The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1922, Page 34

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922 eng aly aca pa Fai JOSEPH PULITZER. Presa Publish! Samesiatiny, Te BINA New "you. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ¢ J. ANGUS SHAW, , 63 Park Row. b JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. NING WORLD, Remit by Exp: egistered Letter. Open to an.” 1 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922. JUBSORIPTION RATES. lce at New York Secon BESS tales Uae dae, oct nt Sere oie Matter. y One Year § apa Su iW td. Foe Bu nda Wor 13.00 Daily World Only 1000 ay Wor joa 400 100 ‘World Aigaase A fe as 6 cents; by mail 40 cents. BRANCH OFFICES. has_ threc 5 ony: ‘pee, aRta. | WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bide, 4 sth, Bt. Ht bit 14th and ite. BAT, 410 Bs 14oth Be, newt CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bide. PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opers. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. omen Associated Pree ts axclustvely, entitled to the use for repubie Paper, and also the local news published herein WHAT NEXT FOR LLOYD GEORG! and it is not probable any one of the three will win a majority in the coming election. Such formation of a new’ compromise coalition likely to be short lived. H veloped on the principle of majority rule in Par- ie liament, rather than on the bloc system prevail- DETROIT, 621 Ford Bide BHAT 317 Rulon ae tote LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. a despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited REAT BRITAIN strong parties @ result would mean another election soon or the English governmental traditions have been de- Chis tradition tig in most European countries. i ' {3 likely to force politicians and voters to reform } parties and platforms until some party gets a ‘ majority. } Just such a situation offers wide opportunity to Mr. Lloyd George if he cares to take it. He oc- cupies a position in English politics not unlike that of the late Theodore-Roosevelt in the United States, in that he has a considerable personal fol- towing with small regard for party ties. With the bulk of British voters divided into ‘hiee minority groups I mal following be- mes doubly important. If this following Yarge enough, it might be possible for Mr. Lloyd i George to swing to the strongest minority and so get a majority. One possible course for Mr. Lloyd George would be virtually to withdraw in the coming election, biding his time until the strongest minority proves i" its strength. Then the Welsh wizard would be in | Position to talk terms with the leaders of that I minority Bt Nothing in Mr. Lloyd George's record would } make such a policy impossible or even unreason- - i able. As the weathercock of British opinion Mr. Lloyd-George*has been by turn radical, liberal and conservative. There is nothing to prevent his going back to any one of his earlier stages if he wants to. Russian peasayts are now drying water- melons to keop off starvation in the winter months. What has Bolshevism ftself turned out to be but a dried watermelon? A MOTHER'S WISH PT HE simple facts of a news story of the day 4 are more eloquent than the most finished essay on mother-love or family relations Mrs. Barnett Hoffman died Wednesday evening in her home in the Bronx. Farlier in the day her physician admitted to her that had only few hours to live. Mrs. Hoffman was the mother of two daugh- ters and a son, all engaged to be married. Mrs. Hoffman approved of the engagements. It was the dearest wish of her heart that before she died the children should be married, happy, and with their futures settled. To gratify this wish the six young people were summoned, marriage licenses procured and the ceremony performed. Then Mrs. Hoffman smiled and died happy. The loss of such a mother will be a grief to the family, but they will never cease to find com fort in the thought that her last hours of un- selfish devotion were made happier by the triple marriage. Few young married couples start life together with a finer example of what the family may be than these daughters and son and sons-and-daugh- ter-in-law of Mrs. Hoffman. she Hl Insurance brokers are offering restaurant proprietors insurance against damage clatins from persons made sick by bad food. The best insurance of this kind, however, con tinues to be pure foodstuffs plus care in the kitchen. A QUALITY CANDIDATE. $ the candidate of the American Labor Party, Charles P. Steinmetz hasn't a ghost of a chance of being elected to the office of State Engi- Beer. But it is no disparagement of either the Demo- ¢ratic or the Republican candidate to say that Mr. Steinmetz is by far the best equipped man for the job. As a scientist and engineer Mr. Stein- metz is a national and international figure. Po- litical ideas do not enter largely into the adminis- tration of the Engineer's office, provided the office holder is more an engineer than a politician Faced with this situation no voter can do bet- for himself and for the improvement of poli- tics than to vote for the best engineer, for Charles P. Steinmetz The Steinmetz vote will not elect him, but if he runs far enough ahead of his ticket it will be a good lesson for the politicians. They will learn that there are voters who consider the qualifica tions of candidates and who are independent enough to follow that vision. The more of these independents there are, the more pressure on the slate-makers to get quali- fied candidates and so attract such voters, FROST-KILLED. it to have been the Mayor hii move in the Board of elf rted t mate to boost the salaries other department officials the Hylan Administration A chilling frost, however, blighted the plan the very night after The Evening World made it pub- lic and in of commissioners “from the top down’ Yesterday morning the Board of Estimate in executive session hastened to adopt a resolution rejecting all demands for salary increase c those the State Legislature has made mandato Just a touch of publicity was enough to make Mayor Hylan and his board realize that a raise of $2,500 cach for the heads of city departments would not go alongside repeated refusal of salary increases for the rank and file of employees The Mayor could not listen to proposals to in- crease policemen’s pay. Oh, no. Officers in the Police Department could promoted to hi salaries, but to give patrolmen a pay boost | add too big a lump total to the budget / As for the firemen, the Mayor told them slept too much to be entitled to any how- ever small. City employees who never sleep are, of course, commissioners: Commissioner of Accounts Davy Hirshfield, for instance—Davy the Devoted—who works while the Mayor sleeps; Police C sioner Dick Enright, the ever wakeful; sioner of Public Markets O'Malley bed ns to Tei 1 p, and Commissioner of Plant and Struc- tures Grover A. Whalen, the super-busy busman ‘This inner circle of the faithful never shuts an eye. A raise would have been a glad surprise to them. But it was not to be. Though the Mayor's heart might yearn toward them behind closed doors, he could not face the cold blast blowing from a public sense of fitness and justice The public might approve higher these but not commissioners workers denied ~So- the killed raise, mmis- Commis- whose depart- thor too much ¢ ul salaries for commissionships: for while the pre: below thein Mayor's warm impulse died+-frost- Another hazing scandal at Annapolis. Can't the"Navy clean ship in tts own prep school? HIS OWN LOOKOUT. >a candidate, Gov. Miller is quite within his | Ke rights in refusing to answer the list of ques- tions submitted by the League of Women Voters As voters, the members of the league are equal- ly within their rights in forming their own con- clusions from his refusal If Gov. Miller chooses to be brusque and dis- courteous he, has no one but himself to blame if the women are discourteous at the polls. Candidates are not limited by a “ “no” form of question. If Goy. Miller considered any question unfairly phrased he would have good yes” or reason for declining to answer that specific ques- tion. But when the Governor declines and in effect delivers a lecture advising women to read the papers to find out what he thinks, the women are under no obligation to follow that advice, particu- larly if the opposing candidate answers fully and satisfactorily their direct questions. "Psychic glands” are described as “an « tial part of the chemistry of the soul, as res the magnetic line, which can be seen like a beam of light, connecting the etheric with the physical body at times when the spirit is wan dering in unknown places.” So now you can spot ‘em at a glance ACHES AND PAINS Senator William M. Calder holds the record as a handshaker, His right fist is a regular magnet. Per: haps this is what gives him an affinity for gloves ° The sun never sets upon the British Empire, there are some cloudy spots here and there to its beams. but obscure It would save a lot of trouble in church circles if phonographs could be substituted for sopranos in the chotr, . These new airplane records are enough to take one's breath away. The redhead duck used to hold the speed belt, It is now a third rater, . Milwaukee is going to hold “America’s Greatest Food Show" nert week. We wonder what the exhibits wilt be. Once Milwaukee produced its “food” in liquid form and on this rests its fame. . in The fall of Lloyd George indicates thut England is getting ready for a dose of normalcy. . Perhaps more ladies would register and vote if tea could be ed at the polls with a Uttle bridge party on the Pare | ® , Making Out the Xmas List! « ™ _ naw ypeouns X-MAS saianv ERRY (New York Wworta) By Press Pub. C Science Beckons To Man By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922, (New York Byentng, World) by Press Publishing Co, By John Cassel HOW GENIUS MAY BEST HELP MANKIND. For giving fire to mankind Prometheus was deified. Is {t too much to hope that already the boy or girl has been born who will bestow upon mankind a stil! sreater benefaction? The opportunity lies In the study of the atom. Who ever masters its secrets will place mankind on a higher plane. Already something has been done. About one hundred years ago John Dalton, the color-blind son of a poor weaver, who acquired all his know!- edge by private study, discovered that matter is composed of atoms An atom differs from a molecule; two or more atoms are chemically com ined in a molecule. A molecule ¢ water, for example, being the tintes* droplet of water imaginable, such u 4 point of mist or steam, contains two atoms of hydrogen and one o oxygen. Eighty-four kinds of atoms have been discovered, and of these, in vari- ous combinations, all the substances of the earth and, presumably, the universe have been constructed. If the atoms of a substance are all one kind, the substance is called an element. Gold is an clement, because however finely it be pulverized th | particles remain pure gold. Until quite recently the atom w: |thought to by td unit of mat jbut Prof. J. J. Thomson ha that an atom a miniature sol. system, composed of points of elec tric force, called corpuscles or el trons, all in rapid rotation and revo lution around an atomic centre of gravity, By a series of truly wonderfyl ex periments he succeeded in tsolating@}{ counting and measuring certain o. these infinitesimal units, and demon strated that the atoms of all the el: ments are compe Ki of ¢ 3 that the a all char with electric t hydrogen atom, being t! ‘ all, contains about 1,000 sele and that the atoms of all the elem differ from one another only becaus: they contain varying quantities of the same kind of corpuscles. . As a gol: atom weighs 197 times as much as hydrogen atom, it presumably contains something like 197,000 corpuscles. Chemists now know how to breai down molecules into atoms and ¢ take those atoms and build up d ferent kinds of molecules, the pr and use building the ofa atoms. rns that secret will be to show mankind how to chang From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Jan’t it the one that Sives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of eatistaction in trying | fo say muoh in a few words. Take time to b_ brief. | Another Well “le Ih some: thre our Te the Rultor of The Evening World the amount of Bnglish under The Ka Klux Klan has sometimes| there. Everything, S thea been referred to as “The Invisible] te advertisements, &e., are printe ddish. Isn't it about time we Empire,” and as such has inspired ‘a| ¥!4dish. Isn't 1 as ee these understand wholesome fear of its potential power i they country to mal it not checked in time. The people ; ; 4 s money ils to adopt i Mf this country: do not seem to be language and customs instead of try however, of the far greate: ; ing to \mpose theirs on I ie to.gur free inettulions which coretgn tongue is not and these is inherent in ‘The Invisible Hmpir Povelenem are ibtenine to aul (Henn of the Anti-Suluon League, Wes out by learning it when ty Pe. Oration, <oon at thoy are not forced to do c hood, fostered in ly por ; : my opinion, and fam net alon risy, and dedicated to oppression, has Rae aitorcinene ace itovcua fastened its lecherous grip upon © speak and read our langu Wl, its ramifications stictehing from] (0) {Peak and tead our lange coust to coast Ike the tentacles cf) 4) by sent back to the country from a gigantic octopus which they came, the value ot Why say that tt controls and dom-| "tizenship would he greatly 1 inates the Government? It IS the ) Government, and our public servants, chosen to represent the will of the people, dance like miserable puppets when the League pulls the strings. Observe the ingenious character of the title which this organization has issumed; as “antl-saloon," {t hus brought to its standards thousands of upporters who were cajoled into ty belief that its sole object the elimination of the saloon, These miv- ruided people now perceive, too late that they were duped and misled by an empty phrase; the saloon onc driven out, the organization began to arrogate to itself more power and to assume still greater authority, to the end that it has established itself as the arbiter of morals in the sanctity of the people's homes =i has inflicted its own bigoted stand ards of conduct upon what we very properly consider inalienable rights. This lberty-loving people can never regain tts self-res} until these n: tional pests are shorn of their powe and the Eighteenth Amendment stricken from the statutes. is at the polls, and it seems titting at this time to exhort every fcllow- bondsman who would get from under the welght of this Incubus to forget party affiliations until this momentous issue ts settled, and to pledge himself to vote for no dry candidate, regard- less of other considerations We are gradually being reduced to a condition of serfdom by this Anti- Saloon League, and no man knows to what further extremes thelr ruthles fanaticism may carry us if we do not | awaken and u the one weapon left to us while there is yet time JAMES HENRY BOUGHTON East Orange, N. J., Oct. 18, 1922 Our reliet Foretan Language Signe The Editor of The Eveatng World ‘Through the columns of your r I would like to ask why we English speaking American people are for to tolerate the many store signs which are printed in forelgn languages. 1 peak mostly of the Yiddish signs Any one visiting the Ghetto might as | gering, | thing which would solve all problems and greatly simplified of these foreigners come here with th« sole purpose of making money (to be spent in their own country) and have the problem of American: A great mi no respect for the Stars and Strip but cast slurs upon every opportu- nity at our Government, wh: ch | My giv. ing them more than they e hope to earn in this country What a deep contrast there is to tl way foreigners are received here and to the manner in whieh Americans ar received in foreign countries. Her« for one language and one fli best in the world RAY HARRIS New York, Oct. 16, 1922 Up to 25 Cents, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worl To settle a dispute, will you kindly let me know up to what amount pen- nies are considered legal tender? CATHERINE MACK Brooklyn, N, Y., Oct. 16, 192 A Kindness 1 To the Kdltor of The Evening Wor ia Man, in an effort to make life bet- ter for his brother, has from time to time planned that days or weeks be devoted to worthy purposes — fire Prevention, safety first, Red Cross and Salvation Army drives and aum- erous other good works, Is this not the time then to think of the one thing for which the world is nun- thirsting, perishing? The on: and brir all is love. Would it not be well worth while to elect one day -- a busy on which man could wholehear prove that he loves his brother? that day there would be no murder- ing or robbing, no lying or deceiving, no impurity of action or speech, no selfishness or greed. Every action that day would be an expression of kindness. The firm belief for that} day that all are the child: of the one Father—and that all arg ‘rothe: happiness and prosperity to weekday edly On ove kind of matter into any othe kind desired. Will not that be a greater gift thas fire? Moreover, the forces which hold the corpuscles {n an iron grip will be ref sed and made to minister to mind Thomson has shown that the atoms UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake | energy cont | zen utoms ime len litt a millic te Lautil a device y lopted which enabled treigil cars ti one hundred yards high, In like a train to be started one at a time long trains were impossible. $ | ner Rutherford cujoulated tt Once the whole train is in motion it is comparatively }] Sram of alum as Minton ine easy for the locomotive to keep it in motion, even to increase Pianetey its speed. When we rec that only abe But to start a load weighing thousands of tons, except 3,000 calories ure required to mair 1y starting each unit at a time and using its momentum io } [tain the temperature of the Body. \: Bal ae start the next unit, is out of the question. ee ey ates ean Starting is always a difficult business, requiring a grea ae the fvod a million men conta expenditure of pow . Most men who do mentul work find it far harder to get 3) ——: ithe job than it is to keep at it after they have made their j tart : : | WHERE DID YOU GEI One man of very great talent, who turns out a large { THAT WORD? amount of work in’a day when he actually gets to work, will 2,—SALVO. spend hours thinking of excuses for :ot getting to work. It is strange but not altogether puv He finds that he isn’t getting enough exercise and ought ziing that a display of the explosive JA to play a little golf, or that there is some book much talked $] jower of artillery should have pecn J E, F about that he ought to read, or that it might be a fine thing to take his children to the zoo, or that his car needs overhaul- ing and he ought to see the garage man about it. He thinks of all these things while important work is waiting to be done, work that he knows he can get through in a few hours once he gets started on it. named from a Roman greeting; bu! that 1s the fact. ‘The greeting is “Salve’-—Hail! The} word was frequently uttered In an- clent Rome to an Emperor on a public appearance or to a General returning from a victorious campatg' But the disinclination to start is strong on him, and it of uttillery fired ax a mark requires all his will power to drive himself to his task. on or appreciation In fired It is fortunate that most people have certain appointed purpose for which things to do in a day and that they will fall hopelessly behind wreeting ae if these are not done figuiea by) Ut ERG Bout ae The system by which one employee must keep up with The timags coming, we hope, whe another is what gets the world’s work through on schedule 3 | salvos will be out of fashion. time. If everybody were allowed to consult his own wishes as —_——>_— 10! to hours of work very little would be accomplished and most WHOSE BIRTHDAY? . ty, of the population of the earth would be hungry most of the OCT. 20—SIR CHRISTOPHE! e time. WREN, famous English architect ¢ But the highest form of effort can follow no set rules, was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire Id nor can it comply to the orders of any taskmaster save the 3] England, Oct. 20, 1632. While at edayl “man himself. Oxford Wren distinguished himself in To be able to be your own boss, and a stern and sev nd applied mathemati ‘ one, is a real accomplishment.’ It is necessary to a big Newton, In Princip!t achievement, for no one but yourself is so interested in you of Wren's work as Wren Although geome strician. known as an astronomer, it is as an architect that he is best known. ' Tl great fire of London, which oceurret in 1666, gave Wren a unique oppor- tunity to exhibit his great genius. He that he will drive you toward fame and fortune. That is your own job and unless you are very rough on yourself in the matter of getting at things, it will never be done. : 3 ¢ was ordered by King Charles II. to prepare a design for rebuilding fifty new churches in the city, among them being St. Paul's. Thero was muct trouble about the design submitted by Wren for this chureh, and finall when it had been approved Wren was so disgusted with it that he gained! —all loved alike by the Father of all —all loved by one another—and an earnest effort to act in accordance with that bellef would give the world a day of peace and happiness it has never known tn all its tearful his- tory. Is it too much to ask that we lay From the Wise Good nature, Uke a bee, collects honey from every herb. Ill na- ture, like the spider, sucka potson from the sweetest flower. amon e : "s pe ion to alter it us 4 aside for one day all hatred and re- - the King's permisslo gee venge and jealousy and greed and just Anonymous. much as he iked. So that to-day, i % at and every sort of unkindness and lot Be rns {t stands, there {8 no resemblance inp", every action be governed by good— newspaper to se hoW Jens original approved design. Amon, Bids ‘a by love? God governs the world, Wren's city churches the most note fP'Go. worthy are St. Michael's at Cornh'!! St. Bride's at Fleet Street and Mary-le-Bow at Cheapside. He als designed the Custom House, the Ro Exchange, Marlborough House, Bu thgham House and the library Trinity College. Would not that day of kindness solve problems that to-day seem im- possible of solution? Would it not bless all mankind?’ Will not wisdom choose the day? ONE WHO LOVES MANKIND. New York, Oct, 16, 1922 --John Newton. Melodrama for the crowd, trag- edy for women, comedy, which de- picts humanity, for the thinkers, a --Victor Hugo.