The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1921, Page 18

tear cereee a om es ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITRER, Podlished Datiy Kxcopt Sunday by The Prem Publeoine Company. Nos. 04 to 63 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITZAR, Preeidont, 63 Park Row, 3, ANGUS SHAW, Troamurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PUTATZER JIr., Secretary, 63 Park Mo MEMITER OF TH s (Che Amoetated Prem Is exrustvely entitled to the use fee repubtication @ af news Geepatches credtird to tt or not otherwise credited tm this paper Bed also the local mews published herein REVERSED! | [sisi sceaaeraeeela ES who are ready to split the Republican Party out of resentment at the Ad- ministration’s acceptance of the Allied invitation to Participate in the Supreme Council are all wrong in their tactics. They should bow to the supreme genius of the New York Tribune, which has found the way for all true Republicans to treat the situation. Declaring yesterday that every belfry in the land ought to be pealing in celebration of this Nation's return to partnership with the Allies as “the most important and far-reaching act of the American Gov- emment since the signing of the armistice,” the Tribune uttered the following remarkable and in- gpiring words for the guidance of the Republican Party: “President Wilson took out of world fellowship—brought to an end a relationship us which was tantamount to an alliance with the principal democratic nations. President Har- ding puts us back in and in effect restores the alliance for the purposes for which it was formed. The Isolation policy of the Adminis- tration that went out of power on March 4 is reversed, fundamentally reversed.” There it stands, boldly revealed at last. The aim of Woodrow Wilson was to keep us out of a partnership of nations. With Machiavellian duplicity he used the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations to manoeuvre the United States toward a position of isolation, selfishness and shame, Republican Senators foiled his fell plan. A Repub- fican Administration now reverses him, and behold us, as the Tribune says, “inside again.” ‘More than one bitter-ender might well pause and forget to bitter end in contemplating the glorious possibilities of this view. What need a bitter-ender be but one who, in order to save his country, pretended to be against what President Wilson pretended to be for? Since Mr. Wilson was really for isolation, bitter- enders have completed their heroic task when Presi- dent Harding stemly reverses the Wilson foreign policy by going into partnership with the Allies. Prof. Einstein himself could not invoke time or relativity to better purpose. Instead of splitting its ranks, the Rapublican Party ought to close them up and shout with one voice the triumphal slogan of the Tribune: | Wilson reversed! The time has come when the Republican Party should be permitted lo labor under any sort of delu- sion if it will only labor ahead in the direction which forces greater than itself are compelling it to take. Even Mr. Wilson might be cheerfully ready to gnash his teeth over the way Republican statesmen are “reversing” him if it will encourdge them to keep on. Washington sees a triumvirate of H's— Hughes, Hoover and Harding directing Ameri- ca’s foreign policy. True, H also stands for Hiram, but # is silent as in Johnson. SPEED AND SAFETY FOR THROUGH MAIL. XTENSION of the tests of the New York Central's removable compartment car to mail service seems to have been wholly successful and practical. Speed and simplicity of handling and safety of contents are the outstanding advantages shown in new cars. At Chicago it proved possible to mails which had the tern ling several tons can- and tossed into a row- mail sacks i recent robbery of registered mail. Nor could the compartment be opened Without elaborate preparations, ple ve, service the new cars would ery service. In the mail ser- O be of great value in expe- ularly when it must go nas New York, Chi Kansas City or St nly n mail i t terminal compartment mail will and.is forwa not take the railway mail car with dist en route. Burleson ‘ distribution on gars was reduced to a minimum and mail service sfffered, If compart- ment shipment will save timg’and money for through: \ - ‘ a afl, perhaps Mr. Hays will find more time and money avallable for the equally important. business of “working” the mails between cities instead of at terminals. BADLY BUNGLED, UBLICATION of the so-called “slacker lists” has proved a national scandal. There is every reason why the American people should know who the slackers were. But the public does not want to find one of its Medal of Honor heroes so listed. A few such errors—and there are many—takes the curse off the real slacker list. Any slacker has reason to feel honored by inclusion in such company. Public knowledge that the lists are full of blunders makes a convenient alibi for the real sneaks and skulkers. No excuses nor apologies will undo the harm done by these irresponsible and erroneous lists. The men fisted are described as “classified and reported by the draft authorities as deserters from the mili- tary service of the United States.” It is admitted that originally the fists were much larger. Many names were eliminated, but errors in the lists have completely overshadowed arrests of deserters. It is evident to all now, and should have been evident to those responsible, that the proper method would have been prefiminary publication of all names for which the department did not have complete and accurate information. Such a Tist need not have imputed any charge of Slackerism. The innocent could have cleared their records, The rest could have been investigated and verified by American Legion volunteers and others until it was possible to compile accurate lists of deserters. WHICH WILL SURVIVE ? [ MPOSSIBLE for uniformed police to enforce the State Prohibition Laws, is the opinion of forty police heads in as many cities in this Common- wealth, As the Chief of Pofice of Amsterdam put #t: “To enforce such an unpopular law as the Volstead act you must first develop a 100 per cent. Americanism into a 100 per cent. squealer. ‘There ts no other way to make ft a snecess.” Mearwhile Gov. Miller finds it necessary to caf an extraordinary term of the Supreme Court in New York County to deal with fiquor cases, the difficulty of getting juries for such cases increases and even Judges on the bench denounce the State Prohibition Enforcement Laws as unconstitutional and tyrannic. Amid these painful beginnings of a job the Pro- hibitionists say it will take twenty years to finish in this State, tum a thoughtful eye toward Norway, which has passed through the Prohibition phase and is now proposing to replace Prohibition with Gov- emment regulation. As between liberty and a taw that needlessly de stroys liberty, which has the better chance of survival ? 4 George Harvey assigned to carry out Wood- row Wilson’s policies! Did ever Mockery point a better jest? NOT AN ANSWER. A STATEMENT of six railway Presidents denies the Lauck charges of inefficiency and waste in management. The letter is a reply. It is not an answer, The railway officials characterize the Lauck state- ments as ald propaganda,” which seems to strengthen the definition of propaganda as “any statement you dislike or do not agree with.” ‘The six Presidents say: “It 1s charged that the railways and con cerns from which they buy fuel, materials, supplies and equipment are under the same financial control, and that in consequence the railways pay excessive prices to these other concerns, Every railway buys material from literally hundreds of different coal, iron, steel, lumber and equipment companies all over the country.” This is an evasion of the issue raised by Mr Lauck. It is not even clever evasion. Mr. Lauck made no charge that all equipment, materials, &c., were purchased from companies with interlocking financial control. He did make specific, definite and sensational charges. He named names. He did not complain of the numerous dealings of railroads with concerns where prices were fair, rea- sonable and competitive. It was the “interlocking” deals he criticised With all respect to the railroad managers, they sidestepping and begging the question. Their case woukl be better if they kept mum until they can disprove the Lauck allegations. : As a propagandist Mr. Lauck is more competeni than the railroad Presidents. TWICE OVERS. 66 77 FIRMLY believe that there are no ‘hard times’ coming. It is only the ‘soft times’ going.” — Edward N. Hurley. ei er ce E have either got to end or endure." Lloyd George. “ce ‘E (Germans) are trembling on the brink of destruction, yet we hesitate to grasp the one thing that can save us.'—Maximilian Harden. 4 Mahant *¢ fE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 9, Torro" The Warning! eID, By John Cassel So say much in 6 few words, Take Brains Come First. To the Kititor of The Evening World: Many young people to-day seem to have the idea that the clothes they wear will have a very great effect upon their prospective em- ployers when they go out into the business world. Of course, in a way, this is true, but at the same time it must not be taken for granted that clothes count more than brains. A person may be very well dressed and still be the pos might be justly te a hall level set of brains.” On the other hand, a poor fellow who may be ble: 1 with a set of “university ains" may not be so fortunate dowed with the means of ell dressing i 1 suppose most of the readers of this letter are wondering what its purpose is. Well, it's just this: It's a little advice from one who has “been through the mill” to those who (very foolishly, in my estimation) Delieve that the clothes one wears create the best impression on an employer, Take it from me, \t is not so at all; clothes may make the man, but they don't make brains. The BEST employers choose applicants not from what is below the neck, but from what is above it! A combina- tion of brains and ¢ clothes nat- urally is most desirable, but brains come first. lL. K MACFARLANE, The Boy's Right to Learn, To the Falitor of The Evening World Before boys’ week expires won't you call the city’s attention to the fact that it is not the week but the immediate follow-up that is going to unt? Parades are splendid and inspiring in every Way, but if we could put on Fifth Avenue the boys who are de- ciding right now—for want of in- formation that should be given to them as part of their right as New York schoolboys quit to high school, to stay away fr school, to drop out even before finish- ing grammar school, last Saturday's parade would be a tiny affair, It i6 doubtful if, on a scale of 100, our city would be marked twenty- tive in its efforts to put before gram- mar school boys, high school boys and their parents—and especially before employers—the facts about the wrong to the boy, the wrong to Ddusiness and the wrong to society of having people stop school Won't you consider an editortal “snapper” that will drive home this feeling of accountability, and interest the Rotary Club in not stopping un- Ul it has found out why thousands of boys have not yet had the truth about their stake in an education placed before them? WILLAAM H. ALLEN, Director of the Institute for Pub- rv ioc ew York, May 5, 1921 | A Saving on Gan, | It is interesting to read the difter- Jent letters on daylight saving, | T want to add my approval since it you tified From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one Mat gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental ewerctec and a dot of satisfaction m trying ee Ny a ion ys Avr a tne te be bricf. began @ month later und is to end a month earlier. I find I can save on gas and let the gas company do the worrying |since they have become so piggish. That is what they get for not being satisfied. We are early risers, therefore have to retire early, so we do not burn much gas at night, and being an ola- fashioned housekeeper (although not \fitty yet) we keep a fire going, so a |scuttle of coal a day provides heat, hot water and does my cooking, wash- ing and ironing. When using the gas stove as soon as one {s through using it you turn it off and then no heat. I feel sorry for the high-priced apartment dwellers with the heat shut off. They have to burn gas to keap warm. No wonder they don't see where there is a saving in this new {dea of daylight saving. YE OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE- KEEPER. Advice to Enright. ‘To the Bilitor of The Brening World: I notice that Commissioner Enright seeks advice as to what should be done with the contraband liquor which has been outrageously confis- cated from American citizens. So far I have noted but two who are thoroughbred Americans and not afraid to voice their opinions, one be- ing a Judge of our own city and the other a city official of Chicago. The city Judge in question recently dis- missed thirty-nine cases out of forty- f've—where houses had been forcibly searched and Hquor taken—saying that it was an outrage and a shame that people’s houses should be searched and their personal property seized by the New York police with- out a warrant. In like manner would our homes be searched were we at war with some hostile country and our land were invaded by the enemy. The Chicago official, having the power to take liquor through the non- American Eighteenth Amendment, re- fused to let his police force interfere with any of the liquor of his city nd said that “if the Federal author- ities wanted their law pred they should send their own agents and not call on the city authorities." New York State has recently made a dry law of its own, owing to the fact that we have not true Americans to make our laws, but in their stead a Ict of narrow-minded politicians, The only advice to be given to Commissioner Enright is to return the contraband liquor to its respective and legal owners, and as an American strive to repeal non-American laws, so that we who live in the great United States will not have to die to gain freedom from oppression, D. YUILEL Brooklyn, May 7, 1921, | @hat ‘Deep-Down” Feeling. 4 qo the Editor of The Evening World: Just a line to back up John Mc- Laughlin and te. mint of John Mc. LaughT.n, whose letter you May 8 Country, Right or UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ‘ (Copyright, 1971, by Jokn Bialm) ANALYZE YOUR MISTAKES. When you make a mistake find out why yoa made it. Think it over a few minutes. Fix in your mind the manner in which it happened. Be ashamed of it if it is a bad mistake. Scare yourself about it if it is a dangerous one. The child never forgets the mistake he makes when he puts his finger in the fire. That mistake he has to think about for a long time afterward. One of the kind is always enough for him. Admiral Peary’s Eskimo dogs made the mistake of eat- ing all that was given them when they were encamped in the Arctic regions, waiting for one of his dashes to the pole. Apparently they remembered that mistake when the food ran out and some of their number had to be eaten, When the survivors of the pack returned to America they were very sparing of the food that was given them and buried the remainder. More than that, they scoured the neighborhood for food to bury. They had had time to think over their mistakes. Most people have much the same sort of work to do every working day. Those who do not think over their mis- takes continue to make them, and for the most part they always stay where they are. Men who make the same mistake twice never get the confidence of an employer. Those who think about their mistakes and find out ways to eliminate them are those who get along. It is better to discover your own mistakes than to wait for the boss to discover them. Discover them early, and you can do without them the next time. Go over your work. If it is not up to the mark that you ought to make you have wasted time, which in its ither made important mistakes or If is an important mistake, Think about that. Let it sink into your soul. Think how it held your work back, and what the repetition of it will do to your life’s work. This may not contribute to your repose the night you are thinking about it, but it will make you sleep better for many a night to come. Pefection is the absence of mistakes. We cannot any of us achieve it, but we can all achieve a pretty fair substitute by cutting mistakes to the minimum. Il—THE_MAN WHO DREW THI FIRST peruRE ‘The most ancient picture gallery @ the world is probably the one Cha has been discovered tn the cave of Aurignac, in France. This art eofles tion ts as many thousands of ahead of the Metropolitan Museum Art in point of time as ft ts behing io point of artistic mertt. But it is of the greatest tmportancs because it shows beyond a doubt thef the human race drew pictures long before it biked bread. Which ree minds us of the lines from a ceter brated Persian poct: “If thou but a loaf of bread, go and sell of it and buy of the flower of the naré cissus; for the bread nourisheth thy body, but the flowers feed the soul.’ On the emooth walls of the cave of. Aurignao some artist—or several artists in successt: ‘left. pictures of animals, a bear and 4 mammoth among others. These tures, scratched with a piece of flint were produced in the early stone agq when man used sharp, rough stoned for tips to his weapons and Nved o1 a diet of reindeer. They are probabl: the first pictures ever drawn in the world. ‘The man who drew them knew nd more about draughtsmanship than child of six who to-day scrawls a on a piece of paper. Yet he was the spiritual ancestor of Michael Angelo, of Leonardo da Vinci, of Rubens, of Sargent and La Farge and Wii Homer and Whistler. This man—his brow was not very high, nor was his brain nearly a# large as the brain of the average laborer of to-day—was the first to feel the urge of self-expression in termd other than food and drink amd rai. ment It was this urge that guided his hand as he made a graven reo of some of the things that were a of his daily life. It is quite evident that this original artist was not a futurist, nor a sym bolist, nor yet a cubist. He saw @ very ‘small part of the world—the world that immediately surrounded him. But that small part he drew im @ way that was perfectly intelligitl to others than himself ali those tho! sands of years ago, and is perfect! intelligible to us, his remote descends ants, to-day. His bear ts unmistaka~ bly a bear. His mammoth bears a convincing resemblance to the recon- structed skeleton of that creature found in Indiana and set up in the American Museum of Natural Hiss tory in New York This artist was realist. Between ¢he horses of Fredertcly Remington and the bear drawn by this annamed artist on the walls of the cave of Aurignac there is an im- measurable gap of time and technique, But the reindeer man was by far the greater artist of the two. For he had nothing to go by; nothing to worl with except a rock wall and a piece } of flint; no tradition to benefit from, C and no standards of achievement ta { aim at. It may be that the drawings he hag were intended to record some event—+ some much-talked-of exploit—of tha \ made with such painstaking | day that revolved about a bear hugt or a mammoth hunt, or both. Tha rough lines on the smooth stone may, have been designed to perpetuate @ tragedy or a drama of the life of thag day, far back in the mrurk of the gray dawn of the race. ‘The story, whatever tt is, has been lost, But the language in which the story was recorded has endured through many thousands of years Those crude outlines of a bear am @ mammoth are the most precious art treasure of the human race. They close up the gap of the intervening millenniums. They prove to us thag the reindeer man who lived in a cava probably had not discovered the seq cret of building a fire, but made h uncertain meals on raw meat and w: & man in the full meaning of the word, They demonstrate beyond douty that that elemental man, howeve; rude he may have been, was. poss of a sou!, The outreachings of thaw soul for higher things are recorded fm the pictures on the wail of the cava of Aurignac. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 22-—PREJUDICE. ‘The word “prejudice” is often con~ fused in tts use with the word “con~ viction.” “Prejudice” traces its origim, to the Latin word “praejudicium,” a judicial examination before a trial, Inasmuch as convictions were often’ reached in this “judicial examination” before the case came to trial, the word prejudice acquired the meaning: of a firmly held opinion without an examination into the facts by the person holding that opinion or mentad | conviction, | ersons—large masses of —haye only a vague idea, ide difference in meaning rejudice” and “conviction.” loose usage only too widely prevalent is to apply the word “prej= udice” to the other fellow’s convic~ tions, and the word “conviction” ta one's own prejudices, A careful study of the word “prej~ ud! its ¢: move a mass of confusion from many minds on such important occasions as for instance, an electoral cam- paign. peer ae rr good to know that such men and such thoughts still exist. One hundred per cent. Americanism is a wonderful possession, and I would not part with mine for a universe! ‘Take notice of the people who de- nounce our national laws! Of the yandals who destroy our parks! Of the criminals who fi!l our prisons! Foreign born, paper made citizens at the most. And that only for their own gain. Jonn is right! Plenty of opportunity presents itself to those who do not like our laws and our country to rid themselves of both. May they be assured that the relief will be mutual! ¥ too am an ex-service man and have had quite agrun of hard luck. But the spirit of America, which I keep away down deep in my heart, can never be affected by such material things as the hyphenates are affected by. Good work, John! A BUDDY. New York, May 1%, 1921. From the Wise in youth one has tears without grief; in age griefs without tears. — Joseph Ronx, He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being odserved.—Lavater, Men love to hear of their power, but have an ertreme disrelish to be told their duty.—Burke, That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money. —Al Anabari. When a man pledges his honor it (8 @ mortgage om his character, —@, J. Melville, “That's a Fact’ | By Albert P. Southwick ‘The longest battle in the Civil Wae was that of Spottsylvania, Va, from May 8 to 18, 1864. EA . ‘The Indian word for “no good,” fm the Seminole tongue, is olewaugua. A favorite form of speech on many occasions. 8 Japan was awakened to the clviNzed world by the treaty made on March 21, 1854, which opened the Japanese ports to American 8. Commo- dore Matthew Hale Ty was command of the United States ficet iat Bake ‘The first United States census, a 1790, showed a population of abo 4,000,000; the one in 1880 wag 50,006,001, and the last, In 1930, about 106,000,00h nf and a clear understanding of 4 1 meaning would serve to Te- gi, b) } a i r