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A ashington St.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opera, Bitod sit Pulion aes eo" | LONDON, 20 Cockeour Bt. \__ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. | Press it the use for republie ene mira Hicaratches credited to it or not otherwise credited ‘Paper, and alo the local news published herein, WHICH ONE LIED? AYOR HYLAN categorically denies that he M has used municipal patronage to line up office-holders in support of the Hearst-for-Gov- ernor movement. George A. Colgan, who was ousted from the | Department of Markets, flatly contradicts this. The issue hangs on the question of personal ‘ veracity. Either the Mayor or Mr. Colgan is j “in error or forgetful,” as Colgan phrases it. In such a test of veracity it is rarely possible $ to bring forward exact proof. The popular ver- ‘ dict turns on circumstantial evidence and plausi- bility. In this instance the circumstances favor Mr. } Golgan. He had a municipal job. He no longer | has it. A Hearst employee succeeded him. » Mr. Colgan’s story itself is plausible and it \ gains plausibility from Mayor Hylan’s actions preparatory to the last¥municipal campaign * when “house-cleaning” of departments was very | much the rule when office-holders were suspected of “disloyalty” to the political ambitions of the . Mayor. i ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. LEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, dead at seventy-five years of age, was a fortunate + man, not so much, perhaps, because his inventions gained wealth and fame as because he lived to see his work benefiting his fellows. That Dr. Bell would so regard his life is indi- i ‘ cated by his activity in founding and endowing the American Association to Promote Teaching | of Speech to the Deaf. Invention of the telephone—the Bell telephone, as it is familiarly known—marked a milestone in the march of progress. The basic patent is con- dered one of the most valuable ever issued. Its » value as a patent may be measured. The value to the human race can never be estimated. Isolation in America has vanished. The farmer e-fs as much in“touch with his neighbors as the _ townsman. The doctor may be summoned in | emergencies. The telephone has proved one of ) the greatest of lifesavers. | The Nation is knit together with the 25,000,000 + miles of telephone wire in use in the Bell system. Commerce, businéss, production and culture in _ America are what they are largely because the telephone is best developed here. Dr. Bell’s work is not done, Others will further | perfect and improve his invention. . Every blue and white telephone marker bears | &m its shield a Bell. These are the best monu- ments to the memory of Dr, Alexander Graham Bell, fas. DEMANDS A MOTOR CODE. JULY death roll of more than 200 persons ' killed by automobiles in New York State. » is so shocking as to demand action. If such a list were publislied when the Legis- lature was in session, it would be comparatively ~easy to get action. Unfortunately the time when (the Legislature meets is usually a comparatively “safe” period in motor-driving The National Highways Protective Association is right in believing that “safety drives” are not | adequate to the need. Safety work will help, but it needs to be supplemented by stringent Jegistation to control and punish speeding, to | prevent operation of motor cars by incompetents | and to more clearly define the relative rights and duties of both motorists and pedestrians. Grade-crossing questions, safeguarding danger | points in the highways and other aids to safe Motor operation will ‘help. But the fundamental } need which The Evening World has been empha- sizing for years is a comprehensive motor code j and a means of enforcement. Remember that until the Legislature meets. » POISONED BY PIE. HE tragedy of the poison pies in the Shel- burn Restaurant has many of the elements that fiction writers sometimes use to work up an atmosphere of horror in detective stories. The whole City of New York had such a sen- sation yesterday as the list of dead and injured lengthened to formidable proportions. * The management of the restaurant seems to ‘ “eae cterneea onc gg pee RN A OR Ee have been commendably prompt in taking steps to find out what was wrong, but they might bet- ter have reported to the police earlier in the excitement. A discharged cook has been held as a material witness. Arsenic in deadly quantities was found in a sample of pie-crust. How it got there and why must be determined at once. Z If the arsenic was introduced by accident, there was criminal carelessness. If any one put the arsenic in the dough, it must have been an act of madness. No sane person could trifle with the lives of hundreds for the sake of ordi- nary revenge or to satisfy a prudge. THE GERMAN CRISIS AND CURE, OR three years the printing presses, of Pots- dam have been turning out German marks in a manner to gladden the heart of all green- backers. For three years paper money, under the stamp of Government, has been confiscating the fruits of labor, of the soil, of the factories in Germany, in the sole interest of those who sell abroad. The few have been enriched by their ability to ex- change nothing for something. The many, barred from this fortune, have empty pockets and a situation before them without hope. The breaking point has come. The shrinking: mark has taken with it all the margin due home industry. Creditors of the state clamor for their due. The state turns vainly to a people who have been despoiled. The international doctors are at sea for a cure. Some recommend jnfusion by loans, others the moratorium, some mercy. None of these contain the cure It would seem that a remedy exists could quackery be put aside. Germany should stop its presses, establish a bank on the line of the Federal Reserve, feeding it with bills receivable, paying with notes that expand or contract with the volume, of credit but always have the value of commodities behind them. “This would mean parity, the extinguishment of the false mark and/ the certain resurrection of yvalues—and hope. Before Commissioner O'Malley bars the New Jersey truck growers from public markets he might try reading the paragraph of the Con- stitution which provides that “the citizens of, each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.” / A RED-TAPE TANGLE. T IS a pity that the Government cannot be sued for the mental incompetence of some of its agents—including the lawmakers who make the tangles of red tape possibie and inevitable. Mrs. Elvira Carton is leaving the United States to take a round-trip voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to comply with one of the pettifogging restrictions imposed by the present Immigration Law. Mrs. Carton’s home is in the United States. Her husband has declared nis intention to be- come a citizen. ‘They came from Belgium. Chi- cago is home now. In emigrating to the United States the Cartons left their young son in Belgium. When the home was ready here Mrs, Carton returned for him. She planned to arrive with him early in the cur- rent immigration year. Instead she arrived ahead of schedule on the last day of the year that ended June 30. By a margin of three and one-half hours this mother and son lost the right to come in under the new queta of immigrants. And the Government is forcing her to return and take her chante again. Time after time the authorities at Washington have managed to make exceptions to rulings. The officer or board that failed to find excep- tional grounds for admission in this case is so badly wound up in red tape that it might better be chucked into the wastebasket. ‘What availeth it, the fans are saying, if the Giants and Yanks win crucial series only to slip when they strike the soft spots? ACHES AND PAINS Happy days continue for Ambassador Harvey. He will now save rent by moving into the London mansion given the U. 8. A. by J. P. Morgan. Another Mor- ganatic alliance? ft; . The Platypus at the Zoological Park is now allowed to see visitors for one hour each day. On Sunday 8,400 were received, The interesting varmint is gain- ing weight and seems to take kindly to New York so- ciety. . The tariff exposures at Washington show that wolves still abide in sheep's clothing. . After fifteen years of successful practice William Dudley Foulke concludes that the law is a rather gu- perfluous profession, It would be entirely so if people were on the square, . When President Harding gets through with the rait- roads and coal troubles we hope he will turn his atten- tion to the unruly weather, . With Hearst for Hylan And Hylan for Hearst, Perhaps in the end The last will be first. JOHN KE Strona er THE\ EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUG ’¢ WHY DON ‘T You PLAY SOME AND WORK HOW CAN | WITH THIS BIG HOUSE ON KY HANDS, NO HELPAND ICON PANSY in TAKE CARE OF THE CYARDEN ~ RUN THE [i CAN' ONE |AM FAGGED Our T DOALL THE WORK You ’LL HAVE T &, 1922, Press Pub, j 10 EE Roney By Maurice Ketten | HAVE Ta COOK THRE MEALS A DAY. eene THE HOUSE CLEAN . ————, | AN GLAD You ARE Cee ITS Tie (CANTER, DEAD TIRED / I'VE PLAYED GOLF ALL Day! From Evening W orld Readers y What kind of letter de you find most readable? Ien’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 sat: \ © say much in few words. Take time to be br ction in trying Military Training. To the Editor of The Evening World: May I add a little more in reference to military training at C. C, N. Y The training ts compulsory; uniforms, &c., are supplied by the Government The training is bad for tho health and should discontinued. ‘The writer developed phthisis in the above R. O. T. C., and has been curing for the last two years. Several other case have developed since, due to the exposure in mid-winter, The Govern- ment, however, does not allow com- pensation, JOHN BARLE Loomis Sanitarium, Liberty, N. Y. July 24. be Military Training at C. C. N.Y. |) To the Editor of The Evening World: I've read The Evening World regu- larly during the past five years chiefly because the brand of Americanism contained therein seemed about the highest in quality I've come across. I diligently peruse the comments, criticisms, &c., forwarded to your paper by readers and printed on the editorial page. Let me quote from J. Rice's outburst of the 24th inst. with regard to enforced military training at the ©, C. N.Y. “Why prepare these boys in mill- tarism? So we can help England and France? Haven't we had enough of these parasites? Will they ever be satisfled? No! Never!" Simply because the C. C, N. Y, en- forces military training, Mr, Rice im- mediately Jumps to the conclusion that the English and the French are direct- ly responsible. It's really amusing. I'm an American and did my “bit"’ for two years overseas, but I did so with the clear understanding that the protection of my own fireside was just as much involved as those of the French and the English, Mr. Rice's statement js not only narrow-minded, but it shows an utter absence of that spirit which is the foundation of our much advertised Americanism, the spirit of justice, better known as the square deal D, ANDERSON, Mrs. Forsythe and the Schools, To the Editor of The Evening World The death of Mrs, ( Strachan Forsythe is a great loss to our city, but more particularly to the women of our educational system, She was the one strong outstanding figure in the system, which is singularly weak and deficient in men of power and ability, ars ago we were rich in ding figures. Findley, Hun- ter, Maxwell, Leipziger, and some promising young men like John Den- igh, Albert Shields and others. ‘o-day we have not a single writer \uthor or man of real powtr in the entire system, with the exception of some professors in Hunter and City Colleges, and it behooves the Com missioners of the board to look far an@| wide for a successor to Mrs. lor- Wha is it that men prefer to work for private institutions like Columbia, Yale and Harvard, although the re- muneration is much smaller?) Is_ it on account of association with smaller educational fry? If so, let the board seek to raise the standard M. R. B. New York, July 28, 192 Bigger Ireland Winning. ‘To the Editor of The Fventng World; Permit me to congratulate you on your masterly editorial “Big Ireland Winning” in yesterday's issue of your great paper. ‘The Evening World has often quot- ed the word of eminent Irishmen, but its last—Kdmund Burke's—was a gem. ‘All true Americans are mighty glad that the Free State is established be- yond all chances of overthrowing. We have always felt a profound admira- tion for our Irish friends who for centuries fought for liberty, that elusive Goddess which, for a while, reigned supreme in our United States but, since the enactment of the Iniqui- tous Volstead law, deserted us to ad- minister the destinies of Ireland, God bless her. Now that Ireland 1s comparatively free and, very soon, happy, don’t you think that all Irishmen and other American citizens-to-be should, in a spirit of reciprocation, forget the infelicities of their native land and show total loyalty to their country of adoption by helping us to regain our lost prestige and to restore that im- posing dignity that the now humiliat- ed statue at Bedloe's Island once com- manded? WALTER RIG New York, July 28, 1922. “ye or “Ue ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Knowing your willingness to help the public, will you please try to en- lighten me as to the reason why so many words on buildings (public ones especially) use a V where a U ought to be. Public libraries and even the Board of Education buildings use this V in place of U. If a child at school spelled those words the way they are printed he would be marked, ‘wrong.’ » I have noticed this myself and visitors from Europe also noticed it; but while riding on a West End sub- way train tycently I overheard two children arguing over the spelling of the word ‘avenue’ at several of the Bath Beach stations. The eldest, a boy about fourteen, seemed quite familiar with this V in words, but the younger one insisted that “ave nve" (as it appears on stations) was spelled wrong. What is the opinion ¢ your readers? | C. E. CLEMENS. Wooklyn, N. ¥., July 29, 1922, | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) HERE IS A TRAGEDY. We have received a pathetic letter from a very old man. He tells us that nothing interests hfm. He wants to know what he can do about it. We'hasten to reply, for the writer has no time to waste, having now arrived at the mature age of twenty-four! — | Twenty-four years of life have sapped his enthusiasm 1 made an old man of him. Truly a case to awaken the pity of the world. ¢ Imagine how dull and drab existence will become to this man when he is twenty-six. And how utterly sunken into inertness he will be at thirty. Yet hope is not lost. If the movies and the baseball games tire him, if he can get no thrill out of the coming contest between Mr. Dempsey and Mr, Wills, he might try going out and hitting a policeman with a golf club—which would provide him with more immediate interest than if he hit a golf ball with it. After the ten or twenty days of inactivity that will follow the policeman incident, he might go down to the Aquarium—if he lives in New York—and look at the fish. They are pretty closely confined and doubtless long for the great open spaces, but they seem to have a pretty good time of it in their glass cases. If interest still palls, he can save up a few dollars and take a ride in an airplane. While he is up he will be very much interested in how he is going to get down again. And maybe the hard, solid ground will not seem so uninteresting after he does get down. Then, of course, there is the possibility that he might find something in books and newspapers and work and the companionship of men and women and in the trees and flow- ers and streams and mountains that would keep his mind occupied. People have been living in the world for many thousand years and most of them have lived along in spite of the dreadful ennui, A number of them have even exceeded twenty-four years without drooping. Among these are Gladstone and Anatole France and Michael Angelo and Thomas A. Edison and John D, Rocke- feller. Ail their lives they were occupied. But of course they used their brains, Ae ee WHOSE BIRTHDAY? AUG. 2.—FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD was born at Bagnt di Lucca, Italy, on Aug. 2, 1854, and died at Sorrento on April 9, 1909, He was the son of the famous sculptor Thomas Crawford, and a nephew of Julia Ward Howe. He studied suc- cessive 11's School In Con- cord, , Cambridge University. Heidelberg and Rome, In 1879 he went to India, where he'studied San- skrit and edited the Allahabad Indian a Lonely Parish,"’ “In the Palace of the King," and ‘A Lady of Rome." Crawford was a gifted narrator, and his books are full of historic vitality and dramatic characterization, One of his novels met with such demand that it-was dramatized and was pro- uced in Paris by Sarah Bernhardt. —e. - —- Experience is the name most men give their follies and their verations.-—A. de Musset. herald. Upon his return to America Woman is the connecting tink he contributed to various periodicals} yetween man and the angels. vnd in 1882 produced his first novel, pity “Mr. Isaaes,"" which was a brilliant Balzac, suceess, Year by year he published numerous successful novels such as ‘A Roman Singer," “An American Politician,” “Zoroaster,” “A Tale of Women would rather have their dress than their conceit ruffled. —Comwmerson. The Nations Their Music . By AUGUSTUS PERRY Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World,) by Press Publishing Co. GERMANY: CLASSICAL PERIOD. Since the earliest times Germany has held a commanding position in the world of music, In the medieval period the Minnesingers and the Mastersingers devoted themselves to the development of the art. Like the Troubadours of Fraffed,, the Minnesingers (love-poets) were of noble birth. One of them, Henry of Meissen, was called “Frauenlob” or “Praise of Women,” because of the homage he paid to womanhood in his songs. The Minnesingers met in the Wartburg Castle at Eisenach. Wagner immortalized their annual song contest in ‘Tannhauser.” The Mastersingers were musically inclined tradespeople. They formed guilds in every great city. The most renowned order met In Nuremburg, and had for its leader the genius, Hans Sachs (1494-1576), In his muste drama, "The Mastersingers of Nu- remberg,” Wagner gives us a graphic picture of these amateur musicians. The folksongs and dances were preserved through the centuries by the town pipers, That popular dance, the waltz,was developed in Germany. German folksongs are notable for the fact that the music is always in harmony with the words. Cheer- fulness and good humor abound In the drinking songs, while the love songs are more sincere than thoseof France. All of the folklore of the Rhine is reflected in a wealth of bal- lads. During the classical period a dis- tinguished group of composers flour- ished. Modern music may be sald to have begun with Johann Sebastian Bacn (1685-1750). He was the most fa- mous representative of a long line of musicians. The basis of modern pianoforte music is indicated in his great work, “The Well-Tempered Clavichord.” Violin music was great- ly enriched by him, while his organ compositions are till considered models, Robert Schumann wrote: “To Johann Sebastian Bach music owes as great a debt as does a religion tu its founder." While Italian, English and even Ger- man composers were writing mean- ingless operas, there appeared at Paris a German named Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1789). He had been attracted to Paris because the French school had been less in- fluenced by the prevailing mode of opera than the others. He believed that the mustc of opera should conform to the plot and express the dramatic meaning of the text Among his best works are ‘‘Orpheus,"* “Alceste” and “Iphigenia in Aulis.” They had a marked influence ou Wagner's music. The fact that they are still performed to-day proves their dramatic worth. The “Father of the Symphony” was Josef Haydn (1732-1809). He divided the orchestra into four divisions, namely: Strings, woodwinds, brasses and percussion instruments. The sonata was also perfected by him. Haydn's mustc is notable for its cheer- fulness and sincerit One of the greatest niuses of all time was Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). At the age of four he began to compose and he appeared in public when he was but, ten. Mozart was the most lovable human of the great musicians. In his music he seems to say, “I love you. Do you love me?” It has # delicacy and refinement which never fail to delight. Mozart wrote forty- nine symphonies, of which the last three, composed in 1788, are the best We come now to the master, Lud wig von Beethoven (1770-1827). This colossal genius was undoubtedly the most inspired of all musicians. He ushers in,the pertod of the romanti- cists. His “Nine Symphgnies" are a musical monument for all time. musical ge Wolfgang and WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 195.—PREPOSTEROUS, The word ‘‘preposterous’’ is a good example of the formation of words to convey ideas, probably by the slang route, Literally, considering its origin, the word meant ‘‘last part for- ward," from the Latin “prae," be- fore, and ‘‘posterus,"’ latter. In a quite literal sense, preposter- ous means the situation conveyed by the popular expression ‘‘putting the cart before the horse.” As that situ- ation pictures the helght of absurdity, the word expressing the inversion of the natural order of things came to be applied in the Latin, as in the Eng- lish, language, to something glaring- ly ridiculous, monstrous or contrary to the dictates or assumptions of common sense. When You Go to the Museum THE “THREE-TOED FOREST HORSE.” One of the interesting relics of the prehistoric horse dfscovered through the generosity of the late W. C, Whit- ney, who loved horses, is the animal which Prof. Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History has caYled the “three-toed forest horse.’* This chap, who probably lived three millions of years ago, was a neurer approach to the horse as we know him than some of the other specimens found in America, The “three-toed forest horse’ was much larger than some of his a tors, being about the size of a vet land pony. Its teeth and the adapt- ability of its toes to treading soft ground show that he was probably adapted to forest rather than to prairte life, Hence the name which Prof, Osborn has given it.