The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 22

y by The Pross MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Pness. Press ls exclusively entiuea to the use fer republication to ft er mot ovserwise ereuitea in tai papey berein, FOR MERRIER IRELAND, OR most of the good people of Ireland, Christmas, 1924, must have been the bright- + @t in many a’ year. “Families were reunited when the men folks were ' teleased from prisons and detention camps. sky shone bright with the prospect of a Free State embodying every essential of home rule. doves of peace sailed back and forth over the church: spires while parish priests and higher dig- mitaries of the Church uttered prayers for a united peacefut Ireland. There were two clouds. One was the die-hard The other was the phantom bt as to what the Dail might do, the fear that hotheads might undo the work of concilia- tipn and precipitate more war, a hopeless war in which Ireiand would lose the workl-wide sympathy it has enjoyed in the past. ‘But the world and the Irish have reason to hope that the people of Ireland will banish this last cloud over the holiday recess. Members of the Dail will be at home and will be better able to jldge the true sentiment of the heart of Ireland, free from any doctrinaire insistence. _Press reports from all sources seem to indicate 2 popular acceptance of the Irish Free State as a generally satisfactory compromise in which Ire- . land gains much and gives comparatively little, The fate of the treaty hangs with the representa- * tives not definitely and publicly committed to , _ either acceptance or rejection. The world hopes that the people of Ireland will convince these mem* that ratification will best represent the desires their constituents. ———— The Anti-Saloon League in this State will ‘celebrate the New Year with a campaign to _ -seoure legislation permitting local dry laws that shall carry stiff penalties. Any man who drinks a glass of wine out of & bottle bought or moved since Prohibition ent into effect ought to go to jail, If Federal sand State laws can't p town should lay hands on him. ‘There are too many thousands of respected, honorable and useful citizens at large who, if the truth must be told, are criminals. ‘They are a menace to a country where only fanatics are free, oe there, his city or | HARD TIMES MAKE SOFT HEARTS. B charity organization after another reports unusually. generous response to holiday ap- péals for help. Those who have—even a little— have shared with those who have not in this leals, gifts, clothing, + entertainment, personal ition and—best of all—jobs have been offered accepted in the Christmas spirit. This is a different and perhaps a finer kind of generosity than accompanied the wartime “drives” _ of one kind and another. In this Christmas giving | there was no sort of compulsion except the dictates _ - of kind hearts. ; \The United States has been passing through a Périod of economic stress. a “hard times.” Hard times seem to soften hearts. ‘And when that stage has been reached we are on the way to recovery. Soft hearts are ready for _ ee-operative effort to improve conditions, and ‘when the larger community begins to work to- _ géther times are on the mend, We describe it as By his Christmas clemency to Elis Island (immigrants, Secretary Davis has added a new gambling ohance to immigration. migrants over the quotas are admitted, will it not encourage others to “take a chance” on similar favored treatment? In the final balance of human joy and suffer- Ing this act of kindness may not prove kindly after all. It is the duty of Congress to remedy If immigration is to be re- stricted it should be by rational and humane such a condition, STMASTER GENERAL HAYS has an econ- omy idea for the Post Office, | like to abolish carrier delivery in about 750 small | ‘ities and towns of 10,000 population and less, ) Economically, this might be highly advantageous for the postal service." Politically, it is impossible, sand Mr. Hays ought to know it. * Probably a majority of the members of Con- | gress have one or more such small cities or good- Sized towns in their districts. “would ‘be willing to go back and face the voters without a clear record of fighting such a proposal to the last ditch. How could he? The voters in By the towns would oppose him unanimously, and in many cases they would hold the balance of power. “No, the Post Office cannot withdraw service in A Burleson may discontinue the use Not one of these SG \__ THE EVENING WOR pity Bort, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ished Dally xcept su Company, Nos. 58 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. / J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULATZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. such obligation as moves the Congressman from the Gopher Prairies, Once service is extended in the small towns where politics is a serious matter, it must stay ¢x- tended. Mr. Hays might as well advocate the abo- lition of rural free delivery as to ask Congress- men Pike's neighbor Jones to walk six blocks to the Post Office for his mail. GIVE IT VOICE. HE submarine question now embarrassing the Arms Conference should not be left wholly for delegates or Governments to settle. These delegates came to Washington as repre- sentatives of peoples. They represent peoples per- haps more really than peoples were ever before represented, / It was the overburdened peoples of these nations who wanted relief from the slrain of competitive arming. It was the peoples of these nations who demanded reduction of naval costs. It was the peoples of these nations whose demands have been heeded to the extent of an agreement to scrap bat- tleships on a 5-5-3 ralio and to observe a ten-year naval holiday, thereby saving billions of dollars to taxpayers, So far, this is a substantial carrying out of the popular will and purpose without which there would have been no Arms Conference, But is this all the peoples of these nations ex- pected? Is it as far as they wished to go? We do not believe it. Overwhelming majorities of these war-weary peoples meant the Washington Conference to do more than discard costly weapons for cheaper ones. They meant it to do more than forego super- dreadrioughts at $35,000,000 each in favor of sub- marines that can be built for a twelfth as much, ‘They bad faith that limitation of armament was to mean also limitation of design or purpose to” use arms, that they were getting rid of battleships because they were determined henceforth to settle disputes in any way other than by resort to battle- ships. 2 They did not think they were merely entering into an agreement to fight one another for a time with submarines out of regard for their emptiéd pockets. It is all very well to call the submarine a weapon of defense. Nobody has to think far back to re- member how Germany used it. A nation at war can easily argue that sinking every ship that comes along is only defense, on the theory that the more formidable it makes itself the better protected it is at home. We repeat, we do not believe the peoples who put their hope in this Arms Conference had any sly notion of going only far enough to make fight- ing cheaper. We do not believe a majority of the people of France had any such notion or that they have it now. . If they have, it is time for plain proof of the fact. If the people of France are willing to face the submarine issue for what it really is and then to admit that a cut in the cost of war was all they actually had in mind when they approved the Washington’ Conference, the sooner we know it the better. On the other hand, it would be a colossal injus- tice to the French people to blame them for a submarine policy whose real purpose is to keep a certain guoup of French politicians in power. he same reasoning applies to Japan, That is why we say delegates and Governments ought not to seitle the submarine question by themselves. The deeper spint of peoples is involved and is in danger of being betrayed. That spirit should now find voice. THE GROUCH. I do not want the sun to shine Or summer flowers to. bloom ; Give me instead the o'ercast sky And dark December's gloom! ~John Keetz, TWICE OVERS. yf AM nol a citizen of the United States but I am a citizen of the world,”--Eugene V. Debs. raring ae 667 EARNING to trade is difficult. It is not like oratory, but we have to learn it,” Premier Lenin of Russia. “oe te se yf through for the same reason that ‘Georgie’ Cohan is through.” Flo Ziegfeld. Aa age ey | LL you have to do to get married in New York is to go to a window in the Municipal Build- ing and get a license and then go to another window and se mapried. There is no investigation. It is 7 lel , S a aaa pol rs fr | +4 ; LD, TUESDAY, DEGEMBER 27, reas, Out on, Bail! a by Press Pub, Co, From Evening A Bitter Reply to Bitter Criticiam, | ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: a ‘ The criticisms of former President | Wilson contained in the letter of Mr. Arthur D, Muddell merit answer only on their inaccuracies, as it is typically a “Wilson hater” letter. We grant that Mr, Wilson dia go to Europe with unprecedented pres- \ige and power and hoped for the co-operation of Congress, but the boss-driven, blindly partisan body of reactionary Republicans spread its venom to the discredit of the Presi- dent, As for Mr. Wilson's egotism und absolutism, Mr. Muddell would do well to read Mr. Tumulty’s book on Woodrow Wilson and, making full allowance for Mr. Muddell’s preju- dices, he might even have some doubt as to the truth of this egotism clap- trap spread by the narrow partisan- ship of Woodrow Wilson's enemies. I agree firmly with Mr, Mudde that it is beyond reason to compare i Mr. Harding's accompliskinents to Mr. Wilson's. A standpat organiza- tion Republican Senator, with initia- the American people in June, 1919, jby a cabal of reactionaries at Ch cago, can hardly expect to compete with a man ot Hughes's calibre, who now occupies the limelight. situation himself and, welcoming advice, sibly this is one reason for speedy end of the war after our ent much of which was due to the idealistic’ (this word is a thorn in a Republican's side) propaganda addressed to the German people by Wilson. we might have had that to-day in- stead of a four-power “may or may not” treaty completed by our bar- gainer in chief, Mr, Lodge. With Hughes and Lodge running {our foreign affairs, and the Old | Guard our internal, Harding will have to get into the movies oftener to be remembered. L. C, HASKEL. As Others See Us ‘Yo the Ediior of The Evening World: Where do R. D. Henkie and his friend, FE. J. A., get the idea The Eve- ning World is inciting people to break ? : } constant and I have never read one line where it encourages people to |break the Prohwbition law. ls it possible these people are so tive amounting to nil, put over on} | Mr, Wilson was capable of hand- | one entitled would not stand for dictation. Pos- | read The Evening World| World Readers What kind of letter doyou 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 @ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. to vote on, say a beer and wine plank? Surely if it is the will of the majority, the country would go d five to one (what a chance) and once the Prohibition question has been set- tled by the people and not by the Anti-Saloon League, the people will respect the law. Mr. Henkle claims it makes him | laugh when any one protests i the tyranny of the Anti League. Poor dear, he probably! hasn't had many laughs in life, and | 's characteristic of a small ‘mind to} ugh at a person of whom he has taken an unfair advantage. Perhaps Mr. Henkel doesn't know the law of reaction. There is a wave of protest sweeping across the coun- try against the intolerance of the Anti-Saloon League and their allies, the Blue Law pests, who are trying to make life in America one long, | boresome procession to the grave. | J. A. claims that The Evening rid in criticising the unhealthy anny of the Prohibitionist places elf in a class with Joe Miller's Joke Book. Isn't it too bad these fanatics cannot see themselves as others see) them? 4. GRAY. | Mart on Guard. the Editor of The Evening World For years I have closely fol ion, and in Monday's issue we have No Permanent Job for Marines,” that which clearly shows to I still must quietly chuckle when 1 himself by caricaturing a marine as a sailor. As for Mr. Muddell’s pet aversion,| The biggest opposition appears to} the League of Nations (a representa- | be in th atement of one Congress- | tion of the peoples the world), | man that “it’s an outrage” to have the mails guarded by marines, Who is| outraged? Surely, neither the pub-| lic nor the police of different cities, but only the crooks, who can't get | around the fact there is a marine on | post, and their political lines, for the | while, have lost pull. |no big mail robberies in the past few weeks? And I venture the assertion | there will be none as long as “leath- the postal system. There is no one outside of a metro- politan police force who gets more who does more actual guard duty in | weeks, or a sa rv in six months ora | civilian in a lifetime Ut is one task he is trained to do n intolerance that they do nize the right of a free peo- ticise a tyrannical law the people do not respect? Can Mr, Henkle name anything in all history which has caused other- wise lawabiding people to show con- tempt for the law as has Prohibition? 3 & sane majority decree Prohibition. 1 ask him when? When did the people of the United States have @ chance to vote on Nation-wide Prohibition? If it is the will of the | strong average on th rs | In closing, the editorial says, “Free the soldier from this (his) disciplined leadership and he is likely to f when judgment is needed”—you are still “soldiering,” and possibly in a |great many cases the above would be UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) ONE DEBT THAT C NEVER BE PAID IN FULL, It is always satisfying to know that the mother of a suc- cessful man 1s still living when he attains his success. No man can ever pey his debt to his mother in full. Por the devotion, the tenderness, the sacrifice, and unselfishness that combined make what we call mother loye there is no adequate return A man’s friends may turn from him in the hour of trou his brothers and sisters may hold aloof lest they be uged into his difficulties, even the father may grow dis- asted and out of patience, but his mother’s faith and trust never waver, She risked her life that he might be born, never been a time during his childhood that she would not gladly give her life that his might be saved. His every happiness makes her happy, his every trouble brings her distress. If he has little triumphs in school or college, if he be- gins to prosper when he reaches manhood, her joy is far greater than his. The only way that any sort of return for this affection can be made is through the success of the son upon which it has been lavished. It is a pity that so few: men ever become President of the United Staies while their mothers are still here to witness their triumph. Jt is sad that most of the mothers of great men never could know thai the greatness in which they so firmly be- lieved was to bear fruit, ‘i If a man had no other motive in the world for getting f, for living clean, for accomplishing something worth while, a sufficient motive would be the memory of his mother, He is fortunate indeed who can gain the applause of the world while still his mother is able to hear it. He is a pretty contemptible sort of rascal who can plunge himself into disgrace which his mother must share. Few men can fulfil the hope that was born when they first came into the world. No man can'make full return for the Jove that is awakened by his first wail of pain when he beholds the light. But all men can try to make some sort of recompense for the life that has been given over wholly to their happi- wed | | The Evening World's editorial opin- the informed reader the author of it! the | does not know a marine, in that he| | classifies them with all soldiers. the best out of him vemember the uproar a very much] | followed cartoonist brought upon | | Strange, is it not, there have been ernecks” watch the main avenues of | And if they are only moderately successful that will be For the mocher will see in that moderate success a brilliant success in the future, and will feel that all she has son she bore has been well worth the giving. training in guard duty, interior or ex- | terior, than does the average marine, | Zl the creator of the Congo State—a- colonial empire that has figured es one of the world’s problems, In 1887 Stanley accepted tha | egyptian Government's commission to find Bmin Pasha, the German ex~ given to the one week than a soldier will in eix| n| ments can be made so that the guard- |no group offers better material tha Toling of mails may United States 3 number of the loss of their esprit de corp! has that wrapped up carefully in ais nd bump of conc ong ago they wer well above all others—and he hits al own self-comm Cofsider, not s scattered all e and there and indivia- joing guard and M. P. duty, their trug not only of soldiers and sailors to act as mail ( rma when almost at once they were rushed but @ goodly quota of “gyreubs” asj inte command, piled into motor lor . But with men picked for tne}ries and hustled to Chateau | and with slight incidental train-| And what they did there and dd we can have a body of|atter! Fidelis” (always faithful; olied to th mails. jace aS ap! ‘J * JOR | Foreign-Born Builders America | By Svetozar Tonjorof rr Yatra Gate XVIL—HENRY M. STANLEY, | One of the most effective among our ‘-reign-born oltisensi is Henry *. Stanley, the Welsh who, as John Rowl.ads, was pt! j{n a Boor, house at St, Asaph he was -nree vearg old and there for ten years. Sal In 3° 3 John .owls=2s arrived New Orleans as cabin bay, eventually took the name of the mer chant who adopted him. Disinhera ited by the ..{lure of his father bg adoption to make a will, young Stana lev at the outbrc=:: of the Civil Wee enlisted in the Confederate Army, was taken prisoner and volunteered in the United States Navy, in thig arm of the servi. -- served as en« sign on the fronolad Ticonderoga, ‘ ‘Famous as a war correspondent of the early, glamorous type, and thenat the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone 1: Africa under a commission intrusted to him by the elder Bennett, Henrp M. Stanley figures in history as the explorer and surveyor of Centraf Africa. Stanley's arrival in England in 1978 with the personal narrative of his search for Livingstone electrified Eu« as well as America. His story sounded as fanciful as the tales told by Marco Polo after his trip to the court of Kublai Khan in the hire teenth century. Among his earlier achievememsa was the discovery of Lake Victoria Nyanza, under the joint auspices of the New York Herald and the Lon« don Daély Telegraph in 1876. This body of Wwater—the largest body of fresh water in the world—he circum~ bh ahaa im a voyage of a thousand miles. Q Continuing his explorations, he penetrated into Uganda and gave the name of Albert Edward to the secon’ great lake which he discovered. Th: after overcoming difficulti that read like a work of fiction, he arrived, br otaes mouth of the Congo River in 77. In the course 8 this adventurous journey Stanley traversed the African Continent from coast to coast and made available a navigable waterway, of more than 500 miles, tapping the | heart of the Dark Continent, | , In, 1881, under the auspices of the | Belgian Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo, Stanley undertools the exploration of the region of twa million square miles in the basin off the Congo River, His survey of the political, ma+ | terial and geographic conditions of that vast area, at that time a No |Man’s Land for Buropean coloniza- ‘ion, served as the basis for the crea- \ tion’ of the Congo Free State, under the personal sovereignty of Leopold IL, King of the Belgians, and the ai- ‘location of shares of territory to | Portugal and France under an in~ ternational agreement. The cabin boy who landed in New Orleans in 1855 {s, in a real sense, lorer in the employ of the Khedive, Who had been opening up Equatoriak Africa and suppressing the slave trade there. Stanley succeeded in his mission in 1888, but Emin Pasha (Dr. Ed4 ward Schnitzer) rejected his would | be rescuer’s urgent invitations to re turn to civilization with him, and ultimately perished as Livin; ne had perished. i | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 117—BOWLING GREEN. The origin of the term “bowling !green” requires no explanation. The interesting part of the life story of the word is its adoption, in corrupted form, in the French language ag “boulingrin” (pronounced “boo-lan~ gran”). In return for the many words whicit they have imparted to the English language in the course of the cen~ turies, the French have borrowed with freedom from the Englis: tongue. The adoption is especial), frequent in the designation of outs door sports, 4 ‘Thus, the French dictionaries full authority to such English as “box,” “football,” “sport” “riding-coat” (corrupted into “redy ingote” and regarded by many Eng+ lish-speaking tailors and importers as aT'rench word). To the same cate egory “boulingrin” belongs. ‘ | By Albert P. Southwick rss Rea Was ‘The “Sage of Concord” was litle bestowed upon Ratph Wald Emerson (1803-1882) {n allusion 1 his place of residence, Concord, Mann, e 2 Lord Byron was only twenty-on@ years old (in 1809) when he begam his “Childe Harold” and twentyg eight when he ‘Anished dt A ‘The ‘Judgment of God” ts a | given to the Battle of Fonteneille, o | ponenay (also Saunt ges be, the Brothers”), fou; lune 25, 41, bea tween the three sons of Louis Me Des bonnaire, when 100,000 men resulting ta the division of the empir of Charlemagne into the three mong archies of Italy, Germany and Frances * 8 6 | The term “Iron Hand” has bee, become a perma-!applied to several individuals, but uses no/nent detail on detached duty, and ‘et |it was a literal description in the! Each one | crooked opposition howl. case of Goetz von Berlichaigen (14804 For one American, from the mob,| 1562), who lost his right hand at the would much plaints than suffer the loss of a picce of mail and, worse still, that “empty feeling” that comes together with the| knowledge that the mails are unsafe. | birthday of St, David, patron ‘They have a little motto, “Semper | Vales who when Archbishop and I can-|} to wear &, siege of Landshut and had one madq@ of iron to supply its place. se St. David's Day, on March 1, is iH ad