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ove esihity sari, Tan ten | BY JosErH me, row, Pyeng . “Bato 08 Bela hone New "york. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. LE, ANGUS SHAW, ‘Tresenrer, AX Park Row. <* (JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. AGéress al! communications te THE EVENING WORLD, Puliteer Building, Park Row, New York City. Remit by Express Money Order, Draft, Post Office Order of Registered Letter, “Cireulation Books Open to All.” ———_—— ¥ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION SATM Fostags tes fa" the United state, outside, Ureater ease nn thy orld World Almanac for 1922, BRANCH OFFICES. conte; by mail 50 ceate, BXREG, uePea Ase, aath.| WASHINGTON; Wyatt Bldg; wer pear | 14th and FA aa, herese DETROIT, 621 Ford niga Eoidoih Be, near CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bidg. JVeshington 8t.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de LOpers. Bod aif Filion Se LONDON, 20 ee MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusively entitled to the use for pate ch tere Sepatchee credited to it or WCRI ied ‘also the local news published ener GERMANY’S TROUBLE-POT. HE Wirth Cabinet in Germany has resigned, ostensibly because its coalition plan was definitely rejected by the United Social Demo- cratic Party. The Wirth Government, however, has been harried to death by various forces, chief among them being the powerful capitalist Stinnes and his People’s Party. The Stinnes group represents the business and moneyed interests in Germany developed since the war. The real purpose of this group is to get a grip on the Government tight enough to prevent a readjustment of Ger- mian finances that will bear too heavily on the * new industrial organizers. The latter are deter- mined to proieci themselves against any Soc plan to get all the money from the pockets that contain most of it. Meanwhile, continued confusion as to what the reparations burden is to be and how it is to be borne, together with the utter demoralization of the mark, provide material and cover for endless “political manoeuvring. German finances are bedevilling German poli- tics. German politics are bedevilling German finances. What keeps the trouble-pot boiling is the ques- tion: Who is to pay most of what has to be paid? Apropos of the suggested appointment of William N. Runyon as Federal Judge, we want to warn the President that every defeated State candidate cared for will reduce the patronage available for the Congressional lame ducks. And if President Harding hopes to force the Ship Subsidy he will need a large supply of trading stock. THE UP-STATE OVERTURN. N a letter appearing in another column “A Hylan Republican” does some rather amazing post-mortem election jugglery to show that Al Smith’s “real drawing power” last week was “‘con- siderable less than it was two years ago,” and that Gov.,Miller “met his Waterloo when he tatkled Hylan.” Adding a Hylan plurality, the wet vote, and tariff dissatisfaction may mean anything or nothing. But how about the figures? » Adding the margin by which Al Smith won ) this year to the margin by which he lost in 1920 ~ shows an overturn of 470,000 votes. But to be even more specific, the absolute num- ber of votes polled by Al Smith in New York City was only 45,780 greater in 1922 than in 1920. Up-State Al Smith polled an absolute vote 92,356 greater in 1922 than in 1920. Gov. Miller polled 112,825 fewer votes in New York City than he did two years ago. Up-State the Miller loss as compared with 1920 was 220,298 votes. It is easy to see where the overturn came. Not in the Hylan bailiwick. _*" Does absence make the heart grow fonder? ‘ _ of existence. Or was it only by oversight that Mayor Hylan, talking in Chicago, forgot to denounce the Transit Commission he left behind him? ASK ANOTHER GROUP. 667 AN a Woman Home Job .. Too?" is'the ting sym- hosium of opinions presented in the Literary Digest. The question was raised by popular contro- versy over the novel, “This Freedom.” The Di- gest asked opinions from all the married women whose names appear in the current issue of “Who's Who.” Opinion is hopelessly fppear to have it. . Still, a good plies seem a bit up in the air, Only occasionally does the argument get down to the average level The discussion sounds somehow re- mote from the facts of real life. The, obvious reason is, that the replies come from a picked group of the great and near great Mv the very nature of “Who's Who peose listed have passed the point where neces sit. drives them to stick to the job. 'f the Digest wants an answer, less literary perhaps, but in concrete terms, it might get the opinions of aig picked group of women who @now the ahswer from hard experience. The Run a and a title of an intere Ayes share of the but the re most of Digest might do worse than javvestigate the home lives of the mothers who draw aid from the Child Welfare Board This is a selected group. There are children in every home. The home is run to the satisfac- tion of the Welfare Board or the pension is stopped. Few of the children of these widows get into trouble with the police. And the mothers are workers because they must work to maintain the home. “Can a Woman Run a Home and a Job Too The Child Welfare Board has the answer, and it is absolutely different from the conclusions of “This Freedom.” TOO SLOW. HE United States Supreme Court holds that crimes committed on American vessels come within the jurisdiction of the United States even when the vessels are on the high seas and even though Congress has not made specific provision in the law “that the locus shall include the high seas.” This opinion, written by Chief Justice Taft, was handed down in a case which had nothing to do with liquor. But the Prohibition Power should be quick to make its own application of the ruling. Liquor brought aboard an American ship in a passenger's luggage and transported in his private stateroom is as illegal as liquor sold at the sume ship’s bar. It is up to the United States Government to spend as many millions of dollars as may be need- ed to spy upon, persecute and thoroughly “dry” all travellers on American ships. And, as American ships are not allowed to be- come wet under foreign registration, the quicker they are rendered so unpopular that they can no longer even’ think of competing with foreign pas- senger vessels, the shorter and more merciful will be their progress to the scrap heap. As Federal Judge Hand so clearly stated last month: “The Eighteenth Amendment involved the destruction at a blow of property values far greater than that of the whole passenger fleet The motives which directed it disregarded or- dinary commercial interests; it was reform based upon the belief that the use of alcohol was one of the great evils of modern life, against whose utter extirpation no present rights of property might stand.” Bince the recent elections, the Prohibition Power has been perturbed, uneasy in its mind, weakened in its confidence. A little vigorous exercise in more wholesale de- struction for righteousness’ sake would brace it up and allay its irritation. It should get after the passengers on American ships. Merely closing the bars and drying the general cargo is too slow. Mr. Newberry gives evidence of having learned the maxim relative to the comparative merits of valor and discretion. pe A FLYSPECK. E MAUPASSANT built a great story about a piece of string that changed the life of a man. New Jersey justice may now surpass even this master of imagination. For it seems possible that the credibility of the chief witness in the Hall- Mills murder mystery may depend on—a flyspeck. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the life of one or more persons may depend on a penciled note on Mrs. Gibson’s calendar. Whether this note was penciled two months ago or only recently may turn a jury toward belief or dis- belief of Mrs. Gibson’s story. And a flyspeck may determine whether the note made at the time claimed. If the flyspeck is on top of the writing it will tend to prove the note valid. If the writing runs over the speck it would impeach the testimony. Detective story writers have to be more than ingenious to match actual experiences, Was ACHES AND PAINS. It is still less than a century since human slavery was abolished in New York State. The statute freeing African chattels went into effect on July 4, 18 The proposition te make it murder to sell poison hooch is well enough, but what about the responsibil- ity of those who make a market for the stuf’ by stop- ping the production and sale of a safe varictyt * The Japanese name for Korea ts Chosen. It does not refer to the people. Chilian carthquakes are very unsettling! Turkey, as “the sick man of Europe,” seems to have thrown a scare into the nurses 4 . People who know say the Mexican tepari bean tg much superior to the Boston article—but not so ine tellectual! The Princess was nice to her in Europe Cantacuzene reports that + erybody 18 nice Perhaps she 1 fai everybody. Handsome is as handsome does . Frank MoKee is dead, which Charley Hoyt, his partner, “columnigp’ under the heading of Boston Post, fe a reminder that was the first American ‘AM Borta” in the JOHN KPRTZ, bans From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? arid a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to bo brie: There is fine mental exercis to say muoh in a few words. Who Won the lectiont To the Editor of The Evening World: The Evening World of Nov. i¢ edi- torially informs us that the vote for Smith was his own, or to use its own words ‘New Yorkers voted for Al Smith"how come? Al Smith's real drawing power as a vote-getter was shown two years ago, in lis first campaign against Miller. Things at period were all in Smith's favor ad the endorse- ment of the pres nd with the ex- ception of his favoring the teachers’ grab bills, he made as good a show- ing as the average Governor; Miller was practically unknown—a corpora- tion lawyer. He beat Smith, but Al polled a wonderful voto. In the recent election Miller ran last on his ticket; he ran 120,000 behind Calder; he was the weakest of weak candidates—a corporation lawyer who made no pretense of his purpose: furth nore lacked magnetism was cold, unsympathetic and arrogant. He swept aside all oppositon, mastered his own party but met his Waterloo when he tackled Hylan Hylan’s expose of the Miller pro- gram prepared the people, Our Mayor gave the hirelings (Public Ser- vice Commission) no rest; he kept their doings before the public, he al- lowed them no secrecy—in a word he mastered them as he had their boss, the Governor. Consequently Smith started with a plurality of 117,000 (Hylan’s) in New York City, To that was added the wet vote (which was for any wet can- date), and a straw on Mil- s back was the wceful and oppr tariff passed by the Re- sive publican Party. Deduct the afore mentioned vote from Smith's tally and you will find Al's real drawing power considerable less than it was two years ago. “Compared with Hylan, Smith is an “also ran''—running against the strongest man the Fuslonists could draft—Henry HW. Curran, With every paper in the eity arrayed against him; tterly the teachers, opposed by | of his opposition to their ending grab bills; fought by men and firemen for not increasing their pay and with every employee of the Interborough ‘Transit system howling tor his defeat because they could not bulldoze him by their per- sonally-conducted strike, which was engineered by the ‘'Interests’’ to raise (y when she ayers that it is no mys- tery because Mrs. Mills got what she deserved for stealing another woman's husband. “I am of the opinion that “Mrs. L. A. G."* must come from a part of the country where news—as well as men —“are scarce,” else why should she overlook the fact that Dr. Hall was just intent on stealing another man's wife? The writer has a husband (who for eighteen years has never been lost, strayed or stolen, and who still insists on giving me breakfast in bed, by the way), but if he should wander away and be confiscated I would not call; it stealing, but just plain old every-day backsliding, and I'd let him stay backslid if {t so pleased His Maj- And while I know I'd never as esty. set another husband who'd give me breakfast in bed—because God has never been able to make enough to go round—I might get one who was too old—or uninteresting—to back- slide, And I think that any man or per- son who would attempt to malign a defenseless woman like Mrs, Gibson for any reason—or, worse still, who would steal her hard-earned produce— is a bigger criminal than all of the Dr. Halls and Mrs, Millses who were ever offered up to the god of ven Perk “Mrs. I. A. G." or son: body would be kind enough to tell us| what disposition should be made of the male culprits who favor the blue laws because they're too tired to flirt —on Sunday? MRS. A. F. 8. Long Island, Noy, 11, 1922 Reaction Agatnst Prohibition, To the Editor of Tho Evening World The reaction against Prohibition which the election returns throngiros the country make evident at th writing, is but the culmination of tt universal sentiment expressed by the man on the street for months past. The continuous claim of the dry element that wet sentiment was simply local to a thin fringe of coun- try on the East, skirting the Nortn THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NUVEMBER. 15, 1928, | The Passing Shows! Copyright, 1 (New York Eve By Press Pi By John Cassel ne World) ACO, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake $ (Coprrtght, 102%, by John Blake.) BUILDERS. Great men ate always builders. The instinct born in every child is in them, highly de- veloped. The hands that in childhood gathered together blocks or bits of board and reared houses with them are, in man- hood, employed upon building bridges or railroads or nations. ie With builders, the building is the dominant purpose of ife. Everything else is subordinated to it. And the fact that they would rather build than do any thing else in this world usually keeps them out of mischief and makes useful citizens out of them, The builder is never a waster, never a squanderer. His building demands all his money and all his time. It is so fascinating that he will devote to it all the money he can earn—no matter what his means of livelihood may be. Find a builder and you find a man who will succeed. For success is a matter of concentration and sacrifice. And the builder is always ready to do both, Known to this writer is a younz man who through his college life spent three or four times the money he needed to spend, and all for very little in return, His parents, at the lime he was graduated, believed that he woud be a confirmed waster through life. But he secured employment in a small business and presently made the important discovery that he would like to own a business for himself. From the moment of that discovery he began to save his wages till he had enough to go into business in a small way. The small business needed money to make it a large business. So he put back into it what it had begun to make, constantly expanding. To-day he is at the head of one of the greatest corpora- tions in the country, which he has created himself, chiefly because he was a natural builder +. One cannot build without materials. If he has enough love for building he will get the materials, even at the ex- pense of leisure and ease. And he will find in his building all the reward he could ever ask. WHO NOVEMBER BIRTHDAY? an aggressive band of fanatics, sec- a 15, —BARON tarian in make-up, intolerant FRED, action, unreasoning and unfair? te) > on ¥ he singers of madrigals If the Republican Party expects to ERICK WILLIAM VON STEUBEN ble persons even in the Jay an important part in the future| the famous German-American soldier,}¢ye wandering mit wtairs of the country it must purge] was born in Magdeburg, Germany. | frequently seated * itself of this Prohibition virus Nov. 15, 1730, and died Steuben-]the lord who deigned to honor them Whether the wet sentiment in the] ville, New York, Nov. 28, 1794. After] py his hospitalit new Congress is in the majority,|completing his studies at Neisse and] ‘It is on record that they were some- which at present seems to be the fact,| Breslau, he served as a volunteer|times housed in the “mandra,” or or otherwise, {t must be self-evident to those high in the counsels of the Republican Party that personal lib- under the command of his father at the siege if Prague, in 1745, and re- mained in the Prussian army through- Fireside Science By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (New York ‘Hvening World), by Press Pub. Co, Tn this serics of short articles, I shall tell the story of science as any other wonder tale is told, It I can make the articles as inter- esting as the subject, fathers and mothers who ere too tired or too busy to study books will find both pleasure and profit in reading them to their children; for the facts of na- ture, clearly and simply related, are quite as fascinating as fiction, Please to think of these stories, therefore, not as pastime , studies merely, but as mental excursions into the treasure house of truth, wherein the secrets are stored which’ scvnce ia finding out. 1. MATTER. One of those secrets, the one man- kind has searched for moct diligently, is the recipe, or formula, for making matter, Matter! Space is filled with matter; we can see nothing but mat- ter; it surrounds our souls, and yet we know very little about matte: Trying to find out what matter ts, men have been getting warmer and warmer ceniury after century, but the actual secret has not yet been liscovered, Whoever first finds out what matter 8 will be greater tian Columbus, for (he discovery will give to mind com- plete mastery over the universe. A good deal has been found out already. We know, for example, that matter has length, breadth and thickness and can be measured and weighed; that it exists in three forms, solids, liquids and gases. Whether we consider the stars or srains of sand, no two objects hav ever been exactly alike, and the incients believed tlivre were as many kinds of matter as kinds of objects. Modern men have learned, however, that there are only eighty-four kinds, each being called an element. In other words, the earth, sun and stars were all created out of the same eighty-four kinds of materials. The genius which discovered that fact made a long step in the right direc- tion. Gold, silver, iron, mercury and oxygen are familiar examples of the lements For a long time it was thought that nothing more could be found out about the composition of matter. Then men began to inquire into the nature of the elements. Finally, about 100 years ago, the color-blind son of a poor weaver, John Dalton, whose in- structor was a blind philosopher, in- formed the world that the elements are composed of atoms. There must bea kinds of atoms, therefore, 1s there are element ely, eighty- four kinds Having learned that substances are composed of clements, and the ele- ments of atoms, the greatest minds of / the century began trying to find out what atoms are. Are they like solid shots, indivisible and unchangeable? Or are they tiny clusters of still finer forms of matter? The question was partially, an- swered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen. na While pussing a current of electricity through a tube from which nearly all the air had been exhausted, he dis current caused the comparatively few atoms which still temained in the tube to emit a kind of light for which there was no name. A strange phosphorescence filled the tube and the rays passed clean through a velvet-lined box, making the walls of the box as transparent as glass. There being no name for the rays, Roentgen called them X-rays. The X-rays have saved the lives of euvered that the millions of human beings, but their liscovery led to still greater discov- eries, for it was found that those rays we caused by disrupting atoms. The electric current ex-* ploded the atoms in the near-vacuum tube, and the escaping particles car- ried the rays of light through the walls of the tube and illuminated the surrounding objects. ‘The fact that atoms could thus be broken down into smaller particles, which streamed off like luminous lines of ight, proved positively that atoms sre not the original units with which the elements and all other forms of matter have been assembled, but that they are assemblages of still more primitive forms of matter. The nature of those more primitive forms will be discussed in the next chapter. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 229—-MADRIGAL, The word “madrigal,” although St s applied to a little amorous poem, meils strongly of the stab! In fact, he word is used to ¢ a little pastoral poem It is of Italian origin, and its soot is the word “mandra,” or herd. ‘The original singers of poems were lowly people—herders, shepherds and the like, No doubt, the earliest madrigals were composed—and probably not written at all—by persons whose daily life was engrossed in the ‘mandro,"* or herd barn the fare and no doubt would have] atlantic Coast, and that the hearty| erty of thought and action of those}out the Seven Years’ War, He then] forces in such an efficient manner that been invincible strategy against any| approval of the Volstead act and its| Within Its ranks has been set by}became Adjutant General and was] ho was accorded the thanks of Gon other man—against this tremendous | strict enforcement represented the|them above partisan loyalty, endjmade aide to Frederick the Great in| gress. Much of his active military handicap John F. Hylan rolled up a] wishes of the electorate of the bal.| that to win them back to party fealty} 1762. However, he retired from mill-| service was in New Jersey and the plurality of 4 tes, a showing] ance of the country, appears to have|@nd support it must cease lending ®/tary service, and subsequently was| Carolinas, but he also checked the hat will endure for s been simply propaganda broadens: | #¥mpathetic ear to the bigot and sec-/ mado a Baron. In 1777 he sailed for} invasion of Connecticut by Benedict A HYLAN RF by the Anti-Saloon League to bolster| tarian self-seeker and cast adrift the |Amorica to assist the colonists in their] Arnold and was present at Yorktown New York, Nov 11 up @ losing cause, false pilots, less the castigation ad-|«truggle against the British, His great] when Cornwallis surrendered, In 1794 ministered to the party In the late} mijitary ability was fully appreciated — The Republican Party appear Congress granted Steuben a township Matrimonial Backeliding: have been the medium mee eae elections be repeated tenfold, twolang he was appointed a Major General] of land near Utica, N. Y., a pension ‘To the Baditor of The Fvening World the people worked their resentment | years hence. and later Inspector General of the] of $2,400 and soveral tracts of land ip “Mra, L. A. G."' disposes of the|ang Properly ao, for had it not per- FRANKLYN M. SMYTH | American Army, While in that ca-| Virginia and Pennaylvanin in recog. Hin) Mills murder case very aummart-I mitted its leadership to be seized by! New York, Nov. 11th. pacity he organized and disciplined the! nition of his services.