The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1922, Page 22

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922. ESTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PULITZE Pudliahed Dally Execp day The Press Pub Company, N 43 Park Raw, New York RALPH PU aident, 63 Park Row cusurer, 63 Park Row. etary, 63 Park Row. Hehtng MEMPER OF THE A LATED PRESS (The Associated Pree ts exclusively entitled to the use for, repubtteation re credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper THE RUMPUS IN THE RAND. N& from the Rand is fairly definite as re- gards the actual fighting between the in- Surgents and the military and police. The area of warfare nay be traced on a map. We know that the Government is using airplanes and bombs against the insurgents and that many of the rebels have bombs. But as regards the causes, immediate and under- lying, we have received only the most fragmentary information. This suggests that the British cen- sorship, official or unofficial, is functioning dili- gently and that the whole truth of the trouble will not appear until impartial reporters can get to the scene and get the news out to the world. Is the trouble racial, industrial, political, or a combination of the three? The Rand is a polyglot region full of old quar- rels and new. The Boer, the European and the Kaffir disputes have been augmented by the im- portation of Indian workers. The! materials for tace war are highly dangerous. The Rand has been developed in part under a system closely resembling peonage. Is the war- fare an industrial revolt which might occur with- out the Bolshevistic inspiration suggested in news despatches ? Is the old Boer Republican movement reviving and gaining hope as the result of recent events in Egypt and India? Did the Smuts party of union with England ‘win the election only to lose the power? Or is the trouble due to a formidable combina- tion of these three and perhaps other movements? If this last is the case, it is possible that the British element may fare badly for a time, only to win eventually, because successes would tend to divide the opposition. The world has watched South Africa since the days of Oom Paul and De Wet. It would now find more interest in the reasons for the fighting than in details of military operations. New York Legislators to Back Mayor's Home Rule Plan.— Headline. No, this headline does not refer to Mayor Hylan and his personally conducted, patented, reversible “home rule” campaign. This headline was dated Jan, 29, 1916, and referred to John Faithful’s predecessor, Mayor Mitchel. SHOW THEM SEATS. RANSIT COMMISSIONERS are planning con- ferences with committees representing vari- ous organizations of women. The object will be to enlist the co-operation of the women in lessening the subway jam during rush hours. The commission has the weight of experience in other cities with it. It is a common-sense move- ment for comfort and convenience of all concerned. If shopping can be done after the morning rush fhour and before the evening rush hour, the relief in the subway will be perceptible. But the strength of the case advanced by the ‘Commissioners must rest on the results of their move to increase non-rush-hour traffic accommoda- tions. Unless the commission can show the women a prospect of seats when they shop in non-rush hours, the women will have little to gain in revising their shopping habits. If they are to be jammed no mat- ter when they travel, they are not likely to change. Seats going and coming in non-rush hours aré the essential part of the plea the Commissioners must make. Otherwise, their appeals will fall on stony ground. Offhand we can think of no less congenial task for a politician than coming home from Albany to explain to his constituents the reasons for failure to Pass the Lockwood hous- ing programme. SIGHT HIM FIRST. HE Plesiosaurian monster—nicknamed ‘Ple- sio”’—reported to be roaming the wilds of Patagonia is the cause of frenzied debate in South America. Scientists want to study him. The Argentine Barnums would like to exhibit him as a “What is it?” But the Sociedad Protectora de los Animales wants “Plesio” to have {he freedom of his native range. If scientists want to examine Plesio, let them do if in a humane manner and from a distance. If scientists study Plesio from high trees on neigh- boring mountains and are armed only with good spy-glasses, it would probably be agreeable to the Sociedad and be safe both for the scientists and for Plesio. There are evidently two or three sides to the question. If Plesio is the last of his kind, he is probably getting old. If he were brought to Buenos Ayres, it might be possible to transplant some of the glands from the sand newt or from the water buffalo and so rejuvenate Plesio. Perhaps Plesio’s diet is not all it ought to be. He may be destined to die before his time because of an excessypf carbohydrates in his menu. A little > kindly but scientific feeding from carefully prepared predigested foods might help him to live three or four thousand years longer. On the other hand, it is possible that if the Pata- gonians no longer see Plesio from time to time, hey may forget the “swearing off” bee that fol- lowed Plesio’s last visit and may resume their wicked drinking habits. It is a serious question, as all must admit, par- ticularly when it has not yet been established that Plesio actually exists. Maybe it will be wiser to withhold judgment until we see Plesio in the movies. Then Mr. Hughes can send a note to tell the Argentine Republic what Senators think about the question of Plesiosaurian alliances and entanglements. DENSE! HY so much hesitation about settling on the minute this claim of the United States to $251,000,000 of German reparations money for the expenses of the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine? Didn't Congress and the present Administration at Washington forestall argument on such points? Didn’t the joint resolution of Congress, approved by President Harding July 2, 1924, declaring the war between the Imperial German Government and the United States of America at an-end, expressly state that not one word or syllable of advantage to the United States or its nationals in the .terms of the Armistice and of the Treaty of Versailles should be forfeited or forgotten? In its separate Treaty of Peace with Germany, didn’t the Government of the United States take over the benefits and reject the burdens of the Ver- sailles Treaty with the plain statement that the United States “shall fully enjoy rights and advan- tages” stipulated in the Versailles Treaty, “notwith- standing the fact that such treaty has not been rati- fied by the United States”? What's this absurd and persisting notion that the United States ought to be a party to other people's treaties in order to appropriate the terms thereof? We thought any such idea was scotched last August when the Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the German Republic was signed at Berlin. What a job it is to get simple facts into European heads! LOUIS V. DE FOE. HE drama in this country has lost an able, sincere and conscientious critic in the death of Louis V. De Foe. Throughout his twenty-three years as dramatic critic of The World, Mr. De Foe maintained the high standards of a job which he never rated as worth less than the best he could give to it. He had a deep sense of responsibility to his readers. He grudged no toil or study that would make his judgment valuable to them. He did his work with honesty, courage and a faithfulness that, merely on the physical side, exacts more than the public realizes from the dramatic critic of a morning news- paper in this city of multiplying theatres, Louis V. De Foe will be missed by the wide circle of those who had come to rely upon his criti- cisms of new plays and to find mental stimulus in his longer discussions of plays and playwriting. He will be missed by the friends and fellow- workers who were in daily contact with his energy, his geniality, his unfailing youthfulness of spirit. He leaves a name and record that will not be forgotten in a branch of journalism where only sincerity can hope to last. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. NEE 9 The best selling Sunday school book last year was “John Wesley Jr.," by Dr. Dan Drummitt. The Meth- odist Christian Advocate promotes a new word in calling him a “peptomist.” . Now, Charley Hughes, What is the use In saying there's no mystery? Don't you know ’ It's alla show, The Senate's “making history"? . ® The Norway, Me., Advertiser reports that “Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chaplin visited at Raymond McAllis- ter's Sunday.” The tmmortals must have duplicates. . Some sharps are tinkering with the Calendar, day months, The new one should be called Hoodvo! IN THE PUSH, a A Tale of the Tube and Its Terrors, CHAPTER I, extra month's pay. account of Swipem & Snap, the great stock and of caring for the big bundle of green goods th bunch the next (To Be Continued.) ou Copyright, 1922, Gow York Evening World) by Press Pub. Co, Isolation! - The famous tenor, Garcia, who Ams. = Am # ¥ this ridiculous performance Ross! clapped his hands to show his indift ennial good nature did not allow hin about the hooting of the mob. quisite ai This, he substituted for Garcia's luck. less Spanish song. ‘To escape conduct: Seville, Spain. Dr. Bavtclo, the guay From Evening World Readers What kind ot letter 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 mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake by John Blake.) HOLDING YOUR OWN. [ is far more common than the ability Of twenty men each earning the same salery for years only one is likely to have anything saved at the end of that time. A life insurance company recently estimated that one man in a hundied leaves wealth when he di die with nothing. Yet at least 50 per cent, earn through their actually need to sustain life. is a great factor in money unalterable determination gamble is a greater one. Practically all the v @ay much in few words. More Serious Evils. To the Editor of The Evening World: I am a reader of your editorials long period of time and highly appreciate your couragcous, fearless and conscientious fight for Justice and freedom—religious, politi- cal and economic. tional and constructive work is great- ly beneficial to your readers and citl- Your recent propa- ganda for modification of Prohibition law is equally valued by a great ma- jority of people, who find the recent Prohibition a total miscarriage on the part of our legislators, beneficial to the bootleggers, who are abusing and commercializing the law. Why try to establish the Prohibition Law while there are more serious, more dangerous social legislators to and that ts not enough bi whatever I can make for think this is liberty while the makers of the Prohibition jends are wining and dining in everything their hearts de- Law and their . Sixty per cent. Also your educa- Long Island City, March 10, 1922, lifetimes more th. mans First. no Evening World: Does the great humanitarian, C. B. K., expect us to stop cating meat and fish simply because the voor animals may rise up on Judgment Day and de- nounce us murderers? pathizing with the horse because he find anything To the Editor of to say “No” zens at large. tims of the bucket shop operators lately exposed were gamblers, THEY WANTED TO GET {THING FOR NOTHING. thout working for them. Gamblers are always easy victims for sharpers. ly imposed upon as cupidit for safe investment come to all people. Only those who have saved money can take advantage of them, Only those who have the intelligence to tell a good investment from a bad one can profit by them. A very little money saved every year may be the foun- A very large salary, three-quar- ters of which could be saved, is of no value whatever in the end if its recipient is in such a hurry to get rich that he bites at every shining finan Or is he sym- They hoped to guin for- is nothing as qu Opportunitie With men and women commi evils before olve and eliminate, as Unemployment, labor in several of the States of our continent, high rent, high cost of liv- ing, congested subway and elevated trains, maltreatment of passengers by railroad kings, China but right here in > the richest city in the worl see all this sob stuff wasted, create one extra job for some man, he dation for a competence, writes a million such letters every which are dangerous and detrimental] (ine rest of his life. principles upon al lure held out to him. The writer has recently examined the prospectus of a eompany which declares that an investment of ten shares of stock at $5 a share in a mining company will insure a fortune for the investor. There is nothing whatever in the prospectus to show that the company has anything of value to sell. dreds of people will probably invest in it—aifld lose their aper than charity, eost him one for it will not life, liberty and pursuit of hap New York, March 10, 1922. Not satiated. To the Editor of The Evening World Whalen will heart and go over to his beloved littl: Grans and Peopt To the Editor of The Brening World I can picture “Disgusted. He must be one of those ‘twell to do" 30 and 6.30 and watch the wild fign of his Islanders at the ferry trying to Loard one of his red tin Lizzies bouad for Silver Lake homes, say in truth how satisfled we guys who has other places t to go for recreation and rest. I will leave it to any fair minded more import- ant, the human being, or the grass? The good Lord knows how little the real poor have in life without some coming along and dictating about ‘grass conditions" and “foreigners.” the foreigners anyway? one’s forefathers were for- Opening the park and grass grounds to the public is an absolute This summer many of our soldier lads will have a place to slee; and some fresh running water. have signed himself “Selfish"—then The world is full of people who want your savings and who are unserupulous enough to bilk you to get them. If you listen to them you are in danger, mania is easily acquired. y from them, —whi person—whic The gambling Staten Island, March 9, 19. y Save your money and invest it wisely. Some day a real opportunity may come by which your work and your capital will make you independent. be very sure it is a real opportunity before you risk any- thing on it. “Platocrat.” To the Editor of The Evening World: On your editorial page of The Eve- aing World of March 8 under the hoading of “Where Did You Get That Word," you give what I consider yery wrong description of the deriva. tion of the word “plutocrat.” Any one who is familiar with Greek mythology will remember that Plu- planning to give us @ year of thirteen twenty-nine- it is brought back to consciousness, Bringing unpleasant memories back to consciousness is the safest way to just as flooding a dark room with electricity is the quickest way to kill the bogy man and all the goblins which children know to Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON “'Conceited''—or would be telling the truth, Pluto, was the eek god of the un- What to Drink, To the Editor of the Evening World: Allow me to state my case to you The god's name, Pluto, has noth- to do with the word plutocrat, hat being formed by a combination ¢ two Greek words, one pronounced Besides receiving this handsome emolument, in good years the directors, after declaring a 50 per cent. dividend, would sometimes give him 10 per cent. on his salary. Once, when there had been a $4,- 000,000 clean-up shaving Liberty bonds, he got an XXIX.—CHILDHOOD MEMORIES most interesting cases sband My husba au childhood memory er twelve, youngest four. works a8 & grave digger. when the day was over, after a hart day's work, he would come home, g¢' a pint of beer, and when the children were put to bed, T would share a glas- more nourishment than my three tie verb pronounced crato r who handles reported to me the other cannot consciously recall them, + the present time | mouneced Plitocrates For the rest he had the distinction of handling the sts attach so much y psyehoanall traders, y took away from the suckers one day and sold to an- away from her nd startled her with 5 may become The puazieg mother could not im- Now, T must d Us MUlk, as J au attord oulype quart pg Vulley, N. Xs bid way the ret of dur dite unless MUSICAL CLASSICS How and Why They Were Written By AUGUSTUS PERRY Copyright, 1922, York Eveniny World)’ by Press Publishing Co. ROSSINI'S “BARBER VILLE.” Wishing to write an opera based Beaumarchais’s play, “The Barber Seville," Gioachino Antonio Rossii wrote to his old rival, Paissielo, ¢ permission to do so. Years befor’ Paissielo had composed a “Barber Seville,’’ which, at the time of Re sini’s request, had begun to be fr gotten. Feeling sure that Rossid opera would fail, Paissiclo gave consent, To muke sure the fail of the work, he arranged with friend to creite a disturbance at tl first performance, His agent si ceeded admirably. The first pei formance took piace at the Argenti Theatre in Rome, on Feb. 5, 1816. Castil-Blaze expresses it, “It seey ag if all the whistlers of Italy, gathered there."" Signora Giorgi-Righetti, who sa the role of Rosina at the premiet wrote an account of the performan OF sayed the part of Count Almavi' had induced Rossini to atlow him sing a Spanish song to the ageot paniment of the guitar, under R sini’s balcony, during the first He maintained that it would give cal color to the piece. Unfortun Garcia forgot to tune his guitt impatient public. Paissielo’s frien needed nothing more to start th hissing. When the curtain finally fell faced the boisterous assemblage Rossini's pet ference and contempt. to worry over his failure, When, principal singers, Garcia and Gi Righetti, came after the show to con! sole him they found him fast asleep Fat, Indolent, independent, an artist to the core, he did not care a Mi day he wrote.the ex. The very next “Ecco ridente in cielo." ing his opera again that night, pretended to be ill. His ener worn out, the work was perforiifeq properly and was enthusiastically ceived. It scored a sensational suc cess and made the name of its com poser immortal. The scene of the opera is laid dian of Rosina, wishes to mai his pretty ward. She has, howev fallen in love with the Count Al viva, who is known to her as ¢ Count Lindoro. This nobleman. pe suades Figaro, the factotum, or m of all work, to aid him in his love fair. This, the barber, who is intl mate with Bartolo, agrees. to 4 Although Rosina is closely watched b her guardian and Don Basilio, he music teacher, she manages to inforn the Count by letter that she return his love. With Figaro's help Almal viva gains access to the house, dis guised as a drunken dragoon. Thi plan is frustrated by the appears of the guard, who arrest him. The ™ disgu.sed as a music teacher supposd to ne sent as a substitute by Doi Basilio, who is ill, he again manage to get into the house, He contrivd to secure an interview with Rosini and they plan an elopement. Sud denly, Don Basilio arrives and upset] their plans. Almaviva makes goo his escape. The Count finally wings his lady love and all terminates her pily. a i This comedy of "The Barber qd Seville has done more than ‘anythin else to keep alive the inemory of sini. It Is still a favorite with opers goers all over the world, MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1922, (The New York Event World) by Press Publishing Company. THOSE HOURS. In March we work four half ar twenty-three full days, or twenty-fi eight-hour days. An income of $2 month is $10 per day, $1.50 an hot 2% cents a minute. When buying we should pay Ie attention to the price on the tag a more to its cost in work, becau what looks like a bargain may be e pensive, Something that we only. joy for a couple of hours and which we pay $10 is certainly ex) sive. A 25-cent sundae costs 10 mi utes of hard work, yet it is gone half this time. Don't throw away those hours hard work. Make each one buy tw its value. agine how such a queer idea om have been expressed by her ch choanalysts know that child never improvise anything and e. repeat things they have heard draw conclusions, at times absu from facts they have observed earlier years. As the child's remi implied a certain fear he must he remembered an occasion on which supply of something very important him ran short. For it is always unpleasant memories of our childhr which make the deepest impress: on us and affect most mysteriou and powerfully our conduct, After thinking it over for a wl the mother finally said, I now member that when my baby wa month old my milk gave out.” Tr was the explanation for the ehi There is v often the explanation for certain p ple’s morbid fears, the fear that tl life foree may become exhausted, eat of the sun may decrease ld’s supply of coal may ¢ Those obsessive fears gener disappear when the incident wh served as their prototype is bre | back to conscious memory. 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