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RN EUR NSY ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. e0 Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 63 to 63 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 65 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 P: JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Bee Associated Press ts exclusively entiies to the use for republication all Rows Geapsiches credited to It or nor ounerwise crewitea in teas papss false the local news publlsnea herein, “MAY” FOR “WILL.” “eFHE Senate ought to have no difficulty in rec- ognizing it. The Four-Power Pacific Pact is a Four-Power ie ‘Article X. of the League of Nations applied to the ‘ Pacific with the Lodge reservation. That reservation was No. 2 of the famous Fourteen voted upon by the Senate Nov. 19, 1919, } as a ptoposed condition of ratifying the Versailles \. ‘Treaty. Here it is: 2 The United States assumes no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or politi- eal independence of any other country or to interfere in controversies between nations— whether members of the League or not—un- der the provisions of Article X., or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States under any article of the Treaty for any purpose, unless in any particular case the Congress, which, under the Constitution, has the sole power to declare war or author- {ze the employment of the military or naval forees of the United States, shall by act or Joint resolution so provide. Here is also the reservation as to Article X. which Senator Hitchcock, Democratic leader, of- | féred on the same day, as acceptable to President . ‘Frat the advice mentioned in Article X. cf the covenant of the League which the Coun- a el may give to the member nations as to the employment of their naval and military forces _ fg merely advico which each member nation fg free to accept or reject according to the eonscience and judgment of its then existing , Government,:and in the United States this 7 advice can only be accepted by action of the _ Congress at the time in being, Congress alone "| ander the Constitution of the United States - having the power to declare war. “The Hitchoock interpretation of Article X. did ‘not satisfy Senator Lodge. ‘The latter refused to have Congress put under even a “moral obliga- tion.”s In short, he would permit no pledge or promise of contributory force from the United “The menace to the United States involved im Article X. cannot be overrated. We met it with a reservation, and all that reservation did was to reliove the United States from any obligation under Article X. and left us ab- solutely free to refuse to fulfil the obligation imposed by the first sentence of the article if the Congress saw fit to do so.” ‘Under the Four-Power Pacific Treaty, which Senator Lodge had the joy of presenting, the high contracting parties agree to “respect their rights.” ~ ‘They agree to “invite” one another to “a joint con- ference” if controversy arises. If their rights are ~ menaced by aggressive action of any other power, _ they promise to “communicate with one another” ‘as to what shall be done about it. But, as Senator Lodge jubilantly points out: “There is no provision for the use of force , © carry out any of the terms of the agree- + ment and no military or naval sanction lurks "anywhere in the beckground or under cover om of these plain and direct clauses.” a jn other words, “these plain and direct clauses” | permit the United States to avoid saying in ad- vance what it would do or contribute toward “efficient measures to be taken” in a possible situ- ation where Great Britain, Japan and France might, as members of the League of Nations, be pledged © to boycott, blockade or armed police work. On Republican authority as high as that of Will- fam H. Taft, now Chief Justice of the United States, we have the assurance that the chief hope “of preventing war lies in the pledge of potential force to stop war: i “It is the minatory, threatening, cautionary ~ effect of the penalties of the League that are + — expected to work to prevent war. That is the normal operation of the League. That is the reason why we should go into it, not to fight wars, but to have the nations under- stand that if they fight wars, then we do. We fight not for lawless violence or greed of possession, but we fight with lawful force to overcome lawless violence on the same prin- _ tiple that we use the police force in domestic . communities.” It was in 1919 that Mr. Taft said this, but every on of it is just'as sound to-day. L t Lodge plan, which is also the Four- THE EVENING WORLD, to this minatory, cautio defense of peace only the uncertainty of its ultimate action in a given case. The idea seems to be that in the service of peace so powerful a nation need only say “perhaps” where weaker nations may be foolish enough to give pledges. This Pacific Treaty is worthy of support because it cannot help going further than the step it actually takes. But as it stands, it is nothing for the American Eagle to scream about. Even where the preservation of peace is in- volved, the Lodge policy has been from the first that the United States should play shrewdly—and safe. That is why Senator Lodge likes the Four- Power Pacific Pact: Instead of “we will” it says only “we may.” SPEAKING OF PLANS. S a part of an attack on the development scheme which the Port Authority is urging, Mayor Hylan wrote this significant paragraph: “If the Port Authority would issue as a part of its propaganda a statement showing the particular order in which it proposes to carry out the various features of its plan, and the time involved for and between each of the successive steps, a statement as to the costs of operating the several portions of the project and a statement as to how the enor- mous sum required for censtruction ‘is to be raised, the impracticability and unworkabi!- ity of the scheme would be manifest to the public.” The Evening World is glad to note that Mayor Hylan is thinking along these lines. His sugges- tions are excellent. The public will be better pre- pared to judge of his conclusions when the Port Authority has brought forward these facts. But The Evening World suggests that the Mayor take this paragraph and substitute-.his own name for the Port Authority and then apply the sugges- tion as regards the Transit Plan which the Mayor himself claims to have. The Evening World has repeatedly invited Mayor Hylan to discuss his plan in its columns. The public is aware of the Mayor's hostility to the Transit Commission plan. The public wants to know wherein the Mayor's plan is better. The Mayor's suggestion of what the Port Au- thority ought to show is an admirable outline of what the Mayor could tell in regard to his own plan if he is willing to take the public into his confidence. Perhaps it is the postal deficit of $157,517,- 688.11 that {s forcing Postmaster General Hays into the movics. s} TONING UP. HE pound sterling touched $4.24 1-8 yesterday, the highest in two years. The franc was up 43-1-4 points; lira, 20 1-2 points. This rise in foreign exchanges brought extra cheer on the same day the Department of Commerce an- nounced that United States exports during Novém- ber declined by $48,097,418. Steady increase in the value of foreign currencies expressed in terms of the American dolla; is the best hope for American export trade. Another bright mark in the week. A Brooklyn shop advertises “delicious deli- cacies.” Sounds good! fi es THE DRIFT TO THE CITIES, ORWAY, Me., is a town of about 3,000 in- habitants, village and country combined. It is rather above the average in its State for enter- prise and location. Yet in ten years it declined slightly in population, when, with all the. merits of a good place to live in, it should have increased. Recently the Advertiser of that town reports that the natives of Norway in and about Boston have formed an association, the promoters of the idea: locating 160 of their former fellow towns- men, many, of course, with families. If these could have found out!# for their ener- gies in Norway, how much better it would have been for the community—and perhaps for them- selves! TWICE OVERS. ERIN, fresh in the latest day As a gem from a Syrian tomb, The burial clay of the centuries Has saved thy light in its gloom. HE night of thy sorrow is ended, The dawn of thy day is near, Thy children watch from the mountain tops For the sun of thy hope to appear. John Boyle O Reilly. . * 8 “e HE honor of the (Irish) nation is not incolved unless and until the treaty is ratified.” - Eamon De Valera. €6]T is discounting of the improved financial con- ditions in all parts of the world that we are see- ing in the foreign exchange market to-day."-—A lead- ing banker. A 66'T"HE Irish treaty and the Pacific treat the one of the momentous i: the / civilization.” —Premier Hughes of Australia, f\ make TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1921. sis ETT TE Te Pa i re Sonrrigt 1921, (Now York Evening World) by Prem Pub. Co, From Evening eay much in few words. Referred to Comminstoner Enright. To the Editor of The Evening World: Some time ago I noticed a comic strip In your paper in which a man who heard burglars in the house played safe and refused to try to chase them out. Since then I have a good deal of fun with my married friends by putting the problem up to them. What should » man do when he hears a burglar in the house? Whet is his duty to himself? What 1s his duty to his wife? What is his duty to the community? I'll confess that the answers I have received have got me guessing. One husband bravely asserts he must defend his home and his prop- erty. But his wife is equally posi- tive she would not let him venture into danger and that she wants him to go on caring for her the.rest of her life, One husband admits that he had rather lose the plated siver and the wedding gift clock than have a bullet hole bored into his skin. His wife assured me she would go get the bur- glar herself if her husband did not. A bachelor maid says she would never marry a coward who would not arrest a burglar ut the first oppor- tunity. What is the answer? Is there any book of etiquette jo prescribe the | proper reception of a burglar? | SHIVPR AND SHAKE | New York, Dec. 11, 1921. Some Trilogies, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World | We are familiar with the tendency of the Muse of History to trilogize ithe es of the great. They run, | Alexandef, Caesar, Napoleon; Soc- | rates, Plato, Aristotle, &e, | Apparently feeling that the vener- lable Muse needed some modern ad- vice, President Harding recently {added a fillip to the process, Amer- ica’s trilogy must not stand Wash- ton, Lincoln, Wilson; It must be neton, Lincoln, Roosevelt, ay be \mpertience, but one can joniy marvel at the change in the resident's attitude toward the man whom his newspaper in 1912 trilo- gized with Benedict .Arnold and Aaron Burr, And it may be un- gracious, but one cannot help con- jecturing how far the new estimate is dependent upon concern for Republi- can harme aced by the ag- ricultural- bloc in Con- The President ukase notwithstand- ing, {t is permiss the American tri! remain Washington, L One may believe also th being rounded out another tr'togy that of the antagonists of liberty; for as Washington had his Arnold’ and Lincoln his Vallandigham, so Wilson had his Lodge. A. BIGGS. 921 } Mahwah, 1 I notice that the city is asked to What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Ian’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand werds in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in Take time to be brief. ;|has proved that the taxt was thor- World Readers trying te part of Jacob Rils Park at Rockaway for a naval aviation field. I do not think this should be done under auy circumstances, New York has not enough playgrounds on. the ocean beaches as it is, Least of all should such a field go to the Navy Department, which, as I understand it, has acted most dishonorably with | the city in regard to the Bay Ridge | barracks ground between the Shore Road and the bay. | As we in this section understood this site was loaned to the navy for the period of the war only. The war is over and’ we are kept out of the park by @ Nigh wire fence that ex- tends for miles aiong the Shore Road. This naval station is not being used, but a guard is kept there to keep people out and away from the shore. This is a shameful abuse and the City Government is recreant in its duty in not opening up this area for public use. The least the navy could do would be to open all the park not actually in use and built up with barracks. A long stretch was never used, but lasfenced off as tight as the part that Is filled with the ugly buildings which are a disgrace tricts in the city. How long are they going to stay? Is the navy still fighting Germany, or what? . BAY RIDGE. Brooklyn, Dec, 12, 1921 Married Women Workers, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World I have read with a great deal of in- terest the letter in your column signed “Bookkeeper,” and the answer by “Pankhurst.” I am glad to see that there are stil! some broad minded people existing in this city. I am interested in these letters be- cause IT am a married woman, with no children, and I am desirous of ob- taining a position, but I have been unable to get a position In my profes- sion because I am a married woman. I am a sicnographer, It scems the business people of to-day are not looking for competent help. Must the marrieg woman lie in looking for a sition or must she go without one? me CONSTANT READER. Irresponsible Taxt Owners. To the Hitttor of The Brening World Several months ago a taxi driver nit my atutomob!le and did consider- able damage. Careful investigation oughly covered by mortgages and I find that I cannot collect a 5-cent piece in covet and that the man has no insurance. The accident was wholly the fault to one of the finest residential dis- | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrlgkt, 1921, by John Blake.) THINK STRAIGHT. Most excuses are dishonest. Make as few as possible. Be sure they are. honest before you make them to others. Be equally sure that they are honest before you make them to yourself, The habit of crooked thinking is easily acquired. Most thieves begin by persuading themselves that some- body else would take a bit of loose change left lying about if they didn’t. Most loafers convince themselves that everybody would loaf if they dared. No man who thinks straight ever tries to fool himself. If he quits a job that he ought to stick to he knows why he quits it. He doesn’t try to make himself believe that it was because he might get a headache if he kept on working too long. ‘ ’ If he passes to another a piece of work he ought to do he knows that he is doing a selfish and a mean thing. He | doesn’t pretend that he didn’t have the time to devote to the task. If you analyze your motives you will think straight. If you think straight you will never fool yourself and you will never try to fool others. Many actions that you know are unworthy can be so twisted about by crooked thinking as to seem almost noble. But look at them squarely and you will not do them. Most «f the trickery and deceit and consequent unhappi- ness in the world could be avoided by straight thinking. The burglar fancies that every man’s hand is against him and that his only means of defense is to raise his hand and carry off other people's property in it. The cheut makes himself believe that if he didn't cheat others would, and consequently he must sand his sugar or mix sawdust with His coffce in order to keep up his end in the grocery business. A little reflection would show him his mistake. And if he began to practise honesty he would find, as all men do in the long run, that it is the only successful business policy. Trickery looks easy but it isn’t. Rascality sometimes seems to prosper but it never brings real success. Straight thinking is the only thing that: brings substan- tial success, and it is the only way to get out of life the joy that is in it for honest men. Foreign-Born Builders ore | America By Svetozar Tonjoroff | XIL—JULIUS STAHEL. Jullus Stahel ts one of the con- tributions which Hungary—or more precisely the Magyar race—has mado to the building of America. In the Austrian Army Stwhel had risen to the rank of Lieutenant when the revolution of 1848 sent a shudder ot unrest through the body politic of the Ola World. ‘The young Magyar promptly threw in his lot with Hungary tn Its strug- gle against Hapsburg-domination. He served with distinction on the staffs of two commanding Generals tn suc- cession, When Hungary was defeated through the intervention of Russia, Stahel, like many another soldier who had followed the fortunes of Louis Kossuth, found himself for the time being a man without a country. By way of Englend and Germany he came to America in search of a country. New York received him with open arms, as it has received legions of liberals of all nationalities who have fought for a lost cause. He became the editor of the Deutsche Iilustrirte Familienblaetter. In 1861 Stahel was appointed Lieu- tenant Colonel of the 8th New York Volunteers; commanded that regi- ment in the first Battle of Bull Rup and was made its Colonel. His experiences on European bat- tleflelds stood him in such good stead that in November, 1861, he received a Brigadier General's commission and ‘was put in command of a brigade in Gen. Louis Blenken's German division In that capacity he took part in the Battle of Cross Keys, Va. on June 8, 1862. Gen, Stahel developed conspicuous qualities as a cavalry leader. He was transferred to the command of a divi- sion in Gen. Franz Sigel’s army corps and on March 14, 1863, was promoted ta Major General. He followed the flag on battlefields until the end of the struggle for the preservation of the Union, and on’ the following year resigned from the mil- itary service, He was appointed Con- sul at Yokohama, but resigned the post three years later because of broken health. After a period of seven years in the mining industry he was again sent to Japan as a Con- sul, and in 1884 was appointed Consul General at Shanghai, which post he resigned in the following year. In the closing years of his life Major Gen. Stahel lived in the Hoffman House. It 1s related of him that a letter addressed “Julius Stahel, Amer~ ica,” found him in the Hoffman House without a day's delay. The Magyar cavalry leader in tho Union Army was a picturesque, chiv- alrous and almost youthful figure of New York life in the thickening twi- light of his years. - | Ten-Minute Studies of New vusk City Government Copyright (New York Erecting, World) by Prom By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the ninety-ninth article of @ series defining the duties of the ad- ministrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Govern- ment. THE JUDICIARY. Municipal Courts. ‘The city is divided into twenty-four Municipal Court districts, there being one court in each district, These are civil courts, presided over by forty~ seven Justices who ere elected fer ten-year terms. The salaries of the Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn Jus- tices ara $8,000 each, those of the Queens and Richmond Justices being $7,000 each. The forty-seven Justices constitute » Board of Justices of the Municipal Court, which elects one of its mem- vers as President, attends to the ap- pointment and assignment of clerks and other employees and makes rules and regulations for conducting the ousiness of all these courts. The board also lays the city out into dis- tricts and assigns Justices to them in guch a way that each sits in rota~ tion in every district in The Municipal Courts tion in civil actions to reeover prop- erty or damages to the value of $1,000¢ also to the same amount in actions upon contract, actions to recover a fine or penalty, to establsh a me- chanic's lien on real property, to fore- close a len on a, chattel, to recover damages for fraud or deceit or for injury to person or property, and ac- tions relating to the termination of partnership agreement, ‘These courts may also provide sys- ums of conciliation and arbitration and may enter judgments upon awards of the tax! driver. My car was stand- ling still in front of a store. He skidded along and smashed right into-gt great to the Federal Government « Dqa's vou thine that there ahouit : mmr. dice" doesn't feaze him, As for the], jou ane. “aten" part of it, some people ar * 8 @ so narrow minded thelr ears rub to-| ‘The yellow ribbon a badge of ‘ gether. RKL honor, In Franco, indi se that the Brockiya, Deg, §, 1981, wearer bas won & aiitatre a be some law te protect us from the recklessness of tax! aulomodiles are and airtight or waterproof? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Dr. faols.” jority) that the term is well pnt. Per- haps there are others equally capable, put how many would offer their skill drivers whose thoroughly hocked JOS. BYRNE. Coprriai, 1981, by the Prem Publ An Ni ow as That. Copeland calis them “damn I consider (as does the ma-| brown. ering of wheat o 8 for the benefit of humanity as Dr teak Dian HAS ayer LINEN. Wee Por Lorenz has? Stamiord (both towns in England) He came here to give his best./in 1809, Weighing 139 pounds, he Here's hoping the ‘financial preju 9 feet 4 inches around’ the waist, e the FTI “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick | Bran is a corruption of the word It Is the brown husk or cov- Daniel Lambert, probably the fat- uit of his leg was 47 inches ot arbitration, They have no equity or criminal jurisdiction and cannot try cases preperty. eee (instituted by Napoleon TL as a minor decoration of the Legion of Honor). The red ribbon marks a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. A rosette indicates a higher grade than that of chevalier, * involving title to real . “Bride of Syria’ was a name given by Arab geographers to the ancient city of Askelon, on the Mediterranean, eos e Stradivari, the world's greatest vio- lin maker, constructed about 280 vio- lins in the Town of Cremona, Italy. Some wag has stated that there are few less than 1,000,000 Stradivari mod. els now in existence, manufactured largely tn the United States, with the Cremona date line pasted inside of all these ‘“‘fiddies,” ‘The genuine "@trad. varius” 1a & perkian ein Ys GF RE