The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1922, Page 26

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Bie 2540 fotel Theresa’ Bide. | DET" ‘ord BRONK, 410 E. 140 St, meer| Cyc ago, 1000 Aiallers, Bldg. he Washington St.| TARIS, 47 Avenue de /Opare teed 17 Puliow se LONDON. 290 Cockspur 6% Wyatt Bldg; MEMBER OF THF ASSOCIATED PRESS, Spates Press fs exclusively entitled to the une for sons, ell news despatches credited to It of not o Paper, and also the local news published herein. ‘ > ——— HEALY TO AMERICA. HERE has never been a time in his career when what Tim Healy had to say for Ire- Jand hadn't a sharp point to it. As first Governor General of the Irish Free State, his message to America is no exception: “I would usk the American public to give the new Government moral support, or at any Tate not to give its enemies financial support. “The Free Stute's opponents have ro policy nor panacea except wrecking railways, break- ing into banks, burning houses, ambushing troops and laying road mines. No American or Irtsh-American who sends money here to in- jure the Free State should close his eyes to the nature of the campaign he is helping to keep up.” No Irishman has a better right to say that to Irishmen and ! s in the United States than Tim Healy. Time was when he asked for their money and their sympathy as loudly as any leader in the fight for Irish freedom. When Tim Healy, satisfied with the measure of freedom secured to Ireland by the new Constitu- tion, becomes the only official in Ireland whom Jrishmen can by any stretch of imagination asso- ciate with “British rule,” it is indeed time for all true friends of Ireland in the United States to shut their ears and their pocketbooks once and for all to a fanaticism that would rather have bloodshed than peace. The Irish rebel war chest should have seen its Jast American dollar. eee , “Best mind” advisers of the President are blamed for the mess in the message. Perhaps President Harding has no real mes- sage for Congress just now beyond “Pass the Ship Subsidy Bill. Then we'll see.” ’ ON THE TURN. R. EDWIN C. DINWIDDIE, expert trainer of legislators for the Anti-Saloon League, is not making light of current efforts to have Congress amend the Volstead Act and re-define intoxicating liquors. “We have got to buckle down,” declares Dr. Dinwiddie. “The wets are organized. Of course if we would just drift along and do nothing they would make gains, but we do not intend to let them.” In other words, when it comes to a showdown the Prohibition forces have to abandon the pre- tense that people and Legislatures can be left to themselves to uphold present Prohibition law. Slowly but surely public sentiment is undergo- ing change or modification that makes the Vol- stead extremists fear to find positions reversed, with themselves on the defensive. Before they scored their victory only a few far-sighted defenders of liberty were talking as Dr. Dinwiddie talks now. The wheel is on the turn. Maine Bars Ice in Drinks.—Headline. Only because it's dangerous or partly be- cause it's agreeable? THE FAMILY ATTITUDE. MBASSADOR HARVEY'S speech at the % dinner of the American Circle of the Lyceum Club in London pleasantly reminded European nations of the parlous state into which they have gotten themselves. Said Col, Harvey: “The condition of Europe has become s- im- measurably worse in the last two years that I ao not know what to make of it unless it means the darkness that comes just before the dawn. “If Europe bas to go through another year ke the last two, I do not know what wil! hap pen to it or any of us.” Think back three years and recall what Her- Bert Hoover, before he became one of the pillars of “Normalcy,” was earnestly begging his fellow countrymen to realize: “Bee stability of the whole of Europe hangs upon the maintenance of the Treaty (of Ver- sailies) and the economic situation in the United States depends upon maintaining the stability end gradual recuperation of Europe's buying power.” “Maintenance of the Treaty of Versailles” then meant for Mr. Hoover ratification of the treaty by the United States Senate and member- ship for the United States in the League of Nations. When Mr. Hoover speaks of European nations now, it is gruffly to remind them that they must pay their debts. Col. Harvey contemplates them chiefly in wonder what is to become of them. This is the family attitude of the Harding Administration toward things foreign. With Amibassador Harvey it comes natural. But what a distortion and diminution of that which was once Herbert Hoover! A BAD TOOL. N FIGHTING the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill last week the Democrats showed how effec- tive a filibuster could be. It was no single-handed effort in which one Senator pitted physical endurance against the patience of the Senate. It was cleverly conceived and executed and may have been a valuable les- son to the La Follette group, determined as it is to balk the Ship Subsidy. The Senate is again talking cloture. It would be easy enough to end individual filibusters, but it is doubtful whether any cloture rule could be devised that would prove effective against a fili- buster by a whole party, unless Senators were willing to go all the way and accept procedure similar to the House rules. The Dyer bil was bad. So is the Ship Sub- sidy. So long as the situation is as it is, there is reason for filibustering. But this is the use of a bad tool to do a good job. It does not tecommehd the filibuster itself. If the filibuster were made impossible, the re- sult might prove beneficial to the Senate, to the quality of legislation—and even to the general body of the voters. The Dyer bill is a striking example of a meas- ure so iniquitous and unconstitutional that it might never have been proposed if its advocates fad noi felt certain th ter would fo! low. - Many Republican legislators knew it for what it was, a political gesture, and would have refused support if there had been a particle of danger that it could be enacted. If filibusters were impossible, fewer measures of the kind would be introduced. Senators would feel more responsibility. And the voters might be moved to use more discretion in selecting Senators. As it is, the careless voter is unconsciowsly depending on Senators from other States. He trusts other voters to: protect him from his own folly. ‘ If a war tank can operate both on land and water, why not ordinary automobiles? The question will interest motorists who have wait- ed hours for ferry service over the Hudson and elsewhere. CHORES NOT CHILD LABOR. A WEALTH of truth lies in the words: “Chores and childheod should go to- gether.” The speaker, Judge Cabot of the Chil- dren’s Court in Boston, went on to say: “The homely tasks of every household are the heritage and duty of childhood. The gilded youth who is not forced, or even allowed, to chop the kindling and carry out the ashes, to shovel the snow and beat the rugs {s an object of great pity. Work gives the children some thing to think about and keeps them away from crime.” The very scarcity of “chores” in urban life is a drawback for city children that offsets other manifest advantages. If, in addition to the homely duties, the parents can help and en- courage children to find odd jobs in the neigh- borhood and so earn pocket money for them- selves, so much the better for children and parents. The boy or girl who learns to want to earn, to be, in a measure, self-sufficient, is get- ting a good start. But it cannot be too clearly emphasized that chores in the home or on the farm and the part- time job in the neighborhood have no relation to the problem of “child labor.” No restrictions on child labor in mills, mines, factories and farms can be too severe. The variety and responsibility of “doing chores” is a tonic for boys and girls. Daily drudgery, routine, long hours, unhealth- ful surroundings and the taskmaster are abso- lute evils. ACHES AND PAINS When we read Major James Calvin Hemphill’s blue To the Editor of The Ever Doubtless some of be glad to learn of an opportunity for personal, intimate and deserving giv- ing at Christmastide which is not in- cluded in general charities. There are 185 patients at the State Hospital for Crippled Children at West Haverstraw who are being cured of bone and joint diseases or haying lost functions of arms and legs restored 80 that they will be able to t porting when they are dis They are an unusually b happy group, but their Christmas stockings will not bulge by any means unless Santa Claus gets help. The State provides everything necessary for the cure and care of these children, but Christmas is a thing aside, and, after all, is not real unless the Christmas spirit 1s present with the gift. A letter of inquiry will bring the name or names with short deserip- tions of boys or girls from 3 to 16 years of age, and the presents can be sent directly to the children. While the checks are, of course, acceptable, we feel that it 1s better for the giver to take the time and trou- ble to make the selections and pur- chases. For further particulars add: Surgeon in Chief, Apt. 10 enth Avenue, New York C: phone, mornings SUR New York, Dec. 1, 1 or tele- Collewe Girls, To the Editor of The Evening We I have never contributed t a news- Presbyterian editorials in the Spartanburg Journat |paper in this capacity before, but 1 we wonder why his first name is not John have become so incensed at the re- * marks passed mere ‘fossilized’ For @ broken-back nation the Turks have done pretty well in establishing @ “sphere of intuence.” men like Mr, See and ‘‘ex-Captain,” that I fecl it ts about time to chime in, The low-priced restaurants have changed “Seats for Aisae ie Leth here anain As of Ladies" to “Ladies Invited” on their window signs, | morality and decency would not com- Who says politencss is on the decline? pare favorably with Queen Elizabeth's, . but then there are scores of young men to-day who are just as vile, rot- ten and contemptible in soul and mind Gov-Elect Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania is being mentioned as a Republivan Presidential possibility in as they can be, but then all 1 be 1924. Anybody can be by that time bo narrow-minded, so self-centred, 80 ® like a Phar i} say of men as ‘ex-C girls, that they a to society, that they arc of respect? Shull I member of God’ There is a boom in the charlotte russe as c dessert GeNcacy. We prefer cheese cake. There ts more to tt, not ane ig put every male universe into one im- South Carolina pecan raisers are getting a dollar a pound for the nuts. Seema a lazy way to make a {merece ™ TeeGate and say, **Pouf, ae aps they're all no goo living—just shaking a tre Let me put you straight en one ® core The modern colle ute Supper St. Lawrence County sent 190 tons of turkeys ¢o [Mus more honest to goodness charac- New York for Thankegiving sale. Value $135,000, 4 | tr #P4 pep and texts to a higher in- “ Ttelligence quota than her little old- Hey pick-up for the farme JOHN KEETZ, | rashioned sister of by-yone days, why Seen ee = From Evening World Readers What Kind of letter do you find moet readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of sa*isfaction ‘n trying ime to be brit with all due respect to her, belongs in the museums with the rest of the antiques. We have outgrown her in the same manner that we have our woolen ‘tnon-mentionables.”” What most men who rave about the college girls are afraid of is lest the college girl, with all her much widely discussed shortcomings, might eventually unseat man from his throne. It is indeed to laugh! It's only my sense of humor that prevents me from handing out to such narrow folks such appellations as’ I am quite convinced would never pass censorship. No wonder we women swear! Do you blame us? JACY. Passuic, N. J., Dee, 1, 1922. To the Editor of The Evening Your correspondent who signs him- self or herself “FE. B. 0." fails to cor- rectly quote Christ's reply to Martha In its entirety, Here is exactly what Christ said, Jéhn 11, 25: “I am the resurrection, and the life; ke that be- eveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. 26: And whosoever Iyeth and believeth in me shall never dic.” There 1s a distinct promise that certain ones (those Hving and believ- ing in Him) should never die. Christ is equally emphatic in John 6, 24: “Verily, verily, I say -nto you, He that heareth ..y word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condem- nation; but 1s passed from death unto life,"* Also John 6, 47: ‘Verily, verily, unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” According to Christ's positive state- ments, it isn't true that those who die physically are dead as to their souls likewise, In Mark 26, occur these words? . saying, Lam the ernment thei for long vidual. Despite laws and tax collectors and policémen, each citizen of a free government is granted a large measure of self-rule. . It is he, and not his government, who is to blame if he makes a mess of his lif It is he, and not hi tains prosperity and as liberal an amount of happiness as he is enfitled to, Notwithstanding all the laws under which he lives he can be lawless if he wants to and suffer the penaltics of law- lessness in consequence. No policeman will arrest, no Judge sentence him if he breaks the law. No immediate penalty will be lation of the law of economics he converts to his own use the time for which his employer has bought and paid, He can, if he is the moral code without falling into the hands of law- ment officers. But in the end he will escape no righteous penalty and he wiJl come to understand that government is essential to the individual as it is to any nation. ~ The man who has a cod the value of self-discipline and exere’ about the laws of an enlightened government. He is in need of no legal restraints. He will not require advice of counsel. He will, it is true, meet with injustice and unfairness from time to time, for this is far from a perfect world. But he will be far better able to cope with his handi- cap if he rules himself with a firm hand. Self-government must begin as soon as parental gov- And it should be the business of every parent to make a child capable of self-government, as colonies. Many difficulties are involved in this task. born into the world is easy t ruled, and they must be ruled, or ruin will result. One-m sterner and more i UNCOMMON SENSE ’ By John Blake (Copyright, 1922 by Joba Bike) ‘ ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT. government, he can thank if he E- of health. ited on him if in vio- genius, even lie and cheat and break nforce- and keeps it, who recognizes scs it, never need worry ceases. / nations seck to do with No spirit rule. But they all can be governments But the seldom afflict modern nations re necessary to the individual, and the solute they are the, better for the indi- God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob )—He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err." On the Mount of Transfiguration, Mark 9, 4: “There appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were talking | were disobedient, with Jesus." Note carefully that the Hebrews] Noah. were not ar of portrait painters, ving been forbidden to make like- nesses of anything in Heaven, above or in the earth beneath, yet Peter, James and John had no dithoulty in tween lite."* The 19 and 20, Christ was spiritually altve while his body lay tn the sepulehre:— Abeing put to d mide alive in the also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, fering of God waited in the days of The whole difficulty is due to a fail- ure to appreciate th “immortalit soul is mortal; it doesn’t die when the From the Wise Life is given to us for use; it th in the flesh, but init; 19,—ta whieh has been given to us as a loan 1 when the t uforet'm: long-suf- without interest and not to be paid buck on any fixed day.—Ovid, He is a@ fool who cannot be an- differe gry, but he ty @ wise man who wilt not.—English proverb, “immor recogntzing two men who had been | gic but it ean die, and we are told Seerets with girls, like guns with dead many hundr @ years, and | will die at the second death unless it] yoys, are never valucd till they these dead men were conversing with esses the gift of “eternal life." | ane @ noiee-Crabbe. Jesus, My quotations are trom the Ame ; “To-day shalt thou be with me infean” Revisers’ Edition of the New The rich foot ts ike @ ply that Paradise’? were Christ's words to one} Testament. They differ but slightly! | saa) Bs on Ic 6 Ont of His two companions on the cross.}f;om the King Jamies versio is choked by its own fat, At only According @ War, 1, Peter, 3, 1 JOUN L. BOGERT, ‘for the shambles.—Contucius. Fireside The time that bas elapsed ance th, earth's crust began to form can neve be accurately determined; It cam only be approximated. With every of knowledge it has been found Science! sary to lengthen, rather than the presumed period, Hobrew chronology Sed great antiquity. reached in a number of ways andy although the estimates vary all agree tn giving the earth a One method {s to compute the time required for the great rivers to have deposited their deltas, By this method Phillips found that the Nile delta haw been ninety-six million years forming. Geikie concluded that the Misstastppi delta could not have been formed in less years. than one hundred million Sollas and De Lapparent cone’ cluded that from eighty to ninety mil- lion years would have been sufficient time. As to this said that the carth was already old before the rivers wormed their way to the sea, Lord method; Kelvin together with 000,000 yeurs old. culated that the tides could not have slowed down the rotation of the ear on its axis to twenty-four hours ‘n 100,000,000 less than could Niagara have gorge fn a shorter period of time. Prof. Jolly has shown that it woul take at least a million centuries for haye deposited the mount of salt the oceans contain, believe hundred million years were requires! for protoplasm to have the rivers to olutionists fishes, amphibians, mals into man. demonstrated {hat hundred million of years could have elapsed between the birth of the moon and the appearance of living substance on the earth. Evi have n proved lessons le: shot forth its, product remain: to be lead, Then take for the g been formed? a billion years. It will During ve been found intermixed which ha something like The first ¢ « Whether w ars B.C. Geologists bellev dred million years life first appeared, ing continents a white hot globe point of water. sun How long a time ‘ purely ge us the, moon, ture to be absolu grees colder th nt ments in all DUKB OF ALBEM. England, Dee. 6, educ but to engage with the tion was n iis xe Cromwell in & made Major ( and commis sioned to cond the war, All ‘olland was reduced to obedience ity erated with Admir ing the na was enade at the d march to London, without opposition had looked ale supporter, cunning to pows great tain stored. that it possible ament and to t the Charles IT used a« differest ho gauged the increase ir heat toward the centre of the earth, the loss of heat in space due to radiation, and found that the planet must be at least 100,- And, of course, the earth was old before protoplasm ap- Darwin has mathematically mned from radium. been found that {it takes about fifty and years for a gram of radium And after radium has wh t lead mines to hi Certainly not less than seen, therefore, that the earth ts very old, assuredly older than the Hebrew writers supposed. comparatively mankind first arriv Yet the skeletal remains of cave-men eventy-five thousand ypt or the buried bri » id, go back some seven thousand ¢ were more millions of centuries should be udded to cover the time earth to cool down below the boiling Other miflions would have to be added to cover the pe! when the earth formed a part of ¢ the curth follows the fate of the moon jj speculative proposition. | ‘The moon has long been a dead world, [7 but it has been estimated that some | thing like one million centuries were | required for It to burn out completely. | Since the earth is forty-nine times as { as long cooling down to the zero, which ts 278 At that temperature, molecular move- stances ,cease, when |) matter may well be called dead. Nothe| ing can get colder than —278 degrees. eee WHOSE BIRTHDAY? DECEMBER 6—GBORGB MO} glish General, was born in Devonshire, London Jan. 8 1670. ] received in Holland > army against thi Seotch and was promoted to the of Ligutenant Colonel. companied an expedition to crush th > waa taken prisoner, ‘land, where he wi 1650, und three years later he co-op: of Holland, ernor of Scotland, ani! Cromwell of 1660 with 600 men. himself until tt was reasonably o the Stuarts could be By a policy of this kind restoration of the St promptly rewarded created him Duke Albemarle and settled upon him pension of $35,000 » year, method it mzy be Others have cal- years. Nor washed out its that severe isen through reptiles and mam- not less than @& en these ones too small by f Y It has ruys, a residuary h is now known how long would it recent timo ed upon the scene: in the caves of with the bones of been extinct for idences of civilizu- y consider 3 © that, if a hun- have elapsed since or since the exist+ formed, many required for of the size of the will elapse before it should be forty. of space ts thought _ he centigrade gero, ARLE, noted Br 1608, and died in Most of hi In 1642 he aced took part Dean In defeat) }) In 1664 bh began + entering the lt: in the early par The Royalis, upon Monk as but he emplo avoid committin| to reorganize complete his p!