The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1922, Page 10

: ESTABLISRED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ; eens cuts Preeq, Publishing A to 63 yee New Wark. RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Kow. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, SURSCRIPTION RATES. Pees notes Wee ee een ee Jouts forld Almanac for 1922, 35 cente; by mall 50 cemte, BRANCH OFFICES RRQ EN: 1203, Brvey, cor. aatn. | WASHINGTON, Writ Bide; M. 4th and F SI EM: ‘Ave, “near F Sta Beth St. Hotel Theresa’ Hide, | metre ser, ofl Ford Ride. NX. 410 E. 140th St, wear! CATCAGO, 1603 Mallers Bldg, + i YN, 202 Washington 8, | PARIS, 47 Avenue de lOpere, 7 Fulton Bt LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ’ ee SET NS; rate se eee yf rulerwlse IS this paper, and alsa the elise it otherwise pul jerein: DO WE SPEAK TO THE LEAGUE? HE Angora Government promises that Turkey ‘ will join the League of Nations, thereby Y bringing into play the League's already established _ommission for the protection of minorities. This is hailed as the best possible guarantee for minorities whose fate in territories under Turkish tule has beeg one of the chief anxieties of West- ern nations—including in particular the United States. What is the Government of the United States going to do? Will it admit that its professed hopes for the “ minorities can best be realized through the League “@f Nations and cordially exert its influence and ¢0-operation to that end? ... Or will the Government of the United States try | to keep up the Col. Harvey pretense that the | eLeague of Nations is a kind of pestilence which |) we must contrive to step around? (a ee cee mee a } A Magtatrate of this city declares that nine- tenths of the arrests made by policemen for vio- Jations of the State Prohibition Law are “for “a the purpose of graft and are out-and-out shake- downs.” The Magistrate forgets. Prohibition Law is not like other laws. Prohibition Law must never be judged by its consequences but solely by its purpose, + SHORTER ROADS TO JUSTICE. ap his experience a8 a prosecutor District Attorney Banton has come to the conclusion that the, Grand Jury system of indictment is a needless clog in the administration of criminal law. Speaking before the New York Bar Association, | ; Mr. Banton recommended a sweeping simplifica- tion and unification of the system. He estimates ~ that it would save two-thirds of the time and two- thirds of the expense if criminal cases went direct % from the examining magistrates to the trial judges, ~ Certainly the elimination of the Grand Jury step would hasten trials. And, it is a truism of the law that delay often defeats the aims of justice. It is difficult to see wherein the elimination of the Grand Jury step would prejudice the rights of ' the accused. Elimination of the indictment sys- Bere ory INTRY WEATHER for SURE! But it might have been worse. The weather man thought it would be. COAL SCARCITY persists, but the Federal Coal * Director says fuel is coming, “So is spring,” the °** pessimists reply. _* ‘Thursday's snow went off in a rain, but a WHITH |» ‘CHRISTMAS fs not improbable. »¢.~ RAPID TRANSIT was NOT invariably RAPID, A + © fire, a derailment, a motor failure or two made the ere ‘Usual heavy December traffic almost too much for a the system. « The TRANSIT COMMISSION announced plans for ©S: the new EIGHTH and AMSTHRDAM AVENUES ~® SUBWAY LINE. Three to five years is long to walt even if obstruction does not increase the time. At Washington the SHIP SUBSIDY measure shrank from dreadnought size and now i little more than a motor boat hitting on two cylinders and drift ing straight for a REEF. Whether CLEMENCEAU, MORGAN or the frresiat- . thle LOGIC OF EVENTS ts responsible is not clear, but the ADMINISTRATION seems to be searching fer a SYNONYM tor ENTANGLEMENT that will pass the scrutiny of the isolationists. AMBASSADOR HARVEY ts coming HOM® for a ‘wisit. If the ladies could only display thelr souls, he ye might be induced to stay. JAPAN MADB GOOD on her promise to get out of BHANTUNG. Another conspiracy to discredit Sen- ator Lodge? The SENATD of the IRISH FREE STATD ts work- » tug for PEACE, the best possible CHRISTMAS GIFT, The LONDON CONFERENCE agreed to disagree They talk now of having Uncle Bam pay Germany for fighting us. That has been the usual custom, We geid Mexico and Spain for their several miz-ups, . es ol. Harvey is reported as headed home for © eultation.” With specialists-—let us hope : . “con: - Mnow is ridiculously out of place in a great metropolis "ho ane ola 2 do the “new” writers find so much fault with ? The oldest of them were once new. trates and Disii bilities would have to be exercised openly. With the opportunities for appeal now existing, the criminal is far better protected than is society. Mr. Banton seems pessimistic over the possi- bility of reform. Perhaps he is unduly pessimis- tic. As a lawyer he may have failed to gauge core rectly the widespread demand for some method of speeding legal procedure and so discouraging crime and crime waves. t Attorneys, but these responsi. . WHAT FUEL ADMINISTRATORS ARE FOR. E hope there has been some misunderstand- ing as to the attitude of Assistant State Fuel Administrator Harry T. Peters toward coal purchasers who are puzzled by the way dealers interpret the order requiring standard anthracite sizes to be mixed with smaller grades or substi- tutes, ; * Assistant Administrator Peters is reported to have said yesterday that “people are damned lucky to get any coal at all” and “ought not to complain of the condition in which it is delivered.” That is not the right attitude for the Fuel Ad- ministration or for any official who speaks for it. Coal consumers in this city have been asked to meet a coal emergency by burning for domestic purposes kinds of coal to which they are not ac- customed. They are entitled to look to the Fuel Adminis- tration not only for protection against tricky coal dealers but also for help in learning how to adapt the coal they get to home needs. ‘To that end, a campaign of official instruction for householders should be well under way If there is any Fuel Administrator in New York who sees nothing more in the situation than that ’ “anybody is damned lucky to get any coal at all,” he should be promptly relieved of duties he has failed to grasp. While M. Clomenceau {s resting on ship board, there is less rest than ever either where he has come from or where he is going. GREATER HUDSON? HAMBERS OF COMMERCE in the cities and tewns of Hudson County, N. J., are again taking the lead in agitating the question of the merger of some or all of the towns and cities of the county in one metropolitan municipality. It is not for New York to dictate, but in a friendly way New York may speak from experi- ence and assure the New Jerseyites that the jeal- ousies and rivalries that loomed so large before consolidation have given way before the manifest benefits. Moreover, New York has an interest in such a consolidation. The Port Treaty created the Port Authority to work with all the municipalities snaring the Port of New York. Each municipality speaks for itself and can nullify any plans af- fecting it. New York City hopes to be on better terms with the Port Authority before many months have passed, Then if constructive plans are put for- ward it would prove easier to negotiate with one large city in Hudson County than with the num- ber now existing. THE WEEK until Jan, 2. The LAUSANND CONFERENCH is pre- carlously close to a break, and TURKPY is consid- ered as a probable member of the LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Two notable deaths of the week were JOHN WANA- MAKER, merchant prince, at his Philadelphia home, and Dr. M. ROYAL WHITHNACK, the PATRON of the BABIES of Newark. * BASEBALL interest centred in the meeting of the MANAGERS. Rumors abounded, but the most defi- nite fact for New York is that the YANKS will be a ONE-COLONEL THAM next year, Col, Huston hay- ing sold Ris interest to Col. Ruppert. DANCE REFORM is pledged in New York halls. The proprietors had rather clean up than leave the cleaning in the hands of Mre. G. W, Loft, Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner. REFORM also struck the THBATRICAL MAN- AGERS who announce plans for a new CENTRAL TICKET OFFICW to BUCK the SPECULATORS. The BOARD OF EDUCATION hastened to an- nounce that it had NO APOLOGIES to offer for its action tn electing MISS MARGARET M'COOEY as ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT of SCHOOLS. Board members seemed to fear that some might sus- pect POLITICAL PULL. Some do recall] that Miss Mc- Cooey'’s BROTHER has been mentioned in BROOK- LYN POLITICS. WOODROW WILSON retired from his law partner ship. The G. 0, P, wonders what he may do next. Considerable CHRISTMAS MONEY is tn circula- tion. Extra dividends, stock dividends, salary bo- nuses, Christmas Club payments add to the supply, And Father ts aware that the NEW YEAR BILLS are only two weeks in the future, Be: ACHES AND PAINS Vachel Lindsay handles his muse like a caveman, . Wonder*what would become of the various “col umns" in New York nowspapere if the columnists were forbidden to write about cach other? . The cel is considered the chief delicacy in Japan Complaint our Maybe her weather. iy made that Canada gets the choicest of voal, she would be glad to let us have JOHN KEETZ From Evening World Readers What kind of Ietter do you find most 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 aa @@ say much in few words. Ta Perso To the Kulitor of Minhin, avening World Even now, during the lull that fol lows the exci ment ont over the enact- Volstead law, “Our of the plaintive we hear ory, personal man owns an automobile and deems it his personal right to drive through congested city streets ut the rate of sixty miles an-hour, running over u few innocent victims in bia wild, mad chase, he will soon learn that he is not the only one to be con- sidered It is a man's personal right to drink what he wants, but when the conse quence of that act makes him tr sponsible, endangering the lives of speetable citizens, that right ceases to be personal and hecomes @ public one. The whimpering of — “personal rights" is done by a few unsophisti- cuted selves’ who expcet to reap without sowing. They are not to be kow-towed to, but should be taught to forget that only "1" exist and the rest of the world be damned A.B. L. Woman's Ways. To the Editor of The Evening World No man would neglect to courtesy to a woman intentionally as long as that woman approaches the standard of his mother, who is his ideal. It iy the natural tendency of man to respect and display the cour- tesy due the weaker sex. But women must be worthy of tt. A woman cannot drink, smoke, be- come familiar with slang, be lux in morals, without losing that simplicity, that innocence, which Ix the distin guished asset of woman and for which reason alone man esteems her, The very fact that she is weaker has nothing to do with it, The virtues of woman are what The women of to-day ¢ heart too much on material thing such as good times and good clothes, gracing with their appearance every dance hall. They make pleasure thelr sole pursuit, Equal rights are un- derstood by them as a license to throw off convention and even the appear- ance of virtue. A woman's Influence ts always felt while she retains that for which man adores her. May the coming genera- tion adhere to the woman's true pla in this life, She needn't ask for more respect from man than she commands And he, in turn, delights in renderin it to one who is playltu her worthy part in life. A. ¥, BELUIN Hrooklyn, Dec, 13, 1022 show ppeal to man. faction ‘n trying sime to be brief. ve down last sumn there should been those in the Administration Washington who could have foreseen that, as surely as the seasons follow each gather in their courses, there would Be a shortuge of coul this win- Coal neither he permit is an absolute necessity and pital nor labor should eve ed to withhold from 100,- 000,000 people a commodity that means not only comfort but health and life itself. It was the plain duty of the Har- ding Administration to have taken charge of the coal situation during the strike and to have safeguarded the interests of the people of the Na- ton by seeing to it that coul was mined during the regular production period, even if the Goyernment haa o do the mining Itself, Due to the failure of the Harding Administration we now have to face months of misery, To many it will mean sickness and death. ORIOLE. Paterson, Dec. 13, 1 “The Girl Behind the Counter.” To the Editor of The Evening World: We want to say a word for the girl behind the counter. Many give little attention to her, She Is usually only a cog in the vast machinery, She means no more to them than a plece of their automobile. She is made to serve. Soon the demands on her strength and patience will be enormous, She is human, Christmas means as much) to her as to-any of us, Yet in ail! the mad throng of gay Christmas shoppers, few think of her or the burden sho is trying to carry, She must ‘smile, no matter if her heart is heavy and her fect ave tired and! aching. She mnst serve those who are to be served. She dare not an swer back, ne must repay with graciousness the insults and meanness of her less lovable sisters. It-is her business to catef to others, and what- ever her belongings, whatever her de sires, her feelings or inclination, st must crush them all (n order to make Christmas shopping a pleasure. There are many reasons upon which is based the slogan—Do your Christ- mas shopping early, There is none that takes preced @ over the con sideration that is due the girl behind the counter, Now is the time to lift some of the burdens from her shoul Christmas belongs to her 4 as it does to those she serves ders, mu Dangerous FE she should not be left a wreek on the v Kalioe of T greatest of the year as reaul With 4 heginn andlor the inconsiderate thoughtle 1 situation exists that ne would} her fairly. Vo your shopping now have been allowed to BX. Ol When the coal t t' New York, Dec, 13, 1922 een Fore ing Wort By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright, 1922, by Joba Biske) LIFT In every organization the RS. are lifters and slackers. The slacker fancies that he is clever, because he shifts so much of his share of the burden on the shoulder of the lifter. Sometimes the lifter thinks he is abused arid imposed upon beeause he carrics so much of the slacker's load. TURNING THE PAGES| —By— E. W. OSBORN Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening / World), Presa Publishing Co, the darkness he singe of the dawning, In the desert he sings of a rose, Or of limpid or laughing water That through green meadows flows, He flings @ Romany ballad Out through hia prison vars And, deaf, he sings of nightingales Or, blind, he sings of stars And hopelvas and old and forsaken, At last with failing dreath A song of faith and youth and love He sings at the gates of death. A trio of stanzas on the ceaseless poet, borrowed from “The Wagon and the Star’ (Briramer, Boston), a book of verse by Mary Sinton Leitch ‘ A Go-Bang at Broadway, - - - We listen in, thanks to George Ag- new Chamberlain's “Rackhouse'’ (Harpers), on the meditations of young Capt. Roddy Norris: “Broadway is hard, jovial, on the make," he communed within him- self, “When yet there were boohs it was thelr Mecca and it's suffer- ing from a hangover of vocation It's still the haunt of every pieu- yune shell game Known to barter, from the sale of a toddle top to the purchase of # $2.50 seat at « movie or a movie site at $2,600,000, “Ite gorged itself on its own past history until te-day the man who stings his neighbors on one corner with a cure-all at two bits the pack+ 4ge is stung on the next for 60 its of his casy money for the lest word in safety razors. vhen he wakes up he smiles wheepishly and Is positively pleased! Why? Because way down in hia ts fA sense of communal proprietorship. He belongs to the street that feeds upon itvelf—hog and the trough at gume of turn about is fair play."" Rough stuff for the most famous and the longest street But the without blinkin ees How Barney Sang “Mother Machree.” Barney, the sweet boy singer in Father Scott's ‘Mother Machree’ (Macmillan), tells his sister Allee how he sang the oid song to the priest: 1 don't then on we White Lights wager take it remember 1 wanted to be wi fr, und she ked deep inte my soul and comed to Know my thoughts f a sudden the song was 1 1 seemed to hea echo ‘Mother Machree!" For Sis, 1 didn't know around and and he did was Fathe and there tears were on his tac not seem to see me for a while, and then he steed up and said God bless you, Di soy.” “Why, wh thought you'd be glad Why are your cyes we We cannot imagine a better story offhow a nine-year-old boy sings him - self at once into hearts und the choir Leonard’ . When the Moon Tries Fooling, - + - Out of The Book of a Jap Urehin,"* ot St o-* in Stanley Kimmel's “Leaves on the Water’? (Thomas Seltzer), we read But neither is right. Vor the slacker, dodging day by day work he ought to be doing, is also dodging the muscular or intellectual growth that comes only from effort. The kind of brains that can only get out of things are always far below par in the brain market. It may seem a hardship that the willing, industrious people must really support the lazy. But they never have to support the same set of lazy peo- ple for long, and the extra effort they put in on the unwel- come job is continually increasing their own ability. Were it possible to make a machine which measured, with absolute accuracy, not only the amount of each man’s day's work, but its actual value to himself or to his employers, it would be found that only about a third of the people in any big concern are lifters. The others lift sometimes—when the boss's eye is on them. The rest of the time they shirk, or work with a me- chanical soddenness that amounts to the same thing. It often happens that such people, because of peculiar gifts of conversational powers, “get away” with it for some time—now and then, for years. But as time wears on the unused brain power grows less and less till by and by not even cloquence can market it profitably, There is, of course, no,such thing as exact justice in the world yet. Probably to thé end of time some people will be lifters and some ckers,-and the lifters will seem to be going through life heavily handicapped. But the handicap is never as heavy as it seems, and it will always be observed that the people who gain the biggest prizes of life are lifters and not slackers. And even if now and then people do ride on the top cf life without pulting forth the effort that they ought to put into it, they are so few that they are not worth paying any o. Some men find purses containing large sums ut nobody but an’idiot would aban- hunting bec that attention to, of money on the ton his job and b se oO him to withdraw from the Wesleyan communion, and Whitedield hence- forth became known as the founder of the Calyinistic Methodist Church in Great Britain, He visited Seotland, WHOSE BIRTHDAY? DEC. 16—GEORGH WHITEFIELD, famous Methodist preacher and mis- jonury, was born in Gloucester, Eng- land, Dee, 16, 1714, and died ln New-| Wales and America at different times, buryport, Mass., Sept, 80, 1770. Hel lboring {n each country with unre- entered Oxford University in mitting perseverance. His death oc- Whore he became interested in the doe- | curred at Newburyport, Mass,, while on his seventh evangelizing tour in trine and practice of the Methodists America. ind formed a close friendshin with John Wesley, In 17 nee << ———— dained deacon and s One thorn of expertence is worth ae srensnlang tout a whole wilderness of warning.— ‘ fa, Mo return James R, Lowell three months, but boett : m ighted by the cler he began to Happy the p hose annals reach in the open a His powerful] gry blank in the history books oratory attracted thousands of people A slight difference in doctrine caused} Carlyle , this: Every night tho moon Comes with his bucket of stars And tries to pretend That he is a rich merchant, A dealer in gems. But the little Earth-people Are not so easily fooled. The Secret of the “Feel.” +-- Writing of “the feel of the ship” in his book ‘The Aviator’ (Dutton), Henry C, McComas digresses thus: One of the simplest examples of “feel! that we ull know 1s a group of sensations which guides us In acquiring skill with tools. It is the ‘feel’ of the chisel, the plane and the saw that directs the hand und aim, as the instruments cut with the grain or across it No one thinks of the slight tactual sensations, or the muscle, tendon, and joint sensations as such. In stead, he thinks of hla tools as part of himself. lie seems to project himself Into the end of the chisel as {t moves along a surface or an edge, ‘The sensations are all interpreted in terms of what the chisel is doing ns it slips under the wood, not in terms of pressure on the hand, or strain In the muscle, We 6 good stick that *Babo'’ Ruth meas- ures ‘em out for four bases. oe Age and Accident.--- From Boyd Fisher Causes of Accidents” Mifflin), we quote: There does exist an age tendency to accident. Very young or very old workers are fjured more fre- quently than middle-aged — ones. Men from 20 to 29 years old get hurt more frequently than men {rom 30 to 89 years old. In a period of five years in u large steel plant, Chaney and Hanna reported that inen {n the younger yearly, 177 acci ny workers, 48 ainst 162 per 1000 among the der group, and that tn another plant the accident frequpney among the younger men was 234.2 per 1000 ‘against 178.7 per 1000 of the older group. nd so it is not strange that thy men of any age who are most Ukely to get hurt are those whose temper aments re most lke either the qualities. of youth—-responstvencss excitability, and hastiness—or mos like old as slugglahnes. indiffer ence, and laggard reactions A long way that a as hoe ‘x ‘Mental (Houghton- of feels. It's by the “feel of his putting the case n works as old—or young—