The evening world. Newspaper, August 3, 1922, Page 22

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PARIS, Avenue de V'Opera, LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. is ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repu ion of all news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited ‘this paper, and also the local news published herein AS AN ASSISTANT REPUBLICAN. HI that the official count may ve, Theresa’ Bldg. 149th St, near shington St Senatorial race in Missouri is so glose be necessary to determine the winner Whatever the result, the “Rid Reed” slogan will continue pertinent, ether asa paean of victory or else as a rallying cry for another effort in November Us of Reed majorities were rolled up in the cities. Neither St. Louis nor Kansas City has a lily- white reputation for political probity. Frauds are possible. This possibility becomes almost a probability when we know that the Republican organization wanted Reed to win as an assistant Republican. When election officers are not “keep- ing each other honest,” fraud has a clear path Whether fraud is legally provable or not, Reed is the beneficiary of moral fraud. Missouri still ~ has the open primary under which a party man can go into the primary of the opposing party and support the least desirable candidate The German Republican vote nominated Reed if he is nominated. Missouri Democrats pudiated Reed Tuesday as they did in 1920. JUSTICE NEEDS DEFENDERS. HE United Mine Worke:s of Illinois are planning to “finance and erect the defense” of every union miner brought to trial-for the Herrin massacre. ‘< Frank Farrington, President of the Illinois branch, plays a shabby service to the organiza- tion when he makes such a statement. On undisputed evidence some union men, though not legally identified. were guilty of an appalling crime made worse by cowardice and bad faith. The organization of miners denies that it con- dones violence. Why, then, doesn’t Mr. Far- rington proclaim that the union favors exact ad- re- have an opportunity to talk tariff after a long period of silence. While the most damaging at- tacks on the Senate schedule, have been under way the House members have been on vacation, where they have been able to listen to their con- stituents. If popular opinion :s strongly enough against the bill, the House might refuse to com- promise on disputed policies—American valua- tion, for example. It would be easy enough to find a plausible reason to force delay until after elections, or un- til too late for the larger effects to become evi- dent before November. The fate of the tariff lies te a considerable degree in the hands of those who have or may make opportunity to talk to their Congressmen. 2X EQUALITY IN CONGRESS, IVEN the Nineteenth Amendment to feed G upon, the sense of sex equality in Ameri- can public affairs grows wonderfully and apace. Its latest manifestation is befo.e us in the demand for a 50-50 representation in Congress, voiced by Miss Ann Martin, a Nevada Suffragist just re- turned from a tour of observation in Europe. Miss Martin found the slogan “Three Hun- dred Women for Parliament!’ ringing in the air of Old, England, and she thinks the echo of this call should sound through the coming Congres- sional campaign in this country. Regarding this proposed revolutionary change in the makeup of the two Houses at Washington, it can be said at least that no Congress could be so different as to be worse than that-one now in session. In this obvious fact is no argument for the 50-50 proposition, to be sure. . Yet we seem to think it is as good a point as that scored by Miss Martin when, having declared that the way to take sex out of Congress is to put the equality of sexes in, she proposes to begin her crusade by exacting pledges from district candidates to “stand for women first.” However, the way to carry out the eager Nevadan's idea is plain and cpen, with no argu- ment at all. We still elect our members of Con- gress, after a fashion. And women the country over have now the indisputable right to join in the processes of election. If they can muster the votes to put in forty-eight Senators and 200-odd Representatives, not the best “anti” debater in the Union can stop *them. With equality theirs before the polls, they can be oppressed only through their own failure in strength or initiative. How many of the Greek picture brides, we wonder, are able to “retouch” themselves on Ellis Island to match the work of the retoucher in a Greek photographic studio? TAMMANY WANTS A BRIDGE. FTER one member of the Municipal Ad- ministration has assured the city that Brooklyn Bridge can no longer carry its burden, By Pres: a By W. J. Enright — Pub. Blue Law 4 From Evening World Readers Bats He Prac | Copyright 1 Press Publishing Co. (New York World) Persecution — By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. - Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. — | ARKANSAS (Continued). At the time of the Arkansas Sunday law persecutions, already described, Sections 24 and 29 of the Constitution of that State read as they do now, a¥ follows: “All men have a natural and inde- feasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right ba compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent. No human authority can, in any case or manner whatsoever, control or inter- fere with the right of conscience, and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious edcblishment, denomination, or mode of worship above any other. “This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to deny or disparago others retained by the people and to guard against any encroachments on the rights herein retained, or any transgression of any of the higher powers herein delegated, we declare that everything in this article is ex- cepted out of the general powers of the Government, and shall foreyer re- main inviolate; and that all laws con- trary thereto, or to the! other pro sions herein contained, shall be void Under these constitutional provi- sions, the State Sunday law shoul 1 have been declared void, but insteat of this, on March 8, 1885, Section 1884 of the Sunday law, exempting ob- servers of another day—the only re- deeming or tolerant feature of the law —was repealed. The alleged object of those who se- cured its repeal was to close the loons. It was asserted that undcr cover of this section certains Jews who kept saloons in Little Rock bail successfully defied the law agains. Sunday saloons, and that there was no way of securing the propér en forcement of the law except by the re- peal of that section. Believing the representations, the legislators re-* pealed the section. But after its repeal, not a saloon in Little Rock was closed on Sundey nor was there any attempt made t close one, Not a saloonkeeper was prosecuted. In its modified form, the law was used for no other purpose than to punish peaceable citizens wlio observed the seventh day as the Sab- bath, and, in the exercise of the God-given right, worked on the other six days of the week, including Sun- day, As for exemption, it is but a form of toleration; and on this point noi has expressed it better than Lert Stanhope, in the British House i« Lords: he time was when toleration 24 craved by dissenters as a boon; it is now demanded as a right; but a tims. will come when it will be spurned an insult.’” we find Tammany unanimous in the opinion that a new bridge is necessary. ministration of law and justice, even if this means that the union must help the State in col- 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 hundre®? There is fine metal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) lecting evidence? The present danger at Herrin is ¢hat local prej- udice will prevent convictions even if the State succeeds in gathering conclusive evidence. A New Jersey girl has worked out a fine scheme to foil the mosquitoes. She designed removable sleeves of mosquito netting and a set of modified pantallettes of the same material. Now the mosquitoes will be forced to bite through the bathing suit where the lumps will not show. NEPTUNE’S DAUGHTERS. - HE distance swimming race for women won by Miss Gertrude Ederle of New York em- phasizes again the remarkable advance of swim- ming as a popular sport for girls. Miss Ederle’s performance was highly credita- ble. In the course of a three and one-half mile race she bettered the speed record for the three- mile distance set by Miss Bleibtrey last year. And although she led all the way and won handily, the leaders were well bunched and any one of the first five might have won. But even this tells only a part of the story. Fifty-two contestants started in the race. In spite of choppy water and disagreeable weather, every one of the fifty-two finished, a rare record of consistent performance. Not the least of the honors goes to the baby of the race, ten-year-old Julia Marmonstein, who swam to the end of a course that would” have daunted many a husky male who has an idea he can swim. With such results, it is not surprising the vari- ous swimming clubs for wornen and girls are lively, thriving organizations. Boys and men will need to look to their laurels A TARIFF VOTE SOON. AVING pretty completely exposed the worst Tariff Bill ever attempted, the Demo- cratic Senators have taken the initiative in bringing it to a final vote in the Senate As political strategy this. is excellent. As a matter of service to the country a real filibuster, until next March if necessary, might have proved better. As it stands, a Tariff Bill before election is probabie but by no means certain When the Fordney-McCumber bill goes to conference the members of the House will again To take the place of Brooklyn Bridge one wants a connection with Greenpoint. Another wants a bridge to Queens. A third would join the Bronx and Queens. We may yet have a de- mand for a bridge across the Upper Bay to St. George. “The longest way round is the shortest way through” is a venerable maxim, but it isn’t al- ways true. But after all, the principal point for Tammany is a bridge, any bridge. wo or three bridges would be better than one. For Tammany the significant feature in the slipping of the Brooklyn Bridge cable is the op- portunity it offers to participate in contracting profits and to speculate in land likely to be condemned. Until the “boys” have decided where to build the bridge and how to divide the spoils, it is just as well to have a confusion of counsel. That may help to keep down the price of possible sites for approaches—until Tammany braves have bought the options. One Kansas Congressional primary sang it “The Campbell is goin, ACHES AND PAINS The esteemed BE. P. is conswming much space in a spirited discussion as to whether Theodore Roose- velt ever used the uncompromising “damn” instead of the compromising “darn” to emphasize his expres- sions. What of it? Did not the Father of his Coun- try, the good and great G. W., “swear like an anget from Heaven” at the Battle of Monmouth, according to Gen. Smith of Kentucky, who listened with approv- ing ears? . The Steel Corporation is sending Judge Gary's ad- dress on “Business Ethics” to clergymen throughout the land. Wonder why, when there are so many “business” men who could read it to advantage. . “Progressive walkouts” are asked for to aid the striking railroaders, If the lines are tied up there will be a good deat of progressive walking! . Secking to alleviate deafness, Alerander Graham Bell invented the telephone. What great mind can invent something to alleviate “wrong numbers?” . Mr. Hearst has bought a yacht and gone a-cruising. Wonder if the craft can navigate Salt River? * The picture of Marcus Garvey, who has organized himself into an African republic, looks like that of Tchaka, the great ruler of the Zulus before England sudjugatgs them, JOHN KEETZ, fo say much in a few words. Mr. Ogle Again. To the Editor of The Evening World: I have just read your editorial of yesterday entitled ‘More Fact Find- ing Needed.” In view of the state- ments you make, it seems clear that we do need a tribunal to get the facts about the coal industry It is not common knowledge, as you say, that the operators fought every effort to get their facts before the public, The large majority of the bituminous operators have always de- sired the fullest publicity of all the facts pertaining to the industry, That their efforts have not always been highly intelligent might be admitted. But you accuse us of propaganda work in the past. Propaganda work is most expensive, as you know. Al) the amount spent by the operators through their publicity department in the past would scarcely carry on an effective propaganda and publicity campaign in a small country town, The miners’ organization, on the otner hand, has the largest and most completely equipped propaganda or ganization in the world, with huge sums of money to oll the wheels and make it function, and they have #0 instilled their propaganda bunk in the minds of the press and the publio that it seems a generally acceptd opinion that coal miners suffer more acutely than any other class of labor from irregularity and intermittency of employment, and that the bitum!- nous coal industry is run in a hap- havard, uneconomical and {inefficient manner, That this opinion is grie ously in error can be clearly shown by the presentation of all the facts to a tribunal which will in turn pre sent them to the public in an im- partial manner, You speak of the acceptance of arbitration by a majority of the opera- tors as having no practical meaning Do you happen to know that not only a majority but all of the operators offered the miners unlimited and un- restricted arbitration. on July 3 in executive session, where th was no opportunity for put .pplause, and have you forgotten that the anthra- cite operators went ull the way in this respect several weeks before the President made his proposal? Tt 19 true that some of the bituminous operators did object to the machinery of arbitration proposed by the Presi- dent; although T suppose if we had all accepted because the miners aad rejected, as we were urged to do by the politicians in Washington, you would have applauded us and said, well done. The operators in Indiana, however, do not do business on that basis, W? were strongly convinced that the President's proposal would not lead to the liquidation of mine wages and mine costs that the public was de- Take time to be brief. manding, nor would it lead to a per- manent solution of any of our fun- damental problems. We thought that \t would only act to delay and re- tard us in making constructi progress. Being convinced of this and having the courage of our convictions we said no. Pennsylvania took a similar attitude Yon quote a part of my preCious telegram to you about “the vital question before the American people to-day,"’ and you say it means noth- ing. I invite you to read the story of the Herrin massacre, also Lewis's statement after the attack In Brook County, W. Va., where Sheriff Duval gallantly lost his life, and also Lewis's statement of July 26. The problems of industrial relationship found in the coal industry are not common to coal alone—they are found in every in dustry. It is true that there is still much to be accomplished in improv- Ing these relationships and there ar many reforms that should be insti- tuted. The coal industry is willing to THE MAN WHO W A brilliant British editor wore illness at sixty. Men said: “He worked too hard. He was always at work. He never rested. He wore himself out.” It was not work, it was worry which broke down this man’s health, He was possessed of an enormous ambition. He wanted to run the affairs of the British Empire. When he found this was impossible he became embittered with disappointment. He fretted and worried, and at last his ARS OU himself into a serious UNCOMMON SENSE health broke down. In the United States are a number of men, including D. Rockefeller and Thomas A. Edison, who have reached a very great age, despite the fact that all their lives they worked as hard as did this British editor, Mr. Edison is still at his desk. Mr. Rockefeller has re tired from active participation in the great industry he built, but he still works harder at his philanthropies than does the average business man at his job. If hard work would wear men out, Edison and Rocke- feller would long ago have bid the world goodby. John show the way if it can, but before the reforms can be accomplished all the facts must be clearly understood, and for that reason we advocate and urge the appointment of a non-par- tisan tribunal, Get behind us and help us do something constructive There will still be plenty left to criti- cise. A. M. OGL Indianapolis, Ind., July 29, 1922 bilized Money. To the Editor of The ning World Your correspondent Denis O'Sulli- van states some excellent truths about money, followed by excellent absurdities, and unfortunately the latter are in preponderan: Allow me to give Mr. some O'Sullivan primary lesson in economics. I do nc claim to be an economist of repute. but I believe I know enough to put him on the right track, The reason for the great decline in the value of most foreign moneys was not the great amount issued, but the great amount issued in excess of gold back ing in the sury of that country This is called flat money, and the process is called inflation. | This les sens the value of money and raises prices accordingly Please do not confuse United States Reserve Banks’ expansion with this inflation. The United States has often expanded its money by issuingy more currency, but always depositing gold in the asury or some other de pository to the amount for which paper money Was issued. This is called expansion of currency, and is absolutely necessary to the business world at times, and has very little ef feet Since 1787 Ameri- can money ut for a period during the Civil War was fiat money, and not being fiat money is stabilized - Me NG upon prices at no tim They never suffered breakdowns because it never oc curred to them that the gigantic tasks they performed were work—in the sense of being something laborious. What they did they enjoyed—drudgery and all. Each little task, however mechanical, they felt was part of a big task; the doing of the big task brought them more pleasure than anything else in the world, This is nothing more nor less than intelligence, For every man who thinks knows that the real pleasure in life is doing things—getting all out of one’s faculties that there making the very most of the abilities that were given one at birth and developed either in a college or in the shop or store. When ambition becomes inordinate—when any man thinks that he ought to be running the whole world, disap- pointment is certain, and disappointment heartening. Often it is heartbreaking. : But it is the overweening ambition, not the long hours at the job, that breaks down the resistance and wears out the machine. The average man could do three times the work he is doing and feel no results save a growing ability to do more work. : Let him get to worrying and to feeling that he is unap- preciated and underestimated, and he will soon give way under the strain. But work will not be responsible, ‘ is always dis “puridan's Ass"? was the name ap-|spelled, phonetically, Quon-eh-ta plied to a sophism attributed to Jean] 8nd signifying "a long river Buridan (about 1858), a noted French] mye “eather of Music logician, in which an ass placed be-|Jubal, as is indicated in ( tween two measures of cats must diel 21 derived ——_—_—— ———— of hunger without free will—not hav- ” “Th t’s a Fact ing any reason for eating the oats on a his right side more than those on his By Albert P. Southwick lett, Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening * 2 @ World by Press Publishing The name Conneectient Is from the’ Mohegan Indian diate (New York Evening Copyright, 1982 forld), by Pre THE “CONTRAT SOCIAL.” Rousseau tells us that‘when he was a young man, living in Chambery, he was from self-destruction i the following way: Aimlessly tossing pebbles at a tree one day, an overpovs - saved ering sense of his own worthlessness and misery seized him, but pausing on the brink of despair, he picked up a stone and, taking deliberate aim ate a tree, resolved to turn over a new leaf provided he hit the mark. For- tunately, the stone struck the treo fairly in the centre and the youns man was saved from suicide. Great things were depending on that gamble in the gardens at Chambers If that stone had missed its mers, Rousseau would not have written the “Contrat Social’ and the history of the world would certainly have been different from what it is. It was the ‘Contrat Social’ that made the French Revolution, and the French Revolution remade the world. This remarkable book was published in 1762, at which time the principles of Magna Charta, the teachings of the English revolution of 1698 and the enthusiastic protests of the Amer- icans aguinst kingly tyranny were be- ginning to work in the minds and souls of Frenchmen. Already the intellectual awakening had come, and all that was needed was to kindle the heart-forces of the peo- ple. This came through the flery en~ thusiasm of the ‘Contrat Social" and the rejuvenation of Europe was at hand. When Rousseau’s passionate detes- tation of tyranny and love of liberly and fair play took hold of men’s souls they began singing ‘The Marseil- laise,"’ and the wrongs of centuries were in a way to be righted, ‘The vagabond, jack at all trades and good at none, the aimless, pur poseless wanderer, became the instru- ment of the overthrow of the ancient iniquities and the enthronement in their place of the rights of man, with liberty, fraternity, equality, Of the author of the cial’ Carlyle wrote: “A n vulsions is not strong though men cannot hold him down, and all six through his spasmodic life and the splendid sentimentalism of his writ- ings we are conscious of a forciblo feebleness, a want of genuine intel- lectual power and insight." Very true. But no one knew better than Carlyle himself that it is senti- ment rather than intellectual prowess that pulls down the thrones of wr« and installs humanity in its “uns t, able rights berty and the pus at @ Reppin: 4