The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1920, Page 30

te 7" ae ee i A tee eee =~ en ee JOSEPH PU MEWHER OF THE ASSOCIA The Amociated Pron! exctusivi oF all news deep oa end also the pabi THE LEAGUE REFUTES THE LIARS. NE after another the G. O. P. campaign lies are coming home to roost. Hiram Johnson’s own pet tail-ty Votes-for-England” lie, always w phin, nothing else. In the Geneva meeting England h votes. South Africa started off \ ent over Lord Cecil. All throug’ * Colonies have performed very 1 a8 advocates of the League predicted. They have differed with the mother-country on important points of world policy and have stood their ground. England's ally, Japan, has refrained from the racial issue“ because Canada and Australia are more firmly determined on exclusion t! is absent United States. The pity is that the meeting of the League As- Sembly did not occur last summer and so reveal the falsity of the allegations made by the “bitter- enders” and the “Americanizers.” The Assémbly meeting may not realize the fond- est hopes of the advocates of International Peace. Without America's powerful aid it could hardly hope to attain maxinwm effectiveness. But one thing is being revealed every day: That is the fact that the anti-League campaign in America was as nearly 100 per cent. false as coukl be attained. er, the ‘Six- ked for what it falsehood, and as not had six a disagree- the British the ‘ayne B. Wheeler, Legislative Superintend- ent of the Anti-Saloon League, warns the league to “go slow” on the blue-law crusade started by the Lord’s Day Ailiance. This is the same Mr. Wheeler who, in the full flueh of the Prohibition triumph, referred to “the ancient and discredited doctrine of per- sonal liberty and State rights.” We gather the Anti-Saloon League claims a Monopoly of freedom-wrevking in the United Btates. SHIRKING THE JOB. HEN it was proposed that the Corporation Counsel should investigate school-building contracts, The Evening World said that New York’s policy would be one of “watchful waiting.” At the time, Mr. La Guardia voiced the opinion that “a member of the family” would be bourd to whitewash, the Tiger. The Evening World hoped for better results and> pointed out that— Sound political strategy, no fess than the Obligations of his office, demand that Mr. O'Brien do a thorough and painstaking job, the results of which no Albany committee can ‘controvert. New York has waited and watched, but it has not had to wait until Albany got ready for work. Mr. Untermyer has shown that Mr. O’Brien has not made the most of his opportunities. Mr. O’Brien possessed and did not make use of evidence which the Lotkwood committee had gath- ered and which Mr. Untermyer was able to publish to make a clearly conclusive case showing the prev- alency of collusive bidding under the Hetirick ‘code of practice” plan. After such an exposure of incompetence, worse, there is small probability that the city de- pariments will escape a comprehensive Lexowing when the Legislature meets. or Cowl at $9 a ton by the end of the present week is predicted. Ten years ago such a pre- diction would have carried scant comfort. This year it sounds like a Christmas present. ORE than a million persons visited Nutional Parks and National Monuments in the sea- son of 1920 as compared with approximately one- third the number in 1917, This has been the banner “See America First” year of all time, according to the report of the Sec- retary of the Interior. The figures alone prove Secretary Px ment that “the people have enthusiastical to the National Parks for health, hapy recreation,” It would be possible, though difficult, how much the American people had “health, happiness and recrea spots of America. Certainly ‘ble sum. But whatever the sum, getting a retum. The benefits more than bal the expenses, or the flood of tourists would swell with the years, he sort of earned increm "s state. tumed tor spent n” fa these wonder- would be a formida- je Anwrican people are no! an toforego. This “increment 9 ulation increases and the waste spaces fill up am become tame. America needs mese playgrounds. This record is justification in itself for the waming Secretary Payne appends to his report: ‘ “The conflict between the demands of com- pene of these wouder year's hich PROTECT THE NATION'S PLAYGROUNDS, places involves constant vigilance. In my view, thotr preservation is of the first impor- tance. It should be a settled policy of the ountry that, when in the wisdom of Con- greas NAtional Parks or memorials are defi- uite apart, they, must be preserved in rity, forever free from any form alization. Vhis is plain truth, No matter how: piausible table the raids on vacation lands may appear, answer, “No!” and unyielding. y vet e omimer prof Corgress siould have one invariable be firm ns. This answer should ere should be no exce Once such policy y understood, the raids will cease. Until n the parks and memorials are in constant danger. POINTING THE REMINDER. MONG the Federal tax-law changes recom- mended to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury the most widely discussed will be the Proposal to increase by 2 per cent. the tax ,00U or less and to add 4 per cent, mes beiween $5,000 and $10,000. Phere will be a general outcry that this increases on in- comes of § es. to the tax on ¢ burden on those whose yearly inc tively modest and who in most cases have to work hard. to get it. It must be remembered, however, that this class will always have to bear the brunt of taxation for extraordinary needs. If the lesser incomes do not +) feel it in one form, are bound to feel it in another. Theoretically, the big incomes, particularly the wheéarned ones, ought to carry the larger share of the load. In practice, as Secretary Houston points wut, “the only effective way to tax the rich is to adopt rates that do not force investment in tax- exempt securities.” . \ 70 per ce . tax rate on incomes of $1,000,000 that it more profitable to and upward sounds fine. But when the few huge incomes find Slate take the lower rate of int enjoy these invest in national, nd municipal bonds and erest for the sake of iax incomes is scant. In readjusting surtaxes, Secretary Houston would make a difference favoring faved” tinguished from incomes. “spent. If is a pity some similar distinction cannot be made between incomes earned and incomes enjoyed from invested capital. The man who earns $5,000 a year by hard work is in a different position from the man who receives $5,000 a year from $100,000 invested in good securities An income tax scale that discouraged investment and encouraged spending would be undesirable. But some way smight be found to make it a little easter for the man who has to work for his whole income as he goes along and whose saving power is at the mercy of the cost of living. The larger present problem, however, is plain a pikestaff: To keep up the industry and production tl yatone bring down prices of necessities, the profits tax must be repealed, Four bil must, To help ratse it, the Secretary of the Treasury Proposes that luxuries like automobiles, theatres and moving pictures, cigars, cigarettes, candy, chew- ing gum, perfumes and toilet soaps shall yield a higher revenue—and that an increased levy be made on incomes, To try to juggle an income tax out of sight by means ot an old-style Republican tariff would be only {o raise prices and confuse lessening their actual burdens, An income tax cannot be adjusted or disguised into anything other than it is—a grim reality that is a constant measure of the cost of government. With a $4,000,000,000 annual tax load to carry, it is a good thing for the people of the United States to have some powertul reminder that economy ii naticnal expenditure dnd the establishment of a na- tional budget system are not remote, academic questions which irresponsible legislators can be left to play or postpone, exemption, the relief to smalle as dis- e ion dollars a year for the next four years nevertheless, be raised somehow. citizens Without TWICE OVERS. ‘cc HE alliance of France and the United States will never fail the cause of liberty and civili- President Millerand of France. * zation.” * | 66 Y activities have not been anti-British, but ~Eamonn De Valera. “ec HATEVER the contract rights of the re- | lator (landlord) or of the tenant, they must | give way to the public welfare.”-—Decision in the Ap- pellate Division. VE of the ways to discredit and embarrass the e n enforcement of liquor laws would be to make Sunday, by law, a day of gloom and horror for the | pe and woman,” — Joseph W. Folk, i .Y ‘oie is rela | | THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1920. | “Call for Old Doc. Pease!” From Evening World Readers 7 \x What kind of u letign do you find most reac Ter Isn't at that yives you the worth of @ thousand words id « couple of h the vue undred? There is sine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brict. wanee for living nes as does 1 6 New York City 1 G.R. POWLER: is 1 Maywood, N..J., Dec. 5, 1929. r pea : ‘ ¥ i och in the Single Tax, ” f The Evening World NO ‘ers n in New k need bi « More lonesome than they cure to be ; 2nd this I say from exp | the object Ct lonesome man or wom: 1 40 put throw “a person without « iment to the Constitution aiiftiess qhegee that any amendment Ne Now must be ratifed by a twe- Gr that type 1 popular vote bef could do for thera we | be elimin \t L America ¢ zation papers After he swed effective hon- inviting way the pr 8 their real w of a few org: ut ideal of retng the State then [ alwa tl ye done in the past) will friends and delivery of 4 me to the he anor child, You Iuetion. Just tr ANTI-BLUE- 1020, LAWS New York, Dec nan, inirol Suppe and y t one of your lett ays the Ulsterites and Un he days of Cromwell rishinen. I'd like Mr. end, it WRANK Spauld J wish to take issue with: wholesot | your editorial of Dec, 2, in whi 5. Jneem to advocate a continuance wre a young couple lthe pres mptions ‘ | purchased a beautiful Color | unde jand find it difficult g heal put inte eect, | People as do not the cost of living was very much furnitur |than it is now, | ‘Take a $4,000 a year “white ( v |man, with a wife and three dey mt 8 children. His exeniption is inees couple “ erefore he must pay a tax on $1 people w $1,400 of exiaten i he H. CG. of La, before the income tax ¢ Nevertheless he has to pay sis ta \ not only Vederal, but the sta Jtax as we With the present exorbitant vents, the high eost of food and clothir and added to this a possible lar jdoctor’s bill, all the attendant people are to expenses of sickness, dentist's bills, Do the framers of t life insurance t > laws expect to put t these hixu. w much of |They do not. They merel haa he left, taxes? ace . for him to save any money ‘The income taxes Work a particul ship to @ person of small Income, ng mm or near a large city, for jwhile he may be able to make more | money than residents of outlying dis- tricts, his necessary living expenses ure correspondingly greater, ‘As he 1s allowed no exemption on this account, he has to pay a larger tax than his country brother, ‘The Government looks only at tho| these proposed regulations size of the income, and the resident |law the people will claim the sume al. | but it wil) be « victory, h tol divert attention away from | 8 ment to repeal or modity and unworkable Prohtbitior During the late w 1s offensive defense, were attacked fn When one pressure on your thredten’ a turn in the tide and sol! their meal-ticket, have pi camouflage. It is good st RE 13 but of long-suffering ar this was known launched a drive elsewhere ‘These professional holy men, noting tesy may succeed, With the \failure of 5 t ys find acquain a me: part ot any iV need no y it RMAN. | w vial 1 of our nnot de, be fooled he Sunday hem over? y wish to uny move- the odious 1 laws. your place to relieve ed front icltous for forth this ning Ce Waa ‘Colleges and Universities | Of New York By Appleton Street. New | Copyr ¥ Publishing Co, ening World.) Tl 14-——-The Library School, HME big Library Building at Fifth Avenue and 42d Street houses several institutions in Its mar- It not only shelters one of largest collections of books, but an art collection, a fully, quipped printing plant and a college, ‘The college, to quote its official Lithy > | (i | ble the ontains 6 “Phe Library School of the New York Public Library professional vol for the training of librarians | library workers. Though estab- | by the trust of the Library, Jand conducted under their general | supervision, with financial support |irom the Carnegie Corporation, the school is not a training institute for she ‘iocal library merely. Many of its graduates have gone into hbrary service there after completing thelr but ever since the school's ment in 1910 it has attracted 3 from all parts of the United and from many foreign coun- Its aduates have literally be out inte 1 the world to practise |cheir profession rve the book ls of beople everywhere for oxample, raining are f aged in library work Huate of 4 i Swedish Library Two are with the Pan | il Zone Library at Balboa work in Hawai, i two are soon devastated region of ned tn the New mg Hbrarieg in int bha, the chool ¢ 1 pa f the Un States, inctud- ing the Library of Congress in Wash- ington, the Newbury Library of Chi- 1go, t egie Library of Pitts- vurgh, the p' of New n Detroit, on educats are libra- ation, cat- in- ence 1D, nd rete ious types, York and ite / students get valua- | in these various | York is a rar } nd study, for of library is to be school is Mr, The faculty tructors, assisted of part-time ‘8 UNCOMMON SENSE © By John Blake SELF-RESPECT IS N You will respect yourself that cause others to respect you, You because you happen to hay self. Self-respeet will enable ¥ It will inspire the respeet of « be accompanied by their confid be w And unless you know in your | your own respect you will have ing it Self-respect is achievement. The only fairly, the ability to resist yield, the ability to stick at these will convince that world, You will indulgence, speeb or th But all respeet must usually te you nequire none of t of other men thron 1 particularly disgusting forny You will find, th men have of alway it is true, been vain- member that their vanity some Thackeray had a perfect written “Vanity Pair; the Battle of Waterloo; brilliant canvases, 1 all these men prese a job of which others we You will never gain either so did Whistler Joho Wa OT SELIV-ESTEEM only for the same reasons And others will not respect © an inflated opinion of your ourto go far in the world. others, and their respeet will ence, rerited. self-respect included. heart that you are entitled to no chance whatever of gain pounded on Consciousness of ability to do things well that others do temptations to which others ry the you deserve a place Jn abilities through self ur own sincere igh self-esteem, which is only of vanity. vat some of the them offensiv 8 grew out of right to be va these re world’s great ely so-—bul achievement n after he had so did the Duke of Wellington after after he had painted trved- their self-respect—and none of them yielded to self-indulgence, Treat yourself exactly as whom you believe. indulge yourself. Le -in fact, that real chara With self-respect your ind the world. With self-esteem, n and really great talent, you wil for success, rn th “impudent Ane city," | kind of government wey would Apend derens¢ th p energy oF liber that these anhandters do in trying to regulate other people's busi ness there would be a different tale to tell. ‘ Get busy. “ternal vis!- Jiance ts the f liberty.” . MCGOVERN © ne Thelr Minds, Fait The Brening World | blue law issue seems to bi : of the day. If it were not that| cted recently happened tn] sedly free country of ours, T would consider this blue law issue a | joke. But as it is, and in view of those baok of It we cannot but give it our immediate attention and stamp it out for good. The best and only way is to ex- and become victory, for the amine all fanatic reformers as to their sanity. I, for one, do not class them with normal people. FRANK SMITH, Schenectady, N, Xu Doo, #, 1820, Trust yourself, respect yourself; you would other man in but do racter any at self-denial builds che ster is founded on it. ustry and talent will count in o matter if you have industry 1 cut a poor figure in the race Radi From the Wise. . When a man him envy him whe is dead ne more; and we only mn he Schopenhauer half is old 4 man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still Hudibra Remember that there is noth ing stable human affairs: therefore in avoid undue et prosperity, in adversity. Aion ut or, undue depression Isocrates A friend is onc in two bodies. Diogenes Laertus T live in the crowd of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself, soul abiding Jobnson: and) = demon- ° flourishin which sin New York. ptember for. Its class nada and k, Connecti- ivanta, Ohio, Nebraska, Opera Stories i, a Glance » Peeve Bublishing Co. x Pvening Word.) ae Traviata.’ ntimate with Verdi's ed jearne e house have n Daupt arns that Alfred lone of the patrons of her gaming hous s madly in love with her ye treats the matter as @ 1! guddenly she realizes that ms on 1s coming on, and ie Neve red by the man's devotion | s smes serious and, after @ | rerec up her pres- | Th near " itely happy than he thought, and thom Violetta has immediately ntion of Violette frivolous past announced, and elder Germont, is dignified and ‘ sees that some- ry 1 s with her to leave areer may be blight@a by this alison, He says that a his family, 1 tWo chil- nimi off, mpendir te t df n « sum 1 the Baron. al play, unlucky at love,” y the game is. ove lories in a loud voice, so th Juear, “Here is your money He throws his winnings girl's fect, md she faints. ‘The lamer the hall and : shess of the sity hat jares not t | family be | ts 1 he bedroom, the sound of revelry comes from out, id, seeing her mistress we shes to summon Alfred Ito ; love. Soon he comes, and takes the girl in his arms, | “Nothing shall part us now,” he cries passionately wrong, for atter a moment oughini, the girl's body bs- comes “Timp. The hand of death has taken her from bim,