The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 22

THE EVE APES PME ECE NING WO orld. e * ESTABLISHED RY JosEPM PULITZER. \ Published Dally Except Sunday by The Press Pobdiishing Company. Now 53 to Pack Row. ‘ow Tork. RALPH PULITZER, President. Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULATAER Jr., Secretary, 67 Park Mow. MEMMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wee Ansoctared Prem ls exctustrely entitled to the ws for republication ‘ot Ail news despatches eredited to {t or not otherwise credited in this paper z tae Tale senna © © THE ROYAL WEDDING. mE AND so they were married and lived happily ever after.” Democracy has not wholly outgrown Princesses. Nor is it the least discredit to plain, democratic Americans that many of them are deeply interested fn every detail of a royal wedding, the richness, mp and panoply of which read like a fairy tale. The people of the United States have never lost any sleep over the fact that they haven't the pal- aces, abbeys, state coaches and colorful customs that $0 with a monarchical heritage. Nevertheless, they ¢an be very humanly fascinated by long-distance counts of a great ceremony like that to which the ple of Great Britain are giving absorbed atten- ion to-day. } The traditional form and splendor with which is English Princess is married are superb. But Princess and her family are not themselves the perb and haughty beings of mediaeval royalty. ty are kindly people with a deep sense of their , ditties and responsibilities. They see themselves * what they are—the bearers of a nation’s in- ignia, the symbol of its permanance, the focus for 's loyally. As a London newspaper said Sunday: | Other countries may compete with us in ! the number of their antiquities and some in i ne ithe boldness of their experiments, but none ia the blending of both, which gives a living, a force to our modern-mediaeval soctety, “ bearing its allegiance with equal sincerity and equal tenacity to the old and the new. | ‘Americans inclined to smile at British mediaeval- ss in evidence to-day should remind themselves British democracy has outstayed American democracy in guarding personal freedom. By 1977 at the latest women will rule the world, a California professor asserts. * What does he mean by 1977? How about 4922? ~ YET MORE MUSIC THAN EVER. IANO mannfacturers report a loss of business not only in comparison with war years but vaith pre-war years. ‘ “EThis is in’ marked contrast to the very general | ead of musical appreciation and interest. ‘The reason seems fairly obvious. It is not that fe music-loving public is spending less for musi- instruments. It is spending more. But the nograph is cutting into the piano business. } When the family income does not allow for both ano and phonograph, the two divide the market. ea phonograph frequently comes first, even in homes where music is most appreciated. The wax discs provide good music and a variety that includes many selections beyond the ability of the average student of the piano. + Outdoor sports such as tennis and golf may have also played a part. The technique of the piano is * no longer so essential an “accomplishment” as it was a generation ago, when most young ladies were taught to “play the piano”—whether they made thusic or not. «It is significant that several leading piano manu- facturers have been bending every effort to the ther perfection of the mechanical piano repro- ducing the best offerings of master pianists. ' ‘The royal wedding guests were peeved by the Meagre seating space allowed. They got a hint of the discomforts riding in a crowded subway car. Experienced subway riders, how- e¥er, would consider sixteen inches of seat room | / a comfortable, not to say luxurious, allowance | j <i aA a Se aan | IRREGULAR EMPLOYMENT. gecarhdl of employment is one of the worst factors in the coal-mining wage tangle. The Evening World recently suggested a guarantee forty or forty-eight weeks of work in a year as ? q i ; an effective way of reducing mining costs without { ibjyry to the incomes of workers. A dock builder, in’ a letter printed on this page Meyerday, approved the reasoning and applied it t@.an explanation of high wages in the building tfages. “When, our pay, high as it is,” he says, ‘$s spread out over frequent periods of unemploy- mM, we find ourselves no better off than other Pains in an office or factory at a much smaller dhily rate.” This is undeniable. Many building tr Ss suffer from all the ordinary i: employment due to fluctuation in demand and sea mal work. They are also the victims of weather, id so the problem is more difficult than in the yal mines. 4 New York. h is the home of one great fedusiry in which irregular employment has been egularities of un- its worst, the manufacture of all sorts of wear- apparel. : } The garment industry, in all its branches, offers a field for industrial statesmans! employment. Whether this faining. b Ration of the two, the nsed is great for machinery \ in regularizing comes by way of collective bar- Government regulation or by a combi- to keep the garment workers employed in the man- ufacture of standard goods in the between-season periods. The unions have been working on the problem and have been able to force some improvements, A few employers have co-operated and have gained by securing more contented workers. Neverthe- less, the industry as a whole is chaotic. Some’ union rules which have seemed most unreasonable and arbitrary have resulted from the desire to extend the working season and so regularize incomes, which are more important than day wages. This is a problem for the employers. The men in the business can solve it better than the Gov- ernment, if they will. The problem is so big that if the industry cannot make progress, the pressure for Government interference is bound to grow. ON THEIR MERITS. PEAKING in plainest terms to the Senate yes- terday, Senator Glass of Virginia ‘scotched the report that he had brought to Democratic Senators word of ex-President Wilson’s private opposition to the Four-Power Treaty or to any other of the treaties. Said Senator Glass: “I have seen former President Wilson but fot a moment in perhaps three months. I called at his home on his birthday to offer my congratu- lations. He has never opened his lips to me on the subject of any one of these treaties, nor have I sought in any way, directly or in- directly, to ascertain his view of any one of them.” If United States Senators are incapable of dealing with the Arms Conference treaties without resur- recting the rancors and personal hostilities of the last campaign, the country may well despair of its Senate, These treaties are all new treaties. They belong to the present Administration. The preceding Ad- ministration neither dictated a line nor changed or challenged a word of them. They are to be con- sidered on their merits, regardless of earlier treaties proposed and rejected. It is high time members of the United States Sen- ate showed themselves capable of discussing the Na- tion’s foreign relations without furring over the suspected views or influence of Woodrow Wilson. The country is sick of Senatorial smallness, Assemblyman Rowe ts ready with a resolu- tion to unseat August Claessens, Socialist, who was counted out by election officials and seated by the courts. The Rowe resolution would be more appropriately named if the final “e” were crossed off. THEY OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN BETTER. T IS to be hoped that Alffed E. Lindsay will be tried and punished to the full extent of the law. But it is impossible for the average person to extend the same sort of sympathy to his dupes that went out to the poor and illiterate victims of the Ponzi bubble or the frenzied financial opera- tions among the stock-yard workers of Chicago. Lindsay was undoubtedly clever and plausible. But his list of “suckers” came from a group wo ought to' have known better than to believe his yarn of a “club” of market-riggers supposed to in- clude the most influential individuals in the finan- cial district meeting daily to determine the trend of the market for the next day. Lindsay had the hardihood to work in a pre- sumably sophisticated group. Similar games have been played on the credulous for years, and have been exposed repeatedly. Lindsay's victims ought to have known betier. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. When you steer, Stick to the wheel; Don't interfere With Captain, crew Or the engineer! * The gas tank at Rye has been camouflaged so that it will be invisible in the view from Johnny man's new club house back on the hill. On could only camouflage the gas bills * Bow- if we Years ago it used to puzzle the neighbors at Deal to see Col. Harvey arrayed at fhe dinner hour in a scarlet Tuxedo with knickerbockers to mateh. 11 now appears he was preparing for eventualities! . Dy, Perey Stickney Grant says Am should play more. Fine! But who will do the work? . Ten brokers brake in a single week No wonder there is tath, When brokers bust in such a streak Ten millions take a walk! MIKE A Tale of Wall Street and Its Wealth, CHAPTER IL, Mike lau learned to sense things about op. He could always tell when the old man was planning What he called a “coop.” His office door would be closed and he was always sending Mike out for cigars—big black ones that came two for a bone and would give a mule a headache. However, they only steadied K. Embonpoint’s nerves and kept his mind fit for the fray (To Be Continued.) 1922, ay a bob sate to From Evening There is fine mental exercise a say much in few words. Criticising a Strike. | fe the Editor of The Evening World: Your editorial on Wages strikes home with a smack! It does seem ridiculous that in times like these there should be any cause for strikes or any other labor disturb- The manufacturers and gen- business men have enough to cope with in order to get the business —produce the merchandise in good quality, and at the same time try to keep down the price of same for the sake of competition An incident that strikes at our own doors right now is the Harlem Men's shirt strike, which began last week. ances, eval ‘Phere are some six or seven hun- dred machine operators ‘‘out’’ for no earthly reason. They have enough work on hand-ideal working condi- tions—still are foolish enough to de- e, mand a ten per cent. inere in wages, while everyw else in this industry a similar reduction has taken place. Candidly speaking, can their em- |ployers be blamed for taking drastic action against such outlawry? Wouldn't you call this a real hold- up? If only the parents and relatives of {these misguided working girls would on and advise them as to the} per path to follow! But, poor ehil- dren, they would soone: listen to others who do not and cannot them- selves earn nest living t. | Harlem, 1 1921 re ito ouing World | Lamag admirer of The ning World, The goed fight The Eve {ning World has put up ipst the Prohibition swindle is something every patriotic American ought to appreci ate, but I regret to notice that ‘The vening World seems to lean to whip- pi the devil around a stump by cepting beer and wine if a tax can thus be raised to pay the iniquitous bonus Perhaps I am too optimistic, but 1 am firm in the belief that there ts a sound substratum of sense in this country that will in the long run de- cide such questions rightly and not help to continue the abominable prac- tice of such lawmaking as we have so | often eee the “rider’’ legislation If a thing is right it is right and ought to prevail. The bonus is bad from] wounded, too, but I think the man every point of view and ought not to] who stayed home ought to be con- | win by such a trick. The beer and] gidered, too, because they lost much | wine would, of course, be fairly taxed] py staying in the service. \and yield a good revenue, but the] One way to get the tax from .the money is needed for other things and] profiteers would be through excess not to be used to help fasten on us| profit tax on profits made during the another lobby to debauch our putty| war, There would then be enough lawmakers as the Anti-Saloon League! tax collected to give the soldiers a has The G. A. R. was originally a pa | What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? Coal Miners’; By John Cassel World Readers Oe ind a lot of satisfaction in trying to | Take time to be brief. ~ public money. There wre to-day men | who, though belonging to the G. A. | R., will not wear the button or at- | tend meetings because they are | ushamed of it. No ene will raise ob- | | jection to the spencins of all moneys needed for the men who are incapaci- tated by service to the country, but | the bonus is a scanéai und should gut |no help from those who oppose the j un-American Prohibi.ion crowd, TI-HUMBUG, | | Highland Park, Feb. 28, 1922. Pay the Bill. To the Editor of The Evening World In view of the fuss over the sol- diers’ bonus and other matters that, depend upon taxation, why does not} some one start a movement to have | the Government send a bill to each | and every man and woman in the} | United States who can actually af- | |ford to pay for his or her share of p |the cost of war, national debt, &c., | Give three or four years to pay, | the bill and charge interest? We | have to foot the bill anyway and) while most people might rebel at| first we would all be glad to havé it over. Let the soldiers have their! |bonus if they want it. Apything to} keep peace and make business. I'm ready to pay my share for six in the | | famity. H. PERSHING Tax the Profteer | To the Edjtor of The Evening ds 1 ‘There has been much talk about the | bonus and how it is to be raised. Some favor the sales tax, others do not. The} best way to raise the bonus would be | to tax some of those war profiteers, | who are the very ones opposing the bonus. Of course the Government} must not let the poor profiteers be) taxed. But, no, the Government can| sit back und let the profiteer go full| speed and make all the money he} | wants on the poor “‘goats,"’ the | service men. . | Some of The Evening World readers| remarked: “Oh, it's all right to help the wounded and disabled, but the| men who were not ‘over there’ and others who were not wounded, it is not necessary to give them the} bonus.” Do they consider that the men who stayed home lost as much in their business career and their health as the men who were disabled physically? I have relatives who were bonus twice, | MRS, MILTON L. SMITH. Heights, I. 1, Feb. 28, ‘ — 2 : UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake- (Gopyright, 1922, by John Blake.) YOUR WORLD. As much as the house in which you live iy your house, or the ity in which it is located is your city, this world is your world. It is all the world you can know anything about, at least in this lifetime. Fortunately for you it is an extremely interesting world, And though you will be here but a com- paratively short time you will be here long enough to learn a great deal about it. Acquiring that information will be one of the most fascinating pursuits you can engage in if you go about it in the right way. Incidentally it will be the most profitable. The men who are the most highly paid by the world are those who know most about it, eath of course devoting the larger part of his tinie to the study of a particular branch of knowl- edge. ‘The doctor, for example, begins by studying life from its beginnings until he reaches the present day structure of the human body, the most wonderful and most efficicnt auto- matie machine human kind is capable of imagining. He understands the body better if he has really learned all that is discoverable about the life forms that have pre- ceded it. To do that he tas had to study the world and its history, for you cannot follow the development of the world without being fascinated by the growth of life upon its face. The lawyer, while he needs to know much of what is in the books that have been filled by the records of ages of controversy, is really a psychologist—-a mind student. It is the power he can exert over/the minds of other men that makes him great or ordinary. Not only does he have to sv juries but he has to convince his clients of what is to tl own interests. When clients have made money and are con- sequently vain that is more difficult than convineing theo retically impartial jurymen. - The geologist studies the structure of the world and learns cs where minerals may or may not be found, which gives him tremendous value to capitalists seeking oil or gold or iron or sieel All this is world study. All is fascinating—enchanting, It is your world, as we said in the beginning. And because it is your world you will find it well worth your trouble to know just as much about it as you have time to learn, MONEY TALKS. class mortgage bonds paying 6 per aia ey nt. per annum; high grade railway By HERBERT BENINGTON. curities yielding 64 to 7% per cent ‘There are long lists of high grade, Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World ilies a Paieaine vening World) | ost ‘gilt-edged,"’ securities yield OPPORTUNITIES. incomes that were unheard of bef | the The old adage “opportunity knocks is out of date. Nowadays it], war Few people have money availa they invested | foolishly during ‘boom years."* The commercial MANY | \no have cash now will profit as ye men is due to hard work and their| |). ability to take advantage of oppor- h ipne |. TE We are too late for this opp tunities ‘aa they are prevented, ©/ tunity there will be others which key {s “ready money.” “peady mong’ to-day can buy first by saving part of our income. ) but once’ knocks continuously. spent or au success of al- ing ‘ore ‘Those | ars or we The man with! oan take advantage of if we prepare! Bomances SOR ? Industry _ By Winthrop Biddle, — Copyright, 1922. (New York Bvening! | World) by Press Publishing Go. 1—THE TRADE IN MAMMOTH | TUSKS. Se! The remains of extinct giant beasts do not seem to offer pi ma- lterial for industry and Yet, as far back’as the tenth century the merchants of Khiva, on the boner |of Turkestan, were doing a thriving | business in tusks taken from am ‘animal that had ceased to exist per- {haps 60,000 years earlier. | ‘The original owners of these were the mammoths—an elephant and somewhat larger than their degenerate descendants that had been frozen in the ice fields of Siberia many centuries earlier. | From the same and other sources {mammoth tusks furnishing \ivory form an article of commerce to-day. The modern ivory hunters who range the area of nature's refrigerator dispose of some of their wares to museums. But the greater part of their “bag? goes to dealers for commercial uses. China is a large purchaser of mam- moth ivory. Europe also purchases the paleontological substance for in- dustrial purposes. Some of the mam~ moth ivory is not only found but consumed in America. Two large and beautiful tusks were displayed by Tiffany & Co, in 1900. They were brought from Zanzibar, one of the |former haunts of the nt pachy- |derm. Middendorff, the eminent naturalist, estimates that the amount of mam- moth ivory that has come into the | market annually for the past two cen- | turies exceeds 100 pairs. Nordenskiold | makes the total materially higher, The lurger specimens exhibited by. the New York firm measured 10 feet 3% inches ulong the outer curve; cir- jcumference, 2 feet % |289 pound with its mate, must have been a foot jor two higher than Jumbo, who was | known as the largest elephant in cap- tivit ‘The largest mammoth tusks vouched for by Dr. Frederic A, Lucas, director of the scientific staff of the American Museum of Natural History, are two from Alaska, weighing, res; a 200 and 190 pounds, the larger 11 feet. Mammoth tusks are found along the \entire Siberian shore line, from the mouth of the River Obi to Bering Strait. There must have been huge herds of chem > zs huge as the herds | of bjeon at the time Of. the nioneers— ali ‘over Alaska and th States. From the bottom of the North Sea —once dry land—trawlers have dvedged thousands of mammoth teeth along with their catches of turbot and sole, In Alaska, there fs in the Kotzebue Sound region a cape called Blephant Point. It was so named from the | g@reat deposits of mammoth bones ; carried to the sea by the Buckland | | | This and other regions in Alaska | have yielded large quantities of mam- moth tusks. It would not be aston- | ishing if, in addition to its natural | products, the empire which Secretary | Seward bought from Russia for a song jafter the Civil War should yield |enormous deposits of mammoth ivory. ed | NO. XXIV.—DRUNKARDS AND DRUG FIENDS. People do not drink because aleohol tastes good, nor do they take drugs because drugs have a. pleasant effect. | ‘They take ‘the stuff’ to forget some- thing which is unconsciously obsessing Drunkards can very well be | called drug addicts. In fact many of | the dishonest institutions which claim that they can cure drunkenness, wean their inmates of alcohol by adminis- tering drugs to them; in other words, by making them shift fromevhiskey to cocaine. The drug addict is in thousands of cases a potential pervert who is trying to resist his craving, and yet who, by [making himself helpless, becomes a |prey to some other pervert, In that way he can both restst and gratify ‘his perverse wishes, freeing himself, | how r, of all responsibility, ‘I wes |drunk and I didn't know what I was is his ready excuse. While 1 women frequently indulge in drink together, we must realize that hopeless drunkards generally seek the y of people of their own sex. ther in drinking places .with men, groups of women meét and be- ! come intoxicated. : The attitude of the average drunk- | them | doin, | men ard reveals clearly the perversions ‘which obsess him, He becomes over- affectionate to other men, falls on their necks, weeps childishly, 4 In delirium tremens, the mental dis- | turds which often follows indul- in drink, the drunkard is tor- gene tured by absurd visions which always ussume the same shape; either he is | pursued by himse in in perverse men or he sees if surrounded by animals, whieh anity ays represent séxual 8, mice, &e. ‘s men drink because 1, bashful, afraid of other nd only in drink find the as- | surance which carries them more or successfully through life. Des priving those men of alcohol or drugs is inefficient as powdering dred ; nose whose color is due to stomach less. trouble, ‘The cause must be removed first. Drunkards and drug fiends are people suffering from unconscious ab- surd fears. The only way to cure | their habit is to remove that fear from their unconscious mind, | (Copyright by United Feature Syndicnta® r me inch; weight, The animal that carried this tusk, ome a i \ 56 |