The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1922, Page 22

ESTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN. © Muditshea Datty Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Cothpany. Nos. 83 to 63 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 4 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 65 Park Row. i MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Au Associated Pres ts exclusively entiuea to the ure for republication 2 GD wens despatches credited to ft or not ounerwise ereuitea in tam papgy end aise the local news publishea herein. Raton ek oe! NO ALIBI. © te forty-six Republican Senators who voted to seat Newberry are writhing under the ava- lanche of protest their action started. Newberry, it begins to appear, is to bs used as a horrible example of how a candidate ought not to try to get into the Senate. Senator Willis has offered an amendment to the Constitution authorizing Congress “to regulate the use of money” in Congressional elections. This is about as contemptible an effort as was the Willis formula for seating Newberry. It closely reresembles the effort of a shyster lawyer to “frame” "an alibi for a miscreant caught with the goods, | Any one might imagine that Congress has no | check on the use of money. That is the line of thought this proposed amendment is designed to foster. But it is not the fact. Article 1., section 5 of the Constitution fully covers the issue: “** “Bach House shall be the judge of the elec: tions, returns and qualifications of its own members.” That covers the Newberry case. The forty-six Senators abdicated as judges. There was a mis- carriage of justice. The forty-six are solely re- sponsible. They have no alibi. . Gray old Dublin Castle turned glorious green at last! THE PEACEMAKER. ; AYOR HYLAN is in training to become the | champion political reconciler of these parts. ‘Last week at Buffalo it was a boost for “that fine, red-blooded New Yorker, Al Smith,” who “has tiever lost touch but. has ever remained with the ; magses”—albeit he has been of late notably out of touch with John F. Hylan. _ Last night’ at the Yorkville Chamber of Com- merce dinner it was public office clamoring for > William Randolph Hearst and Rodman Wana- | miaker, than whom none would better “stand for the | ifiterests of the people ahd who could not be sub- verted by the corporate interests.” “The Mayor says: “I do not know whether any of the men { have mentioned would accept office.* ‘in Mr. Hearst’s case this doubt is one of the most poignant in current politics. » But if Mr. Hearst could be induced to take back * some of the things he said about Gov, Al Smith, . ; ‘ 4 and if Al Smith could persuade himself to think * better of Mayor Hylan, what Pollyanna-ing there'd be in the City Hall! Maybe even the Transit Commission would get @ hug. ee 4 Fades the Synura. TO KEEP US OFF OUR UPPERS. ae ee DeNT HARDING has won the approval £ of Cobbler Spady of Emporia, Kan., by send- ing a bundle of old shoes to be resoled and repaired. The President, according to Mr. Spady, is proving his common sense and economy by wearing his shoes until the uppers are gone. But is he showing economy? . Some American farmers visiting Washington » ‘have complained that American shoe manufacturers are selling American shoes for export at a price * much lower than prevails in the home market. : Ff this is true, President Harding might be able to | Saye even more money by buying his American: * made shoes in Liberia or Madagascar. ee» This suggestion might work even better if Con- gress gives the President power to make tariffs 4 “flexible.” ; With a flexible tariff the President might be able { to make his salary stretch a good deal. In the casz | of the shoes we have mentioned, he could order them from abroad, and then on the day they were due to arrive he couid flip the tariff a flex or two downward and so save the import duties. The same would apply to other commodities. Shoe cobbling is expensive for the rest of us, even if economical in the long run. But with a flexible tariff President Harding might even show the rest of us a wriggle or two. $ PRESS AGENT TO THE LAST. HERE is art, we are told, in digging a good ditch if the digging is what the artist wants to do and does it with all his skill and all his heart. ‘Certainly there was a touch of artistic genius in the will of A. Toxen Worm, theatrical press agent, who died recently in Paris. The art of press-agenting is not primarily a mat- j ; | ter of skill in writing. It avails the press agent little { if he writes with the fire of a Byron and the style of a Flaubert. The real test of press-agency is . breaking into print But one cannot but admire genius where it appears. Toxen Worm was a good press agent as press agents go. He was a press agent to the last. Even in so prosaic a document as a will he made sure that it would get into print. One paragraph of his will read: “I consider New York to be the most won- derful city in the world, and T hope that its prosperity, uninterrunted, may be forever con- tinued by Provicence. In this nection I also express the earnest hope that God may take care of Chicago in the future, so as to enable It to 1h¢ down its miserable past and wretched present.” Toxen Worm thereby made sure of the circula- tion of his last effort to press-agent himself. He produced an item/of interest in the world of news. New York editors could not disregard his last wish because it combines both verifiable fact and nov- elty. Neither can Chicago editors—perhaps for the same reasons, THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION, “ec * ager can be no doubt as to the vital- ity of the League of Nations, It will take care of itself, and those who don't regard it wilt have to look out for themselves, I have nd anziety for it. “My only ansiety is to see our yreat people turn their faces in the right direction and move with all their force.” ; That is the simple message of confidence and encouragement from the man whose ideal of Ameri- can duty was too big to pass all at once through narrows of national selfishness narrowed still more by vindictive partisan pressure. But the Woodrow Wilson ideal was not crushed. The proof is that little by little the narrows have opened. Those who pushed hardest against the international co-operation that Woodrow Wilson wanted have since been forced, in spite of them- sélves, along the same road. And the end is not yet. No American living has less cause to deem his hopes defeated. For those hopes were rooted in what“is deepest and best in the Nation’s soul, and what is deepest and best in America sooner or later prevails. This is the week when the friends of Woodrow Wilson begin a movement for a foundaticn that shall bear his name and endure as a memorial to him. The friends are many, succéss is sure. The aim is an endowment to provide awards for distinguished public service. The time will come when all Americans will say that no foundation for such a purpose could be more fitly named. GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME. NE of the dreams of downtown New Yorkers seems in a fair way to come true. The Federal Government is about ready to offer a trade of the old Post Office Building for another convenient site where a new Federal Buiki’ag will be erected to house the many departmental offices now spending nearly a million dollars a year for rent, The probability is that a plot on Lafayette Street north of the Municipai Building will suit the United States. This is in the budding civic centre of the city. Before completing the deal the city might fairly demand from the Government guarantees that the new Federal Building will harmonize wit! the general scheme for the development of the area. Artists and architects should be called in to desig a building in harmony with the Municipal Building and with the Court House and other projected structures. Complete plans should be prepared and an ap proved design be made a part of the trade. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.—Ben Franklin. A WADDINGTON OF MICHIGAN, To the Editor of The Evening World: . Reading “Mr. Waddington of Wyck” as the New berry case culminated, I was struck by an essential resemblance. In May Sinclair's novel, Mr. Wadding- ton, Lord of the Manor and prototype of his caste has compromised himself with a blackmailing woman, | His secretary sugcessfully foils the adventuress by showing her that even if her charges were proved true she would get nowhere Jin the county. Mr. Wad dington’s class would stand by him. Since Newberry was seated, need we cross the water to find Waddington-of-Wyekism? Here was a plain case of a corrupted election, It had been proved to the satisfaction of an American jury and admitted by Newberry himself, Yet the utmost efforts of forty. one Senators (thank God for the forty-one!) could not ward off the disgrace of his seating. And why? Caste and money! High soclety and the Republican campaign deficit of $1,600,00 The conscientious forty-one were up against a bigger thing than Newberry. Senators complained on 1 floor of the Senate that they could not attend recep tions without being urged by prominent women vote for Mr. Newberry. In “Mr. Waddington of Wyck” the unjust situation works out to an ugly class Warfare, the chief weapon of the wronged is the extortionate wage. Fortunately, in this country we can resort to a less vindictive method—the ballot boy In the defense of democracy the voters should perfor November what is, after all, only their t by sending up to the aid of the forty or Newberry Senators to empty tainted sea soctal the jm, Press ee mepehesipet nonin dusty 9, | Mabwab, ¥, J, Jam. 16, 1922 JAMES A, uu. THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1922, nine ee me | | | | i | i | . { | From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to «ay much in few words. Trke | Apropos of Prohibition, To the Exlitor of The Evening World | Apropos of Prohibition, you may be | interested to know that on one of the statues in front of the Appellate Court, on 25th Street, this city, there is an inscription which, as near as I) remember, reads as follows: | | sense are a menace to the State. oa. New York, Jan. 14, 1922. A Good Customer, To the Editor of The Evening World Do the die-hard supporters of the! |Irish Republic in the Unjted States and Ireland ever give a thought to| the fact the British Isles are practi- | cally the only customers Ireland has for her surplus agricultural products? | | Where would she find a market to re- place them? Not in these United States, for we have surplus enough }for all Ireland and the British Isles and then’ some to spare, and if Ire- land attempted to export to this coun- try we would at once raise a barrier jin an import tax. | And when was the United States{ {more of a democratic form of govern- |ment than the British, even though ‘it has a King? When I read of the doings of some of the leagues that we have in the States, Legislatures, 1 » whether we who control sometimes ques- | ull. When I say leagues I particn- larly mean the Anti-Saloon and Blue Sunday Leagues, who would have the Legislature do their bidding without the will of the people, And, moreover, the Irish Republic called was never established by will of the people, but assumed by Valera and his type in 1916, 0 those here who are still ad- | a Republic for Ireland to| nd as they have eaty they have signed as much freedom as we have in these t States, the Dominions of the British, or any country on the face of this globe A DAILY READER | Staten Island, Jan, 12, 1 yocatin Support the Honest Mine, To the Editor of The Brening World The Republican vote of 46 to 41, has ths expenditure of $195,000 for a sena- torial seat, only nine Republican sen- ators ig voted against it, In the {same olution declaring Senator Newberry’s title to the seat is the declaration by Senator Willis of Ohto (who voted to seat Senator” New. , as follow se of SO exce berr SIV a s m as ime “All laws not based on common | 4 ve a democracy at | to be brief. principle to exercise the principles they confess. . During the Cox-Harding campaign, when Republican slush fund was run- ning high and exelting general com- ment, a prominent Républican par- tisan stated publicly that “‘whatever jit cost to defeat Wilsonian principles the cost was cheap at thrice the amount.”” As I recall it, something Ike a, fund of $2,000,000 did the trick. ‘In simple words, ‘then, it is to | State that the cost of election of a from President is epublican nominee, down to the town cheap at any price. The seating of Newberry should have a good effect in the approach- ing Senatorial elections. I believe that there will be enough self-re- specting Republicans, togetLer with right-loving Democrats, to. change the complexion of Congress as soon as opportunity affords. Thus can the voter resign himself with the honest nine Republican Senators and the solid list of Democratic Senators who voted honest principle in the contest for the Senatorial seat. . E. M. ROBERTS. New York, Jan. 13, 1922. dog _ pelter, High Structures Sway. ‘To the Exjitor of The Evening World: A says there is no sway in the Woolworth Building or any, other building. B says there is. Also is there a sway in large chim- neys such as are on power houses? PATRON, New York, Jan, 11, 1 A Protest. ‘To the Bilitor of The Evening World To write on and .protest against the Highteenth Amendment ts almost a hopeless thing, yet I can hardly keep from doing so. I wonder why so much money, time and ambition are spent on this hateful, good for nothing and impossible law when the important matters are passed by. For instance, find out why the stealing, highway robberies and the murdering of people, almost in front of their own doors, can go merrily on without the slightest endeavor to find the guilty ones. It appears the only worry is make the country dry, In the mean time go ahead and steul, murder and hold-up. Why doesn't this public nuisance, William H. Anderson, use a little of his superfluous energy and breath in contriving some way of mending that evil? It Js not so easy and perhaps will not pay so well, but he would at least be of some use. Now he is the most persistent pest ever foisted on a long-suffering and patient pub- lie. I suggest that some of these la makers (God knows they are alw with us, like the’ poor) get 4 | really 1 which an py sound Michi to harmful to the the trary mary, was public polic onor and dignity of the Senate, and dangerou. perpetuation ce ernment In othe n= y enavir Newbe ‘I Ap hele BUMS have uor pucigieas @ Nineteenth Amendment and make 1 constitutional compelling Anderson }and his whole anti clique to keep \their mouths shut and tle their hands for ninety-nine years. What a relief that would be, and how ve wel come! Tus just the finest thi ¥ subjectod A WOMAN READEL Teompkibsvilin Jeet. 1934, Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Pub. Co. By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by Jokn Blake.) AS TO SOCIAL GRACES. You know the kind of man who is always “the life of the party.” He plays the piano a little, he sings a little, he plays a fine game of bridge, he is ready with quips and clever observations—usually borrowed. ‘ He is the first to devise new games to keep people amused. He knows how to say complimentary things to ladies, Altogether he is a social necessity. There are many such men in the world. They are the life of the party, but rarely are they the life of the business where they happen to be employed. And more often than not the dinner invitations they receive are very welcome, because they insure a few good meals—meals of the kind which lives of the party can ill afford on their salaries. 3 | To be a social favorite—a tame cat—really requires ability. No commonplace man can achieve social distinction. He may be what business men call “a sap,” but he has a cer~ tain magnetism that makes him popular. If he spent all the time being the life of his business that he does being the life of the party he would arrive at some worth-while destination in the end. Magnetism is an unusual gift. The ability to interest men and women has a high market value. Salesmen, actors, politicians, every one who wants to follow successtully a semi-public career, must have it. It is foolish, therefore, to waste it furnishing very meagre entertainment for people in their leisure hours, The writer has known many men of really good attain- ments who have wasted them all in being bright at dinner tables and at parties. They may be appreciated there, but they are never paid for, and they never bring promotion. Nobody ever heard of a life of the party building up a distinguished career in that capacity. ; It is a good thing to contribute to social gayety, to help people be happy while they are at play. But don’t overdo it. Don’t feel that you must supply all the gayety and lead all the revels. If you have talent of that sort use it in business, where it will do you and the world a little good. ‘limplies that a person is an indivisible WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 125—INDIVIDUAL. ‘The noun “individual,” meaning & person, is derived from the Latin com- ‘individuus,” indivistble (the “in” and ‘dividuus,” divisi- “That’s a Fact’’ By Albert P. Southwick | es (Tas New York Evening ‘World)|| “Maroons” is the original posite, negative ble). ‘The derivation of the ‘word plainly entity. ‘There are several instances in his- 8 it from tory that show marked dissen’ {this correct meaning and derivation of lihe word, ‘The head of Charles I proved easily ble fre oy for 140 years. In 1795, when finally subdued, a part of them were trans: to Sierra Leone, Africa, the remainder becoming free in 1834 y ne head of Hay no! th has a pen a him) is an ox; 1 Hngland ais NVI behind w itvance ceased to be dgpividuals RAR MAY, ADVIL eat epee at 2 ; ¢ name | given to the fugitive negro slaves of Jamaica, who, after the conquest of the island by the English in 1655, fled to the mountains and maintained a continuous warfare with the colonists ported to Nova Scotia and afterward | yous, crazy or insane people. when “is use preventive mi hom’ is an | against the spread of insanity t = [ses eas a Foreign-Born Builders mfan America By Svetozar Tonjoroff XX.—JOHN ERICSSON, John Ericsson is one of Sweden contributions so the bullding America, Ericsson came of @ race that occu~ pied an important place in engineer~ | {mg and mechanical arts as far back (as the seventeenth century. It was | from Sweden, at the end of that com |tury, that Peter Alexeivitch, finest Czar of all the Russias, acquired the | bases of technical accomplishment | that enabled him to bring Russia into line with European civilization in sew | material aspects, | The Swedish-born builder of Ames ica brought to the country wit! which he cast in his jot in 18: s | heritage of the genius that had made | Russia “modern” under Peter the Great. John Ericsson was born in an af mosphere throbbing with machinery. His father was a mine-owner. When he was eleven, the future inventor af the Monitor had designed and made with his own hands a saw-miil. He was commissioned an ensign i the engineering corps of the Swedish Army at seventeen, and resigned his commission as Captain seven yeam later to develop his great invention, the screw propeller, He offered the benefit of his ex~ | periments to the British Government; but the Admiralty and the British naval officers viewed the invention with disfavor, Fortunately for America, we had as Consul at Liverpool at that time a man of vision and intelligence, F. B. Ogden. Ogden supplied Ericsson with money for the construction of small steamship propelled by screws. This pioneering vessel steamed across the Atlantic to America, Ogden, then, with the help of Capt. Robert F. Stockton, U. S. N., induced the stone whom the British builders had rejected to come to America. Two years after his arrival in New York, Ericsson was employed to design and construct the U. S. S, Princeton, the first warship to be propelled by machinery below the water-line. The successful operation of the Princeton marked the beginning of a new epoct in steam navigation. The giant the aoven as are” that now Cd plough the seven are lineal de~ scendants of the 8. S. Princeton, Among Ericsson's other inventions were: a steam boiler with artificial draughts, eliminating smokestacks and saving fuel; a Steam fire engine; the caloric engine; a sliding telescopia chimney; machinery to check the re- coil of heavy guns; an instrument for measuring distances at sea, and an alarm barometer. His most conspicuous and timely achievement was the designing and construction of the Monitor, which proved its value by defeating the Merrimac in the bistoric battle of the Civil War The new tye of warship gave the Union an #dvantage that had a good deal to do with the successful out- come of the struggle to preserve the Union. After his death in 1889, Ericsson's homeland expr ‘sed a desire to have the great mvenior's remains restored to the soll from which ..c had sprung. His body was received with signal honors when the cruiser Baltimore took it to Sweden. pa Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON NO. V—THE FEAR OF MENTAL HEREDITY. ‘Why do children at the circus show their preference for the freaks? Insanity ts not inherited. A child 1s born sound of mind even though the father or mother be crazy, Physical heredity cannot be denied. |It is governed by laws which are | known and enables breeders to pro- duce exactly the kind of animal they need, race horse, draught horse, cows that produce more milk and furnish | less meat or just the opposite, &c. | Mental heredity, on the other hand, is being doubted by a constantly In- creasing number of scientists, Our mind is made up of all the impres~ sions we receive from the hour of our birth. Prenatal influences are merely an old superstition—the unborn child jis not connected In any nervous way | with the mother's body. {It is then the sum of all the sense | impressions we recelve from the min- ute of our birth, what we see, hear, taste, smell, feel, &c., which will de- termine the sort of mind we shall have later in life. Why is it, however, that neryous people often beget nervous children, that a crazy father may have one or several crazy children? Because children are great imi~ tators. Children become adults by imitating adults. And the worst is | always more easily imitated than the best. Ill-breeding {s more easily cop~ | ted than good breeding. A crazy man jis more easily imitated than a nor~ mal man, an insane person more amusing and hence more attractive | to a child than a healthy person Children who attend the movies {m~ | itate the antics of Charlie Chaplin in | preference to the graceful motions of | some beautiful woman or of some movie hero. At the circus they show their pref- erence for the freaks. Hence children should never be alk | lowed to come in contact with ner- If one lof the parents shows morbid symp~ ms pointing to mental disturbance, sick person should be re~ ved to some institution or the chil« ted to the care of a per~ ane famity vention in ps better th hiatry as in med« and treatment asp oe