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The A ted Pree is exclusively, entitied to the use for repall tion Veo. despatches credited to it or not otherwise ARE Paper aad aloe the local news published hereta NOT WITH DEMAGOGY PLUS DOLLARS. T WAS a smashing defeat for William Randolph Hearst in yesterday's up-State primaries. And the most gratifying thought about that defeat is this: The policies and so-called principles of the Hearst boom were not struggling solely on their alleged merits. They had the aid of all the money, all the in- fluence, all the expert political trickery that could be concentrated on the job of putting Hearst over. Carte blanche is always the word in a Hearst campaign. No Hearst agent could ever alibi him- self with the excuse that the “oil” gave out. * Yet in spite of all this, the Hearst boom found itself stalled in an early blizzard. Even the workingmen failed to recognize their professional “friend.” In Cohoes, for example, where the labor vote predominates, the regular delegates received 1,036 votes, while the Hearst contingent could show only 110. * The hard work of William J. Conners in Erie County went for naught. There the rout of Hearst appears to be complete—the hardest blow of all to Hearst's revived ambitions. * It was a day to the everlasting credit of up- State Democracy. \ Not even labor heeded the call of the million- ajre-demagogue. Kemal Pasha is not yet betting on doubtful gonquest-as against a clever bargain. ANTI-VOLSTEAD PROGRESS. VERRULING the Secretary of State, the Supreme Court of Ohio orders placed upon the ballots for the coming election the question of-an aniendment to the State Constitution. per- pitting ‘the manufacture and sale of light wine and beer. The Secretary had refused to certify the proposed amendment for a vote. Ohio, a mother of Presidents, will thus be per- mitted, unless a Federal order shall interfere, to lead the way along a course forbidden by no less an authority than the Anti-Saloon League. True its determination to Jet no mere body of plain tizens decide for themselves any point con- nected with their freedom of personal habit and - pyivilege, the league has promised to appeal to - the Supreme Court at Washington. As if the outbreak in Ohio of a popular de- mand for a hearing on an issue of popular free- dom were ‘not enough for one day's dismay of " the fanatics, there issues from the Census Bureau what may be the beginning of the end of the gtand old Prohibition argument that the Vol- stead law is emptying the jails. From far Wyoming, first State to report, comes the word that, as compared with the count in July 1, 1917, the returns from State, county ant city prisons showed on July 1, 1922, an increase of 109 inmates—a pretty fair percentage on a grand tatal of 561 prisoners. {f referendum movements and jail statistics keep coming along like these, not even the boot- leggers will be able to furnish visible support to the Volstead idea much longer. No lesson of the Argonaut mine tragedy that makes for greater safety must be lost WHAT IS. MONEY? RIVATE printing presses in Berlin and | eip- zig are to aid the Reichsbank presses in turning out 7,000,000,000 German paper marks per day beginning Oct. 15. An the past six weeks the amount of outstand- ing currency™in circulation in Germany. has jumped from 145,000,000,000 to 290,000,000.000 marks, Yet the shortage of paper money is held to call for a new flood from the printing presses ai the rate of 200,000,000,000 per month ils it to be wondered that even the simplest minds’ in Germany, as already in Austria, begin to ‘ask themselves the question: What is money? Is it 10 be wondered that, despite the orders the Government, peasants begin to reckon Values in butter, eggs and other staples or se- cretly to quote prices in the currencies of neigh- ‘boring states that money is only a medium or measure of values. Make that medium so absurdly elastic that nobody trusts it and you have destroyed its usefulness as money, Mankind didn’t from the stage of barter because of any illusion that a medium of exchange could be made to take the place of true wealth. Men will go back to barter wherever the medium of exchange is rendered grotesquely unfit to do its proper work. Not a million printing presses working night and day under Government orders, with a Gov- ernment fiat on every bill they turned out, could ever change the real nature of money. progress A WISE VETO. RESIDENT HARDING has to his credit a courageous and consistent act in his veto of the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill The message which accompanies the veto can also be commended as a clear and forceful state- ment of the reasons why it has seemed to the Pre€dent, as it has seemed to the greater part of the country, that an additional heavy burden upon “taxpayers for such a purpose would be neither appropriate nor just. The President points out that Congress has in no way met his objection that such a bonus grant should at least provide the means of paying it. On the contrary, he sa “Clearly the bill returned berewith takes cog- nizance of the inability of the Government wise ly to bestow, and says in substance: We do not have the cash. We do not believe in a tax levy fo meet the situation, But here is our promis- sory note, You may have our credit for half its worth, “This is not compensation but rather a pledge by Congress, while the executive branch of the Government is left to provide for payments fall- ing due in ever-increasing amounts.” Equally frank and true in the ears of most Americans, including many service men, is the President's criti ism of the obligation which the Bonus Bill implies: “Though undying gratitude is the meed of every one who served, it is not to be said mate- rial bestowal is an obligation to those who emerged from the great conflict harmed but physically, mentally and spiritually richer for the great experience. If an obligation were to be admitted it would be to charge the adjusted compensation bill with inadequacy and stinginess wholly unbecoming our Republic.” not only un- The plain fact is that the soldier bonus was Another Such Day ? Copyright, 1922, (Now York Bvehing Worldy By Press Pup. Co, Romances Industry By Winthrop Biddle XLV.—ROBERT GRAY’S DIS- COVERY OF AN EMPIRE. . Tn 1788 a group of Boston meré chants sent out two ships, the Wash« ington and the Columbia, to collect soa-otter pelts—an extremely precious commodity—for the Chinese trie along the Northwestern Pacific coast Robert Gray, the commander of the expedition, picked up a carxo-af the costly furs and took It to Chinas But whilo he was about it, he con- celved the suspicion that he ha@ sighted the mouth of the “River of the West,” os it was then called—the magnificent body of water now knowd as the Columbia River. * On his return for another cargo ‘of sea-vtter skins, which at that’ time brought as much as $200 a skin in the Chineso market, Gray decjded*to comm plete his discovery. This is tiow hq records his achievement in a book which has figured in the dipe lomatig history of the United Statess “At four o'clock in the morning of the 11th (1790) behdid the desired port bearing east-southeast, distent six leagues. At eight A. M., bearing @ little to the windward ‘ethe entrance 6f the harver, bore away and ran im ecast-northeast -between the drealg ers, having from fivesto seven fathe oms of water. “When we wero over the ber we found this to be go river of fresh water, up which wo steered, Many canoes camo side. At 2 P.M. came to with 1M bower in ten fathoms; black and white sand, The bore we! mile; entrance betw -southwest, the north side of the *ive ise tant a half mile from the ship; the south side of the half miles distant; a village on the north side of the » west by north, unt three-quarters of a mile. same, two and ay numbers of natives came alongside; people employed pump- ing the salt water out of our water ¢ in order to fill with fres while the ship floated in, So end This entry in the locbook of Robert" . the me ant captain of Tog+ story of the discoyery, of the mouth of the Columbia River. On his Way down the coast, Gray, had been informed by Capt. Vancou- a British nayal officer, that he had searched for the mouth of the Columbla and that the mouth of the “River of the West" did not exist. Consequently, when in a year or two Great Britain and Spain both claimed what is now known as Puget, Sound and its vast hinterland by the t of prior discovery, it was only, ver, not promoted ina spirit of gratitude and appre- ciation, It was promoted chiefly by Congressmen who saw a chance to speculate in a certain class of votes coveted ney November, and to charge the costs of the speculation, to the Nation's tax- payers. Toward averting this national shame President Herding has done his part and done it well. te say much in few words. Take A Hellever in Stale Rights. To tho Editor of ‘The Evening World The Hon, Mr. Ryan by his recent introduction of a plea to oust Mr, Haynes for undue.severity practised Russia will support the Turks “morally. Supposed to be the kind they need most? in the in enforcement of the V New York chi his State and par of hi When we hi tead apens himself, Jcularly the citizens act tate PROJECTED MARRIAGE AT DOORN. ITHOUT doubt there are circles in which the propased second marriage of Wilhelm of Doorn is discussed as a matter of deep moment. There are persons who gravely weigh the pres- ave become so spincless as to permit Congress the regulation of our private of our available ounce of affairs and the writing menus, i that ever everity be m When our own repi is time out to us, ent loneliness and dulness of the ex-Kaiser |{ivos at All ny three years ago against the inexpediency of approving his action [1y sent our beads on a . : (: * Poe. that most astute genth in Marrying again as if it were a question upon [wheeler of Washincwn, they sold us which important future events might turn. out, We lost our status of freemen, i Spat sia A May Lae By what right do men t It is of the nature of imperial aristocracies, liberty of their own peoples when the present fails them, to live obstinately ip | father who s his child is not more , despicable. We s o Albany the past. To remember and hope becomes for citar Pcl ag aes to protect the guilty of this Stte any other State the punish of und not thon We take them a kind: of daily ritual. For the rest of the world it doesn’t matter a remember . A & Tno not of what Jersey rusty nail whether Wilhelm tries to cheer him- [should happen to our New York self up with another wife or not. . thieves, We do not insist that Utah run her savings bunks o Furthermore, we don't med to W ton to make game laws or trafilc rules for this State. If Albany shoul rmit that! Yot thove men, charged and paid by He's a walled-in survival—a sequestrated relic of ill-omened memory, sh Heywood Broun ts right: Read the greater Kipling and it's easy _ an us to regulate by law our conduct p S easy to forget the lesser. toward one another within this State, id cia calmly turn over the regulation of 5 our appetites—that infinitely more ACHES AND PAINS Pacaenelionie (6 ins wlerseat i Tt looks as if any nation can have a@ wav if it wants |and-trankly pre one, the oceans. By t right do they throw us to the y sharks in a i sea between Texas and Maine? Khartoum, te indignant elephunt at the Brone Zoo, Some day Rhode Island will be broke a piece of raitroud iron into three pieces, Great looked up tc head work + |The only y-eight, the smallest a s With sand r stuff to Twenty years is u tong tife for a boss helps in the survival. Vide Murphy! ( thickeskin the hellish the hed by . New Jersey iv celebrated for ils justice, It seems to 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 hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of tisfaction in trying time to be briof. rest of the country agrees with Wheeler and Volstead. Are we fee- ble minded here that we should ask any one outside our State lines to write our conduct shee: Go to it, Haynes! @Kick us into a corner, jump on us and beat us until you get the white blood out and the aps it will bring respect into our some sorry souls and save*us the disgrace 1% of State slavery. enough to bring the humans—then leave. For then—lamentably not untt! then —shall we oust you and your Bigh- teenth Inanity a conduct ourselves. ‘Signs of Prohibition, To the Mditor of The Bvening World While waiting to do business in one nd us hard of outraged of the largest glass and hotel supply houses in the city, I casually said to a floor salesman: “You don’t sell more than a dozen highball’glasses dally, do you?" ie answered No, but we sell more glasses than we ever did and we cannot even fil demand is so great,’’ ‘This is Indeed a sign of Prohibition EDWARD I, LYNCH, 21 whiskey y time the orders, the To the Editor of ‘The Eyentng World As a possible reply to “Taxpayer's? letter entitled = “Other People Money," and to the question, “Where ¢ those millions going * Tam quot- ing a passage from Bryce's “Amer lean € alt" "No n city has, however witnessed scandals approaching thos of New York or Philadelphia, where the public bas been robbed on a vas and accounts have lyg cooked to conceal En 16, 19 the H.S Brooklyn, Sept New Durhamt Pleased to see the h Space to my need a lot of it. of . ling gundy or (he smoky Seoteh | the Supreme Courte ; ry that nb us so terribly, It's the y eulogixe your edi- Taste is a funny thing. New York demands white le outside he Mayor Thinks © that we they th they dyir ) as they do, Irinkk what in New Prohtbitton, by virtue of a law, not eggs and rejects brown ones, It insists on yellow peaches when the white are the better flavored of the two. de have it de we wa . Mullan- Wayne B, annot ” comes The vankers are coming to town 7,000 strong. Ouly 2,000 wives are expected to uvcompany them. Andy Vc n not en if woman ao cold in ibe . as mend every man, Frost is near, JOHN KELTZ, 4 + Vo the ¥ i 1am yery mu j rage \ forty 1 ° newspaper# give so mu Tt isn't the pot of 1 the spark-|friend Justice James C. Cropsey which, and humorously, writes, goes to the point. ’ Really, it ts the own fault for electing Yes while Again,” sarcastically mmon peop! w Durham halls from e my Cats “the orfellest Johnny" Mayor he New Durham, N. Y., wh kill farmer friend says ‘laters growss’ PX-RE Brooklyn, N. Ye ‘ORTER CHI Bi a nn been sys- | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake by Boll Byndter “RUST AND BUST. » Travelling about through Copyright, 1 tourist will observe flimsy sheds. Wherever such machinery is found are neglected build- ings, played-out soil and general poverty. “Rust and bust” is a proverb in general use among such communities. Intelligent farmers know the worth of machinery. They know what it can do to supplant the puny toil of men. “They know that its use means the differen c between or no living at all, and genuine prosperi With the growth of agricultural schools and the increase of the knowlcdge of scientific farming these scrap piles are a bare livi becoming scarcer. But they still exist, and the tust in human brains matches the rust upon the iron and steel that ingenuity has combined into mowers and har- rows and reapers and harvesters, On the average ‘people are prett they are farmers or doctors or lawy Most of them are born wkh abili are extremely useful if they are well employed, and wholly useless if allowed to rust, as they too often are. ent comes into life with a pretty fair The college s equipment of training. He may not have all the knowledge he needs, but he has at least learned where to But that t harrow if he doe soon be worthless to him. Only prodigious musculay labor enables him to get the value out of it. The average ability requires the same care. Kept up, polished and brightened by hard work it will do far more than earn a living, even in the most sterile industrial soul. Allowed to lie idle i thousands of dollars’ machinery rusting into uselessness in the open or under aining will rust as quickly as will a disk not use it constantly and keep it in the condition it was in when he received it. The great genius of Paderewski, allowed to rust, would will soon cease to be of any use, and the owner will be as bankrupt as the owner of the junk piles in the rickety farm buildings, . vssary for the United States to submit Robert Gray's logbook as evidence of prior discovery on the part of chant skipper. Thus it happened that in the pure suit of a commercial end the Boston merchants added a y the map of the United States—te tory on which now stand the flour ishing cities of Seattle, Wash, and of Portland, Ore. _ oo Blue Law Persecution By pr. S. B. St. Amant. Copyright, 1922, (New York Bvestn, World) by Press Publishing Co, communities the worth of farm farming SUBTERFUGE. Abraham Lincoln once delegation received of clergymen, who u upon him the necessity of a certain “civil” measure. He failed to show them, by an oc nal hint, that he recognized the religious nature of the When they, refused to take the hints and persist~ alw ys will exist as long as proposed legislation. ed in calling it “a civil measure only,* he said: “Gentlemen, if you call a calf’s tail a lez, how many legs has that cali?"* legs,’ the preachers replied. rejoined the President, ‘tit has four. Calling his tail a-leg dots: not make it # leg."" This is the whole sum stance of the plea of Sunde yoates. They ask for Sunday closing ordinances upon the representation that they are “only civil regulations’? or “purely temperance measures’ but every schoolboy knows that thls is a pertidious subterfuge. “Sanitary regulations” pretext employed, A few years ago California chureh leaders suddenly became authorities on “sar'tary sci * and manifested a knowled surpassing that of the most lear medical men.® Their proposed “* tary law” would forbid the peddli of milk on Sunday morning later th: 10 o’clock—for, of course, after that # hour the reverend gentlemen expected thelr flocks to be in church. One of these gentlemen, in a burst of eloquence and enthusiasm, forgot much alike, whether ers 2s or talents which and rae sub find it when it $ required. is another BIRTHDAY? ALEXANDER THE Macedon, hilip of » Mace ept ; and died 323 of thirteen he was was born at Pe donin. 20, 356 B,C. h, At the age placed for th struction June years under the tn- ristotle, who becanie his His father permitted lim to share in the government of the ikingdom and gave him military training by permitting his attendance m’seyeral battiefiel 5 devoted friend, twenty Alexander b throne, more th quis n statesmanship and milit skill After levelling the revolting City of Thebes to the ground he became the commanding Gencral of the Grecian that it was to be ‘nothing more than a civil regulation” and exclaimed, “f Intain that the church cannot oy forces and set out to conquer the world. He defeated the Persians, he cvompete with the theatre and s sieged Tyre, defeated Sey ptian: nme and ought not to be expected und took the City of Babylon, thus . jeting the conquest of Persia Phis "ga ill anxious to conquer he pr a ; 5 ssed ation and reved 5 true ob- ever onward into the East, until finally | ject religion by compulsion fig army refused to proceed furt But all this ts nothing new. The int} unknown regions, His troops re- turned to Greece through Baluchistan, while he descended the Indhs, reach- ing Babylon ten years after conquer- ing it, It wus there that he died wile planning A second invas Arabia. The results of A reign have not yet disappeared, Great cities were founded by him and in dustry, manufacture and commerce were Carried into remote ns and Hellenic civilization was established io Perry fourth and fifth cen- turies demanded of the state thas “theatres,” “circuses” and “publie games” be prohibited on Sunday ‘be~ pause they kept the people away from s church," History repeats itself, Reforms and temperance®measures are: commendable and desirable, but the curse of the world is found in the efforts to enact religious laws to pro. fect religious Institut Such legis- is neither cBnetitulional gor clergy in the