The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1920, Page 30

OO Le ie aetna De mes Ass ~ Kf % — Che PSTABLIENED ) [Puvtienea par by the Preas Publishing j Company th Row, New York. | RALPH PF ITZEF Tatk Now T._ANGUS Sit AW Park Kos : Jose PULITZER {Park Now. | y 7 see Dr GF All Bem, Genpaiches crediied Ht OF not otherwive credited im thle paper GRO sine the loon! ewe publiened wereia rl / IN GREECE ALSO. } ENIZELOS, statesman of Greece and of Eu- | rope, has met the same fate as Wilson, statesman of the United States and the Western f Hemisphere. t The parallel is sirikingly significant. | Men of sound judgment in the United States will be quick to see the error the Greeks made in re- pudiating Venizelos. of Greece know that in the larger sense Wilson has been right and his critics wrong. Conditions in Greece were not dissimilar to those in the United States. Venizelos was a brilliant and Successful war le He was a progressive. But the efforts Greece made in the war were expensive, In the same way the thinkers ze der. Taxes were high, trade disorganized, Greece i } wanted a change. » The Conservatives in Greece appealed to the Same sort of unthinking discontent to which the Old Guard appealed in America. Greece, like America, is suffering from a of mind.” This gave the politicians their oppor- tunity. They grasped their advantage over the Statesman and used it to displace Venizelos. One difference exists. The United States is a Republic. Greece remainy a monarchy. In two years the voters of the United States will have op- Portunity to repudiate their relapse to Bourbonism, In four years, they wish, they can throw out the Bourbon by the peaceful agency of the ballot, Greece, on the contrary, will probably experience another monarchical, revolution if Constantine is Testored. “state The two great statesmen of the war have been displaced. They expecied yoo much of their fol- lowers. Their ideas and their plans were too large » to fit the backwash of the war. Meantime, the crafty politician, Lloyd George, Manages to pursue his tortuous way and escape the {i fate of the statesmen, t : PROTECTION AGAINST PANIC} uy IRE CHIEF KENLON is right in stating that i it is impossible ty Ingid a “panic-proof i building.” , That is one of { ‘Tegulation of b tt is also one of the important reasons for the generally disregarded ordinance which torbids young * children admiitance to theatres unless accompanied y by an adult. The fact that no panic-proof building is possible makes it all the. more important to see that crowds * are protected from whatever tends to produce panic, , Will it require another and greater disaster to in- Sure enforcement of the ordinance which prohibits | unattended children at the movies? tor the conrehensive ildings where crowds gather. - x ' THE TRUTH WILL OUT. NVESTIGATION of city contracts by the Cor- poration Counsel may or may not produce * results. New York will adupt a policy of “watchful ‘ waiting.” ’ It cannot be denied that Mr, La Guardia has rea- $ons for his suspicion of “a member-of the family.” Tammany whitewashing the Tiger would not be a novelty, On the other hand, Mr. O'Brien has good reason to make a real investigation and uncover any and all malefactors, whether they bear allegiance to the Wigwam or not. With a Mayoralty campaign impending and Re- publicans in absolute control in Albany, the truth will out. If there is any reason to suspect the fair- ness and comy ess Of the O'Brien investigation, the Republicans will be quick to grasp the oppor- tunity to “Lexow” the city departments involved, Sound political strategy, no less than the obliga- tiofs of his office, demand that Mr. O'Brien do a thorough and painstaking job the results of which no Albany committee can controvert NO JOB FOR THE POLICE. ALL the farcical performances ot New York's municipal administration, the police “inspec- tion” of automobiles this week is one of the best. Gilbert and Sullivan could have used it in their ; business, Lewis Carroll would have delighted in the idea. The police are not to blame. They have to obey orders: Responsibility rests on the “higher-ups” who evolved the brilliant scheme. Nevertheless, it is a typically Hylanesque example of well-meaning stupidity, Confronted with a mounting motor death roll, the City Hall discovers u: fod sompihing.” It does. As a result, ful cops who know nothing at all seriously stopping and’ inspecting au- say . ‘ tomobiles and prescribing for their ills, A thousand trained motor mechanics could do the job ina week. But the New York police force is expected to add this to their other duties. | This “inspection” would be a source of amuse ment if it were not so typical of the way in which the present city administration functions, EYES TOWARD GENEVA. N HIS opening address the newly elected Presi- said: “The League of Nations ia not and must not be a super-state which aims at absorb- ing national sovercigntics or reducing them to bondage.” < This-is, of course, further defiance of the Presi- dent-elect of the United States, On occasions when Senator Harding would admit the League to be alive at all, he has denounced it as creating a super-sovereignty from which this free and independent Nation must recoil in horror. If the Versailles League will not agree to be dead, it might al least refrain from express declara- tions against the thing Senator Harding has tried to have pass for its wgrst feature. 1 more wavs than one jt is a fortunate time for these representatives of forty-two enlightened na- tions to have gathered at Geneva. The American people are greatly in need of a reminder that all the enlightenment in the world is not confined within (he borders of the United States. They need to be convinced that national intelli- gence, national honor and national jealousy of na- tional independence are not exclusively American. They need demonstration—at whatever cost to their pride—that the lessons of the greatest war in history and the toward the stronger safeguarding of peace have not been appraised with wisdom and sincerity solely in America, resultant’ international impulse Too many Americans have formed their opinion of the League of Nations from what party leaders— for party purposes—have said against it. ‘The moment has now come when the League can be its own active advocate, when it can prove its first power for good merely in the salutary pub- licity it gives to international differences that have hitherto smouldered under cover, when it can show itself too honest in purpose as a whole ever to be swayed by dishonest elements that might scheme to use it for their ends. The people of the United States have had their national gaze of late turned inward. They have been taught to think they could best see the League in the false mirrors of prejudice and party’ politics, Nevertheleés, Amer an honesty and common sense are not yet dulled to the satisfaction of look- ing straight at facts and “being shown.” In that spirit, and with open eye and mind, let every American follow what goes on at Geneva. “WHEN, AS AND IF.” IRE CHIBF KENLON says “there ts no reason why the_1,100 miles of streets of this city cannot be cleaned of snow entirely by the equip- ment of the Street Cleaning Department when it is completely deliyered, te and the employees of that departmeng trained and drilled in the handling of such expensive and complicated machinery.” But although New York had its lesson in the big snow and ice storm of last winter, the first part of the new equipment is noi due to be delivered until Dec. 15 and the final Jeliveries are not expected until next March. In the mean time, in expectation of the new ma- chinery, no snow removal contracts have been made for the First District of Manhattan! Therefore, if it happens to snow this winter, im- portant sections of the city can stay under the drifts with the consoling thought of all the new equip- ment may mean “when, as and if delivered.” New York is a perfect illusiration of Pope's line on hopeful man who “never is, but always to be blest.” TWICE OVERS. “cc 1EY (Shipping Board riveters) knew no | more about driving a rivet than a pig knows | about playing a Jew's harp.” T. 0. Purcell. cu i homa. Former Inspector VE been a total abstinence society of one all my fee’ —Congresswoman-elect Roberlion of Obla- “ce R. O'BRIEN ‘is a member of the family.” — F. H. La Guardia, . . * 66] CAME to Russia for commercial purposes and I have succeeded in my efforts.” -W. D. Vanderlip. ce E have got to toke the public into our con- fidence,” Lord Robert Cecil, South African to Leagus af Nations. * dent of the Assembly of thé League of Nations fo tae Fatitor IT ecw _THE EVENING WORLD, s you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Plenty of Rope. H reading in some time back un some o signing n hang majoritic ‘wanted them: the greates Soa “3 in both a change A WILSON LD, New York, Nov. 13, nee 16 Dive Hvening Wo 1 believe I agree th | To the mAitor of The Evening W : Not quite so hot under the collar, hir glits in the country t enough rope Wa Houses h Mitburst ~ and they'll WEDNE = From Evening VVorld Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? that piv Isn't it the one Take time to be brief. ° to live In New rents and the to break up their \ York because of high L,, many had py} mes to live With relatives and be dep.ndent upon them for support. | In many cases the x-service man} was the only and main support, and | after doing his duty faithfully he gets columns: from. “Fair you and ke hands, in I the State six months before the nus Bill was passed, the no bonus beeauge he did not reside| | treating these ex-eervice Anything that could bi yo cone to jive these war veterans thelr the bie “rights would we more t appreci of C ited by them, ag they are, the ¥ ) need the bonus most. They pelled to seek cheaper rents than in New York. TANT READER. 1920. en. {Mr John Cavanaugh. Why beas Work Jabout haying been hurt jn the war? 4 hackwan trying to earn an |It doesn’t prove you any 1 an t livellood and trying to please American than the men who went! th le, am writing this latte Jind were not burt, nor those who| which ts the thoughts and sentiments Jetayed hy fellow workers | Just hecause we do not agree with] time when most hack- Wilson nor his tonden Sh Conte TDuDlS ‘s names, Ame publishe the row up Wi th ‘ ment that the Har ity as no reason of mongrel Ison. to make such his tmplica LOUIS STARCKE. New York, Nov. 14, 1920. for his el He Insults every Amoricans were Any true Americfin pities such a p fon Who is disappointed tn tons as ment. ean by min nd Was honorably you to call us|; If the onsisted of stich Harding majority was to thoroughly ¥ ssure us that Amertea is still for real Americans, neral, but now some are in the hacking If 1630 is early enough for on AComEny LCP REI TRUE: family to have come to this ¢ us and who come from to make it worth while to be fine families. The men in the American, then I may be ao culled.|hacking line of to-day are ns good But you can rest assured that Mr MENT n At OL nee US Geert cA Wilson and his followers are not the} n's job is far harder than the enough public hacking stands modate about seven or eight «thirty times as many licenses is- Jas there is room for cars in pub- Ameri-ljjc stands. Ifa public hack stand can Wilson} hold three cars the fourth man is » It iS) handed a summons by a policeman, or a hackman stops #t a place where 50 matiate them| there is no public hack stand the same thing happens—he is given a summons. What we ask for fsa little justice from the Board of Aldermen, the Thureau, the policemen and me bring about better conditions for SDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1920 Jub! I aS TL TET Te EAN BOE aL GL ea NP A RT EP i Copyright. 1920, dy The Frome Pituehine Co, Vor New York Evening World | real Americans, even if we don't) profession. Most of"the men | always brag about tt lwork all night and are, out in all HELEN WHEATON kinds of snow and rain, Now York, Nov. 12 the gase, do you not ‘ nse boys are worthy of 2 The To tiie Bal of Aldermen has appropri- taxicabs, and the License | Bureau has issued about fifteen ti thousand licenses to hackmen. Each for 8 supposed 10 have the privilege of | parking his car at a publle hack stand while waiting for @ call. Now, xo narrow minded and so]how is thie possible when there Honus and Residence, lic. Let the Board of Alder- To the taityr of The Evening W set aside more hack stands or| This Bonus Bil that was ed ity stop issuing licenses and provides a i for every erVive » some of those that have been that n This reat war] issued jately, Task the public to help ee By John Blake (Conyrtsht, 1020. by John Blake.) MUST § YOL In a handicap footr the fastest the line. what is known of their speed. ‘That In life everybody starts from seratch. ce man with the others; equality of training. , of you, taken and beaten more fortunate opponents. very far. Many of them will be overconfident. but vietory. ing it, will win. Don't worry bee dreds of men ahead of you. it is tested. them w 1 slow up before the race is ove “Hard work and determination will de it, you start. : sort. It will keep you pegging away while wwho fancy they are luckier are starting to rest. the lead, you have at le have passed many of the better bets than you when the race bega By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE PART FROM SCRATCH, starts The others are gllowed leads, proportioned to makes an even And Equal opportunity is all you can expect at first. must face inequality of talent, inequality of fortune, in- ise at the beginning you find hun- You have no means of knowing your own ability till You have no means of knowing how many of Accept your handicap, and do your best to overcome it, Don't think about how far the other fellows are ahead of you. Think how far behind you are, and of the import- ance of making up the ground that must be gained, before The knowledge that you have so much more to gain than the others will put steam into you, if you are the right the And when the race, which will last for thirty or forty years, is over, you will find that, while you may not be in st made up your handicap and ontenders who looked like far RAR AAA ARIANA AANA AANA AAA fellows from race. not till a man overcomes his handicap can he be on even terms You Many of those who start with you wifl start far ahead The outlook would be very hopeless if you did not know that thousands of men, starting from serateh, had over- Your chance lies in the fact that most of the seratch men will develop handicaps of their own before they go Most of them will be disinclined to put in the effort necessary to win, Only those who are determined, who ean see nothing and think of nothing but the means of attain- ton, w "her, ised “when the robins ‘" tually returning to N written Sharpless, tell Butterfly that) he an American wife, who will Nagasaki to meet him learns that Yamaderi, a we Colleges and Universities Of New York By Appleton Street \Copyright, 1920, the Ps Publishing Oa! Corrie New York ‘evening Word). No. 10—Brooklyn Polytechnic. HE Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn a professional school for training engineers and chemists, It is the outgrowth of the old Brooklyn Collegiate and Poly- technic Institute, founded in 1853 gs @ preparatory academy, In 1889 the present institute was chartered’ ‘by State and acquired the buildings and equipment and succeeded to, the edueational work of the then it hus stead along technological lines) ranks among thi colleges of the country. The Institute—or “Vo miliariy hors-—der ston and is the developed nd to-day jeading engineering pies buildings on Court 38 Liting- ough Square. It has hi tory ing laboratories of chemic electrical m ing, hydraulles, combustion en and metallurgy, a ca ph internal ate. eration yeutry atid pate shop. and Twa tern shop, a forge chine stop. An interesting few! of the air laboratory is recentl alled apparatus for aero-dynamic sting. The laboratory f. stitute are suppleni 8 of thé 3n- by frequéant visits of inspection to factor and engincering worka in the city. The natitute officials consider the fact of the school's location in ( S York as in itself a marked aince this is both the chemical and engineering capital of the wgrld. A single electrical power station In New York could supply all the eleetrio railways of Germany, and a single generator could do the satne for Switzerland, The est sugar re= , starch factories and other i tries involving che 1 proce: du are within the N k metropoli+ tan distr One Kiyn plant ie. fines one-sixth of world’s .eQp- per. To the future engineer or chpin- ist it means much to le to visit establishments first-hand and their prot connece ng. hensive noon in ex- ished. These courses enrolled thousands. of students and are among Ost popular offered by the institute. Many: young men have found it possible, by taking ad edurses, without interrupt work. The total ¢ of sts dents last year w 1.278. of Whfeh 845 were in the ing classes, The students have a chemic a ciety and a civil engineering iy. and local branches of the American | Soolety of Mechanical Enginerrs and, the American Institute of Engineers, ‘These org perate to publi sineer, an annua tains technical j value, tl part 0} ists. TI fraternitie: a drama u athlete sociation, and a society, the Merinaid Clib, which In- cludes among its membershtp profer: sors, alumni, and te students as well_as und 5 Dr. id W. Atkinson is Preside ng er of the institute, and ficers 0! instruction and administration num- her more than sixiv. ‘The control of he school is vested in a corporation gy hich Willam H. \ In Jamiakry, } ) inerease the t the institute a fitnd of $800,000. financial resulted | | Opera Stories | ataGlance Copyright Breve Frttishing 9, | be resin Woes PUCCINI'S “MADAM BUTTERFLY” Lieut. B. F, Pinkerton, in Japan, has a ‘Japanese marriage San, known as “Butterfly” Sharpless, American Consul at Na- Basaki, tries to dissuade the officer trom this act, as is Jearned that U, Sid. cided to * with Butterfly takes 1 matter more iously than is the usual case with such marriages, und is truly in love with Pinkerton, She 1} ulNo re= nounced the faith of her fathers, and that may mean a matter of life and death to her, Pinkerton daughs ‘at his fears, and marries the girl. | A Japanese priest a Sat the cete- mony and calls down curses on Her head Three ts go by and Butterfly ager! ts the return of Pinker= long been away fr6m but who pre to retdra He = iki, but Has him to sd to is marr: is willing to marry urges her to wed him dwindled and she Butter H and money has t penniless, faith Yet her in nis due preme. Finally Sharpless shows ber the letter, and again urges her to marry. Ip reply she pointy to her baby boy, born since t parture. A salute of cannon from the harhor announces the arrival of the Abtas officer's des : ham Lincoln, Butterfly's faith tes - ey 344) English inches,| turns at once, for she is sure that ‘6 ? ry] 2 vara equals %64 English feet, the man Is returning t¢ nr. ghe ; Th F t ee @ adorns her house in anticipation’ of at sarac |, Biumonds were frat cut in Ching] his coming, Bul at dawn he has jot 5 Jand India, but the art was on} *} come; laterdin the day, when he and By Albert P. Southwick overed in Burope Phly: dis-| Sharpless ap nd Pinkerton shee Covyrght, lv2u, vy The Vioes Uublisaing Ox!] | In ond dril.a were in-| the evidences of HButterfly's loyalty _{i%e New York Bening World), __\| | > and love, he is stricken with shame, — i . . and runs away, Huttert | * ‘in| The. three laveore 7 God Is Our State motto of Plorida is rust,” while South Da- stiking the defeat of of Arnold; events + the treac xecution in ly, now fe alizing the true situation, even talls Mrs, Pinkerton that hopes dhe will he happy always, and sends word rged from servi the men who have been in the dust-| kota expresses a similar sentiment in| \ndre to the Lieutenant that he may have ew Jersey h ness nearly all their lives, men who|“tnder God. t Rule.” Ne= | his son if he wishes. ‘Then ‘ahe w resident for six months he want 10 carn an honest living without | yada is patriot hi tor uwaits mournfully his coming. entiated. That le Nt being hounded every time their car| Quy Country,” a like ne & Bubs Pinkerton returns, to find Butterfly pivea™him what is fully duel stops HYMAN GOLDSMITH, | Gectaration | Unity" [4 4s aban-| dying from a mortal wound infloted ‘ Brooklyn, N. ¥., Nov, 18. land 0: Sane pause y Fi 1 And the Amerinan| with her father's sword, the blade of In New York a resident six months| rates oof equal rights and protec: | which bears the inscription: ‘To aie ‘ ne enlisted and also six There Is Not. idew jn n [tion for adopted und native citizens| with honor when owe eae ho Jonge mithy before the Bonus Bil wag) befye Malton of The Bening Wor'd 3 . jwas accepted ve with honor," She drags heres? passed! How absurd! The diten| settl dispute, aviil you lindly Measures s of fovelgx | A id bd ross the floor her boy, who. f will prevent manyean ea-service man|advise Whether there is a law \pro-, countries y. Je Brag! |* While o comparative novelty in the] playing with his toys and ombrnde whe ved though the war from| hiviting President leaving the for instance, Uren of length United States, Post” OMce savings| him. He la waving a tiny Ameria gett 1 bonus, snited during bis term of ave the same a4 the old Porcwuese, banks Were cpcied throughout Great] flag and as Butterdy dies shp smiles au uunposalble gor Lis emer 4 4 gorado equals § palmom fausls Britain in 1461, apie nione stacks and at hor-American (oven!