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She EGeApiD Wiorld. PSTABLISHED BY -OSEPH Ay eae Piling ally except & by, The. Ae sy Sg - RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. JOR J. ANGUS BHAW, JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretar; 63 Park Row. ‘Order or “Cireulation Books Open to eS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922. the Pes UBSORIPTION RATES. Post New York a4 Second Clase Mgt Beer eats Uited atse,” Schalke Cireatee Newt Saks 0 ' ~ World, Zeer Siz Months eee ord. 100 ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents; by mal! 60 cents, BRANOH OFFICES. Bway, cor 38tn.| WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bide; N, 1399 2092 7th Ave, near 25th St., Hotel Theresa Bi sea iio ee samh Bt, nest 3. J VN, 202 Washington St, | PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opere, Pen Whee ar | LONDON, 90 Cockspur St MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. SS eee: Press ts exclusively eotitied to, the ee for reyes Dews tches credited otherwise credited Fe this Paper, snd alse te focal sews published herein. CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bldg. WHAT'S BECOME OF IT? AYNE B. WHEELER, general counsel of W the Anti-Saloon League, announces that that organization is opposed to the appointment of a scientific commission to determine exactly what constitutes intoxicating liquor. Mr. Wheeler says that representatives of the league from forty-eight States and the District of Columbia hold that “the findings of such a com- mission would serve no helpful purpose in deter- mining what legislation is necessary to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.” This is the same Mr. Wheeler who, at a Legis- 4 lative hearing in New Jersey, was forced to admit liquors containing more than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol it barred liquors which were not intoxicating, notwithstand- ing that the Eighteenth Amendment specifically ciurs only to liquors that are intoxicating. The Prohibitionist argument is, of course, that it would be better to prohibit all use of alcohol in the arts and industries or even as medicine rather 4 than make it easier for anybody to get a drink. That is why American manufacturers who have to nave alcohol in their business are now treated like near-criminals, while doctors may prescribe alcohol for their patients only in the limited quan- tities ordained by a Congress that sets up as a super-M. D. ‘Thanks to such fanatical tomfoolery, the United States is getting deeper and deeper into a mire of lawlessness, bootlegging, poison-brewing, surrepti- tious intemperance and official corruption. Yet just across the border is the example of the Province of Quebec where a sane treatment of the liquor problem has cleaned up the saloon, where people are drinking mores beer and less hard liquor, where drunkenness is rarer than here, where the medical profession is not insulted, where popular respect for law is uninjured, and where the Government has realized a profit of $4,000,000 in one year from the can ully regulated sale of liquor instead of spending .wice as many millions in vainly trying to enforce a law that only breeds demoralization and discontent. What's become of all the boasted American good sense that has hitherto kept this country t- = ever going far in foolishness? THE JOB FOR CALDER. S one of the most completely crippled of all A the lame ducks, Senator Calder is in line for a good job. But why should President Harding be expected to provide the job and so deprive the equally faithful Senator Wadsworth of the patron- age he craves? As a simple matter of fair play it seems to us that Mr. Littauer should provide the crutches for his own particular duck. Senator Calder has served the Administration faithfully enough, but the Administration has so many political debts to pay and Mr. Littauer has only one. The glove industry ought to take care of the Glove Senator who served Mr. Littauer with a zeal that knew no limit. Whatever the President's obligation to Calder, it must be admitted that Mr. Littauer’s is vastly greater. Why not let Senator Wadsworth have the naming of the Collector of the Port of New York? Why not give Senator Calder the job of Collector of the Excess Glove Profits made possible by the Fordney-McComber Tariff? “The Republican Presidential candidate tn 1924 obviously will, be Warren G, Harding.”"— Secretary of Commerce Herbert (. Hoover. Of course Mr. Hoover is going to stick to that and help {t through just as he did his once vigorous declarations that the United States must join the League of Nations. SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN NEW YORK. RS. IDA CLYDE CLARKE has undoubted- ly started a controversial ball rolling with an interview emphasizing the concentration: of “successful” women in and near New York City. It brings out the old controversy over what con- stitutes “succe: If it is the attainment of an ambition, we wonder how many will look with chilly eyes on the list of explorers, lawyers, archae- ologists, ethnologists, &c. Then consider Holly- wood with its concentration of motion picture stars. But even if we accept the standards of success laid down by Mrs, Clarke, it is easy to range afield and think of many successful women in other localities. Perhaps one explanation of Mrs, Clarke's state- ment is to be found in this paragraph: “Another thing that causes successful women to flock there is the fact that many national or- ganizations maintain headquarters in New York presided over by women.” . New York draws successful: women as it does successful men, but perhaps we may, conclude that many women are divided in allegiance. They are in and of New York but have not entirely severed connections with their own home towns and divide their time between the two, De Valera Secks to Escape to United States. Headline, Not at home to the gentleman. The discovery of the body of Mrs. Jennie Becker, murdered last April, comes as a timely reminder that not all crime mysteries are in- soluble because not solved. ECEMBER'S here, tempered somewhat at the start to the shorn lamb, Football is over and CHRISTMAS only THREE WEEKS AWAY. THANKSGIVING DAY WEATHER gave reason for GRATITUDE. Otherwise an “it might be worse” spiriz seemed to prevail generally. CLEMENCEAU visited Boston, Chicago and St. Louis, with a side trip to Springfield to do homage to ‘the memory of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ALFRED E. LINDSAY, swindling stock broker, ‘was not thankful for the FIVH TO TEN YHAR SEPN- ‘TENCE imposed by JUDGH MANCUSO, who de- scribed his acts as “no less an offense than highway robbery or burglary." This seems rather hard on the robbers who at least take a chance when they steal. ‘The LOCKWOOD COMMITTED engineered a ‘TRUOD ia the BUILDING TRADES LABOR TROU- BLES. ‘The steamer MAJESTIC, fresh from drydock, made ® RBCORD EASTWARD RUN of 5 days 6 hours 13 minutes from AMBROSH LIGHTSHIP to CHER- BOURG. AMBASSADOR CHILD stated the HUGHES ver- ion of AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. “Otl! Ofl! the gang's all here.” WILLIAM M. WOOD, President of the AMERICAN ‘WOOLEN COMPANY, assumed control of the CON- BOLIDATHD TEXTILE COMPANY, manufacturing eotton goods. It seems IMPOSSIBLD to keep COT- TON out of “ALL-WOOL”" fabrics. MAYOR COUZENS of DETROIT, appointed to fill ‘Pho SENATORIAL SHAT vacated by Newberry, ts ex- pooted to fit more snugly. “, GREEK MINISTERS responsible for the disastrous {When Bmerson said, “Hitoh your wagon to a star,” Pe must have deen anticipating the airplane, : . Our Cos Cod correspondent saw a dandelion in ~ Ploom in that delectable sudurd on Thanksgiving Day. . “Whatever is is right,” eald Pope. Tt may be so. Therefore, there aro no wrongs to right— So let things go! . In Mewico Otty they anp fighting because the water Supply ts short, Mero the crimp ts in the canteen, . futon the toon a belne mete, 19 Cogmgane, and THE WEEK. war with Turkey were EXECUTED after military trial. Other civil and military leaders are in danger. GREEKS tako their POLITICS SERIOUSLY. By a NARROW MARGIN of twelve votes the HOUSE PASSED a hamstrung SHIP SUBSIDY BILL ordered by the Administration. Great is the prestige of the PID COUNTER with the LAME DUCK cohort. MAYOR HYLAN and GROVER WHALEN returned from French Lick. HIZZONER scored the Ku Klux Klan again and prophesied his own RETIREMENT from office WHEN his term ends, The KLUXERS did NOT parade in New York City. In Atlanta Cal. Simmons was “kicked upstairs. BE. Y. Clarke {s now the big boss. He has been a leader of the get-themoney or businese-is-business faction of the Klan. Notable DHATHS of the week were Representative JAMES R. MANN of Illinois, who had served in Con- gress for twenty-five years, and WILLIAM G. ROCKE- FELLER of New York. In the HALL-MILLS CASD the GRAND JURY RB- FUSED TO INDICT any one and public interest has shifted to the MURDER of MRS. ABRAHAM BECK- ER in the Bronx, The New Jersey case {s stil] an un- solved mystery. In IRELAND three more REBELS were EXD- OUTED by FRED STATE forces, DE VALERA, spouting defiance, is reported to be planning a journey to the UNITED STATES where the arm of the FREE STATE does not reach, MARY MacSWINEY was RELWASED from Mount- joy prison after twenty-three days of HUNGER STRIKING, And in New York an overflow meeting protesting the death of Erskine Childers put to rout the policemen who sought to interfere. ACHES AND PAINS. Senate, the Ship Subsidy Act is more of a pill thana bal. Diplomatioally speaking, Seoretary Hughes seems to regard the ot! flelda of Mesopotamia as a sweet Mosul, . The weather continues tv square perfectly with the coal shortage, . Bon Heeht has written a book called “One Thou eand and/One Aftornoons in Chicago.” The book sellers call ta “jore symphony.” Bhowld think this nae about want, a ex-nerrs HY, KEETZ. + \ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922. His Last Will and Testament! Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening By Preas Pub. Co. By John Cassel erawiet CONGRESSMAN What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say muoh in a few words, Take time to be bri Hailing the Kian, views hounded while a sucret’ or- To the Kditor of The & ng World: ganization that makes and imposes its ‘I certainly do not agree with your] own laws upon others is not molested? editorial of Noy. 24 in regards to the} Mayor Hylan’s message to Police Commissioner Enright, to treat tho outlandishness of the Ku Klux Klan. i i Whenever an vutrage is committed in| Koo Koos as active enemies to po: the South that the authorities are un-| Clty must commend itself to sincere and red-blooded Americans. I strongly urge that all New York- ers band themselves together for the ablo to explain, tho K. Kk. K, ts at » blamed for dolng It. nk God the such an organ- h {zation in this country to protect us| Purpose of combuting the Koo Koos. against a political invasion by the IRVING ZINAMAN. Roman Catholic Chureh, which is} Brooklyn, Nov. trying its best to get in power in this country. This has been and always will be a Protestant country and the Ku Klux Klan is here to see that it remains a Protestant country, T agree with Rey. Haywood when he suys Mayor Hylan is acting against the Klan because of his religious affilla- tions. But it will do them no good. President Harding 1s not giving Federal aid against the K, K. K. be- cause he realizes that they are the A Winding Ri of Beauty. To the Editor of The Evening World: In a recent issue of your road maps there appeared an article by O. M, Wells in regard to the roads through the South, and the best routes for tourists to follow. Mr. Wells has evidently made a careful study of these routes, and gave the prospective tourists some interesting and vpluable true defenders of this country and of} ingormation. ‘There was, however, the ideals that this country was} one error in his article. This was in started on, Hall to the Ku Klux) connection with his version of the Klan! AMERICAN OF 6 G New York, Nov. road through the Saluda Mountains from Asheville to Spartanburg. He stated that there were a good many dangerous places in this stretch. This is a well-graded, sand-clay road in good condition. ard width, and there {s no place where two cars cannot pass in perfect safety and ease, It {s no speedway, of course, but who ever saw a scenic road that did not have curves in it? ‘This winding road from Asheville to Hendersonville, Saluda and on to ‘Tryon is one of the most picturesque and beautiful sections in North Carolina, and {t is worth anyone's time to make this trip if he ig in this vicinity. There is not a day passes in which hundreds of cars RATIONS. ‘The Koo Koon. To the Kdltor of The Evening World On the face of persisting reports that the Ku Klux Klan js preparing to launch a membership drive in this city by means of which It hopes to convert the metropolis into the In- visible Empire's greatest stronghold, permit me, through the ecolumns of The Evening World, to send the fol- lowing message to the men and women of this city A rather striking phase of the Ku Klux Klan propaganda and activities is that the Department of Justice has remained unmoved. ‘This organiza-| aq pot travel -both ways on this road, tion attempts to force Its views UPON) ang with the exception of a drunken others, They indulge {n masked) driver going off a bank, there has not terrorism. They Kidnap, beat or exile! been a serious accident in years be- thosc who refuse to aocept thetr/tween here and Hendersonville. Ow- views. They attempt to eet them-ling to the curves in this road one has selves up as legislatures, courts and} tq drive in a careful manner, It is Juries, . tho best warning-posted road in the But the power of the Federal Gov-| state, and for these two reasons It ts ernment has not been used against] one of the safest to travel over. this organization, through the De-|- This section of road is known partment of Just! though the Koo] throughout the two Carolinas, and Koos have usurped the powers of] hundreds of tourists come here each Government. This ts an overt act by|summer to admire its beauty. For a secret society. It means to substi-| this reason I make the statement that tute its own authority for the public] Mr, Wells was misinformed about It. authority established tn elections RR. P. HARRIS, With all the information available] galuda, N. C., Nov. 24, 1922. regarding the activities of the Koo pest Koos, there 1s not » single case of a a mb, Ceawaa raid on & Koo Koo den. There have] ‘ro tho Mditor of The Evening World eon no arrests by the Department of] If {t is not already in the ordinances Justice No warrants have been|o¢ tho city regulating theatres, it {nsued, Attorney General Daugherty} would be a good idea to make one has remained silent in the face of a ing them, when there is no socret revolutionary society seeking to subvert the public authorities, Will Mr, Daugherty explain why organiza- Htong, whore grime_is the holding of that they hang up the 8. R.'%, (standing room only) si \. I went into one last Sunday night only to find a crowd standing at the It 1s of stand- |" UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) TRYING. For centuries people believed that flight by human beings was impossible. Men who talked of it were regarded as maniacs. ‘Then a few men began to try it. One of them was Prof. Langley, who never lived to prove what he knew could be done, although the flying ma- chine he built was made to fly after his death. Following Langley came the Wright brothers. To the amazement of a world that had believed them lunatics, they flew. And flight is now a commonplace. Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, found a world as incredulous as the Wrights had. Even though the steam engine was a practical accom- plishment, the idea that it could be applied to navigation was scouted. i A great crowd gathered on the banks of the Hudson to jeer what they believed would be Fulton’s failure. They remained to gasp with astonishment. In mechanics the possible and the impossible are close together, It is not safe to say what can and what cannot be done. Recently Prof. Steinmetz has made an imitation of lightning that is enough like the real thing to frighten very badly people who are around while it is loose. Scientists never give up anything as impossible until they have tried. Trying, in a scientific sense, means years of labor and experiment. But if one new principle can be laid down as a result or if one useful invention can be given to the world for all time, the labor is never in vain. It is not true that anything can be done by trying. A stone deaf man could try his life out and never become a pianist, A man without a feeling for words could expend vain years seeking to become a writer. But trying accomplishes many results that have long been deemed impossible. It has brought mediocrity to real accomplishment, and it has given talent a reputation for genius. It is because trying is nothing but hard work and hard thought (for both of which the average man has a distaste) that it is not employed more often as a means of success. > » back of the balcony waiting to get seats. I waited along with the reat about an hour, and even after the pictures were shown and the vaude- ville acts began there was not one seat to be had Some, trying to get seats when an occasional vacancy occurred, crowded up the centre aisle and along the sides. Then one of the ushers would get up off of one of the few chars there and ease the crowd back again and retire for another rest from his arduous task. A great many can only see a show on a Sunday, but why should theatre owners worry whether they see one or not, as long as they come inside the walls and pay their money? Fire regulations don't count either until a fire occurs and a few score are killed and injured, T we kno’ From the Wise Life ta like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well and see twhat twill be the end of it. —George Ellot. There are always burning minds to pass over the soul of man and dry st wp. Prayer is the dew which refreshes {t.—Lamennals. TAbertines are Aideous spiders that often catch pretty butterflies. »—-Diderot. The theatre ta ke a Turkish seragiio: the oritice are the eunuchs,—Farquhar. E. W. OSBORN. | Copyright, 1982, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Ca, ‘HEN I pass down the strect and see The people smiling 30, ‘Tis clear cnough that my true love Was there awhile ago. Her lips that, following her two eyes, Go smiling here and there, Seem newly kissed—bdut ‘tie my faith That none but I would dare, Love, like a drop of dew thed joins Two blades of grass together, Has made her mine, as I om hers, Forever and forever. One poem out of a group of thre« written by W. H. Davies for the December number of Harper's Maga- xine. eee The Destructive Sense of Humor - -- In Compton Mackenzie's novel, “The Altar Steps,"" (Doran) the young hero of the story writes to his rector thus: ‘One hears of the saving grees of humor. but I'm not sure ‘bummer ‘9 @ saving grace. I rather wish that I had no sense of humer. It's © destructive quality. All the great sceptics have been humoriats. Humor is really a device to secure human comfort. Take me. I am inspired to be- come a preaching friar. I instantly perceive the funny side of out to be a preaching friar. I tell myself that other people will per- ceive the funny side of {t, and that consequently I shall do no good as @ preaching friar. Yes, humor is a moisture whieh Tuats everything except gold. Still, with an unsmiling world, full of nothing but preaching friars,— Well, personally, we should pe moved to look further—and quickly too! "2 8 To Keep Jacky Awake--- Somebody turning a page of “Select Naval Documents,” published by the Cambridge University Press, has dis- covered these rules of sea service of the time of Henry VIIL: If any man within the ship do sleep his watch fiil times and so proved. this be his punishment: the first time he shall be headed at the main mast with a bucket of water poured on his head The second time he shall be armed his hands haled up by a rope, and ti buckets of water poured into his sleeves, The third time he shall be bound to the main mast with certain. gun chambers tled to his arms and as much pain to his body as the captain will The fourth time and Iast punish- ment, being taken asleep he shall be hanged on the bowsprit end of the | ship Ina busket, with a can of beer, a loaf of bread, and a sharp knife, choose to hang there tilt he starve or cut himself Into the sea, A remarkable example of British the grand old days. y gave the nodding tar four chances before calling him out. oe How Poems Come - - - For the information of other child poets we cite from “Shoes of the Wind” (Stokes) these words of young Hilda Conkling: 1 know how poems come; They have wings. When you are not thinking of it 1 suddenly say “Mother, a poem!’ Somehow I hear it Rustling. Poems come ike boats With sails for wings; Crossing the sky swiftly They altp under tall bridges Of cloud. eee The Dog's Choice of a Boy. +++ Advice to a dog, as given in “The Revolt of the Oyster” (Doubleday- Page), by Don Marquis: What a dog wants is a boy any- where from about nine to about sixteen years old. ‘A boy under nine hasn't enough sense, as a rule, to be any company for an intelligent dog. ‘And slong about alxteen they begin to dress up and try to run with on in a way to make There are exceptions of course— ‘one of the worst mistakes some dogs make ts to suppose that all boys are alike. But you must remember to be kind to a boy if u're going to teach him anything; and you must f be careful not to frighten him, So far as we know this fs the first effort directly to apply the principle of selective efficiency to a dog's life. We hope {tt works out—for the boy's sake as well as the dog’s. 8 @ “What's Beyond New York!”--- Burges Johnson, down tn Maine in summer time, wondered why the rackety old corduroy road leading from the highway to the tavern was not fixed up. The landlord explained, as quoted by Mr, Johnson in Harper's Magazine, thus: “The reason I don’t ts because I got all the people I can take care ‘ of. The same folks comes here year after year, Good fishin’, good cook- in’, good care, that'll make folka come to any place. I got all J can handle 'thout I put up some more cabins and build bigger Kitchen quarters, I'm makin’ all the money I need. if I fixed up that road, folks would come tn automobiles, and we'd be- gin to get more money than we could spend, Then that boy of mine | he'd want an automobile, and my wife, she'd get kind o' restive, and want me to start @ hotel out to Central City. “Good cookin’ ts what makes @ hotel, and we'd get more people at Central City than we could handle there, and we'd make more money and I'd have to start a hotel down to Portland, “If a man gets rich in Portland tarts one too in the hotel business, he down to Boston, and if he gets too » much money there, then he goes to ‘a New York. An’ I want to what in hell's beyond New York?’ \ Mr. Johnson’s landlord finishes on ® note of perfectly logical questioning In New York, frequently, we give ourselves over to the same ‘want to ly ween oe