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The New York herald., 1922-07-15
New York Herald Bureau.
Waslington. ID. c.. July II.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YoRK Hn.AID.
New York Herald Bureau.
Waslilugtoa. ID. c.. July ~.
A strong rejoinder to the criticism of
the international policies of the Harding
Administration coming from the sup
porters of the League of Nations and
lieutenants II Woodrow Wilson was
offered by Secretary Of State Hughes
in letter made public to-day. which
he. addressed yesterday to Hamilton
Holt OF New York, president Of the
Woodrow Wilson Democracy.
Secretary Hughes's letter was an an
swer to a communication sent to him
on July by Mr.. Holt. In which he
contended that the United States was in
various ways Interfering with the activ-
charge, Secretary Hughes declared. was
without foundation.
In his letter the Secxetary made clear
the relations of this country to the
League OF Nations. the Treaty OF ver-
sailles and defended the action OF the
United States In making separate
peace with Germany. declaring that this
was service to allied Powers rather than
an abandonment. as Mr.. Holt contended-
Referring to the contention Of Mr..
Holt that the League of Nations could
have obtained the>~fesults achieved at
the Washington conference. Secretary
Hughes said that the important results
of the conference were due to the fact
that 1t was limited body gathered in
Washington and composed OF the nations
Immediately concerned.
II do not agree with your comment"
- tfsIx. - s..v< - Y<A
Conference on the Limitation of -Arma-
ments could have been accomplished or
the work could have been better done
and long ago had the United States been
member OF the league. do not care to
discuss matters which are obviously sub
jects of conjecture. but my own view Is
that the important results OF the confer
ence were made possitAA because II was
a limited conference. held in Washing
ton by the nations Immediately con-
cerned, and was not associated with
other enterprises"
Speaking of the separate peace. Secre-
tary Hughes said II regret that you
should permit yourself in your zeal for
the course you have espoused to say that
l had abandoned our late allies In max
ing separate peace with Germany.
Such observations will do your cause no
good The Separate peace with Germany
vas concluded for the sufficient reason
that it became perfectly clear, after the
most careful consideration, that the re-
omission of the treaty OF Versailles
IN suggested reservations would have
other result than the renewal of. the
former controversy and it's continuance
for an indefinite time
Secretary Hughes fatty declined to
comply with Mr.. Hollis request for dis
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
The Haunted House.

Folk tell that no one dwells here-gray
festoons
or pceling stucco dangle from It's walls.
And cobwebs drape It's musty. moldy
halls:
Within the crumbling caves. on sultry
moons.
a mate-deserted. mourning thros.le
croons
About the dusty panes that blankly gaze
Upon what was a gardens box bound
Where broken Pan beside dried pool
swoons.
But as dusk covers all with misty shade.
Dim. silent shapes slip down the gloomy
stair.
clad in the stately garb OF yesterday.
To keep strange VOWS that long. long
since they made.
AS. word,ess. they old Joys and gricfs
compare.
And yet Nobody lives here" people
CHARLOTTE BECKER
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
The Tracks Below Riverside.

The decisions of the Court of APP
peals establishing the title OF the
New York Central Railroad Company
to the roadbed occupied by its tracks
from Seventy-second street to Spuy-
ten Duyvil has immensely strength
ened the position of that corporation
in Negotiations with the city of New
York for improvement of Riverside
Drive. The contention of the city
has been that the railroad did not
own the land and might be ousted
from it. This contention the court
has held to be without foundation.
Hereafter the city will not be able
to threaten to oust the railroad from
the land as a trespasser. This point
is settled, and to that extent the Sit
uation has been clarified,
The action in which this decision
was rendered was brought by the
city in pursuance of the Hylan mu-
nicipal anti-6rporation policy. The
Mitchell administration had attempted
with every promise OF success to
reach an agreement with the rail-
road corporation for the electrified
ton OF this section Of the railroad,
the covering of the tracks and the
extension of Riverside Park to the
waters edge. The negotiations were
used in the campaign of 1917 to dis
credit Mayor Mitchell and to depict
him TO the voters as a betrayer of the
c,ty's interests.
Lad the Mitchell plan been adopted
New York city would have won a
great public Improvement, an inn
provement it sorely needs and it's
people greatly desire. But that plan
having been discarded by the Hylan
administration, the city must here
after deal with a corporation con-
iirmed in the legality Of its owner
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
More Seats on the B. r. T.

The Transit Commissions order
for the improvement of the service
oil the Brooklyn Rapid Transit sub
way and elevated lines is Similar in
clearness and exactness to the order
the Commission issued earlier in the
year for the Improvement of service
on the Interborough lines. The or
der leaves no loophole for evasion.
1t tells the company what 1t shall do
in the way Of buying new rolling
stock. 1t tells the company when
the increased facilities shall be put
into operation. 1t tells the company
where the new trains and the new
cars shall be run.
This explicit direction is one the
public using the affected lines can
comprehend. Passengers familiar
with present conditions can tell in
the near future whether those con-
ditions have been bettered. If. within
the period stipulated in the order, the
conditions have not been bettered
the public will know that the order
has not been obeyed and they will
know to whom they should make
complaint.
This is the kind of supervision and
regulation of public utilities the pub
lie wants from a commission ap-
pointed to protect its interests and
conserve its rights. If officials in
any public utility company believe
the rights Of the investors who have
put money iRto their corporation have
been invaded they have the courts to
protect those rights.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
Jewell to the President.

BERT M. JEWELL, leader of the rail-
road shop strikers, tells President
HARDING that there have been 104
railroad violations of the transporta-
tion act or OF decisions of the United
States Railroad Labor Board He
tells President HARDING that ninety
two different railroads are guilty Of
these violations. Apparently he sets
this up as defense of anything he
or anybody else among the railroad
strikers may have done or might
yet do.
There are three things to be said
Of this statement and attitude of
JEWELL. One is that If all that he
says is the fact the six shop crafts
would have made much more OF case
for themselves by staying at their
work, under the United States Rail
road Labor Boards decision, pend
ing rehearing on the findings of
the board. pending the submission of
the proofs of the railroad violations
and pending the solidifying Of public
opinion-the striking unions would
have made much more of case for
themselves that way than by deliv-
er:ng an ultimatum to the United
States Railroad Labor Board that II
must reverse its decision before a
fixed hour or the men would walk
cut at the stroke of the clock.
The second thing to be said of this
statement and attitude of JEWELL is
that, il everything he charges against
the railroads is So that fact could not
possibly justify his repeated abuse
and vilification of the United States
Railroad Labor Board because II
would not withdraw its decision un.
der the peremptory orders and bald
threats of JEWELL.
And the third thing to be said
is that, whatever acts the roads
might have committed, whatever er.
rors of judgment or of fact the board
|
the circumstances surrounding the
abrupt, arbitrary and defiant shor
workers course might have been, the
American people never could toler
ate from JEWELL or from anybody q
challenge Of the President of the
United States for his declaration that
men wanting to work must be pro.
tected in their legal. sacred right tc
work--must. be protected by all the
law enforcing agencies of American
government.
JEWELL and his striking unions
never will get et.anywhere with his re
torts to the President OF the United
Staes that venture into intemperatt
reproach and foolhardy insolence
The sooner they open their eyes Il
that blazing truth the better-it will
be for them and all that they hav,
at stake.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
BRITAIN STRONGER NOW
THAN SINCE ARMLSTICE
Sir Robert Horne Says Debt
Here Must Be Paid.

LONDON, July IA (Associated Press).-
Sir Robert Horne. Chancellor of tho
Exchequer, told the House of Commons
to-day that Great Britain was stronger
financially than at any time since the
armistice Discussing the finance bill
on it's third reading. he-said that at the
present rate of exchange England's
debt to the United States reached $685.
100000.
Il welcome the views expressed by
Mr. Asquitfi, namely. that our debt to
the United States is one of the solemn
obligations which undoubtedly we shall
meet. There. is no question about that"
said Sir Robert. THE request which
the United States made recently to con-
slider the funding of the debt and to
place it, as Mr.. Asquith said, on stable
and equitable foundations Is one which
will be completely met"
The bill passed its third reading
without division.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
The Latest Thing in Strikes.

1t is reported that the harem attendants
ir Turkey have struck for higher wages.
To strike is now the proper thing.
Not for your altars and your fires.
Or It'll the last armed foe expires,
But for whate'er to mind may spring.
You strike II in a mine you fag.
Or II on railway lines you labor.
In a jazz band You strike a tabor.
And oftentimes you strike a snag.
Even the Orient is not
Immune. In fact. they've gone the limit
They've hit the home and sought to dim
Il.
The home should be sacred spot.
In Turkey now. to distant borders.
In harems Of the noblest houses Oh,
The beys and all their scores Of spousei
Find no one to obey their orders!
The bulbuls meath the fig trees droop;
The houris on the divans incoming
strum guzlas much in need of tuning
The whole zenana has the Group.
They darn the undarned yashmaks left
(whatever darn" may be In Turkish).
The paste they get Is tasteless. murk-
ish:
The pilau is of grease bereft!
The henna's OF the finger nails:
The sherbet's pepless. pale. unpinkish;
Nargiles fail to smoke UP. Inkish
The ladies eye their lords. the males.
II they would bowstring any one,
or have soles lashed till victims yelped
They have to string along unhelped
There's no one else to start the fun.
And why? It seems ridiculous
That this disruption. these disasters
Are based on pitiful piasters-
For fifteen cents apiece. this muss!
There is no romance any more.
With even the lureful East succumbing
Next thing we know. they'll take tt
bombing,
And Gompers Pasha II take the floor
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
The Parade Defended.

To The New YORK HERALD: As Sec
retary OF the amnesty COMMITTEES which
organized the Fourth of July demonstra-
tion on Fifth avenue to which your cor
respondent John Cookson refers / am
greatly concerned with the unfair alle-
cations he makes against us.
To begin with. the inscriptions on the
Fifth avenue bus which our committee
chartered did not denounce the Govern
ment for keeping political prisoners In
Jail. They merely asserted the fact that
political prisoners are Still in prison
long after the war Is over. A typical
inscription was the following. which
stretched across the side Of the bus:
July 4th. 1776-rreedom.
July 4th. 19c2-i0o Political Prisoners
In Federal Prisons.
Mr.. Cookson has no reason to describe
the politicals as desperate" /. w. w.
Desperate" implies that they were guilty
OF crimes of violence. II Mr.. Cookson
has followed the news reports OF the
case he will find that the Appellate
Court has since reversed all the counts
charging violence on which the ninety
three l. w. w. defendants were con-
victed in Judge Landiss court In Chi
caga The legal status Of the prisoners
is now exactly the same as was that Of
Eugene " Debs. since released. They
are prisoners for opinion under the es-
pionage act. which has since been re-
pealed.
In conclusion I wish to say that the
conduct Of the persons on the bus was
not disorderly. as the writer charges
No one expressed a sense of being out
ragged, so far as we could see. ana
many persons signed cheerfully the pc
titions TO President Harding for am
nesty OF political prisoners which we
circulated in the crowd.
MATILDA ROBBINS.
NEW YORK July Il
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
The Light of Plaskett.

why the stars are hung fnothe
heavens no man may say. Yet since
mankind began to grasp the reach
Of their courses the imagination has
mapped playground fit even for the
gods themselves.
Only now the enormous double star
Plaskett dawns upon our knowledge.
1t is fifty quadrillions of miles away
bald figures which the mind cannot
comprehend. Something of their
meaning, however, something of the
incredible continuity Of motion. may
be gathered from an association OF
ideas.
Ten thousand years ago, as for
@ons It had done. Plaskett shook on
diurnal food of light, an illumina-
tion so vast as to be wholly beyond
conception. In that day and hour
neolithic man was still grubbing for
roots in the glacial marshes of pre-
historic Europe. The mammoth and
the aurochs still thundered on the
steppes. In that day and hour the
illumination from Plaskett- began to
spread in an infinitude of directions.
enc of which embraced this earth of
ours. This light Travelled 1S6,OoO
miles a second, speed which would
eirdle the globe seven times in a
second and in eight minutes leap
across the 93,000,OO0 miles Of space
that separates the sun from our
sphere.
Men began 20 gather into tribes,
at last to build cities. Strange tow
ers rose and decayed upon tbe for
gotten plains Of Sumer. The light
from Plaskett swept on earthward.
Through dim centuries the civiliza-
ton of Crete and Knossos rose and
fell into ruin. Assyria, Chaldea,
Egypt grew old and died. The light
from Plaskett swept on. The flame
of Greek culture flashed and went
out. The Roman Empire rose, ruled
and fell. Earthward rushed the light
from Plaskett.
Through the dark ages. through
the revival Of learning. unsuspected
even by NEWTON or LAPLAcE, that
ancient light continued to sweep
through the filter Of space. Yester-
dav Il reached us-a little, feeble
beam, ten thousand years DID, too
attenuated to stimulate the eye. but
clear and true in the lens and fash
ing a thousand messages through
the spectroscope. res, 4
Let those who decry the ultimate
possibility of communication be-
tween us and our neighbor planets
consider the light of Plaskett and
the human imagination which per-
mits US to trace its travels.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
SATURDAY. JULY Is. 1922.
The Senate Can Rescue Itself.

The United States Senate is in a
situation for which the majority
leaders are accountable. Nobody got
them into it but themselves. Nobody
could have got them into it but them
selves.
The President of the United States
with all his other pressing duties and
affairs, has on his. hands two grave
issues, the coal strike and the rail-
road strike, which he had no part In
creating but with which he must
deal in the public interest and for
the public safety. No matter who
got the country into the strike STU
alton, therefore, President HARDING
takes the responsibility Of seems
that the country gets out.
Yet the Senate leaders are begging
the President to come to their rescue
in the predicament for which only
they themselves are responsible
They cannot seem to see that what
the President seeks to do with the
coal strike and with the railroad
strike is enough to occupy him at
this juncture. They cannot seem to
realize that the President could dis
pose OF the bonus, for example, with
his veto if they should fail to dispose
OF 1t with their adverse votes.
But if the Senate leaders will at
tend to the business Of digging them
selves out of the hole they are In
with half the purpose and zeal they
expended in digging themselves II
they will find it easy enough to ge
themselves out. They also will fine
that they will feel good deal better
In their own self-respect and stant
{. good deal better in public opinion
for digging themselves out.
If the Senate leaders will drop thu
-McCumber bonus raid on the Treas
ury as definitely as the North Da
kota primary voters dropped Senator
McCuMBER himself, the hole they ar
in will not look so much like a bot
tomless pit with them hanging on
ledge part way down.
Then if the Senate leaders will
make it clear to the American publ
that unless they can complete ra
tional. sound, safe tariff bill befor
the November elections they will pu
the ldcCumber tariff measure over t
the next session, they will find tina
there is not much Of hole left a
all for them to dig themselves out
X that they have filed it in wit
common sense and are out on top.
The time has come for the Unite,
States Senate to rescue itself an
then send delegation to the Whit
House to receive the congratulation
of the President of the United States
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York---Fair to-day
and tomorrow moderate northeast and
east shifting TO west winds.
For New Jersey-Fair to-day and to.
morrow; somewhat warmer interior to-
morrow: moderate northeast and east
shifting to west winds.
For Northern New Englahd--Fair to.
day and tomorrow; rising temperature
In interior gentle to moderate winds
mostly southerly.
For Southern New England-Fair to-
day and Tomorrow; warmer tomorrow
moderate northeast and east shifting to
south winds. w
For Western New York--Fair and
slightly warmer to-day and Tomorrow
moderate northeast and east shifting to
west winds.
WASHINGTON, July 14..-Pressure was
high tonight over practically all sections
east OF the Mississippi River and along
the north Pacific coast, while a dis
turbance OF wide extent was central
over northern Manitoba moving east
ward. The temperature was consider
ably lower to-day along the middle At
lantfc and north Atlantic coast, and it
remained moderate in middle and
northern sections east of the Mississippi
River. The indications are for scattered
thundershowers tomorrow and Sunday
In the south Atlantic and east Gulf
States. and generally fair weather in
the middle Atlantic States. the lower
lake region. the Ohio Valley and Ten
nessee. The temperature will rise in the
lower lake region and the Ohio Valley
tomorrow and Sunday and in the At
lantic States from Virginia northward
Sunday.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
Hell's Kitchen.
Injustice Done the West Side by Ex.
tending Its Boundaries

To The New York HERALD: 1t is
about time that so-called wideawake
newspapers became aware Of the fact
that 1t would be well to curb the imagi-
nation Of their representatives with ref
erence to certain. portion of this city
which they ignorantly and falsely desig-
nate as Hell's Kitchen. re-+
The original Hell's Kitchen of the
West Side was situated in West Thirty
ninth street just east of Eleventh ave-
nue.. 1t consisted of a little shanty
which was the scene OF many disturb
ances and has been out of existence
more than twenty-five years. SO / was
informed by a real estate agent long
familiar with the locality
The term Hel's Kitchen was applied
years ago to a larger area by a certain
uplift association which was seeking
funds for schools to enlighten the inhab-
itants Of the district extending from
about Thirty-ninth street to Fifty-ninth
street. or thereabouts and from Tenth
avenue to the North River / learned
of this from circular asking for money
which was sent me by the association
A prominent clergyman in a letter to
the press took issue with the associa-
tion regarding the benighted condition
OF the territory last referred to and its
singularity as the rear entrance to the
abode of the unfortunate damned, the
front portals of which being possibly
reserved for sinful residents of better
sections OF the city.
The romancins reporters have from
f~~-- 81 f~--
fixed by the association as aforesaid.
even including Fourteenth street on the
south. Tho most recent libel appeared
in your paper Of July 9. on page 4, In
the article entitled "Drys Find 1t Hot
In Hell's Kitchen" cafe at Forty
seventh street and Ninth avenue was
mentioned as being within the confines
of the Kitchen and a reference to an
other cafe at 766 Eighth avenue, about
Forty-seventh street, indicates to the
uniformed reader that the easterly
limit Of the DEVILS domain is Eighth
avenue
This frequent characterization of the
middle West Side as Hell's Kitchen is
not only a slur upon that locality but an
insult to the great majority of it's dwell
ers. property owners and business men.
And no one having any regard for the
good name Of the city<of New York
would use the term as now applied by
newspapers. which ought to be amOng
the first TO condemn an expression in
dicative of lawlessness and immortality
Of the most abandoned kind instead of
lending their columns to spread the
slander. ]. II. II.
NEW York, July ~.
The New York herald., 1922-07-15
Affairs in Catalonia.
How the Spanish Government Could
Settle an Old Controversy.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Your ex-
cellent and illuminating editorial article
on Catalan autonomy. printed on May 8.
made deep impression in Catalonia.
La Veu de CatdlunyG of Barcelona.
which is the organ of the Catalan Ma
tionalist party and one Of the foremost
leaders Of modern thought in Catalonia,
in commenting on the article says edi-
torially:
THE fact that one Of the most au-
thoritative and best known organs OF
journalism in the world gives space in
it's valuable columns to such an accurate
and comprehensive exposition Of facts
on the Catalan problem is highly sig
nificant and Of the greatest importance
for Catalonia.
THE author Of the article shows a
perfect knowledge Of the matter and a
judicious foresight when he says that
Spanish politics are often difficult to
understand. but 1t may not be going
beyond the limits OF possibility to say
that her politicians may yet come around
to the Catalonians' view.'
1T Is generally known all over the
world. as the above quotation from THE
New York HERALD clearly shows. that
the Madrid governments and politicians
are obstinate In their refusal to deal
with the Cataionians to the solution of
the Catalan problem on terms Of har-
mony and concord proposed by the lat
ter. The lack Of comprehension of the
centralist politicians at Madrid is the
.t.- - -
settlement of this age old controversy"
The publishers Of La Veu dc Cdtd-
himya request me to forward to you the
page OF the issue in which the article
referred to in the above note appeared
which am leased to attach herewith.
NEW York, July IA. j. ". s.