The evening world. Newspaper, November 6, 1922, Page 30

She Ein storio, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. daily Pyblishing , New York. ‘ RALPH PULITEER, President, 68 Park Row. ta 7 4. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. 5 ~~ JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row, it by Express istered Letter. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1922. : ————— SUBSORIPTION RATES. Fostage free fats Baiada tal rater New ork 36 conte; by mail 60 cente, BRANCH OFFICES. 1999 Bway, cor. agta. | Ce Tbs. ‘Wyatt Bldg. ve, th and jotel Bldg. , 621 Ford Bide. OB. 140th Bt, near | DETR Tey og Maers Dida. 202 Washington 8t, | PARIS. 47 Avenue de. opera. a hoe DON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMnen OF THE assootareD PRESS. for mon ted Preae ls exclusively, entived to the use for repabt: ews despatches otherw! herein, : SaREw, ents: TO-MORROW. O-MORROW the people of New York who cared enough about public affairs to register can complete their purpose by voting to replace a hollow and reactionary “Normalcy” with some teal Jeffersonian Democracy. They can elect Alfred E. Smith Governor of New York and restrain a hard-boiled Republican machine for two years from practising in the most practical way the dispensing of privileges. They can add a Democrat who believes in pub- lic welfare to the United States Senate and sub- tract a Republican who holds to the opposite view by electing Royal S. Copeland. Here is the chance to refresh the body politic. No citizen who has the best interests of the State and Nation at heart will hesitate to vote for Smith and Copeland. RADIO PROGRESS. NOTHER remarkable radio achievement was scored yesterday when the entire Sunday morning service at St. Thomas's Episcopal Church in this city—sermon, singing and prayers—was picked up by microphones placed in various parts of the church and carried to thousands of re- ‘ceiving instruments all over the United States, in Canada and on ships at sea. Even coughs, whis- pers and the chink of silver on the collection plates could be heard. + With this successful application of radio to church services, with several radio companies negotiating for the broadcasting of the grand opera music at the Metropolitan and with one of the prin¢ipal broadcasting stations moving to the Aeolian Building to be in closer touch with the musical centre of America, popular and classical, tadio is entering a new era of development. At the opening of the popular craze there was a good bit of froth and over-enthusiasm. Recent news indicates a solid business approach by re- sponsible companies interested in the long pull and with proposals for permanent lines of service to customers. \ In time the fly-by-night concerns will be efimi- nated and radio will cease to be either a gamble or a toy. Certainly, musicians should welcome this means of reaching larger audiences. Perfect as the phonograph now is, the sale of record is the best advertisement of the gifted artist. But the phono- gtaph does not supplant the performer in person. There is every reason to expect the same result from radio broadcasting. If Wilhelm Hohenzollern keeps on shrinking in public estimation as he has of late, the ac- counts of his third marriage are likely to read: “Among those present was the bridegroom, who wore the conventional black.” SIGNING AWAY WAGES. NOTICE issued by the B. R. T. warns its employees of a new “instalment payment” contract worked out by some disreputable credit concerns. Under this form of contract the sucker pur- chaser signs away all his wages until such time as his bill is paid, and the employer has no re- course except to meet the demands of the collector. This sort of contract has no relation to the legitimate and reputable instalment contract busi- ness which renders a real service in the community. Workers everywhere should be on guard against these new instalment sharks. Once the device is tried and tested on employees of one company it will be turned and twisted by the shysters and the game will be worked on as many wage-earners 2s can be induced to bite. The way to beat this game is to expose it wherever it is found. Workers should patronize . none but reputable instalment firms whose con- _ tacts are clearly worded and understandable. No contract should be signed under any circum- stances without careful reading. VOTE “YES” ON AMENDMENT TWO. MENDMENT Number Two, to be voted on to-morrow, should receive the support of voters. If adopted, it will “increase the compen- sation of Judges of the Court of Appeals, and of Justices of the Supreme Court while serving as _THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBE to $17,500 a year. Judicial salaries were once placed high to attract the best men to the higher courts and to provide for their comfort in life and the maintenance of a standard of living that would reflect the prestige of their high office ‘The change in the purchasing power of the dol- lar has so changed the exchange value of the es- tablished salaries that the old rate no longer pro- vides for the Judges what the people expect them to have. It is time to make good this decline in the real compensation of these men and place their salaries in line with others, both in public office and in private practice of the law Vote “yes” on Amendment Two. A FORBIDDEN QUESTION? AST month The Evening World made a Pre- hibition test. It picked the names of a dozen United States Senators up for re-election who voted for the present Volstead Law It sent to each of these Senators at his home address the following telegram embodying its questionnaire: SENATOR — In voting to enact or uphold present Prohidt- tion Law you have voted away @ personal lib- erty of millions of people who never abused that liberty. In view of the peculiar nature of this law and the moral arguments advanced to support it, do you believe the people upon whom you impose Prohibition have a right to know to what ea- tent you personally practise Prohibition? If you do not believe they have a right to such knowledge, on what grounds do you deny their right? THE EVENING WORLD. Here is a list of United States Senators to whom this telegram was sent—with the reply in each case: Senator Reply JOSEPH 8S. FRELINGHUYSEN (N. J.) Silence HIRAM W. JOHNSON (California) Silence ANDRIEUS A. JONES (New Mexico) Silence FRANK B. KELLOGG (Minnesota) Silence JOHN B. KENDRICK (Wyoming) Stlence KENNETH D. M’KELLAR (Tennessee) Silence MILES POINDEXTER (Washington) Silence HOWARD SUTHERLAND (W. Va.) Silence CLAUDE A. SWANSON (Virginta) Silence CHARLES E. TOWNSEND (Michigan) Silence PARK TRAMMELL (Florida) Silence CARROLL 8, PAGE (Vermont) “I believe in, practise and always vote for Prohibition.” One answer out of the dozen! - Is this, then, in the eyes of a majority of Pro- hibition legislators, a forbidden question? Politically speaking, does Prohibition recognize no public interest in the private attitude of law- makers toward the law they make for others? So far, this particular right of inquiry has been ignored all the way down the political line, from the United States Senate to a State party conven- tion like the recent Republican gathering at Al- bany, where delegates who would not hear of a wine and beer plank in the party platform guz- zled unlimited quantities of hard liquor in their hotel rooms. For an outspoken, straightforward, thorough- going Prohibitionist, consistent in his conduct, both in public and in private, and ready to an- swer all questions about it, one can have some respect. But for political Prohibitionists who drink what they please in private on the assumption that it’s nobody’s business—‘‘wet cellar drys,” as Gov. Edwards of New Jersey calls them—there can be only contempt. It has been neither the instinct nor the custom of Americans to probe into the private habits of their legislators. But neither have Americans been used to sweep- ing, Nation-wide sumptuary laws that turn so many of their legislators into hypocrites. It is a new era. Dr. Charles P> Steinmetz finds that belief in God and a knowledge of science are compatible. Another compatible combination would be a Socialist as State Engineer, provided the So- clalist happened to be the candidate best equipped for the Job—as Dr. Steinmetz unques- tlonably 1s. ACHES AND PAINS. President Harding asks us to be thankful on Thurs- day, Nov. $0, Much will depend upon the way the elections go. Dr. W. T. Hornaday has procured a dwarf African elephant for the Zoo, but it is detained in London with a broken leg. Word comes that it requires 130 bananas a day for nourishment. ° The speaking and the shouting die, The tired candidates depart Each hoping his constituency Will have a heart, will have a heart * We will now proceed, not to elect, but somebody to “lick” ° How things change, We just saw a duiky lady dlock the aisle of a Broadway car, while half a dozen squeezed by. Then she got out herself. others, of course! Courtesy to . The Authors’ Clud belteves tt ta tho fastest grow- ing organization in Now York, What tt needa now is more readers, Our recent tet apoli seemed to como over from New Jeracy. Seo the sign.floance? JOHN Keerz i Judges of the Court of Appeals,” from $10,000 le R 6, 1922, Too Much to Carry! From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do sou find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction ‘n trying to say much in few words. Take ‘ime to be brief. Constitutional Questioning. ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World: I received this morning (by of Turk: eased ort and pictures of this dis- an ought to appear in every mail) school book as a warning to the from the Corn Exchange Bank a nice younger generation, neat little book entitled the “Consti-] The wrecking of many a happy home has been caused by overindul gence in this subtle vice, but the food-crazed victim thinks but little of the consequences us he gloats over a steaming plate of this hellish mix ture. Plaintive cries of little children tution of the United State The very frst article of the articles in addition to and amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America says: * he Congress shat! or the frightened admonitions of » m: no law respecting an establish-} wife have no effect on the selfis ment of religion, or prohibiting the her until his animal appetite is free exercise thereof; or abridging the fled by this gastronomic de freedom of speech, or of the press; 01] buuchery. of the right of the people peaceably] Jt is generally conceded by mem to assemble, and to petition the Gov-| bers of the American Medical sso ernment for redress of grievances.”" This brought to my mind the sev- enty-odd political prisoners still held in the jails of the United States jus' for having exercised the very righ: granted them by the above article, a’ I wonder whether the rest of the nine- teen additio: articles we and are observed as intended by the framer~ of said articles. ARON RAUCH, ciation and other eminent authoritio: that the moderate use of corned bee and cabbage is not injurious, and ii one could ‘‘take it or leavo it there would be no necessity te or Federal statutes affectins Its use. Experience has demonstrated, how- r, that in the United States there are many spineless, cracked-brair creatures who are unable of thei own accord to resist the craving fo: e Taxation With To the Editor of The Evening World: From Philadelphia comes the an- nouncement that three learned men there are deciphering some ancient hieroglyphics obtained from sealed cylinders found in tombs at Thebes which inform us that these ancieat people during Ptolemy's reign had a system of taxation so evenly distrib- uted that it brought in immense rev- enues with no apparent hardships to t Hards! this class that has to b m spite of themselves. Physical dey radation is often the first step to ward mental and moral decay, Thos: who partake of corned beef and c: bage immoderatgly are doomed to de struction. Indigestion is only another name for Satan. There should be immediate! formed an assoctation against thc evils of corned beef and cabbage, first object of which shall be cared for the any class. § : : c passage of legislation absolutely pro- Isn't this precisely what lovers of} hiniting the preparation of corned Justice are proclaiming can and} peef, and limiting the use of cabbag should be done here and now to re-!to certain forms prescribed by law store harmony and put us in tune This would be a great stride for humanity, I New York, Noy. 1, 19 with the infinite? The destruction of ae C. QUIN land monopoly will not only cause one of the greatest social revolutions ever known on this planet but give us im- mense revenues without hardships to any one. JOSIE THORPE PRICE, | | Te the Editor of The Evening World 5 Eo ag gs aaa Up-State Republicans in the news us papers in bold type insisted that A A New Prohibition. Smith make public at once his stan? ee ee ne a on Prohibition, Smith answered im- RTH Babe Nk Sapa OF drink has) jediately. Gov. Miller was asked by Poon ehene retnanatnts ceo our fairl smith to do likewise but has refused Jang, those responsible for this mar-| Judging from Miller's speech vellous achievement should mot Reel} nigns gt Publis School No. The Candidates laat 115 tt tate to face and overcome an even greater and more Insidious evil, which threatens to undermine the physical and moral fibre of the United States. It 1s hardly necessary to say that this evil ts the present unrestricted trick of the Republicans, as Miller denounces Smith as attempt- would give them light wine and beer this pernicious provender, and it is the Heer and Wine, would appear now to be a politica’ {nasmuc}) ing to fool the voters in the belief ne Any voter knows too well that Smith AAA AAP PARAARAPPPPP LAPLAND By John Cassel. ine Te ALBANY me Reet. eho UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) WRITING THE RECORD. Said the Persian poet in an interval when nobody needed a tent from shop and he had a little leisure to write and think about life “The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on, nor all your piety or wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.” Which is good common sense and worth thinking about, cven after the lapse of a number of centuries. We write the record as we go, and we can never, matter how Jittle it suits us, ‘‘bi enregister or quite obliterate. There it is! It may not be printed in a book, nor written on a parchment, or graven in bronze on a tablet in the Hall of Fame. “But a great deal of it will continue in men’s minds, and svoner or later, if it is bad, it will come back to plague ts, or to humiliate our descendants, Yor as another poet said: “The evil that men do lives atte r them The good is oft interred with their bone Poets, supposed to be creatures of fancy and imaginn- tion, given to airy flights of thought, have a way of getting solid, hard facts into their work. What Omar and Shakespeare wrote as incidents to other writing, the people that have come after them will do well to heed. One can profit by Omar's line by being a little careful of what he writes in the record as he goes along—or, to folluw his own thought, of what “the moving finger” writes for him. Inasmuch as (‘the stern recorder will never otherwise en- register or obliterate it,” it would be just as well to make it clean and wholesome while it is being recorded, As to Shakespeare's sentiment, “the good may be oft in- terred with one’s bones,” but if he takes care that there shall be no evil to live after him, his children and his grandchildren will be less handicapped by the ill-opinion of the sort of peo- ple who believe in heredity and are fond of saying that “What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.” In other words, we each make a record as we go along. almost our every act contributing to it in some degree. If the average person would be as careful of that record as the golfer playing for a tournament prize is of his, there would be less evil and less trouble in life, no id the stern recorder otherwise ARR AARP APP APPR APP DP PPP DOP LROPDPL ODL DDD DDD AAR DRDAPDDDODDDOD AD, WHOSE BIRTHDAY? the famous Sousa's Band, which, | self, who for years sailed out of New eae 5 PHILIP SOUSA, | *Rce Its first performance, met with} York, when ashore at New York re- NOV. 6.-JOHN PHILIE remarkable success in all parts of|sided in the old 4th Ward, When famous American musical leader @nd} America and proved a profitable enter 1 to mind the environment composer, was born in Washington, | prise. Among Sousa’s musical ny the childhood and youth D. C., Noy, 6, 1856, He developed a] positions are “The Liberty Bell,""}of former Goy. Smith we are mighty “Sheridan's Ride” and ‘High School| proud of the old 4th Ward and its talent for music in early i Ng remarkable sted as a performer in| CAdets." He is also the author of| distinguished product thanins pao when only twelve several popular operas, including The old sailors here have enjoyed Capitan,"’ Bride Elect, “The Charlatan,"’ “The ‘The Queen of Hearts" and “The Free Lanc years of age. In 1867 he joined a strolling company of performers and manufacture, sale and transportation] ginglohanded could not change the| Played in a circus band, but was soon pBirae Lancet of corned beef and cubbage, Constitution, If he docsn't know it he}after apprenticed by his father to the Fivery one ts eithor directly or in-| ought not be allowed to vote, We] Marine Corps for a term of five years, From the Wise Airectly familiar with the bodily and| want a few more men of the backbone} This resulted in his becoming con- mental {Ils that follow the excessive] of Smith and Edwards of New Jersey [nected with the Marine Band at] Ridicule is a weak weapon when use of this potentially dangerous con-| It would not be long before Washington, of which he ulttmately| Jevelied at strong minds, but com coction sold under the gulae ef food.| hypocrites and reformers were put The stomach of a corned beef and] ‘out of busines FAIR PLAY, cabbage addict looks like a war map New Xork, Oot. 81, 1034 ame leader, a position he retained for twelve years. Ho was assisted by David Blakely, in 1802 in organising mon men are cowards and dread an empty laugh-—Tupper Epoch- arene BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Copyright, 19% World), by Pi (New York Eventng 48 Publishing Co. PHILOSOPHIA BOTANICA. | Carolus Linnaeus was born in Rage hutt, Sweden, In the year 1707 an@ died in 1778. In the seventy-one years, between these dates one of the greats est and most beautiful of the sciences, was born and largely matured—the science of botany Since the publication of “Philosophia: the knowledge of plants, and flowers has steadily expanded +nd? te Linnaeus our) thanks are largely due. The “Father of Botany’ began ad: miring and studying plants and flow: ers when he was only four years old.) When the mother of Linnaeus was in doubt as little boy's where- abouts she invariably went out into Botanica’ to her the flelds, where she was sure to find: the object of her search in the midst, of his botanizing From his fourth to his seventy-fi year Linnaeus literally lived with th trees, plants and flowers. They were! his life, his only study and delight. Eschewing all other ambitions save the noblest of all—the ambition of) being a grandly honorable man—L. m-} ous devoted all his splendid energies to the task of understanding the) character and voicing the language of the mute tenants of the woods and) and it will never be known how pleasure his labors have con! ferred upon mankind. j Linnaeus was endowed with a pow-! erful intellect and it was easily withig his reach to have become a great} historian, or lawyer, or diplomat, or warrior; but he chose, rather, to fol«, low the bent of his God-given inclinae tion and to dedicate his powers te! the task of describing and classifying: the vast array of forms in the vege« table world. ! When Linnaeus was born botany} |) was in chaos. The beauties of tree, plant flower appealed to men, of course, they had been appealing to them for countless ages; but they were scarcely, understood at all, and of the marvel- lous stories that they stood waiting to tell next to nothing was known, It was Linnaeus who introduced us to the most innocent and beautiful creations of God and helped us to feel the fellowship with them from whieh has come so much clean and lasti delight. a ® It is not unfair to say that to Lin- naeus more than to any other man who has ever lived are due our thanks for the present-day INTIMACY BB- TWEPN MAN AND NATURE. It is in nature—in the last resort— that our salvation Nes. It is from nature that we draw the dynamlia forces not only of the body but of the soul, and the closer we are to the mother of us and the fuller we aro of her spirit and power the better it is for us in every way, both materl~ afly and spiritually. “Admirable Al” As They See Him From Snug Harbor. One of the reasons for the hold Al Smith has upon the people is made! plain in the following delightful old-| fashioned letter which was recetved by a member of The Evening World staff and is published with the con!) sent of the writer: The Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Founded 1801. New Brighton, §. I, Oct. 80 tin Green, Esq. r: I trust, sir, I am not drifte ing beyond the latitude of the propr! eties or that you will deem it an im- pertinence and unwarranted Mberty that I, a stranger to you, sir, should presume to encroach on your time by writing a letter to you. My reason for intruding on you, sir, 1s to acquaint you with the fact that many of the “Ancient Mariners’? — ex-American | sailormen—superannuated and moored here at Snug Harbor, awaiting orders for thelr final voyage to that haven in the “Great Beyond" from which there is no return, are grateful to you, sir, for the admirable, interesting chap- ters of Admirable Al Smith's life that terminated in yesterday's issue of The E ning World. In the concluding stated, sir, how fc i chapter Gov. you Smith never failed to read the numerous let- ters addressed to him and replying to them when possible. That state- ment has prompted me, sir, to write this letter as a testimonial to the courtesy of “Admirable Al While an inmate of Sallors’ Snug Harbor I frequently wrote letters to the Hon, Alfred E. Smith while Gov- ernor and since, and have never failed to receive a courteous reply, despite the fact that as an inmate of Snug Harbor T have no political prestige or privilege of voting. Thus it is obvious that “Admirable Al,” as the Old Salts at Sailors’ Snug Harbor have dubbed form Gov. Smith, notwithstanding his exalt status, does not deem the gulf sepa- him from a superannuated, ex-American saflorman it can be bridged with rating disfra so wide courtesy Meny of the old mariners like my- but reading the brief history of Al Smith and regret that the article Is conclud- ed, I trust, sir, while eeading this letter that you will overlook what er- rors {t may contain, bearing in mind that the hand that wrote {t Is con- siderably more proficlent handling @ marlinspike than navigating a pen. Hoping that the Hon, Al Smith te elected with a huge majority, I re- main, sir, vour obedient servant, FRANK W/TERS