The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1921, Page 16

_ BEN FRANKLIN THOUGHTS FOR : THRIFT WEEK. HE Taxes are indeed very heavy, and (f those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, faxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times t es much by our Pride and four times as much > by eur Folly; and from these Taxes the Commis- sioners cannol ease or deliver us by allowing an } Abotement. However, let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God “ soiead “DISLOYAL” POLICE. rt] EN have their likes and dislikes and become 4 so strongly attached to one administration | thal they become, in some cases, actually insubor- | dinate and disloyal to the succeeding administration.” | Police Commissioner Enright made this extraor- | dhnaify statement to the Kings Courfty Grand Jurors’ | As$iation last Friday. Questioned by one of his ; | alldifrs, he specified that it applied “in the case of ; | “Pfomest Dan” Costigan. F | “Taythe sen’e that Commisioner Enright uses the word “disloyal,” it seems highly probable that the aege is correct. | In Enright’s sense, Dan Costigan is disloyal. Aa| the same sense, Lieut. Floyd Horton was MWrrthe very nature of things, such men as Costigan | atid Horton could not be expected to feel loyal to an aright regime of favoritism and poliijes at the ; | expatise of the safety and seourity of the citizen | and taxpayer. ' | jVigut. Horton was ‘not loyal to Enright. But he ‘was loyal—loyal even to death—to bis duty as a VTige officer. #880: too is Dan Costigan, who is further honored by the attack made by Enright last Friday. 2 irbordination and*disloyalty to duty are pun- ay the formal discipline of the department, 7 ality” to Enright has resulted in informal ae to the “goat pastures.” i ymmissioner Enright’s idea of what constitutes Yoyalty and subordination goes far {o explain the demoralization and ineffectiveness of New York's R6Ree Department. + adn practice, disloyalty to Enright has in many case? meant nothing less than loyalty to the best mests of the city. And, on the other hand, dis- loyalty to duty has all too often meant preferment incompetent. ” SEnright’s idea of “loyalty” must be driven from thg Police Department before New York can expect wWhaib it has a right to expect in the way of protec. 19, gnd safety. . tG. 9 <i-iFULL VOLUME AND EFFECT. HE State Banking Department has begun to get "aster io ect agents and brokers who, wwer cover of so-called “banking” activities, have \iggif bleeding aliens in this country and in Europe hyrdaking advantage of the ignorance of the poor | a8%o ‘post-war abnormalities in rates of foreign ex- change. “the chief eye-opener for the authorities has been | _. the series of articles in The Evening World in which ‘ ' Martin Green has exposed the methods of this class “. ofremploiters. _ aidt is high time the Post Office Department and | the Department of Justice gave special attention to et. 2 of international swindling which ought to be | | Within reach of law and justice. 4 = he needs of starving millions in Europe are i _) sure, Americans have a safe and sure way of q séhiding money for European relief. oe me 4 4 =Put a stop to the dealings of conscienceless ma- ‘ nipulators of exchange who prey on the poor and ‘ igoorant. | Give all American ald to Europe the full volume |} amg, effect assured by the Hoover Fund. et ; | ' “2, “~pabe Ruth has got permission to pack & : gun.” Lo, the poor umpire—Milwaukee Sen- ; tinel. ' ay. .Wrongt All wrong! The Babe's quarrel, as we understand it, is with opposing pitch- ers who throw balls beyond the reach of his wT be.) joo! wa & “eR WISE AND CREDITABLE. “STATE members of the New York Associa- | tion of Real Estate Boards took a wise and step in refusing to assist the metropolitan } ; i iy and hamstring the Lockwood committee, p-State influence prevailed and the association _ went-on record to the effeci that “the pressure of f opinion should be brought to bear on all banks and insurance companies which have the proper quota of thelr assets In such Lockwood committes is endeavoring to get 2 facts on which a sound and logical public sofiene scftibns of the association in the effort to hamper, 4 Proves necessary. «This split between the up-State boards and those of the metropolitan area fs significant and should be decisive with honest legislators who have honestly questioned the advisability of allowing the Lock- wood ttee to “stir things up.” ¥ But the split will not stop the activities of the teal estate lobby in Albany. Nothing but public opinion will prevail against those who are deter- mined ‘to wreck the rent laws by hook or crook and at any cost. In this connection ft would be interesting to know the power which moved the Board of Aldermen to refuse tax exemption on new building—the only positive and constructive housing relief measure passed at the recent session of the Legislature, Every voter may well question his own Alderman against the time when the measure will come before the hoard again. FEAR OR FAITH? Bhai itiald ING on the joint resolution for dis- armament recommended by the Hoyse Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, Chairman Porter of the committee expressed the opinion that the United States— y . “should take the initiative, not in a spirit of fear, because we have nothing to fear, but in‘ that spirit that has always animated America in her effort for betterment of humanity.” “Not in a gpirit of fear’! That is the proper note, “We have nothing to fear”! Nothing could be truer. ! responsible Republican spokesmen, This Nation and all the nations of the earth need more than any | } other one thing to rid themselves of Fear and put Faith in its place. , For all the ages Fear has been the drag on Prog- ress, Faith has been the motive power. Only as Faith has triumphed over Fear has the world grown better, . The pity is that the exigencies of partisanship induced Republican leaders to jettison Faith in the campaign against the: League of Nations and to appeal to the baser instincts of a Fear conjured up from deceit and misrepresentation, After a year of intensive cultivation by politicians, Fear is strongly intrenched. It will be a hugé task fo tear down and destroy the mass of misrepresenta- tion and deceit in which Fear has flourished. But it can be done, Faith wins in the long run— always. The world progresses, even though halt- ingly. ket us go forward in Faith, and “not in a spirit of fear, because we have nothing to fear.” Whether the world, the flesh or the devil is responsible for the ending of Mrs, Sadie Harrington's hun, strike does not appear But her failure to move the stony- hearted Ernie to mount the revival rostrum insures that Danvfile, Ill, will continue to have one grocer who bears the enviable repu- tation of not being a profiteer, Tor our part, we refuse to bolieve that any map who has not profiteered while the profiteering was good is in any immediate danger of bathing in brimstone when he has weighed out his last prune. FROM THE CITY OF HI LAN. To the Heaven-Born Mayor of Pekin, China: Here in this City of Hi Lan men have a proverb that there be honor among thieves, Trusting in this false wisdom, the admira- ble Hi Lan, Mayor, has lost face, It cume about as follows: Certain secret information came to Hi Lan's Overlord of Police that evil men were planning to attack the palaces of the great mandarins. These great mandarins are dear in the keeping of Hi Lan, and his Overlord of Po- lice made haste to send all the men of the police to guard the palaces. But the day passed and the evil men broke their faith and exploded no bembs at the pal- aces where Hi Lan's police were stationed, Then certain men of the Government, charged with the duty of knowing all plans of the bombd-makers, said they had heard nothing of the plans reported to the Overlord of Police. They stuck their tongues in their cheeks and mocked the admirgble Hi Lan, Then it became known that while men of the police were busy guarding the great pal- aces, bandits had run loose through the city, cracking heads and cutting purses. There was great lamentation from the citizens. HONG, COMMISSIONDR. TWICE OVERS. “e E have by treaty agreed with England to limit our naval establishment upon the Great Lakes. Why not in the same manner have England agree to limit hers upon the high seas?” —Representa- tive Mansfield. : * 66° HERE is an outbreak of skin diseases, includ- ing those which cause premature ‘baldness and gray hair. It's all due to the recent financial and business depression.” —Dr. Charles F. Pabst. * ° . ° €¢ [IGHTEEN thousand classrooms in this coun- fry are said to have stood idle last year through the lack of 3s." — Joseph H. Defrees. * 8 e “ce HERE is no better, yet al the same time cheaper Jail, than our Ludlow Street Jail.” —Sheriff Knolt of New York, ® We need more of such expressions, and from | | | | \ 7 | | From Evening-VWVorld Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one — that gives you the worth of a thousand words in ¢ couple of hundred? | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of autisfaction im trying | Take time to be brief. te eay much in a few words. Ne “L, haw’? Found, ; ‘To the Biitor of Th@tvening World: | Last Friday’4 Evening World pub- shed @ letter signed “I. Callahan, late of the 69th Regiment, $27 Presi- dent Street, Brooklyn.” ‘The writer opened his letter with a question: “How long has Ireland be-| longed to the United States?” and in the next thrée paragraphs gave vent! |to his wretched spleen and bIGOtTY | To re waitor of Thi in trying to vilify the Irish race, and especially those of the race who are citizens Of this country, and inferen- tially the 69th Regimtent, by his pre- tended association with it Inquirers were told at 327 Prosi- dent Street, Brooklyn, that “L. Calla- han” does not live there; that he never did live there, and that no one there knows him or anything about him. ki No record of him can be found in the 69th Regiment, in fact, the let- ter eeems to be absolutely nothing but an attempt to stir up trouble by some person who gave a false ad- dress, I have waited in the hope that the active regiment would take action in this matter, but as no such action jas been reported, the Veteran Corps requested that I write and give you the facts and Show you the injus- tice done to this old regiment, which is honored by all Americans who know the history of their own country and the wrong done to the Irish race. CHARLES HEALY, Late Licut. Col. 69th Regiment; Com- mander 69th Reg’t., Veteran Conps. New York, Jan 13, 1921. “Time to Buy.’ ‘To the Bititor of The Brening Work! Your editorial of Dee. 21, 1920, “'Pime to Buy," contains so much good common sense that we have taken the liberty of reprinting it for distribu- oon, giving you It, of course, as the Bourve of or We thank you for having given us the opportunity of presenting this message in 80 readable a form, F, W. PRESCOTT, lawlessness. A rigid enforcement ot Prohibition would have filled these evildoers with terror, In London, where the majesty of the courfs and the might of the law is upheld, there is much less crime than here. “Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint.” (Revised Version) Prov- erbs xxix., 18. M, J. GREER, | New Work, Jan. 11, 1921 Signa Normaicy. jeuing World: Are we a nation of imbeciles? Have we a Congress of mental defectives? Have reason, facts and logic no longer | a place in shaping legislation? Are our own alleged statesmen a lot of drooling tdiots? These pertinent questions are sug- Rested by the action of the House of Representatives in passing the Ford- ney bifl, puting an embargo on foreign products, At a time of closing fac- tories, with millions of idle workers, and widespread industrial and busi- ness depression to enact a law that will increase fhe cost of living and provoke retaliatory legislation that will shut our own goods out of for- elgn markets and thus increase un- employment—this ‘6 Republican statesmanship! If this ts a sample of the kind of legislation that we are to have for che next four years the Republican Varty will be lucky if in 1924 it re- peats the experience of 1912 and car- ies the States of Utah and Vermont. Higher cost of diving and decreased markets for labor products will be « fine record on which to appeal to the country! FRBE TRADE. New York, Jan. 14, 1921, Browntes er Sub-Conscious Mind. Yo the Editor of The Hivening World: Mr. Stillwell’s articles entitled “By Order of the Brownies” have créated in me @ curiosity I'd like to satisty, Was it his supreme faith in the ad- vice given by his Brownies which caused him to execute such remark- able work or does hé possess the genius for organization developed to Ady, Mer, Leopold Morse Co. iL Vint ‘To the Bititor of The Bening World; There is a lot of loose talk and false reasoning about the crime wave. Its world-wide scope justifies the inference that It is the reaction of the war, Liquor propagandists say Prohibition caused it, This could not be In Buropean countries, where there {s no Prohibition, Pro- hibition, however, has played its part in the metropolitan crime tragedy, The Administration's persistent nul ification of the Prohibition Law has 8 th wly given crim a is a te impression that yverned city This snco@uges bbe the nth degree and the ideas ema- nated from a sub-conscious mind? I Tind it quite unnecessary to con- gratulate The Bvening World on printing articles of such interest, as it has ever been most alert, I shal! look with eagerness for future proph- ccles by the Brownies. / 8. G. CLEMONS, New York, Jan. 11, One More Type of Girl. ‘To the Eilieber of The Brening World; In angwer to the letter of 8, J. EB. in the issue of Jan 12, I should say that he has loft ou} one other cia of girl: The git! who loves outdoor sports, Suck om walaing, soaring, Wboggan: i Hotel Bristol, 192i. thing, many girls and I assure you this is tainly correct Im your interpretation of the girls of to-day, Coppriah! ty The Bren F UNCOMMON SENSE © By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) LEARN TO DECIDE, Indecision is a habit, and a bad one. It is rooted in mental indolence, for it is hard work to decide. Follow the line of the least resistance and you will never decide anything important. And inasmuch as nobody wants indecision in important places, you will never amount to much or get much out of life. The man who learns to make up his mind gets along. The man who is undecided stays where he is. You will decide wrong sometimes, of course. But far better decide wrong once in a while than not decide at all. Important decisions require thought and consideration. In choosing a profession, for example, you need to look at the matter from every possible angle, for once you get in the wrong profession you have got to get out of it or fail. Unimportant decisions, small decisions, are a different matter. Yet most people waste an incredible amount of time in making them, Begin with these, if you have the habit of indecision. Learnto make them quickly and to adhere to them. ecide right every time if you can, but better decide wrong occasionally than hesitate, If you are going to spend an evening reading don’t browse around from one book to another, Decide what book you are going to read and read it. If you are going to take exercise, decide whether you are going to walk or swim or,play an outdoor game and act on your decision, If you don't, the morning will be gone before you get outdoors, ; If you have three or four different tasks to do when you begin your morning's work decide immediately which one to begin on and get it done, r On questions of right or wrong your conscience ought to make your decision for you, On questions of amusement recreation or work your mind must make it. See that it i made quickly and with all the judgment you can muster, Your ability to make correct decisions will develop, as everything else does, With practice. , : But if you hesitate and vaéillate and waste time you will never get any practice, and in consequence you will be a footless, undecided, ineffective person all your life, 7 riding, and te a friend to the needy | Smoke Out the Tobacce Profiteers. and to qumb animals. good many girls of this kind here in| There are a | TO the Biitor of The Brening World Brooklyn, girls who take a pride in| 48nd of prices thelr home and take a turn at any- 1 work for a concern that employs the kind of girl that comes ae top. i Brooklyn, N. ¥., Jan. 12, 1921 Girls Suecen To the Mititor of The Brening World } Ata boy! ‘B. J. E," you are cor- 18,.1921. “The FPraits.” o Palitor of Tha Evening World your splendid ‘he Fruits,” ceri However, if T|contempt of evary Americ wore you I would not take the mat-|who does not care to sit idl ter so seriously. Simply ignore them | 6 editorial Fy ts A. Sy with his unjust criticism entitled! the eltize by while| Athens, Greece, by Pisiatratus, abou, ‘ew fanatics try to change our Con-| 6 x Who’s Who in The Hall of Fame HINJAMIN FRANKLIN, stu °° man, scientist, and author, wa" born et Boston Jan. 17, 1706, Ur youngest in a large family of childre®. His parents were Josiah and Abiar Franklin of Hoton, Northamptonshire bor ged who bad landed at Boston fe At ten years of age he was com pelled to leave school and to ge t! work with his father in the latter's trade of tallow-chandler, Soon afte: he was apprenticed to his older brother, James, from England the stock of a printing office, At an early ago the boy reat Locke, Bunyan, and Addison, whos: “Spectator” was just appearing. Before his seventeenth year he tested his literary powers 7 anony mous contributions to his brother's newspaper, the “New England Cour ant.” he relations with Jame« gradually became irksome, and iv 1723 Franklin removed to Philadelphia where he found work at his trade ‘The next year he went to London to buy a printing outfit. Here he sup ported himself ag a compositor, Af ter his return to Philadelphia in 1726 (he became part owner of a printine office, and jn 1729 ostablished thr “Pennsylvania Gazette.” He soo) gained a wide influence as odito author, politician and public teacher In 1731 he €stablished tho first oir culating library In America, From 1732 to 1767 he issued his “Poor Rich- ard'’s Almanac," filled with the util) tarian philosophy so needed by the pioneer life of the colonies. It pre | sented the pts of Cato the elder, ‘without the hard and narrow mind of the Roman sage. Franklin during these s widened his own culture. acquiring French, Italian, Spanish and Latin. From 1736 to 1746 he served as clerk of the General Assembly of the col- ony. To his efforts were due the |founding of the University of Penn sylvania. Paved streets, @ 1 and the American Philosophical So- jelety were results of his wise and indefatigable zeal for bettering the \ community. From 1747 to 1752 he was | eng.oased with researches concernitig the phenomena of lightning and elec tricity. The Royal Society of London at first treated bis discoveries with scorn, but when, through Buffon, the aclent. Se men of France had cordially accepted his results, the English scientists made amends. In 174, at Albany, Franklin sub j mitted to a convention of severa colonies an admirable plan for the common defense, a colonial union tn fact, but the scheme was rejected by the ‘Lords of Trade. In 1757 le wa | sent to London by his colony to resist the exemption from taxation of the |Jands of the proprietaries, and was in | part, su 1, Franklin returned to Philadelphia |4n 1762, having received the degree of 1.1. D. from St. Andrews, He had established ‘literary relations with | Adam Smith, Burke, and others, He | had with his own pen and with lucid | good sense urged the retention of |Canada. “It we keep it, all the coun- try from the St, Lawrence to the | Mississippi will in another century be filled with the British.” Colonial difficulties sent him back to Engiand in 1764. There he vainly sought to restrain Grenville from laying a stamp tax on the colonies Tt was due to his representations tha’ the House repealed the act. Unable to check further measures of colonial taxat’on by Parliament, he satled for America, March 21, 1775. He was one of the five members of Congress who’ drew up in 1776 th Declaration of Independence. In thr latter part of that year he was sen to France, whence he did not returr until September, 1787. These nine years of bis life were of incalculable importance for the fn. terests of the United States. The Jy American who'was then femoy 7} every part of Burope, he wag sides, pre-eminently qualified wy tm finite patience and tact to secure @ hearing from England's hereditarg foe, With the co-operation of John Adams and Lee, he brought about, In the winter of 1777-78, an all'ance with France, He waa received by Louir XVI. at Versailles on March 20, 1778 In February, 1779, he became Min ister Plenipotentiary of the United States. Large financial contributions came from France through Frankl!) In 1781, after the surrender of Corn wallis, he was appointed Commis. sioner for the conclusion of peace with Great Britain, and, with John Adams and John Jay, signed, on Sept. 90, 1788, the Treaty of Versailles After his return,'’nithough he was seventy-n'ne years of age, Franklin served for several years as Presiden? of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He was also a member of the Constity tional Convention of 1787. The allot ment to the States of equal power in the United States Senate ts consid ered to have been his particular con tribut‘on to the work of the conve: tion. His last public service was th acceptance of the Presidency of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abo tion of Slavery. He died on April 17 ae rol iad ae ed in Christ ‘hurchyard, by the side . Dokaran, a of his wife, —— —— Ce re That’s a Fact’’ By Albert P, Southwick Covrrisht, 1 ‘The #wm Puilinting Co {ete Broan Workd). The name electricity was given hs Dr. Gtibert of Colchester, Fngiane who published a work upon the o? servations of the ancients, mented by his own, 1640-1602. 1 Oa ce |. The theory of /"positive” and “py, ative” electricity was announced | Sir Willlam Watson, 1715-1807, suppie- In view of the present downward | fterward elaborated by Benjam!) in almost everything, with the exception of tobacco, | tuke) occasion to ask would this not be! an opportune time for you to train) your guns on the tobaceo profiteers? be G. MANNING. 922 Morris Avenue, New York, Jan. “ranklin, who discovered the Identt | of lightning with the electric spark > cia 8 According to Mulhall, the prop jtione of sugar in various fruits » | peagh, 1.6; raspberry, 4.0; strav | berry, 6,7; 1; gooseberr 7.2; apple, 7.9; mulberry, 9.2; pos 94; cherry 10.8 And grape, 14. 9. oe Tobacco S introduced tnt. tand from Virginia in 1582," \° P®- ‘wari The first public itbrary, n: have existed, waa founaene jo 40 BOO, The Alexandrian Labrary and devote all of your energy to the|stitution to conform to their one-| M4yPt, contained 400,000 valuabie sk of making your life a gre - |) track minds. \ iInAT B ¢ av. This is my advice to y! Keep up youn gogd Ww pea and in|+ eo 8 6 sung Man to-da ime you probably will veform some! ‘Thucydides (1-400 BOG poe RONGE MILE lof these reformers. B.D. SCHMITT. | greatest O1, the En tore, Joo iy tae. aMule, Sasrmme N.Y Ae See Ue [uw OF UiOUeELivuoK Formcty,