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HE death of Arthur Griffith and the kill- ing of Michael Collins are sad blows to the Irish Free State. But neither in Ireland nor elsewhere should men sit down in gloom and predict the collapse of the Free State because of its loss. Griffith and Collins were strong men. But their strength and leadership were drawn in part from the spirit of true Irishmen who stood be- hind them determined to win through to a peace- ful, happy Ireland under the treaty This spirit of the bigger Ireland is still there. Over the bodies of its dead leaders it should take new resolve that their aims shall be realized through its faith and steadfastness Lesser men may have to take the fallen lead- ers’ places. | But with a solid majority of the Irish people to back them, these new leaders will be enlarged and strengthened for their task Ireland may well weep for the death of the two great outstanding figures in its enfranchise- ment. But not in despair. That would be poor tribute to their memory. Ohio Republicans are willing to “stand by the President,” but not to stand for a ship subsidy, THE INTERNATIONALS. R. GOMPERS expresses the opinion that the railroads are “out to destroy the unions.” If so, why? The union is a great convenience to the large employer. It can command labor where he must search for labor. Besides, it makes labor im- personal, doing away with attachments and obli- gations. Nothing could be better fitted to meet the cold-blooded requirements of industry. The real problem of the day arises rather from the so-called “international” union and, if it must be said, also from Mr. Gompers’s great American Federation of Labor. These organizations weld too many men into masses. They are too frequently tempted to usurp powers of, dominion that menace public welfare. They are too large to be always intel- ligently governed, too far spread to adjust them- selves to conditions. What might be onerous to labor in Buffalo might be ease and prosperity in Portland, Me. Too many eggs are in one basket. It is this assertion of power that brings the unions against government, and government cannot go down before them and remain the in- strument it is designed to be. Some thirty years ago Terence V. Powderly controlled a Nation-wide organization called the Knights of Labor, which Mr, Gompers elected himself to supplant. Mr. Gompers succeeded. The Knights of La- bor have dwindled down to a few shoemakers. If the big unions are ever destroyed, they will not be destroyed by employers but by themselves. ’ Does the mining of “hard” coal tend to de- velop anthracite hearts? The “nothing to arbi- trate” ultimatum of the miners suggests the question. WHAT THE TRIBUNE WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE. HE Tribune is nursing along the legend it tried to create when the Newberry case was up for discussion. 11 explains that the “un- forgiven sin” of Newberry was that he appeared as “candidate of the patriotic.” This theory the Tribune phrases as tollows: “In the summer of 1918 the patriotic voters of Michigan were in a grievous plight. Henry Ford of peace ship fame, the State's richest man and largest employer of labor, proposed to go to the Senate. “The country was at war and Michigan had no mind to be advertised in Germany as a Btate of broken morale. Appeal was made to Truman H, Newberry to become a candidate. He was in uniform. So were his two sons. Mr. Newberry when much urged consented, but said he, of course, could make no persona! campaign while in the navy. “Patriotic men of Michigan took on the bus!- ness of averting the Ford peril. They raised and spent large —_ in holding meetings, in ( advertising and in other legitimate forms of political education.” This theory he e of one of those “right back torts that you think of afte: you've 1 only trouble with i. is that it ippen to fit the facts The Newberry barrel was opened long before Henry Ford was even mentioned for Senator. An early target was former Goy Osborn, who had no connection with the Lord Peace Ship venture. what it would like The Tribune is only voici to believe. Such a legend would be a comfort to Newberry apolog Anu it must be remem- bered that many a political legend has started in defiance of the truth : Republicans seeking balm for injured pride may accept the Tribune story and refrain from searching the records. But the facts would leave it merely an ex post facto theory AS THE PUBLIC S HE continued uncompromsing stand of rail- way executives on the seniority issue brought yesterday’s conference to naught and disappointed hopes of a quick settlement of the railway shopmen’s strike. What does the public think about it? this: An attitude of unbending mghteousness does not become the railroads in the present case Much may be said for the principle of protecting the rights of employees who remain loyal and of new employees as against th: <laims of reinstated strikers. But in this instance the railroads are in no position to press that principle too far. Their own defiance of Railroad Labor Board de- cisions against contract farming had much to do with precipitating the present strike. It is too late for them to adopt a pose of stiff-necked virtue. What the public would like to see is the men going back to work with an agreement on both sides to give the Railroad labor Board another chance at matters in dispute—including an ad- justment-of the seniority question on a fair basis of compromise. The strike has drawn attention to the need of giving greater compelling force to Labor Board decisions as applied to railroad employers. ‘That is in itself a great gain, which should go far to reassure railway employees that they can emerge from the present struggle with a balance of ad- vantage on their side. Back to work, with a Labor Board strengthened and bettered from the lessons of this strike. That's what the public is waiting for. And it has scant sympathy with railroad ex- ecutives who block the road with a belated parade of principle. BH SAS Just WINDOW DRESSING. HE mystery of the wage advance in the steel industry isn’t as deep as a well. The tariff explains it. Iron and steel products have been taken off the free list and placed on the pro- f was proving so infernally unpopular that something had to be done about it. The steel industry is a barometer industry. It is commonly regarded as a show-window of bus- iness conditions. The tariff profiteers are doing a little window dressing. They are also prepar- ing to bang the old dinner pail handed down from the McKinley campaign. Steel wages will be raised. Then steel prices will be raised as expected and the industry will get back what the wage raise cost—and a little more on the side. After election wages may stay up along with steel prices or they may be re- duced again. The workers in steel will benefit for a time, of course. But what about the people who live in apartment houses and who will have to pay for higher steel in higher rents? What about freight rates that will have to be adjusted to pay for protected rai! prices? American steel can now sell in England in competition with British steel, so naturally the industry must make some return for “protection.” ACHES AND PAINS. Overburdened with tongue-lashing, Socrates gave Xantippe a sound beating. The constables of Athens haled him into court. “Art guilty?” asked the Magis- trate. “If there be guilt in exorcising a devil, then I am guilty,” replied the sage. “Sentence suspended,” said His Honor. The flood of beer continues to flow in Johnstown, Some say it’s real, some say it isn't. Meanwhile the thirsty drink and the city looms large on the map of the Great American Desert. . News from Cuba indicates that Gen. Crowder has squeased most of the graft out of the Government, When he gets through he might find some feld work at home, . Secretary Hughes proves plainly enough that sen- ator Newberry hag deen baptized and is enjoying a now birth, . Why sould a lady wish to pay for a husband when 80 many of them can be had for nothing? . Tt turns out that the competitive principle had some thing to do with the raise im wages by the Steel Cor. poration. Men could get better pay ond better work ing conditions elsewhere. . The killing of Michael Gollins adds another sombre note tafthe unhappineer of Brin, JOHN KEETZ, sys onregeme pon Ticklish Business! y> i al Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Pub, Co, By John Cassel From Evening W orld Readers What kind of letter deo you find most readable? Isn't it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying { \ @ eay much in few words. Take Market Examinations. ‘To the Editor of the Evening World I have been reading the exposures of the market in your paper. After all the juggling of funds by Supervisors nothing will be done ‘They will even be eligible to take the forthcoming examination for Super: visor. The majority will succeed in getting appointed because experience counts a certain number of points in Civil Service. It isn’t fair to the public in general or the honest ones who may take the coming examination RIGHT IS RIGHT. Bot Then Againt To the Editor of The Evening World One headline ads: ‘“PROHIBI- TION MAKES GREATEST STRIDE IN N. Y., SAYS HAYNE Never More Optimistic About Dry Work, He Adds." But then again! Another | *"DIA- MOND MARTY’ S ‘T $ 00 ON CHAMPAGNE PARTIES, HE SAYS. ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ and Judges Guests at Paradise Cafe, Formerly Reisenweber's, He Says.” And in the meantime the boot- legger flourisheth! The Government loseth! And the taxpayer--poor nut—foots the bill! . The bootlesger and the professional reformer—W. Anderson ot al.—are gathering the shekels while we are running round in circles. GREAT! CRIMSON, More Jobs, More Business. To the Editor of The Evning World In these hard times don't think the merchants and manufac- turers could hely those out of work by taking on one or two extra hands, although business may not warrant it? What would !t mean to a concern which can afford to pay its officers away up in the four figures to spend an extra $3,000 a year and givo a couple of chaps a chance to live? If numerous large concerns would help in this way It would soon reduce you the number of unemployed, and would not mean mure than ubout 1 per cent. added to expense of a bust- ness of, say, $300,000 year, and this small amount could be casily made up by paring down slightly the sal- aries of the big ones in oftce, If tie proprietors of many concerns would only reflect that the employing of these men, Say one or two in each house, would mean revenue for them because these men, earning so muely . year, would naturally spend it again and back it would come to tiv merchant and manufacturer, If every house of any importance would only adopt this plan it would time to be brief. mean the employment of 5,v00 men at least, and that would mean some- where around $8,000,000 spending power added t rcity, Think 't over, gentlemen, and see if it is net better to haye men earning something than out of work Every man wants the chance work to make good, and who will have it in his heart to refuse him? What we want to-day is every man work- ing, not idling away his time, for man was made to work and to get his living thereby. America chiefly fought the war for freedom and civil zation, and from the great ordeal should that there be no starva- tion and a good job for all A. F, BELLIN. Brooklyn, Aug. 16, 1922. Hylan for Governor, To the Fdltor of The Evening World Under the statement that the Eve- ning World was and is an Institution that should always fight for reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, that selfsame paper tries to deb and corrupt Mayor Hylan When it is said that he, Mayor Hylan, does not want to run for Gov- ernor, and could not get a nomination if he were willing unless Mr. Hearst organized a political par for that purpose, The opens itself to the scorn and laughter of the people It seems incredible its standing should be so narrow, so bigoted and so downright ignorant as ‘The Evening World and its publishers surely are. As Mayor of New York, John F. Hylan's name will go down tn history, Ho {s @ man—a man’s man—and one y of his own ening World that « paper of to whom the poor, the small mer chant, the shopkeeper, the great seething mass of common, ordinary yet glorious army of tollers, and yes, even the children, look forward to for help aa to a great, true, loyal, ever ready friend ‘As for Alfred Ex Smith, his name will be forgotton in a few years, while the name of Hylan will be engraved on the hearts of the multitudes for. vver. The people are for fair play and other things for their good, not the R00 rafting — politician Hylan f ELMAN Brook 20, Women and. Prohibition, To the Fultor of the Evening World 1 would like to answer Marie Doran who calls Prohibition a contemptible: law. 1 wan a drinking man for mans years and when this law was made I made as much Noise have openrd my eyes, T who to-day bave a little bank ac- ¢ are many| saved. UNCOMMON SENSE By Johr. Blake (Coprrieht. 1921, by John Blaba) MUDDLING. Doing things the wrong way persistently the English called muddling. There were a good many months of muddling during the war, Few people in the world seemed to realize that it had come, Perhaps one in a hundred thousand understood what a calamity it was. So the same methods were employed that were employed in little wars. The same mistakes were made that had been made without very great cost hundreds of times before. And presently the Germans were in Belgium, and then on the Channel coast, and soon almost in Calais. Tt was then that the whole offensive and defensive sys- tem was made over to meet a big necessity. . And it was from that time on that muddling became a thing of the past. In ordinary times most of us muddle along through what we have to do, We work without much thought for the future, though we sometimes put away something for old age, as a squirrel does for the winter. But we have no definite plan, no scheme of life which we follow day by day, always with a definite purpose. That is why most of us amount to very little, and why it is easy for those who do not muddle, but who plan their lives to méet all emergencies, to get along usually very well indeed. There is very Ittle muddling in successful business. There is a great deal of it in the sort of busine: which is wound up in bankruptcy courts, with the liabilities far greater than the assets. And there is a great deal of muddling in individual lives by people who have every reason not to muddle, The man or woman oy salary or owning a business who goes along every day in the same old way, without planning for improvements or expansion or thinking of providing for unforeseen contingencies, is a muddler, And muddlers are neither happy while they are mud- dling nor safe from humiliating dependence in old age. It is a bad way to conduct a life, and it is quite unneces- sary. For any one with a good brain can learn how not to muddle if he will only take the trouble. count, many @ child has clothes to wear, many mothers are made happy since this law went into effect. The pereons who benefit by this law can- not thank such women es Marte Doran for this blessing. Nor can hey thank The Eventing World for attitude taken. The women of this country could yse every saloon in New York City in one year tf they chose to do 60, bt instead of using their talents in this direction they would rather cater to some political leaders and do their bidding. When women advocate put- ‘ing back drink It is plain to be seen ere their hearts lie. They are no nds of womankind; they are not iatians, and if they claim to be, I anybody, but|ean tell them truthfully they are not JAS. Le. Bronx, Aug. 20, 1022. From the Wise. Ceremony keeps up things; 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were epilt and the spirit lost.—Selden. The wife that eppects to have a good name \/8 always at home, as if she were tame. —L. Depret. Women go further in love than most men, but men distance them in friendship.—La Bruyere. Blossoms plucked are blossuma withered,—Ibsen. The Nations and Their Music By Augustus Perry Copyright, 10 New York Evening vorl ), by I Publishing Co. FINLAND. Some one has lumorous'y remarked that Finland ‘geographically snaps her fingers at Sweden and kicks Rus- Not only in a geo- graphical sense does she do this but artistically also, Her national prog- ress has been a thora in the side of Russia. The Finns are an independent peo- ple and have retained their customs in spite of Swedish and Russian dom- ination, Sweden was forced by the Allied to cede Finland to Russi Tho Finns are of Mongolian scent. This fact accounts for Oriental strain found in their music As far back as the seventeenth century efforts were made to collect the wealth of Finnish folksongs. It remained for Dr. Elias Leonnrot to make a great collection of the old runes or ballads, which he called the “Kalevala.”” This colossal work was published in 1835, It is the national epic of the Finns, Max Mueller, the famous scholar, declared it equal to the Greek Iliad and “the fifth great epic of the world.” According to the ancient Finns wer 4 barbarians, As the: in the word than minstrel was more warrior. There is a rune-song called “Home My Sweetheart Comes." To this melody and its variations the ‘Kale vala”’ is often sung. Finnish music has always been of a melancholy character. C.imatic and historical fmfluences have made it so Bitter winter prevails from Novem ber to the end of March. In the northern part the sun disappears en tirely during December and January Then the persecution of the Rus sians has had its influence on the Finnish temperament. The true Finn is happiest when trolling out weird sia In the «ve “Kalevala,”” the race of free st more fait word, the i than the sorrowful tunes Until 1885 music as a fine art ha been neglected in Finland. In tha year the University of Helsingfor was founded. The chair of music wax occupied by Frederic Pacius (1809- 1891), who has been called the ther of Finnish Music." He did much to encourage better music in his adopted country (he was born in Hamburg, Geemany) For the national land," he ¢ “Father- The hymn, mposed the music. poem wa ten by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland's «reat poet Pacius wrote many other patriotic songs. The Musical Institute of Helsine- fors was founded twenty years ago. Under the direction of Wegelius, born 1846, it has done much for the ad vancement of music. Among present-day composers, A1- mas Jaernfelt (b. 1869) is notable His orchestral works are known for their beauty and originality. A Fin- nish artist whose music is gaining popularity in America is Selim Palm- gren (b. 1 The most distinguished and widely known musician is Jean Sibelius (b 1865). He has been granted an In come by the Government so that he may devote himself entirely to com- 78) position. His two beautiful sym phonic poems, “The Swan of Tuonela” and "are fa miliar to American concert roers. The patriotic meaning of ‘‘Finlandia'’ so aroused the Finns that the Russian Government forbade its performance. It is a remarkable fact that out of 4,000,000 Finns and Esthonians, 8,- 900,000 have a musical education Larger and happier countries should take notice. In Finland music lessons are a most important part of the edu- cational programme. Music ia a second religion to these people. When You Go to the Museum NAVAJO BLANKET MAKERS. Rug making is now generally ered- ited to the Near East. But we have our own native blanket making on both Continents of America and nome of the blankets or rugs made by our Navajo are very good, al- though somewhat bright-colored. In the west wing of the Amerioan Museum of Natural History, on the ground floor, is @ rich collection showing the lives of these primitive vlanket makers. It is interesting to note that the Navajo went into blanket making nly after the arrival of the Span- iards. In fact, some of the blankets were made from yarn obtained by ravelling flannels imported by the Spaniards The Navajo now raise their own sheep, and the blanket makers use native mineral dyes of which they carefully guard the secret. The Ger- man dyemakers never obtained con- trol of the Navajo market. WHOSE BIRTHDAY? AUG. “&—JOHN NEWTON, the farnous engineer to whom we owe the safety of traffic upon the Hudson River and through Hell Gate, was born Aug. 24, 1828, and died in New York City May 1, 1895. In 1842 he was graduated from West Point Mill- tary Academy and became an sistant professor of engineering in that institution, At the beginning of the Civil War he entered the army subsequently commanding at South Mountain, Antietam ond Fredericks- burg, being promo’ to the rank of Major General sh aftor the last engagement. Afte: ‘lie war he be- came an engincer of the regular army, and in 1884 becama Chief of Engineers, which position he held until his retire ment in 1886. During this pertod of service he was stationed at New York City, where he removed obstructions to shipping from Hell Gate and vastly improved the Hudson River From 1887 to 1888 he was Commis stoner of Public Works tn New York City, and from then on until his death he Was President of the Panama Rail- ways &