The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 16

t a ’ *\ ; ] \, j } z f | ig g Previisnea Dat Compa ‘lowers will not permit peace. ‘tattle in vain, Protestants will futility. The autocrat who is keeping men in their ‘piains is the Republican Leader of the United States Semate. The discomfort, the delay, the injustice—all are-of his continuation. S ence. compromise under this law, dition is common in industrial disputes, “ Under the Lenrvot scheme managers of oe ESTABLISHED BY JOsErH Pt THE HOLIDAY HORROR. INFORCEMENT of Nation-wide tion, if it is ever attempted, will result in such an era of drug-taking and poison-drinking that after a few monthS.a glass of clean liquor will appear a symbol of purity, honesty and health—The Evening World, July. 1, 1919. Prohibi- | obliged to wait four months before a wh move, Civil eel Aigvolunteers could not till the cabs. The skilled strikers ready to forbidden. As a practical result the country would be faced with almost complete paralysis unless rail ! managers broke the law and sent the engineers back Striking employees would lose four months’ wages. Doubtless this would be a strike deterrent. But if the | principle were so great that the engineers decided | was worth the price their losses would be trifliig be- side what the public would suffer. In four month New York City would have starved to death, AT THE MOVIES. HE satirist has him resting mostly on his spine in an orchestra chair, jaws busy with gum, making} j inarticulate sounds of approval or the opposite as the} work would Read the lengthening lists of the dead and the b tind. | | pictures unreel on the screen, And this before the Eighteenth Amendment i fective and the final tyranny enthroned! POLITICAL PRISONERS. Si excitement caused on Christmas Day by t police treatment of a number of intellectual peo- ple with academic ideas of liberty should not cause us to overlook the reasons why men are “political” prisoners in these United States, where such a thing was deemed impossible. ef-! he By employing a drastic draft rule necessary to raise This being achieved, those who got in the way an army the Government abandoned the democratic idea for the despotic. It had been said and much be- lieved that democracies could not successfully make war against autocracies, where will took the place of opinion, We did it by adopting the method of the autocrat and with entire success. of ‘the method are still in prison in the greater number, although the military nations of Europe have opened their prison doors and freed similar offenders. It may ‘veasomably be asked: Why do we not do the same? The reason is that, alone of the nations, the United States is still in a state of war. The soldiers are home, the armies are disbanded and swords are turning into pruning hooks, but the “state” remains, Why? Because Henry Cabot Lodge and his fol- ft up their voices AWARDS, NOT CLAIMS. ® ‘he cell doors will in T appears the sequel to Admiral Sims's refusal of the Distinguished Service Medal and the accom- panying criticism of Secretary Daniels’s basis of award is to be a rather disgusting scramble for decoratio and an airing of dirty linen in the front lawn which might with better taste be confined to the back yard. ns Whatever the merits of the question at issue be- Letters by Rear Admiral Decker and Vice Admir: Admiral Decker says in part: It has been brought to my attention by public notices that I have been recommended for re- ward of the Naval Cross, In my opinion, this award is entirely inade- quate to the services that were performed by the office of the Naval Attache and those who worked with me, tween the Admiral and the Secretary, the letter pub- lished last week presented a definite issue. There is ground for a reasonable difference of opinion as to whether sea duty is more deserving of commendation than staff work. Only by innuendo did the personal note creep in, In refusing the Distinguished Service Medal Admiral Sims asked nothing for himself. al Hilary P. Jones present a rather unpleasant contrast. In refusing the Naval Cross, Admiral Jones reviews his own personal services and says: It is submitted that, if the discharge of these highly responsible and largely independent du ties was so successful as to meet the depart ment’s approval, the responsible officer should be recognized commensurately. Admiral Sims praised his subordinates. Whether | dangerous. he was right or wrong, the action of naval officers who| ciples of democracy as Americans have sing their own praises reflects no credit on themselves. | derstood them. Self adulation or “blowing your own horn” small enthusiasm in America. tary Daniels a simple declination of the Naval Cross would have been far more effective, It may be in order te, ¢emind other disgruntled tu A FAULTY COMPROMISE, labor section for the railroad bill now in conf months. Perh fo assume a concrete case en arouses As a rebuke to Secre- ft ATOR LENROOT has suggested a compromise | er- es. ps the best way to realize the danger of this nossible | United Slates should cease to represent, would be| As he sits, no one can deny that he symbolizes the | present attitude of a considerable part of the American | public toward national and international issues. Let's be honest. as a whole, are not measuring up to the largeness of current events and probiems. 7 are not in direct exerting They are not bringing to the larger tasks of peace the concentrated energy and purpose they brought to, winning the war. The most momentous peace treaty in history, in- volving the honor, the prestige and the commercial advancement of the United States, has been for months he political football of the United States Senate. The Senate would never have dared use peace to kick goals in a game of party politics, if the people of the United States had taken active, concerted measures to compel ratification, Reconstructive legislation—indusirial adjustments, the return of the railro: ey touch with those problems. They direct influence are not to help solve them, is, revision of taxes, measures} to reduce the high cost of living—has waited and waited, These urgent legislative needs would not have been neglected if a determined public had thought hard| about them and put the results of its thinking squarely up to Congress. Despite the President's efforts, the costly falsehood of Wartime Prohibition thirteen months after the ces- sation of hostilities has remained on the Federal statute books. It would not have stayed there if the people of ihe United States had found their voices and demanded its repeal. Representative government in the United S\ates has not ceased to be, in theory at least, what the framers of the Federal Constitution meant it to be. The Constitution makers assumed, however, that the people would continue to be at all times deeply, intelligently, actively interested in their national af- fairs and in the way their elected representatives were at ayy given moment managing those affairs. Even the staunchest Nationalist advocates of a strong Government—Hamilion, Morris, Madison, | » King and the rest—assuredly did not plan for a day when the gravest problems involving international relations and domestic welfare would interest a large part of the country only as affecting the moves in a closely played game between political leaders. Lincoln was not merely flattering democracy when he included the words “Government by the people. | The fact remains that at the present time the American people have lost touch with their Govern- ment and particularly with their Congress, Unwonted delegation of power for war purposes helped to produce this unfortunate result. The Gov- ernment has formed a habit of acting without listen- \ing to the people. The people have formed a habit | of letting their representatives act or not act without a Sense of responsibility toward those who elected them. | ‘This state of things is worse than unjust. It is perilously subversive It is of the prin. e thus far un- Vhe trouble is, private affairs just now in the United States are going too well, When public problems present themselves—problems in the solution of which logislators ought to feel the constant pressure and | guidance of intelligent public opinion—public interest hunters that decorations are supposed to be distributed | js passive, inarticulate, detached, on a basis of award rather than of claim, | Most of the country continues to gaze upon the unfolding of great issues as if it thought ilself com- | fortably at the movies. Something must happen, something will happen, {unless the Nation gets back to where its people re- It seems to include the defects of both bills and | Cover their grip on its affairs, the advantages of neither. The compromise provides tor an impartial investi- gating tribunal to consider railroad labor disput Even after a public finding by this board a strike is not unlawful, but any employee who quits work in de- fiance of any decree rendered by this board shall not he employed by any railroad for a period of four| Common national problems and concerns than that, under the spell of a specious and hectic burst of post-| | Lasting prosperity cannot develop out of an era of money-making during which a majority of Ameri- | cans are too busy with private business to care how the Nation’s interests are being looked after. Beiter by far a panic that suddenly and painfully {turned the attention of the American people to’ their war prosperity, .representative government in the bales ia WHY CAN'T SOME OF THIS LIGHTNING ; Assume 4 dispute in which ihe bowd decided STRIKE NEW YORK? against the employees. Then assume that the en- DETROIT, Mich. Doc,.26.—The Detroit gineers decided to strike anyhow, Assume, again, that United Railways to-day withdrew a request 2 means of amicable adjustment developed and that that it be permitted ‘to make a ke of one the men were ready to retum to work. Such a con cent for transfers, stating that because of im provement in conditions affecting |ts tions, it now finds itself able itably on a Gut 6-cent fare, opera to opercte prof i engine be The people of the United States, | | | Sit eh } THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919, p i Nag se pales Meats: Navy Pay. To the Lditor of The Evening World: | Accept a constant reader's sincere thanks for your editorial in this ‘eve- king's paper ir Pay in the Navy. I enlisted May 18, 191 man for yeoman two and a half years was honorably | man, first ¢ years as a book- my pay in the a first class petty officer! on 8 a lands- ter serving and 4 I as a ye worked five I have Keeper and typist and service as Was $52 per month. yw, I do love the service and, in fact, Te-enlisted the 18th of this month aad am transferred to Juneau, Alaska, duty. Vifty- iss dollars per month 4s cer-| tainly not enough for a bookkeeper. I can get $120 a month in civil life, but I lke the open air On this ridiculous pay I allot $15 to my mother, who is partially depend- ent on me, and $340 a month for in- surance. Then 20 cents per month is taken off for hospital fund 1 think it only proper that the pay should be incr also the bo- ta ranted to f the LOUIS world 8 K Yeoman, 173 Wldridge’ 8 ‘That Cannot Sp To the Hditor of The Evening Wo Words cannot expr appree | ciation of the stand you are taking | for our four-footed friend. Bully for | yout Tam delighted because I know | now there will be medy | Tam a constant reader of your pa- | per and I admire it very much. You never started a war unless you in- tended to finish it, So, good luck to you, and | thank you for speaking for those that cannot speak for them- phemaeclyes,’ ss my shing The Evening World the happiest of Christinases and many prosperous r I8SIDER voman). We Mr. Manaling Henged, i os of Pie Kyening World idently Joseph B. Manning has failed to read the records of the War Depurtment, the Red Cross and vari- out other authentic reports in refer- ence to the physic corrupt and | ime femal nt which has entered our port isible, thrifty and capable young women whose am- bition in life is to make & home out of a house and to be a help-meet to some worthy man It is evident that Mr, Manning has had limited experience among the native American girls,as per hig re- taaxi-cabs, denee balls, 1 only wish 1 could sex long y enough to sting and han, | ing the coming of foreign girl American or when I fu the Bolsheviki sh with him, What monumental have, Mr. Joseph B. M 89th Division, to critici Vil wager you 1 girl at more t picture show Army a five much less three or times a week at a cabaret, dancing, |supper or theatre. Your limit must be a “frankfurter stand,” you piker Wor Heaven's sake © 6 poor unfortunate American girl the mise! having you “for better or fe rse.” She sure would get the latte Consulta phrenologist. Your |mathematical calculations are all wrogg. Nine out of tea A. *. sol diers would disagree with you and probably land in the clutches of ‘the |law for assault if you dared express ‘yourself verbal! Here's my home| address. Answer me if you dare. JOHN J. MCNULTY 103 East 90th Str Division and Argonne Formerly 77th Players. New York, Dec. 23, 1919. Foretun Gir Brides, ‘Vo the Eiitor of The Evening World: 1 agree with Soldier Manning on some of his points about the girls, to Julia K.'s letter regaurd- to this d, but relative country, I have not been abro | {rom the girls 1 meet here tt is plain ¢ that it is well-nigh impossible young fellow of moderate means company with and likewise to n little fore F vaken our girls a little. If not, then the newcomers ‘will meet with tore success than pated now New York, Calka for Horse, Vo the Favor of The Exeuing World It gratifies us to find a great daily like yours espousing the cause of the voiceless, the improperly shod horse, I detect in your editorials more than mere advocacy of its economic issue. There appears an appreciation of the useful creatures for their own sakes. Howeve » note seams not to have been struck, ‘Traffic blocks, live stock loss, time loss, money loss, are duly noted. But to one who ia un- willing to pass by a fallen horse, fear ing abuse or stupidity in the restor ation of the horse to its fees, there is a gerious inte rence with private business, delays, “friction, disorder. And some gloom of the | spirit for those who realize the city every- where cumbered with preventable suffering. You may recall, the bill introduced by the Ame an S. P. C. A. to the Roard of Aldermen four was so fairly and wisely that no partic ed, Any devi yeurs ago, provisioned | him good s %0 is nothing | provide, was free to than a four-flu : and @|capo the legal penalty provided whon companion unfit for our superior fe | fallen horses were found to be im- malo beauties, L had the opportunity | properly shod for winter weath of coming in contact with hundreds! Mrs, Speyer, President of Woman of reneh and 1 girls, and let | League for Animals Free Hospital, a chal Mr, Mannin ano rational defender ef unfortunate ani- debate on ‘the qualitieat of the | mals, spoke in favor of the bill at the American and the Hreneh and the| hearing, and cited veterinarians’ ro- English gitls, gamble he would | porta of the enormous amount of suf- not knvw whoo bad been in the fering, injury 4ud death infilcted upon Reem is wey UNCOMMON SENSE : By John Blake (Copyright, 1919.) ) WITH YOUR MIND AS WELL AS WITH YOUR EYES. You do not really see anything that does not leave an im- pression on your mind. The eyes report to the brain the image that is left on them. If the brain is on the job when the message comes in, it will probably gain valuable information. But if, as is often the case, it is paying no heed, the mes- sage from the eyes will be lost forever. Looking at an object is not necessari | : \ only a mass of steel and He studies it And at the first men look at a locomotive. One se The carefully. |Siron. other sees an inter esting machine. Ideas about it collect in his mind. opportunity he finds out how it works. Finding out bow things work is the beginning of know] edge. It is almost the exclusive occupation of the scientist. | Two apprentices watch a mechanic whose trade they are trying to learn. Both see him employ his hands in his work. 3 One merely sees the hands move. The other sees and observes exactly what they do, Result: One apprentice speedily learns the trade. other never learns it well. The The message from the eyes conveyed to an inattentive mind leaves no impression on the memory. ‘To remember any: thing you must think about it. If you do not remember it your eyes might as well be kept closed. * ee mecule observe tatiiciinaiy, ie dain: whichiiarat immense value, can be cultivated, Go into a room and look about you. Think about what you see Nolice Try to remember afterward exactly what the things there were and where they were. Do that every day, and you will soon form the habit. will begin to observe other things, to think about them. ideas will broaden, Your memory will improv what is in i You Your Your brain will begin to grow. All life is absorbingly will not interest you u be told to use your e3 wanted to. interesting—but it You don't need to less you really see i es. You couldn't help using them if you the When you have gu be well on your way toward achievement, f that the learned to do that But it is harder to use the message eyes bring to your mind, you horses through preventable falls, | PENNSYLVANIA FIGHTS TUBER- strains, sprains, bruises, etc., due to CULOSIS. There are) ty of Phila- tablish dietett outworn, smooth shoes. ihe Aiisenoniniin oc many types of emengency s! ily removable, Not unduly cost!) | delphia is planning to es One Alderman suid fp me: “There clinics at all the hospitals through- are few horsey loft.” ‘I replied with| out the State. A beginning has an offer to au y figures Hours ot made at one such centre in Philadel- cultura) eparime: ance phia. The first class, «attended Health and the American 8, P. C Fee en eae titan Upon which “ie | State nurses, took up the preparation hastily said, “Oh, you needa’t, T!of economical and nutritious a hi® | under the supervision of a dietitian wouldn't believe them anyway. intelligent young man is still an Al | furnished by the society. The nurses he | Will be taught to instruct mothers | derman, miking great noise just now families and urge pupils ttond t about another mutter, of which seems as well informed, Now that Women are factors in political life, | classes, which an held each after Perhaps the dill revived would have | noon and evening and conaist of ane | chance to pass. I too urge the|and a half-hour periods, Instruction laplondid American 8. P. C. A, to try |avill cover preparation of simple foods again B. EB. STORRS, | the making of ideal menus de 419 State Deo, 23, 101% Strect, Brooklyn, ¥ foods | _No.30—The Three Guardsmen; 3 INAS | f youth, came : % fortune by his sword and by his | wit | thre | | | | | || signed to supply the greatest amount of strength, | | Porthos and Aramis. week before he madly in love with preity Jit Constance Bona- cleux, one ot the lesser ladies in wait- jing employed in the Queen's service. The | ha The Love Stories of Great Novels: By Albert Payson Terhune; Publier Oo. | World.) | Comsriane. 1910, by The Pe i The New York 1ven By Alexandre Dumas ARTAGNAN, a Gascon to Paris to make bis There he sought enlistment in Royal Musketeers. ‘There, too, he formed a deathless friendship with other adventurous young sol- 4 who 1 themselves Athos, £ the diergs D'Artagnan had not been in Paris a And from the very first the course of their love ran a tempestuous course. Constance served the Queen, Riehe- lieu, the Prime Minister, hat®d the Queen; and was ‘forever striving to injure her in the eyes of the King een had given to the Duke of am, England's ambassador, set of twelve diamond studs which had been presented to by King her the this Jad Richelieu learned his ¢! through de Win- verest spy, one who ¥ known Milady"’; and who had stolen two of the etuds from Buckingham. This was the Primo Minister's hance to destroy the Queen, He persuaded the King to make her wear all the studs at # ball soon to be given at the Jaco. On her failure to do so hé planned to tell the whole story, Phe Queen in terror turned to Con- stance for id. Constance persuaded as rlagnan to cross to England (elud- ing Richelicu’s many spies) and get the studs from Buckingham, re to win her favaay” the young Gascon set by this service, forth, " By sheer wit And swe won t Jsmanship he Richelieu's emis- Buck- s way and ¥ m, in giving past wched England. him the studs to back to the Queen, found two were missing. He had them duplicat- ed and sent back, thus, the onigina! —twelve. D'Artagnan got to and to the Louyre, with the precious studs, bare- ly in time for the Queen to wear them to the ball. he was saved from dis- grace, But d'Artagnan had made a Richelicu in thwart- deadly enemy of Richelieu's tirst step in punishing che audacious young Gascon was to kidnap Constance, In vain d’Artagnan sought for her: In the meantime, he had won the snakelike hatred Of Milady; who did all in her power to harm him, And while, he played what seemed svitably LO be a losing game against death, i But he did not value his own life, , on with ‘his yearning to find Constance. And at last he was stul, He learned of the place his sweetheart was hidden. his three friends, be hastened With thither, Milady, 0 quick and She ‘hastened Constance pretend- however, was for dim to the place w waited for her lover. c ing to be a friend of d’Artugnan and of the unhappy girl, she won Con- stance’s trust; and persuaded ‘ber to drink a draught Milady had prepared, The drink w rank poison, And, when d’Artagnan at last galloped” breathless to the hiding place ‘and rushed into his swe thear's presence; he found € nee dying. Hearth: own thoughts turned to vengeance. He and bis friends summoned the executioner, of the nearby tawn of Lille, and paid him to behead the murde News Flashes | From Around , [The Worl d | New Use for Depth Bombs, Since the brought many countr Mon war explosives into their favorite sport of the motintaineers hand grenade a@ result, pgrin iy fishing’ with and dynamite, As the American Red Cross have a score of pa- who were not fully ac quainted with handling such dangerous “bait.’ eo» s No Mercy for Protiteers, The Tokio Yamato makes @ lengthy plea for the punishment of Japanese projitecrs, and refers approvingly to the recent propo sal in France to punish with death those guilty of profiteer- tng. “We supported.” says the Yamato, “the Profiteering Pre- vention Act promulgated by the last Cabinet, and hoped that 4 it erred in applying the act 4t would evr on the side of severity.” Counterfeit Savings Stymp, Attention is called to's sasm terfeit of the 1919 War Saveh Stamp in a circular letter seni out by Mr. Ben jumen Strong, @ ecrnor of the Federal’ Reserge Bank of New York, as follows: “We are informed that coun- terfeit War Savings Stamps of the 1919 issue have been disco ered among dealers in the pusted on genuine certificate that the counterfeit is a photo graphic production in good color blue ink, bul that the fine lines behind the portrait in the gente ine appear in solid color in the counterfeit and that the perfora tions of the genuine stumps ap- pear photographed on the coun terfeit, Secret Agents have been insiructed to notify postmusters, substations, banks and dealers requesting the imme diate reat ef auubody presente img certificates corn fn 9 any of Service