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The New York herald., 1922-02-22

all as shield against confiscation,
not of fanciful or false value but of
true value.
Nevertheless, the common sense of
the whole situation is that the own.
ers of the majority of the surface
lines know perfectly well by now that
they never can hope to see their in
vestments earn anything like fit re-
turn on book values. They know that
a great mass of the surface roads
generally, and in Manhattan particu-
larly, must come out of tue streets
sooner or later They know that q
hundred dollar certificate, incapable
of ever paying a dividend, would be
more useful to them and of greater
negotiable power converted into a
fifty dollar security or even a twenty
five dollar security capable of pay
ing interest with the regularity of
the clock.
1t is on some such reasonable and
fair basis as this that eventually
existing securities of doubtful value
can be exchanged for solid municipal
bonds. This will be good thing for
the public, now helpless to get fit
service from bankrupt traction utili-
ties, and it will be good thing for
stockholders and even bondholders,
now hopeless for the most part of
ever seeing their present securities
earn satisfactory returns.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
Old Times at Binini.
Rear Admiral O'Neil Recalls Visits
During the Civil War.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Van
Camuen Heilner's letter about Bimini
recalls the fact that I made six visits
to the islands in 1862. 1863 and 1864.
when as a young man was attached to
the United States gunboat Tioga, cruis-
ing on and in the vicinity of the Bahama
Banks.
On the occasion of my first visit, on
December 22. 1862. we found the Amer
lean ship Thomas jefferson aground a
few miles distant, near Gun Cay, which
is a short distance south of the Bimini
islands. She was under charter by the
Quartermaster's Department and was
on her way to New Orleans and had got
stranded on Gun Cay.
We tried to pull her off, but our lines
were cut, probably by the wreckers who
had reached the scene and resented our
interference The crew had refused to
work and we took them on board the
Tioga. and finally delivered them to the
United States Marshal at Key West.
The ship was got afloat on December
"a and was taken by the wreckers to
Nassau. where there was an admiralty
court which had Jurisdiction OF such
cases.
We used to call at Blmini for poultry.
fruit and fish when IN that vicinity. and
we had Bahama pilot whom we had
got from fishing schooner and who
came from Bimini. The little community
there was composed of Bahama negroes,
simple people. whose men folks were
sponge fishers or wreckers. according TO
circumstances. Our ship became well
known, and when we anchored there was
always a demand for a doctor, and our
medical officer often ministered to the
needs of the simple folks, who were
always most grateful. and In return
gave us fruit and fish and conch pearls
when they had any.
on July 6. 1868. while cruising on the
Little Bahama Bank. on the lookout for
blockade runners. we came across
Prussian bark named the Samuel. which
was hard and fast ashore and had been
abandoned by her crew. She was loaded
with sugar and her fore and main masts
were gone and her rudder was disabled
and she was half full OF water. We
went on board to look around, but there
was nothing to indicate where she had
come from except her cargo of sugar.
Her crow probably had been picked up
by some passing vessel or had landed on
one Of tho Bahama islands. as her boats
were gone.
We helped ourselves TO some barley
which was the only thing worth taking.
We then ran down to Bimini. where our
former pilot was living. and our captain,
who was well known to the islanders.
went on shore. when a number OF the
people gathered around him. saying they
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Senator Frank b. Willis OF Ohio will speak
at the Washington's Birthday memorial cello
bration OF the Sons of the Revolution in the
state or New York, Carnegie Hall. IL A. NJ.
Bishop william T. Manning Will speak at
the annual dinner of the Sons of the Revolu-
tion. Hotel Plaza, p. NJ.
Bishop Frederick Burgess will preach at
the commemoration exercises of the Sulgravs
Institution, st. Pauls Chapel, Broadway and
Fulton street. noon.
Washington's Headquarters Associa ion.
meeting. Jumel mansion. 162d street ana
Edgecomb avenue, p. NJ.
Bishop Thomas T.. Molloy will pontificate
at the annual requiem mass. Long Island
Council. Knights of Columbus, st. James
Procathedral, 10 A. NJ.
Bishop Malloy will be chief guest at re-
ception of the council, Twenty-thrd Regi
ment Armory. Bedford and Atlantic avenues.
Brooklyn. 80 Z. NJ.
Kings County Volunteer Firemen's Asso-
citation. thirty-first annual parade. Pierre
pont and Henry streets TO Clinton avenue,
Brooklyn. beginning II A. NJ.
Brace Memorial Newsboys' House. annual
Washington's Birthday celebration and din.
ner, pa William street. I =. M.
Delta Upsilon Associated Clubs. supper
dance, Hotel Biltmore, $3.50 T. M.
Col William Barclay Parsons viii speak at
a Washngton's Birthday festival service,
Church of the Holy Communion, Sixth
nue and Twentieth street. II A. NJ
China day dinner. Hotel Commodore.
p. NJ.
Bishop John j. Dunn will pontficate at
n mass In honor OF deceased members of
New York Chapter. knights of Columbus St
Patrick's Cathedral 10:30 A. NJ.
Memorial mass for deceased members OF
the Holy Name Society OF the Police Depart
ment, 81. Vincent Ferrer's Church. Lexing-
ton avenue and Sixty-sixth street, 10 A. NJ.
Bishop william L. Manning will speak at
the annual meeting of the brotherhood OF ST.
Andrew Synod House, Cathedral OF st. John
the Divine. 10:30 A. NJ.
New York Southern Society, annual Dixie
dinner, Hotel Astor. =. NJ.
American Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical Engineers, meeting. Engineering So
cieties Building. 90 West Thirty-ninth street,
10 A. NJ. and p. NJ; dinner, Hotel Penn
sylvania. 7:15 p. NJ.
Louis II. Anspacher will lecture on Epoch
making Views of Life" Town Hall. 123
West Forty-third street, IL a. M.
Lavinia s. Meday will speak on Memories
Making Views of Life" Town Hall, 12S
sion, p. NJ.
Grand Consistory OF the State Of New Yort,
meeting, Harlem Masonic Temple. 1880
A. NJ.
Alumne Of Hunter College. luncheon.
p. NJ.
Police Lieutenants Association, dinner.
Waldorf-Astoria, +. M
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
Honest College Men and Women.

For twenty-five years the Univer-
sity of Michigan has been lending
money to deserving boy and girl stu
dents, and the managers OF the loan
funds are able to say that mot one
cent has ever been lost by willful
failure of the borrower to pay"
The money is lent principally to
boys and girls who are working
their way through the university
schools. The funds are managed by
the treasurer of the university, who
is guided in their distribution by the
recommendations of the deans. No
single loan of more than $10G is
made, and the borrower usually binds
himself or herself to pay the debt
with interest at per cent. inside of
a year after graduation.
The students who borrow this
money are, of course, of a picked
class; they are serious and hard
working; by their conduct they have
won the confidence of their instruc-
tors. They are not typical Of youths
who go to college merely because it
is the proper or desirable thing to
do. Such honest and conscientious
students form an important part of
the undergraduate body in every uni
versity in the country.
The public hears little about these
students while they are in college.
They do not have time to do the
things that get college students
names in the newspapers. The pub
lie does hear about them in the later
parts of their lives, for the honesty
pluck, determination, industry and
sticktoitiveness they display in get
ting their educations put them in the
front rank of useful citizens when
they leave school work for life work.
When the habits, practices and
manners of college students are
again denounced, as they inevitably
will be denounced, a reservation
should be made for the students
whose sense of honor is preserved
in the fine records of the University
of Michigan loan funds, records
which might be matched at many
other great seats of learning.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
After the Assassination.
Wilkes Booth Described as Pausing
TO Address the Audience.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Having
in my possession an original copy OF
THE New YORK HERALD of Sunday, April
16. 1865, giving. the story of the assas-
slnation Of President Lincoln I was Gu
rious to look 1t over in view of the ques-
tion as to whether John Wilkes Booth
said "Sic semper tyrannis." I found in
It the following:
with one leap he planted himself on
the stage and flourished dagger, turned
and faced the audience shouting Sic
semper tyrannis.' also The South is
avenged in tone sufficiently distinct
to be heard in all parts of the theatre"
SO maybe those in the audience heard
John Wilkes Booths cry II those on the
stage did not. Mrs. JOHN r. CowLEs.
WANTAGH, February 21.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
then shut up in debtors prison,

then shut up in a debtors prison,
contemporaneous testimony tells.
OF WAsHINGToN's sense of humor,
one who reads his dispatch to Con
gress, comparing fault finding gen
tlemen in armchairs with real
patriots shivering on the bleak slopes
of Valley Forge, or the letter to
Colonel REED, when in Boston the
premature salvos of the British and
Tories revealed their misunderstand-
ing of the hauling down of the
crossed flag at Cambridge and the
raising of the thirteen striped flag,
critical readers know well. WASH
INGToN enjoyed joke. Indeed, while
in outward mien and methods, with
perhaps extreme formality of dress
and manners in the one case and easy
nonchalance in the other, the two
men differed greatly to the eye, they
were in soul one.
But enough of the past. What
voices sound out for the present?
What lessons for the hour? Surely
these are plain enough.
While thankful for what has been
settled in the conference of nations
in the city named after our chief, was
it not in a large sense done at the
call of WASHINGTON, who said: LET
rs erect a standard to which the
good and honest may repair? In
still more generous invitation he
besought Americans to "impart all
the blessings we possess Or ask for
ourselves to the whole family of
mankind" Did he not possess true
democracy of soul and action?
Yet with WASHINGTON old expert
ence attained to prophetic strain
when he wrote: ut is our true policy
to steer clear of permanent alliances
with any portion of the foreign
world"-to have with foreign nations
"as little political connection as pos
sible." Here in 1922 is fresh truth
from ancient experience. Brother
hood with all but political alliance
with none
To the average man or woman, or
boy or girl, what is WAsHINGToN's
message? No psychoanalysis, meta
physics or esoteric philosophy is
needed here. Everything lies on the
surface. GEORGE WASHINGTON, the
half orphan boy, had to struggle 20
support his family and even to earn
his own living, and he did both. Yet
deep freezing poverty made brave
his youth" Hard work, faithfulness,
honesty, self-control perseverance
were his. Out of the common carbon
of character was this fawless dia-
mond crystalliZed. 1t was because he
made his own opportunities that men
saw in him initiative and called him
to high station. Now the worlG
waits for men like him, called and
gifted not by advantage of birth or
wealth but by the right use Of such
talents as those which our Maker
gives to all.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
Tractors on the Farm.
Effect on Agriculture Of the Elimi-
nation of the Horse.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Before
the advent of the tractor the American
farmer was handicapped in production
mule and the small capacity of the
horse drawn farm implements. The up
to date tractor with its enormous draw
bar power is particularly adapted to the
long bouts on the large prairie farms
of the middle West and of the North
west. One man driving tractor can
do as much plowing, cultivating or seed
ing as half dozen men formerly could
do driving horses.
The tractor calls for money running
into the thousands for the original
equipment and for much cash for gas,
oil and repairs while working. The
horse produces his own corn, oats and
hay and reproduces himself.
The tractor by displacng the horse
has closed one of the home markets for
the farmers, who sold their corn, oats
and hay to feed the horse and saved
transportation to the markets. The
acreage formerly used to produce food
for the horse is now free to create food
for man.
1t therefore follows that the tractor
has enormously increased the acreage
planting and the production of the
farmers. With our vast fertile and pro-
ductive prairies, power machinery put
into the hands of the many unguided
individual farmers will shortly fill all
markets with such an enormous guam
tity of all food products that the same
cannot be sold at the railroad stations
near to the farms at any price, how
ever small. and a complete stagnation
Of the farm industry. except in certain
sections near cities, will result.
Shall the American agriculturlst. the
farmer Of enterprise. the producer OF
quality and Of quantity be ruined and
eliminated by excess production brought
about by too much acreage planting
through lack of intelligent guidance?
VIII our Congress wait until the
whole farm industry is bankrupt before
giving intelligent advice to the Ameri-
can farmer? EDWIN McKNrGHr.
MEDINA February 81.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
BROOKLYN, February 81.
Financial Problem Of the Nobel Prize.

From the Christidn Science Monitor.
II would perhaps be wise for Nobel Prize
winners OF certain countries to cash In their
awards and then hold the sums for the days
OF better exchange. There is the case of
Walter Nernst of Berlin, for Instance. In
accordance with the will OF Alfred Nobel
the prize money must be paid In Swedish
kroner. Consequently when Herr Nernst
cashed in his kroner. which In normal times
would have amounted TO 10000 marks he
received b.S3O.4 marks. Anatole France
received 37s,11t francs. In Scandinavia the
effects were disturbing. The Peace Prize.
for instance, was divided between Brantlng
OF Sweden, who received G0,7s6 Swedish
kroner. and Lange of Norway, who re-
ceived 1oo.473 Norwegian kroner. The Nobel
committee. II is rumored, In somewhat wor-
ried over these absurd deflations and in
flations of the prizes.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
Lost Washington Diary Comes to Light.
Librarian Discovers Record UP to Day Before Father
of His Country Passed Away.

to turn his attention to the growing
crops on his plantations and to fisheries
which he owned along the banks of the
Potomac These duties, with the har-
vesting of the crops, occupied his atten-
tlon through the summer and autumn.
On July 4. 1899, he celebrated Inde-
pendence Day by attending a banquet
at Kemps Tavern in Alexandria, given
In his honor by the citizens of the town.
A few days previous the Chief Justice OF
the United States and a distinguished
party OF friends dined with the Wash
ington family at Mount Vernon.
Wrote His VIII.
The entire day of July was spent In
writing his last will, which consisted Of
twenty mine pages OF manuscript. all Of
which he wrote himself. affiying his sig
ma ture at the bottom OF each page.
In November, 1899, about six weeks
before his death, he noted In his diary
the fact that he had spent two days
making a resurvey of one of his planta-
tions. The last few entries refer mainly
to the weather.
On December 10, while riding, he
caught the cold which resulted two doys
later in his death. He was not Ill enough
the following day. December 1S. how
ever, to prevent his writing in the diary,
and he made the following record:
Morning showing and about three
inches deep. Wind at northeast and
mercury at 80. Continued showing
until o'clock, and about 1t became
perfectly clear; wind in the same
place, but not hard.
This was the last entry of the diary
and, Mr.. Powell said. was the last piece
of writing executed by him. Washing
ton became seriously i'll between and
O'Clock the next morning and his death
occurred that night.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
The Roma Horror.

The tragedy of the ZR-2 has been
repeated in the destruction of the
Roma. This time, mingled with the
horror, is an overwhelming regret
born of the knowledge that it need
not have happened.
In the case of the ZR-2 we bought
a dirigible-which we did not need
from Great Britain. We filled it with
hydrogen gas, although the non-in-
fiammable helium had been produced
in the United States in commercial
quantities. And then the bag Of tho
ZR-2 exploded and cast it's wreck and
it's dead into the Humber.
In the case of the Roma we went
shopping overseas again, this time in
Italy, and bought an airship which
we needed still less than we needed
the ZR-2. We filled it with helium,
the gas that cannot take fire or ex-
plode. And then-it seems incred-
ible, but the damning fact remains
we took the helium out and replaced
it with hydrogen. What happened
over the Humber happened again over
Hampton Roads: explosion, flames
and death.
All the lessons of August were for
gotten by February. In six months
the Navy Department unlearned all
the grim wisdom purchased in Eng
land at the price Of sixty lives.
The dispatches say that the helium
was removed from the Roma because
it was all the helium that the navy
owned. AS if that were an excuse
for sending our nel into the air
in an internal machine! THE New
YORK HERALD had this to say about
dirigibles last August, two days
after the destruction of the ZR-2:
eff this country is going in for
dirigibles it will be better for it to
make its own. Let us use American
engines, bodies. bags and gas. And
let the gas be helium. II we can't
afford helium we can't afford dirigi-
bles. Least of all can we afford,
whatever the condition of the Treas
ury, to risk the lives of our fighters
unnecessarily. The tragedy on the
Humber ought to be a lesson"
It ought to have been a lesson If
anything in the world could be a
lesson. But evidently to stupidity of
the first order no lesson is impossi-
BILE to forget.
Has America enough of the ac-
cursed Zeppelin now? We have had
two and they are only memories of
death and shame.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
The Winter Hills.

Serene they raise their affairs 10 the sky.
Upon their heads bright diadems of
snow,
And though the valley lying far be-
low
Resounds with traflc's din. though
shrill and high
The voice OF trade rings out with clam
orous cry.
Majestic still in dawn or even glow
In peace their watch they keep, and
watching so,
Silent the while, they seem to prophesy.
Look up from earth, and from It's
noise and strife
BE ye, like us, forever wholly free
Ours is the secret OF n larger life.
Gladly, oh gladly, will we give 1t thee
He finds n recompense for all his ills
Who lifts his eyes" say the eternal
hills.
pLisAprru SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1922.
Playing Safe?

What is the matter with Senator
FRELINGHUYsEN? Why doesn't he
come out into the open and range up
for or against the bonus? New Jer-
sey especially would like to know
where he stands, and so would the
whole country like to know where
ne stands. Can 1t be that Senator
FRELINGHUYsEN is playing safe?
Perish the thought! JOE FRELING-
HUYsEN is much too brave a man
for that.
The New York herald., 1922-02-22
Impudence to the President.

In his brazen bonus message to
the language of command and arro-
gance, Commander MAoNIDER Of the
American Legion, while giving his
impudent orders to the President of
the United States, saw fit to make
the following gross misstatement
of fact:
THE negligible minority in oppo-
siton can be traced in nearly every
case to certain selfish interests in
trenched in great financial centers
who have the most to lose by defeat
and who would profit most by vic
tory"
II there is one thing that is as
clear as sunshine on the record 1t is
that the uprising against the bunus
raid is nationwide. In the fast grow
ing opposition to it there Is no class
distinction, no geographical division,
no industrial or business discrimina-
tion. There is even no partisan
alignment.
1t is characteristic OF the tactics
of the bonus raiders that MAcNIDER
stoops to the demagogic trick of at
tributing the bonus opposition to the
great financial centers" when there
has been no stronger and more in
dignant opposition to the bonus raid
than that of the great agricultural,
mining and industrial States. All
the producing forces of the country
are at one with the American con-
science and character which are
fighting this bonus wrong against
the nation as aroused American
ism knows how to fight national
wrong.
1t was Senator BoBAH, Republican,
of the agricultural and mining State
of Idaho, who first stood UP in the
United States Senate to repudiate
the bonus loot and denounce the
bonus promoters. 1t was Senator
SHIELDS, Democrat, of the agricul-
tural State of Tennessee, who the
very day MACNIDER's 8 insolent message
reached President HARDING sent from
the Capitol to his own State an
able and powerful letter to puncture
MACNIpEB's pretensions and to point
in detail what dangerous thing the
bonus was to American interests and
what an abhorrent thing to Ameri-
can principle and spirit.
Likewise IL is Senator FERNAIp.
Republican. OF Maine who stands
with Senator GLASS of Virginia, a
Democrat, against the bonus.
BRANpBGEE of Connecticut and CoLT
OF Rhode Island, Republicans, stand
with DIAL OF South Carolina,
Democrat: WADswoRTH Of New York,
EDGE of New Jersey, PEPPER of Penn.
sylvania, WAaHEN of Wyoming and
NELSON OF Minnesota, Republicans,
with UNDERWOOD of Alabama and
WILLIAMS of Mississippi, Democrats.
or the States represented by these
Senators, unbending in their resis-
tance to the opportunities of the
bonus propagandists and contemptu-
Gus of the threats of political repris-
ais upon them If they do not support
the bonus scheme, only New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, while
all great agricultural and Industrial
States, could be said to be at or near
the country's financial center. But
as matter of fact Senator CALDER
OF New York and Senator
FREuNGHUYsEN of New Jersey have
been wabblers on the bonus question
in striking and distressing contrast
with the straight and splendid stand
OF the men, Democrats and Republi.
cans, THE NEW YORK HERALD has
enumerated from agricultural and
The New York herald., 1922-02-22

industrial States like Maine, Connec-
ticut and Rhode Island of New Eng
land; Minnesota, Idaho and Wyom-
ing of the West; Virginia, Tennessee,
South Carolina, Alabama and Missis-
sippi of the South.
1t is a selfish minority, though well
organized as it is noisy and "a
pacious, that is for the bonus. The
country will have none of it.