The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1922, Page 30

~ } } i } i ' } ' ihe ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Writes Dally Excent Munday by The Press Publishing xt Company. Nor, 58 © 63 Park Raw, New York, | RALPH PULITZER. President. i J, ANGUS SIAW, Troasurer, MEMWER OF FP ASSOCIATED FI > The Asso~ited Prom ie exatusively entities to the use fed repul WE AD EWE Geepatchen credited *0 11 oF not otherwise credited in thls paper ‘BRE also the Joos! mews published herein. MAKE THEM MARKET PLACES. HE prospect that the managers of the Ameri- can Cotton Exchange and sundry members are to be indicted and tried for running a gambling house instead of a market place is a long step in the right direction. More should be done, The scrutiny of the courts “should go deeper and extend to all “exchanges.” Wash sales, “room trading” and the bulk of the margin business should go The exchanges should become marts for the buyer and seller, not gambling hells operated only too often with marked cards and always a menace to yalues through tneir reckless practices. ihe Ways and Means Committte so-called pstimate” of the cost of the latest bonus sbheme is something more than $4,000,000,000. ‘That is a guess, pure and simple, and any other guess may be as good. No one can tell with any certainty ;Considering the announcement came the day after income tax day, it is safe to assume that Mr. Fordney and his iriends did not over estimate the sum to be paid _ WHAT OUGHT TO BE SAID. ECRETARY DAVIS is going through the mo- ; tions of trying to settle the coal crisis without a sttike. His present efforts are anything but impressive awhen compared with his recent actions in the threat- ened railway strike. Af ‘present Secretary Davis’s principal difficulty fs the unbending “outlaw” attitude of the owners and joperators. When Secretary Davis settled the railway strike he ¢artied the big stick. He informed the men thatythe whole power of the Administration would be dgainst them. “He threatened and commanded. Why, then, is he pussyfooting now and appeal- ing only to the “common sense” of the coal operators? Transportation is not a bit more a matter of public concérn than the coal supply. Why, then, does Mr. Davis attempt to cajole the coal operators? Why doesn’t he talk straight from the ‘shoulder and show kis authority? Is it the fault of the Administration? The country would like to know. Here is something like the message Mr. Davis should bring: Gentlemen, the Administration does not want to interfere. It may be forced to take a hand. The union demands are unreasonable, but the unidn is willing to abide by its agreement to dis- cuss matters. You are unwilling. By failure to discuss matters as you agreed to, you are outlawing yourselves, The Government has an interest in this dispute. If you can settle it without Federal intervention, | “well and good. But if you cannot, the Govern- ment will assert the same sort of power ii has ex- ercised over the railroads through the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Rail Labor Board. 1 advise you to get together with the miners, to settle and avert a strike. Otherwise, the Adminis- tratipn will insist on the creation of an Interstate Coal Commission and a Mine Labor Board. A little talk of this kind would be good for the operators, for the miners—and for the public. {They've STOPPED hangin’ men and women far the wearin’ of the green. PEACE FOR ST. PATRICK. T IS a good omen that New York is to have one grand, united St. Patrick’s parade and celebra- tion, that the factions have buried the hatchet, that the partisans of the republic and the upholers of the Free State can fraternize for even the one day so dear to the Irish race. New York ‘thas known its own little Irish wars. Even now quarrels rankle that are only partly submerged in honor of St. Patrick But if the Irish of New York can gei through one great day without trouble, there is hope for the future. Every sample of co-operation and makes repetition easier. nity 4 GOOD STARTING POINT BROOKLYN Grand Jury is expected to fi up the work Magistrate McAdoo started in his investigation of the American Theatre collapse It is to be hoped the Grand Jury will go furthe and investigate the possibilities of bribery and co.- ruption which the Chief Magistrate evidently pected. But while we are waiting for indictments in Brooklyn, is there any reason to delay invest Igation of the building departments in the-oth Commissioner Hirshfield reminds us the coliapse in 1920 of the Strathmore Bullding at Broadway and 52d Street has never been adequately Investigated. No punishments have been impose.! Thete Is thus reason to suspect laxity in the sdmin. fsiration of the building lawa In Manhaits This Brooklyn case seems to offer a fou start. “s Ps ! ing point for an investigation made more general To restore public confidence either to secure from competent investigators clean bills of health for every other building department or else to clean house in Manhattan, a Bronx, Queens and Richmond In Brooklyn the Boroug the broom too quick’ vealed a shocking condition BOUND TO ARISE. Ga THE claim of the United States to $241,000,000 of German reparation’ money for the expenses of American occupation troops on the Rhine, the Finance Ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy reply: While reserving the rights of the United States in whatever manner they shall be de- fined later, we consider that, our decisions veing taken under the Treaty of Versailles, to which the United States is not a party, the question which you have addressed to us con- verns our respective Governments and ought be the subject of communications ad dressed directly through diplomatic channels the Allied Governments by the United States. which “Oughee to be it will be necessary esident cannot use strate McAdoo re- M to to Which is a polite way of pointing out that the- nations signing the Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the German Republic it Berlin, Aug. 25, 1924, were only two in number. Also that while said treaty made free use of the Treaty of Versailles in specifying banefits and ad- vantages under the latter which the United States proposed to “have and enjoy,” the Treaty of Ver- sailles did not thereby become a mere convenient appendage to the Treaty of Berlin, nor did the sig- natures on the former become automatically trans- ferred and affixed to the latter. In short, the United States is courteously re- minded that it cannot act as if it had ratified or replaced the Treaty of Versailles when it has not done either. Its claim under the Treaty of Versailles must be considered by the Allied Governments separately, as the claims of an esteemed outsider who has re- grettably chosen an aloof position instead of the influential, inside one where he would have been welcome, The United States is not pressing its claim. Neither are the Allied representatives denying the justice of the claim. Sooner or later, however, the question was bound to arise whether the Treaty of Berlin swallowed the Treaty of Versailles. We are now in a fair way to getting that question duly and definitely answered, Chief Magistrate McAdoo says the American Cotton Exchange was a bucket shop. The directors of the organization made a mistake in not naming it the 100 Per Cent, American Exchange. Then maybe no one would have dared to disturb the 100 per cent. gambling game. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. 9 Our sparkling contemporary the Subway Sun again illuminates. Since two drinks for a quarter have disappeared, we can now pay two fares at a time through a turnstile slot, but no more. “Sociability is limited to two nickels,” says our mentor sternly, So three’s a crowd in the subway as elsewhere. To beat the machine the host of more than two must, feed the slot with nickels until his guests click by ° The iron horse may have no tail Yet rushes awiftly o'er the rail; It takes you travelling in a tride, To ride you only need the price! P. 8—Judge Gary can send ue the $1,000 for the bent Fane portation ode to Sixty-three Park Ro . Overheard on the B. R. T.: He—"So Amy's got Jim at last?” She—“Yes, and if he's going to put clothes on HIER he's got a job!" . Now the Prima Donna says she does not want her 100 per cent. husband back. Too bad! And they so ecarce! . Prohibition suggests Mark Twain's dictum on the weather. Fyerybody talks about it, but dore. nothing ts IN THE PUSH. A Tale of the Tabe and Its Terrors, CHAPTER Y. Tue twain sped cn after awhile, pausing at tho beldge where strong men shoved a few dozen more in st onsh door, while the guards loudly declared that thoro wae “plenty of room tn the 2 of the an they played both ends againat tho middle, Thie was done amid a fine chorus of; “Watol yer slop!” “Blop llvely!” "Den't block the door!" with got off at 14th Stree Me had oon an advertisement 44.(44,444 got off at thet atation (To Ne Continued) Loceening His Gaal Copyright, 1922 ‘« Evening World) Press Pub. Co. From Evening 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? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te @ay much in few words The Wind Changes. To the Kditor of The Evening World It is with deep sympathy that I learn of the theatre and moving pie- ture managers complaining of lost revenue due to installation of innu- merable radiophones in the home, It does seem as if an injustice is being done to these poor profiteers who robbed the public for only a few, years and demanded sky-high prices for seats. It, was then that they sat back in their chairs and laughed, But the wind does not blow in the same direction at all times and it is now that we can sit back and laugh With the initial outlay of only dollars any one can install a phone in the home rected and interesting cially those at Newark, N. J. sion of this money the outlay will be With the expan- unnoticeable in ‘a short time, you consider the amount of you would have paid to witn and uninteresting moving pictures. Every time the poor public has a chance to receive free amusement some one of the ‘hogs’’ jumps in and demands action to have t stopped, as eventually it will pro- hibit him from securing liquor and a when money s cheap vaudeville and few new motor cars each year Yours for more radiophones and less theatre going. RADIO BU Weehawken, N. J March 18. whe Churches and To the Editor of The Evaing Wo! Certain experts on he unemployed in ¢ andlers 4 al are us that the woodpile is t} ov “job hunters," This n for husky, well-fed men~ Is down when {t is applied to thin dlocded, anaemic men, have been suffering and pneumonta—and such than the experts’ about. Unemployment cond and those who from influenza are me ‘em to know the most part ipally the those who make mob sur- when ad- for help are printed— raized, and » crippled have x ce st all Furthermore, tho will t the inst to find Jobr. c of unemployment will moat keonly for Tho pont of tho effects mir them to come boon paraod, } ' n@ for this fe nEltt ¢ next two nthe p | inomt revere ‘ ading ¢ 4914; probably be World Readers Take time to be brief. learned that parades and mass mect- ings do not get them jobs. There is still another group that the expert on pan llers has not touched—the semi-professional ten, who in many industrial enterprises are regarded as luxuries, because they do not Immediately produce; as, for ex- ample, chen! neers and men of similar occupations serving mostly in a consultative capacity not hang around br These do d lines, and they are too proud to ask for help from anybody Then there are the gentlewomen who have never been out at worl There came into my office recently the widow of a former As: ant Dis- trict Attorney of York ¢ She had been reared at Newport and h 3 of culture about her, at her speech and manner; clothes were poor, and even thoug was raining she had nd umbrella had reached the last stage of “re- spectability."" Unemployment — Sunday which was observed by the churches of New York City at the suggestion of the New York Federation of Churches on March 12, resulted in a general awakening on the part of the church members, and a sense of their re- sponsibility toward the unemployed, particularly toward the distressed hoth mind and body, The chur cannot work out the economic as- pects of the industrial situation, solv- Ing the unemployment pr this is a job for industrial spectalists— but it can bring home to its members the import of their sustaining the r nd of human relattonshios toward those who are out of work I ) trifling a thing as being courteous to a man who applies for a job puts new life and hope Into him, and {t js just as easy to say a kind word to a man in this situation as it is to be gruff to him when he knocks at the door and asks, for job In developing the spirit which will eventually solve the unemployment problem there is no agency which can do more than the church, Mean- while, the New York Federation. of Churches will actually try to find jobs for men. TI ugh thelr members the will try to enlist men and women whe weil) be "good neighbors"’ to the d nd the suffering, and in so possible the churches will co-operate with existing azenc n ministering to th who are home to th t churel t 4 Madison Avenue, March 14, 1929. i yo UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) YOUR DEADLIEST ENEMY. If you knew that a snake whose bite would result in partial paralysis of your faculties were hiding in your house you would take very energetic measures to keep away from him. You know well enough, with the work that is before you, that partial paralysis will not be of any help. You know, if you think at all, that you are going to need all your faculties to, get a job and hold it till you can prove that you are worth the big salary that you think you are worth, The presence of that snake in the house would worry you a great deal—particularly if you knew that there was no way to destroy him and that your only means of escaping his fangs was to aveid him, Perhaps it may be of benefit to you to imagine that there is just such a serpent coited up somewhere in your house or your apartment or your office, and that his name is Laziness. You can't get rid of him, altogether. He will be around, watching for a chance to set his fangs functioning as long as you live. Only by moving around rapidly can you get away from him. He is not active. He can only get you when you are sitting down. This Laziness snake is probably the worst enemy you have in the world. He will not strike you down and destroy you, like certain bad habits to which you may become ad- eted. He will not even injure you enough to frighten you. You will barely notice that gradually you are losing your inclination to stick on the job till it is done, or that you are hailing a little more eagerly each day the opportunity to put on your hat and coat and go home. lf the bite hurt you would be warned. But it doesn't hurt. It is rather pleasant. And you do not really realize its effects till years afterward, when the work that you haven't done because of that partial paralysis is seen to be about all the work that was worth doing. Most of us are as lazy as we dare to be. We let the snake bite a little every now and then, thinking that we can recover from the effects by and by. But we never really recover. Every hour lost through laziness is lost forever. Regard it as a very dangerous and deadly snake, and perhaps you will be more careful to avoid it in the future. > | | (12) Nineveh was to Le destroyed | 60%" o} 99] | atter 40 days; (13) Ezekici bore the at sa act |] | niquities of the house of Judah 40 days; Christ w. wildernes + (5) Christ r rth 40, oye after His a4) tempted By Aibvert P. Southwick Copyr 1232, (The New York Evening) World) by Press Publishing Co. by resurrec ntinuation of the frequent ref-]°" a ei (1) The in the French word. by me ean aning tnd their Bible used F Ar audiences to 5 | wish for a repetitios a certain part «10 | of erforman. The neh, however, do not use this ‘ord on a: veigned 40] .imilar occasions, but say instewl, «1p fasted 40 days; Dis, meaning ‘'twice,”’ Elijah Blue Law Persecution By Dr. Sa E..St. Amant. VIL—IN NORTH DAKOTA, An attempt at defiance of @he Supreme Court of the State by a Chief of Police, with some ensuing “fireworks,” occurred in Bismarck, N. D, when Attorney General Will- liam Langer inaugurated a Sunday law crusade. An old musty blue law all over the State, and according to the newspapers the people never saw a “tighter” Sunday. It was almost impossible to get a postage stamp, and even taxis were reluctant to serve their patrons. Groups gathered on the street cor- ners, evidently surprised that there were laws on the statute books that man had made which ould make city and State as tight as Plymouth, Mass., was in the Colonial days, when they executed a cat on Monday tor killing a rat on Sunday and stopped bear baiting, not because it hurt the bear but because it gave plepsure to the spectators, The climax came when Associate Justice James E. North Dakota Supreme Court started of his Sunday and him. called up Chief of Police Downing on the telephone and informed him that the Sunday law was null and vot and should not be enforced, Downing demurred becauge he had orders from Attorney General Langer to enforce the law, “But I'am of the Supreme Court,” the Justice urged. “I outrank the Attorney General and I command you to direct these business places to open, as I have instructed.” Chief Downing was still unmoved, upon which Judge Robinson indited a written order hy the authority of the Supreme Court, which promises to stand as a historic precedent. It read as follows “SUPREME COURT, “STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA “To the Sheriff and Police of the City of Bismarck: “You are hereby directed to allow all business places and drug stores and news stands to remain open in the usual m ner as on other Sundays, “JAMES E. ROBINSON, “Judge of the Supreme Court.” newspaper. A cold unresponsive door confronted “This is a terrible situation—an outrages’ declared the venerable. jurist in communicating with the peace officers, “and it should not be. tolerated® another moment. mand you tn the name of the Supreme Court of North Dakota to ‘advise these storckeepers of their right to veep open. The law {s no good, It is an outrage. It is ridiculous.” ‘The Supreme Court has power to issue orders at any time,” said the Jodge in response to a question. “The fact of my order having been ued on Sunday does not affect its alidity, This is not a civil action but one affecting the peace and safety of the Commonwealth. ‘The Attorney General had no right to issue such orders and ubject every one to in- convenience, No Supreme Court will ever uphold that law A new: er which had been sori- ously affected by this blue law cars ried a news article in which wes In- serted the following Will Be o: To-morrow, Sund At East End of Wagon Bri A. Lindenberg, Agent. following day the Journal ‘The at Wahpeton, N. Da clesed by the enforcement of blue laws, a Minneapolis Journal dealer posted this sign all over town and distributed th sunday paper from a station at the east end of the wagon bridge, Which 1s in Breckenridge, Minn.” We are reminded by this of the words of Rev. Herrick Johnson, a one-time prominent advocate of blue laws. He said of the Sunday news- paper: “What a melange! What a dish to set down before a man_ before breakfast and after breakfast, to prepare him for hearing the Word of God! It makes it twice as hard to reach those who go to the sanc- tuary, and it keeps many away from With stores the house of worship altogether. . They read the paper; the time comes to go to church; but ft is sald, ‘Here is something interesting; I will read it and not go to churoh to-day?” —_——=>——. From Nature’s Past Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening Workt by Presn Publishing Ca, WHEN MONSTER FEASTED ON MONSTER, One of the most striking exhibits tn thé paleontological section in the American Museum of Natural History is a dinner scene showing one of the great dinosaurs, the Tyrannossaur, feasting. The feast is indicated by the skeleton of another huge dinosaur, a vegetarian, The tyrannosaur reached a length of seventy-four feet, was equipped with teeth from three to six inches long and did not have to argue with his dinner when meal time came around. The group in the museum—a restor. ation from parts of skeletons found in a locality appropriately named He'l Creek mudiands, In| Montana, showa rant Sautian” poixed over the m of his yietim, His firm pur. to give a warm reception to all ruders is indicated by the victors rent pose toward another mem his kind who, like himsels, 4x g on his hind legs, with the ntention of disputing the pre- toric feast "The group Is a remarkable dramatig- ation of one of the frequent incidents ver oO. in the world erroneously called “new,” about five million years before man came tagging along in the process termed “creation.” was invoked, with Puritan rigidity,* for the news stand to claim a copys He returned to his office andi, Chier + Robinson of the I com-!. #4 d