The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1921, Page 10

World BSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZuN. Wished Vally Excem Sunday by The Prow Publi Company, Nos. &5 (o 63 Park Row, RALPH PULITZER, President, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treosurer. JOBEPH PULITBER Jr., Secretary; 63 Park Kow. ing 5 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. *. Fhe Amociated Prene ts exclusively enuiued to the use for republicallom © GP all news despatches credited to {t or uot omerwie ereuitea ta tap papey nd Also the local mews published berein, “SOLVE IT WITH JOBS.” JOB is the best Christmas present any busi- A ness man can give to those who need help through the winter. If there were jobs for all \ vant them, Should have little occasion for special efforts to help the needy ut holiday time. \ To the man out of work a job would be the ! very best he could hope for. Jobs will make homes. | happier than any other efforts. . * The new year opens soon after Christmas. Early © this week Gov. Harding of the Kederal Reserve Bank prophesied a revival of business for spring. . Federal Reserve officials have not been in the ‘ fhabit. of. chasing rainbows or holding out fulse hopes. Business will soon improve. } “The wise business man meets prosperity half qway. He is ready for better times so that they will ) gerve him well. Now is the time to be increasing » working forces and preparing for the better times to come. | ! Business men weed not puzzle over, the question , & what they may give to the poor for Christmas. Solve it with jobs. Yobs are the best Christmas presents for the : » snemployed. ‘The Board of Wstimate is getting back to pre- election normalcy, Yesterday Comptroller Craig and Aldermanic President La Guardia exchanged mutually unfavorable opinions, and Mayor Hy- Jan found cause to chide his recent running WAS THE G, 0. P. SOLD? HE Judiciary Committee of the Senate is to investigate the dyestuffs situation. The Sen- ate tas overriden the objections of Senator Fre- finghuysen, who comes from the dye centre of the It is to be hoped the committee will really in- | Veshigateand will not follow the fashion set by the Commitiee on Privileges and Elections, who re- ported favorably on the election of Newberry. ~ The United States Senate ought not to play al \ being Tom Sawyer and wish the job of whitewash- __ing on to a committee. ‘This Nation ought to know the staius of our a oe ~ dyestuff manufacturing. It ought to have the facts 5 ¢0 German imports and German competition. ‘But this will not be enough. Jt has been charged “on the floor of the Senate—and by a Republican— that the dye interests seitled the G. O, P. cam- Paign deficit in retum for favored treatment in the Emergency Tariff Act. ~ Will the Judiciary Committee get to the bottom of this charge, or will it bring in a Newberryized * geport on the morality of the G. O. P.? _ If a great political party is for sale, that infor- gation is far more important than the price of” \ TALKING TO HIS BOSS. Be ws ior COMMISSIONER HAYNES Bet was 4 thoroughgoing optimist when he made "his unofficial report in a speech to the delegates of the Anti-Siloon League in Washington. . “About all the argument that sincere, sensible People need to see that good progress is being made” i in the “gigantic task” of enforcement is to | be found, according to Commissioner Haynes, in the Tecords of the permit offices. Legal or semi-legal withdrawals of liquors in the _ Unilied States in October, 1921, were only half as as in 1920. In New York withdrawals were agen ¢o a third of those in October of last year. this indicates, according to Commissioner nes, that “real, sincere, conscientious efforts to weed out illegitimate business can succeed.” = Commissioner Haynes was talking to his un- ‘Official bosses. Perhaps he may be pardoned for “making out as good a case for himself as is pos- ‘sible. But isn’t he delightfully optimistic? Only recently we leamed that liquor had been @oming into New York through the customs house fend no permit required. How much is being smug- | ged in no one knows. The home brew industry | bed ot declined. The rum running industry flour- 1 ishes. Moonshining is common. A decline in the business of permits for with- + drawal may mean anything or nothing. I may only indicate that the “illegitimate business’ has _ found a more profitable source of supply where it * ve thave to pay a Federal tax. NO NEEDLESS NEED APPLY, HEN Inspector Lahey says he did not notify the “birth controllers” of his hearing of Capt. Donalwue’s case because “they were needed” he puts the finishing touches to the tony of the police position. ouahue fet that Mrs. Sanger and her we | ids. And for himself, he did not need even to hear the speeches announced for Nov. 13 at the Town Hall to convince himself that everything was going to be as it diould not be and that, therefore, rothing should happen at all while he had the power and the precinct. With matters standing this way, the police heory that needlessness is an offense and that no needless need apply for the benefits of constitution! government stands forth in accurate definition. Phe logic of the case must be perfectly plain even to those of us who might wish that a more ertain case than that of the birth-control advocates pai have furnished the cause for an official threshing out. There was no question of interfering with any- body's rights in stopping the Town Hall meeting, asserls Lahey, echoing Donalne. The issue of the moment was that of preventing what the Captain was sure would be wrong. Po- lice action was ordered on grounds of common sense, We are answered, and for the justification we are asked to accept the argument of a detective sixth sense. We go so far as to admit that prevention, even by the police, may be-better thai oure. We con- fess to a feeling that prevention of free speech can- not rest in assured safety on a judgment rendered “unsight, unseen’ and also unheard. LOGIC AND BLOCS. PEAKING to the Life Insurance Presidents, and presymably speaking for the Administration, Secretary Weeks exposed what he believed to be the “logical conclusion” of the development of “blocs” in Congress. As a matter of faot, the blocs are in themselves a “logical conclusion” of party politics as practised in the United States. ‘They are the saphroph yti outgrowth ‘of the disintegrating planks of party platforms made to calch votes rather than to out- line principles. The blocs flourish like mushrooms on the dis- regarded promises of party managers who strive to promise all things to all men until election day has passed. Blocs, Secretary Weeks says, might divide ihe country “into hostile factions or groups, one class plundered by another, and the country powerless to defend or maintain its interests, national or in- ternational.” This is a gloomy picture. But is it “logical” 7 Secretary Weeks recommends party regularity as a counter influence. It would be more logical if he recommended the regularity of parties. If the G.O.P. in June, 1920, had laid down a programme of legistation which they proposed to enact if re- durned to power, it would not now be troubled by independent action in the ranks. It did not. It faced both ways on most questions and won the campaign, not on a programme of action but on @ campaign of opposition to Woodrow Wilson. The Democratic platform was better only because it marked a clear course in international affairs. Two ways lie open. Either we must have a political realignment in both old parties, or else we must look forward to successive triumphs by the blocs. If the parties are not reformed on the basis of real issues, the blocs are likely to multiply until we shall have what amounts to many sifiall parties. Then we may find it necessary to shear the Presi- dent of most of his powers, make Cabinet officers responsible to Congress instead of to the President and remodel our governmental machinery on par- liamentary lines similar to that in France, Either of these developments is “logical,” if that is the test Secretary Weeks wants to apply. His own solution of party regularity is not logical unless President Harding is willing to use the prun- ing hook on his party and drive out the irrecon- cilables. This President Harding has been unwilling to do. He has preferred harmony to logic—and has been getting little of either. ‘The Republicans expect soon to be entangled in entanglements—also in explanations. ~ TWICE OVERS. ce B ROADWAY for perhaps the first time in ils life will see a dry New Year's Eve.” —Pro- hibition Agent Ean 66 WE don't purpose to have any repetition of these Sinancial abuses if we can devise a scheme that can prevent it.” —Transit Commissionér O' Ryan. ._ +# @ “M. ANY of the Japanese residents of California * are now exasperated to a point where they are anxious to leave so that they will no longer be the centre of international trouble.”—Toyojt Chiba, Secretary @ Japanese Agricultural Association of California. “ HEY (American relief workers) don't start from the end, but . the beginning.” —The Novy |) | Ngee Nee at | i ( NOSANTA CLADS || New Tort Greuing W ww we tee Pupitehing Co. DeAR Santa me From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand ‘The Metric System, ‘Lo tio talitor of ‘The Ierening Workd: As a student ut the Columbia Ur versily Pharmacy College, T recently became familiar withthe metric sys- tem. I have found it simple to learn and more so to use in connection with pharmaceutical work. Therefore I cannot help but agree with PL. pei ina who, In his corre- spondence of 30, so ably outlined tho system aAd recommended its use nationally in this country, * The Britten-Ladd bill which pro- vides for the adoption of the metric system in certain uses should be sup- ported by the public and pressure should be brought upon Representa- ives in Congress for {ts passage. BENJAMIN SCHERR. Lrooklyn, Dec, 7, 1921. A Day Com: To the Lditor of The Vrening Work, Being a constant reader of The Evening World und not having missed reading your editorials in over a year, allow me to congratulate and thank you for the fight you are putting up iu keeping Woodrow Wil- son's name before the public. After reading to-night's ‘editorial referring to Prosident Tarding's message to Congress, 1 just must down und write my feelings in matter, Isn't it amusing how our President, who in hig campaign speeches “Knocked” 1h turns and tr But with whe had to fight a Republican maj who put thelr personal f the good of the country, in t pat forth that which he knew benefit not only his country but humanity. In contrast, small way, tries to get around a Con- gress composed almost wholly of own party by hinting politely |they are making mistakes and as! Wilson policies, now le? ing b to all Rae for a little more nuthority. ! Well, we'll find that Lincoln was right. The people are being fooled now, but wait until next election and the lust part of his saylng will come jtrue. All I ask is that you keep up {your good work. Don't let the people eee one of the greatest Presidents and fighters we ever liad I am confident that Woodrow Wilson will live to sve the day when the country ax a whole will stand up and honor him. JOE STERN New York, Dee, %, 1921. the Chita Editor of The Brening Tot Some year > | which im substance my children?” 1 t ple People were 1 More recently, under the Ie of Mrs. Sanger, we had ar h mig 6 wh 5 Wiyeshitdren? h century lund- my n't print bestox), with his over- cribed quota of downright impu i pubs. dence, has hung out the shingle on which Le asks, “How many children?” @m just an onlooker, watching } There is fine mental exercise and a lot of eay much in few words. Take time to be briet. Harding, in a} 4 a re World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one words in a couple of hundred? eatisfaction in trying te ngs as they happen and good uredly registering a kick now and | then; Jam only a bachelor, just ¢ ting ‘along in the world, Children are not a personal question with me yet. But I observe that wo have come to a point where we do not know whether children are an asset or a lability." A Denver Judge cx- pressed an opinion on this recently, but it did not seem to meet with popular approval. | 1 went to a musical show on Broau- | way recently in which a house hunt- resulted in a father shoot- rt with laughter, . but was ‘undercurrent of serious apprecis Now how does it look to young fel- lows like me who one of these fine duys may be wanting to consider | matrimony? ally 1 puld $3 for $1.50 seats how. ost looks as though Mexico or the South Seu Islands ought to be | rather a good placo in which to live, New Yorks Dev. 8, 1921 Give Dr. Lorenz a Obance, To the Editor of Tho Brening World: Am following up with great inter- est comments on Dr. Lorenz and wish that I could read of many more praises in the columns of your paper. 1 read with much disgust Dr, Cope- 'S suggestion and list of hospitals affycted people might be [have been paralyzed tor the past twenty years and have been wear- ing a brace (the nearest suggestion to relief given by any doctor in a hos- pital), the hospital where I got my brace. Thank God I go thi rb Jam now working and a ame, but I can remembs a day when only a child and my guother in poor circumstances, unable to pay for my brace, when we would go through the most disgusting, abusive afternoon, waiting to get a brace repaired or perhaps « new one. e attendants in well as doctors, cane y : whether It certa not ly that D to think would compa jSuch a wonderful, kind-he ule man as Dr. Lor waiting tor the afflic! than to Inyself n Lam going to tr self, 1 hope that epitals will lake | will not become di Jealous! and tore j that bs the he will enough to the good hi ould be unwil something for his y away dollar aft a doctor who kids indefinitely is beyond my com | Dr. Lorenz long so that all the poor and rich jafflicted can lave an opportunity to see lim and that he will keep up his courage in spite of opposition. lyn, Dec. 8, 1921. * that = a Among his list he mentioned | rejudices of | UNCOMMON SENSE | , By John Blake (Copyright, 1021, by Joko Blake.) | CONDITION. 13 lights and wars. out of condition. may not be better th you have. cool brain. pensable in business. jiealth, will fall down on important transactions. j3 exe in bad condition. this world you have got to keep in condition. ble, but your mind must be in condition too. That means preparedness. habit of determining day's work. them, KeeP in condition, and you can. and the tortoise. | souls together. You proMized i aj Condition wins football games and horse races and prize The race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong, because frequently both the swift and the strong are If you are in condition you are at your best. Your best 8 good us your adversary’s best; but it is always his worst, sometimes better than his average. Condition enables you to bring to a contest everything It means training, and health, clear eyes and a It is indispensable in athletics. And it is just as in@is- The ablest business man, out of condition through ill But they only get out of condition because of ill health. ‘The fact that they are able busifess men keeps them from ses and late hours, and the mistakes of diet that result If you are going to travel very far on the uphill way in Not only must your general health be good, yeur en- durance sound and your digestion functioning without trou- It means years of careful study and training. It means hard mental exercise and the to get all there is to be got out of the You may not be blessed with such a mind as was given to Lloyd George or Rudyard Kipling or John D. Rockefeller. | The talents you possess may not be of a very high order. But they are all you have, and you must make the most of | Many an average mind 4s to-day out-thinking and out- witting minds of a higher order, It is the old story of the hare | Condition always counts, Learn its importance and you }$ are not likely to be one of the dependents who must in old |3 age ask their children or the state to keep their bodies and land (1632 |to various duttes, | sponded: than rust out.’ quoted use of the aphorism, . By Albert P. Southwick bine c igtt, by the Pres aii Yorks } Breaing W Wor'd). The French expression The “W House," Executive Mansion, Washington, D, C., natur- ally receives its name from its outer| pression, coating. When {t was rebuilt, after 6 its destruction by the British in 1814, | the same stone walis were used in the Brewer writes: iy the mackerel, and we ha quarter ago—is an ai, at. the sug- . Andrew Jackson, they were painted white, and a dazzling Aion eed jy applied to the entire uilding every ten years. weep aan at Roe Son 2-1718) he would “wear him- self ot” by his incessant application the divine re “It is better to wear out is the now well-known first April Foo] is Poisson d’avril (“April Fish.") “The poisson d'avri) e the ex- ‘You silly mckerel.’'” Ushant--4 name that created many jokes more than a century and u island off northwest coast of France, near Brest, in the vicinity of which were fought two naval battles between the French and English, the first, on July 27, 1778, bel indecisive the on. ing and second, ee dee resulting In & sigual Lippman has Fitth Avenue ‘Me tory for the English. ue mind. ? the | ¥ love could walk in righer hues M Than any vird of paradise; 1 tad no one envy her her dress ; Sirice in her looks the world would sec 4 robin's uve aud friendliness, And she could be the lly fair, More richly dressed than all her kind, | And no one envy her her gain; {Since in her looks the.world would sec a daisy that was sweet and plaiu, Oh, shy could sit lite any queca That's pailed by diamonds toa throne, | Wer splendor envied by no one; nce in ker looks the world would 3 { 4 qteen that’s more than half a nun A poel-lover's praise and content as expressed in “My Love Could Walk,” a bit of verse found’ in “The |Captive Lion und Other Poems” ‘(Yale Press), a book wy William Menry Davie | . . ‘ diggers and Goons --- | We quote from I’rederick L. Allen's |contribution to “The Lion's Mouth,” in the current Harper's, thus; { A goon is a person with a heavy | touch ay distinguished from a Jig- | ger, who has a light touch. It ia reported that George Wasi: ington was u goon, whereas Lincol was a jigger. Gladstone seems to have goon, Disrasll a Sigger. Victoria and Prince Alvert, as de- seribed by Mr. Lytton Strachey beon @ Were both goons of the first water: Mr. Strachey himself on the othe: hand, is obviously a jiggers. Germans’ are’ goons; h. jlegers. Mr. Lioyd George js a figger: vei y ho squints up his eyes i ore of The, most Jiggerish things iu con ‘oira, Harding, on the other hand, y and affable though he may reveuled us a goon In his the language of whieh i: ile gravity. Suggesting a uew game tor winte us it closes in, | In place of separating the sheep from the goats and the bromides jfrom the lve wires, let us attend busily to the parting of the jiggers from the goons. Moat moet | Taking the World as It Is--- | A section of conversation in Olive Onions's “The Tower of Oblivion” | (Macmillan) between Julfa and | George: \ “It's this: That we make the ake of regarding the world as full of rational people, with perhaps fow, particularly stupid ones here if you'll only re- ex ain overytning.” ‘ou'd better go to sleep again, Gh But it is so. T gee it, oh. | clearly! And you don't worry abour anything thenwhat anybody thinks or says or does or anything. nee just take the funny old peppanew us itis. That's the way to live.’ Julia’s way would save argument and, for one thing— Would add to the lst of the un- employed both the State's Attorney and the Counsel for the Defense. It might be just as well and almos! as safe. 80 Hitching Hope te a Star--+ A rhyming look alread, and perhaps an inspired one, from “Archways of Life” (Moffat, York & Co.), a book o! verse by Mercedes de Acosta: T cannot be what has been, T cannot see what's been seen. I shape my course ind gather force From what's to come. The future is wry golden star, My inspiration—and from afar, I sce the deeds that ynay be done. I watch a race that may be run, And hold my breath in ecstasy. eo 8 oF Politics in Hillsboro -- - In Hillsboro, according to Robert Nathan and his “Autumn” (Mc- Bride, they talk things over lke this: “Yes, sir," said Mr. Crabbe sol- emnly, with plous joy, “I'm a Re- publican . . . a good Republican, Mr. Barly, like my father before me." He smote his fist into his open palm, “I'll vote the crats blue in the face. If a man can't vote for ‘hls own advantage, what's ballot for? I say let’ the mind our own business. And let me get my hands on what I want.” “Gel what you can,” sald Qfr, Barly. “And the devil take the hind- mete all t quoth “It's al @ same to me,” Mr. Barly, “folks belng mostly alfke as two peas, Mre Crabbe spat into the studble, “The way I look at it.” he sald, it's like this: first, there's me; and then there's you, That's the way I look at {t, Mr. B.” And he went home to repeat to his wife what he had sald to Farmer Barly. “I gave it to him,” he de- clared. In fancy, we see Mr, Crabbe en- dorsing the Gi7th Congress to the lmit— Let the imcome-tax sparks fisg. (elsewhere) where they will eo 8 Posing the Family Tree - - - o> In a paper on “The Habits of Our Eyes,” in the current Century, Wal- ter Lippman writes: An amiable variation ts the family Usually, one couple are appointed the original ancestors, if possible uple associated with un honorific no ancestors, ‘They are not descendants. Yet they were the descendants of ancestors. and the expression thet So-and-So was the founder of his house means not that he is the Adam of his family, but that he is the particular ancestor from whom {t is desirable to start, or perhaps the carilest ancestor of which there ts a recor Blue-blooded Begcon Street will evade readily the pitiless logic of this passage. It will hold that, undoubtedly, Mu: