The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1919, Page 22

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 A WELL-TRAINED CONGRESS. HE general approval which has greeted the Presi- By J H. Cassel | dent’s proclamation setting March 1 as the date for returning the railroads to their private owners is Ccaes eEL| Dey Tema naar ; no sign the public desired to see the period of Federal control extended. On the contrary, there has been, and is still, a Amectaied ‘Prom ls exetuctrely eatitied to the ase for ‘ait | strong feeling that the sooner the Federal Government | SS cen Cavan ented wf oan tere qrvtnet 2 we divests itself of the extraordinary powers it assumed adhe ell enathe tale ever private industry for war purposes, notably in the | EQUALLY HEARTLESS. case of the railroads, the better it will be for the country (CTMENTS are being prepared, it is announced, | —Not alone economically but as a relief from an un- for the trial of the former German Emperor. He wonted exercise of centralized authority, under which is to be haled into court, it is alleged, to account for the American spirit, has become more and more restive, Captain of the Guard, a thickheaded, Mis high crimes and misdemeanors—which, summed | What is recognized in the President’s proclamation | 7 . ‘4 4 i ne ' selfish fellow, who was the one love | " A ef | s the wisdom of postponing a step for which Congress Jot her life and who regarded his mean nhuman conduct in plung-| t postponing P TESS | fa who sega 4 the cheba i stk | has failed to complete the necessary preparations, To! ‘affair with her as merely an everyday adventure, ’ i ite) i | constituted can measure his return the railroads before the Esch bill and the Cum- Whe’ second was Claus Wg tte Tet a be given will sufficiently ™ins bill had even had their main points of difference Frotlo, an important dignitary whom is gigantic sin against the universe, | ironed out in conference would have been a clumsily peers teen for nis: gigauc Bi Ae) | precipitate act, certain to result in trouble and confusion, 6, 1919. Dirty Business! @be orld. i 20 ER. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZ: Prredinea Dany Except Sunday by the Press Pubitshing ] Gompany, Nos. 53 to 69 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, (| BAXNGUS SHAW. Treamsrer, 63 Park Row. GR, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row.\ ‘The Love Stories of Great Novels | By Albert Payson Terhune! RAB ay CASON Z . 29—The Hunchback of Notre Dame By Vietor Hugo SMERALDA, the French gypsy girl, had no less (han four ador- ing lovers. One of these was a wooer love had hitherto passed Wy. Frolle | Was an intense, hermitlike man, whe Se ee eee eee nlarest * Spencer who, when he met the marchers near the Wal- | Yet, with the close of actual hostilities, the suffer- fags of many peoples are greater than when war was| fheing waged. Starvation, cruel cold, wrecked industry fand all the consequences of war are bearing their fell fruit, chiefly because there is yet no world peace, no, safeguard that the crimes of William Hohenzollern may not soon be repeated by others. | Responsibility for this rests, and will continue to rest, upon the shoulders of Henry Cabot Lodge and his fellow partisans who insist upon blocking the paths of | peace and prolonging the miseries of mankind. Before what court will they be haled? What pun- fshment can adequately deal with their iniquity? DOES IT WORK BOTH WAYS? Y alf means let there be an inquiry to determine | whether the police overstepped the line of duty in| their treatment of persons who “walked” up Fifth Ave- tue yesterday bearing placards urging the release of | prisoners sentenced for the part they played in ant war plots. While the inquiry is going on maybe somebody will | say a kind word for the example set by Major Lorillard | dorf, stopped, and in an orderly, quiet and persuasive | manner tried to tell them how much better service they could be doing the cause of Americanism by zeal exercised in other directions, Or was this also cruel and oppressive treatment? When propagandists of certain types demonstrate in} the open streets should all counter-demonstration be Suppressed? And does the rule work both ways? ONE PHASE OF A COLOSSAL GIFT. | E feature worthy of special attention in connec- tion with John D, Rockefeller’s enormous Christ- mas gifts is the form of the contribution to the General Education Board. When wealthy men have given large sums for public purposes it usually has been by | creating endowment funds, from which only the in- come might be used. This has been the case with Mr. Rockefeller’s previous gifts to the Education Board. In this instance both principal and income may be used “‘as promptly and as largely as may seem wise” to increase salaries of the teaching staff of colleges and| universities. The result must be that eventually even| so huge a sum will be exhausted. The present effort ig a temporary one, to meet an emergency, A very real emergency it is. Mr. Rockefeller must have faith that eventually public opinion will come to a realizing sense of the obligation to offer a fair reward for the tre- mendously important service rendered by trained in- structors. Meantime, Mr. Rockefeller hopes to prevent a break in the supply by offering inducements to keep trained instructors in the class rooms and to encourage young people to prepare as teachers. At the same time, this gift should drive home the need for more pay, more teachers and better prepared teachers in the secondary schools for which the Rocke- feller Board does not make provision. At present the teaching ranks are depleted and the qualily seriously impaired, because the funds are not available to enable schoo! officials to bid against business men for the ser- vices of the most capable young people who might} If the railroads cannot be turned over to their pri- vate owners Jan. 1, as the country had hoped, the blame rests on Congress. All thé greater is the re- sponsibility of Congress for agreeing on the needed railroad legislation within a time limit which the Presi- dent has now definitely fixed. For more than a year the return of the railroads was clearly seen to be one of the great and urgent prob- lems of reconstruction. Yet the people of the United States waited in vain for their national Legislature to deal with it. What will history have to say of the Sixty-sixth Congress and its services during the most critical period through which the Nation has passed? Only this: The Sixty-sixth Congress was indif- | ferent for the most part to peace and the problems of peace, The Senate used the peace treaty for a counter in a day and night game of party politics. The House twiddled its thumbs and waited for the Senate. Public opinion counted for nothing. The one power that could sway the Sixty-sixth Congress at will was the power of the Prohibition lobby. ; Prohibition long since decreed that peace, the rail- roads, anything that is not Prohibition, are minor issues in American legislation, The Sixty-sixth Congress has been a credit to its trainers. FIGURES SEEM TO FIB, » WAGE increase of $5 a week to Chicago garment workers to be followed by a raise of $2.50 in the price of suits is reported. “There is no chance for a drop in prices until labor realizes the necessity for giving the manufacturer a fair day’s work for a fair day’s bay. Where a workman formerly produced six garments a day he is now producing three.” The quotation is from an explanation by M. Tobias, an official of the Chicago Cloak and Sult Manufac- turers’ Association. Let's call the class in mental arithmetic. Assume that a workman produces only three gar- ments a day. That is eighteen in a week. Allow coat, vest and trousers, three garments, in each suit. Then a workman produces six suits a week. Dividing $5 by six, the mental arithmetic quotient is 83 and a fraction cents, not $2.50, Then, why the triple increase? Perhaps our mental arithmetic is wrong, but the results check on the adding machine in the business office. Will some one be so kind as to point out the error in this seemingly simple computation? AT BROADWAY AND 42D STREET. ROADWAY and 42d Street is a wonderful comer. All the world’s a stage, and tradition has it that every player, no matter how obscure his part, at least once during his ‘participation in the play passes this crossway, where the spotlight always shines. Here a} patient watcher can meet any one whom he may desire to see, if he will but wait long enough. Yo this tradition we may add that anything may happen in the course of the vigil, It is with the stage that this corner is most intimately associated, but im- agige, if you can, the reception of a melodrama in which the villains attempted to make their get-away er FROM EVENING WORLD READERS From «@ Driver. To the Whitor of the Krening World: Just a few words in regard to the various letters in to-night’s Evening World regarding the horse. I am a driver of one of the finest mares in the city, and take as much care of her as I do of myself. I never have @ whip and I always blanket her well, but as to her slipping and falling, I cannot prevent that. No matter how good a horse's shoes may be, they wear down very quickly, As to non- Slip shoes, there are no such shoes made. If some one could invent them they could make a fortune. If my employer filled to buy them I would, out of my own pocket, Such is my feeling for my horse. Mr. James D. Holmes says 10 cents worth of burlap on the front feet is good. I will try it and hope to bene- fit by his advice, Mr. P. J. Murphy says horses are underfed, ‘That is up to the boarding stable proprietor, not the boss carmen, M. 'T. S. says to get the shoes sharpened. There is no such thing as getting shoes sharp- ened. When shoes get so they will not give the horse a hold on the ice, there is only one thing, new shoes, I can readily see thag your readers have had no driving experience or unt he covers the horse. May I also put in a word for the stray cat? How is it that so few people have | any feeling for a cat? Yet if treated | kindly it is just as grateful and affec- | Uonate as the dog. I ad ask the} people to save the sc 3 from the table instead of putting them In the| garbage can, and throw the scraps out in the street at night. They would | be doing a good act. a | West 29th Street, Dec. 2 | | Likes Foreign Girls, To the Biitor of the Evening Work) 1 Joseph Manning's letter to The | Evening World, published to-day, is} quite right, and I think that most! men who have served overseas will | back him up when he says that the| girls of England and France are | much nearer the type that the New York man is looking for than is the | New York girl herself. | Over there the girls are good pals and ‘chums. ‘tney are home girls too,! and don't want to spend all their time | and all a fellow's money at shows and cabarets, The soldiers billeted | in Bngland, the gobs up at Dunferm- line in the Firth of Forth didn't make any mistake when they brought English and Scotch gi | These girls are willing to fight for| their men, and to.make their homes | their lives. They don't they don't want to grab o' some boy UNCOMMON SENSE By Joh THE The Red does not reason. gcqual opportunity mcans the sa yvice as for ability and industry. RED S You can see plainly the snow-capped top of a mountain, But you must use your reason to appreciate the laborious wind- ing trail, beset with obstacles, that leads to it. “Why can't I have one of those?” says the Red, as he watches an automobile roll past. He does not see and he does n All he sees is the automobile. ot want to see the industry, the effort, perhaps the sacrifice, that enabled the man in the auto- mobile to buy it. When James J. Hill was P) resident of the Northern Pacific a young college graduate asked him how to succeed in the rail- road business. “Work like h—I for forty y years,” said Hill. Anybody could sce Hill riding over the road in his private sar, But only reasoning beings could see him patiently learning the business, step by step, often in the face of tremendous dis- couragement, ; In the present Congress a road laborers, men lucky accidents, But they n Blake (Copyright, 1919.) EES GREEN. . His creed is envy, To him me opportunity for idleness and 2 re four men who began as rail- The green-tinged mind of the Red sees in these would still be railroad laborers dost head and heart and conscience | alike when he set eyes on Esmeralda, | The third lover was one of the jstrangest creatures in looks and im ‘mature the world has ever seen, Ete |was Quasimodo, the hunchback, a hanger-on of Frojlo's and @ sort of bandy man in the more menial jobs ‘connected with the care of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Among other duties, to Quasimode was assigned the task of ringing the Cathedral's giant bells. For the reat he was the cringing slave of Frollo, who had adopted him in babyhood and had brought him up to a life of drudgery and cruel treatment. Esmeraida’s fourth adorer was one Gringoire, a down-at-heel poet, who, in a whim of pity, she married to save him from the hangman's noose. But she made it very clear at once to the poet that she had married him out of pity and not through love, and that he could expect to have no part in her life, | Such was the oddly contrasting | quartet of men who, in Paris of 148% vowed love to the homeless and vaga+ ‘bond gypsy lass, And their lowe |drought her nothing but tragedy. For |from the outset she was doomed te |disaster end to be the plaything of | malignant fate. | Quasimodo was so, used to having people laugh at him and scoff at his hideous face and misshapen pody tha; he seemed vsed to mankind's jeers Yet once, When smeralda chanced te speak to him in carelessness, her gentle words and smiles smote him t the heart, In al! his miserable lite she was. the first person to give hin a friendly word. And under the in fluence of it his heart went out to he: in eternal worship. Nor was his devotion to expen itself in mere words. Like a guardias angel he watched over the girl's tem. pestuous fortunes. And presently hit chance came to serve her, Esmeralda, through no sin of her own, incurred the suspicion of being a witch, It was a day of black superstition. The slightest and flim- siest evidence was all that was needed to fasten & charge of witchcraft te some innocent woman or girl, espe- cially if the victim was without money and position. The gypsy girl was charged witb sorcery and was about to be put to death by the mob when Quasimodo rushed to her rescue. Spiriting her away from her tor- mentors, he hid her in the innermost recesses of the Cathedral, There, for the moment, she was safe sv far ae the mob was concerned. But she was safe from Quasimodo'’s master, Claude Frollo. Frollo, learning of her hiding place, made violent love to her. She re- pulsed him in disgust. And into k brain leaped the craving the woman who baa By a ruse he girl o cathed |mob, Then enticed the luckless | yay fram the sanctuary of the al and into the hands of the Frollo erouched among tbe les on one of the Notre Dame towers to Watch the torturers put her to death in the ire below, Ang there the frantic Quasimodo found him. The hunchback, mad with grief at the killing of the woman he adored, caught Frollo up in his mighty and misshapen arms and hurled him over the battlements of the Cathedral |down onto the stones of the square far beneath ‘Then the hunchback vanished. was further trac years later lis Nor found of him until eleton was discov ered in a cave, its bony arms etill clasping the skeleton of Esmeralda. Quasimodo had crept to this burial : by cli H el Knicke: ok 4 ¥ : tat place of the girl he loved, render the greatest service as teachers, by climbing down the front of the Hotel Knickerbocker.| ‘ney would know better. If you want | Mullionaire, ‘They take a fellow for) if they had allowed envy to cloud their vision. Tain down to die at her sige, ; It behooves the school district, the State and, if Before last Tuesday such a development of the} some ready and experienced rela-| spend all your time blutling them, TI ‘This is a land of opportunity, But, contrary to the proverb, ~~ | netessary, the Nation, to provide funds for secondary | Plot would have been hooted from the stage, unless it Rone cabal ihe tere ian Sora Wish we had @ few like them in the| * opportunity does not knock on every man’s door, even once. Among Those i schools. The supply of public school teachers must be| 44 appeared in a farce, Inconceivable! Yet to-|out @ driver, as all men handling a Destroyen Hote Wi 6s Ne You may go through life without ever secing it if you don’t go P i maintained by the promise of fair pay. In the last] Morrow we may see it used by a playwright in search| horses to-day are not real drivers. tas out and hunt for it. resent— " ‘v4 iy: eat iv baat 4 adyay|Some of them should not be allowed y i" rae sia © ari “rats owne 7 a enslaved the ou know the Z analysis the stability and success of democracy must of the bizarre, Mt is good material for a Broadway Ro ative a Hall: Profiteering Exhibit. In Rus in the nristocrats gues the dane and en lave d ane ae i Ne young fellow j rest primarily on the intelligence of the people in the} Tevue: In truth, it is stranger than fiction; it out-raffles] 1 aamit there are a few who take | serfs. * But this is not Russia, No increase of opportunity woul See CEUs Nite ok ana t democracy; that-is, on the ability of the school teacher, | Raffles; it surpasses the imagination as only the truth]ail the troubies and mistakes out of come from overturning a Government which has been proved 3} oo ui. coci $5 ! ie i : eral : the horse by abusing him. I have » the most liberal in the world. Do you koow ihe wage earaer who my 7 ‘ = f % good one and good ones are hard to H : fe i. 2 _ ! ee loafs ¥ ecause he afraid - +4 ‘ Again, just vocalize the names of the villains.| get, so 1 take care of her and she SE Tt ces LWioele etn lc priate THE RECKONING BEGINS, Adriano Alvarez. Raymond Rodrigu Surely no] takes care of me by never quitting something for nothing, ‘Terrorism will not get it for him, As $]‘9 uaz BN years in jail, fifteen years’ exile and a fine of | playwright would dare expose his plot by bestowing | °*°e?t '® et ber vei A DRIVER long as envy and malice rule him he will be as he is, a Bolshevik bo you know ‘he huuvewite who ta vi! ' hf . . 5 P 4 a "2 > ashamed to be with a arke' 10,000,000 francs is the sentence imposed by an| such smoothly alliterative names on his characters,} New York, Dec. 22 in name and a burglar at heart. ; basket on in oP to Carre eee p Allied court martial on a German steel magnate stamping them before ever the curtain rose, Only in Loves Horses and Cats avening World reader submits There is no room for the Red in America, His propaganda 3} a brown paper c ; i i ; (ite fail F To tin alter of the Rrwclag: Wor the following will make no headway here. ‘The vast majority of the people $| ie? eo Hee ot Ne, anu aeture: charged with having ordered the systematic pillage ot | real life would the ubiquilous hotel clerk fail to recog-| “yooking through the letters of your ‘qhe Seaboard By-Product Coke BS re ? i RARE Se ne Duce Or Ta Sab le faciories in eastern France, nize the peril of entertaining guests so melodramatically | column 1 certainly was happy to read) Company advertises Koppers coke believe in this Government ane will support it. oy; eke dor advances un eqial Pe This conviction, the first of its kind, is a reminder | inscribed on the register. BAe USE Ate BSL ARS Senne LN ae encoreiamta eat caps Aad day ne sn 4 ieee aHOn Sa : ’ ni a ! hath af his good abe as i A . ‘ : ‘ ave a ‘ li hattan and Brooklyn. Dn vo awakens, i . at us 1 i s rag 2 ow the fact F “ $a of how to the destructiveness of warfare itself was Truly the daring enterprise at the Knickerbocker | dumb animal, the horse, which seems awakens, it will be found that as a man toils and thinks, so he Do you know the factory girl work- added a cold and calculating determination on the part of German economic interests to ruin industrial France for German advantage. This German sieel king was able to gain nothing by his plea that the German Government ordered him to do what he did, He and his brothers were shown to have deliberately wreckea and plundered a big section of the French metal in- dustry. The same economic pillage, the same seizure and transfer to Germany of material and machinery went ‘on in Belgium, where workers also were seized and shipped to Germany. was a most amazing occurrence. It dwarfed the thes- pian villainies in the neighboring theatres, The re- porters had the advantage of the playwright and— New York knows now that anything may happen at | Broadway and 42d Street. } One more scene has been enacted in the spotlight. The native guide has one more anecdote with which to entertain his tourist friend. The yarn of the Spanish Buccaneers will be told for generations, even though the tourists who do not know that anything may hap- | pen at Broadway and 42d Street may be sceptical con- cerning the veracity of their guides who point out the Now comes the reckoning, exact scene of the climax, to be the most abused of all, He often at the mercy of an ignorant and who often handles him as if he were some kind of machinery, pulling at his bit until his mouth is sore and Ddiistered, It is especially pitiful to see the cab horses near the rajlroud stations standing in one spet for tive to six hours at 4 time, shiver- ing with the cold and very covered, fed, ated, I live the Statjon. [ offen pass there with my Uttle girl, and although she is only seven years old she is on the lookout cruel drive ften un- looking emact- Pennsylvania poorly near weeks ugo I called their office in Jersey City and inquired as to how I could get this coke on Staten Island und at what price referred me to the Fo Company, West Brighton, S. 1, and quoted a_ price $9.85. 1 called Faye Coal Company, who said the price was right but they could not supply me as a dealer in my town, Great Kills, had that territory, 1 recently heard that this local dealer is ask- ing $11 a ton for this coke, and this morning called up tl board By-Product Coke Company, who informed me that $11 was the of the for cab horses which are standing un- covered and she pulls me toward the driver and then we won't go away rigbt price for their duct on Staten Island, Profite New York, Deo. 19, ¢ iF. will prosper. Avoid envy and jealousy as you would a rattlesnake, © no better than the Red, you always see green you z nnn CANNABIS SMOKERS. In Brazil cannabis smoking is be- coming a national menace, according }to Di 8. Blair, of Harrisburg, Pa. who adds the warning that the vice can readily be imported to this coun- \try unless we guard carefully against ‘it, He says the cannabis smoker [nearly always becomes an imbecile jin time, In an article on the “Relation of Drug Addiction to Industry” in the Jeurnal of Industrial Hygiene, Dr. Blair says that business, industry )and industrial physicians must make it their care to see that the "jokers" are taken out of the narcotic laws ond that then those laws are effec- tively enforced, Tha few debased physicians “who infest almost every community and who deliberately keep up addiction through ignorance or cupidity,” he says, must be taken in_hand, In many ways heroin is the worst habit-forming drug known, he de- clares, and adds that its legitimate application in medicine can be filled by other drugs. ing for $18 a week who i 1 $350 fur coat? know the man who lets a er him into buying a four i ep” can buy a satisfactory one buying und when he for $7? Do you know the “Wrap it) up" Much?" Do you know the the desire of the m results of days and and ing Do you know the man who thinks it Is mot necessary to save? Do you know the man who ga that the Government sivings secuae ties, Liberty fonds, War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Ger- | tificate are too slow or too small or too old fashioned for his investnente? —Morse Dry Dock Dial, hopper who says instead of “How person who lets ment destroy the Weeks of thrift