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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1988. ‘Fett ais Miler a eee nee oar ‘Months One M¢ a me 2 ¢ 33 Bway, cor. 88th. 3 ‘Ave., ROPINN, 209 Weshington 8. | PARIS ot 90 "Conaper LA" ee Se SR Se hae cee Press is exclustvely, FIND THE RIGHT MEN. ONGRESS passed and the President signed { the Borah Coal Inquiry Bill, which pro- vides for a fact-finding commission to investi- gate the whole coal industry, anthracite and bituminous. If sincerity, expertness and breadth of view can be brought to this job, there may be real hope of rationalizing and stabilizing the great business of mining and distributing coal so that the public shall be less at the mercy of recurring strikes. * It has become plain at last that troubles in the coal industry arise from there being too many mines and too many miners, resulting in inter- mittent employment and erratic production The public might well find itself puzzled over yesterday’s report of a Johnstown, Pa, miner , who drew $291.45 for two weeks’ work of only eight hours each day. Certainty and continuity of work would be economically far better for everybody concerned. The: Evening World has long urged a broad and thorough investigation of ‘the coal industry as the only sound preparation for drastic and permanent readjustments therein. If the fact-finders are the right men for the task, they can make a memorable contribution to industrial stability and progress in the United States. ij : The Turks are reported seizing towns on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. Europe may be satisfactorily settling the Turkish crisis, but there seems to be a little awkwardness in the fact that the Turks don’t know it. AFRAID? HY is the Anti-Saloon League so set against the beer referendum the State Supreme Court ‘has sanctioned in Ohio? We thought the Prohibition Power was <ure of its mandate from the people. The test of a popular vote should hold no dismay for ansor- ganization that speaks and acts constantly in the name of the popular will. It should rather wel- come every such vote as additional confirmation of its claims. The Literary Digest’s Prohibition Poll has shown that 61 per cent. of a representative selec- tion of nearly a million Americans are against present enforcement of the Eighteenth Amend- ment. This has given the impression that pres- ent Prohibition law is not as popular throughout the couritry as has been alleged. We should suppose the Anti-Saloon League would be impatient to remove that impression by the quickest available means. Yet here is the Anti-Saloon League desperately trying to head off a simple 2.75 beer referendum in a Middle Western State whose example should be most valyable for Anti-Saloon League pur- poses. Can it be that Prohibition tyranny has been seized with the trembles? COLLEGE EDUCATION. HERE will be wide comment and much criticism of the speech of President Hop- kins of Dartmouth, in which he declared for restriction and selection in college education, ex- pressing the belief that higher instruction should be reserved for an intellectual aristocracy to pre- vent the country from slipping into mediocrity. The learned gentleman is at the head of an overcrowded institution and so perhaps feels un- duly the pressure of caring for his classes. There cannot be too much college education, if it is of the right kind. The trouble is that most colleges instinctively turn to creating an intellectual aristocracy instead of teaching. on practical Jines that will encourage men to work usefully, instead of living by accomplishments alone. Education, of course, should be more than a utility. It is part of the means acquired by men to understand and enjoy life, but it should’ not be bestowed, as it too often is, in a manner to destroy usefulness. Furthermore, it can be added, students are sent to college. their own volition. too many Not enough go of “Certain business interests” have set a date next month to dine Mayor Hylan and “boost New York.” Why not dine New York and boost Hylan? Hang the expense! : A TARIFF FIELD DAY. THE Fordney-McCumber Tariff, which has been the law:of the land since mid- night Thursday, the London Times says: “We join some of the leading financial experts in the United States in regarding this experi- ment as likely to defeat the object for which it is tried and as contrary to the economic experi- ence of the world.” Likely to defeat also the object of the Repub- lican Party in inflicting it on the country. Plundering Peter to propitiate Paul is at best a ticklish business. In the present tariff it has been done so crudely, so clumsily as to draw public attention as never before to the brazen shamelessness of the deed. ' It is as if Republicans, conscious of the~grow- ing rustinéss of the old tariff gun, had recklessly decided to have a final field day with the ven- erable piece, putting in a charge big enough to blow the Party itself. to pieces. THE WEEK PHANT throwing steel beams at a Sunday crowd in the Bronx. A symbolic affair, for there was the G. 0. P. ELEPHANT, also gone mad, at ‘Washington, throwing an ABOMINABLE TARIFF at the CONSUMERS of a GREAT NATION. Bill signed on an unlucky Thursday. Let us, nevertheless, gather flowers while and where ‘we may. The BONUS BILL is VANISHED under 4 Presidential VETO. News on Monday that only the Stars and Stripes were left, out of a world’s colors, flying over burning SMYRNA, Not much comfort following the flag in that case, A tragedy of the week, forty-seven ENTOMBED MINERS found dead in the ARGONAUT GOLD MINE, California, at the end of an HEROIC QUEST by ‘would-be rescuers. In NEW YORK POLITICS, Tuesday brought tho CRUSHING in the primaries of the fatest HEARST HOPE for a run toward Albany and the Executive Mansion. Still, if you ask Mr. Hylan about it, you will learn that the democracy of a great Common- wealth is ungrateful. Many complexions during the week: to the CRISIS fa the EUROPEAN EAST. British fleet ordered to the Dardanelles. Russia says there can be no new Gibraltar at the Straits. Reported Turkish ultimatum to the Powers to get ont of Thrace. British domin- ions ask LEAGUE OF NATIONS to intervene. Determined to keep heads off the tangle in the Near East, the Harding Administration looks for TROUBLE I OCALLY the week pegan with a WILD ELE- The large-hearted coal dealers announce that we all mécd not worry There will be plenty of fuel this winter, Thought so right along. But wiil there be plenty of money to pay for it? . . The French girl who was jilted because she turned up her nose at Neto York seems to have earned her passage back. The very idea! ° After ali, the Bronx vootlegyers who tied up three policemen were passing kind. have shot the cops. Marder hands would Alas for those who tackle the Denon Rumi Ij he | myname eer at home, and finds it without difficulty in the N. TIONAL BUDGET, The President demands a cutting down of appropriations, yet will call a special session for Nov, 16 to renew his fight for the SHIP SUBSIDY scheme, This is working the ECONOMIC MIND ina MYSTERIOUS WAY, , Announcement at Washington that the British Em- bassy will take up the question of the jurisdiction of the PROHIBITION NAVY in waters outside the three- mile limit. We shall see who laughs lgst, interna- tional law or the ANTI-SALOONATICS. : New COAL PRICES show an increase of ONLY 15 CENTS A TON over the pre-strike rates of last March. That low, throbbing sound from the region of the coal elevators is due to the SOBS of the PROFI- TEERS. Meanwhile, the local HEALTH AUTHORI- ‘TIES say to the RELUCTANT LANDLORDS, if any, that they must GET COAL for the good of their ten- ants, and that REBATES on the RENT will NOT do in place of HEAT. Chorus: “Oh, goody!” In astronomic circles the week's event was the ob- servation in Australia of a TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. The EINSTEIN THEORY is said to have come out of the dark spot UNDAMAGED and still, to the general, as clear as Buclid. Reverting to the field of SPORTS, the week’s ei finds an unexpected thrill in the race for the NA- TIONAL LEAGUE flag, the PIRATES having bucea- necred the GIANTS in two games of the final series. The YANKS still lead the AMERICAN LEAGUE. Tie glory that was SPAIN shines in the victory of MANUEL ALONSO over HOWARD KINSEY in the TENNIS finals at Hoboken on Thursday. ACHES AND PAINS cannot kill by dipsomania he adopts rougher methods. Volstead Commissioner Haynes reports sthat 125 of his men have veen killed and 8,500 wounded. Only fifty bootleggers have been laid low, but this does not count those slain in disputes with each other. Good reasons for not joking about Prohibition! . It's a low cuss who will cheat a turastile. cheating is a perquisite of promoters. ° Railway The balloonist wha felt 1,000 feet ints the Hudson was lucky ia fall, stopping picking out a gost spe Jeishian said, but th sv sudden at ‘the end of it, -JOHN KEETZ, t. Tt is caey to as th wuble cones in s o “THE EVENING WORLD, BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ht, 1922, Evening World) Pub. Oo. _What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred P There is fine menfal exercise end a lot of satisfaction ‘n trying to say much in few words. Take ‘ime to be brief. A Mean ‘To the Lditor of The It avas Jonathan Swift who wrote in “Gulliver's Travels’’: “And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass co grow upon a spot of ground where only one ow before, would deserve better of nkind, and do more essential ser- vice to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.” Has this ever been framed and hun in any legislative assembly? We'd like to find a corner for it in Con- gress. ELECTOR. New York, Sept. 20, 1922, law, for if not many avaricious per- sons would keep their business shops open the seven days, and consequently the honest Jews and Christians would be handicapped. i PATRICK O'NEILL, New York, Sept. 20, 1922. Britain and Ireland. To the Editor of The Evening World: Your editorial, “De Valera Talks,’ is interesting but puzziing. If De Valera really said, ‘'No one has gained by the war, and all have lost by ic,” he repeated a fundamental truth that applies to all wars. For those who struggle for independence and die needlessly sacrifice their lives, as in- deed those who lose theirs in attempt- ing to impose their will upon the former; for inalienable rights should be conceded without bloodshed. I and many other men have the im- pression that De Valera and his fo!- lowers orgagized a republic in Ireland under a referendum unquestionably authorized by the entire nation, und that he and the present antagonists of that republic all swore to support it to-death. None has kept this pledge but De Valera and his supporters. This oath so lightly breached is now to be replaced with another of alli- ance to a foreign country and King whose treatment of Ireland had been one of well-planned, effective and consummate depopulation and obliter- ation. It can be readily admitted that De Valera’s reluctance to break his oath makes him of special value to the British Government, for those who break their pledges will hold all oaths lightly, while those who take them seriously will Keep them, hen money or honors would be too g for Great Britain to heap upon M Valera if he would lead the people ot Ireland’ into a final renunciation of their precious right to a national ex- istence. Death for resistance, honors and money and glory for surrender, It is difficult for an American to understand why any patriot could be expected to ever cease his efforts to secure liberty for his country. If Great Britain should to-morrow declare Ireland free there is ro ques- tion but that the republic would im- mediately function and no other form of government could be established But since Great Britain, hty and powerful and upscrupulous, says it wit not permit'a republic, then 1 Would indicate that he is of a Chris-] take it that America as well as Iro- tian family, can veasonably object to} land must not only accept this flar ie £ but must themselves become enthu As for the religious part of it, every} siastic udvocates against the prin. one Knows that it is « mistake to say] elple of independence and heartily in hat the world was made by God in] prison ov Kill those Irishmen win yyit is day that He rested on the} not take England's word that they venth, ‘tl in the original] getting the best that Enxland bt heavenly days or} ing to let them bave of possibly thor At any rate your edd esting to an American, but, puzzlin MERBERT A. O'BRIEN Jamaica, N. ¥., Sept. 13, 1922, The Day of Rest. To the Editor of The Evening World: Iam unable to understand Why Dr. 8. E. St. Amant is so much opposed to any law that is approved by the Christian and Jewish churches. As for me, 1 hate biue laws as much as any one, but some of the old laws made by the churches, or through their influence, are good, not only for the people's souls, but for their Dodien Now, as to the Sunday law of which the doctor yefers to unde “Blue Law Persecutions,"’ I feel cer- tain that if it were left to a vote of non-church people in the country there would be a great majority in fa- vor of it—-in fact, all except a few cranks or Puritans who believe or pre tend to believe that everything Jewish or Catholic emanates from the devil's brain The law of one day in seven for reat, recreation nd prayer is ap- proved of by the Jewish and Christian 1 One ‘can celebrate it on the ud the other on the last day of the week, and there is no reason whatever why the members of those two old-established churches should not be allowed to do so. I was brought up a Catholic and have always be- lieved as taught by that church that Sunday was a day set apart for pray- ev, rest and wholesome recreation. 1 have gone to church on the first day of the week in the forenoon, played ball nearly all the afternden, attended pers later in the day and enjoyed music and social chats till bedtime, ending the day by a prayer before go- ing to bed One day out of every, seven is little enough, and I cannot see how Dr. St. Amant, especially a man whose name De text probabil A ands of ye 1 dag of rest (iat in tasting should be protected by From Evening World Readers } hat he is a cynic boasts that UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE GREATEST FAULT. One of our readers has asked us a question which we_ need help in answering. ie He wants us to tell him what is the greatest fault a young man can commit. Inasmuch as these are not religious editorials, we pre- sume he is not asking about violations of the Ten Com- mandments, or even ordinary breaches of good morals. It has been fairly well established that thinking people keep the Decalogue sacred and look carefully after their own morals. So we will pass over these matters and ask our readers whether or not they agree with us that the greatest fault a young man can commit—and the greatest fault most young men do commit—is to waste time. That has been our belief through a number of years of close observation. We have seen boys waste money-—and learn to make more money. We know of wealthy men—though their number is com- paratively few—who have wasted money all their lives. We have known men to waste their talents, to throw them away or leave them idle till they become useless and still manage to do pretty well by just hard, average work. But we have never known any one to find an hour he had lost in idlenes: or to regain a minute that had gone abso- lutely to waste. Those who read these articles know as well as we do that this one fault is committed perhaps more than all other faults put together. They see it every time they look about them ir the places where they are employed. They see it every time they travel on a train and note the devices men employ for “killing time.” : They find it in their own homes and in their own lives, for, unless one is accustomed to use every minute for intelli gent work or intelligent play, or even intelligent idlene the time that is given him by Providence in a certain specific quantity slips unused through his tinge We are not going to say in this articl of time may be. Opinions differ as to that. Some men hold that playing chess and bridge and golf waste time. Others contend thatythese give needful mental and physical exercise. But we want very much to hear what our readers think about this and also to know if in their experience they find any fault more dangerous and more sure to wreck happiness and prosperity than tossing ruthlessly aside the time which right use can turn into almost anyhing we desire to turn it into. * WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 214—CYNICAL. person’ who faneifully S just what waste called him ‘kynikos"? a dog) Incidentally the ancient Greeks, in applying the characteristics of a dog to the cynical person, committed a xrave wrong to the dog. For the dog, eated, is neither sneering, areastic nor surly. At any rate, don't pride yoursel ipon being ‘eynie.”” ae (from “kyon,"" The boasts the For orl meaning of the. word. log-like, that is no manifestation of ex Cynies are lernit tau ov turned inside and decked in new plumage out ie so When the Greeks cast apour tor that none will recognize its lean old carcass.—lbsen. n who wa. they warcasc or surly, suserlng, Pac eee TURNING 7°" \GES| E.“W. GodORN Copyright, 1988, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co, A Electric bulbs our homes; The gas ts billed in cubic feet, Electric light in ohms, T NIGHT the gas lamps Wons our street, Rut one Uumination still Ts brighter far®and sweeter ; Tt te not figured in a dill, Nor meaeured by a meter, More bright than lights that money 8, More pleasing to discerners, The shining lamps of Heten’s eves, Those lovely double burnerat bin Christopher Morlyy’s ‘“Chimney- smoke"’ (Doran) we ffqd these fines 80 happily combined of humor and sentiment. Planting a Spar Buoy --- Ever ‘wonder ust how they drop tm the channels of the sea those hitched and floating buoys that are guide- posts to the ships? Francis A. CGol- Uns has seen them do it from the deck of a lighthouse tender, and in “Sentinels Along Our Coast’ (Cen- tury Co.) he describes the act thus: At the word “Go!” a saflor sud- denly pulled sharply on the rope see curing the concrete base to the side of the ship. The knots were eo tied that they instantly fell apart, releasing the six-ton sinker, Thereupon several interesting things happened in quick succession. The weighty concrete sinker felt with a great splash into the sea. As it dropped, the heavy chain suddenly Jerked the end of the great spar sharply downward. The huge log pivoted for a fraction of a second and its upper end flew up In a flash. The next instant it had followed the concrete base with @ resounding splash. ‘The weight reached the bottom tm an instant, and the spar-buoy quickly righted itself and swung , its white sides glistening in sun. The entre operation hed taken less than a second. About as long, we should say, as 19 really took the crew of the good sivtp overboard. The World Seen Small - » « Four little lines by Louis T. Barnes in the Smart Set for October: The goldfish' said: “The\ world is email, I know, because “T’ve seen it ail.’’ We admire particularly the ne- straint of Mr. Barnes, who has put over his quatrain the simple line “The Fish,” instead of “The Poor Fish!"* Undoubtedly the goldfish was “isolation’* American, Fame in the Heart - - .° These lines on a@ real intimacy of fame we borrow from “Songs of Youth’ (Knopf), by Mary Dtsom Thayer: There ts not wealth, nor the acclaim Of multitudes—there is no fame I would not forfeit to one end—- The “Good! I like thist” of a friend, John L, and the Cows +» « In the October Century, John By Williams quotes Wtillam Muldoos ta this story of. training days with Champion John L.: “Sullivan's legs were always bie weakest members; so T gave him all the road work he could stand. Te increase the work I put weighta on his ankles and then made him run cross country, purposely misleading him uphill, down dale until he was exhausted. “But one day he struck. He first roared with rage, and then sat down on the edge of a ditch and ce*wsod to stir. I coaxed, commanded, threatened, but nothing could budge him. “It began to look as ff there was nothing to do but leave him, hunched up, sulking on the road- side, when suddenly Y saw him staring over my shoulder ae {f he saw a ghost behind me. His mouth fell open,- he sprang to his feet, and without a word bolted for the training quarters at top speed. “TI looked around, and there stood three or four long-horned cattl led by a potentlally at the moment la’ The mere sight of them had terri- fled the cit his mighty right counted agafnst ther Well, there you are. There te thw story of how the Boston boy once ram away. But let him who never quickened his own steps through a well-popu- late? pasture cast the first stone at the John L, memory. In Celebration of Divorce + + « On his page in the Illustrated Lon- don News, Mr, Chesterton suns him- self and his humor thus on the topic of a sundered domesticity: Divorce is a thing which the newspapers now not only advertise, but advocate, almost as {f it were a pleasure in itself, It may be, indeed, that all the flowera und fegtivities will now be transferred from the fashionable wedding-to the fushionable divores. A superb iced and frosted di- verce cake will be provided for the fexst, and in military citeles will be cut with the co-resnondent's sword A dazzling display of divorce will be laid out for the jon of the company, watched eclive dressed a8 &n Of- orce guest, Perhaps the old divorce breakfast will be revived anyhow, toasts will be drunk, the guests will assemble on the doorstep to see the husband and wife go off in opposite diree- tlons nd all will go merry as @ diverce court bell Perha G. K. C.’s Greworks may be spared, But as a matter of quieter praise divorcee’s high tea party might range socially as a foil to a bacheloy’s jdarewell supper, Primary to throw the Hearst boom~ & t 4 ‘