Daily News from New York, New York • 11

11 The history of every man should be a Bible. Novalis. OUR COUNTRY In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Stephen Decatur. WOTTA LIFE! WOTTA SUNDAY NEWS, DECEMBER 28, 1924.

i i THE SUNDAY NEWS PLATFORM FOR NEW YORK 1 A Seat for Every Child in the Public 4 A Bridge Across the Hudson to New Schools. Jersey. 31fJ MSSfe 2 A 5-Cent Fare and Better Service. 5 Stricter Regulation of the Sale of jpHMB' fStsVW' 3 Improved Traffic Conditions on the 0 Pistols. mWW: WHY ARE CROSS WORD PUZZLES? itf VOICE OF THE PEOPLE said, 'The time has the Walrus cannot begin or end anything.

Some plays j'-on Broadway which have met with warm ap-1 E. THE WAGE PROBLEM. Bronx: With the cost food nlmosr rrt rn-r cer.r. hii'her Thar THE I'EKFEl I r-. I road in THE NKW proval of dramatic critics have not lasted; savai.

mint ctioR hr.nce T.r' had a reae! hy-H-ai was two weeks, while others which were received Uhat of years ae-. is any coldlv or in comparative silence have run for I that the laborer be, omes dissatisfied and seotcs increases months and even years. i his wages As an employer find It is the same with those who have fallen a'most imposiMe to my workmen satisfied this resnett hut that there for hi- brain aftorr.ovr. I ha, in That i ar. iipp.

rr.ent ii; tei Tht a victims to the cross word puzzle habit. Out- and yet I know that their demands short timt- i cold lutt re- But the raged wives, husbands or employers will not are J.us ees i receive swerve them from their several quests for a 1 for my product have r. increased was t. the i-v I saw wh. have -icui perfecM.in.

Nar barely able to trair. of the weight of If the OT5tt- i I reache i rcov-i het. they trut thi- four-letter word meaning "to seal with wax," a two-letter word meaning "a Babylonian god," a fourteen-letter word meaning "transmigration of souls after death." etc. ad oO per cent, in the last clever, year? not by any mean. Will some one please inform me ht-rein lies the fault? 11.

F. THE MATTRESS BANK. Bronx: Another Dubtingri ha-heaven lourct- these typ-s r.eip th r.n-r. Bu-a at seme Oi I do arree ro. hraiT; im FRANK those there Thomas has adopted a So the wise man wiii not ask: "What 'for his bank and seen his savings fro un in smoke-.

bar.KS oi Lie cicme iu fiuiiniiiit; tiu ciu uui- HE'S OFF OF New York City: th I'l ZZI.FS. re err r. I hyp- 1 am it.ferminsr readvj zles? Rather will he turn to the question Lucie sams institutions at.y time i -i to an Ostermoor. And tspeciallv asked this editorial hy are cross so if i had kabit of s'moki, word puzzles?" in bed. C.

S. WEIGHT. We believe that cross word puzzles are theatrical training. comparable to America's first picture news- Xtw Yorv IITdon 1 TIlr vrir i Titr x-i-n-c "ow nlan" aie ar-'' Harvard tu- paper, THE NEWb. Like THE NEWS, dents read Ge.

r-0 M. hanv thev came into being because of a public ory on "Raccoon Coats the Irama." but it is to be hoped that need; and, liKe THE 1NL they remain, the news had an awful of THE NEWS that I have but on. resolution to make and that I to adhere to it no matter hon" painful. Feir the sake of busi-ies. the peave ard welfare of niv fa mil and for the safe' my mv oath take hert-r iid I that I a-n i 1 'to talk of many things.

But we are going to be more specific than Mr. Carroll's Walrus. We're going to talk of one thing, and that thing is the cross word puzzle. Why are cross word puzzles? Above is reproduced one picture taken from a double page of pictures in the SUNDAY NEWS drawn by W. E.

Hill, an artist who is in a class by himself. Last Sunday Mr. Hill's drawings all were illustrative of the greatest craze that has possessed the American people in a generation the cross word puzzle. The caption on the accompanying picture said: for a dictionary! The occupants of the chair car are busy on cross word puzzles." It is a true picture. Similar scenes meet the eye every morning and evening these days in the subway trains, the elevated, the ferries which ply the Hudson, in every commuter-laden train which travels to and from New York City and in other trains and public carriers throughout the length and breadth of the United States.

The habit of solving, or trying to solve, cross word puzzles is not confined to any one class. Bankers, lawyers, editors, clerks, stenographers, brokers, bootleggers, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers all can be seen busily endeavoring to fill in the wide open spaces. And many are suffering mental anguish comparable to the physical anguish assailing those who frequent other wide open spaces where the thorns of 'cactus attack one without warning. Is the cross word puzzle habit a pernicious one or a helpful one? Opinions differ, and differ radically, on that score. There are wives who feel that the habit is the result of something conceived in iniquity and born of the devil.

Similarly there are husbands who feel likewise not to mention many who have, fixed opinions as to how an employe should occupy his working hours. But individual expressions of opinion increase and multiply because of a up in Haven Sun.iay. If so, and if the bluebloods tu-k Mr. Cohan's wise remarks lor tne r-. of my natural life.

how we have avoided tragedy our is difficult to but I assure one and all that for several weeks w. havt had those darn puzzles hr-ai-fa-t. iunch i r. I'irhl oUSiV. of 't it JJUU1IL UCMl illlCl lltTiliitllU lilC'tll.

What good do they do? Weil, anything that adds to the sum oi human knowledge is a good agency. Before the advent of the cross word puzzle how then some few million goers ill be saved a who'. unnecessary misery. strange that the man who 1 'you ail about it is usua-lv i ho draws down abo .000 oes many of us were even slightlv interested in year or less? And that HERE MEN Sill'. Newark: What want ar-ut th'-raT I l.kc Er-rk i and of tvur-v i to caii iivti.

tut wh. rt my i- a'! ir.v. y. Ye-. "hat w-nr hink i.

shr nu r. fa i ak foreign coins, little known weight measures, every in 1 class OP rivers in Italy, kinds of fuel other than HE (nvs to FK.Hi COke and WOOti, and a thousand Other things? Brooklyn: That's a d. iuediy The Compiler of the cross puzzle interesting- statement -d jL, I the managers of Eddie Martir. to delves into all the lore of the ages to find the! the effect that wis; pieces to fit into his fascinating patchwork i his title rijrht after the N. Year land that he wont dema'in a Of words.

fhe solver Ot the puzzle adds to tune to be seen i action. sun.is his knowledge with every puzzle he solves jlike the old days when nVr-ers re- 1, -r, morv tc-orv that; tah. but successfully. The cross word puzzle tan. if -were aKvavs eady and to he be a real fan, inevitablv turns to the die-1 tak or.

the other fei Let ONE 1 'i- 1 IlhiM. sy ay rv E.S 1 hone Eadie kc-ps his word. I BILLY BARNES. T. tionary to verify his solution or to aid him in making it.

There, in that most diversified compilation of human knowledge ever placed A Thought For Today Voi-t between covers, he finds other things of which he had not dreamed. The cross word puzzle is an educational institution. May it be with us long. jl Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in A riftot't..