The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1920, Page 22

Aer AR Ea BE ERA Welton weer eae Mir eet ua 1 ii * ah 4B 5 ESTABLISHED ‘BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘Dally Bxoept Sanday by the Press Publishing , Nos. 63 to 68 Park Row, New Tork, President, 68 Park Row, BHAW, Treasure: 3 Park Row, nats _. GORRPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 68 Park Rowe MEMBER OF. THE ASSOCIATED PREss. Aewectated WHAT DOES IT MEAN?- A TELEGATES and correspondents hailed the Re- ] publican plank which bridged the League of Nations chasm as a masterpiece of tergiversation, Tt was an omnibus on which all could ride, It was ‘an umbrella under whidi Lodge, Borah and John- ‘$0n could lie down in peace with McCumber, Cap- » White, Crane and Taft. Any one could read into that plank any senti- ent he desired: Any and every shade of opinion reflected. It was open to further interpretation ty the candidate. But what does it mean? ‘That is the question Harding must answer. Ti ewas cleverly constructed to prevent a conven- } tion bolt. But didn’t the cleverness overreach {t- ‘self? Have not the Republican platform drafters | estated a Frankenstein? ~ What does the plank mean to Harding? Grant that his “regularity” will permit the party } Managers to decide. The fact remains that some sone will face a task vastly more diffieult than satis- 4 the convention, Some one must satisfy the voiers and make clear {the meaning of the plank. And the voters will not receptive to an evasion, They will want to whether Harding lines up with the bitter-end on. It will be harder to fool the voters than Pte fool the delegates who were merely waiting the nity to be fooled in the interests of harmony, . When Harding makes up his mind—or when the ‘party managers make up his mind for him—John- fon and Borah may bolt. . Either Harding must become a bitter ender or (Wace the same danger that threatened in the con- » What does the foreign relations plank mean? That is the question Harding must answer. ® He cannot ‘answer it without splitting the party. We Wl the cleverness of Elihu Root and the plat- , form collaborators cannot frame an answer which Lawill satisfy the rank and file on the dominant {s- which was evaded in the convention, ; eg ft 5 _ ‘When have any of us witnessed a more mov- _ Ang spectacle than Brother Munsey holding the Bilephant’s tail in his strong right hand while tenderly patting the animal's sore proboscis with his left? * NO CHILDREN BY POST. CHILD, according to Assistant * Postmaster My General Koons, is not a harmless tive ie» Those who have had experience with other peo- eple’s children will endorse the sentiment. So long ‘as a neighbor's child is alive, he, she, or it, is not ; A lively youngster is endowed with un- ability to do damage to all. and sundry reach. These remarks, of course, do not apply to chil- in the family. It is only other people's chil- who are dangerous. Sen, *~ The ruling was made in forbidding acceptance Of children as parcel post. Any other ruling would been rather too good to be true. As a novelty such a package would be acceptable toa postman. As a regular thing it would be in- oles Uncle Sam would soon be no more a nursemaid, ; _ Consider the convenience to mothers who de- sired to go shopping. Take the baby to the Gen- yeral Post Office, tie on a tag with a Harlem ad- * dress, spend the day in the shops and arrive in time pfor the last delivery. Expense, only a few cents. te No chance. It simply isn’t practical, Uncle Sam plas enough other duties. One can but admire the sublime faith in Mr. Burleson of the parent who pro- gpbosed the idea. at: Senator New says the Republican Rominee is man who “has"his ear to the ground on the Problems confronting the nations.” It is @ venerable old phrase which we thought had passed to the Happy Hunting Ground which the lexicographers identify as “Obs,” ‘We fondly imagined that Ellwood Hendrick re- cently killed this old political standby when he remarked that “the politiclan keeps his ear so close, to the ground that he is likely to get it « dirty.” WITH HIS BOOTS ON. y T is a tradition in ‘Southern ‘Europe that more than half the men of Albania die “with their ; boots on.” Impartial observers before the war S,. were inclined to believe that the tradition was an Understatement if anything, Albanians are a turbulent and primitive people, ‘They are prone to civil war and tribal fighting. T distinct religious beliefs and the profession _Panditry provided ample grounds for internal ‘ on in thé intervals when external oppres- sion ¢ d clansmen of the mountains, Alba that even now it is imper- tot unite the bane ‘ts extiustvely entitied to the usb for repubtiontion ‘eredited to tt or not otherwise credited tm this paper ‘published herein. "HH EVENING WORLD, TU ak Rae es SORT Sa s ing this social chasm, Essad Pacha was un- able to escape the Albanian tradjtion. An assassin’s bullet reached him, He died with his boots ‘on, Essad lived a life anything but vneventful. He was one of the firebrands of the Balkans, a clever schemer for place and power, an able leader and strategist. One despatch names him a patriot, an- other recalls that he has been accused of treason. Which Is only another way of emphasizing that he was an Albanian, 4 STILL FAR FROM IT. H°” much thought are the American people giving to the character and results of the Republican National Convention as showihg whether, considered as a carrying out of the popular will, methods of selecting a party candidate for the Presidency are improving or deteriorating? A national party convention Is still assumed, in theory, to express the prevailing judgment and wishes of some millions of voters, But, as The Evening World asked last week, what becomes of this theory when of 982 delegates assembled as popular representatives to perform an important deliberative duty not one delegate is discussed as anything more than a vote that some powerful dictator or other can control and deliver, while the strongest manipulative force in the whole assembly comes over a long distance telephone wire from a sick-room {n Philadelphia? In recent years an elaborate system of primary voting has been developed and extended in many States with the express idea of giving the people a more direct influence tn the selection of Presidential candidates. How fs this influence progressing as measured by the popularity arid fitness of the candidate picked for the Republican Party by its professional man agers? Will Senator Harding, Republican nominee for President, qualify as a fine flower of the primary system? The crowds that filled the galleries at the Chicago Convention were fairly representative of the larger mass of Republican voters, The galleries at the convention cheered the name of Herbert Hoover to ‘the echo. The delegates on the floor—representatives In theory——mustered at most only nine votes for Her- bert Hoover. Does this sqkare .with accepted notions of rep- resentation and with the hoped-for changes the pri- maries were to bring about? ~ * The political experts assert that the proceedings of the Republican National Convention were mapped out by the party bosses six months ahead, before a single delegate was elected, The Evening World’s correspondent, David Law- tence, sees in the pre-convention planning and sub- sequent dictation of the Republican managers “the final breakdown of the American primary system so far as selecting Presidential nominees is con- cerned.” Every student of American history knows that not since the election of George Washington has a President of the United States been chosen as the framers of the Federal Constitution meant him to be chosen, ‘ The people at once departed from the idea of ~ the Constitution-makers on this point and steadily tended toward the direct popular election of the President, though retaining the prescribed constitu- tional method. @ With the development of the party system and the growing power of. professional party managers came the need of protecting the nomination as welt as the election of Presidential candidates from the dictation of party bosses. Hence the extension of primary voting, The primaries are on trial, They have not prevented a group of RepuWlican Senators from running the 1920 Republican Na- tional Convention their own way and imposing upon the Republican Party a candidate who could by no stretch of imagination be called a populac choice, Whether the fault is in the defects of the pri- mary system or in the failure of voters to use the system in the way it should be used is a matter for serious study. The Chicago Convention at least shows the no- tion that the people of the United States pick their Presidential candidates to be further than ever from fact, ‘The French. stage has lost ono of its greatest actresses in the death of Gabrielle Rejane. Though her art was before all else that of highest and subtiest comedy, she could strike masterful chords on the deeper feelings of her audiences when opportunity was given her, A year and a half before the war she played in her Paris theatre in a patriotic piece called “Alsace.” The French Army was marched in platoons to see it. No one who saw her in that character will forget how athe end of the first act, as a Parisienne, newly arrived from Paris in a household of relations at Strassboure—with war impending—she gath- ered the French family and servants together A wil sbut windows and drawn blinds went ee A $ Sate [FROM EVENING WORLD READERS _|]| What kind of letter do you find most read@lief Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Neighbors’ Day Every Day. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I do not know to whom credit is due for initiating the Neighpors’ Day movement, but I can frankly say that nothing better could happen to City of New York than such a mo} ment highly intensified. “Why desig- nate only one day out of the 335 as “Neighbors’ Day.” T am a native of a mid-Western metropolis running close to the half million mark in population, and as ch I have always known every day ‘Neighbors’ Day;" but when I was transplanted into New York I was surprised to notice the expression on the faces of people residing in the same building and even on the same floor as my own a1 ent when I assumed the Initiative to say “Good morning” or to bid them the time, as the case may be, I have known since my arrival In New York of instances of severe illness with death knocking at the door, yet out of possibly twenty-five or thirty families in the building I Welieve I was about the only one outside of the family con- cerned who knew of the fact. And I have been told of cases where persons have died and been buried and other families in the same building knew nothing of it for weeks after. This most certainly is not true American spirit as the founders of our country ended. ay idea of “Neighbors Day” would be colebrated 365 days of the year and such that wheneyer a nolghbor is seen he would receive a friendly word and the complimentibe returned, and in cases of severe illness, &c., a neighbor would take some Interest in the case and offer his service as far as possible. I most certainly abhor the elass of so called neighbors who ingist- upon borrowing y dining chairs and your wife's ‘new spring hat, &c, for after all that is not a ai neighbor. revour Kood publication, through tts editorials and news items, has con- ducted many campaigns, though dis couraging and drawn out over a period of years, to ultimate success and frankly I cannot conceive of any movement which could be fos tered by your paper which would bi more heartily appreciated when suc- cess is attained than an every day “Neighbors’ Day” movement. A_NBIGHBOR, New York, June 11, 1920, To the Editor of The Ey: Can't’ you fellows leave the cur- renay question alone? In to-day's Byening World appeared a woozy comparison between Trotsky and onest Abe” ig connection with the} “sacredness of property” delusion Lincoln knew no morg about money and its real signifiednee than you probably know about the game of chess It's hardly worth while trying to make a dent in a petrified editorial dome, amie iy sachecalit that on the npfirdna, = may boo, he oF any else Succeed in destroying the gold mon¢ idol and all its evil offspring, inclu ing the musty, stale, materialism and idolatry, World would reach its long predicted millennium, for the Idolatry of money and property is the one obstacle. What sort of a man are you to put your picayune influe1 and word upon the wrong side? it’s, your pet money system that has brought 8 clety to its presént crazy state, ‘and yet you would kiss the adder that stings you. Your philosophy leads only: to Matteawan and Ossining. ¥ HOPKINS, L. C. A. Land Currency, 2 East 28d Street, June 7, 1920. ‘Try a World Want Ad. ‘Te the Editor of The Drening World: I am a constant reader of your Paper, and bave been reading the articles written by Miss Sophie Irene Loeb in reference to the farm labor situation, I would like to ask your paper @ little favor. I would be thankful to your paper if you would find out a few real orthodox Jewish farmers who would need about six young men, age 20-22, with some ex- Perlence in’ farm work. We are ready to leave at a mi ment’s notice to work for such farm. ers, Al references, A CONSTANT READER. After reading your editorial on the Consolidated Gas Company I think that instead of looking for an in- crease in the rates they should in- crease the pay of thelr employees so that they could live properly. The employees of the gas com- panies are the poorest paid of any in t y and the work one of the st and meanest. The men are compelled to work until all hours of the night during the winter, months in all kinds of weather, Pay ranges from §3 to $4.50 for eight hours. A STANDARD FITTER. The Canal Street Station, ‘To the Kaitor of Thé Evening World: 1 note with considerable interest the new regulation of the B. R. T, com- pelling passengers transferring at Canal Street to use the street instead of the passageways. Just how this new ruling, relieving ‘the congestion of the stairs and passageways, ts go- ing to prevent another Goldstein tragedy is not quite clear to me. I've always been under the lmprea- sion that the accident mentioned above happened at the tracks, and not in the “congested passageways.” Re- gardless of rules, it is a lamentable fact that a very large number of people are compelled to transfer at Canal and Broadway, and no mattor how they are foreed to negotiate the block @r so between trains, selong, as to handle traffic but for your information I' the. B. R. T attempts on those ridiculous ten-foot-wide Canal alwaye ae Be nnn te STE a AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT. By Sophie Irene Loeb, a Prem Publishiog COPENS New York Braning World). EAN MANN of the Stat® Col- D lege of Agriculture at Cornell Presents some interesting fig ures, which may throw some light om the prevalent desertion of farms, Of the houses occupied by farm operators, 20 -per cent. had furnace heat and 11 per cent, had a Dath- room, Of the houses oooupled by 4 hired men, 6 per cent. had furn hd heat and 5 per cent. had a bathroom. pd Good roads and tlie automob! havo mado it lees aifoult for Josh“ } and Hy to come to the city and see how the other three-quarters [ve with its steam heat, electric light and baths. The daily hewspaper in his m ox every day also gives him plenty of food for reflection and compari+ bon, He doosn't relish working four~ teen hours a day to feed the plumber in New York, who gets a dollar and a quarter ‘An hour for eight hours, and extra for overtime, Such comparl- fons are odious, Socrates says “Nothing is perma- nent but change.” ‘Tho old-fashioned farmer is rap- 1a A change in his direo~ tion has come—not by revolution bust y/ evolution, ‘The city-dwoller who wants food from the farms will have to take a hand in the adjustment of things, or go hungry. NB of the questions brought up at almost every women’s po- litical meeting ({s the shorter hours for women, one of the bills defeated in the recent Legislature. ‘The opposition developed to this legislation was mainly summed up by some women like this: “Why ,|shouldn’'t I be permitted. to work aw UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Yohn Blake.) HIGHBROWS, It has been said that a highbrow ‘is a man educated beyond his intelligence. He is not a valuable member of society. Do not be impressed by his air of superiority, or humiliated by his patronizing manner. Great men are never highbrows. They look the world in the face, not down on it. They recognize intelligence, even when it is not accompanied by great learning. ae fener of fact mere learning amounts to little. in this wor! ere are many people such as Po; - scribed when he wrote: reo Ales “The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.” * Because a man happens to be familiar with Grecian mythology does not argue that he is able. The scholar is not always competent—though this is said with no reflection on scholarship. « 5 The man who counts is the man who understands what he reads—not the man who reads merely for the purpose of parading his learning. Read a few books carefully, and know a f i well, and you need fear the pity oF no pedant. nr ae It’is natural for small minded men to despise people who do not know the things that they dg, The sailor regards the man who doesn’t know what a bowline is'as lamentably ignorant. Many of our soldiers in France looked down on the French pesass they couldn’t understand English. Once in a Western town a man aske ; railroad station was. 8 SBOG hard the “Huh,” sniffed the child contemptuously, man like you, and yet you don’t know where station is!” All these are examples of the mental attitude of the highbrow. Because he happens to know something that you don't happen to know, he despises you. And yet the ver: qualities that make him despise you prove him to be jpentate in intellect. : . Don't be affaid of the highbrow. Ask h tions about something you know, have got his measure. None of se in this world can know Those of us who think we are abler because we hay knowledge that others Jack are mere dull fools, Sapir knowledge happens to be of Horatian odes or the theory of a gasoline engine. + I orring foresight, allow me to contrast |are sald'to have exclaimed: “Let us Canal Street ee a ve change kings and we will fight the yet with @ platform as wide as the| tte again?” entire Canal Street station, tracks ani ‘This gave me an idea regarding the all, In my more or less humble opin-]coming yacht race lon, there would be far fewer acl: |acted on vin: that etree might be dents if tho N. ¥. M. R. would set ht er the race to work and widen the platforms|>0th crews exchange places and again rather than take. such pains to make | compete, what always was the most inconven-| ‘This, to me, would seem to be f, lent and dangerous station in the rity|more interesting than the first come EX. petition, as it would demonstrai 19 still more 60. ~ TEX. Brooklyn, June 8, 1920. the world which were the better sea- ve) —s * Tmen, the English crew or the Ameri- can, and I think both countries would A Hint to Yachtemen. . pbe better pleased at having superior Pe, te Mile of She Bring Wests Poumabe thee superior yaskin, wiles of the “a great big the railroad im a few ques- and, if he can't answer, you the same things. long as I want to?” Such women as a rule fail to realize what a hardship such @ position may {nfiict on theit sisters who have no choice in the matter whatever, The general answer is, that the unscrupy- lous employer might compel hours when no limit has been estab- lished. But the dig potnt of it all has seem~- tngly been lost in the controversy that woman very often must be pro- tected against herself. Ta the well-known washerwoman case, the Supreme Court held that there were many kinds of work jn which the future of the race wastat stake if the hours of labor were not curtailed. ‘No matter upon what high plane the equality of man and woman de- velop, there still remains the fact that the function of child-bearing and child-caring 1s one of woman's prin- cipal prerogatives, and whether the indtvidueal woman wishes it or not, the future of the race depends upon safe-guarding its women. USTICE BENEDICT, in Brooklyn, severely arraigned a young cou- ple who @ought annulment of their marriage on the plea that three years ago, at the time of their marriage, one of the principals was under eighteen. e Judge urged that the tw should be amended so that couples should not be permitted to take the solemn obligations of marriage, know- ing the statutes permit the annulment on the grounds of under age. This is a wise and constructive suggestion and would save many » youthful fol [Ten-Minute Studies Of New York City Government. Coprdight P ishing "© the New Pork Everiog Wort} By Willis Brooks Hawkins, This t the sixth article of @ series defining the dui of the ad- ministrative and legisiative oficer® and boards of the New York City Government. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. HIS legislative body consists of QQ) seventy-three Aldermen, elected by districts for two years; (2) the President of tho Board of Aldermen, elected at large for four years, and (3) the President of each of the five boroughs. The head of each city wepartment is entitled to @ seat, but not to a vote in the Board, Stated meetings are heid,in City Hall Tuesdays at 1.80 P. M. ‘The most important powers of the Board of Aldermen are: amend or repeal all ordinances; initiate the issue of special revenme bonds for certain specified purposes supplementing budget appropriatio: to authorize purchases in excess,of $1,000 without public letting of « trac! o exercise general legislat control over bridge tolls, water ri street traffic and the establishment of public markets; to reduce ‘or eliminate, within the twenty days allowed ‘for its consideration, any item in the budget as passed by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment, except those fixed by law those made for State taxes and for the city debt; to elect from its own number a Vice Chairman, who acts as President in case of a vacancy in that office and becomes’ Acting Mayor it vacancies occur simultaneously in the offices of Mayor and President; to elect from its own number a Chairman of the Finance Committee, who is ex-officio a Commissioners of the Sinking Fund; to appoint a Clerk ot the Board, who by such appoigt- ment becomes the City Clerk for a term of six years; to appoint for terms of two years four Commission- ers of Elections, and to appoint Com- missioners of Deeds. Aldermen are removable by a-two- thirds vote of all members’ of the Board. A vacancy ts filled by a nm- jority vote of all members, but the person #o elected must be of the same political party a8 his prede- cessor. The Vice Chairman and the Chatr- man of the Finan cetve $4,000 a year eac men, $3,000 each. William Pp’ Ken neally (Dem.) of No, 223 East 1! Street, Manhattan, is Vice Chairman and Frank A. Cunningham (Dem,) of No. 287 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, is Chairman of the Finance Committee, William ‘T, Collins (Dem.) is the mia ty and August Ferrand