The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 20

in eeaieemmaneaeiahda ‘The mien news deapatches credited ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pune Snbany, BSS SS" hott Now ye et RALPH PULITZER, Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasui JOSEPH PULITZER, 5 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1922. SUBSORIPTION RATES. “Posgd Shha,Pass Uke Nar, York oe tevond Chae Mater, One Ye Months One Month raring Manag ADSI I OF pd Sunday’ + "42.00 6 1 a, forid Only: 2 1388 $33 a "A-Weok World: |): + 1.00 World Almanac for 1922, 35 centa: by mall 50 cente, BRANCH OFFICES. RY: 1298, Bway, cor. atth.| WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bide, ae ve, pear 24th an 3 nonnd ge hare Bide | pETROFT, 621 Ford Bide. ‘ ™ BERET CHICAGO, 1603 Makers Bldg. BRe 202 Washington 8t,| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opera, and 817 Fulton 8 LONDON, 20 Cockepur 6% MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. inted Press ie exclusively entitied to the use for OM oF » and also the local news published THE REAL DIFFERENCE. IRAM JOHNSON, attacking the Borah res- olution for a general conference of nations to be held in Washington, says such a policy wouid be “‘a vastly different thing” from the pres- ent situation. He says: “The difference is the difference between the policy of Woodrow Wilson and that indorsed and approvee by the American people in 1920.” The sentence quoted emphasizes another differ ence, the difference between a Senator who made an honest fight from 1918 to 1920, and a Senator who conducted a thoroughly dishonest political aaventure, In fighting the League of Nations Hiram Johnson harped on the Shantung issues and “Eng- land's six votes.” Both were issues made from whole cloth, ‘ But neither is a whit more false than Senator Johnson's quoted assumption that the American people in 1920 “indorsed and approved” any spe- cifie foreign policy. The American people were tired of Wilson, but the opposition to Wilson was divided. Some were bitter-enders, isolationists. Some were pro- Leaguers, like the Illustrious Thirty-one and their followers. Harding was as he has continued to be, all things to all men, waiting to see which side is strongest. Senatot Borah was honestly mistaken in 1920. He is tly trying to set things right. Sena- tor Johnson was a demagogue and a false leader in 1920. He hasn’t changed. That is a “difference” the American people can not afford to overlook. At this writing, eight deaths from wood alcohol polsoning are the city’s Christmas con- tribution to the greater glory of present Pro hibition law. PROVING A POINT. MOST significant fact is the wave of public condemnation roused by the action of Will Hays in giving Arbuckle another chance in the movies. Mt. Hays is hearing from the country in no uncertain terms. tHe may stand pat in this ine ‘stance, but it will make him cautious in future. It is difficult to imagine why the Czar of the Movies ventured on such a move. He couldn't have failed to foresee the criticism. Did pressure within the industry force the step? When Mr. Hays left the Cabinet the movie producers were badly frightened. Since then ssachusetts has rejected a film censorship. ‘The producers may be feeling that the danger has passed. Perhaps it is a case of: The Devil was sick—the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well—the devil a monk was be. Mr. Hays has been advocating a constructive program of improving the movies. Did he deem this worth the price of a compromise? Giving Mr, Hays credit for a higher degree of common sense and propriety than may be ac- corded to the producers, what other explanation serves? . !f this happens to be the solution of the puzzle, the producers are getting a convincing demon- stration of what the public thinks Mr. Hays may possibly find it useful in maintaining dis- cipline As it stands, Mr. Hays is now facing the severest criticism from his own Committee on Public Relations, These advisers want to know what this committee is for if it is not to be con- sulted in just such a case, It wasn't the for Sarah to remind us at this late day that she is 4 superwoman. necessary incomparable THE NEW TRAFFIC TOWERS. N THE past holiday week New York has had a chance to get a good look at the first of the new permanent traffic towers erected at 42d Street and Fifth Avenue. The general verdict seems to be that this tower is one of the best combinations of beauty and util‘ty the city has ever achieved. On the aesthetic side, the structure is not only beautiful in itself but supplies—or will supply wher the others are in place—the restful breaks in perspective that are what Fifth Avenue has long needed The eye tires of looking up or down the finest theroughfare in the world when the vista seems cred TTT endless and unbrokei. Paris adds to the at- tractiveness of its longer avenues and boulevards by setting arches, fountains and monuments in the middie of them. Shorter thoroughfares are made impressive by some particularly fine building facing the eye at either end. New York has never bothered much with this simple principle of “street dandscape.” ‘The handsome new traffic towers in Fifth Avenue will help to demonstrate what a sound principle it is. On the side of utility the demonstration was long since recognized as convincing and complete. The tower-directed block system of traffic moving which the city owes to Deputy Police Commis- sioner Dr. John A. Harriss has proved its worth. It has already been extended and will be ex- tended further and further as the fundamental plan of traffic movement, even where growth in the volume of traffic requires wider streets or new thoroughfares. The temporary traffic towers in Fifth Avenue were provided by Dr. Harriss at his own expense to assure New York the benefit of a great traffic experiment. Of the success of that experiment and of the public service of its prime promoter the new towers will stand as permanent re- minders. WHAT IS MORALITY? PECIFIC facts and figures showing the pre- posterous way in which present Prohibition law hampers the physician in his fight against disease and death were given by Dr. Samuel W. Lambert of this city in a World interview last Sunday: “The minimum dose in fevers is a half ounce of whiskey, which is ordinarily less than half alcohol, every four hours. This means six doses or three ounces every day, or twenty-one ounces & week. This 1s, remember, the smallest effective dose, In many cases and with many individ- uals such Hmited amounts fall far short of the patient's needs and much more must be given. “But as against our minimum of twenty-one ounces per week, the law permits only sixteen ounces in ten days. Whew it is considered that in wasting fevers and similar diseases the treat- ment may have to be continued for several weeks, often for months, the true conflict be- tween the Volstead law and medicine becomes apperent. An il!ness lasting a month would re quire ninety ounces of whiskey at least. The law allows forty-eight—just about half the min- imum requirement.” Here is no question of “booze,” drunkards or saloons. Here is merely a question of how far medical science shall be restricted in the use of a recognized medicine for the alleviation of suffering and the saving of life. If this isn’t as big a moral question as any the Anti-Saloon League can raise, what is morality? ee im Set ~w toe art . Onell Epoch-Making BOOKS — By Thomas Bragg st, U2 ia), Preay Pubitohin “HARD CASH, Charles Reade’s novel, Cash," published in 1868, was wi for a purpose, and its purposé Was accomplished. ing So late as the date given above the conditions prevailing in the lunatio isylums of Great Britain and the Comtinent were deplorable in the e+ treme. The Whieh unfortunat cannot be wiped out, reveal cruelty and cold-blooded brutality ii are supposed to dwell only im the breasts of fiends, Man's inhumanity to man whieh makes its thousands mourn received in the lunatic asylums its most appal- ling illustration. The jails of tho time wero bad enough, the work-houses were revolt= ing, and even the homes for the pous were anything but inviting; but the places where the insane were Kep were @ practical Mlustrafion of ti very worst pousibilities of humad nature, The class of people who, above all others, should appeal to the tonderest and noblest side of human natura; seemed to call forth its most revolt= ing traits. The poor creatures, * a world not realized,’ not knowing what they were doing, whélly ir- responsible, weve treated like cattle. It seemed as though the keepers of the asylums and their henghmen wei saying to themselves, “These miser? able wretches are physically and, mentally helpless, and because such is the case we are free to be as mean. lo them as we like.’ Charles Reade saw this accursed indifference to human suffering, this cold-blooded brutality of man to man, and he swore deep down in his great soul that it should be exposed, He stuck to his solemn resolution and the result was ‘Hard Cash,” which he pilloried tho brutal systera © and Its supporters until England stout aghast. Everywhere’ public sent!- ment was astounded, and the fortunes of the poor victims of the hospital system forthwith began to brighten, From the day of the publication of Reade'’s novel right down to the present moment the condition of the insane, not only in Great Britain but all over the Continent of Europe, has been steadily improving. ») Charles Reade wrote many granl stories, the good influence of which will work for generations to come, but no one of them was crownod with such beneficial and enduring re- sults as ‘Hard Cash,’ tho story that put the arms of mercy and kind about the poor, demented ones in th madhouses. Sse records, wandering in ft bd e The Atlantic's idea of holiday cheer is too From Evening V V orld Readers turbulent for most of us. 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 n crying $e say much in few words. Take sime to be brief. ° ‘UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake PRICE FIXING. The law of supply and demand has never been success- fully amended. The price of an article that is for sale depends on how much the purchaser needs or wants it. FINE CHRISTMAS WORK IN THE P. 0. E have come to expect a creditable per- formance by the Post Office in handling the tidal wave of Christmas mail. This yeat in spite of a record breaking volume the regular A Public Nulsance. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Almost every one who takes an in- fons. thing, capacity Where the a Romances of Industr, By rinthvop idle ony LVIl.—A MODEL SNAKE FARM. An attendant in the “‘snake house’ of the New York Zoological Garden telligent interest in matters which It can no’ e been very was bitten by a Texas rattler, the force and thousands of temporary workers did vitally sachs eal welfare o¢|{nelusive when, 4 the other These needs or desires are limited by his ability to get most venomous of his kind, several i bs . are = Lworrows of. the: a , we no so I j as g i ry anarke ride C rs ago. even better than usual. the community must concede that] me hee ie Hlrotacleed vey Me mething just as good in sano thes m ark t, provided the years ago. Th blic helped ibyreariy tall Th Pare ne fate that witt| ome, tut the genera sost in the first market to which he goes is high. But by a coincidence that would Pap ree bare tet eo eta nicme ay eee ets citer | tates cam crmen ee cm sete tHE WEL Lopumen abo ngt ayltable tar: Chore: The war sent up the price of munitions, steel, copper, 3 | make the average fiction editor shake the Christmas mailers seemed to gain second wind | Ultimately befall it. etter oe eee aavemeltl ironed grain ; his head in atern unbelief, at the mo: A ¥ sa in pur-| lected girls? rule e a) 2 ment of the deadly bite there hap and threw in a new torrent of missives of cheer | stead of fulfilling the proud pur-} OCU" Bee oe The demand was greater than the supply. pened to be in the building the world’s ~ A 5 pose of a Jaw it has fortunately been| "*" arently; are in Ne ‘ ss and good will. There were two high peaks in- These men, apparently, ¢ Farmers and manufacturers were able to fix the prices. leading authority on snake bites. stead of th u 1 on i t the tal ki converted into a public nuisance. York, a social desert. They are prob- That power re gone rom them mow He eventually cured the lu a s /¢ usual one, but | postal workers According to legal authority, any-|ably not meeting a great many girls. ng . tendant, who probably otherwise bteasted the tides and conquered. New York got | thing which causes annoyance, harm. GAGE eg Sy aba Leas pri erat Malsiee Secale cal pee have advanced the 3 |v oud have Joined the silent majority, e ( ‘4 a veg 1, | Betting no more “rewar¢ d you ce ng mate sa 5 The name of this authority is Brasif~ its Christmas mail on time. 7 eee eters cE samane 1 ig 's than to be the “prey of female Labor organizations assist in keeping up the price of aot. Vital Brazil of Brasil. At Sao System, good will and hard work in the Post ‘ 2 ! alts | ea as when his{% {he latter; but were the supply greater than the demand } | Mule, in the country o} nee Olfice deserve thea: iation of. all those whose | T° Prohibition «comes under the| Girls aro just the same a nh Gees ca eed Peacoat JM aie Tir. aicacil’ hax \baen CaRTInE eC lad hi Ipprena' Se WHOSE | category of Injustice and Irritation as] fther married, Just ¢ vee fix nd b pend ii linia ora © 1901,'a model snake farm, f Christmas was made merrier thereby. well’ an ax i ce | te to interview every ixed by conditions, His livestock of venomous and r . y other public nuisance Moreover, this dry abomination be-| for a marriage lleen A large part of the wage earners of the world are harmless wrigglers is kept at between comes greatly intensified by th he would find plenty r _— 5.000 and 6,000 head. It is a vast . ed by the al- Hat ; unorganized. Now it is up to you to take your pen in hand most habitual scolding of those who] SPectable, ‘ot course) he esta ‘ a 1 business enterprise, in which the and tell them that what they gave you. was just firmly believe 1® it is average per eapita wealth, And plenty el : cing ae uees by the Gamant ane them Brazilian Government j» interested to ri bd . of clean, wholesor girls with th they can do nothing that millions of other men can at least the extent of making it ; Prohibition was principaliy intend-| Of Clam, wholesome girls w A a IBALL TG IMRiaS \ Herein, BORA ft TA ed to regulate the centug, ett] How to get thom? That ly the 1 mbt do ne sell they willsbe paid! but little: obligatory pon every planter and people with regard to the use of in Cente TaEe Bae, tay. ais Their worth to employers increases as their abilities HT ery ar tke (oooh becopter ACHES AND PAINS ee prine iecarearms,1vioed (GE Abs xecome unusual—particularly when such unusual ab es serum guaranteed to cure the three > New York City, Dec. ire of a sort that is badly needed. kinds of snake bites principally, the already overburdened list of oF M 7 . | Figuring on the number of Gos letmen ontde #0 W tesan 6 an br alling acters Hear Talent and genius aside, the highest earning power is vorue in Besa ctipetaons att ousand - rn by hid a Na ene o pit ee sid Dees ly every day one rends of wood al} ” te Saxe Cont. possessed by those who can make the most money for those 3],n\"hy venomous. reptiles in Brazil one friends, w @ Hbderal allowance in these es briiesy (1 | To the Editor © evening A : A i times when everybody ta in such @ hu sanetnterad cnforcoment uecnte, Mea | In view ot the continued stiortage]} Who employ them. ; i every year. About 60 per cent, of ve re GR MIAGA Gs a) caenta, atitin éxliierine Ot coal, 1 bax te That is why good salesmen are highly paid, ‘The money 3] these bites’ occur because the Bragit- «2 beaten unmercifully. Besides perimenting to find a’ met! it hat they bring in shows on the books, lone. on the cctes ond Oe eae In another week Al Smith wilt be Governor ang |cTimes there are theft pi ene nChee aunilish used’ dn. coi Of good salesmen tere is never an oversupply, ‘Sell belies a : removal Indictments, — ho, hs : | cy {§ ing’ability is rare. It must be supplemented by the hardest is od deal less to get cured Vathan L. Miller titi zing up in Syracuse. a fe or Hon other] Kitchen range and find a ver v0 \ Malertebt are. : PY 3 It costs a good deal less rs Matha bh Rta Re trating 82. Aerastre Bee OL MRMREER Inelueniat ie theliiea eG us cialAtinEd GHA LA} kind of hard work, which most people are too indolent to for snake bite than to buy boots. |S . c of ) ntal to th © can be maintained on ver tt seus the workers, of white and of mixe attempted enforcement of tho Nas] oon Mpomedinis Get GON rform ; ; "ewe nia prefer to invest In Dr. Bragil’s The succulent Frankfurter deserves a better pop | tional Prohibition Act. wt ie pacity 0 The man who fixes his own price is the man who ean serum, produced via horses kept con- ular nickname than “Rot dog.” Multum in Parvo ig |, 1f the wniniag n. e seit tent | abeut one-hit by ar prove that he is worth it, stantly on the farm for the snakes to better. , to keep drink away trom their fellow | billding Litick oF nieces of in Such men need not be geniuses-—such as authors, com vent thelr spleen on, than im foot- » ke 4 y ‘ Ing at the sie guild a t s ‘ ‘HR % 5 Sa r Soe . etllzens. they should ome ros that Nani enin a tian ant posers, sculptors or painters ; serum produced on the" model President Harding freed too wan Killers and q | When It endangers the hives ani Nahe Top und b ' But they must be able to perform serviees for whieh peat utantan te Denueage forger from Fort Leavenworth aaa holtday concession, | 08 of A meuh ase t : f , y there is an active demand, and to perform them betler than in lurge quantities and exported The sizty-twoo political prisoners rematn in jail. The | \\c nuisance. Ree he great majority of other people apie tA Migs only “Wilson policy" he has reepected (3 that of keep The Hrohibitien Ea ae uni Buins pedicle aN " mane Such ability is rave, largely beeause even me i ‘ ith Vareut destroyer of lima lites sed ing men in prison for their optntons. and '8o the country that it should) Will make a ve nat vel ood minder too shart sixhted or too indolent $1 j.° iiation presided over Wy De af ‘tne Mie emedivd at they mucl » Longe nm ' : vdlevelop them to the full extent af their powers William ‘Tl. Hornaday in the Bronx, : be domo any th ot mu lear ihn to the full extent, af am rhe #6 Se earileat possible mone © large number of harmiess rep- Thomas B, Mitten of the Phitadelphia Transit Vom | Why should the xveater number of} is the larg y hs ‘i MILI SCH LIG it les with witeh Dr, Brazil fe experi- pany, who knows how to run street ratlways, says the | people suffer for the suke of accomo WMI LNG = diem with Ssh) Di eras 1s are one-man car (3 safer to navigate than the twoman [dating a few? | JiNIN Ly NCIl Hauate an eal shear WHOSE BIRTHDAY ? mander and seryed with the ones variety. Even in @ Now place Mke Philadelphia, | Prookly® : a Ho the Hdlipe et TO Hscnliie \ DECEMBER 26TH,—G HO RG K[sanadron for two years after th 1. has Leen observed that some non- where 200 are in use, the acotdent percentrge hay de Boustin Mp Ayer ata the United | Im 1875 ln Lecame Commander and | polnonons hut Heuly, CUSHLCUttogk a creased 20 per cent. while travel has increased 18, erage : Navy, was born in Momtpetien | es Se Satire aia oa are ueliesia iG i R@ORo ier RAGES On the whole, this year the atreet car mishaps to chil eas ASOnS De 6, 18 He ent thet anvatad “Koa por posi tic in ISS8| lke the deadly “erotalus terrifious.’* dren have decreased 48 per cent., while those due to | soldiers reveal pliints that we ne Why d fT ' Milita Avader ‘i and, aft hetr le Commadore Dr. Brazil is trying to do all bh autos have increased 0 per cent. prepured for, Lack of opportunity to] pra ut \ ' ans Sint became Chie ¢ fontd of Inspec. |to cheowrage thin fonn of heneticems set work when they had been mus The belie \ \ ; Ariat ion vey. During the Spantst life for tie pumpose of making . fered out Justified some complaint, but [ea WW | tod t s. Ii the | American Wa Waa given) com=|inronds into the ranks of the lfte-det ‘Think st not Mh wo your ese ining ietiey that J ever sami | yor Ui and at Mat. On aw ewer The outward }ook may little show we tmner sutiafuction of jue 1 xt tira a sity Con istrict the muy in the atveetange The weight of grief that lies beiow! been there’ =the ne elves that | de h i ' o \ a 1 ; n it e Pre in the nee ‘ wscick! lek! wlek Wa vou € FeDy WS VUHSE r the Mutts New cans. [third to hold thir highest position ining, the harmles: akes that Ki the Moye ali of you eure merry JOHN KRELTZ Bot set iB Wie service Wouder ai theo] New York, Dew oe, 1922 iu 1800 Ls Wie inade Lisutvuant-Vom- tay Lalled States Navy. venomous. : i ‘