The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PUL! puny? mannan, Sato Boa hon, New "Yorke RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Ro’ JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. ‘sil communteations to THE EVENING WORLD Butiding, Park Row, New York City. Order, Draft, Post Office Order or Registered Letter tion Books Open fo All.” 1922. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Fetes the United statts, Outalde Ureater New igtter. Pye, at Six Months One Moats $5.00 8.85 ort World Aimanac for 1924, 35 cents: by mail 60 cents, BRANOH OFFICES. , 1398, B way, cor. 38th. | WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bids; 2002 7th Ave, near! y4th and F ‘Theresa’ Bi DETROIT, 621. Ford Bide, CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bidg. Hi 410 E. 149th 8t., t ‘ Washington PARIS, 47 Avenue de {'Opera, Rulon se S| TONDON, 90 Cockspur Bt MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Spies Tress jo cachustyety, entisiod to she wee hee rope ews despatches credited to it or not otherwise ee a published herein a ee ae WOODROW WILSON'S BIRTHDAY. (0-DAY is Woodrow Wilson's sixty-sixth birth- day. © It finds him in improved health, for which he is feceiving congratulations from all parts of the _country. It finds many Americans looking to him for a return of the leadership they have missed *since illness forced him to relinquish it. The plain truth is that the ideal of a larger co- operation on the part of the United States toward «safeguarding the peace and economic staBility of » the world—the ideal for which Woodrow Wilson fought and which all but cost him his life—has in no sense perished. It has been obscured by the exigencies ofea po- litical system which requires that a triumphant «party shall seem to repudiate the policies of the party it has ousted. It has been obscured by a natural reaction from the spirit of exalted purpose with which the Na- tioh nerved itself in war. Nevertheless the ideal is still there, quietly + ready to mgye forward to a meeting with world facts and demands that cannot be met otherwise. At this very moment the underlying force of . sthat ideal is propelling the present Administration at Washington toward yet another piece of inter- +, national co-operation. Call it by different names, disguise it under new phrases, mask it with parade of caution, the course tends steadily in the direction so many Americans welcomed with fearless, confident gaze when . .. Woodrow Wilson pointed the way. * <4 Tends steadily because it is the true course, the | only course worthy of or ultimately possible to “America. « And_the inevitableness of this course will’ be- come plainer to all the people of the United Stites with each succeeding birthday of the War Presi- dent whose vision first grasped and held it Worker what the paid staff of the American Detense Society is doing these days? Reading the Help Wanted ‘columns? ‘The Moscow Art Theatre scare fell the flattest and hardest of any propaganda put out in re cent years. LIRKREADERS’ EVIDENCE. VESTIGAYING the charges that the Siki- Carpentier prize fight was “framed, the French Boxing Federation is very sensibly trying to get better evidence than the testimony of any of the men said to have been “in on the deal.” . Motion picture films of the fight make this pos- sible. The Boxing Pederation employed two deaf men who have acquired skill as lip-readers to view the films and see what was said in the ring. First reports are that the lipareaders were at least par- tially Lip reading of films is competent evidence in such an informal investigation. It might even pass the requirements of the courts. Individuals deprived of the use of their ears acquire remark- able skill in reading lips. In the varly days of the films many lip-readers complained because motion picture actors disturbed them by uttering words not in keeping with their actions, and the fault has been remedied. The first test of such evidence may Seem conclu- sive. In future it may not prove so reliable. For f what would prevent a tricky manager from “pray- + ing” his honesty with his face to the camera and ' then changing his tune after his back is turned? ee A FEARSOME. LIST TER reading the Herald's editorial yester- day on “What the Reds Ask Here,” one might well wonder as to the | ters ild’s faith in Santa Claus. The article reads very much like a list a bad litle boy might compile two weeks before Christ- mas. As the Herald presents the list, the bad itd boys of the “Workers of America” want a Soviet Government, dictatorship of the proletariat, col- lective cvnership of 7,000,000 farms, 27,000,000 sayings accounts, 64,000,000 life insurance pgli- war cies, Liberty bonds ideal This i is only a ahetchy condensation of the Her- ald’s eloquent list of what is to go into Reds’ col- + lective ownership pool’—always providing that >i, the Reds get what they ask Bor some time the Hosald das been belaboring saving stamps and mil- te hol William J. Burns, Attorney General Daugherty, the American Defense Society, and others. So we wonder what the Herald would do to a small boy whose letter to Santa Claus included a rifle, a caterpillar tractor tank, a load of hand grenades and uniforms enough to equip his gang of playmates. Would the Herald order this small boy shot at sunrise? Or would the Herald tell the little boy that there isn’t any Santa Claus? What the Reds Ask” from the Herald’s beloved “plain American people” isn’t particularly impor- tant. There isn’t a Santa Claus who will bestow all those farms, bank accounts and insurance poli- cies on the “Workers of America”—and the Her- ald is enjoying a needless attack of nerves. @ oun the menace ig up the “COMMON, SELFISH, MEAN MEN.” FTER Senator Lodge in his speech in ghe A nate yesterday had rung the familiar changes on the theme of America’s service to humanity “by holding itself free from obliga- tions,””"Senator Williams of Mississippi said a few plain words which included the following: _ “You may think you arc awfully smart when you advise the American people to take care of their own Interests and to let their brethren in Europe go to hell, You are just common, selfish, mean men and some time you will be swept away like playing cards upon the sur- Sraco of a bowl of water which has over- flowed . .. ” We wonder if Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa- chusetts can fail to be haunted sometimes by the thought that coming generations of Americans may actually call him in political retrospect a “common, selfish, mean man” and turn from him even as many of his oldest friends in the Bay State turned from him in the recent election. ‘The cantankerous mouthpiece of opposition and obstinacy retains a certain prestige while the op- position lives. But in after years, when the oppo- sition is flat and forgotten, what is history going to say about men who exploited it for the last patsy of party capital? In wakeful watches of the night does Henry Cabot Lodge escape that question? Coue Is a Menace, Physicians Aver.—Headline. And day by day he draws nearer and nearer, JAIL IMPRESSES THEM. a statement in The Evening World yesterday Judge Charles L. Bartlett of Detroit, who has been waging relentless war on motor speeders, told of his experience with “repeaters,” that is “men who were being brought back time after time for the same offense.” Judge Bartlett began to jail the speeders. reports results as follows: “I believe there have been only two ‘repeat- ers’ out of the hundreds of men who have been sent to jail; under the old system, repeated warnings and fines had no effect whatever upon them,”” _ Judge Bartlett's experience has borne out the frequently expressed opinion of The Evening World. "A. éertain class of speeders have come to regard speed laws and court procedure as a sort of game®! They’ pay no more attention to fines than to tire, oil and gasoline expenses. Fines are considered a part of the expense of motoring. Jaii sentences are the remedy to apply. Jail sentences ought to be compulsory on the second or third offense. Lvety Magistrate passing on speeding charges should haye a record of previous convictions in neighboring jurisdictions, so that speed maniacs would not feel it safe to speed in Queens County, for example, after a conviction in New York or Nassau, He Since the Arbuckle “pardon” Will Ha learned the significance of the phrase: Fat's in the fire.” has The ACHES AND PAINS. God created man in His own image but not of the same material, : . “The reason we are so noisy,” wrote a very wise man, “is that we are so full of wants. We are une Anished characters.” Truc. Silence’ usually follows satiety The deepest velicy im Burope is that of Urdesa in Colorado Canyon The Chinese have a theory that there is no yreat difference in intelligence between men and animals Some dogs know a lot more than their masters, white the goat und the donkey tie at the head of the class, The ingenious Chief of Police in Des, Moines intends to photograph cach drunken man who is picked up by the cops and then show him the result when sober Why not work ‘em into the movies, A drunken reel would be full of significance . An enthusiastic boomer calls Valparaio, Fla, "Na- ture's Masteypivce Sounds fine. The niost appeal- ing nole is that the lots he has to sell ave not subiect tu lores Wonder bh they do it! They ave getting veady*t Billy sui the sinners of Charleston, S. ¢ The crop 1s reported od, It is th thing not affected by the boll weevtl, A JOHN KEETZ. \ discerned by +@ From Evening World Readers What kind of letter to. you find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying $e say much in few words. Take -ime to be brief. “He -That Is Without sin.” &e. Your editorial “A Christmas Bomb- shell’ is much to the point, but should go still further. America is accustomed «7 leadership Il not be driven, shteenth Amendment and the Volstead act were adopted on phe plea of ‘physical welfare. It is nifiour that an emaciated fanatic or a tem- perance lecturer who carries upon his on the stamp of ignorance, sloth or gluttony in an extended waistline, shguid presume to tell the normal Anferican citizen what he should eat or drink, What a cgrtoon Jéhn. Cassel could make depicts some of our pot-bellied and her Government officials preaching tem- perane @ “He that Is without sin among you let him first cast CHARLE York City, a stor TALE Dee. New Give “Patty To the Bdltor of ‘The Eve In reference to ( Thmyer's letter in regard to the Arbuckle pe belleve bh Thayer, would kick a in the eye after putting an unfair fight. Has not Arbudkle suffered enough? Has he not seen his fortune siowly swept away? Has he not felt mental and physical suffering? = What more punishment could man inflict Every person makes a mistake once Worl nan him down in or oftener du his earth. Would ike hounded, per and mali his life becau mistake unto others do unto you you weuld hay Why won't » earn t sygones be by ad of lend in a helping hand to a fe Duman they persist in pushing head under the mire t does Thayer know , "* promise being of no use or avail? I bet Arbuckle would keep 4 his wor Yor or I believe in ¢ a chance, and TI know every broad minded person agrees with me ANDREW PIUILIP: ving ‘Fatty’? Tn Defeuse Liditur of The is deplorable f Arbuc Evening W to note Ie To tl It Christian spirit which ac correspondent, G. R. I can- not see how such a person can enjoy Christmas and attend services on Christigas Day and say, “Oh God! forgive Us our trespasses as we for Rive t cane the un tustes your Thayer ose WhO trespass un Against rgiving prin Muse deprived ¢ ning live 3 pro hing at fessiow As for ‘the B r ed te phe aleo fell. but alll we con all frow the bottom of our hearts, God forgive her,"’ for, according to Mr. Thayer, even before the event “his (Fatty’s) record was well known to Ail the ony in California and to others outside of it.’’ As ‘‘the poor girl’? was of the movie colony, ahe, knowing his record, not ametss, for, according to. the Show me your company and I can tell what you are’ applies. In theso holy days a little of our Saviour’s kindness toward the sinner would be far better than the Puritanie spirit of your correspondent. I have seen a nuniber of Arbuckle’s produc- tions and not in a single ono have I seen any low vulgarity, and this is more.than I can say of the pictures of some “stars'? who have soared to greater helght in pictur than poor, ignorant and foolish PATRICK O'NEILL, No. 459 Manhattan Avenue, Dec. 24, 1922. novi Extend Tax Exemption, To the Editor of The Evening World It is not too early to consider the steps which should be taken next year to deal with the shortage of dwellings in the City of New York. the Amazing amount of building which has followed on the partial exemption of new housing from taxation, the demand is still far in-excess of the supply. For th reason, the lot of the poorer tenants hardly been tm- proved at all Rents tn low rent are still rising. The vast mass are obliged to put up with treatment the landlord: © accord. Conversely, land lords unable to dispossess tenants who are destructive and annoying other tenants, In a word, the emer- geney for which the Legislature passed the rent restrictive and tax- exemption laws still exists. Yet there are people who doubt the wis- dom of extending the Tax-Exemption yond April 1, at which time tt , if not re-enacted are, just two uments against {t--that it has not encou- rage the building of cheap houses and that it is holding up wages. As to the latter argument, we are not likely to hear much in public It is enough to say that as long as a big building program is under way to make up the shortage of the period from 1917 to 1921 we are going to have high wages We can only get low wages by stop- ping building. Do we want that? As to the form objection, it is enough to say t annot and we never did build new houses,to any great mount for oc« by f the poorer } They ways had to live in older however thd the present \ struction is no time i we cuusider i what our present Despite UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 192: A LOOK Monday another year begins. We shall have something to say about it then. by John Blake.) AT THE OLD YEAR. Perhrps we shall even talk of New Year's resolutions. But Monda# will be a day it w to look forward and not back. Before the New Year is born ill be worth while to glance over our shoulder at the road by which we came. Maybe it has been an easy-going, downhill road, and has still brought us where we ought to be. If so, we have had unusual luck, for the smooth road as a rule is not the one which Jeads to achievement, or even fortune, Perhaps it has been an uphill road, and hard uncomfortable going all the way If so, we have been in tr course, clean, yet climbed. In any aining and the objects we want to attain, if we had any honest ambitions, are. all further up than we have fo and maybe a rather uphill event it will be worth while to look over the road, tq see where we advanced, and where we stood still, and where we stually slipped backward. It will pay us to note the battles we won and the bgttles we lost, and to learn if we victorious, sow It must haye been not only fights if we really got anywhere can just why we sometimes were mes were defeated, a fight but a succession of Some of these fights may have been with people—- though not necessarily physical, have been with circumstances, Some A few of them were with ourselves. our own pasts, until we know what they are we hope to correct them. the chart to sée how and whene big help in making the plans th and, with the help of Providence, whole three t thi And if more of them had been with ourselve victories had been scored in such contests, we much further on the way we med to travel than we are now, We will learn something of our own futures by studying We can do much for our own futures by knowing what mistakes we have made in the p: and how th ¢ of them certainly and more should be t—for made aot ley were Aau Before You resolve to change the course aud cruise in a straighter line for your port of destination, look back over you eame, year you will make It will be of right through the hundred and sixty-five day’. Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Conzrieht, 1902 (New York Evening a5 Publishing Co. THE SCIENCE OF PHRENOLOGY, In the year 1796, in the City of Vienna, a young man still well within the thirties gave a course of lecs © tures, the lectures were published and the science of PHRENOLOGY was born. Franz Joseph Gall of Baden while still a boy had been struck with the © marked difigrences of character and talents displayed by his cbmpantons, and at the same time he observed ~ that the external peculiarities of the head corresponded to the differences in the intellectual and moral traits. . With this as a starter, Gall began to examine the heads of those who had exhibited any striking mental pe- cullarity, extending his observations even to the lower animals, and finally, sought confirmation of his theory, (a the anatomy of the brain, After twenty years of patient, painstaking expegimentation, Gall was convinced of the fact that he had suc- ceeded in gptermining the intellectual dispositigns corresponding to some eighteen or twenty organs, that he had found the seats of these original faculties in the brain, and that they, formed prominences or protuberances on the skull proportionate to their de- gree of activity. In the midst of his brave battle and he prejudjees of his day, the lone fighter was joined by Spurzhelm, and the pair carried the war into Africa matter of course the new ence encountered bitter opposition. Aristotle, St. Paul, Deseartes, to~ gether with all the other logicians and philosophers, were against the new idea, It was trreligious, it was im- moral, it was Infamous; and the only, thing to do was to crush it. But it wouldn't be crushed. Oppo- tion only strengthened it, and when all died in 1828 phrenology was rec- ognized as a legitimate science, Thousands still ving have among their possessions the “charts? which were given to them by the phrenolog- ical*professors who went about over the country drawing great audiences and giving innumerable examination: The late Henry Ward Beecher am@hg many others of our most distinguished men becanre an enthusiastic phre- nologist and frequently preached upon the science in his famous Plymouth pulpit. It is no secret that the science of phrenology has parted with much of its one-time prestige, but it was none the Jess an epoch maker, the creator of the idea that was to revolutionize the ancient theories of men's mental and moral relationships. Threnology was the first real, ear- nest attempt in modern times to apply. the EVOLUTIONARY theory to the brain, character and conduct of man, as opposed to the old scholastic and theological view of things, and bes cause it was this it fs clearly entitled to a place among the great creative ideas which ended an old and inaugne rated a new age of human thinking, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 243-——-E XCUSE, In the old Latin the word ‘‘excuso’* Meant exactly the same as the Eng- lish word ‘‘discharge'’—to free from a charge And through the intervening centurles the word has undergone only a slight change. When @ man says “E&cuso me,” he means that he wishes tobe relleved of a charge or obligation. That ob- \ y be either” negative—that involving failure to do > ought to have done or positive—that is to say, ft or obligation. it may may involve the commission of some- thing thet he ought not to have done. ns. Some pers think more “ton: than to no difference “Pardon,” rowed ‘word, 1s a lttle ron me” There ts two words, is & bor. say » me.’? between the like “excuse,” “As the Saying Is” “JINGO.” In the Basque Isnguage the word “Jingo” means gods, and is a com- mon form of adjuratiop. Possibly ® tho English caught the oath’ “by Jingo!” from the Basque sailors, The word “Jingoism” has acquired a new * meaning in British politics since 1877. At the h the anti-Russian excitement, when Lord Beaconsfield, the Premier, was determined to pro- tect. Turkey m Russia, and Giad- stone was advocating non-interfer- ence, a song became very popular in the English musio halls, the refraim of which was,-- We don't want to fight, but by Jingo tf we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, thousands of st year and savings in ming home Then there many people who during the p half have invested thei ate with the idea of be: owners, through the help which they expected to get by tax-exemption. Mew] are merely of these people have been able to pred the 1 Feallze their expectations for variqus ul -repe Ate Ane Maxiexsmpien deel den | oats expires it te Bardiy tuo much to say year. i \ ts which offered no too. condition would have been had not| that their investment will be a dead “KICK THE BUCKET.” tax exemption caused homes for 115,-] loss, for with our present assessment] A ng phrase common on both 000 families to be undertaken tn aland tax rate they can never hope to| aides of the Atlanti@, meaning to dle. year and a hulf, we must realize that] realize any profit from the Jand The allusion is probably to the way if it has not affected the rents of the There are many other reasons which in which a slaugt ed pi h poorer people it is well on the way tol might be given, but spaco will not A eens behead. do so, and that everybody's rent{allow. [ urge that those who fecl{UP~-Viz. by passing the ends of @ which ‘could be Increased would have|as I do thgt the Tax-Exemption Law| bent piece « behind the ‘tems risen outrageously had it not been for] should be extended, should organize f the hind legs and so sus- fet eae aterig: and should write to their representa. it to a hook in the beam tives In the Senate and Assembly that nger lease of life ns to study the matt bunk."’ Such @odies cor matter two Years ago at et un waste time th JNO, J, HOPPER, weitare t beneficial lay olu This plece of wood is local- : attended lines’ paid one day a al, and explained had been called man who had fallen dows Wsjn well “Did he kick the b doctor? faintly inquired the patient, George Colman a id |