The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1921, Page 22

y sa: -Scaaimetibtendeeedennlenceneaennoeentenesienapcdihtenieetigiemamme: ESTABLISHED it JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Daily Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos, 0 ¢3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANCUS SHAW, Treamirer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr.. Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. Mee Amociatec Pres ix exctualvely entitled to the ase fer repubiicatio’ Of all news despatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited im this papey find also the Jocal news published herein THE PRICE OF BREAD. UFFERERS from the H. C. of L. read with ap- provai Secretary Wallace's comment on pres- ent prices of bread and his forecast of lower prices soon ta come. A year ago, according to Secretary Wallace, the wheat in a loaf of bread cost more than one-third of the selling cost. Now only one-sixth of the sell- ing cost buys the wheat, The wheat in a loaf of bread now costs less than 44 per cent. of what it did a year ago. Bread is selling for 90 per cent. of last year’s price. But even more striking are the comparative fig- ures of what used to be the 5-cent loaf. A year ago the average selling price over the country was 419-20 cents a loaf. To-day it is 10 3-10 cents, a decline of 1 3-20 cents. The wheat, however, has declined from 39-10 to 17-10, or 14-20 cents a loaf. The bakers to-day are selling on a larger absolute margin over wheat cost than a year ago. This is not right. The country will thank Secre- tary Wallace for making these facts public. It is very decidedly up to, the bakers to justify them- selves and explain why such a condition exists in this industry and change the condition without delay. THE IMMIGRATION MUDDLE. NLY four days ago the new Three Per Cent. Immigration Law went into effect. Yet already the Commissioner General of Im- migration announces that the maximum quota for the month from ‘Italy has been exceeded and that Italian immigrants numbering three times the quota are on the ocean on their way to Atlantic ports. What excuse has Congress to offer for such a condition ? ‘Why was it mot foreseen? Why did not the law provide for a check on em- barkations, a limitation of passport visas, a selection in Burope of the limited number of immigrants who will be admitted? Why did Congress pass a law without machinery to administer that law and make it effective with- out undue hardship to the immigrants and to the authorities? If ever there was a botch job of legislation the Dillingham bill qualifies for the description. It is not even necessary to quarrel with the theory of the bill to prove it wholly bad. It is, indeed, a striking example of the incapacity of Congress to deal with immigration, Experts are needed. “The industrial depression ts the best thing that ever happened to the United States,” Charles M. Schwab thinks. Mr. Schwab would probably endure a boi! on hts neck with philosophic calm, and credit his ‘bank account with its presumptive value as a purifier of the blood. HOW CITIZENS CAN HELP. AGISTRATE SILBERMAN sentenced two subway rowdies to the workhouse the other day. In passing judgment he added: “If I had deen on that car | would have broken their heads.” Despite this somewhat extra-judicial statement, few will find any fault with the expression of opin- ion by the Magistrate, Five days in the workhouse is not a bit too much for roughs who make subway journeys worse than they need to be. Magistrate Silberman is to be commended for his decision, but in this case even more credit seems due Edmund Beneheim, a passenger, who appeared in court against the rowdies. New Yorkers are all too inclined to overlook their opportunities for making the city a better place to live in. Prompt punishment of misdemeanors usual- ly depends on the adequacy of the evidence, If more citizens were willing to complain against rowdies and roughs and then take the time to follow up the complaints in court, the Magistrates could be depended on to put the fear of the law in the hearts of these disturbers, TAX EXEMPTION WORKS. I CONTRAST to most of the other city officials, Borcugh President Curran prepares occasional Statements that radiate hope and optimism, Nor are his cheerful messages mere Pollyannaisms. He has the facts and figures to back his statements: For the thirteen weeks since the tax exemption ordinance took effect Mr. Curran notes that buikd- ing plans have been filed for more than 13,000 dwellings, an average of more than 1,000 per week and a great increase over last year. Moreover, a considerable majority of the new homes are to be in modest one and two family dwellings, which the ordinance was designed to encourage. Tax exemption is accomplishing what The Eve- ning World and Mr. Curran expected when they fought for it almost alone among newspapers and | city officials. It is stimulating building of a most desirable type. Other obstacles have interfered, but t are | Ae ker ig MELE RE ED THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, gradually giving way. A real buikling boom is coming, with its accompanying relief for harassed rent-payers. The city needs this boom. The 1,000 a week average of the present Is due to climb until new construclion” overtakes the pressing demand for more homes. ONLY PAEANS? RESIDENT HARDING'S eloquence at Valley Forge envisioned “an America that can main- tain every heritage and yet help humanity through- out the world to reach a little higher plane.” The President said: “I can well believe that with maintained foundations, the one hundred millions of to- day will be the myriad of the future. I like to think of them all as loyal Americans, with faces to the front, marching on and on to achievement, clinging to their traditions and joining in a great swelling chorus, ‘Glory be to God in the highest, on earth peace, good- will to men.’” Would it be unfair to ask what specific, construc- tive contributions toward peace and good-will to men the earth may still expect from the Harding Adntinistration, which has been in control of the foreign policies of the United States since March 4 last? There exists a League of Nations in which up- ward of two score nations joined with the purpose of pramoting peace on earth by reducing the proba- bility Sf war. Tnis League of Nations does not and never did pretend to be perfect. But its covenant represents the one concrete, practical programme evolved to safeguard peace after the worst war in history. It is a covenant that can be changed where change is found necessary. President Harding has tumed his back on the League of Nations. He has offered nothing in its place. He paraphrases the purposes of the League when he writes or speaks. He declares them to be his own. But he takes no steps toward realizing the aims he professes. His sole contribution to peace is words, Again: The Borah resolution proposed a definite, straightforward move toward reducing the intolerable burden of armament costs and ending a competi- tion that tends to provoke war. The three greatest naval powers were to be brought together to confer on an immediate programme for reducing nava! armaments. President Harding side-stepped the Borah resolu tion. His alternative disarmament plan—if he has any—is still a mystery. He is willing to discuss disarmament as an aim, but he does nothing to bring it nearer. His zeal for disarmament stops well short of disarming. High purposes roll easily from President Har- ding’s lips. Specific programmes for carrying out those purposes always find him looking another way. The enemies of Woodrow Wilson denounced him as an idealist. At least Woodrow Wilson was an idealist ready to advance his ideals by practical means and measures. He didn’t talk about “help- ing humanity to reach a higher plane” and at the same time reject every concrete plan which offered an opportunity thus to help humanity. President Harding is an idealist who hopes “loyal Americans will go mmarching on, singing ‘peace and good-will to men.’ ” i: If similar paeans rising into the Heavens are all President Harding’s Administration means to give to an international movement to @revent war, the earth will not be much better for that historic “man- date of last November.”” Following Atlantic City’s prohibition of the one-piece bathing suit for women, Stony Point Beach invites them, Here we have the Prohibition situation re- peated. The virtuous dry town suffered from competition of the wicked wet town. The pru- dent stocking clad bathing resort suffers from the counter-attraction of the bare leg beach. According to Prohibition philosophy, virtue must not be exploited. Stony Point must be corrected, It is evident that a One-Piece Amendment to the Constitution is the only recourse. And even then Bimini and Havana might allow bare legs to take on a coat of sunburn. TWICE OVERS. 6¢7 THINK that our protection is not the man in uniform but a contented citizenship.” — Senator Borah, ae Tae ce NE of the great difficullies with popular government is that citizenship expects al the hands of the Government that which it should do for itself." —President Harding. + * « ‘ce UT of 7,000 cars atout 1,000 are row idle. There is no travel.” ~The ee Company. | Shall of May 11, 19 j meets with the hearty support of the Lifting Another Lid! ae eat vetting Oo, New York Breaing World.) By John Cassel Attention, Motorists! To the Editer of The a World: The letter of Mis. Randolph Mar- was timely and women of Inwood, who for the past two months have been devoting two or more afternoons of each week to visiting the ex-service men’s ward at Seton Hospital. These visits have done much to relieve the mental and physical wants of the convalescents, who are profuse in their thanks. Rep- resenting several organizations, it has | been my privilege and pleasure to} personally distribute delicacies and nourishment, candy, cigarettes, canes, fruit, writing paper, envelopes, lead pencils and other comforts. There have been forwarded this week one dozen canvas reclining chairs, contributed by the Lena In- valid Aid Society Mothers’ Club of P. 8. No. 52 of Inwood and the He- brew Sisterhood of Inwood. The Sun- shine Committee of the Inwood Civic Forum devotes Tuesday and Friday to visiting the ex-service men. They bring to them just that little human attention in listening to their confi- dences which we all long for when shut off from the busy world. Now, if only some of our patriotic fellow-citizens who are favored in the possession of an auto could devote a small part of their so fully socially occupied afternoons to taking a few of the boys out in the air and sunshine, it would add much to the continuance of the work these ladies have so nobly undertaken, The ex-service men at Seton Hos- pital represent the best of American citizenship. They given more than the supreme sacrifice, for it is almost a living death to go through each day the effects of shell shock or gassing; so we would add our in- dorsement to the plea for autos par- ticularly, and any donations, even to clothes and other wearing apparel. Help the boys to help themselves. They all long for freedom, and one afternoon in the open may ‘prove the open sesame to their speedy recovery, MRS. HATTIE. LISSBERGER No. 37 Vermilyea Avenue, New York City. ‘The nny” Dry. ‘To the Faitor of The Bvening World: I wonder if other readers of your valuable and courageous paper are as much amused at the letters of the professional “dry” as I am! It's so very funny when he says that his Prohibition game is going to make better and healthier the growing generation, Personally, I can't see it for one minute. About the only thi he has accomplished in this affair is, that out of a Nation of dec and good natured people hi as made ent, liberal | From Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ian’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 te say much in a feic words. Take time to be brief. 4@re not a Nation of and never have veen a Nation of inebriates. They were boys with health, strength and cou e, and many, many ve up their all. I know, And they were not Prohibitionists, either, but they were gentlemen whose brave deeds have been repaid with the medals they now wear. That is far more than the whole Anderson clique and their leader ever would have done. ‘The extent of their fighting lay in sitting tight right here, writing insulting let- ters, mouthing and using intimidation wherever they could apply it to their own benefit. | The best thing that ever happened was the call from Mr. Drake. It is high time that the high-handed com- mand of a few will be curbed, for! now every man or woman who likes Uberty is a criminal. Let us hope | that July 4 will cure the evil. And let | me say right now that Mr. Drake ts | no temporary “goat.” He will go| down in history as our deliverer from | a rule of bigotry and hypocrisy. WOMAN READER. Tompkinsville, 8. I, May 31. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World | Being a constant reader of your | valuable paper and knowing your | fairness on all subjects, I wish to call | your attention to the condition of} Columbia Street from Degraw to Summit Street, a distance of six) blocks. On bne side of the street are | peddlers’ wagons in line, and it is al- most impossible for pedestrians to | walk up of down, Cars have to stop | while trucks supplying the stores | along their routes are unloaded, and it seems the tenants of the stores | have to put up with the inconven- | lence. Was this priviiege granted by the city? If not, by whom? Do the ten- ants of the stores have no say? It used to occur only on a Saturday, but | now it's six days a week. J. MORAN. | Brooklyn, May 31, 1921. | Morals and the Amendment, ‘To the Haitor of The Esening World; | The Prohibitionists are bragging | of the number of States that have voted themselves dry. And, as usual, they misrepresent facts, There is a great difference between State Pro- hibition and National Prohibition (Bighteenth Amendment), Many thousands of moderate drinkers voted | dry for State Prohibition, but for National Prohibition would vote wet, because they wish to keep their home a lot of whiskey drinking sneaks, liars and hypocrites. Do these self-appointed and not one bit od_-reformers ever | think bi fine lot of boys re" and cleaned toa could take a drink in goneratle h dhe “open,” and one sufticed, for we makes it more difficult Jo convick the of fortune wasrin operavon, town dry so that the un, rough el 1 al But they purchase by the wholesale from the nearest tate, which they could not| er National Prohibition. ‘They t now depend upon the bootle, In proot of this, note the.ch. heart of the present Toxas Legis- ature, a State that voted iself dry They ‘have just passed a law which ssuvernen@ ere ', ae) UNCOMMON SENSE John Blake (Copyright, 1921. by John Blake.) EVERYDAY INSPIRATION. Last Sunday's newspapers printed a picture of the head of one of New York's biggest banks. He was in a baseball uniform, and but for a mustache—an ornament now dis- carded by ball players—looked like a professional. The picture was taken at an outing of the Bond Club. The banker served as pitcher for the New York team. The type below recited the fact that he got his first job in an Al- bany bank because he was a crack ball player; applied him- self to banking as eagerly as he had applied himself to baseball, and in a few years was well on the way to his present position. It is needless to say that this particular baseball player didn’t put all he had into the game. He was unusually gifted as a pitcher and might easily have got into one of the big Icagues, too. But he had the good sense to know that baseball was not a steady business and that banking was. And instead of seizing an opportunity to make fairly big money early in youth, he was content to try the banking business on a small salary. Of course, there are a good many men who started in the banking business when he did, and who are still about where they were when they started. But at least they still have steady jobs. If they had taken to baseball they would not be doing as well. Our object in referring to this particular case is to cali attention to the fact that if you want inspiration in your work you can get it in the newspapers—plenty of it. Brief bits of biography such as the one we have cited appear almost every day. Seldom is a prominent man's name mentioned in con- nection with an important affair that you do not learn something about how he started and why he succeeded. If you want to read about the failures and the horrible examples, you can read about them, too, usually in the divorce proceedings. While this man was rising from a bank clerk to a bank President another man who started as an important official of a bank—chiefly because his father owned most of it— was preparing to travel in the other direction. He made the journey, and has just arrived at the point he started for, Ail human history is epitomized in the daily news and in the magazines which are just awakening to the fact that it is from the lives of others that we learn to form our own. Read the papers, read the magazines. Think about what you read, After that if you don't succeed it will not be tecause nobody told you how. bootlegger. Their object is obvious, turn of the wheel gave the church a The arguments of the Prohibition |rake-off, It was more of a gamble ists are usually based on morals, It/than the roulette wheel, because the is a matter of fact that there is no|church could not lose. In roulette established authority on morals.] the backer at times goes broke. No Morals are a matier of opinion, I at-}one thought he was doing anything tended » church entertainment one | wicke J Sunday evening a few yea 1s are but a matter of con- the rear of the hall to Prohibition, morals bar where whi to do with it. It is the drinks were sold. ‘people that should pre- tended by women and ¢ nd not the morals of a few orderly, pleasant evening was enje and highly id reformers. by al, Nutone seen’? to think he or| Th ghteenth Amendment is a vio. she had do. wired, Atan-|jation of the very principles of the Constitution itself, Diew York, June 1, other oht +3. D., . The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff , 1091, by The Prose Publishing Co. fine New’ Yorn Brening World). XII—THE MAN WHO BUILT THE FIRST ROAD. : The first path led to a drinking place—niot a saloon, but a place where wild animals drink water, |, The stranger in Boston finds no dif- ficulty in believing that the streets of that city were laid out by the cows. But the first path known to man is at least a million years older than the oldest cowpath in oldest Boston. It was made by wild animals crash. ing through the jungle on their way to and from the lake shore or river bank. at which they slaked their thirst. The first road builder—the precur- sor of the Romans and of Macadam and of the commissioner of highways and of the Lincoln Memorial High. ‘ way Commission—was thus an ani- mal, let us 6ay a mastodon, a sabre- toothed tiger or an aurochs, the Eu- ropean forebear of the Holstein and the Jersey cow. Let us follow the first primitive human road builder as he goes about his task. He ig making his difficuls, way through the virgin forest, He strikes the track made by wild ani- mals—monsters beside which he ap- pears a puny creature. But already be has shown his superiority to the wild animals, because he is dressed {m their skins. This primitive man is doubtless fol- lowing the track he has found for the Purpose of ambushing the wild ani- mals—the wild boar, the antelope or the aurochs—at their drinking place. He is travelling the path laboriously. For the path is uneven, It is ob- structed by a fallen tree or overgrow- ing shrubbery. To clear these obstacles—rather than climb or jump over them, as the animals do-—he bends down and re- moves the fallen tree, perhaps with the help of his fellows, or removes hillock. The removal of that fallen tree or that hillock by this ancestor of ours was the first conscious, reasoning act of roadbuilding in the long history of the race. In the wake of that first roadbuilder has followed a great and distinguished company of engi- neers, of conquerors and of captains of industry. The Roman engineers criss-crossed Europe with solid, stone-paved roads for the march of Caesar's legions of the transportation of the tribute ren- dered unto him. Stretches of these roads are still to be found in conti- nental Europe and the British Isles after the span of centuries, Macadam gave us a system that makes roads durable, repairable and maintainable at comparatively low cost. James J. Hill spanned the North American Continent with the irom rails. But the pioneer inventor of them all was the primitive man who first ree moved a fallen tree from his path as he followed the game track. That act served as notice to the wild beasts that this was no longer a track for game but a road for men-— a way, first for the hunter and them for the traveller bent on commerce im | ‘ts primitive phase of exchange. ‘The wild beasts took account of this “no-trespass” sign. As the years wore on and the road was improved by other men, the forest creatures recognized the new ownership by vacating the man’s road as a regular way to their drinking places. ‘The game-track became a road. Super Business Women By Helen Page 1921, by The Prew Pobtishing Ox, oom NewYork Evening World.* BEATRICE CARR. Statistician for One of New York’e Big Bond Houses (Robinson & Co.). The complaint often made by young business women eager to forge ahead into more important positions is couched in criticism of an employer's hesitancy to permit women to assume responsibility. which if unwisely placed might result in business dis- aster. However, Miss Beatrice Carr, statise ticlan to a big Wall Street bond house, can volee no such complaint. The high trust placed in her excellent and dis- cerning judgment by the old conserva- tive house that employs her is clear recognition of her unusual ability. In her ten years’ connection with this firm, Miss Carr has acquired a knowl- edge of public utilities and corpora- tions and other financial interests of the country that would match up with some of the keenest minds in Wall Street. At the same time she pos= sesses qualities that have earned for her the high reputation she enjoys as a thorough and most reliable investi- gator. After Miss Carr has submitted a re- port on any class of bonds or securt- ties that the firm contemplates hand- ling, or that any of their clients have expressed a wish to obtain, her om- ployers have the comfortable ance that the report represe last word,” as it were, of formation. Frequently Miss Carr, when submitting a report, will advance some personal suggestion, and jt is the ex- cellent judgment that she exerctses in all these matters that has won for her a reputation as an authority on |important transactions, which often run up into millions during the course of a year, In fact, Miss Carr 1s spoken of by her business associates as the She-locig Holmes of this particular business, From the Wise Liberty is a principle; its com munity is its security; exclusive ness is its doom.—Kossuth, - A man to be happy does need jive years of Latin, wiv vears of Greck or a thorough um derstanding of Einstein's theory of relativity, But at least two square meals a day are neces- sury for happiness.—Notkin, Drunkenness which all Anonymous. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.—Plato, is an egy trom vices are hatchat—