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wow of all the great and near-great in political life at a duly authorized swapping party. New York and Brooklyn might swap Charlie Murphy and Jake Livingston. Will Hays might exchange his present job for the movies and get $90,000 a year to boot. | The Democratic Party would probably be willing to trade Senator Jim Reed for a broken plank from the 1920 Republican platform. Mayor Hylan might play David Harum with Gov. Miller and get a Home-Rule Bill in exchange for a set of tunnel plans. Mr. Harding might be willing to give half the Republican majority in Congress for a convincing explanation of the difference between Article II. and Article X. and find no takers. Clayton Lusk might rid himself of a silver service. A page of fine type would not exhaust the pos- sible combinations. If it could be engineered, such a political swapping party would make a national party convention look as tame as a meeting of the Sewing Circle. THE NEW TEST. S a result of obstinate adherence to her subma- rine programme, France already finds her- | self backed into an unpleasant corner. The backing process has been effected in the | simplest, most logical way. The Root resolutions calling for a strictly regulated use of submarines put it up to France to explain what she wants her submarines for. If she expects to employ them only as weapons of defense, why should she for a moment hesitate to accept the limitations of their use which the Root resolution proposes? When the Root resolutions were put forward yesterday, with the support of the American and British delegations, the French delegates sparred for time and urged that the matter be referred to ex- MEMOMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, asl ee Amoctated Prem Is exclusively cntuuse to the wwe ter repabtteatiod | ‘Af all ews despatches credited {0 It or 0c ounerwire erenitea in tase papae | ‘Sha also the focal news pubiishea herein Sr MURDEROUS BANDITRY. 4 “TD URGLARIES, hold-ups and bank robberies con- tinue to produce their daily lists ot killed or wounded. What can the State of New York do about it? One thing its Legislature can do is to pass the bills urged by Judges of the Court of General Ses- sions last year increasing the maximum penalties | for crimes of this class, Life imprisonment for first degree burglary in- stead of the present twenty-year maximum: one year to life for first degree robbery; twenty years ‘For first degree assault; possession of burglary tools to constitute presumption of guilt; defendants in- “dicted jointly to be denied separate trials—are some of the provisions of these bills which passed the ‘Assembly last session but were held up in the Senate. | . Heavier penalties and, if necessary, more Judges | should be provided as one means of putting a check | @n the appalling increase of murderous banditry. ag No Legislature can afford to ignore the growing “boldness of bank robbers and highwaymen in this ~ Safety in New York is rapidly slipping back to- _ ward standards of the Middle Ages. t | perts. The Italian and the Japanese delegates took t le MAKING FACES. : | the same stand. ; CHE All-Hylan plan of port, tunnel and terminal | But there can be no prolonged shilly-shallying over this new issue, Mr. Root proposes that the use of submarines as commerce destroyers shall be prohibited and that any submarine commander who violates humane rules shall be treated as a pirate. Heretofore the Arms Conference has discussed naval armament from the standpoint of limitation in quantity and cost. The Root resolution introduces the question of humane restraint in the use of what is admittedly one of the most formidable and deadly of naval development is, as The Evening World said “yesterday, a gesture, not a plan of action. +. Mayor Hylan knew before he sponsored the ‘of the Governor. So Mayor Hylan is making a gesture of defiance. Somehow it is reminiscent of a little boy sticking vout his tongue at a larger boy he does not like. It ‘may relieve the small boy, it may amuse onlookers, ~ But'it does no damage to the larger lad.” Py It is reported that the leases of the new docks at weapons. Stapleton are putting pressure on the Administration Here, then, is a challenge to the purpose of the to supply railroad conneotions for the docks on pain | conference itself. ‘of breaking the leases, leaving the city with the ex: In the minds of what nations does that purpose docks on its hands. ; go no further than convenient cutting of the cost of Af this lack of foresight is worrying the Mayor, we | naval warfare by agreement to eliminate some of | *would suggest that he might far better go to the Port | its older and more costly weapons? e _ “Authority, confess his troubles and solicit coyopera- What nations are unwilling to furnish proof that tion in providing the necessary connection. their aim in reducing armament inchudes an aim to Making faces solves no transit problems. put aside thoughts of aggression and regard them- * selves as armed only for defense? y hae “Eg peer tong peta aileebogal Tae ibe These are questions which involve moral judg- : Always Revolve Perpendicularly.—Headiine. ments of deep moment to each and every nation Another effect of wood alcohol hooch, perhaps? involved. me ¢ As each nation answers these questions, so will its : * HARD TO LEARN. future position among other nations be determined, MHE milk strikers are reported to have deposed Isolation and the mistrust of the rest ‘of the world . "their leader, Briggs, who recently made public | are likely to be the consequences for a power whose jonfession that blame for all the mistakes in the | answer is evasive. : might properly be placed on him. Henceforth The saner part of the French mind must perfectly Eg: conduct of the strike will be handled by an ex- | reglize this. ‘ , ‘ecutive committee. | Where is the voice of the French people? For the moment, this seems to be of oly academic | _ interest, for the strike is broken. The union has lost | unless it can reform its lines within the ranks of the | | new employees, which it is fairly certain to do unless , ___ the “company unions” the distributers have promised , «tothe men prove an effective and satisfactory means _ for collective bargaining. But the deposition of Briggs ought to be a lesson ‘to other unionists. Briggs was not a leader. He "was a misleader. When the milkmen took their + fatal strike vote they did not have all the facts. _ Briggs seemed determined to have a strike. He _ withheld facts and he pushed the men into an inde- "~ fensible position where public sympathy was with the distributers.- | Mt was not easy for the public to side with the _ gompanies in the face of the fact that New York is | Dr. Adolf Lorenz now has a license to practise in New York State, granted by unanimous, vote of the Board of Regents. The action closes this incident, but it also emphasizes the need for a ‘eystem of temporary licensing by a single re- sponsible official to be effective until the board has cpportunity to act. + What Senator Ledge Did Not Quote, To the Editor of The Evening World: sport of the gods. = paying so much more for milk than other cities. ‘But the strikers. as the case was presented, left no | alternative. \ The lesson of the milk strike is that unions must > iJ themselves of the Briggs type of irresponsible | F Weatership. It is the same lesson that crops out from time to time in broader fields of politics. Lodge quote from “Cleon.” intellectual egotism. da»s of St. Paul. He demonstrates, previous history, that he, Cleon, Ay “HOW'LL YOU TRADE >” | SA AEMBERS of the Women's City Club heli a 5] “swapping party” Wednesday evening. Un- ible Christmas gifts were traded back and forth. _. Misfits on account of size or color were bartered “Wntil the traders were satisfied. “Impossible” pres- | human life and thought. “In brief, al He writes his king that certain si ‘their doctrine could be held by no sane man.” . Pats of one kind and another were swapped “sight x / unseen.” In many instances the last was even more ta s* MF Mmpossible than the first, but in thai case there was ; ws the chance of driving another bargain. ©) We trust the members of the club were satisfied fith the results of the party. Many of them are K Sets Rate mere penile oe | lend the swapping principle to that field. havea, i | believers in the possibility of world peace. But then we rather snspect that Henry subject-beadings as ‘There must have been loud laughter on Olympus when Senator Lodge, thumbing his book of quota- tions for a suitable phrase about islands,) stopped at the “lily on lily” excerpt from Browning's “Cleon.” Poetic justice is the favorite indoor, post-prandial ‘To them nothing is so mirth-pro- voking as to visit upon presumptuous man some hid- {| den, confounding implication of his presumption. So we think the whole Olympian circle must have so- Journed down Washington way on Dec. 10 to hear For the Cleon of the poem is the apotheosis of He is a sycophantic poet in the He writes to his patronizing king a panegyric upon his own literary accomplishments. with a Lodge-like sweep of all the poet of ‘the “sprinkled isles,” is logically (no pun intended) the | best poet that ever lived. He is the lone survival of the fittest, the consummation, the ne plus ultra, of rts are mine.” 8, followers ot Paulus and Christus, “touching in his lily island, have preached a new philosophy, but he gathers that THE. EVENING WORLD, \. | Reckless With the Duster! ~ FRIDAY, DECEMBER - 30; ‘19 eas Pu, Co, From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Jen’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercises and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in few words. Take time fo be brief. hibition agents are being arrested every day for bribery, &c. One thing about Judas Iscariot, he did have decency enough to go out and hang himeelf, after throwing down the thirty pieces of silver. But the heads of the Prohibition Party | have not got decency enough to throw | down the thirty pieces of silver, let - alone go out and hang thee New York, Dec. 21, 1921. Unwounded Ex-Service Men. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: All you read about in the daily papers is of bills passed to relieve | the disabled ex-service men. i But will they ever pass a bill to. help the unemployed, unwounded ex- | service men, who just because they | got home without being wounded ace | or eny similar phrase, being treated like a lot of goats? Bealdes, such advice would be! tam one of those who gave Up al crude, It ls a poor writer and a poor | job at which I was making $45 a caitor who couldn't get over the ‘dea week at du Pont's powder works to with more subtlety and less danger.! fight for my country. I have been| You are far from being crude. You|tramping the streets for eight | manage to convey the same meaning | months, I don't doubt many another | In headlines, news stories, feature|nwounded soldier has been doing | the same and will continue to for @ long time to come. T swore that shoud a war break out with our country I for one am a conscientious objector, and will re- main so after what I have gone through. It is high time that some- ting was done for the unwounded | isn't it, frankly? | unemployed ex-soldiers and Stop | "As to the second demand, ‘“The| Using them as the goats. 2D DIV. number of voters of New York Btate New York, Dec. 26. i inst Pi —_ The, voted Or Ar cee STon A Siren Thief Oat Not being a brary of election sta- | To the Editor of The Eveting Wortd: tistics nor an active propagandist, 1| After reading of #0 many daring haven't one Saves et pend. a hold-ups, I take the liberty of sug- ‘oing to have them, however, Eelave thay are opiainable ana 1 am |Serune o8 i8en 3 Deve Bad for onme rolng to some little trouble to get time. I believe it would be weil that @ them, When I do, in the course of a ren system U@ installed ali over the Mr. Henkle Promises Figures, ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: I really didn’t intend to start a discussion when I sent you the few thoughts on Prohibition which you Published in The Evening World of the 17th, But now that one of your friends has asked for facts, I can’t very well ignore his request much as i suspect the demand letter of being a “plant.” As to his first request, that I date or quote any statement of yours ad- vocating deflance of the Bighteenth Amendinent, it can't be done. Nor is it necessary. I suspect you would make yourself criminally lable if, in your columns, you sald: “We advise our readers to violate the Eighteenth Amendment,” “We urge defiance of the Prohibition enforcement laws" stories and editorials, and to give dates and: columns would be almost to cite chronologically your refer- ences to Prohibition, ‘Ask nine of ten people in New York how The Evening World stands Lodge did not quote this last line of the poem, as be did the first; but considering that he is the arch- wrecker of the Christian League of Nations, tl: | covenanted altruism of the nations, it would havo been quite fitting in him to take such a fling at the Cabot | | Lodge, while looking up quotations ‘or his Pacific oration, was not particularly concerned with such “Christianity” and “international JAMES A. BIGGS. tow days, (am going to ask you for e aumcient to anewer once and| city the sound of which shail De re- for ail to the satisfaction of an un-|{caseq directly after a hold-up, con- prejudiced mind, the lament that a|tinuing for at least § minutes night taipority “forced, Prohibition on us” | or day. These Agures will provide an inde eis mE aos Olly in tNew. Fork | cin oaks at eae nae eee the sound shall stop and be subject but virtually every poate in the|to search, “di ne Union. . D. HENKLE. Bronx, Dec. 26, 1981. New York, Dec. 21, 192 aed A View om Birth Contrel. Pre! tlontets, Vo the Editor of The Drening World: yo the Editor of The Brening Wort Im your cob red oe R. D. Henkle's letter of Dec. 1) is; Lod pe re age y peed 0 Jeriae | too funny for anything; best laugh T/ on Wirth control. I am not of | have had for a long time. If he had|the same religious belief as the Arch- worked with and known these Pro-|Dishop but I am of iis belief im his hibition reformers as well as Ido, he| 1 am the father of six children, cortainly would change his mind and | three living, and have always agree with The Evening World, which |able to care for them and my stands for justice for all, both rich | who is still a young woman. and poor, and not as the Fighteenth upon children as a gift from Amendment stands to-day but believe till that God ge and that Sirth contro! Dvening World, after be has every honest woman among tiese Prohibitionists «nd and the people who knows them to be what they really |thing for tneir own me are—a lot of good people, so good that | vancement only pi . One! ings of God, who destines F. Xonser, Det My WM ___ d ine up with the y uttnn By John Cassel | Epoch-Making BOOKS IV.—The ‘Spirit of the Laws. With Baron Montesquieu, the au- thor of “The Spirit of the Laws,” every American, and for that matter every one who is interested in the history and aims of the Government of our country, should have more than a superficial acquaintance, for, besides being one of the great luminal minds of his day, Montesquieu’s ideas wrought mightily throughout the de- bates in the Philadelphia convention that made vhe Constitution under | which we live, It was in 1748 that the great | Frenchman published the work with which we are immediately concerned —"The Spirlt of the Laws.” The book at once challenged the attention of all Europe. In England, and all.over the Continent, it was perceived that the work wae the product of @ master thinker whose ideas were as weighty as they were new, and from England Montesquieu's book found its way to America, Already in the American colonies tue spirit of independence was in the air, There was, of course, no open revolt, but here and there our lead- ing minds were being prepared for the events which were only a decade or two in the future. These advanced thinkers were brought in touch with Montesquieu's book, and the more they read and studied its pages the more they were impressed by them; and by and by, when the time came for the making of the Constitution that should insure a more “perfect union” of the inde- pendent commonwealths, the ideas that they had gleaned from “The Spirit of the Laws” were of mighty assistance to them. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright. 1921, by John Blake.) MORE AND BETTER SCHOOLS. The work Mr. H. G. Wells has done for education is more important than the work he is doing for peace. If Mr. Wells can succeed in getting the world educated, peace will follow as a natural sequence. When people know enough they will stop fighting. They are far from knowing enough now. One of the reasons for a lack of education which is appaliing is our satisfaction with a very imperfect school syst-m. This satisfaction is, of course, due to ignorance. “Ince a boy or girl leaves school, school is put out of the mind, The duty of making it better for coming generations is ore which the ex-pupil is glad to dodge. School, for him, is over. It was a nightmare while it lasted. Why so much as think about it when that is no longer necessary? The failure of the schools to do anything like the work they should do is due partly to the fact that the teachers are “set in their ways,” largely to the refusal of the public to spend more than a quarter of the money that should be spent for education. Instead of being abreast or ahead of the times, the schools are far behind them. Geography is still taught by old-fashioned picture books, at a time when the moving picture screen might be installed. Y The echools are usually four or five years behind modern science and imvention; always at least a year behind economics. Only in the colleges are there teachers who go out and mix with the world, bringing back the result of their investi- gation for the benefit of the pupils. The average grade school teacher fancies that if he attends a sx hool convention where there are a few hundred other peopl: as innocent of the world as he is he has done his duty. Im high schools, attended by pupils who expect to keep smal! stores and plumbing shops and coal yards, great stress is laid on Latin. To such pupils Syriac or Hindustani would be just as valuable. A system of examinations is employed which puts e pre- mes: on cramming, the one method of study which makes the memory worthless for the work it ought to perform later on in life. For these shortcomings of the schools the teachers are cnly s littl: to blame. Most of the blame rests on the parents. When thev realize that their children are as important to them as liv. stock are to the farmer we shall begin to improve the schools. t will take perhaps a hundred years to make them. what they ought to be, so it is high time a beginning was made. From the Wise aust be very wise that cum car being troubled at thiags very lesome.—Tillotson. t hee dowe too ttt ov tts alt: and trembles then test)?” Hanna Moore. When ¢ man is in love with one women in 4 family, it is astonishing Love never reasons. but profusely how fond he becomes of every per- gives; siese like © thoughtless prott| som connected with it—Thackeray, It is a weil known fact that Mon- tesquieu’s book was gyerywhere in evidence throughout the sessions of the Federal Convention, All the leading members knew it by heart, as it were. They had studied it early and late, had, so to speak, eaten it with their daily bread, had dreamt of it in their sleep, had, in @ word, made it a part of their intellectual being, and its substance entered into thelr great labors as naturally as and inevitably as the forces of the earth req air enter into the fruits of the field. One of the pressing problems of the convention was that of the Second Chamber—the Senate. Should there be one chamber or two in the Federal Congress, and if two, what should be the character of the Upper Chamber, or Senate? . - It was Montesquieu’s book tha helped them out of their difficulty and enabled them to complete their glorious work with such abounding success. ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. 1021, (NE Conrri, 1021. (New Yom Drening World “BACCHANTE”—Frederick Macmon- nies. The best example of arrested mo- tion in the history of mouern ecuip- ture is that of the “Bacchante,” carved by’ Frederick Macmonnies. Ne model could hold euch a position for | more than 4 moment, but Macmon- nies fortunately was able to retain | this remarkable bit of action in bis } memory until the work was com- pleted. | The statue represents a bacchante jacting under the influence of wine. As she dances she holds aloft tn her right hand a huge bunch of grapes, | while upon her left arm she supports an infant who, with parted mouth, greedily gazes at the fruit. |” When this statue was erected in |the Boston Public Library there was ‘an outburst of ecorching cfiticism, |and so many remarks were made |against the naturalness of — this | masterpiece that the trustees of the library were forced to refuse to pur- chase it. Soon afterward it came in- to the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the age of seventeen Macmon- nies entered the studio of Saint-Gau- tens as an apprentice-pupll, and he | remained there for four years. Dur- ing these years at the master’s studio | which happened to be the most pro- ductive of Saint-Gaudens's career, he associated with the aa a tects, sculptors an inters 0: Influenced by these great artists, Macmonnies advanced #0 rapidly that soon he had reached @ stage which necessitated a trip to his studies, At Paris he twice won the Prix d’ Atelier, and was commis- sioned with so many orders that he was forced to open a studio of his own. Macmonnies’s tmagination keen, but he never misused it, though {it sometimes had control over the practicality of his subject, it would on the other hand, invari- ably succumb before the reality of his living model. is typical. The freedom, rhythm, suppleness of movement and beauty ¢ the girl's figure express natural- ress, but the sirbject itself which in one that could only have been con- ceived by # wonderful {maginatt leaves much to the i tion As the Saying Is 1 “HONEYMOON.” Honeymoon, the first month of mar- riage. Among the Northern nations of Europe there was an ancient prac- tiee for newly married couples to drink metheglinkor mead, a kind of wine made from honey (hydromel), for thirty days after marriage. Hence the term honey-month or honeymoon. ttila, the Hun, drank so much mead is wedding feast that he died. se 8 was Al- ‘SMOKING THE PIPE OF PEACE.” derived from the custom n Indians, who in making treaties oF othe: ieee negotiations would pass @ ipe (called calumet) from mouth to MY signify the peacef the mee! that In your Europe for the purpose of completing -