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doned. _ Tighe’s, lesser crime will be punished. The pity , punished. _ tion of all the gas services in New York City. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULIT? (Podiiened Dally Except Sunday by The Company. Nos. 63 to 63 Park R RALPH PULITZER, President, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treemu: JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretar: Park Row. 63 Park Row. MEMWER OF THE ASSOOLAPED Press, The Associated Press ts exctusively entiiea to the uv for repubi (ef all news Gespatches credited to {t oF not otnerwise creuitea In tas paper fend also the local news publishea hereto. REGISTER. Register this evening. You cannot vote unless you register. The sooner you register the less inconvenience you are likely to have in waiting to be enrolled. The last days of registration week are more likely fo see crowded registration booths. * ‘There will be plenty of procrastinators without your adding to the number. . Register early and avoid the rush. Do it this evening. Don’t wait until you are urged by a party worker. Megister on your own initiative. Take the first step toward voting, and do it now. ' “E woul not want to be your President un- less you are going to give us a Republican Con- gress to translate Republican promises into legislative enactments.”—Warren G. Harding to ‘his fellow-Americans, Oct. 29, 1920, Did his fellow-Americans overdo the job, or | whet? | “A CLUBBER CONVICTED. ws last Friday, the members of a jury found Clubber Tighe guilty, they confirmed the judgment of the people of the city. It is a source of satisfaction to find the law pro- wides protection for citizens against policemen who amuck. . Ht is well the citizen finds he may appeal to a thigher authority than a police official who held a bearing with and dismissed a witness hostile to Tighe the angry statement: ‘You are a liar.” The jury has spoken. Tighe is guilty. He.de- rves a stiff sentence. His offense cannot be con- As that his greater crime against the decent, manly, “brave men in the Police Department has not been His actions shook the faith of New Yorkers in the fairness of ghe police force. Police Department discipline had ils opportunity to vindicate itself, and failed. The theft of lHquor reported to be worth $300,000 from Joseph Leiter’s country home lends additional point to what Judge Ben B. | Lindsey of Denver is just now saying: That i} the Prohibition Law doesn’t bother the rich. Is this the kind of a law that increases re- spect for law generally among a people taugat to believe themselves free and equal? ALONG THE SAME ROAD. } HAIRMAN PRENDERGAST of the Public Ser- | vice Commission shocked the members of the | fimpire State Gas and Electric Associations when he advocated modified municipal ownership and opera- In effect, Chairman Prendergast was suggesting something very like the Transit Commission's pro- posed solution of the traction tangle. The principal difference is that the gas companies seemed to have fared better than the transit lines in their appeals to the former Public Service Commis- sion and are in better financial condition than the traction lines. This accounts for the horror with which the gas men regarded the Prendergast proposal. The gas companies have not yet reached the place where they feel that no change can make things worse than they are. Another stay granted in weather, BOLSTERING THE FAITH. ‘OR those who are scanning the business horizon for the rising sun of prosperity and good times we reoommend a careful analysis of Senator Penrose’s renewed enthusiasm for tariff-making, To get the significange of Senator Penrose’s change of front, one needs to know the real me- chanics of tariff4naking. The tariff is a G. O. P. shibboleth. Jt is an article of faith. Tie tariff-makers insist that the tariff makes good times. And it is true that busi- ness booms have often followed the enactment of lariffs. But there is a difference between cause and effect and two unrelated events that happen in Sequence. It is now recognized that business activity runs in a fairly regular cycle. Prosperous development of business follows hard times as surely as depres- tion follows unhealthy expansion. The charter members of the tariff crowd in Con- gress are astute business men. Time after time they fmave read the business barometer aright. Time after time they have waited until the barometer registered clearing skies before passing a Tariff Bill, ‘Then, as the skies cleared, they have registered self- satisfaction. They have “pointed with pride” and proclaimed, “We did it with our tariff.” the trial of the Sh aed haat Eo) But foe men of Oe Penrose group realize that the cal oom ave LG Wi ow) | which the rest of the country has paid, They would like to keep on. But they realize that the booin * times of 1919 and 1920 shook the country’s faith in the infallibllity of the dictum that hard tlmes always result from a Demoeratic tariff. To put it plainly, the tarlf beneficlarles did not dare pass a G, O, P. tarlff while the country was liquidating, The old fraud would have been exposed, By the same understanding of tariff machinery, it is evident that Senator Penrose and his friends anticlpate a revival of business In 1922 and they want to be on hand with a tariff to explain the better business. They think the old game is worth one more effort. They want to re-enforce wavering faith. ee egee OPEN TO ALL. bite it happens to be the Mayor or Comptroller Craig who speaks, the Hylan Administration goes on charging the Transit Com- mission with the fell design of forcing the city to take over transit securities at fancy valuations to be fixed arbitrarily by the commission, If this were the Transit Commission’s intent, would it have been fool enough to put into Its report anything so needlessly embarrassing to its purpose a8 the following? In readjusting securities on the basis of houest value the commission has in view, and will insist upon, the elimination of “water” of every description and the frank recognition of @ depreciation that investors have long since discounted. The extent of the “depreciation that investors have long since discounted” is something neither the Transit Commission nor anybody else can conceal or minimize. It is measured in figures open to all. The Times printed yesterday tables showing losses In the market value of New York traction securities during the last nine years. The aggregate of these losses was $317,875,000. To mention only one or two typical “discounts”: Interborough Rapid Transit 5 per cent, bonds '($160,585,000 outstanding) reached in 1912 a mar- ket price of 105, representing a value of $168,000, 000, To-day they are quoted at 55%, market value $89,500,000. New York Railway adjustment in- come 5 per cent. bonds sold nine years ago at 5984. To-day they can be bought for 814. peut common stock has come down from 22 to 17%. Brooklyn Rapid Transit stock has dropped from 944% to 7%. As the Times noted: It is rather @ remarkable fact that specu- lation in traction stocks has almost com- pletely died out within the last few years, A cahvass of the financial district has disclosed that not a single large investment house has sent advices to ite oustomers on these securi- ties for many yea: At one time they were the market leaders and speculative favorites, while the bonds were eagerly sought for investment. These are outstanding, known facts aboui the depreciation of traction stocks as discounted by investors, Can any sane man believe the Transit Commis- sion would have gone out of its way to call attention to this depreciation or to pledge its own insistence upon “frank recognition” thereof in fixing traction values if it were only scheming to shower gold into the laps of traction security holders at the city’s expense? The people of New York are not half-witted. They may not be convinced that the Transit Commission's plan cannot still be improved. But as between the Transit Commission report and a Mayor whose policy is neither to know nor care what the report actually says, they can make up their minds who is trying to bamboozle the city. This is Fire Prevention Week. It is estimated that 90 per cent. of the fires reported in the United States are the result of carelessness, That carelessness costs thousands of lives and property losses of some $370,000,000 each year. Unless he can prove due care and precaution, oughtn't it to be regarded as something worse than a misfortune for a man to have a fire on his premises? European cities so regard it—and have far fewer fires. “TWICE OVERS, $60 HERE is nothing good about the American valuation plan except the word ‘American.’” National Council of American Importers and Traders. U KLUX KLANISM, like every anti- American purpose, is bound to perish even as America is destined to lice.” —Rabbi Stephen S, Wise. : ss ’ ce THs Government has confidence in the Govern- ment of Dr. Wirth (the German Chancellor). The undertakings made by the present German Govern- ment have been fulfilled.’ —Premier Briand of France. “ce THE first step toward a permanent peace lies in the reduction of armaments; above all, the suicidal pyramiding of navy shipbuilding.” —Gcorge His From Fvening “Ecclesiasticn Yo the Baitor of The Exening World If the memory of the writer serves him well, it was Confucius who said that “He who forms conclusions too rapidly often forms them incor- rectly.” Even to this day the words of China's practical philosopher are| true and one dare say that the critic | who signs him- * will agree) tin- of ‘Hcclesiasticus,” self “Not a Prohibitionist,” with them before ished, . In the first place the critic of “Ec clesiasticus” confuses cus” with “Ecclesiastes, book of the Old Testament. According to the Douay and Rhen- ish versions of the Holy Bible, pu this letter is another lished in New York by Edward Dunigan & Bro., No. 151 Fulton Street, near Broadway, 1855, “Eccle- siasticus” has fifty-one chapters. Eyen in Chapter LIL, there {s a para- graph which may be appropriately applied to “Not a Prohibitionist.” “46. I stretched forth my hands on high, and I pewailed my tgnorance of her.” Since "“Ecclesiasticus” “was written after the time of Esdras, it is not in the Jewish canon; but is received as canonical and divine by the Catholic Church.” According to the same Bible “Eccle- slastes” has twelve chapters. “Phe Pearl Reference Bible,” publiaed by William Collins, Sons & Glasgow, MDCCCLXX., 5 8” has twelve chapters and " Closiastious seems not to be reco: nize Furthermore, the writer did not state that “Ecclesiasticus” had only thirty-one chapters. He simply quoted several paragraphs from Chap- ter XXXI. of ‘Hcclesiasticus.” Lastly, the word “wine” appears so frequently that if it owed as freely in life as it did from the pen of the Biblical writers one could entertain his wet friends for a long timo to come, JOHN LYNCH. Brooklyn, N. ¥., Oct. 5, 1921, « “The Gr Mayor.” ‘To the Editor of The Dvesiug World Hoving read your editorial to-day on John F. Hylan, the Mayor of the greatest city in the world, I think and know your criticism of him unwar- ranted in face of what the former city administrations have done to improve things !n general. Back in 1907 and 1908 I attended public school on part time in Public Bchools Now %, 28 and 40 in tho Bronx. re very much disgusted with the sc! regards the part time studies, because half of the time I would go late to school, and part time did not give me enough time to study under a teacher. My parents, being foreigners and taxpay- tra also thought this was not the right thing to do. I travel around Greater New York every day in all the boroughs and I see more new schools being bulit now than there ever was under any ad- ministration I gay very emphatically, gi another chance to see if he wo up bis programme, As to the po- om, there have always been irrespon- pI What king of letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? These is fine mental exo cise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ¢o esg aweoh in few words. Take time to be brief. ete | clesiasti- | _ Rn te Dithine teenth atten og weve d, UOeUBeeH iv, dowds World! reat Pilg fentue Wor), Dun G. ia World Readers Isn't it the one They are all weeded out sooner or later. Out of about 14,000 policemen in New York City, if about a dozen bad men are found on the force, why in the name of all that is good and holy condemn the whole force? You say that the newspapers are not maligning the Mayor nor his Ad- ministration, Then who are you and |the other newspapers maligning? The late Joseph Pulitzer must bo |turning in his grave at some of the infamous lies you are writing. You are not writing public opinion on the Mayor, but you are trying to create public opinion. The public can read as well as see the things that are being done by this administration. You are being paid |by thé newspaper readers and adver- tisers of your paper. Don't be so partial in politics. The public utili- ties, or what could be called “public futilities,” way is “the more they make | the more they want.” John ¥, Hylan was the greatest Mayor of New York since Gov. Done- gan was Governor of what is Now York City now. Yours truthfully MBL. KEARNS New York, Oot. 7, 1921. Fighters and Workers. To the Editor of The Evening World: I notice in to-day’s Evening World| that Mr. C. H. Sherrill “Sees a Balkan | War Bigger Than Ever.” I think the sooner the Serbians and Roumanians get at it the better. Extermination 1s the only oure for these Balkans or others who forever want to Aight Funny that it's co easy to get people to fight and so hard to get people to go to work! If the United Ste wanted two millions of men to fight | you could get them in a week, Yet | to-day the farmers of the United States could use over two million workers, but can’t get them, But few seem to want to work. Many want to be fighting men—that is, if strut- ting around in uniform, doing nothing} and living on the taxpayer is what comprises a fighting man, READER. | Veteran erence. ‘TW the BAitor of The Bening World Ex-service men, let's get together and tell our friends the truth about the veteran preference amendment. | Be on the job at the polls. Tell your| friends to vote for Amendment No. 1 This ts a call for all American Legion and V. F. W. men to fight for that which they all deserve, Don't let tj the public th! old war cry diers.” stay-at-homes poison Election Day with the We couldn't all be sol- That was a matter of choice. New York, Oct. 7, 1921. J.0'D, cor To the Baitor of ‘We Evening World | Your “Hylan” editorial in tins eve ning’s paper {8 another disgraceful | example of how far will discredit one of the t J eity has ever had Tow since godson of! I'm mother o: and hence dee} family of “fare” ly interested in the UNCOMMON SENSE 5 By John Blake F (Copyright, 1921, IS YOUR MIN by John Blake.) D A LOAFER? You may be absent minded and still highly competent. Your mind may wander from your surroundings until your family and friends suspect that you are not all there, and yet be far above them all mentally. The important thing is not that your mind is absent or wandering but where it is at such times. If it is engaged on the working out of important prob- Jems it may be better employed away from the place where you happen to be. It is not ne of every person in the street ssary that you notice the ¢olor of the eyes car if you are turning over in your mind a means of getting your salary raised at the end of the month, Many very great men are absent minded. Endless are stories told of them. the Yet their minds are always absent on important busi- what is going on. When they get back they can be acutely conscious of Men aud women can be roughly classified in two types those who live within themselves, Both are useful and both Your care is to see that y: taken up by their contacts and those who may be very able. our wits are not what is called “wool gathering” during your fits of absent mindedness. If your mind shies at a job because it is difficult and follows the line of least resistance to absolutely idle specula- tions, bring it back and set it to work. Be assured that nothing, not even thought, accomplished easily. is ¢ver Sometimes a paragraph you have read or an observation you make will open a train of thought that is worth follow- sing up. Then it wil! pay to be absent minded for a while. But don’t let your brain be A. W. O. L., as they the arn If it must be away, It is the loafing mind any mind will loaf if Ha MGM ITE NOOEAT ANAS | let it. Not to assist Mayor Hylan and most | assuredly not to prove a 6-cent fare | sufficient! That's just the rub, The Mayor has maintained the 6-cent fare despite all opposition; for neither your paper nor the corporations have lent sup- port, moral or any other kind. Criti- Jelem is ch Still, we can ride trom Van Cortlahdt’ Park to the nether end of Brooklyn for a nickel! If 1 vememb nly a very short while ago it be ne evident the best papon the Millerites, or, in other words, the traction interests, could use would be to maintain the 6-cent fare till after election, Thus not make it a campaign issue. ‘As to the school situation and in- creased expenses Did you not ° prove of increased s 8? Were not laws passed ishing the me? Now you ch them up to an Admiinistrat Logical? ou stam the » did to the B. R. T. car men, First nye puiladt jhe Was with us and then went to o MA the B. RB. T. again. Wi ne reader child in school, |tell me who got that $100,000 to bh not jnetficiency! jup the BR. T. cay men's union? Remember all. Mayor Hylan had to|Hylan and Enright? One thing Tain fight, not only the most unusual con- |sure of is this, he will sna 4 the, 34,000 ditions known in tite history of our | votes of the car men’s union, opncaad ba ‘Brooking, Ost. & men in the Police Department.) 5-cent farc, May I ask, who appoint Cdantalentatenrt rent tbe Taint Socio airy? abut ay in be sure it is away on important busi- that will keep you down, and that would tend to ameliorate condi- tions, Face the truth! Give credit where credit 18 due. Hylan has refused to become an Interborou tool, hence you stigmatize him. You are doing to bim exact what you did to Gov. Smith last year before election. \""As to the Gas and Flectric Light |Company, did they not receive per mission from the courts to increase rates? Will you publish thie? “HYLAN MARY." New York, Oct. 6, 1921 [Euitor’s note: Gov. Smith had no stancher support than from The Eve- ning World.1 Hylan and the B. R. T. Workers. To the Uditor of The Evenins World Tam with you, W. H. S. If Mayor has the idea of re-election he s another think coming after whut | Hy i a ik” | woul make of 1176-83, as war The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff LIV.—THE MEN WHO USHERED IN THE AUTOMOBILE ERA. The automobile is as surely @ French invention as alr travel on the heavier-than-air principle is the re- swt of American ingenuity. These two tiventions, with wireless telegraphy, mark the latest victories that man has won in his age-long battle against time and space. The motor car—that powerful in- strument of peace that helped so em- phatically to win the late war—is the joint product of a French sports- man’s enterprise and a French me- chanio's industry. It was Comte de Dion who, in 188% suddenly vanished from the boule- vards, cafes and sporting resorts of Paris, to devote himself to the task of producing a self-drawn carridge. With him he took into bis seclusion a mechanic named Bouton. From that year until 1888 De Dion and Bouton worked in a woodem shanty at 6uresnes on thelr carriage, while they cast about for an engine that would make it go—a plain case of putting the cart ‘before the horse. Finally, in 1888, M. Serpollet came to the rescue with his small-bore tubular boller. It was Serpollet tha made the De Dion-Bouton self-pro- pell.ng carriage propel itself, At the “Salon du Cycle” of 1886, King Edward VII., the “first sports man of Europe,” saw the Serpollet at work and promptly bought it. But the Serpollet was a steam carriage, handicapped by all the drawbacks inherent in steam locomotion. It took a German, Herr Daimles to displace the tubular boiler with ofl motor. That invention made @ real automobile out of the De Dion- Bouton-Serpollet steam carriage. At this time a French editor mage the epigrammatic prophecy about the motor car: “It is not a sport, but @ transport. This Gallic estimate of the value of the automobile was confirmed grimly in the late war, when thé transportation of troops and supplies vy motor car saved France in the first German rush upon Paris and furnished a powerful supplement to the French railroads in keeping men and munitions pouring to the front and moving behind the lines through- out the struggle. To French inventiveness, Amertcam power of production has added enormous stimulus in the distribution and perfection of the automobile as an instrument of both sport and !m- dustry. The De Dion-Bouton experiments jat Suresnes in 1882-1888 have created an enormous industry in America. The export value of American motor cars and motor supplies in 1920 mounted to nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. . In the same year the capital tied up !n automobiles in America was estimated at $6,000,000,000, or a third of the total amount invested in rallroads—a stupendous advance In an industry of which the beginnings date back only thirty years! ‘And the vast industrial posstbit!- ties of the toy to which the Par sportsman and his mechanician as sociate set their brains in 188% is still in its infancy. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 85.—MELANCHOLY. an tha derivation cf the word “‘met- ancholy” is concealed, like a crypto gtam, or hidden writing, the basic be~ lief that the state of the mind is the outcome of physical conditions, Our term “melancholy” is derived from the ancient Greek words “me- las” (black) and “chole” (bile). Thus fa person of mournful, apprehensive or dispicited disposition or state of mind was regarded as the victim of too much black bile: In this conception of the dependence of the mind or spirit upon physicat conditions a great scientific truth ts embodied. To this teuth, after centu- ries of nonsense, science is returning with the fidelity of a magnetic need! deflected from its trie temporarily course. “‘That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick | erga eth Ets ee 'The term “Old Scratch” is from Skratti, a Scandinavian word for demons, Weird and lonely rocks in little frequented spots in Norway are called “Skrattasker,” from their be~ ing thought to be haunted by Skrattt, ¢ 6 7 is a term derived from the name of a Scandinavian demon jnumed Nikr, who haunts mines. The | name of the metal nickel comes from a legend among the miners that the hardness of the ore is attributed to teat evil spirit Nikr “Old Nick” A palindrome is a word, sentence o: even a verse that reads the same backward and forward, from left to t or vice versa, For illustration: it is opposed; art sees trade's position.” In ¥reka, Cal, ie a baker's sign which may be called a natural palindrome, It reads, “Yreka Bakery.” Governor's Island Hospital of 1868 (which in 1913 was the Eastern De~ partment headquarters) had a pump connected with the Brooklyn water well which lasted, handle and all, as late as 1905. A well in the arsenal yard “way @ pretty spot, arranged in the nature of a spring house, with a fight of steps going down and & little arbor to protect it from the In 190T ndies were |tions for repat tere in Colonel ind, ‘This dlscove lied the site of the first ceimet eetablished there. Known record of its,date does not exist and it Is quite possible thay the British used it during their oos resabi'd ns of humaw during excavas one of the quare Governor's Is would make it difficult to place sleqwherm _