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The New York herald., 1922-11-06
EVENTS TO-DAY.

soross. social and luncheon. Waldorf
Astoria. 10 A. Nj.
Margare: Corhir Unit. American Red Crosse
bridge, Waldorf Astoria, p. NJ.
Congress of State Societies, bridge, Wall
dorf-Astoria, i. NJ.
Government Club. meeting. Hotel Astor'
p. VI.
National Society of Ohio Women, meeting.
Hotel Astor. p. NJ.
Cultural Circle. meeting. Hotel Astor.
p. NJ.
Marine Show, Grand Central Palace. 1890
10 1880 7. M.
American Steamship Owners Association,
meeting, IL Broadway. T. NJ.
American Museum of Natural History.
lecture for school children, Theodors
Roosevelt 2:30 p. NJ.
Dr. Charles II. Brown, of Yale University.
VII lecture on what Are some oil tne
Fundamentals OF Permanent Prosperity
Central Branch Auditorium, 90 Hanson
place. Brooklyn. s:15 r. NJ
Bishop Peake Johnson of Colorado, viii
speak ON 'The Problems Of the MINISTRY III
Our Western States" Church OF the Inoar-
nation, Madison avenue and Thirty-ilith
street. . L. NJ.
Dinner 10 New York hotel men, Hotel Conn
modore, 80 =. NJ.
National Park Bank Club. buffet supper
and dance, Hotel Astor, II. NJ.
Junior League, Hebrew Convalescent House.
dance, Waldorf Astoria, 3 T. NJ.
New York Academy OF Sciences. Section OF
Geology and MIneralogy, meeting, American
Museum OF Natural History. S:ij +. NJ.
Unity Club, luncheon. Hotel Pennsylvania,
~ 30 +. NJ
United Israel Zion Hospital. benefit dance.
Biltmore, 80 p NJ.
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Meaning of q Seeming Indifference
to Smiths Election.

To THE NEW York HERALD: State
ments are made that this year Tam
many is apparently Indifferent to Al
Smith that Hearst is not enthusiastic
over him. and that Hylan scarcely men
tions his name. All of which leads me
to the conclusion that there Is con-
certed plan or at least tacit under
standing on the part Of these three
graces to convey the impression that
they don't care rap about his election
and that this attitude will create an in
different spirit son the part of the Re-
publicans and independents toward the
election OF our tried and true Governor
Miller. and thus, by the apathy Of Tam
many foes. AL Smith will have better
chance to be sent to Albany.
Let no Tammany foe be lulled into
somnolent state by this serpentine con-
spiracy to deceive Millers supporters. 1t
is the duty of every registered Republi-
can and independent voter to be on his
or her guard at this most important
election, and to vote to return our great
Governor to continue, the housecleaning
he has been so vigorously prosecuting
for two years. Beware of the wtles of
Murphy, Hylan and Hearst!
j. F. c. GROW.
NEW YORK, November 4.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06
delectable land where life was one
continuous happy dream.

delectable land where life was one
continuous happy dream.
The Fijians. Professor NUTTING
says, were not only willing to work
but proved valuable aids to the party
in all it's investigations, having quick
discernment as to the kind of speci-
mems desired and thorough ac-
quaintance with the marine life of
the reefs. The party went into
region inhabited by primitive Fijians
and had not single hairbreadth
escape to chronicle. A stranger, Pro-
fessor NUTTING says. can go any
where in the islands and his life and
his property both will be entirely
safe.
He found the Fijians a remarkably
fine race One Of their oldest and
most powerful chiefs he described
as polished gentleman of exquisite
courtesy, who made the visit which
Professor NUTTTNG paid him one of
the most enjoyable experiences of
his life. But he makes not single
reference to the nymphs and sirens
of wondrous beauty whom so many
literary visitors discovered. Pos
sibly he was not close observer.
He noticed, however, that people
aid toll in the South Sea islands.
He said that he worked hard himself,
as did the members of his party
This is a revelation which none Of
the recently returned travellers has
made. 1t is a matter too which
seekers after an easy life might con-
slider before emigrating to the South
Sea islands.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06

While sports hold prominent place
in American life and in our periodi-
Gals they have yet to inspire even an
approach TO a classic in Our literature.
Football produced fair to middling
play in "Strongheart" and rowing
brought out a rather interesting dra-
matte effort in Brown Of Harvard"
But we have yet to see the classic
football story. the truly great boxing,
baseball or rowing plot.
The material, particularly in foot
ball and boxing, is there-perhaps too
much of it. And the theme is not
beneath the dignity of our most
gifted writer's. RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS, OWEN JOHNSON and JACK
LONDON dabbled with sports in their
writings, but their sporting literature
was not on a par with their best
efforts on other themes.
Sports as subject Of literary
treatment beckon to modern realists.
There is nothing more realistic than
football-nothing more virile and
forceful than a Gargantuan Willard
topping before Berserker Dempsey.
But realists apparently have not much
use for sport. In their search for the
big punch they have overlooked the
biggest punch OF all.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06

SCHENECTADY, Nov. 5.-Science and
tagonistic. are not necessarily incom-
patible but are different and unrelated
activities of the human mind. said DR..
Charles p. Steinmetz. consulting en-
gineer Of the General Electric Company.
In an address prepared for delivery to-
day in All Souls Church at the annual
Laymen's Sunday of the Schenectady
Chapter Of the Unitarian Laymen's
League
Speaking of "The Place of Religion
in Modern Scientific Civilization" DR..
Steinmetz declared that there could be
no scientific foundation. OF religion, but
the belief must always remain the
foundation of religion. The negative
answer of science. he insisted. Is not
conclusive on the question of fnfnity in
time and space. immortality, God. &C..
and the question Is still as open as 1t
ever was. DR.. Steinmetz said in part {:
Religion may be defined as. dealing
with the relations OF man to superior
entities. usually conceived as individuals,
that is. personal God or personal gods.
Science deals with the conclusions de-
rived by the laws of logic from our
sense perceptions.
antagonism between science and religion,
making the two apparently incompatible
with each other.
Undoubtedly experience led to the
first conception Of superior beings. or
gods the forces Of nature personifed !,
the experiences In dreams the orderly
progress Of natures, which seemed to
imply a manager of the universe. With
our increasing knowledge this became
less and less satisfactory.
I'm the realm of science all attempts
to find any evidence of supernatural
beings, Of metaphysical. conceptions, as
God, Immortality. infinity, &c. have
failed, and with the rise of science the
field Of such conceptions has steadily
narrowed until. if We are honest. we
must confess that in science there exists
no God, no Immortality, no soul or mind
as distinct from the body. but scientifical-
ly God and Immortality are illogical con-
ceptions. That is; science had inevitably
to become atheistic.
"There remained only Revelation as
the foundation Of the historical concep-
tion of religion. But is there any diff
ference between the dream of prehis-
toric man, in which he sees wonderful
things, and the Revelation of Mo-
or Buddha or Moses or other
founders of religions. all contradicting
each other?
Thus there Is no evidence outside of
science for God, Immortality and similar
and there Is evidence against
these conceptions in science. and science
has Justified its methods and conclusions
by the work 1t has accomplished.
But 1t is very hard for man to get
along without a belief in these concep-
tions. We may get along without
~ tn A.1t N..A
self-conceit dislilxes to place so little
value on ourselves. our knowledge. skill.
experience, in short our ego, to concede
that all this is mercy a function of the
biochemical process of life. which ut
terly ceases and vanishes with the dis
of the protoplasm of our
body by death.
1.-The conceptions Of physical science
are incompatible with the metaphysical
The New York herald., 1922-11-06
LIGHT on the South Sea Islands.

Just as the world had begun to have
its ideas of the South Sea islands
definitely fixed by returning literary
travellers who have industriously pic
tured them as a region of romance
and easy living Professor CHARLES
G. NUTTING OF the Iowa State Uni
versity comes home and publishes
the results of his recent explorations
in the Fijian and other southern
Pacific insular groups. In the Iowa
Aiumnus he reports the islands to be
a veritable naturalist's paradise. but,
strange to say, he describes a popu-
lation which had something else to
do besides swimming among coral
reefs. dreaming under sheltering
palms and waiting for bread fruit
to drop.
Professor NuTTrNG's party brought
back boxes OF rare carvings, garments
woven by native craftsmen. six cases
OF fine coral and mass of valuable
geological and scientific data. This
is contrary to all precedents. The
world had the impression that the
chief product Of the islands was lit
erary material for new books upon
The New York herald., 1922-11-06
French on the Bill of Fare.

Banishment of French names from
bills of fare in American restaurants
has been recommended by members
Of the International Restaurant AS
sociation assembled in Washington.
Their colleagues in Paris feel no
alarm at the announcement. The
French chef has proudly held his pre-
eminence as the leader in his calling
for SO many years that his COM
patriots seem to be justified in think
ing that the permanence of his Ian
guage on the menu is assured.
French words have nevertheless
been gradually disappearing from the
bills of fare of American restaurants.
They still hold their place on the
menus of the most fashionable, pos
sibly on the theory that the patrons
Of these places have learned by ex-
perience what the various foreign
terms signify. Patrons recall that
the name Of Conde-after lie Grand
Conde-means that rice in one form
or another is part Of the dish, and
that the adjective Florentine is the
promise of spinach, while they may
be equally certain that the appear
ance of the word polonaise presages
grated toast as a garniture Of the
dish, whether it be asparagus or
partridge. But it is not given to all
who sit down to eat to know the sig
nification of menu terms from
glance at the card.
How many can be expected to re-
call, for instance. the language Of
the chefs with such clearness as to
know from the French words describ-
ing the eggs whether they are pre-
pared with kidneys, with sausages or
with chopped chicken? 1t is to help
such as do not know and do not want
to take the time to inquire that Eng
lish substitutes are already estab-
lished on many bills of fare.
French is still the language Of the
highest class of restaurants. No
other language than our own has
found place on the biz OF fare ex-
cept in the strictly national eating
houses. French cooks have not lost
their old rank, although men OF
other nationalities are to-day in
charge of many kitchens in New
York. Germans and Italians are nu-
merous, while Greeks have shown
such adaptability to conditions here
that they preside in many restaurants
exclusively American in character.
Yet the prominence Of the classic
French cuisine is not threatened.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06

in the State is organizing a Juvenile
court, 1t is most important that the larg-
est county, Westchester-New York city
and Buffalo having municipal not county
courts-should organize its court in full
harmony with the spirit of the new law,
which expressly states that Juveniles are
not to be dealt with as criminals but as
persons In need OF care and protection.
Miss Taylor with her experience will give
Westchester county the best county juve-
nile court In the State and its example
will have a profound effect thro' ghout
the State, and. In fact, throughout the
country.
But. say her opponents, "she is not a
lawyer" This Is all they can say. What
does this really amount to-? What is be-
ing lawyer? There is nothing mys-
terious or sacrosanct about it, 1t
means simply certain amount of study
and of observation. Obviously, best
proportion of this study would have no
bearing on the children's court work.
1t is no advantage then to be learned In
the law of corporations. to know law to
advise clients in complicated business
transactions. to know patent law, admir-
atty law or insurance law.
But the children's court Judge does
need to know the laws about children.
Certainly. and l venture to say that Miss
Taylor knows more about the laws of
this State relating to children than any
lawyer in Westchester county. For
years she has had to study these laws
daily; she has had 10 operate under
them. has had to prepare hundreds of
cases for court action. 70 find out what
Is adequate legal evidence, how the curl
GUS tangle Of completely and piecemeal
statutes relating to children can be made
to yield a useful result. She has seen
these laws operate from every angle.
She has helped to revise some of them
and to make them more workable She
knows, and knows thoroughly. that part
OF the law which chidren's court Judge
needs to know.
Further, those who have been privi-
legged to know Miss Taylor well. know
that she possesses to rare degree that
quality of mind and temperament which
IS truly described by the term judicial
the ability to think effectively and I'm
personally. to- listen patiently to evil
uence. TO give edcn factor 1tS own
weight. 20 search out the missing links
In the human story, not forgetting that
justice should be tempered with mercy.
One thing more. while Miss Taylor Is
not a lawyer. she does not 1out the law.
No one has heard her rail at the law for
it's delays and technicalities. She has
patiently worked her way through them.
Her friends do not boast that she is n
layman. nor claim that all children's
court judges should be such. They
simply say that when that very excep-
tional person is found, who is ideally
qualified for the real work of dealing
successfully with children. and when
that person also knows the laws about
children from A to y. and has worked
long, patiently and successfully under
them. IL is little short of ridiculous to
claim that the county should be deprived
of such services Just because the actual
permission to practice law has never
been sought or secured.
Let's have a model Juvenile court In
Westchester county. HOMER Folks.
YoNKERs. November 4.
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Embargo on Fuel Saving Devices.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
country Is so desperately In need Of
coal that an embargo has been placed
on several products to give coal the
right OF way. That is all well and good
as far as It goes. but II goes too far,
for the embargo also applies to fuel
saving devices! Is this not most illogi-
cal under present circumstances when
a ton of coal saved is as good as ton
mined and delivered? I write from per-
sonal knowledge. as ] am associated
with a company that manufactures fuel
saving equipment which is used extern
slvely wherever fuel Is burned in large
quantities. and 1t now has several ship
ments awaiting the lifting of the en-
barge on fuel saving equipment for
which industrial plants are patiently
waiting. +. Il. UEHLINo.
PAssAIc, N. j., November 4.
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Ruth Taylor for Judge.
Her Qualifications for the West.
chester Children's Court.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Why
should Ruth Taylor be elected Judge of
the Juvenile Court of Westchester
county?
First--Because she knows how to deal
with children who are in trouble. This
has been her career since she left col
lege. She has had continuous, varied.
and intimate contact with every phase of
child welfare. She knows the art of get
ting at the real facts. which rarely lie
on the surface. She knows how to listen
patiently, how to draw out the child's
point of view, how to trace back from
the things which happened yesterday or
the day beforehand which every one is
bursting to tell--to the tangled set of
circumstances, family troubles, compan-
ionships, or mental and physical ills
which made yesterdays explosion inev-
table. and which must be understood
and corrected IL further explosions are
to be avoided
Very few juvenile court judges in the
United States have had so large an ex-
perience as Miss Taylor has already had
in understanding chidren's problems. In
a word. she has had an ideal preparation
Second--Because she knows how to
organize and direct probation service.
Few people understand that the most
important part OF the work of a juvenile
court is not done in court. but outside,
In all parts of the county. In actually
helping the children who, clearly in need
of some kind of help. are allowed to re-
main at home on probation, under the
watchful and kindly oversight and with
the active help of probation officers.
This goes on for months, sometimes for
years. and its success or failure is the
success or failure of the court.
IL IL the juvenile court judge who ap-
points these probation officers. lays down
the plans for their operations. judges OF
their competency and devotion. and must
have the courage to dismiss those found
incompetent or unsuitable. The judge
must be their leader, Instructor and in
spiration. Nothing is more useful than
probation handled with intelligence and
devotion: and nothing lends itself more
readily TO abuse and absurdity.
It sometimes is only a smoke screen
behind which spineless timd or politi-
cal judges bring to naught the best
efforts of school authorities. truant Off
GERS, humane societies and the police to
clean up conditions which mean moral
ruin TO children. Miss Taylor's efficiency
in organizing the child welfare work of
the Department of Public Welfare OF
Westchester county is universally
praised. She would do the same for a
probation service in the Juvenile Court.
Third--Because, now that under a new
state law made possible by recent
constitutional amendment every county
The New York herald., 1922-11-06
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1922.
Two Fake Issues.

Whatever Democratic confidence
there is of electing AL SMITH is
based on two fake issues.
One of these is traction. The Smith
managers believe that the voters of
New York city still harbor the delu-
sion they had year ago, when they
elected HYLAN Mayor. This delusion
is that a Republican administration
in the State means higher carfares.
Governor MILLER and the acts of the
Transit Commission have filled this
piece of folly with the shot of fact.
And yet there are persons in New
York who still believe that HYLAN
and SMITH are their protectors
against certain mythical interests
that would raise carfares.
The Smith managers are stalking
success largely on their hope that
several hundred thousand New York
ers who were fooled year ago have
stayed fooled. That this is not a
tribute to the intelligence of New
York goes without saying. Every
body who has watched the doings of
the Transit Commission or read the
clear and truthful utterances of Gov
ernor MILLER on the subject of tran
sit knows that this city will never
have a single five cent fare, will
never be rid of the burden of trans
fers, will never have a subway system
adequate to this great towns needs
until the plan devised by Governor
MILLER has been put to work.
The other fake issue is wine and
beer. This is a fake, not because of
the desirability or undesirability of
wine and beer but because AL SMITH
as Governor could no more give New
York wine and beer than he could
give it free wool. If SMITH were able
to change the Mullan-Gage law so
as to make it permit an alcoholic
content in beverages Of 20 per cent.
instead of one-half of 1 per cent. the
Volstead act would still function
When the Democratic State platform
offered the voters wine and beer 1t
offered them the moon.
1t would be very strange if the
Empire State should defeat a man
of the caliber of NATHAN l.. MILLER
on issues faxed by his opponents.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06
Don't Burn the Pavements.
Election Night Bonfires Cost the
People Much Money.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The
assistance of the press and the pubic
is desired by the Borough President In
reducing the damage done to the city
pavements by fires.
This occurs to a larger extent in the
election night celebrations than at any
other time The total damage to pave
ments each year in the Borough OF Man.
haitian equals the cost of an average
school building.
Surely with the continual increase OF
school accommodation required the citi-
zens might be expected to refrain from
damaging so much of their own prop
erty. Burning up an entire school each
year as an immense bonfire would be
more spectacular but not more real
to the community.
JOSEPH JOHNSON, Commissioner.
New YORK, November 4.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06
In Cosmic Space.
The Revolution OF the Earth and the
Speed of Airplanes.

To TIE NEW YORK HERALD: How is
IL that an airplane Is enabled to make
the same speed, other conditions being
equal. while travelling in opposite direc-
tions from any given point on the earth's
surface: Also. why is IT that wind
or rain storm may be registered as pre-
vailing for hours and sometimes days
in O certain well defined belt or locality
II 1t is a fact that the earth Is rotating
on It's axis, as we are told. to account
for the phenomenon of day and night,
at the rate of 1000 miles an hour.
and Is at the same time travelling
through space at the rate of nineteen
miles a second in its great orbit around
the sun? w. r. WALLACE.
Fort MYERS, Fla. November 2.
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The Jumping Locomotive.
Critic Interested by the Story but
Not Convinced.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD In read
ing the account reprinted in your paper
Of the marvellous jumping locomotive l
must confess that it makes very in
teresting story. AS far as facts go, how
ever, nothing Of the sort ever happened.
There was nothing to make the en-
gine jump; it simply ran Off the end
Of the track at the abutrnent of the
bridge and according to natural laws,
could not run along twenty-eight feet
in the air in a perfectly fiat trajectory,
no matter how fast it was going.
Assuming the speed of the train to
have been the proverbial sixty miles an
hour. 1t would have velocity OF eighty
eight feet second. Gravity acting at
the rate of sixteen feet a second for the
first second would bring the engine to
the ground sixteen feet below the track
at the pier when the engine landed. pro-
vided the distance was eighty-eight feet
The article says that the distance was
twenty-eight feet. BY simple proper
ton 1t would have struck the pier ap-
proximately five feet below the track.
The cars didn't jump over to the
draw, though they were going at the
same speed as the engine. No expiana'
tion is given why they did not. They
were probably not as good broad jump
ers as the engine. The coupling be-
tween the tender and the engine breaks,
no one knows why. and the whole train
falls into the river.
Has the miracle gone far enough
Apparently not. The engine not only
jumps to the pier, owing to its great
speed, but stops there. A mass OF 15C
tons with a velocity Of eighty-eight feet
a second comes to an instant stop or
the pier. Neither the pier nor the en-
CINE seems to have suffered any dam
age. II. +. CHAMBERLAIN.
WARWICK November 4.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06

The saliva beside the porch
In frost has auenchcd its flaming torch.
Tho asters by the garden walks
Arc hanging dead upon their stalks,
The bulbs are tucked away TO sleep.
The roads in leaves are ankle deep,
The woods their saddest colors wear,
And winter whistles in the air.
The trumpet vines around the door
Their handsome trumpets sport no more,
But ever when the norther means
Rattle their pods like old dry bones
That swing forlornly to and fro.
Picked bare by all the gales that blow.
By wind and weather bent upon
Poor summers withered skeleton.
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1922-11-06

Russia undergoing the same salvage
operation, the sooner they will come
cut of otherwise ineradicable eco
nomic chaos, and the better it will be
for Europe and the rest Of the world.
And if Italy has escaped similar
receivership it has been only by the
skin Of its teeth and because of the
man of common sense and iron will
who has taken over the State virtu-
ally as dictator backed by Italy in
stead Of as receiver hacked by the
solvent peoples of the world.