The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1920, Page 26

PMD Ziorld, fesramserep BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Daily Except Sinday by The Preas Pablishing Soeieaie ton 53 to 6% Park Raw, New Yori RALPH PULITZER, President J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, TosErh BR Jt., Secretary, { MEMBER.OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Phe Associated Prem ls exctusively entitied to the ase fer repubttestion Hani news Geupstebes cadieed to {t or not otherwise credited tm this paper ‘sive the Jocal news rwhllshed herein. COMPETENT INDICTMENT. | T the eleventh hour public peril and public protest have forced Police Commissioner ght to a hasty revival of the methods of his for rounding up bandits and thugs now festing the city. | A Enright makes a show of rousing himself. He | oes it with a snafl—in his letter to the Mayop—at at he calls the concerted action on the part of in newspapers to embarrass this department nd to destroy its morale in the face of the dan- ous conditions which have confronted us for the ast three years.” | This is the first time, be it noted, the present | Police Commissiones has admitted that the city is MHonfronted by dangexous conditions. How many citizens thad to be robbed, blackjacked dar shot before Enright made this admission? His sudden change of’front is the result of fear, It does not alter his chmracter or his fundamental than ite sarees Police Lieut. Floyd Horton epared for The Evening World a few days before heroic death. The same brave hand that found sirength to do last police duty as its owner lay dying with a an’s bullet through his. lungs, the same hand bat scrawled on a bloadstained scrap of paper the number that led to the arrest of the mur- prers in the bandits’ automobile, drew up what is all odds the most powerful indictment yet pre- d of Hylan-Enright police administration. Of Lieut. Horton’s competence to indict there is [ p question. He was the finest type of intelligent, flicient police officer. He had a:record of seven- years on the force, with the special confidence every Police Commissioner from Francis V. to Arthur Woods. Horton knew all the ins and outs of the depart- The businesslike, almost shorthand concise- of the points he set down’ against Enright | 3 to the straightforward sincerity of the | ter and his intimate grasp of the conditions hy | is discussing. Take only four af his twenty-ttvo counts: One thougand useless details could easily be abolished. Due to so many useless details and ox- eusals, precincts have been left for hours ‘and hours without a single policeman on post. It is so serious a policeman dare not tell his best friend of true conditions. | — EE Volumes could not show with greater clearness “| Wow the Enright policies left the citizens of New os: without adequate police protection. 4 Again: ‘Only influence counts. About every detec- tive feele that hard work will bring nothiny ’ Only a “pull” counts, Over 90 per cent. of the force are opposed to Enright and all he stands for, There, in a nutshell, is the effect of the Enright ith stem of favoritism, on the morale of a body of - © Vifhen who guard the public safety and whose first san ought to be that intelligent performance duty, courage and faithfulness are the surest yarantees oi promotion, i} Lieut. Horton, whose devotion to dyty was heroic, i sia the kind of policeman for whom Enright has Mio wse at Police Headquarters. The present Police t , unlike his predecessors, found no Mynfidential work for Horton. Horton was recog- ike Costigan—as not in harmony with the Hf it is a shame for the New York police to have to over them a Commissioner who, by discredit- policamen of the Horton type, lowers the stand- of the force in the eyes of the public, a HH is not the fault of the police as a body that ns have lost confidence in the department. i The force includes plenty of brave, loyal men, dy to obey orders and do-their duty—if need be, the death. It is the dictating power that has been incémpe- cynical, insolent, regardless of public need. dictating power cannot disguise its true oe abe galipers Meare ete Stee ne tne ee ee ‘ 4 that now threaten them night and da should do without an hour's needless delay what there is scant hope Mayor Hylan will do; Remove Enright. The law sanctions it. Public welfare demands it Goy, Smith THE LEAGUE. defiance of certain members of the United States Senate, the League of Nations Assembly has been in session at Geneva for the past five weeks. The thirty-fifth, and final, plenary session came to a close Saturday night. The meeting has been epochal. The nations have tumedl a corner in the history of the world. , For the first time, delegates from the five continents, “representing more than three-fourths ef the world’s seventeen hundred million people, gathered in com- mon council. The militarists, bureaucrats, reactionaries and revolutionaries—sitting in the seats of ‘the scornful —will say that its achievements have been only sound_and fury, signifying nothing. The impatient idealists will complain because it has not at once ushered in the millennium. Both groups of critics will be wrong. r It would have been a mistake for the League to have attempted too much at the outset. Enough has been undertaken and accomplished to prove the sincerity of its adherents and to justify the wisdom of its founders. lty admitting Austria and Bulgaria it has shown the genuineness of its desire to become ultimately a league of all nations, and not merely an alliance of the vicarious powers. By voting for the early establishment of a true Court of International Justice and by promulgating tentative proposals for the simultaneous -reduction of armaments it has made plain its determination to substitute the force of right for the right of force in international relations, By the action taken for the rehabilitation of bankrupt countries by credit co-operation, by the choice of President Wilson to mediate the Armenian- Turkish troubles, by the mobilization of funds to prevent the further spread of typhus, the League— in spite of the sneers of its critics—has shown its capacity for economic Satcomnaneinp and — philanthropy. We shall do well to recall at this time that ft was President Wilson who, more than any other many gave to the age-long dream for lasting peace a local habitation and a name. } Impartial history will record, long after the speeches of his traducers have been forgotten, that it was his impassioned logic and reasoned eloquence that made possible the League of Nations, FROM THE CITY OF HI LAN. * Zo the Heaven-Rorn Mayor of Pekin, China: Mighty thoughts for the ruling of cities come from the lips of the august Mayor of this City of Ht Lan, The Overlord. of Police being dusy with other affairs, an army of murderers, thugs, burglars and bandits came to infest the city. The Overlord denied the existence of crime. He spurred on his police officers by rewarding the diligent with posts in outlying suburbs, where they might enjoy the solitude so highly commended by our philosophers. These measures failing, Hi Lan himself took aver the solution of this problem, He decreed that all eitizens shall arm themselves to fight the bandits. Worthy merchants who heed his word will go about with rifles, shot- guns, pistols tind bowle-knives; bank messen- gers who are wise will carry machine guns. It is expected that among the slain will be many thieves. The reduction in the popula- tion may relieve the housing shortage, Do likewise, oh Heaven Born, Perhaps you can induce the criminals to join the citizenry in suppressing crime, Then the entire police force may be abolished, HONG, COMMISSIONER. VOCATIONLESS WOMEN, (From the Duluth News Tribune.) There are 19,000,000 women “in the United States listed as “without occupation” in the census records, It makes one wonder what the wise ones who con- eocted the certeus lists call an “occupation.” This much is certain, these 19,000,000 work longer hours than any others of their sex, and have less of leisure, Their duties are more varied, they have more of hard | labor and to be skilled in.thetr work requires more time, study and experience than does nine-tenths of the “occupations” credited by the census to their sis- ters or to men, These millions of women are America’s house- wives who do their own work. If cooking, dishwash- ing, scrubbing, washing, cleaning, caring for children, sewing, patching, mending, knitting, darning and the form an occupation then of course she has none, and effort, and demands almost superhuman patience fwr from 10 to 16 hours of each day. hold economies and this sh¢ usually does, become good men and women, is not an occupation who id there who really has one? kept in stalls, fed, tended and cared for. sprig and their husbands, 19,000,000 jar, this in store for them, for if to have an occupation many more kinds of Idbor of the housewife do not But she certainly has what occupies all of her time For it, she gets her board and clothes, being usually expected to save the cost from her husband's income through house- | ‘fa person who is occupied every day in the most useftl and valuable work there jx in the world has no occupation, then the housewives have none, If to be a mother, caring for and rearing children to Mothers are not They do these things for themselves as well as for thely off- Those who planned the census are due for a Possibly 19,000,000 husbands also have is necessary to be economically independent, to have The Optimists! What kind of a letter do you fin te sey much in c few words. Take ti From Evening World Readers) id most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction tm trying ime to be brief, nly command a remuneration of bout $100 a month? Does “Milk Driver? ever stop to think of the | Taxes, To the Editor at The Brening World: | Since the reformers jammed through their Prohibition Amend~ ment, thus cutting off the liquor tax, \the average hard-working, useful \citizen is likely to be burdened with a heavier internal revenue tax on \fis salary and will have to pay more han necessary for his living and com- for. The ultimate consumer pays all taxes, Don't miss that. He has already the burden of a State tax. Next will probably come a city tax too. | 1¢ the reformers get away with their tobacco amendment scheme *he al- |ready poor average citizen will be | further burdened by mich heavier in. | ternal revenue tax. By this time the gang will likely) jhave revived the Puritanical blue laws and the churches will be*expect- ing the reformed average citizen to jrush in to fill the empty pews. But what's the use? He will have nothing loft for pew rent or donations | Does the average citizen realize |what these reforms cost him? Since Prohibition has been dn effect more people have died from wood} alcohol and drug poisoning than pure whiskey ever killed. J. HW. Brooklyn, Dec, 15, 192 | mo the malt Perkaps ou can spare the space in your puper for these few lines in re- ply to the letter written by the “Milk | ver" in your issue of Deo, 12, tik Drive ter wat he is not earning enough for complains jn his let the work be performs, think that $0 ‘living wage | Does he not r |amount of we nd seoms to the qualit vant don of quality of the work on the work is Further, every increase has to be paid for by t who buys the milk he di Mik Trust dogs not pay fo While our heart bleeds for the suf- ferings of the poor underpaid milk driver, we would call to his attention his cl f n his salary ” poor ‘aie of labor which bring much smaller re= muneration than his. On his own showing, he was brought up on @ farm, and makes®o mention of ever having had to attend a school or tech- nical college to make himself fit to do the big tasks of life. Has "Milk Driver” ever attemptod of the educated man, wapec y the t echnical man? How would he like to spend the best years of his life grind: & salary or wage or separate income, the wives of OE NY oa meras Deg ey oRUne America make a’ concerted demand of this evi; during tbe Gay nthe wopkmatyy spoil. “para. JK A hoalth for a. poaaldle. donce of, usefulness and that they are not “para: prota Mintio' gukufe, to tke OY ORs ena siten.” @f Ws tol. that Lie Knowleage 3 i | ov $60 a week is a mere lize that it is not the} ty very well paid. | the fact that there are other classes 1 to gampiure iin Tot in life with that | Ly amount of brain work necessary to design the Brooklyn Bridge, or lay out a railroad, or design a modern loco motive or complicated automatic ma- chine? Hag “Mille Driver’ ever at- tempted .to- design an ortinary hair pin, to say nothing of machinery to manufacture it? The ignorant and illiterate forcign- | born citizen who can hardly sign his | own name can join a “union” and go dn “strike” continually for increases in wages or for shorter hours of labor, but the educated man has no “union’’ to protect his labor of brain, nd) ts therefore open to exploitation “of we st kind, He is not allowed to ye mand double pay for all overtime he | works beyond his regular hours, An| Unwritten code.of ethids demands that | his “overtime’@ shat! not be worth | more than ‘supper money. Let us hear a little more about the exploitation of educated labor, The | “white coll man, even if he does not rise at 2°A. M. for the perform- eof pifrely physical labor» 18 alao | worth his place in the sum and also entitled to the commonést iets | | of eximténgs. DRAUGHTSMAN, | New York, Dec. 16, 1920. The St ana | Stripes Only. ‘Th the Palitor o Brening World Why so Thuch @isputing between | the Friends of I Freedom and che | pro-British ove®™ the English flag) that caused a riot at the Union Club? | I would like to suggest that oi Jone flag should be allowed to fly In |this country and that is the Starr and Stripes, no other, Why fs it that it’s only the. English | What has become | of the other Allied flags, the ee flag we see now? \Bergian an dftalian? seams all w hoar ts England, | d, all the tUme. Why m America ail the time? A. BOURKE. Brooklyn, Dee, 17, 192 Be Friendly, patitor of The Rvening World, I have a suggestion ‘to offer that would » the way for mere cour- tosy and respect among workers in the shops and factories and all in- | ors introduce all new em- ployees to all the other employees? ice that introductions are only when one obtains @ position in | an office. Why discriminate? 1 would like to hear the views, of tion ¢ some of your reac Now York, Dee, Voluntary Chareh To ty bain of Th Exening W one need to, be ond re certain ghurches (which aya vorgenumarows) at a whole On Ac} Attene aa ee Of (iW - TOWs marrow oredtureds, Lape chats ot At Fie venting Werld » Bnd them i every denominn- | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY,. DECEMBER 20, 1920." | The | World’s Oldest don’t the empjoyers of their | Brooklyn. Dee. that expedient. every salary they pay. What you get in return for their profit is the opportunity 3 | ess you are in, thg chance to make an in- come without risking any investment, and the office or shop or factory in which you work. must dicig 9 the busi get ahead’ faster, stantidl bargain. 16, 1920. ° - Merebant Marl Love Stories By Mauber? St. acne ono, Hem To, re Papin KIYO AND THE PRIEST or BUDDHA. . NCE in a Buddhist temple there was a priest, whom this fa- mous Japanese legend does not name, celebrated for his piety. One day a8 he returned from visiting a holy shrine he saw in a tea house @ maid “like the fragrance of the lilid when the wind sweeps it down from the helghts upon the weary traveller.” Now the rules of the Buddhist priests command that they shall not enter dhy tea house lest they should forget their vows and fall into the sinful ways of the flesh. The pricst watched the beautiful girl, whose name was Kiyo, and was sorely tempted to enter and speak to her, but remembering his spirituality, he passed on and entered his temple. That night, however, sleep refused to visit him, He'tried to pray. It was useless, In the midst of some holy prayer a vision of Kiyo would spring up beckoning him to come to her. Finally the burning love that had sprung up in him stifled his religious foclings and he entered the tca house where/Kiyo worked. Here the near- ness of the woman he loved complete- ly overpowered his senses and he fell entirely under her spell, She in her turn returned his affection with a pas~ sion that knew no bound, For a while it seemed to them that they had found a’ perfect happiness, more pe fect even than the Nirvana we all séeig to reach. After a while, though, remorse be- gan to stir in the priest, and con- acience bade him give up his love. A long while he resisted, but Bnaky geod Vanquished his passion after a terrific struggle. i. Having stamped out his carnal love, the priest, nevertheless» decided to deal gently with Kiyo and not to in- grease her sorrow with a sudden de- parture, Kiyo, howfyer, as soon as she‘saw ‘him realized what had hap- pened. At first sho redoubled her wiles, seeking to win him buck. The priest was determined, however, and resisted ail her feminine arts, Upom the failure of her biandishments Kiyo’s thoughts turned to vengeance. desire to be revenged upon the false lover and set out to fulfil her desire, inst, she went to the sliuie of Fuao, ‘the god of tire und wisdom, and prayed to be shown how to kill tho priest. From there, having seem- ingly obtained tbe desired inapira- uvn, She went to the shrine of Kom- pra, the brother of the sun gouaess ana tne creatur of mischief, Here she prayed veoemently. At last a BE The world is always gain yourself, and you undoubtedly among his o I'm not for blue laws. {The Lord never commanded me | in his house on the Sabbath, bu: love the Lord with all my heart I will e in his house on Sunday, piel Sa pamatlys Agyes? UNCOMMON SENSE y John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) A BARGAIN. Being a bargain is not difficult, in an environment where most men are far from bargains. \s To bea Garealn you must be good value—a little better value than is expected by the purchgsgr of your serviecs. In other words, you must be willing to give, in wor” nd }| ance: thought and effort, more That may sound unfair at first glance. to think you will see that nobody is going to be fool enough to hire you if you are not profitable to him. tee Employers are in business ‘to make money. employers do not expect or wish to profitecr on the men they There is too much competition for good men te make 3 | swer. But they do Oxns ct to make a fair profit on Seldom do you take them It you are worth not only your wages but considerably more you are a bargain, ever employs you will hold on to you. though you come higher and higher every year. soon discover, if he does net know it already, that the men to whom he has to pay the highest»salaries are the biggest “bargains he can find, just as a high-priced automobile that will run for twenty years is a far bigger bargain than a low- priced automobile that will run for only stx months, Be a bargain, in every way that you can be, your boss think, all the time that he was lucky to get you. Make him think ‘too that he will be lucky to keep you. You can do that by doing your work so well that you will attract the attention of other employ you among them if your own boss does nat appreciate you, Remember that this is a bargain Winting world that bargains are soon snapped up. than you have been doing, The cheap bargain is reglly looking for bargains. will be in demand. than you are paid for, Aud if you are a bargain who- ers in the same business, They are woking for bargains too, and they will not hesitate to list in £ to Decomacelyuens. A Dow YOR, Dec. we 2 sprite, @ servant of Kompira, ap- Doured aud taught Kiyo the wystenes af magic and sorcery. He showed this gicl, once so sweet and loving, now to ¢ rself into a dragon- uhat_sh might be revenge ' he next time the priest visited © he told her that it was to be for the last time. On the contrary, far from being a lover, he came as a Be a bar- 3) priest to seek to persuade her to re- houpce her I6ve. She on her part wept and pleaded, but to no avail, Seeing he’ wus hot to be persuaded, Kiyo decided on her plan. She pu: ed the pricst right into the templ jthen before his terrified eyes turned herself into a huge serpent. With shrieks of-fear he fled, while she pur- sued, determined to have her venge but in her love Jor him, de- termined also to die with him. At last the priest took refuge under the temple bell a bell weighing sev- eral tons, and so placed himself that the serpent could not pursue him there. The monster, however, wound But if you stop out the bell and began to , exert its dreadful strength. All in Intelligent jvain were the prayers of the captive or of his fellow brethyen: ‘The priest had sinned and Buddha did not an- Slowly the ‘bell was crushed, until finally it broke from its support, carrying’ to their death the priest and the serpent that had once been the sweet, beautiful Kiyo. ‘That is ail, except that by the inhatl- |tants on the shores of the River Gi- |daka, where this 1s said to have takem place, the lovers now united in Nir- \Wanar are eomotimes seen and heed, jhappy now tn the love that brought | the m #o much,sorrow, ~— o “That’s a a Fact” By Albert P. Southwtek } Coprright, 1920, by The when | Now York Hrening Worth om All of these things the boss into your calcula- He will do that even For he will ANSWERS 2O QUERIES. | How mdny days did Dr. Tanner ~~ fast? JAMDS R. LAWSON. No, 100 West 61st Street, N, ¥. City. Sixty, He drank water quite freely Make }|@Uring that perioa, How much is a half-dollar of 1864 | with thirteen stars and “Liberty” on one side and an eagle on the other worth? ANXIOUS, Brooklyn, N, Y. It is impossible for us to give a definite answer, as the premium at | present may be 26 or more per cent whote the rating of some time ago, or per cent., more or less, than it will | be a month from now, Apply to some one of the various ,stamp and coin companies or establishments, > and Be one if you want to But be a sub- Ia it possible for me to obtain a | patent on an invention without con- | sulting an attorney? , What will be | the coat? | R. W. C.(a.poor mechante), N.Y. City, |. %¥e but it is highly advisable to ve Nome One represent you in the . sroceeding’. A patent attorney can son Ly focilitate matters for you, ‘There are thought many retlable ones in Wadhington ‘There | D.C. IC you must use your own eft no bargain p flying the Amerjcan* n *¢ Ky, dniqi and! forts, unulded, write to the Commi: iqutreheads” in (he American mor-| sioner of Patents, Washington, D. ¢, uint marine than there ate @mori- requesting an application di: y stating what you desire blank and iiths of them, don't intond |athe expense varies greatly, accord. ing to the form of patent yau ire, ita be $50 or $500. Years algo it AN-BORN SAILOR, 920, an low as $10, She became possesved with the one, ite