The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1921, Page 26

i THE EVENING WORL ach nyc 2 AB sine gt Minennancorermy py wee oe D, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921. SSTAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwiimed Dally Except Sunday by The Pross Publishing (Company. Noa. 69 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasuror. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. yt MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Phe Associated Prom te exclusively entitied to the usr for repubttcation (GR OD news despatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited im this paper 8 also te Jocal news published herein THE AMERICAN LEGION HEAD. MERICANS everywhere will be shocked at the news that the gallant National Com- mander of the American Legion has been killed in an automobile accident ape ee Si |! The “Fighting Colonel of the Fighting First” \ } . made a distinguished record in the war and brought glory upon the Olio National Guard. In early life a sailor, trained at the Massachusetts Nautical Training Academy and six years at sea, later a Public-spirited business man of Cincinnati, then a soktier in command at Camp Sherman, afterward feading the 147th Infantry overseas, Col Galbraith was a fine type of efficient, all-round American— strong asset of the Nation in peace or war. ‘ iAs Commander of the American Legion he was @he head of an organization whose potential influ- ence in civic affairs can be and ought to be great. (ol. Galbraith showed a high sense of his responsi- . bility, not only toward ex-service men whose wel- fare he worked to promote, but also toward the larger public of which the American Legion should © ever be anything but an honored, useful, co- operating part. His untimely death is a loss to the Legion and to : the country. Discussing disarmament the Tribune says: “The President must take the lead; the conduct of foreign relations is in his hands.” What, may we ask, has become of the some time orthodox Republican addendum to all discussions of international affairs? Has “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate” become obsolete since Woodrow Wilson passed from power? THE MATRIMONIAL SLUMP. EPORTS on the number of June weddings in a dozen cities show a decided decline for the ' early days of the month as compared with the cor- responding period last year. One explanation is that June 1920 was an un- usually active month in matrimonial affairs and * that we are getting back to normaky. { War years caused a slump in the number of wed- ings, and as the veterans returned to civil life they meeded same time to make a new start. By June ; the crop of bridegrooms was ripe for the harvest. But the figures for this year cast some doubt on the part the H. C. of L. plays in stimulating or re- tarding marriages. ' This year the cost of living has declined materially { i i from last year’s peak, but the decline is not reflected fn the license record. . } On the other hand, wages have declined and a ; great increase in unemployment exists. Probably , this second factor has more immediate effect on the * founding of families than the cost of living. When men are employed, lovers are ready to * fest the theory that two can live cheaper than one. But when a man is out of a job he isn’t making a fiving for one, and the thedry is sidetracked until © Jobs are more plentiful. HUMANITY VS. U. S. MAILS. NITED STATES COMMISSIONER HITCH- COCK was 100 per cent. right in refusing to entertain a complaint against Robert C. Mayer, who “obstructed the mails” when he caused the arrest of a mail collector driving a lame horse. Uncle Sam and his servants ought not to be free from the dictates of common decency toward the horse. No jury would ever bring in a verdict against a man whose only crime was a feeling of pity for a dumb animal. HOME TO ROOST. IRCUMSTANCES have altered decidedly since the National Committeemen of the G. O. P. met a year ago. And it is a question whether the committeemen are much happier for the change. Then they met with the prospect of victory ahead. They achieved the victory. Now it is a question whether they know what to do with it. Unfuifilled campaign pledges are bothersome things. Political prevarications have an inconvenient way of coming home to roost, just like the common garden varieties of lie. A year ago it was all plain sailing. Promise every- thing to everybody—and no matter if pledges con- flicted. Carry on party traditlons—even if condi- tions have changed to make the traditions undesira- ble. Pledge the unattainable. Deception and trickery were the foundation of Republican success. This was only less true in do- mestic issues than in foreign affairs, The harmony glue manufactured from such in- gredients does not stick well. No one knows this better than the committeemen who have their ears to the ground in all the forty-eight States. + ‘The voters are beginning to ask for the unattain- able. They want to know about tax reduction, economy, efficiency, disarmament, the League of Nations. They are discovering the fraud in the Emergency Tariff Billy, Southern whites and South- | @m negroes are each domanding that the party “ a \ make good on the conflicting “black and tan” and “lily white” programmes promised a year ago. A little more honesty last year would have made the present situation easier, allhough a do-nothing Congress is always a thorn in the side of the men who have to do the explaining, In other years the selection of a National Chair- man would be of absorbing interest to the profes- sional leaders of the party. Just now that seems to be the least of their troubles. EVEN GIBRALTAR. 667° HERE is no Usury Law as to corporations.” The above was a reply elicited by Lawyer Untermyer from a witness before the Lockwood Committee. Mr. Untermyer was trying to find out why build ers seeking loans from great financial corporations have been forced to pay 10 per cent. bonuses to brokers, to buy job lots of real estate they did not want and to submit to juggling transactions where- by they accepted Liberty bonds at par value but got only the market value of the bonds when the corporation wrote its check. The witness quoted above seems to have covered it all in eight words: There is no Usury Law as to corporations. Nor is there anything to compel big financial con- cerns to help the country out of a housing crisis or . to refrain from making such a crisis worse by put- ting the screws on would-be borrowers through di- rect or indirect methods. The wonder is, not that an acute housing shortage developed, but that anybody built at all. The deep instinct of public service and responsi- bility in some of the huge and “highly respectable” corporations that draw immense sums of money directly from the public was further shown when Mr. Untermyer got around to the Prudential Insur- ance Company of New Jersey and put its President, Forrest F. Dryden, on the stand. Mr. Dryden admitted that the Prudential out pf its $700,000,000 funds had but $1,000,000 to put into bond and mortgage on real estate in New York City, as against the $100,000,000 the Metropolitan Life brought to the aid of the housing situation. Yet at the close of the year 1919 fram 22 to 28 Per cent. of the total insurance written by the Pru- dential was in this State. Mr. Dryden found it perfectly natural that a man who wanted to borrow of the Prudential to build in New York should discover ¢hat as a preliminary he needed to spend a couple of hundred thousand dol- lars to acquire real estate in Newark. \ Finally Mr. Dryden was unable to recollect whether or not he had profited as a stockholder in banks where large amounts of Prudential funds were admittedly deposited, Q. Do you still think, Mr. Dryden, that the head of a great institution of this kind that is charged with the terrific regponsibility, with, I think you sald, nearly $700,000,000 assets, and 20,000,000 policies divided among 15,000,000 Policy-holders, that he ought to be interested in banks that get partial support from the Prudential Life? A. I see no impropriety in it, Disclosure of the kind of conscience and policy that control the use of huge aggregations of money which in a sense still belong to the public that has piled them: up is not the least of the Lockwood Committee's services. The fire insurance companies are already cleaning house with might and main, P Other financial Gibraltars like this one which towers over New Jersey will do well to follow suit. “The world is wondering whether Ger- many can pay the indemnity, And at Wash- ington statesmen predict an annual budget, beginning next year, of seven thousand mil- Hon dollars, “That is more than four times the an- nual German indemnity payment. It is fourteen times what this Government used to spend in days called horribly extrava- gant."—Arthur Brisbane in the American, And the American continues to advise large and expensive armies and navies for “defense” against Mexico and Japan. TWICE OVERS. 6¢) HAVE read with amazement certain extracts from a speech purported to have been made by you.” —Secretary Denby to Admiral Sims, * ce Te Y are Americans when they want money, but Sinn Feiners when on the platform. Admiral Sims, * * * * * 6 EEPING you late like this makes a speeder of you.'"—Bobe Ruth, * * * 6¢ yp UNDERSTOOD my brother was a candidcte for the Senate. So, because of my love and affec- tion for him, I told Fred B, Smith I wanted to finance his campaign.” —John S. Newberry, brother of Tru- man H, Newberry. ht, be THOT eel £0, (The Now York Brening World.) By John Cassel te say much in a few words. Take The Popular Will. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In your issue of June 2 appeared a letter maintaining that Prohibition, after ajJ, was an expression of the will of the people. Why then did the Anti-Saloon League in so many of the important States fight strenuously to prevent a popular referendum or Prohibition prior to the ratification of the amendment? Why was, the ratification of the amendment’ in several States in open defiance of the people? In particular I recall the Instance of California, where shortly after the people of the Stace ha voted against Prohibition the Legis- lature ratified the Prohibition Amend- ment, By what possible deduction can such legislation be construed as popular? A friend has recounted to me an experience in Washington. One eve- ning he found himself in an assem- blage of five or six Congressmen, who at the residence of one were en- gaged in playing cards, Noting the avidity with which many highbails were consumed, my friend asked whether any of the members of Con- gress present had voted against sub- mitting the Kighteenth Amendment to States for ratification. All had voted for submission. Pressed further for reasons, they one and all stated that the Anti-Saloon League lobby in Washington was the most powerful gress had been browbeaten into voting for submission. It was the unanimous opinion, however, that the | Anti-Saloon gue had bi lly overestimated, that the lea | not represent the will of the majority lof the people. ‘A curious mental aberration pos sesses Prohibitionists when they In- sist that the Eighteenth Amendment lis an expre: 1 they used th eavors to | prevent the people froi ing on the | question. B. v. G oning Motives, orening World. Referring to Mr. Drake's booze pa- rude, he states that most of the peo- ple who will parade do not drink, ‘Then why this demonstration? I dare say to restore to his friends who sell the stuff their liberty again, T want to state that I know of fami- lies who have been deprived of the hare necessities on account of the sa- loons, and it's only since Prohibition has gone into effect that they realize what liberty means, 1 am sure that a man of Drake's calibre would not interest himself, nor round up hie friends to help drunkards’ wives and children, ‘Too bad that he Is unable to satisfy his cravings without mustering an army to help him, I know of many wives children, wis ; him. CONSTA New York, June 3 1 “A Glorioas ting. | ro the Fatitor of The Brening World I have read with great interest some gt the letters appearing in your walued paper protesting against the meas they had ever known and that Con-/ r will when! From Evening World Readers { What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. Prohibition Parade to be held on July 4 as a protest to the Volstead act. It sure gives one a glorious feel- ing to see that we still have a good many red-blooded Americans who are willing to defend thoir personal liberties by staging a huge parade in protest against the Volstead Prohi- bition Act, which as far as can be seen has not benetited this country one bit. Crimes are being committed just the same. Why? Because a great many people in their desire to set a drink of good old stuff are be- ing poisoned by the drinks of to-day, Which are so strong as to cause in- sanity. Of course, it results in crime. Since this law was passed it has caused a good deal of money to be spent in the enforcement of the same. This has to be added to the tax on our citizens, who are more than tired of paying high taxes. If we are ever to get down to a normal basis the | only thing to do is to repeal the Vol- | stead act and stop tantalizing the people with all these foolish and use- less laws, H If the majority of the people in this great country of ours wanted Prohibition they would have long ere this gladly helped to enforce it, but | as thinks stand now they do not want | |it. ‘The people of this country are an ing and law-abiding people, but when a bunch of narrow minded hypocrites of the minority try to rule | the majority, then is the time to put Ja stop to all foolishness. j The Prohibition Party when first | started was considered a huge joke, but they put one over on us and had good laugh; but now when they see we do not Intend to stand for it and will fight to repeal this Prohibition act, they get peeved and start right | in to try to prevent this parade to protest against Prohibition, It would be a great thing to invite the Representatives from Washington to witness this parade so they wil see What a foolish law it is and how the people detest it. ‘Then if they do not do something, send men to Wash- ington who have the Interest of she people as a whole at heart, or petition the Legislatures of the States for a referendum and let the result of the | vote be the decision for the people to | stand by, WM. L. KOUR. Wood Ridge, N. J,, June 3, “A Mann of Hypocrisy.” ‘To the Faltor of The Evening World In all the letters te you regarding Prohibition there seems to be a con- sensus of opinion that the Anti- Saloon League should receive all the it (if any Is due) for pu Volstead law. he more the subjee in only seratehin, Ant \ ‘ Lea hg over inves the ated rface ApH uit it over” tur wn pockets and ie benefit of their o bank ace Millions unis, of dollars in graft have a me oe > UNCOMMON SENSE y John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) THE RIGHT KIND OF SPECIAL INTEREST. Ask the man of affairs what he is interested in and he will probably tell you; “Everything.” He IS interested in everything, and he ought to be. But he also is especially interested in some one thing, which is why he is a man of affairs. A very important editor is so absorbed in the study of the world and what is going on in it that in work time or play lime he is engaged in its study. But he is especially interested in men and women, And, specializing in this specialty, he is interested in what they joke to read, He is so deeply interested in this that he never meets a man or woman that he does not find out, in some fashion or other, what it is that attracts their attention in news- papers and magazines. The results of the several hundred thousand questions he has asked are carefully put away in his brain, and when he gets out a number of the publication he directs, it is al ways bought and read by a very large number of people. To have a live personal interest in all created things is necessary to every well educated and active man, But one must, of these many’ interests, have one in psr- ticular, and ont of that interest he must make his livelihood. If you sat at,a dinner next to John L. Rockefeller you could get few rises out of him by discussing the theory of relativity. But, if you began to talk of how to give away money intelligently, which is his special interest just now, you would probably hear something of much value. Golf, musie, the size of Betelguese, and many other things are fine interests to have, but the one interest you need most of all concerns your business or your profession If that is paramount and you give it enough intelligent thought you will prosper. If you “scatter” too much you will not. cy WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 34—GEOGRAPHY, sumer (there's one born every min-| ute—and I'm one of them), which are | now reposing in thousands of safe- | deposit. boxes—tax exempt. This is common knowledge or shold be Can one dowbt it when one sees the class, character, general make-up and | past performances of those who are appointed to fulfil the duties of en- forcement, prosecution, &c., in this city anyway? Can a leopard change ving and lip service? earth, "ge," as the goddess Geia. ita apote by a good deal whout Geia, they know | os DOF ole proposition ia a mess of|; a rane) a" pooney: with cold cash as the goal| tue about the earth. When the Ro.| | 1 nder the shade of the “Washing erisy, wil ae an conquerors began to study the|ton Elm," in Cambridge, Mase, Bnd Pron on ae ee ORSEL arth, they ave the name ge. Washington first took command. ot ographia"—fro 2 Gree a the Continental Army, on J Te ee “araphinn” writing —to the wclencet eg pay BATHE: yhe Dry Names, ography used to be a positive| Cuvier, the greatest of zoolo, ‘To the Falitog of The Evening Work! science, in the sense that it was based | and the founder of comparative gee | 1 agree with Mr. M, Mack, whose | upon k frets | omy, was born in 1765, the yout tate etter appears In your paper June 2. | But tro ich wave birth to forty other noted mon iy" all means, if possible, ‘get the Hwan) among them Napoleon, the Duke of of the names of business inter- become ington and Mehemet Ali, and that Nave contributed to une «iied in 1852, the year in which twente Saloon League. Let us know ts will men of note, including Daniel Web. they are and how imitch they of the fter, Henry Clay, John. ‘Howera gave, thinking that by ving us { he dev Payne and others died 1 ss of beer t would beneit] w [ ‘erg cease to move about | - * L thereay under the influence of marching ar-| ‘The so-called “Chinese white” tw / The ancient Greeks personified the! y You can do it, and nine-tenths of] mies will be a happy day for the|itinc. Scarlet color paint ts lodide of t yorld—provided the frontiens 4 ; your readers would like to know, #o | world—p: @re an. | mercury, and native F Cine The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff XIV—THE MAN WHO SANG T FIRST SONG, The song of hate is the olden ruman song. The first man who ever! raised his voice ih song gave utter- ance to that song probably after he had vanquished his enemy, perhaps @ wild animal whose skin he wanted and which, in its turn, wanted the man for its dinner. Singing among animals—birds, for instance—is generally an event of the mating season. The wood-thrush sings his best for his mate—or for the female which he hoper to make his mate. When the mating season ia over, the forest is comparatively hushed. Most of the birds cease to sing, or if they do sing occasionally their song is subdued. [t lacks heart, fire and frequency. We wish we could believe that human song had its origin in love- making. But it probably did not, For of all creatures, man in his primitive state was the least inclined to do his love-making by the gentle process of singing, Man, of all creatures, re- garded woman as property, to be taken by force if she was wanted and left without compunction when no longer wanted. The art of wooing among human beings is a reform of yesterday, when the antiquity of the human race is considered. When primitive man wanted a wife he took her by main force. That, in all probability, was all there was to the primitive cere- mony of marriage. That being the case, our earliest ancestors wasted no time in attract~- ing an unwilling female by the ca- jolery suggested by the bird singing to attract his mate, In the African jungles the prevail- ing sounds made by living beings are sounds of anger, challenge, warning, menace or triumph after victory. The elephant which ts the father of the herd “trumpets” as he makes charge upon an enemy. The lion—now strangely growing Bregarious—roars as he leaps upon his prey. The ape, after his fierce struggle to overcome a foe, sets the jungle trembling with his loud announce- ment of the-fact, so that all may hear—and beware. | ‘There is reason to believe that the first human singer sang as the ele- phant, the lion and the ape in the African jungle sing. His song was no gentle cooing, no{¢ tender lullaby. It was the roar of an animal mad with the lust of battle when it was not the inarticulate shriek of the defeated and those about to die, From that song of hate or chal- enge have descended by devious » the hymns or national anthems most peoples—anthems that carry shriek of the madman, the roar f the challenger or the p mptory call of the conqueror. Dr. Sigmund Spaeth and other musi- clans have pointed out that in the musical structure of most of the na- | tional anthems of the civilized world |the trumpet note js plainly apparent. ‘That note is the survival of the song of hate which the first human singer roared out in the jungle of his primt- tive world. But, having learned to express | hatred, chailenge or warning, our first forefathers eventually applied the voice to other sentiments. Perhaps they learned something from the birds in the forest. The mother wo crooned to her restless infant in the cave ta entitled to the honor of being regarded as the acthor of the first lullavy. It is possible, too, that the fighting man, on the morning after the battle in which he had sung his first song, stood before his cave, sniffed the fresh morning air, felt the thrill of joy and youth In his veins, filled his lungs—an@ just roared out of sheer satisfaction, as Mr. Wells puts it. But even that vocal ebullition of spirits was not free from the note of challeng Forgotten ‘‘Whys” APRIL FOOL'S DAY. In almost every country where the white man ilves there exists the cu: tom of trying to make a fool of one’s friends on the first of April. The * crigin of this js doubtful, but the fol- lowing suggestion seems plausible: ‘The habit in France of giving fish on the first of April is belicved to Le due to the corruption of che word ‘ passion” or “poisson,” which is the Hrench for fish, and that length of time has altered the original inten- ton, which was as follows: That as the Jews sent Christ at this time of the year backward and forward to mock Him, from Annas to Calaphas, then to Pilate, on ti Kerod and back to Pilate again, the custom of sending people on - ulous errands started amore tne Jews, spreading from them to the Hoe mans, and so to the civilized world. ———__— The Conn, {8 noted as having preserved the document of the liberties of the people of that State during the rule of the tyrannical Gov, Andros, . 8 8 “Charter Oak,” at Hartford, The “Elm Tree,” at Philadelphia, Pa., is noted as the one under which | William Penn made his famous treaty | with nineteen, tribes of Indians. . The “Old Liberty Elm” of Boston, | Mass. was planted by a schoolmaster 1 de ed to Liberty, long before b ‘olution, The people gathered under that tree and listened to advo- This | cates of freedom, and during the war divinity plays an important part in| (177! mythology, But althougu they wrote | SUP! 5-1783) offered up thanks and tions for the success of their armies. 4 ‘ermilion —