The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1921, Page 26

INTO THE LIGHT AGAIN. IGHT is the mother of counsels.” ‘Never was the proverb better proved in British and Sinn Fein representatives brought sment out of what seemed the hopeless differ- bes of yesterday. { "The new terms are not, ‘at this writing, officially known. They are understood to provide for | All-rish Parliament from which Ulster can with- Faw only after one month’s trial, and to prescribe i allegiance formula which the Sinn Fein leaders lave agreed to accept. ‘The agreement must still have the approval and of the British Parliament and the Dail | Phere is ttle likelihood, however, that either ly will refuse to ratify. Nor does it seem prob- that Ulster will hold out against an arrange- the details of which must have been already Giscussed with Sir James Craig. | From black chaos the Irish negotiaiions have Bmerged overnight into the brightest light of hope. There is every chance that this will yet prove best Clyistmas in 600 years for Ireland. A FAIR TEST. WZ) EPRESENTATIVE HILL, Republican, of SEN Maryland has introduced a bill to liberalize (the Volstead interpretation of the Eighteenth z d endment. ‘ ‘This bill would provide for local option by Con- sional districts on the subject of permitting the ture and sale of light wines and beers for insumption in homés, hotels and clubs. Tt would perhaps be overoptimistic to imagine it this bill will pass in the present session, The fluence of the Anti-Saloon League is powerful in th House and Senate. And the A. S. L. will ck the whip. “If the bill can be brought to a vote, it will help. roll call will identify the men opposed to such ‘Taw. In the next election the line can be drawn, who favor a reasonable and truthful inter- lation of the Eighteenth Amendment could pick their candidates and fight the Anti-Saloon League {| P=With its own non-partisan weapon. A vote for the Hill bill would not be a vote for saloon. It would ‘be a vote against the boot- / legger. This bill, or a similar measure, would m the basis for a fair test of public sentiment the policy of Prohibition as it exists to-day. “It’s about time,” some one in the House ‘ealled out when the Clerk read the announce: _ Mhent ending with “the Senate is ready to do business.” And the House did some entirely i itary cheering. For the moment at _ Weast it was the House (as its name {mplies) Of Represtntatives. ‘ _ PRINTING-PRESS MONEY. LUMP after slump in certain varieties of foreign When will the decline in the selling price of the “mark, Ahe-ruble and the crown come to an end? » So long ‘as Governments pour new volumes of on the market the slump will continue. a: time must come when the printing presses be stopped. The presses will stop when the value of the out- put of the presses ceases to be as great as the cost printing. That time seems to be approaching. Already it is doubtful whether the Governments id make ends meet except on bills of large de- ination. Paper, ink and labor must be paid 4 What will come then is a matter of conjecture. 4s not impossible that European Governments be driven to the adoption of some new and nd money system—Frank Vanderlip’s scheme, example—and the old money will go out of culation because of its worthlessness. ikruptcy or whether some formal act of repudi- fon will be required will be for the experts to mit ; “BABE’S” PUNISHMENT, COMMISSIONER LANDIS evidently intends to vindicate the absolutism of his authority organized baseball. = punishments he has imposed on Ruth, land Piercy are severe. But, as the Com- er explains, these players “wilfully and de- broke rules and defied the Commissioner. ty were warned and they knew they were a chance. They have no reason to com- of the verdict. If there is to be discipline in fall, it must be such as to command respect of the home-run hitter is the real pun- ‘Bot the fix as it is. This year by this moming whose early conference be- the standpoint of the fans, the spring the Babe was batting against himself all season. The fans were watching his successful effort to beat his 1921 record, Next year the suspension will put him under a heavy handicap and will introduce a new element of “if” in his batting record. His 1922 record will be comparable with the figures for 1921 only by adding runs, substracting dates, or making pro- portional allowances. The three players broke the rules. For this the punishment is fair enough. But the rule is ‘ad- mittedly a bad‘rule and works injustice. If the winter meeting of the leagues results in a change of the rule, will it nat be in order for Judge Landis to temper his decision and rescind the spring suspensions? FOUR EXHIBITS. L FR the Consolidated Laws of New York (Birdseye, Cumming and Gilbert), Vol. IIL, second edition, page 3001, Article I1..A, section 20, Paragraph 21: Powers of Cities—Grant of Specific Powers: 21. To investigate and inquire into all mat- ters of concern to the city or its inhabitants and to require and enforce by subpoena the attendance of witnesses at such “investigation. i. From Article 64, section 664, of the New York Penal law (Parker): A director of @ stock corporation who con- curs in any vote.or act of the directors of such corporation, or any of them, by which it is intended: 1, To make a dividend, except from the sur- plus profits arising from the business of the corporation, and in the cases and manner allowed by law ° * * Is guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 667: * * © A director of a cor- poration or: joint-stock association Is deemed to have such knowledge of the affairs of the corporation or association as to enable him to determine whether any act, proceeding or omission of its directors is a violation of this article * © © Ill. From the official report prepared undér the di- rection of Corporation Counsel William P. Burr on the investigation which he conducted in 1920 for the Board of Sstimate and Apportionment “into the construction, equipment, operation and investment” of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company: ‘ The company, on the basis of obviously fictitious assets Carried in its accounts, has paid a large proportion of the total dividends of $65,625,000 out of capital. It is clearly carrying at least $50,000,000 of various items in its books as assets which’ are not assets at all, and either should never have been entered on the books or should have been made good long ago out of income. The company, how- ever, has kept them as assets of full value and has reported its net income accordingly and paid out every possible dollar in dividends. Under sound management these items would have been written off, and then much smaller amounts would have been available as divi- dends. There never was justification for an annual dividend payment of 20 per cent. ° Iv. Mayor Hylan’s assertion two days ago that in “4920, when the Corporation Counsel was ¢liciting for the Board of Estimate the foregoing facts con- cerning Interborough finance: ‘ “We had no right of subpoena, nor did we have the right to examine the Interborough's books to look for possible criminal miscon- duct on the part of its directors.” — Appraising the Fourth of these exhibits in the light of the others+-particularly of the First and Third—what is the verdict as to the consistency and straightforwardness of statements now ema- nating from the City Hall? Misplaced confidence in a youthful messenger results in @ loss'of $70,000 of securities in Wall Street. The reckless abandon with which great sums are scattered about makes one wonder why any one works for a living when it is pos- sible to get @ job as a broker's runner, A SURPRISE TO ITSELF. Cree summaries show that New York City Produces one-twelfth of the manufactured products of the entire Nation. The figures are astounding even to New York- ers—perhaps more astounding to New Yorkers than to others. The Nation is accustomed to New York as the financial centre of the country. It also knows New York as the great trading and commercial mart. But we have associated manufacturing more with Pittsburgh, Birmingham, the textile and shoe towns of New England and other places where manufac- turing is the principal business and trade and finance play a minor part. It is only by imagining a composite of financ- ing, merchandising and manufacturing activities in New York that we can get the real picture of the city in its relation to the Nation and to the world. To a Powdered Probosels, Young woman Sitting beside me In the dim subway, ' THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1921. _ After Seven Months ! cen SOR BY oy By John Cassel «ay much in few words Other Probiems Pressing. To the Editor of The Erening World: lt is encouraging that only a con- structive note has been heard with respect to the.Charter Revision Com- mission, it looks as if the city really wants to do some building and at least begin this Charter study without partisan suspicions. Your recent editorial on the need for continuing citizen attention to the pressing problems which will c up during the next years prompts me to ask if your audience would not like to be reminded (1) that there will be a temptation to centre public interest in the new sensation, Charter Revision Commission; (2) that there are other enormous problems needing attention these next four years, many of them not at all de: pendent upon charter revision and not safely to be neglected until Charter revision is being considered; (3) that the Charter Revision Commission will probably not report until midsum- mer, even if then; (4) while doing their utmost to further Charter re- vision, citizens would profitably at the same time expect despatch and competence In dealing with other ig problems, WILLIAM H. ALLE Secretary of Committee on Non- Partisan Facts. New York, Dec. 1, 1921. ‘The Metric Bill. To the Editor of The Evening World: With the same indifference that is usually displayed when any matter smacks of the political, the people of this city are partly if not en- tirely undemonstrative ep a bill backing Congress in now before themselves but would go a long way to securing a universal understand- ing. I refer to the Hritton-La. “A bill to fix the metric system of weights and measuves as the single standard of weights and measures for in uses.’ ‘ arings have peen heid before the sub-committee of the Crmmittee on Manufactures, United States Senate. Men prominent in che scientifle, man- ufacturing and official world gave tes- timony before the committee on be- half of the bill. The eems to be no practical opposition to the bill or to the movement, as all agreo our old impossible em of welghts and measures uld be superseded by the metric weights and measures, Quoting from a booklet issued by the American Metric Association, 186 Fifth Avenue, New York “Metric Welghts and Measures find the following to comprise the en- tire group of tables that need b> studied to give one a complete knowl- edge of the entire systum: Length—10 millimetres equal 1 cen- timetre; 100 centimaires equal 1 metre; 1,000 metres equal 1 kifometre, Capacity—1,000 millilitres equal 1 re, Weight—1,000 milligrams equal 1 ; 1,000 grams equal 1 kilogram; Lt metric of time to the ling, a distinct savin that would not only be of benciit to} From Evei.ing. World Readers | What kind of Jetter doyou find most readable? Isn’tit theone « that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine menta/ exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying te Take time to be briet. , {Would gladly like to meet H. H. R. jfand consider It a8 @ personal affair. crease our foreign trade. The ce- operation of the general public, you and all concerned is needed to ald in the passage of this ivgislation, Get behind the movements get behing the association forwarding the move- ment and bearing the brunt of the pioneer work, and push. FREDERIC L. ROBERTS. New York, Nov. 40, 1921. An Interest Holiday. To the Ldltor of The Evening World: + Why not have an “Interest Holl- day?” { mean thet we dismiss the interest obligations of the foreign Govern- ments who oWe us money for the next ten years, At the expiration of that time they can resume the paying of interest and gradual reduction of their debts. I ask, am I out of order? New York, Dec. 2. J. J, KENNEDY. We'll Ex- Send Us the BI pe! To the Editor of The venss = To settle an argument, kindly let me know through The Evening World jorid: how long it would take to count a billion dollars. EB. RG. A Is Right. Tp the Editor of The Evening World: A says that capital punishment in France is by the guilloting B claims it has been abolished, Which is correct? M, 8. New York, Dec. 1, 1921, A Holiday by Proclamation, by Law. To the Editor of The Evening World: Would you kindly dnform ime through — your readers’ column whether Armistice Day, Nov. 1, 1921, was a national legal holiday? J. A. MURPHY. The “Baby tn Jail.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In reference to “it, H, R's” slur on baby subject, would say if this person were not 80 ignorant, he or she would readily see tnat the para- graph referred to, is punctuated with @ comma after the word “baby.” And if this ignoramus could read and think Intelligently there would be nothing to laugh about at all, The plight of people barred from ‘aparz- ment houses because of children in the family is serious jndeed. 1 have no baby of my own, but Not W. H. B. Bay Ridge, Dec. 3, 1921. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1021, by Joba Blake.) BE READY. You can only guess what will happen to-morzow. Knowledge of yesterday and of the past may make your guess more accurate. But it will only be a guess at best. The most careful plans for the future are often upset by unforeseen circumstances. Yet it would be foolish to stop making plans for thal reason. Earthquakes, fires, sudden death—all come unex- pectedly. Yet for all these—even sudden death—the’ wise man is in some measure prepared. A very prospercus man was speaking recently to men who were younger and not so prosperous. Said one of these: “T have nct the money-making faculty. I shall have to content myself for life with a moderate income. I shall never be rich.” “That,” said the prosperous man, “is something that you know absolutely nothing about. At forty I never expected to have anything but the small salary 1 was earning. Ul health compelled me to part with that. I went West, rented a little farm and discovered that here was work that I enjoyed. “The iittle farm prospered. I bought others and de- veloped them. Now I am rich. It took me twenty years of hard work to do this, but it was worth the doing. “I could not have done it,’ however, if I had not been prepared for it. I had been brought up on a farm, I liked farming. But in the New England State where I lived farm- ing was a difficult business. This farm happened to be in a rich prairie State and it paid. “But it was the fact that I brought something to the new business that made me prosper.” It is what we all of us bring to anything that we under- take that makes us prosper or fail. We cannot predict what may happen to-morrow. But those who have devoted their yesterdays to the development of their faculties are able to turn opportunities to their ad- vantage. It is the good golfer that has lucky accidents and makes holes in one or two strokes. The bungler who shoots wide of the mark never has that kind of luck. . It is the man who is prepared for accidents who is able to avoid their most serious consequences. It is the sailor who knows how to get sail down in a hurry who rides out the sudden storm. If you bring all you have to the future you can better avoid its difficulties, better profit by its favor. You don’t know what is going to happen. But the better equipped you are the less likely is to-morrow to bring you to disaster. Foreign-Born Builders aot America By Svetozar Tonjoroff 1021. oy te a New Vork Brenite Publidune World). X.—PULASKI. Kazimierz (Casimir) Pulaski's life, like that of many another hero of the Revolution, was divided into a EBu- an und an American phase, Of e European experiences of this Polisa contribution to the builders of merica it is enough to mention the {fact tHat in 1773, after the partition of Poland by Prussia and Austria, Pulaski's estates were confiscated. Continental forces succeeded in mak- ling bis escape to Turkey, and thence made his way to Paris. Here he be- came acquainted with the great civ- ilian recruiting officer in the interest of the revolutionary cause—Benjamin .| Franklin, After ~several interviews with the man who was crystallizing European opinion everywhere in favor of the cause of the colonists, Pulaski cast his lot and his sword with the Con- tinental Army, came to America in March, 1777, and was attached almost immediately to Gen, Washington's staff. | His first experience under fire in the country of bis adoption was in the Battle of the Brandywine. Seeing the Continental levies yielding to the pressure of the enemy, the leader who had turned Russian battalions to rout across the Vistula, made a reconnaissance with Wushington’s bodyguard, found the enemy trying tw cut off the line of retreat—and per- formed a feat that justified Gen (Washington's confidence in him, He collected some stragglers, rallied them and made a diversion in the face of the enemy that greatly aided the successful retreat of the Conti- nental Army. Four days after this exploit he.was promoted by Congress, at Washing- ton's request, to the rank of Briga- dier General! In command of the cavalry, he saved the army fromea surprise movement at Warren Tav- ern. Then he took conspicuous part in the Battle of Germantown, and in \the winter of 1777-78 he ably supported Anthony Wayne in the crushing de- feat of a British division at Hodders- field in New Jersey. But his officers, chafing under dis- mander who could hardly speak the English language, 60 incensed him that he resigned his command and re- ported to his Commander in Chief at Valley Forge. With the sanction of Washington he devised the scheme of organizing @ corps of lancers and light infantry |out of flotsam and jetsam, including even deserters and prisoners of war. This body, recruited chiefly in Balti- more, developed into the famous Pu- laski's Legion. Pulaski's brilliant services durirg the siege of Savannah are a part of the record of the War for Indepen- dence. In the assault of Oct. 4 he «m- {| manded all the cavalry, including the French contingent, | Wounded in the thigh, he was taken |to the U. 8. brig Wasp, but died as |the vessel was working its way out {of the harbor and was buried at sea. His memory is perpetuated by a |brass band named for him at Web- | ster, Mass.. and by a monument erected by the people of Savannah. Congress also voted a memorial to him. But that action was destined to remain indefinitely hypothetical. + ssaniacineel ALA aids Ten-Minute Studies || of New York City __ Government Copyright (New York Evening World) by Prem » 1031, By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the ninety-cighth article of @ series defining the duties uf the ai- ministrative and legislative officers and ‘ooards of the New York City Govern- ment, THE JUDICIARY. Children’s Courts, There is e Children’s Court in each borough of the city. It is presided over by a “Justice of the Children’s Court” designated by the Mayor from the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions for a term of five years, ‘This court has exclusive Jurisdiction over all cages of children under six- teen years of age, except those of ‘murder in the first degree, ‘Children criminals but as those in need of the State's protection. The Juscices, while not having chancery powers, are permitted by law to use very large discretionary powers. Children’s Court cases are divided into two classes-namely, juvenile delinquency and special proceed- ings. The law defines the former in these words: “A child of more than |seven and less than sixteen years of age, who shall commit any act or omission which, if committed by an adult, would be a crime not pu) jshall not be deemed guilty of any crime, but of juvenile delinquency \only.”” Special proceedings are cases Ready With Information, To the Editor ot The Evening World: 1 in answer to “ignorant,” | 1 call bis attention to Chapter 711, | Lews of 1920, This act was passed by | the State Legislature making the Po- lice Reserve @ permanent body. If “Ignorant” will send me his name and address I will be happy to meet | him at any time and give him avy information he may desire about the| , Police Reserye of the City of New| k. MAXIMILIAN J. JAHELKA, Yor nh 5 perag | Major, 1th Inspection District, dixtt) sanding and en opportunity to in-/ Jamaica Park, Z i then fill your heart with happi- ness and keep it so until the end of days.—Louis M. Notkin. From the Wise We may see many struggling against adversity who yet are happy; and more, although abounding in wealth, who are most wretched.—Tacitus. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. —Burke, When you go to u wedding wrap up. your troubles in a bundle and throw it to the winds, 4 To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make your despot- involving a child in danger of becom~- ing depraved, a disorderly or ungov- Jernable child, truancy, Improper | guardianship and material witneases. | Phese are actions brought not for the purpose of visiting punishment for crimes committed, but to remedy |conditions harmful to the cbild, whether they arise through the fault of | wrong guardianship, Cases arc usually ‘brought into the | Children's yoouee Py pparents or guardians, by the police, by officers of « the Bureau of Attendance, or by BA: for the Prevention of PAu’ The future cavalry leader of the — cipline imposed upon them by a com-- rane od ble by death or life !mprisonment, jcoming before it are treated not as ‘ the child or are the result of