The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1921, Page 10

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Pwbitehed Daily Except Sunday by The Pross Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 62 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row. JOSEPH PULITBER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, A MEASURE OF THE CHANGE. Ya vote of 401 to 58 in the House of Commons and another of 166 to 47 in the House of Lords, the British Parliament rejected Unionist emendmenis to the address from the Throne on the Irish Treaty and thereby registered its over- whelming approval of the proposed settlemem. What a change from former days when they World, Gempaiches credited to ft oF nor otnerwise ereuitea in tam papag ‘ead also the local news pudlishea berein, brought sick and infirm’ members from their beds to Parliament to vote against Home Rule! . What would even as late an Irish leader as John “Redmond have said to such divisions in both Houses? The effect of these British majorities on the Dail shoul be greatly to help the treaty. Even the Ulster opposition may not have been without its use in giving representatives of the South of Ireland the sense of having won a victory over somebody. The Irish temperament needs a tang even in a friendly settlement. Leave the tang if it will make surer the peace. ‘The House and Senate are likely to agree on one resolution at least. Christmas is coming and a holiday recess from Dec. 22 to Jan. 3 will be approved. —_— THEIR ONLY HOPE. R EPRESENTATIVES of New Jersey munici- palities met in Paterson Thursday evening to consider plans for new rapid transit facilities to de- liver commuters direct to Manhattan instead of breaking the trip by ferry passage or crowding into tube trains. . This is a matter of interest to Manhattan as well @s to the New Jerseyites, but if we are to judge by Mayor, Hylan’s attitude toward port development, there is small likelihood that the New Jersey plan will meet with anything except obstruction. If the New Jerseyites actually want to get action and a helping hand from New York City it looks as if they would have to petition Congress and the State Legislatures of New York and New Jersey for incorporation into the City of New York. If the people of Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and Hoboken were New York voters, we should find the Mayor of New York and the Board of Estimate Solicitous of the interests of the New Jersey towns as well as of Staten Island. lf Newark were a part of New York, the Port Authority would not be such a menace and Newark Bay would rank with Jamaica Bay in the consid- eration of municipal officials. A new cloture measure has been introduced fm the Senate. Senators will talk a long while Defore renouncing the privilege of talking as Jong as they want to. Another proposal would “ require Senators to stick to the point in their ~ @iscussions. ‘That is, if anything, more hope- less yet. TOO LATE TO CATCH UP. HE South Carolina convict who has spent 30 years in prison is probably right in preferring to stay on. He is an old man and too far behind the times to catch up with the world as it is. The other day he was taken out for an airing and saw his first autofhobile and his first motion pic- * tures. To the younger generation such a thing is -- almost inconceivable. To the elders it will come as a reminder of the changes they have been permitted to witness. Those who have lived in the midst of the hurly- burly and have experienced the troubles of the last three decades may be inclined to complain. It is not bad to have an occasional reminder of the won- ders achieved in the span of a lifetime. It is no exaggeration to say that the last thirty years have been the most wonderful in the history of the world. It is good to have lived these years instead of spending them in the medieval surround- 7 ings of a prison. ‘The end is not yet. Those who expect to live for the next thirty years may look forward with interest and anticipation. \ PART OF THE LARGER SCHEME. SHE new thrift bonds issued by the Treasury fit a into the present financial scheme. They ‘a prossise to fit even better as America’s new part in ‘ the international financial situation broadens. If the Federal Government is successful in float- ing a quantity of these short time, small denomina- tion bonds, States and municipalities will be tempted follow the example. ela the next few years the investors and savers of ) the United States will be asked to advance huge ‘gums to provide working capital and long term } eredit in foreign countries. ' tthe smaller and less experienced investors can ! be induced to take over an increasing share of the | National debt, the more expericneed holders of large »} fortunes and the banks with foreign connections will have a larger supply of capital to. finance foreign credits. This is a development along the right lines. Small investors cannot have the knowledge on which to make advances abroad. In buying thrift bonds they take no risks of temporary depressions such as those from which the various issues of Liberty bonds have just emerged. They are safe and their invest- ments may be converted into cash plus interest whenever the need arises. In so far as these thrift bonds supersede issues of Treasury certificates they will free the surplus funds of the banks and large investors best able to loan money for financing productive enterprises at home and abroad. The prime advantage, of course, is the encourage- ment of thrift. Every added bit of capital saved is a prop to the whole economic structure of the United States and, in a larger sense, of the world. ONLY RANCOR? S his latest traction contribution Mayor Hylan pushes forward a scheme for a 5<ent bus line to compete with the Fifth Avenue Coach Com- pany and at the same time takes another whack at the Transit Commission : “The Transit Commission and the Traction Trust papers have etarted their propaganda against a system of automobile buses for the people of this city at a 5-cent fare. Their scheme appears to be to allow the traction imterests to ‘grab’ the bus franchise privi- leges and charge a 10-cent fare.” It would hardly look otherwise to the Mayor. The idea that the Transit Commission might be making a business-like investigation of bus opera- tion, including fares, finance and types of bus con- struction, with a view to determining how buses can be utilized im the larger transit plan, could not, of course, be entertained for a fraction of a second at the City Hall. Nobody has any right to discuss buses except under the tutelage of the Mayor, whose one dis- coverable traction policy has been to crowd in 5- cent buses wherever he thought they wouki make him popular. The problem of a unified traction system for the City of New York deserves a little better handling than that. The Transit Commission plan specifically in- cludes: Bus lines necessary to the logical devel- opment of the unified system to be created and allocated as feeders * * * Where necessary or desirable, some of the existing surface lines fhay be transformed into bus lines. Buses can’t be started hit or miss with the sole aim of making a wholesale replacement of surface lines. At the same time there is no question, as The Evening World has frequently insisted, that buses are the handiest, most flexible means of ,meeting cross-town and short haul surface traction needs in sections of Manhattan below 59th Street where street railways have gone from bad, to worse, With his enthusiasm for buses, what a, pity the Mayor can’t co-operate in a sane way with the Transit Commission—at least until the alleged dire designs of the latter are disclosed. What a pity the Mayor can’t appear before the commission at least as*a neutral instead of as a bit- ter enemy. Here is a matter the settlement of which is of vital interest to five and a half million people. What a misfortune that the gity can count on only inveterate suspicion and ingrowing political ranoor from the man who should be its largest- minded advocate and aid. Lockwood Committee revelations indicate the need of some form of continuing punishment which will grow more and more uncomfortable until it finally breaks the spirit of lawless labor leaders and lawless members of con- tracting rings. . A plump business woman who uses the new Interborough turnstiles several times every day calls them “Hedley's Subway Spanking Machines.” “They help one out,” she says, TWICE OVERS. ‘6 HE Exchange (Chicago egg market) sells more eggs in forty-five minutes than all the hens in America could lay in a year.” —Ray E. Lane. * *** 66 THE test of generosity isn’t what you give, but what you've got left.” —Job Hedges. * * ds | Wilson to Rainbow Division Veterans. so. 8 66 J HAVE been in this prison more than a quarter of The world is thirly years ahead of me.’ It is better for me that I live and die here.”—Dan a century. THE' EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1921, AM proud to regard myself as a comrade of all the men of the expeditionary forces.” —Woodrow ireracgrs LA he er of: S uhteach pamioads + 409 oie Beginning to See His Way Out fst 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 hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te cay much in few words. Take time to be brief. “A it and Burfed Causet” ‘To the Editor of The Drening World: I have just laid down The Evening World. I have read it for the last ten or twelve years, usually with in- terest if not conviction, and some- times with amusement. For the last two years it has amused me to see your daily kicks against the pricks of Prohibition. 1 confess in this case to a pretty crude sense of humor because it probably is about on a par with the man who will roar with laughter at the sight of a simple fellow violently kicking the hat that covers a cobblestone. But I am afraid now the element of humor of this type to be derived from your columny is exhausted. I am deploring instead the spectable of a'great newspaper with all its in- fluence, actual or potential, ridicul- ing, deriding, minimizing and actually advising defiance of the laws and law agents of the country. Disrégarding the merits or de- merits of the Eighteenth Amendment and the subsequent enforcement leg- islation, law is law, enacted by a clear and sane majority of the voters of the United States. The constant repetition of the assertion that Pro- hibition has been forced on an un- willing nation, I am sure you Will agree is too silly to discuss. Can you then, by any course of reasoning, justify yeurself as an os- tensibly American institution, ex- isting under the protection of Amer- {can laws, obtaining all your pros- perity under the charter of American principles of obedience to and respect for law, in your open and consistent encouragement of law yiolation? Aren't you, in fact, inciting to an- archy? Isn't that the logical end of your attitude if all your readers fol- lowed your suggestions? Here is a great moral question, the use of alcohol for beverage purposes. Why can’t you encourage morality, even if it is at the expense of your sense of personal pleasure or per- sonal liberty? Isn't there just as much reason for you to publish ad- vice on the most successful methad to make or obtain a narcotic drug as to publish some of the stuff that ap- pears in your pages with reference to booze? Personally I can't see a bit of difference. If no other thought appeals to you, I should think the plain fact that you are fighting for a lost and buried cause would dawn on you eventually, and maybe when that day anmes you will line up for law enforcement whether you personally Ike the law or not R. D. HENKLP. New York, Dec. 15, 1921. An Involved Que ‘To the Editor of The Eroning World With Secretary Gallagher of the Plasterers’ Union admitting his or- ganization fined American citizens employed in New York for working on St. Patrick's Day; ‘ With the historian of Fordham University, ably assisted by several gentlemen whose names savor of Irish ancestry, seeking to change American history as now taught in the public schools, permitting the in- troduction of evidence that Wash- the United States (probably because he was not of Inish origin); * | With the Police Department of | New York denying the right. of as- | semblage, as\provided in the Constitu- | tion, to an association which had not broken the law, at the behest of Mgr. | Dineen of St Patrick's Cathedral; With Alderman W. F. Quinn intro- ducing resolutions calling upon the Secretary of State to ask the British Government what it intends to do about liquidating the bonds the Sinn Feiners floated in this country; With Mayor Hylan prominently identifying himself with and helping to advertise William R. Hearst, whose conduct during the recent war neces- sitated a Senatorial investigation; Why does the City of New York suffer the flag of the Republic of the United States to fly over its City Hall? JAMES F. MACAULEY: Responsibilities, * ‘To the Faitor of The Evening Workl: The exquisite abandon with which some people regard their responsi- bilities is amusing to those who can recognize a joke. For example, a married couple write to a morning paper as follows: “Let those who enter matrimony live faithfully to the responsibilites they have assumed and let the State provide for the children whose par- ents are unable financially to support them.” O sancta simplicitas! Here is a question that some day will con- found the world’s ablest statesmen settled by the improvident actors themselves as easily as rolling off a oR. New York, Dec. 16, 1921. To the Editor of The Evening World In answer to “W.*J.'s" question as to the meaning of the “ss.” in legal papers, I would say that its meaning and etymology is not obscure, “Ss.” is an abbreviation for the Latin licet," which is a contrac- tion of “scire licet,” literally trans- lated, “it is permitted to know.” The accepted free translation is “to wit." The only obscure question relative to “ss.” is the reason for its con- tinued use, W. AS. New York, Dee. 16, 1921, Another Definition, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: After reading the “Soakum Sarah" letter I wonder it “W. J.” has been enlightened as to the meaning of: “City of New York, County of New York, State of New York, 85,2” If not, perhaps his curiosity may be satisfied by the following definition which I have taken from an old book which contains a list of law terms, quotations, phrases, &c., from the Latin, French, Greek, & “Ss.—Scilicet: that is to sa A number of years ago I heard the same question asked by several at- torneys atid at the time none of their fellow members of the bar could an- swer. They simply acknowledged that they did not know In uny exent, “W, J." may wish to ington was not the first President of add this to the several definitions he already has. LMM anything. Most men who suddenly rise to important positions are called upstarts by people who can never rise at all, It is common to say that a person whose parents were poor, and whose ancestors never were mentioned by histor- jars has no “background ” The upstart has no background, He has no ancestry of which to boast. organized a big corporation, or another who was a United States Senator or a Justice of the Supreme Court. Sometimes, if he has risen in a hurry, he even makes a r, or displays ignorance of which fork to select for the oysters when he is invited out to dinner. His case is slip in gram: really deplorable. ~'But the people who usually deplore it are people who have backgrounds and nothing else. background is that it is painted on the past, and the past, unfortunately, is unable to do much to help us in the present. UNCOMMON SENSE By Jolin Blake + (Copyright, 1921.-by John Blake.) AS TO BACKGROUNDS. “Upstart” is a word applied usually to a man who ac- complishes something by people who cannot accomplish He cannot point to a grandfather who The trouble with a Abraham Lincoln had no background. Neither did Na- poleon Bonaparte. The background of David Lloyd George is a little Wélsh shoemaking shop, where the relative that brought him up taught him to take off his hat to fat, self-important squires who now, were they alive, would be glad enough to take off their hats to him. If a background were necessary to achievement there would be very little achievement. As a matter of fact, the man without a background is more likely to make a stir in the world than the man with one, The man with Yhe background lives on the prominence it gives him. Seldom does he make the effort to get some- where on his own account. If he does, he is really deserving of more credit than our much abused friend the upstart. __ You can afford to be called an upstart if.you are a sue- cess. You can afford to be without a background if you substitute for it the prominence'that comes with something accomplished. There are few backgrounds; not nearly enough to go "round. Most of us must start without them, and the lack is not going to be any handicap whatever. From the Wise Women bestow on friendship they borrow from only what love.—Chamfort. Though the rose grows on @ thorn, it does not thereby lose its perfume,—Rabbi Santob. The man who is most slow in promising is most sure to keep his word.—Rousseau, As the Saying Is “ALL TALK AND NO CIDER.” An American colloquidlism which finds its English equivalent in the proverb ‘Much cry and little wool.” This phrase originated at a party in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which superior cider, but, politics being in- troduced, speeches wete made and Aiscussion ensued till some malcon- | tents withdrew on the plea that it He that will lose his friend for | was a trap into which they had been a jest deserves to die a beggar, ‘| ured, politics and not pleasure being —T. Fuller, | the purpose of the meeting, or, a they called it, “all talk and no cider, {in the poetry of the futur | verse: \If | “Beauty,” had assembled to drink a barrel of HEN old Grimes died, he @ son— The graft of worthy stocks In deed and word he shows itmself A chip of the old dlock. In youth, ’lis said, he liked not schoo Of tasks he was no lover; He wrote sums in a ciphering book, Whick had a pasfeboard cover. Young Grimes ne'er went to see th girls | Before he was fourteen: Nor smoked, nor swore, for knew Gave Mrs. Grimes much pain. that He never was extravagant In pleasure, dress, or board; His Sunday suit was of bluc cloth, At six and eight a yard. Because it is not likely that any one will guess who wrote these line we will mention right away that i was Walt Whitman. hey are found in Prof, Emory Holj loway’s “The Uncollected Poetry ani Prose of Walt Whitman” (Doubledaj Page & Company), and they wey wiitten in 1839, when Whitman twenty ; eee es The Rich Man's Day in Song In his book of essays, “T! Nest” (Knopt), and 1 They Go Riding By,’ Jr. says: Some day when our modern types of capitalists are in. the! turn, will future poets sing of th fine deeds and make young reader dream? Our capitalists are not popular ii these days, but the knights weren't in theirs, and whenever abuse gro extreme ‘a reaction will (follow. ‘Our critics and reformers thin they will be the do we sing of ¢ the ages of chivalry? It is the knights we remember a even old Front-de-Bocuf —and the meno dewlize ours. the paper Clarence D idealize, They were do the future will predatory inte: will seem them gallant and strong. In this vision of how they may iivé We suppose the “interests” will fin solace for a present in blankety-blan) o 8 the Queen—Why Not Mary Janel. «+ Florence Guy Woolston meditati thus, in the New Republic. on a po sible extension of the privileges her sex: Albertism begins with a man’: right to be wooed. In royal circle: this has always been conceded. A queen does not have to hang back modestly, -offering only such gifts as books, flowers and an occa~ sional box of candy. After she has cast an appraising eye over the whole masculine world, she says, “Dll take this one,” and she does. If, as the French sociologist 7: says, customs pass doWn from the} higher to the lower walks of life, the privileges always accorded to queens may ultimately be granted to Mary and Jane. must be, in fact Of course. ther we know there are, many’ men in the world (oo timid to take the initiative in mating, men who would gladly be wooed but who haven't! the egotism or courage to do it for themselves. What a ‘relief for them to wait quietly, knowing that some day a man Will come to them and say, You aro mine!" An amendment produced the elec tive feminist; how simple, by ch prefixing of a single letter “s” tq render her also selective. . * . Love Her Not Too Much.---~ Two stanzas from a little poem ot found in “Nets to Catell the Wind” (Harcourt, Brace & Co. a book of verse by Elinor Wyile: Say not of Beauty she is good, Or aught put beautiful, Or sleck to doves’ wings of the wood Her wild wings of a gull. Gall her no® wicked; that word’s ti Consumes her like @ curse, Isut love her not too much, too m For that is even wor: ° . The Simple Prohibited Life.--+ Turn a page of Harold Stea: “America and the Young Int tual" (Doran) and read this: In plain truth, the whole cor try is engulfed in a flood of pet! regulations of all kinds, and ens getic organizations devoted to task of meddling with everythin; and seeing that everybody ta dull and stupid as themselves, to day hold the whip hand. The Eighteenth Amendment {i but a symbol of the times. stands, in fact, for the prohibitio of everything. What we Americans are insane} trying to do is to make our elvill zation fool-proof. The chi are {t cannot be done, yet in far as we succeed,.we shall dis cover that we are making it geni ius-proof as well. F And in the twentieth conta: America, the chances are becomi ing slimmer and slimmer eve day of leading any other kind o life than the monotonous minor. ity-ruled, untmaginative exist ence of the great average. Youth is gradually awakenin, tb this dreary fact and 1s prop erly resentful. What well may worry the tors—the everlasting family of its—ts the fact that !n a proper sentment are the essential eleme of reaction, oe e Anti-War and Unemployment, - « Referring in the Nlustrated Lon News to the argument that aboli of war will throw out of work makers of guns and munitions, Chesterton says: I do not know whether an wood-cutters were thrown out work when people abandon practice of burning witchei it is clear that people could mi go on burning witches merely give employment to wood-cut ters. I do not know whether the: was a convulsion in the mark when the manufacturers of rac’ ceased to have orders from ti Government: but It is clear t& the Government could not p some people on the rack mer to avoid putting other people the rat I do not know {f the thum screw factories presented a f ea when all their bright machinery had been but it is clear that we cot in logic maintain the Inquisition merely gave employment number of industrious tortur and deserving executioners, The industrial argument for war, so to ape reduced thus, by th Crestertanion logic, to ® poisonous: gaseous state,