The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1920, Page 10

es TABLISHED BY JOSKPH Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Noe. 58 to G3 Park Row. THE PRESIDENT'S FIRM STAND. HE President has not lost his power of cogent 7 statement. His telegram to representatives ‘of the Anthracite, Mine Workers refusing fo re- ‘open the recent wage award in order to propitiate miners who are now “taking a vacation,” deaves no room for misunderstanding. ; “When a body of men collectively refrain from working by mutual understanding, how sver arrived at, it is a strike, no matter what mame may be given it. Our people have * fought a great war and-made untold sacrifices to insure among other things that a solemn agreement shall not be considered as » mere scrap of paper.” * The solemn agreement in this case was the pledge made by the anthracite miners through their union representatives to abide by the wage award of the "- ~_ Anthracite Coal Commission, which award was “approved by the President. The has ath miners are not only strikers ". put outlaw strikers. “At the present moment the cause of union labor and collective bargaining in : the United States has no worse enemies, ie Es ‘ Tahaan AN ISLAND ISSUE. © aN THE revent Massachusétts primary, Congress- hk Joseph Walsh of the Sixteenth, District ‘be faced determined opposition for the Republican TE One of the issues raised against his candidacy is < “-an interesting and striking example of what politics » BL ditgtrt not to be. F <The Sixteenth District includes a stretch of the 1 FF #2" southern coast of the State and several of the off- ‘ec: »Shore islands, including Martha’s \Vineyard. +e During |the war a Government freighter, the “S™ “Port Hunter,” sank in Vineyard Sound, °*"" For some reason the Government made no effort a $5) to salve the cargo. Not so the fishermen and boat- _. owethen of the island. They visited the wreck with Bes ane tong poles and harpoons and recovered considerable Soot. ‘ | Finally the Government was moved to intervene, _ setovwarned the volunteer salvagers away and sold sal- emt) ovage rights on a percentage basis, The sum 'real- P°"ized was clear profit to which the Government was So . rightfully entitled. The Government would pave soi eer derelict in its duty if it had failed to make 0 «what recovery was possible. on. But the islanders could not see it in that light. ee 'They conceived it as an unwarranted Government on -Anterference with their sacred rights. Actually, the records do not show that Congress- “man Walsh deserves credit fot the public service of urging the Government to salve the cargo. But the eit "belief that he might have had something to do with ‘tee the Government's activity was used not as an argu- .steoment for his renomination but to excite prejudice 2 “against him. pe The incident casts a somewhat humorous light on the mental processes of the coast people, who seem Go exhibit a twisted conception of property at sea. © But the fight against Congressman Walsh is, an éxcellent example of whiat politics ought not to be. What his opponents tried to do was to value service Sy yitp the Sixteenth District above service to the Nation. 3. So» Until voters abandon all sympathy with such a 20 'Wewpoint, there is small prospect that the level of Sus @bility in Congress will be raised. Such tactics put ©" premium on provinclalism and selfishness. It is encouraging to note that such an issue did not defeat Congressman Walsh. THE ORANGE-TAILED CAT. G67 TOHE Strange Case of the Orange-Tailed Cat” ra ~ would have been a title to delight Conan Doyle or Edgar Allan Poe, but even these gifted authors might have hesitated. 1) ©) Orange-tailed cats are a shade improbable even ») Hor masters of imaginatwe writing. Orange-tailed ¢ats were supposed to have been banished by the Eighteenth Amendment. «©» But newspaper reporters are not bound by prob- ability. Their duty is to report the facts. So an orange-tailed cat appeared-in the newspapers as the that led to the undoing of a gang of clever who had stolen 6,000 pounds of German * ob -oe) Apparently the thieves had hidden their trail with *8* care. They had made off with the loot and had ssp, kept it hidden until the search slackened. “ees — Then, as the more moralistic writers of detective 9 fiction usually arrange i, an unforeseen event ex- ) posed them. In this case kitty dyed her tail an un- » © usual color and went out and rubbed against an (intelligent detective who, following the example of _ Sherlock Holmes, deduced that the unusual color =) came from the stolen dyes, _ The thieves, safely locked up with an excellent probability of conviction, have time and. oppor- ae tinity to moralize on fate and kittens’ tales and the fieulty of making small rocks out of large ones, Tn the mean time, what has become of the orange- ed in’t it deserve a pension as a re- | esa . New ark, “THE THINGS THAT ARE THERE.” RE the enfranchised women of the country awake to the responsibility and duty which rest'on them to help put the United States into the League of Nations? Are they prepared to furnish proof of their ability to exercise political power in a spirit of larger pro- gressiveness and patriotism by studying the cov- enant of the League of Nations to find the hope and . Promise that are in it rather than to carp at flaws which partisanship and prejudice have magnified? Are they ready to support the League and to vote | for the candidate who “favors going into it”? The last message of the late Dr. Anna Howard ‘Shaw, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to the women of America was an earnest plea for the most advanced plan nations have yet formulated to safeguard peace. In that plea, written shortly before her death, Dr. Shaw said: I do not think the League of Nations is per- fect. I say that because everybody else says it. I really do not know why It is not per feot. And it is not because I have not read It, for I have read it, and re-read it, and re-read , it. A particular friend of mine, after we had been reading It aloud together, sald to me, “Now, what would you put into ft that is not there?” And I said, “The thing that bothers me is how they found so many things to put into ft that are there.” There could be no better hint forthe average Intelligent woman who determines to find out for herself what is in the League covenant, Read it with a will to discover the good that is in it. Read it with a will to believe that when its sig- natories pledge themselves “to promote interna- tional co-operation and to achieve ‘international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war,” that that is indeed what they are trying to do. Read it with confidence that the United States is strong and self-reliant enough to enter into such a partnership without trembling lest somebody take advantage of it. Optimism plus faith in the ability of this Re- public to take care of itself in any international co- operative venture to lessen the likelihood of war are greatly needed in dealing with the League of Na- tions issue. Where should we hope to find that optimism and that faith if not in American women? DRUGS AND,MOTOR DRIVING. BALTH COMMISSIONER ‘COPBLAND in his comment on “child-slaughter” made the as- tonishing revelation that more than 500 self-con- fessed drug addicts registered their occupation as “driver” or “chauffeur.” ' These men are professionals, How many of the other 7,000 addicts known to the Health Depart- ment are licensed to operate motor cars is unde- termined, These facts should shock into action those re- sponsible for the present inadequate regulations for licensing drivers. It is unnecessary to emphasize the danger to the public from a mixture of “dope” and gasoline. The possibilities are appalling. Yet our present license system does not protect ayainst drivers who are habitual drug takers. Competent psychological examinations would de- tect the addicts and protect the public. ‘ Drug users at steering wheels are only one class of several that are dangerous. But the potential danger from this particular class is so manifest that it should force immediate and drastic action to pro- tect not only the pedestrians but other motor drivers. TWICE OVERS. 66 'TVMIS whole infamous job was either planned on such a large scale thal men go! lost in the mare of staggering totals or they are deliberately falsi- Sying under oath.” —Goo, Cox. * 8 6 66 DQULL is just expanded truth.” —"Step-On-It” Blair. « 'e* 6 as wary hold-up man who comes before me, who has been adjudged guilty, is going to get twenty years in Slate prison.” —Judge John F. McIntyre. . * “ E want less war and more work.” —President- elect Obregon of Mexico, * . 6c E will take all we can get, however. We won't stop at any figure if we can get more,” —Testimony of John A. Kelley, Ohio gold-digger for G. 0. P. . * * €6 J expect lo cast my vole against Senator Wads- worth and to vote for his opponent.” —Miss Mary Garrett Hay. ae ene | 66"T VE average freight car makes twenty round trips each year.”—Railroad Committee of of Commerce of the U.S. is p CO Ea \ (“THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1920; _A Full Line! There is fine mental exercise «' Personal Liberty to Jny-Walk. Ty the Bittor of The Brening World i Far be it from me to accuse The Evening World of editorial incon- sistency, but your attitude toward the abolishing of jay-walking is ap- parently a “stab in the back” to the Principles of personal liberty, which you 60 ably advocate. You champion the cause of anti- Prohibitionists, and in the same freath publish your antagonistic sentiments toward jay-walking. The fundamental argument for the exist- ence of both is personal lberty. A man who follows the geometric prin- ciple that “a straight line is th shortest distance between two points" should not be prevented by legisia- tion from doing so, any more than he should be prevented from taking a drink, Fewer deaths result from jay-walking than from the consump- tion of alcoholic liquor, I have been jay-walking all my life and should like to continue doing so without legal interference. At cross~walks one je delayed inexow ably by the constant stream of pass. ing motors. In some sections where trafic policemen are conspicuous for their absence a pedestrian hag poor chance of crossing without endanger- ing tite and limb. Even where a trafic officer ig stationed the motors) are continually edging up to the) crosé-walk and overlapping it, A/ timid citizen is often afraid to ven- ture across even when gestured to do #0 by the policeman. | If any legal action is taken it} should be against motorists, The) fact that a pedestrian has rights 1s} not appreciated gnough; 4s 18 proved | by your recent Aisclosure that o! of an exhaust? German cologne compared with the daily dose a@ New Yorker gets, Publish this and you will find other people who think as I do. Protect the citizen but not against himself. W, J, GARRITY, New York City, Sept. 1920. A Disiitusioned N . ‘To the Bilitor of ‘The Breaing World : I noticed a letter in last Evening’s World, signed “Disillusioned Bouth- erner,” in which he states that thw What kind of letter do you pid most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ind a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Tuke time to be brief. | Museum of Art is and he never heard | of such a place, Ask him where City | Hall is and he will say downtown, It's no wondef that visitors say that the average New Yorker does not know anything. He doesn't. | Politencas doesn’t exist in New York, Just travel the subway any time and you can see how much manners a New Yorker has, \ As soon as I can get my hands on me money I will get so far away | ‘om the big town that it will take a| week for a cand to reach me. Re- member I was born and raised in| this town, too, but I am thoroughly disgusted ‘with the treatment I have received since I came out of service. Ive sald my Bit, #0 goodby and good DISILLUSIONED NATIVE, Bun Fares. To the Militor of The Ereaing World: Noting in the papers that the city buses were going to run on DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, and thinking to save a few cents by taking one of them, J waited on the corner of Bed- ford dnd DeKalb Avenues for thirty- five minutes yesterday afternoon for one of them going downtown, At last I saw one coming along and got on. When we reached Fulton Street and DeKalb, where I was going, the driver said; “Twenty-five cents, please.” Understand/ug that the city buses were only charging 6 cents, I started to give him an argument, but he said that his bus had been “taken off” yea- terday morning, Whatever that means, I should think that all the private buses would be required to have a sign on the front of them stating their destination and the charge, When you get on you think you're only go- ing to pay @ nickel, and then when you reach your street the driver asks whatever he pleases and you have to pay it, in & case lke this one I should suggest that the Department of Plant and Structures would see to {t that a UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copreight, 1920, by John Blake.) WHAT IS YOUR VULNERABLE POINT? The mother of Achilles, as you probably remember, sought when he was a baby to make him invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx. But she neglected to im- merse the heel by which she held him, And it was in that heel that he got his death wound. Most of us are far more vulnerable than was Achilles. But we all have our point of greatest vulnerability. And the sooner we find where it is, aad make it puncture proof, the better we will get along. Generals lose battles [; neglecting to strengthen all the points in their line. A shrewd opposing commaiader seeks and finds the weakest point, hurls his attack upon it, and breaks through. The air pressure within an automobile tire, or the gas pressure inside a ballooa, will immediately locate and pene- trate any puncture or break through any weak spot in the fabric. You, who are trying to resist myriad enemies, the ex- istence of most of which yon do not even suspect, will surely succumb if you have any particularly vulnerable weakaesses. Bad habits, idleness, overfondness of pleasure, all are weaknesses that will be your ruin if you do not repair them. Half the men you know have weaknesses which keep them from success—even from moderate prosperity. You are puzzled that they do mot get along better. Often they are too. Yet a little attention to their weaknesses earlier in life might have saved them endless trouble and final disappoint- meat and despair. é Nobody can find your particular weakaess for you. You must. discover it for yourself. Look for it diligently. It may be timidity, it may be lack of steadiness, which is merely laziness; it may be sullenness and distrust of other people. But whatever it is, you must get rid of it. Take the worst weakness first. When tHat is corrected you can look for others. And you will have your work cut ont for you fiading them all, But don't despair. Get rid of the worst ones, and the elimination of the others will be easy, standard price be charged according to the length of the route covered by the different buses. ARJASL Brookdyn, Sept. 1. A Different Slogan. ‘Do the Editor of The Bening W, Mr, Nathan T. Zaly asks, “Why not York ts a He and & joke. Now as a native born, having lived in New York City for twenty-seven years, I know his statement to be true, I have been down South, in Atlanta, Ga, and Charleston, 9, C,, Asheville, N. and I have found that a man has @ better chance to make a living there than in this so-called Wonder City of New York. The average New investigate Bugene V, Debs's back- ers?” Aseuming that he means why not investigate the sources of the money being raised to finance Debs's can- didacy, I heartily second the motion. It may be an astounding revelation | 2 to learn that the Socialist campaign fund is made up of contributions of nickels, dimes, quarters—not thou- sand, ten thousand and one hundred thousand dollar checks, Zaly, do not be so childish. Mr. ‘Dhe Socialists have no such slogan as, ‘Boys, get the money.” i “‘That’s a Fact’ W. Field conceived the idea of con- . necting Burope and America by cable, and rejoloing. Queen Victoria sent a message of congratulation to Prea- ident Buchanan and he responded, in similar strain, and then the cable stopped working. ayetem in May, 1844, by Bangual ¥, B. Morse, who resided in New York City for a long time, as a tablet at No. 6 West 22d Street informs uA, oe Ried Baily connections lived arlestown, Mass,, where two bert P. Southwick Ie female relatives” attended ‘the j high school with the writer, changed the entire news system, bringing intelligence sooner from remote quarters than had previously been obtained from local communities. ° By Ali In 1857 Peter Cooper and Cyrus In 1853 a World’ Fair was opened in New York City in a magnificent structure of glass and iron called the Crysta! Palace, located “out in the country” (then) near 424 Street and Fifth Avenue. It was com- pletely destroyed in 1868, . in August, 1868, the junction was made, amid great . It was also in 1856 that the first statue of modern New York was — ‘The introduction of the telegraph * €. W. Osborn, She saw him first, Of a Sunday night, At the turn of the lake-roed. Bhe wae with her girl friend, He was alone. Very tat, LAmping on a cane,’ Overseas cap much tilted, “Did you get the eyes of him, Mary!" Said the girl friend, “Blue as the violets in the rain, An’ the laugh in them too?” “And the teare"— says Mary. At Behediction, Just ag the candles were lighted, Who but himself should come in, ~ And take a seat at the end of @ pew, That the poor leg might have room In the aisle. It was the littie Father, Who met them in the street after And made them acquainted. “And are we goin’ the same road home!” Says Tommy. So the simple romance begine which, under the title “April Hearts,” Harry Leo presents in “High Com pany” (Stokes), his little book of free vorse inspired chiefly by war hospite! incidents and goldier memories “Goin’ the Same Road Home’—there is a poem. in a line, and it doesn’! hurt that there is something like It in a Harry Lauder song. A Petting Pen for Wine-Bibbers-- Wine, to-day, more than ever, helps to dring a little warmth and galety and friend- liness to our social occasions. Its use in moderation (and tae real winelover is incapable of drinking to excess) seems to m= Goldring, who wrote thts . is of course an English- he would not be w day," or of wine to-morrow.. Only o yesterday, ‘‘Reputations” is what I calls his book, from an American in- putation of which (Thomas Seltzer) we have quoted What reputation does Mr. Goldring expect in our pussyfooting mids<, petting thus with hig wicked pen th+ bibbers of wine when it is red? Even though he does modify (he repre- hensibility of his work by surround- ing it with essays appreciative of, Mr. ‘Wells, Hugh Walpole, Gilbert Can- nan and a few others. | The New Way With Woman--- Suddenly she turned to him. “It used to be so simple—to be a wom- an, One loved and married—ar | there were chfldren—and then one dled. That wns all! But now ——!" She broke off. ¢ * She looked at him and smiled subtly. “IT want to do brave things. I ‘want to vote and reform citles and I want to found kingdoms Butt am—going you.” In Jeannette Lee's “The Chineso Coat” (Scribner's) this is part of a It. tle love story within a long story of married love. It carries an eloquent suggestion of differences that have come with the years, the inventions for minimizing housework and the Nine- feenth Amendment. But fs it not idie talk to the sisters who believe that 4 gaining their goal of franchise thi have not lost thelr sense of home? The Summer Rffort Everlasting--- ‘With summgr and the vacation sea- son once more in their finals, it is in- terestng to take up these few lines of comment on the Great American Silly Seagon by an English visitor: A summer resort is one of the thousand windows whence to watch the thousand aspects of life in the Atlantic States. Remember that between June and Soptember it is the desire of all who can to get away from the big cities—not on account of wantonness, as people leave London, but because of ac- tual heat. they get away in millions with their millions, the wives of the rich men for five clear months, the others for as loni ag they can; and, like drawing lke, they make communtties set by set breed by breed, division by division, over the length and breadth of the land, from Mpine and the, uppe: reaches of the’ Saguenay, through the mountains and hot springs of haifa dozen interfor States, out and awa ere. ‘Then they spend money on hotet bills, among 10,000 farms, on pri- vate compantes who lease and yachts and canoes, , rods, chalets, cottages, reading cir- clea, camps, tents and all the lux- uriea they know, But the luxury of rest moat of them do not know, and the telephone and telegraph are faithfully dri red after them jest their men-f should for a moment forget the ball and chain at foot. Reads like a note of the present hour, Really, Rudyard Kipling wrote it in 1995, and it is reprinted in “Let- tere of Travel” (Doubleday-Page), a collection of Kiplingtsms, Time, which changes all things, hus in a quarter “| ot @ century merely multiplied our summer sojourners, added automo- g biles to the resources of our tourists and subtracted famously from the length of Milady’s skirts. The quan- tity of rest remains unaffected. eae Daddy Long-Legs and His ‘Look ~ Around--- Writing of the crane-fly, or “Daddy Long-Legs," in his book on ‘Won- ders of Insect Life” (Dutton), J. H. Crabtree tells us this: “A smooth; black head is ennobled with two prominent hemispheres of eyelets, aggregating over two thousand, which look out upon the landscape in all directions.” And yet a poet found himself in- spired to sing of mere Night, which a’ “has a thousand eyes,” Notice, however, ay