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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | daily except Press Publ Saat, The OF Pak hon New you. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Kow. 3. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. + JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Address af) communications to THE EVENING WORLD; Pulltser Butiding, Park » New York City, Remit by Express Money Order, Draft, Post Office Order or ered Letter. “Cireuiation Books Oyen to All. JULY 28, 1922, SATURDAY, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Post Office at New York us Second Clase Matter, Beast the United ‘states, ovtalde Greater New York: 0; Six Months One Month pei Bo go Sa Go" "S85 ‘orld Only... ¥ World Oni; A Week Worlds: * 6.00 100 5.00 2.25 00 ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 centa; by mall 50 cents. BRANCH OFFICES. TRTOWT: 19s, Bivay,cor san. | WASHINGTON, BARLEM, a pve ree | 14th and F Sts ia ., Hot weresa’ Bldg. "TR IIT, 621 Ford Bide. BRONX, 410 E. 140th St, near | UiickGe: 1608 Mallors, Bide. BR AYN, 202 Wi St, PARIS, 47 Avenue do l'Opera. land 817 Fulton oe mneton 8 TONDON, 20 Cockapur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. my ‘The tad y entitled to rope Apazriated Eros i, exciustyety, ent RaSh ikea Fotis Daper THE ERA OF THE TUNNEL. T IS no surprise that Brcoklyn Bridge is wearing out under long-cuntinued overload- ing. Commissioner Whalen is right in limiting traffic, keeping it well within the margin of safety. He is right in forecasting an increasing vehic- ular traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn. He is right in recommending foresight in pre- paring for this traffic. But he is wrong in recommending a bridge. The time for bridging th. East River has passed. This is the era of the tunnel. If it is possible to drive a tunnel under the Hudson and provide adequate ventilation, it would be relatively simple to go under the East River. As a matter of municipal business, there can be no comparison of the two means of connec- tion. The estimated cost of the vehicular tunnel, 9,300 feet long, is less than the 6,855-foot Man- hattan Bridge cost. To duplicate the Manhat- tan Bridge to-day would cost iar more than the $31,000,000 spent in the first years of this cen- tury. This appligs both to the $17,000,000 con- struction expense and the $11,000,000 for land and damates. When a bridge is built, the expense to the city continues to mount because of the diminished tax values below the approaches. The reverse is true in ca:e of the tunnel. Land values appreciate as the result of tunnel construction and help the city to pay the bill. As a matter of “practical” Tammany politics, a bridge is most desirable. The “boys” buy cheap and sell to the city at a profit. From the business standpoint, such extravagance and bad management is unthinkable. ' ‘Wyatt Bids, Red-blooded American mosquitoes are the ones so fortunate as to dine well and escape without being slapped. “NO MORE WAR!” ¢6’7-O assert the simple and overwhelming de- termination of the people that there shall be no more war.” : Such, in the simplest possible terms, is the THE WEEK ; 8B. R, T. LINES went out of action in the Tuesday evening rush hour. This was the event of the week for thousands of Brooklynites who Mmped to work next morning with aches in newly discovered muscles. An investiggtion—another one—is in progress. In the RAIL STRIKE the week opened with the La- bor Board turning the strike over to the President. Next day President Harding shifted it back. Fortu- nately peace efforts did not stop in midair, The week closed with signs of progress, President Harding’s “invitation” to open mines does Bot seem to have produced much COAL. Perhaps Benator Borah’s resolution for an investigation with teeth in it may acoount for prophecies of early settle- ment by operators and unions. Texas Ku Kluxers klustered to KLAN KLANDI- DATHS in the primaries, Senator Culberson met defeat. / Locally the MOSQUITO KLANS enjoyed the cloudy weather. British politicians have been disturbed by attacks on the SALE OF PEERAGES. The United States Sen- ete can sympathize. It has a NEWBERRY. SCHEDULE 11 of the Tariff Bill would smell no ‘worse if it were labelled with the old Schedule K. On the political stage the team of HEARST & HYLAN have continued their Alphonse and Gaston skit. The Mayor explains he couldn't afford to live ACHES AND PAINS We are advised by the Hoover carpet cleaner that it was not so called in honor of the efficient Herbert. The name, it appears, has been long in its family. . The only thing that looms up clearly and unequivo- cally in the Leonard-Tendler affair is the sumptuous solidarity of the gate receipts. And they call these hard times! . Bacuse us, but have the Republicans really and truly done away with the wiggle and wabblef . The news that the Bdoklyn Bridge must be rebuilt / THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1922. cause behind the demonstration in which to- day the United States f4oins with thirteen na- tions of the Old World. Thirty-eight of our American States are interested in the affair by way of councils and committees of one kind and another. Manifestations are planned in cities all the way across the country, from Portland in the East to San Francisco on the Pacific Coast. There will be prayers and pageants and torch- light processions and children’s parades and such things all along the line. Two years ago the first of these No More War occasions was recorded, with France and Germany furnishing its chief participants. Last year several hundred cities had their demonstra- tions. The idea of the Day is inspiring and hope- ful. The growth of interest ard activity in the cause is promising. Certainly it is true that if all the world’s peoples speak tleir will with one voice they can give the war-makers pause; it is quite possible that they may give them their finish. In America a petition in three parts goes to the President to-day as a feature of the No More War ceremonies. The prayer is that we recognize the World Court at The Hague, that we ‘call an economic conference, that we help to secure the outlawry of war “by international agreement.” We are to support these excellent propositions not the less heart'ly because of the fact that two years ago we were supposed to have rejected by a plurality of 7,000,000 any entanglement with a league of foreign nations, even for the peace of the world, Can You FOR THis FLAT TOWN AET'S GETA HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY. —— MRS BILL SAYS ITS NOTHING TO AIN Every AINUTE a “LOCAL COLOR.” SHORT-STORY writer expresses his appre- ciation of the “What Did You See To- Day?” page of The Evening World. He is sav- ing them for future use. He writes: “These pages are a veritable gold mine of ‘local color.’ They are invaluable.” This seems to be a description that really de- scribes. The Reader-Reporters of The Evening World are turning in incident and description that reflects New York as no single observer or limited group could hope to do. When these have been sifted for the best and most repre- sentative bits, we have the bright lines in the spectroscope of the metropolis. Humor, pathos, tragedy, comedy. People are living it and watch- ing it day by day. Many a paragraph in “What Did You See To-Day?” has the germ of a greater and grander story, a whole novel, the Great Ameri- can novel, perhaps. The great writers of great fiction have been those who are able to-see much and to under- stand much. In this daily page of incident some writer may find a way of magnifying his own vision by using the eyes of Evening World readers. Then, if he has the capacity to catch and interpret the undertone that runs through these human documents, he will be drawing close to a cross section of humanity as it is in New York and the vicinity, and that is the material of great literature. DoYou CARRY THAT LOAD =< EVERY Day 9 to say much in few words. Take The City of Dreadful Streets. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Ever since the automobile became A popular vehicle and our highways became thronged with them we have heard of the doings of careless mo- torists on the roads. Daily, and in such a promiscuous fashion as to strike horror into the hearts-of pedes- ee SSeGe STEPHEN J. RICHARDSON. ‘The late Stephen J. Richardson, long connected with The World, was a pioneer in the extensive distribu- tion of metropolitan newspapers. He had a genius for circulation and would have been a very able editor had he seen fit to use the pen. He was learned in the field of Irish literature and a student of Gaelic and did much to preserve interest in that ancient tongue. | trains, we read of the toll of life taken by autos. “A city of dreadful streets’’ Is made more and more a fact as our autotsts become more unconcerned to- ward the safety of their brothers in the streets, Can no official action, no law affect these men who so indis- criminately violate God's will, ‘Thou shalt not kill"? Fines seem to have fallen short of their purpose, for men seem willing to pay the piper when only a pecuniary loss is involved. Let us discard this mode of procedure and adopt one through which all second offenders would be jailed and the Mcense of first offenders be revoked. Let us see how this method has been adopted with success in Massa- chusetts, There the Registrar of Motor Vehicles reports fifty-three killed in June, 1922, against sixty-six in the same month of 1921, That decresse occurred with 60,000 more cars using the highways this year. Auto deaths in Massachusetts for the first six months of 1922 were 229, against 204 or the corresponding period in 1921, All this bas been done by tncreasing the number of licenses suspended. Surely these results prove the efficiency of the system and speuk much for its adoption here. Let us, however imperfect we may otherwise be, make man realize that he must do unto others as he would be done by them, even If such realiza- tion must come by forceful means. MILTON B, SEASONWEIN. in Albany. He may belleve Gov. Miller was trying to scare him out of the race in paying an $8,000 defi- ciency from his own pocket. ‘The death of Dr. JOKICHI TAKAMIND last Satur- day was a loss to Japan, the United States and the whole world. Science is international in the best sense of the word, Willem van Hoogstraten is conducting the second half of the STADIUM CONCERT season. The spon- sors of the concerts hope Mr. Hadley will take the rainy weather with him. AUGUSTUS THOMAS has been made the Will Hays of the legitimate stage and the furniture dealers are advertising reductions in bedroom suites. Gov, Allen of Kansas ordered the arrest of “Me,” otherwise known as William Allen White, John the Barber had a CLOSE SHAVD, according to the story his wife tells. Benny LEONARD and Lew TENDLER, dividing a sizable roll of gate receipts, are facing the possibility of a demand for a finish match—and more gate re- ceipts—some time in the near future, A “crucial” week in baseball, with the two St. Louis teams and the two New York teams BATTLING FOR FIRST PLACE in both leagues, and New York gain- ing in the two series, HUMIDITY we have always with us, but HI TEM. PERATURE took a week's vacation, fal Purposet” To the Editor of The Evening World: Several days ago, in an article en- titled "A Sure Cure for Concelt,'’ Mr. John Blake said in part, ‘We have been given life for a useful purpose, of course," with such evident positive- nesk that I should tly like to know his idea of the ‘useful purpose" and other rs’ ideas as well, ANSMAN, need not come asa surprise, It's the one public work that has done ten times as much as was expected of it, There are other bridges in town, but none have even approached it in grace and beauty. * oWhat In M To the Editor of The What is money? ‘The grocer uses an tron wei: the druggist uses @ brass welght, and the silversmith uses a silver weight, What is in them that you cannot 2 Weight is in the paper, silver and uut you cannot see that We wish Mr, Edison would catch the thunderstorms and cage them up. Almost every night they disturb our slumbers and waste an awful lot of electricity An age of efficiency should not tolerate such things see that 1s alike What money David B, Hill made “I am a Democrat” a battle ery, If Mr. Hearst runs, “What is a Democrat?” witl be- Br ORO ee pores come the query, JOHN KEETZ, [why were the franc, murk, crown, DON'T SIGN THE LEASE OU COULD Commute LIKE Bite doen e/ From Evening World Readers What kind of 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 is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ee ees Beat It! onen Aone By Preas Pub. Co. YES, WIFEY ALWAYS HA HST oF Nee FOR ME To TAKS HONE time to be brief. shilling, coins so nearly alike in value? there not a reason? Does the number of people in a country have any effect on the value of its money? Is the United States as well off to-day with all the gold metal in the country turned into money, as jt would be with only half of that metal? How much richer is she? Why doesn’t your newspaper ad vise Mr. Harding to settle the value of the dollar before he settles the strikes? Why don't you advise the labor unions not to ask for more dol- lars, but to ask for a better dollar. Given a dollar that does not change weekly in yalue, there will be more contentment in this country than ever before. Germany and France are so hop?- lessly submerged with money that a change in their coinage system, scien- tiftcally treated, will bring peace and happiness to both countries, Ru: 8 not need any more money th: is in her territory to-day. You cannot have a universal money The man who suggests a universa money has no knowledge of the science of money. What !s money, Mr. Editor? When your readers can answer that ques- tion, there will be no more strikes nigh prices, or unemployment. DENIS O'SULLIVAN, 561 Fast 161st Street, Bronx, N. Y. Mra and other continental Was ‘The Ban em Anatole France. To the Piltor of The Evening World: Judging from “W, M letter, he thinks everybody is himself Fortunately, such Good Christians upon reading rhe announcement of the Pope, realiz that by reading the works of Anatole France they would be committing 9 sin against the Sixth Commandment like is not the case We 'LL RAISE ALL OUR VEGETABLES WE LL HANE FRUIT TREES, & FLOWERS _ CATS 7 AND Docs SLEEP, , < ETc. NG PORCHES nd DID You SEE AN AGENT JOHN 2 i NO, | SAw BILL AND | SIGNED THE LEASE For LEY THIS SANE FLAT S944 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 5 (Ooprrignt, 199%, by John Biaka) THE OBSTACLE RACE. Life with no difficulties in it would be a dull life indeed. No man of energy and ambition hopes to go to a Heaven where there are no struggles and no problems. It is by overcoming difficulties and the solving of prob- lems that the human race has developed mind. The chief reason that few men of affairs ever want to retire is that they cannot be content with a life of absolute ease. It does not seem natural to them. It is not natural. No being worth his salt can be content to think that he has nothing to do but rest for the remainder of his life. Elderly business men who are forced by ill health to abandon their work take up golf, which creates artificial problems—and problems that are by no means easy to mas- ter. Games have been invented as human pastimes because each of them involves some difficulties. Utter rest—save for a very little while—is not at all pleasing to the rightly constituted man or woman, Reading is not rest, for when it is done intelligently it involves thought, and thought is by no means easy. The student of history discovers very: soon that life is really work, and that the more of it there is the happier is the individual who does The youth who begins a career with the idea of amass- ing a fortune which will enable him to loaf will never gnin the fortune or get the enjoyment out of loafing he expects. Life is really an obstacle race. Hurdles are set up for us, and we take them as best we can. Sometimes we stumble, but if we are the right sort we pick ourselves up and go on. The taking of the first hurdles enables us better to take the second. When we have taken a few thousand none of them seem so big or so troublesome to us. We have acquired the obstacle habit, and we are fairly well equipped for the rest of the journey. The work hater—the man whoschemesto have othersdo his work for hin—does not belong in life. He will find it very unpleasant and distressing, unless he cultivates enough com- mon sense to pitch in and do as those around him do+make and they refrain from so doing. How- ever, for "W. M." and people of his type such an announcement is enough to make them read it, and among them such books will be popular This, however, does not insure uni- versal popularity, and such popularity as it does insure is shortlived. OBSERVER. Why Follow Partat To the Editor of The Evening World: An “American Woman" had the right idea. Why must we dress us Paris so If we want our ears coy The same applies to our skirts, Who wants the old things flapping around our ankles? We don't have to wear them to our knees; there is always 4 happy medium in every thing. So let each American womar dress In the style most becoming to ber, ears oul or ears in, skirts short o: skirts long, and let Paris make styles for the French, ANOTHER AMERICAN WOMAN. an obstacle race of it, and get a lot of fun out of running it. “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1922 (The New York Pvening Peoria, by Press Publishing Co ul B. coined, e 28 e ‘The longest syllable In English 1s the word “strength” (eight letters), ee of the Impure copper called ‘‘aes" un- C, 269, when silver was first The expressive word “thud’ 1s said to have been first used in English, in the deseription given by the London ‘Times of the pugilistic encounter be- tween John C, Heenan, the American ‘hampton, and Tom Sayers of Eng- TURNING THE PAGES —By— €. Bi. Ostorn Ores, Sy ries" Puvtiaing Oa HE winds are lashing on the sea; | The roads are blind with storm. And it’s far and far away with me; So bide you here, stay warm. It's forth I must, and forth to-day; And I have no path to choose. The highway hill, it is my way still; Give me my golden shoes, God gave them me, on that first day I knew that I was young. And I looked far forth, from west to north; And I heard the Songs unsung. A song from ‘The Singing Man’ (Houghton-Mifflin), a book of verse, by Josephine Preston Peabody. Fifty Feet of Fear - From ‘The Adirondacks’ (Century Company), a fine book of the motfn- tains, by T. M, Longstreth: It was the safest place tn the world, my Adirondack camp. There were no dangerous animals, no dan- serous insects, no snakes, no tramps. I took supper regularly with friends on the other side of a lake. I paddled over alone under glorious heavens and suffered no feeling of the nerves. But my tent was fifty feet from the water's edge, and those fifty feet through the darkness © up the familiar path verged on the unpleasant. If they had been more unpleasant 1 should have left a lantern at the landing to light me home, but that seemed childish. There was always a relief when I had lighted the lantern in my tent— a very slight relief, but actual. I never thought about being alone after the light was burning or minded waking up at night. Sometimes it ts foolish to put away childish things. We think we should have left that light at the landing. eee The Author and His Book--- Thus, in “An Engineer's Note- Book" (Doubleday-Page), writes Wil- Mam McFee: To the young author he ts one entity, the world another, and the book or his poem another, He re- gards {t from the outside, Unless the world knows about it, he has no interest In it, But as the years close about him he and his book become one. He is his book. He broods all the time upon it Whether the world will ever see It or like it, or buy It, are matters in- teresting, no doubt, but not of first- hand importance. He may get himself fired and fall fn love and run away to seq, all Ir one week, as the present writer dit ‘a good many years ago, but he will not relinquish his hold upon the problem of that book. Should he permit such trifles to distract him he {fs not an artist, though he may possibly make a lot of money as a writer. May the rampant young best-seller then repent the folly of his youth and become the artist as he matures—and can afford it! eee When Duty Knocks --- Edwin Markham, in the August number of the Nautilus: y When Duty comes a-knocking at your gate, Welcome him in: wait, He will depart only to come once more And bring seven other duties to your door. for if you Bid him Oklahoma Accepts a Challenge - - - Philip Kates, responding im the August Atlantic to a traveller's notes on Oklahoma, says these among other things: We of the West would learn some- thing of the strange people of the East. If Tulsa Is a Babylonian Temple in the Wilderness, {a Chicago a Babylonian Temple on the Lake, and New York one set in the Bea? Are we all alike or different? Has Chicago no millionaires who sit in the Front Rooms of their apartments without thelr collars, and perhaps without their shoes? Who knows? ‘They conceal thelr crime, Here we sin openly, Which Is worse? Yea, your apartment houses are Uke whited sepulchres—fatr to look upon without, but within—full of boudoir-caps and cast-off shoes. Ye-up. We suppose a skeleton can rattle as harshly in a wardrobe in Manhattan as in a closet in Tulsa. eee On Safety With the Flag. - - - From a book on “British Flags, Their Early History and De- velopment at Sea," by W. G. Perrin (Cambridge University Press): ‘Towards the end of 1769 Lord Bt. Vincent, then plain Captain Jervis, was in the port of Genoa in H. Bf. 8. Alarm, Two Turkish galley slaves, tempo- rarily released from thelr chains, were walking on the mole near their galley when they caught sight of cne of the Alarm's boats. They jump- ed In'o her and wrapped themselves in tho British colors, claiming their freecom. The Genoese guard removed them by foree, part of the boat's pennant being tern away in the struggle. Jervis demanded of the Doge and Senate of Genoa that the officer of the guar@ should bring the slaves with the fragment of the colors and make @ formal apology on the quar- ter deck of the Alarm, When this had been done, Jervis asked the slave who had wrapped the pennant around his body what were his sensations when the guard tore him from the pennant staff, His The name of Calcutta (Indlay is]'*84 er) Fe ay ee ee cata ee ten toed lerived from a cutta, or temple ded.-| ‘phe “Tiger of Honduras"? was| colors gave him freedom, cated to the Hindu goddess, Caly. Santos Guardiola (1812-1862), soldier] We know @ flag story, too, Like oe. snd sometime President qf Honduras, | this: Both the words embowel, diseni-|Central America, His darlng and cru-| When, after tho Armistice of 1918, bowel, notwithstanding the negatiye prefix of the lust term, have the same significance arned him this nickname. 8 ity in the petty wars of that country|a group of nations, escaped at last from a horrible war, got Into a life- boat called League of Nations and oe “Father of Angling’ was a name|looked confidently for a rally of allied The earliest Hebrew coins werefoften given to Izaak Walton (1593-| colors composed chiefly of copper, ang the!1683), the famous English author of] Lo! there were the Stars and [metallic currency of Rome corggstod "The Compleat Angler. Stripes running awey like 4 ’