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IN REPLY to Mr. Shearn's questions concerning the financial standing of the New York and Queens County Railway Company and its relation to the Interborough surplus account, Mr. Gaynor, dhief auditor of the Interborough, told the Transit Commission: "It would be Insolvent, perhaps In relation to any other creditor, but to the Intorborougb it was a solvent concern." This seems to be a brief epitome of the inside ioandng of the Interborough. Mr. Gaynor could not have made a more illuminating criticism of the dividend policy of the Interborough if he had stayed twake nights to sum up much information in few words.

Fictitious solvency of insolvent properties was fie basis of the dividend policy of the Interbor-eugh. Unrecognized bankruptcy was the device for "milking" the subway properties until they had no reserves to weather hard times and so were compelled to cut service and pack the subway sardines lighter than ever. Mr. Gaynor admitted that the Public Service Commission had required him to write off a $29,000,000 item of prospective elevated accruals which promised not to materialize. had not been done, perhaps the Interborough would have continued 20 per cent, dividends for the last three years.

What the public wants to know is why past Public Service Commissions have not guarded all the items xin, the surplus account as they did this nc. It is this failure of past Public Service Commissions to render public service that lends point to an bservation by Mr. McAneny: "The (Transit) commission has no desire to rake- over what Is merely old, but until these matters have been rightly adjusted, none ot them are old." Wevwonder what Mayor Hylan may be thinking such a statement. "Until these matters have been rightly adjusted, one of them are old." Mr. McAneny is not a fool.

If he intended to play the game of the "interests," would he be laying grounds for so strong a case against himself if he fails to "rightly adjust" these matters? New York has the right and duty to be critical ef the Transit Commission. But untjl the commission 'gives cause for mistrust it deserves praise for Hie good work it is doing. It deserves co-operation. There seems to be general agreement that the price of turkeys Is too high. Probably something will be done about it by CHRISTINE NILSSON.

THE wonderful voice and career of Christine Niisson are further proof that though there may be an aristocracy of art, it is not recruited from aristocrats. This great "Swedish singer earned her living as a little girl by playing the violin at dances. She was the daughter of a peasant who lived with his wife and seven, children in a hut of two rooms, and she made no bones about admitting it. Arditi, the Italian composer, used to tell the following story about her: "A gentleman who happened to make a complimentary remark on the shapely form and whiteness of her hands was rather taken aback when Niisson answered in her pleasant outspoken way: Theso hands which you are good enough to admire have done a lot of work in their time, for, remember, they are peasant's hands and were made to handle the A' voice, genuine musical instinct and study Brought her the homage of two continents, wealth, title and a life of extraordinary variety and brilliance. 'AH from a two-room hut in a little Swedish ktmlet.

have lost many of their Yankee associations. Yankees no longer pick most of the berries that go' to market from the cranberry bogs of the ape. The Cape Codders are virtually out of it. Cape Verders, negroes from Africa, have immigrated to the land of comparative plenty, have settled on Cape Cod and have virtually monopolized the cranberry picking. It's all well enough to imagine that to-mprrow's cranberries came to market as the result of a dicker between Yankee traders and Yankee pickers, but the chances are all against it.

The negroes have supplanted the whites, and the whites resent it. The presence and competition of these Caps Verde negroes have raised a bitter "race question" in the very territory where the American anti-slavery movement had its birth and where the Abolitionists flourished. Bhame to the Ulster Irish! With negotiations in progress for the settlement of Ireland's troubles, with a truce between the British Government and the Sinn Fein, with the hope of peace In Ireland brighter than it ha ever been, Belfast breaks out In riot and rebellion, menacing the success of the conference. Shame to the Ulster Unionists! DE-YANKEEIZED CRANBERRIES. CRANBERRIES are almost as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey itself.

At other asons we-mayeat His Turkeyship with "trim pings" of more sombre hue, but on Thanksgiving we demand the brilliant red sauce so closely associ ated with the Yankee origin of Thanksgiving Day. Cranberries still come from the 'yown-East" Yankedajd of Cape Cod and vktoHy, but they HELP IT ALONG. IN HIS first Thanksgiving proclamation designat-. ing to-morrow, Nov. 24, as the day for the people of the United States to give thanks "for all that has been rendered unto them," President Har ding said "Ours has been a favored Nation In the bounty which God has bestowed upon it.

The great trial of humanity, though indeed we bore our part as well as we were able, left us comparatively little Bcarred. It is for us to recognize that we have been thus favnrpcl, and when we gather at our altars to offer thanks, we will do well to pledge, in humility and all sincerity, our purpose to prove deserving. Wo have been raised up and preserved In national power and consequence bb part of a plan wboBe wisdom we cannot question. "Thus believing, we can do no less than hold our Nation the willing Instrument ot the Providence which has so wonderfully favored us. Opportunity for very great service awaits' us if we shall prove equal to it." That out of the thickets and bypaths of politics the present Administration at Washington has at last come through to an open place wherein it can give concrete meaning to the pledge and service of which the President speaks will be a chief cause for American thanksgiving to-morrow.

To some Americans accustomed to think hereto fore in narrower terms, many of the post-war tin- foldings of opportunity have seemed too new and alarming. Yet even these doubters have been won from their misgivings by the simple, easily grasped aims of the Arms Conference. This enlarged popular courage for co-operation with other nations Is something for wh'ich the country should be no less thankful than for the leadership to which its present Government has risen. Let us do nothing to imperil among parties or persons in the Nation the steady growth of that courage and that leadership. Let us revive no old dissensions, lej us Stir up no old prejudices, let us awaken no old resentments thawill impede the present trend.

If the United States is at last moving of its own will toward larger international partnership, if by its own reason 'it is coming to see its "national power and consequence" in a broader light, what does it matter whether new names or old mark the next stage in the progress? Wherever it started or whoever started it, the forward movement has begun. Help it along and be thankful. All fnr WnHH PftflPP. -MSB By John Cassel I Bible and Histofy I By Dr.S.E. St.

Amant I Comtfttt. int. br tin rit- paMlihioj c. i mmm yyyfc I CqSiW. 1 I I (Tt New Toik Ertnlm yJJOOnL i 1 N0' TriE CHANGE OF DAY yy MPStfSt, Sunday is called by many 'he 7 StemiiP'JSSSSW Lord's Revelation 1-10.

'Thai SM passaga reads In the Greok. "11 -J "jSr tC- ''TrT kurlake hemera." "tho day belonging SB JrQaumlnk t. v. to the Lord." Tho fourth command fl JaHfiem 4 mcnt declares, "The seventh day II (J3rjammvm 1 FOR. The wrltcr (John the Rweia- Jm i iff tor)' SDeakln? for Sunday, do4 not rSS OF NATIONS Ij HARDING'S Vk 'WSBb DISARMAMENT 'WKC Jt WXWm HUT I flll'il BnTT i ii i 'l i TwTBWTfiilTH ilTT ii 'n IB l.

'l (HI iHIWIHKBl krtrMMK.V MWWm T3 IIBV. tr. A.l'. 1 'I 1 1 1 1 II IIP mil I Ii MMIIM I II Bill I i IIIIHi i Ill II Suppose a Harvard graduate gave both his Harvard-Yale football tickets to his father, believing the tatter's pleasure would be a small enough dividend on the money It costs to put a boy through Harvard. Under this year's rules ot the Harvard Ath-letla Association such filial feeling qualifies a graduate for the black list.

TWICE OVERS. APAN comlders Manchuria as being pari of China." Baron Kalo. PLEDGE with all my heart and soul that so long as I lice I will never raise my hand again to assist any armed conflict between nations." Mrs. Emella E. McCudden, the British war mother, and Mrs.

E. Ernesl Digney, the American war mother. TJfHEN I go to a friend's house and wine is sated at dinner I drink eery sparingly becftme I Imow his supply is tery limited, but when Premier Briand of the French delegation lenders us. refreshments of the same k.ind go as far as I in honor of diplomatic immunity." American official In Washington. THINK I would rather be engaged in a train robbery or postal robbery than in such practices material conspiracies)." Judge as these (building Van Fleet.

HE toice of the pessimist is heard in the land. The tun ntttr shines anywhere for him. He Is always in the Ret. Fred W. Slacy, i From Evening World Readers Whmt kind.ol letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that irrea the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in tew words.

Take time to be brief. "Uaonlanat" I To the Editor The Einilnc World The growing Importance of this country's position In world affairs calls for a new stressing of tho serious disadvantage of haying no satisfac tory name for ourselves. Thero are millions of other "Americans," known as ouch to the dwellers In Europe other continents. Southern dislike and more or less undignified associations render the term "Yankeo" unsuitable, although used by many Europeans for lack of a better. Former discussions have clouded the issue by Including a proposal to change the namo of the country.

This Is both unnecessary and impracticable, and would require a rewriting of the Constitution and of all public documents. As tho United States, our land Is known and identified everywhere. What wo do need Is an adjective de fining the citizens of the country. Our use of tlte term "Dutch" (Illogical though the word may be), to dcflno the people of Holland, hag been attended by no Inconvenience, and has proved the practicability of employing an adjective unrelated to the official namo of tho country Itself; and it is hieh time that a systematic effort tie made to secure tho adoption of such nn adjective, wnicn may Do under stood and used the world over. Fortunately tlie meal wora is reaay to hand and has often already been suggested.

From the initial letters of the title united otateo oi norm America" comes the not unattractive word "Usona," from which, with the insertion of a euphonic "1." the ad jective Usonlan Is Leaving "Unltea states as tno accepieu name of tho country, we can readily learn in mteak of ourselves as Usonlans: and no term could be easier for the people of other lands to learn ana remember, it aiso aiiorua no uuu cuIUcb in pronunciation' for any racial CTOUD. An esDeciai advantage ot tins designation consists in the fact that 1U equivalent is already adopted and in constant use among' millions ot men and women in every civilized country. For a number of years the minv users ot tne international lan mate Esperanto, which is constantly growing in importanco as a means or world communication, nave reierreu to our land bb "Usono" and to Its Inhabitants as "UaonanoJ," and through them the proposed term has become laminar to a targe cross section of the population ot every land. With so excellent a foundation nlreadv laid, to render Its use vrac tlcally universal would bo a very easy matter. Is it not time to begin the systematic agitation of the proposl lion, with a view to developing i sentiment that may within a reason able period bo crystallized into oin clal action? JAMES F.

MORTON Jr. New Tork, Nov. 19, 1921. of high shoes for $10 or $11. Of course sho can't! Does sho expect these large retail dealers to be satisfied with less than a $5 profit? Perish the thought! They buy shoes, wholesale, at about $7 to $9, and sell the same at about sis to $14.

As a consequence trade is slowing up. SHOE FACTORY WORKER. Brooklyn, Nov. 19, 1921. PraHU Tat IHh.

Va tii Diltor of Hi Ctmlif Walls In one of the letters previously printed In The Evening World a wont' an writes ttiat she cannot buy a pair No LckbI Barrier KxlU. To the Editor of The ETmin World: To settle an argument. Can a Roman Catholic become President of tho United States? A says yes and says no. Who Is right? M. C.

Brooklyn, Nov. 20, 1921. Sick of Tham Both. To tb Editor of The Ermine World: The Evening World recently printed letters from A. J.

Schneider and William Weinberger In re penalties for those citizens who fall to vote. I do not agree with their views. I thinic such citizens are to be commended. It shows that they are not Indifferent, but are anxious to raise the standard of American citizenship and so re frain from going to tho polls until the whole political system has been changed. In other words, they are tired of being flim-flammed and buncoed, first by one political candidate, then another.

I know I am. It was the late Theodore Roosevelt who said. when running for President on the Bull Mooso ticket, that both Demo cratic and Republican Parties were rotten to the core, they wo mod hand in glove, were machine-made and boss-ridden. Yet In face of this assertion Jio returned to the samo old Republican Party he had repudiated, Personally, I never could under stand his move, although I always ad mired tlio man. rom my own ob servation.

It would seem to me that no candldato enters the political arena solely for love ot tho dear "Deenul." be he Democrat or Repub lican; and that campaign promises are mere woras, to oe rorgotien as soon as the successful candidate Is safely In office. Instead of penalizing tne citizen who hesitates to choose between the devil and tho deep sea, way not pun lsh tho political candidate, nign or low, who buncoes his way into office hv fllm-flammlng the public with false promises in oraer to oDtain tneir votes. How many Presidents have lived up to their campaign promises? How manv Governors? How many May ors? How much money did they have before they wero elected? How rich were they when their term of office pvnlred? Where did they get It? I think Dr. Guthrlo was right when hn said politically now lone is "gov erncd by a tiny group ot Irishmen." They know any candidate with an Irish name Is likely to win, because blood is thicker than water, and tho largo Irish voto can ho counted on to swing an election. I'm sick ot the old game and the old machine.

a. a. j. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (CosiTlftt, mi. bj Jokn Elite.) EUNNING AT HAXF STEAM.

James's essay on "The Energies of Men," which every American, young or old, ought to read, he says: "Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half owake. Our fires are damped, our drafts ore checked. We are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources." Most men will admit that this is true in their own case. When the nted comes for some unusual exertion they ate able to put it forth and to accomplish results. Jf the schoolboy who crams for an examination put forth regularly through the school year half the he employs in the last week of school he would get real results out of his schooling.

But it is our habit to work as hard as we can only under dome strong and unaccustomed lash. When this ia removed we slump back into the old way of doing things. And if we continue to slump too long the extra energy will be unavailing when It is needed. For our faculties will be weak and flabby from lack of use. The exuress trains that run between the great cities of the world are pulled by locomotives which run at full steam.

Everything that can be got out of the machinery is got out of it. Net once is the fire allowed to slacken or the lubricant to flow less Fmoothlv to the moving parts of the engine. If we could do that with ourselves wc should soon be past the need of troubling ourselves about the future. Theodore Roosevelt, no genius but a man born with unlimited energy, employed that energy at all times. When other men were sitting back in contemplation of past successes he was reading or studying or putting his thoughts into action.

His example was a fine one for his countrymen. During the Hoosevelt era there was far more energy displayed in the country than there has been since. It is vain to wait for another. Roosevelt. If we -cannot stir ourselves to action without a conspicuous 'example we shall be inactive most of the time.

We do not need examples, however. All that is required is to keep stoking the fires of our energy to run always on full steam. Eren the most mediocre and commonplace among us v- ill accomplish really important things if we never permit our energies to to the Lord." Tho fourth command mcnt declares, "The seventh day the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." This Is 'the day belonging to thcjEofd. tiixoaua zvis-u; isaian Tho wrltcr (John the Rovela- tor), speaking for Sunday, do3 not say, "on tho Lord's -day," but "dlf. the first day the week" (John and speaking of tho following Bimdajr, he docs not designate It "tho Lord's day," but says (John "I'he same day at evening, being thiffret day of the week." luiiff When the nominal Christians could without difficulty "Interpret" the flun of Latin adoration to mean the of righteousness" (Malachl Jaq easy the steps from Sun's dayrt to Sunday, from this to Son's day.

thence to Lord's day especially' wfiefi Its observance Is not enjoined In the Bible. Seo Ezcklcl Zephanlah Acts The Sabbath shall never perish from tho earth, but will be kept by a remnant of God's people; Exodus Revelation 12:17. It will be kept throughout eternity lit the new earth; Isaiah 66: 22-JHk'! blessing Is pronounced uponwihe obedient; Isaiah 66:2. 5. Such ence Is essential to eternal llfej'jit-thew 19:17.

ir God foretells a reform In the Ji9flji- lng of the Sabbath; Isaiah 58: yfct is in our day, just before the qjppnd coming of Christ; isaian Reve lation 14:12, 14., These commandment keepers wil) bo able to dlsccrn'iht; future from the Scriptures; rSaltrU Revelation 19:10. Coftli-pare Isaiah 8:20. Sec, also Mdfthi'W 24; Romans 6:16. We are told in Daniel 8:23 lwt power would arise which wWild 'think to change times and lawDJ' The revised version reads, "the times and the law," while another version puts It, "Ho shall think to change tho time In the law." "The times and the law." "the time the law." It Is a remarkable fact that (he Sabbath commandment lb the only one of 1 11 decalogue whIWi contains the clement of time! ana The Romun Catholic Church'-j Is Justly entitled to tho credit for9ljp ciiange ui tne uay. i quote: We observe Sunday InsteaHdT Saturday because the CathUlft: Church, In the Council of Laadlcca, transferred the solemnity froiqjSat-urday to Sunday." Convert's Catechism 6f Christian Doctrine, by" ic Itev.

Peter Uctcrmann, C. SS. page 50, second edition, 1910. hls work received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius Jan. 25, 1910.

"We aro told In various ways 'by Euscblus that Constantino, In ordor to recommend tho new religion the heathen, transferred Into italic outward ornaments to which tfic had been accustomed In Tho use of tcmpleB'j-tafl theso dedicated to particular aalnrB' and ornamented on occasions wmi branches of trees; incense, lamps and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness: holy water, asylums; holy days and seasons, use of oalcai dars, processions, blessings on the fields: sacerdotal vestments, tne ton- sure, the ring in marriage, turningito the east. Images at a later dato.vJVH-haps the ecclesiastical chant, anjl yie Kyrle elelson, are all of pagan 'origin and sanctified by their adoption Into the church." An essay on thfelfde-velopment of Christian doctrlncu by John Henry Cardinal Newman, pjp. 372-373. You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you not find a single line authorizing the sancttflcatlon of Sunday. The Rorlpt- ures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which wolnuer Banctlfy." Faith of Our Fathers.nby Cardinal GlbbonB, eighty-third edi tion.

May 1, 1917, p. 89. "Had she (tho church) not niiph power (to instituto festivals of pre cept), she couia not nave done mat In which all modern religionists agce with hes she could not havo substituted the observance of Sunday, the llrst day of tho week, for the anee ot Saturday, tne seventh das, a change for which there Is no Schlpt- ural authority." -Doctrinal Catechism, by tho Rev. Stephen Keenan, p. 174; Imprimatur by John Cardinal JIcuiosKey, yrcnninop ot new lorK.

it That's a Fact By Albert P. Southwick fVi; William Makepeace Thaokeray, English author, was thirty-six when his "Vanity Fair" appeared. There has been compiled a list of seventeen noted giants. Aside from Goliath ot Oath (and hip four sons), the tallest were Og, King ot Baaban, mentioned In Deuteronomy 111., 11, whose bedstead was 9 cubits, or 15 feet, long; Patrick Cotter (Irish Qlant). born in 176L who was 8 feet 7 Inches tall; Chang-Woo-Gow, a Chi nese, 8 feet in height, and Marian, Burnamed the "Amazon Queen," born In 1866, who was 8 feet 9 Inches tall and was exhibited in London in 1887, Of dwarfs; there have been four teen listed, and, asldo from Tom Thumb (Charles S.

Strattpn), 1838-1883, who was 31 Inches tall, the smallest of all was Alyplus of Alex andria, who was 1 foot 5i Inches in height "isars-to-isar uiuie- was a name given to an edition of the Scriptures; printed In 1811, and so called because of the erroneous printlnr in Matthew 43. which read: "Who hath ears to ear, let turn hear." VANISHED RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK. irtT iCs Cowrilht. 1021. Um Firm rhrblWilne.Co,, ITho Krw York ErerHnc World.) THE MAN WITH THE ARROW POINT IN HIS RIB.

Grim relics of primitive watfare within what are now the city HmJts of New York aro. shown in a coljefi- Uon of bones unearthed by the American Museum of Natural HHstory.a,udVi now on exhibition In Its cases. These relics consisting ot several skeletons were found at Burial Ridge, Tottcnville, S. In 1835. Arrow points that had pierced these skeletons testify mutely to the conclusion that tho primitive men who owned them had not convened for the purpose of a conference on disarmament.

Or, If they had assembled for such a pacific purpose, the con. ference had broken up In bow One of the reminders of the. antiquity" and persistence of war afrtbh'g men ot all shades of opinions. eita skins Is a rib pierced by an antia(- tipped arrow. Marks on the skeleton show that tho mesiengeothare or fear and both sentiments uiually work to the same destructive purgbse had ploughed through ono Bide of the body and had Imbedded Itself rib on the opposite side, where It'stfll remains.

onlii Who was the man with the arto- rib? Was ho a patrlot.TM-fending the principle of self nation? ur was no a primitive. Inv perianal! "-i Arrow-nlerced ribs tell nn trittta the old. eld tl1 of humanuj pravlty, partly compensated foruJu human heroism and self-sacrifice. w-r.