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The New York herald., 1922-10-17
Traffic Rules Disobeyed.
Fifth Avenue Conditions When Po.
licemen Are OF Duty.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Saturday
October 7, at IL :45 noon at Fifth avenue
and Twenty-sixth street the traffic sit
uation was disgraceful. / was on my
way to the Manhattan Club and had
to wait several minutes before l could
get across.
The traffic policeman was at his lunch
and the automobile drivers did not pay
any attention to the signals at Thirty
fourth street. 1t was regular jam.
The same thing happened last week
at Fifth avenue and Thirty-f1fth street.
II some one in authority could stand
on the sidewalk any night after the
police go off duty from Thirty-second
street south and watch the drivers vio-
late the signals 1t would be necessary
to have quite a few wagons to take
violatcrs of traffic rules to the station
house.
Let me suggest that Deputy Commits
sioner Harriss himself look into this
matter. When the police are on duty
the rules are obeyed. but at night very
few drivers pay any attention to the
lights when the streets have no traffic
officers. 1t seems I'd me that crossing
at night on any part Of Fifth avenue
could be made just as safe as in the
daytime. j. d. PARISH.
NEW YORK, October Is.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
The Fascisti's Strength Growing

In their challenge to the Italian
and rather convincing evidence of
their power. They have sent an ul-
! timatum to Premier FACTA and his
Cabinet demanding the immediate
dissolution of the Parliament and the
holding of a general election. Most
of the Ministers in a conference on
the demands held that a surrender
to the Fascist under the circum-
stances would be not only a lower
ing of the dignity of their Office but
confession of governmental weak
ness. They therefore decided to resign
and to give the King an opportunity
to form a new Cabinet which might
successfully meet the situation.
In consequence the Facta Govern
ment will avoid the humiliation of dis
closing the fact that il cannot get a
vote of confidence and the nation may
be spared the expense of general
election and the turmoil which would
very likely result from the present
unsettled political conditions. The
reason OF the drastic demands of the
Fascist is not that FAcTA has op-
posed them; he has rather taken the
course of least resistance as regards
their movement and their fight with
| the socialists, permitting them to
/ aufIont
though, that this situation could not
continue with MUssoLINI, the leader
of the Fascist, assuming each day
more and more the role of dictator
and insisting upon the carrying out
Of the program of reforms.
| The return of GIoLITTr to the Pre-
miership is forecast. He has already
held the post five times and for the
/ last fifteen years, whether in Office or
out, he has been a political power.
He is now so years of age, but he
Is said to have lost none of his
keenness OF judgment or of his fa-
miliarity with the political condi-
tions of the country. He is, in fact
one Of the few Italian politicians OF
the world war period who still have a
strong hold among the people.
There is a high degree of shrewd-
ness in GroLITrI's methods. He has
never remained in Office long enough
| for the Italians to get tired of him. AS
soon as he feels that his Ministry is
becoming weak he retires. putting in
| his place one of his lieutenants. Then
| he creates a situation which forces
\ this Governments overthrow and he
\ comes back as Premier He has
never announced definitely his stand
on the Fascista movement, but at
the time when it was beginning to
manifest itself he did nothing to op-
pose either its propaganda or It's ag-
gressions against socialism. The
Fascist evidently believe that his
knowledge OF the internal condition
Nof the country is particularly needed
now and that lEs will be able to bring
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
Belgium's Dense Population.
Has More Inhabitants to Square Mile
Than China or japan.

Department Of Commerce Bulletin
1t is customary to think of China as
the most densely populated country in
the world. 1t isn't. That distinction
belongs to Belgium. While China has
the largest population, 42S 100000. 1t
has also the largest area of the worlds
political divisions. 4,27s,0OO square
miles, and the number of its inhabitants
to the square mile Is only 1896.
Belgium has 666.22 inhabitants to the
square mile. Japan Is much more densely
populated than China. 3s3 to the square
mile, but her Inhabitants to the square
mile are not much more than half as
many as Belgium's.
Another general misrepresentation re-
CARDS the density Of population in Java,
which has been frequently cited as the
worlds most crowded island. Our own
little Porto Rico has three more people
IN square mile than Java has. The
population of Holland. the owner Of
Java, 517 to the square mile. is nine
times as dense as that of the Dutch
East Indies.
Holland is second to Belgium as the
most closely settled country Great
Britain comes third. with $50 to the
square mile. Australia is the least pop-
ulated country in the world, with less
than two persons to the square mile. the
5.434,o0o inhabitants living largely along
the coast line. Canada has 242 inhabIt-
ants to the square mile. "
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
The Hermit.

The good green wood is at my door.
II keeps me company
When lsping leaves are on the bough
Or frost has stripped the tree.
It has million little tongues
That prattle all day long.
And shelters scores Of happy birds
TO gladden. me with song
The whippoorwil at dusk bewalls
His punishment severe.
The owl assures me moonlit nights
No alien foot is near.
on frosty morns the wary fox.
a shadow, scurries by.
And squirrels chatter saucily
From perches safe and high.
In winter when the fiery ferns
Their emerald banners furl
The wood becomes a sculptor's dream
or parian and pearl.
A white enchanted palace where
In drifts of ermine deep
The princess violet waits for spring
TO break her frozen sleep.
Those rowing troubadours the winds
Upon the branches play
Weird symphonies they learn in strange.
wild countries far away.
Around my dwelling everywhere
The oaks and pines extend.
But am ! lonely? nay. the woods
My neighbor and my friend
MrNNA IRvINo.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
The Daugherty Opinion.
Judge Clearwater Cites international
Law Against Certain Conclusions.

To THE NEW York HERALD: A mar
row and strict construction of the Vol
stead act possibly may sustain the opin-
ion and conclusions OF the Attorney
General. They are, however at COM
plete variance with the law of nations
as defined by great writers upon inter-
national law and for centuries accepted
by the civilized nations OF the world, all
OF whom regard the ocean as not capa-
bic of being possessed or controlled as
private property. but as free for navi-
cation, fishing. business, commerce and
the pursuit of pleasure.
It's waters-save within n marine
league of the littoral and between head
lands as. for instance, from Cape Ann
to Cape Cod; from Nantucket to Mon
tauk Point from that point to the
capes of the Delaware and from the
south cape of Florida to the Mississippi
cannot to the slightest extent be APP
propriated or controlled in time of
peace then the subjects of all nations
meet there on a footing of absolute
equality ane independence. No nation
has any right of jurisdiction at sea ex-
cept over the persons of it's own sub
jects in its own vessels the vessels OF
nation are considered as portions of
its territory. Thus persons and articles
on board ship are protected and gov
erned solely by the law of the, country
to which it belongs.
Every vessel in time of peace has the
right to consult its own safety and con-
venience, to pursue its own course and
h,t mi dtct,, -No Nd i-
not permissible for any nation to treat
as contraband any article of the cargo.
equipment, food or supplies for the offi-
GERS or crew OF the vessel OF any nation
while in the port of foreign country
unless the same be disembarked for use
or sale. or be dangerous to other ship
ping, to wharves or adjacent property.
Grotius. Puffendorf. Vattel. Rutherford
so hold. Selden in his Mare Clausum"
questions the attitude of Grotius, but Sir
William Scott in the celebrated case of
the Twee Gebroeders, 3 Robinson Ad
miralty Reports. 336. demolished Sell
ing Selden's position, held there was no
instance in time of peace in which
non-dangerous cargo not disembarked
was to the slightest extent subject to
any sovereign Power other than the
one chartering the vessel containing 1t.
1t Is doubtful IL any attempt to en-
force such conlusions as are embraced
in the opinion of the Attorney General
has been made since the demolition of
the Portuguese claim to an exclusive
trade TO the Indies. to the south At
lantic and the Indian Ocean in the six
teenth century.
The United States hardly can afford
to align itself with barbaric tribes and
fanaticjsm IL n recrudescence of the bar
barrie spirit. A. T. CLEARWATER.
KINGSTON, October 16.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17

o'clock In the morning. Get up and
join us. Come out and make it less
lonely"
In proportion to size, however, moth
ing can compare with a motorcycle
in its effects on Manhattan's human
audiometers. One of these creators
of cacophony can make more people
madder in given distance or meas
ure of time than any other machine
yet designed by man. The audi
ometer would probably fail to make
a satisfactory record of a motorcycle
wave length, since nothing in the
world could estimate properly the
anger length, breadth and thickness
created by a motorcycle going through
a residential street.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Universalist General Convention. Hotel Com
modore, A. NJ.
National Association of Women Painters
ieres. % ei5 West Fifty-seventh m street: % reeenl cen
tion, 3 TO 6 p. M.
Dog Club of America. show. 1O4th Field
Artillery Armory.
Molly Pitcher Club. luncheon. sherrys
1890 =. NJ.
Buyers and Sellers League, luncheon. Ho-
tel Pennsylvania. 12:30 p. NJ.
Board of Directors. Merchants Association,
luncheon 20 directors and committeeman Ho-
tel Commodore.
Gyro Club, luncheon. Hotel Pennsylvania
IL 80 +. NJ.
Export Managers Club, luncheon, Hotel
Pennsylvania, IL 30 p. NJ.
Godmothers' League. meeting, Hotel Penn
sylvania, p. M.
Theater Owners Chamber OF Commerce,
luncheon, Hotel Astor. IL 80 r. NJ.
New York Theater Club. meeting. Hotel
Astor, . =. M.
ciety. meeting. Hotel Astor. =. NJ
New York City Teachers Association, meet
ing. Waldorf-Astoria. p. NJ.
National California Club, meeting, Waldorf
Astoria, J.. NJ.
Michigan Women in New York. meeting
Waldorf-Astoria, r. NJ.
New York and New Jersey Tunnel Commits
sions. meeting. Hall of Records. 4 80 r. NJ
Reception by Rumanians of New York 10
DR.. Nicolae Lupu, Stuyvesant Casino. IL.
Second avenue, r. M.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Society OF Industrial Engineers and the Tay-
lor Society, Joint meeting. Engineering So
cieties Building. 20 West Thirty-ninth street.
s:15 p. NJ.
Ogden L. Mills will speak at the National
Republican Club. "A West Fortieth street,
S:15 r. NJ.
Mass meeting In support of Surrogate Co
halans independent candidacy, Town Hall.
S:f5 =. NJ
Thomas G.. Chamberlain will speak on
American International Relations" Broad
way Tabernacle Forum, Broadway and Fifty
sixth street, S:15 p M.
dedication OF branch office. 1O25A st. John ;
place. Brooklyn. =. M.
New York chronological Society. meeting
American Museum of Natural History. SID
+. NJ.
Sphinx Club. dinner, waidorf-Astoria. z
Fur Club. boxing exhibition. Hotel Astor.
=. NJ
Michigan Society of New York, meeting,
Hotel Commodore, $3.50 +. NJ.
Greenwich village Historical Society, Alex
ander Hamilton Night. Sheridan Square. s
+. NJ.
Public lectures on THE Situation In the
Near East" @. A. Hastings. Wadleigh High
School: Miss J. NJ. Davis, Bay Ridge High
School. s:15 +. NJ.
Boy Scouts OF America. Troop 126. second
annual concert, Hamilton Grange Reformed
Church, t49th street and Convent avenue.
$50 p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
Tracking Cold Waves.
A System OF Forecasting Devised
for Shippers and Growers.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: As win
ter approaches it becomes Of interest
TO shippers and growers to know how
to protect themselves against those falls
In temperature known as cold waves.
The important thing is a means of tell
ing when to expect cold waves.
II the records are consulted they will
show that after the season is we'll es-
tablished the principal or general cold
wave recurs with marked regularity.
Thus last winter. a mild one, though
colder than the preceding. conditions
were not we'll established until the first
regular cold wave OF winter appeared
or January 25, causing the Washington
February II and so on through the
summer, successively milder.
Or II one wishes to refer to winters
colder than the average we can go
back to 1920 and 1917-1S. In such
winters the severe cold appeared in De-
cember and doubled the number of
severe cold waves.
II the general cold wave was the only
one in a three weeks period persons in
terested, after first ascertaining its date
of recurrence. would only have to pre-
pare for that in mild winters and to
reckon on the temperature gradually
working up In between. But although
In mild winters the smaller occasional
waves that occur once or twice at reg
ular weekly intervals during the in
terim do not as a rule amount to any
thing, In cold winters the first of these
local waves sometimes develops a local
intensity surprising that of the general
lone. 1t is like this: The big wave
sweeps the country from Medicine Hat
and may cause bad northeaster to
develop In the South. AS II approaches
the north Atlantic coast the northerly
winds at its rear draw down from the
reservoir of cold air where 1t borders
Hudson Bay, and these cold waves In
the Northeast have that designat ton.
though they do not affect the rest of
the country except by some backward
extension.
AS the season advances into summer
this trait becomes more marked, until
the summer cool wave seems TO AFFECT
the Northeast first and then cool the
interior southwestward.
SO while the shipper or grower can
in a mild winter take advantage of much
of the time during the three weeks, par
ticularly after the first week has gone
and there arc no signs OF minor wave.
I'm cold winter he finds the tempera-
turc not only uniformly low but likely
tc dip again about week after the first
or general wave of series. II the
storms controlled the temperature in
stead of the temperature the storms he
would hardly have any advantage OF
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
Ballnde of Autumn.
LTrom the Kansas City Star.
te rose in the goldenrod.

aFrom the Kansas City Star
a white rose in the goldenrod.
My love stood by the orchard gate:
The morning beamed. a smile from God.
My rhythmic pulses leaped elate.
For then was wrought by happy fate
The charm unchanged by changefui
years.
oh, we forgot. our JOY so great
Meek autumn smiling though In tears.
Dead long ago! But paths she trod
Still with her presence palpitate
feel her football on the sod.
And tender memories penetrate
My breast like fragrance delicate
II seems my heart her whisper hears 1!
And 10, a touch compassionate
Meek autumn smiling though In tears.
Here STILL the old time flowers nod,
The same trees dream In calm sedate,
Unchanged the hills and meadows broad /.
And still her love. voice innate.
Breathes here the place to consecrate
But, where her laughter filled my ears,
mourner Is my bosom's mate
Meek autumn smiling though In tears.
ENVOY.
Q heart. wise autumn bids thee walt
She knows the hope the seed in,
spheres.
Her vision holds the springs glad
Meek AUTUMN smiling through In tears.
SToKELY s. FISHER
The New York herald., 1922-10-17

every few days.
In subnor.nal winter like the COM
Ing 1t is well to watch for the develop
ment Of new storms in connection with
cold wave, as they will add another
to the preceding. The main cold wave,
If observations could be taken and
mapped. around the world. could very
probably be followed around, like a dip
In a cord stretched unevenly. round the
sphere until 1t reappeared on American
territory in Alaska. The first sign of
1t here is the rising barometer on the
north Pacific coast; then a high de-
velops In Canada this side OF the Rockies
and the cold wave descends
BOSTON. October IA. A. d. ELMER
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
Measuring Noises.

In London court room recently the
noises made by several kinds of
vehicles passing in the streets were
reproduced by an instrument called
an audiometer. The purpose was to
show that the assaults on the ear
made by motorcycle, the owner of
which had been served with a sum-
mons, were not as violent as those
made by other conveyances that had
been permitted to pass unchallenged
by the police.
There is no moral to be drawn from
the action of the Magistrate in refus-
ing to take the evidence Of the audi
ometer seriously. But there are many
dwellers on this island of Manhattan
who would be willing to bet that IL an
audiometer was set up anywhere on
the West Side it would note some of
the huskiest wave lengths known to
followers of audiometric records.
The seaplane that roars its way up
and down the West Side waterfront
as long as there is light is the grand
est producer of noise known to the
neighborhood where the original So
ciety for the Suppression of Unneces-
sary Noises was founded II Is now
a matter of public record that the
seaplane has driven one houseful OF
apartment dwellers down from their
own private roof garden; and they
cannot take the satisfaction of throw
ing stones or shoes at it as used to
be done with night vocal cats.
Next to the seaplane a nice, large
motor truck should come in the audi
ometer's records of wave lengths.
Running as If mufilers we're never in
vented, such a vehicle can be ex-
pected to wake everybody up within
a radius Of three blocks in all direc-
tions from its point Of passing. They
carry a chummy, intimate air along
with them, these record wave length
makers, as who should say, Here.
now, we are up and going strong at 3
The New York herald., 1922-10-17

Special Gable TO THE New York HERALD
Copyright, 1929, by THE New YonK HDHALp
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin. Oct. 16.
After boring friends with tales o
ailments after the manner of sick maj
Central Europe is now seeking doctor
After revelingi in dependency for year,
the thoughts of labor and capital arr
turning to constructive instead of passiv,
measures"
This optimistic opinion was expressed
to THE NEW YORK HERALD correspondent
by Prof. Jeremiah Whipple jerks OF New
York. prominent economist. former pro
fessor of political economy at Cornell
University and an authority on interna
tional banking and commerce. who ha:
spent some months studying condition.
in Europe.
There will not be a wholesale crasf
of European civilization. as has hereto
fore constantly been predicted" he con-
tnued. LAS a matter of fact. there Is
distinct change from the attitude oi
utter hopelessness that prevailed in Cen
trail Europe and the Balkans.
THE countries are realizing that there
is way out. and there are many signs
that the way is coming into sight.
was agreeably surprised to find that the
talk Of irretrievable collapse is dimin-
ishing and in its place there is rising 8
determination to make every effort to Sc
cure internal stability
The opinion of the American economist
is echoed in one Of Hugo Stinnes's pa
pers. the AHegemeinc Zeitung, which
after repeating the old phrase "lt is al,
the fault of the reparations." declares
that insufficient production is one of the
main reasons why the mark~cannot i'm
prove.
1T Is better IL these things are pointed
out clearly to the German nation In
stead Of driving national economy from
one difficulty to another by petty legisla-
ton" this newspaper adds after re-
ferring to the recent Government edicts
hampering the cashing Of checks and
trading in external currencies in an ef-
fort to stabilize the mark.
The central European governments
are in the hands Of the workmen," a
leading politician said They are not
accustomed to governing and have been
fioundering. but now they are begin
ming to realize that world economics
begin at home. If the highly organized
labor in Germany would agree to a nine
hour day instead OF the eight hour day
and no overtime the results would go
The present rate of production Is below
the average"
This politician explained the low pro-
ductlon by saying that the Allies had
not made the exact amount of the rep
arations clear and the workman imag-
ines that the profits from hts hard labor
are going direct to the former enemies.
This, he said. has caused politics to be-
come thoroughly tangled up with eco
nomics and behind all measures for sta
| tllization there Is a determination that
the Versailles Treaty must be modified.
This attitude was voiced by Adolf
Koester, Minister Of Domestic Affairs,
who in a speech at Frankfort declared
that the financial settlement arranged
Ly the Allies is on a false basis the same
ae are the accusations about the respon-
sbility for the war.
The press almost universally has
scored the Governments police" meas
ures designed to stabilize TIE mark. The
restrictions regarding dealing in foreign
The New York herald., 1922-10-17

currency result only in putting more
rcd tape into the business life, says the
Leipsic Volksscitun0, while the Bocrsen
Zeittng says instead of issuing an un-
workable decree 1t would have been bet
ter to outline plans for a substitute for
tie present mark"
The Hamburg Nachrichtem. which is
chiefly concerned over the effect of the
decree ON commerce. says: "The decree
will soon prove impracticable, as II can
not improve the mark. 1t is impossible
tc build It up with sledge hammer.
The Koelnischc Zcituno says that It is a
fact that there Is no confidence abroad
In Germanys trustworthiness and that
the Governments feeble measures aim
ing at stabilization will also destroy
foreign confidence in the capability Of
German economists.
Meanwhile business men, forgetting
politics. are getting down TO brass tacks
and devising plans to relieve the sit
uation which they unanimously agree
must end, though as yet they have not
announced any definite plans.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17
Dividing the Profits.
The Double Standard Blamed for the
Unearned Increment.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Dr.
Arthur r. Hadley distinguished econo-
mist. says that point which made in
letter TO him October Z is well taken ;
that is. that the discrepancy in rewards
fer Industrial effort is due to the fact
that we have two standards for the dis
tribution of wealth--a wage or salary
or interest rate fixed in advance, but no
limit on prohts-and that this double
standard Is tlfe sole cause of the So
called unearned increment in values OF
all kinds.
7 argued that II double standard OF
money is economically unsound II should
he clear that n double standard for the
distribution or wealth rs also unsound,
and thus have In few words n truth.
confirmed by eminent authority. which /
have been striving for years to make
clear. LOWE SHEARoN.
NEW YoRK. October 16.
The New York herald., 1922-10-17

1t is announced that "the American
army now on the Rhine will be home
before Christmas" tt was HENRY
FoRD's ambition to get the boys out OF
the trenches before a Christmas now
almost forgotten had passed. The
phrase used in yesterdays news from
the War Department carries the mind
back to n day when military servic
In western Europe meant sometime,
entirely different from police duty, per-
haps not easy to perform but certainly
not dangerous.