The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1921, Page 10

and a half under Hearst, Murphy & Hylan. ————————— RALPH PULITZBR, President, 60 Purk Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 62 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row —_——_——_ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRASS, Pee Associated Prem ts exclusively entitled to the use fer republication wu ews deapatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im this paper (end also the local news published herein. ON THE BEST AUTHORITY. HEN “the old-timers,” Dr. Stephen Smith, Hamilton Holt, George Haven Putnam, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Dr. Parkhurst and Dr. Baruch, talked to gray-headed “youngsters” at the Town Hall Thursday, the prevailing note was one of optimism. Times are getting better, the world is improving } and the people of the world are keeping step. This was the dominant note in the speeches by the men who can remember longest. These octogenarians can recall events of the “good old days,” of which the following genera- tion has read and concerning which it has romanced. The real “old-timers” have a background for comparison. It is first-hand information. They are able to check up the things that are with the things that were and do not have to take any one’s say-so. + So it is encouraging to have these men of ripe * experience and long opportunity for observation ( fell us of gradual improvement all along the line. + It is a tonic in time of repression and reaction. The Town Hall meeting suggests one mteresting question: Are the “old-timers” optimistic because they have : lived long? Or have they lived long because they ‘are optimisis? ‘ “ “I have no expectation whatever of finding it necessary or advisable to negotiate a sepa- rate peace with Germany.”—Senator Warren ‘ G, Harding to the Indiana a Aug. 28, 1920, ." HEARST, MURPHY & HYLAN. R. HEARST has come out in support of Hylan for Mayor. ‘Mir. Murphy has come out in support of Hylan ‘for Mayor. . ‘Modesty forbids that these gentlemen nominate hesmselves. Indeed, it is unnecessary that they shcwld. It is well understood that they are the senfor partners in the firm and that the Mayor is Mitthe more than a figurehead. Mr. Hylan, the junior partner in the firm, has mot declared himself, but his opinion of Mayor Hylan is also known. He is not likely to disagree with ‘Hearst and Murphy. Whether the voters will support Mayor Hylan remains to be seen. New York has had three years If the dose has not effected a cure, the treatment will continue. Heawst, Murphy & Hylan will run for re-election. The Tiriumvirate stands. In\ the Saturday Evening Post this week Robert Lansing adds to his criticism of Presi- dént Wilson as a peacemaker, Not all the provisions of the Treaty of Peace @atisiied Mr. Lansing. Some of them violated ‘the principle of self-determination which Mr- ‘Wilscm laid down and which Mr. Lansing dis- approved, Mr, Lansing proves the inconsistency of the President's devotion to principle in this wise: “It. should be remembered that the ‘Treaty of Versailles was signed by Presi- dent Wilson, and the territorial settlements in the Treaty of St. Germain were ar- ranged before he left Paris for the United Btates\ on June 28, 1919." Frem which one might infer that Mr. Lan- ging did mot sign the treaty which he criticises. The inference, however, would be incorrect, AN ‘EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. HE most significant event of the week in the industitial world was the conference at the Hotel Astor Jast Monday between railroad owners and railroad workers. This is true: despite the fact that, so far as the , Public is aware, little or nothing was accomplished. This meetin was significant because it marked ~ a new step in large-scale industrial relations. ‘Representatives of organized labor have conferred before with inclustrial owners, but at such confer- “sences the owners have been present as managers, »At the Astor meeting the owners were there simply as owners, to hear complaint and criticism regard- cing their hired men, the managers or railroad ‘ executives. » There are three parties to modern industry on a large scale—the owners, the managers and the ‘workers. As The Evening World has pointed out ‘repeatedly, the sejraration of the functions of own- ¢ ership and manajyement is the fundamental rea- {son for many of the ills and abuses of modem * industriatism A hundred years ago, before the day of the great corporation, men worked for the owning manager ‘and were in close louch with him. If a foreman fn a mill was objectionable and arbitrary, the em- LG \ siamntth beidiecine ! | * | { ‘ ns _tocinde he ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, DP wurtmca dally Except @uday by The Prom Publishing ia Company, Now, 63 to 63 Park Raw. New York. | If an enple in the busi ployees would appeal to the owner. saw a possibility for improvement talked to the owner, This is essentially what happened a meeting between the Wartield committee leaders of the railroad unions. jeclionable features in the plans of the railroad execuiives and also methods of operation which the managers do not approve. This conference was, in a sense, a revival of the personal relation which corporate control .of in- dustry destroyed. As such, it set a desirable precedent, OM we me In recent years the managers have dealt with the laboring faction and with the owning faction. Man- agers have been a bar to the creation of human ties between the other two parties. If representatives | of the working force were present at and partici- pated in meetings of stockholders and directors, there would be a better chance for mutual under- | standing and friendliness, adele seal Where ‘stock hokdings are widely scattered, it would be well if an uncensored report by labor rep- resentatives accompanied each report by the man- agement. FOO e gemPN Ve OY The. meeting at the Hotel Astor set an excellent example for other large-scale industries, the They discussed ob- and A TENSE MOMENT. HIS is not the first grave industrial crisis that has threatened Great Britain. <9 But the serious look of what is now happening is intensified by the sombre background of cumula- tive labor troubles, the Irish problem and the eco- nomic cloud that has hung over all Europe since the war. It has tong been prophesied that sooner or later Great Britain's “Triple Alliance of Labor,” the miners, the railway men and the transport workers, would be found solidly massed for the enforcement of demands coming from one or all of the com- Ponent groups. If 3,000,000 British workers walk out at mid- night next Tuesday, the grim prophecy will be realized and the British Government will have to grapple with one of the most fonmidaisle situations in the industrial history of England. But midnight of next Tuesday has not yet struck. There is still time for miners, mine owners and Govermment to count the cost of a fight that will devastate national wealth and prosperity as modern war devastates a countryside, The miners have pushed their bluff, if bluff it is, to the limit—even to the point of refusing to let the mines be saved from flooding during a con- ference with employers. The mine owners declare they cannot consent to confer while their property is being destroyed. The Government calls out army reserves and volunteers to prevent destruction and disorder that mean the cutting off of livelihood for millions more workers all over the United Kingdom, “All we are asking,” declares Lloyd George, “is that while negotiations are going on the firing shall cease and the armies shall stand to arms.” The British Premier is a clever and resourceful man. He may still have something up his sleeve in the shape of conciliation or concession that will avert the peril and also put a particularly bright and shining achievement to the credit of his ministry at a particularly desirable time. The present moment, however, ts tense with the uncertainty how far each side is really prepared to go. , The new tariff bill is reported ready for Congress when the latter convenes Monday. ‘The present Congress and the tariff are natu- ral affinities. Each is perfectly happy alone with the other, i a “FIRST TO QUIT.” LETTER in the current issue of the New Republic gives an interesting sidelight on political affairs. We quote it in full: Sir: Who will be first to leave the Cabinet, from whatever cause, resignation or the hand of God? You may be amused to know that at dinner the other night ten of us held an auction on the chances of any one's leaving, and these were the prices paid for first-to-quit: Hays . .$ 30 Fall . $1.25 Daugherty .. .60 Davis 1.40 Denby ...... 65 Mellon ++ 7.00 Weeks ....., Hughes . 13,00 Wallace . Hoover ,....31.00 If Mr. Hays should become offended and quit in a few weeks, some one of us would reap @ pot of $57.05 on an investment of 30 cents, But probably the large sums for Hoover and Hughes reflect fairly accurately what many peo- ple think of their position in the Cabinet, x It may be well to add that Mr. Hoover is in ex- cellent health and that there seems small likelihood the high bidder was investing his money on the | one and the same thing to-day. men well known in the business and)” THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, A ‘What Could Be Sweeter? . RIL 9, Tat Copy ciatyt, 1921 fy The Pree Po "Tho New York F te say muck in @ few words. Take Creating Criminals, To the Editor of ‘The Evening World Law-makers and law~breakers are When financia! world as well as church mem~ bers of every denomination will break the law to obtain Hquor, especially for home use, it is safe to sty that the) men who put the Volstead act over will break the law. It would be in- teresting to know how many of these same gentlemen would refuse a little drop of “good old Scotch.” Is it because there is no one in Washington with backbone enough to propose the repeal of the present law and offer in its place a sane and rea- sonable one which would be respecte by the majority, or is it because there is so much graft trying to enforce the present law that it would be poor poli- tics for a certain few to have it abol- ished? Prohibition (caused by a few re- formed rumhounds) 1s creating more criminals and degonerates to-day than the legitimate sale of liquor ever did. SQUARE DEALER. Deb To the Bultor of ‘The Evening World; Your correspondent in yesterday's issue had the effrontery and cheek to criticise the action taken ‘by Attorney General Daugherty in permitting Eugene V. Debs to visit him at Wush- ington, unescorted. ‘The fact that Debs al- returned, though he was not ompanied ib any guard, is significant and prov conclusively that Debs is a man worthy of recognition and that your bigoted correspondent knows not of what he is writing about Does he not realize that the man whom he so criticises is one of the best minds that the world has to-da Is Debs a prisoner for any person: or selfish reasons, or is he at the pres- ent time a convict on account of his untiring efforts for a certain ¢ ? use The Pootateps Are Wilson's, To the Kalitor of The Kvening World In your issue of April 6 you had a| cartoon by John Cassel depicting a G. O. P, elephant following in the foot- steps of the Democratic foreign policy and not being able to divert himself from their path, Did Johnny, whose work we admire, forget that the Demoorats are usually represented by a mule, donkey or jack- whichever one pleases to call it? Down in ‘Texas we call them burros, Johnny evidently forgot that mules have hoofs, not feet like human be- ings, 60 we would like to “wise up” Johnny, if he don't mind. ass, chance of removal by “the hand of God” or by Harding, a - —— Debs stands ready, like MacSwiney, © die fe n which there | lave thous lowers, racher | an to deviate from it one fota New York, Aprils, 1921, RL RR 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 tma to de brief, i Home Brewt Decticated to the “Boys in the Back Room,” (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling.) | You may talk 0’ beer an’ booze "Til it's given you the blues, An’ you'll keep up with your huntin’ "til you find it; For if you must drink water Volstead you'd gladly slaughter, Had only beer an’ wine been left a wouldn't mind it. Now in Werner's old “Grape Vine” Where I used 26 sip my wine, A’ listenin’ to the stories o’ the crew, You can't for love nor gold Get aught to cure a cold, So there's nothin’ left to do but drink Home Brew! It is Brew! Brew! Brew! A damn poor substitute for boose, Home Brew! With your yeast an’ malt an’ hops At best you're only slops, You kickless, feeble, fakin’ old Home Brew! The beer of days of yore, 'B}{ "A jus’ before the war, Was not so very much to brag about, Still the boys now would enjoy it, By law they did destroy it, ‘The stuff they're sellin’ now would never cause the gout. When your throat gets bricky-dry An’ you're feelin’ fit to die, An’ y prone to take a drink to re your thirst; ame to take’a chance ‘of secin’ angels dance |An’ the stuff you get at best ts like the worst |For it's Brew! Brew! Brew! ‘The masqueradin’ raisin, rot-gut, that ve woo! There are no spirits in it }Still you're drunk in ‘alt a, minute, If you drain your brimmin’ goblet of Home Brew! |T sha'n't fergit the night That | dropped be'ind, quite tight, With a burnin’ where my palate should’a bin; Twas chokin’ mad with thirst, | An’ the drink they guv me first, | Was that damned ol stuff they cal!s Home Brew! They lifted up my ‘ead, \1 wished then I were dead, | An’ toey guv me ‘arf-a-pint of poison- | brown! It was crawlin’ an’ it stunk An’ of all the drinks I've drunk, The hatefullest of all was this Home ‘Brew! \It was Brew! Brew! Brew! I fought them off fut stit! they druv it down They yelled in keen delight when it made me want to fight; Then said; “For Gawd's sake take some more Home Brew!” They carried me away If we are wrong we take it all back. J. & M. MADISON. West Hoboken, N. J» april 6 192i, On a cot they let me lay Ap’ my mind became a nest o' trou- died dreams, waren Ie Me tow LT UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake wr (Coprright, 1921, by Joba Blake.) LOOK FOR THE LIGHTHOUSES. The days of Columbuses are over. Decide where to lay your course and you will find it charted and buoyed. A hundred years ago a skipper had some excuse for piling his vessel up on a reef. To-day he has none at all. If he looks for the lighthouses he will find them. Thousands of men working through thousands of years have charted the course that you must travel and built the lighthouses by which you may steer. Education will teach you where they are. will enable you to find them. If you want to study law you will find in the lives of un- counted men who have succeeded in the law the methods by which they succeeded. The same is true of medicine, of engineering, of all the professions and industries by which men succeed, Go blindly on your way, neglecting to post a oo}outy and you will surely finish on one of the reefs. Look for the lighthouses and you will know sehere the reefs are and keep off them. It is not necessary for you to know where every rock and shoal is, to carry in your mind the location of every hid- den peril. But it is necessary to know where the deep water is. The buoys and lighthouses in the harbors mark the Sail the course that they point out and you will Observation channel, be safe. On your way through life sail the course that human experience has shown to be safe and you will at least keep off the rocks, How fast you will sail, how soon you will reach your port, depends on your own energy, as ‘well as on the port you have chosen, But be assured that unless you follow the marks that other men have set down only phenomenal luck will prevent you from shipwreck. And phenomenal luck is so rare in this world that it is not worth thinking about. The world progresses because one generation marks new channels for the generation to follow it. Use these chan- nels, or all that has been done and thought and planned since the beginning of time will be of no value to you. I floated off to ‘ell ‘The devil said, “Oh well All 1 get are like this now it seems.” “No use to carry on Words ess the Wise Life, upon the whole, is far ‘There's @ coai to set upon While waitin’ here for Volstead to join you.” So there squattin’ on the coals Amid the many pore damned sou!s I guv HIM there in Hell a swig of old Home Brew! Brew! Brew! Brew! Your Prohibition psalmists drink Home more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain 80 impatiently when it comes.—Leigh Hunt. The secret of success is con- stancy to purpose.—Disraeli, In order to love mankind we Brew! | , | must mot expect too much from Toouen ey ve belted you and flaye: them.—Helvetius. By the livin’ Gawd that made you, Beauty without grace is the You'll have an how forever drink hook without the bait, Beauty Home Brew! i without expression tires. CLARENCE J. INGRAM. Emerson. Jersey City, April 7, 1922 oo. TURNING THE PAGES —sY— | €. W. Osborn (The | | | QUE drings such gay and shiniiy | things to pass, | With, delicate, deft fingers that | are learned |dn ways of silverware and cup and yiuss, Arrayed in ordered patterns, trimly | turned; * And never gaesses how thie subtle case Is older than the oldest tale we tet, Vhis gist that yuides her tirough such tricks ax thesc, Aad my delight in wat hing her, @s well, P | She thinks not how this art with spoon and plate, | i | Is ove with ancient woman baking bread; in epic heritance vome down o! laie To slender hands, and dear, delight- ful head, How Trojan housewives vie in serviug me, Where Mary sets the table things for | tea, | We garner these st “May Sets the Table bor" (Putnams) David Morton Tt was doubtless suco a girl as oue poet describes at work who inspived George M. Cohan to excluim, “Mary i @ grand old name!” from "S) Har- 4 book of verse by Sharon and the” World's 's Wonders. | In “Phe Wrong Twin" (Doubleday, |Page & Co), his newiy-published | novel, Harry Leon Wilson writes of |an aeroplane over (he Newbern links and says: Old Sharon Whipple, the player who putted, never knew that al him had gone a thing he had ver lately said oould never be Sharon has grown modern with the town. Not so many 3 he scoffed at rumors af a te He called it a contraption, and sard~ the laws of God Later he proscribed the horseless carriage as an impracticable toy. Of fying he had affirmed that fools who tried it would desery break their necks, and he i had gustily raged at the waste of 175 acres of good golf was talked. Yet this very afternoon the ins consequent dotard had employed « telephone to summon his car to transport him to the links, and had denied even a glance of acknowi- edgment at the wonder floating above him. Thus, in the midet of fiction which is less strange than truth, our author pauses to remind us— That man who is born of womun is of few days and full of marvels we ce ‘The Littery of Liberty. «+ ‘Turning blithely to the latest pages of the New Republic, weekly review, we are caught by these editorial line: New York's Central Park on a Monday morning in summer is lit tered with the debris of the crowds that have swarmed there the day ‘before. Newspapers, boxes, banana skins and other evidences of a reading and picnicking public are scattered far and wide. ‘The same thing is true in Jackson | Park, Chicago, and in Goiden Gate Park, San Francisco. On the other hand, 100,000 oeon a bring their lunches to the uen= wald, near Berlin, every pleasant. Sunday and leave it as clean and clear of rubbish as when they en¢ tered. nditions largely similar prewill Bois de Boulogne In Paris; picnicking stretches along s pasture land when It is as useful to talk and write about these things as it is to scold about a bad weather day in April. Vandalism in this lund of the free is the privileged sabotage of freedom. * The Democrat's When to Worry.++- With all the coolness of the prde- tical student of society as it is gov; erned, Everett Dean Martin talks t us in “The Behavior of Crowds” (Harper) thus: True democrats will be very Jeal- ous of government. Necessary as it is, there is no magic about government, no sav- Government cannot re- 3 it will ale cency we ernment. "As a matter of fact {t is not 80 much government itself against whioh the democrat must be on guard, but the various crowds which are always seeking to make use of the machinery of government in or- der to impose their pecullar tyranny. upon all and invade the privacy of- every one. By widening the radius of govern- mental control, the crowd thus pinclfes down the individuality of every one with the same restrictions as are imposed by the crowd upon its own members, If this be heresy, the uplifters who can see tke state of the nation omiy through ie glasses should make the most of it, . . New York as Joy Propagandist.--- Thomas L, Masson suggests in his ‘well, Why Not?” (Doubleday, Page & Co.) this interesting scheme for the propagation of joy in the land: What they need in Kansas fa Greenwich Village. Then why not the farming district, and there, after they have been working in the wheat fields and sporting with the razor= dacked hogs, the embattled farmers could motor'in the “ening and get what they want. Why not put the Ritz-Carlton on wheels and give it one-night stands in the most prolific regions of Ne= ‘braska? is is how the Ritz feels about it: " “I should love it. I should rejoice in moving about over the prairies and, knowing that I was near enough to solace them with my manners and decorations, it would comfort me to think that'I was helping them on their job. Now I am only a New Yorker, Let me be a citizen #f the whole country.” Think of ail the athletic clubs, those hotbeds of bridge and swims ming pools and billiards and sporte ing gossip—with a few dumb-bells on the side—making tours through farm lands so that men who had been tolling through the day by the sweat of their brows could put oa their tuxedos at night and listen to jazz bands and jazz ladies and Jaza celebrities Think of little old New York being of some use to the country after all these years—and this in spite of it- self! folding its tent like Barnums Circus and silently stealing away to, the West and South, r. Masson's idea is referred to artment of the Interior, whi Secretary Fall doubtless is ‘looking eagerly for a plan of internal better ment in harmony with the return to normalcy. But Ht seems a pity that the notion of sending New York out and letting the country get acquainted with It 8 not conceived bef: ne putting y of the Volstead vi