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cep eee ee HRS HCP Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULATZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Geapatdhes credited to it or not otherwise credited im thie paps ‘also the local mews published herein. | A STRAW FROM CHICAGO. HE Republican Party of Chicago represents Republicanism in about the same measure that the Democratic Party of New ‘fork represents democracy. So perhaps it is not isstifiable to con- sider the repudiation of Republicanism in Chicago as a rebuke to Republican do-nothingism in Wash- ington. But in the decisive defeat administered to Mayor Thompson’s faction Monday the deciding power was credited to the vote of the women. In the November elections the women were more Republican than the men. They even swallowed Thompsonism. If they have now turned on the Thompson candidates it is a hopeful indication of independence. It should also be a warning to the President and Congress to deliver the goods or answer for results. Every independent in politics is a menace to the party in power which fails to live up to its pledges, It seems that the press is making almost too much of the invitation extended to President Butler to address the meeting of the British Im- perial Premiers. Isn't there just the possibility that the British Imperial Premiers want to ask President Butler what he and the other thirty of the thirty-one eminent Republicans meant when they pro- claimed that a vote for Harding was a vote for the League of Nations? THE LIBERTY OF THE PULPIT. OR arrant stupidity nothing in recent months surpasses the action of the Pittsburgh Em- | ployers’ Association in moving openly to confine | the sermons and addresses of church pastors to the | Subject limits of a so-called “neutral zone.” | It is’ no secret that employing interests have used | | the power of contribution to church support to in- ~fluence pulpit policies in many churches, but such attempts have usually been surreptitious and under- band. | In Pittsburgh the attempt seems to have been so open as to challenge resentment. The Ministerial Union has been forced to act. It had no alternative | but to take the stand it did and defy the employers, declaring “it our solemn duty and purpose to de- fend the liberty of the gospel.” | It will be a sorry day for America if employers | are ever able to dictate to or from the pulpit. The world has suffered untold tortures in divorcing the Church from the State. A union of the Church and Capitalism would be calamity. ‘This Nation never will be willing to recognize the doctrine of the Divine Right of the Employer. “Who shall say what the future shall have in , store?” asks President Harding. | Certainly not President Harding, unless he takes advantage of his opportunities to make the future have in store what America will want and can be proud of. BOHEMIA AND BOURGEOISIE. N THE war of words over the tea and talk shops of “The Village,” it seems strange that the de- fenders of Village virtue have failed to state the case | in terms of “economic determinism” so dear to the heart of advanced thinkers. Economic determinism has explained love, war, morals, the Constitution and style, to mention only a few of its applications. Would it do less for the actions of the Washington Square Association? Why should the Villagers berate Sheriff Knott | and his cohorts as prudes when it is possible to ex- | pose them as selfish and capitalistic? Define the controversy on economic grounds and we get something like this: In the days before the war Greenwich Village attained fame—or at least notoriety—as the home of Bohemians. At that time the capitalistic owners of property were glad to rent “studios” and “attics” and smiled on Bohemia because it attracted tenants. | Then Capitalism invaded the Village. The West | Side Subway was opened. It transformed the Vil- lage from an out-of-the-way corner to a well-located residential district convenient to the work places of lower Manhattan and the play places in Longacre. Bohemia attracts a certain following. But the number of Bohemians, real, imitation and would- ‘be, is limited. Since the advent of the subway, owners of real estate in this section have been re- | guvenaung and modernizing their property—and jacking up rents. More new developments are bend- ing, and owners are wondering whether there will be enough Bohemians to fill the new space, The Bourgeoisie and the Bohemians will not mix. And after all, there are more Bourgeoisie than Bo- hemians. The Bourgeoisie can pay the higher rents and collections will be more regular. So Bohemian- ism must go. Landlords are selfish and have no thought for the Higher Things of Life. hey want all the rent they can gel, and want it regularly. They are selfish, The economic forces determine Sbeir morality, as every Advanced Thinker knows. Therefore, the Village must became quiet and aPC RBI THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, reat decorous so that the Bourgeoisie can sleep nights. Will any Advanced Thinker demur? . $2,000,000,000 SHORT ? TTACKING the Army Appropriation Bill, under which nearly $336,000,000 would be spent on the army in the next fiscal year, Senator Borah said in the Senate Monday: “The President is cognizant of the serious sit- uation and the Secretary of the Treasury has in- formed us that the only way to bring about the relief which the President says is so urgent is to cut into the appropriations for the army and navy, and unless we can cut something out of these two items there is no way to give the re- lef that is so necessary to the welfare of the people of the United Stotes.” That is the A B C of 2 situation which Senator Borah says the President knows to be serious. Is the President facing or fuinking it? The answer is that the President's influence has sidetracked a plan by which the three chief naval powers of the world were to be brought into im- mediate conference on the question of reducing naval armaments; and that he has rejected this straightforward, practicable programme for a vague scheme of inviting al’ nations to discuss all kinds of disarmament—a scheme which means on the face of it indefiniteress and delay. That is the difference between the Borah amend- ment and the kind of resolution the House is ex- pected to substitute for it because the President does not want disarmament to get to the point of dis- arming. Meanwhile, the Senate appropriation of close to $500,000,000 tor the navy is to stand if the House can be made to swallow thé $98,000,000 addition to its own appropriation for the same purpose, and taxpayers who were hoping for some concrete re- duction of armament costs will have to be satisfied with President Harding’s past eloquence in deploring a situation he does nothing to remedy. Not only is the United States to set no example in naval disarming but jit is actually to discourage the disarmament movement among nations in gen- eral by keeping its own naval building programme on an increasingly formidable and disturbing planz of costliness. . This appears to be President Harding's present policy a: to disarmament and those “crushing bur- dens of military and naval establishments” about which he made promises to taxpayers in his in- augural address, If the President is as cognizant of the situation as Senator Borah believes, hg must be cognizant also of predictions now freely made that instead of $4,000,000,000 to meet expenses for the fiscal year, as estimated by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, at least $6,000,000,000 must be forthcoming to cover appropriations of Congress. How» would a new Government loan of $2,000,000,000, be certain to strike a country that kas heard so much economy pledged and preached by an Administration which refuses to lift a hand to cut armament costs? Is the President cognizant of that? —_—_—_——_____ Again, as is usual, Chicago's election Was ac- companied by violence such as New York once had. How long will it be before an organization such as the Honest Ballot Association, backed by @ healthy public opinion, will put a stop to or- ganized riot at the polls? Chicago is big enough to grow up. THE LAST WORD, (Hrom the Philadelphia Ledger.) What is the last word in the English tongue? The compilers of the monumental dictionary begun in 1884 by Murray and the English Philological Society Mave decided that for the present, at any rate, it is “zyx.” This, it seems, is a Kentish dialect word com- ing down from the fourteenth century, and it means “seest.” The dictionary goes back to 1200 A. D, You never can tell what the scientists will do to a language, Whenever there is a new science or when there are new phases of an old science a family of un- familiar words clamors for admission to the word- books, For a long time the lexicographers were con- tent to quit and be paid off when they had reached a group of terms—such as “zymology” and “zymurgy"— that have to do with the science of fermentation, Then along came somebody with a genus of Indian dragon-fly as a claimant for final honors, and all the other words in the dictionary had to rise in Place and make obeisance before the brilliant intruder— “zyxomma,” Now that the Oxford philologians have made this hitherto conclusive insect bite the dust, there will be struggles of various arts and sciences to go the archaic Kentish interloper one better. What business has the fourteenth century to come “horning in” on the twen- tieth, anyway? How can we hope to jazz up the lan- guage to suit the flapper and the tired business man if we have to hark back to the obsolescent locution of the century of Geoffrey Chaucer? “Zyxt” is a heathen word, anyway. It 1s no word fit to bring up the rear of a long and glittering cavalcade of language. It is a poor fish to bring up from the bottom of a well of English undefiled. It sounds like the preliminary hiss of a bottle of ginger ale. Such a word has no right to x-ayt, \ to say much in a fow words. Take “No Baullyism.” To the Editor of The Krening World H. Walters wants to know how long it has been a rule to bully our Gov- ernment to pass repeal laws. Let it be known that this Fourth of July parade hasn't the slightest ves- tige of “bullyism” in its origination, or will not when it has been held. This parade will be composed of real, red- blooded Americans who do not have to use bullying tactics such as Vol- stead or Anderson have tried. Its aim js for the unrevised Const!- tution of the United States, which Life, liberty and pursuit of| happiness,” without the aid of official! tasters, created by the Mullen-Gage act. \ ‘As for comparing this parade with a! red flag, do you recall the prepared- | ness parade? Was there any law passed at that time that stated it | should be held? No, and furthermore, this epistle is wntten by one veteran who has not any “isms” or does not care for any. We have weighed the motive and know that we are about to deprive you, anti-saloonatics, of soft berths and useless positions, that the already overburdened taxpayers of this city may some day be able to make both onde meet. JIM LENNIE, Richmond Hill, L. L, June 4, ‘To the Biitor of The Brening World Recently I visited Brighton Beach, and to my amazement found all the benches removed from the boardwalk and in front of the hotel. The end was boarded up with a sign, “6c. ad- mission.” ‘Things are coming to a pretty pass when the people who can't afford cars are denied the priv- ilege of a seat on the boardwalk. * What's the reason? BILLY MITCHELL. Brooklyn, June 3. omen in the Parade, To the Editor of The Krening World 1 would like to comment on men in the Parade," signed by “A Subscriber,” which appeared lp Thx ning World of June 3. Subscriber” undoubtedly is a Pro- hibitionist, the way the letter reads. But is somewhat of a humorist also. Because an American citizen wish- es to show her protest to a law which deprives her of a personal lib- y is No reason to brand her as “degraded and lost to everything that is good and true and pure,” as “Sub- scriber" does. Subscriber” “Wo- further ‘states that “they seek to desecrate and show that they want liberty to worship the devil,” What a thing for a person io write! Because a personal liberty has been taken away from the people who lqwere not heavy drinkers or drunk- ards does not necessarily m¥ that they were devil worshippers, Un- doubtedly “Subscriber” never worked |{n a steel mill or as a laborer on the j street on a hot summer's day, when a glass of beer gave the worker new | strength and quenched his thirst and [pet new vitality in his system which From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying and your Puritanical associates, the|S0me outside source but, shows his | “Saying It With Flowers” aes Conyright, 1921 Brow Publishing Co. rhe Wr Yor Brewing Wore time to be brief. water could not do. Were these beer drinkers devil worshippers too? Where do we “shame the traditions of our forefathers” when we protest a law not wanted by the majority and only by fanatics? * “Subscriber” continues, “Anyway, | don't let them dare touch our grand | old flag—that would be like sacri-| lege.” It seems queer to put this in| the letter, but nevertheless ‘“Sub- scriber” need have no fear. When Americans protest a law by parading on the street and ask for a license to hold the parade, there is little fear of them touching or abusing the flag of their beloved country that stands for | liberty, the thing they are tryin, keep—the traditions of their fathers. As for “liquor men being behind | this,” I would like to ask, Has “Sub- ecriber” any proof? Could not these | | protestors 5 of Prohibition put up_a like | cry and say “the soft drink indus- |try was behind Volstead and the men |who overrode ex-President Wilso! veto of the Prohibition Amendment ‘What rot for a person to write or ut- ter, A good American protests a law, not by throwing mud or accusing Brae disapproval through the ballot on lection Day, petitions, public meet- ings, parades and the like. “Sub- ceriber” mentions July 4 thus, “That day of all days celebrating religious | ifreedom, the right to worship God.” jIt is not only a celebration of religious | i freedom, but is olso a day marked in in'story where a people can have per- jsonal freedom as wel, “Subscriber” may not know that the Declaration of Independence reads in part as fol- lows:"We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created cqual, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are “ife, | LIBERTY and the pursuit of Happ- | ness." If we are to live up to the traditions cf our forefathers, fanatics or any~ body else won't interfere with our personal rights ‘The “Women in the | Farade” are protesting in the cause | of Personal Liberty in a good Ameri- can way. ROBERT E. HALL. Come Down, Rents M To the Editor of ‘The Evening World Before we can buy even of the necessities of life as we would like to buy, rents must come down ‘The biggest hogs on God's earth are | some of the landlords. We are a fam- | ily of four-—-one man’s earnings to supply all our needs—and we will not buy except what we positively need until rents in New York City come! we are. L. F New York, June 3, 1921, “From the Wise.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World 1 look forward with interest reading the choice selections of prov- erbs "Broim the Wise” which appear a few times a week. I consider them excellent and am sure there are oth- ers who enjoy reading them as much as I do and who would welcome their appearance each evening, | JENNIE GLASER. New York, June 8, 1921 to} ® down. There are many worse off than|_ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) LETTING THE BOSS DO YOUR WORK. By laziness, p-oczastination or by pretending to be stupider than you are, you can get quite a good deal of your work done for you—for a while If the man above you is quick and competent he will frequently get so disgusted with you that he will snatch a job out of your hands and do it himself. No competent executive will do that, but you can count all the competent executives of your acquaintances on the fingers on one hand. It will save you a good deal of trouble to have the hard job taken away from you. You can devote your time to doing the easy jobs at your leisure and in your own way. You will probably congratulate yourself on having a boss that is so skilful—so much abler than you—that he can do all the hard work. But the congratulation will be short-lived. In about a year’s time you. will discoyer that you can’t do any! thing but the easy jobs—which are the poorly paid ones—because you never gave your mind any exercise doing the hard ones. All the opportunities for growth and for progress were in those jobs that were taken out of your hands. Maybe the boss who took ’em away from you didn’t need the mental exercise, but the point is that he. got it and you didn't. By letting him take it away you got just as much out of the game as a ball player would whose captain played his po- sition every time there was a critical stage in the game. No matter what kind of work you have, a time is com- ing when it is going to become suddenly difficult. The im- portance ofa certain task will increase tremendously owing to unexpected circumstances. That is the time that is going to take your measure. If you tackle that harder job and go through with it the chances are that you will do it well. It is presumed that you have the training. If you stand aside and let the man above you step in you might as well make up your mind that you are going to work for the same or less wages for the rest of your days. For you have repudiated the chance to grow. proyed yourself a coward, ‘Some day we may write about the boss who depcives himself of competent help by insisting on doing everybody's work for them. But to-day we are writing about you. If you are in the habit of standing back and asking for assistance every time an unusually hard jobgomes along, get out of it. You will become an assistance-asker all your life. Assistance-askers sometimes get assistance, but they never get responsibility or good pay or respect or anything else that makes life worth the while. You have | . | | cases out of ten, not thought of by Fr rom the Wise | herecif.—Ruskin, \ Self-made men are most always By ins Cassel | Women of The Bible By Rey. Thomas B. Gregory Copyright, 1921, by ‘The Prew Publishing Oo, Now’ York venting Werlds NO. 14—MARY MAGDALENE, THE BeRALO OF THE RESURREC- ‘The most illustrious of women—the Most illustrious of human kind—was |Mary Magdalene, the Herald of the | Resurrection. | To her was given the mission that \had never before been given to man ok woman and that can never be |repeated througn all the ages to come. She did her work so well that it Will never need to be done over again, and she did it all alone. In her souk burned the deathless, unconquerable love, and that love it was that tri- \umphed over the work of the High | Priest and the Procurator and brought forth her Master from the tomb alive again, grandly victorious over the | King of Terrors! See Mark xvi, 9, and John xx, |11-19, for the character of the debs jthat mankind owes this ‘wonderful woman, but for whom, it is more tham probable, the Christian religion would have speedily perished from the earth, Listen to this, the most amazing statement ever made by mortal to mortals (John xx. 11-19): “Mary was , standing without at the tomb weep- ing; 80, as she wept, she stooped and lobked into the tomb, and she behold- eth two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And the; say unto her, ‘Woman, why weepe: thou?” And she said unto them, ‘Be cause they have taken away my Lord, and | know not where they have laid Him.’ When she had thus said, she turned around and beheld Jesus but knew not that, it was Jesus. Je said unto her, ‘Woman, why wee thou? Whom’ seekest thou? supposing him She, to be the gardener, said unto him, ‘Sir, if thou hast borne Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, ang I will take Him awa: Jesus said unto her, ‘Mary.’ She turned herself and said unto Him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbone,” which is to say Teacher. Jesus’ said to her, “Touch me not, for 1 am not yet ascended to the Father, but go unto my brethren and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.’ Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples: ‘I have seen the Lord,’ and that he had said these things unto her.” There it is!—twenty centuries after Mary Magdalene gave it to the world —and as it is to-day so will it be for twenty centuries to come. The woman with the eternal, un- compromising love in her soul looked into the tomb—and kept on looking until she saw her Lord alive again, victorious over the thing that men call Death. LOVE can see where all else is stone blind, and, visualizing her Dear Friend, Mary rushed away from the tomb crying out from the depths of her affection, “HB IS RISEN!” and the great Festival of the Resur- rection, and along with it the Chris- tian religion, were secure for all time. But for that one woman with the love that “believeth all things” and that “never faileth,” the divine dream of the most gifted of all the sons of God might have faded away like the ; jcrimson and gold of the sunset. But the woman would not have it so; her love would not consent to the death of the Beautiful One. He is risen! He has conquered Death and lives forever with God! | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government Coorrert, WREs: Fe 8 Somme tyeaias OF By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the seventy-fourth article | | of a series defining the duties of the administralive and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. BOARD OF STANDARDS AND ‘When, in 1916, the Legislature trans- ferred exclusive jurisdiction over building construction to the Borough Superintendents of Buildings it ulso created the Board of Standards and Appeals and the Board of Appeals to adjust differences that might arise between different departments having jurisdiction over buildings and to con- sider possible variations from the strict requirements of the law, The Board of Standards and Ap- peals consists of thirteen members, of whom six are appointed by the Mayor, the others being the Fire Commissioner, the Chief of the Uni- formed Force of the Fire Department “i d the five Borough Superintendents Buildings. One of the appointed members, who must be an architect or structural engineer of at least fif- teen years’ experience, is designated by the Mayor as Chairman, Of the other appointed members one must be an architect, one a structural engi- neer and one a builder, each with at least ten years’ experience as such, This board is empowered: (1) te test materials to ‘be used in building construction or equipment; (2) to in- vestigate conditions relating to the enforcement of legal requirements af- | fecting buildings; (3) to make rulea for the enforcement of these require- ments; (4) to make rules for the en- forcement of the Labor Law relating to the construction or alteration of buildings, plumbing, elevators, fice |escapes and fire alarm systems; (5) to grant variations from the require- ments of this law where practical | difficulties exist, and (6) to recom. mend legislation. The Board of Appeals, consisting of the appointed members of the toard of Standards and Appeals and tthe Chief of the Uniformed Force of ire Department, is empowered r and decide appeals from any order of a SuperMtendent of Build- the Fire Commissioner or the ment House Commissioner in tters coming under the Building Resolution, or of the Labor De- rtment as affecting buildings, and | " Time is the greatest of all ; 4 ss 4 to review any action of the Board of apt to be a little too proud of the | tyrants; as we go on toward age, | Standards and Appeals, jod.—H. BR. Shaw. . | he taxes our health, limbs, facut | All, deelvons oe es nee} | 1 Pashia \w ty oa The proper confdant of a girt | pee urenath and features J. crngrman of both board Hla satay is her father. What she is not in- ‘ 0 a year, other appointed mem- clined to tell her father should The promised land is the land vers recelving $10 per session. ‘Tho be told to no one and, in nine where one ts not,—Amiel, offices of both boards are on the ninth i Ro9F of the Muniaipal Building.