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She Ehepiey Worl, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwdiimed Yally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing i Company, Nos, 53 to 69 Park Row, New York “ RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. 1 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. . JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. se 2 MEMIER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Phe Associated Prom ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication fall news despatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in thls paper Bed also the local news published herein, A STRIKE AGAINST CHAOS. HE success of the one-day general strike in Southern Ireland casts a new and somewhat hopeful light on the situation. The twenty-four-hour cessation of ordinary ac- tivities and amusements could not have been so successful if it had not had a large measure of public sympathy and approval. Officially, the spirit of the movement seems to be: “A plague on both your houses.” Actually, & protest against the continuation of fighting, whether among the Irish themselves or against the British, cannot fail to work in the interest of ‘the Free State Party. De Valera and his followers pin their faith on ‘force. If they win from the Collins and Griffith »party it would be only the prelude to another and More serious struggle. De Valera can succeed only by fighting. The (Free State Party would be favored by peace and icivil processes. HONEST LABELS. HE Supreme Court decision on misrepresenta- { tive branding of merchandise is a step that will promote common honesty in business. The decision turns on the degree of understand- fing which may be expected in the ultimate consumer. When a manufacturer sells a chemical composi- tion under the name of “ivory” with a modifying adjective, the wholesaler or retailer knows ap- proximately what he is buying. He knows he is not getting ivory, even though it may be “just as good" —or even better for the purpose it is to fill. When the skin of the family cat is “processed” into an imitation “seal,” the dealer knows what he is buying. But the customer who buys the fur at retail probably doesn't know. Cotton-and-wool garments may be better for ‘some purposes than all wool, but the customer thas a right to know what he is getting. ‘| The honest merchant is willing ‘the customer ‘should know the how and why of substitution. ‘But the honest merchant is at a, constant dis- advantage with less scrupulous competitors. | The Supreme Court decision will make honesty easier. It will make shopping less a matter of faith and more a matter of comparative values. The McCumber-Fordney tariff is to be “flex- fole.” So is a blackjack. ‘WHERE MR. GOMPERS GOES WRONG. R. GOMPERS hasn't done justice to the A. F. of L. in his strictures on the relation ‘of courts and labor. He talked beside the point. He quoted Mr. (Justice Taft, Elihu Root and other authorities ‘on the advantages wealth enjoys in hiring the ablest lawyers. This criticism is sound, but it does not apply fo the labor unions. \ Any big union can find the funds to fight court battles if it will. The wage for one kour of work by thousands of men will hire able lawyers if the union leaders will only try such tactics. The “new unions” have made several effective appearances in court solely because the leaders have had the wit to enlist able lawyers to present their cases. The more unions patronize able counsel the easier it will be to get an even break in the courts, for able lawyers will specialize in this branch of pleading if it offers a reward. Mr. Gompers would do better to help put his house in order by fighting the abuses he admits but condones. Then he could go to court with clean hands and the backing of public opinion. _ Union labor has passed the point where it need be always on the defensive in its relation to the Jaw. Union leadership ought to be on the offensive with a constructive programme. i! i THE LOST METEOR. T'S a pity the big meteor that startled folks in New Jersey Sunday night couldn't have picked Out some vacant lot to drop on instead of plop- ping into the sea. There is always something mysterious and fasci- hating about meteorites—which is what meteors become when they are not burnt to nothing their rush through the atmosphere and_ solid chunks of them reach earth. They arrive from guch terrific distances and appear as things so Startlingly yet tangibly new on this stale planet. Although scientists tell us no unknown chem- ical elements have been discovered in meteorites, they contain unfamiliar combinations of the ele- ments. No suggestion of organic life has yet been ‘Dund in them. Still there is always the hope that some @ie one might bring a hint of animal or ‘egetable existence in the outer regions of the wmniverse. | The American astronomer Simon Newcomb ‘demonstrated that not less than 146,000,000,000 of these shooting stars fall through the earth's _ etmosphere each year. The wonder is so few of TEE EVENING them “travel through” and land on terra firma where they can be located. The largest single mass of meteorite seen to fall came down in Hungary in 1866, made a hole 11 feet deep and weighed 547 pounds. But one that Peary brought from Greenland weighs thirty-six and one-half tons, Ancient peoples were deeply impressed by me- teorites. One that fell in Phrygia was worshipped for generations as Cybele, mother of the gods, and a Roman ruler afterward ‘took it to Rome, where it was believed to insure increase of prosperity. It is described as “a black stone, in the figure of a cone, circular below and ending in an apex above.” The celebrated images of Diana at Ephesus and of Venus at Cyprus are thought to have been similar conical ‘or pyramidal meteorites, : Maybe the New Jersey meteor was one of the oracle, dropped-by-Jupiter kind. Maybe it was meaning to dethrone New York’s new “Civic Virtue” but missed its aim MORE STRAIN. AYOR HYLAN'S Board of Estimate had a field day yesterday—a field day of ostensi- ble bluster and defiance against the Transit Com- mission and the Governor. The ten contracts for the completion of the l4th Street-Eastern Subway were referred back to the Transit Commission for readvertising. Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig treated them- selves to more loud talk about the “traction crew" and “the schemers and manipulators who seek to destroy public officials.” Does the Mayor ever stop to think that there are public officials who destroy. themselves? Doesn't he realize his silly pretense of having preserved the 5-cent fare is a busted balloon even when, as appeared yesterday, big sections of his own trusted public who are paying 10 and 20-cent fares tell him to his face they are tired of it? Does he really think taxpayers of New York are so devoted to him that they will always shut their eyes to plain facts about contracts necessary to complete sorely needed transit facilities? As against the possible saving of a few thousand dollars by readvertising these 14th Street con- tracts still stands the certain loss of $120,000 rep- resenting interest charges of $2,000 a day for sixty days—to say nothing of the cost in further delay of transit relief. The Mayor says this is “just cheap political propaganda.” | A public that sees itself taxed to hold up urgently needed transit improvements in order that Mayor Hylan may fight the Transit Commis- sion is not sure to go on forever looking at it his way. We cannot believe even a Hylan Administra- tion is fool enough to try patience too far. For it is not only the patience of Gov. Miller that is now under strain. It is also the patience of a public beginning to open its eyes. TAKE TIME TO BE RIGHT. NDICATIONS are that the gas cut-off ordi- nance will come before the Aldermen again to-day. It may be passed over the veto of the Mayor. But it ought not to be adopted. Chief Kenlon says a cut-off is necessary to pro- tect the firemen. Chief Kenlon ought to know. If so, there will be ample time to go into the mat- ter, investigate the devices offered, invite the sub- mission of competing designs, find out what the experience of other cities teaches, and go about the business in an open and above board manner. To override the Mayor's veto will require two- thirds of all the Aldermanic votes in favor of the cut-off ordinance. No Alderman who votes against the measure to-day need feel that he is matching dollars against the lives of the firemen. He will be voting only for orderly procedure and to gain time to get adequate information. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, Space ts given by the intelligent press toa Wilming- ton gander who, moved by maternal impulse, appar- ently lacking in his spouse, has built a nest and gone into the form of “settin, It is quite probable that Mrs. Gander is a gudder, and in his poor, dumb way the old man goose is striving to remind her of her domestic duties, . I like some tall, dull book On which to browse, Half wakened to its purpose While I drowse! ° So many persons of noble blood are being detained at Enis Island under the workings of our admirable Immicration Law that it is taking on the air of a select resort, O joy! It is announced that only morat persons are to be allowed to act for the movies, But what adout the morals of the movies themselves? . Raymond L, Ditmars of the Bronz Park menagerie advises citizens not to monkey with apes weighing more than 100 pounds, They seem to be foot-prooy— at par. . Comment is excited by the presence of an adding machine Sunday at the right of the pulpit in John p Rockefeller’s Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. Burely there could be no more appropriate spot to place one, even if it was merely there to tot up the church debt, 4 scr ie ied WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1922. Old Brick Oxon Fate Beehing Worle By Prose Pub Co. ye From Evering World Readers’; What kind o1 letter do you find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 18 fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying to «ay much in tew words Take time to be briet. ‘Tragic Vaudevil To the "iditor of The Evening World: The police have raided the American Legion's carnival in the Bronx for holding a raffle for charity. Contrast his amazing activity with the recent shooting of an Irish revolutionist in Central Park West. It was reported in the newspapers that the assailant went all the way to Broadway along 84th Street and then an south to the subway station at 79th Street and made good his escape There is a continual stream of mo- tor cars in that neighborhood and not ome car gave pursult. Habitual criminals play a cat and mouse game with the police, They 1re on a continuous vaudeville circuit und furnish copy for the daily papert and all-important statistics for the police. With these cold facts the money is appropriated by the Bourd of Estimate, Each vaudevillian keeps ten officials in office, but when ama- teurs appear before the footlights, there is a crime wave, and the pvlice have to play to empty benches, ROBERT J. MACLAUGHLIN, “Hite Wo der Than Man.” To the Editor of The Evening World: I have read with much interest the articles on evolution that appear from time to time in your paper. A subject of this kind—one that we know so little about—is invariably interesting to say the least, and arouses curiosity. I believe the authority hits woman harder than man, Of course we hate to be called creatures and other such “things,"" but many enjoy reading what the other fellow has nerve enough to say about us, J. C, NORRIS. Hyde Park, L. I, April 19, 1922, Wants More Reeds. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I noticed an article in your paper which was very unfavorable to Sen- ator Reed, According to your idea, Wilson's word should rule forever, while the majority of the American citizens realize that Reed is one of the few Senators w'o Isn't afraid to speak his mind freely and who isn’t a tool for any political party. if there were more Reeds in politics and fewer Wilsons, the country might get somewhere toward a better gov- ernment. KENNETH MONTGOMERY. Norwalk, Cony, April 20, 1932, Personal Liberty, To the Editor of The Bvening World: The most common argument against Prohibition ts that it ts op- posed to the constitutional right of personal liberty. If we take as examples the laws of our own, the most democratic of countries, we find that they all point to this great principle—that there ts a limit to personal lib rty—that when the indulgence in @ certain personal privilege becomes threatening to the welfare of the community at large, the Government has a right to, and the Government must, cut out that purticular privilege. Vur Constitution guarantees to each citizen ‘the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,"" not the pursuit of harmful pleasures or “per- sonal liberty" as they call it, but the ‘pursuit of happiness."* Does a man's happiness depehd on his right of getting intoxicated? But, says he, you are interfering with his personal liberty, “O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!" oI New York, April False Faces and Prohibition, To the Editor of The Evening World: It begins to look like the beginning of the end—of the most rank injus- tice ever practised on the American (free?) people, viz., Prohibition, lf we only had a few more thor- oughbred Americans like Mr. Fish, not afrald to come out with the truth, we would soon end a fanatic law which Is working wonders toward the undermining of the very foundation of the greatest Nation on earth. We have plenty of men who feel as Mr. Fish feels, but they have not the stuff in them that compels them to speak the truth. For selfish motives they prefer to wear false faces, It Is time they unmasked, L, BO. New York City, April 19, 1922. The Mayor's Reply. To the Bditor of The Evening World: All honor to our Mayor for his cour- ageous reply to Goy. Miller's remark at that select dinner, We have no fear of his removal until his term ex- pires, Then I hope to have the pleasure of voting for him for Gover nor, taking the chair from the Gov ernor who would like to have taken the Mayor's chair from him, ONLY A WOMAN. New York, April 21, 1922, Is Man Now the Weaker Ve To the Editor of The Evening World: In the “brave days of old," men were ‘strong and women were fair. Alas, how changed! Now, our good Dr, Straton's friend, “the Texas Tor- nado” (or was it “Contortt a) sits in his study and trembles when @ woman caller “sits before him and crosses her knees." Methinks tne Texan would better retire to a mon- astery, before his shaky morals suc- cumb to temptation If a minister of presumably pure mind and lofty ideals is so affected, what must be an average man's feel- ings? In defense of my sex 1 must say that there are stil! some, includ- ing myself, Who are not in such sad case, TA New York, April 20, 1922, BAAR ARR AAA RRR APPAR A DD APDDARPPADA PP DPP Vv UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright. 1922, by John Blake) YOUR OPINION You are, pretty much, what your opinions are. Your opinion may not be important. to other people, but ought to be highly important to you. Learn to form it yourself, using all the informatic you can get as its basis. Never hold to an opinion if you find it is wrong or unfair, Stick to it if you are certain that it is right. Your opinion is part of public opinion, and it is public opinion that rules nations and determines whether the world shall progress or remain as it is, No great movement, either by a state or a nation, or by the world, can succeed unless it is backed by public opinion, It was because the majority of the world’s opinion was convinced that a military autocracy ought not to rule the world that the Great War resulted as it did. In every great dispute, whether between nation and nation or labor and capital, it is opinion which is the final referee, The great strike which started a few weeks ago wil be determined finally by public opinion. And that is the reason why you should read all you can about it, and form your opinion as to the merits of the claims of both sides. Do that on all questions, whether they affect the nation or the city in which you live. Form your opinions from your reading, and from any information you can get, as to the merits of public men. If you have opinions whitch are carefully formed you will vote intelligently, and it is the laek of intelligent voting, more than any other one thing, which keeps the world from making the progress that it ought to make. The opinion of to-day need not be the opinion of to-morrow, for time changes situations, But if you get into the way of deciding what is right and what is wrong in all controversies, your judgment will gradually strengthen, and you will soon have opinions that other men will respect. Fscthiakennhe sition obese maui ee MONEY TALKS **That’s a Fact’ By HERBERT BENINGTON. Py Albert P. Southwick. Copyright, 1922 (New York Event by "Press ‘Publianing ‘cone “OF® Copyright, 1922, (The New York Even World) by DISPOSITIONS. We have all met men with change- able dispositions. At one time they are charming and in an excellent humor, @d then they become grouchy and irritable, ‘The friends who were attracted by the pleasing personality “Yokel was a name applied to an awkward rustic, originally one who yoked oxen or other animals, oe Perkin Warbeck, the Pretender, was always addressed as ‘‘White Rosw of England’? (which may have been praise or satire) by Margaret of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV., the latter ruling from 1461 to 1483, of the “House of York.’ a Ninus, in classic myth, was a son of Belus, husband of Semiramis, the reputed builder of Nineveh and founder of the Assyrian Empire, ee “Slander” is spoken defamatory matter, in contradistinction to “libel,” which must be written or printed, / ure driven away by the change, {t Is, essential for both social and business reasons for a man to have a , “ng menner, One of the greatest causes for a “grouch” is financial yorry or un certainty, It is easy for a man to be pleasant when he feels secure against the necessity for patchwork nance and knows that there is a gooa margin of safety between him and his obligations. But when there is nu margin his disposition is worn down by the close proximity of want. It ts up to all of us to Insure our dispositions by having a margin, each dollar of which can smile. Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Coogrisht, 2, ten, Terk Semana XIL—A BATTLE THAT ESTAB- LISHED A GREAT AMERICAN INDUSTRY. | When Jan Sobieski, at the head of ® small Polish and German Army, beat back the Turks from the walls of Vienna in 1633, he incidentally in- troduced to Europe a powerful rival to King Alcohol. : Among the enormous booty that fell into his hands with the seizure of th Turkish camp, the savior of Europe from the Ottomans found many sackn’ of coffee. The Arabian brew was the favorite tipple of the Turks, The Grand Vizier had a liberal supply of the roasted berry for his own con- sumption as well as for his Moslem troops. : & It ts possible that some captured coffee maker—‘kahvedji’ is the Turkish word—sought to curry favor with the victor by serving him witl the delicious brew made with pow- dered coffee, At any rate, the Princes and Gen- erals who led the army of deliverance took quickly and with gusto to the beverage that had originated in Ara bia and travelled westward with the conquering Ottomans. From Vienna coffee drinking spread rapidly Into Western Europe. By 1864, with the fall of Constantinople into Turkish hands, the coffee house became a feature of the social life of the former Eastern Roman capital. A century later a coffee house was ¢s- tablished at Oxford, in England. The English took readily to the Turkis' drink. Coffee houses sprang up over England. 4 They were suppressed by Charles N. in the next quarter century, but the han upon them was soon withdrawa. From the ucctdental discovery among the stores tn the Ottoman camp before Vienna has developed he present Industry that furnishes an tm.@} portant part of the revenue of the Governments and peoples of Rrazit Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, Central America, Mexico, Porto Rico, Cuba. Hawali—not to mention Arabia. The first cup of coffee which Sobt- esk! drank after the battle of Vienno —and he must have sipped, tt slowly and with loud sipping notses ff ne followed the Turkish custom—ushered in an altogether agreeable asset tc the European and American dietary. ‘The popularity of the aromatic bean on which Burope thas stumbled ts in- ficated by the annua! average pro- ‘metion of almost 900,000 tons and a consumption slightly under that fig- - ure. Tt ts estimated that If all the Mocha coffee consumed in a year were actually produced In the district Arabla, for which it 1s named, thare would have to be a twenty-five-story Arabia, built tler on tler of Mocha = © Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON XLIX.—CONDENSATION IN DREAMS. Another process which makes dream \ife simpler is known technically as ‘condensation."’ The process is the yne through which In our waking Iife ve reach generalizations. When wo hink of a horse, we select the essen- tal characteristics of the various horses we have ceen, the properties «herein a horse differs from a bird or u fish, We seldom realize, however, how crudely we put together the vart- ous horses we thin« of at the time. In our dreams we do things more | obviously. We combine several per- vns Into one, selecting the most ‘iking features of every one of them, We may see a dream charac- ter witb the head of a friend of ours, the body of another friend und the clothes of # third person. Freud having made a certain pro-@) posal to two men, u physician and his broth.r, the former having @ teard, the latter being ¢! shaven and suffering from hip trouole, com. >ined them in a dream into 4 bearded man with a limp. One of Froncesi's patients dreamed of u monster with the head of « physician, the body of a horse and draped in a woman's nightgown, Bilberer dreamed of wn animal whieh hud the head of utiger and ihe body of 4 herse. ‘This is prob. vly the way m which, < in the infancy of the race, when men lute be- tween nd their dreuin life, «range composite gods and mythologicul creatures cume into im- aginury existence — the Assyrian winged bull, combining man'r intelfi- gence, the bird's power of flight and the bull's strength; the Egyptien deities ‘in whom the process was re- versed, for they had animal heads on men's bodies; the satyrs, ha'f man and half goat; the sirens, half woman und half bird; Pegasus, the winged horse, &c. We likewise condense time by let- ting things happen at breakneck speed, we condense distance by trans- porting ourselves im a fraction of a second fo very distant parts of the earth. ‘The million ideas which are suggested by every detail of » dream when it is submitted to analysis show clearly how far the process «f com- densution goes during our sleep, (Copyright by United Feature Syndicate).