The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1920, Page 22

Se ee te ae See eee ae an Ne os or ote ae Sunday by the Press Pubusning Row, New Tork. . 43 Park Tow, SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row. PULITZER. Jr.. Secretary. 68 Park Row. A NOTABLE BOLT. AMILTON HOLT yesterday announced a list of 121 eminent pro-League Republicans and Progressives who have severed party ties to support Gev. Cox on the League of Nations Issue. The Bist ts evidently a testimonial statement to effset the Root roll of thirty-one pro-League Re- publicans who last week explained their support of Senator Harding in spite of what the candidate has jee. _ Bach group. agrees that the “bitterenders” are j absolutely wrong, that Intemational organization to prevent war is imperative. | One difference between the members of the two \ groups bs that the Holt group takes both candidates ‘at thelr word, whille the Root group leaves the plain Raference that the word of aman who aspires to the ‘Presiiency of the United States is not worthy of | No sensible man can reconcite the Marding speech fang, 28, which the Root group quotes, with the gnders” and finally alienated the Holt-Parsons “group. in one speech Harding sald in effect: 1 may;” in the other, “Positively 1 will Perhaps it ts the right of a candilate to change tts mind during a campaign, but if he does so he must expect nothing less than such an important Dolt as is under way In the Republican ranks. Between the two statements, it would seem that the Cox supporters were far more complimentary to the Republican candidate than are the Harding adherents. The bolters assume Yhat Harding is mistaken. The stickers assume that he Js a puppet and a knave. 4 On the paramount issue of the League of Nations the group of Independents announces that It is “done with wiggle and wattle.” ACTION, PLEASE! Mo-right kind. | ‘The end of 1920 sees the city In worse plight “tian a year ago. All the more need for vigorous “stimulation of the 1922 building programme. “ { BELIEVED.” usbancly and roplied, “If I beljeved in one government I could answer the lady's UMBRELLA SHORTAGE. t66PPCHB American consumer Is 5,000,000 um- ' brellas short.” Manufacturers of umbrellas sponsor the state- _ment. We assume that it is Intended as an example ‘of what the old-fashioned teacher of logic and de- + bating used to classify as “emphasis by preposter- “ous understatement,” Only 5,000,000 short—the idea is absurd. Here we have a Nation of more than 100,000,000—say 75,000,000, excluding Infants who have never owned an umbrella, And Is there one to be found who Is not “short” ‘from one to fifty umbrellas, owing to the uncanny methods by which umbrellas disappear by theft ‘and “borrowing”? Assame, for the sake of conservatism, that the average citizen will report a “shortage” of only ‘two. umbrellas whose disappearance he can recall, If thls most moderate estimate |s accepted, then the 75,000,000 are short 150,000,000 umbrellas Instead of a bograrty 5,000,000, | ‘The umibeslia shortage ig-2 curious thing. |i |s | §- possible to have a shortage greater than the total manufacture to date. One umbrella may account for a dozen or more shortages, depending on the number of hands it has passed through, it is a curious thing. Having acquired an um- brella—by any of the recognized methods—a pos- sessor feels he is “short” whenever it disappears— by any of the methods he condemns. But anyhow, this is “National Umbrella Week,” and the umbrella manufacturers would like to remedy the shortage by SELLING an umbrella to any umbrella consumer—whatever sort of arilmal that may be—who is not adequately provided. Needless to say, the umbrella men are praying for rain. Bast a word of caution: This will be an ex- cellent week to leave umbrellas at home in a locked closet or safe deposit vault. In so far as the umbrella makers succeed In arous- ing the Nation to the importance of possessing um- brellas, the possessor of an umbrella Is in unusua) danger, The non-possessors are on the watch to acquire an umbrella by the usual means, and the Possessors are doubly likely to become “short.” THE FRENCH SPOKESMAN. HAT may be called “The Prench Spokesman” _ ineldent in the Harding campaign is not un- usual except that the misteading character of the utterance has been checked up and exposed more completely and conclusively than has been the vase with other statements. i The incktent is of the same piece as all the rest of the campaign of deception in all shades and de- grees. The Intent, clear and unmistakable in this instance, clouded and obscure in others, has*been to mislead, deceive, and prejudice the voters, This has been the policy of the whole conspiracy all the way down from Senator Lodge to the Front Porch puppet, Senator Harding is “sure that my words could not be construed to say that the French Government has sent anybody to me.” But that is precisely the construction which it was hoped would be put on the words, It was to Induce such a construction that the candidate placed in apposition with “the French spokesmen” the names of Lioyd George and Lord Grey, the official spokes- men of Great Britain, The alleged attitude of the British spokesmen was only another misrepresentation, In the long reckoning one more deception will not make much difference in history’s judement of the treaty wreckers. It will be Important now only as It helps to reveal to the voters the absolute unreliability of the G.O, P, candidate, It would be important If it caused enough voters to go over the whole fabric of decelt and ravel out and Identify the stuff from which it has been woven, JOY IN THE “RINGS.” N SPITE of Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- fleki’s report, the Mayor seems determined ‘to go on with the Court House which is to memorial- ize his Administration, In spite of the record-breaking budget figures, the Mayor proposes to sacklle the city with a debt Of $7,000,000 as authorized—and a deficit which may prove almost as large again. In spite of the need for employment of artisans In building homes, Mayor Hylan and his personal following on the Board of Estimate are determined to go on with the project. Commissioner Hirshfield reported the existence of “rings” in all the building material supply fields, but this does not prevent the Mayor from readver- tising for bids on the roof for the Court House, the materials for which must come from one of the “rings,” if His Honor’s henchman is correct. Even the Mayor would not be so absurd as to expect to buy a roof without retaining walls to go under it. In‘the Hylan scheme the walls are im- portant. The memorial marker would naturally be attached to a wall. So the action in the Board of Estimate yesterday clearly forecasts the early award of a contract for limestone or granité, presumably fo a “ring.” Meantime, the making of a dishonest and decep- tive budget goes merrily onward. Only the sink- Ing fund provisions for the excess cost of present construction need go into the Hylan accounts,~ but even a small increase in the debt service is serioys In the present status of municipal finance. And the citizens of New York will pay. The renters and home-owners will ‘pay excessive taxes. The renters will continue in the clutch of the greedy landlords, because labor and material will go into the Court House instead of into homes. But the Court House we must have as a memorial , to the Administration of John F, Hylan. Never mind the cost, That will fall on Mayor Hytlan's successor-—and the people of the city TWICE OVERS. 66] DON'T know that my prioate financial affairs are of any concern in this investigation.” Deputy Comptroller James A, Wendell. Petar as ‘6 ‘ plans are those af my people.” King Constantine of Greece. SaaS ater SNS ts impossible to genius,” drew Carnegin. Former An - Passin the Buck! _ By John Cassel a | FROM EVENING WORLD READER What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the on that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundre There is fine mental evercise to say much in a few words and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief Not long sitice you asked tn your | splendid editorial, “Where are they? T have sinco watched the daily papers |to find if any had been discovered. | Are there so few truly large calibre {Republicans of pro-League opinion who will not put the biggest peace | programme of history above party? Alas! it seems as though Col Roosevelt was the last of such true Americans, Would to God the Colonel were alive to-day, for I feel eure the man who would have declared war on Prussianism the moment the Lusi tania went down, would now be stumping the country for the candi date pledged to the League and ad vising the signing of it with Article 10 in big letters. For what good is league that would not use force when necessary? Why, we have had had been @ league with an 10 the world would have disaster PRO-LEAGUE. Ocean Beach, N. ¥,, Oct, 16, 1920 re Frt Stops. ‘To the Baitor of The Hrening World ‘At a meeting of our club I was re- quested to write you. We are de- pending on you to give us the names of those Senaors and Congressmen, both New York State and Washing ton, who voted for the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volatead Bill. We positively will not vote for & maa who has deprived us of our libe ties. WILLIAM MAHDPR, Secretary 0 Al Smith Jolly 100 Club Bronx, Oct, 16, 1920 Can You Bent itr To the Militar of The Dreaing World No doubt World have obser 2a Leary Jepponent can be faced witt Article X. { have three hard-shelled | Republican friend’ who would dic before uld admit the truth in anything c rp recently I flashed Article X on ng in each th the Is not Article X the Monro \Doctrine extended to the world—a | sort of international elghth command- }ment?” In each Instance I simply followed lead, not seoking to convert, especially, but just keeping the talk curious to see where it would loud. Friend A has a grouch on Great Britain, This talk, therefore, led all lover the globe and ranged over thousand years of history. We landed up in the Australian Rush, ‘I sec they have « new joa of kangaroo up at the Brom Zoo," he sald, “But how does that bear on Article XT" I waked, ‘T's only a British triok,” he re- torted Friend ¥ is & minister, He most un- tedly me & chase through eaders without @ league, whereas, the rticle X ean change women aetare Ware wil aiwage be.” | He ted me finally Into a labyrir , @bstractions about the milien) | “How docs all this affec League of Nations?” I asked “It's a pacifist dream,” he mournfully, Friend C was pyrotechnic, maledic tory. He has Wilsonphobia. The high Nghts in this Arnold, Valland in Deschanet's resignation, think there's anything in the theory |that these two great ‘Iiberal Fr dents were stricken by enemies?” J asked. I was imn ately sorry, for I saw a gleam in | eyes that told me the thought was fathering an unholy hope. “But the League,” I said about 1?" “It's a Wilson league,” be sputtered Can you beat it’. JAB New York, Oct. 15, 1920. Probation Proved. ‘Ty the Baitor of Toe Drening World Comptroller Craig’s opposition # Board of Estimate's meeting to |the City Magistrates’ request to: | $200,000 to carry on probation work in their Courts does him no viewed irom a financial, moval, |humanitarian aspect. ‘He — shi know the invaluable and end work done under probation, but doesn't, the pooner he receives some elementary education the petter In the abstract, it may be prope: to have “malefactors introduced to the stone pile,” but when doing sv means the break-up of the hoine, the introductic perhaps a wife almshouse, ¥ millation and expense, to say no of the cost involved in paying the ficials with which our Houses of ( rection are filled, it does not req @ wizard in figures to determi which is the paying proposition. Probation shows the malefactor wherein he has erred; it tr case on ts merits; it guid fortunate into new paths wherein temptations and old companion eliminated; it appeals to the said of society, gives him a helping hand, and py every possible means endeay ors to reclaim and make him a valu able member of society This ie the programme of our Judges and City Magistrates, to all of which the Comptroller's answer ts the “atonp pile.” Probation 18 @ proven success, but if it had only redeemed units where it has saved hundreds it would be 4 paying investinent. ‘The Board of kis- timate @hould make unatinted pro vision for the improvement and dc velopment of such work, of citizens behind them, And it might be well for the latter to note the men. tal aberrations of thelr Comptroller, R, J, WADDELL 161 ¥8th Bt. Brooklyn Oct. 16th, 1930 92,500, To the Biter of The Evening World Will you kindly publish what would! those of their wives, be the yearly interest on $50,000 at) how ‘+ cent, DOUBTFUL. ‘Bad Ave, Oot 11, 1980. “wat! sense of honor and duty as @ member | | know lng | # a they have the overwhelming majority | ocate myself? M UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake YAKE STOCK ONCE & MONTH If you are working intelligently you are constantly storing a valuable stock of knowledge in your brain Take stock of it at least once a month, Consider what you know that you didn’t know a month ago, and how the added knowledge will help you in the future " . If You have been storing up things that are of no value to you, change ‘your method in the next month, Your brain has @ limited capacity, Put into it only what is useful, and by the exercise of your memory keep what you put into it where you can get it handily when you want it, If you will stop now and then and figure what you are learning, and how it is helping you, you will be provided with«an incentive for learning more the next month. But make stock-taking a habit. There telligent and systematic progress without it If vou are studying a language, note your progress now and then, and if possible compare it with that of somebody else who is studying that same language If he is learning faster than you are, find out why Perhaps he has more facility. If that is the reason, don't worry. But if he is learning faster because he is working harder it is time for you to put in a little extra effort on that particular job. Take stock especially of the knowledge up in your own particular business, most with you Don’t let the other fellows on the job know more about the game than you do. Keep up with them, and check up every month to find out that you are keeping up. The merchant takes stock at stated intervals to see where he stands, If certain lines of goods are not making anything for him he gets no more of that kind of stock. Do the seme with what you know, Then, knowing ex- actly where you are, you are in a position to make real and substantial progress, can be no in you are storing That is what counts Post on Sept. 29, 1449 (which contra Venes some part of your statement), “ - IFT) and had issue os BhllAre te That’s a Fact’\24. 33 ies ic ttre By Albert P. Southwick | nety-elght passengers. | One was born on the voyage and four |Cavrrgn. 1920, by ‘The, Prose Publishing col] | Joined them from the ship, making rhe New Yor Evening World) | | total of 108. Forty-one men signed =a |the Compact tn the cabin of the von ae \nel on Noy. 11 (or Nov. a2), ANSWERS TO QUERIES, |has been called “the cornerstone of (1) Ia It possible to get the namen| the, civil and religious itbortica of tho {¢ the Pligrims who landed tn 19301] C Rite My Gunes eae 1am a direct descendant of Alex- ew Tate City to-day hy the name = | condants of Jo! ander Chalker of Old Baybrook,|Sowiand. one of the Pilgrime a , who marriod Patior.ce Post in| , ual @nd was killed in the Narra- ae fight in 1675. Where can | What American Army offloor was HUBBARD, | ono proclaimed w? JOHNSTON 476 Fitth Avenue, New York City Benedict Arnold’ was undoubtedly so in the hearts of hie countrym “Catalogue of the Names of the| though & formal proclamation wi an Sottlera of the Colony|not made to that effe The refer: D (2) Kindly furnish |ence is probably to han Allen, who Olve the names) was thus stimmath but before he of your father and grandfather, witn|hald rank, He was born in Roxbu It has taken an|Litohfield County, Conn, went ‘8 research to find the one item montat an early age t Alexander Chalker, an early sot~ @t Saybrook, marries Katrine New York, () Yes, You will find them in a work ontitied "Society of Mayflower Desoendants, New York, 1894," and data," a acne anid i a ar ate RA EES OR TTY 1620, Tt} ‘Great Warriors of the Bible | By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory orient fi eae tet NoZ1—Joshua. ‘The Book of Joshua opens with these words: “Now it 0 to pass after the death of Mores, the Servan of the Lord, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses’ min ister, saying, ‘Moses, my servant, i* deed; now, therefore, grise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, Jeven to the children gf Israel.” | With Joshua, to receive a command was to obey it, regardless of conse quences, for Joshua was all @ soldier It was not for him to “reason why,” ‘but simply to obey orders. When the Lord's command came the Jordan was at flood, but, fortun- ately, @ Jandalip dammed the river at 4 uarrow gorge north of Jericho, amd the crossing Was thereby easily made Losing no time, Joshua marched straight on Jerioho, where he was tv win his first victory by the strangest tactics over employed in the whole history of war from the beginning of the world down to the present time. Upon reaching Jericho Joshua's hosts, without a shout or a challenge, begun winding silently around the city, and when tho circuit was com pleted they returned quietly to their camp, So they did six days ip sue comion. On the seventh day the clr cult of the walle was repeated seves times and at the close of the seventh circuit Joshua's voice rang owt on the still evening alr the command, Shout! for the Lord hath given you the city.” Then the priests biew the seven ram horn trumpets, and ail the yonts shouted together, and the wats { Jerioho fell down Mut, and Joshes and the soldiers marched in Joshua probebly knew more about acoustics and ite related mechanics! jaws than we have given him ered f He anticipated, by a good long stretch, the knowledge of the fiddler who made and wen the bet that wita his cren he could fiddle down # big stone ge—by striking the ker note and keeping up the vibration until the structure fell Jericho Joshua marched on after a preliminary re- won another an s time ‘by the ta ay ambush, In the meantime, the seared to death of Joshua, him, a to get even tes for thelr treach- of the Amoritee agains? nites, Suddenly the me thomselv@& surrounded furiated Amorites, but their salvation ‘was, nearer than they thought Jostiua and his host were at band, t ot the five king n, where th “i still” so t Joshua might have daylight long enough to enable im to make a clean job of slaughter the Amorites, five kings and their confed+ were completely knocked out at Gibeon, but Jabin, King of Hazor, organized the Canganites for one su- vrfine effort to pp Joshua, but ait n vain. The wfghty warrior feil upon the forces of the new coalition at the “Waters of Merom” and utterly annihilated them. ‘The victory at Lake Marom practi- cally ended the seven-year campaign and Palestine was conquered. With he exception of the initial reverse at Ai Joshua did not lose @ battle, In overy instance he could have ex- aimed with Caesar, “I came, I saw, 1 conquered,” With Sherman Joshua believed that war was hell. With Stonewall Jack son he was of the opinion tbh “whole business In war is to kill enemy.” Tostua was firmly of the bel that the only gc enemy was fend enemy. He spared nobody to his men was Unit of « the forces of the Ip he land of the Albigenses quisition in t “1K God will know His Kill them all — Ten-Minute Studies | of New York'€ity | ‘| Government By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the thirty-fourth article of « series defining the duties of the admin- istrative and legisiotive officers and boards of the New York Oity Govera- ment, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. * Bureau of Laboratories | ‘This bureau conducts the diagnos, | vaccine, serological, chemical and re |wearoh ‘Jaboratories of the depart jment. It maintains supply stations Jat a large number of drug stores | throughout the city, where physicians |may obtain antitoxins and vaccines and outfits for forwarding specimens to the laboratories for examination, Jand may leave such specimens for collection hy department messengers, ‘The first laboratory of the depart- ment was organined in 1892 to ald in the diagnosis of cholera and wes the first municipal bactertological labors~ tory established in the worl, Sings 1894 these laboratories have prepares diphtheria aptitoxin for free distriby. tton to the poor of the ctty, amalipox vaccine, vacoine for the treatment of rableg, anti-typhoid vacofne and vari. ous other specific bacteriological and | serological products. The researches and studies concerning numerous public health problems such ae tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, ty. photd fover, pasteurization of milk. &o., prosecuted in these laboratories | have contributed largely to the effes. |tive work of the Department e: | Hoa h, Dr, William Fi, Parte ts the Direntor of the Bureau of ix RR Rie office is at the foot of Kast Street, Manhattan, — Suareeaemmenee Grants and the State of Ne: ‘The Logisiature of the (then) hee province preclaimed him an outlaw and offered $60 for his apprehenuier |A party who attempted to him while he was on a to in Ballsbury, and lodge tn Pall te Poughkeepsie, failed dn thetr project, |Ho afterward effected the eapture of jconderoga and his former | torgotten OM wien 18% ormed aa