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TONIC AMERICANISM.
ffunT:RS to uie Loyalty tditor are Dnngwg an
inspiring message from foreign-born citizens who
tell what America has done to justify the choice of the
"Americans by choice."
Perhaps these letters may have some value as con
Btructive aids to Americanization using the term in its
Exst sense and not as a sort of a star-spangled coverall
lor any sort of shady, shifty, political skullduggery,
Perhaps they will suggest ways in which would-be
Americans an more quickly avail themselves of op;
(Iportunities and so prove for themselves the worth of
"America. Perhaps they will make plain what have
fceen the most effective means of reaching the hearts
and minds of the immigrant and so enable Americans to
extend the hand of fellowship more efficiently.
J,- Equally if not more important, we hope, will be the
jClect on the native citizen, the "American by accident."
'olt is impossible to read these simply told tales of
Vtdual everyday experience without feeling a thrill of
. patriotic pride in this, my own, my native land. These
Gutters awaken patriotic emotion just as surely as did
the martial parades of two years go.
I-1 America IS better than other lands. The "American
$y choice" may have a better appreciation of the fact
jfcecause he knows the contrast He knows by experi
ence why and in what ways America is better. We
..challenge any native American to read the full series,
"What America Has Done for Me," and then deny that
iie'is a better American for having done so.
).. Such tributes to America many written "without
expecting" to win a prize" are well worth while ajt a
lime when there is destructive foreignism on the one
band and dangerous provincial know-nothingism on the
ether.
SVt- And now the great Cornelius VunUcrblU
criminal mind is usually ingenious rather than profound.
News of the day, and particularly the unusual, is al
m.is reflected in criminal courts. Criminals grasp
p;hism cither as a means to their ends or as a way
to escape consequences. No doubt a considerable share
r.f the present "psychic crime" is nothing of the sort
and should neither be regarded as proof of psychic man
ifestations or as an indication that spirits are wicked.
It is simply the opportunism of criminal mentalities.
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residence on Fifth Avenue, between 57th and
68th Streets, for yearn pointed out as one of Uie
most Imposing private dwellings In thin or any'
. city, la reported doomed to make -way for a
twenty-one story hotel!
It used to be the custom to call certain
buildings of great cost, solidity and architec
tural excellence "monumental." A man iiiuhI
dig down to the solid granite of tlin Island Itself
i to And anything of monumental permanence. In
! Manhattan.
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WHO PREPARED THE TIME TABLE?
'WILLIAM J. BRYAN says the Senate ought to
ratify the treaty by Jan. 16.
Ttere is every reason to believe that date will also
Ytl William H. Anderson, head of the Anti-Saloon
League in tins Mate.
lJAr. Bryan thinks Jan. 16 is peculiarly fitting be
ttfcause the first meeting of the League of Nations is
scheduled for that day. But Mr. Bryan would be the
ifesi man in the United States to overlook the circum
; stance whicfi makes Jan. 16 specially acceptable to
fiiAnderson and his cohorts. That is the day when Jhe
Prohibitionkls expect no longer to need the pretense
at -war for the tyranny they have established.
Americans of late have begun to rub their eyes in
.Imjaze and ask themselves, seriously, whether the time
rtable of ratification no less than of legislation generally
i-fa .this country may not, have been dictated in large
measure by the Prohibition lobbies,
( Peace, League of Nations what are such paltry
ffrfumphs compared with the triumph of Prohibition!
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ONE BIG PUSH WILL DO IT.
P we may judge by what has been going on in Wash-
1 ington since the Jackson Day Dinner, that much
discussed function ha$ turned out to be a ratification
accelerator of high and promising power.
Whatever else the President's letter did, it threw a
cold and merciless light on the possibility of the treaty
issue being held over through months to come for sub
mission to the people at a referendum.
If the country has recoiled from the suggestion, so
have party leaders.
Nobody has appeared more determined than Mr.
Lodge to kick the treaty about for as long as there
seemed to be the least remaining hope of casting dis
credit on the President". But although Mr. Lodge
promptly took up the President's challenge and pro
fessed.delight at the idea of a referendum,' subsequent
'eports slww a marked change in the Senator from
Massadiusctts. Despatches from Washington last
Saturday described a new Mr. Lodge amiable, con
ciliatory, ready to meet his opponents lialf-way.
There an' be little doubt that this week finds United
States Senators much more concerned than heretofore
over what the country really thinks about the treaty
and the League of Nations. ,
Without choosing tactful or diplomatic means, the
President contrived nevertheless to remind the Senate
that it does make considerable difference how a major
ity of Americans feel about ratification and that no
political party can safely go on playing a game that
ignores that feeling.
By far the larger part of the American people were
long ago convinced that the League of Nations is some
thing immeasurably bigger than a pet, personal scheme
evolved by Wood row Wilson.
They are level-headed enough to see that a proposed
covenant between nations arrived at after months of
discussion, contention and compromise cannot be taken
to pieces and rewritten in the United States merely to
enable Republican party leaders to discredit a Demo
cratic President who happened to represent this Nation
at the drawing up of the covenant.
They believe the United Stales powerful enough, suf
ficiently able to take care of itself, to enter a League of
Nations without demanding special favors and immunities.
No Senator can afford to shut his eyes to the truth.
Party or no party, compromise, to satisfy a majority
of Americans, has got to be something that will insure
litis Nation peace and immediate and honorable mem
bership in the League of Nations.
Since Saturday Europe has been at peace. The spec
tacle of the United States still shuffling on the out
skirts is an intolerable one for most of its citizens.
All who find it so should hasten to let their Senators
know how. intolerable they deem it. The telegraph
wires to Washington are working.
Let the country take a hand in the accelerating. It
needs just that to make ratification speedy and sure.
His fellow countrymen offer William Jen
nings Bryan their heartfelt condolences for the
publicity which, despite all his endeavors, tins
overtaken him again.
SPIRITS AND CRIME.
SPIRITUALISM, mental suggestion ami psychic
manifestations seem to be quite the thing these
days in criminal circles as well as among the liteiat
Jnd in ultra-polite society.
The old-fashioned hypnotist lias been banished from
-,!udeville. He is no longer "barn-storming" in rura
opera houses." But a murderous, thief attempts to
escape the chair by pleading hypnotic intluence.
Mtnore intellectual larcenist blames a "Divine psycholo
fcfct" Fake "spiritualistic" accomplices of the "get
2kh-quick" promoters are forever with us in spite of
repeated exposures. We may yet have a pickpocket
aflreded by the ouija board.
OS H is no reflection on the more serious and scientific
u&fodents of the occult to warn the public to use extra
ore n dealing with all those who profess to deal wi
be supernatural. The better and more conscientious
a (investigators welcome skepticism and are conservative
in forming their judgments and even more conservative
hth acting on them.
It is perfectly natural'that the war should be followed
fcy a revival In interest in efforts to communicate wit
the dead. The more marked enthusiasm in England
Otisay be attributed largely to the longer death-rol
. Friends and relatives long to communicate with love
....ones and most minds are prone to believe in what they
' jrant to believe.
But the situation al stimulates the criminal. The
Hesortlng to "slanguage"
a Sweet mess" up nt Albany.
we may sny "It Is
FROM EVENING WORLD READERS
TELEPHONE NOISES THAT TRY NERVES.
( V 7 Y is it, we ask the officials of the New
W York Telephone Company, "that the use
of the telephone in New York is accompanied by such
multiplicity of disagreeable, irritating, nerve racking,
temper destroying noises?"
The question is only a reflection in words of the
expression on the face of the ordinary user of the tele
ilione who steps out of a booth anywhere.
Other cities do not have so many discords.
In the early days of the telephone some noise was
accepted as natural in an imperfect instrument. But
as ine system nas expanded, ana as improvement after
improvement has been announced, it seems that the
buzzes and craihes, shrieks and jangles, drummings
and liummings, shocks and clatters, big noises and
little discords have increased rather than diminished.
Why? The public would like to know.
Quite apart from faulty service .ascribed to a lack
of operators (which the public understands is" due to
poor wages offered), why is,it that before a connec
tion is completed the ear drum of a telephone user has
been subjected to such a series of shocks that it is
almost impossible to be good natured and retain a
"smile" in the voice?
The Evening World will be glad to publish a short,
concise explanation or excuse, but we suggest that the
most welcome reply would be the assurance of some
thing going on looking to the elimination of the un
earthly racket in the receiver.,.
A woman opening headquarters In Chicago
to campaign for tho Republican nomination for
President on an anti-tobacco platform Ih just
another of those happenings that remind the
country how Utile reason It has to smile at
things it once thought foolish.
Ilftr Til nana ml Mlnnto Slen.
tb Editor of The KTtnlrn World:
Organization of 10,000 Minute Men
by tho Federal Government, to go
"throughout the length and. breadth
of the 'country preaching simple
economic truth as a counter In
fluence" to Ked propaganda, was
advocated In an Hvenlng World ed
itorial Jan. 2 under the caption "New
Minute Men Needed."
I'ennlt mo to cull to your attention
that the Methodists have Buch un or
ganization. They aro known as
Minute Men." They number not 10,-
000 only, but 60,000.
"Tho Federal Government could
well afford to orgunlzo and mulntaln
such un urmy," stated your editorial.
Tho live times larger army of Metho
dist Minute Men Is a volunteer force.
"These men need not be trulned
speakers," argued tho editorial. "On
the contrary, the most valuable would
bo plain worklnmen wfth clear heads,
Hound principles and u knack of
stralKhtenlnn out the mental proresses"!
of their fellow workcis. Tlierp should
be no talking down Xo- tho laboring
cliiHS. It should be the appeal of hard
sense from man to man."
Soinn of tho Methodist Minute Men
do not quite fill your requirements,
lor they are trained speakers. I refer
to such men as Josephus Daniels,
Secretary of tho Navy: John C. Shaf
fer, Middle Western newspaper pub
lisher; Guv. Henry J. Allen of lum
nus, Frank Moss, formerly Assistant
District Attorney of Now York; Chief
Justice Ituymond of tho Massachu
setts Supremo Court, Watson Moore,
Vice President of tho Unltitt States
Grain Corporation, New York City,
and Trunk 11. Willis, ex-Governor of
Ohio.
On the oilier band, there are
inimy thousands or i.no .muiikxum
Mlnulti .Mi'U win) no un (lit yiir lu-
(luirednont-s. Tlioy aro plain jolin
Sinltli of the store, the mluu and
the factory.
When tlie Methodists, largost lrot-
tuMant denomination in America,
celebrated last year their 100th an
nlvurwiry of home mimrtlon activities
by nuwnij na,vuu,vuu ior n live-1
year oiClnpaJmi of reconstruction und
social service throughout the world,
Uio 60.000 "Ml mi to Mai ctumo Into
lieiiiK. Thoir orRiuilaatloii wis mod
elled on the similarly numod orcan
ijsitton, of which niiiny were mem
berti, that helped the Nation win Uio
war.
One word more, ploaee. Tho or
pintznUon of 60,000 Minute Mon did
not illrtxind on Uie conclusion of the
cojitcnory campaign. On tho con
trary. It to 'hard at work right now
In the trrmtewt rvJlglous rvvtvul of
all times, which bogon on Now Year's
Day and will continue until Juno
imi tho part of oil I'rotofltu.nt denom
inations. This revival is stirring the demo
cratic I-OUl of lTOtOMUUlllH!ll to Its
privfoumlost depths. ChrlsUan Amer
ica Is on lt way to becoming u
united, compact fora-. 'a can
doubt surh u fonce will Imi ii power
ful instrument to offset m!l4cal
propaganda? Who can doubt united,
awakened t'lirmtlan America will be
the most powerful onset 7
Anil the lulsiiers, meotianios, law
Men aro taking a not insignificant
part! UHltAJiO It HKKITIGAN,
Centenary ConMervation Committee,
DeiMrtJiient of Kducation,
No. Ill Fifth Avenue.
CurlilK lir Hln'pB.
To the tMltor of The Eifnlng World:
Please let "Y. M. C. A.," who ha-s
the blues, know that a book by tho
title of "Peter Simple," by Capt. M.,
will chase them away.
WILLIAM HKYKU.
City Hall, Jan. S, 1920.
To the tVlltor of The Krenlnt World:
To cure your correspondent, "Y. M.
C. A,," of the blues, would advise him
to read Uie works of W. W. Jacobs,
and, Incidentally, to look for some
one else having Uie same thing and
try to help him out of them. This ad
vice has tiecu tested and proved good.
IJ. F.
New York, Jan. 8, 1920.
To "V. M. o. A,
Kvtnlii2 World
ctre ot the Kdltor of The
If you have the tduos and want to
get rid of them by reading, tty
"IXiddy Long Legs," "Dure Mable,"
"Foolish Proverbs,' "Mayor llylan's
Letters,"
Thu last is not published In book
form, but they must be funny, for if
my boss wishes to say anything is
really funny, he 11 say "its as funny
as Mayor llylan's letters." You'll find
them in newspapers.
Personally, I helluva a better way
to rid yourself of bluus Is to tako an
active part in some good social work.
When you aro then made to realize
jour own good fortune In tho things
God has blessed you with, by com
paring them with thoso of others less
fortunate thnnyoursrlf, your work
will be so Interesting that you'll never
get the blues.
WALTIJIt K. MBlNZKlt.
S3 Oakland St., Brooklyn', Jan. 9, 1920
To the Alitor ot Tho Ktemiif World:
Would ou mind telling the man
who had the blues that 1 sometime),
get "them doggono blues" myself, si.
why nut Ki t together and sue if we
couldn't chase 'em away?
In the mean while, If you want a
good story, tnkn yourself to tho taear
ist book store and ask for "Twenty-
Three and a Half Hours Leavo" by
Mary Ilobert.s riclnhart.
1HLL SMITH.
Tho Office, Jan. 8, 1920.
Write to Wnr-ltlik llurrnn
To Uie Editor of The Ewnloi World:
I read in your paper an editorial on
tho readjustment of soldiers' Insur
ance. I nm tho benellclnry ofone
who sacrificed his life. I would llko
to know whethor this Insurance Is
pnyoblo in a lump sum to a bene
tlclary who has been getting It In
monthly Instalments of $57.60 per
monin;
MOTH Kit OF FOrit BOLDIKItS
Hrooklyn, Jan. 7, 1920.
For Freedom' I.nnd.
To the Editor of The Biening World:
"Son of Amorlcan-diorn Pioncera"
Is surely a disgrace to his ancestor:).
He should do as the ostrich does and
stick his head In tho sund. Ho and
his thoufchts are not fit for refined
neoplo to assoclato with. Hoully, 1
feel sorry ror one wtio nas sucn cruel
thoughts, and 1 feel that ho should
yers, doctors, teaouora and Governors Ufa under a doctor's care. Prohibition
wlio comprise mo Mo&noutoi Minute ittaa ruinoa una country ana put taxt j
UNCOMMON SENSE
By John v Blake.
(Copjrljht. If20.)
. Tllli FREED CANARY SOON STARVES.
Set at liberty the canary you 'have fed and tended in ex
change fur its song, and it soon starves. It has never learned
to help itself.
Dumb animals go through life dreadfully handicapped by
the lacl of reasoning b'rnins. Yet wild animals, thrown from
lirlli on their own resources, develop a craft that sometimes
carries them to n very old age.
A lnpdog turned out to shift for itself would not last very
long. Like the canary, it has lived a life' of dependence on
others. All the qualities that might have enabled it to make
its wav have withered for want of use.
A magazine writer criticises private schools, wfth justice,
Removed from contnet with the kind of people they will meet
because they do not fit pupils for the struggle for existence,
in ncttinl life, they are often helpless when they nrc sent out on
their own. ,
Young men and young women must learn very early the
necessity of helping themselves.
Begin depending on some one else, and you will always
depend on sonic one else, llegin dependiiiK on yourself and
you will form a habit that with practice will insure success.
Perhaps 80 per cent, of the population, even of this en
lightened country, allow other people to do their thinking for
them.
Editors, preachers, school teachers scatter broadcast ideas,
most of them second hand. Men and women, finding thought
wearisome, accept these ideas and net on them.
Many of these ideas are good, of course. Hut they arc
really of little benefit unless they nre weighed and tested before
acceptance.
Learn to do your own work, and your ow n thinking. Get
out of the enge of 'dependence. 1'orm your own opinions, and
act on them.
If your early years are .spent li anilig on others, vour later'
years will probably be spent in the poorhoii.se.. The habit of
dependence is the hardest of nil habits to break. can never
be broken nfter you are forty.
Where to Find
Your Vocation
By Mux Watson
Vocatioml Adzxtr Rt'Emblaymml
tiiirrju. X. Y. C.
Coprrljlil. I'i.'ii Iwlli.. I'm. Piit.llhlo Co.
irbr Nmr York 11 Tilr.j World.)
Ilclnw Ia vticn an article of The
llvcnint) It'orM Sericn of An
alvtlcat IJfscilpUnnn a Vocations
Suitable to Young i'en entering
trade and bnnines. Study these
rarctullv. u-clnh vur quulilat
Hons, and jind the work for
trifci you are lest mlapWd.
Merchant Marine.
1. Opportunities for Entcrinn th
Service.
For tho boy who has a calling for
tho sea the United Hlates Merchant
Marine offers a very atlrartlvo field.
Any boy who is an American citizen
and over eighteen years of age can
have an opportunity to enter this
service provided he Is physically fit
and, If under the nge of twenty-one,
can obtain the consent of his Barents
or guardian. Uoys who have had nj
experience at sea are sent away to
school for six, weeks training and
then allowed to pick any ship thev
wish. While training they arc given
their clothes and $30 a month. Tin
training Is divided Into three courses
on dock, steward's department and
tire room. After serving a year and a
half they are pllgible for the tValnim:
school for omVerw, and If they pass
this training successfully receive the
rating of third ofllcer.
2. Schooling Required.
Those entering this service should 1
do so with tho Idea of advancement
and, therefore, should have a commc
school education If possible. Special
studying should be taken up while In
the service, since an otllccr must have
considerable technical education.
3. Salary.
(a) On deck the first pay as an
ordinary seaman Is Jfiti a month. Tin
steps ot advancement from this posi
tion are: able seaman, $83: quarter
master. $87.0; boatswain's mate, $90:
boatswain, $35.
(li) In Hit steward's department
the first position is messman or third
cook. at $70 a month. Fmm this the
positions are vegetable cook or pan
tryman, $7.)i second baker, $83;
butcher, $!.": second steward, $96;
second cook, $100:bal;er, ?10."-$125:
chief cook, $1 10 -v 1 30 : chief steward,
$110-$l.ri5.
(c) The first pontion in the flrj
room is as coal passer at $S0 a month.
The next positions are fireman at $90
and oiler nnd wntcr tender at $100.
Type of Boy Best Suited.
Hoys for the deck or steward's de
partment must weigh l-5pounds and
fo"r tho llroroom 140 pounds. Only
good, clean cut American boys are
desired. The work Is rough and
rigorous, and only tho outdoor boy
who Is not afraid of hardships and
dirty work should consider It.
5. Description of Duties.
(a) The work pn deck consists of
tho maintenance and repair of oil
equipment abovo deck, which In
cludes cleaning tne deck, rne auty
Is divided into watches of four hours
on nnd cigm nours on. .i times
the seaman Is called on to lake ths
wheel under tho direction of the
quartermaster.
b) The messman sets tho table
and handles the food. He nlso helps
in the preparation or food. The work
is similar to that of a waiter.
(c) Tho coal passer passes tne coal
from tho bunkers to the boilers, where
it is fed by the fireman. This Is hard
work and can only be handled by a
strong boy.
6. Remarks.
All ot these positions lead up to
thnt of an ofllcer.. What can be madu
of tho service depends entirely upon
the boy anil His suuauuiiy ior sucn
work. A fairly rigid, physical ex-
amlnatlon Is required. Applications
can be tiled with any recruiting agent
of the Shipping Hoard.
i-o high on everything that the people
in l iay thorn and buy tho necessi
ties of life. Hotels and business
houses havo been ruined and thou
sands aro out of work, and all on
account of Prohibition. They have
plnced tho last straw on, tho camel's
Ixiok, and now we, tho people, turn
and domand back our liberty nnd
freedom. Down with Prohibition and up
with tho Stars and Btripfei,. that they
may still llout over tho heads of the
bravo find homos of the free.
AW AMHIUCAN WOMAN,
Hrooklyn, NT V., Jan. 8, 1920.
Wnnl Pernnnal Mlirrtr.
1 It Ulitr '11b KiwUk WorU:
Nothing is moro Interesting than to
read the dlffeicnt viows ot people,
but most of thejn are too personal.
Seldom does one think ot all tho hun
dreds of thousands of worklngmon
who havo lost their dally bread or
occupation in the two principal in
dustries, distilling and brewing, with
out mentioning many other branches
pertaining to it. Almost dally ona
reads in tho papers of some statement
y W. II. Anderson, Anti-Saloon
League head, butt bo does not say
what brand ho drinks or from .what
mysterious oil oourco bo gets bp bis
salary to live on tho fat of the land.
What iuo Uie Urys aiming at? Who
Keut any uenciii n Duslness is pnr-
aiyzeaY Ileallv tlin people of tills
country will not bu satisfied until
they havo, regained their personal
noeriy.
238 W. 17th Street, Jan. 8, 1920.
A dinner to Ilrlp,
To the Editor of Tho turning World:
.Dear Sir: Con you please odviso
me through your papor, tho beat
thing to do In a case such as mine?
Although I am a linotype operator
mon unions nnu nave nccn wounded
threo Uniea I cannot got work at my
trade. Tho firm I was employe! bv
when I went across was out of busi'
news when I returned. I have been
unable to secure a io.sitlon through
uio various re-empioyment agencies
i um wjumg vo wum ni aimostfany
salary until I regain my pced. My
wounua in no way inienero witn my
work.
Havo tho people entirely forgotten
the boys who went oversea." to mako
tho world "saro Ior democracy?'
I will be anxiously matching for any
advlc,e you can give me.
CHARLES FItAXIC
Brooklyn, Jan. 9.
News Fflaislhies
From Arouirad
The World
jruHhronm Cities.
In the Peace Iliver country of
Western Canada a great settle
ment boom is on. Toicns spring
up ovcrnlynt, according to the
Atlantic Leader of Halifax. Hall
road stations arc built directly
on flat cars at JUImonton and
shot Xorth. Wherever they drop
a car station a new town springs
vp.
i
llrlcks From San dust.
.luriuacfre of bricks from
saicdust and vegetable material
that Kill le resilient, nonlmflam
able, durable and fifty per cent,
lighter than the clay brick ha$
been achieved by a Louslana
man, according to the A'ctc Or
leans Timcs-l'lcayunc.
China Has a Circus.
A circus und Wild West show
under the nails of Canton,
Chinal The Whiskered Lady, the
Wild Man, the Sword Kwflllowcr
all doing their best before an
audience of thousands of slant
eyed Chinese youngsters. The
circus n as produced by the Can
ton V. f. C. A., and teas voted
a whooping success by every bojf
in town.
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