The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1921, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pelided Deity Excevt Sunday by The Prom Publishing ‘Company. Nos, 58 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President 63 Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMIFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. eed alse Ge local news published herein. YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. VERY taxpayer has an immediate, personal in- terest in The Evening World's exposure of Glerk-hire graft among members of Congress. The taxpayer has to pay for every “workless secretary” ‘on the salary rolls. There is no ground for local satisfaction in the record made by New York Congressmen in install- ing relatives and friendly dummies to collect the * fast cent of salary allowance and in scheming to Nexact the greatest possible bonus payment. } It takes a multitude of soda-water pennies and ‘movie tax collections to pay the total expense of \this tricky and dishonest subterfuge. The money ought tv be put to more worthy use. * In general, the members who do least to carn their salaries are the ones most eager to pick up ‘these “extras” and then to keep the secret as long bay sas pussible, | Keep watch of the list The Evening Work! is ‘publishing. See whether your own Congressman liswrevealed as a grafter. Then decide whether that isort of Representative does you credit in Washing- ‘ton. Is he worth his pay? anew j- SUGGESTED TO STRAP-HANGERS. URTEAR the side door of most of the subway cars ' is a framed notice. Subway riders will re- teal! that this notice was of small interest to them ifast summer, because it deals with the heat to be ‘supplied when the temperature is low. Most sub- ‘way riders know that this notice is usually yellowed with age and obscured by a layer or two—or maybe ‘three—of dust, dirt and grime. In fact, the glass {which covers the notice usually resembles a typical “gUbvay window. } These notices are now of current interest. Strap- vhangers complain that not even the exertion of ‘erowding into a car and fighting for a place to ‘stand keeps them warm in the morning. ! ‘Therefore The Evening World suggests a further , exercise for subway riders to-morrow, if the weather ‘continues cold. | “Before leaving home obtain a bit of cloth from tthe rag-bag—the back of a discarded suit of B. V. will do nicely: When chilled and in need of * polish up these musty, dusty, yellowed heat | regulations and find out what they say. Give the Subway Sun an opportunity to cast its effulgens Hays on the provisions of the heating ordinance. i Who knows but Mr. Hedley’s limousine might ybreak down, with the result that he might ride to I work, discover that the I. R. T. was supposed to ‘eat its cars and rescind the order to economize on “heat? "Who knows but Dr. Copeland might hear of this jold and forgotten rule and actually arrest the pe~- sons responsible for the frigidity of the cars? ; It is true’ the rule never has been successfully ‘enforced. Subway riders never have been warm jon winter mornings, but there has to be a first time ifor all things. | At any rate, the exercise of polishing the glass frames will keep the blood stirring and rest the Stp-hanging arm, i | DOES THE. PENALTY END THERE? 1 { British Amateurs Outclass Yankee Boxers at De Luxe Mitt Sociable.—Headline in the Evening Post. But the headline writing honors seem safe for the honce. MPOSITION of $40,000 in fines on members of the Sand and Gravel Board of Trade by Judge } Learned Hand should not close the chapter. LoThe offenses to which the Sand and Gravel deal- vers pleaded guilty were interstate cases and of ' small moment compared with their operations within the State. ; Fines of from $1,000 to $5,000 are not adequate ito discourage such practices as have prevailed in the | buikting material “rings.” Such fines merely take #ower a small fraction of the illegal profits mulcted ‘from the public. , WNor does dissolution of the organization make ‘the punishment adequate. Experience has shown it conspiracies in restraint of trade are easily Teorganized. The place for guilty “ringsters” is prison. If the Federal law will not put them there, the State law should be invoked to the limit. Jail sentences for conspirators will be much more effective as a de- terrent than fines, which merely confiscate a small part of the ill-gotten gains. No doubt several of the culprits paid more in Federal taxes than they are required to pay in fines, A BLOW FOR “LEASTERS.” ISTICE FRANK COLEMAN JR. of the Ninth District Municipal Court was right in recom- Mending an appeal from his decision in the Beaux Arts Building rent case, If his ruling is upheld in ¢ higher courts, it promises relief to renters and to the speculative ‘“leasters” who have Phe Ammctated Prem ts exctusively entitled to the use for republication aD wows Gompaiches credited to it or mot otherwise credited Im this paper preyed on both tenants and investors in the New York housing market. Ia general terms, Justice Coleman laid down the principle that in determining the reasonableness of rent the court need not hold tenants responsible for the faulty judgment of the landlord who paid too grea: a price for the leasing privilege on a property. In other words, the court shofild allow rent on a fai: valuation of the property and not on the valua- tion indicated by the terms of a lease. If such a decision is upheld it will put even more “teeth” in the present rent laws and discourage “Jeaster” practices which are responsible for so’ much of New York's rent troubles, By all means let the ‘higher courts give us an early decision on Justice Coleman’s interpretation of the law. i THE COST. HE first year of Nation-wide Prohibition in the United States has cost National and State Governments, including losses in saloon licenses and excise taxes, upward of $1,000,000,000, as Fed- eral Treasury officials reckon it. The National Government alone lost $280,- 000,000 in revenue, It cost $5,400,000 to try to enforce the Volstead law, while fines for violations of the law amounted to only about $2,200,000. The show of enforcement is expected to cost at least $7,200,000 the coming year. State Govern- meints have had to make up excise losses by impos- ing a State income tax or other levies upon tax- payers. Has the country had a billion dollars’ worth of benefit from Nation-wide Prohibition? It has hot. On the contrary, it has suffered loss which money cannot measure. : ‘at loss is felt in diminished respect for law, in weakened confidence in the power of the American people to uphold their own professed principles. As it has been ruthlessly imposed upon every consmunity in the United States regardless of local characteristics, need or will, Prohibition is not a law that reason can accept. : That is its imsuperable weakness. That is why it has proved impossible to enforce it,and why the effort to enforce it has bred new habits of stealth, furtiveness and deceit among classes of Americans “who were never before law-breakers, A'l th’s undermining of American character, this weakening of American self-reliance, this deprecia- tion of American self-respect in order to get rid ot a saloon evil which could have been attacked and conquered without wholesale sacrifice of liberty! 4 billion dollars’ worttr of benefit from the firs: year of Nation-wide Prohit ‘tion? Better have spent five times the money outright than have rendered the American people liable for such unlimited, continuing, pyramiding moral costs. Astronomers tell us the nebula Dreyer No. 584 in the constellation of Cetus is dashing through space at the record interstellar rate of of 1,240 miles a second, That speed on earth would take a man from New York to Chicago over the New York Central before he could pull * out bis watch and note the time he started. Incidentally the starting time wouldn’t mat-'- ter a great deal to him_afterward, He'd be a crisp little cinder or less before he'd ploughed the air as far as Poughkeepsie. PALMER UNDER FIRE. TTORNEY G tion of the sedition laws, the Alien Property Custodian Act and the internment of enemy aliens was bitterly arraigned by Samuel Untermyer last night at the Nathan Hirsch dinner, The Attorney General’s proceedings against so- called “Reds” is also scathingly criticised in a brief which the National Popular Government League has submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee— the brief having been prepared by the twelve lawyers who signed a “report upon the illegal practices of the United States Department of Justice” last year. Mr. Palmer's high-handed policies toward aliens have made it certain that he would sooner or later be overtaken by concerted efforts to call him to account. It is only just:to recall, however, that large sec- tions of the American public were stirred by events during the war into abnormal states of distrust and intolerance toward aliens and*toward “free speech” in the mouths of aliens, Such abnormal states of the public mind do not justify an Attomey General of the United States in losing his head and Russianizing the Federal De- partment of Justice, But the country should remind itself that its own nerves and balance were sorely tried. Subway, lighting is “just about normal,” a representative of the Interborough said yester- day, adding, “Perhaps people notice the miss- ing lights more now because the days are shorter,” Isn't the sunset glorious when viewed from the subway anywhere between Atlantic Avenue and 96th Street? THE EVENING WORLD, W “Small Time” Hamor, To the Kaitor of The Bvening World Perhaps you can inform an anxious reader why the management of cer- tain small time vaudeville ‘theatres book acts with nothing to recommend them but their supply of jokes about the Government and particularly our President. The writer was in such a show house in Brooklym where the bill changes twice a week. An abtor (?) —bless the mark!—with nothing at cowboy suit, went through a series of childlike antics with a rope. The audience didn’t take kindly to his act, so he brought forth his chief stock in trade, which was some very malictous and stinging remarks about our Presi-~ dent, Woodrow Wilson. in the place who felt the shame of it, But what could we do about it? If you don't like such acts walk out Did the fact that this would-be actor spelled his name “Haas” have any significance? I have been won- dering MRS. C. WILLIAMSON Brooklyn 16, 192 No Charm in Smoking. To the Kaitor of The Bhening World. I cannot gee where it adds to a woman's charm to smoke. Smoking is injurious to women as well as men, for it affects the breath- ing. ‘All athletes must refrain from smoking in order to keep in the best of physical condition, Although 1 have never smoked, [ have severa girl ffiends who do, and [ would not term them as being “fast,” nor unre- fined, although | dislike to see them do it BUSTER Now York, Jan 1921 15, What Is “Awericantem”? ‘To the Editar of The Krening Work) What is Americanism? the common purpose, state of mind and che people of the United States o! North America at any particula: ime? Does it not vary, as the time \nd conditions vary? The American ideal, the common American mind and’ purpose--the vind and purpose of the great ma yrity—is that of a government by e people—-democracy. The ideals of a very small but very »werful minority of the people are ulte distinctly different, ‘The idvals ind the purposes of that minority are to get a8 much and give as little possible. They are the farmers cof farmers; the masters of miners; the owners of opportunities to labor nd live; the “Captains of Indus- try;" the financiers of credits and urrency; Emperors of “The Unseen Kmpire of Finance.” The tyrants of public transportation; Lords of the land and “Profiteers” in.all things, thoughts and inventions, the dicta- tors of policies and politics, over- mastering powers of government, ta* too long tolerated masters of the great majority of living people of he United States of North Ameriea Fe ‘oUt wroug Tell me where and in what Is it no the particular the conduc. of me so! |" Be sed can be accomplished by all in the way of talent, dressed in a | 1am sure there were a great many | | disorder, “ From Evening World Readers' What kind of a letter do you find most readablef [en't it the one that gives-you the worth of a thousand words in @ couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and @ lot of sultsfaction in trying te say much in a few words, Take tome to be brief. At all times, under ail cireumstances, let us abey the .aw; but be mindful of our duty to change t for the better. We will obey al! the demands of existing law-ex cept it be a law forbidding the mak ing of new laws or cancelling 1d ones. To deprive us of the right to make or unmake the laws uhder which we live is to make an end of de:no- cratic-republican government and to substitute a tyranny. The making of laws by the people | Americanism. “UNCLE EBEN.” Brooklyn, Jan, 15, 1921. is fundamental “Phe Fru To the Editor of ‘The Byening World Your editorial, “The Fruits,” was the greatest I've read yet in your wonderful paper. My judgment of it is the same as that of millions of others, Keep it up. I have never in all my life drunk whiskey, but once in a while, on holi- days, 1 would indulge in a glass of wine. L have a mother who is en- her one glass of whiskey every day. On July 1, when war- time Prohibition went into effect, I put in a supply of whiskey just for her sake. My supply has just about run out, and if it costs me $500 a case I'm going to buy one for her, if | go to jail in the attempt. Of course this sounds like a threat to the Government officials, but my patience as well as that of others has been exhausted. When will the public come to their senses and demand a vote on the Eighteenth Amendment? Are our Congressmen going stand by and see Prohibition “nue although the majority people are against it? A few hypo- critical Prohibjtionists will tell the same old story, “That the majority wanted it.” Prove it by letting the cople vote on thé question. DAILY READER, to cons of the Paiitor of ‘The Krening World hy is such a fuss being made over this Rear-Admiral adopting Russian children? He had better adopt some of our American chil- dren, Our orphanages are just full of little tots wishing for a home, many of whom lost their fathers in the World War or lost thelr parents in the influenza epidemic, ‘ cout he thick “America Rich Americans should wake that tire ren of States should come pelore those of other nations, “Qharity begins at home.” CORONA READERS. Government by Lobby. To the Bxlitor of The Breving World: We wish to thank you for using our name in connection with the admir- ple editorial in ‘The Evening World titled, “Government by Lobby’ in e imue of Jan, 13, It is trae that the American Pro- ective Tariff League has mainiained legislative agent at Washington for many yoars in the interest of an ade- Was first”? to the faci our own United ot eee eS, 1921, 'The Statesmen of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory No. 12.—Isaiah. The name Tsaiah means “Salvation of Jehovah,” and the man and the name were well joined, for if ever & person stood for the things that SAVE that person was Isaiah, the Son of Amoz. It is written of this wonderful character: “We know not his race, nor of what tribe he was;” nor is it necessary to know these things. We know next to nothing about Homer, or Shakespeare, or many of the other “dead and sceptred sover- eigns who still rule our spirits from their urns,” but therr work lives, their thoughts still breathe, their In- fluence still tells upon us, and will continue to do so to the end of time. Isaiah lived somewhere around 750 B. C, and the burden of his eloquence Was ever the same—the righteousness and power of Jehovah flaming against the wickedness of man. Against the céyetous amassers of land; against Juxurious revellers, those who were at ease in Zion; against bold sinners who openly defled God; against those who confounded moral distinctions; against self conceited sceptics and aguinst the profligate perverters of justice he stormed without mercy. The great critic, Ewald, thus char- acterizes Isaiah: “His fundamental peculiarity is the lofty, majestic calm- ness of his style. His discourse varies into every complexion, but ever at the right time it returns to its orig+ inal elevation and repose and never loses the clear ground color of its divine seriousnegs.” Looking about him upon the sancti- fied foolishness of the sacrificial sys« tem, which had driven out the sim- pliclty of the earlier religion, Isaiah breaks forth in the immortal words: “What is the multitude of your suc- rifices to me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt offerings of rama and the fat of fed beasts; and in the UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1921, by Joho Blake.) FIND OUT WHY YOU ARE BEHIND THE GAME. Worrying about the past will not get you anything. But thinking about the past will help you a great deal. For example, go back over the year that is just past, and discover, if you can, why you did not get more out of it. Analyze the little failures that together kept you further behind the procession than you should have been. Think them over and you will be able to see why they happened. Some of them were dug to inattention; some to procrastination, some to timidity, some to downright laziness. Hindsight is easier than foresight, and it is just as use- ful if you employ it in the right way. f you have the kind of a memory you ought to have, you will be able to recall a great deal of the past year. * Think it over, dnd you will be surprised to learn how vasy it is to pick out your mistakes, and just how much each of them cost you. Every ong of those mistakes can be made to count in the next year if you will profit by them. Some people have the faculty of profiting by the mistakes of others, which is a highly valuable quality. But lacking that, if you will only profit by your own, look critically at everything you have done that has turned out wrong, and find out why, you will be in much better trim to tackle the work of the next Everybody makes mistakes. Those who are most suc- cessful make the fewest. Those who are most umsucccess- ful not only make many mistakes, but make the same ones over and over again. Serious consequences often follow the most common- place actions, You cannot always foresee these, but you know that by working carefully and planning carefully you will be likely to make far fewer costly errors than if you work hurriedly. Try, in the year to come, to work, with a definite plan —to set a goal that you mean to attain in another twelve months. And in your effort to attain it, nothing will help you more than to find out what has been keeping you back, and to get rid of the obstacles, whatever they may have been. year, . 2 blood of bullocks, and lambs and he goats I take no pleasure, “When you come to see my face, who required at your hand to trample my courts (with the droves of animals for the sacrifice) ? “Bring no more vain oblations. In- cense is an abominatien to me. New Moon and Sabbath, the convoking of assemblies, I cannot endure. It is in- iquity, even the solemn meeting. “Your ‘new moons and your ap- pointed feasts are loathsome; they ere a burden unto me which I am weary of bearing. “Wash you; make you clean; pot away the evil of youfdoing from be- fore mine eyes. Cease to do evth learn ll; seek justice; relieve the deal “fairly with the fatherless; plead for the widow.” It the Son of Amoz had done noth, ing more than to deliver that message to mankind it would have been enough to immortalize his name. Tt is the final word in religion, in the philosophy of life and in ‘the higher politics of the nations. In the affairs of his time, both dos mestic and foreign, Isaiah took an active part, and always the keynote of his diplomacy and the touchstone of his objectives was sincerity verens hypocrisy, real righteousness yersus the hollow symbolism thereof. ‘ Thus did the ancient seer antict- pate the One who centuries later sald: “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Our National Monuments PAPAGO SAGUARA NATIONAL MONUMENT, NATIONAL monument which A is distinct in its features of in« terest is the desert tract of 2,050 acres, about nine miles east of Phoenix, Ariz. This land was set aside in 1914 to protect the wonderful collection of characteristic desert flora which grows to great size and perfection in this area. Many raré varieties of cacti, including the giant cactus known as suguaro, which reaches a height of 30 to 35 feet, arg found here. There are also fine ex- amples of the Yucca palm, also of great scientific interest. Included within the boundaries of this monument are also found many pictographs upon the faces of rocks, These were no doubt drawn by ex- tinct tribes of prehistoric Indians and serve to add to the ethnological and archaeological interest of the monument. Numerous caves, result. ing trom erosion, are found in a low range of hills which runs through the monument. The most interesting of these is known as “Hole-in-the- Rock.” It has an opening 15 fedb high and 26 feet long, which extends entirely through the rocks of this ridge of hills. It offers a favorite point of interest to the several thou- wand visitors who use this monu- ment as a picnic ground each year, The monument offers a favorite field of study for those interested in des- ert flora on account of the splendid specimens found scattered over the entire area. This monument is easily reached by automobile from Phoenix or Temple, Ariz, and is often visited in connection with a trip over the great irrigution system of the Sal River Valley, which includes the tamous Roosevelt Dam, quate protective tariff to American industry and labor in addition to its regular correspondent, | We believe that every legitimate organization, corporation, firm or in- That's a Fact’ terest should be represented at By Albert P. Southwick Washington, but such agent, repre- | {] coprrigs, 191! gentative or lobbyist should be ||| fn New Pork Evens Ward ne known and officially credentialed If members of Congress and public officials kngw exactly who and what an agent represents it is up to the members of Congress or public offi- clalg to accept or reject recommenda- tions made. | Proper representation officially ac- knowledged at Washington is proper jand wise. F. WAKEMAN, \Treasurer and General Secretary, ‘American Protective Tariff League. New York, Jan. 14, 1921, The first whale fishing was com- menced at Nantucket, Mass., in 1672. a8 The first protective tariff was enacted in 1816. ri The first United States naturaliza- tion law was passed in 1789. ee The first Bible published in Amer- ica was that translated by John Eliot, . Big Gas the “Apostle to the Indians,” of ‘To the titer of The Brening World: Rhode Island into the Indian lan- Is it possible for a smail family to| guage, in 1663. It can not now be consume $7.42 worth of gas in one | read. month; the gas being used for light ae oe | ning purposes only? The gas is lit} Among more primitive forms of at about 6 o'clock and turned out}money are skins, haigna shells around 10.30 of 11 «clock, (among the Indians of British Is a consumer bil compelled to pay this | iumbia), cowries (in India), whale'’s exorbitant bul? “DalLy teathe teeth (among the Fijians), red — ers (among some South Sea Islands urs), salt (in Abymainig and Mexico), ©. To multiply two figures 11, place the sum of these figures pied the fgures, thus—4+5—9; 45<li—495) 4 rule below 65 * 56, . In 1663, there were 2,000 cafes tn Cairo, Egypt. Louis XIV, drank the first cup of coffee made in Franca. Tt Was then worth £5 168 a pound, or about $29. In 1652, an Eastern merchant, named Edwards, opened a cafe in Newman's Court, Copnhill, London. ‘The first cafes in Paris were in 1672, but In Louis XV.'s time, Bluey years later, they aumbered Eight olive trees on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, are known to have existed in 1099—82t years ago, At Ankerwkye Ho, near Stanies, is @ yew dating from before 1215 yer ae" Some insects live only others for weeks. (the, about 15 yeara, a'tew hourez i lives ih } wt \ x \ y