The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1922, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PUTATZER Pudlished Dally Except Sunday by The Press Pubilshing Company. Nos, &8 to 6. k Raw, New York RALPH PULITZER, Pr . 68 Park Row J, ANGUS SHAW. JOSEPH PULITAER Jr., Secretary, MEMBER OF THE ASSOMATY The Associated Prese is exctusivety entitied to the ure for republication @f all news despatches credited to It or not otherwie eredited In thls paper And sis the local news published “herein ANOTHER BONUS FALLACY. BONUS advocate, writing to The Evening World, comments: “All the other countries paid their soldiers a bonus and their financial condition is infinitely worse than ours.” His inference is that if other countries could afford a bonus, the United States can too. The fallacy in this is that other countries couldn’t afford a bonus. The bonus payments were one of the contributing causes to financial conditions in- finitely worse than ours, This quotation recalls the case of Johnny Doe, who wanted to eat green apples. “All the other boys,” he informed his mother, “ate the green apples.” Mrs. Doe was presently called on the telephone by a neighbor who wanted some peppermint for Yer small son's stomach ache. Another mother came in to borrow a hot-water bottle to soothe th: spain of another playmate. + What kind of a mother would Mrs. Doe be if she Vielded to Johnny's persuasions and let him eat the Sgteen apples? But that is what Congress is proposing to do. 4f Congress grants a bonus it means higher taxes, - living costs higher than they would otherwise be, More unemployment, a brake on business, and mors sveterans—and the relatives and friends of veterans —out of jobs. *41t all comes down to the question The Evening World has asked before: +e Would a bonus be one?” **Not a few of the veterans can see that the true Wiswer is “No.” * Others can’t. Smile Week News. Meleney, McAndrew, Snyder, Jones, When Davy weeps Hizzoner moans. , “THE ARITHMETIC OF PEACE.” ys THE course of his speech at the opening of * the new session of Parliament, the British Prime Minister said in reply to the remarks of a sabor Member: “When Mr. Clynes says that it (the Wasb- ‘ington Conference) only dealt with what he ®ailed the arithmetic of peace, I really do not know what he means. All these things resolve into arithmetic—how many ships, what tons, how many guns, what men—every- ** thing of that kind if it is to be practical, if a: it is to reach any definite conclusion, must @ >be arithmetical. The arithmetic of peace, Ee g then, means reducing the dynamics of war, and that was done. t “We have had experience of the other class * of conference. Before the war, at The Hague « conferences, great resolutions were passed but a4 Dever reduced to arithmetic. When the great . quarrel came, those resolutions were swept away like cobwebs. They did not retard for * a single hour, for a single second, the march of armies or the steaming of men-of-war. “It is only when you come to reduce this proposition to arithmetic that you begin to do the business of peace, and Mr. Balfour has properly interpreted his business, and in- stead of enting to vague resolutions, which would have ended in nothing, he has reduced ‘ them to practical proposals.” If Mr. Lloyd George were speaking in America Ré would doubtless be the first to acknowledge that it was Secretary Hughes who did the chief “reduc- ing to practical, arithmetical proposals.” Otherwise the British Premier’s words can stand as a characteristically neat summary of what the Washington Conference did that its predecessors did not do. | 4, How does the City of New York enjoy the +f _ idea of having a tax dodger gs its chiet law j enforcing officer? | * Just why the Income Tax Bureau has not j acted to make an object lesson of .Enright is yw hot clear. “Perhaps it is another place where t politics covers a multitude of sins. gE } AGED 137. P| TO ROM the little backwoods Minnesota town of } Cass Lake comes the news that Ga-be-nah- { | Fewn-wonce, otherwise known as John Smith, is { sHis title to fame resied on the claim that he was 4 Yfe oldest living person in the world. Now thar <4 he is dead and gone, he loses even that fame, fo. } there is another “oldest person.” There always is 4 John—omitting the five-syllable name—lived a lang time, and in that time he missed a lot. In the geports of his death it is mentioned that John re- galled the “falling of the stars” in 1833, when he was what is ordinarily called middle-aged. And that was one of the notable events in the life of this old indian. John was preity much out of touch with modern dévelopments. What he didn’t know about modern inventions was plenty. After he had reached the mlotted age of three scte years and ten, Westing hhousevinvented tHe airbyake. The telephone, the SO A SS ae | | | typewriter, the phonograph, the incandescent lamp, the harvester, the motion-picture machine, the au- tomobile, the electrical passenger car, the aeroplane, Keep the Home Fires Burning” Dave! Copsright, 192% (Sew York Evening Worlt) By Press Publishing Co, the radio, the X-ray were some of a hundred other notable developments in which John found little interest. Maybe if John had lived more in the world of things that change he would not have lived to be 137. But if you had your choice, would you rather he one of the live ones a reasonable while and en- joy things the way Chauncey Depew does, for in- stance, or would you prefer to exist for 137 years? IT BEATS TELEPATHY. ESPITE those sizzling thought waves from the Mayor at Palm Beach, the Board of Educa- tion yesterday re-elected Associate Superintendents Clarence H. Meleney and William McAndrew; also C. B. J. Snyde-, Superintendent of School Build- ings, and Patrick Jones, Superintendent of School Supplies. : Nor did David Hirshtield’s faithful megaphoning of the “Master's Voice” prevent the vote of the, Education Board from being in each case unanimous. Members of the board indignantly repudiated the suggestion that Gov. Miller’s warning against the “slimy trail of politics in the schools” influenced them. Certain members also assailed the news- papers for printing so much about the situation. The brain of Commissioner Arthur S. Somers worked better. He said: “If publicity can succeed in bringing into this i room, as it has to-day, delegations of citizens whom I thought had forgotten there was such a thing as a public school system, it has served a good purpose. The indifference of the public lately has been a contrast to the large and at- tentive and interested meetings we used to hdve a few years ago.” Public interest in yesterday's school elections | played a big part in smashing the Hylan plan to | “smash Meleney.” Public interest in the schools is the surest bir across any slimy trail that leads toward the schools. Public interest is aroused by publicity. Publicity has proved itself more powerful than telepathy. More power to publicity! Heaven pity the first Irish Ambassador to the United States! He had better land outside the Cohalan jurisdiction. | ‘From Evening TROUBLE WITH THE SLAVES. LBANY correspondents report that William H Anderson, State Superintendent of the An Saloon League, has struck hard sledding with his | local enforcement bills. The Andersonian idea was that every iown and Other Nations Paid Bonuses. village in the State would be tickled to death to |" the Ealtor of The Evening World There is fine mental exercise a say much in tew words. have the power to do its own searching of automo: | 1 Mua nletlernthe Oulsr eyes f . 4 j ning. ardly believe that those bile parties and other travellers suspected of car- | are really his sentiments. tying forbidden liquids. But the Anderson arguments along this line have failed to impress legislators. Many of the latter, even the Prohibitionally minded, think local en- forcement would be a much better thing ‘for the Anti-Saloon League than for the larger enforce ment of Prohibition law in the State. “A bootleg- ger’s dream,” is the way one up-State legislator TE Ceeana iA thin iUiniiedSlates: fala; characterizes the Anderson proposals. indirectly, foreign sol os Is the Anti-Saloon League threatened with an jand not their own, uprising among its slaves? Has triumph weakened |congruity and inhumanity of sayin It seems inconceivable that any one could be so despicable. The soldiers shouldn't get paid because they did their duty, Every other country paid their soldiers a bonus and their finan- cial condition is infinitely worse than ours. Why, they borrowed money from us to pay them. bonus the tyranny? While the victors were celebrating at gan ve ior ae oe fete en at ‘| aay duty?" What ingratitude! the victory, did somebody steal the whip? ren nee mete hep ii ne After all, it's an historic rule that when bigois | most cherished possession of men. have bullied everybody else in reach they bes What is property or anything com- pared to life? All the property in the | world cannot give one second more to a man when his final hour comes. one another. ; 2 | Those boys up that to protect ACHES AND PAINS your property, and now you won't ewe give up some of that property (you A Disjointéd Column by John Keetz. are not even asked to sive it all up) to help them along, Y $| Remember, two whole years was maybe at a e meant sue- And taking all will taken out of their 1 time when it would hi cess to some of them. \{ht Into consideration, there | still be some ungrateful, mat |tools like C. T. who will ery, paying enough taxes.” Secretary Hughes—our Animated Feather Duster —certainly brushed up the Disarmament Confereuce, * Some think it a crime to be rich; others a crime to be poor. Maybe both views are right. * are 1 know @ maiden fair to see Whose face is like a rose- And fairer yet she'd be to me If she wouldn't chalk her nose! pieces of unholy propag: FRANK WIL New York City, Feb. 19 On Hin Way. \-ro the Editor of ‘The Evening World Gordon Woodbury, Who was washed off iis yacnt I clipped the picture of Representa- and on ag’in by a considerate sea, was one: a Demo. ltive A. J. Volstead in The Evening cratit editor in New Jersey, So the wasning was World of Feb. 1. I framed it and not his first vicissitude, put it in a good place where it can . be seen. The poor man seems to be T can't blar a He Wwe him, ation, from New tired of life. ought to be given would gladly pay his far PARK TANKUS, THE TIGER OF THE VipR, a Being an Up-to-Date Pirate Tale of Our Own York to Sandy Hook if he would|dilemma in which they have placea|term is a memorial of the revolution. | reproach bestowed on the Marl.of Nore) Manuiacture, promise on his honor (if he has any)|themselves. If they do not availjary war, and first saw the light in| bury (died in 1831), who was Chief (Continued.) to hop overboard and t themselves of this opportunity “while | poston. | Justice of Common Pleas in Ireland from there straight to E s|the iron ia heh they will make the! 3n 9 dispute with some British sol-|from 1820 to 1827, on account of the tow. WET VET. | greatest blunder of all time. a Agrees lees errata CHA I. Va age - If they have any regard for them.|¢iers, the ropemakere and calkers|Tigor of his sentences, frequently ad Deep as the necessity for a breeze, the wind dies Jobless at Forty-Five, © colossal in- ® World Readers What kind of Jetter doyou find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ind a lot of tisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. ; Person in charge. When I am asked |my age I answer truthfully. All L | get is, ‘*We will let you know,”? which [means I am not wanted because I am too old. We bookkeepers, who are the poor- est paid salary men, cannot retio after thirty-five years of age, as some of those so-called expert efficiency men think, all have to make a| living. ybe some of these firms want us| old men to do as Dr, Osler says—take chloroform and die, | I would like to hear from others) who are over thirty-five years of age. | [ was born and brought up in Brooklyn, and I think it is pretty bad that a man of forty-five cannot get a job at that age. I think it is high time that some Congressman put a Dill through to pension vs men over thirty-five yeare of age. HENRY SCHAFFNER. D, S.C. Salaries, To the Editor of The Evening World Could you explain to me the reason why the drivers of the D. Ss. C. | been reduced in their salary? ceived ,$5.60 a day and now receive | $5.45 y. I received time and f for overtime, now have I re- a a receive single time. | Js there any man in the city depart ments works harder for their money or run the risks that they do in tak ing away all kinds of dirt, especially these times when the flu is raging. Our rents or gas bills having not been reduced, so why reduce our salaries? A CONSTANT READER Light Win To the Editor of ening World Prohibition practical problem which can only be solved by a return to common sense. The Evening World | . and Beer, is a By Johp Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE . By John Blake . (Copyright, 1928, by Joun Blake.) GET THE FRONT SEAT IF YOU CAN, Gov. Miller of New York recently announced that one of the causes of the prevalence of crime was the desire of people to occupy a front seat in the orchestra of life. He might as well have said that ambition and the desire to rise is a harm- ful influence in the world. It was doubtless the desire to get the best and driest and most sanitary caves that taught the struggling human race the value of the home. ‘ \ Pride of possession inspired the lucky caveman to gel a pretty and intelligent wife to put in the cave he had won with this club, That resulted in stronger and brighter chil- dren in the next feneration, and thus the race developed. We know of few great men who have not desired the front seats of life and whose efforts to secure them have not carried many other men along the upward v Because of their desire for front seats men he written eat novels and plays, have made great inventions and built up great indust \ We live in better houses and wear better clothes and eat better food because men, desiring front seats for them- selves, have been wise enough to know that other people would appreciate and pay for better living conditions. Competition is the life of trade and ail competition based on this front seat ¢ ng. Every man worth his salt is born with a desire to excel in something. He does not want to put up with discomfort, with lack of employment, with un- certainty, He wants comfort and independence and security. And better still, he wants the woman who shares his lot and the children she bears to enjoy the same things. Vor that he is willing to work, and it is his willingness to work that has cleared away the forests and conquered the ocean and the air and harnessed the rivers and made the forces of nature assist man in earning a living for those who dwell upon the earth. Get a front seat if you can, You will soon find out that the only certain way to get it is to get it honestly. It will not drive you to crime but to useful, enjoyable, healthful ambition. C has assumed the right attitude by en- dorsing a programme which ealls for & modification of the Prohibition jay in favor of “light wines and beer This programme offers the Prohibi- | tionists the chance of their lives. 1t! I for them to get out of the erilous| the they will do the hot selves : fellow cit: right thing WHERE DID YOU GET provides a feasible and graceful way | word ‘|“‘That’s a Fact’’ By Albert P. Southwick loopyright, 11a (Tue New York Evering World) Serre py the! Preas Publiehin i THAT WORD? 133—CAUCUS. | Yespite its Latin appearance, the} Rome in The caucus" flever saw person of a Latin ancestor. langing was a name of ly denounced the British Go judging the death penalty public meeting. down to a dead cali. The Pirut heaves to and heayes | 1 want to express myselt in regard ace of true interes | Meetings of protest, and expressing | Phe Ing! nickname Bobby" her long boat over the side. It is quickly manneq py |to an article in The E hi ‘are they will glad- |open disloyalty to the crown, came tO} 4. given to a policeman because Sir the rovers, Propelled by a dozen oars it soon reaches |of Feb. % entitled “Firm Fires Men|1y recede a bit from their stern posi. be humorously characteris bby thet chant Peal firet Introduced them into the helpless William H. Anderson, nd Women Over Thirty-five or 160] tion for the sake of a satistied United Tories as “ealker’s meetings” =) ON lubbed yelisht." es of A ero he contemp Me ered yey are dubbec Tark Tankus, the Tiger of the Tide, stands in yop |!ounds In Welxht.? | a Trelinilonista, shaulara team inet tne word to its use in| ‘pecters” (a favorite term in Ireland) bow and harshly hails Tarpaulin: Fits Tyan have teen out [ia tie name of thelr American cits ite zeesent form #8 a part of aur butte | for the « reasor ake us on board!" he shouts. ee ain April, 298 ns ilies wi} “aoOBnt ihe elsGl Inching: (wie bo t “We never take boarders,” replies Tarpau 1 hay out need 18 them: t ) NPE MEE AA ae Ee ethane ton bad: m \ 1 un Loe ft ons OF people in Am ergiw oto the Puritans nm in but stand oe “ : fem to call in rwaponse to my ett , JOHN LYNCH shal om 1 the Restoration (of Charle ’ . (To Be Continucd.) Joy am Interview, 1 always go and gee Upvokiya, No Ys, Ped. 6, 10a spoken in England. <vsTMe Mewes emee Frenne s APN Cans ee eon a seabapnnons ‘Liberators” ~Or— Treland By Bartlett Draper Copyright, 1922, (New Yi tasted ae Ah mbt) XI—THE “LOST LEADER.” The name of Charles Stewart Par- nell is written high on the roll of the [struggle of the Irish people to survive jas a nation, The Protestant leader who was stined to nish from public life under the shadow of a domestic scandal gave Clearer outline than any of his predecessors to the Irish cause in practical form, He availed himself of the weapons safeguarded to Britains by their un- written Constitution to wrest rights for the people of Ireland which had been denied them under that Const!- tutio Finally, it is no undue estimate of the magnitude of his services to say that his achievements foreshadowec the great feat of the creation of the Irish Free State. The inspiration of Michael Davitt had given life to the Land League t it was the effective leadership of arnell that made the Land Leagve a powerful weapon for the winning of the three rights of which the Irish people in the mass had been deprived through the centuries up to the last quarter of the nineteenth century. These rights were: Fair rent, fixed hold and free sale. It was from Kilmainham Jail after the DPhoe- hix Park murders that the Irish M, ». exerted power at Westminster tr save point to the demand of the Irish tarmers for reasonable rents, for the retention of their holdings withour fear of eviction pending the payment of a reasonable rent, and for the right to realize on the improvements whice they had made on the land instead of leing obliged to sacrifice those im- provements at the behest of a selfiel landlord, It was in Kilmainham Jail, where he had sent him, that Gladstone ne- gotiated with Parnell the political agreement which opened the doors of the prison and marked the beginning or a series of legislative and adminis- trative measures that enabled the |Irish farmer to come into possession of the land to a great extent. He it recalled to the credit of the Irish farmer that in the succession of Land Purchase Acts passed by the British Parliament, there is no re- corded instance of the purchaser of the land failing to carry out his obli- gation to the last shilling. The Irish farmer amply proved himself capable not only of buying the land to which he formerly pos- sessed no right which the lapdiord hound to respect but also of im- proving it enormously. Parnell's participation in the agita- tion and Parliamentary manoeuvring that resulted in the presentation of two successive Home Rule Bills, will remain forever on the record of history as preliminary moves to the accomplishment that is now an inter- national fact. | Of the divorce suit by Capt. | O'Shea, after he had acted for years as Parnell's lieutenant and benetici- ary, much has been written, It was |the. peculiar conscience of England that made Parnell's withdrawal from | public life imperative once the scan- dal had become public. | But it is safe to say that Ireland | will for all time retain his memory as [ee of her liberators. i} WHAT IS THE UNCONSCIOUS? ‘The unconscious is not a mysterious part of your “brain or ‘mind."" It is simply the millions of memories stored up in your nervous system and which come up when needed and when no fear holds them back. You see a play to-night, You are conscious of the stage, the actors, the audience. In a few days you will have forgotten the stage, the audi- ence and most of the actors, and re- member perhaps one performer who was especially good. In a year you may have forgotten entirely the oc- |casion, but a poster with the face of the actor who did so well will bring It back to you. Where was the actor, where was the play, between the time of the performance you witnessed and the time when you were reminded of it? In your unconscious? Actor and play had made certain impressions on your visual and audi- tory nerves which, if they were pleas- ant, you had no reason for forgetting or repressing out of your meomry, Unconscious and memory are one of the same thing. Pleasant things are ; remembered; that is, come up from unconscious to conscious- Unpleasant things, especially if humiliating, are pushed back into the unconscious, When we push ok too many things because they are humiliating were or painful, because our environment lis hostile and does not allow us to ess ourselves free! in other words, when we has it “get thin those things have a tric ously, On they that thei annot. as the slang put of our system,” apparently forgotten of bothering us mysteri every possible occasion an outlet. We then feel » is something the matter with us We don't know what it is and feel obscurely afraid, This is what we call nervousness, The things we have repressed and which keep on Jurging us in a weird way to doSor absurd things alled com s, When our unconscious is free from complexes it is a marvelous time and jabor-saving instrument, as I will ex- plain to-morrow, When it is bu jened with complexes it 1s like motor that needs oil, or whose bral | ple et set at the wrong time. The tire machinery of the human orgfan- ism is upset and the resul me ad to some form of insani, | (Copyright by United Feature Syndica‘