The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1922, Page 10

gi pong BY JOSEPH PU Le a Sey, Se a hoe eres RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. 4, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PULIT: Becretary, NING WORLD, it hy Express Latter. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. hatte,’ Stalder Greater New horks A BRANCH OFFICES. 203 Bway, cor a8ta.| WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bide; 7th Are, Re | od and LF” | DET . Ford Bldg. 149th Bt, Beer CHICAGO, 1608 Mailers Bldg. Oper. 202 Wi et. | PARIA, 49 Avenue ae Mae? su tanineton 8&- | TONDON, 90 Cockspar Bt EMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, MS = Associated Preset te exclusirety entitled to the use for copaetie of all nows despatches credited to tf, or pe and also pul the local news im. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. RESIDENT HARDING has emptied his whole box upon the head of Congress. \ message that contains so much, that so plainly shows the care with which the President prepared it and the hopes he has placed in it, is entitled to be studied and discussed section by section. One thought, however, will be immediate. At the present rate of progress, if all the legislation he proposes is to be put through, the present Con- gress will have to work nights and Sundays and the President will have to call the Sixty-eighth Congress in special session as soon after March 4 next as it can get to Washington, prepared to stick it out all summer. “So many problems, “are calling for solutior Many of these same problems have been calling for solution ever since President Harding took of- fice twenty-one months ago, with a Republican majority in Congress much more than big enough to carry out the reconstructive promises upon which the Republican Party came into powei. Maybe the President has that in mind as he now piles upon Congress this formidable memo- randum of work to be done. Maybe he deems it also a good way to impress upon the country the gap between all he would try to do and the little Congress has been willing to do. - Maybe he thinks this big legislative prospectus may so startle certain Senators that they will be- come dazed and permit to pass, almost without looking, a little thing like the Ship Subsidy Bill. What President Harding has staked 6n this mes- sage is perhaps proportionate to what he has put into it. * the President declares, SINCE SHERLOCK HOLMES. UTHORS of recent detective fiction have made free use of scientific and mechanical novelties by detectives. Perhaps they have given too little attention to advantages gained by the criminals in even the short time since the creation of Sherlock Holmes. » The escape of Mrs. Clara Phillips from the Los Angeles jail is a strikinig example. ago a Sherlock Holmes might have been able to “deduce” her path. It’s harder now. Thirty years ago she couldn't have traversed more than a moderate distance in a few hours. The number of trains she might have boarded would be limited. Horseback travel would have been feasible only at night. The telephone and telegraph were in existence then and the alarm could have been flashed ahead. It is different now. The motor car, the motor boat and the aeroplane have multiplied the chances for temporary escape. The area in which the prisoner may be hiding is vastly expanded. Searchers must consider the land, the sea and the sky. Standardized motor cars and swift speeding aeroplanes leave few material clues. OUR TURN. N considering the coal situation here the aver- ] age New Yorker is not likely to pay much at- tention to the news that coal shipment on the Great Lakes has ended for the season. In ordinary years the lakes provide the great coal shipping highway for a big section of the North and Northwest. Lake rates on coal are low because coal provides return cargoes for the iron ore steamers from-Duluth and Superior. The econ- omy of summer shipment insures a summer de- mand from a territory where plenty of winter fuel is most necessary. The coal strike interfered with summer deliv- ries. As a matter of fair play in dividing a sup- ply that could not be sufficient in any event, the Lake trade got first preference. Shipments have been abnormally heavy since the strike ended. Now that these shipments have ceased New York and the East generally have this prdduction to draw on. The weekly supply available for dis- tibution in this territory will be increased by practically as many tons as have been going to the Lake ports. YONKERS GETS THE $2,000,000. INKERS officials have provided the State with an excellent lesson. And the State will pay $2,000,000 for it. : The lesson shows the absurdity of one of two things. Where the fault lies may be a matter of question, The State Constitution forbids special legisla- tion for cities. Legislators anxious for special legislation evade the clear meaning of the law. The courts allow the legislators to get away with many of the attempts. An old Jaw provides that any second class city adjoining any county wholly within a city need not surrender traffic fine funds to the State. Yonkers is the only city that qualifies under that “general” classification. The law is as clearly special legislation as though Yonkers were men- tioned. Yonkers keeps $2,000,000 in traffic fines. New York City taxpfayers will have to provide 70 per cent. of the taxes that will need to be levied to make up for the Yonkers hold-out. It ought to be a valuable lesson. It costs enough. THE WEEK. viewing the COLD facts of the COAL facta. Consumers must burn “substitute” grades of anthracite to piece out the supply of the usual sizes. LAKE NAVIGATION is CLOSING and THIS SEC- ‘TION will PROFIT by a diversion of the fuel that has been going to the Northwest. It is a cold winter for the “FREE BOARDERS” who imposed on Mrs, Lawes, wife of the Warden of SING SING. She packed them out. This did not ap ply to those who hold meal tickets issued by Judges. M. CLEMENCEAU spent most of the week tn WASHINGTON and visited with the PRESIDENT and EX-PRESIDENT. Washington, generally, was too busy even for Tiger baiting. CONGRESS slipped from a SPECIAL SESSION to a REGULAR SESSION with scarcely an interruption. By yesterday PRESIDENT HARDING managed to get his MESSAGE together. From the number of bis proposals it is not surprising that the prepara- tion took TIMB. In NEW YORK the INTERBOROUGH promised MORE LIGHTS for SUBWAY CARS—the FLICKER: LBSS kind, the sardines HOPE. THURSDAY'S STORM delayed Friday transit and caused serious TRAFFIC JAMS. President Hedley forecasts prob able PROFITS for next year—and announces a new financing plan. Walter Christie's AMPHIBIOUS TANK climbed about the Palisades and then swam the Hudson, Bootleggers and Probibition enforcers fear complica- tions along the Canadian border. PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT was to the fore fu Congress with objection to a $9,000,000 SPONGE Weierin has ARRIVED and NEW YORK is re to be applied to WET SPOTS. But that allows only 9 cents per capita or 18 cents per home brewer, if one estimate is, correct. At MADISON SQUARE GARDEN they're going round and round—the SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACERS. NEW YORK POLICE have orders to MOP UP THE OASES on Broadway and caught one hiptoter the first night. The METHODISTS censured the MOIST STAND of SENATOR-ELECT COPELAND. But the blast didn't dry him. ABROAD the BIG EVENT of the week was the for- mal transfer of power to the IRISH FREE STATE, with TIM HEALY as GOVERNOR GENERAL. The week was marred by REPUBLICAN ASSASSINA- TION of one member of the DAIL and the wounding ot another. The FREE STATE retaliated with the EXECUTION :of FOUR REBELS, including RORY O'CONNOR and LIAM MELLOWES. KU KLUXISM is UNDER FIRE here and elsewhere. Judge Mancugo charged two Grand Juries to inves: tigate and the Américan Unity League proposes to PUBLISH NAMES of local Klansmen. GOV, PAR- KER of Louisiana suggests that @ good treatment for Klanism is to LAUGH at grown men dressed in nighties, A PUZZLE of the week is; If a Vermont girl can get $465,000 for alienation of a husband, how much should the 150 wives of thé exSulten collect from the revolutioniats who “aliénated” the Sultan from his harem? MAYOR HYLAN has gone to CHICAGO to delivor a PUBLIC ADDRESS. And perhaps a few words in PRIVATE tor Mayor Thompson? ACHES AND PAINS ‘A wise guy says that nearly all men are as honest and truthfub es circumstances will permit. . The extermination of Irish by Irish goes on pret- fly. The Emerald Isle evidently wishes to remain Phe most distressful country. . Senator La Follette and his bunch will have to Surry if they mcan to outfoot President Harding en @ radical program. . Hiszoner must like Chicago wisit. eS He is off on another There is no accounting for tastes. . The trouble about using fuel substitutes is that it means a lot of bother. New Yorkers hate to bother with things, Some would rather cat out of a trough than prepare a meal. * When of old the Hellespont cut up rough Nevces caused it to be lashed with chains. Nov the world is seeking ta keep it unchained. * Coal goes a-degging with people beoging for coat, It seems hard to even things up In this life, * Just as one lady receives a verdict of $485,000 for the loss of her husband's affections a story comes of have her partner another who offercd $20,000 to kitted. It's @ wide varient, JOHN KEETZ, rene Se te en aad E. W. OSBORN | Ce ht, 1988 (New York Brening Mya). Pre Poblahhed Coe ONG did deat my walnut tree, L The nuts that fe were few end I dare not beat my dog, for he Can look at me with eyes too sad, You, Ohloe, then? But if I do From your half-opening Ups wilt fait Soft bursta of laughter, sweet and true And mocking as the cuckoo's call. For though no changing wind oan miss you, In thie ut least you constant prove, Whether I storm at you or kes you, You mock my anger and my love. So I will kiss you still or beat you, Since it can make no difference; Nor to be grave do I entreat you— Your laughter is my recompense. Thus, rhythmically, in the London Outlook, J. C. F. Morgan meditates upon the beating held traditionally to } be good for a woman, a dog and a) walnut tree. We seem to deteot odor of scepticism in Mr. Morgal poesy. The Peril of the Real Name, «++ Writing of tabooed words in Y Golden Bough” (new edition, Mac-) millan), Sir J. G. Frazer saya: The Indians of Chiloe keep thelr -~ names secret and do not Uke to hate them uttered eloud; for they: say that there are fairies or imps on the mainland or neighboring islands who, if they knew folks’ names, would do them an injury; dut 80 long as they do not know the names ie mischievous sprites are power- ese. ‘The Araucanians will hardly ever tell a stranger their names, because they fear that he would thereby ac- quire aome supernatural power over themselves. Asked his name by a stranger who {s ignorant of thelr superstitions, an Araucanian will answer, “I have none.’ When an Ojebway is asked his hame he will look at some bystander and ask him to answer. Sure! Even the Apaches of the Rogues’ Gallery know the evil omen of the real name, Hence the origin and would-be magic of the “alias.”” ee The Precautionary Beayer, - + - From a few remarks, in Hallafy Hawksworth's “The Adventures of Grain of Dust’? (Scribner's), om the wisdom of the beaver: He picks out a young tree some- thing less than six Inches thick. Then he looks up as if he wanted to see what kind of a day it was goime to he; although the fact Is, ne nevers bothers his head about the weather. What he is really looking up for n From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in a few_words, Take time to bo b: UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Ooporight. 1992. by John Blaze) GOING DOWN? All suceess is not enviable. All successful men are not intelligent. with regard to progress and accom- plishment. As a Catholic, I can truthfully say, referring to a charge made time and The Daty to Int ne. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: The following is an extract from a message delivered by Mr. McKinley to the Senate at the beginning of the ine again by these bigots, that if the ‘d ‘dh see Spanish-American War: Pope declared lis intention of invad- un lerstan iow to use. L . , Gospel of the Manse Garden. --- oi, ing America 95 per cent. of the 17- Too often men highly intelligent in some branches of In her “Church Street’? (West- If it shall hereafter appear to be] 000,000 of Catholics in this country @ duty imposed by our obligations to ourselves, to civilization and human- ity, to intervene with force, it shall be without fault on our part and only because the necessity for such action will be so clear as to command sup- pert and approval of the civilized world,” How bitterly these words can be made to apply to the late war, and they can also be used to efface any doubt which may exist as to what America’s reason was for entering tho embroil. J.D. G. Bronx, Dee, 8, 1922. Why They Act So. To the Editor of The Evening World Evidently Mr. See and ex-Captain of A.B, F. have not associated with the would refuse to help him in any way, but on the contrary would stand loy- ally and faithfully by Old Glory and defend her aguinst this kind of an enemy the same as they have al stood by her in all her battles from the Revolutionary to the World War inclusive. Catholic people the world over are subject to the Pope in a spir- {tual way, but materially and politi- cally they have no connection with ANTI-KU KLUX. branches even more important. money or gained prominence. of evolution, did little harm, it is true. him whatsoever. Brooklyn, De Standing in Theatres, To the Editor of The Evening World: As P. J. F. writes, why should not theatres in which all the seats are occupied be compelled to put out a sign or have the box office adytse endowments. that there are no seats to be had? best class of girls, Gy gavesul odokalowa, after my The elevator man, for example, had he used the fortune I admit the majority of girls are in-| qay’s work I go to the theatre, prin- he has made in study and a little travel, had he found out deed giddy, but whose fault is that? 1 find that no man cares to take out a sensible girl who thinks seriously of a home. The alternative most girls have is to act the way the men want them to. but they all flock around the one who is most extreme. There are a good many sensible girls, far superior to the socalled flappers in every way, who are left alone by young men becauso they are not ‘‘sports.” I am twenty-four and find all men alike. I have met a great many and speak from experi- ence. Ido not condemn the flappers. 1 haye been tempted many times to fol- low their methods, but a few girl friends (by the way—college gradu- ates) and myself have decided to live a good decent life even if we die old cipally for relaxation and rest, only to find after paying for tickets and xetting inside that there are no seats, and very often people stand- ing several deep ahead of me. I have waited at different times, anywhere Men slander the giddy girl,| from ten to forty-five minutes, and only a slrort time ago had to stand through the entire show which, I can assure you, wasn't appreciated I lived in Chicago for a number of years. There is no standing allowed inside the theatres there, which is primarily a fire ordinance, and if 1], remember correctly was put into ef- fect shortly after the Iroquois dis- aster, and in my opinion should be made an ordinancehere. R. L. T New York, Dec? 6, 1922. ridiculed by attacking women’s colleges. one of them. President Harding en the Kian. To the Editor of The Evening World An “American of Five Generations” mighty forward-moving stream of thought. maids, There are many more like U8.|need have no fear of a “political in- EX-SCHOOL TEACHER. pees linns Ht vasion'’ by the Roman Catholic WHOSE BIRTHDAY? Cromwell by an appointment to the w Reseat an “Inve » |Church. That church ts engaged en- A HN LTON,|fSce of Secretary of the Common- To the Editor of The Evening World tirely in the work of saving souls,| DECEMBER 9—JOHN MILTON.) \ 0011, his position he held until celebrated English poet, was born in London, England, Dec. 9, 1608, and The New York Evening World is to be highly commended on its policy of the purpose for which it was insti. tuted by its founder, Jesus Christ. the monarchy A Your correspondent’s statement] aieg Nov. 8, 1674. In 1625 he entered|til pardoned. fearlessness in driving out into the}. + the attitude of the President is| ay $ Bb shere he studied for| {il rapidly, and in 1552 he became open that/un-American, cowardly or-Trayorable toward the Ku Klux Klan] C@mbridge, w totally blind, anization, the Ku Klux Klan, It is}is belied by the following utterance|*bout seven years, It was his in- tention to become a minister, but the disturbed condition of the church at that time caused him to give up this nothing more nor less than a body es- tablished to bring together and orga: ize the ignorant bigotry and prejudice of the head of owcountry made on March 24, 1922: “In the experience of a year of the when at last that has always existed in the South| presidency shere has come to me no mestic and political differences. and certain parts of the West, It isfother such unwelcome impression ag |!ea and devote his time to classical radise Lost" was completed the continual presence of this bigoted|the mantfest religious intolerance | literature, mathematics, music and securing for him the reputa- spirit that keeps Southern cities least | whieh exists among many of our citi-| philosophy. The execution of Charles|tlon of being the greatest poet of his representative of American cities, and] zens. 1 hold it to be a menace to the} i., in 1649, met with his approval, Other works pub st is the lack of this bigoted spirit in] very liberties we.boast and cherish.’ ]and he ex 4 his yiews in the|are ‘Paradise Regained, Nothera cities, especially New York, CHARLES J. BAXTER. | pamphlet, “The Tenure of Kings and the Norman Conquest” that puts them at the head of the list® New York, Dec, 5, 1922, Magistrates,” and was rewarded by = 5 ee: Too often mere acquisitiveness enables men to secure fortunes which they do not deserve and which they do not understanding are totally lacking in intelligence in other When such people grow conceited and talkative, they sometimes do a good deal of harm, for it is a national habit to take as wisdom whatever is said by men who have made Mr, William Jennings Bryan, in his attack on the theory He might as well have denounced the Pacific Ocean or the Selkirk Mountains, Neither will the elevator man who flamboyantly pro- claims his desire to burn down all the colleges for women do much save to call to the attention of more sensible people the fact that many women’s colleges are in need of more Yet the discovery that men otherwise successful and industrious and, as far as civic duties go good citizens, can hold ideas that were outlawed twenty years ago, leads many people to believe that we are going down and not up. what is inside of books instead of contenting himself with looking at their outsides, would not have made himself Even had he hired a few graduates of women’s colleges for secretarial work in his offices, he would very soon after they went to work have known better than talk as he did. But something stopped in his brain at a time when the procession of ideas should have been moving steadily forward. He doesn't know what colleges do for women and he doesn't know what colleges will do for them in the future. And every line in his denunciation of colleges shows that he, of all people, is the kind of man that should have gone to Vortunately, there are few men whose utterances tend to foster the belief that we are going down and not up. very fact that such views attract so much attention shows that they are unusual and a futile little counter-current in a ‘as restored, when he was forced to live in concealment un- His eyesight began to In 1668 he entered for a third time into a marriage contract, he was able to live serenely amid his friends and among books and music undisturbed by do- is to see if the top of the tree he to going to chop down is likely to get tangled in the tops of other trees when it falls, (All beavers, 1 should add, don't take this precaution, only the older and wiser ones.) After this inspection he either cuts the tree in two with his tong, sharp chisel teeth fo that it will fall clear of the tangling branches of other trees, or, if he sees he can’t prevent this, he moves away to another tree. If the beaver were a practical poli- tician— Could he take precautions mon happy, we ask, in clearing ground fof a third party? minster Press), the book of a New Jersey village, Jean Carter Cochran tells us: The minister had learned a secret from the garden that only a man who loved nature dearly could have found out at all, and that 4s, that although a pulpit is the best place in the world to preach in on Sunday, a garden {s the best place to prac- tise In during the week. One cannot quarrel with one's next door neighbor if one exchanges roots and seeds over the back fence and sends in a fine bunch of grapes or a particularly nice head of let- tuce occastonally. The minister's uncle had an es. ery spring, sent boxes his greenhouses in fascinating with sticks In them to tell village profited by this, for seeds were given or roots divided for the benefit of other dooryards. The gospel, as taught by the manse garden, became very popular, A very literal rendering up, we per~ ceive, of the seeds of loving kindness. What real estate boomer ever would have thought of that? vee Burns's Mary Was Elison, From Caleb T. Winchester’s “ Old Castle, and Other Essays" (Mac™ millan) this about the real maiden be- hind the fictitious Mary Morison of Burn poetry But it is from his twenty-third year that I should date a new chap- ter In the history of Burns, Barly in that year there happened to Burns that event which has made an era in the life of many a youn follo’ certain young lady s: The She was the daughter of a country farmer, and out at service; but from. what {s known of her, one J her to have been.a girl of tact and art, and withal fairly well educated. Burns's letters to Mins Elison Beg- bie are manly and noble—much bet- ter love letters, I am boumd to say, than he ever wrote again) And {t was to her that he wrote a series of his best love lyrtes. But Mary Morison was thrifty, as well as bonny, and Rab Burns was very poor and not like to be richer; and so she sald “N¢.” I think it a pity, It {9 dle, doubtless, to confecture what might have been—yet {t seems to me here was a woman not too far above him in soctal rank who might, nevertheless, have proved a com- panion for Burns the poct, as well as Burns the peasant, Sure Iam he never found such an one again, And yet—who knows? If that love had flown in at the window, poetry. might have fled through the doar, Mil- ed by him History of and