The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1920, Page 10

BETABLISHED BY JOsrrn Dally Except Sunde Company, Nos. 53 to 63 RALPH PULITZER, Pteaident. 6 SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, J. YGUS ’ \ xz MOSEPH PULITZER, Jr.. Beoretary. 63 Park Kow, ~ THE MISCHIEF IN NON-ESSENTIALS. ORD ROBERT CECIL’S effort for publicity and open sessions of all committees of the League of Nations is admirable in theory and may be regarded as an alm toward which the League “should work. ... But our elections and the campatgn against the > League in the United States must have reinforced | “the doubts in the minds of many statesmen. * _, Here in the United States it was seriously urged ‘that the covenant should be rejected because Presi- ‘dent Wilson had been entertalned in Buckingham Palace. President Wilson’s absence from the United States was used to stir up opposition to what he “gecomplished while gone, The Hall of Mirrors was ats as an evidence of the autocratic super _ tate character of the document. "= All these and a hundred other similar instances “Might be cited to show to how large a degree the Cosmopolitan and presumably intelligent populace “of the United States were unable or unwilling to ‘@istinguish between the essential accomplishment and the unessential and extraneous circumstances utider which the work was done. With such an example, is it any wonder that the League delegates hesitated to reveal any more than is essential? © If the experience of the United States is a cri- thrion, the delegates to the League will have trouble @ough in explaining the actual results of League ‘action without going into every detail ‘and their ‘every word and action in leading up to the com- r measures which are inevitable if the League fs to function. * Irish urban councils have been re-christen- i ing well known Irish ports with the original Gaelic names. Queenstown becomes Cobh "and Kingstown gets its old name of Dun + Laoghaire. Cobh is pronounced Cove and * Dun Lapghaire Dunleary. It's a safe bet the sy Major part of the world will pronounce ‘em ; ee eeonown and Kingstown, ‘WCULD MAKE PRIVATE CITIZENS : RUM SLEUTHS. NITED STATES ATTORNEY LE ROY W. ROSS of Brooklyn has @ brilliant idea. He would have citizens of that borough consti- fe thane spies and detectives to run down sellers of intoxicating liquors. |. “All they (the citizens)’ will bave to do is to maké liquor purchases in saloous and give the information to Federal officials who will .) do the rest.” Are the Federal authorities, then, incompetent to ‘enforce the Prohibition law unless they can tum mate citizens into spies and informers? ‘Are men, women and children to be Invited to taste, the joy’s of sleuthing for rum? Will they be ouraged to pry into the habits of their neighbors the hope of discovering unlawful sources of Aiguor supply? There is no doubt that this kind of spying appeals £6 some persons. The Anti-Saloon League derived > * ‘most of its strength from the passion certain people have for regulating the conduct of others. “| © The law is the law and must be upheld. But it ought to be upheld by some other means lan the training of private citizens to be decoys , and spotters. Se - The United States Altorney’s proposal is nothing ‘short of an insult to a community that was never in given the chance to hold a popular vole on the Eighteenth Amendment. r A Chicago Justice of the Peace fined two » Women $5 each when they refused to take off their bats in court. “If women can have -, equal suffrage with men,” said the Justice, ' ». “they can also remove their hats in my court i room.” Query for the Whither Are We Tend- ~ ing Clubs: How long will hatpins survive suffrage? ‘ WHERE STARS HAVE CHANGED. | IME was when competition for public favor in the entertainment world gave rise to numer- us and sundry barbed witticisms, Popular favor- were known to wax caustic anent the claims 4f to popularity advanced by rivals. “Professional ‘i "was so general as to be excused as in- 1) separable =") But that was not in the year 1920, from art. + Within recent memory the fashion of the Rialto Séeins to have undergone a metamor is. The ") evidence appears in the advertising pia devoted 0) amusements. ere we read the favorable opinion a stage star formed in regard to a motion picture produc- ‘The star has confided his approval in a letter ithe movie producer hastens to pass the recom- ion on to the public, ut Again an opera singer recommends a theatrical Me luction, and the manager of a choice selection juloi¢- heroes and heroines contides his high palse of a vaudeville turn or other artistic triumph. py, tmes have changed. The stars in their | Bee ri . ae nm course have altered. The “hammer” has been rele- gited to the warehouse re out-of-date “props” are stored. Broadway's millennium seems {o be arriving. The lions no longer tear cach other in their effort to get at the lambs, They co-operate. Perhaps their amiability is only an evidence of prosperity and repletion. There is no need to quarrel over the spoils. There is enough for all. It will be interesting to see whether the mutual admiration society that now Is Broadway will per- sist when the fare Is less abundant, TARIFF AND EXPORTS. HEN the American International Corporation _ passed its dividend Thursday, Wall Street quivered with the shock. This export organization, the ultimate refinement in American big business, with a Board of Directors that reads like a “Who's Who in Finanoé,” faced the unpleasant fact that America’s foreign trade is dammed up by world conditions which America alone cannot control, * This notable financial event came in the seoond week following an overwhelming Republican vic- tory, widely heralded as a pledge of good business and “protection” to American enterprise, It would be Interesting to know the expressions of opinion by the directors of the A. I. C. in regard to tariff policy. These business men know right well that they are unable to sell the goods they bought for export because of trade balances and the exchange market which makes American goods too expensive in terms of forelgn money. These gentlemen know that a “protective tariff” —a tariff to exclude commodities made in other countries—would put the final, finishing touches on all chance for foreign trade. Did they pass the dividend because they believed Senator Harding meant what he said when he recommended tariff on lemons and peanuts and zine and the like during the campaign? Are they taking seriously the proposal to mise tariff to supply the deficlency In the profits tax? Are they afraid of Senator Penrose's proposal to delay tariff and revenue revision until President Harding is in the White House? A high tariff and some foreign trade was not an impossible combination while the United States was a debior nation. High tariff and foreign trade for a creditor nation are absolutely incompatible, However, there is still hope for America’s foreign trade, i Perhaps Harding's campaign conversation was only the old reliable G, O, P. “hokum” that had worked before and was depended on again. In this connection it is significant that at the very time the A. I. C. directors were passing the dividend in New York, Senator Harding was making a speech in New Orleans—a speech devoted almost exclusively to business and foreign tradeo—and in all the reports telegraphed to New York papers not a single reference to protection or the tariff appeared, Perhaps some of the directors of the A. I. C. have extended counsel to the President-elect, If this is the case, the next President will face the task of converting Congress to common sense and fundamental economic law. A man was &rrested this week for stealing parrots out of the bird house in Central Park. There ‘may be a few burglar-proot belongings in New York just now, But it wouldn't take long to make the list. THE TEST TO COME. T 1S gratifying to note that both municipal offi- dials and the more responsible members of the motion picture industry are acting on the lessons which the Catharine Street theatre tragedy taught. If this proves to be the case, the victims may not have died in vain, Their deaths may ultimately result in saving other lives and preventing a greater and more disastrous catastrophe. Resolutions and plans to-day are admirable, But the test will come in the days to follow, when the first.horror is forgotten, when inspection and pre- vention may becoine perfunctory, when the public's demand for adequate safeguards is less insistent. Safer construction yegulations and stronger ordi- nances to protect juveniles are important. Enforce- ment of the safeguards already provided is vastly more import These will bear watching as time passes. TWICE OVERS. €6 J KNOW a lot of politicians, but I suppose that is because I was born in New York." —Geo. F, Alwell, wrecking contractor, testifying before the Lockwood Committee, “ T HERE are only two possible paths before each nation at a time of world change like this. It can co-operate with its fellows in maintaining world peace and friendship, or it can follow the path Germany took in 1914."-—Sir Auckland Geddes, British Am- bassador. HE Assembly will be judged not by words but by deeds."—H. A. L. Fisher, British Delegate to League of Notions. 66% +] my eyes, From Evening World Readers' What kind of letter do you find most readadief Jeén't i the one that gives you the worth of a thousond words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental ewercise Gnd a jot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be dries. — ‘ Am Appeal to Fram To the ditor of The Dreaing World: A few ai¥s ago I chanced to pass & drug store where a crowd had gathered, I immediately went in, sce- ing there had been un accident and thinking that I might be able to help; to my horror I saw a little child lying unconscious and bleeding to death, I saw the child would die !f help did not come soon, so I called Police Headquarters and asked them to send ity. ;#n ambulance at once, that a child was bleeding to death. I asked for cold cloths and ice and tried my ut- most to check the bleeding, only to find all air passdges clogged with Qlood, and to see the ohild dic before 1 thereupon asked several questions and was told that the acci- dent had happened about twenty min- utes prior to my arrival upon the scene and that two ambulance calls had already been sent tn. Just about fve minutes after the ehild had died 4 policeman came (probably in anvwer (o my ambulance cull) and then came the ambulance and surgeon who, of course, pro- nounced the child dead. Now, I wish to make an appeal to Dumanity through your paper; in the same street where this accident oc- curred there are at least ten phyal- clans or more, In this oy. of New York where we have a population of 7,000,000 people, why can’t an individual seeing an a cident go to a private physici home and demand him to give help to dying unfortunates who mect with an accident? Oh, this is not the first child [ have seen die through neglect; in fact, left to die, waiting for an am- bulance to came, Why in heaven's name do you think people take a patient to a drug store when at avoident oo- curs? To get help, of course! The majority of people think, {f a pa- tient ‘s brought to a drug store, the doctor or druggist in charge will im- mediately atminiater first aid treat- ment; otherwise, why not bring them to any other place, Yet I understand that legally druggists are not per- mitted to give suoh help, 1 can tell of another accident where a Child was Dieeding profusely, and to My surprise a doctor came and looked at the laceration and went away, saying {t was a hospital caso. Later I learned the phyaic'an did not help because he thought he wouldn't get paid for It, Can't physicians be made to help? I would greatly oppreciate your Kindness in publishing this letter and appealing to every living human bo- ing to help to make it a law or a rule (because we never know when It {muy come to our own door) that all | phyalctans must help in case of an j aooldent, Recause | am sure that if help got there wooner I could have raved that child's lite with the as- aiwtance of others, and am also «ure that the accident waa not serious iio to caune the chide death, WILLA GRIFFITH. Ne. 181 L. s4th St, Nov, Ay, 1930, Little Mary Mixap. ‘TM the Diitor of The Breaing World ; For the past tew years I have road your valuable paper I have made an acquaintance through its columns that hag pleased me no little, I refer to little Mise Mary Mixup, Who, in her ohildish manner, so beau- tifully portrays graphic instances of Wholesome fun and humorous inct- dents quite characteristic of children, Its abpolute freedom from the usual and suggestive matter so often depicted, and its eweetneas and sim- plicity has provoked this frank ex- Pression of my pleasure in having made the acquaintance. RT 8, BROWN, ,118 Park Street, Montolair, N. J., Nov. 11, 1920, Allied Fiawa, ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening Word: The war has been over moro than two years and the Allied flags are still being displayed in many inetitu- tions, clubs, hotels, &o. Are we going to have this exhibition a permanent feature? If so, let us have all the other flags aa well, The whole thing 1s becoming a farce and iy also a Breat discourtesy to the other na- tions. There are vastly more natives of thé other countries, sturdy citi- zens who make up the population of the United States, than those repre- sented by the above standards. Neither must we forget that some of those banners represent the worst features of rampant imperialism and the doctrine of might over right. In fuct they should not be shown at all under any clreumstances, Ag for promoting Americanism this camou- flaged kind of Buropean propaganda will certainly not be the thing we need, Let us compel those pro- Buropean, pro-Allled institutions, clubs, hotels, &c,, to pack up thelr forejgn standards and instead oblige them to show only one flag, the Nu- tional emblem—the others have had their day, P. MELVILLE, West 110th St, N.Y. City, Nov.. 16, 1920, Ancestry Me! A ‘To the Fditor of The Brening World! In your issue of Noy. 13 appears an article on the “seven child prodigie: that have startled the artistic world, in whigh mention j¢ made of Samuel Raozowski, the Polish boy chess won- der, but nothing said about the fact that he is a Jew, On the other hand, in « news article fm Another > that appeared in your paper at the time the Governmeat raided the Com~- munist Party one of the people ar- reated was described aw being a Rus- wlan Jewess. Do you think It fair to the American Jews to discredit them in one case and withhold oredit in the pther? Witt you kingly comment on this in one of your articles? AN AMERICAN JEW, Nom Xork, Nowy 1h, 1630, | B John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE ; By John Blake (Copyright, 1996, by Joba Blake.) BE THERE ON TIME. When you make an appointment, keep it. Furthermore, be there at the exact minute you promise toa be there, An appointment is a bargain. You and the man with whom you make it enter into a verbal contract to meet at a certain time, If you are behind time you break the contract. In doing so you waste the other man’s time and try his patience. What is more, you give him a poor opinion of your trustworthiness. It may be that you lose but little in being late to some appointments, but soener or later you are going to find tar- diness expensive. ( Your success depends on what other people think of you. When you irritate them by making them wait for ‘you they are bound to think the less of you. If they are dilatory themselves, that is none of your af- fair. Certainly it is no exeuse for you. But the kind of men you are likely to make appoint- ments with are not dilatory. They put themselves to inconvenience, if necessary, to be at the place designated. . You have no right to keep them waiting, and they are sure to feel that it is more or less of a slight to them if you do so. . Keep appointments with men as you would keep ap- pointments with a train, If you break an appointment with a train you lose the train, If you break an appointment with a man you lose his respect, which is more important to you than most of the trains you are likely to catch. By keeping appointments with others you will get the habit of promptness and that will'lead to keeping appoint- ments with yourself, which is one of the most important steps to progress. You will begin a job on the minute you have set to begin it, instead of procrastinating and putting it off. And that means that you will get about ten times as much accom- plished in the course of your life. For it is not beginning things till it is too late to begin them that keeps most of us from getting our necessary work done and thereby Raining the independence and later leisure that we all are working for. Don't make any appointments you are not sure you can keep. But when you do make an appointment be there. even if you have to hire an automobile to get there, ~ a sheluden the present city Yonkers: and the entire southwestern part of ‘That’s aFa t”’ Westchester County, | PATE | ( of ee 6 Sy Albert P, Southwick ‘Riss “ten wrenng ‘Wertti“t O* On thé greensward of Van Cort- Iandt Park the National Guardamen fight their-sham battles and hold jie drexs-pirades during the sum- ‘ mer time. ‘Tho field (8 also used for Yonkers, N. ¥, t8 «w very old etic sports of ull Kinds and there, Dutch town and began its existence ies, are given speolhl exhibl- ln the days of New Amsterdam, as the "Colony of Colen Donck," being Kee rr i 5 ce i fh “We put up with carpet-bag rule as | she prepay ME Action yen, Der! sas wa cand stand 1" eure Dontk who, in 1646 obtained title to u tract of land extending sixteon miles along the Hudson River, north the views of the southern peo} Was called a ‘necexaary” and “suc. oewsful” movement, but whether it t st hae Comttos Now York beclne Wont OLIN, worshipping some frail, By self-deprectation sways her: Calle himself unworthy mate, Hardly even fit to praise her, But this tactic insincere In the upshot greatly grieves him When he finda the lovely dear Quite implicitly believes him, Thus, in his book, “Hide and Seek” (Doran), Christopher Morley sings, by Inference, of the peril of being too ‘umble in love. Like Yankee Doodle, the true and conquering sultor should wear a feather ia his cap! eee The Snecessful Mr, Shaw--- Writing his little piece koa with 160-odd of hia fellows for “Touch stones of Success” (Vir Publishing Company), George Bernard Shaw eays: My success in life, in the vulgar fonse, has no lesson for any boy. Tt is due to the accident of my Sark born with a apeoial talent for weiting plays and to certain legal Institutions which enable me to ap- propriate a percentage of the money hat other people earn by performs ing. them. ‘his has enabled me to succeed without the selfish ambition and Gevotion to moneysmaking which, In our aocial conditions, are indis- ensable to success in climbing on ho shoulders of one's fellow-cit- Rena without belng better men than ey. George M. Cohan js quite right, as uted in a news column of Wednes~ lay. George B, Shaw “ehakes a nasty pen.” And despises his royalties almost as fervidly as he hates to write a Pret- ace toa Play! eee An Old Parlor in Ninth Street--. An old family parlor in Weat Ninth Street fs deseribed by the anonymous author of "Spendthrift Town” (Houghton-Miffiln) thus: A mirror with a rococo gilt frame filled the entire space between the front windows, as it did at one time in ten thousand Now York houses, The frame of the mirrur branched out at the top, forming two xilt cornices from which the window curtains were suspended. In the Nicholson parlor these were of old ted damask. Another mirror with a gilt frame of a debased rococo style sure mounted the mantelpiece, which waa of white marble, also rococo but of a style even more dubus than that of the mirror frames. The doors were of old, handsome ma- hogany, surrounded by heavy mouldings. The effect of the doors, frames, the plain gray paint and the crimson damask curtains, Was not bad, but certain things In the ronin led’ one to believe that the harmany of the effect was quite ac- gidental and that the taste of the Ninholsons left much to be desired. In the days of ten thousand such pariors, each was sacrosanct. In flat dwelling New York to-day the ancient front room, where it sur~ vives, quite possibly shelters the the gilt ed ‘walls } French or Italian table d'hote, Time changes all things relent~ lessiy, and many things irreverently. eee \Eplgrams of Wartime. ~~ Iu divoussiong at large of Lieut, Col, Charles A’Gourt — Repington's ook, "Ths First We War" (Houghton-Miffitn), som pigram~ matic bits of tho diarist have been Neglected, Guch as these: Robertson told us that Lord Rhondda, returning from Paris, was very wick in the Channel onl that he hoped that no one wou hear about it, for they would ka “Food Controlicr, indeed! Pshaw! Lady Jultet eald that Bolloo and Chosterton dined with her the night? of the last air rald, and wore so absorbed by their own conversation that thay didn’t hear the bomba, Balfour, on being informed that wo had lost 1,000 guns during the xreat German offensive, replied calmly, “Oh, really, what @ bore!" When Balfour asked Foch what he meant to do, the Generalissimo spoke no word but threw himself into a fighting attitude, hit out hard with his right fist, then hard wth hia left. and then gave the coup de @avate with his right and jefe leg in turn! It 8 quite Uke aim! ree wae asked the other unders' iY e@ Frenchmen they spoke French, but that he could understand ‘Grey perfectly when he did! soe A Fair Sight for a Grandfather. To our growing lst of modern horvines of fiction wo add gladly the lovely Melissine, a centre of light tn “The Housa With a Bad Name" (Bon! & Liveright), Perley Poore Shechan's new romauce of New York, Clad in garments that belonged to the parlor in Cinnamon Street. We For a moment or longer the Iudze and throat, of the surf of col d perfume that Beat about him, of the know! edge that he war almost like a boy of eighte Quality. of her pi over small and dazzling the first time he perceived. ade quately th y quality of her eyes, the dark, fine strength of her eyebrows, and’ aleo that one touch of black—a beauty spot as ¢ Th : had taken the Judge himsel back a century or two. He t waa a Virginian, er more wan now. bowed low. He brought t} lady's fingers to bis lps. It w. he Judge, ther but have it dtuther even our own 2 may be a very gallant ond understanding gentleman, while a father may be merely a yery busy inan, For the girl, too, there te something lost when such @ grandfather does pot live to mee his granddaughter in her loveliest bloom, Tt does not affect this general’ troth that Melissine'é happens to be a of of Bpuyten Duyvil Creek, and thence | was justifiable oy yot willl awalts an| father o' dreams instead of a man ent 10 the Aconx Hiver, ‘hia tract 'anuwes, : Lausineas, bs ‘~ ~~