The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1922, Page 30

a ae Pe THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1922. . 1ath and F Bits, DETROIT, 521 Ford Bidg. CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bide. PARIS, 47 Avenue de Tones: LONDON, 20 Cockspur St, pron ll OF THE ASSOCIATED an Pry is Cy entitled to se Sita the focal news oie eS arc “EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY.” FTER taking his time about it and with due caution, Mayor Hylan—including, of course, Davy Hirshfield—declared yesterday that inasmuch as the Democratic State platform “con- tains many distinctly progressive planks for which | have fought,” and since the candidates’. “are pledged to carry out the provisions and planks of that platform,” therefore “I will sup- port the ticket nominated on that platform.” To cheer himself up and brighten the day the Mayor then turned to the Police Department and approved Commissioner Enright’s little scheme for adding $400 a year to the salaries of four Police Inspectors by creating four new Deputy Chief Inspectorships for them, also add- ing $500 a year to the pay of fifteen police Cap- tains who have been helping to “keep the force ‘on its toes” as Deputy Inspectors. Plainly there is no raising of municipal sala- ries in merely creating a few new positions at higher salaries. No, indeed! Hizzoner is pledged to permit no salary increases in the 1923 budget. ‘The day before he spoke kindly to Chairman McAneny of the Transit Commission. There is more than one way to pad a salary, support a candidate, accept the inevitable or skin a cat. Every day, in every way, the Mayor gets knowinger and knowinger. ‘an he Graded One thing that's still wine to New York is & World's Series. A SANER MOVING PLAN. HE worst of Moving Day congestion is over for another year. Thanks to the accident of perfect weather the hardship wasn’t so great ‘as it might have been. Furniture was not ruined by rain. The movers did not suffer from cold. Nevertheless, there was an unreasonable burden on the van equipment and the working force. Those who moved paid for this in high rates and indifferent Service. The crush for painting and decorating ‘is so great that the work will have to be done while rooms are occupied instead of be- tween tenancies, » Gas. electric and telephone connections cannot be changed over night and many mbvers are.in- eonvenienced by this fact. All these evils and inconveniences could be mitigated in considerable degree if the landlords would agree on a reasonable programme of spreading lease expirations! This might be done either by classes, according to rent paid, or else by offering the options of September, October or November expirations in each property but requiring termination of about @ne-third of the leases in each of these three months. Ex-King fantine is reported to be con- sidering a trip to New York. We can offer him plenty to divert his mind and buoy his spirits if he'll forgive us for being a little short on Kings to keep him company. PIE AND BEANS. EN Ambassador Harvey cut the first pie of the season at the famous Cheshire Cheese in London the other night he said things about Anglo-American brotherhood that raised more gooseflesh in Washington. Maybe an explanation can be found in ‘the highly unvolsteadian fluids the despatches say washed down the pie. When an American Am- bassador sits down with foreigners abroad to lament the sad plight of his dry countrymen at home, his feelings may easily prove too much for him. Still; it seems passing strange that Col. Harvey ¢an’t even cut a pie without spilling beans. THE FIRST WOMAN SENATOR. I’ IS a curious circumstance that Georgia, the home State of such political misfits as the bate Senator Watson and the present Governor and former Senator Hardwick, should be the first State to be represented in the Senate by a ‘woman—and a woman of recognized ability. Gov. Hardwick seems to have struck on a shrewd political move to further his political fortunes. It is a fair guess that by this appoint- ment he is bidding for feminine support in the primaries two weeks hence, when he will run for Wratt Bldg; nomination, which is equivalent to election to the Senate. The appointment accords with the somewhat conventional picture of Southern chivalry. Mrs Felton will have the pay, perquisites and title of Senator. The Governor has bowed to her with gracefully bended knee,, but the Lady from Georgia is not likely to need to mix with Sen- ators in Washington, She can be a Senator “in the home” or on the hustings for Hardwick. Considering the Senatorial record of Tom Hardwick, it is indeed a pity that Mts. Felton is not appointed for the remainder of the Wat- son term, which expires in 4927. MR. HUGHES'S ANSWER. HE graceless Turks are getting the Harding Administration into more trouble over its foreign policy. Public opinion in the United States that from principle urges American aid for Europe has be- come more insistent. The Turkish menace to Christianity has added a special challenge to special groups. This combined body of opinion already con- spicuously includes churches and bankers—voices the Republican Party has never permitted itself to ignore, The Bankers’ Convention now in session in this city is daily listening to speeches like that of Thomas W. Lamont, reminding it of the weighty responsibility the United States has NOT discharged since the World War. A few days ago Secretary of State Hughes re- ceived from Bishop Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church a.message expressing the con- viction that “Christian America will insist that the Government of the United States co-operate actively. to protect Christians in Asia Minor not only dipiormatically but, if necessary, with the army and navy to secure results.” In a reply assuring Bishop Cannon that proper measures have been taken for the protection of American interests, Secretary Hughes feels it necessary to add: “As you are probably aware, the Executive has no authority to go beyond this, and there has been no action by Congress which would Justify this Government in an attempt by armed forces to pacify the Near East or to engage in acts of war in order to accomplish the results you desire.” * * ©& Are we, in 1922, or later, to have the strange spectacle of the Harding Administration blam- ing Congress for an isolation policy that ties the Administration's hands and keeps it from car- rying out the wish of Americans to help more effectively in averting oversea perils? That would be thé supreme irony in Mr. Har- ding’s painful progress through his: difficulties. As popular protests multiply regarding an American attitude that did nothing toward help- ing to avert the Turkish crisis, the President and his Secretary of State must begin to wonder whether maybe somebody misread that celebrated mandate of 1920. ; Greece seems to be largely dependent just now on absentee statesmanship. APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE. HE chief municipal contribution to the edu- cational features of Fire Prevention Week seems to be an abundance of “Obey the Law” warnings printed in red and issued on the au- thority of Fire Commissioner Drennan. The Fire Laws should be obeyed. It is Com- missioner Drennan’s regular job to see that they are obeyed. Yet we are inclined to believe that inspections and court trials of offenders will con- tribute more to enforcement of the law than all the placards the Commissioner can find space for. » Enforcement of the law ought to continue every week in the year. Fire Prevention Week should rather centre on a special and effective form of appeal to the public. The period should be educational rather than admonitory: The law must be obeyed—of course—but law enforcement alone will not prevent fires, A bet- ter line of attack would be the recommendation of common sense, caution and foresight on the heedless public. In this direction the Subway Sun is doing good educational work, It is reminding passengers of the deaths and damage caused by careless smokers who discard matches, cigars and cigar- ettes, heedless of the possible results. Too bad Tom Lawson of “Frenzied Finance” fame couldn't have financed himself through to a tranquil old age. TWICE OVERS. €€] AM against Prohibition. I am against the saloon, I am_jn favor of the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer under Federal supervision and regulation.” —Goo. Edwards of New Jersey. ern 8 at Beye is one section that I am not going to give any transit to if 1 can help. They gave me only 46 voles in that district. Some high- toned section, I think it is Forest Hills or Kew Gar- dens.” —Mayor Hylan. * 8 « 66] WON'T cole any money to catch boolleggers. Let the Federal Government attend to that business.” —Comptroller Craig. a Sts : shine ne veri 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? * There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction ‘n trying sime to be brief. @ say much in few words, Take “The Man for Governor. To the Editor of The Evening World: Alfred E. Smitn 1s the man for Governor, they say, and he will win the day. Single handed he made a fine race and got the first place. He has been there before and stood square on every score. He can be trusted too—yes, a hundred per cent for the Red, White and Blue. Labor and trade unions should put him through—although the want of beer and light wines has made them blue; but he will attend to that too. Don't forget that Smith is the right man for the place and can fill it with de- eorum and grace. If he is elected railroads will not gét a higher fare, for Smith will always be there to meet them on the square, He stands up for the masses against the classes. That is the reason corporations want to beat him in the coming bout. Miller ts only a tool. Don't be a fool. Keep him out. Take care of that higher carfare if he gets there. JOHN HENRY. New York, Oct. 2, 1922. “Better and Better.” To the Editor of The Eyeaing World: ‘Your article on page in Fri- day's edition, how some ‘French mir- je man" performs sensational cures, attracted my attention -and after reading the article I tried repeating the magic sentences, as he prescribed over and over again. I have suffered with stomach trouble ever since the Spanish-American War, due to sleep- ing in dog tents and eating canned beet. I. have tried all kinds of medicine and cures, but no réief until to-day. The autapaggestion did the trick and, believe m@, I feel as happy as a “wag in a dog's tail." WALTER W. CERVANTIS. Bronx, Oct. 2, 1922. Platform Cr! ‘ism. To the Editor of The Evening World: It is, indeed, a disappointment to a great many of us to learn that our “Al Smith has permitted his name to appear as a candidate on a plat- form which not only includes an unt- Prohibition plank, but indicates that that plank either has not had the conscientious forethought of the framers or was purposely included as bait to the unthinking, or mere polit: cal subterfuge—in either case a brazen reflection on Al." I say this without knowing what his personal opinion may be regard- ing the Prohibition question, although I do know that he is associated with and active in several organizations which have actively or passively in- dorsed the Probibition principles. However, had the framers of this Anti-Prohibition plank given any amount of forethought to the prob- lem, especially from the angle of psy- chology, it could not have been in- cluded, Human nature in a uaa “Ay - people like this is fundamentally re- actionary when there is the slightest reason or excuse. Were the Demo- cratic party successful in putting over 4 modification of the enforcement laws, what would be the result? How long would it be before we have a return of the vile saloons—removal of | which can alone be credited to the Volstead act, if nothing else? Ana how long would a reactionary people be satisfied with half a bite? Given an inch, they’d want a mile~given a mile, they’d want a thousand. Instead of defining the violation as the manufacture, sale or transporting of unlawful liquors, the offense should be the use of them. This may seem contrary to the traditions of free people and the much-abused term “personal liberty,” but practically it would work far more successfully than the present regulations. And aside from ultimately effecting abso- lute Prohibition, it would remove the incentive for bootlegging, the manufacure of poisoned bever- ages and the many other crimes that follow in the wake of the present ad- ministration. When the incentive for the traffic in these unlawful wares is removed prohibition would be quite readily accepted by a tolerant public ‘The fact that liquor may now be had under certain conditions of secrecy and extortion kindles the fires of de- sire more than would any degree of severity in prohibiting the actual use of the forbidden beverages. A. J. SCHNEIDER. For Sweet Variety. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Woman has been getting away with some great stuff around here in the Past few years. Wopmen can do anything, even to murdering their husbands, and get away with it. Woman can wear anything or noth- ing—straw hats in winter and furs in summer, bobbed hair, bobbed socks and bobbed marriages; skirts hi! lo! Jack or game; modesty and morals can go hang. Man 1s hog-tied. All he can change is his “undies or the number of but- tons on his coat or vest. No short trousers or low neck shirts for him. The only style he can change is his delivery of the dough, Now, I suggest and speak right up in meeting and proclaim that we should get brave and bring back the white vest. As all the ancient and honorable bartenders are in Cuba, &c., we could not be called names as we used to be. A fellow nowadays buys one of those hump-backed sults, the kind is ins us dress pretty? This is merely a suggestion. it, brothers! 3.7. R, Brooklyn, Oct. 2, 1922. ‘ ee, DY factories and in the heating pow which men ae ARRAS By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) NECESSITY GAINS ANOTHER VICTORY. Coal shortage in America, due to a strike, made it neces- sary to import British coal. British coal was not suited to American furnaces. For many weeks there was a falling off in efficiency in r of domestic furnaces. A general falling off in efficiency means a loss in money and in production, which together constitute wealth. Scientists in America were called into consultation, and went to work on the problem. The result is that they have now found a method of get- ting more heat out of British coal than even the English people have got. Millions of tons a year will be saved because of the coal strike. In time the cost of the strike will be paid for, simply because necessity gave birth to another invention. The war proved that men can do almost anything that is absolutely necessary to do. Out of its waste have grown many inventions that will add vastly to the wealth of the world in the future. The Germans formely imported nitrates from South America at great expense, When the war cut them off from South America they found a means of getting nitrogen out of the air. They will get all their nitrogen in that way in the future. Evils are never wholly unmixed, Hardships are unpleasant, but they are the best teachers. The world, fond of its ease, jogs along in the same old way till something interferes with its bread and butter. Then ‘it casts about for substitutes and almost always finds them. The necessity that has enabled men to get more heat It was the nece ive and have their being. units from British coal was the same necessity that brought the tractors to the West to take the place of horse power, that sent men into the air to deliver the mails, that, still further back, replaced the old slow sailing ships with vessels that steamed across the ocean in six days. sity of commerce or trade, by both of And it is the necessity of hard work that keeps brain WHOSE BIRTHDAY! ARD HAYES, nineteenth President ot the United States, was born in Dela- O., Oct. Frempnt, O., Jan. 17, 1898. es was graduated from Keny cate vera in 1845 completed the| public credit and to relieve the coun- eourse at the Harvard Law School, Soon after he at Lower Sandusky, but in 1850 re- moved to Cincinnati. 1861 he held office as City Solicitor and in the latter year was commis- sioned as Major in the Civil War He was severely wounded during an en- with plaits in the back, and a fuzzy hat that doesn’t fuzz when It gets wet and a pair of brogans, and thinks he -le, I can't see it, "Why not let was elected to Congress, was Gov- ernor of Ohio from 1867 to 1871, and was elected a third time in 1815. The Republican Party nominated for President exciting campaign both parties claim- ed thg election, Go to mission which decided 4.—RUTHERFORD BIRCH-] hayes, 4, 1822, In 184g] clyil service reform an to practise law From 1859 to mehts.—Bulwer. to the rank of In 1864 he and rose ajor General. I'll not look for wine, Hayes in 1876, end after an To settle the dispute, try from the panic of 1873, eth a a From the Wise We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of mo- cells developed and makes men creatures of thought and progress, instead of easy living, breadfruit eating South Sea savages. Congress appointed an Electoral Com- in favor of Among the important events of Hayes's Administration were the withdrawal of United States troops and died in]from North Carolina and Louisiana, and financial legislation designed to strengthen the Leave but a kiss in the cup and —Ben Johnson. How small is our ‘knowledge in comparison of our ignorance. ~ Baxter, Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg (Ne Tork | Weel vy Prens Publishing RIGHTS OF PEACE AND WAR. “No more war!" The slogun is sounding round the world. Rich and poor, old and young, are shouting the words with the vim of souls that are thoroughly in earnest, Everywhere societies are forming the sole aim and purpose of which i to make war an impossibility in the future. The greatest men and women of the earth are working like beavers day and night to so réorganize humanity that from now on there shall be repetition of the crime of crimex—tl wholesale murder of men on the bat= tlefleld. Now, just as evéry river has its source, every great inspiration has its starting point, and in searching for the beginning of the mighty anti-war sentiment that is to-day swaying the hearts and minds and souls of men everywhere, we find It,in the tmmor- «al book by Hugo Grotlus, “De Jure Belli et Pacis” ("The Rights of P and War"). onal The book was published about the | > time that the Pilgrim Fathers were building their rude shanties along the bleak New England shore, and upon the seminal minds of Europe it made an immediate and ineffaceable im- pression. For the first time the horror and unreasonableness of the war game was revealed, and the forces were aroused that were sooner or later to put the war-god completely obt of business. In a calm, judicial spirft, backed and enthused by a deep sympathy with suffering humanity, Grotius struck the war monster the might} blows from which he was not to re- cover. Inspired by the great Dutchman's book, others—statesmen, jurists, po- litical economists, who had the good of mankind at heart—took up the work and carried it on further towa) the goal, There was no retrogressi no going back from the ideal star set by Grotius, and by and by eame the great work by Bloch, “The Future ¢* War,” the reading of which so {m- pissed the Czar of Russi forthwith proceeded to o peace machinery of The Hague Court of Arbitration. Some are inclined to make Nght of The Hague Court, but they know not what they do. The fact is that that, blessed assembly has taken no ba tracks from the first day of its oF ganization. Inspired by its spirit, cohorts of Peace have been ste advancing from that day to this. When the truth comes out It will he seen that the Kaiser realized that the war game was about on its last legs and that he needed to pull off his mailed fist act then or never, Grotius’s book was not written vain, It started the work that is to continue until the war drum throbs no longer and men are everywhere permanently at peace, | Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. E, St. Amant. } Copyright, 192, (New York Evening World) by Press Pubitshing Co WHAT REFORMERS AIM AT. The New Yogk Telegraph not long ego said editorially: “Bight years ago we heard a good deal about the ‘Invisible Govern- ment.’ At the same time there was mother extra-constitutional power ia the country, not hidden exactly but of low visibility, It was exercised 4 | a group of terrorists who played upo | the fears of Congressmen, And now 7 it is In the open, The International Reform Bureau, which for more than twenty years has been a meddler in the affairs of state at Washington, no longer ‘pussyfoots.' Members of it boldly announce the determination to take over, in part at least che police power and exercise it; to assist in obtaining restrictive legislation, like compulsory Sunday observanc and generally to perform the work which in the primitive state of so- ciety familiar to the fathers was done by designated persons who were held responsible, “To this bureau of reform belong many Senators and Representatives, but its most active agents are zealots who would compe! the suspension of all secular activities on Sunday. Of course, the next step would be en- forced church attendance and pep, haps later on the adoption—by Co! stitutional amendment—of a Sta creed. “The suggestion may cause some of our readers to smile incredulously, but is it an extravagant thought in| the light of recent happenings?” No, the thought is not an extrava- gant one. Here are a few of the many frank declarations made by the blue law reformers. I quote Rey. S. V. Leech, D. D.: “Give us good Sunday laws, wee enforced by men in local authority, and our churches will be full of wor- shippers, and our young men and women will be attracted to thesdivine service. A mighty combination of the churches of the United States could win from Congress, the State Legisla- tures. and municipal councils, all leg- {slation essential to this splendid re- sult." Here are the words of Rev. W. F. Ireland: “We purpose to organize a Sunday Rest League and to erect a guillotine | in the United States, in view of which every politician will recognize the fact that he is destined to political be- headal If he does not gives the legis- lation we demand."* A leading Sunday agitator said: “We propose to Incorporate in our! national Constitution the moral an religious command, ‘In It (Sundays thou shalt do no work,’ except ¢ works of necessity; and by extern forces of Sheriifs we propose to arrest and punish all violators of this law,