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18 1 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1931 THESE WILL NOT RETURN would shut off from State foresUtion for commercial purpose one acre in every seven of the land in the State. If the State really wants to raise timber, why should it set apart from that use these extra 1,500,000 acres? It might hope snarls such as have of lata drawn much attention. The Chief Justice recommends that lawmakers write laws more clearly. We cannot count on that as a sovereign remedy to the unwholesome growth of the bulk of law. Nor can we count on legislators, doing their work under the system of political compromise and barter, to reach the ideal of good workmanship in the framing of statutes.

We can at least accept the idea that if legislators would resign themselves to writing somewhat clearer laws they would not have to make so many of them. Indirection and ambiguity BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE 'Founded bv I.aae Van Anden 1841. (Trade Mark Eagle" Registered. i MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1931. FRANK GANNETT, President PnrSTON OOODFEIXOW.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all newa dispatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In this psper, and also the local netrs of spontaneous origin published herein. AU rights et republication of special dispatchea herein art also reserved. FROM EAGLE READERS myself and so more influence, so I have to give up what little I have for their benefit, AN OLD LADY. Brooklyn, Feb.

10. to acquire lumbered tracts therein and let them renew their growth at less than the 120 an acre that the planted forests on old farm lands will cost it. The issue is one of balance between the area to be devoted to preserved wilderness not to be lumbered and that to be assigned to the production of timber crops. The ratio of 4 to 1 may not be one-sided, but the matter deserves fuller discussion. Revolution in Spain.

When the recent uprisings in Spain were checked by the Berenguer Government with a display of armed strength, some military ex ecutions and the imprisonment of leaders, King Alfonso and his advisers believed that their troubles were at an end. They know better now. The revolutionary movement, failing of its objective while resorting to force, is coming measurably nearer to success through the action of the King himself. The resignation of the Berenguer Ministry left Alfonso with no government except such as could be maintained with the aid of the loyal elements in the army, which are none too strong. The King now finds himself driven to admit that he cannot rule According to report from Madrid he will try to form a ministry of liberals, which will summon a con stituent cortcs; that is, a convention charged with the task of framing a new constitution.

If a constituent cortes be called under the auspices of a government dominated by liberals an effort will be made to save the throne by fashioning a constitution severely limiting the power of the King. Something closely resem bling the British constitution would very likely result. The republican extremists who want the King to go would not be satisfied with this, but it would satisfy a large body of liberal opinion and it would be accepted by the royalists as the best means of saving a threatened regime. Alfonso is not personally disliked in Spain, but the system of irresponsible government for which he stands appears to be thoroughly disliked by the mass of the Spanish people. The system may be destroyed and the King saved by the surrender now made by the latter.

That "Childless Wife" Ruling. If a prospective bride tells a prospective bride groom that she is willing to bear children, if the marriage takes place, and after it the wife declares she will never bear children, is a fraud apparent on which an annulment of the mar riage may be demanded by the husband? That was the question originally before supreme Court Justice Byrne. He held that it was complicated by the fact or the assumed fact that the husband had condoned the fraud, if there was one, by living with the wife after her sec ond statement had been mace. Justice Byrne amplified his view in a newspaper statement. The Appellate Division held his law good.

Jus tice Hagarty was quoted as saying, "The contrary decision would uphold the doctrine of companionate marriage, which is abhorrent to the morality and the public polic of this State." In other words, if marriage could be annulled in this easy way, any couple could arrange to be bound only so long as they might choose to be bound by the matrimonial tie. Now counsel for the husband in the case at bar offers a plea denying that there was any condonation and asks the Appellate Division to rehear the matter, or if this is refused to give him the right to go to the Court of Appeals for final decision. He is answered by the wife's counsel, who declares that there is no law in this State compelling a married woman to bear children. This is, of course, a case-lawyer's plea. By Article Section 16, of the State Constitution, such part of the common law (of England) as has not been altered or repealed by legisla tion "continues the law of this State." We suppose no student doubts the common law view of the question involved, that granted physical and mental normality, the having of children is a legal incident of marriage.

The canon law goes further and prohibits any mutual pledge not to have children or even to delay having children until economic condl tions make it possible to support the children. However, in the case now before the Appellate Division on a request for a rehearing, if the court was misinformed on the matter of con donation and erred because of such misinfor mat ion, a reconsideration is wise. An appeal to the court of last resort would put both the trial Justice and the Appellate Division in a false position. A Plea for Plainer Laws. 'Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general thus Chief Justice Hughes formulates the presumable attitude of an un scrupulous administrator.

He hit off some of the other features of the present day in the realm of law and government in the same playfully sardonic vein in his address to the Federal Bar Association. But his address, in its main current, was distinctly serious. The multiplication of laws drew the Chief Justice's attention, but he did not, as some other authorities have done, absolutely condemn the present mass of law as excessive. Excessive it may be, for the comfort of those who have to observe the law. That does not render it necessarily excessive in relation to the demands generated by the growing intricacy of formalized social relations.

Indeed, the Chief Justice pointed out that legislative bodies, finding it impossible to meet these demands fully by laws admlnistrable through the regular courts, had resorted to the multiplication of administrative agencies for the business of social regulation. This "distinctive development of our era" has undoubtedly raised what Mr. Hughes terms the problem of ad ministrative Justice. Public service commissions, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Power Board, Radio Board and Tariff Commission all exercise more or less power of a nature resembling the Judicial. It happens, too, that the courts themselves come into competition with such bodies, when counsel find it passible to appeal the administrative boards to the regular courts.

That process makes for further legal let him get out of his bed, and (with the window open) in his pajamas and bare feet, stand perfectly still in the middle of the room for 15 or 20 minutes, or until he has sneezed three times. He will have contracted a six-day cold. He has been breathln? germs all night. They have not given him a The exposure to the cool air has given him the cold. That proves thBt "colds" are not caused by germs but by the blood becoming chilled.

I think it is unwise to tell people-that they may disregard exposure, draughts and wet feet. Floyd Bennett died from exposure. H. J. LATHAM.

Brooklyn, Feb. 10. by Frederic Halevy; which, the reader Nietzsche as a practical than a destructive American girl or when asked about "Oh, that's the guy blame for the war." Inquiry, "Have you by Nietzsche?" you no, I haven't and to! He's no good anyway!" Caesar, the good is interred Nietzsche's bones, and evil in the eyes nonunderstanding majority and maliciously the universe. SONIA H. GREENE.

Feb. 10. make, of themselves, for an excessive output of statutes. Executives holding the power of veto might well insist more than they do that measures coming to them state plainly what they signify. Wilbur E.

Rogers. In the death of Wilbur E. Rogers, who sue cumbed yesterday after a brief illness from pneumonia, The Eagle has lost a valuable mem ber of its reportorial staff and one whose work has been highly appreciated by readers of this newspaper. A native of Massachusetts, Mr Rogers attended Syracuse University and grad uated from the University of Kansas. He was a member of Kappa Sigma.

Coming to New York, he was employed by the Associated Press, the New York Evening Journal and the Daily News, as well as The Eagle. Mr. Rogers was a fearless and resourceful re porter. His knowledge of police work and the underworld was extensive and his articles deal ing with gangsters and crime were authorita tive. But Mr.

Rogers was versatile and his as signments covered a wide field. A host friends, as well as his coworkers on The Eagle will be saddened by the passing of a man who had those rare and indefinable qualities which mark the born reporter and newspaperman. Washington in His Writings. George Washington will probably never be read in the entirety by the majority of edu cated Americans; this for the simple reason that he wrote enough to fill twenty-five good-sized volumes. The proper reading of so much material would require at least three months of working days.

The fact remains that Wash Ington's writings abound in ideas, that they are in a sense comparable to those of Jefferson, also voluminous and too little read, and that they reach into some fields that Jefferson did not cover. President Hoover expressed in his preface to the forthcoming first volume of Washington's writings in the bicentennial edition a strong sense of the character and value of their content. Because of his own bent he notes particularly the competence of Washington as an engineer. That side of the great American may stand as a sample of the rich ramification of his highly practical mind. Washington dealt with matters of engineering because public interest and his own private interest as a man of wealth required that certain great engineering prob lems be solved.

But in the same manner he dealt with medi cine when, in command of the armed forces of the United States in the War for Independence, he compelled the troops to undergo inoculation against smallpox. Jenner's process of vaccination had not then come into use, and the older plan of inoculation imposed much greater strain on health. He nevertheless became convinced of its value in preventing epidemics of small pox among the troops and required the men to undergo inoculation by the wholesale in their Winter camps. And in the same manner he dealt with city planning when he undertook the creation of the present capital city. That be took a speculative Interest in the possibility of navigation by air is less well known, but appears equally char acteristic of the boldness and range of his practical judgment.

Emphasis has rested, since the beginning, on the moral soundness and the firmness of Wash ington's spirit. It will probably continue to rest on these essentials, for the simple reason that they counted for more than all the rest. But these qualities alone would not have made Washington the leader that he was. A wrong headed or a foolish man, no matter how sound at heart, would have lef others astray if he had led them at all, and mere force of purpose would have rendered his leadership only more harmful. The way to see a man like Washington is to behold his intellectual and temperamental fig ure in the full length; thus only can one real lze to what an extent many excellences worked together to make the entire man.

The new edition of his works should make such a view possible to those who will read it, and through the medium of briefer biographies to those who will not attempt so great a labor. That woman's inhumanity to woman makes countless millions mourn is a very general re flection. Possibly the sternness of a woman magistrate toward girls is 'only running true to type. Formerly men were knighted Just for stand ing their ground. Now Captain Campbell may get the decoration for making a speed record.

Perhaps equal bravery was shown. For if, as Scripture assures us, the horse is a vain thing for safety, the risks of the speed motor have the horse beaten by many miles. Just after William C. Redfleld has lauded the Dutch as unselfish colonizers the Connecticut tobacco men assert that there is forced labor in Sumatra. Holland is put in the class with Soviet Russia.

Probably what the Connecticut Valley doesn't know about Sumatra would fill, as Yankees say, "a large-sized Webster's Unabridged." The Sonora ranchman who hangs to his belt the scalps of three Yaqui Indians, picked at random, to show that he has avenged the killing of his wife by the Yaquis, is very human. But as the Yaquis still have his son in captivity they may have the last laugh. After all, guilt is personal, even in Mexico. Modern flippancy reached the limit when a woman nurse calmly told two Supreme Court justices, one 70 and the other 72, that "any person over 60 may be regarded is senile." The wonder Is that she was not summarily sent to Jail for contpmpt of court. Fossibly leniency reached its limit when she escaped.

LETTERS Better Have a Nurse Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I wish to make a plea for graduate nurses. How many people with adequate incomes have been, told by the doctor: You do not need special r.urses. The nurses in the hospital are very capable." If that is so, why does it not upply to the doctor's wife, his children or himseli? No one has ever seen a doctoi operated on without his two special nurses. II you can afford the comfort of having your own nurses, why is the doctor so considerate of your money? If at the end of your hospital stay your bill is comparatively small you won't look so aghast when the doctor presents his own bill Now is this fair? Where there is a training school the nurses are capable and well supervised, but busy. Ont night nurse will have from 15 tc 30 patients.

Where undergraduates are employed some are capable, but, occasionally, you will be cared for by an ex-gas-filling operator or an ex-waitress; charming girls, but hardly capable of recognizing the patient, who is going into shock, etc. None such is taking care of our considerate M. R. M. Brooklyn, Feb.

11. This Is Secession! Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Your articles, Brooklyn's Puzzle, biography after reading will And prophet rather one. The average boy will answer, Nietzsche: who is to Upon furthei read anythine will hear: I don't want to read ibout. As with with all that appears of the is flagrantly flaunted into Brooklyn. Call for Editor Brooklyn We call on a group of choral work.

Brooklyn for hundreds To reach these rather difficult. boost Brooklyn, thing can you a group will enjoy the name and A word every Thursday Chamber of We have, as Noe, who After Caporctto Erfifor Brooklyn Dally Eagle: During his lecent reception as Marshal de Franc? at the French Academy, Geiier retain stated, unequivocally that the French and British divisions which had crossed the Alps after Caporetto, did not participat-" in the fighting on the Piave, and that the merit and glory having saved Italy from the Austro-German invasion belongs entirely to the armies of Italy. (See the French daily Le Temps, Jan. 23, 1931.) Marshal Petain went further, he reminded his countrymen also of the heroic deeds ol the 2d Italian Army Corps at Rheims, rcpulsinc repeated German attacks, thus barring the road to Epernay. The world, and especially the Italians highly appreciate the honesty of the first soldier of France in disposing once for ever of the legend that the French Army had saved Italy after Caporetto.

FILIPPO TOMASELLL New York, Feb. 12. i 1 Judge Seabury Carries On. It anyone imagined that the resignation of Isidor J. Kresel, as counsel for the inquiry into the magistrates' courts, meant a slowing up of that investigation, Judge Seabury has removed Mhe impression.

Instead of restricting the the referee has indicated an intention to i broaden it. This decisive action is doubly welcomed. With the agitation and maneuvers, the investiga-' 5'tion of the minor courts, ordered by the Ap- apellate Division in the First Judicial Depart f.ment, has been the most thorough and effective in dealing with the scandals that have been 'uncovered in New York in the past year. 3 Mr. Kresel deserves full credit for his part in the investigation.

He laid the groundwork the extensive probe that has revealed so slimy trails. That Mr. Kresel should forced to let go in the midst of his work regrettable, but Judge Seabury and the staff rcl Inquisitors promise to follow all of the trails cf graft, no matter how high up they may go With the legislative Investigation of New X.York City in doubt it is reassuring to have Judge Seabury indicate his determination to on in the work that has already been so He has been hampered in many ways T. and may expect further obstruction, but he will have the support of the public at large In i finishing the job he has undertaken. Abel E.

Blackmar. The vast majority of lawyers practicing at the Kings County Bar will mourn the death Abel E. Blackmar as that of a friend. He "was learned in the law, dignified, kindly, cour- ifteous personally and on the bench. And his 5 reputation as a Jurist had been built up long before Governor Hughes recognized it by an appointment to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Blackmar as counsel for the Produce Ex- change fought a combination of twoscore to compel them to abolish differentials against the port of New York. He had been to the commission appointed by Gover-: nor Black to pass on the $9,000,000 improve-: "mrnt of the Erie Canal. He had drafted the Barge Canal bill and had argued successfully for its constitutionality. He had been of the 1903 Citizens Committee of Sixty-three to promote direct nominations.

He had been counsel for the Public Service Commission. As a Supreme Court Justice Mr. Blackmar succeeded Willard Bartlett, who had been elected to the Court of Appeals. Designated In 1917 to the Appellate Division, he succeeded as presiding justice, Almet P. Jenks, resigned.

He was compulsorily retired at the age of 70 under the statute. Always companionable, a member of several flubs, Justice Blackmar had innumerable friends outside the legal profession. His mind had many facets, all truth-reflecting. His passing is a real loss to the public life of Brooklyn. Forests, Preserved or Cropped? Governor Roosevelt stated plainly in his speech at Ithaca both the sense of the pending measures affecting park and forest lands and his own attitude to these measures.

He expressed his approval of the proposed Hewitt amend- ment, to finance reforestation by the State and to extend such reforestation among counties afflicted with abandoned farm lands. He recorded himself as dubious of the worth of two other proposed amendments, to put new roads through the forest preserve and to create great recreation grounds in the Adirondack and CatskiU Parks, at the expense of the forests themselves. He declared for the proposed law to extend the bounds of the Adirondack Park to take in an- other 1,500,000 acres. On the Hewitt proposal the Governor's favorable attitude may be supported by strong arguments. State forestation has done well in lands.

The State should get its money back with accrued interest in time if it would set out and cultivate forests on 1.000,000 now idle acres at an outlay of $20,000,000 over fifteen years. The State's demand for timber would absorb the crop of these acres, and the money would stay at home Instead of going elsewhere and leaving New York State eventually poorer by hundreds of millions of dollars. -The money laid out for State forests would give occupation to some of the rural population. On the proposed law to extend the Adirondack Park the arguments in favor of the Governor's pewit ion seem less clear. That park contains bout one-tenth of the StaU's land area, not all in park lands of the Stale, tut all of it preserved from use for commercially productive fore't.

once in the States possession. The same restriction ouid apparently apply to the 1.500. 000 acres that the proposed law would add to the park ugion. That region, thus extended, 1 Choral Singers Daily Eagle: you for help. We arc men interested in There Is room in a glee club and many would like to join us.

seems to us to be In your work to what finer one do than to bring together of male voices who singing and bringing Brooklyn before thousands thousands? about us: We meet at 8 p.m. in the Commerce Building. our director, Thurston is 'mown for his musical work and as organist at Wanamaker's. The chamber has kindly offered us the use of the rooms and its name, but naturally it cannot be financially responsible for our small bills. We have about 15 or 20 active members.

We hone of us have concert voices, so no one need be timid about joining. Of course, we hope in time to have a waiting list and then only the best voices will be considered. In time we hope to have a sponsor, some one interested enough In our future to back our small needs. BROOKLYN GLEE CLUB, Lewis W. Roberts.

President. 225 E. 17th Brooklyn. Tarks for the Car-less Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I want to thank Mr. England for his efforts in our behalf as stated In The Eagle on Feb.

6. I hope he will be able to enlist all the support he needs. When I read last Summer of the cutting are very interesting to me. I was a resident of Flatbush for 30 years and was one who voted against Brooklyn being annexed to Man hattan; this was over 30 years During the time that the agita tors and politicians were urging the question in re meeting with my neighbors I told them I was acalnst the proposal. I told them: Think well before you give up your birthright; you are called on to give up the most valuable location for a great city with almost unlimited water frontage for shipping facilities." I stated that Brooklyn lies between what will be the greatest financial center In the world and the Atlantic Ocean.

I said some of my hearers would see the day when they would re gret this action. I would suggest that Brooklvn break away from Manhattan and be free once more. JOHN WATT. Somerville, N. Feb, 9.

Taking Nietzsche Literally Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In last evening's Eagle I was Brooklyn's 'Punch' Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Merely a symptom that civic pride here approRches "zero." (1) All Brooklyn Congressmen took a pay boost in 1925. Received $400,000 wages since. (2) Court award of $340,008 wages (wages, mind you!) to old Naw Yarders, ignored by the $400,000 M. C's. (3) Arkansas Congressmen get action.

Why not ours? Yours without rancor Glad to be alive. GEO. HIRAM MANN. Brooklyn, Feb. 12.

The Recent Subscriber Editor Brooklyn Daily Engle: As a dally reader of your paper I Just want to wrlt you that I appreciate the good work that Mr. Patri's column dors for mothers. I used to live in New York and recently moved out here and when a man asked me to subscribe to The Eagli and I noticed on the sample copy that Mr. Patri contributes I becam another member of "The Eagla Family." I also find Helen Worth's articles very interesting F. KAHN.

Brooklyn, Feb. 12. Good Advertising By John Alden rcolsate psychnloijists In exprrimfnts a Bttldmnre Collrie rport that the collraa lirls ho ate th most candy hid th lfat troub rolm to slten. did not to be called twice In the mornlnu end wre bothered less bT dreams, "owina; the rarbohvdratea auoplyinir the muscle quirkly with alTroaen or blood suear. which is the nrimsrv muscle food." News.l "Trie time has come," the Cynic said, "To talk of many things.

Of sugar-ads to science wed, With force that science brings. 'Of sweetest maids who have no fear Of tissue adipose; skin. Of dreamless sleep to mortals dear, And evidence that grows. 'Of what you want that's good for you. To aid night's wholesome rest.

Which theory may well be true, Though Puritans protest. 1 think such advertising cute. And maybe, so do you Lor' bless the Sugar Institute, And all its allies, too. What Do Creditors Say? Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: For making real estate what It really should be I would suggest that they look into the situation of expiring mortgages and, if possible, present some bill that will protect the small home owner from losing his property by being forced to pay up part or the whole of his mortgage. There might be an emergency law that would hold for a year or two, making it Impossible for the loaning institutions to cnll in their principal or any part of the mortgage as long as the owner of the property has the property In good repair and his interest, taxes and assessments paid up.

May I also mention that the large costs upon the mortgagee foreclosing may have something to do with these loe.ning Institutions calling in part of their mortgages, and I feel that, unless something is done to protect the small home owner, the foreclosing of mortgages for the last year, even though they have been tremendous in number, will be infinitesimal compared to what they will be in the next year cr two. A moratorium on expiring mortgages for the next year or two would help tremendously In stab-ilizinj real estate values. L. BLATTMACHE. Hollis, N.

Feb. 9. How to Catch Cold Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Dr. Brady says that nothing penetrates the unbroken down of trees 50 years old In Prospect Park to make motor speeding less dangerous (to motorists) I said, "To him that hath shall be given." Where can poor folk who own no cars go to see green grass and trees but to the park? Motorists have hundreds of miles of speedways that I have helped to pay for. They are crying for the abolition of grade-crossinss to relieve them from the results of their own carelessness and have to help pay.

What is being done for my benefit in Prospect Park? There must be more people that do not own cars than there are car owners or riders. Why take trees from those who have no cars for the benefit of those who are more fortunate? I have asked a lot of questions and now I will give whnt I think the answer: Car owners have more money than such people as amazed to find that Dr. M. F. McDonald haK so far misinter preted Nietzsche's philosophy as to state that one "should trample his neiRhbor down," and that this is so typically exemplified in the subway, where we find even the most modest girls flailing their arms to get into a much crowded car.

I fear Dr. Mcuonaia is interpreting the German professor literally. The proper interpretation to put upon his philosophy is that if Nietzsche had his way, there would never be such crowded subways and there would be no need for trampling of any kind. It is appalling how many people read Nietzsche and how few know how to Interpret him. Any one who really wishes to understand him should read H.

L. Menken's The Philosophy of Friedrieh Nietzsche." I would advise the After having handled chemicals (Including white lead) for years without any ill effects, I believe he is right. Dr. Brady continues 'o say that a "cold" Is caused by germs. I say that a "cold" is cnu.vd by the blood hccomlng chilled.

A year ago I rTiallenged Dr. Birty to a test. He never accepted my challenge. Now I offer him another test; an easy one; and I will prove my case. At 5 o'clock tomorrow morning.