The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1921, Page 16

ESTABLISHE es ereditd to It or not 1 news publisied herein perwise ¢ ed im this pay THE PARABLE. T is a pretty little fairy tale that comes from th? ~ Masurin district of East Prussia. The wicked city of Muscluken was put under a curse and turned to gold. Then it was buried deep amo It was from such folk tales that the Grimms gath- 4 their wonderful collection of fairy Washingt on Irving did the same for the Alhambra. curse of gold has a favorite theme for Writers and story tellers of al! time. ( the German peasants are tuming this old tra- eoflition toa new end. The Devil which guards this “buried city is to be exorcised by prayer and the billions of war indemnitygare t4 be paid out of the reasure retrieved from his Satanic Majesty’s firm grip % In this ain, stories, been x y. as interpreted by humble Teuton seminds to modern purpose, is the material for a Parable such as the Prince of Peace might have used in teaching a lesson to the simple folk on the shore oe Galilee $%. Muschaken is Germany, a peaceful and produc Bation on which the Devil put the curse of militan Under this curse the gold of production was buried. Fo were the people. Now the good people have the opportunity to exorcise this Satanic curse of mili- ofl Babhe debts incurred by the people put under the curse. | suggestion of the parable is all that is required in the case of Germany. Any one can apply it. g#But is the parable any less applicable to other nations =—Our own, for example tiv rism, retrieve the gold of production and pa Gen. Miles in presenting a flag to the “Hell ‘ Fighters” of the 15th Colored Infantry recited ims record und said: “But those who sleep in =P" France, though mourned, died in a great cause and are honored here with you.” 2 Perhaps Gen. Miles has not read Ambassa EF dor Harvey's Pilgrims’ dinner speech--or ae maybe he didn’t believe it ve , be NOT COUNTER ATTRACTIONS \ i a plea for a tightening of the Sunday laws, the ‘ Rev. Dr. Bowlby says: “If the people properly sbserve the Sabbath; they will be found in the Hous. of God on that day.” eV ire this observance Dr Bowlby would distractions.” ctions and He to say: “Close up the Sunday and the shut the gates of the baseball parks, Jock the doors of many open places of busi ness, make more attractive but none the less spiritual the meetings of the church." The italics emphasis. movies theatr Ire ours, The words are worthy ot hey are, indeed, the only part of Dr Bowlby’s speech which will prove of real value te the churches Dr. Bowlby 4 Movies, th stresses the eatre and the ball parks As a matter Vhe prin ycipa) services of the church come in the mor “counter attraction” of fact, this is not true ing ; before the competition of the movie and the bal = park begins to work. They are not counter attrac 2 tions, be § | The } tive.” use they come ther hours. churches have the first chance to be In that hour lies their me ~- “at PPortunity FAME ACC SAN AMENDMENT. A S a welcome contrasi to (he Presbyterian Chureh decision that women shall con- tinue in “silence and subjection” because of their sex comes another and wiser decision by the electors of the Hall of Fame. Women are to be treated as equal New side Fame names of by side is to know no sex distinction famous women will added with those of men new tablets will be added in the Women's Gallery, But the names of the women who have been so honored will remain as they are. In other hundred years every name now enroiled in the Women's Gallery will have a new aura of fame of a different sort. They will have the additional credit of having at- ne fame in a time when the mere fact of being ® woman was a drag and a handicap in saining public recognition. THOSE “SLACKER LISTS.” the publi the he “slacke American derense tbh of Mion ot Commander Galbraith Legion seems completely to miss*the paint of most eof the criticisms. #® Few question that the slackers should be exposed Most Americans want the exposure to be effeeti Which t! { cannot present list is * i form : ae fi is that th ! f the name Awhich + én whos bArds ar ‘ he orig ‘ernment of desertion. Secretary Weeks should withdraw the present lis n the Gov minal cha Joey Pulihed Daily exe day hiaz DOR Park Preaidont PH PULITSR: Boere MEMBER OF THE ASSO0LATED PRES Prose le exclusively eniitied to the use for repubites | | rt | | | | and substitute a new one in which no criminal charges World, | } | THE ire favolved. It should be a fist of all those cases i ) there may be clerical errors, errors in the ict of the drafted. men, draft official iB be clearly a iist to clear up misunderstand and should include tions develop the facts. is the evident duty of the War Department er the American Legion nor any other organiza- ve a certificate of character to the lists sued, no stigma until investiga now being FOR OR AGAINST? I the country for or against disarmament? This is the week to start answering that question in a way to leave no scintilla of doubt in the minds of President of members of Congress. The Harding Administration makes a great point of its sensitiveness to nvandates of the people. Now is the time for an overwhelming popular mandate demanding an immediate move toward the most practical form of tax relief—reduction of arma- ment costs. The Senate of the United States is ready to appro- priate nearly half a billion dollars to build more war- ships in what men hoped would prove the greatest EVE ! | | | j | cra of peace the world has known. * Taxpayers already burdened to the limit of endur- ance will have to pay for these warships and more to follow The President of the United States has blown hot and cold on disarmament. In his inaugural address to his countrymen March 4 he was all for “associating ourselces with the nations of the world great and small to seck the expressed views of world opinion, to recom- mend a way (0 approximate disarmament and relieve the crushing burdens of military and naval establishments.” After his inauguration President Harding turned towdrd His fi ongress contained no word about it. policy was reported to preclude it. Now he is lukewarm—without apparent convie disarmament. cool messa His fe C tion, enthusiasm or belief that the country at large has any real inierest in the matter. The President needs a mandate on this issue and the people of the Uniled States should see that he gets one. Vhe Women’s Committee for World Disarma- ment has organized ma: meetings to be held this week in the cities of thirty-six $ ‘ales, Lach of these meetings wil adopi resolutions ask- President Harding to call an international con- | ference on disarmament and urging Congress to defer action on the | Naval Appropriations Bill unti | toh a conference has been heh. Vhe first Sunday of next monih church congre tions all over the country will unite in a disarmament {rive which is to include a monster petition addressed directly to the President All this is enough The remmjorcement of every CiiC Organization capeble first rate mandate work, but it is not women and the churches should have the of drawing up a resolution and of every citizen and taxpayer ceith spiril enough to wrile letters or telegrams and send them to his representatives in both Houses of Congress | Above all, as The Evening World has insisted, the | business interests of the country should quit groan about the taxes thal are killing them and der Ing and at | | substantial relief that would come with a cutting of ament costs. | When indusiry and business speak out on this issue, a Republican Administration will disten with both ears | Is the country tor or against disarmament? Begin this week to bombard White House and Capitol with the answer TWICE OVERS. 66 DO VERY effort should be made (by the Imperial Conference) to keep in touch and in sympa- thetic contact with the great American Republic.’ Jan C. Smuts. * ‘ * GOT a raw deal from Brindell. He used to call me‘ Honest Pete’ and tell the boys how good 1 was, and then he tried to get me to take the blame jor his dirty work,” Peter Stadtmuller. * drunkards and criminals 4 few ye can outwalk any young American i eae eR Woman of her ucquaintance, Both ago, and in order vo th these people married into’ total- these same sots and desperate indi-! abstaining American families, Their | viduals rushed to their political repre-| Spouses “were neither ot them par- t ticularly stron, although they sentatives and begged them to pass ntatives and b 4 * fo pass were descendants of at least three the Kighteenth Amendment, and thus, generations of total abstainers. estrict em from t ng destruc- | The children, of these marriages anihalnen have been delicate, sickly, as. it on Upon sbem ely Ss , seems the strong, ‘heaithy’ British Most laws that are enacted “for! strain wa Ipless as against the | the etit of the country” have al- sickly American one, The son of the Ways given something to the masses! gan, his only child, stoops, wears Jand are such that reg but dot tacles, and ng his hair— restrict the habits a workings Of jie is not yet thirty oth his fatber the public nd his aunt have abundant hair, can 1 prot against the actions of joid withow ind hold them- super-patrivts in their practice of | Civey erect as a sturdy ee * * “cc OU have suffrage. 1 didn't want it. 1 had it thrust down my throat. But I have it now, and I am going to do the best I can with il.” Repre- sentative Alice Robertson of Oklahome. * . 667 OFTEN wish that I could run a beauty par- lor.” Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. * © * “cc 7E must starid for a sociely in which man shall not seek his own selj ish interests first.” The Rev. John P. Peters, Fron Evening World fié | fellow What kind of a letter do you {nd most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundrea? There is fine mental erervise and a lot of satisfaction in trying be say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. ne Ais Rhee land? And oleh are t to i 2 Word vesist the rigurs of their A says the Shipping Board ts Gov- ld live to hearty old age ernment controiled, It says it ism un anywhere in Be ‘ : nd endure climate vernment controtled. Whie extreme: wher meri COHALLISY ive been trending toward + Hrouklyn, May 18, 1921 on and can show many gene ms in som nilies of total ab- eee hy PR rere stainers, are U endure them at rhe vee \ Why is it that nearly all en- 0 MACit gineers are Scotchmen? Because this N. 0, s letter, “A Bitter View. | rote requires above all others ua hits the naij r on the head tet sound constitution to resist fatigue, me add and say that in w jot of; extreme change chinate, and often places these foreigners are the ones | * ae ation, sai ee oe eiiae is a fact that nearly all Prohtbi- nae start lubor trou » Onists are persons of sight physique Some employers think they getjand a general appearance of ill! more work out of them, but they ave health. ‘They suffer terrifically with | sadly mistaken. in the first plac {/Mdigestion-at least { have never | fa x think known on who did not--and soon: ne American-born can see ‘mK lor later develop some frightful ia- and act quicke: ven he NOL | testinal disease. 1 can pick out a} as big, ne has got the grit vim /Prohibitionist in any crowd by his or! ind goes to it no matter how ha her peculiar kind of lor and gen- und ' ‘ y eral meanness of expression i " ‘Two examples of whictr L have per- | New York, May bs, 1921 sonal Knowledge. ‘Two cousins of my | ss dathe tun and a Woman, came to | _& Bro Ainerica® and married Americans. to the Ealitor of The Evening Wor Phey were both descendants of many The strain in which 1. V. Howell's) generations of bard-drinking country etter ia written makes one fecl a tires, Seoloh and English, Although an “overwheiming majority" of our) “ite old to-day, they are as strong H American becoming he woman vigorous as many wenty-five or t citizengy were rapidl fl ttempting to hold np to the rest lthe nations of this world the citizens 1 married into family aders | c B by Tul feniaring € rite NewYork Evening W UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Jotin Blake) LVERY MAN HAS A RATING. [t is not necessary to subseribe to a commercial ¢ to Jearn a man’s standing in the community His standing is not made up of carefully records, compiled although these’ are useful in business. Let him live in a town for six or seven 3 be pretty well known Now and then a man believed to be a model of right living turns out to be a rogue, to the astonishment of the community, But it is net often, Most men are rated pretty accurately by those about them, yrs and he will Of your friends you know to whom you could turn in time of ordinary trouble. You know that it would be per- fectly safe to lend money to some men and certain loss of money to lend it to oth You know the men who are considerate of their wives and sincerely eager to bring their children up in the way they should go. The man who thinks that he can conceal his character from his fellows is likely to have a rude awakening some day It is not only the rich man’s valet who knows him for what he is. Tt is his neighbors,and his acquaintances, and (be citizens of the community who study him as he goes past. or who watch him while he sits in church or in public meet The sereen that so many men throw about them is a vein structure. It fools few people, if any. Far better be simple and straightforward and let other people know what you know you are. You have your rating, which is based on your merits. Vrickery and devices will never earn you a better one. It is often said of great men that the world never does them justice (ill many years after they are dead, Yet if you will read your history carefully you will discover that these n.en’s contemporaries seldom made mistakes about them, They might have been misplaced in histories written a few years after their deaths, but while they lived and acted they were judged with fairness and . and the opinions of those who lived beside them coincided fully with that of the historians who passed final judgment on thair <Laracters and achievements. . Te Live The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff t, 1021, by The Prems fmtinhing Co, fhe New’ York Brecne Wong) IN- Cops! VIN—THE WOMAN _ WHO | VENTED BREAD. | Bread-making is not a discovery. It is an invention, and an invention of the utmost importance in the most vital human concern—the concern for keeping the body ative, In. his extraordinary work, “The Blue Bird," Maurice Maeterlinck pre- sents Bread as one of his most lov- able characters, and the particular friend and companion of childhood. Mr. Maeterlinck was not am in his estimate. Bread—just plain bread— is the basic diet of the world, or at, lteast of the white world | The jons—the Chinese and the Japanese do not count in this connec- | tion, because they not bread eat- Jers in the accepted meaning of the | Word—can be roughly divided into two main categories; Those who eat good bread, that is to say, white bread, pure, and well baked, and those who eat poor bread, that is to say, black bread, adulterated and soggy. | It i8 a fact easily demonstrable by |any test that the nations who eat good bread are the advanced nations. The nations who eat poor bread are far behing them in the path of | progress. “It was one of the ambitious | projects af Peter the Great to make it possible for every Russian peasant to eat white bread. His lure to at- tain this and other ambitions is to be ‘measured by the fact that the Rus- sian peasants still eat black bread— when they can get bread of any kind. Until the outbreak of the war, the world, including conspicuously Amor- lica, took bread for granted. To be ure, bread was negligently spoken of as “the staff of lif but it took a ) great cataclysm to bring bread to its own as the most important factor in the problem of feeding. One touch of war bread made the whole world kin n the realization of the paramount place that bread occupies in the uni- raal scheme of things. The moment the first gun was fired, | the pressing and dominant question of the warring countries not “Where shall we get nor “Where shall we get but- or sugar, or coffee, or tea; but Where shall’ we get bread?—fust came, | In the beginning of the human race man was a stranger to bread. Ue must have got along without bread for thousands of years. But he did not begin to acquire civilization unl he invented bread 4 Under what circumstances this och - determining invention was we probably never hall know like cooking, bread-making was a result of the discovery of means to make a fire. It is evidently a fact that long: be- fore the first primitive loaf pro- duced our primitive ancestors had acquired the art of r ns— probably wild ones As time flowed on and the wild grain was “domesticated”-—that is to say, cultivated after a crude fashion— some woman found out that it could be improved by being ground be- ween two stones or pounded wis @ stone upon another stone. Such was the method of making the first flour. Ht was an excessively coarse fleur—probably much coarser than any meal that is now produced for use as a breakfast cereal We can imazine--and one guess is as good as another—that somebody's store of “flour,” such as it was, be cume thoroughly wet down, that some despairing and irritated house- wife took a handtul of the mess, squeezed some of the water out of t and put it on @ fire-heated stone to_roust > result loaf ever | wes the fi turned out of any bak This loat tasted much bette than any parched grain t the savage hes of the house and all the little savages clamored r more. ‘That incident marked a deep foot- print in the long and dificult path of ‘human progress. The most that Governments, philanthropists and captains of industry have been able to do since ig to increase the quan- tity and improve the quality of that original invention made by an exas- perated primitive woman | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 28.—SPRING. There is no more descriptive word in the English language than the | term that denotes the present season of the year, the revival of vegetable and the quickening of animal life ‘The primary meaning of the word is ‘a leap, a bound, a sudden effort or struggle.” ‘The spring of the year is eminently the time when all living things take “a leap, a bound” and make a “sud- | den effort or struggle” under the re- | vivifying warmth of the sun, | ‘Dhis idea of a fresh beginning ts conveyed by the French equivalent, “Printemps,” the Italian “Primavera” and the Slavic “Pro-liet”—a flying out In all languages the word desig nating the spring of the year is used, | in a figurative sense, to indicate new | effort, new hope and a new sense of youth, aspiration and life” | Just as the water bubbles up from | the sandy bottom of the spring on | the mountainside, so does the sap in | the plants and the current in the | veins of all animate things begin to run more freely in the spring of the year, Perhaps that is the reason why most wars break out in the | spring, rnother — tolaleabstainir a| jof this giorious U. 8. A. as a nation! young woman as thin and drooping | Jot irresponsible people who must be | ay hinself, and they have a ehild s0 jdeprived of alcoholic beverages lest! Yericate he bas to ronedt at ai | We develop into a nation of drunkards, |}imes for symptoms of ill health, and |vagabonds and thieves ser, |e wears glasses at the age of five! Ai a EDWIN LINDER, | 3” phelan Is wrong when he sa | Glendale, the people of England and Canada | n lek ire “cool” toward American Prohibi- | cy jtion ‘They are extremely annoyed |: Tote Balter ¢ ct sbout it, and fear that the “brain. \ ument that 1, E ae} Cropm' will spread to. their realins in favor of Prohibition, viz: ere fin and the matter is. treated | will be millions of our children who | wt od deal of SontemD | can Indian — himsel when they grow to manhood i eh ‘ ean argument against | womanhood will eal human He knew nothing of al- Jings, not nervous wrecks one | id Wu which seems to floor everybody ja race or Tudging by the past, Prohibition | cruel and blood- w make for better terity. | rninsty and cunning, like our It is a legend in country that! Promibitionist spies, he was, To be the Scoteh are great drink 1 sir de him worse Seoteh, and Lam sue \ vu did not atop moderat ker, bu ' 1 z {didn’t agree with \ stand, all the better for the anti-l ne sik ng outside their |hibitionists. Where, on God ents to. sealp them Jean you find such a nation of ou There are gluttons and the effects @trong men and women as in of Uhely gluttony are just as horrible lists, but parti ae the effects of drinking. But your 7 : Prohibitionist does not suggest pro- rom t e ise hibning food because some people die of over-eating, or even murder! — Byery day that postpones our because of the vile tempers engen- de by indigestion. joys is long.—Ovid, It may interest your devout Pro- Dita inti eae vnroroeencnere hibitionist to learn that at the least possibility of repealing the Volstead | he hus nothing to remember, act or the 18th Amendment the w=F Gacositi, pootleggers grow panic-siricken How, they ask, are we to continue to Mho intellect of the aise ia like ind make an honest living 4 Se ee oteronibition? glass; it admits the light of heaven But I did not set out to answer all | and reflects it.—Hare. 201 by the Prohibition- nbapitar arly to call to thelr Riches are a disgrace to him jattention and U1 1 ‘4 ner | who hath kinsmen in want the facts that the descendants of | as |hard-drinking ancestors v8 a AlMahdl. urdier, healthi and handsom . hal GAT Yy, alah than the descendants of the Prohinl- If the hair of my head knew my \tlonist, It may be, of course, that| secret / would cut it off or burn tt I Scotch whiskey is superlos we off.—Andrew Jackson, a Forgotten ‘‘Whys” Ship Christening. ‘The custom of breaking a bottle of | wine over the bow of a ship at her | launching dates bi Ao ancient times a | when the was deemed possessed | the attributes of the gods. In } | to protect themselves from the | sailors would dedicate their ship to some deity, ornamenting the | vessel with his statue, from whieh custom arose the ornamental figure- head of the old sailing ships. On ympletion of the sAip it was decked |with garlands and flowers, and launched In with yp priests on be mony of purification to the god whose image it carried ‘The common sacrifice of those days was the pouring of wine before the god, and this gradualy evolved into |the now, alas, impossible custom of jue breaking of a champagne bottle, conseera