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make sure that no commercial pressure is placed MOEN, | See teen ew if eae ‘The WoodenCarTerininals «712: | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | (Published Daily Execpt Sunday by The Press Publishing | Company. Nos, 5 RALPH PULITZ: OPINION FREE || © The Right to Differ nities | PENNSYLVANIA'S ROLE. ae tio J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. ST By Dr. . te Wiatiien ir. eee 5 ile view: DMINISTRATION leaders are urging speed after o i poly ‘aati Serres? in the filling of the vacancy in the Senate By Press Publishing Co. MEMPER OF THE ASSOULALED PRESS. ‘ " Mee Associated Pree ls exciusieely emtiuea to the use for repubttcatted| Caused by the death of Boies Penrose. The reason @f at news despatches credited to It oF not otnerwise creuitea in tas papgy ‘ * fs ah ud also the local news pubiirucahereim for this anxiety is evident. \ The vote on the confirmation of Newberry im- , pends and the regular Republican organization GOV. MILLER'S MESSAGE. needs every vote Poth muster. CONOMY, economy and still economy is the | If Newberry is expelled for buying a member- dominant note of Gov. Miller's message to ship in the Senatorial club, the party will stand the Legislature. revealed. Expulsion would expose the dirty poli- It is good news to taxpayers to hear the State is | tics which enabled the G. O. P. to pack the Foreign Relations Committee against Woodrow Wilson two years ago. The Evening World the pertinent questio “Is a law, beyond criticism because it is a law? Are there no laws which intelligence may be permitted to pro- nounce bad laws?” There are many suoh enactments cumbering the statute books of our land to-day. Concerning this type of legislation, I quote the words of au- % ks editorially thors and statesmen: “If all mankind, minus one,” declared John Stuart Mill, “were of one opinion, and only one person were of the con- trary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing man. | kind.” ‘We read in “Moral Philosophy,” by President Fairchild of Oberlin Col- living within its income. They will rejoice still Leto ate i Newberry must be seated to save the face of the this happy condition. Party managers in the Senate. - “If the appropriations can be kept within ap- If the Senatorial vacancy had occurred in almost proximately $125,000,000, it will only be necessary |. any State other than Pennsylvania, the organiza. to levy a direct tax of $12,181,895.41 for debt | tion would be urging quick appointment of a man “ ” service, thus relieving real estate of the burden of | Known to be “reliable” In other States the decent the direct tax of $22,500,000 for teachers’ minded elements of the party would be eriticising dil i tis E prospective candidates for appointment. Voters salaries. . | would want to know how this man or that stands The Governor makes it plain that this relief can | on the Newberry issue. Any one who failed to only be obtained “provided no new or unusual ex- | pledge himself against Newberry would encounter penditures be undertaken.” It is up to the Legis- | Vigorous opposition. : lature to go slow. | In Pennsylvania this does not seem to be an issue. It is assumed that Pennsylvania’s two Sen- islature co-operates to continue “It is often urged that the right of private judgment, as now maintained, in reference to odedience to the laws of @he land, will subvert government and introduce confusion and anarchy. The danger, however, is greatly over- estimated. Government is’ never the gainer in the execution of a law that te manifestly unjust. .*. .1t is only when government transcends its sphere that it comes in conflict with the con- As further help toward cutting State expenses, ehieeN i Pee 3 ators will vote for Newberry and the organization. 2 pe rat 3 ; E : 2 sciences of men.” a ati the same time increasing administrative effici- The only question is whether the second Pennsyl- , . iG Sr - te ioe ‘ f E , SemEtoR oo “Essay on Com- ency, the Governor recommends further consoli- | vania Senator will be seated in time to stand with ietelientil eas bi x ; . A ; é ser te aly erry Ge him who imprecates them. If you put @ chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you Every opinion reacts on him ho utters it. You cannot do wron\ without suffering wrong. The exclustpnist in religion does not sce that he shuts the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others.” We find a warning in the words of Historian Gibbon: “It is incumbent on the duthora of persecution previously to reflect whether they are determined to sup- port it in the last extreme. They ex- dation of departments and a centralized system of | the organization and against political morality and purchasing under which a new Department of | decency. Pirchase and Supply would have complete power Few things could afford more significant com- over purchases for all departments. mentary on the low plane of Pennsylvania Re- ism. high-mind i= Other recommendations of the message are [eR UE eat Oe Rae Ae ‘ cans in Pennsylvania? along practical lines of canal utilization, water power development, simplification of election ma- According to the Trans-Pacific Magazine, inery, institutional mana: ni! * * Tokio, which was once the largest city in the cautery; ; gement, the EOS world, is preparing to resume first rank by Al r * cite the flame which the; trive t ment of rural schools, the establishment of chil- annexing surrounding territory eufficlent to extinguish; and it soon becomes neces dren’s courts in other counties of the State and bring the population up to 7,000,000, feel as the crime, of the offenders The well as the crime, of the offender. The fine which he is unable or unwilling to discharge exposes his person to the severity of the law; and his contempt of lighter penalties suggests the ust and propricty of capital punishment.” a 1s always been the trick of marked Macaulay, “to make their subjects miserable at home, ard +» then to complain that they look for further-extensions of child-welfare work. All local legislation affecting the City of New York the Governor would have deferred until it opinions of the “controlled press,” we can be considered in the light of the Charter Com- | submit for his consideration two sentences written mission’s report. Port Development he deems so | “for people who think” by Arthur Brisbane. Mr. “WHATEVER HELPS PART HELPS ALL.” ITHOUT asking Mayor Hylan to accept the important as to deserve a special message. Hearst’s right-hand man was discussing the pro- Hebe Mead peg yd PiNeea A pus roae ii iT | q st " j cee $ if @ sectio: if the tat ee the But in this present message he recommends “an Jected) ve cael ie ae psi slid Nehalemandatoloeianre thelothar’ wae inquiry into the cause: t xcessi atever helps part o! e Nation helps tions of the state for their want of ey See encreyenoos OF ALL of the Nation. Instead of opposing the patriotic apirit. local governments and the remedies therefor.” canal, New York should support it, for it will prErorenstion.<” maintained His. wy ;: : ath, no part nor lo This last recommendation has been seized upon help the lake regions and all tributary ter- oe a 4 in the modern government of the world. The stake, the gibbet, and the rack, thumbscrews, swords, and pil- lory, have no place among the ma- UNCOMMON SENSE . chinery. of civilieation, “Nature 1 di- versified; so are human faculties, be- as meaning that Gov. Miller intends to start a new Sy ane arn nal Tee 1 Otte investigation of this city’s affairs in retaliation for pier len wacouing iniareeada Danica ror From Evening Wo rid Readers Authority plan of developing the trading facilities what happened in the last municipal election. of the Port of New York. Whatever helps part of rs What mind or jerter at? led noes renineset est ky theone | ae aufesGane poe Anpath, tern We hope it means nothing of the sort. . F . 6 that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? : Pale | : . u i neay 8 i the port will help all of it. Helping New Jersey There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to | By John Blake right must be sacredly respected. At present this city wants no more stirring up | will help New York as well. say much in tew words. Take time to be brief. | (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) Hee te One rotanen cay eee of political animosities and resentments to compli- ee : r= = ieee SYNTHETIC GOLD, the right to imprison it. | Human “ i : : ni P aa Stup! ieonomy. | How much longer must we tolerate enactments which circumscribe con- cate still further the settlement of its transit If @ man sees ft to serve in the Legisia To the Kalitor of The Evening World such leeches before we deport them It appears to be the belief of Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale $/science subject the soul to a thraldom ture,” observes Senator Lusk, “he should not The action of the Board of Esti-|to such a country as they do claim : i ; ‘ |more humiliating and more ruinous problem. Neotamecinnea mate in reducing the tandgee of the| tbe citizens of? ‘Dees he wish to } that Germany. will pay her debt in gold of her own manufac- }\than any the body has ever endured, neers ‘, ‘ f New Y. 5 ; rose get to Russia on a free ticket? Of ture; that is, base metals so cunningly blended that the world $/He only,is free whose mind and con- Mayor Hylan is in the City Hall for the next Might it not be possible to devise some sort New York Public Library an ap-| course not; they have tried his Ideals will think that they are gold ‘ \science ‘are unfettered. He is the i A ” in and sensiti preciable amount calls for bitter con-| there already and have found that aay be sptiihe! rot greatest of slaves who must think four years. While, for purposes of traction ad- opal ege uate srmor Soret heal demnation from the intelligent por- ue propagators of such wild dreams Mr, Fisher's idea is not new—not by several thousand and believe and worship only as hu- + 7 . ng ae eb . of e co! sac ae pre pene f > | Because gold is a precious metal and valuable, men man decrees permit or direct. tment, the Transit Com: s a " e . eae ae tion of the community. As a citizen, A. J. SCHNEIDER. g F a ’ Justment, t mission's authority is Not that Senator Lusk needs any such pro I naturally endorse any policy for] New York, Dec. 29, 1991. [$ have sought through all the ages to make it from cheaper Law is good; but there ts a domain greater than that of the Mayor, the Mayor can tection. He is invulnerable. retrenchment at the hands of the c |$ metals. They are still trying, despite the fact that gold has }|!nto which human law has not deen make plenty of costly trouble and delay if a Re- pekrd Of DaHipete ib Inethia: Game Vorfelted Americanism. |$ been proved to be an clement, a material that can neither be 3|tne soul. There is an allegiance y gia ‘ ) GRIM FIGURES. sconeray at the expres of learning prdratestciared ye ies ot pity|{ formed by cembinations of other materials, as brass is com- which the state has & right to olaiaas r? publican Administration at Albany indulges itself Soc sno wines 1p Mundy bined of zine and copper, or successfully imitated. De eee eee ear cent only the Creator Himself can of right Should German chemists produce “something just as require. When the state enters that Li a Q a a sly a 2 ortie. ri domain and demands that allegiance good’—a metal that has absolutely all the properties of guld §|domain and demands that alcrtence —it will be gold to ell intents and purposes, \Goa, But it-will soon cease to be valuable if it can be made in quantities, and scientists re fuse to believe that any such VANISHED RESIDENTS thing can be accompl'shed. The only synthetic gold that we can make to-day is the OF NEW YORK gold of labor, of idcas, of discovery—and that is valuable Copreleht, 182%, (New York Brening World) in the pastime of goading him. If there is any truth in the rumor that Mayor HE motor death roll for 1921 is longer than What makes this stupid action of | @nd contempt tha I refer to the let lf ever. In the State #,981 persons were the Board of imate all the more | ter signed Liberty Lover in your is- : x ’ gene repulsive is the fact that a huge eum] Sué of Dec. 28: Pity for his woeful 7 f killed, in the city 835. is expended for other city depart- | ignorance and contempt for his m!s- Hylan is ‘curving around to a friendlier view of the Not even these formidable statistics give the |ments which could well afford to go, statements and bigotry. Transit Commissi lan, for the city’s sake | 4 x fi ne | with less, and where the money is ill-| He assumes that Prohibition was | ransi| nission plan, for the city’s sake let worst of the record. The incrgase in deaths in | spent. For instance, in many of the “foisted” upon the country during the nobody give him any fresh excuse for running 1921 over the number in 1920 was 452, or ap- |city, departments, such as Docks, absence of the men overseas. That Bridges, W r Supply, Comptroller's | ; a ight d positive li Proh a ‘ Office, etc. I note in the City Record | Ae coverant and pomtivete. Fronls amuck, proximately 30 per cent. seeiaber of deputy commissioners, | bition has been agitated for seventy- ; ENE ; j Publishing Co. The argument for home rule is as strong and These are the grisly facts facing the Legislature | oterks, ete., who have only routine | five years and has been a steady|$ only as a medium of exchange. ; The. Anciant Mariners of! Tent in : anes as it gets down to business. Ste tO ea ncele ee whe oug | Browth up to its consummation. If We can, as Henry Ford suggests, establish a money of Avenue. just as ever. But Mayor Hylan has shown himself Will an even bigger death roll be required to [too ignorant to do mental work and | the booze hounds had combated it |} anits of energy, of kilowatts, or working hours. That will ‘When the ribs of an old ship were incapable of fighting for home rule with the cool- ‘ : t to perform physical labor, | during its progress Instead of whin-|3 serve for gold or silver or paper money, though chumsily and 3|uncarthed from a deposit of ten feet ‘ sntel{i move the legislators to enact a comprehensive and thy, anamitted | ing after Hts culmination they might)? 1 o¢ nearly so well as the materials from which our money }| of soil at Tenth Avenue and Fifteenth néks, capacity and intelligence that would be the ork Public Td- y aye accomplished something. But it mes ? Street in 1913, visions of a Viking ex- thoroughgoing motor code to regulate autmobile the City Adminis- bést ibutic ayor ci ake e cause offic tration has no funds, perhaps due to | !* now too late, best contribution a Mayor could make to the cause traffic aH over the State? ffatemct that the’ only literasure| As for ite having been “folsted’ on of home rule. rat wi which the “hes the country, that is also an absolute is made. But we can build a gold of ideas combined with energy, of production plus intelligence, which will pay debts and pedition, wrecked on the shore ofythe Hudson, arose before the mental Byes of even the archaeologists. H | 7 |pald for out of th lie. It was passed according to the ke the world richer - i ce vs ¢ is th es| 6 ‘The Better Way. |$houla go to the New York Public | !® s make the ° ‘The picturesque supposition was not fA truce to party sparring is the best hope both | oe rae mas acon ae i, ia of political nature, provisions of the Constitution, which | It is a long, cumbersome process, far more laborious and }| justified by Investigation, ant we fag home rule and for a traction settlement while | ha backl Ghaiher omen? jas the tenure of thelr {ove Genenge | Pe iniraas vote et Congress which|} requiring a far higher type of mind than the alchemist ex- ${ question remained: | Wit ToD ee . fetta i : upon Ao) eh SERENE Poway ae curre by the Legislature: »riments Mr. Fisher suspects the Germans of maki | feet of earth, four hundred lag prese unicips d ation is i mn or pre that they: may secure reappoint- | /8 concurred in by the Legislatures of periments Mr. ! making, under ten feet of earth, ir the present Municipal Administration is in power. Im rather eas 10 A eae iment in the useless and lazy. post- two-thirds of the State automat: But, when it is finished it will be gold, good, substaatial $1 feet trom the present wrasen ney ss macnteration between the ; Fite now and then. ABD TAOS ln’ end fen, Witt cally mesa _—_ Constitutional 5 i ecords of the c Co-operation between the Mayor and the Transit | Ané hoof ett ec |amendment, “In this instance forty-|§ gold, exchangeable for anything that the world has for | tho Whot where diggers for the foun- : ission is. stil ble i e for If each and all upon the earth aan g through the Municipal | five out of the forty-eight State Log. day when every science has thousand vers dations of the National Biscuit Com- Commission is still possible if the former is not Would bear his own fair toad Te ding can ‘verify. this etatement, [islatures concurred, when but thirty-|$ nad 7 eihatarenthenG ee of follows pany's factory found the gnarled old tow clumsily handled One RS ; In a private firm, be en. {six Were necessary, His wh. |$ it is not likely that even the German chemists can “put any- 3|Tulk bas been high and dry land Las chachnaes “viene “abot Then all alike could make the hike : i 0 or $40| about the absence ‘of a Nationwide|% thing over” on an innocent world, | since 181 Accordingly, the bones of EMore probing ban n’t helr i" e wee ! ae nf-| referendum alsg discloses his igno-| Faunarely nae his arti AeA Pan = \the ghost ship must have rested for Mare. probings from Albany won't help. Aud GOte PAUSE ONT ant nily and of, | Fanco, for another Constitutional pro: | We merely use his assertion as a ext for a few words on $| (he FMA n a century in the grave H JOHN KEETZ eae seca wwe mine | vision forbids a popular vote on Con-|$ the only sort of synthetic gold which has ever been made, or 3 |\where they were discovered. ae 4 = eee LAURER, [stitutional questions, providing that! $ hich, in our opinion, ever will be made. Dee te Ortop tai’ thes old ab 7 , p Pete | Z * 4 Nev York, the people vote on such questions ’ What became of its ancien The bloc that makes (he most trouble to TWICE OVERS. “4 M és “through their representatives in the| {i inariners? Did their ghosts disturb Congress is the blockhead | various State Assemblies," and that cai ca ak slumbers of the occupants of the i ae . | 66] AM prepared to take the field again if the coun- The Release of Debs. is precisely what was done. Do the| ——————— 7 ree —— ment house that stood for sixty \ 5 Ss SS ES i j Yo the Editor of The Evening W people yote directly for President? operly define the word ‘ | ‘ site of the old ship's try demands it. But if I do, I shall insist Yow that President Harding and|No. They vote for ‘Electors o|Lover to properly As the Saying Is resting plac He will, of course, define | 1. been too busy to that some of these Deputies who ure now trying lo | his “best minds” have acc New York inste PROTECT THE 5-CENT LOAF, \ liege the same as the legislators rep- answer the esting questions, uplished | represent them in the Electoral re" ‘ay if ame issue of the Evenin “RED TAPE.” . ; i ing the treaty shall share th jenother alm in t vowed Pro-/yesent them in the various State} In the same issue of the Even’ HE S-cent loaf of bread is back—in spots, make history by eppening id e risks | gramme of repudiation of Woodrow | Logislatures. ‘Therefore nothing has| World appears an editoria! caption: | Tred tape, in colloquial English, of- " Sor f the larger baking conc, with me." —Owen O'Duffy, Member of the Dail and |\iison by releasing, admittedly | been “foisted’ on the country, Again,|""More Clamps." which Likewise |8 @lacial formality or obstruction, a Some of the larger baking concerns are loud Assistant Chief of Staff, 1. R. A inst their own better judgment, |iM Rincteen States there were popu- | tissue of mis-stat® nents, Ai erromnton | oO On Yat obat UeHeDy rom e Ise ; ‘i siatining ae eee sistant i Uf, 1. BR. A, agains air o dette ent, eferendurns, ds “Ito the paper all the intelligence e ich owes its origin to the ; in their protestations that bread cannot be manu- * 8 their fellow-conspirator Eugene vV. | lar rerereudutiy ary by Aetna phd ingenuously Insinuates that a red tape which at least for two cen-| The eye of @ good mother is like fagtured and sold at such a price. a s | Debs, it ts hoped the President's ac- | ities. At the last Congressional elec-|who disagree lack intelligence ‘er- | turies has been used by lawyers and| the sun; it shines on a world that oa me A 667 AM not willing to admit that the Senator Lusk) | tion will be justified far beyond his| tions last November there were only|haps the boot is on the oth 7 Diolala for ting ao ac a‘ Time will tell. If the shops and stores that ied lati saad iareeh h | mE hone. a -"” \three dry Congressmen defeated inthe |No one with a grain of s re & up docu-| would be dark without it, and its have dropped the pri 2 abl continue selling | carried a reputation questionadie enough to war- | faintest hop: lentire Onited States. Therefore, {1|tions a right 17 criticise : brightness iy as that of love. have droppe @ price are able to continue selling | daring & bribe It ts interesting, however, to note||soke to the writer Hke the pocpls|there is no right to d ) ame j ‘ Ee : rant any man in daring to make a (bribery) proposi- | 3 | lool peo: bare: 8 you. Neither have ° —H. Hooker, at the bower figure, competition will force down aay |that the grateful Mr. Debs had not|in vast majorities want Prohibition, | cause it displeases 3 i AnAnsiep at ~ vahare, | tion of that kind.”--Senator Walker. lireathed the ‘free air a full twenty- |The large cities are wet because there to_preach deflanee \"\ “PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.” | Error is not a fault of our knowl Prices everywhere, * iene | |four hours before his tongue wagged | 18 @ predominant clement of sporting vad under scare heads| A familiar expression, meaning|¢49¢, but a mistuke of our judgment Bakers will have to meet the competition or more vilely than ever, Lam just |and Vicious classes, but the country | the front fe aaranoal at tho eamething fine ver eutiie sd on| 7iving assent to that which te nod the busi art hich i 4 “a oe 7" HE Senators and Congressmen want to pass | watching Cer Mie able | ou eet Pe rcaeia on ilip denis |fientoenth A admant or the Vil-\inse, whe cannot ppr opel Pi Looks ie siness ch profits depe: ° ; o prove he ts the gent n many | Libe: A sts oO) efi n “ ie wse who cannot appreciate e| true.— : aa . i if , en ‘a we eepsni» The the Bonus or Adjusted Compensation Bill | ‘oti ‘tie wim to ue tho low. | ance of the law ¥ hy not dety the | at thereby Ula Hah Me nal is in’ the non on 4A The comic and the tragic lie close stomers will decide whether the eaper loaf i ie ic A down cur that he ha hetofore |jaWS against: murder, arson, ‘rape, y defiance, tn i : ‘i , | see a m eet eens i y al this session, but they seem afraid that every veteran |GOWN PUT i Reto far Son et At Ib AMAL OM reanonatie a XL i Mour not that which is hely| together, inseparable, ‘like light and epresents better value, would immediately demand cash. This is far from M toa oman, | He delleite i rea ast ihe Attuoka ‘4 Ha onloge ve sour’ shadow. —Socrates In_this connection it would be for State true, and the V. F. W. will organize to prove that it is) Nuvi justily OMs as the small boy gloats over the suf. |i y yous he y feet and turn aetna Neither great poverty ior great and Federal,Attomeys to keep a watchful eye amd prot the case.”--Commander Woodside, V. F. |i point to Divs own | ar aan ring, of the fly whowe wings and | An 1 you have f PEPE |riches wit near reason—Fielding, ° not @ citizen of the Vaiied States.” legge Liber »” ' y 4 “ ' , i v \