The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1921, Page 26

}< PMN Giarld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN Pudlished Daily Except Sunday by The Prose Publishing Company, Nos, 52 to 63 Park Row. New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Pak Row OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Amoctatec Prem ts exclusicely entitied to the use for republication | Of All news despatches credited to It oF not otherwise credited im thie pape: Sind also the local news published herein THE DIFFERENCE. N FINANCIAL circles the latest fashion in “re- constructing Europe” is the promotion of plans under which Americans are to invest in securities of foreign corporations. Sponsors of these plans tell us that America can avoid a flood of gold payments which President Harding dreads. It can also avoid the fiood of com- Modity payments which the high protectionists dread. All America needs to do is to buy into mines and mills and railroad and steamship companies in Europe. The plan is plausible. Any general buying move- ment of European industrial securities would im- prove the exchange situation. For the moment it would relieve the pressing need for immediate im- portation from Europe. It is urged that this has been the policy that England and Holland and France have pursued in making investments in American securities which we bought back in the early days of the war. One big fundamental difference exists, however. European security investments in the United States, Canada and South America were loans made to new countries, to developing countries, to countries where the investment of capital would unlock the re- sources which would eventually result in a turn in the balance of trade and eventual repayment in commodities. American loans to European enterprises would be loans to old countries, where development and ex- ploitation would be infinitely more difficult. In the European countries before the war the balance of trade was already against the creditor nations, Pay- ment of interest and dividends in commodities was the thing expected and desired. Europe was loan- ing capital, expecting to receive wheat, minerals, cotton and meat in return. In this contradiction lies the weakness of the plan. If Americans invest in European factories, they must expect to be paid in the products of those factories. . The logic of events is destroying the last bulwark of the protectionists of privilege. WAGES AND RATES. RESIDENT HARDING'S visit to the Interstate Commerce Commission is likely to lead, to some criticism by students of government. He assumes that because he has the official right to commumicate to Congress he also has equal right to communicate directly with the agencies of ‘Congress. Congress, on the other hand, has the right to dis- regard the advice the President gives. A natural corollary would be that the agent of Congress would have a similar right to reject the advice of the President. It would be a first class calamity for a President to exercise effective control over the numerous boards of experts which Congress has created, the Federal Reserve Board as the most conspicuous example. But in this particular case President Harding will certainly have strong support from public opinion, which differs sharply with the railroad managers who seem to regard a cut of nearly half a billion in wages as a bagatelle and of no account as an in- ducement to cut rates. The country knows that rates went up along with wages, It knows rates are too high. Now if wages come down the public expects and demands a cor- responding decrease in rates. It is true that the railroads have not been making adequate profits in recent months. But the public believes the failure to make profits is largely a re- sult of industrial depression which is passing. This depression in part is due to railroad rates so high 2s to discourage traffic. The public firmly believes that the proper way to increase railroad profits is to continue a small percentage profit on a greater business, not to in- crease the margin of profit on small tonnage, If wages go down, rates should go down, and the railroads should look to a revival of business to afford them an increase in net earnings. . A PLEA THAT RINGS TRUE. ERNARD BARUCH'S letter to Senator Kenyon published yesterday was an unusual human document. The lowa Senator deserves credit for his straightforward way of presenting it, particularly as some passages reflected on his own part, probably involuntary, in impugning Mr. Baruch’s record, Some of the small-fry crooks fattened on the war. The New York plumbing ring that asked double prices for work on the Fort Washington Park naval barracks tried to get tainted war profits. Some great industrial concerns succeeded, as their profits ac- counts showed. But it is a notable and highly creditable fact that whenever the finger of calumny has pointed to one of the outstanding and responsible business leaders | who were called to Washington to mobilize the Na- tion, these men have not only been able to clear THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921. themselves but have earned apologies from their accusers. : Mr. Baruch’s offer—or rather his plea—for in- vestigation has a ring of sincerity. He did not ac- cept from the Government any allowance for ex- penses. He says he is poorer to-day than when he volunteered for service and offers to prove it. He was a well-known stock market operator who quit | the business and has not returned. Only recently he has been giving his advice to the farmer co-operative movement. From the record, it would appear that Mr. Baruch was a conspicuous example of a type more common in Europe than in America—the successful business man who knows when he has accumulated sufficient wealth and turns from business to engage in politics and public service. Many did this during the war. Mr. Baruch stayed with it. He appears to have found more satisfaction in Washington, Paris and in the Grain Growers’ conference than in Wall Street. The United States needs more such men in public service. Underground campaigns of calumny are not the way to attract them or keep them. THE ONLY APPROACH? ATEST reports from Washington are (1) that President Harding has been sounding out other nations on a plan to disarm and (2) that he hopes to find in the present Allied Supreme Council the basis of an association of nations that will relegate the League to limbo. If the President has been sending out “feelers” in regard to disarmament he has done so with the same attitude toward the Borah resolution that he has maintained toward the League of Nations. He turns his back on the straight route and tip- toes into side paths. The Borah resolution, as adopted by a unanimous vote of the Senate, is a frank, concretely worded request to the President to invite the Governments of Great Britain and Japan to a conference “charged with the duty of promptly entering into an under- standing or agreement by which the naval expendi- tures and building programmes of each of the said Governments—to wit, the United States, Great Britain and Japan—shall be substantially - re- chiced, * ¢ o” If disarmament is what President-Harding wants, why didn’t he get behind the Borah resolution in- Stead of sidling away from it? As to the suggestion that the Allied Supreme Council ‘could become the nucleus of an association of nations that would crowd out the League and take over its functions, it is easy to see how the idea might appeal to the President. To begin with, such an association could be like the “round table” ‘which President Harding has once or twice recommended and to which the United States could draw up with every profession of high aim—but without inconvenient obligations, moral or otherwise. : Adequate protection of peace would seem, to be sure, to require the guarantee of some sort of police . power in time of need. The fear that the United States might have to furnish a part of such guarantee was, however, what an influential section of President Harding’s party capitalized for campaign purposes into antagonism toward anything that savored of promise, pledge or covenant. Though its purpose be to prevent war, call it a covenant and bitter-enders will still rage. To mollify them, the league must be made an association in which it seems possible for the United States io sit without commitment or cost. Not a noble approach to a great international partnership to safeguard peace. But it may be the only approach the Harding Administration will dare permit itself. Anybody can lie down under a handicap. To turn it to account takes genius. Look to the northeast and find a lesson in Mr. Cassel’s cartoon. TWICE OVERS. ‘ce H™ is where I earned my first dollar raising a flock of turkeys.”—John D. Rockefeller to his grandchildren. ' * A TLANTIC CITY regulations require girls to wear more clothing when they go in swim- ming than when they altend fashionable balls." —Miss Ada Taylor. aa 7 ‘ec W* need less smug Christianity and more of the real thing.” —John Wanamaker. . . 66 JT is the old story over again. Ancient as time. Race prejudice.”-—-R. L. Jones, Editor Tulsa Tribune. * 77 E have reason to believe the new agreement will enable New York to regain ils former leadership among the clothing markets of the country.” lox D. Steuer and Sidney Hillman. 4 Saved to Be Shot. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: I am inclosing here a clipping which I think you would like your readers to see. Tt is taken from the first number of a new magazine called Pan. I think it is something that all right thinkers should see. This is the clipping: “I went into a converted pothouse to indulge in coffee and alleged coffee- cake, While waiting for the mix-) ture, there came a woman «nd a tin’ can with a slit in the top. She was asking alms for the starving children ot Europe. On the back of a menu I figured that the cost of one up-to- date battlesh’'p would feed all these kiddies for one year—why save them from starvation and then build bat~ tleships to shoot them down when they grow up?” ‘And having read it I think your readers will agree that it puts over excellently and in & few words a very big and real truth. Le COMMON SENSE. ‘To the Editor of The Prening World ‘Will “Young Bachelor,” whose let ter appears in to-day's issue, permis me to suggest an appropriate place for him to spend his vacation? Why not try the Old Men's Home? I'm sure there must be one within 200 miles of ‘ork City. BIN Ee why doesn’t he insert an . in the regular way? Of cou hea I suppose when he spenda fis vacation that 1g all he will spend. Stay away two full years, "Bach"; the gi young or old, will not miss you at all. .c New York City, May 27, 1921. Far From the Mo ning Females, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: Replying to one who signs himself “Young Bachelor” in ‘The Evening World of May 27, relative to a place where he can spend his vacation away from the females, I can refer him to the @. M. H. A., who have a fifty miles up the Hudson, CaTore he will only come in contact with young men from 18 to 22. Should he pine for the girls he will have to hike about six miles up mountain roads to Mt. Beacon or to Newburgh. w. K. Brooklyn, May 28, 1921. \erhe Mirror of Public Sentimen| ‘To the Editor of Tee Brening World Few people grasp the true signifi- cance of the Prohibition movement. lt 1s popularly interpreted as the Joverthrow of the saloon, This 1s |only an incident, Fundamentally tt is the most conspicuous example in this generation of the vindication of | democracy. It is showing the people | now to get what they want. It was not put over on the people by the 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 te fme mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. |focus this sentiment and | make their desires function. So Pro- | _Typographical Hooch! stright, 1921, Feag |ablidhing Co, York Evening World.) By John Cassel The Pioneers PHOTO ENGRAV ERL ESS . SKETCH OF A MIGHTY UN POPULAR CORK. THE RESULT OFALL UNPOPULAR — THINGS LIKE PROHIBITION, STRIKES, WAR, AND BEING OUT OF A JOB IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF HONORABLE CITIZENS WHO THINK OF A PLAN TO GET AROUND THEM. PUBLIC OPINION CAN NOT BE IGN ORED IN A FREE COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO PERSONAL LIBERTY JNO. CASSEL From Evening World Readers } est of the people's inalienable rights. There is no more outstanding illus- tration of the defeat of popular gov- ernment than the control the liquor Interests exercised over politics, leg- Islation, police regulation, and munici- pal rule. Prohibition opposing all this has been a fight for freedom. | Under the leadership of the Anti- Saloon League the people have dis- covered how to come into thelr own. They have learned the necessity of electoral participation, discovered the secret of independent votng, and have become initiated into legislative conflicts. The aim of all this has been to get control of the sources of legislation. j Moreover in the great enforcement | ficht for Prohibition, the same strug- | gle for popular rule is observable. | ‘The people can get what they desire ; and demand. Reduced to its siniplest terms enforcement is a mirror of public sentiment. The Anti-Salcon | League is teaching the people how to | how to hibition is not’ a narrow movement after all. It is a pronofinced pro-| tective development of democracy and will make its own distinctive contribution toward complete popu- lar trol. ites A. D, BATCHELOR. Brooklyn, May 30, 1921. “A Material Minded People.” ‘To the Editor of The Prening World: What the South American says about Poe is true. It is too bad that the life of such a genius as Poe had to be spent among a material minded people like the Americans. What is more asinine than tne mouthings of American “critics” who | discourse on Poe's moral conduct! In| spite of their million and one “isms, “ideals” and “uplift” talk—the United States public 1s more interested in| drivel and slush than in true litera- ture—and their ideas on art and music! We think they will stick to dollar making, and no doubt it is best. JORGENSON | New York, May 31, 192 Only One Among M ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: One afternoon recently, about 6.30, at the Jersey City Station of the Central R. R. of N. J., a coffin covered with the Stars and Stripes was being taken to one of the trains, The cov- ering of the coffin makes me believe that same contained the remains of one of the boys who gave Wis life ‘or | nis country on the battlefields, | A ferryboat from Liberty Street! had just discharged its crowd of com- muters and it apparently seemed | necessary to drive the truck, on whlch | the body was taken to the train, rigat | through the crowd coming from the| J, | ferryboat. | Whether the hurry commuters are | Jin to catch their trains is to be blamed or not, I do not know, but I think the disrespect shown by these people Is more than disgusting, Not only did they entirely ignore the Stirs Anti-Saloon League, Prohibition is & great mass movement in the inter nn ali nai ll. and Stripes, but no respect was even shown to the dead, in this case @ boy | Aa SRR EET re MeetiNIE By John (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) MOST MEN ARE LABELLED. Executives who make a serious study of choosing men for positions have little difficul Most men are labelled. about the job they have applie Inability shows itself in the same way. The applicant can make every effort to prove that he can hold a job, but if he can’ men will find it out before he is hired. The competent man may stinct of putting his best foot self-booster, awkward in expre: UNCOMMON SENSE Whether they know it,or not, their ability will usually come out in a short conversation Blake. ty in doing so. d for. t hold it an able chooser of be shy; he may lack the in- forward; he may be a poor ssion. Yet the label is there, and the executive who has studied men can read it. Im the same way the competent business man can tell the nature of the man he is abont to do business with, He may judge by a trick of facial expression, by a careless word or a hasty opinion, by a tendency to boast, or a refusal to boast—but he can tell. Mistakes happen, of course. But they do not happen so often when the direct method as when the method is indirect. of judging men is employed Many men of only average ability can answer question- naires, Few can talk with a shrewd, prospective employer without disclosing to a very large degree their unfitness for the job. Don’t be afraid to wear your label. It is there anyway. It will be more than you can manage to conceal it. , If it is a poor label you can make it better. But you cannot make it better by any conversational flights that are not backed up by solid ability. It may be that the American people like to be hum- bugged, but the American employer cannot afford to be humbugged, and he seldom is. If he is a bad judge of men he is able to hire a good judge, and he abides by that judge’s decisions, You must stand or fall by the label you wear. All you can do about it is to make th hat label as good as possible aud by hard work to exchange it for a better one just 4s soon as possible, And the very best label is the way you do your work. not the way that you talk about it, who had given his all for his country and his countrymen. In the whole crowd only one man was noticed who Fad respect enough to stop his rush for the train and 10 uncover his head while the remains vf this boy passed, and this person, 1 happen to know, is a foreigner. Must we Americans take a lesson from a foreigner in showing respect, not only to our flag but to our dead and especially to one who died for our country? AN AMERICAN WOMAN. Plainfield, N. J., May 30, 1921. An Opposition Pi To the Editor of The Bvening World How long has It been the rule of this country to bully our Government to pass or repeal laws? Are our law- makers really sane when they frame and vote on future # for the pub- i ‘ade. lic good? cancel the wrong law. It seems to me this idea of a mon- parade is againat law and order and our Government The proper responsible official had better show, ster ‘opposition’ and an incitement to riot. his authority, if he has any, and fo: bid lawlessness—fust as he would red flag. the “Anti” parade is wrong. What If not, then we have an- other law by which we can repeal und I maintain the principle of of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroft XIL—THE MAN WHO RAISED THE FIRST CROP. The opinion hae been advanced by some scientists, like Sir J. G. Frazer, that the man who raised the first crop of grain was a mourner at & funeral in the Neolithic Age. These scientists ri mn that only one motive could have prompted primitive man to delve in the soil, and\that was to dig a hole to bury his dead. Holding to the belief that in his future existence the dead per- gon would need for his sustenance the same sort of food which he used in his mundane life, the survivors placed in the grave, or on the mound of earth that marked it, some wild grains—the only kind of grain known at that time. From the accidental crop that fol- lowed germinated the idea of plant- ing seeds that they might yield ten- fold, fifty-fold and a hundred-fold. It is quite possible that the remote Primitive man who saw the grain cropping out of a burial mound, then growing and ripening, might’ have applied the lesson by digging up @ patch of ground and planting it to wheat. This ancestor of ours must have been the first man who ever grew a crop. But this man had no knowledge of the laws of nature. He conceived the world about him as an absolute mon- archy, with mysterious and all-pow- erful beings, invisible to him, as its ‘undisputed sovereigns, either collec- tively of under the supreme domina- tion of a super-being. Inasmuch as he had first seen grain sprouting from a grave, it is the opin- fon of the school to which Sir J. G, Frazer belongs that this original farmer conceived it to be necessary to bury or otherwise sacrifice a hu- man being on the spot where the har- vest was to be planted, in order to propitiate the invisible but omnipo- tent beings who ruled all things. The theory is as ingenious as Charles Lamb's humorous tale that the Chinese, having discovered the excellent flavor of a pig which had roasted in a burning house made a practice of providing the feast on all future occasions by burning down a house in which a pig had been shut up. But the fact remains that most races have made it a practice to bury food with their dead in order to pro- vide for the need of the deceased in the immediate future. Many races, some of them Christian, even to-day take the precaution of leaving food on a newly made grave for the sus- tenance of the occupant until he or she shall have made permanent pro visions. It is also true that human sacri- fices were almost invariably associat- ed with the seed-time ceremonials of practically all primitive races. The human sacrifice was not a stranger even to Greek paganism, which has ‘een made the subject of a historic propaganda of idealization, but which in its realities {s little removed from the so-called lower forms of primitive religion, Other scientists hold that man, who was a remagning creature even in his remotest phase, naturally took to planting the crops which he saw sprouting up and ripening in their ‘wild state, In the view of this school of investigators, the original wheat- grower was a Luther Burbank or a Benjamin Franklin of his day, whose superior powers of yision enabled him to apply the forces of nature which ‘his predecessors or fellows had been unable to grasp. Each of these conceptions of the or- igin of agriculture is as good as the other, The indisputable fact remains |that planting and harvesting, like every other process of civilization, had a beginning. It ts impqssible to escape the conclusion that there was a first sowing and a first reaping. The individual who sowed that first seed and reaped, garnered and stored the first harvest against the follow- ing seed-time made a wide stride om } the path of progress. Vor he not only put into initial operation a proc- ess that went far to solve the prob- lem of feeding the race, but he put a new stone into the foundation of set- tled and orderly habits on which civ- ilization is based. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 32—PUGNACITY. The word “pugnacity” is a pat ree minder of the short and simple way of doing things that our primitive forefathers had. It is derived trom the Latin “pugnax’—fighting or quarreisome. When an old Roman was disposed to be quarrelsome he went at it by the direct method of using his fist, or “pugnus.” Hence “pugno"—I fight, It will be seen that the word “pug- nacious” is closely allied to our mod- ern phrase of the boxing ring or the alley: “Handy with his fists.” The next time you are disposed to be quarrelsome in the modern way of being argumentative, remember the origin of the word “pugnacious.” The method of being pugnacious has varied somewhat under the influence of police regulations and the higher | conception of individual rights. Most of the time we substitute bitter words ‘tor hard fists. But the principle is | the same, and it is a savage desire to | knock the other fellow down, From the Wise | Life is a wrestle with the devit, and only the frivolous think to throw him without taking off their coats—J. M. Barrie, Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions corrected.—Billings. Every man alone ts sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins,—Emerson. In the world’s opinion mar riage, as in @ play, winds up everything; whereas it is, im fact, the beginning of everything.— Mme. Swetehine. re a is the motive or aim? Is it for the up- How immense to us appear the lift of those who are down or juat! sins we have not committed.— for No, 1? If it 1s not for “the great-| Madame Necker. est good for the greatest number, with the least injury to the few,” They are proud in humility, say it is wrong, Welgh the motive, H. WALTDRS, Now York, May $1, 1621, proud in that they are not proud —Burton. ‘ (