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She EGENLAY Wiorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. %, "he Pet Gas, ER Ra ate sn RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row, THE EVENING WORLD, it by Express Paliteer Building, 1 Ni Meney Order, Draft, Yost Office Order or ‘“Cireulation Books Open to A\ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Retest ofthe, Post Oftice at New York se Seonnd Clase Mester, im the United States, outside Greater New York, BRANCH OFFICES. WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bidg.; 14th and F Ste. 25th St., Hotel Theresa’ Bi ETROIT, 621 Ford Blig. Sb Wid Be nants Bt nese Brae: 1608 Malley Bide BROOKLYN, ‘Washington @t.| PARI8, 47 Avenue pers hod 817 Fultde a LONDON, 20 Cockspur 6% MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. WN, 1808 B'way, cor s8ta. EM: 2002 7th Ave, par calte Ammorlaced Press te, exctustrety, entitled to the use, repabit Of ail news despatches credited to {t or not oth creditec fm this paper, and siso the local news pu A GREAT TEAM. HAT was a big scene Hizzoner and Dutiful Davy Hirshfield had all rehearsed and feady at the Board of Estimate meeting yes- terday. At just the right moment, with drammer in his voice, Hizzoner asked: “What will happen if we do not appropriate money for the pay of these Market Supervisors? Quick on the cue was Davy: \ “It will mean a great victory for the fond profiteers. It will mean that children will be come hungry and hollow-cheeked, that we shall go back to the collection of money for penny lunches. The Food Trust is behind this attack on the supervisors. The Big Interests are be hind these injunction proceedings.” A hush fell upon the audience. It was almost too terrible. Well they knew there were never any mar- kets or any food in New York before the Hylan Administration saw to i Well they knew the Food Trust and the Big Interests would permit nothing but hunger in the city until John F. fixed it so that market super- visors could pay themselves handily out of ped- dlers’ fees. Well they knew that only John F. Hylan— and maybe Davy and a few other faithful— stand in the way of complete destruction of the markets and a general rationing of the populace. It was a harrowing moment. But it was soon over. Hizzoner and Davy did not tremble. shouldn’t the people take heart? Why After a good look at this Fordney-McCumber tariff even seasoned Republicans run amuck. * STAMP IT OUT. S ‘this city ever to see a Sept. 15 when there will be no cause to comment on the inane hoodlumism that takes the form of smashing straw hats? This year it began twd nights ahead of “time” on the east side. There were the usual rowdy assaults upon persons wearing straw hats. Straw- hat bonfires were started. It became necessary to call out police reserves. Seven men were ar- rested, convicted of disorderly conduct and fined in the Men's Night Court. ; Disgusted citizens will heartily applaud Mag- istrate Peter A. Hatting, who promised to send to jail the next men brought to him for break- ing other people's straw hats. Said the Magis- _ trate: ; “It fs against the law to smash a man’s hat, and hehas a right to wear it in a January snow- storm if he wishes. To hit a man’s hat is a simple assault and in this court it will be treated as such. A man’s hat is just as much his property and just as much to be defended as his watch, and the courts are going to en- foree the laws.” In the name of civic order and reason, let the courts and the police do their combined best this year to put an end to this species of idiotic lawlessness. There is no fun in it. It is plain rowdyism. Everybody is sick to death of it. Stamp it out. From the point of view of the striking shop- men, the settlement must seem too ragged and forlorn to deserve a cheer, ‘ HOG-CALLING, T THE farmers’ picnic in Knox County, Ind., to-morrow there will be the annual hog-calling competition. It is, we gather, the sporting event of the year in that part of Hoosierdom. There is training for days in ad- vance in methods of amplifying and throwing the voice; in acquiring and shading musical tones |i is essential that the judges as well as the porkers shall be impressed with the lure of the call We like the announcement of the Knox County eccasion for many reasons, but chiefly because it carries the intimate suggestion of a return to the nature of things, A return, we mean to say, from the ‘contrary practices recently under sur- vey at the gieat capital of the Nation. Out in Indiana it is the hogs that will be called. As things have gone in Washington— we are speaking of things connected with the Fordney-McCumber tariff—the call has too evi- dently come from the other direction. That it has been luring and effective, the schedules not alone on sugar and wool bear testimony. As in the Hoosier instance, so in the other, there has been preliminary training. Indeed, the training for the contest at Washington has been constant through Congressional session after ses- sion ever since protection for the profits’ sake became an established principle for which a Grand Old Party must fight and occasionally die. All kinds of calling methods have been re- hearsed, from shrieks over pauperized labor to mellow hymnal tones in promise of supernormal prosperity, The call specific and the call ad valorem have been practiced in closest harmony. We wish the Indiana event had been a thing of earlier announcement this year. Some of the yodlers who have been heard at Washington might then have gone to Knox County to pick up such fresh modifications of the call as might have shortened materially the tariff sessions. THE TURKISH MENACE. IRE and massacre in Smyrna have produced a situation which the Acting American Com- missioner at Constantinople describes as “ap- palling.” The city is burning, the number of slaughtered is put as high as 2,000, Turkish irregulars are terrorizing the population, fourteen Americans are reported missing and others are being taken to Athens as fast as possible. All this is grim comment on what the conquer- ing Kemal Pasha is reported to have said a few days ago: ; “As you have seen, there have been no mas- sacres or anything approaching serious disor- ders in Smyrna. Such pillaging and killing as have occurred are inevitable. You can say that order has been completely restored from to-day. We don’t wist any acts of revenge.” Turkish ideas of restraint, order and mercy appear to have changed little. But Smyrna is only on the edge of the bigger problem. Here is a victorious Turkish army with an able leader who proclaims that he must have Con- stantinople even if it means fighting Great Brit- ain. Here is an invigorated Turkish power ready to push back into Europe and set the Balkans seething with new fears and ambitions. The danger the post-war treaties failed to avert, the European Allies must now face and deal with. England, France and Italy will -have to call a prompt conference on the Turkish crisis and they will have to let Russia urge her special geographical claims in any seftlement involving the Dardanelles. With flames and massacre—and this time with victory—the Turk again challenges the state- craft of Europe. , “SHEER CRUELTY.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Saya the Agting Chairman of the Transit Commis sion to the Board of Estimate and Reproachment after laying the text of the law, the Rapid Transit Act (Chapter 4 of the Laws of 1891 as amended), under the board’s nose: , “On Sept. 2, 1922, the commission transmitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment the routes and general plan of the Jackson Ave nue, Roebling Street and Bedford Avenue crosstown route in the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. No action has been taken thereon by your board, as required by law. The commis- sion therefore believes it should call the pro- visions of the statute and the fact of non-com- pliance therewith to your attention.” * A truly unimpassioned bit of courtesy to a com- plementary body. But, looking at it through the fortune-teller’s crys- tal, may not one see (though clouded by a haze of ponderous theses from the Corporation Counsel’ writs of mandamus, orders to show cause, findings of contempt of court, habeas corpus proceedings and loud cries that the Interests are again exploiting the Courts to harass the Elected Guardians of the Peo- ple—and an indefinitely postponed crosstown subway for Brooklyn and Queens? Even the Reptile Press should be moved by pity to advocate a change in the law. It is sheer cruelty to require any branch of the present Municipal Admin- istration to begin consideration of any proposed im- provement within ten days and to be prepared to say “yes” or “no” within sixty days. Dz ACHES AND PAINS Prof. Carl Becker of Cornell has recently pub lished an interesting history of the Declaration of In- dependence. It will be news to many that there is such a document. Wonder what would happen in the U. B. A. if some one tried to put in into effect? . A cosmetic sign avers that “a touch of color in the cheeks adds a sparkle to the eyes,” mipht be said, on the way the quired. Much depends, it ‘touch of color” is ac . Pola Negri says that if she ever weds again the man will be an American, She also told the enraptured ship news reporters that she adored Charlie Chaplin He had better begin to hide his face in pie. . / Seven million rubles for a dollar is the latest quote. tion, Seems as if it was about time people were paid for carrying them, . “Peace without victory” seems to be the outcome of the railway strike, But not without price to the rest of the country. . Frank Morrison says there ought to be labor dailies, What could they tell the honest workman that he docs ] not already know? JOHN KEETZ. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1922. Having Served Its Purpose #2» By Joh Cassel n ER gD From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most ri lable? Ien’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 ‘n trying @@ eay much in few words. Take ime to be brief. Tennyson's Viston. To the Editor of The Evening World: Herg is an extract from ‘Locksley Hall,"’ written by Lord Tennyson, who died in 1392 and, consequently, knew nothing about the World War and the League of Nations: For I dipt into the future, human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; far as Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sals, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations’ airy navies grap- pling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro’ the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Feder ation of the world. There the common sense of most shali hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly rth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. Either Lord Tennyson was a fairly good prophet or else the League of Nations was copied after his sugges: tion. In view of his prophecy the ations’ airy navies grappling in the al blue,"’ about which he could have no previous knowledge be- cause of the non-existence of flying machines in his day, it is possible that the League of Nations was thought of without reference to his works, and that the expression ‘‘Federation of the world’? was really proph J. EDWARD Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept as to 12, Protection or Free Tradet To the Editor of The Evening World: Your correspondent, H, J. Davis, referring to the price of Gillette razors made in Germany, laments that goods of this character should be allowed ‘to be sold here, thus, as he claims, caus- ing American labor to go tdle. But, bearing in mind the well known economic fact that trade be- tween nations is nothing more than the exchange of commodities, what reason can there be for refusing to ac- cept the low priced goods of foreign- ers in exchange for the goods that we manufacture here which our protec- tionist friends would have us belleve are of a higher price owing to higher wages? If foreign labor {# so stupid as to give us more value than we give them, why should we refuse their generous offer? If American labor has to give 75 cents worth of its time to construct a Gillette razor, why should it not let the ‘‘stupid’’ German make it while It gives him only 25 cents worth of labor, say in wheat, in return? But the protectionists only see the fact that the American manufacturer ot Gillette razors will go out of bus ness, thus discharging his workers, but falling to note that this same labor would go into more productive fields whose goods the foreigners are too glad to get in exchange for their own, His distorted mind pictures foreigners ‘‘dumping’’ the products of their labor here for American labor to consume and going away empty handed, while American labor, find- ing work superfluous, sits down to feast on them. This would be a rosy state of fairs. But unfortunately it isn’t The foreigner is not going to give goods to us for nothing. Before we can consume any of his goods wr must first create an equal amount for him to consume. The idea, there- fore, that American labor would go idle by the importation of foreign goods is preposterous, the product of lack of understanding of economic fundamentals, If Mr. Davis would like to learn a few things on this subject I would ad- vise him to read “Protection or Free Trade" by Henry George A. W. New York, Sept. 1 1 af- 80. his XAS., We Try to Be Fatr, To the Edjtor of The Evening World: Occasidnally some enr corre- spondent will send a communication to The Evening World which runs true to form. This happened only the other day. As an example this cor- respondent 1s surely wonderful. At the very start, in the customary and stereotyped way, he denounces The Evening World for what he seems to think is unfairness, As an examplar of fair play this splendid evening paper is without a y Everybody ought to know that Because it has seen fit to publish the letters of certain writers is no valid reason for jealousy. And good sense would not direct one to abuse a paper in which he expects to have his ar- ticle prifted. However, did it ever occur to thts individual that perhaps some of his contributions to The Evening World could not find a better resting place than the bottom of an official waste basket? According to his own admis- sion, one of his letters was consigned to the usual repository for wasted energy. Of course, such an action speaks for itself. The Evening World has a perfect right to do as ft pleases, and to say the least, the unworthy correspondent ought to feel thankful to such a news- paper for being as fair to him os tt has been under the clreumstanc JOHN LYNCH Brooklyn, N, ¥., Sept. 18, 1922, ) Pa aa ek dh UNCOMMON SENSE (Copyris! By John Blake . 1922, by Bell Syndicat Ine.) YOUR VOTE. This is a political article, election issues. but it has nothing to do with Those you will perhaps determine for yourself, or de- cide after talking with other people. When your mind is made that the laws of a free country up, you will use your ballot have put into your hand. Whether you get 100 per cent. efficiency out of it de- pends a great deal upon yourself. Most men and women vote, so to speak, with their left hands. For eleven months in every year they give political mat- ters no thought whatever. Then in a month, or perhaps in a week, they try to learn something about one of the most important things in their life—their Government. It cannot be done in that time. It can be done only by an all-year-round study of men and conditions, by a careful reading of the political news in the newspapers and by deep thought about the men who are conducting the Government and how they are conducting it. In the great cities comparatively few voters know the name of their own Congressman till a few weeks before election, when his campaign managers come around and ask them to vote for him for re-election. They do not know who is in the Legislature, or how the members stood on the questions of most immediate import- ance to the people. ‘They do not know—as a rule—what these questions are. Not twenty-five per cent. of the people really know any- thing about the Tariff Bill, which is now one of the most im- portant jobs the Government has to perform. They know in a general way that it involves the raising of revenue by collecting duties countries. on goods imported from other But of what these goods are, and how much duty is to be imposed on each and how that will affect the local market or local manufactures, they know practically nothing. To such people the vote is just a little better than use- less. To well informed people it is of the greatest value. Most of the evils which exist in every Government could be corrected by the vote. But it can never be corrected by voters who only occasionally know whom they are voting for, and why they are voting. “That’sa Fact’’ By Albert P. Southwick CopPTlEN: vB dont Fubliening Co. “Hold hard" ts an expression ‘that originally meant, as It still does tn Ireland, to keep a firm hold with bot hands on the back rail of an Irish founting car, to prevent the rider from being thrown out. eee Watches were invented in Germany in 1477; first used !n astronomical ob- servations in 1500; first used, as in modern times, by the Emperor Charles V., In 1530; 1577. brought to England in tans Coarse woolen cloth was tntroduced into England in 1191; first made there at Kendal, in 1890.9 » oe 8 ‘Tragedy was first acted in Athens, Greece, on a wagon, in B. C. 635. eda ieery A voynge round the world was first made in 1525, nA Silver was first coined at Rome in 269 B. C. ele aia Indigo was first raised in the United States in 1747, ea seee Bread was first made with yeast by the English in 1650, ) The Nations , and Their Music By Augustus Perry Copyriant 1022 (New York Ev vent Publishing Core DENMARK. The people of Denmark are not as musica: as those of the other north- ern countries, Danish music of im- portance dates almost entirely from the nineteenth century. In earlier times, Denmark depended on Italian and German musicians for most of her music. Johan Peter Hartmann (1805-1900) was the founder of Danish nationat music. One of his songs, “King Christian Stood Beside the Mast,” has become the national anthem. It tell: of the beloved King of the Danes, Christian IV, Hartmann’s opera “Lit- tle Christine,"" based on the fairy tale by his countryman, Hans Ander sen, made use of Danish folk-songs In many of his other works, the no. tional flavor is apparent. Hartmann’s music is not familiar to foreign cu .1v- tries. The compositions of his son, Emil Hartmann (1836-1898), are bet- ter known to the outside world, Denmark's best known composer was Niles W. Gade (1817-1890), overture, ‘Echoes of Ossian,” won him a prize from the Musical Union and the friendship of Mendelssohn. King Christian VIII. became tinter- — ested in him and aided him to study abroad. At Leipsic, Mendelssohn helped Gade to produce his first sym- phony. Gade wrote eight symphonies, of which the first 1s the best. In his dramatic cantatas, such as ‘alamus’* and ‘The Erlking's Daughter,” and especially in his orchestral suite Summer Day in the Country,” Gnde made free use of northern folk-song: A Danish song composer of decicle merit was Edward Lassen (1880-1904). His lovely songs are tnternationally known and admired. He was active in other flelds of composition algo, as his operas, “The Captive’ and “Love of Women” and the incidental musta to “Faust’’ prove. The new Danish composers havi striven to give their art a genuinel national character. Thetr composi- tions are based on the old folk-scngs and folklore which deal with love F stories, war tales and fairies. Old Danish folk-music is closely related to the Swedish, as these two countries are similar in language and customs. Celtic tunes are aJs0 like those of the Danes, due, no doubt, to the Danish invasion of Northern Britain, Both in Ireland and Denmark the reel ts a popula dance. The Danish folk-songs ar simple tn style and usually of a gay character. They tell of the sea, the chase and sometimes of love. ‘The usual melancholy of Scandinavian tunes is not so noticeable here. The greatest collection of Danish folk-songs was made by Andreas Berggreen (1801-1880), a noted teacher of Copenhagen. His work was published in 1842 and has since been a valuable source of informagion. Most prominent among living Dan- ish composers is August Enna, born in 1860, Unable to pay for music | lessons in his youth, he taught him- self and once he was obliged to use his manuscripts as fuel. Then some of his compositions attracted the at- tention of Gade, wht helped the young artist. Enna has since become Den- mark's greatest living composer. Hi q opera, “The Little Match Girl," | based on the story of Hans Christiang | Andersen, has been approved in many countries. Many prominent Danish musicians have come to Ameri One of them is Asger Hamertk, born in 1848 In ¥ 1871 he was made Director of the : Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore He has written may operas and symphonies. Another famous visitor was August Hyll€sted, who became oye of the Directors of the Chicago Musical College. 2 (iis ' | j Vanishing American Birds | COBB'S ISLAND. Cobb's Island, Virginia, !s one of the spots where the Association of | Audubon Societies is seeking to save several species of American bids from extinction, It 1s a matter of record that, before this sanctuary, in the establishment of baymen killed 1,200 Least terns this locality, and that on another o casion three other men killed 2,300 | terns in three days—for the market. The result was that the Least terns | ceased to exist there, and it took the | State of Virginia to prevent the ex- termination of the common terns. A stretch of the shell-strewn shore of Cobb's Island, with teeming bird life shown upon It against a back- ground faithfully reproduced from studies on the spot, is an attractive 3 well as instructive feature of the habitat birdgroup in the American Museum of Natural History. But the Least tern, be it noted, has vanished from the locality, thanks to the mar- ket hunters. ———E——EE WHOSE BIRTHDAY? SEPT. 15—JAMES FENIMORF COOPER, the famous American nov- elist, who wrote the unequalled | “Leather Stocking Series,"’ was born, in Burlington, N, J., Sept. 15, 178! and died Sept. 14, 1851, He entered] Yale College when he was thirt ! After remaining there for three ye he entered the Navy, rising to rank of Lieutenant. In 1811 he mar- } ried the daughter of John Peter De Lancey, who wasta Tory, and it is believed that this circumstance caused him to resign from the Navy on the ve of the War of 1812. For a num- ber of years he lived at Cooperstown, N. Y., where he devoted himself to farming and writing. His first novel, “Precaution,” was a failure, but in the same year, 1 he published “The Spy," which secured for him a place in the first rank of novelists, He began the series known as the “Leather Stocking Series" 1n 1828, of which ‘The Pioneers’? was the first to be published. Among the best known are ‘The Red Rover,” “The Pilot," “The Prairte,"" “The Path- finder,"’ "The Deerslayer" and “The | Last of the Mohicans’ a