The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 10

Che CSNY Borlo, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | — Pudlistied Daily Execpt Gunday by The Pross Publishing Company. Nos, 58 to €8 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZOR, Preetdent, ¢3 Park Row. + J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOBEPH PULITSUR Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. {Tae Amociated Press te exctusively entitied to the use for republication ‘All news Goapatchen credited to tt or not otherwise credited In this paper and ateo Ge loa mews pablished herein, WORTH THE RISK? A SAMPLE, made public yesterday, of the let- ters that pour in on Congress urging legal- ized ‘light wines and beer was the following from a Pennsylvania woman: “As the mother of several sons and five daughters and interested in the cause of real temperance, I write to protest against the present Prohibition Law. “Until the present time I never saw or heard of children, even those of the tender age of eight, playing they were making ‘hooch, and this is growing common, And older boys from twelve to seventeen are suc- cessfully brewing and drinking vile concoc- tions, and some of them getting drunk. “1 am thoroughly satisfied that unless the law 1s so modified as to legalize beer and wine, we will surely be rearing a Nation of drunkards and criminals.” Too little note has been made of the inevitable * effect upon the rising generation of a law which they see their elders violate as a joke. It may not make drunkards of them. But as- suredly it will not strengthen their respect for law in general or help them to grow up better citizens. Temperance cannot be enforced by tyranny. When tyranny takes a hand, reason and common sense revolt. Adults find tt impossible to take seriously a sumptuary law which strikes at a kind of personal freedom that most of them are capable of exercis- ing with wisdom and moderation. ‘When adults laugh at a law, there is grave dan- ger the young will leam to laugh not only at that | law but at all law. Nor is it any use trying to prove the fault is with older persons who fail to set a proper exam} 'lc in their attitude toward present Prohibition law. When a law is of such a nature that otherwise law-abiding, temperate citizens of highest standing gi a lar law save by doing violence to their own ma- tured judgment of what is reasonable and jus “Reason,” declared the great British jurist, Sir Edward Coke, “is the life of law; nay the com- mon law itself is nothing else but reason.” Present Prohibition law is not reason. The incontestable proof is in the number and character of those who cannot accept it as reasor. That is why, as it stands and as long as it stands, it is a menace in its influence on old-and young. i. That is why no less an authority than an Associ- ate Justice of the highest court in the Nation re- cently referred to present Prohibition law as hav- ing put upon all law in this country “an unprece- dented and demoralizing strain, the end of which it is difficult to see.” Is it proving itself worth the risk? “What Congress needs is a publicity agent,” Representative Griffin of New York tells his fellow-members, But Mr. Griffin evidently does not share in that need. He has adopted the cafeteria or self-service plan. A TICKLISH LEAD. COUTS from the medical profession have yone out into the land of chiropractic and reported | fake symptoms. Obhiropractors have jabbed at their vertebrae dnd discovered “subluxations” which defy the X-ray. The patients have been advised to return for more of the same. Finally the spokesmen of the medical profession made public the results of this “test” of chiropractic as it is found im some “schools” in New York. This may be convincing evidence against the chiropractors, but it does seem that the orthodox “medics” ventured on a dangerous kind of “investigation.” What is to prevent chiropractic scouls from lowing the lead marked out by the orthodox? Is it not possible that chiropractic students may go to licensed practising physicians, lie about symptoms, escape detection and walk off with pre- scriptions which will do no good and may do harm? Are orthodox physicians likely to charge any { smaller fees than those reported at the chiropractic | clinics? \ On the other hand, might it not be possible for the same scout to go to different physicians and get different @iagnoses as to the ailments afflict- ing him? The evddence gathered by the medices may and repute are unable to comply with that particu- | fault is not with the citizens but with the law. | business failures are few and far between. { convinee legislators, but questions such as we have suggested are pretty certain to crop out in other quarters and to do more harm than good in the long run. APAROLE THAT WILL BEAR WATCHING. ‘OHN T. HETTRICK has served his term in the penitentiary and has been released on parole. It is not a release by favoritism, for when Justice McAvoy imposed sentence he recommended one year imprisonment and two years on good be- havior. But the question may well be raised as to whether the Parole Board is a competent judge of what constitutes good behavior in the case of such | a smooth customer as Hettrick has proved himself to be. | For some time it was generally believed thot Hettrick was within the law. Many of his con- federates acted on that assumption. It required expert investigation by the Lockwood committee to demonstrate the iniquity and illegality of Hettrickism. | With all respect to the Parole Board, New York- ers would feel safer if Hettrick were paroled under supervision of the Lockwood committee. New | York cannot afford a revival of Hettrickism in the | building trades. But perhaps the Lockwood committee has al- ready anticipated the dangers in Hettrick’s rélease. He surrendered on an old indictment yesterday, with the general impression that he will not be prosecuted if he behaves himself. . Score another count in favor of the Lockwoul investigation. NOT BEGINNING, BUT END. DOZEN firms have failed in the financial district within the week. Panics have been precipitated by less. Now, however, there is no evidence of panic, nor the slightest reason for panicky feelings. These failures did not mark the beginning of a financial disturbance, but rather the end. The failures are the result of past conditions, not a warn- ing of dangers to come. The fact that the “bucketing” disclosures of the last two or three weeks figured in these failures indi- cates that the patrons of these houses did not have full confidence in them. Almost any sort of a business, however inef- ficiently managed, can make a show of prosperity in a boom period of inflation. At such periods But when the deflation process gets under way it weeds out the inefficient and incompetent. Failures mul- tiply, but the ones who fail are the ones who under normal conditions would have failed much sooner. There may be other failures similar to those of this week, and when the list is complete the | business world will be so much the stronger and | safer for the more prosperous days already in sight. | | | A visitor from Indianapolis boasts that his city has two elghteen-hole golf courses snd one of nine holes, If this is a proper allow- ance, New York, in ratio of population, need: thirty long courses and fifteen short courses } New York needs the health-building bene | fits of golf as much as Indianapolis, but ihe opportunities are woefully lacking. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. | Elizabeth Robins Pennell says Prohibition end | Cold Storage between them have “dimmed the color | of life for the American”—meaning that one has | killed joy and the other flavor! Would it be going too far to remind Senator He ory Cabot Lodge that the Senate is off the Reservat on? . Another bucket shop trouble appears to be that their buckets will not hold wWhter—that being he chief element in the New York stock market, The movie managers announce that they propuse | to welcome Will Hays to his job with a dinner at | $10 per plate. We should think that on $150,000 a year William could feed himself and include bootteg, Now Col. Harvey has joined the all-red einpire Wurra! Wurra! Molasses is down to 7 cents a quart. How swea'! SARA, THE SEMPSTRESS. Or, Love in the Sweatshop—A Tale of New (Continued,) York, | CHAPTER Y. As she bent her head under the reproof, ber cheeks Lurned and really made her good-looking. The heart of the foreman softened. make amends “Miss Sara," he said gently. “If you will smile at me after 6 o'clock, I shall be pleased to «€-cip-ro- cate!” He would (The End.) | Convince Congress. striking the pavement To the Editor of The Evening World 1 benfire and no poli 1 am surprised that Prof. Charles by it Thaddeus Gerry should say that “the| | Sate fell aboking) Dread 7a Prohibition laws are on the statute ee Wha Otrered to sell me | books by the will of an overwhelming | skutes. | majority of our people.’ There were two luby carria How does he know? The United) ent of our stoop | M vy asked me to take a | i} THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1922. From Ever What kind of lette: do you find most readable? Isn't it the that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine ment! exercise and a lot of satisfaction ir tering to ‘ay much in few wonis. Take time to be brief. States Senators and Representative: wa fellow gazing in the window one str who voted to submit the Hightcenth 1 store. Amendment were not elected on the} My school M aicher passed down the State legislators who voted to ratify] his coffee. the amendment. I noticed that the fence in our yard | ‘There is nothing to show that a ma-| Y#® broken ROACSUATEHONNGN jority of the American people wanted) \ey york, Feb. 2h 1991. national Prohibition or the Volstead law. The only way to test por \ " 4 a ate sentiment is to submit the whole) ‘1, ¢) ken. endl a) hale probs question to a referendum of all the jem A is right. It takes thirty-si voters of the country. hours for one chicken to jay One: cas Prof, Gerry very properly insists oie gry Moraceae that the Volstead law should e,ther a be strictly enforced or repealed: But} Explaining the Bovas. how shall we repeal it? Is it not) To the Editor of The Bvenii 1a necessary that public .entiment shan! ! am a long tiny he aroused againat ® law.that has not|Paeer Ome Usually amin full: accond been ‘enforced, and that nover can be| Wilt your editorial expressions, How- enforced, in order to secure action by|°Vr> | Positively “don’t get you" as Congress? regards your attitude toward — the | Can we expect that the apathetic, an mianion Windies tnoreceee | 1 publ would do nothing to| : | going to exert itself to get rid of it? | others, are “all balled up’ in regard | ‘To convince Congress that the Vol-|to adjusted compensation, ‘This is {stead law is a monumental blunder| mainty vecause the unforty comes will require hard work und money. | was used when t Where can we get the money and the | “bonus” {people of the enormous devt culable) owed to the boys wh: The family upstairs went to chureh My father offered to take the rugsiis clear thinking @nd stitf ha the roof. 1 heard the sound of a baseball bat, at Washington Kt Brooklyn, Feb 23, 1223 to Sunday. Jup their liberty and placed the The butcher was talking to a cus-!ond time at the disporal of Unc! tomer about a motor boat jones spearie sh ated Hig L saw a fellow with bis iat EN Armenian taxiiion? pay his pants pockets pay it now, when the paymen. The coal shovel struck the floor) of peal value to the veterans. | when L tried to load it oat is idle to cite individual ¢ I could hear the Victrola from/arguing the merits of the ‘by yatter | was brought "p originally workers?’ WHIDDDN GRAHAM, | “Ss brougne up > Linh 4 | Spring In Coming: fines bonus" us “extva compensation | | To the Editor of The Evening World | beyond an amount agreed upon," tt 1s Here are the signs that indicated |a fact that a bonus Is usually classed ; lap a straight out-and-out gift, Any to me the coming of spring: fare a meage te iio on My mother was leaning out of the |Juetea compen: ey aN parlor window when T came home. | not be ; T rer’s cat was sitting | ne the the country is | The grocers cat wal Ung in U ee bn prene, G fhe eaunte yi [ceorway. to ma its’? to anyone. However, | Peow a girl with a (ur ne the strength behind the moyement fo: | The “LL conductor did not come in- | adjusted compensation comes from the |to the train between stations, realization among stra u linking (neal 0 & ir deb handle it, an will by n. | ses in onus, across the street. It is also idle and stupid to sa The fellow next me in the restau-|this country is unable to pay | rant ordered milk. ‘A bond issue, paying 5 per cent, | "T got a seat in the movies settle the problem. All that is yt same, would nevded ekbone « M iing World Readers Seulptot, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake RESPECT YOUR PRODUCT Whatever may be your business you are a producer--» You may be turning out valuable and high-miced legal pinions or fiction or medical shill. You may be manufacturing only low grade labor. Whatever it is, it is your product. And it is to your in lerest to improve it steadily and to believe in it. If you think that the work of your hands or of your brain is poor stuff, other veople are likely to think so. If you think i: rnd, you will have a better disposing of it in a good market—onc But you can't keep on disposing ice, unless it is really good mance ht -or That must not be a it at a good price your opinion alone You must get the judgment of others. You must KNOW that it is good. Respect what you do and the goods that you turn out, Believe in it. Don't be satistied with it. Work con stantly to improve the machinery employed in its manu faett The important part of that machinery is in your bead. In some callings, like Urose of the pianist or the painter or the wrefully trained muscles may help. But they are only the means by whieh the thor your brain are interpreted, It is your brain really t Even in work that is i call co-ording counts almost purely muscular it is what we ion that means skill. And co-ordination is in the brain, It is merely team work between the nerves that operate the different muscles—such excellent team w+ rk that one supports another. The great factories which turn out widely known pro- duets are the best conducted factories to be found anywhere. Their owners and managers have found out that only by making exeellent goods ean they be sure of an exeeltlent market. You must do the same with your product. If it is not ay wood as you want it to be, do all in your power to make it better, If itis low grad >. rebuild your machin urn out tot 1 high grade product. But always believe in it a+ well of it if you want it steadily to improve Copyright, 10 j by a dollar t on $ It is quite common for a man to pay $6 for an article when an equally good one could be bought elsewhere for $5. What is a dollar? | People ave in the habit of spending have $53.05 two and §2 dollars carelessly MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. (New York Evening World) ess Publishing Co. $1. t can, therefor nount to a worthwhile sum. We can create | | |by buying carefully From ihe Wise. { flirt is like dipper tached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away. —N. P. Wills. without thought. As a mat fact it is the return tor one day | 7 « 100 invested at 6 per cent Thus he loses what would be the equivalent of a day's income on $6,100, This happens at least once al — Gening does what it must; and wonks If a as ashes soley sey tatent does what it can put them in a savin; \ 7 4 per cent, interest a year he would “Owen Mesedith ‘ many worthwhile |sums, not by depriving ourselves but at- } | Ul TURNING THE PAGES --BY— €. UW, Osborn Coprright, 11 (New Tork Creating World). oy Prose Pubilahing ‘Ce. WISH that there were some ton derful place : Again, Where allour mistakes and all our heartaches And all of our poor, selfish grief Could be dropped, tke @ stabby old coat, at the anor, And never put on again Calted the Land of Beginning |1t wouldn't be possible not to be kind - jy | | | | | | i | } produc the mane In the Land of Beginning Again; ~ And the ones we misjudged and the ones whom we grudged Their moments of victory here Would feel in the grasp of our loving handclasp ‘ More than penitent lips could ez- plain, what had been know had been dest, And what had scemed loss would be gain; For there isn't a sting that wilt not take wing When we've /aced it and laughedsit away; ‘ And I think that the laughter ts mos! what we're after In the Land of Beginning Again! We find these lines in a newly pub~ lished book of verse (Small-Maynard) by Louisa Pletcher. ‘We guess Miss Fletcher's wis! For |echoed pretty much around the en! eee | When Man Is Not Master. « —~ hardest we'd In the March Century, Charles J Finger has “'The Shame of Gold,’f, in the wilds. And he says these thi story of South American exon ‘et incidental, Mind you, in civilization ma 4 chinery is master, and man the servant of the machine, at Take him away from the mechan* ical things and cast him on his ow resources, and ninety-nine cases ot of a hundred he starves. He can't make a fire, catch his food, build his shelter. Ho is afraid to test things as to thelr edibility. He cannot run, fight, or ellmb, Among animals he is a weakling, Face to face with nature he de- spairs. His education he finds to be ixnorance. His overpowering fear is that he may be hurt. You in civilization man protected; he does not have strugele All thut he needs to co is to sell himself, hia time, his life, for the best price he can command. So he ecomes soft. He is unfit for lb- erty Turn him loose, and he is as use- less as a canary bird or a common hen turned adrift. Ye-up, Civilization, we remember, among other things a Vol- AW, protect’ man. Deirdre Versus Mabel. - + - Turned out of a page of ‘Conn of Coral Seas’ (Macmillan), a »e by Beatrice Grimshaw: She petty to begin with, She had what matters most, theo! perfect mouth—smallish, short in the upper lp, and very red; It tilted upwagd like the mouth of a Ba- chante or # faun, and looked as if it smiled, even when Deirdre was uot amills she had the cge-shaped cheek of the running “streamtine”™ and shoulder that is Uke « uf inusic, the look of misti+ a color about the hair, the ies of eyes, 3s from which the culty” may be stntin are the lett e that was slight slight, and roundness rlish like « young cat is nothing more . lke the typiyy neration, wag twenty- was but, isted, with a pulp: color—Mabel tad three of thenf, any. went to dances to- programme 7 But tt 1 Mabel saw then first ‘ Lhe Loyer, Old and Young, - - - A winber from “Vells -of Saimite H-Muynard), # book, of verse by J. Coraon Miller: In those dim years when yet your youth a-flower Threw off a radiance, rich ax liquid sold; 1 stood, appalled, before your beauty'e, And I felt ol But now, though like an autumpe dusls you fade, The memory of your love, through heart and tongue. Makes life a spring-lit vivlets laid, And | am young. road, with Loeal Color iv Advertising - + - ° In his “Avortising Year Book! (Doubleday-Vese), Henry Wellman devotes to color in pleture pages and show windows a few ), words, among them these: nk heans reposing on a sages snd in a stomuchlesa ‘onons grecns play= nk hams; or, ping down past a cake to its absolutely e point of (with @ frying pany the same masterpiece flanked by # pair of innocent looking eggs that have just escaped the ambushing lettuce. You do wor . indeed; first, why the ides, and why, for heaven's, sake, add color to itt You look iu the windows at the handsome, patty-faced “ladies negligently lounging in purtectly, good clothes, and furniture, all shrieking at you in red—brick on cherry red, rose red, maroon and plain garden variety red. ‘ Why? Because some one once said that red is an arresting color, that it excites interest. It is and it does; but why murder it? z But if the windows make Mr. Well man see red. they accomplish aom thing, don't they?