The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1921, Page 20

Biorld, Published Daily Except Company. Now. & ' RALPH PULATZ: . J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Tow, JOSEPH PULITAEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row by Tho Prom Publishing ESTAMLIEHED RY JOSEPH PULITZEN. | | ' — MEMWER OF THE ASSOCLATAD Paes Tae Associated Prem tx exctusively entitled to the wer fer repubiiention of Congress naturally turned @ Slatuary the great dome of the Capiiol tatuary Hall is a habit with Congressmen, Any- thing may be buried in Statuary Mall, and many things have been butied—or worse. Statuary Hall to<lay is our greatest national depository of junk, knick-knacks, odds and end$ and what-cha-ma- call-its, The worst of it is that Congress does not un s , € EING an army officer must be a puzzling job | i bee these days. With Congress playing see-saw a . thera.” (And also ths lovel news published herein. (ef all news deepaiches credited to It or wot otherwise eredited tn tals pager seem to realize what it has done and solemnly pro- ceeds to clutter up the hall still more. PLANS FIRST. AYS the Tribune: The Governor's message (on tion situation) merely sketches in a general way a foundation on which wany things can be built. Until some sort of structure arlscs it is impossible to have a line-up of opinion. The Tribune's simile is both apt and applicable. New York is in the position of a man who wants to build a home. He goes to the architect and asks for plans, The architect shows him a sketch of a foundation and asks the man to sign on the dotted line, agreeing to pay any sum on the cost- plus plan for anything the-architect may choose to build, whether it be a home, a store, a factory of an insane asylum. Any builder who signed such a contract would " _ybelong in a mad-house. : What The Evening World hopes to see is a com- “pkte set of plans. These plans should be based on more complete information as to undérlying con- ditions thin any one—not excepting Gov. Miller— *now has. Citizens should know that the structure "promises to be the sort of building that will suit “New York. Y Investigation and negotiation should precede any tempi io get a linegup of opinion. But there should be a sharp line-up of opinion against buying 44 pig in a poke. the trac The Evening World prints elsewhere in this issue the names of the thirty-tive New York Aldermen who have blocked the tax exemption ordinance that would stimulate the building of more homes. . These are the city legislators who see no emergency in a housing shortage that has made 100,000 families homeless. Mark the names. REAL TERMS TO COME. “| ATEST reports from London indicate that the : real reparation terms for Germany will be “worked out at the conference between Allied and German representatives called for the 28th of this month in the British capital, In fact, there is increasing ground for regarding » “the amazing and impossible reparations programme _ put forth by the Supreme Council at its recent meeting in Patis as 4 mere formal and concerted “flour of the whip-hand on the part of the two ations that hoki the heaviest score against Ger- _ ‘many. The proposal to collect damages of $56,000,- “900,000 through a period of forty-two years and at tite same time to levy a 12 per cent. toll on Ger- man exports was drastic enough to satisfy natural demrands of vengeance in France and equally natural claims of British trade. » Now that we have Irad a united and harmonious Allied pronouncement as to what Germany deserses fo forfeit, we are to see a more practical discussion _of what Germany can adually forfeit without be- coming a desperate and unwieldy bankrupt bring- ing loss and disaster upon even its creditors. «©. Germany has cost the world enough. There is “mo reason why the world should be forced to suffer »further merely to make the punishment spectacular, Wresting purses and fur coats from women in automobiles are latest feats of bighwayman- -* ship in Manbettan. It’s about time for Police _.~ Commiesioner Enright to fasne another pooh- ; pooh on the crime wave. ? GOING—GOING—DOWN! with the size of the army, an officer can hardly tell when he goes to bed whether he will be in com smand of a regiment or a Corporal's guard when he awakes. © Measured in thousands, the Congréssional cry sounds like that of an auctioneer, “Two hundred, 1 dsk—well, then, one fifty—one fifty I'm offered— who'll make it one seventy-five—do | hear the one seventy-five?—one fifty I'm offered—one fifty— one fifiy’— ‘The difference is that the bidding is in reverse order As Congress hears from home it is less 4 and tess Inclined to bid up the price In the arma- meiit sate, One satisfaciton the officer still has, He fs not wthe target for the decreasing bids. It is the en- listed man who stands In danger of losing his job. “Officers are practically Immune from the stroke _ of the auctioncer's lammer, and this In spite of the “fact that the Unlied States has a larger percentage _of officers than even Germany ever had. NOT IN STATUARY HALL. ONGRESS js getting better advice regarding the proper burlal place fer the “umknown ~* When the proposal was first made ihat the should honor one of the unknown the honor it pays to all who - | | whale Congress may think, the country | ferent ideas. It wants to Aonor its departed | ‘warriors and knows right well thal Statuary Hall is not the place. Arlington Cemetery is much to he preferred. SMOKE OUT THE FRAUDS. | eects for the country, the Republi- can an! Democratic protectionists were un- able to get mere than a bare majority to favor a Tariff Bill, the true character of which was exposed by The Evening World. But it is not enough that the specific frauds in the Fordney Fake should be revealed. The light of publicity and discusSion should be turned anew on the whole Republican tariff policy. It is full of deception. Responsible Republican leaders actually hold be- fore the people of the country the hope that a Re- publican {ariff will prove a material source of reve- nue and will reduce the direct tax burden. + warning against such optimism. ly He said: “Revision of the tariff on strictly protec- tive lines would not Increase our revenue more than $350,000,000 or $40,000,000." Tis was supposed to pass for a waming. It is more moderate than some of the claims advanced, but Mr. Longworth wouki have trouble to support a claim to any increase in revenue whatever. What are the facts and what may reasonably be expected? . The fact is that the present Democratic tariff has proved to be an excellent revenue measure, Cus- toms receipts for the year ending June 30, 1920, amounted to $32,902,649. The highest customs receipts ever recorded were $333,083,445, in 1940, ander the iniquitous Payne- Aldrich tariff, which caused a Nation-wide revolt and the defeat of the Republican Party and Mr. Taft. According to Republican doctrine, a “protective tariff” is one which keeps goods out of the country. Gocds which do not enter our ports pay no duty. A “protective” tariff, as the Republicans: use the term. is not a revenue measure; it is an instrument of privilege for special interests. No increase in reverme is to be expected from raising import tariffs. “Protection” would be more likely to degrease revenue and sb increase direct taxation. Sidney Smith charged Jeffrey with having epoken disrespectfully of the equator. How many dndictments are out against persons who have directed unseemly jest and mirth upon the awesome involutions of the Hinstein Theory? THE GALLERY GODS. E-Actors’ Equity Association is quite right in suggesting to the managers that prices on the cheapest seats im the theatres should be lowered enough to fill the gallerics as they used to be filled. Many of the “gallery gods” of to-day will fill orchestra and balcony seats to-morrow. Theatre- | going is as much a habit as olives, cigarettes or ice-cream soda. Between them the managers and the speculators have done their best to kill the the- atre habit of thousands of New Yorkers who can- not and will not pay from: $3 to $10 for a seat. But if the galleries were filled the managers would not need to Worry. A new crop of theatri- cal fans would be developing to provide patronage when, the present wild demand for the best seats passes, as it surely will. But, as it is, vacant seats in the galleries to-day are harbingers of vacant seats in the orchestra later, The theatre has a new and active conrpetitor in the movies and cannot afford to flout the “gallery gods.” TWICE OVERS. . “ HETHER girls wear their hair long or short makes as much difference as whether a man parts his hair in the middle or on the side," | Prof. F. H. Giddings of Columbia. * 8 66°F any one can beat that (his own speech) for demagogy, let him go to it.” —Senator Ashurst of Arizona. | . . . “cc HEN I left public office, 1 saw that the trucking business and transportation pro- | blem of the cily offered a good opportunity for public sereice.”—“ AI" Smith, 66 TT YHE daylight saving question is a public health problem.” —Dr, RB. S. Copeland. , ‘ - cloture rule limiting debate on the Fordney Fake | | Representative Longworth recently sounded a | | | | HT ee mn a Pe “Dog-gone New Yorkers, Anywa boos 5 ‘ars. Pm at egg 9a Con 8 to say much in a few words, Take Not Wanting Sympathy, ‘To the Lifter of The Evening Worki: I waste little sympathy on the American people trom the fact that they have been "“Prohibitionized" by thelr Legislatures, ‘They rant and rave against the Eighteenth Amendment, but last No- fember didn’t noglect to re-elect to office many of the men who yoted for the measure. Senator Harding voted dry without a struggle, and to show how much they repented his encroachment on their personal liberty, they elected him their next President. It might be ued that Prohibjtion wasn't an 1s~ ue in this last eléction. Then if it 48 80 unimportant, why complain about it so much? Let's drink what W. H. Anderson and his puppets tell us to and shut up about our wishes jn the matter. AWK. F Brooklyn, Feb. 1, 1921, Park Skat Tothe Miter of Tuo lrening World How soon and who will shake the atmosphere of carelessness and dis- regard of the people's rights on the part of those in charge of Central Park? Last week Van Cortlandt Park and every private skating rink in and around New York had two days of skating, while the wonderful lakes of Central Park rematned with- out even the first preparatory steps taken to provide the pleasure we city folk vo seldom enjoy. Weather conditions that permit of skating are so changeable that some plan should be under way to open the lakes of Central Park within a few hours’ notice. Possibly Van Cort- landt officials might be willing to lend a little advice, ‘There |s no reason why the people living south of 89th ‘Street and those living adjacent to the other boundaries of the park should be com- pelied to travel as far as Van Cort- landt station because of the Indif- ference of the Central Park officials. In the early days as well as to-day lit was customary to have ubout two weeks’ zero weather, a conference of another couple ‘of days, huge cracks driven tn the ice, and finally (if snow diin't fall in ‘the mean time) 2 couple of days’ skating. New Yorkers need outdoor exer- cine, Our life is altogether too con- ‘tinea to the indoors. We need more \pure ozone and lems dozone, Wake \up, Central Park! think of the many children who could enjoy the {ce so carelessly monopolined; then think of the ¢ nds of indoor workers who would be benefited each night the cold wave hovers wish ua. J, A HARRINGDON, New York, Feb, 1, 1901. Viet ‘To the Mites of Tei Mra, M, K. certainty has my aym: ‘tn having such an unapprecta: th five husband, He harps on his won- ra (has a colomml! opinion of himself; in fact, | imagine the three were a sort ¢ tautual admiration soslety, with ixemwerated igo o constant guest ip * |Was trying to gallop so friskily. their midst, Ané as to pretso or a Nttle love-gitt From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you jind most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand tords in 2 couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying leu't it the one time to be brief. from that type of husband—try to get pond lillies out of the ocean, He is not a giver; he has been a “taker” all his lite, “Home women need a little petting occasionally; just a little jDalm for their tired, tried souls. 1 suppose you'll keep on until you have nervous prostration from work and worry, and none of the sweets o Mfe, I see no relief for you unless you change like some of my carefree friends who “keep their husbands guessing;” play off sick once in a while, let the house get upset every 80 often, take in shows occasionally, getting in late for supper, and don't be #0 “reliabl Then he'll appre- ciate the contrast. ‘Treat tim with the game unconcern; no praise, no “how nice you 00k when you're shaved,” and let jim have a little worry, All medicifes that do us good are bitter, When a man has no worry he re- minds me of an old skate of a horse I saw recently, It carried a light joad, and, although the nag was about |done for and every rib showed, it jhas been good to you by giving you the gift of song (oh! blessed comfort) und other fine traits; also your two dear kiddies, whose love is the real thing; 80 please Him above all others, and you will find, as I haye, that “Vir- tue is its ewn reward,” MRS. 8, ‘The Last Word. To the biltor of The Brenine World: I think “Last Word” is a grovoh, and wonder if that supreme (7) in- dividual ever takes the Bible from the shelf, and also wonder where the in- formation that such an insult to hu- man intelligence as Prohibition is, or ever was, God's will, when His very 'first miracle proved Him to be the opposite. I believe, with the rest of humanity, in temperance, but auch an ingult as Prohibition should never have been tolerated, and I think “Last Word" should go where there are no le possessed with human intelligence to declare and protect their God- given right. A CONSTANT READER. “In Dhetr Own Stow.” ‘To the Falitor of ‘Tho Brening World: Why all the excitement over the | rights of the people being ridden over roughshod by the syndicates and their hirelings, when they have no one to blame but themselves? ‘After all the warnings by you and your excellent staff and other fear- lean members of the press, the people deliberately voted the present bunch into power, so let them cook in their own stew. The next time they: will | know better than to bring Buropean questions into domestic affairs, i) WILLIAM J, BUCKLEY. Now York, Jan. 31, 1921, | jo Mystery About Lifting, ‘To the Eaitor of The Bvening World I have been interested jn the tests and ‘demonstrations of Johnny Cou- ‘and Annie Abbott, the self-styled God | gol ma do 1 irl in koa 9 me pelleve hat lgupudke by, lightning and I offered to lift Annie Abbott as agreement was that I should lift her from the waist, but that she must keep her hands to her sides,and not any 9 Triste, which she refused to do, ‘Annie Abbott is not possessed | any mysterious, phenomenal power or | magnetic power as ghe clalms in her advertising matter. appearing at the Fox Hills Hospital she made an assertion that when she UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1821, UF John Blake.) CARRY YOUR OWN LOAD, John D, Rockefeller jr, whose father is perhaps the richest man‘in the world, was recently enabled, because of his fath@s wealth, to give a million dollars to the starving children of Europe. Jt was a fine and a noble thing to do. There are many rich merynnd many rich men's sons who could do the same thing but who have not done it. Perhaps none of them will. In the address‘in which young Rockefeller announced this gift he said something which ought to be as welcome to thousands of other young men as the food which his gift will buy will be to the poor children who so sorely need it. He said that, while he was glad he was able to make this magnificent donation, it was the regret of his life that he had not been able to work as his father had worked and overcome the obstacles that his father had had to overcome, These words were spoken sincerely. Young Rockefeller is a man of high principles and much earnestness, but we do not believe he would dispute the assertion that with his training he would never have been able to make for himself the money that he now possesses. For it is hard, bitter work that comes from sheer neces- sity which builds business abilfty like that possessed by the elder Rockefeller. ny Think of that, young man, when you feel that you are not getting an even break because you are not born heir to millions of dollars. Think how much more your poverty is worth to you personally than young Rockefeller’s money is worth to him, however wisely and sympathetically he may dispose of it. Perhaps he would not trade places with you to-day, for with his upbringing this would be a pretty tough world for him to get along in. But he would, we have little doubt, be glad to start over again if he could, and at least find out if he had something of the same kind of stuff inside his head that enabled his father to foresee and build up perhaps the richest combina- tion in the whole world. Rockefeller and Northcliffe and Schwab and Lloyd George and hundreds of other poor boys have become greatly successful not because they had money but because they didn’t. Poverty is a curse only to the old and the ill and the weak-minded. To the young and lusty and am- hitious it is the only ladder in this world with which sub- stantial success can be reached, Annie @bbott’s or Johnny Coulon's time she had magnetic power, Annic demonstrations and tests are baffling | Abbott, like many other show people, scientists, doctors or strong men, Annie Abbott, when she was ap- pearing at theatres, offered $20 in, |takes the uttitude of P. ‘T. Barnum, “There's one born every minute.” It does not require a great amount of in- telligence 10 know that when any one is struck by lightning it 4s the “cur. ny times as she could pay $20 and T| tM site wien she w . oa nie Abbott, when she was ap- Rot pow as a strong man. | The) cone before thu footlights, gare four or five demonstrations: Ist, the chair test; 2d, lifting teat; 34." cue test, and th, the pushing test. I can'select any Uttle lady that has strength and within thirty minutes teach her exactly what Annie Abbott *, and she can also claim herself @ magnet or 1 "Resista” and ippear before the public as one with a mysterious, phenomenal power. WILSON NATAN. Brooklyn, Web, 4 1921, d to any one that could lift her) reswure on my elbows or ot When she was Georgia she waa and from that ri t-Rich-Quic of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroff. Coorg, Wat: York takeing Wana ee V.—ALEXANDER THE GREAT. | The earliest world war in history was tho outcome of tho get-rich- quick desires of a Macedonian. ‘This | Macedonian had jnherited a gold mind from his father, Philip. ‘The mine was in Mount Pangaeus, which Philip had taken from the Grecks. Despite the antiquated mining methods of 365 1M. Cy this property netted the family @ yearly revenue of 1,000 talents—a considerable amount for those times jot simple lying. | But Alexander !earned, doubtless jfrom his Greelg, tutor, Aristotle, thas jfar to the Kast! and the South lay 0 country that was nothing but a gold mine, That gold mine Alexander, jearly in his boyhood, made up his | mind to exploit. When he succeeded hix lee on the throne, 336 years before the Christian era, Alexatider set out jto tap the riches of Ind! [ey centurigs later, Napo parte tried to tap them and Lord Clive actually did tap them, When Alexander drew the sword for his war-of world conquest, the Greeks showed a disposition to maintain jtheir neutrality. Alexander quickiy quenched the ‘spirit of pacifism by uppressing the Greek kinglets and vlecting himself generalissimo of all jthe Hellenes at the famous Congress jof Corinth ‘This made Greece the tail of the Macedonian kite and the |male population of Greece avallabie for the Macedonian Army Having crushed the monster of | pacifism at his rear, the fret con- queror in the records of murupe crossed the Hellespont into Asia | Where he was confronted with a man | of wood painted to look like iron. The name of this illusory man was Darius and he was King of the Mersiuns, Alexander's progress through the erglan monarchy appears to hav+ been as easy und as rapid as tn progress of a knife throug ripe melon, After defeating Darius numerous but harmless army al alonz the 1 to E&ypt and over running Egypt itself—in str parallel to the ambitious camp. n twenty-one centuries later Neon Bonapar body blow tary now inclu the Indus ab, now and ste a part o the British on the thresi of the ric | fenseless land is desires, the vast region that glittered with the lure of | gold Up to this time, during j;making period of seven | Macedonian phalanx an epoc opposing | relimions, But, while Ale jaiready beheld waters of the force which the had done for at the c took the edge of his phalanxes. ‘That force was pacifism, His soldiers, weary of*battles and sated with loot saw no reason why they should figh! | more battles. So they refused to fol low him further. ‘Which teaches ns that not even the of Corint! most determined, the ablest and the most successful get-rich-quick: schemer ean fool all the people a’! |the time, as Abraham Lincoln re niarked in his homely way twenty- two centuries after Alexander had (turned into dust and his great empire |nad crumbled into, ashes. VOX POP. We're sick, if you please, Aristides 4 Or any one else called the just; | We want to run and have our | fun If even it ends in bust! of We waste our days in foolish roays | And never count the cost; | qhough itt we fare we do not | care Whatever we may have lost! Or what's the use of @ golden goose— Let's wring its neck and be done; Then go on strike to shave alike— For sure, we've had our fun! “‘That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick | omen, St Pea, tiim eatin’ © It ts not known. when Stephen (or Fttienne) de Lancey ceased to occupy the house—the present Fraunces's Tavern—butlt by him tn 27M, but it ts stated that he erected a new home on Broadway about 1780, just north of Trinity Church, which became the “Province Arms” in 1764 and was called “Cape's Tavern” at the close of the Revolutionary wer. oe Stephen de Lancey'’s old home on Broad Street was, soon after his de- parture from it, used for public pur- poses since, in’ 1737, Henry Holt, u dancing master, announced that “a ball would be given in Mr. de Lancey’s house.” 8 Pantomime entertainments were given in the so-called “Holl's Long Room" of the former Stephen de Laneey's residence, Broad Street (Fraunces's Tavern), in 1739, entitled “phe Adventures of Harlequin ana Scaramouch or the Spaniard 'Trick'd,” ty which was added, “An Optick rep- resenting several of the most noted cities and remarkable places i Burope, America, etc.," for which tick- ets were sold at five sh * ings each, | Phe present Fraunces's Tavern was Inherited by James de Lancey, Chief Justice, Lieutenant-Governoy and ‘Acting Governor of New York, who died in 1760, and his brother, Oliv de Lancey, who, being a Royalist, re- moved to England at the clove of the Revolution and died there in exile, | Quine: . and St, Paul, both have the nickname of City,” while Dayton, O,, he “Gem City of Ohio, Minn, “Gem knowin Cairo, Raypt, is known as the “City of Vic- tory,” and Limerick, Ireland, “City of ” the Violated Treaty,