The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1920, Page 12

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1920, a | do to “Lodge-ism" precisely what the “Insurgents” ‘ Che Gord, | did to “Cannonism” in the House a decade ago. oh ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN But will they? ia Jeanie, Dalty Except Sunday by the Press Publishing The short session seems to be their only chance. Company. 3 to 63 Park Row, New York. 7 After March 4, 1921, the Old Guard will be se- Pe RALPH PULITZER, Prendent, 63 Park Row, ae J. ANGUS BHAW, Treamurer, 63 Park Row, ° f fy . curely in the saddle, with comfortable working ma- jorities in both Houses. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary. 63 Park Row, In the short session the “Progressives” will be in position to fight effectively. If they take advan- “The World’s Oldest Love Stories By Maubert St. Georges Coperiahy, 160. by hie 1m Peta The ® York binning: World) wid MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, sas ents ‘Prem is exclusively entitied to the use for republicat wt ete aitalcwes credited to it or oot viberwive credited. Un Us. paver the local news published berein. *» & | : $ RETAILERS KEEP UP PRICES. “ce HE outstanding feature” in the Cost of Liv- T ing situation, according to a summary by the Guaranty Trust Company, is: “The resistance of the retail dealer to tho forces which have brought manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers to an admission that ‘business can no longer be done on the basis of war prices.” There is abundant evidence, other than this care- fully considered statement by a great bank, to show that the “spread” between wholesale and retail prices has widened in the last few weeks. The fact is, the retailers are trying to sell out on ‘a basis of costs rather than of replacement values. The public will not buy on that basis. Buyers realize that sooner or later retail prices will take the drop and they are waiting until the decline comes, There are exceptions to the rule, but generally the same retail merchants who marked goods up to replacement cost on a rising market are the ones who refuse to accept the replacement basis on a falling market. These dealers are trying to circumvent a simple economic law that will not be denied. Sooner or later the retailers will be driven to take the plunge * and dispose of stocks for what the public will pay. “Overhead” will force them to do so. As The Evening World pointed out weeks, ago, the path of courage is the path to good business and recovery from economic stagnation. Cutting prices now means a loss. That cannot be avoided. But retailers will find it far cheaper in the long run to cut prices now, take the loss and go ahead on new and profitable business than to back and fill now and continue to lose money for an in- definite time. WHAT BECOMES OF THE MILLION? ESTERDAY’S report that Charles Garland of Boston had refused a million dollar legacy froin his father was as interesting as it was unusual. “I'd like to see MYself turning down a chance like that,” would probably be a fair cross-section of the thoughts of the great majority of the mil- tions who read of this extraordinary rejection of wealth. A second thought would be, “I wonder what will become of that million dollars now?” This second question seems pertinent indeed. All the more so because of the reasons young Garland gives for his refusal. He says: - “I believe that in refusing to take the money T am placing my life on a Christien basis. Private property is the main cause of our unrest and unhappiness.” What will become of the Garland millions if Charles and his younger brother refuse to accept them? Isn't this a case of overdeveloped but somewhat unbalanced social consciousness? Young Garland’s refusal of the legacy will not destroy private prop- erty nor cause a cessation of unrest and unhappi- ness. ; As a conscientious young man would Garland “not be wiser and even more practically Christian to accept the legacy and put it to work in ways which would further his ideals? THE AERIAL DERBY. HE country’s biggest aerial sporting event will take place over Long Island to-morrow when forty-four airplanes will be started in seven simul- taneous flights from Mitchel Field, near Garden City, over a triangular course taking in Lufbery Field, near Wantagh, and Damm Field, near Baby- lon, for the Pulitzer Trophy. Keen rivalry between the army and navy airmen has raised interest in these races to the highest pitch. The number of planes entered, the excellence of the flying field and the provisions against mishap make this the most important and carefully managed air contest ever held on either side of the Atlantic. Just after the war the future of flying in the United States looked doubtful. Experts predicted that without aerial activities and contests this coun- try would soon fall behind other nations in the great new science of aeronautics. The Pulitzer Trophy established an aerial Derby which provides the intense sporting interest from which aeronautic progress gets its stimulus. A short and easy trip to-morrow will take New Yorkers to where they can see the wonderful new Sport at its best. HIRAM’S BEST CHANCE. HEN Congress convenes next month what will be the policy of the “Progressive” Senators? Will the more liberal wing of the G. O, P, sub- mit to Old Guard domination? Or will Hiram make good on his threat to go on the warpath as an “Indian”? The short session is Hiram’s best chance, The Republican majority is small. Only a handful of , Werals will hold the balance of power. They can tage of this and press the fight they have a chance. If the country notes the efforts and ap- proves the insurgent movement, the revolt against Old Guard domination will have a chance to gather recruits from the new membership. There will then be an opportunity to fight “Lodge-ism” in the sessions of the new Congress, But if “Lodge-ism" is allowed to have its way in the special session there will be small opportunity for any effective insurgency before the elections of 1922 and the sessions of 1923. It is now or never with Big Chief Hiram and his braves. THANKSGIVING, HE people of the United States should observe to-morrow in a full spirit of thankfulness. Thanksgiving Day ‘finds the Nation with no doubt, difficulty or disappointment big enough to obscure the fundamental reasons for national cheer- fulness and faith, If there are unusual problems to deal with, the country is bountifully blessed with strength to grap- ple with them. If there are new national responsibilities which large numbers of the people are slow to admit or grasp, American intelligence is still sound, Longer study of the new issues will enlarge capacity for measuring them, The vitality, energy and material well-being of the country are such as guarantee it freedom to solve its problems on the high pline of reason. It docs not have to act under terrible coercion of suf- fering and necessity, In this respect the American people have every- thing to be thankful for. Before another year has passed we shall hear more of the proposal to combine Thanksgiving Day with Armistice Day. There will be protests against merging America’s special Thanksgiving Day with what seems certain to become a recognized Thanksgiving Day of other nations, * But we believe those protests will grow fewer and fainter, just as we believe the protests against the new partnership of nations will subside as Ameri- cans grow more accustomed to thinking of them- selves and their country in terms of a new interna- tionalism. It will come to be understood that a nation as powerful as the United States can merge itself for the protection of peace without the risk of becom- ing submerged. I: will also be understood that the day of na- tional thanksgiving need not be a whit less national for falling on the day when other peoples, as well as tne}people of the United States, observe with pro- found thankfulness the anniversary of the great 1's end, ‘The progressive movement of their own minds will presently bring Americans to see the existing partnership of nations as one the United States was bound from the first to join, ‘The same enlarging of mental attitude will cause it to seem a natural decision that America's Thanks- giving Day shall be on the anniversary of the Armistice, When thesé things come about, the civilized world will observe the greatest of all Thanksgivings. PROGRESS, (From the Columbia (8. ©.) Record.) Perhaps there is nothing which will serve to illus trate more vividly to those who moved on from stu- dents into the business world the rapid strides that nave been made in the education of the American youth in the past generation than to hark back to our own school days. You can remember when as a youngster, perhaps with freckles on your face that you were mortally ashamed of in the presence of Mary or Bessie, you were in only the third or fourth grade. At that time you would have given half the universe, had you possessed it, to have banished the intervening years that stood in the path between you and Thomas Green and Sylvester Brown, husky, long-trousered young men of the seventh or eighth grade, But in the course of time you found yourself entering the seventh grade, and then, much to your amazement, you found that the boys of that class were not so large as Thomas Green had been, To-day we find the freckle-faced boy—still wearing knee trousers and no larger in stature than {n the days when we were in the lower grades—entering high school, and the tall, long-trousered Thomas Green size boy in college, a polished young man. This change, emphasizing as it does the rapia strides youth has made in the last few years, may be accounted for, perhaps, as the result of regular at- tendance at school, Ten, fifteen or twenty years ago a large percentage of students in the common schools were over age for their classes, This percentage has been greatly reduced. It is the same, as a rule, the country over, The overage pupil is seldom in evidence these days, Thus is shown an adveucement in education, the aca Dick aie «care ae discussion with a minor. Facts are available to substantiate the dis-| bursements of the Military Training Commission. Instructors in this work are of two classes- listed Men. The former receive per drill, the latter $1 No instructor takes care of more than two drills per day an officer and works six days per week, his remuneration is $80; if an enlisted man, it is $15. Hence the statement that Instructors receive from $10 to §20 per drill ix Supervising Officer New York Zone, To (he KAtor of Tho Evening World used to invite young men up to her house to spend a quiet evening and, possibly, have supper? in the girls I pick for pal we sco next Saturday night? Can't you get seats in the first balcony? Then let's go to the So and So The- atre, where we cun get seats in the first. balcony.” tell the girl that we can have a nice time at one of the moving picture shows she seems to remember that ghe has “another appointment.” sites? One would think they mighe suggest staying home for one eve- ning in the month, when you might gv to See them “prey” and ull girls are “hunters.” I have told this to have been told that the one that !s not a piker! To the Kaitor of The Evening Worl! ‘ew York State Federal Prohibition an intoxicated man {6 so unusual as to attract «ttention,”* meant that the forms of Intoxication are more aggraval nan usual since Prohibition and at From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives 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. Take ‘Training Officers’ hay. To the Editor of Tho Evening World Among the open letters published in The Evening World of Nov. 16 appeared one apparently submitted by a boy subject to the provisions of the Military and Disciplinary ‘Prain- ing Law. The Military ‘Training Com- mission courts publicity in order that its work may be better known, but actual and not distorted facts shoula be published. This boy upparently is disgruntled because he is subject to the training, and is undoubtedly one whom the law aims to train, Granting that it encroaches upon the time which he wishes to use for personal guin, he forgets the obligation he owes the State as a coming citizen when he reaches the age of twenty-one, and likewise for the education which the State has given him gratis, It is not proposed to enter into a per drill and if he is fneous. J, WESLEY 1 Major, Infantry, N.Y Parasite and Piker. What ‘has become of the girl that Perhaps 1 haye been unfortunate All the girls I pick say Sometimes when | am “broke” and Have all the girls become para- Possibly it is because all men are veral girls and know some D> “PIKER.” A DISGUST. Prohibition tn 3 Your 17 reports a ctor us having assured the W,C. U. Convention that “the sight of Doubtleas he and Spectacular attention for that reason, ‘To time to be brief. are about as scarce as feathers on healthy hens. As for his statement that a man can get a drink of questionable liquor for $1, lie knows very well that that is “poppycock.” Fairly good whis- key can be bought almost anywhere in ork at 50 cents, while plenty of tulr to good Whiskey, can G6 Pure chased by Ure bottle at from $5 to $7 per quart. Furthermore, this xentleman knows, and should have confided to his eager hparers, that whiskey is being bought and used by thousands of’ young people whe never used whiskey before. The Cc. T.U. might also find comfort in the fact that whiskey is being manufactured country, according to Prohibition statistics, Just about as fast as it is being consumed | Do the Prohibition people-and the W. ©. T. U. really believe that Pro-! hibition 1s popular or even possible | in this part of the country? If they them elect to any office wh Now York State; or let us, indeed, see them permit’ the voters of the State to express themselves on any p of the wh Prohibition question, Lf Prohibition is not popular, do they think our people will submit to it? They might if they were Armenians or Russian s but, you know, we are ricans PAUL VOORHIES. Brooklyn, Noy, . —— and Feathers, the Fd The Eventng World Isn't every one with some red blood flowing through his yi growing thoroughly t and disgusted with this “Dry” If there were only ay much energy spent in bringing the profiteer. the coul robber, thief, hold~ up man and murderer to justic there is given to thinking up palate and then some more points to carry out a “more drastic” enforcement®f a most ridiculous and Mberty-taking measure, there might be some living these days. This “dry” scheme of a chosen few hag made this country a hotbed of in- trigue and hypocrisy. We are fast developing into a nation of whiskey drinkers; men who formerly hardly looked at whiskey drink it now. Why? Because it is human nature to want that which is forbidden There never was any harm ina glass of light wine; it wouldn't even harm these “water and grape juice fiends.” it might even develop a human streak in them M. New York, Nov. 21, 1920, The Rover's To the Editor of The Evening Your r hug been w great “pal to me in my travels to the far corners of this continent and I am a great admirer of your brand of journalism; tliere is one polnt in your to which 1 must take exception; that is your recent edi- torials on the President-elect. I, myself, am an admirer of Wood- row Wilson and believe in his politi- ca} resurrection. However, the die js cast und the President-elect should go into office with the well wishes of ill. Although there may be room for the casual obyerver, drunken men! doubh At ja pportumanlike to give him] Ie the perple d brought into this, phibition | atsoever In| his chance. Your paper has nover lacked this sportsmanship, so please ‘buck up" to the situation, New York, Noy. 18, 1920 Te the Editor of Th Your editorial on “Bolshe claims that the rule of Bol a failure by every measure except that when B6lshe old in Russ! declared their their President. had to prove w tment of t for the peop took our Gov a to prove its worth to the outside world. | tleles oo C Why not give Russia half the time?| moet the of the world do sympa-'by the comstituuonal government.) UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copprisht, 1920, hp JoRn Blake.) THINK HOW FAR YOU MUST YOU HAVE GONE It is a pleasant thing, if you have made progress, to look back with pride on your achievement When one is half way up the hill it is cheering to look as climbed. down and see how far he But the important thing is to estimate the distance that is yet to be travelled and concentrate your mind on ways and ‘means to do the travelling. Far along as you may be, you will always find others, have got still further, Consider the obstacles between you and your goal and The obstacles you pave already about them. Keep in mind the fact that as soon ay a man begins to talk about what he has accomplished in the past, he is very unlikely to, accomplish anything in the future. is either ahead of you or behind you. If it is behind you, who, with the same opportunit how to get past them. got over are ancient history. Don't think you are going backwards, J going A man of high position in the business world, who is now sixty years old, was asked by a publisher to write his reminiscences, “T can't do it,” he said, come. Th from now on, and any Never mind what you did yesterday. are going to do to-morrow that you want to think of, be sure while you are thinking of it that you devote to hee to the business of arriving. NOT HOW FAR Your mind “T'm too busy thinking about what I am going to do in the next ten years to waste any time calling to mind the things I did in the last forty It is well enough to stop and rest now and then. while we rest, our eyes ought to be on the hilltop that is to be scaled rather than on the valley out of wus h we have k always in terms of to-morrow,.not of yesterday, Few indeed are the men who realize their early ideals. Mose of them when they stop to take their positions find that they are far from the place that they hoped to gain. But there is always the chance to make better progress man who keeps his health and his thinking machinery in good condition can continue to hope that he will gain his goal before old age numbs bis faculties. ROVER. Russia who in ¢ ie) aenime and other nei Labelle ales learn th n's hevisin is Bolahey of self-defense, he wean cieees In the name of common sense, HOW] game way as did T could%a paper like yours say that Bol-| the benefit of. Hust shevism is proved a complete tailur m is but four year The American peopl independenc: took our pec to get up a Cor Senides that, in 18 {Editor's tion was not Kuda, It dle Bolshoviam vers mi. Americn’s ( ean long endur nment eighty-five with Russia and resi dering why her present c naienet Peter the Great of uise visitod Holland why not give her a ie You will rememb ac new methods of the Test" | He thus reformed and built up Russi to # great extent Trotsky visited this country he opened and vist open-minded and considerate? Tam not a Rise descent, but an, Prote the mean had beeome | insol perty passed into the po Renwicks. jan or of Russian [teibutury, Duteh K ob- | nited States nent under the ‘ition, which filled to AODMETUS AND ALCESTIS, DMETUS, the King of Thessaly, A the Jargest aud most northerry province of Greece, was a very handsome man, So handsome was he that even Diana, the virgin godde of the chase, fell in love with him, |One day she took him in a cloud, transported him to Olympus and of- jeted to make him an immortal if he would marry her, But Admotis loved ,*the beautiful daughter of as, King of Colchis, and refused offer. There was nothing for Diana to do but release him, so she brought him back to his palace, but inwardly she was very angry. Admetus upon his release proceed- ed to Colchis to sue for the hand of Alcestis. Pelias, urged by Diana, made it a condition that he must bring a chariot drawn by a lion and a boar, This secmci an impossible condition, At that time, however, the god Apollo, Diana's twin brother, Was spending nine years in the ser- vice of Admetus as penance for hav- ing Killed the Cyclops, the workmen ofthe Vulcan, ‘Tu him Admetus went in his difficulty and Apollo found it easy to fulfil the cundition imposed by Pellus, Alcestis being won, Admetus fur- ther angered Diana by forgetting to sacrifice to her on his wedding In the possession of the woman be loved he felt all-powerful, the equal of the gods themselves, The first few days went by in ideal happiness, They knew not the fate in store for them, Diana, brooding over her wrongs and how she had en thwarted in her love, decided to be avenged. So she smote Admetus with an incurable disease, At first Admetus paid no attention to his sickness. But day by day it grew worse, until he was confined to h bed. Physicians attended him, seeking to cure him by all the means known to them. Finally Apollo was called in and instantly recognized it as u sickness sent by the immortal. In the pursuit of his duties to Ad- metus he set about finding out who had thus struck down his master, and soon dixcovered that It was his sister who was the cause of the trouble, Ho pleaded with her so eloquently that eventually she was persuaded to re- lent to this extent: If somebody would be willing to contract his sickness and die for him, Admetus would be saved. That much revenge she de- manded. Apollo returned to earth and gave Admetus the verdict, and then ap- pealed to his friends. But none would volunteer. All those who in Geen would have fought for the privilege of dying for their King now feared when it came to contracting a devastating sickness, ‘Things seemed hopeless, and Adme- tus was almost resigned to hie fate, - when Alcestis, in her love for him, and unknown to him, for he would never have consented, undertook to take his place. Now Apollo under- stood bis sister's cunnin, She had foreseen this, and believed. Alcest: once dead, it would be easy for her te latter found himself and heard at what price he was to buy his health he was like one d, Yet there seemed to be no way But once more Apollo went to Olympus, and {his time appeated to Jupiter himsetf. .All that Jupiter to Say Was that things must course, and that the only Alcestis would be to find strong to overcome me to claim her, Hercules, the ssibly grapple pe to conquer, and on behalf of Ad- Death came to © found at the en- Ss one who challenged Alcestis, *A terrible . but at last Her- cules vanquished Death and led Al- cestia back to Ad’ 8 ‘Thus, in spite of Diana, these two lovers were finally united’ through the good of- fices of Apollo and Hercules. ewahn dE Es “That’s a Fact’ Sy Albert P. Southwick Onorrighs, 1040, by The In 1800 Alexander Macomb, a wealthy merchant of New York City, who hud come into possession of the forfeited Philipse property, obtained from the city authorities a water grant entering across Spuyten Duyvil Creek, just east of King’s Bridge, His son, Robert, in 1823 further obtained a grant to erect a dam across the Harlem River from Buss- ing’s Point on the Manhattan side to Devoe's Point on the Westchester shore—thus practically forming a mill pond out of the Harlem and Spuyten Duyvil—to supply water power tothe milis along the north shore, Th 4 stipulation, however, that the dam should beso con- structed as to allow the passage of boats, and that, Macomb should tal- ways one in attendance to sired rleht of way. He not « ted the latter pro- vision, but erected the dam without the specified contrivance, converting permanent bridge, known nb's Dam Bridge, and col- us Ma ction of the rt Macomb as While the ord Knows all about Newtown Creek, op- Peete Street, Manhattan, he is ot generally so informed of its Creek, on which \pproved by the vernment on Oct, 29, 1914, give it a varying width of from 200 to 150 feet at the head of the stream and inclides a large turning basin in the Degnon 'Terminul, where car floata cun be di New Yorker bulkhead tines, — ay = —_ en ae ma a