The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1921, Page 38

‘ ESTABLISHED BY JOSEP PULITZER Pudlished Daliy Except Sunday by Tho Pross Company. Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, Now ¥ RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Perk Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row Publishing | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Pres is exctusively entitied to the use for republication Geepatehes credited to it oF not otherwise credited in this payor the local news herein, “ALL CRY AND NO WOOL.” tay REPARATORY to a drive for a protective tariff which is to apply “to all schedules—agricultural products as well as manufactured products,” the Washington office of the American Farm Bureau Federation has issued a statement, one paragraph of . which reads: As far as agricultural products are con- cerned, it must be remembered that many suffering most from dumping are now on the free list. Wool, meats, hides, soy beans, &c., are notable examples, What are the actual figures concerning this flood of foreign wool which is being dumped on the , ‘American market? In December, 1920, the imports of foreign wool amounted to 13,392,392 pounds as compared with 19,008,274 in the same month of 1919, when prices were high enough to suit the American farmer. For the year 1920 the total imports of woul weighed 259,617,641 pounds as compared with 445,892,834 pounds in 1919 and 453,727,616 pounds in 1918. Such figures indicate that if the American market bas been flonan with the “dumpings” of other parts of the world, the flood is already on the ebb | without a protective tariff. In the case of meats there has been an increase of imports in the last two years. The increase is largely in mutton and lamb from Australia. The total import for the year 1920 amounted to less than 153,000,000 pounds, or one and a half pounds per cenita In the case of hides the figures are similar to . those for wool. For 1920 the United States im- | | ported 509,983,176 pounds of hides, or almost a { third Jess than in 1919. ~~. Where is the flood of dumping? ! and no wool?” ai ue | Be | t Isn't it “all cry 4, THE FIVE. ae . It is perhaps significant that all five of the fe New York Senators who were traitors to their home city on the Traction Bill are serving re | ae. a tr their first terms in the Senate, - 1 Mark well the names of these five Sen- ators, Let their first terms be their last terms. The five were: Schuyler M. Meyer, 17th District. Maxwell 8, Harris, 4th District. William 'T. Simpso: h District. ¥ George M. Reischmann, 9h District. C. Ernest Smith, 24th District. Not one of the New York City Senators who were re-elected on the basis of their rec- ord of'service gave support to the Miller pro- , Sramme. ak KEEP IT ALIVE. HE New York Board of Aldermen took advan- tage of the local option pesmit that went with Daylight-Saving repeal in this State and passed an sordinance providing for Daylight-Saving in this city Arom ‘the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September. “ The Merchants’ Association urges municipalities Mhroughout the State to pass similar ordinances. Des;ite inevitable inconvenience and contusion, {his presents itself as the best means of keeping the Daylight-Saving movement alive and speeding the May when it shall become general throughout at | east the Eastern section of the country. Connecticut is worse off than New York. ohh Henry Roraback, Republican boss and leader | da Connecticut, has decreed that his State shall have Daylight-Saving at ail, and the Connecticut Gen- a Assembly has dutifully passed a law which for- abids cities and towns to adopt other than standara it. Roraback is President of the walerpower a = | gompany which dammed the Housatonic River near | *) Derby and which supplies the Connecticut Light ‘and Power Company with juice. Mr. Roraback is a farmer from Canaan—an ex- | Seellem example of the kind of farmer who has | most zealous to save himself and the world Daylight-Saving. . OPENING A WAY TO THE FACTS. ; HE trade agreement entered into by the British 4 Government and the Soviet Government may amount to recognition of the Soviet regime. Or it } may lead to such recognition. | been from In either case it is up to Russia to demonstrate | the possibilities af trade. British business men are not likely to sell for credit. It is now the task of the Soviets to gather tradeable oommodities at ports. If Great Britain is able to do business with j the Soviets, other nations will be likely to follow | the British example. Here in America the advocates and opponents of u trade agreements have waged a wordy war. side has claimed the Soviets could deliver;com- in return for commodities. The othe\\his | | anxious for trade agreement only as a sort of left- handed recognition of the Soviet regime. If the Soviets have developed anything like prac- tical and effective economic administration, Britain will profit by the agreement. No one questions that Russia possesses rich stores of platinum, petroleum and limber and has the soil to produce grain, meat amd hides, If the Soviets can gather and deliver thesé con- modities at ports one part at least of the anti-Soviet case will fall to the ground. If Russia cannot do this it will prove that the advocates of trade with Russia have been talking without information. The next few months should provide an answer to this long drawn out dispute. To that extent at least America will profit by the Anglo-Soviet agre2- ment. MINORITY’S DAY. HILE the Republican whips were cracking at Afbany to round up votes for Gov. Miller’s traction measue—which an obedient Senate promptly passed—the Assembly was assigned the side job of putting through the Governor's Prohibi- tion Enforcement Bills. This obeyed. These Prohibition Enforcement Bills constitute another of the post-election policies which Gov. Miller’s Administration is misusing the legislative power to impose upon city and State. The Republican organization seems to think what it got from the electorate last November was a leg- islative blank check. It is now filling in that check with things it dared not mention when it was asking for votes. Voters in this State last fall wanted what voters in other States wanted—a change. The desire was powerful enough to defeat even a popular Gover- nor like Al Smith. The great Republican relief wave swopt over New York as well as the rest of the country. order also was Results to date in this commonweakth—as spe- cially in evidence this week—include: A move to force higher street railway fares on the City of New York by State, compulsion—a move supported by no shadow of popular demand or will. A plan to tighten Prohibition with State aid—at the behest of the Prohibition camp. In recent years it has been no unknown thing for an organized minority to get a grip on legislators and pus over tyrannous legislation on a protesting but unorganized and desultory majority. The present Republican Administration at Al- bany seems chiefly bent on helping such tyranny te perfect its methods and achieve its aims. OUR COMMON GUILT. (From the Sacramento Union.) It ts impossible for the individual to free himself of a share in the responsibility of two million chik dren being employed in this country, This guilt may be unconscious, but we every day use the products of the hands of these little laborers, and therefore must bear some of the blame for their employment. Most of these children are employed hundreds of miles away from our sight, and even when they work in our own communities it is usually in fac- torles and sweatshops, for the employer of child labor, feeling the impact of the law or public opinion againat the practice, is beginning to conduct his business under cover as far as possible. If we could see this great army of children work- ing daily when they should be studying or playing, the revolt against their employment would be so | great that the evil practice would be wiped out almost overnight, for the average person with de- cent instincts, although he may be completely unin- formed regarding the physical and moral harm done to the future integrity of the race by child employ- ment, cannot endure the sight of children workiks for their living. But can we afford to ignore the fact that children are working to supply us with the articles of dally necessity, and that we are contributing to the in- come of modern slave drivers, whose heartless scramble for the almighty dollar makes them ignore every dictate of decency? This country is too rich to employ child labor, but it is not rich enough in virile man-power to continue to employ them, The deteriorating effect on the fu- ture of the race is so definitely proved by the experi- ences of other countries which have exploited the labor of their women and children that we cannot afford the risk, No work is so important that it need be done by child workers, and we can well afford to neglect temporary profits for the future enrichment of the race. TWICE OVERS. “ce OU know, since I came to Washington, I am gelting right young and frivolous.” —Congress- woman Alice Robertson of Oklahoma. * * * ‘cc ANY young women have regarded teaching as a kind of lunch station between adolescence and matrimony.” —Dr, James R. Angell. * * * “cc E know what the gentlemen of the long hair, frock coats and lawn ties do when they go in search of something to give them a sensation, They procuie patent medicine.” —Assemblyman O'Connor. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1921. Coos right br The Pree 1 (The New York By John Cassel of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroff Cops right, 1991, by The Pubtishing Oo, (the New York Evening World), XV.—NAPOLEON I. Napoleon I, felt by the same diss cane that carried off Alexander of |.Macedon, called also “the Great.” |That disease was an incurable ited jfor the treasure, real or fabled, of India, Alexander Was the ideal ot the young Italian, who was born at Ajaccio, on the Island of Corsica, in the nick of time to enable him, with ,the aid of a forgery or two, to prove jhis right to French citizenship. That right was vital, because it admitted him to the French Army, As a cadet in the 'of Brienne Napoleon study the mup Asiatic Continent finger and his the habit of {oll ‘ch to Punjo But they travelled further than Alexander had They penetrated into the India. There they drew ‘ military s Was wont the Wuropean= he hour of by rt of pictures of Oriental magnificence, Ided with riches untold To insure an open road to India by way of the Medite poleon set about as Alex done, He invaded HBgypt the Mamelukes and started on the road to Asia Minor. With the light~ ning blows which in Bgypt had earned him the sobriquet of Sultan Kebir, or Sultan, he fought his way to Jaffa’ and took it by assault to the tune of the “Marseillais At int Jean d'Acre he met wita a check at the hands of the Turkish arrison and a detachment of British Marines that sent him reeling back to Cairo. In the meanwhile a British sailor with a Scandinavian name—a man by the name of Horatio Nelson— had taken advantag portunity to ate Napoleon's sea power in the Bay of Aboukir, So Napoleon found it expedient to flee back to France on the plea that adiy needed in Paris. ‘This purpose he accomplished in the face of the British fleet that was patrol- ing the Mediterranean and searching every skiff and felucea for him. Aboukir and Saint Jean d’Acre combined served to convince Na- |poleon that his dream of acquiring of India must be given st postponed. But on way back from Cairo, surrounded savants, tense interest the picture of a Buror@ subjected to his will and his exad® tions. So he turned his back to Moham- medanism and the shining Orient and set his face firmly toward the Occi- dent. There was a good deal of money in Europe, He would get @ good share of it, at any rate. After he had taken Samarkhand Genghis Khan had announced to his Mongols from the platform of a mosque: “The hay is mown; feed your horses.” Napoleon r@vealed his attitude on the subject of loot when, in an official proclamation after he had crossed the Alps in the early spring of 1800, he announced to the From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives . u the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hyndred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. Raw Land. the Editor of The Brening Worid If single taxers were indeed single we might hope that the breed would die out in time, but they all have a bug that doubles ‘em up. Labor produces clothing, machinery, furniture, &c, but where does labor get the wool, metal and wood? How does it acquire title? Did “Single Taxer" ever clear off stones, fence, pull out stumps, dig a Don't think that they ask charity, | They hate the very name. | ternity could never pay The monstrous debt we owe, } Could never pay a hundredth part i For all their pain and woe We owe a debt, an honest debt, | We're honor bound to pay, Then dig down deep—we got cheap— And answer “Here,” as they. BERT ADAIR SEELHOFF. Bellerose, N. Y., March 14, 1921, ‘Te off | well, build a house, plant trees or = otherwise improve a tract of raw! Teachers and Amusers. land? ‘To tho Waitor of The Brening World Does “Single Taxer” know what! ‘Babe’ Ruth will draw $50,000 from raw land is? the New York American Ball Club. Which leads’ us to ask: Is our wage scale right? Should public enter- tainers be given money with a gener- ous hand and trainers of the public mind be given ridiculously small sal- aries? Of course, we don't blame “Babe” for taking what he can gety but we can blame ourselves ‘pr the Well, raw land Js material like wool, wood and iron, and the labor put into jit makes it valuable to men. The ! man that puts the labor in owns the | jland, as “Publicus” admits in his letter of March 6 to The Byening World, If single taxers will take a fool's advice they will take care of the fam- ‘ily, if any, KIM that bug and buy a y clear | dog, ‘even if they can't get a cl present economic situation. Teachers | Boe an can earn’ « Tot, from t2|contribute something to posterity» Actors and ballplayers do not. To my mind, we should take care of the wants of our educators first and when that is done we can turn to the pro- fessional amusers. BASEBALL AND MOVIY FAN know that all one loves or can legally use for the betterment and happiness * those they love is theirs, and when | God in his wisdom and mercy desires la settlement, single taxers, like the rest of us poor mortals here below, will be called upon to square up, and we will, whatever the cost. That's when we get a clear title and the genuineness of God's signature to the hill won't worry even a single taxer. JAMBS C. WILSON. Setence f ation. To the Editor of The Evening World For uncounted centuries man cepted absurd superstitions regarding the earth, its origin, its form, its na- ture. Finally came science, the or- derly presentation of established facts, and blew the myths and errors out of existence. In the realm of the nat- ural sciences any one who can read is to-day better informed than the wisest men @ thousand years ago, When we come to the science of the orderly arrangement of mankind in civilized communities we find to-day that the prevailing beliefs are just as silly, just as false, as the notion that the earth wus sustained by Atlas, or that animal life originated in the Gar- den of Eden by the fiat of Jehovah, Not only the great mass of the people, but the great majority of so-called educated men and instructors of the people—editors, teachers, college pro- fessors, preachers and politicilans—hold views regarding social ani economic questions that are on a level with the incantations of a devil worshipper or a priest of Mumbo-Jumbo, Thus we have the general acceptance of the oli exploded notion of protection—the idea that a country is better off under high taxation and restricted trade than with | low taxes and freedom of commerce. | ‘Then we have the popular belief that! a system of local taxation that en-| courages holding valuable lands out of | use for speculative purposes, and fines | men who erect homes or otherwise im- prove their land, is 4 good thing for the people. We have the oft-declared | belief of certain interests Ahat money, a standard of yalue and medium of ex- change, is capital, and that the own- ers of money are the promoters of in- dustrial and com prosperity. ‘There are bundreds of other economic Wet Cellars. the Kailor of The (Evening World March 3 was moving day in Wash- ington and, according to newspaper reports, quite a bit of booze was moved by “our officiais" who thought | Prohibition a good thing for the com- mon people. | Why make lawbreakers out of the common people, Who could not afford to stock up and who figure a personal right has been denied them? FREDERICK MULLER, Woodhaven, L. 1. To Over Due; Please Remit. To the Kaitor ¢ Evening Work! Have we forgotten how we cheered ‘The day they marched away? Have we forgotten how the tears Welled in our eyes that day? We needed them, they answered “Here!” Without @ thought of self, Can we renege now when they need A Nttle filthy pelt? Can we forget the way they fought In that Wack hell in France, Can we #0 soon forget and pass ‘Them with averted glance? Can we so soon forget the debt We owe to those brave lads, And now ignore their crying need, To hoard a féw more scads? A few more scads, with which to buy A drink, perhaps a stioke, While they who fought like flends for a w Tramp homeless, hungry, broke? Don't look on them as mendicants, ‘heroes scarred and lame, (Copyright, 102 THE your digestion, a very harmful one. The man who is so suse his mind will not function in hauling, and it will pay him to dreary,” if complaining about We do-not find anything which these lines occur, and when the sun stops shining. it won't pay you, you slow up in a fog you will Moreover, the kind of a weather is just as hurtful as on your work, done, or not done at all. things that you are not likely make them very useful. over their heads and central snowy days, in the year. from your life. UNCOMMON SENSE ® By John Blake BAD WEATHER BLUES. If you are the kind of person who gets “low the sun goes under a cloud you'd better see a doctor about If you see the doctor and he finds nothing the matter with your digestion the trouble is in your head, and the sooner you get it out the better. The-bad weather blues is a very common complaint and ptible to outside influences that Mr. Longfellow would never have written his “In every life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and now, an almost universal habit. himself was addicted to the bad weather blues. a vast deal of trouble in his life and was perhaps justified, You too may think you are justifie You need all the energy you poss as if you keep churning along at top speed. feeling so sorry for yourself that you can’t keep your mind And when that happens your work is half If you'll remember that on rainy day: In any event the rain can’t hurt people who have roofs And bad weather is just as good to work in as fair weather, You can figure in most climates on at least 100 rainy or If you don’t get over the bad | ragged, hungry and exhausted sold- fers of the republic which he was rapidly transforming into a mone- | arch | “Soldiers, before you spreads the piains of Italy, You are naked; there you will be clothed. You are hungry; ‘there you will be fed. Forward, soldiers!” After a series of victories over Aus- tria, Prussia and Russia, Napoleon decided to appropriate the enormous | profits of British trade t Simself. | He forbade Austria, ‘Prawia apd | Russia, together with all other con- tinental nations, to trade with Eng- land on pain of incurring his im- perial displeasure. This dec jasued in Berlin im | 1806, Napoleon succeeded in enforcing imperfectly for a time, But Russ discovered that severance of com- mercial relations with England meant| ruin for tho Russian people. The crowning disaster of the Napoleonic retreat from burning Moscow was the direct outcome of this discovery. Elba, Waterloo and Saint Helena were mere anti-climaxes to the @u- preme tragedy of Moscow. The star jof Austerlitz set in the lurid sky of | Moscow. ‘There is an impressive memorial to apoleon in the Old Soldiers’ Home (Hotel des Invalides) in Paris, An- other memorial is the word glory, in its peculiarly infectious French form, “la gloire.” But the most con- spicuous Memorial to the greatest conqueror of modern times is the shortening of the stature of the French people by about an inch and by John Biske.) every time rainy weather needs an over- do it himself and do it now, the weather was not then, as very cheerful in the poem in it oceurs to us that the poet But he had in getting a grou But even if you are justified ss in all weathers. If not get as far in a given time if grouch that comes with bad ie WHAT PLACE IN NEW any other kind. You get to YORK CITY 18 THIS? ead the Answer in the Nest of the Beries. Answer to previous one of serics— Reade and Lafayette Streets, No. 14, Astride a charger a famous Gen- ‘eral of another day and generation | sits with his face south, looking at a wonderful statue, greatly admired for its beautiful, classic lines. ‘The crowds you can do many to do on bright days you can | heating plants to warm them. irom the subway exits, the crosstown ‘ [ears and the buses make weather blues these 100 days might as well be subtracted $/{aimetentic. Inthe with ; the ple: ‘© vehicles outnumber those of business. Even Sunday is a busy nes.the busiest, Three delusions, all used to prevent the de- velopment of 4 wiser and juster social system, Forty years ago In his book “Prog- ress and Poverty” Henry George at- tacked the accepted politicalyeconomy and showed it to be a hoary fraud, a delusion and a sham, that was respon- sible for most of the social evils that afflict us to-day. His book was read by many, accepted by some, but, so far as the legislative histury of our National and State Governments shows, without effect on public opinion, making of laws that may bring pover- ty, distress and suffering to millions is till a matter of guesswork or political superstition. Professors talk and write as though they had never heard that there is a seience of taxation, Leurned editors are either too ignorant to know or too cowardly te say that our present methods of raising public reyenues are wholly and barbarously wrong. What is the reason that sei makes s0 little progress in this great feld? WHIDDEN GRAHAM. New York, Murch 10, 1921. Ed jlarge hotels overleok it, while a man- | prominent site upon it, of the time, it stands al while business encroac “That’sa Fact’’| By Albert P, Southwick Copyright. 1921. by the Prem Publ'shins Fite New Yoru Breaing Wor and the g utos seeing New York And there is the celebrated C0, mansion of the late” ——. New Jersey, which hasn't any pop- PORE TO REN ene ci ular name, Was a century Was seventy-six years etd ow Den risively called “the foreign 41 by the covetous, jealous neighbors of surrounding States, because some noblemen, including Jeronte Honu- parte, ex-King of Spain, had settled there’ in Bordentown, ningham, ©., has the nickname sran Town;” Minneapolis, Min y of Flour,” while Rochester, , is similarly designated “Flour Thirty years ago Log Angeles, Cal, jee ee had a population of only 50,894.’ Now — Lake Superior is 400 miles long, it supplies ne that number of 160° wide at its greatest breadth, with moving picture actors and “extras” an area of 32,000 square miles. Its to the surrounding neighborhood mean depth is 900 feet and about Hollywood. greatest depth said to be about 200 es sf fathoms, The surface is 635 feet Queen Alexandra, widow of King above the sea level, Edward VIL of | Englund, — eldest eee daughter of the late King of De Alcohol boils at 173.1 degrees, mark and mother of King George V., quicksilver at 680 and water at 212, -