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a ar | | — ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Pwdiimhed Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 58 to 63 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. publishea herein, HOW’S YOUR EY ESIGHT? The circle below is one-eighth of an inch in diameter. Inside it you will find all the transit plan The Evening World or anybody else has been able to get out of John F. Hylan. fe) What do you think of it? RE-ELECT JUSTICE LA FETRA. HEN they go to the polls next Tuesday, voters of Manhattan’ and the Bronx who ‘believe in the principle of non-partisanship on the bench will uphold that principle by voting to re- elect Justice Edward B. La Fetra Justice of the City (Court. ° There are some unwritten rules that good citizens of New York are not ready to throw overboard. One is the rule that Judges who have served a full elective term with competence and credit shall be entitled to renomination and re-election, their mames appearing on both Democratic and Republi- can tickets. Justice La Fetra’s name will not be found along- Side the Republican emblem on next Tuesday’s ballot. , It will not be found there because the Republi- tan organization shamelessly refused to renominaté Uustice La Fetra owing to its failure to reach an agreement with Tammany over another judicial’ Romination. Party dickering over Judges is the kind of politics that disgusts right-minded voters. ‘This time it. was the Republican organization that @id the dirty work. Justice La Fetra was the wictim. The Bar Association of this city had its Judiciary (Committee report on the case and then unanimously adopted the following resolution: The Association of the Bar of the City of ‘New York approves and indorses the renom!- nation of Justice Edward B. La Fetra for the office of Justice of the City Court, and, fn view of his long and satisfactory judicial service, urges the electors of the County of New York to support and vote for him on @ non-partisan basis, irrespective of politi- cal affiliations. Democrat, Republican or independent, look for Yustice La Fetra’s name beside the Democratic emblem in Group 5 on the ballot and mark your cross in front of it. You will be voting not only for a good Judge ‘but also for a sound principle. ‘What did the babies ever do to be punished with milk strike starvation? The hungry baby's wail is the voice of public opinion. : A REGULAR. PORUNTEERS and the men of the draft army have had their full meed of praise. Sergt. Woodfill now comes to the front as one of the principal heroes of the war. Sergt. Woodfill is a Regular. He had been a sol- Gier before the war. It is his trade and he is con- tinuing in the ranks. When we learn more of his history and personality, it is likely to be the com- mon story of the old-timer in the ranks who coached the “shave-tails” and helped them to mak2 “this man’s army” the smooth-working machine Marshal Foch praised so highly “Praise of the Regular isn’t common. — Kipling voiced the sentiment of the Regulars with his “Tommy this and Tommy that” and the change that took place when the “guns begin to shoot.” The Regulars played a big and important part. How big we shall never know, for many were transferred to other divisions in the effort to whip * the whole force into shape. All the Regulars will, fn a measure, share the honors to be heaped on Sergt. Woodfill, honors that come three years after the guns have ceased to shoot WHAT NO JUDGE HAS ENJOINED. HE Supreme Court will Probably be called to decide whether Judge Anderson’s injunction against the coal miners is good law. Serious dangers exist in the check-off system of collecting union dues. It makes possible collusion and conspiracy between employers and labor lead- ers. The “check-off” is potentially dangerous even where it is not actually misused Judge Anderson issued his injunction on the basis _ of the Anti-Trust Law. In labor disputes it is ques- tionable how far law is always of service. In many eases labor settlements ought rather to be on a broader basis of fair dealing. Judge Anderson sits at Indianapolis. The trouble the seeks to settle is in West Virginia, outside his Associated Prem ls exctustrely entitiea to the use for republication credited to ft or not oinerwise creutted in tas pape THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1983, jurisdiction. His decree, which is enforceable by all the might of the United States, checks unlawful acts in the unionization of the West Virginia mines by cutting off the funds of the union organizers. Another power exists which seeks to prevent any attempts at unionization—lawful or otherwise, That power is found in the non-union employing associations in the West Virginia coal field. This power has not stopped at murder when necessary to prevent attempts at unionization. Judge Anderson cannot enjoin this association. It is beyond his jurisdiction. It is hard to escape the conviction that our law stops somewhat short of justice when it tells the union men that they may not break the law in ex- ercising an otherwise lawful right and then fails to tell the employers that they, too, must observe the law and not hinder lawful methods of unionization. Judge Anderson will be criticised bitterly. But isn’t the greater fault the failure of the United States to prevent the unlawful acts of the oper- ators? If constitutional law prevailed in West Vir- ginia there would have been no occasion for Judge Anderson’s injunction. THE TEST. 667TCHE election this year is a test of the intelli- gence of the City of New York.” Henry Curran is right. The choice of a Mayor this year calls only for the kind of judgment and appraising power any citizen would be ashamed NOT to apply in choos- ing a manager for his private business. It is a choice between brains and buncombe. It is a choice between ability and inability—both proved, It is a choice between clear-seeing competence and groping stupidity. It is a choice between independence and the worst kind of truckling servility to a master in the background. It is a choice between a man and a puppet. As between Mayor Curran in the City Hall and Mayor Hirt in the City Hall, the individual voter must use his intelligence and decide. The combined intelligence of the voters is the intelligence of the city. ” What’s the 1921 level? LLOYD GEORGE TO THE “DIE-HARDS.” LOYD GEORGE'S speech on the Irish situa- tion was directed principally against the so- called “die-hard” element in the British Parliament. Over these peace obstructionists he scored a vic- tory even more convincing than had beén antici- pated. But his speech had a broader meaning. Lloyd George pictured the horrors of guerilla warfare and hoped to obviate need for this, but he left it distinctly in the minds of his hearers that this was more than a possibility. This part of his speech was as much for Ireland as for Parliament. It was a warning to the Irish “die-hards” that a failure of the negotiations would lead to terrible consequences. Lloyd George got what he wanted—a 10 to 1 indorsement when the vote came. It is encouraging that the Sinn Fein envoys met with him yesterday and that’ other meetings are scheduled. Lloyd George is evidently ready to go a long way to avoid civil war, but there is a limit to the point where.the Commons would support him, even if he were willing. : ; Irish negotiators should get the best terms pos- sible, but having gained these terms they should spare Ireland the guerilla warfare which is dreaded on both sides of the Irish Sea. Postmaster Thornton of Philadelphia is an- other of those Federal appointees who does not seem to be what President Harding de- scribed as “a practical man.” Mr. Thornton does not consider the “current demand for the recognition of aspirants within our party for consideration in the matter of patronage” sut- ficient reason for term expires. ‘The quotations are from President Harding's demand for the resignation of Surveyor Gen- eral Thoreson of Utah Mr. Thoreson moved for Mr that removing him before his It will be recalled that refused to resign and “insolence.” ‘Thornton is likely to discover any day he has been “insolent.” was re- TWICE OVERS. oe [ ye (Sergeant Woodfill) is proclaimed a hero. He is a model husband and he isn't afraid to wash dishes either.” —Mrs. Woodfill. ee a “ce HEN Hylan's hurt, Hearst squeals.’ W. T. Jerome. * * 66 Wat is it that Major Curran proposes to do or leave undone that the Mayor would do otherwise on this traction issue, if re-elected )”” Samuel Untermyer. ae oir 6c HE prevalence of low-temperature school rooms is extreme.’ -President Linville of the Teachers’ Union. N every city or village I have visited I have seen - — youthful, hopeful faces.” —Marshal Foch. Pg ty By John Cassel From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand There is fine mental exercise an say much in few words. “A New Yorker for a Day or Two.” To the Editor of The Evening World As a travelling man who covers every important section of the coun- try in the course of a year, I would like to tell you why The Evening | World was the first paper I bought | on arriving here the other day. What's going on in New York 18| always a subject of discussion in Pull- | man smokers and in hotels in other cities, Several times men I have en- countered in this way have brought | out clippings about themselves which | were taken from your column, “New | | Yorkers tor a Day or Two.” It is jcausing much comment | that at least one New York paper can see across the Hudson River and realize there are ngers here who have something important or inter- esting to say. Not since the days of the old Her» ald have 1 beard a New Y paper so favorably talked as The Evening World at (he present time. With best wishes from “a New Yorker for a day or two,” ALLAN HH Mo. BROOKS, St. Lonis, What the Union Did, | To the Faitor of The Hrening World | Having read the letter in The E ning World, Oct signed “Poot Man," 1 if Mr. “I Man” knows what the labor union has done for milkman in conditions you |now nothing about, Does he stop to think when milk was 9 cents a quart receiving $15 per ve wonder or | the the milkman was week, How does he get that way, milk, 3 cents a quart’? ‘Phat was in the year 1888. Does he Joegrudge the salary milkmen get, considering the ea:ly hours and all kinds of weather to contend with? It bad about Mr. “Poor Man." yp to think of Mr vers Ww f not be starving Jinen, Me for unions. all. May _ they get onger, I would do Mr. “Poor Man" good to join one of them. Maybe would Jnot be such a kicker MILKMAN’'S WIFE, would laborers unions? ‘They like all non-union God bless them | would \ | © War In Over” of ‘The Evening World To the Kaito 1 was interested in. your correspond ent's criticism of the prices charged Childs restaurants, It {8 1 but neontrovertible a waste of valuable at the grettable hat it is | an time to complain the Childs restau rants. They have been the subject of criticism since 1918, or about the time profiteers became busy owing to war conditions lad to say The {Evening World did more an any other newspaper to expose the fla grant profiteering of the Childs res | taurants. ‘This concern seems to be immune \r the law and absolutely defiant tleism. Nothing but a colt o restauran conse- their World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? , Ien’t it the one words ina couple of hundred? d a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. remedy conditions for the public that | finds it necessary to eat in the Childs restaurants, I recall very vividly the arrogance and independence of the Childs officials when they were questioned about the large margin of profit they were exacting from | the public. “They said they were | justified in asking 400 and 500 per| cent. profit owing to overhead ex- penses, They are even exceeding | that outrageous amount of profit on| some dishes. With a reduction in the cost of| many things they use and the no- torlously small quantity they serve, | I would not hesitate to say that 1,000| per cent. profit is made on some of the dishes, For your edification, I would inform you that the Childs restaurants are still charging extra for bread and butter. Here is something indispensa- ble with many dishes, and what they formerly gave away they now charge ten cents for, I suppose this has been | such @ tremendous source of revenue| and profit in their. hundreds of res-| taurants it would seem like cutting | off a certain and specific dividend for| them to return to pre-war custom. All the other quick lunch restau- rants discontinued charging extra for bread and butter more than a year ago. They also reduced coffee to five cents'a cup. Not so with Childs. They still charge 10 cents a cup for coffee » Pies, especiqily frutt, are bringing 20 cents a cit, about seven | cuts in a standard size pie, or $1.40} cents for a pie. And thus it is with numerous other things on the bill of| fare. High prices and small quantity, and no relief in sight. Of course, the poor public has the alternative of going where the profiteer is not so ravenous as the Childs restaurants. That is not the issue, however, or the way to show up a gang of bandits, Nothing but a buyers’ boycott, pitiless publicity or some sort of legal prose- cution, If possible, will ever convince these people that the war is over and the fools’ paradise has ceased to be. P. J. BRADY, J., Oct. 28, 1921. Newark, N. ‘Those Gam Machines. To the Paitor of The Ereniag World While wajting for an elevated train the other day I saw a@ boy deposit a penny in a chewing gum machine. The gum did not appear and the penny was not returned, In a spirit of anger the boy smashed the ma- chine while the ticket chopper looked on, but did not offer to molest the boy. Am curious to know tf the boy could be prosecuted. ‘The same thing must happen often in the theatres, where a nickel Is required, and I must say I cannot understand why the owners of these machines are vllowed to fleece little children, If a hungry man steals a loaf of bread from a doorstep he is Hable to re- ceive a year’s imprisonment 7. C, New York, Oct, 31, 1921 Vnton and MIIk Prices, the buitor of ‘The Evening World, | commission, In regurd to “oppressors of the quent loss of patronage will ever poor,” 1 wish Lo say Lama upion milk. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrteht, 1981, by John Blake.) GRAIN AND CHAFF. If you sct your mind to it you can learn the records of the world’s greatest athletes for twenty years back. You can learn the names of the heavyweight, middle- weight, lightweight and flyweight champions since prize- fighting became a recognized sport. You can learn just who the golf champions are and just how many strokes it took to play every course in England and America. You can learn the names of all the famous movie stars and the plays in which they made their biggest hits. All these things are easily accomplished if you will only put your mind to them, The trouble is that they won’t do you the least bit of good in the world. A great deal of the knowledge that we gather painfully is of no value to us. It develops memory, of course. So would it develop memory -to learn the names of all the people on three or four pages of the telephone book. But you can develop memory just as fast by learning something useful, preferably something that pertains to your business and which cannot be readily looked up in a book. The kind of information that is helpful. to store away is information To do that is just as good mental exercise as to learn great quantities of names and records which can never be of assistance in your daily task. It would be folly for the mathematician, to learn long lists of logarithms, only a few of which he would ever need at any given time. He can easily carry a table of logarithms and look up what he need use. It is necessary for him, however, to learn the multiplica- tion table which he must use constantly in all his calculations While you are exercising your mind give it the right kind of exercise. Don't pile your mental storeroom with ation” which will never be needed. ‘general inform- Put something there that you are sure to want, and pnt it in a place you can easily reach when you want it. It is a man who knows how to get stored information quickly wno can act in a crisis, rather than a man who has his attic piled with junk which must be overhauled Sabori- ously before he can get at anything he has put there. man. Without a unton the workmen of to-day could not make ends meet. What happened to the B. R. T. em- ployees after their strike of last year It’s nothing for a man on the wait- ing list to sit around a car barn for six days without work. ‘Then they get 21 cents an hour, Think of it, the price of a “pack of butts.” Still peo- ple pay the same carfare and 2 cents for a transfer. Last year we did not get an in- crease, but milk went up 1 cent ‘Aug. 1~and on Oct. 16 loose milk in- creased 1 cent. If we were to make $12 to $15 a week, milk would be the same price. I make a fairly good salary, $35 a week and 2 per cent. and am, satisfied, “but it won't last tong,” and | am the sup- port of a family of five, J. B. Oct, 31, 1921, oi “That’sa Fact” | By Albert P. Southwick Corer tt PL Ee RNS The term “abecedarians” (A. B. C. D.) has changed in meaning and now signifies students of higher knowl- edge; but, originally, this class was a branch of the Anabaptists, founded in Germany in the sixteenth century by Stork, a disciple of Martin Lu- ther. They held that all human knowledge was valueless and there- fore declined to learn even the alpha- bet. { | oe Whe “Battle of the Herrings” was }| fever of supreme unsatis - 2084, . : i Great Teacher In Action By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. Cenrright, 1981, by he Frese Publisning Om THE TRAPPERS TRAPPED, MATT. 21: 23-82, Just after ‘the’ Great Teacher haa lashed the gamblers and note-shav- ers out of the Temple and delivered himself of the indignation that had been created within Him by the sacri- lege in the holy place, the Chief Priests and Elders of the People came to Him with the question: “By what authority doest thou these things? Who gave thee this authority?” The trappers were after Him and He knew it, but He was ready for them. He said in reply: “Before attempt- ing to answer you I will ask YOU just one question, and after you shall have answered MY question I will answer YOURS and tell you by what authority I do these things. I refer you to my forerunner, John. Was John's authority from GOD or from MEN?” The question was like the explo- sion of a bomb in their midst! For the moment they were stunned, but collecting their wits, they retired a bit, got their heads together and be- gan to “reason” about the answer they were to make. And this is the way they reasoned: “If we say John was from God, He will say, ‘Why, then, did you refuse to believe in him? and if we say he was from man, then the common people will stone us, for they believe he was from God.” Realizing that they were between the devil and the deep sea, they went up to Jesus and said to Him, “We know not whether John was from God or from men, and so we canjot an~ swer your question.” “Then,” replied the Great Teacher, “neither will I tell you by what au- thority I do these things.” The trappers were trapped—beaten at their own game, and beaten to a finish! We are in the habit of looking: been a good-souled, sweet-tempe: being, pure as an angel and gentle as a lamb, but not especially noted for His INTELLECTUAL ACUMEN; but this story shows that He who silenced the Chief Priests and Elders of the People that time was as great intellectually as He was spiritually; was as bright in mind as He was pure of soul; and that in mental tilt- ing as in the combat with evil He was abundantly able to take care of Himself, their Oliver, the conspirators were about to depart, when Jesus said to them: “Just wait a minute, I want you to hear this little story: A man had two sons. One of the sons*prom- ised to obey his father,’but failed to keep his word; the other son would not promise to obey, but later on promised and kept his promise. You are forever prating about obedience to God, but you never obey Him, You are great talkers, but talk is cheap. John came preaching the Kingdom of God, and you made light of him, with the result that the pub- licans ‘and harlots, who believed in him, are entering into the Kingdom before you.” It was the Great Teacher's part- ing shot at the saintly hypocrites who tried to down Him. ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. Oeowrigit, 1921. Prem Publishes Mind Now York Seeing Words = MICHAEL ANGELO—Paul Weyland Bartlett. Looking down from the railing un- der the dome of the Congressional Library at Washington there stand sixteen bronde statues representing perhaps the best examples of Amert- can sculpture. Of all these, the one that stands out most remarkably is the figure of Michael Angelo, by, Paul Weyland Bartlett. Paul W. Bartlett was born at New Haven, Conn, Himself the son of a sculptor, he was educated in Paris, where he early showed traces of the talent that distinguished him. at fourteen he exhibited in the Salon a bust of his grandmother, and the same year entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts, His statue of Michael Angelo marke his “arrival” at the greatest height ct his genius. In it one will find little dwelling upon detail, little insistence upon qualities of surface. The figure is well proportioned, full of life and vigor. The conception is original and frew from traditional sentimentality. Phe sculptor workman is portrayed garbed in his leather apron and hold. ing a tool in his horny hand. ‘That is all, yet_the statue borders on the sublime. The won4arful rugged head, the deep-set eyes burning with the passions” the whole conception of the character of the great Italian artist all tends to stow that only a genius could so suc- evolved for y of the greatest get the name given to an unsuccessful attack by the French upon the en- trenched camp of Sir John Fastolfe, at Rouvray, in 14 en ¢ Lettres de cachet were warrants ot arrest, issued by the French kings and their Ministers, under which per- sons obnoxious to the court could be imprisoned indefinitely without being brought to trial was the prin cipal reason for “the storming of the Bastile.” in 1 when dozens of these unfortunates were released. Aci In 1836 Goodyear discovered a method of treating the surface of gutta-percha with nitric acid, and in 1844 a ent was granted him for vulcanizing india rubber. year 1847 is noted for three achievement the press perfected; ¢ obtained by 'Liebig; the patent granted to Elias Howe for the sewing machine. Ss yerce The word Tennessee is said to be Indian for “the river of big bend.” | ny a upon Jesus of Nazareth as he | } ef Having been given a Roland for