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LONDON, 20 Cockepur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘The Associated Prees is exclistrely entitled to the use for repybll- fation of all news despatches credited to jt or not otherwise credited {n this paper, and also the local news published herein 410 EF BRE 149th 80, Bd Aye BROOKLYN, 999 Washington St. and 817 Fulton st CLUMSY TO THE LAST. ETER a long record of futile fussing around and about the railroad strike, the Har- ding Administration suddenly fetches a deep breath—and puts a heavy foot in it! On the plea of checking violence in the rail strike, Attorney General Daugherty all at once comes down, on the striking shop-craft unions with Nation-wide injunction proceedings calcu- lated to set the nerves of every labor union in the country on edge One of the most hopetul features of the shop- men’s strike was the consistency and conserva- tism it revealed in the “Big Four’ Railroad Brotherhoods who refused to join it and who did their best as mediators to help settle it. The last thing to be desired at the present moment was action that could be construed as a Federal move against organized labor in general Unless violence in the rail strike got beyond the point where it could be handled locally, there was every reason for refraining from any further conspicuous exercise of Federal power that labor could misinterpret. President Harding and his Attorney General have taken, a clumsy step that is likely to do more harm than good. } While Mr. Hearst proclaims the reduction in { Bas cost as “Hylan fight forces 10-cent cut in gas rate,” Hizzoner denounces the result as “humbug.” The partnera should synchronize 1 more accurately. DON’T SHIVER BEFORE YOU'RE COLD. OV. MILLER sees no reason why the peo- ple of this city should be put in a panic over coal prospects. He says: “There should be no occasion for public alarm over the coal situation, and I don’t believe there will be any distress. The people should be eco- nomical in their use of coal, but the necessities of the people will be taken care of.” Tenants are also assured that Health Depart- ment rules regarding the obligations of landlords to supply heat and hot water will not be lightly put aside on the plea of a coal crisi Tenants are glad to know this. They are glad to know the Health Department knows it. They hope the landlords know it too. The Governor also says, with meaning: & “IT am sure that the Fuel Administration and the various city adm{ntstrations will work to. I cannot conceive any this for ulterior gether in perfect accord one using such a situation purposes.” That is plainly addressed to a City Hall where a public need is at present only too likely to get into a hopeless tangle with politics—as, for in transit which five and a half million people are waiting stance, the relief for HOW THEY FIGURED IT. LTHOUGH only 69 Senators actually voted A on the bonus, the other 27 paired. and absent Senators are on record. The full measure of support is 62 for the bill, 34 against The purely political aspect of the bill is em- phasized by the narrow margin of those opposed the 32 led to support a It looks as though the man- agers had counted noses with care to gain all the veteran support possible without the danger of The Senate is clubby. in excess of Presidential veto. passing the bill Also note the political significance of this fact Of the 34 votes opposed, 15, or nearly half, are gathered from the one-third of the Senators whose terms end in 1925 Many of those clected in 1920 were more or less definitely committed to the bonus, Those facing election this year fear the soldier vote. The 1925 group is not committed and has two square itself if it seems politically To this the Senatorial man- agers naturally turned when votes were needed to cinch the political hypocrisy of the bonus. years to necessary group In all fairness, one Just what maximum standard of living should we fix for a pencil peddler without legs? question: FACE THE LIGHTS. N a letter to The Evening World, printed last ] Monday, Sid C. Jones, Secretary of the North Jersey Automobile Club, made a safety sugees- tion for persons walking along highways at night Mr. Jones urged walkers to keep to the left of the road, thus facing the lights of cars as they approach. Several other letters have indorsed this suggestion. It is a good idea, It makes for safety. And it is as easy for the pedestrian to step to one side of the road as to the other It is frequently almost impossible to see dark- clothed individuals on the road ahead of a motor car. It is easy to distinguish an approaching automobile. For safety sake, it is better for the pedestrian to be on the left side of the road where a silently running motor cannot take him unawares. If a pedestrian is on the right side of the road the responsibility for his safety is more largely on the driver. If he is on the left side, both the driver and the pedestrian can be on watch. In the matter of safety two pairs of watchful eyes are far better than one. Walk to the left at night. Munson liner American Legion runs amuck in Buenos Ayres Harbor.—News despatch. Celebrating the Senate vote on the Bonus Bill? “Who were the twenty-five greatest women ot New York?" is the question propounded by the Woman's Universal Alliance. We shall soon get down to: Who are the fifty most famous women in our block? THE WEEK anthracite strike is again “about to be settled,” In New York people fee! a little more comforta- ble because the Legislature in a snappy special session accepted Gov. Miller's emergency plan permitting him to appoint a fuel dictator. PRESIDENT HARDING has had no such success— perbaps because he hasn't a plan. He Js also at outs with Washington correspondents. GAS will be CHEAPER, but it'is not yet cheap enough to be a substitute for coal. A long, cold winter is the present prospect for STREDT BEGGARS. Since “Shorty” Malone, crip- pled pencil peddler, was disclosed as a comparative prutocrat, many easy givers have taken the TIGHT- WAD pledge. ELECTION is coming. The Senate gassed and then passed the Bonus Bill. MAYOR HYLAN presented his RAPID-TRANSIT PLAN—also considerable com- ment, Some of this may have been designed to drown out the sad, sighing sound of the leak in the Hearst Gubernatorial balloon. But the sigh didn't escape MR. LA GUARDIA, who socepted an orthodox band- swagon scat as G. 0. P. candidate for Congress in the 20th District. In California, HIRAM JOHNSON won the Senatorial Homination, Lemons are protected in the tariff. ‘Travellers returning from Europe brought with them the eminent DRESS DESIGNER M. Poiret, who Cs and COLD are the tops of the week. The opines that American women are three years bebind Parisian styles, The strength of the comparatively new “I-don't-care” chorus must have disconcerted ears 8o sensitively attuned to the jingle of American dollars, George Cline of Edgewater, who shot John Bergen in the manner of a MOVIE SCENARIO, probably wishes he could get a “double” for the next steps in the continuity. Rarely 48 a death mourned more widely or sincerely than was that of DR, STEPHEN SMITH, who didn't quite reach the century mark in his life of good works. The WILL of Park Benjamin disinherited his five children in favor of an adopted daughter. That of Frederick Bertuch gives to Columbia University $1060,- 000 to help impeountous students. PROHIBITION comedies and tragedies centred around the hip-flask crusade, a burning boat and new irregularities in withdrawals. A rear-end COLLISION of Hudson and Manhattan tube trains from Newark injured many. STEEL CONSTRUCTION prevented loss of life. The subways in Manhattan were tied up again early In the week. Possession of the DAVIS CUP will be decided on the Forest Hills tennis courts this week-end. The Aus- tralian challengers have a hard row to hoe, The GIANTS maintain a comfortable lead. And the YANKS have come to the front again. BABE RUTH seored his twenty-elghth home run, but is again adorn- ing the benches as a penalty for umpire-balting. It doesn’t pay. ACHES AND PAINS Gov. Miller promises a “strong man” for our coal dictutor. Hope he is handy with a shovel. . “Mexican Pete” hops around the Stock Exchange Ure the celebrated Mewican bean with a bug in etde of it. . Health Commissioner Copeland stands for the corset A goed shape ought to be healthy . 4 900d Kay to reduog she gas bYT te to turn the gas off when not necded. It would earn the averuye con- sumer a good deal more thin 10 per cent. . Maybe the American Consul who has been bor by the British interfered with carrying coals to New castle! d . Publicity has compelled the “leglesa beggar” to give up his hotel suite. Also he still lacks his lege, . 4 pun @ day keops the bluse away. JOHN KEETZ, hn nam sai ti | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922. Conyright. (New Yori P ® by Pron Vub. © VOTES Completing the Sentence! FOR THE 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 P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. ‘The Linguistic Test. To the Editor of The Evening World: The civil service branch of ot! Municipal Government recently adver- tised for competitive examination for Supervisors of Public Markets, assur- ing special consideration for candi- dates speaking Italian or Yiddish. If 4 peddler's license is only granted to American citizens, born or naturalized, the holder of said license surely must be familiar with our national lan- guage; why then the raw superfluity of foreign speaking supervisors? There ure several ways to utilize the services of pet linguists, but the Department of Public Markets is no place for a multitude of interpreters, when only fee collectors are needed. What other schemes and subterfuges are resorted to in order to provide re- munerative sinecures for political ad- herents and perform stunts of circum locution to befog municipal ineffi cieney? WALTER RIGGER New York, Aug. 28, 1922 “Starving the Library.” ‘Yo the Editor of ‘The Evening Wor In an editorial in your issue of Aug. 22, entitled ‘Starving the Library,” there is an effort to make it appear that the city does not or will not ap- propriate enough money to provide hooks for the reading public of the city. Your editorial writer calls it "Starv- ing the Library.’ Tam a librarian of thirteen years’ standing and would like to present the following facts, Which may be verified: ri During the war the book pub- lishers advanced their book prices nearly 100 per cent, Under the eir- cumstances no intelligent citizen could ask the city to appropriate enough money to buy the same yearly num- ber of books as had been done before the war. So fewer books were pur- chased. The book publishers have not reduced their rates to the pre-war figure, It would seem as if the effort of the library trustees should be dl- rected toward these publishers instead of every year raising the cry of “starving the Library’ in order to obtain money from the city Until the publishers reduce thetr price, a% some other profiteers are being forced to do, it is anti-social to expect the city treasury to supply nearly double the funds to pay the publishers their The majority of these books, T would add, are popular tietion, not price for actual education of the foreign population Second—It is the custom in the New York Public Library to allow its read evs to draw six books and a magazine on one card. all of Which books may be books of fetion One this rate may take out eighteen books at one time 1 would advise that only four books, only two books of which should be books of flotion, should be taken out at one time, With these two changes, forcing the mily at twelve or publishers to reduce prices, and re- ducing the number of books taken to four for a person, the present situa- tion of "Starving the Library" could be met in a rational manner and citi- zens would not have to read that our municipal authorities were failing to forward the interests of our readers, It is unfortunate that budget mak ing and election time e 80 Close ty gether as to wrongfully suggest t there might be politics in statem: of this nature. = MAUD MALONE 184 West 82d Street, New York City Welliver's Conclusions. To the Editor of The Evening World It seems to me that the various co respondents who are participating in the discussion of Prohibition are con sidering a phase that {s of no practical Interest to the American people. In- stead of attempting to determin whether or not the Bible approves « the drinking of intoxicating liquors, 1 would be interesting to consider th intrinsic worth of the Fighteenth Amendment. Just as a tree is known by the fruit it bears, Ko the value of a law may by measured by the good {t produces or the evil {t destroys. The following statements summarize an article, “Three Yeare of Prohibition: Success ov Failure?’ by Judson C, Welliver in the American Review of Reviews: 1. The saloon {s gone forever. 2, Converted liquor property gains value. (A great proportion of forme brewerles and distilleries have be: converted into profitable ice factor storage warehouses, meat-packiny houses, ice cream ani soft drink fac tories.) 3. There is a decrease in crime (Statistics from citles all over thi country give about the same results Vor twelve cities a consolidated state ment shows a drop of 62.6 per cent. in arrests for drunkenness and of 39.7 per cent. for all other causes.) 4, The charity and welfare organi zations of seventeen cities, including 3Zoston, New York, Chicago and 1 Louis, have presented a consolidated statement for 1921, dealing wit of charity extended to persons or families that had: come to want t reason of drink. It showed a reduc tion of 84 per cent.! 5, Deprivation of alcoho! has 1 caused increased use of narcotios (Statistical Justification for this claim s offered by Health officers or Bi of Health from all sections of country) 6. Prohibition has reduced the con sumption of spirituous Haquors and has almost ended the consumptton of beer and wines, (The per capita consump tion of Hquors fell from 22.79 gallons in 1918 to 8.12 im 1921.) 7, There is tremendous reduotion in commercialized vice. WILLIAM B, HERLANDS, As a very young pn, 2 the office of the Londoh paper called “Answers.” tion to him, all of It was not himself. an easy \nswers” > was much future in it. Harmsworth did. offiee he whose (Copyright, 1922, by Rell Syndicat HE DID THE. IMPOSSIBLE. lfred Harmsworth used to pass Time -e where he was editing a trifling and an unimportant UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake , Ine.) s on his way to the very tiny He had very little money and nobody paid much atten- Because he could not afford help he wrote practically task. and no one else believed that There was no doubt whatever in his busy mind that he some time might become the owner of that great newspaper so often passed Had he spoken of this \belief to others they would ha e thought him a little touched. Por a poor young man, conducting the tiniest sort of a paper, to aspire to the ownership of one of the most im- portant journals in the world seemed as nothing short of 12 idiotic, | \s well almost might he aspire to be King of England. Yet in a very few years I the impossible. of the most important men in nothing was Impossible. thing. simple enough. That being his ambition, to achieve it. of course. as other men- made him urmsworth had accomplished Not only was he the owner of the London Times, but he was a Viscount, a member of the House of Lords and one all England. Harmsworth, who died Lord Northcliffe, believed that He knew that other men had risen from obscurity to eminence and fame and power. It never occurred to him that he could not do the same Consequently, he was not in the least afraid to make the effort, or in the least discouraged when seemingly insur- mountable obstacles arose in his path. . He set out to be the owner of the London Times— there was nothing to do but This involved work and sacrifice, which were matters It involved a willingness to do ten times as much work also a matter of course. It involved a belief in the possibility of being anything he wanted to be, which was the most important matter of coarse of all, It was that belief that he died, what he was when WHOSE BIRTHDAY? HENRY GROF al euman, but after rea s ngaged in Journalism and became of the founders of the Sar cisco Post, In 1879 he pubil ook on economics, entitled “Progress and Poverty,’ which became very popular, In 1880 he gettied in New York City and the following year went x rope for economte research. He became so popular in this city that he ree ed an independent nomina tion for Mayor and ated in the election by a email ma vin. George Was an energ supporter of absoliite trade, the derivation of government revenue from a tax on land values and the famous “Single doctrine. His death was followed by one of the was def greatest demonstrations of popular| best-known feeling and general reapect that ever| Hood'’ attended the fimeral of any strictly|@reen straight to the West Canadian forest, private oltizen in American history, in “Howdy, book of William Herschell'’s homely verse. The Jungle Mind, Trail," writes of the dwarfed men of the thick jungle. the party jungle in Congress,— the caucus. The Loneliness of Napoleon --+ dealing with Napoleon, in the Septem- ber Red Rook: making history Poor compensation hearts of one's fellows The Wisdom of Being Mov printed in tho F To Such as Will a-Tramping Go +--+ Giving advice in "The Catskills," (Century Co.) to who would do mountain trampt f Morris Longstreth advice of Mr. socks be those of the lumber-jack. Jolly Roger, an Outlaw--~+ McKay pages of “The Country Beyoné,%| (Cosmopolitan) by James Olive Curwood It was tncongruous and neon —Bpe | TURNING THE PAGES | €. W. Osborn a en || ‘HEN Mother walks among W the trees And in her garden, blossom- fatr, T fancy, somehow, that she sees More than mere flowers blooming there The Johnny-jump-ups are to he Old friends she knew years, As half-forgotten things recur In blended bursts of tears, in girthood smiles and The tulips ali are little tots Parading ‘round in Sunday dress; Far prouder than forget-me-nots, Which boast unrivalled loveliness. The humble dandetion, too, 18 some towo-headed neighbor boy ; The rholets, sweet giris in blue, Who made her play-days days of jov. Four stanzas turned out of a page All,” (Bobbs-Merrill) a In his travel book, ‘The Pathless (Harper's) Arthur ©, Friel He goes on: More of It, I think, caused by the stifling effect of the jungle Itself —man {is so hemmed in that his brain cannot rise or spread beyend the labyrinth holding him; he has no breadth of viston, physical or mental; his life ® mere ani- mal existence, nearest approach to a theology @ bdellet in some demon responsible for all his misfortunes—a being to which he can ascribe everything which, to his Imited Intelligence, {s unex- plainable. Note for comparison the effect of Where men have no vision beyond 8 From a ‘'Common-Sense Editorial’* “After all, T care only for people marked, courtiers; © friends, @ fine tomb In Paria is a monu- ment to thi zling aspects of his career, erected by those who knew him only from a distance. Those who knew him best raised no monument to him on the shores Helena. little garden there became a crude potato-patch, the — billiard- room in which he played and talked, a haymow, the room nil where he died, a stable, Over the ruins might well hav been written: "I made cour never pretended to make friends.’ If we catch Mr. for for An Edwi aphorism, by mar Morality ts not more 1s taken to be, but mor Bod thay intelligent are two prime s road: ambition and new the two the latter is the worse, As you revere serent do not yield to the allurements 1 thought to {ts fe en-In pair of army shors st insurance of sheer com aminated with forebod- Also it Js not necessary to carry another pair. They will be wet? ‘Then stuff paper inside them for the night to hold the shape, It fe bet ter (o put them on damp than bone dry. Socks will do the rest, To which we add only the further! Longstreth that the Speaking of outlaws, here ts Roge as he ts introduced into the ceivable to think of tim as an out law, as he stood there in the last glow of the sun—an outlaw with the weirdest and strangest record In all the northland hung up against his name. He was not tall, and notther was he short, and he was as plump as an apple and as rosy as its ripest side There was something heruble in the smoothness and the fulness of his face, t ar gray of his eyes, the fine-spun blond of his shert- cropped hair, and the plumpness of his hands and half-bared arn: He was a priestly, well-fed look- was this Jolly Roger, ru- nvivial in all his prepor- ome in great error would alled him fat. But It was a strange kind of fatness num on the trail could And as for sin, or on lawry, it could not be fou Hark upon bim—unless one r all else und guessed if er holster rotund Hib age, if he bait seen At to die Clone tt, was thirty-four In other words, here was one of thel Merry Men of ‘Robi transported from his nativ