The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1921, Page 12

a 4 “ World, BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ePablimed Melly Except ¥ by The Prom Pu Company. Noa. 53.10 6% Park Row, Now York. RALPIT PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITAOR Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, ishing MEMBER OF THE ASSOUIATED PRESS, Amociated Prem ts exclusively entitied to the war fer republication ME AM news deapetches credited to It or not otherwise credited tm this paper ‘BRB Glee Che local news published horeia. GEORGE WASHINGTON. ¥ BORN FEBRUARY 22, WR. “ec EORGE WASHINGTON, without the . G genius of Julius Caesar or Napoleon Bona- 4 parte, has a far purer fame, as his ambition sas of a higher and holier nature. Instead of seeking fo raise his own name, or seite supreme power, he de- soled Mts whole talents, military and civil, to the estab- lishment of the independence and the perpetuity of the liberties of his own country. “In modern history no man has done such great . things without the soil of selfishness or the stain of a grovelling ambition. Caesar, Cromwell, Napoleon altained a higher clesation, but the love of dominion tas the spur that drove them on. John Hampden, William Russell, Algernon Sydney may have had motives 3 pure, and an ambition as sustained, but they fell. “To George Washington alone in modertt times has it been given to accomplish a wonderful revolution, and yet to remain (o all future times the theme of a people's gratitude, and an example of virtuous and beneficent power.”—Lord John Russell: Life and Times of Charles James Fox. : “DETERMINED TO HAVE HIM.” R. HARDING’S defiant announcement ot his choice of H. M. Daugherty as Attorney Gen- éral will not make Mr. Daugherty any more popular with the people of the United States. “The opposition to him,” says Mr, Harding, “only makes me more determined to have him, You an put that in your papers in black face type,” There is no disguising the fact that Mr. Daugherty is the opposite of what the country would have called a “strong man” had he been mentioned as a Sabine: s lity before election. Mr. Daugherty is 1 politi- ‘ A, appointed for political reasons and in payment _.of political debts. His political record is not such as to recommend him even as a political officeholder. Both the announcement of his choice of Daugherty and the manner in which he announced it cannot fail to neutralize in large measure the enthusiasm aroused by Mr. Harding’s selection of Charles E. Hughes. } “Af Daugherty, like Mr. Hughes, is to “talk for” his | department, his past record indicates that the De- pariment of Justice will become a whispering * chamber. ¥ Yoo bad the Washington family find no better way to observe George Washington's birthday this year than by squabbling over the rights to the family burial plot. SPRING IS COMING. this locality the first robin is by no means ihe first harbinger ot spring. The northward flight of difcks and geese is weeks behindhand as an omen ‘ef coming mild weather. As a real, sure-enough harbinger, the great major- ity of New Yorkers realize that spring will follow winter when the baseball seribes begin to report “hold-ruts” by the siars of the diamond, When the annual southward migration of the ‘“bushers” and the “old-timers” starts, the fan begins to consider the schedule of games. By the time the “regulars” “are on their way amd the “hold-outs” have signed up as usital, the reader of the sport page realizes that the first game of the season is only a matter of, weeks. —tn America jhe vernal equinox is comparatively unimporiant, But the welcome cry of “Play ball!” is an event of the first magnitude. The city had two-thirds of the winter ta | which to get ready for the first snowfall. ‘This “fact, plus a larger labor supply and the new motor ploughs, makes the difference between |) snow handling this year and last. “INTELLIGENCE AND FORESIGHT. T is reported (hat the same interests which have prompted the new garment manufacturing centre in the Pennsylvania zone west of Seventh Avenue are now turning their atteation to a home deve!.p- ment project for garment trade employees, Here seems to be an intelligent and foresighted effort to stabilize and integrate a great industry and . at the same time aid in solution of New York's housing problem. Vacant areas in Queens Borough have the best possible transit connection with this particular zone, both by ay and by the Long Island suburban service. Needle trade workers would have shorler and less tiresome daily trips to Queens than to either the » Bronx or Brooklyn. Manhattan has not the space fer new home developments, Rents in Manhattan cannot be as low as for equally desirable quarters in ‘greas where trade does not commpele so sharply for ery foot of land. . financial power which backed the new gar- ™ “entre could finance and promote homes tor “ ot Wages cannot come down while rents The gaftnent, trade can Well aftord to " THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921," finance home building at moderate rates of return and collect profits in lower labor costs. From the viewpoint of the metropolis the most promising feature of the scheme is the intelligence displayed in actually planning for a whole industry on the basis of the mutual convenience and welfare of all those in the industry. Other lines of trade might well give similar aiten- tion to the convenience of housing for their working forces. THE CHAMPION, HE Hylan Administration, representing the City of New York, announces that it has engaged Senator Hiram Johnson of California as special counsel “to aid in the fight to uphold and preserve for the people the sacred rights guaranteed to them by the Slate and Federal Constitutions, the bul- warks of government and the palladium of our lib- erties and our freedom.” Which means in lowlier language that Mr. Hearst will bring on his famous ‘lawyer from the Pacific Coast to mix in the New York tractron situation and extract therefrom whatever can be turned to the political advantage of the Hearst-Hylan regime. From afar Senator Johnson sounds ihe trumpet nole of the warrior spurring to the congenial conflict : “It's the old, old fight with special privi- lege and exploiting corporate greed on the one side and the simple justice and Inherent rights of the mass of the people on the other.” Some one should explain to Hiram before he gets here that his soul-stirring “masses-against-the-<classes” summary of the situation is considerably damaged by certain facts: In the first place, the people of New York City have $300,000,000 of their own municipal money in subway property. To this very substantial extent they are themselves propristors and capitalists look- ing for efficient operation of that which belongs to them, In the second place, the transit problem is in the main a straight business problem. It has got to be solved on a basis of figures and facts. The tive-cent fare will be saved, if it is saved, by plain, bra demonstration and not by airplane flights of dema- gogy. When it comes to upholding “palladiums of 1ib- erty” and “the inherent rights of the mass of the people,” there is probably no one between the At- lantic and the Pacific who can send up more star- shells than Hiram Johnson. But the settlement of New York's transit difficul- ties must come from close-to-the-ground, expert grappling with the concrete elements of the situation. The job is not likely to be much expedited by a Senator from California whose chief business is to throw colored lights on Mayor Hylan in heroic poses with a palladium. BETTER TELEPHONE SERVICE, J, 3..McCulloh of the New York Telephone Company oclieves telephone service in this city has been restored to pre-war quality. The Evening World is glad to be able to agree that service is now much nearer the standard in which New York used to take pride The company is entitled to full credit for the improvement of the last year, However, the public has become accustomed to similar statements as a preface to renewed pressing of the demand for higher rates, Do we guess right? A NEW TWIST. DWARD HATOH JR. forced the hand of the Board of Estimate in the matter of financing the Whitman investigation into municipal corrup- tion and incompetence. Since then his life has been threatened, he says. S6 far we have all the ingre- dients of a first-class detective and mystery story. But Mr. Hatch, being an American business man, does not operate acconing to the best precedents ol the detective fiction school, He does not organ- ize a blood brotherhood to avenge his death, — In- stead, he takes out an insurance policy to finance public prosecution in case he is murdered. He does not play a “lone hand,” matching his wits against the combined wits of the members of the “System.” Insiead, hie talks to newspaper re- porters and serves warning on the System that he is more dangerous dead than alive. _To the fiction writers we commend the example of Mr. Hatch. He has invented a novel variation of the orthodox in criminal investigation, For a shining example of resolve to lighten the ourdens of preparedness and reduce the probability of future wars, watch the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. . TWICE OVERS. se WOMAN doesn't welk 82] miles with a man she doesn't love.’"--Miss Bernice Radthe. * * « 6] F the Nation believed that all the Cabinet ap- pointments were to be of similar calibre (to that of Mr. Hughes), it would thank God and take courage.” —Fhe Times. . ° . 66 T makes one feel like a miser to get back to Amer- ica after living like a prince on the other side with the same amount of money. All you do in Amer- ica is handle money, As soon as you make it, it passes through your hands to someone else." —Saunders Noreell, a The World’s Oldest Love Stories By Maubert St. Georges Chas Now Terk Bracine Wonks On World.) “THE LORE AND THE COUNT HERMANN.” NE of the best known of Ger- man legends !s that of the water nymph Lore at Ley, @ rocky promontory on the Rhine above the town of St, Garshansen, from which she became known as the Lorelei, and of Hermann the son of Count Bruno of the Rhine-Palatinate, This famous story has been immor- talized by Heinrich Heine, the great- est lyric poet of Germany if not of the world, in his song “Die Lorelei.” Benevolently inclined, the nymph brouglit good luck and happiness to the land. But pert fellows hearing tales of her wondrous beauty began to besiege her rocky castie. These shoe cast into the shallows, or being seduced by her, they lost their mem- ory and disappeared forever. Yet so constantly did this pestering con tinue that she turned against all men and sought to lure them to their death. Now at that time there lived in the neighborhood in the magnificent castic of the Count Palatinates, Her- mann, the son of Count Bruno, the flower of chivairy, the pride and jov of his father. Time and again young Hermann heard of the enchanting Lore at Ley and he felt himself strangely drawn toward the rocky mass that wus reputed to be her favorite haunt, until finally scarcely a day passed Without his approach- ing the mysterious Ley either under the pretense of hunting, walking or some other of the knightly occupa tions that filled the day of a knight At last, one day, venturing nearer shan ever before, he made his way to a grotto at the foot of the proth ontory and accompanying himself with his zither he expressed his long ing in low singing. Suddenly in the midst of brightness and colors never equalled or described he saw the en- chanting figure of the beautiful Love She stretched her arms out toward him, calling his name: in the sweet whisper of love. Beside himself with delight the youth, dropping his insivu ment, sought to approach her but fell senseless to earth, completely over- come by his joy. It was morning before he came to. Hurriedly, fever ishly he returned to his father's castle. Again and again he returned to the rock and the intimacy between the youth and the strange being increased. They acknowledged their love and were happy. Like a dreamer Her mann wandered about thinking only of bis beautiful fairy, neglecting his old companions, his father, everything. ‘The old Count saw with affliction the change in his son. Guessing that it was caused by some unhappy pas- sion he resolved to draw bis attention elsewhere by serious occupation and ordered him to prepare himself to join the imperial camp, where he would be taaght the Girt of war. Hermann was obliged, however un- willingly, to obey his father’s com- mands, for to refuse would mean life From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? ten'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 te say much im a few words. Take time to be brief. — | Employ Our Own Firat. out of ten, he does Know what | To the Editor of The Evening World an exorbitant commission the em- ployment agencie# are charging, and are allowed by law to charge, Why can't the EmploymentyAgency Law be changed so as to lifiit the com- mission to say 20 per cent. of the first week's wages? As it is, em- ployment agencies (handling office help) demand and get 100 per cent. commission. Mr. J. Parker's letter relative to the restriction on immigration was very good indeed, but there are many more reasons why Congress should present a satisfactory immigration bill before it closes \ts session on March 4. To-day millions of people are un- employed und reports come from every part of the country of bread ANTHONY A. PRICE, Brooklyn, I 1981. Im Deadly Danger. lines and soup Kdtchens opened to dothe twitor of ‘the Bening Work feed our own thousands who an ull-| Well, well! We ure to have an ing for help. Are we going to throw | other ‘““Killjoy" entering our city 0) te this " PVve | a es pen our gates and allow this "stare oT a oisa evidently wants ing army” of our own to be reinforced, making a longer period of unemploy- to put himself “on the map” in New ment, possibly a standing army 0:/| York, But, as | said before, let ‘em | unemployed? all come, | In periods of depression crimes in-| | My word! How we poor New| crease and are brought about by/ Yorkérs must shake with rear and! those poor unfortunates who are de- | trembling. our terrible(?) deeds prived of thelr right to earn a decent|are to be n to the world. The living. ‘The greater the army of un- old city is to be shaken to its employed, the more trouble we may | foundation, and—jook out, folks, or expect in our industrial and sovial re-| you will full off the earth during lations, Therefore, if we allow a free) shaking. to come, we may expect | ais, and our work- rd of living will be | Brooklyn, N. Y. oliee y lowered. + | To the Rattior of ‘The The necessity of closing our gates} 1t is wbout time that some New maust meet with the approval of alt) york citizens #bowed Wnright his the people who have the interest of | the United States in their hearts, The | Place. It is a shamo when young | legisiation is mot directed penton he | folk are dancing, men such as Mn- puiigulee sasanality; went OF ire | fight, brea In ind “have them ar: and Its purpose is simply to promota | rested for no reaso! Det eO Eye the interest of the pepntG who now jam not favoring any place that is in- This applies to aliens, naturalized | Pluce Ike Willson nd erro tts, | citizens and American born alike, and | Patrons Imetisd ot one duld be put f they are not willing to bave laws | then It is time w stop should be pur | passed to protect their own Interests, |", uy to ihe proprictors to stop | | there is something wrong with them, Every workingman here should do al) he can to Induce Congress to give mdecent dancing and if they cannot | do so they should close up, If they j close their eyes to indecent dancing, | © ki static | Jus the Kind of legislation ‘that will) thon the police should do their duty. | y uPh ane Bik telly. tts Why subject dancers to the hu-| H. NICHOLAS, | Mant in 4 police ait pene we “AS ‘Again, I say ft admire the ninety- Astoria Bi nice people. Who are. suing Com: 7 missioner Enright and his police. It AK Employers. ls about time somebody did such a fo the Fatitor of The Evening Work); Why doesn't Mr, Employer give the unemployed a decent chance to earn a living through honest and efficient work? Too many business men alto- gether have fallen into the careless | 1 habit of phoning an employment agency whenever they have any open- ings. ‘The following inelodrama takes place whenever any help is needed. Mr kumployer tells one of lis subordinates to phone the So and 80 Employment Agency for applicants. The So and So Employment Agency sends appli~ cant for the position, who is acerpted, Mr. Applicant is then charged a full week's wages for being bired—this charge being made by the employment thing, I wish them the best of luck. M Dear Sir: ‘The ‘crusade’ in one of our dunce halls was one of the most disgusting affairs that was ever brought before the public, When our good American girls are deprived of a little diverslon- the only diversion they have afte they spend the day toiling or sweat- ing in some sweatshop—just to satisfy the cravings of some rene | Taw makers and law enforcers it is a disgrace. dance hese committed agency for the services, no crime. They were only shimmying | If you are an employer of any kind, or performing some fancy waltzes, jwhy don't you play fair and give It is too bad about these law eru- every one nee? Why don't you gaders and plain clothes addicts, It | put an "ad" in the daily newspapers? would be far be for them to |'To you, Mr. Ktaployer, a week's salary r ina few of these gentlemen is nothing, but the emp) e feels dif- Crooks and ickups that infest the ferently about this item. tity and leave the poor girls atone, The blame does not lie entirely with \ NOGERS, the employer, because in nine ovses New York, Feb. 17, 1921, r “ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1721, by Jonn Blake.) | (Copyriah: VIOLENCE IS W: A very small part of the water of the Niagara River, led avauy from the stream above the falls, supplied hundreds of thousands of horse-power to factories and lighting plants. That is controlled energy. row flumes into large shafts called penstocks. The supply can be regulated exactly to the amount of power required. Put the same turbines that generate this energy under the torrent that pours over the falls and they would instantly be dashed to pieces. The water that hurls itself violently long disgrace under the brand of cowardice. So the night before his departure he went, this time accom panied by a faithful squire, whom he |had let into the secret, to bid farewell to the beautiful Lore. ‘She, however, aware that she was on the point of losing her beloved had decided on what she would do. As the two men rowed toward the rock the waters of the river became so rough that the squire, affrigated, sought to persuade bis master to give tp the venture, But it was too late The tumult increased, On the Ley flames appeared, and in their midst the beautiful Lore appeared calling the infatuated knight with irresistible voice, while with her hands she waved the waters to her services. The waves mounted heavenward, the boat was upset, mocking every exertion, The youths sank into the depths nor were they seen again. ee ASTED ENERGY. The water flows through nar- Rather than lose her lover the from the precipice that stretches between the American and 3 Tfelel had slain him, Canadian shores is wasted energy. The horse-power that ver be used again. Energy is a source of power in all nature, in the indi- vidal as well as in the waterfall, And in both violence is , with this exception, that the violence in the waterfall results in a spectacle of enduring beauty while in the individual it results only in a ridiculous display of thus passes away can wasted energ) temper. Ky weake « le the waterfall, In a very littl never again to be recovered. ‘The first lesson in self-control is a lesson in the control of temper. There are many more lessons to be learned be- fore a man is really fit for the job of living comfortably with his fellows. But if he cannot utilize his energy eco- nomieally he might as well quit at the beginning. y aroused by many things. Temper is easily i! go merely proves weaknes but hatred or derision, and neither one of them will be of the slightest help in what you were sent into the world to do. | | A AAPLPLIIA LL LPL PPPS PLLA LSE, ybody has enough energy to be violent, even the t, But violence in an individual who is beyond the age is a pretty sorry spectacle. Repeated outbursts of violence have the same effect on your delicate mental and nervous mechanism that they have or the machinery which controls the energy generated by e time the person given to violence will be unable to control his energy. It will burst forth at all times, as in the case of a badly spoiled child. And then there will be little work and no thought. All the energy that is gen- erated by the mysterious processes of life will be wasted, Fairy left the Ley, to the distress of the country, which grew visibly | poorer, But sometimes on moonlit spring nights shipmen hear, arising from the waters, the sound of a sad yoice, wonderfully alluring, haunting. and {n fear they pass on thinking of the sad end of the young Count Her- mann. The rock of the fairy, now named tariel, yields since that event one of the most beautiful echoes of Europe, which is ever admired and praiscd |by the Inhabitants as @ gift of the | beautiful Lore at Ley THE OLD STONE HOUSE. Washingtén’s Headquarters at New- (Washingtidursh, 1680-1921.) Above the ford the Old House waits: Remembering; remembering! Deeds heroic here were done, When its thresholds and its gates Were honored by its country's king, Her Washington. Wide of door, of weathered beam, Rroad of gable, staunch in stone. This old house, as strong as then, ‘Neath the hills, above the sircam, Early pioneer, stands lone; Mindful of historic men. But letting Violence will get you nothing Pointy on the hearthstone falls Doven this skyward shaft, the star, Nightly, with recording rays. By Albert P. Southwick | Coorrines. 198i. pr roe rnae Fabliing Co. | the New York Rrening ‘Texas is known as the “Lone Star State,” because it had a single stac on {ts flug while an independent Re- public, before its admission as # Stale, on Dec. 1845, . e The ‘Lion of Lucerne” js one of the most famous and beautiful monu- ments in the world. It was hewn from folld rock by Thorwaldsen, a Danish sculptor, and is the chief art object of the City of Lucerne, in Switzer- land. ee ‘The inventor of the frst elevator, a M. Villayer, at the close of the seven- teenth century, came near baving bis + ' To the heart this hearth heart cults head struck off as a reward for his In the name of years afar, inventive genius because the King’s daughter, taking a ride, was im-| Oh, estublish now your days! prisoned in {t for three hours, balf Way up the paiace wall. It would “Liberty was making here, And the eagles of her coins. | Now there brood again her doves. And swallows for my chin ney-cheer, derived from noble loins, not move, up or down, eee In 1885 Prof. Pasteur tul experiments in hydrophobix. ‘The vas founded, ut FP (Institute two years| Race, sa a Lae Noble be, to-day, your loves!” Artificial ice was frst manufac: | tured in 1875. MUDULEC> |» ocessional, such memories 90 fn Ge Where fancy leads, into the light; The first co-operative society was) cy h ver fall the leaves; pay “ ‘pon the river fa ; i Rochdale ree Ae ROSITA MAREAS, in| The generations. bloom and snow ie lWind from the sunrise fo the The first balloon, Montgoiher's night? . \ ascended from Lyons, Vrunce, in 1788 f . 8 8 Old House. your soul was and de- lieves! ISABEL FISKE CONANT, Knives and foriss wore drt used in Lngland toward the end of the six- teenth century, about 1590, i