The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 22

PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Published Dally Except sun by The Company. Nos, 58 to @8 Park Raw, New York RALP!H PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row 1 J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITAER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Publishing MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Tae Associated Prem Js exclusively entitled to the use fer republication of all news Geepatches credited to It or not otherwise credited im this paper And also the local news published herein, HOT WAVE FROM PALM BEACH. HIGH temperature Palm Beach radio from Mayor Hylan denounces the Meyer Educa- tional Bill. Says the Mayor: “It is this group of inside school politicians a which is attempting to destroy the school sys- tem of this city that has the effrontery to an- nounce a plan to reform the city schools, * * *” As between outside politicians trying to break into The schools and “inside politicians” whose chief aim és to keep the invaders out, an intelligent public is by no means sure to prefer the former. The Meyer Educational Bill may not seem in all respects the wisest, most carefully thought out plan conceivable for protecting the city’s public schools and maintaining the highest standards in their administration. But on neither the practical nor the political side has the Hylan attitude toward the schools inspired anything save the most positive, deep-seated distrust. According to the Mayor, “the Meyer school bill dovetails with ihe Miller Transit and Port Authority Bills, all a part of the general scheme to deprive the people of the City of New York of control over their own public affairs.” Hylan, fuming at State interference, continues to be like the former liquor interests whining over Prohibition. r In both cases the party who is doing the com- plaining is in large measure responsible for the infliction, Retail food prices in New York were 7 per cent. lower in January than in December. If the retailers have at last seen the light, there is hope even from landlords and barbers WHERE ARE THEY >? HE Real Estate Board has denied the existence of a housing emergency. A letter printed in another column asks for proof. Mr. D. Sinclair suggests that the Real Estate Board make good on its assertion by furnishing to The Evening World a list of four-room apartments renting for $35 a month. The Evening World seconds the suggestion and will be glad to print such a list. This seems to be a fair test of the truth of the claim made by the Real Estate Board. The need for this sort of apartment is behind the Untermyer-Metropolitan Life scheme and the Stokes Project. If the Real Estate Board can demonstrate that the supply is equal to the demand, thes: Projects may be removed from the “emergency” classification. Such apartments are needed. Will the Real Estate Board tell the public where they may be found? ; Uncle Joe Cannon in his valedictory declares it is time for old heads to give way to young hearts in Congress. Some young and active heads would be even better than young hearts. JUDGE LANDIS DECIDES. UBLIC opinion worked slowly but none te less surely in the case of Judge K. M. Landis. The dictator of baseball has a temperament which ‘ould not permit him to resign under fire. But 2¢ felt the pressure. Public opinion undoubtedly yoved him to choose an opportune moment to cave the bench, In the circumstances it is as well that Congress “d not pass the bill to disqualify a Federal Judge ho accepts other employment. A principle is often zakened if applied in what seems to be a personal atter. The principle is none the less sound. Now that * idge Landis has decided to devote all his time and {his manifest ability to baseball, Congress woul! » well to guard against a repetition of the incident. The Nation cannot afford to colintenance part- ne courts as a regular thing. | NLARGING THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. Te news that work is to be begun on the long- awaited addition to the American Museum of itural History is not of a nature to excite Broad. ty. But it will make agreeble reading to ail who gard the further extension of this great cduca- mal institution as one of the best activities of vic development. Abram S. Hewitt was wont to y that it took ten years for New York to do iything. In fact, it is all of nine years since the undations were laid for the new wing io the useum, the construction of which is now assure! the appropriation by the Board of Estimate of ',500,000 for that purpose. The Museum of Natural History, equally wita 2 Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a monument » the combined private philanthropy and public irit of New York acting in co-operation for the ablishment of a splendid educational foundation. 1¢ Natural History Museum, indeed, is in many spects unrivalled in the world. Its collections &, ver practically “* manifestation of nature, and | __THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1922,’ therein the story of mankind can be read more comprehensively than anywhere else. The new addition will provide space for the di play of collections whidi have remained unseen by the public for many years. Apart from the re- lief it gives to the museum's cramped facilities for exhibition, it is certain further to popularize ils appeal as a great public university. “THE BREAK IN THE WIRE.” HERE is something seriously wrong when in the space of a few days three General Sessions Juriges are forced to “excuse” two juries for failure to convict and also find it necessary to administer stern rebuke to talesmen who declare they would not believe the testimony of a policeman. What menacing microbe has attacked the attitude of citizens toward the law? Judge Talley supplies one frank answer. He says: “Practically every man called for jury duty nowadays is willing to violate the Pro- hibition Law, and he knows all his friends are willing to do the same thing. That in itself is the breaking down, in one spot at least, of the respect for the law which every citizen should have, “Once that respect for the law is shattered, a breakdown all along the line is not extraor- dinary. It is exactly like a break in a wire conducting electricity. Although the air is charged with electricity and power houses are working overtime, one break in the wire and connection is destroyed.” Judge Talley is not alone in his view of the effect of Nation-wide Prohibition upon popular respect for law. He has some of the highest judicial opinion in the country to back him. Only two weeks ago Associate Justice John H. Clarke of the United States Supreme Court said in an address delivered in this city: “The Eighteenth Amendment required miil- fons of men and women to abruptly give up habits and customs of life which they thought not immoral or wrong, but which, on the contrary, they believed to be necessary to their reasonable comfort and happiness, and thereby, as we all now see, respect not only for that law but for all law has been put to an unprecedented and demoralizing strain in our country, the end of which it is difficult to see.” What will be the end unless something is done iv modify a law which even Judges admit is contrary to the reason and common sense of the average man, and which therefore puts a dangerous ani! increasing strain upon popular respect for all law? Those who are hunting for a way to pay a soldiers’ bonus turn more and more toward legalize! wines and beer. The bonus is the big temporary argument. But the permanent arguments for light wines and beer rest upon far-reaching questions of civic sound- ness and endurance. The present weakening of popular respect for lav. is one of the worst shadows that ever darkened the country’s future. The steady growth of the evil is attested from a"! sides. It cannot be ignored. Its chief cause is manifest. ; Honest interpretation of the term “intoxicating liquors” to exclude light wines and beer offers a way to promote true temperance and get back to respect for law. It is the one practical and immediate means of restoring the connection which, as Judge Talley says, has been destroyed. It is the one safe, quick way to mend the broken wire, Of Senator Lodge, Chairman Hull of the Democratic National Committee says: “His tor- tuous course in politics is most remindful of that of Catiline.” With all respect to Mr. Hull, it needs a Cicero to do the subject exact justice TWICE OVERS. ce Tit Eighteenth Amendment was adopled and ratified by @ larger proportion of the States than any other amendment to the Constitution. It is therefore entitled to proportionately greater respect by the majority than.any other.”"—Wayne B. Wheeler . + # “cc 1 N my earlier years I suffered from dyspepsia and it forced me to a meagre diet of simple foods. As a result I saved my stomach and have the use of it now.”"—Dr. Stephen Smith on his 99th birthday. * * * SCL ONELINESS is the absence of something you wished for, the loss of something you loved.” —Arthur Stringer. oy Manes 66] AM a ‘rookie’ at this game, (baseball) my- self.” —Baseball Commissioner Landis, . . * “ce HILE 1 hope I have grown in wisdom, | realize that I have grown old in years.” Uncle Joe Cannon. “ * 6 ‘e Y Lord, man! I have enough troubles without @ husband.” —Mary Garden, | fintaed 5 VE MPERANCE NOY SS ~, PROHIBITIO ———_ 4 en iness Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), Hy Presa Publishing Co, By John Cassel | | Say much in few wonls. Are They? To the Editor of The Evening World I note that th ate Board of New York cl no emer= gency exists in the and that there ts apartments, I they furnish to The u list of four-room a heated, that may be = condition of modern t that) World | urtments, steam | rented for $35 a would Kivenin| month. ‘That is $5 more than I paid | for my apartment in 1915, but for| which I am now compe to pay $50. If the Real Estate Board will furnish that information I am sure that a great many people, myself in- cluded, will be very grateful to them. This is trom one whose salary has not been increased since 1915 but whose rent has increased to the amount of $20 per month. D. SINCLAIR New York, Feb. 11, 1922 Cold Wave Coming! To tho Editor of The Evening World Regarding the cold waves of Dee. 81, 1917, and Web. 5, 1918, the writer, ina letter to you @ few days prior to the latter date, predic the cold wave of the litter dute and atttributed the low extremes of temperature on both dates to the fact that the planat Venus was then geocentrically tran- the position Uranus in the jog l chart erected for the mo- | ment f the winter solstice on Dee. 21, 1917, at 4.38 A.M, Washington, |p. C. Following the cold wave your | paper cited an interyi with a local | professor of astronomy, who voiced an emphatic denial that planets have anything whatever to do with the weather However, we are content to be guided by our own observations rather than by opinions of scientists who, apparently lave nev at- tempted to give the mutter a fair in- vestigation On Feb. 24 V will transit } Uranus in this ang it did four | years ago, and this combination will be ominous ef lower temperatures than any experienced since such period, this being particularly appli- cable to the northern ar On the 26th a new moon at 1.39 Pe Ma Washington, D. ©., occurs directly over this place of Uranns, thus ac- centuating the cold wave which will be prolonged until after the 28th. when the sun finally transits the ac- tual position of Uranus at that time. Thus do the moon and sun represent the time markers. According to this chart Uranus will be at a direct ang to the earth ove 69 degrees longitude, thus Mtralizing he weather disturbances in that centre, but most logically over the northern areas and off the coast of New! Foundland. Some interesting ne wa in} jshipping circles about t time, if| not some u water= | fronts \ By way of diversion for those wh, | prefer knowing when to select an @| & \f From Evening World Readers What kind of lette:; doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine ment! exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. spicious time tor a vacation, we may idd that on Aug. 7 extreme of temperature will ched, a record hot wave being presaged for dateand in all probability mark- the hottest day of the summer, The planct Saturn, near the Equator during most of the summer, will in- cline to lower temperature than the average, tl ps of tem- perature being more noticeable as the moon makes its weekly nsit over the Equator or the tropics. The fore- going, we believe, should be quite suf- ient data by which sceptical minds may investigate for themselves whether planets do influence the gen- eral conditions of the atmosphere AN ASTROLOGIAN, York, Feb. 17, 1922. New Prevention First. To the Editor of The Evening World The sound statement that preven- tion is far preferable to cure is no- where of more accurate applicability than in respect to matters affecting the public health—in whieh tubereu- losis is So conspicuous an clement. The quality of food supplied in our city—especially that of the three ut essential foods, milk, bread and butt is of the very highest impor- tance. In this connection it is well ty emphasize, in the put interest, the following recent statements, off- cially made by Dr. Louis I. Harris, « ctor of the bureau of preventable diseases in the New York Department ot Health “It is monary reportable, a valuable m unfortunate that non-pul forms of tuberculosis are not On this account we lose ure of the efficacy of the urization of milk, and of th daw done by the troasmiesion bovine tuberculosis through the use of unpasteurized butter and thro the sale of * * milk. Unfortu- nately, the sale of ‘loose’ milk, whieh has trequently been shown to have a definite relationship to the incidence ot typhoid aS well as to bovine tuberculosis, 1 nt been eliminated in this city * * The sale of ‘loose’ milk, always a potential source of danger, not only from the stand- point of typhoid fever infection but of other communicable and of diar- mhoeinited. Pa eaias ke eo ) 99| | It was observed by the ancients and Deere cram iduersulaala inet That sa act is mentioned by Aristotle, Saussure ty were out down 38 per cent in | observed it in the Alps in 1760, and L021 as against 1 That is en- By Albert P. Southwick || Cavt Rows found it extending aver & couraging, Yet the i copyright, 1922, (The New York Evening] | range of cliffs on the shores of Bat- peel An im ante en far) }icopy tenia) by reas Publishing Co. | fins Bay for a length of eight miles scourge Is, naturally, the throwing | “Tom Tidler’s Ground” is the re-| re o. 8 i . all possible safeguards around our! sort o ant Ae af MRT ted Snow is caused by the presence Pateipnls ve pRord gh Senemen dev, { Of innumerable plants belonging to : rom! of New York we shai)! THe expression occurs in Dickens's) tne order of Algae, to which Sir Will be glad to give helpful: informatic hristmas Story of 1861. Tidler ‘8 @| iam Hooper gave the name of pal without cha sone W ay {contraction of ‘the idler’ into] meila nivalis. Chambers clapae- | ng culosis, | 4 * phere is an English school-|dia states: “The red snow plant, in NEW YORK CUBERCULOSIS aR Re Sib be i \its mature state, consists of brilliant \ \TION »y game bearing this name | globules, like fine garnets, seated on, No. 10 Bast 89th § | ee |but not immersed in, a gelatinous Fav, 18, 4922, Lats Paradoxical an it may segme pore! mass” i any pe UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE MAN WHO WEARS OUT. It is the grindstone that wears down the steel, not the steel the grindstone. ‘The knives in the plane in smoothing the plank lose but little of their edge compared to the im- pression they make upon the plank. There is always wear in life and labor, but the tools that are selected for their pur- wear far Jess than those which are picked up and em- d haphazard. You will often read in obituary notices of men who have worn themselves out by hard work. In nine cases out of ten it was not hard work but inability to do the sort of work they attempted which wore them out. The man who is suited to his job enjoys it, and enjoyment of work is an excellent lubricant. The man who doesn't understand his job and who is afraid that he cannot do it well is the man who continually worries and who rapidly wears down. The work is harder ri than the man, If you want to live long (as most people do), take for your life work something you like todo AND THEN LEARN HOW TO DOIT. The competent man doesn't need to worry, He knows that the job isn’t going to beat him. He does not hesitate to begin it because of his fear that he will begin it in the wrong way and flounder aimlessly through the day. He tackles it with confidence because he has mastered his trade, And the day, instead of being beset with difficulties and exasperations, 1s merely pleasant progress toward further development. Nothing is so enjoyable as doing effective work which you know how, to do and to do well. Nothing is more satisfactory than the evening's rest after a good job has been well done, If you have ever seen a competent workman sit back and look at a completed task you know how little the doing of it has taken out of him. The discontented, the overstrained, the nervous wrecks are men who do not know how to do things, yet try to do them just the same. Don’t be one of them. Don't spend your whole life in unavailing efforts to do what other men do easi- ly. The friction, the unnecessary work, not the actual work, will wear you out and leave you exhausted and spent and de- pendent upon others for support at a time of Bfe when your brain and your usefulness to mankind should be at their highest. is such a phenomenon as red snow. Liberators —Oor— | Ireland | By Bartlett Draper | come as te tetra Poe = FF | XIV.—"THE FATHER OF SIN! FEIN.” | If Sinn Kein is the mother of erated Ireland, it can be said historic that Arth Griffith is the fatherof Sinn Fein Ithe force that focused public op ion in Iretand and concentrated energies of its people on the |achievement which is now an {nt | national fact. It was the brain and the pen Arthur Griffith that contributed much as any single factor to ti clearing of the issue between Engl and Ireland and made that achle' ment possible. It is said of Griffith that he ran of™@! equal justice | of names for his series of newspareray™ | successively seized, confiscated, supa 1 in 1899, with the establishment of tg” {United Irishman, Griffith — spol compromise the doctrines that qi | educating the will of the Jrish peopl tr Irishman, struck the following ‘<eyg™e* note in his leading editorial in thg™ fe ‘pressed or repressed. But, beginning ‘clearly, unfalteringly and witha Griffith, an editor of the Unita | initial number: “There exists, has existed for ce es and will continue to exist land a conviction hostile to | subjection or dependence of the foi tunes of this country to the nec sities of any other. We intend voice that conviction.” After the United Irishman had lo twenty-three issues by seizure in t Post Office, and had been three timd publicly suppressed in 1900, it die in the spring of 1906, and Sinn Fel | #rose from the ashes of its inciners tion It was in Sinn Fein that Griff wrote on the outbreak of the war: “We regard no enemy of En jland as an enemy of ours. It Grattan, the greatest of our coi | tutional leaders, who declared that: the interests of the empire clash | with the liberties of Ireland, then and every other Irishman would saj ‘Live Ireland—perish the empire.”” | ‘That was plain language. It wi | designed to show to Englishmen only basis upon which friendsh could bridge the gap of the Irish Sei It was the finger of Arthur Griffit in his remarkable little book, H hesurrection of Hungary; a Paral | for Ireland," that pointed out to Irish people the policy of rigid aq herence to the restoration of their nm: tional life that has resulted in thi memorable treaty of 1921. It was by a policy of uncompro mising non-paticipation in the defens of the Hapsburg Empire, when th empire was sore beset, that Frame’ Deak had forced upon the Hmpe nz Josef the restoration of the pudiated Constitution of 1848. A sig lar policy Griffith urged upon countrymen as the only means for restoration of the repudiated I Constitution of 1782 and the relat etween Ireland and England whi it implied. It was the hand of A Grifid as much as that of David Lio: George, that wrote the tre vi You and Your Mind By ANDRE‘TRIDON NO. XX.—SEMI-VOLUNTAR ACCIDENTS. ¢ I told in a previous article how accidentally upset a cup of coffd whic.. I should not have ordered ai which it would have been silly for o to drink. ‘This is the sort of accide which I consider as semi-volunta| and due to a distinct wish in ouy u conscious. Once while walking on Fifth Av nue, I was discussing this theory wi a very sceptical young man. In fro of a large store ho collided with woman, apologized and passed on, avoided making any remark. Fi minutes later a new collisign—t woman Was jolted so soverely tHat 6 dropped her bag, which my, frie picked up and returned to her, wit thousand protestations of his sorro} &c. Then I felt the time had. com to call his attention to the fact th within five minutes he had manag to collide with two extremely pret women. He sheepishly confessed that was doing that all the timo.” “4 to absent-minded,"” he added. Ho not absent-minded enough, howey as he finally came to see, to coll with old women or with men, ‘A patient one day called mo up-© celling her appointment, because had fallen down the stoop of .§ house. lipped on something! I just seemed tog at were you doin just reading a lette letter along next you come ‘Ten days later her ankle was b and she came limping and support herself on a cane. Why did you to die the other day?" I asked, *Dot be stupid,” she answered “Did you bring me that tette: asked, “I forgot,’’ and she blushi For a few minutes she lied gam but my stubbornness broke her sistance and she told me everything Just as she left the house t! morning the postman handed her few letters. There was one letter opened at once. The opening land cutting that she felt, lit, as though she were going to She fell and dislocated her ankle. partly successful attempt at suit | 4lso a clever unconscious trick to} |cure sympathy, an end served |well by alf neurotic diseases. family was extremely sympath and as ‘he’ was not a brute, he called, bringing endearing words more comfort. | dconrrisns