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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. pany, Sito C8 Pak how, New vor, ee PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, |. ANGUS BHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, PULITSER, Secretary, 08 Park Kow. PERSE ot cochmnatootens to T BB EVENING beg ada t, Park Row, New York City. Re: Boner rata Bf eff ond Reatered Letter, exploiters who use Secretary Fall to pull the chest- 5 Open to AL” MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Ricsigs tes ia i Talia ae tal renter ‘New Nor: ‘World 6.00 * 3 8 OH wi grok he OER rd by mail 50 cents, BRANCH OFFICES. Si: 1492, Boway, cor. ath. | WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bldg.; M, 7th Ave, near! 14th and F Sts. ‘St. wit) Giotet Thera st Bide. | DETROIT, 581 Ford Bids. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ted Press is exclust Act puts upon the medical profession in the use of ait espace v7 foe lewis rede | PN and also the local news published FUTILE NOW. GENERAL feeling of unrest “renders futile further service by me in the United States Senate,” Truman H. Newberry writes in his fesignation Yes, Newberry in the Senate is now “futile,” for the Old Guard hasn't a majority to keep New- berry in his seat. The Old Guard cannot muster a majority even with Newberry occupying a tainted seat and voting the perpetuation of the Old Guard. But four years ago Newberry was anything but futile. He was the majority of one which enabled the Republicans to steal the organization of the Senate. Newberry it was who enabled Henry Cabot Lodge to assume Chairmanship of the wrecking crew in the powerful Committee on Foreign Kelations ° Nor was Newberry “futile” in the recent elec- tions. On the contrary, he carried down to defeat all but four of his Senatorial sponsors who faced the voters this year. Calder, Frelinghuysen, New, McCumber, Kellogg and Townsend may all lay a considerable part of the blame for their defeat to their support of Newberry. But now Newberry is futile, worse than futile, for even the attempt to hang on in the face of Outraged public opinion would be futile. Newberry was faced with the simple alterna- tive of getting | out or being kicked out. He de- serves no credit for his resignation, antl even less ~ for his cry-baby plea of “persecution.” If there is to be a Nation-wide stand against the menacing activities of the Ku Klux Klan, the initiative and support of such a stand must come from the States. Hats off to Louisiana and her Governor if they have revolted against masked interference with the functions of law and government, THE PIGGLY WIGGLY IDEA. ANKRUPTCY of the Manhattan Piggly Wiggly Corporation will Prove a serious blow to the many who invested funds in the enterprise. It would prove an even greater misfortune if this failure served to discredit the Piggly Wiggly idea of selling merchandise by a combination of the “cash and carry” and “‘self-service” systems. * The Piggly Wiggly principle of making cheaper prices possible by cutting off the overhead items of credit, delivery and personal service is sound and desirable for those who are willing to go to the trouble of doing for themselves the work which must otherwise be paid for from gross profits. The trouble with the Piggly Wiggly venture here seems to have been that those responsible paid more attention to selling stock than to selling groceries. There was a complete denial of the Piggly Wiggly idea in the stock selling and the everhead seems to have eaten too much of the income. The changes in the cost of living reported by the National Industrial Conference Board for the period from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 were continued slight increases in the average cost of food, clothing and coal. And most of the tariff raises are yet to be reported and averaged! LA FOLLETTE, CONSERVATIVE. AY Congress convenes in special session Presi- dent Harding faces more than one open re- 7 yolt in his own party. Senator La Follette has a definite program. ' The Wisconsin Senator is out to defeat three major policies supported by the Administration. Whey are: 1. The ship subsidy. 2. Railroad mergers and prohibition of rail strikes. 3. The transfer of forestry to Secretary Full’s Department of the Interior as a prelude to private exploitation. Little as Senator La Follette may like the word, his program is better described as “conservative” On all three counts he is right in believing that public opinion will “earnest- ly support” opposition to the Administration. But on these three issug§ “Battle Bob” is only conserv- than as “progressiy » BEST! CHICAGO, 1603 Mailers Bidg. Sooner or later American sanity was bound to fs Washington St.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opera, Mice se baa LONDON, 20 Cockspur 86. eee ee — a RS ES ing what we have gained and preventing the kind of “liberalism” and “progressivism” which the Administration avows. Getting right down to the record of the past two years, “normalcy” has been “liberal”—liberal to friends and campaign contributors, Normalcy has been “progressive” in the progressive distribution of petroleum reserves, water powers, &c., to the nuts out of the fire. In such a pass, Senator La Follette, conservative for a change, deserves support. CONGRESS, M. D.? HERE is an iniquitous side of present Pro- hibition Law that has nothing to do with the "beverage use of alcohol. revolt at the preposterous restrictions the Volstead alcohol as medicine. That sanity will be behind the -105 eminent physicians and surgeons of this city who, as the Association for the Protection of Constitutional Rights, now ask the Federal courts to annul the provision of the Volstead law that limits the form and quantity in which a doctor may prescribe al- cohol for a patient. The motive of the 105 doctors who go to court on this issue cannot be questioned, They include men of highest standing in the profession. Some of them are Prohibitionists. From the authority of their scientific knowledge and of their professional experience under present Prohibition Law they denounce the part of that law that puts the physician’s hands in Prohibi- tion fetters. As an‘officer of the association explains it: “This is not a case of a number of physicians hastily rushing into litigation with the Govern- ment. They have pondered over the problem for months with growing irritation, for they have witnessed needless suffering and threat- ened death or else have deliberately violated a law which they characterize as stupid and un- just. “A peculiarly exasperating feature of the Vol- stead Act is that in putting its restrictions upon the medical profession Congress is not only as- suming to know more about what a patient needs than the physician but is actually prac- tising medicine; and practising medicine ig- norantly and incompetently, and making thou- sands of persons suffer needlessly, many of them in the fear of death.” ‘ A Federal Judge recently pointed out, with a clearness carrying its own irony, that present Pro- shibition Law was “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.” Will another Federal Judge show that Congress also clearly meant to put Prohibition above all scientific knowledge, medical judgment or human need; that it doesn’t matter how many sick people suffer or die for lack of alcohol so long as no well person may lawfully drink a glass of beer? If so, let’s have the full, incredible asininity of it brought home to us, that reason may the sooner sicken of such law. Doctors all over the country should join the 105 in New York in a determined effort to settle whether Congress can constitutionally revise medi- cal practice and keep physicians under the thumb of fanatics and fools. Is it: Congress, M. D.? The old Tiger of France is bounding about New York like a lively two-year-old, Finds it a smiling and ticklesome jungle. ACHES AND PAINS. Having explained to the members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies that they could sustain him or be fired, Signor Mussolini has received a huge vote of confidence. Some statesman! Jewish college students now have a Greek letter so* ciety all to themselves, the Sigma Alpha Mu, “Marjorie,” reads a London Times Personal, “time was when your eyes lighted up when I was nedr, when those rosy lips smiled upon me, and then all seemed happy, blithe and gay, and now you descend to a prosate ‘8 Seems kinder hard, doesn't it? In Paris they call the City Hall the Hotel de Ville. Why not dub ours “Hotel de Hylan,” as it is such a family affair? * Word comes from Schoharie County that the sau- sage and buckwheat cake breakfast season has ar rived, with plenty of both comestibles to be had, Many more people gather to look at the footbatt bulletins than greeted M. Clemenceau in the early morn of Saturday. Maybe they were afraid of the Tiger. . The tri-color of France is a pretty flag, but it does not match up to the 8. and 8 Now comes a man out West who lays his claim to fame for having invented the Big Baked Potato. This takes the spud out of the ranks of the humble! JOHN KEE’ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922. No Excess Bag gage! coon RE een By John Cassel Fireside Science By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening Ml, ENERGY. Energy is the power to do Man's energy “is measured by working ability. Wherever mattel exists, there is energy; the energ) may be locked up, like electricity in battery, but it can be released made to do work. Niagara Falls t9 constantly exerting prodigious labor in the generation of electricity. The tornado that tears down a town exerts great energy. The energy stored a capsule of dynamito would kill ay elephant. ‘There is a fixed amount of energy f the world which, according to the la’ of the conservation of energy, cannol be increased or diminished; it can b transformed, however, into countless! forms of force. When coal is burned the energy which lies latent in the becomes active and escapes in thay form of gases and heat. The atoms are torn apart, one from another, but il the atoms themselves are not dis- rupted, Burning breaks down the coal molecules only, leaving the atoms un- affected. If the atoms could be broken: down simultaneously with the break- ing down of the molecules, a mililo times more energy would be released. Human genius could confer m greater boon upon mankind than t discover practical ways and mean whereby the energy stored in atom might be utilized, Chemists have learned how to disrupt molecules and] vast industries are operated by the! molecular energies thus released. In like manner, man has learned how to disrupt atoms, but, outside of sur- gery, no way has been discovered whereby the infinite fund of energy stored in the atoms can be rendered available Prof. Thomson found that electrons thrown ont by an atom of radium travel with the speed of light 86,000 miles a second, It takes al gram of radii some 50,000 years to} become dissipated: henes continuously} for fifty millenniums one little colec- tion of atoms must exert incompre- hensible enerzy Prof. Le Bon has shown that the energy stored in tho atoms which compose the smallest French coin is equivalent to 80,000,000 horse power, and Prof. J. Art Thomson says more power is ¢0q tained in th atoms of a half of brick than we now obtain from small coal fleld Prof. Rutherford says: “One gran of radium emanation emits during f life 2,000,000,000 calories of heat." Scientists believe it is practicabl to stop the flight of electrons an transform thelr momentum into mi chanical energy, Just as flowing wat las been made .) turn turbines. am of opinion," says Sir Will Bragg, ‘that atom energy will supp our future need., A thousand yea) may pass before we can harness tl atom, or to-morrow might see us wit the reins in our hands.’ Prof. Soddy declares: ‘The problenn| is big with the promise of a veritabl renaissance of the whole From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian'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 fo say much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) Prof. Thomson says: “It is beliey that some day we shall be able to rness and utilize atom| HOLDING ON, Souls and Life After Death, d manufacture of motor cars " * . To the Editor of The Evening World and Motor @ubke on thak ustount? In Mr, Longfellow’s poem about.St. Augustine’s Ladder IT have read the article by Dr] He continues: “The light wine there is one word which ought to be italicized for the benefit Amant on the soul, mentioned in the | beer law might as well wipe tha of the great, the near-great and the not wreat-at-all. So we energy And when man learns to disse oms he will be able to do what tl ested a } alchemists tried very crudely to Bible, What he says is very true. Jamendment out entirely and; - - the} § shall italicize it. namely: to transmute one substan Nowhere does it contain a sentence | ™ine and Dore ea ee ishments.” So, The heights by great men reached and kept into another, By rearranging electric doublets contained in a nu for example, one mig' gold into lead, or oxyge other element A knowledge of what has been complished during the last thitg years should be source of inspiratia to youthtul genius, especially sim the most successful laborers in th field believe it possible for the hum: mind to master the secrets of the ato! nkind-control over the e latent in atoms, to nothing of the transmutation possit ties, would be a greater gift than d ancestors received when some for ten genius gave them control o' that sustains the superstition of the} + Would seem we have not got Pro- existence of an immortal soul. hibition after all—he lets the cat out Also, if Scripture were properly ex-|of the bag. And by what manner of plained and not taught to play on the} reasoning does he arrive at the con- fears of the ignorant, we will find the|‘lusion it would be worse for people ‘ to be able to purchase properly manu- Bible does not sustain the hell-fire 5 1 actured light alcoholic beverages le- doctrine, for nowhere does It teach It-] Pitimately than to brew their own im- if properly explained. It came from] pure and high proof spirits in de the heartburns of the immortal sou!]of an unworkable law? here, Every animal {s a soul and all souls] New York, No die, according to Scripture. The Bible tells us we die like’ ani- mals, but we have hope, for Jesus says: “He who believeth on me I will give him eternal life.” If one were Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward, in the night. lt may be that the poet used the word kept because he needed a rhyme for slept. But inasmuch as he maintained his reputation not only as a poet, but as a learned and kindly man to the end of days, there is reason to believe that he employed it because of its significance, For great men not only reach the heights, but they KEEP them, and the keeping is often harder than the reach- ergy lyin Any reader of this newspaper, if ‘he ransacks his memory, can remember dozens of names of men who were prominent twenty, ten or even five years ago, and who are now forgotten. Prehistoric Animals in New York, To the Editor of T ening World: In connection with a recent story in The Evening World concerning mas- fe . ' Hive him eternal Ufo." If Ons WES AT sone tn Chicago, it may. be of tn These men, by achievement that looked important at the “Without me ye have no life; I terest to note that remains of such|% time, got into the He aut Hisy didn’t Seay iets — NOVEMBER 20TH—SIR WILFE raise him up at the last day." Thi* prehistoric animals were found in They had in them ihe ability for one or perhaps two im- Vee eels ‘s shows no one goes to the heaven portant achievements. LAURIER, famous Canadian s' taught In the churches, but all dis. Joo. the work of excavating tho Then, either because they had expended all the ability $}man, was born in Saint Lin, Quel Os pean were Wanner th al rs eee Ship Camal, in 1858, y had or because conceit over their exploits ruined them, $]Nov. 20, 1841, and died Febru SPOR EE Ot CHAEARS SO thesia Anas! y stopped producing—and were forgotten, 920. He was educated at L'Assoq sure ere they unite with any church | paistey's Pond, Jamaica, and in a ld is hard that does not teach the pure Word8|i4 ve. of peat in the Moravian Ceme- ” Keeping in this world is harder than getting, and get- tion College, and received a de of Jesus. No saint has any part int on Island : ting, as any man who uses his mind will tell you, is sufti- from- McGill University in 1864. fie sélvation af'man, ‘The death of) 07" SMS a. 'BEBSUNGE ciently hard to tax the powers of the ordinary brai Tecan tho prantiselet jaw talMeem that wan neseneary. It was Fils act,| New York, Nov. 17, 1922 We cannot all be great. We cannot all be nearly great. $},ut i health forced him to give “irs, accordi But those who desire to command any sort of success must 3]. y1o yemoved to Athabasca, q be more careful about keeping than they are about getting. ee acd (renidusscoutiovine ried not theirs, according to Scripture. All have sinned. Death comes Fees for Prevention. Industry and ability combined ought to bring the’aver- 3] 000) BM) SUS Cet tent, age being into a position well above his fellows, for the ee through sin. Therefore all the dead] To the Editor of The Eventing World await the resurrection, and no one 18] permit me to reply to a statement average person is lazy, and these two qualities are usually productive of promotion. in Heaven. If the the word spoken But when one gets into an important position he finds by Jesus, ‘as many believed on him}.~ nN af and were saved," were all that was] World, Noy. 16, that the medical TY ROW} occurrence of diseases which would that somebody add to their incomes, referring espe And if the oc Se Wh Birthday! Greater New York in November, 1891, undertools Le Defricheui by a correspondent in The Evening newspaper of extreme ment, rom 1871 until 18 n the Quebec Assembl: Ise wants it and is willing to work to get it. ntered the Dominion Parliament. cu pant of the position wants to hold on, he 1 he was made Minister of Inf necessary then to salvation, without | profession is actually preventing the sects, it is all that is nece without sects to salvation. All the vain pomp and show in cer- tain churehes are mere show to cause | clally to vaccination against smallp must work just a little harder than his competitors to do so, he Aber Ne in apo paces oe superstition and fear in ignorant/and toxin-antitoxin to prevent diph- There are more men who have been prombuicnt in the Rede se tice lbecal Packets minds. faao x or theria, us well as educational propa- last ten years than there fe aes n who are prominent now. msneniec iain nd dn 1808 be Hoboken, N. J. Nov. 14, 1982 ganda to prevent and climinate other And the reason is that the acquiring of prominence or 3] an appointment of the Anglo-A sii nla ag | diseases prosperity, or even a good, steady paying job is easier than an Joint High Commission. ni jove! 1 et the expectatlo ohibition That Isn't, That the “preventative medicine’ the retaining of it. eaverani at aie Sneveiveeh les To the Editor of The Byening World: Program sponsored by certain physi- dorsed py a decisive vote 4 I was much amused by the ilog'ca!} cians is not entirely actuated ne election of 1908. His party, hoy and childish argument in favor f} humanitarian motiv i was defeated in 1911 oy the iss ‘ otives is brought out » Board of by i ‘i t] profession with the State Bonre seaelty ts ade Ud Prohibition in a letter by one Wil4M) very clearly in the report of an ad Ht one not stop when that $20, “Th ’ td sya she ay Sain pene smith. Sie ealth does arate F States, but he remained the ane dress by Dr. W. 8. Rankin, Secretary | 000 is paid. It goes on. In the d at sa act leader. A skillful party leader, L In the first place, he declares De) of the North Carolina State Board of never was @ total abstainer himself,| Health. Dr, Rankin is reported in but always knew enough to stop. Does|tho Journal of the American Medi- not that prove that it is the individual cal Association as follows: pensaries which were conducted in Union County, North Carolina, with By Albert P. Southwick 35,000 people, the physicians vacel- Copyright. 1022 (The New York Evening nated 10,000 people in a campaign of jorid}, by Press Publishing Co, kept from the first not only the tion of his political friends bi respect of his opponents. rhs : Thi 00 paid to Fan and not the liquor that was at fault? Last year we inoculate That w 0 The abuse und not the use needs re-| persons against typhoid oro Aon twenty physiclans—only each,| The earliest known mention of a|orginated in the witty saying of striction. 1,000 children between wi and gy a | but think of the effect on the business I erryboat is in tl, Samuel xix,, 18, one who called the felted hat of the profession in keeping up that He says further; “Wag it right to} years of age a t diphtheria, The hi er) Sah pene Peceues they mever hag arrest @ man for intoxication when] County Commissioner paid the Jocal | Wet It sees on “Perfide Albion" (French for “Per- |" ope BS f thew wed it to be sold?! Do] practitioners cents for each com Numerous other quotations of a|fidious (or Faithless) gland’) was » Z is always pronoulll y not st men for veckless driv- [plete inoculation, and tha: was $20,000] similar character can be furnished {f]@n accusatory phrase coined by Na-|in gy Britain ae ‘“zed."* te ing and are people not daily killed b,’| which went to the profession last year | desired H. B. ANDERSON, |[poleon Bonaparte 3 Ss ates, generally, it is o ‘gee,’ though Im some of the Soi ern States it is also called ‘‘zed,’* aitaene Has any one advanced: Which otherwise would not have been | Secretary, Citizens’ Medical Rqference eee the idea that they should prohibit the’ received, The work of the medical Bureau, Tho old phrase ‘'wide-awake hi /