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THE DRYS STILL HAVE IT NOT. N ITS grand totals for the current week the Literary Digest poll on the wet-or-dry issue shows a very small apparent gain for the advyo- cates of enforcement Analysis of this increase in the rdtio of the “dry” vote reveals that it comes almost entirely from the section covered by tine East South Cen- tral States—Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi—with Arkansas thrown in for good measure. Somebody will have to show us the sufficient Treason, if there is one, why 1,946 people in Mis- sissippi, or even 3,030 in Arkansas, are entitled to decide a question of personal freedom of taste and indulgence for 60,640 people in New York. The figures last quoted mark the present New « York vote for modification or repeal, the “dry” contingent mustering but 23,621 hard-and-fasters. The severe blow for the Anti-Saloon League bosses is struck in this issue of the Digest by the announcement of first results in the separate €anvass among the women voters. Of 21,467 ballots cast by women, 7,363 are for strict en- forcement, 8,575 are for modification and 5,529 are for absolute repeal. Four polls have now been taken in as many large factories of the country. The totals show 644 votes for enforcement, 4,949 for modifica- tion and 2,570 for repeal. There is no answer to such a demonstration of the fact that the pro- hibitory law as it stahds is eminently a frame- work of “class” legislation Men with the money can buy good liquor readily. Men with the least money can get poison liquor. The great middie class, unable to afford the best and too well-controlled to accept the worst, goes without either the harmless beer or the wholesome light wine which it was free and satisfied to purchase in the free days of the Republic. AN .ACT GONE STALE. HE interchange of compliments between Mayor Hylan and Mr. Hearst continued yesterday. Out of it the Democratic voters got nothing new. Meanwhile the enthusiasm for Al Smith continued to increase. Mr. Hearst claims he does not want the nomi- nation, Mr. Hylan says he would not accept it. Tt has come to look as though New York Demo- rats are willing to oblige each of them and do without either the Hylan phonograph or the Hearst money. The Alphonse and Gaston turn continues, but it doesn't draw the hand it dia. The hand-clap- ping claque hired to perform at every oppor- tunity is drowned out by the “We want Al” chorus of volunteers. It is time to use the hook n an act that has gone stale. The plain fact is that Al Smith is the only Democrat available who can run ahead of his ticket all over the State. Al Smith has proved his popularity with Tammany and his inde- pendence of Tammany domination, In these two facts plus an excellent executive record lies * his strength as a candidate, ; A SHORT STEP. § CHAIRMAN of the Ainerican Association for International Co-operation, George W Wickersham is circularizing several organiza- tions in an effort to build up an influential and more inclusive membership fcr this association that seeks to unite and unify the sentiment for prevention of war and the iinprovement of in- ternational relations. The immediate platform is “We believe that the United States will ulti- mately play its full part in the family of nations and that the first feasible steps in that direction are: “1. The adhesion of our Government to the Fundamenial Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and “2. The friendly co-operation of our Govern- ment with the great international commissions of the League for social welfare and reconstruc- tion.” “Such co-operation can take place without as- suming any membership in the League of Na- tions,” Mr. Wickersham’s letter continues, “but it is the natural introduction to an eventual as- sociation with the other nacions of the world.” All this is in a letter addressed “To Pro-League Independents.” Every effort ‘n this line is com- mendable. We would like now to see the letter Mr. Wick- ersham would send “To Pro-League Republi- cans,” in particular to the illustrious Thirty-One who signed an appeal to Republicans to support Harding because a Harding victory offered the best hope of entry into the League. Hamilton Holt has done his best to smoke out Secretary Hughes, but Mr, ilughes hid out and evaded the question, What have the other Thirty to show? These men, influential in the party, have made no honest effort to make good on that statement. Three at least have accepted office under Har- ding appointment. Should the Thirty-One con- tent themselves with so mild a programme as that outlined by Mr. Wickessham? THEY'RE TOO LATE. NE new feature in the bituminous coal peace agreement is a proposal that operators and miners meet in the autumn to select a commis- sion to inquire into the industry and recommend reforms. In case the operaters and the union leaders are unable to agree on the personnel of this committee, it is provided that they shall ask President Harding to make the appointments. Such procedure ought to be superfluous. Long before the time set for the selection of these in- vestigators another commissicn should be hard at work, armed with all the powers the Govern- ment can extend. This commission should plan reforms. It should make recommendations to miners and operators. It should draft any leg- islation needed. If the two parties to the coal industry ever send such a request to the President, he should be in position to refer then: to a commission already functioning and representing the public as well as the operators and miners. WHY NOT LET ‘EM BE GIRLS AGAINT (From the Kansas City Star.) It's thoughtful of the National Hairdressers’ As- sociation to tell us what the flapper Is going to do next, especially as the National Hairdressers’ Asso- ciation doesn't know. We will go further than that and say the National Hairdressers’ Association doesn’t know what a flapper is. Nor does anybody. It’s true that ‘way back when this word had the ghost of a meaning it meant a young girl with a flap- ping hair braid down her back, but it's been years since hair flapped. But, of course, it isn't necessary in these days that a word should have a meaning, and, in fact, the less meaning it has the more it is likely to be used. What perhaps ought to be considered is the mean- ing all this flapper discussion has had and will have on the flapper herself. Helen of Troy was not more talked about than are the young girls of this age who are made to regard themselves as flappers. They have not unnaturally come to feel that it is necessary for them to talk and act and dress the part. They could not be more in the public eye if they were divorcees, yet a great part of them if they were let alone would prefer to be playing with their dolls. But girlhood is denied them, As soon as they are out of the nursery the world calls them flappers and begins its inter- minable comment on their dress, their conversation, their social habits and the thoughts that are supposed to be in their heads. Knowing nothing about these things, the world proceeds out of its own unwisdom to classify them, and what is more natural and in- evitable than that they should come to accept the classification and try to live up to it? ‘Thus has the flapper come to be a social institution and to mean any girl and any woman of almost any age who dresses near enough to the prevailing modes to escape conspicuousness. It's an unfortunate in- stitution in some ways, for it has given to quite young girls a very exaggerated notion of {ts importance, and of their own. Actually, the universe is not standing still to contemplate them, It may not seem so to the flapper, but in reality the world has one or two other things on its mind. It flaps a good deal itself in various ways, both noisily and foolishly, and doesn't always talk and act as it should, but young girls should not be misled by these antics. Like some other flappers, it's older than it acts. If young girls wouldn't mind its talk so much it might mind {ts own business after a while, and then they'd have their girlhood back and get a lot more of real enjoyment out of it than they are getting now It must be painful to have to pose all the time, and to have to do and say the things they are supposed to do and Say as flappers when they'd rather be girls if only the world wasn't looking, ACHES AND PAINS “Flask-breakers" is the newest pet subway turnstiles, name for the When aid our local politics ever show a neuter jod than the canning of Cohatan by Murphy? Once there was a swordsman with a blade so keen that his vio tims had to shake themselves to learn that they had been cut in two! . By the feel of the weather no one would think that the coal supply was a burning question. Sometime we will learn to can August for use in December. . If baseball cannot be kept pure what hope is there for the Nation? . Detective Ellis Parker of the Jersey force says that vou do not need to prove a murder “motive” in that State. Should think the corpus would be enough, . Perhaps if President Harding delays long enough the troubles will settle themselves, They usually do. JOHN KEETZ. a Tempted! THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922, Copyright, 1022, cxew York’ Bivenin by Press Pub. Co. World) By John Casse Romances of 1 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 1s fine mental exercise and a Jot of satisfaction in trying fo say much in few words, Pet Child and Step Child. To the Editor of The Ev tal, and just now I can't find favor- able and what can you do for me?” Uncle Sam replies: you. all Should you find a better opportunity you can realize your money." In this way it is provided that job- less capital gets at least a moderate return until chances are better. Somebody else comes to Uncle Sam “Uncle Sam, I have nothing but my working power. and willing to Work and I have a fam- and say! fly t investment. Bring the money to me. course I cannot give you 10 per cent. or more, like some industries do, but I will give you 3% per cent, Govern- ment bonds, the resources ‘o support. cannot find work. and what can you do for me?" Will Uncle Sam likewise will help you, you shall not perish. Of course I cannot give you the pay you carry you over until th would earn better,’” ‘On the contrary, in this case Uncle “What you shall do God knows, I can do nothing for you Capital and labor a porting children of the country, Sam this unequal treatmer: A SIMPLETON. says: New York, Aug. Away. ‘To the Editor of The B Amid the whirl of city life, Amid the din and endless strife; I long for aulet, country lanes, For all the city chap disdains; Away from sorrow, turmoil, sin, A chance to work, a chance to win. You have no risk at all, Principal and interest are secured by ent King O: patron of art.’? a Somebody comes to Uncle Sam and] dead for quite a number of years. The says: “Uncle Sam, I have some capi-| Present King is Gustav V With all endeavor T give you work at a smaller pay tojiM& and unfit for citizenship in our chances are| modernized country. Away from dissipation’s lure, Away from lust and sphere Impure; ‘vo where the virgin soi The feet of man cun safely trod. Take time to be brief. ar of Sweden is a liberal King Oscar has been ning World: K New York, Aug. 12, RUNKE What shall I do 4 he Votes. To the Editor of ening World Under the present Constitution of the United States elected President? New York, Aug It He “L will help of can a Catholic be N.1 G. 14, 1922, igrants and Fightin, lditor of The Fvening World There of the country. is an in this week's regarding restrictions, article Saturday Evening Post Canada's immigration and the writer of the article can only see blue ruin far the United States if we as well do not have immigration. Apparently since 1880 the United States has been going to the dogs with the riff-raff we have been allowing to enter the countr ported that war revealed state of the men € restricted 1 am able What shall I do » It is commonly re- conscription to us the airs that mined we: during the unfortunate per cent. of e mentally lack - 8a) “1 where, but T will Yet the Dr. Arthur Sweeney of nl as saying in his pamphlet entitled ‘Mental Tests of Immigrants that our army fighting machine auth: has quoted St. was “the greate the world has ey seen."' Does this prove Dr, Sweeney is exaggerating or that it does not r quire men with to make a machine?" the two sup- Why ordinary superlative mentality 14, “fighting 1922 MAHON 14, 19 Y. ning World Woodcliff, Abando at Needles, To the Editor of The Evening World Veing a aturally peaceful indi vidual I have always frowned upon lynching, whether the vietim be black or white, But U believe every human being in the United States would ap- andiy cruel lynching eatment for the beastly persons whe abandoned their patriotic duty to the of God, t Among the trees, the grass, the! heople of this great country by for, flowers, suking the passengers of our common To breathe the air from nature's] carriers in the heart of the desert at bowers Needles, or anywhere clse where the The hum and strum of city ways, |cireumstances involve the life and ‘The endless grind, the weary days; | happiness of the people, as a result of The artifictal glare and gleam, the criminal acts of either workers The pallor of each empty dream, or employers in their p! A mockery of life and hop Having travelled 1) Give me the country's breadth and] or four times T know full well what scope. the conditions are at Needles, and it WILLIAM REID, | is enough to only pass through with Bronx, Aug. 1 1922 out a forced stop. a The workers rant and rave about rection. the employers having no consclence ‘To the Waltor of The Evening World but surely actions such as this ana In The Evening World of Aug, 10] the recent Herrin, Tl, massacre are Mr, Augustus Perry says in ie Nu-| not the result of conscientious fore- tions and Their Music’ that “the pres-| thought A TRAVELLER ae ee -* UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS, | Industry By Wixthrop Biddle. Copyrig@, 1922, (New York EByening! | _ Wo yy Press Publishing Co. XXAVITL—BEATING GOLD LEAF. It is difficult to imagine such a measurable quantity as the 200 85-100 part of an inch, And yet such a measurement exists in the form of a commercial product sold over the counter. The substance—and the only sub- stance which it is possible to beat to such a thinness—is gold leaf. It is sold at the rate of 25 4-inch leaves for as low as 16 cents. So you see it has to be pretty thin—at that price. The. trade of gold beating is an almost survivor of the middle a » slow old time be- fore the invention of machinery ha greatly facilitated and cheapened most industrial processes. But gold beating 1s still done by hand—to be exact, by 8-pound and 16-pound hammers, pounding, pound ing, pounding on stacks of a thou sand gold leaves, interlaid with thy prepared lining of beef intestines. These linings of beef intestines are used because they are the only material that will stand the pound- ing. Like the gold, it 16 exceedingly tough, And the secret of the prepara- tion of these linings of entrails ts yet another romance of industry. The first gold leaf put between two layers of entrall-linings is as thick as the paper on which this newe- paper is printed. By successive beat- ings, this square inch of twenty-two t gold is beaten to one hundred times its original extent. It is then trimmed to a 4-inch square by a girl, who makes up the “books” that sell at 16 cents each, This gold leaf goes on store signs, cigarette tips and all other gilded articles, For when anything fs “gilded,” gold leaf has to be laid on it. Bronze won't do, for it quickly loses its sheen and soon ceases to slightest resemblance to the metal. And the metal has enty-two carat, or it simply won't glear When the master or foreman of the gold-beating -and there curious old « hment of the s shop taby on Centre Stree ross from th ‘Tombs Prison—hands out the stock, he weighs the metal carefully. When the finished leaves are turned in thes in weighed as carefully, heater who produces so many leaves to the amount of gold given him has done his Job well. ‘The man who turns in an insufficient numb Lot leave the weight has to make up the amount to the employer. But the workman who turns in 1 nuniber of than thos estimated to. the metal, gets 1. bonus from the employer, And s+ the merry work of poundins aN a - Famous Philosophies By LOUIS M. NOTKIN EMERSON (1803-1882)—TRANS- What would you do with a million dollars it CENDENTALIST INTERPRETER or spend it? OF NATURE. -If you would keep it. how would you keep it? It LNB OE ed that Ametice If you would spend it, how would you spend it? BP tie Aunt oats Hive tol qantion A young man who was lately left ’a million dollars by ph W. Emerson, Willlum James his father at first refused to take it on the ground that it and John Dewey to contradict this could do him no possible good. eppoRiTln zi hevean 8) Nee Afterward he accepted it and immediately gave three ib monentia lnes’hoiwan Haan hie quarters of it away for “social servic teem among philosophers for his A great many men who have made millions of dollars "Eee ie SULA Soe Hea give away some of their millions, which also are devoted to GEAUIG TOREICH IGEN PRE eon CitieR “social service, the faith of the seventeenth, the rea- But most of these men take care to see that the millions 3]son of the eishteenth, the feeling of do certain specific work and so safeguard the principal that the nineteenth. | merson, believed in the income from it will always be available for this work. Heved tn reasén in nature, for natiire Would you give your million t to people you was sent expositor of the di- thought needed it, or would you give it to hospitals and yine mind; he believed in feeling clinics and educational institutions which might do for them toward his fel pw mene re tponed at they were unable to do for themselves? bn bmanieae a -atede ose mu about this matter. Their letters may furnish helpful mate PR Ma pete he i i : oral oO meron a pA rial for future:articles. \ ae P Sa Ai ate ees Write us about it if you have time. We offer no prizes ity, and. through the enshrotding for such letters, but they may be able to help other readers vera! apirit each pariakea of aM who have more money than they need spend it more wisely ne Sea iKiai Aronian acid and in its place comes a new — =. _ a heory of the deification of the world HOSE 5 ; ind the rendering of {t reasonable hy WHERE DID YOU GET _ WHOSE BIRTHDAY? the indwelling of an intelligent. prin THAT WORD? AUG. 18—JOHN RUSSELL, first] :iple. Instead of the mechantca! ° Karl of Russell, was born in London [separation between deity and human- 203.—ELOPE. Hngland, Aug. 18, 1 ty thet was held almost up to Emer- The verb ‘to elope’? has caused n| May 28, 1878. He studied at th son's day, there comes a joining of lot of trouble in this world, It ts] versity of Edinburgh, and in 1818 was|'he two Py meang Of a | mediating allied to the verb ‘to | Thefelected a Member of Parliament. His[OrinelPle, Seal Nite cause ench equivalent of elopement isfinfluence heeame assured from. the| G04 18 In His world and man ta part away asa speaker, He attr ye pty| man feels within himself the divine The Freneh word Is based upon the|tention by his vigorous oppe gap OUATERTS: IS SORESIOUS OF &. ERiverERt ception that a woman never take#|a union of Sweden and Norway, When [Sul within his loatsiaual life a “leap" of her own accord, but that] Sir Robert Peel hegan to agitate t Amergon ase nown as the-opti- she is invariably carried a not by] Corn laws, Russell opposed him for af™stic philosopher. He very early her desires but by the man in the} number of years, but upon publishing | lecked that this was a good world, Phe Italian word for ‘to elope’—|laws he aroused much discussion, | tet ey SARE EOR COM OEA Sany tyapire'oonveya the game sense of] When Peel resigned in 1840 Russeti[ "4 that all were open to receive It. the, passiveness of woman as the] formed a new Ministry, which re- = ‘ French “enlever.”” ‘Rapire’’ is “'to] mained in office until 18 He held} high not only as a statesman but as rape” in the original meaning of the] the offices suco-ssively of Home See-]a writer. His principal works in- word as used in the title “The Rape] retary, Colonial Secretary and For-[etu History of the British Con- of the Sabine Women,” and did not] eign y ell is best known, | stitution,"" “Life of Thomas Moore," neces imply the offense against] however, th his interest and| ‘Rise and Progress of the Christian the criminal law now designated by]action in bringing about a «reat par-] Religion in Western Europe’ aad the word. Mamentary reform But he ranks] ‘Recollections and Suggestions.” enlevement,” Would you feel justified ih spending the income of so large a sum of méney—nearly $50,000 a own pleasures? And do you think you would find these pleasures sweet when you realized them as they seem in the antic pation? Perhaps you may never have a million dollars, but it is always interesting to speculate what you would do with so ad ch money if you had it, which means to carry —on Sometimes the desire to use money for a specific pur pose is a great help toward making it. We would be delighted to hear what our readers think first by reason of his eminent ability Emerson's philosophy, explained in your 1 different way, takes the following s Immanence. in respect to benevolence in respect to f-reliance in respect to man nee implies the un of the ptelllzent principle in the world, in the creation itself, Immanence !m- plies that all fhat exists, extats In ond that there ts no difference nee between the universe Man 28 a part of nature is divine it When sunshine I seem to its rapid transformations if that world, it comes to pass that i)