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6 THE IJROOKLVN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1923. 1 "the best dressed woman in England." portion of convictions was very much meanings to be incomprehensible he since the war is about to be offered In New York.

The combination in (Founded by Isaac Van AndAn In 1841. name has been familiar as a com-pflser on orchestral programs for several years, but whose face was new to a Brooklyn audience and who in fact has played very little as a soloist. He has none of the display tricks of the hardened soloist, leaving his performance to stand by Its Interpretation of the music. How well he met that test was shown by the fact that he captivated his audience with a concerto which is long, constantly elevated In tone and which most violinists have left severely alone, probably because it affords so little opportunity for personal display. Now that Mr.

Enesco has shown that an audience can be made to enjoy Brahms at his beat, it is to be hoped that we shall hear the work oftoner. We can hardly hope to hear It to better advantage than lass evening. The close was a grouping of several fine passages from Wagner's "Ring" music, which served to remind the audience what a monumental and Inspiring work that is, just as the first opportunity to hear It complete Bryan, in alk on Prayer; Tells Why God Does Not Always Answer Petitions (Luke And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always) to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was In a city a Judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a wide In that city! and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And hs would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual cbming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust Judge salth.

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Soa of man cometh, shell he find faith on the earth? And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the Funny Side to Paris9 Delay In Ratifying Treaties Two men went up into the temple other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, 'adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice In the week, I give tithes of all thatrl possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his a sinner.

I tell you, this man went down other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that hum cluded the awakening of Brunnhllde, the Rhine journey and the climax from "Gotterdammorung" with many of the most stirring moments In the two closing works of the trilogy. H. CONCERT AND OPERA Yesterday afternoon at the Phil harmonic concert at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Mengelberg repeated the Erolca Symphony, and Frederick Lamond clayed the Brahms flat piano con certo in a tnuslcianly style.

The program closed with a stirring presentation of the Melstersingor Pre- lude. At the opera, at a benefit for the Reconstruction Hospital, and Juliet" was given with Edward Johnson as Romeo. The American tenor mado a splendid Impression as the romantic hero. In the evening "Ernanl" was given with the voclf. erous Titta Ruffo as Don Carlos, and the velvet-voiced Ponselle as Elvira.

W. H. HUMISTON. It too closely anyhow, so admittedly they were ignorant of the details. Therefore, they needed this im portant treatise In order to Wake their findings.

Instead of the 40 copies ordered, AmDussauor jusserand only man aged to dig up three. There was consternation in the Chamber Com mittee and those tiree copied are sun oeing passed around. JSven Georges Leygues, chairman of the committee, is without a copy i obviously nothing definite can be done. However, It is certain results have been accomplished despite the dif ficulties attendant upon the clrculat lng library. The Pacific accord has been ratified in the committee and the disarmament clauses are still under examination.

M. Leygues thinks the three copies of the conference debate will all have been In everybody's hands in another fortnight. After that at least another week will be necessary for the committee to debate and report on the matter to the full chamber, whereupon, according to the committee's opinion, Premier Polncare will suggest certain modifications In the disarmament pact. Afterward the entire program outlined at Washington will receive the official approval and blessing of the Parliament of France. not free, but oppressive, and that the Jewish people must prepare to take their part In a class war aimed at the overthrow of our government, In order to obtain the justice and freedom for which they came to the United States.

These racial groups, who have been surrounded at home with conditions of indescribable misery, are naturally suspicious of all authority and therefore furnish material of too inflammable a nature to be left unprotected in the hands of native and other Incendiaries, who wish to destroy our Institutions. For these reasons I plead on Wednesday for the retention of the Lusk laws, which are now serving to ic-strain teachers in the public schools from misusing their powers to teach the principles Of "Bolshevism" instead of our own, and to curb certain private schools which are being cleverly conducted- under the guise of "Institutions of learning" for the same purpose. HENRY A. WISE WOOD New York, Feb. 2, 1923.

INSTALL 15 NEW MEMBERS. Fifteen new riiembers were installed last night, at a regular meeting of Lovell Posit, American Legion, in the U. S. Grant Memorial Hall, Washington near Fulton st. Plans were laid for the sale of more shares of the stock recently put on the market for the purchase of the Grant Hall.

Up to the present tlmo, the sales have amounted to more than $3,000. The amount of money necessary to make the purchase is $20,000. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED "The of the Road," by Sir Philip Cllbbs (Doran) Is a story of England of today wrjtten by the author of "Now It Can Be Told," one of the most remarkable books of England of the War. The scenes shift through England, Ireland, France, Germany and Soviet Russia, "The Hickory by Parker Fillmore (Hnrcourt, Brace A new edition of a story loved by i very one who rchds It. "lloyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations," completely revised and greatly enlarged by Kate Louise Roberts I Funk wagnalls Coin-pany).

A useful volume with 21.000 of the choicest, of usable quotations, drawn from the speech and literature of all nations, ancient and modern, classic nnd popular. In, English and foreign text, including outstanding phraseg coined during (he years of the recent World War. "Tlie New Mediterranean." by D. E. Lorcnz (Fleming H.

Revell Company). A handbook of practical information. Seventh (post-war) edition. All Is Explained. smaller in their home town.

The natural Impression from their surprise is that "pull" Is much stronger In the Chicago truffle courts than in ours. That may be true, but there is another factor which, used to be felt here and may count in Chi (ago. Severity in dealing with street Itccidents has been a slow growth bore. When automobiles were new there was a general notion that any wail who bought a car had a natural light to drive it how, when and where he pleased. THc necessity for regu lation and restriction has been forced vpon us by the increase of accidents, nnd we are getting "better and bet ter," if not day by day, at least year by year.

The sending out of a com mission to learn how other cities run things is an indication that Chicago is at an earlier stage of this recognition of the gravity of the danger from crowded streets and reckless driving than we are. There. Is room for much improvement In the matter, in New York, hut it is reassuring to know that conditions might be worse. MR. SHOULD BE EXPLICIT.

Controller Craig darkly Intimates that he may cause trouble for the Mayor if the latter Is not more at tentive to business and more considerate of the Controller's wishes, There are bints that a "certain com missioner" can it be' the Mayor's handsome companion, the Hon. Grover Whalen? will be publicly pilloried by the Controller as guilty of irregularities in the conduct of his exalted office. The thing which puzzles the average citizen is why the covering up of irregularities should become the price of good fellowship between the Controller and the Mayor. If the Commissioner whom Mr. Craig has in mind has been doing what he ought not to have done, the Controller who has knowledge of the facts should show him up In.

the public interest, let the brickbats full where they may. FIRE LOSSES AND THE GIRL SMOKER. Under the classification of the Underwriters, one general cause of fires is "matches-smoking," which is held responsible for nearly SO.OOO.OOO losses in 1021. as against an average of 'about $20,000,000 for six years. The National Board of Fire Underwriters asks solemnly: Can the more general use of tobacco by women during the past few years be the reason for the startling advance in the fire losses from the twin-hazard of matches-smoking? Possibly.

We have no way of determining whether women are more careless than men about throwing down a burning match or a burning cigarette. That more women than men discard cigarettes while these are still burning is a matter of common knowledge. But some investigators insist that the cigarette has been unjustly blamed as a cause of fire losses, and that the cigar slump with more of fire in it is the more dangerous. Considering everything, however, we are inclined to regard the gentler sex as the more cautrous one, in all Its relutlous to tobacco smoking. That it is the more cautious sex in most matters is a proverb with close observers.

AS TO DEBT REPUDIATION. It is reported that British financiers Interested in the question about the lepiiyment of what Britain owes America are quietly discussing the volume of debts repudiated by certain States of the American Union, which with interest added, though originally only about $5:1.000,000, amount now, with interest added, to the very respectable sum of The discussion has not been brought Into the open yet, but that may happen at any time. Two Mississippi claims, totaling an original run buck to 1833 and Nothing is said about Confederate bonds or the guarantee of those bonds by the States. But most of the repudiations were of bonds issued by, the Republicans in the reconstruction period. For railroads and banks, Arkansas issued Florida, $0,300,000: Georgia.

COO; Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, $5,400,000. How many, of these arc held by British subjects we do not know. Probably nobody knows. They have long ago' been charged up to profit and loss. The Eleventh Amendment to the Federal Constitution has prevented any legal collection on these debts: "The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to ex tend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one the United States by citizens of another State or by citizens or slib-jects of any foreign state." We be lieve the State of Hampshire did become the technical owner of some of these repudiated bonds and tried as a State to sue another State, but had the action thrown out.

Concededly it is only a limited "sov- (reignty" that any one of the United States possesses, but a sovereignly big and broad enough to cover and protect repudiation of debts. The really Interesting reflection is that the power to repudiate resides in any unlimited sovereignty like Italy or France or Great Britain, but the exorcise of such lower is unthinkable because of the effect on credit for the future. Cabled news from London records the sadness of Edward Smith Wilkinson, who says he has to scrub home floors, and is kept steadily in debt while his rich wife spends 30.000 a year on her wardrobe, and Is called is assured of a warm welcome from the group of intellectuals recently yclept sophisticates bv Gertrude Atherton. But this phenomenon of ambiguity is to be noted in many other fields. The dominant note In the Inst Presidential campaign was ambiguity.

Mr. Harding capitalized It to the limit. He got the anti-League vote by creating the impression that he was an out-and-out isolationist, and he corralled some of the pro-League vote by allowing it to be inferred that he would either join the League, after reservations had been made, or set up a substitute Association of Nations. Having swept the eoifhtry on an ambiguous platform it is not surprising that he should adhere to an ambiguous foreign policy. If one is sufficiently ambiguous all things become possible.

One may run with the hare and hunt with the hounds; be a radical among radicals and a. conservative among conservatives; exalt the pious and delight the profane; collect from Peter and give Paul an I soft-soap labor unionists and belong to a Chamber of Commerce; read "Babbitt" and address clubs, and otherwise enjoy all the excitement of being a reformer with out sacrificing atyy of the solid advantages of the established order. BONUS CHECK ON LABOR TURNOVER. In a great factory plant, where many thousands of work-people are employed, the labor turnover the quitting of experienced persons and the employing of new ones is a tremendous waste. This Is realized by every philosophical student of indus trial problems.

The waste Is hard to eliminate. Much of the shifting from one employer to another is of no value to any one. But this Is a free country; the wage drawer, man or woman, develops piques, grouches; discontent, and "fires" himself or herself pretty readily when times are good, but not Infrequently in the worst of seasons. Is the annual bonus a remedy? We think the Alexander Smith Sons carpet concern at Yonkers has found It more or less effective, but so far as we know has not given to the world the precise figures on the lessening of labor turnover. But George Johnson, the red-headed, rough diamond captain of Industry, who has given his name to a suburb otBinghamton.

contributes some gen eral statistics that are helpful. The Endicott-Johnson shoe works employ about 13.000 people. The opeji shop prevails. For a series of years, owing to the human qualities of Mr. Johnson as a boss, the perpetual interest displayed in the well-being of workers, the atmosphere of confidence, the turnover has been small.

A bonus system has lessened the already low turnover. The bonus Is paid to each person who has been continuously employed from the beginning to the end of the year. At the end of 11)20, 80 percent of the 15.000 participated. At the end of 1921 83 percent qualified. At the end of 1922 90 percent of all the people were recorded as entitled to apiece.

That, as the street boys say, is "going some." Richard Roe or Jane Doe may have hot temper, keen sensitiveness to real or Imagined slights, a growing resentment toward the mechanism of factory life, ambition to try get ting ahead in another field. But the thought of sacrificing the bonus is an automatic continuous check on the spirit of change. That is why the Johnson plan, backed by the Johnson personality, has kept the turnover down to 10 percent. One sees clearly enough why the unions cannot organize the Endl- ott-Johnson works, though, their members are not barred at all from getting jes there. The bonus is only one feature of the whole policy.

It means so much to efficiency the year round. However, that it challenges the Interest of other manufacturers. Conceivably It may be good business rather than lavish phllnntUropy. If it is, the time will come when it will spread very gen-orally to most Industrial undertakings: on a large scale. Content averages more and better production than contention.

STREET ACCIDENTS. We hear so much about the need of belter truffle regulations 'here to reduce the street accidents that it is rather helpful to get a glimpse of the other side of the picture. That glimpse comes from Chicago. That city lias appointed a Traffic Commission to study the conditions iu other cities, with the hope of improving those of Chicago. With unusual isdom a number of reporters wu-e put on the commission.

He. porters are trained in getting at the facts when they encounter new con-ditions and forming their impressions quickly. It. took these Chicago men only one day to discover that the traffic conditions in New York arc v-ry much better than in their home city and they were frank In saying The number of deaths from street accidents In this city last, year was MO. But Chicago had 7.10 1 HI less than ith us while Chicago has less than half tile population of New York (Chicago.

2.701.705. and New York VOLIO.titS to quote the last censnsi. These Chicago newspaper men thought our record remarkably good and even etter In the arrests and convictions those who cause street accidents. The records siiow that 107,7711 persons were arrested here last year for traffic violations, of whom IH.iltt) v. ere convicted.

"That's a remarkably liisrh record of convictions," one of tile newspaper men explained, and it so impressed the group that they wired balk home to get the Chicago records. They feel sure that the He should have remembered the ad vertising jingle: Don't theo wed for money, friend, for money hath a sting, Don't thee wed for place or fame, 'tis but a foolish thing; Don't theo wed a pretty face, 'twill disappoint thy hope But when thee marries, choose a girl who uses Self-defense Is the plea on which a pretty husband slayer Is acquitted in Norwich, New York. Any plea will do, but this isn't quite so raw as the brainstorm hypothesis favored by most gnllunt jurymen. "To four executions, $150 each, $000." is the bill New York State hasn't yet paid, John Hulbert being the creditor. On electric chulr service current rates prevail, which is a rather grewsome reflection.

Senator Smoot, having had much matrimonial experience himself, smiles on his son who runs away to get married. A Utah man Is no more likely than George Bernard Shaw to exaggerate the Importance of a mere ceremony. By a curious will a New Yorker, who was divorced by his first and second wives, ignored the former and gives the latter a life Interest In $100,000. His widow gels $100,000 outright. That he bad a balanced mind Is self-evident.

The United States Senate posses an amended Btirsum Bill to take the place of the pension measure vetoed by the President. This one will only cost $78,000,000 the first year. Noth ing less than a billion in the extravagance line Impresses our American lawmakers. Four I. W.

men are let out of Leavenworth on a promise to come back In sixty days and be deported. Three fellow prisoners scbrned the same terms and are not pardoned. Their faith in the flexibility of the President's announced purpose Is In teresting. New Jersey Is solemnly prosecut ing a woman accused or being a witch. Though the venerable statute is still on the books, our guess is that she will escape hanging or burning.

In any case, Governor Silzer, who Is distinctly a modernist, will hold a pardon in reserve. "You must never telephone, write. call on, look at, talk to or molest the young woman," were the severe terms of a suspended sentence al ternative imposed on a love-sick youth by Magistrate Sweetser in the Yorkvllle Court. Jn other words his eyes are under an injunction, which rather a novel tiling even in sus pended sentence extra-legalities. PHILADELPHIAN ADDS RARE ART GEMS TO COLLECTION (By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and Phila.

Ledger; Copyright, 192i.) Paris, Feb. 2 The Paris art world is greatly interested in an exposition of paintings and sculpture of the impressionistic, post-impressionistic and extremely modern French schools acquired recently by Dr. Albert C.J Barnes of Philadelphia for his Merlon niuseum. The collection has just been placed on view at tne Paul ouniaume gal lery, and Includes works by Renoir, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Redon and many others. Unusual elements of the exhibition arc a large collection of primitive African sculptures and a group of canvases by Soutine, a young Russian painter discovered in Paris by Dr.

Barnes. Soutine's work Is apt t- shock staid e.rttstic sensibilities, as his subject resemble persons about to fall to pieces. MY TREETOPS They rise In glory into air, Untamed and unafraid; Though winds Awirl they ride out, flie great Storm Maker's raid. They care not for the cruel ice, That flings Us curse upon Their sinews; Oh, my treetopa, you're Brave fighters, every one! Ah, ye read Ptanies to nie Lessons and psalters, grand, As glorious, in scorn of storms Unbowed, untamed, you stand, Can I not weather out the storms Of life, then, if a tree. Sore pressed, sore buffeted, sore tried, ho brave and strong can be HELEN CHASE.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Is It possible Unit Pierre Monteux has been consulting Couo in Boston along with Mary Garden? Certainty his programs are getting better and better, if not day by day then month by monlh. It is a long time since such a wealth of noble music has been assembled for a single evening as that which his Boston Symphony Orchestra gave for Its third Brooklyn concert at the Academy last evening. The one possible criticism is that the program was a little too long, so that even enthusiasts were tired before the end. Two hours of serious music is enough for most people. The opening was Beethoven's Eighth Symphony with Its enchanting second movement.

That is not too long, and was the more welcome because it is not. played as often as some or the others, and its refreshing measures fell upon waiting ears. Then came Kmetana's tone poem. The Moldau." which so vividly pictures the flow of a river from its sparkling current as a mountain rill to its mighty sweep as a great river. This Is a tone poem that neels no program and Its picture Is rein', forced with attractive melody und witii ingenious nnd varied orches tral development.

Then came the novelty of the evening, Brahms' seldom heard vio- in concerto, played by Georges Kncsco, a New York musician whose (Trade Mark "Eaple" Registered.) SATURDAY EVENIXO, FEB. 1913. Katered at the Brooklyn Poatomca as Second erase Mail Matter. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS BUREAU. The Associated Press la exclusively sn-tltled to the ueo for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin pub llahed herein.

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00 fU.OO 12.58 66 Sunday only too 6.00 65 16 Monday 80S 180 .5 8 Eagle Library. 1 Tear, Library, except Almanac, 81.25. 1 Tear, 1822 Eagle Almanac Included, 12.60. TERMS FOR EXISTENCE. When war finance began to be discussed in terms of billions of -dollars the subject pulsed beyond the grasp of ordinary understanding.

Even blinkers of experience could not comprehend bond, issues piled one upon another. No such ex 1-nuston of government credit had ever taken place before. The sums involved welt; so far in excess of the total gold suppbv of the world that It was diUicult to relate them to known economic values. The world bus been held In economic stupefaction ever since the armistice by the stupendous jumble of international finance. Every sound economic principle hud been violated.

Vast Issues of currency and bonds clogged the money markets. Solvent nations were Inextricably entangled wilh nations that were Insolvent. International trade, exchange and credit were demoralized and many of the best minds in the of affairs were unable to see a way out. This condition lias prevailed for three years. Peoples have been helpless to solve the great problem.

Economists, bankers and other financial experts have been impotent. And the statesmen and politicians have further complicated matters by injecting politics into the situation. The question of debts has to a lurge extent taken the place of other national Issues in the public mind, and politicians have found it more profitable to capitalize popular prejudice than to help in advancing settlements. The first break in the International economic deadlock has come through the action of Great Britain in attempting to adjust her debt to the United States. This debt, amounting to nearly $3,000,000,000, is the largest single bill of its kind Involved in the international tangle, next to the German bill for reparations.

The proposed adjustment represents the first successful effort to bring an actual settlement of one of these tremendous problems within the bounds iff the ordinary comprehension. Great Britain's statesmen have had the courage and the vision to grapple with this problem and they have found solution. In conference with the American commission they have worked out an arrangement which is satisfactory to the American exports. All that remains is for Con-gross to accept the terms as agreed upon liv the experts. What this settlement will mean to I he-world cannot be exaggerated.

It brings lie whole problem of readjustment and rehabilitation nearer solution. In the terms of settlement between Great Britain and the United States may be found closely approximated the terms of the future existence of the present international order. With that great economic transaction finally disposed of it should be possible to face I he other world financial problems with more hopefulness. Even the reparation question is brought nearer a solution by it. For this reason it is difficult to read the news from Washington without feeling of exasperation.

Men wiio are themselves incapable of offering a single constructive suggestion; who have devoted most of their effort during the past thaee years to obstructing every move that promised to end the chaos'in Europe; who have no except, for the political vantage still to be gained by attacking Great Britain, are willing to obstruct and. possibly wreck this plan of adjustment. These obstructionists mid demagogues must have their fling, of course, but in the long run common sense should prevail in Congress anil the terms of settlement be accepted. THE VALUE OF AMBIGUITY. The obvious lesson of (he Grant-Manning controversy is that we may stiy as much as we please without incurring serious consequences If we are xutlicleutly ambiguous.

This is not a new idea, but ambiguity is not always given its true valuation. The peculiar qual'ties of ambiguity are usually rated as negative. Actually they are I mill positive and mightily potent. If appreciation of art rests upon the ability to see that which isn't there, as lias been said, ambiguity Is of primary Importance In the arlist. Modern art.

some not so modern, free verse, much of the so-called realistic fiction mid most of the current literary criticism have this vague quality in considerable measure. If an artist be sufficiently obscure iu his thus within himself, God, I thank thee. breast, saying, God be merciful to me to his house Justified rather than the the difference between the Pharisee and the publican, who "went up Into the temple to pray." What a contemptible character the Pharisee was, according to the portrait drawn by Christ. Conceited, bombastic uncharitable, Insincere, Insulting the reader can add any other adjectives that ocgur to him, with confidence that the picture cannot be overdrawn. "The Pharisee prayed thus with With himself not to God.

The Heavenly Father was purely incidental to this prayer the Pharisee's thoughts centered about himself. "I thank thee that I am not as other men are" he was in a class by himself. He was far above the ordinary run of people, but not so far but that he could get a very clear view of them as he looked down from his self-erected pedestal. He could see -them extorting, dealing unjustly, even given to immorality. To make plain his Indictments against these creatures whom he regarded as inferior, he pointed to the publican as a little better than the others, but still much below himself.

Boasting Before God. He (the Pharisee) fasted twice a week. That was more than the law required; but his worship, being a matter of form rather than a matter of the heart, he carried the form to the limit, and told God about it. He did not forget to refer to his tithes; he was not likely to forget these. This was a formality that evidently pained him, but he endured the pain, getting such consolation as he could out of boasting of it.

Here, too, Christ made the contrast as strong as It could be 'made. Here we have a righteous man, measured by a negative standard, making virtue, repulsive, even hideous. "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes into Heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a Humility could not be carried further. It is expressed In four phrases. "The publican stood afar off." His sense of sin was so oppressive that he was afraid to come near.

His guilt was so deep that he would not lift so much as his eyes unto Heaven. "He smote upon his breast" so heartfelt was his repentance. And he gave voice to his plea for forgiveness, "Be merciful to mo a sinner." What a wonderful word picture Is here presented Dr. Parkhurst Is quoted as saying thut "Penitence is heaven's latch key;" It is everywhere described as the condition precedent to forgiveness, and forgiveness is the beginning of a Christian life. No Other Hopo So Great.

No other religion offers the hope that Christ holds out to man. No matter to what depth the sinner has fallen, salvation is within his reach. If he will but turn and start up ward, he will find a helping hand. Here again one sees the difference between the negative golden rule of Confucius and the positive golden rule of Christ. It is not sufficient that one shall abstain from sin; that merely In sures against wrong doing.

The harmless man may have the kind of perfection that we admire in a graceful statue, but a sinful human being has possibilities that an inanimate statue does not possess. Kins can can be forgiven and the energy of a new born soul can make the whole being glow with love nnd power, for good. The marble hand may he beautifully chiseled, but It cannot be extended In helpfulness; better tho hand that can aid, even though It he wrinkled with age and calloused with toil. Tho foot of stone may be the highest expression of art and but it tuns on no errands of mercy; better the foot that is worn, and bruised by walking if it but tell the story of employment in the Master's cause. No Yardstick for Man.

The difference between other things can be easily measured; there is an ascertainable ratio between the cheapest and the costliest gems, between the poorest and the finest fab rics, between the worth of the aver age specimen In animal "and vegeta ble life and the worth of the most valuable. But there Is no yardstick, no measure of meter or mile, between man at his worst and man at his best. He maw fall so low as to be i some respects but little better thus" the brutes about mm. or ne ma, rise, if he will, to a height only 1 little lower than the angels. Net only Is this possible, but what more startling, he is nouriy traveiin I in one direction or the other.

Therefore, the direction must be considered, as well as the altitude at which one stnnds. Those who ure descending will reach the bottom in time; those who are ascending witi In time reach the top. One can turn at any point on the way that is what repentance means. The Pharisee was moving down ward In solte of his self satisfaction. The publican was at the very bottom.

hut he had lain aside the weights that held him down and was ready All the world cannot rulse a man Until his heart Is cleansed; all the world cannot keep him down it, through repentance, he begins the ascent on God's ladder Christ has made It possible for him to "mount to its summit, round by fCopyright, 1923, by the RcpublW syndicate.) By WYTHE WILLIAMS. (By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle end Phlla. Ledger; Copyright, J923.) Paris, Fob. 3 Washington Con ference treaties, according to rumor, were be reported In the French Parliament yesterday. As is often the case, the rumor was Inexact; the treaties are still being "studied" In the committee and according to the best Information It will be another three weeks 'or a month before they are placed upon the order of the day In the Chamber of Deputies.

The reason for the latest delay is humorous. Several months ago when the treaties were being juggled from committee to committee In the gentle art of buck passing while France waited to see what the others did first Premier Polncare decided something had to be done in order that there might be no suspicion of strained thoughts much less strained' relations with the United States. Whereupon he cabled Am bassador Jusserand to obtain from the State copies 40 copies three volumes each of the Conference de bates for the use of the 40 members of Chamber Commission of Foreign Affairs which would make a final report. The Washington Conference had already taken place a year back and the French deputies did not follow REPLIES TO H. A.

WISE WOOD Rabbi Lyons Resents Attack Upon Element in Jewish Population. Editor Brooklyn Dally Eagle: I desire, to compliment sour brief but appropriate treatment of Henry A. Wise Wood in his defense of the Lusk schools laws. That he stands for the Lusk laws is his private affair, but that he makes a gratuitous attack upon a large element of the Jewish population is of general con cern, especlallyat this time, when the need in American life is harmony In place of division. There are objectionable characters among Jews of foreign national extraction.

Why not? Why should non-Jews have a monopoly of moral and' other delinquencies? Such shortcomings among Russian and Polish Jews are open to condemnation, it is true, but they should also be pitied. These individuals arc victims not yet completely recovered from the demoralizing Influences of a Russian regime from which they fled to the finer hospitality and opportunity of American life. To speak of these people In sweeping generality to the effect that they are trying to Inaugurate Russian conditions here is to proclaim oneself, as the critic In the present Instance has done, as more woody than wise. I know the Russian and Polish Jews better than Mr. Wise does.

They are In general a thrifty, industrious and ntellectually keen people, with great spiritual possibility which will -(-flower and fruit beneficently If they are given that kindly encouragement of opportunity and environment to which as recent accessions to American life they are entitled. The ob- ectionable elements among Jews, the more advanced type of Jew, whos number in American life Is legion, deplores more than does anybody else the unfair treatment of such de linquents by the illogis of many thoughtless Americans. Men of the prominence and abil ity of Henry A. Wise Wood ought to speak more cautiously In criticism and avoid what you have well-characterized as "gratuitously Irritating" an attack on the Jews of New York State. As one of the Jewish people, I want ho special favors for them.

demand, however, that they and all others of any denomination whatever American life be treated with that hospitable consideration and helpful co-opcratlon consistent with a genuine Americanism and Christianity that shall enablo them In a reason--able time to gain and hold a place amid the best elements of our citizenship. Such a result Is moro likely In response to a considerate treatment than to such carping criticism as has been Indulged In by the Inflamed thoughtlessness of Mr. Wood. Your at the same time trenchant, treatment of the gentle-man will meet with the delighted approval not only of all Jews but of all fair-minded Americans. I personally am grateful for this your latest evidence of fairness which you so frequently exhibit.

RABBI ALEX. LYONS, Ph.D., Eighth Avenue Temple. Bruoklyn, N. Feb. 2, 1923.

A Letter From H. A. Wise Wood, Editor Brooklyn Dally Eagle: I should like to add, you will permit me, to what I said on Wednesday at the hearing in Albany on behalf of the Lusk. antl-sedltlon laws which It la proposed to repeal, about those of the Russian and Polish Jewish groups In this city who are now being mlstauKht with respect to our institutions, to their damage and our owji. These, which comprise for the most part Russian-Polish Jewish groups who have forsaken their qwn faith, are being taught by certain of their leaders, and by a group ot renegade Americans, that our institutions are not beneficent, but evil; bleth himself shall be exalted.

By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. The two brief parables of Christ's ministry that we consider today deal with prayer and suggest four lessons first, the value of Importunity; sec ond, reasons for delay In answer to prayer; third, pompous petitions; fourth, acceptable prayers. In these two parables Christ again uses that most impressive form of logic, reasoning frota the less to the greater. He cites the case of an unjust Judge "which feared not God, neither regarded man." As al ways, He states the case as strongly as words can state it. The judge used as an Illustration Ignored the Inner monitor the con science that prompts us to do that which is in accord with our sense of Justice and right.

He had disregard ed the voice within until Its sugges tions had become Inaudible; his conscience had been "seared with a hot Iron." It Is quite natural that one who feared not God would be inuir ferent to his fellow man. Man is sometimes thoughtless In dealing with his fellows even while he retains in his heart the fear of the Almighty; he does not apply his religion in his daily life. But Christ stated the whole case In regard to this Judge; he was entirely beyond the reach of the Influences that sliouia control one worthy to be an arbiter or disputes. No Greater Condemnation for a Judge. The second party Is also selected with a view to making the contrast as strong as possible.

She was widow. At the present time tho widow is privileged party in court. A man is expected to take care of himself and the married womn is expected to find a sponsor in her husband; but the widow, bereft of her natural defender, uppeals to the chivalry of the Judge. No greater condemnation can he spoken against a judge today than that he falls to give special consider ation to the appeals of a widow. In ancient times the widow was still more deserving of special considera tion.

The widow came unto the judge, begging, "Avenge me of mine adver- sary." He would not, for a while, give heed to her. If her case had not been an urgent one she would nave been wearied bv her repeated and unrewarded demands for justice. Bijt, finally, her importunity coerced the judge into action even when the jus tice of her cause failed to awaken I response. The nidge, actuated by selfishness. merely to get rid of her "lest by her continual coming she weary me" disposed of her case.

This is what an unrighteous judge an unworthy official would do; purely out of set fishness, to get rid of one whose very persistence was annoying. fbc Cry of God's Children. And now the contrast: "And shall not Cod avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though ic bear long with them?" If an unjust earthly Judge will, from a low motive, finally do justice. ill not the Heavenly Father, the embodiment of justice and all the other virtues, avenge, those whom He has chosen as His own an the cry of God's children be unheeded? The concluding phrase of Christ's question, "Though he bear long with them? has given rtse to different interpretations. One Ulble commentator gives two alternative -explanations suggested: "This may mean that Cod Is lotn to punish the enemies of His elect, wishing to givo even them the longest chance, or that In suite of His delay in answering the prayer of His elect.

He loves them ana sorrows over them und will vindicate them as soon as His wisdom sees best." Imnatlcnce over delay In answer ing prayer, especlaMy where the appeal' is for the benefit to one's self, always smacks a little of presumption. Our request may he one that hoiild. for our own good, be denied, or answer should, for our good, i be delayed. God knows our needs better than we dot In God's Own Time. If we mail a letter to a friend across the continent, we do not ex pect an answer the same day.

We calculate the distance between, the two places and make allowance for the time requirod for the mall trains to go to and fro. In our appeals to the Heavenly Father we do not take into account the distance between God and His children, because prayer gave us a wireless communication wllh His throne long before man Invented the radio. But we should take into con sideration the Infinite distance that separates the wisdom of God from human wisdom. We are prone to think that be cause a thing seems desirable to us It must appear so to an nil-wise Heavenly Father. Possibly the difference between the understanding of the child and the understanding of a parent will suggest the width of the gulf between our knowledge and the Father's knowledge.

The lesson Invites continued pray-and gives assurance that in God's own' time an answer will be given. "It may not be my way, and it may not be tny way; hut in HIb own way, tho Lord will provide." A Contemptible Character. The second contrast presents a lesson which cannot be misunder stood. The dullest mind does not require extended examination or Four hundred, million teeth are bad In these United States, With grumbling aches, and people sad, No discontent abates. The outside world no longcn fears The teeth we used to show; Contemptuousness which now appears We never used to know.

And since no jaw untroubled chews The meat that makes one strong, We choose the baby-food and lose The vim to smash a wrong. Our "leaders" who from heights above Survey tho mass beneath. Are prosy veterans who love Their artificial teeth. Tell not In Gath or Askalon How weakness Intervenes, When Yankeelund has slipped and gone From vim to vitamlnes. J.

time for deliberation In considering.