The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1921, Page 16

LENORE IETS 2 aaanehehienaguanieenmmesesseeedteneen —-_-—==s AA A, se hse j j { | i rmreametee benticmr—e ESTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PULITZER. @rPiished Daliy Excopt Sunday by The Prew Publishing Company. Noa, 84 tv 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Presidont, 62 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 08 Park Row JOSEPH PULITALN Ir., Secretary, 63 Park Row. | MEMIFER OF (TIT ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Prem ts exclusively entitled to the use fer repabltention | Of GN news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited Im this paper fad als the locel news published herein, WHAT NEED NOT HAVE BEEN. HEN The World warned Gov. Miller that in forcing through his transit programme he was “enacting a lawsuit,” it made no mistake, Coxporation Counsel O'Brien and Transit Con- strattiaCommissioner Delaney plan to test the powers of the commission as soon as it takes office. it is probably for the best that the test be ritade hy the city now. A suit decided against the new commission after it had begun to function would be a supreme calamity. The “home rule” question is only one of many on which the courts must decide. In any event, it is probable that a friendly suit to test the Miller bills would have been necessary before bonds could be sold for new construction, But the present suit will be anything but a friendly suit. It will be bitterly contested. In the present temper of the ‘City Ad- ministration every legal expedient for delay and obstruction will doubtless be evoked. The pity of it is that all this was unnecessary. By a more diplomatic presentation or by an “elab- oration” which appeared to give the city some de- gree of participation in the solution of the problem, » Gov. Miller could have had the city with him. The Transit Commission could have started work with general good will and a spirit of co-operation. PERSHING'S HERESY. ‘ F there is a conspiracy to “kick Pershing upstairs” —and the evidence seems to point to such a plan—Gen. Pershing is in peculiarly fortunate posi- tion. He can keep out of it. He need not enter into the fight, but may remain serene in the assurance that his friends and admirers will fight the harder in his behalf. Before Pershing is “shelved” and allowed to amuse himself with paper -soldiers in a comic-opera G. H. Q,, the country, in the language of the dough- boy, will ask, “How come?” This question will prove highly embarrassing to the “shelvers.” j When the Weeks plan appears, Gen. Pershing’s friends in Congress and out will want to know the need for two military hierarchies in the United States. Professing peaceful aims, this country is not ready to out-Prussianize Germany. Neither is Gen. Pershing. This, in all probability, is the real reason for the desire to put Pershing out of the way of ed allele clique in the army amd in Congress, When Gen. Pershing ieslified before the Com- mittee on Military Affairs, he leaned to the small army side of the case, It is well to recall Pershing’s sentiments as he expressed them at a dinner of the European Relief Council last December. He said: “As we contemplate the causes of the World War and realize its horrors, every right-think- ing man and woman must fee! like demanding that some steps be taken to prevent its recur- rence, An important step would be to curtail expenditures for the maintenance of navies and armies.” And again: “It is a gloomy commentary upon world con- ditions that expenditures several times greater than ever before in peace time should be con- sidered necessary, especially when the most rigid economy in governmental administration is essential if we would avoid national bank- ruptey.” \ This to the militaristic military mind is not only rank heresy but active treason to the clan. No “wonder they want to siletrack Pershing. SHAKESPEARE FOR PATROLM “The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief ts,to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.” “Condemn the fault, and not the actor of itr” “Oh, what may man within him hid Though anget on the outward sides” “Every true man's apparel fits your thiey,” ONE MORE PRECAUTION. HE East Side subway was tied up Saturday h a flood from a /ursted water main, Earlier in the week it marrowly escaped a tie-up when a four-ton piece of machinery dropped eleven stories and crashed through the sidewalk to rest in a basement just outside the subway wall, Had this machinery dropped over the subway just before or while a train passed—imagination shrinks from the picture. The pride of the subway is its safety record, Nothing is neglected which makes for safety. It is probably inypossible entirely to guard against an occasional bursted water main, for water supply is a “continuous process. But the menace from the moving of machinery, safes and construction materials above the subway can be averted or guarded against. During blasting in the East River recently subway trains were held for a tew moments on either side of the until ' THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921." it was certain no ill effect to the tunnel menaced subway safety. Hoisting heavy objects over subway streets should be reduced to the mininvum. When such hoisting is essential, trains should be held while the danger- ously heavy articles are in the air. Hoisters should be required to give suitable warning. “It is better to be safe than be sorry” has been a guiding principle in subway operation. The accident “Jast Wednesday should serve as a warning, IT DIES HARD. ILLIAM J. BRYAN called at Police Head- quarters last Saturday to pat Commissioner Enright on the head for the zeal displayed by the Police Department in enforcing the new State Pro- hibition Law in this city, The Police Commissioner whispered into Mr. Bryan’s sympathetic ear some of the difficulties encountered, chief among them being a public senti- ment against Prohibition “which is bound to seep into the Grand Juries and trial juries.” Federal Prohibition Commissioner Kramer is even more frank. Discussing” in yesterday's Times the obstacles in the way of Prohibition enforcement, Mr. Kramer said: “Before a State could adopt the principle of Prohibition the sentiment of the people had to be pretty strongly in favor of the idea; but when the Nation as a whole adopted the prin- ~ ciple of Prohibition, it was to some ‘extent forced upon whole States, and especially upon large cities, in which the people had no sym- pathy whatever with the idea, In fact, they searcely knew what the term Prohibition mean’ “This is especially true in reference to a few of the Eastern States, as well as a number of large cities of the same. For example, in New York City there is not very much of a senti ment in favor of Prohibition, and, what is more vital, the sentiment there is either against law obedience and law enforcement, or, to say the least, is rather quiescent and dormant in reference to the matter. This general sentiment, of course, has its effect upon the courts, the officials and upon those who are given to violating the law.” It is interesting to recall how one of the most competent and thorough students of American insti- tutions interpreted the American theory of local self- government before the Eighteenth Amendment was dreamt of. In his American Commonwealth, James Bryce (now Lord Bryce) had this to say about local option, as Americans of the nineteenth century ap- Plied it to the liquor traffic: “There is an advantage in making a regtric- tion on the freedom of the individual issue directly from the vote of the people, who may feel themselves doubly bound to enforce what they have directly enacted.” For, as the same author noted: “In a country where law depends for its force on the consent of the governed {t is emi- nently desirable that law should not outrun popular sentiment, but have the whole Weight of the people's deliverance behind it.” % Nation-wide Prohibition, which derived its fotce neither from the vote of the people nor the consent of the governed, is a measure of the change in American devotion to American principles. To-lay one type of “liberty-loving” American— Mr. Bryan would claim to be that—gloats over the imposition of Federal Prohibition upon great com- munities and commonwealths against their will. Another type of American, self-respécting, tem- perate and law-abiding, expresses himself much as ‘Chauncey M. Depew did last week on his eighty- seventh birthday: “I believe in temperance, but when respect- able, not to say distinguished, citizens consider it an achievement to violate a law, there must be something wrong with that law.” Which of these two is to prevail? Or is the country to settle into a third type— characterized by Commissioner Kramer's two words: (Quiescent—dormant. TWICE OVERS. “ OU were here before me; you will vote before me.” —Queen Elizabeth of Belgium to those ahead of her at the polling place * 8 « “ rT O make sure of the future we must forge it our- selves.” —Clemenceau. * 8 6 a AM accumulating evidence that the people back home want to stop the enormous waste of Govern- ment money on war preparations.” —Senator Borah. . . . 66 JN the penitentiary we'll have no wage system to Sight, no high cost of living to contend with, no capitalists to oppose, We'll be good 1, W. W. together.” —An I, W. W. orator under sentence. fica. iA 66 JT is better lo laugh than weep.” —Cecile Sorel. * * « “ce W* don't want.a man's throat pulling against his conscience.”--W. J, Bryan. * 8 * 66 QUPPOSE I had Been asked to write on popular music, Could I have shown any reverence for @ jazz band?’ —Prof. Woodbridge Riley. é the same, Girls are healthier to-day than when they wore lung skirts. But as Annie said, everything is over done. What looks well on one docs not look well on anot Mrs. Mary Brown is unreasonable. | She ought to have been pleased tu have short skirts on her dian They would make spanking easier, | But let's hope her daughter will thor- |oughly understand her, as she means well, You can never force any one to be good. Mrs. C. D. Imitation Ivory. ‘To the Biitar of The Evening World | 1 have read with great interest “F. \J. R's" letter on “imitation tvery” iade of celluloid, and think that it 4 an outrage that these goods ave sold in this way. 1 will never forget reading an article in your paper of the fire of a small concern in Slat Street, just off Sixth Avenue, in 1911, in which tye men lost tac.r lives and several others were d sfty- ured for life. This is just one in- stance of the danger there ‘s with this, Therefore I quite agree With Joy. J. RO" that if there is no law re- arding the marking of this .mita~ fon ivory, something ought: to be done about making one. HARRY © New York, April 20, 1 MOORE. " y on Ite Knees, ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: ‘here was 4 time when the nations of the world lived together in peace ‘and happiness. That vas many thousand years ago, and what we call to-day “civilization” was not known then. To-day we call ourselves civilized people and look with contempt upon the ancient time when men could not read nor write, But they possessed the gift of being satisfied and con- tent with what they knew and con- sidered their first duty In life the love for their neighbors, ‘Then came the lust for possession, thte wish to conquer. One nation be- gan to arm against another, This was the beginning of what we call to-day “civilization,” and had the recent war continued for another year “civilization” would have en- gulfed the whole world Many people ask themselves what js to be done in the face of a world situation that is going from bad to |worse. All th i inds of the nations of the Adeavoring to solve this g! growing in enormity from day to day, and is beginning to weigh on the jwhole world like a@ nightmare on a sleeping person, The nightmare is nothing real, It would not sleeper if ce were clear. The sam of life is ine principle volved in regar’ to the nations of the very few na- world, There are ont tions that sleep the sleap of the man4 whose conscience ia clear and which ure satisfied to live happily with thety neighbors. Switzerland is one of t! few, Why is it that Switzerland [From Bisnis World, Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Tan'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 tot of satisfaction tn trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. The Seed and What Comes Up — Short Skirts and Health. |which was surrounded by four of ‘To the Bxtitor of The Evening World y \the great warring nations, was not Good for “Disgusted Anne.” I say dragged into the maelstrom of blood and despair during the long years of the war? Because her people have the heart of love that knoweth not evil, and great is their reward, Many articles have been written on this subject, and many more will be ‘written; but there can never be enough in order that the people, who form the nations, may open ‘their eyes and see the light of the truth that is waiting to come in if only they will let it come in, Until hatred has been superseded by love there will be no peace on earth, MURZA. New York, April 22, 1921. Who Loat the Wi ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I see that some city officials ask for the small sum of $27,000,000, more or less, to enforce Prohibition in New York City, Many of our youth went “over there” and returned maimed and crippled. Many are still in hospitals and will be there for some time to come. While the matter of ratsing $27,- 000,000 to enforce an unpopular law will be easy, the Stage Women's War Relief Association (God bless them) must beg from the public to raise funds to entertain these wounded soldiers, or discontinue their noble work. What a pity we lost the war! t Cc, New York, April 22, 1921. Vote on the Qu ‘To the Editor of The Brening World The letter “Wants Good Laws" in your columns of this morning’s paper is one of the most manly and fair statements I have had the pleasure to read, The writer can well be proud to call himself man. Would there were more willing to do the same, instead of growling and sentimental, useless preaching. Stop to think of the audacious hy- pocrisy—lawmakers who had the nerve to frame and pass laws to de- prive honest, toiling men, the brawn of this great nation, of their rights, It's a contemptible outrage and on a par with the much-heralded Ger- man atrocities in the late war, 1 have seen this and other coun- tries under many conditions and found the best artisans and crafts- men those who used beer. It's meat and drink to men in many tional trades, giving them stam- jon. in Phe sooner this great nation’s peo- ple resent this the better, Ambition Rnd contentment have changed to discontent and resentment. Demand your rights, Ld to the vote of the people, majority to rule, jeer and peep must. come. back. Whiskey should be medicine and curtailed as a beverage. renew York, Aprit 22, 1921, Neer ay Medicine, nyo the talltor of The Bventug World: Vhe use of beer for medicinal pur- ‘By John Cassel rena ork Evening World: i. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ' (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) | | | | . HERE YOU ARE!} } Here you are in the world. To your way of thinking it may not be the best of all possible worlds. You may not like your place in it.‘Probably you don't. You may not like many of the people in it. You inay not like the laws, either those of nature or those of men, Perhaps you would rather have lived in another age— either one that is past or one that ig to come. . But there is very little you can do about that. Here you are! Here you must live till you pass though the exit into another world. And here you must do your work, achieve your-happiness and work/ out your own salvation. None of these things are going to be easy. The most for- tunate do not travel paths of uninterrupted bliss. Mr. Long- fellow tells us that into every life some rain must fal. It is not a particularly good phrase for it would be a dry life without rain, But poets cannot be absolutely accurate, and we know what he means, This is the world you are in. You can take it or leave it, “And if you don’t go through it ‘with a grouch or with a chip on your shoulder, or with the delusion of per- secution, you will not find it such a bad one. In the first place, it is a beautiful world to look at, once you get oulside the grimy limits of the city. There are nice, pleasant people in it, if you will look for them. And if you will read history you will find that it contains unlimited opportunity for those who will hunt for it, as the miner searches for gold. Make up your mind that you have got to be here for a certain time whether you like it or not. Decide to get out of it what happiness you can find, both in fun and in congenial occupation. Be assured that by using your brain you will get more out of it than by not using it. Get health first by living wise- ly and taking enough exercise, Get money if you can—enough of it to make you inde- pendent. Then, if you are ambitious and talented, get fame, which is very pleasant and often profitable. But remember that health is the most important of all, for its possession will insure you a livelihood, and without it wealth is ofly a burden and fame nothing that can be en- joyed. Be cheerful in disappointment and keep on trying. There is no other place to go. Stay here and be happy. You can be happy if you work hard enough and don't give way to dis- couragement, poses, which has met with enthust- astic acclaim by beer drinkers and brewers since the ruling of former ‘Attorney General Palmer, has been given such wide publicity that the end sought by the propagandists has been acoomplishéd, many gullible and thirsty ones having had a late ‘revelation that this beverage is an actual medical necessity. That such easy marks may wake up to the \knowledge that their assumption is \hot based on scientific fact, a num- ber of physicians of national reputa- tion, many of whom hold high positions, Congress have sent permitted.” They further state as official medicinal remedies, other ways, and danger of use of an alcoholic liquor, that without in the medical proféssion, WARREN OLIPHANT, New York, April 23, 1921, i rey | a by The Pree Publishing Co, f lead ¢| “Patriotism” QOPI OOL CCCP C ELSPA ILL SILLS ID PELLDEDPIELL DELL ——— & petition to “to place on record their conviction that the manufacture and sale of beer and other malt liquors for medicinal purposes should not be that malt liquors neyer have been listed | in the United States Pharmacopoeia long and 43 feet wide, and | that they serve no medical purpose which cannot be satisfactorily met in the Itivating the beverage The sign- : lers number over a hundred leadera| May 24, 1883 Get-Rich-Quick of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroff Cowrettee Hes Voce tenes NO. XXVIIIL—GEORGE fl. George William Frederick of Han- over—more commonly known as George the Third—was a peculiar person. The basis of his peculiarities seems to have been a total! lack of humor, He also was painfully literal Having read the dedication of tht King James version of the Bible 6 the “most dread soverettn” whom he had succeeded in the course of time, George the Third made up his mind to be a “dread sovereign.” He proved a “dread sovereign” to reform in Great Britain. He prove a."dread sovereign" to Catholic Ire- land. And he tried to prove a “dread sovereign” to the Colonists in Amer ica. But the Colonists, in the argu- ment that began on July 4, 1776, s | ceeded in proving to him that th dreaded him not at all, ; George the Third never liked his . namesake George Washington. King George had been carefully | educated by lis mother, the Princess of Wales—born Augusta of Saxe- Gotha—to be a sovereign, ‘The canny Scot, Lord Bute, had seen to it the the future King of Great Britain ahd Ireland acquired a good knowledge of the French and German languages English he spoke badly and apelled vorse. He would not have been an ornament to any “little red schoo! house." Like his kinsman, Frederick the Great of Prussia, George the Third was frugal, thrifty and imbued with a deep respect for the Institution of reyalty. Ag a result of these virtues, |he made Himself disagreeable to a Kood many persons, both high and \low. | The grandson and successor of | George II. was especially interested in | taxation, George Grenville's scheme to tax the colonies (the Stamp Act) found a warm advocate in him. In | the course of his and ors to have the royal institution taken seriously formality, t treated Parliament roughly at times. At other times he adopted the simple and direct course | of buying the Parliamentary votes he needed In Lord North the subject of this obituary found the very man suited by temperament, by training and by prej udices toserve as the Prime Ministe of @ sovereign who wanted to rule jn stead of only reigning, It was Lord N&rti's proud boast that during his long career in Parlia ment he had “voted against all popu- lar and in favor of all unpopular measures” that had come to a vote. George's literal habit cf mind is shown most strikingly by his word- for-word interpretation of the corona- tion oath of his day. Having vowed to support “the laws of God, the true Profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion as it {# \ established by law.” he proceeded to ‘oppress the Irish Catholics, to sup- port the act of “union” imposed upon Ireland under the Ministry of the younger Pitt and to deny the roya’ sanction to the emancipation of the Irish who did not happen to belonz to the “Protestant reformed religion” o established by English law. But his chef d’oenvre, his magnur opus, was the war with the A colonjes, which resulted di King Geonge’s persister img people, whether he | resentation to them or did not, After a long and costly war wit France, which Pitt waged relentle: at the royal behest, King George Ili. died in 1820, blind both physically, und mentally, In many quarters on both sides of the Atlantic the news of his demise was recelved with pro | found regret—that he had not died | earlier. | __The entire career of George William Frederick of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, serves to call to |; mind with fresh force the vast amount |of mischief that a sovereign with « |literal cast of mind can accomplish | in a single reign, | | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? © 16. PATRIOTISM. is derived from the Latin word “pater"—father. It ts used to denote a state of mind and heart, That state of mind and heart can be bost described as the thought and feeling of love for the land of one’s father. The derivation of the word has caused considerable confuston in many minds—and hearte—in America. Steering by the dictionary, many es- timable citizens of all races have con- ceived “patriotism”: to mean devotion to the land of tielr father or grand- father or great grandfather—even when that ancestor does not happen to have either lived or died in Amor- ica, From this confusion have aris the frequent and unpleasant ret “fatherlands” and “mothe: having little, if anything, to do with America, ss Perhaps it would be a good Wea fo substitute for “patriotism” the more definite and clean-cut term, “Amer- icanism.” Such a revision of the dic- tionary ought to do away with the confusion that now prevails in the minds—and hearts—of “millions of Americans of all race: “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick Copyright. 1981. by the Prem Punt | thie Now York Brenig Workdy st | ae London Bridge, England, cost $10,- 000,000, is 900 feet long and 64 feet wide, with 100,000 persons passing over it every twenty-four hours, The lamp posts are made from cannoa taken during the Peninsular War, Waterloo Bridge, London, was budlt tn 1811-1817, which is 1,380 feer Fut nothing has ever surpassed, iy every detail, the New York and Brooklyn suspension bridge, com menced under direction of J. Roebling in 1870, and opened for foot traffic on It is 5,989 feet long the length of river being 1.59546 feet, each land span 970 feet, 125 feeb Labove high water, and cost $15,000,006 |instead of being reurded as a mor@™ 5 af