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THE EVENING WORLD, boy who has not learned to work under the guid- t — - rere aero , - Merry-Xmas! ing eye and protecting hand of his father is a poor . Sane 6 specimen, “not worth his salt,” as the saying goes, anaicd Tar SHED BY sommPH rivarzen.§ | | and likely to develop into a chronic toate, Company, 00.453 to 4: iN 3 But that is not what constitutes the danger from “child labor.” Senator McCumber is makiny a wide and dangerous generalization. Conditions differ in _| other places. | There is no longer a question as to the ill effects of long hours, monotonous toil, restricted educa- MR. BURNS’S OWN WORD FOR IT. tional opportunities and one-sided development that ILLIAM J. BURNS may be an efficient pri- result from child labor in industrial centres, or even vate detective. He may be a successful in specialized farm work where children a** em Organiser of industrial espionage systems. But 4e ployed under taskmasiers instead of “helping BS not Ge man to head the United States Secret | father’ This ts made clear by his comment and by his BOOST THE BUS. By John Cassel In Addicks = _— = By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory com te a ere | IN HIS “OWN COUNTRY,”=«Mai 6: 14. “And He went out from théenes me into His own country.” ~ “His OWN COUNTRY!” sounds teal good. After an endless round of shop-ts about the Great Teacher—the met physical disquisitions, the theolo; wranglings, the dry-as-dust polen —it is refreshing to learn that J really belonged SOMPWHERE this FARTH, where the rest of t## tr and laugh and cry and work and req and worry and rejoice. | ; ee ; ‘The oniy locality we have Dees, i general attitude toward the reported confession of ONG before the present. Transit Commission the habit of sescelating with t f Linde, or Lindenfeld, in ‘Warsaw. H wae wot on the fob. Tha Rventne World Great Teacher is “Heaven,” ancy : Before Mr. Burns left for Washington yesterday | 4 : a : } ‘ pee i ‘ Heaven {s all right, but ft fesecel oo Pt eporter ees pointed out that any far-sighted traction plan mus’ FAR AWAY in the hasy distahce! \ ¥ , oa a eal : tae. {00k to the largest possible elimination of surface PAS oie Gabiee (Sey cae ‘ zi ; Nobody who ever had anything to do with Lin- gest possible ator surfa of the estual planet, and cas } fe : @enéeld has anything but the worst to say of him. | car tracks in Mantuttan, partioularly south of 59th reached in a few days, and seem <i * Does his reputation for lying, double dealing and | Street, with the substitution of the more flexible, hrpaylven and profiel | @ieral crookedness affect your conclusions?” adaptable and easily rerouted bus. landacaps that the Great Teacher And Mr. Burns answered, “No.” often beheld, and walk over the land that Ho walked over. Reaching Hie own country kindred, He went into the pulpit the local synagogue and began teach—and In an instant there w4 a mighty commotion! “Who is this wonderful Why, he 1s our own Joshua, the of Joseph the carpenter. Right on the rear seat, are his James, Joses, Judas and Simon, there are his sisters also. We them well, And now he is the ‘ of God! Everywhere the people my after Him. He even has the audastt to alr his great pretensions before OY But He can't fool us. We know @ about Him.” They were deeply of fended. Poor Galileans! Poor Nuzarened “That is not the right for the Chief of the That this view was not visionary is made plain Gecret Service to take. ~ | by the recommendations of the Transit Commis- There is no denying the fact that, rightly or | Sion’s consulting engineer. The latter would make feretigly, our system of justice is under a fire of @ clean sweep of 100 of the 248 miles of surface @ziticism at home and abroad. The Mooney case is | car tracks now laid in the streets of Manhattan. responsible, Kt behooves the _United | He would remove surface cars from Second, Lex- iit poy tone erasers. that nothing will hepa Seventh, Ninth and Columbus Avenues. " Linde’s confession is not worth the cable tolls to le would retain crosstown surface lines only on tring it from Warsaw. His testimony would be Grand Street, Eighth, 14th, 34th, 42d, 59th, 125th worse than worthless. and streets above. On remaining surface lines he ; That much is already established on the admis- | would increase and speed up surface Car movement / sion of Linde’s former employer, Mr. Witliam J. | during rush hours under special police supervision. % Burs, now Chief of the United States Secret Where surface tracks are removed he would use “ ix Service. = ‘ bus lines as feeders, with a single fare and transfers. They were cheap enough to secel , This is, of course, only the b i a the insulting and belittling sloga | aan Commenting on President Harding's abrupt his is, of course, only the barest outline of a that “nothing good could come out ¢ Pee change of front yesterday regarding the applica | plan that calls for exhaustive, expert criticism and Nica rethi ai 0) UY reer ie Ge! tion of the Four Power Treaty to the “homeland ducusson Be ety of thelr tilustrious coem oe of Japan,” Senator Borah said; “We have now . i man. a ig had tW6 different interpretations inside of six | _‘!t would be foolish to rush ahead with the elimi- Pe wien uals Naess chee Rowre.” ‘Then he wanted some mathematician | nation of surface transit facilities faster than new ordeal with His accustomed seren & ‘. to tell us “how many interpretations we will see | ‘i : 4 amie did not quarrel with them, 4 —p of ten years. |} subways can take care of a traffic increase that has Maid te, them, ine ute i ititerpretations came ev rs we seven } s be subw: “A prophet is not with x eliould have 14,610 in ten jan, ast enuaine Rep Se ver, JMS. Deore the presen suondyer Net honor, save in his own country, 3 Geet tants | : can the city be expected to do a billion dollars’ his own kin, and in his ‘y = apply in this case. When there are only ald hou FS q » two pdsaible interpretations, one “ddes” and one worth of digging in the next year or two. _An ancient poet once called J Me Og “one of the finest gentlemen = “dows not,” ¥t only requires six hours to exhaust =| But there is wisdom in planning rationally and ever breathed:” and because He a the available supply. . yt 2 eS aa such a gentleman the Great Teac > <a . | practically toward an ultimate goal. quietly retired from His native not wishing to offend those who offended Him, and talked to the ple of the surrounding villages. ; x laa A CHILDLESS HEAVEN! That goal shouid be the disappearance of surface \ 4 " cks q 2 ver ha : z Pert the greatest man os IR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE has added io | 2nd elevated tracks from at least the lower half of ~ = 7 classic, Greece ever produced ae the existing surplus of descriptions of heaven | Manhattan. In effecting this, the great aid to sub- Fro Ev i in Wo r Id R d s % Fee oe Sie cetera aeoe a lh @s revealed to Spiritualists. His agrees with previ ways is bound to be the bus. m ek ¢ eader UNCOMMON SENSE grandest victory, One day the i Bk c it di ay the Seas ous | a aS “a er saga only because it differs fror v the Me-| In the busy centre section of London there are What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one Oe ere ith nis uplifted Bs oe Considering tumber of absolutely bom tile in- | no trofleys and no surface or elevated tracks. That that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? Jol Blak Instead of drawing his own < side revelations on record, it is surprisirg that all i There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in' trying te By John ake and precipitating physical he & i get the ge ek part of the enormous passenger traffic that does not “ay much jn few words Take time to be briet sre SoA ey tii Bi fis fill height and folding Bis a et ‘ use the underground tubes is served by buses. The Detalls Wanted. {the meeting, exercised the right of uid quietly to his tnsulter, 8 é ‘ According to Sir Artur, the journey over the | : iba phil To the Falivor othe evening World |:iny citizen, namely, to ask that the THE SLUMP. HUE Ge Ba a ‘Styx ig something like a trip to Old Home Week | sane is true of Paris. Will I. D. Henkle, whose letter ap-| Police Department do its duty, The, han | i ae , 7 i 217 diy |Uepurtment did. { To ave SianeatiT here GOuie eiot 3 | 3 \ . im Gopher Prairie, but with this difference: When | Granted where traffic in dona is is | PS nthe ith instant, Kindly |" ane resolutions introduced by Alder- CUE senate UU TIAN OM WOM ene QnSkes Coie thes 6 a Ta tia Make eh, hen aM ed ee ic io London and Paris is |specity the dates or give quotations Tinh We Guinit deserve ca much | $ depression, WHERE DID YOU GET ey you go A Street you take the fainiiv | radiating, traffic in New York is mainly up and | from The Evening World in which It} sane consideration as any other) Work seems harder and more profitless. The future AT wo. ? 1 Fe and exhibit them to the old neighbors. You: wife | . i oe advocates defiance of the Bighteenth ; resolutions | seme t » ; i TH RD | E3 is Z ws down, Nevertheless, New York has instinctively | Amendment, or any other law ino’ choose his own company is the seems bleak. Progress seems unattainable . 4 a dresses her best to impress the wives of ok! friends, nen aoe i Le {Amendment or uny other law. Also) jersonal privilege of every man, If, Often this condition is purely physical: A torpid liver COFFEE. : | oo 4 » felt its way toward meeting its peculiar transit prob- | IY" me 19 round figures the number) sayor Hylan wishes to identify him-| 3 will bring it ¢ : i ean 115— 2 and, age for age, you are willing to match the : on of voters of .New York State who] cep WiIeWillina’ Te, tears ity tis| % Will bring it about. A bad or an abused digestion may be ‘The story that coffee drinking wa ae diilldren against the best the old town has to show lems by extra digging that may some day leave, | voted for or against Prohibition. personal affair and requires no out- responsible. Introduced to thr world by an Ara ar) your children not admit h "| the streets of its crowded centre sections as smooth 2 A Tlighe Is foi rpasen' Wty. site: tae 68 Often it is merely mental. For some reason or other §/goatherd who d'scovered the Siam : Neg are ited to be the best, mes ase ‘The Dine Law Series. the Republic of the United states} % the mind can never run at top speed for very long at atime. ${lating qualities of the bean by OY / » RS: that is merely a reflection on the judgmert of the | 28 those of London and Paris. To the PAlitor of Tie Evening Work should not fly over the City Hall of Its machmery clogs. It refuses to respond to the de- $| serving the effect tt exerted upon, 4 Bee | . F “ ‘ . , My attention has been especially} New York City. Long may it wave. Gy goats which had browsed upom pT = See neighbors. For New York ihe bus is essentially a short-haul |airected to the series of articles ip JOSEPH J. MURPHY. mand of the will. . F bean rejected as a LG ee ‘But in Sir Arthur's heaven there will be no chil- | facility, a feeder. Is flexibility in heavy trattic, |The Evening World on the Blue Sun-| Brooklyn, N. ¥., Dec. 18, tabi Sy orletl J seemed Seay lent week es mapossiblenuys Saverage of tie rad : ) ’ Gay date oUt so nnedd wh) ielerenting Nee ae Jife seems futile. All labor seems in vain. peveraus icf the te occoriinana the ease with which its route can be changed to meet | piece of writing and highly informa-| 4, we editor of Tae brening onal Slumps of this kind do no harm if we get out of them 3 Arabia. The word eaten ie UN Lam a constant reader of The Bve-|$ soon enough. If we permit them to take too firm a hold of $|Tuption of the Arabic wa. > ; ren. For, according to the Doyle description: } “In heaven all old people will become 3 . emergency or shitting public need has been amply rd, with variations in spelling, >: young and the young will grow to adult age iH Ben) ene ped Py [admire your courage and In} ning World. I do not believe in mar-]$ us, we are likely to be permanently soured. been adopted {nto all the 4 3 it That sentence alone will condemn Sir Arhui’s demonstrated. Its financial possibilities, under a | eiving as public acta, sever realy ried women working. By all means, A complete vacation from work is one way to escape a; oa vision to many. A childless heaven would ce a | 5-cent fare, as a contributory, non-competitive part |iaw ‘wut to ethers of equal imports (iar i Riles ald Sone et them, but few people oan do gna , aA . ance. ‘i This is iving life, and the man or woman who stops }| Yemen, or 4 regular hell for a good many people whom we | of a larger unified system have yet to be tried out. |""Artictos like these are greatly ap-|iinve been anartied twentyefour yeart | $y Wien Bea Neeletn dtoplesting in avery sheet } {raising of Mocha coffee ‘were to ; aii test! ; ; preciated by a greater number of . 4 te va Bs id : 7% restricted to Arabia the supply | have always regarded as most certain of a celestial To use the bus merely to complete the ruin of |People than you'may think, It is one Bove Gone very tte be Re time. be limited to about one cup @ year _ destination because of their love for children. tin surface trolley lines already at their last gasp would [1A Ur the ‘thes plo iiving in the | New York, De But you can get rid of: your slump if you try hard | each lover of pe brand § awake to condi is tions, should We care to preserve ou! | — enough, and get rid of it in a very short space of time. | . Bight persons killed and 298 injurea in | PF fOUlY. TR OC URE lee ce eine a eae toa Tf you find one coming on, be sure at first that it isn't $] YANISHED RESIDENTS) twenty-two months on Mayor Hylan's municipal To remove trolley tracks wherever possible and New Recailaeie: PeAD RR: | M4, 1921 After reading 80 much from differ- ‘ en: readers regarding Prohibition, This te Not Kinglish Propaganda. | most of them, to my way of think- your digestion. If it is, give that a rest by eating about a bus lines is only a fragment of a story that will quarter of your usual amount of food, and taking twice. as OF NEW YORK have to be pried out of the police records. replace them with buses might mean rehabilitation much exercise as you have been doing. Comrvight, 1281 ew Terk Bresigg Wane | x 3 7 Tae Yet in three years the buses of the Fifth Ave. | stead of suin, ashe mii ot ea Berner = een - besser Re taca abc digs parie If the slump persists in spite of your improved physical MEN WHO PAINTED THEM, - nue Coach Company figured in only five bad ac Give the bus its chance. James I. Macauley in his letter ap-| years hack throuah Machine tréca wacie condition, get a change of ideas. FACES. i cidents, injuring nineteen persons. Zz pearing in yesterday's issue of your] source, certainly put jt over. Then Read new books, cheerful ones, by authors you have Relics of Indian art are shown ‘y The eafety of the bus is not to be judged by | never read before. profuse quantities at the Mosew *, | paper is hard to comprehend. A , r * Some folks enjoy poor health. Some Irishmen Peper: F the man that used to drink more than what happens when it is crowded tn, hit or miss, would plus ander tveadom, As to the Plastererer’s Union firing] was good for him, who also could not Go to the theatre, if you can afford it; if not, to the of Natural History in the form ¢ to court popularity and win votes for a Mayor men for working on St. Patrick's} afford “at> present prices,” reformed movies. stone or clay saucers like the “nests | aeeeliaaeamenemmmne Day, the matter is of no moment. nd really found that he was in a a4 4 ; Py in which painters mix thetr wate seeking re-election. | - i Byes i ter condition, joined the bone drys. Interest yourself in something outside your work. Balan: ‘There are buses and buses. ‘ TWICE OVERS. American history as taught in the pnoye who did not reform from this ake up the study of something of which you knw One of the many uses to whit mull hools to-day is simply a|ciass are drinking hooch as bad ARE UE e i these bits of stone or clay were pt 5 . mublic schools to-da simply cls oor as 7 upnaa hp eae eas es sit ae ese bits = €6 T UST give me a little time and I'll write you a |wel\ got up fabrication, planned| rat poison, made in some kitchen, littie, ever if you have to fall back on the Encyclopaedia. A was to hold the pigments with whi¢ A change of mental and physical diet will abolish the the original residents of New Yor slump, and when it is over you*ean again view the world $ | dedaubed thelr faces. through rosy glasses and settle down for another stretch on $] Although ,tmere | frequently ed that the world is not such a to men’s faces and breasts cert lines characteristics +f a tribe, th was a wide latitude for individ choice. If Manhattanites of the pale pasty-faced variety now wear ning clothes or frock or cutw generally making a few rich and help- . : ing to fill graveyards. The man that task.” Comptroller Craig purpose of instilling into the minds! in days gone by drank moderately é f American youths Amertean his-|and was in favor of real Prohibition sh view-| (8 now supporting the higher class bootlegger, inglishmen for the SENATOR M'CUMBER ON CHILD LABOR, perfectly good charter. It's a simple enough |and written by ENATOR M’CUMBER or North Doekota usually credited with a liberal and progressive ; from a purely F outlook. It must have shocked many to read the | €6 JF we hace banner crops next year and the farmer | yo\nt. ‘The most treasured Am ‘rican! “Money derived by breaking the Sentiments he expressed at a tariff hearing: | ¥ eee hed en ey e ple a erage ite Ae carl “Work is what they (children) need and | * . the forward journey, convine bad place after all. gels good prices, the railroads will not have the |" equipment to handle the transportation required.” W. H. Woodin, President American Car and Foun- ft) Indepenc nee, and the W resented a8 gr ry of 1812,|8eems a shame a law should cost so mistakes| much for enforcement, stop revenue what they ought to have to make them self- sale committed by an erring people. | except to the bootlegger, cause nearly | ernment control it seems to me they F h Wi coats on formal occasions, the orig § porting citizens. The idea is growing dry Company. 4 jeal name | One out of ten of our population, “it | froula have the same right as the rom the ise \inal male leaders of Manhattan t a child 4 * * * for such rot historian of Ford-| the law was enforced absolutely,” to | pronipitionist started with leiety wore vivid dashes of paint ; that a should not work unt!l he ts six- re; , ; nam Univ aided by apetant | be & criminal, make thoee who have|" . 0. in favor of the old timet Nothing that is obtained | their faces to distinguish tm teen years old. If be never works until then, NEW system of surface lines is needed which | gent to present tru OF TRE ee Renee SHna. saloon, but we are nearly all in favor| rough guilt can be perma. {Scheduled moments of either o ] 4 ‘Ad o ry as it wa ereto- | 0 c y » pay Lp gc) “% h wore: 1 Mi s i be never will learn to work. will permit the most efficient and free circu. | AMEMICN History as It was Herein | Drices brit not stop them from drink. |of doing away with worse places) —« . : \°"in the whirling of tt Senator McCumber probably speaks from pers | lation for a single fare and with the minimum of trans- | ment concerning the permission of | ME. and now that it is hard to ob | exmiing 1Omvr ane ey will exist! slently proftadie—Cicero aan tbe whitlinig of time the “, ” 4 ” Ae : the introduction of evidence to show] Vii" more ‘ay, laws are in a: ie |appropriated by the women t sonal observation of “child labor” as he has seen it} Ser.” —Daniel L. Turner, Transit Commission En- | that Washington was not the firat| Tejly drink more and worse than awe ean} Ceniue is the gold in the mine, |GPPFORTIN eT OY anstve prastion oc effect’ there will be f we copy the Sales Tax Law of |now and the tax on North Dakota farms. Farmer boys everywhere gineer. President of the ui tex is aly jaws will be less talent is the miner who works |the men are well satisfied with . . * | ther Mr. ‘ ‘anada we would do well to copy | annoying, ea . radical change In fi are tsught to drive cattle to and from the pasture, | ¢¢ ss tesay tu leat arty is ab | their laws on drinks and Government | Simply saying, “It is a law and ( ae Brings 48 aH — to drive horses and use light and easily manipulued FFICIENCY is not the chief object of life. Pametaiatin FS RNatian Tolaeatee Tar LR Aasttawcnmneliores situa had? Blessington. || an: ween for Gow comnle: Ren ; ig , ; . eg tea Mipitio other interesting fact. | wrong. Any law considered wn). “seas agricultural machinery, to hunt eggs, run crrands Piss What one wants is to live happily.” —Lord there ise law ¢ nthe statute books | mibat of our “dn country neve PAs | but by ‘some of aur it Baie AniliniAaeanatmeraiaioal tears.—Talmud. ; iddell. , oted dry and * that voted dry ould or decision to = and the myriad other duties that come under the s * « bites Neier ‘only by pn Being givens voted wet. as|enca.¢ nimty—let each county nett °| and ere tong you will seul what Bis: mi HS emply purse 4 = . ve dixneniinatio y i, hen local optio ns in| for itse 1 wants—at leas can sin re name of “chores.” These'duties are nornzally out- ee OSS, I jes’ had to get a Christmas present fo! ie waa fect one co could be. ary anti teelintry he a Republic, where| vow cannot do without ’ sume adil H 5 J as yl yy Mr Ma | fas et, but now no | jaws should made for thel =| It must be granted that the sixteen-year-old far | Y 8 lawful, and Mar. L Me iy thick td, AB lone oa ane pals Bens meePTHOS. B. ROSS. Youth tives on hope, ol6 age om " : yeare M | pickpocksl’s excuse. Ving the Police Departament to prevent ip thlb IAG volep wal under Gove Mreaklym Dae 1A Lik 4 0n ma7t 26! ake wen, Amor iemNTNAS SOTA . th fics i at wea of 5 wt a we identi siemnininiien sunend . in utenti ate a en a * i ;