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CHICAGO, 1603 gt BROOKLYN, ‘Washington Bt. | PARIS, 47 Avenue ‘and 317 Fulion St. LONDON, 20 oo : MEMBER OF THE ASSOOLATED PRESS. ted Press te, exclustyely, entitled te. the use for repel ail Credited to It or pot ie Sie eres eee 225 ' t 560,863. | j T the end of ‘the fiscal year, June 30, 1922, } A there were on the pay rolls of the United States 560,863 civil employees. This is an in- j crease of about 25 per cent. over the pre-war period. Normalcy has\not been able to greatly dimin- ish the number of tax-eaters. Like pensioners, Government underlings learn to hang on. That there should be an average of one Federal office for each 200 of our population shows how well we are being shepherded. At an average salary of $2,000, it means.a tax of $10 per head for the priv- ilege. But this isenot all. Enormous sums are to be added for the operation of the bureaus and : various Government contraptions needed to keep { so many persons occupied. This cost is not the only problem. There is a menace in such an army of Government attaches. They can swing an. election; they can thwart the will of the people. heehee seathins FRANCHISE OR PERMIT! Mayor Hylan’s Head Bosman, Grover A, Whalen, says the Transit Commission's bus in- vestigation is only “an ex-parte political show.” But Commissioner Whalen iv alse on rec- ord as declaring that the inside facts about Hylan municipal operation are of no public interest. Since when has the public constituted Mr. Whalen supreme judge of what is political or non-political and of what interests it? Has he a franchise for this new fanction or only a Hylan “permit”! . __A WOMAN NEEDED. Pits regular meeting to-morréw the Board of | Education is expected to consider the ap- i pointment of a successor to the late Mrs. Grace Strachan Forsythe as Associate Superintendent of Schools. The candidates most frequently mentioned are three: Miss Olive M. Jones, Principal of Public i School No. 120, and in charge of probationary work in Manhattan; Miss Margaret McCooey, Principal of a Brooklyn public school and sister of “Boss” McCooey; Edward Mandel, District Superintendent of Schools in Flushing. In declaring last week that Mrs. Forsythe’s suc- ¥ cessor should be a woman the New York City Fed- eration of Women's Clubs only Voiced the general feeling. : It is also desirable that no suggestion of polir tics shal! enter into the appointment and that ex- perience and qualification shall be the first and only recommendations for the candidate. For all these reasons, backed by the fact that upward of thirty women’s organizations have en- dorsed her candidacy, the natural appointee to the { vacancy in the Board of Superintendents would » seem to be Miss Olive M. Jones. | Another terrible mining disaster caused by an explosion in workings supposed to be free from gas. Have science and engineering done 4 their best and utmost in providing tests for gas BEFORE dead miners prove its presence? BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL, ETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL was founded more than thirty years ago in a spirit of friendli- ness. Jewish kinsmen and friends of Russian ref- ugees started the institution as a refuge and haven. More than most hospitals it has gone in for so- cial service in its neighborhood. Now it is ex- panding and is erecting a new and greatly im- proved building at Livingston Place and+ 17th Street. A feature of the new program will be a large community healih centre laying stress on disease prevention But perhaps the real spirit of Beth Israel is bet- _ ter illustrated in the proposed abolition of restric- pysions on “visiting hours.” In the new hospital each patient will have a private room, Relatives and friends will be al- Jowed to come to the hospital at any hour of the day or night to inquire as to the condition of the patient. If the patient's health warrants, friends or kinsmen may visit in person and perform such friendly services as bringing a cup of water, smoothing the pillows, or retailing the simple but interesting news of the patient’s home circle. It does not require the service of a trained nurse to render such services. And when they are done @ut of the spirit of love and sympathy they are fh . A, LL the world has a soft spot in its heart for likely to prove even more welcome to the patients. If the new building will permit a greater degree of helpful friendliness it will be an improvement al- together in harmony with the humble origin of Beth Israel. By John Cassel Hght, 19: ening ress Pub. Co. (Xew ¥ By P a) A BREAK IN RAILROAD POLICY, sighs . PMHE death of Thomas DeWitt Cuyler at just 1 this time may make a permanent difference in our industrial history. Mr. Cuyler, as Chairman of the Association of Railway Executives, played a leading role in the tecent strike of the railroad shopmen. On him more than any other depended the solid front the executives showed to the public after they were known to have wrangled behind closed doors, As a dominant influence in the Pennsylvania, ‘Mr. Cuyler doubtlesss had a large hand in the de- velopment of the Pennsylvania plan of employee representation—the “company union” as the unionists decry it. Some of the features of the Pennsylvania plan have not met with public approval. The courts have imposed legal objections. The selection of Mr. Cuyler’s successor should afford an opportu- nity for some sort of stockholder referendum on the employment policy, John D. Rockefeller jr., as a stockholder and investor, recently expressed condemnation of the treatment of labor by certain coal companies in which he is interested. If stockholders of the Pennsylvania system do not approve of the policy of flouting the Labor Board they should make their disapproval manifest by talking and by vot- ing. It will not be so easy to select a successor to Mr. Cuyler in the Association of Railway Executives. Nevertheless the choice of a Chairman may do much either to rouse or to quiet the fears of the railroad employees. Selection of a conspicuous “open shop” executive would add fuel to the smouldering flame of resentment. Selection of Daniel Willard, for example, would be hailed as good news by the unionists. Whoever may be chosen should be a man who will work well with the American Railway Asso- ciation, the members of which are the practical operation officials, The recent tendency for the two organizations to pull apart is bad all around. The practical management and the financial control of the railroads should work in close har- mony instead of at cross purposes. el tee an FORDNCY an \ r¥ CUMBER i . So it was the Dutch who quietly took charge of the wedding at Doorn. Well, it has always been hard to beat ‘em. TRUE PLUCK AND SPORTSMANSHIP. the “game” loser. \ Tennis Chanipion “Big Bill” Tilden, faced with the loss of at least half of the principal finger of his racket hand, has certainly qualified for one of the softest berths in the hearts of sportsmen, whether they happen to be tennis fans or other- wise. From his sick-bed Tilden cheerily declares he will go back to the tennis courts and do his best. The tennis champion avows his intention to lose the championship if he cannot hold it. “Each succeeding champion,” he says, “deserves the right to defeat his predecessor.” And even if Tilden finds himself unable to qual- ify as a serious competitor for the championship, he proposes to continue to devote time and effort to the development of the youngsters just emerg- ing as promising tennis material. If Tilden can impart some of the sportsmanship that is with him even when he is threatened with gangrene of the finger, that alone will do a lot to improve the game for the next generation. From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that dives the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying @e eay much in few words. Take time to be brit UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) STORING ENERGY. If there were no such thing as capital in the world, in- dividual effort would not be very profitable. Each man would be forced to be content with his daily wage. The money that he made would have to be spent on his daily needs. There would be nothing to do with the re- mainder, no matter how much of it there happened to be. A certain amount of mental and physical energy is to be found in each person—some having more and some less. This energy is made, like the advertiscd candy, “fresh every day.” If it is not used in that day it is lost. ply is fresh. There would be little reward in the world for the man who drives himself to expand a high amount of energy if all that was employed over and above what was needed to earn his living went to waste. But it nee not go to waste. It can be stored, in the form of savings, and the savings can be invested and put into the form of capital. - And the capital goes to turn locomotive and factory wheels, and to weave fabrics, and to sow and reap wheat crops, and to send men to the uttermost parts of the earth in quest of things to eat and wear that other people require. And while the capital is engaged on these important works it is paying back to the man whose energy created it a little of itself, giving to him the fruits of toil that he put forth a week or a year or a decade ago. Every man who builds up a business is storing his energy for his own use by and by. The playwright or author put into their books and plays labor that is not lost, if the books and plays are successful — for the energy is stored in royalties that come back by and by. Working years are few and productive energy is limited to a rather small amount to each person, i, But that amount, if the entire daily supply is used, can be put into a storehouse in the form of capital, and whcther the man who spent the energy controls the capital, or whether Jersey Not Wet! To the Editor of The Evening World: Gov. Miller picks ancther stupld campaign argument when he says “look at Jersey.’ The trouble is that he evidently failed to look at it himself before he raised the issue that a wet Adminis- tration cannot make a territory wet. If he will take a little ride with me in Northern Jersey, and will promise to take one drink in each open bar where the ‘‘stuff’’ is openly sold over the counter, he will have to emulate the Old Soak in his capacity if he stays sober for more thon twenty miles. Jersey not wet, forsooth. It ts to laugh! AN OLD SOAK. New York, Nov. 3. States of America. And, furthermore, over 43,000,000 of this total live in towns of less than 1,000 inhabitants. * © © On the other hand, New York City is one of only 287 cities where the population exceeds 25,009. Added to that we have 2,401 towns whose residents are between 2,500 and 25,- 000 in number, Here, New Yorkers, 1s your long- sought-for reason WHY. No longer can we visualize this country from the top of a downtown skyscraper, No longer can we afford to lose sight of the trifling sum of 51,000,000 peo- ple who believe in Prohibition, And it 1s not to be doubted that they do believe, and earnestly at that. But if we are to have our say, let us train our guns on those people. Educate them, Educate thelr repre- sentatives. And let us be repre- sented In Washington by men who be- leve as we do, so that when the time comes for reckoning we can lominate the situation. WALTER KEMPNER. Brooklyn, Oct. 28, 1922. To-morrow's sup- Sunday and Sabbath, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In respect to the article, “Blue Law Persecution,” by Dr. S, FE. St. Amart, under the title, ‘'Religion and Civil Law," in your Issue of The Evening World of Oct. 30, I cannot see what the object of such publications is or for what they ure intended, It looks to me like a sort of propaganda to try to do away with the Christian Sabbath and allow any one to work and con- duct their business openly as they see fit on Sunday, which day is set aside as the Christian's day of rest and re- ligious observance; und the law re- quires every one to respect that day, but does not prevent the performance of certain work that is absolutely nec- essary for the protection and welfare of the public in general. 1 am not a blue law fanatic. Nor do I believe in From his publicity output it seems to wus that John S. Sumner of the Society for the Suppres- sion of Vice is the kind of man who would fairly revel in hearing Dr. John Roach Straton describe the sims and iniquities of modern society. What Is Civilization? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: A Negro came to a Judge the other day, asking for permission to beat his wife because she didn't have his breakfast ready when he came home in the morning. With pride the Judge informed the uncivilized Negro that, in our land of clvilization, we do not consider a wife a man's property but his equal, and therefore beating a wife is prohibited. Very inspiring! Real civilization. A man, finding his wife with an- other man, beat her to death with a Treasury Asks Help on Income Tax Work,— Headline. Ditto payers. ACHES AND PAINS Some of the fall down in registration was no doubt due to cases where husbands and wives of opposite political faith “paired off’ to avoid the bother of ai says: “| ve it is controlled by some other intelligent and trustworthy per- y inst each other. preventing any person from having ajclub. A California jury says: “Justi ' ‘ ‘ ae PUaWorhny per voting agains: 5 little innocent pleasure on a Sunday,| fiable homicide.’ (I will admit that son, it will be there when it is needed and bring some of its rl but I believe that us this is a Chris.jthis woman's offense was much] accumulations along with it for good me Te polition ite always yellow tlan country we should hold Sunday|sreater than that of the Negro od 8 neasure, woman, but the Penal Law does not provide death punishment for infi as a day of rest. To sell your vote to the other fellow! . ANTI-BOLSHEVIK. ri Fy Ne *k, Oct. 22, delity). According to this decision, The critics gall Gov. Miller an (cy man. Oncg we New York, Oct, 81, 1923, eal ge ae lets Mel TTL CT the amit pinews As, human From th Wi had a Governor who was an ice man, which is some- man has the right to destroy his prop. | 2°e0S changed w: p e ise. men created certain welfare laws for themselves! After many fierce battles men allowed some welfare laws for disen- franchised human beings called wom- en. Now after years of combat women can vote and make laws. Why should the welfare consideration (really justice). allowed in some laws for women before they were given the vote be wiped out? Why should not men’s welfare laws made after centuries of their en- franchisement also be wiped out or endangered? To the Editor of The Evening World; The following statistics, which are very reliable, should be of great in- terest to those citizens of New York State who are of the conviction that whet this particular part of the coun- try believes in should be the doctrines of the rest of the United States. I refer to Prohibition, and it is my opin- ton that the amendment in question never will be changed by the laws of this State—until this State is sepa- rated from the rest of the country; @ condition,” let us hope, never to be. ‘There are 63,879 towns in this coun- erty if it does not serve his purpose well. ‘Then why have the courts or juries decide on these kind of cases? If the man proves untrue to the wife, let her take the club, and vice versa, since the club is so simple and so effective. A few more decisions like it and they will be buying guns instead of hiring lawyers, and the one that pulls the trigger first wins the case. Will some one please tell me the meaning of “‘civilization"? DAVID GORDON, Brooklyn, Nov. 2, 1922. thing quite different. Life is like wine; who would drink it pure, must not draw it to the dregs.—Sir William Temple. . Ten million dollars’ worth of Scotch, et al, are re- ported stored om the Island of New Providence. Bhould think some enterprising person would tow the whole island in! A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going. 2 —William Penn, Croesus, whose gold coins have just arrived in town, was the last King of Lydia, Taken by Cyrus, the Persian conqueror, he was condemned to die at the stake and saved his life by remarking in the hear- ing of his captor that no man could be pronounced The past is like a funeral gone by. The future comes like an un- welcome guest.—Edmund Gosee. When children are little they : hig tho the Na-| make our heads ache; when h 8B. 0. try vith @ population of less than The women who oppose the Na-| make ou ; grown, MATE Wn deed, He lost bieorown 6+ 2,600 people; that is, cach one falls ‘The Equal Rights Bul tional Women's Party are thtaktog| Ov, nearts.—Tialian proverb short of ess people than one encoun- | 7o the Editor of The Evening World: with ¢heir great-grandfathers' Te begins to look as if Mrs. Hall might have to |ters on Nassau Strect at noon in six} It 18 incomprehensible why any wo- | thoughts. ve anal Pearls ave Tike girls, they re atu Grand. dives minutes! But—to these ¢ eside|man or any man elther should fight] Welfare or justice should rule the pb-rprprery man immanliy tesshat cerecy ra 0 ap H vy $1,403,497 people, 50 per cent of the the Equa! Rights Bill of the National! tives of men and women. Evasion a| “¥i7¢ as much a oo by cH abaly MOKN KEBTZ, | iota) population of the wets Luitva obsolege. Beaconsfield, Ms vuau's Party. Men made a the SUATICE, & - ' Turning Points in History By Maubert St. Georges | Conyright, 1922 (New York Rvening | World), by Press Publishing Co. Pane THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS—T! WOODEN WALLS OF ATHENS. The defeat of Marathon only en« raged the Persians, But matters of greater moment than the punishing of an unimportant Greek city arose in Persia, and Darius was dead and ten years had passed before his sue- | cessor, Xerxes, found the opportunity, to carry out his plans of vengeance. This was to be no puny expedition 59,000 men under a subordinat j Xerxes decided to take charge of this one himself, and the forces he got together numbered more than 1,000,- 000 when all the camp followers were counted. The ten years’ respite had given the Greeks time to organize themselves somewhat. They had fecided to for- get their private grievances and unite against the common foe. As the huge Persian army, accompanied by ti equally huge fleet, slowly made way into Greece they found in that united resistance an even greater ob- stacle than the battle of Marathon had led them to expect. At Thermopylae, the only pass into Greece proper, a small force under the Spartan King Leonidas held up the whole Persian force for days and made it possible for the Greek army to retreat in safety. But such deeds of heroism could only retard and not stop the mexor- able advance of a vast army. Soon ( enly Athens and the Peleponesus re- mained to be conquered before Greece could he called a Perslan province. Slowly the Persians advanced to- ward Athens, burning and wasting the country as they came. To the Athenians it seemed that nothing re- mained but utter destruction. They, sent a messenger to the oracle at Delphi to fin. out what course the gods advised them to follow and ceived an answer that they were 1 “trust to thelr wooden walls.’ Now there was among the Athens lans one Themistocles who had long ago realized that no bravery on the part of the Greek soldiers could help them and who had long cherished: a scheme to destroy the Persians by water. But here too the enemy had such supertority—a thousand ships to three hundred of the allied Greek fleet—that he had been unable to per suade his countrymen to take thf] risk. But the oracle gave him an ops portunity and he took the initiative im a way that once more saved the new born Vest from the despotism of the East. Themistocles persuaded the Athen« ang that the “wooden walls” in the oracle meant not the walls of their ancient citadel, but their ships, and transported them from the city to the Island of Salamis, leaving nothing but empty houses for the Persians to burn, Then, realizing that if he could cause a battle to take place in the straits of Salamis where there would be no room for all the Persian ships to manovusre, he fought for time, trying to prevent the Greeks from» sailing away as they wished while he sent a supposed traitor to Xerxes ta tell him that here was his chance te finally crush the Greeks. Soon the fleet found itself sui rounded by Persians and fought from sheer necessity. A great victory for the Greeks resulted which was the turning point in Greek and Persian history, for though the Persians did not give up the campaign for several years, yet from that moment they became a negligible factor in the struggle of nations for many, cen~ turics after. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 226—LARRIKIN, Perhaps you have never used of even heard the word ‘‘larriki But in Australia the word is in regular use, and {t fs recognized in the dic~ The word is probably a corruption of the word larking, and means dis< Archibald Forbes told the follow~ ing story of the origin of the word im i Australian language: | “4 Sydney policeman of Irish per+ before the local beak (Judge). Asked | to describe the conduct of the mis- honnor, the blaggard was a larrakin | (arking) all over the place.'’* “4g pS Whose wirthday? ‘ WHITE, famous American educatog and diplomatist, was born in Homery ing from Yale in 1863, he studied at the Sorbonne and at the University } tache at the United States Legatio at St, Petersburg. In 1857 he becam@ ature in the University of Michigan, which position he held until 1885. To library and, upon his retirement, his historical and general library, com- Mr. White was appointed Commis- sioner to Santo Domingo by Presiden# many by President Hayes in 1879, re~ maining absent from Cornell about pointed him to the commission to in« vestigate the Venezuela boundary ling Kinley made him Ambassador to Gers many the following year. Not only mat and educator, but also as the | author of the following works: “Lees | tionary as published in America. orderly or riotous conduct. the English, or, strictly speaking, suasion brought up a rowdy youngster | demeanant, he said: ‘Av it plase yer the word stuck, NOV. 1—ANDREW DICKSON N. Y., Nov. 7, 1832. After graduat« of Berlin, meanwhile serving as aty professor of history and English lter~ this college he gave his architectural prising about 30,000 volumes. In 187% Grant and was made Minister to Ger« two years. President Cleveland ap- in 1896 and President President Mo« was Dr. White well known as a diplo. tures Relating to Cornell University,” “The Greater States of Continental Europe.” “A History of Science with, Theology in Christendom,” “Seven Great Statesmen” and his most ime portant work, bis Autobiography,