The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1920, Page 10

‘MEMBER OF THY assOcLAreD Press. fle Associated Prem is exclusively emtitied to the use for republication on ‘oon mete vaatsned petal cob haa | in the face, do not care to assume the heavy respon- VEHICLES OF PROGRESS. HATEVER skepticism we may have about moral progress, there can be no doubt whatever of the material progress which has fol- lowed the discovery and application of steam and electricity. After long periods of pedestrian progress men | Invented social institutions as vehicles—the school, > the factory, the state, political parties. e, Sometimes one or another gets stalled or has a : blow-out. Now and again reckless drivers get in control, see red, and start on a joy ride to Utopia. "The mad dreamers of Moscow furnish a striking illustration. But just because we do not believe in allowing .Bolshevists to smash the social and political ma- dhine is no reason why in the year 1921 we should be content to jog along with a model suited to the needs of 1821. Something very much like this is what Mr. Thomas L. Chadburne, formerly a member of the President’s Industrial Conference and now the Pres- dent of the American Association of Labor Legis- the members of that body, he said: ‘wa “I do not know how we can educate the E, workers and the employers unless one of our great parties—for this is a two-party Nation —determines that it will invite into its coun- clls every citizen, however radical, who be- eves in changing the governmental struc- ture by peaceful, by constructional methods, but is determined that it must be changed.” In America and elsewhere there has been some- ‘thing of a skimp in the idealism inspired by the _._-war. Political evangelists, taking advantage of this tendency to slip back to lower levels, have . preached with sanctimonious accent a retura to nor- - maky. But to retrace our steps is as impossible as it is undesirable. To go back now would be not normalcy, but abnormalcy. All the surface indications of the election returns to the contrary notwithstanding, the people—and s » particularly the people who toil with their hands— | will not so back, ‘They.are determined to con- — solidate the gains made during the war. _ Writers who interpret “what the workers want” and “what’s on the workers’ mind” agree that’ the laboring marr is tired of livifig in daily dread: of un- _ employment, illness and want in old age. ‘They must be insured against these Triple Fates, “Unrest will continue until they are. Moreover, “they want some share in the control of the industry to which they contribute so large a share of their _ waking ours. Mr. Chadburne is impatient with the SORDeCeTeY. of contemporary politicians and recommends that _ one of the parlies—obviously meaning the Demo- ‘cratic Party—welcome the more liberal elements in _ the Nation and with their gid enter upon a career “of hymanizing, socializing, and democratizing in- . dustry. These are dynamic days, Static statesmanship «cannot meet the Memands of the hour. We are ! about’ “9 push on from 1920 to 1921. The politi- eal party that is moving forwatd in a modern ‘motor-driven vehicle of progress will carry the pas- gengers and really get somewhere: Those who prefer may loiter along in a horse<drawn coach— far in the rear. ' J 3 40,000 PASTORLESS CHURCHES. URING the recent meeting of the Federal Council of Churches in Boston the startling Staiement was made that there are “Between 30,000 and 40,000 pastorless churches” in the United States ~ —perhaps 40 per cent. more parishes than minis- ters to serve them. t In the South alone there are 3,000 Baptist | churches without ministers, 1,800 — Methodigt churches, 1,000 Presbyterian churches: and 1,000 Episcopal churches-to mention only the larger denominations, In 1915 the Presbyterian Church licensed 259 new ministers, Last year that church licensed only 169, _ Oberlin College was founded by a celebrated evangelist for the express purpose of training young "+ meu for the ministry. Not one member of the class graduated last June felt himself “called” to preach. _ Casual observations in thirty States, supported by “such statistics as are available, would seem to indi- ~¢ate that there are even more “congregationless churches.” Not infrequently one is reminded of Dean Swift’s celebrated sermon to his solitary Bp aeat Sh ast fewer people altend church today than a few dec- |» ades ago, and as to why the increase in church mem- | bership has not kept pace with the population in-, od but the reasons why there are fewer candi- lation, seems to have had in mind when, addressing * ites for the pulpit among promising students are apparent. subscribe to the tenets of what they consider “an outworn creed.” Others, ambitious to exert a direct influence on programmes for human betterment, feel that too often the church does not afford the opportunity for practical welfare work that it once did. Many such | young men are entering one or another of the va- rious fields for social service. A much larger number, forced to look hard facts sibility of raising and educating a family on an average stipend of less than $800 a year. In 1948, in sixteen denominations, there were 4,829 ministers who received a salary of less than | $500, 14,423 who received between $500 and $1,000, 12,873 who received between $1,000 and $1,500. This does not mean that youth has lost its ideal- ism and craves the luxuries that only weatth can buy. It does mean that “the laborer is worthy of his hire” and that sensible men are unwilling to up- dertake the herculean task of feeding and educating a family, under modern conditions, on next to nothing a year. NEW YEAR NEEDS. WORLD, . HAT the civilized worki needs first and most is a new manifestation of international good faith in a common agreement of nations to disarm. NATION. The foremost needs of this Nation for 1921 are economy, tax revision and encouragement to in- dustry and hard work through a better adjustment of war loads, The country needs a national budget system. It needs simplification of the income tax. It needs a iepeal of the excess profits tax, It needs the assurance, for which it has so far looked in vain, that the party it voted into power last November means to carry out its pre-eleotion promises of a reconstructive programme—prompt, progressive, looking to public rather than to party advantage, {; needs redemption of Republican pledges, It needs reasons from Congress for new faith in Congress, STATE, The Commonwealth of New. York needs before all else a thorough overhauling of its business de- partments and spending agencies with a view to saving money and avoiding eh necessity of still heaviey State taxes.’ . It needs from its new Republican Governor proof that his promise to put a check on waste holds good after as well as before his inauguration. ‘It needs whalever curb he can put on tlie extrava- gance of a Republican Legislature. , It needs confidence that it maintains something more at Albany than expensive, high-power spend- ing machinery, ale . SO TE CITY, F The City of New York needs—and needs urgent- ly—-a speedy deliverance from the rule of its present Mayor and its present Police Commissioner. It needs to be rid of an administration that has debased its standards of government, muddled its finances and demoralized its police. It needs first aid from the Governor of the State in the summary removal of Hylan and Enright, it needs an awakening of its civic conscience, a restoration of its self-respect, a solemn vow that the Hylan-Enright regime shall be a warning. Three years ago New York was caught, and caught to its bitter cost, in the election that put Hylan into the City Hall. It has learned its lesson. It needs @ new chance, New York can wish Gov, Miller nothing better than that he may enter upon the duties of the Governorsbip with the same practical, businesslike notion of his obligations to the public that has been characteristic of Gov, Al Smith UNDERGRADUATE BRUTALITY. HEN the juvenile judges who constitute the Student Board of Colgaie College meted out corporal punishment to a callow freshman who had the temerity ip protest against being cheated by an upper classman, they acted in a manner ill- befiting a democratic institution, For a dozen young ruffians to “paddle” a fellow | student ‘til he is bruised and bleeding, in the ‘lan- guage of gangdom to “beat him up,” is not only brutal, it is cowardly, Every upper classman who had any part in the disgraceful performance should be sentenced ‘to learn by heart the classi, “Tom Brown's School Days,” in which fair play between boys. was de- manded, Shoe manufacturers announce that whole- sale prices of all shoes are to be cut one- third. There's a New Year's present that retail shoe dealers should promptly share with the @ublic, The public's part is to buy .1 THE EVENING A tew weeks ago you kindly pub- lished for us ® letter asking your read- to help the A.C. P, nurses and visi-| tors in their Christmas red stocking work. You will be glad to know that the response to that appeal by your readers was most generous. The nurses and visitors were enabled to realize thelr ideal—of seeing that every child in their families was re- membered with one of these stock|ugs | on Christmas morning. Approxi- mately 4,500 were received and put into the hands of these tenement house children. It made a happy Christmas for them, and { am sure it added joy to the many who helped filling of the stockings. b e 3 in few the rush of the Christmas week were overioo! If we could thank them through your columns we should be glad—thanks from our nurses and visitors, and no less from all the mothers and children for whom this was done, And of course we are grateful to The Evening World for making the needs of ath children known, BAILEY B. BURRITT, General Director ‘Association for Im- proving the Condition of the Poor, No, 105 East 224 Street, New York, Dee, 27, 1920. Your editorial advocating disarm: ment is interesting and to the point. ‘There is no earthly reason why one halt the people of the world should be compelled to support the other half in uniform and idleness. Disarma- | ment will’ only come, however, when every taxpayer, both here and in Burope, posttively refuses to pay one dollar ‘n taxes for the support of armies and navies. If there were no armies or navies ere would be no wars. Armies and vies are the breediag places of all wars, The only armed forces needed are local or Btate orgunizations to control the unruly and vicious ele- ment existing in all countries. Refuse to pay any tax imposed on you to support armies and navies and you'll soon sea disarmament. WX-SERVICR MAN. No, 181 Broadway, New York, Dec. | 29,1920, Oriticiaes art 10 the Buitor of The Breuing Work! I have read with much interest the brief paragraph written by Hattle Bruch, She ought to United Btates history before ttacks the Trish. ‘Nobody with any education would write such an article. Why should Ireland aljow her men to be ¥ conscripted. sent to the front and shot down like dogs, although ome of them were without any mili~ tary tratnl to help save a country which was perseouting them at the time? ‘The 69th Regiment was composed of Jo) Be Bulls, I suppose, in Mine '* ae ts ida Critte, aM, the United States helping. about Iveland helping ethan, (Tht New York Brening Works). a John Cassel From Evening World Readers What kind of « letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental ewercise and a lot of satisfeotion im tying te cay much im « few words. Take time te be brief. Tan't i the one the United States gain freedom in| 1776? What about the Irish who left | France with Gen, fight. for How many Lafayette to help the oppressed colonists? Irishmen backed Washi- | ington at Yorktown:in 1781? Miss Hattie, are you an Americai who breathes the air of freedom | yourself and loyes to see other peo- ple suffer? in the future, do not write something you know nothing | about. GRACE FULTON Ng. 60 Herrinan Avenue, Jamaica, T, Dec. 27, 192 Net Wriendly to England. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World i} As a daily reader of your paper, J wish to enlighten your correspondent Hattie Bruch in regard to why Ire-| land (part of it) -refused to be con- scripted into the English army. I am! afraid she did not read the records of | Irish soldiers in the World War. | While the Irish and colonial troops | were in the firing pits the English | troops were held in reserve im the| rear. | Where do you read the news that | Ireland wants this nation to fight for her freedom? treland's fight for Itb- erty has been going on for 700 years against a tyrannical, oppressive na- tlon who can only fight women and children, Ireland's cause is as sacred as that of the thirteen original colon- les that sent Benjamin Iranklin to France to obtain her support in the American Revolution Ireland |x slurred by erftes who talk glibl dom, of small nations.” Ireland never | recdgnized English rule and never will, Why is Ireland slighted by the American Red Cross just for religious and political reasons? Yet Irishmen have fought for the liberty of every oppressed nation. They supported Nd Glory since its ‘birth and made | the supreme sacrifice In all her wars to uphold its honor, The United States has made the world safe for England. With the Germans on the way to Paris, the English fell back aten until the United States Ma- 8 stopped thelr advance at the | ne and Chateau Th hy do certain Americ boast 40 much about England's ds, when Bngland 's armed to the teeth with heavy artillery against a handful of riflemen’, Irishmen khow what they are. You ought to educate youself, Miss Bruch, on English history and Irish starvation for a century under English rule England has no more right in Ire- land than Germany had in Belgium, IT have gerved this Government of my own free will, was decorated for service and as an American blue- jacket would never salute the En- gBlish Jack. Englishmen wao boast of their feats in battle, when others do their fighting for them, ought to keep their mouths shut and practise what they preach, If your sailor friend could not get a job at the insurance office, why | not try elsewhere? There are lots of jobs in the Employment Bureau | ter than insurance jobs, People run! down and on “account af her crafty sons aud rellalous delle F. NOT : Ll. wt pout the “free- ONLY lucky e isn't go the tim: and a are cha ‘tatchin he was known and rea Th jneed t continu sistance a juat a gone, And it ali fast; ts Just one more sand from the future | borne To deepen the dust of the past well equipped about is exactly that kind of luck. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake : THE ABLE OUGHT TO BELIEVE IN nough to hole out his ball the second shot. ning to have any luck. ving in it, LUCK, A golfer who can get on the green in two shots may be He can afford to believe in luck and try to cogx luck to help him. A golfer who needs six strokes to get to the same green And he will only ruin his chances of being a good player by be You will notice that most of the people you think are lueky are around where luck is likely to happen, Very many men haye made investments which were lucky, but if they hadn't saved the money to make the investments with the luck never would have struck them. Shakespeare's tide in the affairs of men which leads on to fortune must be taken at the flood. Those who are not on hand with a boat when it is at flood cannot take it. The miners who struck it rich in the days of '49 and in the Klondike were either in California or in the Klondike at «. ‘To get to either place meant a long, hard journey very great deal of nerve. worked for it. It is very often said of a man who is chosen for a high political position that he‘was lucky. give long years to the study of polities and politicians are never on the lists from which candidates for high positions psen. the popular favor, far from lucky. There is always an element of luck in the world, outside of common gambling it comes to the man who knows how to play the game. The “breaks” football team to win an intercollegiate ady for them. ne able can afford to believe in luck, 9 count on it, nally. Nee They “breaks” Most of the luek that we hear so © to the lazy ‘or to the incompetent. A YEAR year of-our life that has | strive to arise? pped through our fingers 80 | the eyes | And say, “ EARL folly and of crime. But what does it mean to you and m +t This leat Does it show a gain toward the goal) that Can we re well The can af thé Ka-B. MM, Fiyet Sims U, B. Navy, ower Lt a Iie te wou or he Beck in this eager strife? records which in it we meet? in our book of life? son,” we T love power ad with the joy of a deed doue artist. nk with pride of some bat intellect, it we Pleaned from de- | twhak books he me They had luck, but they But people who do not Jt has been said of a theatrical manager in New York who has recently been very prosperous that he was lucky in But he spent many years in studying the popular favor—and during most of those years but that helped a well- game wouldn't have come to a team that wasn't up on its toes don't for sometimes jit will pass them by if they cdme at all come to the much Tt is never of any as- { From our errors and faults did we Did we play in the game as we can? Can we look any one ov this earth in "TE have fought like @ man”? SMITH. —_ | Debt is the prolific mother of Disraeli, “My idea of an agreeable pes said Hugo Bohm, “is a per- son iho agrees with me,” as d musician fovea his violin; I love it as an -Napoleon Bonaparte. If we encaognte? a man of rave te should —aek— hint 1 did not think to torite your y name Across the jingle that Ras strayed Down centuricea—a song, a game The tiny ones of earth have played, By some swift sign they greet ond . know : Your solemn hero as a friend, They hang upon hia tale of woe, And laugh—despite hia tragic end, ~ A hundred times each day he dies, Unaided by thé King’s good men} And yet he lives in wondering eves, The smali hands make him whole again, Thus Hortense Flexner, in “Cloud® and Cobblestones” (Houghton-Mif- flin), writes to the Unknown Author of ‘Humpty Dumpty.’ If Humpty’y fall had been but @ matter of daily news, who would have cared who wrote the item? It's the jolt of the jingle that stirs interest and the memory. ° eo. Likings - ~~ Two men at a club smoker, as seem by the anonymous author of “Bits of Life” (Brentano's): Diamond scarf-pin White socks, Sve- cessful. Happy. Did everything be wanted. Had everything he wanted. Liked life. Liked drinks. Liked women. Liked baseball. Liked race ing. He did not know why he liked these things, but he liked thom, Sunburnt face. Clothes tro big. Large black kid shoes, Whit Successful. Happy. Did he wanted, Had everytaing he wanted,” Liked life. Liked the country, Liked children. Liked stock. Liked flowers, Liked birds. Liked musio, He did not know why he liked these things, but he liked them. For the unlike likings of unitke men, there are as many reasons as there are unilkelinesses. | Therefore, why worry? | eee ‘Teachers Know Their Worth- ++ Lee Russell of the State Normal Yorcester writes on “The "in the current Kno worth of their calling: they would lke more evi dence that the public really feels that worth. They know that on them, more than on any other one class of citi~ wena, depends the future of the re- ut they are gomewnat ieee the consciousness of They would ike more vould like to see the putb= appreciation of the y. by daughters to the normal and colleges for teache They would like to see the most ambitlous and high-minded young men aid young women, eager to ake \p a vocation so honored ag * teaching should ‘be: This, they know, can only come the whole Nat! the public schoole nd ought to be. x the Nation to figure omt the delicate relation exist- ng een the shortage in welle le quipped teachers and a certain tight- ness of the public purse, Byen ambition and the high mind must wait upon assurances that equipment has a living market. eo. Cromares, of the Night --~ om “Romance of the Rabbit™ (Nicholas er Brown), as, transtaeal | from the French of Francis Jammea: T love the creatures of the night, the screech owls with their badgers, all t id beasts which glide through the air or in the grass and know so little. What festivals do’ they hold amid the plants, their sists At the hour wh the rabbits, silvered by the dew, bound over ‘the mint of the furror and hold their conventicless ingale sobs like utters sad laughter as if it too, however timidly, were trying te have # share in the joy of How I would like to be a creature of the night. a hare trembling in a hedge of hawthorn, a badger grazed e es of the juicy green of course, the rambling There are other mn This is, rotlon of w poet. ints of view. Porn the largest city on earth there en creatures of the night who, less of the nightingale, the | glowworm and the trembling hare, are content {9 be iene lizards. On Catherine's Night Out ++ In “Sheila and Others” (Dutton) Winifred Cotter offers “the simpli annals of an unromantic household. We read of the mistress who gets ac- quainted with her own home on # night out of the maid Catherine: T went out to the kitchen and eat down there. After all, most attractive place, t unaccustom met vaguely gisturbing | sense, born of long experience, ought to go and Investin ie the" condition of the began to st over me. 1 knew exa would be fou bottles of extract, would be floury or “left-overs" would Ree eee dixhes In which they had made their Gebut. onthe bonrd. It was. even possible the knives would. be hud- fied in @ corner, Unscoured and ashamed Catherine, ry and support it was the heing the pantries etly how ore Sheng there, The littlg Hi faithful retainer the pride of the household She will not leave me nor forsake ime, but even she has pases, and \t is the part of discretion to be oblivious when large virtues at ndered to the and new aluminum with ws biagh a hottom ae wan disgraced by’! il hours after, ‘and ay oeushes and soup to suffering hands, did T realize t feat part of this experience, th al pAnk, to be the disitiuslonmente” the truth home to me that £ again know In its cont _the ‘Joy of Tt may be a Wise housewife who Liknows- how things go. im Wea For If she knows, she will be 3 | sRele aes baoera. obs w finding op Not ut