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BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Bertmet Datiy wxcept Sunday vy The Pres Publishing Company. Nos. 58 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 68 Park Row. “aa MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Press, Aswoctated Prevs ts exclusively entiiea to the use fer republication {i mews Genpatches ‘credited to It oF noc otnerwiae creuitea In tam peggy ‘ee the local news pubiishea beretn. IN A NUTSHELL. REPLY to Mr. Shearn’s questions concerning the financial standing of the New York and | Queens County Railway Company and its relation to the interborough surplus account, Mr. Gaynor, Ghief auditor of the Interborough, told the Transit Commission: “It would be insolvent, perhaps, in relation a to any other creditor, but to the Interborough it was a solvent concern.” This seems to be a brief epitome of the inside @imancing of the Interborough. Mr. Gaynor could ®ot have made a more illuminating criticism of the dividend policy of the nterborough if he had stayed awake nights to sum up much information in few words. Fictitious solvency of insolvent properties was ‘fhe basis of the dividend policy of the Interbor- @ugl. Unrecognized bankruptcy was the device for “milking” the subway properties until they had no feserves to weather hard times and so were com- pelled to cut service and pack the subway sardines fighter than ever. Mr. Gaynor admitted that the Public Service mission had required him to write off a $29,000,000 item of prospective elevated accruals which promised not to materialize. If this had not heen done, perhaps the Interborough would have continued 20 per cent. dividends for the last three What the public wants to know is why past Public Service Commissions have not guarded all the items ‘in the surplus account as they did this It is this failure of past Public Service Commis- sions to render public service that lends point to an Observation by Mr. McAneny: “The (Transit) commission has no desire a ,to rake over what is merely old, but until | . these matters have been rightly adjusted, none i of them are old.” Weswonder what Mayor Hylan may be thinking Of such a statement. “Until these matters have been rightly adjusted, Bone of them are old.” Mr. McAneny is not a fool. If he intended to play the game of the “interests,” would he be lay- Ke ing grounds for so strong a case against himself if fhe fails {6 “rightly adjust” these matters? New York has the right and duty to be critical of the Transit Commission. But untjl the commis- ston ‘gives cause for mistrust it deserves praise for the good work it is doing. It deserves co-operation. ‘There seems to be general agreement that the price of turkeys is too high. Probably some- » . thing will be done about it by Friday. CHRISTINE NILSSON. HE wonderful voice and career of Qhristine Nilsson are further proof that though there may be an aristocracy of art, it is not recruited from aristocrats. This great Swedish singer earned her living as a little giri by playing the violin at dances. She was ~\ the daughter of a peasant who lived with his wife and seven children in a hut of two rooms, and she _ made no bones about admitting it. Arditi, the ftalian composer, used to tell the following story about her: “A gentleman who happened to make a com- : ’ plimentary remark on the shapely form and Z whiteness of her hands was rather taken aback when Nilsson answered in her pleasant outspoken way: “These hands which you are good enough to admire have done a lot of work in their time, for, remember, they are peasant’s hands and were made to handle the plough.’” ‘'K voice, genuine musical instinct and hard study Brought her the homage of two continents, wealth, title and a life of extraordinary variety and bril- ance. ‘All from a two-room hut in a little Swedish _ tamiet. Shame to the Ulster Irish! ‘With negotiations in progress for the settle- ment of Ireland's troubles, with a truce between the British Government and the Sinn Fein, with the hope of peace in Ireland brighter than it has ever been, Belfast breaks out in riot and re- bellion, menacing the success of the conference. Shame to the Ulster Unionists! DE-YANKEEIZED CRANBERRIES, RANBERRIES are almost as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey itself. At other , = Seasons we. may eat His Turkeyship with “trim- ag mings” of more sombre hue, but on Thanksgiving ‘we demand the brilliant red sauce so closely associ- Yankee origin of Thanksgi¥ing Day. still come from the “down-East” Cod and vi have lost many of thelr Yankee associations. Yan- kees no longer pick most of the berries that go to market from the cranberry bogs of the cape. The Cape Codders are virtually out of it. Cape Verders, negroes from Africa, have immigrated to the land of comparative plenty, have settled on Cape Cod and have virtually monopolized the cran- berry picking. It’s all well enough to imagine that to-morrow’s cranberries came to market as the result of a dicker between Yankee traders and Yankee pickers, but the chances are all against it. The negroes have supplanted the whites, and the whites resent it. The presence and competition of these Cape Verde negroes have raised a bitter “race question” in the very territory where the American anti- slavery movement had its birth and where the Abo- litionists flourished. ‘ . HELP IT ALONG. N HIS first Thanksgiving proclamation designat- ing to-morrow, Nov. 24, as the day for the people of the United States to give thanks “for all that has been rendered unto them,” President Har- ding said: “Ours has been a favored Nation in the bounty which God has bestowed upon it. The great trial of humanity, though indeed we bore our part as well as we were able, left us comparatively little scarred. It is for us to recognize that we have been thus favored, and when we gather at our altars to offer thanks, we will do well to pledge, in humility and all sincerity, our purpose to prove deserving. We have been raised up and preserved in na- tional power and consequence as part of a plan whose wisdom we cannot question, “Thus believing, we can do no less than hold our Nation the willing instrument of the Providence which has so wonderfully favored us. Opportunity for very great service awaits us if we shall prove equal to it.” That out of the thickets and bypaths of politics the present Administration at Washington has at last come through to an open place wherein it can give concrete meaning to the pledge and service of which the President speaks will be a chief cause for American thanksgiving to-morrow. To some Americans accustomed to think hereto- fore in narrower terms, many of the post-war un- foldings of opportunity have seemed too new and alarming. ‘ bs, Yet even these doubters have been won from their misgivings by the simple, easily grasped aims of the Arms Conference. This enlarged popular courage for co-operation with other nations is something for which the coun- try should be no less thankful than for the leader- ship to which its present Government has risen. Let us do nothing to imperil among parties or persons in the Nation the steady growth of that courage and that leadership. Let us revive no old dissensions, let us ‘stir up no old prejudices, let us awaken no old resentments that will impede the present trend. If the United States is at last moving of its own will toward larger international partnership, if by its own reason it is coming to see its “national power and consequence” in a broader light, what does it matter whether new names or old mark the next stage in the progress? Wherever it started or whoever started it, the forward movement has begun. Help it along and be thankful, Suppose a Harvard graduate gave both his Harvard-Yale football tickets to his father, be- Neving the latter’s pleasure would be a small enough dividend on the money it costs to put a boy through Hervard. Under this year's rules of the Harvard Ath- letic Association such filial feeling qualifies a graduate for the black list. TWICE OVERS. 66 JAPAN considers Manchuria as being part of China.” —Baron Kato. * * * 66] PLEDGE with all my heart and soul that 30 long as I live I will never raise my hand again to assist any armed conflict belween nations.” —Mrs. Emelia E. McCudden, the British war mother, and Mrs. E. Ernest Digney, the American war mother. * * 8 “ce HEN I 40 to a friend’s house and wine is seroed at dinner I drink very sparingly becpuse I know his supply is very limited, but when Premier Briand of the French delegation tenders: us. refreshments of the same kind J go as far as I like, in honor of diplomatic immunity.” —American official in Washington. <7 THINK I would rather be engaged in a train robbery or postal robbery than in such practices as these (building material conspiracies). —Judge Van Fleet. 66'T™ HE vice of the pessimist is heard in the land. The sun never shines anywhere for him. He in the fog.” —The Ree. Fred W. Stacy. * ¢ * a woltb. wibxkld A: me ¥, N A OVEMBER 23 v Shale) coat ' on iettaitven . By John Cassel \ although used by many Europeans for From Evening What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives 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 briot. eay much in few words. “Usenianst” To the Editor of The Evening World : The growing importance of this country’s position in world affairs calls for a new stressing of the serious disadvantage of haying no satisfac- tory name for ourselves. There are millions of other “Americans,” known as such to the dwellers in Europe «nd other continents, Southern dislike and more ar less undignified associations | render the term “Yankee” unsultnble, Jack of a better. Former discussions have clouded the issue by including a proposal to change the name of the country. This 4s both unnecessary and impracticable, and would require a rewriting of the Constitution and of all public docu- ments. As the United States, our land is known and identified everywhere. What we do need is an adjective de- fining the citizens of the country. Our use of tif term “Dutch (illogical though the word may be), to define the people of Holland, has been at- tended by no inconvenience, and has proved the practicability of employing an adjective unrelated to the official name of the country itself; and it is high time that a systematic effort be made to secure the adoption of such an adjective, which may be under- stood and used the world over. Fortunately the ideal word is ready to hand and has often already bee! suggested. From the initial letters of the title "United States of North America” comes the not unattractive word “Usona,” from which, with the insertion of a euphonic “4,” the ad- jective Usonian is formed. Leaving “United States” as the accepted name of the country, we can readily learn to of ourselves as Usonians; and no term could be easier for the people of other lands to learn and remember. It also affords no diffi- culties in pronunciatiow for any ractal group. especial advantage of designation consists in the fact that its equivalent is already adopted and in constant use among’ millions of men and women in every civilized country. For a number of years the many users of the international lan- gvage Esperanto, which is constantly growing in importance as a means of world communication, have referred to our land as “Usono” and to its inhabitants as “Usonanoj," and through them the proposed term has become familiar to a large cross- section of the population of every land. With so excellent a foundation already laid, to render its use prac- tically universal would be a very easy matter. Is it not time to begin the systematic agitation of the proposi- tion, with a view to developing a sentiment that may within a reason- able period be cry: lized into offi- cial act tion ? JAMES F. MORTON Jr. New York, Nov. 19, 1921. Profits Tee Wo the Diitor of The Drening W. An this - entree Ste gta tate ewe ee GIVE THANKS | ‘ FOR wooDRow WILSON IDEALISM os eeoemrn ~~ THE ; LEAGUE oF NATIONS +s eseeeeotee HARDING'S - DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE vee eae Rent | a World Readers of high shoes for $10 or $11. Of course she can’t! @Does she expect these large retail dealers to be satisfied with less than a $5 profit? Perish the thought! ‘They buy shoes, wholesale, at about $7 to $9, and sell the same at about $12 to $14. As a consequence trade is slowing up. SHOE FACTORY WORKER. Brooklyn, Nov. 19, 1921. No Legal Barrier E: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: | To settle an argument. Can & Roman Catholic become President of the United States? A says yes and B says no. Who Is right? M. Cc. Bypoklyn, Nov. 20, 1921. Sick of Tham Both. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The Evening World recently printed letters from A, J. Schneider and William Weinberger in re penalties for those citizens who full to vote. I do not agree with their views, I think such citizens are to be commended. It shows that they are not indifferent, but are anxious to raise the standard of American citizenship and so re- frain from going to the polls until the whole political system has been changed. In other words, they are tired of being flim-flammed and buncoed, first by one political candidate, then another, I know I am. It was the late Theodore Roosevelt who said, when running for President on the Bull Moose ticket, that both Demo- sratic and Republican Parties were rotten to the core, that they worked hand in glove, were machine-made and boss-ridden. Yet in face of this assertion ge returned to the same old Republican Party he had repudiated, Personally, I never could under- stand his move, although I always ad- mired the man. From my own ob- servation, it would seem to me that no candidate enters the political arena solely for love of the d “peepul,” be he Demoorat or Repub- lican; and that campaign promises are mere words, to be forgotten as soon as the successful candidate is safely in office. Instead of penalizing the citizen who hesitates to choose between the devil and the deep sea, why not pun- ish the political candidate, high or low, who buncoes his way into office by ‘flim-flamming the public with false promises in order to obtain their votes. How many Presidents have lived up to their campaign promises? How many Governors? How many May- ors? How much money did they have before they were elected? How rich were they when their term of office expired? Where did they get it? I think Dr, Guthrie was right when he suid politically New York 1s “gov- erned by a tiny group of Irishmen.” They know any candidate with an |Irish name is likely to win, because blood is thicker than water, and the latge Irish yote can be counted on to In one of the letters previously printed in The Evening World a wom- an writes that she cannot buy a pair lection. I'm sick of the swing an electio i eB old game—and the old ' UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Jokn Blake.) . RUNNING AT HALF STEAM. In‘Wiiliam James's essay on “The Energies of Men,” which every American, young or old, ought to read, he says: “Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half owake, Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are inaking use of only a small part of our mental and physi- eal resources.” Most men will admit that this is true in their own case. When the need comes for some unusual exertion they aie able to put it forth and to accomplish results. Jf the schoolboy who crams for an examination put torth regularly through the school year half the energy he employs in the last week of school he would get real results out of his schooling. u But it is our habit to work as hard as we can only under some strong and unaccustomed lash. When this is removed we slump back into the old way of doing things. And if we continue to slump too long the «xtra energy will be unavailing when it is needed. For our faculties wil! be weak and flabby from lack of use. The exvress trains that run between the great cities of the world are pulled by locomotives which run at full steam. Everything that can be got out of the machinery is got out of it. Net once is the fire allowéd to slacken or the lubri- cant to flow less smoothly to the moving parts of the engine. If we could do that with ourselves we should soon be past the need of troubling ourselves about the future. Theodore Roosevelt, no genius but a man born with anlisnited energy, employed that energy at all times. ; The sme writer (John the Revela- Blue Law Sunday In the Light of the Bible and Histofy By Dr. S. E. St. Amant ce . 198t, by the Press Publishing Oa (line New York reniag, World.) NO. V.—THE CHANGE OF pay.) Sunday is called by many.“ Lord's day"; Revelation 1-10. passags reads in the Greek, kurlake hemera,” “the day belong to the Lord.” The fourth commas ment declares, “The seventh day the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.’ This ts the day belonging to the Tapa. Exodus 20:8-11; Isaiah 68:18. tor), speaking for Sunday, dow not say, “on the Lord’s day,” but “om the / first day of the week” (John 29:1); and speaking of the following Sunday, he does not designate it “the Lord's day,” but says (John 20:19), “The same day at evening, being the fret day of the week.” Anata When the nominal Christians omid without difficulty “interpret” the aun of Latin adoration to mean the {Sup of righteousness” (Malachi 4:2), how easy the steps from Sun's day" to Sunday, from this to Son's | day, thence to Lord’s day—especially Wheht its observance is not enjoined in the Bible. See Ezekiel 22:26; Zephaniah 3:4; Acts 20:29-30, The Sabbath shall never perish from the earth, but will be kept by |a remnant of God's people; Exodus $1:16-17; Revelation 14:12; 12:17. It will be kept throughout eternity | the new earth; Isaiah 66: 22- f blessing is pronounced upo re obedient; Isaiah 56:2, 5. Such - |ence is essential to eternal lite; ‘iget- {thew 19:17. 4 God foretells a reform in the keag- jing of the Sabbath; Isaiah 68: it ‘is in our day, just beforg the i) ‘coming of Christ; Isaiaff 56:1; Reve- lation 14:12, 14. These commandmient |keepers will be able to discertithe future from the Scriptures; Pwtins 19:7; Revelation 1:9; 19:10. Comt- ‘pare Isaiah 8 See, also Mattie 6:24; Romans 6:16, We are told in Dante} 8:25, thitt a power would arise which would ~ “think to change times and laws? The revised version reads, “the times and the law,” while another version | puts it, “He shall think to change the time in the law.” “The times and the law.” “the time in the law.” It is a remarkable fact that the Sabbath commandment s the only one of the decalogue whit contains the element of time! | 98, The Roman Catholic Chureh® is justly entitled to the credit for,the change of the day, I quote; “We observe Sunday insteatt@ Saturday because the Cathwlte Chureh, in the Council of Laedicen, transferred the solemnity from,gat- urday to Sunday."—Convert’s Cate- |chism $f Christian Doctrine, By the Rev. Peter Gelermann, GC, SS. 'R., page 50, second edition, 1910. ‘Pais | work received the “apostolic blessing” of Pope Pius X., Jan, 25, 1910. “We are told in various ways’ by Huseblus that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion 40 the heathen, transferred into it, the outward ornaments to which they had been accustomed jn theif ew * ¢ © The use of temples:auad these dedicated to particular saints. and ornamented on occasions. with branches of trees; incense, lamp& ahd candles; yotive offerings on retovVefy from illness; holy water, asylum; holy days and seasons, use of oalent dars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal yestments, the ton- sure, the ring in nfarriage, turningito ~ the east, images at a later dateper- haps the ecclesiastical chant, and. tie Kyrie eleison, are all of pagan origin and sanctified by their adoption Mito the church.”—An essay on thelde- velopment of Christian doctrine; by John Henry Cardinal Newman,, pp. 372-373. z “You may read the Bible trom Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Sertpt- ures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we r sanctify."—Faith of Our Fathers, »by Cardinal Gibbons, elghty-third edi- tion, May 1, 1917, p. 89. a “Had she (the church) not seh power (to institute festivals ne cept), she could not have done t in which all modern religionists ee with her—she could not have substi- tuted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the ohsepw. ance of Saturday, the seventh da: change for whic ural authority.”—Doctrinal chism, by the Rev. Stephen Keenas p, 174; Imprimatur by John Cardi McCloskey, Archbishop of New Yo! Deis oi a When other men were sitting back in contemplation of past successes he was reading or studying or putting his thoughts into action, ° His example was a fine one for his countrymen. During the Roosevelt era there was far more energy displayed in the country than there has been since. / It is vain to wait for another Roosevelt. If we -cannot stir ourselves to action without a conspicuous example we shali be inactive most of the time. We do not need examples, however. All that is required is to keep stoking the fires of our energy—to run always on full steam. ' Even the most mediocre and commonplace among us vill accomplish really important things if we never permit our cnergies to flag. ad 7 inches tall; Chang-Woo-Gow, a Chi- nese, 8 feet in height, and Marian, surnamed the “Amazon Queen,” born in 1866, who was 8 feet 9 inches tall, and was exbibited in London in 1887. . . Of dwarfs, there have been four- teen listed, and, aside from Tom Thumb (Charles 8S. Stratton), 1838. 1883, who was 31 inches tall, the smallest of all was Alypius of Alex- andria, who was 1 foot 5% inches in height. ’saFact By Albert P. Southwick Corrs New York Wrenlen Weadhe = °* William Makepeace Thackeray, English author, was thirty-six when his “Vanity Pair” appeared. . . “‘That There has been compiled a list of seventeen noted giants. Aside from Goliath of Gath (and hig four sons), the tallest were Og, King of Basban, mentioned in Deuteronomy lil, 11, whose bedstead was ® cubits, or 16% feet, long; Patrick Cotter (Irish Giant), born in 1761, who was 8 fect ,. . . “Wars-to-Ear Bible” was a name given to an edition of the Scriptures, printed in 1811, and so called because of, the erronebus printing in Matthew xili., 43, which read: “Who hath cars to ear, let him hear. VANISHED RESIDENTS. OF NEW YORK. Cong 0; ete SN he THE MAN WITH THE ARROW POINT IN HIS RIB. Grim relics of primitive warfane within what are now the city Hmits of New York are.shown in a colec- tion of bones unearthed by the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History apd. now on exhibition in its cases. a ‘These relics—eonsisting of several ekeletons—were found at Burial Ridge, Tottenville, S. 1., in 1896, Arrow points that had plerced these skeletons testify mutely to the con- clusion that the primitive men who owned them had not convened for {| the purpose of a conference on dis- armament. Or, if they had assembled for such a pacific purpose, the ference had broken up in bow plaj One-of the remindera of the ‘alt tiquit® and persistence of war amohe men of all shades of opinions—ayd skins—is a rib pierced by an apfigr-> tipped arrow. Marks on the ah I ton show that the messenger of or fear—and both sentiments usdhily work to the same destructive p e —had ploughed through one sige ‘of the body and had imbedded itself In» rib on the opposite side, where feat remains. onl ‘Who was the man with the area. pierced rib? Was he a patrioty ae , fending the principle of self-determi- nation? Or was he a primitive. im- perialist? stadt ‘Arrow-pierced ribs tell no tates: except the olf, cld tide of humez ate. peavity, parly compensated forum man heroism and self-sacrifice. “il