The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 10

Moris, SSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Except @unday by The Prom Publishing | Nos, 55 to 68 Park Row, New York. PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row -JOSEYK PULATBER Jr.. Aecretary, 63 Park Row. MEMPER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aamwtated Prem \e exctustvely entitled to the tse for republication ON THIS DAY ary the Cwellth, 1809, WAS BORN : _ Abrabam Cincoin, » Tighe Wise, the Just, and the Merciful. “| * ‘HALLOWED BE HIS NAME NOW AND FOREVER! WHERE THEY LIVE. med? ” THE case of the People of New York City vs. t the Legislature of New York State, we submit «= aetabulation of the Public Service Committee of ». sxtthe Senate, arranged not by names but rather by _ pe addresses. ~S8<Fourteen members ‘comprise this commitiee. * — eleven Republicans and three Democrats, The ad- © He PAresses of the members are as follows: ~T &m “a le. Waterviiet. a “<< a Ticonderoga. Waterford. ete Newburgh. Cortland. hen. gu oo Rochester. 61 Bast 121st Street. ¥; Rushville, 195 Monroe Street. Mohawk. 724 Third Avenue. -~~Chateaugay. 6 St. Luke's Place. The last four addyesses. are in New York City. ¢ Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island are unrepresemed. Only one member of the majority party mem bership is from Greater New York. H These addresses are self-explanatory. The names a of the members are unimportant compared with “®)) lithe roll of Arcade, Ticonderoga, Newburgh, .Rush- ){iRille, Mohawk, Chateaugay, Watervliet, Waterford (ueand Cortland. Wa in| the face of such an exhibit, is it any wonder . Bill New York is more than suspicious of the intentions i Of Albany, When in making up its Public Service - mitiee the Senate overlooked nine out of the fen Republican Senators from the Greater City? Isn't there abundaht ground for suspicion that the Legislature is playing with a carefully stacked “Geek? ec Arcade, Ticonderoga, Newburgh, Rushville, Mo- . hawk, Chateaugay, Watervliet, Waterford ana s td, Cortland! S48 he ce eee Yormer Ambassador James W. Gerard thinks the ex-Kaiser's “delusions of personal grandeur” and intimacy with “Gott" prove him insane. We've seen some like him in alee lesser walks of life who were never shut up. > ee => laickily for them, they lacked bis opportunt- “eee yp es for trouble-making. ee jin | -#MAKE THE WORLD SAFER FOR THEM. a tvs will be boys.” That simple axiom was what the United $8 States Circuit Court of Appeals meant by this ~ gree sentence: (#2 -%* “The true doctrine is that any composition Dee © of matter which lures or attracts the eontfid- ~ , ing ignorance of childhood to {ts own harm must be safeguarded against as circumstances may require.” © _ For a change it is pleasant to have the court side- | track anti-trust suits and taxation tangles and in- ~ 4 ¢edjunctions and the like, It is good to have the court " geeds@onsider the case of eight-year-old David Fruchter, -oef who climbed a girder and was almost killed by af + @leciric shock from a’ wire he touched. sya Phe court recognized that little Jimmie and Sister “Sarah and Cousins Bill and Jane are entitled to pro- ~ tection, They are childishly natural, They want «to climb trees and poles. They want “to see what makes the wheels go ‘round.” They examine the sworkd around them and try to answer for them- selves the questions -parenis can not or will not ) 'ghswer for them. seo ‘Other people of greater age must take account “of chiklish curiosity and make the world safe for children. They must protect children from. the -\" dangers of their own curiosity. v Dhe court doesn’t attempt to lay down a lot of “Don't” and Mustn’t” rules for children. Parents “Rave been doing that for ages and with only mod- Vs) erate success. More (han likely the Justices of the © «0 weourt have had experience and know that while a “* judicial decree might make a billion-dollar corpora- © * °° tion obey, it would have small effect on the small ®) boy or girl who “forgets.” Wome, « WR te th le .. When depressed, ghink of John D. Rockefel- Jer’s income tax, He TAKING IT IN TIME. i », Daebbegeiny up of restrictions on immigration ee because of typhus cases on ships in the Port of New York is wise. ; Rigid examination and proper quarantine will pre- | _- went the spread of the infection to the shore, / 2% Typhus in the harbor is no reason for fear on doubtedly true in the influenza epidem Typhus is essentially a disease of filth. one | as many people as the disease liself. This was un- a Instead of taking fright, take a bath and repeat whenever the fear symptoms occur—or oftener. "Go ahead and 6 old man; you'll feel better,” Mr. Harding advised a sunkered golf player. ‘This explains the passing over of Dawes as Secretary of the Treasury. Charlie Not every one can be Secretary of the Treasury, and Charlie is better able to “make himeelf feel better” than others who might be disap pointed, FOR THIS? EPUBLICAN Party leaders in Washington are said to be wrangling over the question which should stand first in the Republican legislative pro- gramme—tariff boosting or tax revision. s An overwhelming majority of American oon- sumers and taxpayers will supply the answer with- out a moment's hesitation. For two years an ovérburdened country has waited in vain for tax relief because a majority in Congress refused to heed mendations of a Democratic President. Yet the Republican Platform adopted put among the country’s first needs: Republican | ‘the recom- at Chicago £arty accomplishment of that real redue- tion of the tax burvien which may be achieved by substituting simple for complex tax laws and procedure; prompt and certain determina- tion of the tax liability for delay and uncer- tainty; tax laws which do not, for tax laws which do, excessively mulct the consumer or needlessly repress enterprise and thrift. “Early accomplishment” (!) With the’ election over and Republican victory secure, there was no reason under heaven why a Republican majority should not have given the country the benefit of tax revision in the present last session of the Sixty-sixth Congress. Yet this same Republican majority chose rather to tinker with the tarifé, It put together the outrageous Fordney Tariff Bill to fit the “emergency” of sugar and a few other favored groups. speculators Instead of working out a plan of tax revision for the relief of the whole country—a policy to which President Wilson stands committed—the present Republican majority wastes its time on a special XX certain to vetod “pore. The carriers of typhus cannot swim. * Where, the people of the United States class tariff measure which President Wilson would ask again, is that reconstructive programme which the Repub- lican Party pledged itself to put into quick action? “Early reduction of the tax burden” promised and so. far nothing but a discredited tariff scheme’ whose chief effect would be to raise prices and ada to the consumer's load! Was it for this so many votes were cast last November? Russia is ‘a gigantic economic vaguum,” with nothing'to export and not enough to eat, a State Department economist reports to the - House Foreign Affairs Committee. Somehow Bolshevism never seems to reckon on filling its stomach by its own efforts. There must be something of somebody else's to “divide,” CRACKER BARREL TRACTION CURE. (pecial Correpondence of the Jimtown Bugle.) An important meeting of Gov. Miller’s Traction Board took Ye Seribe over to the county seat to get news about hiring a new Safety Engineer for the subways down to New York. His job is to tell the company about newfangled things to put on the cars lo stop accidents. many accidents to stop. So far as we hear, there are not Chairman Corncob says he hears the present fel- ler gets around $10,000 a year, & pretty good farm, he says, and seems money when local people would be glad job at half the wages and spend the cash in the county. That is the price of & waste of to get the right here Mr. Guile, that advises the Chairman, says that is right and the pay is only a small part of what the Engineer wastes, He ought to stop interfering and let the company’s hired hands attend to things, Mr. Guile says. Member Hiram Waterfall says the job would be just about right for his wife's brother, Reuben Win- tergreen, that clerks down to the store. Member Zeke Skinner says \t might better go to the Widder Saltmarsh's son. The widder is having a@ terrible hard time to pay Zeke some notes she owes him, he say nd his heart bleeds for her. A $5,000 job for her son would be an act of Providence, he says. Chairman Corneob did not mention that his nephew, Ezra Doulittle, is a candidate. As soon as Chairman Corncob decides who gets the job, the Bugle will announce the appointment teemed fellow-townsman, Ezra Doolittle, TWICE OVERS. of our es- ‘ce HE issues in the campaign of 1922 will be made by the Democrats in the House and Senate.” — Henry D. Flood. “ce HE way to reduce war establishments on land and sea, the way to retrench in expenditures, 4n any epidemic, fear of the disease usually kills | ae reduce and retrench.” Representative Mondell. . EVENTRG Be es | OF $ WORLD, ATU Self-Educatio From Evening World Readers mo sR NB Mies 1 ! What kind of @ letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a,couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te aay much in @ few words. Take time to be brief. Gallery Seat Prices. | ‘To the Bditor of The Evening World ; I.see the Actors' Equity Associa- tion has come out in favor of 25-cent gallery seats. A majority of the| public of small or moderate means, | { believe, would be able and willing to pay 50 cents for gallery or second balcony seats. I know positively | of several Broadway theatres that a few years ago used to charge only $0 cents for thelr rear second bal- cony seats are now charging $1, nothing fess. In fdet, there are very few, if any, of the Broadway theatres selling second balcony seats. of any) kind at 60 cents. A fow are selling their rear second balcony seats at 76 cents. I tried to get some 50-cent seats at a theatre near Broadway a short time ago. The ticket seller in the box office looked at me as though I was a beggar and sald in a very tart manner, “We do not sell sats at any much price.” M. E. Bronx, Feb. 9, 1921 “Piffling Propaganda.” ‘To the Pilitor of The Evening World; The Subway Sun is more piffiing propaganda to the effect that, as more schools, has- pituls, &c., are needed, the subways should be made profitable in order to supply the city with money for the purposes; almo that, even though «@ contract is a contract, the city should consent its amendment for its own advantage, Cannot the city ve trusted to know its own business and \nterest without. being taught by these insincere profiteers? Suppose I was working for you and I wished an increase in Salary under my contract and organized a company on paper, put my clothes in \ts name, leased them to myself, by my holding all the vot- ing stock of that fictitious company, for more than you paid me and then struck you for a raise, claiming that it cost me more to dress than my en- tire salary, would you fall'for it? And yet that is what the city’ is expected to do. Of course, as long as there was a chance for my sticking you as above, if somebody suggested that if I was dissatisfied [ might. repu- diate my contract with you, {tmight well reply that the idea was’ “pre- posterous.” 8. REID SPENCER. New York, Feb. 9, 1921, out with vening World Whiskey, wine, gin and brandy have made thelr first appearance in a non- breakable rubber bal, egg shape, at 50 cents each. You pull off a little plas- ter on the smail end of the egg and drink « glass of genuine booze, Lots of peaple will soon be seon sucking “pooue ergs.” Quite a scheme! Pure alcohol made from fruit juices can now be refined and reduced to a crystal form and mixed with a little tea or coffee put up in packages la- belied and sold as “wet” tea or caffee to the wise ones let in on the wcheme, In five minutes you can make a drink (or forty dyinks) of 20- lo get any evidence. Wihiskey is now carried by airplane in parts of Jersey. New York, Feb, 9, 1921, T. J. K. | Da: Sav o | Te the Eaitor of The Brening World The daylight saving question is*as simple as pie—those who ean choose their own hour for getting up are in favor; those compelled to get up an hour earlier are opposed, And this applies to Mr. Gompers and the labor leaders as well as to the bankers’ and | merchants’ associations, | Give the honest workingman a/ chance to rest. W. H. WARD, Brooklyn, N. ‘eb, 9, 1921, st Moved to Tears. ‘Vo the Eaitor of The Krening Work ; Too bad about poor J. T. C., whose effusion under the caption “Good | Old Days" appeared in letters from Evening World readers. One is| moved to tears—almost—at the thought of the nights he was forced to spend in the parks and doorways | because he was too fuddled to go home, He ought to be eternally grateful to the paternal Government which, to save him and the few other weak- kneed brothers of his ilk, has seen fit to lay the irksome yoke of Pro- hibition on the other hundred-odd million Americans, whereas it might, with Infinitely less expense ana trouble, have provided for his salva- tion by curing his weakness for the Demon Rum by placing him in an institution similar to what is done with other inebriates, such as the drug fiends. It ts to be hoped that he Is now saying good and plenty, ae it Is not impossible that he will need it all to help pay the taxes which will be needed to defray the expenses of enforcing Prohibition and to make up the deficiency caused through the ldss of liquor revenue. RS, B. New York, Feb. 6, 1921. A Typical Prohibitiontet, To the Editor of Th ening Workd It is extremely difficult to follow the advice, of the editor to be brief] when answering such a letter as “J, F.C.” recently signed himself to in The Evening World, This gentle- man, evidently a typical Prohibition ist, resorts to sarcasm and hypocrisy to prove that the “Thou shall drink water” commandment of the fanatics is a truge success, Unless “J. F.C.” Is a halfwit or deaf, dumb and blind, he can now buy all the booze he wants. if he had been the drunkard he proudly claims to have been, the new scale of prices and the inferior grade of whiskey wouldn't stop him from blowing in his pay on booze as In the good old days when, as he tells it, bia family was neglected. Probibitionsts descended to the Towest depths of dirty politics, under- handed methods and lying hypocrisy to have Prohibition ‘put over. Tt mule-team “booze” with about 10 per cent. of tea or coffee in it a8 a blind to the public. ‘A “dry bone” agent will soon have te carry ap X-ray maohine with him hasn't helped drunkards even a little bit, Why try to fool readers of The Bvening World with a letter such as yours, “J, F. A. R, H. Brooklyn, N. ¥. Feb. 6 1921. By -John Cassel Copy tat. 192) by "Rie Vena Prplishlog Co Wie New York Rventug Word) UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, ty Jeba Blake.) A GOOD SCHOOL—BU If you learn diligently in the school of experience you will graduate with honors—when you are about seventy years old. Of course, that will be too late for you to put what you have learned to any practical use, You will know how to earn money, but you must have the strength to do much with it. You will know how to conduct yourself on all oc- casions, but there will be no occasions which will give you an opportunity to conduct yourself at all, You will have learned how to be happy and to have a contented mind; but rheumatism and feebleness and near- sightedness and the loss of your friends won't let you have any happiness. Still, experience is a good school. It takes you in hand firmly and impresses its lessons upon you. You won't forget what you learn ther#, But inasmuch as the degree it confers arrives too late to do any particular good it will be worth your while to learn as much as you can in some school with a shorter course. Men who wait for their own experience to teach them usually remain untaught to the threshold of the grave. They may get a few brief and valuable lessons from their own ex~- perience, but no man gets a complete course in his lifetime. And enough lessons to be really worth while are usually scattered over thisty or forty years—which makes it a long time between lessons. If you are wise you will get your education from the ex- periences of others, which means that you will get it in the regular way. You will find at all the colleges very intelligent men who will tell you all there is known. about other people's ex- periences and how to profit by them. You will find also, if you don't care to go to college, the records of the experiences of thousands of men, all in plain print, in very interesting books of convenient size. That kind of an education will bring to you in easily understandable form all the experience of all the world that is worth heeding. It will be interesting and valuable and cheap. It,.may not act as directly upon you as your own’ ex- perience, but/you can’t have very many experiences of your own, Better learn from that of others the way most of the important men in the world have done. That you can do by reading and observation. Do not be sparing of either. —~ | AN EXPENSIVE-ONE. e “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick CeorTite, INE Pee reaing Wort IT | *vhe electric eel is found on! northern rivers of South America, ‘The English guinea, relative value eS ® $5.%, was first coined in 1673, and de-|_ In the Temple of the Sun, rived {ts name from the fact that the|Baalbec, are stones 60 feet long. gold of which Jt was at first composed | feet thick and 16 broad, each came from Guinea, Africa. bracing 23,000 cubic feet, cut, squ: oe e sculptured and — transported neighboring quarries. ‘The strawberry comes from a cross | PeenbOring, Ghainee between the native strawberry of Vir-| tires stones 7 ginia and that of Chili, Sesostris is credited = transported from the Hippocrates (460-367 by him The raspberry | feet in diamet with . B,C) feet long. eases still bear the names given them a native of temper- ate Europe and is also found in Asia in the | x columns | compoxed of having mountains of is called} Arabia a rock 82 feet wide and 240 |The Father of Medicine.” Many dis- TURNING THE PAGES] Ovwrdee os Viet Bronine Wont | ME of the Pionccr; @ hewes of logs, Fire-place of stones and clawe Blick-chimney queer, one southward open door, For light and oheer of day. A slender woman, young, in home- spun gard. A man-child bending o'er; Within @ lowly cradle gently Upon the earthern floor. A cradie rude, God's basket, ark, That lay among the recds Upon the Nile, jMled with o nations like the ope, And promise of gréat decds. Because this is Lincoln's Birthdag, we cite above a poem galled “The -Child,” from Garrett Newkirk’s Lincoln -Sketches” (Duffield & Ga), a cycle in verse and prose of the life of the Emancipator. oe Beauty as It Is Ageless - - - From a recent page of the New Republic, und in particular from @ paper written by D. H. Lawrence: America, therefore, should leave off being’ quite so ‘prostrate with admiration of Old World art. Beauty is beauty, and must have its wistful time-haliowed dues. But the human soul is father and mother of all man-created beauty. An old race, like an old parent, sits watching the golden past. But the golden glories of the old are only fallen leaves about the feet of the young. It is an insult to life itself to be foo abject, too prostrate before Milen Cathédral or 4 Ghirtandaio. Beauty, as beauty, even with éte sifting of “time-honored dust,” ts ageless. Which is why one may be poised ever eagerly to hail the new form without losing veneration for the old ‘There should be no need of speciet pleading for the beauty that America may know as its own. * . A Third Uncle From China - - - From Page 303 of “Letters frou China and Japan,” the lately pub- lished work (Dutton) of Prof. Jotm Dewey, of Columbia University: Tihink T wrote a while back about a little kid five years old or #0 who walked up the middie aise at one Gf my lectures and stood for sbout fiftean minutes quite close to me. gaziig at me most seriously and = * also wholly unembarrassed. Night before fast we went to © Ohineso restaurant for dinner, un @er the guardianship of a friend here. A litle boy camo into our coop and began most earnestly ad- dressing me in Chinese. ‘Our friend found out that he was asking me if I knew his third uncle. He was the kid of the lecture who had recognized me as the lecturer, and whose third uncle is now study- ing at Columbia. if yon meet Mr. T—— congrata- late ‘him for me on his third nephew. Under the urgency of so eolicitous |a nephew, all the world should love |&n_unele. Even though he be enly a uiird. ove Chesterton as He Sees a Riot--~ Having watched a riot in the Hoty City, Mr, Chesterton writes of the demonstration in his new book, “The New Jerusalem” (Doran), in theas happy terms: I first saw from the balcony of the hotel the crowd of rioters come roll Ing up the street. Tn front of them went two fantas- tic figures, turning like teetotums in an endless dance and twirling two crooked and naked scimitars, ax the Irish were supposed to twirl shille- laghs. T thought Ita delightful way of opening a political meeting, and T wished we could do it at home at the general election. 1 wish that, 1 of the weari- some business of Mr. Bonar Law taking the chair and Mr. Lioyd George addressing the meeting, Mr. Law and Mr, Lloyd George would only hop and caper in front of a» procession, spinning round and round ull they were dizzy and waving and crossing @ ir of umbrellas in @ thousand invisible patt Tt is not alo Britain that pic parted. In America, a Big Stick no longer threatens at the head of a party host. And what manner of thing is @ Front Porch to juggle on paradise? oe If All the Sea Were Land - ~ ~ A meditstion in Albert Perry Brim ham's “Cape Cod and the Old Colony” (Putnam) on what if all the sea were t i land: That distinguished New England preacher, Horace Bushnell, once made a sermon, or wrote an essay, on the moral uses of the sea ‘The wisdom of men, he thought, would not have covered three= fourths of the sphere with water, but would have mgde leviathan gt way to the reapers, on a good round ball of meadow and ploughland But, saying nothing of moderated climate and needed rain, he thought there were larger and wider needs for the sea. Brotherhood and ep- lightenment may grow out of trada, and exchange of ideas and goods in easy between Boston aiid Singapore, Dut difficult between Timbuctoo and ama i Moreover, the mediaeval shackles $f, te, Okt World would gradually have Inpped over into the new, if there had been no Atlantic Ocean and there would have been no re- served continent on which man could try a fresh experiment in in- stitutions: Besides which, think of a world with no home on the rolling deep. And no song of the sailor with @ wife in every port~ And only landlubber tales by Joseph Conrad! es . Of Thirteen at Table In the “Wanderings ani of J. C, Millats ther anent a thirteenth c Atongst the hund which I have sat at di unlucky 1 seen An Memor: his little tal ds of times in with tha that occa poet; wright, personal friend, ro: feat any evil infu Within n old and within the year r Dawson was drowned in’ the in Torres Straits on his way » from Australis. hould hay We of the alight sens ured. at but for the fact that Was 90 MUCh Upset by the pros- of impending calamity and ntly referred to it afterward, eds of thirteen dinners and one occasion of calamity Yet in the minds of the credulous, lt would be the one dinner of disaster phat would stick. Upon such poor food does ouperatt. tion thrive at a standstill, while world ideas move on,