The evening world. Newspaper, July 9, 1921, Page 10

' | ESTABLISHED HY JOSEPH PULATZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by The Proas Publishing Company./Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULATZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, he Associated Prem te exclusively entitled to the use for republication OF afl news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited im this paper Band also the local news published heretm FOR ONCE. E ARE glad to see Presilent Harding gomg over to the Capitol and discussing mat- ters with the Senators. But we wish we could be sure that in these con- ferences instead of listening while Senators tell him what can't be done the President insists on telling Senators what mus! be done. It is precisely as to this side of his character that President Harding has so far furnished least ground for confidence. The country would like to see the Presiden’ for once face the factions of his party in an I’m-not- arguing-with-you-I’m-telling-you mood. Of course we should have a peace prociama- tion. Thirty-two months after the firing ceased and two years after the signing of the Treaty of | Versailles the United States of America is, by | act of Congress, at peace. | ‘Thanks to Republican caution, this Nation put no hasty faith in armistice, treaty or the | visible fact that the war was over Thanks to Republican patriotism, we waited two years to make sure | Proclaim it, by all means. | PIRATES AGAIN? | THE 320 years since Capt. Kidd was hanged I this section of the world has grown unaccus- tomed to thoughts of piracy on the high seas. Seven years ago piracy would have seemed impos- sible. So did the World War until it came. To-day the Government is seriously concerned over the possibility—or probability—that a pirate craft is operating in the Atlantic. Any ship overdue is an occasion for concern, particularly if t happens to be a ship carrying gold, as was the case of the steamship Callao, which reported safe yesterday afternoon after causing a twenty-four-houy scare by failure to report. Government officials are loath to believe the Piracy supposition in regard to ships lost recently, | but they are on watch and ready to go mto action if evidence warrants. Piracy i0-day would be more hazardous than it was a hundred years ago. The wireless would be of infinite aid in catching pirates. But it would also help an intrepid pirate craft willing to “listen m” on messages sent through the air. It is not impossible that a group of reckless sol- diers have chosen piracy as their part in the world- wide crime wave which has followed the war. It ts not impossible that Commumists may have chosen to make war on “Capitalists” under a “spurlos versenkt” policy. But if any band of adventurers are engaged in such a lawless exploit, it is probable that they have planned well and their apprehension may become &@ serious problem. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has decided that losses incurred in betting on horse races cannot be deducted from the New York State income-tax returns. And the fellow who wins is supposed to add it to his income. Win or lose, the Government gets you. FORBID FLYING OVER CROWDS. WO airplane accidents in the immediate vicin- ity of this city lend point to the protest which went up after last Saturday’s boxing match when several flyers atiempted to watch the match from ' fhe air and flew directly over the great arena in ' Jersey City. Suppose one of these planes had dropped into the mem. The possibilities are too horrible to dwell wpon. Nevertheless the possibilities are there. It és high time both State and Federal law made such exploits impossible. Meantime would it not be possible to curb foolish flyers by arresting them 3 public nuisances? ‘Or, even more drastic, would it got be proper to confine them as dangerous maniacs? Any jury of \ fight fans who attended the Dempsey-Carpentier match would send those reckless flyers to the luna- _ tie asyhum. ‘At any rate such dangerous “stunting” should be Prohibited, aid the flyer found guilty of taking un- Mecessary chances with the lives of innocent by- standers should be forbidden ever to fly again. _ THE NEW SENATOR FROM DELAWARE tyne to the perfervid campaign of 1912 Coleman du Pont declared: “I am fm favor of direct primaries on Presi- j @ential candidates because I believe we will yt @ereby get nearer to an expression of the peo- ple’s desires.” The speaker is the new Senator from Delaware, appointed by Gov. Denney, and not elected by “an of the people’s desires.” Mr. du Pont's initiation into the ‘millionaires’ Gib” section of the Senate Is already being de- spiracy as ever the State of Delaware witnessed. And Delaware politics as guided by the du Pont family and the ” Addicks ring has many un- savory chapters. Former Senator Wolcott, Democrat, who re- | signed to accept the remunerative and long-term ap- | pointment as Chancellor of the Delaware courts, has added nothing to his fame by becoming party to such a deal. | Primaries and the du Ponts have had nothing in common. T. Coleman has long. been a power in Delaware politics, but it has been a power based on money, not on personal popularity which counts | in primary elections. | Away back in 1895 the new Senator’s Uncle | Henry aspired to the Senate, and by hook and crook managed to poll a majority under irregula circumstances. ‘Gas’ Addicks contrived to have the vote thrown out on a technicality and the United States Senate refused to seat Uncle Henry. For a dozen years the fight dragged, with one or both Senatorial seats vacant, until the Addicks “barrel was busied.” Then T. Coleman engineered the election of Uncle Henry in 1906 and took a va- cation trip to Europe to celebrate. In 1914 Uncle Henry was re-elected by the Legislature and without being required to face the primaries. The Seventeenth Amendment was adopt- ed in 1912 and Uncle Henry retired when his tern expired. T. Coleman has had trial ballooms out at various times. He even opened Presidential headquarters in !916, but the people did not flock to his banner. He has wanted the Senatorship, but was not foolish enough to imagine he could be eleeted by “expres- sion of the people’s desires T. Coleman du Pont is a fit addition to the ruling oligarchy in the Senate. Support of the dye sched- ule in the tariff will not be weaker for his presence “TEETOTAL FANATICISM.” ROM an article by Dean Inge of St. Paul’s Ca- thedral (London), published this week under the above title, a cable despatch to the Philadelphia Public Ledger quotes the following: (o promulgate laws which do not com- mend themselves to public conscience, which infringe the reasonable liberties of citizens and which can be evaded by bribery and lying, is a foolish and mischievous use of legislation. “Far better, in my opinion, is the policy which has found favor in Norway. In that country endeavors were made to discourage the consumption of spirits without interfering with the sale of lighter beverages which none but a fanatic could condemn as unwholesome.” “The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor,” notes the Dean, “judiciously turns her back on the American continent.” The Dean of St. Paul’s is_a distinguished church- | man. No one will accuse him of either intemper- | ance or disrespect for law. He merely expresses | with admirable clearness the view of intelligence, experience and broad-minded common sense the | world over. | The Dean cites Norway as an example of wise | dealing with the liquor problem. Americans need look no further than across the Canadian border into the Province of Quebec, where Government control of the liquor traffic is successfully reducing drunkenness without destroying personal liberty. There can be temperance without tyranny. Until that truth sinks into American minds and revises the attitude of the Nation toward Prohibi- tion and the forces of fanaticism behind it, the Statue of Liberty might better be given into the safekeeping of some country that knows how to appreciate it. Whether Caraso’s voice will be fully restored is a question that only time can settle. Why wrangle about it as if somebody already knew? BALD HEADS VS. BOBBED. fe would be charitable to assume that the dog- day heat is responsible for the silly season out- burst in Hartford over the alleged uselessness of bobbed or “blonded” business girls. It develops that this critic of feminine head-dress- ing is not without reproach. He is bald, conse- quently he draws a sharp retort from a miss who qualifies as both blond and bobbed. She asserts that a baki-headed man looks less business-like than a bob-haired girl—and often has less sense. Then as a final crusher she adds: “Bald-headed men ought to be waiters in a restaurant.” The bobs and the blondes can probably take care of themselves in any contest with mere men. They always have been able to do so. : The blondes we have always with us. The bobs may be only a temporary style, but one would bz foolhardy indeed to say that another ten years may not see the bobbed head the prevalent mode am long hair on young women as out of style as long, pavement-sweeping gowns are now. Bobs may become the style. Baldness will. Baldness is an affliction that may account for the short and caustic temper of the Hartford critic. never “ ona I would be almost willing to advocate a return of the saloon, for the infamous bootlegging resulting from so-called Prohibition is far more de- THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1921 Ge t a Vacation?” ww York Hrening World). By John Cassel — ie Topsright, Ta. by The Drow Publaniog (The From Evenitig World Readers! What kind of a letter do you fin 4 most readable? Isn't it the one that giwes you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise a: ind a lot of satisfaction im trying te cay mach in a few words. Take time to be brief. Abide By the Law. o the Editor of The Brening World Haye read with great deal of in- terest all that has appeared in the papers since the boxing match of July 2. I have noticed that the reformers | as they call themselves are making plans for the arrest and conviction of the officials of New Jersey for allow- ing this fight to take place. They| are always trying to have laws passed | to suit themselves. Now why don't| they live up to the laws themselves? | The law of New Jersey, as I under- stand it, allows boxing. Therefore, why should any one be arrested for doing something that is entirely within the law? WM. L. KOUR. 1914 Renta to the Bronx, Te the Editor of The Hyening World A says that in the year 1914 you could have rented a four-room apart- ment in the Bronx having steam heat, electricity and telephone for $12 per month. B says it would have cost more, Can one of your readers verify A's statement? GEORGE. New York, July 5, 1921. Not Helping Himself, To the Paitor of The Evening World: A few words of praise should be given to the thousands that marched up Fifth Avenue in protest against Prohibition. The men and women who tramped in that boiling sun, while summer resorts were forgotten, proved to us the spirit that was behind them I have only one sad admission to make, and that about one brewer who thought more of selling his bottled erage than backing up the march- ers, This brewer allowed one of his trucks to pass Fifth Avenue and Bleventh Street. It made a very poor showing to the crowds who were gathered there waiting to march Brewers must not forget that this is also their fight, and the least they could have done was to give all their working men the day off so they could join their friends in tne march for feeedom and liberty, ‘The Po Tu the Biitor of The renin : In a recent article in The Eve- ning World public porters are ac- cused of swindling “‘rubes.” Mr, Bo- land is quoted as giving an example of how the “rubes" are being swin- dled; also about launching the cam- paign to repeal the city ordinance |i- censing public porters, I wish to state to Mr. Boland and to the New York Hotel Men's A4socta- tion that the public porters will also look into their side of the matter and see that they get the proper protec- tion and justice that they received three years ago, when they were un- alizing than the saloon ld be," — Bounced as the result of about as disgraceful a con- Pai rer oe Neb (Bryan's Double), a \ nas to New York City and are | grateful, and appreciate the services | rendered by the public porters. I had a case yesterday of a young couple, strangers, or “rubes” as Mr Boland calls them, who wanted a room at a moderate price. They first went into one hotel and found the rates prohibitive. 1 then escorted them to another hotel. Prices there were more than the travellers desired to pay. I then left them and they, walked toward Fifth Avenue to see whether they could find something. | On my way back to the Pennsyl-| vania Station I walked into a third | hotel and asked the clerk for a weekly | rate, He told me his rate and 1) thought that would suit this couple. I then retraced my steps to Fifth Avenue and found my party—or “Mr. Boland’s Rubes"—watching the P rade. 1 told them of the rates and they said that that was what they were looking for. We then went to the hotel. They took a room and were very satisfied with the hotel and grateful to me for my services, Now this is one of the examples of happening right along. ‘8 have confidence in the pub- lic porter. ‘This is one of many rea- sons why the Public Porters Ordi- nance should not be repealed. There are black sheep in every crowd, and there are other ways of | abolishing the evil that Mr. Boland speaks of besides repealing the Public Porters Ordinance. A PUBLIC PORTER. » New York, July 5, 1921. ‘Theoretically In Jail. To the Pilitor of The Prening World ; Permit me, through your splendid paper, to extend congratulations to Wrank C, Drake, Miss Belle Norton and to all those who participated in the Fourth of July parade. The fact that 600,000 registered in New York City alone and 50,000 in Jersey City should be significant to the reformers. Many did not actually mareh due to the terrific heat, and therefore those who did march deserve credit. The women who so bravely opposed all hypocrites are expecially to be com- mended. ‘They have convinced us that the Léberty and Democracy for which our fore-fatners so valiantly ‘ought can not easily be re-placed by the tyranny and despotism of the reformers. One of the Anti-Saloon League «embers said they could count on women to favor Prohibition to the last woman. These poor, intolerant minds cannot conceive it possible that there are many good women in this country who have no desire to take all the Joy out of the lives of other people Keep up the good work, Mr. Drake and Miss Norton, The parade was merely the beginning of the protest against the Anti-Saloon League and their pestiferous colleagues, the Blue successful in their attempt to repeal the Public Porter Ordinance. “ Mr. Boland does not mention tiie many travellers (“‘rubes") who come Law advocates, Neither those who paraded nor anyone else with sense want the pack, mor the whiskey; but ~ 7 By John (Copyright MAKE YOUR AMUS Amusement is useful place. Games, theatres, enjoy your leisure that help you do your work. novels, And unless he he will never get half as much play golf. If tennis is the only thing golf or tennis. play games. they are not an extravagance. jor themse is intelligent recreation. end, life, coated pleasantly with the ON ec een reine Gnmuma trtemnnmnnrnnnnnne UNCOMMON SENSE aie Diake {MENTS PAY everything re just as nec Expensive amusements, howev The man who has his way to make needs amusement, but he cannot afford to contribute to it very heavily. can make his amusement pay for itself s he needs. Fortunately, it is very easy to make amusement return enough profit so that it is practically free. Outdoor amusements, from the costly golf to the in- expensive walking, can all be made to pay if they return in health what they cost in money All of them will do so if they Many a man gets out of golf or tennis a phy dition which could not be had at any price save that of money and time spent in exercise. The man who can enjoy no exercise but golf had better If he plays regularly he will keep his blood in circulation, digest his food and supply his lungs with the oxygen that his body needs for its complicated processes. tennis than let his body run to seed for want of care. He can get as much out of walking as he can out of But most, men will not walk and they will So the games earn their keep in health and If you read the right kind of novels and go to the right kind of plays they will stimulate thought and may pay ives many times over. Trash between covers or on the stage does nobody any good, and is, consequently, too expensiv Don’t be afraid of spending money on recreation if it The money will be returned in the It is not an extravagance; it is merely a necessity of sugar of enjoyment. joun Blake.) THEIR: KEEP. necessary. Without it the world would not only be a duil place’ but an impossible that as the helps you faculties ssar , are only for the rich. re indulged in wisely. ical con he likes, he had better play to indulge in. of a poem, “To an Inhabitant of Para- dise,” written by Scudder Middleton | tie Isles of the South Seas (Century | Company), concerning fish caught of | Tahitian reefs: Y why a poor man cannot have 4 glass of health-giving beer, or wine, is be- | yond the comprehension of anyone | but the Anti-Saloon League, The rich have orgies from their private stock while the poor man swelters, longing for his glass of beer, cursing the reformers and hating their law- makers. It the people of this country had had a chance to vote on whether the. wanted National Prohibition and tie majority had voted “dry” the peopl’ would have some respect for the dry law. But when a small mscrity g° to Congress and tell them they want this country bone-dry, irrespective of the will of the majority, and Congress obligingly passes their tyrannical jaws, the inevitable result must be a pation of law-breakers, If everyone who has broken the law against the juighteenth Amendment were in ja'l, they would have to quarantine the greater part of the country und say. | “Consider yourselves in jail.” New York, July 6. A WOMAN, : a From the Wise He that knows not when to be silent, knows not when to speak. —Frederick I. The greatest truths are the sim- plest; and so are the greatest men, —4J. C. Hare, Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.—-R, Whately. Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the deeds of men.—-Demosthenes, Fools are delivered from sorrow by time; wise men by reason, —Miss Carter. Joy is like a dream, but sorrow | 1s reai—Louis M. Notkin, TURNING THE PAGES ae OW goes it world— silences, the in your star-lit The wood? Does there the tiger hunt no more, The falcon twitter for his hood? Have you stripped all the boughs that tatis And calmed the torrenta'from the Wii? Are lamb and wolf nos recanciled? |[s hunger banished from your sil? Do you watch struggle unconcerned, Hear voices call you and not speak, There in your timeless acres feel Above your kinship with the’ weak? |On, guard the gates that shut you in! | Make sure the world behind eves! My world of men and lust and wheels Begins to march on Paradise. \ These four stanzas are four-fths (| brooding vous: for the current Yale Review. o 8 . Seeing Things in Tahitian Seas. ++ + Writes Frederick O'Brien, in “Mys- Impossible fish they brilliant re, pale blue, “@arrot-fish splendid in spangling radiancy, thei tails and a spine in their mouths giving them their name. These bits from the deep seem hardly fish. They are bits of the sunset, fragments of a mosaic, fu- turistic pictures, anything but’ our sodden, gray, or watery-hued fish of temperate climes, ome are as green as the hitls of in, others as blue as the sky, as crimson as blood, as yellow as the flag of China. They are cut by nature in many patterns, round or sectional, like a piece of pie, triangular, almast square, some with a back’ fin that floats out a foot or two behind, Of course Prohibition would be a sorow less heavy to be borne in a place where you can see things likv these without benefit of the social glass. Tho Real Poetry of Mother Goose. --- ‘ From an introduction to “An An- thology of Modern Verse,” furnishod by Robert Lynd: “J should say that, while “Little ss Muffet” is indubitably vers and “Little Jack Horner” (thoux, rich in character as in diet), almos indubitably so, “Ride a-Cockhorse’ is poetry. Here we are in a fantastic world a world beyond the prose of know!- edge. “Polly, Put the Kettle On," con tains not a word or a rhyme tha makes the world a new place fo us. “Ride a-C. howeve: out of our walled lives tin a dream. They liberate us into a fairylanc of chiming music andy flowers. There will be hope for any who e schoo) af new poets which, taking he clue from Mr. f.ynd, shall turn / examples to the lyrics of Mother Ee. Even sinners such as Alfred Kreym- bourg and the later “Orrick Johns may be led thus to repent and to re- turn to the fold. ee A Mother in Old Egypt.-- + Meanwhile, here too is poetry in the lines on “A Sandal String,” writ- Joseph Auslander for the July © Some little child of Euypt wore °, The sandal, and has left—a string . , 0 more Yet fingers tied it when it tore q With too much dizzy frolicking Of warm brown fect across the floor, | And when death came in >a king | ntly through the bolted door Some mother kept a sandal string ,. No more, al | Marianne Marries the Cook. - + + | Marianne is the keeper of the litué restaurant called “The Silver Bells” | and quite inadvertently she saves the life of Jean, who is a young chef of exceptional gifts Others know of Jean and his talent, and these make advances while still the voung 000k is a convalescent at the house of his |rescuer, But the two at the Silve | Bells hav in a story in the July H Swinnerton tells how it “My beautiful his faint voice. never leave th guardian, thy “My husband, ‘Ddegged. “[ ‘will cook ‘thee,” asserted Jean, carried away by his enthuslasm, wedding breakfaat such as no Ort has ever before relished, It shall be a boast and a saying In the wworkd for all time. “Thou art a genius!” cried Mari. (, ne. "Tam @ slave,” he responded, mod. ;/ est still “But 1 am_a great cook 5 | and ‘in that, if In no obher t will do thee justice, my queen, for | there I am without equal.” ’ ‘And so, we submit, there h: that strange thing in fiction—the pera fect union of reason and romance. cee iy Public Ownership and the “5 and 10.”--- In a prologue to his book, "A Dew fence of Liberty” (Putnam), the Oliver Brett, son of a British Viseow and husband of ggftew York girl reas sons thu: Questions of wages and the right to work; questions of hours and the right to have lelsure: all the pov- erty and snisary of the subme cling about the cloven foot of Woolworth as he rises to the pros perous surface of the social system. Yet we cannot be sure that we can get on without Mr. Woolworth however much should like to get on without him. e cannot be sure that the state will think it worth While to Peovide us with litte articles for ten cents. And even if it does, will not thooe bored bureaucrats on fixed Woolworth used to mak ‘The state may calmly announee ‘| that the little articles will be twenty cents in future, and then | We shall require more wages to bay em. : pend, then, there is the Tower rr. a} ire we are just roud of the Tower’ a8 ever My. cotworth was. We know would be a sad world if nobody built towers in it Quite possibly this is the first "time that public ownership has been cussed on the basis of the “5 and ja! It has been considered more gen ally, over here, as @ convenient is for politicians who alao were fri Jef the people yee Rg s y aie oa |