The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 26

ODS AANRIRS NS Perm . ogame es sss. | @HE BVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 CONGRESS OR COUNTRY? Bes is nothing in the Constitution of the United S) ) RSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. States which says that Congress shall not legis- Sprains ews cos enter Wy fe, Meee Pan'** | | tate without conscience States which requires Congress to change or revoke one of its legislative acts, even when altered conditions render that act increasingly false and inconsistent in BLUME 60 ..........0+5 the light of its professed purpose, OPEN THE BOOKS, The Constitution does not guarantee ee honesty EN William M. Wood, President of the Ameri- of Congress. It does not guarantee the sanity of Con- can Woolen Company, meets the Chamber of | St¢SS. of Lawrence, Mass., it is to be hoped that} ‘The framers of the Constitution inought they could on will be very frank—on both sides. Mr.| leave it to the people to insist that their representatives A openly charges that Lawrence retailers are] in the National Legislature should ti nd ng. As The Evening World fist pointed Out] rect men poets pared more Sea fee Wel peeling een yee. Responsibility for its legislators is a responstbility > This controversy has become nation-wide in inter-| the country has of late almost forgotten. The de- est. More people are directly affected by woolen prices} cision of the Supreme Court upholding the constitu- by retail prices in Lawrence. But the retailers in| tionality of the War-Time Prohibition Act comes as a mee are more or less typical of retailers every-| 14446 reminding jolt, ae 6, ? World, Passing It Back! xh: By J.H. Cassel By Albert P. Terhune Copyright, 1919. by T reas Pybiiat on) hin Raw York tivenlng Workdyee \ \No. 26: “Camille,” by | Alexander Dumas (Fils). | HEN young Armand Duval came up to Paris from his country home in Southern | rance, he was ignorant of Mfe and jot love. Also, he was at the ege |S a man deems tho whole world of repute and of career well lost for love. Soon after his arrival in Parle he saw at the opera a woman to whom he lost his heart ut first glance, She | was a pale, slender girl with jet black hair and fatHomlieys eyes. At her | breast was 4 bunch of glowing | camellias. | Armand made eager inquiries about ‘her, He learned she was Marguerite Gautier, and that ber habit of wear- Profitéering, whether by manufacturers or by F ing camellias had won for ber the is very much in the public eye. Many Americans have had a vague feeling that after nickname of he Camoliia Lady” or To both Mr, Wood and the Lawrence retailers we|!! they need not exert themselves, that despite the end the policy of “open books’ which George failure of the President's efforts to bring Congress to f, Petkins advocated last week. Both parties to the/its senses, the courts must somehow possess power « y are before the court of public opinion, | enough to set aside anything as manifestly dishonest as P whether they adhd vet aah ie eoghirg bin iti a War-Time Prohibition Act in force more than a year best deer side a os St a pe hte public after the ending of hostilities. one or the other can show a clean case. They have felt that the pretense of a Prohibition ‘The Evening World suggests that the Lawrence re-| measure to “conserve the man power of the Nation and the American Woolen Company employ} and to increase efficiency in the production of arms, fied public accountants to audit the books of the} munitions, ships, food and clothing for the army and and of the woolen company = publish . navy” could never stand a final test in court thirteen sche fl Mi ed oak ee months after the signing of the armistice, with de- Presently Armand ¢eased to see her at the opera or in her carriage, Be heard she had fallen il], Night aéter night, he stood outside her house | watching the light in the sickroom window, and in an agony of appre- hension lest she might not reoover. Yet he made no effort to force his acquaintanceship on her. One of his friends, however, told the story of these all night vigils to a friend of Camille's. Aga this friend in turn told Camille, 4 Touched by such ungelfish deve- tion, Cumilie invited Armand to a supper she Was giving injhonor of her recovery. Therg sho fellkas deeply in love with him ag was he with her. Hitherto Camfie had Myed only for | ilizati e r . She had rv jed_all ’ ' arty refusing such an examination at this stage of aap of army and navy complete. pleasure.” Sho had regarded all amen a ‘ Ne a > clsi . ie cared for none of thent—except for h controversy must bear the odium of public con: ; he supreme Court dec aslon awakens these easy: wich. money: and: jewsls ai BuesOGUL tion. going Americans out of their doze, They see they get through their crazy infatuatiol for her. But Armand Duval was different And, for the first time ifvall’her gay life, Camille found her \ genuinely ‘If Mr. Wood can show that the 1919 profits of his} cannot shift to the courts, responsibility for keeping ny are back to somewhere near the pre-war! Congress straight. They cannot let a fanatical minor- ic i ding | . i; i " in love—and with a poos t phat he gong Bertin rox tue ven se ity get the whip hand of their legislators and then rely “sho and Armand turne ° ae het tacks down 6 be ;|on the Supreme Court to undo the harm that has hight life. They rented jas home tat ot, his attack on the Lawrence retailers must be d as a hypocritical and selfish movement to pre- ' ent further wage demands by his employees. vata out in the country. Thee, ak to- gether, they lived in pg! ness. ‘Hach was the one the other's life. One day, while Armand was out, an been done, “No principle of our constitutional law te more firmly established than that this court In any case, the public wants to know, may not, in passing upon the validity of a elderly’ mn called upon Camille," Hew 5 t ced himself as ‘mand’ ! t statute, inquire into the motives ef Congress. father, He had come to entreat ber ’ i so THIS IS HEAVEN! Nor may the court inquire into the wisdom of to give up her lover. ‘The elder Duval pointed out to her that she was the legislation. Nor may it pass on the ne- srenl and's car F D extracts from a description of Heaven shasite te ae ‘eeercias vie Siiie' putes: Frecking Armand's career and was estranging him from his family, and ; a published by the Weekly Despatch of London since the possible abuse of a power is not an bringing Sorrow and disgrace on ing } most disappointing. The news comes by way of| argument against its existence.” aco earnestly and so cloquently pid: ( dow who has been communicating with the spirit] These words of the Supreme Court decision go— the faster Diced: With Beara ete ' ‘wf her late lamented spouse. with what seems to be special intent—straight to the Bracelets so) ahe Arad wend omenee - Let us consider some of the specifications as she re-| innermost heart of the matter. They should sound in . consent, to Linke An ie ane s them American ears like an alarm. Knew Armand. prized her love far | he celestial beings do not sleep; neither do they Within the limits of the Constitution, which only UNCOMMON SENSE ® THE NEW PLAYS 64] gnchoabassiosen: Re ener ‘ to release him. When Armand came home to the cattage where héand his sweetheart had been so happy together, he foand Camille gone. She had left a note for him saying she was tired of the hum- drum life they had been leading and that she had eloped with a richer mi except occasionally a little fruit. In Heaven there| assumes the sanity and honesty of Congress, Congress mo work as we kftow it. It is true that Heaven is] has vast power to do harm: » It can enact falsehood, it “dry” and smoking is permitted, but ‘the husband) can defeat truth. It can further the schemes of the ye up the habit because the heavenly brand of] few, it can obstruct the will of the many. It can mis- cco was not to his liking. Even the family coach-} represent the majority by both action and inaction. had to accept an “ersatz” for his beer, With all} With this formidable power the country, since the ct to this English widow, it is permissible to prefer) war, has. become more and more dangerously out of John’s description in Revelation. touch, ‘Imagine a busy man with nothing to do, on a per-} Proofs’ of this do not stop with War-Time Pro- By John Blake - Copyright, 1919, LIFE IS ONE CONTAGION AFTER ANOTHER. You have seen a little panting dog trying to keep up with an automobile. He never succeeds in that particular ambition, but the exercise he gets in trying to achieve it makes him a faster dog than he was before. When Roosevelt was President, scores of men in public life wore scraggly mustaches and eyeglasses, and snapped “Abraham Lincoln” Fine, Simple and Moving BY CHARLES DARNTON “Armand believed her. In a tempest a of fury and heartbreak he cursed her { memory. Then, returning to Paris, ) oy h ink-|he plunged madly into all the dissi- TRANGELY enough, it has remained for an Englishman, John Drinl petlons the pleasure city could offer. water, to give the American stage a play about Abraham Lincoln|?"G0 ce or twice by chance he hap- ee vacation. Imagine him deprived of the pleasure | hibition, ext their words and hammered with their fists in conversa- : suthy ot ee ee Ries vengred hd chiet actor, Prank MeGlynn,|pened to meet Camille, And at such ‘i i arm clock A ‘ " * ion, roug! eers from the audience las: at the Cor eatre. ime her. ‘Then he went away, and for inding up the al and leaving the png The Senate is playing politics with a Peace Treaty They never became Roosevelts, but they did acquire a “hiraham Lincoln” ie a dreche of character—fne, simple and moving.|a long time heard | nothing of the {i fled. Imagine him deprived of the pleasure of} of unprecedented moment in which the honor, the} } great deal of energy, and the energy took them a long way }|[t 1s the soul of the man that Mr. Drinkwater reveals. With sympathetic worn he cole 20 OM ag by understanding, he makes the human being tower above the statesman like/jove of her. But he came back too late. Her grief and the restless life a colossal statue dedicated to humanity. He has the rare art of doing a ANE had led undermined her frail great thing simply, and in doing it John Drinkwater stands in a fair WAY! heqith and she died. ; pai el - ‘Too late Armand learned of ie to win not only the admiration, but the everlasting esteem of the Ameri pantinon ie Cre nade tor Hint and can nation. of the injustice of his brutal insults The play covers a period of five years, from 1860, when Lincoin was/|to her. on the road to advancement. Energy makes the world go round. Without it, the most massive muscles, the keenest brains are useless. Unfortunately most of us are born without it. But, for- tunately, it, like a cold or a case of influenza, can be into a fine two-inch cut of broiled beefsteak.| prestige and the commercial interests of this Nation lly, let him discover that he had left his favorite] are vitally involved, acco at home and that the supply at the village store) Js the country backing the Sermate’s game? worse than going without. Would he remark,| From his place of leadership in the Upper House lay, this is Heaven!” We think not. of Congress, Senator Lodge is giving voice to a suc-!$ “caught.” ; as a parting thought, Heaven may not be so} cession of astounding utterances which are offending Go into any shop or office where the boss or the sub- , after all. Perhaps this widow's hushand was aJ other nations, causing the United States to be mis- boss is a whirlwind of energy, and you will find the place “gay deceiver on earth and is up to his old tricks. Per-| understood and mistrusted, laying the foundations for|$ {ull of cases, some of long standing, some recently con- offered the nomination for the Presidency at his home in Springfield, until 1865, when he was shot by, John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Wash- ington. Yet the six scenes that make up the play are not merely episodls, ' News Flashes ing tanks, now available to tourists| so on, not to speak of the steepest |be able to give the people service, dends, are they allowed to keep the the Chleagp Arainage sonal tn Jane, Jot the Hrench Alps of Savor Shora|sises. oe ie (tet i ‘as is often the case where an historical figure is concerned, for one leads| |) | * he's getting his just deserts. Perhaps he is work) return of the same old international system of bal- Think back over your reading of biography and you }|to another in such @ way that the audience feels itself carried along with | || From Around | i the celestial equivalent of telephoning from the club] anced groups and alliances which produced the most|} will find that all the important men in the world had acute ?] the story as though seeing drama and history in the making, ‘There is an] | The World | 4 say he is detained at the office. Perhaps the lady terrible of all wars. cases of energy, and gave them to all their followers. intimate sense that warms the heart and stirs the soul. ee inne ivi ‘ A e i i er . coln “ "by @ Lognd been receiving a description of Hell. It sounds Is the country behind Senator Lodge? por P| Ren es Nee pp eel og Pasig ee his noite wits Ri cehatatectenen Lag epee ary dhasbuct nat It's Quite the Same in Tokio. sonable, Neither House of Congress has a atten- nothing great has ever been accomplished without well di- ie norte a RYE guavas, wits bis Gods ha ia, on Ula Niven coating Ey vere soe E soi rae tion upon pressing reconstructive problems—the rail-}} rected energy, and well directed energy looks to the by- he 1s tolerant, yet : Boece! é *] clusive ei - . " ; y 4 yet firm in his resolution to preserve the Union and free the a 1 Week News: TURN A LIGHT ON THE GAME, roads, industrial adjustments, the reduction of the high|} stander very much like hurry. slaves, He tells them that to withdraw from Fort Sumter would be to a ane ae pate ane . . tart i eve e il rn B by. i 7 excited over the ner ce’s defeat HHARGES of crooked play in professional baseball] ¢ost of living and the consequences of inflation—all At HGR La A a ganeiat snetay iby watching a man dae rar. Gia cages, 1) SN ee ee eee Winn deceeiee ee estos wauthe rents “hase have been made year after year. But the need| matters which deeply affect domestic welfare. Peer Neste . aaa Aer y wetching aman running A thrill a felt in the mecting of Lincoln and Grant at the headquarters} increased greatly, and that ‘ we . > : . i near Appomattox, and the heart is touched when the President saves a é inte ao lender a thorough sponging of the professional baseball} Is the country content? i Idleness, ill temper, jealousy, anger, all are contagious. 3| youthful soldier sentenced to death for falling asleep while on guard duty SPA Ba iseias paisa pti ‘slate was never brought home to New Yorkers so con-| It is unbelievable that a large part of the American|$ Travel with people who are afflicted with thém’ and you will 3] Lincoln himself then stretches his legs and gous to sleep in, char Peel ina gropert da ontenathis acd : by "i Bee hy i Grant steals in to cover him with a cloak, Again the simplicity of the] th 1 Wincingly as by Hugh S. Fullerton’s discussion in yes- people can remain in their present state of apparent ean ER: Areata ee eaieeih ok , onal wan “We humorously suggested as he shouts, “Hu Hay!” to his| to another party so that the rent " ferday’s Evening World of the ugly rumors now going} apathy toward the functioning or non-functioning of a ene ae er dit Peon keatien th who Sy oeees military alde, ‘Then comes the fateful night at Ford's Theatre, when that] oan pe ruised in the name of the m i " . ‘ d - + an dy " ose qualities, ou madman, John Wilkes oth, enters the Presidential box an res the shot aia About charging dirty work in the last World’s Series.) Congress. , ‘ may get mild cases, but better mild cases than none at all. that plunged a nation into mourning, Lincoln is not new owner, To a cynical part of the public that has always pro- The Supreme Court “may not inquire into the You may have a strong, healthy body. You doubtless merely comes out of his box and says: “Now he belongs ag x ‘ 4 A ee 4 a tb ceghatt i Mr. MoGlynn, long, lank and engagingly awkward in dis me 2 Americans Quitting Manila. Fessed to believe that no big baseball, except possibly] motives of Congress.” But the people may inquire|} have a good mind, — i gave a truly great performance of Lincoln. It was not only in PY are tha ehutenie ‘college baseball, is ever straight, the fans have opposed| into the motives of Congress. What is more, itis thelr) 4 But a jcoomoure Bight have a splendid boiler and a }]‘ppearanco that he realized the character; ne got to the soul of it. “One| pqimn Servier show @ decided i . t * ; ina f " + x, a ine pair of cylinders and still be merely ornamental. f the finest phases 0! is acting wus scen in the shadows o: re an S 2 the strong argument that it is well-nigh impossible to} bounden duty to inquire into the motives of Congress, fae What the locomotive necde is “ais What. is a te Bint that ‘fell across his face. Such art as this is rare in the th Mr.| decrease in the past few yeare “throw” a baseball game without a concerted plan so| unless they are ready to let the principles of repre-|} energy Hos ; at you need is 3) \rociynn deserved nothing less than the cheers he roused. 1 in the number of American rest. ’ ; A : . gy. : ; "Phe acting generally was excellent, especially that of Jenn Sustace| dents in Manila, Iw 1014 the rate that it would fail to fool an expert crowd| sentative government, as this Republic has heretofore The locomotive must make its own steam. But you can 3 |as tna nempatheeio. ‘Mrs. Otherly, Winifred Hanley as Mrs. L : | ypomapae Ponsiattonto? Hse Ba ane times out of ten. understood them, go by the board. catch your energy from your neighbor, provided you are $| Horne Morrison ag the wupericial Mrs. Biow, Raymond Huckett as the! ‘ay 5,764, while tho presont ‘ Te Jel, eT y i i - yor mned t ei » an bert ips as Ge Grant. The! a i Nevertheless if getting players drunk or bribing] |The Supreme Court decision on the validity of the careful to select only neighbors who possess it. YOURS Le oo ie ee acater Lonergan, “Willian Harrie Je. may |? ceusua sate only $134. The em with the hope of exerting an influence on the re-| War-Time Prohibition Act sets the question ringing | Sw—eerrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnesd | well be proud of his production of “Abraham Lincoln.”, | percentage of decrease in the 4 o i r is ;. } ——— | play is a fine thing finely done, It should become the artistic treasure of] American population amounts to of a game has become in truth a regular practice | like a warning through the land: U: le Tanks To Climb 1 ag ee rofessional baseball, and if gamblers are sure} Does Congress or country command? se Battle Tanks To Climb Alps Hina iieiotabteeh Eee we rane toertretomier | inte 4 ‘ ? | Has nie & Bough of the results to make a business of betting on achagee —— | [ARANCE'S task of beating swords | of ite coat of armor and its fighting ‘Telephone Questions. |they pay, wonld nave to save her en- | Tand at $8.01 (he Acres xed” games, it is time to turn on a strong light and Before Nurse Hays endeavors to put his into ploushshares Included the] eaulpment, the tank bolls down to a Bradley Beach, N.J.. Dec. 12. | Miocene dress ax prices aro now,| — Purchascs totalling 6,381 i t the corn charges of the Republican Platform Committee conversion of tanks into some-| pillar tractor, | To the Maitor sepend and to expect a girl to work Bundays|» geres in the White Mountaina, p out the comers, rage at (hat Rectan A ‘ Provided with seats so arranged as to| Iam reading with both interest and| ing nolidays for that sum is simply hth here are hundreds of honest players |, We suggest that he look into the merits —_| thing having peacetime value. Some/ cot the most seating capacity out of |disgust the controversy going on|ridiculgus. 1 y santo cee a | ine deniers Appolaclens, s ¢ player who shou 1 capacity out of |diee Kot fy " , Of a widely advertised bed spring which is posi- have been employed for towing canal out the New York Telephone Com- | sy y Avkansas, at an average Ihave to bea { cast by the dish he Pe a given floor space, it becomes an |4> aul y p have to bear a stigma cast by ishonest on t tively guaranteed not to sag und allow the occu- | barges; others have become agricul-| oxcetient passenger-carrying vehicle |PunY And the excunes they are mak-|charge for having 0 of $8.91 per acre. have just been There are hundreds of thousands of lovers of] | pants to roll to the.centre. If Elihu Root an |tural tractors; others have MAAS| fon traversing. rough terrain. {acl aiptun of POMS (aa thiey did Ines: when snonine te nrdved. by National Forest ell whol will 1 idly demand drastic overhauling, | Raymond Robbins or Boles Penrose and William thelr way inte! he afeelery hel deed, in the mountain-climbing eer- 1918), which 1 understand is @irectly twice during the 1 Reservation on. aebody : ‘ ‘fyi f ; ° q : they carry loads from plaice to place.| vice the tanks are called upon to|#salnst the Jaws of the a Sates. wes Ae Hush! sumer Aw One IAI ES ed tt Cangre wre Que wing and purifying of leagues rather than take a Allen White ever bappen to try to occupy the ; ach vardina’ | be upon to which they got away with as|town, i id ‘he Phy 8 becoming tional same space at the same time, the bed {is apt to Bul ta miaey Mares ee eta cross small brooks, uneven ground, hi set they applied that to the| Why, if it is aguinst the law for| land on the headwaters uf nave greal game a nal | need sideboards, and all will not be quiet along doub' boulders, logs, brush, tall grass, pst |S of their operators t! would |thom to accumulate after paying divi-| gable streams for the protection . % 2 A oot about $16 & weak, aa|money? J4MNS 4. HOGG, of their toatershece,