The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1921, Page 22

I CL RL ET asics ‘ i WSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pudlieded Daily Except sunday by Company. Nox 58 to 63 Park Rew, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Becr: The Prow Pubifseter | MEMPER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. The Associated Prem ts erctasively entitled to tbe mse fer repeittiovtton WF Bll Dew Arspatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited te ty pacer fed Alto the local news published herein READY WHEN? of the United States are preparing isarmament d Argument for the drive, also the method by which & can be made effective, are vigorously set forth by Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, formerly Chief of Staff of the United States Army, in a letter which the Church Peace Union is sending to 100,000 clergy- «men of aii faiths and denominations: “If the clergymen of the United States waat to secure a Imitation of armaments they can do it now without any further waste of time If, on an agreed-upon date, they simulte- neously preach one sermon on this subject in every church of every creed throughout the Vaulted States, and conclude thelr services by having their congregations adopt a resolation addressed to their particular Congressmen urging upon them the necessity of having e business conference of five nations upon thin subject, the thing will be done. “If the churches cannot agree upon that, it ‘will not be done until the good God puts into them the proper spirit of thetr religions. The responsibility is entirely upon the professing Christians of the United States. If another war like the last one should come they will be responsible for every drop of blood that will be shed and for every dollar wastefully expended.” Sunday, June 5, is the day set for the Nalion- wide appeal to churchgoers. Part of the plan is a petition, carrying millions of signatures, to be ad- dressed directly to President Harding asking him to call an international conference to consider reduction HE churche: | a git ea of armaments. At the head of that petition, The Evening World suggests, might well be engraved the following from President Harding's inaugutal address to his coun- trymen March 4 las “We are rcady to associate ourselves with the nations of the world, great and small, for conference, for counsel, to seck the expressed views of world opinion, to reccommend a way to approrimate disarmament and relieve the crushing burdens of military and naval establishments.” Ready to discuss disarmament—when? President Harding’s first message to Congress did not repeat the pledge of his inaugural to seek a way toward limiting armaments. Are we ready to take an initiative; Or are we only ready ¢o tag along after other nations have shown the way? President Harding’s attitude has seemed of late that effort in or out of Congress toward “relieving the crushing burdens of military and naval estab- lishment” must be politely discouraged lest it con- flict with his foreign policy along other lines. It is time to find out exactly where the President stands on the question of disarmament and how far be has Congress submissive to his views. The clrurches can put strong pressure on both Congress and the President by proving that the country’s desire for relief from armament burdens is not satisfied by reassuring pats and vaguely hape- ful words. Gov. Miller wants “to give the Legislature credit for its work in putting a stop to the mounting cost of government” and so saving the State $18,000,000. Gov. Miller is more generous than just. ever the credit, it belongs to the Governor. The Legislature did not earn any. It merely regis tered the will of the Executive, after the man. ner of a rubber stamp. CENSORED. ER tushand is standing with levelled pisto) just behind the villain, who is embracing the woman in the case. The husband holds the pose and nothing happens—in this billboard display of a Brooklyn movie house. But a bright youngster on his way home irom school has chalked his comment on tie poster: “Don't shoot, you fool!’” Presumably the film is vicious and guggestive— one of the kind The Evening Worki has exposed and condemned. Certainly such an advertisement has no proper place on a billboard. But the youngster who chalked this sardonic crit- icism was his own best censor. Gov. Miller would not be likely to find a better one, supposing he signs the Censorship Bill before him. The Governor ougtt to see this poster before he puts his name to What- ao vey) producers, too, should leam the lesson. Thy , was laughing in his sleeve when he | don't take serious thing: Sis hen BABE a aia: ap og aan THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1221: wrote “Don’t shoot, you fool!” Familiarity had bred contempt of the unreal villainies and virtues of the screen. His children, the next generation, will be protected from such “you fool” pictures. He is “wise to” them. If the movies are not cleaned up before then, he will make sure his children do not patronize such exhibitions. The principal trouble with the movies ts that they are new. Fathers and mothers are not much more familiar with motion pictures than are the children. The natural censorship of public opinion will have its way before long. Then the “Don’t shoot, you fool” type of pictures will cease to be profitable MEEK AND EXPECTANT. YEAR or two ago almost any important Pres- A idential pronouncement on foreign policy was certain to set off a train of verbal explosions in the Senate. Now the Senate G. O. P. seems to have de- Clared a Knox resohrtion of separate and individual peace against itself. The Senate Chantber is as quiet as Statuary Hall after the lights are turned out. How come? There is a practical question Thomas A. Fdison might have asked in his set of questions but didn’t. It is far more pertinent thaa the where- foreness of copra. It may be true that the three H’s—Hughes, Hoover and Harding—have the prestige to put through a foreign policy. But who ever heard of prestige as a silencer of Hell-Roaring Hiram, Beili- cose Bill & Co.? No, a couple of other H’s are responsible for the peace aixi quiet along the Potomac. Hays and Postmaster General and Attorney General y, of the political g-bureau of the Harding Administration must be the ones who have tied in the gag and muz mavericks, “Hush until it hurts” is the 1921 revision of a wartime slogan. Only two months in the Harding Admin- istration has not bestowed its patronage. Hays and Harry are thrifty custod: of the phim tree. Postmasters! of Justice jobs are being ho ps, coliectorships and Department ded for use as needed. That's ¢ the mouths of Senators are watering instead of working overtime planning an N athletic field the Harlem River end hope of the ideal development of the campus of the biggest educational institution in the biggest cty. A fitting setting would include a broad and sightly froniage on the Hudson with a vista of stately build- ings leading back from the water's edge. This was the ideal. It offered unsurpassed op- portunitics for artistic architectural development. | And the ideal included an impressive centrepiece at the river’s brink. | A great stadium, part on land and part extending into the Hudson, would have provided athletic field, an impressive watergate for come of distinguished visitors, and a key-structure for the grouping of otler buildings on the rising | | river bank. This is what should have been. When the pres ent site was acquired it should have inched t! strip between Broadway amd Riverside Drive. Then these blocks could have been bought for a smali | fraction of their present cost. Now they are im- proved so expensively that they are unavailable. No university struggling with the costs of an ir creasing attendance can hope to buy and rave the | improvements to make way for the ideal develop- men, The pity is such realizations always come too fate. To-day the city is making the same mistakes | in regard to park property and city planning. In | another generation our children “What might have nyt of foresight by those in will be telling of and regretting the lack charge to-day DO WE LAUGH TOO MUCH? From the Milwaukee Journal.) “Americans are laughing men, while in Europe we are weeping,” says a visitor, and he intimates we laugh too much. Maybe so, though the doctors say laughter is good for the health, and in this age we ure going to need strong constitutions. We laugh too much if our laughter means th usly t we We don’t laugh merely a sign that we are and meet the serious prob- seri too much {f our laughing ‘4 out to conquer the blues Jem successfully, We laugh and Europe weeps. But there are many among us Who have not been the less touched by Europe's woe. We have helped a bit, and we are going to help more, That counts for more than wear ing a long face. We laugh in America and always have. Lord Bryce thought about this a good dea! in the most sym- pathetic account of Americans that has ever been written, He thought it significant enough in that wellconsidered work on American institutions to write a chapter on “The Pleasantness of American Life.” Many new problems have come to perplex us since he wrote, but the American {dea Is still that you can get as much done by being cheerful about by wearing a long face, keep. Our laughter will not hurt us if !t means what it always has meant, that we are so sure of our getting the work done, the problem met, that with al! the weary days and nights ahead we can st!!! see # certain tas Tt {1s a little idea we mean to By John Cassel — DA ete te PAS From E Evening VWVorld Readers What kind of a letter do vou find most readable? fes't tt the one Phat gives you the worth of a thousand words im a couple of hundred? There te fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying te cay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Skating and Maar. To Use Ealitor of The Eo «Wd d like to know if many pe oy Snes ; hat do and and I |ekating around the ba on nothing of § the night that concerts 2 and sending note Central Park a4 8 that area bs ft order in forner years w York, May 7, 19 landlords to at a time when eac ‘ Tam proud that he, an actor, is’ wit gouge on landlords by the betng put over? My land 1 is funny me his tax bills for the e L live in, Ten years ago he paid §!54 jevery year since he has paid more— this year $34 Duri ! me ff to make tt a suc he has not asked 2 penny of 3 do they et tor it rent. I feel ashamed to meet b a eie UD eA Like many other [ndiy ing W. A. Montagn signed pet » muinute and asking a fa their class, but one hates t name to a more peti asks it, and the etty 7 rothat we ¢ and that we e scandalously inore paid city our own wages emp than th yet, becomin n I\who write this am a cl Montagnini forvot all this; he {9m proud of it. Some also forgot that the price of eatadles |Something more, but till ther is coming down too. He will have t j prc id to be a chorus girl. rin and bear it, [must say a good | . word for at least one landlord. | won. | Mere Than One Prohibition, der if he A Bo0d | To the Edtito: of The Bveaing World thing and pay hare of the ir | Crime is rampant tn our city. Ther crossed pay Ac fully and shame- 14s no abatement. ‘The police seen peal hail Be eae em Ola No money {s epent, and he may get tired. | s made to enforce the law ROBERT P GREEN, | nurder, robbery, bu | New York, May 7, 1921 ulta, Proud of Her Work To the Biitor of Tee Bresing Wor ‘The question still unans 4 te, Why blame everything that is rotten onan actor? What right has the pub. le to knock and pan the people in t show busin always taug money of the taxpayers | tfforts of the police seem to be direct ts, Jed to enforcing the laws prohibiting le and use of the intoxicating liquors. smething ia wrong, nave gone plumb bryanity— “Prohi,” m to crazy 1, 4 I ama but I that if I oot » perkon have not lost my sense of proportion Rein ape and the iuvity of our sorry ond help: h Ver should | scheme of thin knock him down, aud that is 4 What are we going to do about it? at the te outsid 1 peliev wt Well, for one, we new! a ne are doing, they sense offic | ple down, Wh t propre " ge work thet i PETER J | Sevw ending ARTHUR > salire Nation, why, thghia' lot 3! New York. Moy 1, S08 | Our officials | | | | “That's a Fact’’| ifle 1981. by the Prom ovr a. by UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Copsrtgh, 19%. by Jonn ake.) RUNNING OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS There may be somewhere in the werld a man who can run his neighbor's business as well as his own, but we doubt if you ever met him There may be a woman who can successfully raise her own children and keep her own house and at the same time be profoundly interested in the way her next door neighbor raises her children and keeps her house, but if there is such she has managed to keep herself pretty well hidden neighbors’ affairs are interesting, of course. ‘Their which are very many, are deplorable. The way 3 their children, the way they let their dog bark ail ht, the reckless manner in which they drive their car, are things which ought to be bettered. You could better them, of course. But the moment you begin to better them your own affairs will be neglected, and, after all, your own affairs are a little more important to vou than your neighbors’ affairs. You will find, as you go through this world, many men and many women and many methods that you do not ap woman Your mistakes, y treat il prove of You probably won't like the girl your neighbor's son is going to marry and will feel that you ought to talk to him about her Don't do it. He will misunderstand you and may thrash ou for it You doubtless think your neighbor is to blame because all the servants leave her as fast as they are hired. Prob- ably But you won't get any gratitude for showing her why she is to blame. People are extremely “un asonable” about things like that. Your neighbor may get down to work too late in the morning home too early at night. You may feel that he lecting his work and is in a fair way to get fired because of it But it would be a mistake to tell him ao, Perhaps he can Pitnmiicolicaniennu noire manag aps he makes them up b night. You don't always have all thi your opinion of him you will find, she is to blame re is ne working at facts on which to base Your neighbors, will get alo: g about they have been doing, whether you help them or not, And they won't at all pleased at your assistance. Furthermore, you will be so busy giving this assivte that your own affairs will get ina mess. And when th you will be insulted if your neighbors tell you you o1 to have spent more time attending to them, | Indians, |noted family was on with the aboriginal: friendly ter It te not ge: Howard Pa By Albert P. Southwick Pubitahing Co. New York Evening Work) \ ¢ twenty-second land, built an Trout were first art t Clev: Ov to Lae for each generation of t! ly batched Women of The Bi y Rev. rT homas B. Grege . 1 Trion Erma Pubiiehtt ris Now Yet ‘Evetiny Wer 1NO. GABIGAIL THE DIPLO | The exceoding!y interesting st: jAbigall is told in I. Samuel, ot xxv. and the second verse of the |ter reads ac follows: “There ¥ van {n Maon, whose possessions Carme!, and tho man was at, and e had three tho |sheep, and a thousand goats, a ng his p in G ne of the man was | me of his wifo was At P woman was of good 1 and of a beautiful e¢ ance; but the jevil in his ding | In other words, it was a clea: was churlis of the “jewel in the swine's s The snout was Nabal and the was Abigail Nabal was rich end powerfy | brute though he was, he knew @ woman when te saw one, and g his eye on the lovely Abigail b no difficulty in arranging tor | become his wife. It wasaan | “wife in name only.” etwee | pright, beautiful Abigail, refine nm the best sense of the wont, ja |S ‘80 big churlish Nabal there & n0 real true affinity Now, |t appe hat a difieul jar isen be'ween Nabal aud David. jhe most oltvairous treatinent a David the rich ranchn returned the treatment Jafter Nabal with bloc Leart € David rewived to foresta evil in the only wa ble w galore, loaves of bread and cal gether with the most luscious bigail, dressed in her bes rounted on ber richly capar mule, started out at the head |Servants to meet David. In noa state of mind was David. anger he had sworn, “I will noi to Nabal by the morning lig much as one man child.” was mad! He did not realize now oo anger was to depart. Meeting Abigail alighted from her mu threw herself at his feet. The ing her big dreamy black eye asked him to let his wrath fal HER alone, and to pay no atten \the insult that had been perpr by the coarse fool of a Nabal. to her feet, she called his ateon the good things she had broug his tired, hungry soldiers, a1 battle was won. David was } David was, underneath his sup brutality, a gallant and me soul, and the result was that |then and there surrendered 4 fail, bag end baggage In the meantime Nebdal, heard of David's threat and tt to have one more “good time” the shepherd-warrior got hold. gave a great feast in his hou beastly drunk and died in his + With Nabal out of the way, told his love to Abigail, and tr jing the jewel in the ewine's | Abigail became the appreciatt' appreciated consort of the K Judah. (Men Who Made New } By Irem Thomss. | No. 16—PETER COOPE (1791—1883,) No yardstick measure can be applic be worth of w York City. A men a fuceass tO th) made it 1 As the y« young pa Abraham time and wt: the sun of lite 4 wTOAt OzAUODs for a man af}