The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1921, Page 22

Cs . ESTABLISHED RY JosEriH PULITZER PPiimed Daily Except Sunday by The Prowe Publishing Company. to 03 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULITZER, Preaident, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treamurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary. 63 Park Row. aro The Arociaced Prem \ F THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. xclucively entitied to the ase for republication AWE All news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper ‘alto the local news published ereim NO LESS FROM THE PRESIDENT. HE overwhelming vote, 330 to 4, by which the House adopted the Borah amendment to the Naval Appropriation Bill may or may not repre- sent the inner feelings of Congressmen toward dis- \ armament. But it is a fair measure of what Congress has *Chitenvinced itself the country feels about a practical, Doncrete move in the direction of disarming. * Nor is the Legislature the only branch of the Fed- tral Government that has been thus convinced. * (President Harding’s letter to Republican Leader Mondell is the plainest sort of admission that a ma jority of the people of the United States feel too strongly on the subject to be satisfied with wholly wague expressions as to the desirability of disarma- ment such as the Administration hoped might suf- fice. Even now, however, the President lays on the aotual programme of the Borah amendment a softly arresting hand: “I think it has been pretty well understood that the administrative branch of the Govern- ment has already been seeking information with regard to the attitude of foreign nations on the general subject of disarmament. These inquiries and negotiations will be continued and the time and manner in which the matter may be for- mally presented to foreign Governments can only be determined after the fuller development of inquiries already initiated.” And again he says: “It is wholly desirable to have the expression of a favorable opinion on the part of Congress relating to this world question, and it would seem to me ample if it should be expressed in the broadest and most general terms.” The Borah amendment is not “expressed in the broadest and most general terms.” On the contrary, it gets straight down to brass tacks and asks the President of the United States to invite Great Britain and Japan to come into con- ference on the question how the three great naval powers of the world may start disarmament by promptly cutting down expenditures on their navies, ~ President Harding assures Mr. Mondell that “the Bexecutive will be reacy to give every consideration to such expression as the members of the two Houses of Congress find themselves disposed to make.” The President himself furnishes grounds for mis- giving that the Borah amendment is expression of an inconveniently specific and definite sort to which fhe may give every consideration short of acting upon the request it conveys, The President must be further convinced that if the country expects immediate and practical interest in disarmament from Congress, it expects no less from him. George Bernard Shaw thinks the odds should be fifty to one on Carpentier. Which is prob- ably only another way in which George Bernard admits that he is different from other men. QUEBEC WAS LENIENT. HE striking policemen and firemen in Quebec apparently learned a lesson from the fate of the Boston police strikers last year. The Quebec strikers returned to work under an ultimatum from the City Council which would have deprived them of their jobs had they stayed out. The Council is determined to adhere to the de- cision of the Arbitration Board, which allowed only trifling pay advances to the men. Even at this, Quebec was more lenient than Bos- ton, which set the wise example of insisting that a } «police strike under any circumstances is intolerable. And Quebec apparently had some better system of adjustment tian prevailed in Boston, where no remedy for existing wage and working conditions existed until after the strike, when Boston recruited @n all new force on terms which would have been entirely satisfactory to the strikers, Police strikes are intolerable. Quebee might have been kinder to her sister cities of Canada and the United States had the Council refused to re-employ striking police and firemen on any terms. A HOME LOAN POOL. N a leiter to Darwin P. Kingsley, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, Nathan Hirsch, head of the Citizens’ Protective Housing League, advances a valuable suggestion: “Call a meeting of the Presidents of life and fire insurance companies, savings banks, &c., and jointly establish a general clearing house through which building loans may be obtained for homes.” Again Mr. Hirsch says: “Public-spirited citizens should be willing to get together to put through a plan which will make mandatory logislaiion at the next session of the Legislature unnecessary,” This second quotation Is not a threat. It Is merely a statement of fact, Insurance companies and savings hanks do not want mandatory legislallon, Nelther do they want i ning direct State competition in mortgage loans. This | being the case, the obviously sensible make both these plans unnecessary. Unless they are made unnecessary other will be adopted by the Legislature. An emergency exists. The Legislature and the courts have affirmed this. If the regular loan agen- cies do not relish emergency legislation they must | be prepared to make some sacrifices to prevent such legislative action. The “general clearing house” for home-building loans which Mr. Hirsch suggests is an obviously simple and fair way of dividing the sacrifices which the loaning companies must make if they hope to avert what they profess to dread. The wisdom and pertinence of Mr. Hirsch’s sug- gestion is in no way affected by the refusal of Mr. Kingsley to act on the suggestion and his wilh- drawal from the organizing committee of th ing League, one or MORE FRUITS. Te breeds corruption. The tyranny of Nation-wide Prohibition has already proved itself prolific. This week a former Assistant Chief of the legal | division of the Prohibition Bureau was arrested in Washington charged with having accepted a $500 bribe for putting through a wholesale permit for the sale of sacramental wine. “Public officials determined to enforce the Pro- hibition law, both here and in Washington, are being sold out by underlings in their departments,” asserts George A. Glynn, Chairman of the Republi. can State Committee, Mr. Glynn believes millions of dollars are being corruptly made by men who guarantee to get permits for withdrawal of liquor from United States bonded warehouses at so much | graft per barrel or case. There is foundation for | such belief. | Those in charge of Prohibition enforcement ad- mit the hopelessness of their task. Police enforce- ment in this city led to abuses far more dangerous than those it aimed to reach. It was necessary to call a halt. Meanwhile, the Prohibitionist forces are trying to head off worse consequences of Prohibition by hounding Congress into providing stricter and more preposterous legislation. Even to attempt to enforce such legislation will cost new millions. As well try to head off an avalanche by pushing down more boulders. The products of Prohibition enforcement are cor- ruption and failure, because the principle behind Prohibition as now imposed upon the people of the United States has no place in their national experi- ence, no part in their inherited notions of liberty and local self-government. As Edwin R. Keedy, Professor of Criminal Law in the University of Pennsylvania, told mambers of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association in conven- tion this week at Long Branch: “The reason why the present Prohibition laws are not enforced in certain sections of the country is simply because the people do not want them enforced. “Laws regulating the conduct of the people are seldom successful, In this country people are inclined to resent too strict regulation of their personal conduct. The failure to enforce a law, however, hurts the law generally. This is the case wita the Prohibition law, which, owing to the faflure to obtain verdicts, is hav- ing a serious effect upon the prestige of the courts.” Tightening the screws won't help. Bullying the medical profession and making Con- gress the judge of how much alcohol a sick man needs is not going to increase respect for Prohibi- tion law. On the contrary, such insanity will but widen the | tendency of law-abiding Americans to regard Pro- | hibition law as a thing incomprehensible and apart. Where so many upright cilizens are forced by their intelligence to hold a law in contempt, th is ever stronger encouragement to the unscrupulous to violate, evade and exploit that law. It will go on breeding corruption at a formidably increasing rate until the country opens ils eyes, gets itself in hand and resolves to have temperance with- | out tyranny, TWICE OVERS. “e T HE French instead of spending their money Sor dress are pulling it in the banks.” —Leo Duran, Lyons silk manufacturer. “ » 8 6 OW have the odds of four to one against Car- pentier been brought about in the face of the given out by to Prohibition should be — * THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921," Almost Ready! Conyrlaht, 19 by Phe Mime (Tho Nee York Bs 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 exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. said: “Any i u fully ec as true ement William HH. Anderson, ent of the Anti-Saloon League, is pment last false. He a stal terly Prohibition was put into the Consti- tution, it was placed directly up to Irish cons ge the people, that it was made an issue | )\ 0) oe rybody could see in what in every Congressional district, the] | td drys among th qressmen and t gressmen, but t them two to one,” Does any the polls fore the people? Certainly not. anythir Mr not be good sport law like other la written in the Co make a joke of 1 ew York, June Sact that the real odds are fifly to one against Dempsey?” ,,\.."\" —George Bernard Shaw. OF tae a \ . 8 6 your la ' 66 AM castly more concerned with the favorable |(xn tnvin.vit attitude of the Congress on this question (of dis- | Re yur Sordands armament) than I om as to the form of expressing that | terson. Mam bale attitude." President Harding. lesan uta ccasiea week says They “Why tion, there came a great reaction! 1s nd cept this inst feudalism and merecantilism, we w that it 18 (ne systems which had characterized | a tution, and not) industry in the eixteenth and seven- etna Judges recen or Ty GL sidered before being accepted whether superintend- m yoting for dry Ci wets for wet Co ep drys outnumber reader of your newspaper or any one else know this to be a fact? Did any citizen ever yet go to knowing voting for a dry or wet Congressma Was tho issue ever put directly be- never kn about it until it was too late. | Anderson further 5 he Irish and Washington, figures, reformers relating he was onal Take time to be brief. pendence possible, were Englishmen! Nor does he recall to our minds the dastardly attempt on the life of Washington by the Irish conspirators, who so loved England at that time, and who so hated America, that they wished to get rid of the greatest pa- triot ofsall times, our beloved Wash- ington. John T. Me; vere held in tly re auffrey said the Irish gh esteem by Wash- tainly were, for he yi tudent Columbia Coll | June 23, 1921 Open or Cloned Shopt To the Kiitor uf The Brening Work! In England in the eighteenth cen- ew | fll undergoing a great industrial revolu- teenth centuries. The merchants of laws supposedly include 1 and) the eighteenth century favored the{ poor alike, with the same liberty and z-faire policy, Which provided justice for all, and the people as a) fop the fixing of res and prices as whole res p jaws most falth- | result of free and untrammelied fully 1 Nehtoon nd- | competition, nd the non-interfer- ment was written only for the work= | once of the Government in business. ing class, and for this reason it Will” ‘This laissez-faire theory, aiso eon- ys be considered a joke sidered a Wise one by many noted ‘Thousands upen thousands of) economists of the eighteenth cen- workingmen who never took anything |tury, did not work as. well than re er are now lexpected in actual pra ysnenkingly a lot of “rat! poliey favored the employer, but was cause the one-half of 1 per or no advantage to the employee. The vwater will not ase their] outra Jitions of employment 1 these same workingmen | iy) ctories in th Le (weablding citizens always— | oop ; and now branded as Ang Phis mple these fanatics, while the muse} in th century led to trade ' had the pri wed £0) unions d nment reg n of stock up their ce UN-|the conditions of employme One disturbed for the} ’ ves. Jog the gr mands trade | Two-thirds of the American Army | unions wa at present the in Prance was composed of the work: | closed shop. ‘The employer is against ing Truss sin was forced | closed shop, and favors the open upon them and ther families while open shop, free com they were away fighting for de lowed between union and mocracy. If that is jus and lit n, lerty for all, | would ke to have those reat supply of labor fanatics point It out. J weuld also | at the t time. If the workers like hive these same angels point | Were to compete with each out why 110 ont of 117 Congressmen | other freely the workers’ standard. of admit that deep down in their heart ving would be greatly reduced and they vo for Prohibition against conditions of employment would their persvasl convictions, Perhaps | hecome as bad as those in the eight- Mr. Anderson can explain the reagun | canth century truthfully 1. PB. competition In an open she tury ata time when that country was | UNCOMMON SENSE By John blake \Copyright, 1921, by John Biake.) Z¥ YEARS. To the boy of eight, ten years is an eternity. Ten years ago he had no existence. Ten years more and he will be a man in stature—a size that seems to him far beyond attain- ment. To the boy of twenty-one, ten years, while not a life time, is a long stretch ahead. At the end of the coming ten years he will be will on his way to wherever he is going, success or failure. If he could understand just how much those ten years mean, just what can be done with them, just w they will yield if rightly cultivated, there would be far less trouble and distress in the world. To the man of forty, ten years are ten years which must |? not be wasted. The next ten years are his best, as far a; productivity is concerned. If he has not made the last ten years count, he still has a chance with the next ten. After that, unless he is a phenomenon, the chance will |} be gone. He can progress after fifty, go further than he has ever gone, but rarely unless he is going strong on his fiftieth birthday. Look at your remaining years as an asset. Examine the i$ next ten of them for opportunity, and see if you can allot to cach enough work to carry you at a better pace into the next decade. Ten years wisely employed at any time after twenty ought to make a man either a success or a failure. They may not be enough to bring a fortune, but they ought to bring habits and methods which later will insure independence. Compare the next ten years with the last, and determine that these stretches of time, now empty and unimproved, stall be filled with achievement that is worth while, You can put into them almost anything you choose, work, effort, thought or idling and time wasting. Almost any man can be made or broken in ten years. Yon have at least that time before you if you are the age of the average newspaper reader. Make up your mind that even if the last ten years counted for nothing the next ten will count for much. Make thal purpose, and stick to it, And these coming ten years will be the best you have ever known, | of June 23 forgot to include Guten- * nald!, Kosciusko, Li Hung vere, Garibaldi se Payette, Before| Melieve, where did he Ket soldiers Chang, Patti and La Fayette, when he gave that memorable com- jong they will be claiming that St) mand, "Put none but Americans on Patrick was an Irishman, |muard to-night? If most of Washington's army was Trish, a8 Sinn Feiners would have us j, 1921, se the worker to overw: I write this as an American with a) | What do the Sinn Feiners mean by pee en dbeclelgins tired of the word “Irishman,” anyway? Mos ! would mai remote Trish ancestry who: is red Ca LL eer A ea i ist hop means the placing of| being clarsed as one of the Irish in| Ai onan itevolution were trom the Unused on ie the handa of the ere: | America. They would make hyphen- North of Ireland, which to-day. ts ai! he can exercies to thelates out of American Revolutionary ting the Sinn Vein, And yet they iutnary tl f jhe employee. A closed! oatriots! Your correspondent lists; claim them all mo ata. [Show me the maintenance of the | Patriots: John Hancock (born in| lot of Americana are becoming many signers of [employer ndard of living and his] #ach men as J Rae nauseated over this continuous beat. Independence and |preservation Massachusetts), Anthony ayne|ing of tom-toms and the braggart ; Tee ten: | JACK MAFEKOWITZ, | (porn in Pennsylvania), Whipple chorus which doesn’t hesitate to use > | a meri dier dea¢ culous Knits HOE AG Americans AN. | (born in Maine), Nelsoy corn in Vir merican soldier dead in a ridieulous Mune A hatie, [To the Riitor of The Wrening World ginia), Rutledge (born in South Caro-| ey Admiral ; ; uiney AoemM st in isting famous Trishmen your lina), MoKean (born in Pennsylvania) LAN INDIGNANT AMERICAN who made inde- currespondcat in The Wveaing World Lynch (born in South Caralina), Woodhaves, N, Y. June 26, 1821, e Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff Conariee, 100l Poin taint Worlthene Th |XXL—THE FIRST GREAT AD- MIRAL. Horatio Nelson was a great admiral, And 80 was Van Tromp, the doughty Dutchman, before him, and a@ certain | naval leader of the revolted Amerioan | colonies, after Van Tromp. first great admiral in bie- nek which does not was of the mixed race | tory | mean that he that now inhabit His name was Themistocles, and he was an Athenian. His great achieve- ment was the ctory over the over- whelming forces mustered by the Persian King, Nerxos, That victory was @ decisive event in the history of the world. The struggle between Burope and Asia—between the West and the Hast—is no new thing, It has been going on for at least twenty-five cen- turies, It was in the course of this struggle that Themistocies, the Athenian ad- iniral, performed his great feat, The results of the battle of Salamis de- jeided that Europe was to be net | Asiatic but European, | With the defeat of his predecessor Warius in the battle on the plain of Marathon only ten years behind bite prxes decided in 480 before the pree | ent era that the Buropeans should be punished—and finished. In this purpose he was abetted by various Greek factions; for the fabric eve, of society in ancient Greece was | made up of factions | ‘The Spart for instancc, were perfectly willing to hand Athens over to the enemy if by so doing they could save their own skins. So they planned to shut off the Pelopexne- |sus—their part of the country—from Athens by a wall built from sea to sea on the Isthmus of Corinth, and fet the Athenians stew in their own grease. Themistocles organized what was probably the first committee on pub- lic information on record. By the pressure of information as well as misinformation, he made every effort to convince the Greel did not hang to certainly hang sep: He even bad the dragon of Minerva secretly removed from the holy place at Artemisium, where the Greek fleet was assembled, and used the absence of the animal as proof of his conten- tion that the gods had abandoned the Greek people at that point, and that it was high time to move on. The place where Themistocies was trying to induce the Greek fleet to move to was Salamis, a city on an island a few miles west of Athens. His maritime experience told him that if he could once get the enor- mous Persian ships tn those narrow waters, he would be able to outma- noeuvre them, and capture and de- stroy them at his leisure with hie far less numerous but emaller vessels, | After establishing the closest rele- tions between his committee on public information and the gods, ‘Themis- tocles circulated “omens” enough to mnvinee the Greeks that the place them was Salamis, “tho divine.” Apollo now designated the f unfortunate" oity in the straight into trouble with his eom- mander, Eurybiades, the ho almost persuaded the Greeks to il for the Peloponnesus and join y there. But, by further and by furnishing Informe- was fought in the etratts between the island of Salamis and the and, At the signal of “cease | fire," or its equivalent, the despatches to Athens told of the destruction of |two hundred of the 1207 big Perstan ships. The Athenian fleet of 180 gal- |leys lost only fifty ships, as cert. fied in the official at. And Xerxes saw M1 as ho lotted {on a golden throne on the mainland | which he was destined to evacuate | with the greatest difficulty Sn | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 43—ISHMAELITE. Scripture quotes an angel as saying lot Ishmael, the son of Abram by Ha- |war: “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” | : of the Lord purporting been spoken to Hagar by tho angel gives the exact dofinition of the word “Ishinaelite” or “Ishmael” in its modern use. An Ishinaelite is quarrelsome person; a person who is always loak- ing for trouble, and generally getting it in sufficient quantities. ‘There are women Ishmaelites too. Why either a man or woman should be an “Ish - maelite™ @ question that haa not been answered. There have been tn- stances in which an operation on the skull has resulted in transforming an “fshmaelite” into an agrecable, eom- panionable and reasonable person. It may be eafely assumed that no ‘qshmael” is an “Ishmael” from choice, Next time you run into a member of the Ancient but not Hon oruble Sons of Ishmael, remember | that he may be suffering more keenly than you from his unfortunate dispo- a sition, But, above all, don't be too prompt {n assuming that he is an | “Ishmael.” That will help both him and you, In Winooski, Vt, there ere produced more wire screens for doors and win dows then in any other village or elty in the world, Springfield, Vt, leads in the development of the modern tur- ret lathe, and manufactures the talk of the world’s best lathes, In St. Johnsbury and Rutland, same State, are made more than half the scales for the Nation, . . The Pine Tree shilling, the first ef. ver coin minted in the American ool oni prought such affluence to the mint master, ign Bol that he wes able to give his daughter her in shining coin as her dowry. “Ther eas And value were never ques astern