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She Even ESTAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, @uwitmed Daily Except by The Prom Publishing ‘Company. Nos. 53 to Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, €3 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Biorld, MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. {Mee Associated Prom ls exclusively entitied to the use fer repubtiontion | @ GD news Geapatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im this paper fund also the local news published herein PROTECT THE LESS ADEPT. RTHUR L. MARVIN, in a letter to the Times advocating repeal of the Usury Law as it applies to real estate loans, says: “Borrowers on real estate are not people of small affairs. They know their way about.” If Mr. Marvin states the case correctly, conditions fre indeed serious. If “people of small affairs” are not borrowing to finance the construction of homes, we face a social condition which requires immediate attention. If it is necessary to “know the way about” in the labyrinth of law evasion exposed by the Lockwood committee before one can possess improved real estate, then something is wrong with the system. This is not to say that 6 per cent. on mortgages ts a fixed and unchangeable maximum, But some machinery is needed to protect “people of small affairs” from the clutches of the loan sharks. If unlimited competition will serve better in providing for the needs of “those who know their way about,” there should also be protection against usury for those less wise in the ways of the world. Home-building is too important to be disregarded. If necessary, the State must make sure that money is available in a protected market. “It is not the time for us to make a move for everlasting peace,” Secretary Weeks told the Tufts College graduates yesterday. When The Hague Tribunal proposed limita- tion of armaments Germany made similar com- mem. It was “not the time.” It never is “the time” unless men and women are willing to work to make the move succeed. WHO SET THE EXAMPLE! Statement made by| Cable sent to Rear Ad- Secretary of the Navy | miral Sims by Secretary DBPNBY yesterday: of Navy DENBY June 11: “Admiral Sims is an “Remainder your leave Cala Ca ale ae “THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 192K" impetus in France since the war. If this continues it will soon have its effect on social snobbery. | Sport was once confined to courts and society. Now that competitions are open to all, sport is one of the greatest of democratizing forces. | “CLEAR TO THE MOON.” | 66 (VORPORATE or co-operative selfishness,” President Lowell of Harvard told the grad- ualing class at the baccalaureate service last Sun- day, “is to-day a greater danger than personal self- ishness, because it is more insidious and wears the garb of something more noble than a mere per- sonal aim.” Was President Lowell thinking of national self- ishness ? The President of Harvard was one of the most earnest advocates of action that would take the United States out of selfish isolation and into the League of Nations. Two years ago last March President Lowell vig- orously defended the League in public debate with Senator Lodge. Last fall President Lowell was one of the thirty-one eminent Pro-League Republicans who signed the appeal asking for votes for Harding as the surest means of securing the fulfilment of the obligations of the United States toward the greatest peace move in history. ’ A week before the election President Lowell wrote to Gordon Woodberry, Assistant Secretary of the Navy: “You are, I think, quite mistaken in attrib- uting to me a change of opinion on the subject of the League. I am still in favor of the League, and I hope and believe that after Mr. Harding try will go into the League. The statement of the thirty-one Republicans says the same thing.” The day before the election President Lowell prophesied that, whatever the result, the real fight on the League issue would come after the election. He added: “I am urging every one who believes in the League of Nations to make his voice sound clear is elected—which seems inevitable—this coun- | Hitting the High Spots! ..wtha By John Cassel 2—THE PHARISEE AND THES PUBLICAN. ‘ I never reed the story of the Phar foce and the Pubtican—Larke xviii, 1 14—ewithout being forcibly reminded of Lincotn'’s workd-famous “Gettye- yet powerful eloquence and complete- ness of idea and statement, the Mar- tyr President's speech and Jegus'’e story of the Pharisee and the Pub- lican stand together, without peers or even rivals, y What a consummate artist Jeous was! What a word-painter! With Jesus's story in mind, we ¢an see the very orthodox and (in his own opinion) immaculate Pharisee, sttid- ing in stately dignity up to the tim- ple. His rabe, perfect 1 materialy cut and embellishments, is tightly held @y the jewelled hands of the wearer,-lest it ahould come in contact with some- thing unclean, and, reaching the s4nc: tuary, he stands proudly erect, pands his chest, throws back his Read (casting side glances the meanwhile to ascertain if any one is observing His Highness), and proceeds to con- gratulgte himself upon his petfect righteousness and his exalted stitnd- ing in the eyes of the Almighty! He knows that when he dies wis- dom and virtue will die with him; and his chief concern is to get through with the negotiations with Heaven by which the calamity of his departure from earth shail be at least partially mitigated. And while this spotless gentleman is thus engaged with himself and his perfection, there quietly slips imto the temple a poor Publican—one of the Roman tax oollectors. Stopping “afar off" from the altar, as though afraid to come near the holy place, he drops his glance to the floor, beats his breast in his contrition, and cries out: “Gr be merciful to me a sin- ner.” | The Pharisees, having exhausted his | vocabulary of self-praise, and finished his turkey-gobbler strut before the Almighty, takes a fresh grip on the folds of his rabe, lest they become defiled by the touch of things unholy, retraces his steps out of the House of God. Following him, dut well belind htm, comes the Publican, his eyes atill looking downward, his jhope still | trembling lest his prayer should not be heard. | And strange to tell—etranger than the crassest romance to the “Unro Guid” Christ's day and our day—the Pharisee went out scorched and !ruined by Heaven's maledictions, | while the poor Publican “went down of the United States revoked. You will return across to the moon so that every one will know { Aieet Adore die Geek eae ' 4 ”» | cage ful of songbirds! ! laoy and an American | to the United States im- what the people of the United States want. igo full of songbird a . , ; oo Soke! pon paige Dsshahachebed The President of Harvard has since heard the ation ie there anything to be a. -— / port in the United States | tary the Navy. Ac- | President of the United States and the Ambassador fans, 7° equal sign 145-word ' without insult or humili- | knowledge. appointed by the latter to the Court of St. James's weit titer”, Howly., carefully, i = reject the League of Nations, root and branch. |swer the question for yourself. 7 He has heard the “mandate of last November” soe NOT MOTHERS. AGISTRATE LEVINE dectares that mothers are the real criminals in the “baby crime wave” in the Bronx. ! His denunciation of parental negligence in failmg to discipline young children and so prevent juvenile qiminality seems fully justified by the facts, But Magistrate Levine was unfortunate in his choice of words when he said: “The fault seems to be with the mothers. * * © If mothers pay more attention to vapid amusements than they do to the well- being of their children, it is not to be wondered at that the youngsters go astray.” ‘A pertinent and justifiable comment on this state- tment ts that mothers do nothing of the kind. The word “mother” carries with it a meaning foeyond parenthood or the bearing of chikiren. Mothers think first of their children. All else is The English tanguage seems to lack a single word which specifically describes the sort. of femi- mine parent which Magistrate Levine rightfully ex- coriates. This being so, let him use a phrase or a sentence of explanation, but keep “mother” clear from any such implications. In the projected film, “From Farmer's Boy to Police Commissioner,” Producer Tannen- baum proposes to show Commissioner Enright “patting a crook away in nearly every reel.” ‘When the operator comes to the Elwell mur- interpreted to mean that what the people of the United States want is to be kept out of the League at all costs. Something of this may have been in President Lowell’s mind when he said to the Harvard seniors last Sunday: “Most people, and perhaps in a peculiar de- gree the American people, tend in the busy life of the world to save themselves from strenuous thought by taking refuge in the opinions of their associates, of the men in like occupations, of the party or group to which they belong. “This saves some of them, indeed, from ec- centricity and irrational extremes, but it does not absolve men from responsibility for the correctness of their opinions or save the Nation from the consequences of their errors.” To avert the consequences of the error of co- operative selfishness on a national scale, it would seem that every one who believes in the League should still try, in President Lowell's phrase, “to make his voice sound clear across to the moon.” Yet since March 4 we have heard few such voices sound even as far as the White House. Nor was President Lowell’s’ voice among those few. May thts last day of Gpring be a model for Summer. te say much in a few words, Take Uniawfal Fermentation, To the Editor of The Brening World The only impression that the tirade of A Prohibitionist makes on me 1s hat it increases the pleasant tast: of the excellent home brew my good wifo makes. One of the confessions | which Prohibitionist John Ferris makes in his letter of June 10 whisks! the dust from my typewriter in big swirls and urges me to make answer. He asks, “Why curb the appetite that controls us?” I do not doubt) for a minute that the appetite for rum controls Mr. Ferris, ‘but 1 do resent the insult cast on millicns of sturdy and strong-willed Americans when he asserts that this appetite also controls them, "Do not judge others by yourself” is a saying taat is never too old to repeat. If the majority in this country were slaves to alcohol, Uncle Sam would now be on the well liquored skids to a drunkard's grave. Johw Ferris, like other Prohibitionists, forgets that there is no Prohibition in this coun- try. There is only a farcical law to that effect which everybody breaks and will continue to break as long as | fruit juices have the pleasant habit of | fermenting. Anybody with any sense knows how | long that will be. ALR OH Brooklyn, N. Y¥. June 20, ‘y921, | Sympathy. ‘Te the Fulitor of The Erening World : 1 surely can sympathize with “A Wife" in to-day’s Evening World. Having five gallons of sherry wine at From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ewercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying kick in it time to be brief. How much has the Amer- iean people? Then a squad of former wine agents march up carrying corkscrews at re- versed arms, a tribute of days gone but not forgotten. © friends of Bacchus! And last limps sadly up the avenue, in full dress uniform, a regiment of bromo seltzer manufacturers whose _busi- |ness was swept away in the ginger- ale panic of 1919. They will fire a round of aspirin tablets over the grave of J. Barleycorn. The sun is gone to rest, gloomily in the West, like a red cherry plop- ping in a glass of near beer, and we onlookers will sadly wheel into the next drug store and try to drown our sorrow in cherry phosphate or will go on a lollypop orgy! T. N. TEARLE, Ex Brass Rail Polisher. Central Park (Bench) West, June “Our Own Sailorman.” To the Iil'tor of The Evening World When he comes over we'll hail with a cheer ‘The man that nobody can bluff; For he's a right little man and a tight little man, He's made of American stuff. So give him a welcome and say it with flowers, Show him the Red, White and Blue; All over creation let them know that our Nation ‘Will stand by our sailorman true. Cut out the blarney, save it all for _ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Joan Biske) WHAT IS IMPORTANT. Off hand you would say that the thing that is uppermost in the minds of many millions of people must be of the high- est importance. A few years ago this thing was the war, which was very important indeed. To-day it is a prize fight, which is not important at all. To you or me, unless we have been foolish enough to make heavy bets, it is a matter of no consequence whether Mr. Dempsey or Mr. Carpentier wins the fight. Yet it is likely that, in common with millions of other people, we are discussing it eagerly and reading columns on columns about it every day. After the prize fight something else will occupy our minds. It may be important and it may not be. That will make no difference. It will interest us and we shall think about it to the exclusion of many other things. And that is exactly where we shall make a very serious mistake. For unless we first consider what is important to us before devoting the larger share of our attention to it we are certain to lose a great deal of time that could be put to much better use. Getting excited about a war is excusable. Any war in which our own country is involved may involve our future, cur happiness, perhaps our lives. _ Getting excited abont a fight in which two total strangers are engaged, and in which neither is likely to suffer any damage more serions than a broken nose, is a waste of excitement that could be expended to better purpose. of New York City. Government -: Coors, ga ferme tl ee OF By Willis Brooks Hawkins, This is the seventy-sirth article of a series defining the duties of | the administrative and legislative | officers and boards of the New | York City Government. BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. ' The Mayor's Bureau of Weights and Measures, under the supervision of a Commissioner appointed by the Mayor ut a salary of $6,500 a yer, fixes the standard and denominatin of weights and measures used in the city, regulates the manner of sale “of yarious commodities, and collects c¥i- dence of violation of city and State laws resulting in fraud upon the p chaser, whether through shorty substitution or misrepresentation. . |, ‘Phe city is divided into inspectthn districts to each of which is assigntd an inspector, who is held responsible | for conditions in his district. * | ‘The mechanical division of this bu- \reau has laboratories in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, where mér. chants and consumers may have the scales, weights and measures teste: \'This division also inspects and destg- | nates with a serial number each tyj | of weighing and measuring apparatus before Its use or sale is permitted in the city. t On its own initiative, or at the in- stance of any citizen, the bureau jp- vestigates conditions in which it is Kill hi to be Mried suspected that fraudulent, decelsful for der, will he use blank film, or what a place remote from my residence, eilarney, What ought to important to us is whether we are go- onest trade practices exist. Condi- . . . is a | the best T can do now Is to ail my: Turyye ive et their eid ibattie ing to do any good in the world, for ourselves and for our Mons requiring action Areieiiher oa MIRTH, self up with a pint or a quart and ye: SNOBBERY AND SPORT. (rom the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) then go home and let my wife and my large family smell my breath. So up with the gangway and salute as he comes, fellows—whether we are going to lead clean, straight lives, and whether when we have reached the end we can look rected directly by the bureau or pe- ported by it to prosecuting official Mirth has been called God's medicine. There are |""At tine we have brandy, whiskey| Thrige welcome home, Admiral) $ Mt) Nh past and feel satisfied that we have done our we : ' FORMER salesman of theatrical programmes, | few persons who cannot testify to the saving value |2M4 1m. for which we to met Dee june ee best. “6 ? | 1 now a theatre proprietor, was owner of the | of a smile. There is a story told of a man who re- |Acribed by our doctor and the nurses.| June 1, 108), - Education is important. Training is important. Success That sa Fact j » ” 5 Tm c. Give me 4 glass of beer, and that's) why Worry Over the Improbable. elt 4 pws . re " i) : ‘dark horse” winner of the Auteuil Grand Steeple- | ceived a wire while on a business trip that his busi- | all I ask of the religious fanatics. 19 | Tete Hater of The Reming Work: is important. Prosperity is important, for it means independ. By Albert P. Southwick \ chase. The owner and his theatrical friends profited | ness had been wiped out by fire, The depression which |° Mt WO AREVER GORE TO) It was stated in a Jersey City|$ ence, which is the most important thing in the world next enormously from the victory of the 40 to 1 entry. Reports from Paris say the titled and wealthy followed this news threatened for a time his mental balance, and he even gave serious thought to taking his own life, Brooklyn, June 14, 1921. From the Bench. To the Baiter of The Brening World paper last week that because Admiral Sims's parents were American citi- zens and he, Sims, had never become a British subject, he is qualified to to the salvation of our souls. If we begin every day by selecting something that is really important, preferably our job, to devote most of our While the apple is native af o 1 " J : Europe, in the Cau is, around hs owne! 7 ai Mowe are| be. President of the United States i p u casts rs of the other competing horses declined to While in this dangerous mood he received a letter | ..\T8 Beaute) Vode ee although born in Canada. Is this Lime to, we shall finish the day ahead of where we started it, | Black Sea, it is also found in Perga, Congratulate the winner, but Jhat the President of | trom his daughter, a girl of uine, which read: “Dear |on the glorious Fourth of July. 1| ue? co BM. If we begin it by considering that some passing occur- ' os the French Republic observed the usual custom of receiving the winner in the official box. American racing has witnessed more than one victory Of the dark horse owned by the unknown | Daddy— went down to see your store that was burned and it looked awfully pretty all covered with ice. Love and kisses from Helen.” The man laughed and the day was saved. That ask why not have the same on a more suitable day, Say the Ist of July? You know the reason! On the Fourth a sowp-eyed crowd will gather on the curb of Fifth Ave- Jersey City, June 20. To Fiviance the Bonus, ‘To the Bditor of The Hrening Work): In reference to your editorial of rence whose outcome does not matter at all is impertant, we shall finish a little behind where we started, Make your life work important—more important than anything else—and then if you fail it will not be for the lack Thomas Parr, a native of Shrep- shire, England, is said to have ted 169 years, At that age he went on invitation to the Court of Charles IT. C, hile the swiftly porating | June 16 on bonus economics I would . > and there, overeating, died of indi- H glint of humor was lke a ray of sunshine in a dark {rive of barkeeps shimmy sadly o|suggest that I have a good solution|} of intelligent effort. gestion. Harvey, who dissected who triumphed on the track. The American stage cell. The spirit of the man was released from the | the tune of “How Dry I Am!" played of the way to finance the bonus. You mr declared that but for this accident |he might have lived for many years longer, by the augmented orchestra of ther- mos bottles and cash registers, They will carry in front of their prison of his gloom. Lincoln on the day that he read to his Cabinet the has used the incident repeatedly when the mortgage on “the old homestead” was in imminent danger requested that some one should sug- ———— — gest it, Here it is: besides, it would put us back where install in his establishment an ex- es M \tear-jerking procession a bar towel] If the good old U. 8, A. were like clong before the country goes on bartender for the purpose of teach-|,, BY “heat value of fuels” is meant of foreclosure. American sportsmen, with few ex- “mancipation proclamation opened that important | gr hair-mast with a wreath of mint) it was before Prohibiion—by that 1 vee Ing gentlemanly manners, common | the number of pounds of water evap~ =a A J ‘ meeting by reading from Artemus Ward, When re- | julep leaves. before the Prohibition Law AN EX-SERVICE MAN. | courtesy and efficiency io the callow) °Pted by one pound of fuel. With ceptions, permit no line of class or wealth to inter- uked by one of his serious-minded Cabinet officers | Wé Will sce that quivering retic, the the only way would — youth who now orders you roughly | Straw It is 1.9 and with wood &1, » vene in havi Ned th once powerful bouncer, who showed Victim’ Complaint. lo “getcher check foist,” and then ae a) ; for having called them into an important session to | ys the hobo exit, We will see signs | the Bditar of The Evening Workt your unmixed concoction,| The Niagara Su “ If France has failed to achieve international re- ‘hear such nonsense, Lincoln replied: “Why don't you | like this The suggestion that bartenders be as to whether was built -by Roebling in oa 1 cost Of $400,000, It ls 948 feet abdve part of tt laugh, gentlemen? ) ginger pop, O Bevo, w If I couldn't laugh I would die.” ere tn: thy nto your lap, nown in the world of sport, this custom of social \employed by drug store proprietors i {employed by g ftere prop find dirty glasses, sloppy| water and 810 feet long. he! Bunt (onl _ Emerson has said, “Nothing will supply the want “Wine, women and song" Gvhich mone ui) soda dispensers is good pars. and. discourteous. d sp sere. in| td a bg ; demarcation may help accou rit. of sunshine for peaches, and to make knowledge val- NOW Means wood alcohol, Widows and | the soldiers in the ¢ If the idea {8 considered imprac- | the thirst emporiums of other days.| 4. On the other hand, sport has gained a great new The Scripture liquid measure,’ a angel voices) caph, was 25-40 of a pint, Aocimalsm, 6463, mithout putting any extra taxes on “Beer bas one-half of 1 per cent, A VI people, That ls a sure way and ICTIM, New York June 9¢@. 1e2. * - etare it or | uable there mist te Gheerfulaeen.” ticable by said proprietors it would | be to their advantage if exoh would J i fail ccaon'