The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 26

PULITZER. Pree Publishi weve: DECEMBER 1°. | Foote Wet'taT ts Ute 1922, IPTION RATES. ‘i New York s¢ Second Clase q Staize, Guide Ureater ‘New orks ‘Yeer Six Months One Mont 10.00 re 38 12.00 0 100 1000 500 38 400 225 “5 00 ‘Grid Almanac for 1922, 35 cents; by mail 40 cents. BRANCH OFFICES. ; , 1205 B'way, cor 38tn.| WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bide. f a. a2. a Ave. | _ 14th ana 1 Bide. ! 1 Poors | DETR IT, dio tanh Be, ot | CHICAGO, 1603 ‘Bfallers Bide. ' wr St.; PARIS, 67 Avenue ‘Opera. f Rice oe unneton St. | TANDON, 20 Cockspur 8t. ber MEMBER OF TRE ASSOCIATED PRESS. * qatitied to, the use, for n SE See Siete S oa ; A PLACE FOR NEW CROSS-TOWN 7," " SERVICE. RRANSIT COMMISSION orders for a new ; express stop on the East Side subway at 33d i Street reflect the remarkable development of the : Grand Central-Pennsylvania zone in recent years. An express stop at 33d will make this the ob- { Vious place for a new cross-town connection to serve all the transit lines. Shuttle service, a loop. or a moving platform at or near 33d Street would serve the Hudson tubes. A 42d Street connection would not. The Ninth Avenue Elevated also has an express station at 34th Street and it is to be presumed that the proposed Eighth Avenue Sub- . __ Way could be planned with this in view. - As a general proposition, express stops should not be close together, for every stop takes time. But congestion at Grand Central has become so serious that stops have been prolonged by inabil- ity to handle the crowds. If the new express station relieves Grand Cen- trai it should result in a saving of almost as much time as is lost in the added stop. “The American people,” says Reur Ad- miral Sims, retired, “are spending just enough money on their pavy to make sure . that it will always be beaten.” And as it always has been beaten? HELP THE SALVATION ARMY * DELIVER. WE Salvation Army is out with a call to en- list assistants to Santa Claus for duty next Saturday. 11 is the kind of service that should ap- peal to many. For two weeks the Salvation Army lads and lassies have been on the corner appealing for funds 1y fill the Christmas baskets for the poor. It has been cold and disagreeable work. Now the S. A. wants help in delivering the baskets. That prom- ises to be pleasant and interesting work. The Salvation Army~has lists of the worthy poor to whom the baskets are to go. With the lindness that makes charity doubly welcome, the loca branch of the organization hopes to take the stmas baskets instead of asking the beneficiar- ies to line up and wait their turns, incidentally: re- vealing their need for charity. Se the Salvation Army asks for automobiles and drivers to help deliver the baskets that bring cheer A. to homes where Christmas comes only in the $ baskets. : Can any one suggest a pleasanter way of doing good than to step in and share the credit after most of the hard work is done? The Salvation Army should find it casy to “seli” this privilege. In the old days when the Republican Sen ate machine had a leader instead of a lodge, good little newcomers were supposed to vote right for a year before talking. But Senator Brookhart of Iowa waits only two weeks before throwing monkey wrenches at the Administration's ship subsidy flivyver A TAMMANY COUNTRY CLUB ? HISPER it gently. Perhaps the time is not yet ripe for open consideration. But down arcund Fourteenth Street there are rumors that the Tammany Tiger may svon be turned out tor exercise and recreation in an 800-acre Tiger pas- ture near Bridgewater, N. J. Report has it that this Tammany playgr may be christened a Country Club, and that in the intervals between political conferences the Tammany leaders may soon be able to work 1 round of golf. The foundation for these rumors is the purchase ol an 800-acre estate by the Reardon B For the present it will be a stock farm. But changes are contemplated. Maybe the teak want to sound out “the boys’ —and girls— hi country club idea. significant comment on changes in politics, in Tammany— ana no less in the game of gol! Time was when Mr. Murphy was even more evasive in regard to golf than to the make-up of , his ciate. Now he uses golf to stave off inconvenient curiosity. Tammany leaders are photographed ___. ; iim the act of driving from the tee and the follow- | ers may go to the movi THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922. sand criticise the stance ot the “Boss fame was when pinochle and “rummy” in the back room of the saloon was a matter of political business with the wardsmen and heclers. Golf was a joke. Some of this reflects the change in a leadership grown sleek and prosperous. More, perhaps, is die to the democratization of gol! Will the time ever come when disputes over dis- trict leaderships will be settled, not by cutting cards or shaking the bones, but by eighteen holes over the Tammany Country Club course? THE WAY BACK. RESIDENT HARDING'S conference of State Governors proved disappointing. Only fif- teen Governors showed up. N York, Pennsyl- Vania, Hlinois and Ohio were among the States not represented. The President frankly postponed. his hopes to a similar conference in January. Nevertheless, the fifteen Governors who dis- cussed Prohibition enforcement President Harding yesterday registered a division both in- teresting and significant with Against the views of fourteen dry State Execu- lives who declared for strict enforcement of pres- ent Prohibition law, stood out the opinion of Goy. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, who said “The great majority of the people of Maryland believe the Voistead law simply cannot be enforced there. Our people are imbued with a fine traditional respect for law and we were effectively solving the temperance question by local option. Under that method, when the people of a com munity wanted Prohibition they actually “The Volstead law changed all this. Our people in the main regard it as an unneces; sary and drastic Federal infringement their Statg and personal rights. and lack of respect for have resulted are deplorable “The only remedy I see is to recognize that the Volstead law is destructive of the rights of the States, and to turn the whole ‘question back to the States, so that cach may settle it in accordance with the will of its own people.” of Lawless- Jaw which There speaks again the older conception of American self-government as sel f-government that recognizes differences between the character and demands of the peoples of different States and different communities. Under that older principle of American self- government the country might have gone dry State by State, county by county, town by town Yet so long as there remained one community, large or small, which chose, under the laws of its Commonwealth, to remain wet, the rights of that community would have been respected. Prohibition has not been able to wrench that idea of local self-government out of minds and American memories Prohibition has not been able to persuade rea- that Prohibition law transcends all earlier notions of the kind of regulation of personal lib- erty that is best left to local option Pat is why American son Nation-widg Prohibition is not forceable and never will be system that tries to impose the personal habits of one part of the people of the United States upon all the people of the United States Goy. Ritchie has spoken for Maryland If Maryland were the only State in the Union that felt that way about present Prohibition law, its rights would: still be scrupulously recognized under the thought they were securing to this Republic The Fighteenth Amendment was iammed into the Federal Constitution thanks to an utterly con- fused notion of what was to be accomplished, It is amid the consequences of that confusion that the country is now floundering, Let Congress repeal the Volstead act and give each State the power to enforce the Fighteenth Amendment in accordance with its own wishes and needs hat is the shortest way back to the firm ground op which the founders built. en enforceable by a Kind of self-government the fathers ACHES AND PAINS Meswo has appropriated a ihird more money jor education than for war pu poses. > Gettiny farther and farther away from etigivitity for membership in the League of Nations! . In u sporting sense tt looks as if the Welshma: had ¢ on his memotrs. Lloyd Georg? contrives sheays to be interesting . 4 now engine pulls an auto one mile for two cents, it's tee back seat that makes a .igchine ex . ch + turkeys are to be cheaper and better than thoxe offered jor Thanksgiving, A desirable read justinen . Hope they will hurry up and make $3d Street an express stop on the Bast Side cubway. It never should have been limited to local trefic, . Funny that more Presidents than Kinys ave by dssassins tn modern days. Why does a bottle gurgle when shaken? Ty it from joy or annoyance? The British troops have teft lreland—to itself JOHN § BETZ. om The Farm Block! o “eS HIP SUBSIDY Copyright, 1922, GXew York Evening World) Press Pub. Co, By John Cassel onnnnnnnnnnnnnonn ty From Evening World Readers Whee Kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that jive. the worth of a thousand words in # couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say muc’ in a few words. likely man of fine sensibilities in regard he prides himself on bein ill have faith 12 woman. who do not 1 in general b Take time to b> brief. Oke 8 sents itself of seeing a slow, nd To the Hditur of-'rh World not having to go alone, and will then When a man condemns all women| demand the best seats in the house at » sure that some woinan|tourist prices, to spend the rest ot outed chis/eqo: the evening telling her escort of the is : wonderful time she had the other in” is to be pitied. Wit-1 evening with Joc Hoosis, and what « out a doubt he will vunsider lis letter] wonderful position he } utsurd after u few tmontlis Most} she expects to visit California nest summer, provided of ¢ can rope in the office man Summed up, the Americ not want to help a fellow make his pile, but wants him to have it when he culls on her, and is willl give him an apology for t Ble he imugine that ‘There vie a e and condemn woinen ause some are foollsh} jeaying in the morning anid 4 about smoking and are not adept in} tessen supper on returning at nig ‘The e just| as her share of the marriage bargain the use of as many good women now, tain,"? despite the use of paint and « friendship with Lady Nicotine, All you Lave to do ts to blow aside smoke or rub off some of the Cap The marriage license notices show that 70 per cent. of the names are of foreigners, because the Ameri cun fellows have become “‘leery’’ of that gume and are “settin’ pretty. t. M.M Let the uveruge girl put that on New York, Dee, 12. with her powder compact, then try to - laugh it off. “BUDDIES.” Taolatio Yo the Editor of The Evening World “Bandits.”’ Am most heartily in accord with] To the Editor of The Evening World ing Miss Brooklyn's letter. Why| After the untimely abuse which es without drink, smoke and tell risque stories. Every day people are getting married. {am swe been hurled at the piquant remarks of “Ex-Captain A, EB. F."" I believe thai a fitting tribute should be paid to a noble gentleman who has the ability and courage to expose one of the glar a doubt all young ladies that they all have been ogethe sked themselve Mis MMe thea ane wets uch othee {Ing evila of the day. ‘The Captain has bar-foom stories. Thus finding each |discussed a problem in a manly her suited for matrimony they | straightforward way, which should stuggor up the church aisle, tell the] OOD, the attention of every serious minister the: latest joke, and live happily ever after. A babe cast away on an isle, living alone tll manhood er womanhood, as the case may be, would undoubtedly sincerely believe that the isle wus the only ¥ and that he or she was the only in habitant and tha were the only ones, as would come the realiza live different lives and have diffe: views. New To th Regarding would like to add my bit. the “Captain” ts right and bas struck the nall on own observ 1 have been out with your so-called Hard Words. batter of The minded young American ‘Are we veterans of the war, whe gladly gave all in our power for the defense and protection of the fair sex and with great success, to receive no more reward than to be the prey of those female bandits which infest the city? Where is the girl who is interested in something in a man besides his in- come tax return? What is the solu- tion? I challenge the Captain's op- ponents to prove tl © on the face of the earth his or her customs Until such time rescued, when jon that others ent wei or she MICHAEL McGINNISS. York, Dec. 13. Brooklyn, N. ¥ Buddie jeune Wor Captain's” letter 1 1 believe In the Country, Too. Yo the Editor of The Evening World the Is there no way of forcing a land- lord to put premises in a sanitary con dition, or has {t come to pass that people who live away from the city to the head, and add my ations to bear bim out. are compelled live under leaking NCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Ce At, 19: EVERYDAY MIRACLES. There is litte doubt that if Conan Doyle could really prove that actual photographs of fa sprites cam be taken he would be acclaimed a greater discov- than Yet greater mir eyes every day and It is be erer Columbus. ple r rd even his phot disturbing It would tr creatures wer but there ing tual y just 9 So we magne), which is on as the pixies which has been put into the magnet beforehand. in the fact that vast bodies of a water-—far greater the ing uphill from the 0 m. have dug their wa We learn in time to sing exactly the same and that after a first y robin sing three thousand m same spot where he v same ¢¢ sparrow The world is full of wonders, but we become acevs- tomed to them, It is only the things that we do not sce that seem to us wonderful, Miracles are enacted before our eyes with every spring and winter and fall, and we still hold the world a rather dull place, about which we know all there is to know, when in reality we know no more about it than Doctor Doyle inows about his fairies. , By John Blake.) s than this are enacted under our use we do not believe, no matter what Mr. Doyle tells us, that these little people really exist, that we nuble us still more to know t running about our door, resenee just the same. ject them and Jet it go at that. Yet all the while we take it as a matter of course that a 1 bit of iron, should attract a nail, which is only another bit « 1, by some fluid or force as invisible We see nothing strange iN y come down hill again in the form of rain and as rain waken to life the dry little seeds that have been planted or - underground. all astonished that the little robin will es he will come back next spring to the very born, It strikes us as*quite simple that he should have the ored feathers as every other robin, but no feather it all placed or tinted like the feathers of his neighbor, the ries, pixies, gnomes aid d them as commonplace. ing and a little bit t these tiny ible to us, ds, iny —are continually flow- am to the clouds that they song that his father s journey of two cr ar ‘ain pin the handle around { leaks and he will not re although there will be of the month. 1 am informed that such conditions din the city until the d merely wrapped tive tape place and his continually nedy matters, s bill the first pare tolera' s got nis ave getting some- “Home Girl” and find that the girt|roofs, where dria pans have to be[*™! naw te that does not use the lip stick, &e..] placed under the places where the does not, because of parental control, | roofs leak every time it rain the country worthy of ed WOLIE he ax wild re youms int eitiaens af Ue “flapper? who las places as well as in the elty, so why should there her convictions, 't Shylocks of landlords are taking ad-]be prerered laws for ce ts rie a8 that go to church do so Lecause thetr| yantage of these conditions. os HPBXE VO BE Fae ot ie, ihete on demands it, or because par-| 1 pay 60 per cent. more rent now} from these pit lesa mortals of land- ental pressure is brought to bear than I did three years ago, yet the|lords without squirming : The average girl goes out with alrooms are in a deplorable condition, QUAR DEAL -Ifellow because ap opporfumty pre- the plumbing unsanitary, and where Patchogue, Dec, if, 1922, - See Tense From the Wise A baby was steeping, its mother was weeping; for her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.—Sam- uel Lover. A cow is a very good animal in field; but we turn her out of © garden.—Jobnson. the 1 nightingale dies fo bird shame if another sings better.—Bur- ton. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family ts unhappy {nm its own woy—Tolstol, Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Opal Rn cee “THE AMERICAN COMMON- WEALTH.” Among the books that have told upon their time and instituted the re- form forces which will tell on coming generations a front place belongs to “The American Commonwealth,” by that great statesman and splendid man, the late James Bryce, whose noble memory is the proud heritage of both England and America. Lord Bryce’s work was published in the year 1890, and was immediately recognized as being the best account ever written of the political institu- ons of the United States considered in their relation to the history, char- acter and habits of the American people. Unforgetable is the prayer of Rob- ert Burns about ‘seeing ourselves as others see us." In his ‘‘American Commonwealth” Bryce saw us as we had pever been able to seo ourselves, and enabled us to look at ourselves from his own standpoint, with the result that incalculable good has come to us from the new viewpoint. With wonderfully clear vision Bryce saw both the good and the evil in our Institutions, both the weakness and the strength of our Federal, State and Municipal Constitutions, and pointing out in a frank and mas- terly way the lights and the shades, he made us think as we had never thought befere upon the subject of the government under which we live. The first step in reform is the realization that there is something that needs reforming. Mr. Bryct book made us see the need of better- ing conditions, and the betterment of our governmental condition has been going on ever since, In “The American Commonwealth” there was brought home fo us, with «a “great wakening light,’’ the fact that our municipal institutions fur- nished the greatest number of weak- nesses and danger points. With charming frankness the au- thor called our attention to the im- perfections of our city goyernments in particular, and the real dangers to which they made us Hable; and thanking him for turning the search light upon the plague spots, we be- gun at once to remove them. Municipal conditions are bad enough vin our country to-day, but they are not so bad as they were in 1890; and it is to the illuminating pages of this great Englishman's book that the credit for the improved situation is largely due. From those pages we got the in- spiration of the municipal refornr which bas already done much toward cleaning up the Augean stables of our city polities, and which cannot be stayed until the plague spots are practically removed, If history tells us anything it tells us this: that the big city has always been the cancer that has eaten out the heart of the nation. It wa: Babylon und Nineveh that destroye’ the old empires along the Tigris and Euphrates; Athens and Corinth that ruingd the “glory that was Greece,”’ the Eternal City that paralyzed the Roman Empire. Tho modern cities are, we may be sure, trending along the same dangerous line; and Lord Bryce will not have lIlved and thought in vain if his greatest book shall tura out to have been the savior of the American elty, and through that the savior of civilization the world over, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 241—POLITICIAN. The root of the word “politician” is the classic word “polis,” which means city. As the city in the early phases of recorded history was also the state, a politician was a person who occupied himself with the affairs and served tho interests of the state. But times change, and the meaning of words changes with them. “Poli- tician,” in a sense now obsolete, came to mean a “man of artifice or cunning; a cunning, artful person.” It is in that sense that many per- sons now use the word politician to mean a “cunning, artful person," who is supposed to serve the interests of the city or the state but confines himself to serving strictly his own interests. ee Whose Birthday? DECEMBER 19%th—EDWIN Me- MASTERS STANTON, Americas statesman, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, December, 19, 1814, and died December 20, 1869, After graduating from Kenyon College he studied law and in 1886 was admitted to the bar, After practising law at Cadiz and later at Steubenville, he was appointed re- porter of the Supreme Court of Ohio, In 1848 he located in Pittsburgh to practice law, and in 1859 removed his office to Washington. President Bu- chanan appointed him Attorney Gen- eral of the United States to succeed Jeremiah 8. Black. This period was one of intense excitement, owing to the withdrawal of the United States troop from the Charleston Harbor, and at the accession of President’Lin- coln he resumed the practice of law. When Simon Cameron resigned as Secretary of War to accept the mis- sion to Russia, Lincoln selected Stan- ton for Secretary of War. His admin- istration of that department was en- ergetic, but when Johnson succeeded to the Presidency serious difficulties urose, which finally caused his sus- pension in 1867, Congress restored him in 1868, and the House of Rep- resentatives impeached the President, but Stanton resigned in the same year, President Grant appointed him Justice of the Supreme Court, but he died before entering upon the duties of that office,