The evening world. Newspaper, November 28, 1921, Page 20

‘The Press Publishing Row, New York. 3 Park Row. ‘news Gospatches credited to It or mot otnerwise creuitea in tang ‘Miso the level news publishea herein =, ‘* WHAT WOULD HE CALL FAIR? Bie. E have the latest revelation anent the Transi: a Commission on the authority of John F. > Hylan, Mayor of New York City. “Their present plan ts to unload all of the ‘wornout and worthless surface lines on the city and grab off for themselves bus franchises. This * is the end toward which the traction interests, aided by the Transit Commission, are now working.” ~ Now, as a matter of fundamental fairness, the yor ought to go further. He has said that he has a traction plan. If so, he must have informa- fion as to which of the surface lines are worthless and which are worn out or have been superseded "by subways. He must have ideas as to where bus Hines should be established to take care of traffic. ‘Let him tell us. It is undoubtedly true that some of the surface ar lines are not worth anything. Some ought to ‘be abandoned and scrapped. Some, it seems, must be operated even at a loss as a service to the city. What programme does Mayor Hylan think rea- sonable? What are the details of a practical and “workable settlement as Mayor Hylan would have it #€ the, instead of the Transit Commission, were Aaboring with conditions as they now exist? * Why not give us your solution now, Mr. Mayor? "Phen we can check up what the commission may o by what you now think reasonable to expect. If you will tell your plan now, Mr. Mayor, desig- mating the: worthless and worn-out lines the city ~ @ught not to buy, The Evening World will be glad ‘to publish it. , ‘Then, if the commission’s plan has some good Features and some bad, you cannot be charged with faith in having increased your réquirements while the commission has been engaged in meeting “those you once considered sufficient. _ While President -Harding’s “Association of _ Nations” film is being shown, will somebody _ (either put ground glass spectacles on Senator é or move him back twenty rows. He ‘sees too much, RENCH sportsmanship is facing a real test. Capt. ‘de Joannis, who managed the tour of Mile, Lenglen—as far as any man could manage nental tennis star—has stated: “She knows how to wim, but she does not know how to lose gracefully.” | ‘Phat sums up the jgeneral impression of the American sportsmen and sportswomen could for- five and forget a single lapse from high standards. he case of Mile. Suzanne would be regarded as an funate and isolated instance. It would not be regarded as an example of a national attitude. | But if, the French ‘Tennis Federation chooses to "make the treatment of Suzarme an issue and seeks 9 censure M, de Joannis and the officials of the | United States Tennis Association, then the unfor- ‘tunate affair wili cast a reflection on the general Aevel of sportsmanship in France. + Capt. de Joannis has tendered his resignation from the French Tennis Federation. If the resignation is ed it can only mean that French tennis players and approve the low level of sportsmanship ch Mile. Suzanne displayed. WOMEN TRAFFIC COPS. OMEN of the Police Reserve have been called for duty to-day. They are asked to regu- late traffic at busy school corners while children are king their way to and from schools. It is a kind of service women can do well, we partioularly if they act primarily as womea d as police officers only when that is required. It is fair to presume that drivers of automobiles ill slow down and mind the traffic signals because guardians of the school crossings will be women engaged in protecting children. If the police re- rves.in their uniforms and Sam Browne belts will et on this theory, we have an idea they will not heed to make many arrests in order to make the serossings safe for the youngsters. +{ The sentiment of “women and children first” is very much alive in America, even though there are Feminine traffic cops acting in an irgency ought not to have many occasions to A out” the motorists after the fashion of the Se should not let authority go to their heads. ey should not be more “officious” than the occa- “requires. IGE THE IMMIGRATION YEAR. ORTS on immigration show that the quotas of eleven countries or districts are already no more immigrants from these THE EVENING ‘WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1921, PATNA RBs A ret the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Russia and Sweden, are soon to be closed because the admis- sions in less than half a year have ranged from 70, to 90 per cent. of those admissible, The quotas are figured on the basis of a year ending June 30, The result is that the bulk of the immigration comes in the autumn, when em- ployment is at a low ebb. ; This is another evident weakness of the Immigra- tion Law. Surely it would be more sensible to have the immigrants coming in the spring, when employment is expanding. This would be to th: advantage both of the immigrant and the workers already here. ‘ ‘When the Immigration Law is amended, as it must be, the immigration year should be calculated as beginning Jan. 4, and not July 4, if the quota system of immigration regulation is to be continued. SURE TO CONVERGE. S the Arms Conference progresses, President Harding’s Association of Nations slips upon the screen with such gentle, unalarming smoothness that even the Senate is not startled. tas It is a soothing picture—in soft lights: Only a continuation of international conferences culminating in “gentlemen's agreements.” No treaties to be signed. Nothing for the Senate to ratify. Nothing to rouse the . patriotic wrath of Senators who would see peace die a thousand deaths before they would let their beloved country be committed to anything that might cost something. Nothing, of course, like the L—— of N——! As Senator Smoot admirably expresses it: “The suggestion advanced will be all right with me. A gentlemen's agreement would be nothing but a moral obligation and not International association that is in no sense a L——, and that United States Senators cam regard as no more entangling than a rainbow—what could be finer? Remembering, however, well-known reasons why President Harding’s plan of international co-opera- tion is probably’ the best that can be expected from this Administration, why not treat it)kindly as far as’ it goes—with the serene certainty that neither Mr. Harding nor anybody ¢lse can prevent it from going eventually a great deal further? Once started, no effective, large-scale interna- tional partnership to prevent war can stop short of some sort of police power potentially strong enough to make the aims and decisions of the partnership , respected. No such potential police power can exist if indi- vidual nations in the partnership regard it as only a “gentlemen’s agreement” which binds them to nothing. The United States may not be convinced of this yet, but it iS going to be convinced of it some day. Every experiment with international association for the safeguarding of peace will make clearer the fact that there has got to be some give as well as take. “The one effective move for obtaining peace is by an agreement among all the great pow- ers in ‘which each should pledge itself not only to abide by the decisions of a common tridyngt but to back its decisions with force.” It was hot Woodrow Wilson who said that. was Theodore Roosevelt. “Pledge.” It is the word that sends United States Senators scuttling. It is a word that President Harding evades as he evades the even more unspeak- ablel—-—-— Nevertheless, one thing is sure. If the present Administration were to remain in Washington for the next twenty years, it could not keep the policy of the United States toward international co-opera- tion against war from entering a broader, straighter channel than the tortuous one in which it has been confined to keep it from looking like the policy of Woodrow Wilson. Therefore don’t discourage “international associa- tions for peace.” However they start, they are as sure to converge finally in the same thing as the scattered efforts of a community to keep order are sure to converge ultimately in a common council and a police force. Iv's time to get back to that overadjourned case of Public vs, Weather, TWICE OVERS. 66 [I NTANGLING hatreds are more dangerous than entangling alliances.’—Mrs. T. G. Winter of the Advisory Committee on Armament Lim- itation. * * * 66 JT is not what you call it but what it is that counts.” ~-Senator Borah on the Harding Association + of Nations, ta ” ~ ical right, 1921 oo FRRA jorkl) ‘om Pub. Co, that give: eay much in few words If Dogs Could Speak. rted something when I wrote how happy I was to get rid of my wife's dog and to get some at- tention from her again. Another letter writes took exception to my letter. She said she “felt sorry for me and the home that isn't vig enough for a deg.” I don’t want any one feeling sorry for me, because I'm the happiest man in the world—now that that darn purp is gone. She says “dogs can't tell their side of the story." No, If they could, they'd beg to be sen< to the country. JAMES E. FOX. Nov. 23, Brooklyn, N. To the Editor of The Evening Work: 1 would like to answer the criti- cisms of “Orthodox” regarding birth control. Being a mother, I think I have the right to call the attention of the writer to the fact that there are many laws which our Creator has made and had they been obeyed there would not have been thousands of illegitimate children born. As I understand the birth control question, it does not advise break:ng the law of our Creator, but having ourselves morally and physically fit to bring children into the world, This surely is a better way than going aout this question just like an ani- mal, There are men and women who are almost beasts and only the most wonderful creation of our Creator suffers for their sins, “the dear little child.” Then why not protect it? Some years ago I attended a lecture given by a sainted woman to a young ladies’ society of which I was a mem- ber. This godly woman explained the wonders of parenthood and the obligation of men and women to their God an} their children, Could more of these lectures be given to both men and woinen, ond they could be convinced of the gveat responsibiliiy which is upon each and every one of them, what a different world It would be. Holland has had birth control for some time and it has been proved that instead of reducing the birth rate it has increased the rate In homes where every child is received with great joy. Now, “Orthodox,” when you read the laws of your Creator about birth control, be as diligent in learning the laws regarding lust, and you will probably discover what Mrs, Sanger is preaching against. A MOTHER. Larger Princtples Involved. ‘To the Eflitor of ‘The Evening World. if the “Constant Reader” of ‘The From Evening World Readers } What Kind of letter doyou find most readable? Ian’t it the one the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to ‘ake time to be brief. Principles Involved" would have an- swered “Orthodox,” who also con- demns birth control. He states that the Creator decreed, | and blessed that decree, that tite human race shou! increase and mul- tiply. Quite true. He also decreed the use of wine. But did He advocate People making rumhounds opt of themselves? Have India, China, Japan, Italy or any other overpopulated country any right to slop over their | population on other countries? “Orth- dox" is also surprised to find people | of intelligence and professed Chris- tianity among the advocates of this “pernicious doctrine.” I'm not, for do\ not the intelligent have to teach the ignorant? And do not the Chris- tlans teach the heathen? The people who went to the Town Hall to hear Mrs. Sanger went to listen to a lecture, and the stopping of that lecture by the police before it was started was a thoroughly dis- graceful and lawless affair, and if it was by “ecclesiastical authority,” or any other kind of authority, I think they overstepped their authority in interfering with the freedom of speech. It was a gross violition of the con- stitutional rights of the ‘people. Free speech and free assembly in a lawful manner are one of the constitutional fglvts of the people of America. That as the principle ‘nvolved, Mrs. Sanger was condemned before she was tried. She had no opportunity to disseminate unlawful information, if that was he intention. I'm for any kind of a control that «will control things from the way they have been going—eats and rents especially. J. B, FRANKS. Wwhyt ‘To the Kuitor of ‘The Evening World I have wondered when one “of our leading papers would realize the possi- bilities of William H. Anderson's booklet, “The Yonkers Plan for Pro- hibition Enforcement.” The pamphlet is full of material which shows the real intention of the <Ant!-Saloon League to perpetuate itself and keep everlastingly on the job in State and national legislative halls, It is being hailed by the “drys” as a great piece of propaganda for law enforcement. I wish you would explain why we need this kind of enforcement. BAYARD BARTEL. New York, Nov. 25, 1921. Te ‘e Crime, To the Ealitor of The Exening World Discussing crime, a prominent doc- tor in the State asked me if [ thought crime curable. 1 answered “yes,” but Evening World had read The Evening ,,, N crime is like disease, it can't be.cured i it takes time, but if prop- it is curable, for crime UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) THE UNIVERSITY ON YOUR DOORSTEP. Go to college if you can. Go even if you have to wark your own way. | Colleges are short cuts to education, r They teach you how to learn, which is all the differ- |$ ence there is between the educated and the uneducated. | If you ca..’t go to college, don’t worry about it. M }$ men who have never seen anything but the outside of a |} college up to fifty years old, go there to have degrees con- ferred on them after they are fifty. Many thousands of men become successful—some of them in the learned professions, without college training. They have to work harder for their education, but they get it. You can get almost anything in this world if you are willing to work harder for it than the other fellow is. If you haven't been to college, don't forget that there is a very excellent university on your doorstep every morn- ing. If it isn’t on your doorstep it is at the news stand around the corner, where a liberal education can be bought on the instalment plan at two or three cents a day. ‘This university is your daily newspaper. It contains a record pf the world’s history ing and often a great deal of the history of tl It is an authority on the biography of 1 their achievements. Never does an important man die, or become elected to an office, that your university does not inform you all abcut his life and accomplishments. If you read the ngwspapers carefully through the waz, you know now niore about it than history will ever teach You. For no history, however complete, could give as much information os the day after day reports in the newspapers, Whatever you are interested in, you will find in the columns that you run oyer on your way to work, Take that university home with you and study it, end you will soon become one of the really eduvated. You wil! talk intelligently and think intelligently. Lack of # college education is not nearly the handicap it was years ago. -'Then the newspapers amounted to little besides very brief collections of news despatches, To-day they are mines of information. If you want to be an educated man read them care- fully, and your education will be yours far sooner than you expect, in the mak- past. | ng men, and | gets hardened and gains a criminal education, The cure for crime starts right from the “cradle,” first the parents and then the school teacher. Aside from their studies, the parents and teacher should teach children to-obey law and order and accept the consequences if the law 1s violated. And if “moral” was substituted for “penal,” if the syst were made more ‘humane and more for an educational stead of the old graft 6: t doctored phy: nd ; Would décrease to such as to be hardly noticeable. crime would be as good as cured, 1 nd's Hope for Freedo: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: swim the English until they Weoausee all & nto the anew ee ee a minimum Then * J. F. Glen Gardner, N. J., Nov. 26, 1921, In complete disarmament is Ire- land's chance for freedom. When the English fleet is scrapped the men of the fighting counties need only to ‘across the intervening water and, with nature's weapons alone, Beat Tite ‘rroen \ ties of the original germ ¢ontinue to © ‘nection with Sunday. jtongue Blue Law Sunday In the Light of the Bible and History By Dr. S. E. St. Amant Gs Mil FitMoratee'wertas No. VIL—SUNDAY LAWS A PAGAN PRODUCT. ‘The original character of laws and institutions js not easily lost. History is @ process of evolution, whereby or- iginal germs, good or bad, are devel- oped. In the process of development modifications take place and methods of application change; but the proper- appear, Neither legislation nor the influence.of the church has been able to prevent the development of holi- dayism and its associate evils in ‘con- There was nothing new in the legis- lation by Constantine concerning the Sunday. It was as much a part of the pagan cultus as the similar legisla- tion concerning other days which had preceded it. Such legislation could not spring from apostolic Christianity. Every element of that Christianity forbade such interference by the state. The pagan character of thie first Sunday legislation is clearly shown, not only by the fac! ve stated, but by the nature and epirit of the law itself. Sunday is mentioned only by its pagan name, ‘venerable day of the sun.” Nothing is said of any relation to Christianity. No trace of the resurrection-festival idea ap- pears. No reference is made to the fourth commandinent or the Sabbath, or anything with it, The law was made for all the empire, It applied to every subject alike. ‘The fact that on the day following the publication of the edict concern- ing the Sunday, another was issued, ordering that the haruspices be con- sulted in case of public calamity, which was thoroughly pagan in every Particular, shows the attitude of the Emperor and the influences which controlled him. ‘ Five years after this date, in A. D, 326, Constantine, in jealous tyranny, had hfs eldest son, Crispus, murdered. He then caused the death of his wife, Fausta, the partner of twenty years of wedlock, the mother of his three surviving sons, by suffocating her im @ bath which had been heated to an insupportable degree of temperature. A long list of such deeds was closed only by his death. At his last illness he suspected poison and gave to the Bishop of Nicomedia his will, to be handed to his eldest living son when he should arrive at Constantinople. The Bishop, having read it and found its terrible import, put it into the dead Emperor's hand, from which Constantius took it. ‘The document stated his belief that he had been poisoned by his brothers and their children and instructed his sons to avenge his death. That be- quest was obeyed by the massacre of six of the surviving princes of the im- perial family. Two alone escaped. As neither .Christiavs nor pagans could tell to which religion Constan- tine belonged while he was alive and consequently both claimed him, s0, likewise, both claimed him after he was dead. This man was the author of the pagan institution called the Christian Sabbath, for the “protec- tion” of which free America is threatened with ecclesiastical tyranny at the hands of a few, who would nov only interpret God's law for th fellow men, but execute vengean. upon those whom they pronounce transgressors of that law. “Venge- ance is mine,” said the Lord,’ “I will repay.” All Sunday legislation is the product oY pagan Rome. The Saxon laws were the product of the middle age legislation of the “Holy Roman Em- pire.” The English laws are an ex- pansion of the Saxon and the Ameri~ can are a transcript of the English. Thus we see the successive links by which our Sunday laws have been developed from the original source. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 106.—ALBUM. sz Extremely curious is the origin of the word “Albi In the Latin “album” means the color white or any white object. Specific- ally, the word was applied to the tablets on which the Pontifex Maxi- mus or chief priest recorded the events of the year or the edicts of the Praetor were insoribed. In the middle ages the word was used to designate a register of ts, or soldiers, or even an ordinary letter or presumably because the words were written on a white background, In our spoken language the word means not only a bound volume con- taining or designed to contain the family photographs, but autographs, scraps of poetty and other memor- abilia. ‘The family album is still a cherish- ed possession, especially in country homes. Priel the Wise A rich widow is the only kind of second-hand goods that will sell at prime cost,—Franklin, The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troydlesome.—Goethe. The ~intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.—J, C, Hare. He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for-@ client.—J, Hunter, It is less pain to learn in’ youth than to be ignorant in old age.—Solon. The streams of small, pleas- ures fill the lake of happine: and the deepest wretchedness of life is continuance of petty) pains. ding. The fellow with little on his. mind usually has | con hig’