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_ than Japan. . ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. atte Boa hor,” New vee IR, President, 63 Park Row. a Lee evar SHAW, Treasurer, 62 Park Row. » JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. poole enh h ‘Address all communications ¢ aes (RI bd erieacent Park Row, Ni Books Open ocToR Pulltser ‘Money Order, TUESDAY. el Sad fat RATES. Feo Bea tied ‘as GST, otk, £0, Segand Cate Maree. Greater New ae" “ig oe Ne Moat 3 “5 ‘orld. i (Wuia Aimense for 1922, 85 cents; by mail 60 cents. BRANCH OFFICES. ate R Mee eae | DETR TE Soe deabyed rams mf A eee 2 ‘iso the local news pu A WOMAN'S CLEAR VIEW. RS. NORMAN DE R. WHITEHOUSE in an Evening World interview yesterday told why she is supporting Al Smith for Governor. Some of her reasons seem to grow out of her interest in suffrage and in the policies in which women have been more particularly concerned. One statement, however, dealt with a matter WwMrshould be of first concern to every voter, masculine r feminine. Mrs. Whitehouse said: “If you want a concrete reason why I have come back to this campaign, it is first and foremost Mr. Smith's attitude on the so-called Lusk bills. They were the result of post-war morbidity and hysteria, a reaction from events in Europe. But our leaders ought not to give way to that morbidity, If they do it proves they are not leadér! Gov. Smith vetoed these bills. Gov. Miller signed them. Gov. Miller had power to force their repeal. He did not. This shows the differ- ence in the mental processes of the two men. In going straight to this fundamental issue, Mrs. Whitehouse proved her own claim to political leadership. L TRYING TO SEE WHAT ISN'T. RESIDENT HARDING writes to Mr. Mon- dell and to all and sundry that the record gress is “notable.” And then he fails to do that is expected of party leaders rallying the faithful. # President Harding's letter is “notable” in much the same way—for what was left undone. «But not even in his approval of the Tariff Bill does the President get into a more hopeless mud- die than he does when he attempts to compare our “reconstruction” after the Great War with the era following the Civil War. He seems to feel that this comparison is not pertinent, so he makes a bad matter worse by comparing America’s recon- seeyction problem with those of the other powers in the Great War. There is no fair basis oi comparison. There is no similarity except as our financial situation re- sembled that of Japan. In the covrse of the war the United States became a creditor Nation and mulated a gold supply as did Japan. Natur- ‘ally the United States was in better condition than France, or Great Britain, not to mention Russia, Germany or Austria. The United States to-day is on firmer footing And why? Inflation and a top heavy gold reserve in the two countries led to similar post-war booms. In the United States this was checked by the Federal policy of defla- tion President Harding condemns. In Japan it went unchecked and the final crash was greater. If President Harding'cannot “note” more and better achievements than in the Mondell letter he might better not note at all, He is providing am- munition for the opposition. -> ‘ RECORD UPON RECORD. YING at the rate of four and one-seventh miles a minute is almost ‘too fast for the human mind to grasp at first reading. It takes time to become adjusted to such progress in speed achievement. Last Saturday Lieut. Maughan set a new speed vecord in the race for the Pulitzer trophy. He reported that he lost consciousness on the turns and there was speculation as to whether that mark would not prove a permanent record.* Men wondered whether the improvement in the acro- ~ plane had not surpassed the powers of the human machine. Comes this newer record and the experts now wonder whether there is any limit to the develop- ment of the aeroplane. Isn't it possible that the inventors will further adjust the plane to man’s puny strength? Is there any limit 10 the speed of flight? COOL, QUIGK, HELPFUL. PASSENGER in a swiftly falling elevator "& yesterday cried: “Bend your knees, every- _AS_a result no one was seriously injured by the six-story drop. is a bit of good advice made public in a way to impress it on the minds of many who are daily passengers in elevators. ‘But that isn’t all the lessbn by any means. The passenger who cried the warning knew whereof he 5 ie. 1603 Mallers Bide. venuc do NOpers, ‘ockspur_ THE EVENING WORLD, RRL LLNS OCTOBER 17, 1922, spoke. Better yet, he kept his head so well that he helped those who, were With him. “Bend your knees, everybody,” is good advice to tuck away for a future emergency. Even bet- tér would be the resolution to keep cool, think fast, and make your thinking. effective in any other of the mischances of urban life. If the same passenger had been caught in a subway tie-up, in a panic, in a theatre fire, he would probably have had equally good advice to give and would have given it. Such quick-thinking leaders are valuable assets. Prepare to play that.part if an emergency arises. THE MAYOR REVERTS. HE Mayor's mood has changed. So has the prospect of speedy transit relief For-the sake of defying the “Transit Commis- Mayor Hylan is again ready to block the building of new subways by insisting on munici- pal operation as well as municipal ownership. The Transit Commission maintains that the Mayor’s municipal recapture and _ operation scheme means dismembered systems and doubled fares, Under the sion, law, the authority of the Transit Commission and the granting power of the Estimate both essential to the carrying out of plans for transit relief. Yesterday's ructions in the Board of Estimate, when’ Mayor Hylan and Chairman McAneny faced each other, are an indication, of how little the present City Government cares how long transit relief is deferred provided it can make political capital out of fanting the Transit Com- mission. The Mayor is more cautious, however, regard- ing his byses. Unlike future subways, the buses are now running. If court injunctions ruled them off the streets the public would miss them and blame somebody for their loss. Therefore, the Mayor backs up a little on his buses. - The Board of Estimate grants new per- mits which provide that the bus owner “shall, immediately apply to the Transit Commission for a certificate of convenience and necessity.” Also the Mayor was obviously stung by last week's pointed reminder from Mr. McAneny that “some of these bus lines that have been running for three years under ‘emergency’ permits have not paid a cent to the city.” The Board of Estimate’s new permits specify that 5 per cent. of the gross receipts of each bus operator must be paid into the city treasury. Yet these permits may still fall fotl of the law through ‘their insistence that the bus lines shall continue under the supervision of the Department of Plant and Structures instead of coming under the authority of the Transit Commission. The Mayor gives way only where he is forced in his own immediate interest to give way. He is now full of dark hints as to what he may do later from Albany. t He has rigged himself up ag a slayer of dragons —the hero whose trusty blade shall in the end chop up this terrible, fire-snorting Transit Com- mission, He has become infatuated with the part. Three years—five years—what should the peo- ple of New York City care how many years they have to wait before they see even +a start on a programme of transit relief? Let them forget delay and suffering. Let them watch Siegfried Hylan forging his sword. . money Board of are POLICE DISCRIMINATION. EW YORK is entitled to a little explaining from the police in regard to the arrest of Salvation Army Captain Rheba Crawford on Broadway, Sunday evening. The first reports indicate that technically the police were in the right. But did the circum- stances really call for more than a fair warning to Miss Crawford that she must bring a permit for the next meeting? What is the occasion of this sudden police in- sistence on the letter of the law? ~ We wonder, for example, how many unbonded taxicabs operating in defiance of the bonding law passed the, corner of 46th Street and Broadway that evening while Patrolman Taylor was en- gaged in arresting Capt. Crawford? We wonder why these other lawbreakers fared more easily than the Salvation Army leader? ACHES AND PAINS Nearly all poets wrile free verse, them anything for it. No one wilt pay be Better than “Main Street” is “The Best of the Lot,” by Ruth Suckow, in the November Smart Set, It is 80 true and so cruel that the most hardened realist would wish that it had not been printed. . “1 am determined to remain a virgin.” firmly ree marks Amy Lowell in the October Dial. Thus does matrimony among the muses receive’a further set- vack. * The drop in registration is a drop too much for somebody, * Nearly 20,000 lives were lost last year from snake bites in India and India is not dry at that . Callay, Caillaux, 0 Clemenceau! He chortled in his joy! The hungry heart loves readily. Harding's Ictler to Leader Mondett. JOHN KEETZ, ee 2 See President oF WOODROW WILSON FoR A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS . AS AN AVTOCRATIC ATTEMPT TO (INFLUENCE THE AMERICAN Uy Proms Pub. C World) 0. By John Cassel From Evening World Readers What find of letter do vou fi@d most idable? Isn't it the one that fives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say mugh in a fev words. Take time to b> brief. The Prison-Keform txsae, To the Editor of The Evening World Gov. Miller selects Auburn, the}s home town of Thomas Mott Os- borne, to assail Al Smith's huntam- torian methods in dealing with pris oners, which is a direct slap at the system Mr, Osborne tried to have the prisons of the country adopt. But the Governor's ignorance of that sys- tem is agparent, because there is no such thing as maudlin sentiment ad- yocated by any of the followers of Mr. Osborne's idea. Mr, Osborne saw that the prisons were run at a loss to the taxpayers: and also were failing in the work they were assumed to accomplish—not punishment, as Gov. Miller states (he needs to ‘read up’’ on criminal law), but the reformation of the’ prisoner, Mr. Osborne found all things that should bring this about in prisons lacking and instead he saw graft and waste and officials unfit in tempera- ment and knowledge. He wanted the prisons handled the same as any big business should be handled; he wanted common sense to be used and rules made that could be humanly lived up’ to—the shops to teach mén a useful occupation, schools to be handled oy experiencec teachers, not convicts, as is now in vogue; he had the silent system re- meved because it was unreasonable and against. nature; in short, all he asked was that the men be treated as men and not as wild beasts, and if any were te that they should vo sent to a place that treats the unbal- anced minds and not to prisons fo: the reformation of character. I fail to see where there is any maudlin sentiment involved in such practice. Ang I want to state that ‘Thomas Mott Osborne was sin- cere in his work, He was not being paid for it in gold, because he loves humanity, is a true humanitarian and sien to uplift and help his fellow- FRANK GANTNER, ss York City, Oct. 13, Chareh Unton. To the Efitor of The Evening World In your {ssue of Oct. 11 Miss Josie ‘Thorpe Price expresses gratification at the report of a prospective union of chure! I have sounded hundreds of Protes- tants on this subject and without a single exception they have pboen heaftily in favor of the project. ‘At present there are so many divt- sions in the Protestant faith that there is a church at almost every other corner of this city struggling for Its very existence. On Sundays, in most of those churches,’ the financial statement i read from the pulpit, the minisier !» wailing the fact that there is a det: ciency which must be met with lar contributions, The ministers ave underpaid, half- straved, worried. Gloom pervades whereas they cheerfulness, They are pected by thfe gene pun- lic that when a minister is shown, on the screen, looking like a scarecrow, a merry “ha-ha’ goes up from the audience. When a Catholic prigst is shown there is silence, awe, r It is simply because the Roman Cath- olic Chureh is united, and woe be to the produeer who dares show a priest countenances. on the sereen in a manner which would inyite ridicule, contempt or d2- nsion! Instead of ten starving, heavily mortgaged churches in a district let's have three big, imposing, well-filled and prosperous looking edifices. Peo- ple like to attend churches presided over by well-fed, jolly ministers in- stead of morose, gloomy, joy-killing mollycoddies, Ministers need not worry about losing their jobs. They will all be needed and better paid. GEORGE FAIST JR. Ridgewood, Oct. 12, 1 To the Bditor of The FE: While the demand for buses growing daily the Mayor und the Board of Mstimate are playing cheap politics, thereby subjecting the com- munity to hardship and suffering... Particularly we feel it in Flushing and Whitestone, Queens County. Hundreds of students living in White- stone are deprived of the means of attending Flushing High School for lack of buses. “where is no trolley line leading to Whitestone outside of the L. LR. R. Naturally, the buses are the sole means of transportation, I cannot help shedding tears in writing this let- ter when I think how disgraceful con- ditions are.* I appeal to you to get after Mayor Hylan, who has the sole power and can sway the Board of Estimato to grant temporary franchises to the buses to run at least between Flush- ing and Whitestone, Even the New York and Queens Railway wouldn't object, because it tx not a competing line, Why should we let the Mayor get away with.it? His excuses are ridiculous Chairman MeAneny’s statement in the press is as clear as the day, Get after the ‘champion of the buses.” Give him no rest. You have shown yourself to be dauntless and fearless when occasion demands it. The Mayor's ‘far-fetched millen- nium''gof cit: wwned buses is only be- clouding the issu You can see he is not runnipg for election this is It you want to perform a service to hundreds sehd a staff reporter to sce the condition and ju tor him- self People in our community must have buses at once. The, Mayor alone is vesponsible, He cannot shirk the sponsibility. Flushing, re- Oct, 18, Lead, j UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, by John Blake.) AIURRY BREEDS WORRY. Most hurriers are worriers. . The man who makes frantic effort to get through what he has to do usually doesn’t know how to dd it very well, or he wouldn't be in such a hurry. The consciousness of one’s inability to perform a par- ticular duty always inspires untasiness and lack of confi- dence. That means anhappiness, and loss of sleep, and too much thought about holding about the future. It is necessary, accomplished in the a job, and too much doubt, in order to get anything particular short span of years we have on this earth, to work not only well but rapidly. But working rapidly does not mean hurrying. In fact, the more one hurries the less rapidly he works. Speed in the performance of any task can only result from exact knowledge 6f what to do, and how it is to be done. The office gallopers who thrust chairs aside and col- lide with office boys in their mad rush to “get things dohe” are always the most inefficient men about the place. The men who do not work until their work is planned, and then take up each task in order, are the really fast workers, and the men who get the promotions when they are being passed around. Worry becomes in time actual poisons in the system. a deadly disease. It breeds One of the worst maladies that people fall victim to is believed by eminent physicians to be a direct result of it. hat is what kills most of the men whose deaths and breakdowns are ascribed to overwork, In any factory where there are piece workers you will find that their fast operators do not seem to be working as fast as their slower companions. The difference is that they waste no motions. And this is true of brain workers who waste no thought that does not bear directly on what they are doing. Hurry does nothing well, and is always attended by worry. And worry in time will break down the best equipped mind, and leave its owner in his old age a pitiful dependent upon the bounty of others “That’s “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southw ick Copyright, 1922 (The New York orld), by Press Publishing Co. was a “Commendation Ninepence’’ bent silver ninepence (18 cents) sup- posed to be lucky and commonly used in the seventeenth century in Great the giver or m my Britain as a love token, stnder using these words: love to my lov: times the coin was broken and each one kept a part, ial A cat is éalled grimatkin or, more properly, gray maikin from the name of a fiend supposed to assume form of a cat. aera Witch Hill is a rocky eminence near Salem, Mass., noted as the spot where nineteen persons were hanged as witches and one was pressed to death during the witchcraft delusion in 1692, It is also called “Gallows Hill,"* Neary “The Curse of Cromwell” is the name given to Oliver Cromwell's campaign in Ireland (1649-1650) on account of the massacres at Drog- heda, Clonmel, Wexford and other towns. Waray The “Eye of the Baltic’ {s a term some times ‘given to the Island of jothland (Gotland, Gottland or Guta- land), sixty miles east of Sweden, to which country it belongs epherd’’ ven to Lord George ») by William Pitt in allusion to an old ditty: ‘Gentlo shepherd, tell me where!" &: ‘S Turning Points in History | By Maubert St. Georges | Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by Preee Publishing Go. THE DOWNFALL OF THE ASS8Y- RIANS, Assyria was the name given to the Gnal unification of a number of pra. large empire, It was against this pow- erful state, controlling the whole of the then civilized world, barring Egypt, that the Medes and Persians found themselves confronted when, aa the territories of the ‘King of the World.”" Their lot was not long left’in doubt. Their valor was quickly overcome by the discipline of the Assyrian troops, and they were forced to take refuge im the mountains of Armenia, Even in these lofty strongholds they could no defend themselves and were repeated defeated. Their best men were taken and forced to serve in the A’syrian Army, while the rest quickly took to themseives aif that was effete in this uew civilization. Their tate seemed settled. Slowly but surely they would become part of that great indiscrimi- nate mass of people which formed the Assyrian Empire, without enough spirit left to even regret their old-time freedom. These developments were watched with sorrow by the c! 's of the two nations. One especially, Arbaces, the commander of the Medes and Per- sians in Assyria during the reign of Sardanapalus, was always dreaming of some day setting his people free. Sardanapalus, the prototype of the ef- feminate and voluptuous Prince, see- ing his empire in apparent tranquility, never left his palace, giving himself over entirely to wild, drunken orgies, One day, perhaps by accident, for tor- eigners were not allowed in t palace, Arbaces war sent into t! presence of the King. It was one o those events that settle the fate of an empire, The sight of this painted, effeminate man dressed like a woman convinced the soldier that one so de- graded would be easy to conquér and decided him to make a final attempt to free his people. He formed a con- spiracy, hopelessly inadequate when compared with the might of Assyrla, et composed of men détermined accept nothing but success, and, su moning all hts forces, besieged Nin- eveh, the capital of the empire. sardanapalus, rudely interrupted in the midst of his debaucheries by this sudden rebellion, quickly belied ‘his paint and woman's clothes. “He put himself at the head of the native troops and de@eated the rebelm tp three decisive battles. The siege was not given up, how- ever. A large body of troops was bribed to desert from the Assyrians and, thus reinforced, the besiegers surrounded the city and settled down to wait until famine did its work. It was purely a gamble, for there were enormous stores in the city and these would probably have lasted as long as the rebels’ cndurance, Sardanap- u besides, placed complete con- fidence in the oracle, which sald that the city would never be taken until the river became jts enemy. Then in the third year of the si rain fell so abundantly that the Ti gris overflowed and carried away with it a large piece of the city wall. This} probably would have been of little help to the besiegers, but the King, believing it to be the fulfilment of the prophecy, set fire to his palace and burned himself, his wives and his treasures. The city opened its gates, but tp conquerors burned it and razed it the ground. Thus passed the » syrians, leaving the way clear for the Persians, who were to bring to th world the benefit of thelr genius for organization. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 223,—-M ANNA, ‘The word ‘‘manna,"’ literally trans: historic Mesopotamian states into one’ uncouth barbaric ‘nomads, they emerged from the wildernesses of the, unknown north and trespassed WW): 14 | lated from the Hebrew, may well bell] rendered as the “What is it?” of they circus. When the Israel¥es first saw food that had dropped from heavy in the night, as related in the boob of Exodus, their natural questo concerning the substance unknown them before was, “What is it?” a the name stuck. It is interesting to recall th manna is described in Scripture @p a small, round: thing; as “‘smAll as tie® hoarfrost,” which covered the wilder ness every morning except on the] Sabbath. ‘The Hebrew form of the questior which the sons of Israel asked was, “Man hu?” ———>___ Vanishing American Bird, a THE GREAT BLUE HERON. Some persons call the great bid heron a “squawk-bird,” on accoun of its pecuilar call, which is a squawk Others call it a “crane.” It is mor water-bird than crane, however, an] feeds larg@ly on fish. In the spots from which he has no yet been driven by man and his var ied noises and methods of destruc | tion, the heron is an industrious an 4) patient hunter. He stalks silenth | about, or stands rigidly for lon | periods at a time watching me chances to make @ swift and sur lunge with his beak for a frog, a net ‘a reptile or even an occasional mourr The nest of a Florida great blu heron, in the top of a tree, with fou lear, lank birdlings and a .poror bird, is shown in the habitat grou of the Museum of Natural Histo: It is well worth seeing as a gl of the life of America that is ‘09 and too rare to be seem in natupi’ either often or by many,