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~ day of “abject huiniliation for Great Britain.” | ‘naval ratio represented and still represents the funda-, | going to resume its constitutional functions, » i World, ESTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Published Daily Except The Pross Publishing Company. Nos. $8 to 63 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, Proaident, 68 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treneurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Ro MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. get Associated Press is exclusively entiuea to the use for republicatiog ee ees cin Sarin Seamen's Ten ates ', au (end also the local news publishea herein. TWO PARENT STATES. ECALLING an earlier stage of the Irish nego- tiations when the British attitude was less liberal, Lord Birkenhead says: “One of the Irish delegates said across the conference table: “You cannot quite dismiss us and our claims and our history in that way, We, too, are an ancient parent state, and we haye through the centuries flung our sons and our settlers into every corner of the habitable, civilized globe.’ “That claim is true. That claim has modi- fied the fundamental view which we have i adopted and by which we stand.” | Nothing could be more significant of the change in British sentiment and of the spirit in which \ broad-minded Englishmen are now welcoming the agreement. That spirit is and should continue to be com- Plete confutation of the Carson view that the day that sees the creation of an Irish Free State is a The conference scene which ‘Lord Birkenhead describes deserves to stand out and be remem- | bered as a historic turning point in the long course of misunderstanding, clumsiness and cross-purpose | which have kept the nerves of the Irish on edge. It was Edmund Burke who said: “England and Ireland may flourish to- gether. The world .is large enough for us | both. Let it be our care not to make oyr- selves too litle for it.” It has taken Britons centuries to grasp the Irish | Point of view. But now they have grasped it, he | is a small man—Briton or Irishman—who sneers at the resulf? Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of the Friends of Trish Freedom calls the Irish agreement “a diplomatic triumph for Lloyd George—dex- terous rather than solid.” Who are the true friends of Ireland? At last we havea test. ® STEP BY STEP. HAT appears to be a trustworthy report that Japan has accepted the 5-5-3 naval ratio and approved the proposed four-power treaty for the peaceful settlement of differences in the Pacitic rings further substantial cheer to offset rumors of protest and resignations in the Chinese delegation, It is said Japan will expect certain concessions re- garding naval bases in the Pacific. That is possible, Nevertheless, nobody has forgotten that the 5-5-3 mental, backbone purpose of this Conference on the Limitation of Armament. With that purpose realized and riveted, the: rest will be so much the easier. Another thing nobody has forgotten is what openness and publicity did for the 5-5-3 naval re- duction plan. Why isn’t the Washington Confer- ence leaving more doors open and getting from pub- lic opinion some of the power it evoked in the beginning? A FADED VISION. PEAKING to his fellow-Americans on Oct. 29, 1920, from Akron, O., Mr. Harding said: “If I am going to serve you, I want the Government to have the machinery with “which to serve, and I promise you that under Republican administration the Congress is It is very important to have a majority in the United States Senate, and you ought al- ways to think of the Senate as saving to you your American liberty, * * * “I think we would have succeeded this year fm harmonizing the Senate into a completely useful agent if it had not been for the inter- ference of the Chief Executive, who was not satisfied with running his own end of Penn- sylvania Avenue.” President Harding's message of last Tuesday tead like anything but the happy congratulations of a Chief Executive delighted with the way Con- gress has been performing its constitutional func- tions under his harmonizing spell. The message was more like a: piteous plaint: Why won't a party behave like a party when it.gets into power? DOUBLY A HERO. Ww HAVE it on the authority of Gens. Per- shing and Foch that Alvin York is the greatest hero of the war, Also the Bible tells us: “He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.” This last test Alvin York has passed with flying _ oolors. He had offers of a fortune if he would go into vaudeville or motion pictures and capitalize reputation. his “He sincerely believed such a course would be and he stuck to ahs beliefs. geet THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1921, miration for the sturdy character behind the refusal? Alvin York is a hero in peace no less than in war. He is an example to his fellows. The ‘fund being raised by The World to make Alvin York secure in the possession of his farm and to aid him in the foundation of a school for the moun- taineers of his home neighborhood is a worthy effort and deserves wide support. IT NEEDS DEFINING. NY ONE who read President Harding’s mes- sage could have pretty accurately foretold what Samuel Gompers would have to say about it. It is easier to criticise Mr. Gompers’s attack than to formulate a constructive criticism of President Harding’s suggestions looking toward an industrial court. When Mr. Gompers takes the bare outline Pres- ident Harding sketched and likens it to the Court of Quarter Sessions 400 years ago, he talks non- Sense. That court Was set up by a ruling aristoc- racy. Laborers at that time had no voice in gov- ernment. A labor court to-day, even if it had summary powers, would be a creature of the law and could be displaced whenever the majority so decided. Mr. Gompers may be right in pointing out the failure of industrial courts in Australia and New Zealand, also the troubled situation in Kansas. No one who has any understanding of the problem expects perfection in the new field of industrial legislation, Trial and error are the only sel democratic advance. hool for President Harding was also unfortunate -either in choice of words or in thought when he spoke of In another passhge he speaks of a “code of practice.” That too would bear further definition. “Code of procedure” would have given less cause for uneasiness, “a code and a charter of elemental rights.” Certainly the last thing any sane person would Propose would be a “code” in the Napoleonic sense, laying down hard and fast Huw to guide an in- dustrial court. Mr. Gompers assumes that the court suggested by the President would “determine the conditions and wages of the working people.” This country could have no greater calamity than a statute defining, for example, “the standard of living,” or prescribing the workday. No mod- ern nation, least of all the United States, would tolerate a denial of the right to cease working at the termination of a working contract. Nor would it even deny the right to strike, except in occupa- tions upon which depend public health and safety. There does seem to be a broad field for an industrial court with a suspensive veto on strikes and a code of procedure which would prevent strikes until the court had heard the questions at issue and passed judgment. The former German Emperor has published #@ book of comparative historical tables. The comparisons stop short at 1914. After that they would be too. odorous, IN DUTY BOUND. R. COPELAND is to be thanked for the label he applied to many of those who have sought to hamper the work of Dr. Adolf Lorenz. Dr. Copeland called them “damn fools.” That is good enough except for the particular few who would be better described as “knaves.” There may have been mistakes in the manage- ment of the visit of Dr. Lorenz. There is no rea- son for the aspersions cast on his personal ability or good intentions, Yesterday Dr. Lorenz feared he could not con- tinue if the campaign of persecution by the medi- cal profession is not checked. It is time for, the medical profession to perform a right-about-face. It is highly probable that many of the slurs cast on the Viennese surgeon do not fairly represent the attitude of the’ medical profession. The small fry, consumed by professional jealousy, are prob- ably responsible. But the more representative members of the Profession are in duty bound to make their voices heard and so continue the mission of this Austrian Ambassador of Mercy. TWICE OVERS. E are going to succeed beyond our fondest hopes.” —President Harding, speaking not of Congress but the Arms Conference. a, 6 ek aif AY | AAP wet ning roe nin *—Dr. Lorenz. ‘A MAN who par pos between the hours of 12 and I and 5 and 6 would be 40 per cent. worse than a pickpocket.” —Vice President of the Plasterers’ Union testifying before the Lockwood com- mittee, ce HOPE that all eyes will turn to the future rather than the pest '— Archbishop Gregg of Dublin. * ELL done. This is indeed one up for Weles.” “e | Foreign-Born Builders “ay much in few words Bookkeepers’ Jobs. To the Editor of The Evening World: I do not agree with “Bookkeeper” in her letter about married women work- ing. I say give a married woman the Job if she wants it. If she has no children so much the better. If she has children she will do her house- hold duties when she cun (of course that’s her own business). She makes 4 better companion und better mother, and her children have a little more. She is also an inspiration for work. Why should single people appeal tu the Department of Labor to relieve the unemployment situation? They will have to watch and wait. Their time will come. Me for the murried woman if she wants her job. PANKURST. “Halt-M! ity?” To the Editor of The Krening World; 1 rise to remark "Bout the low German mark— Why the hubbub, the noise and the holler? Methinks that we ought To be giving our thought To our own little half-mighty dollar. VICTOR WINN. New York, Dec, 3, 1921. Weights at Stores To the Editor of The Brening World: Are merchants allowed to put a sheet of paper on the scales before they put purchases on scale, My grocer, butcher and delicatessen man are using large sheets of paper. They also throw food on the scales very hard, so that the scales are still vi- brating after the article has been re- moved. Wouldn't that be called profiteering? It is hard to sce the correct weight. If a protest is made they weigh the bag, puper and meat and throw it the same way. It seems there is no way of-obtaining justice unless this is made public. B. Disgusted. To the Editor of The Erening World: In a newspaper published out West I read this comment on the recent election in New York: “So far as Tammany Hall can make it, New York will the most einister sense until the end of 1925 or until such time as the Tam- many boodlers, the great and. little grafters, make the city, as they ‘ave made it before, too hot to hold them. The effect of the election will be felt in éver-increasing force until that time arrives, in the interest the city has to pay for loa in every dollar paid by the shipping using this port, in rents, in the price of everything bought at retail, in ransom extorted in the public markets and collected from the consumer, in burglary insur- ance, in fire insurance, in life ir nce, in safety in the public streets, in Mberty of redress in the police court ip the health and teaching of our ch dren and in reputation before an tonished and disgusted world. ‘There is nothing !n the plea that bd election result ts a vindication of rule. New more that it is J albany is bad, tn From Evening World Readers| What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of huhdred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te Take time to be brief. | | practice, But if New York in the |Past four years had shown that it Was fit for home rule, that it understood its own affairs better, thi p and shoddy nonentities w | Albany, the citizens of New York would now be running not merely their city but the State itself, When New York is fit to govern itself it will govern the State and will come ing the nation.” true, And I am so dis- gusted I will move to New Jersey the first of the year to\escape such con- ditions. PETER S. New York, Dee. 5, 1921. Wants the Saloon 1 To the Editor of the Evening World: In re your editorial entitled “A Fair Test.” You say Representative Hill has introduced a pill liberalizing the Volstead measure and so forth. At the end you say a vote for the Hill bill would not be a vote for the sa- loon. 1 would say the very fact that not ja week passes without this bill or some similar measure being udvo- ke feuted is in itself sufficient evidence that the longer the present law is in existence the worse it is hurting the country. You see more and more each day that the United States can- not live without its saloon. way to put the Nation's third larges business in the hands of a few men. You are helping them along when you preach against the return of the saloon. The United States can’t live without it. Forget anything else but unconditional repeal of the Fighteenth Amendment and bring the saloon back. Remember the bartenders, lunchmen, porters, &c., who depend on it. EPICTUS. ew York, Dec. 6, 1921. Under the Navy Departme: ‘T the Editor of The Brening World: A says that the marines are con- sidered a purt of the nuvy and come under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department. B argues that they aro under the jurisdiction of the Army Board. C claims that they are not under either but are subject to orders of either branch when connected with sume, W. LA BRECHT, One Perfect? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: On this cold day I feel hot under the collar. The reason ts that I read in The Evening World that a num- ber of girls cluim that there is nu perfect man, 1 don’t claim I am, nor do I claim for somebody else, but I, as a young man (22) and a college student, would like you to give us’ a chance to answer this flat and unreliable as- sertion, Start the ball a-rolling and give this a small amount of space in your paper, and I am sure we would all find out if our manhood has ad- vanced to the standard of perfection or not. 1 can ask for one thin, Is there a perfect woman? Ask this queation of other students, and bem wah nd ir reply. eae Sone. Nee But if our cl America XI—LEOPOLD DAMROSCH. No individual has done more to de- velop the musical taste of the Amert- can people—to supply them with a medium of high enjoyment—than Leopold Damrosch. This Jewish contribution to the building of America was born in Posen (now reverting to its Polish name of Posnan) in 1832. He became a great musician in spite of his par-, ents, who were set on making a phy- sician of him. To please his parents he took the medical studies and obtained the de- gree of doctor of medicine at the University of Berlin, But it was to the violin and thorough Bass that he devoted himself, with the medical profession“@s a mask, At Weimar he was cordially re- ceived by Liszt, who made him solo violinist in the ducal orchestra. To him Liszt dedic s “Le Triom- phe Funebre de T "and only two other masters of music—Wagner and Berlioz—were similarly honored with dedication by the great Hungarian. To a German musical organization, the Arion Society, music lovers ip America owe this commanding figure in our musical life. Damroseh had achieved a European reputation as a conductor of ithe Symphonic Society in Breslau when the Arion Socicty invited him to New York in 1871. His first appearance as conductor, composer and violinist in the old Steinway Hall on May 6, 1871, pressed and delighted the musics elite of New York. Ile at once be- came the centre and impulse of musi- cal activity in America, As founder of the Oratorio Suciety in 1873 and as one of the prime mov ers of the organization of the Sym- phony Society in 1877, Leopold rosch did notable work in extending the taste for and appreciation of the best music in New York. Damrosch’s great achievement in that phase of his artistic activities was the musical festival which was given in the spring of 1881 in the 7th Kegiment Armory. There was a cho- rus of 1,200 voices from the Oratorio Society, augmented by 1,000 women from the Normal College und 250 boys from the church choirs. The audi- ences of from 8,000 to 10,000 at all the concerts sustained Damrosch's con- tention that New York was “musi- cal” Recognized by the conferring of the degree of musical doctor by Columbia University, iu UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 3921, by John Blake.) INSIDE AND OUT. Men and women invoke the aid of barbers, beauty doc- tors, tailors; dressmakers, even surgeons, in an almost futile effort to alter their outward appearance. On this effort, whose success would be really unim portant, they spend millions of dollars every day. This money is not wasted. Appearance counts for a great deal. A well dressed, clean shaven man has a better chance of securing a good position than a slovenly, ill clad man, The straightening of a pair of cross eyes, the improve ment of a bad-set of teeth, is worth the considerable sum »f money that it costs. Yet*we really cannot change our outward appearance a great deal. So alike are we in features that at best we can make but insignificant modifications. To a Caucasian al! Chinese look very much alike, A Chinese regards all Caucasians as cast in the same mould. The money we spend on exterior improvements, while well spent, does not accomplish as much as we would wish— else all of us would be handsome. This brings us to INTERIOR ditierencea: which are of vastly greater importance and capable of far greater chances. It is what is inside of your head that kecps your position, once your goud looks or good manners have secured it. It is the difference in the unseen recesses of your brain that brings you promoticn or fortune or security or independ- ence, which the far better looking man at the next desk will never enjoy. It is something unseen inside the head of the boss that is different from something equally unseen inside-the head of the employee that makes one a boss and the other an em- ployee. And these are differences that expenditures of time and effort, digiously. which ace the equivalent of money, can change pro- Continue to do all you can to better your outward ap- pearance, to make as little as possible the exterior difference between you and the Adonis or the Venus whom you admire, At the same time toil with even more diligence to make _ lesss noticeable the inside difference between you and the man who is making twice as much money or becoming twice as distinguished in his profession or business. The inside of your head is something you can change, and change vastly for the better. Give your best effort to that. For it is what is behind your forehcad that is going to win for you ir. the end, . From the Wise Good advice can de. piven, o good name cannot be given.— Turkish proverb. Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them.—Goldsmith. The most happy man 4 he who the end and the beginning of his life.—Goethe, Music 1s the art of the proph- ets, the onty art which can calm the agitations of the soul, —Luther, Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks, they are the Leopold Damrosch was destined to justify that recognition by a further and more notable achievement. That achievement began in 1884, when Dr. Damrosen proposed an ex- periment in German opera to the dl- rectors of the Metropolitan Qpera House, then newly established. It took the energetic impresarto rs a month to enguge 2 1 to open nces that remain musical annals of New in th reat works given ulkuere"™ and Beet- | Damre himself conducted every | performance. until a week before the fend of his life. ee | WHERE DID YOU GET _ THAT WORD? 110.—CHIEF. The words “Chief” and “Captain” do not apear at first glance to hark bagk to a common origin. In point of fact, however, they are first cousins. Their common ancestor is the Latin word “caput” (head), From this Latin word the deriva- tion of “Captain” is easily evident. The word “Captain” is used in almost all the European languages witb slight variations. Like “Captain,” the word “Chief” “head,” or means the man at the “caput.” The equivalent of “caput” in Slavic “glava" or “golova.’ From “glava" is di ‘ the equivalent of In the Russian | is used to, designate Thus in all languages the “chief” is traceable back to “head or “caput.” VANISHED RESIDENTS . OF NEW YORK copyright, 1921. by the Prew Publiahing Co. Comte | Now York Exening World,) Prehistoric Clambakers. In many localities on Manhattan Island, the Bronx, and all along the, Long Island coast, are dotted the rem- nants of gargantuan feasts, dating back to long before tho Pilgrim fathers were contemplated in the scheme of things. \These remnants—accumulations of clam shells—mark the origin of the clambake us «a New York institution, although Rhode Island's claim to the title is rot to be despised, At these points, various tribes of Indians gathered from time to time, or at stated intervals, captured the festive clam that abounded along the creeks, roasted them in enormous quantities on the appropriate bed of seawced, and proceeded to gorge themselves with tho output of the bake. In several of these deposits of shells —notably on Staten Island—Indian skeletons havo been found, showing unquestionably evidences of death by violence. The original owners of these skele- tons—several of them are to be found in the Museum of Natural History— were either feasters, overcome at th banquet by an enemy attack, or ene. mies thwarted in an attack on th feasters, and left whore they fell. Since there was no fire-water in these parts till the Pale Face brought ‘t with him, it is unreasonable to assume that these evidences of death at the feast were caused by a drunken, “The men me originates th sian 9) bake bave long since gathei selves to the Nappy hunting sromeay but the Mande es thelt whiuh they en OE Wal NY eonegarest