The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 20

K Pea 2 ‘ ay eee EETABLISWED BY JONRPH PULITARR PPudlimed Datiy Fag br The Prese Publishing JOBEPH PULITBER Jr. ‘seer @ Tress fe exciustvelr emitiea to the use for republication credited to oumerwise creuitea Im tan pape “wad also the local news pubitsaea herein AN ADROIT MOVE | PT" Interstate Commerce Commission has. ap | proved the railroad plan for a voluntary cul | | | in freight rates on farm produce for a six-month ‘trial period. Railroad managers are making a strenuous effort to tie this in with the wage*cases to be decided by | the Railroad Labor Board. It is an adroit move, likely to result in political pressure on the Labor Board from farmers who want lower rates when » the next crop moves. F There is a conneciion beiween the freight rate cut and a possible wage cut, but it is nothing like so close as ihe railroad executives would have us believe. | As The Evening World has repeatedly said, it is more than likely the railroad managers have at last come to see that freight rates have been too high to be productive. If a 10 per cent. reduction will start freight, it may result in an actual increase in net Profits trom the traffic. | The railroad managers glibly talk of assuming voluntary losses in revenue. Bux these statements will bear investigation by the I. C. C. and the Labor Board. It may be the cut will be followed by gains im traftic to offset the lower charges on individual shipmenis. Before the trial period ends the I. C. C. should wualyze traffic figures and give exact data for com- It may weil be questioned whether other classes of freight do not‘deserve culs as well as farm produce. But as a political move fo influence the Labor Board nothing would be so effective as a cut on the farmer's products. If every farmer could be induced to demand a wage cut, the Labor Board might have io fight for its life. The Evening World is inclined to believe further wage cuts may be necessary, but it is not blind to the efforis of ihe railway managers. The Railroad Labor Board ought not to be coerced in iis quasi- Neda function. Nea A ; ' ‘Unbappy Ireland! JS PERSECUTED INTO PROMINENCE. RS. SANGER and her friends who fayor the 4 dissemination of birth control information "would never admit it, but it is more than probable that they are by no means averse lo the course ihe “police followed at ihe Town Hall and since. Certainly the effort to muzzle the birth contro! Propagandists is about as stupid an attempt at ob- , struction as ever helped a minority movement. vid puzzle how any one can imagine that police , Star-chamber sessions, inquisitorial investiga- tions, false arrests, farcical prosecutions that bear all the earmarks of clumsy persecutions, dummy com- plaints and quick releases when the proceedings come into open court, will suppress the birth control $ - advocates. The stupidiiy of the Town Hall proceedings wa tad enough. The result of this interference was . that the meeting at the Park Theatre was so well advertised that curious andvinterested crowds were tutned away. Even this lesson was lost. Acting through the ¢humsy machinations of the police, the same oppos- Ing influence undertook fo revive the Inquisition. Fortunately for Mrs. Rublee, the Inquisition in these days has to work through the courts. Mrs, Rublee suffered only a slight inconvenience and. enjoyed an opportunity of setting people to thinking about the movement for which she is able to pose as a martyr The score (o date is all in favor of the birth con- trol advocates—not because of the excellence of \their case, but because of the sheer stupidity of the opposition. What will be the next move? The country is not likely to be disappointed by the present session of Congress. This is only because the country is not expecting much. THE PEOPLE'S CHORUS. © much is written and printed about the music New Yorkers listen to that it is a pleasure to be able to say something now and then about the music they make themselves. The first month of the new year will see the sixth birihday of the People’s Chorus of New York. This organization began in January, 1916, as the New Singing Society. Since then it has held from {wo to four meetings every week the year round, providing thousands of men and women in the city with a chance to sing and to learn how to sing, or how to sing better, from notes. During ihe war, when it was known as the People’s Liberty Chorus, this body.of from ong to tive thousand voices did walian} service in Liberty Loan, Red Cross and Sal- walion Army drives. Under the leadership of its founder and Conductor, |. Camilieri, the chorus won | ce ‘strong place for itself and last month sang in the Yat 4 drom for the reception of Marshal Foch, 2a Bos king 2 new step to provide for its tee 2 as the People’s Chorus of New York by giving a first special concert next Thursday evening al the Town Hall, with a pro- gramme in which it will have the aid of well known soloists. In this great musical community there oughi to he plenty of persons who will agree that “six years of uninterrupted missionary work” choral organization thal women who on the part of a mes all men and wish to learn to sing” entitles that organization {o generous patronage the first time it gives a concert tor ils own benelit. The People’s Chorus ot York deserves a hearty boost from the public at next Thursday's Town Hall concert. Nor in a city where there is so much money for music should this society's hopes for a permanent foundation go unheeded, ity New BE FAIR TO. FRANCE. i) Rik naire, Tardieu and their following have sought to persuade Paris to receive the returning Briand as the betrayer of his country will help Americans to betler understanding of thé Briand plea for French military needs before the Washington Conference. To have expected M. Briand to take even bigger risks of losing his political footing in Paris would obviously have been to expéct 100 much, Nevertheless, zeal with which P. when gauging public opinion in France, don’t think you've got it all from French politics or Paris newspapers. In the midst of the row that followed the Briand speech at the Arms Conference, The Evening World reminded its readers that there are few nations where politics bubble more independently of the underly- ing spirit and thought of the people, or where the press of the capital so readily falls under the in ince appeared in the December num- ber of the Atlantic Monthly an article by Sisley Huddleston on Franc®, her politicians and the Wash- ington Conference, in which Some of the peculiari- ties of French’ politics are admirably set forth. =xplaining how, “the restraining force of the French people keeps the wilder spirits in check,” Mr. Huddleston notes: “There is a curious separation of people and rulers; and the rulers do not always adequate- ly represent the sentiments: of the people. For my part, T do not know any country in which this division is more marked. “Nor, oddly enough, do the journals which are read by everybody reflect, in their politics, the spirit of the people; they reflect the par- ticular view of the Quai d'Orsay and of other Government offices, from which, by an elab- orate system, they receive the mot d’ordre. Less and less am I inclined to form my appre- ciation of public opinion from a reading of the French newspapers. Public opinion, in the sense in which the term is now employed, is merely the passing opinion of a passing Minister, transmitted through inspired jour- nalists, Many misconceptions about the French may be avoided if it is remembered how deliberate is the present method of doping the journals.” ven Mr. H. G. Wells begins to emphasize the distinction between French political groups and the French people, and to insist that between France and Great Britain there is no “outbreak of national an- tipathy or any horrible, irreconcilable thing of that sort.” In seeking to persuade France to a calmer, more confident view of the “danger of Germany” and to Strengthen French realization that a wrecked Ger- many ‘vould only put a heavier load on an already overburdened world, the people of the United States should be the first to try to understand France and io avoid misconceptions about the French, To begin with, more than 38,000,000 of them do not live in Paris. Would Henry Ford's proposed “energy cur- vency” be able to protect itself from bandits? Could it escape the grasping clutch of the profiteer? . TWICE OVERS. EN and women are what their mothers make them.” -Representative Alice Robertson. IMAGINE that Prohibition, when it comes to America, will make Christmas a rather dreary day.’ —Arthur J. Balfour. A, ee “ce HE railroad situation is more conducive to optimism than it has been for several months.” Ben W. Hooper of the Ruilroad Labor Board. oe ORROWI NGS growing out of the farm trans- actions, particularly in land, that were on a speculatice basis must be cleared up either now or in the near future.” —Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. * + 6 SOT CHE newspaper is essentially a thing a man wants when he wants it, and he wants the news when it is new Postmaster General Hays. Ss 66°THE agitator is not an undesirable citizen. He is the John the Baptist of social reform.” The Reo. Dr. Alexander Cairns. + ‘s ee HERE aare only two ring champions to-d. who aren't afraid to risk losing their titles.” —Tex Rickard, From Evening World Readers, What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the ene 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 te~ ~ | ‘ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. | Eventually. ‘To tne Editor of The Evening World Who is assembled in Washing!on? Diplomatists of the old school, more jor less imperialistic, cad their tools, | the militaristic Generals. Or, maybe: | militarism is the boss and diplomacy | the servant? Great optimism is ncces- | sary to expect results. The scrapping of obsolete ship types of doubtful possible for the others, 1 would also} uggest that there be no mail deliv- eries on Christmas Day—what has not been received on. the 24th could | walt until the 26th—not much to ask for our faithful Post Office friends. The article [ was sorry to read was the one ia’ which Mary Garden de- | clare her intention of dropping New | York trom her itinerary. after this season, I think it is a wholesome rwalry to have a second opera com: 9 vows pany in New York—surely this great value means nothing. Nowadays civ-|‘rcnleny city can support. two, opera ligation is progressing: to warfare| companies of the first rank. | Without bloodshed. The glorlous vic- Brooklyn, Dec. 1, 1921. EB. M. tory in the next war depends on acro- | Bilsan) Keanecaiit {planes and poison gas. jm the Editor of The Evening World: Parable: Once somewhere !t was! I have been reading some letters ‘n discovered that the use of brooms was |The Evening World in regard to pu- j rm-loaded dus¢ is licemen's working hours. Just think passerby has to athe the infecting air, Propaganda | Wnt primer keener Reaita RUy TUR made to abolish brooths and to| do the cleaning by other means. Eyen| Prison keopery assigned to Hart's the highest medical authorities in-| Island work six days, twelve hours a! dorsed that, At ast a conference wa-|day and are on reserve for five con- summoned for the abolishment of the | tinuous nights and get hardly a use of brooms, And who'was sent to| chance to see their wives or families, it? The manufacturers and dealers of| T think that Commissioner James A. |brooms! ‘The result: Talk and talk] Hamilton should look into this matter {and talk. And so they talked happily|and give these men fair play. jever after, | PRISON KEEPER'S WIF®. But the day will come that brings! New York, Dec. 1, 1921 ; & Foul League of Nations, not Iike| | now, an ussociation uf Police Protection. seaclub o-Prime aliniatete. Then the | To ibe alter o¢ Tas Rreciag Word’ United: Peoples of the World will get| Being a citizen of the United States rid of the present kind of leadership br |that.shywed sinco 1914 and before|4"4 the father of threo children, 1 nothing other than complete in-| Wish to inquire why it 1s that moth- capacity. They will create ag inter-|ers and sisters have to volunteer to national court for settlement of quar-|act as policewomen to safeguard the dits divisions. | have a Sul- rels with power be The U. P. of the W. w livan law for the aati school children because the milk com- panies are allowed the privilege of a police officer's aid on each wagon It is hardly fair that the school children have to be neglected in favor o! atrikebreakers. LL Astoria, Dee. 1 ighbor with hig explosive » and poison gas? Then do with thie “right.” the sooner the better ‘The individual Were Not a» Unit. ¢ Evening World Veter To the Editor of compelled to ac- | knowlegye a higher authority, the Your editorial commenting on the| tions will have to do it too in the in-| Preference Vote is both unfair and a| lerest of humanity and progress, | misrepresentation. | © Words like ‘superso tt Scare words lik: spergovernment You state that New York State tur- | ought not to frighten anybody. A SIMPLETON New York, Dee. 1, 1921, nished 49,892 soldiers, marines. Does it occur to you that possibly a few of these were killed | in action cr are at present in hos-| pitals or have moved out of the State? | Adding to this number, I can assure | The Evening World that wrong, were altogether too “disgusted to vote. ) my mind, it is extremely doubtful | ether there were 800,000 veterans | ho voted. sailors and | \ Double Holiday. ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World Your ed!tion of Tuesday, Noy | contained an article which pleased me very mucb and one that filled me with ldismay, Your sugge-tions for a real Christmas celebration ave fine. How | wish the people of our great city | could forget all petty ngs and self- | ish interests for that short time andj (J certain'y dispute your statement j really try to get into tic true spiriv| that each veteran could influence at of dhe holiday. What can poor, hum-| least one vote. In their immediate ble, private citizens do tu foster the| family, pevhaps, yes, but outside em | ? Might | suggest that it would] Phatically no, we a nice thing to get the day after| Admittediy many veterans voted Christmas as a holiday for every on. | against the measure ‘because they {who wants it? Let the closing down| sidered {t wile in itz scope. ‘The jor business be for two days iustead} point I wish ta make is that you say, lof one, Our overworked store and] in effect, ne soldiers ave not of- Post Office employees need that extra) ganized ud not Mm? ugreement on reat after the strain of the Christmas| legisiation You need not fear them rush Vet the -xtra day be the pub-' Go abead and let them go to the gift yor those who have so-mucn, devil.” tional to make Chuitmas 4 agree (cui the velehans are gota UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake = (Cofyright, 1921, by John Blake.) YOUR LABEL. First impressions are important. The world’s first iin- pression of you is made by your appearance. If your appearance is good-you are off to a read start. You are saved a lot of explanation. You do not need to be expensively dressed. But you must be well dressed. Your clothes.must-be whole and clean. They-ought to fit. “Don’t wear ties that look as if they had come off a sec- ond hand counter. Don’t wear collars with sawteeth in them. Don’t have shoes thal lack blacking. Keep the dandruff off your coat collar. All these things together will not serve to get you a position or promotion. But they may carry you further ‘along in the job line, and they may een some boss who doesn’t know you from firing you ‘because ‘he doesn’t like your looks and doesn’t want to take'the trouble to go any further. The second impression you, make is with your conversa- tion You will do well to keep it free from «muckerism. Avid low and vulgar slang. «If you have had no opportunity io learn to be grammutical buy a grammar. and make an >portunity. A knowledge of the rules of: grammar isn’t a liberal education by any means but it goes a long way with the people you meet. Don’t try to, be elaborate in, your conversation, or to use big words, or to interlard an ordinary man to man talk with classical quotations. In the mair. be serious. The sense of humor. of busineas men is limited. If you know them well enough you can afford to joke with them. But they are suspicions of the man who makes “funny cracks, Confine your jocosity,to your friends, who prob- ably. ppreciate it. Keep it out’of your business talk, and be very sparing of it with people you have just met. Some men regard all humorous people as clowns, and nohody has any respect for a clown. Observance of these things will not, of course, carty vou to the pinnacle of success. It is what you can do that counts in the long ran. But ‘nc matter what. you’ can’ do, the important thing at the ontset is to get a chance to do it. If you impress people badly you will never get that chance. So begin by making the ,best impression you possibly can, That ‘s your label. than you may = DHRRY YOU: SUBS" SUBD OER ON en eaerne The-world judges by labels more 8. bil, but your method of is distinctly unfair. Why unit on t showing {t, From the Wise not have used ‘the figures op the bonus? Were they united on that? Prudence and love are not 1 that In State de- paptlappen to knomeat tieuters ‘were| made for each other; as the love sent to individual emptosves, warning! “increases, prudence diminishes, them that # vote fo, Nu. 1 would cost them their jobs. Thix as one of the la Roche. dozens. of les scattered about th bill, Wouldst thou a maiden make thy However, you have consistently op- i posed the Veteran and have lots of prie, company uimong the rest of the New| Thyself alone the bribe must be, sYork papers. Permit me to,congraty late You on your consistcncy, at least ARTHUR D. MUDDELL. Brooklyn, Dec, 3. a x ~-Goethe. / The common ‘keeping. up .ap- In the Light of the Bible and History By Dr. S. B. St. Amant Savant, ie: oe Oy the Press Fruiaiee ce fork Brening World. | x CHURCH APPEALS TO STATE | Tm the second century the Christian jehurch had so far departed from the faith of the Gospel that they had adopted many heathen rites and cus- toms. At the same time there was developing in the church the theory that the church should administer the government as the direct instrument of God. By the beginning of the j fourth century this theory so strong- {ly prevailed in the church that ite leaders sought a way to put it im operation, and they firmly resolved lo muke ue of the siate to litt them= selves into power. ‘White these aspiring bishops were (thus entangl: themselves with worldly aff tead of caring for theif flocks Linperor Constantine, to ‘make sure of their supyort, pro- claimed himself favorable to Chris- tianity, and beginuing with the ediet | of Milan, issued in A. D, 313, estab- lished Christianity~-vr rather, the re- ligion which passed itseH off for Christianity—as the religion of the lempire. He was tavm rcady to gra! | them their requests. The ftamous—or ‘nfamous—pagam Sunday edict was soon issued form such that the Christian subsets ‘of the empire could construé it favorable to the churck gestival of Sunday But the Bishops, deeming |<his law inadequate, convened at | Carthage in A. D. 40t- und petitioned |the Emperor to wanster the public | shows from Sunday aud feast days |to some other days of | Their expressed reaso | “The people collect in [cus than at the churcn. | 1t was this competition that the = could not brook, hence the | appeal to the secular power, The bishops’ did not get at that time ali they asked, bus the matter was kept alive till the year 425, when exhi ions on Sunday were prohibited, “in order that the devotions of the faith- j ful might ‘be free from all disturb- | anc |. That was the trouble. Chureh members had not Christianity enough |to keep them away from the public [stone when they ought to have been at church, and because they would | not voluntarily do right while temp- {tations were in their path, the state was called upon to take away the | opportunity to do wrong, in order | that they might be Christians. This | 18 precisely the spirit of the present day reformers, as witness an utter- | ance by the Christian Statesman: “It Is the purpose of the law te make it as easy possible to do ‘yight, and as hard as possible to do wrong.” But read Matthew 16:24-26. This is the doctrine for Christians to in- culcate, and not that of dependence | upon the government or of freedom | from crosses and cross-bearing on {account of a lack of moral staimna |on the /part of the individual. And, says the historian Neander: “In Iisa way the church received help |from the state for the . furtherance jct her aims.” The natural outgrowth of all this was intolerance and perse- cution, developed to its intensest degree, Christianity had begun to | wear the garb of beathemsm, and the world soon witnessed a reign of superstition upon the ruins of Chris- tianity, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 109.—TURKEY, Contrary to the natural assumption, the bird that graces the Thanksgiving table was not named after the geo- graphical term, Turkey. The origin of the turkey on this side of thi tie —the West Indies—is aaa by its designation in sever: ‘Thus, the French word “dindo: ly suggests the “Indies.” the wid for turkey cock i “ludelmd ptuh” (Indian rooster). In Turkish, however, the designation of the bird is derived from the Turkish word for Egypt ("Mussur”). ‘An eminent student of language is authority for tho ‘theory that ouf word “turkey” originated from the Hebrew word “tiki,” a peacock, which 1s related to the Tamil word “tok, of the same meaning. - This explanation is ingentous, but we doubt if the Pilgrim Fathers delved into Hebrew and Tamil lore in search of a:suitable name for the de- lectable bird they found in America. —_——- VANISHED RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK ing On. THE MAN IN THE puaouT CANOE. Among the pages of iife inclosed im the galleries of the American Museum of Natural History ts the prow of @ dugout canoe that recalls the stone age on Manhattan Island. ‘Workmen digging « subway exca- vation at Cherry and Oliver Streets in July, 1908, found this relic—the only Indian canoe discovered on tnis island. Paleontology meant nothing to these workmen. ‘Mey drove their picks into the white pine and cuc the canoe into three picee: Eventually the find was vescued, presented to the museum by the New York Edison Company, and installed in the Indian section as a precious contribution to our reminders of the original settlers of Manhattan Island, ‘This canoe must have grounded at it H's the point whi vas found at a . \time, many ge, when the of the er—which Is no at all—ebbed and flowed be- yond the line of Cherry Street. The Indian who burned out this canoe from a solid iog “bout fourteen feet long may have teen the man who paddled it on last voyage. His mission may tave been one of barter, or of the huni, or of court. ship. All we know of him is that he was? in the rear guard of a vanishing epoch—and that he vanished with thy epoch, EE eee pearances” of society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with . the vain, —Ruskin,