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The New York herald., 1922-07-30

In all his glory was not arrayed like one
OF these" The sentiment of this Biblical
quotation runs through community reg
Gently organized by party Of Japanese
lovers of flowers led by Mr.. James X.
Sugi. at Hanayashih on the Hansh!n
Kyuko line. 1t Is called the Ever Green
Flower Loving Community. The men,
bers of the community are trying to
animate noble sentiment by the cultiva-
ton OF flowers. All the gardens around
the houses kept by these people are filled
with all sorts of flowers.
Even those not possessing houses In
that district are invited to Join the COM
munity. For their benefit bouquets will
be delivered once week at moderate
charges. The community Is now draw
ing considerable popular interest.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

Ger whom he has been developed have
prophesied that he would prove in
yincible He was born swimmer,
needing only training in the quality
of coordination to be in the cham
pionship class.
That his greatest rivals, among
them the Hawaiian KAHANAMoKU,
should accept WEIssMuLLER as the
undoubted leader in a sport to which
they had devoted so many years of
active training is a testimonial of
which the youthful champion may
we'll be proud. kAHANAMoKU's dec
iaration that WEIssMULLER is the
greatest swimmer the world has ever
seen carries weight. coming as it
does from a man who has been
among the best watermen of the
country for a decade.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Alligators in New Jersey.
Three Once Lived In a Pond Near a
Factory in Elizabeth.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Some
forty-five years ago was employed In
an oilcloth factory situated In Elizabeth.
N. ]. In the center Of the plant. which
covered large area. was small pond
of about half an acre with small
island with some trees in the center.
Three alligators were sent from Flor
ida to the owner and he turned them
loose In the pond. They were quite
small when FIRST received and lived sew
eral years one after another being
missed In successive springs The last
one lived about four years and attained
a growth OF some three feet.
The pond was not more than SIX feet
deep In Its deepest part and was frozen
pretty solidly every winter--not to the
bottom. OF course We surmised that
the allgators burrowed in the mud deep
enough to escape the frost and hiber-
mated. The last one got to be quite
pugnacious. CHARLES LEROY.
NEWARK, N. j., July 30
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Riverside Drive Tracks.
II Is the Duty OF City and Railroad
to Reach an Agreement.

To THE New YORK HERALD: I was
sorely disappointed to find from the re-
cent Riverside Drive decision that we
poor sufferers have lost that great boon
the silencing of those terrible freight
trains. boon ardently desired and
greatly needed.
Since the Hylan administration has
deprived US of this blessing 1t certainly
ewes us some compensation An ed.-
torial article in your paper says: I'VE
cannot GUST the railroad, as its title Is
clear, but the desired end may be at
tanned by other means, perhaps even
sweet reasonableness and the spirit of
compromise" Somebody has suggested
that the city pay half the expense and
the railroad half. / would like to in
vite the heads of the municipal depart
ments to pass night ON Riverside
Drive and let them decide IL those dread
ful noises should not be sienced. The
railroad owes its support to public GUS
tom, and the city owes its people pro-
lection from unnecessary evils Both
owe US a debt. and the welfare of the
city and its people positively demand
Its payment.
Your article says Let a generous
bargain be made and both parties. the
railroad and the city. will reap the.
advantage in the gratitude and conn.,
dence of the thousands Of sufferers liv-
ing In this most beautiful part of our
city. and their names will be recorded
among the benefactors of our great city
of New York; ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.
New York, July 20.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Defining a Farm.

Basing its computations on the off,
cial census definition and the latest
census figures the Department Of
Commerce places the farm population
Of the United States as of January 1,
1920, at 31,35S, $40. or 1913 per cent.
of the country's total population.
But the census definition of
farmer Is very broad. It includes
everybody who works a patch Of
ground large enough to raise $3.50
worth of vegetables, fruit, poultry.
honey, dairy products or any other
form of agricultural produce. The
same inclusiveness of description is
applied to the farm population. 1t
includes farm operators and farm
L borers and their families. Nor is
residence in strictly rural territory
essential to classification in the
farmer group. In fact more than
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

the Creator which he has all his life
desired to have made manifest.
For as deeps open below deeps in
the armament that the users of such
instruments strive ever more ade-
quately and yet ever in vain to
fathom, the exclamation becomes
even more significant than when it
was first uttered, that "the undevout
astronomer is mad" and the declara-
tion of the philosopher, KANT, in
creasingly convincing, that two
things inspired him with awe. 'the
starry heavens without and the
moral law within
To some the revelation of such
appalling depths in the universe OF
which our solar system is found to
be so small part Is taken as proof
of the utter insignificance of human
ity with all it's thoughts and works.
Might it not rather impart to them
surer conviction that the human
mind which has been able to achieve
such triumphant disclosure of truth
once considered to be utterly beyond
its reach or even widest hope is no
less than the starry heavens them
selves an evidence of the majesty and
power of Con?
If a Shapley can furnish prob
ably incontestable proof that the
great globular star cluster in the
constellation Hercules, is thirty-six
thousand light years distant from our
earth, and the cluster known as n.
G. C. zoos even two hundred and
twenty thousand. and If Curtis,
without being derided as insane, is
suggesting more than half million
light years as the distance of some
Of the spiral nebul@, 1t would not
seem extravagant to claim that such
investigators have thereby not only
removed forever the obloquy of insig-
nificance and triviality from the mind
Of man but have evidenced it as an
even nobler proof of divine inspira-
ton and majesty than the most daz-
zling grandeur of the galactic sys-
tenn which it so daringly explores.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Sayings of St. Paul.
Questions Raised About Four Sen.
tences In His Epistles.

To THE New York HERALD: st.
Paul gives us several hard nuts to crack
In that splendid chapter on Immortality
and elsewhere. namely: =
(1) Faith is the substance of things
hoped for; the evidence OF things not
seen.'
But how? There is no substance in
things hoped for. Otherwise why hope
for them? Substance is something real--
lied rather than hoped for. There is
often evidence Of things not seen. We }
do not see the winds, nor electricity, =
yet we have abundant evidence of them.
II st. Paul had said Faith Is evil b
dence Of certain things which the eye /.
does not see'' 1t would have been more,
Ineligible. But even then we would.
have asked: What things?
Co 'The sting Of death is sin and.
the strength of sin is the law"
II this means that the sting Of death
is the dying In sin unrepented of-as II
probably does-how is the law the
strength of sin? 2
CD 'If after the manner Of men. L.
have fought with beasts at Ephesus" '
st. Paul never was a gladiator
were no SlduidtOTldl Sports dLN
Ephesus. the Grecian tournaments being
racing and wrestling matches Nor
could gladiatorial contests be said to be-
"after the manner of men, but excep-J
tional, In Roman nations only In those
days. Could st. Paul have alluded to-
the occasion-referred to Acts XIX. 2s--.
when his preaching was interrupted by
a mob in the city Of Ephesus that did
nothing for the space of two hours but
cry Great is Diana of the Ephesians''?
Possibly the Apostle considered this as
after the manner of men and not after
the manner of gladators. fighting with
beasts at Ephesus." fi 4'-f
90 EVIL communications corrupt
good manners
A very obvious copybook maxim, but.
absolutely unrelated and unreferable to
the context of the chapter.
should like to hear an explanation
of the above. HENRY G. ALvoRD.
New YORK, July 29. ~
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Black Haired Villains.

A professor of comparative litera-
ture in the University of Chicago,
acting as one of the judges in mo-
tion picture scenario contest in which
$1,000 persons participated, observed
that the majority of the contestants
specified that the villains of their
stories should have bold black mus
taches. They were also united in the
belief that cigarettes stand for weak
ness and untrustworthiness cigars
for harshness and determination and
pipes for honesty and gentleness.
Professor Cross explains that the
villainy is one of the oldest inheri-
tances of the northern European peo-
pies. His. theory is that the blond
races which settled America~were al
ways at war with the dark southern
reoples and grew to associate the
black boards of their enemies with
wickedness. Professor Cross could
make out an excellent case for this
theory from the legendary literaturs
and fairy lore of the northern races,
but.his explanation, though plausible,
is not convincing.
Specialists are prone to place every
thing in relation to their speciality.
and Professor Cross is intensively
interested in literary origins or he
would not be professor of compare
tive literature. And so it is natural
for him to build up such theory as
he did, overlooking the obvious fact
that the association of darkness with
evil is instructive with the human
race. That explanation is at least as
plausible as his own.
The professor ascribes the evil
symbolism OF the cigarette to strong
opinions taken by the public fifty
years ago, which persist in the un-
conscious views of the race and come
to light in it's writing. 1t is indeed
remarkable that in time when Gig
arettes are smoked by nearly every
body. $4,000 persons, of whom prob
ably $4,000 use cigarettes themselves,
should in the average represent the
cigarette as standing for weakness
and untrustworthiness. Professor
Cross must be right. There does not
seem to be any other explanation.
One does not need to go back fifty
years to reach the period when Gig
arettes were coffin nails" and dope
sticks" and grown men, with the ex-
ception of few who were not afraid
of being thought dudes, would as
soon be caught smoking corn silk as
cigarette.
Perhaps the symbolism given to
the cigar, investing it with an aura
of ruthlessness, may be traced to the
cartoons Of stout gentlemen whose
clothes were patterned in dollar
marks and who would be described by
Mayor HYLAN as "the interests" In
variably each wore large black
cigar clenched in his teeth as he
glared down at the sidewhiskered
little gentleman who represented the
ccwed common people.
And as for pipes, the Indians gave
them a good start toward their pa
cific significance by using them at
peace councils. and the kindly phi
losophers of the tobacco advertise
ments have done the rest.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
The Burden Of Possessions.

Socrates once. It is said, was persuaded
to go to a fair:
In his one poor cloak, In his wontcd
way, he stood musing there.
Stood long till a friend inquired what
his thoughts might be about
How many things there are here that
could do better without -
'Tis far. far cry from his age to mine
or to wisdom of mine:
Sage / am not, though I to his way Of
thinking incline,
or things. ever asked few. for use II
was Joy. to my mind.
That with fewer still could do--fewer
to lose and to find
visit the houses of friends that are
filed with the priceless acquest
or treasures the wistfu travellers
brought from the east and the
west
And move with wary step and
touch those treasures with care.
Lest, were they broken. the owners
dwelling and heart were left bare.
This rug from the looms Of Iran? This
jade with its moon mellow glow?
This drop from the diamond river? /,
to keep guard OF these--no
Sell TO the trafficker, spend on the poor
or give to the rich:
SO l am quit of them. free OF their care
1T matters not winch!
Things | am tired Of things, and. It
seems. they are tired of me.
Look how they slip through my hands
how they fall and they break -
let be.
Things are enslavers and despots. I will
not live under their spells
Back TO my sage | 1y--for Socrates
counseled well.
EDITH M. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Connecticut.

At Hartford In Connecticut
There is a gorgeous State House. but
The things that statesmen utter there
Are Just the same as everywhere.
Then Mystic you might think to be
or Conan Doyle-ish witchery.
Instead, it's like Grants. Montowese.
Pachaug. Hadlyme and towns like these.
'Twere wrong to think that New Canaan
Is like Beersheba was, or Dan.
And IL you thought so. pray don't come.
It's quite like Lyme or Higganum.
If Glastonbury you would scratch.
Or when In Cannon fear match,
Just take this tip and call halt;
Act as In Hebron or Cobalt.
And Moodus Is a lively spot.
Even as Titicus Is not;
While Readings drab one can't enhance.
So, Killingly's not fierce at all.
While very far from dark IS Black Hall;
And on the other hand. Gales Ferry
When It is buest Is most merry.
Though Waterbury s on the watch.
Still C;lasro Is by no means Scotch:s
In Darien there is no peak.
And Haddam had 'em every week.
In Umasville there is no chief.
In wallinRford no gold brick thief.
In Tariffville no long drawn spats,
But Barkhamsted has lots OF cats.
No one could say Connecticut
Was in a cognomenic rut.
There wiilimantic names abound.
And rowayton can pull pound,
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Now That the Bee Balm Burns.

Now that the bee balm burns with vivid
fire
Along the margin of some brook that
sings
An endless anthem of thousand
Songs OF its great Unsuitable desire: y
Now that the far hills mounting high
and higher
Are mantled in a faint fine haze that
clings
About their crests now that the night
time brings
The vibrant music Of the cricket choir ;
I think OF you, Of summer twilight hours
And suddenly you seem no longer far ,
I sense your presence like the breath
of flowers
Warm. sweet and near as when In
days gone by
Together we watched blossom In the
sky
The evening primrose Of the vesper
ELIsAbrrH SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

quarter of million of persons who
live in settlements of $500 inhabi-
tants and up are included in the CEN
sus farm population figures.
At the prices farm products brought
in 1920 it would be very small or
very poorly cultivated piece of ground
that did not yield $3.50 worth of vege-
tables, fruit, or poultry, or all three,
in the course of a year. A good many
backyards in cities would do that
much. Small market gardens adj
jacent to large communities would,
and do, yield annual returns of sew
eral times $3.50.
Evidently the popular notion of
what constitutes farm, the idea OF
broad acres of waving grain, mead
ows and woodlands. herds and flocks.
is much at variance with the Census
Bureaus classification. But If COM
putation of the country's agricultural
output were restricted to the farm as
pictured in the urban Imagination
the value of agricultural products
and the returns of those actually en-
gagged in making the earth yield food
supplies would fall far below the ac-
Qualities. The large town farmer is
not to be ignored in any measure
ment of national agricultural activ-
ity. With the impetus given by the
war to garden making and to educa-
ton in that line Of productivity the
urban agriculturist has become by
no means negligible factor in arriv-
ing at the total results
The census of 1920 distinguishes,
for the first time, the rural pop
ulation from the persons deriving
their support entirely or in part from
agricultural pursuits. The figures
are encouraging. AS long as nearly
a third of all the people in the coun-
try are engaged in actual tilling of
the soil on either large or small
scale lamentations over the fatal lure
of the city need not cause worry.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
The Girl With the Curl.
An Illustrated Edition Of Longfei-
lows Verses.

To THE New YORK HERALD: have
In my library what believe TO be the,
first and only edition Of Longfellow's
There was a little girl and she had
a little curl ?
colors representing Mr.. Longfellow sit-A
ting by the Are and small girl stand
Ing beside him.
The book is profusely illustrated, the.
figures being solid black in the manner.
of the silhouette. The title page reads
as follows: ~
There Was Little Girl
by .
Henry wadsworth Longfeliow
Illustrated by -
Bertha M. Schaeffer,
New York
Copyright 1883.
r. Warrington.
TO Broadway.
The full text is as follows:
There was a little Eirl
And she had little curl
Right In the middle of her forehead.
When she was good
She was very good indeed,
But when she was naughty she was horrids
She went upstairs
And her parents unawares
Were looking out the window.
She stood upon her head
In her little trundle bed
with no one nigh to hinder. ss
Her mother heard the noise
And thought II was the boys
Playing in the empty attic.
SO she ran upstaIrsv-
Caught her unawares
And spanked her most emphatic.
have been collector for many years
of old and rare children's books and
mine is the only copy have ever seem
OF this little book.
If your correspondents on this sub
ject are sufficiently interested ! wilr
have the book at my office on few
Gays notice and will be very glac to
show It. HIT. B. JAcouELIN.
NEW YORK, July 90
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
A Victory for Humanity.

The three directors of the Ameri-
can Relief Administration who ar
rived home from Russia Friday after
laboring successfully to overcome
famine and disease in that doubly
stricken land said:
I'VE perhaps failed to realize in
the early part of our stay in Russia
what extremes of courageous applica-
ton, high minded devotion. contin-
nal combating of great odds and effi-
cient organization and administra-
tion had been necessary to achieve
the results of the American Relief
Administration work now in that
country.
THE Russian people have been
snatched from the brink of a catas-
trophe unequaled in the history of
the worlds disasters.
"One American has already sacri-
feed his life in the doing. A score
have been at the point Of death
from typhus. The famine is dead
and the Russian people live"
The world has heard of incidents of
this stupendous undertaking. Here
and there picturesque episode has
been preserved in news dispatch, off,
cia1 bulletin or private letter. But
no adequate conception of the magni-
tude of the job the American Relief
tackled, no just idea
of the difficulties it's agents overcame
no full understanding of the triumph
it accomplished in the cause of hui
manity will be gained from detached
narratives, regardless of their merit.
The full tale Of what these workers
for mankind's welfare have wrought
must some day be told. Their ex
ploits. their sacrifices, their plain
good sense must not go unrecorded
Who will write this history? Will II
be an American, stirred to action by
admiration? Or a Russian, fired by
gratitude?
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
The Roma Disaster.
Helium Gas and Better Engine Con.
troll Might Have Prevented IL.

To THE NEW York HERALD: ! heartily
indorse your editorial article In regard
to the use of helium In airships.
AS ] telesraphed President Harding
on the morning following the disaster to
the Roma. the accident would not havs'
happened had the engines been stopped
and the ship lightened by the loss Of
ballast when the rudder became useless
1000 feet in the air The Roma would
have fioated like free balloon instead
OF being driven to earth. understand
by the report that the pilot had no way
Of stopping the engines from the pilot,
house or releasing ballast.
CHARLES J. GLIpDEN.
New York, July 20.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Honoring the Athlete.

Friday was Hoover Day in Duluth.
Business was suspended for an hour
while his fellow townsmen paid
honor TO the winner of the worlds
amateur rowing championship. City
and State officials took part in the
triumphal parade A fund of SIS, 900
has been raised and will probably
be used to present WALTER HOOVER
with house.
Of HOOVER were an engineer, like
his distinguished namesake, and had
just returned home from construct
ing the greatest suspension bridge in
me world; if he were a physician
returning from a medical congress
where his. discovery of a cure for
cancer had been acclaimed; if he
were any one of number of other
things he would have been inter-
viewed upon his return, there would
have been a dinner, attended by the
citys representative citizens, and
many compliments, but there would
have been no parade, no hours cessa-
tion of business, no $4,000 fund.
1t was that way in Greece $500
years ago and it has been that way,
with few exceptions, ever since Men
respond to physical prowess more
spontaneously, more generously and
with less sense of proportion than
they respond to achievements of any
other kind. Even military success
takes a secondary place, if we ex-
cept the Roman triumphs. The
Greeks. though they appreciated in
rellectual achievements as much as if
not more than any people in history
went to the furthest extreme in their
adulation of the athlete THucYD-
IDEs, writing of the honors paid to
BRAsIDAs. Spartan general, for his
victories in the Peloponnesian wars
remarks that ''the multitude focked
round him and decked him with gar
lands, as though he were an athlete"
The winner of the ancient Olympic
Games was the recipient of many
honors. His name, parentage and
city were everywhere proclaimed; /;
costly gifts were showered upon him,
Il he were an Athenian he received
500 drachma, which was then snug
fortune, and free rations for life. If
he were a Spartan he could claim the
doubtful advantage of the post of
honor in battle. The poets sang his
glory. the sculptors immortalized him
in marble. Sometimes even sacrifices
were made to him.
Whenever an eminent educator,
alarmed at the attention devoted by
the student body to the football sched-
ule, implores stronger recognition of
scholastic ability he is echoing the
lamentations of MEMBRANES. who
complained that the strength of the
wrestler was preferred to the wisdom
# the philosopher, and the scorn of
EURrPIDEs, who thought the ways OF
the victorious athlete were too much
strewn with honor
! Perhaps If mans cerebral functions
were more spectacular in character
if-his brain could be seen working as
smoothly as his biceps, Tex RICK ART
could stage unadulterated cerebration
at Boyle's Thirty Acres and get away
with it. If only a mans brain could
be seen surmounting knotty prob
lem as pole vaulter tops the bar!
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Buy Art, Not Names.
Advice to Prospective Purchasers
Of Paintings. .

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: At last
dealers in fake pictures. y
Some seven years ago ! wrote letters
to your paper suggesting that persons
wishing to buy paintings, especially
modern ones. should visit the studios Of
the artists. This would insure the gen.
uineness Of the work.
The real reason why the paintings of
old masters, as we'll as some living art.
lists of repute, are initiated is very sim
pie to understand: the public and col
,lectors are intent on possessing a name,
not a work of art simply. The dealers.
aware of this weakness or obsession on
the part Of the buyers. quickly accom-
modate the collectors with a number
of paintings of men who have a name
in the profession. That explains the inn
possible number of Corots, Murphys and
the like.
Just last week / saw on the walls
OF an uptown shop about twenty paint
ings. ] asked If they were for sale. Yes.
They are from a private collection" ]
was told. l scrutinized them. They
were only names not one the work OF
a new artist; Corot, Riccis, Inness.
Keith. figured in the list. And from
s2.50O down to $500 were the prices
asked l almost shed tears.
The only way to improve this state
Of affairs in the art world is to impress
on the public the advisability OF not
buying simply names but of visiting the
those who are listed on the scroll OF
the arrived. so-called, but also those
who have been ignored by the powers
that be, but whose works are often
superior, more pleasing and more ro-
mantle. LOUIS NJ. EfLsHEM1Us.
New YORK, July 90.