The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1921, Page 22

ealiin catorio, BSTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘Wwiltahet Daliy Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos. 68 to 68 Park Row, Now York RALPH PULITZER, President. ¢3 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row. PULITSOR Jr., Secretary, 8 Park How. MEMBER OF THE ASPOCIATED PHESS. ~~. Sete G ines teeees to sss ox te Soeiiill| ‘eredited to 1 or mot ounerwise ereniiea tm tale pagmy a also the local news published herein, Y ALL-HYLAN TRANSIT. : HYLAN’S determination to go ahead his own project of a Brooklyn-Staten and municipal freight system 1s, for no more than a gesture. It is a talk- not a plan of action. ‘The Mayor means to have a bill introduced in {he next Legislature authorizing the city to build a freight terminal system conflicting with the plans ‘of the Port Authority and at the same time at ccross-purposes with the plans of the Transit Corr mission. The Port Authority has the support of Gov. Miller. So has the Transit Commission. The ‘Hylan proposal has no chance of acceptance until Gov. Miller is out of office. Unjil then Mayor a Hylan may talk, but he will build no tunnels uniess : | ¥t requires no technical consideration of the com- parative merits of the Port Authority plan and the Hylan plan of freight terminals to know that the Hykan ‘plan fs on the shelf until Gov. Miller retires "& trom office, Until then the Mayor may talk to his j heart's content. Talk ts cheap. But he has no business to be spending farge sums ‘of money in preparatians that mean only: conflict and defiance where the city ought to be getting intelligent co-operation. WHEN BAIL IS A BUSINESS. HIEF CITY MAGISTRATE M’ADOO speaks with authority in his attack on the business of balling habitual criminals who go out and prey * Bee renee ey Oe com ot eee = vin what purported to be w reply, Distect At- tomey Banton did anything but answer the charges a brought against the present system of bonding. He tells about the moral and divie virtue of the City of New York. He reassures citizens that there is no crime wave, “despite the impression given by gaceereage is the “recent cases” which have most effeo- ay called attention to the abuse of the ball privilege. The police have captured criminal after criminal only to find that each has a “record” and Ts out on bail. It ts reasonable to assume that @ consierable proportion of those who get away are also on buil. Reasonable restriction and regulation of ocom- panies making a business of furnishing bail to crimi- mals fs 2 crying need. Mr. Banton says: “I do not approve of licensing bondsmen. ‘That would do away with the very thing we consider one of the best provisions of the me . lew, which jes an honest citizen who is arrested for a crime of which he is innocent to obtain a friend to go on his bond.” This is paltering. No reasonable licensing bill © need prevent such friendly service. But the oom- mumity has good reason to fear the professional Wondsmen who make a business of having “friends” or customers with long police records. rere H af IRELAND'S HOLIDAY REFERENDUM. OST of the world hoped Ireland would have ratified the Irish Free State treaty before ‘Christmas. In the light of what is happening fn Ireland these days, it seems highly probable that the delay was good rather than bad. Over the tholidays the world !s witnessing what amounts to @ referendum in Ireland. County coun- cis are recommending acceptance of the treaty. Sinn Fein clubs are passing resolutions calling on members of the Dail to ratify, and warming that failure would be betrayal of the trust of repre- sentation. Members of the Dail are at home and tre learning the sentiments of their constituents. Everything points to the overthrow of the opposi- tion as a direct result. of the will of the Irish _ people themselves. Ireland ‘coms to te coming out for “self.te- | termination” In a new and altogether admirable fashion. fested, the better will be the chances of successful dmanguration of the Irish Pree State. THE “PRACTISE BABY” \VID, the “practise baby” of the home exo- © pomics department of Oklahoma A. & M. last autunm, has found a penmament | | | | j he and Corporation Counsel O’Brien can discover | } | afraid of wu The more conclusively hts sentiment f mant- | t THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921, he became part of the college equipment for In- struction in the care of infants. Since then he has iad a total of eighteen mothers within as many weeks, Now he has been adopted into a home of westth 4and comfort, and the colle,e Is seeking a Successor, David's photograph reveals a healthy and happy looking youngster, and this seems to speak well for the quality of instruction available in this Okla- homa college. Eighteen schoolgirls might almost have been expected to “mother” David to death, ‘That their teachers prevented this is an augury that a goodly number of future Oklahomans will grow up with a proper start in Bfe, Indeed, the experiment seems to have been so successful that other departments of home eco- nomics will be likely to follow the Oklahoma example. Eighteen scientific mothers may be too many for the best of results and still be far better than in- stitutional care, where one paid employee &as to divide capacity for mothering among many elnimants. THE PITY OF IT! © BLAME the whole French people for what thelr present Government has done to pre- vent an Arms Conference agreement on submarine tormage would be hasty and unfair, f has yet to be proved that what the Briand ‘Minisiry deems good for itself politically is also what popular sentiment tn Prance would over- whelmingly support. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Frenchmen, speaking officially for France, have forced a break on the submarine tonnage plan, and the Washing- ton Conference has to cast about for some more general principle of agreement as to auxiliary craft of all classes. To say the alms of he conference have come to naught fs absurd. The agreement as to the ratio of capital ships ts still Intact. There is every reason to hope it can rermain, as a spokesman for the British delegation expresses it, in “a water-tight compartment.” As fong as “it stays there, overburdened peoples are assured that future tax loads amounting to billions of dollars will not be piled upon their badly strained backs—by idself no mean accomplishynent. The effect of the stubborn French claim for sub- marines as a national need arising from uncertainty as to what other nations might do will be to urge the “mle question of lesser naval armament toward a broader field :mbracing a larger number of na- tions, with a more thorough discussion of the national needs of each. Such armament needs will be found to decrease —for France no less than for others—as the num- ber of nations entering into agreement increases. Any such larger group of nations that includes all those engaged in the late war, not excepting the United States and Germany, will presently find itself ready to recognize “that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of inter- national obligations.” . To determine this lowest point, these nations will appoint some expert body which, “taking ac- count of the geographical situation and circum. stances of each State, shall formulate plans for such reduction for the consideration and action of the several Governmenis.’ The quoted passages perfecily prescribe the process. * What a pity the L States must be put in blinders and Jed in lab round and about these straightforward provisions merely because they happen to be embodied in Article VIIL of the Covenant of the League of Nations! ———— FED ON FEAR. @rom the Boston Life is tureeiy ruled by fear, and a change of ad- ministration is desiravle As a lecturer has recently pointed out, the education given by most parents to their children in fears. The children are taught to be afraid of winter, of war, of death, of hard times, Hobe) Of disease, of exaininations. Perhaps that fs one of the reasons that children so seldom find the conver- sation of their elders uplifting. It ts full of don'ts, buts and nots. Amid such a shower of warnings some of the pes simism is bound to stick, even when the youngster resolutely closes nis ¢ The result is a negatively minded race, which must go about Its day's work par- tially paralyzed with dread of what ts to come. No one can deny that the things which children are taught to fear are likely to happen. But a steady diet of fears is not 1 Real accomplishments are made by & attitude, Suppose a man is. So far #8 Hes within his fear oat of bis head, make, by saving and t . & provision for bis fam- ily, and then g0 forward. Lf he carries a dread about ‘with him he will be slowed down to euch a degree that big family will euffer, whether he is killed ono street crossing or not. The attitude of the young person fn fietion who was always “ciac” is cickening and unnecessary. Robert Louis Stevenson, resolute and brave in the tace of Wasting lilness and grinding poverty, is ove of the whi examples to follow, Every line he wrote is pe. — Ars. power he emma — anny fete ot ae es Pg a From Evening World Readers: What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the ons that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercises and a lot of satistaction in trying te eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. What Doctors May Net @ Prescribe. | financial yurd ‘To the Editor of The Brening Work: From now on there will be @ great saving in doctor bills. Should you @ two-cent stamp and write your Representative in Washington for free advice. Never mind the doctor; your Representative knows best for you. Besides, you'll which will help pay your Please don’t ask You might Insult him, He may have all the medicine he needs in his cel- lar. He won't tell you that, because ite his business. It is said that 98 per cent, of the “booze” flying about nowadays is nothing but rank poison. Fa the pel b yleedied Se Sinimed a stuff ap. It is cl also that 100,000 or more home brew: ers are going to die of Brights aie ‘ais- case within twelve years. Is Prohibi- tion a joke? I'll say itis WJ. 8 ‘New York, Dec. 26, 1921. been di defeated by the will of the people. You say in your editorial that the saloon is gone. It did not go with your consent or with the consent,yof the large ie ee ai in this other large cities; but ft did go with the consent und at the urgent request and demand of the mass of our people These people believe that the first step toward bringing back the saloon would abe the legalizing of light wines why hot allow your to be mat i Bas teen in Ube poate leader : FG gh § mild of married wome: oF even single giris, T be- Neve that they were never mea: » work, although IT may be pPraite a) when they do work, I admire u jane ee is that sort of helps many & man te make i nd elie Cera = financial burden, which causes many a divorce these days. @ am speaking from many cases I! have seen and not my own case, for Iam one of those not fortunate enough to have a wife, ‘The ones I have seen tmpreas me 68; wanting to get married to find a home not a helpmate, and I think they are the ones who object to the mar- women going to work. aBa New York, Dec, 24, 1921 @arcastio Praise, ‘To the Réttor of The Evening World: An interesting item of news from Washington told that Representative Ansorge, Republican, of New York, had introduced @ bill prohibiting the formation in Congress of “blocs,” upon particular pursuits. or geographical locations, for the plr- pose of “in any way affecting legis- lation.” If its provisions are enacted Senators and Representatives will be subject to a fine of $5,000 if proved guilty of belonging to one of the things. New York may be justly proud of its representative. Any departure from our two-party system should be regarded as un-American, Some worthy persons may have decried the policy of excluding Socialists from the legislative halls at Albany, but one having the welfare of ones country at heart cannot but admir« the spirit which prompted their and be thankful that it has “Blocs and a Blockhead” might be a sultable caption for this letter. w.a New York, Dec, 22, 1921 ‘Think of the Horses, Te the Editor of The Broning World: Why should we not think more of the horses—ths good old delivery horses who add so much to our com- that they a third of the scp needed meal. Your peper has many worthy causes. I ‘am sure our faith ful servant, the horse, 16 worth a comfortable uld be for him, instead the hel! it too often is! 4 HORSE “UNDBRSTANDER.” New York, Deo. 4, 1921 wt UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ' (upright, 1981, by Jobe Blake) THE EASIEST WAY. You can get along with little effort. There are men who tofl not, neither do they spin; who spend no money on food or clothes, and yet who are seldom hungry or cold. We call them hoboes. ‘There are people who go through the we-ld shirking their duty to themselves and others, who always get out of the difficult yobs, who always manage somehow or other to have enough to live on. There are men—plenty of them—who live through life beyond their incomes, who succeed by one means or other in borrowing from others the difference between what they earn and what they spend. They live under a cloud of debt, but debt doesn’t worry them. Bete is “an easiest way” through life if you want to x it. Procrestinate, borrow, loaf, you may still get along. Of course you will not prosper. The chances are that you will conciude your career in the poorhouse. Still, you will not starve. And there is just a chance one !n ten million, say—that you will be happier than seme people who work their passage. This career is open to you if you want to take it. But if you are a normal human being you don’t want to take it. There is in all rightly constituted pecple a spirit of inde- pendence which asserts itself every little while and makes conscience an inconvenient thing. None of us is fond of slinking about to dodge creditors. None of us likes to see other people enjoying honors or comforts or iuxuries that are beyond our power to attain. Sooner or later the laziest of us discovers that there is one sure way to be reasonably independent, and that is to earn our own independence. When we make that discovery we forget about the easiest way; we do not even envy those whose ancestors have made their way easy for them. We find thet there is the same satisfaction in making our own way as there is in winning any game in which we happen to take part. The easiest way is the idler’s way. It is the way of the hobe and tye beggar, and it never brings anything like real happiness. As for the way of the criminal, that is so difficult that only particularly shrewd and crafty people cag take it. For inost of us it is far easier to lead a life of absolute honesty. of blood. In Ashton Church, morial of the Holts, bea: ‘That's a Fact’ By Alb&t P. Southwick Cnr. Sts York hvesing Wont ago, murdered his cook, 4 with a spit, and “when pa the offense, the King enjoin. Birmingham, England, is a coat, Pe ey f -|ot the oreign-Born Builders —of— America By Svetozar Tonjorof [Comment % Yoiatae, Geane XVIL—CARL SCHURZ. Carl Schurz was @ conspicuous representative of the large group et brilliant men who devoted thele em ergies to the upbuilding of Ameritas: because they found Germany im tt reactionary stage inhospitable @ their liberal endeavors, Born tn Liblar, near Cologna, 2 Prussia, in 1829, Schurz began as @ student in the University of Bonsl the campaign for a better end more constructive democracy which be continued in America until his deat, / In 1848, the year that shook Bure« Nf pean thrones, Carl Schurs joine@ Gottfried Kinkel, one- of his prom fessors, in the publication of a liberal newspaper, This paper be for » time conducted alone, in the spring of 1849, when the re- aclivbaries Were completing the work of crushing the revolution, took part I) an attempt to promote juiluve of the movement he fled to the Palatinate with Kinkel, the revolutionary army as adjutast and took part in the defense of ikastadt, On the surrender of that fortress he escaped to Switserland turned to Germany secretly fullowing year and rescued ter professor from the pow ous custie of Spandau, He emigrated to am curred in 1858, when a speech deliv- ered by him in English in the Lincoln-Douglas contest for the Senatorship from Diinois was quoted throughout the country, He sollowed up this political debat by a lecture tour of the New England in which he opposed the 48 policies. He was # prominent e in the National Republicam Convention in 1860, and Reha! Bppoint. ed Minister to Spain oy Presidend Lincoin. post he resigned on the ust- | of the Civil War, was rs, and took command of a di- vision in Franz Sigel's Corps. His record inctudes participation ia the second battle of Bull Run and the | batties of Chancelloreville, of Gettys- burg (at which place he had tempo- rary command of his corps) and ef Chattanooga. The war over, he devoted himselt ardently to the work of reconstrua- tion. As special commissioner, 4 pointed by President Johnson made an exnaustive study of condi~ t.ons In the South, which served as the basis of a programme of recom= cilation after the struggle. * In the summer of 1866 he removed to Detroit and there founded fod Post, In the following year he Be- came editor of the Westliche Post, ta St. Lous As Temporary Chairman of the Re- publican National Convention of 1668, in Chicago, he moved adoption of an amendment to the form, pledging his party toa amnesty. Chosen Senator Missouri for the term ending im 1875, he warmly advocated the lof specie payments and the continuance of military interference in the South, ed Secretary of the Interior ident Hayes in 1877, he gave | form to the movement for foe reform by introducing examinations for ap- ments in his department, took neer step in the conservation ne systematic measures for the pro~ n of forests on public lands, ed basic reforma in the Indias 3 ce. Schurz maintained his ective tm rost in the cause of civil service |reform throughout his remaining tifa, joey Bee WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 118—CURFEW. | ‘The word “curfew,” of coursa came to America across the Atlantia, | But before that voyage on the May- flower thie word made @ shorter # quite as rough sea-trip across the Qnglish Channel, For the land sf t= bieth 1g Prange a “curfew” was known Likeeg 4 ueror made pichal oy se a! system of y his subjects to Oia out oe nd hie them to bed. j. This call of “lights-out"—es ig im known in military barracks— Conqueror enforced as @ reminder of the servitude of Gap copie whom he had conanered. ‘The curfew bell is still Fung in Bag land and other countries in and even tf America, as @ signal to the youngaie retire from streets. VANISHED RESIDENTS * OF NEW YORK vat othe (Xew Be 3 THE ORIGINAL BUCL noose. In the course of the excavation gow the foundations of the Chase Nations | Bank Building last year, the wort: ly those of a bull the presence of @ cannon ban pre-Revolutionary period amd 7 | 8 4,000 Seoving the Pupitet way of iy of peme Ity to wear ever after ‘othe Filter of The Evening Wortd : a’ in his family coat” A motorman of a re which was quite empty, deliberately | given to Aquidnech Island in Narra- he Leonidas of Modern Greece” passed an aged had been genet Ber} Lay he phrase to cata was @ name given to Markos Bozzaris, waiting patiently on the etreet corner | to be a transtal the Indian word.|who with 1,300 men routed for the . As the car approac' ‘Turko-Albantans, at Ke nisl, he stepped forward to enter the car,| “Pa Thomas” ras “another mick-|was Killed at this battle and as the car passed he was alinost/name for Gen, George H. Thomas, oes down by the autos whi 1 called by hls eoldiers of the Army} | Athens, the | most renowned plowed the ca the Tennesseo durmg the Civil Does the company allow oe fon. a operation ployess to do what they plean, oF a age eh EE moose may have been brought hese from further north was rejected be= cause of the well known fact that ‘but | the te t is believed ‘that roame ng Island, the immediate \ 4 commig- ued @ Brigadier General of Vole \ ® national resources by adopi 7}.