The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1921, Page 10

uth et TERE avanine WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1921. men ride to work in the subway or on the elevated | From The Evening World - because there is no downtown area in which auto- ening, na Wor mobiles may be left during business hours If 7 Pree Pub, C underground parking proves practical in one location, there will be demands for similar accommodations wherever park space is to be found. In other cities business men drive to and from their stores and offices without the need for the BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Published Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 62 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, @3 Park Row. $$ $—$_—<— MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLAPHS Pness. ” By John Cassel | | “7 bd nia atte brooding = | ; Nosted in the leaves the ques ‘Te Associated Pree ts excinetvely entiuea W the we for repubtieatiod | ey nernse chat n New, York this is gen- “or Bog spl fy expense of a chauffeur. In New, York this. is gen Doughe among: ‘snd siso the local news publishea hereta, erally impossible because parking space has not And when the midnight falls I team to existed, | Women shoppers and theatre patrons may aot fancy the wait while chauffeurs bring cars from cen- tral parking Stations several blocks awa But it business men could have similar accommodations for the cars they drive, y walk | several Ilocks parking | Pace. mark: Hor home where @ etar is hung. Tha star, @ does not know the scored SUBJECT TO DISCOUNT. HE City Administration, after scorning the Transit Commission for what it considered a proper period, has modified its stand. | Corporation Counsel O'Brien, reasserting his doubts of the constitutionality of the Milley Transit Bill, very sensibly wants, “in any eventuality what- soever, to safeguard the city’s interests.” He has appointed Mr. William A. De Ford as his special assistant to analyze the Transit Com- dove, That dove that Hrefly planet may not 200, | What lovelter thinge the night may fold from mo— ir The watching eye, the brooding heart, and love. ‘This bit of verse—a rather charming bit, we think—is borrowed from “Thi Secret Way,” (Macmillan) a little vol~ ume of poetry by Zona Gale. We gather that Miss Gale's mind, }in her hours of singing, is far re- | moved from the world of Miss Lulu Bett. many would gle to and from a nicipal THEN E EARLY NEXT TEAR HERE are two Christinas ; | voria { Ma has ye mission's proposals. He bespeaks from the 7 ransit } A have Wee to fle THlte stocktne | A Bussian Called to School--- Commission a degree of co-operation that city offi- | sibs Boe rigid deli satel no i8 | aur ia Sransiation, Petes in = ren orrow t jams's “Through h, : dals have withheld from the commission. | morrow, | tie, Huaneee Ravolution’ (pont a ; ¥ Mr. De Ford’s report, when it appears, must be One is the Irish Free State as an accomplished | Tue ont Gy therpresdnt CR bles. “no Subject to discount. Mr. De Ford is William Ran- | fact. | trol: ; i i : ‘The ufo of an iiliterate, ts tert: i My otph Hearst's ete Mr. gee is ha ge The other is a certified record of Arms Confer- Everything irightens’ him. age | a special brand of nmunicipal ownership. It is XE ‘hi hi {uit~ : w H : tiki fb ERED that Me rashes attomey wit | °° achievement, including an unchallenged Four- rea ar poste | “ Cough abe the Power Treaty and a complete all-round agreement on the ratio of naval reduction. | These goods could have been finished in time for Santa Claus to deliver them. But they weren't. The people of Ireland will spend the holidays is howling: he belleves in devils and lightning strikes his hut, be God ts punis! him for his sis; ‘be, aoe poe, now, how to catch Ughtning with a rod. But when the illiterate goer through school, he, a blind man, immediately has bis eyes opened Ho begins to understand every | thing; all things become clear to ! regard the commission’s plan solely as it relates to New York’s transit problem. Mr. De Ford i almost certajn to examine the plan as it affects Mr. Hearst's policy. If Mr. O’Brien wanted a real analysis of the dommission’s plan, he would have been wiser to ! have chosen an assistant less open to the suspicion * of bias. Attorney General Daugherty is following in Mitchell Palmer’s footsteps in announcing a crusade against the H. C. L. Here's hoping he will have far better success, For harried consumers “eeoin's believin’.” CAN THEY TAKE A CHANCE? PPOSITION to the Four-Power Treaty is growing. There is an impression in some quarters that the United States Senate proposes to tack on “reservations” before it ratifies. There is reasott to believe President Harding will not be averse to reservations. It is considered possible the President may even recommend reservations. What can the delegates from other countries do? They know that a reservation might completely alter a bargain struck as the result of mutual com- promise and accommodation. A treaty might be satisfactory, while a treaty with reservations might prove eminently unsatisfactory. Under the circumstances, how can the delegates go ‘home leaving treaties half made, subject to modification and alteration at the hands of the United States Senate? After previous experience with the Senate the delegates would be entirely reasonable if they in- sisted on acceptance by the Senate as each agree- ment is concluded and before the conferees go on to further efforts. In the light of experience they could quote “Fool me once, shame on you. Foo! me twice, shame on me.” Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes predicts that the holidays this year will be the dryest the United States has ever ex perlenced. Is that your merriest, Commish? WAR PRISONERS FREED. i coated HARDING did not go as far as ‘But for the twenty-four acts of clemency, the * pountry as a whole will thank him. It is the sort of national Christmas present to * give the maximum of satisfaction: It is the kind of present given from a kind heart and not as the * result of a feeling of obligation. It is a return of good for evil. Most, if not all, of the prisoners freed yesterday got less punishment than/ they deserved. Several were fortunate not to have faced a firing squad. But the war is running down in the United States, and it is betterthat we sweep out the trash and make a clean start. On this basis it might have been better had Pres- Ment Harding freed more.of the war prisoners and made the start even cleaner. - THE PARKING PROBLEM. sioner, is urging a new scheme to reduce traf- fic tongestion. He proposes cave or tunnel-like ‘areas under the city parks where automobiles may be parked while owners are shopping or at the theatre. He mentions Bryant Park and the soyth developments. He has the assurance that some » merchants and theatrical managers will co-operate. Anything to reduce traffic congestion will com- mend itself to New Yorkers. Dr, Harriss has been wesponsible for-many desirable innovations in the management of street traffic, and it is fair to pre- sume that he has studied the question carefully | before lending his approval to the new parking pro- posal. ‘The shopping and theatre districts are by no means the only sections where parking space is unequal to "the demand. Not a few business and professional | he might have gone in freeing war prisoners. 1 R. HARRISS, Special Deputy Police Commis- | entrance of Central Park as desirable sites for such | Sill discussing their great issue. When the Dail meets again Jan. 3, it should find itself more in- fluenced by the will of those it represents than it was when it adjourned. Therein is hope. The Arms Conference has work ahead before it can hand over completed packages. The naval re- duction plan is zigzagging in the submarine zone. The Four-Power Treaty has been exposed to its foes by the strange inefficiency of its friends, In the case of the Arms Conference, as in-Ire- snd, the surest way for the people to get what they want is to show unmistakably that they want it. Ireland needs a referendum. The Arms Conference needs fresti alt—open doors and windows with public opinion circulating freely. The world still has its heart set on what it hopes for from Qublin and from Washington. If not by Christmas, then early in the New Year. a After a study of statistics gathered during “Children’s Year,” the Children’s Bureau re Dorts: ‘California children were found to, bs slightly taller and heavier than other groups in the study, a difference for which climate or some other factor other than the nation- ality composition of the population ts held responsible.” Of course it is the climate, fornian, Ask any Cal! OUR GIFT TO RUSSIA, Greys for every one will be just a little happier for the knowledge that Congress finally overcame the obstructionists and managed to pass the bill providing relief for Russian famine sufferers, : No approval of social beliefs is implied in the feeding of hungry stomachs, although the reverse of this statement may not always prove true, Mr. Hoover's organization in filling stomachs is prob- ably creating more trust in American institutions the world over than all the propagandists from Moscow can ever destroy. The gift the United States will contribute to Russia’s Christmas will amount to $20,000,000. Divided around, it means a contribution of some- thing less than 20 cents per capita for the people of the United States. Every one ought to realize at least: that amount of satisfaction from the act. Random Reflections, He who does the best he can Has naught to fear of any man! 1 should Uke to live like a brown thrush, ahy, hidden, in alt bu! the note of my song. So much ts sald, #0 little done. 1 wonder how a cause ts won f 1 do not mind facing the music. but sometimes wish it would stop playing! BRICRIL TWICE OVERS. OU can't tell a joke in a vacuum; there must be a receiver as well as a sender."-—Max Eastman, ’ * * * “ 7 N or out of the army, the soldier must confidently and courageously do his part to hasten an era of understanding and peace." —-General Pershing. * * * . “ vue testimony is too flimsy. No man could afford to sell liquor such as you have described to me for 25 cents a drink.’ arresting detectives. — Magistrate McQuade, to suggestion for the relief of [From Evening World Readers | What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian'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 @y much in few words. Mobilize Former Postal Take time to be brief. such other assistance as his cond: tion requires. He may thus be 4 recte mediately to the agency which ts best equipped to help him. The telephone numbers of the Co- operative Bureau are Beekman 4813- Workers, | To the Editor of Te Evening World: Permit © to offer the following congested stmas and offices during Christ As there are many thousands of ex-letter carriers and clerks in the United States who aré employed at daily work, I would suggest, plae= ing all the available help to work evenings during the coming holidays, thereby relieving the congested von- ditions, As these men experience, have had previous T am eure they would be the facilities it offers, ROY P. GATES, Chairman. “Put Your Soul at Hes! To.the Editor of The Rrening World: Life may be filled with strife. Sor- row may sear one’s heart and pull it apart. Some may find it a struggle filled with trouble. Others may find pleasure striving for treasure. Many may crave what they can't have. D ?°| But they all pave the way to an early SRE OS ter pes ary at 8. 8, Does it pay to fret your life petsalgeti) i Why not live each day the What H.C, L. Stands For |proper way? Have faith in your To the Exito: of The Evening World | Maker. He's your caretaker. Put Hus anybody buying Christmas presents noticed an appreciable re-| duction of prices? In a Congressional! | debate the other day, it was brought out that the general price level Is still 70 per cent. higher than tt was im 1914. Three years of peace have put us only one-third of the way back to normale: These three years have jod not only of physical severity, ow- ing to the high cost of liv’ one of moral and splr nega neas as well. A repudiated treaty, a vilified league for a Christian peace, a Presidential election of low expe- diency, shabby treatment of our vet- ¢rans of the World War—these are a fow of the shames with which the period will stand forever stained. ‘As for the physical severity of the time, wo commonly sum up its cause in the letters, “H. C, L.” For the cause of our ethical and spiritual shames, and indirectly for our «co- nomic hardships as well, we have not far to seek, Another H. C. L, is written, in sinister connection, into and over the whole sorry record of treaty wrecked and world hopes broken. It stands for Henry Cabot Lodge. DEMOCRAT, New York, Dec. 21, 1921. been a per- Classified Rellet, [gfe _the itor of The Broning World Many citizens approached on the street or clsewhere by men in need of assistance are anxious to give more intelligent and constructive help than is represented by a dime or | your soul at rest, for Ho'll take caro jot you best. GBORGD W. HOPPER. | New York, Dee. 20, read with amazement and disgust the diatribe on birth control by Archbishop Hayes, Who could bo less competent to write on this sub- t than he, who by his chosen pro- sion knows nothing of the sacred ‘amily life, of wives and mothers, and the suffering and anguish pre- ceding motherhood, followed in 80 many cases by necessary deprivation and often starvation, as babe after babe with almost annual regularity “troops down from heaven because God wills it. “Troops down from heaven because God wills it!" What a mocking in- |sult to the Deity to hold that he wills all “trooping," whether it be regular or irregular, or in or out of wedlock. I think I never saw a half column containing such unhealthy and out- of-date {deas. JOHN F. Low. New York, Dec, 19, 1921. Gog’s will Birth Control, ‘To the Editor of The Drening World; * Though not of the Catholic faith, I certainly read Archbishop Hayes's letter flaying this Sanger Birth Con- trol Conferénce and its adherents, How any one can voice his opin- ions in contradiction to God's Holy Word, ‘magining that his ideas and conclusions cap be consid- ered for @ moment by any one of an intelligent mind, is far beyond me, and 1f I were managing a newspaper & quarter. From inquiries we have || certainly would not give them the received, it 1s that many |space their propaganda occupies, persons not rmed as to the| I am led to think that when the @ppropriate organization or institu-|time comes for our judgment before tion to which to send such men for|God these women who are rebel- the particular kind of assistange thetr |!ious toward one of the purposes individual cases call for. God put them here for will get all Forty of the principal organizations | that is coming to them. in the city, Catholic, Jewish, Protest- | In my circle of friends, who are ant and non-sectarian, which are | mainly Protestants, I do not find any trying to help needy, homeless men,|who do not believe precisely as the have united in the support of a Co-|Archbishop has written, as do operative Bureau which {s equipped to furnish inf to citizens of New York. Any o: inquiring of the bureau will be ad- vised as to where a man may secure food, shelter, tention, help in securing a job or mation of this kind | clothing, medical at- ‘ood Christians. Will these poor misguided women} e Wake up to the fact that God'y will must be obeyed and that their way of thinking doesn't amount, to any- nj Brooklyn, Dec, 20, 19a, 4814, and the public is invited to uso | “HALF-PAST KISSING TIME.” the opposite sex when time it is. or may have suggested the song of which the following is a stanza: [le baif-pest Kissing ‘Time, and time to kiss | Wor time ia always on the move, aod ne'er will Xo pa BN Vragp taal eee cope ae her darling child, in whdm Ta alggys OaMcoust Kissing, and alwage time to| all UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1931, by Jobn Blake.) START WITH A CLEAN SLATE. ignorance begets ignorance. Until you know how |itt! you know it will be hard for you to learn any more. In his observations.on the handicap of conceit, says: “For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.” In getting education, which is the most valuable thin: any nian can expect to have, ft is well to confess at the start that we know nothing at all. Our minds may bé stocked with certain sorts of infor- mation, but the chances are that most of it is inaccurate and useless, y Better to begin by cleaning the slate and starting all over again, Then, as we gather information, we can be sure that it is exact. We will fill our mental storehouse with a finished and inspected prcduct—ready for use when we want it, and always reliable. One of the difficulties that all teachers of games such as tennis, baseball or golf experience most often is the belief of the pupils that they have already learned a great deal. All of this must be unlearned, and the teacher must un- teach it before he can start in the right way and make any progress. Bad habits must be corrected or supplanted with good habits. Right methods must be substituted for wrong methods, If you intend to study a profession or a handicraft, go to some one who can tell you exactly how to start and ex- actly how much or how little the knowledge you have al- Spictetus ~ready gained is worth. It would be better if you began entirely untaught. But if you are wise enough to know that you do not know a great deal, you can make a beginning. ry Education of any soit is a long and difficult business. Education in the trade or profession that is to‘mean a liveli- hood is still more difficult. For in that we must excel others, and many others, if we hope to distinguish ourselves, Begin with a clean slate. Admit that what is written on it is unreliable and probably untrue. Start over again, and examine every item and its authority before you write it down, Then you can gradually fill the slate with facts upon which you can depend. And it is the possession of dependable knowledge that makes the difference between the man who is master of his craft and the man who is a mere bungler at it. BU aeneeaaaamamaadaaaaaaaanaanaanaanaaaaaanaaaaanaeee As the Saying Is From the Wise | When we envy another, we A rough and ready repartee, often| make their virtue our vice. jocularly made by @ man to one of| —Botleau. ed what It may have arisen from —Byron. we trace the features of —B, anthony, tataa, | Mother's face-—Léngtellow There ts not a joy the world ; can give like that it takes away. Art ia ™e child of Nature; the him, He sees what he did not sec be fore. And if he is in trouble, he { Will take advice from his friend the book—who will not deceive him —and he will learn how to get out of his trouble. Behind this call to school is at least one doctrine good for the | world at large, irrespective of signs {and the Soviet. eee ; Where Japan Is Contrary - - - | Julian Street, in his “Mysterious Japan,” (Deubleday-Page). tells us these among other queer facts: The Japanese method of beckon- ing would to us signify “go away’ boats are beached stern foremost ho: are backed into their etalls sawing and planing aro accom plished with pulling instead‘ of « driving motion; keys tury in their ks in a reverse direction from | that customary with us. During the day Japanese houses. with their sliding walls of paper, are wide open, but at night are enclosed vith solid boar: shuliers aud poopie sivep practica |, without ventilation, ‘At the door of a theatre or a res taurant the Japanese check thor toward the end. ‘The Japanese child ts one year old on the daX it {s born and two years old on the following New Year'e Day. Still, there is nothing in the ecale of Japanese inversions, it appears, to make Nippon backward about coming forward in an armé-and-the-mar conference of nations. |The Gypsy Voice--~ Lines with a Illting way frou “Cross Currents’ (Harcourt, Brace & Co.), Margaret Widdemer's latest book of verse: I was a gypsy once on a day land you were a gypsy too. ‘And still your eyes are the cyes thu called ind your voice is the voice I knei You do not tire of the gypsy fire | Nor the endless roads of old. Zhe drifting leavea are a pattery That signals you through cold. War and the Roman Fate -+ An ancient argument for disara |ament as n iin “The Story of Mankind” & Liveright) Hendrik Van Loon's new book simplified history: Rome could not endure Her young men were killed ~ endless. wars. Her farmers wer rulned by long military service and by_taxatlons | ‘They e ner became professiona hired themselves out to land owners, who gave them for their services mada them “serfe” the soil upon which 6 €0 many cows and the | The siaves . . . lost all inter } est. in the affairs of this world which had proved such a miserable place of abode, They were willing to fight the | good fight that they might enter | into the Kingdom of Heaven. But they were not willing to en gage in warfare for the benefit of an ambitious Emperor. The horrible example of war has followed a long, long trail eince the big days of Rome. Gaining horrors all the way. eee trees, Victor Hugo on Leagued Nations - - - Meanwhile on a Christmas occa- sion, let us consider a Victor Hugo prophecy of 1849, reprinted 1n a book on the great French writer just pub- shed (Henry Holt) from the pen of Marie Duclaux: ‘The day will dawn when your arms will fall from your hands. The day will come when war will seem absurd and be as imposstble bet wee: Paris and London, Petersburg anc Berlin, Turin and Vienna, as betwee Rouen and Amiens or Boston anc Philadelphia, ‘The day will come when, you France, you Russia, you Italy, you England, you Germany, nations of the Continent, without losing your separate characters and glorious tn- dividualities, you will fuse in a su- perior unity and constitute a Ev ropean brotherhood, A day will come when our battle- fields shall be markets, open to a!! oducts; and minds, open to ali ideas. A, Gay will come when your bullets and your bombs shall be replaced by one yee Vine uaivereal oettreen at fhe. nations, by the venerable arbitra a’ great sovereign senate, which hail ‘be to Hurope’ what her Parliament {s to Engiand, her Diet to Germany, and our Legislative Ae- sembly to France. ‘A day will come when, fn owr a seums, we shall exhibit @ cannon as now we show an instrument of tor- ture, and wonder that men ehould ever have used such things. ‘A day will come whon you shall sce two multitudinous and trends’ Kroups ng ther Fide of the” Abanti States of America Btates of Burope M. Hugo's day that was to oome | still, after 72 years, te a day in the future. Do we dare believe that its dawn was heralded by the late dark- est hour of war?