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sas ne oe a o v oe ver yee vee q bare or” vec i “uw wa ‘ £ oak pst 2 ara oe] * x sre ad ee) ee * » ‘ a Dose i ul z show that ihe milk of human kindness has not soured a *. @ve esehiity. eaiorid. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pabitehed Dally Except Sunday by the Presy Pubiienine 3 Row, New York. |, 63 Park Row. MEMHER OF THR ASOCLATED PRESS Freep 0 exctumvely ented, to the Or, fet credited ok cg amen $+ THE “ARK” AND BERGER. HIKE more or less connected incidents inay well cause every friend and advocate of representative | democracy ta ponder While preparations for the Jepusiaiion ot a sbip*| load of radicals were under way Congress was consid: ering more drastic laws to simplify and expedile oils deportations. At the same time both the public and the legislators were deeply concerned aver the case ot Vietor Berger. F Ht is impossible to estimaic the’ eflect on the Mil- waukee elections caused by the deporfation of Berk- man, Goldman and their associates. The fact remains that in a period. distinguished by repressive imeds- ures Berger's support grew and changed fram 4 mie nerity plurality to a clear majority. It is well-nigh impossible to draw the line berween Yaw enforcement for national self-preservation and re- pression which arouses pity and defeals the end sought. There can be little doubt that a large majorily of our people, if questioned, would declare positively in favor ef stern measures against radical agitators. Very real and honest protective patriotism would be behind the reply. But, human nature being what it is, once Ihe repression is in effect a considerable number cease to reason and are swayed by the almost universal sym- pathy for the under dog. These will resent (he specific exercise of the general law they approve. This is the problem, of legislators and executives who, in a representative governinent, must be wiser than the average of those they represent, if that gov- émiment is to endure. They must consider not only the right and justice of deportirig and imprisoning agi- tators, but they must foresee the full effect of a policy if repression in meeting unrest. The case of Berger is a straw in the current. Eventually we shall discover that the only mcans of meeting the prevalent unrest is to understand it. Then we must remedy the real wrongs against which agita- lors can make a just case and expose and explain the fallacies of their other proposals. : 4 At a critical time there may well be virtue in repres- sion that takes the form of deporting aliens whose chief aim is to foment and exploit unrest. But repression-will never by itself overcome unrest. All history shows this. One would not go far wrong to define -history+as the-story of-the failure of .ré ‘ he ali «te in tmegete THE PARAMOUNT POWER. REDICTIONS that the Pédce Treatyewill ‘be fati- fied “on or about Jan, “4$° néxt”” may have a special: significance. Jan, 16 is’ the: date when the AntiSaloon ,League hopes to “see. the Highteenta Amendment go into éffect. *' ‘There was a time when Americans would not have believed for one instant that the peace of the world and the prospérity and prestige of their own Nation could ever be‘ rated as secondary to the desire of a fanatical minortiy fo permit io break in a period of Prohibition which its orgunized efforts had imposed upon the country. ; “There was a time when Americans would have scouted as preposterous the idea that Prohibition pres sure could have’ the slightest influence in deferring the moment when the United States Senate would ratify the most momentous treaty in history. The people of the United States have now to admit in sorrow and amaze that the time when they coul! huve laughed to scorn such a suggestion is past. | They acknowledge {o their shame that the strongesi power behind legislation in this country at the present moment is the power of the Pronibition lobby, That power has kept Congress from repealing the War Time Prohibition Act, which still stands a monumental example of legislative falsehood and hypocrisy. | Who knows what that power may have been able | to accomplish toward postponing ratification and the proclaiming of peace until the timeewhen Pronibition expects to establish its full tyranny under the Con- | stitution ? | LOYAL FRIENDS OF THE HORSE. iv speaks well for the hearts and heads of New York- ers that two short editorial articles and a cartoon » pleading the case of the smooth-shod horse should evoke so much active approval as is shown in letiers to the editor, The Evening World has preferred to advocate an or- dinance requiring calks or other anti-slip devices prin- cipally on the score of private and public economy and efficiency rather than through an appeal to humane sentiment. Numerous words of warm approbation in thé big metropolis. Some readers want horses sharp-shod for their own sake and as a reward for faithful service, whether there Profit in it for owners or not. If Aldermen are! THE COUNTRY’S HOLIDAY TASK. ITH the peace treaty still unratified, the Senate Proposals hanging in the air. The Underwood resolution calling upon the Prest- dent to appoint a committee of ten Senators $ho shall consider and report what kind of treaty agreement can command a two-thirds vote of the Senate at the earliest possible moment was promptly kicked into an uncer- tain future by Senator Lodge, Remains the amended Knox resolution, favorably re- | Ported from the Foreign Relations Committee, which jis nothing more or less than a proposal that the United States, while refusing to saddle itself with obligations incurred by membership in the League of Nations, shall plane peace with Germany on the terms which the trediy negotiated at Paris conveniently provides. ‘Phe Knox proposal appeals to Republican leaders be- cause it cuts the League of Nations out ot the treaty and thus does substantial damage to the programme the President has urged, We do not believe it will ap- peal with the same strength to the great majority even of those Americans who count themselves faithful members of the Republican Party. When the New York Chamber of Conunerce—iuin- bering on its board such prominent New York Republi- ons asdarwin P. Kingsley, Thomas W. Lamont, Paul M. Warburg and Otto T. Bannard—-unanimously adopted a recent resolution demanding a speedy end to conditions under which “the legitimate commerce thal victory assured us is slipping away,” it did not call for compromise which shall keep the United States out of the League of Natigns. On the contrary, the New York Qhamber of Commerce resolution expressly de- chired: “A peace in whieh we wrap ourselves ia fobes of tsolation and self-interest would be as dis honorable as further delay would have been in our decision to enter the war on April 6, 1917." Similar resolutions since passed by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association of Baltimore contain ao demands for a “Leagueless” treaty. ‘ Republican leadership in the Senate tas let its hos- tility toward what it regards as the President's pet Plan blind it to the fact that Republican business interests all! over the country are not prepared to sacrifice the com- iercial advantages of better and closer international re- lations merely because to reject those advantages looks like a way to discredit the President. When Republican leaders and the leading sepresen- tatives of business and trade find themselves at cross- purposes the outlook for the Republican Party is bad indeed, On the other hand, no good can be accomplished by statements like that attributed to Bernard M. Baruch, which represents the President as defermined to vield not the fraction of:an inch, } Politics apart, tHe country believes the fair line of compromise lies much closer to President Wilson than it lies to Senator Lodge. It is for tre-latter to take the long step back from an extreme tu which he wilfully jumped. But the President cahnot,:ifford to hold him- self.immobile merely to make it harder for Republican pride. Too much depends on the ultimate and im- measurably larger issue. i The President can'agree to and the Senate can ratify 1 peace treaty which shalt include the covenant of the Leéagué of Nations and at thé same time meet objection by cartying interpretive conditions of a kind that other sigthtory powers may be reasonably expected to accept. It is for the Senate to Stop scoring solely by party points and study howNhe thing may be soonest done, It ‘is for the country to clarify and accelerate Sena- torial brain action by putting individual Senators in closer touch, before Jan, 5, with the will of those they represent. : Chambers of Commerce, inerchants’ associations, civic societies, churches, organizations and individuals ‘n every American community should join in the de- oand for agreement, ratification and peace. lt should be the Nation’s great holiday ‘ask. A CENTURY BEHIND. Cee close on the heels of John Sharp Wilil- iams’s criticism of legislative tactics we read the severely critical observation by Senator Elkins of West Virginia. Two such statements from men of long ex- perience and of opposing political faith come close tc vaking a true bill, Senator Elkins truly says: “The Senate wastes time, doesn't function ef- ficiently, is almost always behind in registering public sentiment, and is unbusinesslike and en trely out of step with modern methods, all be- cause it has tied itself helplessly with a set of rules which are out of date and because it blindly worships outworn, inefficient and im- practical customs, precedents and practices, Talk and de. ‘ "1! Postponement; talk, talk, talk! vvation is that few, if any, speeches in the time of my membership have changed a single vote.” : Surely there are other Members of Congress who igree wiih these veterans from Mississippi and West Virginia and with the public. Are there not enough to change the rules, modernize procedure and cut off the “talk, talk, talk” to empty seats? If there are not enough, then the obstructors must. be judged guilty of (he charges that Senator Elkins brings. A SUBWAY SOL, We're pushed and jammed And biffed and slammed From morn the livelong day; ? | is any “ fairer ble to public opinion, horses will have a Bi + 4%, ~ eT % < % We're pulled and hauled And crushed and mauled, And still it “does not pay! | las adjourned for the holidays leaving two' bs | Clean ing FROM_EVED Thanks The Evening World. ‘To the Mito wé The Evening World: On behalf of my client, Mme.| Charlotte G. Calliess, and myself, per- mit me te extend to you and your newspaper, and staff, our most sin- | cere thanks for the public service (hat has been rendered in the investi- | gation of the death and secret burial of Mrs. Anna Callies. | | I believe the result of the investi- gations conducted by The Evening World has been so farreaching, and n its final results will, I believe, in a large measure prevent a repetition | of similar instances on the part of “amibulance-chasing undertakers” from body “snatching” victims from the various hospitals of our city, and interning them without proper aa- thority, Very few cases of so large public interest have occurred in this city for many years, which in- ‘ermation L have gathered from dis cussion in the subway, stores, hotels | amd pblic pluces throwsbout our | metropolis. T especially take pleasure in com- mending the work of Mr. Shorey, whe ‘has been indefatigable in his ser- | vices for his paper, and to the cause | not he wag interested in as a re-| porter, There is no adequate ex- pression that [ can use that will con vey to you the most sincere thanks on behalf of Mine, Calliess, with whom I have talked, and at her re- ‘quest L am writing you, hoping that) in this way I may convey on behalf of her some expression of gratitude (or the services that you have ren dered to her and to the public at large. WILLIAM D, BOSLIR. | Dec. 18, 1919, Calk Horses in Winter. To the Biitor of The Evening World: Please accept thanks and gratitude for your picture of the poor horse and its need of sharp shoes for the slip-| pery streets, It made my heart ache! to-day to see the poor animals trying to keep their feet. | Lf those who own or drive horses | would stop to think of the time lost when @ horse falls and perhaps the loss of the animal through breaking a leg, surely they would get their (the horses’) shoes sharpened, Thank you again. A constant reader and a friend of the horse. M. 8. T. 315 West 2ist Street, Dec, 19. To the Eatitor of The Wrening Work! : I read an editorial in The Evening | World of Dec, 18 under the heading fet “Profit in Humane Treatment,” |the horses receive from the driver, EVENING WORLD READERS _ | several thicknesses of the Nest! y le H. Cassel Coprright..1919 B never has to work under of contend | with, has always been uppermost in| my mind. Whenever I see n loaded | slippery pavement I always stick | around to see what kind of treatment | and I must say that the average dri- | ver in the City of New York bas con- | siderable feeling for the animals he | drives, and it is on very rare occasions that a driver will add brutal treat- ment to the horses under ‘his care T-would like to see an ordinance passed compelling owners of draught animals to provide them with non- | slipping shoes in the slippery weather | and compel drivers to cover their horses with a blanket whenever they are standing still. I am sure that if} such an ordinance were passed most | of the good, law-abiding citizons of! this city would help to enforce the law by calling drivers’ attention to uncovered horses and helping them when the pavements are slippery; and if the driver refuses to heed when his attention is so called, to call on the police to aid, them and follow the case to court if necessary. A little publicity on this matter, | think, will help along and, I think, if ‘The Evening World will bring this ordinance to light again and ask the aid of the people of the city that fa- vorablé action will result. PRANK H. QUBRBAU, 871 Columbus Avenue, ‘To the Prtjtar of The Brening World: Horses slide and fall on the snowy streets, when 10 cents worth of bur lap on the front feet would save them. For less than a dollar a strong pair of overshoes can be made for any horse, with extra soles of carpet or urlap. The & P. C, A. should compel their use. JOSHPH D. HOLMES. | New York, Dec, 19. ‘To the Bttitar of The Brening Works: I read your editorial in last night's Evening World, and you certainly should be applauded for your effori to prevent the terrible cruelties that are heaped on the poor working horse in our city. Any day, at any time, and in any part of the city, you will see som¢ poor horse subjected to torture of ome kind and, of course, especially uring the cold months of the year. I am sure, if you would only keep on again, the people would demand to have something done to relieve this awful and inhuman distress It is heartrending to seg horsos verburdened and constantly whipped | miserably underfed, slipping and fall- | objection. At a prominent corner to-day I saw & poor horse fall and then I saw the brute of a driver deliberately jump off the wagon and kick the horse for | falling, I should think any jand also a letter, “Pity the Horse,” | signed by “Boy Scout.” Th yubject of horses in the winter, ‘in the cold weather and under condi- let thee the evesge humen being would consent nance you have to indorse the ordi- ide T hope to truck with a struggling team and a $ ing, and not one to raise a hand in | human being | see You use more Pp ax Lam ‘sure the people would be with you. &. J, MURPHY, | eur Bork, Des, i, \ our country, ereally UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coperteht, 1919.) AFRAID OF TIO DAF RK We never quite outgrow our childish fear of the dark. is the thing we cannot sce that frightens us. Mystery is always nerve racking. And education is only the clearing up of the mysteries of ignorance, the dispelling of the darkness that comes from lack of understanding. The Dark Ages—-dark with ignorance superstition and fears, were filled with Men were afraid of everything they did not understand, and they understood buf litUe of what was going on around them, . A total eclipse ofthe sun plunged the whole world into de- spair. The appearance of a comet in the skies kept strong men sebbing with fright in their hovels. Fducation has cleared away these mysteries. But many eries still remain. ‘Til! we dissipate them we shall never be mys free from fear, We are still appalled by the fear of pestilence. Spanish influenza, infantile paralysis are names that strike terror to the mother’s heart, These things will soon be understood, as smallpox is under- stood, and their menace will pass away forever. All progress consists in the removing of the mysterious from our lives. Life is a succe: on of problems, and problems are a succession of mysteries. Tackle these problems with an understanding mind, con- fident that their mysteries can be cleared away and that you are the man who can do it and you will have nothing to fear from life. And without fear you will be as near to bappiness as human beings may come. The way not to be afraid of the dark is to dispel the dark. The Picture Brides. _ | moniai choice by both contract- in | parties themselves, The Japanese Government has at) 3"€ to your reverence for last ylelde Sacific Coust ob-| tors Nelther of us really uns ylelded to the Pacific Coast ob-| Gorstands how strongly tho other jection to the sending over from Nip- pon young women who have been se- lected as brides by absentee country- | feels In thes “Furthermore, not realize ve men from photographs sent from a tpt 1 by ilharasyis laborers, they assist home. In doing this they have MaGRARE Clin ORBLE obviated friction and probably have tHamaniven and) thie done their own nation a kindness, to| offsetting the loyalty of your say nothing pf promoting the welfare| Government, to the “Ge ay pone (oe = Agreement." And, besic of the girls. hear many more children than do Incidentally, Mr, Charles H. Sher-| the wives of thelr rill of New York, formerly Minister to | thus cons Argentina and Adjutant General of them of the proportion of Japanese to Ameri- cans in Hawaii, which brings us right back to the economic com- petition again, A “Ladies' Agree. ment” limiting the number af laborers’ wives going to America ld restore the situation to the basis reached by the "Gen- an's Ag lack the State, who has be Japan, recently made an address in| ‘Tokio on the topic, in which he sai “All you see in this “picture bride” system is a proper desire of your men abroad to get wives from home, You are accustomed visiting | > to mu ‘os being arranged by ; The parents or friends, and therefore | Of @ Ladies’ ermits cannot grasp how the “picture economic — frictio: TEASE with a ain result that none | of us care to contemplate.” | ‘This utterance was received in very to a long prevailing custom of | good part by his hearers and seem: where we are as ‘to have been the keynote of the ace to tree Mairi iiod now taken, bride” system surprises and jars our people, It isn’t a question of right or Wrong, but an affront 'The Love Stories of Great Nove | By Albert Payson Terhune oprright. 1910, by Tow rect Prslishing Oo, jeer Ttie New York Bveuing World) \ No. 28--Undine, By La Motte-Fouque. Hid knight, Hildebrand, during @ journey through the forests, | chanced to stop at a fisherman's hut. There Le mot and fell desperately in love with Undine, whom he belleved: to be his host's datrhter, So come pletely did the girl charm Hildebrand that he forget his semi-betrothal to another woman—-to Bertalda, a court beayty. | Now, us the knight presently llearned, Undine was not the fisher {man's daughte was a water sprite, wh uncle, Kuhleborn, had given her to the fisherman to bring up. For, as Kuhleborn knew, the only way for a water sprite to become |Duman and to have a soul, was te marry some human being, With this | plan in view he had given her to the fisherman to rear. Undine returned the knight's fove After a brief courtship the pair were married. But, as soon as she acquired a soul, Undine lost the wilful charm that had attracted her husband; and she became gentle and submissive, ‘To his surprise, Hildebrand did not like this chan In gaining a soul, of the fascination rand took lis lovely bride to his own tle, and round of fee livities began. Bertalda camo back faty the cht's life. Seeing how much interested in Kertalda her hus band see! », the gentle Undine ought to n happy by asking: the other woman to pay them a long visit. | Hildebrand gre tentive to Undir less and less at and more and more dine bore this, | {in which the knigt | with his blamel her tt lost his temper less wife and snoute wished he bad never y the time. \the river's depths and drew Undine |down into the stream with him and way from the man who had proved so unworthy of her. | Hildebrand—now at h ched up from hat it was too late--repented bitterly of his cruelty toward the loving Undine, For & time he waa prostrated by grief at [her toss. But he was still young and }Bertalda was beautiful, And, bit by | bit, his old infutuation began to re turn. In a dream, Undine warned Hildee ‘brand that her water sprite Kinsmen {had vowed vengeance against him, She told the knight that these kins- |men had power only over the water jand its near vicinity, and that if he | kept away from the river and sealed | up the bubbling fountain in the court- |yard of his castle he would bo safe | from them. . The knight obeyed. The wwurtyard | fountain was sealed by a huge stone. And he avoided the river. ‘Thus, Kuhleborn had no power to harm | him, | st Hildebrand became be- | troth d to Bertalda, The date for the wedding was fixed. Guests thronged to the castle. Bertalda was g¢ayly triumphaut in this uour of her final thes wedding she authority over by ordering ove the great stone that ed the courtyard fountain, Hilde- brand was in his oWn rooms, dressing for the marriage ceremony, and he -w nothing of the order she gave. J he servants pried up the stone. Ag’ y did so a Shadowy white figure from the fountain and glided It was Undine, knight's roous she the ight castle, to the ade her silent way. There, twining her arms she held him in an pressed him close and closer until he servants rushed into their master’s room to find him lying dead on the stone floor while from a cleft n the pavement beside him gushed forth a silvery spring of AEE SSR. Slt News Flashes. From Around |The World Greeks Leaving America, Consul Weddell, United Statea Representative at Athens, re ports that in the past six months 12,000 Greeks have returned to their native land from the United States. They have brought large sums of money with them, and since Jan, 1, 1919, more than 180. 000,000 drachmas, ($25,090,000) in postal orders have been re- mittcd to Greece from the States eee ‘Yankees on the Rhine. | rhe Y. M. C. A, model bakery at Coblenz, Germany, takes care of the sweet tooth that the Yank soldier is funous for, Recently the output for 24 hours was 11 300 rolls, 49 loaves of bread, 265 miscellaneous cakes, 264 cookies 2.800 doughnuts, 1,055 turnovers, 695 cream puffs and 200 pies. eee Farming in a City. One of the most striking ex- amples of what may be accom- plished in food production is that of the Potomac Park home gar- dens, located in the District of Columbia almost within the shadow of the Washington Monu- ment. This year there were $00 gardens, supervised by the United States Department of Agricab ture, cach 40 feet by 100 feet size, and occupying in all op prowimately 85 acres,