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' \ aay ees Be, cee ee President, 63 Row. ‘Address aff communications to PHE EVENING WORK Pullteor Batiding, Park Row, New York City. Remit py stored “Cireulatio WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2. SUBSORIPTION RATES. the Post Office at New York as Second Ch ther. Foscage tes Ta te Uinted*staten, ovtelder Greater New ark: One Year Six Months One Month $10.00 $5.00 8.85 Draft, Post Office Order or Books Open to Alt , 1922. Wi He BH 13 225 2B BRANCH OFFICES. 1808 Bway, cor 88th. | WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bidg.; 4 rea thane noe 14th and F Lg et fies ‘1 jereen Bldg. | DETR IIT, 521 % 410 E. 149th St. near) MA;CAGO, 1608 Mallers | Bide. 202 Washington ft. | PARIS, 47 Avenue de VOpers, nf hon 8. | LONDON, 20 Cockspur Bt. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. eis She UNHAPPY—STILL UNHAPPY! VEN a world grown used to shocking news from Ireland stood appalled this morning at the dastardly assassination of Michael Collins. What breed of Irishmen are these that murder Ireland's leaders? What skulking foes of Irish freedom are so- called sons of Ireland who ambush its best hopes? No Irishman can say Michael Collins was not a patriot of patriots. He fought for Ireland. He lived the life of a proscribed outlaw for Ireland. He gave every beat of his heart, every thought of his brain to Ireland. When the great opportunity for Irish freedom came, Michael Collins's patriotism was big enough to accept and seize it. He was able to see a free and happy Ireland without a kicked and flouted England. His idea of Irish liberty was not solely a long-awaited chance for Irishmen to spit in the faces of Englishmen. And that, in the eyes of his Irish enemies, was Michael Collins's crime. As one of the heads of the Irish Free State under the treaty, Michael Collinswas proving how even the most fervent Irish patriotism can bear responsibilities of statesmanship. . So they struck him down. As Commander in Chief of the Free State forces, Michael Collins was mdding Ireland of lawlessness and ruffianism that sought sanction under the banners of a fanatical minority of political intransigeants. So they struck him down. Irishmen against Irishmen, not only in fair fighting but in stealth and murder! Even now—darkly, painfully stumbling toward . peace through the blood of Irishmen shed by Irishmen, and the assassination of trustiest leaders! Unhappy—still unhappy Ireland! published herein oe Secretary Hughes is likely to find it a real relief to start for Brazil to-morrow. Braailian newspaper men and politicians may be polite enough to give the Newberry letter a rest. WHERE IS THE STRANGLE HOLD? OMEWHERE in the anthracite situation there is a strangle hold that throttles a fair adjust- ment of wages and a reasonable price to the public. The cost of coal for domestic uses has been rising ever since the Roosevelt settlement. At the * lowest point last year- it commanded twice the figure of fifteen years ago. The dormant fuel in the mine has not risen in value from any natural cause, The increase has all been external. Inquiries develop nothing. Prosecutions are of no avail. An overhead five times the amount paid the ‘miners rests on every ton. Where is the strangle hold? It should be located and broken! One reason why tennis is a popular sport was shown in the Boston tournament yesterday when Holcomb and Davis, dowbles champions of a previous generation, lasted until the third round, when the luck of the draw brought them up against Tilden and Richards, present cham- pions, Youth won, but middle age made a creditable showing. ~ SAILPLANING. RETTY much all the world is “up in the air’ over the records made by German Students in “:ailplane: Compared with sus- tained flights of one and two kours, the gliding efforts measured by as many minutes in the French tests do not seem impressive. German sailplaning will not prove a national Monopoly any more than the early triumphs of the Brazilian, Santos Dumont, or the epochal achievements of the Wright brothers in the United States. We shall learn from the Germans as the Germans learned from us. We have become accustomed to the aeroplane with its big and heavy engines, At best these must be expensive and only the few can own them. But {f the Germans can sailplane, it is bound \ to have a decisive effect on all aeronautics, It i not too much to hops thet a compromise be- tween the two methods of flight will make pos- sible construction of planes with small light en- gines combining the merits of both sailplafle and aeroplane. It seems clear that German flying students have made a definite and sweeping advance in aerial travel, The world wili wait and watch for further developments and hcpe for the plane driven by an engine within the means of the average man—an aerial flivver NO TIME FOR MATCHES, “THREE years ago discontented railway fire- men disregarded the majority opinion of their organization and went on strike. The ac- tion virtually paralyzed transportation on the roads affected. The term ‘outlaw’ was applied to this minority. To-day a small group of railway execut(ves seem to be seeking.to break away from their or- ganization. This group is reported to favor a plan of action under which each system willbe left to take care of its own labor situation. At a time of disagreement the minority proposes to “break away from the majority and fight an in- dustrial battle, Wherein does this die-hard attitude differ from outlaw striking? It happens that these roads serve the most populdus industrial district in the United States, A “fight to a°finish’ on the Pennsylvania, ‘the Erie, the New Haven and Lackawanna systems would be to a finish—the finish of this section. If the group for which Mr. Loree speaks has its way, what is to prevent the unionized em- ployees from calling a general strike of all union men on these pMrticular systems? There is no denying that this is very much the sentiment of large sections of railroad labor. Messrs. Loree, Underwood, Atterbury and their followers are playing with a highly dangerous explosive. Now is not the time to embark on the experiment. EXPERIENCE VS. EXPERIENCE. XAMINATIONS for Supervisors of Public Markets are to be held by the Civil Ser- vice Commission. The O'Melleyites will have to show some reason why their claims to the jobs deserve consideration. Nevertheless, it is éxpected that many of the present corruptionists will manage to squeeze through and continue in office. This is because Civil Service allows something for experience, and the men on the job will have that advantage. However, by all just considerations another factor should be included and should weigh heavily. All these men have made bad records of public service in that they have éollected fees without turning them into the public treasury That ought to count against the O'Malleyites and ought to coupterbalance the advantage of experience. While it is true that the present Supervisors hayeshad experience in the city’s em- ploy, so too has the city had experience in em- ploying them and has come to the conclusion that many, if not most, of the Superyisors are crooked and corrupt. ‘There are fewer crazy, people in the State this year. But we evo tt those who are crazy are crazier than Wver. “CHILDREN FIRST,” LL the country felt a litle better?and hap- A pier yesterday for reading the story of the schooner William H. Smith. ‘ The ship was becalmed in the Pacific. The crew deliberately starved themselves so that a baby and its mother might have food. It is an old story of the sca, old and yet for- ever new and inspiring. “Women and children first” is no mere lip service to seafaring men. But “women and children first” really means “Children first,” for if the men take care of the two classes the women will give double care to the one. 3 It would be a good gamble that even when help came to the becalmed schooner the wife of the Captain had some little store of food saved from her own allowance that would go to the child in the last desperate extremity. ACHES AND PAINS It was once thought that the bonds of the Irish Republic would be paid in fairy gold. Now it appears seal coin is to be forthcoming. . Cottage dwellers on the beach at Point Lookout -eport fine crops of tomatoes and squash grown in the sure sand, Ought to be easy hoeing. . Wonder what the New York State Legislature can do to help the coat shortage? We do not produce any in the State and havefno pull with Pennsylvania, It is always astonishing how much coal there is if you pay enough for it. ° Pity the poor prisoners in the Jersey Pon who are deprived of their peaches, It 48 @ native food over Conyrtgnt, 1922, (Xow Fork fvening World) ‘by Press Pub, Co. By John Cassel \ @@ eay much in few word: ‘ening World: nce to employ- The letters In rete! ment agencies, published recently in your paper, were read with a great deal of interest. I have been con- vinced that during the past two or three years a great economic evil had sprung up in our midst, but thought that T Was the only one who had, so far, put a correct estimate on the worth of those institutions, It is wrong, beyond a question, that a man should be held up for a week's <alary or more simply for the priv- Mlege of going to work, Yet the evil has grown to such an extent that it 1s almost impossible for an office man to find employment without paying some agency am argount equal to a week's salary, The agency renders no service that is worth anything. It merely supplies the applicant with the name and ad- dress of a firm where he may apply for a position, “The only ones who are really ben- efited by this so-called service are the lazy employers who prefer to see through some one else's eyes and de- sire to save the cost of an advertise ment, Why should the worker pay for this “service”? It is true that under the law the agency. must provide another position free of charge, If the one for whick the applicant has pald proves to be of shorter than a year's duration; but this does not apply when the worker leaves the position of his own accord, und there is no provision In the law that enables the worker to enforce this teaturg of the law, even when ft does apply.’ Certainly, one can never prove that an agency wilfully refused to live up to it. It seems to me that legislation should place the burden of payment upon the smployer, who receives the benefit, if there really ts any benefit to be derived from these parasites. PRANK H. DUNN. New York, Aug, 18, 1922, Blue Laws at Vlaw To the Editor of The Evening World ‘Could anything be 1 absurd than the action of the churches at Piqua? Christ did not advocate. nor there, No wonder they revolted, ‘ . Mayor Hylan has said nothing for several ays, His wife is back home, . Nothing Wke a northwest gale to remedy the skeeter plague, . The ew-soldiers can use their bonus to pay for the tariff, while the tariff witl go to pay the bonus. Isn't it all perfectly arranged? * JOUN KEETZ teach the keeping of one day holy more than another. There are seven days in the week. We should :emem- ber to keep them all holy, do nothing that is wrong any day, Pascal, the great French philoso- pher, when @ child was caught out one Sunday morning measuring the grass to see whether or not God worked on Sunday, These ignorant fanatics are no doubt governed by good intentions. We've been told for ages that hell was paved with good intentions. We haven't a doubt of it Ignorance and good intentions have From Evening World Readers What kind of letter dv you find most readable? that dives the worth of 4 thousand words in a couple of hundred? { There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. Ian’t it the one given us the hell from which we suffer to-day. We are sadly in of the church's work but we want intelligent men and women in the pulpit, in public affairs generally. Women would not and could not hav made a bigger botch of civilization than man has done. They are braver, have infinitely more moral courage, and those who have had the oppor tunity to study are as a rule better informed than men. Let men and women work together side by side in all the relations of life as heaven intended and we'll soon have a better world, which righteousness shall er the earth as the waters cover tne JOSIE THORPE PRICE, Inwood, L. I., Aug. 16. The Ku Klux Kian, To the Editor of The Evening World: In the Atlantic Monthly for July Mr, Le Roy Percy has written an ar- ticle entitled “‘The Modern Ku Klux Klan."" Here is what he says: “Tie Klan excludes from membership’ Ne- groes, Jews, Catholics and foreign- born, whether citizens or not. In its own phrase, it is the only Gentile white Protestant American-born or- ganization in the world. It is secret. Its membership is secret, in that re spect differing probably from every other secret society in Amer though like enough to many in Russia."" The Congressional Record prints in full the Klan's ritual and the silly explanation in defense of it by its founder, Grand Wizard Simmons. ‘n the Ku Klux Klan hearings before the Committee on Rules, House of Rep. resentatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, the oath of the Klan was given, Its viclousness becomes glaring {n the fact that this Klan makes a spe. cial effort to encoll in its membership county and city officials and even members of the judiciary. Among its paid speakers 13 Joseph G. Camp formerly a Lyceum lecturer, now dubbed ‘Colonel.’ His speech, wrung dry of its oratory and Sts indefinite but ‘ardent praise of “100 per cent accurately Americanism," fay be summarized in two First, the Jews, the Negroes, the allen born, ized; they are a menace to American institutions; It {8 necessary to combat their pernicious influence; the sole weapon to hand is the Ku Klux Klan, ‘therefore, if you are a true American, join the Klan. the country are in a perilous condi- tion; sexual vice, bootlegging, gamb ling flourish; the Klan loveth right- cousness. If you are on the side of the angels join the Klan, linigs the regulation of private mor- y UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, by John Blake.) A. MAN WHO KEPT ON. Before he was thirty Alexander Graham Bell, who just died at the age of seventy-five, had invented the telephone. A few years later he had made patent arrangements which insured him a big income for the rest of his life. It would have been possible for the young inventor to retire from all work and seek w and means to spend an abundant supply of money. But the sort of brains that create are not the brains that "get any pleasure out of idleness. Peof. Bell continued with the telephone till it was perfected. He welcomed the co-operation of othe? men, accepting the ideas for improvements they had to offer. He remained intdrested in telephones and in electyical development to the end of his days, always maintaining 1 laboratory and continually experimenting, But that was not all, Interested in important affairs, he went to Washington to reside, where he could view them at first hand, He was a familiar figure on the streets of the capital and often present in the galleries of the Senate and the House of Representatives. He aie the acquaintance of public men of his own country and of the Ambassadors who came from other countries. He was often consulted on public matters, for he had a cool head and extremely sound judgment. , Prof. Bell was one of the founders of the American Geographical Society, which has done wonderful work in making easier the study of the world and the people that live in it. He was always interested in science and always ready to encourage young men who devoted themselves to it. : At seventy-five he was bigger and abler than at forty— and had he lived to be one hundred he would have been still bigger and abler. His brain took no rest. It kept on. And because it kept on he got 100 per cent. value out of life, and that part is very much the}and § wherever delivered, but the re- mainder of the address appears to vary widely from one section of the country to the other to suit the out- standing prejudice ntipathy of the particular audience beings exhorted. slimy Cardinal who had more power in America during the war than the President of the United States. Such are the principles and methods of the umazing society which, calling itse Protestant Christian, preaches an aggressive bigotry, a venomous in- It is said that in Cahfornia the anti-| tolerance abhorrent alike to Luther mi Second, the morals of The Kian speakers seem always to stress that part of their address out- Japanese €ccling is the basis of ap-]and to Christ and, appointing itself pe in some localities the Jew is|the watchdog of private morals, dares referred to in a manner to rejoice the ume that role only In anonymity, heart of Henry Ford; less frequently its members massed like clowns, sheet White supremary as un antl-Negro ap. ed like servants of the Inquisition peal is eloquently defended; but, it] What, then, is its effect, granting that appears thatthe Church of Rome-ts]its every principle is high and the - seanted. Always she is repre-|very object of its hate deserving of sented ag the deadly enemy of Ameri-Jits hate; what happens for the better can institutions, to be crushed not #0 worse in the town or countryside much for her religious teneta as for]where. the Klan dark afd unexplained political] That. after all, ts the only question machinations. Col. Camp regaled his} of importance. audiences with references to “that |no defense, at least from this writer. old dago of the Tiber" and that slick: JOUN T, M'CAFFREY. and its effacement was due to the in« has a following? Jewry and Rome need Epoch-Maki BOOKS an By Thomas Bragg 1 Copyright, 1088 (Now. York Rvssing “OLIVER TWIST” When Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist” the workhouse management throughout Great Britain and the Continent was a disgrace to human« ity. The scandal no longer exists fluence of Dickens's immortal story of the little foundling who suffered so greatly at the hands of parish overseers, Nothing could be humbler or more commonplace than the story of the progress of @ workhouse boy; and-yet Dickens's genius and the heart that he put into his task made “Oliver Twist’ the agent of the largest_good that hat come to England! for “100 years, It 1s sald of Abraham Lincoln that his hatred of the {fistitution of slavery and his determination to do what he could to abolish it were caused by (the sight of a slave auction down In New, Orleans while he was a “hand” on @ Misajssippi flatboat. Dickens watched the workhouse boys as they suffered under the cruel management of the parish overseers and their hffelings, and he resolved to let the world know about the heartless system, that it might come to be hated and destroyed. Into the story of “Oliver Twist’? the author threw all of his wit and humor, all of his pathos and Indigna~ tion, and as a result the Augean Stables were cleansed, the age-old diserace was wiped out. We are told that the influence of the book was magical. The sales were prodigious and little Oliver soon became the talk of the town, of all England, of the entire Continent. Forster, Dickens's biographer, says he never knew Dickens to work as heartily or so persistently as he did while writing “Oliver Twist." Te was at his work early and late, and seemed to be putting Into it every ounce of his energy and devotion. The work did not fall fruitless. It touched the hearts of the common people; it worked {ts way through the Indifference of the rich and great: and best of all, It aroused a sense of sympathy tn the bosoms of legisla tors and Judges, and so paved tho way for the all-around improvement of workhouse conditions. It is no wonder that Dickens was the ideal of the poor boys of England. They loved him with all their hearts, and they had reasons for loving him. He made a new world for them. It Is a pity that out of the 110, 000,000 of Americans there is no Dickens to write another “Oliver Twist" in the interest of the child laborers who are killine themselves in nur mills and factories, 7 But human nature is always ade= suate to the emervencies that beset it, and we cherish with utmost confi. lence the comforting conviction that sooner or later some clear-seeing, great-hearted American will write the story which shall do for our country what “Oliver ‘rwist" did for England. — WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 204.—E LIXIR. The word “elixir,” with its dis tinctly non-English sound, is a direct loan from the Arable language. In the original tongue of its ancestry the word is made up of “el' (the) and “ikser’’ (philosopher's stone). In the science or pseudo-science af. alchemy, also an Arabic invention in a period when the Arabs were leading the world in scientific research, the word came to be applied to the liquid, allied to the philosopher's 2, im which the alchemists vainly hoped to transmute metyls and make gold out of base stutt, f It is in this sense of a Mquid that the word ig known to speakers of the English language. The word recalls that long and dark period when scien- tists were groping around for facts now either fully or partly ascertained. ; ; As the Saying Is “WHAT IS SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE !8 SAUCE FOR THE GANDER.” ‘This proverb Is now taken to mean lat what is fair for one is fair for another, that every Oliver shall hava « Roland, and every tat a tit. rig- inally it must have signified that what is good for one sex is good for he other, The Saturday Review «Jan. 11, 1868) humorously protests hat this must have been the inven« tion of some rustic Mrs. Poyser, full ef the consciousness of domesti@ power, and anxious to reverse in daily life the law of priority which yhtained—as she must have seen— even in her own poultry yard, “ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE," One foot in the grave, or, les@ commonly, one leg in the grave, @ olloquialism applied to one who hai lingering disease, or who, im er common phrase, is on his “people with éne leg in the grave ire so terribly long before they put in the other. They seem, like birds, to repose better on one leg.” Douglas Jerrold. | . “COME OFF." This bit of American slang, used imperatively and meaning ‘“desist"® or “cease,” is relatively new to mod4 ern use, It is startling, therefore, to find that it.oceurs in Chaucer's Pare liament ofFowles” in exactly the modern gense. The birds grow tired of Matening to a long discussion * among the young eagles; and so at last: ‘Come of!’ thny eryde, “allaal you will us shende |"