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EQUALLY HEARTLESS,
rDICTMENTS are being prepared, it is announced,
for the trial of the former German Emperor. He
Is to be haled into court, it is alleged, to account for
bis high crimes and misdemeanors which, summed
op, niean his heartless and inhuman conduct in plung
ing the world into war.
A WELL-TRAINED CONGRESS.
THE general approval which has greeted the Presi
dent's proclamation setting March 1 as the date
for returning the railroads to their private owners is
no sign the public desired to sec the period of Federal
control extended.
On the contrary, there lias been, and is still, a
strong feeling that the sooner the Federal Government
divests itself of the extraordinary powers it assumed
over private industry for war purposes, notably in the
case of the railroads, the better it will be for the country
not alone economically but as a relief from an un
wonted exercise of centralized authority, under which
the American spirit, has become more and more restive.
What is recognized in the President's proclamation
is the wisdom of postponing a step for which Congress
lias failed to complete the necessary preparations. To
Dirty Business!
CrfiirUM. 1010.
tit Tt I'rwn I'nMMilut Co.
(Tiie Saw York Etenluf WorM.)
By J. H. Cassel
No court that an be constituted can measure his return the railroads before the Esch bill and the Cum-
piffl. No sentence that an be given will sufficiently U1" cvc" u,e,r in P0"115 01 uwicrence
punish him for his gigantic sin against Hie universe,
Yet, with the close of actual hostilities, the suffer
&js of many peoples are greater than when war was
bdng waged. Starvation, cruel cold, wrecked Industry
ironed out in conference would liave been a clumsily
precipitate act, certain to result in trouble and confusion.
If the railroads cannot be turned over fn their pri
vate owners Jan. i, as the country had hoped, the
t-l 1 y- It ii 1 it
and all the consequences of war are bearing their fell D" congress, ah we grcaicr is me re
fruit, chiefly because there is yet no world peace, no sensibility of Congress for agreeing on the needed
safeguard that the crimes of William Hohenzoiiern I railroad legislation within a time limit wliich the Presn
may not soon be repeated by others. dent nas now dennitejy t,xed.
Responsibility for this rests, and will continue toi r more than a year the return of the railroads
rest, upon the shoulders of Henry Cabot Lodge and his clcf rl scc" to be one of the great and urgent prob-
foltnu mrftne whn itttUt nnnn Woek nir he Paths Of, """" ul '"u,u,,uw,u"' tl - 'tur"c
peace and prolonging the miseries of mankind.
Before what court will they be haled? What pun
ishment can adequately deal with their iniquity?
DOES IT WORK BOTH WAYS?
BY all means let there be an inquiry to determine
whether the police overstepped the line of duty in
their treatment of persons who "walked" up Fifth Ave
nue yesterday bearing placards urging the release of
prisoners sentenced for the part they played in anti
,war plots.
While the inquiry is going on maybe somebody will
say a kind word for the example set by Major Lorillard
Spencer who, when he met the marchers near the Wal
dorf, stopped, and in an orderly, quiet and persuasive
manner tried to tell them how much better service
they could be doing the cause of Americanism by
zeal exercised in other directions.
Or was this also cruel and oppressive treatment?
When propagandists of certain types demonstrate in
the open streets should all counter-demonstration be
suppressed? And does the rule work bolh ways?
States waited in vain for their national Legislature to
deal with it. What will history have to say of the
Sixty-sixth Congress and its services during the most
critical period through which the Nation has passed?
Only this: The Sixty-sixth Congress was indif
ferent for the most part to peace and the problems of
peace. The Senate used the peace treaty for a counter
in a day and night game of party politics. The House
twiddled its thumbs and waited for the Senate. Public
opinion counted for nothing. The one power that
could sway the Sixty-sixth Congress at will was the
power of the Prohibition lobby.
Prohibition' long since decreed that peace, the rail
roads, anything that is not Prohibition, are minor issues
in American legislation. The Sixty-sixth Congress has
been a credit to its trainers.
One phase of a colossal gift.
ONE fealure worthy of special attention in connec
tion with John D. Rockefeller's enormous Christ
mas gifts is the form of the contribution to the General
Education Board. When wealthy men have given
large sums for public purposes it usually has been by
creating endowment funds, from which only the in
come might be used. This has been the case with Mr.
Rockefeller's previous gifts to the Education Board.
In this instance both principal and income may be
ltsed "as promptly and as largely as may seem wise"
to increase salaries of the teaching staff of colleges and
universities. The result must be that eventually even
so huge a sum will be exhausted. The present effort
is a temporary one, to meet an emergency. A very real
emergency it is. Mr. Rockefeller must have faith that
eventually public opinion will come to a realizing sense
of the obligation to offer a fair reward for the tre
mendously important service rendered by trained in
'Stnictors. Meantime, Mr. Rockefeller hopes to prevent
a break in the supply by offering inducements to keep
trained instructors in the class rooms and to encourage
young .people to prepare as teadiers.
At the same time, this gift should drive home the
need for more pay, more teachers and better prepared
teachers in the secondary schools for which the Rocke
1 feller Board does not make provision. At present the
teaching ranks are depleted and the quality seriously
impaired, because the funds are not available to enable
school officials to bid against business men for the ser
vices of the most capable young people who might
render the greatest service as teachers.
It behooves the school district, the State and, if
necessary, the Nation, to provide funds for secondary
schools. The supply of public school teachers must be
maintained by the promise of fair pay. In the last
analysis the stability and success of democracy must
rest primarily on the intelligence of the people in the
democracy; that is, on the ability of the school teacher,
FIGURES SEEM TO FIB.
A WAGE increase of $$ a week to Chicago garment
workers to be followed by a raise of $2.50 in
the price of suits is reported.
"There Is no chance for a drop In prices
until labor realizes tho necessity for giving the
manufacturer a fair day's work for a fair day's
pay. Where a workman formerly produced bLx
gannenU n day ho is now producing three."
The quotation is from an explanation by M. Tobias,
an official of the Chicago Cloak and Suit Manufac
turers' Association.
Let's call the class in mental arithmetic.
Assume that a workman produces only three gar
ments a day. That is eighteen in a week. Allow coat,
vest and trousers, three garments, in each suit. Then a
orkman produces six suits a week.
Dividing 55 by six, the mental arithmetic quotient
ia 83 and a fraction cents, not $2.5o. Then, wiiy the
triple increase?
Perhaps our mental arithmetic is wrong, but the
results check on the adding machine in the business
office.
Will some one be so kind as to point out the error
n tills seemingly simple computation?
THE RECKONING BEGINS.
TEN' years in jail, fifteen years' exile and a fine of
10,000,000 francs is the sentence imposed by an
Allied court martial 011 a German steel magnate
charged with having ordered the systematic pillage ot
factories in eastern France.
This conviction, the first of its kind, is a reminder
of how to the destructiveness of warfare itself was
added a cold and calculating determination on the part
of German economic interests to ruin industrial France
for German advantage. This German steel king was
able to gain nothing by his plea that the German
Government ordered him to do what he did. He and
his brothers were shown to have deliberately wrcckea
and plundered a big section of the French metal in
dustry.
ine same economic pillage, tne same seizure am!
transfer to Germany of material and machinery went
on in Belgium, where workers also were seized and
shipped to Germany.
(wowcomes the reckoning.
AT BROADWAY AND 42D STREET.
ROADWAY and 42d Street is a wonderful comer.
All the world's a stage, and tradition has it that
every player, no matter how obscure his part, at least
once during his participation in the play passes this
crossway, where the spotlight always shines. Here a
utient watcher can meet any one whom he may desire
0 see, if lie will but wait long enough.
To this tradition we may add that anything may
lapnen in the course of the vigil. It is with the stage
that this comer is most intimately associated, but im
agine, if you can, the reception of a melodrama in
which the villains attempted to make their get-away
by climbing down the front of the Hotel Knickerbocker,
Before last Tuesday such a development of the
plot would have been hooted from the stage, unless it
lad appeared in a farce. Inconceivable! Yet to
morrow we may see it used by a playwright in search
of the bizarre, it is good material for a Broadway
revue. In truth, it is stranger than fiction; it out-raffles
taffies; it surpasses the imagination as only the truth
may.
Again, just vocalize the names of the villains,
Aunano Alvarez. Kaymonu Kounguez. surely no
playwright would dare expose his plot by bestowing
such smoothly alliterative names on his characters,
stamping them before ever the curtain rose. Only in
real life would the ubiquitous hotel clerk fail to recog
nize the peril of entertaining guests so melodramatically
inscribed on the register.
Truly the daring enterprise at the Knickerbockei
was a most amazing occurrence. It dwarfed the thes-
pian villainies in the neighboring theatres. The re
porters had the advantage of the playwright and
New York knows now that anything may happen at
Uroadway and 42d Street.
One more scene has been enacted in the spotlight.
The native guide has one more anecdote with wliich to
entertain his tourist friend. 'The yarn of the Spanisl
Buccaneers will be told for generations, even tliougt
the tourists who do not know that anything may hap
pen at Broadway and 42d Street may be sceptical con
cerning the veracity of their guides who point out the
exact scene of the climax.
I
FROM EVENING WORLD READERS
From a Driver.
T (fa YkUtot of th. Kirodna Worll:
Just a few words in regard to the
various letters in to-night's Evening
world regarding tho horse. I am a
driver of onu of tho finest niarca in
the city, and tuko as much enro of
her as I do of myself. I never havo
a whip and I always blanket her weU,
but as to her slipping and falling', I
cannot prevent that. No matter how
good a horso's shoca may be, they
wear down very quickly. As to non
slip shoes, there aro no such shoes
made. If some one could invent them
they could make a fortune. If my
employer fulled to buy them I would,
out of my own pocket. Such is my
feeling for my horse.
Mr. James D. Holmes says 10 cents
worth of burlap on tho front feet is
good. I will try it and hopo to bene
fit by his advice. Mr. P. J- Murphy
says horses aro underfed. That is up
to tho boarding stable proprietor, not
tho boss carmen. M. T. S. says to got
the shoes sharpened. There is no
such thing as getting shoes sharp
enod. When shoes get so they will
not give tho horso a hold on tho Ice,
there Ih only one thing, new shoes.
I can readily see that your readers
havo had no driving experience or
they would know better. If you want
somo ready and experienced rela
tions about tho horse, ask a driver
for his opinion, but bo sure and pick
out a driver, as all men handling
horses to-day are not real drlvors.
Homo of them should not bo allowed
to drive, a nail.
I admit thero aro a few who take
all tho troubles and mistakes out of
tho horso by abusing him. I havo a
good ono and good ones are hard to
get, so I tako caie of her and nho
takes caro of me by nuver quitting
except to get her wind.
A. DIUVBU.
Xcw York, Dec. 22.
Liitri llorm-n unci Cnt.
To tho MliUr ot Urn Hirulu Workl:
Ixioklng through tho letters of your
column I certainly was happy to read
that thuro aro still bomo peoplo who
have a llltlo feeling left ifor tho
dumb animal, tho horse, which scorns
to bo tho most abused of all. Ho Is
often ut tho mercy of an Ignorant nnd
cruel driver, who ofton handles him
as if ho were sonic kind of machinery,
pulling nl his bit until his mouth is
soro and blistered. It is ospeclully
pitiful to sew the cab horses near tho
railroad HtatloiiH standing In ono spot
for llvo to six hours at a time, shiver
lug with tho cold nnd very often un
covnred, poorly fed, looking cmucl
ated. 1 live mar tho Pennsylvania
Station. I often pass there with my
little girl, and although fcho is only
seven years old sho is on tho lookout
for cab horses which uro standing un
covered and she pulls mo toward the
driver and then we won't go away
until he covers tho horse. May 1
also put In a word for tho stray cat?
How is It that so few peoplo have
any feeling for a cat7 Yet if treated
kindly it is Just as grateful nnd affec
tionato ab tho dog. I would osl: the
peoplo to save tho scraps from tho
table instead of putting them in tho
garbago can, and throw the scraps
out In tho street at night. They would
bo doing a good ucL J. B.
West 29th Street. Dec. 22.
LIUra l'irrlE Utrla.
To ttia liliUjr (jf tho KtnOoz Worll:
Joseph Munnlng'B letter to Tho
Evening World, published to-day, Is
qui to right, and I think that most
men who havo served overseas will
back him up when he says that tho
girls of Kngland and franco arc
much nearer tho typo that tho New
Work man la looking for than is the
Now York girl herself.
Over there tho girls aro good pals
and 'chums. Tney are homo girls too,
und don't want to spend all their lime
and all a fellow's money at shows
and cabarets. Tho soldiers hriloted
n England, tho gobs up at Dunferm
line in tho Firth of Forth didn't malto
any mistake when they brought back
English and Scotch girls as brides.
Theso girls aro willing to fight for
their men, ana to maKo their homes
their lives. They don't want careers;
thoy don't want to groJb off somo boy
millionaire. They take, a fellow for
what ho is, and you don't havo to
spenil all your tlmo blulllng them. I
wish we had a fow like them in the
U. S. A. S. A. M..
Overseas Destroyer Forces, U. 8. N.
Yonkers. N. Y-. Dec. 23.
Profiteering Exhibit.
NO. 3.
UNCOMMON SENSE
By John Blake
(CotttIiM. lilt.)
THE RED SEES GREEN.
TheL oveStoriesl
of Great Novels
By Albert Pay. son Tcrliunei
CuQ) ! , 1(1 tl. In 'Ih'- l I'. iMlUi Co I
ITho -Nrw York 1" i Worldi
An Evening World reader submits
tho following:
"The Sealxiard By-I'roduct Coko
Company advertises Hoppers coke
nt $9.50 a ton in tho Uronx, Man
hattan and Hmoklyn. About two
weeks ago I called their otilco in
Jersey City and inquired as to how
I could get this coko on Statcn
Island and ut what price. They
referred mo to tho Fayo Coal
Company, West Hrlghton, S. 1.,
and quoted a prico of J3.S5. I
called tho Fayo Oonl Company,
who said the prlco was right hut
they could not supply mo ns a
dealer In my town, tlreat Kills,
hud that terriior. I recently
heard that this local dealer Is ask
ing til n ton for this coke, and
this morning called up tho Soa
board Uy-l'ioduct Coke Company,
who Informed mo that 111 was iho
right price for their product on
Staten Island. Profiteers!
New York, Deo. 19. J, F.
The Red does not reason. His creed is envy. To him
equal opportunity means the same opportunity for idleness nnd
vice ns for ability nnd industry.
You can see plainly the snow-capped top of n mountain.
But you must use your reason to appreciate the laborious wind
ing trail, beset with obstacles, that leads to it.
"Why can't I have one of those?" sayn the Red, us lie
watches an automobile roll pust. All he sees is the automobile.
He does not see and he docs not want to see the industry, the
effort, perhaps the sacrifice, that enabled the man in the auto
mobile to buy it.
When James J. Hill was President of the Northern Pacific
a young college graduate asked him how to succeed in the rail
road business.
"Work like h 1 for forty years," said Hill.
Anybody could see Hill riding over the road in his private
car. But only reasoning beings could see him patiently learning
the business, step by step, often in the face of tremendous dis
couragement.
In the present Congress arc four men who began as rail
road laborers. The green-tinged mind of the Red sees in these
men lucky accidents. Hut they would still be railroad laborers
if they had allowed envy to cloud their vision.
This is a land of opportunity. Hut, contrary to the proverb,
opportunity docs not knock on every man's door, even once.
You may go through life without ever seeing it if you don't go
out and limit for it.
In Russia the aristocrats owned the laud and enslaved the
serfs. Hut this is not Russia. No increase of opportunity would
come from overturning a Government which lias been proved
the most liberal in the world.
Dynamite will not gel the Red what he wants, wliich is
.something for nothing. Terrorism will not get it for him. As
long as envy and malice rule him he will be as he is, a Rolshevik
in nnine and a burglar at heart.
There is no room for the Red in America. His propaganda
will mnko no headway here. The vast tnnjurity of the people
believe in this Government and will support it.
A .id day by day, as education progresses and thought
awakens, it will be found thnt as a man toils and thinks, so lie
will prosper.
Avoid envy and jealousy as you would a rattlesnake. If
you always see green you are no better than the Red.
No. 29 The Hunchback of
Noire Dame
By Victor Hugo
i 3ME11ALDA, tho French gpsy
H girl, had no less than four ador
I ing lovors. ono of theso was a
Captain of tho Guard, a thickheaded,
selllsli fellow, who wus tho ono love
of her llfo and who regarded his
I affair with her ns merely uu everyday
adventure.
Tho Recond wooer was Claude
Frollo, an Important dignitary whom
lovo had hitherto passed $y. Frollo
was an Intense, hcrmitliko man, who
lost head and heart and conscience
allko when bo ect eyes on Esmeralda,
Tho third lover was ono of th
strongest creatures in looks and la
naturo tho world has over seen, B
was Quasimodo, tho hunchback, a.
hanger-on of Frollo's and a sort ot
bandy man in tho more menial jobs
connected with the caro of Notro
Dnmo Cathedral in Paris.
Among other duties, to Quasimodo
was assigned tho task of ringing the
Cathedral's giant bells. For tho reat
' he was tho cringing slave of Frollo,
' who had adopted him in babyhood
, and had brought him up to a llfo of
drudgery and cruel treatment.
Esmeralda's fourth adorer was am
Qrlngolro, a down-at-heel poet,
who, in a whim of pity, sho married U
save him from tho hangman's noose
But sho made it very clear at once
to tho poet that she had married htm
out of pity and not through love, and
that ho could expect to havo no pan
in her life.
Such was tho oddly contrasting
quartet of men who, in Paris of 1482,
vowed love to tho homeless and vaga
bond gypsy lass. And their love
brought her nothing but tragedy. For
from tho outset sho was doomed. 1
disaster and to bo the plaything ot
malignant fate.
Quasimodo was so used to havinj
peoplo laugh at him and scoff at hli
hideous face and misshapen body tha;
he seemed Jed to mankind's Jeers
ct once, when Ksmcralda chanced tt
f pi ak to 111 in In carelessness, hei
gentle words and 'smiles smote him ti
tho heart. In nl! his miserable lid
sho was. tho first person to give bin
a friendly word. And under tho in
lluenco of it his heart went out to he
in eternal worship.
Nor was his devotion to expcn
Itself in mere words. Like a guardlai
angel ho watched over tho girl's tern
pestuous fortunes. And presently his
chance camo to servo her.
Esmeralda, through no sin of her
own, incurred tho suspicion of being
a witch. It was a day ot blade
superstition. Tho slightest and flim
siest evidence was all that was needed
to fasten a charge of witchcraft to
somo innocent woman or girl, espe
cially if tho victim was without
money and position.
Tho gypsy girl was charged with
sorcery and was about to bo put to
death by tho mob when Quasimodo
rushed to her rescue.
Spiriting her away from her tor
mentors, ho bid her in tho innermost
recesses of the Cathedral. There, for
tho moment, she was afo bo far w
tho mob was concerned. Dut sho wan
not safo from Quasimodo's master,
Claude Frollo.
Frollo, learning of her hiding place,
made violent lovo to her. i3ho re
pulsed him in disgust. And intu
Frollo's dark brain leaped tho craving
for revenge on tho woman who had
spurned his love.
IJy a ruso he enticed tho luckless
girl away frcun the sanctuary of tho
cathedral and into tho hands of the
mob.
Then Frollo crouched among ttw
gargoyles on one of tho Notro Dame
lowers to watch the torturers put her
to death in tho square below. Anxl
there tho frantic Quasimodo found
him.
The hunchback, mad with grief at
the killing of the woman he adored,
caught Fiollo up in his mighty and
misshapen arms and hurled him ovei
the battlements of the Cathedral
down onto the stones of tho squan
far beneath.
Then tho liunehbuek vanished. Nor
was further traco found of him until
years later his skeleton was discov
ered in a cave. Its bony urma still
clasping the .skeleton ot Esmeralda.
Quasimodo had crept to this burial
place of tho girl he loved, and hud
lain down to die at her side.
CANNABIS SMOKERS.
In Urazil cannabis smoking is bo
coming a national menace, according
to Dr. T. H. llluir, ot llanlsburg. Pa.,
who adds tho warning that the vice
can readily bo imported to this coun
try unless we guard carefully against
It. Ho ays tho cannabis smoker
nearly always becomes an lmbecilo
In tlmo.
In an nrtlclo on tho "Relation of
Drug Addiction to Industry" in tho
Journal ot Industrial Hygiene, Dr.
Blair says that business, industry
i
and industrial physicians must make
It their enro to see that tho "Jokers"
aro takon out of the narcotic laws
and that then those laws aro effec
tively enforced. Tim fow duuased
physicians "who Infest almost every
community and who deliberately
keep up addiction through ignorance
or cupidity," ho says, must be taken
tn hand.
In' many ways heroin is tho worst
habit-forming drug known, he de
clares, nnd adds that Its legitimate
application in medicine can be tilled
by other drugs.
Among Those
Present
DU .on know tiio young fellow
who works for $25 a week and
who is wearing a new winlei
suit that com $Si?
Do you know the wago earner who
loafs because he is afraid If he docs
too much he'll "work himself out of
a Job?"
Do you Know tho housowife who la
ashamed to be seen with a market
basket on her arm or to carry home
a brown pupur bundle?
Do you know tho inunufiu'tufoi
who, when tho price of raw materials
and overhead goes up 5 per ctnt. and
tho cost of laoor advances an ciiiial
amount, adds per cent, to tho price
of his goods'.'
Do you know tho factory girl work
ing for Jib a week who is buying and
wearing a ?:150 fur coat?
Do you know the mun who lets; a
fresh clerk sneer lilm Into buying .,
$15 hat for foar he'll seem "cheap"
when he can buy a satisfactory erne
lor 7?
Do you know the shopper ho says
"Wrap it up" instead of "How
Much?"
Do you know tho person who lets
tho deslro of the momont destroy the
results of days and weeks of thrift
and saving?
Do you know tho man who thinks
It is not necessary to save?
Do you know the man who says
that the Government savings securi
ties, Liberty Honda, War Bavtrura
Stamps and Treasury Havings Cer
tificate aro too slow or too small or
too old fashioned for his Investment.?
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