The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 20

ESTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PCMITZLS hed Dally Beep: Sinduy be 72 to Of Park Row Preatdent eau rk Srcrote MEIER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Prem ts exeturie ty om! ee credited to I oF not 1 mews published herein The Assocte: Of Ali news desns and alto the i DEEPER THAN POLITICS. T is inconceivable that disagreement as to Allied policy in Upper Silesia should persist to the point of an actual break between the Governments of Great Britain and France. The Briand Ministry has been acting from the conviction that its political survival depends upon yielding not so much as a hair’s-breadth on the Silesian issue. A considerable part of the Paris press is irritated by the Lloyd George speech. But that the French nation generally is ready to sac- Tifice Allied unity to keep German troops out of Upper Silesia or to find a pretext for sending French troops into the Ruhr has not been demonstrated, nor is it likely to be. Amid conditions as complicated as those to which Europe is now painfully adjusting itself, it would be a miracle if no disputes arose between Allied Gov- ermments. It would be equally a miracle if Ministers failed to make given policies in such disputes a test of their own political strength. This is not, however, a propitious era for poli- ticians to attempt to play fast and loose with the destinies of peoples. The French people as a whole are not prepared to be put at loggerheads with the people of Great Britain over the question how troubles in Upper Silesia should be handled. Allied unity is something deeper than the unity of three or four statesmen who lunch together every few weeks. WHAT IS “PERSONAL GOVERNMENT"? a the thirty days following adjournment of the Legislature a year ago Gov. Smith added new laurels to his record because of his discriminating use of the veto power. The same cannot be said of Gov. Miller. Perhaps it was not to be expected, for the legislative pro- gramme was adopted at his behest. Had the Gov- ernor vetoed many measures he would have appeared in the light of reversing himself, The veto period has ended. The Governor has erred in signing several bad bills. His last act was typical. He signed the Lusk bill to censor motion pictures, which comes as a sort of anti-climax to the Lusk inquisitorial bill directed against schools and school teachers. In explaining why he signed the bill instead of giving the movie men a year of grace under an extra- legal commission to be appointed by the Governor and paid by the industry, the Governor said, “I am opposed to personal government.” The explanation lacks conviction in the light of the legislative and executive record the Governor thas made since he took office. “Personal government” has its benefits as well as its bad features, but if ever any Governor exercised powers of “personal government” it has been: Gov. Miller. : Whether it is reganded as “benevolent autocracy” or as “tyranny,” the Miller regime has been marked by absolute “personal government.” It does not make a particle of difference that his power was exercised through the outward forms of representa~ tive government. Since Jan. 1 Nathan Miller has been ruler of New York State. His fiat has been law. He has been “the boss.” What he has said “has gone.” As the practical excellences and defects of the Miller programme develop, the Governor will de- serve praise or blame—personally. President Harding’s reference to getting back to “the right track” in international affairs naturally recalls President Wilson's use of the same simile. President Wilsor described himself as hav- ing a “single track mind.” The nearer President Harding gets to the “right track” the more evident it becomes that the right track will be the “single track” laid down by his predecessor. A GREAT MEDICAL CENTRE. UTHORITATIVE announcement that the ob- stacles to the alliance between Columbia University and the Presbyterian Hospital have been surmounted and that the two institutions will work together to develop the leading medical centre of the world here in New York City is big news to the whole world, and bigger news to New York City. Both institutions have long been leaders in their respective fields. Allied and endowed with adequate funds, which now seem assured, and with the back- ing of the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board, the new centre on Washington Heights will naturally attract the best of talent as teachers, students and York offers unrivalled opportunities for re- In the very nature of things the city has of the “raw material” for experimentation and tigation than can be assembled elsewhere. What may be regarded as a portent of the future is the acquisition of what is generally agreed to be t 4 to the Gee fer repubitcstoe wise credited tm this paper the most desirable sile in the city. ‘The area at 168th Street and Broadway is high, open, uncrowded and accessible. Physically and financially Of course, the real success of the new institution will depend on the men and the p which attract others for study and research. But the w hospital and school will start with an unrivalled opportunity and high expectations of service to al humanity ciousl) THE OU TLE, LL signs have indicated that President Harding has the Senate pretty well reconciled to letting the executive branch of the Government go ils own gait for a time in the matter of foreign policy. Senator Lodge, it is true, started to be obstreperous with his “treaty of peace with Germany that would probably follow the Knox resolution.” Senator Lodge, however, was induced prompi'y to suppress himself on this point. And the Knox reso- lution itself is in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where, on one pretext or another, it can be detained as long as seems desirable. Meanwhile the President has calmly put his repre- sentative—in the person of the new American Am- bassador to the Court of St. James's—into the Allied Supreme Council; two other Americans have been assigned to resume their places in the Conference of Ambassadors and on the Reparations Commission respectively; and the isolation policy to which so many of the Harding supporters thought they were committing the Harding Administration has been knocked into a cocked hat. All this was more than Senatorial flesh and blood could be expected to bear in complete silence. ven though President Harding has most of his party leadership in the Senate well in hand, “bitter-endism” was bound to find some outlet for its feelings or bust. The extraordinary thing is that so far neither Senator Lodge nor Senator Johnson has become a volcano and that the erupting has been left to a Senator whom no forces, political or cosmic, nave ever pretended to control. Having tried last week to get the Senate to de- nounce the President for lining up with the Allies again and to brand the Versailles Treaty as “a crime born of blind revenge and insatiable greed,” Senator La Follette now comes forward with a resolution calling upon the Secretary of State to explain what Ambassador Harvey meant by telling Britons that the President had commissioned him to convey to them the good will of America and express our “moral obligations to the mother country.” Though they never come within a thousand miles of adoption, these La Follette resolutions serve an admirable purpose in relieving the suppressed feel- ings of bitter-enders in the Senate who are glad to hear somebody say what they dare not say them- selves. It is highest possible testimony to President Har- ding’s hold on the Senate that to date the only con- spicuous and open attacks upon his foreign policy have been those of the senior Senator from Wis- consin. The Emergency Tariff, according to the Tribune, “has good intentions behind it” Old Dr. Johnson might deduce that the G. O. P. had laid in a stock of raw materials prepara- tory to bidding on a paving contract in Hades. MALE SLAVERY TO CUSTOM. ITH a false counterpart of the naturalness of Nature, man’s straw Hat plants have flowered and blossomed and the harvest has been reaped overnight. Man, consulting neither convenience nor comfort, and far more slavish in this respect than woman, follows ‘custom and the calendar in the purchase of summer headgear, The universality of the appearance and disap- pearance of the male straw hat in America, and in New York particularly, is neither an evidence of sense nor sentiment. It is the sort of surrendered individualism that, carried to extremes, results in blue laws and Prohibition. Like the “blue” movement, the straw hat cusiom has in it the elements of commercialism and propa- ganda for profit. The straw hat manufacturers and the hat stores have been assiduous in their attempts to fix the custom and to make independence as onerous as possible. America’s good-natured acceptance of a fixed and immovable “straw hat day” in the spring and the rowdyism that always accompanies the “straw hat limit” in the autumn are by no means to be en- couraged. TWICE OVERS. “ce HE scissors tactics of Franco-Polish diplomacy regarding Germany has reached a pitch where no British Government can any longer keep silent,” — The London Obsercer. * «* 6 ce IFLES have been cheap as doughnuts in Upper Silesia."’—Adalbert Korfanty, Polish leader. __THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1941, ‘The World Needs a Tonic! Copyright, 1921 by The Prove Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) By John Cassel | No Americans by Percentage. To the Editor of The Evening World { | Replying to “A Buddy's" letter of the 9th inst., permit me to say afew words in this matter. Where do these | self-styled 100 per cent. Americans |get the idea that whoever does not) like to be oppressed is either a crim- inal or a foreigner? He is wrong.| | Foreigners are not inimical to our |Government or such laws as have | been enforced properly; tut it stands | jto reason that right thinking people | will protest against abuse and tn- | fringement upon their liberties. | And furthermore, he shall not pass |Judgment upon others so easily. Who| were all these 100 per cent. Americans in the beginning of our history but! |foreigners; also. strangers. For the| | Bible, in Exodus, chapter xxxiii, line| |9, says, “And a straneer shalt thou} not oppress; for ye know well the spirit of the stranger, seeing ye your-| |selves were strangers.” | | ‘To Mr. Buddy itis immaterial | whether things are right or wrong as jlong as he is 100 per cent, American. | |He Is wrong because were he and| other Americans with the spirit of our forefather: would not allow | certain people me into powe and defy the ican people and| | oppress the foreign population. ‘Their | |duties should be to lend a helping! ‘hand to these foreigners and help| imake them think of this country as ja home where they are welcome |" And by your indifference to them |you have an excuse to knock them are m ed or dissatistied. | when thi | 1 too am a naturalized citizen ana| ‘love this country ith all my hea ind soul; and so a my tamily Y {1 don’t go shouting about how much! per cent. of American [ am ; To my 5 g there is no| |such a thing as an American by per- | centage | If Buddy and others like him can- |not be Americans in spirit as well as| in name, then they are not true Americans at all N. GREENBARG No General Referendam, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World A says Prohibition was voted for by the people. B denies this. Which is right? RAYMOND CU. GRALL, eenwood Landing, L. 1, May 9, George Was First, To the Faitor of The Prening World Who was fi ident of the United States says George Washington and ys he wasn't. A CONSTANT READER, Glad the Sal ‘To the FAltor of Tee Bymnis I read the letter cule” in your columns, and fail to see the argument of P. M,N. 1 am a constant reader of The Morning and on Is Gone, Workd A Butt of Ridi- ‘From Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn'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 lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Winner, no matter what his politics are, so long as they serve the people. But the very minute they don't live up to their platform The World will pound them. And it has the right to. Now, in reference to “Butt of Ridi- cule,” I first want to say I am no “Pussyfoot" Johnson or Anti-Saloon Anderson, &c. I am just a good American citizen who is very glad to see the saloon go and the slaves set free. We do not want a man like Lincoln to set them free—they are already free. And you, P. M. N» know that and The New York World knows it also, The rum traffic of yesterday has gone forever, never to| return, As for the people of England | and Canada being cool toward us, that is nonsense. One hundred mill- ton people are not bulldozed. There will be millions of our children when | they grow to manhood and woman- | hood that will be real human beings, | not nervous wrecks. There will be! not so many insane asylums, alcoholic | wards and prisons, not so many young people dying with tuberculous and other diseases caused by the poison sold by the saloon, which P. M. N. and The New York World strongly de- fend, B. PHELAN, | New York, May 11 To the Waitor of ‘The Hrening World In answer to an article published in | The Evening World May 9, headed | “Deep-Down Feeling.” and written by | one signing himself “Buddy.” I wonder if “Buddy” knows what he is writing about, or whom he writes about In his article he refers to ‘foreign-born, paper-made citizens,” | and 1 take it that he refers to Mr. | Jolin Cilles and some of his letters | which have been published in The | Evening World of late. In behalf | af Mr. Cilles I wish to state that I have known him for the past twenty years; that he is a citizen, born and reared in this country and 100 per cent. American in his ideals and be- liefs, as laid down by our forefathers and the Constitution of the United States but not as interpreted by the gang of Sunday blue laws, outlaws and Andersonized Americans that ure running things to suit themselves at present. Mr. Cilles served with the late Rear Admiral Robley D. vane, U. 8. N. His reoont was perfect and discharge honorable, He tried on several occasions to re-enlist during our late war but was rejected on account of physical defects, T also want to go 0D record as up- holding Mr, Cilles's ideas regarding Prohibition and personal liberty, Such laws of tyranny were never put over on any nation before, and let us hope that they will son be abolished The War Lord of Germany was a puppet compared to our Own “Kaiser” Naderson, and as long as such things exist in our once free country the | A Kainer In Amertes, me under Evening Worlds and can truthfully say they are the fairest « st Jor all dailies in our city, The World supports a candidate, and the candidate be President, Governor or Mayor, and loses, it will support the grand and glorious Stars and Stripes, which T have already served years, will not be seen flying from my window. 1 am neither a paper-made citi- wen nor an Anarchist but @ descend- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) MAKE EVERY HOUR COUNT. Saving time is wasted effort unless you utilize the time you save, Most people are in a hurry, They rush to their offices in the morning. They rush to their homes at night. When they get to the office they sit around waiting for dinner. About three quarters of the average man’s time is spent “sitting around.” And time spent sitting around is always wasted time. You are given about eight hours to loaf if you want to and eight hours to work. Unless you have an unusually easy job you can save little out of the eight hours’ working time. You can save from one to five hours out of the cight, at least once or twice a week, if you are careful. But unless you use that time, and use it wisely, there will be no sense in saving it. Most successful men are very careful to save a little time out of the so-called idle eight hours, They use this either to add to the efforts they put forth on their regular business, or to take up something related to their business which is inconvenient to do during working hours. In other words, they use their time as intelligently as they do their money. They make it earn dividends, And time set to work in that fashion is always a good investment. Steamships, railroads, rapid transit lines have together effected an immense saving of time for the human race. No longer does a man need to spend a month, prac- tically idle all the time, going from London to New York He can go in less than a week, with three weeks saved, Those three weeks are worth money. They may mean success. Use them and a considerable share of all the time you save, and your output will soon begin to show a grati fying increase ant of one of the signers of the Dec- luration of Independence. W. DANIEL M'MULLEN, New York, May 11 '|“‘That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick | Copyright. 1921, by the Prem Publishing Co, ~_ {the New York Evening World) “Cared.” To the K:ditor of ‘The Fvening Work I believed in Prohibition until the New York Police Department was delegated to enforce it. The events of the past few weeks have thor-| 7.028, while that of cast brass is 8.37 oughly cured me. or nearly one-fifth mo: What have the cops done? Arrested nn some $,000 persons in about the same] ‘The common name of acetate of cp lead is “sugar of lead;" of eulphide h ives, er= U station in life as themselves, or Ber-| of ied, gaiena,” of chloride of paps a lot less fortunate. tarmieie, anenetoret I fail to read or hear of a single ew case where a rich man's home has heen raided or where a wealthy resi- dent of this city has been held up in his auto while transferring some of In using the barometer, we should notice whether it be greatly above or below the mean height and the rapid- ity of its rise or fall. If it be higher quired their hooch before the Wigh-| Mer GOUT Me tower ‘and fallin, teenth Amendment was passed or at least d. cloudy It is the biggest piece of class leg- islation ever put en the statute books ‘After what I have learned, any work- ingman who knows the same and con- ‘inues to be for Prohibition should not get a chanve to earn a living. CHAS, DAVIS. New, York, May 12, weather is at hand, A rapid rise or fall, (greater than 0.01 inch an hour) indicates continued unsettled weather and much wind. o 6-8 Up to the time of the Revolution, no county in England was more thor- a 4 The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff Coprrigh!. 1921, by The Presa Publishing Os, w York bvening World) Vi—THE MAN WHO ATE THE FIRST OYSTER. The gentle but keen Charles Lamb had a good deal of fun with the story of his own invention about the dis- cevery of roast pig by the Chinese in olden times. But the story of tho man who ate the first oyster 18 far more wonderful, although it con- tains no element of humor. There is nothing attractive—except to the sophisticated in the ‘ap- pearance of the bivalve that forms 80 succulent and so nourishing a feature of our food supply of these latter days. We can imagine that to the unsophist the jelly- | like mass that ted from the | Slime of the ses m would appeer not only unappetizing but positively repulsiy ; Our assumption on this score 1s | confirmed by our observations of the him in | mean hostetry | ‘This untutored person first eyed the Joysters askance with an unmistaka- ble expression of misgiving, if not of |fear, ‘Then, after carefully observing |the example of normal enthusiasm set by his host, he ventured with hes- itation upon a nibble, Disarmed by the harmless and even agreeable re- sults of this faltering advance, he proceeded to a closer acquaintance with the oyster, which soon ripened jinto the closest possible friendship. But the man who ate the first oys- |ter had no such example to stir him | to bold deeds. To him the oyster was Jan unknown quantity of discouraging cntecedents and unprepossessing as- pect. We do not know under what ireumstances this pioneer took his iife in his hands by eating a evcature ‘hat was plainly stamped “not to be vaten.” But the weight of probability son the side of the assumption. that he Only had to eat an oyster or die. under the stress of so compe shoice could the ancestor of Broadway diners-oul have ventured on taking the great risk. We can imagine the immediate re- of this reckless gamble with fate. We can sce the grin of delight that slowly spread over the lugubri- tures of this pioneer. We can he caressing movement of his d with a slow circular movement of the palm to the exter.or stive region. We can fancy the rush of his fellow savages to the oyster beds nas the amazing story of his tronomic adventure got around The footprint of this remote ances- tor is an indel ble mark on the path of progress. His involuntary achieve- ment not only pointed out a new and plentiful article of food, but it deal 1 telling blow ar the wall of preju- a and prejudice is nine-tentas ig- rorance We regard ourselves asvremoved by many thousand years from the ma who made such a pother about eating his fir: oyster, But is our seclf- complacency justified? Natives of the maritime provinces recall the time, only a generation back, when smelts Were dumped on the fields by the boatload for fertil- r because nobody thought they were “good to eat.” New | persistently perch they ground that ye ind fishermen to this day nrow away every yellow ippen to catch on the low perch is not “good although it is every whit as and as tasty as its “white” | | to ea | edible | cousin In its attempts to popularize the dox fish as a wholesome and toothsome sea food the Bureau of Fisheries is encountering the same dlack wall of ignorance that confronted the origi- | nal oyster eater. For the sume reason mussel beds }containing millions of a fish that ri- vals the oyster and the clam in every quality r ain untapped All of which tends to show that the great moral victory achieved by the |men who preferred an oyster diet to certain death remains to be won by many millions of his American de- scendants, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 25.—CONSCIENCE. word “conscience” is closely n origin as well as ultimate e word “conscious- | ness their roots to the Latin words (with, or within Jone's self) and 0” (L know), ‘The person who is conscious, there- |fore, knows that he is alive, or at }least that he exists. But the’ person | who has a conscience knows more |than that. His conscience, or inner- | knowledge, tells—or ought to tell— |him how to live to the best purpose, and what is the right thing to do under given circumstanees, The common origin of the two w closely intertwined and of the near and BS, n “conscience” person who | sciousness” is either de a condition of physic pssness resemblin he might possess community is con | oughly English than the New Eng- and Colon On three occasions only was the any considerable in | fusion of non-English stock after his victories at Dunbar Worce r, Cromwell | h prisoners to Re | the revocation of tt jin 16 150) families Jcame to Massachusetts. Presbyterian families came ov th North of Treland and settled Londonderry, N. H. Wee the arriv Newpe tecn Hebrew families in 1658. tans In those xd old days" prior to 1800, the whipping post and. pillory were still standing in New York and Boston, many of the streets in the larger towns and ¢ were not named, and dr losig- nated “men's fe stuffs.” oa ve | ‘The Epworth League formed 1 | May, 1889, by the union of five Meéno. | dist »cieties of youn people, pro. | posed to “promote intelligent anc | loyal piety in the young members and friends of the chureh, to aid them in religious development, and to trai them in works of mercy apd help,”