The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1922, Page 22

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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republi- Of all news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Paper, and also the local news published herein. ———_— “A PERIOD OF REFLECTION.” } HE London Conference has broken up and many accomplished. F In a way that is true; in another way it is not ‘ ' will that has been say nothing The Allied statesmen have as one put it; have scattered for a “period of reflection,” igreed to disagree as another sug | Even an agreement to disagree is an agreement of a sort. Certainly if a period of reflection tol- | lows, it is much preferable to a period of action— if action means military | Granting that France disagrees with the rest of the Alliesgthe conference has made this clearer to the French people. They realize they are in a minority of one and that positive actibn against Germany will mean a break in which France takes the initiative and shoulders the responsibility sted advance. In such a case a period of reflection may seem “most desirable. Delay and indecision can only mean opportunity for the irresistible logic of events to play on the situation and strengthen the hands of the moderates France may still feel warlike, but not nedrly so warlike as it did before it entered the series of , “futile” conferences t the open cabaret is the best means to ft Police Capt. Michael Kelly does not believe } “keep the boys off the street corners.” WHERE IS COLER’S COAL? OV. MILLER has decided to call a special session of the Legislature to deal with the coal problem. It is expected that the Legislature will’ give more formal authority to the Gover- ‘ nor’s Coal Commission. It is certainly to be ex- pected that this legislation will include provisions t against coal profiteering. airman Outerbridge of ihe temporary com- ; . mission appointed by Goy. Miller urged New Yorkers to save fuel. Commissioner Bird 5S. Coler chose this warning as a text for a diatribe, saying “There is ample coal and somebody has it. { ‘The speculators, however, would like to get } & ton for it, and are paving the way by shouting } coal shortage.” The Board of Estimate is rushing to release coal purchases from competitive bidding require- ments. Commissioner Whalen is cutting down the Staten Island ferry service to save coal. 1¥ Commissioner Coler knew what he was talk- ing about last week, it is a proper function of his Department of Public Welfare to go out and find the coal. If Mr. Coler did not know what he was talking about, he owes an apology to % Gov. Miller and Chairman Outerbridge. Republican Senators will no longer have a monopoly of knocking the Republican tariff. The House is again in session. TWO-VIEW GARDENS. | faa dieg lh gardening is an old profession. There were landscape gardeners in the days of Babylon and the art has nov changed greatly in thoysands of years. The abbots and the nobles bf the Middle Ages employed gardeners who worked out effects of massed color very similar to those we see to-day on the estates of rich merchant princes. It remained for the city ef skyscrapers to in- troduce an entirely new requirement into land- Scape gardening. Many gardens of to-day must look as well from above as they do from the level. The a | small and inclosed squares such as y Hall Park, Union and Madison Squares and Bryant Park are overlooked by towering buildings. The — workers in these buildings get the view vertical et and give the landscape gardene: a new problem. a4 In many of the old formal gardens the prob- lem was to harmonize colors and select plants of differing heights so all would show. Viewed from 8 distance the spacing between rows of plants was less important that the heights of the plants. Broad, horizontal leaves might shade the lower blossoms without hiding the colors. Viewed from above, such a garden might prove ~ unattractive. The gardener in city squares must remember the view vertical. It is only fair to gay that in New York this THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 problem seems to have been handled competent- ly. The grouping of foliage plants and blos- soms has been arranged to please both the verti- cal and the horizontal observer: MORE GOLF LINKS, PLEASE. ire golf is beginning to draw as a watch- ing sport as well as a playing sport, and this in spite of the difficultics of following the play and the impossibility of than a handful of the participants in a match This is a sure indication of the popularization observing more of the game. Golf used to be the old man’s game and the rich man’s game. It is so no longer. Sarazen, the present champion, was a Sut many another chance to develop at country clubs caddie only a few years ago good player never has had his skill beca come too high The remedy for this is more and better munic- ipal golf links. Other cities are convinced of this and are making provisions. New York is lag- ise initiation fe ging It may be that the Hylan Administration has failed to meet the demand because it still imagines golf is a game for ive rich and not for the “common people” to whom it pays lip service. If so, it is in error. Many oi the ple’ would like nothing bettr tunity at the one game tha cally all ages and both sexes common peo- than an oppor- open to practi+ NEVER AGAIN, joth the anthracite and bituminous coal strikes are on the verge of settlement. The outstanding features of the agreements are that the four and a half months of idléness in the industyy have brought no material changes in the position of either party to cither strike. It is perfectly evident that the strikes might heiter have been arbitrated before they were begun. The operators and the miners propose an inquiry commission to find a basis for new negotiations next spring. ‘That is their right. But nothing should prevent the formation of a Federal commission on the coal industry, not so much to investigate for new facts a8 to take those already well known and formulate a new plan for the regulation of the industry. CLOVER—AND MRS. HARDING. HE letter in which Mrs. Harding inclosed a check for $100 for the support of Clover, the fifty-one-year-old horse of Catawissa, Pa., will serve a purpose beyond the power of money to buy in impressing upon millions of readers that “the loving God never intended dumb friends or self-sacrificing men to be consigned to mother earth merely becaus2 the most and the best their strength has been exhausted in human service.” It was in April that the Rev Dr. Uriah Myers of Gatawissa, Pa., reluctantly told The World that his condition as a ‘retired clergyman did not permit him to care as he would wish for Clover, a famous veteran of the turf ne had owned for thirty-five years. Publication of the fact by The World on April 11 brought immediate re- sults that placed Clover’s future beyond doubt. In passing upon Clover’s claim to age unusual in a horse, veterinarians were faced by a diffi- culty; they had nothing with which to make com- The years of Dr. Myers’y ownership were sure; also the old custom of not racing a horse until he was five years old. The ten years between presented the only difficulty, and they were bridged by horsemen with long memories. Clover made in state a trip from Catawissa to New York in May for the Masonic Fair; when he dies his bones are to be mounted like those of Sysonby for study; all at once he became a notable. So the tough old Hambletonian scion, fortu- nate, as Mrs. Harding says, in that “failure to attain wealth has not made a cruel and incon- siderate master” of his owner, public pet and ward of generous hearts, with a White House letter among his trophies, faces the great assize of horses and men, “in Ruman service” still as an object-lesson in mercy and thoughtfulness of parison ACHES AND PAINS With splendid If-deniat the Republican tariff- makers have left ivory on the free list. The Elephant must take care of himself. “Sugar” was long used as a phrase for “graft” be- fore that pleasing word came into popular use, e It is stated that the Ufe of a $5 dill is about ten months, Not in most pockets. Now they say Lloyd George will get enough for his memoirs to retire on. How's that for self-capitaliza- tion? . Hooch cast upon the waters sometimes returns like the proverbial bread, Here's @ retired fireman hook- ing up a quart from the raging Harlem, The sea is said to be full of hottles awaiting hooks, thrown overboard by nervous bootleggers. ° One vest vet: There will be plenty of coat this winter—at a price within the reach of all, if they stand on tip-toe and stretch a little! j JOHN KEETZ, fo say much in a few word Wild Flower Ben To the Editor of The Lvening World An vut-of-town — reader-reporter, made the eriticism 2" had been gath- ms ‘The writer of that letter displayed ignorance of beautiful wild Does she know that one blossom is composed of 1: tiny litle white flowers; and { one dainty pink or dark red flower forms the center of this dainty bloom? ° A bunch of these exquisitely fine flowers, with the dainty wild r i a perfectly beautiful combination, 4 one likes a color with the white, I hope the “City ” many opportunities of have From Evening World Reader athering our | wild flowers, and I also hope the) writer of that article will have her eyes opened to the beauties of the abused wild carrot flow FRANCES ELLIOTT COLLINS. Nyack, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1922. “Kindly Explain ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Would some one kindly explain-— A thing I've given in vain—— The secret of upholding high rental? For all our pleas not giving a con- tinental, With rows upon rows of newly built flats e And signs galore of ‘To Let,” The landlords are standing pat. “Pay up or get out," their best bet. M. S. WECHSLER. New York, Aug. 10, 1922, Water and Wine. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: The writer of the letter signed “Brought Up as a Christian’ doesn’t know his religion. It is surprisin that men will use the miracle of the changing of water into wine as an argument against Prohibition, The ‘argument"’ i a fallacy This, Christ's first miracle, He performed as proof of His divinity, and not to show whether He condemned or ap: proved of the drinking of liquor, The contest fully expla why Hc chose wine. But Christ answers the question, and all that will ever come 18, 8-9: ‘And it thy hand or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off and cast it from thee, It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee pluck It out.” Far better it is to “but oft" liquor and go without the momentary pleasures of remarirer ay liquor, to have #reatest source evil, the wrecked lives and wrecked homes, of misery and hell All through the cha! wiat Nquor has done. Let us now see what the absence of Nquor will do, But you Prohibition similar questions up, in Matthew drinking the | self | wrong 5, 1922, (New REL ine By John Cassel What hind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words (1 a couple of hundre¥? There is fine me tal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be twief. don’t expect a drunkard to stop drink ing overnight, Deeply thinking, what lias been accomplished in the tirst tw years of such a drastic change is really marvellous, No gr ange, no new al cl era in civilization ever came about overnight and without the greatest re- istunce. It may take at least a gener- ation to bring about real Prohibition, but) what must ENFORCE THE now is FERRIS New York, Aug The Land an People, To the Editor of The Jivening World I appreciate the views of your cor- expondent George W. Mohr in a re- cent issue of The Evening World, There is something wrong with a Government when a man finds him- hetter off in prison outside. ‘The claim that any man ca find employment if he wishes to is all tommy rot These are times that try men’s souls. There is something and wretchedly wrong with conditions as we find them to-day. Every intelligent person knows this, though he may hesitate to put his finger on the cancer that is eating the heart out of our civilization just as It did in those that preceded us. There is one remedy and only one and that is to restore the land to the people. Not put the people back on the land, but give the land back to the people. Now of all times is the time to press home the great truths we teach, the restoration of the land to the people, the justice which has been so long denied, The right to use land is nowhere questioned, but the right to hold it out of use is being openly and widely denied. It is over than when | this issue chiefly that the world is at war to-day. What the people need is ght, light and yet more light JOSIE THORPE PRICE Inwood, L. I., Aug. 10, ‘The Family Expenses, To the Editor of ‘The Evening World I have read the interview with Dr Anna Garland Spencer in The Eve- ning World of Aug. 9 If a wife contributes her halt of ex- pense money to the household finances should she bear children entirely tree of pay for the inconvenience, suffer- ing, loss of pleasure and absence from social functions for the best part of two years? The child takes its father’s name, another point in favor of the husband, For all this how much ought @ husband to be willing to pay? And if childbirth results in poor Ith thereafter should the wife take husband into court and for a specific allowance, dan how would Dr. Spencer arrange es, &e,, ange th ‘A more general discusgon of these points would be interesting A NEW JERSEY WOMAN UNCOMMON SENSE By John (Copyright, 1 Blake by John Blake.) NIGHT AND DAY DOLLARS. Put a dollar to work and it becomes your day and night servant for the rest of yourslife—provided, of course, yo find the right job for it. As well throw it into the street as find the wrong job, for it will leave your employ in the end anyway you considerable worry while it is working for you. The intelligent man, whether he is working for himselt or for somebody else, scts as many dollars to woxk as he can save. Usually, if he knows but little of investments, he gives his dollar a place with the Government, which means that he and the Government become its joint employers. The Government finds abundant things for the dollar to do, and the dollar's owner is sure of a settled income from it, which averages.about four or four and a half cents every year, Not a great deal, that four and a balf cents, when you have only a hundred dollars, but quite a little sam when you have ten thousand of them, Well invested in Government bonds or securities about which there is no doubt, your dollar will work for you night and day ‘ It is no stickler for hours, Tt never works with one eye on the clock. It never goes on strike. 1 Weekdays and Sundays and holidays it is piling up the interest which means independence for you by and by. When you get that interest you can put it to work in the same place as the original dollar, and if you continue to do that you will soon be surprised to sec how you are near- ing independence. i The dollar that you keep in your pocket or the dollar that you spend for something that you do not need or the dollar that you foolishly lend to somebody who has a hard- luck story to tell you do no good in the world till some thrifty person gets hold of them and puts them to work. : Then they begin to build railroads and steamships and factories and to give employment to men—-and the more men who are given employment the better times become and the better chance you have to get more dollars to save and set to work. It is a sort of benignant circle, with all the little dollars going round and round, and ench one of yours ¢ nd give opping four and a half cents into your pocket every revolution, It is hard work to save them, of course, but the sacrifice is usually worth while. draws the delivery wagon with our When You Go to the food. Museum : In this stage of the horse, the side- oes have entirely disappeared, und ENTER—THE HORSE. i are represented only by long splints The true horse, called “Equus” by]on the tect. The crowns of the e much longer, The head has grown longer, and the crea- ture is much larger than he had been the actentists, began to trot about the earth at about the same time ‘hat animal's man, whose age-long companion and}in any earlier period servant he was destined to be, began! As the skeletons in the American to walk on two legs without trouble. | Museum of Natural History show, It had taken perhaps two millions of years to evolve, from the catlike original ancestor—an animal with (our toes—the one-hoofed the horse was beginning to come into his own. But many thousands of years were destined to pass before man creature that took him in as a’ member of his family, / | Blue Law | Persecution By Dr. 8. E. St. Amant York Bvening Co. ‘ON A CIVIL BASIS” (!) Section No, 6955 of the Public tatutes of Vermont reads thus: “A person who, between 12 o'clock Saturday night and 12 o'clock the following Sunday night, exercises any business or employment, except works of necessity and charity, or holds or resorts to a ball or dance or uses or exercises a game, sport or play or resorts to a house of en tertainment for amusement or recre- ation, shall be fined not more than $ The law of that State further pro- vides that any person who “visits trom house to house, except from mo- tives of humanity or charity or for moral or religious edification,” is to be fined! According to this statute, a church member cannot invite the clergyman to dinner without caus- ing him to violate the law. As in Georgia, “indecent bathing” is prohibited only on Sunday; we are left to infer that it, is perfectly proper and allowable on other days Notwithstanding the incongruity of Sunday laws with the American prin ciples of absolute equality and entire ation of the state from th church, the judiciary of this country are endeavoring to uphold the! const! tutionality of these laws on the ground that they are civil, not religious. As Cato wondered how one auger could look another auger in the face without laughing, so we are led to speculate on the mental processes of the judi that will render a deci sion uinst a young man because he takes a lady of his choice out riding on Sunday, as was done by a Now England court, and then with a mock solemnity proc 1 to ert that the Sunday laws of this country “rest en tirely upon a civil basis. If the Dark Ages had only been ssessed of some modern American Judge they might have disposed of their fifty million or more of marty’s on an “entirely civil basis, and thu avoided the ignominy that is nece ily attached to religious persecit tion The attempted distinction the “civil? and the> “religious” bath reminds one of rtain Bishop, who said to his valet: “Oh, but you know, John, 1 don't ras a Rishop, only as a man.” That is true, Your Grace,” replic the valet, “but I was thinking the when the devil comes after the man what would become of the Bishop.” fa ET \ between Sal Lol ac sw Epoch-Making BOOKS oF World), by Presa Publishing Co. ‘ “THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS. ‘The epoch that was made by "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was ended by ‘Thome: Dixon's ‘The Leopard's Spota.”’ The spell of Mrs, Stowe oni reached from about the time of t repeal of the Missouri Compr in 1850, to the beginning of the Administration, 1876 When President I full of t rapidly growing spirit. of recone tion, removed the bayonets from t South, the Anglo-Saxon began agen ssert himself and to get the deat the sitiation threatencd his to grip on the throat, of that had so seriously civilization But for some tyme yet-the’ great North was to remain under t! hypnotic influence of Mrs. wonderful book, [t will be remem bered how the “Bloody Shirt tinued to wave throughout the North. ern section and how reluctantly it wis that the South was credited wit! desire to play fair with Republica in general and with the freedmen in P ular, glamour of “Uncle Tom's Cabin was still magical, and determination of th X-slave aris tocracy” to undo the results of the war was widely rted and sincerely believed. ) strongly was this felt that when es took the troops away from the South he was met in many quarters by curses and execration: Reconstruction was nearing its end in the’ Southland, but in the North: the spirit that had been responsible for recofistruction was still in many places as strong as ever. > But fortunately for the South, and for the whole country, a man of genius was about to come forth. In due time he stepped before the foot- lights of the theatre of public opinion with the story of the “ten years of hell" In Dixie, and the result was on a par, so far as the suddenness and completeness of results were ct cerned, with ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin, In “The Leopard's Spots," Dix with the brush of a supreme artist, painted reconstruction as it was, showed up in masterly fashion tho reign of the carpetbagger and his ebony henchmen, and no more was needed to inauyurate a new era in the feeling of the whole country Anglo-Saxons north of Mason and Dixon's line, izing for the first time what they had thought to do to Anglo-Saxons south of that linc, re- gretted the monstrous thing they had permitted their politicians to attempt and forthwith held out the hand to their brothers of the South, From that handshake the thrill of good will went throughout the Nation, North and South began to understand each other as t had never done before; business revived in the Souti, confidence and credit were restored the North, the brain and ch ¢ of the Southland resumed’ contio! 0} affairs, civilisation was saved, for the first time since the days « Philips and Garrison, Yancey #nd Toombs the country was at peace and heuded for prosperity and happiness. \