The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1920, Page 20

‘ | ESTABLISHED BY JOSE! [@evrienea Datty Except Sunday by the Press Publishing to 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Gampany, Nos. 5 J. ANGUS STIAW, Treasurer, SOSEPR PULITZER, MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRRES, Amociated Press ts exttustvely entitied to the use Of Gh news Goepatebes credited to It or not oiberwise credited in this peper also the local news published herein. Je Secretar PH PULIT THE EVE NING WORLD, TO THE TEST. United States Supreme yesterday granted the State of Rhode Island permis- sion to institute original proceedings to test the validity park Row, 4 of the Eighteenth Amendment, which imposes Prohi- —_———— | bition upon every State in the Union ‘under the Federal Court R. Park Now tor repubiiention | Constitution, The State of Rhode Island will contend that Federal - SHUNNING OUR HOMES. a YORKERS shun their homes, the census’ the sovereign rigits and police powers of the State, takers tell us. It is diflicull to tind people at “home to ask them the questions the Government wants answered, Innocent or guiliy? be the fairest answer. the census files. Such buildings shelter a considerable minority of | New Yorkers, but isn’t it almost a sacrilege on the holy | name of “home” to so refer to a hotel room? myriad attractions and entertainments of the city, even the thronged streets, certainly are to be preferred to} four uncompanionable walls. There are a minority who live as our country cousins | believe all New Yorkers to live, with a never ceasing ‘ant allowance of sleep. visitor, “hitting the high spots of Broadway” prepar-| story to a long rest at home, “doesn’t see how we do} it” which is perfectly natural, because we do not, could reund of pleasure and a not and would not. But even in these modern cliff dwellings, in hotels | nd cramped tenements, there very human homes, where | census takers found mother and the children waiting for | and apartments, in flats a are homes, real homes, A little of both, probably would It is practically impossible to make any truthful generalization about “New Yorkers.” There are too many of them, too many kinds of them. | The worst trouble in finding people ‘ou! from hotels and apartment houses. Repeated calls may | fail to “clean up” a building and list all the residents in| “Vhe return of the head of the house. ] the census taker discovered in the great majority of cases, “New Yorkers shun their homes + 18 a general rule, because of their rarity. et te get everywhere! Is Anderson game? Then let him run for Goyernor of New York. the matter with Kansas?” Senator Arthur Capper is making a valiant effort to prove that the trouble lies in the rapacity of the packers and millers and middlemen, who are mulcting the farmers of their hard earned deserts, But here we refer to a handsomely lithographed! vall card sent out by J. C. Mohler, Secretary of the| Kansas Staie Board of Agriculture, which presents ' some rather interesting figures. Summarized, Mr. Mohler says that the total value , of Kansas farm products in 1919 was $746,512,500, + ‘The total value of live stock was $340,499,377, increhse over values of farm products in the best prior year (1918) is $154,495,175, We are inclined to agree with most of Senator Capper’s complaints against the middleman, but it does not appear that the poor farmer is‘nearly so oppressed as some of his urban cousins who are buying the farm products, If profits of middlemen are to be cut, we respecte fuliy submit that there is more need for paring trom | status the top than from the bottom. A DARING INNOVATION. OMES again our old headline acquaintance, | “Prayer Book Saves a Life.” “fullet aimed for the heart prayer book and drops into the pocket of the pro- | speotive victim. The details are all there. There are only three authorized variations of this It is allowable to substitute either a Bible or a ‘Testament, a bunch of love letters, or a locket con: taining a picture of the hero’s sweetheart and a lo. of his mother's soft gray hair. Hullet drops down inside his shirt and ii is necessary ir the one miraculously shielded to take off his stock- tale, at the Only the exceptions are noticeable | New Yorkers as a whole de- serve a world of credit because so great a proportion | sueceed in having homes to love in the face of condi- tions which would daunt any less home-loving people. get back to the old order of things, Let's see the Prohibition emblem ¢ ticket at the next State and National ele tions, Remember what a big vote it used $154,495,175 OF “VELVET.” ’ ILLIAM ALLEN WHITE once asked, “What is In the latter cd ing before he can recover the bullet proof of having been sa letters. But hold! Glancing at anoiher account of the same incident, we see it stated that the protecting volume wa was a “memorandum book.” We demand proof of such an absolutely unorthodox ‘ statement. Such a thing never occurred before to the best of our knowledge. , “African dominos.” |” The reporter daring such an innova to be rewarded with a “Croix de Plume” or else sen- *tenced to be shot at press time, with nothing but mem- ' orandum books as armoi If such a statement is allowed fo stand without complete corroboration we may yet live to read that a pinochle deck may be a life-saver, or | a pocket flask, a silver cigarette case—even a pair of ir. d, eral convenience we recommend the prayer book or di On th This is rank heresy. We hail from the grand and turbulent Common- the world better by telling it that ‘boundaries of Rhode Island constitutes an invasion of Unless the American people have become indifferent to the foundation principles of their Government, every a test of State sov- |ereignty growing out of one of the most clearly de- fined and momentous issues that has arisen since the Constitution went into effect. | We believe a majority of Americans are still capable brings into the Supreme Court 4 is reported | enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment within the other State will look upon the case which Rhode Island | of straight thinking on this question, | We believe a majority can consider the meaning and bearings of Nation-wide Prohibition as forced into the Federal Constitution, without confusing moral pur- | poses with the fabric of constitutional Government and without letting the desirability of accomplishing a! certain amount of good shut their eyes to unjustifiable | methods productive of unlimited wrong. t Article X. of the original ten Amendments to the Federal Constitution declares: The! The The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States re- spectively, or to the people. Nowhere does the Constitution delegate to the Fed- | eral Government power to enact sumptuary laws reg ulating the personal habits of citizens in the several States or to send Federal agents into the territory of a} State to enforce such laws. How can the Eighteenth Amendinent stand unless the Tenth Amendment is repealed? If Nation-wide Prohibition had come about by the progressive spread of Prohibition to State after State, each State passing and enforcing its own Prohibition laws, the Nation could have become bone dry through- out and no man could have questioned the constitu- tionality of the process, But so long as one single Stale held to local option, | and the smallest community’ in that State clected to} remain “wet,” the Constitution of the United States as it used to be would have protected that commu- nily’s right, A deplorable indication of growing flabbiness, ig- norance and indifference in the attitude of Americans toward their own Constitution and Government has been the apathy with which many of them have watched a fanatical minority enslave legislators and ruthlessly change the character of that Constitution and Government. That the change was accomplished without giving | the people a chance {o vote on it seems to matter little | to those Americans who have forgotten that freedom}, was assured them by the Fathers only on the assump- tion that they would chesish and guard it. During the past year an increasing number have} begun to think more clearly, | This was what Not a bit of it, the They see that to litt the saloon from its degsada-| tion it was not necessary to degrade the Federal Con- stitution—turning it into an instrument of tyranny which destroys personal liberty and overrides State sovereignty. Millions of Americans were too preoccupied with ar, too blind to what was being done to them, to resist when their liberties were taken away. They realize now the true nature and enormity of the theft. The forty-seven other States, regardless of its particular} to Prohibition, 4 | Infringement of State rights, once started, will not jstop with a National Prohibition Amendment, The hars once down, the tield will be too tempting. 1 Rhode Island should go into court with the greatest lawyers in the land to present and urge her case and} vith the support of an overwhelming majority of the | citizens Ot every other State behind her. As usual, hero strikes the | the GOOD FOR MR. A. | A. busded up to Mr, B., who was waiting for an elevator in a downtown office building, > the M Mr, A, was what is best described as “full of pep.’ and offer ocular Mr. B. was not. > ground of gen- Good morning, Mr. B. You're looking well to- Never saw you looking finer.” matier of fact Mr. A, was not precisely wuthful. | vad a cold and his eves showed it. But half into a handelasp his rather languid grip tightened, he shook hands more vigorously, straightened up al bit, threw back his shoulders and took a deep breath and agreed with Mr. A. Without losing a particle ot his own sparkling vilal- ity, Mr, A. had injected some of the quality into Mr. B lasted all day, and Mr. B, that the day so much beiter than he when he rose in the morning Mr. A.’s salutation to Mr, whom he met hall, was the same as to Mr. B. It A., but he always s fact, he does mean it. never realized why it was ven anticipated ion ought either he is a habit with Mr it as though he means it. In Mr, A. is an optimist. He makes it IS good, Good for Mr. A. Optimism is contagious derful paper since | ssrat The case of Rhode'Island is the case of each one of | ¢ Benches oning. To the Editor ening World I have been a reader of your won- ten time I do not believe I re lous’an article as the on 0 ridicu- ‘They see that there were ways of attacking the | Rh’? ,¢.07% commuissionen Gullntin, vi er than by ani vreater evi |benches for the good hearted liquor evil other than by an immensely greater evil. Wouter Ouest See oe Then tte is either 1a ay we weethenrt one bene! hater —¢ in his life ss more U man nev ¢ un wooden they very _unheulthful. knows that after a rain stoné be- comes damp and very cold and one cannot possibly sit on them after a rain’ without catching cold Wooden bench will dry quicker ana will not hold the wet as the stone ones do. ‘The may be more ornamental, assure you they never can be ortable as the old wooden o: is idea If curried out will cost a great deal of oney and there would nev as stone bench but i ma f the sto ss they 5 wooden ones. prohibition then {t's the anti-tobacco crusue, and now its stone benches. Hore's hoping Mr, Gallatin will sit on the eld wooden bench some night this coming summer with some pretty irl] before he installs stone benehes and | ass! you he will change his mind ARTHUR ROYE, An Alternative Hemedy, ‘To the Blitor of The Erening Worl i | If poor “Y. M,C, A.” be ati) af | Rock-bottom issues are at stake upon which depends! tected with the blues and has not the faithfulness of American democracy to its own|found his panacea tn a book form, I nai ¢ advise him to read “Sn: vy the | principles, |Dog Friend,” by Capt. Marryat’ and | aS eats the Apocalypse of St. John as a chase However, I strongly recommend a trip to La Habana while reading the books. The results will be phenom enal. k M New York, Jan, 15, 1920, “Operations for * ‘Yo the Baitor ng Wet Another sur mn to “¥, MC A." whose letter was printed in The nvening World on Jan. 8 A copy of Irvin 8. Cobb's book Speaking of Operations.” ean be purchased al most ood bovlk sto: a sure cure! Why not try it? my arrival in the The | TUESDAY, in to-day’s | in“ favor of Is not the The New War Pain ndment ional ac ded ng defiautiy nioreing that amer American citizen's right to JANUARY 20, 1920 tion er d » clerey ment? | Serve Jan. 18 as “Law and Order Sun- day,” for the purpose of aiding in creat- ing ‘public sentiment, favorable to the enforcement of the Bighteenth Amend- ment r, Roper comes from a State hat ny years hag openly fia- t! Vote of greater importance than. stop- ping the drinking of a harmless glass of beer or wine?” What must we think of the many thousands of clergymen who are silent on the great question , of the right of the humblest citizen to | Jar | Cal kets pra da wi Dust ley Lay ri ‘arve vor of taking away his right t what beverages he shall dri WHIDDEN n. 16. A Blanket ‘To the Editor of n any one te » bune rest ¢ me of » not { 0, Question. Bening World me why the hed up the most iced this. bi ink? GRAHAM, blan- | nthe horses owned by the city | ) round the| of the body une ter Perhaps at for not knowing would like to be BEATRICE EATON, reet 315 West 29th S The Death of To tho Halitor Ashes to s Handle him gently friend Play the harp low; Speak but in whi low. Pass by his bier muffled tread; nise; ys. how as b¢ rn; unto dust corn. him liyed ore away wi softy, Goodby, Little ing Wo a » for he spers, with and the e0) 6 th ah . uP? date ‘o, this is the end, was my crescendingly respectfully a hushed, View his remains with agrief-lowered head, Sing of his virtues and render him Drop a dry tear for the old happy he John Bar- and | on his tomb, “He shall rise up| | BARL H. PMMONS. What the 1 tor of The Even Reds Want ng Worl Sy |v eas Cassel Copyright, 1920, by the ‘ roms Publishing Co. ithe New York Evening World) UNCOMMON SENSE A By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) DON’T HURRY AND YOU WON’T HAVE TO REPEAT. Thomas Gray spent seven years.writing one poem. It will never be forgotten. The Roman road builders devoted years to the making of their highways. They are still in use in Europe. Nothing great is done in a hurry. Hurry is merely a dangerous form of impatience—a feverish rush to get the job over. Most Americans Which is the reason that most Americans spend their lives envying the success OF A FEW Americans. Ideas come like a flash. But working them out is a : and patient business. Little Jimmy Watt, watching the plume of steam from his are in a hurry mother’s tea kettle, conceived the idea of steam power. But years of hard and patient work ensued before steam could be put to practical use. And it was long after Watt was in his grave that it reached its full development. The scientist spends years in the laboratory evolving a es the Single serum. But when it is finally put into use it sa lives or eases the pain of millions of sufferers. Progress is a matter of centuries. The great war taught us at least two important nations were but a step above bar- barity, and they swiftly retraced that one step soon after the first gun had been fired. If you expect to do important work, do it carefully. Con- sider every angle of the job. It will be time to think about the fame you are going to get out of it after it is done. Hurry will ruin your career as surely as any other car dinal vice. An executive who controls the destinies of a busi- ness worth many million dollars never makes a decision of importance on the day that it is put up to him. He takes his problem home with him, thinks it over, and the next ‘day has the right answer. The business he directs has steadily grown since he took charge. There has never been anything to do over. Half of our energies are devoted to undoing what we have done, If we never hurried that would never be necessary. Think this over before you undert don’t be in a hurry about deciding w or not, \ ke your next job. But ther you agree with it cals could desire and at which they may be, but I do condemn mob law 6 giving fervent (anks. In fact, and all lawlessness whether it be by D.," as he admits, was merely | king or subject. The question is jus “writing in haste ad anger. HowW- | tice to all, by all and for all if we writing in haste or | boM regard to the contribution | ever, T am not, writt desire to be good, law-abiding ¢ jam in no way @ Socialist—nor al ,(Another High choo! Seu Tan,1¢,| Brooklyn, Jan. 17, May Need Advice | Democrat or Republican for that} 5908 17th Avenue, Brooklyn, Ja ; F To the alitor of ‘The Evening Wor matter—but am! writing this merely “ ing.” __ Keep Cool, The Allied Powers (who ever this] to tell you that the majority of high | 9. one tation geypid ped Lact 10 the ka mye rai Raa may include) ave demanding the sur] ree ES eoma sorely to. lack T hog to espiene @ 408 08 AY AE (orn Biechon\ aiudent) Tin. 14th, ' f the expert specialist in auto-| “T"Gon't believe Mr. Cassell is igno- | on your editorial of Jan. 16, regard: | wish to state that “K, D." proba cracy, 1, e, the ox-Kalae rant of the law, but T do know that |ing the warning to officers of the | iiy nas not read the Constitution of Botter make an "Oh, woodman, spare] «yj, Db," is ignbrant of tl that |law in reference to ltynehings earlthe State of New York. For, if he that tree” out of it, Political and re-| (hey were not proved “guilty of a|Bditor, 1 must confess my surprise! aia ne would know that thie So: ligious reformers, fanatics, legislators, Lorime” or of “haying | n their bi {and admiration for your brave and| cislists have the same rights in the Bolshevists, and everybod: * whol} jegiance to the Gove nt." honest statements in this matter, Of as the Democrats or Re- has qualified for a vi “ob: urther . “H, D.” says that he all the many editorials of the leading | “Qublicana, M ver, the Socialist ervation ward" may da] would make lawd “that will keep the pap it was left to The Evening | Assemblymen e all been found to few technical points on autocracy, and| Socialists from running our count World to take up the cause of, the loyal and Americans. ‘Let Kaiser Bill can furnish them; no bet-| In other word kr, DD." wou poor and) oppressed victims D.” please read The Evening tor expert ever existed political freedom, which is the su-| "mob law," tom one sane and| World's news articles and editorials MOURNER OF DEMOCRACY, | preme boast of, ry and the just plea for a “sau _ We and then decide for himself whether ~ very thing the ate, must not forget The FE i World| he is right or wrong. a der Sunday, In short, not realize for this one forward step in behalf of} ‘Think before you act, “E. D."" Don't Tie Ereuing World how grave a matter is the disfran- | our race and justice, Let me say Ido| pe in haste to accomplish anything Commissioner of Internal Revenue | chisement. of many thousands of vo- | not uphold a man or men who com- | before considering it. Keep cool! Roper has issued a proclamation calling | ters, and that the é m of the As- mit crimes against society no matter!M, F. (A Brooklyn H. 8S. Student.) upon the clergy of the country to ob- | sembly was the very thing the radi- what his race, creed or nationality Brooklyn, Jan. 15, 1920 i LET a eae et aaa ae Ran tard aad Aes =e Prolong | Your Life Dr. George L. Meylan of Colum- bia University recently stated that most men of to-day are living ona plane of 40 or 50 per cent. physical efficiency. Dr. Royal 8. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York, asserted practically the same thing. The Evening World submitted their statements to a number of leading physicians of the country and asked their views as to rules of health and living essential to promoting ton- gevity. |By J.Madison Taylor, A.B., M.D {Professor of Physical Therapeutic and Dietetics, Medical Department, Temple University, Philadelphia. Copyright, 1920, by The Pres Publishing On (The New York Evening World,) On Survival Values. HE most valued possessiom should be a body which has cquired the power of doing the bidding of one’s will and permite the selfhood full opportunities tia | the appointed end. To acquire is ta |sain through effort, industry and care. The body is equipped with ale most limitless capabilities which only need to be made available and kept in order, which then should survive till far beyond the century mark, Ila jused bodies of any age can often be lbrought to an unbelievable stability, Tho procession of the years brings. one inevitably to a period of slow dea jcline Deterioration of comes s |about inexorably in due time, but iff |the structures be treated kindly there need be no marked deerepitude and jonly a serene subsidence of energies. | Human organisms vary much in theity jenergy content and survival valued, s0 that some are relatively old af, cells forty while others keep young sixty Moreover, this decadence si largely under control of the persone ality that while cells inevitably pure suc this biologic course, the action of cell groups can be defended, cncoure aged, and fortified by judicious con+ | duct, hence disintegration can bé ina definitely delayed ; | Life should be regarded as the most | agreeable of enter E | oeeee ecepilae | all its own. j Vigilane: Thus life may be looked upon as # |game, and, precisely as in sporty | the satisfactions of playing are larga or small in proportion as one pla; }fair, The distinguishing characteyi: tic of the Anglo-Saxon temperament jis a sporting impulse. But, while do« ling the uttermost to win, every re | source must be husbanded, trained for |the task, energies applied economically, and conditions as they arise be ace cepted with a serene fortitude, cheer+ fulness, courage, loyalty and, if nec sary, resignation, whatsoever befalls He wins who never yields to fear on carelessness. ‘The first essential of health is poisey |a balancing of forces from within of from without. The capability of self~ adjustment to each and every situa« tion is paramount, for thus and thus onty does one save and serve. The objective of living abundantly is ta maintain through variabilities a sta= ble equilibrium, The second is persistence in doings pursuing, achieving and hoping for better things, through good and evil report. The third is balanced conduct im proportions and qualities of foods, eriods, in all func y in ami motions. Bes ctions, of an ora pers tions, in feelings havior is the sum o nism under the control of a sonality. Any organism will survive an@ flourish longer while wearing out than while rusting out. No vitalized mechanism wears out before its ap= pointed time which remains in har= monious adjustment and avoids the poison of and bewilderment. Leap by all means, early and often, but look and deliberate before you, leap. [News Flashes | | From Around | |The World, Deaths From Auto Accidents, Automobiles killed 1,270 per- sons in New York State during the year 1919, according to the | annual report of the Nutionaf Highway Protective Society. The loss of life from automobile accidents in New York City woe | 783. Watches. | American | watehes in Japan is said to be far in excess of the supply. A Japanese concern recently placed Au demand Want for an order for $250,000 worth of | American watches, but the rep- resentative of the American house stated that he doubted if | more than $20,000 worth of this | order could be delivered eee U.S. Makes Dyes, That the United States witt soon be independent of foreign countries the matter of dye- stuffs, synthetic medicinals, op tical and window glass and other in commodities is indicated in the annual report of the Tarif Com mission, recently issued. Prior to the World War most of these goods were imported from Ger many and Austria but nuw America will be not only inde. | pendent of her former enemiva | dut of the world