The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 22

a Se ik a fan te i j HED BY JOSEPM PULITZER. pt Sunday by the Prees Pubitshing [Povusnea dary, ‘Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Park Row, New Yor , RALPH PULITZER, P t, 68 Park Row, Ears 63 Park Row. soaken PULITZ: 63 Fark Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED I'NESS. Tee aw ut also the local mews published jerein. WHY ? IX children were crushed to death yesterday is while trying to get out of a moving picture theatre in which the cry of fire had started a panic. The evidence goes to show that although the theatre may have had a sufficient number of exits, at least one of those exits was blocked. It was be- hind this door that could not be opened that the trampled bodies were found. The Catharine Street tragedy will start an im vestigation of moving picture theatres and a stricter enforcement of laws and regulations applying to them. We shall hear authorities insisting that theatre exits must be not only unlocked but unobstructed. We shall hear vigorous citings of the ordinance which forbids moving picture theatres to admit children under sixteen unless accompanied by an older person. The cruel part of it is that these laws have long been in existence Their proper enforcement would have prevented what happened in the Catharine Moving Picture Theatre. $ix children trampled to death in order that a great community may be reminded that its laws were made to be enforced and that prevention is better than prosecution! Why vigilance only AFTER lives have been strificed ? The Assembly of the League of Nations, which includes representatives of forty-one leading na- tions of the earth, is in session in Geneva to-day. This is the Versailles League of Nations which the President-elect of the United States has pro- nounced “deceased.” Can any sensible American still believe the living League is dead merely because Senator Harding has chosen to call it a corpse? INVEST THE INTEREST. PPROXIMATELY $70,000,000 of interest on Second Liberty bonds is due to-day. More than 10,000,000 persons subscribed for bonds when the loan was made, three ‘years ago. Since that time there has been a concentration of the bonds. Large holJers have bought at bargain rates, as small holders have sold at a loss. This is to be regretted. Many of the bonds were bought purely from patriotism, and the rise in prices which tas followed forced many to sell their equities with- out completing savings. In too many cases, however, the proceeds of the sale of bonds have been squandered. But to the fortunate who have held on the invest- ment is as good as the day on which it was made. The Second loan was the first really “popular” Wan, One person in ten subscribed, or more than twice as many as in the First loan. Many learned the lesson of saving and thrift from experience with the Liberties. These bonds were a good investment when issued. How much better the investment to-day, when the same bond can be purchased at a discount of nearly $15 on the $100 honds. At this price the bond yields nearly 5 per cent.— far better than savings bank interest—and a profit omus of the difference between buying price and face value when the bon.{ matures. Those who have interest coupons to cash to-lay will be wise to take them to the bank with instruc- tion to apply them on the purchase of another simi- lar bond, Most banks will gladly loan the balance for new/purchases of such excellent investments. OPERA. O-NIGHT New York's great house of opera on Broadway opens its doors for the seases of 1920-1921, For weeks past the public has had pi chocse from in the way of concerts and recitals. Put the city’s musical season is never fairly under way until the Metropolitan is alight, the big orches- tra from its vast pit under the footlights sends forth the overture, the yellow curtains part, and the min- gled enchantment of spectacle, immortal music and the heart-moving power of human voices that nature and art have made superhuman again weaves its Tich spell Worshippers of pure music that asks no aid from the eye can say what they like. There is no form of art that takes a finer, firmer grip on, the emotions of the average human being than opera, To assume a community that neglected opera for symphony concerts and chamber music had thereby proved itself the more deeply musical would be a mistake. Composers who were masters in the more aus- tere forms of music did not for that reason scorn opera, Beethoven himself wrote opera music. The greatest musicians have held that thelr art can com- bine with the art of the stage to produce results in which the power of both is heightened. We hope New York will never be found doubting &j oe Associated Prem ie exclusively entitled to the use for republication ews Geapatches credited to It oF not otherwise credited in this paver the purity of its musical taste este opera con- tinues to more than hold its own with concert music. The most musical city in the world—whichever one can establish claim to the title—could safely take pride in the popularity of the kind of opera to which Mr. Gatti-Casazza thinks New York entitled. THE SUGAR LOAN. LANS for the proposed Cuban loan have been revised,” the New York Commercial reports on the authority of “a director of a larve bank interested.” “According to the new pian, no public offering of securities will be made. It is proposed to form a committee to represent plantation owfters who are in need of funds to prepare for and carry them through the grinding season. Several banks here have manifested a willingness to loan funds for the coming sugar crop through the Committee on Ap- proved Credit or Collateral.” Such a plan is a decided improvement over the more formal loan. Under such an arrangement the extension of credit would be a business matter for the individual banks. ‘The Federal Reserve Board would be in position to enforce the same general rules it has laki down regarding restriction of the rediscount privilege of banks carrying too much paper for speculators and hoarders. These rules should be enforced. Credit for grinding the sugar crop is desirable. But the United States has suffered from too liberal credit, which enabled Cuban and American exploit- "ets to gouge in the sugar market. BOLSHEVISM'S TEST. | ATEST reports from the Crimea indicate an almost complete victory of Lerine’s Red Army over the White Army led by Baron Wrangel. Wrangel is reported to have taken refuge on a French battleship when hope of defending Sebas- topol failed. If these reports prove true, the Bolshevik mili- tary triumph will be well nigh complete. In which case Lenine and Trotzky are now facing their most serious struggle. | Defending Bolshevism on its own merits among the people of Russia will prove immensely more difficult than defending a Bolshevik Government from a succession of adventurous attacks led by individuals suspected of imperialistic or Czaristic designs. Abundant testimony as to the actual physical effects of Bolshevism has beenaprought out of Russia by observers who went into the country prepared to approve and sympathize with the revo- lutionary Government. \Bolshevism is a proved failure by every measure except that of self-defense. In time of war any Government has a powerful psychological aiivantage over its opponents. For more than two years the Bolsheviki have waged war against one force after another. On the other side most of the Governments of the world have by now either tired or become con- vinced of the futility of armed opposition to Bol- shevism in Russia. Lenine and Trotzky now face a long, hard winter, with no tangible threat of counter-revolution from without. They will be forced to defend Bolshevism from internal criticism. The severest test of Bolshevism impends. THE TAX ON SPi:}CUcATORS. (Chee: ECTOK EDWARDS bas ordered man- agers of theatres to preserve the stubs of tickets this week. The law requires that if the ticket is sold for more than the box-office price, the vender must write or stamp the p-tce received on the back of the ticket pay to the Government a half of the excess ch ..ge. | It is believed that this provision has been very generally disregarded in the past. Collector wards intemds to enforce the law more stringently in future and prosecute evaders. It will be interesting to observe what, if any, effect this may have on the prices exacted by specu- lators, many of whom are believed to have been | accustomed to turn over only 10 per cent. of the excess, even when they paid any tax at all, H If speculators pay a SO per cent. tax, their profits wil] be materially curtailed—unless they exact and receive even higher prices for tickets. On the other hand, the prices seem to have reached almost the limit which even the gay small- town vi Ss, who expect to be robbed, will pay. It is not impossible that strict enforcement of the 50 per cent. clause may even drive out of some of the worst of the gougers. business Dry Sleuths Raid Princeton Hotels Duriu, Football Game.---Headline. | The, intention being to delete the first two | eyllaSics of “hip-hip-hooray.” j TWICE OVERS. | 66 QELF-GOVERNMENT isa plant that grows.” | Stephen Gwynn, Member of Parliment | from Ireland. yeni | 66° HERE is no occasion for coal consumers pay- ing unreasonable prices for soft coal.” ~The Natiogal Coal Association. eta i | €6 JOR the time I amvery much more interested in the films than in the regular theatres.’ | | | grant us the use of your columns tof ' he E | sending for the st | When “] Think T Pe F cooled” T- | ete, Copyright. 1020 Co, By John Cassel | G WORLD READERS What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine qnental exercise and a lot vf satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief, Virtue in Disagreement. how many stockings they think they Coit editor of The Reval World can fill. All such communications or The "True American” who answered telephones should be addressed to Emma Durivent in The ning Miss Helen Givin, who will have gen- wid of Nov. 11, 1920, evidently ix a, CP! charge of the work, ali people BAILEY ¢B. BURRITT. sorshead, es he thinks that ell. veople! General Diraston: New Yorke Ageoclar who voted for Harding and helped to tion for Improving the Condition give him the greatest popular vote) of the Poor ever given nan running for Presi- dent of » United States consisted ‘eauplee-d mans, pro-Italians, pro- , and everything but pro- ‘States, Also he says that they) | been following mongrels biting the hand that| criticisms about women's dress, 1 1 will say that most peo-| think it would be much better if he y are not for Woodrow Wilson | and many others like him would take | t and all the time are just as| just half the time they have taken| jcans as those who are.{ looking wbout to criticise the fashions Further, it is a good thing that all|/of women, Just take a few glances people not of the same mind or| along Broadway or any street and the political parties would make @/ notice some of thetr own sex (men). | ‘ater mess of the business of run-| With corset effect sults, spats, ng the Government than It is at; waxed mustaches, hats with feathers present, and a true American should| stuck in the bands, wrist watches, have better judgment than 'o make] shaped eyebrows and ny other such statements. things, I have seen these things my- | Thet is why half the girls dress} | Dy tte Buitor of ‘Phe E lave Dr Eliot's | were feeds 1h PRO-AMERICAN sanip man 12, MISS M. T. Nov, 18, 1920. Hempstead, N. Y., Nov 19%. ho West 101th Street ing Plan, World to ask you that you{ The Rea we Falitor of pin Again we cor An Odtoax Comparison announce to your readers the Christ-) 1 hive mas Red Stocking Campaign as plan-| ott’s letter ¢ by the nurses and visitors of the | New York Association for Improving | oy the Condit nor, We do it this know that a great many p are waiting to help us tn this are anxious to do heir shoppit filling of these) stockings at an early date, Briefly, the plan is this C.D. wilt send to any ind attached to ame and age whom it ts event ist read Frank B. Gigli- ntitled? "Five Glasses of t tident that he 1 h the toad ALCH a com. T hope that that degene unple of ou {talians, oF at ver honest citizens of His comparison is A BUSINE New York, Nov, 18, 1920. parison! hard-working, United States. ling $38 GIRL, The A. I ne by mail 1 stock iD wii be the first | in Veainiog. mt World | 1 enrolled in the milita was absent once from ta letter telling me appear the Summary Court Still there are in a poolroom 1 used to know bunches of fellows who never even registered for military duty. Why doesn’t the law suminon them? M. | Ia ing and armory y tr and a Pkings lation’s messenger boys or airis, A, these st to the ass post or aither e | returned ¥ pared sociation will send for them if abso- lutely necessary, though we found last year that this involved consider- able messenger service and conse. ; uent expense . "Once these stockings are returned} Brooklyn, Nov. 18 to the A. 1. C. P. offices, the and nurses of the assoclation will see that they are all delivered before Christmas Day to the ren for whom they are filled children cre the boys and girls of widows and of sick and disabled parents who are r the care of the A. I. C ‘ Armistice Day. ne Ratitor of The Ryening World Your fitting and timely editorial on Armistice Day brings foreibly to our! minds the purpose for which so many young Americans had given their| lune P.| lives should be fulfilled as far as it urses and visitors: "hat is they are |lay In the power of the United States | all known to them ‘adividnally. They | to. fulfil it ire anxious that no one of thesechil-| ‘It is in the power of the tinitaal| | dren be forgotten or neglected at the| states, who will eventually take the | Christinaa season, and this means| place of chief guardian because of at they are hoping that at least | her characteristic broad vision and 5,000 stockings will be sent for ana] high aim it is in her power to stay returnpd ready for distribution the hand of the foreign and alien Any one wishing to help in this spe-!iaggressor who to-day is ruthlessly cial Christmas work should write to devastating Ireland and morcilessly tr tor the A. LC. PB. 105 St 22d Street, or telephone Gramercy 7040, telling) {enseless, aged women and chil UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Jokn Blake) THE DEAD LINE FOR THE ATHLETE. Recently’ a well-known New York man, in apparently good health, boxed a few rounds in his athletic club, lay down in the rubbing room and died. over trying to be should undertake violent phy enty—and with its added knowledge gains added efficiency. But the bodily tissues are past their prime at forty, and athletes, ical exercise. He was fifty years old, an age when men should give Indeed, after forty no man The brain continues to function at forty and up to sev- to overtax them by boxing, tennis and other forms of too active exercise is merely to invite disaster. your If you want to be In ‘age all the energy brain an athlete, be one in youth, you can muster ought to go to , and aside from golf or walking, or some form Of exercina calculated to keep your pores open and your blood in circulation, you dught to, devote y thought. The late Theodore r efforts to Roosevelt, a man who slowly and painfully in youth had built up a splendid physique, be- lieved that he could continue after fifty to do the things he ors of daily did when thirty. But strong as he was, hé was unable to endure the rig- hard exercise, and when to this he added ex- ploration in jungle countries, where a man had to live by sheer strength, There is plenty of exercise that men fond of it can take after they Any athletic instructor will tell you what to do, which you live, he was doomed, are forty. and how much you can endure. But although you may hate to admit it, the and upon whose smooth running machine in condition your life depends, begins to deteriorate slowly after you are forty. It will no longer stand the violence of boxing or tennis, or running or jumping stand the sudden rushes of blood that are rapidly moving muscles, night and day, Your heart, will not accept the added strain you upon it. Deo your violent physical exercise in youth, if you must do it at all, cise, can do the things you used to do and rey In middle age and devote your surplus energy to mental effort. think without overtaxing your heart, but keep yourself in condition by mild exer You you cannot n long on this planet. Your arteries harden and will not necessary to feed weary of forty years of continual pumping, put EI EE EET ITE and who for 750 Irish the God gt Our minds with the business of electing « Executive. Let us then hasten to the aid of that struggling nation which 1 ates that | was our invaluable and stanch friend American, but am a when we were opr seed by that same a “mongrel.” tyrant M c mud elinging never Middletown, N Y., Nov. U1, 1920. gets one anywhere, "Proof the |p pudding is in the "and this “Proot of the Padding.” person cannot deny thas plenty of To che Walitor of The Rvening World proof was given at “went elec Iv your paper of Feb, 11 you print, 1)? All the world loves a good loser, but | a letter slaying the [rish, not sparing the de- | Patty who signs it dren, | oan.” My ancestors fought years has denied the | Revolutionary right of liberty no longer Mexican ure purporting to come from a “A True meri- the } detests a poor los and in his view of Wilson and ery-baby CHARLES MOORE. New York City, Nov, 1% 1920, civil STARTED By Appleton Street Copyright, 1920, by the Pres Puibiidhieg Co) (The New York Brening Workt.) No. 5—Henry P. Davison. HEN he was a young man in his teens, just striking out for himself, Henry P. Dav son had a choice of two jobs, One was clerk in a grocery store i@ Bridgeport, Conn.; the other was iunner for the local bank. The bani job was little more than that of of fice boy and offered less money tham the clerkship, but the young mam bad taken @ fancy to banking. He, wanted to get into it, Here was # chance—a lowly one, to be sure; at the bottom” of the chance, nevertheless, And he ‘oole Start in as runner, Davigon learned the rudiments of ac- counting and soon was made book- keeper, and from that was promoted to the receiving teller’s But the bank was @ small one, Bridgeport was 4 small city, and Davison’s ambi soared much higher. One day a read a newspaper item repo: opening of a how bank im aioe Place, New Yurk. He got on the train, and arriving in New York made a. bee line for the new bank. He ap- plied for a tellership there, was turned down; came back next day, and was again told that there wae no opening; but on his applying the fol- lowing day a third time, his persiate ence Was rewaned, and he was taken \ on as receiving teller, Six months leter he was advanced to the more important post of paying teller. Not long after the young teller was submitted to a striking test of his nerve and resouivofulness, In a dull moment of the day, when there were few people in the bank, a man pret sented a check at Davison's window’ for payment. It called for $1,000 drawn “to the order of Almighty God." Glancing up, the young teller found himself looking into the muzzle of @ revolver and behind it the queer, steely eyes of a madman. Instead of crying out to the bank detectives, or attempting to pull hig own revolver, Davison simply read the check aloud, raising his voice a little so that his associates in the bank would hear it and then calmly started counting ot the money. While he was doing thi! the bank officers had time to comé& |up behind and overpower the crazy man before he could do any harm. That Incident got into the newspa- pers and attracted the attention of @ director of the Liberty National Bank, As a result young Davison was | offered a place as assistant cashier in fhe Liberty National. Inside of a year the new assistant had been made cashier; in three years he was a, Vice President, and the next year h® was made Prewident. He was just thirty- two years old at the time. vas thirty-five Davison went with the Firs: tional Bank of New York as Vice President and right- hand man to Vrestdent George F. | Baker. Then in 1908, when he. wae | just beyond his fortieth birthday, the elder Mr. Morgan asked Davison to stop in at his library one afternoon. It almost took the young bankers breath away when the veteran finan- cier announced that he had selected Davison to be one of his partners, a ‘tions Opera Stories at a Glance oer ery rita ‘New Yorn rniag Worst VERDI'S “RIGOLETTO.” Rigoletto, the hunch-backed jester attached to the entourage of tl Duke of Mantua, has aided hts in many amatory escapades, and is absolutely unscrupulous. He has love alone for his beautiful daughter, Gilda, whom he keeps at home ip strict seclusion He hag cautioned her never to go out, and she tells him that she never leaves the house, ex- cept to go to church, But Gilda neglects to tell her father that on eeveral occasions @ youth has followed her from churoh and that his image has become fimmly installed in her heart. She ts in the garden, singing “i long to eay Age tells her that he ig a student, name Walter Matde, and as she listens to his rapturous words, aie realizes that this student, the who had followed her, has a real, passionate love in her breast, He leaves her shortly, for footsteps are heard, fbut his meer, ib with the ‘girl, and she thinks of nothing else except her mysterious gallant lover. But the student is none other than the Duke of Mantua in dis- guise, Gilda is kidnapped and brought to the Duke's palace by nobles, who wish to even ecores with the gibing Rigoletto, and think that the me s his inamorata. The Duke Gilda’s home, and finding her Em: disconsolate, for he knows that charms have enraptured him, his grief changes to joy mien Be | finds that she {s in his palace, jhe hastens thither “to console hi | Rigoletto knows also that s) the Duke's pal and as he |to the chambers, enemies nearly overwhelm him. suddenly emerges from the root rushes to his arms, Her | despair tells him the truth, and with y head on his shoulder, she rélates the story of her love for student,” Rigoletto vows vengeance on ™ | Duke, but Gilda, stil! overcome | the fires of love, pleads for him, | “1 dare not say how much TI love him,” she soba Finally, despairing of his daughter, » who still loves her betrayer, Rigo- lotto takes her to an {nn to prove to her the Duke's faithfessness, He comes in the Kanb of a soldier, sing- lo is woman fair,” and orde ine. Soon she realizes that he ts untrue to all women, Rigo |letto mutters vengeance and hires @ 1 to Kill the Duke at midnight. the Duke's latest sweet- is with the assassin to his life. He finally agrees that y other man comes before the dalen; appoluted hour, he shall be the vie tim A figure in male attire comes through the darkness, ‘The assassins! mer strikes, And to the ground lis Gilda, who had been drawn aa if by a magnet to the spot where she knew ber beloved would egpean / ¥, . | \ x ' | |