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New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

An engagement of exceptional inter
est to society in the Oranges is that
of Mr.. Ralph Waldo Chase. of Farming
ton. Conn. formerly of Mount Pleasant
Avenue, West Orange, to Miss Ruth
Elizabeth Blanchard, daughter of Fred
erick c. Blanchard. of Essex Fells and
formerly OF Evergreen Place, East
Orange. The wedding will take place
June 1 in New York
The marriage Of Miss Madeline Girls
wold. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merton
!. Griswoid, Of Curtis Place, Maple
wood, and Mr, James Turner jr, of
Pittsburgh. will take place at 4:30
O'clock Saturday, June 10. in the
Church of the Holy Communion, South
Orange. Miss Griswoid will be at
tended by Miss Bernice Meyer, of
Seth Orange, as maid Of honor, and
Mrs. George Harton Singer, Of Pitts |
baxSh. aiatAx aS ths bxidsgroom-to-bs. |
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cross Goodrich,
Of Llewellyn Park. West Orange, are
travelling through France and Italy pre-
sious to going to England for the Lon
don season. ss-a
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

Miss elsa t.ndresen. daughter of Mrs.
II. NJ Andersen, of Is Hollywood Ave
rue, East Orange, will be married
Wednesday. June ID, to Harper L..
Owen, also of East Orange. The cere-
in"ny will be performed at the home of
Ike brides mother.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Millions for Forest Highways.

According to recent report Of
Secretary of Agriculture WALLACE
the Federal authorities have set aside
S15.000.000 for highway improve
ments in the national forests Of
twenty-seven States. Alaska and
Porto Rico.
A few years ago timber was a
nuisance to be got rid OF. To-day,
with the timber resources of the
country greatly depleted, every pre-
caution is being taken TO safeguard
what is left Of our forests. The
projected roads are designed to help
in conservation OF the forests.
Engineers declare that the S15, 5,000,.
900 now available for road building
is only a beginning; ultimately $780,
100000 will be required to establish
system OF roads in the 156,000.000
acres including the national forests.
Almost two-thirds Of the present ap-
preparation will be used to construct
lViuo vi ~ III thN
development of the national forests
of the Union. The lesser sum--S5,-
500, ,000--will go toward the construc-
tion of minor roads and trails which
will be OF prime value in fire fight
Ing. The advantage Of good roads
in timber protection was proved in
the small fire loss sustained in the
wind devastated area Of the Olympic
Peninsula in Washington last sum
mer. Automobile patrols cooperating
with fire wardens at stations con-
nected by telephone extingulshed sew
eral blazcs that otherwise would have
brought disastrous consequences in
the area Of fallen timber.
Minor roads and trails will also
open to the great American travelling
public scenes OF great beauty.
The Pacific coast. where the great
est Of our national forests are, nat
urally comes in for the larger share
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
New Jerseys War on Cats.

Bird lovers in New Jersey are MAX
ing war on vagrant cats. They main
tain that homeless felines are the
most destructive enemies of the
birds, and to rid the State of the
wanderers a bill requiring the licens-
ing of cats has been introduced in
the Legislature.
The measure has the support of the
New Jersey Audubon Society. Some
Of the States most prominent citi-
zens are members of this organiza-
tlon, the secretary of which declares
cats are 'the only domestic animals
for which there is no legal status or
property value definitely established
and generally recognized"
II this measure is enacted by the
Legislature residents of New Jersey
who want to have cats in their homes
will pay a license fee OF S1.15 for
each feline. For vagrant Toms and
Tabithas the State will provide a
quick and painless death.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Slow Down at Crossings.
Traffic Rules Which Might Prevent
Automobile Accidents.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: A street
crossing is essentially neither street nor
sidewalk, but both. With the building
OF modern streets it was considered most
practical TO have pedestrians take the
step UP or down at crossings and leave
a level road for vehicles This arrange
ment did not take away the rights OF
pedestrians. however.
Imagine the effect to-day IL at Fifth
avenue and Forty-second street the side
walks. with sharp edges. were continued
unbrolSen at the four corners. Picture
an automobile coming at high speed.
Watch 1t slow down to take the bumps
of the widths of sidewalk which it must
traverse to get to the fiat surface again.
That picture is the effect which. for
decency and safety. must be produced
at street crossings. Except where traffic
is regulated no vehicle has the right
to cross an intersecting street without
practically stopping at the near side.
Often city ordinances demand that street
cars do this; automobiles should be
treated similarly.
Enforcement of such a regulation
would reduce greatly the number of
deaths on our streets. w. J. B.. Jr.
NEW YORK, February 1.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

every instance the offender has been
promptly punished. The greater the
skill of an athlete the greater the
chance of discovery IL he practices
an imposition OF this kind.
That practically the entire foot
ball teams of two OF the best known
universities in the Middle West
should have been inveigled into play
ing game on which the betting was
VIGOROUSLY heavy indicates one OF
two things: large money reward
for those participating In it or a
degree OF recklessness difficult to ex-
plain even in these days OF indiffer-
ence to public sentiment and the
ethics governing amateur sport.
The inquiry into the matter should
be searching and conclusive. 1t is
not enough that the players should
be debarred from amateur sport.
Those who tempted them should be
punished as warning to others who
put dollars above sportsmanship.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Francis M. Scott.

In the death yesterday of FRANCIS
M. ScoTT, chairman of the Charter
Revision Commission, former Justice
Of the New York State Supreme
Court and former Corporation Coun-
sci of New York city, this community
lost citizen of conspicuous useful
ness and high talent for friendship.
A New Yorker by birth. he took the
obligation of his citizenship seriously
and gave generously of his time and
his ability in the management Of
public affairs.
The list Of Offices he held is par
ticularly obstructive because 1t re-
veals the high esteem in which he
was held by men who bulk large in
New York's history, whose confidence
he earned by his natural gifts and
his attainments. He was appointed
first assistant by Corporation Coun-
sci e. HENRY LAcoMBE, and was con-
tinued in that important post by Cor
poration Counsel O'BRIEN and Cor
poration Counsel BEEKarAN. Mayor
HEWITT made him a member of the
Aqueduct Commission, Mayor STRONG
named him as Corporation Counsel.
His selection for the craftsmanship Of
the Charter Revision Commission
was the act Of Republican Gov
ernor who had served with him on
the Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court and In the taxing work
Of that bench learned to respect Mr.
ScoTT's ability, industry and intel
lectual accomplishments.
In politics FRANCIS M. ScoTr was
a Democrat who fought TWEED,
fought Tammany, and enthusiastic
cally supported the efforts of those
who sought to make their party serve
the public interest rather than per-
sonal or selfish ambitions. His end
came while he was laboring in an
arduous and necessary public task,
the revision of the New York city
Charter, and his good sense, expert
ence and gift Of Cancellation will be
greatly missed In the performance
of that work.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Revising the Language.
An Example Of the Possibilities OF
Word Clipping.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
project OF Jacob Backes Is wrong. Per-
nit me 10 point out the fact that ex.
actly the same argument might b.
brought to bear by some one advocating
the dropping OF both the and the s
To quote his illustration. omitting botf
OF the ng letters:
There Is no possibility that obliterati,
90 the mentioned degree. nasalities out
OF American will result in misun dcrstandi
in speaki, writ or printi because very
few root words end with 'i'' and those
few are very rarely used. omitu the
distressi nasal sounds would probably be
progressi in the right direction when
singi or telephonl. But preferri TO hear
from the experts first. ] am beari lightly
on this particular.
i am far from being a professor ir
American, but even so / fail to see
where this Is not entitled to as much
consideration by the experts as Mr
Backes's suggestion.
1t is my opinion that the vast major
ity of Americans will agree with me
when I say that his project Is absurd
Why not change the whole language?
PAUL DoNNELp PARcELLs.
JOINS PorNT, February 4.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
After the Bucket Shops.

What SEYMOUR CROMWELL, presi-
dent of the Stock Exchange, said
about bucket shops-and he plainly
meant bucketing by members Of the
Stock Exchange as well as by nom
members-at the dinner Of the Asso-
citation OF Stock Exchange Firms on
Friday evening goes to the heart
Of an evil which is far more wide
spread than is generally realized.
The small investor, or rather the
small saver who believes he Is in
vesting when in fact he is only being
skinned out Of his money, is the par
ticular victim of the bucket shop,
and his name is legion.
The point of Mr.. CRoMwEILs warn
Ing, however, was not merely that
the bucket shop Is heartless swim
die chiefly upon the small saver; it
was that the bucket shop swindler
can invent ways to circumvent the
laws against him and his practices
faster than the laws can be enacted.
But the Stock Exchange can camp on
his trail all the time.
Mr.. CROMWELL urged that the Stock
Exchange houses make 1t their duty
and their business to clean out the
bucket shop tribe and keep it cleaned
out. He declared that even Stock
Exchange houses had protested
against action taken by their commit
tees to deprive dishonest houses out
side the exchange of its quotations,
and he was frank enough to say he
could not be convinced that "such
appeals were made from disinter-
ested motives" Mr.. CROMWELL also
reprehended the practice of some
banks tolerating and even recon-
mending doubtful stock brokers so
long as they carried good deposits.
Among the corrective measures
strongly urged by Mr.. CROMWELL
was that "the members Of the Stock
Exchange must collectively assure
themselves Of the condition of one
another's affairs. l for one stand
absolutely for such a regular ex-
animation OF the condition Of Stock
Exchange firms" And above all, he
declared, "we must know the character
of numbered accounts, so that the
Stock Exchange can be assured that
no members have sold for their own
account the stocks that they should
be carrying for their customers"
Mr.. CROMWELL believes it is possi-
BILE for the Stock Exchange so to regu-
late the conduct of its members that
insolvencies caused by improper deal
ings will never occur among Stock Ex-
change firms. Whether such an ideal
can be achieved or not Mr.. CROMWELL
merits from substantial financial
quarters and from the general public
alike the heartiest commendation for
his open, manly and vigorous at
tempt at the achievement.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Prizes for Canadian Writer.

The Provincial Legislature of Que
bee has just passed bill providing
for the award of three annual cash
prizes, the largest $4,000. for excel
Ience in literary production. The
avowed purpose OF the measure is the
encouragement of authors to seek
high attainments in literature; it is,
in fact, the formulation of plan to
give them financial assistance at the
beginning OF their writing career and
at the same time to give to their
work desirable publicity. In this
measure the Province goes only one
step further in helping young writer's,
since for several years 1t has made
liberal appropriations for the pur-
chase OF books of its promising
authors.
There is apparently no specific
limitation regarding the award, but
the inference is that competitors for
the prizes must be Canadian, prefer
ably residents Of Quebec. AS Quebec
is a bilingual province the manu-
scripts submitted may be in either
French or English. Among the mem.
bers OF the jury awarding the prizes
are the professors Of literature at
McGill University, Protestant insti-
tuition, where English is the princi-
pal language, and at Laval Univer.
sity, Catholic institution with a
large attendance OF French speaking
students. Another member is an
officer OF the French section OF the
Royal Society of Canada. This is
an interesting example of the two
literary currents which have existed
in Canada almost from the time she
first had a literature: one the Eng.
lish and the other the French Cana
dian.
The French literature OF Canada,
which has its readers chiefly In Que
bee. parts OF Ontario, In the Cana
dian Northwest and in some of the
Maritime Provinces, has among its
contributors men whose works have
received high commondation from
the French Academy. Among the
French Canadian essayists. biog
raphers and critics are FAucnEe DE
SArNT-MAURrcE, Er1ESNE PARENT, Sir
JAMES LIE NONE; among the writer's
OF fiction PHILIPPE DE GAsPE. JosrpH
MARMETTE and A. GERrN-LAJoIE. and
among the poets JosErH QuEsSuL.
MICHEL BmAUD and Abb6 GrSGRAs.
With the English writer's OF Can.
ada, however. America is much more
familiar. Canada has claimed as her
own CoLrwiH SstuH. most Of whose
literary work was done while living
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1922.
Between the Devil and the Deep
Blue Sea.

Members Of Congress who have
been playing politics with the bonus
bill have now got themselves In a
very ticklish position whatever they
do. II they don't put the bonus bill
through Congress they will have to
face hostile soldier vote at the polls
next November. II they do put the
bonus bill through they will have to
lay special bonus taxes on the public
at the same time to raise the money
to pay the bonus.
When they have made every Amer
lean voter put three cents as bonus
tax on every letter he writes in
stead Of two cents the whole Ameri-
can public will begin to figure what
It ought to do to each bonus Con-
gressman at the November ballot box.
When they have made every person
that writes a check stick two cent
bonus stamp tax on it.; every buyer
of gasoline pay bonus tax on every
gallon he buys; every buyer OF ciga-
rettes and other tobacco pay an extra
bonus tax on every purchase he
makes in addition to all the other
taxes he already pays on his tobacco;
when the bonus Congressman have
piled this, that and the other bonus
tax on the American people to raise
the s425, 100000 year which Secre-
tary MELLON says must be paid out
as minimum in the first two years
OF the bonus. then the American peo-
pie thus bonus taxed to the hilt,
while demanding that their bach
bending tax load be lightened instead
rcf increased, are going to have their
ssy on the matter when election day
comes around.
And the Congress members who
have thus placed themselves in this
position where they are between the
devil and the deep blue sea will have
only themselves to thank for their
precarious political plight.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Prison System Defended.
Old Methods Compared With the
Practices Followed To-day.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Thus far
criticism of the penal institutions of the
State has been purely destructive Of ex-
listing conditions. Such constructive
criticism as there has been has consisted
OF the assertion that the prisons must
be frightened UP.
What is meant by tightening up? Do
your correspondents mean return to
the system in vogue twenty years ago
and for hundreds of years before that?
A return to tho dungeon. the paddle.
the triangle. a return to strlnging up by
the thumbs. deprivation OF speech and a
reign OF brute force that allowed man
TO leave the prisons in q condition which
required weeks to restore him to any
approach to normal and made him
cringe and finch when spoken to by
even his closest relatives?
Docs tightening up mean that the
prisoner must be deprived OF sunlight.
OF reasonable physical recreation? Must
his religious services be discontinued? ?
Must the schools for his education be
closed? Must he be locked In his cell
for eighteen hours that he is not work.
ing? Should he be fed like beast?
II harsh treatment is good for him.
why should he not be beaten regularly
and at stated intervals? If speech is
to be denied him. why should he not he
required to woar a gag7 II his mother
and other relatives are to be punished
with him. why not put them IN prison
too?
It may be worth while ~ consider
the results of the newer methods of
penology with the older ones. 1t ia GER
tain that under tho new the prison In
dustries turn out larger quantities OF
better work than the old: that insan-
ity, tuberculosis and crimes OF brutal
violence IN the prisons have decreased
almost to the vanishing point; that
miles and miles of roads have been
built, some OF tho best roads In the
state, by prisoners working $50 miles
from the prison, twenty or twenty-five
under one guard, where under tho older
methods one prisoner working In sight
OF the prison shovellng snow was
watched by a guard with a revolver IN
his hand that men, while II may he ex-
travagant to claim that they are the bet
ter for their prison experience. are GER
tainly no worse--a condition which even
tho most extravagant defender OF the
older methods would hesitate 20 claim
for them.
Finally. while It would be hard TO
find a man who was so attracted by tho
"coddllng" which your correspondents
claim ds the portion Of the prisoner to-
day that he committed new crimes SO
as to be able to enjoy them for another
period. It would not be hard TO find a
victim Of the old systems SO dIsar-
ranged and distorted by their brutality
that he committed crime after crime on
his release just to get square. ]. c.
OssrNINa, February 4.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
For Clean Football.

The revelations concerning the
football games between teams repre-
senting towns in Illinois on which
100000 was bet should serve use
full purpose, as they will bring to a
head a condition in American sport
which has been denounced from time
to time but has continued to exist.
There seems to be good ground for
the belief that commercialism has
been creeping into the ranks of the
amateur athletes, but the form 1t
took at the University OF Illinois and
the University Of Notre Dame was
shock to the friends Of clean sport
Sporadic cases or amateurs compel.
ing in foot races and jumping con-
tests under assumed names have
occurred in the past. In practically
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Among Veteran Employees.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
honors paid TO John ]. Hopper. Jr, af-
ter forty-nve years service with the
New York Life Insurance Company
make timely some mention of II. L.
Lobeck OF Rheime. n. Y. who on De-
cember 81. 1921, ended Hfty-six years
six and one-half months continuous, un-
INTERRUPTED service with the Pleasant
Valley Wine Company. His name frs,
appear. iegularly on the payroll June
IS. 1866. But for prohibition he still
would be on the active list.
For many years Mr.. Lobeck had
charge Of the champagne finishing dc.
partment and the shipping. He is mr.
acknowledged authority on champaign,
cork wood. lie is also an experiences
grape grower.
Mr.. Lobeck Is remarkably strong ant
active for man past ~ years.
V. u. MAssoN, Secretary.
RHEIMS, N. Y, February 4.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06
Germany's Rail Strike.

To the rank and file of the German
population the railroad strike may
have come as surprise, but the in
dustrial and financial leaders had
known for months that the pursuit OF
the paper money phantom would
some day end in abrupt disillusion
ment when the time came to halt
imitation.
The German railroad employees de-
manded pay increases ranging from
As per cent. to rs per cent, increases
which would entail the issuance Of the
additional monumental sum of $4,000,
100000 paper marks at the minimum
This would have added further to the
budget deficit, now amounting to
225, ,ooo, 100000 marks.
Herr DEUTsUHE, prominent fnan
cier Of Germany, recently compiled
estimates on 152 companies engaged
in wide variety of industries show
ing that the food of paper money
had been absorbed almost entirely by
increased wages. In 1918. Of the
total sum distributed to capital ana
labor. 13 per cent. was allotted to cap
ital and 81 per cent. to labor. In the
after war period capital has partici'
pated to the extent Of only pei
cent. and labor SO per cent. in this
distribution.
Under ordinary circumstances these
figures might indicate simply a
changed distribution of wealth. But
with the paper money presses work
ing overtime the figures mean moth
ing except distribution Of depre
ciated shinplasters. Labor is gettina
ten times as many paper counters as
it received before the war, but IL
actual gold value it is receiving onl,
half as much.
The danger against which Herr
DEurscHE warns is not that capita
may eventually be frozen out en-
tirely but that labor may become i'm
bued with the belief that the output
of paper money actually represents
wealth or anything else worth while.
The railroad men apparently be
lieved that the increase they asked
and which could be paid only out OF
the proceeds of renewed imitation
would bring better conditions t.
them. But what could bring better
conditions to them in their welter ol
all but worthless paper money would
be only less paper money in their pay
envelopes and in the country.
The New York herald., 1922-02-06

in Canada, and Sir GILBERT PARKER,
who was born in Canada. "The
Sky Pilot" OF CHARLES w. GORDON
(Ralph Connor) and others OF his
books are read wherever there are
English reading people; DR.. w. III.
DRUMMoyD's poems of the habitant
rank among the best dialect writing
in English. The Nonsense Novels
and other humorous writings of
STEPHEN LEAcocK are as popular in
England and America as in Canada.
CHARLES G. d. ROBERTS, writer of
stories Of animal life; FRANK l..
PIcKARD, author of 1.-THE Miracle
Man; ARTHUR STRrNoER, ALAN
SULLIVAN, BLISS CARMAN, MARJORIE
PrcKTHALL and ARCHIBALD LAAIPMAN
are all names well known in the
world of literary attainments.
Running over these names and re-
calling the works of scores of others,
it would appear that Canada has al
ready made a peculiarly interesting
contribution to literature. Whether
or not the awarding of prizes will
develop the new and distinguished
authors so much desired by the origi-
majors of the plan is yet to be deter
mined. The scheme of prize awards,
its critics say, appears to have been
more or less of failure in the past.
But still Quebec may have better
luck and IT may be worth while
awaiting the result.