The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1922, Page 22

i 8 i She EF Ay Biorid, ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITAEN. Pudliuned Dally Except Sunday by The Prew Pu Company, Noa, 3 to 08 Park Now, New Tort. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITHEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Patk Row. MEMEER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘The Associated Press le exctustvely entitled to the wer for republication fof al news despatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in thit paper and also the local news published herein, “DO THE RIGHT THING BY THEM. ERE is a considerable measure of justice in the appeal of the discharged Navy Yard machin- i§ts and other employees. The Government was right in stopping work on capital ships. It might even have suspended the work earlier as an earnest of faith in the Washing- + ton Conference. But it was poor management and poor planniag to throw the workers out of their jobs without Rotice. They should have had warning and every possible field should have been canvassed with a yiew to transferring as many workers as possible to other kinds of Government work. The workers are right in demanding that all armament work now done outside Government plants shall immediately be transferred to Federal plants. They are right in asking preference in fill- ing jobs for the Fleet Corporation, the Army Trans- Port Service and the Lighthouse Service. Most particularly they are right in the demand that the men who have been building capital ships should have immediate employment in the scrap- Ping of ships. These ships cannot be scrapped until the Senate accepts the treaties. The men thrown out of work are telling the Senate to hurry and let them do the scrapping while jobs are few. A GREAT IDEA, It’s a shame to get the country into such a state over the question where the money for a soldier bonus is coming from. There's a way out. | License the bootlegger. He's making all the money, anyhow. Business with him is one grand, increasing boom. Nothing was ever * seen like his prices. His profits are fabulous. He could come across with any amount for a license and never miss the cash. License the bootlegger, pay the bonus and have something left to blow in, DOES EUROPE EVEN REMEMBER HIM? A’ American steamship company is to inaugu- f rate next month a new one-<abin service Between New York, P!ymouth, Cherbourg and Lon- dn at rates that “will encourage Americans in mod- erate circumstances to trave: abroad this summer.” The American in moderate circumstances had about made up his mind that nobody cared whether he ever got to Europe again or not. Present fares across the Atlantic are way beyond him. Before the war he could go to England and back on a com- fortable single-class steamer for $450. To-day it would cost him at least a third more than that for Hiassage one way | The rate to :ondon and Plymouth by the new service will be $120 up. Maybe the American in imoderate circumstances will take a trip over and see if any one in Europe stil: cares to bother with him and his modest spendings. ° “BIG FLEAS AND LESSER FLEAS." res of Chicago's “Ponzi” wizard, Bischoff, recall De Morgan's philosophical couplet: “Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em, And little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad | infinitum.” Bischoff, playing a skin gamg_on the poor and ignorant stockyards workers, claims‘ that he in turn was. the dupe of other confidence workers who double-crossed him in an ofl deal, _THE BVENI looks as though such buildings could meet comps- tition and still pay a conservative profit, But in any event, the Real Estate Board criticisms will be generally discounted. It is too self-evidently an interested party in manifesting concern over the financial well-being of the widows and orphans, When life insurance policy holders protest against such use of the funds, it will be time to listen and give heed. But the realty wail may well be ac- cepted as the squeal of the profiteer who hates to let go. FORWARD OR BACK? HERE is no mistaking the seriousness of De Valera’s efforts to hamstring the Pfovisional Government in Ireland. The size of the Republican demonstration in Dub- lin last Sunday showed only too plainly, that De Valera is counting on much more than bis backing in Cork and Kerry. No man living is a better judge of present con- ditions in Ireland than Sir Horace Plunkett, who lectured in this city yesterday. Sir Horace was asked “whether De Valera has a very large follow- ing.” His answer was frank and significant: “He has a large following. It is so 1 that I hope he will soon see the harm that he is doing and come out in support of the Irish Free State.” If every level-headed Irishman and friend of Ire- land in the United States would now openly and émphatically register the same hope, it would be a big help to Ireland in achieving the last short step to settled peace. Irish sentiment in America can do much to aid or handicap the Provisional Government in Ireland. Michael Collins was recognizing that fact when he cabled yesterday to the American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic: “Do not torpedo us. I warn you not to assist or countenance the coup d'etat planned against the new Government, as witness the affair at Cork, where the departing British police had their arms solzed by De Valera’s supporters, “T refer you also to De Valera's statements of yesterday which make it perfectly clear that we are regarded as greater enemies than the British Government. “Plainly, a8 you stand for that, or not?” More bloodshed in Ulster, suspension of the movement of British troops out of Ireland, renew2i doubt and disrupsion, the dark prospect of sipping back into war—these things stem to mea” nothing to the fanatical De Valera bent on showing how many Irishmen are incapable of making right use of freedom when they get it. Sooner or later a general election in Ireland must measure the actual De Valera strength. Previous to such an election, Irishmen in Ireland should be left in no doubt that Irishmen in America believe the Irish people should support the Provis- ional Government and the Irish Free State. The latter is headed forward to peace. De Valera is turning back toward war. do you ‘ OUR OWN LITTLE WILL HAYS, Major F. H. La Guardia has become chief counsel for Dolores Cassineili, film actress, who is forming her own cinema play com- pany.—The World. Deven aeneeteteentee neta ann cna neat eee ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, Why does not the efficient Mr. Hedley aitch his turnstiles to storage batteries und save up the power? It is notorious that some of the smoothest green goods merchants regularly lose their gains in bucket shops and even in more “legitimate” stock specula- tions when they get out of their own field and try toxplay the other fellow’s game. The “trimmer” is very likely to become the “Sucker” if he veniures into unfamiliar waters. The moral, if there"be one, is for the little suckers : sp being a sucker, and so keep the bigger suckers jonest, AN INTERESTED PARTY. I* criticising the Untermyer-Metropolitan housing scheme, the Real Estate Board denies common experience when it claims there is no longer a hous- ing shortage. The only convincing demonstration of this would be a general and material reduction of rents. Life insurance companies should not venture into Speculation. But in recent years the speculative feature in housing has not dealt with minimum returns. Speculation has been in maximunts. Rent laws have provided the only check. There is no indication that housing rentals Soon recede to a point where the proposed §9-a- foom sénials will cease to be atiraciive. The Metropolitan building venture would 1; many circumstances in its favor. Labor pro work efficiently at reduced rates. The p will have the benefit of tax exemption. B material is pledged at reduced rates. I! t ve Then if he will contrive to convert to use the push in the crugh Lours, passenger power can take of electric and save his coal bill. . ° he place Once upoa a time a very tired Business Man made @ date to meet His Own Wife at the Grand Central Station after She had been out to visit Her Sister in ‘Tarrytown, She said She would be at the North West Corner of the Information Bureau at 6.17. He suid He would be there and He was, but She was not. Tuyen He remembered that there Were two inturmation Bureaus, one upstairs afid one down. So He went down, not knowing that the time was 5.2/ and not 6.17, as She said, Then She, at 5.27, remembered that He might be downstairs so She went down as He came up, but on the stairs the other side of the depot. This each kept up for half an hour and finally they met at Home. She was so Mad She would not Speak to Him and He was glad of it! . Take us-some'eres East o' Sucz, Where the best is like the tvorst, Where there ain't. na "teenth amendment And a man can calm a thirst! . SAVE THE CITY. A Tale of Hissoner and tho Interesis, CHAPTER I. Standing between the lamps placed on vu Avenue to mark his lowly mansion Hizzoner pay | He looked up and down the broad thor “Where's Dave?” he muttered. ‘The wind to which addressed! brought no reply. Instead — he (To Ge Coutuoued.) ‘From Evening What kind of ietter doyou find most readabie? that gives the worth of a thousand say much in few words Heat Subway Ca Yo the Editor of The Evening World: authority woul. order the trains, elevated und surface subway curs to | be heated, instead of asking the pub- lic not to talk, sneeze or cough in the present refrigerating trains he ‘oulddom te rev) = ime fuenza and pneumonia than the many theories already advanced, I am not surprised that the Inter- borough officiuls instruct the conduc- tor. not to turn on the heat on days when it is necessary, nor am I sur- prised that the Board of Health De- partment overlooks the importance of having the curs properly heated throughout the winter months, but I am more than surprised to think that the public does not wake up and an end to this shameful treatment which after all is undoubtedly done to save a little fuel money. Instead of asking us to keep our mouths shut or stop breathing, bring us back ten years or more, keep the trains and curs warm and there will be no need for us to worry about | Spanish or any other foreign influ- enzit. 1 realize the time 1 am wasting in | writing this letter, ‘The most I will probubly get out of it is to see it printed In your valuable pu but {for me to try to interest the public jand make them think the same as 1 do in ord: that something be *one to guard their health and comfort—no hope. A. PANARELLO, Now York City. Kindly Comment, To the Editor of The Evening World: You printed a fine editortal to-day ntitled “Another Bonus Fallacy,” You got a fine head; it would make 4 fine ashean, When we were in France the very people who can't see a cent for u soldier bonus could see billions then | But that was different; it was to save their yellow skins and shrivelled up | souls. | If you printed the policy you stand for it would read this way: Let the men that fought and sacrificed dur- ing the war pay for the war, Billions to compensate manufacturers’ claims, | dillions for railroads, billions of poor people's Liberty bonds to grafters; |that’s Just the way !t should be, and \to hell with the soldiers; they wore ors ANY Way 1 WOUGEN J. KENNY, Me. Biake's Opin itor of The In Hin Own, We To the E ti Vivato, ‘ If Dr. Copeland or some other seal insist that something be done to put) plage that C ; I most heartily agree with Mr.| ‘ongress is obligated to} pass the bonus bill now under ‘con- | | World Readers d isn’t it the one words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction ir. trying to Take time to be brief. unique articles “Uncommon Sense,” mentioned the bonus as a “debt ( honor,” using this caption as a by | ing. + You lay great stress on the detrimental possibilities to the return of nermal — conditio! mentioning higher taxes, increase of the cost of living, more unemployment, &c., should the passage of this bill ybe enacted by Congress. It is stated by Mr. Blake in his| article that every German will have| to pay $500 in order to discharge the | just indemnity levied by the Allies, and had the Geemans won the war this debt would now be ours, plus a greater one which the German junk-| ers would have imposed, It is a cer- tainty that the fleures published as the probable cost of the bonus would in no way compare if levied on the individuals In this country in a rela-| tive manner, sideration, and I fall to see how you can be consistent to publish ana e such as Mr. Blake's and at < date yoice an opposite opinio HAROLD TAYIOR { Corona, I, I, Feb. 11, 1922. A Hired Reformer. To Whe Baitor of The vening World | It is stated In the daily papers that Mr, Ralph A, Day, State Prohibition Director, has tendered the post of As- sistant Director Mr. William 1 |Anderson, our beloved friend of the Anti-Saloon League. Although having unbounded admir- | ation for State Prohtbtion Director Day and the efficient and honest way \he has endeavored to carry on with an indeed sorry and disheartening task (with which, no doubt, he has no more sympathy than you or I), | never suspected that along with his other admirable qualifications Mr Day also possessed not only subtle diplomacy but satire of a most de- lightful character, ‘We will now await Mr, Anderson's reply to Mr. Day's offer with eager interest, for here Is his real oppor- tunity to do the thing himself and in the way he has so often told others it should be done, If he accepts the $3,500 which this post pays It will be only about one-fourth of the salary Mr. Anderson is said to receive, but his monetary sacrifice to the cuuse he has so earnestly advocated will result to in our respect and admiration, neither |, of which he has now. If he declines Mr. Day's offer with “weasel words” | jot explanation thar won't explain, we ‘ehall have to continue thinking {we thought before; namel is just ¢ NG WORLD, TURZSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Copyrts (See Yorks By Ty Presa whe fe ie rae UNCOMMON SENSE ‘By John Blake GI «Copyr YOU NE 1922, by John 1D EXCITEMENT. Blakey Because each of the thousands of ancestors from whom each man and women is descended led different lives, siw different countries, and were occupied with different inter- ests, the thirst for change in human beings is very active. Spending years on end in the same place, doing the same thing, becomes intolerable to every one. There is the inheyited memory of other places and other occupations that stirs us like the memorics of our youth to try over adven- tures that our ancestors have embarked upon. To most people travel in foreign lands is impossibie, complete change of occupation is impossible, save perhaps, for a week or two each year. We have to find the excitements we need in books and at plays, We have to do our travelling in the same manner. That explains the demand for fiction or adventure. It explains the wide pepularity of moving picture plays. It ex- plains why a poor family, given a few dollars by a charitable organization, will expend them for a phonograph, much to the bewilderment and annoyance of the giver. Excitement and change are as necessary as foe The poor family that buys the phonograph finds no novelty in corned beef and potatoes, It finds real novelty and real de- light in the phonograph which brings for a little time the feeling that life is not altogether dull and drear Leading books—ficts nm, travel, adventure—ig for every man and woman deprived of the opportunity to travel or to enjoy adventure first hand, Many a girl who has no love affair of her own crave the stimulus of the love story, putting herself in the place of the heroine, Many a man who has never had a fight in his life. wh» has never met any form of violence to face, lone himself for profitable hours reading "Lhe Three Musketeers” or watching a Wild West film comedy. All these things are mental tonics. Some of them may be called trashy, and doubtless are trashy, But better trasa than no adventure at all. Stevenson knew this and put adventure and excitement into excellent literary form, So did Dumas. You do not need to look at silly, impossible moving picture plays, or to read cheap and ridiculous novels to get your adventure, You can get it in far higher forms both between covers and at the spoken and written drama, But if your own life is unexciting you need it, Tt will rest you and feed your mind and satisfy a craving which you brought into the world as the gift of thousands of generations of hunting and fighting and adventurous ancestors. necessary ce NAAR Sheen ) FE | ‘stop our yield. We are good second- which pay about 6 MONEY TALKS pansies | class securities, By HERBERT BENINGTON | Soleatetles pyright per cent. per ye If you earn $ ed at $41, 0 a year you are as 6 percent YOUR WORTH. 1 that amount is equal to your income What are you worth in dollars ¢ t ' meaenee $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 means a capital vurself and fami cde ty) Value of $50,000, $66.666 and $83.83 \, finst edgnd" secur : : respectively yor your, We : iF . ‘Ten dollars saved every week and igo pie s nvesthd at 6 yy nt will amount t Vunemplos ment are hugards whieh can sya cual ty youl pis ‘ Liberators Ireland By Bartlett Draper XII —THE SCOTCHMAN WHO AD- MITTED THE ENGLISH WERE* | WRONG. " It was William wart Gladstone, emerging from his conservative background, who thus expressed his estimate of the ethical values of the methods by which, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, England had accomplished the legislative ab- sorption of Ireland: “L know of no blacker or fouler transaction in the history of man than the making of the uniua be- ; tween England and Lreland.” Under the pressure of this realiza- (ion, doubtless made more vivid by political considerations of the hour— such as the fact that there were times when the Irish bloc held the bal- ance of power in thy House of Com- mons—Gludstone fairly earned 2 ‘© on the roll of the liberators o jand. was Gladstone—with the lib- , non-conformist conscience be- ind him, it must be said—who did the measure of justice to the Catho- lie majority in Ireland by causing the disestablishment of the Protes- tamt Episcopal Church in Ireland, By that act the Britisir Parliament ve its recognition to the important ‘principle that it was neither just nor decent to tax the Irish people as a whole for the upkeep of a religious institution to which only a small mi- nority gave thelr spiritual adherence. In accordance with this recognition, the Presbyterians and the Catholic Training College at Maynooth were placed on a foundation similar to that of the Irish Church Sustentation Fund, Although Gladstone proclaimed the Land League an unlawful body, and went so far as to consign Parnell to prison, Gladstone nevertheless ad mitted the reasonableness of the Irish demand for land reforms, The Land Court established by him went a good way toward meeting the demand of the Land League for fair rent, fixed hold, free sale, ‘Then, in 1883, he grappled with the question in its essentials, It was Lord Salisbury and the Conservative Party, succeeding Gladstone and the Liberals in power, who passed the first Land Vurchase Act, uppropriat- ng $25,000,000 to be lent to Irish HeHIetS desirous of purchasing the rnd they cultivated. When Gladstone again became Prime Minister he addressed himseit to the deeper signifiaance.of the Lrish question when he introduced the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1886, which rent the Liberal Party and caused the re- ment of the istone Ministry. in, in 1893, the woodchopper of Hawarden introduced a second Home Rule Bill, which was rejected by the House of Lords after it had passed the Commons. Asoth these bills fell far short of the nliximum desires of Irish patriots, but both served a good cause by com- mitting British public opinion to the proposition that Home Rule was in- evitable, The treaty creating the Irish Free State was a spiritual descendant, twice removed, of the two Gladstone bills that failed. ga gita | Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind | By ANDRETRIDON | XVIL—WHAT OUR UNCON- SCiOUS DOES FOR US. I said that our unconscious was a marvellous time-and-labor-saving ma chine. How is that? I wish to cross a street. The street is 56 fest wice One automobile 100 feet away 8 ap- proaching at the speed of fifty miles per hour. A trolley 200 feet away is moving toward me at ten miles an hour. Problem: How many steps of 35 inches should I take and at what speci to eross the street safely? If I should try and do those sums consciously | would never cross the street, or J would soon get run over. Ido all that calculating unconsciously and never get run over, The memories stored up in my eyes and muscles enable me to carry out a thousand actions of my life without any conscious thought. 1 have attended experiments in which a medium was hypnotized and ordered to listen to columns of fighres which: would be read out to her after she had been awakened. As soon as one figure was which subtracted from the previous one left 6, she was to raise her han She was then awakened, Three or four students in psychology talked to her, while at a distance of twenty feet or so the professor was Teading the fs~ ures ag fast us possible. Whenever he reached the proper figures the medium would raise hes hand without,however realizing what she was doing, Her un- conscious powers had been set free for a while through hypnotism, and sli could do, unconsciously mathematical thinking of which she was quite in capable during her normal waking hours. ‘We would all be as wonderful as that medium if our unconscious was frec What prevents us from emulatin: | such feats Js the number of complexes. | slight or severe, which our training or | education has allowed to form in ou unconscious. Those complexes | nothing but fear which has located nerves and which y2ralyzes thosr nerves when some act of onr life re minds us of w : NO. read ear, Th sists in selling those complexes oui jour system, by taking us realize clearly who and what we are and helping us remember the occasions of our life whieh, painful or humiliate ne, have caused us to accumulate Lose complexes. P ant by Culted Feature Syndicates