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The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Martyrs to the X Rays.

One OF the last of the pioneer
X ray specialists of America passed
with the recent death Of DR.. HEBER
ROBERTS at Belleville, Illinois. AS
was the case with many of the early
experimenters with DR.. RoNTGEN's
discovery, DR.. ROBERTS long ago re-
ceived injuries from which ne never
recovered, and knowing himself
doomed he devoted years to perfect
ing means of safeguarding future
users of these dangerous rays.
The pioneers in radiology had a
long. hard struggle with a power Of
which the scientists knew little and
with the quacks who made prepos-
ferrous and ridiculous claims for It.
Almost every wonder of achievement
has been credited to the Rontgen
rays. They were said to reveal char
acter, determine the authenticity of
old paintings, reveal hidden internal
machines and flaws in airplanes, de-
stroy insects in grain, tobacco and
pork, cure a multitude, of diseases
and give back youth to the aged.
These early experimenters were
forced to disprove many Of these alb.
surd claims. They sought above all
else to discover the real properties Of
the rays. In their efforts they ex.
posed themselves unknowingly TO
a mysterious danger. Most of them
received their first injuries on
their hands, because in adjusting the
focus for their pictures they looked
at their bare hand through the nuor-
oscope. The first injury was only a
spot but it was a sentence to years
of suffering and death.
The names OF the victims Of the
X rays make an impressive list. Two
of the pioneer manufacturers OF
Rontgen ray instruments, JOHN
BAUER and HENRY GREEN of Hart
ford, died of injuries received in
testing X ray tubes. DR.. JOHN A. LEE,
president of the Kings County Medi.
cal Society and one of the first
Brooklyn scientists to study the
X rays; DR.. JAMES T. MoREHoUsE of
this city, Professor WOLFRAM G.
FUcHs, OF Chicago and DR.. EUGENE
w. CALDWELL, the author of many
books on X rays and the inventor
of protective devices, were some Of
the distinguished victims in this
country. DR.. IRoNsIDE BRUcE OF
Charing Cross Hospital, London; Dr.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Dempsey and Willard.

The fact that WILLARD was not in
good condition when he fought
DEMPSEY at Toledo a few years ago
was manifest to everybody in the
arena on that occasion. Now that
he is to have another chance to win
the championship it is doubtful if in
getting rid of his superfuous flesh
he will be able both to retain his
strength and to make himself as agile
as man must be to lower the colors
of DEMPSEY.
Students of prize fighting have
agreed on 27 as the age at which phys
ical powers begin to wane. WILLARD
has long passed that mark, and
though he has been abstemious and
has spent most of his waking hours
out of doors he cannot hope to es-
cape the penalties imposed by nature
as years increase.
A contest with the colored boxer
WILLS, who is nearer DEMpsEY's s
weight and age, would be, much
better match than one between the
champion and the giant Kansan.
WILLS has repeatedly expressed his
willingness to box DEMPSEY for the
heavyweight honors. One of the OBJ.
stacles in the way Of such match
has been the talk about drawing the
color line and the difficulty of hold
ing bout between white and colored
pugilists without engendering feel
ings which would be hurtful to the
sport of boxing.
Yet GEORGE DIXON and JOE CANS
frequently fought the best of the
white men in their class and there
never was semblance of race preju-
dice when the colored boys were vic
torious. In amateur sport the color
line is not drawn. Some of the
best athletes, notably runners and
jumpers, are negroes, and the ap-
plause which greets their success is
whole hearted.
DEMPsEY's claims to supremacy in
the boxing arena will not be acknowl-
edged universally until he defeats
every candidate for the title. be the
man white, black or yellow.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

ADoLPH LERAY of st. Antoine Hos
pital, Paris. and DR.. CHARLES INFRoIT,
chief OF the photographic Labora-
tory, Salpetriere Hospital, Paris,
were some of the recent eminent vie
Tins in Europe.
The danger is lessening for the
practitioner of the present day but ii
has not entirely passed. This was
disclosed at recent meeting in Lon
don attended by prominent physi-
clans from all parts of the world at
which plans were formulated for a
more thorough study and investiga-
tion of the dangerous rays and of
means of protection against them.
The progress which has so far been
made in these directions is due to
the pioneers who sacrificed their
lives. They were in every sense true
martyrs to science.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Clean Up the Cellar.
Rubbish Stored There Fire Menace
to Life and Property.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Mayor
Hylan in his proclamation to the peo-
pie OF this city calling for a general
spring cleaning and painting campaign
makes q point which cannot be en-
phasized too strongly namely, that
80 per cent. of all fires originate
in the cellar or the first story, and that
all these fires, except those Of incen-
diary origin, are caused by carelessness
and neglect. Piles of rubbish and use
less stored articles are among the first
things to catch fire, resulting not only
in the destruction of valuable property
but in jeopardy of life and limb.
The United States stands loss from
preventable fires each year which, per
capita is far greater than that sus-
tained by any European nation. This
is unquestionably due to large extent
to laxity: we do not. fully appreciate
the fire hazards inherent in carelessness
and neglect.
1t is sincerely hoped that not only
this city but the towns and cities Of
the nation will take UP the spirit OF
general spring cleaning and give to ii
a lasting significance. The result will
be a great reduction in fire waste and
an improvement in sanitary conditions.
NORMAN 7. ROBERTSON.
NEW YORK, May 6.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
The Hudson River Parks.

The second National Conference on
State Parks, which will be held from
May 22 to May 25, inclusive, at Bear
Mountain Inn in the Palisades Inter.
state Park, will be gathering of ex-
ceptional interest. Members of the
National and Of State commissions
will have an opportunity to inspect
the great work done in the develop
ment of the 36,2S0 acres of park ter.
ritory within which their meeting
will take place.
The superb chain of parks lying
within the States of New York and
New Jersey and stretching along the
west bank of the Hudson from oppo-
site the city OF New York to New.
burgh is destined to become one of
the country's most famous outdoor
attractions. Thanks to the foresight
and generous public spirit of citizens
of the two adjacent States not only
have the Palisades been saved from
destruction but this entire stretch of
more than fifty miles Of some of the
finest river and mountain scenery in
the United States has been secured
as resort for the millions of the
country's most congested center of
population.
TO date, including the value of
land donated, the cost has exceeded
$15,376,000, o. which the State of
New York contributed $6,S66,552 and
the State of New Jersey S1,006,67S, a
total of S7,07S,230. The balance was
Supplied by private contributors, to
whose transformations liberality pres
ent and future generations will be
under debt of gratitude.
AS matter of fact, this superb
reservation is in effect part and par
eel of the park system of the metro.
politan district in and adjoining the
city of New York, a system that is
now and probably ever will be with.
out a rival. That in not remote
years it will be one of the marvels of
, the world among urban recreation
grounds is among the things which
are as certain as any future event
can be.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Love Me, Love My Dog"

We were two comrades splendidly
matched.
Neither afraid OF rough weather;
There could not be twain more closely
attached.
As we took the road together.
loved you---the fire in your blue gray
eve,
The ironical lift OF your shoulder;
You loved me, knew, but / could not
guess why
You said "You will never be older :"
We were two comrades; but there
was a third;
Behind me he docilely trotted,
Then caught at my haud-then begged
for word.
Nor kept TO his place allotted.
That third-ltwas my dog--and You
loved him not,
You called him n pampered mlnlon,
Why was It that you your forbearance
forgot.
And beat my poor Dog opinion?
'If you loved me. you'd love what
lover cried.
You could not and now VIC arc
parted
My dog, very meelly, trois on by my
side
oh. why am so broken hearted,
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

diana, left an interesting account of
their journey: II never saw men
packed so closely as they were at
night in the mems saloon" he wrote.
THE dinner table was covered with
sleeping humanity, and those who lay
under it thought themselves favored
inasmuch as they could not be trod-
den upon" The daughter Lucy
wrote OF the breakfast: "The bread
was hot and heavy, the beefsteaks dry,
small and underdone. Captain DAVIS
looked very black If any one asked
to be helped second time" OF her
berth she wrote: Although I was
not very tall. l was obliged to curl
myself up and be quite still while the
mosquitoes devoured me and the heat
melted me-"
From these descriptions 1t Is evil
dent that canal travel was not one of
the pleasures of the good old times.
But the new line promises different
conditions, both as to speed and COM
fort. The boats have staterooms
with beds; each has hot and cold
water and shower baths, and the food
is to be plentiful and good. The sum-
mer vacationists who choose this
means of spending an outing will
find company, for the canal has come
into popular use by canoeists and own
ers of launches. But the new barge
canal lies for part of its distance
along the line of railways with fast
trains and Of motor roads with fifty
miles an hour automobiles. May it
not be question IL the present day
nervous American will sit calmly in
the enjoyment Of the restful serenity
of canal travel with all this evidence
of high speed around him?
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Catalonia and France.
The Danger to Spnin in the Present
Separatist Movement.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The real
danger to Spain in the present separ-
atist movement in Catalonia lies in the
fact that the Catalan speech is not
Spanish at all but a dialect of southern
French or Provencal.
French influence in Spain begins with
Charles the Great, whom the French
and the Germans both claim as a ma
tional hero. Though Charles was re-
pulsed by the Moslem Arabs of Sara
gossa and his rearguard cut to pieces
by the Basques of Navarro at Ronces-
wales. where the immortal Roland fell,
his son Lewis the Cody. King of Aqui-
taine. gained foothold south of the
Pyrenees by the conquest of Barcelona
in SOL. French mobiles and burghers
occupied this northeastern corner of
Spain, where the harsh ProvencaI of
southern France never wholly yielded
to musical Castilian.
From sol to 1885 the Spanish march
or countship of Barcelona was fief of
France. Then n count of Barcelona
gained the kingdom of Aragon by mar
riage and conveniently forgot his duties
y.
of France formally yielded his obsolete
claims over Catalonia to King James
!. of Aragon, called the Conqueror. King
James had wrested the Balearic Islands
and the kingdom OF Valencia from the
Mohammedan Moors of Spain. In his
gifts OF craftsmanship and the gallantry
Of his private life King James was the
perfect counterpart OF that other typi-
cal south Frenchman, Henry w. of
France. King of Navarro. In 1910 the
Galatians submitted to Henry's SON,
Louis XIII. Of France, but were forced
to submit anew to Spain In 1862.
Catalonia seems to have got its name
Of Gothland from the visigoths of Spain.
The modern Catalans are temperate.
Keen minded, fond OF learning, vigorous
In mind and body, gifted. enterprising
and strong willed. Physically they are
strong and thlckset. They number somo
100000 souls in the provinces OF Bar
celona, Lerida, Corona and Tarrarona.
IN the Balearic Islands, in and about
Valencia. the home Of Sefior Blasco
Ibaiez. In some communities of the Py-
renees Orientales department of France.
In Alghero on the island of SardinIa.
The Spanish Jews OF Thessalonica I'm
Greece. whose forefathors were exiled
from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella,
also speak Catalan.
Spanish particularism seems to date
from the days Of the Romans, who usu-
ally spoke OF Spain as the SPANS, in the
plural. But that 100000 spaniards
should be linked in speech with France
is the sinister feature Of the Catalan
movement from the Castlian stand
point. wrpsITH.
NEW YoRK, May 8.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
The Flapper's Husband.
sympathy for the Mate OF n Con-
fessed Failure as n Wife.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: ! think
Elizabeth Jones Is utterly wrong headed
ir blaming our educational system for
her lack Of success so far In life. l
also have como through our schools
from the A n G class 10 my gradua-
ton day az college and have all praise
for my splendid teachers and the de-
lights OF learning afforded me.
In addition TO these advantages l had
a loving mother. Of finest moral char
actor. sensible and practical so that In
my home I was encouraged TO assist
with dressmaking, cooking and cleaning,
thus being trained and prepared TO live
helpful, self-respecting life, whether l
married or remained single.
Elizabeth Jones's experience does not
excuse her from trying 10 take advan-
tage Of some of the wonderful opportuni-
ties III New York city to improve her
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Candy and Prohibition.
Have Many Men Switched From AL.
cOhOl TO Sweets?

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
editorial article How the Candy Trade
Has Grown" raises several interesting
questions. There is no doubt that the
candy trade has expanded greatly in
the last six or eight years. One OF the
principal reasons has been the alleged
big profits.
The result was that great number
of persons. many OF them with capital
but with small experience in the candy
trade, entered the industry. Scores OF
new companies were formed and some
of them evidently desired to sell stock
as much as they did candy. Then came
deflation about two years ago and few
businesses were hit harder than the
candy business. which has not yet re-
covered entirely.\
AS to the extent to which prohibition
Is responsible for the increase of candy
sale and consumption there are wide
differences of opinion among candy
manufacturers and dealers. The gem
eral opinion is that the value of prohi-
bition to the candy trade in general has
been exaggerated.
The largest consumers of cahdy have
always been young people and women,
who are the smallest consumers of the
various kinds Of liquors. Certainly pro-
hibition would not stimulate them to
buy and eat more candy. On the other
hand, the men. who are the largest con-
sumers of alcoholic beverages. would
when cut Off from them hardly go and
eat, candy in order to get the customary
kick 1t is the same. so far as have
observed. with soft drinks which are
also most largely consumed by young
people and women. Few men that I
know have switched to soft drinks on
account of prohibition, unless it has
been to near beer as substitute for
the real article. WILLIAM r. SMALL
NEW YORK, May 6.
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enter upon and depart from the scene,
which was absurdly destructive OF
all Illusion. The excuse that there
was no more appropriate scenery
available was not valid in this case.
There are too many theaters in New
York which can supply scenery to
make such a pretext entirely un-
necessary here. Where nothing bet
ter can be found such a substitute
might be accepted, but that could
never happen in New York.
Nor can incompetent acting be for
given in any but few cases for the
sake Of the name OF the author. The
little theater is strongest in its
home. There is no reason why the
label of this useful medium OF the
art of the stage should be used as a
cloak for amateurishness, inefficiency
and extravaganza.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
The Little Theater.

The so-called little theater move.
ment has received all necessary pub.
licity. Assisted by small, semi-ama.
teur organizations stretching across
the country it has created stimulat-
ing and beneficial interest in the
drama. Many persons who looked
upon the theater as nothing more
than a means of careless diversion
have been brought to see in its min
istrations a service to contempora.
neous life and letters. It's aim has
always been to accomplish some
thing more than the commercial man
ager sets out to do. In some towns
only the little theater has kept alive
the spoken drama. The ravages of
the moving pictures have destroyed
all other opportunities to hear a
play.
All these services to the drama
have been almost fulsomely acknowl-
edged Thus has the little theater
received everything in the way OF
praise that Is due it. So admirable
is its influence and so praiseworthy
its purpose that the voice of criti-
cism has rarely II ever been lifted in
its dispraise. Indeed. the institution
OF the little theater has, outside OF
New York, kept fairly well in its
own domain. What its disadvan-
tages may be has been shown by a
freakish theater year in the metrop-
oils. The season now drawing to a
close has seen more unusual plays
than any other in recent years.
The dangers which the little the
ater may bring to the drama are
found in a lowering OF the standards
OF acting as we'll as of stage decora-
tIon. Some of the more or less seces-
sionist organizations substitute novel
or unusual dramatic products for
competent acting on the theory that
the play r. altogether the thing.
Sound as THIS doctrine may be, GER
tain degree of skill in the actors is
taken for granted.
Then grotesque or absurd decora-
tlons have been offered for scenic in
vestiture. A wood was represented
the other night by a black velvet
curtain as background and bunch
Of apple blossoms. The characters
had 10 draw aside the background TO
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Washington.

Walla walla, WASH walla walla
Washl
Spokane, Sans Poll, Mcintosh.
From the Olympics to the Blues.
Columbia to Osoyoos.
Push and pep and pride and beauty
Cnur dAlones to the Quillayute!
Seattle, Satsop, Toutie, Yelm;
Juan de Fuca and port your helm;
Crab Creek Sink and Moses Coulee.
Stillaguamish and Conconully.
skagit. Sedro, Muck. Skykomish.
Puyallup. Chattaroy, Snohomish,
Nooksach, Matches, Cispus. Bruce,
Omack, Anatone, Addy-juice
Steiacoom, Kalotus, Mossyrock.
Peshasten, Wenas, Thrall. Niblock,
Tappenish, Curlew, Cathlamet
Tacoma, battle-ground, Touchet.
Yakima. Quinaiult. Longs. Lebam.
wynooche. Kamilche, Hcquiam,
Methow. Tuialip, Wlllada,
Asoten. Wallula, Paha. 4
Pataiia, Dragon, Enumclaw,
Mondovi, Mabton, Chewelah,
NawatzeI, kiona, Arzina, Chelan
Teanaway, Eagle Gorge, Okanagan.
walla walla, Wash Walla Walla,
Wash
skamokawa, <lickitat. Nasel--losh
Seemiahmoo to tho Blues,
Washougar TO Osoyoos.
Push and pep from every angle
Douty, Daisy. satus, Spangle
MAURICE Norris.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Uncle Joe Cannon's Message.

With eighty-six years behind him,
Uncle JOE CANNON, still an active
member of Congress, celebrates his
birthday to-day and marks it with
this characteristic, homely and meaty
bit of advice to everybody wise
enough to take advice:
Lead a simple life, vote right.
pay your honest debts. collect all
that's coming to you, but no more.
and treat your family right"
The trouble with many we'll mean
ing men whose success in life en-
titles them to give counsel to their
fellow citizens is that they deal in
generalities. In this simple and un-
derstandable message Uncle JOE
CANNON does not fall into that error.
He is not afraid to be practical, to
be sensible. He does not go into
poetical altruism or issue a moral
chart to guide perfect beings in a
perfect world. Instead he digs down
to the essentials of right living and
provides a short, comprehensive and
workable formula.
This is like the man. He has never
chased rainbows. He has never pre-
tended to virtues he did not possess
or feigned qualities that were not his.
He has looked straight at the facts
before him, judged men as they are
and not as they ought to be, and met
emergencies which existed as they
were. Sanity and good sense, good
humor and industry, sound judgment
based on wide experience and shrewd-
ness have marked this veteran all his
years of public service.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
SUNDAY, MAY Z. 1922.
Henry p. Dawson.

In the death of HENRY p. DAWSON
yesterday the banking world lost one
of it's most brilliant members and one
of it's most popular, most beloved
men.
HARRY DAvIsoN's career was me
teoric. In the short space of eighteen
years he made his way by the sheer
force of his own merit from teller
in the Astor Place Bank at the age
of % to an important partnership
in the great banking house of J. p.
Morgan & Company.
In these eighteen years HARRY
DAWSON had become big figure in
banking circles. His eight years OF
active service in the Morgan house
Before he took leave of absence to
head the American Red Cross made
him a conspicuously outstanding
international banker.
His quick mind, his genius for
finance, his sound business instinct
and his rare personal charm and pop
ularity advanced him in this topmost
field of finance with the same rapidity
as those same qualities had made for
his progress in the field of the ma
tional bank. j
AS head of the Red Cross during
the war HARRY DAWSON did stupen-
dous piece of work. His personality,
his broad knowledge of and skill in
organization, his exceptional quail
ties OF. leadership, his wide acquaint.
ance with big men and big forces
both at home and abroad, his un.
sparing devotion to the work, the
heart and zeal and sympathy he put
into it--all these constituted HARRY
DAWSON the man for the place, pre-
eminently the man to lead and direct
the Red Cross forces in the trying
war period.
:. In this work HARRY DAWSON regis
tered high with the biggest men of
the war, SO registered nationally and
internationally. Great as he was as
a banker, he was greater yet in
bringing aid and hope and succor to
the torn and bleeding soldier, the
torn and dying soldier. This was
humanity; this was HARRY DAWSON S
finest work, the work that doubtless
cost him his life. life sacrificed to
the cause that possessed his very
soul.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
I win Remember No Unlovely Thing

will remember no unlovely thing;
The trusts betrayed the days when
faith seemed vain.
The friend who proffered me cup of
pain,
All these shall be forgotten. I will sing
My thoughts shall soar like meadow
larl<s in spring
Up and away, no more shall grief re-
main,
But like the joy OF sunlight after rain
My recollections shall sweet solace bring.
The little beauties Of the common day
These are enough, these make my
faint heart glad;
The moonbeams glancing on the
garden walls,
The silver symphony of waterfalls
And lilac scent borne Oh the winds of
May;
Thinking upon these things who could
be sad?
ELISABETH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Denial.


IN THE FOREST ABOVE INTERLAKEN.
Dreaming her love would some day come
to me
watched the sunlight and the
shadows fall
Across path in summer woods. A hall
In Natures palace this. where somberly
Stand pine-trunks at the walls. but
greenery
OF roof above mocks at their gloom,
In sunshine bathed, adorns the ward
With ripping sheen OF gold-bright
broidery
To grace their stiff brown coats and
make them yield
Their NEED of splendor to this radiant
scene.
And path of checkered hopes and
fears have been
My dreams of love. Yet should she
come, unsealed
From gloom We're somber doubts that
DER me lean,
fair sheen.
THE FLEETrNG WINGS: MID-ocEAN.
The birds snave flown about our ship all
day,
Out here in mid-Atlantic, breasts
foam-w white
Tracing DER blue Of water paths of
light,
Like wave-crests given wings to float
away.
Not once could thought of rest with us
delay
The tireless bodies in their Joy of
flight.
They went at last, as swift TO bring
delight
To other voyagers DER their home of
spray.
Are not her trust. joy, love, as free as
these,
AS glad lonely traveller to cheer.
But staying never to be all his own?
Yet I am longing that their journeys
cease,
Their rest in storm or sunshine e'er
be here,
And on my breast the soft wings
fold them down.
ELIOT WHITE.