The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1921, Page 34

PULITBER 3r., secretary, 63 Park Row. SURTE aiene moe re credited Jocal news publishea herein, LOW MARK IN TRANSLATION. By! burden of taxation imposed upon the American people is staggering,” declared ~. . the Republican Platform adopted at Chicago a year é sei last June: ; “Sound policy demands the early accom- ie ~plishment of that real reduction of the tax burden which may be achieved by,” &c., &c. "The achievement to date by an overwhelmingly "Republican Congress is a mess of a tax bill for which nobody in or out of Congress, Republican or Democrat, has a good word, which Senator Pen- _ wose, Chairman of the Finante Committee, himself "terms a “temporary fliakeshif®” and which it turned the stomach of Senator Smoot even to pretend to approve. A year ago last month Mr. Harding said to his » fellow Americans: é i “I would not want to be your President 3 untese you'are going to give us a Republican — Congress to translate Republican promises ~ _ tuto legislative enactments.” a The President will have to agree with his fellow — ‘Americans that this tax bill is about the worst piece of translation on record. # “4 Can the Sinn Fein accept no peace that does not include the privilege of tearing a hole in ) the British Empire? Would the Sinn Fein Yeadera risk a referendum to the Irish people 5 ‘on that issue? 3 TWO SUBWAY SUNS. ' TEAMS of the Subway Sun were bound to find B gtheir way into the transit investigation. THE Transit Commission wants to know why the Subway Sun ‘has been considered an “operation ~ expense.” © As a matter of fact, bee have been two Subway Suns, First, the olf: fare-propaganda sheet which addet i “insult ‘oie ) of ‘everyy tortured subway sar- _ dine. Id. Su -Sun_never ought to have been arpa to» Tif the Interborough | wanted such a it should have Assessed the cost on stock! hO hoped to profit by higher fares.e This publication was filled with half truths infinitely worse than lies—and it was an imposi- tion on passengers. whose nickels had to pay for it. _., The newer Subway Sun is different. Last sum- ” mer the 1. R. "T. advertised the city’s play places « which could be reached by subway. This was * legitimate, an effort to build business and boost receipts. The’ current issues are legitimate. They ~~ explain an innovation in service and promise to “make the transition easier and simpler. This will help the subway riders adjust themselves and ‘amakes for comfort lf around. At is perhaps significant that the services of the ‘editor ‘of the Subway Sun have declined in value since the change in the character of the work. The market price for honest work is unfortunately lower than for tricky. special pleading. oy we As between extreme French fears that only ¢ 4 huge armies can pfotect France and extreme - British fears that big French armies mean French’ ion, we have an idea that reason 4 could find a calm middle ground if it were x NO PLACE FOR BRIBERS. INVESTIGATION of: the scandal in regard to & Civil Service promotions in the Police Depart- ment must go to the roots of the matter. _ Thus far, despite the suspension of the finger- __ print expert for the Municipal Civil Service Com- mission, it has not been made clear how far the “Civil Service office is involved. It may still be ‘that the policemen who tried to bay promotion were merely the dupes of a scheming crook not in the public service. ‘One thing, however, seems clear. Some police- men did try to bribe their way to an unfair promo- tion. Dismissal from the department should be auiomatic if the charges can be proved. New York ‘cannot afford to have that sort of men in the Po: lice Department. It is a general rule, with few ex- ceptions, that the man who will give a bribe will take a bribe. 1 Drive the bribers out. _ A& letter mailed in New York nineteen years and five months ago has just reached the Phila- delphia firm to which it was addressed—News item. Not dead but sleeping—in Philadelphia. . SPEED-GOVERNOR FOR MOTOR d TRUCKS? LDERMANIC PRESIDENT LA GUARDIA Proposes ap ordinance to limit the speed of juggernaut motor trucks on city streets, place the limit at ten miles per hour. ‘exciusively enuitiea to the use fer repubtieation to It oF mot ounerwise creuitea in tam papee speed laws. How far the detailed provisions of the measur: may prove practical remains to be seen. They will be subjected to criticism, and as far as this criticism is open and above board it will be valuable. One perfectly obvious difficulty in. this sort of regulation is that many trucks operate both on city streets, where ten miles an hour is fast enough, and on eountry roads, where fifteen or twenty miles is hot objectionable or dangerous. The provision of the ordinance requiring -police to inspect and seal the governing apparatus may prove impractical in Such cases. The general intent of Mr. La Guardia’s plan of regulation is undoubtedly good. The death roll of children killed by speeding motor trucks makes that plain as day. TO JAIL. IG profits are going to seem colder comfort to violators of the Federal Anti-Trust Law. Jail sentences of from two to four months, in addition to fines of from $3,500 to $4,000, were imposed by Federal Judge Van Fleet upon four members of the tile combine for violation of the Sherman act. Having pleaded guilty, these four men have no appeal. There is little doubt they will go to jail and serve as a warning to others who have come to think violating the Sherman law means, at worst, paying fines that can be reckoned as a percentage of profits to be extorted from the public. In a statement from the bench, Judge Van Fleet said: “As a result of an inquiry into the facts as to the participation of the various de- fendants, the court Is satisfied that the mere imposition of a fine as to certain of the more flagrant instances will afford no cure, nor act as a deterrent, which is the main object of punishment; that while it may be true as urged at the argument that in the past the provisions of the Sherman law authoriz- ing jail sentences have been rarely enforced, the situation ‘presented here is of such char- acter that the time has come to put a stop to these criminal praftices and, in my judg- ment, the only effective way of doing it is to invoke and bring to life those features of this great act which provide for imprison- ment in all instances where the facts war- rant it.” By a system of mutual protection and collusive bidding, these tile manufacturers maintained abnor- mal prices at a time when the high cost of build- ing materials was one of the chief obstacles in the way of relieving the housing shortage. They were merciless toward the public. deserve no mercy from the law. Since the Sherman act was passed, in 1890, this They is the first time business men guilty of violating it | have been brought so close to prison doors. Fines ‘are all in the day’s work to men who combine to dictate prices. But there is still a strong prejudice against spend- ing even four months in jail. If that prejudice weakens, lengthen the jail term. Senator Watson, bitter antagonist of the League of Nations, sald: “We cannot start up a rabbit on this side and chase him fifteen minutes before we find him running into the League of Nations, The rabbit may go in, but we won't.” The Senator spoke extemporaneously. Maybe if he had stopped to think he would have dis- covered the logical conclusion, namely, that those who kept us out of the League “hadn't the sense of a rabbit.” But it is encouraging that the Georgia Sen- ator finds the League issue bobbing up here, / there and everywhere. He may yet live to sed this Nation “going in,” “ec T AM happy to state that there has been no change of policy of the United States Government toward Zionism.” —Dr. Nahum Sokolow. Aa 8 TWICE OVERS SE me something for Thanksgiving, Mister.” —Chorus of child beggars yesterday. vai as “6°T HROW up your hands.”"—A Thanksgiving reeling by the busy bandits. * * * st & AM an Austrian. But what has a doctor, a healer of wounds, to do with international strife? Science is international.” —Dr, Adolf Lorenz. * * * oc W4t France wishes to see is a Germany with which she can en'ertain normal re- lations in a state of peace and calm.” —Premier Briand. Wires tyr France were to attempt to adopt an isolated or indiotdual policy of her own she would not in the long run injure Germany and she would fail to protect herself.”"-—-Lord Curzon. * * * 6¢ PROHIBITION is the mother of hypocrisy us far as New York is concerned.”--Wilson Cross, Chajeman of the American Sociely in London. E 4£VENING ING WORLD, | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1923," would find it mechanically impossible to break the reak the |p Ce ee ee | The Movie : From Eveiing that gives the worth of a thousand ‘ay much in tew words Not Enough Hack Stands, ‘Tu the Editor of The Evening World: Would appreciate your advice on the following matter: I am a public hackman, operating @ taxicab for the last fifteen years, paying a license fee to the city for operating my cab. Formerly 1 could find room to wait for a fare on a designated back stand, but of late conditions have changed 80 that it is impossible to get on a designated hack stand, Therefore, while I was standi on a corner to- day for a few mor with my cai, hesitating which way to go, | was served with a summons for not stand- ing on a designated hack stand. What is a man to do when there are not enough hack stands to ac- World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot 0/ satistaction in trying to Take time to be brief. keep bread in the house for my family.” ‘his man is now back on his old job and for the first time since employed by the above concern he is able to show his real ability and be paid accordingly. Many men can create an excellent income by being paid according to their. ability,.by piece work. There are many other men who don’t want to earn a living by any method where work is involved. They are not afraid of work. Not in the least. They can lie down by it and go to sleep, and worse still, they are the kind’ that keep the ‘other man in trouble, The quicker the industrial world | gets back to piece work, where it can be properly anplied, the better for all. It will surely have a tendency to make producers out of many commodate all the cabs, while the city keeps right on issuing licenses to new cabs daily? J.T. W. New York, Novy, 21, 1921. Children on Apartment Roofs. the Editor of ‘The Evening World: To ment houses on Washington Street, between Cedar Street and Liberty Street, Manhattan, I wondered why j there are no laws to protect these | children from falling off the roofs to) the back rds, Not a railing to grasp as they run back and forth over unguarded roofs, Over in Brooklyn | landlords do not permit my children on a roof protected on all four sides. Brooklyn, M. B. Helped a Sch To the Falitor of The E World It gives me great pleasure to let you know that your articles on the Lisarmument Conference havegelped me very much in school, We were asked to write a composition on this subject, wording it in our own way. I read your articles in The Evening World Nov. 15, 16 and 17 and picked out the principal points, making a composition of my own, T thank you very much and send my best wishes. DPBORAH LOIS SHANNON (age eleven). Brooklyn, Nov. 18, 1921, Plece Work. ‘To the Paitor of The Evening World: “J. T. M.'s letter of Nov. 15 gives an excellent idea of the existing con- ditions, but I cannot agree with the statement regarding week work being an experiment. I believe every manufacturer will agree with the writer that to-day, as well as for the past fifty that a piece worker will produce | more work, get more pay and conse- quently create a more. satisfactory condition for all concerned. Week work was forced on mianu- facturers during the World War. Many union men have blocked their own path, the path that would lead them to success and happiness by allowing themselves to be y union officials, the “higherups in all probability have never wanted for the necessities of life as do man men belonging to unton man employed through th dent The strike 1m ost Ine over $100 benont T have rm | untons and all the strike ceived was $10, 1 bave to work io ik@an to cover four or Sve beats ao fault of they owe, set Worm ape Watching young children running , back and forth on the roofs of apart- | years, It is a known fact | loafers. Unions are wonderful pro- tection for will-be loafers. I have , been a union man, have worked pleec | work, have worked day work ana | have also employed many men, there- fore I am speaking from experience Rutherford, N. J, Nov. 22, Gave Roth | To the Editor of The Evening World: | On your editorial page of Nov. one who styles himself “Justice” crit- icises your paper on tne past election. | He remarks that your criticisms 22 | were unfounded and that you should take heed because of the result of the votes. i “Justice” does not seem to realize that criticism means favorable or ad- verse reports, The Evening World certainly more than any other paper gave both sides of the question, I ‘might remark that “Justice” should be more careful in his reading. LE M. Brooklyn, Nov. 28, 1921. Police in Strike) To the Editor of The Evening World: With your kindness you may have a little space in your paper for these suggestions about strikes and the way the police are used in same, and may also bring to the attention of the Meyer committee when they meet again, through the power of the press. 1 suggest that the Charter be changed to read that the police be not used as strikepreak.rs as the are to-day and have been in years gone by. That the employers whose em- ployees have gone on strike may hire private detectives from private agen- cles and pay for same. If need be, have them sworn in as special offi- |cers or deputy sheriffs, and not strip the city of its only protection, which everybody has to pay for through rents, taxes, &c. The Police Department is short of men under normal conditions and as it is to-day under strike conditions with most all the men guarding pri- vate buildings and the streets, and al ta making | very ss who are pay . while some t through aoy usiig one po- riding wagons! , there are only a few men patrolling causing y unsafe | otherwis UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) DON’T BOTHER ABOUT Yesterday, with its gains or its losses, its viclories or its defeats, is gone forever. To worry about it is worse than useless. Tt is valuable to use only as a warning or an example when we begin the work of to-day. The fascination of the past is due to the fact that it is the only lessun we have for our conduct in the future. The statesman who knows history is less likely to blunder because he can avoid the obvious mistakes made by those before him. The young mar in a profession studies the history of his profession to learn how men succeeded or failed’ in xt in the pas’ * What You have done yesterday can help you to-day But whether it was done well or-done badly, it can have no further influence on your future. It is foolish to regret the idleness or the vanity or the foolhardiness that cost you your opportunity for promotion All you can do is to begin to-day to get rid of the habits or of the mental attitude that made these things possible. If you must worry, worry about the future. Forget yesterday’ 8 worries. If you lost money yesterday, that money is gone. All you can do is to begin to-day to make other money tu replace it. If you did a piece of work badly yesterday, do it over again to-day. Don’t stare gloomily at the wreck and won- der how you could have done it. If you are under seventy you still have a few vears left Make them as umike the old idle days as possible. Direct your energies into better channels. Try to atone for the past by making a different sort of a future. If the nations to-day sat down to contemplate gloomily the ruin wrought by the great war, there would be no hope for the world, Fortunately they are not doing that. While they are seeking a means to make such another war impossible, they are rebuilding, refinancing, redeveloping. In a few years there will be few signs of destruction even in France, and no evidence save in monuments that the popula‘ion of most of the civilized world was once en- gaged in destroying a large part of what had been built through long centuries, Your own life is never ruined as long as you are alive. Many men who served terms in penitentiaries are to-day valuable and useful members of society. They never p-r- mitted yesterday to haunt them. It is with to-morrow that we are all concerned. Get all you can out of to-day, but take thought for the morrow in your labor or in your enjoyment, Yesterday is gone, and it need not return to plrgue you. YESTERDAY. vonhnanenaieanresyvonsenrnqnennnnenerneecervenevererennnenennen which sometimes amounts to square eSATA EO i out and sick through the long miles in the outlying horoushs and |i. | pense Juniforms r in sick time of the men who, through irregular hours for rest and which | meal sted and aiso| Publish this, if you wish, and also ary expense | request suggestions from other read- in xeneral. |ers of your wonderful paper who are lot of needless ex-| rent or taxpayers, as I have spoken man in time loss, /of it fo a number of my friends and J and to the taxpay they think it a good idea, | JAMES ANDREWS. Bronx, Noy, 18, 1921, es to the ection. | $ Blue Law Sundry In the Light of the Bible and History By Dr. 3. E. St. Amant # Copyright, 191. by the Prese Publishing Co, mor itne New York Evening World.) NO. VI—FIRST SUNDAY LAWS, ‘The first Sunday legislation ais the product of that pagan conception, se fully developed by the Romans, which made religion a department of the state, This was diametrically opr posed to the genius of New Testa- ment Christianity. It did not find favor in the church until Christianity hdd been deeply corrupted through the influence of Gnosticism and kins dred pagan errors. ‘The Emperot Constantine, while still a heathen—if, indeed, he was ever otherwise—issued the first Sunday edict by virtue of lis power as Pontifex Maximus iu all matters of religion, especially in the appointment of sacred days. This law was pagan in every particular, Sunday iegisiation between. the time of Constantine and the fall of the empire was a compination of the pagan, Christian and Jewish cultp Many other holidays~mostly pagan festivals baptized with new namés and slightly modified—were assvci- ated, in the same laws, with the Sum= day. During the middle ages Sunday leg- isiation took on a more Judaistic typ® under the plea of analogy, whereby civil authorities claimed the right to legislate in religious matters, after the manner of the Jewish theocracy, The continental reformation made little change in the civil legislation euncerning Sunday. The English ret ormation introduced a new theory and developed a distinct type of ieg- tiauen, Here we ave for coe first time, the doctrine of the transfer of the Fourth Commandment to the first day of the week, and the con- sequent legisiation growing out yf that theory. We find the laws of that period to be extended theologi+ cal treatises, as well as civil enact- ments, The Sunday laws of the United States are the direct out~ growth of the Puritan legislation, notably of the Cromwellian period, These have been much modified since the colonial times, and the lates® tendency in the cases which come to direct trial under these laws is to set forth laws of a wholly differemt character through the decisions of the courts. In the Sunday legislation of the Roman Empire the religious element was subordinate to the civil. In the middle ages, under Cromwell, and dur- ing our colonial period, the church was Pracuzally supreme. Some now claim that Sunday legislation {s not based on religious grounds. This claim 16 contradicted by the facts of all the centuries, Every Sunday law sprang from a religious sentiment. Under tho pagan conception, the day was to be “venerated” as a religious duty owed to the god of the sun, As the resur- rection-festival idea was gradually combined with the pagan conception, religious regard for the day was also cemanded in honor of Christ's resur- In the middle age period, sacredness was claimed for Sunday be cause the Sabbath had been sacre@ under the legislation of the Jewish tho- ceracy. Sunday was held supremely sacred by the Puritans, under the plea that the obligations imposed by the Fourth Commandment were transferred to It. There is no meaning in. the statutes prohibiting “worldly labor,” mitting “works of nec! mercy,” except from a relig poin re exn be ne “worldly bust+ not in contrast with re= igious obligation, Every prohibition which appears in Sunday legislation 13 based pon the idea that it is wrong to do on Sunday the things prohibited. Whatever theories men may invent for the observance of Sunday on non-re- ligious grounds, and whatever value any of these may have from a scientific standpoint, we do nof®here discuss; put the fact remains that such consid- erations have seldom, if ever, been made the of legislation. To say that the present and proposed Sunday laws do not deal with the day as a re ‘gious institution is to deny every act in the history of such legislation. The j claten is a shallow subterfuge. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 105—CHRISTMAS. “Christmas” is the composite of two Anglo-Saxon words—‘Crist” (Christ) and “moesse” (mass, festi- val). The festal character of Christ- mas is also indicated by the designa- tion “Yuletide.” as applied to the Christmas season. it is y probable, although nob certain, that the word “Yule,” in It turn, is related to the Anglo-Saxo “gylan,” (to make merry), the Ices landie “ylan” (to howl, make a noise), and the German “jodeln” (to sing if a high-pitched voice). « ~ it is interesting to note that amon some of the Slavic nations Christma is called “Koleda,” after the heatheh god of that name. The Russian woed for Christmas 1s “Rojdestvg Christuvo"—( h of Christ). i “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Copyright. 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. {The New York Evening World) FEblis is ‘the name given by thi Arabs to the prince of fallen angel Before his fall he was called Azazik According to the legend, he was exs jled to the infernal regions for re» fusing to worship the newly created Adam at the command of the Al& mughty, see ‘ To justify his refusal to worship Adam, clared that he the fallen angel, Eblis, de» had been formed of ethereal fre while Agam w. ¥ a creature of common clay. To self, according to the pted Adam and Eve them to be thrust forth” from Eden and separated. ‘ 8 e ‘ The Mohammedans state that ap the birth of their Prophet the throng of Eblis was precipitated to the lows est aepth of inferno apd all the {dole of the were overthrown. The was applied by the: of othes Oras pe]