The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1922, Page 20

SN CR A RENE EE RACE ATT te AR Ee AB j | ; a0 Pudlim 1 PULITZER. by The Pres Publishing ESTABLISHED BY J05 ed Dally Except sind Company. Now. 68 to 63 Park Row, New York. \ JOSEPH PULITZER Jr. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, Secretary, 03 Park Row. ‘MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Associated Prem lx exclusively entitied to the use fer republication eopatchen credited to It or not otherwise eredited im this paper also the local news published herein. WORSE THAN FAILURE. T= Anti-Saloon League would like to fool every city—and particularly this city—into believ- ing itself the only place in the country where Pro- hibition has seriously failed to prohibit. The Anti-Saloon League tries to make each “wet” community feel that it is holding out against a “dry” and contented Nation. It can't be done. \A few weeks ago The Evening World printed the _ answers of fifty representative business men from all sections of the country to the question: How has ‘Wation- wide Prohibition affected business? To-day The Evening World prints the answers of fifty o' of the Has ther representative men from different parts United States to the question: Nation-wide Prohibition prohibited? Only four pretend that it has to the extent of making liquor a commodity of no account in their districts. The other forty-six agree that liquor can price. . > be bought and is bought by those who have the There is plenty of testimony to the preva- lence of bad liquor, also to new habits of drinking among persons who did not drink formerly. Read “Roger issue. The Batchelder’s article on another page of this plain truth is, Nation-wide Prohibition has not done even the specific things it was supposed to do. It has not stopped the drinking of intoxicating liquors. It has not stopped the sale of intoxicating liquors. It has not stopped the manufacture of in- toxicating liquors. Failure to reach what it was meant to reach is a grave indictment of any law. But against it is not the gravest part of the indictment «present Prohibition law. The case against Nation-wide Prohibition rests upon something more positive and far-reaching than its failure to prohibit. Nation-wide Prohibition is worse than a failure, it is an active civic poison. Already it has turned law-breaking into a sport. It has made violating one particular law—with the attenda Why? regard * nation Riors lightly nt risks—an exciting, amusing thing. Because it is impossible for reason to violators of that law with the moral condem- visited upon violators of other laws. Vio- of Prohibition law know that. Treating Prohibition law demoralizes the public atti- tude toward all law. “The but in root of the evil is not in the public attitude the’ particular law which reason rejects and morality looks upon as a mistake. Only last Saturday the distinguished President of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, whose intelligence, char- acter a nd citizenship no man would question, said to The Evening World: “Regardless of how Prohibition came to us, if id its results we could see that it made for more virtue, more temperance, more honesty, more charity and good feeling and kindliness, more respect for law—we ought to favor it. “But it doesn’t! “It makes for the absence of these things, for dishonesty, hypocrisy, disrespect for the law.” Not only does Probibition aot prohibii—— It provokes, it poisons, it imperils, The best place for a hearing on curtailed pub way service in non-rush hours is not a com- fortable office but rather the crowded plat- forms at Times Square or Grand Central fo!- low ed by an adjournment to a typically jammed train. The Commissioners might not find the “hear- ing’ " perfectly satisfactory, but the “seeing and “feeling” would be convincing. ASSESSED VALUES AND RENTS. HE Lockwood committee bill to make the as- deterr sessed valuation of real estate the basis for mination of reasonable rent has one evident virtue. It checks the possibility of rent raising by “wash It has an equally evident drawback. h sale” valuations. The assessor would virtually determine rents, Property owners who wish to profiteer through rent raising might ask for higher assessments. 8 per Ii cent. is a fair return on valuation, a landlord who boosted his valuation by $10,000 could collect $800 than more rent each year, paying something less $300 in additional taxes and pocketing the difference. Te The until nants might protest against assessment changes. chances are, however, that few would do so too lale.- In gase many tenants protested, the | Board of Taxes and Assessment would getjinto a state of congestion similar to the courts adminis- tering the rent laws. The natural tendency of assessors is to make valuation as high as possible for the sake of revenue to the city and State. The board would not be likely to be as fair to tenants as are the Judges of the Municipal Court, who are in direct contact with the aggrieved rentpayers. If assessed value is to determine rent for the period of the rent laws, wouldn't it be wise to “peg” the assessed valuations of old property as a precau- tionary step, or else to provide that the assessed valuation already recorded shall be considered the assessed valuation for rent-making purposes? SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. fF: the Senate fails to ratify the treaties resulting from the Washington Conference, what will be the effect on the Senate? Senators may well ask themselves the question. The immediate effect will be that Senators will no longer have the opportunity to pass on treaties, because other nations will refuse to try to reach agreements with the United States. The ultimate effect may be that Senators will be deprived of the right to pass on treaties. The ma- chinery of ratification may need to be changed so that thirty-three Senators cannot block international understandings. In America there is a great and growing sentiment in favor of international understandings designed to make for peace in the world. If the Senate dis- credits itself and the Nation by partisan wrangling and personal obstruction, the time is likely to come when the voters will say: “Enough.” The demand may come for treaty ratification by. popular referendum, by majority vote of Congress, or by some other means. If the Senate cannot curb itself, some means can and will be found to curb it. Excluding Sunday, only eight days remain to make out the income tax return. More per- tinent is the fact that only one Sufiday re- mains. The average procrastinating taxpayer puts it off until the last moment, but realizes that he needs one full day uncomplicated by other worries. A “MONEYLESS CAMPAIGN” IN MICHIGAN. EPRESENTATIVE PATRICK H. KELLEY of Michigan has announced his candidacy for the Senate. The interesting feature of this announcement is that he intends to make a “moneyless campaign” against the present incumbent, Senator Townsend. Representative Kelley evidently believes that Newberryism is a live issue in Michigan politics. His declaration that “it is vital that money shall not be a determining or even an important factor” in electing a Senator is a direct and telling criticism of Newberryism. The fight between Townsend and Kelley ought to be something of an indication as to what Michigan Democrats think of their present junior Senator and the way he gained office. Townsend sided with Newberry, defended him and voted to confirm the triumph of Newberryism. Townsend will probably have the organization. He can probably command the Newberry moneybags in return for his support. If the Michiganders retire Townsend in favor of a “moneyless candidate” it will be a count in their favor. Ball fans will be interested in the bonus of $500 per home run that Babe Ruth will collect. Nevertheless, when the sun shines on the bleachers and a home run comes hurtling over the fence the question of the moment will con- tinue to be, “Who gets the ball?” If the American Legion manages to drive through with the latest bonus proposal, where ought the three golden balls to appear? On the Legion button? Or on the flagstaff on the Capitol? } ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. First the Interferers kill an industry to save grain for bread. Now they propose to take the alcohol out of yeast. How will the bread rise? Or must we alt cat matzoths? . Meddling makes work for the idle minds to do. . Spring comes every year, but you would not think so to read the poets and the nature fakers, . March 4 President Harding was one year on his job—no, the job was one year on President Harding. . Writing to Sidney Colvin from San Francisco in 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson said: “Do you ever imagine I could write an essay a month ov promise an essay even every three months? The essays must fall from me, essay by essay, as they ripen,” And yet us columnists have to drip every day! SWEET LILLIAN. A Kobbed-Halr Romance of the Present Duy, CHAPTER I, In the subway. The long, dark platform, ing air, the crowd, Sweet Lillian, pausing (o powder her nose before the slot-machine glass, was tempted. Slowly with- drawing a penny from her mesh purse, she dropped it in the aperture labelled “pepsin gum (To Be Continued.) he reek- ¢ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922. Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) . Press Pub, Co, Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. 11l—ORCHID-HUNTERS. In both fiction and fact the ore with its wonderful variety and brill jance of coloring and its parasiti habits, has fairly usurped the pl once held by the rose as the king.o flowers. The hunt for orchids, especially varieties, is an industry, that with romance, The exploration of im forests, pampas and mouhtains of -| Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chill and Mexico for rare or new blooms is a record of imagination, enterprise and devotion that reads like the tales of African exploration. The father of orchid-hunting, qe profession, is Roezel, a Czech frov! Prague, who plunged into the Soutif’ American wilderness in 1876, ‘The. man who purchased his output and put the orchid on the commercial map, first of London and then of the world was F. Sander of St. Albans, n London, Roezel as the hunter in the wilds, and Sander as the commercial ex- ploiter of his floral discoveries, gava to flower lovers and other aesthetio persons a new source of thrills and a new channel for the disbursement of money—and money in considerable volume. The sales of orchids by auction in the Protheroe & Morris establish- ment in London attracted widespread and almost passionate interest in the exotic flower which thrives only by, attaching itself to a tree or of plant and absorbing nourishment from its victims. Among Sander’s travelling agents British Guiana was Frederick H, Dressel, who now conducts a tropical botanical garden at Weehawken, N, J. Mr. Dressel's reminiscences of loration for orchids-in wildest British Gulana in the late eighties furnish @ fascinating tale of adventure. It is on the books of F. Sander & Co. that a vuriety of orchids—Masde- vallia Tovarensis—at one time reached the enormous price of a guinea p leaf. This firm sent a man to Vent zuela for a stock of these ‘*Tovars,"”” flooded the market with 40,000 plants) sent by this hunter—Arnold by name —and hammered down the price to} the fraction of a shilling per leaf. Despite the present embargo on the) importation ot orchids, musi of din orchids that adorn my lady's corsage in New York grew under South’ American skies. Despite its exotic! associations the orchid is a hardy; plant which flourishes under moderate From Evening that dives the worth of a thousand ay much in few words. “A Great Lite. To the Editor of The Evening World: I have been reading The World for the past twenty years and have been very much interested in the editorisis in The Evening World. I want to commend your paper for the stand it has taken on the bonus hold-up ond also the Prohibition question, and I must say that your paper sgems to be the only one with the courage of conviction in regard to Prohibition and the effects it is having and pro- ducing upon the people generally. I would like you to understand that Tam a Yankee and that I am not a booze hound, as many who favor light wines and beer are termed by. the Anti-Saloon League. I agree with all those who favur giving the disabled soldiers a sub- jthis money is to allow the sale World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one words in @ couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be briof. ise it is being held up by these same gentlemen for the reason that there is no money in the Treasury and no vis- ible means of getting any with which to pay this debt. President Harding, an advocate of the bonus (before election), seems to lack the courage to instruct Congress that the most feasible way to collect of wine and beer with a reasonable This tax would be paid tax without a protest by good) Americans who crave sociability and freedom, and | not by a handful of professional hypocrites who are trying their ut most to put a mourning band on the) Statue of Liberty. | Would that we had men in Wash.) ington who would act according to stantial sum, either in the form of a bonus or an income for life, but to give a bonus to all soldiers, whether they saw actual service or not, seems to me to be going a bit too far. If memory serves me rightly, there were about 4,000,600 men under arma, 4nd about one-half this number aver got to France, and there were men in the various organizations who acta- ally saw more of the actual fighting than those in the army, so why not give them a bonus But it svems to that there are vertain forces at work in Washington who are trying to put this bonus over that are in the same category as the Anti-Saloon League, ard must hand it to them for making (he ones in Washington who are sup- posed to represent the people stand around and do their bidding. It is to be regretted that the howl that has gone up throughout the country. $v regard to the bonus couldn't have sone up in regard to prohibiting ight s und beer. | wonder what Christ would think if he came buck to earth to find that wine was against the law, and a man regardes as a criminal who desired a glass of wine occasionally, We are living in @ great age, and it is only a question of time when we will have as much | freedom here as they had in Germany before the war. The rich have all they want to drink, and what they jhaven't they can nuy at bootleg prices. It's a great life if you don't weaken. R. 8, 7. Feb, 28, 1922. Before Election and Atier. | Wo the Raltor of The Evening World | Before election 0) the ean ty |diers a ° Republi » give the that the time a but has arrived 10 make good this prom- twigs and branches and billing the ist year by bogs making a baseball their own convictions and not to the) whims of a ‘‘killjoy’’ broken English 1D} NewYork, Feb. 28, 19 who speaks | | -REPUBLICAN, | i} i. ng World I have taken great interest in you A Pea Liditor of The To the fight for beer and wine. We will| never get It from the present bunch | of politicians. Why? Most of them both Democrat and Republican, are interested in some way or other| with bootlegging and are making! more money than they ever dreamed| of getting and at the same time fool- | Ing both the Prohibitionists and the| Antis. You can go to any political! club anywhere and they will tell you where to get it and sell you all you demand or pay for. vT.D, | New York, March 1, 1922 Keep Of the Grass. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Now that summer is on its way, won't you kindly print this lette: among your “Letters from the Peo- ple” and see what the attitude our people is toward the opening of our parks during the sum- mer months? I know Central is disgraceful during ‘the months, made so by the priv corded the public by Mayor Hylan allowing ti run wild through the | through Public Mizz | gone the park lashamed as a citizen of Now Y j city to see mis papers iow people could yy such a privilege the all over grass, break OIL LPL AANA A PD DAA DADA PPAAS | FED SUCH Park | summer | 0! lowed. jour grandparents took a pride in our encouragement, governed by intelli- gence. It takes an orchid about three years to bloom, The blooming plant, detached by some nimble native from the higher branches of a tall tree im Venezuela, for instance, retains its life for several years. The chances are that in buying an orchid te beautify beauty you are purchasing a flower that grew in the wilds Venezuela or some other area tropic dreamland. The variety of orchid most fre quently sold in New York is the Cattleya Dowiana. One of the fama- cinating characteristics of orchids is their apparently infinite variety. A few years ago there were under culti- vation in England between 1,500 and 2,000 species’ and varieties of the, flower that has become the cult 4 amateurs. It is estimated, however, that thes] are thousands of other varieties an! species in existence. The orgh! he hunter who discovers a new variet! and brings it to market accomplishes something worth while, both artisti- cally and financially. WHERE DID YOU GET, THAT WORD? | PARLOR. | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1922, by John Blake.) (Copyright, “TREAT THE DRUDGERY ROUGH.” No job is altogether pleasant. By and by, when you are successful, you can get rid of mest of the unpleasant work by passing it along to others. At the beginning you will be one to whom it is passed along. _ It will be dull, hard and uninteresting, but it has got to be done. And until you have learned to do it you will never be competent to tackle the more interesting jobs that will come along by and by. The sooner you learn to shut your eyes and roll up your sleeves and sail into the drudgery, the sooner you will get to the point where there is little drudgery to do, Do not, however, expect to be rid of it altogether. man who is accomplishing anything can ever do that, The boy who wants to be a locomotive engineer thinks it is a glorious life to sit in a cab and watch the world go by. There are only a few levers to pull, and now and then a little excursion out on the pilot with an oil can at stations. The fireman shovels all the coal and does all the dirty work, The only job he has which the boy covets is that of ringing the bell, and that is not nearly so desirable as that of pulling the whistle, which 1s the engineer's exclusive privilege. But the boy finds when he tries lo get a job as engineer that he cannot begin even as a fireman. Ii he is taken on at all he is given a big bunch of waste and set to wiping grease off engines. It is terribly dirty and uninteresting work, but it is the way to begin. Tf he does it well, and thinks about it as he goes along, he can become a fireman by and by. But’ before he can sit on that padded seat at the right hand of the cab and open the throttle and pull the whistle he has to shovel coal for two or three years, Most drudgery jobs are just as long and just as uninter- esting as those which precede the engineer's exalted station. But they have got to be done, and if you do them cheer- fully and intelligently time will pass you along to the sort of work you like. After that, progress is not going to be easy, but it will at least be clean and more or less comfortable. Don't be discouraged with the drudgery, Everybody must do it and it does everybody good. Do it well and you will be freer from it in after life than if it is badly done. A half-educated man in any business must constantly go back and do over the things he did poorly in his youth. No | ‘The word ‘parlor’ is closely related, by common descent, to the apparently, |remote word “parliament.” Their | common ancestor is ths French word “parler’'—to speak. Just as Parliament is an institution in which the people, through their representatives, speak their will, so a parlor is @ place where talking is car- ried on. { The word was first. applied to | room in a convent where the inmate. | were permitted to mect and speak to} |their friends, then to the room in a| house where the family lives. In Eng-/ land the parlor is the family living) room as distinct from the drawing | room, where visitors are received. 4 } ——— ——— |“That’s a Fact’ ‘|| By Albert P. Southwick |Copyright, 1922, World) by Pie Pavucting bo Barley does not enter into the come) position of barley sucsr nor has the! word any right to be in the name, 1 is a corruption of the French word, jbrute, meaning, “burnt.” Barley r is therefore burnt sugar or ta! brule, " oe “Father of American Geography” was 4 title conferred upon Jedediah! Morse, American clergyman and au thor, who lived from 1761 to 1826, o 8 | su els and birds (this latter of se by the young foreign element). Now, 1 ask why this should be al- Our mothers and fathers and Sround out of it. I would like to} Suggest that Hizzoner take @ stroll) (pardon me, I mean a spin in his car) through our parks and see if he wouldn't be ashamed to be responsi- ble for such conditions. “The Wizard’ was 4 sobriquet com Keep the crowds off the grass the| ferred upon John Sobieski (1674-1696; greater part of the day, and when| king of Poland, by tho ‘Turks, in ¢ they are allowed on it make them) sequence of his marvellous victo treat it with respect. _Now watch the| over them, and were not allowed to run lus the children and grown-ups do over the lawns, Lots of with me. Why should allowed to de- nwada wadays be ! hat has taken our grand-j|foreigners howl about this. They k phd ears to cultivate and make|should worry, they didn't help make] The ‘Granary of Europe’ 4 ‘ 1 As for Mornit le Park, ‘the parks what they were up until) name given in ancient times to last year. DISC New York, March 1, 1) gimply been ruined within the ‘TED, | Island of Sicily on account of theiger. tillty, of 1ts Soil,