The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1921, Page 20

rer er sr fee ernest THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daiiy Except Sunday by The Proas Publishing Corapany. Nor, 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Pow. J, ANGUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 62 Patk Row. MEME OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘The Associated Prem ts exclusively entitied to the are fer republication Of All news despatche= credited to It or not otherwise credited le this paper fod also the local news published herein —_——_—_— STATEMENT OF THR OWNENSITIP, MANAGEMENT, CTRCULATION, &C.. REQUIRED BY THF ACT OF CONGRRS® OF AUGUST M, 193, OF TUE FVENING WORLD, PUBLISHED DAILY, MXCKPT SUNDAY, AT NEW YORK, N. ¥., FOR APIUL 1, 1921, tate of New York, . County of New York. om Botore me, a Notary Publio tn and for the State and county eforeeatd, ferooally apprares Haiph Pulitzer, who, haviog been duly sworn according fo law, depones and says that be ts the President of the Prew Publishing ©e., publishers of The Bening World, and tn Of his “Enowirdse and belief, © true Matement of the ownership, management (and if © dally paper, tbe cirewation), Aa, of the aforesaid for Ue date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 191% embodied tn section 443, Postal Laws snd Regulations, printed Gm the reverse e@iitor and business managers are: Publisher—The Prom Publishing Co, ny, x. ¥. Fditor—H. 6. Pollard. 63-63 Park Row, New York City, N. Ys Managing Editor—J. H. Tennant, 3-63 Park Wew, New York City, Busivess Manager—Don C. Selts, 59-69 Park Row, Now York City, Genera) Manager--F. D, White, 53-63 Park Kow, New York City, 2 That the owners are:, (Give names and 43 Park Row, New Yor s -. folders owning or holding 1 per cent. o Mee Press Publishing Co., 63-68 Park How, Stockholders—Newspaper trutvtees of the Ralph Pulitzer, 83-63 Park Row, New Y¢ Merbert Putlter, 63-63 Park Row, Now York City, Joseph Pulitzer gr, Post-Dispatch, 8. Louls, Mo. 3. ‘That the known bondholdérs, morteagers and @mning or holding 1 per cent. or more of total fe otbor securition are: (If there are momo, so state.) Trusters @t Joseph Pulitzer. 4. That the two paragraphs wext above, tockholders and security holders, {f any, : i E af & f e HT Wmowledge and belief as Us the circumstances Mockholders and gcurity holders who do not ‘as trustees, bold stock and ecuritien Dons fide owner; and this affiant has 0 person, amecistion or corporation has any interest, eaid stock, bonds ar other securities than at the average pumber iaritvued, ihrough the months preceding the . required {rom @ally publications only. THE PRBSS PUBLISHING CO., RALTIT esa aly baie ident ved before mn this fimt day . Loo ‘and eutwerib 7 Mets 20 (My commision expires March 80, 1922.) it ry nyust be made in duplicate and bow The flee of the post office, ‘The publisher re the second tseue prinied moat afer MORE. CAN BE DONE. N spile of the scarcity of money for bufilding, the record of new home construction under way in New York is encouraging. But more can be done. That the tax exemption ordinance is doing its part is shown by a comparison of building plans filed before and after adoption of the ordinance, Statis for the first quarter of the year show nearly twice as many building plans filed between Feb. 25 and March 31 as were filed in the longer period from Jan. 4 to Feb. 25, on which latter date the ordinance was approved. Building loans are now the essential element lacking. Gov. Miller suggests that the legal interest rate be raised. That will not do. Even now builders can get money by giving “commissions” and other charges which actually raise the rate above the legal 6 per cent. H e2 copies Deliv I hy the following 1s, to the best | have chosen the familiar military strategy of defense by stisprise attack. Considering the gains of the Labor Party in recent bye-elections, political observers forecast an early election. A coal strike causes business depression and gen- eral imeonvenience. If the railway and transport workers, the other members of the triple alliance, should strike in sympathy, the inconvenience would reach a maximum and resentment would be wide- spread. | If Lloyd George should call an election before this resentment dies down, he would be appealing to the same reaction of hate on which he depended in | the khaki election after the armistioe. | A strong and provocative stand by the British | Cabinet might prove the best politics for Lloyd George. If so, Britain may be facing a more serious industrial disturbance than ever before. Ltoyd George has always followed the policy of “anything to win.” If a long coal strike will return the Premier to power, he would not hesitate to prolong it. IMMIGRANT DISTRIBUTION. 667 HE trouble with our immigration poficy,” said Commissioner of Immigration Wallis in an interview printed in The World yesterday, “is that it is unintelligent.” Few will challenge the statement. Commissioner Wallis has common sense and jus- tice to support him when he urges the application of immigrant restrictions before the immigrant leaves Europe instead of after he arrives in America. Selection in Europe rather than rejection in America is manifestly the sensible and humane method of eliminating undesirable applicants for admission. Again, in his criticism of the present distribution of immigrants, Commissioner Wallis is on sure ground. When four-fifths of the immigrants settle in one-fifth of the terrilory the result is as Commis- sioner Wallis says: “The immigrant always follows in the wake of his countrymen. He settles into masses, indigestible, with almost no chance for Ameri- can influences—even for knowledge of America —to touch him.” Geographical distribution undoubtedly would heip to reduce the danger of clots of alienisnr in the life- blood of our social circulation. But Commissioner Wallis seams to set up a single test for intelligent distribution. He wants “these people who arrive” to reach localities “where their labor is needed and will ‘be appreciated.” Is this by itself a safe test? In the past, immigrant labor has been “needed and appreciated” in New York sweatshops, in New England textile mills and factories, in Pennsylvania steel towns and coal towns, in Chicago’s Packingtown, and other centres of con- firmed and dangerous alienism. Exploiting employers have spent thousands of dollars in advertising their “need and appreciation’’ of foreign-bom laborers, The number and availa- bility of jobs is anything but a reliable single test of a safe system of immigration distribution, If “need and appreciation” are to be the test, thi What is needed is a loan fund to aid home builders im the same way the Federal Land Bank loans aid the farmers. Such a fund is economically sound and a public service. This is the underlying principle of the Hirsch Plan. The Hotel Proprietors’ Association in Berlin is said to find no little opposition to a pro- posal to boycott wines, liquors and cigars pro- duced by former enemy countries as a reprisal for Allied occupation of German cities, No one who has seen the “spenders” of Ber- lin {n action can imagine them boycotting French champagne before, during or after the war, 5 With this class, love of Fatherland has never been permitted to interfere with lavish Nation must make sure that the “need and apprécia- tion” are measured in units of Americanism, and not in units of industrialism. HOW MANY JUMPS AHEAD? MERICA’S first “close-ups” of the famous Dr. Einstein reveal him as a simple, retiring sort of man, with a passion for the violin, a sense of tumor and no wish to bother anybody with his for- midable theory save where he finds genuine scientific desire and capacity to understand it. Mrs. Einstein admits that the theory in its details is beyond her grasp, but declares herself no less ‘happy on that account—proving herself an ideal wife consumption of foreign luxuries—loot or pur chase. A TRAGIC MISFIT. HE tragedy at Syracuse University Saturday 4 — seems to have resulted from the violent mental reactions of a misfit. “Dr. Beckwith was a professor in the college of business administration, but bad been unable to administer his own business affairs. He sought to teach others what he could not do for himself. This probably accounts for his trouble in keeping a job. He had been “fired” from five different schools, In a larger view, the tragic case of Dr. Beckwith casts an interesting side light on modern tendencies in universities and colleges. - Impractical, misfitted college professors are the exception and not the rule. More and more it is ‘coming to be realized that the college professor has a place in the practical world and the practical world has a place in the college. A misfit on one side of the academic wall is not likely to fit on the other side, This fact, in turn, probably has an important bear- ing on the present flood of aspirants for higher edu- cation which threatens to swamp the colleges and universities. LLOYD GEORGE AND LABOR. N the British coal strike many will find confirma- tion of Lloyd George’s recent attack on the Labor Party. But those who have waiched the career of Lioyd George know that he is an incomparable opportunist in his political opinions, Regarded in this light, the coal strike becomes a reason for the Premier's recent attagk. Without doubt Lloyd George knew the coal strike would come. for. his political defensive he may for a thinker who dwells for days at a time on levels of abstract thought inaccessible to most people, As regards “relativity,” it would be interesting to know how much more difficult relatively the Einstein theory is for the average twentieth century mind than the Newtonian theory was for ordinary human intelligence at the end of the seventeenth century. Relatively, how many jumps is Einstein ahead of the general mental development of his time? JOHN BURROUGHS. Born to the simplicity of poverty, living in the simplicity of nature und buried with a simplicity that he bad asked for, John Bur- roughs lives again to-day in the hallowed sim- Dlicity of greatness. Ie was a member of that exclusive set of the world’s spiritual leaders, and his loss America can rightly mourn. In nature he found something more than trees and birds, These but helped him to * blaze the way to a spiritual understanding of the universe; to a character schooled in hu manity and sympathy, and to a philosophy rich to optimism, insight and beauty. Like Keat's “truth is beauty, and beauty truth,” he coined a few unforgettable phrases of hfs own. “Power comes before beauty,” he says in his essay on beauty, as “manliness comes before In “Birds and Poets,” he deals mostly with poets. “Emerson,” he says, “appeals to youth and genius—to the genius of youth, and the youth of genius.” The question what we live for, which has been variously settled by every philosopher from Marcus Aurelius down, he answers in a very simple and satisfying way: “We live to be happy and to make others happy.” Yesterday afternoon up at West Park John Burroughs was buried, but his writings have been assured a prominence in American liter- ature and the simple beauty of his character an everlasting resting place in the hearts of his fellow countrymen, [es Copyrie’t. 19701 by ho Beret Tso i fo New Yor Brenna By John Cassel to say much in a few words. Take Wet and Dry Staten, To vhe Diitor of ‘The Bvening Wor'd: In a letter published in your issue of March 28 Optimist accuses me of misstatements and then follows by making one or two himself, He .begins by including Wlinois among the dry States, Up to a short time ago I lived in Chicago, and that | question wae never voted on except | as a local option proposition. | He may recall also that Ohio voted | dry on State Prohibition and wet o the question of the Wighteenth Amendment. I wonder if this gentleman is aware | of the fact that lowa @Bted wet gome three or more years ago? If this gentleman will be honest with himselfgand jook the matter up. he will find there are some fifteen or eighteen States which have never voted on this question, and which make up one-half or more of the population of the country, Contrary to the expressed opinion of Optimist, most all of these ‘States, if given a chance, would vote over- whelmingly wet, to which add the weta of the @o-called dry States and see what @ neat “little” sum you will have, Well worth serious con- sideration, I should say. April 1, 1921. N. MH. The Gafer Why should the desperadoes who are responsible for the present crime wave take chanees with thelr free- dom, when they can rob the public and avold impr'sonment by opening a restaurant or lunch room and jcharge the prevailing prices? ARTHUR STONE. Debs and Daugherty. ‘Qu the Bktor of The Breeding World Debs, a prisoner serving a term of ton years in Atlanta Penitentiary, is permitted to leave the prison and pay @ visit to our Attorney General, and makes the trip unguarded, even un- We oscorted can do na ling transpir | patehes a x | Mp. Dede {1 find it (mpossiby r in the near future, Wl you call on me your earliest Awu 1 am Att nienee? . dear sir, | M. Daugherty | the United Sta . Whereupon Mr. Debs calmly packs his travelling bag, as ifeit were an every-day occurrence with him, bids the Warden adieu and proceeds to Washington without a guard or an escort, Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? But it is true, nevertheless, Is not this establishing a danger- ous precedent? Does Mr. Daurherty imagine it is @ good practice? What ty there to prevent a general migra- tion of prisoners to Washington? Ail prisoners will have a right to demand the same treatment and it will be up | to Mr. Daugherty to give it to them, | ° Debs is a criminal—no mare, no lens. He obstructed the draft}in the ing your pl respectfully, H ney General of 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 time to be brief. do the same. ‘That was his o Ho Was tried fairly anu impa: and sentenced to ten ygars’ imp! That should settle the maiter, and Debs should serve his full term, | with the proviso, of course, that he is to have time off for good behavior. Convicted criminals, as a rule, are not allowed to roam the country un- | Buarded; nor has \t been the custom) heretofore to receive them with ‘hon-| rs at the office of the Attorney Gen- There \s no plausible reason for | he contrary, a prisoner that has been, and may still be, opposed to all tha constitutes Americanism, should be dealt with harshly. If his case le to be reviewed, let it be, but it can be done equally well, {f not better, by leaving Debs where he belongs—in his cell at Atlanta, ‘This is a disgraceful act that the Administration will have to atone for. In particular will it behoove Mr. Daugherty to avoid @ similar per- formance, HARRY A. REEVE. Brooklyn, April 1, 1921. ‘The Woman on the Job. {To theeFilitor of The Brening World Let me ask W. J.” through your column if he has really looked at his subject in a generous light. Does he not know that two persons in business who find it hard to get the necessities of life on their independent salaries find that by uniting their sal- aries they can secure what they need? ‘That is my case. I am a social worker receiving 4 salary that any man would refuse, and working for the benefit of the unem- ployed as well as for the benetit of the employed who are working: under poor and unsanitary conditions, sometimes at the risk of my own health, I consider my work worth while, I amsdoing something for the benefit of mankind, and I do not feel that I am robbing children by keeping a father out of @ position. A man would not do what 1 aim doin: . Do not condemn them all, “CW. " gome of us have very good rea. pons dor keeping our positions, You ask why we get married if we intend keeping our positions Would you mb another of his happiness by staying single if you could put happi- n his reach by making the move ye made? Why not pick on the many girls whose people are able to support them and who go to business just to be able to buy the geesaws and immodest clothes which their parents won't af- ford them? ‘Tiere are many of them. Just stop and think. Maybe you know of just such @ case yourselt, New York, March $1, 1921,” Why the Delay? ‘To the BaMtor of The Wreniag World: Could you let me know why my father, a city sewer laborer, has not received any wages in four weeks? During the war struggle, when prices UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Btake.) * THE HIGH COST OF CYNICISM. The cynic was soured on life and unhappy. He was born with more than his share of talent. He had been farily sue- cessful, but not as successful as he felt he should have been, “All this stuff about getting along under your own stcam,” said the cynic, “is bunk, The thing that gets you anywhere in’ this world is pull. “Most of the successful men I know e been towed where they arc. Not half a dozen of them have gone along by their own efforts. “Half a dozen times I have tried to build up organiza- lions I was connected with, I never got so much as gratitude for it. Somebody who happened to be the boss's nephew always got the rewards I should have had,” All this is very possibly true, There is favorisi world. There is injustice. There is unfairness. ers are just as likely to be stupid as anybody else, But the fact remains that men constantly DO rise by their own efforts to high positions. And men who dg not try to rise, in spite of all the unfairness and injustice that they encounter, are likely to finish not very far from their starting place. The case of this particular cynic is not unusual, Nobody is so embittered when he makes a partial failure as the man who had it in him to make a big success. He sees men who had inferior mental equipment pass He cannot understand ib. Yet if he will study these men he will see that they make up with industry what they lack in mental alertness. They do*not depend on brilliancy to pull them through, They discover early that they have no brillianey and that hard work alone is their only hope. And even though they work for years unrewarded they keep pegging away and some day find themselves far ahead of the men who, started under far more favorable auspices Read of the lives of three-quarters of the successful men and you will sce that they started poor and became sue- cessful without “pull.” If that is being done to-day, as it is you can do it, But you can’t do it by souring on the world. You have got to want to succeed, and want to succced mora than anybody else. If you don't want to succec d enough you will not succeed. But it won't be the unfairness ead favoritism in the world that holds you back. It will be your unfairness and favoritism to yourself, : m in the Employ- him. $23 a week, which seems too much lfor the city to pay, as he must lose a half day u week and pay $1.75 pen- sion fund, bringing his pay down to k, when they feel like | However, with thejr a P nt stock the Eighteenth Arehndy nt does no them ¢nuch concern. So thi ves the salaried class to struggl | |e } | Biv throughout the country printing bal A_LABORER'S 8c lots simultancously, such as are us New York, March were so high and others were mak- ing $60 and higher a week, he and many others ike him were getting late war, and in spreading hig sedi~ tious utlerunces influenced ane $18 a week, and the next year §2la tolweek. Uben, in 192), he got raised to ioward To my mind th bring to an Issue the most unpopula |bear any fruit, If the moncyed class |were made to empty thé cellars we would come u great deal nearer law that was ever written, laying @ ght ip ike open, i H. GEORGE. Re he only way to Get-Rich-Quick of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroff Coprright, 1921, by The Pree: Pultishing Oo, ie Sens Yoo Pnenine Were XX.—LORD CLIVE. Robert Clive, who afterwards be- came ‘Baron Clive of Plassey, was @ poor—or almost poor—boy of elght- cen when he went out to India as @ “writer,” or office employee to the Kast India Company. He is credited with having founded the British Em- pire in India, But in the provess of founding it ho acquired enormous riches for himself that came from other sources than his salary as an official of the company. Kubert Clive was a broth of a sol- dier. He got his first chance to quit the desk in the middle of his century —the eighteenth—when the English were struggling with the French and | their allies for the mastery of India, . In 1751, as a @mmissioned officer of the Hast India Company, he took nd, at twenty-seven, of 600 1 and Sepoy soldiers, With xuard he marched from Madras and wrested Arcot, @ rich town of 100,000 imbabitants, from Chunda Sahib's troops, and afterwards successfully held it fgainst an army~of 7,000 natives and renchmen, After he had won several other victories which elicited the warm praise of am Pitt, Clive got buck to & nd with sufficient “prize money” to redeem the paternal estates, which had gone out of the hands of the family, and to make his old father comfortable, Having acquired a decided liking for the gongeous life of “yonder shin- ing Orient,” he returned to India and in took up the task of avenging the “Black Hole of Calcutta.” Ho avenged it by taking Calcutta from Siraj-ud-Daula, Nawab of Bengal. ‘The Nawal duly signed a treaty of peace with the conqueror, but Clive found it impossible to reconcile him- self to the closing of the treasury ise of Bengal in bis face by #0 slight a thing as a trea’ plotted with a gentl .. Siraj-ud-Dau to depose the Nawab and ele- Mir Ja(fir to the throne of Ben- v gal | This undertaking Clive duly accom | plished by the battle of Plassey, in the treaty, of t from estab acy by this obtained his title oO received which Mir ae | amounts o ey Jaffir had promised him in the event of vice hown at the Parliamentary followed several years of this money, with , went to the Bast India sart to its commander, also showed that. dicious investments and itions from native Robert Clive had elded him an come. 1 than $250,000 sent mite ofexchange. 3 return to England he was ta the Trish pee e and was Knight of the Bath, after another period of serviee during which Lord Clive y seorganized the com- ce and abolished the per- system of perquisites, he wa! | made But, i in Parliament on the ground | he had been a Get-Rich-Quick ) consideration of the Je nst him, the inqu 3 | decided tha: performed and us services,” but | conduct toward the nat d and the fact was emphai pat of his wealth had origin nis’ from nativo | princes, lord Clive of Plassey was so pro- foundly chagrined “by this conclusion \t he first sought solace in opinm nen committed sulctde. of which shows that it is net always possible to disinfect tainted money, | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 7—BOOR. Apologies are due to our highly ugeful farming population for the ori | This desig gin of the word “oor.” jBation of an unrefined or unmannorly person comes from the Anglo-Saxon | word “ge-bur,” a farmer or country- man. It ame origin as the | Duteh we that the Boers of South Africa were decidedly u jfined or unthannerly in their cc | tion of their own rights as opposed to |the rights of their British neighbors |in the period that led up to the #outn African war, in the olden tim urmer was back’ ontward gr: | 1 or near-city folk {applied the word to impolite persons, |to persons who were not ‘“city- broke." ers need cherish r, Jt ie safe to far more * ur other big cities ming districts of her, with the Boers nuth Africa thrown in for good measure, By Albert P. Southwick | Copyrigit, 1921, by the Pres Publishing € ! Fite New York Rrening Works se In Egyptian measu Sjor diraa equals twenty-seven “inches, A darlbba of two ardeb is |about ten English bushels. oe $28.60 ae for themselves, paying bit, Whale Giver. hae Mean 2 dot | An English mile is 5,280 feet; an people who caused the pay held back | Prohibitionists of either se%. I claim |kHot, therefore, equals 1.1 milled enjoyed thelr Huater, which Wel there is only one way to settle the | CaP waoubdn't because my “father’s pay | matter once and for All. “Hive in re than half of all the automa- was held back. There are four in| Counted. Hither through ine tne 8 in Canad ary found in the rural our house that do lots of wishin F } se Sl, 19: when they take straw vote aylvania during the 1999 con- election time, or to sug to] struction periud season built approx- Count Them, the people who believe thot the|imately 410 miles of ete road~ "To the FAltor of The Evening World Ejghteenth Amendment and the Vol. | way 1% in width, ‘This is the That Prohibition !s a real live issue | 1 act should be repealed that | wo rd for one Samson of this noboily can deny, but these individual write to the Administration at | type of highw letters to the press do not seem to hington, | . | atute mile la 1,760 ra as in the United geographical mile contains 2,02 yards,