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x SS 2 Che Cuenjity Biarid. ESTADLISHKD BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | except f Pres. Pu y. Boke Oh Pak hom New vor RALPH PULITZGH, President, 69 Park Row. B_ANGUS SHAW, ‘ireasurer, 60 Park iow, . "H PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. afl communications teTHE KVENING WORT D, Butlding, Row, New York City, Remit by Frpress Order, Draft, Post Office Order or Registered Letter, “Ctreu! Open to “i iP FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922, SUBSORIPTION RATES. ‘Entered Post Office Ne ; Becond a Foutage fres'in the United ‘States, sitade: Greater New: Norks BRANCH OFFIOTS. 1, 1903 Bway, cor. a8th. | WASHINGTON; Wyatt Bidg.; en Avo, near] 14th ana F ger a ‘i DETROIT, 621 ie. 410 Fay ‘St, near CHICAGO, 1608 Sates, Bldg. 202 wi st.| PARIS, 47 Avenue ‘Opere. aif Thon nee” LONDON, 20 Cockspur 8 fa de a, eke ay PE To ease Ses PUSH THE POLITICS ASIDE. N his speech before the State Chamber of Com- merce last night Gov.-elect Al Smith frankly asked for the help of the Chamber and of busi- ness men generally toward bringing the railroads into co-operation with the Port Authority in its program for developing the Port of New York. He said: 7 s “The plan so far is nothing more or leas than ® blueprint or a map. It can only be put into operation when the driving force of vigorous public opinion is put behind it.” Doesn’t that apply also to the great plan of transit reorganization for the benefits of which the people of this city are waitin, { Ai Smith named the three big things he had on his mind last night as follows: The proper use of the Canal and the Port Authority, the re- organization of the State Government and the transit problem of New York City. “I approach the solution of these problems with an open mind and ready to confer and ready for help and ready to receive assistance.» The best help Gov. Al Smith can get toward solving the city's transit problem is the help of a vigorous public opinion urging transit relief as a non-partisan, business proposition that should waste no sound proposal or accomplishment through the promptings of political spite. Get plain business men behind a transit plan and push the politics aside. Later election returns from Great Britain show that the British people have demanded a change and got it. Lloyd George is down. Tae Conservatives and Labor are up. The ends have squeezed the middle, ANOTHER FORD STARTLER. 10 the wealth of advice on how to become suc- cessful, Henry Ford has added a different and discordant note. It seems different not only from the usual preachments of rich men, but also from what we have been led to expect by Mr. Ford himself. -« \ To the young man Mr. Ford says “A man’s career doesn't really begin until Le is around forty. Until hi forty a man should be gaining experience. * * * Tho best fd vice I could give to a young man anxious to succeed is: Spend your money—on yourself: get all the experlence you can, Don't try to Save money and be a miser.” Mr. Ford's declared ambitioh js to provide em- ployment for as many people as he possibly can, In providing employment Mr. Ford has also pro- vided social workers to supervise his employees. As we recall, the social agents have paid particular attention to the saving habits of the employees. Instead of getting experience Ford workers are en- couraged to be “steady,” to save money, and stick to the job. What is the explanation? Is the current Ford recipe for success a new idea? Or doesn't Mr. Ford expect his forced-to-save employees to be- come rich and successful in life? Prof. Charles J. Bullock of Harvard says the Federal Income Tax Law has made us a Na tion of lars. Even so, we pay as we lie THE CLAIM OF THE INNOCENT HE grist from the scandalous “divorce mill” operated for two years or more by the ras cally Herbert F. Miller continues to appear in the news of the day. This amazing scoundrel furnished divorces to order, trained witnesses in perjury, forged decrees and mixed marital relations inextricably. Many of the fraudulent divorces were a pre- lude to remarriages which, in the circumstances, are bigamous. ‘The situation is anything but sa- vory and society must find the best way out. There is no doubt that some of Miller's clients were as guilty a#he was. They were 1 gain their ends on any terms. Others acted in good faith and with fair intent Society might allow these elders to stew in their own juice and untangle their perjuries, bigamies and present marital relations as best they may, but unfortunately there is another class of Miller victims wholly innocent and without any respon- sibility whatever in the matter _ These victims are the children of the second after the fraudulent degrees. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922: These children are not to blame, and if any one can devise a way to regularize and legitimatize their legal status the plan will deserve support. At best these children are starting life under a considerable handicap. ciety has no right to deny any reasonable relief it has power to extend, IF VACANCIES OCCUR. HEN the present Congress organized itself some Republicans complained that the majority was too big for good party discipline. The next Congress will not have that trouble. On the contrary the narrow margin of control may in the long run prove even more embar- rassing. i In the last Congress several members resigned to accept Federal appointments or for personal reasons, Tt is a fair guess that the party will not encourage the creation of such vacancies hence- forth. Every “regular” will be needed to main- tain control. In spite of this, vacacies may occur, Death is no respecter of Jegislative office. Even before the Congress elected last week meets in regular session a year hence it is possible that there may. be sev- eral vacancies. Under such conditions it behooves the Republi- can leaders not to offer too violent an affront to public opinion. A handful of vacancies’ filled next year by the election of Democratic members might conceivably overturn the narrow Republi- can majority and force a complete reorganization of the House. Driving a ship subsidy grab bill through Con- gress by force of patronage might prove just such an affront. President Harding may be unaware of this possibility. But it exists. In refusing women the vote, is the brench Senate ungallant or the oppositet “FREAK SENTENCES.” HE American Bar Association is giving serious consideration to the drafting of a code of ethics for judges as a complement to the code for lawyers. One suggestion is an expression of dis- approval of so-called “freak sentences, It is easy to recall many freak judgments. They are news and are of more than ordinary interest to the reading public. The newspapers report them, where the ordinary cut and dried sentence is frequently hidden in obscurity. Perhaps this is the reason some members of the bar have con- sidered them unethical and likely to decrease re- spect for the judicial ermine. In one freak decision that comes to mind, the judge of a minor court might have sentenced a boy to five days in jail for a misdeed. The judge learned the boy was inf the habit of loafing on the corner evenings. So instead of sending the lad to jail the judge told him to go to night school for an equal number of hours. That was a “freak sentence.” But with all re- spect to the American Bar Association, we believe what that judge did helped to build up respect for the courts rather than destroy it. And so with the judges who require men to turn over their earnings to the wives instead of gam- bling; so with other extra-judicial but common sense solutions of cases arising from tangled hu- man relations. Such defendants have the right of appeal. They are not deprived of real rights. The public finds the courts are fair in such cases—and sensible. The bar would be making a serious mistake to take a position against such practices If the bar-is zealous for public respect of the courts, it might better condemn delays by a com- bination of judges and prosecuting attorneys such as gave reason for Judge McIntyre’s comment on the Nicky Arnstein fiasco. President Harding has been writing private letters about Prohibition, and the report has got abroad that the President believes Prohibition wil] continue a national issue until the present dry laws are liberalized. If the President's private regarding present Prohibition law accord with the views of millions of respected citizens of unimpeach- able character, hes and they are to be con- gratulated But why should his opinion he less pudlic than theirs? views . ACHES AND PAINS Ir ws announced that George Wharton Pdwa completed a remarkable series of the great New York bridges for Soribners, It is not known whether the replicas include Robert Bridges ° iy has of a nieings The owners of a brewery speak of putting thelr property “in liquidation." Sounds misteading! . English politics seem to be on @ jambor la the U. 8. A. They're taking @ doge of Normatcy * Whe combine of the meat packers fs on aguin. it is enough to make a pig squeal. * Thanks to the gallantry of Senator-elect George of Georgta, the lady Senator by appointment is to sit in the Senate a few minutes, Good idea. The other old ladies there ought to be pleased . William Allen White (s to get (al he craves in Kansas. Gov. Henry J. Allen was convicted on Nov. 7 the eu “Don't save! Spend money and get experience,” says Henry Ford, Moat people do. It waa Alfred Je pat who declared that eaxpertence soos the Ot 9GV6 Lhaty Soliica ond their, mistakes nome A | Something They Left Out! From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that giv the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in few words. Take time to be brief, Cold Storage Carn. To the Editor of The Evening World I notice that the Ninth Avenue Ele- vated Railroad 1s putting on their old cold storage cars, to provide for the Increase of travel. The other night there were three old cars on the Ninth Avenue express train from Rector Street, Nos, 28, 122 and 221, and they were the rear cars on the train, It was my understanding that they were ordered to place steel cars at tho front, and rear end of trains and only use the wooden cars for the mid- dle of the train, I was in a car last week, the last one on the train that was so old and worn out, that it was criminal to use it to carry passengers, as it was filthy. Send a reporter to the Rector Street station gome night and you can easily verify This. AN OLD NEW YORKER, New York City, Noy, 18, 192%. To the itor of The Evening World: I haye been reading your paper for forty years and must say T am not plea with the stand you take on Prohibition I never was @ total ainer, but always had control enough to know when to stop, Why you seem to dis courage the enforcement of the Kighteenth Amendment I fail to see. Your paper seems to lead all in its denunelation, Really, you cant an your heart approve of the drinking of alcohol. You certainly are aware of the misery, deprivation and suffering it has caused, If men and women tnsist on making mental and physical wrecks of them- fs it not right they should be controlled? If they can’t control them- selves, have a law to that effect. Was it right to arrest a man fer Intoxlea- tion when the law allowed the cause of it to be sold and manufactured? ' think not. We put a person in an asylum for insanity, Why? Because he has no control ovor himself (through no fault of bis own) and his personal liberties are dented him for the safety of society Is a man Around loaded with rum any better for the time being? No. As I stated, they ure arrested If caught, but allowed to go (for an vct that was preventable) when the ef. fect dies off to do it again. Alooh-l to my mind, {n no shape or form was ever intended for human consumpt on ae a beverage—inval\ le as it's for manufacturing and medicinal pur- pores. In a law out of place that ts made to keep human beings as nature made them? 1 think you wil! niree to tint There doosn’t asem to be the how! over the law prohibiting the t tn herein and opin dear to those habliues as alc to Its mild addlets This “Light wine and peor a, which {# t might as well wipe the am out entigly if it is adopted, They will get ‘all the effect desired out of elther and then you will observe the “light wine and beer” saloon open up and displace the home brew equip- ment establishments now in vogue. WILLIAM SMITH. A Complaint. ‘To the Eaitor of The Bvening World May one, without appearing to lack both patriotism and propriety, ask why all tho stir and flutter over a certam Sergt, Woodflil? ft Woe read !n the papers that New Yorkers have put up some $10,000 to take up a mortgage on his farm in and have given him $9,000 Yet, right here in New York we have hundreds, yes, thou sands, of former service men who would be glad to have a farm with a good sized mortgage. Do not the contributors to this fund know this fact? Or is it that they hays closed their eyes to the facts, In view @f the greater publicity through sational stuff as they have just ex perienced? And don't both the Sergt. Woodfill realize that the ¢ ernment } through the F Farm Loan, made it easy to amortize farm ‘mortg: Without whhing to detract from the credit extended Sergt. Woodfill by n. Pershing, one would think we ad a one-man army, At least one man is getting all the eredit for win ning the war and all of the “fr * Kentucky in cold cash. Why must this be? Should not Sergt Woodfill, like the thousands and bun dreds of thousands of other ex-service men be well satixfied and thankful that he came back whole, Instead of in pleces as did many? T am calling these things to the at- tention of your readers, not through envy nor for sport; but knowing the questions have arisen In the minds of many other ex-service men, some thing should be dono to lessen the sting of the insult and siteht, FAIR PLAY 19) 1 New York, Noy. Women Must Do B To the Editor of The ky World The reason many resent the pras- ence In of women professions and business !s because most of them are imbued with too high a sense of thelr own tmportance and tatus Copyright, 1 (New York Eventn Dy Prews Pub. ee cer Me VOLSTEAD oA TASS N Bg OE ccsihimein hime: Fenteetel / arsenite! eae itp bs aseom neh er aermamenat (ae nkt CAT C1 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Copyright, 1922, by Jotin Blake) WINTER CROPS. , Drive out in the country in the autumn, betore the sur- face of the ground is hardened by frost, and you will see farmers ploughing and harrowing the soil, Presently, if you watch them they will begin sowing grain, which, as soon as the warmth of spring brings the frost out of the ground, will germinate and bear early crops. There is, of course, no action or growth under the soil while it_is frozen, But the grain is there, and if the spring weather is at all favorable, it is ready to come up ahead of the spring-sown grain, an to yield an early crop. Forethought ‘vas shown by the first farmer of Northern climates who sowed his crops in the fall. He found a way to employ the warm autumn weather to his advantage in the following spring. He found a way to get done in a season whose warmth would have been otherwise lost the work that he would not have enough time to do when the spring came. And he saved himself hurry and trouble and extra effort in a season when all of these would have been serious taxes on his time and efficiency. Vorethought is necessary to all prosperity, for pros- perity is the result of planning. With those who are not farmers of the soil, the farming of the mind is the source of their prosperity. And winter crops can be sown in the mind with more advantage than'they can be sown in the svil, for winter, which shuts us in on ourselves and facilitates concentration, is the best growing season fpr mental crops, Beside the fire in the long evenings many seeds can be sown that will bear fruit in the following summer. | In the days when play is cut off, work is easier to begin. The best time to read and study and think is in the winter. It is the best time for mental overhaulings and stock taking, and for plans that will develop in the by and by. A productive brain grows a crop of achievement every year, If it is kept busy through the winter, the crop will be far more valuable the next year, Incidentally, the winter will bring far more happiness, for there is no happiness equal to making the mind a better and more competent producer. wealth, his habit of splashing {t about. He is a pteture of neurotic madness, social lawlessness, Ingrained presu dices and cynical wantonness that disfigures and disgraces city life, Good sense and good manners de- mand alike that we should not ‘rub it in’? too openly, be too swanktly conscious of our success. No matter how tolerant one may be {t ts obvious that the successful people must cultt- vate their manners and one of the casentiais {a absence of swank and The Island of Guam, or Guahan, the largest 1n the Marianne or Ladrone Archipelago, used as a coaling station by the United States Navy, was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898 Nee pbincyaby is tad SEG She mand] forgetfulness of personal fmportance. |It 1s about thirty-two miles long, 100 characteriatic of those who have r “Ps The professional women must ‘ul-/miles in elreumference, with a popu- rapidly. Tho pomie dlenity of some (tivate their conduct. They should }lation of 10,000 or more. of the women raised in authority dur. | tap themselves up in a nico voloa EE venita ing the war must ho frewh in many {and a fine high heart anda mind that) An old name for New Jersey was persons, remembrance and. the real {never lets anybody down. Or T am) «Jorsey Blue Bate.” ' © unpopularity in all ages |afraid that the olf tdeals and the old eee u riche’ and als aly und the Inspirations arc The Collyridians were a sect of Ara- wtitver is not the fuet jtiventencd to fade and Meappent bic Christtans, chiely women, which thot he hax mide me but tis! AARON I, BELLIN first uppeared tn the year 373. They howy and nolvy invisiunce on his Byooklyn, Nov, worshipped alope tho Virgin Mary 4, ] Fireside Science By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1022 (New York Fivening World), by Press Pub. Co. 1, MATTER (Continued). Having shown that matter consistd of cighty-four elements and that the elements consist of atoms, we shall show, in this article, what’ progres# has been made toward determining the nature of the atom. Henrl Becquerel, a Frenchman, waa the first to discover that cortain of the elements, such as uranium, are themseives spontaneously emitting the same kind of rays that were first roduced by Roentgen as a result of passing an electrio current througtt a vacuum tube. The discovery meant this: that the radio-active atoms (those which emitted rays) were diss rupting of thelr own accord, From nothing can throw off particles and remain intact. A bottle of perfume ery, for example, sinks lower as ite emanations spread. Prof. and Mme. Currie, following up Becquerel’s discovery, began t@ surmise the existence of some ume known element, having even greate@ radio-activity than uranium. 1@ seemed to be assgelated with uranium in pitchblende ore, just as gold !@ found associated with other minerals in quartz. The uranium ore as @ whole yielded only a feeble glow, whereas particular points glowed brightly. As a result of minutely working over elght tons of pitch« blende, they discovered two new elea ments: polonium, named by Mma Currie after her native land, and ane other element which, being a milliow times more radiant than uranium, rea celved the name of radium. In recog nition of her work, American womes gave Mme. Currte, during her recen® visit to the United States, one grams of radium, costing $110,000 and $50; 000 tn cash,’ Then two English physicists wort knighthood and the Nobel prize by, reason of still moro startling discove eries. Working Independently, thoy, demonstrated that the atoms of all the slements are composed of the same kind of electric doublets, each of which carries both a positivd and neg~ ative charge, Prof, Thomson, using’ exceedingly delicate instruments, was able to count, measure and weigh the electrons contained in the hydrogen atom, In like manner, Prof. Ruther+ ford fdentified the positive equiva lents. It is thought, therefore, that the atoms of the elghty-four elements dif- fer from one another only in the sense that they carry a larger or smalcr number of the electric doublets, ur Tho umes as en atom, is sup- 6 times as many, as the hydrogeu nium atom, being vy as the hydrc posed to embody 2 electric doublets atom. The work of Thomson and Ruther«, ford went close to the heart of ore-5 ation. It was found, for example, that as radium atoms break down, they; discharge three kinds of rays. Ona kind, the alpha ra when stopped and collected by means of an Im- permeable screen, became transmuted, ag it were, into hellum atoms, In other words, large atoms break down and give rise to smaller atoms of another clas It follows that/the basic materials out of which matter has been cona structed are not atoms, but the elec~ tric doublets\of which the atoms are composed. ‘The law of the conserva~ tlon of matter, however, which says that matter cannot be destroyed or created, still holds true; for, while old atoms may disappear and new atoms take their place, the electria doublets have not been affected; they, have simply changed partners, Science has not yet glimpsed be+ yond the electron; but, in view of what has been accomplished by mert and women who are still at work, are we warranted in assuming that we have reached the end? The story of man’s efforts to master the mysteries of matter tllustrates the method by which the human mind {s acquiring, superhuman power. Back and fur- ther back, century after century, {n+ telligence has been pushing mysteryy The mystery still abides in the re+ gions beyond the electron, but it ta not quite so stupefying as It was tem thousand years ago. The story has brought us to the conclusion that matter is basically of an electrical nature, which 1s a good starting point for beginners In set ~ ence, The next article will deal with’ energy, the power which pervades and actuates matter. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 230—MAGENTA. The word “magenta” designates # reddish-purple color which it takes much courage on the part of a woman tu wear, But before it designated a color, Magenta was-—and still is—the name” of a city in Italy, The red aniline dye wag first produced in the Italian tity, or obtained its name from the elty in the country of vivid colors. At Magenta, which is twenty-four miles northwest of Pavia, a great bat- tle was fought, in 1859, in which the Austrians were d® bined French and Sardinians In that battle was shed a good deal of the liquid that 1s of red purplish ated by the com= color. and made offerings to her in a twisted cake called a collyris se In cloth measure, two and one-quar ter Inches make one nail; four nalh make one quarter and four quarters produce the yard of thirty-six inches. “To show th white feather" is syne onymous with ‘a display of cows ardice.’ The proverbal expression arose from the circumstance that a white feather in the tall of a game cock {#4 certain sign Qiat he ts not @ thoroughbred, o Ss cy