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eee ae Sa. er ee “ee, => $quarely in line with orthodox Republican “pro- PSTADLISHED RY JOSEPH PULATAEN. Pudlished Detly Except Sunday by ® 68 to 63 Park Row, > President 62 Ps Neus . Tresmurer. 62 Pur JOSEPH PULITBSR JIr., Secretary, 3 Pe MEMINER OF THE AS#OCTATED Phess, {Tae Arociated Prem te exclusively entitied to the wre for repabttention “bews drapatches credited to ft er not al the local news published herein, . QUEER CREDITOR POLICY. EPORTS from the Supreme Council tell us the question of German indemnities is “settled.” 4 all probability the terms are just about as “settled” as the tariff policy of the United States— and no more so. The Supreme Council bears something the same relationship to Germagy that a creditor does to a mercantile establishment perilously close to in- solvency. The present policy of the Council may be com- PaFed to. a demand by such a creditor that the debtor . advertise in the ne iC goods are priced 92 per cent. higher than those of its competitors. Germany may manage'to pay part of the instal- ments, even with a 12 per cent. export duty levied “Yor the “protection” of other nations. But the time . Will come when Germany will be forced to ask and “the. Council will be forved to grant repeal of this provision. »Nominally Germany is to pay in gold, Actually Germany can pay only in commodities, If Ger- many succeecs in meeting a few indemnity pay- ments, her exchange situation will be benetited to ‘Sueh’ an extent that the uneconomic 12 per cent. differential will be an oppressive and impossible andicap to further payments. “Meantime this feature must be regarded as an evidence of canny commercial foresight on, the part of Great Britain, While seeming {o satisfy France wah a heavy indemnity, the British hope to benefit ®y the workings of this export tax in the markets Where Germany was a vigorous competitor before ‘The war. cedn effect the Council says to Germany, “You gust pay,” and with the 12 per cent. export tax it @#Ais a theatrical aside, “But we'll jolly well tix it so Wat you can't pay.” ~ At any rate, such a policy ought to go far toward justifying the League of Nations in the eyes of its tent Republican’ critics. The 12 per cent. tax is irrwiee crediied tm this pape teotive” policy. . Lj “Why should I object to cigarettes when I ~\ tse them myself?” asks President Hibben of oc Princeton University, And he adds: “Cigar- © gtte smoking should be*in moderation.” »' Oh, no, Dr, Hibben. No more moderation, Ph) no more temperance, no more self-restraint, “neo more strength of character developed by © fesistance to temptation. To be a strong man you must be sealed up in a jar of pro- “nibitions. a : A REAL SAILING RACE. gesagt sportsmen will approve the condi- tions laid down by King Albert of- Belgium in his offer of a cup for a transatlantic sailing race. The race is open to the world. There are to be no réStrictions, no measuring of hulls, .no time allow- » no delay because of weather, no waiting for fegiher-light breezes which will not jerk the sticks out of the frail toy racing boats. "Phe race, as outlined, is a man’s garhe, with full Play for judgment, skill and daring in ship building and sailing. “American sportsmen will not shrink from such a test, Nor need America fear the trial. Not all the old Yankee clipper ship captains are dead. Assem- ble a few of these okl-timers as asboaril of strategy » asd America will have a coaching , service second £6) none. © Recruit a crew of Grand Bankers such as sailed the’ Esperanto to victory in the fishing schooner mace off Halifax last fall, and America need ask no ottds for skill and dating of the human element. “Af-any nation can build better sailing ships, let us Enow it. The mere fact that the America’s Cup races last simmer caused so much critical comment, even from the winning Nation, makes King Albert's offer more welcome. Let us have a real sailing race, Let's go! In answer to a plea for a tariff on honey, , Senator Thomas of Colorado told the Senate ~~ he would not act to protect the American bee from “the pauper bees of Europe.” Presently the Republican Old Guard will have to bestir _ itself to protect the whole sacred, protective tariff idea from the merciless punctures of American common sense. BERGDOLL AND BENEDICT ARNOLD. HY, may we ask, are Americans trying to get ” Bergdoll out of Germany? "The question applies whether his would-be kid- nappers belong to the army, the secretyservice or merely to the ranks of unduly zealous citizens, OdfeGermany wants Bergdollif Germany will have’ Bergdoll—et her, by all means. If ever there was an example of “good riddance of bad rubbish,”’ Bergdoll is one. exGermany is where Bergdoll belongs—if he be- ngs anywhere. Germany is welcome to him— 4s welcome as England was io Benedict Arnold, And recalling the fate of Arnold, could Bergdoll’s -THE bitterest enemy wish him worse than having to live in Germany? For the moment, while war hates run hot, Bergdoll may pose inething of a hero amidst the Prus But that feeling will wear and Germans will learn fo despise Bergdoll vimen despised Arnold, Arnold had, at least, the savit in his treason. grace of courage Bergdoll is only—Bergdoll As a conciliator, Gov. Miller has established @ State record. HOUSING AMERICAN DIPLOMATS. ITTING as a commitee of the whole, the House of Representatives agreed last w the offer of the formef home of J. ?. Morgan in Lomsion as a residence for the American Ambassador. ‘The House also approved an appropriation of $150,000 for the purchase of an American Embassy in Paris. This seems to indicate an awakening of Congress to the long standing impropriety of letting repre- sentatives of the United States camp out, so to sp2ak, in foreign capitals. It is an old and familiar complaint that only rich inen can afford to be American Ambassadors or Mir The corollary of that complaint is that the Diplomatic Service of the United States offers no veal career to men fitted for it by character, edu- cation and training, unless they happen to have bank accoumts that will stand its heavy expenses. The fact that representatives of this (sovernmen in foreign countries do not wear gold lace does not mean that the dignity of the United States is not concerned whether they rent a palace or a flat. Niggardliness in failing to provide suitable resi- dences for American diplomats abroad has never secured additional respect for American democracy or resulted in any gain or advantage to this Nation. The last thing the United Stites has ever wished to do or wishes to do now is to make a splurge in the capitals of other countries. But there’s a long way between making a splurge and doing what far poorer nations do in providing proper housing for accredited represemtatives at the seats of foreign Thments It's about time this country had a Diplomatic Service that paid its own way right to the top, in- stead of depending on the private pocketbooks of wealthy appointees to keep up the credit of the United States among Ambassadors and Ministers of other nations. ALFRED T. WHITE. Bee has lost one of its first citizens in the death of Alfred T. White. It wouki have been hard to find angwhere in Greater New York a man whose life had been more devoted to civic usefulness or’ who was more re- speoted and esteemed by those among whom he lived, A pioneer in the movement to provide better housing for workers, Mr. White built the first model tenement house group in the United States. He was persuaded to take the office of City Works Commissioner of Brooklyn and was later an efficient member of the Tenement House Commission of New York. He also deeply interested in the welfare of children. He built the first seaside home for poor. children of the city in summer. He was a director of the Brooklyn Children’s Aid Society and of the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, : President of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, director of the City and Sytburban Homes Com- pany, trustee of the Phipps Buillings and of the Russell Sage Foundation, lover of music and in- corporator of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, donator of money for a Brooklyn arboretum and enthusiastic patron of the Botanic Garden of the Brooldyn Institute ®f Aris and Sciences, Alfred T, White was a broad and many-sided philanthropist. He was often called Brooklyn's best and foremost cilizen, Public office had to seek hard to find him. But for public need or benefaction he was ever compe- tently at hand. a) eck to accept sters, FROM THE CITY OF RI LAN. To the Heaven Born Mayor of Pekin, China; In tis City of Hi Lan the admirable Mayor makes all effort to apply our ancient wisdom. to the ruling of his people and would succeed but that he is cursed with a generation of bandits into whose hearts the seeds of good- ness never have fallen. it is written in our Book of Books how 2,000 years apo the Wang Rebellion brought famine and Ts'ai Shun went forth to gather mulberries; how a robber would have slain him, but observing that Ts'ai gave his mother the ripe berries and fed hig own hunger on the unripened ones, rewarded his filial piety with presents of bread and meat. So Hi Lan, rather than be harsh with his bandits, sought rather to have their hearts touched by the sight of paymasters going eagerly with haga of mony to pay the work: ers in the business places of the city, He thought that secing the goodness of these paymasters, the bandits would let them pass in peace, and perhaps cven reward them with presents of jewels and fur. taken from the rich. . But the Wandite have faNen savagely upon the paymasters and have beaten and robbed them, #0 many workers hawt gone héme on pey dey with empty pockets. This has brought complaint to annoy Hi Lan, and his spirtt is sud with knowledge that bandits ave coll mew HONG, COMMISSIONER, Sans, ts * ‘ i Fh am EVENING WORLD Not “Boston or a Book.” To the Balitor of The Broning Work! | I shall be grateful for the privilege of replying to your correspondent from East Orange, N. J., who raises several interesting questions regard- ing the teachings of Christian Science. Not “Boston or a Book,” as he inti- mates, but God heais the sick through ihe operation ‘of his divine law. The book In question reveals the facts and | points the way. Christian Science | dovs not conceive of “God as ab- stract” but rather as infinite Life, Truth and Love, available here and now to heal thé disoords including sin und vickness to which material mau believes himself to be subject, ‘This correspondent fails to discrim- inate between spirituality and spirit- ualism, Mrs. Edy definitely teaches the impossibility of communeation between those on diffenent planes of existence, that i#, different stages | | of consclousn is does not by | any means deny Jesus’ experience of | transfiguration. With his unpre- cedented and unparalleled —under-, ctanding, through which he wae able to roume material law jm all directions, it seems altogether prub- able that he was likewise able to rise above the beliefs in material life to a dogree that enabled him to undergo transfiguration. In that exalted state he may well have been able to com- municate with Moses and Elias, and to have gained the power of prophecy. { would respectfully refer the ques- toner to the chapter of Spiritualism jin Mrs, Extdy’s major work, “Selence | and Health with Key to the Serip-| |turos," which may be found in public | libraries, Gineerely yours, | ALBERT 1. GILMOR’ , 8 Jan, %, 1 Vanderbilt Ave | athe Advines Wage "To the Halitor of The Mreaing World city are looking for increased fares, would it be of any Interest to them to reduce the wages of their em- ployees, thereby increasing thelr rev- enue, instead of looking for increased | fares from the traveling public? Corporations all over the country are now reducing the wages of their employees. I can assure you the rid- ng public would be tn accord with |such a move after the way we have been treated since the last strike— for the company’s benefit, SUBWAYER, | | ‘That State Honus, | my thn Datitor of The Brentng Weetd Will you or your readers kindly in- form me aa to when we ex-soldiern ure going to get that State bonus We voted on it, It passed. Jasiuary is about ended, and yeu there has not been a word printed as to what the Legislature is doing about it. 1 only hope it comes before I die of old age. Won't Li As the transit companies of our | oad! oF TRACTION FARES From Evening World Readers What kind of a tetter do you find most readable? Ien't it the onc that gives you the worth of & thousand words in o couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of eutisfaction in trying te soy much fh a few words. Take time to be brief. —— Whyt) Ob, Whyt To (he kalitar of The Evening World: Assemblyman Edmund B. Jenks 0° Broome County, N. Y., will introduce before the Legislature shortly a bi:! known as the Jenks Fare Bill, ty raise or (sic) the fares Greater New York. I would like know why a gentleman residing in «| county about 200 miles from this city in o lower sponsored a “fare bill" which might avo been rushed through if it were mt for the wertness of a few New York newspapers in exposing it. By the way, has the Interborough taken off any trains on the’ Third Avenue “L” southbound between 8 and 8.30 A. M.? It seems so to me, as tho gaps between the trains are sometimes five minutes, causing over- all the wey J. SILVER, Bronx, N. crowding and downtown. 1076 Findlay Avenui delay MA Oost of Insurance. ‘To tho Bititur of ‘The Drening World: In answer to “R, P!G,,” and under your caption “Good! Insure All Ve- hicles,” I would Hke to knows what nsurance company he is Presiden: of. or bud an accidem, after years. <i have a Ford commercial car, hich just makes a living for me. I inquired last week and the cost of ability alone is $2 per year. Entirely out of my reach. In my opinton, insuring atl vehicles | would still more encourage the pro- | fessional accident fiend. W. J. BEDELL. ‘38, 1921. ® { have driving te To the Batitar of I cannot suppreas my gratitude for the noble efforts that you are making with such persistency to. frustrate |the many attempts to victimize the people of the United States. ‘The wonderful fearlessness with which your valuable jounnal safeguards the welfare of the people is one of the too-rare instances of true journal- ism, You dare to do right, it is a pity that the chosen repre- rentatives of the people in Congress and th Legislature have to be) watehed in order to protect the wel- fare of the whole Nation against the rapacity of a few sneaks EMANUEL 1. 8. HART, 1 would like to purchase at least two pair of shoes and « hat with my bo- nus, If they don’t hurry it, I'm afrald T won't need those things However, my grandchiidron might have use for {t. | Just when ave we going to get it? i BROKE. New York, Jan. 28, 1921. | H ‘Bloe Law To the Kalitor af ‘The Droning Work! 1 was down in Texas las happened to run into some of th proposed = “Blue Laws.” In Fort Worth, Tex, a few reformers and!/ ' year aud 2 | is so vitally interested in the forego-| ing question, Has he ever been} jammed into the “L” or subwa Has he had to experjence a long wait for a train, to be pushed and trampled upon in an effort to board same?) Has he ever had the buttons torn off) his overcoat, or lost a belt off the! latter? Presumably not. Then why is he so anxious to give the traction companies higher fares? I: will oe remembered that in April, 1920, be UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrtaht, P21, by Jonn Blake.) THE MAN WHO ACCEPTS HIS OWN EXCUSES. To make excuses is easy and natural. ‘They rise to the lips of the schoolboy who has spent in play the time he needed to get his lessons. They flow spontaneously from the clumsy workman who has spoiled the work he was pro- ducing, It is probable that most people make a million ex- cuses in the course of their lifetime. And the tragedy is that so many people accept their own excuses. Now there is justification sometimes for the schoolboy's excuses. It is boy nature to explain away his laziness. Sometimes there is justification in the excuses of elders. At any rate, excuses have been made,since the dawn of history and will be made forever. We shall not counsel our readers not to make excuses. That, we know, would be utterly useless. But we do counsel them not to make excuses to themselves, and above all not to accept their own excuses. f You know well enough why you neglected to do an im- portant work, or why you put off till to-morrow, and then until the year after next, something that you should have done yesterday. You know that you did it because you were too lazy or indifferent to do the job when it should have been done, So don’t tell yourself that you did it because the job was not worth doing, or because you didn’t feel well enough to tackle it, or because you had something else to do that was more important, And if you do tell yourself that, as you probably will, in spite of what we are saying to you now, don't believe yourself and don’t accept the excuse. The habit of making excuses to yourself and accepting them will soon undermine your intellectual stamina and begin to sap your moral fibre. Be square with yourself at least. Aruth and take no excuses whatever. List your faults and your failures and blame yourself for them. List your bad habits and try to get rid of them. Admit that it was indolence that made you let a job go over till it was too late to do it, and bad temper and not bad health that made you peevish with people who had a right to expect cheerfulness and courtesy from you, Be your own severe but just judge. Make no excuses Tell yourself the and take none, and you will soon find that you will need to make none, for you will have no derelictions to excuse, « joy-killing fanatics took it Into hand to make Fort Worth a spotless town by enforcing some of the Blue Laws, ‘Sunday came and every one in town went “moping’ around, looking in shop-windowa aad lounging around the street corners. Drug stores were closed and if any- body was taken sick Sunday he would have to worry along until Monday before he could have a prescription fitted. Lust is a captivity of the rea- son and an enraging of the pas- sions, It hinders business and distracts counsel, It sins against the body and weakens the sout. —Jeremy Taylor. Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together. Gambetta, A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, em- balmed and treasured up on pur- CORNELIUS PB. GALLAGHER pane tg ue. Ae ROHAN e fler=BU, Bayonne, N. J. Jan. 29, 1921. ton, smember correctly, one Sun- day was all that the peace-loving public of Fort Worth could endure of the Blue Laws, ‘The act was repealed the following day at a meeting of the City Council, Viere's hoping that thero are a few red-blooded Americans who can up- pet the plans of i fow Joy-killors, ll yer << e *—— | applying the death penalty for saeri- Words From the Wise of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroff. i ati Coprrig eal eat Pee, ett ce Iv. THE AUGURS. The name of the man who invented | the easiest, stmplest and most remun- Jerative get-rich-quick scheme im his- | tory, when the original investment It considered, hus been lost in the dark- [news of remote ages. He was the gentleman who founded the College of Augurs in Rome, when Rome was very young. Here 1s what the College of Augurs did: It pretended to ve able to foretell tho future by the way birds flew, ot chirped or squawked, or pecked at |thelr food. Also, by the way four- footed animals walked or trotted, of hy the language of thunder and light- ning The founder of the col ge and all ‘iis successors in the business of fore~ telling the future by these mysterious | augur howed their genius for profit-taking in one way more than in any other, They positively refused te let anybody—be he plebe or patrician —into their deep seeret. . This secret they guarded more jeal- ously than any inventor ever guarded jis invention unul he had patented lit and put it on the market. When the state was contemplating any venture, whether of peace or of | war, the College of Augurs had to be | consulted first. If tho gentlemen who |constituted the auguriadl trust found that the birds flew, or chirped or | squawked favorably, tho state was at liberty to go ahead with its enterprise. If the augurs shook their beads after consulting the birds, the animals or the thunders—or all three—then the | state bowed to their powers of divi- peels and gave up the contemplated | fob. By this contro! of mysterious knowl- edge the augurs gained a dominating power in the Romun state. What was even more to the point, they as- sured for themselves and their suc- fat living without doing any than sitting around and | There | gentlemen | Sighted eno 6 were far- beginning of ise lo read animals and thun~ lightnings in a way that in the main met with the approval and | favored the interests of the patriclans, | At that time the patricians had cor- | nered the intelligence and the author- ity of the state, and their attitude toward the plebelans could he patly expntssed in the advice of the late Russian autocracy to the 180,000,000 Russian moujiks: “ Be silent and de not think.” But the plebelans all the time were showing signs of thinking and be- traygd an inconvenient tendency to Jask questions, This curtosity the pa- | tricians were not slow to suppress by | lease. | All the augurs had to do whon their | authority of divination was disputed y zen of the plebes was to y “Sucrilege!” ‘The patricians did rest. In return for this sympa- hebic attitude on the part of the pa-~ jans the augurs saw to it that the r thunders func om the patrician s-1- win immense wtricians, 1 of the Col- mime was profit to bot ntil the inner mech eof Avgurs w by the inc gious light of the advancing centu- ch teaches us most carefully devised guarded get-rich-quick scheme has its vulnerable point, That vulnerable |point is the assumption that all the peuple can be fooled all the time. | of New Yerk City __Government _| Copyright, 1921, by the I'rem Publishing Qo, (1% New’ York Breaing Word.) By Willis Brooks Hawkins, ‘The is the fifty-fourth article of a series defining the duties ef the administrative and legislative of fi- cers and bourds of the New York City Government, . DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Vacation Activi ‘The summer schools, open to pupils above the grades of the fifth yoar only, give elementary instruction to \those who have not been promoted, to foreign children who need help tn English, to those who must complete the required period of attendance in order to obtain employment certifi- cates and to those pupils of over age |who are recommended by the princi- als, These sehools are in session from 9 A. M, until noon five days a week for a period of six weeks, The playgrounds supervised by the De- partment of Education are open from 1 P.M. to 6.30 . five afternoons a week for seven weeks, Evening recreation and ~ social centres conducted by the department provide lectures und social entertain. ments, including athletics, dramatics, dancing, games, &c., and the use of shower baths, Clubs for various pur- {poses ure maintained and books are furnished through co-operation with jthe New York Public Library. in entres where conditions are un- able for the proper preparation Jof home lessons, study rooms are {provided and. teachers’ assigned te ud the pupils. In the recreation centres the tment pays the sal- aries of principals, teachers and janitors, ‘The social or community centres are largely | ‘The Bureau of Li |partment of If supporting, tures of the De- ucation conducts a | system of publie lectures for the edu- nm of adults, In addition to eve-\ lectures given in school build- re provided on a s und certificates ‘© who complete « and pass examinations, 4\