The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1921, Page 10

oN nee me i é } . New York. RALPH PULITZER, Proaldent, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treamurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMPER OF THE ASSOCTATED PRESS. The Associated Prem is exclusively entitled to the use for repubitcation GE GE news Gespatches credited to It oF not otherwise credited im thin paper iso the local news published herein SPLASH WEEK. EXT WEEK is “Splash Week.” We have had so many “days” and ‘weeks’ that meant appeals for money, or pleas to do some- thing for somebody, that the public may be par- donably wary. But “Splash Week” is different. It is a week when something will be done for the public in- stead of fo it. Under the auspices of the Red Cross and other organizations, swimming pools all over the city will be thrown open to the public. If—as so frequently happens—early June turns warm, “Splash Week” should be popular. It ought to be popular anyhow. Competent in- structors will be on hand to teach non-swimmers to swim and to show swimmers the proper way to Tescue and resuscitate those in danger of drowning. Last year the beaches and other bathing places mear New York took a toll of 331 lives in drowning accidents. Most of them were preventable deaths. All too many included the deaths of would-be res- cuers who did not know the right way and safe ‘way to go about the task. “Splash Week” should help to reduce fatalities, to save lives. Even those who care nothing for swimming as a sport should know how to swim for safety’s sake. ” Czar Anderson, State head of the Anti-Saloon League, says County Judge Reuben L. Haskell of Brooklyn is unfit to sit on the bench because of his attitude toward the Volstead act. How soon does the Anti-Saloon League mean to post in the market-place its dread lists of the proscribed in public office? THE REMEDY. AMUEL UNTERMYER said to a somewhat reti- cent witness in the Lockwood investigation: * “People who want to borrow money cannot get it unless they buy suburban lots they don’t want, unless they buy run-down tenements, un- Teas they buy Liberty bonds at par, unless they pay huge discounts—and these exactions are made by persons with respectable sounding names, are they not?” The witnesses admitted the truth of the state- ment. It is not even exaggerated. Evidence proves @very charge. But suppose the money had not come from “re- ‘spectable sounding” sources. Suppose it came from @ pawnbroker. The pawnbroking interest rate is limited by law. Suppose the pawnbroker picked up a dollar watch and said the only way to get a loan was to buy the ‘watch for five dollars. If a pawnbroker tried such tactics he would soon Yose his license. The law would step in and close his business. But js there a particle of difference between the two classes of operations, except that the big mort- gage sharks’ gains are measured in thousands? When pawnshop and the personal loan shark evils became too serious, business organizations in first to regulate and finally to provide fegitimate credit through such institutions as the Morris Plan banks and the Provident Loan associ- ations. Mortgage loan sharks bear as heavily on the poor and needy as the smaller leeches used to. Such gouging is reflected in high rents for all. Can the remedy in the case of the gross frauds he different from the remedy for the petty frauds? First, it is obvious, we need legal prohibition of fuch practices. Second, we need adequate supply of housing credit at reasonable rates from a respon- ible source which will compete with the gougers and keep them honest. If some volunteer organization does not supply @uch credit there will be no alternative but State action in financing such loans. Somehow the new Harvard editors of the Evening Post make us low-spirited—always playing leapfrog over the tombstones in St. Paul's Churchyard. “THE BLUE DANUBE.” 'HE account of the festivities at the White House mentioned President Harding waltz- ing to the strains of “The Blue Danube. Well, so would any one else. President Handing fs entirely buman. And as a waltz tune “The Blue” Damibe” is well-nigh irresistible. (As a result of the President’s sanction, “The Blue Danube” will probably be revived for a new period fof popularity. The ultra-up-to-the-minute jazz musicians will see to that. sAnd if “The Blue Danube,” why not some of the other good old dance tunes which never have been Surpassed by newer music? Even the printed word will evoke echoes in the minds of many who imagine they have passed the dancing age. > hie Sea It was dance- : , is] ae tt Bi: THE EVENIN G@ WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921. able. It was melodious. What the youngsters of to-day dance to is something else again. By all means let a dancing programme have plenty of new music, but keep some of the best of the older music. Orchestras are overlooking an opportunity for popularity in not playing occasional revivals ofethe best dances of other times. If some of the old-time dancers and some not so old will recall some of the thoroughly danceable tunes that now lie forgotten The Evening Worli will ghdly revive the oid names. HOW LONG? ae PROMOTE temperance, order and public welfare, the Province of Quebec, Canada, on May 1 went into the liquor business. A month ago, discussing Quebec’s new liquor laws, The Evening World made the above state- ment. Results to date prove it to have been accurate as to both purpose and effect. The Premier of Quebec reported this week that one month of Government control of the liquor traffic in the Province has decreased drunkenness, stopped bootlegging, taught liquor-sellers to respect the law and already earned profits that will be spent on education and highway improvement, Instead of spending millions of dollars to suppress personal liberty and impose Anti-Saloon League rule on its inhabitants, Quebec has adopted a system of local option with Government sale and regulation which does away with the saloon evil, leaves free- dom to those fit to enjoy it and helps to fill the public treasury instead of emptying it. Quebec is not persecuting its citizens, breaking into their homes, arresting them and dragging them into court to satisfy an organized tyranny that has fastened its grip on government. Quebec does not hoki discouraged loyalty, weak- ened respect for law, popular disgust and uneasi- ness as nothing beside the glorious achievement of making everybody cringe under the whip of Prohibition. Quebec is not disrupting its civic life in hysteri- cal pursuit of ends that can be attained at less cost. Quebec was perfectly aware of the evils of the liquor traffic as fosterxd by the lower type of saloon. But to elimin-te those evils Quebec did not deem it necessary to surrender itself, body and soul, to a group of zealots whose thirst for power to enforce their will on others is no more temperate than thirst for drink. Quebec has taken the rational way of fighting the saloon evil by concentrating on the saloon evil, at the same time putting the sane authority of the Government over the liquor traffic as a whole and the guarantee of the Government behind the qual- ity of liquor sold. Quebec tackled the problem with brains instead of letting bigotry and balderdash take charge. The people of the United States were betrayed and browbeaten into the latter kind of attack, How long before the national intelligence will re- volt and pronounce it intolerable? “Atlantic City regulations require girls to wear more clothing when they go in swimming than when they attend fashionable balls.” This complaint by a Sunday school teacher may help to explain the year-round Popularity of the ball, but it is untimely. It merely opens the way for one more blue law crusade, TWICE OVERS. ‘cc ORE than $200,000,000 should have been stricken from this (Nay) bill. Both sides have joined together to drive through this inexcusable programme that will be denounced and repudiated by the people.”"—Senator King. . * . “ Oo” whole shipbuilding programme during the war was an emergency programme.” —Charles M. Schwab, . J * ‘cc W* are all wise to this parasite (Wm. H. Ane derson). His supposed knocks are boosts.” —Judge R. H. Haskell. “ce y Mee hinl wearing "em higher, and they're rolling ‘em lower down, and even a mosquito can see the answer to that.”——Arthur Pohlman of Chicago, sd i HOPE you will degrade this man (Ambassador Haroey) 39 promptly that his shame may not attach itself to your Administration.” —E, K. Kane to President Harding. *. @ @ ce are going to do business among ourseloes right down on a partnership basis, each Sor the other and cif for the public.” —Postmaster General Hays, HARVEY From Evening World Readers; Whet kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one thet gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te sey much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Water on the Desert. ‘To the Editor of The Prening World: On July 4th it is expected that about 75,000 men and women will parade in protest of their lack of personal .| tights—their so-called liberty. Fine! But out of that number, how m are:truly going to march for tha cause alone. A mighty few, and to these few I take off my lumt. The rest are going to pound the cobbles behiad a band in an effort to get back what they think is the only thing to satisfy a very thirsty man's parched throat. According to them, water was cre- ated to wash In. I'd like to take that bunch out in the desert where the sun chases the quicksilver up to about 150 degrees, accidentally empty their canteens upon the blister'ng sand and wait until their tongues be- gan to swell and their lips became like old cracked leather. I'd give eac “beerhound” (pardon) his choice tween a keg of beer and a small swal- low of clear, cool water. Would they grab for the beer? No. They wouldn't even see it. Old H20 would be the popular beverage at that party. COW PUNCHER. Sabwayneckitia, ‘To the Editor of The Prening World Have you subwayneckitis? ‘That's a new disxeuse, and at this time of tho year there are many sufferers. Sub- wayneckitis is contracted by a very large number of the patrons of the In- terborough and the B. R. T., and, ac- cording to a well known physician who treats many it is caused largely by the carelessness of subway train attendants. This is the method of contracting the allment: ‘The unsuspecting pe son enters the car, say at 180th Street, east, bound downtown, ‘The morning air ts a trifle cool; you choose 4 seat in a section of the car protected by closed windows that you may avoid the possibility of strong draughts. But before the train starts along comes Mr. Thoughtless Attendant, who o all the windows. train gathers speed and the bree start blowing across the back of your neck at the rate of ax many miles an hour as the train may travel plus the relative velocity of the breeze existing when the train is not in motion, As an illustration of relativity, you are sit- ting on the left-nand side of the car— train travelling south. By the time you reach Grand ( well developed pair left side of in the right side of the neck: where relativ.ty again comes in get the pain any way you sit ‘This condition denotes the begin- ning of subwayneckitis, Same thing occurs on the homewanl evening jour ney, during which the subwayneckitis. increases its grip and during the night becomes fully developed, Hot applications accompanied by warm thoughts concerning the Interborough and B. R. T. may bring temporary re- lief by morning, when the patient again starts on his daily journey, hop- ing against reason that he will receive greater consideration. But, alas, his experience js sinuply a repetition of the day before, with the final result that | his case of sulywayneckitis becomes j almost a chronic condition, and in | many cases leads to serious complica- Uons—perhaps pneumonia. But the rules of the Interborough must be obeyed no matter what ths weather or temperature conditions, Just so many windows in every car must be kept wide open; the trainmen must not, or at least do not, exercise any judgment, and evidently rea- son: “Why give consideration to the patrons who pay all too little fare? May as well kill them off via subway- neckitis as to carry them at a loss. Besides, the doctors and undertakers must make a living.” D. BE. W. Real New Yorkers, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: The frantic outburst of “Robert Clayton” in The Evening World 1s one of the most childishly silly acou- sationy ever made against the youth of New York. His statements that the young people of this elty suffer by comparison, “are of unpleasing personal appearance, poor manners, weak morals and callow mentality” are untrue, In view of the fact that New York City leads all other localities in repre- sentation among the enlisted person- 1 of the United States Navy, where she set thai stuff that “the satlor different breed from the "Pere decadent y haps “Rot that the well of ntlc Fleet will visit this city a half dozen times between now and next November, for liberty (shore leave); tnat New York City had more men in the Navy and Marine Corps during the war than any one State in the Union and that Greater New York ty has more American Legion posts State or city, dent youth" is good. if the boys do look like Gene cartoons? They are up to the sty speech and ideas, every “Charlie Chaplined nonkey” on the street re are hundreds of real New Yorkers—in the office buildings and industrial plants of this town, Also due to the present nic crisis, there are thousands 4 New Yorkers unemployed at pres- nt through no fault of their own, Our girls are the best looking, best + men dressed, best behayed, most indepen- sjdent and musi intelligent in the world to-day, Tho youth of this city are second to none in morals, man- appearances or mentality, New York knows, this country knows and the world knows, that when New York City calls upon her sons and daughters she does not find them wanting. PORTER C. MURPHY, new York, May 30, 1981, ners, — LONDON FOG | JNO. CASSEL WITHOUT THE AID OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrigas, 1821. by John Make) MEAN WHAT THE OTHER FELLOW HEARS. “That man isn’t on the level,” said a very experienced judge of humankind recently. “When he talks he doesn't mean what you hear.” Talkative, even persuasive, people who don’t mean what you hear, are considerably too numerous in the world. Their words sound plausible, convincing. You can hear them. But you cannot hear the silent thoughts that are going on in the head of the man who is talking to you, the thoughts that do not check up with the words at all, You will learn in time that such men are not to be de- pended upon. Unless you are shrewder or widely experienced yon are likely to learn too late. But never mind that. You will profit by what your first mistake costs you. And after that you will be a little bit cautious about words, unless you know that the thoughts be- hind the words agree with them. Of course it is impossible for you or for me or for all the forces in the world to make every man mean what we hear him say. But we can at least contribute to the general sum of frankness and honesty by always meaning what the other fellow hea: As it always pays to be on the level—a thing no crool: ever seems to be able to discover—it will pay us to make our words express our thonghts, and nothing but our thoughts. It is not necessary to pour out our hearts to strangers and acquaintances. It is not necessary to acquaint our friends with everything that is in our minds, although most men are far more secretive than is at all necessary. When we do talk, whether much or little, we ought tv speak our thoughts and not continaally make mental reser- vations as we go along. The writer knows of an able and brilliant man who might have gone far in the world but for a reputation for mental trickiness that he earned deservedly long ago. He is not dishonest. He means nobody any harm. But in order to curry favor he is continually telling people things he doesn’t mean. By and by the people get to comparing notes, and presently they have his measure. To-day he earns in his profession about half the salary he ought to earn and stands about a quarter as high as he could stand, chiefly because he never means what the other fellow hears. Words are an imperfect means of expressing thought, but they are all we have. If we ase them to conceal thought we are getting very little out of them, and incidentally doing very poorly by ourselves. . only beeause of its universal a From the Wise plication-—Lowls M. Nothin The wortd has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack.—Mme, Swetchine, The saddest part of life is that the young grow old and the old become no more, We reconcile ourselves to thle sad phenomenon Bilence is a friend that will never betray.—Confucius. The Wife of man is a journey; a journey that must de travelled, however bad the roads or the ac- comodations.—Goldsmith. There is @ remedy for every thing buf deoth.—Cervantes, TURNING THE PAGES —BY— €. W. Oopreight, 1931, by the Pro (The New York Brening E'VE just had a party,” sat Betty to me, “With lots of ice crean cake and candy—all three. To-day I am sic and my sister ( nine— We think it a0 queer that her birth day is mine! “What puzzles us most is that whe 1 was three My sister was sir, which was jus double me; But next year, if Hilda and I ar alive, Bhe'll be ten, and it scem's tho’ ought to be five.” A perfectly logical wonder ex pressed in a little song out of “Th Celestial Circus” (Cornhill Company Boston), a book of rhymes by Cor nella Walter McCleary. Many children among wus, year older than Betty, have been bewil dered by mathematics far less com plicated than those of Hinstein, ° ee A World of Naughty Ladies - «= « “Scandal,” by Florence Guy Wool ston, set forth on a page of Harper’ Magazine for June: Four times as many books have een written in the past ten years about Lucretia Borgia as about splendid Susan B. Anthony, Cleo- Patra has ten times as much space ven to her as admirable Clara rton. In fact, a whole box is filled with her misdoings, . Louise of Prussia haven't the ghost of @ chance |: mpetition with Cath- ¢rine de Medicl or Catherine of Russia, and Florence Nightingale, Frances Willard and Martha Wash- ington fade into a hazy background as Helen of Troy, Ninon de L'En- clos or Madame ‘Pompadour come forth. Consider women authors. the good woman who produ Elsie books like hardy annuals. most nothing is known of her. ree Sand. who wrote far innocent forty years Neither little Bisie nor her creator has had any such notice. ‘Truly, we live in a naughty worlc Nevertheless— There is Joan of Arc, who ha made as much history and inspire Possibly as many b any ¢ Miss Woolston’s fain 8, And there are others for a list 1 rebuttal. eee The Anti-Hum of Humdrum - - - “Humdrum isn’t where you livé It's what you are," says Harold May Grath in his new romance, “The P¢ fan Madonna” (Doubled Page Co.), And he continues: Perhaps you are one of those whose lives are bound by nelgh- borly interests. Imaginatively, you never ie what lies under a gorgeous sun4 get; you are never stirred by. iy longing to investigate the ends of rainbows. You are more concerned by wha your neighbor does every day tha yy what he might do if he were > suddenly spun, whirled, jolted ou af his poky orbit. You never stop to comwstder that it is only by chance that you leave home and arrive at the office alive —millions and millions of you, poot old stick-in-the-muds! cause this or that hasn't hap- pened to you, you can't believe that it might have happened to some one else, And the poor humdrum has n even the excuse that his weakness hereditary. Did not_the very first pair eat : apple in the spirit of adventure? When Carrotty Nan Is Tipsy--- Patrick Chalmers, British poet, “Pipes and Tabors,” sings thus Carrotty Nan: And when she was tipsy, as likely not Bhe'd tell you of beaches, blue, stear ing and hot, Of monkeys, and murders, Parrots, and wrecks, And white rum, and sunshine, a blood on the decks. Al right. But why penalize us, the people all the time, under 4 laws, to save Carrotty Nan from } Occasional visions in high color? oo Civility Versus Rush Hour. -- A paragraph by the way out of ¢ Rabindranath Tagore's "The Poe Religion,” in the June Century: Civility is beauty of behavior. 1 requires for its perfection patience self-control, and an environment o leisure; fo: genuine courtesy is 1 po creation, like pictures, like. music Tels a harmonious blending. a voice, gesture, and movement words and action, in which gener: osity of conduct is expressed. 1 reveals the man himself and’ tha: Re ulterior purpose. In these few words our Bast Indi: poet explains with lucidity the {t Dressive rarity of civilit York rush hour, vie som Behind each rusher is the utteri punpose of getting somewhere else. And the “harmonious blending voice, gesture und movement” is le perforce, to the platform man wi Pushes ‘em aboard * 8 e The Matter of Managing Father » « A little mother-and-daughter ta from “Alice Adams" (Doubleda Page & Co.), Booth ington new nwWel: aia There's one thing I don't under stand. about. elther of ‘wou retnrnee, cite ly. nefore people married they cai they want to with, Seok cones Why can't they do the same th after they’re married? When oa apa were young people, and en+ axed, he'd have done anything you wanted him to. That must have been because you knew how 0 manage him then. Why cant. yoo go at him the same way now? Mrs. Adams sighed” again laughed “4 little, making no ot} ERganees but Alice pel ‘Well, why can't you? Why ean’ you ask him to do things the way you used to ask him when you just in love with each other? don't you anyhow try it, mi: ingtead of ding-donging at him?" “Perhaps you will” under gome day,” her mother sald, gen “Maybe you will when you've beeq married twe! years.” young to tl don't see that ut all two a girl 4 intelligenc 2 And intel lgence |x y to understand) fen't, it?) Why do 1 hay til Trve lived with man twentyetied years to understand. wt ¢ be tactful with papa?’ “OU oan’ If every father und mother, » and daughter, knew the answer Alice's question: And all had the courage of the knowledge— Wouldn't there be the end of tl ‘problem of marriage?