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PULITZER, Preaidont, 63 Park Row. |, ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, Park Row. PULITAER Jr.. Secretary, 62 Tark Row, MEMWPER OF TIE AsBOCLArEN Pree Associated Prem Us exclusively entitled to the wae fer repibtiontion vWD dempatrhes creitited to It oF Hot otherwise credited tn nls paper ise the fora) ews published berein AT LEAST THE LAWYERS ARE, PAID. * TOCKHOLDERS of the New York, New Haven em and Hariford Railroad Company will reccive | 98 1,666,666.66. Lawyers we! $833,335.38 That is the end of the $150,000,000 restilution Suit brought against directors of the New Haven Toad following one of the most tragic injuries to a ogreat railroad property through financial mishand- fing that the country. has seen, A compromise approved by the Federal Court brings the lorig drawn out litigation to a close. In @ memorandum accompanying the discontinuance Papers.in the case Federal Judge Hough says: i “The only interest of the plaintiff in the sult | > tw to get money for the corporaic defendant * and counsel fees and expenses for their own solicitors.” With counsel getting a third of the sum agreed ‘upon, which latter is only one-sixtieth of the amount for which suit was brought, it looks as if the plain- . tiffs nad finally made up their minds that’ enough te cover lawyers’ expenses comfortably plus a small ~ Mmargin for form’s sake was tle most they could ‘ever expect. ‘ ' Judge Hough says further: | “Some year of litigation having proved—to , ‘k me—how costly and uncertain the whole matter ’ must be, it is a gratifying result to avoid fur- a ther Investigation of what can never be wholly § undone.” ie And there the New Haven stockholders are likely to leave it—never to be wholly undone—thankful that at least the lawyers are paid. 4 “Uncle Joe” Cannon makes a record to-day for long service in Congress, Will the toasts be only in cigars? GOVERNMENT BY FANATICS. HE Executive Secretary of the Jewish Sabbath ~ Alliance, objecting to the charge of Dr. Cratts the International Reform Bureau that the Alli- folks are “championing their brothers in the business,” says of the Blue Law agitation: “The question is important, It is one in- volving the fundamental tenets of the American Constitution. It means whether & handful of intolerant fanatics are going to Tule this country or whether America stays & democracy.” | The warning is timely. The movement to regu- ‘Rte the manners and morals of the people by islative enactment has gone too far already. __ AS we have recently seen in New York and other ties, there is plenty of work to be done in suppress- ‘tng real crime, without overloading the statute with imaginary crimes and mobilizing an of moral police to keep individuals, by threat and imprisonment, in the path of private If Brothers Crafts, Bowlby, and the other con- ables of conscience, have any moral energy \o Spare, why don't they rally to the support of social i in the interest of economic justiet? _ “Or if they are blind to the ethical significance of taundane matters as wages and living condi- ‘why don’t they devote their surplus time and to the support of Such practical pro- of Christian benevolence as Mr, Hoover's Robie effort to feed the starving children of Europe? - . wutiam #. Anderson has issued what he galls a “Prohibition ordinance for every city ‘end village in New York State.” Happy New Year! POETIC JUSTICE AT FIUME. r ABRIBLE D’ANNUNZIO needed no pro- phetic insight to foresee the coming of a day @f doom when his mad adventure at Fiume must ‘meet with tragic failure. | The ecstatic fatalist who wrote “The Triumph of Death” probably knew all along that he was throw- dice with destiny. he did not he was practically alone in his self- Hy Fr the terms of the Treaty of Rapallo, Fiume is to be a free state, with an independent Jocal_ government, affording to the hinterland of Jugo-Slavia unhindered access to the sea. refiused to acquiesce in the judgment statesman as to this disposal of the city. he would have “all or nothing” and annexation, aed + aE So «. genuine though misguided enthusiasm Uberty, reinforced by passionate outbursts of he rallied nearly 5,000 “patriots” to his d of revolt. For months he held Fiume in of the Allied diplomats and of his own most melodramatic scenes in history—-a strange mixture of tragedy and comedy. Now that Caviglis and his regulars rave forced the capitulation 4 d’An» szio and his legionaries, it would surprise noted ve the poet strike an attitude of patriotic martyrdc by imitating Brutus at, Philippi and ending it all with a bare bodkin ENRIGHT TO DATE NRIGHT continues his belated, panicky efforts mit look like an efficient Police to make Commissioner, With as good a body of men as the rank and file of the New York police, even an Enright can hope for results by reverting under pressure to the tried and successful methods of some af his pre- decessors That does not mean that Enright is a dit man to direct the city’s police, Nor does it mean that the force will ever give the service it capable of giving so long as it is under Enright rule. For nearly two years Enright has had a chance to demonstrate the value of the Enright policies in police administration, ; After twenty or more months of those policies the city found itself with a Police Depariment in which morale had been undermined by favoritism and etticiency reduced by deliberate relaxing ot sys- tem, regardless of public need Demand for better protection against a menacing increase of crime forced Enright to conceal his policies for the time being behind a show of police activity along reliable earlier lines. In changing his tactics, Enright’s whole attitude has been one of il-concealed contempt for a public foolish enough to be excited over hold-ups, rob- beries and murders so bold and frequent as to make New York unsafe by day of night. Enright has changed only because he doesn’t dare keep up his arrogance while piblic attention remains concentrated upon him and his office. Meanwhile he has shrewdly juggled himself from the leave-of-absence list as’ Police Lieutenant to the retirement list’ as Police Commissioner, so that under a law which he and Mayor Hylan can- nily put through the Legislature year before last he can retire from his present office with a pension of $3,750 a year for as long as he lives. Even at that price Enright would be cheaper out of Police Headquarters than in it. He has the confidence nefther of the public nor of the great majority of men on the force. He has had no*use for police officers whose recerds have been notable for honesty, energy and efficiency. His policy of easy jobs and advancement for favorites has made for discouragement and demor- alization among a body of public servants who should be able to count on faithfulness to duty as the first guarantee of promotion, The people of New York know all this. They are not taken'in by Hylan-Enright harpings on the “wonderful clean-up of vice and gambling.” Nobody has shown where Enright has done more or as much as his predecessors against vice and gambling. - Nobody has to show that Enright has failed to keep unprecedented numbers of citizens from being held up and shot in the streets, in their places of business and even in hotels and homes. . When New York gets a bad municipal adminis. tration the worst effects are always seen in the Police Department. For close to two years New York has been pun- ished for its civic sins with a Hylan and an Enright. Not the least the city has suffered from the combination is the lowered value of 10,000 husky public guardians who only need a capable head. New York hoped Goy. Smith would come to its rescue and rid it of the Hylan-Enright regime. It must now look to Gov. Miller. It should not have to look long after next Sat- urday. Enright would have crime curbed from Washington. Other Police Commissioners have managed to doal with ft locally. TWICE OVERS. 66 JF Governments, after the lesson of the war, do not agree simultaneously to limit armaments; they commil suicide.” —D’Estournelles de Constant, > aha “ HE WORLD leading America and America leading the world on the road to real peace via disarmameént."—Maximilian Harden. @ “ei"* “ec HERE is not the slightest danger of anything approaching Bolsheoism making serious head- way either in France or Italy.” —A. C. Bedford. ney 667 REGARD the income tax law now in force in the United States unreasonable, unfair, and inimical to the hues solavsats of the country.” —Judge E. H. Gary. ee teen Oldest Love stories By Maubert St, Georges. 9 ade mm Sruityoe © GUNTHER AND BRUNHILD. KUNHILD, Princess of -lssiand, was gifted not only with won- arous beauty, but also with marvellous strength. So proud was he of this second attribute that she (| vowed she would marry none but the {i man who could surpuss her in caat- img & Gpear, throwing & stone ana Jumping. t 4 Now Gunther, King of Burgundy.# | AWN b, : became possessed with @ burning de- { ae 4 7 wire vo win Brunhild fo bis wie and eh H i , decided to set sail for Issiahd There * | } y was at that time at tbe cuurt of King Thee , Guatner a great warrior, Slegiried, | ‘ ( the @on of the King of tie Ni 4 who remained there in the hope | y f « p of winning Kriemiviid, Guather’s gie-)~ | } ter, for hus wife, in vain did Sieg K fried seek to dissuade Guuther, ey- ing Brunhild was aii but invincib! Gunther inmsted on ueparting. Seeing it was useless to talk, Sicgiried do- termined w go with bim, and the two | prt) S Le ry tee in return @ Would ted Kriemhild's hand. — Then these two, accompanied only 4 i by two more kuights, embarked upon | ’, a Bi \ * ‘ @ small vessel and salied northward | f \ f y Si 8 until they reached lswland, Here siog- | [st ae ‘ ‘ , fried, representing himset us Gun- » i ; iy § N ther’s vassal, introducea him and in- { : . formed id that Gunther had come to Iasland to woo her. . Upon this Bruobild ordered her’ warriors to prepare all for the oon- test. Three men, staggering under ite welght, brought her a massive Lopes liga ar) ei ars scarcely carry spear, while, so says the Nabelungen Lied, twelve men could barely roll toward her the stone she intended to throw. . . Gunther at the alight of this began to get worried, expecially when be noted that Siegfried had disappeared. ‘The latter bad returned to the boat . : to don the “larukappe, au inagic " ¢ ¥ cloak that made him invisible, Quick- | oe ‘ cs ty : ly .be returned to Guntner’s side, | - who, knowing that dea: as the ‘ \ ‘ ; \ ih i " penalty for failure, was o@@fjoyed to te } i bear him. Upon Siegfrie@s advice | ? ; , ‘ he gave him his shield and went i bey x ~'lthrough the motions while Siegfried dia the work. First Brunbild took up the tre- Y fF \ d mendous spear and cast it at Gunther | ; : cf » with such force that both the war- . 7 : ° i rlora staggered and almost fell | \ . hate be. Nevertheless, Blogtried bad caught ‘ Ks i ‘ the spear, and unwilling to burt @ s \ woman, returned it butt-enll fore- most so violentiy that just as the princess was going to cry out victory she was thrown on her back and obliged to acknowledge herself van- quisned, Nothing daunted, however, she caught up the huge Stone anu, throw- ing it fifteen paces and leaping, landed beside It, But then Siextried it, and hurling it further still, and clutching Gunther by his belt, bounded far beyond it. Brunhild, however, was greatly angered and at first thought of treacberously slaying Gunther. 80 while they gathered and feasted she summoned her warriors. But Sieg fried, divining her desires, sailed quickly to the Nibelungen land, whicn he had conquered by slaying the giant porter and the dwarf Alberich, and returned in an incredibly short while with 1,000 of his followers. Upon their return # banquet and « tournament ensued, after which the marriage was celebrated. When the couple retired, however, and Gunther desired to kiss his -won wife, she caught him, bound him fast with her girdle and hung bim to @ nail for the whole night, ‘The next morn- ing he confided to Slogfried what had happened and the latter once more offered his services, ‘That night Slegfried left his newly --# married wife, Kriemhild, and atole to Bruphild's room, and when Gunther had out the light, took hin place. A terrible struggle took place, but finally Brunhild was forced to cry for mérey and acknowledge her- geif beaten. Completely cowed, Brun- hild, who, having been once con- } quered had now lost her fabulous * jj strength and become like any other member of her sex, ever after treated Gunther with respect, acting the pari of a faithful and loving wife. Our National Monuments From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien’d it the onc that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ewercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying te say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE + By John Blake (Copyright, 1930, by John Wisk.) ABILITY NEVER COMES CHEAP. It costs more to go from New York to Tokio than it does to go from London to Paris. The expense of a journey is regulated by the distance you travel. If you have set a high goal for yourself it will cost you a great deal to get there. If you aren't willing to pay it, don’t go. Nothing worth while is to be had cheap; least of all ability, which is the quglity which takes you along the road to success. If it does not cost in money it costs in some- thing else, usually ease and pleasure and comfort. But it is better to sacrifice ease and pleasure and com- fort now, when you can do without them and not suffer, than Iater on when you really need them. Get ability if you can, It is one of the few things really worth having in the world. Pay for it whatever you have to. The price will be well invested. For example, if you find that you cannot take the time to study without cutting into your leisure hours, contribute a few of the leisure hours as a part of the coat of ability. If you have to give up habits that you enjoy, give them up, and count them as part of the cost of ability. The price will never be cheap. It will mean a great deal of sacrifice, and sacrifice is never pleasant. You will have to get along without many things that you would like very much to have. You will have to miss a great deal of entertainment, do without many expensive meals that are greatly to be enjoyed, smoke a pipe, perhaps, when you would rather smoke Havana cigars, and make a suit of clothes last longer than you would like to have it last. ~ Also you will have to give up the habit of loafing be- tween jobs and taking it easy while you are at work. That is pleasant enough now, but it does not contribute to ability. You must put your mind on the one business or occu- pation you have chosen and master it. There will be a great deal of drudgery about that, a great deal of scrimping and saving of time to devote to it and of money to be spent in educating yourself for it. Count up the cost before you go into it. If you really want ability, and have a fairly intelligent mind,’ you can get it, But it will be hard work and expensive. The only ad- }) vantage of getting it is that it means in later years position and independence and the respect of all the people you know—perhaps even honor and fame. eee nnn nanan nnnnmnnnnnnnnnnnannnnes _-— | lieetod from the act- ; ener ie Pee Toncoling peyond Words From the Wise clementary sla Oe The present ia full of the past ROBERT P.GREEN. | ond dig with the future— New York, Deo, 27 1920. Letbnitz. Our days are better lghted Evenings at omet ‘To the Witttor of The Erening World: by loving smiles than by the sun.—Leigh M. Hodges, In @ recent issur of The Hrentns 3 man who signs his hide or Bh atat The beauty of the house is order. Doesn't Like Blue Laws. To the Halitor of Tho Brening World: I have read the different letters printed in The Evening World in ret- erence to the Sunday blue la How, in Heaven's name can anybody put| such laws before the people and get away with it? If it 1s an offense in the U. 8. A. to do anything on Sun- day but go to church, then the best we can do !s to close up shop and quit America. I myself happen to betieve that then going home—but they hang on and ignore citizenship. I would suggest a hold-up of allen seamen's rts and jet Ameri: cans come into their own. N AMERICAN. Jersey City, N. J. Dec. 27, 1920. Wages Salary. | To the Biitor of The Brening World; In The Evening World of Dec. 17 Mr. Hunter of Brooklyn asked the | difference between “salary.” “Uncle Jesue of the 28d answered him, but did not make his reply very plain. Allow me to quote the words of a well known professor of economics: “Persons who work for hire gume- times receive returns that are called God: | distinguish’ betwe Paes " 'o distin, tween fearing or, in fact, anything but hogs of income. | and hypocrites, we could handle the| ‘The first difference is that a sal- crooks and murderers, ary continues as long as the person The people don’t want to be driven.| receiving. it le in the employ of the They will stand it for awhile, but/employer who pays it On the other there is a limit to everything. And \f! hand, wages generally stop the mo- anything serious happens, don’t blame | ment work is interrupted. it on the Bolshevik. How can agood| “Secondly, salaried employees are American put up with it? rually engaged for definite terms And this Prohtbition! Some people| that sometimes are of long duration, think Prohibition ts id. They may/while the wage earner has a less se- be right. They may be wrong. I waa|cure tenure of his position. i born in the good old U. 8. A. (and,| “Thirdly, persons who receive salar- believe me, there is no other country |ies generally stand {n closer persunal in the world as good!), and I, for one relations with their employers «nd will not stand for any more foollsh-|are more jikely to occupy equal so- ment. Our forefathers fought for|cial positions.” H. BERT. freedom and we hail Lincoln as one| New York, Deo. 27, 1920, of America’s greatest. But we might as well rip down the Statue of Lib-| Obsects to Free To (be Ketito. of The Rrening Work! : erty for all the freedom we will have 1 In the year 1921. The reported possibility of the Meantime I am enjoying myself and | closing for lack of funds of the eve- am still obeying the law. ning high school patronized by OHN P. HARRIGAN, |young Mr. Sidney Singer is to my Evergrenn, L. 1, Dec. 27, 1920, mind good news, “Aliens in the Merchant Marine.” yrenk fo ont Sern on vet ‘To the Malitor of The Rrening World: he was at least fou n, then maybe “American Born Sallor* has volced|in g high school rie ey aot tied ot the grievance of every American | going or maybe graduated, thinks It OU ee ata Becoming to say to thie “riah ity,” os ax he does, “Keep it up! Th: Ships built by Americana for Amer: | notning inthe euler fea by American money, vata 1 taing manned by Orews of other|@umtom bal T want It free. And nations, while the American sailor has to stand idle, Alien seamen openty flout Amert- can ‘deals, and severely — criticiae American sailors, and do all they can to discourage them so thaf they will quit the ship and make room for another allen. ‘The alien usually boesta a Ife. time of sea service, and prosumer to “know it all." ‘There mar be many Bal le Permanent closin Americans green tot the seafaring Vevey fined ou hg me “° I ha iife, but haven't Americans been | never been able to ope that even the green to, other nee of work 00 | tody who wants something indie. ¢ | anew adapt themselves tp anyening? pennable for nothing to look to the The Shipping Board has'an Employ. | Public for tt. J can't really se- the | initials z. ' oe Sant hl bd ment Bureau at No. 2% Park Place, | eason for calling tt ® “rioh’ sity, besa tp on kee = Ar} ues The blessing of the house ta contentment. The glory of the house ts hoe. every person over five years of age should go to churfch on Bunday; and this applies to the rich as well as the | poor, including the profiteering land- lords, coal barons, bakers and all the rest, I think the profiteers are the cause of the blue laws. If thoy wero DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT. BN a visitor to one of our | WV museums of natural history gazes with wonder at the ekel- | eten of a dinosaur or @ brontoauurun, | be fairly safe in assuming that the ‘were unearthed in the Din- osaur Nationa! Monument of North- Utah. Nowhere in the world faa wuch an extraordinary deposit of the antic reptillun fossil remains of the Jauratriax geological period ‘been found, The great scientific velue of this deposit cuused it to be set ‘tae in 1915 ae a national .aonument” “ in order to protect it from ‘unauthor~ {ges excavations, The credit for un- covering this ancient graveyard must | Se given to the Carnegie Institute of ! pit a, Since 1870 it had been known that the Uintah Basin con tained fomsil remains. In 1909 a party gent by the museum discovered that complete skeleton of a dinosaur, jn | excellent preservation, which was the firet complete skeleton ever discov. ered. A few years later the bones of the largest known brontosaurus were uncovered, Two years were consumed in removing the bones of this one monster from the rock. A mining claim was filed upon this Jocation by the Carnegie Institute, but @ decision of the Department cf tho Interior in 1915 wet it aside and cre- ated the Nationa! Monument. Permts- sion was given, however, for the con- tinuation of the excavation work by the museum. The work of removing the bones 1s most elaborate and pains- taking. It has necessitated establish- ing a great quarry ‘with modern equipment The rock Is chivelled away from the bones with great oare, as the bones are soft and easily broken. Usually they are in @ jumbled muss, whieh adds greatly to the difficulty of excavation. As each bone is re- Schools, \f you call a halt,” mys Sidney, “I may go to # pool room; I may stand op street corne: I y attend Bol- shevik meetin, and me a live wire of destruction.’ Variour other naughty possibilities does Sidney hint at. all because the “rich city” can't keep up with the de- mand for Everything Free. I do not think @ bit of harm would follow t! 300 to 600 all daiiv| when it is close to bank where from 300 to 600 men pal! daily | rely because of the very sctene was willing to spend an evening at whone result In Sidney’e case la of Poor fellow! However. hr will dovbtful value. I only jude vv, hie leafy that such persons do not exist. Jotter, Is anythin, ly free, Or After bere were seat oie ee ie It by one, pald for tune, “Wha are ‘Dg ("fim or cittere: tell us fy Nebt?? a muMciont number of and perhaps three to twelve men may get jobs. This office is a big public expense for al) the good it is doing If I mistake not, I think there is a law that American ships @hall carry ner? not lese than 75 per cent.| Let him or others tell us just why Bee to- moved it ls covered with 8 ere ae tnd allen elemeat is! young mien. of earning ne. times he wit do what all sensible] pitality. Bere at ecm n eee oe often” Rotshew ike nd Sage Woe usual Sore 8 0, bee, for everyt young men are doing, leave them The crown of the house wencheg by stage from a niineer of etorv” that the: are only making. vost ‘or nothing. godtinest.—Old points or from ‘Salt Lake City a few trips on ips be @ charge of adage, automobile by