The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 34

| ‘rid 2.00 ‘World Almanac for 1022, 36 ednts; by mail 60 cents, BRANOR OFFICES. RY: 1892.8: way, cor. Sah. WASHINGTON, ‘Wyatt Bldg. a Mad Vath and F Bis. a tg oth Bt, ig DETROIT, 521 Ford Bldg. ICAGO, 1608 Mallers BYg, NN, 202 Washinton 8t, MD Fulton st t RIS, 47 Avenue de Open, LONDON, 20) Cockspur MEMBER OF THE ASHOOLATED PRESS. song SOs Sta spas see Se paper, news 3 Teds papee'and sit the ToT nove pub Herb” —— UCH current advice to shoppers is a drug on the market. But here’s something differ- ent: Commissioner Harkness of the Transit Com- mission is the latest’ adviser and his advice is bet- ter than most because’ he can not be suspected of a sellish interest in the ratter. Commissioner Harkness asks the feminine shop- pers of New York to do’ their shopping after the morning rush hours and to’ get home before the evening rush houy \ If this advice is followed it, will make shopping ren for the shop- pers. It is also a matter of fait play for the work- ers who earn the money that pays for the pur- chases made by the shoppers. With the unavoidable crowding in the subway every added passenger means greater’ congestion and more general discomfort. Even a few thou- sand added passengers make things mych worse. Commissioner Harkness offers equally good ad- vice in recommending the use of the elevated rather than the subway ‘when the two/are equally convenient of access. Commissioner Harkness is speaking in behalf of the shoppers as Well as to them. , No, the last instalment of the imcome tax isu't bigger than the other four. , It only seems _ bigger because of the Christmas shopping list. SP SS es a a OS Os a Re EE cot eae eet t THE TEST OF THE BUDGET PLAN. ) pis paaml HARDING has given staunch f oral support to the budget principle. The test of his words will come, before’ March 4. These have been disquieting reports -that the” Congressional appropriating committees are not - taking the budget very seriously, They are pro- posing additions to the appropriations for. the Navy, for public buildings, for rivers and harbors, and for other political purposes. What is the President going to do? | lf the budget is to be a budget in fact as well as ir name the President must make it so. Unfor- tunately he has not power to veto individual items in the budget. So the only. effective course open is to serve formal warning on Congress that any appropriation bill exceeding the budget estimate will be vetoed as a whole. There is no other way of curbing the spenders. If Congress is determined to exceed the budget, it may be possible to over-ride Executiye vetoes, In that case the responsibility will be on Congress. The President will have done his best for the budget principle. : Any failure to veto appropriations in excess of the’ budget will be a flat repudiation of everything President Uiarding has said in favor of the budget. | | | THEATRE TICKET REFORM. a Producing Managers’ Association plan of a central agency (with branches) to sell the public theatre tickets at a 10-cent advance over box-office prices is encouraging in so far as it shows real recognition on the part of the manag- ers that their best and most enduring friends among theatregoers are not those who pay the * spenders” who fill the ticket speculators’ are not the people who keep the theatres in and year out. w York, however, these “spenders” are, uafortunately, numerous enough to outbid the rest of! the jRblic for the best seats at big theatrical sotvesves for many weeks after they have opened. . money is-what has maintained the It is what has tempted producing the practice of financing new pro- advance “deal” with speculators socks of the most desirable seats ¢ at a time. true that many Mependers ths ort ly have completely lost the habit of buy- thesire tickets at theatre box-ollices or “at the kc They have come nk they can get what they want when. they it from. speculators, at fancy prices. Ard vhe relation existing between the producing nd the ticivet.speculator has given them to fotbtes thea tregoers ver priced agencies only so to thin! That is why the speculaigrs now scuii the the job. | nee wae van proposed plan and deckare their customers will buy in dx OW buy them, If the central agency scheme goes through, the speculators say, their agents “will simply buy the best tickets at the central agency and sell them at an advance as before.” The speculators are tight to this extent: : If the theatregoing: public is to be helped by the new plan, enough of that public must change its habits of theatre-ticket buying to make speculation in theatre tickets at least less profitable than it is at present. If the managers reform and the public stops dividing against itself in its demand for theatre tickets, it may be possible to work the new plan to the advantage of everybody except the specula- tor theatre tickets on!" way theatre tickets onl}: Thawing Out! ia, STAND UP TO IT. arian ea pressure of fact and necessity is remoulding the Harding foreign policy. “Thank God we are out of Europe’s troubles” becomes’ more and more a phrase to quiet those likely to be distyrbed by what is actually going forward. J. P. Morgan's visit to Secretary Hughes pre- sages 2 loan to Germany. A loan to Germany is inextricably tied up with the question of repara- tions. Reparations involve the attitude of France and the settlement of Allied debts. The Allied debts involve the United States as chief creditor. Any way you analyze the situation, the United States can no more “keep out of it” than it can sell out its holdings on earth and emigrate to Mars. , Instead of repudiating the Balfour note on the Allied debts, Premier Bonar Law told the House of Commons yesterday that Great Britain would find it impossible to pay its debt to America if it received nothing from France, Italy or Germany. “Many people have been speaking as if we could get nothing from’ Germany and yet pay the money. They have not realized in the least what {t means. I am convinced that {t would reduce our standard of living in this country for generations and would be a burden on us of which no one who talks of it now has any conception.” In all discussion of debts and reparations the place of the United States is at the round table, speaking frankly and with full voice—not whis- pering “unofficial” warnings through peekholes and transoms. We should welcome every sign that President Harding*realizes the dignity and duty of the United States cannot be forever compressed to fit the notions of “bitter enders” and “little Americans.” r For our own interests we cannot work from around’ corners. Come out and stand up to From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one’ that gives the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction ‘n trying fe say much in few words, Take ime to be brief. A Westport, Conn., observer claims to have discovered a clam-eating ostrich. If he could only teach the ostrich to go deeper and bore for oil he might be able to sell the rare bird asa mascot for the United States Department of State. f The Salvation Army Appeal. ‘To the Mditor o ¢ Evening World: May 1 a. word to the readers of your esteemed paper in the interest 000 suffering here Greater New York who ‘are looking y to the ation Army for their share of Christmas happiness? These people can be accurately de- seribed © worthy poor’ because the cumstances have been inves- ated with a view to establishing actual need. The investigations have |! been thorough, but entirely sympa- thetic and in the spirit of the season. ‘They have been carried out on an in- dividual in That |! in addition to a Christmas dinner, which is only the immediate consider- ition, we hay combination of trusts in violation of the law means competition, and com- petition spells efficiency, better facti- ities and reduced far As private corporations could not even dream ¢f paying millions of good American dol- lars for chair-warmers’ salaries, or ratuities, the political charlatans of the “people's friend’? variety, have in- vented this fallacious theory and arc now still agitating the silly idea ri discarded by Itaiy’ who, after consulting s and considering enormous financial losses sus- ained by His Government during the costly period of nearly half a cen- ; duration, ordered the abandon- he railway system, WHAT THEY ARE MEANT TO BE. ' O issue of “academic freedom” is raised by the ousting of Dr. A. W. Slatén from the fac- ulty of William Jewell College, a Baptist denom- inational school in Missouri. Dr. Slaten believes in a liberal interpretation of the Scriptures. The Fundamentalist dogma pre- vails in Missouri Baptist circles. The only lesson from such an incident is that denominational schools are what they are intended to be. They are places where children may be protected to a greater or less degree from influ- ences to which their parents object. At denom- inational schools the teachers are expected to teach people in basis each case, at the eart- Pending opportunit move the gent ascertained what fur-]tion caused the disc! srilcants willinoed to [40,000 usclesy employe m0 her uid these 8 costing the qnly what the parents want their children to be [seep them warm und coni Government approximately 1,000,000, - 1d inrine saipgecuey coll ws vot annually, ‘Phe elimination told, On Bae SE ane enlie (6 dally this huge superfluity did not affect Parents can not get too clear an idea of this ]5,ov0 antly filled baskets to t e etficiency of ‘the 9 tvice in the . A . . . . rome he poo 10) 1 t ALTER RIGGER, distinction. If they decide to send their children | ,)°!'") : . » ies ec, 12, 1922, ¥ visiting d mont lis, ticken dinn wecompanied oes, hou utials needed to'denominational schools they may be assumed to know what they are doing and to accept the re- sponsibility, Working Girls) Wag: itor of The ‘Thousand and women too) work in sto: , shops and factories san Also we faa dist of various kinds for only $12 a weck. ACHES AND PAINS Nese are ‘the material gifts, but|!#PY of these poor, self-supporting it T emphasize the spiritual com-|Sit!s sd hungry at times, and are A correspondent advises us that there are tivo |i and renewed hope they will bring|foreed to wear cotton underwear in Hebrew college fraternities older than Sigma Alpha | ‘0 the yearni whos 1 Mu—Zeta Beta Tau and Phi Beta Delta, ‘Thanks, — |inss Noma, America, this condition of . Che for the Christ fond] fairs is disgraceful . ould be made payable to “The Sal-] What decent, | self-supporting gist Each day proves that we are the most virtuous peo: | sation Army" and mailed promptly |can tive. o eee ee a : : e undersigned at No.|~ a. . ‘ ple in our indignation of any in the world. 1s possible to the unde ned at N What N icee Sint sn eene 29 West 14th Street. Let us remember that giving dox not impoverish—withholding does not THOMAS ESTI stoner of the Salvation A New York, Dec. 9, 1922, ninimum © of $18 a week for upporting girls A READER New York, Dec. 12, 19 Why caWt stock-watering ve called the iviyution of industry? It sounds nicer. The Lesser V0 the Baltor of The Fevenin Turkey now promises to join the League of Nations. The United States and Mevico are atill on the waiting list. 1 was surprised to rei f “Rx-Captain A. §, Municipal on, Po the Baltor of The Evening World Permit me to congratulate you on Evidently he has minsconstrued the teachings of ° our masterly articles concerning Do-| ing college from which he is a aan ( “ oti eink bi Three comete are reported cavortiny urvund the | tTolt’s operation * big ee lines, ite, or perhaps he is extremely narrow pe ‘ disadvantages of sky, one of them half way between Monocervs ung | To .cnumerate me: aa op jaa minded, Hydra. Now you know where to look, municipally-owned and operated! mere are more young bachelor treet railway system would require a peeial edition of your esteemed paper, Any sane person above school ag could not find it difficult to conceive ‘. than ever before—who can prove that Has our friend, the {opped to consider that they choose to be Jorsey murder trials continue to be Joyous festivals of excitement. The celebrated justive has tuhon to RESCH OP RPA E FRIAR ane 4 t takes two to make @ marriage, anc wh ving it up. the real object prompting this so. 4 . called “public ownership’ scheme] due to the fact that there are so many Which temporarily answers the pur-|incapable men the young girls have They have caught a bunch of Ch jerg, [pose intended by professional poli-|chosen the lesser of two evils—to be “Ah Sin was Kis name!" tieians, under whose unmereiful tute-| bachelor & . lage and_control, this remuncrative| I doubt if there are many girls who branch of public service Would prove|would be elated if they were .ble to W. W. has retired from the practice of aw. Maybe | * id mit well ax afcommand the respect of a man su le couldn't find any few At to prection with? vi ir und But w the Captain's letter would Indleat: JOHN KERTZ, Private owmerabiy net @ trust ora Siutcigl yeaGy 1 Conyrigne, tn (New York tvening World) Press Pub, Co UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1022 wy Johm Blake) BALANCE YOUR MENTAL RATION. Possibly as Mr. Stefansson tells us in his entertaining book, men can live in the Arctic on a diet consisting of noth- ing but meat. \ But those of us who live in temperate zones must fhix our meat with grain and vegetables and fruit or our diges- tions soon get out of order. The natural appetite of man leads him to take a bal- anced ration—which is the only ration that is gaod for him. When he gets too fond of one particular kind of food * his stomach makes a complaint, and if he has any judg- mgnt he heeds the complaint and gets the ration balanced again, Of course, there are hundreds of thousands of people ay no attention to complaining stomachs. ese will be found in hospitals before long on their y to a country where no rations of any kind will be neces- sdry, As the body develops best with a balanced ration, so does the mind. Our minds must be fed as well as our bodies, and apon their feeding depends their health and eneygy. ,Of course, you cannot make a good mind by feedin any more than you can make a musical genius by giving boy lessons on the piano. . it you can make a normal brain a very much better brain if gu give it the right kind of a ration--which mixes histery and literature and philosophy and plain comedy ia the right sort of proportions. Vortunately these proportions are yery well understood by people who have made it their profession to feed the human mind. Some of these people are teachers and can be found in colleges and schools. Others of them are writers, their ideas can be found in the books they have written. Still others are librarians and e charge of vast shelves of books which anybody can have to read for the asking, together with valuable suggestions about the com- position of the ration. In life, too, the ration of observation must be balanced. and Entertainment should not be all comedy or all tragedy, but a mixture. The impfessions made upon the brain are, in time. trans- muted to thought and ideas, the two things wl ike the differences among men, ~ i To get all kinds of impressions is merely balancing the mental ration. It is a vitally necessary thing to do. Cae nn He was an earnest supporter of the Tg eS 5 Union during tho Civil War, a trusted . ndviser of President Lineoln and a CHARLES CAREY, American politt- member of the Pennsy sa Sta cal writer, was born in Philadelphia, | Constitutional Convention Y 187. Pa., Dec, 15, 17 nd died ‘Oct. 18,) During his life he accumulated a huge At the of twenty-eight he] and invaluable library, which was at his death bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania, Among Carey’ Jed his father, who was an in- fluential economist, political reformer, 3 most editor and publisher, as a member of| important writings are “Principles of the publishing firm of Carey & Lea,|Soclal Science,” ‘The Credit System which was long the most conspicuous . on oat Brian Ls i. » America, He became well known] ~))) de nied bse \ writer on political economy and} y Unity ———_— Fireside Scienc By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (New York Bvening World), Preas Pub. Oo, XIV. THE AIR WE BREATHE, The of the earth is about hundred thick, , however, All of the atmosphere fs con atmosphere thre Within the near miles st ten mile Heyond ten mijes, the alr ts foo rare to support life even in lowly form. 8 an invisible ¢ nitrogen nd ox D jes of other gases are constantly escaping inte the air, but th presence is seldom noticeable. There is substantial four times a: much nitrogen as oxygen in tho alr. Th nitrogen and oxygen are not chemically combined; they are simply mixed together. When chemically combined, they form uitr acid, one of the most poisonous nd devouring liquids known. Nitric acid will de- compose the hardest metals. If some circumstance in nature should causo the nitrogen and the oxygen of the air to combine chem- ically, Just as some clroumstance did cause oxygen and hydrogen to com- every form of life would tn- s ntly perish. The only guarantee we have that these gases will not combine lies in the fact that nitrogen will not combine with oxygen unless forced. Oxygen is ever ready to enter into combination with almost any kind of substar but nitrogen has few natural affinities, Every time we breathe, we, inhale four tir as much nitrogen as oxy- lungs take out the oxygen and the nitrogen is exhaled. It is an casy matter to obtain quite pure nitre- gen and to illustrate its influence on living substance. ‘Take a milk bottle which, to begin with, contains pure air, namely, a mixture of four parts of nitrogen and one part of oxygen, Into tho bottle lower a short lighted candle with e wire, The candle will continue to burn until the oxygen in the bottle ts used up, leaving only nitrogen. As the 2 s the candle flame nd lower, which plainly: that oxy- to combustion and . or rather oxygen diss will sink shows two thing: is necessary that the nitrogen is not necesary, to oxygen has been con sumed and only nitrogen remains in the bottle, its effect on living? things can be tested, It is heavier than air so it will hot quickly escape frou the bottle, but in order to prevent an ad mixture of oxygen from the sur rounding air, it would be wise to place a cover on the botth In the bottle, pl will find that {t cannot live long. survive several minutes, the rea being that the o n constmed out of the air in the bottle, But it is not the nitrogen’ that Kills the mouse; it Is the lack of oxy- gen that causes it to dic. ‘On the other hand, if the bottle con- tained pure oxygen the mouse would live a little longer, but it would live in . frightful state of intoxtcation, for pure oxygen {s too energetic to be in ‘aled by lungs that have been accus- tomed to diluted oxygen ‘Alr, being a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, may be compared with a mixture of water and alcohol. If one part of alcohol be mixed with four parts of water, the mixture may be drunk without great detriment; but pure alcohol will destroy the tissues of the throat and stomach and pro- violent intoxi You may iy duce tion inhale several breaths of nitrogen without harm, showing {t is harm live without bi can oxygen. The atmosphere weighs 14.7 pounds to the square inch; that is, the pres sure exerted against every square ineh of our bodies is 11.7 pounds. If fve suddenly plunged into a vacuum, therefore, our bodies would explode, The pressure of the atmos phere can be easily ilust placing a strip af puper ov t nothing were slass of water, when the y he inverted without the wate n out we lived under the ) atmospl that we In like mi fishes have jong in water that they are no longer if a bein nm Mars, where the air mueh rarer than here, should lay 1 the vartl would walk throw: qou with th difficulty sperience when walking through wa purposes, s only r up to ou y breathing e nitro- gen in the air sery solvent for diluting the oxygen to our needs, yut in the creation of food stuffs it is gredient, article gsential { the m an absolutely € as As the Saying Is “NOT MUCH OF A SHOWER.” An American — pol 1 auoted derisivel n opp nt who attempts to make light ofa great de eat. The slo 1 explanation building his a 5 But w es | svoffer, h his chin. just above water-level Ake Mapa ialn niely on y changed his tone and. b 1 to be taken on read. N ' 1, and the man theveupon 1 off, indignantly tot don't 1 to “PULL DOWN YOUR VEST.” n ttend t tr List were ke shorter than they are ent, and when a f shirt in ' the a