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BROOKLYN, 202 Washington St.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opere, and 417 Fulton St. | LONDON, 20 Cockspur Bt MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Yee ee fette ‘The Associated Preay is exclusively entitled to the use repal cation of all news despatches credited to {tor not otherwise credited fm this paper, and also the local news published herein. NOT FORGETTING SHINGLES. HE House and Senate conferees wrangled their way to agreement Saturday on that priceless boon for a waiting Nation—the Fordney-McCum- ber Tariff Bill. The duty on wool was finally fixed at 31 cents a pound—2 cents lower than the farm bloc wanted it and 6 cents higher than the rate in the House bill. Sugar from Cuba bears a duty of $1.76 per hundred pounds, and sugar from the rest of the world $2.20—meaning a cost of 16 cents more per hundred pounds for American consumers of Cuban sugar. One of the greatest struggles and noblest com- promises was over shingles. The House—Repre- sentative Fordney being, as it happens, in the lum- ber business—put a duty of 50 cents per 1,000 on shingles. The Senate had shingles on the free list. So, to be good to everybody—and particularly to the American who builds a house or shingles one— the conferees, despite Senator Kellogg's warnings, kindly split the difference and made the rate 25, cents per 1,000! In a similar spirit, it was agreed that, though the foreign valdation system is to prevail, the President gin under certain conditions use the American valuation plan inthanging tariff rates. With such slight readjustments, this monu- Mental outrage upon American consumers goes back to the House this weck for quick action that will get it to the Senate. Meanwhile every special interest that expédts to profit by the Pordney-McCumber monstrosity is also expected to greet it witht hearty and sustained applause—including the steady tinkle of cam- paign funds dropping into the tin cup. The tinkle and the handclapping are sorely needed from now on to help Congressmen keep up their courage amid the louder groanings of a dis- gusted country. Lenin is reported fully recovered in health, with a new appetite for foreign capital. WE CAN'T GIVE UP CHILDREN NALYZING the 1921 statistics of fatal acci- dents in the city streets and noting the large percentage of such fatalities among children be- tween the ages of five and fourteen, the Health Department says: “The big need in our city to-day is more play- ground space for children of the crowded neigh- borhoods. In such districts, while street traffic may be comparatively light, accidents are more numerous because of the throngs of children in the streets.” Right. Two things should become more immegiate ana important features ‘of city planning: (1) Make a thorough survey of all city-owned property in crowded sections, also of all deteri- orating private property, with a view to possible conversion of suitable sites into public play- grounds. (2) In new and growing residence areas require building to conform to the plan of hollow blocks, with interior play and recreation spaces. The streets will not grow safer. On the con- trary. Nor can we turn them all into play streets, even for a limited number of hours. We can't give up motor vehicles, We can’t give up children. The sensible course is to re- move the latter from the peril of the former. The way to do it is with playgrounds. School's open. As many children as can find seats will please come to order, GOLF AND YEARS. ARK TWAIN’S jest that he was not yet old enough to play golf has suffered several dentings in its time through collision with cold and solid facts of the links. It barely escaped fatal disaster a few*years ago when Bob Gardner, a Yale sophomore of nineteen, captured the amateur title. Within the August just past it was severely bumped by the perform- ances of young Sarazen, a former caddy, of this city. On Saturday the famous joke received what well may prove its finishing blow when Jesse W. Sweetser, a braw lad of twenty, hailing from this metrppolitan district, beat out “Chick” Evans, the redoubtable, in a contest at Brookline, Mass., for the highest amateur honggs of the sport. Evans is by no means gone of the ancients of the game. It is clear from the reports, nevertheless, "that in the Brookline instance it was youth that had its way—youth with grit, nerves of steel, a steady hand and a keenly measuring eye. It is the sharpness of competition, of course, which takes golf out of the class of sports for the senile in which it pleased Mark Twain humorously to place it. Were the links patronized exclusively by elderly gentlemen in search of first aids to livers and digestions, there would be room for the suggestions of the jokesmith, As it happens that there are cups and titles and reputations to win or lose, the royal game becomes one for blood. Hence the value in the play of a circulatory sys- tem young, fresh and eager. It is fortunate, of course, as to the golf which is taken as a remedy or a preservative rather than as a means to achampionship, that no man retain- ing the vestige of an impulse to action can com- plain of not being young enough to play it THE WAY TO STOP THE TALK. RAFT in the Market Department got a sharp jolt Saturday from Supreme Court Justice Cropsey in Brooklyn when he issued an injunction forbidding supervisors or any one else in the de- partment to keep fees collected from pushcart peddlers on the pretense of using the money to pay salaries. ‘ Justice Cropsey holds the City Charter “clearly and unmistakably provides that all fees received by any public officer shall be the propert¢ of the city, and that no officer except City Marshals shall ive to his own use any fees collected.” When the present City Administration tried to get around this with an amended ordinance per- mitting the Market Department to pay “cost of supervision” from fees before turning the balance into the sinking fund, it was, in Justice Cropse: view, “wilfully disregarding” the definite require- ments of the-statute. His decision says: “It 1s absvlutely illegal to pay the supervisors or other employees out of the fees collected. It is not surprising that some people are anxtous to have the presént system continued. These papers show that $600,000 will be collected yearly in these fees from the pushcart peddlers. * * * ; ‘he lawlessness displayed in this matter has not been exceeded since the days of Tweed.” Last week Commissioner Hirshfield was hopeful that a newly created Committee on Market, Per- mits, consisting of himself, Commissioner O'Mal- ley and another, “might stop all this talk of graft in the markets,” Justice Cropsey seems to think the way to stdp the talk is to stop the graft. Most people will agree with him. It looks more and more as if King Constantine of Greece might have leisure to travel again this winter. THE DIGEST'S PROHIBITION POLL. N its current issue the Literary Digest submits its final summary of 922,383 ballots on Na- tion-wide Prohibition. a The result shows 61.4 per cent. in favor of mod- ification or repeal of the present dry laws: “The ‘dampness’ which predominated tn the first 100,000 votes tabulated in tae Digest's poll four weeks ago 1s almost equally noticeable in the final gathering.” Moreover, the Digest notes: “The surprising fact to a good many pub- licists will be that the majority vote (55.3 per cent.) of more than 100,000 representative women is in favor of ‘wetness.’ What becomes of the claim that an overwhelm- ing majority of the women of the country are solidly behind the present Prohibition Law? William J. Bryan is already hastily digging a new trench line to the rear. He now says: » “The word ‘modification’ is a very broad word. What Ietnd of modification do those be- Neve in who favor modification? It may be a modification in manner or method of enforce- ment without any change in alcoholic content,” It’s no use. fooling himself. Modification means the end of the stupid lie that any liquor containing more than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol is intoxicating. The Digest Prohibition poll puts new confi- dence into the cause of sanity, freedom and true temperance. Mr. Bryan might as well stop ACHES AND PAINS Queer things continue to happen To give us coat, Gov. Miller puts W “din, Kemal Pasha seems to have reduced King Constan- tine’s army to a Greece spot. . Fine peaches are plenty around Washington Market at $1 basket, Buy one! . We wish some one would take the big bronse bust of the late Postmaster Pearson out of the dirty corner of the Old Post Office where it is hidden and give the good man’s counterfeit a bit of the light of day. ° We heard a man on the train bragging that he had fifteen tons of coal in his cellar, The plutocrat! e It would be just like the naughty railroad unions to go ahead and make peace without any help from Harry Daugherty. . They say the hardest man in New York to see is Police Commissioner Enright, Well, why should eny- body want te see him? ’ ! ° JOHN KEFTZ. _THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1922. rnor Still inDoubt! ETA ON tiene tine set LUG LEE ITU itl 2 ie heel ast \ By John Cass right, 1922, ening Wortd) ub, Co. 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? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in few words. Tuke time to be brief. Au Appreciative ‘Traveller. To the Editor of The Evening Worl In reply to William A. Roy, who complains about the frigidity of the people of New England, I will say 1 am somewhat of a traveller myself and would like to ask him what he expects when he arrives in a town or city. I have visited all the big cities in five of the New England States, and have nothing but vraise and well wishes for the treatment I have re- celved from the people, viz. on the streets, on the cars, on the trains and boats, and in the hotels. department every now and again as- sures us that the brick really is solid gold. Where do they get this ‘stuff’? about the “benefits of Prohibition? They certainly are not apparent to the everyday wayfarer. It is true, we were promised enough benefits, It was to all but bring the millennium, Now that the benefits have not arrived, they would make them good with talk. Their ‘statistics’? are as mysterious ag visitors from the other world, They seem to have the power “to call spirits from the vasty deep.” They would have us believe crime has enor- mously decreased, yet were our ears ever before so dinned with the reports ma Uice A Ree “ever of crimes as during the past two or Portland, Me., or Boston, 5 three years? Providence, R. I.? They are only a] They point to a few reformed sots, and exult over the bank accounts those former sots have under way. They never point to the next column of the dedger, and call your attention to the offsets. For every reformed sot [ venture to say there is a grave filled by a yictim of Prohibition “whisk in most cases, until “the dark damna. tion of his taking off,” a useful citi- zen. Of course, Prohibitionists will disclaim responsibility for such cases, but if the saloon and “the liquor In- terests” were responsible for the sots, then by the same logic Prohibitton und Prohibitionists are responsible for the victims of vile hooch. “And there is this difference in favor of the saloon: The sot had most of a lifetime to consider mending his ways, the victim of hooch has prok- ably but an hour, and that full of agony. ‘As for the reformed sots and their bank accounts, with the money Pro- hibition is costing the Government it could present each reformed sot with a palace, a yearly income and a ret- tinue of servants, REGINALD FIFE. New York, Sept. 7, 1922. few of the places, 1 have visited. 1 have not been out Middle West, but I have visited all the well known cities of the Eastern States, and have yet to register a kick gbout the reception 1 get. / When 1 visit a city, 1 don't expect to be met by a brass band, or to be presented with the keys of the city by the Mayor, but to see the sights, and I have yet to find a city I would not visit again, Let's hear what others have to say. ARTHUR HELLENDALE. Sept. 8, 1922. A Tardy Opinion, To the Editor of The Evening World Many wecks ago the Attorney Gen- eral called a bubble of tongues to give an optnion on bootlegging on the high seas. Have the drys, having an inside tip on the opinion, secured an injune tion against the opi n, or is the Attorney General waiting until th completion of the Literary Digest's poll to see which will be the popular way to let the cat jump? TEMPER Columbus, O., Sept. 7, 19: The Prohibition Balance Sheet, To the Editor of The Evening World In this morning's paper is a state- ment by Director Day to the effect that the people of New York have ac- cepted the Prohibition yoke and have ceased to fight against it, having come to realize its beneficent results, At the same time eight of its citizens lay dead of wood wlcohol. ‘To-night the number has Increased to twelve—the toll since Monday, In your issue of Sept. 2 a correspondent summarized the benefits of Prohibition as given in N¢ An Injunction on Our Intelligence. "To the Editor ning World; A candidate for admission to the bar once went up for examination and the following colloquy occurred: Judge: What do you know abgut the law Candidate: I've thoroughly studied all of the State Code. Ask me any question on it. Judge: Iw that all you know about the law? an article in the American Review of} Candidate: Yes, that's all I've Reviews. studied, I have heard of a man sefling the] Judge: So then the Legislature Brooklyn Bridge, or some similar] might meet and repeal all you know! structure, but I have never heard of The Judge's phrase probably is the such @ man writing his victim three] psychology of others of the bench years later and assuring him that the|that the Daugherty injunction, as at- bridge is really his. Prohinitionist: |tempted, would really be an injunc- have more nerve he Anti-Saloon common intelligence, ti our se ALBION N, FELLOWS. League sold ns a gold brick a little iy FE New York, Sept. 8 1) over three years ago, and {ts press ~ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TOO SOLID COMFORT. In an earlier day in the history of New York an office asked as to the duties of a very large number of employ in a particular department, said that their jobs were to keep the office chairs from blowing out of the windows. That particular crowd didn’t take their ease much longer, but in every public office (and many private ones) young men are to be found who seem to think their end and aim in life is to be comfortable all the time. Comfort, of course, is a relative term. There are housewives who cannot be comfortable if a speck of dirt is,discernible anywhere on the floors or fur- niture. There are men who cannot be comfortable until every possible bit of work that can be accomplished in a day has been done. The majority of people, however, take their comfort more freely and are not at all particular about how it is obtained so long as they get it. _ The vision of reclining in a hammock on a hot day, taking an occasional sip of a cooling drink and reading an excellent novel, is attractive to everybody. But there are few women who could do that very long if they smelled something boiling over on the stove. No business man could do it if’ he at the same time pictured all his employees taking the same comfort in the office while he was gone. One of the troubles with the world—and there are still a good many—is that a very great number of people arej always taking short cuts to comfort that they haven't earned, The ease that is borrowed from your own busy time or that of your employer composes altogether too large a share of your waking hours. If you are the right sort you will not enjoy it very long at a time. Mr. Kipling says that “when earth’s last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried—we shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it.” . But earth’s last picture is, as yet, not even projected on canvas. And those of us who seek our comfort too often before we have done our share in the work of the present won't get much enjoyment out of it—if we have any under- standing of what too solid comfort to-day is likely to mean to-morrow, Bishop Thomas Langdon Grace the appointment was changed so that he might remain at St. Paul as Bishop- Coadjutor with the right of succession, In 1884 he succeeded to the bishopric and in 1888 became the first Arch- bishop of the See. His liberal views gave him a wide influence and repu- tation both within and without the church, and he came to be looked upon as a leader of the “American"' as distinguished from the ‘Roman’ party in the clergy. He was promin- ently identified with the establishment " of the Catholic University at Wash- rector of the cathedral at St. Paul. ington, with the Catholic total abstin- In 1875 he was appointed Bishop of, ence movement and with the planting Nebraska, but upon the request of of Catholic colonies in the Northwest WHOSE BIRTHDAY? SPPTEMBER 11TH—JOHN IRE- LAND, the famous American Roman Catholic prelate, was born at Burn- church, Ireland, September 11, 1838, He brought to America by his parents when he was eleyen years old, and the family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, After being edu- cated in France for the priesthood, he returned to St. Paul, where he was ordained. Subsequently he became ~ Romances — of Industry _ By Winthrop Biddle. Cerri) by Bebe Pubianing Oo XLW.—CATCHING” ELEPHANTS FOR THE EMPIRE. India is the greatest consumer of elephants in the world, and the Brit ish Government is tho greatest user of elephants in India. The pachy- derms are employed in the transport and construction departments of the army and on Government and private works of many kinds requiring strength and docility combined, Unlike other domestic animals, ele phants are not bred in captivity, i takes an elephant fifteen years of feeding to become of any use as a laborer. So it has been fofind ex- pedient to let the jungle do the feed ing until the elephant 1s fifteen or sixteen years old, especially as an elephant consumes about 200 pounds of fodder a day. The rounding up of elephants for domestication is an interesting process, and it takes the domestic elephant, acting as an ally of man, to make the process work. , A stockaded inclostire called a “keddah'’ is established at a point within or on the edge of the jingle Into this inclosure the herd of wild antmals is driven, with the help of tame elephants, acting either as driv- ers, with muhouts seated on their necks, or as decoys Once within the inclosure, the wild elephants are subdued, partly by hun- ger, partly by the blandishments of tame elephants, and finally by men who.crawl under the tame elephants and attach chains to the feet of the captives In this procesy the tame elephants» display the greatest sagacity and ap- parently carry on the work of trick ing their wild relatives with zest While the tame elephants perform their pertidious offices to their wild kin, their 1 s or drivers le on their heads wrapped in blank to avoid the suspicions of the «& Onve tite hed to « post with chains gest elephat finds it ak, the pachyderms succumb to the limitations of civilization, and their tr for lubor is a comparatively An elephant “green” out of th jungle lias been known to submit to be vunted and driven around the ddah" unaccompanied by a “de- y"' six days after capture One of the tirst performances taught ured elephanty is to hold new!) out a forele ) that the driver can climb to a seat on the head of the anima) Another accomplishment readily acquired vlute’? by raising hs: trunk ure miny persons, chiefly imen, to te saluted: in) India, whether by elephants or by na- tt The number of things that a traine working elephant can do, from pick ink up a pin to lifting a teak log a to! in welght, is amazing: ~ _—— Casting Lots. What the Expression Meant as Used in the Bible. The Roman soldiers did not throw dice at the of Christ Tice, like came into use at a later date. The of questions by lot is one of great ex- pmend- erucifixion playing cards, custom deciding doubtful tent and high antiquity, re ing itself as a sort of appeal to the Almighty, secure from all influence of passion or bias, It also is a sort of divination said to be employed even by the gods themsely » Homer, Iliad, xxii, 299, and Cicero, de Div. i, 34 and Hi, 41, The Hebrew rendered ‘‘lot,”" word goral, always “lots, is probably derived from the root grl which ap pears in Arab words, meaning “stone,’” “stony place," &c,, since the primitive method of casting lots stones were often used. These, marked in seme : . the fold of a garment or more often an urn, helmet or a vessel of some sort., The shaking of the earment or vessel would throw a stone out on the ground, according to which the decision was give Hence thé ex- pression, ‘the lot came forth’? (He brew, came up or out), or fell, Other methods also were emnloved to whidh these same terms would anoly. Casting of lots by pebbles was but one’means of divination employed by the Hebrews, Others, such as the Mphod and the Urim and Thummim, weré used by the divine appointment "The lot was used to determine such cases as the inheritance of the tribes. hence each tribe’s portion was called “the lot of its inheritance.” The courses of the priests and Levites, the scapegoat on the Day of Atone ment; and many other similar things were thus determined. By the same means Achan, Jonathan, and Jonah were discovered, Christ's garmen were divided, and Matthias was des ignated by Him to be the apostle the place of Judas. A mode of diviniation amon, heathens was by means of arrow two inseribed, and one without ma. See Hosea tv., 12, and Ezekiel x ‘As the use of lots by one who bi lieves in the particular providence God involves a solemn appeal to tl Disposer of all events, they shou never be used on trivial occasion' and in our day a case can rarely cur when such,an appeal would warranted r 2 ———_——— From the Wise There are four varieties tn 8} ciety—the lovers, the ambitiow observers and fools, The fools ai the happiest.—Taine. It is not right to call the ma who possesses much riches happy, but the man who is not & grief. —Apollodorus. ‘