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8Mr 'U THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAT 27, 1922. 10 1 SS&arttr. ESTADLTSIIED BT JOSEPH PITLTTZKR. 'rftltshe4 DT Kiceot Bundey br The Prs Publishing Company. )M. S3 to 63 Park now. New TorV. nAt,rtl PUUTZEH. Prteldent. 63 Prk now. J. ANGUS BtlAW. Treasurer. 03Jark How. ' JOSnni rULITZnn, BeereUry, 63 rrfc Hew. nxMntn or tiib AssooiAreD rnrs3. li Aiittdtttd Prm U tcluil?rtj entitled le tin nra fr nwMltttlm ft til nrwi dipitchn credited lo It or not otinwlit credited l ttli Sft md lw the locit nrw pubUihed fcefele, THE COURTS BACK LABOR. THE Appellate Division of the Supreme Court confirms Justice Wagner's recent ruling that an injunction may halt contract-breaking employ ers as certainly as it has been used to punish contract-breaking employees. Coming soon after Mr. Gompcrs's latest tirade gainst the courts, this decision is most welcome. The injunction was granted on application of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. It put an end to the "outlaw" effort of the Manu facturers' Protective Association to break a con tract entered into with the union. The action was taken as the result of a sugges tion made by The Evening World, and the con firmation by the higher court ought to commend similar action to other unions. Mr. Gompers will not approve the decision. Mn Gompers prefers to fight it out on the lines to which he is accustomed. Wiser labor leaders ought to be able to see that they cannot successfully break or defy the courts. The better, more peaceful and more economical way would be to use the courts in behalf of labor organizations whenever the courts can give effec tive aid. The Aldermen propose' to license laundries and to. standardize laundry marks. Is -this a new Chinese exclusion act? WHY-DID THEY REFUSE? ATTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY wants the people of the United States to believe that he found it impossible to get a competent lawyer to undertake the prosecution of war frauds. We are asked to believe that the Attorney Gen eral of the United States applied to sixty leaders of the bar and that all sixty turned down an op portunity for public service. This inspired news will not be accepted. The legal profession isn't so low, sordid, selfish as Daugherty would have us think, If the Attorney General did in fact apply to sixty lawyers only to meet with refusals, then the reflection is on the Attorney General and not on the lawyers. If sixty lawyers refused, it must have been because the Attorney General's plans for prosecution did not meet with the approval of the leaders of the bar; that he imposed restrictions the sixty were unwilling to accept. Daugherty's decision to be his own chief prosecutor, together with the names of his first three assistants, lends upport to this view. Reavis, McCulloch and Anderson arc better known as politicians than as lawyers. Did the "sixty lawyers" decline to serve because Daugherty intends to institute political persecutions instead of legal prosecutions? Ireland and Texas are running neck and neck in the civil disorder race. If the Coali tion Government can pacify Ireland, Texas will have time to catch upwith its lynching record. TO SERVE COMMUTERS. ALTHOUGH at present the pjan is what he calls "sketchy," Transit Commissioner Mc Aneny regards as inevitable a rearrangement of commuting service. .The proposal suggested Thursday was for a union commuting station at 33d Street and Fourth Avenue to serve both the Long Island and Westchester traffic and so relieve the two terminal stations of their overload. Perhaps that will be a first step, but it may not prove an ultimate solution. Dumping all the commuters out at one spot to jam the subway trains for distribution is not a satisfactory way of settling the long-haul business. It wastes time. It is a serious inconvenience and adds to the subway jam at the rush hour. Already the Transit Commission has plans for an Eighth Avenue subway. Another east side subway is inevitable. Would it not be possible to consider a commuter loop to be constructed in con nection with these two lines? . If six tracks, could be constructed instead of four, it might prove feasible to run suburban trains on the tyo extra tracks and deliver com muters in the vicinity of their business places. A crossover, say, at 57th Street and another down town would permit trains to make the complete circuit. Westchester trains would enter at the north end of the loop, Long Island trains would Connect on the east branch at 33d Street, New Jersey trains from the west. This is approximately the system followed in the Chicago elevated lines entering the "Loop." This would of course require the electrification of all the New Jersey lines and the adoption of approximately uniform equipment. But such ser vice would be 10 convenient and expeditious that it would stimulate the "spreading-out process" so desirable as population increases. THE CONFLICT. " LLOYD GEORGE told the I louse of Commons that there is only one kind of public opinion in Russia just now that counts, and this is "not the public opinion of vast masses of people 95 per cent, of the people arc indifferent to 'this (Soviet) system or hostile to it. "The only opinion there that matters is the opinion of the workmen in the towns, who represent less than 1 per cent of the whole population. Dut the Soviet system and its power is baaed upon that. It is not de mocracy, it is oligarchy. "The fact is that the vast majority of the Russian people are more individualist than the people of this country, and you have the paradox of a Communist Government speak ing in the name of an individualist popula tion." Nevertheless, paradox or no paradox, Lloyd George is still ready to deal with this present un representative Government in Russia as the only medium through which it is possible to reach the Russian people at all. On the one hand is a capitalistic world ready to aid Russia but trying to condition that aid in such manner as not to strengthen the hold of com munism in Russia. On the other is a Soviet Government eager for capitalistic aid but manoeuvring as hard as it can to keep the administering of such aid in its own hands in order to preserve its prestige and present a bolder front against capitalism. It is a difficult situation, and Lloyd George him self cannot show that it has advanced beyond the mere supposition that Soviet representatives, hav ing paraded Soviet doctrine for the gratification of Soviet pride at Genoa, will be more ready to get down to business and accept terms at The Hague. The Russian problem long since proved itself too big a handful for evcry-day diplomacy. For it represents two economic systems irrecon cilable, antagonistic trying to deal with each other without yielding to each other in their re spective claims to the right to survive. HANNA AND LODGE. IN his personal recollections of the "sound money" campaign of 1896, published in the Saturday Evening Post this week, II. H. Kohlsaat recounts an incident that reveals one of the rea sons why Mark Manna was a power in politics. While Mr. Hanna was busy reading or cen soring the keynote speech of the convention a visitor bustled in and said: "Mr. Hanna, .1 insist on a positive declaration for a gold-standard plank in the platform." Mr. Hanna's comment was: "Who in hell are you?" The visitor identified himself. "Well," replied Mr. Hanna, addressing the visitor by name and title, "you can go plumb to hell. You have nothing to say about it." The visitor threatened to fight it out on the floor of the convention, Hanna replying: "I don't care a damn where you make your fight." After the visitor departed, Mr. Kohlsaat pointed out to Mr. Hanna that a fight would be incon venient and begged to show the visitor the plank proposed. Mr. Kohlsaat reports: "Hanna replied: 'You can't trust.that blankety blank man; he will give the plank to the press.' " The' visitor was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Kohlsaat showed him the plank. It was printed in the newspapers the next day, although Lodge had agreed to keep it confidential. Lodge gave out the plank as "what I stand for," and accepted credit as its author. Mark Hanna was a shrewd judge .of ' men. Hanna mistrusted Lodge on sight. Massachusetts is twenty-six years slow. ACHES AND PAINS Oswald Garrison Villard desoribei the Genoa Con ference at "dancing on a volcano." We once knew an ancient country fair showman, Etra Stevens of Bryant's Pond, Me., who exhibited a coop of "danc ing turkeys." The novelty went very well until a curious rustle discovered that under the sheet Iron floor of the cage an oil lamp made it uncomfortably warm, so much so that the birds kept hopping about to cool their feet. The rhythm of a hand organ per fected the delusion. Looks as if Babe Ruth were a spoiled child. The first Kngllsh woman barrister has just been called to the bar in London, Bhc is Miss Ivy Williams, Our British brothers are very deliberate, but they arrive. Think hoxo long ago they started for Jeru salem! Stephen Leacock says the difference between Ameri can and English newspapers is that here the editors throw the news at the reader, while in Britain they break it to him gcntlyi Which is about it. Reports from Cos Cob are to the effect that the tautog ere biting well and there is a fine run of perch Who says poets never realise their idealst Maxwell Anderson has bought a waterfall S5 feet high up in Rockland County and every sunrise he sits in the pearly pool at its foot and lets the Haekensack River pour over him, JOHS KEETZ. Playing Hookey Copyright, J 043. (Nw Torlc Evening World) by Preie Pub. Co. By John Cassel From Evening World Readers What kind ol letter do you find moat readable? Isn't it the on that that the worth of a thousand rrorda tn a couple of hundred? Tiara ia fine mental exercsa and a lot of aatiafaction in ttylmjf fa aay much in few word. Take time to be brief. "Mental TMtl." To the Editor of The EvMilnt World Well, I solved the puzzle in five minutes. Greatly pleased as I was by this proof of my "superior" Intelli gence, I thought very much less-of It when I found that six other men to whom I gave the puzzle had not more difficulty In solving It than I had. I must add that we are all engineers, but even at that I don't think that Mr. Fraurblau Is right when he rates the average intelligence of adults so low and regards this test as so extremely severe. High school and college man uals of mathematics contain problems which are without comparison more difficult and are supposed to be solved by young men from fjfteen to eighteen years old. As a, matter of fact, they are usually solved by 20 to 80 per cent, of the class. For those Interested in the solution of our problem, hero it is: 1. Fill the live-quart bucket. 2. Pour three quarts out of It into the three-quart bucket. S. Empty the three-quart bucket. 4. Pour the remaining two quarts from the flve-quart bucket into the three-quart bucket. 6. Fill the flve-quart bucket again HENRY MENKES. No. 141 East 18th Street, New YorK of an audience In Its attitude toward a play." On the face of it, this argument is ridiculous, for it would not hold good In sections, of the country where the temperature remains practically the same throughout the year, territories such as Florida and Southern Callfor nla. Applause In the theatre or any other place is the result of the Intelligence and mental equipment of an audience, and not the weather. Although the ability of the actors must, of course be taken Into consideration, in the final analysts the mentality of the audience is the basis of all applause. JOSEPH SANTLEY. Great Neck. May 24, 1922. A Dempaey Swing;. To th Editor of The Erentni World: I wish to thank you for publishing E. J. A.'s" recent letter. What a perfect portrait of himself he gave us not a high-light, nota shadow lacking! What a magnificent Dempsey swing" for. Prohibition! Starting from somewhero near the heel and gathering force as It Journeyed, it landed squarely on the point of his own Jaw. If Prohibition has any sincere friends they will do well to seek out the habitat of "E. J. A." and break his pen. As an admirer of this Chester- fleldlan stylist I will contribute toward the building of a new one. CHARLES MACKAY. Stamlnrd Time. To the Editor ot TSe Evenlnc World. Then here's to the Good Old Standard time That never made us one hour behind, But always got us there oq time; Three cheers for the Good Old Stand ard Time! Let us have the Good Old Standard Time I Our fathers had ot yore. Let us have faith It will be changed And wo will keep tho Standard Time once more. We lore the Good Old Standard Time We'll keep it till wo die. Tho sun time Is the time for us; God give us Standard Time. APPlne. To the Editor of The Evenlnj World: T wish to take exception to the statement of Dr. E. E. Free, scientist and psychologist, that "the weather more thanrany other cause Is respon sible for applause In the theatre." Dr. Free, who Is reported to have con ducted a series of experiments at u local theatre, uses the following argu ment to prove his contention: "Tho fact that on some nights certain lines receive tremendous applause, while on other nights these same linos, dellv ercd In exactly the samo way and at the same tempo, recetvo no npplauKO whatever, Indicates clearly that The heathen In the foreign lands Keep God's time Ijy the sun. Then why shouldn't we in free America Keep God's time, every one? AN AMERICAN CITIZEN New York, May 26, 1922. WIIOSE BIRTHDAY 1 MAY 27TH JULIiWARD HOWE was born In New York City on the 27th of Mar. 1819, and died on the 17th of October, 1910. She received a liberal education, and when she was only slxteon began to contribute podms to New York periodicals. After her marriage to Dr. Samuel Grldley Howe she assisted him in editing the Commonwealth. She became famous lecturer and advocator of abolition, and she was so sought after as a speaker that besides her regular work she occasionally preached from Unitarian pulpits. She was chief of tho woman s department of tho New Orleans World Fair, served a num hr of years as President of the Amor lean Woman's Suffrage Movement, and gained a high reputation for philanthropic work. Some of her works includo "Words for tho Hour,' "Poems Old and New," the "Famous Women Series," her own "Remlnls- cencei," and the famous poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ' (CopTTltht, 1022. by John Blake.) WANTS. Man is a bundle of wants from birth. His first want, which is food, must be satisfied, and usually is. His second want, which is clothing, is supplied, in .some fashion' or other, by his mothef. She supplies his third want, which is care. 'Through childhood he continues to want. Almost the first thing he learns to say is "I want" following the two words by the name of the desired object. By the time he is ten years old 'his wants are so nu merous that he himself could not enumerate them all ut once. But grndually a few wants begin to grow prominent among many little ones, and upon the nature and extent of these big wants depends the future of their owner. Wanting wanting badly can accomplish miracles for a normal being equipped with nn average brain and nor mal health. But they cannot accomplish miracles unless their wants are the right sort and unless in time they grow so big and so important that nil other wants sink to insignificance beside them. The man, for example1 , who wants wealth has got for a time to. stop wnnting comfort and play and a thousand of the pleasant things of life that other men consider indis pensable. He has got to think about that big want when he wakes in the morning, and to go to sleep at night still thinking of it. Perhaps even probably the wealth that is the answer to the want may not be worth dropping all those other wants for when it is attained. But that is the only way that it can be obtained, save by the money-making genius, and even he must be ready, if need be, to forget to want other things if the gaining of them interferes with the pursuit of wealth. The same thing is true of great achievement, which is far more important than wealth and sure to be worth the sacrifice of smaller wants, which it will mean. Our desires are much like a garden. Those who are given the best start will flourish and become satisfied. But they will do so at the expense- of others which must be neglected. Wanting is important, and intelligent wanting is neces sary to happiness. We know itAisnally by a more preten tious name, which is ambition. VOOLEpR keep sis bottles In Vie air, ' Club swingers toss up six and eight. The knife throwers miss each other's ears by a hair, and the steel Quiv ers in the target wood. The trapeze battlers do a baclt-and- forth high in the air with a girl's feet and ankles upside down. So they earn a living flit they miss once, twice, even three times. So they live on hate and love, as , J - K I .J M vyfoKa hug in unn emng aniy, shiny eyes. . r . . i . . . , . in cicir proves oo inc eiUQWS JOfH0 once tn a Mile moon and tbriggle to throxo a kiss- answering a dreamed-of applause? Do the bones Repeat: It's a good act we oot a good liana . . . .t One ot those .weird wonderings ot. the poet, Carl Sandburg, who assists. at tho theory that Chicago Is a lit erary centre. This sample borrowed from Vanity Fair. MONEY TALKS .B? HERBERT BENINQTON. Copyrtrht. 1822 (New York Evening World) V Press rublUhinr Company. HOME. Year after year many of us pay rent. At 'the end ol twenty yearn the only real property we havo to show is a bundle of rent receipts. Yet the money paid has enabled some one else to buy more tangible property. If wo can do this for tho landlord wo can do It for ourselves. The Interest on a mortgage would not be more than the rent on tho house, and as wo amortize the mort gage tho house slowly but surely be comes our own nome. ' From the Wise Ileyi my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. La Fontaine. Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils. Goethe, TURNING THE PAGES By Z. m. Gtbem Copyright. 1S22 (New Tortc Evening World), by Freee Publishing Co. MM "Are Ton Mnrriedr - - Turned out by the fine feminine1 hand that directs "The Point of View," In Scribners Magazine: "Are you married?" That seems to be the criterion by whloh a woman over twenty-flvo stands or falls. Whenever my mother chances upon an old acquaintance she is met with the question: "Oh, and your daughter. I suppose she is married?" The reply being In the negative, tho Inquirer changes tho subject. Every time I run across a married classmato her first query Is: "You're married, too. aren't you?" And when I answer, "No," I feel like the little girl who wus told to bring a written exercise to school and didn't. I am even beginning to wonder If St. Peter at the gate of Heaven wilt not look at me kindly but (Irmly, like the teacher, shake his head and, saying gravely, "Ah but where Is your husband?" turn me away. We're not so sure about the con tinued inevitability of the "Are you married?" question Even mere man does not, in thesa days, ask his brother first and al ways, "Are you a Mason?" Iler Mother's rrogresslre Daughter. A story adorning Maurice Francis Eg'an's paper on "The Unexpectedness of Mhe Inevitable," In the Ccntury Magazine. It is a long way to Omaha, and during the Journey there was on tho train, when "the boys" were coming home, an aged farmor who sang doleful hymns in a had voice; he likewise very often gave his opinion in a loud tone as to the fate of the other passengers who had not "got lellglon." There came a young bride and groom: the car was half full of re turning soldle.ro. ' The bride bit off the end of h ' cigar and gave it to her husband. The old farmer rolled his eyes; lie opened his mouth to denounce her: ,. she took out a cigarette ease, of- , fered It to "the boys" In the seats'. ' near lier, and then lit a cigarette' for herself. The old man's eyes ' flamed. l "Stop that!" he cried out, as John Knox rebuked Mary Stuart. "Jere- bel! Think of your mother!" JJ "My mother Rmoked a pipe," the bride replied gently. A daughter confident In her gener- ation. If not also wise, what is any body else going to do about lt? Sho asks you. The Way ot the Zuni Girls Writes Elsie Clews Parsons, in 'Americnn Indian Life" (Huebsch), concerning the girls of the Zunl tribe Apprehensive of desertion a wo man may put a lock of hair from tho man In her house wall or, the better to attach him to her, she may wear It over her heart. A woman who Is deserted may take soil from the man's footprints and put It where she sleeps. At night he will think of her and come back even if the other woman Is better looking. Women and men alike may buy love charms from the ne'wekwe, n curing society, potent- In magic, black or white. There Is a song, too, which men and women may sing in their heart' to charm the opposite sex. And there Is a song which a girl may sing to the com as she rubs tho yet low meal on her face before going, , out. "Help me." is the substance of it, "I am going to the plaza. Mako me look pretty." Barely do our girls pray, I suppose, when they powder their noses. Apparently civilization In the sods! circles of the Zunls Is far, as yet, from the flapper-producing stage, The Girl Who Is Different - -When Stephen Culpeper talks with Margaret Blair, in Ellen Glasgow's 'One Man In His Time" (Doubleday- Page) a new story of Virginia: "You are so different from the other girls, Margaret," he sd at last, oppressed by the old difficulty of making conversation. "You don't belong to the same world with Mary Byrd and" He was going to add "Patty Vetch," but ho checked himself before tte name esoaped hin. "No, I don't," tbe replied, wuj a touch of sadness. "I sometimes wish that I did." "But why, in lleayen's name, should you wish that when you are everything that they ought to be?" "As if that mattered I" There was a tone In her voice that was new to him. "It's gone out of fashion to be superior. Nobody even cares any longer about your being what you ought to bo. I've been trained to be the kind of girt that doesn't get on to-day, full of. all sorts of for gotten virtues and refinements. "Nobody looks at me, because everybody Is staring so hard at the girls who are improperly dressed. There Is only one place where I can be sure of having attention, anil that Is In an Old Ladles' Home. Old ladles admire me." The plaint of a Margaret, we under' stand, who carries back to ole Vlr glnny. weather conditions govern the action t .t mm..,. ,-Msjim.i