotten and forgetting.
Life seems as though at poise.
The sunset lights are paling;
Hark. it's the vesper bell!
Come, love. let us go sailing
For the coast OF Miramaudel.
CLINTON ScoLLARD.