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% ESTABLISHED BY Lae yg tg ee SHA’ Rot JOSKPE PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. cated ohetne pope ha EVENING WORLD od Letter MONDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Peta BPs Waar ae, eae ne et car Menthe One Monte cord shi OF 6.00 160 B BRANCH OFFICES. WARE, oes cor 8800. | WASHINGTON, Wratt Bide, s itd DETRIIT, 681 Ford Bide. %, 410 B. 140th Bt. Bese | CHICAGO, 1008 Maller Bldg ashington Bt. | PARIS, 47 Avenue de lOpera an ®* | LONDON, 90 Cockapur 8% A vtatgt hotel hig ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. eee all ory ers ts exclusively entitled Fepnbtt- Go Pap cro qierrise Srl Daper, and also the local news A POINT FOR THE POCKET. R. ROYAL S. COPELAND is telling the truth about the tariff. His opponent, William M. Calder, is not, as the daily record of rising prices of food and apparel shows. “Normalcy” has been with us nineteen months. The profiteer not only continues to be with us, but is actually increasing his extortions under a “protective” system that pinches many to fatten a few. The imposition of the new tariff will be felt in every pocket between now and Christmas. There fs but one way to remedy its iniquities and that is to take the control of legislation away from a party that keeps itself in power by selling privileges. The election of Dr. Copeland to the Senate will be a long step in the right direction. Senator In a report to the Russian Workmen's and Peasants’ Parliament, Finance Commissioner Sokolnikov estimates the total amount of soviet rubles in circulation at 1,182 trillion. In figures: 1,182,000,000,000,000(!) If the Russian people are not pretty well grounded by this time in the elementary eco- nomic lesson of the difference between money and wealth they must be beyond teaching. N the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post Justice Wanamaker of the Ohio Supreme Court discusses the prevalence of crime and the ineffectiveness of punishment. He places a heavy measure of blame on the bench. The Ohio jurist advances, among other sug,.s- tions, the almost revolutionary idea that judges ought to follow business custam, clear their desis | and clean up their calendars, before they take vacations. This is good reading, coming as it does, from the bench. The better the public understands the reasons for the legal delay and the responsibility of the judges for this condition, the better the chance that public opinion will reach the bench and effect a change. In his article Justice Wanamaker uses one word that deserves to become popular and a part of the “4 language: Judicial procedure is dear to the heart of the legal profession. But carried to extreme, as Justice Wanamaker points out, procedure fails to proceed Then we have delay and judicial “delaydure.” We do not know whether “‘delaydure” is a word newly coined by Justice Wanamaker or whether he is only passing it along for wider use. But it is a good and needed word. If the public comes to resent “delaydure” the bench may find a way to make procedure proceed. DOES THE PUBLIC CARE! “The genuine need and popular demand 1) a flexible crosstown bus serviee has been capi- *ilzed by the politicians for private profit, and the system has heen made part and parcel of a political machine."—Clarence J. Shearn, Counsel to the Transit Commission, ‘That's Hylan municipal bus operation in a nutshell, The next question ts: Do the people of New York City care how they get thelr buses or how much extra they have to pay for them to fatten vi graft and corruption! Under me Hylan plan fares are only part of the cost, ; | GEORGIA’S BETTER COURSE. ¥ ALTER F. GEORGE of Georgia, who will soon occupy the Senatorial chair of the late Tom Watson, has publicly pledged himself to fight the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill We do not think the country is ready for the Dyer law, but we can think of no way more cer- tain to strengthen sentiment for the law than for spokesmen of Georgia to take the offensive against it. The plain truth is that Georgia's recent reco,d ‘is so unsavory that the only influence Georgia can throw against such a law is to clean up within the Georgia borders the conditions that make senti- ment for Federal interference. Peonage, the Ku Klux and the recent lynching record have made Georgia the one State that has most to fear punishment if 1 Pederal law were enacted. Fe ill hat punist would not be well deserved If Mr. George wants to fight the Dver bil might better make his fight in Georgia than in the Senate. If he can end peonage, Ku Klustsin and lynch Jaw in Georgia, the demand for t' Anti-Lynching Bill will materially subside THE NEW FORMULA? FS: the first issue of Forcign Affairs, a American quarterly auspiciously begun, Charles new Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard Uni- versity, writes an article on The Next American Contribution to Civilization which ends as fol- lows: “The next American contribution to elviliza- tion should be full participation in the safe con duct of those world affairs through which the enlightened common interests of mankind are served, first by joining heartily the League of Nations for the Immediate salvation of Europ: and the Near East, and then by advocating steadily for all the world Federalism, elastic and progressive Law, co-operative management and discipline In machinery industries, the emancipation of children from fear, harsh domination and premature labor, the further- ance of preventive medicine and public health and the opening for everybody of the delightful and sustaining vision of freedom, aspiration and hope.” How happily this accords with the latest reply of the Harding Administration to another direct invitation to participate in the safe conduct of world affairs! The Governments of Great Britain, France and Italy invite the Government of the United States to participate in the Lausanne Conference which is to establish peace in the Near East. Secretary of State Hughes's answer to this in- vitation is that the United States cannot officially participate in the Lausanne Conference but that it will send “observers” to report the proceedings to Washington. This means, we must assume from recent prac- tice, that if the Lausanne Conference concludes peace treaty covering conditions in the Near East, the United States Government is prepared to select from that treaty whatever is to its special taste or advantage and to embody these selections in sep- arate agreements with the nations involved—stip- ulating, as has become customary, that the United States recognizes no co-operative responsibility or obligation devolving upon it for the maintenance of benefits secured Beware of participation. Watch for plums in other folks’ puddings. Dodge all pledges or costs. Not exactly Dr. Eliot’s notion of the Nation's next contribution to civilization. Is it the new and settled formula of American foreign policy? If sponsors of Apple Week really want to repopularize the fruit, why not get after the sidewalk stands and mark down the 8 and 10 cent prisens JUST WHOM DO THE RENT LAWS PROTECT? N a decision on the rent laws the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court sitting in Brooklyn has rendered a decision exactly contrary to the corresponding court sitting in Manhattan ‘The Manhattan decision restricted judicial re- view of the reasonableness of rent to those tenants who had held over in the same apartments since the passage of the rent laws. The Brooklyn dect sion would open the courts to recent tenants who question the reasonableness of their rents. In a matter so important to both landlords and tenants it is essential that there be an early ap peal and final decision by the Supreme Court. , The spirit of the rent laws was to leave rew construction free from rent law restrictions New tenants in old buildings are in the border- land of legislative intent as the contlictiag decisions indicate. The former Kaiser is setting out to censor his second wife's hats. That man is certainly a glutton for punishment ACHES AND PAINS. “Wind passed. It touched me," compinine Amy Lowell in the November Harper's. As Amy ts a woman whose avoirdupots approximates 300 pounds it ig hard to see how the wind could help it df tt wished to get b Trade t t the flag, » not, ac Han f our troubles why not birth controt limination of the Auman roce? . In hauting down his Rear Admiral Sims does not appear t have retired his tongue, CNildlike and dland is Lloyd George's plea for unanimous Government. To take the competitive princtple out of politics is to take liberty out of life, Hope Bluenose will put something in that eup to change the color of its proboscis Gov. Edwards predicta a “landstide" on the wet ine sue. People do sometimes alip (n dampness . John D. favors the eight-hour day and the ste day week, Gives us more time to consume gual THE EVENING WORLD, aerecermanayens: 1: \ OCTOBER MONDAY, | 7 | The Key to Your Home! mek Lie be cy , ee manana ry ¥ 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 @ jot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. —_______. Against the Blue Laws. To the Editor of The Evening World More power to the Evening World its fight against abom- inable religious legislation! This has come to be a real menace largely ecanse few newspapers have the courage, as you have, to expose and oppos' hi work Blue laws are against the teachings of the Bible, against our Constitution and against every grain of common Louts has doubtless not ead of the crusades and their causes, not religious contention but the murders of help- less travelers, nor has he read of the struggle of Spain against this race of “despised people,"’ nor yet of the Near East atrocities of which 1 have had personal knowledge. Furthermore, what Mr. 8t. Louls mean by his closing paragraph: “How can we, after just finishing the slaughter of millions of innocent men, show the Turks how to behave?’ To in dows Selwwhom the gods would destroy [Whom does the “‘we'' refer? And bas they first make mad."’ Would to God {the writer ever had a personal ac- that the present day insanity of our |@Uaintanco with the race for which reformers might bring about their de- [he writes? T have, ALO Campaigning. ‘To the Baltor of The Evening World: The following is a bit of campaign- ing that I listened to last evening on the northwest corner of 86th Street Third Avenue, Although the wording may not be in exact sequence iccording to the speaker, I neverthe- struction before they succeed further in their activities. M 24, 1922. Don't Leave the Turk Alone, Yo the Editor of The Evening World: In Tuesday's Evening World read column I read the letter of Gator COPELAND. Bronx, Oct. and t, Louis and am venturing to dis gree with his doctrine of “leave tho] 8 take the liberty of employing ‘Turks alofe."” juotations, for the best of my recol- urks G lection, T reproduce his statements: “Fellow citizens, I am here to tell Admitting the slaughters of Euro- pean Russia and the horrors of the [Beench (evens oe. Lary Beet you why you should vote for Mr. 'X.' pected of a maddened mob steeped in] lignorance—an’ ignorance they. were|‘° hom you have Just listened, for helt to in blind bondage? Has Mr. St.| Your next representative In Congress, Louis ever read Lord Macaulay's 1 have served my country four years son such situations in his Essay] jy the trenches, On a late fall night Oe ee ortatan of the Arcadians| '" 1914, I stood in Downing Street in was only one shameful act and in the] London, gazing at a certain window history of England and other Euro-|of Lloyd George's residence. 1 was pean countries’ one act is little matter| waiting for a light to be flashed on which to condemn a race. whieh would enable me to give the In the cuse of Napoleon Bonaparte ‘scoop’ to my papers in New York it was one man who perpetrated *he| that England had declared war. After crimes, not a nation, and that one man| waiting all night in the cold, soaked received # fitting punishment and bis|by the drizzling rain, T was finally y of crime was shortlived in the] rewarded, Soon after this I went to hands of # Christian people France, to the very trenches, as a war Mr. St. Louls asks if the Turks are] correspondent. I lved in mud, and expected to ascend from barbarism to] worse, Always on the job, supplying ivillzation in one stride. Does Mr, St Louis know that the Turks have been in communication with civilized peo ple since 750 A, D.? Surely those centuries provided time for any bar- barian tribe to adopt civilization and not to make It necessary after twalve centuries to “‘ascend at one stride to the highest form of civilization.’ Further, the very creed of Moham- medanism makes it obnoxious, What of the holy war by which untold millions have been slaughtered because they chose to resiat the teachings of you people over here with all the war news. It was horrible. But why speak of 1t? Then in 1919 we heard that Amerioa had entered the great conflict. I immediately joined a ‘sul- cide squad’ of our army over there and continued to serve. Then I was wounded and was sent back here to speak for the Liberty loans. I did this until everything was over. T have four bullet wounds in my neok——" Of course, an should be expected, some ons in the crowd, at thin point requeated to know what office the “the Prophe: and what of polya-|apenker was running for. Rut the amy, which agen of expertonce has|queation remained unanawered, and proved ons of the mreatest tndermin: | peebably will until some future alee Joe lufluences of a nation, beth mor] tier rd materially? Tait well to teoch} Comment upon the foregoing ts muuc ‘Ai fn creed to litie children? Dons nneressary for the Inaoccuracy of Chrintianity contain such foul dew | statements upon historical touching PRANK P, KEELON, } trines? im looking over his hislo:y Ab, » fact Fn ew ds ee dae aRE Span IRA SRO SE CRIN RET SR NEE RN, » x 80, 1922, oprright. 1922, (ven Tere Evening World) 108 Pub, Co, By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) TRAINING THE TONGUE. The hands of the painter or the pianist or the carpenter or the watchmaker interpret the mind. However able is the mind, until the hands are carefully trained it can find no expression. Nor can the mind of the orator or the “good talker” express itself until the tongue has been trained. Sometimes the most active of hands can be idle, as in the case of the unmusical person who strums with one finger on the piano till mumder fills the hearts of all who hear him. And the most active of tongues, untrained, can be, and often is, utterly idle. A novelist of things as they are has lately in a book been repeating the conversations of very ordinary and very dull people, something as follows: “Tt looks as if we had spring weather.” "Yes, it certainly does look like spring.” “Spring is in the air all right.” “Yes, though the nights are still a little cold.” “Yes, nights aren't as warm as they might be.” Page after page of this sort of conversation in the same book wearies the reader, who can hear plenty of that sort of time-wasting talk wherever he goes. It does show, however, that most people indulge in many idle and unthinking words, merely for the sake of talking. Still more mischievous is the kind of talk which con- cerns itself with gossip, and vicious speculation as suspected vices and bad conduct of one’s neighbors. It is all idle—all the product of untrained tongues. Intelligent conversation, accompanied by thought, is decidedly stimulating and decidedly helpful. It is also easy to compass if one is careful of his words and thinks when he talks. The tongue can be trained as well as the hands, and the chief part of the training is to teach it to wait till it gets a message from the mind before it begins to wag. to Carolina line. count that he was born on board sailing ship off the Carolina coast eee By Albert P. Southwick ‘orl iH 08 Wee Ttiting Soe Co, J The Zend Avesta (sometimes writ Thourand Noth- er been seen The ‘Valley of Ten Smokes'’ in Alaska is unique. ing approaching {t has sian scriptures, Zend language ag Avesta means “the port, it is evidence to my mind thaé by the eye of man. There exists such |!ving word.” | AE Oates ESTEE (> inday, In its legal aspect, ® voleante outburst as the geologist! rie population of the earth, at the|oniy a civil holiday, as the reformed finds recorded in the rocks of the past, /death of the Emperor Augustus, is|contend, why should it not, so far but never before observed in the world| estimated by Bod!o at 54,000,000. But|as the State , be treated of the present. All-the volcanoes of Pulhall Staten” Shas the population and considered nthe hoe of Europe hardly exo 50,000,000 | days which are observed ? the world, wet alde by aide, would pre-}) 47. A Hany exponen, Sided har 4 c nont much tess of # spectacle than . . . dinery bys abo and trade on does this locality. Lang ayne is Scotch for ‘‘long|them are not fp ted and made © $ £ aince,"* by famous song, ‘‘Auld| penal offenses Thetr ervance \@ Andrew Jackson called himself o] Lang Syne,’ ts generally credited to| optional and voluntary, But Sunday fouth Carclinian, and his blographer, | Robert Burns (1759-1796) who satd|laws make the closing of private of Kendall, recorded bie birthplace in Lancaster County, 8. C, James Par- that he copled this ballad from un ol man's singing 4 en — ton published documentary evidence 99||| to show that Jackson was born { “That’sa Fact’. Union County, N. C., less than quarter of a mile from the Sout There is another ac- ten asa single word) !s the old Per It is written in the Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. CMF by Presa 1922, tee York Bress Publishing | Oo. LI.—FISHING FOR AMBER, In addition to the proverbial fp, amber holds, imbedded in tts clean orange medium, the oldest record of fe known"in the world, This record came to light recently when in Scat- dinavia was found a piece of amber that contained the bodies of several ants. The amber, in its present solidified form, has existed immeasurablo years before man appeared upon warth im anything like his present form. ¢€ That piece of amber was probably solidifying, the scientists have de termined, when the dinosaur and the brontosaur, predecessors of many were roaming the earth and chewing its succulent grasses, The ants probably were caught 9 the resin or gum of a coniferous when it was in a fluent state. fons of years have passed, and the ants are still there—and the impres« sive thing about it is that those ants of millions of years ago had reached the precise development of their de= scendants of to-day. Amber !s dug from the earth. Bul it {8 also fished from the sea, in large nets, just as shrimps or prawns ar@ caught for the fish market. The fishe ing ground is at Koenigsberg, in the Baltio Sea. Here, after a storm, \ long bentshed from botanical records. ‘The fishers go forth with their trawling nets, and sweep the bed the shallow water for the subs that {s used for the making of cigars ette, cigar and pipe mouthpieces, and in the manufacture of an exceptions ally high-grade varnish, as well as te” bead-making, The more destructive the storm, the more the Baltic stirs up the ‘ earth in which the amber ts nw bedded, and the larger the catch the amber fishers. In Berlin there is a “nugget of amber that weighs fifteen pounds and is valued at $7,500. A fisherman, af ter an exceptionally flerce stormy found a hugget weighing thirteen pounds In his net, got an immediate offer of $1,000 for his capture and dew clined it on the spot. And it is no new industry, this ber fishery in the Kocnigsberg dise trict. It was flourishing as far badid as 1860 The Prussian Government has # monopoly of amber found in the dis- trict. Private sales are regarded as iMicit, as is smuggling. Every piece of amber must be delivered to the Government authorities appointed to the task, and they pay the finder a price slightly under the market price at which the Government wishe es to keep amber. epee Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. ae St. arene: ight, 1922, ; "werd by Mbress: ‘Pustehinn Co. RELIGION AND CIVIL LAW, The advocates of Bunday laws free quently make the claim that such law@ are essential to the preservation ang stability of civil government. I quote Rey, Wilbur F. Crafts “It is the conviction of the majority, that the Nation cannot he preserv without religion, nor religloin without the Sabbath, nor the Sabbath without laws; therefore Sabt laws are ens acted by the right of self-preservation, not in violation of liberty, but tor its protection." Dr. R. C. Wylie writes as follows: “Our free government would be ims possible without our Christian civille zation; our civilization is produced nd perpetuated by the Christian ¢ ligion; the Christian religion « exist without the Christian Chureh} the Christian Church would languish und die without assemblies for publig worship; assemblies for worship aré impossible without a day of test; @ day of rest needs the protection of statute law." Even if it were admitted that res ligion and the Sabbath are essential to the preservation and stability of civil government, it would not follow that these should be enforced by civil or that that kind of religion og kind of Sabbath which is cm@ law, that oreed by elvil law, or which needs the aid of civil law for ity own press ervation, can gave the Nation, ‘Tha very fact that any religion or any Sabbath needs the aid of civil law for its own preservation is proof that there ts no salvation in It. If it cane not stand without the help of the 4] Government, it surely cannot uphold or preserve the Government The arguments sie in the fn at the Sabbath "} cannot be withou Aaland that “a rest nee h| protection of statute law.” Benjamin Franklin never spoke more wisely not Al more truly than when le sald “When religion is 1, it will take are of itself; when it is not able to take care of and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it hag to appeal to civil power for sups id] fices, even, compulsory, and seek we punish all violators thereof,