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AY, NOVEMBER 29, 192: : SUBSCRIPTION RATES. oR At Re a 7 Hood ape OF gee 43 18 : as orld. 100 ‘World Almanac for 1922, 36 cente; by mai) 50 cents, BRANCH OFFICES. way, cor afta.) WASHINGTON, Wystt Bide.) ‘Ave, 14th and F Ste. .| DETROIT, 621 Ford bide + 140th Bt, BER! CHICAGO, 1603 Sabere Bide. ‘Washington St. | PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opera, omen el LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESB. eb ites Se ras Se ee os THANK THE LOCKWOOD COMMITTEE. EACE in the building trades as negotiated ‘ yesterday marks one more big outstanding achievement to the credit of the Lockwood Committee. New York can never measure the value of the Services rendered by this committee and its vol- ‘unteer counsel, Samuel Untermyer. The natural reaction is to suggest the desira- bility of a permanent body with similar powers and authorized to keep up the good work. One of the tragedies of popular government is the failure of efforts to keep it functioning at top speed and with high efficiency. The new broom sweeps cléan and when it hds aged a litle it misses the dust. ‘ New Yorlf has had legislative committee after legislative committee and only ‘a few have at- tained notable results. The success of the Lock- wood Committee is largely a personal question. The Chairman and the counsel did the work and deserve the credit. |. Senator Lockwood is retiring séon. Mr. Un- | termyer may not care to continue the work. |: But that Will not alter the fact that New York {will continue to need and to want a “Lockwood taking the term t0 describe any on the job and ready to do other agency of government has “half so effectively. ‘ AKE A.CHANCE” MANIA. ‘ M TE M’ADOO'S suggestion for aah the pedestrians at crossings is “wise and sound, There is need fpr just such a policy as-a check on. the mounting death roll on the city streets. But “stop and go” regulations for pedestrians ~~ will never be popular—with the pedestrians. These “have been tried on a limited scale at Fifth Avenue "aid 42d Street and other busy corners. ‘Police experience has been that one man can control the _ Movement of vehicles. But to prevent pedestrians from rushing into danger has at times required the services of four policemen, who have had diffi- culty even then. ‘Only a broad ordinance followed by a strict policy of enforcement by the police and Traffic - eagaiee would prove effective, and then only fter a long period of experience. The “take a chance to save a second” idea is firmly rooted and | 4s responsible for many a fatality. TO TEST TURKEY PRICES, HOSE who believe 75 cents a pound too much for.turkey have a perfectly obvious means of finding out whether they. are right. Eat chicken for Thanksgiving. 4f the turkey supply is large enough to war- vant the 50-cent price now, a small Thanksgiv- _ tng demand will mean cheaper turkeys at Christmas. The average American family does not indulge fin turkey on both Thattksgiving and Christmas. If the price is too:high iow, save the turkey dinner for Christmas. If enough buyers refuse Thanksgiving turkey at 75 cents, it may teach the dealers a lesson and r Christmas birds may sell at more reasonable FOR IRELAND. ie RESIDENT COSGRAVE of the Irish Free & State Government believes the quickest, purest way to peace in Ireland lies in the stern application of force. ~ Defending the execution of armed rebels in an Anterview printed in the New York Times, Presi- Gent Cosgrave says: “No distinction is being made. As a matter * of fact, the first poor man executed came from parish, and a brave man he was who had well in struggle for independence. ‘We could make no exception in the case of Every case is considered and de on ite merits, are anxious to stop executions, but that ‘Would bo only upon the complete disarming of @he frregulars. No truce can be contemplated “© 7 Apwhich is not based upon thet condition, “Remember, this is an frishman speaking for ap irish Government that represents the will of ish, authority putting Irishmen to death. Here is only an established Government of and by the Irish people dealing with a fanatical few who would rather spill more blood than see Ireland feaceful and prosperous in the way the majority have chosen. Tor such inveterate, murderous rebellion there can be but one end. Armed enemies of the Irish Free State must die that the greater Ireland may live. THE WOOL-COTTON COMBINE. VERYONE who wears clothing is concerned in the big new combination of textile interests. A phase of Normalcy has been business de- velopments echoing the trust-formative period in the McKinley era of Normalcy. The big deal in textiles brings a single group inte dominant position in both the wool and cot- ton industries. Cotton and wool are well. pro- tected in the trust-breeding Fordney-McCumber tariff. William M. Wood, President of the American Woolen Company, has been elected Director General of the Consolidated Textile Company. Other officers of the Woolen Trust are new di- rectors in the cotton concern. Mr. Wood, and his Woolen Trust, it will be recalled, were among those exposed ‘by The Evening World revelations ot wartime profiteering, Those who wear cloth- ing cannot help but feel concern over what the same management may be able to extort from consumers with the help of the tariff. On the other hand, it is notorious that the New England cotton industry is in a bad way. It'has suffered from absentee ownership and man- agement by the heirs of the founders of the in- dustry. These heirs have often proved: highly incompetent and inefficient. Mr. Wood is a highly capable manager and he may. be able to irtroduce efficiency of method and so enable the mills to operate and pay wages that will make the workers more contented. On its face, this new combination of interests 1. not a “trust” in the old sense of the word. The sponsors undoubtedly expect to pass the scrutiny of the courts. But as a practical magter, will the wearers of clothing be inclined to make any such fine spun legal distinctica? Will Mr. Wood and his asso- cistes maintain the normal competition? Can the acts of the right hand be kept separate from those of the left hand? And will they? The public interest must be protected. If anti- trust laws do not apply, it would be interesting to see whether the coufts would consider the recent action a conspiracy to evade these laws. But is there any reason to expect effective ac- tion from an Attorney General of Normalcy? United States “observing” in the European conference is exactly the reverse of pouring oil on troubled waters. Mr. Hughes is trying to use a skimmer instead of a dipper. SEE MR. SEE. R. A. B. SEE’S objections to colleges were only to the female of the species. The immediate result was to swell-the Adelphi fund with contributions from those who dis- agreed with’ Mr. See. We have been waiting for the secondary effect. Surely there are impecunious colleges of the he-man persuasion. Where are the endowment fund collectors for these manly schools? Why haven't they visited Mr. See and reported results? Mr. See gained a lot of publicity. Mr. See gave the impression that he had no objection to giving—but not to a college for women. Will he give for a college for men? And if so, how much? Our neighbors in the vicinity of City Hall Park will join The Evening World in extending thanks to the custodian of the old Post Office. After The Evening World's comment on the soiled and tattered flag flying last Friday, the two flagstaffs have been dressed with new ban- fiers. The improvement is welcome. ACHES AND PAINS If Hizzoner retires to private life it will be as a Hi private. ° Shocking that the middies should take a drop too much when attending a football game. The Secretary of the Navy should know that defeat is often drowned in drink, Besides, salt water 42 provocative of thirst. . It seems to have cost the Republicans a lot more to get licked in New York State then tt did the Demo crats to win. The Lord is not always on the side of the biggest doodle, e That a big brewery should increase its capital from $100,000 to $15,000,000 is @ natural effect of Prohibi tion—it puts water in the stock?! . It ig pleasant to learn from the high-minded sport- ing editors that the Yale defeat was not due to “in- tellectual inferiority.” To us it looked as if the teum did not know how to play football, ° Word comes from Spartanburg, &. C., that City Com- missioner Clazon has pledged himself to paint out the superfiuous “s" on the town water wagon. The Jour: nal acknowledges with gratitude the help given the cause of deletion by The Evening World, . More than 100 schooners are reported to be trans porting Uquor from the Bahamas to the U. 8. A. No achoonere of beer are to be had, however. JOHN KEETZ. @@ aay caudh in a few wor Mr. See and Colleges. fo the Editor of The Evening World: If Mr. A. B. See of Brooklyn had had a college course in logic (for he {s evidently not naturally logital) he would realize that tirade against woman and her education he made what is technically uown as 9 fallacy of converse accident, nnd what is commonly known 2s 2 fool of him self. Surely no one with the least grain of common sense or reason would dare to condemn woman's higher education because some few light-headed college girls had displeased him. Several giddy specimens may get unpleasunt notoriety, but what of the real college students whose education is a help and a pleasure to them? There ts no denying that because of inefficiency in management, &c., may worm their way into circles just as into othe clas: clety—elevat’r companies for ii in his surprisin: the modern colleg ha: should be left in such black ignorance of college activities +s obviously en- gulfs Mr. See. Why not»bring the President of an elevator company to a true realization of college uffairs’? Why not further the appeal made to college students by The World through F, P. A.’s Conning Tower and He: wood Broun's articles by devoting a puge to college affairs and so increase the Evening World's popularity ?. A HUNTERITE P. 8.—If there is any chance of Mr. See's applying a match to Hunter Col lege if he were asked to subscribe to the building fund I shan’t ask him AH New York, Nov. 25, 1922. Physicians and Alcohol. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World, I noticed the name of Dr. Alexander Lambert are protesting about restrictions laju Pro among the physicians who upon the medical profession by hibition, Ue. Lambert ts 11 the Journal of the American Medical Association of July £ » ' as follows “There has been a great change in the pneumonias in New York City When we had all the alcohol that was desired in life, in Bellevue Hos pital one-third of the 40,000 paticnts were in the alcoholic wards with or without delirium tremens, That made @ strong nolic group among pneu monia patients and the death rate was 68 per cent. for the alcoholic and 28 per cent group. The ¢ does not see the chronically soaked alcoholic persor in the hospital. We had two ward of fifty patients each; in one group alcohol was given, and the death rate ‘was 40 per cent.; in the other group From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readuble? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in « couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a jot of satisfaction in trying ls. Tako time to b. brief. alcohol was not given and the death rate was 14 per cent In the same publication a statement s made by Dr. Russell L. Cecif that in Hospita: the pneumonia before Prohibition was 40 per eent., while at per cent Ire to prove that the grea, s who are peti- tioning for relief from restrictions under the Volstead act are not wets, » even believers in alcohol as a ther- peutic agency. Most of them doubt- less are sufficiently adyanced to re- gard alcohol as a drug—not a st{mu- lant—to be used sparingly, if at all. Some of them, perhaps, go as far as the English eugenist, Dr, Caleb W. uleeby, in designating it as a raciu! poison and others may even accept the Prohibitionists’ definition of it as “a habit-forming narcotic poison.” Cheir protest should not be ace iuimed by the wets as an anti-Pro- tion movement. It is simply a vement against what certain phy- s consider undue and excessive riction laid upon a profession al- y overburdened by restrictions in he performance of its duty. The merits or demerits of alcohol or Pro- hinition do not enter into the case. E. BUTTERWORTH New York, Nov. 23, 1922. Approves A. B. Sce. To the Editor of The Evening World. More power to Mr. A, B. See! The young women of to-day are little if any use in the world or to soctety. I epeat two years in France with the A, E. F., finally securing a Cap- tain's commission. I have been in New York since I returned from France, and in that time I have not met one girl whom I can honestly say that I respect The motto of the New York girl seems to be “Gold, first, last, and al- ways." They do not know what morality or decency means. ‘They treat thelt parents with contempt, 1 um no\. twenty-nine years of age, would like to marry, but regret to say I cannot seem to or retined w His Action he Editor of The Byening World They want $9,000,000 for next year's enforcement of the dry law, that com- knows cun never You forced. hibition—i hed be en- read the newspapers the results of Pro- insanity, death, oMeials and enter } God knows van Jorners coutd ke if they cared to. j Isn't {t aboutgtime that we stopped writing about this law that the fakers put across and let's have some ction? FAIR PLAY. ight, 1022, (New York Evening World) By Prese Pub. Co, (Copyright, WHAT thinking people in the world, The from interruptior untroubled by others. The profiteer forced to buy from him. In America are some people who define freedom as the power to pass laws which compel other people to live as they live. Still others fancy that freedom is the absence of any way hamper their favorite pursuits. Whatever freedom may be, it has resulted in a continual involving many wars and the over- turning of.many Governments. The freedom practised by the American Indians before Columbus came was never absolute. It was constantly men- aced by the effort of powerful tribes to bring less powerful laws which in any and age-long struggl tribes under their sway. And the Indian freedom, even if it had been complete, would have kept from intelligent enjoyment one of the rich- est continents in the whole world. Readers of these editorials recently wrote us many let- ters giving their definitions of “contentment.” All of them were interesting, many of them excellent. Perhaps some of those whose letters on contentmeut could not be published because of space limitations will tell us what they believe constitutes freedom—defining freedom would fight for and die for if necessary, as thougands of men have done before them. To the individual freedom is an essential—a far greater The world is still fighting for it, What, in the opinion of our readers, IS freedom? as a condition th one than wealth or power. UNCOMMON SENSE . By John Blake by Join Biake.) IS FREEDOM? From the cradle of civilization man has struggled for what he believes to be freedom. Most of the time his ‘belief has been well founded Often it has been wrong. There are as many definitions of freedom as there ar: gentleman who lives by his wits imagines that frec- dom consists in the absence of policemen. The scholar believes it consists in quiet and immunity , so that he may follow his mental work would define freedom as the right to charge any price he chooses for anythitg he makes or sells, and to enjoy such a monopoly that all other people would be Vil. LIFE ON MARS. Mars ts smaller than the earth, k diameter being 4,236 miles as ‘4 7,918 for the earth. Its day bas” twenty-four and one-half hours and its year 687 days, The seasons are the same as here, only longer colder, Being about fifty million miles further away from the sun than the. earth, it receives less light and watmth, ‘The climate is warm enough, how> ever, to melt snow at the poles ‘dum ing the summer months, so it fs not too cold for the continued existence of life, Eskimos inhabit regions quite cold as the polar regions of Mari appear to be. Mars also has an at+ " mosphere sufficiently dense to support the great dust storms, which teld: scopes reveal occasionally—presum ably about as rare as the alr on ~ © Pike’s Peak. 4 Moreover, every element found {i protoplasm is known to exist on Mare. It would be strange, therefore, if pro- toplasm should not have been evolved during a period in its planetary de- velopment similar to that when living substance was evolved on the cart! The spectroscope unmistakably ro- veals all the life elements*on Mure. Actual evidence bearing on the ¢a- stence of living beings of a high: 1- tellectual order is revealed by the great telescopes of this day. In con- nection with the telescopes, photo- graphic appliances are used, and the evidence thus produced would be ac- cepted as material to the question in any court of law. ‘ A photographic record of the face , of Mars resembles a miniature rail road map of our world; but, instead of being railroads, the lines are the so-called canals. The canals start at both the poles and extend over the entire globe, some being over 3,000 miles long. They are not meande ing lines, such as would be form by rivers, but straight or eve curved lines, connecting — strategy. centres by the shortest possible rout Some of the lines are doubles and the doubles occur at places where an engineer, laying out a planetary iv- rigation system, would provide main supply pipes. At other places, in both the north and south temperate zones, several lines converge around particular points, where the record reveals a circle of green on a back ground of brown, being very sug- gestive of populous centres, Professor Lowell, who has spent n lifetime studying Mars through one of the greatest telescopes in existence, believes that the green lines and dotu at the intersections ure vast strips of vegetation lying alongside the uque- duets which bring down the wuter from the poles. The lines cannot ho the aqueducts themselves, since ut such a distance they would be in- visible. The Nile, for example, woul: not be visible to Martluns, but thy wide strip of desert which is watred by the Nile would look like a Wa» in the face of the earth. * Professor Lowell's conclusion is eup- ported by the fuct that every spring, as the polar caps begin to disappeur, the green lines creep slowly from the snow line toward the Since the oceans of Mars the snows which whiten bath poles each winter ufford the gnly pos water supply. To irrigate a planet } from polar snow would seem to be ai appalling proposition. Yet an Englisit engineer has shown that, if tho gen'us and the money which were squandered during the last world way were devoted to the task, the wh of Europe might be irrigated with polar waters, To rise from the poles to the equa- tor water would have to flow uphill, which {8 no more possible on Mit) than here; so the flow has to bs facilitated mechanically. It is bo- lieved that at intervals along th? water courses elevated reservoirs have been constructed, whence tho water is distributed by gravity ani ‘ permitted to flow to the next pump't station, ° On Mars the problem would be easier than on the earth, for threo reasons—first, the surface of the planet is quite level, the mountains being low and the dry sea bottom shallow; second, the work to be dono would be easier, because the pull of gravity Is only three-eighths as strong as on the earth. A stone weighing 150 pounds on the earth would weigh only 56% pounds on Mares; third, it ta fair to presume that the inhabitants of Mars, being infinitely older than. the inhabitants of the earth, may have harnessed forces of nature which mankind knows nothing about and made those forces work for them, as we are using steam, gas and elec~ . tricity in our work. If life exists on Mars, how would the Martians appear to us? The tele- @:=+: From the Wise A lie can be turned inside out and 80 decked in new plumage that will its lean old none recognize carcass.—Ibsen. Pleasures of high flavor, like pineapples, have the misfortune that, like pineapples, they make the gums bleed.—Richter. Beauty without virtue iv a flower without perfume Charles 1X It as reason that teack silence; eart ¢ speak.—Richter, aches us to the The body of @ sensualist ta the coffin of a dead soul.—Bovee. scope affords no hint. But, as life always exists {n protoplasm and in ny other substance, it 18 more tham « guess that the Martlans are composed | WHOSE BIRTHDAY ¢ NC )VEMBER 29—SIR F SIR PHILIP SID. NEY, famous English courtict and] of flesh, blood and bones, these bein "~~ author, was born at Ienshurst, Eng-|the natural embodiment for ye p rar BB 4 * | higher protoplasmic forms. It is also land, Nov, 29, 1654, and died Oct. 7.) more than a guess that, with water 1586. After graduating from Oxford} 9, scarce, nothing ia permitted to liva University with honors he made an extended tour through Germany, Italy and Belgium. Upon his return to Eng- land he became a special favorite of Queen Elizabeth, who in 1576 sent him on an embassy to the Court of Vienna. However, he lost her favor for a time by opposing her proposed marriage with the Duke of Anjou. In 1585 the Queen appointed him Goy- ernor of Flushing. He inunediatety proceeded to the Netherlands to take charge of the office, and at once be came implicated in the war waged by Spain against Holland, While com- manding the Netherlands cavalry at Zutphen he received a mortal wound ' except such wnimals and plants as aro essential to the existence of the brainy beings that muintain the planetaty irrigation system. The chances are that weeds and animal pests have long been entirely eliminat and died shortly after at Arnhein:! Sidney possessed the qualities of great statesman and soldier and, afth> he died a hero, His fame “Defense of Poesy," a work in wittel: he set forth the worth of the poet against the doctrine of the sadiéal Puritans of that day, but more upon his sonnets. pag