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From Mr. Daugherty's latest explanation of the injynction against the striking railroad shopmen we gather that another best mind has been further improved, but that the Attorney General is reluctant to admit ft. REPENTANT? OMMENTING on the League of Nations Assembly, the Tribune asks: “Will its originally intended super-sovereignty survive?” The question is as unanswerable as “Have you stopped beating your wife?” But the Tribune hazards an answer: “It doesn't seem so.” Of course the man who has been in the habit of beating his wife finds less difficulty in an- swering the question. If he has, in fact, stopped, he is able to answer “Yes,” and may even find grounds for pride in the reply. The analogy is fair enough. The Republican Party and its partisan spokesmen did something rather more reprehensible than wife-beating in inventing the “super-sovereign” character of the League of Nations. Repentance and reform are in order, and if the Tribune can find any com- fort in testifying to the good character of the League as a reason for tolerance, even a half- way confession is better than none at all. The League never was super-sovereign, If the G. O. P. is willing to make overtures to a League that is not super-sovereign, the advocates of the League of Nations as it was and as it is can well afford to recognize and welcome even small concessions. No one should be encouraged to go on beating even a casual acquaintance, let alone his wife. When Turk beats Greek the King at Athens is likely to need props for the throne, THE DAVIS CUP STAYS. 1‘ the decisive but hard fought contest for the Davis Cup the American representatives showed quality that bids fair to hold the inter- national tennis trophy for longer than this next year As between Australia and the United States the international score is now even, with six wins for each. The United States has forged ahead of the British record of five wins, One of the most satisfactory features is the hearty testimonial to American sportsmanship voiced by Gerald Patterson, Captain of the Aus- tralian team., “Americans are the finest and most generous sportsmen in the world” sounds pretty fine from su good a sportsman as the Australian THEY CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT. N a disagreement over a contract a motion picture star complained that his employers were not giving him enough publicity. Now legal proceedings have been instituted and the employers are warning all others to keep hands off the star. We wander whether this is merely one way of satisfying the itch for pub- licity that affects the actor. If the employers only set a high enough pub- licity value on the services of their discontented star, perhaps he will be willing to work for less real money. The couris are a wonderful aid to actors, ball- players, lecturers and writers who want to bask in the limelight. Mr. Hays, Mr. Thomas, Mr Suinner and others who would like to arbitrate and smooth over the rough spots and make smooth the path of the tempermental will have ato take into consideration the publicity values of court procedure and invent some substitute with equal power for getting names and pictures on the front pages. SANE AND BUSINESS LIKE, ILLIAM H. WOODIN Miller's ap- pointee for State Fuel Administrator, is an industrial executive of ability and experience. He should have exactly the qualitics needed for a task which requires, as the Governor says, “the use of just as little power as possible and all that may be necessary to perioim te” Without either underestimating or exaggerating the fuel emergency, this State has gone about meeting it in a sane and business like way. If coal must be rationed, it must be rationed fairly and in a way to permit no profiteering, This can only be accomplished by temporarily putting extraordinary powers into hands that can be trusted to make wise use of them The new Fuel Administrator says: “Profiteers will be prosecuted. The wealthy or influential householder will not be permitted to obtain coal at the expense of his less for- tunate neighbor. Consumers will not be al- lowed to evade the law by golng from one dis- tributer to another, The law will be justly and fairly carried out.” If he sticks to that, Fuel Administrator Woodin will have the backing not only of the Governor but of the people of the State. And the people of New York City will demand that he get only due and thorough co-operation from their present Municipal Administration. Gov LAFAYETTE-MARNE DAY. HIS is the 165th anniversary of the birth of Lafayette and the eighth anniversary of the Battle of the Marne Seven years ago a movement was begun to celebrate this date annually in the United States by flying the tri-color of France alongside the Stars and Stripes and by exercises commemorat- ing the gratitude of the American people for the services of Lafayette in the War of Independence and the admiration of the American people for the superb stand by which France checked the pressure of twentieth century German conquest in its first onrush. The friendship felt by the people of the United States for the people of France has suffered no change. Neither has there been any lessening of American sympathy for the country that has seen its own soil so terribly trampled and scarred by German invasion. If there has been difficulty of late in always approving the point of view of politica! groups and leaders who have spoken for France, that does not mean that American feeling for France has chilled or that Americans are not still capa- ble of understanding the unique dread that has been seared into the French soul in heroic con- flicts with the German iron. There is no reason for one atom‘of politics in the observance of Lafayette-Marne Day, Neither of those great names should ever suggest to French or to American hearts anything but the purest mutual friendship and good will A FAMOUS WALKER. ONE period of his life Edward Payson Weston used to celebrate his birthdays by walking as many miles as he was years of age. But that was at a time when men now “in the prime of life” were boys. Weston, the pedestrian, is years of age and his ye are telling on him He isn’t walking the continent now— though he may do so a few years hence. Just now he is contenting himself with a little jaunt of only 440 miles from Buffalo to New York, Vie paces off a matter of twenty-four miles or so and calls it a day. The fact that Weston, after a lifetime of walk? ing, can make twenty-four miles in a day at the age of eighty-four is a testimonial to the virtue of the exercise. Putting one foot in front of the other on highways or the byways is far better than medicine. now eighty-four TOSS ACHES AND PAINS In addition to child labor, Cole L pectalties, South Carolina has permitting The 8. C’s are much disturbed over the agitation for a Nation-wide statute that might destroy their close-hiteh Blease and other no law civoree, . Pine nuts from Arizona and New Mexico are coming to New York in Chrtoads in the slot machines They are crowding peanuts . Toy balloons the size of watermelons are ve the streets three 10 cents, catching a little ed on for for not fyer. No excuse . We wish the Astor estate would demolish the stub- end of the old Astor House and put up a good down- town hotel with a good lunch counter and a movie theatre in the buckyard, Bet it would pay. . It is not enough to name a new theatre after Aug tin Daly, It should house a “Daly” company and pro- duce “Daly” plays Peanuts are selling at 15 cents a ittain normatey? ° pound, Wut “goobers” never Sik neckties have taken the place of sweet choco late ag a vending article on Park Row, JOHN KEETZ. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. £929. cRikie neea ne arc mnLaN EN oe — o.. Coryright, 1902, (New Tork Evening World) by Press Pub, Co, By John Cassel to say much in a few word How the Tarif Hits a Rug, To the Editor of The Evening World: The following is an instance of the effect the tariff will have on Importea merehandise; here is a rug made in the woolen mills of England, from wool waste ang. burlap, on which the duty was 35 per cent This rug Is a 8x6 fect size, costs $7.26 and weighs 20 pounds, The duty under the new tariff ts 45 per cent. plus 40 cents a pound, mak- ing a duty on a rug that cost $7.25 in England $11.50, In addition to freight This applies to a great many other rugs, as well as to other articles too numerous to mention J. J. MeCAFFREY. New York City, Sept. 2. Allen Tongues, ning Worlds ad the letters pub- columns, 1 find that lished in’ y they take var from the fleld of finance and true economies (oftimes tire- me) and put me in touch with all ses of the palpltating life of this great city In your issue to-day Is a letter signed “O. BE. D." entitled “Alien ‘Tongues tn the Markets." T want to indorse what the writer has written. If, instead of expe Americans to learn Yiddish, Iti Greek, Asyrian and Armenian, which are the lan- guages of the peddlers, the City Go ernment would take printed in foreign la pel foreigners to learn our the work of American very much simplified ¥ SPA New York, Sept, 1 « all notices and com language, ation would be wn tLING, Editor, The Same Kind of secution, To the Editor of The Rvening World Th are certain things a Kighteenth Amentment and t stead aet which require a explanation national It has always been cus- tomary, whenever # national, State or municipal improvement of paramount importance was suggested, to submit it to the voters on Election Day in the form of ndment, ‘To my knowledge h procedure took pluce in th of New York with regard to Prohibition. Why was this not done? were not something handed or unusual about it tomary and considerate likelihood would have hee This, perhaps, will never be sutisfac- torily explained the writer remembers correctly, Anti-Saloon League claimed ‘at time that the churches were be- If there under- cus- all ‘ed. either i hind it) If this were then the ehureh and. state no longer separated $n this country, « condt- tion which is absolutely intolerable in a land where everybody is supposed to be free from busybodies who use their churchly influence to support political really so, are From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. measures or bring about amendments to our Constitution, These reformers would gladly twist Constitution our imaginable. needs chan. it were originally meant to suit their estable purposes. stitution as it stood for little kind of alteration that they needed but not the accomplished. darn fool to change this liberty so that the wheels of their silly cle may turn around more easily. If this is not interference of church with state and a wrongful intrusion on former right of others without w inyitation, veh rant or else is. ‘The Prohibitionists are probably de- lighted to practise the same kind of persecution from which their liberty- loving ferefather escape. Brooklyn, N, Y., Sept. 1 To the Editor of ‘The Kyening World of your paper I bay. noted your readiness to take up cases est of the people As a reader in the int It would be why, after two months since the law went into effect, there are thousands operating upon the city §f taxicabs | o' owners never have Mretied' nor have any intention ot] have done good and efficient work. complying with the Bonding Law. But they have done it unhurriedly, without noting the 1am paying $45 per month and] $ lock, and taking abundant time to correct mistakes, and several taxi-drivers wo kos tis) $ 46 throw away bad work and replace it with good. Be ie ania” abs EAWInK ; Thomas Gray spent seven years on a poem which will When T think of the $185 1 hay wonder if of the boobs. When is the Police De} dy paid 1 one ing to get bus least have the horse laugh to ones even though the World Growing Better, ro the Editor of The Evening World Of course, advocates of the wagon" come along they pleasure of giving the UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1822, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) RUSH JOB—BOTCHED WORK. The ancient observation that Rome was not built in a day explains why it has through the ages been called the Eternal City, Even now the Coliseum and the masonry piles along the Appian Way, neglected for centuries, still stand to tell the story of Roman history. Stretching northward clear into Germany is written in stone and mortar the record of the Roman invasion. The Romans were never in a hurry. They built “for keeps.” As life has become more complicated and more fever- ish people have become more ina hurry about their work, Beside the old stone tower built at Newport by some explorer who came before Columbus stand little houses, which although only fifty years old are already becoming rickety and tumble-down, In the Western towns of the United States are public buildings which will not last out half the present century. These were rushed to completion because new born civic pride makes the people who paid for them cager to behold them in all their glory. What is true of building is true of any work in the world, The Cremonia violins, which have lasted for many times the lifetime of their builder, required as much time to com- plete as the average country place does to-day. : Any rush job is a botch job, whether it is a house or a musical instrument or an education, We are given not a liberal but a sufficient allowance of life. With that allowance hundreds of thousands of people into every shape they say it Naturally it would if In fact, the Con- many years Certainly chan Just because a few “water- allowed precions heirloom of then nothi 5 s were 80 anxious to JOHN LYNCH. 1922. ‘Taxt-D: interesting to know al- been last forever and forever be a delight to mankind. T have Modern novelists turn out hundred-thousand word stories in two months—and the stories die within a few weeks of the time they leave the press. Better do little and do it well than do much and botch the job. “If one works fast he must first learn to work efficiently. Rushing madly to artment go- as IT would like to at some of these wi ugh cost $ get through” means doing nothing well. ee ees: WHOSE BIRTHDAY? General, and fought his first battle at Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. XLI.—TRAPPING FOR FURS, Fashion is a far larger extermina+ tor of wild animals than even the re« quirements of the larder, The size of the toll on wild life imposed by fash« fon {s indicated by the number of skins sold in New York alone in two sales fifteen months apart—a total of 8,250,964, iY During the same period New York consumed not more than 250 carcasses of reindeer from Alaska, Other spe+ cles of deer, with a few bear thrown in, do not raise the total of wild anl~ mals killed for food within measur~ able distance of those exterminated for their skins—many of which, strange to say, are worn in summer, not be- cause they are needed but because fashion has decreed that furs shall be worn the year round, In America, of course, the principal producer of furs for the market is the Hudson's Bay Company, which keeps a sharp eye open for furs to- day, Just as it did in the time of Charles II There are also other fur companies in great profusion on this side of the border, These concerns are trappers in the sense that some of them em- ploy men who devote themselves to the task of getting animals for thelr furs and delivering them to the firms’ collectors at so much per skin, But these professional trappers are comparatively few, The backbone of the trapping business is the farmer's boy. His opportunity come with the dwindling of the fur-bearing pecies of animals and the gradual accession of the skunk and the musk= ‘at to the position of principal pro- ducers of furs, some of them bearing names that would never be recognized by the original trappers. Among the fur-bearing animals of the day, the cat is a likely e for primacy. Willam T. ay, director of the New York Zoological Park, displays with pride the picture a string of eighteen cats killed while hunting birds. The skins of these cats, dyed and dres: for the mark tags forms 11 Many efforts have heen made to breed foxes of various species on farms for their fur. These efforts, however, have met with doubtful suce becatse their pelts lack the lus- net, the animal bred in the The beaver seems to be the excep- tion to the rule that a wild animal bred in captivity is an unsatisfactory fur-bdarer. ‘The animal that founded the fortunes of the Astor family and figures on the coat-of-arms of the As- tor Place subway station is probably destined to be bred in large numbers on farms to supply the insatiable de- mands of the fur market. Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. E, St. Amant | Conyripht, 1922 w York Evening | ~ World), by Press Publ Co. REASON WON IN CALIFORNIA. California is one of the two States which have no Sunday Law, Arizona being the other. In 1882 the question of the repeal of the California Sunday Law was made the tssue of the State political mpaign of that year. In 1858 the State Sunday Law had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the State, but in 1861 a new law was enacted which was upheld by the new urt of which Stephen J. Field, a strong supporter of Sun- day laws, had become Chief Justice, and the forme decision, to which Justice Field had dissented, was overs ruled, But few prosecutions, however, were made under this law until the year 1882 when, under the pressure of 1 fanatical move on the part of the church element, 80 many arrests were made that the proceedings of the courts were clogged and the law made obnoxious, Among those ar- rested was one of the most prominent Sabbatarians of the country, the man- ager of the Pacitic Press Publishing Hfouse, the largest publishing house on the Pacific Coast. this campaign Sunday legisla~ 3 discussed by the press in all ngs. The question probably r before been so well under by the people. As a conse< the law, on the recommenda tien of the Governor, was immediates sealed by the next Legislature, 8, 1883. This body itself, hacked by a State-wide political land~ slide of more than 41,000 votes @ver the question, thus set aside the law which the Supreme Court of the state had so st held in 1861 fare of the people,” and since thab time California has had no Sunday, Law. Ten later, however (1898), the church succeeded in securing @ One-Day-in-Seven Rest Law—all they dared to ask for at the time. The years Our word 19) surely changing — : Brandywine, where he was wounded, | requirements being so mild, this went Fat oe eee ce aE || ger. G—-MARIB JAN MOTINAI| Atier porving at, alonmcun dan iG | through without spposttion: ‘bate ike as hes Mrs. Eleanor Bock of San|MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE, the} the Rhode Island campaign, we re-|the Sunday Law it stood in leu of, it Francisco, making, as she is doing, ]General‘wad statesman loved and hon-| turned to France to secure more|has proved a dead letter, While pro- such a strenuous endeavor to find|oreq not only by France but by] equipment and to incite sympathy in| viding for one day of rest in s¢ Mr. Bock's first wife who had been : er en, | France for the suffering Colonists.| for laboring men—all that the advo- © Bass ASW A Deat Wike WHO DAG (been Trica, waa) Horn) ih “Auvereocs lec ata guited far Artertta aig sides (catee of eiiih Haseathtt lame. clalea dosefaracem, too, that sho ia doing | Franco, Sept. 6, 1787, and died inlin bringing about the surrender of|they desire to sccure by auch legiala- this with the knowledge and consent|parie Muy 20, 1894, At the age of|Cornwallis, Lafayette took part in|tion—this law does not satisfy this of Mr. Bock and that both husband] sixteen Lafayette entered the army|the French Revolution as Comman-Jelement. Wliat they desire is a Sun- and wife wish to make reparation ath ered tho) army | Ne Gniet ae tne National Guaren.| Gay avi ean lenges uring. revent How one's heart swells with grati-{md remained In servic For a time he was quite unpopular in| years, most determined efforts have Jrute to see that men and women are| American Revolution broke out. De-| France, and his efforts in her cause| been mado to secure not only at owing more humane, ‘more “kind. termined to help the American caute] were not appreciated, but in 1824 he] Stato Sunday Law in California but re_charitahis and trying to’ ob , vessel] made a yisit to the United States atla Sunday Law Amendment to the the Golien Rule, “AN things whate| of dependence he SO Rea Ss resee) the invitation of Congress, which de-| Constitution, and thus bring Call- foever ye would that men should do|#t his own expense, sailed to the Co! unto you do ye even so unto to sired to exfress America’s gratitude for his service, and with much enthus: nies, and offered his services. He recelved appolutment as Major was ma. received THECPHRASTUs, fornia into line with the other States having such laws, and make Sunday, laws there constitutional,