The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 22

‘ 2 ; ; THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1920. g sy THE RISK OF DISARMING UNTIL —— = : . — : | Che EseAY Boro, THEY KNOW THAT THE OTHER NA- By John Cassel The Statesmen} . f mitiMuemie te sceden pruTaen. TIONS ARE DOING THE SAME | flee RIAD ok oss I MEE ren poem 8 of the Bible Pudiished Dally xcept Sunday by The Prow Publishing Ff , By Rev. Thomas 3. Gregory | Oambany, Sten, B3 to 88 Part Row, New York. THING. WE CAN DO IT ALTOGETH- ‘ ae 54 "TL ANGUS SHAW, Tressurer, 62 Park Rew, ER; WECANDOIT BY AGREEMENT. \ em Hark Bring Werk JOSEPH PULITZER Jr. Secretary, 63 Dark Row. 7 : lectus sume “ALL NATIONS MUST COME TO A Ditew cesar trey scores motwas res COMMON AGREEMENT THAT THEY tet tellement WILL NOT START AGAIN THIS PER- NICIOUS, DISASTROUS RIVALRY IN THE BURDEN OF NATIONS. J 4 HE WORLD'S proposal that the United States ARMAMENTS, WHICH WILL INEVI->_ Br lead the way to a disarmament agreement TABLY LEAD TO ANOTHER CLASH famong the great nations has met with the cordial | “UNLESS IT IS ARRESTED.” j approval of leading statesmen and publicists on both Furthermore, the British Premler backed up Sides of the Atlantic. ‘words with action, He ordered that all Govern- Such a response was to be expected from any | ment budgets for appropriations be cut in half, in- part of civilized humanity that has felt earlier hopes | cluding proposed mifitary and naval expenditures. intensified in the terrible lessons of the last six years. There isn't a shadow of doubt but that the other |. The loss of nearly 10,000,000 men, plus the stu | natians will co-operate in any practical proposal ' 6 Pendous cost of $300,000,000,000 in material and | for the simultaneous reduction of armaments if Noe 7.—Hezekiah. Herekiah, the twelfth King of Judah, makes us think that, after all, there is something worth while in the dvctrine of “special Providence.” He lovks very much like “God'e Man,” rained up to do certain work that greatly needed to be done, Hezekiah's father, King Abas, waa jone of the most worthless men that ever occupied the thtone, In Jewish *** history bis name is accursed, and de- servedly ao, for as a consequence of his wickedness and all-around indif. furetice to the truths of religiod and morality and the welfare of the State, the peoplo had fallen into the bot- tomiess pit of Idolatry. The law of \ God had beou forgotten, the doors of ais ivuse were glowed; altars to { strange gods were to be seen on all the street corners of Jerusalem, Worse yet, every sort of iniquity { 4 Productivity, have’helped this generation to a new | WE point the path and Jead the way. was wou, Jerusalem was a wide ° tend | 8s judgment of war. . We have heard cnough, ard too much, sentimen- Own away) cee cuurast deewree: 3 "a Facts are stubborn things. So are figures, From | fal, selfish and often meaningless talk about “Amer- tion geemed to be closing in upon the { 1789 to 1909 the expenditures of this country for | ica first.” WP Pollitmiy ddan waa, wellupa tha ' wars and pensions amounted to more than one-half Let us hear once more—and let the world hear— ise aiaroy of tat austin Peaks ome i the total national income—$10,854,850,565, out of | the authentic voice of this great Republic of Peace. tin Rtas: dled, poling lg io ~* $21,401,539,121. Let it be: Joy of every decent man and true Ntriot In Jerusalem, end Hosekian camo King. : +] The young King (he was only twen- As a matter of fact, when all costs incidental to “AMERICA FIRST TO DISARM.” warfare are bulked, the United States during the ‘ half century has been spending, from decadé 4 AS dota between two-thirds and four-fifths of its | WHY DOES THE BOARD OF ALDER- total ordinary disbursements for wars, past, present MEN BLOCK HOUSING RELIEF? t ‘or to come. ee oe made ghis i to a Our fermen reconsider its recen' are Macc eran oyer sre wesits, oF our, wales action which rejected by a vote of 34 to 28 an ordi- power and timber reserves, yet we keep on pour- i" ‘ nance exempting new housing construction from ing out money like water for the maintenance of 1 joca! taxation for a period of ten years, ty-five) got busy at once, The first thing he did wag to clean up the Tem- plo, which was full of the rubbish that had been permitted to accumulate there during his father's careless reign. Having cleaned up the Temple, Heme. kiah put it in thorough repair, and when ali was ready he reopened the House of God with splendid cere 9° monies, it was a gala day in old Py eegrs 2 | and the heart of every pious Jew “| strong und fast with joy. Hezekiah was no fetioh- worshipper. eo “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy huge armamerts in a mad race for milltary or When the Legislature met in special session ‘ast nerve” was hls ecul'e motto, and be- * paval pre-eminence, fall to pass rellef measures for the housing crisis in cause he felt that way he got after o “brazen serpent,” said to have been the one-used by Moses In the wane dering, but which had now become an object of adoration, When Hezekiah got through with the oraszen serpens nothing was left of it but a heap of { dust. The worship of Jehovah was now ' restored. Once again Mount Zios was glorious, But Hezekiah was not through He sent messengers throughout Israel to summon the “Remnant” to @ great convention at Jerusalem, the purpose of which should be to bring about the religious and political unl fication of the various tribes, Hezekiah was a politician and ,| *atesman as well as @ religious man and he saw no reason why he should _ not unite his people politically at the same time that be was about the work of restoring the ancient faith. When the wise and good king had talked in his fatherly way to the mp- resentatives of the tribes who hid one In answer to his {nvitation, he sprang @ great surprise upon the whole people. one that they were not looking for, one that the most pious of the Israelites perhaps could not hope for—he invited them, in the name of Jehovah, to a celebration of the long- neglected Passover. It was an occasion of profound giad- ness. For seven days the celebration went on, and at the end of that time We grow excited about the prevention of fires in | this city, the one direct stimulus to new building cities while we spend both ouk interest and capital, | Provided In the special legislation was the act en- | ‘our time ‘and our labor for armaments that invite abling the clty to exempt from taxation new con- struction adding to the supply of houses. international conflagration. Nobody ever expected that rent laws to curb Miwe aréinot to be moved by the Intellectual and | rapacious landlords were going to build houses, moral arguments against war—tts folly and Its ‘The Legislature made it possible for the city to ‘qime—then, perhaps, we can be stirred to united | tempt capi.al into home bullding by temporary tax actin by appeal to the purse. exemption, : ‘Tiere %"'t a-nation on the face of the earth to- The city had only to pass an ordinance conform- 3 pat 4 Ing to the direct provisions of the Legislative En- ipermy stat; can AFFORD the criminal tuxury of | shine Act and the courts would have fad little _ mighty armaments, difficulty In passing upon the constitutionality of the League of Nations, with the vigorous | sich an ordinance. of the United States, been enabled to carry But first the short-sighted element among the ~ fnto immediate effect all its purposes, we should by | realty interests Mocked legislative intent by backing ‘ ~ this time be well on the way toward disarmament as ordinances that hedged tax exemption about with From Evening World Readers i 8 major part of the general programme of peace. conditions and limitations of more ¢hzn doubtful What kind of a letter do you find most readablef Isn't it the one, constitutionality, Lacking a that gi the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? eee nen See Then these same short-sighted realty Interests Dae tis wantes "cecrolee ané’ a lot of sctisjootion to trying fective League, two means for the guaranteeing of | argued into bewilderment enough Aldermen to de- | to say much in afew uords. Take time to be brief. peace are available, and they should be driven in | feat a comparatively straightforward measure that Se oe + UNCOMMON SENSE *, By John Blake (Copyright, 1940, by John Binks.) PROGRESS, 4 : : ‘sys- people salu, “Let us have seven i Praine for the K. of O support ~bemsely sudivicuals, but Great bridges and buildings, railroad systems and ‘sys the people sal. @ouble harness; might have started new building. the the Mier af The Bronung Worlds, § aust cals an toe whole creation for tems of government are not progress, but only the evidences Jo: Lathe ge Bs EaCNE ON 1. The arbitration of disputes, Borough President Curran of Manhattan has been It takes an ex-sorvice man to sing @3istance that compose these #o- y Hezekiah had triumphed. Through his Wisdom, tact and devotion the re- lgious and political ynification of, Is- rael was achieved. King Hezekiah was a many-sided man. In addition to his piety he was a great patron of literature, and his 3 < of progress, Progress is in the convolutions of the brain, 2. The Imitation of armaments. a strong advocate of the straight ahead legislative | the praisen of the Knights of Colum-| "ners row animale a cowardly $ which is the abiding place of the mind of man. The first of these, through the instrumentality of | Plan of tax exemption. He believes the Board of | pyer,cevecially one whe has been O0 ay a loke wot, but when, banded \o- Outwardly most men look much alike. The Zulu, while the Permanent Court of International Justice, will | Aldermen can be made to reconsider its action under | that that wonderful organization ac- Most anything, from the rear, if pos-| his nose is flat, still has a nose, as hay the highest, product ble. So with the chicken-hearted § of European American civilization. He also has a sure ompliahed and js still achieving all e pean or ’ in all probability be in actual operation before many | Pressure of public demand for the one practical, |Complighea and ia still achte Bei ia Winns she enicnen- Beene . for the @ole benefit of ex-service men. muy be a trifle bis superior as far mouth, a chin and two eyes. diplomatic dealings with Egypt, Assy- Fe eicnths* available method of encouraging home building. It's one of the many branches that Gs intellect is concerned, and together But the inside of his mind is a aort of a fog through $| ra and Babylonia show him to have New homes are needed, They are not being | has assisted to Keep the ex vice | they rely upon brawn-rather than § which he gropes for thoughts which are clear as print to the This good and wise man died, after @ As for the limitation of arm&ments, It must de- | puitt, man on the map. ie | How have all the great men th the|} civilized man. Pend upon an aroused public opinion in the various Unless the Clty Gf New York is toibave another | Af tre ae tra un wanes, ana rare (ouch Gud. WeAneliC deo nis ben ot Countries are called civilized because the men dnd nations. housing crisis next year worse than that of 1920, the |always was plenty of stationery, bandon his press at a given hour?! $ Women in them are progressive, You will progress not be- reign of twenty-nine years, B. C. 698 a aaa . Take any person famous in history,/% cause you happen to have a fine physique and powerful H H : i ehold 5 - : This country, with tts proposals for three more | Surply of dwellings must be increase. reading mate, ecenmy turers |raitin, oy xenon tare, tes] rms, but becaisc of what te stowed away in your bra, {|||2¢R~Minate Studie : Rattteships, one more cruiser and elghty-two vessels In the face of an acute housing shortage and a |iicuries that the soldier never| ‘The idea of promoting a clerk for|$ Where you cannot see or hear or feel it, of New York Git : PS with { in y Legislative Enabling Act specially designed to pro- | dreamed of enjoying during bis so-| fenlority is ridiculgus. | Ac¢ording to If you add to that store day by day, supplementing y | of other types, with Its naval estimates of $679, | Jit, one remed , why should the New York Board | Journ in foreign lands, deficits that term themselves stenug-\% €&¢h newly ecquired ability with another as soon as pos- Gov ; 515,731 for 1921, is setting the worst sort of ex. y Now that the war is over they have} raphers and the like who have been) sible, you are progressing. If you continue to progress you . 8 se " | of Aldermen invite the old cry that it survives only | ot forgotten that the ex-service man| usioclated with a firm for a halt 1! will, as the Creator intended you should play a useful and ample, is an incumbrance and an obstruction? still exista, and that something must} Century should hold official positions’ $ 1.1, important part in the world, P oy Wits Brooks Hawkins. ‘: 1 its be done to reinstate him to his] Sr" )net tri ay : ¥ its ff TMs ia the forty-ninth article of @ a Have we helped to defeat the greatest military piuan postition’ ta Nee; theretore | ache em me eaculaee ; qo petou progress s you regayd what you al series defining the duties of the ade A SS pation of Europe only to become’ ourselves the they eatebliohed the various‘employ-| He i sure of sdvanc ready know and what you already do as sufficient, you will ministrative and legislative offtoere | © : ENRIGHTEOUSNESS. ment bureaus {ree of charge, and to| certain period of time lapses. begin to go back, for the mind either develops or rusts. and boards of the New York City greatest military nation in the world? Pollee Commissioner Enright, tn -his latest date have placed quite a. couple of | expects the first choloe in, case of a Try to be progressive. Try to think of yourself as one DEPARTMENT OF . ‘s do it, bf If so, victory has been too dearly bought, peport, saya: hundred men on thelr fect again.| Or course preference of seniority, t» ¢ of those who are going ahead in the world, who are helping fac Aiciblictes i ‘i “Commereialized vice and gambling in The Knights of Columbus were a big} certain extent is practicable, but } it to find better ways to do things, more enlightened methods The elementary saboois ac ___ All our traditions and professions make us the every form have been relentlessly pursued factor in assisting the ex-service| Why do people assume such extreme) $ of despatching its work. losd Gh 48 Glatt eas tans See: ‘ Togical leader in a world movement for the reduc- and driven from the city.” men i montis 6.8 aetastial ree x" clerk under the bond of union | there is Hue) 10.0 While there are still cruelty and } {teen half-year grades. In addition ‘ Also Mayor Hylan, in his yawping about muneration for can not render his employer his most yppression and greed, every one has a duty to perform the majority of.them have kinder~ ' tion of armaments. tin polandid eiseeacy aaa tering hoeeats op te Government 5d the State, ger | faithful services He must be op hls $ which will be hard and troublesome, but which must be }|eartens,and classes for children who : Lord Robert Cecil is undeniably right when he Commissioner Enright, never neglects to refer aoe ane ccr with capable teachers. | contrary to the precepts of his organi: |$ performed just the same. are defective mentally or physically, | says that “those countries least exposed to sudden to the stamping out of vjce and gambling. seine Inutragticne, in praetionlis’ alt atlon, otherwise his Job ls in Seopardy. Thinking about your hard luck and your personal Sapiens ‘s Beh in special sub- f@atiack should set the example.” ‘The Mayor should not deal in generalities, trades, academic and commercia’| wrong, whether he advocates’ their|$ “buses will not help your progress, Try to help others and Te sf = badly gf heatt ie OREN | t ei Be specific! Point out to the citizens of Ni Surses—trades that would cost quite | actions or not, or he may be separated, $ you will soon be helping yourself, Stop to rest when y. . nguages, ng, ng, shopwort * i Lad ad from his hurricane-deck at , > and phy | fHe means the United States, and the shoe fits. York just what “vice and gambling” over. a sum to learn at a private school | Tent "te may become settled inva’ f “eed to, but only when you need to. Don't get weary of “Af it pinches, all the bétter for us. looked by Commissioner Woods have been dis ‘Their Jatest success ts the establish-| position he loves; then a general} Well doing, for there are all too few well-doers, and unless 4nd for retarded or over ment of civil service schools, 1m] strike is ordered and he ts out of aj} you are one of them you will merely be one of the maj aera oren chet Aivancement covered by Enright. n peed Is hal Martone anil Madly Ml 3 xt ie majority } | classes, Prevocational courses bave _ To be effective, the limitation of armaments must The New York public is often fooled, but which en nersitt Reggae ye eens {he same toward him if he eotuene’!|§ who do most things wrong and nothing well. en developed In the seventh and od : v' rvice that it] universal and simultaneous. Cabled messages you can't fool it forever with nonsense, tor ae Down with the man who suggests Rib grades of seven, ehoole ‘i iB on the white collar unfoni JAD, claases in the olementary sehen England, France and Japan agree that action J belleve there is not an exreeryice] Gee cluding several for the blind iene, J vice man in the country id, deaf, Hae anybody heard of any Christmas gold men or serviog man t i ————————————]| ed from the fort, as the enemy scaled | crippled, conv nt children in hos- must be joint and mutual. better given or bestowed than the $12,000 “of who wouldn't bear with: mela up-| Apere . lee h ’ F a the ramparts, her husband dropped iis| Pitals und others who are handicap- { - ‘ f to ma a. 3 ped. Open a 8 Gen, Sir Frederick Maurice says: the real metal” that went in The Evening Dae Sern den AG 1 am one of your readers of The T at sa act foushed ort the pec cna ee, oe enildren ‘ave been Granieed and in ° f vorid's Ci Fi ae . Evening World. 1 i} | pered off. Shot finea| More than sixty schools classe: : “ARMAMENTS ARE. IN Liha agin Pe aad Rx-Bergeqnt U6 Ay A. ET. | Eee ten che arand wrltines sel {| Bu Albert P. Southwick ||| by'the americans trans fot tate | anaemic children have bees treat diers in New York hospitale? my thanks for the g writings 1e No. 208 East 85th Street, Now York AS INSURANCE AGAINST WAR * * * City, Dec, 20, 1920. give him my beat wishes? ARMAMENTS CAN BE REDUCED TWICE OVERS, Het Friendiy to Unione, — | f cut out ol the writings perhaps ONLY BY GENERAL FRIENDLY G6-T HE lly i on fb rogers oi ecole Mr. John Blake, and will you pi | Comrrebha 22 PEP ieatay Were || 12 & remarkably fine painting by] ., There, ate classes for mental defeo- George Washington Parke Custis en.|tve# !n 159 schools where various titled “The Ficld of Monmouth,” rep. forms of handiwork, gach as baaketry, resent H i fe b \- ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Eitenting Molly Pitcher among other! Ging go, are taught ais wet ‘Wil you give a history of “Molly charac’ schools there are classes te nex eee Pitcher,” who fought at the Battle of blind are taught to make many things, Monmouth?—Fanale White, city, Can you solve the puzzle of how the| {> twenty-one schools there are i ‘e collar’ unions.| read them. He is only thirteen yeara What next? Haven't we experience | old, but later in life they may be of in this country. I am a Christicn lobbyist, {ng radical and unclvilized methods] value to him, as they sure are fine. if ‘This famous woman, called by her| Arab left seventeen horses to his thres|& ff oriPpled children, who are, eo, e eyed from® and to thelr 1 say it proudly.” —Reo. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts. of unions adequately In the past? Do} My many thanks 0) contemporaries “Capt. Molly," who| S04 each to have an even number of | buses, seen Lloyd George, in an address to the British dele- orn, horses*—R. T. Moore, Jersey Cit, ¢ By e es you purpose to introduce suoh ignor- Deo. 21, 1920. worked @ field plece at Monmouth,| x. J. » y Clty.) The gementary and trade schoo! fos on the occasion of their return from the eee ty Sonk tea ARG Anka M N.J,,on June 28,1778, and for whicn} \ Redouin chtef left 17 horses to his| Stange i The ee teeny nine ue Assembly at Geneva, said: 66 (V'VE the farmer's wife one husband to work in \Yederstions resort into tho office 0!) Anka ™ s Washingion gave her & Lieutenant's| 8 conn Gevinine byw thet te‘alt [Saset®. lSyqtte, Mementaey Souree | ™ y. 4 the fields; the fe the the mental worker? Unions > ere not ‘Why is it that when commission nine months later, on the se oe of Eber the Roxt branches; ang in fifteen schools there BORE DISARMAMENT 15 POS. | 5, wth te druaves rer more ond sot {sabi whe teen wl sy | 8 ste romaine a esieie tor ayaa pata eg aoe oie ice | ache ary 1 . le “and when fe dono by.) tn the: ox own horse with the 17, giv. E AL . S ‘ beh P20. Voort themselves independently, It» bine t ta umually Gelled. sisrincey| Seitlorie ever ‘theuy Bhe| tng I-d or fof the ite te, toe edie. a