The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1921, Page 20

_—— PH PULITZEN Except Sunday by The Prose Publishing Nos. $2 to 63 Park Raw, New York: PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Jr., Secretary, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Me Associated Pres la exclusively entitled to the use for republication Of all news despatches credited to {t or mot otherwise credited in this papge and s)¢ the Jocal news published hereim “SELL NOW" MEANS “BUY NOW B HLEHEM STEEL announces a considerable cut in steel prices. President Grace of the company says: “Present manufacturing costs do not in any sense warrant these reductions, but this com- pany desires to contribute even more than its full share to re-establish conditions in the stecl trade ou what might be regarded a normal basis.” ‘This is the business attitude The Evening World reccmmended more than a year ago before business depression set in. It is the attitude reflected more recently in the “Sell Now League,” the members of which propose to slash prices until business be- gins to move. No profits—or even small losses—on a lively market are much preferable to no profits on a stag- nant market. In business at least it is true that “Where there is life there is hope.” When the market is “dead,” overhead is the great destroyer When the organization of the “Sell Now League” was announced this newspaper made the point that it should be matched by “Buy Now” activity. A cut in steel prices should bring a flood of orders to the steel mills. New York City might well lead the wav with orders fur structural steel lo be used in school- houses. After all, Bernard Shaw was not so far wrong. Carpentier did win a moral knockout in the first and second rounds. If you don't believe it, go to see the Carpentier pictures at the movies and hear the crowds applaud. Georges won the heart of America, which is a good-sized win for any man to score. ‘OT WEAPONS BUT WILL. NEW gun has been demonstrated that will A drive steel slugs through a steel plate with hardly more noise or fuss than a knife makes in cutting a piece of cheese. The velocity of the pro- jectile is tremendous—from one to tive miles a second. An ordnance expert is quoted as saying that the gun can be developed to hurl a five-ton projectile a distance of from 200 to 300 miles and that the new weapon “will do more eventually to bring about peace than the Peace Conference.” “It will make war too terrible for nations to ensage in wars.” This latter assurance would have been more im- pressive eight years ago than it is now. Before the great war happened two reasons were frequently advanced to show why it never could happen. One reason was that the bankers would never let it happen. The other was that science had developed modern warfare to a deadliness that humanity could not and would not put tothe test. Neither the bankers nor the territic possibilities of scientific slaughter stopped the war. Earlier generations would have been appalled 1 the wholesale butchery with which this generation has done its fighting. How do we know what scale of destruction com- ing generations might regard as inevitable in warfare? No. The best guarantee of peace is still the com- bined determination of the best part of the world to defend pedce against any nation that wantonly threatens peace—to defend it first with moral and economic pressure, but in the last extreme with all the force and weapons that science can furnish. Think of the incalculable saving if the chiet armament of civilized peoples could be concentrated in an international police power for the protection of their largest common interest! ft isn’t weapons that are going to do most to bring about peace, It's will. “Scouts” from Zion City have reported that “for the most part New Yorkers are wicked All they think of is pleasure, money, movies and dancing. They are dancing all the time they are not asleep or at tab! ; Have the Zionists deleted the Ninth mandment forbidding the bearing of fals« ness against neighbors? Com wit THE WHOLE CITY A SUMMER SCHOOL. Neel this time each year New York suddenly learns of the tremendous number of summer session students enrolled in the colleges and uni- versities in the city, particularly in University, Summer students arrive from all over the United States and many foreign countries. Columbia's en- rolment dwarfs that of any other school. Of course, this Is a tribute to Columbia. But it is no less a tribute to New York City as the metropolis of the Nation and as the summer resort with the Rreatest drawing power, Columbla furnishes excellent instruction, Columbia But THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY | the city furnishes to visitors an instruction all its | own. The opportunity to “see New York” is an inducement which turas the scales in favor of Co- lumbia as compared with other universities. From the standpoint of classroom instruction, it may be questioned whether the multiplicity of com- peling outside interests is an advantage. From the standpoint of broad general education, there is no doubt that the extra-academic opportunities afforded by two months in New York more than make up for the distractions from “book learning.” WHY WAS IT BLOCKED? 1 his Fourth of July speech Ambassador Harvey differentiated between the present peacefulness of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This is generally interpreted as meaning that our relations with Japan constitute the chief obstacle to immediate progress toward limilation of armaments. It may be that Harvey is again “off the reserva- tion” and talking for no one but himself. It may be that Secretary Hughes and President Harding will again have to reverse Harvey, as they did after his Pilgrim dinner outburst. But if Harvey is speaking for the Administration, how do President Harding and Secretary Hughes propose to excuse and explain the obstructive tactics used against the Borah resolution? The Administration is presumed to be deeply con- cerned over the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Yet it has no official information regarding the progress of such negotiations. Nor is it in a position to ques- tion Japan and Great Britain, because the United States is not a member of the League of Nations. But suppose the Borah resolution had been passed three months ago when Congress assembled. The invitation could have been extended and the dis- armament conference might have been long since under way. As an outsider the United States cannot demand information as to the Anglo-Japanese treaty But when the United States sits down at the conference on disarmament it may properly demand to know all about such a treaty. Great Britain’s self-governing dominions are averse to a Japanese alliance. If the United States, by acting on the lines of the Borah resolution, had gained opportunity to present its point of view pre- vious to the conference of British Premiers, the dominion statesmen would have been strengthened ir. their stand against the alliance, Monday, Lord Lee of Fareham, First Lord of the Admiralty, discussing disarmament, said: “All that is needed in this situation is for somebody to issue an invitation and set a date. 1 hope the American Ambassador will not think this too great a hint.” The “hint” was to President Harding. He should act without delay. The calling of the disarmament conference binds this Nation to nothing. It offers infinite possibilities for letting light into the dark comers of British and Japanese agreements. If there is reason for concern over the Anglo- Japanese alliance, the best procedure will be to get the whole thing out in the open and so encourage the people of Great Britain, the dominions and Japan to oppose it. \ disarmament conference is a far better method of dissipating the war cloud over the Pacific than is the concentration of the fleet on the West coast. SAVE OTHER LIVES. NLY a few years ago the news columns of O July 5 were filled with lists of dead and in- jured from fireworks. ‘This is no longer the case. Yesterday drownings an¢ moijor accidents each le Fourth of July ex- plosives as causes of deaih. The old record w astly thing. It is well that the Independence Day death lists have become a thing of the past. No relaxation of ordinances against fireworks should be permitted. here is no reason to be igve the day has lost any of its patriotic signiticance because it no longer takes sacrificial toll of the youth of the land, But if we have been able to do so much to stop deaths trom fireworks, is there not hope that we may be able to take similar precautions against the drownings and motor killings? ‘bolition of the explosive Fourth was a “Safety First” move. “Safety Fi will help save lives | in the water and on the highways—on the Fourth and all the rest of the year. TWICE OVERS. 66] N the subway, people will step upon your toes or bore into your ribs with sharpened elbows, but always with a smile.” —The Christian Endeavor programme, eran be 66 (NCE al a fireside talk he (William T. Stead) said of himself, ‘I am first an evangelist and after that a journalist.’ This self-appraisal was per- Sectly correct,” —Melville E, Stone. SS ae ion Days! te say much in @ few words. Take Personal Liberty. To the Kuitor of The Evening World Your correspondent who signs him-| self “A Dry," thinks that our per- Sonal liberty should be limited to the power of locomotion, of changing po- sition, of removing one's person to whatever place one's own inclina- tion may direct, without restraint un- less by due course of law, and quotes Blackstone to sustain his contention. Of course, Blackstone was referring to the e ation of the individual from the r tions of the old udal § m, the same freedom which was given to the bla tion Proclamation. as distinguished from slavery is w Blackstone is defining ‘There has been a general suspicion that the fanatic’s idea of liberty is that it is limited to the power of changing one’s position and that an thing beyond this very elementary ©: pression of liberty might properly be ined, Here we have it, how- ever, in black and white, In ‘all its bold’ and shameless nakedness Let no one now say that he has not wa ned of what is coming to right except that of ur position from one place to another is subject to curtailment, In fact, it does not exist All this rubbis! erty and the pursuit of happiness been antiquated, The Rev. Burrell, Presi- Gent of the Anti-Saloon League, has. publicly stated that this idea «f indi. vidual freedom is all a mistake, No such thing was ever intended. We live, move and have our being only subject to such restrictions this semi-politico-religious band of fanat- ies, the Anti-Saloon League, sees fit to impose. It is the greatest humbug ever per- petrated on a patient people, In the name of all that is holy, how long are we going to permit this mob of whir ing dervishes, this sanctimonious, hypoerit mercenary band of the Ameri nose and elected offic snivelling, in people around by the uke monkeys of the duly ‘sof the Government? ADOLPH BDWARDS. To the Falitor of I do not agree with officials at Washington in forcing Prohibition on the free people of these United States, but neither am 1 going to march around the city in- protest against it, By the time we reach the end of the century we ought to com promise in a manner more sultabie to citizens of the greatest nation in the world First, let us go back to the time when only the Indians inhabited this country. Can there be found a healthier people than these? Did the white man’s “fire water” help? If they never knew the taste or felt the effects of rum who can say they would not be better off? ‘The ‘wets, in their letters to your paper, never record the good results |from ‘the time that Prohibition went |into effect. I am not a religious fanatic or a reformer, but 1 honestly | Delleve that in twenty-five or fifty litical lickspittles to lead 4 From Evening World Readers / What kind of a letter do you And most readable? Isn't it the one that gtwes you the worth of a thousand ‘cords in a couple of hundred? There is fne mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be bri years this country will have benefited | by the Eighteenth Amendment, Furthermore, if the working man had never got used to his glass of beer he wouldn't miss it now, Ive just a habit and, I think, not a good or cheap one, As far as medical pur- poses are concerned, there are sub- stitutes, only the “wets” can't “re- | memb them. For any further argument I can always reier to the | time of the Indians and how weil off i they w se don't forget “L. K. M.'s (meaning the | wets) never realize that they are \slaves to ‘King Demon Rum.’” | July 1, 1921, AMDBRICAN, Your correspondent, “A Dry,” in The Evening World of July 1 gives | Blackstone's definiuon of “personal the word liberty. The French Revo-| lution followed closely to our own, and the French got their ideas as to liberty from us Ll am certain that when [ sit down to ewt and to drink a glass of wine or beer at my table L am following my own interest and satisfaction and am not injuring any one. Let any Prohibitionist. prove that 1 am not| right. BDWARD TERRY, | dust Rutherford, N. J., July 2, 1921. The Price of Lemons, ditor of The Rrening World: 8 interested to read a letter from a reader protesting against the high prices the public is forced to pu for lemons. 1 belie lemons were redid not sell, ‘The spec- ulators saw this, bought them up and put them in cold storage. ‘They knew that late in June and the first halt of July few lemons are shipped fromthe West Coast. In the warm weather which we are bound to have at this time a glass of lemonade is retresh- ing. Well, if you want a cool drink now pay for it. 1 suppose that's busi- ness. Robbery, Leall it. W. OF New York, July 1, 192 “Prone From the Top.” ‘To the Baitor of ‘The Brening Workd. In the reduction of wages on tho New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad have the wages of the Pres. ident and high ofi¢ials of the com pany been cut? If not, why? Many poor fellows found it hard enough to get along before the cut, What will they do now? Prune from the top of the oo firat, POOR PAY, New York, July 1, 1921, Ga malady It have in all ¢ thi ns proc UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake is jure gs which may inj It is surely tremens, of habits, who can face a te san force himself to do nece (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) IMMUNITIES, asy enough to get immunities from habits that us. But we seldom are injured bysall the habits and tendencies that can injure us, any more than we contract inst the same dis: The burnt child has an immunity from the tendency to play with fire exactly as the man who has suffered from smallpox has an immunity from the germs that cause that not; e diseases that can sicken or destroy us. In time of epidemic it is necessary to immunize arti- uly those who may be exposed to them, And at any time it is wise for us, by taking a little thought, reading a little of the world’s history, and of the biographies of the people in it to immunize ourselves from ure or destroy us. wiser to learn beforehand that liquor taken in Jarge quantities’ may give us delirium tremens than to take a chance of gaining this knowledge by getting the delirium jliberty.” 1s that what our grand , er s and w a eathera cent beta woed eaey We may survive the delirium tremens and we ma t [Ao They did not and we all know | the éhances being largely against survival. In any event it Uhat to be a fact. Alexander Dutas, Li te se AS hie great “French vhisterical novel § Will not be a pleasant experience and it will prove a high writer, gives the definition of liberty 3 price to pay for knowledge that might have been had for in his “novel, “The Countess de. 3 i thing Charny.” Cagliostro is Mr. Dumas's SB: F mouthpiece, and this is what he says: If we can, by study and reflection, immunize ourselves ‘Liberty—This is mot a primitive zainst laziness, procrastination, avarice, greed, envy and all and universal substance, like gold, | 3°20") spain TAN Rea die denen es but a fruit, an art, a production.) $ the habits and passions that hold us back in the journey we Liberty is the right every one are trying to make we shall have gained a great deal of to tollo~ his own interests, Ete denowladee ; tion, amusement, glory, ev ible knowledge. Je that does not injure another. The job will not be diffieult—not a hundredth part ss hat our grandfathers meant/by 13 difficult as that of gaining physical immunities against dis- cases which are not one-half as dangerous. It requires taking our immunity from the experienc> of other men, as doctors take serums from the veins of other men or from animals and inject them into ours to make ASeS, The man who is proof against the worst sorts of bad ptation and not yield to it, whe sary work when he doesn't fee! uke it, has established an immunity that ought to carry him « long way in the world, Study the men you know and the men of whom you .ead who have made, or are making, names for themse You will find that most of them are pretty well immun and need spend but little time fighting with “6 | Comprise i Th ie ‘Tasman: Ocean, off the southern extremity Australia, ‘Tasman in by him, honor of ernor of India, It quently, b: In 1803, That’s a Fact By Albert P. Southwick the Press Publishing Co. Yeer'bvening Wondh 1921 Now ja, in was an his pat Di 8 pa ‘apt the . Lieut December, 1942 23 | nh the South Pacifie of discoversd by and named Lani, in the then ¢ first Dieman ron, utch possessions ia rtly explored, subse Cook, Bowen was de- 1 habits. spatched from Sydney with a fer soldiers and convicts to form a penal settle in mania and finally | fixed upon the spot where Elobi. |now stands, . . . Money at simpl t of 8 per cent, doubles in 12% , at com. vund interest’ in 9 y and two days. eee Tn metric weights and the decametre is 10 metres; ometre, 100 metres; the kilomet 1,000 metres, and the myria 10,000 metres ar) Jas admission to the , following that of West Virg mia rn 1868, was during the stress of the Civil War, Vaion in | Stories Told b |The Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyright. 1921, by The Pr lishing Co, | (The New York Eeeing World. 4—THE RICH FOOL. The parable of the “Rich Fool” ts Probably the greatest all-round tory that the Master ever told. It is to be found in Luke xii, 138-21, ond it would pay those who have not read it to get busy at once and read it over and over again, Of all the “blooming idiots" that ever made the gods laugh the biggest is the mortal who is typified in the “Rich Fool.” This particular Foo! was the owner of broad acres, which were unusu- ally fertile, and the harvests were 80 rich he did not know what to do with the golden grain. He had big barns here and there about his vast estate, but they were too small for the hous- ing of the tmmense crops, and the man said, "{ will tear these barns down and build larger ones, and hav- ing stored my goods in them I will say to myself, ‘Soul, you have enough laid by for many years, have a jolly good time, take thine ease, cat, drink and be merry.'” But all at once something happened that the Rich Fool wasn't counting on—something that had not entered into his summing up of the situation: He heard a Voice—the voice of God— and it said unto him, "Thou Fool, this night thy soul shail be required of thee—thy time on earth ix over— and to whom, then, will all thy goods belong?” The question was a poser. mitted of no answer: and th It ad- nead- ed as the man was, he couldn't help seeing that he had been a first-class fool, the dupe of the most silly delu- that sion with. mortal man ever flirted three sorts of money- ch First, those who go after it for the pure love of the chase, not jcaring for it after they have got it; second, those who go after it to get it and keep it—misers pure and sim- ple, and third, those who seek it in order that they may “fare sumptuous- ly." live in palaces on the fat of the nd, wear Kings’ clothing and have at their command all the cnjoyments required by the animal man, The Rich Fool a combination of i the last type: proposed to “store ay his goods in order that he might “eat, drink and be merry"— |the meanwhile forgetting all about }life's true value—the life of thought |and affection, the joy of thinking and loving, the thrill and uplift of the spirit forces, the pull of the invisible pow |" And when it was-too late to rectify |mistake, passed on and out. from his piled-up material s big barns filled with 1 sumptuous larder, his well wine cellars and all the animal pro- s—leaving it all to—whom? If years had done nothing else but to turn loose among men the story of the Rich Fool his ministry would have been justified. Jn moral and spiritual importance, in its direct and vital bearings upon human life in this world and in its immense and incal- able possibilities as an ultimate -opener and regenerator of human- the story is without a peer in the whole round of philosophic wisdom. So, the Rich Fool, disenchanted his ‘|| Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government 21. by tho Prem Pul jew York Exening World By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the seventy-ninth article of a series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York Qity Government. EXAMINING BOARD OF PLUMB- ERS. This board consists of two employ- ing plumbers and one journeyman plumber appointed by the Mayor, and two city officials having supervision over plumbing, drainage or sewers designated by the Mayor, The ap- pointed members receive $15 each per jon, not to exceed $100 a month, ‘The des.gnated city officials act with- out additional compensation, The duties of the of Plumbers are to tify de city ~<amining Board xamine and cer- as to the fitness of all persons iring to practise plumbing in Only those persons who ha sed the examinations set by this 1 and have received certificates refrom may legally engage in plumbing within the city. The board also examines, in conjunction with the Municipal Civil Service Commis- sion, applicants for positions as in- spectors of plumbing. he present board consists of Mich- 1 J. McGrath, master plumbe Chairman: Thomas J, Gorman, ter plumber; John J. Hassett, neyman plumber, and Arthur J fin, Acting Chief Eng.neer of § Brookly Ther one vacancy The office of board is on the the ninth floor gf the Municipal Building, fe ea WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 46—ELEGY. An “elegy” and a “culogy” are two separate and distinct words, with widely different meanings. An “elegy” —from the ancient Greek lament (“elegeion,” denoting mourning) the dead, in verse form. A “eulogy” from the Greek “eu” and “log word literally a “good word spoken or written for somebody Whether dead or alive, Generally “elegos,” a a form of verse is a lament for is one dead, Speaker or as to the moral or other qual. ities of the deceased. All public men should so conduct themselves that their “clegy," after they are dead, shall also be a “eulogy.”