The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1922, Page 10

BRANOH OFFICES. 2, Bway, cor. 380 | WARRINGTON, Wrat Bids; 7 r ¥ ete Trarean’ Bide | pETR IIT, #21 Pord Bide. Leoth Bt, meer | CHICAGO, 3008 — Bidg. LYN, . | PARTS, venue ‘Oper. LY 202 Washington Ot | foi mt. 317 Fulton MEMNER OF TRE ASSOCIATED PRESS. IN, 20 Cockspur NOT THE FIRST TIME. ATOR BORAH has no reason to feel dis- Ss couraged over the cool reception the White House and the State Department accord ‘to his ; “proposal for an international economic con- Seeference. aa Senator Borah’s proposal for a conference on + limitation of armaments got almost exactly the day same sort of reception for a time. ‘ ' Mr. Hughes and President Harding may be 3 as vehement as they please in denying that the i United States will take the initiative. They may 5 H } } be perfectly honest in their vehemence. This, “however, need not bother Senator Borah. The present Administration has established a record for walking up a hill only to walk down again. Senator Borah need not appeal to the President or the Secretary of State for a change of policy. Senator Borah succeeded once in forc- ing a right-about-face when he appealed to the country on the armament question. . If he can arouse similar Sentiment in favor of ai economic conference, President Harding and _ Secretary Hughes will suddenly discover that they’ve been for an economic conference all the ~ time. A timely resolution: Safety First at the Christmas tree. CHRISTMAS AND BABIES. HE ' December number of “The Motor Coach,” house organ of the Fifth Avenue souch Company, is the most “Christmasy” pubs ication ever This is because about 80 per cent. of the space ag “in the magazine is taken up with baby pictures, : pictures of the children in the families of the ; bus company’s employees, 605 individual photo- '> -graphs—not to mention the busload pictured on “the caver. / : One paragraph reads “Each year We launch our baby contest with the avowed intention of picking out winners, but finally have to abandon the task and acknowl- edge,they are all prize babies—every son and daughter of them. There were 658 in this - eS year’s contest, an increase of 300 over last year. Bach will receive a $5 prize.” _ Babies and Christmas have an intimate asso- ciation. Perhaps that is why the Monongahela Power and Railway Company chose this time to promise $5 to every baby born to an employee next year. But isn’t the Fifth Avenue Coach Company's ~ plan more practical? In the matter of babies, upkeep is, quite as important as first cost and should be so recognized Some time, perhaps, somo employer in some industrial town that needs a particularly steady working force and small labor turnover is going to try the experiment of hiring men and paying wages in proportion to the size of the ily, allowing a permanent wage increase for every new baby What a Christmas such a town would have! MR. UPSHAW PERSISTS. EPRESENTATIVE UPSHAW of Georgia allows he has only begun on the Federal and State officials whose, “dryness” he’ believes to be merely of the front-door sort. He promises, when he comes back to Washington after the hol- idays, to name names: “Too nny of these officialh are striking a grandiose posture and calling upon the people with teats in their eyes to respect and honor the laws of our Nation, and then going out the, back way and buying blind-tiger, bootleg liquor for their personal consumption. “Is thajaw of our land to be so §wisted as to make this a rich man’s Prohibition—so as to dllow the wealthy and the offico-holder to shield his hip pocket with ready cash, a plous hafid and an olly tongue?” To pry into the personal habits of legislators and public officials has never been an American instinct. But here is a Nation-wide law, the avowed pur- pose of which is to place unprecedented restric- tion upon the private conduct of each and every American for what is alleged to be the common good. Nothing could be more harmful to the com- mon good than even a suspicion that lawmakers and officers of the Government regard their own private conduct as exempted from the inconven- ient consequences of this particular law. Mr. Upshaw will be denounced as a liar and as a meddler in matters that should be left untouched. We defy anybody to prove either that Mr. Upshaw is a liar or that he is not probing a highly unhealthy and dangerous spot in the status of present Prohibition law. A CENTENARY. One bundred years ago to-night Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, who lived in what was then New York’s suburb of Chelsea, amused himself with the composition of *A Visit From St. Nicholas.” Next evening his children thrilled to the first reading of “’Twas the night before Christmas.’ Dr. Moore wrote many other works of schol- astic merit, but bis claim to enduring fame Tests on this rollicking jingle of Christmas time, the authorship of which he was reluctant to admit. In a hundred years Qr. Moore's verse has brought happiness to millions. “THE WEEK. INTRY WEATHER, but it might have been WORSE. If cold and snow had followed Sunday's rain it might have’ tied up traffic Qs it did three years ago. Then a‘city living trom HAND to MOUTH with {ts COAL SUPPLY would have been in SERIOUS plight. As it is there is TROUBLE ENOUGH, only partly relieved by the opening of PEDDLBR COAL sTA- *s TIONS where 100 and 200-pound lots are for sale at 70 cents a hundred and up. The SUBWAYS RAN OCCASIONALLY this week. ‘The burden scemed too great to be borne: at times, Wednesday FOUR TIE-UPS were reported, and the ld and well-worn EXCUSE FOR LATENESS at ap- pointments has been rejuvenated. “STUCK IN THE SUBWAY” is again PLAUSIBLE even if not always atrictly TRUE. WASHINGTON’S relative WETNESS is in the lime- Nght with REPRESENTATIVE UPSHAW of Georgia insisting that politicians ought to DRINK AS THEY VOTH. SENATOR-ELECT EDWARDS of New Jer- sey is no less REVOLUTIONARY with the demand that the BENCH should be as DRY as the judicial decisions. In NEW YORK the Federal HOOCH HOUNDS raided a CABARET in which a POLICEMAN was on fixed dry post. Perhaps the cop was blinded by the glare of the electric lights. mordering his wife, CRIMINAL COURTS hastened to dispose of cases Ki before the holidays, At Mineola, MRS. HIRSH was _ FREED FROM BLAME for the shooting of her bus> hand, Mrs. BRUNEN WAS CLEARED of murder of John Brunen, but her brother, HENRY ©. MOHR, was CONVICTED. BECKER was found guilty of The FIRST of New York's ornamental TRAFFIC TOWERS op Fifth Avenue was UNVEILED with the Mayor’s aid and approbation. HIZZONER favors a THIRD AVENUE SUBWAY to replace the L. He was too busy to consider the need for a new subway to Jamaica as recommended by President Rae of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Another HYLAN FLING of the week was a letter to PRESIDENT HARDING recommending the KU KLUXING of the KU KLUX KLAN. When the Mayor gets an IDEA he rarely worries over LAW or FACTS, but just PLUNGES AHBAD. The DAUGHERTY HEARING dragged along with- out Representative Keller. The WHITEWASH BRUSH is not to be used until AFTHR Christmas. The SHIP SUBSIDY its HARD AGROUND on a Congressional mud bar and can’t seem to make prog- ress forward or back’ The LAST BRITISH TROOPS are OUT OF IRB- LAND, but the FREE STATERS and the REPUBLI- CANS are still fighting. J. P. Morgan & Co. REFUSED a loan to Germany. AL SMITH has been preparing his FIRST MBs- SAGE to the Legislature, and informally lets it out that the message recommends MORE HOME RULE for NEW YORK CITY. SOCIETY ts more than a little interested in PRINCESS ANASTASIA of Greece—and in her hus- band, Prince Christopher. CHRISTMAS BUSINESS in department stores and in the Post Office reached a high level. STOCK DIv- IDENDS are falling into Christmas stockings. TUR- KEYS are CHEAPER than at Thanksgiving. The markets are full of holiday greenery and goodies. 11 looks like a MERRY CHRISTMAS. HERE'S WISHING SO! ACHES AND PAINS. "Pears to ua that Uncle Sam's part in the Lausanne Conference (2 mere Child's play! Xx . wre put info force to reduce humon suffering! . ~ Gertrude Atherton says she “emohes ike a furnace, ~ \ O68 not man fashion,” It would appear thon that the ' @eed can be burned in 6 ladylike way, —— z © stepping ‘skectors _ The Musio Trade reports that Prohibition has in- ereased the sale of automatic plano players. Yet it . Th be a0id that acorly @ wiilion people “Waien in to «oe Pht broadcasting from the Newerk radio station every _ @Pining, Must come in a2 « pleasing rescHon from Mr. Yellowley is taking all the gay out of caveray! . Perhaps the Buropean complications are so com- plicated that no one can fix them. This is a healthy state, When reached tMngs usally fiz themselves! . The goose is the dimmer piece on the east side, Tarkey takes a back seat there on festa! days, ° Michigan has let some ‘political’ prisoners out of foil over the holidays, Uncle Som still keeps his locked ap in Fort Leavenworth, . Te would appear from the news columna that it im- proves domestio bliss for a swife to shoot her husdand a Hille . JOHN KEETZ wea ent Ree vee: 4, THE EVENING WORLD, SAT URDAY, DEOE But when his silence mended +t) She could not fly without her tunes, Bo now she walks the usual ways She walla content, her hand én his, But neither of them sings. the January Smart Set. 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 ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say mueh in @ few words. UNCOMMON SENSE. By John Blake Woprripat. 1982, Wy Joke Blade) PITCH FOR THE ‘In golf. as in life, the luck goes to the good player. The object of the game, as you probably know, 4s tu drive the ball around the Take time to bo brief. much more will be necessary “pardon”? by Will Hay It is a disgrace to all communities that the idea is even thought of, much less carrfed out, and he should most for all time. Pardon my seeming heat in the: It feel most stro G. R. THAYER. ‘Yo the Editor of The Evening World Ex-Lieutenant’s letter in support of ex-Captain deserves an answer up the challenge. Why do men who pride themselves on being educated, and are courage- ous enough to give*up all for their associate with women who are bound to disappoint them in the Have they become such poor judges of human nature that any girl can fool them? Has it ever occurred to you that most men only like the girls who can entertain them splendidly, giggle at all occasions, are bold, &c., who are bandits, as you call them? A sensible girl is too tame for you, Look at the crowd downtown any time, freaky looking women men take out! It serves\ them right when they get experiences as you and our What else could you ex- The average player aims to get the ball on the green, the smoothed space of greensward in the centre of whic cup in which the ball is to be sunk. greens, and eighteen times the ball must tinkle into the cup before the game is over. But it is the player who pitches for the pin (the flagged staff that rises from the centre of each cup) who wins the And it is he who sometimes makes a hole in one, thus getting his name posted on the club house wall and earning a present of a nice new club from one of the manufacturers. This is the player who is not content to get merely on the green when he comes within pitching distance of He aims his ball for the pin, and seeks to regulate his stroke that he will come so close to it that a single putt will sink the ball. While his fellows “let down" a little after the two ur three long shots required to get near the green, he keeps up the tension till the last minute. up the tension that he wins. Most golf games are won on or near the green. ever good the start; however spectacular the long straight drive, it is the fellow who is careful to the very last that gets most of the matches and medals. And many a game that seems already wan at the begin- ning is lost just because of a little too pruch overconfidence at the last. One of the reasons that golf is becoming epidemic in most civilized countries is that it so closely resembles the struggle for the really important prizes in life. Care and courage, steadiness and determination are all required if one is to play it well. And in life as in golf, sus' man who pitches for the pin stands a far better chance of winning than he who thinks, because he has begun well, that he is going to have an easy victory. Grantwood, N There are eightecn rantwood, N. Agrees With “Bx-Captain.” To the Editor ‘of The Pvening “Ex-Captain” is a man of courage when he speaks of his convictions on Look at the fire of ubuse that he has to withstand! the smoke has cleared ‘away, what There remains the convic- tion that some women have his exposure of the modern baager game that women nowadays are run- They want people to still be- The America-Wide Audience - - - “queen can do no wrong. ' The way the fellow with financia: And it is because he keeps women proves what they're most in- Do they care to climb together with a good man, hardships and struggle, mate goal? No, they want a man that has already attained the fat purse. How often is@ man of fine character, qualities and intelligence passed up for one that ride or other luxuries? how often that has happened Never mind the abuse, Captain. The truth’s good enough for anybody. You stirred a swamp, and of course the frogs are croaking a bit! VICTOR X,.TRUEMAN. Brooklyn, Dec, 19, 1922 But you are in the wrong when you think all women are alike are no more alike than all men are ‘The Arbuckle Pardon. ‘To the Editor of The Bvening Worid It is with the greatest indignation and disgust that’ read of the so- called ‘pardon’? granted to Arbuckle, of the ‘movie’ Infamy, It is a-very great! mistake, to say the least, to réinstate this fellow and to have him appear again in the pice It's sickening ned effort counts, and the Auent the Flapper Yo the Editor of The His slobbering over his mistakes, &c. in the past and bis mushy promises for the future are of no use or ayail At this happy time, what about the poor girl who now lies in her grave and her friends who are mourning and grieving over her untimely tak- fellows who Want to burn the world y can't find any lady- natural-colored, girls to do their dirty work. For that is all {t amounts to. They may praise and even marry up because t serenity as this, no woman can hope to make them happy, and who fail them can thank their ducky stars for their narrow escapes. They can rest assured that any man so un- consclonably cencorious before mai riage is not going “pet lamb" afterward. From the Wise Things are seldom what they Even before this event his record A in vim wile cream.—Gilbert. Sinlplictty of hindrance to subtlety of éritellect. —John Morley. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than Wordsworth. Nothing except a battle lost can be half 20 melancholy as a battle Duke of Wellington. Lvery man is the centre circle, whose fatal ciroumference he cannot pase. masquerades them enthralled to be anybody’ nicured brilliancy impudence of the others outside of it My wife, daughters and I frequently The training to be deplored is not that dispensed by colleges or beauty parlors, but that given over to street and the unprun never attend at any future to see any pictures in which this person appears, and if it is sprung. on us suddenly we will walk out in- theatre in the] 7 don't know why this is so, but 1 suspect that it may: be attributed to the fact that mothers keep so busy wishing their girls into “great big, beautiful dolls,” and their boys into misguided critict that they've no time to wedge in the more tolerable virtues: of patience and endurance read once that a man was cured of Women in toto are too often not only content with what little understanding 1 happen to know of many others them, but they want this little to Ia who agree with me tn this unto the third and fourth generation. Can we wonder that our children are superficial and overbearing when avoid all theatres where pictures are shown with this fellow in them, the managers will very quickly see that he is no longer an asset and that he should be fired from al) decent peop! and society and theatres and that very we consider that from babyhood ‘up vors only of sanction and sawdust? A HOMBE-LOVING “FLAPPER.” Tong Island. Dec upon one occasion guilty of the crime of a hole in her When men have John Ingalls Copyrtoht, 1988 (New Tork: World), Presa Publianng Coe (ER mouth was shaped: to litt tunes That fying ake tet fer; She vould not sing at all, They were her only wings, Among sure-footed things. A rhymed thought on “‘AMinity™ which Leonora: Speyer turns over ‘ see A City of Good Neighbors - -- In Book It. of Mary S, Haviland’ "Modern Phisiology, Hygiene an Health" (Lippincott), we read: I suppose no city ever had a more marked character or a greater. in- fluence than the City of Athens, which was @ centre of beauty culture! for the. whole ancient A And the reason was that it was « city of good neighbors. Tt is sald that every Athenian, when he came of age to vote, took a solemn oath not only never to ine jure his olty in any way, but to serve and work for it #0 that he might leave -it @bettor, finer city he found it. j And the Athenians lived ‘up te this promise so well that even to-day, after hundreds and hundreds of years, we admire the wonderful City of Athens, How noble a thing if New Yor were to make a New Year resolutia to be a City of Good Neighbors—— And were to keep its pledge! 68 6 When the Mind Looks Back + - - Herewith the first of the two stan zas of ‘Retrospect,’ a poem by Willy iam H. Hayne which graces the Jan’ ary number of Scribner's Magazine: Like the whisper of wind im qule places, Or the nt of roses in gardens ol¢ The mind looks back and memor traces The long-lost hours of gray of gold e828 The Eestasy of the Home Garden - Picking up Alice Day Pratt's Homesteader’s Portfolio (Macmilaay lan), we turn pages tov this: Did we really raise those crispy, crimson radishes, that early lettuce? What more delicate lunch combined with delicate white eggs from the Leghorn flock? Are those fat peas ours, dropping like little beneficent bullets from our fingers to the pant The tender ved and early turnips; the unend- enses’’ of waxy beans We have never cared greatly tor summer vegetables. How have ne suddenly become a fanatical deve tee? And in carrying cool, «7 offerings to the neighbors, we feel that we are sharing a princely por- tien. € In spite of your towering cities, your bewildering and multitudinous orphoses of Nature, Btill, chile the earth remaineth, . seed- time and harvest shal! not cease.” Here are back to the land ecstasie to spare, and —— If you have a little garden at yor home, to share. 8 e Ou the Love of Winter --- With a New York winter gettin along thus and 60, we have sympath with the poet, E. F. Haywood, wht in "Songs of the North Woods," of of Winnetka, Ill., reveals his hea’ throb thus: 1 love the winter's chilly blast The snow aud sleety stor But love them most when they ha nassed Aud it is nice and warm Writing in the current Theatre Arf Magazine, Walter Prichard Baton did cusses the collective audience thi greets Walter Hampden, for instance on tour in America at large: Well, here is an audience sae) while considering. Across the co’ tinent, it numbers millions, When. Hampden isn't in town, part of it goes to the movies, part of it stays) at home and reads, part of {t a tends prayer meeting or the Odd Fellows’ supper, Not much of it gets to-New York An almost negligible proportion 4 ready yet (o appr the newel things in drama and atagecraft Yet, in the mass, it is an InteTligs audience, which the movies caq never permanently satisfy, but whi second rate road companies in sec ond rate plays cannot satisfy, either Unless we are going to be conten! to have o# our drama concentrats in New York City, something hal got to be done about this audieni In China, we are told, the little t atre is as constant to the little to as were, in the New England of a the church on the hill and the scho house in the valley. Shall we learn wisdom from Celestia eee Economy Not Even a Flivver--- In "My Life and Work’ (Doubii duy-Pago), the autoblography Henry Ford, we find the philosophiiid of false economy, thus: ‘The cure of poverty ts not tn pore sonal economy but tn better produc- tion, ‘The “thrift” and ‘economy’ ideas have been overworked. Th word “economy” represents a fear. Economy is the rule of balf-aliv minds. There can be no doubt that it is betfer than waste; neither can there be any doubt that it is not @: Good an une, For there are two kinds of wast that of the prodigal who throw ‘ls substance away in riotous living) and that of the sluggard who allow his substance to rot from non-use, igid evonvintaes ba h the sluggard, “Save'not, have not,’’ runs the off adage, But does a man truly ba Mr, Ford asks you, what he puts Bad bs