The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 16

‘ } i i Che Po a BY Ms Ro eh Park RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. 4. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH Wiorld, JOSEPN PULITZER, v The Press itt “roms New sod. PULITZER, Secretary, 69 Park Row. Address alt com: jentios Politeer Baiiding, Park Row, Money Post FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922. the pons UBSORIPTION “RATES. ie Post loe at Ni York Secon ™ fn'the United ‘states, uvtslte Ureater New Work One Year Six Months One . $10.00 00 ae ; a rn Week 1 Loe a World 35 cents; by mail 50 vente BRANCH OFFICES. , 1808 B'way, cor. A8th.] WASHINGTON. Wyatt Bide. ve Vathand F St« DETR DIT, 621 Ford Ride. CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Big 202 Washington st.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Qpers ‘St. LONDON, 20 Oockspur St. MEMBER OF TRE ASSOCIATED PRESS. for rept: credited a7 ‘exclusively entitled to the use ted Press IRISH CAMPAIGNING. EWS from Ireland continues to come despite the hold on the cables maintained by the irregulars. Free State troops are driving the De Valera followers from Cork. The result is a burning of buildings and destruction of life and property. Recent reports make American observers won- der as to the sanity of the Irish rebels. Military action against Free State troops is comprehensible, But where is the sense in the seizure of cables and the destruction of buildings? Why should De Valera make any effort to hold the centres of population against the Free State? Such tactics are contrary to all the ex- perience of the Irish in their efforts against Great Britain. ; Quick raids and quicker retreats have proved successful in the past. It is ciear that the Free State is superior in numbers, in equipment and in the sympathy of the countryside. And for the kind of war in which the frish opponents are now engaged the sympathy o/ the countryside is essential to success. ms In fact, the Collins strategy seems to be to drive the insurgents into the country districts where they may still be hoping for sympathetic aid. If this fails them, if the flying columns do not receive the support to which they are accus- tomed, it may drive home to the rebels the hope- lessness of their cause Meantime, the burning 0: buildings in cities seems a queer way of asking for sympathy Commissioner Hnright has dropped irom the force u patrolman charged with intoxication and assault. The offense was GommittedgJuly 9. Perhaps if the department had moved more rapidly in disciplining this man it would have served as a warning to the three policemen who ran amuck under similar conditions early thie week. ; SELLING OFF PARKS? LDERMANIC PRESIDENT HULBERT managed to prevent the sale of Parcel 20 in the auction of surplus teal estate owned by the city. It was discovered that Parcel 20 was actually, if not in name, a’part of Highbridge Park. Who made such a blunder? It seems to be up to Comptroller Craig te explain. Did the, Comptroller authorize this sale without checking ‘the properties to see whether they were of value to the city? When the sale was first proposed The Evening World suggested that the properties ought to be examined with a view to making parks and play- grounds from some of the areas. {In the first day’s sale severa! small plots on the lower east side were disposed of. They might better have been kept to serve as breathing spots in that congested district. Even a lot 50x100 would help. The city could afford to hold and improve such a vacant spot and wait until neighboring properties could be condemned for additions. A fatal accident in making a movie “thriller in so public a spot as Broadway and 72d Street emphasizes the serious objections to the de- sirability of this spectacular branch of “art. And this is particularly true when the public Jearns that the victim was a “double. THE DICTATOR, STYLE MONG other profound truths demonstrated at the current Merchandise Fair is this: There is no connection necessarily between the Declaration of Independence, the Nineteenth Amendment and the fashion of the day. We instance the confirmation at the 71st Regi- ment Armory show of the decree that the knee- high skirt for women must go. This is a great deal more than a reinforcement of the old adage that what goes up must come down. It is the proclamation of an absolute and non-debatable dictatorship. The day may come when geutle woman will out- vote her brothers on the question of who shall ‘be Alderman from the home district. But even @s her ballot is on its fluttering way to the bot- tom of the box, she will, be paving humble tribute to the men who lay their own terms against her comfort and economy Somebody remarked so lon: ago that the date is lost that a woman might be a? well out of the world as out of fashion We suppose the version among the designers and tradesmen is that one might as well go out of business as to let suf- fering woman wear the sam: gown for a sup- plementary season. Are there not new patterns to be drawn and new materials to be woven? And does it not go all to the good of industry? For mere men who stand aad wait while femi- nine fashions shift, there is at teast the compen- sation of an enforced variety upon which to feed our souls do our apprecia- tions. New forms appear, new colors, new cyno- sures of our {1 there were no such thing as style, nobody ccutd be in it. What would poor Robin do then THE. BACKGROUND. the walk-out on As styles change. bewildered ey ostensible reasons tor fl De cago railroad terminal systen the Elgin line, the outer belt” of the Ch are too flimsy to serve Popular opinion is almos: nvariably opposed Gur that is what the action at Joliet amounts to an no quibbling will change it. The brotherhoods do not wish to in- cur the odium of a sympathetic strike but are to the sympathetic strike glad to help the shopmen if tney can do so and still seem to save their face Legal regulation of empioyment relations—or the attempt to regulate them--was bound to de- velop this sort of “se or” attorneyship in the unions. ne monopoly, Joliet tactics are pretty much on a par with the quibbling of the employers i farming out shop work, ; { Behind all this jockeying tor position is an issue far larger than the seniority question or the shopmen’s strike. The sooner the public realizes this, informs itself and prepares to judge the whole issue, the better it will be. The present uneasy temper o: all the railroad workers traces back to the cpinion, generally held among the employ that the managers are out to break the unions. The farming out of shop v.ork looked this way to the employees. The Pennsylvania experiment with the “company union” was another symptom. The “fight-it-out” policy voiced by President Loree in the shopmen’s strike has been passed along to the men and, righily or wrongly, has been interpreted to them by their leaders as one step in a programme of fighting the unions one at a time The other unions, particularly the Big Four, may not now br seeking trouble. But their tem- per is on a knife edge and may turn either way. If they can help the shopmen to win, they believe it is to their interest ‘to do so, on the defensive principle of guarding the outer fortifications and not depending on the inner tort until the last battle. This is the situation which neither em- ployers nor the employees are talking about for public consumption, but the country ought to know, understand and prepare to judge. It is the background of the struggle and the angle from which the men, view every move of the managers ¢ law. The v tions hay The the POWER FOR EMERGENCIES. ‘Yhrough the guidance of the Transit Cou mission it seems certain that the various transit lines in New York and the railroad sys- tems using electric power will soon have greatly improved “tieing-in” connection with each other for use in emergencies. After the recent B, R. T. powerhouse fire The Evening World was first to suggest that such an arrangement was necessary. With the B. R. T., the Interborough, the Pennsylvania and Long Island and the Central and New Haven systems connected for mutual aid in emer- gencies, no one of these important transit links is Hkely to be out of service for long. Interconnection is all the more desirable at a time when the coal supply is uncertain The latest is the certified sweet potato. But who will certify cooks to transform certifled sweet potatoes into certified sweet potato pies? ACHES AND PAINS. Those purblind New England shoemak who pre- fer free hides and free shoes ought to be severely dealt with, How lively is Henry Cabot Lodge's explanation of his heresy. “The trade did not want protection.” It should have been held by the nose und made to swallow the does, The revelation is vect. however. Vo alt who ask will be given! Reed Smoot's mottu: “Beet it!” * Sun Yat Sen, deposed from power. hus youe to Shanghai. Seens as if Swatow would have been a more appropriate port Mr, Hearst has been detected vigituiy ot the sara- toga race track, Looking ahead for the September sprint? The crops ave the biggest ewer. The strike w the The smattest thing is the average pocket It seems very shortsighted im the Irish sebely to out the cables to America, Thew may need them to send for funda. » JOHN KEDTZ, - THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDA* Comfortable! AUGUST 11, 1994, Copyright, 1922, (Now Fork Bvening Wo By Press Pub. Co. What hina,of ‘etter do you find most readable ? From Evening World Readers | Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thossand words 1 a couple of hundve> ® There is fine meta! exercise and a jot of satisfaction in try't we say much in a few words. The Digest Poll. ‘To the Liditar of The Evening World 1 read with interest your article on the Literary Digest’s pol! on Pro- hibition, A number of my voted in tavor of the Volstead act under the impression that a repeal of the act means a return of the saloons. No doubt there thousands of others who have no objection to liquor but have upheld the act because they luave objection to saloons and the re- sults thdt follow—drunkenness, family in want, &e. I wish you would make it clear that this impression is wrong. There are a number of ways to dis- tribute liquor other than saloons— Government distribution, for example. A. J. BERNSTINE. New York, Aug. 8, 19% friends Ant Cause. To the Hultor of The Evening World I would like to ask Walter Rigger, who compliments you on your’ edi- torial, “Bigger Ireland Winning,” does he understand the Irish question or Irish history? If he, which I very much doubt, understands either, how can he, as a good American, hold two directly opposite views In regard to ireedom? The causes of the Irish and the Colonists’ rebellion uve identical with these exceptions, which give to Ireland a very much better case: The injustice lasted probably one hundred times as. long and was and is immeasurably more cruel, including organized famine, religious persecution, confisea- tion of property, forced ignorance, slander and about every crime on the calendar, including unjust taxation. But more than al! that is the one glarifg fact that they are two distinct races, with different languages and customs and that England is indebted to Ireland for civilization and Christl- anity. Yet in spite of all the ter- rible, long past Ireland i# ready to forgive, tt not forget, the past if Eng- land will get out of her country and let her. bo friends De Valera held out this hand of friendship, even Edmund Burke suggested, But Ingland wants to still hog it. How can any real American indorse that? The fact that England finds Lrish traitors to do her dirty work doesn’t count, There are always plenty of real patriots to counterbalance that and enough of liberty-loving Ameri- cans of Irish and other races to make it hot and costly for the robber na- tion. K, COSTELLO, To Beat Employm To the Editor of The B ing World Permit me to ask “R. B.."" who rants against an employment agen t Amen tes. just a few questions through your columns. How did you fee, R. B. when Take time to be briet the employer said, “You'll do"? Pretty good, I'll wage: nd acting of your own free will you went right back to the agency when the first “You'll do” panned out. And you repeated th dose. Then you cry over Jit. “If” you went to “that? agency you would have to pay out $166 of your hard earned money every year. Then why in blue blazes did there? Why not hustle around < 8.45 A. M. with a copy of The World (next to last page) and get your own Job? ONE WHO Hi\s. New York, Aug. 7, 1922. The Taberculosis Mena ‘he Editor of The Evening Worl A recent article in a New York eve- ning paper embodied the following sentence: “As tuberculosis is be- coming rarer in the last few years, the league has not been able to find sufficient Individual cases to use up its available funds.” Happily, it is a fact that the death rate from tuber- cplosis is being decreased. But it is a tragical misrepresentation to imply that tho disease has diminished to a point where it grave menace. These facts should be noted: 1. Between 1910 and 1920 99,000 persons in this city died of tubercu- losis, This ts a larger number than died from cancer, influenza, diph- theria, scarlet fever and typ! oid fever in the same pertod. 2. There are about 80,0) active cases of tuberculosis in New York City. Approximately one-halr of them are not under medical care, which is indispensable to thetr and the protection of has ceased to be a re- covery public. 3, It is estimated that there ave no less than 20,000 under-nourishea children living as members of families in which there are open cases of tubergulosis, and in daily contact with these cases. 4, Competent authorities tel) us that 200,000 New York City children are. under-rourished, and it is known that the seeds of tuberculosis are commonly implanted in childhood Under-nourished children are cially susceptible. 5. Thousands of persons seek in- formation and advice trom this as- sociation respecting the treatment of tuberculosis. Do these facts suggest a dearth of need and of opportunity for the or- ganizations which exist to combat tuberculosis? the NEW YORK TUBERCULOSIS As- SOCIATION, No {10 Easf a9th Street. Aug. 9 1922 MASSACHUSETTS PRIMARIES 3y° Iehn 1922, by John Blake PROFESSOR TROUBLI The difficulty of lessons is remembering them sons easily learned are casily forgotten. school or college could vthing he learns, education would be of consid Le lt every uway eve erably more benefit than it is. student in a In the university course called Life there is one in struetor who always has a big class and whose students becu what he has to tell them. .That instructor is Professor Trouble It is impossible to cut his classes, There is no way to get out of the work that he prescribes, . His exercises keep the mind busy and the faculties on the alert. His graduates are the w in the world and. incident: for more difficulties, and not come along. What you learn in Professor Trouble’s clussroom you will remember. Incidentally, your mind will benefit so well in the learn- ing of it that you will have less trouble with harder lessons that are to come by and by. Fortunately there are all The individual who gets learns how to get out of them without any sacrifice of self- respect or without loading them on other people's shoulders is pretty well equipped for the game when he gets well into it. The youth who is kept out of Professor Trouble’s class- room*by his parents because it is not always a comfortable place Jearns but little that is valuable, no matter how many schools he attends. His mind becomes so accustomed to taking things easy that when difficulty comes along he hasn't the least idea what to do. So he becomes a failure and leads a useless and an un- happy existence, and all because he never went to the best teacher that can be found in the whole world, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 200—TREMENDOUS. ‘The idea of fear and trembling un- ies the formation of the worl remendous."’ The English word tremble is a -elose kin, by way of the French language, to the Low Latin word “tremulo."” The Latin word ‘“‘tremendus” Kt- erally meant something that ought to lcause trembling, that is to say fear, either Because of the size of the ob fect so designated or because of siz added to other fearful qualit At first applied to physical bivcts, UNCOMMON SENSE ly, making the big money. It is easy enough to know his students. They are the men and women who are not~easily dis- couraged, because they have found out that almost anything can be done if it has to be done. i Their minds, having conquered difficulties, are ready sorts of troubles in the world. Nobody ever escapes all of them, Blake @ carts who are doing the big things at all discouraged when they plenty of them in youth and alone, the word was gradually exten '- ed to immaterial things, such as sues, movements, passions or other at: tributes of the workings of nature or of man, But the origin of the word 1s the primitive sense of f i tb ear at mere > who suddenly becomes generous may please fools but he will not deceive tha wise, ~Phaedrus A man The mind of the sordid man is conversant only with what shall be for his profit, —Contuetue Blue Law Persecution’ | By Dr... _. St. Amant Copyriant, 1922 (New York dEvening | orld), by Press Publishing Co. Vil. BLUE LAWS CAN’T CHRIS- TIANIZE. Not very long,ago, a court official of Linden, N. Wy fined @ poor aged woman $5 and costs because she car- ried to hey tyme in an apron seven apples Sh the owner of a neigh- a had given he + sion to ke. ue “Even if she did not steal the apples,'’ said the Judge, @ ought not to have been carrying them on Sunday."’ Following this dictum, he promptly imposed a penalty whiel emptied the purse of the aged victim, A few weeks prior thereto, the sarhe Justice fined John Sepp, an ice dealer for giving away on Sunday ice thar was needed for a sick baby. Remem ber that this travesty upon justice was committed by an American court in the Twentleth Century, and was the logical outcome of the operation of a modern Sunday law which gave the court authority to decide what constitutes proper Sunday observance “What a terrible God the white man has got!" exclaimed an Indian chief who beheld the driving from their homes of Roger Williams and the Quakers. These poor unfortu hates were thrust out from civiliza tion, with the threat that if they re turned they would be put to death, and were obliged to take refuge with the Indians. There ts not a precept in the Bible to compel, by civil law, any man whe is not a Christian to pay any re to elther the Sabbath or than to any other day to compel a man who is not a ¢ tlan to regard either of these days more than any other day is without the authority of the Christian religion The Gospel commands no duty which can be performed without faith in God. ‘Whosoever is not of f ‘gs sin.’’ But to compel men destitu o} faith to obse ny Christian in stitution is mmandiag luty to be performed without, faith in God. Te command unbeliever oe natural men to do any of these things i contrary to every principle of the Gosp Christ wants » help None Cae It is said, “The minority nw mit to majority rule.” eg on One's « to civic questions only and religion he owe pajorities. One 1 with Cod is tajority. ‘7 ybath is religious and muag be rendered to God only. The majority of the people of ¢ ration obs: no day Te majori must rule in religion, then i should be made that the minurity de 18 they do—observe no di Sunday closing has nothing whet ever to do with civilization or ethics gut strictly a religious ma and very one should he made aware of it lest he be ensnared by the sopl. istry. Sinners cannot be Christianized by 2 Sunday blue law —- _Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas “raga Copyright, 1922 (New Yo World), by Prees Publishing “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN Like “Gulliver's ‘Travels The Pilgrim's Progre and “Tubinson Crusoe,"" Mrs. Stowe's immortal story was largely fiction, but it did the work Its author hoped it would do, wid + it completely. As a piece of propaganda “Un Tom's Cabin’? is unrivalied. 11 more than all the anti-slavery men, politicians, preachers and o} put together. To Mrs, Stow more than to all‘other agenc' nd due the stubborn stand that was taken by the North aguinst the Iugitiy Slave Law; a stand that maddenédi the Southerners and caused them te precipitate the conflict which w result in the loss of a million lives and billions of dollars’ worth of property The characters in the novel were monstrous distortions, and the int ences were as false ax could be, Uncls Tom appears from start to finish a more perfect character than Chrict himself; and the other character were given the traits not of real Ne groes but of white men. Asa matte: of fact, there were no such Negroes in the South as appeared in the story and the main assumption of the book was wholly without foundation: bot to the Northern readers, unfamiliar with the Negro and the South, the story was accepted as being the truth: and it became impossible to make the Fugitive Slave Law operative north of the Mason and Dixon line. ‘The North was, in fact, taken by storm! From the Ohio to the St Lawrence and from Plymouth Rock to the Golden Gate the fecling agatnsi slavery suddenly became intense, and when the boom of the guns at Sumter was heard the North was all ready for wonderful book precipitate the war, but its influence was powerful throughout the “ten years of hell” in the South kmown as ‘‘reconstruction.”’ Even yet its spell is upon thousands and for generations to come the powe: of the book may be felt. And why? Because the author war a woman of supreme genius in the line of story telling, and told at right moment the story that pei voiced the feelings of a majortt; the people in the Nation. It was the right word, told in the right way, at the right time, and tt became popular with the people of the North as ‘Robinson Crusoe’’ is with boys all over the earth, Its historicity was no better than that of Crusoe, but with the hand of a master its author struck the chord+ of the people's hearts and the re sponte was instantaneous and ove whelming. It 1s doubtful if a book was eve! written that so completely and fir Alately brought about the purpose for which tt was written.