The evening world. Newspaper, November 30, 1920, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITSER. Pudlianes Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing ny, Now, 53 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Ro J. ANGUS BIAW, Treasurer. 63 Park 1 SOREPH PULITZER, Ir. Beerete MAMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Amoctated Je exctusively entitled to the as for republication of Bll wows deapatches to It OF not otherwise credited in this paper nd Glso the local news published herein, nc NEW DIPLOMACY WORKING UROPEAN correspondents of American hews- papers are in general agreement that England . and France will not take active steps to prevent the return of Constantine to Greece or to interfere with the result of the plebiscite next Sunday. One reason for this is Italy's common-sense re- fusal to have anything to do with such a course. Another reason, it is fair to assume, is the strength of the movement for the “new diplomacy” and for “gelf<determination of small nations.” The more | Wberal elements of the press and of public opinion all over the world have spoken in no uncertain A third factor is the virility displayed in the ses- sions of the League of Nations Council and Assom- ‘bly Chambers. Xt was pérfectly natural that the old-style dipto- mats should run true to form and bluster and shake sword. Itis reassuring that the threat dies out "te the echoes of thunder. "The British ‘and French Foreign Offices are sav- _ tng their faces by threatening a revision of the Turk- | ish Peace Treaty, but the League of Nations may 1 have something to say in regard to revision which ‘és unfair to a self-determining Greece. The rest of the world may have small respect for _ ; the intelligence of Greece, which prefers a Cone og Tey stantine to a Venizelos, but it seems to have an in- | greasing respect for the right of Greece to be gotten that food exists, for her. apple pie? “Uncle Joe”? to her will? DR. MANNING DEFENDS SUNDAY. N HIS sermon last Sunday, the Rev. William Manning, rector of Trinity Church, said: @ “I am far, indeed, from supporting or in- dorsing the campaign for stricter Sunday Jaws and a return to the Puritan observance of the day, That campaign, if the an- nouncements are correct, ts one of those well-meant efforts which do hgrm to the cause they mean to support. The movement {8 narrow and impractical. Such a method would do more tp drive religion owt of the hearts of the people than into them,” - Coming from one of the most distinguished and broad-minded churchmen in the largest city of the United States, this view of the proposal to impose a Blue Law Sunday upon the counfry should carry weight jn all rellgious circles. , ' No one will accuse Dr. Manning of being in league with lawless Sabbath-breakers, No one will charge him with selfish or sordid designs to undermine the | fooiish, provided: the foolishness does not injure the _ neighbors. It is now in order for Mr. Brindetl to explain that the 1,000 “berries” he collected were merely ‘s “bonus.” ’ NOT ALL “CAPITALISTIC.” CORRESPONDENT takes The Evening World to task becaus¢ an editorial note ap- ooulhady recent letter “deprecates the fruits of as applied.” Because of this the critic concludes that The Eve- ning World is “‘capitalistically -inclined.”” 7 “Otherwise why take the word of a few “ty people who ere paid to write articles by “tt must be admitted that many of the early re- ports of Russian affairs were hopelessly false and ‘misinformative.. Many were cabled merely as The Associated Press, whatever its faults, twas by no means the worst offender in the case. | Most of the early news of Russia was ganda, for oragainst, There was good reason in s en ee aa he eat dae, of Russia. There still is, for that matter. 7 oy it is fortunate that America need nd longer pend on the “capitalistically inclined” reports 1 from sia. Spokesmen and investigators of the ‘radi- : taal groups of England, France and Italy have gone | ‘to Ressia and returned with reports for their coun- — | Bertrand Russe] and H. G. Wells hive made*such Neither can be said to have. capitalistic Both have agreed substantially with many of the more moderate and judicious writers of opposite bias. . French and Italian Socialists returned similarly wMisiliusioned. The result has been the creation of weil-founded European antipathy to the spread of Bolshevism. The time has passed when well-informed Ameri- strength of Christian teachings and practices. Dr. Manning of Trinity is neither a theatre pro- prietor nor a baseball magnate. When he opposes stricter Sundayaws he is not an agitator but a defender, and his defense assuredly has nothing to do with the interest of his own or anybody else’s pocket. It is as an intelligent, earnesi worker for the church itself that Dr. Manning declares against any fanatical meddling with Sunday freedom. “Wepecially,” he urges, “let us avoid mak- ing the day ono of gloomy restraint, partic- ularly for children and the young, “We should encourage wholesome games and sports, and I have thought it would be & good thing for the clergy to take part in them. I used to make it a practice to go to the Sunday afternoon baseball games, and I never felt that my worship at other hours was any worse for it, We have got to de- =.elde by our consciences, and the church * leaves us to'do it 50.” This sane view represents the degree of progress and liberalism to which we hope a majority of the people of the United States, including churchgoers, have attained. ———— Judge Landis, bent on house cleaning in base- ball, Wants the fans to aid by abstaining from bets on games, If there is no gambling there will be no money with which crooked gamblers can cor- rupt players. Judge Landis has hit on an excellent line of procedure if he can impress on the fans their own sharg in the debauching of the ganie, There maybe no harm in a friendly bet, but mapy small bets amount to huge sums and pro- .Yide an incentive to the crooks. “SLOW PAY” OR “EASY MARK"? ae advocates of or apologists for Bolshevism may \ ESTIMONY of the first witness called In the dispute ‘‘capitalistic’” propaganda on the ground that ) itis “alla ie.” President Menocal has extended the Cuban’ ‘moratorium to the end of the year. Cuban ~ 4 banks are unable to liquidate. Prospective "tourists are informed that Cuban bars have no such difficulti p “LET ALICE-DO IT.” ' “A LICE ROBERTSON of Oklahoma has been : elected to Congress. “A Alice Robertson was elected while she was }¥o- ess of a cafeteria in her home town. i's Now, be it known, for years the House of Repre- Ae dor; food and service at reasonable prices in the ‘House dining-rooms. In fact, homespun Solons jhave been known to arise on the floor of the House and suggest that there must be profiteering some- ‘where, that the cost of a portion ‘of succotash was far greater than the farmer received for his comm beans. Such suggestions were made even before “profi- tee ‘Decame a word second only in popularity to ¢ first personal pronoun, ne Now the suggestion is, ‘‘Let Alice do it,” meaning o the Representatives favor Miss Robertson as a z tee of Oné on the Congressional com- ys But wouldn't this be revolutionary? It would more In accord with precedent to install a com- “sentatives has had difficulty in arranging satisfac- | tracts was as follows: per cent, interest, witli a bonus of $25,000. as high as among the banks of his own town, the old gentleman's full credit, =~ Do his home banks rate him as “slow pay” or only as an “easy mark"? TWICE OVERS HE Police Hospital is ‘@ matler in which Commissioner Enright is persdnally in- terested,” —Acting Police Commissioner Leach. * * * “cc Y dpa country looks with suspicion upon any appointment President Wilson may make.” The Republican Publicity Association. * * “e Pi hha evidence is accumulatingto grovd {hat the opening of foreign markets is the real he, fo the solution of our present, economic ills.” Gray Sileer of American Farm Bureau Federation. Xo mittee of five confirmed dyspeptics who have for- Another danger inypends frony such 4 course: It has been asserted that Miss Robertson won because of the occupational appeal of her business in Okla- homa. She “fed the brutes\and the brutes voted With Miss Robertson in charge of the Congres- sional kitchen, would there not be danger that she night undermine the Constitution and the preroga- tives of seniority with fried chicken, corn pone and {f Congress “lets Alice do it” is she not likely ta erect a “kitchen oligarchy” or a “cafeteria cabal” that will put to shame the feeble efforts of the late Czar Reed and the Sprightly though dethroned Will she not “feed the brutes” and so bend them | Phaser aan tee From Evening World Readers Bive Laws and the Statue. To thy Editor of The Now that Prohibition is constita- " He could have yepted the legacy ‘ i ti c Hue Li 1) unde Lebo a bk Y e onal and the Blue Law well und “land done work with ft which would % May not be right, but it is a have furthered his {deals in 2 much atres are really forming the taste of the Children CHALE SCHLAM. |$ than they do from the family songbook. way, let us sefd the Statue of Liberty hack and have France give us cre Cedarhurst, Long Island, N. Y, To the Editor of The Even: It is said that Pro! possible only by the fraction of that Intelligence and fore- sight commonly attributed to it, they will at oncd cal! a halt to this con- templated preposterous moral drive?! These cleemosynary and grafters are slowly: but ¢ the workifig people of this country) Aftcr [ am well it will be at least Lenine more use! ant panhandlers T suppose I People will stand f profiteerin f Board of Estimate’s Investigation of city con-.| enjoyment of their religious, civic and personal freedom. + Keep the Masedm Open, It therefore behoow The contracting firm of Terry & Tench wanted | keep an eye on th to borrow $759,000 to finance its contract with the city for the building of six piers on Staten Island, The Hudson Trust Company asked a $50,000 bonus over and above interest on the proposed loan, alleg- ing that the city is “slow pay.” The contracting firm finally borrowed the money in Buffalo at 10 altogether in their efforts to their pay. Let these pussyfoot member the fell goose that laid ty ; and fet them see what their infinitesimal tambere fan do imalded campaign for funds to keep the mu- New York, Nov In the Name of Co As an Lrishman, a Nation a Catholic let me volee my net such d sted by my ¢ eine of Thanksgiving Day Dr, Bowlby, It would appear from this that Father Knicker- bocker’s rating in Buffalo is somewhere about twice Obviously a contract of this nature is backed by is surely thine for thinking Irish+| Day Alliance, says that to Be “loyal nen to acknowledge that sich taetics | Amencana must obey the forth unworthy of the cause for whieh | coming blue laws suppressing all Fee cemiibivsaneater'| y sughout the blish -if not friendly At least 1 wonder atic relations with Bhgian. | how much tonger loyal Americans are | vithout survenderin our pemeiples | 1 am sure the afte “Stop, Look and Charles Garland thinks he has accom: lished ‘by refusing the million-dol- | tess Me lomaey’ anothe! I think, as you say, tainly is @ case of ¢ somewhat tnbalanced gocial con | aclousness. | “the million will \\ cho: Ww hat kind of letter do you find most reMduble?, Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a coupte of hugdved? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of, satisfaction in trying to say much in « few words, Tuke time to be brief. + # some distant relatives, who will prob- ably call Mr Garland a fool and thank thelr lucky 8 eaing World CHARLES A, KOPHLER. Mr. Garland, stop, look and recon- | Now York, Nov, , 1920, | [aie way. \e Alding Bolshevinm, | ~ Wort a0 ‘or of The Evening World: »ition was made a of “Big Bus\- Busigess has a t the Garland boys refusing for- | |punes, L cannot imagine any person efusing a fortune when money is so hard to get. 4, for one, have been sick in bed | for months and have not even! ngelistic | ng enough to buy myself a warm y driving kimono. Now, if Big | six ov eight months before I am able 1 agents in this Messrs. Wheeler, Anderson, and the rest of these intol- and housed, I will re to go to New n Jersey, nh be thankful that I v York, a great deal, ain not starvin, forms “ot | refusing fortunes. alone In the | Jersey City, Nov. 28, 1920. ss Business to| To the kaitor of The Eveuing Workd: HOR pill the, beans 1. wish to congratulate or realy thank you for your editorial, which a re w who Killed the) Aright," in which you back up the densexes and) Metropolitan Museum of Art in its PRO I seum open. | All voor statements are true, and I think th should contribute ' * museum open, BM. frookivn, Nov, #4, 1920. ‘To the Outer Darkm T the EAlitor of The Evening Wark: tary of the Lord's aceful scenes ud} wntryinen ob the math will pe af j fanatical cranks afflicted with a }cuty olution of a very difficult: pro: ana tice a et | [are VBRITAS, | mania for interfering with the rights |, he ter ln of President Wilson to de New York, Nov. 26, 1920. and liberties of others, , nsider.’? itor of The Krening World ue of Nov. 24 your article mes of the Million’ P He days twiddling ou the Anti'Saloon L way the coerce know what Mr. tives, and with the f instruc oleas representa- sine representa- tives already worrled over the prog- erdeveloped and | axsociates, by adopting Ant!-Saloon methods, to stccecd in the ne acted In an inconsistent | with the 11,000,000 loyal America era in th UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1920, by John Blake DON’T MISTAKE INDECENCY FOR ART. More people go to the movies than to the schools, rs for the fact. More people go to the theatres than to the churches. » movies and the the- American people. * from the nrusical comedies And this does not harm their morals, for most of the sony hits contain highly Weulantttetuse: altruistic sentiments, But in both movie and spoken theatrie productions ® been interested In reading there has been of late a tendency to import front Europe the worst sort of plays and to write equally vicious imita- tions of them here in America. To make matters worse, thege productions are paraded as art, and people who ought to know better throng to see them and diseuss them as reverently as if they were works of lofty genius, As a matter of cold fact three-quarters of the so- highbrow plays and their movie echoes are merely undis- Trotaky could have no! to go to work, and while all that] } &Uised indecency, The worst vi to American audie ‘\be allowed to bring in a es of Europe are dran ces as dramas of real life. When such plays succeed they do so because of the ap- but imagine people} § pegl of indecency and for no other re ason. tized, and offered a A few years ago such plays would have called out the ‘police. y they bring out increasingly large audiences apd are made the subject of learned discussion by men and women whose education has somehow or other gone awry. There is as much reason for police interference in the has the name of “If They Value It theatre to-day as there was when some pf the plays in which Miss Olga Nethersole took part were forbidden, more reason for their suppression than there was for that of a Shaw play which was meant to show the futility and trag- fay of vice. Yet they still flourish and’ bring rich rewards to the producers, one comforting thing about the whole business, That is that the plays which draw the biggest crowds are the clean plays—which are written merely to in struct and entertain, and which picture wholesome ters living the wholesome existence that makes America the best of all the countries in the world. cover from its state of mental aberra- von, see matters ina traer Hight, and | Sun occupied in doling its | the world as exempiified in| and we shail spend our | jfowe, soing to submit to the dictation of | be fon busily American people shouid awake | assert their rights more than meddlers by perpotual| blooded American? can people no backbone? is no doubt whatever but|uinck of their. trousers and deposit| going to stand that we will scon be’ spending Sun-|them firmly and not, too gently in} thumbs, for with | suter darkness. ague to blaze the | DISGUSTED BUT STILL LOYAL, on in| West gad Street, Nov. 29, 1920, Have the Ameri. | see their personal “rhere must be some way in which up against this outrageous imposi- tion on the rights of a free people. the movement, as stated {n | To the ¥aitor of The Brening World one BIQCDEn. er news article, tt will be an| ‘Thanks for your editorial on the : that. this cer- | casy matter for Dr, Bowlby and his |rcrd's Ray Alliance, hike Give us more the American people Interest on the Interest.’ id or to add another pernicious |to be Tae In fact, I think he is paying a hieh amendment to the Constitution, Our great’and glorious country is price for a little newspaper notorlety,! But as a native born American and |jthe land of freedom, if he really meant \f from his! war veteran, 1 still have faith that, |serve thin freedom. We must not allow fanattoal or- ve late election to set the jganimations to take our personal lib- probably go to | exampte, the country will soon re-/erty from us. They shall-not inform Brooklyn, Noy, 26, 1920, It T allow the interest op my Lib- *lerty bond to accumulate yntil it ma- Will I lose it or will the inter- est be paid with the principal? EDWIN SIMPSON., aerate eis ott ots eis ak) al sah ai A tnintbtrhhirihintie ' The World's \ Oldest ° Love Stories,. By Maubert St. Georges Com a-ha an ULYSSES AND PENELOPE, W's Ulysses, the son of Laértes, king of Ithaca, was travelling throdgh Greece, he came at one time to the court of |Icarius, King gt Sparta. He saw | there and fell in love with Penelope, tne. King’s ‘daughter, Penelope, a / beautiful maid and the daughter of ;a powerful king, had countjéese |Sultors, but Icarius, her father, de« | Sired to Keep her beside him and te« {fused for a long time to considér of them. But Penelope reciprocated ieee love of Ulysses, and having learned from him that he excelled in |foot racing she cajoled her Yather into promising her band to whoever would win # foot race, Ulysses Bping the successful competitor, Penelope e to follow him in spite of her father's attempts to persuade ‘her to vemain, On thelr return, to Ithaca Laertes jabdicated in their fi and fon a year they ruled in contentment, thelr happiness seeming perfect with the birth of their son, Telernachus,, Then: | troubles cume, The Greeks declared | war on Troy and called on Ulysses to [Join them, He did his utmost to (evade them, feigning madness; but, being discovered, Was eventually forced to go, For ten years Ulysses took part in |the siege of Troy, his Craft, cunning and eloquence being among the main | causes of that city's downtull. At the lconclusion of the siege he set out to {return home, but for twenty years | was forced to wander from place 'to place according to the whims of the gods, his adventures being the theme of Homer's faumus “Odyssey” (from Odysseus, the Gteek name of Ulysses). Finally, however, he landed in Ithaca, but did not at once make himsett known, preferring to spy out thii in the guise of an old beggar. He found ‘that practical! iy, from the | moment of the fall of Troy*hig wife, *| Penelope, had been the centre of un- jwelcome attentions from a host of Jeultors who claimed that UY must surely be. dead, Penelope had held them off as long as possible, and then, when further hope seemed !m~- | possible, she had pretended to give in. She was at that time making a robe for her father-in-law, Laertes, Sie promised to give her hand to one of — the suitors when she should ha ompleted it. ‘The suitors, some driven by love, some by ambition, but all knowing that to force things would be to-in- vite disaster, all agreed, It was only a trick on the part of Penelope how- over, for she, newer giving up hope jof Ulyssd, undid every night’ the work she had done the previous day: At length the suitors, wondering:at this slow progress of the garment, | bribed one of Penelope's attend- nts and discovered the sere seemed as if Penelope must now sup render herself. At this juncture, however, Ulysses returned to iMhaca Making himself known to hte olf nurse he, through her, persuaded / Fenelope to announce that she would wed whoever would bend "the bow of | Ulysses and send an arrow through ut n tar, This 46 ATA the coming st and who wo |hoped when his tuen to shoot find himeelf thus armed and fw unarmed men, Then he revealed b elf to his son Telemachus, {grown to manhood, but. unable |withstand the suitors alone. Him 1 the only servant gpuld le to hide all the Weapons e except suMcient to drm feast came, UWlysied in the guise of an eld beggar was. aly \lowed to attend, and they threw,.blm ¢ |scraps from the tab At length | when they had fin y shouted for the bow. ‘'Telemachus hhtiselt | brought it to them. One by on® they |attempted to bend it, arMone by one failed, till at last all had tried, Tele- | machus would not take his turn, but | spoke in favor of the beggar when he sked to be allowed to try. @With eers and laughter they handed, It |to him. Playing with It fondly: fan | moment, he suddenly and wil} | appa effort sent an af through the rings and into the tary While suitors gaped at him i stonishinent, ‘Telemachus quickly pons, closed the doors and ranged them before The latter then made him- leelf known, and while Telemachus jand his companion kept the f stricken men away, he shot them down one by one Having thus avenged himself sum- |matily, Ulysses found himself aft Jal his wanderings, at last reunites to his beloved wife, and in her coi pany ruled bis kingdom of Ithaca | eace and happiness, _ ANSWERS TO QUERIES) \ ) Where was Franconl's Hippodrigpeg 8. C, It was built by a syndicate of ofant | American showmen, Including Agere ‘Smith, Richard Sands and Set B, as # permanent home Roman circus and chariot races late! made popular by, P. T. Barnum an |his associates. It was where thi ifth Avenue Hotel Jater (in. 1865; stood, ob the site now occupled b: the Pifth Avenue Building, northwest corner of 23d Street and Fifth Avea nue, New York City. Pefore itsiexe istence there was located on the sliq u famous rondhouse called the Madis son Cottage, kept by Corpl. Thomp- son, which was very popular wit! |horsemen. ‘The building (Francont's} was of brick, two stories high and 706 feet in circumference, There was, a |rodf over the auditorium only,s tha, arena in the centre being uncoveredy ‘The opening.-on May 2, 1853, wad brilliant event, with about four thou sand people in attendance, mi whom had paid exorbitant riod tor fo their tickets, Despite the aus beginning Jt was in high favor nly, and then gave te \ | remem,