The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1921, Page 18

‘ay i OSTABLIAHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. _ Budlished Daily Bxcepe Sunday by The Preae Publishing Company. Now. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. + RALPH PULTEUR, President 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Troamurer. 63 Park Row. Ml PULITZER Jr.. Secretary. 63 Park Now. SDGMMEN OF THE ASSOCIATED PhEss. (fie Aeeoctated ress Ls exeustvely entived to tke use foe repubitention ‘of Al pews Gewpatctes credited te for not otinewiee credited ta this pager hd also the ice news pubilahed boreim THE FRUITS. HAT are the fruits of Nation-wide Prohibition in American character and conduct to date? Here are a few: PP Stealth, * Fartiveness. Deceit. : Cynicism. ea Diminished respect for law. opt Lessened faith in country. ©» These are mental and moral fruits now ripening © in the national life. * Byverybody knows what has happened on the #i «© Liquor is still freely sold and easily obtaitrable. ~~ Profiteering bootleggers get incredible prices for low- ‘ vi ¥ _ © grade stuff that nobody would have thought of drinking three years ago. “Poisonous concoctions _ © and distillations are being made and drunk in untold ss quantities. > © Only last week Bird S. Coler of the Deparment af Public Welfare in New York reported to the "Mayor that since National Prohibition became ef- { be «| stective the number of patients treated in the city’s a “alcoholic wards has approximately doubled. Here "4s what Dr. Mortimer Jones of Kings County Hos- 4 “Ie-{s interesting to note that the number = of alcoholic cases for the 1920 period doubled that of the 1919 period, notwithstanding the high prices, the prohibitive sale and the sup posed difficulty in getting the liquor. From July 1 to Dee. 1,.1919, there were seven deaths in our alcoholic ward. During the same pe tiod in 1920 there were eleven deaths.” But aside from the notorious failure of Prohibition to prohibit, the whole’ wretched farce of National © Prohibition is creating in millions of Americans a new and unnatural attitude toward their country and y verted into furtive, tiptoeimg breakers of a law they _ + find it impossible to take seriously—a law that makes it a crime to do something which reason cannot be convinced is wrong. The workingman who can no longer buy a glass __- © of beer in any open, tawful way grows more resent- fat of the tich man who commits no wrong in con- suming champagne from his well-stocked private |. Doctors-ite appatied at the difficulties bigotry and _”* narrow-mindediness have put in the way of obtaining © pedhot for medicinal uses. All over ‘the country temperate, clean-lived, self- ~ controlled Americans are in a state of disgust that F All to0 readily shades into contempt for the new _ “Ités a serious and tragic thing to find Americans— ‘particularly young Americans—in such a frame of “J _| The Evening World believes, as it trxs believed from the first, that even worse than Nation-wide _ Prohibition itselt is the effect upon the national spirit | of the way in which the thing was done, Nobody has ever denied that many communities, ' and-even many States, had adopted Prohibition be- fore the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified or even proposed. But the adoption of Prohibition by this process of local discussion and decision was natural, normal, in accord With American tradition, What caused the grave slump in national self- _Tespect was the sudden success of the Anti-Saloon League in making legislators believe that a Federal ‘i tyranny could and ought to be established over all -} “communities and States, regardless of their local votes or wishes. Nation-wide Prohibition struck at an instinct of local self-government that lay deep in the American Wibre: It was the earliest principle of fiberty America knew, The whole political development of the ~ Natlon proceeded from it, The blow waa the more dangerous because It hit a the nerves of personal Ilberty and self-rellanco—both formerly regariiod as essential to American character. ‘ Tho nature, composition and needs of “ com- “munliy Ike the City of New York are not the Ahuwe, composition and needs of a community of Maia oa ae ‘ , ee wet +3 | Ci meray United States never intended that a. given com- munity should be subjected to such sumptuaty standards as other aommmunities might wish (6 im- pose upon it. That is why Nation-wide Prohibition is unjust and will always remain unjust despite the number of areas that had become Prohibition areas before the Eighteenth Amendment. . That is why the argument that “a large part of the Nation had gone dry anyhow” is a vain one. That is why Nation-wide Prohibition has created and will go on creating a sentiment of resistance that will make enforcement impossible, : A law so out of harmony with national ideals that good citizens cannot bring themselves to regan its violation as serious is a bad law and a sinister influence, . Its worst feature is not even its specific interfer- ence with personal freedom. The most dangerous effect of Nation-wide Pro- hibition is seen in the relaxed conscience, patriotism and law-abiding scruples of hitherto loyal Americans under the realization that this grotesque change of principle—and maybe more like it—can be so easily forced upon the Nation, Where will it end? SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR. HE adventures of the three American naval balloonists, graphically narrated by Lieut. Hinton in The World, add confirmation to Byron's epigram that “truth is stranger, than fiction.” Walter Hinton, Louis Kloor and Stephen Farrell left the Rockaway Air Station Dee, 13 at noon on an endurance test. Twenty-five hours later they came down in the frozen wilderness of Northern Canada, having been driven by a furious storm, From the time the intrepid trio left Rockaway Point until they found harbor and succor at Moose Factory, on the southern shore of Hudson’s Bay, their trip was a drama of danger and came very near to being a dreadful tragedy. The balloon passed over the Adirondacks in a blinding storm of sleet and snow, scraped the moun- tains and got entangled for a time in the trees, Preferring the hazards of. the air to an uncertain landing, the balloonists threw overboard all ballast and maintained an altitude of 6,000 feet or more. After hours of physical suffering and mental anxi- ety—shipwrecked in the air—they heard the bark of a dog. The twenty-three-year-old Lieutenant in command “immediately chinned himself on the valve - cord and made knots coming down,” . They found themselves in a dense forest, miles from any trading post or even lonely cabin. For four days\they suffered tortures from ex- posure and’ privation, two carrier pigeons being all the food they had. Finally they came upon a man’s tracks. The youngest member of the party had to run for half an hour before he could overtake Tom Marks, an Indian trapper, who was so frightened by their appearance that he was trying to run away. Lieut. Farrell, exhausted beyond endurance, may have lost his morale; but he certainly did not lose his spirit of heroic unselfishness. In the hour of extremity he offered himself as a vicarious sacrifice to keop his companions alive. An offer, of course, Tefused, ' Every one will await with suspense and welcome with rejoicing the news of the return of the aeronauts td safety and comfort. Dull indeed must be the reader who, in these’ stirring days, does not thrill to the romance of the news. HANDS OFF THE CITY'S COLLEGES. r7E do a lot of protesting about the loose lan- guage of ranting radicals. But a suggestion made at a meeting of the Real Estate Board last week is more truly subversive of democratic govern- ment than all the wild words of hirsute heretics, It was seriously proposed that, inasmuch as the city’s Board of Education is facing a deficit of $27,000,000, financial support of the College of ‘the City of New York and Hunter College shoul be withdrawn. Such a proposal is little less than anarchistic” To carry it into effect would be to place a lighted bomb benzath the foundations of our social structure. We can never afford to forget that popular education is fundamental to popular government, ‘he citizens of this community will not permit an Administration which has flirted with grafting con- tractors in its school building operations to make good its deficits at the expense of those who cannot afford to complete thelr education in private insti- tutions, How the people of New York feel about making higher education available to those"who will get the most out of It may be judged from a recent ex- perience, A student In one of the free evening schools wrote to The Evening World, complaining because his school was about to be discontinued, Another of our readers, apparently not very famtl- lar with the spirit of our Institutlons, wrote that he favored closing all the hich schools, and grammar grades foo, unless students would “Day as. you enter.” Pollowing this came a veritable flood of tetters—a ‘deluge—in protest. aitdy off the clly's collages! Cause and Effect! ne sR Ce ee ce gtie aie What kind of a letter do you ft There is fine mental exercise to say much in a few words. Take In Staze Jenioun of Pulpitt ‘To the Haitor of ‘The Kvening World: Lread in yesterday's Ivening World the complaint of the Pubiic Morals |. Board of the Methodist Church re- garding the manner in which Protes- | tant ministers are treated by the stage and movie people in their productions. I sympathize with the clergymen. | They have a legitimate and very real complaint, Perhaps, however, if the Protestant « and those of the Methodist sect in partici would take broader and mofe common-sense at- titude towand legitimate amusements their proteste might carry more weight While M iy true that the Catholic propriety and hypocrisy, they distin- guish between good and bad produc- tions and do not make their attacks general. If eyery movie and play pro- movies as thereby merit condemnation. caoke a man With au apple, but this is abusing the fruit. Instead of preaching true religion a good many ministers seem to prefer to engage in’ theatr Maybe the stage with professional knows? I haye no axp to grind for the stage folk, I realize What a large number of New York shows could be omitted with « decided improvement to the city’s virtue. Lf the theatrical people are too blind to see the handwriting jon t well, it js they who will | be the ’a whon-the next amend- 1k are afflicted jealousy. Who lom | ment to our paternal!stic Constitution fs dragged through, Had tho saloon people used a little common sense in yeare gone by—but what's the use? f BDWARD R. CULLEN, 626 45th Street, Brooklyn, N. 6, 1921, ‘The Onty Ones Left. To the Bititor of The Kronkas World Hylan seems to be giving the crooks the “freedom of the city,” They are about the only ones left upon whom he has not conferred this honor. H. J. MARQUES, New York, Jan, 6, 1921. ‘order of the Browntes,” To the Batitor af The Broaing World: 1 want to thank you for and oon- wratulate you on printing "By Order of the Hrowntes,” ‘The appearance of wivoa mo great pleasure, becnuse | yalleve them to bo true, and bocause if auch thinga aro trie mote and more people will read about them in your great pnpor, © I wish Brownlen would apenk to ma, if for no other reason than that I might have an acquaintance with some beings beyond this physical Tn hastily morning your column “¥yem Bvening World Readera” I have been atlonoe astoniahed and disappointed (8 find no comment on thowe aruioloe from athor readers, Perhaps T have nvlesed rome, Doesn't that seem strange to you, especially when they are written by #o eminent ® person? i thing haw come to my | these articles clangy are very yuick to denounce im- | pulpit antics, | ‘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! and a lot of sutisfaction im trying time to be brief. though, and that is uiat 1 think very one would be very happy if the srownies would concern themselve to see Americans travelling in more satisfactorily thought-out sleeping cars, One hears from time to time that it is only unwillingness or per- haps cupidity on the part of the sleeping car manufacturers that stands in the way of more desirable types of sluepers being made. . And then supposing the Brownies to have some greater object in mind than merely the furtherance of Mr. Stiliweil’s financial wellbeing, what & wonderful topic for conjecture wowld be the consideration of what the Brownies are really planning for —what earthquake, or great war, or what future political state, I wish you could find space to write some- think about it. | ROBWRT BABCOCK, | 341 West 45th Street, New York, | ton. 6, 1921 duced were bad, the stage and the) instruments would not) You can | spondent, “R. J. G.," has ascribed tr | cur American heroes certain rufflanly | practises that are foreign to heroic behavior, Heroes certainly do not |throw rotten eggs! But to use this happening as an illustration of a set- tled unfriendiiness between American and British in France is ridiculous, 1 could relate many happening more serious and pitiful, that took place between different companies of the same American regiment. M ib by means of such nonsensical lilus- (rations that Irish agitators are en- abled to earry on in’ America, With the beet wishes for the real peace of the Irish people Americans shoul! strive to limit these vulgur tactics American troops attached to the British army were in general treated better than were the British troops themselves, The A. E. F. man wh+ seeks to belittle the valor of the French and English armies should remember vhat if it had not been for the mettle of these splendid men he might poselbly have gone to France, but in that event he would most likely have remained there. Those who are sincere in their desire to Detter the condition of the Irish peo- ple must remember thet the question can never be settled primarily in America. Judging from Father O'Flanagan's letter no one, even in Ireland, knows just what the Irish themselves will demand. They look to America from cay to Say to find out just what shall be their status. ‘And this very depending on the ex- iwenolea of foreign aid has rendered their condition most tragic, Their unfortunate history has fostered a spirit of revolt that has been of ure in former times to factions in Eng- land, to France, and lately to Ger- many, Now it is America’s turn to keap alive this fire, American poll- agers of @ certain type have uned troops flame conalstently, desirous to t oll trteresta, Wy, se UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake \(Coprrient, 1921, by John Biake.) SAVE YOUR EXPERIENCES. Experience is valuable. In the advertisements forshelp you will find that experience ig usually specified as a re- quirement of any position that pays a real salary. It is the man of experience who is at the head of the office, or the foreman of the shop, or the superintendent of the plant. His experience is his capital. It can be measured by actual money. It 1s just as important, therefore, to save your experi- ence as to save your money, The writer once knew an editor who had worked for three great and wise newspaper proprictors. Not only did he save all the letters that these men wrote him about his work, but after his’ conversations with them he filled his notebook with what they said. In his thirties he was editor of a great daily, and would have been one of the foremost editors of his time were he alive to-day. He saved his experiences and they were worth a great deal of money to him. You can save your experiences, no matter what they may be. Jot down conversations with important men that have helped you, Jot down passages in books that apply usefully to your daily life. The very act of writing them down will help you to remember them and make them val- uable to you even if you lose your notes or do not have them with you, Store away in your mind the important things in your day's work, the problems that you have to solve and the successful solutions that you make of them. Forget them, and they will slip away never to return Put them away in your brain where you can get at them, and you will surely be able to capitalize them later, It is the difference in the inside of men's brains that makes the difference in their situations in life. If yours is stored with experiences it will be to you as a bank stored with your savings in money.. It will mean independence to you by and by when you want and need it. PA PRA IDL PIL ISPD PIPL PLP PPL SLL PLD S LEAS Words From the Wise a ns nn. of aiding the distress among the Irish people. 5 The best friends the Irish possess outside of their land are those who do not pretend to know the outcome of thelr destiny, but who do know that the pro nda of hatred and i will by si! r, self-seeking in- terests in Ame! will not alone keep back the development of Ireland, but will result in grave harm to America as well. M. ELLIOTT. 698 Broad Street, Newark, N. J., Jan, 5, 1921. Free Byening Schools, ‘To the Biitor of The Brening World: I have long enjoyed reading letters trom Evening World readers, 1 believe in constructive criticiam. ‘Therefore, I think you showed poor judgment in publishing the letter from Robert P, Green concerning his opinion of tree evening schools, A life spent worthily should be measured by 4 nobler line—by deeds, not yoars.—Sheridan. TAterature ts the thought of thinking souls.—Carlyle, Sorrow remembered sweetens present joy.—R. Pollock, That is the best Government which desires to make the people hoppy and knows how to make them happy.—T. Macaulay, Discontent 4s the want of self- reliance; it 1 infirmity of wilL— Emerson, My country is the world and ‘my religion to do g006—Thomas 3 iA a lat ac MT AC a I a i Sl hkl I think if Mr. Green had a little more aense he'd be half-witted. don’t to read this in any © » ee, eB Paine, > ae Love Stories By Maubert St. me tae New Verh Bronlag Wea oe ON THE CID AND DONA XIMENA. HOUGH the winning of Dona Ximena for his wife was not the Cid's most brilliant exploit, the circumstances surrounding thie event are so strange that they take @ practically pre-eminent place among ‘the myths and legends of Spain. Rodrigo Diag (the Cid’s real name) lived probably in the eleventi cen- | tury, Mech like the French warriok | Bertrand du Guesclin, he grew up to | #ee his country overrun by hated ene- mies, and like him, belng proud, quick-tempered and easily roused to* }anger, he devoted his life to strug- jsling with the tyrants whom evea | after his death he deteated. His first adventure was the re- dressing of a wrong sutfered by hin father, Don Diego. ‘The latter, while _ Rodrigo was still a youth, had becu publicly and grossly insulted by un | enemy of his, Don Gomes. The latter had before Witnesses slapped his fice, and Don Diego, enfeebled by sick- ness, had been unable to demand tho usual satisfaction of a settlement uf the insult, arms in hand, Several years later Hodrigo, having learned of his fathers shame, imme- | diately made his wa¥ to the home ut Don Gomez and, challenging hun ww answer for his deed, fought #0 bravely that he slew his opponent in spite cf | the handicap of his youth and in | perience. -Upon this, able once mo tofuce the world unashamed, Don Diego tvok his son to the court of King Ferdinand and bade him do homage to bis sovereign, Such was |the youth's pride and temper, thut jafter having first refused, when he | finally obeyed it was with such | | will and bad grace that the King, j raged, banished him from his pre ence. | This did not in jyoung hero, w Jabout collecting many noble youth ‘whom he might e Moors, who were then ng Can {tile, While thus occupied, he made the jAcquaintance of a beautiful gir Ximena de Gormaz by name, whom jhe found in deep mourn.ng for her father and with whom he immediate- ly fell In love. Animated by this new passion he anced with the 300 youths he had lected to attack the Moors. So su cessful was he in an attempt to atm- |bugh them that he not only defeated |their large army but made five of ther kings ‘prisoners, Having ov- tained from them a pledge to refrain |from making further war against his | king and a promise to pay tribute, he released thetn without ransom, which | generosity they repaid by bestowing jon him the name of “Cid,” or “Con- the least disturb the mimediately do queror,” by which name he was known ever afterward, Having delivered the land from @ great danger and being once more ad- mitted to the king's favor, the young nan, confident in hs new won fame, set about wooing Ximena, and she soon learned to ~eturn his affection. He asked her to marry him, but she an- swered that she could not iwatil she had avenged her father, who had been murdered, and asked him to introduce | cer to the king the next day, that she | night cla m justice from him. This he | willingly consented to do, even offer- ing his services as her champion What was thelr horror and distre: to discover that Ximena was t daughter of Don Gomez, for the latter was also Count of Gormaz, and that it was against the Cid that she claimed justice. Nevertheless, re~ membering her yow she did accuse him, and even returned to court five times to plead against him, Bub Rodrigo was too useful a warrior to be thus sacrificed, and the King maintained a deaf ear the whole time, Finally, hearing how things were between the two, he ordered Dona Ximena to forego her revenge and marry the Cid. For a long time she refustd, but finally love con- quered hate and they wera married. The Cid, however, being conscious that the blood that separated them needed washing out, swore that by some means or other he would ato for the wrong he had done his futu wife, undertaking to make pilgrim ages to seek absolution, and to win five battles to prove himself worthy of her love. This vow he kept, visiting the shrines of Spain, distributing alms, repressing his fiery temper and seck- ing to be a8 lowly as possible, to the extent of keeping company and sleep- ing with the lepers he found on his way. He founded the leper house of St. Lazarus, and then set about ful- Alling the second part of his vow, de- feating the knights of Aragon in a ourney that was held in place of war. Then he defeated the Moors and saptured the fortress of Coimbra. At last after many trials he re« turned to Burgos and was united to Dona Ximena, love finally joining those two whom Fate had seemed de- termined to separate by hate. By Albert P. Southwick Coors tl, the, Tone, ymeinr © | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. What American soldier tried to a» sassinate George Washington? ADMIRER, . Hartford, Conn, Phoebe Fraunce, the daughter of Samuel Fraunce, who was Washing- ton's housekeeper in the Martier House, on Richmond Hill, Greenwich Village, New York City, the Gen- eral'’s headquarters in June, 1776, re- veale? the plot to assassinate both Washington and Putnam which led to the apprehension of her lover, an Irishman named Thomas Hickey, 5 British deserter, then a member of Washington’c bodyguard, in conse- quence of which he was promptly tried by court martial, sentenced to deat) ang executed. The plot was traced to Gov. Tryon, while Mayor David Mat- thews was the prin agent. Th reads the Orderly Book, Friday, June 28, at New York: “The unhappy fato of Thomas Hickey, executed this day for mutiny, sedition and treachery. the General hopes will be a warning to every soldier in the army to avoid those ome and