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. iin Che Cucning orld, ESTAPLISHED RY JO9) Pudlimhed Datiy Except @unday wv The Proas J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasuror, 63 Park cretary, 63 Park Row pH PU ER. OF THE ASsON1ArAD PRESS Drews bs exclusit credited to it or not Jove) news published herein (he Asso Of all news des Gnd also the WANT BUSINESS? CUT PRICES. VERY business man ought to study the report on employment in fourteen major industries, printed yesterday. In April, as compared with March, eight industries showed gains in the number ot workers. These were: Automobiles, woollens, hosiery and underwear, men’s clothing, silk, cigars, cotton finishings and boots and shoes. The significamt fact is that in each of these in- dustries the product is an article of popular appeal The public is directly concerned. The ‘buyers’ strike” has been effective. The industry has been “deflated” —and now it has passed the low mark and is on the up grade. In the other group we tind car luilding and re- pairing, iron and steel, leather, paper making and ool mining. In these the product is either an essen- tial or clse the public as a whole is only slightly concerned in the market. The buyers’ strike has only a reflected influence. The industries have not een deflated and business is going from bad to ‘worse. The lesson seems almost too obvious to state. ‘A year ago The Evening World advised, “Cut prices and get back to work.” The advice is as good to-day as it was a year ago. In no industry is this advice more necessary than in coal mining. Secretary Hughes's reply to the Polish Am- bassador’s appeal for American support for Poland in the Silesian controversy ought to furnish a bit of cheer for the America-aloof- and-alone-to-the-bitter-end contingent. ‘The latter must admit that George Washing ton himself, could not have put it plainer. THE CATCH IN IT. NLY the “good of the service” is to determine selection of Postmasters under Harding re- vision of the Wilson merit system. We have this on the authority of Will Hays, Postmaster General and former Republican Ohair- man. A supplementary declaration—an afterthought, perhaps—informs us that Congressmen and Sena- tors will naturally be heard by the department in determining she comparative fitness and qualifica- tions of the first three on the civil service list. From which it may appear that politics is not completely forgotten after all and that the “good of the service” will require appointment of a good many Republican Postmasters. Congressmen and Senators were usually “consulted’’ under the straight-goods spoils system The best that can be said for the modification of the merit system ruling is that President Harding and Mr. Hays may be able to prevent a partisan raid on the pie counter if they are sufficiently determined. The only test of such a ruling is the test of ex- perience and a reasonably seven division of Post Offices. Congressional advice on applications, if it is heeded, will revive all the old evils of political postmasterships. “T want to serve the cause of Ireland,” says former Gov. Glynn, “and talk on my part at this time might destroy my usefulness." Some of Irelxnd's self-appointed spokesmen ought to clip this quotation and paste it in their hats. NOT ONLY TO YAP. UDGE GARY, a guest at banquet to cele- J brate the placing of a contract for a 20,000- ton war vessel to be built at Camden for the Japa- nese Government, waxed cordial. Referring to the Yap controversy, Judge Gary said, as quoted by The World: “Nations, like individuals, are selfish, but that is no reason why we should like them the less. If the Japanese want an island in the Pacific, there is no reason why they should not ask for it; and if we want the island, there is no reason why we shoukl not ask for it. It is a question of disposing of these claims in an open, fair, frank and honorable way.” Then Judge Gary praised Japan for being ready “to sit down at a table and discuss any question of disagreement.” Judge Gary's philosophy is admirable. But why does Judge Gary not apply this same Philosophy nearer home than Yap? Why does he not para- phrase something after this fashion? “My employees are selfish. So am I. But that #s no reason why I should I!ke them the less. If my employees want reforms in wages and working conditions, there is no reason why they should not ask for them, If I think the business will not warrant such changes, there is no reason why I should not explain this to the representatives of the employees. It is a question of disposing of these claims in an open, fair, frank and Donorable way “I would deserve praise if I were ready to sit down at a table and discuss questions with representatives of my employees.” , Every word JudgeSary said in behalf of mutual | ly entitied to the use for republiention otherwise credited in this paper accommodation and a willingness to sit down and talk things over applies as clearly to industrial disa- greements as to controversies between nations. The stockhoklers of the United States Steel Cor- poration make up a group comparable to one selfish nation, the employees another. Why not talk it out instead of fighting it out? CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE. LEVEN YEARS as Chief Justice, following six- teen years as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, left a long way back the days when Edward Douglass White was a United States Senator from Louisiana, and still further back the days when, as State Senator and a “rising young man in politics,” he put up a vigorous fight against the Louisiana Lottery Company and became a Judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court. It was.in 1894, while he was in the United States Senate, that he was appointed Associale Justice of the Federal Supreme Court by President Cleveland. When President Taft selected him to fill the vacancy left by the death of Chief Justice Fuller in 1910, Justice White was the first Associate Justice in the history of the court to be appointed directly from the Associate office to the Chief Justiceship. | It surprised the country not a little that Taft, a Republican President, should choose a Southern Democrat for the highest place on the American bench. But the experience and qualifications of Justice White justified the choice. Through the long record of important decisions in which he has concurred or with which he has dissented—many of the weightiest of the opinions handed down by the court were written by him—there has been no ques- tion as to the conscientious study and profound legal knowkaige he has brought to bear on every case, even as increasing age made his work harder. In 1914, as arbitrator of the boundary dispute between Panama ani Costa Rica, Chief Justice White rendered a judgment which, had it been more Promptly carried out, might have prevertted the re- cent trouble between the two countries. Only forty-nine when he was appointed to the Supreme bench, he rounded out a long, full period there and held for the last decade of his life an office in which no man is sure of more respect and venera- tion from the people of the United States than the man who fills it worthily LIKE YODELING. RAISE of the Edison tests by Ella Frances Lynch reveals one of the reasons for failures among cullege men. Says this friendly critic: “As a matter of unsentimental fact, there is Dot a question in the list that could not be answered by any well-trained boy or girl of ten. The quiz is entirely suitable as a test for Promotion into the grammar grades,” And there you have it. The only trouble is that Mr. Edison was not examining applicants for ad- mission to the grammar grades. Most men will recall the Period when they were about to don long trousers. They will recall their ability to yodel. They will remember the misery of the changing voice when a deep bass rumble sud- denly shifted to a treble falsetto, | And about the time the first long trousers were | worn out the boy suddenly discovered he could no longer yodel. Something similar goes on with men’s minds. Mr. Edison is putting mental yodeling tests before men who have achieved permanent bass minds. Here and there we find adults who can yodel, but they are exceptions, freaks. Here and there we find men who can pass the Edison tests, But it is as foolish to brand any one who cannot Pass the test as ignorant as it would be to say that yodeling is a test of ability to sing grand opera, PROPHECY! Lord Charles Beresford as British Admiral in: October, 1911, speaking of the necessity of armament to preserve the peace of the world, said: _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1921. ‘From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand toords in a couple of hundred? There is fne mental exercise ai A Test for Parente. | To the Biitar of The Evening World | Apropos of the letter of Mrs.| Mary Drown and the comments it called forth, it ts not true that “as the twig is bent, so is the tree in- clined?” ‘The time to begin the train- ing of children is when they are one, minute old or as near that as possible. The scarcest thing in the world te @ well-bred child. Does any one know one who can be called that? Most parents complacently assume their children to be well-mannered. May I append a list of questions for such parents to answer? If they cannot Say yes to cach the child is ignorant and no credit to them. Does the child ask permission to interrupt adults’ conversation? Is he taught to leave the room and not stand and listen to everything that is said—the main fault? Does the boy remove his hat upon entering the house? Does he give up his seat without “The peace of Kurope depends on the | British fleet being sufficient and efficient, We need not be arrogant, nevertheless our fleets must be strong enough to protect our Possessions. The German people and the English people want peace, but one cannot maintain peace on seutimental lines. There must be armament. If the English-speaking” people get together, we can aave universal peace.” And this was prophecy! What a fulfilment! Yet the English navy was sufficient and offi- | cient. But the navy did not prevent the great- est war in history. Universal disarmament would | \ | | TWICE OVERS. HAD come to the conclusion that perhaps the | the words, ‘I accept,’ which to me mean that if in the law of nature my indioidual spirit was to go back into the great ocean of spirits, my one duly was to conform.” —Franklin K. Lane. ‘ . * “ee HILDREN of the Treaty (of Versailles) can- not be allowed to break crockery in Europe with impunity.” —Lloyd George. 1 '—6 °% “cc ON, non! New Yorkers do not know how to Gerard Embregis, Quebec chef. eat.” “ce HE phonograph, aided and abetted by Ameri- can vaudeville teams,*has made Ausi a'ia ‘jens rod,” —D. N. Dosis of Sys | who should do the same do not set the | best statement of my creed could be fitted into | being told to a woman or aged man? Are the children told to come up to visitors, say pleasantly “How do you do?” and then eftace themselves? Have they good table manners? Are they instructed not to eat in every room in the house? Not to quarrel at the table? To put things back where they find them? Not to litter every place they go? To keep their toys in one place? | Say “Please” and Thank you?” — | ‘To be careful of other people's prop- erty? To be kind to animals, to be modest, | considerate and thoughtful? Not to stare at crippled or affilcted | people” To ash their hands before meals and n up afte emselves? All these simp! hings that a gen-! tleman or lady «would instinctively do, yet not one child in 10,000 knows | enough to do so, because the parents | }example. This country Is filled with | arts who never were used to good things, who live beyond their means |and try to impress others, utterly un- |conscious that their own actions and | | thone of their chillren make their pre- tensions ridiculous, | ‘There would be no servant problem | }if people who never had servants be- | fore would treat them considerately, as Jthey themselves would wish to’ be treated, and provide them with neces- sary things. ‘There are too many women who \teave their marketing till the last mo- | ment, or send chfldren to the store and | live on delicatessen stuff. ANOTHHR OUD - MOTHER | “Mount Vernon, May 18 FASHIONED 1991 to say muck in a few words. Take time to be brief. Isn't tt the one ind a lot of satisfaction in trying Lieutenant Godoy Later Cortin also of the Chilian Army, made the flight to Mendoza and back to San- tiago: The third person to cross the Andes in airplane was an Italan avi- ator in the Argentine Army, whose name has slipped from my memory. He, established a record by making the’ coast to coast flight (Buenos Ayréto Valparaiso) and return. E AMPS (Chilian). B. K. J. New York, May 15, 1921. Utepiant ‘To the. Euitor of The Prening World: Anent the articles one reads about Prohibition, I have noticed none about the point of view that started it. Everyone must know that the pos-; sible 10,000,000 of what may be termed | “perverts” were responsible for the | disgust that at present fills the other millions. T cannot believe Mr. Ander- | son includes my kind of a drinker at | all. If we could make the law cover | two classes of imbibers fairness would be done to all. But that would provoke so great a rumpus it cannot de done, and as none of us have the sublime character to suffer and be discommoded for the sins of others, there's the rub, Whisky—what per. son of real taste can claim it is pleas- ant? Brandy is better. It seems to me beer and wine should | satisfy most people. And if brandy | could be regulated for cooking and medical purposes the common ground would be reached. This is Utopian, I know. Concluding, I will say Prohibition is like many other laws that a Gov, Miller can sign, but the maddening part is the treating of hordes of adult people as though they were children. Don't do this, don't do that, and if you per- sist I'll fix it so you cannot, or at least make it very difficult. Too bad we cannot fire the people | we clect as fast as we find out it is] the same old story. I think after all Hylan is the more sincere. DEMOCRAT. New York, May 17, 1921. One More Edison Question, 1 the Haitor of The Brening Work! 1 could suggest a number of ques- tions to Mr. Edison, but will ony bring up one he has left unanswered. Is ‘it possible to communicate with the spirit world? Mr. Edison will probably give the game reply as a few years ago in re- gard to airships, Impossible. For God everything is possible, In other words: Work in harmony with the good forces in nature, Ghost-hunting investigators are like entomologists with their nets chasing bugs. Marmers and garden- ers destroy the injurious insects or we would starve in spite of scientific discovertes, Theory and__ practice Crossing the Andes. (To the Ptiter of The Drening World To reotity a statement made tn |(he June 18 edition of The Evening | World that the Andes had been crossed by plane for the first time hy Col, Gutevard and Senor Hum |ucrte Hoyoa, | Tho first person to oroms the Ande: bw airciane was the Chillan Arm) must go hand in hand. Many are dabbling in occultism to-day, fanatic spiritists. on one side, doubting | Thomases on the other. | CHARLES HOKANSON | New York, May 1921 Rednce Fretant BR UNCOMMON SENSE ¢ By John Blake (Copyright, 1981, by John Blake.) JUST PLAIN LAZIN The reason only half the work is done that ought to be done, that there is half as much achievement and progress in the world as there should be, is just plainlaz a Incas, There is no sense in calling it by any other name. We may think of it as weariness, as physical incapacity for sustained effort, as the inability of a frail constitution to cope with big tasks, but we will be wrong. Laziness in one form or another is what is the matter with most of us. It is what is the matter with the countcy. It is what is the matter with the world to-day. Production would be doubled, trebled, even quadrupled without increasing the hours of labor were it not for lazi- ness. The debts that arose from the war could be paid off in a quarter of the time allotted for their payment were not most of the debtors too lazy to put forth the needful effort. The truth is, about the only time people are not lazy is when they are scared. & lazy. A man in fear of his life is never He is busy doing all he can to save it. In time of war everybody in either of the nations cursed by it is afraid of his life. In consequence there is no laziness, and ten times as much work is done by the country as in time of peace. i If we could approach war production to-day all the difficulties in which the world is plunged would soon pass away, for the resources of the world are still to all intents and purposes inexhaustible. But we cannot,. because when we are not under direct threat of danger we retusn to our natural laziness. We cannot cure this in the world, nor in our own N We can cure it in our own cases, And it is worth curing, For the man who is not lazy has tremendous advantage over his fellows. He can do more work and earn more pay aid gain more fame tha be acl ation, they can, use he works while they loaf, and work is behind all vement This is an easy world for th industrious to rise in be- cause it is so ful] of the lazy. Think that over the you put off something you ought to be doing. you cure the worst habit you have next time Tt will help ronannanannanaaananmnanannannnnnnanannansee TTT their passenger and freight rates? It\thing that the seems to the writer that in this era| wanted it to of readjustment of prices the rail-| PL, roads should take action and come as near the pre-war schedule as they with your able leadership these fa, can, They have had their innings) natics will be run to earth and with rates more than DOUBLE| late Mr. Pulitz be—FOR THE PEO- You have a powerful weapon in your hand, and I feel certain that I served hono} bly throughout the of those of four years ago they can|war in the U. S. Navy, in Eng well make such readjustment with-| 1am 1 recol aly. \ by these out any loss to themselves, or wage | peor aby ine They were al- 6 20 per cent, | Make reduction to the men. lowed to raise their ra nation, it last August when everything was on| You 1 factor in this the downward trend, New and lower| Struggle for freedom and, contrary 4 should be put into effect | the statement of the fanatics fehaauiee enous ¥ that Prohibition is here to stay, I at NEW YORKER. | firmly believe that you will be vic. 7 torious. Keep pounding these mak. New York, May if, 1931 ers of lawbreakers’ and although Fanatics in the Minority. they have hard heads, you will finally Ge kep Belice of Ste raclin’ Wor) convince them that they are in the ‘To the Tatitor af The Brening Worl What became of the much talked of move-nent of the raiiroads 60 reduas caneta rou an youp| Bunorite Tet me congratulate you on your, CHIEF wonderful stand on the Pronypition! “Navy, q@mestion. Your great paper issues, New York, May 14i0ss, PETTY OFFICER, U. 8. ‘Fathers of | Thought By Maubert St. Georges 221, by The Prev Publishing Co, w Yor Evening World) “The wisest of men”—Plato, Socrates was born at Athens about 460 B. C. His father, Sophroniscus, was a sculptor, and for the first part of his life Socrates followed the same profession, Like all other Greek youths he was drafted into the army in time of need, and served the Athenians in three important cam- piigns. On these occasions he first vame to the notice of his countryme: His courage and firm attitude during all dangers of attack or retreat, his endurance against heat, cold, lack of food, tautigue, earned for him the re- ct of all who met him. ave up sculpture and if to the work of a Unlike others, however, he did not teach in a school, he had no regular following of disciples, and asuy refused payment for his instrucuon, Instead, he spent his whole day in the streets way- laying any passer-by who might be willing to converse, His method might be called “cross-examination.” By a circuitous route of questions be made people strip off for themselves the ve of self-deception which so commonly hide & man's real self from him. T! Was the meaning of his favorite s; ying, “Know thyself.” Such an origin: mode of teaching attracted much attention, and many strangers came to Athens to make his acquaintance. Externally, hewaa the very opposite of what we'call the Greek type of beauty, for he auty, was short, sturdy, and his head was large, with a snub nose and Jecting forehead and a pro One result of his tame wus that against his will he was dragged into politics. But this only served to show his inflexible honesty. Once he was Presiding Judge over some offi- cers for whose punishinent the pub- lic was olamoring and the court wished to condemn them without ob- serving legal form, but Socrates re- fused in the face of the pppulace. On another occasion, having with four others been ordered unjustly t confiscate some propert fused to obey even at the p Yet he had many enemies. Fore most among them ¥ by his questions to co..1¢ : nd ignorance aughin wd. Aristoph poet, and poet Moletus were the most h It was the latter who finally ch Socrates with desecrating the gods nd thus corrup’ ¢ youth, and had S$ behaved with the fortitude that was in accord with his philos- ophy. He used no persuasion fice, but stated hi fairly The 1s ilty. was the cus in Ath for the condemned to suggest what pumish- ment they considered just. Had So- crates desired to esca: was demanded by the conld have done so by fine or suggesting a banishment. But he ears old and had no ‘o he said that at the request of his friends he would consent to mention the sum of 5 minas ($100, roughly) as a fine. This was a calculated affront and as a result he sentenced to death. This was carried out by making him drink a draught of hemlock He died deeply regretted by his friends and pupils, who numbered among them Plato, Aeschines, Alei- biades, Xenophon and Euclid of Me- fara, heavy | Super Business Women} By Helen Page Copsright, 1921, by The Prem Putten ‘The New York Evenine: Works.) es I—MISS JANE MARTIN, $10,000 a Year Advertising Manages “Women are natural born adver fers.” This represents the keynote of Miss Jane Martin’s business phi- osophy. Miss Martin has been male ing a study or human nature for nearm ly twenty years. When promoted te chief of the advertising department, a position formerly held by @ man, in @ big advertising concern, whose business runs into millions of doilare a year, Miss Martin did not congratu. late herself on being more clever them: her male predecessor, She merely re- marked: “Women are natural bora advertisers. “Take for instance,” said she, woman with a new gown. A friend ad- mires it. At once the iady with the new gown begins to advertise her dressmaker, Compliment her on the quality of her chef's cooking. The chef then comes in for a lot of af- and so it goes, without Mies Martin pointed omt, that interest a man alse interest a woman. For ins' she uid, nearly half the sales of motor rs are influenced rectly or indi- rectly by women. About 90 per cent. of food supplies are purchased by woman help to advertise the wares buyers of candy, So, why shouldn't women ‘help to advertise the wares that interest her? Many advertising men’ cam more than '$10,000—Miss Martin's salary -but few of them’ hold a higher lace in the advertising world. §he » only woman member of the » Committer Assoei- ertising Clubs of the World, advertising copy appears in six different languages. From the Wise Every charitable act is a step ping stone toward heaven. —Beecher. A blush is beautiful but it te sometimes inconvenient ~Goldont. 1 book should be tuminous’ but not voluminous.—Bovee, Custom may lead a man into many errors, but it justifies none UJ —Fielding, Life is the jailer, death the anget, sent to draw the umotiling hoa and set us free—Lowell. Everything great t@ not ohooye | good, but all good things are great,