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PULITZER, ANGUS SHAW, Tressurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 68 Park Row. Adrees ait communications to T HE EV RNIN G wort Perk iw, New York City. Remit by Bxpren Order, Draft, Post Office Order or Registered Letter “Circulation Books Open to All.” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922. . PPB gs rcngthaged RATES. Fostage tres fats Using chutes Schutte eto Ne Meter. One Year Bix Months One Month ER We 10.00 $5.00 885 2.00 6.00 100 500 85 fs 1.00 ‘World Almansc for 1922, 35 cente: by mall 50 cente, BRANCH OFFICES. LONDON, 20 Cockspur St, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Erese Jo exclustvety, entitled to the use for repubtt ‘Paper, and also the Jocal ‘seve petdideed barsia. READY FOR WHAT? P. MORGAN and his partner Thomas W. 3. Lamont make it clear that Germany can expect no loan from American bankers until the reparations problem has been settled. France makes it clear that the reparations problem can never be settled without inter- national co-operation to provide assurance that Germany will pay what it may be agreed Germany / can pay. All the facts and circumstances make it clear that such co-operation cannot be complete with- out the straightforward, open-handed participa- tion of the Government of the United States. There is the situation in a nutshell. What is the Harding Administration prepared to do? * Is it ready to help solve the European economic problem by driving straight to the heart of the matter? Or is it ready only to change its formula of “watch and circle around” to “circle around and watch"? Imperial Wizard Evans of the Ku Klux Klan should be more discreet than to speak of “Klan- Some one is likely to get tle idea that “Kraft” is only the Kluxed spelling of “graft. A “THIRD HOUSE.” HE conference of Governors at White Sul- T phur Springs last week was a futile perr formance. Only a minority of. the Governors attended. Most of those who did worked pri- marily for personal aggrandizement. The futility of this meeting lends force to the idea of a “Third House” of delegates from State Legislatures, as suggested by The Evening World two weeks ago. There is crying need for uniform legislation in many fields of the law. When the annual con- ferences of Governors were proposed it was hoped that the Governors could and would turn their attention to such matters. But the Governors never have and could not do so effectively if they would. Far more effective would be the creation of a “Third House” composed of selected steering committees from as many States as cared to par- ticipate. As compared with the conference of Governors such an organization would have a relatively stable membership. It would be pos- sible to appoint committees to make national in- vestigations and draft model laws for submission to State Legislatures. The recommendation of a law by such a body would have weight with the Legislatures of the different States, although ac- tion by the Third House would not obligate any State. Such an organization would necessarily be vol- untary in character. The initiative could come from the President, by resolution of Congress, oy by invitation of some one State Legislature Why not from New York State? If the pot calls the kettle black, it doesn't follow that either the pot or the kettle is white. Neither does comparison of the degree of the badness of two eggs make an omelet any more tasty, These reflections are prompted by efforts to hang a halo on Attorney General Daugherty because Representative Keller happens to be a loose talker and a poor sport e PROTEST THAT DOES NOT SUBSIDE. HE Teachers’ Union has put itself on record as strongly disapproving the selection of Miss Margaret McCooey as an Associate Super- intendent of Schools Miss McCooey must be assumed to be willing to stand the gaff of publi¢ criticism her selection was bound to bring forth. If she did not know what’was coming, her brother should have warned her. The first voices of public opinion were unanimously against, this form of nepotism in the schools of all places. The public wants poli- tics kept out of the schools. 1f Miss McCooey had been the best quatiffed person for the place, the action of the Board of Education would still have been dubious folic) because it was bound to raise the political issue. As the facts continue to develop, Miss McConev's qualifications seem to shrink in comparison with the work she is expected to perform. The protest of the Teachers’ Union is only one of many protests to be expected. Associa- tions of parents ought to keep the matter to the fore. The firsi resents should echo and re- echo until the Board of Education realizes its mistake and solemnly vows: “Never again— not even for a bigger boss than McCooey of Brooklyn.” A CHANGE IN THE MAYOR. OOKING ahead to what transit may be in this city, some day, nobody need quarrel with Mayor Hylan’s wish to see the Third Avenue elevated structure removed and a subway built under that thoroughfare. Nor is there anything against the Mayor's hope that “in time we can take up the surface tracks on Broadway and substitute a system of buses.” The ultimate aim of transit improvement in New York should be to relieve its most-used streets of all tracks, surface or elevated, making subways and flexible bus lines do the work. Moreover, an encouraging change. has come over the Mayor’s manner of presenting transit plans. He no longer talks as if he were im- patient to flood the streets with buses the day after to-morrow in order to drive every other existing transit facility above ground to immedi- ate ruin. In what he said at the Biltmore luncheon last Monday, the Mayor uttered one phrase that in- dicated something pretty close to a revolution’ in his reasoning about transit: “I realize that the transit companies have vested rights that must be given consideration.” That is the first time Mayor Hylan has ad- mitted anything of the kind, That is the first time he has treated the vested rights of existing traction companies as more than the Machiavel- lian imaginings of a Transit Commission plotting in the service of the “interests.” We may yet find the Mayor in accord with what The Evening World long since suggested: That instead of using the bus to complete the ruin of existing trolley corporations, it might be practicable and better to rehabilitate some of the latter by making’ them take bus franchises in |. exchange for their tracks, It is well known, of course, that Mayor Hylan looks forward to a change after Jan. 1 next that shall greatly increase~the authority of the city in dealing with the transit problem. Perhaps the thought of that responsibility and of the missed opportunities of the past five years has had its effect upon the Mayor. Perhaps his excursions into thé transit field will be hence- fortn less random and rambunctious. Already he shows a difference that may prove progress. : 2 The initials on those new uniforms the cops at the Executive Mansion do not stand for “Warren Harding,” nor yet for “White House.” The returning Ambassador frém the Court of St. James's will properly appreciate that they mean “Welcome, Harvey.” ¢ for THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT LAKES. OR more than a century the United States and Canada have kept the peace on the Great Lakes, But the Battle of the Great Lakes is nevertheless almost an annual event Sailors of the inland seas face perils strange to the mariners of the ocean. The lake craft ar less well adapted to bad weather, and at this time of year there is the danger from ice and the possibility that a ship may be frozen fast far from any harbor of safety. Always there is the lure of added profits from the last trip of the season, the “one more” trip. Ir ordinary years the owners of lake shipping cannot be condemned too strongly for risking the lives of their sailors after the proper closing time. This year seems to be somewhat more justification, for the Northwest was in dire need of every ton of coal that could be freighted there up the lakes. So the Battle of the Great Lakes is on again Sailors are fighting the elements, fighting the encircling ice, struggling for their lives. Most will survive, but deaths have been reported and others are likely to be ACHES AND PAINS. vhe comic," says Benjamin De Casseres, “is Dis sonance viewed from the Impeturbable.” We should snicker! * Succe books are written for readers—not for critics. . This tender theological touch ts found in & London Times personal: AD CLERUM.—A country Rector, with a respon AA sive congregation, has time to spare and ia more incom and will forward each week in good time a carbon typed copy (post free, bs.) of one of his Sunday sermons to @ brother hard pressed. Views moderate, but open-minded, ‘To start Advent. . The Bookman avers that Edward Arlingtc Robi» son's chief attribute is hts simplicity. Then it ex- plains that he lived three years in Brooklyn Those Deaver bank robbers at least did their work outside the bank Looks Me Christmas if you have te price, With {1 piling up stock divide: looks as though somebody was cleaning up besides labor and e railre A yee pass and a vel nose cannct he favorably come pared. JOHN KEETZ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922. Ss Petes: os sarewrentts From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do 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 « lot of satisfaction in trying to eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. A Strapless Hanger. To the Editor of The Evening World: As a daily traveller on the B, R. T. subway, It has puzzled me for some time past why the straps in the ma- Jority of these trains have been re- moved, thus causing great incon venience for those not fortunate enough to obtain a Seat. Travelling during the rush hours is certainly bud enough, but for the B. R. T. to dis- continue even the use of straps for the standees is more than a tired worker going home at night can stand Lk Brooklyn, Dec. 18, 1922 Awakening, Vo the Editor of The Evening We I attended the meeting of the Asso- elation Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment at the 39th Street Th tre (the Hippodrome or Madison Square Garden should he the next meeting place, for the association could easily more than fill either.) The cheering that greeted speakers was certainly a good thing these arid days to hear, All were well known and highly respected men and women If Willlam Anderson could only have been there! Can you imagine how quickly the cheers would turned to jeers? He and his cohorts are now using the churches, still try- Ing to “put over’? the Impossible— Prohibition, In any other place they would “play to empty benches.” ‘The churches, of all places, should not be allowed to be used to further any law or set of laws. diametrically opposed to the teach- ings of Christ; so why, then, is Pro- hibition made an exception? We have had many paid, yes, well paid, reformers in the past, and nc their finale has always been and al- ways will be the same—oblivion. The lust election was full proof of what the people want and intend to have. The vi thing the Prohibitionists st so much for so many years, the thing they wanted to do away with most, for, all time—John Barley- corn—is now the chief drink not only here, but all over the country The younger generation, which was never to know the taste of whiskey, now knows tthe taste of nothing else, even mere boys and girls! Something un- heard of before Prohibition Prohibition has Also created another new type of drinker, one that the fanatics and zealots should have foreseen—tho type that scoffs at the Thou Shalt Not. Thelr number is legion, The wet-drys were dealt an awful blow at the recent election, and the next in line to go will be the paid reformers. Y the people have at last awakened, and every ¢ see the many evils of Prohibition When the new Congress begins to function, with men of Gov. Edward I Edwans‘s sincerity, stamina and vir- ility, bills will ¢ertainly be introduced and passed, without a doubt, for the modification or repeal of the most un- popular, un-American law ever en- acted—the Volstead law SOLDIER. ning Wor Optimism is a glorious thi but nothing new. Poor old Job had it, but he did not suffer. slay me, yet will I trust could not say “Though He in Him." How much finer and br r to re’ ognize the ill that is upon us and to be strong to endure than to ignore facts! Jesus Christ never said, “You do not suffe He pitied and He healed the hurt. He could not have healed had not the hurt been, there, Imagination can nify ills, but it doesn't create them, for tiny babies, who have no imagination as yet, suf fer keen pain. Of cou of any kind will finally of suffering, unless you Counting sheep never yet put me to sleep, but made me eager and rest less for more to count, “I get- ting better, I am getting better,” one thousand times would rot cure my neuralgia, but certain remedies do: God has made remedies for every ailment there is, and the doctors are discovering them every day The greatest marvel of ‘o-day ts not the radio, not the wireless or the ships that sail the clouds—it is he triumph of the surgeon's skill, the keen mind, the steady hand, the in- strument of God, who says, "It is your foe—I will conquer “or “ou God is blessing his efforts every day It is more than wicked ‘o -o that humanity does not suffer. “Mi: over matter"? will do for the hig intellectual (perfMaps), not for masses—not for me! ELLA BENEDICT BURKMAN repetition nee the end A Supertor Male. To the Editor of ening World In response to ‘A Reader's’ artlel on women and New York State need ing a minimum wage law fixing the wage at $18 a week, I would heartily Uke to see such a law pass-« as I do not believe that any employer would pay the average woman that sum If any employer was forced to pay women $18 @ week there would be about one-eighth of the present number of women working, T! ether seven-elghths would be out of work, and forced to educate them- selves, so that they probably would be able to show an employer ‘that they could produce enough to receive sald wage. Why should an employer woman $18 & week pay any when he UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, By John Blake.) ROMANCE, -\ pretty sorry tale would have been ‘The Count of Monte Cristo” if Dumas, in writing it, had stuck to sordid fact, and painted his characters exactly as they would have been in real life. Dull, indeed, would have been “The Three Musketeers,” “Twenty Years After” and the rest of the stories !n which the gallant D'Artagnan figures had that worthy been de- scribed minutely as the average soldier of fortune of his time, It may be said of Romance that it isn’t true, as it is said of Walter Scott's novels that they’ were not history. Romance does not pretend to be true, and few were the readers that got their history out of “Ivanhoe” or ‘The Talis- man. Books may be, as Shakespeare says of the players, “The brief chronicles of the time.” But it is the author who makes them more than that— who makes his characters do the deeds that men would like to do, rather than those they actually do—who is read through the centuries. Accurate stories of the lives of perfectly commonplace people would be of great value to the future historian, al- though he would have a laborious job if he had to read enough of that sort of thing to make a history of any period of a hundred years. But while truth may be stranger than fiction, it is sel- dom as interesting, especially when put between covers, The school of fiction that came out of Russia, where everything and everybody was described exactly as it was, has had many followers in England and America, - But ‘Treasure Island” and “The Little Minister” are still books that delight the multitude, and in the making of plays the man who leaves out romance seldom gets an audi- ence together to listen to and look at his handiwork. Our imaginations always outrun our performances, and we like to live in a world that is a little too exciting to be true That is why romance is inspiration, for it sees the world not as it is, but as people with dreams would like it to be, pro: vided their courage was sufficient to enable them to do the deeds that they love to read about in their favorite books It is because romance is in men's minds that every work of romance, even including the Bible, which contains many beautiful romances, will be more popular and enduring than the plain stories of actual life that are written at the same time, By Ransome Sutton comme tartar rine XVI.—THE WONDER OF WATER, Water is in many ways the most unique substance known, If life could exist In degrees, 18 y to belleve that water is partly alive. The difference between firemist and water, for example, seems much greater than between water and protoplasm, For an amoeba, which consists of nearly naked proto= would be ex ‘| plasm, ts at least 90 per cent. water, an get men fog tt very wage worst that could happen, men occupying thelr jobs When where within a mile of a man men- tally pend upon an unjust law to pay them more than they Brooklyn, Dec. 17, 1922. t amount, and a times as much. nd never Jo: From the Wise ean produce K as any wi nan, as they would find} mirth and laughter. soda water the day after.—Byron, sermons and the women can come any- We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep atep to the music of the unton.—Rutus Choa! then women will not have to de- ‘duce. E. 8 The worst education which y any time, like the women The women in this country ura| teaches self-denial is better than well off and should appreciate] the best which teaches everything If such a law for a minimum etse and not that.—John Sterling, were passed {t would be th eB blow to the working women Let us have wine and women, There Is nearly as much water If sea water. We speak of masses of water as If it were a solid substance, yet a little reflection will satisfy any one that the oceans are not all water, For water 1s composed of molecules, in each of which two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen are clustered together, The oxygen atom weighs elght times as much as both the hydrogen atoms, Of such small trios all kinds of water 1s formed, Instead of being a solid mass, there- fore, there is as much space relatively, among the molecules as in a basket of apples. A spoonful of sugar can be dissolved in a glass of water without raising the surface of the water = hair's breadth; for the sugar, after being dissolved, settles within the crevices among the molecules. Water molecules are perhaps the most slippery substances in nature, A basin can be tilted, but the water Im it always seeks its level. In no part of the ocean ts the water lower or higher than tn any other part. All kinds of substances are dissolved and carried in the interstices among these slippery molecules; for, besides being the greatest, water Is also the mildest of known solvents. The sugar which disappears tn a tumbler of water is not chemically affected; if the water be evaporated away, every grain of gar will be found intact. One of the peculiar things about sea water is that it carries in solution the same kind of materials and in sub- stantially the same proportion as are found in human blood. Indeed, many people believe that sea water ts an- ‘stral to mammalian blood, for in the tliest animals, including such many- antr celled als as sponges and hydra, sea water alone served the purposes of blood. Another extraordinary property of water {s its surface tension, or capil- attraction, This may be ob- placing one end of a long tube of small bore in a ylass of water, when Immediately the water will riso in the tube to a surprising height. It is this property which causes sap to rise from the ground to the topmost. twigs of the tallest trees, If water did. not possess this property, vegetation would disappear. Again, the temperature of water is nstant than that of any other As the waters now re- ) the earth would, if evenly, distributed over it surface, be about two and one-half miles deep, conti- are greatly tempered rs. Tt seems almost unbelievable that hydrogen and oxygen, both being ses whic burn with terrific heat at the touch of fire, should form @ flutd which is everywhere used to ex tinguish fires. A simple way to obtain hydrogen im the home for experimental purposes as follows: Fil a dishpan with water and Immerse in {t a milk bottle. Then, taking hold of the bottle at the bottom, raise it, upside down, nearly out of the water, leaving the mouth immersed, The bottle will, of course, remain full of water so long as the mouth is immersed. Using small tongs, pick up a live coal from the cookstove, or fireplace, and plunge It into the water of the dishpan directly, under the mouth of the bottle. A flerce bubbling will ensue as the coal cools, Avhich means that chemical changes are taking place In the water. What happens fs this: The oxygen atoms in the water, having a stronger uffinityw for hot coal than for hydro- gen, are breaking away from their hy~< drogen atoms and attaching them- selves to the coal, thus liberating the hydrogen atoms from thel: watery embrace. The freed hydrogen atoras begin rising Into the bottle, displacing the water at the inverted bottom, where any desired quantity may be collected, If the bottle be tightly corked un- der water, a small glass tube can later be inserted through the cork and the hydrogen used as oll for feed4- ing a flame at the tip of the tube. As hydrogen burns, oxygen’ atoms ain unite with the hydrogeh atoms, once more forming water. With a supply of hydrogen and oxygen gas, water may be easily made or unmade. “As the Saying Is” “MISFORTUNES NEVER COMB SINGLY.” Ap r pre in all languages. "It never rains but !t pours,” is an- sther proverb of the same sort, though of a wider application, as {t may allude to joys as well as ser- rows, to good luck as well as bad. Young has put the thought into verse, as follows Woes cluster, rave are solitary woes: They love a train, they other's heel . “TO PUT ONE'S FOOT IN IT." A colloquialism meaning to com- mit a blunder or to ruin some scheme or enterprise by an awkward Inad- vertence. The original expression seems to have been, ‘The Bishop has put his foot in it.!? sald ef soup oF tailk when it was burnt, Gross ex- plains the allusion as meaning that when the Bishop passes by in pro~ ceasion, the cook runs out to get @ blessing and leaves whatever she may be cooking to take Its chance of burning. . human blood as in an equal amount of © at