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PARIS, 47 Avenne de l'Opers, ited Prens is exclusively entitled to the use for republi- fatigg att nee seapate. cree feo noe thane eTeded Paper, and also the local news published herein —_—_ i DEMOCRACY. SPT HE well-balanced Democracy of Thomas Jef- ferson has proved for more than a century and a quarter the surest and safest system of guarding human rights. When there has been ‘trouble involving these it has been due to viola- tion of Jeffersonian, principles There are people who do not believe in this foundation of popular will. They want “strong” government, “centralization” and all that sort of thing. ~ As constituted to-day we have a Senate of the United States that does not obey the popular wi!l Ht is petrified and non-progressive. It change. Next Tuesday add a modern mind to this ossified body by elect- ing Royal S. Copeland instead of William M Calder. needs a the State of New York should CAN BOOKING AGENTS HANDLE PRIZE FIGHTERS? PET HE action of the State Athletic Commission ‘ in favoring “booking agencies’ for pugi fists, and turning a cold shoulder to the “man agers” of the fighters, is a blow at tradition, how- ‘ever else it may be interpreted i The popular impression has been that the “manager” of a prize fighter possesses the brains of the combination provide the ring generalship and the business acumen for the pair, while the boxer is expected fo give or take a beating as the case might be Too much intelligence in a prize fighter is consid- ered superfluous if not a hindrance e Many a stirring ring battle has been directed from the fighter’s corner in much the same way that McGraw has directed the winning Strategy of the Giants. Can an “agent” collecting only a small percent- age as an employment medium be expected to provide brains for the fighter at so small a price? Is the Athletic Commission trying to foster a Mew type of prize fighters with brains? Or will it eventually work out that the pugilists will have to employ their own managers and pay them the usual “split” in addition to the fee of the “book- ing agent?” The manager is supposed to aseball THE BIG TWO. p RECENT rumor has it that Henry Ford is A in the market for coal lands. » Henry Ford is also a railroad owner. Ile is deeply interested in water power, and seeks control of the Muscle Shoals development. He makes small light automobiles and farm tractors * But examine most of his enterprises—excluding his venture into journalism of a sort—and it will be seen that Henry Ford is reaching out for two things. These two are Energy and Transporta- tion. ‘Energy and Transportation are the Big Two in complicated life of to-day. Henry Ford has one of the two or three greatest fortunes of the day. It is significant that the Rockefeller fortune too grew out of Energy and Transportation “Henry Ford seems to be following the Stinnes philosophy of industrial expansion, in which Big iness does not seek monopoly so much as inter- tion and correlation of different business unit wider one leadership Vt would not be surprising to see Henry Vor. hing out next for the oil shales of the West There is motor fuel in these shales if it can be ex- fracted cheaply enough. Ford's genius for large scale operation and industrial economies makes Rim a logical developer of the business. And he gould make a market by adapting the carburetors of his cars and tractors to the special qualities of | the shale fuel. Transportation and Energy are the immediate pals of some of the most farsighted and influen- business leaders. They are the essentials of present civilization. We, as a people, cannot Bte too much thought to the development and safeguarding of this Lig Two. CLASSIFY THE FIRE TRA a letter to The World John J. Murphy faces the facts in regard to the fire hazard ir Mr. Murphy speaks as un authority. Ie formerly of the Tenement House Department, and is now Secretary of the Or- tene ments. was Commissioner Tenement House Committee of the Charity ganization Society The recent Lexington Avenue tenement fire with its long list of dead should be a warning. Mr Murphy points out the parsimony of the City> Administration which has reduced the Tenement Department personnel. And he points out that the Legislature must share the blame for condi- tions because it has not empowered the depart- ment to require changes in the interest of safety. Fireproofing is expensive, Mr. Murphy admits. It would tend to increase rents, and will meet with opposition from both owners and tenants. Will it require a great catastrophe to force such a reform? Mr. Murphy says: “We must make a beginning of solving the problem. !t will be harder to ad- just ten years from now than at the present time.” As a practical line of attack, Mr. Murphy sug- gests the classification of tenements on the basis of their present condition as fire risks. Is there any one to deny the wisdom of this suggestion? It is time to make a beginning. The worst of the fire-traps should be either made safe or con- demned immediately and the program should be continued until all the old tenements have sub- stantially the same safeguards as are required in the new law buildings. Last night the Federal Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, undertook to show the people of New York what a 100 per cent., cor- dially indorsed, Harding Republican they have in Gov. Miller, Maybe ft might have been just as kind and helpful to Gov, Miller if Secretary Hughes had held off this particular recommendation till, say, nert Wednesday. MOLDING ON, (From tne Milwaukee Journal.) ‘Aunt Martha used to think I was a pretty eood sort,” we heard a young man say to an older, “but it’s so long since she’s hgard from me that I suspect she’s given me up for a bad job.” And the older man answered: “No, Aunt Martha never gives anybody up. When she believes in anybody, she gets so fond of him that she always expects him to come out right, no matter if he does slip.” S Blessed faith in human natur And it is justified Not because all Aunt Martha's prospects turn out well. We all know enough about human nature to know that they don't How is her faith justified? By the goodness of her own heart, which has charity enough to hope and faith enough to bellcve. What those in whom she might well come to lose her faith lack of goodness, her abounding supply) makes up. The coldness of othes hearts is balanced by the warmth of her own. We don't suppose the world knows Aunt Martha but we know most of those who do know her would be surprised by the number of friends she has, the number of those who at one time or another have held on to what is worth while by her faith and affec- tion. Friends in plenty she always will have, and that may be compensation enough for always believ ing in people and never giving them up. ART AND THE SOVIE (From the Ohio State Journal.) From the State controlled theatres of the old Kus- sia there were evolved marvellous artistic nzoduc- tions which have surprised and delighted the whole world. The Russian ballet, probably the richest and most varied form of dancing art ever known, 's a con- spicuous example. The Moscow Art The pany, by the way, is to visit America year, | to be equally wonderful in socrious drama. But there has been much conjecture as to the effect upon this theatrical development of tho revolution and the Soviet Government. Could the Government of Lenin and Trotzky foster stage orig- inality? A despatch from Moscow seems to rive a discouraging answer. The well known dancer Mord kin, summoned there to direct the ballet, lins been obliged to leaye in despair. He found the ranks of the ballet filled on the principle of weight Instead of skill. Instead of the light Pavlowa-ltke fairles of other days, there were plump, bulky and eleprancine trippers, making the stage look likea Turkish harem. Every effort of his to eliminate the superfluous avoir- dupots was blocked by some unknown means, until at last the famous dancer gave up in despair ond flec. It is a humorous story, but ominous for thore -vho have been looking hopefully to Russia to supply new art of the stage, re Com- which, this said ACHES AND PAINS Most of the virtue of home rule depends upon the merit. of the home ruler We knew Signor Mussolini was headed trouble when he became Premier of Italy, For the jirst time in his life he has to conform to fashion by wearing a frock coat aud a “plug” hat. His “revolution” has sailed! . George Washington once said he could manage men but not boys. Can anybody do it? . Democrats of sporting bent complain that they can find no Miller money in the betting marts The consolidation fever has spread to Tokio, which by quintupling its area has doubled tts population to 5,164,008 and ts now the third city in the world Under a new enactment National banks can ucquie ninety-nine-year charters, That insures sufficient longevity. . Jokn P. Cohulan came ta us fro Orange County, N.Y, Also brother Dan JOHN KEDTZ. (a a | Pixie the Fence! BARR Renner rrr THE EVENING WORLD, T~URSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1029, 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 a lot of satisfaction in trying $e say much in few word Take time to be brief. Courage and D To the Editor of The Evening World The title of Gov. Miller's campai book is ‘Courage to Dare and Brains to Do." There is no disputing that he has a large measure of each. We all give him. credit for that, but the ques tion is what has he had the to what courage dare and has he had the brains to do? 1 few of them troy the Direct Prim Here are 'To des To wei ken the Labor Law To substitute polities for ne san efficiency in the S! To call menace to the State. To kill City and the other elties women's organization a home rule for New York To claim economy which does not exist To for the charitable and insane institutions of the State To establish a private monopoly in the distribution of water power. To raise car fares in New York City and many other cities of the State. To re-elect Silver Service Lusk and make him leader in the Senate. ‘To prosper the public service cor- poration which had formerly been his client To appoint a do-nothing Transit Commission in New York City To discourage child welfare legis- lation To wreck the Industry; To permit tt down adequate support Bureau of W en in the increase in gas and telephone rates We admit that It took some courage and some ns to dare and to do th thing It only remain the people to do’? Millerism on lection Day WAR FEUER Miller and Harding, To the Editor of ‘The Evening World May I have the privilege of calling the attention of your fact that Miller avoiding he readers to the Gov is as earnestly national isstes this ye as insisted upon discussing thom two years agi must, of give him eredit for great po te ne by sliding in with Hardiy you can shout Harding into ears as ' vi ine ' \ t iff. He does not want to be reminded Iihot oven now men und women are > paying more than ever for all wear ing apparel either in whole or in part made of w He does not like to be reminded every man, woman and child, under the plea of protection to American labor, is contributing untold millions to the pockets of the ‘ers and manufacturers of wool, grow- He hopes that the women of the State will not be reminded of how much more they have to pay for a pair of gloves than they did before the Harding tariff law was passed He hopes that they will forget, at least until after election, that the housewlfe is compelled to pay an extra price for her sugar and coffee, for her supplies of cutlery and kitchen utensils and for butter and cheese He does not want them to think over the fact that the Harding prom- ises of a reduction in the cost of the necessities of life have not only been broken but that all the main items of clothing and food are higher Instead of lower. ‘The papers supporting Miller were recently filled with protests against many of these items when the tariff debate was going on, Is Miller for or against Harding and his tariff? Are you going to let your readers forget that they have their first opportunity in this election not only of expressing themselves on Millerism but upon the atrocities of this robber tariff? Even Mr. Harding, for purposes of the election, is intimating, after he has deliberately signed the Tariff Bill, that he thinks that some of its sched ules should be modified. T dare say the people will hardiy believe him in October and November, in view of the foct that he had influence and power to prevent the passage of, or to veto, this tariff of abominations. ROBERT A, KEOGH Staten Island, Oct. 28, 1922. You Sce Te-Day ft” The Evening World me to commend “What Did Apart from its prize the very many in ewWhat Did Editor 9f allow ro the Please you on novel You See To-Day" page. awarding aspect, terestin oceurrences reported by your your ders are frequently not only but also H. OKUN amus entertaining Ww ing and in strnetive Brooklyn. What ts mn Yankee? the Bait he Eventng World \ claims that. a person's parents have to be born in this try ‘ at son te i " born ' nar nh born in person in i i this cduntry, of course Whg Js correct? Copyright, 192! (New York Event By Press Pu By John Cassel | i UNCOMMON SENSE Sy John Blake Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) MIND INSURANCE. We are quick to insure our houses and our property, be cause it is easy for us to see that their destruction would be a calamity. Provident men insure their lives, because they do not want to leave hungry dependents in case anything happens to them, . jf Great pianists and violinists insure their fingers, and dancers their toes. These members bring in big incomes. Some means must be provided to pay at least partially for their loss if anything happens to them, A But—the mind—whiech earned the money to build the house, which makes the income that provides for the family, which directs the fingers of the pianist and the painter, and 7 the toes of the dancer—supposing that goes bad—is th any insurance on it? There could be, of course, some sort, for there are com- panies who will insure anything on earth, even the weather, if they get enough money. But insuring a mind in a company would be too expen sive for most people. It can be insured, however, by care and thought and in- telligence, and that is what few owners of highly productive minds think about. Mind insurance is available to anybody who will take in telligent care of the mind itself and of the body. It is not complete and absolute insurance. It is not insurance against destruction by death. But it reduces the chances of the mind's “slipping” by about 50 per cent., and it costs nothing at all save a little care and time. The mind that {s kept well fed on the right sort of litera- ture and conversation and association will not be likely to “slip.” It must, however, be in a brain which is well supplied with healthy blood, and it must hot be impaired with stimu- lants or loss of sleep, or unnecessary worries, The man or woman who remembers that the mind is the source of all income, whether it is made manually or men- tally, that it is the breadwinner of the individual, and that it ought to be given the care that it deserves, can keep the mind that nature gave him in good and improving condition. That is insurance. And surely if fingers and toes are worth insuring, the mind is more worth insuring. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 225—-MANUFACTURE. for ratlrogds would be manifest! misrepresenting the case And still it 1s reasonable to spea manufacturing locotnotives, cause the meaning of the of “making by hand’? Mogul locomotives he word has Romances of Industry ° By Winthrop Biddle. Ooreeietss Sb Peslcng On LIL—THE TREASURE HOUSE THE BIRDS BUILT. Out on the face of the remote Pa- cific are two blemishes, two specks of islands now called respectively Ocean and Nauru Islands, where the seabirds built inexhaustibte treasure houses. The way this treasure was @iscov- ered reads like fiction, A sailor a voyage in this out-of-the-way eda picked the beach a pecultat plece of rock. He took it along to the ship with the {dea that it would do to make marbles of for his children. But the piece of rock ended fts travels for the time being at Sydney in Australia, Somebody in a Sydney office thought the rock would do nicely as a door prop. So he laid & down to keep the door open. An office worker who dabbled ta imateur chemistry happened to notiep the piece of rock, picked it up end made up his mind that tt contained manurial properties. His employer took up the a tracked the sallor down and found where the door-stopper came trom, Then they promptly hied them, witit have up on chemists and workers, to Ocean Island The chemists found that the island |was a of guano, that guane would the earth yleld riohly, and that from this speck on the fade of the ocean they could extract milk lions of tons of guano, Of this valuable fertilizer the United » |States and Japan were soon consum+ ling half a million tons between them. Aad here the Germans lost a tridk— | and they seldom lose a trick in mat ters requiring chemical knowledge The British exploiters of Ocean Island informed the Germans, at that time ers of Nauru Island, that there of guano to be found om sreut mountains of It, de seabirds through was plenty Nauru posited thousands of years nN by the ein,” said some German tn com= ial or political authority. won't you let us exploit your 02” suggested the British corpo= n promptly. " said t man In authority ish brought their wortee thine Japanese and nae and set them to working, with and shovel and dynamite, t% ai; Into the treasure house which 1e birds had built through thout sands of years—and then moved or me other island of the Pacifla. rds, in greatly diminished numbe thanks to sallors, hunters and adventurers, are building up mountains of treasur, here and there, But the chances are they never will accomplish what they ao= complished on Ocean and Naaru Ise lands other ee Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Orth yh Broce Publishing Gore MARCO POLO’S TRAVELS. Marco Polo, the original ‘globe d his tramping along these earthly ways 598 years ago, During the seventy years of his life he saw more of the world than man of his and after the lapse of nearly stx centuries the of his work ts stl felt among explorers, scientists ané other promoters of civilization, Rorn in Venice of noble ancestry, ed nothing for the glittering distinctions and hollow pleasures of the class into which he was born, and turning without ceremony from the profitless and disgusting crowd, he set out upon the travels and @m- plorations that were to make him fa- mous and, at the same time, add 9° much to the knowledge and happl- ness of mankind Marco Polo was the first to trace route across the whole of Asia, nam- ing and describing the various coun- tries through which he passed. He was the first to reveal China, tt {ts wealth and vastness, to the Went trotter,’’ finish any day, influence on Thibet, Sumatra and the other parts ot reat Archipelago. . He gave the first clear account Abyssinia, Zanzibar end fae Madagascar. hat all this rich catalogue of Gia coveries should belong to one man ample ground for a untque and las renown. During the war between Ventos and Polo was taken prisoner and imprisoned, and {t was in hie oell fm snoa that he dictated to a fellow ner the record of his travels work aroused a profound tm id may bo sald to have rented the study of geography Th is but little doubt about the truth of the claim that in the reading of Polo's manuscript Columbus found the inspiration that led to the y|diacovery of the New World. Prince Henry of Portugal, know k]as Henry the Navigator, was fond of reading Polo's writings and recetved Genoa, The D4 facture” is one from them the tdeas and Inspirations he yas bs peate a — i. the} changed since the word was incor-|¢yat led him to his herole labors ts f the most selt-contradiotory } pe] porated in the language the promotion of geographical scienees ish language. Its origin in the oe It is claimed in quite reputable ar distance is a combination of the F h Wi cilArt aver Ehat 16 Stan ¢ha) clay Ranaeiee words “manu (Latin, for “by tne rom the ise globe trotter who brought to the hand") and “facio" C'T make,” In Do not allow idleness to deceive | People of Europe thetr first kmowbe angue you; for while you give him to |°48°, of the mariners compass, GUme the word p! y conveys the] , : powder and the art of prigting, acald nvey the meanin day he steals tomorrow from you, Be this as it may, it ts a fact aking by hand awit te Crowquil, Polo's story of his travels led yeture™ mvear produce by " s the terpreter of 4 to fle revival that opened the way ' ' tos, for the exploratia at machin and in bt quantites. | sre, dipping his pen into his mind, |<"! ploration which reache@ Se in distinction frém “making by hand.” 9 a eta crake ake climax in the work Peary The person who would speak of at reek saying. Amundsen, pcs Tae aes \