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The whole Harding foreign policy to date may be epitomized thus: Be free to avoid all lines of direct action. If pushed into one when not looking, as in the case of the Washington Arms Conference, jump to the lead and get all the glory there is in it. But be cautious’ next time, nevertheless. The more things you are free to avoid, the less likely you are to get the United States en- tangled in some further straightforward, fearless move that might enhance its prestige without lowering that of Woodrow Wilson. Be watchful. Be loaded with advice. Be ready to protest. But before all else, be free to avoid. 4th and F DETR MT, 521 Ford Bide. “ Tn his Christmas greetings to his Republican - “army,” De Valera prayed that God may j “bring our harassed people to the Iberty, peace and happiness which they need and deserve.” Even though His will be not the will of De Valera? MIGHT APPEAL TO THE A. S. L. HE sardonic suggestion in regard to foreign policy contributed in the letter | from “Cinodras” in another column we pass on with some misgivings, President Harding has troubles enough with- out trying to make him the spear-point of the “dry” legion, and there is no telling how seri- ously some Prohibitionists might consider the ad- visability of using the Nation’s due bills as a blotter for German beer. ., It does seem, however, that “Cinodras” has not sufficiently emphasized the most telling point in his elaborate argument. To assure strict Pro- hibition enforcement in Germany it would be necessary to employ agents from the United States. This prospect should captivate both “wets” and “drys.” For the latter it would provide perma- nent employment in congenial work, and the * growing wave of anti-Votsteadism worries the job- holders. » The “wets” should be equally enjhusiastic, for the plan would provjde a method of liquidating the vested interests of our professional reformers. And who can say that Prohibition agents might not succeed better in Germany? ‘“Ver- _ boten® has always been more highly honored than i “Keep off the grass.” Muring the Mat century science has had uo fiver achievements to its eredit than the dis coveries of new ways to fight disease by direct attack upon germs and infection, Among the captains in that fight will stand out forever the name of the great bacteriol ogist Louis Pasteur, the hundredth anniver sary of whose world to-day PINDLING PATRIOTISM. PATRIOTISM is so fine a sentiment that it P is # Mity to cheapen it by such silliness and absurdity as the campaign of opposition to the Moscow Art |heatre Company launched by the American Defense Society. The principal objection of this self-appointed agency of “patriotic” censorship seems to be the allegation that the Soviet Government will col- lect a third of the earnings of the performers. In rubles that would amount to an impressive |. _ total. > But if the American Defense Society is out to measure patriotism by financial standards, how does it stand? The United States Government will get a 10 per cent. tax on admissions and \ birth is honored throughout the toTHE EVENING WAP Ado} WASHINGTON, ‘Wyatt Bidg.; CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bide, PARIS, 47 Avenue de aaa bs at income taxes from the individuals in the com- In recalling the “action” in the “case of Mme. Gadski,” the American Defense Society verges on and is in open contempt of the State Depart- ment, which issued vises on the passports of the Real patriotism has breadth and understanding. The American Defense Society brand of patriot- . RESPONSIBILITY. T | able to fix on the Ku Klux Klan the re- sponsibility for the Mer Rouge outrages in Of course the Imperial Wizard and hig subordi- nates will disavow the act and wash their hands volved in the fiendish work. Jt may not be pos- sible to establish the legal responsibility of the financial features of the Klan almost to the ex- clusion of other functions. however, vary widely, Even if it were proved that Louisiana Klansmen were legally innocent propagandists at $10 a member would be morally responsible, have revived the idea of terrorism. They have spread the suggestion that masked bullies assurance that, though suspicion may be directed against the Klan, the terror inspired by the Klan , High officials of the Ku Klux Klan have claimed~that some- outrages have been perpe- credit the order. That may be true. But this does not relieve the Klan of responsibility for Such responsibility makes Ku Kluxism some- thing more than paraders in nightgowns. It is the Nation is defending itself. Klansmen and sympathizers with the Klan cannot see this too pairy. “patriotic” incitement to riot and law-breaking Russian artists, ism seems to come in one-dimension lengths. LOOKS now as though the law would be Louisiana. , ¢ of Klansmen who may have been directly in- Atlanta organization which specializes on the Legal responsibility and moral responsibility, of the deaths of Daniels and Richards, Klan For they have raised the Klan spirit. They may vent their spités and animosities with the will prevent effective prosecution. trated by enemies of the Klan in order to dis- acts of this nature. against the larger influence of Ku Kluxism that clearly, Its pleasant to record’ good cheer fon both sides of a mooted question. Mr. Yellowley says it was the driest Christmas ever, and the thirsty are not complaining over the humidity, AND CONSUMERS DID IT. OUSEWIVES have had a valuable lesson in marketing if they will but heed, Thanksgiving turkeys were priced high. Tur- keys for Christmas weye comparatively cheap. In the interval prices declined from 20 to 30 cents a pound, The secret for the decline was the refusal to buy the high-priced birds, Thousands of house- wives considered real values and refused to be mulcted for the Thanksgiving dinner. The re- sult was a surplus for Christmas and consequently a lower price. What applies for turkeys may be applied to other foods when profiteering is suspected. The best way to break a gouge is to refuse to buy when prices are higher than values, If the dealers had dealt fairly at Thanksgiving the demand would have been normal and there would have been no surplus to break the Christ- mas market. Families who purchased turkeys for both Thanksgiving and Christmas paid a fair average price for the two birds. Sometimes the Old Folks Know How. (Prom Collier's.) ‘Two great cities have been working on that prob- lem of houses for the people. In the last eight years one metropolis has built to house over 14,000 families, attractively, with plenty of ground about, and to rent at less than $7 per room per month. In proportion to population, the other town has built to house under 8,000 families, not so attractively, with less space and for rents that tend to start at $10 per room per month and go up; $15 is much nearer the average, What of it? Well, this: The first town is slow old Amsterdam in Holland; the second is brisk, hustling New York, once called New Amsterdam, in our own shrewd United States, There are plenty of reasons, of course, but is the actual result any credit to us? ACHES AND PAINS. Kd Howe says he is leery of widows, Provably this is because he is @ widower and therefore danger- ously exposed. He also says Henry Ford amounts to more than Norman Hapgood, We do not believe Nor- man thinks 80. The Ohinese have a saying that “He who loses the hearts of the people cannot appear before God. A gloomy outlook for sundry of the world's statesmen, Hothouse grapes are plenty at $2 per pound some! Have . Now comes a prophet to,say that Chicago witl some time have 50,000,000 people. Horrible! . The arrests for bootlegging grow. So docs the ine dustry. The more laws we have the more crimes there are. se My friend the Boulevardier lured me to one of those side street restaurants where men and women take cach other to be led astray. The food is good end wine can be had—in tea cups and at a price, ‘1n¢ he California clarct was uil gone—at $2.50 per quart, but there was plenty of im- ported stuff at $4. A word to the head waiter pro. duced the native brand. O bogse, what bunco is prac. ticed in thy name? JOHN KEPYz, Pa | 7 THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922. ey es e, wt RS a 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 coupleyof hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a-few words. Take time to bo brief. Prohibition’s Opportunity. To the Editor of The Evening World; Everybody knows we took part in the war to make the world a better Place to live in. Our people's enthu- siasm was so great that conscription would hardly have sary a most noble work in protectin, caring for the girls of Prot families who are brought before the Children’s Court for various transgres- sions. This organization gives the same care to girls in like situation of every faith except the Jewish and atholic girls, who are respectively been nec; Now the goal is reached and th: |‘aken care of. by the Jewish and Cath- world is getting better and better ice Big ee . 4 is erste uin p every day in every way. At the same] Sisters maintain a home at No. Aad ey Me) mast 146th Street, New York, where time in our own country we took an important step toward perfection— and without even using guns and bombing airplanes. Simply by enacting the Prohibition laws we abolished the evil of drink girls are lodged and watched over with the most zealous care. These unfortunate children are the most critical period of their lives. The interest and affection shown for Ing and created a sober nation, Pe-|them by these Big Sisters have saved auilavly adough, the) ‘pationa many of them from destruction. It ls Europe are not too hasty to follow | iilficult to imagine x work more tm- cur shining example. The great dis | Portant or more appealing tance possibly prevents their clos: |The Protestant Big Sisters aro tn observation of the blessings we now|Stett need of funds to continue their enjoy. Or is it lack of Intelligence? | forts. Both the Jewish and the Cath- But we ought to do something to|°!¢ Bis Sisters have received much raise those peoples to our higher |2teater financial and moral support moral standard even if wo have pay have the Protestant women cia- apply some gentle pressure sed in Ifke work, It is earnestly in Just now ia the time of our big | @#ked that the people of this city, and chance. Money is power and we have | °*Pectally the women of the city, RNa anones: this holiday season remember th children who are so greatly in need of aid and hold up the hands of tho D are trying to help them. The association is in the hands of a number of representative women, the President being Mrs, Willard Parker of No. 138 Hast 36th Street, to wl order checks should he made and sent . GORDON BATTLE, Germany Is negotiating for loan, not with our official Go ment but with Morgan & Co. Let us make the condition for giving the loan the Introducing of Prohibition in Ger- many, Germany is in such dire needs that she will sign every condition just like she did at Versailles. But we have to cautious, We cannot leave the control in the hands of their natives; those might be unreliable To ass a strict enforcement we tive to im- port agents from here in order to pre- A Last Word. he Editor of The Evening Wor! This- shall be my last subject which Is quite distascefu) te vent negligence or acceptance of] me. bribes: : Woman -suffrage has probably as With Prohibition tn Germany the , te aa : first breach in the European drink| ™u¥ch to do with the poor quality of fortifications {s made, The other}young women to-day as anythin nations there would then have itletse, The fallacy that women are where they could ily notice how! cial to men is absurd. A. true exalted the moral s:andards will be 4 oy ‘ and will surely follow to attain the|Womanly woman is far superior ti. same perfection. At any rate, we/“ny-man, Tam not a woman-hate: and would be grateful to find a girl whom I could respect and to whom | could show every courtesy. Recently I attende! a sorority din- ner-dance, The conversation at the can Induce them to heed by exerting a little pressure, by promising a re- duction of their big debts, Moreover, people who are indebted lave the moral obligation to consume # table was so frank that it wo: only the absolute necessities “and to ami use all tHe rest of thelr earnings to] shocked such a clean-minded. eel pay debts. Beer and other tasteful| blooded man as the live Theodore drinks are no necessity and it will not | Roosevelt. f kill those people If they drink onl I cannot understand why the water, Then they can say with pride: |Young women (eyidently refined) who commented on my views should “We have been honest and paid o1 inherited debts," The sacred rights of property de- uphold the smoking, ing, painted parasi ne of thelr own sex swearing, drink- who is rulning mand this action and the sooner peo-| the good name « ‘ ple concelve this the sooner confi X-CA AIN, A. dence and normaley Will be restored - CINODR Phe Denteucdive New York, Di 922. Yo the Lditor of The Evening mes Ee eta verica’ our 1snd and tay land untry we all love! it is And becoming a land mcensyho hide their countenances be- Rig Sisters Need Fonds. v1 slowly To the Editor of The Evening World bu The Protestant Big Siste:s are doing surely A Copyright, (Kew York Hyening World) Press Pub, C OS aE eae pyright, 193 THE Jadged by General Grant was a fourth He He He But it was only when a rez arr besing in him—that the great military leader. training. By their But among boys the tests cannot de fail in after life. ox those who do not DRI RR RRR RAPD PRR APPR PDR PRR DDR DR PPR PDRDAP DPD the the fuller The and, The will fail.” They tell likely to results ar All that the can il, to take But the into play. And the never be years in the beir scan hurry it RR AAPA AD AOD PS eful and intelligent use many kept out of college who would do themselves no good there, who are really capable of education ide which will succeed and which will immediately tests may have in them qualities which only time and development of latent faculties will bring out. is no educator, however wise and experienced, who would undertake to point to a half dozen men in a class iging them into groups, say? which ought but when the real test of life is applied th not certain to bear out previous judgment. young man can do in college or in business is to make the most of his opportunities for mental training, being assured that the best trained mind will be best fitted advantage of opportunity when it comes. qualities that will bring suecess are very o remain hidden—even from him who possesses them— till there is some supreme moment when they ¥ mind which lacks th revealed, even to its owner, till this hour arrives. This hour may be just around the corner, or twenty future, but it must be awaited, UNCOMMON SENSE ‘By John. Blake by John Blake.) REAL TE his standing in his class at ate soldier. himself began to think so after he had been a little while in the army uae peace times. resigned and went into the tannery making much of a success of it. retiiyned to the army when the ST. West Point, business—not il War broke out. 1 test came—when an opportunity ved which aroused all the ability that had been slum- world discovered that he was a The so-called psychological tests are highly useful in determining whether or not young men are fitted for college lads can be readt to many of “These will succeed. to succeed and which ere ant be called qualities will for no human about a mask and creep silently light of the moon hing doctrines which are against (ental principles of our na in preac the fun tional legislature, founded by authors whom our country deereed are men worthy of ull praise, and indorsed and enforced by men and women such Abraham Lincoln and Harriet echer Stowe! © gestruetive little microbe ‘The Ku Klux Klan" as gradually grown and attained a position where it can command that {ts detrimental prin- es be carried out. It is propagat- its unconstitutional and un-Amert- n view Will this be let to con- When will the American peo- ple fc this organization from <he a of “the land of the free and the rome of the brave MARIE New York, Dec, 21, From the Wise in science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classics are al- ways modern.—-Bulwer Lytton. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. ~—Emerson. . The ultinate result of shield ing men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.—Her- bert Spencer. The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we shquid cnly spott it by trying to explain it. Sheridan, Fireside Scien By Ransome Sutton t, 1922 (New York Event OoPTA Siig): Pass Pubs Oo. XIX. MARSUPIALS AND MAMMALS. POSSUMS and kangaroos ar® familiar examples of marsue plals, which are animals that bring forth their young prematurely- born and carry them about in abdomls O nal pouches. In tho last article ate i tention was called to the fact that the work of changing the egg-laying or+ gans of reptiles into wombs originated in monotremes, a class of animals which is almost extinct. Monotremes lay eggs half hatched in abdominal pouches. ‘The marsupials carry their eggs until completely hatched, yet their young are born in a very imma- ture condition. Were it not for the fact that ‘mother opossums are pro- vided with properly eqpipped pouches their young would perish the day they are born. The opossum's pouch is a luxurious abode compared with the primitive monotreme pouch, ‘The mille glands within the pouch are provided with nipples at which the young may feed. In monotremes tho watery milk must be sweated by the mother from nip- pleless glands.to her litter. The steps in the ‘development of female repro ductive organs may, therefore, be Plainly traced; reptiles all laid eggs; monotremes laid eggs partly hatched; marsupials brought forth their young prematurely and matured them In a finished pouch containing nursery fa- cilities. _ Thus matters continued until the eifining of what sselogints call Eocene time, when a small marsupial species began whelping cubs upon the ground_and feeding them at the breast. rom the first womb-born, milk-fed me the mighty mammals, the animals to which man be- longs, Monotremes may be considered highly finproved reptiles, and mar- supials as nearly finished mammals; but not until cubs were whelped alive ® ground and fed on genuine anit be sald that the mammals vetually existed on the earth, THE AC MALS has and mental are stil going on in man nd, judging the future by the one is y nted in believing that the mammals will in time give way before animals of super-mam- malian ehi tics. Mamma many controlling advantag' e kinds of animals tiat preceded m. Unlike their predecessors, they are warm-blooded animals and are not, therefore, sb susceptible to changes of climate. Their warm blood keeps them alive In climates where reptiles would perish, ind the apparent!y sudden extinction the reptilian hordes may possibly have been due to the climatic changes which oceur shortly after the: mammals eran to spread over the earth, Alligators, crocodiles and other orders of reptiles have survived ony iu regions where the climate has un- dergone little change Due to the fact that the structure of an animal always corresponds to ite habits and modes of life, It 1s pos- sible for an expert to reconstruct an animal from a few of Its bones. From a tooth, for example, a jawbone can be constructed, and the shape of the jawbone fixes the shape for the head Using the head as a base, the body can be rebuilt. In this manner near- ly all the extinct animals have been reconstructed from fragmentary Fe mains, In spineless animals the blood ts watery, but in all animals which have backbones the blood is red, the red- dish color being caused by red cor- puscles. Only mammals and birds are warm-blooded. Mammal mothers produce only from one to elght off spring at a time, whereas certain lower animals produce as high as several million eggs at a time. A codfish lays epproximately 9,000,000 eggs. Among mammals the perlod of gestation yaries considerably; in man, the period is 9 months; elephants, 29 months and 18 days; horse, 14 months; cow, 9 months; sheep and goats, onths; dogs, days, Be- Cat of thelr tong embryonte period of development, young mammals live where other creatures would-die, Out of a million ¢ spawned by a fish only a few reach adult age, whereas only one out of every four well- born manimals are expected to die natura during infancy. eae WHOSE BIRTHDAY? DEC. 21.—JOHANN KEPLER, the great German astrologer, was bord at Weilderstadt, in Wurttembers, 1571, and died tn 1630, He was left Germany, Dee, Ratisbon Nov. to his own 15, yesources when a child, 2 of which his early education heeaus: was neglected, but later he studied at Maulbronn and graduated at the University of Tubingen. In 1593 he was chosen a teacher of mathematles at Gratz, in Styria, During his rest~ y dence in that city he devoted himself with much 1 to the study of as- tronomy, but when the religious per- secution began in 1599 he accepted an election to Prague. ‘There he assisted in the preparation of astronomical charts and tal and after the death ot Tycho Brahe continued this work by him) and received an appoint- ment under Ferdinand If, as Imperial Mathematician and Astronomer. Tho three great laws that Kepler estab- lished were: 1, That the planets move in ellipses with the sun at one focu! hat the jus vector of each planet swee equal areas in equal hat the squares of the tim elution of the to the from the sun, publi is or Tho Celestial 4 delivered in Commentaries Motion of Mara,” Physics on the