The evening world. Newspaper, November 10, 1920, Page 26

[acege ESTABLISHED BY JOSt Published Daliy Except & Company, Nos. 53 to 63 1" RALPH PULITZER, President, J. ANGUS SHAW, Tr sosRPH PULITZE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Bea deriens rem ig exter, eitiog 10, tne 0a credlied and alse the local hows published THE SUGAR LORN. REGARD to the proposed C amounting to $100,000,000,” the New York Commercial reports: It “still hangs.” “The bankers and the Cuban interests are still at odds as to the amount and the terms. The bankers contend that a loan for half of the above amount is all the traffic could bea . The Commercial says further: “So far there has been no action taken by the State Department in the matter, due chiefly to the lack of details on the plan.” This Cuba loan has been hanging for some time. The longer it hangs the less pleasing its appearance. The State Department should not approve such a loan without the fullest investigation, The facts of the Cuban moratorium are that the Cuban sugar interests tried to charge “all the traffic Gould bear’—and a little bit more. Now the busi- ness of the island is in a disastrous panic because the bottom has dropped out of the sugar market and America is getting sugar al something like the ald price. The Japanese had a similar experience with silk. + A loan is sought now so that the Cubans can stretch the credit around and again be in position to’ gouge.the American public on the price of sugar. What the Cubans are trying to do is precisely the same thing that the wheat growers of the West and the cotton planters of the Soulh.want to do, The Sugar growers want hold commodities which otherwise will have to go on the market. The Federal Reserve Board refuses to Help the American farmers to speculate and withhold com- modities froth the mark It should frown no less on any effort to finance sugar hoarding, One notable difference exists. American sugar interests have large holdings in Cuba. These have been hit along with the rest of the business, This group is Tess directly interested in American agriculture. A Cuban loan now would smack strongly of favoritism. If the Government approved or did not manifest disapproval of such a loan, it would be rank favoritism. It would be aiding a small group of Cuban—and Amerigan—sugar speculators as against a large group of American growers of American commodities. There is good reason for not inflating credit for the benefit of the wheat and cotton hoarders. And there is far better reason for not inflating credit for the benefit of Cuban sugar speculators who took “all the traffic would bear when they had the op- portunity and are now suffering from the natural results of their market rigging. The Cub%n loan should continue untildead. — ~ credit to to “hang CURRAN WANTS ACTION. HANKS are due Borough President Curran for putting renewed life into the tax exemption ordinance to encourage new building. Mr. Curran’s proposal is in the form of an amend- ment to Alderman Collins's ordinance, which has Slumbered for nearly two months without action. As The Evening World pointed out at the time, the Collins ordinance is dangerous, because it affenis too large an opportunity for political favoritism in its application. President Curran has good reason to back up hi amendment, which is worded in accordance with the authorizing statute. If the Curran measure is adopted, one legal fight will decide the validity of exemption. if another wording is used, the land- lords will have two lines of attack and the result will be wasted time and uncertainty, In the iad time is a matter for the first consideration. The Morning Telegraph calls The Evening World a bad loser for insisting that, despite the result of the election, the United States must go into the League of Nations, By Morning Telegraph standards, Elibu Root, Herbert Hoover and a host of gthers in their party are going to prove the worst sort of winners. Why be more Republican than Republl- cans? \ We suppose the Morning Telegraph would have fallen over itself to be the first to yield up the Ten Commandments whenever the children of Israel had @ relapse in favor of false gods. HI yesterday. It comments on the great annual income of the famerican Federation of Labor and says: This immense incomé is controlled by a small executive committee, and the public is entitled to demand a full statement of the purposes to which it is put. ‘ “The Evening World is glad to agree with the Journal and second the campaign for NOT UNION FUNDS ALONE. E Wall Street Journal recommended “Pub- F 'y for Union Funds” in a leading editorial for republication Rherwise credited im this papér cern alae a publicity, It is happy to discover a sentiment for publicity In Wall Street. For we assume, of course, thas if the Wall Street Journal recommends pub- licity for union funds It will be consistent and fair and demand public accounting by any and all organ- izations which collect great funds to be expended under the direction of “a small executive com- mittee.” *There are literally thousands of such organiza- tions, and for all sorts of purposes. The Anti-Sa- loon League is one example. Lawyer Hettrick’s building rings are another type. The associations to fight organized labor are a third. The Institute of Anferican Meat Packérs is another, Many of these organizations are good. Many are bad. But they have a relation to the public very similar to that of organized labor, They collect funds from all the members. These are disbursed by a small executive committee. What becomes of he money is of vital interest to the public. Whether for propaganda, for lobbying, for bribery, for “fighting,” for profit, or what not, the public ought to know the source and the disposal of such funds, 3 What is needed is a general law covering all such izations, not a special law for Trade Unions, organiz, WHOSE, STEREE Pe a fu reminder of the kind of advice President-elect Harding is likely to get from Elihu Root on the League question, The Evening World's correspondent, David Lawrence, recalls the letier Mr. Root wrote to Will Hays which made the following reference to The Hague Tribunal: rther “There was a weakness in the system de- vised by The Hague conference. It was that arbitration of justiciable questions was not made obligatory, that no nation could bring another before the court unless the defendant was willing to come, and there was no way to enforce a judgment. “The great essential thing about the plan contained in the covenant of the League of Nations is that it makes international con- ferences on political questions compulsory in times of danger; that it brings together such conferences upon the call of officers who represent all the powers and makes it practically impossible for any nation tokeep out of them.” : “ Obligatory” —“‘enforce” —“compulsory.” These are the very words Mr. Harding has chiefly relied on to scare Americans away from the existing League of Nations. They will not be welcome fyom the lips of Mr. Root, even after election and victory. 80 But what if Mr. Root harks back to the Harding ¢ speech of Aug, 28, which contained the famous: 3 “It is not uncommon for the advocates of the League of Versailles to contrast unfa- vorably The Hague Tribunal ~ upon the ground that the tribunal ‘lacks teeth.’ “Very well, then; let’s put teeth into it. ‘What if Mr. Root pins down the President-elect to an explanation.pf how he is going to “put teeth into it,” save in the shape of obligation, compulsion, enforcement of precisely tHe kind for which the Versailles covenant provides? What'if Mr. Root, with the unpleasant insistency of a lawyer, demands to know why we should try to abolish a League which forty-three otmer nations have already joined, in order to replace it with *an- other which must admittedly require the same pledges from its members? The President-elect has not yet done with tho “teeth.” ‘They will return to haunt him and dog him with dilemmas directly discussion of the League reopens. As it will reopen—with unabated vigor. For the result of the election no more’ killed American interest in the League than it killed the League itself. TRAVELING CLINIC (From the Ohio State Journal.) Medical science is continually giving aid to this suffering old world in more ways than can possibly be enumerated. We are all deeply indebted to the truly scientific physicians, whether we need to con- sult them for ourselves or not, since they are always | laboring to reduce the ills that human flesh ig heir to, A new and strictly philanthropic branch of med- ical work which is now boing organized in New York State deserves partigular attention, This is a system of rural clinics which are to be held in small towns under the direction of the State Health De- partment. Realizing that country physicians without complete laboratory apparatus often have difficulty in diagnosing obscure diseases, the Health Depart- ment assembles twenty physicians who are special- ists, and who will take with them nurses, X-ray ma- chines and a completely equipped laboratory, Pa- tients will be invited to come to them and local phy- ’ sicians will be asked to cooperate, Their first visit was to Goshen,*and other towns will 1ater be visited. By this means it is hoped to give the smallest com- munities the benefit of the most modern facilities and the latest discoveries of science, Any one who has ever lived in the country and knows how much trouble is frequently caused by mistaken diagnosis will appreciate the great hu- manitarian value of this work, It is like travelling Ubraries, university extension and other modern means of spreading knowledge throughout the | country, ‘ states a baenteiaeembadianmanes aeabieaaei eee THE EVENING WORLD | , WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1920, ARose by Any Other Name! by Copsttaht, 1920, Tye ene Piibiishing Ce, (Tue New York Brenig Wort V GP caer! | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letter do you fin that gives you the worth of a thous! 2 most readable? Isn't it the one and words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of sutisfaction in trying Take to say much inca few words. What Is Success? To the Editor of The Evening Work May I not ask Mr. John "lake what he understands by the term “a suc- cessful man?” In his thrilling indictment of that viclous and degrading vice, laziness, he says that the successful man would | hay been more successful had he not been too fond of Idling. It is ap- | parent from his further remarks that his conception of a "su is af |man who amasses a great deal of | money that he cannot possibly use, jand would have neither the time nor the inclination-to do so If he could. If this is success I must beg to dif- | fer, with Mr. Blake in his belief that s is a desirable condition, How- I think the term has a far wider significance. | To my mind, the succe: who expresses his personality, who realizes bis capabilities, who gets | what he wants, and who does as ho pleases—an impossible consummation on the face of it. But using the word in its more restricted sense, there are successful authors, and burglars, and clergymen, and editors, and pickpock- ets, and lawyers, and murderers; suc- cessful in’ th own lives, being themselves. | clergyman who pr mon ts a “success.” | Whe conducts a good newspaper, The lawyer who knows his business Is a ; successful lawyer, The murderer who ful man is they are living their The kills in a neat, workmanlike manner is a successful murderer, The recip- jent of his atfentions I would describe as a successful corpse. I myself am a successful rebel nst the apparently generally ac- cepted doctrine that work 1s a bless- ing from Heaven—suecessful in being an idler, in being lazy, in being my- sell, I really must refuse to get worked up about the “destruction” of my “fu- ture” so dismally prophesied by Mr Blake, Life ts short, and work is long ——-much too long, in ble opinion—why take either so very ously ? used to find time in which to stand off and watch the other poor fish con- fusedly flapping around in direles and getting nowhere? Has he really fallen |for the effic! hard labor propa- ganda, for which Mr, Blake is such a “successful” spokesman? 1 wonder, G. W. SCHOPENHAUER, South Second Street, Brooklyn, Nov. oT | should go to the boys who served in France, T think and I am sure that would have, Jour say about it, |” What about the boys who lost thalr |tives over here testing powder and guns and shells?, | What about Tremere mee ny far from hum- | What has become of the fellow who} if, we were told to go to France we and we co&ld not have a time to be brief. break three fect of ice to get a drink of water? Secretary of War Baker saw two men blown to atoms testing three’ Stokes mortars, und numbers ot | others were killed, wounded and | maimed, They did not get a silver, | button, But H. J. L., it makes our blood oil when you call us “stay “at homes.” Some of the boys that went | across went through hardships and so did we, Why should we not get the bonus as well as the fighters? Justice to all, Q Aberdeen, Md. WHO KNOWS. ‘ov, 5, 1920, ‘ Subway Nu! ncen. To the Editor of The Evening World What is the matter with our Boar of Health? Why do they allow such | | conditions to prevail in the lavatosies | of the I. R. T. subways? Of all the foulesmelling, dirty and diseased holes there is no place that can be compared to them, especially the ones at the 14th and the 42d Street stations of the east side subways. ‘There is no doubt in my mind that the officials of the company are ac- quainted with this condition, yet nothing is ever done to clean or ven- tilate them, We read considerable about evention of Disease” and are told all about how to take care |of ourselves, but if a person was to these stations I would gamble he would be diseased. Probably our sleepy Board of Health knows about it also, but they are too busy looking after matters of less importance. A READER. New York, Nov. 6, 1920. The Boy Wizard, ‘Yo the Falitor of The byening Work Any one who can master chess at that » is a phenomenon, but Mr. | Hodges's so-called “ingenious, prob- lem" doesn’t appeal to me as a severe | test of the wizard’s ability. Although y poor player of chess, I ad no difficulty in finding the key | bishop moves from queen's bishop five to queen's knight four, I have seen many chess problems that were much harder to solve. The other tests put to the Boy Wiz- ant were quite difficult ones and I have no doubt he must be a remark- Jable child. ONE WHO TRIPS TO PLAY. School Needs tn Brooklyn, To the Editor of The Evening World: The Borough of Krooklyn is sadly Danwers in the U. § in need of a commercial high school ‘To the Haitor of The Evening World; for girls. ‘The old vuilding now stand- ‘Being an “dx-soldier” I would like| Ing on St, Mark's and Classon Ave- to have somethitfg to Say about “our’|nues is the most dilapidated old high | \bonus. H. J. L, thinks that the bonus | sehool in this borough. For exampl in my room the first) period fifty-seven gir te. The | room has but one windew, which is not | large enough to ventilate the room| properly, The lyvatories are old fash- | joned and unhealthy, In the front of | the building leading from floor to the s the first cond there is a spiral spend fifteen minutes in either one of | move in less than four minutes—white | € the boys that bad td staircase where in case of fire there| to be used) Frou studying | ' 4 pot UNCOMMON SENSE . |: By John Blake (Coppright, 1920, by John Blake.) CHEERFULNESS WINS. Says the Bible, wisely: “Gladness of heart is the life of a man, afid the joy- fulness of a man prolongeth his days “It is not always easy to be joyful, or even cheerful. But it is necessary unless you want to be « gloom, and glooms never succeed. Consider your friends. The people you like, and want to help, are the cheerful people. around you, because they help you forget your troubles. You like to listen to their conversation, You will seek them out when you will neglect other men who may be just as wise jp the learning of the world, even wiser. ‘ It'is the cheerful man in an organization who gets pro- moted, because his cheerfulness makes him attractive and makes him likeable. , It is the gloom who sulks in his corner and is forgotten. There is not an organization in the world where the cheerful man does not have a better chance than the ‘gloomy one. You like to have them . There never was an employer who did not prefer to do something for the cheerful employee than for the sour and glum one. Cultivate cheerfulness, It is not always easy, but remember that nothing worth doing is always easy. You can put your troubles in the back of your brain and worry about them—if worry you must—after you go home at night. . While you are at work at least have the appearance of being happy.’ » Don't fuss over a little hard luck. That happens to everybody. Don't think unduly about your sorrows. The best way to get rid of sorrows, to take the edge off of them, is to think of cheerful things, Do your work as if you were glad to do it, and you will soon find yourself enjoying it. Swallow disappointments, remembering that they will be suceceded by better luck if you keep on trying. If you are cheerful in youth you will form the habit of cheerfulness, which will bring you a pleasant old age and a long life, for truly it is “J the joyfulness of a man which pro- longeth his days.” r would without doubt be an accident that might prove fatal. ‘he school does not possess a gym- nasium—something that all other high hehools haye. When a class has phy sical training the girls are compel! to stay in the dark basemem&or clye go out into the yard, whichis not properly paved. ‘The pavement ts un- Bven and these is probability of some girls injuring themselves. Even on bright summer days artificial light bas us Brooklyn, FLORENCE CARLTOD Brooklgp, Nov, 8, 1920, _ By John Cassel | not some one who has some power in dealing with the Board of | Education try his best ty get a new 1 ol on St. Mark's and Classon » but a short time to. stay in this schoel, and I sincerely hope that before 1 leave there shall be a new Commercial High School for Girls in the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregodd “No. 7—David the Strategist. David, like the elder von Moltke, | Was a master strategist. He wag ® Generai in the widest and deepest } sense of the word and not a mere winner of local battlefields, 4.) As soon ag his kingship was,ree- ognized he began to carry out,.bis ” | great plan, and it may be sald..of him that he made good all along the line. His first duty as natfonal leader was to deal with the great national |enemy, and that enemy was the Phil- istine. ‘The Philistines had never been really conquered, and just as, soon as David became a whole King they broke into Judah to smash the new regime before it had timé’to fairly knit itself together and becdime strong. | * But instead of smashing David the Philistines were themselves smashed. David fell upon them like a thurder- | bolt in the Valley of Rephatm, ‘and in two fierce battles completely brdke their power, ao The victories in the Valley" 'ot Rephaim freed the united nftfon from external dangers, and David was free to go about the task of ¢8- tablishing a national centre, a strong rallying point, both politically abd physiclly. Hebron was too far south; he must have the stronghold of the Jebusites, the rock of Zion—Jerusa- | lem. After a desperate fight that called | for every bit of the valor of David's | “Mighty Men,” the Rock fell into the | hands of the people of Israel. | It was the great turning point in Israel's history. The old, crude, | primitive days were over; the truly national period was at hand. iv Having diked his nation against,the lood of Phijistine invasion and. | vided for the people a strong capital, | David proceeded to do what. Pol@hd |claims she is trying to do to-day set out to “recover” lost territary. The guilty party seemed to have been Moab, and David was successful ‘in taking back from the Moabites dbe |*stolen’” lands. Here David would probably have driven down his, stakes for good,, bu lhe was not a man, whom it Was lalways safe to insult. He had sent a peaceful embassy to Hanun, the King Joe the Ammonites, who grossly in: sulted the ambassadors, mutilating their beards and cutting short their |robes; and the action so maddened |David that he went out after the | Ammonites with all that was worst jin him thoroughly aroused. (If you jwould see what David did to them | you can find it in I. Samuel, 12.) | David's last campaign was against ‘the Edomites, whom, It appears, he was fighting ‘to obtain command of | certain posts on the Red Se It will be seen that as a military man David deserves to rani? up among the greatest of the great cap- ains. wor It you read ® the above reference (il, Samuel, you may be inclined aim’ of Qavid, “You brute)” But to show that David’ was not all brute just recall the water story While reconnoitering near his *na- ive town one hot summer day Dé- 1 was about overcome with thirst nd three of his oMicers, without his Be rongh enem} him water. But_ inst of drinking, it, the thirsty King poured jt out upon the ground ‘before Jehovah," as though he was saying, water. This is the life-blood of three y bravest is the chidlice M oft inile into the face of death |not worthy to drink of this I have been selfish and have no righ! to tonch this offering sf unselfishness and fidelity. but offer it to God." ‘And so, down underneath the brutal Pay the divine. OTE. Bap) “That’s aFact By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1920, hy The Press Publishing, he New ing World { ANSWERS TO QUERIES,:: | Wasn't Braddock's defeat, oif*the | Monongahela River, July 9, 265, something of a massacre Brooklyn, N.Y. J. C. FRANK> Yes, Gen, Braddock had five horse killed under@him and at last re- {ceived a mortal wound through the right arm into the lungs, leaving. an Jorder of command half finished ,on his! lips. Capt, Shirley was bot through the head. Major George Washington had two horses shot under him and his clothes pierced in several places, Col, Halket, a brave: otchman, received a bullet in his art and, as he was falling, his son him, only to receive @ mor' himself and to die in his father’ | embrace. About 200 out of thei 1g40 men and sixty-three out of()the eighty-six officers were either killed or wounded. Gen. Braddock wag car- ried by Capt, Stewart of Virginid and Cap rme, the General's own ‘aide, on*a’ fresh horse across the ford of the river to a point about a quaste: of a mile distant. m é J Cia) Sara] | When was Longfellow a resident | of Pittsfield, Mass. ? INTERESTED, | énsack, N. J a We do not know, but personally |we saw him frequently in the six- tle and seventi never knew of | nis living anywhere else, after com- ing to Cambridge, Mass., except in the historic mansion popularly known for | the last half century as “Longfellow's Home." We noted the illustvation which you refer in an advertisement and think it is an error, He died ja Cambridge on Marcp 24, 1882, On what da 1886, occu Lorimer Street, Brgoklyn, N. Yq, From 1886 to the present is thirtg- tour years. There have been @igho leap years in that time, 34-8142, Dividing by seVen there is ng" te- [fas tes Consequently the day thea of the week did April was the same as in this year,’ a.