The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1921, Page 14

<a ene: ESTABLISHED BY JONEPH PULITZER. | wwritmed Dally Except Sunday by Tho Prom Publishing Company. Now, 53 to 63 Park Raw: New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITANN Jr., Secrotary, 63 Park Row. — MEMIFER OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS, {Meo Associated Pree te exch Fi news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im this fm@ also the local news published hereie MAYBE THEY'LL OPEN. T’S a hopeful thing for the country that the pres ] ent Republican Congress begins to hear plain talk from business men and bankers, Writing to Frank W. Mondell, Republican leader in the House, President J. W. Harriman of the Har- riman National Bank of this city speaks for his 10,000 depositors, “fully 50 per cent. of whom are clamoring to know wny Congress does not do something with regard to the reduction of taxation.” “There can be no improvement in the business world,” declares» Mr. Harriman, “until taxes are reduced.” “The present stagnation in trade is really a strike against Government confiscation. “Will you kindly advise me, as the Republican House leader, what your views are and what action may be expected’ “If you realized how many people are cursing out Congress, you might then understand what is to be expected at the next Congressional election.” Timely and to the point. It reaches ‘the right address at a Moment when Congress is getting ready to devote its energies to an Administration tariff bill of which the minority report of the House Ways and Means Committee says: “We record our solemn judgment that this i measure is a plan to plunder the people of our i country and to oppress the people of every coun- try for the benefit of a few men who have suc- ceeded in usurping for all practical purposes the taxing power of this Government, using it primarily to enrich themselves and, secondarily, to finance the political party which tolerates, encourages and facilitates the usurpation.” The Republican Platform adopted by the Repub- ican National Convention al Chicago a year ago contained the following: “Sound policy equally demands the early ac- eomplishment of that real reduction of the tax . burden which may be achieved by substituting simple for complex tax laws and procedure; prompt and certain determination of the tax liability for delay and uncertainty; tax laws which do not, for tax laws which do, exees- sively mulct the consumer and needlessly re- préss enterprise and thrift.” Was this merely a statement and not a pledge? Does the Republican majority in Congress be- lieve the country can be put off with tariff tinkering as a Substitute for tax revision? Now that business and finance are giving insistent tone to these questions, maybe Republican ears will open. The United States Stee! Corporation follows the example of the independents and announces a cut in prices. United States Steel has assumed te lead in the industry, but when it lags it needs must foliow. Enormous war profits seem to have blinded the management of the corporation. ‘In pre- war years its prices were adjusted to meet broad conditions, and did not fluctuate from day to day. The directors looked to sustained profits over long periods and a regularization of the industry. In other businesses the change from war to peace came slowly enough, but it came. In steel the management has delayed until conditions forced it. No one can estimate the difference in the Nation's business which might have re sulted from an early and drastic cut in steél prices. The last year has punctured the claim of the United States Stee! Corporation to leadership tn the business world. ABSURD AND UNJUST. MERICAN-BORN women married to aliens abroad are being detained at Ellis Island be cause they are “foreigners” and consequently sub: ject to the restriction of the Dillingham Law quotas The absurdity of this is evident. There are plenty of defects in the Dillingham Law which demand the immediate attention of Con- gress. This particular puzzle demands a more thoroughgoing solution, The fault lies with our naturalization and citizen- ship laws, which deprive an American woman otf citizenship when she marries an alien, This survival of the Middle Ages should be’ wiped off the statute book’. Enfranchised women should be on equality with men as regards citizenship as well as the ballot. When an American woman marries a foreigner she should have the option of declaring her citizenship as either American or that of her husband. ' There is no reason why an aliey man should not acquire American citizenship by marrying an Amer- ican woman, if an American woman is to lose citi- zenship by marrying an alien. BURGLAR-PROOF ROADS ? E burglar-proof roads to be the next develop- ment of the good roads movement? Inauguration of a system of anmed convoys for } ; or a entitled to the use for republiestion pee \ tet motor truck trains on the Lincoln Highway between New York and Philadelphia raises the question. When we read of the theft of a single truckload of merchandise valued at $100,000, the incentive to crime is evident. New developments in crime are countered by new developments in protection. Are we coming to @ time, when truck shipments will be protected by makigg banditry impossible? dt is easy to imagine a good road for trucks in the future. It would be bounded on each side by a high stone wall. At infrequent intervals there would be guarded gates. No truck would be allowed to pass the gates until the guards were satisfied it had not been captured by bandits, A steel netting overhead might be required to guard against looting of parts of loads. Such a contrivance would worry the bandits, and if truck shipping continues to increase, such roads might eventually prove cheaper and safer than the convoys by armed guards. A SELF-EATING BONUS. I his letter on the Bonus Bill, Secretary Mellon toki nothing new. From the first the facts have been as he states them. Most of the members of Congress understand the situation. But for political purposes they dis- regarded this understanding and set out to corner the soldier vote with promises of a Federal bonus, They attacked Secretary Houston and the Wilson Administration for assuming the very same attitud: which Secretary Mellon takes, and which President Harding must support—with a veto if necessary. If the politicians are in an awkward corner they have nobody but themselves to blame. Many of the more responsible leaders of the American Legion understand the situation, When the bonus proposal was first broached a substantial and intelligent opposition existed in the Legion. This element seems to have surrendered. for the sake of harmony in the organization. The Mellon letter will probably delay bonus tion at least. Now is the time for leaders of the Legion to carry on a campaign of education to demonstrate the unwisdom of asking for a Federal bonus. Senator MeCumber is les than frank when he says: f . . “The soldiers did not fight for dollars. Be- cause they did not do so is tio reason why they should not be given an equitable compensation for the services rendered.” Phat “because” is a tricky but plausible word. Does Senator McCumber imagine Secretary Hous- ton opposed the bonus ‘because adjusted compensa- tion was not fairly due the soldiers—if it could be granted? The facts are that the los nent losses, es of war are perma- There are no gains or compensations, adjusted or immediate, to the Nation as a whole. War is loss, irreclaimable loss. The Evening World has said before, and the truth cannot be emphasized too clearly, that a bonus would not be effective as a bonus. Bonus payments would be reflected in inflation and its accompanying ills. It would be reflected in higher prices, in increased taxation, in industrial stagnation. Adjusted compensation for soldiers would mean readjusted compensation for every one, including the soldiers. This readjustment of compensation would not be The few hundreds of dollars adjusted compensation would be eaten up by higher living costs and losses from unemploy- ment. The soldiers would not gain in the long run favorable even to the soldiers. Every one else—the soldiers’ friends and families included—would lose. A bonus wouldn't be one. ee ETHICS AND OLD AC (From the Ohio State Journal.) It is generally taken for granted that, while the young are in continual need of moral instruction, the aged are beyond its need latter with ethical teaching seems to be to bestow it upon others, The wisdom of the elderly is frequently offered us, and that is right, since years bring insight into the art of living which should be of value to all, But does that imply that the old are above the neces- sity of taking heed of moral precepts themselves? We have all seen old men and women who, unhappily, appeared to take just that view. A little egotistical and tyrannous, they demand respect merely because of their years, and fail to recognize the fact that they still owe courtesy, kindness and moral obligations to others, In striking contrast are those de: r old people who, forgetful of their years, are still eager to learn and to take their place in the give and take of every- day intercourse. Just as there is a moral code for the young, so it seems there should be another for the elder folk, to teach us td grow old gracefully, to remember that years in themselves do not bring honor unless we use them honorably, and to remind us that we have no right to claim special credit for a condition of nature's bestowing—accumulated years, The only concern of the | EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921." Coppriatyt, 1921, dy ‘The Prem P he New York Evening By John Cassel orld), A TET, aT aS Te a LO A en NEE EA tO eta Soon are eee Men pete ee, What kind of a letter do yo There te fine mental exerci Counts the Crowd, Too, ‘To the Kalitor of The Evening World When you take into considerat |the double holiday which took m: of the young people out of town, sweltering he t that crowds which lined the sidewalks three miles were in absolute ace with the marchers been in jine also (this includes movement will grow New York, July ‘To the Biitor of ‘The Byening World During he late war did the ernment publicly advise Ameri women married to German aliens secu New Yor To the Falitor of The Brening World Now that the Dempsey-Cy fight is over, with Dempsi victor, let us stop all the about his being a slacker, If didn’t go to the front to fight for country he upheld America’s fight d alk y an and should have writer), it was not a bad showing at M'GOVERN. 1921 divorces from them? J. R. 8. 1, 192 criticism ‘From Evening World Readers: ju find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ise and a lot of satisfaction in trying be cay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. — hole a@wellings in which the millions of poor are forced to exist—not live on y do not live; and it might also be ost. “Prosperous” if there were not several est hundred thousand unemployed people the jn and about it the I do not wish to be unkind to our or Visitor, yet I must say to him that his views relative to Prohibition, as stated ord in his letter, published in your worthy edition of this evening, have been the gathered only by a hasty surface ob- servation and probably from the gilded side of the wall all, despite Mr. Anderson and hi If Mr. Hoare could experience what trained yuntants. Ifall the people the less fortunate have passed wh Yolstead and all his works through for more than a year’s trial | we h they would be pass- of Prohibition—I mean, if he could dig jing yet. ‘This is but a start, The down deep in the homes of those not rich enough to technically support the law by using only wines and before Prohibition effective—he would realize many “decent fathers and * protest against a law that is making breweries and distilleries of millions of homes throughout this to great country. Why are the objectionable street scenes no longer in evidence? Simply beewuse a few drinks of the yJe und tissue-destroying home- made substitutes make the people 80 liquors. purchased became an penticr drunk and helpless that they are not the | ally able to go out doors until y get over the effects he | Dig down deep, Mr. Hoare, and pos- his} sibly you will also find many other ing | henefits that Prohibition has given to ch- | this count r | man that had gone t » front for! Among some of them you will dir- i ¥. ‘That vietory of Demp-| cover that the rates on burglary in- sey’s means a whole lot to us Ameri-| surances have in¢reased—yet_ we. are Cee ret Rye (are sul showing | supposed to be steadily becoming morr » French what th ericans are | yin f irtuous and—and you will find that made of BRADY beds a Brooklyn, July 4, 1 Observations, ening World beautiful city, courtesy usual 1 to a str | ger in town, When a visitor gets in our big buf it is our duty to as: him. Mr. Hoare js evidently | womewhere among the mansions town close by Riverside Drive 1 to all tiful rat holes, as tenements, with rubbish-heap the front and with more fi d d fire escapes arlanded in the r ing, rags and mattre) are stone jars cont i NSS A stroll in City Hall Park | Prohibition, but orderly well regu- vould y disclose more of the mag. | lated methods of obtaining for oure nificent architectural beauties of onr selves pure wine and malt beverages city, It would surely deligh tistic sense of the visitor to y beard fence*about the fountain; si setting of the great hero, Nathan H would give the visitor a akin to the thrill he spending half a dollar a hooker of hom Yes, Mr. Hoa beautiful place if there skysery pers 4 no shi forget to pu w uncompl Statue of veling m can enjoy made booze. were not the fine Mr. Herbert Hoare, who descr himself “as an Australian busines man visiting r prosperous ani an. | 1 would like to find him and take |'9& ' him downtown to show him the beau! dd to rated escapes most beauti- fully ornamented with dirty bed cloth- es, under which and to look upon the lop no doubt and downing our city would be a nd elevated structures tical contractors wh statues bac organiz t your charity is just ax last penny as ever xious to in this country with the present ethod of Prohibition enforcement laid out stark naked before you, M1 Hoare—if you had a daughter who in several 4 f the pu seek to have pealed. | You would strive to protect your J offspring from the possibility of liv- est of her life with one who appears outwardly decent and orderly ind whom you discover, when it is too late, to be a hypocrite, a home- brewer or secret distiller, or possibly a hootlegger, t is what 's and mothe n wide open su ibes| the of life—you this obnox too woula ous law re- lost sist lost uy on bevid worries ‘decent more joons ever did be- khown to be beneficial to our minds jand bodies without breaking the Ten Commandments and the master-law of the land to get them. Good luck ar time to Pye leasant ul city LINDBR 1921 by] Glenda! 1, July Are “Regenta” ngly Heening World | 8 letter p to be stuc thinks nee [waere they move bem from; no rat-|swessed in Ligh school, My experi- 4 possibly | | | | If you were bringing up a family than @ unduly UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921. by John Blake.) “USED” THOUGHT HAS LITTLE VALUE, Emerson, wisest of all American essayists, says some- where that every man must sooner or later make up his mind that he and no one else must determine his future. We can learn from others knowledge, methods, even wisdom. Other men can teach us how to think, as they can teach us how to swim or play golf. But they cannot swim for us, they cannot play golf for us, and they cannot think for us. We all employ a great deal of thought that is not our That must be, for we should be foolish not to profit by the accumulated wisdom of those who have gone before. But these “used” thoughts, while we must at times eroploy them, serve not at all to develop our minds. And while we might get along fairly well through life without original thought, we should die little wiser than when we began and contribute nothing whatever to the progress of the world. All that is of value in education is learning how to think. From biography we derive a great deal, but most of i consists in knowing how other men thought and how their thought made their careers. If we carry all our problems to others to solve for us, we shall some day be confronted with a great problem and lack the understanding how to grapple with it. And in that time there will be no one to help us, und we shall meet with a failure that may change for the worse the course of our lives. Most of us will do anything rather than think, for thinking is labor of the hardest kind, But it is the sort of labor that means development; )$ that enables us to use our minds for our own advancement; that makes us resourceful and independent and not afraid of tackling whatever comes along. There are small differences between the outside of our heads, There are tremendous differences between the insides of them, and those of us who have learned to think have developed machines which steadily and industriously own, through the years will work for our prosperity and our hap piness. But those whose thoughts are second-hand wonder why they never arrive. ence is to the contrary. I finished EF &, high school. t W Of course we were frightened at the rom e 1se thought of taking regents, but reality proved our fears needless. Girls who cither could not or would not do good work all term came out with flyin color. Bew students fail in the re-| nts, and still fewer commit suicide yr failing, because regents may be | retaken sand.—Ariosto, When a man paper Why blame the harmless regents If another plan seems better, out wit! strong mind.—T. Tilton. My vote is for priaciptes toni Re Ber aaUNrenira” monu.— Washington, Q Ks He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thou. assumes a public | trust he should consider himself ay |?" not Stories Told by * . The Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Comrie Net York Drenina World.) THE PRODIGAL SON. This charming, irresistible tale Luke xv., 11-32—is the longest that the Great Teacher ever told. It is easy to eee that it was His favorite story and that in its theme He was profoundly interested. And what IS its theme? LOVE. From the first word to the last there is lent one idea, Love—the love of GOD as seen in the love of the prodi« gal's FATHER, 7 Stop for just a moment to think of the object that Jesus had in telling this story. His object was twofold— He wanted to show His hearers how God felt toward US, and how WH ought to feel toward each other, and He accomplished his purpose by set~ word-picture of the oldg father's deathless affection for his son. It was as though Jesus had said f# so many words, “In the prodigal's father I want you to see Our Father who art in heaven. In the old fa« ther’s love for his erring sons | want you to see God's love for all of His children—a love that never dies, @ love that is inexhaustible, a love that is strongest when it is most needed, a love that goes out to meet and em= brace and welcome back the wan derer from the right, no matter how far he has wandered or how long he has been from home. s And then we are fairly entitled to imagine ourselves as’ hearing Jesus saying to them, “The way God feels toward us we should feel toward one another. Be always ready to forgive and forget. Stand ever ready to welcome back to your love and good will those who have wronged you. “Cultivate no feeling of ill will> cherish no ugly Animosities; be charitable, open-h always singing in your spirit ‘s Old Sweet Song.” Many of you have read Henry Drummond's immortal little book en- titled the "Greatest Thing in the World,” and for the benefit of those who may not have seen the hook I may say that its theme is LOVE— ‘the greatest thing in the world.” When Drummond wrote “The Great est Thing in the World” he bad New Testament opened before at Luke xv. with ita story the prodigal son—a story that haw gripped the attention of mankind for twenty centuries and that is to con- tinue tugging away at humanity's heart strings until the love of God for men, and the love of men for ona another shall make the old earth beautiful as paradise, banish hate and its hells, recreate history, Ntera- ture, law, reorganize socicty from top to bottom and thus instit among men the long-dreamed of “Kingdom of Heaven.” Love! It is indeed the greatest thing in the world—the thing without which all other things are meaning- less and worthl What the heart is to the body, wi the sun is to the earth, love is to our human life. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 48—ULULATION. | ‘The ancient Romans used to call ;the screech owl the “ulula.” The word is still used by students of birds |to designate a genus of our winged friends. The screech owl got the name from the howling or wailing noises it made. This application of word to object is a striking instance of onomato- poiea, or the naming of actions or ob« jects on the principle of resemblanea, The Latin word for “TI howl" ia “ululo.”. Then what could be simpler than calling a bird tha wis" or shrieks an “ulula,” or shrieker? The word was too good to be m by the English language, always the lookout for appropriate words. So we have a direct adaptation of it in our danguage, An lation” ts a howling, as of a dog or wolf; oma “wailing,” as sometimes used to - scribe the noises made in the expres sion of grief or fear pane APOLEON ANECDOT (From the Living Age.) The one-hundredth anniversary of | Napoleon's death has elicited a food of anecdotes regarding him. Among these are the two following local tra. ditions in Italy, for which we are in- | debted to Nuova Antologia: ‘The people of Umbria and Romagna | believed that Napoleon clothed his French soldiers in red, his Italians tn white, and his Germans in blue, adopt- ng this distribution of the tricolor for psychological reasons. He had noted that the French, while brave and ven- turesome, had a repugnance for blood, and were easily discouraged when they detected it on themselves, There-* fore he clothed them in red, where | the traces of their wounds were less observable. The Italians were pre cisely the opposite. They were infurl- ated and desired to retaliate as soon as they and ther comrades were wounded, and fought the more say- agely for that reason, Therefore ho gave them uniforms which made the | blood of their ounds more . The Germans he yund obstina phlegmatic, and fancied blue uniforms | harmon 1 well with the calm blue of their eyes. The narrator remarks that this ia u case where the provera none vero, mac ben t The other legend, w mmon in Uinbr onment of Pope ch is , relates to th Pius VIL a Neither is the preparatory work} public property.—Jetfe tainebleau, Napoleon is said superficial, £ cannot: pass on other| # property.— Jefferson, cuffed the ears of his, dist high schools, but our work was O. K To prevent disasters pe ano prisoner because of the fc In fact, besides dosing us with their 28 # disasters we should | conversation: The Pope showed Na jquestions, the instructors set apart, @/tays be prepared to meet them. | poleon three bottles; one filled with days for answering ours. Altogether ston Paris, ‘hed wine, one filled with water, and ting the tasks put us were beneficial one empty Visiting In our |" Finally, “many. capable of doing A slip of the tougue may cost one | "Do vou know what these threw the work," do NOT fail. Three hours pis pead, « ‘ i bottles stand for?" he sald to Nas ure enough for-the passing of nervous [ts ead, @ stip of the fret ix earily | dotcon if one is “capable ‘cured bua short repose.—As-Sikkit, | No. ar when one g Well, EM tell you. ‘The dottie of stions asked in the 4) wean body Ie theaaxoasth ofa | wine avmbolizen: tue earth which ya lood; the bottle of wat symbolizes t earth which yo have filled with tears; the mp hottie symbolizes the good you have | done.” have filled with ting before the people this wonderful _