The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1921, Page 30

° Otte ee ae + wd © final victory. i nn nye NTT TTI 4 She CGeNiNng Worle, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER | Budlimed Daily Except Sunday by The Proa Publishing i Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park “Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMBER OF TAE ASSOCIATED PRESS, nd alto the local news published herein. STAY ON GUARD. HEN 2 popular piece of legislation is juggled W and jiggered, delayed and obstructed, man- hhandled in committee and shunted aside with a min- imum of debate, it may prove to be good legisla- fion, or it may prove to be bad legislation. But when such a measure can no longer be Sidetracked, comes before the Senate and is passed without a single dissenting vole—then it is time for the intelligent voter to look for the nigger jn the woodpile of obstruction and keep a watch- ful eye on the future course of the measure. This has been the history of the Borah disarma- ment amendment. Ht passed the Senate in the last Congress Wut died before enactment. In the pres- ‘ent session there has been no open and honest op- position. When it came to a vote not one Senator ¢ared to go on record as opposing it. It was a good measure, and it was popular. But if it had not been for the able and persistent efforts of Senator Borah, backed by a militant pub- lic opinion aroused by The Worki’s vigorous cam- ey in committee, a victim of star chamber work and political intrigue. © Munition makers, armament manufacturers, jin- goes and’ predatory imperialists would have fought | the same sort of fight which has been waged again? the Borah resolution, the public's only repdrts of the contest consisting of inspired propaganda rela- tive fo possible “embarrassments” from such a policy, or “encroachments on the Executive.” Already there are renewed forecasts of mysteri- ‘ous underground opposition in the House, of lead- ers who intend to obstruct and, if possible, bury + the amendment. Public opinion forced action in the Senate. It «can do the same in the House and in the White House. But the public must stay on guard, The opponents of proportional disarmament are wily and watchful. The first engagement bas been won. But winning the first engagement does not mean “HANDICAP"’(!) ; NDER the caption “The British Handicap,” ‘ this newspaper the other day counselled moderation and sportsmanlike restraint in case an American won the British amateur golf title. In the light of events, the warning was entirely fuperfluous. Not an American reached the semi- finals. Americans have nothing to trow over ex- cept the excellent reports by the British writers of the sportsmanlike manner in which the American : have met defeat. match has been full of surprises. Golf usually is. The really surprising thing would have been for the play to run according to “dope” and ‘the players to maintain their form throughout the ing gtuelling play. English critics are kind or courteous enoligh to lay ‘America’s poor showing to over-zeal, over-, training ayd over-practice. The American players have no alibis to offer. They lost. That's golf ‘ The superstitious are certain to point out the fllforfune that attended an entrance list of thirteen players. But that isn’t golf. A WELCOME CHANGE. 6677 HE arbitrary power to decide what is and what is not a public benefit was never intended to be lodged in the Postmaster General. It shall not be assumed.” ‘ These words are from Posimaster General Hays’s statement granting the second-class mail privilege sto the Liberator. It would be hard to improve on their force and clarity. They mark out an alto- gether admirable change in the policy of the postal department. Mr. Hays has turned his back on the Burleson policy of censorship and repression. It is a change the country has been waiting for and which will be generally approved. The department proposes to return to the Liber- ator the excess postage: which Burleson exacted in his autocratic administration of the’ postal rules. Unmaihble mattgr will be excluded entirely. Mail- able matter will not be subjected to penalties on political opinions differing from those of the Post- master General. “The war is over,” says Mr. Hays. return to our ordered freedom.” These are good words, “We must NORTH DAKOTA'S BOND VENTURE. HE North Dakota 5 3-4 per cent. bond sale is of greater interest than many financial ven- tures involving larger sums. It is unusual because the bonds are being sold “over the counter” and without the usual services of an underwriting syndicate. Again, the éffort is interesting because North Dakota is the nome of the Non-Partisan League. Prev {a exclusively entitied to the use for republication GF all news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this papee,, pa ge vember THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921. | The league is invading “enemy country” when it cones to Wall Street. The rate on. the bonds is interesting in itself. North Dakota is attempting to float a loan at a rate below the market for prime industrial and railroad and even below more familiar municipal, State and foreign bonds. Even now France is floating a loan to yield at least 2 per cent. more than the Dakota issue. From this it is evident that North Dakota ex- pects to profit by the sentimental appeal to anti- Wall Street sources, The league is capitalizing opposition to the usual sources of loans and de- pends on borrowing from these who are not ordi- narily interested in the bond market. issues, WHAT CONFIDENCE MEANS. | lige ggrigie evidence of the enduring power of co-operative and profit-sharing agreements between employers and employees, even through slack times, is found in The Evening World's report on the present ‘status of such co- operative plans in a mumber of concerns where they have been in: operation -some time, and where Martin Green of The Evening World staff studied paign, the. disarmament proposal would have died ~ and described them a year and a half ago. Not only has the co-operative principle weathered hard times, but it has made wage reductions where necessary an easier matter, owing to the workers’ firsthand knowledge of the inner facts and figures of the business. What the co-operative plants, like most others, need now is healthy encouragement from a public that will not hesitate to buy where prices aye right The President of a manufacturing concern in the Middle West suggests a campaign to induce pur- chasers all over the country, on a given day, at a certain hour, signalled" by factory and steamboat whistles, to get busy and buy something. The method is too spasmodic. But. the idea be- hind it is sound. v The public ought to buy, and buy steadily, wherever prices have come down, in order to stim- ulate industry and stabilize prices on the lower level. + Producers can’t go on producing without pur- chasers, Unless production is encouraged in the normdl way, prices will start upward again, in- dustry will have a worse attack of nerves and be further than ever from absorbing the unemployed, «whose number is already formidable, The country is told it needs confidence. : Gonfidence, if it.means anything, means a state of mind in which general buying strikes are things of the past and in which consumers spend thelr money cheerfully and discriminatingly in di- rections where they are convinced there has been an honest marking down of prices. Bells and factory whistles should not have » remind the average American that crawling into a hole fs not the way to persuade himself or any- body else that all’s on the way to being well, with plenty of work ahead. Stay in the open, stick tw the job, and buy what you need where the price is fair, “Reluctantly and Laggardly” (1) ‘To the Editor of The Bvening World In The Evening World of Tuesday, May 24, under the caption “The Painful Parallel," I read and read Again, trying to conceive in my mind a reason why. Again and again it comes up the same way, “We sent them solely to save the United States of America, and most reluctantly and laggardly at that * * © We were afraid not to fight.” Again and again and again I look, and cannot believe. Is it possible that our country has elevated one of its citizens to the honored position of Ambassador— and he in return has spit upon it? ‘That he has been in the past a narrow man who did not hesitate to vent the spleen of bigotry on a religion different trom his own we know. But when I look back upon the Lusitania—Edith Cavell—little children—women—the early days of 1917—my own uniform—the uniform of my country, the United States of America—the winter of 1917, bitter and bleak, in @ thin barracks high on the hill overlooking Washington—New Year's and a transport in New York—shortly after France and a high belief that the opportunity to fight for a righteous cause was at hand——Then tire mud and dirt of it all—and Oh, God! to find at this late day that I and the 4,000,000 others of our armies—and the entire country which was back of us—did {t all most reluctantly! Wilson has been bitterly berated for being pro- British, There has been no other man in the service of our Government, with the possible exception of Benedict Arnold, who has brought such shame to our country as this one Harvey, Were he not Ambassador The Evening World and its readers would have been better for its omission, ‘That he is Ambassador we can not but go on through each day shame—fearful of the next! ADJUTANT AMBRIC dare not—forge* heads bowed with N LBGION POST, TWICE OVERS. 667 HAVE no doubt the State can readily collect a few million dollars in fines on pleas of guilty, but that will not abate these inlolerable practices that are paralyzing the building industry.” —Samuel Un- lermyer. SVR “ee T HE right of property may not long exist if taxes are taken to pay for past arms and in prep- aration for future conflicts.” —Senator Underwood. * * * ‘6c 'E (Attorney General Daugherty) should read way and take a dog by the ears.”--A Republican Senator, , ete eee his Bible and be warned not to go out of his ° | "Old Mother,” in fea ~ : S! * to say much in a few words. Take Hetp! Help! | To the Editor of The Evening Worki: ; Will somebody kindly inform ‘me where I could spend my vacation this | summer? [ want to stop at a quiet Place within 200 miles of New York City, where I'll not see any girls, young or old, for at least two full weeks. I am willing to travel in any direction, South, East, North or West. Expect to start away July 15. YOUNG BACHHLOR. ‘New York, May 22, 1921. 4 A Flatt of Princes, ‘To the Editar of ‘The Evening Work: We Americans should be proud ot our Ambassador to Great Britain, George Harvey, who made the heroic statement that he knew no reason why one in the position he now occu- pies need be either a sycophant or a swashbuckler, Judging ‘from his remarks at the banquet of the Pilgrims’ Club belittling | our part in the World War, he cannot be accused of being a swashbuckler, but certainly has shown himself to be a first-class sycophant, or, as Web- ster defines the word, “a flatterer of princes and great men.” 7 We cannot agree with our Ambas- sador to the Court of St. James's in that our participation in the war only hastened the end, but must insist that the aid of our navy and over a million men insured victory and over- turned the balance which put an end to the monotonous trench warfare that had exhausted the Allied armies. How can we blame the conceited Britisher who speaks ligntly of the American fighting forces when out representative puts the words in his mouth? ALL AMERICAN. Wood Ridge, N. J., May 22, 1921. A Temperance Incident. To the Editor of The Evening Workd: With much interest I read the let ter ‘A Temperance Incident” s gned your edition of May 21. Ihave always been a great be- Hever in woman's rights—not in the usually accepted term, but I believed that women should ‘not be looked pon as mentally inferior to men and made household drudges because it was “woman's work.” Last year 1 made a special pcint of voting, as I thought it my duty, but have ‘not studied politics much, 1 admit. But if “the mothers and wives of America” are responsible for Prohibition-—-I'm through. Why don't they try to enact a law for- bidding immodest dressing, short skirts and immoral shows, which T think have a very harmful effect, es- pecially oa young people? Also, why don't they have a cen- sorship on malicious gossip at the vo-called “teas” and women's cub meetings they Move to attend? ‘To my mind Prohibition has done more harm than good, ‘The lessen- ing of crime and automobile acc!- dents and the Utopian conditions which were promised us have not been noticed by me, Sad to say, I know many people who drink and as one of the “wives husband does and he has been far since Prohibition than ever jof the hospital cannot provide. of America” have to admit that my | From. Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. Mother” described as arriving from Sacramento with a jug of whiskey in each hand now has a five-gallop still somewhere, LIBERTAS. Leng Island, May 23, 1921. A Worthy Cause. To the Editor of The Evening World; There are at present over seventy of our World War heroes who are patients at Seton Hospital, Riverdale Avenue, Bronx. They are boys who are poison-gas victims of the Ar- gonne, Soisson and the Hindenburg line, and are in various stages of tuberculosis. hese noble youths are in a finely equipped institution where they have proper care, best of food and special medical treatment. They are as courageous’ in fighting tuberculosis as they were in fighting. for liberty and humanity. They need entertainment and auto- mobile rides which the good people And, oh, ow they would welcome and ap- preciate easy canvas reclining chairs with foot-rest which they could use on the veranda or lawn to rest their worn and wvasy selves. chairs and all of them should have them. The members of the Patriotic Service Society of which Mr. C, 8. Wood of No. 523 West 1ist Street is | President, have secured two dozen of these special chairs at a net cost of $5 each, which will be presented to the boys. Will other organizations or individuals help this worthy cause? MRS. RANDOLPH MARSHALL 523 West 21st Street, May 11, 1 A few have such One Side. | To the Editor of The Wrening Workl: Prohibition has closed up all but 900 saloons in this city. Two years ago we had 11,00 licensed places. Not whiskey place is open, These places used to sell it at 10 cente a big bottleful. e treating to whiskey is very rare. ‘The “big pint” is a lost aad dead institution in tene- ment houses. Not a ealoon is on Broadway. The ladies’ back room is almost abolished. Many se! e, moderate drinkers have stopped. The idlers on the cor- ner have. fargely, disappeared, ‘The arrests for intoxication have been 1e- duced 68 per t. ‘The alcoholic ward also has diminished. I am com paring the figures of three years ago As usual the drink interesta are at their old game of corrupting the poli- ticlans, ‘The Prohibition law was passed without the expenditure of a corrupt dollar but consid was spent for lectures an The law is being violated, but in the main it has done more gpod than harm. What effect will Prohibition have on Tammany Hall? The Evening World is fair enough to publish both WICKMAN, New York, i 1921, For Temperance and Moderation, To the Editor of The Evening Work. It is now perhaps twenty years ago that the Rev. Dr. Rainsford of st George's gave utterance te © prace tical idea that the saloon as the poor man’s club." He had several assistant clergymen who taught ¢ | perance and moderation in all things, {the right spirit of solution of the 80 Most of his friends, Tl wager the man whom “Old liquor gnd beer question, \ By proper education and example UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtent, 1921, by John Blake.) YOU CANNOT HOARD TIME. In a certain time you can make a certain amount of money. You can put the money away for years later. But you can’t put the time away. Money, called by the economists frozen labor, might also be called frozen time. But time is more than money. It can be turned into many things that can be stored away—education, cultivated taste, pleasant and profitable memories. But time itself you cannot hoard. You must use it as it passes or it is gone forever. Time spent in recreation is not wasted unless you spend more than a due allowance for recreation. But time spent in absolute idleness, or in activities that are worse than idle, is sheer, criminal waste. If you could go back over your life and gather back the hours that have never been improved you wold still have enough time to do great things. But those hours are gone. You can only, as Shakespeare says, “regret your dear time’s waste” and resolve to waste less of it in the future. Many men whose time had never been turned to account until they were past forty have still had enough left to ac- complish great things in the world. | But these are the most sincere mourners for the years that might have been utilized. If you will begin to-day to bear in mind that time cannot be hoarded, and that every hour of it should be converted into something that can be hoarded, you may lay the foundation for a fortune. You will certainly lay the foundation for hap- piness by and by. Count your hours and allot each one to some task or to some profitable recreation. See that none of them slip by. They are as water through a mill, which if sent over the wheel creates valuable energy but which spilled over the dam is gone forever. before the younger generation only may this matter be settled. Another point of this enforcement act is that at noon, aside from in- dulgence in a gigss of refreshing beer to the worker, came the opportunity to use the toilet, which in the shops is often an inconvenience and em- ‘harrassment. We can also mention in this connection this opportunity to the passerby, who often now knows not where to resort, With all our improvements and often superflous expenditures, who has ever thought “That's a Fact” | By Albert P. Southwick Coprright, 1921, Prem Publishing Co | Tike New Tar hreting Word | From the Hebrew are derived the names Emmanuel, signifying “God is with us”; Michael, “who is like God,” and Seth, “appointed.” of the desirable erection of comfort ae es stations, Say every two blocks, as 'a| The name Chloe, from the Greek, so many other cities? means herb;” 1 COMMON SENSE. New York, May 23, 1921, the Latin, “joy ana, from the Persian, “dawn of day,” and Walburga, from the Saxon, with Depends on What Author Meant.| the signification of “gracious.” To the Editor of The Evening Worl: ee ee In a Broadway play, now running, wate Bible contains 3.556.480 letters, be words, 81,173 verses, 1,189 a certain line is “I had known she] chapters and ‘sixty-six books. The would.” Knowing that the author ‘and” occurs 46,277 times and of the play is very fond of the word | 1,855 times. The word “rove “had” and very often substitutes it | for a better word, Mr, A. says that! the sentence with regard to the word “had” is incorrect. He alleges that | \t is correct to say “I have known | she would. Mr. B says that the former expres- | sion, the one used he playwright, is corr Each gentleman offers tae whys and wherefores of his own con- clusion, Who is correct and why? ANON, erend” occurs qnly once’ and is the ninth verse of the 11th The middle verse is the eighth of Psalm 118th, The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra con- tains all the letters of the alphabet except “J.” The longest \s Esther vill., 9; the short xi., 85, There are not ar names of more than“Six sy oo. ° 4 Brazil is virtually éhree-fourths the in Psalm, } NO. 11—PHEBE THE RADIANT. Phebe means “pure,” “bright,” and never were name and character mere fittingly joined than in the case ef ‘the Deaconess of the church at Ca chrea, Phebe was a maiden indy, but um ike some old maids she did not eour on the world or lose her interest ta her fellow human beings. She key Sweet and busy, working as long as God gave her breath for the welfare” and happiness of those about her. Like the true woman that she Proved herséif to be, she felt the lure of husband, home and children, and there isn’t a shadow of a doubt thas she would have made an ideal wife, mother and housekeeper; but the wry-faced destinies decreed that she should play a lone hand, and to her everlasting glory she played it un-~ selfishly and well. “In the 16th chapter of Romana, verses 1 and 2, the great Apostle gave her her certificate of character in the following words: “I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the churo& that is at Cenchrea, that ye receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whate soever matter she may have need of you, for she hath been a succourer of many, and of my own self.” Never were grander credentials “|given to a human being! If there had been a Nobel prize Phebe’s day she would have been @ worthy candidate for its honors, for she was a worker for peace to the last hour of her earthly life. The Prince of Peace was to her lover, husband, home, children—all that made life worth while, and for His cause she worked with a steadi- ness and unselfishness without preces dent in the annals of human endea‘ Like the brave woman just behit the firing line in tue late World War, Phebe forgot all about herself in the great fight against sin and sorrow. Braving all danger, casting every thought of self behind her, she stood up to her work without flinching, an@ like her friend and co-worker, Paul, “having done all,” still stood ready, & need be, to be sacrificed to the cause that appealed to her with such com» pelling force, Beyond this supreme fact we know but little of the deaconess of the church at Cenchrea, but it is al thag we need to know. If we knew very much more it would in no way en+ hance her fame or add to her clatm upon our veneration and love. She dedicated herself to the serviea: of humanity, and found the only rev ward she ever thought of in the cone sciousness of the good she was doing. Long live the memory of Phebe the Deaconess: | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City |__Government By Willis Brooks. Hawkins, This is the seventy-second article of a series defining the duties of* the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government, crry CLERK The City Clerk, with offices on the second floor of the Municipal Build- ing, is appointed by the Board of Alw dermen for a term of six years at @ salary of $6,000 a year. He is also Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, keep- ing the minutes of that board an@ having charge of all city documents not committed by law to the custody, of other officers. ‘The City Clerk is the custodian of the city seal and must sign all leases of city property and other documents ‘to which the city seal is affixed. Upom the payment of a statutory fee he furnishes certified copies of ordi~ nances and papers on file with him. He also {issues marriage licenses, auctioneers’ licenses, and permits for electric signs. For the account of the State he isrues licenses to hunters. ‘A law passed by the Legislature in 1916 deprived Aldermen of the right to perform the marriage ceremony, but permitted the City Clerk or his deputies designated for that purpose to do so. These ceremonies are per- formed in a little marriage chapet on the third floor of the Municipab Building, just above the City Clerk's office in Manhattan, and by deputics in the Marriage License Bureaus of the other boroughs. Dorougts, Forgotten ‘“‘Whys” LUCK IN A CAUL. During the war, owing to the dan- gers at sea of mines or torpedoes, the superstition that a child's caul was a safeguard against drowning came int» prominence once more, and many were bought at prices running evea into hundreds of dollars. The caul is a thin membrane found encompassing the head of some children when born, and if is considered a good omen for the children themselves This superstition probably became widespread about the time of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. When he was born he had a band of mem-~ brane round his foreh in the snupe of a diadem, and he attributed all his good fortune to this caul, and tig started the sale of them. A few sail- ors carrying them who then happened. to be saved from shipwreck diverted the superstition toward marine: size of China, having the area of 3,- 9,000 square miles to the latter's 4,179,559, eo 8 6 Santo Domingo and nearly the same area Serbia haye 18,645 squara miles for the former, with 18,750 for the latter. see Louisiana was named in honor of Louis XIV. of France. te ee London, England, like ®t Catha« rines_in Canada, has the nickname of “City of Masts,” and {t 1s also known as the “Modern Bakyion.” iY ne a eee TT wvsaeunnnereoergarcieneeemeamamie