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——————————E t | ' t pes | | Pork Row, New York City. Peet Office Order or Books Open to Ali.’ TURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1922 aaa TESTS Tc Rest non Meta ose, oe Greater New Sorts 8B | as Almanac for 1922, 85 cents; by mall 50 cents. BRANCH OFFICES. ea cor 38th. | WARING TON: ‘Wratt Bids; ve, HR “tae Oe ae ‘eB | _,1stm ona F Bt. | DETR IT, 531 Ford Bide. iN, 20 MEiteae OF THE abeootaTeD PRESS. = entitled to the use for Ee "a Suse ree yc gece WHAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS NOT SAID. E United States Supreme Court holds that prosecution of dry law violators under State laws in State courts is no bar to prosecution for the same offense under Federal law in Federal courts. Congress, the Supreme Court decides, Meant to set up a double liability Thus, by decision after decision, does the high- est court in the land uphold the right and intent of Congress to clamp the Eighteenth Amendment upon the country as hard and tight as ingenuity could contrive. Yet the more support present Prohibition Law gets from the courts, the less its enforcement is feund practicable and the graver becomes the country’s concern over the corruption. demorali- zation and increasing civic damage the law is causing. Surely such results should throw back the at- tention of an intelligent people to the law itself. Surely such a people must begin to ask whether ‘the right and intent of its legislating body trans- cend all consideration of the consequences of a given piece of legislation. No court has said or ever will say that the Vol- stead law must be pronounced eternally sane, sen- sible and beneficial to the country because Con- press in its infinite wisdom saw fit at a given mo- it to enact it. That is not the function of the arts. ‘ A self-governing people is supposed to haye sufficient popular intelligence to appraise laws by thein consequences as well as by their purpose and to decide whether they accord with reason and do! mote good than harm Present Prohibition Law is a mistake. It badly overshot the mark at which it was aimed. Judi- cla! sanctions and attempted enforcement only lead to stronger and more disquieting proofs that it goes beyond rational limits. The Supreme Court of the United States, having upheld the right of Congress to its first idea of . how the Eighteenth Amendment should be en- . forced, will equally uphold the right of Congress to come to a saner view To bring Congress to that saner view is the _ business of all level-headed Americans who at least Know a mistake when they see what comes of it “TAXPAYER” GOLF COURSES? OLFERS will watch with interest a devclop- mefit of the game as planned on Long Isl- and. A club of small membership proposes to finance # course which will be thrown open to the public Anyone is to be permitted to play on payment of an altogether moderate green fee This has been described as a "“semi-pro” links In effect, it is a public course financed privately The presumption is that club members may be given a preference in starting play, but otherwise the public is to be as welcome as at the Van Cort- Jandt or Pelham links. Golf club dues are notoriously high and the tendency in recent years has been to go to new high levels. Some large resort hotels have links for guests, but these, too, make the cost of play prohibitive. It will be interesting to note the financial return on a club course opened to the public. If the fees from the public will pay running expenses and a surplus toward the interest on investment, other golf courses privately owned but open to the pub- lic are likely to be opened Isn't it possible that real estate speculators hold- ing unimproved tracts adjacent to the city might build courses with the same objective as the urban speculators who erect on valuable sites cheap one two or three-story buildings known as “tax- pavers’ ON TO THE REMEDY 00 many soft coal mines and too many miners, describes the situation in plain English.” This from a statement by the United States Coal Commission which points out that the in- dustry is now overdeveloped and that good busi- ness and good citizenship require investors to re- frain from embarking on new mining operations In the course of the recent strike the public got _ the ct of “too many mines and too many min- ENING jdt Bok 5 140th St. DEBE! CRIOAGO, 1603 wae tone 203 Srestington Ot. | LL a af Avenve Cockspur 6t No one disputes the al Commission é | ers” definitely before them The igh of the The job of th: to restate this axiom, but to find a way of forcing a change in conditions, however drastic the remedy may be. Appeals to “good business and good citizen- ship” have failed in the past. The public is look- ing to the Coal Commission to fashion a club with which both operators and miners can be brought to time and the industry regularized DAUGHERTY’S CASE. T is now rumored in Washington that Attorney General Daugherty intends to resign after the lame ducks have been induced to administer a soothing coat of whitewash For the next two months the chances of a white- wash are a good many votes better than they would be after March 4 The Daugherty case isn’t altogether different from the Newberry case. The moral issue is probably stronger than the legal issue. Newberry got a whitewash and very possibly Daugherty can do as well. Mr. Daugherty is a shrewder politi- cian than Mr. Newberry and he may not want to inject the issue of Daughertyism into the next campaign in the same way Newberryism figured this fall. And if My. Daugherty has a guilty conscience he will fear that politically administered white- wash may wash off in a flood of ballots. Having “put over” a President, Mr. Daugherty may not want to have that record superseded by a “put out.” JOHN WANAMAKER. N the death of John Wanamaker the country loses another of its great merchant princes— a title still finely and legitimately American, though tending to disappear in the newer forms of business organization From errand boy in a Philadelphia book shop at $1.25 per week to ownership of a department store business of international breadth and fame, the career of John Wanamaker has long been and will remain as inspiring a story as any that can be set before American youth John Wanamaker was one of the greatest sales- men that ever lived. Yet the only “tricks” he knew were the “tricks” of persugding customers to buy honest goods at honest, open prices with a guarantee of “money back if not satisfied.” On this simple basis, however, he built up a system of advertising and selling Which for variety and effectiveness proved nothing short of genius. Against the competition of sharpness he staked the competition of confidence—and won Nor was he solely a business man, Postmaster General in President Harrison’s Cabinet, he could have had nominations for other political offices, local and national, had he chosen to accept them He preferred the less conspicuous civic service of founding hospitals, backing humanitarian move- ments and working as an active member of the Presbyterian Church Work, achievement, continued usetulness—that is the briefest epitome of John “Wanamaker's eighty-four vears. L EARNING. N the subway fire yesterday passengers seem to | have conducted themselves, on the whole, in a highly creditable manner Some one got to an emergency exit and turned a fire alarm. ‘The current was turned off, Pas sengers walked to the nearest station and escaped The crew extinguished the flames There were hysterical individuals tew who “lost their heads” and did what they could to start a panic. But there were enough cool and level-headed subway riders to hold the dangerous hysteria in check. No one was seriously injured Vhe police give credit to subway riders for the “education” they have acquired recently, Yester- day’s subway fire was a valuable lesson in the comparative safety of sensible action in an emer- and a gency ACHES, AND PAINS In addition to his other troubles Uncle fam has batked at paying an award to The Hague Tribunal giv ing Norwegian shipping interests $12,000,000 for ships seized during the war, One item of $2,065,000 is duc the Dampskibsaktieselskapet Vard and one of $845,000 to the Skibsaktiesciskapet Manitowoc. The old boy had better pay up than try to pronounce the names of Ais creditors . Prof. Scott Neariny says oil wells are mergiless menaces in world politics. Any worse than automobiles on the broad highway? . The editor of the Arbitrator says he can be bombed on Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 at No ; Bast $ath Street, Sounds hospitadle! . Speaking of “Third Parties” i¢ is well to remember that two is company and three a crowd. . Glad Hizzoner did not stop lony in Chico Itisa bad, wicked place and might easily demora@sr an from Brooklyn where people stay at hon = awa behave Ireland is still the hot spot. There ha little massacres in the Near Fast for some duys Half the school teachers he S.A, are anid to mot even high school graduates. They learn a tot though, while ter-hing. JOHN KEETz. 13) napa: What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian't it the one that i s the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a jot of satisfaction in trying fe say much in a few words. Take time to bs» brief. ot What of Majority Rulet To the Editor of The Rvening World You will per old stock mit n American of very to correct Denni O'Sullivan on the Irish situation Many Americans of native and 1 stock subseribed heavily for an Irish republic, and for the same reasons that we assisted the Boers, Belgians, Armenians and other races right strug against imperialistic ag ing greesi England or an English King has no moral or any other in Ireland right no more {han the mans had Belgium. The German Kiet no title to set up a "free Belgium and invite stat Belgian to Rer In to Kiss the Kaiser's hand and re turn to his country as the Kaiser's representative and the living symbol of Belgium's acceptance of the sov erelgnty of the hated German Vor seven centuries, In every gen- eration, the Irish have risen in arms to deny that England had any right or title In Ireland, They are in the field to-day, English diplomacy, or perhaps Lloyd George, has succeeded in creating a “North” and “South” Ireland, giv- ing each a ‘‘freo state.”’ It has also aplit the native Irish into two groups those who will take an oath of al legiance, kiss an English King’s hand and accept the overlordship of Britain The other group take the stand of our Washington and Jefferson and Lafayette and the early fathers. The first have been given a puppet legislature, heavy artillery and am munition and are shootin: wn the Irish who refuse to swear an cath of allegiance to an English King. They old Republicans in dail withe al and their legislature functions behind barbed wire and bayonets ¥ al shoot prisoners of war Of the two groups, tho mated with the real Americs inue to support In every way nd who still n that is ours Th fact) this is the on tude for citizens of a free rey refusing to kiss the hand the Ford Poti shot Honey 4 Interest for as I was f 5 dreaugbteman in the experimental ai vision at Dearborn Mr, Word's home, I frequently saw Mr. Ford, the experimental department was nat urally his favorite “stamping ground.” Mr. Marquis, in his article, takes up the ctidgel for a “square deal,” ecemingly tn wa ne- thing Mr, Pord las lost sight of However, 1 believe most Ford men will agree with me that he bas hardly given Mr. Ford a “square deal. His article Smacks too much of personal biaue. During my four years with Ford 1 cannot recall a case where employ got other than fair treatment. 1 workman had the security of know that If he did not ‘inake good" at one task he would he “tried out’ on an- other and yet another until he eventu ally ‘fitted in T haye known of executives who were demoted and nr reinstated These men all had ample opportunity to "make good." There ts tou much wt stake for Mr. lord to continue an executlye in power once he is aware that the Ford policy is not being ad- hered to, It does not scem unreason- able that Ford men, regardless of their position, should do their utmust to carry out Mr. Ford's plans, which are, by the way, very explicit. Henry Ford knows just what he wants done and the men to select to do It Mr. Marquis refers somewhat tear- fully to the "good" men on Vord's ex- ecutive scrap leap, Mr, C. 1. Wills left the Ford organization to become an automobile manufacturer, He was able to do this on account of the for- tune paid him jn salary and bonuses l arted as 4 draughtsman and left the Ford organization a millionaire Mr. Klingensmith heads another mo- tor company in Detrott 8 generally LAB we manufacturers of i popular-priced ca Karly in Ford “history” they manufactured the mo When M these motors y popular with the they held large blocks of Ford stock. And each year when Mr. Ford planned to double triple production, he hat argu ment on nds” wit} joubt ng ma w usually quite sure it couldn't be don Vit 1 Motor Compan ealgna it he as r Ue knows of the deplora ns In some the Ford depa in 1920, Things THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DEOEMBER Ts, Tosa. : The New Portrait Consriaht. 1929. (New Tork Evening World) | Prees Pub. Co. wy te bas UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 192%. ty John Blaha) A HIGHLY USEFUL TI \s a rule, health and happiness travel togeth« They have more pulling power that way 2AM They are far more useful in double harness to the per son with whom they happen to be travellitig It is almost trite to say that there can be no health without happiness and no happiness without health However, this doesn’t happen to be true Go into any children’s hospital, particularly where crip of bringin ind womanhood pled children are being cared for in the hope them as closely to straight-limbed manhood as possible. There will find abundant hand in hand with pain and what would be almost utter hopelessness. A man who not only was happy but who disseminated happiness all over the world was Robert Louis Stev who seldom indeed knew what real health was like Powerful minds, while they may not be able to conquer ill health, can, least, brush it to one side and bid it not interfere with the calm enjoyment of the few years that a man has to live on this earth. Health, on the other hand, can exist and does exist with out happiness-—bodily health, of course, for the unhappy mind is always ill. Thousands of husky, sturdy men and women go through life from the cradle to the grave with seldom a day of ill- ness, yet life for them is a continued misery, for they never learn to realize that health is capital and can be made to yield golden returns. But to the average, ordinary, every-day human being, health and happiness are both desirable and ought to be en- joyed and employed at the same time. An eminent physiclan recently addressing a body of actors told them that their work was as important as that of doctors, because they spread happiness, and happiness pro- longs life. It does prolong life as health prolongs happi- ness you often beings happines in elder ring human ison, Get them together if you can, Each will be a fine team- mate for the other, and together they will mean contentment, which, as our readers have recently been is the ultimate object of all human struggling Ning’‘us: \Turning Points | dn History By Maubert St. Georges 1923 (Ni Exectng Preee Pubtisning Oo. CONSTANTINE AND CHRISTIAN- ITy. Constantine the Great was the son of Constantius, a Roman officer of steat merit. At the time the Roman Empire was divided into two parts, the Eastern and the Western, ruled by two Emperors with the title of Augus- tus, and whose principal Generals had the right to the name of Caesar. During the reigns of the Emperors Diocletian and Galerius, Constantius rose to the rank of Caesar in the western province. During his cam- paign hé kept his son with him, thus siving him the opportunity to learw the art of soldering. So well aid the young man bear himself and so well loved was he by the armies that upon his father’s death in England they Nominated him Augustus. Constantine knew well that he could not hope to retain this title, but he used the nomination to obtain instead the rank of Caesar and spent the next few years preparing himself for the coming struggle. In the year 311, upon the death of the Emperor Galerius, this struggle began. There were four competitors —Maxentlus and Mamimius in the East and Licinius and Constantine in the West. Constantine first devoted his attention to Lictnius and secured 8 alliance by betrothing his half- sister to him, Then he turned against Maxentlus and, defeating tho latter's Generals, marched straight for Rome. Now the army of Constantine was inferior to that of Maxentius in 7S and Constantine, tamed for his care and caution tn not undertak ing more than he could achieve, seemed to be courting certain dis- aster But Constantino had realized (ne odds. He had seen that no amount of waiting would Increase his forces sufficiently to enable him to face his enemies on a basis of equa ity, so he had cast about him for « way to counterbalance the ods against him and his genius had foun i what he was seeking. There was at that time a force in the Roman Empire which, directed only to disobedience and insurrection, caused much trouble to the ruling powers. This was the Christian sect which, in spite of all persecution, was growing very swiftly and numbered adherents by the thousands in every city #a the Empire Constantine saw immediately that if this force could be turned in his favor the tremendous influence exerted by these millions of people, already or ganized for self-defense, would more than offset his numerical infertority So on the eve of his campaigns tt was made known everywhere that the wic tory of Constantine would mean the: cessation of all persecution of Chris tians. When the army of Constantine met that of Maxentins before Rome ths battle was not once in doubt. ‘Ths enemy, undermined by Christian prop aganda, offered no great resistance and Constantine was left master of and the West, while Licintus, cated the fourth aspirant, mius, in 813 became Emperor of Rome 324 the situation remained un- Constantine, however, co: changed. tinued to favor the Christians wit! euch good results thut when fn that r war broke out between the two mperors a campaign of a few week» left him completely master of the Empire. i When Constantine then made Christianity the official religion he not only consolidated his own power but made it possible for the greater! unifying force in the world to begin to do {ts work, and among other things laid the foundation for univer sal education, which has allowed the world to progress to its present point. From the Wise For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thow eand who hate our success. —Colton. life is like a sleep. Old men are those who have slept the long: est time, when they wake up they find it is time to die.—La Bruyere 1 pocm ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterward in general had been growing from bad WHOSE BIRTHDAY? to worse after cessation of war actly {BER 12th — JOHN ities. Only gross misnr ement m an statesman and jur could explain the yast accumulation an ve / of non-essential material running into| born in New York City, Dec. 1 millions of dollars, And it v and died May 17, 1829. He that through unpardonable negligence | trom Columbia College in large requisitions for equipment ha heen duplicated. It will be clear to] #4 a he 1 ft any business man that there was but 4 member of the Continent dne course for Mr, Ford, Reorganize] Convention in 1774 which time at fr ipwr rey ROC Ray Ce cpre 1 ame necessary to thou Hy j sands of men during s. It cst jhieaign was 4 serious and painfu econd and in Franklia the peace and treaty of the ~Irish proverb. Sympathy is the golden key that hearts of others. Samuel Smiles. the child of and Thought is the child unlocks the Experience is Thought, of action We cannot learn men ‘| from books.—-Disraeli Waris. He was Secretary of Foreign Affair Madison and n 1784-89. in ided Hamilton and writing the Federalist. leading advocate of the adoption of the Constitution, In 1188 he Was appointed by President Wash n as th first Chief Justice of he served as ( and in 1796-1801 vernor of New York diplomat and jurist among the leaders of As uw statesman, he ranks America,