The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1921, Page 18

‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 2%, Tv2t.” | no brief for those who are now taking unfair orld, | profits. sng td But in such figures as these from Massachusetts SEED BY JOSRPE PUL TLR the American public is confronting nota theory byt -Couldn’t Stand the Light «2. t-Rich-Quic of The Ages ' by ‘The Pree Publiaiius ! — Pe | Compan i | New vor an unpleasant fact | By Svetozar Tonjorof. : } a ee strat Many merchants and manufacturers have seen the | _ i r Re b, ABRL, by the. Prem Peutlag OF i Joswrn PUL is light. [tis now possible to purchase merchandise in { | li | i { i / ‘ Ree MAMER OFTHE ASSOCIATHD PRISE many lines without paying tribute to unscrupulous { ! i Vf pf vs IIL—CROESUS. é Tee Amocisted Prem hy od to the use for republication tooo 7 Bp When Croesus ascended the Lydias Gthoretve credited . protiteers. benw tn this pape throne five centuries before the Chris~ tian era he was regarded as the Mob- est man in the world, “Rich as Crow sus” is @ byword that has descended to our own time, although compared with the wealth of any one of a bun- “ob pews drepaicher credited iso the local news publinued, It is time to call off the sirike. \ , i F CaN X + itl yh y “yy / % 8 a : The publichas won iis feht. Thos who an We) N ‘. a , j Yow , A ornipe casiege ae of sore cit ge Thee eke Re hens NG . “il \ \ . j / | { j Wy" ; T now seems highly protaable that the Fordney | ante to repleaish depleted stocks of clothing and \ ' i, { Yu Me ne YY en ee A 4, a“ | ; * of the bill dias discredited the whole reeasure, Ex- posure of the fake character of this “emergency relief for farmers” makes ihe task of the’ sponsors of the bill So unpleasant that they are likely to shirk the effort. If this proves to be the case, the farmers of the Nation will have no reason to feel that they have been deprived of any advantage. If the Fordney Fake had been a real “farmer tariff” they would fave had a grievance, But i! was not. The Fond- mey Fake was not in the interest of farmers, so farmers will not lose if it fails. If the measure ever should come up the real rep- resentatives of the farmers should be as critical of this bogus “protective” bill as are the representa- tives of the consumers. Farmers and their repre- sentatives should ask the sponsors of the bill some searching questions and dig into the real character of the fraud. Representative Foriney and Senator Gay should be forced to explain what part of the increased sugar price the public would pay would go to the farmer for hif 1920 beet crop which has already, been sold. ‘And what part of the sum would go to the farmers for the 1921 crop. These gentlemen shoukl be asked why it was Proposed to protect only the 1920 crops of sugar, wheat, etc., which are already in the hands of the middleman, and not the 1921 crops, which must be grown with all the usual risks of failure and loss plus an additional speculation on the possibility of a new tariff at the regular session begittning in December. Analysis of the bill will reveal the answers to such questions. The answers are such as the sponsors of the Fordney Fake do not care to put forth in public. That was the reason the bill was jammed through the House without debate, which would have ex- posed its fake character, Tinat is the reason its sponsors are less anxious to bring it before the Senate, where debate cannot be muzzled so easily, THE PUBLIC'S BILL. HE Whitman investigation of crookedness in the Police Department will continue. Mr. Whit- man has a certified check from 4 private citizen to cover the hecessary expenses if public funds are not hrakes on wild inflation, Similar discretion in purchasing can prevent the opposite extreme of business stagnation. ROOT'S RETARDING HAND. LIHU ROOT extends a chill, retarding hand | } toward the move for disarmament. | In a letter to the Chairman of the House Naval ‘Affairs Committee, Mr. Root expresses the opinion that to take the step proposed by the Borah resolu- tion and invite a disarmament conference between the United Stales, Great Britain and Japan before President-elect Harding and his Secretary of State take office might prove “just the wrong thing.”’, Regarding such a preliminary move toward get- ting nations to agree wholly or partially to disarm, Mr. Root says: “It ts plainly impracticable to accomplish this before the change of Administration,” Why “plainly impracticable?” Has Mr. Root definite assurance that President Wilson woul refuse to carry out the purpose of the Borah resolution? Or is this only more of the Republican ob- session that the first requisite of any Republican move for disarmament or anything else must be to keep Woodrow Wilson's name forever out of it? The Borah resolution provides only a tentative first step toward a relief for which burdened peoples are looking with longing and hope. As Senator Borah says: “During the delay contracts representing Dillions of expenditures will be made, and + billions will be expended for armaments. Budgets are being framed and the taxpayers will have to take care of that, Taxes are being imposed and collected. “In the meantime the world ts on the verge of bankruptey. Millions are freezing and dying for want of clothes and food. Taxes wiil not wait. Hunger will not walt. Death will not wait, These things do not wait for From Evening World Readers. What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one | UNCOMMON SENSE We: r Fake tariff bill may never seach the stage Of | oiher commeities should buy with discrimination | Yypulltrn dred iiving Asertoatie ehat could Ge discussion in the Senate. I und with due regard for values received, ‘ Migs A : named the Lydian monareh's fortune Evening World analysis of the sugar provisions Discriminating use of purchasing power put the ¥ was @ moderate store, Although he was the richest man of his day, Croesus was not satisfied with the returns from bis mines,-fls fields, his flocks and his herds, He wanted more gold, and he wanted it in @ tremendous hurry. So he atarted out to get it in the only wholesale way that had been discovered up to that time; and that was by waging war on his neighbors, It was not power that Croesus wanted, nor was it glory. What &e wanted was—awealth, just wealth, So when ho had conquered the Acoliang, and the Dorlans, and the Ionians, he imposed tribute upon them and went back to his Lydian capital, Sardis, to gfoat over Lis newly acquired treas- ure and to display it ostentauously, just like @ war profiteer of our own Roout that time the wisest man of many ages—Solon—paid a visit lo the | budding conqueror in Sardis. Croesus showed the philosopher around the premises, or at least ao Herodotus as- sures us, pointed out the aplendors of his palace and of his capital, jest a peep into But the pl to be much impressed. ‘ “What,” remonstrated Croesus, “a0 you not consider me the happiest man in the world?” And Solon answered Teavocttalitiy< but firmly: “Call no man happy he is dea Croesus was crestfailen at the an- swer; but the truth of Solon's esti- mate of things was well on the way to be proved. A cloud called Cyrus the Great was spreading darkly over the Lydian sky even while Solon was speaking. Croesus leagued himself with the Lacedaemonians and the Babylonians to meet the danger, and to make as- surance doubly sura ke cided to buy up the gods, He weat to the oracle of Apollo, gave him a large sum of money and asked him to fore- tell the Crowgan fortune. a “You will destroy a great empire, replied the oracle with hts tongue im his cheek, as we may believe. Relying upon bis great wealth and confident that he had purchased the | good-will of Che gods, the richest man |in the world marched boldly against |Cyrue, But the Lacedaemonians and the Egyplians refused to live up to ‘their agreement and Croesus found | himself confronting the tornado alone. Defeated near his frontier, Croesus fell back on his capital, but while be | was preparing to resume the offen- sive, Cyrus fell upon bim apd him’ and his capital. ‘Thus the ora- cles prophecy was fulfilled, but fn a way the purse-proud king of Lydia had not expected, Tradition says that when Croesus had been bound to the stake and the ts had been lighted to burn him alive, he bethought him of Solon’s re- ply to his boastings at Sardis, and he | shouted, as he saw the flames licking up: “Solon, Solon, Solon!" ‘ Cyrus was so intrigued by this ex- clamation that he had Croesus taken down from the stake and, asked him 1 he had called upon the forthcoming. change of Adminigtration or bow themselves that gives you the worth of a thousand words in @ couple of hundred? By John Blake But public funds should be forthcoming, A public There is fine mental ewercise end a lot of satisfaction im trying (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) F Investigation should be financed by the public. 1f hie ReSbIAS Para.leiin the AIG thos of be coy much in a few words, Take time to be brief. LIVE IN YOUR WORLD AND YOUR TIME. __ the Hiylan administration will not furnish the money, ts ore ; a neuer eet The Adteesntie Telephene, Sianutenture ania and distribuiies Compared with Vega or the Betelguese, this world is but ©. then it should come from Albany. great triumph. Its power is assured, its majorities "the iro Te Yreaing Wor | core to an end. |} a speck. Compared with the time that the world has yet It is panies improper that Mr. Whitman | in the coming Congress unprecedented. Woodrow | 11 wad The auiomatis, telubhons | sal, and aisributiony but permitting | ¢ t© xist—if some comet doesn’t knock it into star dust in should be financed pri ately, but it we be vi ils ‘ r i ” x consumption, is a case of “the cart|% the mean time—the present generation is as a fraction of a but it woukl be vastly | Wilson will cease to be President March 4. The | aso, but st was absorbed by tho Bell | Letore the hore.” Will the lawmakers |$ second of time. aside out of party prid sus had explained, Cyr sply aifected by the story: mor2 improper if his work were to be stopped for ing issues is in } ‘ ot company and discontinued, and is} ever be blessed with a grain of com- ote and, 5 a ak wal H ' Between the two evils Mr. Sinan fighting issues of partisanship in the late election | iow meing introduced to New Yorkers | mon sense? A, ROHEBITIONIST. But we are not living in the Betelguese or Vega, nor are 3] {!3' be star gc and even took | ack of fund ‘ ; nth 4 . iS * a ; have served their turn. as @ new aystom and they are crow-| New York, Jan. 19, 1921. we going to live through the trillion years that the world "But the task he set him to wasmak- , i rig! choc oO avail himself ‘ivate A ng over it. We Westerners know, i in i ii g money 5 might rightly choose t i priva’ Disarmament is a pressing need of the people— | the "new" ‘things \ahjariond rane | inasic 40 ocean ies: may still revolve and retain its heat and its plant and ee idan A ao Ang sora Laer i : ‘ rom the West, F. 1. B, | Tobe Kabitor of The Prening Wort! animal life |he performed for his successor, Cam- But he should not be required to choose bgtween all the people. Disarmament offers no ground for Hutontown, N. J. Jan. Tt is @ bitter cold night and I have We shall have to be content, for the present at least, }| byses. Born a money-grubber, Croedy ra = + : % . i =n Se Just come from the druggist after with the world as it is; and with the sixty or the twenty years died a money grubber when he migl two. Bither munici ate funds should be resent party strategy or part in. The Graft in Prohibition. ; : ) twenty 5 $4 Mie twe er municipal or State fun J PLOBT DIY BOSSE 9S Day ee te lea paie ettsamencg oe having @ prescription refilled. No|$ we may till have, depending on what the life insurance }|'#¥° been & mategmar “made available so that Mr. Whitman can retum the Now, if ever, it ought to be possible for a Demo- I recently read a letter in The Eve-|™4tter how many times you go back check tendered by a private citizen. THE ONE HOPE FOR RUSSIA. - OBODY can charge President Wilson with Price segehan ie poses actuaries call our expectation of life. ic Presi r si q |@!es World from M. k., which you|they charge you for the same bottle 5 i in #1 i aely cnitic President, a Republican President-elect and a bate aciitie’ “Stwoawiices® FON cake, ons cont 85 cents] $ 4, dees S wel ese right now to fit ourselves Republican Congress to co-operate in the initiatory | Surely neither yourself nor anyone |" up and all refills are the same, The world ° a rate F Se } a, and steps toward reducing the crushing gosts of j [else can think for @ moment that|!® thia profiteering? . Re WOR RCOETAR ISON. 28 AURECTY EO0e Worm ane a 14 € g costs of maval |inese scheming, grafting politicians,| Most of the people at our shop were| § i# well worth seeing—all of it, from the level plains up rivalry. who pull the wires behind their dum- | lald off indefinitely this P. M. Sweet around Moose Factory where the balloonists alighted the mies, who run our Government, were | news. . The Ist of January wages other day, to the tropical countries in which Col. Roosevelt of New York City fF deviating a hair's breadth from his fixed os . Government f . It ought to be possible for President Wilson and |+mooawinked” into saddling the bs Ca ae ef) 3 found the man-eating fish. . ivy toward the Soviet Government in Russia. . : Pol President-elect Harding to come to a prompt under- |Bishteenth Amendment onto about|""iwo yours age mame et ie were in See as much of it as you can now, and plan to see more Corts Now York Drewlng Watt Oo The message transmitted by Acting Secretary ot one hundred million i i $ ; y gs ey, as deci : ‘ people. the hospitals abroad recovering from of it by and by. Don’t be afraid to make a little sae State Davis to President Hymans of the League of | Staring both as lo the desirability of hastening the | 1t certainly would never have hap- | the war for democracy, = to travel, ervecally, io ben acme Ape whieh ta utero By Willis Brooks Hawkins, Ten-Min ute Studies " > ai . “i a S . 0 ” pened if they had not the = It's a good thing we are going to ri This is the fifty-second article . Nations Counoil reaffirms the President's attitude: proposed disarmament conference and as tothe men |Tichse pousibilities for graft and con, got the bonus. It will come in handy unlike ai om of a series defining the duties of “We . si = Lint . ruption. The present conditiona all|t® Pay for medicine and food and Tt will help you to acco: date y $e) ime— the administrative and legisiativa He regards the Bolsheviki as a violent who shall represent the United States at that con- |SVEr ie country are ample prost of| Tent these hard times—perhape. Diseinlto| seu anata yaueselt to. the cae opicers and boards of the New and tyrannical minority by no means repre- senting the real desires and purposes of the Russian people.” But if the real desites and purposes of the Russian People are ever to find expression in a permanent, ference. Here is an imperative national and international need which has created no party division, which can furnish issues for no impending Presidential cam- it. Now, all the money the Govern- eae ment used to cotlect for liquor licen- A Hint te Housewives, oa goes into the pockets of these pol. | Totho Wuitur 4 The Brening Work! itiglans, and milions more with it,| som the ago ‘1 millions paid to revenue agente for pape Secaea mati protection, millions paid by the public | 2? » bakers were golng to Selfishness, the master 1 the path of progress. If it annoys you enough, / E. F. DO BOY. which has far more drawbacks than the world. York City Government. We are only partly civilized, vice of the human race, is still flourishing like a green bay tree, and standing firmly annoy you when you ar DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Truant Schools, Three truant schools—one in Man- hattan, one in Brooklyn and one at protection, millions paid by the, public Panoe the price of bread, cakea and |$ as it is to be hoped it will, you will do something to help get {| rushing, in Queens, Borough—are -- Sable government based on the larger principles of paign, which involves only practical saving and relief of wren, is Tank polsor besides roll As yet I have seen no reduc- rid of it, That will aid progress on its way. But begin for boys, Truant girls are cared f the revolution, it must come from the efforts of the a om the y the Government pays | tion, 1 think the housewives would} § early, for by and by you will become hardened and content nder an an ‘Ki i for tax-burdenad millions. LASS SAY ORG COGS 18 00 BARE |e wt b ish ini y tie fais ofits , Russian people themselves undisturbed and undis- fin tt : nie: abe. The vate aoe cot Mus creek ciple tome Raphooe foley sol tiabasss pan je on Ake see boa tdeds she ater dock acini ; . = except tim does no! try fi ny r rhe N. #4, torted by acts of aggression on the part of the If,*in the face of such a need, at a moment of | eee their demande for protection. | cold momings po as to leave the bread ey LsAG Sper AE TAN EO ASAE SURE WIR At SE NtHSY § | Ors hantied Tha slew tore 2 ieeta) om allied Powe political calm, party leadership in the United States If these politicians had not foreseen | and rolis on the baker's hands for a are, and that while they can be improved a little, you can’t School at Mlushing is conducted on ied Powers, yew the graft, we would never have had| few mornings. Hread cannot be put improve them by killing them or persecuting them or an- the cottage plan, with schoolrooms, a ta) te cal Fi A * YI Pp P ’ & r & That is why the President refuses to aid in dis- | can see its way to nothing but postponement and |Premibition. |.) TEMTOTALBR. | in cold storuxe, It guis state 1 think | $ noving them too much. workshops and opportunities for ; , ; oro, Jan. ; here would ’ j 5 © entangling Armenia trom Russian Soviet control un- | delay, the bakince hangs heavy, indeed, against the pice of cakes and Tha, ~ Don't try to reform the whole world at once; but don’t 3 | {mg and gardening. The purpose Ae 1008 88 700 pay Ritet mu be too satisfied with it, ‘Take people as you find them, and §|¢ %® colons plea ie to maintain, itll ‘Gharge the price ‘wo a i . ; aay ; i ‘ar as possible, the condit Prohibition will uever be brought| buns for 5 cents, Try it for a few learn to get along with them, If you don’t, you won't get 1 ordered homes. ditions of « , less he can be certain that the great powers will not ©) take advantage of Russia’s stricken condition “to party system. rs : 7 - a erniennemiannele wbout in this country if we are mornings and see the result. along. ‘© probationary schools—one {; undertake any further invasions of Russia nor tol- MTCn Ane ee alan dha Mies ameal tatbors, san OMAS BUTINS, Bosalate, if you like, about what kind of giant trees ${Manbattan and one in Brooklyn—are | erate such invasions by others. OVERS. ment, together with the Volsiead act. the Betelguesians use to pick their teeth with, and what 3|fractory boy to a course of diteipiins Attacks on Russia from without can only | ¢€ JT would take perhaps $50,000,000 to solve satis» | 1%, t% firs pines, there are three Passengers and ¥. kind of hats the women will wear five hundred thousand hd instruction which may prevent 5; oe Ys, SOY | ns cue ase "The Brening World Ae Os ASH 4 i necessity of confining strengthen and prolong the Soviet regime by rallying factorily the housing proposition in Greater | Siow {he manufacture and ale for De ae ee sont iam torial MBuale| ee es peers ao pee en ey r that ypu are living §|truaut wohool, ‘The course or atoae ‘ inti tg Deas hee «fy raed gail ‘ in 1921 and in the planet called Barth, and do your best to includes academic subjects, 7a! ‘ sSia iS! acts J if , ie e » J Ni Politics.” Ae ‘J . » Rhysical, Russian patriotism to the one de facto Government. | New York."—President Clarence H. Kelsey of the | \nmen'al, une or, mlooholle lauors | nowy Not Politica” Allow me to 87) $ sccommodate yourself to the world and the time. Vocational and moral trainige ‘The thie in ttaelf places Probibition in|, few words. probationary sch the “H doesn’t mean anything” class. 3 | public Sol NO ohn anata eee ene Cae. | think it fe altogether unnecessary | Q.nnennmnnwwrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnananannnnnnannnnnnannnnanannnnnnny | Public School No. 20, has evening + ate: h to rai 5 = sessions for the purpose of kee: yey Weel) against the consumer drinking aleo- | for the Interborough to raise the fare, | _ pupils away from bad Influences we + “Hands off Russia” is sound self-determination Title Guarentee and Trust Company. @ocirine and sound common sense. ———- - wip bolic ‘beverages provided he can lay |in a grent metropolis like New York, . ie U i CCU HATEVER may result in this city in the |%8 hands on it, ‘There are many|wnore there are so many people rid- | critica of the modem gir, It some) Words From the Wise °~——————~—— BUY WISELY-—-BUT BUY. cases where the individual who] eee ne subway and elevated, to/0f your self-centred male critics : | ‘ ippis are next few weeks, or whether anything starl- | trades in aloohollc beverages in the | ME U.S Yare would be nothing short| Would make an effort to understand Failure in any good cause is and the strongest friendship ASSACHUSETTS reports that a quarter of the real Prohibitionist (one who never the girl as she really isand notasshe| jonorable; success in uw ba a : 4 ps 4 fF if devel it will little if the himself of highway robbery hi dif he would on! 4 | could onty give dirth to a feeble SERY aa \acitcare in the 6 5 ling is loped, it will amount to little if the people | touches a drop himself), and #0 tar! “SN oborough talks of the lange |#ppears to him, an ° wo! Al uselia tnlamonecck Guill : § if organized workers in State are out of paar as his appetite is concerned the dis- Increase, but bow about the | forsee himself for » while, I am sure 5. Smiles. | love-—Du Coeur. y B © { work. In the shoe industry unemployment amounts | 4 2% take hold. Conditions in this city are going to Lillere and moonshinens would go Out | tnereasing population riding in the Ce ce EN He only is happy who is healthy Love is an alliance of friend. —” ; to nearly half.* be what you make them."-—Charles S. Whitman. ‘rhe only’ law that will ever be at | mubway and I. ¢raina, and making re-! intelligent, interesting and soclabie,| 4 lis body, eaxy in his circum. | ship and animatism; éf the for. ell effective toward Prohibition is one 4 oes jana at the aame time can keep house stances and well instructed as to |. mer predominate, it ig a Passion that makes it a criminal offense to and perhaps prepare 4 meal tov, but The Kygning World adyocated a buying strike { rie ee és ‘ I - oy all liquors that are intoxleatin, 4 ‘the men, too absorbed in their cog hiv mind.—C, ©, Bulton, | exalted and refined; but i, the tee dt continues {o advocate the ct 4 HE only vice | recognize is that of excess.” — fo tre conmumed, “#0 ja cageinet tig fete Ee: gy ll ade f, celted sélves, and apsuming the iy Love and friendship exclude latter, gross and sensual v raed 4 sini 2 0 zi Ks law lo consume an article the a4 % fem . of a superior an more intetligos each yiherg Ws heginag by tea, ‘ b Widbiah pride wa Hab ae. : = ON ie ee el