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A ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Fults ageny, BSeto Os fate Rom, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secrotary, 63 Park Row. Address ail commonications to THE EVENING WORLD, PoNtser Building, Park Row, New York City. Remit by Express Mone? Order, Draft, Post Office Order of Registered Latter. ‘“Cireulation Books Open to All.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. New Yi Second y Roseage Restate Uilied ‘states, Gutalde’ Greater New” Ope Year Sx Months One Month 810.00 85.00 $35 joo a3 : *4 00 £35 45 i 100 conte; by mall 50 cents. BRANCH OFFICER Wyeth Bide; 1303 B’way, cor. 38th. | WASHINGTON, 7th’ Ave, near |4 14th and F Sta get Bldg. | DETR IIT, 621 Ford Bide. NOE, 1448 Bt BeSr | CHICAGO, 1608 Mallers, Bide. Washington f0.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de lOpers. Rilion oe LONDON, 20 Cockspur 8t. MEMBER OF THT ASSOCIATED PRESS. ted Pres ts exclusively entitled to the uso for republt cation of all news despatches credited vo ft or not ott credited in this paper, and also the local news pu therein. 2 ENFORCE THE TAXI-BONDING LAW T is common knowledge that the Police Depart- ment is winking at the failure of, taxi drivers to secure bonds as required by law The law presents no insuperable difficulty. The police could enforce it in one day if they-got orders to do so. A public warning that Commissioner * Enright means business would virtually turn the trick. An occasional “still alarm” directing traf- fic oflicers to demand license and bonding cards of all taxis passing or parked near them would make evasion dangerous. Such a hold-up of traffic would not need to continue more than a few moments. In one or two other instances it has proved necessary for the State Administration to remind the New York Police Department against con- tinued non-performance of plain duties, Such wainings have proved effective. © Enright knows the Governor has power of re- moval It is time the complacence of the Com- missioner were jarfed again in regard to this par- ticularly flagrant failure to enforce an easily en- forceable law. Murphy {s sald to.be worried and perspiring. Even a boss has moments that affect him like honest work. : GREAT IS FAITH. OMMENTING on Secretary Hughes's official approval of the Allied Governments’ ‘pro- posal to insure the liberty of the Dardanel!cs and protect racial and religious minorities, the es- teemed Evening Post says: “This is next door to participating in the formulation and execution of these policies. Logically, it leads to just such participation, since we cannot with any self-respect stop with the mere indorsement of a policy and refuse to assume any responsibility for seeing that ft is upheld.” This is optimism indeed. We seem to recall that it was the present Admin- istration at Washington that indorsed and put into a separate treaty with Germany everything in the Treaty of Versailles to the advantage of the United States without accepting one iota of re- sponsibility under the latter instrument. Self- respect took care of itself. The faith of the Evening Post\is, however, naive and inspiring. We are inclined to embrace it in the spirit of the old definition of second marriage—hope tri- “ umphing over experience. Henry Curran is writing fiction for the maga- sines. His recent successful opponent who stayed in the City Hall writes and talks fiction for the daily papers. So long as Mr. Curran sticks to the monthiies he cannot hope to equal his rival’s quantity production. IN NEW JERSEY. XPLAINING his victory in the New Jersey 4 primaries, Senator Frelinghuysen took good care to make one point clear. He is quoted: “Mr. Record’s vote, particularly in the out- lying districts, was largely a protest against Probibition. Prohibition will be the principal issue of the forthcoming campaign, but it will not be the only one.” Senator Frelinghuysen’s record as a Prohibi- e tionist is an open book and he stands on that record. Equally clear is the record of his opponent, Gov. Edwards, whose expressed ambition to make New Jérsey “as wet as the Atlantic Ocean” has never been retracted or modified. In New Jersey the forthcoming Senatorial race thould prove a fairly clear referendum on the wet and dry issue. It is a pity that the “principal issue,” as Senator Frelinghuysen sees it, “will not be the only one.” _ BOOTLEGGING HELPS IMMIGRANT SMUGGLING. S a sort of by-product of the Eighteenth » Amendment and the Three Per Cent. Im- migration Law, the public leariis that there is a thriving trade in immigrant smuggling from Cuba to Florida and across the Mexican and Ca- madian boundaries, bs The business of liquor smuggling has provided ready-made machinery for the “bootlegging” of immigrants excluded under the quota laws and for other reasons * The traflic is more likely to grow than to de- THE EVENING WORLD, cline. The successful “bootleg” immigfant will inform his friends of the comparative ease of en- tering far from the regular inspection ports. There is a growing disposition in many quar- ters to regulate and supervise the immigrant. Reports of illegal entries will strengthun such a movement. Immigrants may soon find it neces- sary to register at stated intervals aid report re- movals from one district to another. GULP IT DOWN. HERE was a humiliating reminder for this city in the “keynote” speech with which Elihu Root started off the Republican State Con- vention. Pointing to obstacles put in the way of the Port Authority, Mr. Root said: “There seems in some quarters to be an idea that the peoplo of the City of New York con- stitute a Nation temporarily under subjection to an alien power but entitled to self-determina- tion. “This is an error. The territory which by provisions of the statutes of the State {8 in- cluded within the political limits of the City of New York is a part of the territory of the State of New York und it is » part of the territory of the United States of America, and no other soverelgnty exists within that territory. “The Municipal Government of New York ts purely an agency of the State and {t derives its authority solely from the sovereign State.” The humiliation is not in the plain constitu- tional truths thus stated. The real humiliation is in the circumstances which furnish special reason for rubbing in those truths. lf the City of New York were not under a municipal administration in which demagogy and defiance are the two rampant elements, it would not have to listen to such reminders. If the municipal government had not been turned into an unintelligent, obstructive lump to serve the purposes of William Randolph Hearst and his political tool, Hylan, the five and a half million citizens of Greater New’ York would not have to be told that they must be ruled, for their own good, from Albany. In the presence of great non-political projects like the Port Plan and Transit Relief the city was unlucky. It found itself with a Mayor who could do nothing better than obstruct such projects at the promptings of a millionaire demagogue whose idea of home rule is Hearst rule. The municipal home rule movement will never get anywhere with the backing of a ity admin- istration whose record is one of misrule. . This city, containing half the population of the State, has had and still has the strongest possible claim to protection against the notoriously unjust impositions of up-State legislators who treat it only as a rich tax-yielder. But when the claim for a larger degree of hone rule is urged, it has got to be based on a city government at least competent and broad minded enough to co-operate with State government in undertakings for the benefit of both city and State. The claim can never be successfully presented by a city government that has capitalized blind, wholesale defiance of State authority into a pre- tended political principle. The Hearst-Hylan combination is still itself the knockdown argument against home rule. As long as Greater New York swallows the kind of administration that Hearst and Hylan are now eager to extend over the whole commonwealth, it will have to gulp down also home truths of the unsweetened sort Mr. Root put into his speech, Present facts are too much against the city. It can’t talk back. Miss Mice Carpenter, Director of the Women's Committee of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, says: “What I am afraid of is not that our very conservative movement for wine and beer will fall, but that the indignation which ts rapidly arising among all classes {s going to flood the country and in the end go too far and wipe out all the good which Prohibition has brought.” It wouldn't be the first time in the history of the world that tyrfnny has destroyed true temperateness. ACHES AND PAINS. Australians now hunt kangaroos with the automo- bile. It keops the animal on the jump. . Being King of Greece seems to be a slippery job. . Mr, Hearst proclaims himself as the leader of peo- ple who think, It was Rousseau's theory that people who think have perverted minds. 4 : According to Clifton Johnson, John Burroughs said that Theodore Roosevelt ate enough for three people. As J. B. had a canarydird appetite himself he prob- ably used too small a gauge in making the estimate., . Hope the troubles with Turkey wilt not spoil the oncoming Thankagiving, * Did you lonow there was a tariff of 50 cents each on imported song birds? We mean feathered ones, not the ladies of the opera, e A salamander five feet long, which a local scientist says ts 1,000 years old, has been discovered in a Tokio park lake, That comes from being Nreproef. ' Epoch-Making po BOOKS By Thomas Bragg OWA vy Prose Puvliming Oo THE KORAN. Mohammed was by nature @ man of splendid idealism, and it was set- tled from the start that he was to make a great page of human history, Conditions were ripe for the great work that Iay before him. The Ara- bian religion was in wretched shape, ~ The rank and file of the Arabs were ~ but Httle better than fetish worship- pers, while the upper crust of the © population was honeycombed with unbelief tn everything spiritual. The situation mightily grieved the soul of Mohammed and, absorbed in the subject, he retired to the desert to meditate apon the spiritual desti- tution of his countrymen and the Ways and means of their regeneration. For five years he kept up his re flections, and then he got in toucl with the ‘‘Angel Gabriel,” who gave him the first word of the Koran. It is impossible to say whether Mu-” hammed really believed this or whether it was a trick thet he re sorted to to give him a beter heai ing» but at any rate he proclaimed the new revelation. For twelve years the prophet stead. * ily proclaimed the revelations that had come to him through Gal 1, but the converts increased so slowly that by the year 622 his followers numbered but a ‘‘baker's dozen’’ or sv. ‘The Mecca machino declared tlie Prophet @n outlaw and set a@ price on his head. Starting for Medina, hotly pursued by the infuriated Meccans, the fugitive saved his life by hiding in the Cave of Jhour. But the black-eyed man crouching i the cavern was full of hope and courage. Disaster did not daunt him, and rushing from his Mding place he. eluded the foe and finally arrived safely at Medina. _ ‘4s One year after his escape from tiie | Cave of Jhour, an outlaw with a price on his head, Mohammed, with his handful of followers, met his would he destroyers on the battlefield of Bedy and gave them the beating that cleared the way to victory. ’ There were other battles, but after 7 Bedr the path of Islam was a steadily » ascending one. r The outlaw Prophet lived to see his faith solidly established in his native Arabia, and eighty years after his death the religion of the Koran ruled Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Persia, the norchern part of Africa and Southern Spain. It ts sufe to say that no other bovk ever written can compare with tho Koran in immediate, powerful substantial effect, The story and Its success smack mightily of the miraculous, and up to = the present time the most astounding phenomenon of history ts given us in the 200,000,090 human beings whe bowing dally toward Mecca, swear with uncompromising enthusiasm, * “There is no God but Allah and Mo- * hammed fs his prophet!"* One of the livest things on this earth to-day is the religion that was born of the Koran, It is the most militant of existing faiths, and it ts possible, !f not probable, that the last grim battle for civilization will be between the Cross and the Crescent Govyrighe, 1029 (Now York Evening World) By Preas Pub. Co. is | and 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 P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying @@ ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By Jonn Blake | (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) REPARATIONS AND INDEMNITIES. War is waste. a Fators the Clock Chang the Prohibition Bureau. It is right, To most men it seems needless, futile waste. . nt "9 the Dditor of The kiv World: the State Department or Attorney For years*to come the great nations of the world must 3] «« Wi I have been reading your interest-| General Daugherty notwithstanding. 4 5 hat Did You See continue to pay for a war, the individuals who are taxed for it groaning and complaining because their burdens are heavy and no advantage comes to them in return. Yet these same individuals, or the vast majority of them, have deliberately waged war against themselves in their youth, and are spending middle age and old age paying indemnities and making reparations. Every bad habit indulged in, every excess of drinking, of eating, every hour of laxness is an act of war by a man against’ himself. Every one must be paid for in the future. The youth who keeps late hours, eating and drinking and smoking more than he ought to, may depend that the indemnity ‘will be exacted later, and that it will not be left to any peace conference whether he is going to pay a part or all of it. a) The man who neglects the opportunities that come to him will make reparations by and by in the form of harder work or poverty. . For when we war against ourselves we are warring against nature, and nature always wins that kind of war, and enforces the penalties that are due, without any argu- ment. Man is a complicated creature, consisting of a con-' science and a will, which do not always agree. If the will goes to war against conscience, if it forces him to break laws his conscience knows ought not to be broken, there is going to be trouble by and by, and there is going to be a settlement. The hospitals and peer houses and the jails are full of men who dre making those settlements, and who find that they have no option in the matter, and no chance to pay what they think they can pay. They must either pay in full or drop ont of the game —and that is a thing that very few of us are willing to do. To go far through life, and to travel comfortably, one had best go in peace. It is a brief span at best, and it is an exceedingly bitter thing to spend the later and failing batters, Leal for ie mips yests of it in making indemnities and reparations that cannot one rolchote ri wae en are contronted with an unurcally nee e mitigated or put off. and catching them with tin’ cans. rious condition, Furthermore, the + . TWo seven-year-old boys on selzure, searching and interference their Ienees proposing tharriage to ee ? ” That’s a Fact’? with shipping on the high seas is five-year-old girl . . . A cat fraught with such dangerous interna- mauling a peddler’s toy balloons. By Albert P. Southwick Copyrt cia 1993 (New ing tional possibilities that the whole Pro- A 800-pound man trying to ‘Yok Even! ), by Press Publishing Co. I have noticed articles the past week from Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Anderson, both representing the Anti-Saloon League, questioning the poll of the Literary Digest. Mr. An- derson particularly states thatla very small percentage of the church peo- ple who are backing the league re- cotved poll ining, of course, that the Dt purposely excluded them, Personally I am for temperance by education and have been so all my life, and since the passing of tho Eighteehth Amendment and the Vol- stead law, and’ even before I ever heard of the Anti-Saloon League, holding public meetings outside of the churches supporting it, whereby the people could be educated to its teach- ings, so that it would seem to me that} gas company. I hope daylight sav-| they do not want the rank and’ file ing will continue to be in force next] to know of its doings until they have year. J. F. D, | accomplished their desired ends. Thetr New York City, Sept. 35, 1922. cry that {t was the desire of the people through their representatives that the laws be passed is very true, but how many of these representa- tives ever asked their constituents what they should do? Very few if any. No, they were more afraid of the Anti-Saloon League's power to unseat them than the people at large. ‘Therefore for all the reasons I have stated I am opposed to the work of the Anti-Saloon League, It ts usurp- ing and taking to itself the powers belonging to the Government. A DAILY READER, A Sert Condition, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: With 125 enforcement agents al- ready killed by bootleggers and more than 8,500 wounded us well as a larger number of alcohole deaths than ever ing paper from tho first day {t was ever published and I say it ts great. Daylight saving is just the finest thing we ever had. I am up and have my breakfast and at work at 7 o'clock three mornings every week. The other three mornings I am up at 4 o'clock and have my breakfast and at work at 6, and I go to work happy and come home happy, not like poor “EH. H.,"" who has nervous break- downs, I am sorry for him. I know but few like him. If EH. H." had taken that extra daylight and had gone swimming or for a walk he would not have nervous breakdowns, If it was put to a vote I am sure We would continue to have daylight saving. I think he must work for the To-Day?’’ ® (From “New York Overtones,” by M. Lincoln Shuster, in the © Boston Transcript.) “What Did You See To-Day!’ Thousands end thousands of New Yorkers, “yptebook in hand, have turned citizen reporters and are ex- ploring the haunts and high roads of - the metropolis. i” The Evening World was the first local newspaper to ‘‘make every read- er a newsgatherer.” ‘The plan was launched in a modest way, but it took immediately and soon became a huge metropolitan fad. Imitations and va- riations trailed along, and the idea is now used in other cities, including Boston, In fact, New York has just adopted one Boston feature, for be- ginning next week The Evening World will give away a Ford a dey, for a month, to the amateur reporter contributing the best news feature. Americans Love France. To the Wiltor of The Evening World; All over New York City you can see posters with two flags, the tri- coldr of France and the Unton Jack of the. British. Everywhere, where those posters can be reached by man, I saw the same amazing sentiment. The British flag was lacerated with knives or stones, {t was scratched and was spot- ted with mud. ' Beside the British flag the French flag stood immaculate. It was easy to a not # soul hated the French This scenery can be seen all over New York, when the posters can be reached, It proves that the American people still love France, and that her flag will be the most cherished pen- dant of the American flag in the eternity. PAUL TASSAIN, New Yorle City, Sept. 25, 1922. Here, tt seems to me, is a good clue to the temper of New York. Just | what do New Yorkers see from mo- \ ment to moment, from day to day? ‘What do they think fs news? What does that abstraction—the average New Yorker—find of human, dra- matic significance in the many-h pageant of the city? What trivia are recounted, what commonplaces un- folded? What sights and sounds evoke thrills and tears from the mul-~ titude? A lady walking along Broadway with a little pet lamb, white and woolly, Schoolboys playing cards on the street, . A stree® urchin named Warren Harding keep- ing watch over a pile of coal on the ‘The Usurper. ‘To the Waltor of Evening World: Tt rather puzzles me, of British birth but a naturallzéd citizen of the United States for thirty years, to cb- serve the position assumed by the Anti-Saloon League through its at torney, Mr. Wayne Wheeler, in the matter of the selzure of vessels be yond the three mile mit and makes of little celebrity, who tssued the book about a year after the death of the actor and jester. Mottley died tn 1750. 8 6 The so-called \‘'wondertul year'’ (annus mirabilis) was 1666, noted for the great fire in Landon, the Plague hibition question will probably pro- fit Into a street car seat vacated by a duce more harm than good. ninety-pound woman. , . . On & In so far as it affects the internal Staten Island ferryboat sixty pleces affair» of the Nation it has put into of discarded chewing gum on a floor the hands of the enemies of al! gov- space of six feet by eight feet, ernment an exceedingly hazardous me wonder if it is possible that the and an English victory, ever the]; : + A fleet of whtppet tanks clat- Government has granted to the Anti-|"When @ ary chief, however, js| J°® Miller, who has given his name) Dutch tering sives upper Broadway. ‘ Saloon League and its council per-| charged with the theft of lquor and |to 89 many jokes and jests, was @ e) s-'6 fe girl taking a snapshot of he? doll, using an empty biscuit box for @camera. . , . ‘Thus run the items, hundreds of them, day after day. They are ins best, too, culled from scores of maii- sacks. There {8 no cosmopolitan glamouy to these chronicl They could | printed, for the most pert, in Boss ton or Battle Creek or Portland, © In other words, New York. mission to appear for it as its counnel before all committees and courts, high or low, It would seem so from the activities of Mr. Wayne Wheeler, as mentioned in the papers the past week, that when any seizure occurs outside the three mile limit he at once rushes to the press to say that the United States ts within its rights, treaty or no treaty, aud that other countries must obey the rulings of ‘The mean annual depth of rain that fells at the Equator ts ninety-six inches. comic actor in London, and was in great request among tho tavern fre- quenters“of his day es a reciter of witty remarks. Born in London, in 1684, he died in 1788, and tombstone to his memory stands in the church-|fined gunpowder is 6% tons to the Both the Government and the Pro-|yard of St. Clement Danes, in the} square inch hibitionists have attempted the | Strand. arene achievement of the impossible because 8 ‘Sink ‘serihien the: tir to eunh 04 they cammet lev: the suul of the land| The compiler of ‘Joe M! extent that !t can be made to occupy up in a legal cage. JOHN LYNCH. ' Book" was John Mottley, 5,609 times the space it did before, innumerable ways and means are de- vised to defeat the effectiveness of the Dry Law, then the Government ought to understand that St is better to accept the lesser than the greater of two evils. see The explosive force of close-con- bs they ary typical ty rs Jest playwright \ y