The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1922, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Published Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, Naw York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Purk Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row, Secretary, JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., 63 Park Row, — FOR SANE IMMIGRATION CONTROL HE Downtown Chamber of Commerce Is on the right track in proposing changes in the Immigration Law. It recognizes the failure and injustice of the ent 3 Per Cent. Law. It proposes an Immigration Board of experts to regulate the admission and distribution of immi- grants. Such a board would be free from politics, would have broad administrative powers and would function something after the fashion of the Federal Reserve Board. The Evening World has long advocated this method of immigration control, Freedom from political pressure is the first essential, Easy allera- tion of regulation to meet changing economic and social conditions is the second. Congressional regulation of immigration is a failure on both these counts. An administrative board is the alternative. More than a year ago, when the present law was under consideration, The Evening World pointed out some of the weaknesses which have since been demonstrated. It pointed out the absurdity of per- mitting arly new immigration in a period of unem- | ployment and suggested that an immigration board . “should have administrative power to vary restric- tions on immigration as the Federal Reserve Board waries the discount rate.” A year of experience has empha tance of this principle. The only good feature of the present law was its Hmited term of operation—one year, This sheuld give time for a real study of the question. Six months have passed and Congress has done notifing. Before July 1 new legislation must be enacted, pres- ized the impor- | Congress should create a board of experts with broad powers to select prospective immigrants in Europe and distribute them in the United States. When Comptroller Craig proposes $5,000 laries for members of the Board of Alder- men he should be reminded of the 400,000 majority against the Constitutional amend- ment to raise the pay of State Legislators. CENSOR PROOF! | HE “Beauvais film” which greeted the new on a local screen is valuable in explaining |” why we have a film censorship and again in demon- Strating the futility of the censorship, The film itself is censor proof. But its only | value is its appeal to morbid curiosity, | When the Legislature adopted the Censorship Bill it was moved by other examples equally un- worthy. The movies had been appealing to the baser instincts of the public, and the legislators decided to punish the whole industry for the sins of the more disreputable section. | But the censorship doesn’t work. It cannot {ouch the Beauvais film, although the censors know well | enough why the film is exhibited. Censors cannot censor motives; they have to content themselves with cutting bathing girls out of current event reels. The least these exploiters of bad taste can do is to’congratulate {I 2mselves on helping to keep the vensership sentiment strong and vigilant. CAPT. RANDALL, RESCUER. Not many men have opportunity to vindi cate themselves so quickly and satisfactorily as has Capt. A. B. Randall of the line: Hudson, Only a few months ago Capt. Randall was severely criticised for failure to pick up two men adrift in a boat off Rockaway Beach After an investigation he was exonerated and restored to command. ‘ Yesterday a radio to his employers an nounced that he had picked up six of the crew of @ fishing schooner wrecked in mid ocean. . TACKLING THE BLOC. HE Administration’s latest move against the bloc is an interesting study in political strategy. President Harding has called an agricultural con ference to meet in Washington, The Administration is friendly to the farmers now, The whole force of the Administration will support the fa element so Jong as the farmers will be reasonable and support the Administration, President Harding failed in his frontal he bloc. Since he shook his finger at the member of the bloc the group has gained several converts. Now the Administration would like to cut insurgent Senators loose from their base of supplies The Old Guard would like to win leaving the members of the bloc entirely surrounded by regulars who have capitulated to the agricul turists who have been voting for the rec over the farmers, Ulcitra Senator: Cutting communication iil strategy—when it works. ec force is likely to find itself { subject to capture What is likely tAMnappen is this; The membe sense of rm constituents to come he Administration is vill let all that pro- of the bloc will encourage and gain willing to grant. The bb gramme go through with a whoop. Then it will re- form and stand where it does now. It will be de- manding all that the President thinks reasonable plus much that the Old Guard will never tolerate. The President will have lost his opportunity to | compromise with the bloc, The bloc will have lost nothing. every concession Waelr WORST | T DRUNK IGHTEEN deaths from holiday hooch York’s record at this writing. Meanwhile a murder committed by a drink-crazed customs guard has to be added to the tally of New Year lawlessness and hoodlumism, Yet Prohibition agents profess to be well pleased! We can understand how Anti-Saloon Leaguers find it exhilarating to know that people express their feelings about Prohibition by hurling empty bottles out of windows. These and uglier power \ et drunk on. New ns of rebellion intensify that hich is what Anti-Saloon Bigotry’s best tipple is the Leaguers g “struggles of its victims. If more people took Prohibition quietly, the Anti- Saloon League would find its mission in life too dull to attract contributions and provide jobs at fat The true zest of prohibiting is only felt when somebody takes it hard. salaries, But that is not the whole story. If the rebellion against Prohibition were confined the Anti-Saloon League could look forward to a bright and pros- perous future, Unhappily for the Anti-Saloon League, the rebels include eminently respectable, temperate and useful e value to the community is much higher than the value of Anti-Saloon Leaguers, Moreover, these temperate protestants against Anti-Saloon League intemperance are daily gaining in strength and influence. “sor example, let the Anti-Saloon League ponder an editorial in yesterday's to “soaks” and saloonkeepers, citizens whos fellowing from The rowdy New Year's misdoings ought, but won't, teach the rigid 'Prohibitionists that the prevalence of the vilest “hard” Mquor is the result of shutting off wine and beer from populations habituated to them and bound to have sometiing, be it bad as the worst, in their place. This from the Times, which three years ago this month meekly swallowed the Eighteenth Amend- ment with the reflection: We do not think that any reasonable man will deny that abstinence from the use of intoxicants will be of national benefit and advantage. The, Times has considerably modified its view as to what “reasonable men” think of Nation-wide Prohibition. Sree In its heart of hearts the Anti-Saloon League also knows what reasonable men are thinking, There- fore it trembles, Tyranny has not brought temperance. Tyranny never will bring temperance, But tempersce without tyranny does noi suit the purposes of the Anti-Saloon League. Crime, poison, contempt for law—it would rather see each and all of them increase than give up one drop of its own intoxicant—power, Yesterday the Herald . manifested deep concern over the probability that the sacred cows of G. O. P. financial policy might be entrusted to the guardianship of a rude Westerner And the Tribune w troubled over the possibility that Silver Service Lusk would continue his silvery service in the New York State Senate. At times party responsibility carries a heavy load of responsibility for partisans —— VHANKS, MR, PO TER, lwo new and beautfful flags are flying from the staffs of the old Post Office Building. ‘The from the dome of The World Building is improved. We, however, have neither nor the power to monopolize the view downtown worker will find the Old Glory is re view the will another hter be and blue. TWICE OVERS. 66 THOUGHT it might be a good idea to turn a fox loose on Fifth Avenue and see how some of the people there who think they are foxy would act.” — Aaron Kay, who tried out the “good idea.” day bri cause cognizubly ed, white ee E hear much talk from the other side of prin- ciples which are really not principles, but only political formula, and they entertain us with their formula as though they were more important than the Pierce Beasley in Dail Eireann, solid realities of fact.” “e GIRL may be fifteen chronologically, eighteen biologiclly and ten mentally, Until parents better understand this phase of girlhood they can't ex pect to understand girl problems.” Miss Ruth Vin Denver's “Lady Cop.” cont, ae John Cassel | The Great Teacher In Action By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory by the Press Publishing Oo. York Kvenlng World.) HOW WE ARE DEFILED. Matt. xv., 10-11. | A little while before this sto | opens we find the Great Teacher e | gaged, in animated tik with t “Scribes and Pharisees” upon th | subject of eating with unwashe | hands. The orthodox were the greatest formalists ev known, From the cradle to th gitve, at every step along life's pal there was a ce that had. to be attended to if om would escape tle curse of God. The life of the religious Hebre' was made unutterably wretched b: the number and tyranny of thes ecclesiastical re ; nothing that the Gr B Gid He so bitterly offend {1 dox as when he attempted to sho’ the foolishness and inutility of thes | ceremonies, | To come to the puint in question, i {was considered irreligious — and | therefore offensive to Jehovah—for | one to eat without having washed {hands in the way prescribed by tl church, and the Pharisees desired te know of Jesus why He permitted Hi followers to ignore this injunction o} | the sacred law. | And THIS is the way in which He disposed of the criticism of th Pharisees: Jews of that tim | “Hear, and unde da, It ts not t th INTO the mouth’ that defileth a man, fut that whicia| cometh out of the mouth On the sur e these words would’ t cryptic, hav- reaning, but a little consideration of them will show | that such is not the case, The Great Teacher's words’ may be | freely and yet faithfully interpreted as follows: “Let us admit, if you will, that Vy \disciples eat with ‘unwashed hasds, {and that, therefore, they are sinners in the eye of the church; but what jof it? It makes no particle of differ- ence, so far as the vital point is con- !eerned, whether the food that we eat is ceremonially O. K. or not. It d ake the least difference wheth t with duc regurd to the cere- monial requirements or without such regard, for it is not that which goes into a man’s mouth that detiles him or purifies him, but that which com- eth out of his mouth. Out of the mouth come the WORDS which show jthe kind of THOUGHT and PUR- | POSE a man has, the sort of CHAR- | ACTER he is, whether good or bad, |pure or impure; and that is what |counts, and all that counts.” When we stop to think of the dry~ jas-dust theologians whom the free fearless and absolutely unsophisto cated Prophet of Nazareth encoun tered there in Judea and its capital ase to wonder at what hap: ple truth of the Grea not what was wanted] | Systems—cut and dried programme: |—never want the truth. It would b the monkey-wrench in the machinery which would throw the nicely run ning machjne into hopeless confusion However, the fearless devotees q |truth throw out their thoughts upot the winds of God, and the “systems! From Evening 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 to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. alry. the utter disrespect : of the children towa When summor chool tie ents tell the teachers that they awe © them at home and, Feminine © To the Editor of The Exening W On the rear of a Brooklyn trolley car recently [ was hanging precarl- ously by one hand to one of the small bars at the window and stand- ing uncertainly, being paralyzed a3 to one side of the body. 1 was feel- Ing much distressed—the stops, starts and jerks of the car getting mucn on my nerves—when a lady who had & seat inside arose, came out to me, haped me Inside and gave me the seat she had occupied Again, in an “L" car it started ere I could reach © seat and sent if hartling Gown the aisle, [ thought I Was in for a fall, when, after passing several men, a young woman put out her hand, which grasping, I came to a stop and a seat and indifferen: d lawful auth that they should beat them if neces- sary to get them to behave or to t the m efuse to which they obligations when they brought their children into| the world? If they would use the cat- o’-nine-tails on their disobetient and | disrespectful sons would not be necessary for the St Mee | to consider the use of the cat-o'-ninc- | talls In the prisons. | where it is practised. few thieves and law- ar of the| whip. When the children have grown | 4 older and have children of their own These two cases are typical of the| they will bless the memory of the| courtesies I have received from ladies | parent that taught them right from who have time and again yielded a| wrong. i seat to me, while the men have ail! AN OLD- PARHION ) PARENT, |bcen sightless or indifferent, Thus} New York, Jan. it appears to me that women are not {only more alert to note the troubles | , , | of a cripp'e but more ready to grant | b tor of The Evening Worl! jrelief. ‘The age of chivalry may aot | We wish to express our { nen only, | tion of the editorial in the a World for Dec, 21, entitled * chia or. apprecia- | dvening | help. Perhaps if this letter is printed | labor, and it is along this it might help no one but might save] we are attacking child | a good many from trouble, farm, GERTRUDE At a very fashionable fraternity | Special Agent fe dance a few evenings ago at oae of tional Child Labor Committee the large hotels I saw not just one 0! two but many girls between the ages of fifteen and twen so intoxicated | ¢ Case for Chiropractic tor of The Evening Wo’ |that they were lying on the floor of] Through a civil suit instituted | the lobby, In the ladies’ 1ooms and on| against the New York School ot] lors of the anterooms near Us Chiropractic of No. West d 1 any times In Street, recently, and which was given \enought that som widespread publicity in the met [have written them. 1 am tY- | tan newspapers, it was stated tt hree, have beet. married three years) oc, of s bales h iene Deve iittie Gauents [| course of study at this schoo! is ont Would rather seo in prison than in the|of seven months’ duration. Nothing Jcondition of those poo 1s whe] could be further from the truth. This jeoaxed for more liquor ls a base calumny not only on og Tam not opposed to liquor ta any j echo! but on the student body nu | bering close to 600, and upon chiro. | practic in general. The medical pri but do not think it the right 1 girls of that | way, thing for unc tender age to Would that » of the mothers! cession, avowed antagonist of ehiro- were their d ns, as ™Y| practic in t ate, took hold « mother always has at would] this misrepres ntation of news and |never happen. I trust that this letter! jaded it to their fund of insidious | may help at least ir, FB edical propaganda against chiro |} ™New Jersey, Dec, 20, 1921 pee PERVER n The truth of the s Parental Discipline, The course of ro the Faijor of The Evening W School of Ch ‘ | Why is it many people blame -D#] reliable chiropractl j cit nistratic Lwenty-on onths* } dem outlawry brea tensitied and Wi ure acon t nont ioulum i f the « 4 ofa ou rental dise.| tains , | on acl » Paipation ung differen It Teaches? w be acavois a ase leaving, Clidiedd wale, alk enator | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1922, by John Blake.) (Copyright. THE UNPAID DEBT. Perhaps, when you arrived in it, the world owed you a You were born helpless without ideas, without the ability to get your own food. newborn kitten was an intellectual giant compared to you. ing its debt to you very prompt- living. You didn’t ask to come. But the world began p ly. If you had not been tenderly cared for during the you wouldn’t be here now. And it was not for what in the life and more years of yo d and clothed first few aniy out and do anything for yourself, And when you did go out you discovered, if you we observing. that a great deal had already been accom for you. Everything that sou needed to eat or to wear was to be had in exchange you. for some sort of labor that was pos When you wanted bread you did not have to pli and grind it into meal. d was there at a 13 harvest wh done, The bre: power to pay. Clothing was there, too, in the same condition To secure it all you needed was to work- price made, thing your hands knew how to do. bas euraber. On Chit Tabor! ven thought was to Le had for the working, the thought | the vere SF ble ‘ ane the Falitor of The Exening World The “restricted educational oppo 8 hth 1 eh ‘id 6) the thong or tourtean | vanis, Ce fee | Vor a number of years [have rend | tunities and one-sided development”|$ of other men, of all the other men who had gone befor you. 3) Kings St0 vo ron terms of aii \'rhe Evening World, especially the|which you mentioned in the lust par- | There it. waa, neatly printed and bound into beoks- \\ers In New York and Kings | “Letters trom the People," and tave|agraph constitute to our mind | yours at an astonishingly low price. | Gounties the ae of each Surro+ jlearned quite a little that was a real] most severe indictment of chita| > the worla, after all, had made good its debt. And in $] site ts $15,000 a year; In Brong and the years that followed the world, instead of a debtor, was probably your creditor. ppiness, all at prices that your ancestors wou regarded as extremely reasonabl In return you gave it—wh \ little useful labor perhaps, pelled to give it to “get along.” But the Jebt remained, and probably will remait to the end of your life For only by supreme one give the World as inuch as the world gave him—a get sq K ; Shakespeare pd a few thousand others left the editors, ut the most of us, though the still its ¢ never discharge—not even by a debt to it Ubat we [3 the “debt lo nature Dennen | jnition from the ai eve- State can chiropractic analysis. Both the ev Bt chiroprarmorning classes have a full] | Dr. Norris, Chief Med {four and a half hour prograr Our| iner of New York City our and AM yyventy-one months is un-| ticularly bitter urse of suminer vacations and in| chirepractors, iit « ear v) on months Ip a opraa s ed in| te st va ‘ 1 voinen Jol ‘ ast you a nd A : ial 1 i 7 M hin Jen! Now ¥ Culopractio pore “sb must ey Only \° 3 of any of the s would be a long time that you were compelled to go | dictic ove: criminal cases extends {to those punishable by life impris- sible to onment or death, This court is he: That had been already that it was in your ave you life and beauty and warmth and consider- just what you were effort can any world may have owed us a he al birth, soon become burdened with has been par- have to take their chance: | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government World) By Willis Vat: Hawkins. This is the 102d article of a series defining the dutics of the administra- tive and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government, THE JUDICIARY. General Sessions and Surrogate The Court of Ge "| Sccsions ig New York Covaty takes the place o1 the criminal side of County Courts i: the ot” or ¢ It is x eacit of the county years et an its juris \ or less ur life, lower i plisied Criminal Courts in what is called th Franklin | Building, at Cen | Streets. Surrogate’s Courts are njaintained sh of the five counties and ar+ resided over by one Surrogate each except that in York Councy and nit tad |tiere are two Bicoeck and iy | fuchmond County the County Judged acts as Surrogate. In New Yor elected b: County the Surrogates are Queens Counties, $10,000, and in Rich- |niond (as County Judge and Surro+ | $7,500, The Surrogate’s Courts ver the estates ot persons and tal to the admin- infants and | over matters Inci lystration of such e: Id nay “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick | right. 192: y the Press Pyuaiding Ca | Som fat he New York Lveniu com | n, yours nd thus great empires of an- the four ancient em- via (Babylonia), Persia, pdonia) and Rome. ave world The “four tiquity” we jpires of As Greece (ov “Dead bbit Rio! turday, July 4, 1857, being a flerce rombat with stones, clubs and fire- arms in Mulberry and Bayard Streets and the Bowery, New York City, be- stop them. |tween two desperate factions known ical Exam:|ay “Dead Rabbits’ and “Bowery Boys.” ‘There had been a change from the munteipal to the metro- litan police force and the compara- few guardians paying occurred on lity known ¢ at S o'clock that evening the 7th ent marched to the City Arsenal 1 Stree But by then the fight. ie rabble had disappeared, Ther . 4 8 CAR Nor name toasted bread and | Scho s probably “Welsh rarebit’ ot ane Deine & dleovigerde ' 7