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Apagpiated Erep, te oxchutrety, entitled to the une for republt- credited to ft of not otherwhve credited rae Ma Sand also the focel news published here PREVENT PROFITEERING. N an emergency it is sometimes necessary to require exercise of common sense by all. That seems to be sufficient réason for Order 4 issued by the State Fuel Administration. It would be unfair to permit some foolishly wasteful individuals to burn coal which might otherwise prevent suffering of the more intelligent. The decision to require the purchase of a per- centage of “substitute” grades along with the do- mestic sizes of anthracite is fair and just. Only one thing is missing from the order and the explanation accompanying it. This is the an- nouncement of a firm and effective method of preventing profiteering in the substitutes. Appeals to the Interstate Commerce Commission would go a long way round to reach the mark. Already the prices of substitute coals have been advanced outrageously. If customers are required to buy these grades they should, be protected against profiteering. The United States insists that the Darda- nelles and the Bosporus must be open to all ships of commerce and to warships on peace- ful errands. The Allied powers propose such a plan with the United States as part of the supervising commission. It's about time for the Harding Administra- tion to ask how far it can go and what it can get without sitaing anything. IF THE NEW [RELAND IS TO ENDURE. STERDAY enemies of the Irish Free State hot and killed Deputy Seart Hales and seri- ously wounded Deputy Speaker Patrick O'Maille as the two victims were, on their way to attend the session of the Pree State Parliament. Vhis morning the Government of the Irish Free ate executed Rory O'Connor and two other Irish rebel leaders as a further warning to outlaws who join “in the conspiracy of assassination against the representatives of the Irish people.” Justice for murderers and for those who incite to murder. If Ireland's new Government, sup- ported by a majority of Irishmen, cannot prevail by peace, it must proceed with its program of stern repression. If fanatics continue to murder fellow-lrishmen who have chosen-Ireland's present path to peace and stability, such fanaticism must be treated without mercy. Irish Republicans are reported to have issued a manifesto denouncing Tim Healy as a life-long foe of Ireland and declaring “It is war to the death.” Irishmen who talk like that are worse than madmen. If the new Ireland is to endure, it must Know its deadliest enemies and deal with them as such, VIRTUE. 1 news that the treasurer of the campaign fund raised to promote the re-election of Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania is sending 10 per cent. refunds to contributors is unprecedented. Campaign collections are not usually treated. in that way. It is unusual to have a surplus when the campaign ends. But the reason isn’t far to seek. Senator Pep- ‘per was a Newberry Senator. He is also more than ordinarily astute. He observed what hap- pened to most of the Newberry Senators in the re- cent campaign. He may very possibly have de- cided that some conspicuous and unusual act indi- cating high political probity might prove useful in erasing the memory of his first important act as a Senator. ‘The Newberry case is anything but ancient his- tory. It will continue to echo as long as a New- Lerry supporter holds office. The Newberryites realize they had better be good, and make their virtue evident. THE MAN WHO NEVER FORGOT. OSEPH BISAGNO of San Francisco was, we imagine, a man with whom it was easy to be riendly, His will divided his comfortable fortune among 203 “friends who have been kind to me.” Sketching Joseph Bisagno from imagination an artist's pencil would naturally trace easy curves. The sketch would include an eye with a twinkle and a hand extended ready for a clasp of good fellowship. * Bisagno is described as a bachelor and “club- 4 man." Many a man who fits the description leads a gay, but actually unhappy and aimless life. Jo- seph Bisagno probably found his own escape from such a fate. Fortunate indeed is a man able to list 203 persons he is willing to call friend. ‘The Bisagno will indicates that he had known for years the disposition he intended to make of his fortune. It is easy to imagine him gomg about the world with a little black book, listing his kind- “ly friends in all walks of life, adding a new name now and then when the spirit moved, even though he might never see the person again. It is pleasant to think of Joseph Bisagno con- templating a fortunate business turn and smiling over the added good fortune of the many in his little book. No wonder Joseph Bisagno had friends. A man with that sort of constant tonic for his disposition just couldn't help making the sort of friends he wanted to make. NO OTHER WAY? we waste of time, effort and honor, what sacrifice of consistency, clear thinking and progress ,come from the idea that a given political party must always pretend all its policies are dia- metrically contrary and hostile to the policies of an opposing party! Here, at this moment, is the most powerful Re- public in the world still stultified and hesitating in its post-war attitude towa Why? _ Because the Harding Administration must keep up the pretense that whatever Woodrow Wilson wanted was wrong. Here is the great city of New York threatened with a new tangle in a vast and vitally important transit problem that ought to be nothing but the Plainest sort of business proposition Why? Because New York transit was forcibly dragged into politics and a newly elected Gover- nor is now urged to discredit and d sit program of his predecessor. So far as certain large matters affecting their destinies and interests ‘the most powerful Nation and its biggest city are just now peculiarly at the mercy of a political habit that rqquires policies and programs to be judged not by ard other nations. stroy the tran- are concerned, their intrinsic merits but by the party leaders that have supported them. The irony of things that might have been has long been plain: If after the Armistice Woodrow Wilson had de- clared that, having done its job, the United States ought to come home and leave Europe to itsell, Henry Cabot Lodge would have burst into impas- sioned protest that this Nation must lead and saye the world, and we should have had the Republican Party lugging out its record and parading princi- ples of bold and fearless action among nations Likewise if Mayor Hylan had got the start over Gov. Miller with a transit plan, the Hylan plan could have contained 90 per cent. of what the fransit Commission plan now contains, the Mayor would have been perfectly content, and there would be no toilsome and costly necessity of trav- elling two roads to the same goal merely to keep the travellers apart, In its stand at Lausanne for the treedom of the Straits, the Harding Administration, as David Lawrence pointed out yesterday, is already cir- cling around close to one of the Wilson Fourteen Points. {t may be that with the help of Gov, Smith the Hylan Administration will eventually reconcile itself to whatever is good in the Transit Commis- sion’s plan, provided it is given the joy of tramp- ling on the commission. But what sorry waste for the Nation and for the great community in whose name these painful processes are wrought out. Is there no other"Wway? Attorney General Daugherty to among those convinced that as between courtry and present Prohibition thing {s wrong. Could it be the law? be the some- coms Law Why not at least keep these cold spells ACHES AND PAINS There must have been a lot of affection lost deprived wife can get $485,000 Jor her share ® whena “Ten o'clock and all ts well, Rings the cry of the sentinel, “All ty well.” Ah! if it were Then would come an end to care! Sikt and Carpentier Senegambian stay “/wed” are matched aguin. Will the this time? . Mr. Harding is credited with “drifting” toward Wilson's policies, It comes from being caught in a current without oars or steering gear. A wise man says all the money in the country is going into the pockets of garage owners, the Standard Oil Company and bdootleguers Up in Canton, N, ¥,, the other day a rum runner with a weli laden truck put into a garage to engine and deparled in peace without arousing the community, Bost coal and buekicheat mixed mak hot fire that tasty well and ts crowomical JOHN KBETZ , At Lausanne! From Evening World Readers What kind of letter co you find most readable? Isn'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 ¢rying to say much in few words. Take ‘ime to be brief. ‘The Citizen of France. Fo the Eultor of The Evening World: show girls little respect to-day, be- cause they are not entitled to it? 1 have been reading with tnterest| 1 do not think I am ignorant, as the objections certain individuals are| Miss New York states, as I am @ making inst M. Clemenceau, who Sane eee Fe eee ina “url venus a =] yall Street anc 4s here in behalf of his beloved Irance,! xyice roadway, and they ure more or and I hope that you will give my} jess the same; so I sincerely regret to opinion a little sj in your columns. 1 hope that those who are protesting repeat that in my two years in New York I have not met one retined, mod- will be serving their country as wei|est girl, ‘who could command my ty as M, Clemenceau. We owe | respect. . neo @ great deal and the least we X-CAPTAIN, A. B. F. can do is to listen to M. Clemenceau 4s well as the Republic of France|, “Breaking Up « Bad Habit.” istened to the plea of Benjamin | 7 the Editor of The Evening World: Franklin when we needed aid in the} In your editorial, “Breaking up @ Revolution. Bad Habit,” why not turn your atten- As for those who he Is trying |tion 10 breaking up the bad habits of Lo Sie i Inte anet her polite ay some of our adult population. Children ot the ver public dele do no more harm begging on Thanks- giving than on other occasions. Sell- ing chances on the streets, for some benefit, 1s also annoying but people don’t have to give if they don't want Chiidren have little enough free- dom In the city as itis. Why take the thing that the Ir want ux to d Why « h Re » for vbjections made to that our best customer, hus the » suuge and practical Why should w England for to. With France and ( is dif- ; nt. France helped us and the}Joy out of Phanks gine? . . ans Killed many of our men. We| Tf your paper would suggest ways Ave reason to help France acalnet {98d means to better the condition of the children of the city it Would be to your credit, and if the police would get after the adult grafters and see sf | that children watch the right kind of a common enemy. The protests do not come J-minded from th American bi veal from an entirely different a which America may well be ashamed, | movies, where they will not learn to Why protest? We do not have to} steal, they would be doing our city a great service, In the name of ctvilization, get after the grafters higher up, and the children alone, A. D, STE i Brooklyn, N. Y. agree, but thg thing we should all do to show respect to this "Citizen of nee." Tum sure that Clemenceau will understand that there are many broad-minded Americans who will see the justice of his nd aid HARRIS, Neo stablished To the Editor of The Evening World As a “plain American citizen” 1 cannot reconcile myself to the erron- cous statements made by # person purporting to be an American eltiz RAY EB. Dec. 6, 19) New York, From # Prond Young Mothe Yo the Wditor of The Evening World After reading the letter not Canin’ tum, baby inne ihe’ dos of five generations, us he so signed Manres Bnannny ee Fors ies himself in an article appearing In the 1 am twenty-one years old and have ssue of The Kvening World of Dec. 2 \ In that letter he attempts to disagree | with an editorial that appeared in the issue of the same paper on’Nov. 4. If in wriling those articles this self-styled American had the funda. son fourteen months old, + not u healthier child nor capable mother than J K New York, Dee. 6, 1922 Copyright, 1922, (Now York Bvening World) Prone Pub. Co, suspi his intentions. his own path. If he lighter heart. they may have never meant. grievances are There is little ana a fancied grievance. Often people fond of brooding ix have deliberately who is going to take are brought out dant conversation UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright. 192% ty" Joba Blake + TALK IT OUT never had. much + the open Talk it out. But in any event don't brood, Don’t attribute to this or that person motives If he means to be unfriendly, hi being a friend, and the only thing didn’t mean to be unfriendly enough to say so, even if his pride keeps him from offering the apology which no right-minded person would ask, If it is an employer who is the author of the grievance, the best thing to do is to talk it out with him. Upon the discovery that he intended the injury, it is a reasonable conclusion that he is not just the sort of employer interest in your future. only thing to do is to bid him a pleasant good-day as soyn as possible and get another job. If he had no wish to hurt on you more work than you think you ought to do, he probably tell you so, and you can go back to work with a” ur feelings, ation to dite Don’t read in what they have said sentiments that to let him travel he do not exist at and freedom ifference, in appearance, between a rel agine that their friends injured them, when the ion never dreamed of giving offense. It is the brooding habit that tortures the answer of preoccupied or worried person into a snub. It is the brooding habit that is responsible for half the quarrels and a very considerable number of the suicides that help to cloud an existence that ought to be reasonably sunny Don't brood. If it is a friend that is suspected of having friendly, a few minutes’ conversation will at least under frien been leter ur stons will be hone supposed The or even impr will they And don’t build up ont of their words and actions hate ful, despiteful creatures which really You need quiet and concent interruption for the working out of many problems. Bul s more satisfactorily disposed of all frei f they and made the subject of abun government in sacrificing t preservation | The Captain taints, | mental precepts and statistics of his Poccn Paliee Ee im Wate | country at his command he would punt letter wis not intended to! krow thet this much touted {nvusion y one,regard of Miss New!yy the Catholic Church is practically ply, bt was siumpl com-| impossible, A census of governmental ‘ A. B, Bee for his courage! offictals of all degrees would n sting what is in nearly every! uct that the Catholic nd {proportion to her ny resentatives than ¢ ¥ kno have of weulthy country any uccepted x . : al ! meatal religion bul rather one that its builders men tho ie Chureh is not blatantly facts but realixes Jand p rd tier £ eric Ku ikiux Klan, sore ol our inflicted thereon Central Tulip, L. L, that they were egntributo the world's evolution. { of to-day are respectful of all lawfui and authority and ure ever ready to preserve it for posterity, as ia evidenced by “atholic response cir blood in espousing Hylan is by effort Her Mayor five gen Dec, & to membe, no exception when he scores the Ku Klux Klan in their efforts to di all lawful authority and oré country if more & would emulate hi n of R actions tid Haywood of only adding # ggravation to the cancerous body polltie which was al, religious l-tatred bearing organize.- JOHN J. McKBARNEY. DEC., WHOSE 8—ELT BIRTHDAY? WHITS \ reriean inventor, was born in West bor dle sa tion graduating in ugh, In at Yule Mars., New Haven With much labo ice Whitney obtained Unt It was while Dec, 8 1765, ant Conn., Jan. § and per ane Georgia. South that he witnessed ‘he erud process of separating evtton from th seed by hand, and undertook to In- vent a machine that would do the work. When his machine was whout completed his workshop was broken nto and his devices stolen, thus en ibling others to copy them and get machines made before he could nave his own Invention patented. How- ever, Whitney completed the j bones Fireside Scien re By Ransome Sutton \t, 1028 Otew Torte Reg iy ir XI, THE STORY GEOLOGY TELLS, Geology telis the story of the eartht how It was created, how ft hae changed from age to age, and how & ls now being changed. It also tells about the bizarre processions of living forms that have inhabited the lands and the waters, including those that have become extinct. It ts a practical as well as a historical study, for with- out some knowledge of geology pros pectors would never be able to locate mines or oll wells, nor would farmers, know where to look for fertile soila Geology tells a continued story, ene which began when the world wae young and which will not end till the oceans disappear. The story is ree corded in layers of earthy material, deposited one above the other, age af+ ter age, wherever water has bee. Since water once covered almost the , whole earth, a part of the story cm be learned anywhere. As an filustration of the way geological record is formed, let think of the Valley of Mexico. is @ tub-like valley surrounded by chain of mountains. The valley once a lake. Into this lake the ralmp washed soil from the mountain, gradually filling tt. With the soil, bones of birds esi animals, living on {ts shores, were carried into the waters and deposited with the silt on the bottom of the lake. At the time of the conquest by the Spaniards, the great lake had become so shallow that ridges of land appeared above its surface, separat- ing what was left of the waters into three lakelets. ‘Tenochtitlan, mow Mexico City, was built on an island which emerged out of one of the lakelets. That lakelet and another of the three have been entirely filled up, leaving only Lake Texcoco to carry on the geological story. Recently, the Mexican authorities had occasion to dig down into the soil adjacent to the Cathedral some two hundred feet, when it was found that the whole story of what has trans- pired in the valley was preserved im tld soll, In the top layer were found the bones of white men intermixed with the bones of red men, showing that the white and red races have occupied the simultaneously. This reeord have been as truthful if unearthed a mil yours ndernea tum was bones of curred, layer a stra- only the idols >. found w Aztecs erein and thelr next lower Chichimecas: r with jade idols Kind untike the Below the Chi- were ound, row used by chimeca, the Aztecs leyel, ‘Tot were laye relic lower disco ILIV peo. tees were lows that the valley h essively' oceupled, first} mat me, then by ff mank In like manner, the Book of Life * the geological record has been ap »priately called, reveals the kind #r ut have successively dom- earth since the beginning time. vee wild races of the book are not und tn good condition. In localities, earthquakes have d the record. and in certain ed places no deposits have been fr many centuries. No layer has settle over the sur- Kansas, for example, since drying up of the great Mississippi ea, The kind of creatures that an- ently Inhabited that State can be nferred from the shells and reptilian lon which farmers are turning up with their ploughs, Tn other words, the geological story 3 discontinued In Kansas toward end of the Age of Reptiles. Else- the stratification has been brought down to date, but the record 8 not always easy to read, becauso the character of the deposits may be of a kind that decomposes skeletal re- mains, and the difficulty is Increased by the fact that, at the time tho stratum was deposited, typical animals of the time may not have existed Ip the locality. Geology 1s the least technical of all the sclences and a great many things which men and women would like to iknow about the planet on which we live could be learned by spending a nings with thelr children over htful elementary books on y which are now being studied in the public schools. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 236—CONDEMN. ‘The origin of » popular swear word, sometimes used even by women, lies urking in the word “condemn.” Tho swear word is the well-known but fre- expo: d down new the d th where juently (rowned upon monosyllable bs mn." But in the original Latio word is not a monosylia! The word which we ortened no"—to condemn. The swear word Is ed in it ginal ineaning in the “to damn with fuint praise,” daar the old Romans pre- con” or "eum" (with) to gtve lea of mutual or collective ne- tion-for It takes more than a Judge, in most cuses, to condemn a man al- ) persons are sometiries 4° by an nnalded Indivt cotton gin and was voted a fund of 0,000 by the State of South Caro- lina to develop its manufacture »vernment gave him a con! the mapufacture of flrearms and he blished himself at Whitneyville, Conn, where he madw a fortune by, idaptin ingenious Machinery for iufacturing the different parts of arms He was one of the first Ainerican manufacturers to take ad- vantage of the division ef labor,