The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1921, Page 38

RSTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Weitimet Dally Brent sondey py The Prem Poviishing Company. Now. 63 t6 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preatdent, 68 Park Row. * _ J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. YOSEPH PULATBER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. — MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. - issoctated Prev iw fnnuea to the are fer republication news deepatcnen eftdited to it or not otmerwise ereuiten in tas papay i Gxo (he local news published berein. | ADMINISTRATION-PROOF. HE Herald gives credit to “the Washington | c Administration” for the “wise monetary course” it has followed in reducing the Federal Re- serve rediscount rates which induced a recovery in | the market for Liberty bonds and Victory notes. The Herald is humorous After damning the Tax Bill passed by Congress and signed by the President last week, the Herald evidently wanted Something to praise, something that looked like “normalcy.” So it picked on the Liberty bond market and ihe rediscount rate as achievements of the normalcy Administration As a matter of fact, the Federal Reserve Board ~ {s almost as “Administration-proof” as the Supreme . Court. It is designedly so. When things were | booming it resisted the strongest political pressure aE ada teehee cna ee | to keep the rediscount rate low and so encourage + TRE speculation. ' Si If the Washington Administration had followed ae 4 monetary course half as wise as the Federal Re- serve Board we should be nearer to normalcy. Productive capital would. not be scutiling to tax- exempt cover and so booming the bond market. | ; | We gather from directors of the Interborough | that the more the public knows about theinnide =| finance of the company the more the company's imterests are jeopardized. It seems to have been a long standing theory. But these are some of its last, expiring moments. | A SICK GOOSE. | HE theatrical “crisis” the managers are asked to consider is doubtless real. There are any Mumber of causes for the situation. Railroad rates, salaries and other costs are seri- ous. Opposing organizations in the theatrical world have engendered hard feeling. The managers here in New; York have plenty of troubles and man- agers on the road are in even worse plight. Lét us have sympathy—but not too much ofeit. The managers are themselves to blame in large meastire. New York theatre patronage has been shrinking. Why? -Very considerably, we believe, because of Managerial collusion with ticket speculators. ‘ThOUSands of New Yorkers no longes attend the theatre Yor the reason that they canpot afford it, ‘They cannot bid against out-of-town spenders for Seats in the theatres. / The managers have played in with the specu- lators so long that they have grievously wounded the goose that lays the goiden eggs. New Yorkers have become so accustomed to hearing “We have no seats nearer than the seventeenth row for to-mor- row, next week or next month” that they have become actually suspicious of the quality of a show if good: seats for it are obtainable from the box This has made the New York goose sick. If the | theatrical men are seeking a tonic for the business they ‘must first try to cure the goose. One way would be to limit the activities of the speculators. | ‘The managers can do this if they will. They might | at least save alternate rows of seats and honor mail | order requests for good seats far in advance. ____Phey could put a check on open speculation in "Seats if they would. It is the first step in wooing back a New York patronage which, against its will, either goes to the movies or stays at home. continuing trend of population from farms to cities. She wishes every member of Congress would “lend a hand toward encouraging the am¥itfous youth of this day and age to stay on the farm or to go in for ranching, or to see the profits there are in fruit raising.” ‘ We supposed all that had been attended to H SP im the Inst year. ‘The Agricultural Bloc hae been in the saddle at Washington and if that were not enough Miss Booth has only to turn t i to the Republican platform and read: “The farmer is the backbone of the Nation. National greatness and economic independence | dethand © population distributed between tn- i ty dusty and the farm, and sharing on equal — | the prosperity which is wholly de- upon the efforts of both.” (AOL eae BA EER” GP INNER. 8 : a Lenglen’s low conception of sportsmanship. We do nof recall that Georges Carpentier made any reflection on Jack Dempsey’s war record when or after he was floored. He took his licking like ja sportsman and a French gentleman. Suzanne’s attitude is not a reflegtion on Prance. It is a reflection on Suzanne, . . . POOR TRIBUTE. ISCUSSING what he declares to be undeni- able—"“the power of the American impulse toward a world peace”’—H. G. Wells writes: “George Washington's advice to his -coun- trymen to avoid ‘entangling alliances’ has been interpreted too long as an injunction to avoid any alliances, entangling or disen- tangling. The habit of avoiding association in balance-of-power schemes and tle like has broadened out Into a general habit of non association, But alliances which are not aimed at a common enemy but only at ® com- mon end were not, I submit, within the in tention of George Washington.” How many Americans to-day have ever read Washington's warning against “entangling afli- ances” in the light of what he wrote to Monroe in August, 1796; ‘ “I have always given it opinion * * ¢ as my decided {Mat if this country could, consistentiy with its engagements, maintain a strict neutrality and thereby preserve peace, it was bound to do so by motives of policy, interest and every other consideration that ought to actuate a people situated as _ we are, already deeply in debt and in a con- valescent state from the struggle we have been engaged in ourselves.” . Or in the light of what Washington had written to Gouverneur Morris the previous December: “My policy has been, and will continue to be while I have the honor to remain in the Administration, to maintain friendly terms with but to be independent of all the nations of the earth; to share in the broils of none; to fulfil our own engagements; to ,supply the wants and be the carriers for them all; being thoroughly convinced that it is our pol- ley and interest to do so. Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essen- Ual to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, éf this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance in g just cause to any power whatever; such in that time would be its population, wealth and resources.” The italics are ours, Do not these words show that Washington him- self viewed his foreign policy as one fitted to the special needs of a new-born, debt-burdened nation of less than 4,000,000 people, with a tough eco- nomic struggle ahead and no prospect of cutting any figure in world politics for decades to come? Americans of to-day who are forever parading the Washington dicta against “entangling alliances” take care not to quote the above passages. Nor do they do the mind of George Washing: ton the justice of admitting that after a hundred and thirty years’ development of wealth, popula- tion, resource, trade, communication, international interdependence and co-operation he would be the first to set forth a new view of what is “entangling” and what is not. ‘ Washington was no visionary. But they pay him poor tribute who pretend he had no vision—that he meant his foreign policy for an Eighteenth Century America to hold his country forever rigid, insensible to change or progress. “The ‘Transit Commission,” says Mayor Hylan, “ought to turn over its evidence concerning the Interborough to the District Attorney,” Is it possible the Mayor sees usefulness in the thing he has denounced as the “tool of the trac- tion interests’? Lloyd George's new Irish proposal would have Ulster try the United treland plan for six months and break away if it doesn't work, Cdn Vister turn that down? if TWICE OVERS. HAVE repeatedly signed waivers of immunity before legislative committees, so, speaking as one NONI te it ac A ta \apartments to families with a baby In of the In ough fade son Yank esi your paper to-da | fused an apartm day on account of having a baby, I | wish to state that a y was passed in Naw York prohibiting landlords fron. refusing to rent apart- ments providing fine and punishment for the offense. L, can bring all the babies he wants. It is Jdren that ever was. New York City 100 per cent. | bes six months’ babs pounds. Jackson Heights, From Evening World Readers, What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the ore that fives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of « faction in trying te «ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. | His wife, a janitr is taking the bread and butter from some poor fam- ily that needs it. If some cemmit- tee was organized such cases there would be fewer peo- ple in need in this great city teferring to letter in , Stating he was re- t only the other A TAXPAYER. rmament. ago a law At last, at lo The golden bells are ringing. Peace on earth, good will to man, to with children and imprisonment as pople ‘and buy his apartment. Then he} The understanding hearts and mas ter minds Will from now on relgn. It beats living in/Ring out ye bells, ye golden I have| The world's jubilee has begun; en out here seven weeks and. my | Peace on earth, good will to man, has gained over five| By a billion volces sung. MRS. 8 one of the healthiest places for chil- | Glen Morris, L. 1 . “a Be the Editor of The Maybe more than one person besides | 1 have bells, 1 | | | there would be plenty of work for all. | read your article “Women myself enjoyed a laugh from the letter | Traffic Cops.” May I ask you to say written by J. Saturday, Nov la am very sorry, | to di Yo that 1 can raise a fund | to buy toys to make Its Christmas enjoyable. L. by what “statutory” authority these 2,200 uniformed, Sam and printed on 26. He writes about ndlords and dogs, and ends his let- form, may make an ar the Sheriff can call on any citizen ald him; but I do notskno when comes tlie authority of plice Ri serves, male or female will enlighten me, | do not operate w to place landlords who refuse Where does he want to place landlords? He does not say. 1 Mr. or Mrs. J. Le Io read that you have a baby in jail, arge enough rattles and ba Police P To the FAltog of ‘Th Well, J. L. 1s, 1 too have a baby, but} | yo and How ning World: your y a fe Brown-belted | females have been turned loose on) st and that for one certainly do agree with thank the Lord he is at home and not to look into all | and | the day has dawned; | ar Be ae annot get an apart- The nations now are singing. ment where he is, let him come out to! “he roaring of the gun has ceased, | Jackson Heights, near Elmhurst, 1 ev aniinalevatae Bitin ter: “My wife and I were refused an|the streets offour city? I am per- apartment the other day because we|fectly aware that under certain cir-| have @ baby. vet the samo apart-| cumstances any citizen, mate or| | ment was rented to a woman with) a § earn jtwo dogs. Isn't it time there was a| female, even without being In Perhaps you | t fe happy when your baby]an auto, but If 1 did | wonder what | the Bald Pe heey her crime and t%| Magistrate would jnsue a warrant for| scharged and returned to you, If} my arrest if I disobeyed a suramons ou can print the name of the fail] issued by one of these females. {your baby Is confined in I am sure} Nov. 28, 1921 IGNORANT. UNCOMMON SENSE » By John Blake’ (Copyrient, by John Blake) = * THE EASIEST WAY. It is possible to slide along through life with a minimum of effort, People are easily imposed on. The cleyer liar often makes his boss think that he is a pattern of industry when really he 1s a loafer. In your own acquaintance are men who steal the credit for what others do, and who pass to other shoulders the blame for their’ mistakes. They get vlong. Some of them get along well. they are cheats and thieves just the same. Worst of ali, they cheat themselves. For by continually avoiding the work that they ought to do they lose the pleas- » in achieverrent that is the real pleasure of life. There, is a magazine which publishes every month brief biographies of the men who have done notable things in America, e 4 These mer tell honestly and as well as they are able to how they got where they are. Without.exception they testify that they have not only not avoided hard work but have gone out of their way to find it. : They have taken cheerfully the tasks that lazier men have unloaded upon their shoulders. And in doing that work, in carrying what other men would call an overload, they have found the development that has enabled them later on to do big things. You can, if you chose, live with very little exertion. ‘Tramps do it continuously. So do many men who are content to play very small parts in the world’s affairs, But if you have any ambition to be counted as a real producer the easiesc way is not for you. ot even great talent will enable you to get along by loafing. For talent to be developed requires continuous and unremitting effort. Dodge hard work, seek by conversation to make up for industry, claim credit for things that others have done, and if you are gifted as a rascal you may get along. But you will gettalong only for a limited time. Ard you will be extremely lucky if you do not end your days as a etched y 1 1921, But et Sg Bible and History By Dr. S. E. St. Amant | cori Ws Pao aa | NO. IX.—PURITAN INTOLERANCE + -TNe history of the seventeenth cen- tury in our country has always pre- sented a frightful picturé in which three ‘things are always pigminent— a hangman, a gallows and a victim. | When the Puritans came to Amer- icd to escape persecution, they were imbued with this idea of seventeenth century intolerance. God-fearing men And women, théy loved liberty and sacrificed for it; but their pure ry was to establish a theocracy. The civil and religious liberty they sought was liberty for themselves and for.others of iike faith and practice only. No sooner had they set up a Government of their own than they began to persecute thése who differed from them in religion. When questioned about this they, justified themgelves by saying that the Church’ of England had no right to persecute them, ause the Church of England was wrong in its theology and they were right. “It if proper,” they argued, “for us to persecute the Baptists and Quakers, for we are right and they are wrong.” They®overlooked the great fact t in a religious controversy the pers cutor is always wrong. ‘These things continued for some time after tae close of the Revolution. , It is remarkable that men who had fought for freedom still endured such an amount of religious intolerance. In Massachusetts the tithing man ar- rested breakers of the Sunday law and shut them up in thé town cage. He stopped all “unnecessary” travel- ing on Sunday, and haled men and women off to church whether they wanted to go or not, | The men in Boston strove hard to escape these barbarous rules and in- fringements on personal liberty, but the people of the rural districts out- voted them. They were taxed to support the State religion. The most that could be accomplished was that the dissenters could escape the church rate by supporting a chure of their own. reminds ene of some of the modern Sunday laws, with their exemption clauses for those who religiously ob- serve another day of the week aa the Sabbath. -If that was religious intolerance, so is tuis. If that was “ chureh-and-state union, so is thiw. But as the Puritans challenged the right of the British Crown to domi- nate their religious faith and prac- tice, so in due time others challenged their right of domination in matters of conscience. ‘The rignt to wors! according to its forms was claimed by adherents of the Church of England, vhile Quakers and Baptists held in like manner to their simple faith, sacrificing even to the laying down of fe therefor. This won for then the liberty which had long been de- nied them. Fleeing from the heat of | Puritan intolerance to the cold of a New England winter, Roger Wi!- liams found among untutored s the pathless forests that {reedom of worship which had been ented him in Puritan Massachusetts, Williams, in founding Rhode Island made freedom of conscience one of its chief cornerstones. The Lord Proprietary of Maryland, himself a Roman Catholic, in order to make se- jcyre for himself and ‘its co-religion= ists freedom of worship, made the rules of his colony so broad and lib- eral that both Quakers and Baptiste found refuge there from the intoler- jance alike of Puritanism in Massa- husetts and of Episcopacy in Vire | ginia. But the Pilgrims builded be:tor than they knew. We honor them, jot so much for the narrow theocracy |they designed as for the broad democracy, the foundations of which they actually laid. | | WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD? | 108.—CHESTNUT, Strange as it may seem, the word “chestnut” originated in the name of a town. The town was Kastana, in Pontus, Asia Mfnor, where the mud grew in great profusion. From Pontus the nut, under the name of the place where it had at- tained prominence, travelled west- | ward by way of Greece, and its geo- graphical designation spread all over Burope as the name of the nut, | Thus, in Russian, the word for {chestnut is kashtan, in Bulgarian kes- ten, in Italian castagna, in French chataigne, and forth. One of the theories to explain the use of the word “chestnut” as a pro- test against a stale witticism is that the usage is derived from the simi- jlarity between the staleness of the jchestnuts exposed for sale by street |venders and the boresome quality of an oft-repeated tale. 6c ’ : 93 That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick [cme ate a aie | | In the Ladies’ Dictionary, 1594, it is stated that “a plumper ts a fine, thin, light ball which old ladies that have lost their side teeth hold in theie |mouths to plump out their cheeks, This latter provision’ es Uist vee : fe dependent on the grudging charity of-your rela. 3|WNich else Would hang like leathers of the Commissioners, I am not asking you to |i Jad Policeman's Wif It is a great Ne ar ie ene grudging ) Y rela | bags. | * bederit + Hoping you will soon have a_re-| shame for the city to treat these men f Stat 28 Viton 5 | do anything that I would not have done myself.” ‘union, [ will close Hoh cas | ne ee, the Roman, upon whom A FOOLISH CHARGE. | Transit Commissioner Harkness to August Belmont, Bropklyn) Noy, 96.109 At the vie ot houre they are works . >| Re wor d Senenay eS ALEC A ancient * ZANN RGN Ih eousidari * * * ‘ ing thetr salaries do not amount to ; | 7 “History when he was . ds BAB. SUZANNE LENGLEN Is considering ir Wes do'tha tebitar ah the. Bromine Ween 1420 per week of fair hours, out of | COMPany, for protecting the strike-| twenty-four hours work on a milk old ne was Gey years action. for libel against some of the Ameri- CANNOT understand the lassitude, the indif- "Would it not be possible for the| which they have.to feed themselves, | Dreexers?. No, only abuse, wagon, his new overcoat, for Tern I think a month has enough for eithe been long strikers or the milk “ean critics, of her sporlsmanship, according to a Serence, which has surrounded many of the crip- | buy uniforms, guns, ammunition, &c., f Barbados (the only * The Island « play of “The Old Homestead” to be re- he had to’pay the police jailors $85, |, ats , ace George Washington visit A ; d like all human beings when rus| © ‘ was full of rust St 7 +4) y gton visited out ‘, . oT egy . i ” vived? Let also hav minstrel | &9d b oe company to think of the other fellow, ik and stained with|side of the United States) i Special cable to the Times. The French tennis 4 ples in America andl at toe late.” Dr. Lorenz. Siveet oe. en ua aaeine cates own and betome Ill, they have to! whois duty Mound to stand pat at/ mille Now, who is going to pay for | "atte Emeisnas by its. white ine = champion also charges that American criticisms of | ee ! und are Breatly minsed by many peo hy Not be reasonable and treat | °“n veha 7, Pye" tetter one wouta| Next year when he goss toe rae ne, | habitants: who are of Kngiiah birth, | | het conduct in this country were “actuated by pro- | HEN matters of common interest arrive ree | y ovER OF THE OLD PLAYS. IDAAS mieb like Othes HAAR IANO? think Ip mas a nolloeman's duty ‘srepection he will be obliged to pi Isle de Dabney is a sailor's name ” q | } - ec, 1, 1921 bi DEB: 240! . be on mlk wagons, &c, Far it} one, My trouble is,/for the *island oe 4 _ Bodhe, sentiments. yi ferent ih. - ee ips Mont concerned, | Néw Yorks Deo. 2: t eee from such. Give them back their ten-| Where is the $65 coming trom? lever since the SHGt ane és oe the parents, are the least heard from.” Married Women as Workers, ‘squad @ystem. That's all they ask, he public only knew what littie| American Const ere hast Bringing pro-German charges in a matter of S s from." —Robert E, | ., Mecee, tye wrenine World T) the Editor of The Evening World: and let the public remember they are police protection they have at the /named Dabney mos ih the ence” u ismanship is silly. t is probabil si simon, | f all the good sensible letters i] Thank goodness, .some one took human beings and not sla present time things would be differ-/ology of an uid tar who id 4 > Sportsmanship Probably designed ‘era be A*POLICEMAN'S WIFE. «| ent, as when my husband is on petrol |shekus ex bet’ WhO probabiy AP more fo enlist French support than to alter the ie Jever, had the pleasure of reading in| enough time to write a few lines 16 LICE Deen ate Naa intent Cea eae ’ ated. | 4 oa WORM Judgment. If Si - i | HE mother who smokes before her children ni Meer the one Dy YA Bookkes .| garding a policeman’s hours. A mninad uarsaat, blocks sometimes. No wonder the| “Lose the Horge or Win the Sad a | _ Ame! rica gr . Suzanne can make it ap- need not expect to hate the slightest trol jot.the 36th was the most sensible ‘The public is always ready to knock 1, the Rattor of The Evening World; people say you can never find a po-| dle,” meaning “everything or nothing,” bey pear that she is the victim of a German conspiracy i fT contr Why sliould married women hold] & Peliceman, but no one ever s I am also the wife of a patrolman | !!ceman i 8 a saying derived from the ancient 2 ill be Wap that e over them.” Dr. John D. Quackenbos. Jobe when Twindreds of men with| the good he doce. Before election | 10 esany works sixteen houre | flit expenses for a day, ‘neluding | story of aman who made the bet of io: p Tana n ‘ Waiene ‘ane | different pavers spoke their minds and my husband work: extra " f ar 5. |a i chien, 66 VOU gel doun ef thot wasen and come with | haven “lend wh nthe] Why don't they, aneak up 9 ure reserve, which means twenty. |tione that demand this protection be lout a wandering thought. ihe wager * isi ainal uestion | ' A heisea distric © fd ref write a an Hes i n to for this? If such as a , but before half finish - Ba mere reeig 4 we a question ey me.” Lieut. Eoa Mitchell, rescrve police. | cine ated use J prasen rita tie-faticonaie (oka ner une 8: ently Lam) the ease we wovidn't havi rien Berson trying to aia feed - ongest sort of confirmation of Mile ne a barber shop in une of 008 th policemen’ alone ¥ Y strike ROLMA} woman, lo a deliveryman, i c nildren beendrhanete Haeemiah fhe best paying districts of the city, are webbing Gaede (70K bem ills fhe other piight Be qnme heme'aties’ ye, do you New York, Nov. 25, 192 jmean the saddle also?” <—hds