The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1921, Page 34

a one ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER Pudliahod Daily Except @unday by The Proms Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to @3 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMITER OF THE ASSOCIATED Press, ‘The Associated Press ts exctusively entitled to the tf all news despateh 40d also the Iocal news THE ONLY SANE COURSE. to the reparations issue, the ultimatum the A Allies have handed Germany is oomprehensive and clean cut Unless within the next six days the German Gov- ernment declares categorically its determination “to execute without reservation or condition” its obliga- tions as now defined by the Reparations Commis- sion, the Allies will proceed on May 12 with the occupation of the Ruhr Valley and “all other imili- tary atid naval measures” deemed necessary. Disappointment in France that the Ruhr Valley is not to be ocoupied whether or no does not weaken the stern necessity of a downright yes or no decision for Germany. All hope of gaining time by manoeuvring the United States toward the German side of the con- troversy was killed by Secretary Hughes's refusal to consider the latest German offer even an adequate basis for further negotiation (Germany is up against it The only sane course for the German, Govern- ment is to accept “without reservation or condition” aod trust to the justice and economic judgment of the Allies not to ruin the debtor instead of collecting the debt There is a way by which the United States can further convince the German Government that “yes” is the only answer. That is by at once accepting the invitation of the Allies to add American representatives to the Su- preme Council and the Reparations Commission— - thereby strengthening both the unity with which German duplicity must reckon and the justice i which German sincerity can place its hopes. Nahed herein “Men who have been through college I find to be amazingly ignorant. They don't seem to know anything,” says Thomas A, Edison. Which seems to show that college men are of pretty much the same stuff as the rest of us THE SENATE'S EYE ON THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY. ENATOR BORAH'’S substitute for Senator Moses’s resolution to investigate the Amalga- | mated Clothing Workers marks the difference be- tween a constructive effort to improve conditions and a reactionary witch-burning. Senator Moses was concemed only with the sup- posed Communistic doctrines of the union and their effect on production, Senator Borah’s resohution goes deeper. He is not satisfied merely to inquire whether the Amalga- mated is or is not “red.” Senator Borah wants to know why. If there is “redness,” what are the reasons? With the best of will, it is doubtful whether a Senatorial investigating committee can gather all the facts and piece each into its proper place. The clothing industry—particularly in the New York | City region—is so complicated that even men in the ‘business do not understand all jts ramifications. That there have een abuses both on the side of the employers and on the side of the employees is admitted. During the war Federal arbitrators did their best to draw up rules and regulations for the internal government of the industry. But even after such a study, the rules, in individual cases, worked unreasonable hardships on both employers and employees. What may come from a Senatorial investigation will depend on both the intelligence and good-will | + for repubitension | credited to {t oF mot otherwise credited im this pagea | | f | and his fellow iy gt that a member of the Old Guard inanaged to pi | ication of a nomination because nominee was “personally distasteful to me.” S$ { @ state of atfairs was disgra and ought ) ended But that, in its essential to do to the nomination of the consent of the Senate. All of which may suggest the question | is a Progressive? And how long? Mr. | SOLVE AND SAVE. P | is sound policy JTTING ever-increasing emphasi | The bus, however, as The Evening World bh jem as a whole. with perity by replacing their troile under revised franchises and a routes to public need cars adjustinent ne to the more flexible and adaptable bus, bilities of the bus as a carrier on crosstown rout town surface travel. In the great cenire sections of London there a no trolleys, no surface t is true of Paris. adapt itself to changing needs. a trolley line with its tracks and conduits? it. than nothing out of it face lines are concerned, should aim at two things (1) Service to meet public need (2) A fair deal for the decrepit surtace line co porations. situation shows the bus will best serve the publ and the two aims will be realized The public will. get. its companies a fair chance to renew their youth Do it with buses. Solve and save BELITTLING A “MASTER.” of the investigators. They will face a most difficult task. But as matters stand, it will be almost im- possible to make matters worse, and there is a great opportunity for constructive publicity and | suggestion. : | According to the calendar this is Arbor Day The thermometer does not lend confirmation. HOW DEEP IS A PROGRESSIVE? : ad KNOW which way the cat would jump has been the suareme ambition of many a prac- tising politician. Last June many a delegate to the Republican National Convention would have given his eye-teeth to have known the name of the nominee a week before the convention or even when the first ballot was taken. They could have been “original Har- ding men” and sure of a seat on the band-wagon. But politics has intricacies too involved for even the most astute practitioners. Consider the case of David H. Blair of North Carolina, elected as a Johnson delegate. Mr. biair liad a “hunch” or a “tip,” or he was gifted with second sight, or a little bird told him, He deserted Hiram and he trailed with Harding—and won. The reward of perspi- cacity was nomination to the somewhat lucrative and highly influential post of Interna! Revenue Commissioner. | But perspicacity is not necessarily its own re- ward—not when it runs against that old and useful prerogative of Senatopial courtesy. OMEHOW it seems a shabby trick to Nicky Arnstein in Washington, His New York exploits indicated the joy when he was able to ride down’ Fifth Avenue an outwit the 10,000 policemen who were supposed to be spending all their time on watch for him Now he has been convicted in Washington, an his case causes less comment than the troubles the latest bigamist, who “would talk to you of his millions and would borrow from you 50 cents.” Moreover, conviction on a charge for which the extreme penalty is two years in jail can hardly seer adequate to a “master mind.” Surely Nicky canne feel that any sentence less than “life” will adequatel protect the public. However, there is hope. The present plan is tha ky will be tried in New York soon is convicted or acquitted, spotlight. He will be back in New York be happy again TWICE OVERS. | body.” Miss Patty S. Hill “What on the bus as a help in solving the city’s transit problem nal com insisted, should nol be used to deal a | petitive death-blow to broken-down trolley lines | A newly incorporated company is now petitioning | | ior franchises thi enable it to operate “a cily- | wide bus servi The grant of such a tranchise would not be in the line of just or economic solution of the transit prob Corporations now operiting trolley lines at a loss under franchises they have held for years should first be given the chance to develop a new pros- buses Particularly in Manhatian below 59th Street does public convenience require trolley cars to give way The people of this city do not have to be told the advantages of the bus in main currents of traffi But their eyes are not yet fully open to the possi- | and for many of the shorter hauls of up and down ‘acks of any sort. The im- mense passenger traffic that does not use the under- ground tubes is served entirely by buses. The same New York does not yet appreciate the extraordi- nary ease with which the bus can discover and The cost of rerouting’a line of buses to meet pub- lie convenience is practically nothing. What about If a given bus route does not pay, it is a simple matter to find out why it does not pay and chang, it to serve patrons where patrons are ready to use | The company profits and so does the public. | If a trolley line becomes obsolete, it literally dies . slow death in its tracks, and the public gets wors* Solution of the transit probleri, so tar as the sur- Persuade surface line companies to become bus- operating companies wherever careful study of the service amd the surtace convicl it gave him to be a “master mind.” His day of glory came Whether he é will again enjoy the He wili T is worse to have germs on the mind than on the ot | 1G es re Having Scrapped the Engine! ' What kind of a letter do you ji {@ say much in a few words, Take tty) Inventixation? Tho Evewina World | The-friends of good jare the Meyer Investigating Committee. |The “Black Horse Cavalry" control it, and now its old leader in the Leg- islature—Elon Brown—is to be its |counsel. They tell us its work is to be constructive. You bet it will be- for them, The Hyian-Hearst-Murphy outfit need haye no fear, They will divide, and nothing will bo done, The old game is to be repei “fifty-fifty” politicians, Shame on jour decent newspapers for lettings this scurvy crew get away with it, There seems to be no hope. PRIC HARRISON. government Another kn to Lone. ‘Vo the Falitar of The Evening World | Will W. J. Bryan congratulate the Grand Jury of the courts of New York City, as he did Commissioner | Enright of the Police Force, while the jury is freeing the violators of the State Prohibition Enforcement Law The tree silver advocate of yester- day is going to lose other campaign sooner or later dently public opinion is not with him or his asso- ciates. MILIO VACCARO. | © New Immigrants, ‘Vo the kaliter of The Bvenig World As one of those who believe in the greatness and fuirness of our metro- { | politan newspapers, will you permit me to say that there are times when rt Jour dailies fail to present certain J news in a manner befitting its im: porta i tance question of immigration is up- permost in the minds of our people now. It has occupied much space in the newspapers, and I think that I will not be cxazgerating when I say that what has been said on the ques- tion has for the most part been on y | the negative side, Reports from al- ~ | most any source showing the dangers of immigration and making the immi- grant appear 4 burden to the country have been printed again and again and In a very conspicuous posit The immigrant has been criticised, sed, blamed for almost all the fils to. He has b nothing. senerally conceded n at 4 is heir wiven credit for that this will be to be the case On Wednesday evening, April usion to attend a mee ington Ope to oppose the bill restricting immi- gration to 3 per cent. per annum of the nationalities resident in the United States as determined by the . » * census of 1910, which is now before A Congress and which will undoubtedly 6é E are not tied up with any particular scheme | have been passed by the time this letter appears in print lt have no or plan. We want only the latest facts.” Chairman McAneny of the Transit Commission. “ce HE Shipping Board 1s standing pat Admits! Benson. doubt that the newspapers were in- formed of the mecting and that they had their representatives there. But prised to find that the re- gathering which appeared ¢ New York papers aid nono way reflect tne greatness of th meeting and its enthusiastic charac ter, or the patriotic disappointed in the make-up of! d by the! Whigb States of America, the big fellow, be- From Evening World Rouadiors lf ind most readabie? [sn’t ét the one ; "at gives you the worth of a thousand words ina couple of hundred! There ta fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying. time to be drief. eee were delivered by such men as Con | Kressmen Hallet S. Ward of North | Carolina, Walter N. Chandler and ) Siac Siagel of New York, Supreme Court Justic® John MacCrate and Major H. F. La Guardia, President of | the Board of Alderme | If, a8 a matter of justice, the con- | tents of the speeches had been pre- | sented to the public through the | newspapers, I am convinced that a] very large number of those who now oppose immigration would cha j their opinion. I went to the meets with an open mind, but when I learned there that the present immi | gration, consisting chiefly of women and ehildyen coming to their bread- winners, long settled In this country, does not at all affect economic con- ditions of America, I felt that the impression carried abroad that immi- gration was harmful at this time could not prevail. It was brought out at the mecting that in the fiscal year ending June 20, 1920, there arrived in the United States 621,576 persons and 428,062 departed in the samw period Where are the hordes of immigrants who are coming? We look to our newspapers to give us both sides of the question, and it seems to he only fair that the side of those who con- tend that there is no necessity for restricting immigration should be given as well. . G. HAMILTON PINS A Place for Charity To the Faiter of The Prening World I read the news item in The Fve- ning World the other day which stated that children were starving 1n Bridgeport and some families had not tasted food for several days, It made my blood boil to think that such a condition could exist in this country of ours of plenty. Why all these drives for charity for foreign countries when we need it at home? We hear every day about saving the lives of Chinese babies and the feeding of Armenians or helping Ireland, but it seems to me that we have entirely forgotten ou own starving people as well us our wounded soldiers, who certainly de- ation. charity begins at home. Jersey City, M, May 1, A Ratt of RI To the Falitar of Tho Bwvns Americans are no longer so wel come in England or Canada as they were ‘before 1920, and { don’t blame the English or Canadians if they are y cool toward an American, Suppose that on the sidewalk of New York you noticed a crowd and stopped, only to discover that a little bit of a fellow 3 feet high was ma handling a fellow 6 1-2 feet tail a 4) ' FOREIGN Pourcy ‘The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjorof | {Consria by the Press i The New Yor Il. THE MAN WHO FIRST SAID “THIS IS MINE.” days when the principie £ private property is being so bit- tacked, both by mobs and latures, let us give a thought In these to the man who first demonstrated the right of private property. He undoubtedly suffered at least as much opprobrium—if he did not pay for his temerity with his life—as his | descendants who are striving to maia- j tain the principle which he set up | At the beginning of organized so- cial life there was no such thing as private property. Ail game, all fruits of the earth accumulated ia jthe cave or the village or the com- munity, in whatever form, were held in commonality under the supreme power of the Old Man, the Chief or the Boss Hunte This individual exercised un authority mited by the com- over the family or cian or munity, This he not as an individual but as cial head and mbodiment of the group of whic was the and the prophets combined. ‘To the authority of the Old jevery other memper of ¢he |munity submitted without que: jHe might have been tyrannic all things owned exercised offi- power the he aw Man com- jin many instances undoubtedly as—-but nobody thought of dispur- jing his right to bo tyrannical if he chose so to be. Under this system, it is easy to imagine, there was little if any onal initiative, ‘The individu | as a part of the communal s | not exist. Every m anc | the clan was only a spoke in the com- munal wheel. But finally there appeared a man and he was probably a young man— revolted against and own ind of | who of the Old Man stress upon | assert the tion. The plight in w | dividual found hims after this assertion must have Let us assur: | tration, that this first had fallen in love with un sumtic iduuctlity self-determ id right in- immediateiy individuality a girl of hi The Old Man had his own view to the marital destimy of that par: ticular girl. Probably those views wero 4 selfish | The chances are that, shortly after the announcement of his purpose, this | bold young man found himself in vio- lent conflict with the head of the clan. by short. When all was over, the women of the clan must have had a job to clean up the cave of the remnants of the rebel. he conflict must have been | There can be no doubt too that he dled “unwept, unhonored and un ng"—except by the young woman upon whom he ng eye | The community for any UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Copyright, 1921, by John Blam) GET RID OF TIME WASTERS The gentleman who comes into your office when he knows you are busy and sits down for a friendly little chat must be got rid of. If he is intelligent you can get rid of him without hurt ing his feelings. If he iy stupid it will be necessary to hurt his feclings. But get rid of him you must, whether his feelings are hurt or not Efficiency experts could figure, no doubt, that man thousands of working hours go to waste every year because busy people are too good natured to invite idlers to get out of their offices. Most of the precautions taken by the “hard to get to business men are not due to their haughtiness but to their knowledge of the value of time If every small business man could surround himself with inner and onter guards, to keep pests from bothering him, he might soon cease to be a small business man and be come a big one. * In most offices the clerical force and the general em ployees are not to be seen during business hours. It requires a very intrusive person to get by the boys at the gate. But the boss or the manager has always some friend he hates to offend who will drop in during business hours and consume several dollars’ or seyeral hundred dollars’ worth of time without a blush, The victim of these gentlemen would far rather they would come to his house uninvited, and consume his food un- invited, than to come uninvited to his office and consume his most valuable commodity, which is time. It may be that you are one of those who will lean back i your chair and listen to business hour visitors who bring no business to talk about, rather than ask them to call out of business hours. If you are, break yourself of the habit. Don't depend on signs saying “This Is My Busy Day,” or “Five Minutes Is Long Enough for One Conversation.” They never take those to themselves. ell them as kindly as you can that you are busy and ask them to go. If they get offended their friendship is not worth having And if you happen to be one of the time wasters—well, break yourself of the habit before YOUR feelings are hurt. AAA AAA ing manhandled by a shrimp 3 feet | — high (the Volsteadi: Over 000,000 ~people being bulldozed by one small group. | Do you think the sympa of the other nations is with the big fellow yt at all! No wonder that an BE By Albert P. Southwick ‘opyright. 1991, by the Press Publishing ( “That's a Fact’’) set [established custom of cave life. It {man who had at defiance the reasonable to assume that bis n was einployed 48 a synonym for ulti- |mate foolishness. But this young man merits the |grateful thought of posterity. He did ethiuay that never had been done a road that wa | dest! |road to a high , It was a man to say |contining himse ¢ F otyped form of expression, ‘This is ours’ ich meant to all intents and pur- the Old Man’s during his life- young stead o considering the spirit of the he said a thing bold beyond cedent when, looking the Old Man ween the bertiing eyebrows, he jenunciated the fateful words, ‘This | woman !s mine | Agal such a revolutionary inne- vation the social system represented by the Old-Man institution struggled fiercely and brutally. But the victim | But of the Old Man's club made an in ldelible footprint in the path of | progress | (Bib dE | WHERE DID YOU GET » THAT WORD? 21—CONVICTION. ' The word “conviction,” with its | widely varying meanings, ts one of | the signs of the loose weaving of the texture of our language. The word |1s derived from the Latin “convictio” | (from “convinco,” I convince) by way the French “conviction.” The primary meaning of the word the act of finding guilty of any crime before any legal tribunal” The | mental processes employed in com- | vincing a Judge of the guilt of a | prisoner are identical with those em- ployed, for instance, in convincing ! an electorate that Mr. Jones isa great |and good man and should be elected | \o Congress or made overseer of the | poor. The “conviction” of an electorate is, therefore, a similar process to the “conviction” of a man charged with | horse-stealing by a committee of |v ntes in a region beyond the regularly constituted juris area | prudence. | Hence, in this contradictory lam guage of ours, we employ the same | word to designate processes similar heir operation but widely differ. n their results, an April 6, 1917. As a strange incidence, all our wars had their ception in the month of April. Cheat Tiel } o- tn- The first | War |] | more, blood shed in the Civil was on President Street, Balu- Md., on April 19, 1861, the lishman_ si you come from | (The New Yors Erecing Word) | sixth anniversary of the Batt the land of the free?” | —. ~ = ington, ‘The Massachusetts 6th We have to stand for i because} Titian, the chief of the Venetis ment was attacked with shots, it's true and we know it's true, We) school of painters, lived from 1480 and missiles, several boing have been the cowards and never He is ranked with Raphasl| ripen have raised our hand to the little|and Correggio. ; s : + eahinition aver oa'| (cates Plato, born 429,-died 348 B.C. of shrimps who put Prohibition over on| sree mA nim Bmerson says, “Plato is phi- telling him the? if he didn’t stop he'd get more » big fellow was in ab- fect terror of the fellow and showed cow 1 Le y ‘ sympatoay © wa ure of the Uniied op anatomy and ed an authority century Where ts there another will set us slaves free ag hard to live t 3 country teenth losophy and philosophy Plato.” see an cars were introduced on the England, in 1874 der the slave ary a . os ond some da ( wee T Pal cars" were then ten nerve enough) We s : ara old in the United States, T don't biame id | fhe Revolution, cor 1 J Q . for laugning wher u #sweet! Battle of Lexington, Mass. on April The thermometer was invented by Land of Liberty!” MN, ‘ 49, 1776, to the World War, beginning! Gallico in 1894,