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CHICAGO, 1608 Mailers Bide LYN, 202 Washington st.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opers. fend 317 Flow se S| TONDON, 90 Cockspur Bt. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Of all news despatches credited to It or not otherw! this paper, and also the local news published herein HOLDING THE DIKE. HE criminal court record made public yester- day by District Attorney Banton casts con- siderable light on the ‘crime wave” question— and also on the way it is oeing handled. The criminal courts have disposed of 50 per cent. more cases in the first seven months of this year than in the corresponding period last year. + There is a reduction of 40 pcr cent. in the cases on the calendar as compared ‘with last year. Homicide convictions for seven months of 1921 number fifty-three, compared with twenty-three for the same period of 1922. There has been a crime wave, and no denials from the Police Department can controvert *the fact. That the crime wave is better under control now than last year at this time is equally obvious. The police afe doing better work. They are arresting the criminals and are furnishing more and better evidence for the prosecution. The Prosecuting Attorneys are doing better work in keeping up with the calendar and making punishment quicker as well as surer. The two agencies are working together better as the result of) the publicity the newspapers furnished. When Commissioner Enright raged against the press he was like an ostrich burying his head in the sand. The crime wave was on us. There was no use denying it. The thing to do was to recognize it and make counter moves to check it and beat it back. The police, the courts and the prosecutors were finally moved to make extraordinary efforts, and argument consider the lists of books most in de- mand at the libraries and the lists of best sellers. The books against which Mr. Sumner wages more or less successful war rarely appear on best seller lists. These lists are, however, a fair index of what people want to read and do read. The “80 per cent.” Sumner wants protected are not readers. Eighty per cent. of the readers can well be trusted to pick and choose for themselves without either a Sumner or a voluntary jury of super-guardians. The book lists show why Sumner is superfluous. “PIE PANIC?” AKERS and cafe owners report almost a com- plete boycott on restaurant pies and pastries as an aftermath of the arsenic powder poisoning of scores of persons at the Shelburn restaurant last Monday. _ The restaurant men attribute this “pie panic” to fear. If it is fear that moves the restaurant patrons to decline pie it is a foolish fear. The poisoning at the Shelburn restaurant was an iso- lated example, not likely to be repeated. But it is entirely possible that fear has little or nothing to do in most of the cases. The tragedy of the Shelburn moved the town deeply. Any- thing recalling it is unpleasant. In recent years the psychologists and physiologists have made many discoveries of the relationships between the emotions, the ductless glands of the body and the physical functioning of the organs. Viewed in this light, the “pie panic” may not be a panic at all, but rather an involuntary choos- ing of the right course. If a restaurant patron bought pie, it would re- call the emotional shock resulting from the reading of the news of the poisoning. These emotions of horror would affect the ductless glands. The probable physical effect would be a decrease of the supply of digestive fluids. Not only the pie but the rest of the meal also would suffer from this lack. The patrons instinctively protect them- selves from the possibility of this kind of mentally induced indigestion. And the pie counters retain their loads. By an equally well known principle of psy- chology, the effect of the Shelburn tragedy will wear off. As it does the demand for pie will return. A LESSON FROM THE FLY. (From the Toledo Blade) ‘The memory of a man runneth not back to the days when the industrious and forebanded ant was not used to point a moral and drive home a lesson in thrift and timely provision for lean days to come. In lke manner the bee has served as the text of count- less homilies on such virtues. But the ubiquitous and AND WE WILL GET A NICE CAT FoR OUR WHY SHOULD I GIVE UP NY CAT FOR YOuR WHY NOT HANE JUST ONE PET ] GIVE UP NY || HAVE A CAT You Otew York acing Wort By Press Pub. NO JOHN WE WON'T HAVE A DOG! CATS DON'T LIKE WELL /F/ CAN'T CAN'T HAVE. No WE Won't! CATS DON'T THEN WE WON'T HAVE & CAT / DOGS DON'T AIKE CATS A DOG You CAN'T HAVE A DON'T START ALL OVER AGAIN WE HAVEN'T EVEN Gor A HOUSE / ~ Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, (New York ning! World) os Publishing XXXVI. TWO IRISHMEN AND A YANKEE TRAPPER. The “Comstock Lode," on the wost- orn slope of the Sierra Nevada, has made more men rich and broken more than probably any piece of land of its size in the world. Its name is a mis- nomer. It should .have been called the McLaughlin-O'Riley Lo: The story of how it came to be called the Comstock Lode is a nar- rative of unparalleled audacity Two miners, Patrick McLaughlin and Peter O'Riley, dug a water hole in a gulch of the Carson River Valley. It was yellow sand that they threw out, but along with the yellow sand were small lumps of quartz and fri- a ac This black rock did not mean apy- thing to MeLaughlin and O'Riley, they threw it aside. Wht they wore after in that decade after the discove * ery of gold in California was gold— and gold they were getting in satis- factory quantities, though they wero not becoming fabulously rich But while they were pegging away along came Henry Comstock, ex- trapper, fur trader, prospector and ad- he was, Comstock to examine the black two Irishinen wero shovelling ont of their way as un tm- pedient to ind That black réck assayed at Placerville afterwards at $3,000 in silver and $875 in gold to the ton—and the sons of Erin were after the gold. Comstock had a penetrating eye. That eye saw at a glance that the two miners wero throwing away in silver four times as much as they were gathering in in gold He acted quickty Assuming a, air, Coinstoc upbraided the omething this fashion: don't you know echoed McLaughlin aud O'Riley in the same breath of amazement “Sure ye'r trespassing. This here ‘s my claim. I've cot it recorded, And I'll have you both arrested.” Being honest men, free from any desire to trespass, the two Trishmen listened to some more of Comstock's plausible te Ip the end they con- ceded the adventurer's emphatically reiterated representations, and ree- ognized his right to riches which they had discovered. The black rock found by McLaugh- ln and O'Riley was the beginning of silver mining in the United States. The “Comstock Lode," the richest of the deposits found in Nevada, was an incidental “find” tn the search for gold. But the black rock proved far moro valuable than the shining yellow dust ylelded by the Sierra Nevadas. = the progress recorded is generally satisfactory. But the need for vigilance remains. There must | Tie atumed (OM Evening World Readers ee : | be no break in the dike. In that capacity the Ittle insect, co famillar and Is UNCOMMON SENSE Famous ! so unpopular, has figured often enouch, but even so, What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one . ° rs i A “There are just two kinds of Republicai ae the ie oF ue bppalnne Pitesti * least | ehet dives the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundred? By John Blake Philos« phies William Allen White observes. “Those that are one vintey say ° pan ve z fe =a pai There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ? ae loyal and get the Post Offices and those that peer ria Psy eae Ais fees and || @9 eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. (Copyright, 1022, by John Blake.) 8y LOUIS M. NOTKIN have the fun.” — z -borne disease. uu of Growth. weeks. I then reported to the Agency TESTN Ra ass HL ORD oe iad The second classification includes those who Mane cates pedaerhia ‘and then move the other |72the Editer of The Evening World: MSA AE Ca GALE TIR THE FUTILE WHINE. Morley, by Frese Publishing Co win the primaries. Kana, ei Mar attantealiawating, gentle toward There are at present at least three | porary position which paid me thirty Since the world began man and woman and nations and, all ready for s, gently toward | plans to put ornate memorial struc-| dollars, and again they demanded of|$ have lost battles. XIV. JOHN G. FICHTE (1763« the hand where the proposed victim is foraging, let us hope in vain. Observe about how many inches measure the least space intervening when the fly takes flight, Then begin again and when the insect has settled down on the same hand from which tt was frightened raise that hand as carefully toward the one poised for swatting as the movement in the opposite direction had been {fp the first test. It will be found that the two hands may be brought together much closer than before. Is not this very human? Does {t not establish rather shocking analogy ‘with the ways of men ard ‘women. It is one thing to have the shadow of an impending peril caused by others fall across our path. It is entirely different when the menace to our best in- tures in or around Central Park: (1) | me ten per cent. of my salary for ten the Music Centre; (2) the War Me-|weeks. This position also lasted ten mortal; (3) the memorial in honor of | wecks. I then reported to the agency John Purroy Mitchel. and asked if I could not be sent on Already in and around Central Park} permanent position, but was in- we have: (1) The Museum of Art; (2) |formed that they were searce at the the Museum of Natural History; (3) | present time, so I was again sent out the Columbus Monument, at 59th|on a temporary position and received Street and Eighth Avenue; (4) the] thirty dollars, and the agency again Maine Monument, at 59th Street and| demanded ten per cent of my salary Fighth Avenue; (5) the Obelisk, near| ror ten weeks. This position ended the Museum of Art, and several mon-|jast Saturday. The result is that I uments throughout the park, starting | nave had to pay this agency ninety from the monuments at the Plaza,|qojlars ($90) for the thirty weeks I 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. have worked so far. Is this not an Central Park is not the only park| outrage? Should not this Employ- ip Greater New York, and it already) ment Agency Act be amended so that has more than its share of ornate! acencies cannot demand so much of monuments and structures. Its value} your salary for temporary work? 26 a park will be more or less de A week's salary seems fair enough 1814) —SUBJECTIVE IDEAL- ISM—THE WORLD IS WHAT | YOU THINK IT 1S, Sy «According to Vichto, a rational be ing huilds his own world, and the dead external world is naught. He denied Some of them have whined that they didn’t have a fair chance. Others have gritted their teeth and determined to win next time. ~ Recently a tennis championship was played off in a heerine that there can exist any things in ! , De , ; themselves beyond consciousness at One of the players quit in a rage in the middle of the all. The world that we spiritual game, which was unsportsmanlike, but offered no alibis and persons know, however hard and fast a eucasas it may seem, however helplessly we made no 5 ourselves may individually be sub- The same players met to play the same championship jected to its facts, is still, in the this year. last analysis, what our thinking The player who gave way to temper the year before won, $|makes it to be. The world, then, is The player who had formerly defeated her lost. And the world that the self makes. é Fichte has @ unique theory of thi excuses and explanations have filled the papers since ts a that time. AGELESS EDUCATION. if is news of the day that Willmoore Kendall jr. is preparing for college at age thirteen in Okla- - homa, and that Mrs. A. P. Crawford of Greens- boro, N. C., is at age seventy-ure a student at the summer school at Columbia University. The proud mother of Master Kendall is inclined to attribute his early advancementsin learning to the fact that as a two-year-old he had a typewriter for a plaything. We have our reservations on that point. It would be a good trade item, but we guess the rule is that precosity, like murder, external world. Our common devo- tion, our social enthusiasm, our duty, will out, and that the typewiter does not make | terests ies in what we are doing of our own will. |stroyed if more monuments ure added.) commission for a permanent position, All that these explanations and excuses have dons is to }|/euulres of us all that we try to em- the scholar. All of which, It 1s herewith submitted, jp as sound |, Thor is uty ther parks of [Cut it seems like graft for the}} injure the reputation as a good sport of the player from $|rorms. It we succeed, we all see the agencies to demand from poor Greater New York, The Mitchel stenographers who have widowed Memorial, for instance, should be} mothers and young brothers and sis- scented Ip Neo) Seruapal Ear ie ters ten per cent of thelr salaries for w * Level temporary sition during the as Mitchel ts buried in Woodlawn avery. REP ether corde: ie Thome on Cemetery, and Van Cortlandt Park} Zoing to this agency and getting only 1s opposite Woodlawn Cemetery along} temporary work for ten weeks at a Jerome Avenue. time at the rate of thirty dollars @ An appropriate site for the Music| weex, I would have to turn over to Centre would be on University Ave-I the agency $156 of my hard earned nue, in the neighborhood of the New| money during the year. Ae, York University's Hall of Fame, or|” New York City, Aug. 4, 1922. a bit of philosophy as any preachment which has been derived from the insects held up for the ad- miration and emulation of man, even though the text may be found in the obnoxious and outlawed fly. ACHES AND PAINS Reports from Connecticut atate that owing fo the heavy rainfall the grapea are rotting on the vines. Here's where Wet helps Dry! whom they came. Incidentally, they have served to show what colossal egotism can sometimes reside in Tne preg whos Gal work in common, It's true that each gaged in an entirely unnecessary form of human endeavor one of us creates the world for him- The world has just been through a war which cost the self. “Bue Gs impressions of the ex- ” ternal world are, in the majority of lives of millions of people. cases, in agreement in so fa 5 ras w Europe, shattered and devastated, is struggling to get vant to toll for a commen purpose, on its feet. It is only as a result of the Divine Millions of homes mourn the loss of their sons—hun- plan that we are able to create and dreds and thousands of homes have been swept from the same houses and streets, the same people moving, the same flags wav- ng. Seeing thus in common, we can What seems to us to be the important thing in this matter of student extremes is the implication that education’s work is never done. Some critics would doubtless amend this statement into a / charge that the real work of cducation is seldom begun. Indeed, in an interview in The Sunday World of yesterday we had Dr Charles P. Stein- metz, of wide engineering fame, declaring that, to work together while schooling can be boughi, an education must ‘- on the empty block at 168th Street rag face of the earth iorvwhete good end bad men, no- 4 vani: “It is a grave ” sai e and Broadway, on which the Billy Flapper 3 id = F H ie and base men, strong and weal i be organized. “It is a grave quesiion,” said the The Britons complain, that American visitors bore | Sunday Tabernacle stood. To the Editor of The Evening World: What the remedy is no man can tell—though all intelli- men, really do not see precisely the f doctor, “whether some of the schools do not leave | sem sith talk about Prohibition, The criticism ap- | The large War Memorial should be] Why do they “razz’’ the fappers|3 gent people are seeking it. samo sense world, The "seeming : the minds of our children in woise shape than | pears just, Way waste time in dry conversation when | erected either in Prospect Park, | #!! the time? And three or four years after the end of the war a outer world for any man actually varies with his mora] perception or faculty of receiving knowledge of ex- ternal things by the mediun of the senses. The sense world is saner and more orderly for the cultivated man than for the savage, for the good. man than for the men absorbed in the pleasure of the moment, for the wise man than for the fool The gist of Fichte'’s philosophy could be found in a letter he wrote to his sweetheart, Fraeulein Rahn. Ho writes thus: “I have found out now that man’s will Is free, and that not happiness but worthiness is the end of our being.” Fichte arrives to this conclusion by pure logic. He argues thus: “If Iam real, so also the peo- ple about me. Work with them; m spect their rights; honor their free~ dom; join with them to build a higher and freer world than any of us now see.” For Fichte, action constituted the Brooklyn, or in Bronx Park. It seems to me that ‘‘flappers’* are The city is rapidly extending east-|uman, probably “modern buman, ward and northward. In a few years|!f such an expression exists. the theatrical district will have moved| (They are as goood pals as the up Broadway from 185th to 18ist}other kind. They dress to feel com- Street, or to the Grand Concourse fortable. Why not? ‘ from 1634 Btreet to 190th Street. The] They make good wives and mothers. subways and the automobiles have|Of course there are “‘black sheep” eliminated distances of a couple of/#mong them as there are “black miles. Why not put all future monu- | Sheep" in everything, but why look at mental structures along the line of the} the “black sheep? city’s growth? H. L, ARMSTRONG. tennis player tells the whole world that a match was lost because of conditions that were as fair to one player as to another—and expects the whole world to listen sympa- thetically. ' Sport is healthful to the mind and body and enlists the interests of the whole world. But there are those who take {t a little too seriously—especially the futile whiners. they find them.” a few words wilt bring anything you want? Mrs. Crawford's eagerness te keep up with the © student world is evidence sufficient that her mind The proposition to “censor” manuacripte before pub- § suffered no mischief in her schouldays. Will- | Hcation is the newest novelty. Who ts to protect the y moore Kendall jr. will be in high good luck if in | ™07al# of the censora? fifty-eight years from now he shall find himself possessed of a mental alertacss to maich that of Columbia's oldest summer pupil. e “The State owns @ million autos,” But not an auto I. Let others chug and sputter, While I walk proudly by. . Perhaps Mr. Harding could get Mr. Lloyd George to settle the raulread strike. He hag handled soverat of them successfully. JACK B, GUSS, Long Island, Aug. 4, 1922, of the first hour after sunset and concludes at the beginning of the last hour before sunrise. oe e Edmund Hoyle, the author of the celebrated book on ‘'Games" (Hoyle. on Whist), was the Registrar of the Prerogative Court {n London. The phrase ‘According to Hoyle," mean- Barge Canal Freight. Employment Agency Commissions) 1. ine editor of The Evening World: ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World: Will some one among the Cana) I should like to call your attention ““Know-{t-alls’’ please tell me why the By Albert P. Southwick to the Employment Agencies demand- | cities om the canal only ship by canal} || Conyrignt, 1 ¢ Publishing Co. ing a full week's salary if a per~|to New York 144,989 tons of freight oid) tr ee ent position ts obtained through{ when, according to cana! enthusiusts he mney, and ten per cent. of your e are tons of cana! shipping ot, as might be See eT eks ir tae ealtion en ae m shipping doing] Lingua France 1s 9} ing correctness, naturally referred to {s temporary. Will shippers of freight along the|SUPPosed: the language of France. Tttnis rules and regulations. He died tn Bince November last 1 have been] mrie Canal write and tell me why they|!8 @ dialect of corrupt Ttallan mixed | Cavendish Square, London, In August. SUMNER IS SUPERFLUOUS. N a World interview yesterday John S. Sumner elaborated his latest censorship plan. The successor of Anthony Comstock cited “Government figures to show that only 20 per cent.” of adults ‘‘do not need any protection from Senator Gooding implies that Frank A. Munsoy ts running his newspapers in his own interests. This will be hard to prove even by a Benatoriat investiga their own impulses.” He said: thon. is compelled to pay to one employment] ship to New York by rall instead of] with many words of modern Greek | 1769, at the Ag@ of ninety-seven. nrofoundost motive from the yory Bes he sum of $90, which it de-| by canal? which ‘e spoken n he rn “wi shed that agency t wt and other languages, ee tis term thoush ; iecrpd : ‘We do not want books published that inflame The League of Nations is not likely to dissolve on |manded of me. LT registered with this] We want to boost the canal eee ett ve staclarraneaa tae Nd Man Eloquent’? was a tern thou i 8 Hon, It was perfectly the passions of the 80 per cent. mentally im- tha uaualel din Racdis pian agency last November and got a tem-| increase its freight carrying capa eo both coat first applied to Isocrates, the consist for him to say, in the mature to a degree where they may commit 4 Of dims Hoods yotory. porary position as stenographer at the| to its Jimit of 10,000,000 tons, bu Sea orator. When he heard that Grecian t exposition of his doctrine he #88 liberty was extinguished by the battle - of Chaeronea, he died of grief. Als tk "On ot of George Under the Poaching A *lthe name given to John Quincy 1V. (1820-1830) of Bogland night\agams (1767-1848), legally commenced at the expiration United States from 1 a has given, that a man’s philosophy depends primarily on his character, And to make this world a beautifud place to live in we must ennobl our individual and social chas: 4] weekly salary of thirty dol T| want te get at the basic facts first was compelled to pay ten per cent. off STEWART BROWNE, President that salary for ten weeks to the| United Meal Estate Owners’ Aseovia aggncy, which T did. The position! tion e only semporary and lasted ten New Louk, Aug. 4, 1023. vicious crime on the mature 20 per cent.” This is nonsense. For proct of the nonsensical ehagacter of what Mr Sumner imagines is an The beautiful result of having everybody “organ- ized” és being well illustrated in Italy. Thoy are om ganized againgt cach uther. JOHN KEDTZ.