The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 14

Gunday by the Press Publ to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row, (J, ANGUS SHAW, Treamirer, 63 Park Row. GOREPH PULITZER: Jr.. Seoretary. 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRERS ‘Pre te exctustvely entitied to the use fer repubtiontion Geapatchen credited to it or not etherwise eredited tn this paper also the local mews putiiched herein, GOV. SMITH ACTS. OV. SMITH honors himself when he con- fesses, inability ‘to bring himself to the “un- “democratic way of thinking” that the five Assembly districts which elected Socialists last November This is precisely the stand which The Evening World has advocated. The Evening World has no sympathy with So- ~ Gialists as Socialists. Nor has Gov. Smith. ay On the other hand The Evening World has a | health abhorrance of the Sweet brand of bigoted | patrioteering. This demands stern reproof by the - "ss electorate. ‘If, as seems probable, the five ousted Socialists stand for re-election, they should be returned as a ’ rebuke to the G. O. P. reactionaries, « Gov. Smith has gone on record in pleasing con- rendered trophies across the Atlantic makes inspiring reading. All the ingenuity of the German turned to the art of destruction was countered and over- come by the American Navy men, Byt proof of this was scarce necessary—after the wonder story of the repair of the German merchant ships seized in American harbors when this country entered the war. THE HEALTHIER WAY. Ifa THE face of a housing shortage so serious as to elicit proposals for State and municipal build- ing, why are there not stronger stirrings of private initiative? Not the private initiative of the speculative builder, but the private ifitiative of the home-seeker am- proprietor of his own premises. Where is that record increase in the activity of the co-operative building societies and the building loan associations that one might expect to find ex- erting an appreciable influence to keep the housing crisis from becoming worse? Not everybody can have a home of his own. But are those who could have homes of their own if they would doing all they might do to help them- selves and thereby help the general situation? The savings banks are flourishing and full of “trast to Speaker Sweet. In the special election the > Demooratic organizations will do well to keep hands | _*_ off. Let the followers of Sweet provide all the 4 © opposition to a movement of salutary justice. : By so doing the Democrats will be ready to ‘Venter the November elections and fight the Social- fsts on real issues less complicated by justifiable resentment over the ousting of the Socialists by Sweet & Co. ? t ' ' ' Query: Has the Administration's Russian- Polish note popularized Bolshevism as G. 0. P. orthodoxy? Or will the Grand Old Oll- garchs agree, for a change? : THE BUBBLE BURSTS. “ANY BSTERDAY’S developments seem to have shat- F cere tered the iridescent bubble which Charles 4 “Ponzi held before people who wanted to believe in him. , Ponzi’s effort has been so spectacular that the ‘© final failure should prove all the more valuable as a lesson to the country at large. ., Quick and exorbitant profits are always danger- + ous. Those able to make such profits do not let |. the public in on the ground floor. Ae 2 Perhaps it is just as well that Ponzi was able . “to preserve appearances for as long as he did. With © every one giving serious consideration to his claims, “a host of Ponzi imitators were coming to life. Even if we were-to grant that Ponzi intended to . be honest, to reorganize and conduct business on a more conservative basis, it was certain that others Hotiowing the Ponzi lead would be unscrupulous and abuse the faith of investors, ~ Developments this week have been such as to . {shake the faith of the most trusting souls. Ponzi’s ~*record is against him as well as his recent operations. It would be pleasant to believe, as Ponzi was ‘quoted the other day, that his profits had been made without any one suffering loss. But cold, hard, economic laws dispute such an assertion, If the facts bear out yesterday's predictions from * Boston, several hundred of Ponzl’s most ardent fol- lowers are due to learn a lesson to the contrary. _ © ‘They will bear the loss of the money he has squan- ** dered for his new home and his “spy system” and __ other expenses. They are paying for the lesson , other investors should take to heart. sf Fortunate indeed are those who got out with the “! profits Ponzi distributed so lavishly while he could. Equally fortunate are those who got their money “back with no loss other than savings bank interest. a Copper experts are bard put to it to ex- plain the record-breaking consumption of copper in the last year, The United States alone ts sald to have used more copper in six months than the whole world ever before used in a year. Many explanations are offered, but, strange as it may seem, none of the experts men- tions the demand for copper tubing in “Bighteenth Amendment stills.” RELICS OF “DER TAG.” R BMNANTS of the once Imperial German Navy are now on display in New York Harbor, oA Other ports are scheduled to have a look at the ate |. erstwhile harbingers of “Der Tag.” _ Then the hulks will be towed into the Atlantic and will have a taste of the sort of shot and shell which 5 the German commanders evaded for the four long on pe Years they hid behind the mine barriers near Heli- ~~ Acquestion rises whether the effort of bringing the +» hulks to this side of the Atlantic has been worth _*’* while, They are no longer needed to stimulate the fy; Puying of Liberty Bonds, It is improbable that the ow five will stimulate half the enthusiastic interest which '__ Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock did two weeks ago. ____ At any sate, the story of the difficulties overcome money asking to be put to work. Building associations already organized are capable of indefinite expansion and multiplication, The private home-seeker could quickly widen the opportunities for private home-building on reason- able terms if he showed a determined interest in ways and means. The confirmed tenant too easily gets to believe that everything must be done for him by somebody else. When those who have usually provided for his needs cease to do so, he must turn helplessly to the public authorities and the public funds for aid. Nobody denies that there are large numbers of persons who have to be tenants. Nobody denies that, in an emergency like the present, when private enterprise has utterly failed to supply them with homes enough, they are entitled to such public aid, State or municipal, as wisdom can devise. But the situation would be healthier if all who have it In their power to get out of the tenant class were using their best intelligence and effort to do so. In his speech accepting the Democratic nomina- tion for the Presidency, Gov. Cox included .mong his practical recommendations for the national wel- fare: Multiply our home-owners and you will make the way of the seditious agitator more difficult, Bring into the picture of American life more families having a plot of garden and flowers all their own and you will find new streams running Into the national cur- rent of patriotism. There are more home-owners in America than ever before. The prosperity of the country under Democratic rule has been widely diffused, Never before has the great mass of the people shared in the blessings of plenty. There is much to be done, how- ever, in multiplying our home-owners, Noth- ing will bring more golden return to the welfare of the Republic, He might have added: Multiply our home-owners and you will reduce by just that much the formidableness of the housing problem. : For many that problem can be solved only with public aid. But thé solution will be speedier and less costly if . all who can will take thought and act for themselves. TWICE-OVERS. I got tired of the restrictions of heme and I want to see something of the world.—Margaret Weidner, fourteen years old. Jam able to announce on unimpeachable authority that a political crisis of the first importance to Ireland and the Empire is in progress in Ulster, and that a big breaking of the Covenanters from allegiance to Carson's orders is under way.—Dublin Correspondent of the Evening News (London). We are now certain of enough voles to ratify. Goo. Roberts of” Tennessee. Labor in the building trades ts not giving its full ffort.—Secretary Stein of the State Housing Com- mittee. . How could you run business to-day without a typewriter?—Thomas A. Edison. We all make mistakes in our English at times.— Senator Harding. / by the American Naval crews in bringing the sur- bitious to become his own landlord and see himself It [AM ADMIRING THE NEw ~ / WALL PAPER 224678 PIFFLE INTHE HALL \b T HAVE IT ) DOWN IN BLACK AND WHITE te Oe ey cn, By Maurice Ketten GET To Work | CALL UP THE GROcER SUGAR, SALT OATMEAL, PICKLES, REANS, BREAD, SOAP, COFFEE GINGER ALE WHAT Do CARE 2 We are Y . | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | to say much in a few words. Co-operation for Economy, Many families are buying their or operated apartment buildings. find a place to ive, How Is ft that there are no co-operative home for such persons? ‘The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C, A. end many semi-charitable Inatitutions sort, but they are so crowded that the residents must keep changing. The regular clubs of the clty have dormitory departments, but they are too exponalve for the great part of the single people who need homes. Perhaps there aro co-operative boarding and rooming clubs, but if 80 Lt have never heart of them and would Uke to know about them. should think there would be a fine opportunity for people in the same ne of business, or with common in- terests, to start some such arrange- ment and cut the high cost of living and secure congenial and economical quarters: CLERK, New York, Aug. 11, 1920. Am Appeal for Information. To the Rditer of Tae Brening World Will you or some of your readers be kind enough to inform me whether there fs in existence a cnmp of yete- rans of the 1st Battalion of the U. 8 Marine Codps, which served in Cuba during the Spanish-Amer.can War, If there ts sych a camp where is it lo- cated? THOMAS BURKE, New York, Aug. 11, 1920, An Important Issue, To the Bultor of The Rrening World: While we all must realize the great importance of the League of Nations, t many mindy there is something else that transcends and is para- mount to all other political issues at this moment, I refer to the unnecces- sarily high cost of living, due to pror- teering, All other issues should be relegated until a remedy is found to curd the profiteers. This one subject has inspired a multiplicity of newspaper articles and is on the tongue of everybody, It is the perpetual topic of the hour and the day and yet ail criticism is wasted, as the profiteers know that they ate Immune, Even with ite vital importance to the world, the e of Nations should be temporarily laid aside until vome relief is found for a defenseless people. 1 speak particularly of food. Conditions are becoming — worse, imply because the public Is too tol. t and pationt and are supinely 8 teers. It has simply been a harvost for the frult and vegetable dealers of whom the great majority are for- olgner ‘and honesty, can only see an oppor- tunity to “get tt while the going is side, but as they refer to Prohfb! attempt to provide something of the} ‘To tho Falltor of The Drening World | This is ali fine for the home owner, |etables so amply provided by nature, but there are in New York many sin- | @nd_ find gle persons of all grades who must) ™ chain of restaurants was charging for What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. wood” in tho land of their adoption or temporary residence. What 4 mockery it Is to pick up a own homes in co-operatively owned PeWspaper and read of the bountiful crops and then go into a store or res- taurant and buy these fruits and veg- | the prices almost beyond For example, corn, the dealer asks 75 cents a dozen and the quick lunch place charges 20 cents an ear. Tho) latter price is what the best known it to-day, It lg easy to calculate the tremendous profit in this one article. | Peaches never were so plentiful, or pears, yet we are obliged to pay 4 and 6 cents apiece for them by the meas- ure. And so it is with eVerything else, because we have no drastic laws to stop this robbing of a helpless public. Profiteering has become a malignant disease and has spread beyond control, like influenza did a few years ago. e League of Nations can afford to wait, The Increasing cost of living due to profiteers is enough to cause a rev- olution, P. J, BRADY. Newark, Aug. 10, 1920, Appraved by Authority, To the Biter of ‘The Breuing World: The discussion on spanking does not refer to such parents as Mar- garet writes of, whose children are to be pitied, but to parents of Intell! gence, who will punish justly. They have the right to spank their chil- dren, upheld by the courts, approved | by doctors and recommended by clergymen, J. F. ¥. has tho right idea, not fre- quent spankings, but a thorough un- derstanding on the part of the chil- dren that parents have not relin- quished their right to spank them soundly when they deserve it, that they wil! do so If necessary and that there is no age limit, The trouble in most families {s that the parents think when a child reaches the age of tweive or fourteen it 4s too old to be punished, the chil- dren find they can do as they please, and in a short time all parental au- thority I# lost. The spanking should be given by UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920, by John lake.) MAKE EVERY MAN YOUR TEACHER. Intelligent people are always at school. Mark ‘I'wain, who had very little of what the world calls edication, had far more learning at thirty than most men who have spent their lives studying and teaching in the colleges. Perhaps 25 per cent. of the important mea of to-day have had but little schooling. But they have studied all their lives, and have retained in their minds much of the knowledge they thus acquired, There are few men who cannot teach you something, If you are observing and have a thirst for information you will go to school to most of those you meet, and you will learn much from all of them that is of real value to you. Talk to the people you meet. More important still, lis- ten to them. The road mender can tell you something about road building that you ought to know. A chance bit of information from a locomotive fireman may open a new channel of thought in your mind, and en- able you some time later to add something to the world’s progress: __ Me always talk most intelligently about the things that iftérest them most, whieh is naturally their own business, Get them started on that line if you Then let them do the talking, A few well directed questions will gain you very valuable insight tito many things you never un- derstood before. Executives in business find that their best ideas come from talking to employees who are in the plant and know its needs and shortcomings. They too are i1 school. Most people are educated in something, even if it is only street sweeping. A well balanced man doesn't try to master all professions, but he does try to learn something of the theory of all of them. For every trade is connected, even though remotely, with every other trade. You can know nothing well unless you know many other things that are jot directly connected with it. Go to school to everybe you meet. They will will- ingly be your teachers, and if you are an interested and an attentive pupil you can get yourself an education even,if you have never ii your life written out an examination paper. either father or mother and what one does the other should uphold DISCIPLID Brooklyn, Aug. 11, 1920, Prohinit To the Filitor of The Brening World: Through your paper I would like to ask W. Anderson, A. D, Batchelor and the cont of living? Where they recetve their informa- tion as to the decreasing of crime? people, lacking In patriotism tors of the E) ments of fin imposed upon viola- ishteenth Amendment? These questions do not favor either ition no doubt some Prohibitionist answer them, | con W. J. Bryan, in fact any Prohibition- | erated that proprictors of fruit, vege- ist, whether Prohibition has decreased |table and furniture stores, ete, dis- | play their goods on the streets? gested enough without Where they figure the Government | dren now having their vacations w is going to get the billion dollars they |to play in the streets. mitting lo the greed of the profi. | recuiven | selahaiene premises. of these retail stores the privilege of F Gisplaying thelr wares on the streets, | Mariner's: Harbor, Aug. 9, 1 can) and if not why is this tolerated? AN AMBRICAN, i Slug be. Blocking the Sidewalkn, It they have, couldn't something be done to migitate this evil of congestion in some way? Also from another point ; To the Biltar of The Brening World | of view, this practice of displaying In @ city as large and as populous| food on the streets is not aanitary. jas New York why in the name of DISGUSTED NBW YORKER, mmon sense is it permitted or tol- Wants a Wifely Spanking. ‘Ty the Bititor of The Brening World I think “May of Weehawken” ex- The streets of New York are con- Presses the desire of many of us to this. Ghi-) be punished when we do wrong. h, I have often wished for some one Podestriana| who would have the courage to give yearly from the liquor, wishing to pass must do so by means|me a good old fashioned apankiny dealers? |of the gutter, Some of the proprie-| occasionally. Do they figure on it coming in| tors of thene retail stores use almost| 1 would be proud to marry and through taxation or through pay- half the street in front of their| make a good home for a woman who would do that. I believe there are many ofhens who feel that way, LONELY HARRY, 0: ‘The point is: Have the proprietors 10. The Love Stories of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyright, 1920, by The Prem Publishing Ce,| 7'SRe ‘Now York Krentne. Wortdlas gay No. 6—Solomon and Yee Shunamite., ~* OSWELL one day asked old Dr. Sam Johnson if it was possible for a man to really and truly love more than one woman, where- upon the Great Cham replied, “Yes sir, a thousand of them." There is much to show that the old doctor's dictum will not apply,tto Solomon. We all know that the t powerful and splendid of Isragis Kings was very much of a ladys: man and yet there is good evidenc# ef the fact that away down in his heart there was for Solomon “just one girl.” If the once popular song that tcok the variety crowds by storm had been extant in Solomon's day, His , Majesty could have joined in it’(in the seclusion of his palace, of course) with a hearty seriousness. Our knowledge of “the Shunaiifte,” the maiden whose beauty captivated Sclomon and beld him enthralled for 80 long, is necessarily Hmitedo7 Way know her—just as we know “Bea- |trice,” “Stella,” the “Fair Mald of thens," and other immortal females |—mainly through the writings of the men who loved them. , It is in the “Song of Songs,” usually | called “Solomon's Song,” that we learn of the Shunamite. Solomon in all his glory, followed by |a courtly retinue, visited the jroyal | vineyards upon the slope of fount | Lebanon, and he came by sugpris+ upon the fair being, who Instant! He | on more of interest to him than @ithe | vineyards of Lebanon or all thegigai- aces of Jerusalem! With mingled modesty and fea: beautiful creature fled—bounded aay like a deer through the forest gang was soon lost to sight. | But the man tp whom the yj came as a “phantom of delight” bwas | not to be outdone, and, having lodatea the Shunamite, he visited her #dis- guised as a shepherd, and so succdededt |in winning her love. Having wog the | Shunamite's heart, the royal joyer \called upon her in state, took her 10 Israel's capital and made her his Queen, td Such is the story, in brief, ast is told in the “Song of Songs,” the beau- tiful lyric drama in seven act. wherein we have a description of the wedding day; the bride's story of tne courtship days; the betrothal; the bride's troubled dream, in which she loses her lover and wanders forth to find him; the passionate desc: 1. of the bride by the bridegroom, “wna the story of the honeymoon, “ | It goes without saying that the “Song of Songs” is mighty dangerous reading for @ tenderfoot. It is safe reading only to such as know how’ to read it, It is not fit to be read in modern drawing room with “men, | women and youths present. It. sults the withdrawing-room much better than baldheads for an audience. | ‘There are those who question the historicity of this wonderful hymWto the constancy of Solomon's conjitkal fidelity. Some people question aay- thing, everything. There are chronic skeptics who believe in nothing, who | are never so happy a8 when, with the eynic's curl on their lips, they are trying to turn everything true and beautiful into falsehood and ridicule, |. There was much in Solomon's #itua- |tion to incline us to the belief that | the story of his devotion to the amite {s a true one, Solomon was Jone of the greatest monarchs of his um d he was obliged to kesp up | with’ the procession, even in the mat- ter of harems, and when we think of those “seven hundred wives and | three hundred concubines,” which the | very logic of the case obliged Solamon to have, we feel that he simply had to have ONE true love, just ONE “dea | heart” that he could trust and the | sincerity of whose affection should’ be beyond doubt. te the drawing-room, with only “That’sa Fact® ||| By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1990, by ‘The Preas Publishing (The ‘The first of the Dutch “patroona” was Killlan Van Rensselaer, to whom was granted a tract of 700,000 acres near the present eite of Al- bany, N, ¥, The “patroons” agreed to trans. port fifty settlers, at their own ex- pense, provide each one with a farm ‘and cattle, and to employ a schoolmaster and a minister, In return each settler was “bound” for ten years. The patroon was, there- fore, a rich and powerful Individual, ‘The largest bell (in the world is one unhung at the foot of the Kremlin, Moscow, weighing 440,000 pounds, Its circumference at the bottom Is nearly 68 feet; its height more than 21 feet, In its stoutest part it is 23 inches thick, In N. Y. City, Bridge Street, be cause a bridge crossed it; Broad Street, on account of Its width; Reaver Street, where the skins of the animal were sold, were all ap- propriately named. : The first Roman Catholic chifeh in New York City had its first thass on Saturday, Nov. 4, 1786, at’ tho corner of Barelay and’ Church Streets, ‘The next year it was named St, Peter's, ; When Peter Stuyvesant diedi"in | 1672, aged eighty, he was buried in | the family vault of a church ereet- ed at his expense, In its place, the corner of 10th Street and C- ond Avenue, now stands St, Mark's, pag oldest church site in New Yérk ity. The tablet placed above Peter (or Petrus) Stuyvesant’s grave is now affixed to the eastern wall of Bt. Mark's Church, It states that he died in A. D, 671%, which means between Jan. 1 and March 26, 1672. A ‘The Governor's Room in the City Hall contains the branch of a ‘ tree originally planted in ‘Stunt . sant’s orchard. At the corner of 18th Street and $4 Avenue Is 4 bronze plate on the site of this tree, At)