The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1920, Page 30

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Rudlished Daily Hxcept Sunday by the Preas Publishing ! Company, Nos. 53 to G3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITHER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Tow. @OBEPH PULITZER, J: ark Row. jocretar. G3 a eis assdaaten Pre Ph et rieberonin rah ese ter repaviication «= S101 to the traditions of a passing gerieration. But Tt alt owe Gewpatchen credited to tt or not otherwise credited ta tats verer (Ne challenge to Barnum falls flat. Barnum was $ he Sak ates the tomas meee pattigned barvin right. The people want to be fooled. Il is only B : because tle freak has ceased to be a source of won- 3 ; POLITICS VS. ECONOMICS. derment that it faces eclipse. BY ENATOR WADSWORTH forecasts a revision 1 i ‘ of income tax exemptions. TIME. TO FIND OUT. Pt Senator Moses advises 4 “billion-dollar tarith” Both the proposals are typically political rather than economic. Each tends to prove that the Old Guard “never learns anything and never forgets anything.” Increasing the income exemptions of bachelors and married men decreases the number of taxpay- ers. It also decreases the revenue. And in the pres- ént state of national finance the lost revenue must be replaced with other taxes. The two leading pro- posals are a sales tax and higher tariff. In either case the taxpayer of moderate income pays his full share of the tax in the form of higher prices, The tax is shifted to the consumer, but it ™ “is not so immediately evident as in the case of the * income tax. This is the reason the politicians favor the less direct taxation rather than the income tax. Poli- ticians had rather have the consumer taxed more, ‘but a little at a time rather than in a lump sum. “Politicians know that when the income tax is paid **all at once the taxpayer is more likely to scrutinize _.Government expenditure than when he pays pen- nies. He wants to kpow what he gets for his money. } It is notable that vigorous demand for a budget has made itself evident only since the income tax became general. Politicians do not like the income tax because the taxpayers immediately become critical of Govern- ~ ment efficiency when the tax makes itself felt. Pol- iticians do not favor too close a supervision of Gov- ernment by the taxpayers, because this supervision interferes with the distribution of patronage, pork cand pie. ‘ A lifting of income tax burdens from the lower «brackets of taxpayers is good politics, “It is bad economics. Public ,opinion cannot mobilize too quickly nor too strongly if an Old Guard revision a q » of the tax system is to be prevented. | t ? i mi atic The Lord's Day Alliance of the United States says “the great majority of Senators and Rep- resentatives in the State and National Legis- latures mind.” If we are not mistaken, it was a majority -* , of Senators and Representatives in State and National Legislatures who jammed the Eigh- teenth Amendment imto the Federal Constitu- tion at the bidding of the Anti-Saloon League. are — in morals and incapable im t. ‘Will the Anti-Saloon League agree with the 4 Lord’s Day Alliance about that legislative i majority “weak in morals and Incapable In ii. wind”? a A WHITE-COLLAR UNION? eA: “pes for the organization and unionization of a office-workers are under way under the au- . spices of the American Federation of Labor. Judging from recent discussion of the subject in the forum columns of this page, the organizers will meet with both support and opposition, There is no denying that the last few years have been a period of hardship for offi¢e-workers. The " white collar has become almost a badge of servitude. The “New Poor” have borné the brunt of the Cost of Living struggle. Discontent is strong. These ‘factors will assist. the organizers, On the other hand, there is no denying that office- workers as a class look on their relationship to the management from a decidedly different angle from the manual worker. Success of the.“uplift maga- zines” in recent years is a striking evidence of this feeling. Ambition accounts for this attitude. There are many other factors which the organ- izers will find, but success or failure probably will turn on the relative strength of discontent and ambi- tion. The effort will be interesting to observ 6 BARNUM STILL RIGHT. T, BARNUM'S philosophy has been chal- Be lenged. © Word has gone out from Chicago that the ott “freaks of the show world are to be banished from county and State fairs this year, The youth of the future will have to come to the city if he hopes to_make the acquaintance of the “tettooed man, the dwarf and giant families, the tearded lady and the charming young thing who “eats 'em alive.” _ . Uplift has invaded the rural districis, Culture. is atapremium. If the public is to be fooled it must “de by the genteel wikicat stock salesman and not “by the guardian of the ‘What Is It?” .. This development is not surprising, The tele- + hone, the rural free delivery, the automobile and, |. offinally, the motion picture have changed the people “of the United States. These developments sounded death knell of the freak. upon a the freak show was truly in- bcc bins diad | ft was ah “eye-opene! serted, more complicaied marvels movies. Por years freaks have have been re as portrayed by | EGARDING the 14 per electric current which three big } | Alfred Bafrett serenely says: H “There was nothing secret about the fact that this tariff was filed. public record, and anybody who investigates the records of tHe Public Service Commission, as certain public officials have done in the past, could have found out all they desired with regard to {t.” For what purpose, Commissions created ? It is @ matter of then, plans for putting up rates, with thé assurance that | unless some one happened to ask? Law jurisdiction— ae, Haye the general supervision of all per- sons and corporations having authority under any general or special law, or under any charter or franchise, to lay down, erect or maintain wires, pipes, conduits,. ducta other fixtures in, over or under the streets, or highways and public places of any munici- pality for the purpose bf furnishing or distributing tlrnisbing gas or of or tranemitting electricity for light, heat or power. : This power of general supervision was given the Public Service Commissions to be exerted in the in- terest and for the protection of the public. The Public Service Act had no other purpose. Supervision in the interest of the public assuredly means something more than that a Public Service Commission should regard itself as a registry office where the public may find out what a public service corporation is up to if it chooses to pry into the records. . The supervision of the Public Service Commis- sions over such corporations was meant to be ACTIVE supervision. When electric light companies set out to advance rates on a falling coal market tha instincts of an active supervisor might have at least prompted the Public Service Commission of the First ‘District to PUBLISH instead of merely to record the fact. Public Service Commissioner Barrett now says! “If the Corporation Counsel or anybody else who is interested in the matter believes that the tariff is. exorbitant, all he has to do js to apply to the commission fgr a hear- ing and the commission will be very glad to hear all he has to say," To which Corporation Counsel O’Brien rejoins with point: “If the theory advanced by Commis- sioner Barrett is allowed to become the prac- tice of the Public Service Commission the burden of attempting to prove the reason- ableneas of rates of the gas or electric com- panies wil! be placed on the shoulders of the consumers or the Complainants and not, as required generally in rate cases, & the shoulders of the companies.” \s the trouble that the Public Service Law is weak? Or have Public Service Commissioners come to regard a Public Service Commission more as a com- fort and convenience for the corparations than asa guardian of the public interest? Here's a good time to find out, TWICE OVERS. \¢6 OW is the proper time for moral reform.” The Ree, Wilbur F, Crafts. * # * 66 S to ‘personal freedom,’ it cannot be too clearly understood that there is no such thing in this -The Rev. D, J. Burrell, “ 4 © 66 COME time ago he (Charles Garland) visited New York and spent considerable time Greenwich Village. We think it possible it was from some of the people he met in che village that he acquired his unusual ideas." —One of the Garland T rustees. oe ane “cc O Italian, however distinguished, can expect fo oppose his will lo that of the nation.” — yj. Caviglia. country of ours.” in “ OO aba THE EVENING WORLD, TH as the ballyhoo man as- To-day the enlertainment-hunting visitor is sophisticated and is well acquainted with other the sed tu “open eyes” and d chiefly as a sentimental conces- it. boost in rates for yew York electric companies sprung on small consumers of electricity yesterday Public Service Commissioner re Public Service Were they meant to be only inert bodies to whom ! a public service corporation could go and whisper the public would hear nothing about it beforehand Section 66 of the Public Service Cominissions ays that. each commission shall within its UR The Refugee! by (The Ni 1970, Tee oer iol Cassel Ce. ord), By John few York Evening | | | | | | Colleges and Universities Of New York By Appleton Street Covrright, 1920, by the Prem Poblishng On (The New York Lveaing World.) No. 13—Jewish Theological Seminary. ig HE Jewish Theological Seminary of America, founded in 1886, was incorporated in 1902 “for the perpetuation of the tenets of the Jewish religion, the cultWation of | Hebrew Hterature, the pursuit of hip, the establishment of a library, and for the education and training of Jewish Pubbis and teachers.” The seminary ts situated in the Columbia University neighborhood, at No. 631 West 123d Street, where it occuples an attractive building built for its use in 1908 by the late Jacob ,H, Sebiff. (Mr, Schiff was for many \years a director of tho Institution, and was always its generous friend and benefactor.) The building iy a | three-story structure, containing on {the ground floor the offices, students’ room and lecture room. The second floor comprises the faculty room, the jclassrooma and the synagogue. The jentire upper floor ig devoted to the library. The synagogue on the second floor is an impressive place of worship. The ark which is set up here ‘s an ancient structure of black oak, 800 | years old, and was picked up by the late President Schechter in tho Cairo Genziah several years ago und by him presented (o the seminary, Tt ts robably the oldest plece of Jewish ecclesiastical furniture in the United States, Hebrew “Inscriptions are carved on its lintels and panels, and ® part of one of the inscriptions is |preserved in the British Museum. | The lbrary contains many rare Jeditions and ancient manuscripts in the Hebrew and other lage Arable M er Sulzberger of Ks which rs with nucleus library for an Institution of higher Jearning. Many other friends of the seminary have been generous |to the brary, 60 that to-day it has Jone of the most fotable collections of Hebrew books In the world. During the war a ‘Siudents’ house, at No, 405 West 117th Street, was opened under the auspices of the Women’s Leagues of the United Syn- agogues, ay a cantéen for soldiers. Since last January it has been oper- ated as a dormitory for a limited number of students and as an eating place for all students, as well as a ®eneral club for the seminary com TMhunity, its new activities being ander the auspices of the New York branch of the United Synayogues Cyrus Adler, Ph, D,, is Acting Pres that gives you the worth of a thou There ts fine’ mental exercise ‘The First Amendment. ‘To the Editor of 4 weaing Word I would like to know as a private n if the International Reform au of Washington has read ar- ticle one of the ten original amend- ments which reads undey the head- "Religious Kstablishiment Prohib- ogress shall make no law re- specting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof,” These reformers are throwing the first amendment out of the Constitu- tion And are trying to establish one religion, Are the people of the United States foiny to allow a select few to run this country? Men will form bands as they did in the South after the Civil War. Some people do not take these re- form movements in the pi ner, If you tell the movement has starte you and say the refor er pass such u law. I heard the same thi said about the Volstead Act when they first brought it into Con- cn What kind of beer bave we land" shows a lack of compre! ness « the Irish question Ireland's grievances of to-day sive~ laat 700 years stmed occupation and liae at all times oppresse, dustry in which she 6 by exorbitant mM uke to recommend you ¥ t's Uni A and ho it became a law after $6,000,000 we spent in bribe you show!d you read the Ireland tn full, and th be no doub® us to very anfortunat Unien Club affair our over, there are exceptions Make no excuse for British stu pidity, for ehe has oppressed and sup weased from the bottom of her Killing or extirpatinus aunt crm industry and by anforein until her tyranny bas m wako black with ‘the anathe ely hope that you will tudy the Irish question mor prehenalvely and give 1 n your columns. MICHABL, J.P. Brooklyn, Nov. 80, 1920. HOGAN The Vaton Clab slitor of The Ereoing World cans of Irish deatent, fighters must be brought senses. They muat understand that any our late allies when From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one | 3 to say much in ulfew words. Take time to be brief. Citizens, do not mistake things, Awake, ye sons of freedom. H. HARRIS, New York, Nov, 29. 1920. ‘The Irish Question. 1¢ Kalitor of The Evening Word Your editorial on “Not a 1 Ire- 4 our part as to the truth of are the same that have been hers for the} tt ngland has ruled Ireland only by | confinin invasion and every inf has tried to xes, &e that IL Would en- his- land justice ur editorial anent the recent pro- |irish riot at the Unton Club is exprea- sive of the sentiment of all, Amerl- ‘These long- range Irish sympathizers and near ter their made to at of the = Witibidrbn ben imabiarions Pa:cilttenhes maiaaeiliiiahindes int sen hit sand words in a couple of hundred? and a lot of suttsfaction in trying the Stars and Stripes is under the | proteotion of the latter. ‘The Insult to | the British flag last Thursday, Was an insult to the American flag. If these hyphenates ure not in ac-| cord with our ideas of courtesy anu | are egotistical enough to imagine their “cause” gives them the privi- lege to riot—to destroy private and public property—it {s about time they were mentally aligned and shown the rors of their ways. If they are ally sincere let them get out of this uuntry and do their fighting in the pts of Dublin and Cork—not New No tears would be\shed if “President” de Valera and certain politicians and un-American editors accompanied them, One of these editors has bitterly at | tacked the League of Nations, claim- ‘ing it a breeder of wars—at the sume time he js doing his utmost to embroil ‘us with England. Consist- y? The use of the gullible Irish s pawns in his game of hatred of England {s more like it, Mer. Lavelle erred when he re- quested’ the House Committee of the Union Club to remove the English flag, stating that such an act would prevent further rioting. The club's re fiisal and their answer—"it ts a mat- ter of principle with us"—ts charac- teristically American. Why should the Union Club bow to the caprices of a mob-et hyphons—who were prob ably ardent pro-Germans during the war? The Monsignor should have been more concerned over the fact that his charges, a few minutes after attending Holy Mass, developed into} hooligans and hoodlums When the Catholic Church divorces elf from Irish-American politics, s itself to things religious and when the Irish in this y realize thi cannot ride 5 1 shod over American principh nm, and not till then, will-thetr as for self-government recelve any ye moral impetus {n this coun- JOSEPH DONOVAN. y, 29, 1920, STI Newark, Foolish and Victous. Yo tie Ralitor of The Evening Word Henry Ford's unfounded attacks on he Jews should receive | son of every right-minded Ameri. | can citizen, Jew or Gentile, His pub- | licution of malicious tes, based upon the lowest order. againgt | An honor element of American | life, to instil’ hatred within the minds | of Christinn peoples against the Jovs, should be stopped. Never has any propaganda conducted in this coun- the conden of Wie more ‘hypocritical, | Mr. Ford was once deseribed by ox- President Roosevelt 1s “Ome who has no conception of what we mean by Americanism, and who, has an cx- | treme idea of the portance and pow f his money, He is !gnovant, yet because he hag been so succoss- ful in motores, many, many persons, hardly a8 \gnorant as himself, think him wise and allow him to (nfluence views.” ther Nalenae of the Jews’ patriotism comes with bad grace from & man who declared that the American flag means nothing to him and whe dem- making millions without personal ¢ try been more vicious, more insidious, | yer, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtaht, 1920, by Jobn Diake.) LOCATE YOUR 11ES—AND BEAT THEM, The first business of a gencral is to find out where the enemy is. The second is to beat him, In his kind of war thesgeneral has an advantage over you. He always knows the enemy when he sees himy He usually can find out where he is. : If you know your enemies by sight you are lucky. you can locate them you are luckier still. For often your enemies are the people and the things that you count among your best friends. The men who are the most companionable and likeable, and who really are honest and well disposed, are very dan- gerous enemies if you are fonder of spending your time with them than on your job. Your favorite habits, out of which you get real pleas- ure, may also be destructive and insidious enemick, Sit down some day and make a list of your enemies as accurately as you can. . You will find most of them in that mysterious some- thing which we call personality. They will be disguised as habits, or inclinations, or tastes, none of which will appear the least hatinful at first glance. But analyze them, and when you have“observed to what extent they interfere with the work you are trying to do, you will recognize them as enemies—and get rid of them, It is not at all necessary, as you make your way in the world, to forego pleasures or companionship. Both are necessary, Every man needs ayocations that are entirely different from his work and friends who are in totally dif- ferent lines of business. But when he begins thinking more about these avoca- tions and these friends than he does about his means of live- lihood they become his enemies, and his very deadly enemies. They are hard to locate, for they always look like friends and act like friends and mean to be friends. But they have got to be found and beaten and excluded from your life, or you will never be free from their malign power, You will find, too, that often the people you think are your worst enemies are in reality your best friends. For they are open and avowed in their enmity, They take you fight and put you on your mettle. And anything that does that lelps you to the fighting spirit that you must possess if you are to be anything but a mere dull automaton in’ this world, If Onn enn nnn AAA nenancniy onstrated his belief in that philosophy | 7 by aid ‘eke! Words From the Wise. Loran te mea an areey What is celebrity? The advan- stig ne _himse “Prince : Slackers” While, ic’ Kouis were} tage of being known to people n- who don't know you, Kr K Jewish element of the A. were carning nearly % per cent. of = Pascal. our Government's awards fog valor We . in battl he ‘800 citatiofis, 174 The most wasted of all days won the Guerre, 190) the is that on which one has not Distinguished Cross, three : , e the United Congressional laughed. Chamfort. nd two the are Pench fe Militaire The world ts a comedy to Their casual re about 18000, It] those who think, a tragedy to was a Jew who loa Washington $600,000 to finance the Valley Fotge campaign. The inscription on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is taken from the Jewish Bible, those who feel. Walpole. To do great things a man lives as though he had never to die, Vauvenargnes. {dent of the seminary, and its faculty consists of seven professors, Louis Marshall ts Chairman of the Board of Directors, and others who with bh are life directors of the seminary ar Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzber- , Samuel Greenbaum, . Warburg, Henry, Adolph Lewisohn, Simon M. Roeder. hadicass PS det3 | Opera Stories At a Glance Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ARNABA, a spy of the {nquisi- tion In Venice, is in love with Gloconda, a ballad singer, who has several Umes repulsed him. She loves Enzo, a nobleman, who has {been proscribed by the Venetian au- thorities but is in the city in the dis- guise of a sea captain. The spy spreads the rumor that La Cieca, the biind mother of the singer, is a witch, and the populace, greatly excited, drags her from the church steps. She is saved by Laura, wife of Al vise, one of the heads of the inquis- tion, whom she was forced to marry in spite of her former bethrothal to Enzo. Barnaba, mingling in the | crowd, recognizes Enzo, in spite of | his disguise, and speaks to him. He promises to have Laura on board his vessel that night, ready to escape ty sea, explaining that hia motive ls his desire to obtaln Gloconda for himsel! after showing her that Enso does noi love her, ‘ Enzo departs and Barnaba dictates a jetter of denuhclation to a public letter writer. From behind a pillar Gioconda hears him informing some one, whore name she does not catch, that Enzo is planning to elope that evening with his wife. Having thus carned that Enzo no longer loves her Gloconda goes from the scene. That night Laura comes to Enzi boat, ang"Gioconda, stealing aboard confronts here former lover, She is RRA A A AAA about to stab Laura when she sees a boat bearing Alvise and his follow »proaching. As Laura prays la recognizes her as the wom- o saved ler mother that after- noon, and relents, She summons a boat’ manned by friendiy boatmen. and when Enzo, who has gone below, returns he finds only Gioconda Rather than have his vessel taken’ by the galleys, which approach, he sets fire to it and the pair escape. In the house of Alvise the leader summons his wife. Gloconda, fore- seeing his vengeance on her, has gty en her @ via!, the contents of which éauses the appearance of death, Al- vise gives his wife a vial of potson, saying that when he returns in a mo- ment he wishes to find her dead. Her bier has already been prepared, he declares. He comes back and ‘finds her apparently dead, Gloconda has Laura removed from her burial vault and brought back to conacsousness, At the canal Enzo awaits them and when Laura arrives she finds that Gloconda has arrange: a boat for her departure, With pro- fuse gratitude for Gioconda, Laura nzo sail away into the night. pearnaba app, oaches Gloconda. ie “Ghot conda is thine ‘he singer cries, Seizing a ger she stabs herself to the Beart, Pi . wy * Biblical and drchacological are | the advancement of Jewish scl Ponchielli’s “La GiocondaJ>~ |