The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1922, Page 10

eimai ata’ BERIT SOL LT TT | RIE TES REP MT TOE THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922. ~- ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pudlished Daily Except Sunday by The Proas Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 62 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Pros ts exctusively entitled te the use fer republication ‘of all news despatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper And also the local news published hervin, ——<—<———————$ IN ONE POCKET, OUT OF ANOTHER, OULD a bonus be one? W We, have asked this question before. We repeat it, because in the answer lies the crux of the bonus controversy. A Washington despatch from David Lawrence yesterday presented a clear and concise answer: “Some of the Government experts figure the effect of a bonus raised by such taxation as has been suggested will be to make the soldier himself and the members of his fam- fly pay out of one pocket what he will be receiving in another.” It isn’t a question of whether the Government ought to “adjust compensation.” It isn’t a question of the gratitude or ingratitude of the Nation. If those who demand a bonus were able and will- ing to get down to an exact and accurate analysis of the situation, they would discover the bonus to be an economic impossibility. This is one of the horrors of war. It is a result of the organized waste that is war. Those two years the soldiers put in were lost, absolutely and irretrievably. They were wasted. They were the price the young men paid for being born in a world where war is waged by nations. Those {wo years are water that tas passed over the dam. It is sad but true. Other countries have made bonus payments, but these did not “adjust compensation.” The soldiers collected cash. They paid in unemployment, hard times, depreciated currency and high cost of living, The average condition of the veterans to-day in the United States is better than the average in coun- tries where bonus payments have been made. That is because economic conditions in general are bet- ter. The United States did not waste and destroy so large a proportion of its wealth as some of the other countries. It had more left. . A bonus woukin’t be one. The result would be retarded recovery from wartime conditions. The veterans would be no better off. Their families and friends would be worse off. A bonus wouldn't be one, Only hard workers are grouchy, a Chicago physician declares. He ts evidently in the pay of the interests seeking to discredit the record for industry and happy optimism credited to the cheerful, hard-working Mayor of New York and Palm Beach. PHONOGRAPH STATESMANSHIP. T IS seldom the dignity of the Senate is de- stroyed by the expressive but slangy question: “Where do you get that stuff?” This is fortunate or unfortunate—as you look at it. But Senator Glass answered the unmasked ques- tion last Thursday when he interrupted Senator Heflin’s attack on the Federal Reserve Board. It made one of the funniest moments in the history of the Senate. It was the second time Senator Glass had heard the speech. Senator Heflin’s office adjoins that of Senator Glass. Senator Glass was in his office when he heard the speech rehearsed. So far there is nothing peculiar in thls. Many Senators rehearse their speeches. The funny feature was that the rehearser was not Senator Heflin but John Skelton Wiliams, former Comptroller of the Currency and vindictive enemy of the Federal Re- serve system. When the Senator from Alabama spoke he was only a phonograph playing the “Skelton Williams Rag” record. Senator Glass told where he “got that stuff.” Then the Senate and the public could better judge what it was worth. Heflin is not the only phonograph Senator. Half the speeches in Congress are loaded with propa- ganda. The speakers are mouthpieces of special in- terests. Their “convictions” are handed to them. They stand and deliver. Some Senator could be a valuable public servant if he would undertake the thankless task of telling Congress and the public where the phonograph records come from—"where they get that stuff.” ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Old City Hall Square in Brooklyn is so thorough- ly tunnelled it ought to be renamed Burrow Hole. . First the egg and then the chicken: Next the hen and then the pickin's . ‘The rich are getting rich again and the poor poor, No more $12 silk shirts for the longshoreman or $18 shoes for the cooks. They're back on Fifth Avenue. . Pm only a train on the L. I. road, But good for a column a day, Whether behind or right on time 7 fll up Chris Morlay.* “i, (Poetic Hoense.) P * purariaed 40 bear our poysician cay thas | pesca pig’s knuckle and sauerkraut were good for indiges- Looks like a plant! . A Ford car now costs little more than carfare. . TARK TANKUS, THE TIGER OF THE TIDE. Being an Up-to-Date Pirate Tale of Our Own Manufactare, tion, CHAPTER Y, The scene changes. No longer does Tarpaulin com- mand his gallant ship. He is lashed to the mast while around him lie his shackled crew, Tark Tankus eyes them balefully. “There can bo but one end to this,” he observes savagely. “Dead men tell no tales. They who live on water must die by water, Let them walk the plank.” (To be Continued.) PRESIDENT TO SENATE. RESENTING the Arms Conference treaties to the Senate yesterday, President Harding said: “Either these treaties must have your cor- dial sanction or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery.” Proclaimed American desire is, of course, the exact meaning of the Prestdent’s words. The Senate can hardly miss the point. Nor should the Senate fail to appreciate Mr. Har- ding’s earnest efforts to present the treaties with every persuasion that might appeal to less sympa- thetic parts of the Senatorial mind. “No expressed or implied commitment to arrive at any agreement except in accordance with our constitutional methods;” “the Senate's concern for freedom from entanglements, for preserved tradi- tions for maintained independence never once for- gotten;” attention called to the fact that there were both Republican and Democratic Senators on the American delegation; “no war commitments, no sovereignty, no added obligations”—nothing could be pleasanter or more soothing for ears counted irreconcilable. No one should overlook the significance in the President's avowal as to his own present functions: “T alluded a moment ago to\my. knowledge of the viewpoint of the Senate from personal experience. Since that experience I have come to know the viewpoint and inescapable responsibility of the Executive. To the Ex- ecutive comes the closer view of world rela- tionship and more impressive realization of the menaces, the anxieties and the apprehen- sions to be met.” There are volumes in that admission. Even a hard-headed Senate ought to be able to grasp some of the reasons why the Warren Har- ding in the White House to-day. is not altogether the Warren Harding of the late campaign. The President has, nevertheless, done his utmost to keep the Republican record itself from too glar- ing “involvements.” He has also done his Republican best for the Arms Conference treaties—even to insisting that “they have no semblance or relationship to the League of Nations save as the wish to promote peace has been the common inspiration.” The treaties are beyond all shadow of doubt treaties of progress. They mark substantial ad- vance in the direction of world security and peace. They deserve the whole-hearted ratification of thd Government and people of the United States. The President speaks solemn truth when he says it will be futile to try further if the Senate will not advise and consent on the treaties presented to it yesterday. THE HEALTHIEST YEAR. (From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Increase in the knowledge of preventable disease in the United States and Canada reflects itself in the mortuary statistics of the two countries compiled by the life insurance companies, This year goes down in history as the “healthiest ever experienced” with ap- proximately 163,000 fewer deaths than in 1920, ‘The death causes showing marked decrease were the respiratory diseases, particularly influenza and pneumonia, with a marked decline in the number of tuberculosis victims as well. Scarlet fever and diph- therla were the only diseases that took substantially heavier tolls of human Hfe this year than last, 6ul- cides, homicides and injuries from automobile acci- dents were markedly on the increase, the latter alone in the opinion of a leading life insurance expert cost- ing the country in human life an economic loss of 25,000,000. ° Whatever may be the possibilities of substantially reducing the number of deaths attributable to the dis- eases that now show a tendency to become more dead- ly, the annual loss of buman life from automobile ac- idents can be substantially reduced, Expert opinion in the medical fleld {s unanimous in the belief that the span of human life can be mark- edly lengthened through increased knowledge of pre- ventable disease and the promulgation of principles of sane living and thinking, That tho expectancy of life at the present time in the United Btates ig only fifty-one years is an indication of a careless policy tm connection with the Nation's most important resource. Barring serious epidemics the favorable health show- ing of 1921 should be repeated in succeeding years and improved upon, with increasing numbers having access to the best medical and surgica) evaleble Attention vreme(er. rlabt, 199 ‘ork Evening World) Pubilshing Co, From Evening Test Building Material. To the Editor of The Evening World: The tragedy that caused the death of 100 souls at the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington is a terrible |shock to the nation. What a warn- ing to New York City, where masses of people night after night attend our theatres! I believe that the snow-covered roof, with Its weight of: several tons. could not have caused that disaster. I believe as a mechanical man that would be impossible. What the public would like to know is, does President Harry M, Crandall or any building official or architect know whether the material used in constructing the Knickerbocker The- atre was good or bad? Could they swear under oath that all the mate- rial used was 100 per cent. quality? Inquiries should begin at once by the Senate if necessary and if it should be found that any group of individuals are responsible they should be shown no mercy, no matter who they are. The people of our own great city never realize or stop to think that under the sidewalks there are tons of machinery and high pressure steam boilers which would, if neglected cause the death of many thousands of people. “Thanks to the Boiler Squad at headquarters" every boller is num- bered. Every man who operates them has his name beside that number, He must be licensed. Every steam boiler in this great city under pressure 's severely tested and {f it is not up to the standard it Is put out of commis- sion. Tho Legislature should make laws compelling builders, contractors and architects to be licensed and hold them responsible for any choap mate- rial used in construction work. I believe without a doubt that the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster was caused through cheap material used in construction, B, PHELAN. Villagers and Pronibitt ‘To the Faditor of The Evening World: In the introduction to his sym- posium on the effect Prohibition has had on business Roger Batchelder says: “‘A few... Hved in small villages and did not feel themselves competent to express an opinion."’ Of the number interviewed only residents of Warren, Pa., and Winchester, Ky., were given ‘‘small-town’ expression —and they spoke good words for Pro- hibition. To the villager his business {s as important as may be the great in dustry New York ‘the ect upon country mer Debant’s business should be registered ON UM Yea -— "By John Cassel | World Readers What kind of letter do you 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 eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. along with what the ‘‘clty chap’? has But apart from the ‘busi- aspect of the amendment, it is the villages and countrysides from that the support of Prohibition may find its voice the loudest—loudest in {ts silence. Communities of 1,000 and under far outnumber towns of larger popula- tion; ft takes a lot of ‘em to make New York City, but their influence spreads into the remote sections of every State—and their vote would count in a referendum, as thelr vote and influence had {ts effect on the | advance of Prohibition over a stretch of fifty years, Mr, Batchelder, in| slipping in the paragraph about the | villages, like the girl who used perox- ide on her hair, fooled nobody but himself. If I were permitted to advance re- spectful criticism of your editorial and news-page policy, granting your right to run your puper as you choose, I would say you weaken your cause by ignoring the certain fact that there must be something good in the result of Prohibition. The women of the farm and village, the women In the cities; a great many men in New York and Lone Tree have found, by experi- ence, that the contrast between ready- booze and booze hard to get is not eternally working to the disadvantage of Prohibition, Personally I used to highly favor California “red ink" with my dinner at the Gloria Italia; and I used to drop in at the corner and chat with Reilly over a round or two of Red Eye—but the generations to come are of vastly more importance to the world than I can ever be. So I resign my “rights"’ and have my hearty laugh at the booze gang who have killed their own goose and miss their golden eggs. WALTER KANE. Enforcement Omot To the Editor of The Evening World: Under the caption “Enforcement,’" Arthur Douglas writes that the arrest |of prominent Prohibition officers | proves that the law ts being conscten- | tlously enforced, If Mr. Douglas will think hard he will realize that it proves nothing ot the sort. What it does prove is that no man with any decency and clean- liness about him can be procured ty enforce such a travesty on justico, The arrests will also help those re. sponsible for them to feather their own nests Judging by some past performances of these Prohibition oMeers and their records (when the papers took the trouble to investigate and publish them), it seems that many of them are a pretty sad lot By the way, the fact that the Anti- Saloontsts have persistently refused to divulze the source of their revenve fs proot « elusive that they must be int Gandy corporation 4 New dak, Leb 7, doe, }be spent UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrign* REPARA 1022, and by. There will be no conferences or exchanges of notes about how much you can pay either. You will pay the whole bill and pay it when it is due. and she knows how. A long night's sleep after three or four nights mostly spent sitting up at idle or foo store you and make you feel morning. But the damage ha: system and’to your brain cells, you will be called upon to make it good at very considerable expense to your comfort and happiness by and by. You can neglect your work day after day—or do a quarter as much of it as you ought to, But by and by you will be wondering why the man who sits next to you is get- ting promoted and you are not. Your lack of promotion is merely the reparation you are called upon but forced to pay. To you is committed the care of a body and a mind. You are responsible for both. You c Nobody is going to stop you. But by and by will come rep- aration day and then, whether make up for the damage. There is no appeal to nature. Her laws are there. can break them or not as you them without paying the penalty. She is liberal enough with your equipment. She sup- plies you with more strength, mental and physical, that you are going to need to earn your strength be intelligently used. She demands a reasonable amount of action and visits her revenge on the lazy as quickly as upon those who exhaust their reserves by unnatural drains. Build up this strength, est that is your allotment and you will never get into the repara- tion court till you are called to pay. Neglect what has been given you and most of your life after forty or fifty will be spent in paying heavy damages, whether you want to pay them TIONS. Go ahead and damage your constitution and impair your mind by bad habits and self-indulgence if you want to. But do not forget that you will have to make reparation »y > ® by John Blake.) Nature is determined to collect lish pursuits will seem to re- like a fighting cock the next 8 been done to your nervois The devastation is there and called upon to pay—not only an abuse them if you want to. you like it or not, you must You choose, but you can’t break living, but she insists that this ablish a reserve, do the work pay the last debt that all must or not. MONEY TALKS. By HERBERT BENINGTON. i Copyright (New York Evening World), OYE See Pubilsking Cones” PEACE DOLLARS. Have you seen the new Peace Dol- lar, the eagle with folded wings sym- bolizing peace? The day the Sub- Treasury received the first few thou. «and there were so many people wait- | ing in line to get them that only one! was allowed to each person. | We can all make our dollars) “Peace Dollars” whether they be in|. bills or coins. While they are in our pockets the eagle's wings are spread. fluttering to If we put them aside fr © for futitre use the engle wife 1 iil fold his wing end protection agallal Wall, From the Wise Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich and the pockets of the poor.—Chamfort. Conversation is the image of the mind; as the man, so is his speech. —Syrus, Proverbs are mental gems gath- ered in the diamond fields of the mind,—W, R. Alger. | time in Ilinots plying their trad TURNING THE PAGES] €. W. Osborn | inant 2 ee IKE smiles and tears of cha May That flofal deauties brings * The changefu’ feelings parting gles, \} In joy and sadness spring. | Por blithely now wad I return Tae Scotland, dear to ma; Lut sair'a my heart, for I mauh part Columbia frae thee. Sar sodn I'll view again the scenea ¥ Of a’ my childhood days, \ And roam among her gowan’d della, ., And o'er her bonnie braes. And when the sonoster’s tunefu’ Shall blithely welcome me, They'll rind me o' the friends I toe Columbia in thee. The sweetest charms my hame © tains Are those I loe sae weel; |Whe Bliss 0’ wanderers returned, | Rut they alane can feel. Tho’ wa 0” hame may prove mas di | Than a’ the airth tae me. | It sha’nit efface the tles I’ trace, | Columbia tae thee. | Thus Capt. Alexander ©. Corkun) in his book of verse (Atlantic Printing |Company, Boston) called “Musing: | | of a Mariner." | Lucky Captain! While he pipe: / |here a merry lay for Columbia, bi | holds in happy reserve the free Scotl: where ho may wet his whistle atiev at a moment's call. oe & Youth Followed Lincoln Ida Tarbell, writing of ‘Lincoln’: Pass-Key to Hearts," has these Une in the New Republic: Particularly was Lincoln at home with men whose native grain hed not been obscured by polish and of j There were mmany of them in his.) or professions more or less busth | but never allowing industry to in= terfere with opportunities for com- | | panlonship. The youthfulness of their spirit endeared them to him, They were. usually some Afteen or twenty yeafe | but in feeling the differ~ ence was greater. i] Lincoln early looked on himself | and spoke of himself as an old mas,” It was not years—it was burdens, defeats, the failure to find a satis fying purpose in Ife, He was old, and he craved youth.| These men had it, They were pery enntal children, Youth seemed to warm him, and he sought it where ever it was to be found—in children, boys, young men. ‘They in turn in- stinctively came to him, A succession of youth in all tte | forms follows him through his go~ [| ings and comings in the streets of jj Springfield, along the route of the | “§ old Highth Cireult | of Milinoia, & through the streets of Washington, |) into the White House, There {s a thought for to-morrow Lincoln Day, in this. But try to imagine a Young Inte! lectual swapping stories with Unol Abe in a Quincy, Ill, tavern! { eee a Giving the Goat His Due--- In his “Watched by Wild Animals (Doubleday-Page), Enos Mills pay this belated tribute to a gallant + 4) familiar name: T have never heard of a goat showing any symptoms of fright or fear. Fear with him appears to be a lost trait. 4 is decidedly philosophical, } @ every movement, meets every ey with matter-of-fact com- posure.’ In all times of danger, and even when dying, he retains mastery of his powers. When surprised {n clos quarters! he shows no confusion or pante, and retreats in @ masterly manner. If one route of retreat ts block for another without losin If finally cornered, makes a stand, It seems that picking out the othr fellow to be the goat need not « necessity be playing the game fc safety, first. i es ee Playing To-Day for To-Morrow --- Suggested to Beverley Randoly Tucker by a bit of Sanskrit transl tion, and by him written for # Reviewer of Richmond: Ah! Yesterday ts but @ Dream ar gone; To-morrow ts a Goat we play f Now, And if we heed each Day as it born, Then Yesterday te Wed again: T ) | day j Portends To-morrow's Hope wi # every Morn. . ee Neighbors tn the City--~ Speaking of the city’s unkno world of real neighbors, in “Sin! and His Friends” (Henry Holl Simeon Strunsky has Sinbad say: “while it is still beets en ror ler enjoyment of my wai oP ate tae” of bottles in the It {s the milkman wnom a thud outside door ix the newspaper carrier, = up and shave m hot water provi by a furnace mat who once a year at Christmas time becomes a votce up the dumb-waiter, Mew ‘othing else. “You commuters know yuwar 28- gine driver, and Mr, Harding hee revived Mr. Roosevelt's hurts, hebit of shaking hands with him at 4 the end of @ journey. But I don'# know my motorman except as the al fleeting shadow of as jumper and a gray now nothing whatever of tl y in Wanamaker's who sends) | ange up in a tube e ix an army of men and women who every day hold my / coufurt, wy health, and my life in thelr hands, but I do not know them. Whereas my next-door neighbor has nothing in common with me," “But how do you know?’ saié } Williams. Only he who really bears the bur- den knows its weight Klinger. Mh die L) A a =) (the steam doesn't come. “Nothing in common,” ini Does not Sinbad share door those mornings whengfhe mike lian forgets and the pape;