The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1920, Page 16

~ eee cnet Se te ee oe ——— ei te ae * HARDING ACCEPTS. eprori TEERING is a sin of commission, f under production is a sin of omission.” | + Here is a sentiment fairly of the greater part of Senator Harding’s speech of acceptance, Few there aré who will disagree. Few will disagree with most of the sentences which Senator Handing tattered. ‘ | LHe disofssed a half a tundred questions, many of Phém important and fundamental, But he did not Wehture into the realm where opinions differ. He was satisfied with the statement of those phases of “Whe questions on which opinions are well Thigh — ranicous. Sonorous platitude followed sonorous platitude. One led to another with a nicely calculated transl. "Bon sentenice to preserve the dead level of monotony. » If this speech evoked any enthusiasm among his ‘suditors, it must be accepted-as a tribute to his skill 65 a speaker or to his personality. There is no in- sptration in the printed speech. . Indeed, there is ‘only a modicum of information. 3 Ja spots he improved on the platform. “ _ _.His Mexican policy will displease Senator Pall: /TThe Tiquor question he straddled as successfully _ 9@8 did the party in convention.. reference to'the tariff is perfunctory and lacks ““onviction, even though he labels it with “Ameri- “SY On free speech, free press and free assembly his \ The stind Is and definite, His Senator Knox when he says: “1 promise you formal and effective peace so chly as a Republican ress can pass its claration for a Republican Hoe to sign.” ‘What sort of a peace this may be the candidate Goes not specify. “He does not explain with whom the peace will agreed to and assumes that Germany will gladly ‘accept any peace which a Reprfblican/Congress may "Bass and 4 Republican Exequtive may sign. "It mattered not a whit to him that Senator Lodge, “thé Chairman of the Notification Committee, who f before him, had proclaimed that the very idea of ce peace “would brand us with everlasting seems that Senator unreservedly of the American aspiration the Republican committal for an association of nations co-operating in sublime accord." Hat in hand, America—speaking through the Re- Party this time—can go to the nations now together in an association of nations, the only “astociation of nations that stands a a chance of rising from ruins of war. America—speaking the Republicans—may then say that al- Nation does not propose to come in on are agreeable to every other civilized we want to have another association and Senator Harding‘s platitudinous appeal to " whatever that may mean. in this The world witl not misconstrue. We do not to hold aloof. We do not mean to shun a gle res ponsibilily of this Republic (o world ctvt- ati There is no hale in the American heart, have no enoy, no suspicion, no aversion for y plople én the world," hea childlike faith in the understanding of all the “test of the world Is touching, but it is not convincing, particularly when It follows Senator Harding’s own lement of the suspicion with which he and the blicans of the Senate” saw “‘the structure of super-government taking visionary form” “halted the barter of independent American and influence which it was proposed to government of the world,” hy should the world not “‘misconstrue?” ter the Senator states that “i will avail to discuss in detail the League Covenant,” on this he is wise. least he is shrewd, in. on he would have difficulty in inge for an obscure and unequal place in the THE pointing to the line and paragraph which harbors this “visionary form” of “super-government.” Again, he “welcomes the referendum to the American people on the preservation of America,” but he states no question which may be referred. He rejects a “written compact which surrenders our freedom of aclion and gives to a military alli- ance the right lo proclaim America’s duty to the world,” but he pledges another association, the pos- sible ills of witch we cannot determine, even grant- Ing that it were possible to negotiate such another compact. « / Are we to choose between these two? Are we te Choose between a fact and a possibility? For the rest of his speech the Senator deals largely in platitudes, truth 90 true as to be trite. But as re- gards international relations, honesty and truth are not in him, He Is fighting; not the League of Nations, but the bogy the Republican partisans have set up in its place. He merely continues the wicked, malicious, shameful campaign of deception which this masters of the Senatorial oligarchy ‘have waged for more than a year, There remains time enough to expose the fraud. Senator Harding has made It obligatory on Gov. Cox to tear the mask of hypocrisy from the Repub- tican position on the League. WHERE THE MONEY GOES. GREAT Insurance oompany recently an- nounced the loan of a large sum of money on most favorable terms to finance the building of an addition to the New York Stock Exchange. This same company is unwilling to make loans for the construction of homes. Meantime policy holders, actual or potential are paying to the rent gougers money which might far ‘better be Invested in insurance. This may be good business policy for the moment, but will it prove so in the long run? NOMINATED AGAIN. OMINATED for President by the Prohibition Party, William J, Bryan was in a position similar to Theodore Roosevelt in 1916, When the Progressive convention adjoury Roosevelt was the nominee, although: he had ‘not agreed to accept. Finally he declined. His reasons might be summed wp in something this fashion: - If Roosevelt decided to make the race, he was doomed to defeat. Prom eachrold party he would draw a certain measuro of genuine Progressive sup- port. But most of the votes would come from his personal following in his old party, The Roose- veltlans would vote for him because he was Roose- velt if for no other reason. Such a split would work In favor of Wilson and the Democrats. This settled the matter. Roose- velt declined, not because he loved the Progressives less, but because the Democrats were even more dis- tasteful to him than the Old Guard of the G. O. P. ‘Mr. Bryan was in like position. Running for, Presi- dent as a Prohibitionist he would have not a ghost of a show of election. Naturally Bryan would draw the fanatic Prohi- bition vote. But Bryan, like Roosevelt, has a con- skierable personal following, These Bryanites, nor- mally Democratic, would vote for Bryan because he was Bryan and would so help the G, O. P. Old Guard. Mr. Bryan’s course was as clear as was Roose- velt’s in 1916, Mr. Bryan could not tove the stalwarts of the ‘Old Guard well enough to play their game for them. LET THE BEST WIN. ESOLUTE’S showing Wednesday was most satisfactory. Boat for boat, the race was “neck and neck” or bowsprit and bowsprit. The finish was as Inspiring a sight as sportsmen ever witness, America has not yet lost the cup. A victory now would be all the more a victory becausé” of the breaks in the game in the early part of the series, But the closeness of Wednesday's race, despite the larger sail area of Shamrock, only emphasizes the demand for an abolition of the handicap rufe in fature contests. As a sport yachting couk! not fafl to benefit by removing the penalty from daring Innovations in construction, Then let the best yacht win. , EPIDEMIC BASEBALLITIS, N™ YORK Is mildly mad these days. It takes only the change of a single Jetter to make this wildly mad, The change may come, The mania is most aoute at the Polo Grounds, but ts epidemic in the metropolitan district and highly contagious. This psychopathic condition ts believed to re- sult front’ “gonfalonitis” guperinduced by, jnfantile precoclty. In non-technical terms, New York has the base- ball bug. Nothing else than champion ball plus intense in- terest In the home run hitting of “Babe” Ruth ac- counts for record-breaking attendance at the Chicago series, followed by capacity crowds in the games with Cleveland, If New York is crazy, New Yorkers admit it is a great way to be, i ‘ FRIDAY, JULY | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS — fo say much in @ few words, Tuke State Emptoyeen. To the Biitor of The Evening Workd: Every day wo read of the poor, un- derpaid city workers—they are only being Increased a paltry 20 per cent. The State employees ecem, how- ever, to be entirely forgotten or loat in the shuffle despite the fact that any one in a position to know Js fa- millar with the fact that the State hos never paid salaries ag high as thowe of the ¢ity of New York. We feel that the alty employees have been entitled to every cent of In- crease which they have been able to seoure, Dut we feel that the State employees have not received proper com@ideration up to this time. Now please note: In the State ser- vice at the present time not only is it an utter impossibility for most of us to obtain an imorease in salary, but actually many of the employees have suffered an absolute reduction, as of July 1, 1920, which came about in this way: Since July 1, 1918, a bonus of 10 per cent, has been paid to those receiving less than $1,500 per annum. | —the bonus in no case to make the total more than $1,600, Through some oversight this was not contirfued this | fiscal yoar, the intention being to pass | a new measure 4 20 per cent. straight increase to all ‘employees, Unfortunately this bill died in the sittee, Recent news informs us that the State income for the year 1920 will exceed the expenditures by about $14,700,000, leaving this eurplus avall- able for the year 1921. Cannot some ‘of these moneys be used to help State employees, many of whom are actually living from hand to mouth at the time? Petts proposed to hold-an extra ses- It ts eo islature to relieve the ee unten, and without doubt some measure of relief could be given to tho State employees at the same time, STATE BMPLOYEE, ‘Thank You! ‘Yo the Bittor of The Bening World: A note for the “Field of Science” column, A Brooklyn man has In- vented a camera device which enables one to be his or her own photographer in taking snapshots—time or ex- posure pictures, A SUBSCRIBER, July 20. Leet Pertinent Facts. ‘To the Biter of The Evening World: Sir: After belng exposed to count~ less arguments on the why and wherefore of (ae popular (7) subject, |breaking out in the following, my view of the mess. Here it is briefty: Five years ago the average man knew bow to spend his Siney Ana get gomething for it; to-day he knows how to spend it. Take our old friend John Doe, for instance, when he was What kind of letter do yuu pnd most readablet Isn't it the ono that gives pow the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There t# fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying —_— high cost of living, I could not help | time to be brief. | and were real “spiffy,” for only $25; hia shirts were silk striped madras, | for about $2.50; his shoes of good) leather and cut, set him back $5. About two nights a week John would take the madam and the kids around to the movies and the whole bunch would laugh at the antics of & couple of custard pie artists, absorb A round of sodas and return home tired and happy, When the bell rang or the whistle blew for John's lunch hour he would dash out to “Mike's” place around the corner, where a real bang-up “regular” dinner was served for the modest sum of two bits; finishing this he would egtract a deck of his favor- {te smokes thd puff away the remain- Ing few minutes in ease, /nnd on pay days they always managed to salt away a few dollars for that rainy day; and, all tn all, John thought they were getting along protty fair. But you ought to see John now; he has progressed with a double-bar- relled P, the little tatlor still geila those sults at $35 to $40, but John gets his cut by a Broadway firm that can't sce anything under $60; the moedras shirts are eoing begging at $. John has a half dozen of the Swellest silk ones that you ever saw at $11 each, and his shoes—oh, hor! veal Cordovans and only $15. They went to the opera four times this Season and a Rroadway show once n week; they spent two weeks at At- Jantic City trying to imitate the Profiteers, Mike still serves that ‘Ferular" dinner for 40, but our here gets bis In a swell place where the waiters wear dress sults and rebel at anything leas then a 2h-cent tip, And the receiving teller at the bank hasn't seen John in ages, for who can save anything tn these days of theshieh cost of high living on 848 per week? LORIDA, Brooklyn, July 15, Prison Conditionn, To the PMiter of ‘The Evening World Your correspondent signing him- self “Anti-Crook” takes the position that until soctety-makes prison a “hell onearth” , . . “We may ex- pect that the daily grind of hold-ups, murders and other more genteel forms of lawlessness will thrive in abject scorn of law and the citizenry.” ‘That doctrine, practised for a hun- dred years in this country, proved so absolutely futile that In the end not only the persons whom your corre- spondent calls “prison reformers” but society in general came to abhor tt. It fatled to decrease crime and it of- fended the sense of’ decency and jus- tice, Henee, the inevitable though gradual abandonment of the theory of | fear and pain and cruelty within the prison, though there are still fur- vivals of it. The Prison Association of New York, as well as the American Prison |making $20 per and earning wore his two sults per year and stil! looked presentable; they were made ww UtUe wide street Lalla, ‘ pF eee it; he’ Asi tion, a body composed of the wi nd most experienced persons in the entire country in dealing with wake Cr aaa UNCOMMON. SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Jobu Blake.) BE AFRAID TO BE SCARED. Fear ‘nas done more harm in the world thaa drunken- ness—which is saying a good deal. » The sooner you eliminate fear from your mafeup the sooner you will get where you are trying to go. The man who has the best chance in.the world is the maa who is afraid to be scared—who has learned to fear fear. The fear that saps & man’s purpose and leaves him trembling and helpless oa the threshold of life has many forms. ~ There is the fear of the rich and powerful—too com- mon, even in this day, when the rich aad powerful can do little harm to their fellows, There is the fear of poverty—a real fear, and one which is harder to shake off thwa all the others, There is ‘the fear of what other people will say, the fear of being ridiculed—the commonest and perhaps the most mischievous form. » ' Get them all out of your system. 2 Remember that the rich and the powerful, of whose greabiess you stand in awe, are only numan beings and that they have little reason for wanting to injure you, even if it were possible. 7 Get rid of the fear of poverty by thrift and frugality, which will enable you if necessary to live on little and give you a reserve to tide you over if the loss of a job temporarily strands you oa the beach. 7 ow to the fear of ridicule, forget it altogether. The opinion of other people is more negligible than you suppose. And those who’ would ridicule you because you are working hard and with a purpose are moved more by jealousy than any other motive, = As soon as you discover that other people can be afraid of you you will cease to be afraid of them, Then your fears gradually will subside, + Fear is instinctive in most of us, It is one of the resulta of the desire for self preservation that is as old as the race, But it is always a handicap. The thing that you should be most ufraid of is fear—the fear that makes you a weak, paltry creature, with your faculties paralyzed and all the elements of progress that are in you terrified_into inaction. \ TheFarmers’S—] Leaving theFarins” :: By Sophie Irene Loeb. F anybody thinks that the farmég ia not alive to the yivid opmpari- sons of farm life and farm hard- shipg sand emall returns as againgt rr city’ jobs and advantages and tucra~ tive pay, he has but te go into the & ‘| farm districta and learn the truth— a truth that is dally growmg serious and threatens The very sustenance ef the comnmunity, ‘This particular phase of the food question was well wet Yorth to me by, three of the most intelligent and pro- gresalve farmers in the State, with whom I discussed at length the grow- ing tendency for more shortage of food and higher prices, « These three men of Dutchess 4 County, H. D. Warner, J. G. Dutcher and F, L, Gamage, gave me a word picture of the sguation that showwld arouse every city dweller to some concerted action to avoid hardships, Prices may drop for the present, but what of the future supply? ‘These men, it is sald, produce te highest average of milk from theif | respective herds of any in the Staic. Dr, Gamage put the matter very plainly “Just what inducement Ie there tor new farm development? Take mi, 30 cows, each of which produced tus? year between four and five thousand. quarts of milk at approximately 6c. « quart, averaging for each cow a re- turn of $260. “My grain for this herd approxie mated $4,000, The pay of two hire€ men and thelr board was about $3,000 What is there left after charging of insurance, depreciation and other in« cidentals in farm work? Very little if anything. "Why does the farmer stay in the ‘business? He just can’t help himseif, There he {s with his home and hie entire investment, He's got to stick win or lose. He hag no alters hative. Besides, he would be a fish out of water anywhere else, “But the old farmer is the only | kkindewho will 6 . “Vor example, other day [met | a friend of mine, a farmer. He is am Fy old man. I asked him, ‘Who is doing your work now? “He answered, ‘Myself and my son, fifteen.’ “Where is Edd! ring to his twent: “Oh, do you thin farm" he said, surptt He's in Baltimore, Government, gett eight hours. don’t biame Eddie. He couldn’t make half that much on the farm.’ “TD take Eddie's place this ota farmer, who has twenty-four cows tv care for, offered a hired man $100 & month and his board. ‘The hired mun said he was going to the city and learn to be a plumber and mak more while he was learning than the farmer could pay him. “Another significant Incident about the plodding stidk-to-itiveness of the eld farmer, which cannot last very long, {8 that of another friend I met a days ago. He was very hap- « he sed. working $6 wa day for y," said Dr. Gamage. éWhen [ asked what was the rea- son of his good fortune, he said: "Why, I made $1,600 in cash las year, and I've got it in the bank. There it is, what do you think of tha “And when I asked him had he considered his own wages in the matter, he answered, no, he hadn't, = [ nor that of his wife, who worked with him. “Neither had he thought about depreciation, painting his barn and such other incidentals, He had $1,600 in the bank in real money. But t human endeavor that went into that $1,600 had escaped him until one of these days he begins to make com- | ons, a8 he is bound to do. when I asked him, ‘Why do nk this $1,600 vear ds such a year?’ his significant answe' ‘Because this is the first ve come out with any real + very year before I had noth- ing left in the bank.’ “Since that, this farmer has been offered $3,100 for his farm from some { city people, and he has a chance of getting work in a shipyard for $6 a day. “The answer is obvio' What a | pity this is, because here is a farmer who, if he had a return commen- | surate with his efforts, would want what a skilled individ the farmer they are most fitted and where they These three dairy farmers discussed course was to the effect that te far: on any of these matters, but realized the Importance of arousing some con- © of farm products and the consuming troubles are: labor and the small return. he concluded, “and somebody should mensurate with his labor, elimination—elimination of the super- legion,” he concluded. ; him and his sons remaining where humane’ treatment with increased emphasis on education, reformation and individual treatment of the pris- oner, 1 have spent considerable time dur- ‘ng several years in tracing from public documents the history of pris- ons in this country. What one gen- eration has regarded as a relatively humane and just form of punishment a succeeding generation has tended to regard as extreme and cruel, This condition has been especially notice- able during the twentieth contury, Probation, parole, the indeterminate sentence, juvenile courts, the honor system, self-government and now the effort to reach far nearer the source linquency. In human being dnd reclaimable. failed to retain its former hold people's mind: rison as a “hell upon earth” ‘failed to justify itself and prevention by community organ- ization of local resources are char- | within the prison walls, acteristic of society's efforts, repre-| sented by specialists, to reduce the tion of other more educational and rational methods of treatment of de- such progress, mistakes and often flabby treatment are not un- common, but such facts do not argue against what is an effort to treat the individual who has gone wrong as a Just as the doctrine of @ future hell has #o the doctrine of the has The substitu tion of other methods than fear and torture demand a higher type of mind to appreciate and apply and your cor- respondent has not grasped tbe ‘real | of delinquency through its reduction |\meaning of all these efforts to apply Ly the principles of humanity and Justice ©. F. LEW, Genera) Secretary, Prison Asso@ia. Nek \eiue tos pavemaily for prisons by Ube substitu. ! sion of nothing better than to stay right on the farm, must be; it takes him years to learn his trade, as it were, and you have will be of greatest benefit to you as consumers, at length the milk situation. er is getting too small a price and the consumer is paying too much. public, which items are vital. “The farmer is worthy of bis hire,” ‘That’s a Fact’ | By Albert P. Southwick “And you city people do not realize done practically nothing to encoumge “It la a grave state of affairs,” ‘The sum and substance of their dis- ‘They were all reluctant to be quoted structive action in the jolm& interest — Dr. Gamage stated that the chiet High cost of grain, high cost of see to it that he has @ return com- “This can be done by the process of fiuous middlemen of whom there ts 7 t, 1920, ; come, a, bah im Rte Co. ‘The highest rafiroad in the Unites States is the Denver and South Park, @ branch of the Union Pa- cific, at Alpine Tunnel, 11,596 feet ‘on| Above eea-level. r Tho tallest statue in the world is that of “Liberty,” on Bedioc'a Island, New York Harbor. 9% feet high. ‘Forty persons cay dtand in the head and the toroh will bold twelve, oe Moore Street, New York City, wag originally Moot the moortng place, from which tht single wharf ex. tended a little beyond the @resem Amie af Wales 4 eee