The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1921, Page 30

ce 83 pers rete —— Peau Fa Rie ( PNM! SAI i a Poa EE SL SEA RATE AMAT 5) rm atic alDOs aio eave oa — adores sg cima nS ere 3 ove PAO WER © ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITA! Wwiimed Daily Except Gunday by The Prom Publishing ‘Company. Nos. 52 to 62 Park Row, New York. RALPH . R Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. ‘MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS, {Fhe Amoriated Prem te exctusively entitled to the ase for repabticntion ews Geepatehes eredited to It or not otherwise eredited im this pagge (Wed alto the local news published heres. FROM BAD TO WORSE. ID ever an Administration get so twisted into bow-knots of difficulty and dilemma? First its prize Ambassador, proclaiming himself iis spokesman, insults the whole American people by representing them to be a selfish, white-livered kot who were “afraid not to fight.” Then a bold-tongued Rear Admiral pitches into a faction whose votes were highly valued by the party that came into power by way of the celebrated “mandate of last November.” If the Administration disciplines the Rear Ad- miral to appease the angry faction, it will increase the wrath of Americans in general at its failure to | rebuke the Ambassador. If it rebukes the Ambassador it discredits its own inner councils and reveals the sawdust: stuffing of its so-called foreign policy, Is it any wonder President Harding now seizes every opportunity to utter high and noble truths ‘that carmot be assailed? Screens of rosy smoke. EQUALIZE BONUS BENEFITS. EPRESENTATIVE VOLK of New York is author of the latest soldier bonus bill pre- sented to Congress. There are dozens of such measures, but none, we believe, covers satisfactorily one important phase of the bonus question. Soldier bonus bills have passed or are pending in many States, but by no means in all. A Federal bonus would probably silence bonus efforts in Slates where no bonus has been granted. The result would be a doubled bonus for some veterans and only a single bonus for others, If there is to be Federal bonus legislation, should it not take account of the State bonus acts and so equalize payments and benefits to all veterans? The Federal Treasury and Congress is already ex- perienced in disbursing money to and’ through States by appropriating a certain sum which shall be available if and when any State makes a cor- responding appropriation, Gould not this principle of the highway bills, the Vocational Education Bill and other similar measures be adapted to bonus legislation so the States and the United States would divide the bonus burden, making provision to credit States where bonuses have already been paid? Such a measure should, of course, be drawn to equalize payments to New York soldiers who have moved out of the State since demobilization, either by providing that New York must make such pay- ments to obtain credit from the Government or else by direct Federal payment to men not covered by the existing State bonus provisions, A WELL PRESERVED SCANDAL. OR as long as most voters can remember, the Purchasable Southern delegate scandal has been a hardy perennial in the G. O. P. garden, Delegate reform has been most convenient mat- ter for party promises at any and all times, Reform is always something that must be done and is go- ing to be done—soon. But reform progresses slowly and with reluctant steps. !t was altogether too much to expect that a National Committee in which the Old Guard is dominant would go far toward reform, for the Old Guard has always had the money to purchase South- em delegates, and so has considered the “black and tans” as’ personal property. Wednesday's action was called a “compromise.” It didn’t mean much. As a result the old scandal is preserved. It will form a basis for promises four years hence, when another “compromise” will be the order of the day. The Old Guard never yields any more than it has to. Just now it is in the saddle and feeling arrogant. It is not yielding much. “If we can commit civilized humanity to abiding righteousness and everlasting justice,” orates President Harding, “and inspire thom with our example, we will have made a long stride towatd the peace of the world.” Yes, yes. And two times two are four, HIS HARDEST ROLE. BORGE M. COHAN has announced his retire ment as an actor-manager-playwrighi-pro- ducer-commposer-dancer and whatever else he may dave been doing for or on the stage. “I'm needing a rest, anyway,” Mr. Cohan has stated. “I will now just look on.” | One need not question Mr, Cohan’s sincerity, nor his conviction that he will “just look on.” But a good many will question his ability to become an onlooker. They will believe the part “out of char- acier” for him. For the best part of a generation Mr. Cohan has been distinguished by his enthusiasm, energy and versatility. Other actors, managers, playwrights and producers have been content to do one ar two things at a time. Mr, Cohan seems to have wanted THE EVENING WORLD, to do everything simultaneously—and has been get- ting away with his multifarious activities in highly creditable style. It is easy to imagine that Mr. Cohan “needs a rest,” but what will he do when he is rested? What will he find as a safety valve for his boundless energy? “THE WISER COURSE.” HE adverse report on the Porter peace resolu- tion filed by the Democratic minority of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs contends that this proposed Congressional declaration of peace be- tween the United States on the one hand and Ger- many and the former Austro-Hungarian Empire on the other is unconstitutional and worse than footless. In the first place, the minority holds, the Federal Constitution provides that treaties shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and does not provide for entering into contracts with other Governments by act of Congress, Furthermore, the minority believes such a peace resolution would work no good but instead do posi- tive harm to the interests of the United States and thousands of its citizens by leaving various property disputes with Germany at loose ends and by “plac- ing this country at great disadvantage in negotiating treaties with the enemy countries.” “From whatever angle this resolution 1s viewed, it presents itself as a Proposition not only altogether ineffective in achieving its pro- claimed purpose, but a sure method of confusing our foreign relations, injecting new and compli- cated questions into an already difficult situa- tion and involving a surrender of American rights and an impairment of American prestige and honor.” Who can doubt that this Democratic view pretty accurately represents part, at least, of President Har- ding’s inner state of mind when he penned the fol- lowing paragraphs of his first message to Congress: “It would be idle to declare for separate treaties of peace with the Central Powers on the assumption that these alone would be ade- quate, because the situation is s0 involved that our peace engagements cannot ignore the Old World relationship and the settlements already effected, nor is it desirable to @o so in preserv- ing our own rights and contracting our future relationships. “The wiser course would seem to be tee ac- ceptance of the confirmation of our rights and interests as already provided and to engage under the sisting treaty, assuming, of course, that this can be satisfactorily accomplished by such explicit reservations and modifications as will secure our absolute freedom from inadvisa- ble commitments and sufequard all our essential interests,’ Has anything happened to change this view of the President as to “the wiser course’—anything, that is, except the pulling and hauling on his mind by which conflicting factions in his party have un- settled his convictions, destroved his potential power of leadership and reduced him to the state of a weathetcock ? Two months ago the President was, if his words meant anything, for going beyond a “declaratory resolution” of peace and ratifying the Versailles Treaty with reservations as to the League of Na- tions and certain special rights and privileges to be seoured to the United Siates. Two months ago the President said to Congress much of what this Democratic minority report on the Porter resolution says. Does he still mean to stand by and champion that “wiser course’? * TWICE OVERS. “c IG shells are no danger when they're over your head; rifle bullets kill when they hit the mark.” —Georges Carpentier. 2 SET ERES hoping that every baby in New York City will have plenty of milk for the rest of the year and in all the years to come.” —Mayor Hylan's “Milk Toast.” “ec E are centring our fight on no one, and in- deed, as far as we are concerned, there is no ht.’ —Frank Gilmore of the Equity Association. * Si se ae HE bankers avowedly refrained from bidding on the bonus bonds because of the doubls as to their constitutionality.” —Comptroller Wendell. . . 667 DON'T like to quarrel with my landlord.” — Samuel Untermyer. * Ly il HE Coalition Committee is opposed to higher traction fares.” - From resolutions adopted at Hote! Pennsyleania meeting. + + * . ’ ec 7,000,000 majority is large, but it is not an alibi for the mistakes, negligence and extrava- dance of misgovernment.”—Will Hays, 4 FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921," tr Tie emettin et (TA Now ¥ fin jautog World.) PRo | , MISES mers ce We SAS Thy > Fathers of }- Thought By Maubert St. Georges Copyright, 1921, ca, ithe New Peeas Publishing Rock erening World), DIOGENES. ‘The avalon Diogenes was born at Sinope Asia Minor in 412 B. C, His father, |Tcesias, was a money changer, who increased his earnings by the simple process of altering coins, Both were caught thus adulterating the currency and were condemned to banishment, Separating himself from the father | who had guided him so ill, Diogenes, made his way to Athens. Here he | was attracted by the teaching of the | ascetic philosopher Antisthenes. He | tried to join a class of this fam » | teacher for a long time In vain. At’ jlength after prolonged entreaty he} 5 \ | Was admitted as a disciple of the | philosopher, Even then, however, he was submitted to all sorts of indigni~ \ | ties, * In spite of all, Diogenes persevered, and very soon excelled his comrades and even ils teacher, both in auster- ity of life and reputation. He gave up everything he possessed, keeping. only a rag to cover his body and a wooden bowl to drink from. The bowl even he threw away one day on seeing a shepherd drink from his hand. Then he gave up living with | his fellow-men and used for a babita- tion a tub belonging to the temple of Cybele. ‘To train himself to en- ' dure the elements he embraced snow ; covered statues in winter and rolled j himself in burning sand in summer, j He abandoned this life in order to |make a necessary voyage to Aegina, |The vessel he travelled on was cap= tured by pirates, and Diogenes, to- gether with the rest of the passengers, as taken to Crete and sold as a ) ‘The man who bought him, a Corin« *\thian named Xeniades, asked him what his trade was. ‘’To govern men,” answered Diogenes, “and I want to be bought by a man who needs a master.” Struck by his answer, Xani- ades questioned his slave and finding such unexpected qualities in him de- elded to take him at his word. So he brought him to Corinth, introduced. him into his home and made him tutor of his two sons. While attending to the education of |his charges, Diogenes found leisure to teach others and soon became famous» Such was his reputation that once ‘at the Isthmian games, while the famous Antisthenes was delivering a lecture (it was the custom for philosophers t > ‘speak between contests), when Di~ stood up everybody turned him without even waiting for Antisthenes to complete his sentence, | It was probably here that he met | Alexander, and on being asked by the latter what favor he would like, asked that the Prince might not stand be- | tween him and the sun. Upon walea Alexander exclaimed: “If I were not | Alexander, I would be Diogenes.” Thus practising and teaching an ex- istence of virtuous self-control, he | completed his life at Corinth, dying in |823 B.C. (It is said on the same day as Alexander.) After his death the \citizens erected a column to him in gratitude for his example in leading From Evening World Readers to say much in a few words. Take Lg 4 the Treaty. | To the Matitor of The Evening World: | My attention has just been’ called to an editorial appearing in The Eye- ning World of May 20, 1924, entitled |"Of World Concern." In the opening sentence of this editorial you say, “Having stuck tena- clously to Its point that the Versailles Treaty is not to be shoved aside to suit the schemes of Poland or any {other nation * # @ I realize that it is probably too |late to correct by this letter any particular impression which may have arisen in the minds of you readers as a result of this editorial, Furthermore, I am very desirous not to seem to impugn your sense of {editorial fairness. |bring to your attention that the Polish Government has not been |attempting to shove aside the Ver- jsailles Treaty. Article 88 of the | peace treaty declares that the re- | sult of the plebiscite in Upper Silesi jshall be determined py communes, and that there shall be a new boun- dary line drawn with regard to the wishes of the inhabitants, as ex- pressed by the vote of the communes, In the district principally affected by the recent uprising—that is, the ‘territory east of the Oder—the ma- jority of the population and three- fourths of the communes declared for Poland, LUDWIK BHRLICH, Director of Polish Bureau of In- formation. New York, June 7, 1921. ‘Tax Exemption. ‘To the Daitor of The Eréning World Your work to secure tax exemption ‘on homes for the people, even for so yhort a term as ten years, will prove of incalculable value jn showing the mischief done by the destructive tax system. Over 13,000 new homes in the course of construction, an@ the demand incréasing daily! Coul@ any other move be better for the happi- ness and progress of New York City? A city of homes is what we would that it and every other city might become, a city of real homes, where fresh air, sunwhine and contact with the soil would be possible for every family. This would give us a nor- mal people. Separation from the soil is canned life at best. A man who Is able to sit under his own vine and figtree, one that he has planted, will, nine times out of ten, make a good citi- zen who will work for the good of his community, When he returns from his work in the city he will busy himself in his yard, garden and orchard. Good homes, homes worthy of the name, would solve thousands of the problems of to-day, tuberculosis, the white slave traffic, and many other ills, | Aw an instance of the iniquity of our present system of raising funds | for public purposes, we fine and pun- ish once the man who robs 4 home. ta man bay a comfo » home for himsel: and family, we only pounce down jon him the first year and fine him but | we continue this ning I merely wish to | 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 ta fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. every year so tong as the home exists though the house deteriorates every year after being built, without con- stant renewal and renovation, of which we take no consideration what- ever. Why not exempt everywhere and for ull time the work of men’s hands and place @ tax on land values created by the presence and activities of the people, a fund ever adequate to meet all demands? J. T. PRICE, Inwood, June 7, 1921. 8s T. Parade Suggestions, To the Editor of The Evening World The proposition to have a parade on. the Fourth of July to protest against the Prohibition laws is a sub- \lime idea and must have originated |with some great lover of humanity. | Why curb the appetite that controls jus? This is a free country and al- |though nine-tenths of the crime and | pauperism and suffering is caused by using intoxicants, whut is that com- | pared to the disgrace of making free- dom a farce? I hope the promoters of this project will use good judgment in working up the details. I have in mind some plans that may be of use, I would ask the authorities to give the inmates of the different prisons in the country a holiday, so that they might march in the parade, ‘To be precise, I would have the inmates of the Federal Prison at Atlanta lead the parade, Next 1 would have the in- mates of Sing Sing Prison, then thos of Albany Penitentiary, and so on, un- til the drink element of every State was represented. Of course each company would require a guard of policemen, which would add to the im- menaity of the parade, and the striped warments of the prisoners would add to its attractiveness and influence, OLIVER PERRIS. Pawling, N. Y., June 8, 1921, Destroyii tion, To the Editor of The Evening World: Observing that “A Subscriber” de- the effect that they will parade on the Fourth of July, and especially noting his (or her) comment that it will be “a horrible thing for us to shame the traditions of our forefathers,” | am prompted to remind him that “our forefathers" had liquor—and plenty of it, That is, they had it at their disposal; those who preferred not to indulge in the intoxicating beverages were perfectly at iberty to abstain therefrom. That was only as things should be. Yes, Mr, Subscriber, it ts to be de- plored that “we are found wanting {n so far as the maintenance of tra- dition is concerned. Mike you favor the absolute rejection of such tradition, Prohibition (as we have it to-day) never figured in the annals of tradition, Yet God. | am , watched over our forefathers. } conster divocates piad (2) nse parade Will ation is rife among the ys upon fear ngs that ah iin be held mi on the @r punishment Yourth of July. 1 may g0 60 faras, Ni slores the declaration of the wets to | You and others | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Jobn Blake.) THE SLOGAN OF FAILURE. “If I had gone after that contract I would have landed it.” said the manager of a business man to one of his subor- dinates who had returned empty handed from a business trip. » Sure you would,” said the subordinate cheerfully, “and if I had your brains instead of you I'd be sitting in your chair and you would be out pulling boners on the road.” The foregoing is typical of a conversation which in som: form or other takes place in every business institution of importance on an average of twenty times a week. It may be that the bosses are overconfident in their own ability and over severe on the men under them. But the excuse beginning “If I had your brains” which bosses and employers hear till they weary of it, is the most inexcusable excuse that there is in existence. The man who admits that he has not the brains to suc- eced will, of a certainty, never succeed, The man who is convinced that he can never do as well as the boss does has stopped trying. And when a man stops trying he begins to slide back down the hill. Of all the futile, unprofitable employments, that of envying another man’s brains is the worst. An employer who hires a man for a position of trust and responsibility has the right.to expect him to do what he ® ployer would act. If he fails he fails. Nobody can expect 100 per cent. performance. But he at least should not make the excuse that he has failed because he lacked the energy, the intel- ligence and the resourcefulness to succeed, The employer who spoke the words we quoted above used to be an employee himself. He made failures, of course, but he never excused them. When he was “called” for these failures he resolved not to make them again and sometimes to show the boss that he had as many brains as the average employee. That is how he got where he is, which is at the head of one of the most important concerns in America, | 7 \to suggest that if the drye were to F ie |hold a parade on that same date—| th W | either in competition, in protest or in | rom e 1se |"spite’—their marchers would be | greatly outnumbered by those in the wet parade, The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Just as the stage formerly depicted an Englishman as an exotic character —a character that never actually ex- \{sted—so it deplctes the “drunkard,” land, 1 believe, embedded the latter |character so firmly in the minds of | our esteemed brethren that the mere | mention of the word “liquor” instant- ly serves to visualize to them the said imaginary type of drunkard. How- ever, crude types of humans similar to the “stage character” really ¢ put it ie unfair to associate liquor with them or uy that Liquor Is solely responsible for thelr condition To “A Subseriber" 1 shall add that wil to wield his sword.—Fuller, out fault.—Fuller. Situations are like skeing by the right end.—Mme. ine, ad type of man or wo all sprang from the same ae So eee Toanat Toa| refuted to veveat’ thom: tho dey. | StL PPenm coom. fe seme a ee A Prohibition ov uo Pvohib!- | inite date of their death—Louis r on the Mayflower or we our. dion. A CHASTISER. M. No ives arrived on La Normandie e) York, June & . \ - ed the French Line, aan pi * from all physical pl is told to do, and to act, when out of the office, as the em-" They who play with the devil's rattles will be brought by degrees He saall be immortal why tiv. eth tilt he be stoned by une with. of thread or silk; to make the most of | « them, we need only to take them Sweitch- God has blessed” men when Ye ons, it 18 well to remember that wel them to seek virtue by abstinence ures. Super Business Women By Helen Page OTS New oer vente Wostae oO | MRS. CLARA F. PORTER Of the Guaranty Trust Company, | While judgment and pronounced | executive ability ehown by women im responsible positions have put them in @ class with the*best men employ ees of big financial institutions and industrial corporations, an unusuad personality, in addition, has Ltted many business women into coveteth) prize positions of trust with pleasing © financial returns, 4 Especially is this true where the position in question calls for @ cor tain diplomacy in meet! large number of clients, ae There is no doubt that when the Guaganty Trust Company recently promoted Miss Clara F. Porter to am assistant secretaryship in the bank, its officials regarded her remarkable * personality an asset as well as those many Other qualities which she pos sesses that help to insure success. Miss Porter is admirably adapted | by temperament and training for this important position. She is the first | woman to be appointed an official of this great financial institution, As the position is a “cerebral one, as Miss Porter herself puts it, and) does not call for the exercise of mus- cular strength, she sees no reason why a woman should not give service as satisfactory as 4 male employee; particularly « woman who has had experience in the loan and investment department for the past three years, “Miss Porter is a woman of great personal charm; an official of unde- niable business ability.” ‘This is the unanimous yerdict voiced by the daily callers who seek Miss Porter's advice and aid on loans and investments, on foreign travel and ize and mamy other technical aspects of b WHERE DID You GET ,\_ lle THAT WORD? "> i | | & 35—QUICK. ’| To most of us the word “quick | means primarily, if not only, a rapid« ity of motign or action. The word in its primary meaning—Dutch ‘kwike | and Danish “avik"—was used ta des< ignate the property of life. If wag used to describe the condition oppo= {cite to that of being dead of Inapio mate This meaning extended to objects having a veg ole as Opposed to aa animal life. Thus, a “quick means a hedge conststin, growing materials, such as wood hedge. It is a far ery from the Engitsh word “quick” to the Latin word ivo,” I live, and the Greck word “pios," life. Hut they all come: from the same root, away back if the early, morning of the human. race aa wa know it, Especially in a country lke America, the "melting pot" of the nae