The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 16

ad ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. © Peviimed Dally Except Sunday by The Pross Publishing Company, Nos. 62 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Pow, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE AS®OCLATD PRESS. fhe Assoctstec Prem te exclusively entitled to the use for GF G1l news Geppatenes credited to it or not otherwise credited Yd also the local mews published herein, ; THE WRONG ADDRESS. F Rear Admiral Sims has been haled back to this country for an official reprimand while Ambas- sador George Harvey goes unrebuked, two things are certain: © The Rear Admiral’s punishment will dwindle to the size and importance of a joke in the eyes of a majority of his countrymen. The Ajnbassador's immunity will loom larger and more serious than ever in the light of their resent- t. When Rear Admiral Sims applied picturesque epi- thets to the Sinn Fein Irish in America, he did not profess to be speaking for the Harding Adminis- tration. In the speech in which Ambassador Harvey char- acterized the whole American people as a sordid, welf-seeking folk “afraid not to fight,” the speaker ‘gopted the tone’ of the Administration's accredited Tepresentative. £2 Yet it is the indiscretion of the Rear Admiral, not ‘the insuli of the Ambassador, that the Administra- ‘ion chooses to notice, — Americans still retain a sense of what is fair. , Secretary Denby’s cable to Sims looks to most of them anything but fair while: they are still waiting for the one that ought to have gone to Harvey. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, one of the “Vote- for-Harding-You-Vote-for-the-League” Club of last fall, who sails for England shortly, lunched at the White House Saturday. Getting a few points on how to talk about ic the Harding foreign policy as if there were ee one? { TEMPERANCE VS, PROHIBITION. i EMPERANCE and control are first and last 4 words under the new system of regulation for + | ethe liquor traffic in the Province of Quebec. 1 ,. In the lexicon of Prohibition there is no such word ‘as temperance. Control under the Volstead act and {Concurrent legislation means the dominance of the Anti-Saloon League and its lobbyists. ; The law in Quebec has reduced drunkenness in Montreai about 75 per cent. Prohibition in New York has led to greatly increased drunkenness and a heightened deadliness in drink. Quebec regulation has practically killed the “boot- legging” industry, which Prohibition in America has built up. Quebec keeps poison from the man with whom ‘drunkenness is a disease, but does not interfere with Wie soberly living citizen’s glass of beer. Quebec has abolished the saloon; America has driven it to cover. Quebec claims hopefully and with justification, after six weeks’ trial, that it-has solved the liquor Problem. Prohibition, for us, has complicated the «problem hopelessly. ‘ Quebec has resorted to reason on the temperance ‘Weue. The Anti-Saloon League has relied on the ticism of its followers and the fear of legislators Myer jobs and “the balance of power.” , The Evening World, which has made the law in Guebec a matter of repeated reference, commends to ®arnest and intelligent study the Jetailed story which : ft printed on Saturday of the actual working of the f Jew system up north. i "it will furnish food for thought to a discontented q-Public and to legislators unafraid. t Winnecke’s comet is expected to pass the earth to-day 80,000,000 miles nearer than the sun. Keep to the right. PRY THE PRICE OF SHOES. FsHE price of shoes is still too high, according to g a Fed Trade Commission report which eviews the high prices—and high profiis—which ee py among tanner shoe manufacturers, awilesilers, jobbers and reiailers during the past e prevent prices of hides and skins and the conditious existent in these phases of the & industry justify an expectation of still further €-clines ia the quoted prices of leather and p» shoes.” Many fa have notized that the retail prices wf men’s suces have come down more than the prices sof worren’s sh a '14 Fifth Avenue shoe shop the other day es, the f } i ng was overheard: } 5. Woman Customer: “How long are the i your shoes going to stay so high?” j } | i i Salesman: “Jiist as long as you'll pay them, "Medanve. We have more orders than we can fill at - @yresent prices. » Men are not so easy. They are more exacting gabout the price and less fixed in the habit of alw ays — reputtt ta this pansy, | world.” ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 18, A woman exclaims over the shop she likes. sexes ought to come if the public will buy where they are being buying at the same place. high prices, but pays them in Prices of shoes for both further down, and they will steadily but discrimindtingly progressively reduced. Women should watch the done, CONSCIENCE OR FEAR. F Podal line of attack on the housing problem is proposed by Nathan Hirsch, former Chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on Rent Profiteering. Mr. Hirsch would organize a Citizens’ Protective Housing League with a membership of not less than 300,000, the objects of the league being “to stimu- late home building, protect its members from profi- teering landlords, defeat harmful legislation and fur- nish members, without expense to them, with paid counsel in arbitrating differences and in actual court proceedings.” The league would station lawyers in each Municipal Court in the city to represent its mambers without fee; establish in each borough a bureau where mem- bers might obtain competent legal advice on all rental and housing matters; maintain a headquarters bureau for the adjustment of differences growing out of mortgage and loan transactions; stand behind con- structive measures to remedy conditions that obstruct housing. The annual dues from each member are in no case to exceed $1; the “non-political, non-money-nmaking, sieantie’ character of the league is to be the cornerstone of its construction, and it will not begin to operate until the day its membership is 300,000. Samuel Untermyer has consented to act as ad- visory counsel to the league, provided it secures its initial 300,000 membership and provided the non- political principle is rigidly adhered to by the league and by every officer in it. The plan, as this summary shows, is really for a co-operative citizens’ movement to help tackle the housing problem. It is significant of the new realization that has come upon America, as it came earlier to other coun- tries, that private capital, private initiative and the norntal working of competition cannot be depended on under all circumstances to provide sufficient housing to keep the relations between landlord and tenant on a basis of equity. Mr. Hirsch’s proposal is wisely conservative in that it proposes no hasty, unconsidered call for State aid. His plan does provide, however, for the investiga- tion of “complaints presented by persons unable to obtain building loans although they have offered proper equity and value.” How many just complaints of this sort can be presented has been made shockingly clear by testi- mony offered in the last week before the Lockwood committee, If banks and insurance companies are conscience- less in the terms they impose on the loan-seeking builder, they thereby invite the State aid programmes which they oppose and dread. Besides giving direct aid to tenants, Mr. Hirsch's zens’ Protective Housing League might do much toward putting fear if not conscience into those who use their controf of vast aggregations of the people’s savings to make it harder instead of easier for people to find homes. men and see how it’s Prohibition Commissioners may come and Prohibition Commissioners may go, but Hooch flows on forever, WHAT LACK WE YET? (From the Rochester Democrat-Chronicte.) At a recent function in New York City John D, Rockefeller jr. said that he envied one thing of his father—"the necessity he had to make his way in the Young Rockefeller confessed that he had never known what that was. The late William IX, Vanderbilt said practically the same thing on his fifty-sixth birthday. “My life was never destined to be quite happy. It left me nothing to hope for, nothing to seek and strive after, In- herited wealth is a big handicap.” The spur of doing things, the fun of toil with its accompanying incentives of defeats, failures and hard knocks, is half the joy in life. There have been some wise men of wealth who have turned their sons and daughters ont to make their own way. There is a prominent lawyer to-day in a Massa- chusetts city who will inherit a great fortune on his fortieth birthday, He has made way from the beginning, carved out his own moderate fortune, and has done so because he would otherwise have starved, although a quarter of a million awaited him at the fortieth milestone, But such examples are rare, And the handicap of great wealth continues to hobble the sons of the men who made their way against every obstacle. It is obvious that life and its problems cannot be the same to a young man of affluence as they are to the man who has to forge his way to the top. Most people would be willing to change places with young John D., and yet here is a man of abundant treasure to whom there is a treasure he still envies, a _Common Sense! e meee Be gente 1921.7 ca ay err nbe aces tice Jostein aeiiie ee sm © Oe all Cee eakiaee yea -e, Ff seoT pe em ee Ot Gam re i etree V ne ape mee rarerneneeeen « eee en een genomes wae aos tore “By: John Cassel 1991, Hehe Co nina World.) ‘The Cause of Riots, To the Pilitor of The Rrening World: Richard Lloyd Jones, the so-called “trained observer,” thinks that the riots in Tulsa were caused by failure That's a bad mistake. The trouble is this: negro that can be found has commit- ted that crime, I know from experi- ence that the majority of the white men just wait to hear of some trouble where both races are involved so that they may shoot up a few blacks. No man with common sense would start anything lke they claim my people do, A negro is brave, but he is not brave enough to start a riot when he knows that he's always going to lose in court and elsewhere. But a negro will fight if he is mis- treated. That's the trouble. If you people could take a black man out and shoot, burn or hang him up for sport and no other negro say any- thing, there would be no riots. A SOUTHERN NEGRO, Suamented to er Whalen, To the Extitor of The Evening World Will you please publish these few words about the way the buses are being run on Madison Street, I think if our Mr, Whalen would take a trip some morning or some evening around 5 o'clock he would see something to open his eyes. ‘The other morning I rode on a bus that left the Erie Railroad station at 7.25 and at 7.36 I was at Broadway and Chambers Street. We had so many on the bus that one could hardly a. Just behind this bus there two others and they had to fol- low it all the way to Grand Street Now, if the other buses had been al- lowed to pass I could have got to work by 8 o'clock and would not have lost fifteen minutes, The trouble is that the drivers know they are not | allowed to pass each other, so they |drag along until they are so full it is impossible to get out. Those in | front have to step outside and let the rest get off, and delay the others. Why not let the bus that has only a | few on pass the loaded one and pick up a few instead of having it follow from one end of the route to the otber? Don't let them drag along the way they do, but keep them on the i make it better for “The World In Going Dry. suing World; workers, loyal temperance army; shout for Prohib, Come, ye foin the When a! ‘lack man commits a crime every | of the police to disarm black «men. | From Evening World Readers |f 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 ia fne mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. tion, still our battle ery. “Onward!") be our watchword in the mighty con-| flict; hear the shouts of victory—the world is going dry! i The liquor traffic’s going trom our land forever; hear the children sing- | ing, banners lifted high. Joyous are their voices, happy are their faces; hear their shouts of victory—the| world is going dry! | Rally, all ye faithful—rally to the! conquest; shout the glorious message —victory is nigh. Prayers will soon be answered; God is leading onward; hear the shouts of yictory—the world 1s going dry! The world is going dry! The world is going dry! Hear the shouts of victory—the world is going dry! G. A. MOORE. New York Jobs for New Yorkers. To the Editor of The Evening World: T note a headlin paper. It reads: ple First’ campaign brings results. Employment already found for a score. Bentley reports emplyyers co- operating.” If New York City looked after its native sons and datighters perhaps there would not be so much unem- | ploy here. | lu York be selfish for a change and urge the employment of, those who spend their money here in rents, &c., instead of out-of-towners, | ew ANNA R. BALLER. New York, June 8, 1921, | Dyeing Truth, ' For liberty we fought and bled, | Where freedom’s banner proudly led Our loyal troops to victory. | To gleaming shores we hewed our way, ger struggling onward to the day When right should rule from sea to sea, But now the light is growing dim, A nation’s heroes lost their vim, The many conquered by the few. The Czars of Satan, hour by hour, In guise of friendship, flaunt their pow'l By dyeing truth a sickly blue. | WILLIAM REID. | Bronx, June 8, 1921, Upholder, the Kventing World Apropos Mr, A, E. Anson's letter in your June 3 issue, his suggestion jabout placing an anti-Pronibition white g next to Old Glory is a gross insult to both the Constitution nd the flag In my opinion, just as a few Mass- chusetts fanatias and South Caro- ‘Amendment Is part of the Constitu- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) DANGEROUS EXAMPLES, If there were no unfairness, no injustice, no successful crookedness in the world everybody would succeed withou? any trouble. We should all tread the primrose path straight to paza- dise, with no one to bar our progress. Incidentally our road would be made so smooth and easy that we would be a pretty poor crowd when we got to paradise, quite unworthy to partake of its delight, and utterly unfit for the society which we should expect to find there. It happens, however, that the world is fairly well filled with injustice and that crookedness is sufficiently prevalent to make it worth while to keep our eyes open. Also men succeed who ought not to succeed, and by de- vices which should send them to the penitentiary. Such instances are exceptional, but they occur often cnough to be dangerous. A man engaged in a business which interests almost everybody recently commented thus on one of his colleagues: “Nobody takes his word—nobody trusts him. He would cheat his own mother, Yet in spite of all that he makes nearly a million dollars a year, and his business is one of the biggest in the world.” Perhaps this man will meet the fate he merits in time. Perhaps he will not, There are a few rascals who live and die prosperous. But that is not an argument in favor of rascality, It is not even proof that rascality pays. For where one rascal prospers a thousand are the vie- tims of their own crookedness. In this world are far more crooks who could have suc ceeded had they been honest than honest men who could have succeeded had they been crooks. Do not be deceived by the success of a scoundrel, It is not his dishonesty that make him prosper. It is some -alent im him great enough to wii success in spite of dishonesty In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the crook will be “met up with” before he is done. Straight open decling, respecting and keeping your own word, always pays vest. The knaves who succeed could have succeeded on a far greater scale had they been honest, Do not envy or imitate them. Do not be dazzled by their success. That sort of success is not worth having. From the Wise Many lina hot-heads plunged this country) into one of the most sanguinary wars | in history, will men of Mr./ Anson's type incite the population to | rebel against the supreme authority of the Constitution, The Nortn, after a million of the yeurs spent in school | make people educated but not flower of otlr manhood lost their| "ecessarily happy. Happiness is lives, freed the blacks, and so I re-| determined more 4 toot ‘their right because the ssth| Gcfermined more by our state of health.—L. M. Notkin, tion. omer Os Women are more susceptible to pain than laigue, If you have taken of a man his plough or his pillow for debt, re. turn his plough in the morning and his pillow at night—Ashi. to pleasure.—Mon isth ation, t Prohibition, but tive in Con- Amendment 18 ld my 1 very time THOMAS J, MULLINS, Now York, June 7, 192. |Fathers of Thought By Maubert St. Georges Copyright, 1921, by The Press Pubitshing Ca. (The New York Evening World) SOPHOCLES The Greatest Greek Tragedian, Sophocles was born near Athens in (495 B.C. His father, Sophilos was of good family and being rich was able to give his son a very liberal education, such as Athenian youths received in those days, Music, poetry, philosophy on the one side, athletics on the other. In both branches Sophocles distinguished —_—himself greatly. At the early age of fifteen he took part in the Greek war of in- dependence against Persia, He must have greatly distingwshed himself, for he was honored shortly after by being chosen in spite of his youth to lead the chorus at the yearly cele- bration of the capture of Salamis by Solon. Fgom that time on he devoted him- self to poetical work. At the time Aeschylus was pre-eminent on the stage, and it, was not until he was twenty-eight years old that Sophocles ventured to enter the competition Which was held every two years in Athens. Sophocles was successful, obtained the first prize and remained ungeteated unui 441 B.C, whea Buripides won the prize, His greatest success, and his suc- cesses were numerous for he won the prize 24 times, was “Antigone,” As reward for this the Athenians ap- pointed him Admiral of a fleet that was just then sailing against the aristocratic purty on the Island of Samos. Pericles was in direct charge of the expedition and on one occasion when he decided to lead personally a spe- cial reconnaissance, he left Sophooles in charge of the sixty vessels which comprised the Athenian force. Un- fortunately Sophocles's strategy was inferior to his poetry and on this oc- casion the poet was forced to bow before the wisdom of the philosopher Melissus who commanded the very in- ferior Samian force. Sophocles al- lowed himself to be soundly defeated and returned to Athens determined to confine himself to poetry. Sophocles married twice. His first wife, a woman of Athens, bore him a son, Iophon. His second, a for- eigner, bore him a second son, Aris- ton. The law in Athens was that children of citizens by foreign wives were not allowed to inherit their father’s fortune. Sophocles, however, was so fond of his son, Ariston, and of the latter's child Sophocles the Younger, that he decided to appeal against the law. His eldest son upon this made a charge against his father of being unsound in mind. Asked what he had to say, Sophocles did not deign to defend himself. Taking one of his tragedies, “Oedipus in Colum- nus,” he read several passages from it at random. Then, holding the play, he said: “This is my defence. If I am Sophocles I am not mad. If I am mad then I am not Sophocles.” Of course he was acquitted and ob- tained his appeal of the law, Sophocles was the greatest and the most prolific of the Greek tragedians, He is credited with 130 tragedies, be- sides countless epigrams, elegies and ems. He died, loved and revered all, at the age of ninety in 405 B.C. pete Bee AAS | Super Business Women By Helen Page Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Oa, Now Yorn Bvenine Works MISS JULIA BLANCHARD. Who Employs Several Hundred Wom< en for Drug Concern, Time and circumstances have obliterated many fallacies in busi- ness life. One of these made the holding of an executive position by women impossible; another Jay in the argument that women employees preferred a man boss, Miss Julia Blanchard, as director of the women's employment depart- ment of a big chain of drug stores, has, by her successful management and her popularity with the several hundred women employees, shattered both these oldtime fallacies, Miss Blanchard had considerable experience in this line before under- taking her present work. During jthe war she was assistant superin- |tendent of employment in one of the | big munition plants where several hundred girls were employed. By | temperament and the point of view |she possesses, as well as her knowl- ledge of the details involved in such | work, Miss Blanchard may be sald to be ideal in this position. She has met thousands of girls, and being, |by nature, both sympathetic and | practical, is an ex ont judge of the y applicants she interviews every | ‘Phen too she can see both sides Jof the question. Working girls, she says, do not care to be painpered or patronized with aitled kinds of welfare work a deal, that's all, salesmanship at Miss Blanchard ness to-day has ¢ | to women: that of che While Miss Blanchard’ ing judgement icked several ¢ traordinary saleswom the firm rei her, she s . are field of chemistry open to Breat posibiuities for the woman ———.- , Forgotten ‘‘ Whys” MISTLETOE, | The main idea of putting up mistles toe in a house t days is to in jdulge in the osculatory opportunities hus afforded, but few ever stop to k of the origin of the custom, Mistietoe was y held cred by the ancient Druids or nat worshippers of France and England. Phey had a festival called Yuletide, n all chopped mistletoe off trees and brought it to the altars as an emblem of friendship, Whea the world turned to Christi anity those in er decided to Siow the holiday to remain, but the mistle- toe savored too much of sm and was relegated to the. kitchen, where the emblem of friendship bes the symbol of kissing. Slowly avor with the people, but y it is not allowed in the right t th T whe even to-d churches except through the mistake |9F ignorance of the sextom,