The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 8

BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Dally Except Gunday by The Press Publishing Nos, 3 to 63 Park Rov, New York. Row. Fepubltcatton Geapatches credited to Mt oF pot otherwive erediied tm this paper the local pews published hereta. APPLY IT TO ENRIGHT. ILLIAM McADOO, present Chief City Mag- * istrate, was Police Commissioner from 1904 . to 1906. After Mr. McAdoo left Police Headquar- ters he wrote a book about the New York police which he called “Guarding a Great City.” Mr. McAdoo knew from experience the difficulties of a Police Commissioner. In his book he did not minimize those difficulties, On the contrary he laid extra stress on what a Police Commissioner has to contend with in the criticisms of the news- papers and the public. Nevertheless, Mr. McAdoo noted four questions Dound to be constantly asked—and with reason— about any Police Commissioner: First—Is the Police Commissioner a free man, or is he being influenced, by others either for politics, personal gain, or other ulterior motives? e Second—Is hie absolutely temptation proof and an aggressively honest man? * 'Third—Has he # high order of ability and the power to command? Fourth—Will he get the confidence and .Tespect of the men under him, and has he a © well-defined police “policy of his own, cast on big public lines to get beneficial and last- ing results, and to leave the force better than when he found it? These four questions constitute a not unreason- able test for Citizens of New York to apply to a man charged with directing 10,000 guardians of the public safety. How would Richard £. Enright, present Police Commissioner, stand that test? A CHEAPER CHRISTMAS DINNER. |) STPHE EVENING WORLD'S food expert notes that practically all items of the Christmas -menu are cheaper this year than they have been for several years past. Unfortunately poultry prices are still high, includ- ing turkey. Dealers with long memories say that present retail prices for turkey, ranging from 60 \ cents to 75 eents a pound, smash all previous However, the housewife, and for that matter every father, child, grandmother, aunt and cousin _ whe fares sumptuously at table de home, knows that white meat and dark meat, wings and drumsticks, are not ihe whole of the Christmas feast. Besides these there are vegetables, cranberries, fruits and The best Christmas present to most of -us this year is the news that prices for staples, both food and clothing, are coming within reach of the average income. Under present economic conditions this drop is * not likely to be followed by an orgy of buying. But if buyers maintain a near-boycott of dealers they will do so at their own peril. To discourage and limit produotion by prolonged refusal to buy would only create a scarcity—which would soon mean a rehurn to prohibitive prices, The wise consumer will be a discriminating pur- chaser, but a steady and confident purchaser, This will encourage honest dealers and, by force of com- petition, compel. greedy profiteers to come to their senses. er THE OPEN SHOP. HE Federal Council of Churches, under the leadership of Dr, Charles S. Maofarland, has in the twenty years of its existence established a reputation for courage and sanity. It is the official tepresentative of thirty-one denominations. The Council’s Commission on Church and Social Ser- vice has just issued a statement which says: “We feel impelled to call public attention to the fact that a very widespread impression exists that the present open-shop campaign is inspired in many quarters by antagonism to union labor. Many disinterested persons are convinced that an attempt is being made to destroy the organized labor movement. Any t such attempt must be viewed with apprehen- : sion by fair-minded people.” All warnings of the kind are timely. Only yes- terday William Butterworth, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, issued a call for a national convention of State manufac- turers’ associations to be held in Chicago Jan. 12. *; Among the big employers of labor invited are such men as Judge Gary, Charles M. Schwab and Dwight Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. The announced purpose of the conference is to protest against the railway brotherhoods because ~~ they are seeking to establish a national board of ad- jusiment to deal with labor disputes. Butterworth thinks, or pretends io believe, that this would mean ve “union domination over all industries.” _ The officials of the American Federation of Labor >) mte not to be caught napping. They are fully tam of what is going on and are preparing to a a ay fealisim, in other countries by reaction—a return to normaly. We are already beginning to see, even before the Inauguration Ball, what political normalcy is likely to mean in this country, We shall do well to be on | our guard if a similar return to the industrial nor- malcy of pre-union days is to be avoided, We may not be ready for a union Shop, closed against non-union workers; we certainly will not countenance an employers’ closed shop—closed against union labor. Forewarned is forearmed. OVER THE TOP. See Evening World's appeal to this great com- munity to provide a worthy Christmas for the wounded soldiers in New York hospitals has met with génerous response, This particular part of the Christmas celebration | in New York is going over the top with all the heart that thousands of enthusiastic contributors and workers have put into it. The Evening World was right in believing that the public only needed to be reminded of these | wounded boys and the Christmas they ouglt to have, ' ‘The fund was hardly started when contributions began to pour in, offers of entertainment made and service of all sorts volunteered. With the Stage Women’s War Relief supplying acting talent to entertain the boys at a midday dinner provided by John McE. Bowman at the Hotel Commodore, and with a special Midnight Frolic performance in the late afternoon on the New Amsterdam Roof and another dinnér with Florenz Ziegfeld jr. as host, nobody in New York is going to enjoy better Christmas catering or more tip-top Christmas amusement than these wounded solliers—which is as it should be. The Evening World has acknowledged with grateful appreciation messages and telegrams from President Wilson, Vice President Marshall, Secre- tary Daniels, Secretary Baker, Gen. Pershing, Gen. Bullard, Gen. Leonard Wood, Gov. Smith, Sena- tor Harding and many other distinguished Ameri- cans who have sent their good wishes for the Evening Worki Wounded Soldiers’ Fund in New York. President-Elect Harding’s message ended with the words: “They shall not be forgotten, now or ever.” The least we can do is to try to make Christmas come vening World Reade: To AE Tie aders! . ByJohnCa HE savages went naked and no doubt digested fruit, And when they tonged for partridge all they had to do was shoot. But it may be Mrs. Savage was | ertravagant in paint And all the little Savages made | juvenile complaint, “We want a bow like WeWe's, We want a fine canoe. , We don't have half such dandt things other fellows And Mrs. Savage quite agree was an awful shame, 80 Mr, Savage sighed about penses just the same, \ A couple of stanzas from Gamaliel | Bradford's “Shadow Verses” (Yate University Presa) going to assure us that always there has been the oost of living. . | | Dinner Versus Disarmament--+ | Resurrected from the pages. of \“Popanilta,” a satire written by Q raell in 1828: Shortly after his arrival, ing t© the custom of the c Popanitla joined the public table hia hotel at dinner. He was rather surprised that, im- | stead of knives and forks being lala) | for the convenience of the guests, the plates were flanked by daggers and . As Popanilia now made = point ‘Of never asking a question of kt deep, he addre: himself for tite, formation to his other neighbor, one of the civilest, most hospitable and joyous rogues that ever set a table in a roar. | On Popanilia inquiring the reason of thelr using these singular inatru- | ments, dis neighbor, with an air of great astonishment, confessed his ignorance of any people ever using any other; and in his turn asked how they could possibly eat thelr dinner without It pleases the Saturday Review of London to point “Popanilla” at the state of Irish affairs. As far as we have quoted we gee in |it the primeval basis for “Hell Rear- ing Hi" Johnson's opposition to the League of Nations, i. But the Senator, being confessedty an original and stand-pat American, dines doubtless with tomahawk and scalping-knife at his plate, ee Power of Cash, Price of Beauty--= ‘A parable from the pages of “The latest work of Kahlil Gibran, the Syrian poet: mean just that to men who suffered and still suffer that we might be safe From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? AGISTRATE COBB of the New York Traf- There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying fic Court has notified Secretary of State to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. THE BANDIT'S BEST AID. Hugo that he will urge the next Legislature to pass applying to the epidemic of crime.” and again he could not have made his geiaway ‘because the law does not give him the power, are goin} Obviously, he or some” one should have the have shown the most devotion to Success are Hi Lan, who are immune from all penalties, whose purses have been cut by bandits, presents for their girls, All outcry ceases the Christmas, ov the immunity enjoyed by Christmas is at hand, they have been again swept before the judges, These have raised and have gathered im cash and jewels may ing, that i the band were forced to easily give bait and again go forth. npand even, a quarter of a minute in Bureiy in hie city it 4s wise to be success. fave been almost impoumibte. the affa’ erry 5 A two bills dealing with the use of automobiles, one of |g. mune, Dan the Panic ink r” which will prohibit the operation of cars by felons, | New York people are Magistrate Cobb says what everybody knows to disgusted with chine, by which the eriminals could be making robbery and murder in New York less safe for the criminals would Murphy-Enright Administration. May je a ruling by the police that no be true: “the driving of automobiles by onetime |1 suggest you print a coupon in both driver or chauffeur of any motor .ve- felons is not among the least of the considerations | editions of your paper (that is both hicle may leave the engine running morning and evening editions) and! While atanding at the curb. Such a canvass the vote of the people tha Motor cars, including taxicabs, have been the | they—Messrs. Enriyht bandit’s best aid in his operations hereabout. Time | Inc.—resign or be removed count the returns and print them. Hylan-Hearst- ling could be very easily enforced. An appeal by the Police Commis- public that any and fon of this regulation be | sioner to the would, undoubtedly, enlist the su of ail honest and law-ablding citizens. SANDER A. SHUBE. The Mayor's suggestion of “every- whole organization. without them, ~|ody buy a gun” to protect them- Secretary Hugo says he has been unable to com- | selves is idiotic, to say the least; for, ply with requests of the police of this city that he if the issuing of permits is made that A easy surely the bandits and many tevoke the driving licenses of notorious criminals | who nevgr were hold-ups and thieves c to get one also, This would | increase crime then instead of stop- ping it, and the chances are power. many an innocent person asking the | Here is another strong argument for what this | direction somewhere or borrowing & newspaper has long urged—a codification and stif- | ™ateh. i* soing te mect wilh Ot vi fening of automobile laws, city and State, murderer exonerated because he be- lieved this an attempt to rob him. And they call him a Mayor! From a Locked-Out Student. | To the Baitor of The Brening Work! What happened to New York eve- ning high schools Dec, 15? “We regret,” say the offigials,-“'that account of lack of funds, discontinued until Jan. 3. In the largest city of the richest country in the world, “schools closed on account of lack of funds.” Is there no such thing as a con- our office-holders? Don't the officlals realize that public evening schools keep the future gen- eration out of gambling houses and poolrooms and in good company with excellent instructors and not where Anarchism and much dreaded Bolshe- Offigjals, eave your- science among vism is bred? selves now and you A Soviet regime politicians. Prevent Sovietism. Don't close your evening achools and force would-be scholars to seek poolrooms and Bolshevik dens or Rand schools for their rendezvous. hand, open more schools and teach pure Americanism and our country and ourselves, EY SINGBR, a Locked-Out 1779 Madison Avenue. New York, Dec. 18, 1920, is supposed to have It's high time he used them. called Christmas. Upon this day those who Although a Republican, Mitchel war @ good Mayor and he appointed a man in Arthur Woods, FROM THE OITY OF BI LAN. Then again, why have a Police De- To the Heaven-Born Mayor af Pekin, China: porenane i pia a. & pron oar. The people in this city of Hi Lan are moat ice of the Police Department pious in observance of their atrange religion. ply us with the necessary arms with They worship a god called Success, and once which to kill each other. euch year, at this season, have a holiday won ite badly paid in consequence. the smallpoy You can‘ catch the right kind of habits by associating with people who have them. Pick industrious, cheerful peo- ple for your friends, people who mean to succeed and know You can expose yourself to all their work- And if you get infected with them, it will make a big difference in the case with which you reach the goal you have set for yourself, ‘ as no use for ing the “Police Hospital Fund" 3 drive how to do it. ing habits with profit. honored because of the richness of the gifts fat the head of the department. they distribute among the other devotees, Most everybod: Failure in all things is punished, except tt drive and you should be able to add be among the favored class of the servants of to your victories. 1 offer this suggestion as one of the taxpayers of this city, and sincerely Thua the Overlord of Police, besieged by wish you the greatest success in your citizens whose heads have been broken and campaign on ie USTED CITIZEN. ‘The Only Way. To the Falitor of The Evening World: UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Hlake.) BAD HABITS ARE CATCHING, As a great orator once said, it would be better for the world if good health was “catching.” can easily get diseases from other people. never contagious. However, happiness is contagious and can be con- tracted by associating with people who enjoy it. turn to the dark side again, so are bad habits, In fact, most of us who acquire bad habits catch them from people who have them in a very virulent form. One lazy man in an office will be likely to slow up the One man who gambles, and seems to get away with it, will infect all his foolish friends with the gambling virus that is undermining his character. sensible ones won't catch it, for they know that sooner or later the gambling bug will get him. bear in mind, is the one habit, once its hold is established, that cannot be cured, no matter how many mental or moral doctors you call in, It is a pretty good plan to locate all the gentlemen with whom you happen to work or play, and take care that you do not expose yourselves to the habits that are keeping them from getting along. It will be easy to immunize yourself if you just think how much harm the habits will do, and take a cure the minute you find the first symptom developing. If a man is lazy, analyze the effect of his 1 him, note how little progress he is making, and resolve that you are not going to catch that particular habit, procrastinator, don't procrastinate just because he does. The habit will always keep him behind with his work, and Avoid that habit as you would But it isn’t. But health is And gambling, always ‘Once @ man unearthed in his Mad a marble statue of great beauty, And he took {t to @ collector who loved ail dreamed years?" And now the Fo! Nis statue, and uid to himself, “What beauty life! What dream of » soul—and fi with tho swoet sleep of a t ¥ro | Tet"money: ead and dreanticss™ | . When appreciation of the beauty i giving meets love of the beauty / art— How fortunate that these two me- in a world which has room for both eee |No Apology for the Puritan--- | Writes Agnes Repplier in the Yalr- Review for January: we tan plone ask for no apol at our Their condu shaped by Cigeyrrd and Re lg ye 4 which woul insuppor' Dut which ars none the less ‘worthy regard. Matthew Arnold summed up our modern disparagement of their standards when he pictured Virgil and Shakespeare crossing on thy | Mayflower, and finding the Pilgrim . Fathers “intolerable company.” 1 am not sure this would have been the case. Neither Virgil nor = 3 when they saw one, and ured his qualities largely, Yet it 1s sure, for one thing, that were anything like the Puritan Sun- day set up for modern New York— Not Shakespeare, Virgil or the Puri-~ tan himself would find @attery im the imitation, Fresh Drinks to the Freshmane-s the newly published o¢i respondence of Charlotte Gren (Lady Williams Wynn) we gather this induction of a freshman into the Oxford of 1800: When dinner was over at about 4 o'clock we adjourned about four- n And sat drinking Bumper ‘Toa: answers only that it ig the Christmas epirit Crime 4 Automobiles. The Governor can remove the Dis- and that the bandits are Out seeking to buy To the Euitor of The Even a euperficial reading of the rta of recent holdups, robberies enk warm words of protes are given by Hi + and murders in New York reveals one Lan, the Mayor, This may be devotion to outstanding feature. This is the fact that in the great majority of cases the oulprits were enabled to make « taway by having at trict Attorney and the. Police Com- ee “é ? > That’s a Fact By Albert P. Southwick by The Pree Publ Oe: PEE Meeting Won ‘The only way to stop crime in this city {s td get rid of these incompe- bring about this co as in most cases, A taxi Philip Hone wrote in his diary: “April 15, 1884—This was the day of the Overlord, or both, quick and safe Even among the bandits failure is punished, Their discos J elther 4 private stto- Sbile oF, Many who have been taken in crime have titing for them at the curb with the No Millennium Yet. en set loose again upon bail, But now that cogine running. quired to see that In a good n Ftances, especially in the broad , Y lught holdups in our crowded busine ihe. mF RRE CF their BOH,. 09: that shove sao vee ete or, ns in the tecont Washing hope Mate no money dy hendilry shell Lo opet fon Heights case, in which Lieut. into dungeons. But those who have gone Horton lost his lite, where (he band|ts closel ued by the or- expertly about their work of slitting throate rere cat and anainenr of the Dulide the Prohibitionists think me wave sweeping over > millennium from |W Party in the late charter elec- Prohibition, instead of which we find Roman era of decadency when Cajo Lucinio Verne inaugurated a period of unutterable horror and dissolution. Tormerly a poor man could turn to the comfort of 4 glass of beer; to-day, deprived of this consolation, he turns his mind to the sordidness of robbe: iO VACCARO. Nichoing Avenue, No ference, Three pipes of wine and forty barrels of beer were placed in their car their escape would ful. or @ servant of Hi Lan. in almowt Al} cases ao! Ju the course of me, ator pe No, 18 dows the number of the Xork, Dee by riots ware run t the Lae LOA ’ j article “the” In “the Governor's Inl- and,” has been eliminated from the ttle by common usage, thorities dispense with the possessive y. Apostrophe, as has the Eastern De- This dono we, returned downs partment of the United States Gov- i ernment tn official papers, but this] 1 was inlataken In my condectu An example of the usi to be delivered on The Governor's in some cases, leased Governor's [. and for their individual profit iy a tradition—more or less fn: that yeer and| After all, he could be a brand y once? _| tl about half-paat nine. You may suppose by this time non? of Party were too sober. We adjourned ho Some au- a new 1s aU y obliged to drink a glass of wine with every person In company, stairs, as T hoped, on our way our respective dena, but for once for upon coming tnto the room ## form has not been generally adopted.| had just before lett in order to ge f the" ia supper, [ found the Bottles, given in a letter from Gov, ‘Tryon to| Fruit, éc., removed and tn their the Grand Fete at Castle Garden to| the rl of Dartmouth, date of Sept. ee the ianle oa 4 smith ter elebrate the triumph gained by the|5, 1775: "The city remained| ,tumblera and three on four s € quict * © © Fresh provisions are alle’ Tie eae in this city, and it went off|tyiand for the Asia,” nee Ye Tables were spread in a 8 the party broke up an double row within the outer ciroum-| The later Governors of Now York, me sadovens ia; *Headaa! eth nts upon ov enn ‘re There omachs and overheated, that under an awning, and/Govy, Clinton leased the {sland for a| May one imagine a cer-ain satisfac- out during the repast.” race course to a Dr, Price, who built in, this undergraduate’s refieetio: e 1a a hotel there in 1784, and that some | that— Forerunner” (Alfred A. Knopf), the * Men as strong as were the Purt-