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ove eseibity aatorio. du daly erent BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Preae_ Publishing Wate es Pate Rows New "York: Sercintan relate eon Yee |. ANGU Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOBEP 3 PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. (sta aubergine el 1 EVENING WORLD, Palltecr Building, Park Row, New York City. Remit by Express Money Order, Draft, Post Office Order or Registered Letter. “Circulation Books Open to WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1922. SUBSORIPTION RATES. ST EL YE, Ope Year Six Months his Month BRANCH OFFICES. y pee Bway, cor. BAth.| WASHINGTON; Wyatt Bids.; Ave, weer 14th and F Sts. de. TR IT, 521 Ford Bide. #' nee aon Bb, vet | SroKgo, 1008 Mallers Bide ‘Washington St. PARIS, 47 Avenue ‘Opers. Lt Mian oc LONDON, 90 Cockspur St. auep pice OF THE Co mses thee) ago vel) oles ata ress be, onctasty a te tse for blog the focal Dew Neesia saith LET'S KNOW WHERE WE STAND. EDERAL JUDGE HAND yesterday con- tinued the temporary injunction against the Daugherty ruling that applies to liquor aboard ships. A decision as to whether the injunction shall be made permanent is expected before the Daugherty ruling goes into effect next Saturday. Meanwhile, the Prohibition Bureau is reported to be drafting Treasury Department regulations which will go to the full length of the Daugherty ruling in forbidding foreign ships to bring liquor inside the three-mile limit even under seal. Counsel for one of the foreign steamship com- panies appearing before Judge Hand yesterday said? “The rights of the foreign vessels had not deen questioned until it became desirable on the grounds of expediency. The question of Nquor on Government owned ships was raised. Then it was pointed out that to remove liquor from them would bring them into unfair terms of competition with foreign vessel: There is more behind it all than that. There is the question whether the Eighteenth Amendment was intended to give the Prohibition power in the United States a free hand to make | itself offensive to Americans and foreigners alike | in any way it sees fit. | There is the question whether Prohibition is or | ig not henceforth paramount to every other con- sideration of freedom, happiness, prosperity, toler- ance and good will involved in the life of the American people and their relations with other | Peoples. | The quicker the Supreme Court of the United fi States contributes what it can toward answering where we stand.” { If Representative Frear can get his income } tax reform on the calendar March 15, he will be sure of public interest. OUTSTRIPPED ? NLY a few years after the cable car was O perfected it was rendered obsolete by the electric trolley car. New York's elevated railroads designed for steam operation were soon electrified. t In other lines of invention it would be pos- - sible to enumerate dozens of other epochal im- provements made obsolete within a few years by an even better mechanism for doing the same work, Will the high yoltage transmission lines for electrical power suffer a similar fate? The practical and economical equipment for long-distance power transfer over copper cables is only just emerging from the experimental stage. Engineers know it has not yet reached its final stage. Will it ever do so? “ The question is suggested by the announce- ment .of successful tests of Dr. Irving Lang- muir’s newly invented electron tubes. This sci- entist employed: by the General Electric Com- pany foresees the possibility of long-distance transmission of power by radio. Fortunes have been lost and material squan- dered «4: the development of other superseded in- ventions.. The world would like to be able to _ look ahead and know whether transmission by wireless will supersede the transmission by the expensive high-tension lines. But the world cannot know in advance, and it will probably be wise to go on with the construc- tion of lines to bring power from waterfalls and fror: power plants located near the coal mines. Justice Tompkins is a little bit cruel to take the stillness out of the Stiliman case. DRINK! ; RET HARTE’S Roaring Camp was a brisk place at times, Wild and woolly Western desperadoes in Tombstone, Deadwood and Crip- ple Creek used to ride into the saloons, shoot up the place, drink red licker raw and get into all sorts of deviltry with guns, revolvers and shootin’ irons. They do it now—in the movies. It remains for New York—and the Broadway of the once Great White Way—to be the scene __of a complete reversal of tradition, in which the * drinkers, instead of the purveyor of drinks, claim to. have been threatened with sudden ex- figeticu as the result of a misunderstanding over | these questions, the sooner we shall know just | THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, two frosted chocolates, two frosted coffees and a double chocolate ice cream soda. It is a weird and moving tale, and Broadway will await the outcome with interest. There were only fout in the party, according to the story. The four frosted drinks should have sufficed. Then there wouldshave been no second check to complicate matters. The double chocolate ice cream soda seems to have heen too much for the cashier. IN THE SHADOW. HAT’S the Mayor driving at, anyhow? Why all this quibbling over the pre- tended difference between “temporary permits” and “temporary franchises”? The Mayor professes to be afraid of the word “franchise” because it suggests vested privileges. Yet the Mayor well knows the franchise of to-day is an entirely different thing from the blanket, bribery-bought franchise of fifty years ago. The franchise of to-day can be and is granted with every conceivable safeguard in the way of conditions, insurance of proper return to the city and provision that it shall be revocable at a given time or for cause. The case of the City Island Motor-Bus Com- pany, which in 1916 got a five-year franchise providing for payment of 734 per cent. of its earnings to the city and when its payments fell off had its franchise revoked, illustrates, as The Evening ‘World has shown, what the modern franchise can furnish -in the way of protection to the city’s interests, The Mayor pretends to see this virtue only in what he calls “permits.” How about his emergency bus permits? He has not yet explained why some of his “permitted” buses have been running. for three years in the city streets without paying a cent to the city. r If his former bus permits were of greater benefit to the city treasury than franchises, how strange the Mayor should now take Mr. Mc- Aneny's hint and provide in his new permits that the city shall receive 5 per cent. of the bus owner's gross earnings! The Evening World has already put the plain question: Have these so-called municipal buses been operated for the general benefit? Or have they been operated primarily for the glorification of John F. Hylan and ia- cidentally to provide favors for his friends? The Transit Commission appears to think the .uestion ought to be answered by a prompt in- quiry into the present ownership and operation of these n: xicipal buses, said inquiry to begin no later th: to-morrow morning. ~ Perhaps investigation will throw further light on the and “franchi It is now too much in the shadow. ‘lan distinction between “permit” FIND HIM. CRETARY WEEKS and the robust tem- pered Mr. Dawes each have kind words for President Harding but damn Congress com- pletely. President Harding has honeyed words for Congress and thinks well of Messrs. Dawes and Weeks. Congress seems to tolerate the President, until after election at least, but has scant patience with Dawes and Weeks. Now what seenrs to be needed is one who can harmonize the views of Congress held by the President and by his Secretary of War and his former Director of the Budget. Perhaps the man who can reconcile these con- flicting estimates will be the one who believes Congress has done a notable year’s work and that President Harding has been a party leader in getting the work done. ACHES AND PAINS Be it understood that when Lucius N. Littauer puts on the gloves with Senator William M. Calder it is in a friendly bout, . Henry Cabot Lodge has recovered his health, of the rest of the world is sick because of him, . A Japanese court has just ruled that educating @ young lady to dance and sing does not give the in- structor any proprietary rights. he Orientuls are slow in catching up, Much ° By and by some smart electrical inventor will warm us by radio, ° What is the poet's art? I ken A gift of rhyming and a pen, A little ink, a thought-—and then— A versel ° Mr. Hoover wants the universe to puy tts billy and quit fighting—something it never cares to do, + The husband of the Jersey lady on trial for his mur- dev ts described as having been away from home a good deal, The fact that her tongue ran too fast for the court stenographer may explain his adsenteciam. JOHN KEETZ. OCTOBER 18, 1922, Municipal Operation! Copyright, 1992, (New York Bventng World) aadipicla Sy By John Casse! From Evening World Readers What kind of letter de you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of # thousand words in a couple of hundred P There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction ‘n _teving @ eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. P. D. Cars. To the Editor of The Evening World: In answer to Mr. Strauss’s new Idea concerning east and west bound traMc, I think it would be grand if only there were no automobiles with signs marked in small letters “P. D."* I drive a car, and the only ones that I can see violating laws are the that make them. Driving my car downtown on La- fayette Street the other morning, there were at least a dozen cars with that sign going at least twenty. to thirty miles an hour. They do rot stop for anything, not even the tratfic officers, who, when one is in slicht, opens up traffic, leaving east und west traffic standing In amazement at the open violation of our laws, A CITIZEN. chains at the approach of each trip into the terminals! The men are put to this expense for uniforms aguinst their wishes. Dark blue overalls would be more suitable for this class of work. On top of this order comes another for the benefit of the men! \Whalen sends a wireless to all ferries that hereafter all men on Grand Street and Broadway Ferry, 92d Street and As- toria Ferry, Clason Point and College Point Ferry will travel on their own time to Greenpoint Ferry if they want their pav. That means if a man at Clason Point is working 12 midnight to 8 A. M. he must go down to Green- point and lose foyr or five hours. Whalen has a dozen city cars in his department and a score of chair warmers that he could put to good use for two hours of that pay day. ‘The men are ashamed to say that this is a Democratic Administration, and from the sentiment of the men Miller will get the Municipal Navy vote this election. A NAVY DECKHAND. New York, Oct. 14, 1922. ones Police Par. To the Editor of The Evening World: I read the interesting letters about the pay of police and firemen. It is teadily understaod that every one tries for a higher salary, but at pres- ent the trend is toward lower wajses The police are receiving a fair liv- ing wage and some I know pcrsonally were not making over $25 a week be- fore joining the force. As to the dangers, &c., advanced by many of your readers, I say it is a very poor excuse, as they actept posi- tions on the force of their own free will and well they know if they re- sign there are hundreds willing to take the risky jobs at the present wages, The police of Boston found this out and it was the best thing for the city when {ts force went on strike. The new police of Boston are 100 per cent, better, A CONSTANT READER, Brooklyn, N.Y. Whatlen’s Municipal Navy. To the Kuitor of The Evening World I have been in tho United States Nuvy eight years and during both en- istments I received a great many orders, both below and above deck, When I met un officer on deck he spoke to the men in a manner that made me feel I was working under a good boss and when pay day came around he was there to see that every man got his pay. I am now in the ferry bout servico and Whalen is my Admiral. At least he is classed as such and he is just the opposite to my Clairvoyant Detecting. flo the Bdltor of Tho Evening World: The article on the Hall-Mills mur- der in The Evening World Saturday by Mrs, Wilson Woodrow certainly brings out points very clearly as re- gards a third person, presumably a woman, and the reason for the act, Jealousy. But could it not also be figured out on a basis of “retallation” by a second person—generally the per- son injured the most, whether man or woman—and the surest way to end the conspiracy was to kill both? There have been strange things opened up by real clairvoyants. Per- haps the detective might visit a good one, taking some article belonging to the parties concerned and, of course, giving the clairvoyant no points, Wh not test it? ‘Tho departed would be anxtous to clear truth, "TRUTH WILL OUT.” Instead Drink. To the Editor of The Evening World: “Anti-Prohibition,” in his letter “Obey the Law,’ says that the cor- rect records for arrests far intoxica- tion in New York are: For 1912, 21,- 567; 1916, 19,077; 1918, 7,284; 1919, 5,607; 1920, 6,844; 1921, 6,726, old skipper. Whalen has the old skip-] Yes, but they don’t get intoxleated per beat it giving orders. Only re-|mow. They go blind. They go in- cently Whalen had a circular sent out| sane. They* wake up dead. to ali the men from pilot to deckhand to get a uniform made, ship ahoy style, Can you Imagine a deckhand with a $40 blue and gold uniform on putting his shoulder to a stalled vehicle and trying to push it either upon or trom | the boat. or handling greasy. rusty 1 Let him look up blind and Insane asylum records and records of deaths from wood alcohol, hair tonic, sweet aromatic bitters (that's what they go insane on in the South), &c, and he will find much food for thought. JOHN KOE! New York, Oct. 14, 1922. UNCOMMEN SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) ° THE HIGH COST OF VANITY. C seurity is distasteful to most of the people born into the world, To escape it they will resort to all sorts of artifices. Sit on the porch of a summer hotel and you will hear your neighbors of both sexes, if they don’t happen to amount to anything tligmselves, telling of the important, wealthy a distinguished people that they know or live near or work or. The schoolboy cultivates the acquaintance of the boy who can play football, or has plenty of spending money, or has,a well-known relative, hoping he will get a little reflected glory out of it, Almost every important man is surrounded by a flock of little people who are contented to carry his messages and do his errands, simply for the pleasure of telling their friends that they are intimate with him, It is all an evidence of vanity—of the longing of the person who is of no importance to be thought important. Vanity of this sort is very expensive. It is perhaps pardonable in the man of small ability, for he hus no means of getting into the limelight save by standing as close as possible to some cone who is basking in it. But it is not the little man alone who thus seeks to gain reputation that belongs to others. Men who could, if they were willing to work for it, become of real importance on their own account seek to gain fame by attaching themselves to oth They spend hours that they might be using to develop their own minds in seeking social position or notoriéty by any device they can think of. And when they gain it they are only known as satellites, while people to whom they boast of their achievements regard them merely as pitiful little sycophants. There is only one road to solid reputation, people are justified in desiring. That road is the road that leads to all achievements. It means hard work and self- sacrifice and study and honest ambition. which all To try to dispense with these cost§ all in life that is really worth the wanting. WHOSE BIRTHDAY? OCTOBER 18.—THOMAS BRAC KETT RED, famous American Con- gressman, was born in Portland, Me., Oct. 18, 1889, and died Dee. 6, 1902. Af- ter graduating from Bowdoin College and completing a course in iaw, Reed entered tho Navy as Assistant Pay- master in 1864, A year later he began the practice of law in Portland, and in 1868 became a member of the Maine Legislature. Hoe was Attorney General of the State for two years and was City Solicitor of Portland for four years. In 1876 he was elected as @ Republican to Congress, where he: served continuously until retiring from political life in 1899. Owing to his efficiency as a speaker and par- Hamentariam, Reed soon became the leader of his party on the floor of the House, and aa a result became Speaker of the House. He wasga vigorous presiding officer and wa considered by all parties as one of the most ca pable figures in Amerlean pubic lire. se From the Wise The first wife is from Gad, the second from man, the third from the devil.—Russian proverb, Mighty events turn on a straw; the crossing of a brook decides the conquest of the world.—Carlyle. Learning without wisdom is a load of books on an ass's back. —Japanese proverb. Modern society is not a fellow- ship of mankind; it is only a fusion of men!—Ibsen. Romances” of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Covyriety 1022, (New York Bve forid) by Brose Publishing Oo. | XLIX.—PROSPECTING FOR COAL, It is estimated that about 1,600,- 000,000 tons of coal are used to Produce ths world's energy and for household purposes every year. In addition to the sources of supplies under exploitation, new deposits are being constantly sought to meetsthe pfesent and future demand for the world's premier fuel. In this search for coal the geologist and the engineer have taken the place of the curious institution of past days known as the “divining rod,” which old-time seekers after minerals re- garded as the sure gulde to hidden treasures of the earth. The pioneer in the search is the geologist. who by scientific methods determines the probability of the presence of coal. The geélogist then turns over the search to the engineer for a verification of his surmises as to the presence of coal in commercial quantities. The engineer, in this phase of the work, follows the methods of the cheese-taster. To determine the quat- ity of the cheese, the taster sinks a small shaft, so to speak, and bores out a sample from the heart of the cheese. It is a very much larger and vast- ly more expensive bore that the mm- ing engineer makes into the tive coal mine; but he fal of reaching the heart of the earth in his probing. There are two methods of digging into the earth for samples to deter- mine whether there are a sufficient amount und a good enough quality of coal at a given site—the rotary and * the percussive. In the one case the drilling tool is twisted into the earth like a screw; In the other it is driven into the earth with enormous force. SY In either of the: in combination, samples are with- drawn from the earth, in a celebrated instance as deep as 1,948 feet, just as cheese is withdrawn by the taster. In some instances, such as a new fleld single boring is insufficient. A thorough exploration of the localit for the purpose of obtaining a compre: hensive average, must be made. In such a series of borings are made at various points. The material or by both brought up by the business ends of the borers is carefully examined and a reasor conclusive idea is formed of the number of seams in the region, their ‘ss and the quantity of coal for the miner If all these tests are satisfactorily answered, the dirt begins to fly in the excavation of the shaft Persecution | By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. Copyright, York Evening mt hing THE PARALLEL, When pagan Rome had conquered all and had become a world power, her emperors claimed the right to rule in all things human and divine. Her religion and her gods were viewed ina legal sense as national and superior to all others. The conquered nations were per- mitted to maintain the wors p of their own national gods upon appit- cation for ul recognition among the gods of Rome; but the religion of every conquered nation (if admitted at all) was held subordinate to the superior religion of Rome. No religion of m conquered nation was ever admitted and legally estab- lished, even as a subordinate r¢ unless Its adherents and appl were willing to swear the religion and gods of Rome ing superior to their own. And failure tu recognize the Ron was regarded by the Roman ¢ ment as un act of “high t Consequently, the Christ any n gods ns who recognized only one God as supreme nd one Lord as their Saviour, and refused to worship the gods of Rome on the ground that the te had no right to interfere with man's. re tions with God, were accused by the R » Government of being “irrey- erent to the sars, und enemies of the Caesars and of the Roman peo- ple,” and therefore “guilty of high treazon against the Roman FE 2. Now for the day A keeper of the seventh-day wus convicted und fined before for working on Sunday on present a court his own farm, in a field behind the forests three and one-half miles.from a pub lic building or public road. I take the following from the Prosecutor's ad- dress to the jury you have the law. “Gentlemen of the jury taken oath of office to enfo' It is not what the accused may be- lieve with reference to the observance Sabbath; if the law has fixed rved by the people of the Jand, then it is obli tory on the people. . . . It ts necessary and proper that the Sunday Sabbath should be uniformly observed by the whole community at the same time, Our law has fixed upon the Christian a day upon ations of lite Sabbath, or Sunc which the common a should be suspended “You heard it fall fram his owa ips that he keeps sacred that day that ho believes should be observed, and ho does not work on that day at all. The law gays you can observe that day if you want to, but you must serve Sunday ‘ When the streams of Europe flowed crimson with the blood of martyrs, Rome declared that she was not per secuting anybody, but was simply un also ob- holding the dignity of the law. Every persecutor pieads the dignity of the law, and the persceuted in his sight are atheists, traitors and anarchists to religion and to the state,