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The New York herald., 1922-06-30

fessional drivers of the time at
Cleveland used to say that he pos
sessed great skill as a reinsman. I'm
like his brother, he took little inter-
est in track performances. WILLIAM
ROCKEFELLER owned many fine horses
that took part in public races.
Among the best trotters in his stable
besides his noted team were Kate
Sprague, 2:1S; Wild Rake, 2:22A,
and Urbana Belle, 2:20A.
Many other men prominent in the
oil industry have found recreation
with the trotters. MILLER and SIBLEY
of Franklin. Pennsylvania, had many
of the get of Electioneer and brought
CHARLES MARVIN East after Senator
LELAND SrANFoRp's death to establish
what was called Little Palo Alto"
because there were so many horses
there that had been born in Califor-
MIA. E. T. BEDFORD and his brother-in-
law, JOHN f. DINGEE, drove on the
Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn for
many years. and the former now has
at his estate at Greens, Farms, Con-
necticut, a half mile course.
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER never lost
his love for good horse. He took
pleasure in the latter years of his
life in the fine string Of thorough
breds and halfbred hunters and
jumpers maintained by his son, PERCY
A. ROCKEFELLER, at his Greenwich es-
tate. These horses are regularly ex
hibited at the horse shows under the
name of the Owenoke Farms. One
OF them. the seventeen hand thor
oughbred King Nelson, which was
bred by THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN and
is son of the English horse Sea
King by the Derby winner Persim-
mon, is considered the highest type
of cleanbred hunter in the United
States.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
July Weather.
Here Is a Forecast to Suit Any Rea.
sOnable VacatiOnist.


To THE New York HERALD: The July
weather forecast is based on the cycle
method, regulated to the summer sched-
ule by adding four plus days to the
relatively warm periods for ground
radiation. This was not done for the
June forecast, and the resultant error
was in temperature June 40, and In
placing the date of the severe storms Of
June IL four days too soon ("June p
wet"). Further than this the forecast
has proved practically correct.
Having made the regulation for
ground radiation, the July forecast will
be as follows; July /. generally fair
and warm; 1-3. generally fair and cool
(relatively cool mldsummer) "a. wet
and cool (local storms of correctional
nature centering about the 4th) to July
10. fair and cool 1912. fair and warm !;
1915, wet and warm (rainy weather
possibly commencing the 11th) :, 1926.
fair and warm; 26-27, wet and warm.
the heated spell extending to the 27th.
1t Is TO be remembered, that fair"
means generally; there are always some
correctional showers in the hills at this
time of year; the temperature. too. Is
considered as both relative" and sen
sible" The four outstanding events to
be regarded are the local storms around
the 4th of July. the rainy period ending
the middle of the month and the warm
wave starting in the third week and
broken by some bad storms at the near
end OF the fourth week A. d. ELMER
ROgTON Mass Jrua %
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
Blocking the Subway Work.

The president of the Long Island
Railroad. RALPH PETERS, calls the
attention of the Transit Commission
to something typical of the general
transportation situation here. In the
last year 5000 homes have been
built in the city along the lines OF
the Long Island. That already heav-
lily burdened railroad. whose COM
mutation service beyond the city in
creases by thousands every year. is
near the end of its rope so far as
passenger traffic within the limits OF
the city of New York Is concerned.
New York itself must look after
the future new population of Queens.
But the city is eight years behind
hand in the building of new subways.
Work should have been started at
the latest by the end of the war.
The Hylan administration has been
in power four and one-half years.
In all that time the lack of adequate
transportation has been obvious. The
Hylan administrator has done moth
ing to solve the problem.
The Transit Commission. created
by the State to do for the city OF
New York what the Hylan admins
tration failed to do, has been in office
a little more than year. The Tran
sit Commission has already prepared
and is ready to execute a complete
plan of subway construction.
The Hylan administration. which
failed tc do anything constructive
for the subway riders, still keeps the
obstructive attitude which 1T as
sumed from the birth of the Transit
Commission.
Chairman McANENY calls the pub
lies attention to the. fact that, often
as the Mayor has been asked or
challenged to produce a transporta-
tion plan which can compare with
the Transit Commissions, Mr.. HYLAN
has brought forth nothing.
Mayor HYLAN and his colleagues
are not seeking new subway facili.
ties. They are looking for political
capital and playing to rapidly thin.
ming gallery, They seem determined
to make the bad transportation sit
uation worse and shift the blame to
the Transit Commission.
But that blame cannot be shifted
when the people Of this city know
that the Transit Commission is ready
to go ahead and build subways and
that its plans are being blocked by
cheap politicians.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
Educating Deaf Children.
Nearly All Of These Handicapped
Ones Are Mentally Sound.

From the journal Of the American Medical
association.
In an address delivered before the
Child Study Society and published in
the Lancet, Mr.. Macleod Yearsley, con-
suting aural surgeon to the London
County Council. calls attention to the
common disastrous mistake Of regarding
the deaf child as mentally defective
Almost all deaf children" says DR..
Kerr Love: in his introduction to Miss
Martins excellen. pamphlet What the
Mother Of the Deaf Child Can Do" "are
mentally sound, and this is especially
true OF deaf born children
The deaf child Is merely q normal
child who has lost his most important
educational sense. Whether he has been
born without It or has lost It by disease
after birth does not matter. The hear
ing child goes to school at 8 years with
his physiologic education well under
way; but, in England. the deaf child
need not attend school until the age OF
Z. thus adding two years to his already
severe handicap.
In Scotland deaf children must at
tend school at 8; in England they are
allowed TO attend. provided the parents
have paid grants for them. In Glasgow
they can attend at 3. Mr.. Yearsley
holds that, IL we acted logically. the
deaf childs education would begin at g.
But 10 may not be possible to send the
child to school. and then. as Miss Mar
tin has shown. the mother can success
fully undertake the child's education.
The homo life is specially adapted for
early training. But the ideal method IS
for the mother and the teacher 20 CO.
operate in training tho child.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
sTAHLsCHMIDT VOTED HERO.
Mother of Gunrdsmnn Killed by
Tank to Get Medal.

ALBANY, June 29.-Sergeant Julian N.
Stahlschmdt. Bronx National Guards
man Of the Twenty-seventh Tank Com
pany. killed during the Memorial Day
parade In New York when he was thrown
beneath a battle Scared tank. was pro-
claimed hero to-day by tho board of
inquiry appointed by Adjut.-Gen. ]. Les
lie Kinkaid to investigate circumstances
OF his death.
The soldier met his death. the board
found. when he attempted to stop tank
which had run wild. threatening the lives,
of throngs who lined the sidewalks
watching the parade. His action. al
though unsuccessful, attracted the at
tention of other men, who reached the
driving compartment and brought the
tank to stop.
Gen. Kinxaid has ordered that the
soldiers mother be presented o medal
For valor' in commemoration OF her
sons brave act.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
Mother of Tonopah.

Histories, encyclopedias and other
books dealing with plain, hard facts
say that JAMES L. BUTLER was the
discoverer OF the rich mineral de-
posit at Tonopah, which put Nevada
back on the map as mining State
and made the fortunes of hundreds
of prospectors and adventurers who
early rushed into this field. But
many mining camps have their own
traditions which do not always agree
with statements Of history. Tonopah
is one of these. With no intention of
detracting from Mr.. Buffers fame 1t
can be said that tradition gives credit
not to him but to Mrs. BUTLER for
making the discovery Of the great
ledge from which the wealth OF
Tonopah came.
This classic story OF Tonopah ranks
with that OF the prospector's burro,
which stumbled upon nugget and
revealed wealth of raw gold, or
that OF the discouraged miner who
threw his pick against cliff and un-
covered a bonanza. 1t will be re-
peated by many old time prospectors
when they read the brief dispatch
recently sent out from Sacramento
California, announcing Mrs. Buffers
death at that city.
The Buffers twenty-one years ago
last April left their ranch in the lake
region Of western Nevada with the
hope of making a strike OF some
kind in what was then called the
Klondike district of Nye county.
They lost their way when about five
miles north Of Tonopah, and to add
to their misery and unhappiness the
burros which we're hitched to their
blackboard strayed away at one of
their camping places.
They searched five days for the
pesky little beasts. Then Mrs. Bur-
tER, exhausted from her wanderings,
sat down on the hill now known as
Mount Oddie, and by mere chance
she picked up and examined a piece
Of loose rock at her feet II cleaned
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
In Alan Seeger's Memory.
Pennsylvania Has Dedicated a Forest
Park for Him.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: was
very glad to see In THE NEW YORK
HERALD of June 81 notice OF dedication
of a tree in memory of Alan Seeger in
one OF the squares in New York city.
IL may be of interest TO you to know
that the state Forestry Department of
Pennsylvania. under Mr.. Pinchocs dl-
rectlon. set aside 200 acres OF state
land covered with virgin pines and hem
locks as a memorial to Seeger. to be
known as the Alan Seeger State Monu-
ment. II Is in Huntington county. In
the central part Of the State. A trail
has been cut through II and II Is al
ready being visited by large numbers
OF tourists and admirers of the young
poet. HENRY w. SHOEMAKER.
HARRISBURG, Pa, June 2S.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
TAFT TELLS BRITISH
u. S. HONORS PRESS
Cites Harding and Haruey as
Examples.

LONDON. June 30 (Associated Press) -
Chief Justice Taft. entertained at a
luncheon to-day by the British Press
Club. told its members the United
States had recognized the Importance
and power of their profession by choos-
ing Warren G. Harding as President and
George Harvey as American Ambassador
to England.
1T has not been the business control
of great daily newspaper" Mr.. Taft
declared, that earned Mr.. Harvey his
high post, but his experience and force
as an editor. His training taught him
to deal with matters promptly and force
fully and showed him that the best
way out of a scrape is through IT,"
The Chief Justice added that the Am
bassador and he did not always agree
politically. but that they were at one
in their love for their own country and
their profound respect and regard for
England.
Mr. Taft described the activities of
the Washington Gridiron Club. which he
said brought out all the weaknesses and
faults of public men. He pleaded for
closer adherence In the English news
SOiuiuilSN ~ ctAiSl SeotChiChtS VI AoSe
reserving opinions and legitimate con-
clusions to the editorial page. This was
especially vital. he added, with respect
to international matters. which SO often
were susceptible of misinterpretation and
capable Of stirring up pernicious racial
prejudices, which he declared was one
OF the greatest dangers Of the world.
Ambassador Harvey referred to Mr..
Taft's remarks regarding racial antagon-
isms, saying It was Just as necessary
that the English should shire Washing
ton, Lincoln and Taft with the Ameri-
cans as It was that the Americans
should share Shakespeare with the Eng
lish.
1T hope" said Mr.. Harvey. when he
returns to the United States, wearing
his academic gowns and laden with de-
grees and honors, he will have the con-
sciousness that he added great and
noteworthy number to the great company
of friends which England already has"
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
Tarkington's New Words.
A stern adherent of dictionaries
and form sends a protest:

A stern adherent of dictionaries
and form sends a protest:
ITO TIE NEW York HERALD: 1
cannot approve of your lenity toward
the phrase IT is up to you 1t may
be all you say Of it. but it is slang.
according to the dictionaries. and
these must be our guides.
"MoNcRIEFF BATTING.
NEW YORK, June 90"
If ignoring the dictionary were an
indictable offense we should see
dragged to the bar of justice some of
our most popular writer's. Indeed, II
would not take a grand jury long to
bring in true bill against the fore
most American novelist. At least
twice in his latest book, Gentle
julia" BOOTH HARRINGTON passes by
the dictionary to get what he wants.
For instance:
More middle aged gentlemen than
are suspected believe that they look
like the waspen youths in the mag
azine advertisements of clothes"
Our friend MoNCRIEFF BATTING will
look in vain in his dictionaries for
'waspen," hut none Of Mr.. TARKING-
TONS readers needed to seek a def
milton of the word, for "waspen'
defined itself Again, in the perfect
character study Of Mrs. BALcHE's S
misnamed and pampered cat. Violet
we find the author ignoring the die
tionary:
HE had been fed to such a state
that he seldom cared to move other
than by slow. sneering wavement
of the tai when friendly words were
addressed to him."
"Wavement" is not in the diction-
aries, yet everybody who read it un.
derstood that 1t expressed perfectly
the deliberate gesture OF. Violet. II
Mr. HARRINGTON can thus pretend
that dictionaries are not omniscient
is there not some excuse for lesser
mortals, assuming that they proceed
with the discrimination of the Indi
ana artist?
Dictionaries wind up by being
what the people want them to be. but
sometimes they are not abreast o.
the genealogical procession.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
DIR. johnson.

When DIR. Johnson trod the Strand
He didn't own n motor car,
Nor were there taxis then at hand
AS nowadays there always are.
He had to climb the attic stair
No buttons might he press arrow
There was no lift to take him there:
And buttons only were to sew.
And when the Doctor read in bed
He switched on no electric light.
But lit a tallow dip instead
And thus illumined fancy's flight.
He couldn't thunder at the Times
And next day see his screed In print
(But did at midnight hear the chimes
And paint the town a ruby tint).
When he would talk with Mrs. Thrale,
He couldn't use the telephone;
There were no numbers then TO fail,
No operators yet TO drone
The subway he might wait in vain
II hadn't started then to block.
lie couldn't catch a railway train,
Nor board a liner at It's dock.
He ate no grapefruit In its prime
Nor coffee with his morning meal.
The sundae in its pride sublime
Was yet its glories to reveal.
No fiappers tapped TO give him pause.
lie never saw movie show.
Nor Joined the crowd in wild applause
When Babe Ruth struck a might.
blow.
He wore n rusty fusty wig
And greasy shorts. and cotton hose
Encased his calvss-a queerish rig
Judged by the present / suppose.
Yet was he happy in his way
or so on Boswell we've relied
And there's no reason known to-day
Why we should not be satisfied.
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30

with virgin silver. She showed her
find to her husband when he at last
returned with the missing burros.
They named the site Mizpah, having
in mind the old Hebrew blessing
"GoD be with you"
This became the famous Mizpah
ledge. The mine shaft was sunk at
the spot where Mrs. BUTLER made
her discovery. BUTLER paying for his
first assays by deed Of twelfth
interest in the find. This mine and
others which he developed in the
district brought him fortune. To the
whole country Mrs. BUTLER always
was "Mother"-just short for Mother
of Tonopah."
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
William Rockefeller's Trotters.

The late WILLIAM RocKEFELLER was
fond of horses and for many years
had fast trotters in his stable. At the
time when he was laying the founda-
tion of his fortune he found relief
from the cares of business in driv-
ing his great trotting team, Inde-
pendence. 2:21A. and Cleora, 2:1SA.
Independence was a superb gray
stallion by General Knox and the
mare Cleora was jet black. They
made striking team, and Mr.. RocKE-
FELLER drove them in public on many
occasions in an endeavor to establish
record, finally placing 2:16A op-
posite their names as the result of a
trial at Hartford, Connecticut, on
May 3, 1888. He tried twice in the
following September to beat this rec
ord over the same course.
1t was the custom of the time for
gentlemen to drive their fine horses
in public trials. This was favorite
pastime OF Commodore VANDERBILT
and his son, WILLIAM II. VAxDERBuT,
and also of FRANK Work, the broker.
II followed the days business in Wall
Street, tho cares of which were for
gotten with the donning OF the buff
melton coat which was affected by
the road drivers of that day.
The records of Mr.. RocREFELLERs s
speed trials at Hartford show that
the race against time was made for
purse OF $50, which no doubt went
for a magnum of champagne. as was
the custom in those days. Impromptu
races for bottle or case of cham
payne between road horses. with
their owners driving, were OF daily
occurrence at Fleetwood.
When WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER and
JouN ID. ROCKEFELLER lived in Cleve-
land they had many spirited brushes
over the Glenville course and the
roads thereabout. JOHN ID. RocKE-
TELLER never had as fine trotters as
his younger brother. but the pro
The New York herald., 1922-06-30
A Highway for Trucks.

The Connecticut highway authori-
ties have begun surveys for high
way from Bridgeport to the New
York State line, which, if 1t Is con-
structed, will be restricted to the
exclusive use of motor trucks. The
route will practically parallel the
Boston Post road, and it is conf
IDENTIFY believed by the officials of
Connecticut that il the construction
Of the road is authorized New York
State will build a continuation Of
1t to New York city. The United
States Bureau of Public Roads is
said to be in favor of the enterprise.
Freight transportation by truck
has reached such volume that for
several years there has been serious
congestion on the Boston Post road.
1t is declared by Motor Trauel that
10000 vehicles make use of this high
way every day. or these 1000 are
commercial motor trucks. There Is
no indication that the number of
vehicles will be reduced; on the con-
trary, there is every reason to ex-
pect 1t will be increased. When
good times come and the industrial
plants in the country tributary to
the Boston Post road are running at
top speed the transportation prob
lem will be more difficult than it has
been in the slack times through
which the country has been passing.
The use of motor trucks in the
Connecticut factory district has cost
the railroads hundreds of thousands
of tons of freight The proposal to
build highway especially for the
trucks will bring up in concrete form
questions of taxation and franchise
rights that have already been raised
but have generally been ignored. The
railroads pay great sums in taxes
for the right to the transportation
business Of the country. Heretofore
the competitive truck companies have
generally escaped this burden. If a
highway for the trucks is built out
of the public treasures the railroads
will of course help to pay for its
construction and maintenance, unless
some way is found to put its cost
on its users.
Toll roads have fallen into unpopu-
larity in the United States, yet the
virtue embodied in the principle on
which they were constructed is rec
ognized in such imposts as the car
fee paid by trolley corporations for
the use Of public bridges and in the
tolls to be charged for use of the
tunnels from New York city to Jer-
sey City. Perhaps in some adapta-
tion of the toll system will be found
a means to distribute fairly the cost
of highways for freight. This would
meet the objection often raised to
use Of highways In one State by
gainfully employed vehicles owned
by residents of another State.
The New York herald., 1922-06-30

WASHINGTON, June 29.-Recommenda-
ton that the farmers of the United
States ''be encouraged to develop COOP
erative associations to hasten the stand
ardization OF agricultural production. I'M
prove the distributing processes. and re-
duce their COSTS form the foremost con-
clusion of the Joint Congressional Com
mission of Agricultural Inquiry In Its
completed report on marketing and dis
tribution made public tonight.
The commission says the situation OF
the agricultural producer can be ma
terially improved by a Standardization
of production of crops in producing CEN
ters so as TO permit more economic selec-
ton. grading and preparation of COM
modities in the producers local mar
kets"
1t notes that the Federal Government
has removed limitations which have
previously retarded the full development
of cooperative associations. but declared
both State and Federal Governments
should enact tho necessary legislation to
assure cooperative associations against
unfair determinations and to insure such
associations against unfair practices"
Urges New Grain Laws.
Economies in marketing and distri-
button, the commission found. can be
effected through development Of greater
uniformity of products, grades. stand
ards and containers Improvement In
methods OF handling by agencies in local.
primary and terminal markets which
will tend to create greater certainty as
to stability of products; establishment
of qualified and authorized agencies to
arbitrate disagreements between ship
pers and receivers as to value. condition,
kind. grade and quantity of commod-
tiles; development of adequate. organ
lied and correlated terminal markets,
and minimizing movement OF commod-
tiles.
The report says that the commission
is Of the opinion that Congress should
speedily enact legislation looking to the
regulation of future trading in grain In
accordance with sound constitutional
conceptions"
Much also can be accomplished In the
way of Economical distribution, the COM
mission found, by a moro systematic
utilization of warehouses to absorb tom
porary surpluses and enable distribution
more evenly adjusted to demand.
Trade Bodies shown Field.
On the controversial subject of trade
associations the report says:
Trade associations, soundly con-
ceived and organized, can be made use
full instruments for research with a
view to developing more efficient
methods of manufacture and distribu-
ton and for Introduction among their
members OF improved methods and prac-
tees. as well as for creating more
definite relationship between the various
agencies engaged IN production. manu-
facture and distribution"
The commission declares that con-
s,lmers also can cooperate to lower costs
of distribution and marketing by assun-