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3 h (3 ese My Biorio, ESTAPLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. | Matemed Dati day by The Press Publishing 1 Ni (Company, Park Raw, New York, RALPH . President, 63 Park ‘Row. PULI 3, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row e JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Mow ; : MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ' (ad iso the lool news published berein. i CAN THEY IGNORE IT? LEGISLATOR, in voting to enact present Prohibition law you voted away a personal Mberty of millions of people who had never abused that liberty. 4 In view ofthe peculiar nature of this law and the moral arguments advanced to support it, do you believe the people upon whom you imposed Prohibition have a right to know to what extent you personally practice Prohibition? ; If you do not believe they have a right to such Ienowledge, on what grounds do you deny their sight? If these questions were put squarely to every bagislator in State and Nation who yoted for pres- @at Prohibition law, the answers might prove a mevelation. om We might get a new line on how many Prohibi- tion law-makers are Prohibition law-makers from honest, outspoken conviction; how many fall back @n the plea that, whatever their personal views, ; they must vote as they think a majority of their $ @onstituents wish them to vote; how many are un- i willing to explain either their Prohibition votes, ie their Prohibition views or their personal practices eS wrider Prohibition law. f At Madison Square Garden the other night it - was declared : { “There are no greater violators of the Vol- stead act than those who voted for its enact- ment.” i There is no other law on the statute books to- 4 day concerning which it would occur to thought- fll Americans to make such a statement. Can legislators afford to ignore the charge? Sa aa I TS OL EE SEES Newberry plus Goldstein equals “The Public AGAINST NEW “L” STRUCTURES. E Transit Commission may yet find reason to be thankful for yesterday's demonstra- tion against the building of an elevated extension @s part of the 14th Street-Eastern District subway Toute, ~dn general the sentiment expressed yesterday is “also the sentiment of the Transit Commissioners. Commissioner O'Ryan refused to vote for the ele- vated extension. Commissioners McAneny and Harkness are strongly opposed to new elevated sonstruction, but considered this an exception be- cause of the emergency need for service, and also because of the proximity of the Long Island tracks on which trains run in the open. Yesterday's demonstration may have been pul- motored for political purpose. The protesting delegation may not fairly represent the whole dis- 3 trict affected. The Transit Commission's investi- gators ought to be able to find out the truth by informal referendum. East District transit patrons have been, forced %® put up with almost intolerable inconveniences, But in spite of this, Father McMahon of ‘the 4) Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, said: Gs “If it takes four years longer to build a sub- ‘way the people of our district are willing -to » wait rather than have an elevated structure.” udlf this is, in fact, the prevailing’ sentiment of the district, it is an opinion the Transit Commission an not afford to override. ‘It will strengthen the hand of the Commission fm other cases where the preference for subways is Bet so vociferous. 1 AFFINITIES, t “Your fight is our fight. Both your Mayor | @m@ I have tried to be the people's servants. \ ‘We have both been abused by the subsidized { press, but we are not discouraged. And we are , “going to go on as we see the light.”—Mayor ‘Thompson of Chicago in the Council Chamber ef New York's City Hall. ‘These two great modern municipal martyrs @asht to get together oftener. Mayor Hylan, Mayor Thompson—each understanding the "ether, each refreshing the other, each helping . fhe other to struggle on and forget the news- papers! Such an affinity should make nothing ef a thousand miles. PARLOR JUSTICE. . MILDRED BRANDT, recently elected Police Magistrate of an Illinois town, has decided to hold court in her parlor. That wouldn't do at all in New York City, ‘where the work is heavy, but it seems an entirely sensible procedure in a town of 500 inhabitants, “Woman's place is in the home,” the opponents @f Suffrage used to say. Mrs. Brandt is making &@ common sense application of it. And who is going to say that Mrs. Brandt's parlor will not a better court room than an office over the shop on Main Street? ¥ the constable wanders in with a young while Mrs, Brandt is putting the bread in ~ the housewife to allow the prisoner to wait in a home atmosphere while she finishes the task? Then she might hear the constable’s story’ and send him to the back yard for an armful of fire wood. In the mean time Mrs. Brandt could listen to the prisoner's story, give him some good advice and perhaps a jam tart and send him home to mother. If the pbject of police courts is to ptevent wrongdoing as well as to punish wrongdoing, isn’t the home influence in court an excellent experi- ment? New York City might make better headway against a crime wave if every small neighbor- hood had a motherly Police Magistrate with a homelike parlor for settling minor cases. WHERE MR. GOMPERS IS A DRAG. N his most recent appearance before the Lock- wood Committee Samuel Gompers was any- thing but successful in clearing away the unfa- vorable impression which he realized had-resulted from an earlier appearance before the same com- mittee. This was only natural, because Mr. Gompers was forced to meet Mr. Untermyer on Mr. Unter- myer's own ground, Mr. Untermyer easily put Mr. Gompers in the wrong because Mr. Gompers is wrong in some of his industrial philosophy. Mr. Gompers is not serving either society or the trade unionists by blind opposition to the courts. By all means let Mr. Gompers expose every in- equitable judgment by the courts, let him fight the abuses of Government by injunction. The Evening World is with Mr. Gompers there. But the objects of this sort of campaigning should be to improve the courts and make more equitable the laws they are asked to apply The Evening World is not convinced that Mr. Untermyer’s plan for a State or Federal Labor Commission is feasible—for the present at least. The public is not ready. The law is not ready. The Courts are not ready. And there is still hope that Labor will rid itself of some of its fallacious and vicious practices so that the “rigidity” of Governmental regulation need not be applied. Voluntary reform by the unions is far preferable to coercion. But the general public must get a square deal from labor unions. When Mr. Gompers defends the practicg of shortening the working day as a punishment for the employer who installs labor- saving machinery, Mr. Gompers is wrong—dead wrong. Morally and economically this is false doctrine, The general cause of unior labor is a righteous cause, but the unions have progressed in spite of such doctrines, not because of them. When Mr. Gompers advocates such a practice he is a drag on his organization, not a leader. And he is hasten- ing the day when the public may demand legal curbs on such evils. The American Woolen Company has an- nounced an increase in prices of its line of ‘worsted manufactures. ‘That, ought to help popularize the tariff. THE “STORY OF MANKIND.” Next Town” Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) By Preas Pub. Oc TURNING THE PAGES —By— Da ee From Evening World Readers What kind of jetter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying to @ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. -_—— $$$. ‘The “Coamic Mii thus put an end to the loss of lives To the Editor of The Evening World: and burning, not only of their own, It has been very interesting to me| put also other people's property. to follow the article on “Evolution.""| ne same thing applies to young It broadens the mind and is a liberal] chiaren playing in the streets—catch impossible to the individual in the battle for existence. Crnpamenniee ne UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) SCRAPPING YOUR ENERGIES. lt is just as well to remember that though the nations may promote peace by scrapping their navies, peace is still €. Gi. Osborn KNOW it will de quict when you come: ba fog (New i yg f Neo wind; the water breathing steadily ; A light like ghost of ailver on the sea; And the surf dreamily fingering 'Ms drum, Twilight wil drift in large and love > me numd Width nearness to the last tranquillity ; And then the slow end langworous Ny eee tyranny x oricket Mum. } And suddenly there wil be twlat of » tide, A ragtiing @8 of thin eith on the sand, / The tremor of @ presence at my side, The tremble of a hand wpon my hand: And pulses sharp with pela, anf fires fonnoe, And worda that stumble into stare end Ade, A poem we like as written by Joseph Auslander for the May issue of The Measure. * 8 6 The Cow and the Lowly Thief--9 In his book ‘The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa,” Sir Freder- ick Lugard tells this story of a native Nigerian who was caught with a ste- len cow: Questioned as to how he had got the cow, he replied that he had sto- len it ‘from the Arab atockade, . Crawling up in the dark of night he had slowly dug out one pole after another, and made a breach through the wali until he had effected an en- trance. Did he not feel afraid when he heard the sentries of the Slavers chanting their challenge to each other from their watch-towers close by? He explained tn reply that there was no ground for misgiving, since he himself was only worth as a slave @ quarter part of the value of the cow. The risk was worth taking, , for the prospective gain was § to 1 on his stake. ‘That it should make any difference that his own life was the stake in question was outside his comprehen- ston, and his apologies were abject for his presumption in having se- cured an article so much more valu- able than himself, Perhaps there ie a touch of Nigeri- an ethics upon the prowling politi- | clans who, in our land of the former free, so nonchalantly steal a city or a State, eee Tale of a Pitcher Who Didn’ From a page-long paper on “Jobs,” in the current number of the magazir called the Open Road: Some years ago—perhaps twenty— @ man who had pitched on the var- sity nine graduated from one of our smaller colleges, He went to his father, who owned a foundry im Pennsylvania, and said, “Well, alr, I'm going to work. I've got a job.” “That's good,” the father replied. “What is it?” “I'm going to piteh on the so-and- 80 baseball team for twenty-five dol- lars a week.” “You are not going to piteh on any baseball team for twenty-five dollars a week," said the father, “You are going to work in the foundry for ten cents an hour.”” who desires to keep his place Neither is peace desirable to the normal human being— if peace is to be defined as leisure or idleness. The fight that we must engage in to do what we call “getting along’ is not a fight with deadly weapons. It is a fight in which our intelligence and energies are constantly engaged—contending with the energies and intelligence of other men who are eager to gain the same objectives we have set out to gain. This being true, it is rather disquieting to see so many people deliberately scrapping their energies, as if they would never need them again, now that the peace of the nations is on the way toward settlement. There are many ways of scrapping one’s energies, and we find them all actively employed by people who should know better. A very prevalent way is to stand about on street corners or sit in club windows, according to your means, and talk idly of matters which are of no importance whatever. Another s to get into a taxi or an automobile and motor about from one restaurant to another, consuming time that is badly needed for sleep, or for work. Still another is to sit at your desk and think how you would spend a million dollars if you had it. The time serapper always thinks of how he would spend the million dollars. He never thinks of how he would put it to work so that it might do some good in the world. If you have accomplished some great work in the world, or if you have no desire to be anything more than you are to-day, you can afford to scrap your energies. If your great work is still to do, you will need all your He went to work in the foundry. and to-day he is vice president of one of the largest manufacturing corporations in the World. It's a good story of success and the chances are that Father was right. But we'll wager an outlawed rain check that this vice president hears yet in his day-dreams those might- have-been cheers from the bleachers eee A Seeing Eye at Twelve--+ From ‘Homework and Hobby- horses,” (Dutton) a book of verse by boys of the Perse School, at Cam bridge, England, we borrow this quatrain by Roderick Denny, a singe: just coming to his twelfth birthday: I see the moon and very soon The stars will shine afar; My face is round just like the moon. My eyes shine like the stare. Master Denny calls his poem “Looking through the Window." He has the poet's gift of sight, all right, and we hope he keeps it safe from the cubists. education for most of us, but in to- ball, marbles, &c., without oversight. night's article, ‘‘The Nature and|-phe seniors are the culprits in most Growth of Mind,” I do not agree with| cases. Don't leave matches, guns, the writer, and I wish he would cor-| poisons, &c., within children's reach rect me if I am wrong. Ses iabere) it tee ee eee Mind, to me, 1s not individual; it 18] New York, May 4, 1922. i cosmic, We live and have our being in the mind, the same as we live in a sea of atmosphere, Our lungs are the instruments for inhaling and ex- haling the air, while our brain and nerves are the media through which the mind manifests. ‘The higher the development of our brain the nobler ere we mentally. Mind is not matter; tt Is energy, and energy is universal; it may be dor- mant if there is ne medium for it to manifest. When man dies the tool through which mind acts is destroyed. Let me try to give anexample. In a run- ning stream of water we place sev- eral baskets. Each basket thinks it- self an Individual basket of water, separate and apart from every other basket, and separate from the river; but that te its false ego. The water is never the same; it seeps in and out, and when the basket is rotted and broken apart, the same as when ENDRIK VAN LOON’S “Story of Man- kind” is a fascinating book for adults as well as for children. A sample whets the appetite for more. Critics have disagreed on one question: Some have believed Van Loon to be a better historian than story-teller. Others say his story-telling ability exceeds even his grasp of history. That is good testimony both ways. In an expensive volume, “The Story of Man- kind” has been a best-sgller. The Sunday World is doing a public service in printing this work in full as a special supplement feature. The opening chapters to-morrow are certain to Prove so interesting that readers will eagerly wait for succeeding instalments. So They May Be Known. To the Editor of The Evening World I and many of my friends think it would be a good idea if you would print in your evening issues a list of all the Congressmen who voted dry so as to give us a chance of knowing who they are and vote against them if renominated for election next fall. You are doing a good work to help in getting back beer and light wines, and lots of us admire the fight you are putting wp to give back our lib- erty. I have been a regular reader o'f your evening paper for at least twen- ty-five years, and you certainly are for the people all the time. Keep up your good work and we will help you bury these fanatics and joy-killers, who drink themselves when they have the opportunity of not being seen or caught. Success and congratulations to you forever, WILLIAM SINCLAIR. New York, May 1, 1922. ‘The fact that Babe Ruth doesn't do his bat- Ung with his tonsils lessened the strain of anxiety. | Breakfasting on Mr. Bennett,-ce A. B. Farquhar, a magnate of the farming machinery field, tells in his autobiography, just issued by Double- day-Page, of his interview with the elder James Gordon Bennett in 1958, on how to make a million dollars. He says: i ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keets. The acquittal of Cart Veith, who shot the man who assailed his mother, recalls Mark Twain's remark that the sweetest words in our admirable tongue are “Not guilty.” * Snails are devastating crops in Southern California, Philadelphia had better begin to wake up, . The merry Meredith Nicholson, who is a Hoosier of the Hoose, dedicates his latest book, “Best Laid Schemes,” to Will H. Hays, “whose friendship is more to be prized than much fine gold.” He must believe the movie salary stories. . C. Gerhardt, the bookseller, appends this cryptic note to an item concerning The Champagne Country: “Rheims, though unnoticed by the frivolous travetier, is the chief centre of the manufacture of champagne.” . We see by a book catalogue that a first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” Boston, 1852, can be had for $75. This is more than it cost to build the cabin. . Some deep laid plot, some cunning plan, Hath from beginning made a slave of man. When not in bondage held by gyves and chains He racks and suffers under Aches and Pains, pan Sa Sa Who's Birthday? MAY 6—ROBERT EDWIN PEARY was born at Cresson, Pa., May 6, 1856, He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1877 and in 1881 became civil enginee: in the United States Navy. In 1891 he organized an expedition under the auspices of the Academy of Natural Setences of Philadelphia to explore Greenland, Peary was accompanied not only on this trip but on others by Mrs. Peary, who was the first white woman to accompany an Arctic ex a man dies, nothing but the false ego or framework is destroyed. Mind is ever the same. There can be but one mind, or soul, or God, energizing this universe, and it must be one with the universe. There is no room for two Infinites in one uni- verse. ALEX. FRIEDEBERG. New York City, May 2, 1922. Satewuard the Childre To the Editor of The Evening World; Another sad calamity through “children playing with matches." This time it happens to be at Pawcatuk Valley—worst of all the sad loss of a SRI. 9m anffaring, Parente, pedition. Peary made other expedi- How many times recently nave similar scenes been enacted through ’ as this one cause, by children playiPS | poe on the 6th of April, 1909, ih) masonen: De firearms: being IN cock, another explorers, cial available for any foolish boy or gir! |*” ‘ : ¢ a have reached the Pole before Peary, t - Now air! who in responsibie? Cor-|DUL BA ne had nothing to prove his tainly not the child. Then the 2 SER the Donan wae wires to Feary. Bee ee dine j Peary has described his exp be ‘ous are criminally T€- lin three noteworthy bool sponsible and I maintain the Fire and| ward Over the Great Ice,” Police Wardens should deal with such the Pole’ and ‘‘The North Pole; Its canes and punish the guardian (?) and! Discovery in 1909." 4 tions in 1893, 1895, 1902, 1905, and on his last expedition he reached North Dr. to ‘ ‘ 4 z oe Wii aoe Rat SALE ae REID Nt) EGET SOT x RIL PTR watched and tended. Scrap any one of your dreams. From the Wise Death is a release from and an end of all patns.—Seneca, To read without reflecting is ee ithout digesting. like eating witho i Women always find their bitter- est foes among their own ser. —J. P. Senn, The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the dlasts of fortune. —Wilham Penn. The tear of joy is a peart of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second.“Anonymous. ¢ energy in the battle that is before you. Energy was born with you and will grow in strength if Nations may be at peace, but never are likely to be. The more energy you conserve the more likely are you to win the battles that must be won if you expect to realize I had no trouble seeing Mr. Ben- nett. He was in @ little office all alone at a plain desk. I started to tell him what I wanted, but before I had said a half dosen words and was just beginning to realize that his remarkably keen eyes were looking right through me, he broke in: “Look here, young man, you look as though you had not eaten break- fast.” So interested had I been tn my quest that It had not occurred to me to eat anything. Too many other affairs of importance had been hap- pening to warrant bothering, about breakfast. “Whenever you see any one, went on, “you ought to be at your best. You cannot be at your best if you are hungry. Go out and get your breakfast and then come back and we shall have a talk. Give this card to the head waiter at the Astor House." I went across the street, presented the card to the head waiter, who thereupon escorted me ceremoniously to seat and served me himself, When I had finished I asked for my bill, and the waiter answered: ‘here is nothing to pay. This is Mf Bennett's treat. He frequently sends people over here.” And the great editor's advice ti wealth-seeking youth was finally. to be careful of his diet and keep a good ‘health account! it and it does not return, MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Presa Publishing Co. THE BOOMERANG, When we are learning to save we should not forget how to give. Often gifts made are returned a hundred fold greater, or in an unree: ognizable form long after we have for- gotten them. During the war every one gaye to the Red Cross, Salvation Army and like funds, If all had not done who can tell what fate might have overtaken us? Each might have lost far more than the amount of his contributions, It behooves each of us to give what we can afford to those who deserve, as this is a form of safety insurance.