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The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Let the Coins Alone.

Secretary MELLON of the Treasury
Department has courteously but en-
phatically refused, in letter to the
magazine Arts and Decoration, to be-
come a party to a movement, which
has the Endorsement Of a number OF
artists, to remodel the metal coinage
of the United States.
The country is to be congratulated
on Mr.. MELONS stand. Whatever
the artistic merit Of the coins now In
circulation may be, they are satis-
factory as medium of exchange,
and it should be remembered that
no designs. though each were mas
terpiece, would have the indorse-
ment Of all the artists. There would
always be a number Of men and
women whose ideals would not be
expressed in the designs and who
consequently would be anxious to
revise them.
The coins now in use are distinc-
tive. II they were subject to easy
counterfeiting the Secretary of the
Treasury would know it and would
move for a change. They stack,
which is of Importance to those who
handle them. The public is familiar
with them.
Let the coins alone.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Rules of Evidence Criticized.

In his address before the Maryland
Bar Association at Atlantic City on
July / SHERMAN l.. WHIPPLE Of Bos-
ton took for his theme "The Legal
Privilege of Concealing the Truth"
Under this title he grouped and
sharply criticized those long estab-
lished rules of evidence which ex-
clude hearsay testimony, and conf
munications between husband and
wife and between lawyer and client.
These time honored restrictions on
the testimony witness may give in
court at trial Mr.. WIITPPLE charac
terized as inconsistent with common
sense and obstructive, even some
times fatal, to that disclosure Of the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth which purports to be
the object OF legal investigation. So
far from hearsay testimony being
valueless, he argued, 1t may we'll be
of preponderating Importance in de-
termining the weight to attach to
testimony. IL may so illuminate OBJ
scurities as to bring out the truth
which otherwise might have remained
unrevealed. The general and unlim-
tied admission of hearsay evidence
might be dangerous, but, under
proper Limitations. it's admissibility
might be left to the discretion of the
presiding Judge.
AS for the rule which prohibits
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Why Plurns for Up State?
4 Demand for Home Rule as Re.
CARDS Federal Jobs In This City.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Would II
not be regarded as a singular II not
ludicrous thing IL 1t were seriously sug-
nish the candidates for upstate Federal
Offices?
Suppose boom were started for a
New Yorker for the office of Collector
of Customs at Buffalo or Watertown or
Plattsburg? The mere thought of 1t
shows its absurdity. but Is 1t really any
more absurd than for man from up
State to be appointed to fill Federal
office in New York city?
Is not the application OF the theory of
home rule Just as sound with respect to
Federal as state Offices? How can Re-
publicans expect to make and hold gains
In Greater New York IL the choice politi-
cal offices and far too many of the sub
ordinate places are given to upstate
men?
What incentive Is there for the faith.
full If they realize that the rewards OF
political merit are given to outsiders,
Aren't there plenty of good, loyal. com.
pctent Republicans in Greater New York
from among whom to make selections OF
Federal appointees? Everybody know.
that there are men who know New Yorl
andits needs much better than upstate
men do.
II the newspapers believe In HON,
rule, why not preach Il for Federal ap
pontees? A. r. SMITH.
RosEBANK, July s.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Another Grizzly Gone.
Government Hunter Shoots q Big
Arizona Bear.

From The Bulletin of the u. s. Department
Of agriculture.
The biggest and most notorious grizzly
bear in Arizona was killed during the
first week in June by Government
hunter employed by the Biological Sur
vey Of the United States Department of
Agriculture. after considerable time and
effort had been spent in trying to cap
.ure him.
This bear is positively Identified as a
grizzly. although its body was nearly
black and its nose and fianks were Gin
namon color. 1t weighed from 1900 to
1900 pounds and It's skin measured z
feet inches from tip to tip. When
standing on its hind legs the bear could
have stretched up a distance of eight
feet. The skull is sixteen and one-half
inches long.
The grizzly's preying on live stock
cost cattle owners at least $685. 900. One
man, however. upon whose range the
bear lived most Of the time expressed
the belief that the bear had destroyed
fully $4,000 worth Of his cattle. The
Biological Survey inspector reported that
the bear killed twelve head Of cattle
within one week. among them a pure
bred Hereford bull weighing 1900
pounds. Cows and young calves, how
ever. were the bears favorite food. He
stomach of a calf and then kill another
animal. He never went back to the
carcass a second time.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
German Junkers Accused.
Royalist Club Charged With Murder
at Home and Conspiracy Here.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The as
sassination of Matthias Erzberger on
August 27 last. OF DIR. Walter Rath-
enau on June "a. some 500 other muir
ders and the attack on Maximilian
Harden July are attributed In the
main to a group Of Junker royalists
and anti ti-Semites known as the Forest
ers or Consuls. This Is the chief Of
the nationalist clubs.
1t Is an interesting fact that this mur-
derous organization had affiliations, pos
sibly pro-consuls, in America during the
war. In April or May, 1917, cryptic
message was issued to leaders here
reading as follows "Provideantque con-
sules ut ne quid respublica detrimenti
accipiat." These are the closing words
Of a passage from Cicero's Fifth Phil
ippic against Marcus Antonius. The en-
tire passage Is in English: Il give my
vote that the whole republic should be
committed to the consus and that they
should have a charge given them 20
defend the republic and to take care
that the republic suffer no injury" the
republic being in this case the German
State or Reich
How much mischief was accomplished
in this country by the pro-consuls or
German sympathizers to whom this mes
sage came Is a question. At all events
this organization Is truly medieval and
recalls the Vehmgericht of feudal times
or our own Ku Klux Klan.
New YORK, July 5. A. NJ. E.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
New York's Death Rate.

The death rate of New York city
for the week ended at noon Saturday,
June "a, was 9.33, against 10.40 for
the corresponding week OF 1921. This
is the first week of 1922 which has
shown a decrease in the death rate
from 1921. The actual number Of
deaths in the week Of June "a this
year was 1,044, or 211 fewer than in
the preceding week and 103 fewer
than the number of deaths in the
corresponding week last year. The
rate 9.33 is the lowest recorded this
year.
The Board of Health records show
that in the first twenty-five weeks Of
this year there were 1884 deaths, a
rate of 1889 to the 1000 population.
In the corresponding weeks of 1921
there were 1885 deaths, a rate OF
1928 to the 1000 population. From
January / to June "a eighty-five in
fants under one year of age died out
o. every 1000 born. as compared with
seventy-five deaths in the corre-
spending period in 1921 in that age
group, an increase of ten for every
1000 births reported. The number
of these infants dying in 1921 was
4,743; in 1922 it had risen to $3.50.
There is nothing in the figures fol
the first twenty-five weeks Of the
year to give comfort; the increase in
the number of deaths of infants Is
distressing. The first encouraging
news that has come out Of the Health
Department statistics this year Is the
reduced death rate for the week OF
June "a.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
The wire stringer.

The Wire Stringer.
When 1 was stringing wires in No
Mans Land
(I'm driving a laundry wagon now).
S,ringing wires from listening posts.
from batteries, from headquar-
I used to get so much kick out OF them
trying to pot me
with rifles and machine guns and shells.
It's right good fun being RABBIT In
rabbit hunt
II you get by with it,
And can snicker at the stung hunters.
And I always did get by somehow.
Ry the edge Of my eyebrows
And the skin of my teeth.
Great old days!
Them potting away at me.
And me skipping In and out OF shell
holes
why. I kept a card index Of them shell
holes in my mind
I knew every one for miles.
And watched for new ones all the time
AFainst the day when would need
them.
Comes a barrage-and me
sDug in shell hole smoking cigarette.
All done-and out I jump
Still with two arms and two legs ana
nose and toes and everything.
And I wave my arms
And throw my head back laughing.
Laughing. laughing. laughing. laughing
A. their burned old shells that couidn
touch me
Um driving a laundry wagon now.)
MARY CARMAcK McDouGAL.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Governor Miller Again.

GEORGE A. GLyNN, Republican State
chairman, says there is no doubt that
Governor MILLER will be renominated
and Chairman GLYNN predicts the
Governor will sweep the State.
THE New York HERALD agrees with
the State chairman that the Republi-
can party should renominate NATHAN
l.. MILLER. whether another term is
to his liking or not and whether as
man of very modest means he can
or cannot afford to give two years
more of his time and services to the
public of New York. The Republican
party should not think Of nominat-
ing anybody else for Governor.
And although THE NEW YORK
HERALD does not pretend to beSable to
tell how any great election will 60,
tell it months before the candidates
are even nominated, one thing does
seem reasonably certain about the
November election for Governor Of
New York. 1t is that il the Republi-
can party cannot reflect NATHAN l..
MILLER on the record of his strong
administration Of his great Office and
the work he has done there for the
people of his State it is difficult to
conceive how the Republican party1n
this State could elect anybody.
In any event, the people Of this
State should have the opportunity to
do their choosing, to show whether,
when they have the chance to retain
the services of man SO able, so un-
firing, so successful in achieving, a
man who has put their State affairs
on so sound basis, has saved them
so much money, has so cut their
taxes-whether when they have the
chance to keep a man like that on
the job, at millions of gain to them
but at a financial sacrifice to him.
self, they will keep him OF lose him.
If the people of New York do not
want to keep such man for the
business manager of their great State
business let them make their choice
and take that measure of themselves
Let them throw away such an in.
comparable chance and get what4they
want and deserve.
THE New YORK HERALD is a:
strongly for the nomination ol
NATHAN l.. MILLER, the great bust
ness Governor Of the State Of New
York, as it will be for his reelection.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
The Ship Subsidy.
A Plea for the Establishment OF an
American Merchant Marine.

To TuE NEW YoRK HERALD: One OF
the most important subjects now before
the people of these United states, most
vital tc their interests, commercially
ana politically, in war and peace. Is the
shin subsidy. The passage OF the bill
nv the Congress considering IL Is an
absolute necessity 10 our prosperity.
II the merchants of our country
whether in the interior or on tie coasts
wish to deal with foreign countries when
and where they please. and thus avoio
counter business plots OF foreign rivals
the limited States must control It's own
shipping facilities for their accommoda-
ton. and IL war comes no adequate ex-
cuse is possible for not having sum-
cient water transportation for the men
ana material needed to insure our coun-
trv.. victory. Imperious necessity,
therefore, demands the establishment OF
an American merchant marine commen-
surate with the greatness Of our ma
tional interests and Importance.
The ship subsidy bill is to aid In this
establishment Owing to lower cost OF
living, material and labor In foreign
countries and to some OF our shipping
and sailor exactions, which, by the way,
could reasonably be modified, our ship
CORPORATIONS and our owners generally
hnd Il difficult and often impossible
TO compete with foreigners in the cost
OF carrying passengers and freight.
shippers as a rule will accept the
cheaper transportation therefore the
foreigners get most Of this business
and their country the proceeds. not to
speak of known instances OF national
fayortism In the care and delivery OF
the cargo.
Now Il Ia shameful state of affairs
that the United States should be thus
hampered in distributing its products.
Before our civil war we had fair mer-
chant marine, and considering the short
period of our existence, we had reason
to be proud of II. Most Of our goods
were carried in American bottoms and
to our country's profit. large number
OF capable and patriotic citizens are now
again cndeavoring to restore our former
maritime prestige. but need Government
assistance to overcome the obstacles
already mentioned, and until they are
firmly established In numbers and con-
sequently power for successful compe-
tition, when as in the past they will
take care OF themselves.
They need II exactly as the manu-.
facturers need the tariff for the pro
lection of their Industries, and the cost
thereof will be borne. and willingly, or
account OF the resulting benefits men.
toned. by the same public.
The only apparent obstacles 10 tn,
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
lob for n Policeman.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Please
help us here at Prospect avenue and
Freeman street. Boys collect here from
all over and OF all ages up to young
men. Sometimes as many as forty.
They play ball and II the ball goes into
baby carriage some OF them are
grossly insulting in reclaiming 1t. Ours
ing and swearing mark their talk, and
they keep their disorder up until late
at night.
We cannot get a policeman This Is
nice place to live. These disorderly
boys don't live here. ID. j. j.
NEW York, July 5.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Navy Has New Device to Map Sea Floor
Sounding Apparatus Expected to Revolutionize Navsa
ton Through Ease in Measuring Great Depths.

paratus recorded with accuracy and
rapidity. In the nine days it took to
make the trip from Newport to Glib
ralter. more than 800 soundings were
taken while the vessel steamed steadily
at fifteen knots an hour. except for
one tive hour interval
New Areas Mapped.
During this interval 1t was demon
strated that successful soundings could
be taken at intervals Of one minute in
the deepest water. The outline Of the
bottom of the sea was minutely recorded
between Jose chine and Tysburg Bank.
The sea bottom there was found to con-
sist of an extensive plain bordered by
mountains and table lands, some Of
which rose 1000 feet above the plain.
Several deep depressions. mono OF which
is shown on charts. also were discovered.
Positive depth data were obtained in the
vicinity Of the Azores Islands, where
existing charts show only negative data.
The results on the service tests, naval
officers feel, will make 1t inevitable
that the ocean should be remapped In
the near future and the characteristics
Of 1t unfathomed places revealed. There
Is no longer a limit. they say. to ex-
ploration of the sea floor.
The sound transmitter used with the
device develops a high frequency varia-
ton in the diaphragm which is in con-
tact with sea water. The high pitched
note carries over many miles and the
receiver Is capable of getting trans
mitter signals over long distances.
Apart from the aid it will give to
plotting and navigation the device, II
was stated. has great commercial pos
sibilities. One way will be to aid cable
companies to lay their lines with a
speed and accuracy heretofore inpos-
sible. 1t will only require a cable ship
matter Of hours to get All accurate
chart of any given area in which a
line is to be laid. With the new device
it would require lays where it formerly
took weeks. The value of sound re-
ceiving apparatus IN finding lightships
and buoys equipped with sound trans
mitters is already known to the mari
time world, though 1t has never before
been used for sounding the bottom OF
the sea-
The New York herald., 1922-07-06

passage Of this bill are, first. the in
cessant misrepresentation Of agents of
foreign rivals who, ever since the civil
war. whenever a ship subsidy bill was
broached have In their own interests
done their utmost to kin 1t, and. sec
ondly. certain Of our own citizens who
state that this subsidy will be distrib-
uted among political favorites.
But such obstacles are readily over
come: remember history in one case
and read between the lines. and in the
other believe that there are plenty Of
men Of integrity available and that such
only will be appointed TO administer the
subsidy.
> Let all good citizens and newspapers
join our President, who has the best
advice available as to the merits of
this bill. and speed him on his way to
the everlasting benefit to- the United
States of America. r. =
NEW YORK, July s.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
THURSDAY. JULY 6. 1922.
The Nations Normal President.

In his address at his home town
of Marion, Ohio, President HARDING
said: 1T is hard to be President and
be natural and normal" But surely
this President of the American peo-
pies Government as judged by that
address, with its sympathetic under
standing, simple graces and indefin-
able charm, is no less normal and
natural than the average manufac-
turer in his plant, the business man
ager in his office, the man in the
street.
From his delightful mule story, de-
lightful because Of the light hearted,
happy manner in which he applied
the boyhood incident to the unfold
ing of his career in Marion, to the
outstanding, virile attitude he re-
vealed toward the Herrin massacre,
strikingly expressed in scarcely more
than score of words, WARREN
G. HARDING, President Of the United
States, was the exemplar Of sound.
normal, dominant Americanism.
These few words of his upon the
right to freedom and the pursuit Of
happiness VIII go far with the coun-
try because in their very reflection of
the normal, natural American mind
they are the spirit which guides the
nation and which cannot be made
subservient to any tyranny whether
Of political intrigue and bargain or
of brute strength: a
"Mcn must be free to live and
achieve. Liberty is gone in America
when anybody is denied by anybody
the right to work and live by that
work. 1t does not matter who
denies"
And it is because the nation as q
whole, from it's Chief Executive t.
the American boy finished with
school and going to his first job
shares the solemn realization thai
this freedom to work is the mos
cherished of all the national right!
and privileges that the country cal
agree with the following words o.
President HARDING as to the safety
OF the Republic:
"I have no fear about the Republic.
America will go on. The
fundamentals of the Republic and all
its liberties will be preserved and
Government must maintain the SUI
premacy of law and authority. I'm
der these liberty has its fullest frui-
ton and men attain to revealing the
glory of liberty's institution"
These are the words of norma
man and normal President VIII
knows his American people well be
cause he is of and with them in al
their national aspirations. ideals an
purposes-knows they will not suffe
the negligent or supine public Office
that cringes before the lawlessnes
which sweeps on to an unspeakabl
Herrin butchery.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
either. husband or wife from testi-

either. husband or wife from testi-
flying to communications between
them, save when made in the pres
ence of third person. Mr.. WHIPPLE
remarked that the only reason as
signed for the exclusion of this form
of evidence was that it was against
public policy to impair the sacred
and hallowed confidence which should
exist in the married relation. But
he asks II a husbands admission to
his wife OF the commission of a
crime, OF inflicting injury on another
by negligence or of Indebtedness to
another would be such sacred and
hallowed confidence that public well
fare would be promoted by excluding
testimony that would reveal the truth
and thus further the cause Of JUS
tice. Would there be any greater
violation Of sacred and hallowed con-
fidence in admitting the testimony OF
wife than that of parent, a child
or even Of dear and intimate
friend?
Mr.. WHIppLE believes that the orr
gin of the privileged status Of CON-
munications between lawyer and
client was the desire to promote the
business of the lawyer and to assist
that phase of his activity which
was least commendable. To the hon.
est client merely seeking justice the
privilege is Of no value. 1t is the
criminal who confesses his guilt to
his lawyer and the shady lawyer
himself who are the beneficiaries OF
this exemption.
Mr.. WHIPPLE's address was an ap-
peal for the elimination, or at least
the radical modification, of some OF
the existing rules of evidence. He
declared that at their best they clog
legal procedure and at their worst
they are an obstruction to the dis
covery of truth and the administra-
ton of justice. His arguments Will
appeal not merely to the legal profess
sion but to laymen as well. Tho
laws delays and its cumbersome
methods. often apparently inconsist-
ent with the plain dictates Of COM
mon sense, are objects of a public
criticism which of late has shown a
tendency to take on an added enl-
rhasis. II Mr.. WHIppLE has opened
the way to an Improvement in meth
ods of court procedure he will have
conferred a benefit on the public.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
An italian Peasant.

Down in an alien city's dingy slum
She fashioned for herself little
shrine
A bisuue Madonna In a box OF pine
And here, when anything went wrong,
she'd come
And kneel for hours In supplication
dumb,
Until things faded and she seemed to
Before a shrine beside purple sea
gordered by dropping Hex and wild plum
And those who passed and saw her
kneeling there,
A wistful smile upon her visage sweet.
Guessed not that from the sordid,
jostling street
Her heart had stolen many miles to
faT
Once more down old familiar fra
grant ways,
To gather strength for ugly, care
filled days.
cHAnIprr BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-07-06
service to the aged is useless and is
repulsive to right minded persons.

service to the aged is useless and is
repulsive to right minded persons.
Everybody should show considera-
tion and respect for years on three
hundred and sixty-five days every
year and on three hundred and
sixty-six days in leap year, and
everybody who is worth his or her
salt does.
But this does not tell the whole
story of THE New YORK HERALD's OPP
position to the designation of Old
Folks Day.
There are too many days and
weeks ostentatiously set aside in
honor Of this or in furtherance OF
that. These especially designated
periods of time have become so
numerous they have lost their point.
They bore. They become a pest.
And in the specific case now under
consideration who on earth is going
to identify "old folks? Who wants
to be identified as "old folks?
The New York herald., 1922-07-06

s. stanwood MeniserI. president Of the Ma
tionaf Security League, will speak at g. Ro-
tary. Club luncheon. Hotel McAipin. 1880
p. NJ. -sta ,-fx1fag
Democratic Union of Women of Mdnhat-
tan opening Of. Hearst heafquarters,s $50
East Fifty-ninth street. 2:30 p. M: TSsr
Ciyitan Club. luncheon. Hotel Astor. 1880
p. M. s.'..s, .
American Clothing Designers Association.
convention. Hotel Pennsylvania. 10 A. M.
Thursday Club. luncheon. Hotel Pennsyi-
vania. ~ 80 p. NJ. r1r, tcs M
Grand Street Boys. meeting. Hotel Penn
sylvania. p. NJ. 1ydE t-
Umbrella Manufacturers Association. meet
Ing Hotel Pennsylvania, 4:30 p, M.
Dentists Cooperative Association. meeting.
Hotel Pennsylvania, p. M.
Presentation TO Guglielmo Marconi of the
John Fritz medal, Engineering societies
Building, 20 West Thirty-ninth street. 3
z. NJ.
International Ladies Garment Workers,
Union, meeting In aid OF striking coal
miners. 3 west Sixteenth street. p. NJ
s0sth Infantry Post, A. L.. dinner. Seventy
seventh Division Club, 27 West Twenty-fifth
street. 6 30 p, NJ. .lt