The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1922, Page 18

¥ SASS eet mee ne THE EVENING World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. vil nana os, OSH. arene e RALPH PULITZER, President, Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row, om be ) JoskPH PULITZER, 63 Park Row, Adaress Pulttser ! SUBSORIPTION RATES. * At the Post Office at New York ax Second Class Matier. free in the United Stater, outside Greater New York One Near Bix Monthe One h “Routed Rvening World... $00 : iy and Sunday’ Wor 2 1o0 World Only... Rh iy World 45 -A- Week A ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 cent: ail 50 cen: OFFICES, WN, 1393. } WABHINGTON, Wyatt Bidg., in Hot orem g| DETROIT, 1 For dg. BRONX, 410 F. 149th St. Neer} CHICAGO, 1603 Mallery Bldg. BROOK. PARIS, 47 Avenue de Opera, shington St Fics ere LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, jated Preas is exclusively entitled to the use for repute Of all news despatches credited to it or nob otherwise credited Paper, and also the local news published herein TOO FAR FOR A PATCH. RESIDENT LEWIS of the United Mine Workers optimistic. Tle proposes a conference with operators and thinks a peaceful Settlement of the coal strike is possible It is devoutly to be hoped that this prediction May prove true. But that should thoroughgoing investigation of the industry by the Government. There is ample reason to believe that both the union leaders and the operators fear investiga- tion and reformation more than they hate each other. If getting together for a temporary truce would prevent radical reforms, the operators and the union leaders might burv the hatchet until public opinion quieted. » Let the miners and the operators make peace if they can and will. Let them mine coal for the winter. But the danger to the public has gone too far for a patched-up reace. The public must demand steps looking toward permanent peace and 17 The inthis . not for a moment. check THE POLL ON PROHIBITION. HILE the big bosses ef the Anti-Saloon League continue to decry the enterprise of the Literary Digest in putting on record the popular sentiment of the Nation on the issue of National Prohibition, the Digest poll keeps on piling up the evidence of widespread dissatisfac- tion with Volsteadism as it stands. Up to the moment, with many more than 300,000 votes classified, strict enforcement mus- ters 135,834 votes to modification’s 145,727 and repeal’s 76,039. This leaves a clear plurality of 85,932 counts against the present state of the law. The protest of Supt. Anderson that the taking of this poll is unwise because it may in the issue “be a hindrance instead of a help to law enforcement and law observance” is purely partisan. The vot- ing in progress has nothing to do with law enforce- ment. It relates only to proposed changes in the law. Through the Digest poll the people at large are coming into the right hitherto denied to them of expressing their own minds. That they reveal themselves thus far not at all of the Anderson mind may constitute a constructive majestaats- beleidegung. It is a matter in no way related to anarchy or treason. One thing the poll and its workings unques- tionably does. It gives almost an imperative force to the demand, now so frequently pressed, that candidates for Congress shall in the coming campaign make clear their standing for or against the vicious rule of Volsteadism. PROTECTOR OR TARGE’. Restaurant keepers proposing a Dictator of the Diet, a Commissioner of Cookery, a Landis of the Larder, or whatever the functionary may be called, seem to emphasize his role as Protector rather than a Regulator. The plan seems to be to meet and beat trouble rather than to stop it at the source. In comparison with gther industries now ruled ‘by an officially recognized conscience, the res- taurant keepers show most concern for their own grievances and scerce pay lip service to the grievances of the public. Man must eat. Profiteering restaurants have earned an ample portion of ill will im recent Years. Uniess the proposed commissioner of public eating does better by the public, then the restaurant proprietors may find they have only raised a target for concentration of public condemnation. MORE. FERRIES ON SUNDAY. ESTERDAY, as on every pleasant Sunday, the ferry service on the Hudson was inade- quate. Motorists going to or returning from New Jersey were faced with tedious delays in waiting fines. Many refrained from crossing the river because of the uncertainty of the return journey. In a few years this may al! be changed. The vehicular tunnel will be in service, and probably a midtown bridge. The Storm King Bridge seems a certainty. Probably these are the rea- sons the ferry companies hesitate to expand their fleets to meet the demand. Surplus equipment to satisfy week-end needs would lie idle during the week. ® But while the motorists wait, other ferryboats yare tied up in the East River for want of « Patronage. 4. Why not make ite 4 these boats.to help accom- ‘ oak a modate the Sunday jam at 1?9rh Street, Dyckman Street and Yonkers’ Some sert of arrangement ought to be possible whereby the Hudson ferry operators, the East River terry owners and the public could profit by the use of more boats If it were possible to come and go without undue delays the trate would motor increase enormously SUDDEN MORALITY. N failing to make public his proposals tor end- i ing the shopmen’s strike President Harding has weakened popular support although the pub- lic generally is insistent that both managers and men accept any sort of decent compromise that will restore servi Secrecy has also opened propaganda by the die-hard emplovers and their sympathizers Vhere are several possible courses lor dealing with the seniority rules now in dispute. Arbitra- tion and adjudication by the Labor Board after the men have returned to work seems the most promising settlement, provided both employers and men will agree to accept as final the Labor Board's ruling Phe men who remained at work and the new Vhe fact that the striking shopmen had real grievances should be taken into consideration. The place to weigh these respective rights is the tribunal possessing expert knowledge of all the circumstances Such die-hard propaganda a» President Loree's telegram to Senator Wadsworth, the resolutions of commercial bodies and the feverish tempera- ture of some editorial comment, as in the New York Herald for example. ‘s not helping to in- crease the good feeling necessary as a preliminary to settlement and restoration of service. One feature of these efforts is the general in- consistency in insisting on the “moral obliga- tion” to the present employees When it comes to a question of “moral obligation” it must not be forgotten that many of the most ‘moral’ em- ployers now were only too ready to throw over moral obligations when these favored the present strikers. No commercial organization and no editor has moral right to stfess this moral obligation now, unless the organization or the editor recognized and supported the moral obligation which for- bade railroads to throw employees to the dogs by farming out shopwork in defiance of the Labor Board C the way for counter- recruits deserve consideration The vift in Schedule 11 of the Tariff Bill is all wool and a yard wide. RECOMMENDED BY THE 6. 0. P. ee picture was the sight of Medill McCormick, Senator from Illinois, Repub- lican, and Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, eulogizing Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and pleading with Missouri Democrats to renominate him. If anything were needed to confirm the action of Missouri Democrats in reading Reed out of the party in 1920, this recommendation ought to serve. Senator Reed does not belong in the Demorratic Party. He does not belong in the Repwolican Party as a whole. He most certainly does not belong in the Senate under any label. Jim Reed does belong in the group for which Mr. McCormick speaks, the group of politicians who, with equal fervor, hate and fear Woodrow Wilson, his ideas and ideals, and all he stood for in American public life. Jim Reed does belong in the group of “lame ducks” the primaries have begun to sift out in advance of the election. Win or lose to-morrow, Jim Reed deserves de- feat. If not at the primaria, then in the regular election. Of Jim Reed, Senator McCormick said: “His name will %ve when most of us are forgotten.” That may Se true. A man’s name may go down im nistory as a symbol of infamy. ACHES AND PAINS Chance does strange things. The late Stephen J. Richardson began life as a carpenter, Working on a church in 42d Street a man fell from a scaffold. He hit the end of a board on which rested a chisel. ‘The board rebounding threw the chisel across the room, It struck Mr. Richardson in the thigh, injuring him so severely that he could not work for months, To live he started @ news stand and so became one of the foremost “circulation” men in Anerica * China is catled slow, but it is the only countiy in the world where the public goes on strike. Try an imposition on the Chinks and they rise as one man. Wonder how the system would work in the amiable U.B. A Why do they call the home brew apparatus a “stilt” when it blows up so often with a loud noise? . Although he travelled to leari, Commissioner Bu- right found the European police no better than our own. This is correct. The New York police are truly the “finest” in physique and courage. But it must be said that the Italian species are more beautiful and thetr clothes fit superbly. When the Brookiyn Bridge was first opened lots of timid folks would not walk over tt for fear it would break in two under their. weight. JOHN SEBPTZ. IDYOU ASKK THE OSS FoR FOUR « WEEKS VACATION ee —_ JS J Goop! we CAN TAKE A LONGER TRIP Can You Beat Tl \ Not So FAST! I CAN / ONLY BE AWAY FROM THE OFFICE TWO WEEKS - HE CAN els DISPENSE HE SAYS |ANVNO GOOD THE WEER BEFORE | GoAWAY AND_NO Good THE rom 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 {© say much in few words. Take time to be brief. “Damb. To the Baitor of The E It may be well for me to state at once that I am a Cape Codder, the breeding place of the city liver's idea of a hick. I admit that there are hicks who come from there; but, for the regular dumb-bell hick, look at these New Yorkers, Through the efforts of a club of which I am a member, I became ac- quainted with a girl who claimed Brooklyn as her place of abode. She is a fine girl, but so dumb. One time I took her up to my home, and as we arrived there late in the evening, we had no chance of looking about. The next morning while we wore at breakfast our neighbor's cow broke the silence with a long ‘Moo!"* The girl fjumped from her seat and dashed to the window. My mother asked her the cause of the excitement, and she stilingly re- plied, “I didn't know the steamers passed go close.” The nearest steamer line was about eleven miles away. But that’s not all! When she was introduced to the cow she seemed puz- zed, “What do you feed her?” she asked T showed her a barrel of dry mash She fingered E didn’t know chewing gum. Can Now York show a New person anything that w bring forth such foolish remarks as these” ee ee New York, June 25, 1922 Sleeping on Our fights To the Editor of The Usening World 1 wee that our Senators assert that “more than half the coal in the world belongs to the United States These immense deposits aggregate three or four trillion tens At the present rate of consumption they will last five thousand years and are practical inexhaustible.” ‘Through eons of time nature has been building up and stor- ing away these valuable mineral do- posits, not for the dogs in the manger that now control them but for the eral use of mankind, How mui longer are we to sleep on our righ +? INQUIRER 1, July Inwood, 1. Uplift and Contrev ‘To the Editor of The Evenin A letter signed ‘A Believer in De- cent Living,” in to-day's Evening World, suggests to me the query. Why may the “Uplifters’’ have fut! liberty to express their religious ideas when to say @ word in reply seems ww be “Religious Controversy’ shunned by all decent papers? Is permitted to ask why allow ‘‘sacra- mental wins It 1s @ matter of easy, @ Last Sup- FA id per was only different trom other meals taken together by Jesus end His disciples because it was the last. The reformers have carefully avoid- ca that point except some few e: tremists who have invented the ab- surd idea that “wine where spoken of with approval in the Bible does not mean wine at all but unfermented grape juice. It would be a good thin: for real believers in the Divine in- spiration of the Bible to protest against the damage being done by the intemperate “temperance” people. TEMPERANCE. Portty and Bathing: 5: To the Editor of The Evening World: Purity is woman's greatest attri- bute, It does for her what beauty or wealth can never do; it makes her worthy of her own respect and the regpect of all mankind. There are still many pure women tn this world, thanks be to God. But what about those scantily dressed, so- called women who positively go the limit in eegard to their bathing cos- tumes? Are they pure? Often we hear the excuse “Oh, her is not so nice, but her heart is No more abject lie was ever Inward modesty is reflected in the outward person Some would say this is prudery. But is no more than common ordi nary decency, A prude is one who cts a virtne beca thing, A prude than an imm let us an with 4 1 of he lacks the no more de- st woman the ¢ sira The pure w est bler modesty efore av teven the sit ither prudery oe SINCERE, im- Moral Regvint Wrong. Lo the Liitor of The Hvening World An argument against t Believer in Decent Living"? Ridge, N. Y., would be folly than lys own icapped ns 1am in being from the city and therefore indecent, I still » resistence in oppos- argu nts put forth recently. by the Thompson Ridge resident. His contentions are the contentions of all moralists, He In- vokes the tried, the dried and the impossible creed of moral regulation, a thing as old as time itself, tried again and again with constant failure. The fact is moral reform is origin- ally wrong. In giving us free will the Creator tied His own hands. What for? In order that a despicable band of prefudiced gloom could do the Job for Him. The only plan that wil! ever ac- complish good in the end is the'simple formula of making the people happy and contented instead of restricted and discontented. That ts the secret; there is no other. BURT HUMMEL., New York, July 24, 1922, . Copyright, 19: (New York Evenini CAN YOu BEAT /7-/ ON FOUR WEEKS HE SAID HE COUNTED Yes, BUT THE FIRST AND LAST WEEKS MUST BE TAKEN AT THE OFFICE C THERE'S Sone TRUTH IN HIS, ARGUMENT! OD UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 192% by Joke Blake) BIG OR LITTLE. Some time or other there comes to every man a real crisis. He is faced with a decision that must be made—often made immediately. He must find out for himself whether he is big or little— whether he has the stuff in him that will win, or whether he will remain a coward or a quitter all his life. Sometimes this trial is of his willingness to face a re- sponsibility which belongs to him, Sometimes it involves the sacrifice of what he believes is his happiness or success for a course that he knows is right. Always it is a difficult time. Always it needs courage. If he faces it bravely,and makes the hard decision he is big. If he shirks, or runs away, or makes what he knows to be the cowardly decision he is little—in soul at least, al- though he may physically be bigger than Jack Dempsey. Such decisions men often make when they are unhappily married—or fancy that they are—and there are children whose happiness depends on their continuing their marital relations. Thousands of such decisions were made in war time, when men who were perfectly able to go and found them- selves secking reasons why they should stay at home, Fortunately the number of quitters in that time were comparatively few. But wars and great calamities do not come into every life. Most men must find their opportunity for decision in affairs big to them, but unimportant to the world. Indeed few people outside their own intimate circle will know how they decided, or whether there was anything to decide. But they will know. Their own conscience will tell them what to do If they fail they will be lives, ashamed to look fecling inferior to every man Life is not ail happiness. mental sneaks for the rest of themselves in the face, and that they meet. It is not even all stern battle. There are many bridges that must be burned, many resolyes that must be made and kept. ; The man who meets all the tes ts is the man who wins in the end, and knows that he won, The man who fails is of little use to others, and of no use to himself for the rest of his life, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 194,-ELEPHANT. The merry clip whereby the com- paratively rare name Oliphant is pro- nounced ‘Elephant,’ has solid ety- mological authority behind it. Because the Dutch word for elephant 1s spelled “oliphant,"” and there is reason to believe that the Oliphants or “Oly. phante” bear @ name of Dutch origin, All the Western Buropean lengua- Ses, or most of them, have adopted some variant of the Homeric word “elephas,"’ originally designating the ivory, but in a subsequent period the animal. The Eastern European na- tions use such an odd looking word as “‘slon."’ It is worthy to note, as a sidelight on the common origin of languages, that in Hebrew the word “eleph’’ means an ox. Qf course, the word elephant came into the English dic. tionary by way of Rome and Parts, Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. E. St. Amant, jopyright, 1922, ¢ York Ey World) by Press Publishing Co, IN ARKANSAS. Mr. Parke of Arkansas takes his pen in hand to challenge the correet- ness of statements made by me in this column regarding Sunday law perse- cutions in his wonder State, Mr. Parke says he is “Manager of the Arkansas Advancement Association, in process of organization.” He in- sists that it has been many years since Arkansas was guilty of persecu~ tion for conscience’s sake. The article to which Mr, Parke takes exception described the perse- cution under the Arkansas Sunday law of one % Swearingen, who was imprisoned for four weeks and his property sold at Sheriff's gale, to pay court costs, for performing some necessary work on his own farm on Sunday. I quote from Mr. Parkeis letter “Swearingen evidently lived down the disgrace of this arrest, but he seems to have become involved in greater difficulties, as he committed suicide in Benton County, about two years ago."" Over against this, 1 submit the fol lowing taken from a letter written cently by @ minister who was at that time the tor of the church of which Mr, Swearingen was a mem- ber: “Brother Swearingen, mentioned in the letter (of Mr. Parke), was a dea con of our church in Springdale, Avk. He died of pneumonia several years ago. What makes me remem- ber the circumstance was that I con- funeral, ducted Brother Swearingen’ and it was the first funeral had ever conducted. So, who has taken up the cudgel against the writer of the article is slightly mixed. Similar information is contained in a letter from another minister the members of whose family also were communicants of the Springdale church. My critic declares that I am “hard pressed for facts, and should be brought up to date.’ I am perfectly willing; let's go! A few months ago, aman in Arki sas who is a member of a denomina- tion called the Church of God, which keeps Saturday, the seventh day, ac- cording to the commandment, was arrested on a charge of working on Sunday. Upon his conviction @ fine was imposed, which he paid. His conviction was obtained not- withstanding the presence in the Ar kansas Sunday law (Section 2033), of a clause exempting all persons who regularly observe another day of the week. I quote from a letter received from a Little Rock minister: 4 “The Church of God man was tried before a country Justice of the Peace, who evidently did not know the law. Upon my culling the attention of the County Judge to the fact of the having been convicted contrary to fhe statutes he said that he would preseat the matter to the above mention Justice and request that his fine he refunded."* The writer does not state whether, the defendant obtained a refund of his fine. In a subsequent letter this minister said: “{ do not desire to give further publicity to the matter about which you are inquiring, in view of the fact that the whole thing was a result of some local prejudice against the party, prosecuted and the lack of knowledge of the law upon the part of the Jus- tice of the Peace before whom he was tried.”” Here is the whole thing in a nut- shell—prejudice, with ensuing perse- cution. All of which shows that ex- emption clauses do not always ex- empt, even in Arkansas, Such a pro- vision, it woutd seem, ought to guar- antee any conscientious observer of the seventh day against molestation for doing ordinary labor on Sunday, if such guarantee can be found where Sunday laws exist. WHOSE BIRTHDAY? 31—JOHN ERICSSON was born at Langbanshyttan, Sweden, on July 31, 1803, When he was only twelve years old the Swedish Canal Company engaged him as a draughts: man. He served in the army, where his drawings and military maps at- tracted the attention of the King, In 1829 Hricsson designed and con- structed a locomotive engine and en- tered it in a competition. It was de~ feated, however, by one made by Stephenson. He designed a new ma- rine engine, a caloric engine, a screws propeller, and many other inventions. In 1839 he installed an engine de~ signed by himself in an fron vessel ordered by the United States Navy. The next year he came to America and became a builder of iron ships He designed the famous Monitor which fought the Confederate Mer- rimac during the Civil War. He died in New York on March 8, 1889, and the following year, upon the re~ quest of the Swedish Government, his body was sent to Sweden, eee From the Wise. The rich bachelor who dines out daily is called a welcome guest; the poor one a sponger, ~-Charles Narrey, Honest bread is very well—t the butter that makes the tempta tion.—Douglas Jerrold, The present joys of tfe we doubly taste, ‘ By looking back with pleasure to the past. JULY —Martial, To consume i honest sout with remorse is the greatest of all the crimes.—Mlle. Clairon. If you want enemies, excel othera; if you want friends, let otheva excel you.—Colton. t