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Corhpmny. No. 68 to 03 rark ntnr. Norr Tork.
RALPH FUUTZCR. rrooiaent. 83 rrk Ron.
3. ANGUS SHAW. Trtuurer. S3 rark now.
JOSEPH PtmtT3EH Jr.. Secretary. 5 Tark P,ow.
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er an Btif i dtipitckta credited to It or not ournrlM crtuitia U taia flag
u& sin Uu local ntm pasUthea brrrta.
fe, '.55 NO ALIBI.
.e-' ""THE forty-six Republican Senators who voted
I-.' to scat Newberry are writhing under the ava
lanche of protest their action started.
Newberry, it begins to appear, is to Iv used as
a horrible example of how a candidate ought not
to try to get into the Senate.
. Senator Willis lias offered an amendment to the
Constitution authorizing Congress "to regulate the
use of money" in Congressional elections.
This is about as contemptible an effort as was
the Willis formula for seating Newberry. It closely
rresembles'the effort of a shyster lawyer to "frame"
an alibi for a miscreant caught with the foods.
Any one might imagine that Congrcrs has no
check on the use of money. That is tr.e line of
thought this proposed amendment is designed to
foster. But it is not the fact.
Article I., section 5 of the Constitution fully
covers the issue:
"Each House shall be the Judge or the elec
tions, Teturns and Qualifications of Its own
members."
' That covers the Newberry case. The forty-six
Senators abdicated as judges. There was a mis
carriage of justice. The forty-six are solely- re
sponsible. They have no alibi.
Gray old Dublin Castle turned glorious green
at last!
THE PEACEMAKER.
MAYOR HYLAN is in training to become the
champion political reconciler of these parts.
Last week at Buffalo it was a boost for "that fine,
red-blooded New Yorker, Al Smith," who "has
never lost touch but. has ever remained with the
rrfaises" albeit he has been of late notably out of
;-1 touch with John F. .Hylan. 4
'..Last night 'at the Yorkville Chamber of Cqm
'. rrtercc dinner it was public office clamoring for
: William Randolph Hearst and Rodman Wana
j maker, than whom none would better "stind for the
' J interests of the people ahd who could not be sub
i verted by the corporate interests."
j 'The Mayor says: "I do not know whether any
of the men I have mentioned would accept office."
j 'In Mr. Hearst s case this doubt is one of the most
3 poignant in current politics.
. j jIBut if, Mr. Hearst could be induced to take back
sonic of the things he said about Gov. Al Smith,
l and-if Al Smith could persuade himself to think
if Jjetter of Mayor Hylan, what Pollyanna-in? there'd
j in the City Hall I
irwayDc even tne Transit commission would get
a faug.
Fades the Synura.
TO KEEP US OFF OUR UPPERS.
r RESIDENT HARDING has won the approval
y f JL of Cobbler Spady of Emporia, Kan., by send
ing a Bundle of old shoes to be resoled and repaired.
The President, according to Mr. Spady, is proving
his common sense and economy by wearing his
shoes until the uppers are gone.
But is he showing economy?
' Some American farmers visitinp- Washinp-trn
SjsV 2 have complained that American shoe manufacturers
j are selling American shoes for export at a price
much lower than prevails in the home market.
) f!f this is true, President Harding might be able to
I ' saVe even more money by buying his American-
made shoes in Liberia or Madagascar.
l. This suggestion might work even better f Con
gress gives the President power to make tariffs
"flexible."
With a flexible tariff the President might be able
to make his salary stretch a good deal. In the casi
of the shoes we have mentioned, he could order
them from abroad, and then on the day they were
due to arrive he could flip the tariff a flex or two
downward and so save the import duties. The same
would apply to other commodities.
Shoe cobbling is expensive for the rest of us, even
if economical in the long run. But with a flexible
tariff President Harding might even show the rest of
us a wriggle or two.
But one cannot but admire genius wherever
appears.
Toxen Worm was a good press agent as press
agents go. He was a press aent to the last. Even
in so prosaic a document as a will he made sure
that it would gel into print.
,One paragraph of his will read:
"I consider New York to bo the most won
derful city In tbo world, and 1 liopo that Us ,
prosperity, uninterrupted, mny bo forever con-
tlnued by Providence. In this connection I also
express tho earnest hope that God mny tako caro
of Chicago In tho future, so as to ennblolt to 11
down Its miserable past and wretched present."
Toxen Worm thereby made sure oftlie circula
tion of his last effort to press-agent himself. He
produced an Hem'of interest in the world of news.
New York editors could not disregard his last wish,
because it combines both verifiable fact and nov
elty. Neither can Chicago editors perhaps for the
same reasons.
THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION.
( g rj-ilIERE can be no doubt as to the vital
X itp of tho League of Xalloni, It
will take care of itself, and thotc tco don't
regard it Kill have to took out for themselves.
I hate no anxiety for it.
"My only anxiety is to sec our great pcopla
turn their faces in tho right direction and .
move with all their force."
That is the simple message ,of confidence and
encouragement from the man whose ideal of Ameri
can duty was too big to pass all at once through
narrows of national selfishness narrowed still more
by vindictive partisan pressure.
But the Woodrow Wilson ideal was not crushed.
The proof is that little by little the narrows have
opened. Those who pushed hardest against the
international co-operation that Woodrow Wilson
wanted have since been forced, in spite of them
selves, along the same road. And Hie end is not yet.
No American living has less cause to deem his
hopes defeated. For those hopes were rooted in
what's deepest and best in the Nation's soul, and
what is deepest and best in America sooner or later
prevails.
This is the week when the friends of Woodrow
Wilson begin a movement for a foundation that
shall bear his name and endure as a memorial to
him. The friends are many, success is sure.
The aim is an endowment to provide awards
for distinguished public service.
The time will Come when all Americans will say
that no foundation for such a purpose could be more
filly named.
O'
GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME. .
,NE of the dreams of downtown New Yorkers
seems in a fair way to come true.
The Federal Government is about ready to offer
a trade of the old Post Office Building for another
convenient site where a new Federal Build'ng will
be erected to house the many deparlmental ollices
now spending nearly a million dollars a year
for rent.
The probability is that a plot on Lafayette Street
north of thexMunicipal Building will suit the United
States. This is in the budding civic centre of the
city. Before completing the deal the city might
fairly demand from the Government guarantees
that the new Federal Building will harmonize with
the general scheme for the development of the are.i.
Artists and architects should be called in to design
a building in harmony with the Municipal Building
and with the Court House and other projected
structures.
Complete plans should be prepared and an ap
proved design be made a part of the trade.
What maintains one vlco would bring up two
children. Ben Franklin.
PRESS AGENT TO THE LAST.
THERE is art, we are told, in digging a good
ditch if the digging is what the artist wants
to do and does it with all his skill and all his heart.
Certainly there was a touch of artistic genius in
tfie will of A. Toxen Worm, theatrical press agent,
who died recently in Paris.
The art of press-agenting is not primarily a mat
ter of skill in writing. It avails the press agent little
if he writes with the fire of a Byron and the style
Flaubert. The real test of press-agencv is
breaking into print.
ijts-ajeuxitaligned,--often justly so. j
"I'll Get You Yet!"
Copyright, 1022.
(Nw York livening World)
by Preas lub. Co.
By John Cassel
From Evening World Readers
What kind ot tetter do you find moat readable? Isn't it th one
that Hires the worth ot a thousand words in a couple of hundred?
There is fine mental exercise and a lot ot satisfaction in tzyini to
say much in tew words. Take time to be brief.
Apropos of Prohibition.
To the EdiUr ol Ttie Bionlal World;
Apropos of Prohibition, you may be
interested to know that on one of the
statues In front of tho Appellate
Court, on 25th Street, this city, there
Is an Inscription which, as near as I
remember, reuda as follows:
"All laws not baaed on common
sense aro a menaco to tho State."
F. J. G.
Xew York, Jan. 14. 1922.
A lVADDINGTON OF M1CHIGAX.
To Uie Editor of The Kvenlnu World: ,
Reading "Mr. Waddlngtou of Wyck" as the New
berry case culminated, I was struck by an essential
resemblance. In May Sinclair's novel, Mr. 'Wadding
ton, Lord of the Manor and prototypo of his caste,
has compromised himself with u blackmailing woman.
His secretary successfully folia tho adventuress by
showing her that oven If her charges were proved
true she would get nowhere n tho county. Mr. Wad
dlngton's class would stand by him.
Slnre Newberry was seated, need wo cross the water
to find Waddington-of-WycklHin? Hero was a plain
case of a corrupted election. It had been proved to
the satisfaction of an American Jury and admitted by
Newberry himself. Yet tho utmost efforts of forty
one Senators (thank God for tho forty-one!) could not
ward off the disgrace of his seating.
And why? Caste and money! High society and tho
Republican campaign deficit ot $1.GOO,000.
The conscientious forty-ono were up against a bitter
thing than Newberry. Senators complained nn tiio
floor of the Senate .that they could not attend rerrp
tlons without being urged by prominent women to
vote for Mr. Newberry.
In "Mr. Waddlngton of Wyck" tho unjust social
situation works out to an ugly claeti warfare, in flitch
the chief weapon ot tho wronged Is tho c.tort!onato
wage. Fortunately, In this country wo oun resort to
a less vindictive method tho ballot bo.. In tho
defense of democracy tho voters should perform mi
Noember what Is, after all, only their boumlen dut,
by sending up to the aid of the fort onc rnougii
Newberry Senators to empty tho tainted Mat
Mahwab, Js. J,, Jan. 16, 1922. JAMES A, MGQZ.
A Good Caatomcr.
To the Kditor of Tlie Etrnkw World.
Do tho dlo-hard supporters of the
Irish Republic In the United States
and Ireland over give a thought to
the fact tho British Isles aro practi
cally the only customers Ireland has
for her surplus agricultural products?
Where would she And a market to re
place them? Not In theso United
States, for wo havo surplus enough
for all Ireland and the British Isles
and' then' somo to spare, and if Ire
land attempted to export to this coun
try we would at once raiso a barrier
in an Import tax.
And when was tho United States
more of a democratic form of govern
ment than the Urltlsli. even though
I It has a King? When I read of the
! doings of somo of tho leagues that
j wo have In tho States, who control
i tliii Letrlslaturcs, 1 sometimes Ques
tion whether wo have a democracy at
all. When I say leagues I particu
larly mean tho Anti-Saloon and lllue
Sunday Leagues, who would have tho
legislature do their bidding without
the will of tho people.
And, moreover, the Irish Hepubllc
so-called was never established by
the will of the people, but assumed by
uu aiuru. uim ins m rjib,
I say to those here who are still ad
i vnentlng a Hepubllc for Ireland to
louvo Ireland aiono, as they have
with tho treaty they have signed as
much freedom na we havo in these
United States, tho Dominions of tho
British, or any country on tho face of
this globe. A DAILY RKADEIt.
Statcn Island, Jan. 12, 1922,
.Support the Iluneat Mnr.
To the Kiltvr of 'Hie Brenljig WoriJ:
Tho Republican Senate, by a vote
of 40 to 41, has legitimatized the
expenditure of Jlfl5,000 for a sena
torial seat, only nine Republican Sen
ators having voted against It. In tho
samo resolution declaring Senator
Ncwbcrry'B tltlo to the seat Is the
declaration by Senator Willis of Ohio
(who voted to seat Senator New
berry), aa follows:
"Tho use of bo excessive a sum its
;i!)5,000. which was expended in
tbo Michigan primary, was con.
trnry to sound public policy
harmful to the honor and dignity
of tho Senate, mid iUuiroious to
1 11c ihji iiuiiimum or tree ko -i'i
nm'.'Ut."
In other words. lU, li.diii-ent
rolei'lp of Ropiii'l'c.in Srnatuij can
usrt then- pai UH'i i ,, d.injri'i'njis
Mtimi lint. Ih'-,ui!,.. ,1 n fiU.t Ull",
. henay;r New ben i alUl.1,i0 lmlt
1 in (belt number, kilo not mllisXtai
principle to exercise the principles
they confess.
During the Cox-Harding campaign,
when Republican slush fund was run
ning high and exciting- general com
ment, a prominent Republican par
tisan stated publicly that "whatever
It cost to defeat Wtlsonlan principles
the cost was cheap at thrice the
amount. "t As I recall It. something
like a, fund of $3,000,000 did tho
trick. In simple words, then, It Is to
state that tho cost of election of a
Republican nominee, from President
down to the town dog pelter, Is
cheap at nny price.
Tho seating of Newberry should
have a good effect In tho approach
ing Senatorial elections. I believe
that there will be enough self-respecting
Republicans, together with
right-loving Democrats, to. change
the complexion of Congress as soon
as opportunity affords. Thus can tho
voter roaign himself with tho Honest
nine Republican Senators and the
solid list of Democratic Senators who
voted honest principle In the contest
for the Senatorial seat.
E. M. ROBERTS.
New York, Jan. 13, 1922.
IIlKli Strnotnrea Sirar.
To tho Editor of Ttie Eresliw World :
A says there is no Bway In the
Woolworth Building or any other
building.
B says there is.
Also Is there a sway In largo chim
neys such as are on power houses?
, PATRON.
New Tork, Jan. 11, 1922.
A Protest.
To the BJttnr of Ttie ETtninx World.
To write on and .protest against
tho Eighteenth Amendment Is almost
a hopeless thing, yet I can hardly
keep from doing so. I wonder why
so much money, time and ambition
are spent on this hateful, good for
nothing and Impossible law when tho
really Important matters aro passed
by. Kor Instance, And out why tho
stealing, highway robberies and the
murdering of people, almost in front
of their own doors, can go merrily
on without the slightest endeavor to
(Ind the guilty ones. It appears the
only worry Is make tho country dry.
In tho mean time go ahead and steal,
murder and hold-up.
Why doesn't this public nuisance,
William H. Anderson, use a little of
his superfluous energy and breath In
contriving some way of mending that
evil? It Is not so easy and perhaps
will not pay so well, but ho would
at least bo of some use. Now ho Is
tho most persistent pest ever folst-it
on a long-suffering and patient pub
lie. I succeit that some of these law
makers (God knows they are always
with us, like tho ' poor) get up
41 Nineteenth Amendment and make
it constitutional compelling Anderson
and his wholo antl clique to keeo
their mouths shut and tie their hands
for nlnety-nlno years. What a relief
that would lie. ami now vn wel-
' vome .
! n't JuM the nnci-t llilne 1:1 me
1 v.oild that T -e Kwr.liii; Woild cmulU
1 go on publishing t'.i irople'.'i i-roi' ts
tiMHIlM ll'l" tiUtrnKr.iii- ljmiin.N iMat
, '" aic tu Mibjei-UM to.
0. X WOMAN READER.
UNCOMMON SENSE
By John Blake
(CoiTrlrht. im br Jbkn Blue.)
AS TO SOCIAL GRACES.
You know the kind of man who is always "the life of
the party." He plays the piano a little, he sings a little, he
plays a fine game of bridge, he is ready with quips and clever
observations usually borrowed. ,
He is the first to devise new games to keep people
amused. He knows how to say complimentary things to
ladies. Altogether lie is : social necessity.
There are many such men in the world. They are the
life of the party, but rareJy are they the life of the business
where they happen to be employed.
And more often than not the dinner invitations they
receive are very welcome, because they insure a few good
meals meals of the kind which lives of the' party can ill
afford on their salaries.
To be a social favorite a tame cat really requires
ability. No commonplace man can achieve social distinction.
He may be what bu.niness men call "a sap," but he has a cer
tain magnetism that makes him popular.
If he spent all the time being the life of his business
that he does being the lif of the party he would arrive at
some worth-while dcstinalion in the end.
Macnetism is an unusual gift. The ability to Interest
men nnd women has a high market value. Salesmen, actors,
politicians, every one who wants to follow successfully a
semi-public career, must have it.
It is fbolish, therefoiv, to waste it furnishing very
mengre entertainment for people in their leisure hours.
The writer has known many men of really good attain
ments who have wasted them all in being bright at dinner
tables and at parties.
They may be appreciated there, but they are never paid
for, nnd they never bring promotion. Nobody ever heard of
a life of the party building-up a distinguished career in that
capacity.
It is a good thing to contribute to social gayety, to help
people be huppy while they are at play. But don't "overdo it.
Don't feel that you must supply all the gayety and lend all
the revels.
If you have talent of that sort use it in business, where it
will do you and the world a little good.
Foreign-Born
Builder 8
-ot
America
Bu Svetosar TonibrotT
Cosnlfbt! (Nr Tork Brtnlnf WoilS)
XX. JOHN ERIC830N. .
John Ericsson ts one) of Sweden
contributions to tho building mi
America.
Ericsson cams of a race that ooca
plod an important place In engineer
ing and mechanical arts aa far back
as the seventeenth century. It
from Sweden, at the end of that
tury, that Petor AlexelvHch, Snrt
Czar of all the Russia, acquired tns
bases of technical accomplishment
that enabled him to bring Russia Into
lino with European civilization In U
material aspects.
The Swedlah-born builder of Ame
lea brought to the country vrld
which he cast In hla lot in 1883 m
heritage of the genius that bad mada
Russia "modern" under Petor tha
Great.
John Ericsson was born In an a
mosphero throbbing with machinery.
His father was a mine-owner. When
he was cloven, the future inventor of
the Monitor had designed and made
with his own hands a saw-mill.
Ho was commissioned an ensign fat
tho engineering corps of tho Swedish
Army at seventeen, and resigned his
commission as Captain seven yearn
lator to develop his great invention
the screw propeller.
Ho offered the benefit of his ae
perlmenta to tho British Government:
but tho Admiralty and tho British
naval officers viewed .tho invention
with disfavor.
Fortunately for America, wo had
as Consul at Liverpool at that tlm
a man of vision and Intelligence, F.
B. Ogdcn. Ogden supplied Ericsson
with money for tho .construction of a
small steamship propelled by screrors.
This pioneering vessel steamed acroaa
the Atlantic to America.
Ogden, then, with tho help oC
Capt. Robert F. Stockton, TJ. S. NM
Induced tho stone whom tho British
builders had rejected to come to
America. Two years after his arrival
In New York, Ericsson was employed
to design and construct the U. S. S.
Princeton, tho first warship to b
propelled by machinery below tho
watcr-llnc.
Tho successful operation of tha
Prlncotoa marked tho beginning of a
now epocl in steam navigation. The
giant screw-propelled liners that now
plough the seven teas are lineal de
scendants ot tho U'S. S. Princeton.
Among Ericsson's other invention
were: a steam boiler with artificial
draughts, eliminating smokestacks and
saving fuel; a steam flro cngino; tha
caloric engl.no; a sliding telescopies
chimney; machinery to check the re
coll of heavy guns; an instrument for
measuring distances at sea, and aa
alarm barometer.
His most conspicuous and timely
achievement was tho designing and
construction of tho Monitor, which
proved Its value by defeating tho
Mcrrlmac In tho historic battle of the)
Civil War
The new ty-o of warship gave tha
Union an advantage that had a good
deal to do with the successful out
come of tho struggle to preserve tho
Union.
After his death In 1889, Ericsson's
homeland expr sed a dealro to hava
tho great inventor's remains restored
to the soil from which ..0 had sprung.
His body was received with signal
honors when the cruiser Baltlmora
took it to Sweden.
Psychoanalysis
You and Your Mind
By ANDRE TRIDON
WHERE DID YOU GET
THAT WORD?
125 INDIVIDUAL.
The noun "Individual," meaning a
person, la derived from tho Latin com
posite, "lndivlduus," indivisible (tho
negative "In" and -dlvlduus," dlvlst-
blTh9 derivation of the "word plainly
Impllw that a person U an Indivisible
entity
There aro several Instances In his
tory that show marked dissent from
this correct meaning and derivation of
the word. Tho bond of Charles I.
proved easily dlvlsiblo from his body.
to dm tne ncau 01
noiL.r.K of bh Hamburg consoi"
Allt'U"lte.
"That's a Fact
By Albtrt P. Southwlck
lOwrjTit, II. (Tk Kiw York ETetOlK World)
nj too it t reuuGiac uo.
"Maroons" is the original name
given to the fugitive negro slaves of
Jamaica, who, after the conquest of
the Island by the English In 1655, fled
to the mountains and maintained a
continuous warfare with tho colonists
for 140 years. In 1795, when finally
subdued, a part of them wore trans
ported to Nova Scotia and afterward
to Sierra I.eone, Africa, the remainder
becoming free in 1834.
Mur.e The symbols ef the Kvaugcl.sts are
idcscntied as follow: Matthew has a
'i'i. n. i.nilinil ul lilL'l 10 fijiiKH- Kcnm ouiuiu juiii and iioius u ih?ji:
tiuv h'M .11 t!io obvioiiH mitii th I1, iiu t Marl; sits working with a winged lion
'. r' ' .... - . Iinl li I'.rU. ... hla I.llVe tin. ;i r.rt n
III'
1 m iilvn operation-1, both I'wrie bv his side; Luke lias a pen and a
oi nugland yiii I-oi.u XVI. of scroll, and near him is an ox; John
IS " juuiui iiwi, wciujiu y uviu la hi
Kronen ceased to be Jaddull3
. . i.jtkt. a w
NO. V THE FEAR OF MENTAL'
HEREDITY.
"Why do children at tho circus show
their preference for the freaks?
Insanity is not Inherited. A child
la born sound of mind even though
the father or mother bo crazy.
Physical heredity cannot be dented.
It Is governed by laws which ;ara
known and enables breeders to pro
duce exactly the kind of animal they
need, race horse, draught horse, cows
that produce more milk and furnish
lees meat or Just the opposite, &c.
1 Mental heredity, on tho other hand.
'. Is being doubted by a constantly In
creasing number of scientists. Our
mind is made up of all the Impres
sions wo receive from tho hour of our
birth. Prenatal Influences aro merely
an old superstition tho unborn child
Is not connected In any nervous way
with the mother's body.
It is then the sum of all tho sensa
Impressions we receive from the min
ute of our birth, what we see, hear,
taste, smell, feel, &o., which will de
termine the sort ot mind wo shall
havo later In life.
Why Is It, however, that nervous
pcoplo often begot nervous children,
that a crary father may havo one or
several crazy children?
Because children are great Imi
tators. Children become adults by
Imitating adults. And tho worat is
always more easily Imitated than the
best. Ill-breeding Is more easUycop-,
led than good breeding- A crazy man
Is more easily Imitated than a nor
mal man, an Insane person mora
amusing and henco more attractive
to a child than a healthy poison.
Children who attend the movies Im
itate tho antics of Cliarlio Chaplin In
preferenco to tho graceful motions of
somo beautiful woman or ot somo
movie hero.
At the circus they show their pref
erence for the freaks.
Hence children should never be al
lowed to como In contact with ner
vous, crazy or insane people. If on
of the rnrents shows morbid symp
toms pointing to mental disturbance,
either the sick person should be re
moved to tome Institution or tho chil
dren Intrusted to tho care of a per
fectly sann family.
ri'eention m psychiatry as In med
ic. no is bettei than treatment and
when we use preventive methods
acalnat tho spread of Insanity tha -
1 r-
.iff n TliiomoOJB
re-