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The Associated Prew tx exc fation of All news despatches {a this paper, and also the local news published herein V4th and F Sts DETR DIT, 621 Ford Bide CHICAGO, ay, cor 38th. | WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bldg; 1603 Mailers Bide. 202 Washington St.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de VOpera, vely entitled to the use for republle Hited to it or not otherwise credited NOT A QUESTION OF LAW. I T is natural that Secretary Hughes stresses the . legal aspects of the Newberry case. Mr. ~ Hughes is a lawyer and was counsel for New- berry. But it is strange there are not enough Republicans in Washington who are political- minded rather than legal-minded to restrain Mr. Hughes from rousing a dog which if it is not sleeping is not so belligerent as it is likely to become now that Mr. Hughes prods it The Newberry issue is more a matter of con- Science than of statute. What Mr. Hughes doesn’t and cannot deny is that Newberry did use ** excessive sums Gf money in gaining election, that his friends kept the barrel filled, that popular opinion held this to be a violation of what the ., Public believed was good law and good morals. Newberryism ceased to be a legal issue when , the court freed Newberry. It became a political issue and the voters have spoken and will con- © tinue to speak on it. It is a good political issue for Democrats and Progressives. It is an issue on which Standpat Republicans and Newberry supporters cannot afford to stand. They may have the law, but they lack the “imponderables.” The best course for the Newberryites is to * ignore the issue as far as possible. That will not help them—for nothing can—!ut it will not harm them as much as fine spun legalism for which the voters have no regard whatever. x ay And now Mr. Asquith is reported to be pre paring memoirs which will include a reply to the Kaiser. What a jolt it would be to Wilhelm t¢ if Herbert enlisted the aid of Margot as a col- laborator. A DECLINING SPORT. a OSS MURPHY has turned down the little brother of a tail-twister. It is explained as < ~ the gratification of a personal grudge. There is feverish conversation anent politics #~ and the judiciary, disregard cf Bar Association recommendations, and the like. Most of the com- ment seems to overlook what in the long run may » havea most important effect :» New York politics. Boss Murphy has had other grudges, and when 5 > his opponents have been able to muster sufficient strength the Boss has swallowed his pride and has taken candidates he didn’t waat + Little brother rode into office because big brother had influence to spare, influence generated w» « by the skillful twisting of the tail of the lion. es Now little brother is on his way out, and Boss _ Murphy doesn’t seem to be gveatly concerned as to whether he uses the elevator or the stairs. It almost looks as though Mr. Murphy had come to ® the conclusion that tail-twisting had lost popu- larity as a great indoor and outdoor sport Pa It will be a blessed relief for New York if Mr Murphy is right. eo wr 3 a iisiea! have never been accused of Senator Gooding remarked in the Senate Thurs- day, Well, there is always a chance that Mr. Munsey may add that to the rest of the in- vectives now that the Senator has suggested it. _SNOWPLOUGHS AND AUGUST. VER the wire from New Jersey on the recent hottest day came throbbingly the word that a new company had been incorporated for the manufacture of snowploughs. The news had no apparent effect on the tem- perature or the humidity of this city. Perhaps it may have stirred a mind tere and there to thoughts of the multitude of things to be done between now and snowfall. Peace and industry have to be restored to the coal mines. Tie settlement cf the railway strike has be confirmed. Hing Cvolish, to Congtess has to muddle through. Hearst and I1ylan have to quit monopo- | lizing the limelight. § { and go. dry work, The winter furs have to come out. ection Day has to come Johnny Jones and his sister Sue have to make up their minds to another season s schooling. There are other things thai have to happen, but For , one of them, Mr. Harding has to dig up sufficient substance of things hoped for to furnish a Thanks- we haven't the time to think «1 all of them giving proclamation over things unseen In dogdays the programr ties carrie®suggestions of an iutumn of hy and weariness in places high and low » of coming + rd labor It is per Baseball has to do avother piece of laun- haps not fitting to dwell upon the tasks ahead while the playdays of summer still are with u Nevertheless, there is a certa‘n hard-headed and look-ahead wisdom to be gained from contempla- tion of the August foresight of those makers of snowploughs. There will, you know, most likely be something to plough A CELIBATE FACULTY ? N° THWESTERN UNIVERSITY has de- cided not to employ instructors who are married unless they possess independent means. In other words, the university is committing itself to pay less than a living wage for college professors. One institution may make a go of such a policy, but if the action at Northwestern serves’as a precedent, higher education in the United States is in a bad way. There are not enough competent instructors in the universities to-day. There is always a need for more and yet more as ambitious youths seek to avail themselves of the opportunities offered. Business is constantly drawing on the college faculties offering larger money rewards for easier work But there ave high-minded men—and high- minded wives—who prefer to struggle along on inadequate salaries for the sake of the good they do in the world. But there are limits to the sac- rifices that may be demanded. Many an in- structor who would withstand the temptation of money will not resign himself to celibacy and the denial of the family instinct. Far better for Northwestern to face the facts and either get greater resources or restrict the student body until it can pay fair salaries to college professors on which they can marry and support their families. FORDNEY AND THE LIMIT. FA in July Senator Lenroot warned his colleagues that they could go too far in fix- ing extortionate tariff rates and that he might find himself forced to vote against the bill. Now we wonder what Scnator Lenroot calls “too far.” In the forty days after Senator Len- root served warning the bill was made much worse than it was then. Amendment after amendment was introduced raising rates. Until the very hour for the vote the rate-boosting went on. There is no defending the measure, and Lenroot, . Kellogg, Nelson, Edge and tne cther pseudo-insur- gents are going to have a hard time defending their favorable votes. The Senate has finished with the bill for the moment. But the end is rot yet. Chairman Fordney, chief conferee for tne House, is out with a statement insisting on American valuation, which the Senate turned down. American valuation wouid double the rates on many commodities. Why not? American valua- tion couldn't make the bill much worse. But perhaps Ameri valuation written into the bill would be the “limit” at which Lenroot, Edge and others would balk. There would be worse things tor the American people than a deadlock in conference, but that is too much for which to hope. Fordney will prob- ably give in for the sake of seeing his name in history along with McKinley. Dingley, Payne and Aldrich. —<<<—_— DEATH LOSING ITS STI (Prom the Rochester Post-Express.) An eminent physician of Russia writes that he, and Intellectual Russians generally, cut off from sympathizing people and clvillzing associations are living the life of beasts and think only of fuel and food. In the old Czarist days he and his wife longed for political freedom. Now her passionate aspira- tion is to have a new pair of stockings, at 2,000,000 rubles a pair; and both of them long to go somewhere and see how human beings live. So hardened by losses, sufferings, hardships, have they become that death seems only a trivial event; the passing of friends makes no finpression on them and the fear of death is gone, This is easily understandable, When the things that make life tolerable take wings, when comforts go or the capacity to enjoy them, which is much the same thing, or when most of those we found companionable have moyed on Into @ higher state of consciousness, little 1s left to bind us here to sod and clod. As Hfe loses its value death loses its sting. Having learned such of Hife's jessons as we seem capable of acquiring, our hold upon it loosens, which is an excellent outworking of a beneficent law; and one value of a long life is that we drop out of it more easily and do not have to be torn out with an agoniz- ing wrench. One of the saddest of sights is to look out upon Frankfort Street and behold the venerable Tribune feeding its pure presses with paper made for the New York American, . Beekeepers report that the incessant rainy nave washed all the nectar from the flowers and that be cause of this these busy workers are making no honey. . Mr. Hearst and Mayor Hylan are certainly very polite to each other, Alphonse and Gaston were never more gracious. The ladies are clamoring for @ Bill of Rights. Bet ter not get too busy. Some smart Alec is likely to be stimulated into getting up @ movement to enforce Husbands’ Rights! . Murphy seems to have turned Cohalan into a colo . gue hus a blue glint tw ste crystuis, Good +s spurn it for presert ee 49 purpo. JOHN KEETZ nut a 3 Sa Re: The Operation Was Success _THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1922. ful! so HEE Lyne By John Cassel | From Evening World Readers 2 eay much in few words. Take Commission Government fn Bayonne, To the Editor of Sveuing World Your recent editorial on the pro- posal with Commission Government in Bayonne, N. J., dé- scribed the workings of that form of government accurately. You are cor- reet when you say that it is lack of interest that makes corruption possible in Commission Government as well as in any other form of government. When that form of government was proposed in Bayonne I was an ardent to do away supporter of it. Its proponents claimed many virtues for it. Some of them: 1--Abolition of the “party govern- ment."’ Centralization of authority, with consequent detiniteness of responsi- bility. 3 se of recall 4 ull time work" missioners (who are forbidden by the provisions of the Walsh act— the enabling act-—-to pursue any other lucrative vocation). How have these maelves apparent? 1—The moment the new form of government was adopted, the old parties adopted new names, drew ‘1p thelr tickets, and went at it hammer and tongs to get thelr men elected. It is an interesting side light on the situation that the very men who did most to have Commission Govern- ment adopted were rejected by those higher up, and those who had fought Jit most bitterly were selected 2—The centralization of authority was no myth, But It did not work as promised. Bayonne hag a pqpu- lation of perhaps 75,000 or 85,000. Into the hands of five men is put the reins of gov it of that number by the Com- virtues made of citizen: ) longer is it possible for a mi eltizen to have action taken on any asure by going around the eo to Councilman Brown's butcher shop and having a heart-to-heart talk with him, The way to do it now ‘s to see some one who is “in,” tell him to “fix it up" and then do the necessary, Petty politics exists here as well as any- where else, and whether graft exists or not, !t has been pretty strenuously asserted that it does. As for reepon- sibility, the fact that their term of office !s four years makes the Com- missioners feel that the day of reck- oning is far Whether or not this Is the pr attitude to take its existence is not conducive to good governmen 8-—-Enre of ried. As well try t shell once t leave the gun ¢ they are i sworn in it was recall the 4 City Commission, the proper aumber What kind of Iotter dv you find most readable? Ien't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There fe fine mental exercige and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brit of signatures to the petition were ob tained and things w advancing at a great rate, when all the proceedings were brought up for review on a writ of certiorari, and by the time the case was ready for disposal the term of office of the Commissioners had ex- pired. 4—Each Commissioner is supposed to devote his full time to the work of governing his department. In a city like New Kk a qnestion of this na- ture would never arise, but in the smaller cities where Commission Go ernment been adopted it is an im- portant on We revert to your edi- torlal comment. on the lack of interest on the part of the citizens in the way is run, It is a fact that in of Bayonne, one of the Com missioners, Commissioner Talbot, has strenuously protested against the ruie that meetings of the commission be held during the day. He has said that as the average man is occupied during the hours of the he cannot in the nature of things attend these matinee sions, Under the counell form of rnment, the Councilmen ad from among those who are em- during the day, and thetr meetings must necessarily be held at night. This gives the man who is truly interested in his city's welfare an opportunity to scrutinize the work of those he has elected to govern his city, The right type of man has no objection to having his actions seen by his employer, and the rotten poll- ticlans, not being of that type, DO ob- ject to holding their meetings when the taxpayer can watch what's going on. The objections to this form of goy- ernment have proved to be number- less, and it would serve no useful pur- Pose to attempt to lengthen this letter by reviewing any more of them S. MH. Al Smith a Leader. To the Editor of the Evening W With the acquisition of Ex-Governor Smith as a candidate for the ¢ norship, the Democrats have placed a strong man in the running for iover- their Now the threatened split in the Democrat forces will be averted, and with the support of the entire or- ganiration, he should have a favorable chance to again guide the affairs of New York State. The record of out with just prid party. mith can be pointed by the Democrats for there Is nothing tn his | which does not do him eredit. His service as former leader of New York is well known, and his defensh of the before, place nate anyth temple, do with religion. “Profane suffered in cha ing because it has been abused It is derives UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) MIND READING No amount of practice will enable you to know exactly What is going on in another man's mind. The gentleman in the beautiful evening clothes who from the stage locates watches and other hidden treasures and tells you he does it by thought transference may or may not have the “gift” of mind reading. He probably hasn't. Anyway, if he has, he is one man in a million, and it will be useless for you to try to imi- tate him. He could no more teach you how he does his tricks—if they are not mechanical—than Rudyard Kipling could teach you how to write poems as good as the “Barrack Room Ballads.” But you will find as you go into the business world that a certain amount of mind reading, based on close association and observation with the men in more advanced positions, is not only possible but necessary, It will do you no good to say ‘I am not a mind reader” when your boss asks you why you didn't do a certain piece of work without special instructions. You ought to be able to read his mind well enough to know that he wants and expects certain things done at cer- tain times, The employee who always waits for orders is still wait- ing for orders when he is sixty years old—provided he can keep ont of the poorhouse that long. It is the employee who anticipates orders by under- standing the needs and desires of his employers who gets into trusted positions. To do that he has to be a mind reader of a certain sort, basing his reading not by laying his hand on the boss’s fore- head--which would be resented—but by watching the bos: carefully and listening to him and getting the general drift of his mental make-up. That kind of mind reading makes alert, efficient em- ployees, and it is absolutely necessary in, positions where one’s duties consist of hiring men and placing them where will do the best work. they WHOSE BIRTHDAY? AUGUST 218T — WILLIAM Iv., King of England and Ireland, was born in London, England, August 21, 1765, and died June 20, 1881. He was the third son of George III. In 1779 he became a midshipman under Ad- miral Digby and in 1789 was made Duke of Clarence. On the death of the Duke of York he becamesheir ap- parent, and on June 26, 1830, suc ceeded his brother George TV, to the throne. William 1V. was well-mean- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 208—PROFANE. “+ 4s another word that has racter and social stand- a from the Latin ‘‘pro,’" and ‘fanum,"’ temple or holy Tt was originally used to desig. ing that Was outside of the that is to say, had nothing to But because various churches were people of the State in a crisis was one dimnoned t eT KANT Ope ee ing and conscientious, but his timidty of his chief assets Tian wie | topes the chureh, | 204 trresolution, his anxtety to avold will prick: t Is and if nomi- |e word * gradually took on his want of Insight into pain: IAIN Le) livin sinister manning of irreverept. tin ingland ty the ve newer Nave levee Nasphermot Sa jon. However. during ht choice, “In ite ontginal sense, the woud is wn slavery was abolished in the THEODORE KOS LUW used in the title of the famous palnt-T colonies, the Reform Act was passed, New York City, “Love, Sacred and Profans.’ and extensive internal improvements By Winthrop Biddle Copyright, 1922 (New York Bventng World), by Preas Publishing Co, XXXIX.—HANDLING DIAMONDS, The world’s centre for “rough dia- monds"* is London, Since the Boer War all the diamonds of the African fields are sent to London and London vells them to the world A diamond, to 1 for deco Th dia ny Koo vative purposes, must be ‘cut."* process of putting facets mionds used to be carried on mainly in Holland and to a le Belgium, extent 18 This proportion has now bwen reversed, and Belgium does nm. ™ of the “cutting America is now taking about three are sol natural, there fourths of the sparklers that in the world. It ts that the “cutting’’ should be nereasingly done in America—whieb In the past thirty, ew York has acquired a largo of Dutch and Belgian eut- fore, means New York number hesides developing some of ite ters, own native born workers. Diamond cutting, liowever, is like watchmaking (1 mean the old-fash~ oned handsmethod instead of the standardized machine-method that loes very well up to a certain point), too “fussy” an occupation for the aver- axe free-born and hoping-to-be-Pres- | ident-some-day American, So the | Dutch and the Belgians do most o¢ the work—and well paying work {* . | Thy restricted area of Maiden Lana s now the growing centre of tho world's diamond trade in competi- tion with both Amsterdam and Bri London has no rivals to “ ttle of principal if not exclustv seller of “rough diamonds.’ There ts no trade enterprise in which or commercial watclifulness to the point of microscopic concentra- tion is po essential as the diamond i} turiness. Many a diamond that looks xergeously and ghtteringly perfect. end flawlessly brilliant to the naked and the unsophisticated eye, has story to tell to the expert that re= duces its value two, three and four umer It is the business of the men who muy and sell diamonds to find ou! these imperfections—a tiny, almost mvisible carbon spot, for instance— ind to discloae the bitter truth to th would-be seller or the man or womad who is cherishing an heirloom whicl y imagine convertible into sands of dollars, but which actually be worth only bundreds, So, over the counter goes the di taond, and a powerful m glass soon tells the distr i“ a man whose Intent at instantly arrested by the hidde taarks. Ie it is true that all ts not gol: that jitters, it is also true not ever parkler’’ that loo! able ts a al as it looks Philosophies Copyright, 1922 (New York Even World), by Preax Pub | By Louis M. Notkin WILLIAM JAMES (1842-191 PRAGMATISM-EMPIRICISM. Since William James is the foun of pragmatism empiricism, it is fair that know the meaning of these terms, By pragmatism we mean the di trine that the test of truths Is way Pragmatism is theory of philosophy which t every principle by following out consequences, By empiricism is meant observa’ or practical <perience apart fi scientific knowledge. We say & PD ciple is empiric or empirical if 1t) the theories of only they work. founded upon, pertaining to or rived from experience. William James philosophized great deal on religion, According James, no speculative or theologt system of valuation can be laid dot Here also we must be empirical. judge religious phenomena by t! fruits, and that man, as such, evdr done. The cult of a a ceases when it has no more effect the temper, and when, on account its whole character, tt gets into filet with something whose value have experienced so fundament that we cannot deny it Mankind Is true to those gods wh nploy and whose comma: ratify the claims which men themselves and others. We alw: utilize “human standards." We how far the religious life is an Id form of human life. The stand naturally varies with time, but at time we have one only. Only test Is nlways to be essayed again under new conditions we may perhi get to new results Value, too, is able to have a ditt ent outcome for different men. psychological investi great differences with nature among men assume that they need spiritual sustenance und must d from one another in religion Jumes remat feck sym thetic with religion in general best points of religious experiel are, he ie convinced, the best thm history has to show, Here he feels the earnestness and energy of the inner life acting with power and come centration were made, In 1818 Waar marri Adelatde Suxe M:jiingem but left no surviving ei He w succeeded by his niece, Queen Vi toria,