The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1919, Page 10

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZ Rebiiehed Daily Except Sunday by the Pr ‘Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, N RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 US SHAW. ° Ee ew ae <a a Treasurer, 63 Park Row. \ IR, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Amociated Press ie exclusively entitled to the use for repablica- deapatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this ‘Also the local news published herein. PAYING FOR CRUELTY. OOTH-SHOD horses should be calked for the sake of common humanity to the horses and for economy in hauling costs. If these reasons are not enough, then sharp shoes should be provided to avoid traffic tie-ups in our congested city streets. pa It might happen anywhere. It chanced . 4 happen om the broad thoroughfare of lower Seventh Avenue. | ests suffer, On no plea would he permit needless mis-| The driver of a van was backing into the curb, One understandings, antagonisms, enmities to be developed of his horses fell across the car track. The van com-| inti they menaced his friend’s future. pletely blocked half the street. Before the horse could be unhitched and induced to struggte to his feet a line up indefinitely his country’s commerce, He accepts no of stalled street cars extended up the avenue for tWO) <1: responsibility when he supports a policy that puts blocks, Motor trucks, horsesdrawn vans, delivery] ihe United States at odds with other nations and opens wagons, passenger automobiles were wedged in be-l the way to another era of international mistrust. tween the street cars and curb in an inextricable mass and delayed for fifteen minutes. OUT OF THE HABIT. ECORD-BREAKING theatrical receipis of $100,- 000 a day recall the dire predictions made during the recent actors’ strike. New Yorkers, it was feared, would get out of the habit of going to the theatre and houses would be dark for want of patronage. When theatrical managers admit the most prosperous season ever, it must be admitted that the prophets were far If the $100,000 the theatres receive were all that theatregoers had to pay, the managerial prosperity would be a source of general gratification. But, as a “matter of fact, New Yorkers are getting out of the WORTH 9400, ORTH 400, the telephone number of the City Health Department, was well advertised yes- terday. The Evening World printed it in headlines, with the approval of Health Commissiaier Copeland. Worth 9400 is worth remembering in case the living-room temperature commences to carry a re- minder of Greenland’s icy mountains. Wenants in a chilly apartment equipped with a private branch telephone exchange may have trouble in getting a connection with Worth 9400, A clever telephone operator faithful to the interests of her em- ployer might fumble the plugs or report a busy line. But she would be clever enough to warn the janitor to get busy with the coal shovel or look out for Dr. If such a ruse should fail, a determined effort te telephone Dr. Copeland is in order. Encouraged by the successful prosecution of coal-thrifty Harry Chaim- owitz, Dr. Copeland is willing to help keep New York warm as a disease-prevention measure. “It's a hot idea” is an appropriate slang expression. SLIPPERY SLIDES. OES a slippery slide tempt you to your downfall If so, gray hairs do not mean anything, You If not—well, beware!—the grim reaper i watching for you fo fail in his swath A “slippery slide” is what the boys call it. for your literary purists who point out the redundaney ‘ of the phrase. The boys know. They have been call ing it that for a generation, A slippery slide is an un failing barometer of real age, which does not depen. in the least on the number of birthdays that have com and gone. Stand near a smooth, icy spot on the side walk and watch the aged and the youthful divide. aged cringe awa spots on the sidewalk, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919. THE OBSESSED. T IS amazing how differently a man can conduct himself toward public as distinguished from pri- vate interests, By J. H. Cassel. High intelligence, training, personal honor and up-| rightness that could be trusted to treat private enter- prise or problem with conscience and scruple become | utterly untrustworthy when it is a question of dealing with issues of vital moment to community or Nation. A United States Senator who would handle the \affairs of a friend with a deep sense of responsibility j toward the person concerned can approach the gravest | ,hational issues with his thoughts centred only on what | the situation can be made to produce for a political | Not for a moment would he see his friend's inter- But he feels no such compunction about holding The attitude of Republican Senators toward the) ed : 4 most momentous situation in which the civilized world The incident has been duplicated a hundred times) has ever found itself has been not How will the coun- the last two days. Eventually the public pays in time and money for such. wasteful delays. It seems a rather heavy penalty for an owner’s parsimony and cruelty in failing .to “prepare his horses for winter pavement conditions. Why not revive and pass the horseshoe calk ordi- nance which The Evening World advocated three years Members of the Board of Aldermen, it is up try come out of it? but How will the Republican Party come out of it? The present attitude of those same Republican Sen- ators toward compromise is not How soon can it es- tablish peace? but How safe will it be to hold out for the last scrap of whatever will serve for Republican campaign capital? Henry Cabot Lodge stands as an impressive warn-| ing of what political prejudice, combined with over- powering personal and partisan desire to discredit the chief of the opposing party, can do to a man whose} motives in private matters have admittedly been of | Senator Lodge is the most conspicuous victim ot one of the worst obsessions that ‘has ever lowered the | standards of American statesmanship. We mean the obsession that because Woodrow Wilson, as President of the United States, took part) in the high negotiations which produced the Peace Treaty and the Covenant of the League of Nations, both treaty and League are Woodrow Wilson's, and| habit of going to theatres. Only the tourists and] such must be massacred or mangled by all true Re- transients can meet the demands of the scalping publican hands at whatever cost to the country. Parties and party leaders have been wrecked by Prudence would counsel a more careful distribu-} obsessions not one-hundredth part as harmful. tion of tickets and prevention of “speculateering” in theatre tickets. The tide of transients may ebb and the managers may then wonder why the old reliables of the city no longer appreciate their offerings. The amswer may be “You broke us of the habit.” UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. WHEN GETTING TIPS, GET GOOD ON This is an editorial for the tip-hunter. By tip-hunter we do not mean the man who carries a dinner tray or the boy who We mean the get-rich-quick gentle- man who is forever hunting tips on the market, on the races, or even on a Presidential election. He numbers several million in the United States alone. iness hours he is looking for information on » credulous that he usually bets | Fix Prices by Law. ‘To the Editor of Tho Eventng World: Ig it not the desire of the great ma- | son, |Jority of the people to get back to {can we do it if we do it if we do not | |get our little Christmas bonus a rea- fable time in advance? Some firms give “CAN'T DEPORT IDEAS.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: The Evening World's quotation from Senator Ken- yon's address was mighty true. “You can't deport ideas as you can deport people.” power of the idea. An idea in the mind of one man can do little mis- chief if he cannot get others to believe in it. man will believe these radical rantings when he knows better, It's up to us to see that he does know better. What, then, can we say or do that will counteract! these street corner influences? education doesn't mean mounting another soap box on) the opposite corner and just shouting louder than the And it doesn't mean compulsory classes It's a much bigger work than that. Here's a programme of education, like the usual “Americanization” ought to be the basis of them all. Stop distrusting the other fellow- your immigrant li Unbend and talk to him. find a way to talk to him and help him Learn from him. their employees bonus only the day before | Christmas, other concerns perhaps a few days, but in very few cases more | than a week. This necessitates “dip- This would simplify matters, as| ping’ into the old savings account, |and generally, being human, we do not always put back what we take Common sense forbids using | more than one side of the pass-book —the deposit side, Now then, this is an appeal to those | higher up to give (if they ara going to give) the Christmas bonuses about | times? And, in that event, is it not better to use conditions as they were as a basis to work But you can destroy the checks your hat and coat. in normal times there would be but two standards to And nO} work to: the standard of weights and In and out of bu which he can bet. before he verifies the information. This kind of tip hunting is a habit, and a vicious habit. Once it gets a grip on a man he neglect his business and be- comes a pest to his friends and The lure of easy money is one good tip, he believes, he has*‘cleaned up” he won't need to work any more, Now it is very easy to get valuable tips, if the tip-hunter will only look in the right place, standard of weights and measures is law, but the stand: h rightly should be called | We can educate, a merchant sells 1, and |¢here are and always will be people ; !who wait until the ld seculion, |their Christmas shopping, but many age of the scheme. DAILY READER. New York City, De uaintances, ways before him. nd he will “el t minute to do other fellow. Give him Will take adv And when the other hand, if that mer- same measure only It doesn’t sound | hilt fuli of four to be standard: vu of the dollar, or To the Kaitor of ‘The Brening World I take your pape: The autobiography of Ben- anklin is full of tips, all of them worth more than gold. Jacted as though it were drama, fe of every great American make —or- far better tips than inside information from the biggest broker} | Alas in Wall Street. And in the Old and New Testaments tips are abundant, S stupidity o l- ‘an who follows the tips he gets from good books, oT Lidabegh Menhinata cicnie has a. of commodities that ‘every day. Will you or some of your readers please tell 1 and how to wash silk elas- injuring them Until he can learn mythical claim and demand, which is more Jorien tifin net manufactur Help him over} whole cloth to sutt the mark ‘Teach him| ulstors. And with the enthus blamed on. the dents in the our language, through his own, the hard spots of life in a new He'll want to know It, asm of your own love for your country, Make him understand that the ca born with the Declaration of Independence America he sought with hope in his heart we but open our eyes and understand ‘and, but with high principles and aspirations. ‘The real need is for more books, but good one yeople who know their subject and know the people | {i for whom they are writing—not just by men who are anxious to preach patriotism in print, 1on-commercial, patriotic organization to produce the reeded books and to see that organized educational hat the people will be well supplied with sind of literature, ‘oreign born are iving Costs Too Mach, miitor of The Brscing World If you are cutting down your pa- nd cutting out articles, why don’t you leave Market Items t of Living? reculating the interpret | made companies. for nd freight, th America to him. run rampant to the 1) physical im ay companies supposed to be ind maintain the And before he begins his care than before. figs, nuts, apples, grapes (all for holid not a perfect | to ieee Forget the ke your tips from men who have} | Alaska, and te Al The tips they will give you are the only tips you Get good tips, while rect” and the track. pound, nuts 40 te ples 10 cents each wholesale dates ur, ]17 to 18 cents pound; figs are cents pound, ap-| $done things. California nut grower they reach the people. and it's dreadful propaganda | pers could buy ‘Flashes From Around the World | In the older and more congested Boroughs the decrease has been 18-eent dates inst a-pound dates. would so have and not be left with little accessible reading matter than Rolshevist propaganda t Ask any lbfarian in our foreign districts to whom to. \lk on the subject of books and the immigrant, and he'll send you to the Immigrant This society's work bas been to “interpret the immi “rant to America, and America to the immigrant.’ the foreign born first in « in their own ‘merica, and practical guides for the many difficulties this country, \eople, customs and institutions. f Jofinite impetus to the desire to learn English oMowed by heginning books, and books in simple Eng: ‘ish for adult reading, on ereat Americans, American |‘!!! ‘istory and the spirit and ideals of our land, ‘n line is the citizenship book onswer book of no inspiration, but a mighty entertain- ‘ng book that lifts the American himself a little off his | \"s (0 ‘oot by its power and simnlicity. reek The idea for the society erew out of the success of the “Guide to the United States.” 8 of the idea, fully proved, ought to be teken un and hacked. by the whole people, 1811 Avenue O, Brooklyn, N. X. Dec, 18. California Has Rice Crop. In eight years the Sacramento Valley of California new agricultural indus try, rice growing, which this past A fig fitted up at bi 1 holders alw ys had high prices, has Queens and Richmond been 66 and 54 per cent., respec: brown color, massive build, huge manipulating + food prices for 15,000, Publication Society production estimated to be worth approrimatety lions of dollars. the 1919 rice crop in California will probably be several millions greater than that of wheat and peaches, both of which are com- monly thought of as large crops # t . y won't you start your House- Cigarettes at $03 the Pack. iF Several concerns are actively | Pounds yethod has been: The value of “riendly way of the poisoning of the ch the food pi ? Toeb could run this finely and Market Commissioner or h to state that one of The instinctively. The youthful vee; toward it, even though caution, economy or dignity may prevent a hop, skip and slide. Some one has to start a slippery slide. the beginning is entirely involuntary and ends in a fall, But once it is marked out, the youngsters, whether six or sixty years old, keep improving it until the weather spoils it all. Fathers who have to buy shoes have been known ” to frown on slippery sliding and then go out and slide. Cobblers and slippery. sliders are all in favor of the I would have Foy is a very good, wise man got the “puffs” down fine, to those which sell at 3 to ¢ a package, are now also buying higher-priced cents HARLOTTE R. BANGS, New York, Dee, 17. Retall Sugar Prices, 10 the Eaitor of The Evening World In reading the letter from “W animal warm Frequently Passing of the Horse, enumerators 1910 found 128,224 horses in this city, according to Greater New stable enumera tion of the Board Health 108,036 were in use heré in 1917 and 75. This shows that 41 per cent. had been Jost by 1919-— 26 per cont. in the last two ypare. We'd Be at Home in Canada, reads a not a question and vein own doctors Toronto World, World regarding the price of sugar, | ien days T have been ert column is the “ the rate of 24 cents per Net PRA Mt hi SCHN S151. ae 1 story of how a bor of leath confiscated when it was found that each roll was wrapped labelled XXX. And now the suce owed to charge that price for where by the our Christmas sho) war, Avenue between 66th and bad Street, New York, Deo. 17, 1010, | HORTPNSE LEVI. bottler | boo Ping early." Por the love of Mike | THE NEW PLAYS “For the Defense” Gripping Melodrama |_8¥ CHARLES DARNTON name, Elmer L. Rice has not materially changed his style and theme of play since “On Trial” in “For the Defense,” uncommonly well acted by Richard Bennett and his associates last night at the House. A murder mystéry in which @ man rned is worth theatre ag it to the popular magazine, In this the man, a Hindu doctor who are himgel€ picturesquely in golden and‘a white turban, is such @ devil in his treatment of women patients that matinee receipts promise to be large. This slimy f is more than described as “fas old entertainer, thing of a hypnotist, but mora of & scoundrel, It is his delight frst @ scothe the nerves of trusting women and then to possess them—I think tile polite word is “possess,” isn’t Worst of all, he has a young bler write stories of his “vic that he sells to a scandalous publica- tion called The Tattler. Such a thing bn a conscience never occurred to him. To bring the play to a point, this bad Indian asks a young woman he is curing of stage fright to come to his place at night and sing for an operatic impresario and the gredt man’s Wife. Anne Woodstock is, you may be sure, overjoyed at the posai- bility of being launched upon a “career,” and she chance. But Dr. Kasimir, you may be equally sure, telephones a second tim! tu the impresario's wife and informs her that the young 1. are so chang has decided that she will sing on some other night. Ac- cordingly Anne walks into the trap set for her and is hypnotized and carried by the wicked Kasimir inte his bedroom. But all this is not known to the audionce until the play switches back to the scene of the Hindu’s murdeg. Up to this point “For the Defense” is gripping melodrama, When tt turns to one of the mechanical trieks that made “On Trial,” it is less effective. Onc at is out of the bag, there remains only the bag emptied of its tric Dramatic tensio ly when Anne Toune he has changed his as much to the A cinating.” s felt most keen- turns to her apart- to the doctors, town bs marliest train for the West. She betrays every sign of hav- ing killed the man who tricked her and in this hysterical condition she listens to the proposal of marriage made by a young district attormey who has already gi¥en Kasimir at taste of his fist. News of the murder comes to Arn < over the tele- phone and he tely sets out to save Anne from the consequences of the crime. Jennie Dunn, a ser- vant in Kasimir’ ne with @ prison record against her, is arrested and convicted. Then the guilty woman comes forward with a confession, But as the audience is already @ party to the long-kept secret, interest not only falls off, but the district at- torney makes out a rather weak case for the play by declaring that he will see the woman through and that no jury, knowing she acted in self-de- fense, would convict her. As a mat- ter of fact, she shoots the Hindu when he stops her from telephoning to the district attorney. Still, the play, as a whole, is in- teresting and at times highiy dra- matic. Richard Bennett sidered and effec! Armstrong, s] nd drawling as the lover, but ‘earnest and direct as the district attorney. ful, too, in bringing hum role with a quiet, easy method. Sainpolis w villainous acted, In her ne of hysterical terror, Winifred Lenihan did an intensely human bit of acth Here, apparently, is a young actress of un- usual emotional power. Angela Og- den was capital as the old negro mammy who poured out her wrath on a “jazz telephone’ but was ten- derly devoted to Anne, Equally, good in another way was Mary Jeffery as the heavy, though by no Kasimir establishment “Kor the Defense’ is melodrama can’ Bears Heavy as Horses. wise in becoming acquainted from wise men and from life itself will have much better “luck” beg Hirani aeee rt than the man whose tips come from a speculator or a race track For he will learn to depend on himself and not on chance. $1 wonderful and humilating,” oy he will get on a solid founda-3] William 1. Hornaday in’ Bo: s of wild animals, is both new spec “Consider te cases © giraffes of ‘@ritish Kast Africa, the » vatte tain sheep of an brown bears. ave Hc species; and igh severe! pamphlets and many » been written fifteen speei- in captivity izen has not y to grasp thom y when we try k to u stran jout these ant- » are inet by a blank look a group quite apart from other béars, in Jand entirely distinct from the grig- glies, blacks and polar, They are dis- tinguished by their enormous size, heads, high shoulders and short but very thick claws. An ‘old he-one, with a skull 19 inches long, will weigh anything between 1,000 and 1,200 priced cigarettes in China.. The WAGES. the sale of higher SHORTER HOURS, HIGHER t who formerly confined Factory employees worked shorter nd their weekly earnings r cent, greater in August previous In New York eater New York. The average earnings of with the $16.44 in $14.11 in August, 1914, 1915, and $12.70 in June, 11t | - — | NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. ire 508,100 books in ts in the department 1,187,190 in the circulation department, which makes it the largest free ‘Ue circulating Ubrary in thy wed ' as the Hindu, though he never over-. means slow-witted maid of the: