The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1922, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULI Published dally except Sunday by. ‘The Meese 1 | pany, ‘BoA Oo Park Rowe New york, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. i J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park SS MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. * . intered at the Post Office at New York as Second Class Matter. Foctage free ta" the Vaivad ‘Satta, cutatde Grenier New Mork: ! \. One. Year Six Months One Month Sloan 55 00 85 1 i MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. etn Sera | NEW FLYING RECORDS. MAZING new records of speed and endur- | ance in aviation were made last Saturday at Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, Mich., in the race for the Pulitzer Trophy. An average of 206 miles an hour, nearly three and a half miles a minute, over the 155.34-mile course was the speed recorded for the winner, Lieut. Russell L. Maughan of the Army Air Ser- vice. To the second in the race, Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, is credited a maximum speed for fifty kilometres of over 216 miles an hour, These are new flying records for the world. Two years ago it was predicted that 175 miles an hour would be the limit of airplane speed. Last month Georges Kirsch in France made a record of 179 miles an hour, and two weeks ago the Frenchman Lecginte achieved an average of 202 miles an hour, The latest Pulitzer Trophy contest has left all other records behind, and the experts are already beginning to talk of 220 miles an hour or better. As a test of men and machines the Pulitzer Trophy race is the supreme try-out for progress | in the science and art of aviation. Army and As Gen. Patrick navy air experts so regard it. said after the race Saturday: “In no way can we determine as readily and as surely just what we need and what we must have in order to play our part in the national | defense. But there is also a limit to speed, Umit? Both record-breakers in this latest try-out were men of the Army Air Service. Speed is essential to military flight. What fs that We can only ascertain by holding test: Both machines were Curtiss army racers.’ { | | Lieut. Maitland have set new standards of which } the army and the whole Nation may be proud. DELAYED. GAIN Congress has authorized the Secretary i of War to decorate an American Army é Officer with the Distinguished Service Medal. Those who read the paragraph announcing the award might have been pardoned for thinking it a little late to be awarding war medals. ‘The war ended nearly four years ago. But Governments are noteriously slow and casual. ‘What, however, is not the way of this case. Lieut. Col. William H. Waldron, who received the decoration, was not rewarded for his share in the Great War. The D. S. M. was awarded for heroism during the Boxer rebellion. For those who have forgotten, the Boxer rebellion occurred in China twenty years ago, And the Government is just now getting around to recognize a brave act. What would the Nation have done if its heroes were as slow to recognize the call of Government as the Govcinment is to recognize heroism? A “MUT” DOG SHQW. HICAGO is to have a new kind'of dog show, an exhibition open to “mongrels,” the dogs without pedigree. Such a show casts no aspersions on the blue- bloods of dogdom. They have their place as things of beauty, as hallmarks of wealth, as good companions and friends of many of their owners. But if the kennel master of the canine heaven ‘ ever calls the roll and gives credit according to love inspired on earth, a great many dogs of high degree will take rank far behind the “muts” ‘of dogdom, Many of those who can,afford blooded dogs cah afford anything else they desire. But the little boy whose kiyoodle is his only treasure knows how to love that humble dog and inspire love in return. The boy can have the dog only because “he isn’t worth anything”—except to his { chum and master. There may be fifty-seven blood strains in his ancestry, and the boy who owns him will admit that he has the good quali- ties of all of them. The “mut” dogs have their place in the scheme of things. We are glad they are to have an oppor- 4 funity to show themselves, ( ry) For many of them orl 00 ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents; by mall 60 cents, BRANOR OFFICES. 1993 Biway, cor. ath.) WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bldg.; 7th Ave. near 14th and F Bta. Gigiel, Therese Bids | DETROIT, 621 Ford Bide. Ae, + 149th Bt, NEBr] CHICAGO, 1608 Mallers Bide. Bio 202 Washington St.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l’Opera. 317 kon a. LONDON, 20 Cpckepur St. { i From the point of view of airplane construc- oe ood i Gta ‘ tion, the technical lessons of the race are certain | . FE BOs THEN ROG UIEY tao W WAY ORE to be of great value. is better than the other, not that the other is As to human skill and staying power in this hese, ed oo One: Aes forward instead gf new science that seems to soar so far beyond the A ‘ ‘i ere? d uggest Oa Ee G ordinary capacities.of man, Lieut. Maughan and | Constructive an not destructive. , There is no denying that the Gubernatorial actually do have most of the beauties their mas- ters see and love. THE PARADOX. LOYD GEORGE'S defense of his policy of 4 mobilizing British force against the Turks, when French force changed its mind, comes down to the old proposition that, put in a nutshell, is this: The more force you present the less you are likely to have to use. Said the British Premier at Manchester Sat- urday: “You can, if you lke, say we threatened. It is always a mistake to threaten unless you mean it, and it is because not merely that we threat- ened but that we meant it and the Turks knew we meant it that you have peace now.” This sets murmuring in our ears an echo. Three years back among other earnest voices the voice of William Howard Taft was lifted on this side of the Atlantic: "It is the minatory, threatening, cautionary effect of the penalties of the League that are expected to work to prevent war. That is the normal operation of the League. That is the reason why we go into it, not to fight wars, but to have the nations understand that if they fight wars, then we do. We fight not for lawless vio- lence or greed of possession, but we fight with lawful force to overcome lawless violence on the same principle that we use the police force in domestic communitle Mr. Taft's country was not with him, It de- cided that, wars or no wars, it was not ready for cautionary co-operation that was going to cost it anything. If the Turkish truce holds and peace seems likely to be established in the Near East, some of Mr. Lloyd George’s countrymen who like him least are nevertheless going to ask themselves whether there is not still something in this idea of minatory force as a preventive of wars even when, as in the Turkish case, trusted partners sheer off and the League of Nations is not in full play. The more you pledge the less you pay. It still sounds too much paradox to be accepted at once as truth. But slowly and in spite of setbacks it makes headway. THE PLAIN HINT. [* the light registration figures, up-State as well as in New York City, is a clear suggestion to both the candidates for Governor. + Read in the light of reason the present indiffer- ence of the voters means something like this: “Cut out the personalities. Stop the mutual Admit that both candidates for campaign has got off to a poor start. The regis- tration figures confirm this. It is time for a change, and the last few speeches by each of the candidates suggest that the fact is getting home. HAMPERED JUSTICE. HE plan to unify investigation of the Hall- Mills murder meets with general approval. A month of “bungling stupidity’—or worse— has not warmed a cold trail. A unified prosecu- tion cannot restore to freshness clues blotted out by bungling. But the new plan should put an end to the scandalous charges of mismanagement in the triple investigations. It should help restore pub- lic confidence in the machinery of the law, and should encourage any one who has information to come forward without fear that the facts might be used in a biased or partisan cause. The cause of justice is not served by the ad- missions that private detectives and lawyers, asso- ciated with one or another interested faction, have evidence the authorities have not seen. A new investigator will have at least one thing in his favor—the certainty that he cannot do worse. ACHES AND PAINS Senator William M. Calder and Luctus N, Littauer appear to be hand and glove with each other? . The Democratic campaign book for 1922 ts out. Price 10 cents. ure. It says the Republican Party ts a fatt- Stale news! . “You must pick yourself like a buttonhole bouquet,” sings Amy Lowell in the current Dial. than lifting yourself by the boot atraps. Looks easier If this thing keeps on, “Al” will eoon yearn to meet “Nate" in a twenty-foot ring. . Bome of the critics say that Margot Asquith used her new book on America to pay her social debts, Thought she alwaye bit her hosts! . Only 1,000 American troops are now on the Rhine. They should soon be married off. . The big Standard Oil watermelon was watered with JOHN KEETZ, gasoline, f > _Some Job Ahead! EXECurive. SORTING 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 in trying t© say much in few words, Take time to be brief. In Connecticut, Too. To the Editor of Tho Evening World: Apropos of the coming election, it might be well to state at this time that any candidate for office, State or governmental, will be absolutely slated for ‘Salt River'’ unless they come out forcefully against Prohi bition as it now stands. Connecticut Democrats have declared themselves in a weak-hearted manner tn their platform for an amendment of the Volstead act. The trouble is that no party or individual seems to care te come out flat-footed in favor of, or against, present conditions. Of course our socialistic brethren will be ready to reap the harvest, but there are some things in the Socialist platform that the average citizen can- not stand for, Prohibition advocates are afraid to put the issue up to the voters, be- cause they know that they would be overwhelmingly defeated. And there's a reason. The promised land of milk and honey has failed to materialize Crime and vice are more in evidence than ever; homes that never before had Hquor around now take pride in passing out a ‘smile’? to visitors (at fisted’ bloodsuckers (enforcement of- ficers) go to work for a living. The writer has been a lifelong Re- publican, but shall not be influenced by any party until we get this thing straightened out and get back to true American normalcy. FRED, G. GEORGE. Meriden, Conn., Oct. 11, 1922. Fake Magazine Solicitors. To the Editor of The Evening World: I am taking the liberty to voice a complaint and inquiry regarding the legitimacy of the proposition of sell- ing magazines by young men and women claiming they get votes for scholarships and all sorts of other humbug, also collecting with order for a subscription. Very few persons ever get the magazines. I.know of a few people who have lost thelr money (I am a victim) in this way and I am almost positive there are thousands of others. Barnum surely said something when he stated ‘There's a sucker born every minute and two to grab him." Isn't there any way that these fakers can be stopped and brought to least a little ‘moonshine’ or home- | justice? C.8.H. brewed beer). Brooklyn, Oct. 18, 1922. Husbands, compelled to pay exor- bitant prices for stimulants, are cut- He Stands on the Flatrerm. ting down their wives’ allowance ac- cordingly. The Government, in losing enormous revenues, has been com- pelled to heavily tax necessities of life. Increases in bank savings are not ax large as should be expected, con sidering the enormous amount of ad vertising done, and heavy deposits of bootlesgers. ‘Thousands of men, in every walk of life, have been ruthlessly murdered by wood alcohol and other poisonous bey erages. The Bible says: ‘Thou shalt not kill.” What will the Puritantcal Prohibitionist say when confronted by the Great Judge? To have placed the poor unfortunates who were hope- lessly addicted to strong drink in a place of refuge would ha been a more humane and inexpensive way, To deny the right of intelligent cit!- zens to buy moderate stimulants when desired is a erime which no law can legalize. The predicted increase in church membership and attendance has not been noticeable, showing that you cannot cut off a man’s head and then try and cure his body. We were to save our boy from the corner saloon; now he rolls in all hours with an unsteady step and sur- reptitiously hides a bottle under the bureau There 1s no question in my mind but what the majority of voters stand for a modification of the present law all we need is real men as leaders New Jersey has one good man in Gov. Edwards, Turn the millions now being spent to enforce Prohibition into useful channels and make (hese ‘'two- To the Editor of The Evening Worl The Democratic platform has a wet plank in It, Are its candidates really wet? Will Dr. Copeland or some of his near friends let us know if he ts in favor of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Ac! The public would like to know im- mediately, so as to be able to talk and then vote conscientiously on this all-important matter Noy. 7. No vote for a dry candidate. TPP. G. New York, Oct. 18, 192: Are They Graduatent To the Editor of The Evening World: J. W. Watson, whose letter you publish in to-day edition, states that he believes that the ‘high schools of New York City are turning out high grade morons exclusively, labelling them ‘stenographers.’ "' Permit me to inform Mr. Watson that about 70 per cent. of the stenog- raphers in New York City are not high school graduates, but graduates of the so-called ‘business colleges."' he majority of them have not even & public school education, so their ignorance is not to be looked upon with astonishment. I have not the slightest doubt that the applicants Mr, Watson refers to are of the latter class. Mr. Watson should verify whether or not his applicants are high school kraduates before making such stan- derous remarks. Ooch 12, 1022, 8, GREENFIELD, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) WHAT IS POVERTY? Go through the tenement districts in any great city. You will see thousands of children. They are not dressed well. They are not clean. The pallor of their faces shows that they do not get the proper food or a sufficient amount of fresh air or sunlight. You call them poor children, and feel sorry for them. But they do not know they are poor and do not feel sorry for themselves. And as long as they do not know they are poor, they are not poor, Some of those children will die, because they are il} fed and left too much exposed to infections, and too ill-eared- for by parents unhappily busy with other smaller children. Some of.them will grow rich and important, And those that do will look back on their tenement days as the hap- piest of their lives, It is difficult to define poverty, as it is difficult to de- fine wealth, We should say that a man whose money makes him suspicious of the world and unfriended and alone is far ‘poorer than the tenement mother who has a husband and children she loves, and a belief that the future is going to bring more prosperity. We should say that an overweening ambition to hold some high office, for which ambition he would sacrifice his friends and his honesty, makes a man poorer than the most ragged child in the tenements. No one could have less of the world’s goods than the Eskimo; less education, or a harder struggle to get the food he needs to sustain life. Yet no one thinks of the Eskimo as poverty stricken. The invalid, rich or indigent, is always poor. So is the mean spirited, jealous man or woman, or the man who has no real friends. Poverty is not merely the lack of money—not even the lack of things that money can provide. It is the lack of the constituents of happiness. The lack is found, while not as often, in the home of the well- to-do; it is found, very frequently indeed, in the stateliest houses that the very rich call homes—not having a more descriptive word for them. pi a ee a ere cae ees WHOSE BIRTHDAY? OCT. 165—NOAH WEBSTER, fa- mous Americam lexicographer, was born at West Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16, 1758, and died May 28, 1843, The The most popular of Webster's smaller books was ‘Webster's Spell- ing Book,"' of which about 000,000 copies were sold. Other works by him include “Dissertations early part of his life was spent on a] 0M the English Language," “Sketches farm, but in 1772 he studied the|0f American Policy,” "The Rights of classics under Nathan Perkins, a min- | Neutrals, ‘The Revolution in France" and “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary and Moral Sub- Jects."" From the Wise Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.—Joseph Roux. Nations and empires flourish and decay, ister, who made it possible for him to enter Yale University two years later. He was determined to study law, and to do so Webster was forced to teach school to pay for his education. In 1789 he established a law office at Hartford, and soon after aided in founding the Commercial Advertiser and the New York Spectator, he made a tour of libraries in of In 1824 Surope to consult preparation compiling a large dictionary dictiohary appeared in 1828, enti “The American Dictionary of the English Language,” the leading for his work By turns command, turn obey. and in their Dryden, Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Moria). by Prose Publishing Oo. THE OPUS MAGUS, Roger Bacon, the English scholastio, crossed the bar 619 years ago, and yet he was so great that his name is still one to conjure with. It was only last year that tht great dailies of the whole Engllsh- speaking world were full of him, s@ virlle and so modern was the man’s work, Born tn Iichester, England, Bacon studied at Oxford and Paris, and hay. ing absorbed all that the schools the day could impart, he turned ta the Spanish Moors for the light he could not find in Christendom, The outstanding authority of the time among scholars was Aristotle, but Bacon paid no more attention té the mighty Stagarite than he did to other alleged authorities. He would accept no man as an “authority”? un+ less the authority was supported by good and suffictent facts and reasons, He threw out to his fellow thinkers a strange slogan for that day: ‘NOT AUTHORITY FOR TRUTH, BUT TRUTH SOR AUTHORITY.” a bold and novel stand for a man of the thirteenth century to take! This intensely modern method of getting at truth was set forth in the “Opus Magus,” a work which man- aged to escape destruction at the hands of the would-be destroyers and to circulate In secret among the fra- ternity of thirteenth century scholars the world over. Its Influence served to keep alive the spirit of truth, and the determina- tion on the part of those who loved it to keep up the search for it; and it that way was maintained the connecs tion between the thinkers of immortal Greece and their successors of the sixteenth and succeeding centuries. Bacon, standing all alone in the ert folding darkness, saw the things that no other man was to see for ages to come. He saw the telescope and thé microscope, the automobile and thé ship that should be independent of the winds and currents! the basic truths of optics, and the possibilities of navigating the air. He actually went so far as to make the plan of a ng machine. He knew about the diferent kinds of alr, declaring that he knew of one that would ‘extinguish flame." He was acquainted with oxygen, and proved by experiment that @ lamp placed within an exhausted re- ceiver would immediately cease to burn. A combination of Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin and Thomas A. Edi- son—profound thinker and fearless investigaton—Racon was the human Pharos of his time. The well-meaning fools of his day put the great man behind the bars arg kept him there for fourteen years, They condemned his writings and did what they could to destroy their in- fluence; but fortunately for humanity they were unable to chain up or para- lyze the mind of the race or to neu~ tralize the effect of the winged thought that Bacon had turned loose among men. Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. 922, ‘New York My ty Presn ‘Publishing Co, PHARISAISM. Drunk with the power vested im them by iniquitous Sunday laws, the blue law advocates are terrorixing many parts of our country. Hight boys caught pitching horses shoes on a vacant lot at University PI a suburb of Lincoln, Meb., om Sunday, were found guilty of violat- Ing the law and fined $5 and costs each in the town Justice Court, This suburb is the seat of Nebraska Wes- leyan University. ‘ Bluo laws are being rigidly em- forcea at Newport News, Va. Elghtys six persons were recently arreste@ there on a single Sunday for working or pleasuring on that day. Following some Sunday work per formed upon a hospital for ox-service men at Oteen C., the Asheville Ministerial Association has threat- ened to expel the Secretary of the Fanning-Quinn Building Company, from the community for refusing to order the Sunday work stopped. ‘The clergy are said to have cnitsted the aid of the Ku Klux Klan, Martin Ryan, an employee of the Baltimore Independent Ice Company, received a request from a sick woman for a sinall piece of ice, Hailing Fldridge Trippe, who was running along the street with his small ex- press wagon, he asked the little fellow to take the ice to the woman, The child did so, upon which both were haled before the Magistrate's Court at Central Police Station, The Magis- trate, though sympathetic, declared that ‘the law would have to take its course, Both victims were punished, History repeats itself, Hear the Word of God nd He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, ‘and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, He called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And He laid His hands on her; and immedt- ately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day “Therefore said some of the Pharle sees, this man is not of God, because He keepeth not the Sabbath day, And therefore did they persecute Jesus, and sought to slay Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day."