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northern passage. For nearly four centuries they have raised high hopes of wealth and. inspired an amount of romance out of proportion to the possibility of realization. Still, a silver salver is something. Sve EGMity watorio, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH. PULITZER. $25, HS MR tee eyo ne Perk ia y, Yor It is more, y PULITZER, President, Wve 4d. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Trensurer, Row. at all events, than rewards most searchers for @, GOGEPH PULITEER, pecrornry, 08 ia eenke buried gold, who ordinarily have only the zest of Boniatn sears hoe, new torn Ouy Remtt by Express} the adventure for their pains. or Open to All.” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922. “Cireulation Books HOW MANY LESSONS? URELY it did not need a Cabinet call to arms over the Turkish crisis to show a Brit- ish Government how few people in England want any more war. It is incredible that any Government in. the Western World should have to make tests at the SUBSCRIPTION RATES. y sge teas Ua tia” slate a 0. Veet BRANOR OFFICES. B'way, cor. a8th.) WASHINGTON, Wratt BMig3] present moment to determine the degree of war i ye pe a ressure in the lar blood mi ‘iio E. 140th Be, wear | DET? P popula . x to But there is something that is being borne in hea ea rere eee a aca Dating alo tte pce. | rn Sere Ss That something is the truth that the plédge of : co-operative férce to be exerted by powerful nations on occasion is the strongest possible guar antee that few such occasions will arise. The greater the certainty that overwhelming force can and will be concentrated against any nation that lets its ambitions run away with it the less the chance that any other individual nation will be called upon actually'to contribute to such force. How many costly lessons are going to be re- quired to prove the real meaning and value of Article X,? ie THE MAYOR'S PUBLIC SERVICE. YOR HYLAN wrote a letter to State Demo- cratic Chairman Pell telling him all about William Randolph Hearst. Probably the letter wasn’t marked “private.” Anyhow it got into the public prints and Mr. * ~ Hearst's American printed the whole of it without |. leaving out a word. It vas a nice long letter abounding in high spots, The highest to which we climbed were these two: ‘he Democratid Party has an imperative duty in$he coming campaign. The eyés of the Nation are on New York. If New York registers a $ progressive victory, the Nation will do so two years hence. If the Democracy fails to furnish @ pogressive leader in New York, the leadership in the Nation will go to some other State.” 1 That's one super-spot. We leap to the other: . “If Mr, Hearst had failed in the battles in, witch he had engaged during the past thirty- fiv@ years, this Nation might not now be a republic.” e ; Putting thertwo together it becomes as clear as day: Fok a man who has done to his country what ie Mr, Hearst has done to it for thirty-five years the only thing left is to become its President. If the State of New York so far forgot itself as to elect Mr. Hearst Governor this year there is,no telling what a dumfounded Nation might be he: devilled into doing in 1924. Mayor Hylan indites. impressively and well, We deserves a public vote of thanks—for the warning, THE ARGONAUT DEAD.° f WAS at best a slender hope that any of the forty-seven miners entombed since Aug. 27 in the Argonaut Mine at Jackson, Cal., would be found alive, The deadly gases appear to have overcome the men within a few hours after the fire trapped them. They were experienced miners. They knew their peril and their only possible means of grap- pling with it. The hastily constructed bulkheads, the cracks stuffed with strips of torn clothing are eloquent records of the quick, brave struggle with which the forty-seven did all they could do. But the gas seeped through and painlessly—perhaps mercifully+—put them beyond the reach of longer suffering and greater horrors. Those who mourn the dead will not forget the living who night and day for three weeks have toiled through earth and solid rock to reach the entombed miners. It was a fine, never-to-be-forgotten attempt at rescue, and there may be some consolation in the fact that greater speed could have done no more for those already beyond help. —————————— ARMOUR ON STRIKES AND PROFITS. y¥ OGDEN ARMOUR has sent to the Babson e Institute Conference at Wellesley Hills, Mass}, a paper in which he declares in effect that the conflict between capital and tabor will last a3 long @s does the effort to take labor or capital out of the list of commodities subject to’ the law of supply and demand, and that strikes and lock- “WHAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY"? To the Wdltor of The Evening Worl: T saw William R. Hearst. if Some years ago there came to New York a young man who resolved to enter the field of jourhalism here. He was the son of a very rich father. The for- Outs gre indeterminate factors, since they show not | tune left by his sire was one of the largest in the who is right, but who for the time being is most world, The young man had lived the lift of wealth - 2 be 3 and ease. He was born with a golden epoon in his powerful. This has been heard before. The vital | snouts, He pever knew want or deprivaiion, His 5 fof Mr. Armour’s statement is reached when s jeder existing conditions, 95 per cent. of feet had never pressed the thorn of poverty. His heart bad never sufteyed the pangs of adversity. He was adrift on the wea of life with a cargo of gold and thd people are made to suffer, mentally, phys feagly and financially, when 6 per cent. engase io Andustrial dispute. Every one agrees that waa looking for come means by which that gold might thg whole public ought not be made to sutter serve him, And so New. Yorkers met him. The young man’s name was William R. Hearst and by {reason of wage earner-employer disputos.” his purchase of the New York Journal commanded sHow exactly trie 1s this declaration we have teshly demonstrated in the course of the : wre over the railroads and the coal mines the attention of the public, always willing to welcome, encourage and applaud enterprise and honest effort. ‘Then began a record of self-seekiig and disregard e, of the rights of others unprecedented in American which are at the moment on the way to what | journalisin. Then was inaugurated a warfare on the many: fear is but a transient settlement. integrity of New York and the characters of men Mr, Armour speaks earnestly to the point that | ‘which has had no parallel {n American history. the rjghts ‘of the public should have precedence over ya rights of minor factions, “be they work- ers or, employers or stockholders.” He urges with all emphasis the principle of unrejected arbitra- Employing the most pliable and serviceable writers, he plunged into politics for tis persona! glorification. tior i the constitution of a tribunal, “of such charakter that its integrity and fairness are be- He wanted power and, questioned ‘not the ‘means yond} question,” with full responsibility and by which it wus tg be gained. In order to attract attention and galn a following, he posed aa a friend ampl¢ powers to settle disputes and to enforce its decisipns, of the masses, The fact that he had nothing in com- Ms Armour is a capitalist. His words, at mon with the masses did not deter him trom assuming, through the efforts of his paid writers, that he waa the one and only friend of the people. EDWARD LICCION®E. , least,{are those of an upholder of economic law. Evenjthe most radical of his critics must agree with his proposition 4s to the division of protits, but fist there must be profits to divide H Sept. 19, 1922. i ‘ne! mM e Di * 3 TT REASURESEEKERS who fr a dade and Betton alethoas ata ke more have been exploring Tobermory Bay, | amnesty? 2 small seaport on the coast of Scotland, to dis- Bs soverithe golden hoard of one of the ships of the ROL AED Tie SERRE See garet re 7Ne StROtSAD Armada buried there have been te- | "22" re SS REO SR at last. Divers are now reported to have it “to. the surface a silver salver, the scab- a sword and a gun bearing Spain's coat- and the royal initials. not much as treasure-trove goes in the 's fancy. But it is enough to-give a new fillip fo’ the ques: for the fabled millions in Span- ish Brooklyn, N. Y., ACHES AND PAINS Iu view of the frequeuey of sez tragedies, would ib not be in order for sume one to start a Nation-wide movement to do away with the frightful affliction called Lover ARMADA SHIP'S SPOILS. : Let's see! Didn't an elephant once wait ten years to get square with a man who gave him a chew of tobacco? How much worse is it to feed peddles in- stead of peanuts? . “In the name of the Prophet, fige# is an old ew clamation. It is reported that 100,000 tons of the fru(t have beon burned ot Smyrna, reputed’ to have been carried by the ° ship of the Armada. The telephone 1,960,000 clients a Greater New York. Too much tatkee-talkce! pe eee pans: ingress of which in all are | pisstorere ave now oaié t0 be earning $18 per doy. the coasts of Scot- What's the wac'of trying to be Nterary? Tha trowel ping to escape by the now claims we in a de mAghtter than the perl! THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929, By Presa, Pub. ce iat wow By John Cassel | From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in 2 couple of hundred? There io fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying @@ way much in few words. Tariff and Texat To the Editor of The Evening World: It Is most refreshing to read the letter of Mr. A. W. Vexas, published in The Evening World of Sept. 16. In it he most successfully refutes the arch fallacy of protectionism, und I believe that could every one grasp and understand the economic principle that ho sets forth, namely that inte:- national trade is an unmixed gain to the whole world, and that everything and anything that tends to prevent it 1s perniciuus—could every one under- stand that principle, tariff walls would crumble and the world would go thiough the firnt stop prerequisite for being saved! For then might it not be understood that all industry, al! effort on the part of mankind toward the production of wealth is of unmixed benefit to all] Pe and that everything and anything that tends to restrict or handicap such |* effort is also a check, a drag and must have a deleteribus effect? ‘Tren would the enlightened s demand the aboliton of the ridiculous system of taxation now in They would demand that the state take for it. needs what it by nature produces— the yearly rental value of the land, Mr, Fexas suggests to one who has béen led astray on his economic jour- ney/that he read "Protection or Free " by Henry George. Let ime that nll who feel the injustice amd see the inadequacy and waste of the present system of taxation and would strive for a complete, judicious change, read "Progress and Poverty,” by Henry George. M. BERGERMAN, New York City, Sept. 15, 1922, vogue! Unnatural Law: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World In to-day's paper E, J. A. writes a characteristic Prohibition letter, add- ing another falsehood to the many told by them. He says that you are unfair because all his letters are not printed. Has he no sense to realize there are hundreds of letters sent every day and only space for three or four? . I wish to back up Mr, John Lynch. The matter of Prohibition was never put directly to the people belonging to the most important States and which compries the greater part of the pop- ulation and wealth, The Iighteenth Amendnmi¢nt was, in a sneaking way, put over by a lot of country bump- kins who can, and do, make all they want for themsaluns amd they repre- Take time to be brief. sent about one person to the square mile. It was passed while the best. of our manhood was abroad fighting for liberty for -others, while these cow- artily sneaks at home were stealing the liberty of the fighters. The so-called Representatives who did the dirty work at the command of the capitalists and church bigots were not deputed to do anything of the kind at the time they were elected! Why all the tale of Mguor? Beer ts not Hquor. ‘ . The Prohibitionists’ campaign has been a tissue of barefaced Hes and they have insultingly spolen of hith- erto lawful citizens as criminals and viclous people. No Government can enforee un- natural laws and it is unnatural for Governments to dictate what one shail eat or drink. They can only punish excesses; those that hurt others, Punish the drunks but do not in- terfere with hitherto law abiding ple, ANTI-PROHIBITIONIST AND AN- TI-DRUNKARD. New York, Sept. 1°, 1922, A Narrowing Field. To,the Wditor of*Tho Tvening World F Laat night's Hyening World ied a few lines to the effect that a vaude- ville mansger has requested that no jokes on the subject of Hollywood may emanate from his entertainers, who, according to receyt press notices, were likewise cautioned by this same manager not to give us one smile on the subject of Prohibition. What is the alternative for an actor who oversteps this ruling? Freedoin of speech ts incorporated in the firet amqndment of our Consti- tution. If we are in for salvation why not be consistently thorough and start with the first amendment, say- ing ourselves homoeopathically? We are Hable.to reach the Eighteenth Amendment by Judgment Day, then the matter may bo automatically set- tled. The aforementioned manager's at- tention is drawn to the fact that many topics made a butt at his theatres might be construed as highly distast«- ful. Marriage, for instance, ts a bul- wark of our Nation and of our various religions; the clergy are working to re. deem us from the evils besetting a lack of reverence for this office. Yet vaudeville constantly pots fun at couples united in wedlocls. Now that Hollywood and Prohibition have been deified in the theatre, the clergy may as well give up their earnest efforts, for the field of humor ‘may soon be #0 narrowed that we shal! have only matrimony left to laugh at, NELL FITZGERALD, New gork City, Sept. 16, 1922, % UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) LENDING TO TO-MORROW. Lyery hour,wasted to-day is borrowed from to-morrow. Every extra hour well employed to-day is loaned to ight, 19 to-morrow. To-morrow is a hard creditor, but it is a reliable bor- rower, . It always pays good interest for every loan made to it. The hundred thousand dollar man—who exists in sur- prisingly large numbers—is. drawing interest on loans like these. He was paid in his youth for the eight hours, or the ten hours, that he spent on his job. But he was not afraid to invest a few more hours in the futu And these hours, like bread cast on the waters, have returned many fold. A friend of the writer's was employed up to the time he was forty years old as an engineer for an important com- pany engaged in the building trade. : His work was purely that of an engineer, and he did it competently and successfully, But he was not content to work for a salary. wanted to own a business of his own, To do that he knew it would be necessary to know more about business methods than his engineer's training had taught him. So he spent his n inquire: Hay, coneern, After a year or two he found a small plant, bought it on credit, and conducted it so successfully that h€ made it a big plant and himself a big man. . ‘To-day he is more than year man, and does not work overly hard any anore. The time that he, loaned to to-morrow is paying about two thousand per cent. interest. It was a pretty fair investment in his ca be in the case of any man who has the pluck to make the sacrifices and the intelligence to make the right sort of loans, ils studying business, and his extra hours in cultivating the acquaintance of important bus men_and asking them questions. Most successful men are glad to talk’ to intelligent They make no secret of their success. ng learned something about business, this man, at a sacrifice of sulary, went into the business end of the same « He 88 hundred thousand dollar a e, as it will From the Wise The way of the world is to pratse dead saints and persecute living ones,—-N. Howe. Love is like the moon, when it does not increase it decreases, —Segur. There are more fools than wise men; and even in wise men, more folly than wisdom,—Chamitort. If there be a paradise for virtucs, there must be a hell for crimes. -—Caussin. Fear is the tay that consctence pays to guilt-—Sewell. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 212.—TOPIC. The words “topic’’ and “place” eom to be widely divergent. But they are, in point of fact, closely re- lated. When you go far enough ba origin. of the ck into word “topto,"" you find in the ancient Greek language, ip the comparative youth of the worldy the noun “typos," which “place.” From “topos” the ancient Greeks ferived the adjective “topikos,” lo- ja), pertaining to a place. Py subject of discussion, ‘conversa- in means Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Ron vy Brose Povliehing Go. ‘FIRST PRINCIPLES.” What Aristotle was to the Philos- ophers and Scientists of the “Grand Period” in Ancient Greece, Herbert Spencer was to those of the eigh- teenth and nineteenth centuries in Burope, + He ts well called the “Modern Aris~ totle.* The illustrious title ts clearly his, only his work was vastly greater than that of the old stagerite, What Spencer did—it was the most herculean task, perhaps, that any man was ever called on to perform—was to co-onlinate the myriad-foid phenom- ena of the evolutionary pr , thus making what John Fiske calls “the widest generalization that has yet been made concerning the concrete universe as a whole. Patiently studying the mighty hier- archy of phenomena from matter up to mind, Spencer, after years of herolc toil, was able to announce to the world the law underlying and deter- mining them. Finding evolution a mere theory, he (Spencer) left it a solid fact, with tts modus operandi explained and veri- fled: For the world of biology in all its phases and ramifications, Spencer did what Newton did for asti®nomy— supplied the key which enabled us to unlock the mystery of the method by which Nature performs her work. Darwin threw out the idea; Spencer proved that the fdca was also a fact, that his great contemporary's theory rested upon the ©edrock of absolute truth. From atar-dust to nebula, from nebula to man, the process is an eyer- ascending one. There is no back: tracking. The apparent devolution {s merely @ temporary pause in tha cvo lution. Upon the whole, in spite of the seeming retrogressions, the march of all things is upward, steadily up ward. “The Fall” was not a fl, but a rise From our first glimpse of man we see him ascending—ever ascend ing, slowly but surely climbing up the “Golden Stairs,” ever leaving some of his ignorance and brutality behind him, ever attaining to a finer and stil! finer humanity, ‘When Darwin launched his idea of evolution churchmen cursed him ané consigned him to perdition; wheu Spencer finished his work the theo- loglans were dumb. They had noth-- ing to say. What could they sa; Facts are not to be downed by abu- sive words. To-day everybody be- lieves in evolution but Mr. Bryan and the Rey. J. C. Nassee. “First Principles’’ did its work completely, and Tiske’s tribute ty Spencer ts fully deserved. Say* Fiske, “Newton and Spencer resemble each other alike in the audacity of speculation which propounds far reaching hypotheses and in the scien tific soberness which patiently ver! fies them. As in grandeur of concep- tion and thoroughness of elaboration so also in the vastness of its conse- quences, in the extent of the revolu- tion which ft is destined to effect In the modes of men's thinking, Spen- cer's book ts on a par with Newton's.” Vanishing American Birds PELICAN ISLAND, FLORIDA. It was President Roosevelt who took a definite step toward the pres ervation of the brown pelican, @ beautiful bird, by setting aside Pell- can Isiand, Fla., as a. bird refuge. The flesh, of the pelican offers no pronounced ‘attractions to the taste af the gastronome. Its chief enemies were the indefatigeble tourists, who took an insane delight tn shooting the bird by the hundred and fn robbing Its negt of the eggs. ‘The! cite of ‘the refuge has been « favorite resort for the pelican for time out of mind, By using the mau- groves too much for the building of their neats, the birds have reduced the growth of those trees that once covered the locality to next to noth- ing. Now they build their nests for the most part on the ground. One of these pelican colonies is ra- produced in the Museum of Nature) History. An interesting detail te the young .ones poking their heads deep into the parental bill to nourish on the regurgitated food. a ess WHOSE BIRTHDAY? SEPT. 19TH—BARON HENRY BROUGHAM, famous English man, was born in Edinburgh, Si land, September 19, , and died inj i France. y 186 ifter completing a course admitted to the bar tn nd was elected to Parliament in 1810. He becumé a fearless ana successtul defender of Queen Carolino in 1820 In the contest with George IV. ‘This, together with his powerful ad- vocation of reforme, made him « great favorite with the people. His opposition to slavery and his advocacy of progress caused the administration to be highly popular and resulted in the passage of the fumous ‘Reform Bill,” in 1882, With the dismissal of the Whig Ministry in 1884, Lis officiat life ended, but he continued an active member of the House of Lords till some time later. He then devoted hiz time to science and literature, pub- lishing “Speeches on Social and Polit - {eal Subjects," Lives of Men of Let ters and, Science,” und “Life and Times of Lord Broughant.”” He wae regarded, next to Canning, the best orator of his time, and was monly referred to aa the English noe- thones. tion or consideration is necessarily localized, brought to a definite place im the infinite variety of thought, > ‘Therefore it tg “topikos,'’ or a topic. (a