The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1921, Page 20

| $HE EVENING WORLD, WEDN ‘ESDAY, DECEMB: is , ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN.. ed Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 538 ti LATZ! Park Raw, New York. . President, 68 Park Row. ; J, ANGUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, €3 Park Row. OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, . news ‘iso the local news publishea herein BONDED CRIMINALS. ESTERDAY’S court news told another story of an habitual criminal out on bail under one charge and arrested after a revolver duel with po- lice, only to be released on bail again. This condition has become common. Ii accounts for more than a little of the crime so prevalent now. The bandits who are driven to new . erime to pay the expenses of keeping out of jail fare the most dangerous of all, because they are _ “@@sperate. They know a new arrest is likely to @ the case already pending and lead the to impose a more severe penalty. They are re to shoot to kill rather than risk capture. : Bath ¢itizens and the police are endangered by this | fabuse of the right to bail. The police are not to blame for this condition. courts and the prosecuting attorneys share re- ibility, but it is becoming every day more ly evident that the bonding companies play a and frequently discredilable part in the pro- i. Bonding companies perform a highly useful and is tevessary service. But they have obligations to the unity which make their business possible, inate bonding is an abuse the perils of iwhich could be obviated by the exercise of dis- ‘psetion. If the companies would refuse the appli- of habitual criminals, they would still have : om opportunity for profitable business. 4 ‘The best way for these reforms to come is by tary action. If that action is not forthcom- J fs the, State must step in with some sort of super- and regulation. Mayor Hylan will now try to beat the Transit Commission to a Brooklyn-Staten Island-New Jersey freight and passenger tube. ‘T) Tee Transit Commission plan is to the Hylan Administration pretty much what the League of Nations is to the Harding Administration— WHERE HE, BELONGS. IDS of John T. Hettrick are moving to 2. have him paroled? 20n what grounds and why? 1 Will his release improve conditions in the build- trades? - Samuel Untermyer last week wrote to the Build- ang Trades Employers’ Association as follows: ’ “Bad as I find these conditions in the labor unions, they are not quite so bad or so in- jurious to the public welfare as are condi- tions that still exist in your association.” These conditions are what New York has come tto-know as “Hettrickism.” If any man ever de- ‘ punishment, Hettrick did. He was the ac- agent in extending a system which led to intol- n. } “Af. Hettrick’s friends who profited from his iSchemes want him freed, they had best undo the fongs ‘he did as an earnest of good faith. That ‘the only proper way of showing friendship for ;. Until the building rings are broken, Hetrick belongs where he is. 2% pie The moving picture industry registering a poverty plea for tariff protection will arouse ire rather than sympathy in those who reflect that they are paying a “war price” of 25 cents ® seat for the show they used to see for a dime. THE LENIN LESSON. ACE to face with fact, Premier Lenin lectured the Soviet Congress. One of his striking tatements was; “Learning to trade is difficult, It is not like oratory, but we have to learn it.” #°We would suggest that the Chamber of Com- | Merce of the United States might profitably adopt itis. as i slogan. These words might be engraved a New Year's card and sent to every member Congress with the request that he post it on his as a constant reminder. applies as surely to the American Congress as the Soviet Congress, perhaps even more so, for remains as something of a dictator and, if ¢ has learned the lesson, it will be effective in lan commercial relations. President Harding Hasn't reached any such stage of economic educa- His rebukes to the agricultural bloc are He is for harmony—oratorical harmony hich Lenin recognizes is easy. The G O. P. as a whole is operating on the iic principles it adopted two generations ago hen America did not need to be a trading nation, en the development of the country consumed Surplus of production. Conditions have changed and the G. O. P. has RtJeamed the new lesson. It is true the learning C onal oratory on foreign trade wit capnierevss obsess MEMWER ‘ The Avscciated Prens ts exclusively enciuea to the wre for republication | Gempatches credited to ft or not ctnerwige crewitea i tas papeg is easy. But sooner or later Congress must learn that it carmot throw barriers in the way of trade and expect a prosperous country. If present members of Congress are too old to learn, they must be displaced by younger men who are willing to face facts and act accordingly. MORE CLAMPS. HE EVENING WORLD is frequently de- nounced for its criticism af Prohibition law. Js a jaw, then, beyond criticism because it is a law? Are there no laws which intelligence may be per- mitted to pronounce bad laws? Neither in modern nor ancient times have jurists and publicists held any such brief for laws as laws. “The best use of good laws,” declared Wendell Phillips, who is still rated a worthy and eloquent upholder of American ideals, “is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.” “Reason,” Sir Edward Coke maintained, “ts the life of law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.” “Let us consider the reason of the case,” urged Sir John Powell. “For nothing is law that is not reason.”” “Bad laws,” Burke’ warned his countrymen, “are the worst sort of tyranny.” “Reason alone,” said Mirabeau, “can make laws obligatory and lasting.” Plutarch, in his Life of Solon, notes: “Laws must look to possibilities, if the maker designs to punish few in order to their amendment, and not many to no purpose.” And 2 wise Englishman, Samuel Smiles, wrote only a generation ago: “No laws, however s‘tingent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.” Obedience to law is a duty. But human intelligence has never yet held itself bound not to criticise a law merely because it is a law. “A perpetual impregnable issue, both local and State-wide,” is the way William H. Anderson, State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, charac- terizes his latest plan to secure legislation sanction- ing stringent community dry laws in this Com- monwealth. “Perpetual,” “impregnable” are boli words, worthy of the tyrannous organization which, in the Name of temperance, intemperately seeks more power. No issue or law is impregnable to reason, or perpetual when reason gets ready to demolish it. Anderson and his kind know that, in their souls. They think maybe they can clamp the tyranny so tight as to paralyze reason itself into silence. They will find out their mistake. Reason quickens under clamps. A 5 per cent. tariff for China would be, we take it, “for revenue only.” As @ friend of China how’ can the G, O. P, consent to any such arrangement? GOOD CHRISTMAS MAIL HANDLING, HE Post Office earned the gratitude of every New Yorker for its excellent work in hand- ling Christmas mails, particularly the parcel post business. In other years it has been a common experience to wait in line half an hour to mail parcels. This year the offices were generally better arranged. The system was better, accommodations were ade- quate and the mail moved through without bother- some delays, The double holiday complicated deliveries, even though the postal forces did nat enjoy this boon. In spite of this, the mails were generally on time and congestion was at a minimum, Some part of this credit belongs to the public, which did its share in the early unailing of Ohrist- mas cards and packages and so spread the peak load over a longer period. But the Post Office helped even in this development and earned the praise it deserves. Yesterday's snowfall was just about enough to revive the old feud between the youngsters who want to slide and coast on the sidewalks and the safety first individuals who sprinkle ashes to prevent slipping and sliding. TWICE OVERS. iS); THINK bail ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 is none too high for hold-up men." —Chief Magistrate Mc Adoo. er vgiar 66 HIS is the best big city in the world. There is less crime here in proportion to population than in any other city.” —Acting District Attorney Banton. rwpag Muee" 66 Fait URE Co ratify the treaty would be an act of national madness,” —- Bishop Fogarty of Killaloe. iva PICTURE should create the desire to touch, should be a pleasure for all the senses, should be an excitement and an exaltation.” Kees Van Dongen, “6 ¢ £€ QOVERNOR MILLER is the best Republi- an Governor Tammany Hall ever had."— de From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand say much in few wards. Hie Grit Was Good, ‘To the Editor of Tue Evening World Three cheers for Charles David, the brave colored porter who killed the; bud man who was robbing the office ut No. 243 West 63d Street to-day. David may have a dark skin, but he knows how to use his head and) hand when occasion requires. If we had more men with courage and backbone like David we would have more funorals in the underworld and| fewer hold-ups as the funerals in-| creased. | I Wish I had an opening for David I would employ him at double his; present sulary. | This coloved man's grit should be| rewarded 4s an encouragement to! others. AN AMUORICAN, New York, Vee. 1921. Agrees With the Archbishop, To the Editor of whe Krening World Having read the Christmas pas- toral letter of Archbishop Hayes and Mrs. Sanger's reply, as a Christian | und a Protestant woman I must agree and say every word the Archbishop said |x right, that God glone is the only one who has the right to stay er send children at His will, One of the, blessings He gave to his} people was (Deuteronomy 28, verse 4) “Blessed shall be the fruit of ‘thy Mrs. Batger's theory is a curse to any nation or individual, As th Archbishop writes, Pagan Rome att} height of its imperial power, with conquered world paying tribute to} Caesar, slowly but surely sealed its own doom, Just so it will be with! America if American men and women | will not propagate the human family. | Mrs. M, ly Nyack, Dec. 20, 1 Leoking Forward to Tria ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ¥* seems to be difficult for any one to touch the subject of Prohibition with- out getting burst. K. D. Heni letter in your Saturday irsue arous # little secret temper, involuntarily, as I read it, and I impulsively wre a hot answer to it, but bufere mailing it to you, reconsidered, and decided that Henkle was one of a noisy, pes- tersome minority whom the rest of us must patiently endure yet @ litle longer. This evening | again felt } with righteous indignation as I re; another letter whicn you published from another bug of the same breed. Such people disgust me, They are the ones who took advantage of the ab- wence of the majority of us to fost the outrage of Prohibition upon us. but it's an old story now, and they have done their worst, but most of us will not obey their laws nor respect their dictates, nor relinquish the priv ilege of displaying the contempt we feel for them. For every thousand of his type there are vf thousands World Readers, What kind of Ietter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one words in a couple of hundred? | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. un-Christian and un-American Pro- hibitionists. May I say with utmost seriousness that I believe I voice the sentiments of the majority of right thinking peo- ple when [ assert that [ have no re- spect. whatever for Prohibition laws. and feel the same spirit in violating them that Patrick Henry felt when he cried: “There is no peace. me liber or give me death; h es hi tal n es wh they have defied tyran obeyed only | the voice of conscience. May T also} say that my ancesturs shed their} blood for our flag w every war our} country has ever fought and that 1) myself am physically disabled as the | result of my service in Patria's cause, When that mysterious large class | rises In wrath to destroy, they inay | meet with a surprise. Tam hoping | that your courageous aittituae and | \reless consistent fighting for the cause of right, as you see it, will bear fruits sooner than any of us) now anticipate. [ delight in reading | your attacks upon Prohibition, and your readers’ views when they con- cur, and T shall look forward to your fearless, outspoken writings with renewed satisfaction as the day of triumph for our prinaiples ap- proaches. LIBBRTY LOVER. Somerville, N. J, Dec. 21, 1921. “The Other Side.” ‘Ta toe Editor of The Evening World I have not yet read im your col- umns anything but favorable com- ment on the work and doings of Dr. | Lorenz. 1 know that The Evening World does not hesitate to print the ther side," even though it may for & moment be contrary to the general trend of opinion and may be contrary to its own, To the ordinary looker-on it seems like the height of generosity and good will for a learned professor of long years’ experience to give his best, sly. ‘ Us go to the actual, grim realities and see what happ Long before dawn, and in son cases all through the night, lo: lines of shivering, poorly elad hi manity wait for a chance to be e amined. Though the wind goes through them and chills to the bone, and the rain soaks through, dumbly wait, and dejection, red sun makes its appearance and a ray of hope comes and swells the hearts of the pilgrims and gives them strength to wait for the climax —$ o'clock. The gates open and the crowd surges forward. A few are ad- mitted and the rest roughly told to go home and try again. ‘Then the line breaks up. Old, feeb!e women wheel themselves away. The poor cripple tries his best to restore circulation. The d woman who slept on a blanket on the hard pave- ment goes home, tears dimming her eyes. Then this in the result of the work of Dr. Loreng! And we, the American people, stand | by and let such things go on. And! this is our modern ciyiliaation who feel entirely different about the matter and who agroy with your able editorial attit we have mole ight to © place the of cripple accentuated by the visit of Dr. aceets ne yer io a nh Lorene. The American people shoyld| The madness of the wise te better enou Pe ao care ur own it ois fest down ane ie to end| than the sobriety of the fools. oripy re our tora | cup, iy Hof curing cur sick?’ Can we Sick gel uphold our own welfare, spread where gloom and agon: relent we nothing but @ lot of money wor- shipper: volved. is showin, they really are. sands of cripples in the United @tates who can be cured stay on line to kiax the shoes of a foreigne! UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Copyright, 1981. by Jean Blaha) MAKE: YOUR VOCATION A VACATION, Vacations are something most of us look forward tu. Sometimes we look forward to them because they ar? a necessary relicf from the close application of our greater tasks. Mostly we look forward to them because they are a pleasant interruption to a long-continued spell of drudgery. Those who are doing the nost We all need vacations. important work need them most. Yet, if we spend the whole working year looking for- ward to the weck or two weeks or month during which we We are will do nothing at all, there is something wrong. badly fitted to the work we are doing. Of one thing you may be very sure. is never going to be a brilliant success in it. If you drag through your job for eleven months in the year, thinking of the time when you ean get away from it, it is not the sort of job you ought to be doing. If you go to work in the morning wishing that you were going home again, it is time you were finding another job. You can, it is true, continue through life doing uncon- genial work, It may bring you enough, or more than enough to live on. But it wall be the wrong job. You will get no happiness out of it, and after all, happiness appears to be the goal at which we all aim. If you are in the work that you are best able to do, your You will take pleasure in what You will try to progress every day—to do things that you could rot do before—to master new difficulties and grow in ability vocation will be a vacation, you are doing—more pleasure than in anything else. and in the mastery of your work. You will be often reluctant to leave it, even when a rest You will adapt your reading and your ac- It will be the dominant thing is imperative. quaintanceship to your task. in your life, Then, when you have taken your vacation, you will he eager to pct back to your vocation, Fer you will feel that, with body and brain refreshed by wholesome rest and change of thought, you will be able to do better work than ever. If you feel that way about your work, you nezdn’t worry. | You will get along. If you feel that you want to get away from it as quickly as you can, better change your work, or at least try to take a new interest in it, joy Are The question of ethics te oat ia: . Lorens, if no! e Pring American doctors whai| better.—H. W. Shaw, Millions sent to Kurope, but thou- NM might) without triumph.—J. Aikin, Doesn't that stir your goul? Doesn't xhow you up? ‘The evils pointed out in this ietter | the mind.—Louls M. Notlia. The man who would not rather do his life work than anything else on earth From the Wise It 4s easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays The hardest trial of the heart is whether it can bear @ rival's failure A mothe:’s smile is like sunshine after rain, It refreshes the dody and Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg ae Bint Paalsthar Sone "OO M11.—‘'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Jules Verne was one of the most remarkable men that the race has 90 far produced. Like ‘Leonardo da Vinel, like INapoluon, Hke Shake- Speare, he was so emphatica’ unique that he admits of no classiti- cation. 4 Speaking of Shakespeare, we are reminded of tho fact thgt it is in the most extraordinary r Ariel, that we find Jules Verne's most faithful pro- totype. It would be quite correct to call the brilliant Frenchman the Ariel of the intellectual world. Like Ariel, he loved to “tread the ooze of the salt deep; to run upon tho sharp wind of the North; to do business in veins of the earth.” To his etherial brain there were no bari...3 His 1 + Was the infinite, and in the midst of the boundless Sweeps of the imagination he was as solidly at home as is the sailor on the deck of his ship, or the farmer upon the solid earth. The working of this wonderful in- tellect is seen in “Pwenty Thousand League Under the Sea” and its twin production, “Round the World im Bighty Days’—books the like of which cannot be found in all the Ubraries of the world. In these books Verne, by the grace of God, King of the imagination, wielded the sceptre that no other hands had ever dared to touch. And Strangest of all is the fact that °'! through the rioting of his fancy the midsummer night's madnes. his dreaming, he was able to main- taln such order and method. Undazzica by the indescribable Det of his vision, his eye saw Straight and true, and not once did his reason and judgment lose their Dol He the remarkable fact that Vern books became the source of many scientific inventions and dis- coveries. To the plodders along the path of experiment they furnished the inspiration for the great- ideas which, later on, became great facts in the line of scientific achievement. With his big dreamy eyes Verne saw the submarine long before it had been built, or even seriously thought of, and many of the rvels of electricity which are to-day for te first time finding thetr practical dem- onstration were anticipated in this man's romances. To Jules Verne was given the mys- terious power of seeing the unseen and of anticipating the victories of man’s brain and will over the forces of the material world. In Nature's infinite book of se- crecy he was able to read mora deeply and unerringly than any man of his time and from the lofty peaks of the imagination he signalled the coming events which cast {heir shadows before. ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. One tts Mow Vout Bracing warts “ROGER AND ANGELICA MOUNT- ED ON A HIPPOGRIFF.”—Antoine Louis Barye. was borne in Lyons, France, in 1798, but while he was st. a child Ris family migrated to Paris where his father establisned himself las a silversmith. As he grew older Barye was foreed to discontinue his studies in order to earn his living. For a time he worked for Fauconnier, a jeweller, executiog for bim many exquisite miniature models of animal iife. So great was his interest in this work that he de- termined to devote his life to tha modelling of animals. «The most famous and best of the works i “Roger and Angelica Mounted on a Hippogriff’ Which is now in. the Gorearan, Gallery of Art of Washing- ton, : The group represents Roger, a youth clad in full armor, seated upon his steed, clasping in his urms the nude form of his beloved Angelica whom he has rescued from magi+ cians with the help of the hippo- griff, a marvellous creature, shaped like 4 horse but capable of incredible speed because of the powerful wings that beat at his sides. The lovers have just arisen from the depths of the sea, where Angelica was im- prisoned, and have been cast sky- ward by 4 dolphin as it curled itself in a spiral beneath them. The posi- tion of Angelica’s limbs and Roger's hard riding attitude gi-e an impres- sion of the tremendous speed at which they are being borne through the air. The suppleness and — graceful streneth of the girl's figure is won- derful, and Roger, who turns toward her In his saddle, helps marvellously, ‘by the contrast of his bulky armor, to make us appreciate the beautiful form of the woman he grasps se closely. Antoine Burye fortunately pos- sessed perseverence, for otherwise we would never have heard of him The judges at the Salon, on whose approval success depended, catered only to those artists whose reputa- tion had dlready been made. But al- though the constant disfavor of the jury was disheartening, Barye had courage to continue to make his beautiful studies of animal life. His works were finally recognized by the Duke of Orleans, who gave him a commission to execute a series of ornaments for his table. From then on things became easier and Barye, whe was most prolific, was rapidly recognized a8 a great artist, being acknowledged at the time ‘of his death one of the foremost sculptors in France. As the Saying Is “TO TAKE A BACK SEAT,” In American slang, to retire inte obscurity, to withdraw from publte notice as a confession of failure. Though the i@ was current be~ Ad do hras fore Andrew steel, Pre: was he who gave it a “sen h his famous saying in the work of ree