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PRESIDENT, WHEN? f “We are ready to associate ourselves with the fo mations of the world, great and small, for confer- ence, for counsel, to seek the expressed views of world opinion, to recom vend a way to approrimate @isarmament and relieve the crushing burdens of | gnatitary and naval estadlishments.” \* From President Harding’s Inangural Address to {hls Countrymen, March 4 Inst. f' “The President is authorized and requested to P anvite the Governments of Great Britain and Japan & to send representatives to a conference which shall § de charged with the duty of promptly entering into © an understanding or agreement by which the naval expenditures and building programmes of each of $ eaia Governments—to wit, the United States, Great B Britain and Japan—shall be substantially reduced © annually during the next five years to such an ex- P tent and upon such terms as may be agreed upon. which understanding or agreement is to be reported %ito.the respective Governments for approval id ® The Borah resolntion, adopted by the vote of the Senate, and now on its way to the ' House. | WHEN, MR. PRESIDE b t 7 , WHEN? GUARDING MILK BOTTLES. 5 EAL'TH COMMISSIO! COPELAND'S new H amendment to the Sanitary Code which pen- alizes the waste of milk bottles which go into gar- tage and ash cans will be effective only to the degree that it is enforced. There is no excuse for the expensive waste of milk bottles, which eventually comes back on the consumer in the price of milk. The companies pay their overhead expenses from the difference between the price to farmers and the price to consumers. It may be assumed that Judges will not impose the maximum of $500 fine, a year in jail, or both, except in extreme cases of wilful and repeated viola- <‘tions. A few prosecutions well advertised will put an’ end to the destruction. Co-operation from the milk delivery men on their rounds and from the ash and garbage gatherers of _ the Street-Cleaning Department ought to end the waste which runs into many thousands of dollars “each year. “ASSUMING” A LOT. “ZN HIS talk before the American Iron and Steel Institute yesterday Judge Gary attempted to ex- plain the prevailing business slump. In a single phrase he succeeded far ‘probably intended. He said: “Assuming that the steel industry has been fair and reasonable in prices up to the present time, it must be admitted, I think, that there » have been and still are charged for certain commodities unreasonable and unfair, if not extortionate, prices.” To paraphrase, Judge Gary said: “Assuming that my business has been fair and reasonable.” That fs precisely what every other business man in every fine of business has been saying. They have been “assuming” a great deal which, in many cases, was fiot so, and have continued to assume until the buy- fng strike hit them and knocked their assumptions galley west. . In the case of Judge Gary and the steel business the assumption will need a lot of explaining in the face of the figures. As an example, the pre-war price of steel rails was $28 a ton. For the years 1916 to 1920, in- dusive, the Nov. 1 quotations printed in The ‘World Almanac were $33, $38, $55, $45 and $55. The corresponding figure yesterday was $47, a de- cline of 15 per cent. on what is one of the most fm- portant and far-reaching commodities. And so, with a virtuous air, Judge Gary lectures _ other business men on “unreasonable, unfair, if not extortionate, prices,” _. Judge Gary is a good deal like the old lady who tmarched in the parade and complained, “They are © all out of step but me.” She assumed a lot, too. e better than he r t ‘ ' { i ih ‘Pr Lb ON THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY. HERE is a mystery and air of legalism about wills which daunts the layman. It is more than possible that lawyers have fostered this feeling by putting into wills more than is required. Extra ‘words, redundant phrases and legalistic red tape mean business for the legal profession, «An this connection the will of the late Chief Justice White of the Supreme Court is interesting, It reads: ‘This is my last will. I give, bequeath and de ' vise to my wife, Leita M. White, in complete ‘and perfect ownership, all my rights and prop- arty of every kind and nature, whether real, |i @ersonal or mixed, wherever situated, appoint- F tng her executrix of my estate without bond ' and giving ber seisin thereof. EDWARD D. WHITE. r ' he document was witnessed by the Justice’s ‘megro messenger and by the stenographer he em- Ployed at the time the will was executed. \\, Dustice White was the highest legal authority in 5 A A REA IE ALARA OR THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. the land. His the last word. It is both interest- ing and informative to learn of the simplicity and clarity of the document he considered adequate as a will. HUGHES ON AMBASSADORS. (a HUGHES, as quoted by William H. Crawford in an interview in the June num- ber of the World’s Work, holds the following views about Ambassadors : An American Ambassador is the alter ego of the United States Government at the court te which he is assigned. * * * He explains America’s position and shows her in her true light. * * © Such being the case, it is necessary to select able and well-trained men for such important work, men particularly trained in the field of diplomacy. * * * The tasks to be accomplished are too tm- portant to be left to inexperienced hands or to men chosen as a reward for political obliga tions, * © © We wonder if Secretary Hughes remembered this interview when the cable: brought the full reports of the Harvey speech the Pilgrims’ dinner in London, aad, if so, how he felt about it The “alter ego” of the United States Govern- ment “explaining America’s position and showing her in her true light” by belittling the motives of her living and dead, representing her as taking up arms in the war only because she was too scared not {o, and flouting the great international instru- ment in which millions of her citizens have placed their jiopes! Measured by his own standards, sow does Secre- tary Hughes appraise the present American Ambas- sador °t the Court of St. James's? The Living Age culls from Vorwaerts a list of the properties owned or controlled by Hugo Stinnes. These include: “Four coal-mining groups, owning and operating about fifty im- portant mines; elght iron mines, four trgn and steel corporations, owning twenty-one groups of furnaces, steel works or rolling mills; three pa- per and cellulose manufacturing companies, five printing and publishing houses and great news- paper firms, seven electrical works and corpora- tions, two automobile factories, five shipping lines and importing and exporting businesses, In addition to a large number of inland trans- portation companies and newspapers.” A few remaining things in Germany are for the time being in other hancs. ONLY $100! OWN in Pennsylvania the School Board has added insult to injury. The board has decided to require school teachers to file a bond to insure fulfilment of contracts. Thus the injury will come from the payment teachers must make to surety companies. Ill health will be considered a proper reason for cancellation of contracts. Matrimony will not be so considered, and the board proclaims that it will exact its penalty, otherwise $100, from any feminine teacher who breaks her contract in order to marry. Here, obviously, is the insult added to the injury for, as we have remarked, the amount of the bond is $100, only $100. Just what sort of teachers do the Altoona schools employ that they should be valued so slightingly by the board? Does the board imagine that any pro- spective husband of a beautiful young normal school graduate will be stopped by a paltry $100 forfeit? If the board even dares to think that so small a sum will make the faculty matrimony-proof, the teachers have good reason for resentment. Would This Solve Itt ‘To the Editor of The Brening Workd: Let Lloyd George make a flat no-string, no nigger- in-the-fence offer to the Irish people of a government such as that enjoyed by the peoples of Canada, Aus- tralia and New Zealand and see what would be the outcome, Here is my prediction: The people of Ireland would accept it by a greater popular majority than that secured by the Sinn Fein at either of the last two national elections, and they were as nearly unan- imous for @ republic as was ever shown in a contest in any republic in the world’s history. Then: Ireland, which now has @ population of a lfttle more than four and a half millions and can easily maintain five times that number, would have e return fiow of its children from the four corners of the earth. They know what their country can give if allowed a chance to develop. It has the natural resources, the ingrained knack of agriculture and is, along this Mine, the most progressive nation in Europe to-day. Ireland so constituted would not and could not be, @s she now is, a menace to England. Their interests would be so intertwined that an attack on one or the other from outside would call for a unity of defense. There could not be any danger to England's su- premacy of the Atlantic—that ghost that will not down in the mind of the unchanging Englishman, The policy of repression and suppression has utterly failed on all the blood-stained occasiuns on which it has been tried. Why, in the name of common sense and humanity, not try conciliation? All the world is tired of the tragedy, none more so than England and Ireland. JOHN 8, ARNOTT. TWICE OVERS. ce A LMOST without exception the great men in America, past and present, were church mem- bers.” —The Reo. Christian F, Reisner. “oT HERE are just as many selfish wives as hus- bands.” —Magistrate Jean Norris, ot Ra en pee By John Cassel From Evening World Readers| Whet kine New Yorkers, Real and Imported. To the Editor of The Evening Workl: I was surprised to read Robert Clayton's slanderous and totally ig- norant epistle of even date to the effect that the young men of New York City were poor-mannered, weak morally and of callow mentality. In defense of New York men let the writer state that he knows that our boys can range alongside of any and more than likely pass the ma- jority of young men from other States. He was on a four-day hike, making toward Verdun, in 1918 (pos- sibly R. C.'s geography isn't up to standard and he will think Verdun is located in Chicago or some other windy city), and incidentally was marching with a mixture of well- nigh every State in the Union. It ‘was very noticeable that the Big Ones would do a brodie on the road from exhaustion and stay there, and the undernourished alley rat of New York City kept on and on, therepy proving that manhood and (to use an army expression) guts are not to be Sudged by avoirdupois. And regarding callow mentality, sweetheart, your Sarah Bellum is very dusty, inasmuch as the markets of the world are controlled at this very moment by men who know the New York boy is brainy and wide- awake. They could not afford to let plough jockeys handle their affairs. And then will Mr. R. Clayton tell us please if the New York men and ‘women are so terrible, why he min- gies in our midst? The young woman he refers to evidently is not in the habit of mingling with real New Yorkers, for New Yorkers don't hang on corners and wear mustaches ‘Those, you dear thing, are Prohibi- tionists tmported from other States. EX-DOUGHBOY, New York, May 25, 1921. The Backbone of the City.” ‘To the Fulitor of The Breaing World. With reference to the letter ap- pearing recently in your paper under the caption “A Staggerer,” I would Mke to ask Robert Clayton a few questions, I wonder if he ever heard of the “Fighting Sixty-ninth,” ‘The Lost Battalion, e Twent enth Division" that broke the Hinden- burg Line which for four years with- stood the battering of the hardened and seasoned troops of all the Allied Armies. I wonder if he spent the winter of 1917 in Yaphank or at Fort Slocum, If he will dust the cobwebs from his memory or make inquiry, he will readily find that the youth of this city, “the undersized, Charley Chap- lin 'mustached little monkeys” to whom he refers, figured very prom|- nently in all of the above. The “rep- utation of unpleasing personal ap- pearance, poor manners, weak mor- als and ‘callow mentality” certainly was a horrible drawback to the youth of New York during the days of 1917- 15 when history was being written on the Wbattlefields of France and in the North Sea. If it is a fact, as Clayton states, that the newspapers of the world, and especially the United 6tates, have a pretty poor opinion of the New York male, then the poor boys who are now pushing up the daisies °f @ letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one Met gives you the worth of a thousand toords in a couple of hundred? Fhere ts fine montal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying be cay much in a few words, Toke Hime to be brief. in France or hobbling around on} crutches here certainly did it in vain, and I am very much afraid that if} such were really the case we would | be found wanting if the same emergency should arise now, But thank goodness this is merely the opinion of a few narrow-minded individuals who do not know the New Yorker, but have simply judged the multitude by a few glaring ex- amples, It is quite evident that Clayton hasn't looked the proper places. I would suggest that he make a visit to some of the Athletic Clubs, the Militia Armories, the Untversi- into tes, the American Legion Posts, the Veterans of Foreign War Posts, the Y.M.C.A.'s or the Knights of Col- umbus and he will come in contact with the young men who make the backbone of the city. I am sure he will find that they stack up against any to be found anywhere in the world. There's no doubt about it, It has already been proven. Read the history of the New York City boys in the War. Their record of bravery, valor and Intrepidity is surpassed by none, The youths to whom Clayton refers are probably the ones who drifted into New York City from the smal] towns in order to lose them- selves and live down their poor repu- tots. A N AND BRED NEW YORKER. A Silver Lining. To the Editor of The Evening Workt; Anent Robert Clayton’s letter which appeared in your paper, would like to say that I rtily agree with him If anythin: hes put it too mildly. The average New York young man is really a miserable specimen of hu- manity, physically, mentally, and morally. He is invariably either nar- row-chested, stoop-shouldered, near- sighted, flat-footed, or otherwise physically defective. Look at the re- jections for the Army and Navy, ‘Their mental horizon is bounded by the city limits, and their ignorance of the rest of the United States and the world is abysmal. As for his morals, he simply hasn't any, A New York young man else- where in the United States has to strive to earn respect, because of the universal contempt in which he is held. The manhood of the rest of this country is as high above New York City’s degenerated “manhood” as the manhood of ancient cece was above that of China, The silver lin- ing to the cloud is the fact that he is not to be taken as a type of Amer- ican, for in the majority of cases he is either a foreigner, or of foreign stock, I was born in ‘Texas, WOUNDED WAR VETERAN, New York, May 25, 1921, ‘To the Editor of The Erening World i have read with great interest the article regarding the exorbi- tant prices charged for coffee and other things by the chain restau- rants and others fixed up to catch the eye, It seems to me that there ought to be some law that will pro- tect the public against the extortion 4 ° UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrignt, 1921. by Jokm Blake.) WIN IF YOU CAN, BUT ENJOY THE GAME. Gentlemen who play golf will tell you that the man who tries too hard never does very well at it. Incidentally, he never gets any fun out of the game. There are many parallels between golf and life, which is doubtless the reason that so many people are devoted to it. Golf, of course, is a game, and only a game. Yet there are many of its followers who can see only the advantage of winning and who come in sour and ill tempered if they lose. Others, while they try to win, get just as much fun out of it if they don’t. And they never stamp on their clubs or throw them away or swear at the caddies. It is very important to win in anything. But it is more important to get your allowance of fun out of it as you go along. Sitting wheezily in any rich man’s club you will find old gentlemen who wanted to win more than anything else and who did win fortunes but lost their health and happiness in the effort, And with all their money you can set them down as losers. There is good sportsmanship in all human effort. There are things the good sportsman will not do, even to win. One of them is cheating, another is becoming so absorbed in the pursuit of victory that he forgets everything else as he goes along. John Burroughs, who probably never had more than the necessities of life in all his existence, got a full measure of en- joyment that was denied to many who made a thousand times as much money. Incidentally he was a very successful man, for he added to the sum of human knowledge. Win if you can, Get a fortune if you can, Money means independence and the ability to do good in the world. But never forget that there is enjoyment as well as trouble in life, and that if you are not too intent on winning what the world calls success, you will be happier as you go along and stand just as good a chance of making your life worth while and the world better off because you lived in it. Geen nnn of those people who probably have some kind of organization in the na- ture of a trust to mulct the public as much as they will stand. I would also call attention to the ice cream stores and the sellers of so- called orange juice, I went our for an outing last Sun- day and stopped at Greenwich, Conn., went into an ice cream place for a few ice cream sodas for which I was charged at the rate of twenty cents per glass. The flavor, I am sure, was not made of fruit, but imitation, with a very poor quality of cream. As regards the so-called oramge juice, which !s actually made of some lemon peel, lemon, orange and color- ing, and for which was changed five cents a few years ago, and was in- creased to seven cents when the su- gar sold at thirty and thirty-five cents, is now selling at ten cents per glass in spite of the fact that sugar sells now at seven cents. ‘These are only two instances that came to my mind when I read your article jn The Evening World, but there are thousands of things that could be enumerated that the public is being robbed in righ’ a From the Wise Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws and more power by their tears than twe have by our arguments, —Sir H. Saville, Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure ere not cheap. —Emerson. Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and 4s a pleasant thing to do.—H. W. Shaw. A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.—Mollere, If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the great- est dupes he has,—Colton. Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. —Pliny the elder. O easy ’tis to make a rhyme, That did the world but know #, Your coachman might Parnas- sua climb, Your butler be a poet. Then O how charming it trould be 1/, when in haste hysteric, You called the page, you learned that he Was grappling with @ lyric. Or else what rapture it would yield © When cook sent up the salad, To find within its depths concealed A touching little ballad. Or if for toast and tea you yearned, What joy to find upon it The chambermaid had coyly laid A palpitating sonnet. ‘Thus, in “Ballads of a Bohemian” (Baree & Hopkins), Robert W. Ser- vice sings of “Facility.” Let poets make music while they may. Some “anti” society is sure to cru- sade for the abolition of the lyric as soon as it discovers how liquid language intoxicates the reader. eee Ten Years on Sca and Lai Capt. David W. Bone, in a new preface to hie book, “The Brass- bounder” (Dutton), just reissued: It is now ten years since “The -assbounder’’ was first pubtished. ta ten years at sea! Sail completely abandoned; ma- rine engines developed in speed and power and reliability to sure di- mensions. Sixty thousand tons on one keel: ships plying with the regularity of express trains. Wireless perfected in telegraph and telephone, advancing capidly in systems of control. Airplanes competing with the gulls: the Atlantic crossed on a flash of the wind. Submarines, airships, motorships! Hydrophones, gyro-compasses, di< rection finders! What a list! What a ten vears! And four years of the ten with war at sea. No. Not war! Piracy—black, mediaeval piracy—beaton, as piracy can always be, by a good sea sense. Also, what a ten years on land! With a climax in Prohibition, Nor- malcy and Ambassador Harvey. Has that “saving sea sense” no connection with a pair of good shore legs? eee The Soured Life of a Jug - » « To The Reviewer, a MNterary youngling of Richmond, Va, C. Cotesworth Pinckney contributes a song of the oki stone jug that once “stood for wit, laughter and life,” but has had a sad fall in spirit and in state. We quote a single stanza: “But now I sit on the kitchen shelf 'Twirt a common pan and a pot, And breathe a breath of onions and tripe And God only knows what not. And I heard the cook say yesterday As she stirred a smell with @ spoon, ‘That old jug ain't uo count no more. TU fill him with vinegar soon!” o 8 8 The Society of the Guilds - - « Highly sceptical as to the practica- bility of Guild Socialism, ( am Wal lace nevertheless prese: in “Our Social Heritage” a pleasing picture of the sort of society such a scheme of things would require—a society in which everybody would find ehange and adventure in knowing how to do many kinds of work. Thus: Painters would not always paint over and over again the same pic- ture, nor authors write the same ‘book, nor professors give the same courses of lectures, nor machin tenders work always on the sami pattern or the same machine, or even on the same raw material. ‘Old men would not be expected to live the same lives as young men nor women as men, nor people of weak health as people of robust health, Men with few desires and weak will would not ask or receive the same opportunities of enjoyment us men of many desires who were willing to undertake intense exer- tions. Society would demand special ef- forts and offer special opportunities to those whose natural powers were specially valuable to their fellows. All would understand that short hours of work, interesting leisure, and the satisfaction of materiai needs require successful wealth- Production. In such a society it might be possible within each trade to get rid of the grudging attitude to increased production as such, the “ca’ canny" policy which dimin both the wealth created by work and the happiness of the worker as he created it, Unhappy shades of Fourierism and of Brook Farm! ‘To think that all this state of socia! bliss rests on such contingencies aa the willingness of a poet to scrub the garage floors between sonnets. ‘Turning a page of heart-to-heart talk in “The Long Way Round,” (Smal, Maynard & Co.) a novel by Emerson Gifford Taylor: “Have you—have you found it, Suzanne?” asked Madeleine, very quietly, “Found what?" “Iti" she repeated with emphasis “The thing we're all—every woman # looking for. Call it contentment, If you like, or happiness, or fulfilment. There are lots of names for the same thing.” vDoew any woman find that m she led prompt- ly, "T have. tia “How? Where?’ “I've got a bully husband and a Peach of a baby—that's how and where, my dear!’ ee? ‘s what you wanted al (es a ety wi ‘was’ lovely. Smhole heart spoke in her lwagh. “But yes, Suzanne!’ She rose; she laid her firm hands on my shoulders; for an instant she lookea a into my eyes, with a kindling fmeh in her own. And then, gud- enly, taking my face in her ha: She kissed me.” - “Go thou and do likewise!” she fardon' path, her’ white ‘aktets” qin garden . her white t- tering about her like, soft, white swans, Tf Mr, Taylor is @ man who un- derstands women— What, then, becomes of the eman- cipated Woman of Destiny?