The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 16

— ONDAY, JULY 19, 1990. | a NING WORLD,” adopt new methods constantly. It would be en-, couraging to believe that the law proposed’ to meet the thief on his own ground and mftch wits s, Notwithstandin The Love Storie: of Great Novels | bert Payson Terhune |No. 107—THE RIGHT OF WAY By Sir Gilbert Parker. Charley Steele was the most spee~ tacularly brilliant young lawyer im. Montreal, His fame, more than Teal love, had won him the hand o) Kathleen Wantage. He lveg a mis- erable married life with her and made , ‘@ | that lite worse by constant drinking, Yet when Kathleen's brother, Billy, forged a cheok, Steele took the b! of it on himself. That night, he qas injured in a tavern row apd was ~ thrown into the river. Bverybedy supposed he wag drowned. But Jo_ Portugais, a woodsman whose life he ‘had saved, rescued Steele and carried* him away to his own mountain hut. His wife remarried and Steele eet- tled down to @ life of laber in the ‘ack country village to which he drifted'on his return to health. There) he met and fell in love with beoutiful Rosalie Bvantirel. And for, love of her be gave up drink and lived a 4e* cent life, ‘ “ His love for Rosdiie was the fird ‘holy influence that had come into hij wasted life, It made another man of him, And, batiing with temptation: he sought to live worthy of his great; fove. ? Yet he was wretchedly unk@ypy.'! He loved Rosalie, And he knew asile loved him. But he had a wife living; _ Nevertheles One lesson should be learned from this use of secret marks. Every owner shoiild devise some special mark to stamp or scratch on his-engine or car, retaining a drawing or paper tracing to aid the police im its recovery, G&rage proprietors might well have another mark for all cars of regu- lar patrons, which not even the patron need know. In case of theft the garage man could communi- cate the mark to the police. Secret marks will not stop automobile thefts, but anything that will help in identification or make thieving more hazardous is worth trying. BLUE SKY PROPAGANDA. HE last few yeags have witnessed the upgrowth of a multitude of centres of what appropri- ately might be termed “Blue Sky” propaganda, These bear the same relation to legitimate pub- icity policies in business and social organizations that wildcat stocks and “get-rich-quick” schemes bear to legitimate financial promotions. We have a host of leagues, associations, bureaus, agencies, federations, and the like, engaged in in- | fluencing public opinion. Some of these are legiti- mate and serve useful purpose. Many are the reverse, : r A description of the organization of one of these “Blue Sky” propaganda agencies would read much like the story of many of the early “wild-cat” -» “ HOLEHEARTEDLY,” is, perhaps, the most reassuring word Gov. Cox could have chosen to describe his advocacy of the League. “America has need of a leader who can appeal to hearts as well as heads. If President Wilson has erred as an advocate it seems to thave been because he adopted an attitude “rather too personal and intellectual, The Wilson appeal has been almost wholly to the mind. This has permitted Senatorial deception and misstatement to create doubts which have no “basis except in deception. Because Gov. Cox is the kind of man he fs, there seems reason to ‘hope that he may adopt a morte personal method of presentation, President + Wilson’s whole heart has been in the struggle, but ‘he has been unable or unwilling to open it. Per- haps Gov. Cox can do so more readily and so pave the way for a more friendly reception of the Presi- dent's logic. _ America fs ripe for a revival of the crusading spirit which swept the Nation'during its war to end war. If Gov, Cox can revivify this sentiment he Good faith to the dead and wounded demands such an effort, an appeal to the best in the hearts ‘aids, 2 even though that wife had never of Americans. stock fra loved him and though she believed ; A promoter or secretary goes out with the outline Se sea ealaae married to an‘ a, ANOTHER GHOST. of 2 worthy scheme, He. interests numerous emi- Rosalie's church did not believe in divorce. And Steele knew ahe dould never marry hiin, Yet, hopeless aa. was his love, it redeemed him worthlessness, The village church burned td the |ground, Steele risked his life to save |its sacred treasures. Then he induced the villagers to give money for the, rebuilding of the edifice. This money wae intrusted to Steele's care. By night two men ‘broke into his home to steal it. He defended the money, fighting desperately and receiving a ‘mortal wound, But he saved the fund. Res- cuers found him térribly wounded but still guarding the money. His wound was bound up by Rosa- lie's loving hand. But all at once ‘Steele saw the only way of escape from the situation that had become 80 unbearable. Secretly he unfastened the bandage that checked the blood from his wound. And before it could be-re- placed he died—with Rose et his side and with his wild early life atoned for by deeds of heroism and. self-denial. o Rose never married, but remained | faithful to Steele's memory until the day of her death, devoting herself to ® charity and to the church and rever- ing her dead lover as theugh the sinning man had been & saint, neat citizens who are induced to become members, frequently officers, of his society. Then the organizer fs ready for business, Letter heads and pamphlets display a list of names which should be a clear guarantee of accu- Tacy, good faith and motive. But Is this the case? All too often we have seen that names are not a guarantee, Ostensible alms are twisted to selfish | - purpose. The real promoter is frequently revealed as the agent of some sinister influence that dare not show Itself and its motive in the open. "More frequently it Is not possible to prove rela- tionship to the guiding power. Contributions are kept secret. Official power is centred in a few men -whose actions are not for the public good. It is doubtful whether such agendles could or should be reached by a “Pure Propaganda” law modeled on the Pure Food Law. . It is more difficult and dangerous to try to protect mings than stomachs. Probably any repressive effort would be ‘unwise, It would give to propaganda a dignity it does not deserve. The remedy must come from the inside. Members and officers of organizations assuming to direct public opinion must be brought to a realiza- tion of the importance of publicity, to the dangers of poisoning the mind with the benzoate of soda of Megitimate propaganda! | NOTHER ghost fas been added to the end- BEG Gin thier eet content Wihan » Hohenzollern as he works at ‘his woodpile and in the silent watches of the night. + -MWilhelmn's youngest and best loved son is dead Ss a self-inflicted wound as a sequel to the horror _. For the rest of the world the greater interest will He in the effect of the suicide on the German people. _ It comes at a time when Germans are resentful of the coal requirements of the Allies. The French ‘flag insult remains unsettled, ~ + “Doubtless the Jtnkers will try to make Joachim _ appear a martyr to the honor of the Fatherland, even though the circumstances of the suicide are ‘sordid and disgraceful. yi Frat reaction to the sulckle of Joachim ‘Prove one morg measuré of the change that ‘war’ and defeat have brought to Germany. If the ation judges correctly it will be a point in Ger- *. many's fayor. mos UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) 7. ’ LET THE DEAD PAST BURY ITS DEAD. Don’t worry about the past. \ If you have made mistakes in it, worry won't eradicate them, If there is anything you can do to alleviate their 3} effects, do it at once and vigorously, and then bury the un- pleasant iacident itself in the oblivion of forgetfulziess. : The only thing for-you to remember is how to avoid of a series defining the duties of the same or similar mistakes again. To,worry about that .}| the administrative and legislative . @ little won't harm you in the least. Uniess it was the re- | opicers and boards of the New | | | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letier do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the we in of d' thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in o few words. Toke time to be brief. — to make up the deficiency tn thelr! 3 income ‘by other means, while their Tve been rather puzzled by a let-|children, perhaps, aid them and grow They must be led to see that if the publicity of an | ter Up to be skilled thieves. you printed the other day ask- . ing your contributors to be serious | y oc One a8 employers underpay these organization is misieading or anti-social, the member workers they can be certain that their who Iends his honorable name without his active | for ® change—sugesting as Ee workers will make up the difference .. the recent conventions, Mr. FEdi- counsel and direction is as guilty as a savings bank |tor, was int writer tying to be funny lo you ink he was really director who allows it to go on the rocks by absence Sedas himalirh “Ot eonan tae from board meetings. si 8 have rather Decullar ideas as $8, what Members and officers are morally responsible for |0t the national ‘conventions should acts of “secretaries,” “superintendents” and “di- by ane be submitted to baie comic rectors.” They are morally bound to keep close A Vicente tonnoe | Stal alwaye live, track of their ostensible agents who are actually the |that with all the problems that con- | , It 1s the emblem of freqdom, savel. f -day— ce to: one all, and o principals. They must make sure that these agents fort cne.,Amertcat Deore te ot | thé home of all races, creeds and lan- stick to the avowed aims which the -members |to mention the cost'6f really living), | suages. approve. Only by development of this sort of public con- labpr troubies, transportation mud-, Our forefathers died for it, and un- dies, any ene of these could furnish| der it many a soldier has died a glor- sclence is it possible to guard against publicity tricksters and propagandists. . OUIJA BOLTS. VBNING WORLD readers teed expect no more + interesting ‘and informative political prophecy ‘Wa Oulja board until the editor is able to establish Our Ouija vorrespondents who recently forecast * the success of the Committee of Forty-eight move- ment are no longer “en rapport’—as they were accustomed to say. Following the convention in Chicago an effort to get in touch with the latest psychic i developments in Farmer-Labor ranks. Because the y evening was warm, each question was so phrased that the answer could be a simple “Yes” or “No,” a thus saving the time and pérspiration of spelling out the replies. + , Sample questions proposed were as follows: peg ' ~ Did the Chicago Convention Jairly express the S ».epinion of a majority af the members of the » © Committee of Forty-eight? _ Is Mr. Christensen an acceptable candidate? ‘Will the Farmer-Lobor Party win? 4 Will it cut the Socialist cote? ~ « Was the convention democratically controlled > ; _ Ouija acted most peculiarly. Starting from rest, WY? ‘the pointing finger zigzagged back and forth between “Yes”. and “No” without stopping at either. At y,.,, titmes it showed excitement and bolted off the board, Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government. By Willis Brooks Hawkins. ae Ths is the sixteenth arttcla and a great deal more either secretly or in open robbery, A CONSTANT READER. New York, July 13, 1920. sult of utter stupidity “or inexcusable carelessness, your York City Government, mistake will not be held against you. If you worry about DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. it and brood over it, your attention will not be on the Investigation and Sretistl ess things you are doing aad you will make other errors, laden tute ea ae This applies not alone to business. _ In every walk of | of determining the scope and form your daily life you make mistakes or things happen which 3 | o¢ the etatistical information which are better forgotten. ‘hall be reported to the Comptroller Allowed to grow abnormally, brooding over the past | by the heads of all city and couhty leads to inswaity, But tragic as such cases are, the total {| offices relating to the property of harm done by them is not nearly equal to the harm done by fess ude eee included etty worrying and fussing over the past which leads to Spree gee) ae rendered aie trouble’ and ‘makes you and those about you mis- Sa ee TROmeh ons Cea eee ah erable. The ‘bureau complies end_colleste The past cannot be wadone, it is true, but much can be $ | facte and statistics and renders re- done to rectify the results of past delinquencies or harmful acts. On the battlefield the dead are buried as quickly as possible., One reason is that. their preseace lowers the morale bf advancing troops, b Unpleasaat happenings of the past are like dead on the battlefield of life, Their presence will Mmper you in your advance toward whatever,goal you haye set yourself, “ The American Flag. To the Butior of The Evening Workls The American Flag stands for a Natiqn where democracy lives and enn) material for a convention all its own, \ious death, yet all they could find to talk about| America as it was and always shall was whether we shall be wet or dry, be, first flower of the earth, and or merely foggy! My own personal | gem of the sea, America has and al- opinions are aside from the ques- | ways will hold the respect of all other tion, but when I read the platforms | nations. and noticed the scrupulous care with| The American Flag shall float for- which they defined the stand on (or|ever o'er the land of the free end off) the Highteenth Amendment, and | the home of the brave. then the barrage of flowery rhetoric] MARGARET FLEMING, Age 15. with which they protected. them- ret, N. J., July 15, 1920, selves from the really important isswes of the hour, I realized for the first time the true meaniag of the expression “tragic humor.” i PUZZLHD RBAD! Brooklyn, July 14, 1920, ‘ ports ta the Comptroller. ‘It directs the devising, installation, extension and developing of all accounting sys. tems in the various departmente of the city and tn the county offices, It also j# the custodian of the rec- ords of the former municipalities or corporations in Greater New York During the period of budget prop- ants and examiners to assist the bu- reat of the Board of Estimate and “PITCHING OUT.” ney fans and managers probably will never agree on the ethics of the inten- tional passing of a dangerous batter by the pitcher. Managers and players realize that “pitching out” may help to win garhes, Fans resent this sort of Any Except President or President; No. ‘To the Laitor of ‘Noe Evening World Kindly settle the following ques- tions: Vice eee | indicating severe psychic ‘delirium-and the need of'a i fourth dimension in which to perform. Bet \ g Appalled by these manifestations, one of the sie Berators became alarmed and threw the gliding ible out of the window, resulting in a fracture of fe) ‘two limbs. ' | ‘Discreet questioning revealed the’fact that one of | the Ouija operators was a Forty-cighter “bolter,” _ __ the other a “regular” supporting the Fanmer-Labor platform and candidate, * { Perhaps that explains the erratic behavior of Ouija. * TO CATCH A THIEF. UOCESSPUL tse of “secret marks” on a large -numiber of cars of a popular make has enabled the police io discover a number of the machines which had been stolen in New York, City and sold in Washington and farther south: ”, ° _ The police rightly do not give publicity to the ~ precise location of this secret mark. Until thieves discover this identification mark and take steps to alter or destroy it, as they do the factory number of the engine, the police gain a certain advantage in the coniest, play even when \the dangerous batter is a visitor, Babe Ruth, the Yankees’ home run marvel, re- cently protested against the practice in a magazine article. batting averages published yesterday. Speaker, Sisler, Jackson and Ruth, the leaders of the league, all bat third or fourth, the “clean- up” positions, and so are on approximately even terms in the number of times they face opposing pitchers, Dividing the “AB” record of each player by the number of games in which he has played, it ap- pears that Sisler and Jackson are each credited with almost exactly four times “at bat” each g&me, Speaker's record is 3.85 per game and Ruth’s 3.36. This considerable difference is largely attribut- able to the number of times Ruth has been forced to “walk.” It is a tribute to the fear Ruth inspires. But such a record will not satisfy the fans, If managers decline to have their pitchers “play the game” and give battirlg ability its fair place, they may expect a general and widespread sup- port for the suggested rule which would give um- pires the power to impose an additional penalty That he had good reason appears from Post Office Efficiency, ‘To the Ditor of The Drening WéHd: An example of our Post Office eff- ciency: When a magazine is to be for- warded the Post Office first informs the addressee that it is holding the magazine yntil it receives either a one or two-cent stamp for the postage. ‘Then the addressee has to send the re- quired amount of postage in a stamped envelope, after which, if he is lucky, he will get the magazine (by now very much out of date). Instead of all that red tape, why doesn't the Post Oeics send the maga- je and collect the cent? ne HERMAN MINTZ. No. 478 W. 146tb St., July 15, 1920. Surely Not Dumb, ‘To the Paitor of The World Now that we re a fig MAgane te ning” party, 1 suggest fhe name ea te tee “Dumbbells.” ‘Their «emblem might be the Liberty Bell, but be sure it is cracked. P.D, New York, July 16, 1920, “Made” Criminals, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World “Anti-Crook” is all wrong, A hellish prison will only make the thieves a little more careful, ra Prison is the result, not the cause, of robbery. Few criminals are born, The rest @re made. “Want makes them thieves. A vast number of men are out of work, and robbery to them may be the 1, What public office in the United States can a foreign bom citizen hold? . 2. Is there any clause In the Con- stitution of the United States that prevents a man of the Catholic re- ligion from becoming Président of the United States? R. E. MORSE. New York, July 16, 1920. . ‘The Retail Profiteers, ‘To the Editor of The Brening Workd : What has become of Mi. Ri ny his famous “Flying Squadro: If time is weighing on them, they would do well to look up the fruit, vege- table ahd grocery men of Bay\Ridge, Brooklyn, who are in the habit of vio- lating the Lever Act at every sale they make. I represent.a wholesale grocery con- corn in this territory and I am in @ position, therefore, to see to what extent gouging the public and the hoarding of foodstuffs are practised by the retailers here. From my experi- ence I find that it is the American grocer that is striving to relieve the food altuation and-bring food prices back to normal again even at a great loss to himself; while on the other hand the foreigners who haVe been in this country for years without giving a thought of becoming one of us are the ones that unscrupulously over- charge and short-welgh their cus- tomers, They are the ones that shoula tbe investigated by the Department of Justice, for it 1s also likely that they have failed to file an income tax re- Bury them. een woman @ay to one grocer (a for- eigner) that the prices he demanded were exorbitant and that he was vio- lating a Federal law. mark the To which re- goods at whatever price I feel like selling them. The Government can go to h nie / It would be well for Congress to amend the immigration laws 60 as Ww render liable to deportation any alien found guilty of profiteering or hoard- ing at any time after entering the United States. I am sure this would relieve the food situation to a great extent. For it is a well known fact that wholesale prices have gone down and it ts the petty profiteering by re- tallers that is hitting the American people; and this petty profiteering is carried on exclusively by the foreign element of thig country. G. M. At the Pa © Pool. To the Exiitor of The Evening World Last Sunday I was asked to go for a swim with a friend who made the suggestion of going up to Palisade Park,-a place where I have been go- ing for the last two years. . We arrived at the park early and bought bathing tickets. Going on to the ticket collectof, he refused er answered, “I sell my | the not let me into the pool, passing a remark that anybody minus a leg or an arm or deformed in any way could |not enter the water on account of insurance laws. | I wish to state that I have been |lame since birth, but not so deformed |that I could not enjoy life, Since I |Was thirteen years old 1 could swim jand have been swimming for the last eight years with success. On obgerva- |tion I’ saw people allowed to entér the | pool who could not swim a stroke, and wondered why discrimination | was made in my case, when I am an able swimmer and also a careful one, Another case: A young man had a baby about two or three years old in & bathing suit and was kind enough to let thé little one drop into the hands of a friend who was in the water. The result was that both were submorged and nothing but luck, it seas to me, saved them Every moment since that reminder of being lame was brought up L.think of the soldiems who before the war en- Joyed life, both and who have come home minus a leg or arm or deformed in some manner. What would they think if told they: could not “do this” or “do that," after siving their service to their country? Not being able to do active service for doors and indoors, Apportionment in examining depart. mental requests. Robert B. McIntyre, Supervising Statistician Examiner, {s the head of this bureau. His office is on the seventh floor of the Munictpal buiid- ing. “That’s aFact’’ By Albert P. Fact” rea RB tee Hea | The remarkable battle of the Scots and English, at Halldon Hilt, near Berwick, Scotland, on July 19, 1833. , Fieger On July 19, 1779, the battle of Paulus Hook, the British garrieoa being surprised and made prison- ers by Americans under Gen, Lee . The United States privateer Gen. Armstrong captured the Britian sloop Henrietta off Gandy Hook on | July 19, 1814 ° . Tn 1924, on July 19, Augustin | Itunbide, Emperor of Mexico, was | shot by his own people, at Padiio, July 19, 1845, a disastrous fire in New York City, 300 buildings being destroyed, x , . eye only means of hanging on to dear old/ turn, and if they have filed it t would; mine, a thing that has ‘never hap-|my country, I did the best I could, * » ‘f , Automobile stealing thas become so common a | in the case of intentional “pitching out.” It is a |iite even it re 4s behing privon walla, |be well. to verity the fgures “sane ‘pened there before or any other | which was Busing Liberty bonds, and| _ July 19, 64, was the burning of crime i i Others of the “made” criminoly are! mitted. | place. When questioned, he told meon!the restsof my folks have done the) Rome bi Neto, and sacking of the E. | eee that jolice and insurance men are forced to | feature of the game which should be discouraged, Worpere Mud sock On ane cogagion 4 overhead. nos sonount af my being lame be 8, I: het “Se * _ - *” ”