The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1921, Page 26

_ Mada SO ye se a = She CHM orld, ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pedlimed Dally Except Gunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos, $3 to 69 Park Raw, New York. ZOR, Prosiiient, 63 Park Ro J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasursr, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. TxD PRESS, to the use for repubiication otherwise credited im this paper aD news despatches credited to it oF (Af wer the loc! news published here THE GREAT NAPOLEON. O NE HUNDRED years ago to-day, May 5, 1821, at 5.45 in the afternoon, Napoleon Bonaparte, late Emperor of the French, died at a farmhouse called Longwood, on the Island of St. Helena, a British possession in the South Atlantic, off the African coast. Bom at Ajaccio, on the Island of Corsica, son of Charles Bonaparte and Letitia Ramolino, his wife, om Aug. 15, 1769, he was at the time of tis death fifty-one years and eight months ok. The disorder that wrought his end was found to be a cancer of the stomach. Tins closed a career that had shaken the work. So vast were his achievements, so amazing his exploits asd so spectacular tris rise and fall, It scarce seems possible he lived near to our day. No human being has been more written about or more discussed. He has been exalted to the skies and credited with being the basest of men. He eamed both opinions, His, for the moment, was the triumph in the 2,000 years of rivalry and war he- tween the Latin and Teutonic races, a conflict never to be repressed. There is now no need to behold his acts with horror. They have been so outdone within the last decade as to make his career seom puny when measured by Misery and Death. His roads and his laws live; his people have grown little in number, or in their place in the world, since his time. But his legend does not diminish, and we shall consider bere mainly what manner of man he was. “| was called Napoleon,” he once wrote. ‘That for centuries past bad been the name given to the second son in our family.” By “centuries’’ he be- spcke an antiquity of ancestry which the records fail to show. His father, beyond doubt, was of Genoese stock, which came to Corsica following ‘the conquest of the island by the republic. His mother, a superior person, was a true Corsican. He was, as stated, the second son, brother of four— Joseph, the eldest; Lucien, Louis and Jerome, an4 of three sisters, Caroline, Eliza and Pauline. The father had followed the fortunes of Pasquale Paoli, who had freed the island from Genoa, only to have it delivered to France. He accepted the inevitable, and through the influence of the French Governor, Napoleon, with his brother Joseph, was sent to France to school, going first to the College of Autun, Jan. 1, 1779, when less than ten years of age. On April 25 of the same year he entered the military school at Brienne, where he remained until 1784, when on Oct. 23 be entered the Royal Military Schoo! of Paris having accepted the army as his destiny. His time here was short. On Sopt. 4, 1785, he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Regiment La Fere, quartered at Valer-s, Compagnie d’Autume of bombardiers, and on Noy. 5 joined his command. He was then but sixteen years of age. Unlike many characters in history, there is little of mystery about him. He was never an obscurity. Taken so soon from home, there is ample recond of all his traits and actions from his earliest to his latest hour, for more than forty of his fifty-one years were public, as boy and man, As a lad he was slight, morose and studious, a poor scholar in | languages and almost a prodigy in mathematics. Though a copious writer, he was a wretched pen- man and a shabby speller, When, in the beginning of his greatngss, his old writing master called to | remind him a their relationship, “A fine scholar you have made,” he ejaculated. He spluttered ink when he wrote and wiped his pen on his trousers | or stockings. He was 5 feet 6 inches in height, but his slimness made him seem smaller than he r: was, In his forties he became stout. A s| contracted from a polluted ramrod at Toulon, seized to serve a cannon that had lost fts gunner, made him sallow and ill-looking. It was ten years in curing. As he grew plump his complexion became fair. His hair was brown and thin, his eyes blue The profile of his face was aquiline; he liked to think it had the look of an eagle He possessed strange physical peculiarities. Cor visart, his physician, was unable to feel the beating of his heart. The count of his pulse was but forty to the minute—thirty-two less than the normal. De- spite the slowness of his blood, he possessed furious energy—working ¢ n hours at a stretch and going without rest i or two days at a time. Yet he could command sleep, not only dropping off at will but limiting the period of slumber. He spent but little time at meals, ten or fifteen minutes at the most, and ate like an animal, disdaining the use of table tools. He cared little for meat, but was fond of fowl, served a la Marengo—named for his early and, in many ways,4freatest victory. Unlike most | people who nibble drumsticks, he did not bite the meat froin the bone, but, setting it in his teeth, tore away morsel with a ferk of the hand. For wine, he cared only for Chambertin, and drank this spar- ingly. He never smoked but once and, being made ill, eschewed the pipe ever after. He carried snuff always, but only to smell the powder. Constant, his valet, taught him to shave himself, which he did, partly as a convenience amd as a safeguard against the possible slip of the razor in other hands. At first he cut himself often from a habit of shaving down instead of up. Though tavish in the use of funds, he was per- sonally parsimonious and abhorred waste. He al- lowed men to enrich themselves, but was merciless toward peoulation. Dishonest contractors and com- missaries were shot. He liked plays and cared little for music, but occasionally whistled or hummed to himself, his repertoire being limited to two airs— the “Marseillaise” amd “Malbrook s’m va-t-en guerre.” In dress he was plain, but required the best of materials. He was sensitive to pain end could not bear the irk of new hats or new shoes, always requiring both to be broken in by his valets before wearing. Luxury be left to others. Beginning as an ardent repubfican, he became a despot; fram a contempt for Kings he wrecked him- self and France in striving to found a dynasty. He watched the beginning of the French Revolution with a cool eye; saw the mob storm the Tuileries and massacre the Swiss Guard; thought the Swiss could win if they had a cannon! When summoned at the supreme moment by Barras to save the Di- rectory on Oct. 5, 1795, he acted with skill and de- sion. The first step to mastery had been taken. We need not here recite the rest of the road. He destroyed the liberty of the press, saying that, if permitted, in three months he would lase his power. But he made great use of printers’ ink. The Moniteur, his official journal, teemed with articles from bis pen, many of which, alas! were false and were published to deceive. Victorious against Teutons on afl fields, he wasted his fortunes in a futile raid against Spain, upon whose throne he sought to glue his reluctant brother Joseph, for he tumed all of his brothers except Lucien into puppet Kings. These Latins baffled him and, what was worse, gained the support of England in what became a duel to the death. The British Government was not whole-hearted at the start, but Gen. Arthur Wellesley was, and he engaged his affairs so that he kept the Con- queror embroiled with the view that at last all Europe would rise to destroy him—which it did. But the day of doom was long coming. Not until April 14, 1814, did Napoleon lay down his crown at the behest of the French Senate, then under allied dictation. He was treated generously and given the Island of Elba as a domain for fife. ’ He reached his little kingdom on the 4th of May, 1814, remained there until Feb. 26, 1815, and then, landing near Cannes on March 1, took possession of France. His new rule lasted 100 days. Defeated at Waterloo, June 18, France refused to foilow him further and he surrendered to the authority of Eng- land at Rochefort on July 15, 1815, in the expecta- tion of being allowed some quict place of retire- ment. But he was not to be trusted more. Instead, he was held prisoner, and on Aug. 8 was deported to St. Helena on the Bellerophon, arriving at the island Oct. 15. A faithful few followed him in his exile, where he lived dully, dictating memoirs that are not true and quarrelling with his custodian, Sir Hudson Lowe, When he died his body was buried at Longwood and lay there until Oct. 15, 1840, when it was dis- interred and brought to France on the frigate Belle Poule, commanded by the Prince de Joinville, to be placed at rest in the Chapel of the Invalides, where it is to-day. The windows of the chapel are of a singularly translucent amber glass and so ar- ranged that a ray of golden light from the sun of heaven always rests upon the tomb. Millions were sacrificed to feed his ambition; millions more were born to be sacrificed because of the hates and inequities which he bred—and the end fs not yet! TWICE OVERS. 6 ERYWHERE 1 go people are dancing wildly —and other people are hungering after science and learning. To reactions are renning through our life—the flippant and the spiritual.” —The Prince of Monaco, ‘es © 6e E (Japan and th: United States) are con- stantly fed up on wild speculations which tend to create an atmosphere of uneasiness and tension in our mutual relationships." —Ambassador Shide hara, o «© e “cc NDER the law, draft deserters. . are still under military jurisdiction and hence are liable to trial by general court martial for their of- fense of desertion.” —U. S. War Department. . ¢ @ Ey eS same feeling that France had for the colonies at the time of the Revolution has but increased as a result of the service rendered France during the late war.” Ambassador Jusserand. * ¢ 6 6 nee cannot be any possibility of an Anglo Japanese combination against the United States. —Lord Northcliffe. “THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921. From Evening World Readers Whet bind of c letter do you find most readable? Ian't it the ona that gtoes you the worth of a thousand words im a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say mack in co few words, Take time to be brief. A Name for Baby. To the Editor of The Wrening Woxtd : To the most paternal Michigan gentleman who is seeking a name for his eighteenth child I would sug- gest that he name the boy either “Amendment” or "Volstead.” How ever, I hope for the sake of the baby that the youngster is more welcome to the parents than either Amend- ment or Volstead is to the sane people of the United states. P, New York, April 30 The Price of Dread. To the Kditor of The Rrening Word I have read with interest articles on lowering the price of bread in New York City, but fall to see how this can be done in view of the tac- tes enployed by the Jewish Bakers’ Union local of the lower east side. The union wage scale for a foreman is $66 and for a second hand $63; a man who carrics up the bread, $48. Although the above is the union wage scale, one cannot get a man to work for those wages. ‘A foreman demands from $75 up; a second hand from $65 up and a bread) carrier up to §65. These figures are for an etght-hour day. Should there be any unfinished work on hand— which always happene—the baker boss is) compelled to hire an extra bund and pay him $12. On May 1 he ts put to double ex- pense, as his regular men do not work, although they get paid, and {f he wants to bake that day he has .o employ helpers and pay them. ‘Theae are only a few of the tactics employed by the local to put as much expense as possible on the baker, all of which keeps up the price of bread In view of these fasts, I should think {t advisable for Mr. Unter- myer, who has broken up Brindell- ism, ‘or some other commission to Investigate these conditions, HAST SIDS BAKER. New York, April 30. Our Country, Right er Wrong. To the Extiter of The Wrening World In answer to John J. Ciltis's letter published in The Evening World, [ beg to voice my sentiments on his opinion as to why so few flags are seon on holidays. Mr. Cillia, you write your aequain- Navy for thirty years, and he refuses to fly the American flag because “they” (whoever he refers to) have taken his drink away from him. Please inform me, is he a reaiical or fust ignorant? Your friend and those who profess to be Americans, who earn their daily bread under the American flag and refuse to fly it, in plain words, disown it. Well, there are many other countries on this little globe, and a man can pay his way or work his way to them. man need live tn a country who laws do not suit him I am an ex-service ma: overseas, and have been out of em- ployment for the past three montha, I have a wife and small baby, and [ ot exaggerate when I io condition is deplorable, tance has served in the United States | No| served | Jing work. with no prospects of find- ing work, and knowing the end to my home is drawing near, and read- ing in the papers of the billions of dollars being sent to foreign coun- tries, I sometimes think our country should take a hand and curtail the sending of so much money to foreign lands and see that the needy at home are taken care of. 1 some- times think our Government should pay the boys the \gnus. There aro many other things « think our Gov- ment should or should not do. But we peoplo vote our lawmakers | into office and we must accept and | abide by the laws they make. | I do not disown my country or its! flag because its laws don't seem just right to my ignorant mind. Mr. Cillis, your friend and those who believe you right, remember the American flag is not only an emblem of berty but also of justice, right- cousneas and everything worthy of respect, and any one who professes being an American and every one | who lives under the protection of ti |Stars and Stripes and refuses to cherish, fly it and shout ils praises to the world ts an atom of nothing- | Ress, a being without a country. JOHN M'LAUGHLIN. New York, May 2. | Den cen Prohibition. To the Prliter of The Banting Wowtd I like many others denounce Fro- hibition and think the grafting poll- Uctans have received enough graft out of It How long do they intend to keop it up? Ls there not some one with the Proper authority who can take this matter up and start the ball roiling? 1 am sure that every gitizon would be willing to lay down tools for a day oF @ week If necesary, to defeat a law that is unconstitutional and that every citien would vote against if they had the chance as they should have. JOHN J, MAZZA. Bronx, May 1, 1921 Kalecrism im the United States, fo te Mtitor of The Evonios Word: The letter ‘Wants Good Laws” in your column of Monday morning's paper April 2 was one of the most manly and fair statements I have had the pleasure to read and shows how ‘unfairly the boys were treated who |were “over there” and, in my opinion, |saved the country, | I think that the majority of these young men who could have cast their ‘vote (had they not been on the other aide @t the time the question came up) would have been In favor of beer ‘and light wines and I believe that If Congress put this up for a vote there boys would have a chance to express their opinion in the matter, It seems that the foreigners in this lcountry (which {8 supposed to be a reo one) have more privileges than American born. olng to be that way, why another Kaiser here? Fro As much trouble ag Mr. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Couyright, 1911 by John Blake) AS TO THE SQUARE DEAL, For a good many thousand years leaders of thought and morals have been trying to establish the square deal on the face of this earth. The Golden Rule is older than the Scriptures. Efforts to make men do as as they would be done by date back of Confucius, Up to the last reports none of these efforts had alto- gether succeeded. There is still cheating and lying and steal- ing and injustice in the world. The little boy growing up in a good home believes everybody is honest and kind, and only after he gets out m the world is he bitterly disillusionized. And even after his years in school or in college he finds himself expecting to be fairly dealt with in business, and is disappointed when he finds that this is not always to be. It would, we believe, be a mistake to destroy the ideals of childhood. We ought to have ideals at some stage of our existence, and childhood istabout the only time when they are not likely to be shattered. But when you start out to fight the world for your liv- ing the sooner you realize that you must at times meet with injustice and unfair dealing the less likely you will be to ery out that you failed because every man's hand was against you. The world has still a long way to go in its journey toward civilization. It will have many setbacks before the end of the journey is reached. To-day, if you find other men dealing unjastly with you, even though you deal justly with them, do not be shocked or surprised. There are such men in the world—many of them. Treat them fairly, but be prepared for a different kind of treatment from them and don't whine if you receive it. Be alert to read character. Pick out honest and straight- forward men to deal with— particularly as employers. Be on your guard against cheats and men who would ex- ploit you. They are always inferior in intelligence to men who do business honestly and therefore less likely to be able to be of service in advancing you. Don't complain when you are unfairly dealt with. Grit your teeth and endure it. Find the right kind of people, who are still abundant, and make them your friends, and’ your company, and your business associates. It will bea long hunt, but the results wil! repay you the time you spend on it. Words From the Wise, 0 7 rates There ss no skill or cleverness to be compared to that shich | avoids temptation. —Rabbi Hleazar. Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's fricnd has a friend; de | discreet.—Talmud, He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Joubert. Wealth may be like waters gath- Am ignorant doctor 4a the aide. | de-camp of Death.—Atm Ayicenua. Ambition if controtied and guid | ed by reason ta a servant to man in his fourney toward succean, but is only an obstacle and becomes the master of him. Louls M. Notktn, Some people have a pecuitar | faculty for denying facts. —@. D, Preatica | tf ta unchecked and undridied dt |) a rnc ti Ta eal ae |Women ot The Bib ||| By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory Covrright, 1921, ‘The Pree Publi tite New York krecing World) of Sidon. Distinction is as various as the colors of the rainbow. Some are dis- for another, who managed to svt their names on) owe his immortaiity to somo fact that in no way applies to the othera The Woman of Sidon (L Kings, 16) owes her fame to ber bloodthirstiness and apparent indifference to the twinges of conscience and tho tash- ings of remorse, The epithet Tigress fils her as the glove its the band She habituadly did the most ferocious things ever recorded against a human being, and if she ever felt vorry for her atrocities the historians failed to make note of the tact. 0 beth,” and only in the transcendent fancy of the great fact has the Te &tees of Sidon ever been duplicated. Just a6 in the cold-blooded direct- ness of Lady Macbeth, going straight to its murderous mark without pause or without @ moment's reflection upon the right or wrong, the cruelty or | kindness of the end’ proposed, in the woral action of Jezebel we behold fase ,eartiess, impersonal purpose uich reminds us of nothing less than pure diabolism, the flendishness of the denizens of hell. As the Scotch woman used her ms band, driving htm on al the of blackest crime, ‘Jessisel’ aed. hee rayal consort, Ahab. He was but the instrument of her devilish purposs, ae if completely hypnotized by ber dark and terribie spirit Milton makes his Satan gay: “EW, I, Kings, Chapters 16 to 21, Kings 9:50. if you would seo what a divine thing the spirit et Christ is, and bow necessary that spirit is if we would be suved from social and moral chaos, read Jezebel's story. If you would see what the enregencrate buman nature ig, and what its impulses lead to, read Jexo- bet's story. if you would Christ meant when He sald, “Bleesed are the pure in heart,” and when He said, “By this eball all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another,” just read, slowly ard carefully and thoughtfully, Jezebel's sto ry. Wonderful woman; That black- haired, black-eyed, bewitchingly fae- cinating deviless from the land of Moloch. Her name will endure oo- terminally with Holy Writ itself. As long ag the Bible is read mep and ‘women will shudder at the woman's eternally true is that the “wages of sin is death,” and that those who live for crueity and violence are likely cruelty and violence to be Piirdhs § es Aa | Ten-Minute Stadies of New York City Government mmr, $0 Sa. WES By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the sizty-ninth article of a acries defining the dutics of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Service Commmasion are appointed by the Mayor. The law provides for thi) appointment of three or more Com-,' missioners, not more than two-thirds of whom may de of the same politica? | party. Tho present commission eon- Sista of three members, one of them, nated as President, receiving | $6,000 a year, the others receiving $5,000 each. ‘The civil service Is divided into two general classes. The unclassified ser vice includes all elective officera, the officers of the Board of Aldermen, members of the Hoard of Bleetions, de the heads of city departments, and any positions specially provided for by legisiative act. The classified ser- vice includes all not in the unclass- fied eervics. The exempt class includes all pou tions of a poltcy-determtning or confi- denual nature, and appointments to positions in this class may be made without examination. The non-cam- petitive class includes positions of @ minor nature not practicable to be filied by competitive examination, ‘The labor claas Includes al! unskilled laborers and euch skilied Jaborers as are not included In either the com- petitive or non-competitive classes. The chief duties of the examining division of this commission are: Ex- amination and rating of candidates tor admission to the city service; in- vestigation of the character and record of previous employment of such candidates, and examination and rating of employees seeking prome-~ tion. The Civil Service Commission ts ree rolls, excepting thase of the teachin: staff and of she employees of thei Board of Alssrmen, before payment can be made. ado | i “ce » | Forgotten ‘ Whys HANGING, In many parte of the world hangt: |is the white man's method of capital pontahm & custom handed down for thousa, years from our fore» |tathers, Yet it scoms strange thas |they should have taken the tromble cople when a knife, an exe b would have deen much more ous, a matter of fact, hanging ts « ona relia. Odin, the great god, io Norse mythology, once self, and on coming back te sed that all who would fol. |low hit example would join a band off if companions and live happy ever Man, la of followed this injumetion dit became a religions soon offers dimig.. ests were forced i wer, an oriminals, from which revalted "ioe wok ge Mt Sellen ne No. 6.—Jezebel, the Tigress | tinguished for ono thing and some | Of a bundred people), the bead-roll of fame each one may understand whe © The members of the Municipal Civ1l quired by law to certify all city pare ‘