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nghesmer perme ensneeeus ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. beg XA ah War how NewYork. R, President, 63 Park Row. bert ANGUS 70 auaw, ‘Tressurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. AdGrese al! communications to Dae wenn Draft, - ‘“Cireula THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. — Pes Wie, New, York se Second Cl lags Matter, Biatte, utalde Greater New Sock. One Year Six Months One Month 10 00 $500 8 85 | a ee | £3 226 a5 cri + 100 amapes tar 106k, $4 comes! by mail 60 cents. BRANCH OFFICES. YQi: 1302, Bsway, cor sAtn. | WASHINGTON, Ht Rotel Theeven’ seme See tat Feld Bie. DETR DIT, - , 410. 140th St, nese | CicAGo, 1608. Mallere Bldg. Washington PARIS, 47 Avenue do l'Opera, Rae a St | TONDON, 90 Cockspur it ‘MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Brees je exciuetvaly, entitled to eee Serre Se eS COALITION BREAKS UP. HE decision of the British Conservative Party to go it alone does not necessarily mean the end of Coalition Government in Great Britain. It does end the present Coalition. It will also force the first real election on real * issues since long before the Great War. *@ Conservative leaders will attempt to form a Cabinet, probably under the leadership of Andrew ‘Bonar Law. But this will be unable to command & parliamentary majority. and the election will follow. This is certain to be a three-sided affair, with a probability that Conservatives, Liberals and the Labor Party will so divide Parliament that no party will have a majority. In which event _¢ither a new Coalition or a regrouping of parties for another election would soon be necessary. A new Coalition of Liberals with the more _ Moderate leaders of labor is a possibility. In Buch a situation Lloyd George’s capabilities as a political juggler will have full sway—provided he cares to exercise them. Wyatt Bld THE COAL COMMISSION MEETS. aes Federal Coal Fact Finding Commission has held its organization meeting. It can “not get down to business too soon or too dili- gently. The first job is to find the facts, but the Nation is also looking to the commission for recommen- dations as to what to do about a serious condi- tion. Full facts will help, but a working plan of 5 { Yfeform: and regulation is expected. This second part of the job will take courage. % O KGonditions in the coal industry are so chaotic that = drastic reform is essential. This may demand © Yegislation that flies in the face of all precedent. We hope the commissioners will be brave enough to bear the accusation of “radicalism” if tadical remedies are necessary. The esteemed World says that Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty gave his deep sea dry ruling because the Anti-Saloon League wanted it. We think it was because he wanted the Anti-Saloon League to help him pass the Ship Subsidy Bill, which is now counted to go Viera when Con- o. &ress meets again, RESHUFFLING THE PARTIES. N Great Britain it is possible to have a Con- " servative Party. The Conservatives not only ‘accept the name but glory in it. Not even the Appellations Tory and “Die-hard” disturb the eRe y. of the’ stalwarts. * © In the United States a different political atmos- phere prevails. Whatever their principles, few men in public life will admit conservatism. This ‘attitude toward life has its advantages, but it is a question whether it is not, in part at least, respon- sible fcr the present shortcomings in two-party government and the lack of principles differentiat- ing the two parties. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler points to this fail- ing in his lecture, “Toward Higher Ground” in _, Which he recommends the formation of a “Demo- g tratic-Republican” Party to oppose “destructive i Such a party Dr. Butler describes as “progres- sive liberal” in contrast to the “distinctly radi- cal.” Such a realignment would result, he thinks, in “an honest and sincere division of political forces.” w | Such a renaming and realignment would also fit (othe facts as they exist in several States, lowa, j Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Da‘ota and Idaho, | for example. | But in our use of politically descriptivé words “progressive” and “liberal” have been monopo- lized by those who would naturally make up the opposition to the “Demecratic-Republican” Party. And where, we wonder, would the really conserva- tive and reactionary elements find a place unless fn Dr. Butler's “Progressive Liberal” Party? THE LEGION COOLS DOWN. HE mere fact that Samuel Gompers got a re- spectful if not enthusiastic hearing at the American Legion convention is an encouraging sign of development in the veterans’ organization. Mr. Gompers spoke from the same platform as several other public men representing widely di- Yergent ts of view. Such a proceeding would — THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, have been impossible at the Minneapolis conven- tion where the spirit of intolerance was supreme and where “Let’s go” was the muzzle on thought- ful consideration. If the Legion has cooled down to where it is willing to‘listen to two sides of a case and then decide, so much the better for the Legion and the country. If the American Legion campaign for the bonus had not followed so closely the strategy and tac- tics'of the Anti-Saloon League, the American peo- ple might lend a more kindly ear to the proposals for working harmony between the Legion and Organized Labor suggested by Mr. Gompers. The A. F. of L. too has used the threat of the organized minority on both political parties. If the leaders of the Legion and of Labor could engi- neer a political deal to trade the bonus for labor legislation, they would still be in the minority, but a far more numerous minority than the Anti- Saloon League was ever able to muster fo purposes AN EASY CHOICE HAIRMAN M’ANENY of the Transit Com- mission says the Mayor's $600,000,000 tran- sit programme would be bound to cost nearer twice that sum. Mr. McAneny bases this ment on estimates prepared by’ the Transit ¢ Coie mission’s engineers and accountants exactly what it would cost to carry Mayor's plans. What is more, Mr. McAneny points oui, the Mayor's promise of municipal operation—as well as municipal ownership—could not be fulfilled for years and would depend upon the action of those who succeeded the Mayor in his present office If the difference between the Mayor and the Transit ‘Commission is to centre finally on the question of municipal operation, the people of this city ought to be easily able to make up their minds: Whether they want an immediate start* toward transit relief under the only present authority with power to make that start; Or whether they are willing to defer transit relief to a distant future and a double cost in order to furnish John F. Hylan with a political issue.on which he hopes to ride into the Executive Mansion at Albany. tate- showing out the HAS IT GONE THAT FAR? ps Werstier Ne to latest reports, the British and French Governments are both prepared to raise diplomatic issues over the question whether the United States is to make an international nui- sance of itself in the sacred name of Prohibition. Getting rid of the saloon was one thing. But even among Americans who were’deluded into be- lieving there was only one way to get rid of the saloon, there must be human tolerance and com- mon sense enough to revolt at the idea of trying to revise the shipping laws and customs of foreign nations merely to gratify the Prohibition Power that now dictates law in the United States. Surely this country can protect itself against a return of the saloon without finding it necessary to insult other countries whose people are still per- mitted to drink beverages containing more than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol. There may be Prohibitionists in the United States who would gladly see their country for- swear friendship and brotherhood with every part of the human race that continues to drink alco- holi¢ liquors. But is the whole Nation persuaded that hence- forth only “bone dry” peoples like the Turks and other Mohammedans are fit to he true friends? Has it gone that far? our Georgia doesn't want Tom Hardwick for Senator again. He can sympathize with Varda- man. And how the two must envy Jim Reed. | He, ati least; got a renomination in Missourt. The “wilful men” are encountering wilful ‘voters. ACHES AND PAINS Some of the choicest glimpses of human troubles are to be found in the “Personal” columns of the Lon- don Times. Note this: “Widower with three unruly daughters would like to hear of schovolmistress or other experienced lady competent to evercise neces- sary control.” . Dr. W. T. Hornaday says that the rat is the smart- est of all animals when it comes to looking out for itself, That is because it sticks to being a rat and docs not aspire to grand opera, art or literature, . The World on Murphy's neck has been a good deal of @ dott, . The Government of Brazil maintains a ludoratory for the production of serum to cure snake. bites, Some 15,000 victims are recorded yearly. We are close up with this record in automobile killings, for which there t@ no serum, . The “notes” of Pastor Hall and his choir singer again emphasize the need of a constitutional amend- ment to do away with love-making. . John D. Rockefeller jr. has gone into a sanitarium for “rest and treatment." Worn out with cutting coupons, perhaps It appears from the latest elopement that the “Omnipotent Oom" abides in Nyack. It always was a queer town, fh . SOHN KEETZ, } ‘ 1922, ~ From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that sive- the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a [ct of satisfaction in trying to say muoh in a tew woris. Take time to bz brief. The Tide Turn ignorant and the malicious. We de r of The Evening W mand an immediate repeal of the la I have always voted the Republican | sponsored by the late Timothy Sul ticket, but as the Republicans have| Van which made Oct. 12 a legal holi- day in this State. Americans wishing broken all of thelr pledges and foisted | +, honor the discoverer of this country the tariff on us besides, | intend here- should have a Leif Ericson Da: after to vote the straight Democratic] which the people of the Norse lan: ticket. celebrate about the beginning of No- Republicans ke Frelinghuysen| vember. A LOVER OF LIBERTY. should be heckled, as he was at one of his recent meetings, where he was so “broken up’? that he had to stop speaking and had to be escorted to his machine by a cordon of police, Frelinghuysen is an “avowed dry" and still is said to have one of the finest stocked wine cellars in New Jersey. He and other Republican hypocrites had better get ready to go, for the public has at last awakened, } as will be fully demonstrated at the coming élection. Remember and vote against all Republican candidates and for all Democratic candidates. Think of what all the Republicans promised to do and haven't done. The Democratic Party's platform will certainly sweep the country as it should, for it has everything in it that the people want, The Republicans are also for the Volstead act. The much boasted plurality at the jlast Presidential election will be equally as large at the coming Presi- dential election, only it will be for a Democratic President. EX-SOLDIER. To the little. Modification Must Come. To the Editor of The Evening World: The Volstead law, as it stands to- day, cannot possibly escape modifica- tion because the detailed and danger- ous provisions of the act plainly show that {t Is not founded on natural rea- son and common sense. It is reported (hat Congress will be asked to change the dry law so that the insular possessions of the United | “What,” States may be relieved from the an- noying provisions of the act and that the danger of seizure for foreign ships { who studies philosophy? said Epictetus, that he already knows.” civilization and with liquor stores aboard may be elim- inated. If the “rule of reason’’ had been applied at the start, there would have been no necessity for the Volstead Act or its subsequent modification. Permission to use light wines and beer is bound to follow, because thuse whose duty it is to protect the best interests of the country must recug- nize, sooner or later, that there is just as much danger to the Nation through a possible internal war over Proh!vi- tion and kindred reformations as there is over the grave complications about foreign shipping. The only difference May I, as a devoted citizen of this] between the two is that one may be Republic, ask how long Americans will | at hand while the other may come. allow themselves to be made ridicu- zt lous? How long will the effort be Oct. made to make the people of New York recognize Oct. 12 as a legal holiday, when the man they attempt to honor as America’s discoverer, Christopher Columbus, had no more to do with this Nation's discovery than would a traveller 500 years hence have in say- ing that he, and not Peary, discovered the North Pole. Even less would he be accepted as a discoverer when he had to admit that he had not reached the pole, but had sailed very near it! ‘This 1s exactly the case with Colum- bus. The Norseman, Leif Ericson, discovered A.rerica in 1000 A. D., reaching as far south as Mu setts, The direct result of his ery was three centuries of coloniz: tion, at the end of which time Nor and’ Iceland, whose people provid those who had the longing and the courage to strike out for a new land were attacked by the black pla, consequently the minished ahd emigration , Columbus in his work of nav therefore enough already. responsible cease to amount to anything. Columbus Day or Ericson Day, To the Editor of The Evening World: car, that we think we possess. Brooklyn, 14, 1922 Dance Instructions. To the Editor of The Evening Worlv I noticed in your paper that the dancing instructors had a convention to teach all the old dances, dancing teachers are fakes, not know how to teach. They have girl instructors and they draw the crowd with a big band, They are a menace to the instructors know how to teach dancing. MURRAY B, way to use it. All these They do who do profited, Fireman's Hours, To the Editor of The Evening World I am a reader of your paper. I read an article about Mayor Hylan regard- ing the ‘Firemen and Their Time oft."* Being a property owner and living near a fire house I often spend the - Jevening watching them, and must sa: xpayer, give them the s they deserve every cent of tt, many times their sleep ts interrupted on account of calls coming in. ‘The Mayor also states that he was going to take the b out. Does ho begrudge the firemen's widows who are earning their living by making the beds? I know the firemen must be on con- tion wher a ecide he came from, let them give him all praise. But as he was never even in America, San Salvador being his nearest point, iet ‘us cease to be made fools of by the Mayor Hylan states they have to» /tinuous duty every sixth day for twen- much time to sleep? Does he realize|ty-four hours. Does the Mayor think they are not permitted to go to bed|they can do without sleep for twenty- until 8 P, M.? Every three hours a|four hours and then be in good shape man has to get up during the night for | to respond to fires? three-hour watch, not counting how A CONSTANT READER. Spain or Conceit sometimes accompanies success, but great must too often accom- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE UNCHANGING MIND | Manners and customs change. Invention has brought about comfort and euse. The very face of the world has been altered and modi- fied by man’s energy and effort. But the brain, hidden behind the forehead, changes very After centuries of progress we find that maxims made by the earliest recorded thinkers apply as well to the human mind to-day as they did when they were spoken. “is the first business of him To part with self-conceit. it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks For - This observation made by a Greek slave in Rome can be made by any one who looks about him in this day of ethical culture and university movements and widespread education. There is probably no reader of this article who has not in his acquaintance some young man or woman who will not learn anything because of the belief that he knows extension be the success to bear up under such a handicap. Once the idea takes root in a human mind that it is of a finer fibre than the minds around it, and it will promptly One of the great difficulties experienced by all teachers is not with dull pupils but with bright pupils who think that they have mastered a lesson at a glance, and consequently refuse to take the trouble to study it. The pursuit of knowledge is like the pursuit of a street We do not run for the street car after we have caught it, nor are we willing to make any hard effort for knowledge But very few of us possess anything like the knowledge we fancy we possess, and even those of us who are well stocked with information know very little about the best It is what we term a “swelled head,” panying fair mental attainments and a little success, that . makes poor vain strutters out of men and women who ought to*do something worth while. And it is interesting to note that it has been the case for hundreds of years, despite all the world has learned, and all the great men by whose wisdom it might hays From the Wise An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidafie than an army of lions led by a stag. ~—Latin Proverb. Railway travelling is not travel- lng at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different trom becoming a parcel.—Ruskin. Virtue cannot lve in solitude, 868,859 native born women and 360- 225 naturalized forelgn born women twenty-one years of uge and over live » New York Cit 1,229,084 women number of men and women who re istered last week ig 1,179,818, so th’ the women who could have registered number number of men and women who took the trouble to register. vigorously expressed thelr rogret ovei the low registration of women, Prevailing opinion is that the scant interest was due as much to lack of organization !n making thorough per- sonal women throughout the city with th gravity of campaign issues as to any other cause. not affiliated with a club or district organization who can only be reached by a personal visit. York City qualified to have registe: last week than the total number o' men and women who did register, President Democratic Club, bership of 1,500, which Gov. date, poster advertising and thorough can vassing, are responsible for the poor registration of women. ize that registration was a patriotl duty this fall “If women they will resp is they approaching women one must be care ful not smile too much or to put one’s hand on the pol! ith Assembly more Last year 117 Hamilton reg’ on account: tion for the new absentee voter's law a number and thought the hot the official registration."” of the Citizens’ Al Smit a careful study of figures I }women did not turn out. women who made strenuous efforts. register. seventy-seven and another a wo just out of « District reports discouraged over the high r the enormot do not s their votin, former Sec itten sri en did not have time to tren were starting out at scit the ference the part of the women as an {dea tha casting a vote city have ing on E register last week. The campaign ep peals can therefore be made to only a limited number. efforts of various oragnizations the woman vote in New York City will noj be brought out this strength greater reason to make tell. HUNT, famous English poet and e sayist, 1784, 1859. pital, reading in a law office and for fo years held @ position In the War O} fice. ship with Examiner, liberalism in politics. instituted against him for calling th Prince Regent a “‘corpulent Adonis q fifty,” to a fine of $2,5 in Surrey ever, mained busy and received visits fro} such men as Byron, Keats and She ley. After his release he again sumed literary work, and after an éj tended visit to Italy succeeded in { troducing many new thoughts and I erary touches tions include poraries, “Stories of the ligion of t and Books, HER VOTE How New York's Women Electors Figure in the Fall Campaign. By Margaret H. Speer Copyright, 1922 (New York World). by Preas Pubtiantng Compenne 1. THE REGISTRATION, There are more women in Ne According to the World Almanac, y, making a total of voters. The totei 49,226 more than the entirc Democratic women leaders have The canvasses and acquaintin There are many women According to Mrs. Lillian R. Sire, of the National Women's which has a mem the short time for Smith had been a candi coupled with the absence of “Women were not brought to real” Mrs. Sire declares Properly approachec nd to political appeal: responded to war work, to be antagonistic, not t- prospective voter's | sleevy hat is needed {s a -the-year. tical education for women. Mrs. Charles D. Hirst, Honorar f the Women's Democrati nds another nm: “In th District, where [ live than women registere: milies in the Hete tered, but this yeu of the hotel registr: men Mrs. Henr Moskowitz, secretar Committee for Go’ aid: “Until | have mad the registratig not belleve that tl I kn will One was an old lady hospital."" er in the 9th Asse “The women ar A canvai cost of food that tt there is any use Mrs. David F. Houston, wife of 1 ary of Agriculture, ca tion to the fact that such a busy week that last w ny won 3 were going al ar ecleaning.’ however, was fall hous neipal causes lure of the wome y to register are ie ues at stake this fall and a feell t an individual vote makes no d It is not so much apathy on brings no real results majority of the women of th; » opportunity of vd Day by falling to tion Despite the beat fall in its full Registered women voters have thi every vot WHOSE BIRTHDAY? OCT. 19-JAMES HENRY LEIGH was born in London, Oct. 1 and died in Highgate, Aug. 2 After studying at Christ Hor London, he took a course of In 1809 he formed a partne: his brother to found t a newspaper devoted tj A libel suit wi and in 1818 he was sentenca 00 and imprisonme Jail for two while in confinement he r: into English prod ‘The best known works of H ‘Lord Byron aad His Conte) “Imagination and Fane: Italian Poets," * Heart,"* ‘*Men, Won Court Suburb" tory of Rimini. neighbors are sure to grow around it.—Chinese proverb. No man can either live pio or die righteous without a wife, —Richte! Give me darley meal and wat, and I will rival Jove in happines@iy —Epleurus. Gloomy penitence is only mad ness turned upside down, —Jobnsom