The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1921, Page 20

ESTABLISHED By JosuPit rruirzun. @ Daly xcept sunday by The Prom Publishing Company, Nor, 52 to 63 Park Row, New York. R Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THT ASBOCIAPED PRESS. 5 Tae Asmetated Prom ts entitled to the use fer repubitestion f ee ews Gaepatches credited to It or not otherwioe credited tm thie paper 4 ‘Gite the local news published herein. RETRIBUTION OR REPARATION? E Reparations Conference in London resolved ilself into a grim. game of bluff. The bluff can’t last long, however, unless the side with the strongest cards is ready to sacrifice a large part of the stake for the satisfaction of strangling its op- ponent. . ‘What Germany can pay is doubtless more than © # the $7,500,000,000 it offers fo pay. ‘That does not ‘mean that what Germany can pay is the $56,000,- | 000,000 the Allies insist it ought to and shall pay. Nor can the Alliés collect the bill if they reduce the debtor's ability (o raise the money.. 2, They nvust strike a balance somewhere between retribution and reparation. ¢? They must spare the guilty just sufficiently to | keep his punishment from reacting to their own loss. | Albany will learn to-day that the City of New ~~ York can still speak up when driven to it. s RESULTS. j NOTHER strong score for the Lockwood com- | if mittee. | On evidence collected. by this committee the Federal Grand Jury yesterday indicted seventy- ‘four corporations and forty-two individuals compos- fing what is known as the Poriland Cement Trust. '* This Cement Trust, representing, it is estimated, _ $600,000,000 of capital, with plants all over the .) couniry,controlling 80 per cent. of the cement pro- | Gused in the United States, is charged with fixing = prices and limiling output to a degree that con- )-Stitutes combination in restraint of trade and mo- nopoly in the meaning of the Sherman Anti-Trust | Law. . Similar indictment three months ago of individuals | and corporations making up the Sand and Gravel | Board of Trade resulied in pleas of guilt from the | © defendants, $40,000 in fines and [he breaking up | of the organization. © + The Cement Trust comes to trial in the Federal | Court as one of the most powerful factors in the -) country’s building industry. $ ‘Thus Federal justice also moves along the path ~ to witich the disclosures of the Lockwood committee | 1 pointed. \s Brindell and Hettrick convicted, the Sand and ; Gravel combine disbanded, and the Cement Trust now in the grip of the Federal law. ) . Is.there on record an investigation that beats that ‘ef the Lockwood committee for swift, tangible results? 4 "Who got $10,000,000 worth out of the late campaign? ‘ WHY NOT HOME LOANS?’ “TCHE Faderal Farm Loan Act Is constitutional, the Supreme Court says. The decision is a smashing blow at the farm loaa inlerests that haye fought the law to the last ditch. The wisdom of a public policy which creates so J} large an amount of tax-free securities is open to squestion in a land where the income tax is an im- i portant source of revenue. / «. But granting that we are to have a Fanm Loan _ Bank, should weestop there? Is there any more | _ feason for a Farm Loan Bank than for a Home | Loan Bagk which will perform for chy dwellers the same service that the Farm Loan Bank dogs for : ) tural regions? | a As a matter of equity, isn’t the Farm Loan Bank > ~ discriminaiory? Isn't it class legislation? x At present the loan market for home-building is in much the same condition that the farm oan | market was. Loans are hedged with restrictions and | unfair commissions of the kind against which farm- rs complained. If Government competition has regularized the ' farm loan market, might it not do the same for the j esd apt a * . yo ASI = Bes ar 4 » home loan market? § bese a Why go to Florida? WHEN THE SUN SHINES. + opted sunshine saved the city $10,000 which would otherwise have had to go toward 43 Dad removal work, according to Commissioner ; (As a matter of fact, $10,000 is a tiny part of / "he value of a day of sunshine to the city in winter, “Consider some of the other items to the credit of Old Sol. Then make your own computation of + the worth of a day of sunshine, When the sun shines, thousands of homes ant! can disperse with artificial light, and th | public can inflict. { A warm, sunny day means saving of thousands 968 tons.of coal in furnaces in New York City. The mild winter has been a source of great profit to the required to generate gas and electricity is save.!. ndiords of the city who based cosis of operations . ments and lay up a store of vitality and health for to exercise, throw off incipient colds and other the rest of the winter. Statisticlans may caloulate the coal savings and the landlords’ profits, but no one can measure the | ‘ value to city health of even one good day afler a term of pneumonia weather. < | WHAT THE COURT CANNOT CHANGE. HEN Congress passed the Lever act the country was up in arms’ against profitees- ing. There was the bitterest resentment against those who coined the blood of soldiers and their | dependents into the gokd of illegitimate profit. Ia Congress the faithful servants of the predatory in- terests dared not deny the country an anti-profiteer- ing law. So they did the next best thing and passed | a law as vague and indefinite as possible. f The bill was almost toothless, as was evident when the prosecution of the American Woolgn Com- pany was quashed because Congress had failed {3 include cloth with clothing in the controlled com- modities. It 1$' this law the Supreme Court rejects. . The remedy for such legislative miscarriages fies not in the courts but in the ballot box. The way to prevent abortive lays is to elect better legislators. The way to elect better legislators is to take an intelligent and continuing interest in political af- fairs, and to punish with retirement legislators wh» stoop to legislative trickery. ‘ | It will be time to complain of the courts when they destroy laws whith ate clearly worded and say what they are intend&d to mean. Meantime, the public has learned a better way to deal with profiteers. They lave learned the effective power of the “buying strike.” So, too, have the profiteers. Many of the hoarders have experienced financial losses greater than any fine the courts had power to impose. Now is not the time for a continuation of the “buying strike” except in isolated casés where buy- °| ers have reason to believe profiteering continue:, | or where profifesring has been so scandalous that buyers believe the punishment should be permanent loss of custom, The court's decision does not change the moral | guilt of the profiteers. The public knows, The | profiteers know. No court can quash the public’s | indictment nor interfere with the punishment the } THEATREGOERS RESPONSIBLE. | } OY, MILLER has vetoed the bill which would | have licensed theatre ticket brokers and made. | it iMlegal to sell a theatre ticket at more than 50 | S By John Cassel cents above the box office price. The Governor can see no constitutional method From Evening World Readers i of regulating the price at which theatre tickets may | —_—_——— be sold, either by the theatre or by a broker. | | What &ind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand icords in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying te say much in a few words. Tuke time to be brief. This will disappoint many theatregoers who haj hoped to see a law that would finally reach the theatre ticket speculator and bring him to terms. On the other hand, the Governor's conclusion should servé to bring sharply home to the theatf.- going public its own responsibility in the. matter. Why depend upon a law to do something that theatregoers can do for themselves? There would be no theatre ticket gougers if more of the public flatly refused to be gouged. “Let theatregoers resolve to stay away from the theatre unless they can buy dickets at no more than 50 cents above the box office price. Then watch the ticket speculators come to terms. + Last week when the theatre ticket bills were be- ing discussed Gov. Miller expressed his sympathy with their general purpose and said: “I have had to buy tickets from speculators myself. 1 know all about it.” Does not the Governor thereby admit that, he himself belongs to that substantial part of the the- atre-going public that wants to go to the theatre | more than it wants to discourage the ticket specu- lators? Food and clothing are necessities. “By self-denia! the public worked wonders in reducing the number of faod and clothing profiteers. Theatres are not necessities. Is the public’s de- sire for them so strong that it would rather submit to any extortion than stay home? Mila Disappr To the Batter of The Evening Wori It is jnuced strange that your uther- Wise cxcellent paper is so persistent in its lopsided editorial policy, which | is slowly but surely alienating its ad- |mirers, destroying its prestige and making it an object “of laughter and jeontempt. It is certain that all its ‘readers with not submerge their own | views to conform with yours, and seri- ously object to your complacent atti- tude of superior wisdom, The sum total of knowledge or good judgment does not rest alone in The Evening World editorial rooms, You are not another “oracle,” ulthough you “as- sume that virtue, though you have It not.” up their seats to women, dict fainting sp dt the strangers as ashers Piffle! “There will be riots caused by the conflict of fut, beady-eyed, hatr-olled, fur-collared ‘male persons to beat the women into the seats— and perhaps a few trials for assault and homicide, with the amazed and diggusted strangers us defendants. “Son,” Marshal Seth Bullock of the | Black “Hills used to say when we! boarded a public vehicle In New York | City, "just grab holt of my shooting arm and hang on to it until we get (off this thing, you feel her twitch- Ing, swing on it!” H. HORN BEAR. New York, Feb. 26, 1921. “Let Them Die oft. ‘To the Eaitor af The Brening World : Your columns on the effects of the| | Volstead law is the greatest Propi- | bition article I have ever seen. If has destroyed ali sense of and made criminals of so Inen it is worse than any other | drug tit ly also prohibited, and those | who have not been victims of {t} | should ‘put these poor drinking bums | into asylums until tiey recover nor- | an ass you are making of yourself? | mal sense or die off. Make, the laws “Whom the gods would destroy they | more rigid and enforce them so that first make mad.” A half-truth i@!poys who have not sufficient man- | more insidious than a downright He. | hood to resist the temptation to be- Prohibitien DOES prohibit, you to| come “sports” and drunken “bums” the contrary notwithstanding. Great|may be saved, so that we will not corrective movements cannot be made | have this class of criminals {o take to function 100 per cent. without @| care of ts long, hard struggle, ang Prohibition | “No doubt when laws were passed has thus far accompilshed wonders. | orohipiting suicide, infanticide, wife- Of course, in greedy, lustful, nolsy| heating, adultery and other “trespass New York It finds its greatest Oppo- | on personal liberty,” this same class sition, but New York is not the!cr beings resorted fo all sorts of United States by a long shot. 4 oat Laws prohibit crime; yet murder, | 7%, 28 you Mespribe;, for, revenge robbery, arson, &c., still prevail to a Cinbot! You. sugKeRt eome meana degree because there are always law | oe preventing our rising Keneration breakers, but worse still are those | pf Broce Oe tot Condition of the who subtly encourage violations, and | q-iniing men you describe? Co LR Ne Pie ps ‘A LAW-ABIDING. CITIZEN. World, which snarl e a m og A nd persistently misrepresents any- Tarrytown, Feb, 25, 1921. {hing of which its giants of intel- You pre- arrest of ‘The arrogance displayed in your ed- itorlal, “The Ugly Truth," in yester- | day's issue is almost intolerable, Do you imagine that Congress will repeal the Volstead law or the Nation reject the Eighteenth Amendment becaus \torsooth, it displeases the all-pow ful (2) Evening World? You foolis {ly imagined that Mr, Harding would | rearrange his Cabinet because he liad wd you. Can't you see what TWICE OVERS. 6 -7ROM the standpoint of international harmony and good will, mutual cultural reinforcement Deylight Sa: UNCOMMON SENSE THE LIVING By John Blake (Copyright, 1971, by John Bake.) THE » DEBT. . WORLD OWHS YOU IS A BAD The world may owe you a living but there is no way to collect it. Charge it off as-n bad debt &nd forget it. For even if it were paid the best you could expéct would be a place in the poor house, which, though sometimes com- fortable, is never a popular institution, If you want a good living, as all rightly constituted men do, you will have to get it yourself. And yoy will not get it easily, either, unless you have some wealthy relative whom you can persuade to die and leave you a fortune, The young man who starts his career with the hope that something will happen to gain him an easy berth is far more numerous than the easy berths thus obtainable. Remember that in this world there are about a billion and a half people, and that you will do well to consider them ‘all as competitors for that soft job you would like to have. If you can work as hard and as intelligently as the first hundred thousand of them you will live in great luxury and be an important man, After that your relative importance will depend a good deal on how long your working hours are and how wisely ou spend them, Of course, you may have a high order of intelligence. But you will never find that out without working, for even the best minds do not discover what they are made of till industry has given them an opportunity to develop. it, which it never will, If you will approach the world op a fifty-fifty basis, figuring that it will give back about what you put into it, you are likely to lead a happy and a progressive life. if you think that because you happened to arrive on this particular planet you must be taken care of you are due for a pretty serious disappointment. In these days, when even the whether or not they can pay their debts to other nations, it is safe to assume that the world is not going to bother about the little debt it may owe to you—eyen if it admits that it owes, But nations are not sure Gregory. Cometh, ay Seek Wrtaleg Watt no NO. 10—JONAH, “The Book of Jonah,” a prose poem, vart epic and part lyric, was com- posed around about the year 400 B. %. No one bas the slightest idea who he @uthor was, nor daes it make \@y partiole of difference, in any material) sense, Who he might have been. Thaw book speaks for itwelf, and to those. who know how to read it, It readily vomfnends itself as being one of thé” most interesting and instructive books in the world. Its teachings were at the time this story was written abeo- lutely origing!, and while human by, ings continue to live on this pt its truths will abide unhurt and ule diminished. : In an ecurlier series attention waa called to Jonah as the profeastonal’ prophet; this time we will consider him from the viewpoint of spiritual seer, As has been the case with pretty nearly every other great historic pew ple—the Egyptians, Babylonians, Per sians, Greeks, Romans—the ancient Jews held the idea that they were, THE people, the chosen people, im comparison with whom the dther peo- ples were of secondary consideration, “Great ts Jehovah, and greatly to be pratwed, Atl the gods of the peopléw idols, but _Jehovak (Gentiles) are made the hei people, Israel; God. For Isracl God cared every-, thing; for tho rest of the world scarocly anything. * Jonwh shured this belief along with the great majority of bis countrymen, and when God told him to go and preach repentunce to the Ninevites, an alten people, he was cut to tie quick, It didn’t seem right to him to be preaching jovah's religion to & bunch of foreigners. It was like cust ing pearls before swine, like givi the children’s bread unto the gogs, as Jesus, four centuries later, to fecl, while as yet he was under the spell of the ndrrow teachings of Mie earlier years. So Jonah tries his best to got out of thé disagreeable tusic that has been Inid upon bin; actually tries to get y from God and from the doing the work that God had commanded to do. But that sort of thing can’t be done, and at lust the prophet finds hitnself preachivi; to the Ninevites, with the result that they repent and are maved. Full of chagrin over the way whieh he had been “double crossed tirst by having to preach Israel's re- jigion to aliens, and then by having Israel's God show his love for those aliens—the prophet just wanted te die, right then and thero. But he was not permitted to die. God had something for the narrow- minded prophet vo learn. Turning the flashlight upon Jonah, He gent home to him the great truth of the univer- sality of God's fatherly love: “And the Lord said, Thou hast had pity on ™ By Willis Brooks Hawkins. ity the gourd, for the which thou hast which came up in a might and per- shed in a night; and should not I wicrein are more than sixscore thous sand porsons that cannot discern their much cattle.” 4 tiful. | Ten-Minute Studi en-Minute Studies Government —H) Covpright, 1921, ite Won Yaet reins Worst) This is the sixty-second article of @ series defining the duties of * the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the~New ty BROOKLYN INSTITUTE. The Trooklyn Institute of Arts and petuating board of fifty trustees,’ oF which the Mayor, the Borough Presl+ Park Commissioner are ex-officl nembers. i uot libored, neither madest it grow, have pity on Nineveh, that great city, right hand from thelr left, and alay ‘The lesson is a6 clear as it is beau- of New York City York City Government. | Sciences is governed by a self-pert | |dent of Brooklyn’ andthe rook | | * The educational-department of the institute provides popular Instruction im science and art through lectures, of Music, No, 30 Lafayette Avenue, The Central Museum, at Easteng Parkway and Washington Avenue, contains exhibits tMustrative of the fine arts, of ethnology and of natural history, as well as a brary cove these subjects. The museum {s ope! from 9 A, M. to 6 P. M. on week da: and on Thursday evenings from 1, to 9.45; on Sundays from 2 to 6 P. | Admission is free, excepting on M days and Tuesdays, when the chi {@ 26 cents for adults and 16 cents children. The Children’s Museum, In Park, at Brooklyn Avenue and and economic co-operation, it is important Americans should be able to speak, read and write Japanese.” — Dr. Davis Snowden. lect (7) do not approve, You act as if you thought that the welfare of the country depended upon follow~ ing your ideas; as if President. Cabinet, Congress et al, arc fanatics, bigots, dol 4 agonting becanse their ae do eet with your approval. Your slanderous pens are dipped in vitriol, but please remember that ti To the Ealltor of The Evening Word: The idea that the working class has to ‘get Up an hour earlier” under | daylight saving time is foolish, for one retires an hour eariier-according | to the clock and the only hour that is lost is in the first day on which the | cloci is ghanged: All p person needs | exaggerated egos eventually destroy | is it hours’ aleep, an one goes themselves, and before it {8 too late | to ‘@t 10 o'clock and gets up 6, he curb your insulting arrogance and | has his allotted tine, save your prestige, What gives a married man more 1 do mot expect to see this printed, | pleaeure (capecially if he is fortunate as I can easily see that you print only | enough to have # car) than to get communications which square. with) home early and take lis family out | your views or which flatter you, You| into the country’ And those who are | ure ag susceptible to flattery as a | lcsy fortunate have a lon young girl, As @ newspaper you are | which to visit the béac cs a ‘but as a disturber you ure/and to breathe the pure ozone for a pre-eminent. Otherwise you are O, K.| few hours after business and get close | { atiN have ‘hopes for you, to nature le . OPTIMIST. My husband delights in working in | New. York, Web, 27, 1921. our little back yard Selcing. care of vegetables, &c., and the daylight sav- ing plan ts 4 wonderful boon to him Kato its being a bitter pill, my rela- tives and friends think ita suga 66 [ROM the way things are going, in another ten minutes we shall have to pay.” —Mr. Lloyd George on the German reparation offer. * 66, T (the Lever law decision) com:s al a poor time, too, for the morale of our people is still disturbed by the fact that lots of persons made large profits out of the war and will probably go scot. free.” —Senator Capper. | 6 THE best thing for the United States to do with |" those fifteen Kansas-In- the. Leviathan is to tow it out beyond he dhicobe diuna-Texas- cowboys (or farm | coated one, I think if individuals had |hands), gome home from Germany | a “chance to ¥ote on It those In favor |E limit “and make it a floating hotel:’—Gordon j roush New York City, The Evening | would come out ahead. Me must be | , i : |zos orld wonders” what ‘will hi a grouery who ubjewia dy ih violate ny : : an . , AN meaning By Albert por sgt as Nee yia Wecalag_ Worn) ; | ‘The largest gulf in the world is the) Gulf of Mexico with an area of $00,000 square miles. e ‘The first book period In |in England was: and parke,jof the Philosophe! me, William Caxton, at Westmestre, the yere of our Lord, m. ccee. lxxvil, 1477.) L, #, stamped tands for the “Place . No is really an abbreviation of meaning “numoer, ‘atin numero, nw the “That’s a Fact” P. Southwick td seal Pubtwalng Word. Answer to with a date printed | Street. — Nictes and Sayings — emprynted horth. , | use wine cellars. on legal documents Latin, locus sigilli, of the Seal.” going east the hill, two-story affairs, day. A ef concrete is gol je wixty-olrhyh year. The tia he Sakae lAre You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY is THIS? Head the Answer in the Neat see ene ROTOR: ut You stand on the corner and look A bundred feet away there appears what might b Pens through an archway and a way to the subway. Above the “wine cellars” run trolley cars and wagons Turn and look east down | There ure some old houses, | relics of another | Ww blocks away a bullding | Msg UP. veaghed same twelve or Afteen stories, > mis! ons tthe description, Manhattan Avenue, ending at 100th Plage, is open weekdays from 9 A, M. to 5.30 P. M.,, and on Sunda, 2 to 5.30 P, M ft The exhibits in this museum are qe signed to stimulate the interest jet children in subjects related to natural history and to the history of our co try. Wor this latter purpose miniatuf models and pictures iluscrating ing. torical subjects are exhibited. The Botanic Garden, located park lands south of the Central MU. seum and the Prospect Hill Reservagy, was established for the collection, botanical specimens, for research 4 botany, for the exhibition of o1 mental horticulture and gardening for the entertainment, recreation instruction of the people, Bi ‘The expenses of the museum met in part by appropriations in city's. budget and in part by admix- sion fees, members’ dues, contributions and income from endowments, few blocks away, but they are south, apparently, crossing your vision, Intervent bi vent you seelhg 4 a8 vou notice that the trolley cara! brought about, you | view t concerts and the lke at the Academy, “ ( i 4 , / *Y