The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1920, Page 8

LET IT SPREAD. a so-called “housecleaning” mass eting of Republican voters, outraged by dis- res made by the Kenyon slush fund investiga- demanded the removal of Babler and Cole, in the national and State organizations, B collected from the Lowden campaign fund and fe caught with the goods. _Th tesolution accepted unanimously by the Says in part: it resolved, That our party organization must d and cleaned of every man who has prosti- it to commercial purposes.” ‘ is straight talk. ‘It is the sort of resolution 1@ Mational organization can scarcely afford to et Gov. Hadley of Missouri backs the action mass meeting with unequivocal charges that crowd of Missouri leaders have sold con-" lention influence in 1908, 1912°and 1916. More- r, he charges that the committeemen did not stay | Convention records show that the Missouri turned up on the winning side in the con- that is, they swung the Missouri strength reactionary element which has dominated the ur Republican conventions. ough the National Committee cannot afford these charges, even less can the committee d to take them up for action, That would in- the governing clique, the Grand-Old Oli- , which in the last ‘analysis has disposed of Missouri votes to suit its own ends. A.“house-cleaning” is long overdue, but there is chance that it will occur. A G. O. P. purging )Of “every man who has prostituted the party or- n to commercial purposes” is altogether ‘muuch to hope for in a campaign year. How managers would remain to carry on the, n? ‘ endl HARD GOING FOR DRIVES. JURE of the Salvation Army “drive” for funds is no reflection on that organization. It er a sign that for the present the public is sick of all drives, ‘so.worthy a cause as the S. A. was unable to tt money, other less popular movements need fe small hope. It must be admitted that the re- mt*drive came after a number of others which d and so wearied the public. seemis to be part of the post-war reaction. ng hostilities America became accustomed to until it hurt.” In fact, Americans rather en- the “pain” as a sort of vicarious offering to ppared with the real sacrifices of the A. E. F. n was popular and gifts for worthy causes d to aroused imaginations. now we are in the backwash. The pendulum ing to the other extreme. “Drives” will have abandoned for the present. the lessons learned in the war drives should t be forgotten. Thorough organization, popu- fion of a good cause, appeals to imhgination idealism will again serve when the pendulum ings back. hile the plight of the Salvation Army d beya matter of deep concern to the public. S. A. work must not stop. Send a check to yarters. FARMS AND FAMILIES. {TEXAS a healthy movement for “family farms” Is under way. brief, “tHe idea is to cut up the great ranches ing many “hands” into small holdings which ‘be cultivated by a single man with such help as may expect from wife and children. “family farm” for a man with sons of high ool age would be larger than for a man with a lly of daughters or one whose children had been by the lure of the city. ; essential point is the recognition of the diffi- ly and expense of hiring farm labor, and the at- to meet the situation by making each farmer ent of hired help. s is the effort in Texas. the East and North the situation is somewhat r. ‘We have long had “family farms.” The “Mana generally has been divided into units as small &3 in the Texas project. In this part of the Nation ort must be directed to keroing the boys on } instead of attracting them to the cities. » Im the East we need “farm families” to till the ly farms” which we already have. : ER FARMER THAN SPECULATOR. tOOL growers of the Middle West are planning _ to warehouse the clip-and hold for a better Big to-day, In this they éxpect ' council, it must have something of the nature and. “nation to go to lengths that would necessitate invok- contrary to public policy. But until there Is evidence that such is the case this would appear to be a de- sirable step tending to eliminate the speculative middlemen ‘who have preyed on the farmers’ need for ready money and quick returns on crops. The wool market has recently witnessed a severe drop from about 65 cents to approximately 20 cents, Farmers believe that this is unjustifiable and a tem- Porary condition. Because of the determination of a large part of the public to cease buying at ex- orbitant rates and because of the unfavorable exchange situation, buyers have been wary of Stocking up at any price. Wool sold now would go to speculators, would be stored largely on borrowed money and would be released when the market improved. If any one is tq get the benefit of the higher price, it may vastly better be the farmer than the speculator. MR. HOOVER AND ART. X. Hs enrolled himself in the Republican Party and accepted the Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover endeavors to rally Republicans to a proposal to ratify the Peace Treaty, after eliminating Article X. from the Covenant of the League of Nations. +“The real nub of the dissension with regard to the League of, Nations,” declares Mr. Hoover, “is the question whetter the United States shall take any sort of commitment, moral or otherwise, to gudr- antee the integrity of foreign states and to use its - military resources to carry out the decisions of the League.” yin another part of his statement Mr. Hoover says his own feeling has “that the League was the product of the liberal ideals of the world, that it comprised a definite organization of the moral and economic power to enforce peace, and that this strength would be even more potent without the explicit threat of military force,” On the contrary, it seems reasonable to belieye that moral and economic enforcement would be more likely to prove invariably successful if there remained behind them the potential power of mili- tary compulsion. P Unless the League of Nations is to be a mere authority of an international polize. The greater the power that MAY be invoked to give potency to that police, the less likely is any ing it. An understanding that the military strength of the United States might, with the approval of Congress, intensify the pressure that could be brought to bear against any deliberate violator of the integrity of a foreign state must have the strongest possible in- fluence in persuading restless nations not to defy the League beyond a point where moral and eco- nomic pressure would be sufficient to preserve peace. That is undoubtedly what President Wilson ‘had in mind when he called Article X. the “heart of the Covenant.” By pledging force the United States may greatly reduce the probability of situations arising where it will be called on, or compelled for its own safety, to contribute force. ° ‘The window cleaner who was able to drop $2,000 tn a friendly game of poker must have made a clean-up of domething besides windows, TILL SOMETHING BREAKS. LAINTS that labor is not doing its part to help carry out the building programme come from the Mayor’s Housing Committee. ; Plasterers and painters have declared for a $10-a- day wage schedule, and other workers in the build- ing trades are expected to announce similar demands, It is pointed out that if building can only be un- dertaken on a $10-a-day wage basis there will be few dwellings that can be rented for, less than $20 a room, Here is the same old vicious economic circle which grows tighter because nobody is willing to be the first to open it. - Labor claims higher wages because the cost of living has not come down. The cost of living cannot come down because labor insists upon higher wages. Profiteers of all sorts, including rent-boosting landlords, are able to keep on squeezing extra profits out of the public on the plea of high labor cost, and the public pays what is demanded of it, having been persuaded that it must resign itself to an era of continuing high prices. The situation is one that seems incapable of pro- ducing any substantial change in itself, for the simple reason that everyone is waiting for somebody else to take the steps that will relieve it. The satisfaction the average worker finds in a rising scale of money wages is proof against all rea- soning that tries to show. him he is forcing up the cost of living at a rate that will leave him no better off. "He. will Go. on till someting breaks, iN ‘i to say much in @ few words. Take —_— ‘ A Perkins Memorial, ‘To the Editor of The Drening World: I think it would be a fine thing to name one of the numerous lakes in Interstate Park for George W. Per- kins. Some of the happiest days of my fife were spent at Union Settlement Camp in the park. This was made possible through the efforts of Mr. Perkins and others and it would be no more than proper to dedicate a monument in memory of a benefactor of the public. NAT. CRYSTAL. New York, June 24, 1920. A “Ready-to-Wear” Welcome, ‘To the Editor of The Bening World: \ G. M., under caption “Church Says Welcome,” asks why so few people attend church, As a stranger coming to tlys city after several Seon ea the U. S. Army, I secured a position, a room and looked about for a Protestant church, I visited several, including one of the largest and most prominent in Brooklyn, Not only once, but two or three Sundays in succession at each church, Outside of a little “ready-to- | wear” handshake at the door, the only | “welcome” I saw was on the mat and that was’pretty well kicked to pieces, | The result; Well, come down to| the beach some Sunday and I'll intro~ duce you to some real, red-blooded men ‘and women who in turn will in- troduce you to others. You will come back where you are treated right. MANHATTAN, New York, June 23, 1920, Down With Bolshevism, ‘To the Editor of The Brening Work! I wish to call your attention td the fact that we, the hard working American citizens, especially laboring men who work hard and conscien tlously all day long, have to for the other kind’ of “loafers who call themselves “saviors” of human- ity and are trying to overthrow the present economic system, and who are never content with any condition. Our slogan should be formulated in Just three words: DOWN WITH BOLSHEVISM! BEN PATNER. Now York, June 24, 1920. Necessary Treatm To the Editor of The Prening World; If they purpose to convince us, G. W. Schopenhauer’s numerous heck- lers will have to trot out some more urgent reasons for thetr standpoint than mere personalities, inane and futile guesses as to how he “got that way,” and pointless and ponderous arguments based on the mistaken as- sumption that G. W. wants to “do away with" the white collar man. T have read his somewhat extrava- gant indictment of the “brain work- er,” and I find in it much that ts true, much that we pink-fingered ones could profitably take to Meart, and FROM EVELING WORLD READERS _| What kirid of letter du you find must readabler that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mentul ewercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying sn't if the one time to be brief. blinded with unwarranted egotism, so pathetically and pompousiy puffed up with pride, that he who would make an impression upon it must needs strike it between the eyes and kick it in thé stomach; he must needs macerate its horny hide with @ meat @xe, and drive salt into its wounds with a slap stick. Who can deny that the trenchant, slam-bang, “pick ‘em up and lay 'em down” G. W. 8. has done this? “ More power to him. “WHITB COLLAR WOMAN.” You, No. ‘To the Eaitor of The Brening World: Was not,President Wilson at one time Governor of New Jersey? Is} Princeton one of the largest collegos in America? Jes 0% New York, June 24, 1920, More Light, Less Heat. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: Why the angry tone in which the “White Collar’ subject 1s being dis- cussed through the medium of your most valuable paper? I have “pushed the pen” and am proud of the fact that I df‘and that 1 can step right back in an office to- day, jf need be. But could I earn the $50 per, which I am getting only by using my two arms Instead, in inan- handling freight cars? ‘As for the union question, don't you know that the railroad clerks have formed @ very strong union through- out the country, which is getting stronger every day? Now, I think a clerks’ union in each large industry | would prove a valuable aid to the| men if its powers were used, not abused. This talk of whiteMvored clerks, &c., 1s all rot, with a capital P, for men are mei the world over and the men with pens in hand are just as much men as they who grasp ham- mer, throttle, &c. ‘The one main fault with Mr. Office Man is he wants short hours, one- half day Saturday, all Sundays and holidays off, and then complains when the working man wants over- time for time over elght hours. Now, Mr. Editor, let me comment on your column, ‘It 1s one of the finest things in your paper, for it gives a man’s views, exactly ax he thinks, and not diluted by some one higher in authority, Keep it up, You have as cOntributors such men as Ex UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ‘ (Copyright, 1990, by John Blake.) IDEALS AND IDEAS. You will never realize ideals without ideas, And you will never get anywhere without ideals. It behooves you, therefore, to cultivate ideas. The more ideas you have the more likely you are to attain your ideals. Now ideas are not easily acquired. Most people never have any, of their own, taking those they have from other people. Ideas are original thoughts. Fulton had an idea when he thought of the steamboat. Franklin had an idea when he discovered that the lightning in the clouds was the same-as the lightning that men made with glass wheels and confined in jars, 2 Out of Fulton’s idea has grown a system of inter-com- munication which makes neighbors of all the nations, Out of Franklin’s idea has sprung the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the transmission of power, the trolley line and the subway. Fulton and Franklin accomplished the attainment of their ideals before they died. So have hundreds of other men who have had ideas and the energy and patience to work them out. pe Ideas do not come of their own accord. They do not develop in dull or untrained minds. They are the result of hard, patient thought, which is concentrated upon one pur- pose. - nf : If you want to attain your ideals, try to cultivate ideas. Learn to think, and to think consecutively, Find out what other men have thought, and what has resulted from the efforts of their brain, Read of the things that thought has accomplished in the world. Get the training and education that is neces- sary to forceful mental effort. If you haven't had a chance to go to college, don’t worry, The education is in the books. It will be a little more trouble toget it out of them without help, but you can do it, Education plus hard thinking will give you ideas. Ideas will help you to accomplish your ideals. And the man who has accomplished his ideals is one of the world’s most fortu- nate men. with the idea they may possess a/ scientists in trying to get into com- munication with some of our nearer via wirelese, the proposed im, and by ray reflection, and consider the possibil- message which a8 yet has not been fully deciphered. known that It is pretty gen no new Tohemical has been found in planets use of the super Lex and others who sign “Constant Reader,” whose letters are a treat. W. H. DONALD. Brooklyn, June 24, 1920. ‘Selentific Speculations, To the Kditor of The Brening World: The Museum of National History offers a fne opportunity to one who would turn momentarily ‘from the turmoil of your city wit! its many attractions and spend a little time among its many specimens which not enly appeal to our imagination but much of that too scarce intellectual viand known ag “food for thought.” A little too highly seasoned, per- haps, but I am not so sure. For white collar class, as a class, is #0 hu mihi! sit start us on the ‘road to thinking about the yast storehouse of knowl- these heavenly adventurers, still they hold some very complex chemical ecmbinations which are not found |,so in any terrestrial mass, Then again there is a structural difference, which may be noted in the meteorite which has a high tron content. By polishing its surface, then usi the usual reagents for etching whe the Widmanstatten lines, cubic cleav- eges, and @ peculiar magnetic prop- erty becomes evident, These phe- nomena are absent In all terrestrial {ron masses however formed, They can hardly be explained from the in- tense heat generated In flight, #o they must be classed with the unexplained problems which so often confront ce, 8c It may be interesting to en back to the very mt ef~ forte made by some of our ity of the Martians trying to reach us not only through thelr system of called canals, but through the medium of these complex lron masses whose presence on this earth has not been satisfactorily explained. Now inasmuch as Hinstein has dis- go many of the former theorles of ecience and has practical- ly forced a new school-with reference to the relation of one body with an- other, 60 we may confidently await & more advanced school where the chemist, mineralogist, physicist, and astronomer will unlock the secrets ot the orites as surely as the index finger is relatively longer than the ring finger in the more gentle of the higher races. F. BUDD. FREDPRICK New Haven, “'1n, June 32, 1920.| But all are @ folk opera in three acts with musio by Reginald De Koven, has just been published by the Alfred Knopf Com- pany. The old folk story has been changed by the author from Irvipg’s version in the effort to achieve @ happier endin; This was not nec- essary, and has added nothing of value to the story. But the spirit | and atmosphere of the delightful sto: has been preserved, and Mackayes lyrical ability has given it a new charm. The character of Peterkee, added to achieve the “happy ending,” is well conceived, and the gay litue lady is always charming. To her ere given many of the songs,~among them “When Our Ship Comes In. ‘Wait, wait, my own, till our ehip comes in O’er the dark waves between; Silver spangies on her spars, Jl her ballast golden bars, fall her lanterns shining 6! Shall our ship come tn, Wait, wait, my dear; whon our ship comes in ‘We sifall be King and Queen. Boarlet turbanned olackamoors,* Laden all with louisdors, Shall unload her cabin floors, hip comes in . ‘When our Our Changing Language--- “New words are derived from .all sorts of sources,” says Brander Mat- thews in the June Harpers. “To bluff, for example, which began life as a necessary technical term in “poker, spread inta general use in ¢he United Btates, crossed the western-oceyg and established itself in tees tain, and has* now crossed the English Channel and forced its admission into French and Italian and German. Per- haps to .pass the buck, having @ similar origin, will in time attain to & similar world-wide acceptance. To spoof, a Briticism originating in the sporting circles of London, bids fair to be adopted in New York although its attractiveness is as slight as ite utility. Equally unncessary is fore- lady, which is intended to be a more elegant appellation for a forewomen and which seems to presage @ com- panion foregentleman—or would it be foregent? In another new word which we owe aldd to the busy marta of trade we can note again the ability of our language to supply itself easly with a term needed for immediate use, We have long been familiar with salesmen and saleswoman — even, alas! with saleslady; and the latest member of the -family to whom we have been introduced is salesperson, @ name intended to apply to an em~ ployee of elther sex.” oe A Connecticuit Poet--- A book of poems distinctly Amers ican and distinctly New England te “The Township Line,” by Atbert Frederick Wilson, just published by Harpers. It is pleasant and surpris- ing to find such sound New Engiand sense and philosophy coming to us in the guise of vers libre. Yet it te of the New England of to-day that Mr, ‘Wilson writes, the New England that faces new problems in its factories, its worn out farms, and its new transient labor population. The took is well worth reading. A Book of Mcrionettes --- The Marionette has on interesting story to tell, some of waich is pleas- antly set forth in Helen Halman Joseph's volume éntitled “A Book of Marionettes” (B. W. Huebsch), from which {t appears that the puppets of antiquity in the form of articulated idols were manipulated by ingenious, hidden devices in the vast temples of India and Egypt. The Romans bor- rowed Marionette traditions from the Greeks, ag they did many other art forms. Everywhere puppets have orig nated among the common peop! they are primarily an expression of Popular taste, and the puppets have made an especial appeal to artiste, “I have already made the avowal,” declares Anatole France, “I love the Marionettes and those of M. Signorep please me particularly. These Mari- onettes resemble the Egyptian hiero~ glyphics, that is to say, something mysterious and pure, and when they | represent a drama of Shakespeare or {Aristophanes I think I see the thoughts of the poet upon the walls of the temple.” | Alexander Zelenko, formerly a pro= \tessor at the University of Moscow, |hus written some interesting facts | concerning modern Russian puppets, ‘He says: “There still are travelling ‘comedians who wander all over the country with their little outfite of dolls and folding soreens. In most. cases a 90-called hand organ is used, and very often a monkey or a bird picks out the tickets of happiness, ‘The performer uses a contrivance in his mouth to alter his voice for the different impersonations. The prin- cipal hero is “Petrouchka” or “Dim~- inutive Peter,” .the same as German “Kasperie,” and English “Punch,” The hero makes much mischief in @ horse trade with a gypsy or with w German doctor, a policeman or a re- cruiting officer. For such mischief the devil takes his body'into hell, Our own Tony Sarg of Greenwich Village has been a recent local factor in the Marionette field, and the bool pays deserved tribute to him for his achievements as a Marionetist, the - foundations of which were laid im London some five years ago. A Good Philosophy-. “Nothing's impossible so long aa you hold your head up and keep smiling.” This was the motto of “Sunny Du- crow,” the little cockney girl of the London sinms, who is the heroine of Henry St. John Cooper’s novel of the same name. It was this philosophy that carried her through a tumultuous chifdhood to success on the stage and in her dife, Full of the joy of living, the book is one that can be read with enjoyment; reread also, . ° A Book of Real People--- “Chet Ball was painting a wood- en chicken yellow. The wooden | ° chicken was mounted on a six by twelve board. ‘The board was mounted on four tiny wheels, The ° whole would eventually be pulled ‘ on a string guided by the plump moist hand of some blissful six- year-old”... ‘When a story starts like that one fs .° apt to read more of it; the first page anyway. But if you should start “Long Distance,” by Edna Ferber, the story of a shell-shocked soldier in an English reconstruction hospital, you will read through to the last page, It is the best story in “Half Portions” the new ealiagtion CR just publis y a Good reading, Na