The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1921, Page 16

’ ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEF Pudlimicd Daily Except Sunday by The Proax Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Tow. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row _— MEMIFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Me Ansocts Of all news Wnd ale the Jocsl news published herein STICKING TO THE PILOT. R. GOMPERS, it is probable, will “die with his boots on.”” In the A. F. of L. convention the opposition poles oniy a third of the votes. If Mr. Gompers does not die in office, it will probably be because ot voluntary retirement rather than by defeat at the hands of a rival Mr. Gompers is more than an officer, He is almost a tradition in the A. F. of L. This year there were many factors normally working in opposition to Mr. Gompers’s re-election. Labor is in process of “liquidation.” Unemploy- _ ment is general The “open-shop” campaign has “made progress. In national elections citiz ens frequently cast a vote of negation because of dissatisfaction with things as \ they are. If the Federationists had voted this way, 7 sGompers would have been defeated Mr. Gompers has made mistakes. Some of his “theories are incorrect and the result of muddled thinking. But on the whole his record is highly Streditable. Delegates measured his. leadership in *4erms of the present strength of the Federation. He has the coniidence of Labor. He has the respect of Government and the enlightened sections of Capita “and Management. Perhaps these last factors give the best explana- «tion of the coniinuing strength of Mr. Gompers. Other men —Mr. Lewis, perhaps—might command as large a measure of confidence in the Federation, but until such a leader had established himself he “could not hope for so much influence with owners, employers and Federal authorities as Mr. Gompers enjoys, largely as the result of long association, These days, when labor relations are critical would be an unwise time to drop a tested pilot. The Federation was wise in re-electing Mr. Gompers. AN INCIDENT THAT WILL NOT CLOSE. fete incident was closed in Washington yes- > terday,” says Admiral Sims in a brief inter- view of Saturday. Closed, perhaps, for the sailor, but not for the Secretary. With the esteemed Tribune questioning “Mr. Denby’s continued usefulness “to a patriotic Administration,” with the equally esteemed Herald continuing its gingery criticism of the head of the Navy Department, and with other Republican papers + quite pungent in disapproval of the official treatment of Sims, it appears that the incident instead of being closed has developed into the cause of a flourishing party ruction The Admiral has settled down at the Naval War College to quiet and peaceful time,” he says. The Secretary has to sit up and take bitter medicine. Shall we change the Admiral’s figure of speech, anent his “jackass” indiscretion? Is it true that instead of being spilled, the beans have boiled them- selves dry and been burned in the kettle? oe ty FAIR PLAY FOR JUDGE GARY. The Evening World on May 28 commented editoriaiiy on a statement taken from the news- paper reports of an address delivered the day previous by Judge Elbert H, Gary at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute held at the Hotel Commodore. Judge Gary has written to The Evening World that the statement as quoted was incompéete, that a qualifying clause was omitted from the state- ment he made, and that In consequence The Evening World's criticism of his address was unfair. Inquiry sho Gary's complaint ts well grounded. The statement as he made it is published below, and the words inadvertently omitted are printed in ftalles. “Assuming that the steel industry has been fair and reasonable in prices up to the present time, which I need not discuss now, for it is the purchasing public which decides these questions, it must be admitted, I think, that there have been and still are charged for cer- tain commodities unreasonable and unfair, if not extortionate, prices.” The Evening World regrets the omission and willingly publishes the correction in fairness to Judge Gary. tuat Juc, HAS THE “CURB” PASSED? “é HE King is dead, Long live the King!” might easily be paraphrased to apply to the “passing of the Curb.” Saturday the most recent “Curb” left the curb- stone and pavement of Broad Street for its new and commodious home in Trinity Place. The Curb Market Association says the Curb is dead.” An insurgent group, the Curb Stock and Bond Market, protests this dictum and proposes to go on with a free and untrammeled open-air market. If the Curb is dead, New York will have lost one of its most interesting local institutions. The hive ‘ of frenzied activity on Broad Street has always been one of the most interesting sights to the visitor in the metropolis, But all history, both in New York and-elsewhere, ! points to the probability of some sort of an informal rem to exdbesivelrentleg to. the woe, (0? Pepehtionton | spatches credited to It oF not otherwise credited in this paper ” idetopen” market where even “cats and dog may be disposed of to traders willing to take a chance. Financial and trading history here and elsewhere shows that men wili gather to buy and sell, As the business grows, rules and regulations become necessary. Under wise rules the business expands and becomes profitable. The original traders ac- quire wealth and a degree of conservatism. With these come more restrictions, and the Curb moves indoors, in spirit or in fact, only to be succeeded by another trading centre informal enough to satisfy the most venturesome. This has been the history of many organizations in this city. Some of the exchanges have been “wide open,” some have confined operations to 4 single commodity, but always the “Curb” spirit has been present at first, subsiding gradually as the Curb traders acquired wealth, wisdom and the con- servatism of age and prosperity. THE BEST HOPE YET. N writing his conference invitation to Eamonn De Valera, Premier Lloyd George had to eat many of the words he has formerly used. Instead of being “chief of the murder gang,”’ De Valera was addressed as “the chosen leader of the great majority in Southern Ireland.” But Lloyd George is accustomed to retractions and changes of front under pressure, It is the nggure of this pressure which caused Lloyd George's latest shift that gives greatest measure of hope for conciliation. . This pressure came trom the Premiers of the dominions, In every British dominion there is an hy Having forced this etfort toward conciliation, all the Premiers must see it through. Moreover. fair treatment for the Irish side is essential to. their Irish element of population in hearty sympa with Ireland's aspirations. They are in honor bound. political standing at home. This is the plage which th? Southern Irish have. It is their best hope yet. Absolute independence and an Irish republic are impossible. The dominion Premiers could not and would not attempt to aid such a scheme, But if Southern Ireland will only aceept the status of a dominion, either in union with or separate from Ulster, there seems hope that pressure from outside England will grant the widest sort of self-government for Ireland. Self-governing dominion rule carries with it a freedom wider than the rosiest dreams of the Home Rulers of a preceding generation. DISCOURAGING. ARELY has America witnessed a more discour- R aging contrast than the farewell of one rgia Governor and the salutation of his suc- cessor. The political reputation of Gov. Hardwick is so unsavory as to prejudice judgment against him To make matters worse, he merely decries the indict- ment against the State which Gov. Dorsey left. Hardwick offers no refutation of the facts which Dorsey compiled and spread on the record. The recent “peonage murder” verdict by a white jury is more significant to the rest of the Nation than volumes of mouthings by a notorious dema- gogue, Gov. Dorsey left wise counsel in his las to the Legislature. Georgians will be wise to give heed unless they are willing to have Federal law enforced in the black zone where Slate law has proved ineffective. messag2 New York is considering the restoration of City Hall Park by removal of the Post Office. Why not get in trim for this big job with some practice on the relatively simple job of pushing the “L” terminal out of the park? JOHN B. STANCHFIELD. N the days when he was a college student, John B. Stanchfield found advantage in playing semi- professional baseball in the long sumumer vacations. And he always went into his games with might and main. He was a pitcher whom batsmen feared, Graduating from college and from law school, Mr, Stanchfield took into the practice of his pro- fession the same vim and vigor which had charac- terized his work in the field. Indeed, it is probable that at the bar he carried his strenuous devotion to greater intensity than on the diamond, since his death at sixty-six years is attributed in great measure to lack of rest. An eminent counsel in countless important cases and a valued adviser in others, a Democrat by sincerest conviction and once his party's candidate for Governor, a cheerful associate and a loyal friend, Mr. Stanchtield stood high in the dignity of his calling and in the warmth of his good fellowship. He lived an example in diligence. Alfred D, Van Buren has resigned as chief counsel to the Federal Prohibition Commis- sioner on the ground “that the influence of this legislation (Prohibition enforcement) and the regulation and control of the traffic as exer cised by the Commissioner have penetrated into legitimate industry to such an oxtent that busl- neas conditions are intolerable,” What's happening to that “solid Prohibition phalanx”? Ip coal to bo balked by sanity? ‘ ee ed THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1921,” ‘The Champion—Shadow Boxer By John Cassel cit, 1021, By ie Pree Cabling Co, ‘Fork Brening World) There is fine mental exercise te cay much in a few words. Take License Fountal To the Kuitor of The Bening World: In view of the enormous lows ot revenue, both Federal and State, from the high license paid by the suloon, hibition amendment was passed, and whereas it was possible before tho saloons were closed to obtain a glas of good, refreshing beer at cents, and whereas it is now impossible for soda water and ice cream stores for less than 10 or 15 cents, and that of | the cheapest kind, and inasmuch as t find people around me, both young and old, paying without the bat of an eyelash 20 to 30 cents | drinks, I would ask if it would not be good judgment, in view of the enormous profits made by these es- tablishments and the utter failure of the Government to collect from them the present tax, to place upon them the license fees, both Federal and State, that were originally placed upon the saloons, and get back that reve- nue? Do I hear any objections? A CONSTANT READER. Port Richmond, June 22, 1921, Profiteering Ice Cream Dealers. To the Bditor of The Evening World: I am happy that the practices of one of the worst of profiteers, if not the worst of them all, the ice cream dealer, are made public by Mr, Foy in The Evening World. Yo supplement his statements I want to tell you that I know a wholesaler who sup- plies a good quality of cream to stores at $1.16 @ gallon, The retail price iy | which costs him, according to Mr, Foy's figures, not quite 26 cents. ‘te charges 6 cents a cone, which brings him $3.60. But not only are they robbing he people in this way, Where does tat so-called war tax go to? Did you ever see any ice cream dealey keep & record of it? They simply charge it to you and give afterward to the Government whatever they fee! Uke giving. A dealer told me that he is taking in on taxes from $200 to $220 a month, but as Jong as he pays about $40 to to the Revenue Office they are satisfied, | In my opinion this matter ought to | be looked after and the offending ice |cream dealers prosecuted under the Anti-Trust Law, % | New York, June 21, 1921 Net at Wa: ‘To tho Diltor af The Evening World: Why did A. W. write such a letter if, as ho atated, he was neither pro nor con In regard to the Irish quea- tlon? | 14 was @ terribly bungled up datter, 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 toords in a couple of hundred? and which was all lost when the Pro-| me to obtain a drink in any of the) for fancy! | $2.80, s © smallese proft| 18 this simply another illustration Vien soll py the quart. The Brot} ot the Hearst inconsistency and con when dat the store is more than| tradictions? J. O. Me. three tines as much, Ono ice cream dealer, for examptey Rea Pioneers. told me that he is getting sixty. ice | T2 tte Rulior of The Evening Work: cream cones out of a quart of cream,| With reference to the sixtieth and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. | | |Why it was published is beyond me. | I never heard or read such compar-| isons; they were narrow-minded, to say the least; for instance, comparing Irish sympathizers with the German | agitato If we were at war with Ireland, A. W.'s letter might be considered sen ble, but as we don’t happen to be at | war, if we sympathize with a nation’s ‘suffering people, it's no sensible per- | son's place to ridicule us. | P. V. B. Irish In the Revolutl ‘To the Kalitor of The Evening World Will you kindly \aform John €, Mo- Caffrey, through your paper, that the Irishmen he names as serving in the Revolution here were not from tho| part of Ireland that the Sinn Feiners come from? They were from the | North of Ireland, except Charles Car- roll, He was born in Virginia, A LOYAL AMERICAN. Whyt To the Editor of The Evening World: Can any of your readers tell me why it was that during the John Purroy Mitchel Administration the Hearst papers in this city were con- tinually publishing cartoons and ed’- torials condemning Mitchel for not making the New York Central re- move their tracks from “Death Aye- nue,” and not once during the pres- ent Hylan regime have we heard a word irom those papers condemning Hylan for not doing it? ‘The menace to human lives is still there and as great as ever, yet Hearst 6eems to have forgotten all about it. question of Emma L. Trapper’s article ingto-day's New York Evening World, permit me to submit the following: it is impossible, within the limite of this letter, to trace the develop- ment of the Red Cross founder's great idea, It may be of some interest to the lreaders to outline briefly the little jknown story of the birth of this grout movement, Everybody knows (or ought know) that the Croix-Rouge origi- nated in Geneva, Most people know } that the red cross on the white back- | | ground was chosen because the Swiss ‘fag is a white cross on a red back- ground. Thus the intimate connec- ton of the Croix-Rouge with Switzor- | | land 1s symbolized in the flag which | | waves on every hospital and on the 'Drassard worn by every member of a Red Cross unit, The pioneer of the Crolx-Ronge was a certain Honry Dunant, Henry | Dunant was born fn 3828; he be to © UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1821, by John Blake.) BE READY FOR THE TIDE. Two ships lay in a harbor in an Atlantic port. Both were aden with the same kind of cargo. Both were bound for the same city. They carried the flags of rival importing houses. At 8 o'clock in the morning the water was high enough on the bar to permit their outward passage. At that hour one skipper had his anchor up and a tug alongside. He went over the bar and out to sea. The other skipper, two hours slower, lost the tide and remained six hours longer in port, waiting for another tide. Outside the bar he met a squall which drove him off his course and was later in making port than the other captain. The first ship had docked and unloaded her cargo when he came in. Incidentally she had supplied the market, and the dilatory skipper's merchandise was worth about 75 per cent. as much as it would have been had he won the race. And the unprepared skipper lost his job. The tide that helps ships over bars can be foretold, which made the dawdling skipper’s fault perhaps a little worse than yours will be when you miss what Shakespeare calls a “tide in the affairs of men.” But if you are not ready to take your tide it will be of little avail to you when it does run full, And instead of wait- ing for six hours you may have to wait for six years before another tide runs full. Your tide is opportunity, Sometimes it runs often, some- times rarely, . But if you are not ready to take up anchor and take advantage of it you may lose the important race of your career, You cannot tell when it is coming, But you can be pre- pared for it when it does come. You can fit yourself for promotion, for example, and when there is an opportunity for promotion it will be yours. If you are not ready, or if you do not make it known that you are ready, you will probably be working along in the 1e old job for the rest of your life. Opportunity comes more often than you imagine. But you may never even see it unless you are looking for it. Worst of all, you may see it and know it is there, and be helpless to profit by it, There is a great deal of chance in the world, and some luck, But both are useful only to the man who is prepared to take advantage of them, neva, In the thick of the Battle Iferino in 1859, he played a part and exhausted himself to relieve the wounded. Shocked by the needless suffering which he witnessed, he had enlisted the services of tvo influential Genevese, the Comtesse de Gasparin and the well-known preacher, Merle d'Aubigne, and be- tween them organized and contrib- uted to relieve the French and Italian wounded. As a result of Dunant's efforts, four Red Ci peared on the battle! provided with all necosaitios by the then organized society named “Gen- eva Protestant Associntion (La So- clote Evangeilque), Thus, those four “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick | Coprright, ipa, Press bit kal REs Pee Emo pie om | In Poland, the long miie contains 8,101 yards, or 24,303 feet. . . . Money at simple interest at 7 per cent, doubles in fourteen years 104 days; at compound, in ten years and elghty-nine days, . longed to one of the oldest families 7 men were the plonsers of the Red $ Oross, AH. P, ‘ The first great national exposition New York, June 21, was in Paris, in 1855, covering over . The Pioneers | of Progress}\ By Svetozar Tonjoroff | Frening World XX.—THE FIRST GREAT OVER« SEAS COLONIZER, The ship that bore Elissar, or Dido, to the northern coast of Africa, per= formed as great a feat, in its way, as did the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, Columbu: caravelay nearly twenty centuries later. The ship that bore Dido and het refugees from Tyre carried the for« |tunes of the first great overseas colo« nial enterprise in history. It is worthy of note that that prim itive venture in colonization had an jeffect parallel to the conflict brought jabout by European colonization en- | terprises in the past three centuries. | It plunged Carthage—the imperial \city credited to Dido on the north jcoast of Africa—into a life-and-death [struggle with Rome, just as rival jcolonial interests and Germany's {m= pulse toward colonization precipte tated the life-and-death struggle be« |tween the Central Powers and the Entente and America in 1914-1918, | nis parallel would suggest that ‘there ig nothing really new under oue sun—whatever may be the condition under other suns. in the course of the Punic Wars, which ended the existence of Care thage, the Roman war propaganda did all it could to prove that Cars thagic imperialism was a menace te ‘democracy in Rome and throughou® the world. But there is good reason to believe |that Carthage—the work of Dido-« could at least have pleaded extente ating circumstances. The ruins thas mark the site of Carthage to-day are {dumb, however. . It must be admitted that Dido's ad« venture owed its origin to a condition in which feminine pique must have played a part. The elder Cato's record of what he took to be history has it that Blissar—afterward called “Dido,” or the wanderer—found Tyra small to hold herself sane her brother, Plimetiun (Pygmalion). as leseutere under the will of theig father, Mathan, igning herself with the aristow y, Dido attempted to elim!« ilion as the word of the party. Pygmalion countered nating Dido's husband, Zichare baal, the high priest of Melkarth, Then Dido, with several thousands of followers—presumably the “first } families" of Tyre—seized by surprise fa fleet of ships at anchor in the port, weighed anchor and set off on their \ great adventure. | R. A. Turner has painted a famous canvas entitled Dido Building Carthage.” It shows towers and col- umns in process of construction besidg |shimmering waters, with a company of well-dressed persons—presumably Dido, her architects, engineers and contractors—standing before an im- | posing portico. We have it on Virgil's authority that “a woman bossed the job.” That was in 872, before the present era "The “job,” as it progressed, beran to overshadow not only what is now Tunis but the whole northern coast of | Africa and a good part of the hinterland. | "What might have been the condl+ tlon of the African Continent to-day if Dido's “job” had continued to grow is a matter of speculation, But in 150-146 B. C. Rome found the world too narrow for two empires, and im the latter year Carthage fell before the Roman ships, the Roman swords ‘and the Roman torches. | The desert once more covers. and lthe jackal and the Nzard hold sway in. the first overseas colonial empire rounded by a woman because sha could not get along with her relatives at home, Super Business Women By Helen Page 2 ¢ Prem Pabliahing Oo. ew York Evento Wort.® omni MRS. BETH HOLLOWAY. Film Editor. ‘The development of the moviem opened up @ big new field for tho woman dramatist. Their number ‘# legion. and not a few young womem with a sense of the dramatic ara likewise earning most enviable sal« aries and an ever increasing place of importance in the film world by their proved ability to pick “winners™ out of the ayalanohe of manuscript® constantly heaped upon their deskie ‘That women are as keen as meg in sensing the big idea in a manu~ seript is demonstrated in the work, of Mrs, Beth Holloway, the editor of one of the big movie concerns, Mrs, Holloway is young and endowed with a high sense of the dramatic, Besides, she has had the valuabla experience of a film actress, so sha knows the business and its require< ments inside out, as it were. She reads hundreds of manuscripts a month, Out of this vast number she selects those which appear to |present possibilities, and with per= |tinent suggestions or recommenda- tions passes them on to the Board of Directors for action, = Judging from the number of sub« mitted plays, Mrs. Holloway is in- clined to the belief that the most popular form of amusement to-day is writing for the movies. For 4 |time the number of manuscripts sub- | mitt as high as one hundred ame from the four earth, and their the of authors represented all walks of life, | corners from janitor to the attic poet. Bo« sides | the Mrs. Holloway reads many advance proofs of new novel@ where a big movie idea may lodge Reing constantly on the trail of the “big. idea” is exceptionally interest ing work, Mrs. Holloway says. —— twenty-two acres; again, in 1867-186 over an area of thirty-one acres, a repeated in 1879 and in 1890, . * : ‘The body contains about 28 pounds } of blood; about six and a half ounces | pass through the heart in each beat and, in adults, from sixty-five to | seventy-five beats occur every minutes : : : ‘The State motto of North Dakota | 1s “Liberty and Union, one and insep« | parable, now and forever,” whicht | sounds ‘like an extract from @ Patriclg | Henry speech, . . ‘The Woman's National Christian Temperance Union (W. CT. U,) was | organized in Cloveland, Q, in ith