The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 31

f } } | 6 \ oe oe eee cee kee THE EVEN in World. ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ae }Pavisned p pt Sunday by the Preas Publishing Conip: 3 to @3 Park Row, New York. Ratrit PUT HENNOCS SHAW. Ti JOSRPH PULITZER, Je MEMBER_OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ! THE PALTRINESS OF IT! 2 H*\"*° turned their ears outward toward the count Republi treaty-spoilers Senate are convinced that compromise is inevitable. in The game is now to try to ¢etain in a compro- » Muse the largest possible amount of everything that} © will serve paramount Republican purpose—which is to discredit the President. Obviously there could be nothing more annoying to Senator Lodge and his followers at the present mo- Ment than the President's refusal to stand forth and © declare just how much he expects to be discredited. E The sickening thing about the Republican attitude > is its paltriness, The peacé of the world is nothing compared with insensate Republican desire to score against Woodrow Wilson! — _ Austin G. Fox of this city asked the other day: “May it be that with some of our Senators of to- ~ day a personal antagonism once formed has béygme a’ public policy?” With’ shame the country admits and is.” that so it may be READY FOR CO-OPERATION? HE: enthusiastic reception of William M. Wood, President of the American Woolen Company his employees, the Lawrence imillworkers, lends ‘the Strongest’ sort of support to the suggestion that Mr. © Wood foster a ‘co-operative movement at Lawrence, | as advocated in these columns yesterday. * Naturally, Mr. Wood's stand for lower prices in commodities other than woolens ‘has evoked a cordial y _ response from wpolen workers, He has the conti- “dence of his employees. His support of a scheme for co-operative buying and selling backed by. the credit of the company but. managed by and for workers would assure an auspicious start. _. We feel’ certain that in the Jong run Mr. Wood would find it a far less troublesome venture than a fernalistic company stére The best managed com- store could hardly fail to arouse occasional dis- " agreements and discontents among | present, enthusiastic employees, Mr, Wood will get the blame for these, In a retail co-operative enterprise the em- i would have no one but themseWwes to blame. “s@ITY VS. CHAIMOWITZ, EW Miiicipal Court decisions, we imagine, have ; ought greater glee to a greater number that Magistrate: Harris's judgment in the case of City vs. Chaimowitz. Lardlord Harry Chaimowitz pleaded ty to a charge of failing to provide proper heat far tenants. Magistrate Harris assessed a $200 fine a penalty. . __ Every-sometime indignant flat dweller who has hammeretl a chill ‘and repelling radiator pipe in a itless attempt to arouse a sullen janitor indulged in ‘a few chortles and decided it “served him right.” Not few clipped the item and filed it away for future i as a ‘warning and threat. | The average tenant is reasonable, He has grown i stomed® to humility in the face of rising rent. 8 “Only a ‘few have the courage to be “rent strikers,” ticularly-when the icy breezes:blow. But it is well both tenants and landlords to be reminded that the $200 received from the fine. ‘nants: will not permit them to forget, “PROFIT IN HUMANE TREATMENT. ITH the coming of snow and ice on pavements, the work horses on sy streets are cealined Sliding, strained and eels, they will continue to de eir best, even though owners and drivers do not co- operate. f Meedless cruelty that mi sht be prevented. ity streets. Sighted opposition of influential team owners. sult, countless horses have been injured. en a bone by a severe fall. now and should be revived and passed. Only needless cruelty, but also poor business. ¢alked horse can draw with e p00th-shid horse cannot budge. If pulling power i he = gXfe wish President V/ilson would buy a copy George Harvey's k “The Power of end author for the the | requires a reasonable degree of heat and that Mag- trates will enforce the law. As a precedent, the case City ys. Chaimowitz is worth vastly more than the Some coalthrifty land- ds will, reflect that $200 would purchase enough ad- fuel to keep tenants warm and comfortable, Faithful workers will suffer in silence the Three; years ago The Evening World endeavorea| secure passage of an ordinance requiring owners to ovide sharply calked shoes for horses working on id on," venailh | Every humanitarian influence in the ity ored the measure, but it was blocked by short- As a Many have The ordinance is need- Failure to provide non-slipping shoes for horses is A 2a load which a th what it costs, then calks are a good investment. | Vidal @wners should not fail to profit from sharp Moeing, even. though the Alkiermen do noi require it. THE LODGE PLAN? T WAS one of the predictions of the forr inan Emperor that when the United States took a hand in a world war it would of course eventually seize Canada and Mexico and assume control of the ; American continent, | Is this also the latent purpose of Senators Lodge, | | Borah, Fall and others, wot the band? | We sometimes think it must be, With Mexico dependent and Canada in the possession of Great | Britain, enemies could enter this country from the | |north and south, Senator Lodge and the rest are do-! ing their utmost to create enmities which would make jit necessary for the United States either to guard or to extend its boundaries. Have they already worked vut a programme of forcible annexations? Before the war the United States considered itself | the most peaceful and peace-loving nation on earth, | Its chief reason for entering the war was that it might: help to end an international order which was a con- stant menace to peace. If Senator Lodge has his way the United States, will emerge from the war with its Back against the ail, facing the resentment and distrust of nations it affronted, compelled to become a war-like power in order to maintain itself in the position of defiant isolation to which the Lodge statesmanship relegates it. | A fine perversion of American purpose! An ex-| alted notion of American destiny! | Give 60,000 American lives and the best of Ameri- can energy and effort to the task of making the world | more secure—and end in a policy that leads to some thing as infamously narrow, selfish and menacing to! peace as William IL, ‘himself could have devised! | THE NEW STATE RIGHTS ISSUE, | HODE ISLAND stands with New Jersey before | the bar of the United States Supreme Court re-| questing permission to bring suit to have the “so- called Eighteenth Amendment declared unconstitu-) lional, usurpatory and void.” | The Prohibition Amendment cannot justly be en-;| forced in the State of Rhode lgland, that plucky little commonwealth contends, because its right to regulate) its own internal affairs “cannot be bargained away, | surrendered, yielded or transferred effectually without! an explicit and authentic act of the people of the whole | State, Rhode Island and New Jersey have always been} umong the States that refused to give up State rights | without a fight. It is fitting that these two small but courageous members of the Union should be the first to assert their State sovereignty against the new| tyranny which organized fanaticism has forced into the Federal Constitution. : Though forty-seven States voted themselves. dry, it should still have been left to the forty-eighth to settlé the question of Prohibition withif its own boundaries hy it own laws and the vote of its own people. Had every one of the United States on this principle and by this method voted to banish wine and beer, no fault could have been found, States were as weak and dazed as individuals in yielding before the Prohibition onslaught. Rhode | Island and New Jersey prove that the old pride, the old| jealousy of right and liberty, is riot wholly dead. Not | every State is supine. ‘A DILLY-DALLY EXAMPLE. ENATOR McNARY’S bill to extend the life of the Sugar Equalization Board has passed the House by an overwhelming majority, and with only minor changes. It now goes to conference, and unles influence is able to accomplish a killing delay, there eems a probability that it may be passed at the fifty- ninth minute of the eleventh hour, There was no substantial opposition willing to be o recorded. There seems to be no good reason, why the measure should not have passed months ago, when it would have been of great value in authorizing the board to sectire a proper proportion of the Cuban crop, What the value now will be remains tobe seen. The history of this bill, the Railroad Bill, the Lane bill for reclaiming farms for soldiers, and a dozen other important measures, are fair samples of the dilly-dally iactics of the present Congress. Even a very little in- fluence exerted sub-rosa will block beneficial legisla: ‘on until the damage is done, Such episodes explain why Chairman Hays con- inues merely to revamp his stock speech about what | he Republicans are going to do—some time. His pres-| nt reconstruction programme reads the same as it lid a year ago, with nothing checked off, nothing to ) | according to the Rhode Island Constitution.” | ~ | the more “ | word) one and two column headings, ‘Yo the Waiter ot | jority, ING WORLD, Evening World Sefs the Style. ‘ew York City, Dec, 16. svening Workd Permit me tb congratulate you on| the new front page “make-up” of The Evening World. Your departure from the block-typed, glaring headlines to subdued” (if I may use the Yo the Ealitor ot is a revelation, It is gratifying to note that The Evening World ts early to recogn'ze the fact that the day of sensationalism ig on the wane, W. W.C. All Congress’ Fantt, e Evening World Your editorial on the Supreme Court decision was quite right. The su- preme Court is not to blame for what has happened. That !s all the fautt of Congress, who: knuckled down when the Anti-Saloon League dema- gogues cracked the whip. But what are we going to do? I can't sce that there is very much we can do except to work fora repeal of the dry en- forcement act and to elect men who will enact a law that suys wines and beer are not intoxicating, even though they know they are if taken to ex- | cess, Theve is no sense to that part of the Prohibition Law, even though the-prohibition of whiskey and gin |s a good thing, The Prohibition amend- , ment has knocked out the saloon, and that isa good thing, but when this country comes to its senses and we} get men in Congress who will make laws according to the will of the ma- perhaps we shall be able to have soft drink parlors like they have in Europe, where it will be possible for people to enjoy themselves with- | q unless they delibeed out getting drunk, { its heroe ‘ that *the | charity, or bonus, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, © Copsriaht, 1919. ty The Frew Publ (he New ¥ 1919.' By J. a Cassel liphing Ca, ug World, i acetone Renee horn donot rung at all, The first call took more than twelve minutes besides the original wait, twenty minutes in all, and then I did not get a connec- ion when there was no reason for the failure. - An experience like this is enough to make a Bolshevist as far as the tele- phone company is concerned, If tele- phone service is worth a nickel a call und my time is worth sixty cents an hour, then the telephone company ywes me twenty cents for the time it 8. T. G. ra Decent Start The Evening After reading Gen, Pershing’s re- orton the part played by the Ameri- can Armies in France, which was in Sunday papers, I must express my cpmion on the matter of soldier vonuses, for the men who sacrificed everything to make this glorious his- tory. I am one of those soldiers Gen, Pershing refers to in his report, Ha been through it all, and still alive although pretty badly battered and gassed. Lam the proud possessor of bullet hole in my right thigh and a beautiful wound on my chest from shrapnel. 1 would not sell these two even for @ new overcoat which 1 need very badly and cannot buy. I know as a positive fact that I am not alone when I say that I think the richest country in the world ought to give a little bonus for the work they ereditably performed over in muddy France, Just give me the price to get married and I will be the (happiest man i God's country ‘The American Legion made a ter- rible mistake when they expressed their opinion on the bonus spbject and teok that proud stand and said soldier does not want Look at our ne and elr ex-ser bor, Canad +! which he can “point with pride.” Jerately set out to get drunk, ‘That, ghboy; me for the Ve hich he can “point with pride. lund of people belong in the lunatic | Rea esd aney peveie —_— ———— asylum anyway. They are ono reason | | Ao ayer aA ies ray . why we lave a wicked and foolish | CO en Bea AN END AND A BEGINNING, | Prohibition Law now, A. J. M'N. | “ane above is exactly the way all the NS: sterd e end ‘ nee boys who did the dirty work feel ONSIDERING that yesterday was the end of the | to me waitor of ihe Rveniug Work ealGt thin: thinmewert Sasiryy world, things seem to be much the same. The! weakfast egg was a trifle overdone, The subway was, rowded as usual. Workmen were busy tearing up| he street. The majority of the people on the side-|/« | valk seemed to be going in the wrong direction and| jostling the few who were headed ri ht On the other hand, the newspaper vender at the comer had a cheery word of greeting. ‘The subway express rolled in without any tiresome wait. Side-| | valks were cleared of snow, and every one entering the elevator on the first floor wanted to go up, not down, { Certainly the “end” did not disturb much, except people's min After all, it is rather a good old world if you look at it from the right angle. It is a comfort Jthat the “end” yesierday is also a jumping-off plac | for a new effort, As far as we are concerned, the “end of the world” is simply one of the many troubles that never will happen. is e Here is the phone, etual record of a tele- all I made from a public tele- phone in the Pennsylvania Station, recently, I was waiting for a train an@ had my watch in my hand so (hat IT happen to know just what the ne war the streets, After pulling a load Waited seven minutes to get to q| they are warm, and then wien the booth because there were not cnough| driver stops to untoed, the horses booths installed. stand there and shiver without any Dropped my nickel and waited « blanket. Perhaps they cate their minute and twenty seconds before| death of cold, but most of the drivers | Central answered ut all. Central ree | do not care.’ ‘They do not own the peated the number correctly, Wa ted | and the b not watching minutes for a reply and then not gare little later jiggled receiver hook, tn forty-tive i pavements ral asked me what | calling. I and twenty si number 1 was and in one minute he wrong number. It then| wateh such things anda minutes and ten seconds driver who is nut kind to his to get Central again and repeat the 4 and does not put on warm numb wanted After t ninutes! blankets when the horses stand in { jiggled the hook again an®Central| the cold wind and does not have finally decided there was no one at| sharp shoes and pads toshelp the home. {gave up but called from an-| horses kegp standing up. How would other phone, and in two itnutes got|‘he like & my friend on the wire, She had been Moral all the time and tho lehepbone Uncle Sam owes us a decent start Mills Hotel, Dee. 14. Eb, COL "Phe first cold days feel sorry for the horsés that work on ways make me 3 slip and strain and give them police ought t . Phe of and then send him out without an overcoat or rubbers? BOY SCOUT, NbW YORK physician, who;to be Hl and incapacitated for earn- A is connected with the dis- ing money should be objects of kind- pensary of one of our large |; cynsideration rather than subjec hospitals : ladopted by the Public Assistan o one of his patients a preseription to one of his patients a preseriptien | Board of Santiago, Chill, which, ac- which any druggist could have com-|Conding ton a hoport tnade te’ tho pounded ut a good profit for 50 cents He pound it eha have somebody liek him “rare case of its kind. "It would seem,” clam, “that persons so unfortunate as | deterioration and losses, - UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Copyright 1919, BETTER LEARN MUCH ABOUT A FEW THINGS THAN A LITTLE ABOUT MANY THINGS. Somebody has said that a highbrow is a man who is educated beyond his mental capacity. In other words, he has stored away more knowledge than he knows how to use. It is possible to overload your brain with knowledge, just jand {Quarter 4 nits lem-eenough to maelf ou- fit, { rich uncle offered to hers lit | along in business. But Rodolpawe was not interested in business.; He pra- & ‘coins to spend; ————| The 2 Love Stories of Great Novels | By Albert ivayson Terhune \) copsrieht. 1319 a Patishing 8. PsrHe Se New York Rroning Worl.) No. 27. he Vie de Boheme By Henri Murger. ODOLPHIS was. a poet— poems hou pnbiisher would buy. As he w vas only twenty-two and belonged to a etoup of @jually young cle and down 1 atin did not mind pove ferred to live from hand to mouth— spending money like a millionaire, such few times as he chanced to have a fow and going bungry,and cold when the funds gave out—as they had a chronic-way of doing, His post coor neighbor on the top floor of a rickety tenement on the left c bank of the Seine a pretty litue | seamstress named Mimi, whose ideas of practical life were about on a par with his. Mimt and Rodolphe fell violently in love with each other. The affair bes gan as one of those fueith d bute terfly-brief romances common to the Latin Quarter, But it did not end as did most of them. For the couple were genuinely in love. They jot on abominably badly to- gether, Rodolphe was jealous. And Mimi! loved pleasure and cash and guyety as much as did her fluft- brained chum, Musette, whom she foolishly took for her model. Min was forever quarrelling with her pget-lover. And always there were recynciliations and further quar- rels. The two were wretchedly un- huppy together; And still unhappier when they were separated, At last a more than usually fierce ’ dispute parted the lovers, Mimi van- ished. She gave no sign of coming back. She dropped completely out of Her old life, Rodolphe could find no trace of her. He tried to pretend he did not care, and that he was well rid of her, But he could never forget her any or cease to mourn fer her. \ Then, one bitier cold Christmas Eve, just as nis fortunes and those of hie chums were at their lowest ebb, Mfimf came back. She was starving and freezing, Moreover, a cough that had worried Kodolphe’ in the old days was now racking her from head to foot. She was dying. She had been turned out of her last lodgings for lack of rent. She had crept back for one more sight ot her sweetheart. Rodolphe did not realize how {il she was. In his joy at having ker with bim again be was blind to all \ else, But his ow-Bohemians knew. And they rallied to the re cue. ‘They had no money to buy her the food and fuel and other comforts eedful to her, But they had ways their own for raising cash at a pinch, And those ways they now employed. Pawhshops were visited and relatives nagged for loans. And all sorts of dainties as weil as neoss- : saries were brought to the sick girl. But she grew so much worse that she was sent to a hospital. Call- ing there, one morning, Rodolphe learned she had during the night. The heartbroken poet wan- dered about Paris in a delirium of grief, A Week later he chanced to meet on the street the hospital at- tendant who had told him of Mimi's death. The attendant told him that Mimi's death #ad been reported as it is possible to overload a ship with cargo. If the cargo is too hea the ship either makes poor progress or sinks. The wise man is not always the learned man, He is the man that knows what to do with the knowledge he has gained, According to the standards of Oxford, Abraham Lincoln was not a learned man. He spoke only one language—his own, His r@ading, outside of his profession, was chiefly from the Bible and Shakespeare. Yet everything he knew, \e¢ knew well. He wasted no time storing up information that he would never be able to employ. And when he wrote English, though his reading was not a tenth as wide as that of the average pedant of to-day,. he wrote perfect Engli Knowledge is useless unless it is instantly available. a man can apply it to what he is doing, whether it is his work or his play, it is worth while. He can apply nothing he has learned unless he has learned it well. The capacity of the average brain is limited. The man of forty cannot be expected to remember the date of the Battle of Thermopylae or to name the Roman Emperors in their order, But he can, without overloading his brain, know something of the history of the world. When he wants dates it is easy to look them up. Some men tax their minds with nothing that they can find in books, but this is not always safe, for sometimes books are not handy. It is better to learn a little, and to learn it thoroughly. Any man who knows one thing well, which means that he understands it in all its relations to other things, is an edu- cated man, If you are not a hig If hbrow. do not worry. Highbrows do not always go very far. Specialize on one thing, and you will learn ma ny others that are ri to it. Life is too short to read all the books that have bee written, Read a few carefully and know them, Remember that knowledge that you cannot use is worth- less. It might as well be in somebody else’s brain, Know what to do with yours and you will be far better off than the most learned man in the world, for he cannot possibly avail i himself of all that he knows, {| he Two Minutes of Silence, at Cost in Chili State Sells Bris \for exploitation by these profiteers, cost price) It may be that New York will have ly gave |to come to some such plan as thi and hnows the ays that he r dru Journal of the American Medical As- goclution, t8 founding # pharmacy to qpen to the public day and nigne says tho arugg st Who did com- wed The pabent $4 for through mistake, and that she still lived; although she was miserable over her lover's supposed desertion of her. Back to the hospital rushed Ro- dolphe in an ecstacy of joy—only to find that Mimi had died ‘a few hours earlier and that her body even then was on the way to the pauper bury- ing ground. | News Flashes From Around |The World | Poland Buys Airships. The Warsaw press reporte that the National Airship Com- pany in Poland is purchasing two large passenger airships from England of the type known as 0-400 Handley-Paige. Accord ing to a telegram recently re ceived from the manufacturers these ships will soon’ be com- pleted and will fly from Londow to Warsaw ¢ with thirty pas. sengers. s 9 8 H.C, of 1. in Franee, Statistics furntshed by the French Ministry of Labor, cow 7 ering the cost of livma in France from the outbreak of tne war down to Mareh, 1919, show that in Paris the average in- crease in prices has been 14% per cent. and that in the whole of France 178 per cent. ‘ When all vf England stood silent in tribute to her dead on Armistice Day @ striking scene was enacted in the Nottingham Assize Court according to the London Times, A demobilized soldier was being tried for murder there, The judge having read the King's letter on the ob- servation, of the anniversary of the armistice, the whole Court, liom Sell drugs and fill presefiptions at ‘ost price plus a percentage to cover costs of operating and 10 per cent, for and adds that this js by no means says the phys! C a x the prisoner “included, stood for two minutes, The accused mom was jater pontances be death,