The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 34

_ .BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Hed Dally Broopt Sunday by The Press Publishing ‘Company. Nos, 52 ‘ PRESIDENT HARDING. O° President Harding The Evening World Offers its sincere good wishes. From this day on he tas the biggest job in the United States. It is a poor kind of patriotism that foes not wish him well and stand ready to support him wherever and whenever it can honestly do so » He takes office to-day by the will of an over ‘whel majority of the country’s voters. Both of the Congress with which he begins his are controlled by his party. Politically he an extraordinarily auspicious start. ' “That he will need the full momentum of thal is plain: To drive into the task of meeting the urgent reconstructive needs of the Nation will all the harder because of the delay in formulat- ‘the policies of the new President and his Ad- ji The country earnestly hopes those ies will now be forthcoming. Evening World cannot approve all the ad- President Harding-has chosen for his Cabinet. rertlieless, it is glad-that among them are men éan heartily approve and that upon these men devolve duties of highest moment to our for- ambition—to induce Congress to work faster and.to more purpose. If he succeeds ever "$0 little in this aim he need fear no stint of praise. | }Policies are rightly to receive his first attention. he first test of those policies will be the degree to ch ‘they recognize the fact that nations are closely interested in one another’s fortunes n they were ten years ago, and the extent to the Republican ‘programme puts the needs the whole country above the favoring of spe- ‘sections or classes. President Harding find strength, encourage- and large vision for his tak. mn A CLEARING HOUSE FOR IMPRISONMENT. CHICAGO man convictéd of forging postal ~£% money orders has advanced a most novel ‘Plea for judicial clemency. He claims to have served five years in prison for der. , His pardon reads that he was not guilty. “He now claims what amounts to a five-year credit + ii hiis-account with society. He asks the court to ‘Weduce the penalty he must pay for his forgery by the five years he has already served. his present crime he owes society a certain of imprisonment. Society has alreacy col- five years more than ils due of his life. He ks for a, clearing house transaction, lis appeal is plausible at least. ately, there is no occasion for such an as the Sixty-sixth Congress ends. / ever has been accomplished toward recon- fuction has been accomplished in spite of Congress withouf its aid. The Congressional balance is not a credit. It has done but little, and thing that savors of a “public-bedamned”’ attitude hurts the company more than it does any one else. THE SIMPLER NOTE. O MORE heroic or thankless task falls to a «* man than to uphold a purpose which others who once professed it have forsaken. Much will be said at this time of Woodrow Wilson. He will be praised for his great qualities He will be blamed for his defects. Living men will pass in review the years of his Presidency and try to see him now as History will see him later. But we should like to believe that millions of Americans to-day, whatever their political faith, are thinking and speaking of Woodrow Wilson also in simpler terms of human sympathy and acknowl- edgment. One does not have to belong to any political party to feel that here was a man of our own time upon whom were laid well-nigh crushing burdens. The way he carried those burdens, the courage and conviction, the indomitable will and energy with which he moved ahead under the load can no more be dertied than the fact that an agonized world at the worst moment in its history hung on his words and acts. For it did hang on them. Schoolmaster, they called him. Yet it was the “schoolmaster” who found ex- pression for the larger purposes which bleeding, suf- fering humanity set before itself to keep up its faith Yet it was to the “autocrat” that desperate peo- ples turned for their best hope of ultimate seourity and freedom. In the whole horrible welter there was felt to be no firmer spot than the simple moral ground upon which the President of the United States took his stand. © Living Americans know these things to be true, for they saw and were part of them. Wish or pretend to forget it as some may, they cannot deny that Woodrow Wilson, more than any other man, formulated the aims by which the strug- gle against German aggression was rationalized and exalted. For most Americans themselves shared in the ex- Altation until the danger was over and the spiritual tension relaxed. That is why, if they are honest with themselves, they do not need history to reveal to them the present tragedy of the man who personified that exaltation and its purposes, : It was not he who abandoned his ¥ims,aid theirs. When a man who meant to civilization what Woodrow Wilson meant to it three short years ago goes into retirement, broken in health, yet stead- fast in spirit, amid a world that has so changed toward him and toward itself, the fellow-country- men of that mah may Well be conscious of some- thing more than an instinct of cold appraisal. Apart from all political differences, he was their fellow-citizen as well as President, living with them through the game tense times, facing the same prob- lems, sharing the same unprecedented national ex- perience. No man can say he shirked or flinched when the big moments came. No man can say he spared himself. i r If there is true feeling left in American hearts, O been proved by cold reasoning that of the work. meesureless' ambition, \ Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, Woodrow Wilson was master The armies under his command were the strongest, the people behind him the richest. It could have he had reached the height through a calculated programme, waiting for the moment to strike when the foe had become too feeble to resist and the Allies too worn to con- tend for laurels. The next step might readily have been one of This he did not take, but instead substituted sentiment for power, ideals for autocracy. Then he began to fail, just because he brought himself into close contact with men who could thus more readily taxe his measure, men not farsighted like himself, but nearsighted, and, like al! such, hesitant, distrustful, But even in these surroundings he proceeded confidently, never dreaming that he would have to de- fend a victory, or be balked for succeeding. Yet, thanks to the po- From Evening World Readers "By John Cassel lilica’ system prevailing in the United States, this was an easy outcome for all ot, his great abors. Partisanship replaced patriotism when the danger was over. A mighty fear took possession of sundry small souls called Senators that if this man had his way their party’s path would be at in the magnificence of his triumph lay the danger of their ‘sappearance. Therefore, with disregard of their obligations to mankind, blind to all but party advantage, relying upon a fickle and indifferent public as certain to weary of noble deeds, they destroyed the fabric of faith in better things which the President had brought to life in the rest of the world, and tossed into the discard the honors and glor'es of the most gigantic conflict in the records of men. Hisiofy will place the shame where it belongs, and despite the “endorsement” at the polls, despite the careless reaction of the Ameri- cah people, it will not rest upon the shoulders of Woodrow Wilson. And_to him that peace which the mad world denies itself, now and forever! UNCOMMON SENSE ly transformed. Matthew, Mark and rent from the Jesus of the Socrates of Xenophon is @ Socrates of Plato, and the ition of the differences ie found fact that John idealized Jesus, Plato idealized Socrates. ir words, , Fourth Says Renan, “John's nature was too powerful too deep to be able to stoop to the personal tone of the other evangelists, Habituated to re- - ime his souvenirs with the fever- show that the author was an Alex- ‘ndrian Greek, steeped in the sym- bolism of Neo-Platonism and the tenets of the Gnostics. The author cared nothing for facta, at least for the ground-floor facts. They meant nothing to him. In his and cout ‘age. mighty vis telations and to our economic needs, ‘ a h 8! S, ion, “ity ‘broad sweep of ‘Mr, Harding has already shown one, highly com- Autocrat, they called him. Fone Se anne the facta diseps Mr, h4 already ighly ume x 2 truth that the ‘faeu poll herd A ephaue: In the Jesus whorwalked about im Galilee for some thirty years he saw the incarnation and personification of the INFINITE WISDOM and LOVE, as though he had said in 90 many words: “Goodness is seated on the throne of God, and directs His omnipotence. It is blessedness of all holy and hap- py beings to contemplate her, the Supreme Beauty, and be more and more conformed to her image. It is by her that the universe is attuned and filled with harmony. She de- scended from Heaven, and in the person of Jesus displayed her love- liness; and called men to obey her laws, and enter into her kingdom of light and joy. But she addressed those who were blind and deuf. she was rejected, despised, hated, perse- cuted and crucified—but she is im- mortal, and hers, ultimately, is the victory.” Such, tn substance, is this great prose poem, the loftiest and most inspiring thing in the whole runge of religious literature. Observant: WHAT PLACE IN NEW 1s? the Nest YORK CITY Is T the Answer in of the Beries. NO, 9. Answer to previous description Frankfort and William streets Three tbuildiigs have occupied the same spot within the last twenty-lwo or three years, one torn down to re- place the other, each used by the same interests for the same purpose. On a side street having a corner of its own yet not an avenue, it stands blocking the broad business and resi- dential thoroughfare that leads up to it. In thewentre of the hotel district it appears. squat when compared to the skyscrapers. Three subways make it easy of access and add to the crowds in the street, while the cle- vated runs to its doors. Beautiful in the character of its architecture, the New Yorker pays little attention to it, yet the visitor seldom fails to re- mark upon its beauty, It is a hust- ling, bustling place, whose cellur and sub-cellar teem with life at all hours of the day. That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick Hee Whet kind of @ letter do you And most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives you.the worth of @ 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. American heads will uncover with respect as Wood- row Wilson passes out of the Presidency, By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) LEARN TO-DAY'S LESSON. t of that would have been better left undone. | Onn, Ns Poet vette Word) ‘routine business has been neglected. . ~ ‘The father of Pope Pius X. was a 9 Congress ever had grealer opportunity for No Congress ever bad more to answer Fin the way of neglect, indifference, incomp:- nce and partisanship. he less said about the Sixty-sixth Congress the charitable it will be. When the gavel falls final adjournment the country may well heave ‘of relief, sécure in the faith that the Sixty- There will be tears in many American eyes to- day as the War President of this generation goes down with slow and stricken step from the great task which found hin ready and with which he kept full faith, TWICE OVERS. 66,N war and in peace Mr. Wilson gave all that was in him to the cause of democracy and pro- gress.” Rene Vioiani of France. The Hoor Saved, Vo the Editor of The Evening Worla: Living in a semi-rural district, 1 have found the extra hour of daylight very desirable, as have also a ma- jority of factory, mechanical and non- skilled workers with whom I have talked, We work for a living and get around before breakfast, After working hours there is an extra daylight hour for baseball, auto riding, gardening, work around yard or house, in the cooler part of the day, fully in industry. In fact, this would prove a blessing in disguise, because by appraising and analyzing the char- acteristics of a young man or a young woman to determine whether he or she should enter a given college, we might save many of them from fol- lowing a line of endeavor for which they were not fitted. During forty years’ experience in vocationy) guidance and selection, I have arrived at the conclusion that the greatest cause of unrest is to be found in ill-advised choice of one's occupation Also I have observed that in the case of the young person, only too Any schoolboy knows what it means to fall behind in bis class work. If through absence 6r indolence he leaves to- day’s lesson unlearned, to-morrow’s becomes twice as dif- ficult. And at examination time the neglected lesson, unless it has been made up, may mean an utter failure. One of the lessons we study daily is the lesson of history—not the history of the past, but the history of to- day. And if wedo not study it daily in the only place it is to be found—the newspapers—we soon fall behind in an im- portant department of knowledge. The wise transatlantic traveller when his ship comes into port not only reads the newspapers of the day but gets country postman and during his pons tificate the family kept @ village inn, eee The Bank of England, the most ex- tensive bunking institution in the world, employs over 1,000 clerks und its buildings cover 8 acres, Envelopes were first used in 1859, ( lage Fagee The sweet potato and the artichoke originated in America. | ‘The first fire department in America was organized in Philadelphia, in 1736, ‘The largest known pearl is one of Pie tee ately ; : ; ; irregular shape tn the South Kensing~ Five months is long enough, a8 the | often the selection of one sort of pro- the files and reads about all that happened while he was at 4 Tondon: GOOD FOLICY? “ec E regard a free, contented and properous |days are too short during the re-| fessional training In preference to an, 1h nett haat es He ane he Pr ‘HE Brooklyn City Railroad may be entirely _ within its rights in deciding to cut off service the Williamsburg Bridge because of the opera- i of bridge cars by the city.. is such a policy wise? * iil not defiance alienate public sympathy from “company?” Would it not be wiser to oppose * Whalen’s plan as vigorously and as pub- possible and continue to operate until com- ; é statements of operation costs and expenses 4 attitude of fighting the same City Govern- - from which it has asked repeated favors ex- the company to the charge of ingratitude. ‘statement of the loss occasioned by city com- based on actual experience, would do much Germany essential to civilization and a dis- contented and enslaved Germany a menace and burden to European civilization.”—Mr. Lloyd George to German Representatives. . 66 FESSE JAMES was a piker in his palmiest days when’ compared with some hotel man- agers." —International Association of Commercial Travellers’ Organizations. * * 66 ABOLISH perpendicular drinking. Make everybody drink sitting down.” —Dr. R. W. Wilcox. ; *. . “a E have the safest and cleanest cily in the United States." —Police Commissioner mainder of the year, but the five months do great good. Some people object to any change in living, a8 @ change in train time ov chureb Ume, &c, The inventor of our calendar was cruelly persecuted for, his temerity in suggesting a change of time, and like- wise auy movement started for the general good must have its opponents to give it strei The letter you published has aided the cause.” . D, BOGARDUS. Montrose, March 1, 1921. Vocational § Reports from authoritative sources indicate that more applicants than before will this year. Already articles In the other is based on the merest accident of acquaintance or idealism. By all means, let us apply the art of character appraisal in its bearing on vocational selection to the appll- cants who arg now thronging about the portals of our universities. HOLMBS W. MERTON, M. D. New York City, March 1, 1921 Praises the Mayor. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In reading Henry Smythers’s letter of Feb. 26, I wonder why he ts so anxious to get rid of Mayor Hylan. Probably he is one of those soreheads or know nothings and does not see or even understand the great fight John F. Hylan is making against the big corporations for the benefit of the people in New York. But we cannot prevent bim and a press draw attention to the possible need of rigorously limiting the num- ber of students permitted to enroll few more like him from. having such an opinion. Let Mr. Smythera vote as he pleases, sea and dependent only on brief wireless summaries of the news. se In that way he keeps up with what is going on and re- tains his place in the procession in which we all are travel- ling. P vca wile afer, keener, better fit for your daily tasks if you read the newspapers, not occasionally, but every day, réflecting on what you read and letting nothing of impor- tance escape your daily attention, The newspapers are made up by men trained in bring- ing together all the most important of the world’s happen- ings and condensing them so that you can grasp them with little difficulty, . If yours is a good newspaper it is interesting, for nothing is really news that isn’t interesting. Read it carefully. It is your history of the most inter- esting of all the periods of the world’s history—the times in which you are living. : You can get an excellent edueation by reading the news- papers attentively and following up the suggestions that come to.you while reading them. inches, and is surmounted by an enamelled and Jewellea gold crown, * The most perfect pearl in existence is said to be known 48 “Le Pelle« grina,” in the Museum of Zosima, im Moscow; it is a perfectly globular In- dian pearl of singular beauty, weighs ing 28 carats. a teal Religious freedom was first estab~ lished in America by the Roman Catholics of Marylaad, under the first Lord Baltimore, ‘ ‘The red currant grows wild all over Europe, in Caucasus, the Himalayas, Manchuria, Japan and arctic Amer fea. + Core ‘The first lucifer match was made in 18: ee “Wide-Awakes” was the name given to Republican organizations who wore a peculiar shoulder-cloak and carried torches during the politi- cal campaign commencing in. 1860, Hes. the weight of public disipprova iy these jpatitetions, and if be votes against Hylan that publ Herschel first found hi ut corporations have found it Enright. k spi Bia Se It would seem ty me that, in view | will not prevent prsiger tas pay : If you do not read them, and read them curefully, you way zona, Herechel first found eat . ’ 3, of these ronditions, now is the time| {ng re-elected with the greatest ma-|% Will always be rusty and behind the times, though you have ${trum, ang Ritter first found i to bear with and educate | 667 FEEL perfectly normal.” —Mr. Harding at | 10 apply to our universities the] jority any man running for officeever} § taken all the degrees the greates? university can confer. jeal fays above the violet, peage the, ete |: shal | wes 26 wmoaraiy dao wasons’ (Slow ork, aaron ioe ges rear id Ge ne iier taped the ii ; Ka ‘ “ ? 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