The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1921, Page 10

| Che EGY Gatorl0, i BSTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwiteed Dally Except Bunday by Tho Pros Publishing | Company, Nos. 68 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Pre it, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, T: 3 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr. Park Row. r, etary, 63 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PI (Ehe Aswoctates Prev ts exclusively entitled to the for republicatio OP Gli news Genpatches credited to Lt or not otherwise credited tn thip paper Bek also the local news published herein WITH A MALLET. ONGRESS Is in a worse deadlock than ever over naval appropriations increased by the Senate to $494,000,000, which the House insists is $98,000,000 too much. It would be a good thing if Senate and House could be shut up in a hall and forced to listen to gecent words of the Secretary of the Treasury Hy and megaphonically reiterated entil they made some impression: “The Nation cannot continue to epend af this ehocking rate. The burden is unbearable. “In the absence of drastic cuts in military and naval expenditures there ts almost no prospect, according to the estimates, of any substantial ovailadle surplus even in the fiscal year 1922.” If the need of reducing armament costs as a means of relief to this overtaxed country cannot be gotten into Congressmen’s heads by reasoning, then # ought to be driven in with a mallet. “Lemons are now $10 and $12 a box as com- pared with $2 and $5 a month ago, before the Emergency Tariff Bill went into effect."—News item. Well, what did you think an Emergency ‘Tariff was for—your emergency? : A GREAT POSTAL CENTRE! HE City of New York can hardly believe its - eyes and ears. * Federal authorities are actually studying ways ‘and means to improve the postal service in this tiny hamiet. First we had Postmaster General Hays’s word » for it, and now it appears the Joint Postal Commis- sion, composed of members of both Houses of Con- gress, has been looking over the ground. New buildings for handling the enormously increased business of the parcel post, quicker mail deliveries, a more scientific planning of collection routes, bet- ter pay for efficient employees are among the pro- posed improvements. Best of all, there is likely to be a resumption of the pneumatic tube service which plays an impor- tant part in mail-handling in most big cities of the civilized world and which former Postmaster Gen- eral Burleson suppressed in New York for no reason that anybody could ever discover. or many years New York has been taught to consider itself quite unessential to the larger’ ‘postal developments of the country. Noting how many ays it took for a letter to go from one part of the ty to another has been a local pastime. iAfmouncement that its postal needs and its claims asa great postal centre are h.aceforth to be taken seriously is as cheering a piece of news as New York has had for many a day. } ‘The process of passing a peace res lution is anything but peaceful. ADMINISTRATION SPLIT. BCRETARY HOOVER, it appears, has written the phrase “to at once develop,” thus follow- ing the lead of President Harding’s official “to im- mediately advise.” Whether the split infinitive is become a major or a minor offense of the Executive Department, wwe leave it to finical critics to discuss. Secretary Hughes, at least, is out of the sphere of doubt. His remarks at Brown indicate that he would never condone such a phrase, for instance, as | “to whole-heartedly Harveyize” the Administration ‘ 384 Close the United States Senate, close the . House, close the Stock Exchange and give the country a chance. A MILLIONAIRE’S “HIGHER UP.” HEN Henry L. Doherty moves into his twenty-room apartment on the roof of his ten-story office building in State Street, widest- + open New York will lie before his gaze. Battery Park, the upper Bay, the lower Hudson, Governor's Island, Staten Island, the Heights and South Brooklyn—these will furnish his views by day and, as one reporter has thought to observe, the Liberty light will shine into his windows at night. Within a field-glass’s field, he may see on the deck of liners coming and going more different kinds of humanity than the man in the street con- siders in ever.so many daily thoughts. No Fifth Avenue mansion will afford a prospect to be compared with the least of Mr. Doherty's outlooks. Beside the land-and-water sweep com- manded by that State Street roof, the widest view from a Riverside Drive dwelling will be narrow. Mr. Doherty is to take twentieth oentury ad- vantage of a part of what was the prize residential section of seventeenth century Manhattan. One re- calls the old-time advertisement of a house near Trinity Church in which it was promised as a prime inducement that always there would be from that point the view down the Bay to the Narrows. + Doherty has thriven mightily through some | Greece. THE EVENING WORLD, bAtvouvax, JUNE 18, 1991, of the business that has crowded dwellings out of our island’s furthest south, High and happy on his roof, nevertheless he may find it in his heart to be sorry for New York’s necessary toss of its one-time choicest living section. A LONG WAIT. be man who succeeds in drawing fram Presi dent Harding the secret of his “association of nations” project will achieve no little fame among his countrymen. Mr. Hamilton Holt tras had a try at it. will be noted with interest. It is, however, a matter concerning which one should not be oversanguine. resisted In this direction pressure far greater than the demands of any individual or group of indi- viduals, He has resisted the pressure of national honor and Interest. He tras resisted the pressure of world need. Few men have ever had or professed to have a plan on which more depended. Few men have ever kapt nations in more damaging uncertainty and sus- pense by rejecting an existing reality for an unde- fined, intangible something that they kept locked up in their own minds. Both Candidate Harding and Present Harding, however, have had long practice at this super- reticence. Mr. Holt’s open letter to the President puts a plain enough question: “You have not yet given the American people the slightest inkling of the terms of this Har- Results President Harding has ding Association that you propose shall sup- plant the Wilson League. Has not the time come, I respectfully ask, for you to do this?” It would not be surprising to hear President Har- ding reply with some variant of the formula Candi- date Harding found so serviceable. Beset by similar questions last August, Mr. Har ding said in his speech to the Indiana delegation: “Does some one say that I ought to be more specific? One cannot be with any sense of cer- tainty. No one can foresce the exact conditions by which our country will be confronted seven months hence. World opinion and our own opinion have been changing very rapidly in the past few months.” All the President need do is to point—every seven months, or as often as questioners become importunate—to this state of universal flux which renders specific programmes vain. International co-operation to reduce the probabil- ity of war, as well as a corollary move toward dis- armament, is a purpose to be talked of always with the greatest enthusiasm and respect. But it would be unsafe to do anything definite toward realizing such aims until conditions and opinions cease to change and the world can be treated as stationary! It's a long time to wait. READ AND REFLECT, “In Europe a man who has a fire is looked upon as a public offender, In America he is looked upon as an unfortunate. People still imagine that the underwriters pay the loss; that they pay $250, 000,000 a year out of their surplus and capital stock—and remain solvent! The fire waste touches the pocket of every man, woman and child in the nation, Every stock of goods is insured; the insurance is added to the cost of the goods, and when we buy a hat, or a shoe, or a coat, we pay this insurance concealed in the price of the goods, “Every fire to-day is a crime against the whole people, a crime for which we should not withhold punishment, Every community to-day, for its own Preservation, should bring swift legal reprisals against the person who has a preventable fire.” Franklin H. Wentworth, Secretary of the Na tional Fire Prevention Association, TWICE OVERS. ‘cc Mey taxpayers pay more taxes than they should” ()—Mark Graves, Director of the New York State Incom Tax Bureau. - 6 « #8 QRACKERS were illiterates who failed to un- derstand their obligations to the Nation. People wonder why there were so many of them, but is it any wonder that we had slackers, men who could neither read nor write and who had never read the Constitution of the United States and could not comprehend their vast obligation to the country in ils time of need?” — Gen. Pershing. | FEEL sure my productive efforts for my mother kaven't been equal to what my family and I have consumed. I have worked some of the time on a farm which a man leases from my mother. That labor hasn't brought her anything.”"—Charles Garland, the young New Englander who refuses million dollar bequests but remains dependent on his mother. * * 66 J CAN certainly use the moneu, for life is very ex- pensive these days." —- King Constantine of Nothin gr b et Par By John Cassel te say much in a few words. “Easy Marks.” ‘To the Kilitar of ‘The Evening World: Yes, Germany can pay the indem- nity because she won't have a foo! | army and navy to support for some years to come, at least. At the proposed rate of spending the taxpayers’ money for supporting, soldiers and sailors in this country, the cost in ten years will equal the entire cost of the World War. We're certainly @ lot of easy marks in_ this country. W. H. ‘New York, June 10, 1921. ‘To Our Prohibition Friends—A Few Lines From Dickens. To the Editor of The (Prom Charles Dickens “There are some of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith aud kin as if they had never lived.+ “Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.” upon this earth letter in yesterday's ever guaranteed personal liberty ex d look at the results. ade announced [ Kussia The P: can by no stretch of imagination’ be called a liberty parade, It Is merely a | farriman's physicians, supposed to bé | | and anarchy though It may appear oppressive. Dx they can bulldoze the Federal G: cepting the Bolshevik government of July 4 ‘New York, June 11, ra. S| through’the West, find conditions de- plorable and the unemployment acute. What Is Liberty? We are all looking for a panacea To the Biitor of The Evening World : | for these ‘iis, but I verily believe the | I was interested in Robert EB. Hall's | country will not revive while Prohibi- Issue, wherein he| tion is in effect, waxes wroth over the letter signed |}. res, bottling plants, &., has thrown “A Subscriber,” printed on June 3%. [hundreds + Olapthousands eh peo- 7 5 80-! | ple out of employment. Vhile war Mr. Hall discourses on the so-called | ple out of employment While war abridgement of personal liberty, and | Were so many avenues open to peos I should like to ask him (and others! tie but now the result 's manifest. who whine about the same subject) ing itself. to define accurately what he under-|'"? am writing you, having been en- stands by “liberty.” I have asked | couraged by the very vital question many persons this question and have |The Evening World has brought be- yet to recvive a logical or correct defl- | fore the public. I feel if this matter [nitign. Invariably the replies are|is put before the reading public it baséd on selfishness and positive dis-|can be thoroughly thrashed out. regard of the views of others, merely S. MORGAN, contenting themselves with the abuse of those who have the temerity to hold opposin ws, which are en- titled to eq’ as much credence and conside He displays ck of knowledge when he quotes the Constitution which confers the right of erty and the pursuit of bapp The wording is accurate, but it | ify 1 liberty and h ned many times judicially as meaning civil liberty, which is liberty | within the law. No government has opposing vie | To the Editor of The Evening World: |from intestinal trouble) are drinking 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 im a couple of hundred? There is fne mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief, to him and the other “hooch hounds" as slinging mud, but he himself indulges in worse abuse. tet posted, Mr. Hall, before you pro- d to rush into print on subjects with which you are still in the kinder- garten class, A LAW-ABTDING AMERICAN, New York, June 9, 1921. 0. Kus Harvey and Sima, As my ancestors came to this eoun- try in 1690 I think I can call my- self an American without a hyphen. | I would like to say that I approve, what Ambassador Harvey said and| what Admiral Sims said in their speeches in London. They simply told | the truth and are 100 per cent. Ameri- | can with a bg A. B. P, New York, June 17, 1921. | To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: | i Results Manifest. Everybody is crying “hard times,” “unemployment,” &c, and while ashington says all is coming down to “normalcy,” I, after making a tour The closing of breweries, distil- lo the Editor of The Evening World; I am back from France after six years. I left in Paris over 30,000 Americans, all of them (with the ex- ception of a few who are suffering happily in spite of Prohibition, which to me, just landed, seems a farce. MARIF HOPINS. 99 Sylvan Terrace, New York. Ale or Beer as Medicine. io the Editor of The Prening World parade of protest against existing law, as such \s a demonstration of They are the fanatics and | medica, order him on a diet of oread not those who respect the law, even | and beer during his last illne: those poor deluded fools imagine that | ment into a rep € law? If so they have a jolt com for the Government will brush « that asinine demonstration us one would brush aside a harmless fly. Mr, Hell talks those who hold | does my physician of to-day, @ man of ale or beer, why did the late KE. H. | the best leading minds in the materia ' in the e~ana aid to be hope of arresting the dise: iffected? See your own fh Why did my own physic forty Years ago, prescribe une dict, Which L kept up until this pernicious law of Prohibition was Written into our Constitution? Why. If there is no medicinal virtue in| ry eee UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrieat, 1921, by John Blake.) BE YOUR OWN MANAGE A great singer, who has to spend about eighteen hours a day taking care of his health and his voice, which are his capital, needs a manager and has one. A great actor, whose every minute is required to con- tinue being a great actor, also needs a manager. We take it that you arc neither a great singer nor a great actor, because you belong to the vast majority of human beings. Therefore, while you need a manager too you don’t need to hire one. You can be your own. This is true whether you are your own boss or what the Socialists call a wage slave. If you are a wage slave you will to some extent have to submit to the management of the man who is set over you. But he can only manage you in working hours, and he can’t manage your mind at all, And it is your mind, and the way It is managed, that will make or break you before you get through. Take over that job yourself. If it is an unruly u. inake it law abiding. If it is a roaming mind, given to wan- dering over all sorts of subjects when it ought to be confined to one, discipline it. Keep it on the job it ought to be doing. Teach it to con- centrate and make it practice this new accomplishment, If it is a lazy mind, force it to work and to work hard. lf it objects and acts as if it might crack under the strain, don’t worry about it. Keep it working and it will soon learn to do its work without getting fagged. While you are managing your mind manage your body too, Make it control its appetites, and take cold baths and tackle hard work without flinching. Don’t let it overeat, or neglect to get plenty of sleep, or do any of the foolish things that bodies will do if they are permitted to have their own way. Mind and body well managed will soon be worth more to your boss, and consequently more to you. If your boss won't pay the extra value get another boss, but be sure first that the extra value is there. It is easy to think you are worth more than you are and to underestimate the boss's judgment in that respect. After you have been managing yourself for a while you will know how to manage others. Then when you gct a chance you will be able to improve it. You will find the job difficult at first, but pleasant and profitable afterward, Try it und see if this isn’t true. perience, say T been used to there is noth- pad and ale or T. M large practice and ex ve what I° From the Wise Kame is « ladder; a hard thing fo climh up but easy enough to climb doton.--H. W. Shaw, so healthful as d and beer? R. | New York, June 10, 1921. ‘Those Spurned Millions, To the Kditor of ‘The Braning World | ‘Too bad that fellow in New s+ ecept doesn't to the It isn't how much we have that really counts, but how happy we are with that which we heve.-Louis M, Notkin Luxury ts more pertlous to youth than storms and quicksands, pov land has not enough sense to those millions and then, if t wont them, turn them oy wounded “buddies, BIA, CLEARY. | TURNING THE PAG a PY an ES, oom ts Hathcams Ges JACK ABS looked over the wall And sniffed the Iwactons clover, But feared to jump because he'd fall Before he could get over. €. W. Osborn Just then a bec with vicious sting Alighted on his hide ; Friend Jackass made a frenzied spring And reached the other side. We all can gain the desired thing By striving main and might, But oft it takes misfortune’s stiny To make us win the sight In the Builder, ourrent periodical these lines appeared so arranged es to form an «aimusing imitation ef {ree-verse methods of writing, Straightened out they serve a dbet« ter purpose in indicating the value of the eting in time. eo ee The Triumph of the A-S. I. --- Writes Fabian Franklin, summing it up for the Yale Review: ‘The Anti-Saloon League did ai triumph over resistance : it trlumyphe through the absence of resistance, It uid not win ‘because almost everybody was anxious to enact Prohibition; It won because almost eran was anxious {to preserve A man might have a profound love of Uberty and yet feel that the evil of drink was so great ag to outweigh the evil of ‘that particular infringe- ment of Itberty, But nine-tenths of those who favored Prohibition, and nnety-nine one-hundredths of those who, while not favoring Prohibition, were will ing to have it come about, never made the comparison; they were quite unconscious that there was anything at all in the other scale of the balance. Net results of these combined com ditions: A disastrous setback for temper+ ance; A ‘painful demonstration of the high cost of letting things go by dee fault of public spirit. oe To Make the Pence, Keep the Faith -« To remedy the disorder of the world, according to Gilbert Murray's: word in “Dhe Problem of Foreign Policy,” (Houghton-Mifflin) the way is perfectly ascertained, thus: ‘The nations of the world must co» operate; and for that they must trust one another; and for that the only way is for each Government separately to be worthy of trust. In other words, the way is for each nation to keep the faith. It sounds so simple, outsite of “practical” politics and political hatreds. os 8 What Grandpa Knows ---+ In E. M. Delafield’s “The Heel of "a novel still to come te American readers: . {Advice is cheap,” said Grandpapa, ‘A great many ‘people say they want it, especially women. What they really want, Lydia, is an op. portunity for telling some one what they have already decided to do, They can say afterward: ‘Oh, but go-and-so and I talked it all over sate advised me to do such-and- euch! So simply this woman achieves the reputation of a vine, or thas eee Maxims of a Three-Times Wife-<« Epigrams from “My Three Huse bands,” a book p.blished anonymons- ly in England, where it has made something of a stir: A woman who has ti edestal upon which as set led off the er husband laced her might just as well out earning a divorce. Black always sets off golden hairs so I have always mourned my hus bands for the full period. T love beautiful things because they are beautiful. Keats is my favorite; he understood what Beauty meant, ‘To filrt properly one must be teel> ng Never pay a doctors bill tmmedh ately, If you do he will think that he underestimated your value. If a man knows that you have been a good wife to two husbands, and loved them, naturally he feels fairly certain that you will love him and make Mm a good wife Prac tice always does make perfect. Is there necessarily the maximum of truth in the maxims of the muchs married? i ° ° The Magic of Her Voice --< A stanza from “Berber Songs,” for nished by C. B Andrews to the June number of the Asia Magazine: O, my fair mistress, cry aloud with joyt For, by Allah, the only God, At the sound of thy voice The rose-laurel of the river will ture ta @ garden rose. At the sound of thy votce ‘ The sick man will stt up on his man, At the sound of thy The old man will throw away his cana, oe ° Laziness and Lite: An editerial essayist spreads fitme self,thus on a page of London's Satrme day Review: ‘We knew a man who was sally regarded as i we always admired him for th son that he did nothing, and very well, og 3 easy to do somethtog, do nothing gracefully with « tial reserve of work and o subi: disregard for the vulgar solid output ta a requiring exe ceptional abilities, and perhaps some constitutional talent, Laziness 18, unfortumately, not enerat as it éhould be: but wits he help of trade union regulations | the strange spirit of persistent work | is likely to be rooted out of any men who have a diseased fancy for In literature, of course, It ts commonplace that the idler ts winner. 19 th: essays? idler. nipereen th, Soptary., ackeray and ‘Tennyson were at Cambridge, but they did not waste their time over academic hon | “Shelley, one of the few poet | bentghted Oxford, was so anxious to | achieve the same result that he got | himself deliberately expelled, an: Burton, one of the most lsarni olygiots of his time, drove a four shand over the flower-beds of his college in order to obviate what must have been high honors, All this being thus, why not a now degree to spur the untversity idler his Sdling? iF Le 2 have the Doctor of Lewéol | Loafing, sporting for bis colors violet No. 150 Melrose Ave, New York,! 6,4) o» cnaing—Hannah More, June 14 1921, and shining yellow in token that is to furnish and im 8 |