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SATURDAY, NOVPMBER 25, 1982. UBSCRIPTION RATES. lonths One Moots Ni ie Og > 1399 Bway, cor. seto.{ WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bldg; saa and F Bts Bt, i Paes Bide] DETR IIT, 621 Ford Bide. ON. dio Ee 140th Bt, Det enreacs, ‘oa Baler Bag 202 Washington 47_Avenve de 'Opmm se a LONDON, 90 Cockspur MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. rea Stes ae 7\/, PER CENT. OR NOTHING, HE Staten Island Pier situation is evidently going from bad to worse. Acting Mayor Hulbert’s assumption that there is a connection between the present tangle and the Ship Subsidy issue is ingenious. But that is all that can be said for it. Long before President Harding's Ship Subsidy Message, The Evening World revealed how the companies: that leased the piers were trying to squirm out of the bargains they made with the City. The fact that more threats to break leases are now being made may be no more than an indica- tion that the City cannot hold its lessees. Mr. Hulbert, who was Commissioner of Docks when these leases were signed, says “the City can not be held responsible for: business depressions” which led shipping concerns to want to ,cancel their contracts. Mr. Hulbert also says: “We were criticised when we announced we would lease the Staten Island piers on a 7% per cent. basis, that being the return to the City. Now the shoe is on the other foot and the other side is bowling.” * All this is true. As a business proposition for the City the howl of the lessees does not figure. What the City needs to know is whether the leases were so drawn that the City can collect the seven and one-half per cent. for the full term of the lease. The City and the men who planned and leased these piers are not responsible for business de- pressions. But they are responsible for the bind- ing character of the leases. If the shipping com- panies are able to go to court and get rid of their -obligations to the City, the treasury will experi- ence a “depression” that will mean added taxation for a generation. The City Administration is also responsible for the doubled expense that makes lessees dissatis- fied with the bargain. The City is responsible for construction delays that have caused interest charges to mount. Shipping companies are reported to prefer the forfeit of their surety bonds rather than carry out ror the leases.” And the surety bonds by no theans cover the possible loss to the City. The test of responsibility is the strength of the leases. Jf Hylan, Hulbert & Co. have executed leases that do not protect the City in fact as well as theory they cannot evade the responsibility. A seven and a half per cent. return is no profit if you do not get it. A DEDICATION. E note with interest the dedicatory epistle W of a book just come from the printers: To the * HON. HARRY M, DAUGHDRTY, Attorney General of the United States, A true and loyal friend, a fair qné Y chivalrous foe, With whom tt ts the author's great privilege to coliaborate as SolicitorGeneral in defending and vindicating in the Bupreme Court of the United States the pringiples and mandates of its Constitution. The author is James M. Beck. In view of the possibility that the Attorney General may be impeached, we wonder whether this dedication ought not to be classified -under the heading of “propaganda.” We also wonder whether this particular form of propaganda is en- tirely ethical. It would be interesting to observe the effect this dedication might have on Mr. Daugherty’s former client, Mr. Morse. “A true and loyal friend, a fair and chivalrous foe.” ie Senator Hitchcock now knows why they call Clemenceau “the Tiger.” A PUBLIC NEED. LDERMAN GRAUBARD will have the pub- lic with him in his effort to require the opening of subway and elevated comfort stations to the public as well as to travelling patrons of the lines. Alderman Graubard wants the Corporation Counsel’s opinion as to whether the Aldermen have power to require the change by ordinance. When that is known the next step will be clearer. If the Aldermen have not the power, the change should be effected by agreement with the compa- nies. Only slight structural changes would be re- quired and the convenience to the public would be enormous. The Transit Commission should not omit this feature from its reorganization plan. TATTERED FLAGS ON THE OLD P, 0. Some time ago The Evening World com- mented on the dilapidated appearance of a United States flag waving above the old Post Office. The fault was corrected, The flag on duty yesterday was in tatters, At least three distinct tears ran the length of the flag. The colors were indistinguishable. Hasn't the Government the will and the means to set a good example? Or will it be necessary for, public-spirited citi- zens to collect a fund for laundering, patching and renewing the Post Office flags? THE WEEK. — HARMING AUTUMN WEATHER featured the week. The climax of the FOOTBALL SHA- SON comes today with the YALF-HARVARD and ARMY-NAVY games. But PRINCETON has cinched the LEADERSHIP of the BIG THRED. In New York this has been CLEMENCBAU WHBK. ‘The “FATHER OF VICTORY” has been the DAR- LING of the CITY even when his words did not rouse agreement. BOSTON {fs enjoying a visit now and WASHING TON is simmering with EXCITEMENT. CONGRESS opened with a FIGHT ou the PRESI- DENT’S SUBSIDY PROPOSAL. A HIGH LIGHT tn the session was the seating for a day of SHNATOR FELTON of GEORGIA. Her tenure of office may have Strained the rules but she qualified as the FIRST ‘WOMAN to eit in the SENATE. The BRITISH PARLIAMENT also met, fresh from the polls, Our CONGRESSMEN-HLECT cannot serve before MARCH, possibly not for a YEAR. Both the AGRICULTURAL bloo and the interlock: ing bloc of “PROGRESSIVES” led by SENATOR LA FOLLETTH have definite programs of legislation and the SHIP SUBSIDY is due for HARD SLEDDING in the HOUSD and harder in the SHNATD. An interesting news item recounted the payment of $25,000 for a late-bearing STRAWBERRY PLANT fm Michigan. But this is by no means a record price for Michigan berries. Think of the PRICH h a friends paid for the NEWBERRY RASPBERRY. It ran to SIX figures instead of FIVE. And then New- berry RESIGNED to escape the BOUNCER. More than 100 leaders of the MEDICAL PROFDS- SION started legal action to ANNUL VOLSTEAD LIMITATIONS on the right of doctors to prescribe MEDICINE as needed by their patients, even if it does contain ALCOHOL. The HALL-MILLS Grand Jury finally got down to the business of LISTENING TO EVIDENCH. And up in Westchester County there is RENEWED LIFE in the WARD CASE. The question seems to be whether to try Ward, and if so, when? IRISH FREE STATE forces EXECUTED ER- SKINE CHILDERS for CRIMES AGAINST the SPATE. DE VALERA PROTESTS to the country. MAYOR HYLAN, “resting” in Chicago, proposed a NEW PARTY to back HEARST or JOHNSON for PRESIDENT in 1924. He also ordered a POLICH DRIVE on the KU KLUX KLAN in New York. GOV. PARKER of LOUISIANA, fighting the Kian at home, conferred with PRESIDENT HARDING eelative to FEDERAL co-operation. A. B. BEB added to the HILARITY of the week with a dfatribe against education for women. FRANK BACON, better known to New York as “LIGHTNIN BILL JONES,” died tn Chicago. ORGANIZED LABOR is forming a new BANKING CORPORATION to do basiness in this city. WILLIB HOPPE staged ® come back and recap tured the INTHRNATIONAL BILLIARD CHAM- PIONSHIP. A tragedy of the week was the MINE EXPLOSION near BIRMINGHAM, Ala., which caused nearly 100 deaths. ACHES AND PAINS. We must apologize to the Sigma Alpha Mu frater- mity for asserting it was a sweet young thing when 4 te already twenty-four years old. My, how fast they @i grow up! . Which reminds use that we keep on day in and day @ut writing wise things like Shakespeare and never Rear a peep about it; but let a mistake ocour and the hollers flood the next mail. M. Clemenceau told the New York reporters he did mot think they were as bad as they tried to be. Won der what he would say of the editors! Perhaps they @re worse than they are! . Bost hate of camel's hatr are for sale on Fifth Ave nue at $10 per. They are designed to ft skulls that cannot carry heavy weights. ° It ts explained that Brekine Childers, who was sum: marily executed by the Irish Free State yesterday, wae an Englishman, not Irish-born. This clears the recora! . M. Clemenceaw will like Boston, It is @ nice town —to visit, . There seems to be some surprise that Paderewski can play the piano aftor playing politics. Perhaps it improved his touch, . Bistoner keeps ctose to the high lights. Kluz Elan work in the dark, The Ku JOHN KEETZ, From Evening World Readers What kind of letter de you And most readable? leet it the one ohat gives the worth of a theveand wieds in 2 couple of Aundred ? Thoce te fine mental exercise and a fot of eaticfaction fn trying @ aay much in few wards. Take time te be brief. a Progressive Platform. tor of The Eveaing World: Although I consistently enroll as a Republican, I can never see my way clear to be a party worker as such. Neither can I be a worker in the Democratic ranks, because I see the defects of both parties, and the need of a third. The Constitution says nothing about a two-party system of government, yet it 1s constantly referred to by officials, from the President down, as if tt were part of our creed and gov- ernment to ostracize any attempt to form any third or even fourth parties, —that ts, of course, sound American Parties of color and action like the old Progressive under the peerless leadership of *'Teddy.’’ Of course “Teddy” (with all due respect to his Sreatness) hed his faults,,as for in- stance when he surrendered what Promised to be the leading party into the hands of the G, O. P. in 1916, instead of running again, Thousands of erstwhile Progres- sives never forgave him for this, and a third party with the name of Pro- gressive would lure them back, The name of Liberal is suggestive, but has not the power to draw as has the other name, A platform for a aew party would never suit all, but euch planks as the following would lure countless thou- sands: Light wines, liquors and beer, without the saloon; selective immi- gration by United States Con: ironclad law to make the pow: rich pay thelr just share and more of the war Indebtedness, to make up for their past evasion in the way of stock dividend distribution to evade taxa- tion; confiscation of all profits over a certain figure, as in England, to pay off this indebtedness in part; election of President by popular vote; direct primaries for all; a powerful navy. and extension of the Plattsburg idea. Brooklyn, Nov, 21, 1923, BM. Immortality. ‘To the Daltor of The Evening World: In reply to Mr, John Bogert’s opin- tur on the immortality of the soul, Ty would say there is not one word In Scripture that refers to man a8 an immortal soul, but there are a bun- dred almost that say man is mortal, und as the beast dieth so dieth man, In the original Greek and Hebrew Scripture man is an inphosh, meaning a mortal being, an animal body, The Greek is psyche, meaning the ie thing. Everything that has life is @ soul, Sin caused death, and all have sinned according to Seripture, there- fore all must Cle. This doesn't mean go to Heaven at death, but remain in a state of death, Jesus's wordy proved this, when he seid * Martha, “Ho shall rise again,” “He who believeth in me I will give him life.’ x Christ. Which shows man dies” completely; that only Jesus can give him life. According to Scripture, all have sinned and all will die. No saint lives after death. The tmmortal coul doctrine is taken from the heathens. The Christian doctrine 1s, All await in the state of death the coming of FP. BE. 0. Impeach Daugherty. To the Editor of The Bvening World: Impeach Attorney General Daugh- erty, is now the ery. The proceedings should be expedited and not “Arn- ateined,”” another disgrace in the de- lays of justice. ‘Phe Attorney General has complete- ly failed to bring war profiteers to fustice, thereby failing to recover bil- Mons of dollars out of which the Gov- ernment was defrauded during ths war by bad contracts. ‘The delay in the proceedings against Morse are a disgrace to the country, but he is “e pluribus unum,” With Senator Newberry resigning before the new Congress would have ousted him, we are surely beginning to see the light and teel the happy results of the recent election already. EX-SOLDIER. ‘To the Editor of The Hventng World: Tam a daily reader of The Evening ‘World, and also an American, I am a Catholic by faith. I wish to com- mend you upon your 100 per cent. American stand, and the straight. from-the-shoulder method in which you have exposed and brought to light the true facts and conditions existing in this un-American and cowardly or. ganization called the Ku Klux Kian. Tam e@ Catholic by faith, but I bear no muslice or {!] will to any of my Protestant friends and I have a good many. Because I am a Catholic, the Ku Klux Klan brands me and all other Catholics as a menace to America and American Doctrines, 1 served two years in the American army in tho late World War. I believe in the laws of our glori- ous land, and I live up to them, 1 fail to see anything wonderful in a mob of masked cowards dragging a lone person out of his or her home, and violating all principles of Ameri- can Doctrines by taking the law into their own hands, and meting out so- called justice in the form of horse whips and tar and feathers. Do thoy for a minute call this method Ameri- can? When such a state ov conditicn as this exists it Is time that the Klan made its exit. 1 say, More power to The Eveniny World, in its true American manner of dealing with this lawless Kian, A TRUE AMERICAN. Port Chester, Nov. 22, 1922, Copyright, 1022 (New York Evening World), By Press Pub. Go. By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, “FIVE YEARS AHEAD.” \ man who has made a very great success in the motion picture industry—which is still in its infancy—was asked how he did it. “I planned five years ahead,” was his reply. Vive years is a long time to look ahead. Most of us do not look two days ahead. The result is that we have no real idea of where we are going, or how we are going to get there. We seize what we think are opportunities, to find that they are nothing of the sort. The stream of humanity, most of it struggling aimlessly like ourselves, sweeps us along. We can see no way out of it—so we drift. But the man who has cast an anchor five years to the windward, who has a definite idea of where he means to be five years from now, has an excellent chance of getting there. If in the meantime he finds the game hard to play, and the rewards inadequate, he can be cheered and helped along by the knowledge that he is bringing a better time nearer and nearer. } Thus is the camel driver cheered as he lumbers over the desert toward the oasis which will not be even in sight for many days. One advantage of a college education is that it promises no results till the end of a four-year course. One of the best things about a well planned business enterprise is that no dividends are counted on till expendi- tures have built up an adequate producing plant. All great industrial leaders have been planners, and many of them have planned ten and twenty-five years ahead. To pick out a station in life that you.mean to fill by and by is almost essential to filling it. Accidents» happen, of course. Men achieve fortune by luck and because of happy opportunities. . But not often enough to count. It is the selection of a plan and working toward its ful- filment that have brought most men who occupy a front rank in life to the place that they occupy. 1922, by John Blake.) Se WHOSE BIRTHDAY! NOY. 2%—ANDREW CARNEGID, the great American steel manufactur- er and philanthropist, was born at Dunfermline, Scotland, Nov. 25, 1886, and dled Aug. 11, 1919. ‘To better the conditions of the family his father emigrated to America, where Carne- works {a the world, Carnegie donated largely to librartes, including « total of about 1,500 Mbraries in Europe and America. His largest gifts Include $10,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, $5,200,000 to the New York City Library, $10,000,000 to the Scottish universities, $5,000,000 to urge Mr. when we have jettisoned another ton or two of that, you know, normalcy. The Maidenliness of Madeline pending her great settlement, trippingly on the Mnes of ‘The Lass with Delicate Air’? Perin's (Doran) gle began his career as @ telegraph operator in Pittsburgh. There he made the acquaintance of Woodruff, the inventor of the sleeping car, and engaged in the enterprise of putting it into use.. The accumulation of his vast fortune is based upon this ven- ture. He became superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Penn- sylvania Railroad and a member of the oil syndicate, and in company with others establishing a rolling ralll, The ofl syndicate realized an annual cash dividend of $1,000,000, and the rolling mill enterprise en- abled him to become the controller of the largest system of tron and steel ————— pension the employees of the Carne- gle compantes, $5,000,000 to the Hero und, $12,000,000 to the Carnegte In- stitute at Washington, and $1,600,000 for the Peace Palace at The Hague. pecseteth nes From the Wise. During life Satire lies about lt- erary men and after death Bulogy does the same,—Voltaire. By taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy, but tn pass- ing over it he is supertor, —Lord Pacon, URNING THE PAGES By E. W. OSBORN Ooparight, 1988, (New York Bening | World) by Prose Publiching Co. ‘HY do I love you? Ask me why Sim reeds go reaching For the sky. Why do I love your Dol know What hidden dream malic Roses grow? T have the reason, Sout and mind And the for purpose | Of the wind. Why do I love you? Because I Can never tell you, That ts why. A bit of lover’ Derplexity, we should eoy, versa in ‘Poems of the Sol! and Sea” (Knopf), by Chartes Wagner, winner of the Knopf litera: rh 1922, vee eee If War Still Is to Be--- If we are not to have an end of war, suggests Owen Wister in his “Neighbors Henceforth,” (Macm: Ian), then— Let not only London and Pas and Berlin and New York, and at near and far, but Asia and Africa and every inhabitant of the globe, old and young, be extinguished, and #0 be rendered Incapable of further — of science. len only the wild animal: i Inhabit the earth—the wild prt ‘who, although they fight to kill, at Teast fight with tooth and wiaw. whose instinct for combat is at least redeemed by personal courage: who do not pollute the streamer, who do not burn and Ml the forests, or despoll the caves of the planet of their coal and gold; who leave Niagara to flow in its natural majesty, who disfigure no mountain, sud biacken no valley; who are In- nocent of chemicals and poison—the wild animals, whose character is honester than men's, because they have no soul to corrupt and degrade, and who come into tho world and go from it, leaving it unmafmed. Mr. Wister, it may be noticed, is fairly ruthless in his quest of peace, eo 8 Mr. Nevinson’s Back to Britain--- Henry W. Nevinson, lately a Dis- armament correspondent at Washing. ton, breaks out thus in his *'Far well to America,” which Huebsch Publishes over here: Farewell to a land where Mr. Gompers {s called a Socialist, and Mr, Asquith would seem advanced. A land too large for concentrated Indignation; a land where wealth beyond the dreams of British profi- teers dwells, dresses, gorges and luxurfates, emulated and unashamed. I am going to a land of politics violentiy divergent: a land where even Coalitions cannot coalesce: where meetings break up in’ turbu- lent disorder, and no platitude avails to soothe the savage breast; a land flerce for personal freedom, and in- dignant with rage for Justice; a land where wealth {s taxed out of sight. or for very shame striy gulse {ts luxury; a land ancient order of feudal fam! passing away, and—Labor whom Wall Street would shudder at are hailed by Lord Chancellors aa the very fortifications of security. Goodby, Amurica! I am going home, The breatliess best we can do is to Nevinson to como again In L, Adam Beck's "The Key of, Dreams” (Dodd- ) they aro speaking of Madeline: “What a lov creature,” Lucia said, watching the last flutter of the white as they went up the steps. “Lt really cheers one to see anything so young ani sparkling. I never weary of looking at her. I wonder what her life will be.” “Money and a downtrmdden hus- band and two apollt children, end- less gayety and, at last, boredom, rheumatism and old age.” “Not a bit of it. ‘ou leave out her kindness and quick perception. Her husband will love his and her children will think no one like their mother, T have always envied women like that.” “Why? You have so much more." “How kind, But no, I haven't the secret of charm and a woman without thet fs = bird without wings.” ‘The song of Madeline—should it not, Versus Insomnia - - - We tur a page of George Landur elf Healing Simplifies” and find this; Whoever would quickly find the consolations of sleep should learn to form the habit of dizmissing the cares of the day, and especially ts this true for mental workers. Many people stretch out the work of the day indefinitely into the nignt in perfectly fruitless fashion by turning over and over all the fasts of the day's experience In the mind, until the brain becomes congested and incapable of sleep. When one has finished the work of the day and retired ho will do well to find an easy position and then entirely relax. This may bo done by talking directly to the parts of the body, thua “Arms, relax; body, relax; neck and head, relax; spinal column, re- ° lex;"" and so on, until finally tho whole body, every organ down to the toes and fingers, is thoroughly relaxed. Then say: “I am now becoming quiet, I will sleep, sleep, sleep. | shall sloop quietly until morning."* Wo see. Tho thing ts to spcal kindly but firmly to the imps of old Iusomala and they fade away—aug arW-ary--and a-w-a-y! run ay & @ «