The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1921, Page 30

a — BY, JOSEPH cr PULITZER, jay by The Prow Publishing | SOOMINER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Prem ts exctusively entitled to the ws for repubitoation et ll mews Geapatches credited to it or pot otberwine eredited in this paper ‘siso the Jecal mews published herein. - “GLADNESS, PERSONAL RIGHTS ie T’S too bad all moral and religious reform move- | : ments in this country can't be leavened with a fittle of the sanity and humor of the Rev, Dr. William T. Manning, rector of Trinity Church in | Speaking at the annual dinner of the First Panel | * of the Sheriff's Jury the other night, Dr. Manning took a neat shot at the “blue law,” Puritan. Sabbath | © advocates. . "The Pilgrims and the Puritans,” he said, “were | f great people; but we don’t have to follow their ideas or revert to the customs which they estab- | lished for themselves 200 years ago. The Pilgrims were great. people, beyond a doubt, but I am not * sure that they were easy people to live with. “In that connection I heartily indorse the seztiment voiced by the late Joseph Choate, | who said that while he had great admiration for the Pilgrim fathers, he had still more aé@miration for the Pilgrim mothers, who, in addition to all their privations and hard ships, had to put up with the Pilgrim fathers.” Progressive Twentieth Century religion doesn't Tike to waste its energies in persuading people they vf musi put up with those who_practise it. Ue Twentieth Century religion wants to show that * thoos who embrace it are gaining far more than | - they give up and that, as Dr. Manning says, it | for gladness, personal rights and freedom | all that adds to the goodness and fulness of | week or so ago the Public Morals Board Methodist Church registered a protest against | the way Protestant ministers are represented on the | Stage and in moving pictures and cartoons, { If all Protestant minjsters were like Dr. Manning, how many caricatures would they have to com- plain of? | America’s own Mary Garden elected Genera’ Director of the Chicago Opera Association—the ‘first. woman in any country to hold euch a position! In her new combining of artistic and executive eminence Mary will be Ifke a storious banner floating from thephighest turret of Woman's Rights. AUSTRIA’S COLLAPSE. USTRIA is in a bad way. An Associated Press despatch from Paris _ Teports, that official Austrian circles in the French * capital expect the complete political collapse of Aus- tela within’ month, The Austrian Minister to France is quoted as “It is no longer a question of months. It is only 2 question of weeks, perhaps days,” Thus és brought lower still what remains of the browbeaten neighbor and victim of a former Prussia, ; Fiftyodd years ago the American historia Motley, then American Minister at Vienna, described | Austria as “a nation of eight millions of civilized | Germans and nearly thirty millions of Asiatics in | sheepskins and in tight pantaloons inside. their boots.” / | Bismarck’s iron hand riveted Prussian domination’ _ on what Ffederick the Great had unscruputously cut into. ; Austria became accustomed to leaning on the galvanic support of an aggressive Prussia, and Vienna looked for orders and salvation to Berlin. The old habit broken, the old order swept away, the old’ support gone, Austria crumples under its Duting the last year of the war The Evening World described an Austria excluded from the Ger- manic Empire as “a doubtful asset, likely at any moment to become a huge Ifability.” ; Jn a still larger sense, such a moment seems near. a saben narkankcninreeonet Whatever the occasion for it, the extra police guard over the city to-day shows New Yorkers how the force can be mobilized when even ~* Poliee Headquarters is persuaded “there's a reason.” A MIRACLE OF ENTERPRISE. OST adult readers of The Evening World can recall the first time they saw “a horseless carriage.” ‘ GAping crowds lined the curb of Main Street or Broadway. Some came to cheer, but more came ,to jeer. Among those who watched the funny con- @ traption race by at the breakneck speed of eight » miles an hour were many descendants of those who _ },, stood on the shores of the Hudson and scoffed at © «Fulton's Folly.” But those who came to scoff 1 *have remained to pay. } Mr, Elwood Haynes, usually credited with having # invented the first practical automobile some twenty- y "seven years ago, says, “It is almost like a dream, |} ® thig resnarkable growth of the automobile industry.” Mr. Haynes is wrong. It is not “like a dream,” 1S a dream—come true. Bs have always been the advance agents This :is Automobile Week, The National Auto- | i * mobile Show has attained its majority; it is now twenty-gne years old. The popular appeal of the exhibition is attested by_ the thousands atimitted daily at the Grand Cenfral Palace on Lexington Avenue. At first the ungainly plaything of inventors, the automobile later became the luxury of the tich.. It is vow an indispensable necessity of millions and the health-giving pleasure of millions more, THE CITIES HAVE IT! 1 WILL ‘come with a shock of surprise that more than half (54.4 per cent.) of the people of the United States live in cities. The official tifures of the Census Bureau, pub- lished yesterday, show that when the 1920 census was taken 54,318,032 made their homes in cities and towns of ngore than 2,500, while those living in runt territory numbered 51,390,739, A few years ago the leading attorney in a cele- brated case said that we were all suffering from “Americanitis.” In the light of these figures, which show an actual incréase of cily dwellers during the past decade of 5.6 per cent, we are also suffering from urbanitis, ‘ ery State in the Union—except Colorado, Wy- g and Moniana—experienced a marked migra- tion from country to city, The increase in Michigan was from 47.2. per cent. in 1910 to 61.1 per cent, in 1920. The ‘largest proportion of cit} dwellers over rural population is in Rhode Island—where 97.5 per cent. seem to have succumbed to the lure and appeal of city opportunities and satisfactions. The causes of this decided tendency to leave the farm for the shop and office are many. Some aré no doubt psychological; the gregarious instinct; the call of the crowd. Another cause is certainly eco- nomic, a desire to “better” one’s self by coming to a conmmunity that affords greater opportunities for higher pay and the consequent enjoyment of more of the benefits of civilization. Not infrequently there is a rude awakening and genuine regret. Bernard Shaw finds pleasure in calling us “a na- tion of villagers.” ter reading the latest census report. By etymology a pagan means (“paganus”). We are no longer a nation of pagans. + of the country” Washington Sad Over Changed Plan for In- auguration.—Headline. Washington had pretty fat pickings during the war. In peace the capital might consider the pocketbooks of the rest of the country. — PROM THE OITY OF HI LAN. To the Heaven-Born Mayor of Pekin, China: Here im the City of Hi Lan, your servant, Commissioner Hong, observes many excel- Jent things in the ruling of a city, and also . many things which Your Excellency and other high rulers should avoid. I speak now of investigations, which are plentiful here and are causing much fMiequiet to Hi Lan, admirable Mayor of this place, There have been so many investigations o/ all people and all things that it came to be the fashion for every person of high estate to have at least one. Thus Hi Lan, amiably trying to please ali, «started an investigation of himsejf and dis covered admirable qualities which even he had overlooked in himself, This furnished an idea to Wun Duck, High Prosecutor, to seek fator with Hi Lan and with his ewemies, who also are the enemies of Hi Lan, by investigating his friend Hi Lan, perhaps intending to say good things of » him, But Hi Lan became displeased. It came to him that Wun Duck was seeking to placate the anger of Al Miralt and his friends by making sacrifice of Hi Lan, So Hi Lan bitterly rebuked Wun Duck and told him his swons were all geese, With harsh words the servants of Hi Lan drove Wun Duck orth from Sittec Hall, AT men are laughing at the failing out between these tivo in high places and are mocking them and saying that honest men need not fear to lose thereby. . Reware of investigations, Heaven-Born HONG, COMMISSIONER. TWICE OVERS. SEE & geome aregner leet te Navy plans now freater expenditures than ever before in peace time, It is time that nations everywhere reach some agreement—one that will not only relieve expense, but - will also go far toward the prevention of war. Other- wise may we not seriously ask’ ourseloes whether civili- zation is a failure?” —Gen. John J. Pershing. “ ¢ »® “ce E need a new baptism of that Americanism which is synonymous with liberty.” — Rabbi Joseph Silverman. * * . 667 HE father is neglecting the finest and most important thing in his life if he neglects the duty of companionship with his son.”—Rowland C. Sheldon, Sec. Big Brother Movement. i | - “ EN seem to expect nothing bul pretty smiles and silly remarks from blondes. Some of * them seem annoyed if a light-haived girl shows brains and common-sense.’ —Margaret Lawrence. ck 8 «66 -'MMA GOLDMAN told me in Russia that she would rather be in jail in the United States than free in Soviet Russia.” —Max Schwarts, . He may revise his estimate af- . “THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 is LOST, Vs is it, Ty : bp Toe F P éoligts oD RoN a nee RA te sey much in a few worde, Take | | . “The F | To the balitur of The Brening World: May | be allowed to congratulate |you on the recent editorial, “The |Fruite,” as published in The Evening | |World? This editorial precisely brought to the surface the desires, feelings and sentiments of the ma-| jority of the American people | I would Jike fo make the suggestion j¢ha you have small ballots inserted in your paper, and ask the public of the City of New York to return these jto you with their wpproval marked | on them, : This would, I am’ sarg help the leause for which you have been fight- jing, for it would show the exact will | of the people. - 1 CHARLES R. JAYCOX, | 1968 624 Street, Brookly N. Y,, Jan, 10, 1921, | Whe Highteemth A ‘Yo the Militor of The Hrening World | \ Your very able editorial “The |¥ruits” and John Cussel’s equally | clever cartoon “Cause and Effect” in| ‘The Evening World, are timely and} jsum up America's ills at a glance. You put it #0 plain and yet so force- | fully truthful that even a Wm. H. Anderson with entire resources of moneybund behind him would be lost trying to refute: you. | ‘The Highteenth Am ent is | wreoking the country. Your” paper has never waged in @ wrong fight. It will never be U. 9, A. again until: the Eighteenth Amtndment ts un- conditionally repeated. JNO, OPRDNB. Jan. 10, 1921 Wants Ligh ria ‘To the Bititor of The ing We t For a number of years past T haye \been a daily reader of ‘The Evening World and have particularly enjoyed reading the letters published on the editorial page from your many cor- respondents, ~ Lately I have interested myself in the Irish question, and I trust you will publish these few lines under “Letters From the People,” as T wish to be enlightened on the following | questions: \"@) Why do Lioyd George and Sir | Baward |in the north of Ireland have Home Rule under a separate Parliament? (2) IT am told that the majority of the people in the counties which will come under the control of this Par- {fament are Sinn Fein. What will ‘be the outcome? “ |) In 1914 @ Home. Rule bill for all of Lreland was passed by the Houses of Parliament, signed by Kin ort Problem, operation? PR, 10818 128d Street, Hill, L. E, Jan. Tammany Losing Ta Ho ‘To the Bilitor af The Wrening World : Is \t any wonder that the Demo- From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one” that gives you the worth of a thousand words in o couple of hundred? | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of sutisfaction im trying ‘arson insist that.the people | PJs time to be brief. saloons and back breakers of the Prohibition law? Such mea can be found ®aimost any night in ‘those places, There was a time when Tammany hel the common people, as they styled them, in the hollow of, its hand. ‘Those days are gone and 1, hepe never to return. * It was only a few days ago that another saloen was raided by Prohi- bition officers a few doors away and thousands of dollars’ worth of liqubrs confiscated. The common people no longer have respect for the Tammany leaders whé | train with men that break and ignore J.J, our. laws, . M'ARTN New Yor ny of The Breuning Word: It seems that the public has en- tirely forgotten the ice cream soda , man, who still charges 17 cents for @ glass of yoda/when sugar is only 6 cents a pound, makirg a profit of about 14 cents on each soda. Why? Should a child be deprived of a much longed for drink? How many poor children can afford to pay 17 cents for a soda that is worth at most 10 cents, with a fair profit? JOHN MARKSON, 12No, 2803 Broudway, New York, Jan brofiteering in Theatre Tickets. To the Dilitor of The Brening World ; ‘ast Saturday evening my wife I went to a theatre on upper Broadway to buy tickets for the per- formanct. We were told that all they had were in the eighteenth row io one side of the house, at $2.20 a seat, However,- underneath the drug store on-a nearby corner they had &, B, C centre at an advance’ of 80 cents on each ticket, and were selling them rapidiy. None of the tickets were marked at the advanced hy s Ie it possible that the management of thé theatre in question knows nothing of this? That hardly seems P ie as & yOunDE man stands nightly In front of the theatte, call- ing and directing patrons to this ce. ‘Are the theatregoers getting a fair deal? + A. MACKSON, No, 65 Weést, 108th Street, New York, Jan. 13, 1981. te — i Despondent About Subway Service, Yo the Paitor Of The Bvening World Hardly a day paases without there appearing in the newspapers, either written by the people or the editor, gome complaint about the subway wervice. ‘When T sit and think about it it seems to me that there | no remedy for the rush-hour jam. If the trains were run faster, a Blight block would paralyze the line, No person would stand by and walt until the people who were ahead of him get-comfort- cratiy candidates for Judges, Sena- jtors and Assomblymen ‘vho h4n for | office in this city are defeated, when ‘Semmany lcaders frequent ponsliate (he holding ww of people go~ i | | Kk. Jan. | Water, ably seated id jet. two or three’ trains go by before le gets in one. ‘Tf this system. was used It would ne- ing home fron thirty minutes to an hardly be called discourteous or im- | safety rules to prevent aooident. The ‘ UNCOMMON SENSE ~ : By John Blake 4i:. 1981. by John Bl LOOK OUT FOR SHORT CIRCU _ An electric current, sent forth from a power house gen- erglor to run hundreds of motors or heat to incandescence the filaments in thousands of lights, sometimes jumps unex- p4ctedly to an exposed return wire. * In such a case it returns immediately to¢he generator from which it came: The lights do not light. The motors dé not spin, Qften the wires in the power house are burned out by a current that has not been deprived of its energy by the hard, honest work it was meant to do. ‘To-day short circuits are a common experience. You have to live far from civilization not to learn almost daily of the mischief they can do. In your own life you will find that they do ‘just as mueh misehief, artd in much the same way. A Gertain amount of energy is generated by your syste: every day—exectly how no man as yet knows, If this energy is harnessed properly and directed aright it can do a great deal of useful work. Whether through your hands it digs ditches or drives nails with’a hammer, or through your brain it solyes prob- lems of business and directs armies of workers, it is fune- ‘ tioning properly as long as it is kept in the regular channels, But there is always an opportunity for a short circuit that will destroy all its effectiveness, ‘ Often the day's work, whatever it may be, will look like an overload, and you will permit the current to shift into a conduit where it ought not to go, such as idleness, or extrav- agance, or viciousness, Instantly the wark it was meant to do will stop, and the whole system will suffer an injury that may be very hard to repair. Look out for these short circuits. your energy where it belongs. you, and perhaps for the whole world if rightly directed. ean do infinite mischief if you permit a short circuit. Keep the current of It can.do infinite good for It ve The World’s Oldest Love Stories By Maubert St. Georges he Nee Work wns CUCHULAIN AND EMER. UCHULAIN was the greatest of Ulster’s mythical heroes, per- haps the greatest of Ireland. At first he was named Setanta, but very {early ig his youth, he earned for him- | self the name of Cuchulain, the hound ‘of Ohulain or/Cullan, He was at the jcourt of King Conor, and one day when the Jatler was travelling (0 feast with a wealthy smith named | Cultan he was left behind. Callan re | ceived the royal company hospitably, | and in his great hall they made merry [over meat and wine, trusting to the protection of a huge ferocious dog, which would overcome, so Cullan [sald, everything but the onset of an larmy. But they had forgotten Se- | tanta, The boy arriving late at night ithe hound sprang at him, but Setanta | grasped it by the throat and dashed =, its bgains out on the gates, Cullan, (however, was grieved and sorrowful ut the loss of the faithful guardian } who had died doing its duty. Seeing this the boy spoke. "Give me a whelp of that hound and [ will train it to be all that 1s sire was, Until then, give me « | spear and @ shield and I will guard |thy house myself.” And thus he earned his name of Cuchulain. | Now Cuchulain, though not yet a |} man, was 60 strong and handsome that’ his companions urged him to marry. But no maid pleased him un- tl he saw Emer, daughter of For- pall. He resolved to woo her, and harnessing his chariot rode to her ome, where he met her surrounded vy her maidqns, Hearing who it was Emer rose th meet him... But when ne urged his love upon her she tok aim of the strength and wildness of ber father and of the champions who guarded her, As be still urged her, | she reminded him that ail who came |to woo wealthy and beautiful girls {uch as herself were renowned for |having slain their hundreds, | bie own deeds were still to do. Immediately Cuchulain set out to prepare himself for the deede of heroism that Bmer had demanded of him. He went overseas to the Lard of Shadows (the Islands of Skye). where there dwelt a famous woman? warrior naméd Skatha, who taught while young heroes, who came to her wonderful feats of arms. For a day and a year he remmined with her and all she taught him he learned easily, until none there ceuld equal him. Last of all she gave him the gar holg, the belly spear, a weapon which , was driven with the foot and was sure death to an enemy. Cuchubiin | tested himself in war, helping Ska- tha againat a rival Aifa, and, deciding he was now strong and skillful enough, returned to Ireland. Eager to test his prowess and win Emer for bis wife, Cuchulain looked | ahout for some great deed to perform, |'There lived on the border betwaen Ulster and Connacht a family, Négh- tan and his sons, who claimed that more Ulster heroeg had fallen by their hands than yet remained alive | Against these Cuchulain drove his |chariot.. First came Foill, the son of Nechtan, who was protected by magi: against ‘the point or edge of any weapon. But Cuchulain put In his | sling a ball of iron, perfectly round, jond stung it at Foil! so that it pierged \his brain. All the sons of Neehtan he fought and slew. Then he fired the castle and drove away exultant with their heads on the spikes of his chariot. But the fighting rage was'on him and as he rode his blood boiled and he sought for men to kill, and was likely to Slay friend instead of foe. The King of Ulster, however, recognizing this, thought of a scheme to stop him without loss of lives. He sent @ troop of women to meet him. who stripped off their clothes and stood naked before him. Even in his fighting fury the gallant youth. re- membered his duty toward women and hid his face. Then the king's men. seized him and plunged him into a vat of cold water which they bad prepaged. Such was the heat of his blood/ however, that the water boiled and the etaves and hoops burst asun- der, 90 that the operation had to be repeated several times before his fury left him. Next day he went down to the astle of Forgall to claim Emer. But he found the gate closed against him, So he leaped the walls with the “sa! mon leap” that Skatha had taug' him. Once inside Forgall's mighty nen set on him, but he slew them all and Forgall himself met his death leaping from the ramparts in an ef. fort to escape him. So he carried off Hmer and two loads of gold and silver, Outside “more of Forgall's relatives set on him, but he killed them and escaped. So Cuchulain won Bmer and married her, nor were they parted again until he dfed. eee “‘That’s a Fact By Albert P. Southwick New Jersey and Delaware were both icnown originally (tike New York) as New Netherlands, Se 4 Words From the Wise Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels knoe of ua. —T. Paine. Rumor is a spark at first, then a fire, then a conflagration, and then ashes; it is like a swarm of bees, the more you fight them the tess you get rid of them —H, W. Shaw. Discretion is the salt and fancy of life; the one preserves, the other swectens it.—Bacon, Conquer your enemics by kind- ness, preserve your friends by prudence, deserve the eateem of ali by goodness.—C. Judson, hour. | The conductors and guards can/ polite. They have to enforce. the way the people push and shove after | their patience is tried is enough to| get on any one’s nerves, The better- | ing, of the service is entirely up to the’public themselves. GF.S. New York, Jan, 12 , Should Women Smoket mo the Ritor of The Prening World: Will some broadminded and intel- tigent reader kindly answer me this? Is it wrong for girls to emoke? I'm always arguing with my git) friends about this hecause I can’t seo what's wrong in ft. Many who say it} is wear one-piece bathing sults, and) 1 thine that's much more improper | than smoking. | If \t f@ really injurious, then why not to men? Why does it give a wrong lenpreastony eee once Our incomes, like our shoes, if are not used to Kt ws te really unrefined? If so, why?| 00 mall, will gall and pinch. ua, Tam not a alave to convention, If but df too large, will cause us to T feel ke emoking, Tl do It. Does this make me a “fast” girl right stumblé and foll.-Sir R. Inglis, away? Man, somg, one convince me Nature (8 a,volume of which MISS K, C, God 4s the author.--Harvey, Among Indian names of States are Michigan (“a weir for fish"); Minne- sota (“cloudy water"); Missouri, with ‘a similar mianing ("muddy"), and Nebraska (“water valley”), ee Northmen landed on the continent of America in November, 985, more than 500 years before Coluntbus ¢dis- covered it, Oct. 12, 1492. - ee 8 Celestial photography (views of. the heavens) was begun by Prof. Bond of Cambridge, Mess, a8 1851, . ‘The rifle ball. ordinarily. moves 1,000 miles an hour, while sound travels 748 miles, In the same time, * . ‘Tho first Sunday school in the United States was founded by ‘Hacker, at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pa, in 1140-47; the first In England Robert Ratkes, at Glouoes: iter, in ad. ‘The pass at Thermopylae, in the mountaing of Greece, {s where, tn 480 B. C, Leonidas, at the head of 300 Spartans and 700 ‘Theaptans, withstood the entire Persian Army, 110,000 men, for three days, The enemy secratly guided to the pear of the Greeks, the latter, hemmed in between two assailants, perished fiqriousty, all but one man, who was held in dishonor for nie fight,