The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | @ubiimed Datiy Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Now, 58 to 6% Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President. 6% Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasure Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr.. Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. {Bie Associated Prem ts exclusively entitied to the use fer repubticntion Gf all news Geepatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im this pape fund also the local news published herein. THE DESIRABLE COMPROMISE. ESPONSIBLE forecasts indicate that the House | and Senate are approaching a compromise on the Navy Appropriation Bill. Compromising is the principal job of a corfer- ence committee. But it is rare indeed that reports of progress are so encouraging as in the case of the Naval Bill. It is predicted that the conferees are prepared to recommend that the House accept the Borah reso- lution amendment as in the Senate bill, and that the Senate accept the House appropriation figures. So desirable a compromise is almost too much to expect. It includes the good features of both bills. {t would eliminate the impractical and dilatory Porter resolution for a general disarmament con- ference and also hold the expense of the navy to a more reasonable level preparatory to disarmament. Congress should hear from the country on this proposal. If the forecasts are borne out by the facts it deserves unanimous support. NO PLACE IN THE A. F. OF L. SPOKESMAN for Eamonn De Valera tele- graphed to a delegate to the A. F. of L. Convention in Denver: “We want the boycott or nothing.” It begins to look as though the Irish Republic might get its wish, a boycott—or nothing. The boycott seems to be a most remote possibility. Irish propagandists and sympathizers have every right to go as far as they can in influencing friends not to buy British-made goods. General adoption of such a policy undoubtedly would hurt England severely, and might exert considerable influence in British relations with Ireland. But such a policy has no place in the deliberations of the American Federation of Labor. The boy- cott movement at Denver was a rank impertinence and deserved defeat. If the boycotters want to foster such a movement, they should form an organization for that purpose. THE CITIZENS’ HOUSING LEAGUE. OMMISSIONER HIRSHFIELD’S attack on the Citizens’ Protective Housing League does not carry much weight. It is generally recognized that David and John Faithful are David and Johna- than. When Johnathan has a toothache David squeals. It is also generally known that political jealousy (probably without any foundation) lay back of the Mayor’s dismissal of Nathan Hirsch as Chairman of Hizzoner’s Committee on Rent Profiteering eighteen months ago, since which time the Mayor's committee has practically ceased to function. There is nothing to indicate that either Mr. Hirsch or Mr. Untemmyer is playing politics when they ask 300,000 tenants to enroll in the Citizens’ Pro- tective Housing League before Aug. 1. The objectives of the league are clearly stated, and there is need for such service. The league pro- poses to provide expert legal advice for all members involved in housing litigation. It further proposes to mobilize tenant opinion behind a constructive legislative programme. The Hirshfield attack should only serve to ad- vertise the Housing League. Any tenant can well afford the dollar that en- titles him to membership. The fund so raised is not likely to meet expenses, but it will help ma- terially. The 300,000 should be enrolled by Aug. 1. POLO HONORS. oe a rather dispiriting season of reverses in international sport America rejoices over the viciory the polo team won at Hurlingham yes- terday. . The “Big Four’ of 1921 won handily and de- cisively. The British polo players and critics admit the fact and compliment the Americans on the supe- riority of their ponies, their individual play and their team work. It is a high tribute to British sportsmanship that in spite of the poor showing the British team made in the first match, and in the face of almost certain defeai, the polo fans turned out in great numbers and filled the stands at the game yesterday. The cup journeys back. Each nation has won and held it four times. Honors are even, and the next match at Meadow Brook will gain added inter- est from the fact. AVATCHA BAY THIS TIME. "Giggnivrnsbrede engaging “native son,” Me, Washington Vanderlip, is an invincible opti- mist. on tie coast of Kamchatka, which he wants to give to Uncle Sam. In his dealings with the Soviets, Mr. Vanderlip is not looking for personal profit or anything like that. He has a generous nature favors “peace Nm paren He is “in again,” this time with a naval base: " THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921, 7 and reconstruction"—which would include the forti- fication of Avatcha Bay by the United States. “He who holds Avatcha Bay,” announces Mr. Vanderlip, “controls the Pacific.” Mr. Vanderlip says he Is going “before the real Government of the United States, the peopl.” He is going to educate them to the advantages of Avatcha Bay, 8,000 miles away over the broad Pacific. It is good to learn that Mr. Vanderlip ts going be- fore the people. He will find it more profitable than travelling and intriguing in Russia. And while | he is on his travels he will discover how little the American people are interested in Avatcha Bay and points west. He will discover how little the Mis- sissippi Valley cares for an imperial programme of holding Asia with expensive naval bases which must be defended with more expensive navies. After he has finished his American travels he can go back to Sunny California and tell his backers that “the big thing” couldn’t be “put over.” ANOTHER HYLAN FAILURE. A SHOCK indeed Is this city’s awakening to the deplorable conditions that surround at least 100,000 children in its schools. Few New Yorkers realized that among the city’s 725 school buildings are so many dilapidated, un- sanitary fire-traps, badly lighted, ill-ventilated, grimed and filthy with age, some of them literally crumbling to pieces and not a few of them without playgrounds. Such treatment of public school children is a dis- grace to the biggest and wealthiest city of the Western Hemisphere. The Hylan Administration came into office with a great ra-ti-ta about its interest in the public schools. The Hylan Administration has had three years and a half in which to inform itself of the conditions now revealed to the public. The Hylan Administration has had three years and a half in which to make good its fine promises of better schoolhouses. Yet now, six months before the term of the Hylan Administration expires, nine associated civic organizations agree that the present state of at icast a score of the city’s schoolhouses is such as to be a daily and hourly menace to the safety and health of children forced to go to school in them. Now that the disclosures have been made, Mayor Hylan points hastily to everything he has ever SAID about better schools. Likewise Mr. Hearst’s publications rush first aid to the already hopelessly damaged Hylan Adminis- tration in the shape of praise and “tributes” for the Mayor and a proposed ‘Citizens’ League for the Protection of the Public Schools.” Too late. Mayor Hylan must face yet another question: Why has his Administration left it to others to discover the shocking facts now disclosed? What can he say for his boasted school-building Programme which has remained in the air while these actual, existing conditions that cried out for remedy have gone unheeded? How can he explain? “FORGIVE AND FORGET.” PENING the Ulster Parliament at Belfast, King George said: “I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and to forget, and to join in making for the land which they love a new era of peace, contentment and good will. “It is my earnest desire that in Southern Ireland, too, there may ere long take place a parallel to what is now passing in this hall; that there a similar occasion may present it- self and a similar ceremony be performed.” Along with these words of the English King’ we should like to place the words of a great Irishman of another century: “England and Ireland may flourish together. The world ts large enough for us both. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.” If more Irishmen could listen to the appeal ot King George with the calm and in the spirit of Edmund ‘Burke, the solution of the Irish problem would not be far off. TWICE OVERS. 6e I N American schools and colleges there are over 1,200 students from foreign countries.” — Thompson Stock. o # 6 “ ON'T you think that a woman is always a better judge than a man of another woman's charm, beauty and intelligence?” —Miss Edna Fanchon. * ° * 7 FIND millionaires want just as much for their money as the ordinary citizen, and some- times more,” —William Harris, President of the Board of Directors of the International Rits-Carlion Hotel Chain. + J | There te fine mental exercise H. R. 6782, To the Editor of The Evening World; Every one knows that an aged spirit is more wholesome than crude alcohol H. R. 6752 makes {t compulsory to use crude alcohol in medicines rather than the more wholesome aged spivit, unless the Commissioner is satisfied that the latter is essential. Flavoring extracts are included in the prohibi- tion, This 1s a queer age and many queer laws are passed, but this is the quver- est yet. It should be entitled “An Act to Make Medicines and Foods Less Wholesome,” or perhaps the following would be more appropriate: “An Act to Encourage the Use of be noted that to use a pure wine in any medicine would be in violation of the law. If we had a prize for the most stupid piece of legislation offered during the year, H. R. 6752 would stand a great chance, D. E. HERTZ, New York, June 21, 1921, Itt To the Editor of The Brening World It made my blood boil to read of the various demonstrations planned to ridicule Admiral Sims on his re- turn from abroad, What is this coun- try coming to anyway? Is this America or Ireland? ‘When It comes to the Irish question I am neither pro nor con—in fact, 1 am a little on their side of it—but when it comes to planning uprisings and other things it is time this Gov- ernment put a stop to all that fool- ishness. that's the American. You can't be a part American. There is no such thing. When we were at war with Germany if any one dared to mention that they felt sorry for Germany every true American shouted: “Why don't you go back to Germany? If you don't like this country, get out of it,” Well, if that remark went for the pro- German it also goes for the pro-Irish, pro-British or any other pro. If you are in sympathy with the country whence you or your kin came keep silent about it or take the other alternative. Go over there and fight for your country like a man, iw New York June 20, 1921. the Revolution, The Irish 1 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World A great many people have been writing about the “Irish in the Revo- Jutionary War.” I wish to call their attention to the fact that Charles ‘Thompson, who made the first copy of the Declaration of Independence; John Dunlap, who first printed it, and John Nixon, who first read it, were born in Ireland; also that twelve signers of the Declaratign of Inde- pendence were of Irish birth or Irish descent, namely: Charles Carroll, Edward Rutledge, John Hancock, William Whipple, Thomas Lynch jr, Thornton, James Smyth, From Evening World Readers ooo 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? to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. mitation | raise several regiments the Colonels Wine in Medicinal Agents," for it will commissioned were Anthony Wayne, There is only one flag and | and a lot of satisfaction in trying Thomas McKean, Thomas Fitzsim- mons and Thomas Nelson. It was an Irishman—Joseph Read, | secretary to Washington—to whom | the British Commissioners offered a bribe of $50,000 if he would desert the almost hopeless cause of the Colo- nists. His reply was: “I'm not worth purchasing, but the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.” This patriot was appointed an Ad- jutant General by Congress. He was elected Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and was its Governor three times. At the first council of the war, held at Cambridge, Mass., in 1775, two were Irishmen—Richard Montgomery and John Sullivan—and fully one-half of the active chiefs of the army were of Irish birth or descent. When Con- gress ordered Pennsylvania in 1775 to Stephen Moylan, William Irvine, William Thompson, Walter Stewart and Richard Butler, all Irishmen. The regiments of Wayne, Stewart, Irvine and Butler formed part of the famous Pennsylvania Line, also called the “Irish Brigade.” They were the picked men of the whole army and ;Were sent by Washington to West Point on the discovery of Benedict |Arnold’e treason. Cal. Fitzgerald, an |Irishman, was Washington's favorite aide-ge-camp. Washington was a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, which held its annual banquets at Cox's Tavern in Philadelphia, Pa. When Washington's army was starving at Valley Forge this society sent him half a million dollars, George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of Gen. Washington, speaking at a meeting of Americans in Washington, D. C., on July 20, 1826, said: “Washington loved them, fr they were the companions of his toils, his perils, his glories in the deliver- ance of his country." JOHN T, M'CAFFREY. Brooklyn, N. ¥., June 20, 1921, A National Nickname, To the Editor of The Evening World: I have been reading numerous ar- ticles about Georges Carpentier (alias the Frog). A few days ago I read in one of New York's leading papers that the vulgar nickname of “Frogs” was a ¢ By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) KEEP YOUR PROMISE AT PAR, In business the man whose rating among his associates is the highest is the man who keeps his promises. Promises to pay, of course, must be kept. If they are not there is no more credit for the gentleman who makes them. But business is not all promises to pay. There are prom- ises to enter into contracts, promises to have shipments ready at # certain time, promises to make business engagements. . And the man who is more prodigal of promises than he is of remembering to keep them soon is regarded with dis- trust and suspicien, A man who has been immensely successful in the manu- facturing business is regarded by his associates as “hard boiled” in the matter of promises. It is almost impossible to get one out of him, But, once his promise is given, performance is assured even though the performance may mean a heavy financial loss to him. He has discovered that it is just as profitable to him to keep his promises at par as it is to keep the stock of his con- cern at par. You may not be in business, or connected with busi- ness, save in the capacity of a minor employee. But you will find that the value of your promises is just as important to you as the value of your employer's promises are to him. You will learn, if you are observant, that you are judged not by making promises but by keeping them, And if after many trials your promises are found to be good you will be trusted, When a man is trusted he has made an excellent start. It is always well to consider the matter of a promise This applies as much to a promise to take lunch at a certain time of a certain day as to fulfil an before you make it, important business engagement. If you make no promises that you are not reasonably sure to keep you will come to regard your word as wozth something. If your friends know that they will not need to call you up and remind you of a promise your value will in- crease in their eyes. The promise breaker is a word breaker, and word Think well of your word and you will keep your promises. And as soon as this is estab- breakers have no standing. lished the world will think well of you, UNCOMMON SENSE gift to the French by the English at a time when the two peoples were not on the best terms. In 1917 when our boys landed in France, the Tommies from England nicknamed these newcomers from the United States “Sammies.” The French poilus soon picked up this expression. Our boys made a kick being called Sammies as it blunder in misusing the English slang toward their new allies from j America they immediately refrained. Ina were known and called among the French poilus. Allow me to say a few words in “Yankees” Carpentier or the French in general | Those would-be-100-per-cent.-stayed- at-home Americans their minds and gain a change from corned beef and cabbage if they would | go to France (as long as they did not War) and taste a fancy dish of frogs’ | legs or other fancies from over there. Instead of talking away like parrots, ew months American soldiers |». China answer to the nicknames "Frog Legs" American citizens. B claims they are or “Frog Eaters” when referring to subjects of China, Which is right? Ww would broaden the opportunity during the| approach him with New York, June 21. GEM A Ie Right, vo RAitar ef Tee Eveaint World A claims that children of American ity.—St. Ambrose. born parents ‘n are Law without the mind at other men justice wound without a cure.—Downey. | From the Wise If you would keep your friend, telescope, never with a microscope-—Anony- . ' mous. unded too much English, and of|they might come back to the United course they disliked the hame, When |states with a new name for Carpen-) p44 is nothing else j ; the French pollus learned of their|tier and his countrymen. | Bney 4 hing else but grief of prosper- A good face is a good letter of ecommendation.—Aristotle. ts as @ ter Om i NAR Re A SUEY MY ME RRR RG CTE cet o 3—THE WHEAT AND THE TARES. ‘The story of the Wheat and the ‘Tares—Matt. xili, %-30—is the very best answer that we have tw the knottiest of all problems—the xiet- ence of evil under the government of &@ wise, just and loving Providencd, The story, as told by the highest authority in the world, is wonderfully encouraging. It puts heart and hope in us. Isf our fight against the forces of the dark it stiffens the backbone and puts into us the “pep” that brings victory. Let me give the story in the-ver« nacular, asking you to go over-it im the ancient version later on, ‘The Judaean farmer in question, be- ing personally interested in his wort, himself sowed the wheat. He would not trust the hired men. They might sow poor seed. They might sow too early or too late, Some carelessness on their part might spoil the whole thing. So he made it his business. to “| attend to the work himself. Now, while the farmer was soundly sleeping after his honest day's work, scoundrelly neighbor who hated him bitterly eneaked forth through the darkness, sowed tares in the midst of jthe wheat, and then sneaked ad j home, chuckling to himself over the dirty deed that he had done, By and by the vile tares made thetr appearance, and the hired men eald to the farmer: “Sir, you wouldnt trust US to sow the wheat for fear we might make a mess of ft; Dut what about these tares?” “It is the work of an PNEMXj my men,” se plied the farmer. Having hed thety Bt of fan with the “Boss,” the men eaid to him, “Let's get busy and root these tares out, and the sooner the better, Str.” i To this generous and appareatty sensfble proposition, the Farmer fe- plied, “No! [f we go after the tares | now we will spofl everything. In ing them out we will necessarily stroy much of the wheat, So for present give those tares @ grand Iat- ting-alone; and at the right time If will have you gather the tares inte: bundles for @ big bonfire; after waiah you can put the wheat into the barn.” ' Here, as I have already intimated,’ we bave the most satisfactory expia- nation known of the distressing prob- lem of evil, 1 Good is FIRST on the ground, | The farmer sowed GOOD SEED— WHEAT, not tares. Good is the foundation, the bed-rock. 2. The tares come from the work of an enemy. In other words, between Good and Evil there is only war, Evil is "THE ENEMY” so long as it exists, an enemy that is to be fought until It is destroyed. No “Good Lord and Good Devil” business. The Lord is the Lord and the Devil is the Devil to the bitter end. The fight is to the finish, 3. And right along the Devil Is get- ting the worst of it. There is an In- evitable harvest time, when the tares are made into a bonfire and the wheat is put into the darn. Witchcraft, Religious Persecution, Slavery, Kat- serism, every form of human degra- dation, comes at last to a head—and dies—dies of its own rottenness, of tts own inadaptability to-the ever-ad- vancing progress of the Ages. —_—_——.—_ $< — ———————— Super Business Wome By Helen Page Copyright, 1921, by The Prem Publishing Ob Now Your Evening, World.® MISS HARRIET E. PORRITT, Secretary to the Commissioner of Public Work: ‘That not more women who ran for office last November were elected was said by a leading Suffragist to be due to the fact that many of these can- didates lacked a practical experience in the business of city, State or Na- tion they sought to serve. Without the necessary qualifications, she sald, many women had expected to jump into big political offices. It may be argued that men have been elected to office who have proved unfitted to the task. But, as a rule, men, having been in politics longer, have won the favor of their constitu- ents in public work done in smaligr offices before seeking recognition, in higher places, she pointed out »». Whether this vote of confidenge given by the public or given by @ party, It 1s nevertheless a testimonial to recognized ability and trustworthi- ness. - When Miss Harriet E. Porritt Svas offered the secretaryship to the Com missioner of Public Works at a salary of $3,540 per annum, the first time a woman had filled this place, it wasr ¢ after Commissioner Fay and Borough President Henry Curran. had given careful consideration to her record of achievement. Aside from her Suf- frage activities for some years, Mise Porritt had been a loyal supporter of the Republican Party, and as leader of the 2ist Assembly District. the G. 0. P, clan recognized in her organiz- ing and executive ability one of its most important members, However, Miss Porritt did not seck the office; she did not invite favors for favors she had rendered her party. The office sought her. Miss Porritt was following her teaching profession when the offer was made to her to act as chief of- fice ald to Commissioner Fay, and in | such position to handle the countlesb details of city business that pour through this office every day. A ler fective sewer, a gas or water leak, alterations and repairs of pyblic buildings, these and scores of other matters demand the constant and the prompt attention of the Commission | er's secretary, “Efficiency and courtesy” is Miss Porritt’s motto in handling the city’s |business, It is a good motto for a public officeholder to follow, for’ by observing it in her daily work Miss Porritt has won the commendation of ‘both the public and the city fathers,