The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1921, Page 18

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER ed Daily Except @u! by Tho Prost Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President Park J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer JOSEPH PULITZER Ir. Secretary, 68 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘also the local news published berein A CHANGE IN TONE. AST week witnessed a notable acceleration of the home-building boom. *) A significant change in tone by the lending in- ‘ ferests was a feature worthy of remark. i One investment house specializing in mortgave age advocated immediate building and advertised _ its willingness to finance construction of large apart- ments. The spokesman of a great insurance com- ny encouraged large employers to build homes for yorkmen and promised an adequate supply of money. rh + From such statements it would appear that, after t “fil, the Rent Laws have not frightened investors, + One other event of the week was the introduction the ‘firsch Housing Loan Plan in the Legislature, } qwhere it seems assured of substantial and influential | What would be the most reasonable ground for “opposition to the Hirsch Plan? If there soemed to ‘Pe ample money for housing loans, many legislators ‘Might hesitate to support the proposal of loans ‘égotiated by the State. © Is it not plausible that the sudden change in tone thé mortgage loan market is no more than propa- om to weaken the support of the Hirsch Plan? sh) n the Legislature has adjourned it would be easy for the mortgage-lending companies to tighten th: ‘market again and so protect the loans made at ex- eessive valuations based on profiteering rents. - This may not be the explanation, but tenants and ‘builders of small homes have become suspicious Because of bitter experience. These tenants and builders want the Hirsch Plan adopted as a firm and ; tinuing check on the mortgage sharks. + Several of the large schemes for lending are ré- Stricted to large and important developments. The “minimum loans considered by some of the life insur- “ace companies are larger than the $100,000 maxi- ‘mum provided by the Hirsch Plan. New York needs the Hirsch Plan to take care of the little fellow who wants to own a home and who has small savings to invest. These have been the favorite victims of the gougers, who have exacted } Bigh rates and special premiums when opportunity ' ¥ Offered. N® YORK greets with more than ordinary interest the distinguished French envoy who Agnds here to-day. _ While there has been no official announcement of the exact purpose of M. Viviani’s visit to this Country, his presence in Washington is generally Understood to have an important bearing on the | attitude the Harding Administration will finally take | toward the League of Nations, i ‘That attitude is likely to be arrived at only after several questions have been answered. And the "© Ghief of those questions is: How much of the pres- _ @nt covenant are the members of the League pre- to sacrifice in order that the entrance of the States into the League may appear a Re- n triumph rather than a Republican sur- i dala Hata ils anni tn eg nin a B:/ é M. VIVIANI ARRIVES. sins aici ncn ect fe 4 _. One thing may be noted: President Harding has . layed none of the zeal of Candidate Harding’ to ‘ oy the country that the League of Nations it Harding or Secretary of State Hughes would that M. Viviani has journeyed all the way Paris to Washington merely to assist at an it and’ help bury a corpse. Yesterday's weather afforded a striking in- stance which will be recalled by those who mistakenly insist that the Weatherman is al- ways wrong in his predictions, and'that a Boosebone or “rheumatiz” is the only reliable _ weather indicator, REVISING THE DREAM. ITTLE by little some of the Republican teaders in Congress are beginning to talk somewhat re sensibly about revenue measures. ‘ While there is plenty to criticise in the recent Slatement by Representative Good, one feature shows gleam of understanding which has been abseut fyom previous statements of party leaders. In his tentative budget of possible receipts Mr. Good allows 400,000,000 income from the tariff, This is mate “flally more sensible than Congressman Longworth’s €stimate of $350,000,000 additional revenue, or a Of $670,000,000 from the tariff. Mr. Good’s estimate would mean an increase of : re it 25 per cent. in receipts, which is much nearer Et wason than any which has gone before. eH Present tariff receipts are close to the highest 07 “fecord, but with an increasing import and export it is possible that $400,000,000 in custo. pis might be collected. Visions of $700,000,000 Mariff collections are rosy dreams, and no more. “A tariff high enough 10 promise such collections on the isis of present importations would be high enough ae FR LENS oe a Ch TITANS MSE R RN IER NSN AIRE ANB ome: ‘he Associated Pres ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication ews despatches credited to It or mot otherwise erediied in this paper Talk of restoration of the Payne-Aldrich bill and the notorious Schedule K continues, but it is possible | that Congress may get back to earth and consider | hard economic fact. @Jf so, other projects may be reconsidered and claims moderated as Mr. Good has revised Mr. Longworth. POLICY TOWARD RUSSIA S between Secretary Hughes's nole, Secretary Hoover's statement and former Secretary Colby’s letter of last August {o the Italian Ambas- sador dealing with the policy of the United State. toward Russia, some confusion is apparent. There need be no misunderstanding if we remem- ber that what Mr. Colby was discussing as Secretary of State was quite specifically “recognition of the Soviet regime.” What Secretary Hughes and Secretary Hoover have dealt with is the proposal for a resumption ot trade relations between this courttry and Russia, with or without permanent commitments toward the de facto Russian Government. It may be stoticed, indeed, that Secretary Hughes's note never once mentions an existing Russian Gov- ernment. He speaks only of the “people of Russia,” “existing circumstances,” “present causes of pro- gressive impoverishment,” “the establishment of conditions essential to the maintenance of com merce.” Former Secretary of State Colby, on the other hand, referred in plain terms to “the Soviet regime,” “the present rulers of Russia” and “the Bolshevis: Government.” The difference comes from the fact that Mr. Colby was discussing Soviet Russia primarily in its aspect as a Government toward which other Governments were bound to adopt some attitude—whether of recognition or non-recognition—consistent with inter- national law and usage; whereas Secrélary Hughes is answering a proposal, primarily economic, which concerns commerce directly and international politics indirectly. Secretary Hoover declared the question of trade with Russia to be “far more a political question than an economic one.” ' Secretary Hughes says, in effect, that there can be neither commercial nor political relations with Russia until it changes its economic system; and, implicitly at least, he holds the present political system respon- sible for the present economic debacle. Thus, confronted with a Proposal for renewed trade with Russia, the Secretaries of State and Com: merce, reasoning from the poing of view of their respective departments, reached the same conclusion: Russia in its present state is economically impos- sible because it is politically imposstble, and vice versa. It is for Russians to realize their plight and rescue themselves from it. Which is precisely what Mr. Wilson and Mr. Colby meant seven months ago when they refused to recognize the Soviet Governmen: of Russia, but put the Government of the United States on record as expressing the hope that the Russian people, or their own free will and purpose, might find a way tu set up a Government “with which the relations com- mon to friendly Governments can be maintained.” SLAVERY IN GEORGIA? | saints of a series of murders as a sequel to a system of peonage in Georgia come as a shock to a Nation which has supposed that slavery: had been wiped out as a result of the Civil War. It is reassuring to know that investigation and Pproseoution of the peonage started before the mur- ders and not as result of the crime. From the standpoint of our racial problem, it is perhaps fortunate that one of the confessed mur- derers was a negro. It is also reassuring that the better element of the Georgia whites appear to be as deeply stirred as the negroes, Stern and relentless investigation and punishment of the crimes is imperative. TWICE OVERS. “ce W* (women) warn the men of Congress that we shall know no rest until a disar mament conference is called and a disarmament programme taken up.” —Miss Florence Kelly. reat aa) “ce "hy the year 1920 five great nations, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy, expended for military and naval purposes, $16,442- 251,101. This is a little over $2,000,000,000 more than all these nations together expended for military purposes in fourteen years—from 1900 to 1914,” Senator Borah, “ OUR New York office is a madhouse.” Dr. Donald McCaskey to Prohibition Com- missioner Kramer. ad 4 : culture, * * EEP your apples cool and then stand back . and let them breathe.” ~U, S, Dept. of Agri- | prematurely, clothed in the uniform of THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MA A Winded Steed! relalit, 1921, nt, Ree en ee c, wl igen By Rollin Kirby | “Keep Off, These Steps.” ‘To the Editor af The Brening World : To-day while out to lundh, 1 stopped outside of the oid Sub-Treasury Buiid- ing to listen to a woman speaker | Pleading for funds for the starving | women and ohildren of Ireland. There | Was quite an audience surrounding the car she was in and they were lis-| tening attentively. It was a most or- derly crowd, making no noise of any kind. I have seen and been in many of the crowds that stood outside of that old building in the past and never before in my memory was an audience disturbed or chased off the steps. Some of the people were standing on the first two or three steps of the building and an old man, who seemed to be lying for just such an occasion, came flying oui of the door yelling: “Keep of these steps—you got to keep off these steps.” Many of us did not quite comprehend and were reminded to move by @ gentle push. A city po- jthis country, Isn't it the one ing men who are receiving this sal- ary at present unless they work mote than an eight-hour day, and theo there is very little overtime now The employers are now lawfully per mitted to reduce wages from 6 to 20 per cent. How can people struggle through this if prices do not come lown, as, so far, there is practically no reduction. The rents are being boosted higher again instead of low- ered. Where is the brain power of if there is any? JUSTICE AND LIBERTY. Staten Island, March 25, 1921. Leve of Country. ‘To the Extitor of The Evening Work! Referring to the letter entitled, “The British West Indies,” the Amer- ican Citizen says he does not agree with Gradd Jones in regard to the Islands being kept English. Now I would like to ask this nat-, uralized American if he would be willing to sell his birthright to even | iceman came up on the steps, and this old “patriotic gent" said to him: “Phe Government don’t want these kind of people here.” I am an ex-service man, as were many others on the steps, and if we are not the kind that are wanted around, possibly some one can explain to me just what kind they do want. It seems that the prevent Government is so afraid to offend our “great ally,’ they would not even loan their stone steps to their own citizens to listen to a plea for the children of a starving country, whose children in years gon» by have come to these shores, poor immigrants, and left behind when they were called Above (many of them their adopted country), lives that were examples of patriotism and devotion. These children and their ohildren have ever been in the limelight in any movement that added glory to that starry banner we all love, but THEIR KIND must stay off the steps of Gov- ernment buildings, J.d.8. New York, March 22, 1921. Optimist Again, ‘To the Kalitor of The Evening World Your correspondent “N, M. H.” asks permission to ask me a question, and then proceeds to make misstatements either through ignorance or anger, Ho saysthat the States which voted dry ure the most sparsely settled. How about Ohio, Indiana, Tinos, Ken- tucky? 1 Was in Detroit when Michi- gan went dry by 45,000, There's your answer, “N. M. H." Every other State would go dry If put to a vote, and the leaders of the wet movemen now!- edge it. If “N. M. H." will refer to Noy, 2 last he will be further enlight- by the fact that not one wet Gon- snan was elected. OFPIMIST. = Wo the kalitor of Tie | Do the people of this vast country up a debt of money, I am a true American and if I dwelt in any Amer- | ican possessions I would look with in- dignation on all proposals to have another flag flying over me. | It is only fair that all real Ameri- | cans feel that way, Americans to| whom love of country means so| much. | I advise the American Citizen not | to read so much heart stuff and to consider what such a thing would mean, A REAL AMERICAN. The Departed Leader. | ‘To the Eaitor of The Evening Wortd \ Réviled, as were great men before him, By tongues that once sang in his praise, He leaves his great station behind him, And enters on calm, peaceful days. | Leaving to Time its old mission Of proportioning actions and men; Of repainting the vague, misty pres- for, And know what he did for them all, E. E. D. Girts In Men's Joba, ‘To the Faitor of Tue Evening World ‘The chief cause of hard times and a contributing cause toward the un- employment of ex-service men is the th support their families (now depend- think this fair: The Government fig- ured that it took 000 per veur ua a minimum wage for q married man fo live on, There are vary few work: BN From Evening World Reatlen|! What bind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a © uple of hundred? There is fine meatal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be bricf. they bank. And so you will find to- day lik meh, who, would work and whose en: ness alive in years gone by, are com: pelled to go and shoes, femaie labor for that of male, NCOMMON SENSE By John Blak~ (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) MONEY IS ONLY THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS. An energetic, ambitious and successful nan, who is not at all ignorant of the value of money, was lately offered a job which carried twice the salary he is now receiving. even taking it under consideration he refused it. Money,” he said to the writer, in discussing his refusal, “is worth having, but it is not everything by.a long shot. “I am working for one thing, which is happiness. I h my own definition of happiness, which is doing what I like to do and getting well paid for it. “I like money to spend, I like to save it. I enjoy the things it will buy for me. I enjoy the feeling of security that comes from having enough of it stored away to tide me over spell or provide for my old age. But all the money in the world wouldn't do me any good if it took away my happiness. And if I couldn't run my Job in my own way, if I had to give up the independence I have gained by ten or fifteen years of hard work, money would mean nothing whatever to me. “The rewards I am getting now for these years of work is both in salary and in satisfaction. The satisfaction arises from seeing the business that I have built up expand as I wanted it to expand—to know that this expansion is the work of my hands. “It is not my business. It belongs to a corporation, They get far more out of it in money than I do. But I doubt if they get half the satisfaction. —. “As far as I am concerned I am paid well enough, 1 emight by accepting this new job have a few more thousands laid away at the end of the year, but I would have no peace of mind, for I know that I would not be allowed to do things in my own way. A very. successful theatrical producer who was asked what he was going to do with the million dollars he had made in the last five years, replied: That's what I’m wondering myself. I can't spend it, I can’t eat it, Still I’m glad to have it. That million dollars is the measure of my success, It shows that I have built something of value to the world, That is more to me than the money We draw no moral from the testimony of these two (oN gentlemen, That, we believe, our readers Pill be well able So that, when ‘tis viewed once to do, again, | Some day, when the navies have yan. | @s er nennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ished, es hie oer ee ee Serer And the’ bugler has blown his last|‘rhese girls have no’ dependents.) . 11, : What they do not spend for face Words From the Wise 41! nations may see what he fought| powder and toilet articles at exorbi- , i tant prices, or for silk stockings, &Cc., 11 you don't take things sert- ously they'll take you seriously.— that grocers, butchers and the! Anonymous. cannot find purchasers because Confidence! All the Juries of the universe cannot drown the cry of faith and hope of a single con- science, Romain Rollan, re wages were spent to keep busi- without food, clothing } i ‘ employme: t ot women, girls and So boys and girls are taken out of A man is still master of those poys at reduced waxes in place of} school and put to work to. provide ora wohick i men. ‘Dhis'throws out of work men/the money needed because business, “rds wide he has not pro Whose earnings would be apent tolmen of the present, day’ suberitutne|. nownced, but he (a a slave to those which have escaped him.—Arabian ent on what a son or daughter bings| So be it. Keep your cheap saber] proverb, home). Present employees do not|if it saves capital member ‘ receive men's wages, and married|hoarded money in rst Na- If you speak tte you will hear men’s places are be'ng taken by/ tional Banks” of the doesn't more,—Ruasian proverb. single girls who do not contribute to| expedite general business. A blind |. . the gash capital of the nation as|man can see the point There are no men without trou- wen do by. making — purch: of SIX MONTHS IDLE bles; if (here is one he is not a large supplies of HoLins, &.| Brooklyn, Marob 23, 1921, Wet: pro nner ne Get-Rich-Quicks of The Ages | By Svetozar Tonjorof | |] Coonrityt, 1901, py ‘the Prem Pattahing Oo, XVII THE “FALSE” DIMITRIS. One of the most amazing and 'pér- | sistent Of get-rich-quick schemes ou |record was devised in that paradise [of get-rich-quick schemers the Rus- sian Empire. The same scheme was launched successively by four ‘pte- tenders to the throne of the Ro- manoffs between 1603 and 1645. The story of the first of these four |attempts to break into the Romanoff line by fraud has been partly told in Moussorgsky's “Boris Gu- dounoff,” based on great poetic drama of the same je by Pushin and Karamzin. With this musie- tragedy American operagoers been made acquainted by the Métro- politan Company. The first of the “t was a young monk, Grishka (or Greg- ory) Otrepeff, had heard | spiritual chief, Father Pimen, reta the tragedy killing of Prince Dimitri, the heir apparent to the throne, by Boris Godounoff, the Tar- tar, who had made himself Czar, by the simple and dircet expedient of killing off the previous administta- tion, Noting opera, the ha who, of the his own resemblange to | Prince Dimitri in years and in ap- pearance, Grisnka issued from monastery of the Mirac! | claimed ‘that Prince escaped the Godounofft visual proof of his assertion he boldiy J: “And Tam Prince Dimitri." At that time in Russa there was'a ‘al disposition to believe any- that anybody affirmed with iclent vehemence and persistence |—a state of mind that has been ob- | served in 1 ntries at various t mes befor nd since. | It took Grishka Otrepeff two years to convince the Russians that he wus suit | indeed the son of the murdered heir apparent, Dimitri Dimitrievitch. By 1605 the g'dventitrous young monk was | reigning in Moscow and reaping the | fruits of his astonis enterprise. | ‘The rich harvest might have lasted {long if the successful masquerader had ‘not committed the indiscretion of announcing his engagement to- a Catholic Princess, Marina Mnishek, « daughter of the Voevode of Sandomir. ‘That proved too much for the Ortho- dox Russians, who ended his career in 1606 by murdering him. But the Dimitri myth was too prom- ising to be readily abandoned as @ means to the seizure sof vast wealth and unlimited power. i} For the next forty years Ryssia | resounded with the din of Dimttris | leat from the book of the | al Dimitri, the second Dimitri previaimea that Dimitri | whe and Cossicks # isons of the stumbled and fell, never to 2 Dimitri 1 | “False” Dimitri 111 itri 1V., of whom the | on the bold alle- of the grst therefore wis entitled on T mant was captired by Christian Albert, Duke f Holstein, and handed over to ce Alexia Michailovitch, who ord {his head cut off. With him the r of “False” | Dimitris ran out. The adventures’ of the Dimitris furnish a revelation of human efed- | ulity that Would fe laughable if it were not tragte.@ But none of. the series Was so riehly endowed with humor or handicapped by simplicity as the pretender to the throne of the French Bourbons who based his elaim | upon the extraordinary confegsions am the late Dauphin.” mines | WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD? ws § | 4—POLITE. | We get the word “polite” from the | Latin word “politus” (polished), Just as a polis 1 article is smooth, §o a polite man or woman is a person who has got rid of the external roughness, the thorns and the knobs that Burt | others: Our word “polite” comes to us by way of the French “poli.” ‘The French, however, use the adjeetive ‘poli’ as applying equally to a eour- teougs man and a polished piece of steel. In our usage, two words the become separated in meaning. ite” h 8 come to have more surface meaning. No man can id to be “polite who confines manners to bowing and scraping: | his who pays conspicuous homage to @ | well-dressed woman but refuses to |give a tired charwoman or a much Jolder man his seat a car. | The truly “polite’ man is polite |not only in externals but in’ his |heart, his thoughts and all his fela- tions with his fe ures, Are You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY Read the A of 18 THIS? newer in the New® the Seri stories and a basement, frent- ing north and south, built of brown- stone and brick, the old square build- ing looks out of place. There is noth- ing ornate about it. It is severe in every line of its 50 by 100 feet. It was considered a good building for its pur- pose when the old horse cars clattered past it going across town, and others going up and downtown along its bide Now, within a stone's throw of a halt dozen entrances and exits to subway and elevated, it is a relic of old New York the south in one of tha grass plots is the statue of ¢ nce ran for President of Vait States. His tame, however, does ne rest so much on the fact that he was in politics, but on other things, inelude ing his adv men. Ina few torn down ‘ will be written of the old | place, and it will take its place 4 t y of lower New York. * ¥ Answer ta provious désoriptign Trinity Church, Broadway ana Wi | hist