The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1919, Page 10

TORIAL PAGE Geturday, dune 7, 1019 ow They “Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Oo (The New York Brming World). [vo 44—ROBERT FULTON, Who Made Good by Revolutton- : izing Sea Travel. SHOCK-HAIRBD young American—thin, wiry, (f- eyed—stood in the presence of the greatest man afive. ‘The American was Robert Fulton; the “greatest man” { 1919, . | eh Ner'tor Brine Wont) * | Lt | i D MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREas, | "Glaad 15" thin pater sod chee atonal some lied bee | Eee was Napoleon Bonaparte, ruler of France and master Vin sure! Suarey ot Europe's destinies, ‘ sik tea 4 c Fulton had devised a boat which, be , _ THE SAD RIDDLE OF SENATOR LODGE. eVenven a make headway without alle or oars, againet wad and * PE HERE will be general satisfaction at the Senate’s adoption of & —6ur i ae ie te hate nee ‘ae oo eae the Hitchcock resolution which provides for an investigation ME, hed fong been slat on 6 barmicss rank. Bat Fet- of the alleged “treaty leak” that will not exclude the con- ton had faith in it, and no ridicule or argument could shake his resolve _ teetion therewith of Senators Borah and Lodge. to make good his assertion that @ boat could be propelled by steam. 4 public has so far permitted itself to become no more excited | At length, after much wire-pulling, he succeeded in getting MMs tm- dyer the alleged leak than the facts warrant. vention before Napoleon. Should Bonaparte accept it for the French Gev- re indi ernment young Fulton's fame and fortune would be established farerer, If copies of the Peace Treaty have been handed to private indi- Hie fate to hang om the decteion. , widuals in the United States by any official or department of the Now Napoleon was an inspired generat and a shrewd stateemam, ert a it ia, af course, a serious impropriety which the Senate ae ean Ts aia e part oe tne masa Cotsen Yeap never to “aman ee : ~ own ignorance. He was won! mack I -____ At the same time common sense cannot overlook the oircum- ° ignorance by brusquencas of manner, sedking to that copies of the treaty have. been selling in. the streets of {rime on ey ee pepe eee oe moet on eae lin and Amsterdam for the past three weeks or more, making it) enn scee men mre lack Fake tbyeet dl je along ly possible that the copy which Senator Lodge claims to have nueilld; is ee tibdon 1a sung ae Manert Feitens a “in New York may have been obtained quite legitimately from nna eemarart® could readily detect the wenk apot in an cepectag wate ue ¢ far more important. posaib! “J “on Bala + ‘Ametoah ‘thvector’s scheme. With a few curt words he dismissed the in- Senator Lodge has steadily refused to say anything definite about vention as seseeaty and impracticable, and thereby he lost more: them he Bnatare of the copy he gaw or from whom he got it. bisa Bah chan the Beine River odel of te steam~ What is most difficult to understand is how a man of Senator eokd tas testes our dell 0 desea, yet it. werkeh wall enough to prove . calibre and standing could choose to put himself in a position his theory. Napoleon’s lofty refueal to study the matter sent Fulton back the public can only see him as a petulant enemy of the Admin- striving to do it all the harm he can by a charge which he ely strives to keep as sensational and mysterious as he can it. : Has the Senator from Massachusetts reached a point where he is ing-to wreck his, own distinguished career provided only he can the illusion of pulling down something the crash of which will the President? $4 > ____ ‘The British are reported to be worrying lest some Ameri- seoure the famous Reynolds portrait of “Mrs. Siddons as luse,” which is to be sold at auction at Christie's 4 next. This is the portrait, if we are not mistaken, in Reynolde’s distinguished friend Dr. Johnson wrote his ia i é 15 of the great actress's gown, saying to her ld not lose the honor this opportunity af- my name going down to posterity on the hem —_——4 ALREADY AN ICE FAMINE! HE ice shortage in this city the past week is explained by the ice companies as a result of the sudden spell of July weather, which did not give them time to draw on supplies of natural kee from the Hudson River icehouses. Whatever the cause, the effect, as usual, hit the small consumer Families on the east side who buy their ice from small either found themselves unable to get ice at all or were forced ge out and buy it where they could find it at fancy prices. Ice at a cent pound the first week in June has an ominous sound. are many weeks of hot weather ahead, and the prospect of “ice and ice at increasing retail prices is no pleasant one, ‘ Granted the mild winter of 1918-1919 meant half a million tons naturel ice than usual for New York’s needs. This shortage of ice has been perfectly. apparent since last March. There has plenty of time to provide for an extra output from the artificial 4 § & 2 tH hort of ice and semds the prive bounding upward. Is it to be game story or woree during July and August? \ (he Mayor's Ice Commission should take the past week as a and get down toa little practical planning for the real sum- ahead. producers from the drop in prices that might result of the eupply for the consumer’s benefit? a. A CAPITAL CRIME IN RUSSIA. RUNKENNESS is « capital offense im Bolvhevist Rusain, ecoonding to Ladwig A. Martens, unrecognized commercial wepresemtative of the Russian Soviet Government, who has tothe United States to buy goods of anybody who will accept ; @ome of the millions of cash that lie in the Moscow ry Bank. is bone dry and always will be henceforth,” declares Mr. in an Evening Post interview: “We had to make drunkenness a capital offense. During the carly days of the revolution soldiers broke into wine cellars, got drunk and committed excesses of all sorts. We had to take etrong measures to stop such things You have to go to Siberia to get e drink in Russia.” (We imagine few persons im this country were aware that Bol- in Russia is so far advanced as to kill a man judivially and cold blood for being drank. The high moral plane of Bolshevism be maintained at all coste—particularly when such cost may at most only another witow and a few more fatherless children. Making drunkenness a capital crime is a grand and noble idea. it would appeal to William H. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon strongly enough to induce him to go and be a high Bolshevist , i News Notes of Science Be improve the quality of Philippine | that heats water with othe Insular Government is | before it reachen Pele el seed the inspec- eee For bathing or dressing babies a dressiig tray has been patented, con- int: low curved table, with trifle higher than the other, . rado steel plant has succeed- @ shaft 24 inches in di-| une side To enable perso who have lost the use of their legs to drive auto- mobiles a hand control for the clutch and brake pedals has been invented, ait The Patri That Begins at Home By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprright, 1919, by The Prem Pubtishing Os, OThe New York Bvening World). Before the summer has fairly begun the first hot weather leaves| Those Who Continually Destroy but Never Construct FRIEND of mine told me about the following incident: he was up in the country boarding, in the home of a good old Irish family. There were a number of other guests in the house. , It seems that among them ‘were three per- . sons who were mee aginst every- thing. They were against the Gov- ernment; they were against the President; they were against the Congress, Nothing was Gone right and the word was all wrong, especially TAttle attention was gtven to the Drattle of these people, as they were regarded as harmless in that they railed and ranted against law and order, and contributed nothing them- selves. But one day during a meal, there was a genoral discussion of the Peace Treaty and America’s part in it. These three guests showed particular antagonism at everything the Amer- jeans had done. And there was con- siderable controversy, wherein the Mttle boarding house woman took a hand herself, as she was serving the meal, Ghe went to the head of the table and called for order, She spoke something like this; “Now I will ask you three people (calling them by names) to leave my house at the conclusion of this meal. Heaven knows I am poor and need the money, but I don't need it badly enough to feed people who are dead against the country which has given them their bread and butter, “If you don’t believe in this coun- try get out of it! The very people who are always running it down take everything it gives them and con- tribute nothing to its welfare. otism effrontery to blacken it as much as possible. “I believe in free speech, and as long as you have been in this house I have tried to bear with you on the ground that this is a free country and everybody should have the right to say what he thinks, without abus- ing the rights of free speech. “When you stretch free speech to such @ point that you become sediti- ous, you have no rightful place un- der an American roof. “While I was born in Ireland, this is the country that has given me every chance, and as long as I accept \t for my own, I shall stand by it, apd no one may break bread at my table and at the same time break all the laws that pertain to patriotism. “I would rather lose such patronage, and gain the feeling that I have given n® comfort to am enemy of my coun- try.” 4 ' Certainty we must respect this little boarding house woman who carried her patriotism tnto her pocketbook. Many a profiteer might well earn a leseon trom her, If every citizen who gives comfort to the enemies of this country, whether it be a meal or a high-priced automobile, would only act ag this true patriot has acted, we would soon be rid of the flighty fighters and half- baked theorists who continually de- stroy but never construct, It is the personal touch, as ueual, that is needed in the scheme of things to forever wipe out the wrongful’ in- fluence in every community, To disagree with the President or with our representatives in legista- ture, and to uphold with might and main all that free apeech means, in honest argument, leads to healthy conditions, but there is a limit of en- durance when free speech is abused which is not only a matter for the courts but for the individual to deal with, ‘The truest kind of patriotism ts not that which unfuris the flag and makes pyblic hurrahs, but the Little act which is done at*the moment when it is needed most, as in the case of this “You have every opportunity and every advantage; you are lawfully safeguarded and secure in \ your |Thghts, You take all the advantages of thie country and yet you bave the boarding-house lady. In a word, the highest type of patriotism is that which begins at home and which ts asserted at the moment it is most needed. nie The Gay Life of aCommuter Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise. By Rube Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Towner Oo, (The New York Brening World), The Cruise of the Paradise Fishing Club HWCOMER, having joined every organization im Paradise except. the Ladies’ Welfare League, got a Saturday off to make his first cruise with the Paradise Fishing Crub, of which he was the minnow member. The occasion was also the first try- out of the Stout Democrat's boat, the Constitution, the first one he had ever owned, so named because he felt it was a case of “sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish.” The Stout Democrat, whose first name was George, was also a lover of personal Mberty, and from the amount of “ease goods,” &., taken aboard, Newcomer got the idea that George intended to spread personal Lberty throughout the world. Newoomer’s one passion aside from commuting was his love of sea food, and tm anticipation of revelling in flounder and biackfish and soft clams and perhaps « lobster of two he breakfasted on a roll and a cup of coffee to be sure of an appetite. The Constitution headed for “The Point,” where tt was said the floun- ders used to fight to see Which would be the first to go “over the top.” On the way out to “The Point,” “Doc.” Mawruss, the tall Republican and the editor started a game of penny ante, while “Little Arthur’ de- voted his time distributing personal liberty to the players. With each round Newcomer felt more and more like asserting his tn- dividual rights and the same was true of bis growing appetite. Only after pleading and threaten- ing, however, he succeeded in eus- pending the penny ante and getting the bunch busy with the lines after arriving at ‘The Point.” But some- how the anticipated attack of the flounders did not take place. After more than an hour the suspicion was aroused that the fighting flounders had been transferred to another seo- tor or, worse than all, had been de- mobilized. In the mean while Newoomer was undergoing the experience of the Spartan boy whose vitals were gnawed by a wolf, and he went into the cabin to see what “Steve” had for lunch. The cook himself had been comer had expected, but after taking the rasor edge off his appetite he re- turned to deck to find Mawruss spitting on his bait with the idea of enticing the fish by holding out to them the hope of personal liberty, but without avail. But Newcomer's hopes rose when the Constitution headed for a beach near “The Point.” Visions of steamed soft clams rose before him like a mirage tn the desert. And oh, joy! the soft clams were there—not many, but enough to salve the disappoint- ment of the forenoon, But when Newcomer went Into the eabin to see how Steve was coming on with the steamed soft clams he found the cook wound asleep and not hope rose again when Mawruss him into the rowboat and the two started to row where Mawruss said lobster pots were planted. “Broiled lobster! Oh, boy!” ex- claimed Newcomer. “Never mind the fish; never mind the clams; lead me to the lobster!” ‘The lobster pots were there all right, and so was the man who owned them and so was a fine-looking breech-load- ing #! lying in the bottom of his jowcomer and Mawruss got back in time to avoid being caught in aquall that came up. In fact, it all the Constitution could do to thstand ft, She was first on her hind legs and then on her nose, but George insisted he could handle her. It was a territie experience for New- comer, Sif Ez expectations were almost realized. In the dark of the evening, wet and starved, for none of them could even think of canned soup and pork and the boat, they reached port. ond time I was ever out in @ post in a storm.” “You've got nothing on me,” George, the marine; time'I was ever out in one,” know what was to eat, lunching on personal liberty, but he offered Newcomer some canned soup and pork and beana It was a poor @ubstitute for the fish feast New- @ lot of fish,” replied the wife, “so I didn't order anything for dinner. 1 had@ some canned soup and pork and beans for my lunch; there's some left if you want it"—— Every moment he expected the boat to capsize and several times his beans without heading for the side of “Gee, I was scared to death,” said Newcomer to George; “that's the seo- replied “that’s the first At home Newcomer demanded to “I thought you would bring home to America to make still further efforts at interesting his fellow country- men in bis venture. The tale of long years of discouragement and of his thousand setbacks is too well remembered to need repetition here. Experiment after expert- ment gradually perfected the clumsy little side-wheel boat, and finally the inventor got his chance at a trial trip. Trial Trip. S thing Iike those of a grist mill) and with a high smokestack towering above her low-cabined deck. From the stack belched masses of smoke. But presently something happened which changed the onlookers’ laugh- ter to gasps of astonishment, for the queer wheels were revolving and were eatching the water like a group of oar-blades; and as the wheels turned the Clermont to move forward, painting steadily upstream and travelling at a truly unbelievable rate of speed. Robert Fulton had made good. Against wind and tide the Clermont made her 160-mfle voyage toward Albany in 32 hours, and she out off two hours of this on the return voyage, Up-country folk who had not chanced to hear beforehand about the pro- Posed trip stared at the passing steamboat ae at some creature from an- other world. Incidentally tn that triat trip the whole future of steam naviration and changed. of commerce and of war was The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening Worl). Facing Cessation of Innkeeping, by Sumptuary Leg- islation, Gus Announces He Will Take Up In- venting as a Profession. » 8 the ominous day approached and the fate of Gus’s cafe A trembled in the balance the {ola Guard kept coming around to take a drop in ‘kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne, as the poet says. Strangers, too, seeped out and in, but an air of sadness hovered over all, This evening those present were sloomily @iscussing art. They had worn out the topic, “What'll We Do When the World Goes Dry?” “Well, I don't call my work a trade,” sald one of the newcomers, as he reached for his gtaas of 2.75 per cent. beer. “T call it an art.” “Putting in glass is an art,” said Slavinsky, the glazier. “I know it is because the colored kinds is billed to me as ‘art glass'” “Painters are artiste,” said Gus, “but I don’t see why « paperhanger ain’t.” % “They are,” said Mr. Jarr, who was one of the circle, “I've seen a sign down the street: ‘Paperhanger and Artistic Kalgsominer.'” “There, you see!” said Gus, who always thought it best to put a new 00d looker, because she wasn’t 90 fat, and he said he'd enlarge it |to a crayon and it wouldn't nothing, But he wants $3 for a frame and I had to hit him tm the head and take it away from him for $2." “A business man should call bim- elt a business man and npt an Arter,” said Bepler, the butcher, “Look at Tony, the barber; don't he say on bis winders ‘Artistic Haircat- ting.’ Wouldn't my customers laugh at me if I put on my winders ‘Fred | Bepler, Artistic Butcher, and call my shop a ‘Beefsteak Studio?’ ” “No, there's nothing in it, and you don't want to get chesty in this neighborhood, Mister Jones,” said Gus, “calling. yourself an artist. You stick to that other swell name you gall it that nobody knows what it means,” “Taxidermist?” asked the customer, “gure,” said Gus. ‘We all thought it was something about taxlbabs be- cause it sounded like it.” “But to take defunct fauna, for- ¢ign or indigenous, and make it as- sume the appearance and semblance of Mfe alert and animate is art. Who can“deny it? protested Mr, Jones, who was from Boston, “Them big wolds don't help it,” said Gus, “you stuff tirds, don't your” “a “Well, yes,” said the taxidermist. “And my wife, Lena, does, too, She stuffe a turkey every Thankagiving, but is she en artist? I'd give her a knock if she said it!” added Gus, “Anything done well, oe g E¢ wenters.” Mr, yet, and it will “It's an umbrella what nobody ca steal from you,” sald Gua, Set that inwented you'll up this liquor store quick,’ “How will it work!” asked vinaky. “Can I go in on it?’ “I got the idear trom brellas ajn't stole s0 much ww you forget ‘em; and then somebody comes along and picks ‘em up where you leave ‘em.” “Yes; go on!” said his listeners, “Well, Gus's ‘you-can't-lose. umbrella’ will have @ phonograph tm the handle and the head of it will be like @ duck or a goose, When you put it down and start to go out, Fn getting it, or when you leave it in the car, the duck's mouth will open and say ‘Help! help! 1am lost!’ or ‘Come back and get me, Gus, you big titick« head!’ And then if you don't come back for it and somebody else picks it up it will holler “Police! 1 trom Gus!’ See?" bays: “He's meshuggah!" whispered Slaw . vinsky, “That's Yiddish f But +e be Id same it lawe waste come along to put me out of business and not pay me for it!”