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| ee oy ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podiiehed Datiy Except Sunday by The Preas Publishing Company. Noa. §8 to 63 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULITZHR, President. 63 Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULIT@ER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PHEss. Tee Anroctated Prem te exctustvely entitied to the mre fer republication fol news Gespatchen credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local mews published heretm NO COMPROMISE. HE Lockwood committee now seems assured of a new lease of life. The rent laws are likely to be continued. Tax exemption for nine years is anticipated, So far, so good, as regards tie housing prospect. The split is likely to come on the legislation to au- thorize insurance companies to build homes to rent at $9 a room or less. The “leaster lobby” is well organized and de- termined. It is not going to lose a bit more than it can help. If it cannot defeat the whole housing programme, it will defeat as much as possible. if the rent laws and exemption are assured, the lobby will gladly “trade” all its strength for opposition to only one or two proposals. Legislative friends of the tenants will not trade. They will insist on the whole programme, includ- ing new and cheap housing on a large scale by in- suranee companies. Nine-dollar-a-room competition is as welcome to tenants as it is unwelcome to rent gougers. New York City expects its every Senator and ‘Assemblyman to vote right on all the measures. DRIVE IT HOME. T COST the thirty-four lives lost in the Roma disaster to concentrate attention on the failure of Congress to recognize the importance of helium gas as a safety factor in lighler-than-air aviation. Helium is non-inflammable. If the Roma had been filled with helium instead of hydrogen there would have been no explosion and fire to cut off the last chance of escape for those who came down with the ill-fated airship. If the Roma had been filled with helium, ber crew might have come through with only miner injuries instead of meeting horrible death in burn- ing hydrogen. The safety value of helium was perfectly weil known to the aviation experts and to Congress. The smaller C-7 was filled with helium. Enough natural gas is going to waste every day to produce large quantities of helium. There are Government helium plants in Texas to make helium. There are Government tanks there in which to store helium. The reason there was not enough helium to fill the Roma was because Congress last year reduced the proposed $400,000 appropriation for heliuan production, which the Senate had approved, to $250,000. The Nation is rich enough to develop the lighter- than-air branch of aeronautics without weighing the cost of helium gas against human life. If the Roma disaster has not impressed Congress- men with this truth, the country should drive it home. Tt Is a strango way im which Col. Patrick goes about defending Congress for its failure to provide for adequate helium production. He says: “The Roma disaster would have happened just the same had the ship been filled with helium instead of hydrogen. It is true, how- ever, that in all probability the loss of life might not have been so great.” Does Col. Patrick mean to imply that since the ship could not have been saved, a few lives more or less do not matter? A THANKLESS TASK. chee tiee and adjusting the debt owed to the United States by the European nations is a necessary duty. But for the “five men chosen for the job it is ‘almost certain to be a thankless one. Almost inevitably the result of the work of the committee will come under the fire of divers na- tional prejudices and sympathies. Whatever the commission does is certain to be “bad politics.” Senator Smoot and Representative Burton are supposed to have the backing of constituencies that will “stand without hitching.” Mr. Mellon is not credited with political ambitions hinging on popular votes. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hoover are the two ap- pointees in public life likely to be most seriously affected by public clamor and criticism. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hoover are also regarded as the two members of the Cabinet most likely to be considered Presidential timber in 1924. If President Harding has the usual aspiration to succeed himself, fate has been kind to him in mak- ing Hughes and Hoover the logical choices for this debt-refunding job. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE CONFERENCE, ONGRESS seems determined to get the army and navy back to pre-war strength. The es- timated saving is $275,000,000 a year, or neaily $15 off the tax bill of the average family. Some of this saving is directly traceable to the naval “'scrapping” agreed on at the Washington Conference. This applies to the personnel of ihe navy. Scrapping approximately a third of the standing army is in the spirit of the conferen:e, although not a direct result. Because the nations were able to agree on trou —————— | blesome questions, the United States feels safer in following a natural desire to reduce the army aud save that expense. It is hoped the other powers will fall in line and reduce accordingly. If they do, it may prove possible to reduce even further. The spirit behind this movement grew out of the Washington Conference. Creation of this feeling alone would have been an outstanding achievement. The conference put a check to the naval phase cf competition for war-like ends. It gave an oppor- tunity for competition in peacefulness. The Nation will rejoice that in this kind of com- petition, at least, Congress seems inclined to take a lead. WHY MORE? T HE fight is on in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over the question of reservations to the Four-Power Treaty, The old struggle against “alliance,” “moral obligation” and “commitment to use armed forces” begins again, Three years and a change of Administration have not abated Sena- torial jealousy and cantankerousness in the presence of a treaty submitted by the Executive. Under the circumstances it is natural for mem- bers of the Foreign Relations Committee to try to keep the wrangle as far as may be behind closed doors, Human nature is human nature, certain mem- ories are still fresh and comparisons are odorous, Meanwhile, the Constitution of the United States continues to read as it read before the Versailles Treaty. The Constitution of the United States continues (Art. 1, sec. 8, paragraphs 11-14) to reserve to Con- gress the right to declare war, to raise and support armies, to provide and maintain a navy and to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces. The Constitution of the United States continues to be an open document with which no other Gov- ernment in the world could afford not to be familiar when it entered into any agreement or treaty with the Government of the United States, The Constitution of the United States makes it plain that obligation to use the armed forces of the United States must always be contingent upon the decision of Congress, which decision may in turn be expected to represent the opinion and will of a majority of the people of the United States as they react mentally and morally to the exigencies of a situation that may suggest the use of armed force. Under the Four-Power Treaty the Government of the United States would be bound to show its interest in keepirg the peace in the Pacific to the extent of consulting with three other nations in case peace were threatened. The rights and wrongs of such a situation would be judged by public opinion in the United States. That public opinion would be the chief influence in determining the attitude of Congress as to what action, if any, the United States should take. With what reservation, then, need the United States Senate ratify the Four-Power Treaty beyond the simple indorsement: Interpreted in the light of the Constitution of the United States. Why more? ‘Thugs Give Victims Carfare; Assure Woman She's Safe."—Headline. There! Doesn't that prove all Commissioner Enright. has said about the safety and big- heartedness of New York? ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. We should think hold-ups were plenty enough with- out inventing them. Josh Billings once remarked: “When you strike ile, quit boring. Some keep on until it all runs out on the other side.” Wall Street shows signs of over- boring. . Chicago opera has collapsed. Why not radio the squeals from the stock yards as a substitute? . Senator Calder says he will vote against the bouus | until all the wounded are cared for. In other words, he will not stand up until he sits down! . Where does all the money asked. go is @ question ofien Most of it appears to go into holes SARA, THE SEMPSTRESS. Or, Love in the Sweatshop—A Tale of New York, (Continued.) CHAPTER IY, Having missed the black mark Sara ventured to smile at Morris—it was smile week and so what was the harm? Morris knew better; “Get wise, Sara Simonson,” he said severely. “Don'd grin at me. that you ain't vorking by the piece; belongs to the business, vork! How harsh it all meant to be kindly! (To Be Continued.) ! Nefer forget all your time Put your mint on your sounded When she THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24,,1922, teeny By John Cassel that giv Edison and People. To the Editor of The Evening World: “E, J. A.,” writing to you in a re | cent issue, criticises you for not dis- playing Edison’s remarks about ight wines, and beer. Do the newspapers and periodicals controlled pr influenced by the Anti-Saloon League ‘‘feature’’ the views of great men or women who | eppose Prohibition? Do they display the many stories of deaths by wood _aleohol or the other vices created by | the Volstead Act, such as gambling, drug habits, ruin of young girls in | automobile parties, home brew par- ties, ete.? Besides, what does Edison know | about the people in general? He has | undoubtedly the greatest inventive mind in the world and is a great sci- entist and mechanic, but, judging from the fact that he works about eighteen hours a day—and sleeps the other six—is it possible for him to be really acquainted with social condl- tions? One may be a good electrician but a mighty poor psychologist. M, F. E. To the Editor of The Evening World: The “chicken” problem in to-night’s issue is so simple that it is silly, A is correct. If 11-2 chickens lay 11-2 eggs in 11-2 days, 11-2 chickens will lay 1 egg in 1 day and 1 1-2 chickens will lay 6 eggs in 6 days. Therefore, 6 chickens will eges in 6 days, or 4 per day. And 6 chickens will lay 28 eggs in 1 days. Simple, eh? lay 24 Ae Surplos English Women. | To the Editor of The Evening World: The colossal impudence of not only your reporter but also one whom you refer to as a dignified visitor in the | person of Mr, E. Phillips Oppenheim, is not only an insult to English wom- anhood and American manhood, but is a degrading aspect of what might happen if only such persons were brave enough to voice their in- ner thoughts and powerful or shrewd enough to put into practice their luwly conceptions. “What ure you going to do with your 2,000,000 surplus women?" asks | your reporter of this brilliant novel- ist. ‘Send them over here? Mr. Oppenheim's reply is: “But we'd be perfectly willing to spare you 1,000,- 000 of our women, only I'm afraid AmeMcan men would not have) them Mr, Editor! What a terrific insult to English womantiood this is, American men would not want u bthink the em wou own Amer- Past au choice irrespective of what the jean men would say or think, From Evening World Readers | | What kind of Jette do you find 1..0st readable? Isn’t it the one the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mentul exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in few wonls. Take time to be brief. selection on the part of American men is rather complimentary, to Eng- lish girls. No doubt English girls were traded to slaye buyers a century or 80 ago, but it is very obvious that civiliza- tion is moving onward. Our women of to-day, English or American, are not going to be bar- tered like so much merchandise, even if, as Mr. Oppenheim flauntingly re- marks, ‘1,000,000 can be willingly spared from England." England's greatest social is far removed from its surplus women. We know well what the trouble is, it is being dinned into our heads so constantly by such men as the ostentatious Mr. Oppenheim that it has become tiring. these famous, clever and dignified men give the tired, stricken world a concrete plan to get out of this “hangover? Surely we would wel- come it, but when they talk of spar- ing England’s women it is time to revolt. Let Mr. Oppenheim give us the remedy or cease this awful cry of what is wrong with the world, and while womanhood is climbing to loftier levels let him and your re- porter understand that England is proud of all her daughters and the average Englishman, even if lonized in America, would not make such in- tolerable reference to the disposal of his surplus sisters, A DAUGHTER OF LAND. P, S.—Their reference to polygamy, I think, is brutally common, problem “To Get Back On Our Feet,” To the Editor of The Evening World: In reply to the “St. Mihiel-Argonne Vet.” who wrote he resigned from the American Legion because {ts mem- bers are in favor of the bonus, I beg to*state that in seeking a bonus we are not putting money above putriot- ism but trying for a chance to get back ‘‘on our feet"; that is, where we were when We gave up our jobs to enlist. Perhaps that particular veteran ts one of the few lucky ones who had his job open for him when he came back, As for me I have had about ten different ones since my return, At present I am idle and have been for the last three months. Have to shovel snow to support my wife and child. It must be that he is not affected by the hard times and I would like to toll him he is not showing much patri- | otism by going against his former buddies. At the front we all stuck | together? why not new, when so pany of us would benesit bs ‘This time last year 1 compensation of on wennded ppl vor Mibiel, \ VETERAN OF CHATEAU THIER RY, , ARGORAL, ST, MIHLEL, Why do not | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) LOOK CLOSELY AT DISCOURAGEMENTS. The particular mountain range you are climbing may be high and rocky and hard to ascend, But it happens to stand between you and where you are going. You know that others have crossed the same range. If they have done so you can, You know that when they had crossed it they found easier going and had far less trouble and worry about their progress, You naturally want to be as they are. Still, there is the mountain range reaching straight up 13 toward the skies with not a path visible anywhere. You are tempted to walk up and down and look for a place where there are no mountains. If you can find one, all right. Take it. But the engineers who built the railroads across the American continent did the same thing. They could find no way across without mountains, So they did the next best things. They approached the mountains. began actually to climb them. And by and by they found passes which, while still mountainous, were far better going-than the rocky, rugged places. And through those passes they built the railroads. If you will look closely at these mountain ranges of discouragement you will find passes in them somewhere. The passes may be difficult climbing, but at least they will enable you to cross the range. And the nearer you get to the range the more passes you will see, and the easier it will be for you to select the best and safest one, You will only do that after you begin to climb, Discouragements a little way off look like mountains do little way off. They present a solid front like a barrier, You could stand and look at them a lifetime and never believe they were passable. Walk up to them, examine them closely, and they will break up into hills and valleys, and there will always be a way up one of the valleys, Life is never all plains or all hard, high road. One of its glories is that there are mountains to be scaled. Don't be frightened when the mountains loom before you, Walk up to them and begin to climb, and over you will go. Went close to them, Popish successor will be over the left shoulder.” “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1 ‘The New York Evening Worldy ress Publishing Co, eee Among stupid boys was Aquinas, who was eaile “The Dumb Ox." ¥ # dull schoo! he and many oth prominence. St. Thomas at school, siter Scott was wast Lord Byron mein who rose | the left," expression “over ) is usually thought to be mod- whi * 8 8 ern slane, is really sanctioned by the} “The Wondrous was a sine out 240 years, Julian the| phrase collectively to the Apostite wrote in 168 Pitt and *What the] English statesmen ves and! Burke by Lord Byron in bh of a op the Death of Sheridan, Pre ‘fortunes spent in sion gets by the) servi Lestamt re Monody = Blue Law Persecution By Dr. 8. E. St. Amant. IN PENNSYLVANIA, A constable of Hilltown, Pa., feea fing it to be his duty to magnify his office by prosecuting Sabbatare fans for working cn Sunday, did some sleuth work, spying out violators o@ the old blue laws of 1794. The two sons of Irwin Fisher, wha is a strict observer of the seventh) day, were cutting corn in a hollow back of the woods. The peace of ne one was being disturbed. The cone stable, unable to sec them work from the public highway but suspecting that work was being done by them, walked back of the woods, Though without a warrant he arrested the two boys. On tha Sabbath. (Saturday) fole lowing the notification of the arrest —the day which is observed as holy time by Mr. Fisher—the constable appeared at the latter's house to cole lect $4 in fines and $1.36 additional for mileage, and atated that if they refused to pay the fine and costs hé would lock them up in jail at once, Mr. Fisher. was away doing mission4 ary work on this day, and the cone stable demanded of Mrs. Fisher, wha was at home but without any money, that she borrow the money. He des clared that he would charge them double the amount if he had to re turn on Monday to collect the fing and costs. The terrified woman went tog@ neighbor and succeeded in getting enough money to mect the con stable’s demand, The officer knew that the Fishers observed this day sacredly and conscientiously as the Sabbath, yet he wilfully disturbed their peace and compelled them to transact this secular’ business fom him on that day. Upon taking the case before anothew tribunal by Mr. Fisher, It was diseovs ered that the officious officer had made the arrest without warrant and had collected fines and costs without authority, He was thereupon re~ quired to return the money he had collected. Crestfallen and vindictivey he waited, however, until the follows ing Sabbath (Saturday)—the day, which is sacredly observed by Mry Fisher—to return the money. “I do not do business on this day,"’ the lat« ter sald to the officer, ‘‘and you know it.’* Consistency, thou are a jewel! Here was a constable prosecuting a man who had rested on Saturday, because he worked on Sunday—the day the constable professed to observe—bus not to the disturbance of any person's rest; and then, on the other hand, this same constable twice deliberately, tries to disturb the rest of the man who observed another day than Sun- day as holy time. This is how Sunday laws operaté | when administered by unscrupulous | men in authority who are actuated | more zeal than principle. Sunda; {laws were put upon the statute books | for no other purpose than to be used as a club to force the dissenter and nonconformist jnto line with the n- ligious views and opinions of the Sunday observer. There is no equality or justice im |such legislation, ‘The Sabbatarian has just as much right to work six days and rest on the seventh as the Sunday, observer has to rest on the first day, of the week and work the other alx days, Any one who questions thie right should read the decision of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma thereom —__—>—_ Psychoanalysis ||| You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON No, XXIIL—WHY DO WE APPLAUD? Appluuse is destined to pass out of fashion some day. Some of the Chau tauqua assemblies have abolished that barbarous form of self-expression and replaced it by a silent waving of handkerchiefs, which may not be very sanitary but is less noisy. It is especially at concerts that the custom of applauding an artist or « selection appears most ridiculous and aradoxical, Very often a selection will end on a delicate pianissimo, the last chords dying off in an almost in« audible whisper. A wonderful atmos~ phere of dream or tenderness hag been created by sheer artistry, and suddenly all the vulgarians rush in and tear that magic fabric to tatters, They wake us up out of our dream with one of the ugliest noises ever produced. Can we say that such noise makers aro music lovers? Hard~ ly. In fact, real music lovers are toe absorbed in their enjoyment to ape plaud. Most of them remain silenty We do not applaud an artist bee cause we love him and wish to pleasd him. We applaud him because wa envy him or wish to attract attention, The real artist, the convincing speak~ er, the gifted actor, hold us under their spell—one thing we resent. occupy the stage while we sit In the audience, anonymous, Unnoticed—ans other annoying detail, We are come pelled to listen silently, although we imagine we have many things to says Artists do things we could never d@ as well, hence, they’make us fee} in~ fertor. ‘When they stop, however, we take our revenge. We manifest our pres« ence through a lot of noise, we lef out the craving for motion we rea pressed during the performance, We may be unable to play the violin, but by our immoderate shouting and handelapping we wish to notify thd world that we can at least judge and appreciate good violin playing. When we applaud a sentence which in soma one's speech tickles our vanity wa cannot help notifying the speaker that we too had thought of that. At times I have caught in the face of vociferous music lovers an almos# cruel look, I felt as though their ap« plause was an attempt at destroying the spell woven by a marvelous art« ist, ut regaining their freedom from. the thraldom of his genius and pree venting bim from epalaving others, f