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thick veil over repulsive actualities. In much the same way we try to cover the routine of domestic dailiness with the romance of duty and the miracle of matemity, In homes of modest Incomes the housewife ts expected to be a competent cook, a capable cham- bermaid and an experienced seamstress. Also she must be an Interior decorator, kinder- garten teacher, judge of juvenile disputes, expert ac- countant, economical buyer and social secretary, Few men. in business or industry are expected to display anything like as much versatility as the average housewife. Confronted with a similar set of problems and tasks at the office, almost any business manager would feel he must employ an as- sistant manager, a private secretary, a stenographer, IDEALISM OR SUICIDE? after the great war began Theodore Roose- velt wrote an article advocating a league of na- tions with the somewhat startling title, “Utopia or Hell.” * Rejecting the former alternative the world has | # typist, a bookkeeper, a filing clerk and an office = Suffered the latter. boy. . Once again we are called to exercise judgment Even if we must confess inability to find an and will in the Valley of Decision. This time it is | 24equate solution, either by increase of income or by Iabor-saving devices, at least we might avoid the sentimentality of weeping over factory girls while grumbling because the unassisted housewife doesn’t manage somehow to get more done in twenty-four in ‘the British Navy League which presents the choice. two decades before the war the league felt to urge greater and ever greater naval pre- paredness on the part of individual nations, Now it Is championing “a conference between those pow- | hours. ers whose geographical position Imposes upon them «he guaranstiy ofthe sea” thus cBmpletely © | Goy, MILLER REPEATS HIS PLEDGE. Im a statement just issued by its Executive Com- | (72OV- MILLER put into his inaugural address a @iictee, the League says: phrase or two upholding “party considera- tions” and condemning “‘theoretical cures”—gener- alities calculated to please certain classes and inter- ests who will interpret them in their own way. On the other hand, what New York’s new Repub- lican Governor said about economy and the respon- sibility of this Republican State Administration for checking extravaganceand waste in spending public | money constitutes an inaugural declaration which, if he lives up to it, will assure him popular confidence and support regardless of party. “Our first concern,” declares Gov. Miller, “should be to establish order and to restore economy in the public administration.” “We who enter upon the discharge of of- Seial duty to-day are on trial. Our party !s on Trial. The task is heavy, The responsibility is great because undivided. We shall be judged solely by results, by success or failure.” “Bclence, as applied to destructive agen- cies, is forcing us ever more rapidly to the Conclusion that the highest idealism of all is the only practical alternative to world sui- cide.” . ‘ ' If we haven't the vision and volition to move for- ward to the fulfillment of hope and desire, then we must submit to being “kicked up stairs.” That is what it really amounts to, The enormous burdens of competitive armaments under present conditions of super-costliness are intolerable. The destructive power of modern sci- ence, prostituted to the ignoble service af interna- tionai strife, would make war, a generation dence, “too hideous for humanity to endure. ‘When the navy leagues of the nations begin to of conferences looking to co-operative guard- and jual disarmament, we have a right on FE I 7 to be. optimistic on the threshold of the New Year. That is as true in this State as it is going to be in . Few nations but have suffered during the past | the National Government, where a Republican Ad- tentury from the madness of militarism; but the | ministration will have unprecedemed Republican curative values of war are beginning to show re- | majorities in both Houses of Congress, sults, A few days ago a Republican Senator in the It ts to be hoped now that little time will be lost | United States Senate—Senator Frelinghuysen of in moving forward to the next step—the calling of a.) New Jersey—warned his fellow Republicans in special conference to dtaw up a Naval Reduction | Congress as follows: Convention between the United States, Great “1h we'apend 166 much’ time’ fo etation, Britain and Japan. * abuse our power and fail to do that which the Which shall it be— people expect, they will turn on us.” idealism or world suicide? Gov. Miller realizes that the Republican Party In this State needs a similar warning. q WHER THB FUBLE ; INTERESTS 80 REQUIRE. The test of Gov, Miller will come when a Repub- The e@id (Police) Commissioner may, when- n a Leds dha Sohpwend af thd Mover pi ecld lican Legislature snaps its fingers at responsibility and sets out to spend money with the same old lav- ishness—leaving it to the taxpayers to make good. It is with a special pledge to fulfil his obligations to these same taxpayers that the new Governor enters upon the duties of his office. They will judge him by the consistency and force with which he adheres to that pledge. § 2 lew York) or the Governor, the public shall a0 require, be removed from Office by either, and shall be ineligible for re: appointment thereto. Greater New York Charter, Chap Bec. 270. | mM, GREAT TENNIS. IE American tennis players won the Davis Cup for the United States in the big tennis contest in New Zealand. The doubles match of last Fri- There will be wide rejoicing over the news that the navigators of the missing naval bal- loon A-5598 are safe, From the Rockaway 4 1 Point Air Station, where the balloon started on fs Gay settled that, {ts endurance test, Dec, 13, to a little Hudson i But to leave no lingering doubt that to America Bay trading post in the frozen north, nine days t belongs by full-right and title the most famous ten+ by dog sled from the nearest railroad, ia a Fong nis trophy in the world, the American tennis stars, journey by air or land. Lieuts, Hinton, Farrell 4 William T. Tilden and W, M. Johnston, celebrated and Kloor will have a thrilling story to tell. + ‘New Year's Day by defeating in brilliantly played ‘Their part in this endurance test is likely to ‘ singles matches Gerald L. Patterson and Norman E, | _PFev® ® Feeord. } Brookes respectively. f It was great tennis, played in the most gallant FROM TEE CY QP AE EAN j and sportsmanlike spirit ‘on both sides. The crowds To the Heaven-Born wayor of Pekin, Onina: in far-away New Zealahd cheered the American vic- eel lites td ott Die Notte Med 5 oe, tors to the echo, people in this City of Hi Lan and more par- i ‘The expedition of Capt. Hardy's team has been ticularly those in the high places of Govern. : fn every way a huge success and is likely to mean ORE, 1 OREETVES OY "Yoen Soreans, Commits, i that this country will see some super-tennis next gioner Hong. No matter what may come to pgss, always the Great War te accepted by ali olusses as sufficient excuse therefor, Does a coal dealer demand vast profts from his business #0 the people groan, he says it is but the Great War, and ali smile and are happy again, Docs a grocer sell three grades of coffee, all taken from the same sack and all at higher prices cach than the other, he has but fo tell his customers that this method ts be cause of the war, and complaint ts stiiled, Thus when citizens complain that the streets are unclean, Hi Lan, admirable Mayor of this place, tells all that this is because of the war, When robbers go about stealing und slaying, and refuse to be at peace even through the Christmas holiday given out by the Overlord of Police as a fitting time for year, thanks to the determination of the Australa- sians to regain the cup. Whether it is New Year tennis in the Antipodes or July tennis at home, American tennis players have proved they can oytplay the best. It is already certain that the names of Tilden and Johnston will have a permanent place of high honor in interna- tional gilt-edged records of the game. OVERWORKED HOUSEWIVES. | HAVE not heard a word here to-day about one & class of sweated workers; I refer to the housewives,” protested a member of the Chicago + Woman's Club, after listening to several speakers . who advocated improved conditions for women in industry. “The young mother who cannot get any one to help her often works just as hard and Injures her health to Just as great an extent as_the factory girls you are seeking to help,” she added. And the protesting member of the Chicago | Woman's Club is right. We shed tears over the hardships of the downtrodden woman toiler in the mill and accept with callous indifference the over- ee eee ew - them to operate in behalf of wives and sweet- hearts needing presents, the grumbling of citizens is soon stilled. The Overlord of Po- lice tells them it is but the result of the Great War and so docile have they become that they kow-tow and say excuse, please, Might not thig be used to advantage in Pekin, to still any unfriendly critics of the istration by Your Bacetioncy? What kind of a tetter do you fi From Evening World Readers ind most readable? Isn't it the one * that gives you the worth of a thousand words in o couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise te say much in a few words, Take and a lot of sutisfaction in trying time to be brief. A Word of Praise. ‘To the Kadltor of The Brening Work! : Please allow me to express to you in this small way the regard aad es- teem I hold for your valued paper. Words cannot expred the apprecia- t.on you well deserve for the wonder- ful work you have done for our crip- led boys. Infact, you have always een the leader in such charitable movements and it mak’: your paper distinctive in its originality. You are @quare in all your articles and show that you are most surely for the peo- ie ag well as protecting thelr rights | in every respect, Allow me, please, to col tulate you on your efficiency, fearlessnons and charitableness, and I can assure you of my stanch sup- port as well as many, many others. . A. BRADLBY, New York, Dec, 27, 1920. ‘Wants Co-Operative ‘To the Bititor of The Evening World ; Thousands of tatlors are locked out or on strike. The Ne-dle Workers’ Union has a memvership of 400,000. It each of the members would contribute $10 toward a share, there would be $4,000,000, enough to start @ number of co-operative shops of thelr own, The elimination of the boss and sev- eral middlemen would mean better wages to the workor and cheaper goods to the consumers, of whom there would be plenty, more than enough to insure the prosperity of the shops. \This certainly would be much better than to waste the monoy on strikes that are sure to mean lossea never to be made up again. ws ALBERT STAHLE, No. 339 Bronx Park Ave, New York, Dec. 27, 1920. Irishmen tn the War, To the Exiitor of The Mreving Word: In a recent issue of your tnvalu- able publication, a correspondent, one Hattie Bruch, voctferously ejects her venom on @ whole nation because of an apparent personal slight. She is quite right in saying that Ireland “refused absolutely as a na- tion to take part in the war, why should Ireland take part nation, in the war, when she had been recognized as @ nation? §& had not been recognized by a single pa. one of the belligerent powers, Why, then, should she allow herself to be subjected to a national conscription? However, Irishmen as individuals played a most protubera: rr eorrespondent continues, “Shall the boys Who served their country so Well now sit idly by and wee her streets and public buildings ‘used for demonstrations of hate by a nation who did not, &¢," obviously referring *to the Union Club affair, She did not tell of the evil leers on the faces of several members of the upper se0 They were how many of our ex-service men |’ Jove England? Theyr surely didn’t show their amity in the frequent en- counters between English and Amer- ican service men, particularly among the sailors. Our soldiers pegged rot- ten eggs and other decaying food- stuffs possessing asphyxiating odors at English aetors who derided and belittled the Americans and their part in the war. Many a “limejuicer* was badly bruised as a result of the flery wrath incited in our boys by the English and their abborred manner- isms, Does this show any particular love gn the part of our heroes for England? I would advise Hattie Bruch of Pil- grim Pathway to read her letter over very carefully and revise !t in cer- tain places, R. JG. No. 642 West 1484 Street, New York, Deo, 27, 1920, Comes to Ireland's Defense. To the Dtitor of The Brewing World: The letter signed “Harriet Bruch” in the issue of your paper bearing date Dec, 27, 1920, ls one which I feel that 1 cannot let pass without an- ewer, for the reason that it is so repiete with untruths and inac- curacies as to be almost laughable, were it not for the fact that it Is written under the gwise of patriotism and plainly for the purpose of vent- ing that saine race hatred and spleen which the writer so hypocritically de- nounces in the course of her own communication, Had the writer not appended the address at which the letter was writ- ten any intejligent person would have been suspicious of the character of the individual who wrote it, but sus- piclons become confirmations when the address of the writer is not and classification of the type of dividual trom whom the letter eman- ated becomes exceedingly casy. that the reason Irishmen refused to be conscripted was because it bh never been found necessary in t entire history of the world to co: script. Irishmen “for fighting pul poses? From the days of che Cru- saders down to the present, men have always been found in the foremost ranks of those who b for freedom, liberty and der and by most persons it ts a c fact that the Irishman mal most willing And the ablest soldier in the world, Harriet Bruch's attempted reflection upon Ireland and Irish peo- ple is a direct insult to the many thousands of men of Irish birth or Irish parentage who not only fought in the American ranks during t recent European War but wh the supreme sacrifice for Am well. Certainly it would require consid- erable ingenuity and the most forced kind of Interpretation to find any connection between the outward manifestations of patriotism by Irish- men in this count and any dis- courtesies that may have come from any quarter sey. to young Ee who were n countrys © during t n and UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1921. by John Biske) _ DEAL IN GOODS THAT YOU CAN MARKET, The man who works at the next desk to, and gets better pay has more valuable services to sell than you have. He may not do as hard physical work. He may not work as long hours. But his work has a higher value than yours or he wouldn’t get more money for it. Two men start together at manual labor. One digs ditches, The other carries a hod. The man who digs ditches will probably. dig ditches the rest of his life. He will have little chance to learn any higher branch of the ditch digging business. For when ditch digging becomes sublimated it is done by machinery, With the man who carries the hod it is different. He can by close attention learn to be a bricklayer. A brick- layer gets big wages. If he has intelligence he can save part of his wages and become a contractor. And after he is a contractor his success will be limited only by his busi- ness ability. . If you are in an office where men are paid varying sal- aries, study the men who get the big salaries and find out why they get them. If it is because they have learned some particular branch of the business that pays well, it will do you no harm to specialize in that branch. s If there is a possibility of making the job you have of more profit to the concern, go at that hammer and tongs until you do it. Never doubt that you will get better pay if you can show the boss how to make more money. To make more money is the one thing he wants to do, And he cannot afford to neglect any opportunity to do so that offers, even if it must be embraced by paying one of his help a bigger salary. ‘ Your stock in trade is your brain and what is inside of If your goods are in demand you will be well paid for them, If they are the kind of goods that can be bought at a very reasonable figure from ninety-nine men out of every hundred, you will get very low pay for them, It pays to turn out marketable goods. There are in California orange growers who are always sure of a market Did it ever occur to Harriet Bruch | frish- | e Harriet Bruch's letter, for their fruit at the highest price, while men who own the same kind of land and apparently the same kind of trees are often left with part of their crop on their hands. *. The successful orchardists take care of their trees, put | up their fruit attractively and never try to market any but © the best they grow. Try that with your mental wares some tine. Give your attention to turning out the best energy and the best thought you have in you. Study the needs of the company or individual you are working for. Give them what they need and your salary will be raised without any application on your part. person that Harriet Bruch reveals herself to be in her communication. Answering the final paragraph tof 1 would say that Irishmen do fee! that they have bagk of them “the strong right arm of @ nation which pellevee in liberty and equality for all peop! they, ‘and thelr forbears ha of thelr own blood and tl services #0 fesely to all the poopie of the earth who have sought f1 ors, it, that to them the idea them in their hour of CALLAHAN xiv Words From the Wise Art is long, life short; judg- ment dificult, opportunity tran sient.—Goethe, Love truth but pardon error, Voltaire. The whole sorrow of humanity oppreases me.—Faust, useful trade is a mine of é ie The World’s Oldest Love Stories By Maubert St. Georges vrei Nos Yad treine Rents GAWAINE AND THE LOATHLY | LADY. NB Christmas as King Arthur and his knights were celebrating the Nativity a maiden in dis- tress appeared claiming, as was the habit in those days, protection from the King. She had been on her way to get married whon approaching strange castle the knight she had been taken prisoner by enchant- ment and she herself maltreated. Immediately upon hearing this King Arthur himself set out to redress this wrong. But no sooner had he called out his ohatlenge than he suddenly felt himself weak, ynable td grasp @ weap- on, and he was easily overpowered Ly his opponent, an evil, gigantic, churl- ish knight. Instead of immediately throwing him into a dungeon the lat- ter gave Arthur a chance of freedom, telling him that if in one year he could discover “what women wanted most” he would be free without ransom. For a whole year the King rode ask. ing his question to every woman be met. Many were the answers he re- ceived; riches, endor, love, position, pomp, flattery, mirth, a handsome lover, beautiful children, beautiful dresses, but in his heart he knew none Of these was correct. One day, at last, when, the year belng almost up, he was riding dejectedly to offer hit answers to his captor he was startled while in a forest by the sound of @ woman's voice greeting him. ‘ looked about him and beheld a woin: so ugly that he thought he must bewitched, But she went on speaking, saying she knéw his trouble and would give him the answer to his riddle if he would promise on his part to grant any boon she might request. To this he .agreed and learned that what women desire above all things is to have thelr own way, which upon hig telling the churlish knight the latter, though much angered, neverthei eet him free, eerie then returned to the usty y and found that he had only tumbled from the frying pan into the fire, for the woman demanded that he find in his court some young and courteous knight who would be will- ing to marry her. Now the King could searcely eommand one of his knights to. marry one so ugly and deformed, yet on the other hand he stood to break his kingly word where before he risked only his life. Returning to his court, Arthur next day summoned all his knights to a hunting party and led them in the direction of the loathly lady, whom shortly they came upon sitting be- neath a holly tree. Sir Kay and Sir Mordred began to jeer at her, but th King commanded them to stop, | forming them that he had pledged his knightly word that one of them would marry Upon this all drew dack but Sir Gawaine, the King’s nephew, who realizing the situation, and pity- ing this woman so helpless among 80 many churlish ‘knights, dismounted and knelt her feet. Taking her band and bending over it he sald, “Lady, I will be your husband, loyal and true, if you will have me.” At first she could not belleve he was se- rious, but when at last she realized it she sprang up weeping, which mado her seem uglier and her deformities more obvious as she stood, mounting on his horse rode to Camelot. That evening they were married, but though none made her welcome save Arthur and Guinever, yet so perfect was Gawaine in court. dignity and grace that none, laugh or even smile. When his wife had retired, Gawat; thought of her gratitude, and went his chamber once more to assure her of his loyalty. Imagine his astonish- ment on seeing a maiden dark, young, lovely, tall a! graceful, addressing him as husband. She told him shs was the victim of an enchantment, the conditions of which now per- mitted her to be her own self half the day and ugly the other half, accord- ing to her husband's desire, But Gawaine, smitten by her charms and wellnigh helpless, sald that her cholce would be his. Whereupon she put him several diMcult questions, but he always gave her her chotos. Finally she burst into tears, saying that by giving her her way In all things he had released her from the spell which a witch tn Jealousy of her beauty had latd upon her. Not only that, but the churlish knight, who was her brother, had been released also and would henceforth serve him faithfully, ‘The next morning when the knieht and the lady descended Into the great hall, where all were scornfully await- ing the ugly, loathsome lady. they were duly surprised and punished for their Jeers, while the knights realized how foolish pred had been not to obey the laws of ivalry which they had sworn to obey, | then Our National Monuments . MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT. © National’ Monument ts the Playground of so many people 48 Muir Woods, located in Mill alley, only seven miles In a direct ine from San Francisco, This traet of wonderful redwoods wus donated to the Government by Willlam Kent of California. Many of the moi beautiful redwoods in California a: in Mulr Woods, some of the trees be ing 300 feet high, with a diameter of 18 feet or more. Besides the red- woods the tract contains many beau- Uful oaks and firs. “These redwoods are the oldest known living things on earth, dating back to the time when now extinct species of birds and ani- mals were living among them. If they could tell their story we would know of the early races of the Weat Coast, who have left no history. Because these beautiful trees are so close to San Francisco and nelgh- boring towns they afford easy ac to the city folks seeking an outing. Every Saturday afternoon at the San Francisco Ferry Building can be seen hundreds of young men and women ** dressed in khaki and ready for @ week-end outing. A large proportion of these are headed for Mill Valley aed Mutr Woods, where they can ser ane mon uJ