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_-- PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 58 to 68 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. ‘ —_— * Phe Associated Prev te exciusively entiued to the use for republieatlow® of ai) news despatches credited to It or noc otnerwise ereuitea in tase papee and slso the local news publishea berein CARDS DOWN ECRETARY HUGHES is rep@rted to have used plain words in committee meetings where the French navy demands ‘were under consideration. Premier Briand is reported to have made soothing Statements in London in seply to a message from Washington Nevertheless, Wr. Hughes might bette lave brought the American protest out into the open ts he did with his initial programme. Jt might be well for Frenchmen, as distinguished vfrom French politicians, to get a frank and friendly | but concise interpretation of American opinion. \ The United States sympathizes with the French Mesire for reparations from Germany. If some | Americans approve the so-called indemnity mora- -torium, it is not out of pity for Germany, but in the belief that France will, in the long run, get more out of a solvent Germany than from a bankrupt Ger- many. ~" But the United States wants reparations to go for reparation, for the rebuilding of devastated regions, for the reduction of debt and for care of the victims of war. ~ The United States would not lift a hand to collect “German indemnities to be sunk in new naval build- hg. France has no need for a big navy. Certainly it “has no need for a big navy for “security” from a | “Germany stripped of sea fighting power. | The general impression is that France is advancing sthis claim as a bargaining point. France should be sgmade to understand once and for all that the United States will not bargain on any such basis. Mr. Hughes won his first triumph with his cards gn the table, This is the way to continue. With | ards on the table it is impossible to bluff. If France is bluffing, now is the time to, call for a showdown. Let France see that her good name and security are “tnenaced by these warlike gestures, gr Tell it to the people of France. Go over the “heads of the politicians. Find out whether the “French people want to pay for battleships and then ‘go it alone in international affairs. veut Robbers Raid Capitol Theatre, Lock Up Of- -+ficials, Get $10,000.—Headline. ~. Armed Bandits Rob Cigar Store as Crowds Pass.—Headline. Detective Sees His Own Car Stolen.—Head- line. By these tokens the “mollis” will know that Christmas is coming and that the gangsters have not forgotten the seasonal obligations. CLEARED UP? HE public may be pardoned for not being quite | so confident as William J. Burns, Director of | # Bureau of Investigation of the Department of ustice, that the alleged confession of Wolfe Lin- denfeld, arrested in Warsaw, has cleared up the mystery of the Wall Street bomb explosicn of September, 1920 By Mr. Burns’s cwn account, Lindenfeld, or Linde, as he was known in this country, was a professional “stool pigeon” who claimed to be in touch with the more violent radical elements. Mr. Burns admits that after his department sent Linde to Europe fol- lowing the explosion, “apparently he (Linde) got ¢old feet and lost his nerve, for we did noi hear from him for months.” Burns sent another man to find inde, and now the latter, under arrest, tells an Haborate story of how the Wall Street explosion Was planned and perpetrated. “Would it be more incredible that this siory should mot be true than that Linde had framed it for his wn purposes? “This question does not seem to’bother Mr. Burns. But it will stick in the mind of the public until more corroborative evidence is forthcoming. SAINT-SAENS, | HERE'S a lot in a teakettle. Out of one James Watt got the steam engine. Out of another a famous Frenchman who has just died got the start of four-score years of music, the first forty of which won for him from Wagner the title of “the greatest of living French com- posers,” and from Liszt: “We are the only two men left in Europe who know how to play the piano.” “In his memoirs, published a decade ago, Saint- Saens wrote: “When just out of my nurse's arms I began ~» Metening to every noise. My greatest pleasure was the symphony of the kettle on the hob. I used to listen with passionate interest to its slow and surprising creseendo and finally its song like that of an oboe. Berlioz must have listened to that same oboe, for I heard it afterward in the ‘Damnation of Faust’ in the ‘Ride to Hell.’” - At the age of two and a half the teaketile admirer was playing the piano, at five he composed waltzes, and at ten he gave his first public concert, piaying Mozart and Beethoven with an Italian orchestra. He says again in the memoirs: ; | “At five I played quite prettily and correctly many sonatinas, but I would consent to play them only before persons capable of appreciat- ing them. It is quite untrue that, as T have read in a biography, I was ever made to play by threats of spanking, but in order to induce me to play I had to be told that there was some one in the audience with a fastidious musical taste. I refused to play to unappre- clative ears.” 7 This last foreshadows something of the tempera- ment that gave Paris and the world a sensation thirty years ago, when Saint-Saens’s opera “Ascanio” was first produced. The composer failed to show up at the opening, and in fact disappeared completely. One rumor had him dead, others said he was either hiding near Paris or embarked on a trip to the Far East, still others located him in a lunatic asylum. At last he was discovered at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, where, under the borrowed name of Dr, Charles Sannois, he had been going serenely ibout disguised in big blue spectacles anid dressed like a British tourist, soothing his nerves by a resi from unsympathetic fete contacts and by “comple abstinence from music.” “If it's not clear,” said Voltaire of his beloved native language, “it’s not French.” Something similar could be said of French music when it keeps to its native purity, fluency and grace, unbeguiled by foreign influences. Of French music, loyally and distinctively French, Saint-Saens was one of the greatest and most richly gifted ¢ It was a French teakettle that sing its oboe claritics into his French ear. ‘oducers. UNDER A BUNGLED LAW. ERY likely the Cunard Line fs guilty of all that Secretary Davis brought.in Hungarian inunigrants in excess of the quota. If this can be proved, the company ought to be fined according to law. But when all this is admitted, the fact remains that Congress and the immigration authorities are fundamentally to blame for the condition. Congress enacted the present law over the protests of many who saw how the situation was bound to develop. The present law puts a premium on just the scrt of trickery charged against the Cunard Line. Even when there is no trickery it has led to equally un- desirable situations in which vessels race from the three-mile limit to Quarantine in hopes of landing one ship load of immigrants to the exclusion of others who may have started earlier on a slower ship. ‘The Immigration Service, according to the last report, is self-sustaining. If Congress desires to continue the present system of immigration, it is bound by a decent regard for humanity and inter- national good will to devise a better system of im- migration control even if it entails some expense. Examination of immigrants in Europe and regula- tion of quotas before the emigrants embark is an obyious and common sense preventive of such abuses as those recited by Secretary Davis Europe is objecting to the hardships imposed by American immigration restrictions. The natural consequence is bound to be retaliatory restrictions on Americans travelling in Europe. These hardships in either direction can best be prevented by sensible legislation and not by fines and international pro- tests after human beings have suffered from the workings of a faulty law. says. Very possibly it The most effective disapproval of the Meyer committee scheme for municipal reorganiza- tion will be for the minority to devise a better ¢plan than the majority has put forward. NO PERMANENT JOB FOR MARINES. egal em use of the marines as mail guards is stirring up opposition in Congress and out. The longer the marines are employed in this way the stronger the opposition will become. Many of the objections raised are not sound. The strongest is that the marines are marines and should be kept available for their regular service. When a command is scattered it loses the very things that distinguish the marines—esprit de corps and perfect preparation for duty. In the emergency it was wise to employ the marines. But the Post Office should lose no time in organizing a guard force to do the work the marines are now doing. In addition fo the regular inspection service, a guard organization modelled on the general lines of the Canadian Northwestern Mounted Police ought to do the work even better than the marines, It is always bad to put a soldier on a civilian job. Normally the soldier is under the discipline of officers chosen with a regard for their good judgment. Free the soldier from this disciplined leadership and he is likely to fail when judgment is needed. A Christmas shopper undertook to pass an “unbreakable doll” through one of Hedley’s Subway Spankers, The spanker proved the salesman a liar, CHARLES M. SCHWAB’S PRAYER, O take the tax from off our backs, Then let the Bagle scream, The smoke will pour and flres roar While we all get up steam! No dues to pay, O happy day! With joy now unconfined, And things will hum and money come Where ore and coal are mined! % THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1921. _As Lodge Explains It_ (rhe, New ork Erertng, World) iy the” Press Publishing Co. By John Cassel | | Epoch-Mak ing i From Eveiing There is fine mental exercise a ay much in few words. “The Drift to the Cities.” ‘To the kditor of The Evening World: I noticed with great interest your editorial of Tuesday, Dec. 13, on the case of Norway, Maine, entitled “The Drift to the Cities.” I wonder if this is not something more than an Isolated situation of a town’s disappearance? ‘Those who have watched the forestry problem in the United States will appreciate that this is more than a matter involving a single town. It is the specific de- Norway, Maine, which is in no sense different from scores of other com- munities of equal size and former im- portance. As the forests of New &ng- land and New York have disappeared these places have become denuded communities. You will see any number of lumber | towns which have been scrapped, sometimes burned, because of the timber we get which made their lives possible. The retention of forests in those localities would have prevented this economic waste and would have made these towns self-perpetuating by providing them’ with a continuous supply of the raw material on which their industries depended. WARREN B. BULLOCK, Secretary the National Forestry Programme Committee. New York, Dec. 15, 1921. The Chiropractor’s Side. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I note in your issue of Dec. 14 an editorial headed Medical Ethics,” 1 wish to commend you on this. This is the first time I have seen a straight-from-the-shoulder article by a disinterested newspaper. Medical ethics have long caused that profes- sion to remain in a mediaeval state, in go far as modern business methods are concerned, When Harvey propounded the the- were the first to question his sanity, theory accepted, attitude as expressed toward the Brooklyn chiropractor, Personally, I'm not acquainted with that chiropractor, and do not know his ability; the world I medical societies would condemn him. he |s prosecuted, But medical men the comment is merely, "The operation was successful, the patient died.” cal brethern will swear, that the treatment was correct, judge his ability. velopment accentuating jhe case of | “The Mystery of ory of blood circulation the physicians and not until fifty years later was his But 1 must differ with you in your but wero ho the bost in do not doubt that the When a man dies in a chiropractor’s hands much is made of the fact, and when thou- sands die from the carvings of the but If the ability of the surgeon is questioned, his medi- ethically, In the chiropractor’s case, medical men ‘The latter only know of chiroprac- World Readers What kind ot letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? nd a lot of satisfaction in trying te Take time to be brief. charlatans may practise whatever’ they please, Last year the chiropractors tried to have the New York Legislature pass 4n act licensing chiropractors aud bermitting them to weed out the in- competents. This was defeated by the medical men. This year they rant and rage about our incompetency, but would prevent us from standardizing the profess.on. It appears that medical ethics do not tolerate honesty of purpose and consistency, A. KIRSCHENBAUM, D. ©, Westfield, N. J., Dec. 15, 1921. | Blue Laws and Sunday. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Many appreciate the articles The Evening World on the subjee' a "Blue Law Sunday in the Light of | |the Bible and History.” We rejoice that there is one New York paper that does not fear these religio- political howlers. The thirteenth contribution should be an eyeopener to every thinking Amcrican citizen, It should be ap- parent to all what would happen if the Bowlbys and Crafts have their way in enforcing Sunday laws. We could not buy a Sunday paper then. Christ never advocated enforcing the Sabbath by State law. These men must ‘have lost their hold upon God or they never would want to force men to go to church. Men like Knox or Wesley would never approve of the union of church and State again. Keep up the good work and let all voters know that if they ever vote for a blue law that they—the voters—will be the first to regret that in} | BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Comreteht, 1031. (New Paeey Deane Wort. 1. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. It was a remarkable coincidence that the Declaration of Independence and the “Wealth of Nations," the one announcing the political and the other the economic freedom of mankind, should have appeared at the same time—the midsummer of the ever memorable year 1776, Total strangers to each other, sep- arated by the vast expanse of the Atlantic, the American and the Scotchman, Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith, were brothers of t spirit and were unconsciously work - ing together for the same end—the emancipation of men ‘from the tyi- anny of ancient superstiztens, Of the Scotchman’s work Buckle said: ‘Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations,’ looking at its ultimate re- sults, is probably the most important book that has ever been written, and it Is certainly the most valuable cou- tribution ever made by a single man toward establishing the principles on which government should be based. | This solitary Scotchman has, by th | publication of one single work, done } | more for the happiness of man tha has been effected by all the statesmen j and legislators of whom history has preserved any account.” Corroborative of Buckle's woiis are those of Sir Jams Mackinto “If books are to be measured by |i, effects they have produced on tn fortunes of mankind, :he ‘Weaitt: Nations’ must ever rank among (:) | greatest books ever published.” | There were political economists be- | fore Smith, but it was the Glasgow | professor who laid (ie foundation « |the science and shaped economic | thought along the lines from whic! | they were never to swerve, Before Smith's time the interesis of nations were supposed to be u | metrically opposed, the wealth tii was added to one being necessarily taken from the others, commerce |) ing a kind of BALANCE in whici |a gain on one side meant a co: | responding loss on the other. blow that was struck at the prosper |ity of one nation was held to be .n | advantage to the rest, since it dimin- ished the number of those amon; whom the wealth of the world be divided. To make each nation self-subsisting, and to create an 4 tipathy against the idea of export its gold, was the main task of tit political solons of the time. au this foolisiiness vas swe. “Wealth of } country depends ‘capital on its habit of showed that gold is not we alt the representative of wealth, we being the value which labor and sk:'l add to raw matertal, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Wopyright, 1921.-by John Bial IT CAN BE DONE. K Somewhere in the world to-day is a man who will be President of the United States twenty years from now, ap other who in the same space of time will be Premier of Great Britain, another who will be the world’s foremost writer 01 painter or statesman. Perhaps you know one of these men. If you do, it is possible that you foresee a brilliant future for him. The chances are that you do nothing of the kind. In all proba- bility you regard him as a very commonplace sort of a chap —a little studious maybe, a little disposed to work harder than you think he ought to work. Chance, of course, will lay a gr nt init: er But chance wil" never come to your indolent neighbor to your shirking office mate, to the majority of the peopl. with whom you come into daily contact. Chance of that sort knows where it is going. Aod it goes to those who are ready to meet it. We reccive letters occasionally from young men who take us bitterly to task for saying repeatedly that the big places in the world can be had by working for them. The big places, these young men feel, are only for the few and only accident distributes them. But every day these big places are being filled, as they become vacant, They are being filled by men who have had their eyes on them tor years, and who have toiled and made sacrifices and given up pleasures that they might be ready to fill them when they came. There will be as many or more big places by and by. Life is a continual procession, and one by one its leaders drop out and give the next man a chance. act when it curtails their liberty. ‘Phe Sabbath is not Sunday anyway. HE J. Brooklyn, Dec. 14, 1921. Twe Pre To the Pilitor of The Bve our editorial section ts far and away funnier than your comic sec- tion. Every move which Mr. Har- ding or Mr. Hughes makes which meets with your approval—why, it is Mr, Wilson's idea. It seems to me that Mr. Wilson went to Europe with unprecedented prestige and’ power, He promised Congress he would be constantly in touch with it. How did he keep that promise? If 1 remember cor- rectly, he came home and boasted that ‘he had so interwoven the treaty and his pet League that the Senate would have to swallow his dose hook, line and sinker, ‘The American people re- pudiated him, but he went to Paris and told the Europeans he held a mandate from the American People. The American people gave Mr. Wilson and his party the same sort of a tic by hearsay. Any medical man| mandate in November, 1920, yet net- |who 1s broad-minded and honest|ther you nor the rest of the hypno- |with himself, after investiga.ing| tized ones seem to have sense enough ‘chiropractic thoroughly, admits che|to stop harping on this document no | logic of this science, ‘The medical men call us fakers and charlatans, but if we agree to|can see any similarity in study the same number of unessen- tlal subjects a# they, the fakers and thi two people could ever agree on, How any person in hia right mind what a Harding date ond to. ie mo: than I can see, Honestly, can po Accident seldom has anything to do with selecting their successors. Their successors select themselves, and make the selection edrly enough to be equipped when the time comes. The boy who makes up his mind that he is going to be somebody worth being, nearly always attains his object—if he is willing to work and to fight for it. It is stupid to say that it can’t be done, when it is being done right along—be: fore your eyes, everywhere. Every time you read in the paper that some man hes taken the place ‘of some other man at the head of a big establishracnt you see the proof that it can be done, But it can’t be done by wishing. It must be done 1! y continued effort and continued willingness to take the haid knocks of life. Determination may not make you‘ President of the United States, but it will make you something far bigger and more important than you could ever be without it. | , oy “Lansing to occupy the limelight as Mr. sing has? Mr, Wiison 50 scorned the intelligence of his fellow- men, he could not keep a Cabinet officer, unless he happened to be tamed to the Great One's opinions. ‘We sent an American delegation to Paris, but they scarcely ever knew on, let alone actively pied the White House, tude for keeping us out. RD. MU Brooklya, Dee. 16, 1921, Mr. Wilson had the same opportuni- ties as Mr. Harding. Why did he not do something real, instead of dream- ing classic and impractical things? ARTHU! DPELL. He showed that the’ penefits trade must be veciprve.i and each nation participates in the prea pevity of the family of nations From the “Wealth of Nations” » | teal economists learned that a com: > reial country cannot prosper %y \ the Joss of other nations: that ¢ 14 {mation has an interest in the pr perity of all other nations, just shopman has an interest ‘n the jr perity of his customers; and that the |markets of the world ar closely connected that it is impo n serious derangement to 1, im any one of them without Re evil effect, vibrating throu them al WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD ° 114.—HARVEST. No word more plainly shows | kinship of human races than the worl “harvest.” In the Latin we find the | word “carpo,” to pluck. Again, in | the Greek, occurs the word “karpos,” | fruit. In the Anglo-Saxon we meet |with “hoerfest,” crop of autumn. {i is reasonable to suppose that (ie Anglo-Saxons called the autuir q tho “noerfest,” because in that season th: | crops are gathered, “Fall,’ the other word correct used for iumn, or the harvest-t jot the year, is also based upon idea of the ripeness of the fruits o crops. It was natural for the falling of the ieav and fruits to suggest to the primitive—and therefore direct mind the use of the word “fall” for autumn. It is worth while noting that the Latin word “auctumnus,” the ances- tor of our term autu: is derived from ‘“auctus.” increase, growth thus carrying out the idea of harvest time. “‘That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Convright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co TThe New York Prening World) i Among the holy retreats of Chris- tendom besides Bethlehem, Nazaretli, Gethsemane and Calvary is Montser- rat, the sacred mountain of the Cata- lunes, Italy, a gigantic pile of serrated granite more than 4,000 feet high, fantastically fashioned by nature. Built on Montserrat is the won derful monastery (Monasterio dei Montserrat) described as “an eyric cloister built of yellow bricks, where, Ignatius Loyola renounced the world, dedicating his life to religious effort’ and founding the order of Jesuits, There repose the Santa Imagen de la Virgin, carved, accord- ing to tradition, by St, Luke and carried by St. Peter to Spain. Thero is also the Holy Grail, the most sacred vessel in ecclesiastical records, and, nearby, Salome, the woman who received the head of John the Bap- tist in a charger, "met an appropriate death.” os The “Sidonian Tinctures” were pur- ARAL PPAR RAPP LLP LPP LPPLLALLRPPPPPPAPRP NA | Die dye, Tyrian purple. The Tyrians and Sidonians were world famed for their purple dye. been the most colossal egoist and ae most arrogant man who ever occu- the United States would now be in the League. ‘We at least owe him a debt of grati. St. Elizabeth of Hungary ts the patron saint of Queens, and she was also in life a Queen. Her day is Jul 9 (1207-1281). AR on As the result of a war of exters) nation against beasts, the last w in Scotland was killed in 1680 by Cameron of Lochiel, and the last wolf ia irelan wag destroyed at Cork tn