The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1920, Page 20

MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED Pnrss, fa exclusively entitled to the use for republication Geapatches credited to it Or not otherwire credited tm this paper “BEERS PEACE BY NEGOTIATION. representatives of the anthracite miners by meeting with representatives of the operators ‘ean “work out a basis of settlement that will bring General satisfaction,” they will thereby serve not @nly their own best interests but at the same time ig themselves in the eyes of the public. There has been too much use of the terminology @f war in-the field of industry—and too much warrant for it. We have spoken of “industrial qazfare,” of “offensive campaigns,” of “solid of “terms of surrender,” and of “ultima- and we have had the things we have spoken + The time has arrived, in industry as well as in fiternational relations, to disarm—and throw away the military manuals. “ Neither capital nor labor, neither employers nor @mployees, can afford the extravagance of strikes. The waste of competitive armaments between ions is glaring and unsupportable. Very much same thing is true in industry. We must quit talking in terms of weapons and ‘begin to talk in terms of tools. * ‘The problems of industry must be T' HOUGHT out and WROUGHT out, and not FOUGHT out. © This is the meaning, we take it, of Thomas PP aenety, Chairman of the General Scale Commit- _ “tee of the Anthracite Mine’ Workers, when he says “There will be no stoppage of work and no threat ultimatum will -be used against the operators, no matter what the final outcome of the negotiations.” NO BETTER HOLIDAY CHEER. EVE THOUSAND children, most of them from the lower east side, crowded the Strand Theatre yesterday to see The Evening World's Christmas Show. Through the kind- Ress of donors every child received a box of candy and alj the cripples were given toys. The same day The Evening World Kiddie Klub actors performed with delight both to themselves and the audience, the enchanting scenes of “In Wishingdom” at the Manhattan, en House. Anything that brightens the lives of chil- at this time of all times in the year, is » ‘contribution to the health and happiness of ‘the community. « In the last few years The Evening World vw has come to regard its Christmas entertain- ments for children as about the best holiday fun a newspaper can provide for itself. PSYCHOLOGICAL GOOD TIMES. OT many days ago Herbert Hoover spgke of the hard times we are experiencing or ¢x- , Pecting as purely “psychological.” Judge Elbert H. Gary, who also voted for a ”" in the recent election, thinks our fears and bts unfounded. We are suffering from business asthenia and need. to take a tgnic of optimism, In an article in the current number of Leslie's led “Why | Look For Better Business Condi- ” the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation says: + “1 am more optimistic in regard to the future of this country than I have been at any time during the last six years.” But why six years? Woodrow Wilson has been President of the United States for the last eight Scanning the horizon Mr. Gary grows weather- awise and says: “The business skies are practically without * © © There is nothing In the @ atmosphere to indicate the approach of dan- gerous storms.” > It is true that the United States has been called “pon to suffer less from the war than any other ‘of the belligerents, except Japan, cither directly or 4n the process of reconstruction. . Because of our immense wealth, our productive 'y and scarcely diminished man-power, we should prosper and probably will prosper, Even loss and need of other nations will contribute cur prosperity, if confidence van be restored and " Meredit stabilized in the countries of Europe. __ But if we imagine that we can spend billions of dollars in money and draft millions of men from e occupations for two or three years and to pay for it sooner or later in burden- taxation and living costs that can only be ‘ P fessened by our toiling to produce more, then we dwelling in a “fool's paradise.” ‘The times may. not be altogether out of joint, but a irene js certainly something wrong, if just before © Whe dlection of Sénator Harding every Republican é ferepelibinder insisted that America was going to the ‘wows, while now all is serene and we are on pee to national happiness, It looks, and sounds, very much like the wish be- father to the thought, Judge Gary's article reads like a New Thought For complete recovery, after the shock expense of war, what this country meds is We we ot going to be greatly politicians, THE GREAT RELIEF. gem years ago this month, at a banquet given in his honor by American Congressmen in -Washington, Ichitaro Shimizu, distinguished Japa- nese lawyer and member of the Japanese House of Representatives, made a speech in which he advanced as the first and strongest argument for world peace: “The costliness of army and navy increase” He said: . “Nowadays even the greatest and wealthi- est state is painfully conscious that the ex- penses of army and navy increase yearly too fast, multiplying by leaps and bounds, and that there must be found some means to check or Umit them. We can fairly see that even England is much troubled by this ques- tion, And Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister of England, is quite justified in putting the question at the Lord Mayor's dinner: ‘Is it not time for the statesmen and the men of business to take counsel together to secure the saner and the more frultfut appropriation of the common resources of humankind?’ A great deal of water has gone over the dam since a Japanese legislator quoted to American law- makers this pre-war disarmament plea of a British statesman, Does anybody believe, however, that the lessons —<and the cosis—of the last six years rest so lightly on Japan that even the Japanese are not ready to admit with a thousandfold more fervor to-~lay that increased expenses of army and navy are Intolerabje and that some means should be found to check them? + All higher morality aside, the plain economic fact is this: Nations that carry the after burdens of the great war-—and Japan is not economically exempt—can- hot stand the pace of new armament competition and survive. Each amd all will hail disarmament as a thrice blessed relief, once they feel certain that such a move fs to be general. : Japan is no exception, Yesterday an Associated Press despatch from Tokio carried the news that the Jiji Shimpo, a newspaper which has supported the Japanese Government's naval prograr@me, now calls for a modification of that programme in view of the hope that other powers will agree to keep down armaments. If it was time seven years ago for “statesmen and men of business to take counsel together to secure the saner and the more fruitful appropriation of the common resqurces of humankind,” it is sure- ly time to-day, after those resources have been te tibly depleted. 1¥ civilized peoples failed to feel at the present moinent an impulse toward disarmament stronger than at any previous period in their history, civiliza- tion might as well despair, The peoples do feel it. Wherever “statesmen and men of business” do not, popular desire and demand will rise to compelling power. Only a start and an example are needed. What nation should furnish them if not the United States? WHAT ABOUT ENRIGHT? bd Bao only criterion by which to judge a Police Commissioner is: “Are the laws enforced? Is crime represse: Are criminals apprehended and promptly brought to trial? Are the vicious elements divorced from any connection with the police? Does vice flourish or otherwise? Are life, limb and property safe? Are the citizens free from annoyance on the streets by ruffians, disor derly women and men? “In chort, are they getting the benefit of a g00d police force?” —“Guarding a Great City" (Harpers, 1006) by Wiliam MoAdoo, former P. missioner, now Chief City Mi Judged by this criterion, what's on Richard EH. Enright, present Police Com- missioner? PILGRIM AND PURITAN, (From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph,) | In the opinion of some of our New England friends there is crying need of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pilgrims—or rather to their memorles. They are distressed at the confusion tn the popular mind between the Pilgrims and the Puritans. And even those who make the distinction, they say, are not always just to the Puritans, especially in the ac- cusation that they burned persons at Salem for witch- craft, No one was ever burned to death in punishment at Salem, though several were hanged, But at the same time over in Europe thousands were being killed for supposed dealings with the evil one. Such superstt- tions as the pioneers had they brought with them from Burope and they got rid of them much sooner'than did the persons whom they left behind. The entire period of the witchcraft excitement at Salem was only about #ix months. But at any rate, the Pilgrims whose ar rival we have been celebrating were not guilty. They lived as far away, in point of time it took to cover the distance, as ww York is from Pittsburgh, Whatever religious intolerance the Puritans may have shown and however they may have treated the Indians (“first they fell upon their knees and then upon the aborigines”) it is not fair to taint the Pil. grim memory with their offenses, But at that, the name species of intolerance is not entirely unknown in Amerios to-day, while @ later generation's treatment the Indians bas been fer from idee), Aenea nnn en From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the onc that gives you the worth of a'thousand words in o couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of autisfaction im trying . to say much in a few words. To the Fultor of The kreutng World: are to blame for c WALTER T. PILGRIM, Superintendent Clinic for Functional Re-Education of Disabled Soldiers, Sailors and Civilians, Now York, Dec, 27, 1920. 1 ihe Rete of the Besing Words In answer fo “C. T. say 1 thoroughi: the girls and aeree Ah him that lows who prefer to spend an evening at home hardly | ever become acquainted. aleo am a resident of Eimb ‘having been obliged from home for the past seven month | Tam considered quite attractive, like | to attend the theatre or a nice dance | jonce in @ while, but I am sorry to, \ say I have met very few fellows who care to spend an cyening at home once in a while, facts and figures before ru quite surprised £0) Sint, she forgets that the official | letter, but equally DUFIN. Elmhurst, L. i, Dee Dec. 27, 1920. @ young lady of twenty-two, and oud indeed appreciate to hear through your medium from some charitable organisation or settlement house which !s looking for voluntary services several evenings each week. No. 1657 St, Mark's lath aad Brook- Te the Miltor of The Drening Wor! » T. B68” letter, recently appeared Please publish this letter and thereby ease his “ticket buyers” by themselves, "C. T. B." saya he likes to dance and are not in @ doesn't relish having advantage taken of what he chooses to call hie “be He should be- come acquainted with one of my boy who can sit from 8 until 13 and an inch—a real, reg 1am thinking of giving him a Hovaly soft cushion for his person. 1 would be glad to furnish his ad~ dress, as he has @ lst of girls of the B” spe By de- sort that "C. aire Jersey City, N. J. Tammany to Blame, ‘Tothe Bl 9a roy ee lan, or Swann hola i. 4 briet tor , and I know a rae things» be—al Take time to be brief. ups.” These higher-ups divide the ivvi and the spoils and are immune from It is almost tmpossible to express| the laws, because their puppets make in words (he' appreciation shown by the boys for whom you made such It was well worth all the worry and trouble you and your as- sociates, including of course “Lilian Bell” were put to, and Lam sure your Christmas must have been one of |unalloyed joy in seeing what was ac- the laws, and thelr manikins on th bench execute the laws. He who runs can r yoters ions in this clty. Our, newspapers ure also to blaine. They see the effect, but never remedy the cause—the corrupt sys- tem of the inner Murphy-Hearst- Tammany circle—which will not tol- erate an honest, free, indepen | octal” Things are now under phy, Hearst and Hylan like things were under Croker, Van Wyck and Foley, Not a whit better or worse. Suppose Enright is removed, why then the Murphy-Hearst-Hylan gang will put in another Enright to fill the | sack, and the system will go on as | before. A little flurry now and then affords no relief. There 1s no hope until the rotten system of Tammany government is destroyed—root and branch—and this cannot be done until our newspapers turn ver a new leat and begin at the sour EDWIN EF New York, Dec. 28, Irtah Pateiotiam 4) ‘To (he Malitor of The Breuning W Hattle Bruch needs to revise her ng into statistics of the British Government show that 187,000 Irish volunteered } for the war. Inasmuch as the fuli man-power of Ireland 1s estimated at 400,000, this percentage of volunteer enlistments is greater than that of) 8 that the | centuries | England. The wonder British Government, af of thé most odious oppression of the Irish people got as much as a cor- poral's guard to save her from oblit- eration as a world power, Mrs, Bruch also forgets that the op- position to conscription was as strong in the Orange and Loyalist zones of Ulster as in the Irish sections of the rest of Ireland. The proposed de- struction of Ireland's man-fower through conscription proved to be a e@tronger appeal from the economic standpoint than from the merely po- | tical. With the man-power de- pleted the linen factories, flax mills, woollen and other industries—not to speak of the fundamental industry, | agriculture--would have been forved | into fdieness and ruin. Of course, the British had the ul-/ terlor purpose of removing under pre- | tense of patriotism and the euivation of democracy the man-power of Ire- | land, so that when the time came to! fulfil promises which they have so shamelessly broken they would have} no sturdy opposition to the pogrom of atrocities and their crimes ‘ngainat | villgation and humanity with whica| are Dbilghting Ireland, It would have suited them best to have the| jung men of Ireland buried in France or Galipoll, so that the op: sition to her continued misrule in | Freland would be confined to the old and the deorapit, In the light of the oliday of brutality and bestiality she would crimes in Ifeland what a haye enjoyed under existing comdi- Me "ye B wonld suggest to Mrs. Bruch and the evident satishoode, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) WHAT YOU LEARN FROM A PUMPKIN. Study one of the great, swollen prize pumpkins you sce ata fair, It is the size of perhaps fifty ordinary pumpkins. It is not beautiful, but it has in it enough food to feed per- haps a hundred people, and feeding animals is the purpose and destiny of every pumpkin that is brought into the world by the mother vine. The great, bulging specimen that so proudly over- shadows unsuccessful competitors looks like some giant freak of nature, which just grew and grew without any par- ticular reason, But it isn’t anything of the kind. As soon as that pumpkin proved by its size that it oy the lustiest member of the particular family to which it 6 longed it was picked out for greatn as the queen bee - selected for royalty in the hive. All competition from lesser pumpkins was instantly re-, moved by the careful farmer by the very simple operation of plucking them from the stem. About the roots of the vine the richest fertilizer was distributed, and every day the soil was dug up so as to keep it light and aerated. And as the pumpkin, with a monopoly of all the plant food in the soil and with the leaves in its vicinity removed so that it might have plenty of sunlight, began to grow it was watched and tended and fed and petted every day. Tt was the right kind of a pumpkin in the beginning, with a good ancestry behind it, so it became a prize winner and the wonder and admiration of gaping crowds. But-—and here is the important part of this article— even if it had been just a common pumpkin as to family and traditions it would, with Such care, have far outstripped pumpkins of better familes which were just allowed to grow up. If you are young and ambitious, try the, pumpkin method of culture v''' your profession. Get rid oft foolish- ness and vice and «i: the things that interfere with the growth of the one idea that dominates your life. Give your business all the mental food it can assimilate, all the sunlight it needs to thrive. Think about it more than you think about anything else.» Never spare either the time or the energy it ought to have for its full development, And though you may not haye inherited great ability, you will find that inside of a few years the cultivation you have been giving your business will count. You may not be a prize winner, not a delight to gaping crowds, but you will be far ahead of many men and women who started with far better advantages, and surely that is worth a little extra care at the start. lf ssenaunaananannannsntnsnennedaenacatncnesnaser massasnenanaaansed |other pro-Britishers that they find A a little time to protest against the Words From the Wise cutrages on Irish womanhood; on the Honest labor pears a lovely burnings of the homes and businesa| /ace.—Dekker, | properties of Irish women and chil- Books are delightful when dren; on the efforts to starve Irish babies by thé wanton destruction of creameries and all the other atroct- ties that cry to heaven in their naked| dle comforters—Richard de shame. That, It seems to me, would be one way for a woman with a hi to show sympathy for her stric en and persecu' sisters across the ‘a water. Certainly, {t would be more| Heywood. humane and American thas, retedting| Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young ropagandists. 8. J. DONLBAVY. Prpeapert, N. ¥., Deo. 8, 1080 sien arc fools —~Ohapman, Bury. €. ‘prosperity smiles; when adver. sity threatens, they are inaepara- Reason is the fe of the law.— he Sta of the Bible. By Rev. Thomas 8. Gregory erie Ree Hak bvealte Wee No. 8—Elijah. Biijah has been pronounced tti¢ “grandest and most romantic charac ter that Israel has ever produced.” In all history, sacred or profane, wo find no match for him, There ie but one Elijah. It is as a reformer, not as @ theo- logian, that Elijah comes upon the stage of history. He was no orator; ho, was not a prophet, in the sense that he went about predicting things be was hot a teacher, In the soneg the that word is ordinarily ane ; was a man of action. He did ‘hings. With starting suddenness, without, any sort of introduction, he leaps int, the arena, crashes like a thanderbelt bab’s Court, denounces te’ renegade for his idolatry, and 8 suddenly as he came, ness of the appari- tion! a leopal thrown over his shoulders, a big staff In his hand; fresh in from the desert, where alone with the Bternal he had- dedicated himself to the champlon- ship of the Everlasting Righteous noss. The Northern Kingdgm had almo: entirely forsaken th ith of Jelo~ jvah. The altars of the. God of Israel were deserted, and the people were running after innumerable false gods, chief of whom was Baal, the infa- mous worship that had been import- jed from Tyr by Jezebel. The tidings of this rueful situation came to Elijah away out in the desert, and throwing his leopard skin over his shoulders and picking Up his staff he started for the head-centre of the iniquity, to fight it to the death in the name and for the glory of Jehovah. Ho denounced Ahab, scaring him until he fairly shook in his sande Turning against the priests of Ba: and Ashera, numbertng some 850, bi: had them slain, and, this done, he set his face toward Jezred, where Jezebel dwelt in the palace that Ahab had built for her. It was said of the reformer, Jo! Knox, that he never “feared the face of man.” Neither did Eliju.. But the terrible woman, Jezevel, was too much even for the stout-hearte! old lion of the desert, and, acting upon the theory that “he who fights and runs ay may live to fight an other day,” Elijah, when the tigre |got after him, “went for his lite,” without stopping to think about th order of his go'uK. He lived t: fight another day, anc best of all, the fight ended in trium for the old hero. The influence {his spirit of devotion to Jehovel’ ‘righteousness was not forgutten. {lived and grew, and the final res |} was the overthrow of the degrad{ |oults which had tmpudently pushes themselves into the place of the alts of the living God. | When Andrew Jackson was in dead earnest about anything. he vroug his foot down with the famous © clamation, “By the Eternal Pity was always in earnest and the: a repeated expression with him) wa “Jehovah, before whom I stand!” He was ever under the great Tas! master’s eye, and his constant mot was Just to ask Hi All the day And to make me quick and tr | what to do All the day. The righteousness of God!—tho was all he cared about. “He stoo lerect and haughty before kings, but |in the*presence of his thought of Je |hovah he wrapped his head im lls mantle og crouched to the earth wit! his head between his knees.” So great was the impression mado jby the old prophet upon the worl: that for a thousand years afte |deathn, as often as the world wo seem to be getting into a bad plight |men would exclain, “Elijah musi ‘come again and straighten things out.” “That’sa Fact’’: By Albert P. Southwick r Pig Prey pubighine co Now York Brealeg World). It ‘was on Westchester Road near St. Peter's rectory in the Bronx j that the St. Boniface Inn bore the |curtous inscription: ‘No Really Des- titute Person Need Pass This Hous« Hungry,” but whether the statement wi ver challenged 18 not known. [ares | Hunter's Island, in Long Islan! Sound, originally a part of the man: of Pelham, was sold by Joshua Pr! (to the Hemts and Hendersons, ani, fat one time, was known as Hende:- son's Island, Toward the end oft) |elghteenth century it came into pos- |pession of John Hunter, of Scot descent, from whom the island r¢ ceived its present name. cee On the east of Hunter's Island |» the Iselin mansion, which was erected about 1850 by Elias des Brosses Hunter, son of John Hunter, but which was owned by Columbus Iselin at the time Pelham Bay Park was formed in 1888, eee Opposite the gatepos! f the Iselin mansion, in the Bronx, is the Hunt« er’s Island Inn, formerly the mansion :| belonging to Elizabeth De Lancey, « of Elias des — Brosges daughter Hunter. It {s sald that Joseph Bon. aupaste offered a large sum. fot Hunter’s Island before making lis home at Bordentown, N. J. On the outa side of Hunter’ Ivland are the great Indian rock “Mishow,” around which the native held their religious rites, and th: graves of two sachems, Many arrow: and javelins of flint, quarts and horn, and hatchets and tomahawks «. stone have been found there. ‘The Indian® called the entire region “Laaphawachking,” (the place of stringing bead: cee ‘The fort at the Battery was firs: known, from 1614 to 1626, as “Man 1" from 1626 to 1664 as “Am: from 1664 to 1678 from, 1673 to 1674 as “Will: lam Hendrick;” from 1673 to 1689 as | “James;" from 1689 to 1691 as le 3 from 1691 to 1702 as “Willian | Henry;" from 1702 to 1114 as same,” j and from 1714 to 1183 as “Georg: +f changing in name after 1664 In Donde | of successive English sovereigns, About the year tise tt Was resolve to remove the entire fort (George) 1 the Battery Park, New York vy, and to. erect th there a house for ¢h- President of the United State