The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1920, Page 10

BY JOSEPH PULITEER. Es y by the Press Pubitehing Roa. Bee aa ard Rew. New York. Otters” Park Row. MOQERER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREBA, ‘Sot ctharwise creed (Stale poet A TONIC UTTERANCE. ON’T be gatisfied with digests of Gov, Cox's ‘i Read it in full. ‘ bai The Evening World offers this advice with a Guarantee that the interest, the excellent style, the _ Straightforwardness and, in short, the readableness “of the Cox address more than atone for its length. The Democratic candidate dots not circle about the issues he discusses. He drives straight into them. Nor does his speech leave that impression of carp- ing effort to find matter for criticism, that straining , after vague portents of gloom and disaster, which fias beer one of the most depressing factors in the . Republican platform and the utterances of the Re- publican candidate. Gov. Cox accepts his candidacy with an invigorat- : * ing, thopeful and at the same time penetrative dis- ‘ _ emsion of public problems calculated to put beart * and confidence into every American citizen who reads it. Not that he does not indict where indictment is due. ‘ His exposure of political motives behind the Re- - ~ erm Senatorial cabal that deliberately “ob- : and delayed the works of peace” and per- mitted political expediency to “dwarf every con- sidegation either of the public interest or of the * maintenance of the honor of a great political party” + is mercilessly complete. He shows up at léngth the Republican twistings and turnings which finally brought the party under _ the thumb of Senator Johnson, so far as its League * policy is concerned, . i i _ He points out all the “bungling diplomacy, the ; es = pial uibadulierated dishonesty” that musi atiend ) |‘ the Harding plan of keeping the Nation’s back turned to the existing League and making a separate ~ peace with Germany: ‘Suppose Germany, recognizing the first break in the Allies, proposes something we _ eabnot accept, Does Senator Harding intend to send an army to Germany to press her to our terms? Certainly the Allied armies could not be expected to render aid. } “If, on the other hand, Germany should ac- “@ eept the ebance we offered of breaking the , bond, it would be for the express purpose of \ insuring a German-American alliance, recox- re nizing that the Allies—in fact no nation in ae _ ®00d standing—would have anything to do with us.” <a ee + By _ Gov. Cox reaffirms Democratic insistence that . the Unitéd States rust enter the League, and enter + it without any reservations that disturb its vital | He again suggests, as a means of meeting the ob- Jections of tiose who believe that in joining the * League without reservation of any sort we might | be inviting a controversy over our Constitutional + rights, “a Senatorial addition in words something © like: these’: “It will of course be understood that in car- rying out the purpose of the League the Gov- ernment of the United States must at all times act in strict harmony with the terms and intent-of the United States Constitution, which cannot in any way be altered by the treaty- making power.” Could anything come closer to the “ratified and accepted by the United States in the light of the Consti- tution a the United States” which The Evening World , has long urged as the one simple and sufficient Tesérvation calculated to test the honesty of all reservationists? Constructive, specific and direct is Goy, Cox's + treatment of domestic problems, _ Repeal war taxes, inchuding the burdensome and Fepressive excess profits taxyand substitute for the Tatter “a small tax, probably one to one and one- eoncem,” is the Democratic candidate's concrete and practical proposal for restoring confidence and ) eourage to business enterprise aud relieving the con- © sumer of an unjust load: | “Th profiteer and some of the highly cap- , Maltacd Upits have used the excess profits * tax af @ favorite excuse for loading on the consumer dy means of highly inflated selling -pricés many Umes the amount actually paid the Government.” This Brees practice was thoroughly explained is ago by The Evening World, which was the j first to urge the replacement of the excess profits tax by a tax on gtoss business. Equally sound, sure and practical are Gov, Cox's proposals for reducing the expenses of government, for modernizing marketing methods and facilities, for multiplying the number of home owners as dis- tinguished from tenants and for making public opin- ion a dominant and compelling factor in thé settle- ment of disputes between labor and capilal. No one who reads the Cox speech will fail to note the incisiveness with which, in discussing profiteers, it penetrates one of the weakest spots in the Repub- lican armor: “For years large contributions have been: made to the Republican campaign fund for no purpose except to buy @ governmental under- hold and to make illegal profits as the result of preference. Such largesses are to-day a greater menace to our contentment and our institutions than the countless temporary Profiteers who are making a mockery of honest business, but who can live and fatten only in time of disturbed prices,” That turns the light as squarely on dhe reactionary heritage of the Republican Party as does the Dem- ocratic candidate's sharp differentiation between Senator Harding's conception of the Presidency as the embodiment of “government by party” and his own. notion of the President as an Executive re- sponsible to the whole people, with obtigations to no group. If Gov, Cox had set out to-contrast a true and cheerful Democratic progressivism in the larger sense with the narrowly dubious and devious states of mind now manifest in the Republican camp, he could not have done it better than in his speech of acceptance. It is a tonic utterance. RADIUM IN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. BRHAPS it is fortunate that radium is so ex- pensive as to be out of the reach of the quacks. For radium is as dangerous when unwisely used as it is beneficial when correctly and scientifi- cally administered. Only a few Ifrge institutions are in position to offer radium treatment. The quack practitioner has little or no chance to boodwink a hopeful though uninformed public, for the fraud would be readily detected by watchful medical.authorities. New York State is to be congratulated on mak- ing provision for the treatment of the scourge of cancer with State-owned radium in the Buffalo Institute. But announcement of the availability of the free treatment at Buffalo has caused some misunderstanding and criticism. Many have won- dered, very naturally, why the fadium was located at Buffalo instead of in New York City. The answer is that New York City is already provided. Memorial Hospital has a radium supply larger than the State owns at Buffalo, Although Memorial Hospital makes a charge when the patient is financially able to pay, no suf- ferer is turned away if radium treatments promise benefit. Memorial Hospital was one of the early experi- menters with the use of radium as a curative agent. The success of the cancer clinic here was in large measure responsible for the State purchase of the supply to be used at Buffalo, In depositing radium in an up-State city the State is not discriminating against the metropolis, It is merely helping other localities to enjoy some-- thing near the advantages which New York already enjoys. POLICE FIELD DAYS. 667TC HE FINEST,” as New Yorkers affectionately know them, are advertising the annual field day games for the benefit of the Police Relief Fund. The bluecoats are selling tickets for the big ath- letic carnival on the last two Saturday afternoons of August. The price is one dollar. e Here's wishing the best of luck to the salesmen and a cordial response by the public. The athletic exhibition ‘will be well worth te money for any lover af good sport, for the New York police force , numbers a host of redoubtable athletes, as most of the inmates of Sing Sing or Blackwell's Island can testify. But whether a New Yorker intends to see the games or not, he can well afford to buy a ticket and in a small measure show this appreciation of the service the rank and file of the police force render every hour of every day of the year. The police do not ask favors. ‘The tickets for the games are not in the nature of a “drive,” even though the object for which the maney goes is as commendable as almost any avowed charity, Nevertheless, New York owes the relief to the de- pendenis of the defendeys of the city. One ticket or a handful at a dollar apiece is an | easy way of showing appreciation. ‘Then, if possi. ble, turn out and see the field day programme as a further mark of apprecialion, \ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURD: HELLO TS 2 OW ARE MY STARVED WELL! WELL DADDY DIDN'T LET ‘You STARVE EITHER ! FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | Nt NOT MUCH | | Took VERY ALL. + LITTLE FIDO! wae ON. You ‘Lt BE SURPRISED What kind of letter do you fina most readuble? isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise und @ lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. Pay of To ne Ualitor of ime Tenders. jing Word : 1 read in large type of Mayor John ri Hylan vetoing the $5,000,000 ap- Propriation passed during the last session of the Legislature, The un- derpaid city employees Lave been Surely overlooked by the heads of city departments in the inequalities of saluries. I will tell The Evening World readers my wages during the last four yeara, In 1917 my salary feed a? That was for twenty men Picked out as marks, and 145 others were given $960 for doing the same Kind of work and holding the same title in rade, In 1918 my salary was $1,020, or about $2.80 a day, while laborers received $8 a day. In 1919 my salary was $1,120, or about $3.10 a day, and all laborers got $3.25 a day. In 1920 my salary is $1,320 per annum, or about $8.60 a day, and on) Jan. 1 all laborers got $4 a dey, and | on May 15 were granted $5 a day, Why should bridge tenders get de- moted in salary when they have to pass an examination for promotion from laborer, and work seven days a week, and buy thetr own untforms? | We have to pay the same high prices for food and clothing as employees. receiving over $3,000 a year, Bridge tenders should receive at least the same wages as laborers. Why are we discriminated against? Why are the poor and-underpald bridge ten- ders not given more than the 20 per cent. increase? All_ credit to The Evening World and Mayor Hylan tn their fight for us underpaid faithful city employees for a number of years. No old maid would marry nowadays a man earn- ing $3.60 a day, and rents and food getting higher, also clothing—sugar, 25 cents a pound; potatoes, 5 cents a pound. Can a marfled bridge tender Ket along on his present salury of $3.60 a day? BRIDGE TENDER, x “Patt, Puff, Blow, Blow, There They Are, Away They Go. ‘To the Rdltor of The Wrening World: May I offer my opinion on the late cup races? Having had ten years trom cabin boy to captain on a North Sea trawler, I think I am somewhat posted in matters of seamanship. 1 | do not know a better angle to judge | from than the opportunity given to the North Sea fisherman whose life was one of soll, sail, sail sixty ton fore and aft rig, and every day a race. Wither beating, running or reaching ficets of vessels made up of perhaps 200 sails, I have watched the races carefully and with a single eve that Uhe beat boat wins. T have given apd taken ap the wind and | weather have permitted me, and the advantages either boat may have had. And my conclusions as based upon the nature of prevaliug conditions, boat structure, spread of canvas, er- ficiency of crews, acquaintance of {home waters, &c., T am inclined to jbelleve as some others that Satur- |day's race, (hough postponed on ac- far in saying that the Resolute was not built for such a test of weather, while the Shamrock as a matter of fact was and had to be a sea and wind puncher. Should the time ar- rive for the mug to travel across the Atlantic, which I belleve it will some day, then the same thing will take place. America will, of course, have to build an ocean-going boat, while Sir Thomas will, or those in authority, lighten the construction and perhaps @ handicap for the American yacht on time allowance. However, this 1s merely prospective. ever, that the Shamrock I all others, ts yet an untried boat in cher weather, Better luck next time, SirThomas, W. H, COLLINSON. The H.C. L. ‘Te the Biter of The Evening Work: I find it impossible to keep silent at- ter having read "Piorida’s" and “‘Of- flee Worker's” absurd letters, “Flor- ida,” whose $45 per week works such wonders, is a paragon, I: shouldn't wonder he also owns a few “castles in Spain,” But I do not understand “Office Worker,” Is he saving for a “rainy day” out of the $75 per week, or is he congratulating himself for making “both ends meet"? Seventy-five dol- lars a week and has not bought any clothes in a year, and only an occa- sional “movie” for recreation! It strikes me he aught to live decent on $15 per week; besides, I hardly think he is bleased (or opposite?) with a large family. Iam a mother of four growing chil- dren, and have no other resources besides the $45 per week my husband earns. I therefore know how far $46 per week can stretch. I have not bought anything decent in allnost two years, and go to see a "movie" once in a “blue moon.” Our food is very simple, wé do not indulge in any extravagance, and yet not put anything by for a “rainy aay.” I am sure there is many a mnie who will agree with me. How js that for beating the H. C. L, and live? Respectfully, AMBRICA, Wamen. To the Bliter of The Evening World 1 also, find it impossible not to re- epond te your correspondent “One Who Knows." His statements in gen- eral are foolish in the extreme, as, for instance, printers getting $80 to $100 & week. I happen to be a printer, u member of “Big Six,” and I'll say that my wife is very fortunate to be wear- ing cotton stockings instead of allk, and ag for fur coats, well, the printer that “set up” his letter must have been fit to be etied when he got through, “ Who Knows” in rea!- ity knows d—n Mite, as any printer will testify, What the workingman ig after to-day i# a “living” for his family, and that is all, “One Who Knows" shows great understanding as to the labor situation when he nuya, in substance, that the working- y's count of stiong wind and to some extent dangerous, yet all things be ing equal It was un ideal day for | the Shamrock, whieh { believe could and would hive stood up under a reefed mainsail, jib and foresail and | | Salehed wate winner, 1 muy Bot go too | man is a “crook,” and it would be lmuch better for men such us he to Keep their mouths shut, This man is un Al bug if there ever was cne Ho's the “potential thief that keeps the real facts trom une public, A MS PRINTUR. You SURELY TOOK realy CARE QF MY PLANT Tao | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright, 1920, by John Biske.) WHE FORMING HABITS FORM GOOD ONES. Nobody is born with habits. They must be formed. Even bad habits cannot be made in a hurry. “No man ever became extremely wicked all at once,” said Juvenal, wisely. The liquor addict looks back regretfully on the months he speat learning to become a drunkard. He could have formed a good habit in the same time. Even carelessness, ane of the most vicious and danger- ous of habits, is not natural. It is built up througn haste and inattention, gets rid of it, Study successful men and,you will find that they have formed habits that make success. Gradually they have learned to be thorough, to be care- ful, to cowentrate their attention on what they are doing. None of these tnings are learned easily. Good habits are harder to form than bad habits. But if you will spend the same time trying to cultivate a good habit that you do slipping into a bad habit yoa will be well on your way toward establishing it before you know it. Habit rules and guides your daily life as the cyliader of a locomotive rules and guides the energy that drives the engine, A well designed cylinder will get far more power from the same steam pressure than a badly designed cylinder, Your habits, if they are the rignt kind, will conserve aad wisely utilize your energy and make you worth twice what you would be with the wrong kind. Spend your time cultivating good ones. You know what good habits are. You know how to acquire them, unless you are very dull or very inattentive to the life around you. Once good habits are formed there will be mo lost mo- tion, little worry, only the constant flow wf call ae through the right channels, t may take ten years to form on will be worth all that time, eat able your mature. the power you But it and more, when it is a part of ———_________ — [ise iemer-aarNRLRTEIT ESIDDNS i and companion of ‘“ 99, welts in @ rousing speech in oe. t’: t* | ritish Parliament, in’ which he at sarac | justified the resentment ‘of’ the Americans against the Stamp Act, By Albert P, Southwick Rublianing Co. forid.) Lond Bellamont, one of the ff Governors of New York, ‘had the bodies of Jacob Leisia and’ bie son- in-law disinterred and buried with It is said that when the engin- eers of the West Shore Hailroad | honor, and then began a war penetrated the valley of the Hack- | against bribe-takers, pirates and ensick River, about 1855 they | smugglers. He died, unfortunately, caused great commotion among the | @fler only three years’ rule. honest Dutoh residents by stating that the American Republic had been proclaimed eighty years 'be- ore, ‘The “true and 'well-beloved Capt, Kidd," as King William called him, was made commander of the fine bie Adventure, sailing from Eng- land, ‘The first bloodshed in the War im May, 1696, with thirt of the Revolution was that of the | guns and elghty men. On are battle of Golden Hill (John Street, | ing at New York he inoreased hia crew to 163, gid goodby to his wife and children, end sutled away, near Witiam, New York City, and @ tablet there relates the story) leaving wounded British soldiers and citizens-on Jan, 18-19, 1770, two before the Boston Mas- It was in the year 1800 vhat Mr, i ee —— SSS pg SS Samuel Burltng's highly judio‘ous offer to plant with poplar trees = + Bradway fram Leonanl Street to 4 The expression, “Sons of Lib- Greenwich Lane was avcepted, erty,’ was Lire vy Barre, wratefully, by the corporation. * Once formed, its possessor might as well give up hope of advancement till he comes to his senses and —————————E rs TURNING THE PAGES! —s!— Otis Peabody Swift Corrie, 1928 ty The. Prom ub err yie New \ork Evening World). Where the Poet Is King-++ | “Poets enjoy great privileges and immunities in Mexico," says Timothy Gilman Turner in Leslie's. They have a story in Coahuila about this power of poets, In the eurly stuges of the Constitutionalist revolution some Vederal uoops had been driven from a wood, but a few of the little, brown, pajamaed in- fantrymen of the Huerta dictatorship climbed into the trees as agilely as the monkeys they resemble. So the | rebels went about as squirrel hunters, | One party surrounded a tree in whose | branches the fawn color of a uniform had been observed, Just as the rifles were raised, a brown hand with an ‘oratorical gesture was thrust through |the leaves, and a clipped head ap- peared, “Don't shoot,” said the voice with ja theatrical modulation, “don’t shoot me, Lam a poet.” } The soldier was the regimental { Poet, composer of the verses for the folksongs in which are related the progress of the campaign. Almost jevery regiment in the old Federal army had its laureate. “Come down, Mr. Poet,” cried the {men below, and they made him recite {some of his verses, after which each ono of the rebels gave him a good, hard hug. One may not strike a poet, any more than a woman, whether he is up a tree in Coahuila or occupying city In Dalmatia, | . “Kill the Landlord! ‘These days of high rents and the oppressed taxpayer call to mind similar disturbunces which took place as fur back as the forties, New Yorkers were having their troubles with Jandlords even at that time, and it 18 curious that very little has been published about the “rebellion,” which was one of the most serigus uprisings this country ever knew. Seventy-five years ago the land ten- ants of New York State suddenly re- \rused to pay the patroon rents. Or- gunized into various “tribes” of “In- <jians,” they defied Jandlords, agents, gheritfs, officers and the law. Tar brushes, hickory whips, and even more drastic measures were re- sorted to as @ protest against rents. ‘Thus the anti-rent “Indians” were the forerunners of the Klu-Klux- Klan, the White Caps, the Night Riders, &c. While they did not win lower rents by actual rebellion, they soon became strong enough to elect a Governor for New York, and this ended the patroon lund-holding sys- tem in this country, There is an Interesting account of this period in 2 hook eallad “Ranent Creighton * just published by Alfred A. Knoof und @ comparison of that day and the present shows that the rent profi- teers haven't changed radicaily. cee Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The following portrait of the Arch- duke Frang Ferdinand of Austria, the man whose murder plunged the world into war, is given by Count Ottokar Czerin in his book, “In the World War," just published by the Harpers. “The Archduke was a man of a very peculiar nature, The main feat- ure of his character was lack of bal- ance. He knew no middle course and was just as eager to hate as to love. He did nothing like other people, and what he did was done in superhuma: dimensions, His bitterness exercis a lasting Influence on his entire mgn- tal outlook, He was a despiver of men with his wits sharpened by his own experience, and never allowed himself to be fooled by servile, cring- ing flattery.” see “Ave Atque Vale”--- “. 4. But those who ever satied the sea And felt its rugged grip. Will ever turn back wistfully To seek another ship; Another ship to bear them out; old song on their lips, Across the long, gray, endless wavea, The rolling, curting mounting\ waves, To where the sunset dips And cools its flaming face in spray; Its ebbing colors, gold and gray Still lingering in the clouds, As one by one the windy stars Prick through the velvet sky, And fire-tip the swaying spars And dance among the shrouds, While through the swift descend- ing night the seagulls wheel and ty.” From Haunts and ‘Bypaths> by J. Thorne Smith, the Down to the Sea--- “The first ‘lighthouses’ were beacon- fires of burning wood maintained by priests for the benefit of the cariy commerce in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, As early as the seventh centu’ Christ these lonet in write century before the an era a tower sald to be of at height was built on a small donear Alexandria dur reign of Ptolemy JI. The tov named Pharos, Which is the or of the term ‘pharology’ applic the sclence of lighthouse Caesar, whe visited Alexa cemuries: later, described th as a ‘tower of great helght of won derful construction.” Piie was kept burning in it, night and day anu Pilny said of it, "During the night it J appears as bright asx a star, and dur- ing the day it Is distinguished by the smoke, ly this tower served as a lighthouse for more than a thou- |8and years, It was found in ruins in | 1249, Throughout succeeding centu- | ries many towers wer bullt, but tittle | attention was given to the develop: ment of light gources and optical paratus “The first lighthouse in the United States and perhaps on the Wostern Continents was: the Boston Light, which was completed in 1716 nis ap- was the practicil result of a petition of Boston nferchants made three years before. The tower was built of ston at & cost of about $10,000. Two y later the keeper and’ his family were drowned and t trophe so affected Benjamin ¥ a boy of th poein concerning it, From "Artificlal Light” by Luckiesl) (The Century Company) ‘The book, well iMustrated and of most Interesting subject matter, is m study of the effect of light (Wpoo clVilization. Md