The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 26

She EGerity Wiorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSKPR PULITZER, pany. Bee Oh Parke Row” New "Y RALPH PULITZER, President, 03 Park Row, 3. ANGUS SHAW. ‘Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPA PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row, 1922. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, SUBSORIPTION RATES. At the Post Office at New York as Second Matter. the United States, outside Greater New York, OFFICES. WASHINGTON, Wyatt Dide., 14th and F Ste. DETROIT, 521 Ford Bidg. CHICAGO, 1603 hehe ond B Washington &t,| PARIS, 47 Avenue de Opera, od Lid i LONDON, 20 Cockspur St, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ia excurivety,entitied to, Uhe wae for repute ean eal deapatches credited to It or not ine credited in paver, and also the local news published herein. BRANOH 1393 Bway, cor. 28th. BARGER, yea ste Aes sear 26th 8t., Hotel Theresa’ Bl BRONX, 410 E. 149th Bt, near THE PRESIDENT'S PROGRESS. N his first message to the Sixty-seventh Con- gress President Harding dwelt upon the in- adequacy of separate treaties of peace with the Central Powers. He said then: “The wisc> course would seem to be the ac- ceptance of the confirmation of our rights and interests as already provided and to engage under the existing treaty” * * * The “best minds” of President Harding's party promptly persuaded him otherwise. Separate treaties of peace were concluded between the United States and the Central Powers. Then, to support its claim to an interest in international co-operation for peace, the Harding Administra- tion put through the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament which resulted in the Naval Limitation Agreement and the Four- Power Pacific pact. When President Harding presented these Arms Conference treaties to the Senate, he spoke of his knowledge of the viewpoint of the Senate from personal experience, adding: “Since that experience I have come to know the viewpoint and inescapable responsibility of the Execztive. To the Executive come: the closer vie~7 ¢* world relationship and more im- pressive realization of the menaces, the anxt- eties ani the apprehensions to be met.” Now, after another ten months, we’find Presi- dent Harding's “impressive realizations” further developed to a point where he tells this same Sixty-seventh Congress in its last moments: “The Tour-Power p: vt, which abolishes every probability o? war in the Pacific, has brought new confidenco in a maintained peace, and I can well believe it might become a model for like assurances wherever in the world any com- mon interest- are concerned.” * Still contriving a shiver, to be sure, at the old bogy of “super-government;” still pleasing the “little Americans” with an occasional aside of “how thankful we are to be out of Europe's troubles;” still taking roundabout paths to prove that the Harding peace models are quite different from the Wilson peace models, Yet all the time irresistibly driven by a bigger force than party policy or party consistenty nearer and nearer to the frank admission that the United States cannot go on talking about the “helpful part it has assumed in international rela- tionship” unless it steps fearlessly forward pre- pared to make pledges and put its name to them. President Harding is still bent on showing that there were two roads of post-war foreign policy and that his road is not the other. But the further he advances and “realizes,” the more they begin to converge. In its account of the Ku Klux performance at the Washington Avenue Baptist Churel. last evening, the Times reports: “The cong-egation as the Klansman tinued his slow walk to the chancel, sat in silence, which was broken only by the titters of a group of young girls in the front pews.” Sometimes the children are wiser than their elders. Fancy! A grown man going to church in a nightgown! con GIFTS LONG DELAYED. OME years after the opening of the twenty- first’ century reporters will be ussigned to delve into yellowed and dusty files and dig out a news story concerning Cloyd M Rice of Elizabeth, N. J. For brief days Mr. Rice is likely to enjoy a wider fame that he ever did in life, Mr. Rice's will, probated last week, provides tbat the income from his modest estate of $25,000 is to be paid to his widow while she lives. When she dies it is to be deposited in a New York bank Compound interest is to be allowed to work until the sum on deposit amounts to $2,000,000. Then the money is to be spent for a designated charity, The late Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909, made a somewhat similar provision in his will. He pro- vided a trust fund of $50,000 for a term of 500 years. Each fifty years the increment is to be devoted to some project for social welfare which will be determined by the trustees. If the trustees are able to realize 5 per cent on their investment the former Vice President will be remembered by newspaper a tew POR ae teammate meen pa eat + aA HE EET NEI | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBE Heavy Going! a half million dollar gift to society every fifty years. As a means of forcing occasional recollections of a name or of achieving some special act sucn bequests are fairly effective. They may receive wider public notice than an endowment with its yearly contribution to a specific end, or as a gift to be spent outright. Whether such gifts do most good is an open question. If social welfare work is worth while and is well done, the return should be greater than conservative interest rates. The beneficiaries of social welfare work done now ought to be able to help the next generation more than the larger sum of money to be spent then. A VETERANS’ POLL ON THE BONUS. HE Ex-Service Men's Anti-Bonys League now comes forward This organization points to the fact that there are over 4,000,000 ex-service men in the United States, of whom only some 700,000 are members of the American Legion. It claims furthermore that the membership of the Legion itself is threat- ened with a big shrinkage “largely due to the Legion's stand on the bonus.” The Anti-Bonus League asks two things: It asks immediate legislation to provide “in the most liberal way” care and compensation for all disabled veterans. It asks Congress to consider no more bonus legislation for able-bodied ex-service men until the League has taken a poll of the whole body of World War veterans to show how a majority of these men view the bonus proposition. This organized effort on the part of ex-service men who have not been heard from on the bonus issue is sound, sensible and timely. It will have the approval of the country, ould have the respect of Congress. shi pe 8 ee To Mayor ‘-ylan in Chicago Mr. Hearst looks just as big as he does to Mayor Hylan in New York. Why experiment further? MOUNTING AGAIN. : OST of living figures compiled by the De- partment of Labor make clear the effects of the Fordney-McCumber tariff. The averages just announced are for the month ending Nov. 15. In that period food costs rose in all but one of the twenty-one cities where sta- tistics are gathered. In New York the increase amounted to 3 per cent. Until it became eyident that the tariff would be forced through regardless of public opinion food prices had been declining. But the tariff changed the trend. Instead of continuing down, the cost turned up and we are now back nearly to the figures of a year ago. Cael ve as ES It What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand worde in « couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction .n trying te cay much in few words. Take :ime to be brief. ‘The Soviet rulers in Russia are tired of paper money. They are going to “stiffen” it into pasteboard, oat: CONGESTION OF PLANS, TOO. OT a day goes by without announcements of new plans for the relief of vehicular con- gestion in this city. Some of the schemes advanced will prove worth- less because on analysis they do not anticipate the future to the degree needed. Others will never be realized because they look further ahead than public opinion can be induced to follow. But out of the general discussion New York is likely to get some workable compromise plan that will be far better than the almost complete lack of plan that has prevailed. With many minds working, some minds are likely to find practical, sensible and possible schemes for improving conditions. Every in- dividual and every organization may profitably help along. The ferment of ideas is working at such a rate that the need now is primarily one for open minds, minds not set on any particular scheme, but ready to thresh out the wheat from the chaff and to find good features common to many plans, ACHES AND PAINS. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which were enacted to protect the rights of men, are long Basi¢ Principle To the Editor of The Eventi This evening's letter ‘Hailing the Klan,” by an “American! of Wive Generations"? must needs draw from me as an American of one genera- tion a sign of the most profound pity, by reason of the gross ignorance its author displays, elther through genuine bigotry or a blind misunder- standing. The very basic principles of life, lberty and the pursuit of happiness, upon which our democracy was founded, aro overridden in his ery of praise for the Klu Klux Klan as “an organization to protect us against a political invasion by the Roman Catholic Church,” and as “the true defenders of this country which h always been a Protestant country and which the Klu Klux Klan is here to see that it remains a Protestant country,” Religious intolerance is not a phase of either life, Nberty or the pursuit of happi The United States 1s by constitutional law non-sectarian. History and fact helio that it has ever been otherwise, ; Let us hear of any ritual of the Klan like unto that of the Catholic Church as performed on the great American holiday of Thanksgiving lust, I make reference to the un-|, numbered masses that were offered employees on a salary basis, the pros- pective chemist secures data concern- ing the remuneration received by men who have spent years in this lield. I do not mean the remunera- tion of the outstanding few presmin- ently successful men, I mean the re- inuneration of the vast army of work- ers who keep the wheels turning. Ot course every ambitious young an considers himself as one of the former, but take into account the odds “or and against him becdming 0 of hese few. Then cempare the returns oi the average chemist with that of the average machinist, pipo-fitter, wicklayer, lawyer, engineer, Go to any of the employment agen- cies in the city and ask them hoy many call: they recelving for chemists at the present time or have ecelved for the Inr* two years. Ask themywhat wages are offered when they have an opening. The offerings cannot be dignified by the name of salary. Pick up any of the chemical jour- nals and compare the positions of- fered with the positions wanted You will find one position open to seven or ten wanted. Is th fertile field? It depends on your definition of the word fertile. ‘World: EB. MA 6, 18 A. East Orange, N. J., Dec. Commuter Servic To the Editor of The Evening World: Having little faith in the integrity ind efficiency of commissions, | am forgotten. The Highteenth, which was passed to ree |throughout the land, and the cus-|asking that you give this letter pub- press them, has vecor 3 ihe whole Constit. sion, banka aati ee _ Cada licity, in order that something may be Jone to remedy the evil herein noted. I refer to the condition of the train prayer for civil authorities, for the From my window preservations of America through the High aloft higher guidance of those in whose]equipment of the New York, New 1 sew the steamers hands wo rest the future of the} irayen and Hartford Railroad, ya Silhouetted Nation waleh od hag Bas jeularly that used on their local teains Against the shining rive: Now York, Doc Tl oetween New York and Stamford Safe in port The cars are absolutely rotten; t end sills, platforms and all woodwork show wear in tho last stages, many of the cars being relics of the V torlan era, his condition has been present for some years back and i not duo ty the war or to the recent strike. For instance, the train leaving th Grand Central at 6.16 in the ev. nings is positively unsafe, the plat Chemistry As a Profession, To the Editor of The Evening World: I was very much interested and some what amused to read tho ar- ticle entitled ‘A Job for Your Boy,” in The Evening World of this date Phis to imply that there are unlimited openings in the field of chemistry ond that although From stormy seas, Complacent Over the end of their journey Ilaving once more Breasted The winds and the waters! . article seemed Much more time ig spent in mending mistakes than in making hem, other tre id profess be . bred 1 professions may Pel) is, wills and other parts absajute All that glitters is not gold. overcrowded this particular On 18] worn out, and at the speed this tra at. a ru But things that shine are vasies! if ke __ | oes over the tracks around the cury, ri t sold. Ido not question that for a source] it Rye there 1s positive danger o of interesting and jaseinating work there is no better ficld than chemis- try, But for one who finds it neces- a terrible wreck, One eveninis of men were Tee and idiosyncrasies are the two grvat outpets of the noble State of Maine, cently, when a gro discussing this, ‘one rs sary to furnish the where-with tol jooked at the number of one of the ome provide the necessities and comforts] coaches, which was 1845, and te- For thesccond time in its history the Authors? Ciud | of Ife by bis lahors I avould recom-| marked that it must be the date honor lady writers at dinner. This occasion ig [mend thorouch investigation before] was built Doc. 24, when Mrs. Gertrude Atherton and tite Dmuch hope ty saised for this par-! yf haye stood at Stamford sta work garde Hawthorne will be the quests. platform and with the end H st that, a those in this or the majority of any other ling are brella have pried up the flooring of the platforms of some of the car The JOHN KEETZ R 11, From Evening World Readers | Gopyrignt, 122, (New York Evening World) Press Pup, ¢ By Ransome Sutton Copyright, Wor XIl.—THE COMING OF LIF! Living substance is called 4 plasm. It is a slimy, watery stance which may be seen is naked eye in the white of The yolk is not protoplasm foodstuff stored within the egg! unhatched chick to feed upon, Frotoplasm never occurs “ayy masses. It exists oniy In tiny sules or individual dropkts, ¥ ls. The th sher animals and plants composed of cells, which the mit scope shows to be distinct cells hering together The cells ‘of animals and plants are allke in @ each cell consists of a tiny m protoplasm, with «a nucleus te centre which contains a @ variety of proteplasm imp , 9 with grains of animated dust. |] There was a time when th y and the {aura of the earth wl microsco nothing 1 ie than a microbe od. Att the animals and plants existed = when gle cells of protoplasm. Coun| varieties of those single-celled ganisms have survived down to | # day. In them one may study protoplasm, each cell by itself, * To obtain the organisms tal place a bit of vegetable matter, as stems of plants or leaves, In @ of wat ring the glass Ina place 2 window for twentys! hours, Then, using a straw, a droplet of the water to a glass place the slide under a microscope the chances are you shall be see very clearly the kind of t that first inhabited the earth, will not be in doubt as to wheth not the tiny organisms are alive; will see them take in particles of and move across the slide in a i her suggestive of intelligencegaal will see that these lowly organi@ay fe noi natural deaths; for, | their short half-hour Ife-cycle been run, instead of dying, they di! into two cells, each of the daugl cells being thus completely rey nated. As to the origin of protopldsm, lutionists believe it was created by) same natural processes which ef water, Water is the nearest thin living substance which {s not It forms at least 80 per cent, toplasm. The way water origin A. \\ now quité cle after the earth cooled down below the boiling pq wherever lightning struck a mixi of hydrogen and oxygen gases, wi would be formed, The water mole however, is very simple; ft cont only two atoms of hydrogen and n protoplasm molec hand, is very large atom of oxy The other on and ¢| , |plex. Besides oxygen and hydro “ atoms of carbon, nitt r sulphur, potassium and tron. Ins of only three atoms, a moleculd protoplasm con several hung atoms, peculialriy compounded, By John Blake he fearon esleatints ve Mie . so difficult to analyze protoplast ZT CCopyright, 192% by John Bieked t pr i WHAT IS FAME? several is are taken of it, to be prj Publicity is easily acquired if one doesn'tware what kind plasm and break into 4 of publicity he gets. dozen omnes th In like mi 4 Whistler once said that a man who desired to be widely oh e enteeie ore known in London need only to remove his shoes at a recep- ly apart tion row and then, Soon he would be known over the world of fashion as ' hat at si the man who removed his shoes : velopnss A baseball player in America or a cricketer in England By Bere who appeared at an important game wearing flowing side plot of water, s| whiskers would soon be ‘talked of in every eountry im the ne of heat or world, . nts to, Not long ayo a young man who wanted to be famous 3] bine and started the reuctionsg walked up Fifth Avenne in New York every afternoon wear- $|furning so long as fuel ls ted tek ing only a white shirt, trousers, shoes and stockings. ? Hf pe on Aone People viewed him curiously for a day or two and then $] reacting s as ocd is fund forgot him. ‘ vesting to know “that Side whiskers, which used to be so common as to oc- Sertaln concentrated: solutions: of . : i. water, the different kinds of easion no surprise, would have gained him more celebrity, occur in bout the same propor The desire for public notice is so general as to he $]an in simplo protoplasm, pathetic, | Anti-evolutioni ts contend t Those who have no hope to gain it with their brains and afthr protoplasm was formed, life ‘ i i Jer to attract breathed into it from the outs lack the nerve to do outlandish things in order to attrac Eevethied bie ie cio tee attention seek by cultivating the acquaintance of important 3] more than ones cannot now be people to get a litle second-hand eclebrity. termined, So: far as-aclenoa his Movie actors, politicians, even famous criminals, have It cannot now be ¢ od save | followings of people who think that reflected glory or infamy of pre-existing protoplasm. In of ee we : words, nothing can now be born} is better than none . , cept from a living parent or pare Reputation of the right kind is much to be desired. But : oe it must be earned honestly to be worth anything, the Be: * . If it is only a reputation for honesty or fair dealing it is Fai Fi BOYS ARE BLUE, th alt logies to the better than the kind of fame the human fly gains by standing heed #16 the ey on his head on the cornice of a skyscraper. ; The Old Partica’ Poohbahs are ob To be famous without being fantastic requires a combi- aleh auae nation of talent and industry which is rare—otherwise it But sturdy and stanch they stan would bring no fame A little bit shaky—dut siay there But such is the level of general laziness that any one catty can gratify a normal desire to shine a little simply by deing as ds sone one om I his work a little better than the next man and being a litle Time was when Gops had the lan more carnest about getting ahead in the werld, . The kind of fame conferred by side whiskers en an a 1 aalug fain “as th hiskers then. Hine (CRS cae athlete soon grows as inconvenient as the whiskers Chem Kaas selves mand p em th een < t you go ‘tit 1 come wake any aa crew heags and bolts can be pullel| WHERE DID YOU GET | so, toddiing of to his movie hate ut with the rings THAT WORD ? He thought ¢ nood little ® rhe time taken tu t vali : vas ox RNa NaF Seceteo tit, aEa ths pa 237—MERCURIAL. or equipment it would be dan-] The mercurial person ix entitled rapa Since to execed it. Once Naving]to claim spiritual kinship to @ god been a railroad man, T can recall a] Por the word “mercurtal was do- es " nile a minute With trains on the} rived from the namo of the flashing, ecked 7 Pennsylvania Hultrond mad far} papidly moving Mercury : j back as 1880, and quit ver Am intervened between the] Aye! raithiu Willie Haye 4 facing polnt »W t th t infsod and the mereurial person, iow these days of lax efficien nd gen-]ever at metal is mercury or Th their plac 1 fall lown of at quicksilver, whlely also dates its| syoaiting 1) ! 1 the with th apathy of the name back to the god. nat ican public, or. to quote Northeliffe,! Mercury 1s, to all appearances,| phe smile of the poppa's faces its docility, we have grown to accept] yery sensitive. It is so 2 to things as they are heat, for instance, th: a] And they wonder, as waiting the These remarks will be noted with}temperature at sub wears th hy ry ud int who ¢ stances, including wa ure frozen And they thi f hetier + ‘ a 1 + solid 6, When ¢ Bley t honked and public favor t $ equally ¢ , J temperature,| And / one cheered Wille Hi DOUGLAS SILVE!