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ma S ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. , Be Oo Pahhows New vou LITZER, President, 63 Park Row THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1922 SUBSORIPTION RATES. Pes ice at New York as Second Class Matter, Hes'ha’the United ‘state, cuiskie Creaver New Sunk, ‘Year Six Months One Mouth 36.00 6.85 Re rf i 12.00 Ab 1000 orkd 100 ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents; by mat! 50 conte. BRANCH OFFICE! WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bide; 14th ana F Ste. DETR JIT, 621 Ford Bids. CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bldg. PARIA®, 47 Avenue Ge lOpers. LONDON, 20 Cockspur Bt MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. s Prees ts exclusively entitled to the use for reptile: Ey ‘ai Mews despatches lited to it not orerw! Paper, asd sled the focal Tews published here.a. SUBWAY BREAKDOWNS. UBWAY breakdowns during the present holi- NS) day season have been frequent and serious enough to call for an investigation of their causes. The Transit Commission reports that the Inter- borough is not giving its cars enough shop-inspec- tion and overhauling; also that short circuits are rendered more likely through leaving cars stand- ing in the open where sleet and ice get into their electrical equipment. The interborough complains that the baclktward- * ness of the Board of Estimate is to blame for fail- | ure to prdvide new yards and shops to keep up _ with the needs of the rolling stock. | Here is another specific charge for the Hylan Administration to answer. © Can fighting a Transit Commission and paint- ing futurist transit pictures take the place of practical co-operation toward meeting the transit needs of the people of New York as those needs increase from month to month in the isting facilities? ' ‘Not if a Municipal Administration is to inspire genuine public confidence in its fitness to tackle still bigger transit problems. That where Mayor Hylan and his Board of Estimate made > + their great mistake. re 5 case of ex- is A man held by the police has been identitied by his “heart murmur.” But the offense charged is burglary, not bigamy or love piracy. / SPEED MANIA. UDGE BARTLETT of Detroit, who recently gained considerable notoriety by conducting automobile speeders through the City Morgue to “see their dead,” is now out with an equally inter- ‘esting plan for testing the sanity of convicted speeders. | Some critics with more solicitude for the dignity lof the bench than for efficiency in preventing _ crime suggested that Judge Bartlett was secking front page space in the newspapers by way of freak sentences. If Judge Bartlett is merely looking for notoriety he may meet with a gratifying surprise in his san- ity tests. It is by no means impossible that the fests will show mental derangement in a consider- | able proportion of the convicted speeders. The al- | most automatic thought of the average person who | has barely escaped a speeding car is: “The crazy fool!” + There isan irrational, irresponsible streak in the minds of speeders. If Judge Bartlett's psy- | chiatrist can prove this, the Detroit court may be « setting a valuable precedent, which other courts may be glad to follow in the case of confirmed speeders. In his letter to the Presfdeut, M named Senator-elect Mayticld of Toxa i Isher of an offending propaganda sheet i | doesn't happen to be true. Col, Mayfield { ik only a supporter of the Senator-elect Now maybe Mayor Hylan will know how young reporter felt who turned in a glowing account of a speech by Hizzoner, only to have it discovered that it was Grover Whalen w! actuaily made the speech “GLORY OF THE SEAS OSTON expects soon to own the ‘ Seas,” one of the last of the famous clipper ships designed by Donald McCay in the time when American sailing vessels led the world The story of the “Glory” is inverted romance. First queen of the seas, then an unhonored tramp Later the “Glory” was a lowly coal and cargo boat towed by the power of the steam that displaced her sails, Finally she was demeaned by conversion into a floating refrigerator and fish warehous New the plan is to restore the ship, whose hull © staunch after half a century service, and _ Moor her in Boston harbor as a nautical museum and a monument to a glorious sisterhood of in- comparable ships. New York might do worse than to follow the Boston example and seek out and restore one o! her own fleet of sailing vessels. For in the Pday of the sailing ships New York boasted de + ¢r5 and owners of packets and:clippers as good « better than Boston's best. The wharves along South Street and below Glory of the hey- renee tet ere Brooklyn Heights were home for the vessels in the Vurk fuitunie Was ade. Many New founded on the speed of vessels designed and built here or on the shores of Long Island Sound ny 4 THE SUPER-LAW. ECLARING that “the Federal Government should be prepared to spend more money on Prohibition enforcement,” the Evening Post val- iantly urges the strategic necd of “blocking the roads of entry from Canada and the West Indies.” As to present Prohibition law as law, the Eve- ning Post is only willing to admit, with Gov, Al- len of Kansas, that “the application of Prohibition law differs from the application of almost any other law in that it cannot count upon complete and immediate public acceptance.” “There is involved an educational process which will develop with time, and we must be reconciled to that gradual process without in the least abating our belief in the principle.” Reconciled also, we suppose, to all consequences in the shape of public discontent, demoralization of public employees, weakened respect for law and loss of perception of what constitutes lawlessness. If these evils increase, we must accept them trustfully as some necessary part of that “educa- tional process” which is eventually to teach us that a law at which our reason revolts must be a good law because a certain number of people say it is a good law. We must let it poison our civic body as far as it will “without in the least abating our belief” that its purpose is sweet and beneficent. Here is the strangest conception of law ever urged upon the free people of this Republic. Where, in the name of sanity, is the power that pretends to exempt Prohibition law from the tests no other law in the United States could possibly escape? The New York Evening Post prides itself on having had its eyes open since 1801. Is it ready to shut them now rather than dare to discuss present Prohibition law as anything short of a super-law that transcends all American experience, tradition and precedent of the past one hundred and twenty-two years? LOOTING THE NAVY. HE Navy Department and the detectives called into the case are to be congratulated on yesterday's coup resulting in the capture of more than a score of men who have been looting the Naval Base in Brooklyn. i The naval officers in charge of the base deserve a share of the credit for uncovering the ring of thieves. The detectives are reported to have done a thorough job and are said to have the names of the outside men who have been receiving and dis- posing of the stolen property, The investigation has been under way two or three months. The stealing, it is said, has been under way for as many years. Doesn't this suggest a slackness in the business methods of the department? It would probably be impossible to prevent or- ganized pilfering for a short period. But audits and inventories ought to reveal shortages before they amount to anything like the volume reported erday. POSTAL SAVINGS INTEREST, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In The Evening World of Dec. 14, 1922, you were good enough to publish an editorial on the subject of postal savings interest which is so much in accord with the views of the Post Office Department that I desire now to express my appreciation of the state- ments it contains. The present interest rate authorized by law, 2 per cout., was adopted in 1910, when the Postal Savings Syatem was established, The Post Office Department has long favored an increase in the rate of interest to be paid to depositors; and its recommendations are now contained in a bill prepared by Hon, Halvor Steenerson, which was presented to Congress in No. vember, 1921, and is now before it for consideration We strongly urge the enactment of that bill into law, for we believe & more reasonable rate of interest will be of great benefit to depositors, will restore to active channels of industry a considerable amount of idle, hidden money, and we do not anticipate that it will adversely affect the regular business or patron- age of savings or commercial banks. Thank you for your favorable comment W. IRVING GLOVER, Third Assistant Postmaster General, Host Oitice Dept., Washington, Dec, 19, 1 ACHES AND PAINS. Man aged 106 cscapes poorhouse by dying,” shouts a headline, Seems a sure getaway. ‘One person dies of tuberculosis where two died ten years ago,” says the Christmas stamp plea for preven- tion funds. Yes, but the automobile is taking up the slack Christinas cheer is very dear, So I buy more at the G-cent store Will Hays is reported “eager to forgive Wa Reid for his lapses.” Forgiveness is Will's tony suit He can even forgive his friends. Mount Joy” seems a funny name jor a place in which to shoot Irish republicans, Ef may become a Mount Calvary! White Plains women propose to make the iasu men keep the sidewalks clear of snow and ier Mis winte 1 slippery task. A . The leader of the Ku Kiue Klan voasts that it witt . THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEmbphs 44, 1942. i A Change of Address From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying fo say much in a few words. Take time to bo brief. Furepe’ To the Editor of The The U to ‘| you from further duping America and saved us from further humility. Clemenceau, we have abandoned you and Britain until you two come to us and plead gullty to selfishness, impe- rialism and duplicity and faithlessness to the Fourteen Points, and apolo- gize, Until you say to America, “Let us get together, friends and enemile black, yellow and white races, and stabilize the peace of the world by agreeing to give new self-government have 1 all European .debis, whether they wish it or not, !f for no other reason than to do business with the rest of the world, most of which hi ready or is going to Germany, which, with not half enough men for even its own needs, is cornering the world’s trade. D. A. New York, Dec, 18, 1 and independence to all peoples we ; + protect. Back to the Fourteen Points. Tat Gx (eo, beck (40) thel Hourtean To the Editor of The Evening World No one has given a direct answer statement that Fran 1 Britain. but a half truth We shalt continue this and rejection of the tions until F rectifled their in the Points. You may be the boss. We realize that yonirs is the voice of a savior, not of a dictator.” To sum up we have abandoned France because she abandoned us first and we shall continue our policy until France again takes up the path of square dedling and rectifies the vices of the Versailles Treaty. WORLD WAR VETERAN, to Clemenceau’s have ab He stutes we ndone abandonment League of Na- and Britain have onduct toward us Versailles treaty ne mis Liberals eall that treaty one of ven Do It Now. Bean! punie." T think so. The} To the Editor of The Evening World ns are too great; Germany| T° ease an aching heart, to cuol a H not have Jost her colonies +tevered. brow, the world was to become better Do it now, boys, do it now; Give a thought to Christmas, lift the broken bough, Do it now, boys, do it now; Light the darkened places, cheer those saddened faces, Do it now, boys, do {t now; lo’ dherence to the in order to { them only in idea that it was nece cestroy Germany's Military power, Clemenceau has taught us nothing that we didn't know before, except to how that no one has been courageous cnough or brutal enough to say, “M,] The love of dispensation fs a godly Clemenceau, you and Lioyd George, compensation, in the Peace Treaty Conference, dou- Do it now, boys, do it now; ble crossed America You ‘did’ us. | Bring to each a bumper crop, lay your You stung us. You bit the hard that kindness up on top, ted you. You have prostituted every] De tt now, boys, do it now; wholesome fuea, Instead of a Add a little “dressing? and mix it ry. Wilson you made with your blessing, with 4 You taunted him w Do it now, boys, do it now vision of falling Cut s and Question not the rigid laws, question . terrible, even if bloodle not the vital cause, didn't let you write . Do it now, boys, do it now; You double cro: t di-| Answer Him who bids you call, an- ling up land taken from Germany swer Him who loves us all, and then saying: ‘Article Wel] But do it now, boys, but do it now. kuaruntee to protect the present HERMAN BORSIG, JR houndaric That's a joker New York City, Dec. 18, 1922. You double crossed our idea of fair i ay by giving Italy 4 presu 1 LY cael at ig ~|vo the Hditor of The Evening World ung, She seems to have made ef 1" reply to your special article pub- i eee iy autttivg | lished in Brooklyn Section Dec. 17 abandoning our Fourteen It is regrettable that my former idewlisin and democ-| neighbor and fellow citizen, now Sir Doesn't itt JOHN KEETZ control Congress ought for in the war.| Henry Thornton, subject of the Brit- Wo entered when we realized the|ish Empire, should voice the opinion membership we had in a moral, so-Jof his master that “the only autocrat clal and univer re with thellert ts the President of the United rest of the world States." Your course has been to destroy} While such opinions of a slander- that moral universal conception of | our character can do nothing but ¢ duly and responsibility that pade usfate resentment and bitter fevtings, fight. You built up instead selfish, | nevertheless, It does not alter the fuct vengeful nationalism, that our President is the servant of Pecularly « similar narrow na-| the people tionalisim, though T hope not so self Wo realize that none of our Presi- n the guise Of reactionary, con-1 dents haye been endowed with Divine [essvetive wad Libera! Senators balked other than is common to all rights, | ew York vane Wort) By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ‘opyright, 1022, AS By John Blake YOU GO. \ highly successful artist said recently to the writer: “T have neglected my mind for my busine Now that I can afford to rest, I don't know how. I haven't learned enough, “Beyond the actual work I do I know very little. I haven’t read enough to map out for myself a course of profit- able reading. “T have never learned another language, and so the chief pleasure [ might get out of foreign travel is denied me. “T know so little ‘of plays and of literature and of the other things that make life interesting that I have to sit idly by and take no part in the conversation of intelligent people. “An hour's time a day in reading and study would have made a great difference to me. I would enjoy the leisure that I can afvord, But I wasted that hour and now it is too late.” This man’s case is not at all unusual. He has a far better brain than the average. He could easily have em- ployed hours not needed for business in enriching \his mind. But he didn’t do, day by day, what he might have done and now he is regretful and a little soured because, as he sees it, his life has been wasted. It is in later life that we begin fully to realize what we have missed by not adding every day a little to our store of knowledge and devoting to this newly acquired knowiedg the thought that is neceSsary to digest it For any man or woman the later years of life become the most enjoyable if the mind has been properly built dur- ing the earlier year! To the most brilliant the days that come after fifty or sixty seem hard and sterile if only one thing has been learned well. Those who are young will find it difficult to recognize this as a truth, So intent are they on what seems to be the one big thing that they neglect all else so that they may con- centrate on it. But one can specialize on a business or a profession must to master it—without neglecting the beautiful and profitable things in life. Indeed, whether a man is an artist, a writer or even a builder of houses, his work will be improved and beautified the more if he rounds out his education by the reading and study of things not directly related to his profession, as one RA AAA AAA AAR RAR mankind; many of them, like most of those whom they eh ome faults and have made their mistakes But the ordinary folks of His Majes- S realms will with us a been very fortunate in our selec tions, from the Mather of Our Country to President Harding Canada has been a good nelghbor, and it is unthinkable that they would allow any unacclimated subject from across the sea to disturb the good will fello’ ip and freedom existing be- tween us. May we always see to it that we do nothing, elthor verbal or in writing, to deprive them of this tranquillity be it internal or external, domestic or foreign, Article No. 1 or Article No. 15. SAMUEL JOAN Dec From the Wise Government is a trust, and the officers of the government trustees; and both the trust and the trustecs are created for the denesit of the people.—Henry Clay. He the pre psycholog- ical moment when to say nothing, —Osear Wilde, Vain hopes are like the dreams of those who wake,—Quin- tillan. are knew ise often Speech is wu mirror of the souly as a man speaks so is he.—Publius Syrus Gard n City, Bost _A_ YOGA) t LMR Maan ore eae UO cTae. Mi SUR Sprang OMe sO AE ear Jurning. Points in History By Maubert St. Georges ight, 1922 (New York Evening CoPraerid), Press Publishing Co. THE SUCCESSORS OF MOHAM- ' MED, In 622 A. D. a man named Moham- med was driven out of the city of Mecca because he preached heresy against the established gods. He took refuge in the city of Medina and there for some time gathered around him friends and converts in ever increas- Ing numbers. Finally, afraid of his growing power, Mecca made a finel attempt to crush him and after a complete failure came to an agred- ment with him and in 629 Mohammud re-entered Mecca as its master. Such was the start of Mohammed- anism—a paltry intercity strife. Yot there was behind it power and vitality that made it grow until it numbered hundreds of millions of followers: In 632 when Mohammed died after three years of battles, treacherles, and mas- sacres, he was master of the whole of Arabla. He was succeeded by his friend and counsellor Abu Bekr, who promptly set about completing the subjugation of Arabia and preparing the way for the conquest of the world. His rule lasted only two years and then he was succeeded by Omar the brother-in-law of Mohammed. Under Omar's guidance fhe work of conquest in the name of Allah was gloriously carried on, He faced In the north the still mighty Byzantine Em- pire, and in the east Persia, which, exhausted as it was with wars, should still have been capable of crushing a dozen Mohammedan invasions. This only makes the Arab triumphs the more glorious, They did not hesitate, they did not © against one of these Their campaigns against the Byzantines and Persians were simultaneous and in both cases they won victories against far superior forces, A steadily victorious warfale continued throughout the rule of Omar and of his successor Othman, and at the d of the latter it emed us if two powers which th the alone might withstand the push of Mohammedanism were doomed to utter destruction Already under Othman, however. the character of the Arab advance had changed and with the plots and in- trigues for the title of Caliph, which now occupied the principal persons at the court at Me the holy war de- nerated into a systematic acquisi- tion of plunder. To complete the conquest of Persia seemed easier and more profitable than the harder struggle against t Lyzantines, and so the plans were changed. Though the impetus of the Arab conquest brought them finally into Europe and through Spain a hun- dred years later, the Franks had had time to grow powerful enough to re- pel them In the meantime the struggle with Byzantium practically ceased. It was not till the eleventh century, when the Arabs were conquered by the Turks ond the latter were filled with the s ne flery zeal that had animated the Mohamn that the strug; out But it was then t The tines were at 8 three turies but even had they yielded Im mediately th Surope that had grown out of the Empire of Charlemagne could have stopped them. Had the Mohammedan effort made conquer Persia been directed inst Byzantium it seems certain Europe would have fallen under Mohammedan sway to agi Y PROHIBITION, Give me a cup of tea, For I must bravely be Nerved to my task CARM Brew me the bitter herd; “Brew"—I mean the Do what I ask. verb— ‘0, I will take no milk ‘or any of such ilk; I want it raw. That it may fill t And hotly stir s me up in my craw! Then I can face the for Then I can boldly go Unto the mat; Strong in my senge of right Strong in my tonic might, Strong at the bat! Whose Birthday? DECEMBER 21—BENJAMIN DIS RAELI, Earlof Beaconsfield, English ind juthor, was born Dec, 21, 1881. in 1804, and He was of land, died there April 19, Jewish extraction, but at an early age re Judaism and joined the Reformed Church. He ved little schooling, but educated himself in his father's excellent library. Disraeli was elected to the House of Commons in 1837 as & Tory, remaining in office about forty years, when he was ras ced to the pee In 1858 he became Chan of the Exchequer, and in 1868 Premier Events that occurred during term of office included a bill to re form the civil service and the chure ja Ireland and th hase of the Suez Canal. The his defeat, but he again became Prime Minister in 1874, Disraeli not only one of the popular of English st the author of several ovels, Including "You ndymion,” “Lathaive’* ingsby.” In 1873 he Lord Rector of Glasgow’ University, and in 1880 retired from the office of Prime Minister. 1 Bill Ted t esme Duke," “Con-