The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1921, Page 10

iT an 3 ee eee bare ET | Youngsters of the city, the result would probably be She EFity Borie, FFTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. Publiahed Dally Kxcept Gunday by The Prom Publishing . Nos. 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Now. J, ANGUS SHAW, Tronaurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘Prem tp etchusively entitled to the use fer repobliestien Rew, Cespatches credited to it oF not otherwise credited is thls pager feed also the local news published herein, “DISARMAMENT MUST ALSO DEFER. HAIRMAN BUTLER of the House Naval Gom- : mittee says the United States will call an interuatioral conference on disarmament, It is inferred that Ohairman Butler was informed during his recent visit at Marion, O., of President- elect Harding’s plan to issue such a call soon after his inauguration. There appears to be fitile likelihood that President Wilson will be given a chance to act on the Borah resolution, Disarmament is to have no Democratic taint. The country sees no reason for the delay, but its main interest is in knowing with certainty that such a call will be issued by a Chief Executive of the United States in the near future. If it has been decided that a call to disarmament conferense must be a 100 per cent. all,Republican call, a patient and long-suffering American people will realize that it is only one more instance of the way peace and all the fair hopes of peace have had to defer to party politics. “Progressives Open Drive on Latest Har- ding Cabinet Slate.”"—Headline in Tribune, Just what do the Progressives think they have to say about Harding's Cabinet? All the Progressives did was to elect him. ‘They didn’t nominate him. LOOKING AHEAD. UESTIONS of formal party organization ap- peared’ in the news again this week after a three-morths-after-election vacation, . Republicans have selected a committee to give Pariicular attention to the perennial sc@hdal of the over-representation of the South in party councils. Democrats selected an Executive Committee from the National Committee. Strange as it may seem, the winning party fs Planning for reorganization, and the losing party is merely striving to focus its party activities. But the two manifestations are not unreasonable. Certainly the Republican Party needs reform in other matters than in Black and Tan delegates. It needs to work out a policy. It can no longer hope to drift successfully on the sole policy of a negation of Wilsonism which ruled it during. the last cam- paign. Republican leaders must work out a pro- gramme that will justify ils success, or it faces re- action and defeat two years hence. This in itself is a task far greater than the winning of the last election, » Democrats, on the other hand, have no cause to be downhearted. An intelligent focusing of activity along the liberal and progressive lines that won In 1912 and 1946 is all that will be required to ener- gize the party and make it an active factor in the Congressional campaign of 1922. The proper manner in which to focus Democratic effort is through constructive opposition in Congress, The mere fact that the Republicans won on a eampaiga of negation makes the task of the Demo- ¢rats easier. | _—————_—— A contemporary refers to “the Governor's enlarged ming.” Is that just 2 polite yer. biage for the more colloquial “swelled head”? The tone of the Miller message suggested as much to many readere, LUCK FOR BOBBY. coe the case of Bobby, the incorrigible terrier, the shimmying, trouser-tearing terror of West 25th Street. Bobby found a friend, although he didn’t know it, im Magistrate Sweetser of Jefferson Market Court. Magistrate Sweetser sentenced Bobby to be “got rid of” by Monday. Bobby was such a picturesque little reprobate that his case got into the newspapers. The result is that Bobby will probably find a country home in Pennsylvania. More important still, the new home will be equipped with two small children, two essentials for dog | happiness. Small dogs have no proper place in cily life. As in the case of Bobby, the neighbors sometimes dis- approve, In any event, a small dog cannot live a natural life, If every dog in New York lad to be “got rid of,” the dogs would be the gainers. A dog is cheated out of some part of his birth- right if he cannot have space to run and stretch his legs, and bark, and chase moving things, and dig holes in the ground, and get dirty—and every so many other things that small dogs want to do. If all the city dogs were moved to the country they would be happier. And while we are on the subject, it may be well to observe that small dogs and small children have a good deal in common besides the mutual affec- tion that is the only good excuse any one can offer for keeping a dog in the city. If any modern Solomon could work out a plan to provide homes in the country for incorrigible | ! 4 ‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1921. as forlunate for the children as Magistrate Sweet- ser’s ullithatum was for Bobby. Small children too need opportunity to chase moving things, and make a noise, and dig holes in the ground, aml get dirty—and ever so many things that small children want to do and cannot in the city. AS WAGES ARE CUT. A GENERAL lowering of the scale of wages has been under way for months and seems cer- tain to continue. Such a condition was economl- cally inevitable. Probably it will prove desirable in the long run, though it is bound to cause hard- shins in the period of readjustment. During fhe war labor, unorganized as well as organized, made notable gains in the average of working conditions. Measured only in actual wage values, labor probably no more than stayed even. But in hours of work, health provisions, and in what has been loosely described as “industrial democracy,” the gains were material. The public generally approved these gains at the time, even when it criticised some of the fantastic earnings in certain trades. After all, these are the really important “wages” of labor. The money in the pay envelope means nothing except as it compares with the priees of commodities. Now, when wages are being cut, is the best time possible for public opinion to give vigorous sup- port to every effort to preserve the gains in work- ing condilions, which are hardly less important to society as a whole than to the individual workers, Wartime approval of “industrial democracy” was in the main a genuine manifestation of altruistic humanitarian generdsity, good feeling, brotherly love We have been experiencing a backwash fron: all these finer and nobler sentiments. But there are indications that the tide is again turning. * Let us hope that the effect of the turn will come in time to preserve the benefits the workers gained. Otherwise the ground will have to be fought over again. Sooner or later we are to have more of “industrial democracy.” ONE OF NEW YORK’S GREAT NEEDS. HE merging of the National Symphony Or- chestra into the Philharmonic to make one greater Philharmonic comes as a recognition of New York's need of quality as well as quantity in its supply of music. In commenting on the merger, Clarence H. Muc- kay, President of the National Symphony, hinted at a programme of more concerts in educational centres, such as Columbia and the City College Stadium, and in other public places. \ ° Would that such a programme might some day include the providing of more out-of-door concert music in the public parks in summer. The concerts in the Lewisolin Stadium have be- corre a popular institution and proved that New Yorkers like open-air music. But New should have more open-air con- certs of an informal kind, where people can sit for an hour-of a morning or afternoon and sip lemon- ade or coffee while listening to a good orchestra or band, The city has found itself too impoverished to keep up even its former meagre programme of summer concel Central Park. Is there no for the municipal authorities to enter into an arrangement with some of the big orchestral organizations that offen have an over- supply of musicians in reach whereby daily park concerts couk] be provided during the warm- weather months—even though it might be neces- sary to make a nominal charge for chairs? It would greatly add to the summer attractive. ness of the c REFORM VS. REFORM. T WELLESLEY last week there was a seem- ingly spontaneous reaction against prevailing styles and customs in women’s dress. Now the college newspaper at Brown is out with an attack on “petting parties’ and a general oon- demnation of prevailing styles in morality and manners of the younger generation, Philadelphia pastors have designed a moral gown. Zion City is about to “save’’ New York unless the scouts report the task to be hopeless. And there are some hun- dreds of Ready Reformers all ready to prohibit this, that and the other thing, Forced to a choice between the effectiveness of a spontaneous revolt in the colleges and a censorship by the Blue Law advocates, any one who is hoping for results would do well to pin his faith to the young collegians and co-eds. Complaints against dancing, smoking, drinking, dress and “petting parties” are subject to liberal dis- coum, whether they come from would-be reformers or from super-exuberant college editors. Young America isn’t “bad.” All America knows that. If the younger generation have gone a little too far in the way of feverish gaiety it is a safe conclu- sion that the pendulum will swing back and chil- dren will once again “behave.” The best way to encourage such a reform is to put it up to the young people. The surest way to retard it Is to enact a lot of “Thow shalt not" statutes, The oniy reform that reforms comes from the inside, Prohibition never prohibited. never have sense, Censors ‘By John Ca BRINDELL € ee es en ee ee raesctots Pa an ng Ses Time to Pay Up. ‘To the Edlitor of ‘The Evening World. I also indorse what “Broke” says in his letter to you in @ recent issue of The World in regurd to the State bonus. This was passed last election in Novemiber, 1920, by a vote of 16 to 1, I have failed to see in the) papers of the doings in Albany of any moye to appoint any committee to administer this fund. I am wnxiously waiting for “my bomus, I served eighteen months in France as a member of the 2d and 77th Divisions. I have been wound- ed, but am unable to collect any com- pensation from the Government be- cause L can do the same work as I did before the war, I think it is high time some of those fellows we elect- ed last election, who promised 60 much, “come across.” EX-SERGEANT, Brooklyn, Feb, 3, 1921, ‘The Anti Association, To the Raitor of ‘Ths Hvening World T am desirous of informing your reader F. F. Hunt through your letter column that there is an organization taking form in Washington, D. C., that he or any other man or woman may become a member of, if they wii to take part in fighting for “Liberty,” Address ‘The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. P. J. QUINN, JR, Member. Brooklyn, Feb, 3, 1921. The Sardine Speaks. To the Editeur of The Evening World: 4 In reply to "Subwayer’s letter woulo gay that I do not agree with him He suggests that the I. RT. reduce the wages of their employces in orde: to reduce their expenses, Let me re- mind him that such action would probably result in a strike, and [ for mo would be In sympathy with the men, as any action of this character mm the part of any corporation would he contemptible and should be pre- vented until the cost of living is down more than it is at the present time. This procedure not only breaks up an ‘rgantzation, but creates bitter teol- ng among the employees which re- sults in. so-called Bolshevism, anc God knows there is enough now. ‘T’ best thing for the I. R, T. to do Uf they cannot meet their expenses is t quit the same as many other corpora tions are forced to do. I wonder if “Subwayer’s” wages’ have ‘been duced. SUBWAY BARDIN New. York, Fob, 2, 1921 Opposed to Clemency. To the Hilitor othe Bvenin World In regard to your editorial Fob, 1 cntided, “Debs Free Would Do Leas Harm,” I am constrained to give you «n opinion of a true American citizen on the subject. You openly complain that the action aken by our President, viz., failing to comamate the sentence of Debs, pugnant to American feeling o it will be regretted by many the moet loyal of America you fail to hit ihe point—your state- rent is not convincing While our boys were giving all they From: Evening World Readers What kind of a 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 time to be brief. tion of their country, these radicals cpenly opposed and ridiculed the Government. Now the war is over and you are encouraging propaganda for their release and freedom, ‘This Government heen too lenient to these dieturbers, A. real penalty for nigh treason, which would result in lite sentence or even death pun'sh- | ment, would not have been too severe. Where do you get the courage to face the war veterans who fought so gallantly, to come out with such an editorial In behalf of such agitators who would have ruined the country if the laws had not been exeouted wisely? You have, however, that Debs holds view freat majority of Americans are strongly opposed. It appears pre- pesterous for you to furthe the President misreads public senti- ment if he holds fast to his decision | and passes it as final, I think you are entirely wrong in| trying to encourage any action for freedom of Debs or any of his sui- | sidiaries. Let your paper be an American Issue, for America, now and alwaye, -CE-AN, New York, Feb. 2, “Good Old Days.” | To the Buitor of The Erening World I have read with the greatest of pleasure the many letters and editor- lals that have appeared in your pa- per lately on the liquor question. It is certainly a shame that the re- formers have taken our liberty away from us, It is next to imposmble for me to get a decent drink now, whereas three years ago I could get all I wanted to drink, and many a night I have staggered home so drunk that I could hardly @pen the door, Other Umes 1 did not get home, but slept it off in the park or in some doorway, for, of course, the saloonkeepers could not let me stay in the saloon in a non-spending drunken stupor, ‘Those were the good old days, and the saloonkeepers, bartenders, &c., should organize and write editorials for the papers, together with letters to their representatives in Congress eo that we can regain our freedom. Why, under the present state of af- fairs I am actually saving money, snd my fanMly has food to eat and lothes to wear, but what is that conpared to my freedom? T..C; New York, Feb, 2, 1921. Regents’ Points, To the Kditor of The Evening World Can anybody inform me through your wonderful People’s Column why 4 young man cannot take an advanced course in certain studies just beeans he hasn't got enough regents’ counts? Tam an optician and would like to study and become an optometrist, and Just because T don't know how many etars and planets there are, or the dates of all the previous wars and other things not at all essential in my line I find that T cannot advance my- self, rknowledsed to which a A 1p2i, There are hundreds of other Amer!- can citizens in the same predicament, and T would like to know why the re- | |xents’ counts ghoutd stand in the way of theae you men and myself. hau and were willing to make the supreme sacrifive for the apprecia- 22 Eawt 120th Street, Feb. ate! : UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blain) PUT THE FUTURE IN YOUR DEBT. If you are worth anything at all you are worth more than you are paid. Your pay enyelope is not an accurate measure of your value. It is the fay check that you will be drawing ten, twenty, perhaps thirty years from now that will really recompense you for what you are aoing now— provided you are really workin, The great executive who easily disposes of highly im- portant duties did most of his work long years ago. To-day le is merely applying the skill that is the result of effort he put forth in the past. To-day's work will not be wasted, no matter how little you are paid for it, Far beyond what you actually do is the importance of what you learn, Work carefully and intelligently and you wear the lines of good habits into your brain, lines on which thought can travel swiftly and unerringly in future years, 4, It is right, of course, that you should get as much pay as you can, It is right that you should value your services, But do not be downcast or despairing if you don't. There are thousands of men in high places who toiled for years at a quarter of what they were worth. But while they worked they worked hard, with an eye not on the present pay envelope but on the pay check that was to come. There is not a railroad president or a factory manager or the head of any great business who could discharge his duties if he did not call to his aid the knowledge that he has been slowly accumulating through a lifetime. : What you need to do, if you are young, is to be sure that you are in a job that has a future. Then bend all your energies toward fitting yourself for the biggest positions that it has to offer, Master the details. Learn the routine so well that you will never have to bother about it after a few years. Turn out a little more work than you are expected to do; a little better work than is turned out by your nearest neighbor. Spend all the time you do not need for reading and ex- ercise studying the business you are in and finding out how the big men that are in it have made their way. Don't bé afraid to imitate their good habits, and don't fancy if they have bad habits that these are what made them successful, Remember that to-day you are earning the salary you will get to-morrow, and through many to-morrows for years and years ahead, And if you really earn it to-day you will get it then, But if your only care is how much you are getting now, and how quickly you can get off your working clothes when it is time to quit, the future will not owe you anything, And the future never pays a cent that it does not owe. > . forring property without pro- Words From the Wise) icin) any tntermeniate sock. Society is now one polished Dr. Johnson. nave, | Failure i more frequently e | from want of energy than want ‘ormet het tribes, br Formed of we aes ye ries | of capitali—Dantel Webster. Whe: Boroa und’ Bones ; Hope is the pillar that holds Byron, up the world. Hope is the dream Cambling is @ mode of trans of a waking _man.—Puny, TURNING THE PAGES, OR Kit and 1 went up to town, And Kit must choose a hat for Spring; And, though the world may taugh down, There is no jollier theme*to sing. Ah, younger, happier than we knew Into the fairy shop we flew, She saw—the very hat for Spring! The first one, with the golden feather, Dropt from @ laughing angel's wing Through skies of Paradisal weather. She pinned it on her dainty head. “This is the very thing,” she “Now, don’t you like me?” do,” I said. The slaves were far away. “Your eyes have never looked so blue” “I mean the hat,” she tried to say. I kissed her. “Wait a bit,” said she. “There's just one more [ want to sec.” With Groundhog Day well past, and with the Vernal Equinox looming | forty-three days ahead, and with Bas- |ter coming on March 27, we borrow |these three stanzas on “A Spring | Hat" from “The Eifin Artist and Other Poems" (Stokes), a new volume ot verse by Alfred Noyes. ‘6, 8 PPassivity in Politics --- Description of a practical politician in "The Man of Gold” (Brentano's), by the Venezuelan novelist, Bianco+ | Fombona: Lacking talent, lacking ideas, without ideals, without worth, fore- sight, education, patriotism, devoid of personality of of any indications of statesmanship, with not a Jot of the warrior in his make-up, not an atom of the publicist, not a drop of the Journalist, Aqguiles Chicharra, by bs very luck of weighi, always floated like a cork upon the surface of the political wajers, He lived constantly upon the na- tional budget, stuck Itke an oyster to the Treasury of the Republic or fucking at it like a leech, His one virtue was his passivity, Other men, other manners— And yet, they are not so different at Caracas, es, 1 * 8 For the Head That Lies Uneasy - - - To take away that “heady” feeling there are these directions by Paul Ellsworth in the February Nautilus: Sit down in an easy chair—one with a high back and with arme to support your elbows Arrange yourself in this chair so ur muscles are relioved fram strain, Fold your nds in your tap and adjust your et_on the floor so that they are perfectly comfortable, Now drop your head forward un- til it is supported simply by the ten- dons and muscles at the back of the neck. Let it roll from side to side as It were dead weight. Roll it ntil it strikes the sup. of ir, bein ow no to estab- lsh themselves in thr be taek Repoat this exercise half a doz- en times untit-you begin to get the “feel” of freedom and looseness in this important part of your anal- omy. How priceless this prescription had it arrived while tenseness teased: still the Best Minds summoned to the conclaves at the Front Porch! 8 e Man and the Listening Woman--- _ Turning a page of George Jean Nathan's “The Theatre, the Drama, the * (Alfred A Knopf), we read: man, with exception so t is negtigidl in man’ only rare dmires intel- in so far oe this intelligenee is confined to his dealings and enterprises with other men in the world of men, She has a disr mm for the man who is intelli; in her own pres- ence, in his rela na with her. She likes to know ti e ie intelligent, Dut indireetly, at second-hand. he man who exercises hia intal- ligence in the presence of a woman may gain a friend or a wife, but never a sweotheart. On the other hand: Woman's function in socin! and ac *enterprige ks, primarily, as A man admires a woman not for what she says, but for what. she listens more attentively and sympathetically she remains silent before his oracular nonsenses the more beautiful she seems. to him, and the amore he loves her, and the sooner he marries her. The girl with the patient car- drum ix the girl who first nabs a husband. All of which is accepted and dered on file with the sex lore of the ages— Some of which is as true as any proverbiai sign of the ‘weather. Fresh Coal for Old Bottles ~~~ or accumulated of him in “Remnants” (Dutton), « book of essayettes, this story: At the bottom of his park ran an inky canal, down which coal barges were towed all day, A high wall separated his grounds from the towpath, and along tha top of this wall, which was several hundred yards in length, he placed 1 row of bottles. ¢ bargemen could not resist shying coal at them. In fact, it became their remular prac. tice, a sport to which they all looked forward, and on which bets were aid. Periodically the gardener’ went round to collect the missiles which had fallen on the park side of the wall, and the ingenious proprietor bon that he kept one small enhouse going during the year ‘hout tts costing him a penny, We do not'know when this little, tale first started on its rounds. Nor who started it. Nor whether it has been always coal that its bangemeu threw, But we do wish every mit of clothes we awn might wear as pleas. ingly well Catching the Early Wheats --. Christopher Morley writes tn “Pipefula" (Doubleday, Page & Co.) of eating morning wheatcakes in the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, before a tripper’s trip to Manhattan: Aa every one knows, the correct thing is to start immediately on the {ingt cake, using only. syrup, ‘The method of dealing with tha bther two 4s classic, One lifts the upper one and places a whol» pat or butter on the lower cake. Then one replaces the pper cake upon the lower, leaving the ihutter to its fat or shield one. sits ey the pecnnd butter on into small slice Erenter speed of melting, “cee for By the time the first- cake has been eaten, with the syrup, te gther two will be rendy for manifest destiny. The butte: he owt Bnd submissive, °" WH! be docite At 7.40 the cakes are finished, At 7.43 our connoisseur has drained his coffee and strolls toward his train But the really happy finish |\dyil ig this? Mr. Morley, rensomearne New York, catches now his early wheats with no overhanging th of catching also the Bight e'Cloae. Remembering an eccentric York- shire manufacturer whom once he knew, Desmond MacCarthy writey,