The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1920, Page 14

a ey ages e 4 Se Sh * ‘ : LISHED BY FOBRPH PULITANN Poblithed Datiy_ Bteept @unday by the Press Pubttsht Company, Nos 53 m9 64 Park Row, Xew Yorks ”. CL President, 63 Park Row, Park Row, Axots SHAW. Treas: a JOREPT PUINTZER. It. Secretary, 62 Park Row. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRES, GOOD NEWS FOR MARION. 4 YRGN T. HERRICK, former American Am- . bassador to France, who has just teturned from Europe, is’ reported to have conveyed to the Republican candidate the cheering assurance, that the Position of the Republican Party as to the Nation's foreign policy is fully understood abroad. ' AS against the dismal truth that nobody has been “able te understand it at home, this kindly and ‘octhoughtful message from Mr. Herrick ought to put i new heart into Senator Harding. ..” True, the Republican candidate must have mo- ments of bewilderment as to whether the Republi- can foreign policy that European statesmen are said to haye fathomed‘is Hiram Johnson's foreign policy or Mr. Taft’s foreign policy or Senator Lodge's for- eign policy or the foreign policy the candidate hopes his Senatorial guardians will give him for his own some day. : Whaiever it is, Europe understands it—or so Nr. Herrick says. So the candidate may fold his hands and breathe . a sigh of relief that it is understood and appreciated . Somewhere, ‘ It has been an undue strain upon Senator Harding * to have so many persons on this side of the Atlantic pestering him to explain the real Republican position ‘on international questions and to separate genuine _ * Republican doctrine on this point from the fifty-six © spurious ‘Republican varieties now current. . Thanks to Mr. Herrick, the Republican candidate has a way out of nis embarrassment. lf American voters feel it absolutely indispensable to know what he means when he talks about Re- \ publican foreign policy, he can refer them to Lon- don or Paris. That will be far easier than:to pretend he knows himself. SECRETARY COLBY QUALIFIES, “F\PLOMACY is the principal job of the Secretary ; of State. The present incumbent seems to qualify. F & “ Rivalries and jealousies in suffrage ranks have been so intense that no compromise was possible, If Secretary Colby had giyen each faction equal honors in the ceremony of signing, he would have offended both. He omitted the ceremony. Now neither side has grounds for offense. Secretary Colby made a virtue of the fact that the Antis were making every effort to prevent any signing at all. Haste was essential. If- the Colby procedure was not diplomacy, 7 | what is? i NOT A DOLLAR GRUDGED. “TN THE budget adopted Wednesday by the Board of Education it is noteworthy that almost exactly“half goes to the actual teaching force in the schools. A third is to go for school sites and school a - fe This $47,000,000 item in the budget will be wel- *! come indeed to parents, whose children have been “on part time because~ef lack of desk room. Not even this huge sum will serve to build all the build- ings that are urgently needed. But it is a step in “the right direction, and the taxpayers will grin and . bear it cheerfully. Schools are essential. e In passing, it will be well to call to the attention * of Mayor Hylan that no objections are made to this sort of building. - Schools are as necessary as homes. The need is in a different class from that for new *, Court ,Houses. MAKING NEPTUNE DISGORGE. rt Gare mining in Long Island Sound is a novelty that appeals to the imagination as well as to practical business sense, News that a salvage company is operating suc- cessfully and delivering coal from sunken ships justifies such a description, Ever since men have been going down to the sea £ in ips there has been an irresistible lure in the alvage of cargoes that have failed to reach their * destination. Komance clings to every sunken hulk, Father Neptune is a careful guardian, his treasures. « ‘The very idea of wresting Neptune's rich spoil ~ trom his grasp has a Jules Verne flavor. Hidden s heen the motive for untokt reams of re in fiction and not a few adventures in ‘ Old He protects eniliely possible that the actual machinery ei in recovery of sunken coal may be of the most icant matter of fact construction, Bet pity the man who read of the undertaking yesterday and failed to wish that he could forsake | bis desk Or bengh and hite out as a member of the © sulvage crew. ki Pity that-man, but envy fim who can buy a ton © of that coal to burn in an open hearth this winter, * Such a fire would be more Interesting than a volume Slalace ea SUM tthe a it pubilahed: adventure tales of:the sea, Capt. Kidd would dance in the embers as he made an end to his crews. The guarding sharks and squids would dart Back and forth to catch the intrepid divers. Every settling of the fire vould carry the clink of golden doub- loons, and every snapping of the coal would be an echo of a pistol shot on the bounding Spanish Main. As a matter of cold fact, long immersion may have injured the coal so that it wouldn’t burn well in the grate. But we'd rather imagine it contains now the magic colors of driftwood. “THAT FORM OF PATRIOTISM” (!) OV. COX has torn aside the curtain, « The country awoke“this morning to find itself gazing straight into the secret inner machinery - that furnishes the motive power for the Republican campaign, Thé cynical valuations which Republican Party. managers put upon the American Presidency and the American people stand revealed, Not alone has Gov. Cox produced evidence in the shape of actual documents from Republican headquarters and of bulletins and telegrams from the office of the treasurer of the Republican Na- tional Committee tg show that no less than $8,145,- 000 was to be raised in fifty cities of twenty-seven States toward electing the Republican candidate: Not alone has Gov. Cox given concrete proof that the scandalous mobilization of money to buy Republican success which dates back to the New- berry Senatorial contest in Michigan—and the dis- closures of which ruined the chances of more than one Republican aspirant at the Republican National Convention—is still going forward to put Senator Harding into the White Howse: Not only has Goy. Cox shown that the quota demanded for the Republican campaign treasury from the City of New Yerk alone is $2,000,000— which is more than twice the figures ($904,828) the Republican National Committee returned as its TOTAL receipts for the Presidential election of 1912; Gov. Cox uncovers all this—and worse, For the secret directions and bulletiiis emanating .from the Republican treasurer's office and from the Republican inner circle—the “get the money, “boys,” “help pay the freight for the. return of good Republican days,” “get the right man and see the right people,” “digging up money in the field,” “our readers are requested not to make this ‘pub- lication public’—reveal an inner brazenness of Re- publican attitude and method which is more dis- quieting and disgusting to American instinct thaa the money itself. Over it all the Republican candidate sheds his benign approval in his message of July 29 to Treasurer Upham in which he says: “Through the fine work of your organization, we are nearing that form o} nationat patriotism which expresses ilself in support jrom every county, every State,” “That form of national patriotism!” Is this the form of national patriotism which can be counted on to elect Presidents of the United States? The country is aghast at the Republican estimate of the American electorate, RAINBOW CURRENCY. CCORDING to the American Banker, which is an undoubted authority on the subject, there are fifty-four distinct designs of paper money in the United States. Each denomination is dif- ferent and there are various classes such as national bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, gold and silver certificates, &c. Not all of us see all these varieties in everyday practice, because bills for $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 are not everyday sights for most of us, and these go to make up the fifty-four kinds. “Naturally,” says the American Banker, “this makes counterfeiting easier, and Treasury officials are discussing ways to reduce the variety. Tis should include printing all notes of the same de- nomination in the same color, with a distinct and different color for each denomination,” With eleven denominations, such a move would require eleven colors—a veritable rainbow display for men who carry a “roll,” PARAGRAPHS FOR A PORCH-CLIMBER. Since the indorsement of the American rocker by the French Academy of gcience for its efficiency in , keeping the skull where it belongs in relation to the spine, the use of that style of chair well may be frowned upon for the Front Porch, The Junta does not care to have the head of the candidate too perfectly aligned with the backbone. * 8 8 Of course the possibility has to be recognized that some of the G. O. P. slush fund may be designed for the restoration of the lawn in front of the Front Porch, The messages from Marion continue to suggest that the Candidate could not have got further from the Middle of the Road had he taken to the back instead of the Front Porch, ARMEN BALKANS. PROHIBITION. EIGHTEENTH ANENDMENT MILLINERY. PRICE oF HATS MUST CONE DOWN . “at York Brening World), Sx, By Maurice, Ketten \A.. | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letter do you ji nd most readable? 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 a lot of satisfaction in trying fo say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. | . The Disturher in the Home. ‘To the Raltor of The Evening World: The H. C. of L, has completely up- set all the planning of years, In 1906 we lost all we owned in the San Fran- cisco earthquake and came Bast in debt whicK was followed by an un- usual amount of iliness and lack of employment, We have struggled and sacrificed in order to some day own our-own home and have a place for our two children to live, so they coud feel the green, grass under their feet instea®) of the pavements of the city streets with their demoralizing en- vironments, Now we are threatened with still another raise in rent and possibly an invitation to move so the houses can be remodelled and made into small apartments, We have an opportunity to buy a desirable little place up-State for only $2,800. We must reject, this because we have $400, less than half the necessary amount: for the first payment. Now we read of the amount left by Searles to his clerk. Isyt It Just about enough to discourage any one? I have tried (even when Ill) keeping roomerg ever since coming to this city, I have tried never to admit discou agement, but it seems that I must give up and just stop trying, , DISCOURAGED. Honkless Motors. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Concerning automobile accidents in New York City, the suggestion is of- fered that a law be wnacted whereby all ‘automobdilista be forbidden to sound horns within the city limits, On the ‘face of it, this appears to be foolish, but Is it? I have been op- erating a car for some five or six years, during which time there have been occasions when the battery went dead. I have noticed that on such occasions, because of the fact that I did not have a horn, I was ex- tremely careful. 1 did not “take a chance” depend- ing on the pedestrian to get out of the way, but slowed down or stopped. Pig there are horns blown everywhere, some loud, others a mere squawk, The average pedestrian cannot differentiate between the) sounds, 1. ¢, tell how far or how near the car is, Then again they have become callous to them. If no horns were blown, on the other hand, the pedestrian would not depend en- tirely on the motorist, but would look to see if a vehicle were approaching, instead of sleepwalking as he docs now. Drivers who tmagine the honk of a lhorn gives them a right of way |would naturally slow down without | their siren handy. The thing |¢ worth an experiment, anyhow. Let eight or ten officials run around New York In cars unpro- vided with horns and see what they ‘shall geo. I venture to think that | Mey Will adenit he lack of '@ ofl Kane Str) ss jmakes for more careful runping and |less chance-taking on the part of the driver, With the universal adoption of the idea both walkers and drivers | would become more alert. H. J. C. | New York, Aug. 3. ' In Law Jost? To the Editor of The Evening World: From a World reader who has had| experience do you think a man should pay the penalty of a larceny behind prison bars for his first of- fense? |. Prisons do not reform, but they are breeders of criminals. Ninety-elght per cent, of the men released from prison commit a more serious offense within a year of their release, Only 8 per cent. of the first offend- ers commit the second offense If thoy are paroled from the bench or re- leased by a Judge who knows that prisons do not reform, My first offense was minor, but He sitting Judge handed me one year, | While in prison I met the hardest of jeriminals, On my release I knew ‘how to crack safes and where and ‘how to get rl of any kind of swag, jund how to distinguish a detective from any one else on the street. At present writing I have done three “bits” totalling fourteen years, and, of course, 1 am looking ahead for7an arrest and conviction at any tme. At the time of my first arrest [ was married, with a family, but after serving my timo I caine out in debt. 1 went right to work, but I couldn't get out of debt. T took an- other chance go as to square up my debts, but of course the law was on me and I went up for five vears, “As « second offender coming out T was harder and didn't care, as my family made no impression on my mind any more, 1 was only, looking for pay from one night's work for the years T didn’t receive any, I would like to see every Judge re- lease all first’ offenders for larceny or similar offenses, Any offender pleading guilty and seeing his mia- take ‘will not *ceal again, and the Judge should give him the best ad- vice with hiy release, Why not (rv this method? A THIRD TIMER. “We All Are Different.” ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: I have read a few pros and cona| sent to you anent the subject of whipping. ! I have some very decided ideas on this subject, as whipping ruined my life and I am to-day an ex-convict and an outcast from home and former friends because of whippings. Each of us have different dispost- tions, different temperaments, differ- ent ideag, and this ts good pocause “variety is the spice of life.” What pleases one displeases another and every one does not like the same flavor of ice cream, f You know that we who are growh WHEN ERE | 4 BRIDGE? Bi aa Cutting ») HIS TEETH (Copyrieht, 1020. YOU MUST LEARN BEFORE YOU CAN TEACH. | Did you ever reflect that all the important and success- ful men in the world are teachers? that others do not know, imparting that knowledge. The political leader is a teacher. lowers the way the Nation should go. The inventor teaches you something of mechanics that you did not know. The great engiaseer teaches the world a new way to construct a railroad or a bridge. it a new way to correct a bodily fault or to cure a malady. These men are pioneers in thought, and because they originate, the world is willing to pay them handsomely for what they can teach it. But before they caa instruct others they must learn themselves, and those who are most studious in acquiring information are those who later on will have something worth while to impart. All the great teachers in all professions have been earnest students. They have put in long hours in acquiring information, expending mental effort that to think of. = They have lea Darwin, Spe’ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. Aad their rewards come from ed to master themselves, to ferce them- selves against their wills to perform all the drudgery that is necessary to subordinate stubborn nature. cer, Huxley by Join Blakes They know something He shows his fol- The great surgeon teaches would tire their fellows even spent an amount of time and gnergy in preparing themselves for their later work that seems incredible to the ordinary mind. And even with the time they used, their mental ac- complishments would have been impossible had they ‘ot schooled their minds to waste no effort, thought count. but to make every You may not be as great as they were, but you can learn far more than the aycrage man if you try. And you must learn it to succeed, for i120 average man amounts to more than his fellows. When you have learned, can teach something that .the world wants to know if it is only to make home ruas like Babe Ruth, be sure that the world will reward’ you handsom you can teach, And if you » even you may ly. ) RANA AAACN AANA AANA ANANARAA AAA ren will seek in every way to please our|child and when that friends and at the holiday season will discommode ourselves in order to give a friend a gift meant to please. If we will do this for a mere friend, how ton ste more then should we put our- elves out for our children, to bing them up successful men and women. My parents did not understand my temperament when [ was a child and so whenever I did wrong I was whipped. I really believe I would have beon more suscepUble to ad- monitions, Ninety-nine out of every one hun- dred convicts in the State prisons of New York State were beaten’ when they were children. This is tirst band knowledge Were ninety-nine out of every jyun- dred bankers, brokers and m thats ees sed. bankers, © 4 merchants] (he information, a when they were o! Ho Tobin's patent shuld aaa the | hild errs it should be shown its errors and the consequences and admonished. Tl ere are too few Herbert Spencers in this world. A VICTIM OF THE WHIP, Brooklyn, Aug. 24, ‘Try the To the Editor @ The Evening World: Will you kindly answer through your column where I can learn “Ma- chine ‘Shop Practice” without having the experience of a helper? All of the Nigh schools require an applicant to work in 4 machine shop. A» 1 know of no other place in the city which gives night courses, [ thought possibly you could give me JOHN DAMARO, * ange. 1 Ce Ae Ry of the Bible & By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory orig ly Wer en Wah ‘Brening World), No. 11—Ahab and Jezebel Of Ahab, the royal lover of Ji |we read in First Kings, 16-34, the fol- lowing very uncompljmentary words, “Ahab did more ,to provoke the Lo the God of Israel, to anger than the Kings of Israel that were bef him,” e | ‘The match between Israel's King! and the Tyrian princess most cer-' | tainly was not made in Heaven; and lit has long been a lively | query lamong the psychologists how/a mam) of Ahab's position and genius ever became infatuated with a woman like | Jezebel, ares | We have no means of knowing whether the cause of Ahab's many woes und final ruin was, or was not @ beautiful woman, but it ‘ts’ as ole as day that intellectually she was {brilliant as a star, morally of lowest type conceivable, and in stren, of will the equalvof the strongest that ever lived. 4 os Jezebel was the Laily Macbeth of the olden time—ambitious, quite free from the annoying thing called “oon sclen resourceful ‘along all lines, and prepared to stop at no means. would advance her interests, . And this human tigress, this heatte less, soulless thing, managed in some Way to captivate Ahdb as completely as ever man was captivated, doing aw she pleased with him and findlly, like Samson, bringing down upon his hi and upon her own head, the temple his state, The ancient saying that “love wees | where it will” receives In Ahab'g, a powerful illustration. Whether 18) leads tothe “pig pen” or toy “mouth of heil” love must ‘he straight on until it fulfils its destiny. ‘There was a glorious celebration off |the wedding ‘In’ Isracly capital, and| the evidence shows that the alitano was quite welcome to the people o Israel, But they were svon to be most rudely awakened from their dream, tq discover that the marriage of the King with the Syrian woman waao' of the worst things that could happened for them. The young Queen’ was intense “religious,” but unfortunately She! religion was that of Baal Milkart, thi most cruel and degraded cult ev born of man’s superstition and d pravity, And no sooner was Jezéb fairly settled down in the capital than, she began the work of supplantin the religion of Israet by that of hey own country, Ahab was so completely hypnotized by the Tigress he offered no opposi tion to her monstroma propaganda! and Jezebel for a long time had h own sweet way in the bloody busi-| ness of slaying Jewish priests, over- throwing Jewish altars and cutting! off the heads of all who stood im her way. All alone there stood vp against the She-Devil of a Queen the old prophet Elijah, as brave a man as ever lived; but not even Elijah could stand be- fore the dagger darts of Jezebel’ | black, Satanic eyes, and when he adw what was Soming he, in the very ex- clusive language of Scripture, “went —as the boys would say, he “beat 1 . . But Hlijah was to have his innings later on. Between his ambition in po- Mucal ways and his infatuation for the bad woman who gat beside hfm on the throne, Ahab went on from bud to worse, until he met his Watep- loo at Ramoth-Gilead, At Ahab's death Jezebel made her heathen son king, and after him her secona sdn, Jehoram, and the saturnalia of heathenism and crime seemed to Ge going on just the same, < And yet the end was drawing nigh, |Jehoram was overthrown and Tele the mighty rider, became King. Jehu was a combination of Forrést |and Phil Sheridan in will power fleetness of execution, and he w | Jezebel like a cyclone. Besteged her palace, the Tigress was still gi Facing her enemies before ai window, she defied them. “Fling down!” commanded Jehu, and a ment later tho victorious King, had stopped only for an instant hig headlong rush, drove his oc over her corpse and entered the of her capital with his chariot wh erimson with her hlood. ¢ ‘Thus ended the strange love mat between Ahab and Jezebel. “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick 1920, ‘The. nt onvigas 20, Toe Frm Rubin Om On New Year's Day, in 1866, Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Bush- wick, N. ¥., were consolidated ané Castle Garden was transformed into an omnleran’ depot, + Central Patk, New York City, was established jn 1856, cee In 1858 the Crystal Palace was, destroyed-#y fire and the Cooper. Institute erected at a cost of” $600,000. ° o 8 It is a fact that New York,- the early yeurs of 1700, not permitted but actually welcom men engaged in the vocations o} pirate, smuggler or slave dealer, see Ships bearing such pious names” as the Good Prophet suiled from, New York und returned with a cargo of negroes that were sold at, the Market, foot of Wall Street, East River | July 28, 1588, ix the date of the, oldest “preserved newspaper In’ England. Wuglish Mercurfe,” preserved by Queen Blizabetht stil is still In the British Mus seum, _ * 6 6 On July 23, 1779, the Minisinte” settlements in Orange ' County, N. Y., were attacked by the In- dians under Brant, plundered and’ burned, the Inhaibitants being’ either killed or carried away, oS Colorado is called nial State,” the Union ; bid “Contents rear aune admitted inte eo 8 Waverly Place, New recelved its name in response to petition from residents of th % York Of | neighborhood who were mirers of Sir Walter ®euit Scotch word is