The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1921, Page 22

She EGY Bieri, A RSTADLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Dally Except Sunday by The Prem Publishing Company. Nos. 58 to 63 Park Row, New York. ' RALPH PULITZER, Provident, €3 Park Row. J. ANGUS SITAW, Treamurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULATBER Jr., Secretary, 68 Park Row. MEMPER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. The Amoctated Press ts exctustrely entitled to the ase fer republication Gf all news Gespstchen credited to ft or sot otherwie credited tm thiy paves iso the local mews published bereim PROOF AND MORE PROOF. EAL BSTATE and building news these days R carries a message of cheer to every rent- payer in New York City. Home-building has not reached a stage where the supply meets the demand, but the situation is im- proving, and is improving more rapidly in New York than in other cities. On all sides it is admitted that the ten-year tax exemption ordinance is responsible for the building ‘voom. Even those who were cold or hostile to the measure when it was proposed admit this now. The building record is a source of particular sat- faction to The Evening Work. New buikling was the supreme need of New York's overcrowded population. Almost single-handed The Evening World fought for tax exemption both at Altany and in City Hall. It is gratifying to Watch develop- ments and see the effects of the legislation. Deep regret will be felt at the news that Mme. Curie is worn out by the many dinners, lunch- eons, receptions, public lectures, &c., arranged in her honor since she arrived in this country. One of the problems of our time is how to pay tribute to a distinguished visitor without. tiring him or her to the verge of nervous pros- tration. Desire to express admiration and re- a G. A. R. affair, it would die out as a national | custom, for only a handful of the Grand Army of | the Republic remai | Memorial Day in 1921 and in the years to foll will be something greater and broader than a G. A. R. ceremony. Isn't it time the G. A. R. rec- ognized this formally and took steps to recognize | the equal mterest of other organizations? ow THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS HERE. | T THE luncheon of the Academy of Political Science in this city yesterday Presklent Har- ding delivered a well-lurned address on the need of bringing economy and efficiency into government. The President dwelt on the difficulties of the prob- lem due to the multiplication of departments and bureaus to meet the needs of war. He repledged his Administration to economy and efficiency, pointed to the joint committee provided by Con- gress to work out plans for administrative reorgan- ization along lines of economy and efficiency, laid stress on the fact that “eternal vigilance is the price of economy and efficiency” and said more than enough about economy and efficiency to help soothe taxpayers for an afternoon at least. Bul the President had not one word lo say to taxpayers about the $496,000,000 which the United States Senate is ready to appropriate for more warships and a bigger navy, nor did he touch on the practical means of tax relief available in a move lo reduce armament costs. Al the New York Commercial’s anniversary din- ner in the evening, President Harding discussed opti- mistically a variety of post-war economic problems, spect naturally takes the form of a round of public and private invitations calculated to tax the endurance of the strongest. ‘The health of Mme. Curie is worth too much to the world to be risked on a treadmill of en- gagements—though all the good will of a nation is behind them. THE PAINFUL PARALLEL. PRESIDENT HAR- AMBASSADOR HAR- VEY, spokesman of the DING, over the coffins rs rding Administration, of the Nation’s war ’ at the Pilgrims’ dinner dead at Hoboken: in London: “These dead lighted “Far more prevalent until recently was the mew hopes om the bate = sion that we went fields of our civilize to war to rescue human- tion. These have served ‘ty from all kinds of —and this is the su- menacing perils. “Not a few remain preme inspiration of life. convinced that we sent our young soldiers | across to save this King- | “1 find @ hundred = dom, France and Italy. | thousand sorrows touch. ‘That i# not the fuct. We ‘ sent them solely to save ing my own heart. It ine United States of must not be again—it must not, God grant it will nod be. Let a prac- tical people join with America, and most re- luctantly and laggardly God in 20 making it Ghat tf shall not be at that. : | “We were not too | proud to fight, whatever | | | again. “We shall give our best if we make certain that may mean, We were afraid not to fight, that these dead did not die in vain!” That is the real truth of the matter, So we came along toward the end and helped you and your allies shorten the war. That is all we did and that is all we claim to have done.” WHAT IS MEMORIAL DAY? LETTER to The World printed yesterday morning deserves more than passing notice. It was written by William Newman Chew as spokes: man for the British Great War Veterans of Amer- ica and announced the intention of the organization to march in the Memorial Day parade, carrying only the Stars and Stripes and not the Union Jack they had been invited to do by the American Legion. Probably this decision was wise. Certainly i was courteous, far more courteous than the protests against display of the Union Jack voiced by certain G. A. R. and Legion posts. But the incident has raised a question which cannot be settled by a single act of courtesy on the part of one organization. What is Memorial Day? In the protests against the carrying of the Union Jack, more than one ob- jector declared Memorial Day to be a G, A. R. observance and that other participants in the cere- monies should be present only by invitation of the @. AR. . In passing, it mray be recalled that the G. A. R. did not originate Memorial Day. The beautiful cus- tom of decorating graves of dead soldiers started in Southern cemeteries, where daughters and wives of Confederate soldiers placed flowers on the graves of their dead in the spring. The G. A. R. took over the custom and “Decoration Day” became a national observance. But as time passed “Decorstion Day” becaine “Memorial Day.” This change in the popular desig- nation was an evidence of a changed spirit of the ‘Nation, After the Spanish-American War the younger vet- erans shared in the honors of the day. Now that the rolls of our patriotic soldiers, dead and liv have been multiplied many fold. the G. A. R. organ- | speaking mainly from the text that “to rehabilitate America is the surest way to rehabilitate the workd.” The President braved the wrath of the bitter- enders to the extent of declaring that “we never were and never will be able to maintain isolation,” that “there have seldom been more convincing proofs than we see all around us now of the essen- tial interdependence of all parts of the world,” and that “he who displays the broadest spirjt of brother- hood, helpfulness and true clarity will mast surely he casting his bread upon the waters.” ‘ But the President did not explain how he ex- pects to make two score other nations give up their already applied notion of interdependence and helpfulness for his, nor did he indicate thal he has vel arrived at any constructice ideas on the subject that he can even call his Two young men have been arrested and charged with an attempt to steal an aeroplane from Mitchel Field. This is described as a “novel crime.” A generation ago a theft of an automobile would have been so characterized But now automobile stealing is a well organized business, EMERGENCY NORMALCY. Drea the Emergency Tariff Bill—the “Fordney Fake"—last January, The Evening World asked the sponsors of the measure “why it was proposed to protect only the 1920 crops of sugar, wheat, &c., which are already in the hands of the middleman, and not the 1921 crops, which must be grown with all the usual risks of failure and loss p/us an additional speculation on the pos- sibility of a new tariff.” Yestentay the Herald testified to the pertinence: and accuracy of this analysis with a recital of what has happened in ihe business of farming the farm- ers through the medium of a fake “emergency” tariff. . We reprint the Herald comment in full: FIRST AID FOR WHEAT SPECULATORS. That was a pretty turn the grain speculators made on the emergency tariff which Congress put through for the benefit of the farmer after he had disposed of his crop, The spring wheat of 1921 being due to go to market and being at the same time an enor Mous crop—30,000,000 bushels, against 578,000, 000 estimated at the corresponding date a year ago—the farmer naturally had to get rid of all his old wheat that he could, He had to get rid of it at the bottom price. On Jan. 1 the price received by producers of wheat, if they would take it, was $1.49 a bushel, On March 1 it was $1.47 a bushel. On April f it was $1.33 a bushel, But the farmer, waiting for the Promised emergency tariff, had not been anx- ious to sell on those dates, On May 1, however, when the farmer had to take what was offered because he was cleaning up in preparation for the new bumper crop coming in and needing all the bin room, the price he could get for the old wheat was $1.10. Saturday the same May wheat, worth on the first of the month $1.10 to the producer, was worth to the Chicago grain pit speculator $1.65. It was an emergency measure all right, and it hit the bullseye. Ask any honest grain spec- ulator if he knows of a better way for Congress to meet a crisis than with a special tariff for the farmer—a special relief tariff which waite till May wheat falls out of the hands of the farmer into the lap of the speculator at $1.10, and then goes into effect so that within three weeks the same May wheat turns into coin in i} the pocket of the speculator at $1.65. No further comment ts needed. TWICE OVERS. 66 PQOSITIVELY no Ford machines permitted in line."—-Committee on arrangements of Hartford's automobile parade in honor of Professor Einstein. ° ization must expect to share with the younger sol- diers in observance of the day. “e HE Orange and Green together can command { the future.""—Eamonn de Valera, EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1921 ~ Home Hunting! _ Commrigit, 1921, by The From sit co (The New Tork Brening World.) : By John Cassel : [From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readabler Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fne mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying be sey much in a few words. Take time to be brief. | | 8 | ‘ Fiatly loes (or should) agree with che |To tue Waite of ‘Te Bening Wor'd Rewspapers no comments should be j, 1, as quite interested in your edi- | Passed, bur all the same when sue |tortal referring ve Gary's ro. | (eaves this city one notices the con- | ing to Judge Gary's between “our youth” and the |Marks about the controversy over the |Island of Yap. As I have always found |The Evening World quite consistent |in its arguments elther for or against, | |{ was amused to notice that you had |failen flatly this time, | Though your words were arranged | to convey the thousht that is upper- | | most in the minds of Gompers, Frayne | and u few more determined corrup-| | Honists, you really conveyed just tho} | exact opposite to most of your readers | You gave Judge Gary the best sanc- | tion for his attitude that has ever been extended him by # daily news: | | paper. For example, following the lines of the Judge's suggestions, do you thinh the Japanese would send to China to find their representative of the United| States to Mexico? Aqd that is just the point at issue between Judge Gary and the employees of ‘he United | States Steel Corporation, | Please cogitate and see if I am not correct, Yet I am no friend of Judge | Gary, nor enemy either; and though 1 am expecting nothing from him in |any way, I am one of his keen ad- 'mirers and am following his business | out praying {ethics as closely as it 18 possible for |@ young man to do under the many absurd ‘business requirements of to- day. Aside B New York, May ‘1 A Stagwerer, ‘Po the Editor of The Brenang World The other day a young (New York) woman remarked to me of the splen- did personal appearance of the young | sailors now so evident in New York, | ending the remark with “they don't look a bit like our undersized, Char. | ley Chaplin mustached Nttle monkey one sees on every corner nowaday You bet they don't, for the clean- cut, clean-shaven, clean-skiuned sailor} countries of to-day en boys are of a different breed from the decadent youth of this city, For a long time past the press of New York has been picturing present day type of young men in a| very unfavorable light—and Jo, almost in the twinkling of an eye the type has changed into living examples of Gene Carr's cartoons of the New York | male Perhaps the contrast between the New York boy and the sailors has {Drought such into evidence, perhaps the New York youth desired to more the} which the rest of the country is breeding. As a plain matter of fact the men and women, boys and girls one 52e8 in pr nt day New York are more unpre ssessing than the people any other first (or second) class of ty in the world save the Asian nd African cities. Thanks to the news- Papers the world (and particularly the United States) has already w pretty poor opinion of the New York male from « moral and’ physical ;Yiewpoint—and so it probably is just ay well that the youth of your city th are doin ir best to live up to that reput the reputation of un- pleasing personal appearance, poor uunners, weak morals and ‘callow mentality, Yours trul ROBERT CLAYTON, "we Wants “Blue Sunday"? The Bo ous The re again. Who wants “Blue Sunday"? Who wants a day of rest on which there is nothing to do but pray? Isn't a morning of yer enough to find favor in the eyes of God when there is no horrible evil in our lives, with- all day? | Are we so wicked that only by prayer can we at all hope to escape Purgatory. How about che eople of other fuiths than Christian, who ‘do not keep Suni » Sabbath, who would lik rye their chosen seventh day, but who, if the fanatics have their way, will either have to Sunday as their day of prayer? Yasn't this country founded by re- us people who, finding themselves persecuted in the land of ¢ birth, came here to pray in freedom? Aren‘ the persecuted folks of Huropean freedom our forefathers strove make this country stand for? Can't the fanatics find something better to do with thelr time than by |geeking ways and means of bringing |a freedom loving and law abiding peo- ple to the poiut where they ‘break faith with the very spirit on which the United States of America was | founded? | 1 believe that the greater population of this country are religious, The | world is not #o wicked as the clergy- to | perfectly represent the cartoons of manhood appeating in the ne certain it is, however, that thi sized, Charley Chaplin a tle monkey's one New the lad . he New York ni ideal of young Manhood, and as everybody "| eomes at the men would have us believe. Religion time and of lis own of God works ow bad free ir gia und make this again a country overned by the peopic, and for the break the law of the land or observe | tled to the} ———— UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Copsright, 1921, by Jobn Blake) “NERVES” ARE A LUXURY If you have an inherited fortune, which some one else is taking care of for you, you can afford to have “nerves. You can afford to be sensitive, to be easily irritated, to be extravagantly disturbed at small annoyances. You will not enjoy this, but it may be some comfort to know that you can afford it, But if you have your way to make and are anxious to get as far as possible with your particular mental equipment you will find that “nerves” are too big a load to carry, As you no doubt have discovered by this time, the world in which we have our being is not altogether a pleasant one, In it there are loud and raucous noises, offensive sights and displeasing people. There is also a thing called labor, which, viewed f: the standpoint of the fussy man, is a good deal of a burden. But this happens to be the only world you ate in for the present at least. And if you permit all its unpleasant features to get on your nerves you are going to be so busy with your unhappi- |$ liess and your self pity that vou will have very little time to improve your natural gifts. If you are nervous and touchy and sensitive and always looking for offense you might as well go directly to the poor house and give yourself up. You will get there in the end, and it will only be a waste of time to delay your arrival. A good many cases of “nerves” were cured by the great war, permanently. Young gentlemen who thought they could not eat save from a nice mahogany table spread with the best food and who fancied they could not sleep if a trolley car rattling by discovered that they were mistaken. After they had slept for a @w days within the sound of exploding shells they saw that they hadn't had much to worry about back in peace times. | Get rid of your nerves if you want to get along. Take {3 the world as you find it and put up with it. You may be able to improve it just the least bit later on, but you will have 13 tu become very able and very great before you can do so. ° ed m | | Fi | people, and not by religious or pessi- | rei amet "RorH Levy. | From the Wise |, New York, Muy 20, 1921. Bvery unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. —Daniel Webster. | ‘Telephone Employment, ‘Vo the Bator of Tee Bresing World In reference to the letter appearing in your paper, “Applying for Telaphone Job,” T would like to adc- vise the young lady to apply at a jconimercial office ‘of the New York Telephone Company for a pass into a telephone exchange and thon she can see for herself whether the credit given the New York Telephone Com pany for consideration of the work- ing girls has been overdrawn or Ot AN Love ts the occupation of the idle man, the anusément of a busy one and the shipwreck of a sovereign, Napoleon, A jail iy @ temporary resting not, 1 am an operator in one place for martyrs’und) rogues | Bre lyn exchanges and I for one can neat lsately say that we have everything h » want for oa comfort an lady eve FOR 1 BO fession. Will while they pretend to ; Arete ip cure; yet then atlige men to pay apply foy uny them for the slaughier ~—Folquet de Lunel. OPERATOR. |, | Brooklyn, May 19, 1021, — ® Sp am ne tT nn SONATE ARON Ce Se ‘Fathers of |. | Thought | By Maubert St. Georges | |Copycight, 1921, by The Drew Publiding Go | (The New York Evening Wo: \—SOLON, | The Lawgiver. Solon, the great legislator of Athe ens and one of the seven wise men, was born in 638 B.C. He was ofthe «ost famous family of Attica, being descended from Codrus, the last King jot Athens, His fether having m- |Paired the family fortunes by his |munificence, Solon was constrained |tg repair them by trade was eminently suceessful. His first appearance in public af- | fairs was connected with the war jbetween Athens and Megara for the |Island of Salamis. The forturé of |wur had been so decidedly “against Athenians that they had abane struggle and had sworn to h Who might suggest & Solon resolved to take the chance. He had the report spread [that was inad. When this “had gained suificient credence he rushed jinto the Assembly and urged them to war, His in this he | the }its renewal, he friends applauded, he |people were taken by storm and am Jexpedition decided on with Solon in charge, which was finally successful. Swittly Solon climbed jn power antil |tinally he was given the tayk of Fi he tuyk of sete | ting the domestic irs of the Athe+ |nians on a sound by This was a ; emendous under » . but he | brought it to a successful’ end in tho Jcourse of a fow ye Then to pre- vent the changin the laws whigh Jhethad devised, and which he knew |Were for the good of his country, he jobtuined a promise trom the people not to change them tor ten yeurs without his consent, and then in order that he might not he forced to give this he | nit Athens for a pro- longed s ries of travels. He went to I where, according to Plato, he heard from the ‘priests tne story the lost Atluntis, Then he wentt D d showed the King that living among the hills as he did |Was foolish, und persuaded him te }found @ city on the 4 his wisdom, he (urne prosperous community, and thus Jaid for the Cyprian power. > went to Lydia, where he f Croesus, the rich, and ave that prince late life at the hands of Cyrus of Finally he returned to Athena, | . he found that in spite of his laws t he city was in the grip of dis- sension caused by the greed of the Pisistratus, kinsman of Solon, made jiiinself despot of the city. Solon did all he could to rouse the people to res! willingly risking |his life. When asked to what he {trusted to protect him from the |tyrant’s anger, he answered: “To {my old ag Pisistratus treated greatest respect and jehabled him to finish his life, if not tn | happiness, at least in comfort, and he peace somewhere about the \ 8 1. C, | ght him with the Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government ‘Coppright, 1941, the P Publishing ite Now’ Yat Bracing, Wena't™t O% By Willis Brooks Hawkins, This is the seventy-first article of @ series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. BOARD OF ELECTIONS, | The Board of Elections is composed f Jof four Commissioners—two Repub- |licans and two Democrats—chosen by the Board of Aldermen for a term of two years, upon the recommenda- tion of the County Committee of their tive political par New {York and Kings Coun » Bach |Commissioner receives a salary of | $6,000. It is the duty of the board to exe- cute the laws relating to all elections held within the city, inclu: among other things, the preparation and ion of party enrolments; the ot Assembly Districts into election districts and the preparation of maps thereof; entering designu- tions for primary elections and nom inations for general elections; ean vassing the vote cast at primary elections; election advertising and publication of registry | Drepara- tion and provision of ballots, station jery, ballot boxes, booths and other equipment for all elections; examina. tion, appointment, supervision and discipline of election officers to serve at the polling places, and designa- tion of the polling places for the sev- eral election districts, The Police Department co-operates with the Board of Elections by dis tributing ballots and stationery from { police stations to polling places and for the preservation of order at elec- tions. a WHERE DID YOU GET _ THAT WORD? 29.—V ENISON, “Venison” is one of the words that | have shrunk, instead of expanding, in meaning through the centuries, ‘The ' Latin great-grandfather of the wor js the verb “venor,” t hunt. fee French grandfather is the verb “yee ner,” meaning also to hurt; and ‘te father is again the French word "ye. naison,” a hunting. . The English word “venery,” obsolete, Was brought to England, ve was the practice of hunting ttecif that is to say, hunting as it was oar ried on as a lordly sport in feudal | times—by the Normane, This word, however, should no} confounded ‘with another ‘Busi. of the same spelling, which ‘s = 0 |. The Pilgrims, itke the Puritans, | frowned upon hunting for mport, Bnet the necessities of the larder and the abundance of game on @ virgin con. tinent frequently drove them to hunt Ing for food which they trou with them, was therefore frequently In thelr mouths as was (he deer moat which It design mates,