The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1921, Page 26

SE Cee back from Shantung and other of its adventures WeMNIg World, ESTADLIS BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podlitet Daily & pt Sunday by ‘The Prom Publishing Company, Nos. $3 to 62 Park Raw, New York. PULITZER, Prosident. 63 Park Row. ANGUS SHAW, Troasursr. 68 Park Row. Jost PH PULITAER Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. — MEMMER OF THE ASSOVIATED PRESS, (Deo Associated Prem te exclusively entitled to the use for repubitestion @ alt news despatches crea.ied to It oF not otherwise credited ta thls pager fend ale ths locr! news published bereim BRIAND STEERS TRUE. PEAKING to the French Chamber of Deputies 5 yesterday, Premier Briand swept politics aside and gave friend of France has believed would prove the dominating policy and spirit of her Government. Germany has done her part by unconditionally Submitting to demands made upon her. France will do her part by sticking to her Allies and the Treaty. Such was the sum and substance of M. Briand’s declaration, as he announced receipt of the German Government’s pledge to keep closed the Upper Silesian frontier and to take every possible measure to prevent the passage of irregular German troops. | «Mere words, mere promises, you may say. But-no. Dr. Wirth since he has been head of the German Government has shown great frank ness and great loyalty, He has undertaken en gagements and he has taken steps to carry then out.” fine utte ze to what every In view of the evidences of German good faith, the French Government will not s the Ruhr or otherwise yield to those who would “rush into mil- itary action.” France will remain in accord with her Allies “I can never forget that in the World War England came to our side and America came ‘and others came. You should not forget that. \. We owe them something in spite of dissension and politics, This splendid union must be main- tained.” M. Briand has sounded the true note. His po- litical enemies know by this time that the opinion of the rest OF the worki has had its effect upon Public opinion in France. Instead of hooting him and his two-thin’s of the Chamber of Deputies applauded him. He should have prompt proof that the real France is behind him. t “concessions,” It takes the Tribune half an editorial column j to say that the best thing about President Har- j ding on an eleven weeks’ showing is that he's THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, | to put’ into power a pro-Japanese Government, which will go through the motions of reaching an ' agreement on Stantung. This may “save the face” | of the Japanese, but will the people of China re- | spect such argeements? Are they not likely to again turn ot the Government and continue the boycott until Japan renounces all claims and gets out with- out condition? What Japan is facing is the fact that China is too big to swallow. Japan may take a bite, but the morsel doesn’t digest well. Japan has discov- ered that no possible profit from possession of any single part of China. will balance the loss of the trade from all the rest of China. THEORY ONLY? MEMORANDUM on reduction of armaments issued by the Democratic National Commit- tee’s Bureau of Political Research calls attention to the preamble of Part V. (Military, Naval and Air Clauses) of the Treaty of Versailles. This preamble reads: In order to render possible tho initiation of a general limitation of the armaments of all na- tions, Germany undertakes strictly to observe the military, naval and air clauses which follow. Is the international aim herein implied another of the insurmountable objections the Harding Ad- ministration has found im the Versailles Treaty? President Harding, it is true, has once or twice in- dorsed the fheory of disarmanrent. Does he balk at any practical carrying out of the theory by agreements in black and white, just as he extols the principle of “interdependence and co- operation” among nations but flees from the con- crete covenant by which sonre twoscore of them have begun actually to co-operate? It is so mahy months since Americans have been encouraged to think the League of Nations has any meaning for them that same may have forgotten Article VIII. of the covenant, which says: . The members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peaco requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consist- ent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations. The Council, taking account of the geographicai situation and circumstances of cach state, shat! formulate plans for such reduction for con- sideration and action of the several Govern- | | i | q not President Wilson. | ‘THE BRITISH HANDICAP. ONTINUING success of the American golfers in England will be a source of satisfaction to | erican sportsmen. }But the Globe paid a graceful tribute and struck cisely the right note in reminding Americans t the British golfers are playing under the heavy handicap caused by war and its wastage. qThe Globe reminds us that the British ploughed ubder golf courses*to help provide food to win the war. Britishers took what was virtually a four- year vacation from the game. Many youngsters who, under happier circumstances, would have de- veloped as opponents of our own younger players are now dead or maimed, or, at best, have not haz Opportunity to develop their game. ; These circumstances should not weaken the Amer- ion effort to win. But when the score is in, if ‘Americans are so skilful or fortunate as to win, good sportsmanship shoukl be quick to realize and recognize the British handicap. TOO BIG TO SWALLOW. EWS from Japan and China is veiled in un- certainty and clouded by rumor. But there seems to be little doubt that Japan is about to draw on the mainland of Asia. “Chinafication” has been a favorite expression of contempt hy self-styled “red-blooded” Americans. China has been held up as the exemptification of all that a nation ought not to be. Recent events in the Orient cast grave doubts on this “red-blooded” philosophy. For whatever other factors may have urged Japan to recede from her previous position, there seems to be no doubt that the nation-wide boycott of Japanese goods by the Chinese is the principal reason for the present tum in events. China has practised “passive resistance’’—a policy which militurists have derided. China has waged economic warfare against Japan, and has conquered by sheer unity of national will, not by the power of national arms. Undoubtedly China has paid a Price in inconvenience, but is this comparable with the burden of a war debt and a list of war dead? Chim has obstinately refused even to discuss the return of Shantung. The Chinese Government has refused to recognize any Japanese rights in the mat ter, and the Chinese have backed up the unspoken protest against Japanese occupation by refusal to do business with Japanese. The result has been an intensification of the eco- nomic crisis in Japan, The merchants and trading class of Japan have discovered that international Piracy against China does not pay. The pity is that China did not discover and make effective this policy of passive resistance years ago, at the time of the Opium War and when the pow- ers were acquiring the “Treaty Ports.” miovzeee ore. ors Foekiapan bes effected a coup ments * * * Is the definite character of this programme of disarmament an additional reason why the Harding Administration has kicked the League into outer darkness? President Harding’s present attitude seems to be that disarmament is indeed a great international ideal—toward which the United States must make no move that might mean disarming. BUSINESS AND LAW. T ALMOST the moment when President Har- ding was expressing a wish for “the least possible measure of Government interference with business” Samuel Untermyer was issuing a scath- ing denunciation of the predatory practices of the building rings in this city. It is true President Harding spoke only “for the largest co-operation with properly conducted busi- ness,” while Mr. Untermyer was arraigning business which has proved to be most improperly conducted. President Harding spoke on a basis of generaliza- tion which his hearers would indorse. Mr. Unter- myer spoke from uncomtroverted facts disclosed by the Lockwood committee. President Harding is right when he says: “The Government's part in business should be no more than to insure adherence to the princi- ples of common honesty.” But Mr. Untermyer és no less right when he points out that the laws as they exist have not “insur any sort of commercial honesty in the building industry. Mr. Harding rightly believes that we should “assume it (business) is honest umtil proven dis- honest.” But when the proof is there the penalties for business dishonesty should be as severe as for burglary. At present the lax laws of which Mr. Untermyer complains do not punish the dishonest business man in the same measure that laws punish the burglar. Mere $500 fines assessed against building ring con- spirators amount to little more than a compounding of the felony. What has Mr. Harding to propose to “insure ad- herence to principles of common honesty’? TWICE OVERS. 66 CAN handle them all right, Jadge. \When he balked I just poked him once or twice and that settled it” —Miss Selma Bankeser. . . “7 WHO am on the bridge will not let the ship go on the rocks.” —Premier Briand. es 8 «@ 66° HE District Attorney believes an injustice was done in the conviction of Thomas J. Mooney for a 1916 Preparedness Day bomb murder and will preserd to the Governor evidence substantiating this be- Uef that will compel kim to act.” —Assistant District Attorney es ‘Ren of San Francisco. Bane | 1921, eh LTT By John Cassel Copsright, 1921 v fhen) York Evening From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't tt the one that giwee you the worth of a thousand worda im a couple of hundred? Phere is fme mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying age the Law, To the Editor af ‘The Evening World. Betng a constant reader of The Evening World and an admirer of many years’ standing, I herewith tender you my congratulations and best wishes in your stand on the Prohibition question. in this State in favor of the repeal | noxious on account of the manner by which they were instituted, write their respective representatives in Washington in support of the pro- posed bill which has been or will be introduced by Representative Ry9n of New Jersey. This bill, 1 am tn- formed, calls for a referendum vote on the Volstead act. Stir the people from the spirit of indifference which seems to possess them at the presen. time and get them to renew their ef- forts against the infamous lobbyis:s of the Anti-Saloon League and its al- lies, Let us prove to our representa- tives that we want this law changed and will watch their individual votes ‘on this question in order that we may call them to account on Wlection Day, ‘THOMAS L. WILLIAMS, Brooklyn, May 2, 1921, ‘The Hoceh Questionnaire. To the Editor of The Bwening Work: Who invented the word hooch, and why? What were the names of the Goy- ernors of North and South Carolina who said, “It's a long time between rinks"? If Volstead had seven litle Vol- steads, would times be any Worse?” If we are to “eat, drink and be merry,” what kind of liquid are we to consume? When Is Prohibition going into ef- What part of the Constitution reads “by « two-thirds vote of those present”? Why has a policeman so little dif- ficulty in getting the booze? Does he get it from his “chyb"? Are hip pockets being made larger than usual, and if so, why? Is America the land of law break- ers or law makers? LOUIS GODSHALL. New York, May 21, 1921. Of Course There Are Exceptions. To the Uditor of The Evening World: In regard to the strike situation between the Shipping Board and the Seamen's Union, an article in the is- gue of the 18th places the deep-sea sailor in a very Pad 1 light before the readers of your From your Erticle one would be led to believe that every sailor that crosses the pond is making all kinds of easy dough smuggling large quantities of hooch into this Sahara. Well, from my point of view I think the article is unfair to the deep-sea tar, No doubt you will admit that there might be a few law-abiding citizens among that body of men just the game as there are in other walks of life; then, again, there might be a cow customs officials that would not as your article implies, Pog on the contrary, will search every piece of baggage, rather limited It is my suggestion that the voters | * of Prohibition laws, which are ob-| fee Saran te say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. sometimes, and even his permon, in quest of hooch and other drugs, and that before he is allowed to lift a foot off the pier. The writer is not one of the strikers or connected with them in any way, but it seems to me that the article in question tends te give the readers of The Evening World a false impression of the dosp- ea_men. f. 1. D. Hoboken, N. J. When Prohibition? To the Editor of The Evening Work! Please let a son of another old mother reply to an “Old Mother's’ epistle of Saturday. You say you are sorry that Prohibi- tion did not come fifty years ago. Well, the majority of the people of the U. 8. A. are not, for if such had been the case we would have on hand to- day a Nation composed of degenerates caused by hooch, home brew and other home-made bar varnishes. The mothers and wives may be re- | sponsible to-day for Prohibition, in- asmuch as they were misguided by an aggregation of spincless agitators who were desirous of obtaining soft berths and plenty of graft for them selves, and who cloaked themselves in lilywhite raiment in order to keep their true ollstained hides from view The writer is a travelling man and has been covering muny dry towns for the past ten years, aod has 0} failed as yet to procure such liquor desired; and i be S. A. So please advise me, a get in touch with your managers the Anti-Saloon League, when Pro- hibition goes into effect. Statistics show to-d that there are more drunkards (whiskey), men| and women, than ever before The writer would advise “Old Mother" to get some rea) facts before she en- deavors to enlighten people who know this situation better than she does. SON OF ANOTHDR OLD MOTHER Why Not Reprisals? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In response to the letter written by “Old Mother” in Saturday's Evening World, I would hike to say that now that the California woman who “laughed good and ‘hearty” and others like her have deprived the men of their drink (most likely in order that the latter sbould save more money to pay for sleeveless, low-necked, skirt less dresses for their wives, daugh- ters and sisters), what is there to prevent the male population of the against also United States from voting this degeneracy in dress, an against the cherished cup of t coffee which furnish so many licious" moments—opportunities trigue and gossip—among womenfolk? My husband, a healthy man, seems to be lost since Prohibition hi into effect, and is plunning to make a long stay abroad. He has never been drunk, was always kind and lovely to me and to everybody, obey- ing gil the laws and was ardent); aed trie@c. Now that hie personal Ii attacked he is beginning to |(some of them who were wounded) i» UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) THE BAD START. ‘The average man is so constituted that a certain amount of discouragement is necessary to progress. That is why nobody should worry about a bad start, Get a good one if you can, of course. It will help. But remember if your start was bad that so was the start of al- most every other man who ever attained a place of any im- portance in the world. Gen, Grant got a bad start in his studies at West Point aud did so poorly in the army that he resigned. At the outbreak of the war between the States in America he had settled down to the business of running a yard and tannery in an obscure Illinois town, His biographer says that he was utterly discouraged But ne: wasn't. He knew that somewhere in him was a very great “ability. And when he got into the war, as all young .mericans on both sides did, ambition awoke in him. Everybody knows the rest of the story. Lloyd George is one of the few conspicuous figures in the world to-day who proceeded from success to success after he once got his start. The start itself was extremely bad. It would have dis- couraged most men. However, determination triumphed over poverty and lack of opportunity. The world knows the rest of that story ivo. Tt stands to reason that if you never have to use your 3} muscles you will always be a weakling. And you can only use your museles in overcoming something, whether it is a job or your own natural inertia, Neither can you develop your mental possibilities with- oul overcoming obstacles, and to the poor in spirit all ob- stacles are diseouragements. Don't feel bluc.about a bad start, It ought to make you determined to atone for it, and in atoning for it you will gain strength and character. And these are the forces thar will win in the world for almost any one, i eaeeaeeeeeaeeaeeataateataaaaeaaeamanaaaaaeaaaaaaaananaaaaaaaaam —_—_— lose faith. It was an injustice to take away his glass of wine at table. A MODERN WIFE. M » 1921. other boys that will be getting it? They did their share, now may not New York, ‘To the Tam a reader of your paper and I note an article that the State Bonus Commission has ruled that applicants for the New York State bonus now living in other States, unless they en- tered the service in the State and re- sided in same after their discharge until last election, are disqualified to receive the bonus. ‘The injustice of this ruling to thou- sands of our boys should be looked into. There Would like to answer your cor- respondent of to-day who asks, ‘“What President of the United States freed the black man without freeing a sin- gle white man?” It was Lincoln, of course, and he was under the delusion at the time that he had struck the last manacie of slavery from men's hands, and after that was done we would be dome with slavery forever. How blind he was. The negro was freed from one form of elavery only to have an- other yoke more galling and oppres- sive placed about bie meck. That is wage slavery, from which all work- ingmen, both black and white, suffer to-day and must continue to suffer till we cease to allow the few to are many boys who served who after their discharge married and, owing to the!r mability to obtain living quarters in New York State, yer® obliged to ge to other States, y are unable to draw a bonus n the State they now live tn as we Th fre | Women of The Bibie By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory causriame. Yat by The. Pre pubis Col | LPI Now! York Rvening Worl) 7.—JAEL AND SISERA. Jael's modern representative t# Charlotte Corday of French Revolu- tion tame, The young French woman plunged her dagger into tho heart of Marat, the human Tiger of the Terror, and Jael drove the tent-pin into the brain of Slsera, the arch-enemy of Isracl. Charlotte Corday felt that so'long as Marat lived the holiest interests of the French people were in jeon- ardy, and Jacl wag of the opinion (that wae Sisera lived the liberty of her people would be in constant peril. Sisera, the mighty Canaanite Gen-, eral, had just been ‘beaten by Des, borah’s hosts at the River Kishon,? ‘but the dangerous leader made his? escape from the field and was in a falr way to run the ganilet, retura \ to bis own country and organize an- | other campaign aguinst Isracl. This was prevented by Jucl. While > Sisera lay in hia tent asleep, they jterrible woman pulled up a sharp lont-pin, seized a huge hammer that Jay by and drove the pin through Wis {ore Dinning bin fast to the: sround. Sisera’s army was annihilated, Si- } sera himself lay dead, and the great | men. that had so long confronted ¢ |the people no longer existed é Jael's herole deed instantiy lifted t her to the very pinnacle ef popular ity, and when, following tle crowning 4 victory at the Wishon, they celebrated the gre deliverance, Unis ig the song they cung in Jaal’s honor: t | “Blessed above women shall tel Le, the wife of Heber the Ken “Blessed shall be | women of the tent. She put her har | to the na and her right |) ‘s hammer, with 4 he amote Yisera, She emote p | through his head . shin piesed k thrash his temple: he bowed, bowed he fell d In Jaels deed there , appeal to our tin 4 ments, Itgwas not : iH ness andy Inement. el herself wag but fneeecracs hy soft, d tot | sensil bITIti@s, but she had the b of her convictions, and the cru ‘ | her deed is stoned for hy the exalted y enthusiasm out of whiel she acted. rt Tt was a cruel age. Crueily was the order of the ¢ fl | of this fact that Js ry p | It was a cruct thine Corday to drive her da ‘ od heart of Marat, and yet the your woman from Caen made hersel mortal by tlie bloody stroke So J | broke into everlasting fate wit tent pin and hammer See Judges, Chapter W. > Pel Super Business Women Ry Helen Page ‘the Drees Pablias ng Co me Evening World, * 11.—MRS. |. V. BREWSTER, Sales Manager. ’ From $12 a wee! to a $10,000 a your income is something of # record even in these days of mugiclike commer: cial success, But yuen one considers that this record was made by 4 womn- an who had had no previous busine experience this record is ull the muro remarkable. Four years ago Mrs. I. V. was confronted with the n Increasing the meagre income her after having suffered financiaty; losses and the death of her husband. She considered many occupations, ———— her, Conscious of the fac! that if she were to undert work that did not interest } cially she would never make of it, she finally entered the office of « talking machine company with a sa!- ary of $12 a week and comm aalous and promise of pronu M Brewster fo: c . sition. To-da. is manager of its mport branch in Fifth Avenu y income of $10,000 a yea o cessor was a man. Mrs. Brewster has a most attract vr rsonality. Her pleasing manner antl Ser soft, well modulated voice repre: sent a distinct asset in these day; brusque business manners. Mi members of her sales staff are y women who, like hi Were W out business expertence before takin, up this work, Their record of Mrs. Brewster says, has been satisfactory. WI i 's 10 that success is inevitable when the right person finds right jo eee | Forgotten ‘‘Whys ” i { Umbrellas | Few people know that when they use an umbrella they eneroa ing upon the privileges of royalty. § The umbrella originated in the as, where it was first used by monary for protection 4 the burning sun of the tropi me an ome blem of royalty and gradually tras elled West. Kings who sat under’! trees to deal out justice were usng the shade of it a8 much as an embli ni as for actual protection. Hance a the phrase, "Sitting in the ki shadow.” At last some bright persop who oir jected to getting wet thought umbreli were as good protec from water as from sunshine and, obtaining permission to use one, evolved the parent of the now ubiqui, tous umbrellas. To this day the King of Siam claims authority over the minor Rajahs of the land by the title “Lord of the Umbrellas,” From the Wise Laws are like cobwebs, whil may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ¥ —Anacharsis It is more becoming for a young person to blush for shame than to look pale with guilt—Cato, Those who think money 1wtll do anything may be suspected of doing anything for money. —A. Thayer. are they were not residents of sald State when they enlisted, Did not these boys help fill the quota from New York State? Are they ndt entitled to the bonus the same as any | monopolize the land, which Heaven in- terded for all, for “one as well as tor awother,” in the language of Holy Wt. JOSIE THORPE PRICE 4. T, iuwood, L, 1, May 20. scan Da | es as IIE The painful remembrance of a. fault embitters one’s most glorious moments.—Joliboia, A \ a ; _— UJ