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; ; i; ; | A FILM TEST. aenions Che EGMTY Giotto, SSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Powimed Pay Except sui by Tho Prom Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row. New York RALPH PUIATZER, Presidevt. 63 Park Pow. J, ANGUS SHAW. Treastrer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULATZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMPER OF THD ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Arsociated Prem is exctusively ontitied to the use for republication | f ail news Gompatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited tn tals paper tnd Also the local mews published herein, WOOL OR WORDS? IE plaintive bleat of the shorn lamb-growers is abroad in the land. A protective tariff to dam the “flood of woot” being “dumped” in the United States is asked. But what are the facts? How high has the flood risen? The Summary of Foreign Commerce for Janu- ary, 1924, is just oul. Here are the figures: in Jamuary, 1920, wool imports totalled 41,- 950,071 pounds. For January this year the figure ~ was 21,169,480 pounds. The flood was half as ‘high as last year. Or, to take the seven-month period from July 4 > January 31 for three successive years: Measured in pounds, the 1919 figure was 242,- 601,523. in 1920 it mounted to 279,888,611. And for the corresponding seven months since last July the figure is 91,147,623, a trifle less than a third tof last year’s total for the seven-month period. ‘Which moves one to wonder whether the threat- ening flood is of wool or word’. , ‘We wonder what the Tribime, will think of the “general spirit of leniency to slackers” in «m Administration which allows Eugene V. Debs to travel about the country with even Jess of a guard than Grover Cleveland Bergtoll? HIS MONEY BACK >? PRING'S choicest’ blessings on Col. William C Procter and his $110,000 Easter suit. He gives this Nation a laugh. A good $110,000 laugh in which all can share is worth the money as a . spring fever antidote—partioularly if some one else puts up the money. Exactly a year ago Col. Procter was under fire for his effort to “buy the Presidency,” A year seems a long time to wait for a reply. It is to wonder whether the suit was delayed until after Inauguration in the hope that the Republican patron- | age brokers would do something to prevent this public laundering of dirly G. O. P. linen—with ivory soap. ~ But isn’t Col. Procter rather a poor sport to try to sell back a dead horse? {f Gen. Wood had _ won, Col, Procter would never have uttered a peep + concerning the beggarly $110,000 added to the rest of the money he spent in promoting—and, inci- dentally, killing—the Wood boom. He who plays politics must abide by the fortunes _ of the game. When “good angels” gamble in ' candidates they must be prepared to have the devil’s own luck. Only one person at a time can have Andy Mel- ton’s job, ang ‘Cot. Procter bet on the wrong horse. is Pj folds the German Government di- ; le for the present revolutionary | @are-ap in Germany. Still, it’s a striking co- ‘incidenicy that the bombs bagin to go off as tho weparation bills fall due. motion-picture interests who have 4 proctaimed a ban on Clara Hamon films are faking a step in the right direction. | Clara Hamon has professed repentance. But the - motion-picture producer who is reported to have contracted for her services is not banking on the drawing power of her reformation. He does not expect to profit from the exploitation of her new virtue. He expects to draw dividends from the morbid curiosity of those who want to see the sen- | sational character in a nationally famous murder case. ‘The California owners are right in saying that Successful exhibition of such films would “unduly | and improperly put a premium on violence.” The movies are under fire of criticism. Whether the “prohibition” spirit will have a chance to oper- ate on the films depends on the ai oy indusiry itself, If it can police its own membership and force the worst élement into a proper spirit of | decency, the movies have nothing to fear from reformers. Reform from the inside is always the best re- form. Other associations should be quick to follow the lead set by the California exhibitors. i ' } NO PROGRESS WITHOUT PRACTICE. O DOUBT Gen. W. W. Atterbury was en- | tirely sincére when he told the Railroad La- Board he believed himself to be “a betler friend of my men than any of the union men at this | table.” This sort of view has a long historic background The feudal baron of the middle ages thought of his serfs as “my men,” and stoutly mainiained thai the serf..was better off under baronial protection | than he would be if he were a free man and masici of his own destiny. Th the South before the Civil War the master spoke of “my men.” They cited the Bibie to prove EWty to provide for the black slaves. There pot question that good and kit ad | zen's U masters were far better friends of the carpet-baggers and de slaves than first tock over the leadership of tie black sieednen the who Gen, Alterbury’s mind runs in the same groove as did the mind of the baron and the “Old Marse”’ of ghe South. It is the sort of social pilosophy which the world has abandoned step ty step, and with infinite pain. The newly freed serfs had their trials and tribulations as did the negro. Freemen learn to use freedom, wisely only after experience in using it unwisely. Even if Gen. Atterbury is right in his belief; it does, not follow that men should not join unions and choose representatives to guard their interests If Gen. Atterbury is in truth a better friend than the Union leaders to his men, it simply means that the men have not yet acquired wisdom and need further practice. A CONFESSION. HEN it came to the test at Albany Wednes- day the Judiciary Committee refused to expel from membership Socialist Asse:nbiymen Solomon and Orr. ’ This was the sequel to last year's April Foul Folly, when under the whip cf Speaker Sweet these same two men were read out of office and barred from participation in the making of the laws. Wednesday's action was a confession. Solomon and Orr are no mare emtitled to sit in this Legislature than im the iwt = They bave not recanied or chinged fhe opinions, ‘They were elected in the same way. ‘They have defiantly | maintained the same doctrines for which they were expelled in the legislative lynching of 1920. If the Legislature was right Wednesday, it was wrong a year ago. {f it was right a year ayo, it was wrong Wednesday. The year has shown a ch; Be. no longer ruling the Levistatyre. Placed by Czar Miller. Cear Sweet is He has been dis- The 828 pages in which Mr. Lansing ex- plains why he found it impossible to work with Mr. Wilson will go far toward saving Mr Wilson the troublo of explaining why he found {t impossible to work with Mr, Lanving CARDINAL GIBBONS. / Nese and good American was James Car- dinal Gibbons, An intellect as broad as it was deep, the priestly instinct of human kindness and helpfulness at its highest, exeoutive grasp, tact and extraordinary per- sonal persuasiveness and charm combined to make in him the ideal prelate. With the dignity of a Prince of the Roman Cath- olic Church went the simplicity of the ever-ready friend and fellow-citizen. : Cardinal Gibbons once suid: “One merit only can | truly claim, aud that is an ardent love for my native country and her political institutions, Ever since I entered the sacred ministry my aim has been to make those over whom I exerted my influence not only more upright Christians but also more loyal citizen’. For the most fuithful Chris- tan makes the best citizen.” The greater part of his long life he spent in ra dialing that influence from the oldest Catholic centre in the United States, He helped millions of Ameri- cans to clear, honest and patriotic opinions on pul lic questions. He would have no American permi: antagonism between. thoughts of church country, The twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to tHe Cardinalate and his fiftieth anniversary as a priest was observed by a large gathering of dis tinguished men President Taft said on that ovcasion “What confirmed odnsistency tween and we are especially in him and his life is the entire which he has demonstrated be- earnest and single-minded patriotism and love of country on the one hand and sip cere devotion to his church ov the other.” delighted to see This alone would insure lasting honor to the memory of Cardinal Gibbons, even had he not lived his belief that “the religion of Christ is a prac- tical religion and bears a relation to social beings” with a nobilily, enthusiasm and many-sidedness thai made him not only one of the most respected but one of the most deeply loved Americans of this generation. TWICE OVERS. “cc ON'T mix me up in politics. What has hap- pened to poor Paderewski has been enough fo warn me to keep off politics.” * Isadora Duncan. ‘ * “cc O make better citizens und wage earners is not a question of economy.” ~ Frank M. Gilbert Commissioner of Education . * 66] MUST be convinced that the desire for the re sumplion of trade relations with Russia is not wholly inspired by the intention of importing Sovietism into this country rather than exporting American pro- ducts into Russia.”’—Senator Pomerene of Ohio. . * . 66 JF only a portion of what the Mayor and the Comp- troller have charged against each other be true, beth should be removed from office forthwith.” to Governor and Legislature, Cui ] } | Giving Them a Ki THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1921. What bind of a letter do you find most readabief [0 say much in a few words. Take ‘From Evening World Readers Ten't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ezercise and a lot of satisfaction in tryiny time to be brief. Ate 'Owa Care. {Vy ide tatiur of The Braoing World During the long months of dis- couragement to the 8-Cent Fare Bill 1 noticed the Subway Sun was pub- lished just as hopefully as if it were victorious. ‘They knew the “five lit- ule Senators" would soon be in power. ‘The surest way to kill the 8-cent fure is to let them have it. The short- ride man will walk. In the short- vide man is the profit of any street railway, The up-State man can pay the interes! to us. who goes 10 (he Zoo and the Aqua~ ejum (the long-ride man), The quick- est Way to make the subway satisfied j vith reasonable fare is to let them | raise it to 8 cents. Six months will | see it back to 5. f | ‘The public can do anything. Notice | the price of clothing brought down by silent boycott A WELL-WISTIDR, Ho the Leator of Tie BS ; Samuel Gompers declares that all The Eyening World's bills to increase home building have proved absolutely worthivss. The same gentieman | is confident that his own particular (Iaunicipal building loan bill is cer- Tain to establish its high worth, Ax the writer understands it. the Municipal Loan Commission is to lend 80 per cent of the value of the }iand und cost of the building to- gether, A house that could be built | betore the war for $4,000 would now cost $10,000. Taking $2,000 as the vulue of (he land in both cases, we would have the ante bellum house costing $4,000 and against this we | would have the Municipal Loan Com- mission lending 80 per cent of $12,000 or $9,600 on a house of equal value 10 the $6,000 one. Who is to lose the $3,600 when the | new house comes back in value to the Jante bellum age. as it certainly will? Sbell the Municipal Loan Commis- gion loge it or the city or the Stat s ome poor boob of a municip fn bond buyer to come to the rescue of all three? JPN KINS. 1 New York 1921. ob of Being nm Juatice. oF Die Byeoing Work | Heading of news item reads “More |Juetices Needed to Handle Rent “and the article goes on to t this matter was put up Appiebaiim, a lawyer, for a of it way 01 He goes on to state one way would be to appoint more Justices, Cer- tainly! This would mean more jobs |for a few more lawyers, who are in [right with the Administration, Let me give a suggestion. Let the present Justices start in ut 8 A. '\M. and work until 12 noon, and from i280 to 6 PM. and a few evenings aw ti) 8 or 9 P.M. as a littic overtime wil! not hurt them for they tahe a vacation every year for @ month or two, with pay, The overs jtime will help to square. matters, i Also, have the ones Who ledve the |otner courte around 2 P. M. fer @ome, He is the fellow | | off Jor the other business, come lw these [courts and help out.’ If you do not believe they leave at this time, try jand get a simmons, or have some | Dusinessafe.transact at that hour and }you will a J to come the noxt day, prowiaitiet yeu can find any one | there. Court attendants leave #8 soon jas “His Honor’ gets awa: business of being a Justice is a hard {job and a terrible strain, ‘They ar- rive some time after 10 A. M., ad-| Journ at 1 for Junch and then slave! |¥rom 2 until 4 o'clock | H. 1. BROGIEN Hrooklyp, March 2% 1921 A Presidential Order. To tbe Kailor of ‘The torwning Work! was greatly amazed on reading | your paper of March 17 to find that President Harding lad refused to allow Irish soRliers to march in the} Boston Si. Patrick's. Day p: | | His reason for this was in order not io incur the ill-feeling of a friendly) | power, namely, England | American soldiers gave up their |lives under the impression that they | were fighting for the rights of small |nations. It appears they have been sorely thisied, if Mr. Harding’s atti- tude is taken as representative of American opinion, CHARLES TRUEX. | New York, March 20, 1921, ‘Transit Employees’ ‘Yo the Kaitor uf The Wrening World It would take too much space to answer in full detail a letter that appeafed in yesterday's edition of The Evening World from one “W, J. H.” in which he raves over the fact that railroad mep were receiving enough Pay.to enable them to be ranked ag taxpayer Tt is evidentethat “W. J. H." never worked for a> ®treet railroad com- pany, for ive had he would have different opihieps and would not go half-cocked at sdmething he knows nothing/about, If he had to work twelve liours a day seven days a week in order to make a living wage to clothe and feed iis fninity he would realiza how little ra are paid. In my, opinion “W. J. HL" must not |be a workingman, but one uf those small calibre individuals with an | easy grat who begrudge to see any- body else get along in lif It would be far better for the coun- | try qnd future generations if rail- jroaa men and their kind were better | paid and untaxed and those of the | Hamoy, ‘Stokes and Stillman species | penalised: for thelr riotous and scan- ngdom! By John Cassel oy rite: Ae iat ts The Hzenm yb) ag C0 Tie New York Even: i ng World | iPaurtTy” PRINCG cra, sabes i Mayor GAYNOR on SIGNING SUBWAY CONTRACT 1916 “p WAVE GIVEN THem 4 ownnnr en nnmann annnnnnnnnnnnonnnnn ss nn nnnnnmnnnnnecmenscncneel)| UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyriai. 1¥24. ty Jobo Bike.) BEWABEF OF BUNK. The late Alfred Henry Lewis used to say that as soon as a man attained near greatness he had to devote so much time to keeping up the appearance of greatness that he never heeame great. That isn't cntirely trne. If it wag, there would be no #reat men in the world. “Sih ay But it is a fact that partial success so enlarges the head of many who attain if that their upward progress is cut very short. Unfortunately many people are much impressed with” we call “bunk.” Q The solemn, ponderous individual who has a very high opinion of himself is likely to impress that opinion on others. ople as a rale are not very analytical. If a man has the appearance of being important they are likely to accept him asimportant, | A Politicians found this out long ago, which is the reason that so many self-important nonentilies get elected to politi- cal offiecs aud are abaolutely useless as public servants after they get there. As a citizen of this country you are dependent for your prosperity on the way it is managed. If you get intel- ligent, capable men into office the country v be well run. If you only secure the services of men Who can make impre but empty speeches it will be badly run. This isn’t the season for elections, so we cannot be ac- cused of having anybody in mind when we ask you to weigh the qualifications of the men you are to vote for by and by and to learn to know ‘bunk’? when you see it. The man of empty phrases, the man who promises more than he or anybody cise can perform, the man who expands his chest and points with pride to himself, isa good man not to vote for. ; The difficulty with a democratic Government is that so few really able men can be persuaded to take office. And this is largely due to their dislike of associating themselves with the sort of men who are generally elected. It will be worth your while as a citizen to do a little thinking about politics and about the men it, and to do all-you can to keep the professors of bunk in private life A little observation, will enable you to detect them, und a little study of their careers will teach you how worthless they will be as your representatives, The Government is your business, You are a member of the board of directors and help to choose the officers, Choose good ones, and you will nob need to sit around and cnss the Goverment so much as you have been doing wha Words From the Wise 1am glad you love the blossoms cent. Result: No gum, no cent. Two young girls just then happened along, | so I watched them. In gues a cent, | Result: No gum, no cent. Here was| | dalous Hvimg, which is a disgrace to modern clyilj jon. W. TT. B. | Somervitie, J, March 19, 1921, . No Cemt. promise to return the pennies . is : To the batitoe af Tie Bre me World gum or chocolate drops down—all the) red. If has to be grows. --Mabel The other day. y vaiting for a Pounding and shaking of the ma-| ratty r hep day while waiting form) ene ail, apthing-—rend. the*noor The heart of the world*is awake, train in the Cortlandt Street ter. [igdies'must lose thelr pe and the hoait of the world must | minal for Hoboken { placed a cent|/hundreds of. dollars” are Innocent): ve satisfied.+W, D. O'Connor, in a gum slot machine Result: No} dropped into the slot’ mach\per | There is one thing more beauti- gum, no cent. \A lady stood vn front; Gc. M. ful than Beauty, and that is Hol. Gf enather machine and dropped in@| Mobokes, March % U2 = (nese—Meredith Harding. - |platform out of order, \tnat those money graibbing pes’ 40 well, I hope you love birds, too. It ts economical heaven.—Emily Dickinson. Eperience cannot be manufac- a case of all three machines on one} It seemg to me a downright shame It saves yoing to Get-Rich-Quicks of The Ages By Svetozar Tanjorof XVILATHE EMPRESS CATHER- INE |. ‘The story of the Livonian peasant girl who climbed to the throne of the Romanoffs in the eighteenth century reads like an Arabian Night's tale. Catherine was the wife of a Swe dish private who was killed in the s| battle of Marienburg by the armies commanded by Field Marshal Prinee Menshikoff. At that period in Russian history careers were distinctly open to tal- ents. Alexander Danilovitch Men- shikoff himself had started out in life asa baker's apprentice in a suburbof Moscow, Casting an appraising eye upon the widowea wife—or mistress—ot the Swedish private, Menshikoff first at- tached her to his own household and then presented her, with assurances of his loyalty, to his master, Peter Alexctevitch Romanoff, who was firmly riveting the prefix “Great” ta his name. Finding grace in the eye\ of her imperial master, Catherine decided to omploy her talents to the utmost in the pursuit of the highest , possibie career. Keenly sensitive to religious influ- ences, the Livonian peasant decided to remove all ecclesiastical barriurs between herself and her master by adopting his church affiliations. She thus became an “Orthodox” or true worshippér in the Russian meaning of the word. That act, incidentally, placed her fest on the stops of the Russian throne. / Before she had emerged from the status of an impertal odalisk, she be- came the mother of two girls, one of whom eventually became Duchess of Nolstein-Gotorp, and the other as- suinal the title and powers of Rus- sian impress as Bliaabeth, Catherine seems to have altended strietly to business. She accompanied Poter the Great even on his cam- paigns. To this last circumstance Petor in 1711 owed hie escape from a ‘Turkish captivity. ‘ . Peter was in sore straits on the Pruth, The Grand Vizier bad him in his grip. Only a miracle could save him. The widow of the Swedish private performed that miracle. She offered the Grand Vizier al her jewelry, with other treasure, if he would desist from pressing his advantage. The Grand | Vizier first wavered and then fell. Poter marched off with the honors of war, After this signal service, Catherine |Wemanded and obtained the issuance of @ resoript in which the Car de- clared her his official wife. This does not sound Iike an odifying family story, but Russia at that time was turning European with violent tures, and Peter was ving up te the light shed by the proftigate court of. France, to say nothing of all the other profligate courts of Iurope. It took another twelve years for Catherine to get herself crowned. In those adventures the peasant cirl of Livonia had the constant co-operation f the baker's apprentice of Moscow. In the following year, 1725, the beau- tiful if no longer young captive of \Marienberg took her seat on the throne vacated by Peter the Great and became Empress of all tho Rewedns ip good and regular standing. But the long struggle had wrecked ‘her nerves. She turned over the task of governing to Ficld“Marehal Prince Alexander Danilovitch | Menshikoff, | while she devoted nefattention mare |and more to stroeé drimk. Catharine I. died a debauchen jn 1727. | All of whieh goes te show that al- | though an odalisk may climb to a |throne she is apt to fall short of dec- orative cffert sre she has taken her | seat an it. \ WHERE DID VOU GET | THAT WORD? | Oupsright, 191, by The Prem Pablia ‘Ite New Fook ‘War'd’ 3—CIVILIZATION, “Civilization,” like the process which it describes, aprings trom a Latin root, the word “civis,” @ citizen. ‘The idea behind the formation of the yord 1s that when a man becomes a ‘civis,” or citizen, he is assumed to \be part of the great structure of manners and c? morals which we call “civilization.” The word “civil” is, of course, al- lied to the word “civilization.” & civi] man is the man who has be- come fitted for the duties and the functions of the “civis;* the man who respects the rights of his fellow citizehs, who loves the city or the state and realizes Sis obligations |to 4t. Of such @ realization “civiltty” to the community and all its members is a fundamental part. The man who is “unclvil” {9 not a good “civis.* He, therefore, cannot be regarded as civilized in the larger sense. He cannot do said to be “community. broke” any more than @ pw be enid to be “househroke? eecee it mas learned its essential RAS is 28 tessons, Are You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITV is THIS? Read the Anstoor in the News \ ‘ of the Bertes, 18, Once its cloUS grounds, now | hemmed in by skyscrapers, extended to the river Its history is bound up of New York fro, a it and the land Along the river filed |in until now 4t stands back, a mere | plot to the great-tract it once was, Yet in the noon four it is an oasis for the thousands of workers in the district. 'ThOB6 Beoking peace and quiet come with their luncheons: oth- ers with books lo read come for ite shade und shelter, while visitors from out of town prowl about with guide books. One of the best known streets in the city beging at its doors. ‘The | subway dumps out thousands near it day. The eltvated rattles by |to the rear and the surface cars add to the general congestion of the wtrees front of it It is of sufficient inter. {| to have crowds collect about i some nights im the dead of winter, Answer (6 posviaus-descrigtioniige. at