The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 18

Wak eeu neers walter ty EL with the hundred handy if ESTAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | | @uditehed Dally xcept Bu by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos. 63 to 68 Park Raw, Now York. 1 RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PULITBER Jr., Secretary, €3 Park Row. MEMPER OF THE AsSOvLAreD Press. . sre Amoctsted Prom le exetosively entiviea to the wm for repubtieattol dt ai news end ale Gompatches credited to ft or no ounerwise ereuitea te tag pamey the local news publlshea heres. WASHINGTON’S TRAGEDY. HAT a warning for every other community in the country! The roof of a motion picture theatre in Wash- ington fell in during Saturday evening's show, caus- ing shocking loss of life. The number of dead taken from the ruins has reached 107. Congress governs the District of Columbia through a Board of Commissioners. It is for Con- gress to see that thorough inquiry is made into the causes of the Washington disaster. Other cities are not governed by Congress. It is 3 Lup to them to see for themselves that their building laws are adequate and that the many rapidly erected structures designed for use as theatres are rigidly inspected before and after completion, ‘= This city is at the present moment still investi- Zating the case of the American Motion Picture Theatre in Brooklyn, which collapsed and killed seven workmen last November before it was finished. Where building codes are adequate, inspection may be lax. The time to tést a theatre roof is BEFORE some heavy snowfall or other strain sends it crashing down upon an audience, ‘What a warning! “Harding Wavers Over Genoa Conference.”— _,,~Headline in one of Frank Munsey’s newspapers. -~ “Let's have done with wiggle and wobble.” wud TARIFF TIME? * OOKING at the state of the Nation through the eyes of Charles F. Schwab, it begins to look as though a tariff were about due. If Mr. Schwab and the Bethlehem directors are seady to invest $25,000,000 on the prospect of Ausiness revival, the tariff bloc may feel like taking a chance. ~ Republicans have always claimed that a tariff tases prosperity. Business has been in the dol- drums, but the tariff-makers have postponed the job fro month to month. aThe delays are significant. The fact is, tariffs never have made prosperity, and the tariff politi- cians know it. Old Guard protectionists have been Shrewd and canny. Knowing the value of high protection to the privileged interests—and indirectly focampaign funds—they have kept close watch on fgusiness prospects. They have never put a high } . tariff into effect until they have been able to discern Pa revival just over the horizon. r a business boom is coming it comes in Spite of the tariff—not because of it. Then the fariff-makers claim the credit—and get the credit from those who do not think. A Republican tariff is a sign that the tariff-makers fetieve business will pick up. They are reading the } dame signs of revival that moved Mr. Schwab to “expand his plant. ~The real relation of protection to prosperity was revealed in the emergency tariff on farm products. Agricultural prices slumped in spite of the tariff. But it was not the wise old tariff bloc that forced that tariff. It was passed on the faith of the dupes of the tariff schemers, ave President Butler complains that modern uni- “-versities are too much lke country clubs—and = @ lot of the students keep dubbing their putts. . «By the way, does Columbia have a nineteenth “hole? we ondagdae je aneneitnn seen ene AN OPENING EYE. _ From @ New York Times editorial Jan, 19, 19191 $ ¥ THE BAN UPON DRINK. ; * Political principles hallowed by long reapect and | Obeervance survive so long as they serve their ends; : when they stand opposed to other principles which . the people are persuaded to regard as ct higher ; Present service, the old is discarded, the new domi- | sire thought and action. ; = . } 2 We do not think that any reasonable man will deny that abstinence from the use of intoxicants will be of national benefit and advantage, * From a New York Times editorial Jan. 28, 1922; £ DRY BLINDNESS. ‘JGet thee glass eyes, and, like a Dry Commissioner, seem to see the things thou dost not! Prohibition Gommissioner Haynes has been viewing the landscape Wer, He sees hardly a Wet spot. . Does Prohibition make blind the eyes of some oi ‘as- advocates, just as wood alcoho! blinds the indis- creet transgressor? Certainly drunken men have no ; tBelpe of fern-seed to walk invisible to ordinary eyes. | Qitogether too many of them may be seen in public Biaces, On some streets on an average day we should reckon them at about three to the mile, They pull _shamelessy at flasks in elevated stations, in subways, --ée ferryboats. The number of them in the early they grin alcoholically, they stagger, They sare loaded tmto cabs. They sleep peacefully on the stoops along the side streets. If not violent, they seem to be , Begarded with a certain indulgence by a misguided York the persons with too many fingers of the old familiar juice in their interior department. In the absence of easily accessible wines, ales, beers, the devotee of drink must dave strong waters, a large effect In harmony with present prices. A COURT OF PUBLICITY. ENATOR KENYON is on the right track with his proposal for a Federal tribunal before which labor disputes involving essential industries can be fully and openly argued. We should like to see more stress on the con- morning is remarkable. They sing, they gerticulate, | spicuousness, dignity and importance to which such a tribunal could lift labor controversies in the eye of the public. One reason for strikes has been the feeling of the workingman that the only way he can compel due attention to his claims is by taking drastic measures to force them into prominence. In the matter of publicity he has been at a dis- advantage. He has seen most of the experts press- agenting not his side, but the other. His natural wish to see his case as conspicuously and vigor- ously championed as the case of his employers has rarely been realized. No wonder he is so often persuaded by men who make it a profession to show him his wrongs and convince him that the only way he can hope to get them righted is by a strike. Give this same workingman a chance to watch his fight being fought out in an industrial court so high and conspicuous as to assure the attention and interest of the public and he will get a new idea of what a fight can be. Let him feel the force that public opinion can put at his back in this new kind of contest and he will presently find himself wondering why he wasted so much money on strikes and professional “organ- izers” when he can hire first-class fighting lawyers for far less, He won’t feel all this in a minute. He'll never feel it ‘if industrial courts are proposed to him as super-economic tribunals with infallible wisdom and power to compel arbitration or fix. wages. The Kansas Industrial Court is a warning. What labor needs is a high forum where it can state its case with full strength and where it is sure the advice it gets will represent the fair-minded view of a public fully informed of the facts. More and more does labor recognize public opinion as its best’court of appeal. _Give labor a tribunal conspicuous enough to com- mand public attention, Leave it to the intelligence of labor to find out what highly effective use can be made of that tribu- nal—and at what comparatively small cost. Mary Garden tells the Lotos Club that she wants to sing a jazz opera some time. But wouldn't jazz cease to be jazz if Mary sang it? PARK OWNERS SHOULD BE HEARD. a fight against the ordinance limiting building heights in the Central Park-Fifth Avenue zone is likely to turn on the question whether park prop- erty may be considered as “frontage” within the meaning of the zoning law. If the owners of more than 20 per cent. of the frontage affected by a zoning proposal object, the zone can be drawn only by unanimous vote of the Board of Estimate. Park property ought to be included as frontage in any zoning proposals. The ownership of park property is real. It is vested in all the citizens, It is exercised by representatives. The owners of the parks have a direct interest in zoning, for the parks are affected by developments in the neighborhood. In the opinion of the Corporation Counsel, the Central Park frontage counts. If the courts do not uphold this opinion, the law should be changed so that park property may have its say in zoning ar- rangements. The power might prove an important safeguard in the case of other parks. > ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Margot Asquith Is coming to Brooklyn soon to tell the awful things she knows about the British aris- tocracy. The shocking is expected to be good. * 2 @ Telephone calls have doubled in New York tin five | years— mainly due to “wrong number.” + * It is estimated that 30,000 geniuses below the Mason and Dixon line and in California are busy writing up-to-date novels, No wonder the climate of their vicinage is hot stuff, "ee Good news travels slowly, Few of the soda shops have discovered that the tax is off from effervescences, 28 8 The farmer needs more dollars for his hog. The consumer wants more hog for his dollar. The real hog is the in-between. ore In addition to his record as a stayer, Police Com. misatoner Enright is an orator of no mean pretensions, It would take more than all the fingers of Briareus count every day in New He can translate Shakespeare into the Bushwick dialect with great facility. > THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, J ANUARY Political Snow Shoveli 30, 1922, oe 7%, By John Cassel | by Press Pub, Co. CSUR ee ng From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand ay much in few words. ‘The Charches? War. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: It is apparent, markedly so, to one seriously considering the effect of the late war, with its unavoidable hard- ships, poverty, disease and death, that it vitally concerns the future life of the Christian church of all denom- inations. ‘A great responsibility has undoubt- edly been thrust upon her shoulders. War, especially one so intensive and extensive as that which we recently passed through, has affected prac- tically all the peoples, industries and finances of all large nations. Chaos, apathy and despair still prevail in many portions of Europe as a result of this great catastrophe, for, literally, such it was. Russia, to-day, with its starving population, is indeed a pitiful spectacle to behold. How the church can fall to grasp its tremendous responsibility is in- comprehensible. In fact, there does not seem any possibility of her fail- ing to realize the tremendous import- ance of this question in so far as her welfare is concerned. She cannot it four square. Another war such as the one ra- cently ended, with equal duration and intensity, must disrupt all nations and all peoples. It would be a death thrust at the cause of humanity and at the churches if they sponsored and upheld the inevitable misery it must bring about. There would appear to never have been & more opportune time for al! churehes of all creeds to g0 on record in unity, definitely stating the stand she takes upon this all-important sub- ject. She should declare hy inten- tion to exert her influen: to the ut- most against another such w The brotherhood of chureh and out of it, m broadeast, otherwise the ultimate re- sult will not be difleult to imagine | Love for our fellow being must be the predominating factor if the world is to ever resume normaley. It would |seem the duty of the church is quite plain. War Is not reconcilable with teach- ings of the brotherhood of man and cannot reasonably be condoned by either the Christian church or Chri tian nations if these teachings are actually observed, It is a subject that cannot be em- phasized too greatly and cannot be ignored. ‘The very foundation of hap- piness, ente: man, In the st he spread all taken toward war by chureh and people. GEORGE W New York, Jan, 24. ud nations, the HOPPER pulnrtiy, Sales Tax 1 To the Faitor of The Even! sidestep this question but must meet | Mr. Hearst and other advocates of the sales tax scheme for putting new World Readers What kind of jetter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one words in a couple of hundred? 1 | There is fine mental exercise and a Jot of satisfaction in trying te Take time to be brief. _ | burdens on the 100,000,000 consumers by adding to the cost of anything they buy, have used as an argument the alleged experience of Canada, where, we were told, the happy tax- payers made no protest because they did not know that they were paying the tax in the form of higher prices. According to Prof, Stephen Leacock, who 1s regarded by econo- mists as a successful humorist, the} sales tax was a “painless tax” that nobody objected to. I have seen no explanation by Messrs. Hearst and Leacock of the fact that at thetr first opportunity the Canadian people yoted out of power the party responsible for the sales tax, giving them only about 25 per cent. of the Members of Parlia- ment elected. Possibly some of the Canadians became tired of paying higher prices because of the sales tax burden, WHIDDEN GRAHAM. Getting It Out of Politics. To the Editor of The Brening World With the Soldier Bonus Bill nearing the date of passage, the die-hards, through their newspaper mouthpieces, are letting out one last dying yelp of anguish. The newspapers charge the change of attitude among the men who will ‘ote it through in Congress, to the coming elections, I frankly admit that any legislator whe votes against the bonus should be ashamed to show his face to his constituents, much less ask for re-election, very single one of them should vote on the | bonus, which would effectually take it | out of politics, It is hardly surprising that Secre- tary Mellon opposes the bonus, in view of the fact that he is a director in some seven! five leading financial corporations, ‘The bonus would have passed long ago had it not been for the opposition of the financial inter- ests. These same interests were quite willing that the soldiers fight to " democracy” (and at the same time protect the loans of these dollar- Americans), but when these same sol- diers ask a lift from their Govera- ment, it is outrageous, & grab and a teal. As for these rantings and ravings about the Nation going to the “bow- wows" if the bonus bill {8 passed, why not give the voters of the councry| credit for some common sense and cut out the bun! Figures comparing | | what Engian¢ 1 Australia, | who were in U f are doing for their men we Mellon and his Chamber of « cohorts into a corner ds with the proverbial “brown ‘lerby’’ when | they attempt to say the United States n't stand the strain In good, plain treat ment of the veteran, Wounded, sick} and gtherwise, hae been & erying out: | 4 save mmerce UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake) TEACHING THE BOSS HIS BUSINESS. It occurs to most young men at certain stages of their careers that the gentlemen for whom they are:-working are conducting the business in a very slovenly fashion. Now and then this position is correct. But in the majority of cases it is taken without all the evidence, and that is always dangercus. It is possible that you may be able to teach the boss something about his business from time to time. If you car convince him of that he will probably listen to you. The only boss worth working for is the one who is willing to get new and good ideas. But new and good ideas are astonishingly searce in this world. “And most of us who think we have them are quite mistaken. It is wiser, therefore, to experiment long and care- fully with the ideas that we think are new and good, before we try to communicate them to others, especially to the peo- ple who are paying our salaries. While it does not follow that the man who is at the head of a business knows all about it, the presumption is that he knows more about it than a good many other men, or he wouldn't be succeeding in it. Every such boss has in his employ a great many young men who think they can teach him his business. It would be highly inadvisable, however, for most of them to begin this course of instruction, A certain amount of self-confidence—call it vanity if you like—is part of the make-up of a successful many He naturally likes to give himself credit for his accomplishments. If he is wise he is open te suggestion, but he doesn't relish being sneered at by the people on his payroll. If you think you can teach the boss his business, make sure by careful experimentation whether your way is better than his, Then begin by mild suggestions rather than by the bold assertion that you ought to be put in charge of the business. While you are doing this, remember also not to complain too bitterly of the men who are in positions of authority over you. Remember that the boss has put them into these posi- tions and that it is natural that he will back his judgment about them against yours. Facts and figures, if your theories are such that they can be thus substentiate.!, will help you to give the boss the les- sons you think he needs, Show him, prove to him that you know how he can do something'more efficiently and he will listen to you, If you ean save him money by your services he will pay you at least « part of what you save, or if he won't some other boss will, But ne be in too great haste to teach the boss his business. The merest apprentice is hard to teach because he thinks that nis way is good enough. The boss, although his methods may be bad and old-fashioned, is likely to be satis- fied with them. He must be taught patiently and a little at a time, or he is likely to get mad and hire a man in your place who has nothing he wants to teach. fact that this condition could exist in the richest nation in the world should make the legislafors and the American voter (who is just as responsible) hang their heads in shame. Is the veteran forgotten by all but his bud- dies and relatives? rage and . damnable disgrace. the war ended over three years, have the spectacle of the American Legion, an organization of veterans, attempting to raise $85,000 to buy a mountain eamp to tak care of tuber- cular veterans who can't get treat- ment from the Government, The mere with) we Liberators —or— Treland By Bartlett Draper VIIIL—THE MAN WHOM IRELAND CALLS “THE LIBERATOR.” In the footsteps of Henry Grattan eame Daniel O'Connell, who is known in Irish history as “The Liberator,” Upon O'Connell's shoulders rested the weight of oppression which had impoverished his ancestors, Unlike Grattan, who might be called the Con- ciliator, O'Connell was hot with ro- sentment against the race that hed dominated Ireland for centuries, Yet between O'Connell and revolu- tion stood a barrier, That barrier was the memory of the excesses of the French Revolution, some of whioh he had seen when he was a student in France, When O'Connell returned to his own country he found the Catholics still in a state of vassalage. Through the Catholic Association, of which he became the leader, he crystallized the sentiment and focused the forces of Catholic Ireland in his entity, Elected to Parllament in 1 O'Connell threw himself into the struggle against the tithes which Catholic Irishmen were paying to the Protestant clergy and against the Es- tablished Church as a political ma- chine in Ireland. While the country was seething with disorder arising from resent- ment, O'Connell succeeded in practi- cally abolishing the tithes and in greatly reducing the revenues of the Established Church. By warmly supporting, if not actu- ally initiating, the appointment of Irish Catholics to high office under Lord Melbourne's Administration, the descendant of disinherited Irish jand- owners familiarized the English mind with the spectacle of the admission of Catholics to the duties and respon- sibilities of state. When the offer of appointment to a high judicial office was made to him, however, the great Irish advo- cate declined it. He preferred to re« tain his post in the fighting ranks. The advent of Robert Peel to the Premiership in 1841, however, brought O'Connell face to face with a grave decision, perhaps influenced by a gratuitous insult from Peel. The de- cision which O'Connell reached was that Irish interests we:> slighted, if not ignored, by the Parliament at ‘Westminster under the Act of Union So, although he had voted for a continuance of the struggle against Napoleon until it was won, the Irigh member from Clare placed himself at the head of the movement for repeal of the Union. It was in this phase of his career that ‘O’Connell came nearest to throw- ing in his lot with the revolutionary forces that were causing an upheaval in Ireland. A meeting to protest against the continuance of the Union was de- clared illegal by Dublin Castle in Getober, 1843, In attempting to speak at the meeting O'Connell was arrest ed, tried, convicted and sentenced to a year in prison and to pay a fine of £2,006, When it looked into the methods by which the conviction had been obtained the House of Lords reversed it on a writ of error. But ‘The Lib- erator” was heartbroken at the pros- pect of rising disorder and bloodshed His power for public activity was paralyzed, But his place in the hearts of the Irish people in all time is int cated by the title of “The Ltberator,” which has descended into history, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 130—BARBECUE, A good deal of mystery surrounds the parentage of the word “barbecue.” It is obviously of non-English origin. Some lexicon writers believe that it is a corruption of the French phrase. “barbe-a-queu"—tail-to-snout. It can be imagined that if a pig cooked barbecue style were so disposed on the gridiron as to form a sort of doughnut, this explanation of the origin of the word would meet all re- quirements, Certainly, the popularity of the barbecue in Loulsiana and close to its borders, whence the institution travelled by slow stages north and west, would indicate that Its original home was the vicinity of New Or- leans when the French language and French cuisine held undisputed sway there, So, it is altogether likely that the dictionary writers’ analysis of the word is correct, despite its ingenuity, From the Wise A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book,—German Proverb. Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.—Ruskin. No one can be in perfect accord with any one but himself. —Schopenhaner, Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world heara the least.—Wordsworth, Mules doast much that ther ancestors were horaea, ARTHUR D. MUDDELL, a German Provess, rea A?