The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1921, Page 10

eens nS SETABLIGHED BY JOSHPM PL" Pedlmhed wally Keoep; Sunday we The Company, Now, 52 te Of Park Row > J. ANGUS SILAW JO8EPU PUTATARK MPMIPER OF THE ASSOULATED PRE The Atsoriates Press le y (tied to the ame fer repubitestton OF Ali Dem Gospatchen credited to It or not otherwine credited tm thie paper fed also the locel news published herein A WELL-EARNED REST. HE Lockwood committee has adjourned for the summer. It has not closed its work. ‘The adjournment is only a suspension. In this there is a measure of continuing hope for the harassed rentpayer ¢ Lockwood commitiee has accomplished far more than the most optimistic expected. It has probed into the morass of business imimorality ia which home-building was floundering. It provided the facts which made possible the passage of reir: Jaws and tax exemption. It has furnished evidence for prosecutions and has extended aid to decent business men willing to clean up their own associ ations. The Lockwood committee will now dake a vaca- tion. Questionable business will be wiser not to do so. In the “rings,” “combines” and “associa- tibns” the respite should be used for refonm ami changes in business practice w hich may be ciled as evidence of repentance amt good intention when the committee meets again. Clean business is possible. Many business men woul! prefer to operate in an honorable and above- board manner. Many have been forced into shady transactions by the ruthless rascality of competitors. Now while the Lockwood committee is resting Bs a good time for decent business men to rise up and drive the rascals out. The Lockwood committee lends continuing power to decency, for the committee will meet again with the intention of investigating new fields and check- ing over the old ones, If Old Guardsmen like Senators Penrose and Watson get to quarrelling over which should c@me first, the tariff or tax revision, we may Hon get relief from taxation, but at the same time we shall not be burdened with a brand new batch of Schedule K's. MAKING THE TOWN FIT. HARLOTT KINS GILMAN, writing C for the Century Magazine on “Making Towns Fit to Live In,” finds that “there is no reason why our women should not go far in making their cities worthy of well-founded pride, if only they will learn how.” AS a maiter of cold social and economic truth, the way to make a cily of which its people may be justly proud is exceedingly shmple. The learning of it need noi and shoul! not be confined to the women. The lesson is one by which every man who claims the rights and privileges and good name ef citizenship ought to be glad to profit. This is the single and sinyple right direction for good town-builders. Put out of mind the thoughe of what you can get oul of the city; think only of what you caf put into it. With this main principle in full working effect, fhe tasks will present themselves in due course call- ing for the efforts of architects, landscape artists, sanitary experts, directors of education and pur- veyors of entertainment. And the right men and women will rise to* the demands. There will be no occasion for surprise at the way the city will yield returns for the unselfish thought- fulness of its peopk. Also, it is a mistake to consider, as many do rloomily, that New York is too big to take a place among give-a-thought towns. All needs is to make its thinking approximately unanimous. To-morrow and Monday will be timely for advertisements of sunburn cures. PUBLIC OPINION SPOKE. N CONFERENCE on the Navy Supply Bill the House conferees got most of what they asked, fe Senate relatively little except the Borah resolu- tion favoring a three-power conference on limita- tion of naval-building. , |m recent years the Senate has usually had its ‘way and the House has bowed to the more com- pact end united chamber. |i wouki be too much to say that in the present controversy the House had regained the prestige it has been losing, The truth is that in this case neither the House wor Senate gets what it wanted. A third party, the Public, atiended the conference meetings and exer- Ged the decisive power. Congress got out of the fhands of the leaders because Representatives and Senators had been hearing from home. For once the power of publicity and popular o@pmion seems to have scored a notable victory. (he simple fact is that on the question of arma- gent Congress knows the Public is of almost unani- ™ qaows opinion and means business. ( EXTRAORDINARY IT IS. TRULY extraordinary order has come out of the Extraordinary Term of A the Supreme Court sealing with liquor cases. Justice Borst has ruled that under certain condi- { i a ER re tie Ye rene licemvan is to be returned to him to be “destroyed.” ‘The precise form of destruction, it seems, is to rest with the policeman. Watch for a rush of thirsty recruits for the en- forcement squad of hooch-destroyers! IC is to be presumed that some policemen may even call in friends to help in the “destruction.” The old sling term “killing a bottle’ will have a new meaning in the police vocabulary As one of the humors of Prohibition this order promises to be a headliner, Justive Borst should file royalty claims on its use in vaudeville. But seriously, the dangers of abuse of such an order aré too obvious to need elaboration. [tis estimated that the police already hoki from $12,000,000 to $20,000,000 worth of “evidence.’ If any substantial part of this evidence is returned for “destruction” and is not actually destroyed, it offers a field for graft, favoritism, collusion with bootleggers and direct sale of liquor by policemen. This order puts altogether too much responsi- bility on individual polic men. A NECESSARY DICTATORSHIP. EORETARY MBLLON and President Harding S are making an unusual request for the broad- est possible dictatorial authority in dealing with the debts foreign Governments owe to this Nation. Secretary Mellon advances several good reasons why such authority should be vested in him—but he omits the single and all-important reason which mikes such procedure imperative. That reason is ‘ihe presence of alien groups in our political lite. Congress woukt not make the necessary atrangements because this race group or that one would advocate or oppose settlements eco- nomically wise. Judging by the past, Congress-, men would not have the courage to stand against these minorities. Seitlaments which must be made, if debts are to be collected, woukl be sacrificed to the dictates of (hese hyphenates. Mr. Mellon in offering to assume the burden shows no mean degree of courage As it is, the Administration's bill is sure to en- counter violent opposition. The mere fact that Great Britain happens to be the largest debtor in- sures this. As the opposition becomes evident, it will be well to remember this factor in analyzing the “100 per cent, Americanism” which opponents will invoke. The fact that an American steel firm can bid 30 per cent, under the lowest British competi- tion ought to prove to any Senator from Penn- sylvania that the infant steel industry will cease to live unless it is amply protected by a high tariff. PRISON FOR TRUANTS? ee of paying the small fines imposed by Magistrate Cobb, three truants fram continua- tion school elecied to “do time” in the Tombs. Two of the truants were girls, There is no gain in criticising the chiktren who made this choice. Criticism should be directed rather at the law that presents such an alternative. Prison sentences are not the proper remedy for truancy, whether the sentence be long or short. Magistrates knew this and are loath to impose such sentences. This makes for a lax enforcement of the law. ‘Continuation sohools are for the purpose of edu- cation, not for punishment. If discipline is neces- sary, would it not be wiser to have it take the fonm of larger educational requirements rather than asso- ciation with common criminals? Wouid it not be wise to set up a truancy division of the continuation schools under a teacher-warden who,would have power to detain truants-until they had completed several times as much school work as they had missed? Under such an arrangement truant officers and Magistrates would have no hesitation in enforcing the Truancy Law. And with a proper selection of the truant teacher the truants sentenced to such a correctional school would certainly get a far clearer understanding of the continuation school law than they do under present procedure, and perhaps even a spark of inspiration for further progress in school work. TWICE OVERS. “ee I ‘D rather miss the ship than miss examining you.” —Samuel Untermyer to C. A. Peabody. + * * 66°QTHE Evening World can also announce that its suggestion tho! the recreation piers be provided with a number of band concerts will also be carried out.” —Magor Hylan. * ‘ce A GOOD friendship was spoiled by an ill- Judged marriage.” —Mrs. Marion Reynolds of Los Angeles. “ec ITH the high price charged for anthracite it certainly seems the part of wisdom for the cilizens of New York City to stady the problem of coal consumption and to give consideration to the increased use of soft coal."’—Dr. R. S. Copeland. ‘cc HE idea of war with the United States is ebeolutely ridiculous.” —Rokasuboro Ne ktef Japan, bes oe cores = — men oe meepaceeerears ree THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921. Hylan Mathematics! _ Copgriett, 1031, Uo The Bre Piblintning Co (The New York Brening fork) yF AMOUNT NEEDED ta say much in a few words. Three Questions, To the Editor of The Brening Workd Can any of your readers following questions to obli doubt? What would George think of Prohibition? Why did St, Paul advise, “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomaoh's sake and thine often infirmities ?"—I, Timothy 6-23? Why did Jesus turn the water into wine at the wedding feast-—St John 2? It seems to me that the answer to these questions ‘s moderation, but some one may understand them dif- ferently, SHEKBR FOR TRUTH. ngwer the one in Washington Plead and Fight. To the Kditor of The Brening Wo 1 do not envy the people that have their cellars stocked with wines and Nquors, When they get through with their stock their heads will be as empty ag their cellars, while the poorer man will be able to think clearer, be health- jer and more prosperous than he ever was. The generation of to-day may no) prove the wonderful results of Pro Mbition, but the coming race is bound to be better, because they will not have the cursed taint of drink born in them. Let us plead and fight for a safe and better world to live in and for the children yet unborn. dus Brookdya, June 23, A MOTHER 1921 To the Raitor of The Brening World Your correspondent “EH. H.” wishes to convey the impression that the clerks and railway = telegraphers fared pretty well on the Order 27 award. Why does he not mention the fact that before the matter was ad- justed the telegraphers were dllowed two cents per hour on account of their vacation being taken away, and also a part of incase was on ac- count of the Sunday service, thus compelling them to work 365 days in the year? A. J. BOLAND, Bronx, June 2, 1921, The Saloon. Ty the Fito of ‘The Broning World ‘The saloon strikes in the night. 11 fights under cover of darkness and as- sassinates the characters that it can not damn. It attacks defenseless womanhood and children. The saloon is acoward, It isathief. It robs you of manhood and takes away your friends and leavos you in mags. And it robs ir family, It impoverishes your children and it brings tnsanit, and guloide, It will take the shirt o! your back and steal tho coffin from a dead child and yank the last crunt of bread out of the and of the starving clitld; it WIN take the Inst bucket of coal out of your cellar, cont out of your pooket, and will nen home to your wite Tt will steal the of the mother ry-eyod and staggering and children, 1k from the breast leave ber with What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. Readers Isn't it the one nothing with which to feed her infant It will take the virtue from your daughter, It is the dirtiest, most low- down, damnable business ever crawled out of the pit of hell. [t js an infidel. It respects only the thief the coward and the blasphemer. — It fills the prisons and the peniten- tiaries, The saloon js a liar. It good ch nd sends sorroy promises hea It promises prosperity and send: versity. It promises happine: sends misery. [t Is God’s worst and the devil's bes |. It spares: Neither youth nor age. It lies in wait for the unborn. It cocks the high- wayman’s pistol. It puts the rope in the hands of the mob, Its flag dyed with the bloc children, Thank Goc of women it is gone A New York, June 2 ‘In Wasi To the Editor of The Eve While reading Mary Murphy's in- dorsement in The Evening World of recent date of Admiral Sims's preju- diced and untruthful attacks on the Sinn ners in freland and their sympathizers In America, 1 could not avold thinking that if the Irish race was cursed in the days of Henry VIII with the King’s O'Neills and in the days of Queen Elizabeth with the Queen's O'Relllys, it is now in the day of King George V. curstd with the King’s Murphys of Kingsbridge, N.Y However, it is consoling to true Americans of every lineage to know that in the days of King George ITT there were no such O'Neills, O'Reillys or Murphys, either here or in Ireland, It might be well to inform the ad- mirers of “the best British Admiral in the American Navy" and the enemies of the Irish Republic that the Irish cause is just worthy of port le: now and the conduct of its ders just as praiseworthy as w Wash- ington addressed the Sinn Kelners of hig day, as follows: “Patriots of Ireland, champions of Ifberty in all lands, be strong in hope! Your cause is identical with mine, You are calurniated in your day; I was misrepresented by the loyalists of my day. Had I failed the scaffold would be my doom; but now my enemies pay me honor, Had I failed | would have deserved the same honor, I stood true to my cause, even when victory had fled, in that 1 merited success. You must act likewise,”—Mount Vernon, 1788, ANDREW J. O'ROYLE. Bronx, June 20, 1921. Not A Politician. ‘To the Piltor of The Brening Wortt: Tt is amusing to read all the non- sense put in print by the Sims episode, Now comes Mr, Willlam Webb In to- day's paper and wants the Admiral dingraced, Mr, Webb talkw -glibly about “America first,” but his demanda, viz, to diemias and disgrace a loyal, able end patriotic American who com- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyriet KEEP YOUR TEMPER. 1921, by Joho Blake A man can acquire courage in an hour, It has been often done on battlefields He can learn self-possession in a year. But it takes many years of intensive training to teach hia to keep his temper. : Yet these years are well spent. Unless you are certain that your temper is irritation proof you can never be sure of yourself, At some time, on some occasion, you may lose all con- trol of yourself and do something that you will regret for the remainder of your life. It is useful to teach boys boxing, not only because it de- velops their muscles and enables them to defend themselves m case of necessity, but because it is the best lesson in temper kceping. No man without training can endure sudden pain flicted by another man without a temporary fit of anger. Doubtless you have sometimes walked along a path in woods behind a companion and been smitten smartly in the face by a branch he released as he passed. If you didn’t lose your temper you were hardly human. Learn to avoid sudden anger, which is very different from the slow, deliberate kind which you ought to feel in the face of a great wrong or evil. For if moved to quick wrath the blood flies to your head, your judgment departs, and for a few minutes or a few seconds you are no better than a maniac. You may not resort to blows but you are likely to resort to hot words that are more dangerous than blows, for they will be longer remembered. Nothing worth while was ever accomplished im a fury. No vision seeing red ever saw clearly, No brain flushed with blood was ever able to think. It is right that you should be angry at evil, that you should be indignant when you see, for example, a man beating a horse or a child. But your power to redress such a wrong, cven to save the victim, departs if you are moved to violent rage. Learn to keep your temper, It will take a long, hard course of lessons, but they will pay, in- the IS ERAT SA I HERE she is now I cannot soy— ; ; The world has many a place of | light. Perhaps the Sun's eyelashes dance \ On hers, to give them both delight ; Or does she sit in some green shade, ) And then the air, that ties abowe | Can with @ hundred pate blue eyes Look through the leaves and find my lover Perhaps she dreams of life with me, Her check upon her fingertips: © that 1 could leap forward now, Behind her pack, and with my Ups Break through those curls above her nape, That hover close and lightiy there~- To prove if they are substance, or But shadows of her lovely hair, When the New Republic is net too tull of business, settling the affaires of men, nations and Sinn Fein, it com sents to deal in bits of lovely verse lke this work of W. H. Davies, se Love, Maker of Quarrels--. Ben Ames Williams, in his new story “Evered” (Dutton), offers these passages by the way: ‘There is set perversely in man and woman alike an impulse to tease and hurt and distress those whom we love. It is of this stuff that lovers’ quarrele are made; it is from this that the heartbreaks of the honeymoon are born, & ‘The men and women of the fairy tales, ‘who marry and live bappily ever after, are fairy tales them- selves; or else they never loved, For loving, which Is sacrifice and service and kindness and devotion, is also misunderstanding and dis- tortion and perversity and unhappt- ness most profound. It Is a part of love to quarrel: the making-up is often so sweet ij justifies the anguish of the confii But why, then, does love need |@ Domestic Relations Court to jit the way? 2 ‘The Mitionaire Unaffected , From a page of “Three Loving La-~ dies” (Houghton-Mifflin), an English novel by the Hon. Mrs, Dowdall: “Do you know,” said Teresa pres- “that I haven't seen a single that we used to call ‘person’ - we came out; nothing but the © kind of people who make crowds,’” “That's because you don't knew said Cyril, "I saw a mij et off the boat a minute ugo, ‘walking quite unaffectedly,” ax the newspapers say.’ Suggesting the urgency of having jmillionaires wear the label of the union. | The ‘em unaws not much sport in jostling { On Telling "Em It’s the Lawes And turning another page of Mrs. Dowdall we find thi: “What's the law: contemptuously alter all that new laws, by which men will” have the right to live.” Yes, but not to stop others Itv- ing,” said Teresa, It's silly; Know you can’t make laws; and who is going to carry them out If you do? You can't make people do what you want just by telling them that you have made a lnw."’ Perhaps this sort of heresy goes in England Over here the Volsteads better. free-roving know eo ee “Boats at Night”. -- A stanza redolent of vacation wr, ten by Edward Shanks for the on} look, London: How lovely is the sound of oars vi night And unknown voices, borne throu’) windless air, From shadowy vessels floating out v sight Beyond the harbor-lantern’s broke glare To those piled rocks that make pn 1! dark wave Only @ darker stain oars Slide softly on as in an cchoing cave And with the whisper of the unse: The aplashiny shores Mingle their music, till the deli 4 night Murmurs reverberations low and deep That droop toward the land in sooon ing fight Like whispers from the lasy Mps o sleep. The oars grow faint. Below the cloud dim hill The shadows fade and now the boy ig still. oe The Yankeeness of Mrs, Blaine... ot ‘Mundy’s latest novel o” India, “Guns of the Gods” (Bodbs- Merrill), we find this fleeting depart- ure from theme: “Are you of Irish extract, Mrs in have ti to think for myself, aor me Answer: Not if you are plain ME Dick Blaine and in a book of fiction Sometimes your position, a senss | : of exact diseretion and the 3 3 of the Navy mate x difference, manded our fleet when the country had every reason to feel anxious about submarines, speak louder than his professed zeal for “Amertoa first.” Mr. Webb wants to disgrace Mr. Sime because dir, Sims had the cour- age to speak out what every one but the Sinn Fein sympathizers know, that the Sinn Fein organization took open part with our enemy in the ‘World War, ft ours bare Deen am m, hy Sime to spenk dit- tarenuly fron what he did. It shows denseness on the of Mr.| ‘Webb to prof what does, or cine be thinks The Evening World readers are dense enough not to re-| member the open enmity shown our boys by these Irish Sinn Feiners, More power to the Admiral's elbow ‘He is not running for office and docs not have to lick the boots of Gris poltictans hare or % & Baw From the Wise H. W. Shaw. than iife.—Appias, our hearts,—Youls M, Notkin. Money t¢ @ bottomless sea, may be drowned.—Kozlay. if —Bontentes ticus. An echo is like @ woman, always determined to have the last word, Content is worth move than a farther Hinodom, and love mo tese worth| git sania, iat meriy tania A beautiful face attracts our eyes, . Dut it fatte to character to capture heme! uahice ete | which honor, conacience and truth A faleafet friend ia mosicine of} mate tor Wemocracy and Ite Safety —~ “No government deman: from the citimen as ws may” writes Viscount Bryce in his "Modern Democracies” (Macmillan), ne | alaed go much back.” And ne ban i tinnes: : Democracy is based empec- tation of cart ain virtues In Ue on endency to develop those, virmen 4 ‘by foonwe et bat ‘to as tees Tt rem ‘Thus the quent’ - of pence of Dein reed nto the qu; ie king ts grow! > ainm and vir- Tho plain mora; being that it i the who make @ re