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We all wink at violations.” | President Harding is also reported to be more and more perturbed over the disrespect in which the Volstead act is held by citizens of irreproach- able character, many of whom hold positions of high distinction in their communities and in the Nation. Where is the trouble? The people of the United States are not natu- raily a iawless or law-breaking people. There has been’ little legislation in their history that has caused such serious and increasing disturbance through the inability of reason to accept it. ; When a law is of such a nature that it utterly fails. % command the respect of large numbers of citizens whose intelligence and character cannot be impeached, is qur only conclusion to be that there is something the matter with these citizens? Or is it within the bounds of possibility that there may be something wrong with the law? | | | H } | Just see what a change will do for a man. Mayor Hylan comes home in a retiring mood. WHEREIN IS KU KLUX CHRISTIAN? tf HE Rev. Mr. Haywood is authority for the 4 announcement that the Ku Klux Klan pro- poses a special chapter of the organization com- posed entirely of Protestant ministers, A poll of leading ministers by The World does not indicate substantial support for such a move- ment. But it would be difficult indeed to imagine any- thing more ironical than the Ku Klux drive for men supposed to be familiar with the scriptures and to govern their lives according to the precepts of Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount stands high exposition of the Christianity of Christ. St ‘thew quotes this direct command "Judge not, that ye ve not judged.” s,an Mat- The following verse is: | “Wor with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” » ts this not a clear-cut statement on Klanism with its masked judgments based on its own pe- culiar code of morality as expounded by its self- elected Imperial Wizard? Another passage of this Seventh Chapter of St. Matthew is of interest. Christ restates the Golden | Rule: i “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to i you, do ye even so to them; for this is the | Jaw and the prophets.” The “law” was the ancient Hebraic law. The “prophets,” if they were living to-day, would be | members of one of the racial and religious groups | the Klansmen persecute. On one great Saturday afternoon Harvard routed Yale, the Army sunk the Navy a dozen minor victories were won or lost, a cold north wind chucked a half a million people under the chin to remind them what a snappy game foot- ball is to watch ff your blood circulates right, “nd that’s about all of that until next season. TURKEY PRICES. WO weeks ago an editorial appeared in these columns under the iicad: “Cheaper Turkey?” {t commented on market forecasts ot cheaper turkey for Thanksgiving over-optimistic Now Markets O'Malley charges that twenty-nine carloads of live turkeys ate being held in New Jersey yards with the hope of Keeping up prices. The dealers are talking 7@ t© 75 cents a pound as the probable price. Mr Malley says 50 cents would be fair and offer a profit It is easy to explain the difference between the talk of the poultry dealer two weeks ago and what he says to-day. Two weeks ago the poultrymen pwere buying turkeys from the farmers. Now they want to sell what they have bought. \ Two weeks ago low price propaganda We were by no means Commissioner of served i their purpose. To-day the higher the price the bigger the spread and the greater the profit. One way to punish the turkey profiteers is to set a definite maximum price you will pay for turkey. If you can’t buy for what seems fair, use some other meat WE WONDER. HROUGH the lips of its official-with-reserva- tions-observer, Ambassador Child, the United States Government preached a Saturday sermon to the Lausanne Conference. There was nothing new in text or treatment. Mr. Child merely re-expounded “certain tradi- tional principles of the foreign policy of America,” said principles being opposition to secret treaties, special spheres of economic and commercial influ- ence or whatever fails to leave an open door to trade. There would be no fault to find with such a ser- mon’if it came from a United States on\a frank footing of accepted duty and responsibility in helping to deal with Near Eastern problems. + The priggishness of it is in the fact that the United States is at the Lausanne Conference ready to preach sermons but not to put its signature to obligations: The United States is at Lausanne with all the compelling virtues of a powerful nation to whom every one owes money. The United States is in a position to declare that while international right- eousness requires every oil field in Europe or the Near East to be open to the United States, inter- national righteousness does not require the United States to accept one iota of responsibility toward maintaining conditions that may be to its advan- tage. Those are Europe's affairs. If the Lausanne Conference is a success and pro- vides benefits which.the United States can pick up without paying for them, it will be due fo the virtuous advice and warnings of the United States. If the Lausanne Conference is a failure, it will prove anew that European powers are no fit asso- ciates for a United States ready to do all words can do to save them. Ambassador Child professes to know and speak for “the overwhelming sentiment of the people of the United States.” We wonder if it is really the overwhelming sen- <'ment of the people of the United States that this Nation must walk alone in cautious rectitude until all the other nations become Little Nells? Mayor Thompson of Chicago is golug to be polite to the Tiger and then bite him. ST. CATHERINE'S DAY IN FRANCE. , RENCH girls, young and not so young, are reported to have made the most of St. Catherine’s Day, feast of the patroness of spinsters. The festal day fell on Saturday this year, and the half-holiday gayety was added to the usual carnival spirit. St. Catherine's Day kissing, the traditional ob- servance, was more popular than usual and the celebration ran over into the evening. But for all the gayety of the day, St. Catherine has assumed a tragic role since 1914. France hasn't enough men for all her maidens, and that—when we take into consideration the French marriage customs—is real tragedy. St. Catherine's Day gayety is the light hearted mask donned by many a girl who continues to hope for what she has ceased to expect—a husband. The larger number of St. Catherine's wards may make the day seem more hilarious than ever. But a sad and discordant undertone creeps into the symphony of jollification. If you have mastered the Hinstein theory, Prof. See's theory of the cause of gravitation and magnetism is waiting for you. ACHES AND PAINS A portrait of Mussolini, leader of the Fascistt, in the Illustrated London News, suggests our own Rhine- lander Waldo. Despite hard times there seoms to be « plentiful production of what Prof. John Erskine calls “littra chew.” Messrs. Street & Jmith announce that they have 1,150 titles, all fresh, brisk stu. * The best critical publication we have seen is “All's Well,” a monthly edited by Charles J. Finger at Fay etteville, Ark, Iope it finds readers, Somehow Commissioner Ku Klux seems komie, Enright’s pursuit of the The Governor-elect's proposal for a re wine and beer is sound erendum on What'll you taver" Forty years ago the building of the Navarro apart astonished New York. Now they are to be way for another astonisher, ments pulled down to make M. Clemenceau asks us to shepherd the lambs of France. Don't we have trouble enough taking care of ourselves? Now they say turkeys are high because too warm to handle them. Didn't know was affected by the weather, JOHN it has been old storage KERTS 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 P There is fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in few words, Take time to be brief. ‘The Kian Comes E. To the Editor of The Evening World: The World is to be congratuldited on its splendid expose of the Ku Klux their rent free? They have to pay just as high rents as anybody else. When rents and living come down, maybe a bricklayer can work for less Klan. Now, we are informed, that ae — H ‘ : >> you realize wha s to go to conter ble aggres: satan mptible aggregation of calumni-| yo on a bitter cold de Actes t0 ators has spread its slimy tentacles} work on a building, where they have Eastward, While the organization is|to wait until the sun comes out a little so as to enable them to go to work in the cold until the very mar- row in their bones {s frozen, and can- not even get warm at night, because they are so cold? Lots of fun, Isn't it—for the party that sits In a warm still weak in this part of the country {s the time to stamp it out. We want none of it. We want none of its lying hypocrisy. In one breath tts ex ponents tell us that they desire separate the chureh from the Yet in the next breath they Inform us| office all day long? that the United States is a Protestant} Have you ever stopped to consider country, What hypocrisy ! that they risk their llves every day of The Klan claims to be the upholder] their life for the paltry sum of 810 of American ide Are whippings,}and that they only get paid for tne murders, beatings and bullying Amer-| hours that they work? {ean {deals? No, far from it. It is} You compare the bricklayers’ wages not consistent with the polley of the] with the wages of a President of some Klan to be consistent, I presume they} corporation. You could hardly have rely on the adage that ‘lawmakers] used your brains to make such an as- cam be lawbreakers."" Has the Klan] sertion—because the President of a received special power to be a judge] corporation gets his pay steadily—a and jury? Has the Klan been depu-| bricklayer only wien he works. tized to administer justice? If so,] The bricklayer does not get patil when? enough for his work, considering that itis not steady work and until living comes down they cannot work less. My husband ts a good, clean cut, young American, honest and am bitious, and tries to work as much as the trade allows, but has to lose tim: due to climatic conditions —rain snow, freezing weather, waiting for material and other things too numer ous to mention, and while walting they are not paid. kK. W., I presume, ts working for a steady wage and does not know whit it 1s to bring home to his family or three hours’ pay for a week durir the severe cold weather. Where th is the handsome sum of $10 per day “A BRICKLAYDR'S WIE" Port Richmond, Nov, 22, 1922 The speaker at the meeting cited was indeed wise in asking Catholics to leave, He well knew in what way a Catholic would refute his remarks Yet, what had he to fear? If 1 spoke the truth he need not h feared, but he knew he was slander- ing and calumniating. JOHN LL Brooklyn, Noy. 21, 1 M'MURRAY. he Prohibiteers, Yo the Editor of The Bventng World Hail to the boldest of bold buccaneers, The hon'rable order of Prohibiteers; Spurred by their bone-dry supporters’ hoarse cheers, Onward they go on careers. thelr merry Bolder they grow with advance of the Waaes a Working Time years, i or of The Evening World Coldly ignoring the pitiful tears, TOitD PALER 8 an es Of those who but ask them for iight| It Is very evident that “Ic. Ww wines and beers, whose letter was published in to-day’ Answering them with contemptuous| world, is unacquainted with the bu Pa pOER ness of bricklay when 1 e Just watch them now as they sharpen] of the princely salaries handed out t¢ their spears: musons Display their sole purp it cle: The union scale is $10 per day appears when the bricklayer w H fol Why should these worthies not now] depends on the weather, ar shed their fears, lay in material means time off The all-wise, all-powerful Prohib-] yim, providing he even has a j iteers? When one job is fint he walk: ALEXANDDR J. KOROPSAK «round looking for another, which }e New York, Nov 1922 may get after a day or a week : I doubt if any bricklayer average: Bricklayers’ Wages more than $35 a week—which is small To. the Ralior at The: w when the years of his apprenticeshiy Looking over your interesting let-]nd the physieal endurance involved ters in last night's paper, I find my-|ara considered. His salary must: welf compelled to answer K. W. in] ways be figured on a yearly huss, a regard to rents and wa there are weeks When he may ear No doubt, K. W. is a white col-[ $55 and others when he tw lared worker and does not kr the cnd still others When he earn s and tribulation nt € 1 ' mre t out r f, sbinb thet Mawblugere avs w. Ww. tr, (New York Copyright, 1922, evening World) Pap. Co, By John Cassel mene MMERTC A'S, PROMISE TO. TH Ey UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) YOU VS. YOU. Very early in life you must decide whether you are going to be for or against yourselfé A place on the fence is sometimes possible in a political struggle, though it is never pleasant or enviable. It is not at all possible in a war. Life is a war. if If you are for yourself, you will not be too easy on your- self, The father who is for his.son does not permit his son to have his own way. He makes him do things he does not want to do if they are for his good. By denying him luxuries which the son has not earned teaches him self-denial, one of the most useful lessons that can be learned. But every son and daughter does not possess intelligent parents who know that the good of the child cannot be deter- mined by the child. You may have been well schooled and well disciplined. In that case you do not need this editorial. If you have not been well schooled or self-disciplined you must take over that job yourself, ‘And you must be for yourself—so much for yourself that you will make yourself travel a hard road if you expect to arrive at any desirable goal. The time-waster, the contractor of expensive and injuri- ous habits, may think that he is indulging himself. He really is keeping himself out of opportunity. The man who permits himself to knock off the job at every excuse may think he is good to himself. He really is very hard on himself. Through life he must oppose the good that is in him to the bad that isin him, If he is a normal human being there will be enough of both to make it a lively and a fairly equal fight. But you must win over you or both of you will lose in end, : No matter how hard the battle, YOU must be the victor, and to be the victor you must be as much for yourself as you are for your country, or your family, or your friends. Let the fight decide itself, and the wrong you will tri- umph over the right you. the Senn nnenennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnnan {t met with financial failure. Shortly after he went upon the platform as WHOSE BIRTHDAY! NOV. 97—ARTEMUS WARD, MOM), decturer, and his eccentric lumor plume of CHARLES FARRAR|attracted jarge audiences, He mato SWNE, famous American humor-]a tour of England in 1866, wh»re he ts writes, was born at Weterford, | became popular not only as a | cturer ie but as a contributor to the humorsus Maine, Nov, 27, 1834, and died 19] jae, punch. His best known w Southampton, England, March 46,ling is Artemus Ward: His Bev s."" 186 His first work was tine He a Ss cow or t a print g offic ot penton Ah A pane see ua | No man is so old but thinkcth in became a writer for several] he may yet live another year weekly and dafly journals, He pub- =ihlarome: lished his first series under name Artemus Ward in the Cleveland Plain Seas are the felds of combat for Dealer, In this series he represented| the winds, but when they sweep 6 writer as a travelling showman along some flowery coast their wings move mildly and their rage “ ey hate 1860 he became editor of a New « humorous weekly called Vanity + Vb ADO Rater arieR we eee Jenormous size would Fireside Scien By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (New Tork Mventag World), by Press Pub. Oo, Vi.—THE SOLAR SYSTEM. The Solar System is only one small family among the countless larger and smaller families that populate the regions of space. The sun is supposed to have origi- nated as the nucleus around which a cloud of firemist settled. While cool- ing and condensing the cloud lett rings or spirals of the firemist afloat in space. These spirals, settling ar@und a nucleus of their own, be- came the planets. The planets are, therefore, ‘the children of the sun, composed of the same cosmic stuff as the father. bs While cooling and condensing, the Planets also left spirals of fremist in space, out of which, in ike manner, their moons were formed. Six of the eight planets have one or more moons, which vary in diameter from ten miles to three thousand miles. Jupl- ter has nine moons, Mars two. Sat- urn has ten moons completely formed and others in process of formation. The rings of Saturn are moons in the making. * The names of the planets in the order of their ages, beginning with the youngest, are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Between Mars and Jupiter ts a vacant orbit; that is, an orbit which was for a long time thought to be vacant. No planet ex- ists there, although, according to Bode's law, a planet belongs there. In this supposedly vacant orbit, however, more than nine hundred planetoids have been discovered, rang- ing from five to five hundred miles in diameter. For some reason, possibly the proximity of the great planet Jupiter, the world-making materials failed to come together tn this region, or due to some great disaster the planet may have exploded in the mak- Ing. Neptune is, of course, the oldest Planet, because it s the outermost. Being furthest from the sun, it is the darkest and the coldest. It may not be a dead planet, however, since its keep it from cooling off longer than the time re- quired for a gmall planet, like Mars, to cool off, Mars Is the earth's nearest neighbor on the outside, and Venus on the inside. Since Mars is both older and smaller than the earth, it is thought to be dying quite rapidly. The seas have all disappeared and, !f water is obtainable on Mars, it can come only from the polar regions, which, as the telescope reveals, whiten and darken alternately each year. The moons of all the planets, ex- cept Saturn, are dead worlds, Our moon is now nothing more than burnt out cinders which the earth threw off when it was a star. Its atmosphere and oceans have evaporated into space, and on Its shaded side the temperature must be close to that of space, 273 degrees below zero. Dur- ing an eclipse, when {t passes between the earth and the sun, its clean cut outline shows tho utter absence of air, An explosion on the moon would make no noise, since there 1s no at- mosphere to carry sound. Nothing can decay on the moon, for germs can not exist. If life existed, it long ago disappeared. Deep craters and peaks, s the Himalayas, t some ag high 4 tify to a tempestuous career during the moon's bright youth. In a sense, the mountains of the moon are ever- ting; since, haying neither atmos- phere nor clouds, they are not dis- turbed by storms or rains. Like the moon, the earth fs also aging, but its interlor fires have not yet burned out, as evidenced by vol- canoes, and more than two-thirds of its surface 8 still covered with waters. Its atmosphere {8 also some 300 miles thick. Mercury and Venus, lying between the carth and the sun, are still in = fiery stage of development, though a thin crust appears to be forming on Venus, Mercury still shines by her own, as well as by reflected light. The moons revolve around the planets; the planets, carrying their moons, revolve around the sun at in- credible speed, and the sun, carrying the whole system of planets and moons, is supposed to be revolving around some still greater sun, the {dentity of which is not yet known, Se PARLEY YOUS BULLYBEEF? (From the Youngstown Telegram.) Are you on speaking terms with a erhouse steak? mr rao tave even a bowing acquaint- ance with or a memory, of one, you'll be interested in these few kind words from the Department of Agriculture: ‘hey say that one of the differences In the beef you buy to-day and the beef you bought in years gone by ts its age. Beefsteak 1s younger now and tenderer than It used to be, But that does not mean you've a blanket guarantee for toothsomeness on all meat that you buy, Not at all. You must learn, they say, to distin- guish between meat of “cholo “good,"’ medium"? and ‘common’ grades The man in the meat market knows what he is selling If he deals in only “choice”? and good" beef, he natur ts you to come across of “medium” op “com- you'd enjoy a ‘chotce” round steak more than you would # tenderloin from a “common” steer. Of course, it’s a bit hard to learn overnight to be a connoisseur of beef- steak, But if for any reason you sus pect your butcher of being a little too enthusiastic, you might look intelll- nome of the gent and murmur the