The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1921, Page 38

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podlished “Daily Except sun Company, Nos. 53 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITBER Jr.. Secretary, 63 Park Row. OF. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. yy by ‘The Press Publishing | Saiorio, | | : ‘Tre Avsoctated Prem Is exclusively entiuiea to the use for repubticatton ; (Of all news despatches credited to ft or not oinerwise creuitea in tam papeg ind iso (he local mews publishea herein, MORE BUSINESS; MORE JOBS. ij Cy. all the propaganda against limitation of arma- i ment the silliest is the warning that a naval holiday will increase unemployment by throwing out of work the mechanics engaged in warship building. This is thrown out to frighten Organized Labor. Fortunately it is so evidently silly that it is not having much effect. Of course it Will mean a change of work for these artisans. But they are skilled workers and will have no great trouble in changing occupations. And the stimulation of other business will be so * great and so immediate that the total of unemploy- E ment will show a sharp drop. ‘ The effect of the Hughes plan on business is t already apparent. The foreign exchange market is already improving. A shift in exchange means an opening of foreign markets. j Prospective savings in Government expenditures reassure business men and encourage them to em- 4 bark in renewed business at home. The Hughes pro: gramme is the best business tonic American mer- > chants and manufacturers have had. | That is the actual effect on employment. It is moving business to branch out and employ the un- employed. The warship builders are only a handful and places will open for them as business expands. Commissioner Leo of the Street Cleaning Department is out. Four years more of Hylan is too much. Commissioner Leo was the man who took over the department after its complete break- down in the snow blockade winter before last. Commissioner Leo put machinery, efficient management and discipline into the snow re- moval work. His first alm was to get the snow out of the streets, not to make many jobs for out-of-work Tammany heelers and fat contracts for favored Tammany contractors. That is probably as good a way any to account for his exit from the department. Tammany and efficiency do not mix—particu- ‘ | larly in periods of unemployment. { tf : ALTERNATE, SENATORS. ROM Mr. Frank Vanderlip’s plan for a gold ; reserve bank of the world we gleam a sugges- ; tion. ' His bank’s business would be administered by ‘ j nine trustees, but he also provides for nine “alter- nate trustees,” with full power to act in the absence of the principals. Wouldn't a similar arrangement for “alternate Senators” be convenient in many ways? As it is now, when a Senator wants to play golf ' the country is left flat on its back for a time. When he “mends fences” his constituents are without rep- resentation. Important committee meetings are broken into by roll calls. Vacations during sessions are interrupted by peremptory summons to return and support the party on important measures. And every once in a while a Senator is forced to come out and commit himself when he would much pre- ij fer to stay on the fence. ) 4 Alternate Senators would be convenient—for the q Senators. Whenever a Newberry case came up all the “regulars” could pass the buck to the alternates. And there would be alternates aplenty ready to do the dirty work for party and principal—if not for ; principle. It would be convenient and might help expedite business with full quorum attendance, But wouldn’t an alternate Senator lead a dog’s life! ‘ ; IRONY WITH A COME-BACK. OVERNOR MILLER displayed his customary lack of tact in his address before the Atldn- ; } tic Deeper Waterways Convention at Savannah. In his attack on the St. Lawrence ship canal proj- ecithe Governor waxed ironical: H “It is indeed a generous proposition of the Middle Western States that the consumers of power in New York and New England shall pay for the construction of a ship canal to F serve the Middle West and to divert shipping . from their own port.” 4 That sort of thing doesn’t help. It will be spread 4 broadcast in the Middle West by the St. Lawrence propagandists. !t will only serve to anger the Mid- die Westerners and confirm their suspicions thai New York is selfish in wanting to monopolize traf- fic and act as middleman at the expense of the inlanders. This view is widely held. It is unintelligent for « New Yorkers to disregard it whether they believe it or not. The St. Lawrence project is a grandiose scheme It appeals to the imagination of the Middle West It plays to the prejudices of the region. When it comes to appropriations, the canal be- comes a political matter. If the East is bitter enough, sarcastic enough, ironical enough, the Mid- dle Westerners will have the opportunity of pro- moting the scheme as a sectional issue. Bitterness and sectionalism will not confound the THE EVENING WORLD, proponents of the St. Lawrence plan. The most effective means are good nature and exact informa- tion. The whole proposal should be decided on economic grounds. What will be the cost of the canal? How much will this actual cost exceed the estimates of the engineers? Is it practical to expect ocean-going ships to dock at Chicago? For how long a season is navigation possible? What will be the added ex- pense for harbor and wharf development on the lakes? What will be the total cost of develop- ment? What are the possible returns? Will the returns provide interest on investment? These are the cold, hard facts that need to be established, clearly, simply and irrefutably. Leave New York, its bargé canal, its terminal development, ils port development out of the reck- oning. Regard the St. Lawrence canalization as a national business undertaking. Find out whether it is good business or bad business. Fight it not with politics but with economics. ° GOOD STEERING. O far the course of the Arms Conference has been plotted and followed with wisdom, skill and what begins to be felt as a certain large and reassuring justice. For this the American helmsmen deserve high credit. First, the conference found its chief aim put into concrete form and ready for it practically at the hour it convened. It began work with the whole world applauding a definite, detailed proposal for naval reduction in which peoples most interested could at once see pos- sible realization of their hopes. Next, the inevitable and dreaded problem of the Far East has been brought forward in what may well turn out to have been the wisest, fairest way that could be devised—by inviting China to state her position and claims. - Since China is admittedly the biggest of the Far Eastern questions, since Japan’s special interest in China is one of the chief factors with which the con- ference has to reckon, it is just and fitting that dis- cussion of matters affecting China should start rather from the basis of China’s own claims and aspira- tions than from the ambitions of other nations sitting about and discussing China mainly as a market. The whole subsequent treatment of the Chines: question is certain to be the better for the fact that China has already got her ten principles before the conference and the world. And the solving of other Far Eastern questions will be easier and on a higher plane if China is as- sured a scrupulously fair hearing. China’s ten principles are avowedly general prin- ciples. They are not inflexible. They are admir- ably framed and phrased to permit, and in fact invite, the discussions that must come before any satisfac- tory settlement can be reached. One of the striking things about these ten princi- ples is the way practically every one of them points to or implies the need of an association of nations generally rather than alliances of particular nations, if problems of the Far East are to be solved and stay solved. More and more, we believe, the trend of this con- ference will be away from alliances and toward asso- ciation, The more the purposes of the conference are talked about the harder it will become to talk aboui them in the narrower terms of alliance, The start has been promisingly broad: A naval reduction programme ready to hand; First say out of the Far East for China. So far we may heartily praise the steering, In reporting on the 60 per cent. efficiency of department clerks Mr, Dawes was kind enough —or diplomaec enough—not to place any esti- mate on the efficiency of either the House or the Senate. “Hell and Maria!” as the budget maker was wont to exclaim, what a howl would have rent the heavens if he had! TWICE OVERS. ny HE 10,000,000 people of New York are a wonderful people, but they are not more in- dustrious or more capable than their prosperous fellow- cilizens in other parts of the country.” —Governor Allen of Kansas. oe ih HE day for the people to depend upon private companies for their water supply is past.” ~Mayor Hylan. ee’ “cc NIONISM having degenerated into radical- ism for revenue only, the lime has arrived when bodies possessing such dangerous power should be made more amenable to the laws.” —William H. Barr. * * * €6€T OODS condemned in one year in New York would fill a train reaching from the Bc tery fo Grand Central Station.""—-Placard at the Health , Show. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931, Trying to Save It — *| ness, From Evening that giv say much in few words Armistice Day and Thanksgiving.) To the Kditor of The Evening Worl Referring to your editorial which appeared in your Noy. 14 issue, I in- close copy of a letter recently sent to ja Senator in Washington. It does seem practical and essenttal that Armistice Day should be com- ined with either Election Day or \Thanksgiving Day; preferably the latter, as it gives us vomething to be thankful for which the last few gen- ¢rations have apparently forgotten. | Hy aD, Enclosure.) | Dear Senato | lt seems probable and most fitting ‘that Armistice Day, Nov. 11, will in | the future be one of the most impor- tant holidays bequeathed to future generations in this country, certify- ing to the world the principles and | liberty which we commemorate na- | tionally on the Fourth of July. May [ offer a suggestion that after this year Election Day might be en- dowed with the special significance of our democratic institutions which we enjoy, and the spiritual liberties vhich the armistice guaranteed to ali our citizens if the two days were combined, and elections held on Nov. 11_hereafter? November, with three holidays, wil! entail a degree of hardship on busi- and many working people, which should be avoided, if possible. Just before the holidays it is usually a busy month, and while many places of business. are closed on Election others allow sufficient time to their. employees to vote. In holding elections on Nov. 11, It would Invest the ballot with a degree cf sacredness which is sadly lacking to-day. It would impress all men and women exercising the privilege of suffrage that they are the Govern- ment whose freedom and_ liberties were maintained by our soldiers in the Great War which terminated on Armistice Day. New York, Nov. 8, 1921. “Hara Times” and the Electton, To the Editor of The Bvening World: Major Curran, who was not a “pay roll patriot’—unlike most Tammany politiclans—was defeated for these reasons: ‘The Republicans were blamed for the bad times. Many believed that Hylan can prevent the car fare from increasing. The courts will decide; if a 6-cent fare means bankruptcy, an increase will be allowed, Mr, Hylan cannot prevent it. He will bluft at it, The Republicans ponalseregs this was a Republican city. The Fusfonists should have encouraged and nomin- ated more than one Democrat. orld), World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the’one the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. ammany _voted at “Votes for W “Hard time before Curran was nominated Evening World deserves credit age in printing letters of ) against itself and for supporting Major Curran, | CURRAN DEMOCRAT. | and sneered en.” beat the Republicans | he “Horse Sens To the Editor of The Evening World: Another side of the Milk Strike! Did you ever notice the horses on the wagons nowadays? Watch their intelligent eyes, These show more than the horses can say. They cer-| tainly use “horse sense.” There is no question but that in many in- stances they have shown more in-| telligence than their drivers, who would have overlooked many @ cus- tomer if the horse had not reminded | them by stopping. | Now, what do they get? The whip if they do not obey. Look at their | eyes, The test is worth while. It is | a great lesson. GEORGE 8. SMITH, Too Mach Dog. To the Editor of The Evening World. I wonder how many long suffering husbands there are whose connubial felicity has been wrasced from them by a perfectly harmless dog? My wife and I were perfectly happy until her aunt was mean enough to present her with a pup. From that | time on I received about as much| attention as her last year's hat. By luck last night T took my wife to sec a show in New York called “Beware of Dogs.” The name appealed to me, Asa result we came home from | the theatre and my wife gave the dog to her sister tne first thing this morning. So all ye who are afflicted with “too much dog,” don’t spend any more time feeling sorry for yourself or scrapping with friend wife about taking the pup out for the air, In- stead take her to so2 that show. It may help you as it aid me. I guess the chap who wrote the] play must have had # wife with a| bow-wow too. Otherwise he wouldn't | have had that ide J.B.F, Brooklyn, Nov 1921. nfallible, ning World, This is a reply to F, A. D, who| condemns trade unions in The Eve- ning World. 1 have been a trade untonist for twenty years. In that time I have seen many good things done by my union. When IL joined we were get- | > ting $10 a Week and working ten | hours a day, To-day our salary has been more than trebled and we work Major Curran was fooled by the po- lice, firemen and office holders who voted for Hylan because he yoled iad ead he would not reduce them. Major Curran could have made a strong Issue against inefficiency, He should have called to attentiog that forty-four hours a week. And the| union got all this for us. Tut we had| lto fight for most of it, There never! Iwas, as far I can rentember, a| oF wa re | voluniary inerease duction of hours, A Wade union is 4 human institye 3 or UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) THE BIG THING IN YOUR LIFE... The big thing in your life is what you are doing for a living. Upon that depends all your happiness. Upon it depends also the huppiness of your wife and your children—if you have them—of all your friends, of every one who may be interested in you, Make your business a side line—even to your family life—and you will soon begin to slip. Make it the big thing, and, given good health and an average mental equipment, you can hardly fail to win some sort of success You b=gin with an advantage if you make your work the one big thing. do not do this. This arises from the fact that most people They are more interested in dreams than in realities—in what they would like to do than in what they are doing. Put your particular job-on a pedestal; keep it before you; give it all you have in the way of energy and devotion, and it will pay you rich returns. If you are a bookkeeper, do more than merely keep a set of books. which they are a record. most modern methods. expert accounting, Learn from the books about the business of Learn how to keep them by the Study advanced mathematics and_ You will not remain long a mere bookkeeper if you do that. If you axe digging ditches, dig more dirt an hour than anybody else on the job. attention. Industry is always sure to attract Your added industry will make your job secure in the first place, it will get you promotion in the second. If you are a student, make studying your job. Consider that the acquiring of information is the most important thing in your lite, Get all you can while you are getting kecp al! your mind can retain. and | following. Blue Law Sunday In the Light of the Bible and History By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. Copyright. 1921, by the Press Publishing Co fhe New York Evening World.) No. IIl—The First Sunday Laws. Sun worship became increasingly popular at Rome in the second and thied centuries A. D. The sun-god of Emesa in Syria—Deus Sol invictus Llogabalus (Baal, the sun-god)—was éxalted above the older gods of Rome by the Emperor Macrinus, who took the name of that sun-god in A. D, 21% A more ambitious scheme of a uni« versal religion had dawned upon the mind of Elagabalus. The Jewish, the Samaritan, and even ‘the Christian, were to be fused and recast into one great system, of which the sun was to be the central object of adoration, God condemns and fo:bids sun wore Ship, calling it a “greater abomina« tion.” See Deuteronomy, tv., 19; xvilg 3; IL Kings, xxiii, 5-11. Constantine, Emperor of pagam Rome—himself a sun-worshipper— made the first Sunday law, the orlg: inal copy of which is in Harv: University Library. Here it is: “On the vencrable day of the su let the Magistrates and people residi in citics vest, and let all workshops closed. In the country, however, sons engaged in agriculture may f and lawfully continue their peiten because it often happens that anoti day is not so suitable for grain sowir or for vine planting ; lest by neglectir the proper moment for such pperatio the bounty of heaven should be lo: Given the seventh day of March, A. 921, Crispus and Constantine dei Consuls, each of them for the seco: time.” Thus Sunday should be kept in cities and towns. But the count: people were allowed to work; and ni until A. D. 538 was country lal discouraged by the Third Council off Orleans, which called Sabbath. its Sabbatical character, and, in very act of doing it, designated it a heathen and not as a Christian, fe: tival, thereby establishing a heath Sabbath. Sunday was called dies Solis—day the Sun, or Sun-day. ‘The second dai of the week, dedicated to the moon was called moon-day, hence Mondaya and so on, with the days of Mara, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturm Five of the days of the week ha@ always been numbered, while twa were named; Mark, xv. 42; Luke xxili, 54. By the close of the third centur Sabbath observance and numbere days began to give way to the plan. etary week, and in the fourth and fifth ceniuties pagan designations became generally accepted in the Western half of Christendom. Thus gradually a pagan Institution growing out of sun worship was engrafted om Christianity, Faustus, a non-Christian living the fourth century A. D., once made the following remark to St. Augues tine, one of the fathers of the early church: “You have substituted your agape for the sacrifices of the pagans; for their idols your martyrs, whom ye serve with the very same honorm You ‘appease the shades of the dead with wine and feasts; you celebrate the solemn festivals of the Gentile: their calends and their solstices; an as to their manners, those you hava retained without ‘any alterations Nothing distinguishes you from the pagans except that you hold your ase sembiies apart from them.” WHERE DID YOU GET; THAT WORD? 102.—RANCH. x The word “ranch,” which we Nort rene are accustomed to regar@ as of purely American origin, and @ word characteristic of our Westeral plains, is of Spanish descent, A “rancho” in Spanish means @ mess, a set of persons who eat an@ drink together, a rude hut where herdsmen or farm-laborers live, @ farming establishtnent where catthe or horses are reared. These definitions sufficiently des scribe the primitive institution whickt we call a “ranch.” With the characteristic Americar tendency to shorten words wherever possible, the original borrowers of thg Spanish’ word clipped off the final ‘to’ —and we have the word ranch, which is now sometimes applied to elaborate and distinctly sophisticated estab~ lishments. “That's a Fact’ il] By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1981, by the Press Publishing Oe, omrritiie New York Brening Worth Whatever you are doing as a trade or profession, make * it the big thing. Think of everything else in its relations to your job. holiday or enjoying a vacation. to it, ard work harder at it than ever before. come back It is effort that counts, even more than talent. you have of both into your Forget it only at times when you are taking a But even then be ready to Put all job, give it precedence over everything elise, and you will soon be astonished at the RRS UA BNE oy 2% no chet syne oe you are making. tion, and as such possesses alt the defects and shortcomings of fts mem~- bers in general, Unions make mis- takes, but how about the employers? Are they infallible? are working men and women © unorganized with those who union, I think you yill find e-opening facts with regard es and hours of employment is comparison, D. is under the delusion that Junions are selfish and unreason: some to in their demands, ‘There is no ques- tion about mistakes being made trade unions. But how about employers? Are they kind, thought- 11 und benevolent ‘gentlemen studving the problems of t worker and trying to solve the same féwéortunately, fair-minded and i ea Sai Ea edie men are very much in the minority both in the ranks of labor and capital, So while we are wait- ing for the day to arrive when labor and capital wil! settle its differences in a kind, humane and geenrous spirit we will have to fight for progress, The day may come when labor and capital will settle its differences through arbitration, Nobody desires amicable settlements more than I do. But you cannot do it satisfactorily to both sides. “Strikes ave war and war is hell.” But there doesn't seem to by | be any other way out of it at the the | present time. enjamin Franklin said: “There are | no gains without pains.” WILLIAM DUNN, Member of Pressmen's Union No. 51. New York, Nov, 15, 1921. Israel (the Hebrew for “prince witht God") was the surname of Jacob, the | younger son of Isaac, bestowed upon him after his successful wrestle with an angel, at Peniel, It became the |.listinctive name of his descendanta and afterward of the Kingdom of he Ten Tribes, See Genesis xxxli, 28, eee Heptarchy (meaning “seven governs ments”) was the name given to tha seven principal kingdoms established by the Saxons, in England, at various times, from the fifth to the ninth cens tury. They were Essex, Sussex, Wes= sex, Kent, East Anglia, Mercia ant Northumbria. In §28 these petty royal provinces were united under one goy- ernment, by Egbert, King of Wessex, who was, from that time, styled ‘King of England.” * ee “Spartan Broth” is a phrase used ta simple fare. ‘The allusion is ta the black broth of the ancient Spat. tans in Greece, which formed one uf thelr chief articles of diet. AY ait @ yder Zee there is a bay Amsterdam, Holland, hay a river o: the same designation oe nitial, and China has also a towd with : is letter-name. In Honan, » China, there is a city while France has a riv and Sweden a town of the nam “A” rohh