The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 20

ENGLAND'S PROBLEM OF THE IDLE. HE problem of unemployment has been for many years a grave menace to economic and Poiilical stability in the former enemy states. Recently it has also become acute in England, where half a million men are out of work—147,000 in London alone. Fully half of the unemployed f are ex-service men, ‘The nations of Europe, particularly, are hegin- | — J ning to realize that the costs of the war are likely ee #o prove a formidable burden for generations to Bie} come, The imagination has conyparatively little ditti- culty in visualizing the 10,000,000 dead and the other millions who must hobble through life halt i bind. But only aotual experience will make teal the further costs of physical deterigration and ®onomic maladjustment. * pritish statesmen, right now, are more worried gbout unemployment than they are about Ireland. “Critical as is the latter, the former is even more so. 0 real solution is in sight. At best only make- shifts and palliatives, The Premier's suggestion {hai the unemployed be obliged to emigrate to the Dominions looks very much like the deportation of the idle and is hardly likely to meet with an enthusiastic welcome. Inasnwuch as the decline in trade, for want of available cash or credit, is at the root of the trouble, it would seem fo be the imperative business of Lloyd George and his associates to go about the re-establishment of credit at the earliest possible moment. Surely the talk of deporting the idle is the ver €lap-trap of embarrassed statesmanship, jest A Republican House finds tax revision hard, forbidding work. But passing snap tariff meas. ures is a pastime. POLITICS AND BUSINESS. FTER the first of the new year both Franklin Roosevelt and Gov. Smith will tur a new {Teaf in their lives by giving up politics for business, ! Mr. Roosevelt will become the Vice President of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, in charge of the New York branch, and Mr, Smith will take up his duties as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Trucking Company. As both men have demonstrated a high order of 1 executive ability in their governmental posts, it is | foregone conclusion that they will succeed in their H ‘new ventures. } Time was, more particularly in connection with the government of European states, when capacity for success in politics argued mediocre talent for the practical affairs of the work-a-day world, =. Also, particularly in this country, the reverse has been true, and a hard-headed business man was sel- dom credited with.possessing the first requisite of gram te to keep his nose out of his ger long enough to take an expansive ‘view of ¢ social order, o But, happily, that day is now all but past. “page in history has been turned, There never was a time when the business of government stood in more urgent neal of practical sexperience and acumen or when the politics . sine ia A 4 ¥ » Shess called more insistently for broad and intelligent 3 Bi . ostatesmanship. 5 o 4 oO 2\* Before Prohibition, Americans hiccoughed } fr 4 harmlessly, Now hiccoughing is morbid and 5 a e epidemic. , oe ew A THANKLESS CHILD. ‘ ANY masterpieces of fiction and drama haye- been tales of ingratitude—like Balzac’s oe Pere Goriot” and Shakespeare's “King Lear.” oThe secret of thelr abiding greatness has been their a verisunilitude—they have held the mirror up to Jife. PS % Oce more, in the case of Mr. C. H, Cahan, one } "of Canada’s most distinguished lawyers, literature has jwoved itself to be but the reflection of life. Finding it necessary to go abroad on important business, Mr. Cahan put his son in complete charge of his affairs, conferring on him power of attorney. » When he returned to his home, after a brief ab- #senc:, the father was amazed and heartbroken to }fine that his son had dissipated the family fortune *and tbsconded. » Parenthood is a sacred obligation, and, when those for whom we have toiled and moiled are sincerely ? of the perfect State, where every man should dwell under his own vine and fig tree and there should be none to make him afraid. But we did not appreciate that we had right here fn our own midst a financier who is also a poet, prophet and stateqnan. D'Annunzio will need to look to his laurels, To realize this “dream of Darwin” i} will only be necessary for us to forget our hot-headed Indis- cretions of 1776 and 1812, scrap our Declaration of Independence, stretch our elastic Constitution, and— Presto!—the thing is done. To propose that'the Anglo-Saxon people, have a common language, a common love of liberty and a common jurisprudence, commit themselves to a more intimate enlente is both sensible and de- sirable, But to suggest that we play the part of the widowed daughter and return to the parental roof is mid-winter madness, who GOV, SMITH'S CHANCE There are eight days left in which Gov, Sintth could come to the relief of his home city by removing Hylan and Enright. Of course Gov. Miller can make the rescue. But many New Yorkers would like to credit Jor the initiative and courage of the re moval go to Al Smith, NOT SUBMERGED. HE crime wave has not submerged the sanily and good sense of New Yorkers. Few of them are wrought to a pitch where they find comfort in automobile loads of police armed with rifles and automatic pistols dashing aboul the city in the wild expectation of pumping bullets into highwaymen or shooting down burglars in the act of burgling. Nor does the idea of private citizens carrying guns for self-protection and firing them whenever evel-headed inhabi- tant of this not wholly uncivilized city. These Wild West methods are been expected of Hylan-Enright incapacity goaded by make a show of doing something. Sane measures are all that sane cili York ask as protection against crooks, This is no border town where posses with whoop- ings and guntire round up “bad men” them out of the town limits, This is the great City of New York, with a police force of 10,000 men aid all the courts and legal machinery that brains and money can maintain, What New York wants to see is the power of ils law and its police exerted to full purpose and effect. Three or four simple, straightforward policies consistently carried out would prove more reassur- ing than all the sensational sharpshooting police squads and citizen armings that Hylan and Enright can devise, For instance: (1) Restore the fixed post system. Under that system citizens who needed a policeman knew just Crooks hated ‘the fixed- they feel nervous appeal to the what might have publi: indignation into desperate attempts to zeus of New and drive where to look for him, post system. (2) Scrutinize Find out how many convicts and men with criminal records are driving taxica sory to crime. the public to use only “reputable are there disreputable ones? (3) Let all Judges require high bail bonds or confinement in cells for prisoners whose rec stamp them as dangerous. Judge Melniyre said yesterday: “mt were given # lessev as to the power of the authorities. and awaiting trial for crimes of violence en joy extraordinarily simall bail fixed by Magistrates. The community will be made safer with them bebind prison bars,” And where there is doubt, the benefit thereof should be for the community. (4) Stiff sentences for convicted bandits and thugs. Take away ground for the police complaint that Judges fait to back up the hard work of de- tectives in running crooks to earth, With a programme that included a few practical policies like these, with a new directing nead worthy of the men that make up New. York's police force, with the full power of that force applied, no spec- tacular, small-town police stunts would be needed to persuade New Yorkers they were being protected taxicab licenses. The taxicab is a frequent acces- Police Commissioner Enright warns taxicabs.” Why ‘ords s about time the crooks of New York .Many of these men out on bail the “appreciative, a glad and glorious duty. ® But when the child for whose sake have escormed delights and lived laborious days proves Srecreant, we know the full meaning of the words of Sear: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is.to "have a thankless child,” wv - x INGSLEY'S “IDEAL COMMONWEALTH” : ¥ an address before the New England Society last : night the versatile President of the New York Life Insurance Company blandly suggested that we n with all ed other English-speaking nations in of an Anglo-Saxon commonwealth, n Federal. Union, tion against crime. | TWICE OVERS. | iti N°? among the least of the considerations ap- é plying to the epidemic of crime is the driving of automobiles by one-time felons. Magistrate W. Bruce Cobb of the New York Traffic Court. oe, + “66 PNCAPABLE (police) officers breed contemplu- i ous shiftless men.""—Col. Arthur Woods, Former | Police Commissioner of New York. ‘ * * | 66 IPLOMACY, which may have the rheume- ident “| ms isHill necessgry.”—Rene Visions. — THE EVENING WORLD, ‘THURSDA,, DECEMBER 23 | Coming to New York=-Xmas, 1920 net From Evening World Readers| What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | te say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. total laborer Ready to Be Pot Hight To the Kal f It seems to bean 1 that the girls who prefer to sp evening at home and fellows who have the same desire become acquainted, 1 am \ stranger fn the city, notwithstanding the fact that I ha been here about six months. So far I have not met girl who ca “ve- ning at home, I like to dance and like @ good show, but I also Mike that | am considered something than « ticket buyer or dancing 1 ner, product by others than the World fortunate tact dan hardly ever practically a d about spending an emist of the was paid $5,000 ; production of new hew methods of be! production to fee more rte However, a8 there are exceptions eve poses bl ‘Ho meet a girl Me was not 7 jtovevery rut, possibly TM imeett BIN ie gee of poration t who doesn’t object to staying in for) aca Bi Ris apenne one night during the week. When I) there might a the fact of his Wi do Vl! apologize for Ue stat ts) Nelation to. the salary I have o Bae SOY 38 ons Whnhurst, Lt, Dec, ts, 1920 ‘ Vary N | Wages aud Salary, voce Stline Wave tottttent, | | Ta the dtiter of Tv Work! Dake | In The Evening World of Dee. 17 Vor more than two years ou y (1920, Mr, Himter of Brooklyn usked | ls bern he erly of the criminal "What is the difference between the nent, protected by high Influences two words ‘wages’ and ‘salary 2" n Tammany ae fey Tbe Be I read ‘The Evening W Ha of both Hylat day and J have swer to Mr. Hunter's inquiry, ‘There iy little cause for wonder ut the inquiry. Don't send him to the dictionary for an answer, as his in not yet seen an an good offices of your great news- are invoked to this consum mation. CHARI New York DINSMORE, Jaquiry suggests that he has looked j there a ly 1 have before me Ha Abit | Webst Unabridged As to both} rhe horn waiter oe words, wages and salary, many and). Sa patio various. dofinitions are given and not jor Tid fact aha lameriveliecthe laid [one of them: definite he senpitions f the free and the home of the for- given are quotations from the writ- | oigner? of Scott, Shakespeare, ‘Thack- | He should go down to the Army Wad oe ‘Transportation Building at White- ‘eray and Tennyson. Stree hall place style of @x- Thore 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction 4m trying a | ‘Tho perceptions, the with foreign A citizen has a very pression and the uses of words by! Toor chanee of securing a. position Pose writers at their time were #0] on the ships. | diferent trom the clearer vision and | "te certainly strange why for \truer exprestion of our t that loieners without t ect aes their definitions should be &bso- | hecoming citlz ven the pref. lutely obsolete; but the dictionary Mo cinarusaie pteleneat ates does not declare them 30. AN SBONE BRIT ‘Out from my elghty years’ experts |" f Tousht for this country volun. | ence with Hite and my observation Of /tarily, but utter visiting Whitehall the changes in the use of language 1| Street in Lie hope of securing a job will presume to give my own def Pe MANe Up Ge mailed it tion oe the words he asks to have} Amerloa hax another war Pm out of} defined, Such definitions are ap-|it, Let the people they give the jobs piouhle to the present changed con-|to fight for the countey Hitions and customs: — definition AMERICAN SAILOR ‘opted and used In xelentifle dis-| New ¥ fee. #1, 1920 qumed to be the return for the ex. |e the battor of ihe Gronng W erelse of Jabor, lak ing the cuuse| Your editorial of to-day in sub and reward the consequence. Ce iranak Tt is helpful to begin my answer|” “phe offect of the Enright ayate of favoritism on the mor Labor js expended human energy) ot men who guard the publ engaged with materials, In the pro-land whose first assurance ought duction of that which will supply | be that intelligent performance human needs or gratify human de- | duty, courage and faithfulness arn + sires ‘Wages is, and conslsta of, the surest guarantees of promotion.’ entire product of unaided jana atl By acts acts.of politicians in the Slate ‘tons of Judges jzuee remalne atves, Guess ee hte: as not’ Lire ro A with a definition of labor. é Ae Ss of a body | > safety | 1 beg of you, sir, to start a cam Wisdom is u tree and active paign protecting not only the police- virtwe ito fruits —The Talmud, man’s job but all civil ser€lce em | plosees’ rights in civil service tests Youth i# for action, old age navy while we stayed home, perform- y not awarding UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) z THE TAX YOU LAY ON YOURSELF. You 4 complain against the income tax all you please, but you must pay it. There is no y to get out of it but to pay the greatest debt of all, the debt to nature, And, after all, the heaviest tax ever Inid by the Gov- ernment is really a trifling affair to the tax that most of us lay on ourselves. We yn our dai might be We industry, future. y ineonles, although whole books of editorials written about that. mean the tax on our time, on our energies, on our on everything that ought to mean capital in the You may pay as much as 20 per cent. of your income to the Government if you are fortunate enough to enjoy a big income. But you tax your capacity for work 50 per cent. by idleness, p ion and inattention. You may feel keenly the loss of every penny that is sacted fron vou by the law. But you will feel still more nly, by ond by, the loss that you are suffering right now from neglecting the things that it is most necessary for you lo be doing, The m&n who is most efficient is the man who taxes Himself the least. Tneidentally, he is the man who has the best chance of a competence by and by. For the time that he saves, and the wisdom he lays up, and the skill he ac- quires all may be coined into money by and by. We have spoken before, and mean to speak again, of the fact that practically without exception the men who draw big incomes now are being paid in large part for work that they did in the past, when they were getting very much | smaller pay. Perhaps they were underpaid then, but the law of com- pensation is still in foree and for every hour that they put in doing something that ought to be done, they are in receipt to- day of twenty hours’ pay. Because of a great war, which was necessary to secure the world’s peace, you will be taxed by Government this year and for many years to come at a rate that may well strike you as burdensome, All the more reason why you should mit the taxes that you have been laying on yourself. Take off as many of those taxes as you can, Abate extravagance and save actual money—now. Abate indo- lence and folly, and waste of time, and you will soon be in a position to regard the heaviest tax laid by the Gov ernment as nothing for a successful man to bother about. An: »od Into consideration, but look out for their own welfare in. respect to the veteran prefere bills) there sip hatred de the Al future for the faithful police officer est pleasure, Men love in haste, who stuck to his job during the war jut they detest at leisure— Mergency ist un theamoreie o Anonymous © them some Fy the police, incentive to work: absolute preference e@ war veteran, who may have some soft job in the army or ‘ov counsel.—Adage. ing our duty faitheully and honestly., —¢4x,—Disraell, as you can altos! | A Pouce Orie A avaiemOn | Progresa ta the development o; FORCED LATM New York, Deo. 20, 1920, order-—Auguste Comte, ~ not speaking of the extravagance that is a tax ' Words From the Wise | Ignorance never settles a ques: |Fhe Statesmen of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Coormens 3620 pe. itn, Wendie No. 6.—Ezekiel. The Book of Bzekiel opens with these words: “Now it camo to pass in the thirteenth year, in the fourth inonth, in the fifth day of the month, as [ was among the captives by th River Chebar, that the heayens opened, and I saw visions of God.” Afid such visions! What a pleture }gallery Bzekiel ts! No other mam’ er thought in such resplendent lip ter picture passes by us on the screen, flashing as thong their lines were set with diamonga. In comparison with this old pro; | statesman Dante, Tasso and Mi are a8 prosy as 80 many “old clothes’ men, Generally speaking, those who think in pictures need no commenta- but it is not so with Ezekiel. underneath @his wonderful is the mbolism that res quires the closest attention if one would understand it, The Jews placed Ezekiel among the “treas- ures,” those portions of scripture that were not allowed to be read until the age of thirty Among the Down images es by the ri (time, B.C. 596; pla m= in Mesopotamia, probably ima on of Bagdad) Bzeklel was e great leading spirit. The exiles, to a man, looked up to him and @ fided in him, He was, under Jehovah, their light and hope, When the were in doubt they appealed to him when in despaly jt was from him that they received courage and hopeful+ ness, Above the lamentations of the Hes as they sat down by the waters weep was heard the heartening of their brave lead valli them to the faith in God which was 80 essential to their salvation, Not for an instant did Bzeklel's trust waver. As the sunflower evér turns its face toward the sun, so Ezekiel constantly looked toward Jehovah. Sometimes it is a good thing to § w-ininded have the whoie don a single object, cosmopolite, uni~ chial in hig men ‘the re by the been lost in the But Ezekiel His face was y ght have heathenisi about them. opolite. uism he managed faith, and all the id his pe lel was, n start ‘to finish, that fact. rs iis mission single day of 16 falter in his works, the blandishmenta of who would lure him of his fathers, and onings of pows held right on and not for riod did immune to th erty and loneli to his high purpos | Tradition hag it murdered by one men whom he his tdolatr; where be of n country= reprimanded €W jd that he burted ar Bagdad, later on the the famous to help the Kalser realizo his cher= ished dream of a “Berlin to Bagdi Railway” which should be all Mil own. Opera Stories At a Glance Coprrieht. 1930, by he Vows Bubilshidg Co, Primi ‘New ‘Fork’ Leone, World} 9. — Giordano’s No. “Mi Sans-Gene.”’ | 7NATHERINE, or “Mme. Sanne C Gene," as she is commonly known, is a laundress of une usual vivacity, originality and charm, During the first revolution in France, jat th ne when a young Corsican officer finds himself unable to pay his | laundry bin, a young Aus wounded and asks t A searching party, led by Sergt. De- febre, her betrothed, comes to the housé after {ts prey, but Catherine diverts them for a a bottle of wine, efebre finds Count Neips alizes that he 1 trothed, agrees he in ¢ y having heard of her actions, hes him to divoree her, Netpperg, b he Austrian Ambassador, comes | to bid them guodby, as he is gol home, but Napoleon, having suspected | [an intrigue between the Empress and, jhim, has him recalled. Catherine is announced at chambers of Napoleon, and as she und on the arm which’ she res the battlefield. As a clim: ¢ forth a yellow laundr bill which he StH om ork done while he was an impe ous Heutenant The Emperor is charmed by heb spirit and natvete, and kisses the scay jon her arm, | “The Emperor owes me nothing |more,” declares Catherine with @ | curtsy As she is about to leave with an em. of officers, Neipperg comes in d, tears the strin, Jor med: Ambassador’ | breast and Js about to strike him in face when Nolpperg draws hint When officers rush in, thee mperor orders him to be shot before | dawn, and orders that Lefebre take _ | charge of the execution. But Catherine eloquently pleads for Nelpperg. and sufficiently convincea™) poleon of the preas'a . fidelity » agrees to make a tont, At she goes to the Empresa! and anounces Nelppe The Empress hands out a letter, say, in ve him this—and my’ fare poleon breaks the seal, ax finds that the | the Emperor of Austria, whom she urges to entertain Neippong in Vi as his assiduliy troubles Nay ‘and herself. Napoleon returns noble's sword and allows him ('¢ pare, | AD ‘unis as for yor ys tote tweaking atherin ‘#8 ear, | repre 4 | wis As thie—hold her forever’ tome, £50 give Seonbs to. Bees jen for gt