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

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Nos, 53 to RALPH (Gnd alo the local mews published bereim te tt or mot cumerwise ervuite tm temp papey “WITH EQUAL FIRMNESS"(?) , persist that' the Republican Senate may balk at ratifymg the Arms Conference treaties, despite the fact that these treaties were born under the star of the present Republican Ad- ministration. , Also there is gathering doubt whether President Harding and Secretary Hughes will dare send any- ody to the Economic Conference at Genoa—un- less maybe the United States Senate elects to go. ’ During the rare June days of 1920 the Republi- can National Convention at Chicago adopted a plat- form which contained among other things the following: The unfortunate insistence of the Presi- dent (Woodrow Wilson) upon having his own way, without any change and without any re- gard to the opinions’ of a majority of the Senate, which shares with him in the treaty- making power, and the President's demand that the treaty should be ratified without any modification, created a situation in which Senatory were required to vote upon their consciences and their oaths according to their judgment against the treaty as it was presented, or submit to the commands of a dictator in a matter where the authority and the responsibility were theirs and not his. The Senators performed their duty faith- fully, We approve their conduct and honor their courage and fidelity. And we pledge the coming Republican Administration to such agreements with other nations of the world as shall meet the full duty of Amer- fea to civilization and humanity, in accord- ance with American ideals, and without sur- rendering the right of the American people to exercise its Judgment and its power in favor of justice and peace, | Can it be that when this so-pledged Republican {Administration refers its own “agreements with other nations” to the Republican Senate, the piter will fail to recognize those agreements as the “full duty of America to civilization and humanity?” It seems incredible that Senatorial consciences and oaths should require in 1922 anything resem- bling what they required in 1919. During the campaign Mr. Handing declared that in the six years of his service at Washington he had “co-operated quite insistently with his col- leagues in maintaining the prerogatives of the Senate as defined by the Constitution.” He also said: “You may rest assured that I shall guard with equal firmness, insistence and jealousy the prerogatives of the Executive, who is perbaps more distinctly and personally re- sponsible than any other official directly to the whole American peSple.” After what the Republican Platform had to say about the “dictator” it accuses of spoiling the chances of getting one treaty ratified, it would be sad irony if the Republican pledge to meet the full duty of America to civilization should fall through because a Republican President turns out to be too timid to lead or even impress a Republican Senate. Isn't it about time for a little of that promised “firmness and insistence”? EW YORK, as a city, has good reason for concern over the cases of influenza reported to the Health Department. Every precaution should be taken to limit the spread of the disease. As_an individual, however, the New Yorker needs to be on guard against himself quite as much as against the “flu.” Influenza, the dreaded disease of 1918, unques- tionably killed its thousands. What will never be known is the proportion of victims who died of fear of the disease rather than as a result of fatal infection. Influenza raged at a time of year when mild maladies ordinarily diagnosed as “colds” were prev- alent. Early symptoms were somewhai simila It is unquestionable that many so feared the fatal effects of influenza that fear plus a cold proved as fatal as the more deadly disease. Fear paralyzed bodily resistance to the disease am the patient died. Be on guard against fear. Take care of “colds.” Get the best medical advice and remain confident of early recovery. Those who survived the Nation-wide scourge of 1918 must have a High measure of resistance to the disease. The chances are all in favor of those | 7 RTE AIT ET TI EE TEI TE A ce 7 now living.. For every case of influenza there will be dozens and hundreds of mild colds, ue Play safe. Don’t fear or fret. ’ FIGHT IT WITH FACTS. HE St. Lawrence canal project got renewed impetus from President Harding’s address to the Farm Conference. A sort, of test vote in the House has indicated strong sentiment for the canal. The project has become a political question too soon. It has not had sufficient consideration as an economic question. The report on which the project is founded gives one side. The strong opposing case has thus far rested only on general statements. It should be advanced as a straight business proposition but- tressed by facts and figures. These can be sectired only through a study by competent engineers check- ing inaccuracies in the report already before Con- gress and presenting an authoritative counter statement. Partnership and sectionalism have no proper part in the debate. If the canal will, in fact, benefit the Western farmers to the extent they believe, they are entitled to it. The plea that it would in- jure New York is not a good reason against the scheme. Mid-Westerners would greet the claim with ribald merriment. But New York has the most at stake. It has the Port and a big investment in the barge canal. It is up to New York to bear the brunt of the opposition. New York will have to finance such an engineering study of the scheme as wé have outlined. No one else has sufficient interest to foot the bills. Speeches such as Gov. Miller delivered. 4 At- lanta recently will not defeat the St. Lawrence plan. A better way would be for the Legislature to appropriate the funds for a competent investi- gation by engineers. Then New York would have a fair claim to ask delay before the Government makes so great an investment. If, in the mean time, the New York Port Au- thority can straighten out the terminal situation, amd service on the barge canal is proved adequate to the needs of tlie Western farmers, then New York would have a strong case tending to show that the St. Lawrence canal project is a bad busi- ness proposition and not worth the cost. Japan promises to get out of Siberia but fixes no date. Why not make it coterminous with our departure from Hayti and Nicaragua? NO MOONSHINE GOLD—YET. ROF. IRVING FISHER is convinced that he was hoaxed by Germans professing to have found a process for manufacturing synthetic goid. He was unable to discover any of this “moon- shine gold.” Teutonic scientists have not discov- ered the “philosopher's stone,” the goal of the ancient alchemists. They have not succeeded in transforming “verboten” dum-lum bullets into shining, reparation-paying gold marks. Nor have they perfeoted a commercially profitable process for recovering gold from sea-water. These negative results are not surprising. A pos- itive result from such a search would have been epochal. It would have administered the final punch to a world financial system already stag- gering under disordered exchanges. “Moonshine gold” is not yet, but scientists no longer deny that synthetic gold is a possibility of the future. Experiments with radio-active sub- stances have shaken their old assurance. So bankers and business men are troubled with bad dreams of a flood of moonshine gold more fatal to the currency than bootleg hooch to carnest drinkers. « | ACHES AND PAINS {| A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. | Oe innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Honesty is the best policy. It frequently fools the other fellow, ow @ Hizzoner sings: “I'm quite carefree; The wicked papers have nothing on pe.” erate A well-regulated hen should lay 195 eggs per annum for two annums and then be available for a fricassee, ie hae Restless Jersey babies who miss the murmur o: their favorite song bird, the mosquito, in cold weather, are now lulled to sleep by wireless frem a central plant n Newark. Soon all Nature will he out of a job. * 2 6 They say that on returning from being mobbed in India the handsome Prince of Wales will have to take on a wife. Life is just one —— thing after another, even with royalty! o 4 8 Spuds sell for $2.10 a bushel in Brooklyn and 50 cents in Maine, Where, O where, is the difference? cee Sing a sony of sixpence, Pocket full of rye-- aguin, If yowre feeling dry! Sing it over om | “Sausage Lynx,” by Sara J. Stuffin, is said to be the | best selidr of the season in Washington Market. The work utes analysis. t | To ve Editor of The Evening World | ; One thousand two hundred and thirteen lives saved! at is the big, central, essential | | scourge Turner, | swer this embarrassing question, One explanation is that professional re- forming is highly profitable—to the reformers. ‘The Anti-Saloon League states that its annual income is more than $2,000,000, derived from eighteen Protestant denominations and “dona- THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1922, From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand «ay much in tew words. B Lives Saved, t in the figure just made up, of deaths from tuberculosis in this city during the year just closed. It means the very substantial re- auction of 18 per cent. in the death ute from this cause in 1921 as com- pared with that for 1920, No longer than eleven years ago— in 1910—the deaths from this needless in New York City totalled 10,074, Yet now—and with the city's population increaved by a million at that—the tuberculosis. deaths have decreased to 5,8 Of course this is cheering news to the public generally and highly en- couraging to all engaged in fighting this needless disease. Yet it is ap. purent that the utmost remedial and educational efforts mst still be put forth. Six thousand deaths from this | couse e 6.000 too 1 The work | of cutting down the total must be kept | up unceasingly Wor the good of New York we shall | pe giad to give helpful information, without charge, to ull who may in. quire of us. NEW YORK TUBERCULOSIS As. SOCIATION 10 East 39th St., Jan, 23, 1922, Opposed to Prohibition, To the Editor of The Evening World Your correspondentw Mr. writing of th caused by Prohibition, Ww great di suggest that some of your Prohibition readers ex- plain why a million persons and their families should be thrown out of work to save (?) a few thousand drunkards. Prohibitionists are not likely to an tions." They do not publish a list of donors, but they do give the names of supporters, Close ex ae Prohibition literature that “moral Prohibition always Jas been a deliby concei and executed lie, skilfully employed to catch gullible, uninformed men and women—especially women. “Industrial Prohibition’ goal is the rea) “Industrial Prehibition"’ repre- sents the huge monopolists, who frankly say they want alcohol for fuel use—-they have already cornered ‘oal and oil and we know the prices acted by this combine, on foolish enough World Readers. What kind ot letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one worde in a couple of hundred? | There is fine menta: exercise and @ lot of satistaction in trying te | Take time to be briet. | selves additional money and power they can do so by means of anothe: lying campaign and unserupulous leg islators, unless we thrash them to a finish now, Public opinion is stronge than monopoly. In the window of my home, sus pended by the colors of the American Republic, hangs a card, reading in, large letters, ‘We Are Opposed to Prohibition."” It is there to indicate that I am too good an American to end before Prohibition, the most tyrannical humbug ever /perpetrated upon a so-called free Nation. Every intelligent citizen mus tainly ize that he has been outrageously 4 ceived by the paid agitators of tie Anti-Saloon League. It 1s, therefore, his patriotic duty to hang a similar card of protest in the window of his home, his place of business and his automobile, and so, by spreading the anti-sentiment, force repeal of the contemptible Eighteenth Amendment und cheek forever the very serious menace of future attacks upon our in | dividual freedom by monopolies that would reduce for their own money interests MARIE DORAN. Richmond Hill, L. 1, Jan. 23. Fines for Drankards, ‘To the Editor of The Breuing World I am a business man with twenty years’ experience. I sell cigars and stationery. I have found out what the Prohibition Law did. In my estimation it is worse than before. Few drunkards entered my store before the law came into effect, but now not a week passes by but what I have trouble with an intoal- cated man. Men come into the store and in- stead of buying something, they drink whiskey from @ small flask which they carry around. If saloons were opened the drunkards would drink the “stuff there and instead of bothering un innocent storekeeper they could trouble the barkeepers. In the store they start to fight and 1 am always In fear of having some damage done to my showcases. The only thing I could do in a case like that is to call up the police station. It is really a disgrace to the com- munity to see how the Prohibition Law is not obeyed us to slavery I say that an amendment should bc added to this law ‘Any man found intoxicated in the street should be immediately arrested land fined $25. If caught again, $50 or sixty dayS In jail should be the penalty. A record of this should be kept just the same as for any criminal I think this is the best way of in- suring the safety of the public. ontrol of a third agent will “Industrial Prohibition’ inswer to Me. Thener's question We uxt bea vind what real Nonopuly. 1 huge evoure for them~- | mdustries decide to hy the Prohibition Law the Go rn- ment has lost ifs tan nd the former | drunk t ther nv just the Ismine, AN ordinary 1 wNHOL get A little whiskey for ao comor New York, Jan. 22, 1922, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1922, by John Blake.) TWO REQUISITES OF SUCCESS. Only a very dull person believes that any man can «t- tain great success, We are born with equal opportunity but not with equal intelligence. It is true, however, that the Je- pendable man, though he may not be brilliant, is likely to go further than the brilliant man who is not dependable. “Two very iriportant requisites to success are ability and dependability. The man who 1 both will get along. He starts with a great advantage over his fellow-men. A If you could choose but one you would better choose dependability than ability. The quick working, quick think- ing man is admired, but unless he is reliable he is not likely to be trusted, Go into any town small enough s6 that you may get ac- most of them are dependable—few'of them brilliant, They plod along at their jobs, giving close attention to details and making as tew mistakes as possible, and in a sense they succeed. Mediocrity may not be the greatest thing in the world but it very often accumulates wealth and frequently gathers happine if quainted with the prosperous citizens and you will find that Most men have some little talent for something or other. If it is a taleat for drawing or writing or oratory it is easily discoverable. f If it is merely a talent for business it requires discover- ing. But no talent i is accompanied by the hard, commor sense that teaches a man that he must gain the trust and the confidence of others, In a shop the man whom the foreman does not have to watch is the man whe gets the foreman’s job when the fore- man quits, is promoted or discharged, In a big business organization the man who will work just as well away from direction is the man who is slated for a high position by and by. Other iten may be able to do their work more quickly and to achieve more brilliant business strokes, but if they cannot be counted on to be on the job all the time they stay where they are. If you have ability, as we take it for granted you have, don’t be sure that it will pull you up the hill. Only when accompanied by dependability will it prove a really useful gift. 8 nnn As the Saying Is. “That’s a Fact’’ “TQ CUT OFF ONE'S NOSE TO} jj , SPITE ONE'S FACE: na Py Albert P. Southwick shrase 1s a proverbial expres-| [copyright 12. (Tae New York Brecing World) aning, roughly, to sac and menage Te for the sake of re-| Longius (sometimes called Long- me's own i ’ soe ce, or, more subtly, to do irrep-|inus) was the name of the enge, or, more . sens Injury to one’s self In order to} soldier who pierced the cri Beale Mae term: of one'alAél viour with a sp This weapon \ffect a E ame into the possession of Jusepn -lot Arimathea ‘ if worth having unless Roman ified eee a military 1 isa eter in Johnson's ly of Man Hum 6 name was prob suggested by Bobadilla, first ” means pt Robadil he gets, Keap his noge to save as Yably the grindstone, | her with a paternal solicitude. I have {the close of the century bent its en- | a4 dream in which she had strangled a | many of our | Liberators* —Or— Treland By Bartlett Draper VIlL—A PROTESTANT WHO!» PLEADED FOR CATHOLIC RIGHTS Sydney Smith, the Englishman, fala the following tribute to Henry Grate tan, the silver-tongued Irishman’ wh@ had an iron will: theny “No Government ever dismaifed him. The world could not bribe ffm, He thought only of Ireland; livedefor no other object; dedicated to her his beautiful fancy, his elegant wit, dia manly courage and all the splethiér of his astonishing eloquence.” * Though a Protestant, Grattan dag voted his life to the cause of.the rigidly suppressed Catholics of Bees land. It was in 1782 that he accéti? plished one of the political feats that stand out a high light in the stoty of the Irish struggle for nationality. In that year, at his firm insistened and under the moral pressure ofithe Volunteer Convention at Dunganmen, a Constitution based upon the fomm dation stone of legislative indepens dence of Ireland was adopted in Dub- lin and accepted in London. In gratitude for English acceptance of the new order of things, the Dub- lin Parliament voted to furnish sup- plies for the support of 20,000 sailors in the English Navy. The establishment of the indepen- dent Parliament Grattan greeted with the fervent utterance: ‘I found Ire- land on her knees. I watched over traced her progress from injuries-4o0 arms, and from arms to liberty. Spirit of Swift, spirit of Molyneux, your genius has prevailed! Ireland is mow a nation."” °. Grattan also gave powerful impetus to the cause of the economic indepen- dence of Ireland by supporting Pitt's, plans for the removal of export duties’ on Irish products, which had all but killed Irish industry and commerce. It was the violent opposition of the Eng- lish mercantile classes that prevented the realization of the reform at that time Ireland, both Catholic and Protes- tant, rallied to the inspiring leader- ship of Henry Grattan, In 1792 he carried through the Parliament at Dublin an act enfranchising Irish Catholics. When the British Government at) ergies to the legislative absorption of Ireland, Grattan fought the measure with force and eloquence. But when, in 1800, a packed Parliament in Dub- lin passed the act of legislative urfion, Grattan shifted his battlefield tof the British House of Commons. He had opposed the political mar- riage, but “the marriage hating taken place,” as he put it, ‘it is ow the duty, as it ought to be the fficli- nation, of every individual to rendér it as fruitful, profitable and as#ad- “antageous as possible." wf Such was the spirit of the gman who, more than a century before the signing of the treaty that established — [ the Irish Free State, created tfadi- | tions of co-operation with the Bng- | lish for the furtherance of Ireldnd’ interests and furnished a precedeilt of compromise bucween Irish parties for’? the achievement of solid results. —_>—_—_— You and Your Mind | By ANDRE TRIDON he No, X. UNPLEASANT DREAMS. When otr dreams are pleasant we are willing to accept the theory for- mulated by Freud and according to 7 ms are the fulfilment of our (ff which dr wishes. In certain cases, however, we rebel against that theory. It sounds too absurd. There was a woman, for instance, who loved cats and dogs and had never n known to indulge In any cruelty against pet animals or € tol- eiate any from others. One night she awoke in terror after little white dog with her own hand In our daity life we must cémipal eelings, especially ur hostile feclings, in order to live pemce- fully with our associates. Thete ire people we loathe and yet we @@hid hot even dream of telling them @§puty it. We greet the perfect bore with a* courteous ‘Glad to see you,’ whigh ts at best a white lie. The dreamer men- tioned above was simply carrying out in her sleep some of her “repres- sions’ and getting her wishes tyifiea in a cleverly disguised manner. The day before she had that ma. she had been compelled to treagpo- litely a shrew and gossip-ntofger whose slimy tongue had besmirghed inany a reputation. The unpleasant person was of cially pallid countenance. } When the analyst asked her what th: color of the dog suggested to her, she blushed and had to confess that it suggested the complexion of her dis “able acquaintance, When asked why her mind assoct- uted that woman With a dog she ex- plained that the malicious person had pore than once suggested to her a snarling dog always ly to bitesRbe tedly pressed a many times a desire “to choke woman," In the dream she corginit. r in a symbolical! s u little white dog, in the art of interpréting however, she was unabli to murde ‘stand a dream action whichiwas o contrary to habits of her Wak. ime heurs and * (Copyright by Ut e Bynaiciite.) = Governor of Cuba, who sent Cltrfiitos pher Columbus home in chainsge oe - Innisfail (Isle of Destiny) is an old name for Ireland. As a Gaec word its use is found in Scotland, i