The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1922, Page 10

| Pudtimned ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH P J. ANGUS SHAW. JOSEPH PULITAEN Jr MEMIFER OF TIE Assoc! The Associared Prem ts excitirively en’ Of ail news a wean ; DRAWING TOGETHER. 8 Y att of Parliament and assent of the ing the Irish Free State is legally and finally estab- slished. Of happy omen is the coincident agreement be- tween the Ulster Government and the Government of Southern Ireland to co-operate for peace As Arthur Griffith said: “The document we Irishmen on botb sides signed last night will, if carried out in the spirit of the signatories, give us later a uni- fied Ireland. Every honest and sensible Irishman, whatever his creed, desires such an Ireland.” When will Eamon De Valera come down to @arth and prove himself an honest and sensible Hrishman? When will he see that the freedom and peace in Treland’s grasp are worth more than all the visions that tempt his soul? When will he realize that if he goes on trying to bedevil Irish hearts with old frenzies and old for- mulas he is committing a monstrous crime against the country he professes to love? The agreement between Northern and Southern Ireland is an instinctive coming together to pro- tect the new hopes of Ireland against forces that make for disruption. The most dangerous of those forces is De Valera When will he value his own fanatical projects at less than Ireland's future? In trying to show a beatific siate of harmony between President Harding and Congress, Re- publican House Leader Moade!! painfully over- painted the picture. By protesting too much and putting the color on too thick he only ac- centuated the rough spots he sought to conceal. A DEAL IN ANCIENT FERRYBOATS} NDER proper circumstances it is pleasant to record and approve youthtul veneration for age and faithful service. But this high regard is inappropriate when it involves the spending of $350,000 of money raised by taxation to buy nine of the venerable red sidewheelers. owned by the Lnion Ferry Company This is what the comparatively youthful Grover Whalen proposes to do, Then he plans to spend 200,000 more to repair these ancient relics. They need repairs. Some of these boats were ploughing the East River when Grover was in knee breeches. Henry Ward Beecher used to patronize them. They may be valuable as curios but are they worth $60,000 each as ferries? If Mr. Whalen can demonstrate their value, we Suggest that Chairman Lasker ought to draft Mr. Whalen's services to sell the idle Shipping Board vessels. It will be recalled that about a year ago Mr. Lasker proposed to sell off more than 200 Ship- ping Board vessels at $2,100 each. The contrast in the two proposals is striking. But there is also a similarity: deal was stopped by timely publicity. Jen's ought to meet the same fate. . We wonder how much of the Union Ferry stock is held by faithful henchmen of Tammany Mr. Lasker's Mr. Wha- Two detectives enforcing the dry law were disagreeably surprised to discover that their urrests were futile because the expensive “highball” evidence they had collected tested less than one-half of 1 per cent. kick. They will find many sympathizers who have hankered to arrest waiters because the evidence didn’t test more than the legal allowance. ALSO THEY OUTGROW IT. SELF-CONFESSED “flapper” speaks for herself and her kind in a letter printed in another column. The letter will cause anything but sighs from readers. It is interesting and presents a point of view that may have been overlooked by many of "the flapper critics The current garb of the flapper is undeniably more sensible than some of the recent styles. Low- heeled shoes, simple hat, tweed coats and suits, sensible stockings, sweater, and even the galoshes are economical, durable and becoming “If we didn’t stick up for ourselves we wouldn't be flappers,” she says.Jsn't there just a possibility this factor of flapperism is more important in the eyes of the critics than the dress the flapper hap- pens to be wearing this season? The flapper is always young but she “sticks up for herself” with all the assurance of age and in- experience. When this characteristic became too fully developed in an individual of a decade ago he was likely to be dubbed a “weisenheimer. Probably Flapperanto has a newer descriptive " phrase, but the trait did not make tor popularity Another trait admired by flapperdom is “being a good fellow.” It is an admirable trait, but why * should so many of the flappers devote al! the good {fellowship to “cake-eaters” and such? A littl republteation co ths pape more good fellowship for father and mother would help a lot in stopping criticism TWO JOBS; THREE WAGES. HIE public pays the wages of coal miners. The owners pass the bills along They ad- mit it It is also admitted that coal miners are fortu- nate to collect pay for 200 working days a year Such comparative regularity of employment is the exception, not the rule This means the public pays weekly Wage in- comes to three men. Two work. The other loafs. Vhe three incomes are not living-wage incomes according to American standards. But if two men could work regularly and eliminate the loafing member of the trio, it would be possible to pay two living-wage incomes and leave « surplus to be credited to the paving public Either the present condition is inevitable or else the public is paying for faulty and inefficient man- agement of the business The J World ex- W. Saward, editor of a coal trade journal and a recognized spokesman for A month ayo when ening plained the situation, | the operators, replied appear that the bad conditions in the labor mar- ket are unavoidable “As you sa). there keep all th is not euough work to miners busy all the time, but as many miners do not want tc time, how is the vork ali the remedied? operating companies to guarantee steady employment situation to be It might be possible for some but who can guarantee that the miners would work all the time? Coal operators are the last persons on earth whu can reasonably complain against the irregular habits of their employees. They scoured Europe for the lowest type of labor available. They hoped that ignorance and racial animosities would prevent unionization. They have not tried to re- cruit desirable and steady workers. A bonus or first chance at the work available would soon se- lect the more industrious and reliable miners The operators have the kind of workers they wanted. As labor managers for the paying public they have shown themselves to be ineflicient Otherwise they would not be collecting from the public three wage-incomes to pass on for the work of two men. The New York Herald gloats over the poss\- bility that imported coal may help to break the coal strike. Maybe Mr. Fordney can show us how this fits in with the Grand Old Principle of Protection. CLOSE. BILLIARD COMPETITION. HE billiard fans are not completely satisfied with the result of the challenge match Hoppe and Schaefer played in Chicago the first of the week The 1,500 points played didn’t settle which was the better player. Schaefer won the match by the small margin of thirty-two points. But he had the first play, and so had an extra inning at the table. Hoppe’s average run was higher than Schaefer's, so it is easy for the Hoppe supporters to say that if he had won the toss for first play he would have been the victor, implying that the match turned on luck rather than skill. The results were not entirely conclusive. The match only served to emphasize that the United States now has two billiard players of real cham- pion calibre, with the probability that the match between Schaefer and Welker Cochran this month will make it three of a kind. Keen competition in the next tournament is assured. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Horrors grow with improvements. The Indiana Senatorial campaign is to be conducted by radio. The duleet pleas of the candidates will load the air and twitter into Hoosier ears by wireless. Soon the only escape will be to dig a hole, crawl in and pull the hole in after one. The B. R. T. conductor genily spurned five pennies offered him by a venerable passenger “You'll get nothing else,” said the V, P. hey're legal money of the United States.” “1 know it,’ said the conductor as he the coppers. “But we have to laugh ‘em out in change.” firmly, when we This anecdote reminds us that between the B. R. T. coin boxes and Prank Hedley's turnstiles there must be a big strain on the nickel! market, What with so much careless shooting going on, Belfast is much like a border town of the old cowboy days ° . The editor of Our World is responsible for an in- novation. Following each article is a little box tist- ing the volumes written by the author and the name o: his publisher. Does the contributor have to pay cash for it, or is the cost taken out in work ° Now, if tunnels could only be glass lined, so we vould the river scenery as we tite through, ond dinire the shad as they go upstree ny, it would be as pleasant as riding on a bridge. He endeavored to make it “ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, Ar=£L 1, 1922. Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) Co. by Press Pub. From Evening World Readers What kind of Jetter do you 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 «ay much in few words. Maybe ‘Ty the Editor of The Evening World My favorite quick lunch consists of two raw eggs beaten up in a glass of malted milk. During the early win- ter when eggs were selling at 10 cents each it did not seem unreason- able to pay 35 cents for it. But now, with exgs at 26 to 30 cents a dozen, itis nothing short of robbery to main- tain the old price. This is not a Fifth but what is charged in a chain of cheap candy stores, Is this not prof- iteering of the rankest sort? Avenue price Prohibition and Crime, ‘to the Editor of The Evening World I firmly believe that Prohibition is responsible for 80 per cent committed in the You read every day that in- toxicated persons operating automo- biles run down and kill pedestrians on the sidewalk, or run into other auto- mobiles on the street, killing the cupants. You can read about drunken husbands coming home and killing their wives or children, You also ead about drunken men fighting with one another. People got of the crime United States, intoxicated before we ever thought of Prohibition, but on good whiskey and not so often, It only takes one drink of whiskey these days to get drunk, but not so much drunk as crazy. 2 Brooklyn, March A Flapper FI 1982 To the Editor of ‘The By orld Heave a sigh and say, “Another letter to read from a flapper,” but if we didn’t stick up for ourselves we wouldn't be flappers. [am a pupil in one of the high schools in this city and guess I'm a hopeless flapper bobbed hair, earrings, sandals, &e., but IT feel a whole lot more comforta- ble with this rig than I did last year when I wore more expensive clothes than 1 de and my now clothe lust lots longer than they ever have be- tore 1 wonder if any of the people who are the loyal citizens of this country and want to rid it of the dange flapper have ever noticed the chang in the young girls, Perhaps they member 4 year ago when the xitl ap- peared dvessed for business yr schoot in clothing unsuitable for office or school wear. She wore high heeled shoes and ws last year (if she wears bh Is NOW she's no flapper no matter what the rest of her apparel may be), Well, take a look at her to-day. They have sible heely If the weather she wears woollen In weuther she wears these consy y s shen Bromley, sweater or suit w lean Take time to be brief, cola cuffs. I suppose that out- fit is tical. Her topcoat is cut on simple lines and the weather won't hurt it. The coat she wor. year, why, the weather just ruined it, she's bobbed her hair! You in an time may have changed the style of combing yours, perhaps an attempt to rais mustache rates your upper lip; but. is soul changed? Suppose you we to your mother, wife or children, ¢ suppose the changing of your hair- comb has turned you against them But you think because a girl has changed her style she’s changed ©) 1- pletely. If she was sweet and poli.o and always willing to help a feliow deco- ulong, | guess she can do it now; byt if she was fond of having a man spend money on her, she hasn't changed. She will still let you spend, no matter how she dresses. A true flapper knows what it means, to be broke and she's willing to have merey on your pocketbook, and gen- erally does, She will think a whole lot more of you if you tell her point blank that you are A. B, (absolutely broke), Then she'll probably wear out the soles of your shoes by taking you for a brisk walk I don't suppose I've written any- thing that can be published; but I had to have my say, and if I've taken up too much of your precious time for- give a poor flapper once. M. E. B Shaken by the Tornado. To the Editor of The Evening World I read in The Evening World that Dr. Morris complains New York City right now is in hell, If this ‘Texas Tornado" had th» power to do away with theatres and prohibit danc suppose that he would do s *Have human beings no right to enjoy life by guing to amusements? If we had more ‘people like this “pexas Tornado” in New York City, it certainly would be hell MG New York, March 29, 1922 Why Net Sing in Church? ‘ro tho dditt The Hvening World Last Sunday morning 1 attended church in company with two rh friends During the singing of the hymns | noticed that my friends sang in a dimdent, half-hearted manner et, at times, th their lips moved, no sound could be heard In the evening the girls and m went toa party, and it amused me to see the joyful, unrestrained manner in which they Sadag the latest popular songs Now why should girls be afraid to sing in chureh when they will sing so enthusiastically at ¢ Perhaps they would show interest in ehureh 1 th hymns were sung in syncopated time ELL. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1 by John> Blake TRYING TO BE SOMEBODY ELSI. Pose and affectation, both disagreeable and unattrac- tive, result from imitating somebody else. The foolish little flapper with her powdered nose and floppy overshoes imagines that she looks like a movie ¢ tress or a society girl. She even thinks she is one of these individuals as she takes her coquettish way along the street. The snappily dressed clerk with his clothes so far ad- vaneed that they are funny to every one but himself has in mind some person whose position in life he fancies highly desirable. - Let a woman of wealth and fashion walk through a de- partment store, and half the girls behind the counter will be aping her airs till they find some one else whose manners they imagine are still more elegant. Send a parcel of weak-witted young men to a play, aud for months afterward cach of them will be trying to act, in the office and out, like the leading man. It is impossible to be somebody else. It is impossible to pretend to be somebody clse and be natural at the same time. . ‘ One of the curious things about the pretense that is so prevalent that the pretenders never pick out good ex- amples to imitate. They always choose something that is ar- tificial and cheap and tawdry, and seek to imitate that. You will find sooner or later that the only possible course if you want to get the most out of life is to accept the personality that was given you and try to improve it, It cannot be changed. You cannot jump into any one else’s place. The machine you were given is the one that you must learn to run, If it is a Ford you will have to keep it in condition and make it do the excellent service that a well cared for Ford can do, You can't trade it for a Rolls Royce, and you can't, by putting an elaborate superstructure over it, make anybody believe that it is a Rolls Royce. Kinsella and Keeney, prominent citi- zens of Brooklyn, N. Y. They were Jointly interested in many civie en- “TL... By? By Albert P. Southwick. ||} year ot each otier, 1884-1885. i 1922, (The y E . . World) by Pi Go, “Cornerackers” is 4 colloquial nick- name for an inhabitant or a native of The first known use of the phrase] Kentucky, thoagh the same term has “God Save the King’ was in the]|bcen used for the “Hoosiers” of In- “State Papers,” Vol. i, p. 184, and] “ana and the “Suckers” of Mlinois. under the head, ‘Flete taken by the Lond Admiral the 10th day of August, MONEY TALKS. is the following: ‘The watch ’ word in the night shall be thus: ‘God By HERBERT BENINGTON, Save King Henrye,’ tother shal ann-]¢ ‘opy right, a ri (New york a acne. World), swer: ‘And Jong to raign over us.’ "" Frere ODS * *# 8 TELEPHONE. ‘© Pugna Porcorum (meaning} [fF you have a telephone in your ur battle of the pigs”) is 4 eu ty} house and the monthly bill is $3.25, of its kind, as it is a poem extending| hy buying $700 worth of 6 per cent. to several hundred lines in which] bonds due in, say, twenty-seven years, every word begins with the letter] you do not have to consider this bill “p as a drain upon your regular income, 8 6 for you have capitalized it, The Chinese eall thei: kingdom] The yearly telephone bil amounts “Hwa Kwoh,” which means ‘the flow-] to $29 and the interest on your bonds ery xdom’—that 's, the flower of]to $42. In 1949 your bonds become Kinedoms. due and you receive $700, whi p one same time thie money | arned © Thice K's" was the nickname | 81,068 (or you or your telephone bills coulerred upon Messrs, Kingsley, for twenty-seven years |TURNING THE PAGES | ~BY~ THOUGHT that beauty was for- Until | saw a daffodil abloom And two bright tulips in my garden bed And silver spits beyond my Uitte room. 1 thought that grief would never po from me, Yet now how wonderful are ald: the days; Tam no longer hurt by misery But wild with joy and tremulous with Praise, O God, let not too many white stars fall, Nor tet your bushes bloom im one small hour. 1 could not bear the beanty of # all, For I would pause with awe defor rach flower And touch cach blossom with my fn- ger tips Aud feel the wind's first sweetness ov my lips. in the litle book ‘“Whit» April,’ sings Harold Vinal, who i+ a Mossachusetts addition to the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Mr. Vinal is a musician as well as a writer 0; verses, and he calls Voices a qua: terly devoted to poetry. eo 8 « E, Poore Reflects Backward «++ In Hamilton Fyfe's novel, “Th. Widow's Cruse” (Seltzer), Everar’ Poore relieves himself of this burden Progress is an illusion. It doesn’ exist Men and women who rush ove: the roads, which we pay for, at 3" miles an hour, are not a bit mure intelligent than the men ana women who tra’ by stage coach, There's no progress in talking across hundrede or thousands of miles by telephone, if those who talk are just as silly and greedy and cruel as their ancestors were hun- dreds or thousands of years before the telephone was invented. The one good result of the motor being invented is the motor-omni- bus, which takes people home from their work more quickly. The pri- vate car le an outrage. How fortunate, again, that the fly on the tire cannot brake the wheel. eee In the Age of the Flapper-«« Thus Dorothy Speare, writing in her “Dancers in the Dark” (Doran) voices some meditations on the ege of t! dapper: Last century--no matter what mon were—they were all women had—so they took them and made the best of it. Now—no matter what women making of themselves—they're al! men have, Encourage mothers too much and they will expect everything of you. When girls are idle they always have to be in love or miasing som or moping because they hayen’t got anybody to miss, The good girl, so-called, refuses to undertake any of the responsibiit- tles that for centuries have made her sheltered and protected. She paints her face far more recklessly than her sister on the atreet. She aims to out-demi the dem!-mondaine in her dress. She does not djsdain to use any weapon, no matter how bloodstained, to bring men te her feet, and then she leaves them there And once on a time we thought th coll Widow was a cause wort! celebrating on the stage! eee Why J. Chinaman May Sing High Writes Bertrand Russell out China, in the current Dial: It soemed to me that the average Chinaman, even if he is miserably poor, is happier than the average Englishman Restlessness and pugnacity no cause obvious evils, but All ou with discontent, incapacitate us for the enjoyment of beauty, and make us almost incapable of the contemplative virtues. In this respect we rapidly worse during the last one hundred years. 1 do not deny that the Chinese xo too far in the other direction; but for that very reason I think contact between East and West is likely to be fruttful to both parties, ‘They may learn from us the th- dispensable minunum of practical effictency, and we may learn from them something of that contempla- tive wisdom which has enabled them to persist while all the other na- tions of antiquity have perished, Which is part of the reason wiy Mr. Russell does not believe that ‘the kindest thing we can do to them'’-- the Chinese—"‘is to make them like’’ his own English ee The Order of the Balanced Life In “The Dingbat of Aready,"* 2 book named after a boat (Macmillan), Marguerite Wilkinson gives us this bit of sunshine philosophy: Hardship in the world of wood and stream is the first restraint man ever knew, the most ancient form of discipline, the beginning of that knowledge of the law which will be made into good morals at last, Adventure in the world of wood and stream is the bexinning of that joy in the power of body and mind which brings culture; it is the nobly deflant impulse to live freely and take chances underghe law; it fs the desire for overwheffning beauty. If life had meant only hardship for the race, it would have been unbear- able and long ago the generations would have perished of heartache, If life had meant only adventure, the beginnings of order never would have come out of chaos. The fortunate ones of the earth maintain an equilibrium between hardship and adventure in the mak- ing of days und years, knowing that to lose this balance is to fall away into death and that to keep it brings the fullness of life. Mrs. Wilkinson's chapters tell ef adventures singing rivers and ue bays, * and on brown, nd white,” stand why her philose- phy Is all in tune, have grown "on roads So we