The evening world. Newspaper, July 7, 1922, Page 18

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. j Pets tal, GEG SNA how, New vod , RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Perk Row 4 J. ANGUB SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. 3 JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row, AAArens of communications to T ME BYRNING WORLD, Park Row, New York (ity. emit by Express Pest Office Order or Registered Letter. ‘Cireulation Books Open te All. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1922. een a SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ; 7 Feat Ls aes A oe BRANCH OFFICES ae Sway, cor a8tn, | WASHINGTON, Wys 3 bed Blom. | pETRSIT, 621, Ford Bide NX, 410 Etaoin Bt, neat | QaroxGO, 1008 Mallee” Bide. fashington St. | PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opers, B17 Walcow oe | LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. is Ampciated Prese ie exchuslvety, entived to repul news despatc! dite 10 it or pot © ‘Dabor, and sled the focal news puiblinbed herel IT WON'T BEAR TALKING ABOUT. “¢ F the G. O. P. leaders are-determitied to. pass I the Tariff Bill they are wise in favoring cloture. The Democrats® haven't been _filibustering. There is no sound precedent for shutting off de- bate on so important a measure, A real filfBus- ter to delay the bill until after election would be a public service, but there is no danger of such action. Democratic Senators, as well as Repub- Jicans, desire to go home for primaries and elections. No, the real reason for cloture is on the Re- publican side. The Fordney-McCumber bill couldn’t stand many more such “shows” as the ne that made the cuckoo clock famous. Cloture is needed to speect the bill to the pri- vacy of conference before criticisms by Republi- €an papers grow more bitter. Speed is essential to escape the gathering power ef popular opposition to the measure. Cloture is probably good politics, for the sup- Porters of the bill cannot explain or defend it. +» — It will be better to keep the subject as dark as possible, J Voters will find out about the bill all to soon, however it is handled. 3 TAXI BONDING. Te EVENING WORLD does not anticipate the overthrow of the Taxi-Bonding Law by the courts. If this should happen, it would be Recessary to remedy the defect and try again. = Nor does The Evening World believe the bondips law will drive many taxi operators out ef biSiness. Any driver who wants to do so may pay the $960 fee against which the protest is made. But he need not. The Evening World has already explained how real economies can be worked. One large taxi corporation is offering a bonding service at less than half that sum. This is based on five years’ experience with ac- cident -claims. A $400 annual fee is not excessive if the re- = qQUired protection cannot be secured for less, If it can, the driver should have the benefit of any possible economies. If mutual insurance and bonding will ‘safe- guard the public, then let us have mutual in- surance. — Careful drivers are entitled to lower bonding rates than reckless ones. A short trial will force the development of bonding service based on experience. | | MARBLES FOR GROWN-UPS. Of amg Evening World pictorial page showed Ed Linn, champion heavyweight marble player of the Pacific Coast, knuckling down and cocking his thumb behind his taw. An admiring throng was watching Ed “do his * stuff.” And Ed, the picture revealed, was .a < man—oh, very much so—weighing about pounds, Marbles for adults? Well, why not? In the East this summer we have witnessed an unusual renewal of interest in the game as played by boys—and girls. Eastern cities have staged elimination contests and inter-city tournaments have drawn crowds of rooters. Playing marbles is a good game. It is a happy combination of luck and skill. It has all the essential elements of the popular game of pocket billiards, except the relative inexpensiveness of apparatus. * Traced back to antiquity, many of our present games are derived from children’s sports. Chil- dren are the inventors of amusements. And mar- les are readily adaptable to refinements and standard:cation. One suggestion for the adult game: Play it on a table or platform. Many an elderly thumb would have the snap. and cunning for the shoot- ing, but elderly backs would protest against the stooping position required when the game is Played on the ground. : A NEW BRIDGE TRAFFIC PLAN. JHE traffic police propose a new experiment in regulating vehicular movement between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Brooklyn Bridge is to be reserved for horse- > ; o.. drawn vehicles, while all motor traffic é con- centrated on Manhattan Bridge This is an extension of the “one-way” idea that has worked so well for several months, The one-way plan will be retained on one level of Manhattan Bridge, but the other Manhattan Bridge level and Brooklyn Bridge will be devoted to both-way traffic, divided roughly according to speed. Bb: The idea seems to have some good features and some not so good. But it is worth a trial. The’ is no doubt that horse-drawn vehicles do hold up motor-driven traffic. And the capacity of a roadway is proportionate to the speed of travel. If the results on the bridges are all that is hoped, we may yet see tralfic segregation on narrow downtown streets, FOR SUBWAY SAFETY. SHORT CIRCUIT that burns out insulation A and fills a passenger train with smoke in a tunnel 90 feet underground is bound to make serious trouble in itself—even if no gas-generating chemicals are used to put out the fire. Inquiry into the causes of what happened yes- terday in the Lexington Avenue subway should overlook no possibility of safer insulation or bet- ter fire extinguishers for use in confined spaces. But shouldn't the first consideration be how the electrical current can be promptly and com- pletely cut off the instant a short circuit is detected? Wouldn't the immediate shutting off of the current tend to check the burning of the insula- tion, reduce the volume of smoke and keep the fire within limits where a few buckets of sand might extinguish it without adding to the fumes? If the cars were lighted independently of the power current, if the latter could be shut off quic! enough to minimize the alarming flames and smoke of a short circuit, there would be less danger of panic, less likelihood of sudden strain put upon emergency exits. : By all means improve the methods of putting out a subway fire. But begin by controlling more effectively and instantly the force that starts the fire. F The subway is remarkably safe. We have always understood one of the chief elements of that safety was the fact that from almost any point in the system the power could, in an emergency, be shut off at a second’s notice. Has that ceased to be true? ga tA SRE EY WY Senator Walsh says consumers will pay $15,000,000 tariff on fruit and nuts to aid Hiram Johnson in returning to the Senate’ And New York was so foolish as to suppose that it had already provided Hiram with a campaign fund by employing him as special counsel in the baiting of the Transit Commission! ROLLING HIS EYES TOWARD AMERICA. PPEALING to the people of the United States, De Valera say: “The Provisional Government, relying upon the English powers, .has unconstitutionally as- sumed’a military dictatorship, and with English big guns, Hnglish ammunition and English methods of press censorship and false propa- ganda has made war on the voluntary soldiers of Ireland, who are simply keeping their oath to the republic and preventing the sovereign independence of their country from being sur- rendered.” In an order issued to the Free State troops, the Provisional Government says “find De Valera,” that the forces of anarchy and disruption in Ireland may be compelled to recognize the will of the majority. Eew Americans will listen to Ireland's arch- fanatic when he declares the Government of Michael CoWins and Arthur Griffith to be a mili- tary dictatorship backed by English politicians, It begins to look as if De Valera had shot his bolt. His voice rises to the shrill scream of des- peration. He is rapidly reaching a point where only martyrdom can galvanize his Prestige. Martyrdom, however, is not a favor a wise Provisional Government can grant him As an example of the process of co-ordinated news-getting carried out with high-speed ef- ficiency, ‘we beg to call attention to The Evening World's eight-column story of the subway acci- dent yesterday—printed within two hours of the event. ACHES AND PAINS The pitiless Gamatiel Bradford in the Atluntie “analyzes” P. 7, Barnum. He proves beyond per- adventure that P. 7. B. ran the greatest show on earth which is just what he said he did! , . Michael Colling és calling for three months’ volune teers to Anish the fighting in Ireland. Better make it for life! ° . Popular sympathy with public service strikes seb dom survives inconvenience. . Cruel of them to disturb Uncle Joe Cannon's flask. “Peace good pint pot,” as Sir John PF served. : pocket alstaft ob- Assassinantions seldom foreshadow revolutions, 4 faction big enough to fight does not have to murder. b, : Rain, rain, please go away. None will care how long you stay! . Bootleg shootings have become a matter of course, Perhaps they are considered improvements on the ola. fashioned barroom rows, JOHN KEBTZ, Romances | Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, 1922, few York Mveni: World)’ by Prose Publishing Go. coon LUE ne By John Cassel feet i NC Badri cb by Presa Pub. Co. XXVIIL—HUNTING FOR HIDDEN TREASURE. There {s more hidden treasure under the surface of the earth than there is on the top of it, by & long shot. The old way to hunt for this treasure was for an individual or two or three ardners'’ to start out prospecting for It. The prospecting days of the worl are by no means over. Only the prospecting is being carried on under the management of huge capita! and with all the aid of highly specialized science, : There is a young-old man of ad- venturous proclivities in this tow: who is @ scientific fuel prospector. His business is to roam the earth in seare!s of things solid or liquid that will ex tract energy out of inanimate matte by way of the furnace or the burner He is known professionally as a fuc! engineer. There are many like him The other day there returned from Southeastern Europe a young gradu ate of an American scientific scbool who had travelled all over the Bal kans, poking and prying into every nook and corner in search of mines He found many mines. Some v/ them had been worked and abandone:| two or three thousand years ago Other®are being worked in an inade quate way. The oficial designatiiy of thin energetic young American i: “mining scout."’ His business is to find out where out of thr earth and to Place his concern in touch with the sources of this treas ure. It is possible that he has foun: A way to place even the prehistoric mines under contribution to Ameri can capital and enterprise. There aie many “fuel engineers” and. “mining scouts” all over tiv world—sspecially in those parts of {1 that the late Marquis of Salisbury used to call the “waste places” of the earth, American scientific prospectors ar {roaming all over Burope, Asia, Africa and South America, to say nothing 07 our own United States, who earn thelr living—and a mighty good living it is sometimes—by hunting for hid den treasure. In their pursuit they employ scientific methods and they leave nothing to chance. Young or old, they are persons of an adventurous spirit, to whom peri! is only an allurement. Their contribution to civilization ix a large one—even, if they do some times rum foul of complications for their country. Famous Philosophies By LOUIS M. NOTKIN Copyright, 1982, (New York Evening c w Nab Cap iso See From Evening World Readers What kind of letter de you find most readable? Ian’t it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying \ #@ eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. ‘orld) ‘by Press Publishing Co. | xebeecae Bier zee | UNCOMMON SENSE y John Blake 1922, VIIL—BARUCH DE SPINOZA—THE ATTAINMENT OF A PERFECT CHARACTER. Unlike Descartes, Spinoza appears to have been in search of true happi ness rather than of knowledge for its own sake. Riches, fame and the pleasures of sense, he observed, neve brought true happiness at all; so that to abandon the pursuit of them, and to seek happiness cisewhere, was gain, for one thereby exchanged the (Copyright, by John Blake.) Art and telligence. thousands of others, not particularly “ Tel pepyoe To the Editor of The Evening World: religious, who would willingly forego SITTING PRETTY. I do not agree with your correspond- | their moderate indulgence in alcohol a AM csanad rs ent, Hector Fuller, who says: “‘Ap-|if even a few degenerates could be The man who says he is “sitting pretty” means that he Plause in a theatre or out of it is sim-| Prevented from committing murder}? ix ahead of the game of life and intends to take things easy ply the manifestation of the mobj°% ~2sting money for drink that!) ¢... awhile, % hould go to, support a family. A ; ; . spirit.” If you will pardon my intru- | * ‘ It is a comfortable feeling that prompts his expression, sion on your space I would like to say| ¢, bat 18 the ideal, but what are the 3 promy F Viet liseey: opinion: Richard’ Barthen Snctat ee Saaneaa ae but it is comfort and confidence of the same sort that is 3] certainty of defeat for a possibility of mabed and Seep Eaatieg to LM." says induced by a trifle too much altoholic liquor. succes: joseph Santley, In the order! best thing for good citizenship, but ped . : rrived hi named, ure right in their conclusions. | this is not true whe. it induces a con- It is likely to disappear and leave a sense of discomfort Having Pb a this aus the Mr. Barthelmess said upplause was de-| tempt for a law and the Constitution,|$ or even alarm in its stead. enh Brey ne de: MCR ES aan Se termined by the art of the actor, and i ‘i very ¥ ity as it re Mr. Santley gave thé credit to the in-fuot ond ‘the Bhentesth aeneottent ; Confidence is a very valuable quality as long as it re telligence of the audience. It seems| were the products of the Aut Seleon|; ™ains confidence. When it becomes ‘overconfidence it to me these are~the contributory] League's political lobby and the} grows dangerous. seoeee fiat, Ge art, Sa eitors, if you] people had no voice in their adoption. Im a world fairly well filled with people who want what feyroe the re allies otis oe Ree re paket gxtreme!$ you want, who envy you the money or the success or the ‘ert(on! efit aod ana to It’ by|of the hordes of bootleggers and it happiness you have, and are quite capnble of tak’ng them handclapping. Mob spirit, however] will be found that most of the money]{ away from you if they can, nobody “‘sits pretty” for highest good was, in the pursuit of which life ought to be spent. This Spinoza found to be the attainment of perfect charactea To attain a per- fect. character; to show others the truth and to lead them to the desired goal, was, therefore, the main purpose of life, But to know what the highest character was demanded the greatest possible knowledge of nature and of aroused, seldom will respond to any-| cores from men in moderate circum- very thing less than the best, and no} stances who pay an exorbitant price sty gong. lean Natiaee fan claadt @ae nit . man: TRTSHNE A Dette! ahareial: amount of manipulation will cause an| for adulterated concoctions. eA ercan - ation ancied it was sitting pretty foe we must get a clear understanding audience to applaud something easily} Does Prohibition prevent illiteracy? the twenty-five years preceding the great war, Then it $]of many sciences, ere the Lala fecognized as inferior or unworthy. — | If this is a fact, the Turkish Empire,/3 awakened to the fact that it was in, just as much danger as $| tical sciences mt ne pepsi thie Applause certainly is under the con-|*hich has had Prohibition for a thou- the understanding and in perfecting the countries over the ocean and had to bestir itself, at the ctor sand years, ought to consist of a i 7 ’ e 3] health. reve batt bi oa ial fran Pe highly intelligent race, but the per- cost of much inconvenience, in order to do its necessary In short, nothing less than the most plain everyday Sec work, centage of illiteracy there is much part in the struggle. certain and complete knowledge of the higher than in the ‘wet’ natio1 ice wh . , whole universe would be an adequatr igo eh Which have prodused the ereatent . An Sse ets ho sed now the head of a great corpora- ground for the study and practice ¢ ?: : writers, composers, musicians, scien-}$ ‘ion once said to this writer: the perfect life. Spinoza said: ‘Ha’ Open Care, tists and artists, > “When I was getting a salary of $25 a week I was con- $} mony among all one’s ideas, the clea: ‘To the Reiter of The Wvening World: Is Prohibition the best thing for the]% stantly afraid that something would happen that would cost $}¢88 84 distinctness that come fron I most heartily agree with “L. H,""]oountry financially? It is probably In the letter published in your issue of [Ue that any financial advantages June 29, regarding the scrapping of |°™/Stins to-day are in spite of Pro- that abomination, the open surface} Mbition, not on account of it. car. Is Prohibition the best fof every- ‘They are not only a menace to|tMns moral or religious? Ask the fob and lary, perfect consistency, these would be be ts el Coat by ig always the supreme tests of truth."* ‘That $25 a week had been my ambition for five years. In one respect the philosophy o/ When it was achieved, I worked twice as hard as I had Baruch de Spinoza is of a utilitarian, worked before in order to keep it. practical nature. The reason for this “The extra work made vorth still is simple. Spinoza bases his ethics every sense of decency, but being of |ioreasing army of drug addicts; the eo e8 me worth still more money, on the instinct of self-preservation n antiquated build it'is most dun-|¥oUDs boys and girls who are getting}$ “pparently, for very soon T was getting $100 a week. Now $|He realized very early in his philo gerous for a woman, and most es-|2"UDK on “moonshin inquire of the | am getting more.” sophical contemplations that a man ecially for a child, to step on or off MAR Who formerly was satisfied with By “more” he meant a salary of better than $100,000 3] ust lve, and more than that, he tie running board, Somehow, thapcne Cree but who mow drinks ul§ .. .aen He is not “sitting pretty,” either; he j Me must try to attain happiness. At the conductors on these cars seem so tin.|auart at a time; ask the priest or] % Year. § & pretty, either; he is working }]same time, he clearly realized patient whenever a woman attempts] "#05; Magistrate or Judge, their just as hard as he ever worked in order to keep on drawing $| others must live too, and they ar to get on or off one, ever taking into] °Pinton of present-day morals. his present salary. entitled to’happinees. We must, there ¥ fore, attain a perfect character, But Prohibition is a Utopian dream im- Aenea rime : ’ he hi « z asec ary aly ail onal apelin possible of realization, and its advo- Sitting pretty” is resting on your oars in the middle 3} since Spinoza’ believed that. riches, fame and the pleasures of sense neve! 5 in which you happen to be a little ahead. Tt j hile stretching high up to make the|°@teS Should adjust their vision to f a race in which yo » ahead. It is vane eee for the thang men whe sro{reality so that thelr remedy may not|$ bad business. You will observe that really important people $| brought true happiness at all, he held, : that we could all seek and actually nly too glad of an opportunity to get | Pecome worse than the disease. never do it. freah in an overcrowded car, I be- LC. QUINN. f find happiness without injuring our neighbors. Neve that sort of a man will ulways| No. 62 West 124th Street, “ ? F, ” That’s a Fact find an opportunity to get “fresh” nol New York City, July 3, 1922, matter where he is, whether on this A nay - drunk, But it is now applied to th particular type of surface car or OM} 1, te maitor of The Ei World: ; ppplied to the any other now in use. And I've noticed |" arucie captioned “Park for Chil- As the Saying Is most Imposing form of intoxication. they don't even alt for the crowded er TO HIT THE NAIL ON THE —- car before startihs their antica, at{irem,, signed “Father of Two Kid- HEAD.” COPPERHEAD. J place scoms to be their} em” June 30, ds very interesting. Copperhead, th By Albert P. Southwick any ume and piace to be the Loperaie my car through New York} To hit the mall on the head in a » the popular name for] }| copHrignt, 2928 (The New York Resins rule. - R- | city streets and realize what dangers| popular phrase common to many lan-|the venomous American serpent World}, by Frese Publiahing tor New York City, June 80, 1933. children are daily subjected to. There-| guages, meaning to furnish a clinch-|ubounding. especially in Florida. Un- the Disea: forg I cannot understand why these|ing argument, to strike home, the|)iKe the rattlesnake, it gives no warn. To the Editor of The Evening World kiddies are driven from our parks. metaphor being obviously borrowed | ing of its approuch. Hence it is often tters like that of “M. L. M."make| Just think of it, while our Mayor] from the fact that to drive a nalllknown as the dumb rattlesnake. The ‘one respect the views of such sincere, | °y® his luxuries at Atlantic City} home it must be hit full and square} word has been caught up as a nick- earnest believers in Prohibition, be-}#24 other playgrounds (for the rich] on the head name for noisome and noiseless ene- cause the opinions are not those of a{# big. healthy cop chases these kids im mies, and applied first to the Indians,|- A “paraphrase” ts a free, loose and bigoted fanatic. from our parks and leaves the rough- next to the Dutch colonists, and lastly| somewhat diffused translation, iu Many evils have undoubtedly fol-| necks and crooks sitting around the] Jag, is American slang, @ state ofj/and more permunently to the anti-] which sense {t followed rather than lowed the excessive use of alcohol,| Park, doing nothing of any value. intoxication, Originally jag meant a}war Democrats who resided in the]diction, A “metaphrase” is a atrict and it is the hope of devout Chris-| Send Enright a radiogram for fur-| «mall load, and when load grew to be} North and sympathized more or following of an quthor's words, rep- tians that Prohibition is a: panacea| ther orders. O. W. PEES. | synonym for @ “drunk,” Jag wan secretly with the. South during the|dering them literally into another to heal all these ills. There are} New York, July 3, 19: humorously substituted for a@ smal! Civil War. language. > In numismatics, the “legend is that which is written round the face of a coin, the “inscription” is that which is written across it. €