The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1921, Page 16

ES SFud _ ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by The Proas Publishing Company. Now, 83 to 63 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row. J, ANOUS SHAW, Treamurer, 65 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITAER Jr. Secretary, 62 Park Row. ai MEMIER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Toe Associated Prem te exclusively entitied to the use tor republication OF all news despatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited im this pages | end also the loca! ews published herein THE ESSENTIAL IS THERE. ‘AST night’s announcement of the State De- partment is rightly hailed as a great step toward disarmament It is true the Borah amendment proposed a more Timited and therefore more immediately practicable move. Kt is true that getting Great Britain and Japan to aeree with the United States on a reduction of naval armament might prove a simpler matter than bring- ing Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy into agreement on a plan of general disarmament to in- chide armies as well as navies. Nevertheless, a substai.tial start has been made in the right direction and tax-burdened peoples should support any programme that brings Governments into actual conference on a propesal to disarm. President Harding’s suggestion that Pacific and Far Eastern questions be included in the discussion is regretted in some quarters as likely to cause com plications and delay. Yet it would be manifestly impossible to keep Pacific and Far Eastern questions out of a three- power conference on naval disarmament such as the Borah amendment proposed, Although, in responding to popular demand for disarmament, President Harding’s plan may aim at too much at once, it leads to the essential thing— the getting together of nations for the great purpose in view. Once Governments sit together in council on the question of reducing armament burdens, the will of peoples can be counted on to make the confereiice produce results, TRUCE IN IRELAND. N auspicious beginning of what may prove the most momentous week in Ireland’s history. The truce between the British armed forces and the Republican Army in Ireland which takes effect at noon to-day is only a truce. But it is a truce behind which can be discerned in mest factions, both British and Irish, the strongest desire yet manifest to end intolerable strife and bloodshed in some peaceful compromise. The coming conference between De Valera and Lloyd George, cautiously as the Irish leader has chosen to approach it, is bright with possibilities. Not onty Great Britain and Ireland but the whole workd besides quickens with new hope that this sore spot of centuries can be healed. It will be healed if the present spirit of conference and concession prevails through ALL Ireland. , The habit of the outside workd has been to regard the South of Ireland as the irreconcilable, intractable part. Yet here is De Valera proposing to grant the Utsterites “such autonomy as they themselves desire and such as is just,” while it is the Belfast Orange newspapers that keep the irreconcilable note sounding amd denounce what they call “the Government's descent into the valley of humiliation.” This is no time for Ulster to frighten away peace by demonstrations of unyielding bitterness. When Irish Republicans at last speak in tones of reason and conciliation, Belfast should find something betier than contempt and hard words. A crushing weight of blame will fall on Irishmen of any county or color who seek to spoil the work of this week's conferences, A “FIVE CENT SODA” LEAGUE, ODA fountain profiteers -had better get the “Sell Now” idea, and quickly. Competition is too keen to permit an everlasting continuation of war prices. Last Saturday youngsters in the Bronx staged a “Five Cent Soda” demonstration. They called on Borough President Bruckner, who manufactures soda waier, to ask his aid, and they began to “picket” the “unfair” profiteering soda fountains, If Mr. Bruckner is politically inclined he will listen to the cry of the children, Many a promising political career has been checked by a slogan less effective than “Five Cent Soda.” Children in other boroughs are likely to follow the example of the Bronx youngsters. When a boy or girl has only a few pennies to spend, a picket line will be effective, particularly if a neighboring foun- tain advertises fair prices. The lines are already broken. Proprietors are discovering that quick sales and reasonable protits beat scattering sales at from 200 per cent. up. The hold-outs will only establish a bad reputation with the thirsty children, who will spend where they get fair prices, A “Children’s Crusade” against soda profiteers will bring resulis. Watch the youngsters and the price lists. THE HOME-BUILDING BOOM. ENT profiteers are not getting much satistaction these days from the reports ot new home con struction, And by the same token the great ma- \ hor atte SS Steer nara FRIES: HET jority of rentpayers have reason for self-congratula- tion. Every new home means lower renis eventu- ally, even if the effect is not vet striking | In the country at large about one-third of the new | building is for homes. In New York considerabls more than half the money invested this year in buildings will go for residential property Tax exemption is the principal reason for the striking difference. It is probable that the effect ot the exemption privilege will be cumulative until the emergency ordinance expires, next spring. | ‘Thus far there has been a gratifying proportion of small homes in the building record. The reduction in steel prices last week should prove an incentive to | construction of apartment, buildings in which steel | plays an inyportant part. Negotiations for wage reductions are under way If these succeed, the last six months of this year and the early part of 1922 should witness a building boom here that will break all records. GOVERNMENT BY “BLOCS.” DISTINGUISHING feature of the abundance of criticism hurled at the Republican Party these days is that so large a part comes from sources ordinarily classitied as Republican. This seeming confusion is the result of a misun- derstanding of what is actually going on in Wash- ington, The simple truth is that no such thing as a Repub- lican Party exists to-day. The existence of a Demo- cratic Party is almost equally doubtful. What we have in Washington is a deadlock by Congressional “blocs.” istence of a non-partisan agricultural bloc is openly acknowledged. One Senator recently picked out no less than nine virtually distinct groups of legislators in which “Republicanism” or “Democ- racy’’ is subordinate to special interests of one kind or another. In the Parliaments of Europe such a condition is the rule. Each party has a definite programme. Each party also has a responsible leader. A “Gov- ernment” is made up usually by the leader of the strongest party, who concedes to the smaller parties some parts of their several programmes in return for the support of the Government programme. In this way a coalition secures a “working majority.” In Washington there is no “working majority.” Recently Senate Leaders Lodge and Underwood united in asking a recess and were defeated. Ostensibly the Republicans are the “majority.” In sober truth, they are a majority only for distribu- tio of patronage. Deep lines of cleavage appear. The agricultural bloc stands first and last for a programme. The protectionists ¢onsider the tariff paramount. If we had an Irish Party it would command a few votes. The pro and anti League camps exist with small re- gard for party lines. In such facts appear a great and imminent test of our form of government. The test has been long in coming. It has been staved off by a succession of “strong” Presidents—Cleveland, Roosevelt and Wil- sot During the McKinley and Taft regimes a small and determined “Old Guard” assumed, through cunning and experience, a direction it could not hold. Are we soon to develop a parliamentary system in which the present “blocs” will reappear as parties? Under the present system we have almost reached a po:nt where an autocratic Chief Executive is the only alternative to deadlocked inaction, Will a new and stronger budget system prove a way out by which the Director of the Budget will be made responsible to Congress instead of the Presi- dent, and, acting as “Assistant President,” will lord it over Cabinet members and make them or break them according to the will of Congress? Or what? No good citizen can escape such questions when confronted by the situation in Washington. Sooner or later this Nation must find a way out. The country has grown too big and too diversified in interest for \wo-party government as now conducted. TWICE OVERS. ce HE American people owe it to their dead sol- diers to keep this country on the upward path.” —Senator Lodge. i ( is the imperative duty of the German people and Government through lively propaganda to | refute the view still largely held in America that Ger- | many is to blame for the war." —Former German Min- ister von Seydewilz. + «© ‘ ee 1 0, I did not go to see the fight. What 1 went to see in order that | might rebuke it was a | mob of 90,000 betting, sweating, scrambling, swearing, screeching human beings." —The Reo. John Roach Straton. * * * . . . “ce HERE is more bunk in the movies than in any other business on earth.” —Harold Bell Wright. * 8 8 ©] HAVE found nothing in American customs that does not interest me and that I da not like.” - Fatima, Sullana of Kabul, | can.” — Very Disturbing! |THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1921," By John by ‘The Prewy iatsiniiing Co (The New Yors Evening World Cassel te say much in a few words. Take Not As a Medicine, ‘To the Baitor of The Brening World I'm a young tellow who viel | brought up tv obey what my folks considered was right and above all lespect laws thut were in force; but, ch, how times have changed since 1 was boy, Can you imagine what iclief we could hu had during this hot spell if Anderson and his tollows had been men enough to get into & uniform when every mother’s son Was needed, instead of putting over the, Kighteenth Amendment? Ol, men, do you remember the old times when the thermometer was up around 100 and Pop used to bring home @ half dozen bottles of good oid beer? Them were the happy days Remember buck u few years ago when we used to get a pass oul of camp and come home to see the folks, inaybe for the last time, what did they have for the big suiprise? A Lalt dozen botties of beer, 1am an ex-soldier who is well and 1 don't want my beer as a medicine, | To Quench a To the Kastor of The Kvening World 1 read the letter of readers who sighs iret. | one of you hiawelt “Ameri: | In his letter he bases his argument on how weil off the Indi without fire-water. 1 Wink inent is Weak when he comp to a lot of savages. They very progressive, were they, veto} they haw the white man's flre-water? Why didn’t he refer us to the Turks. they have Prohibition? Another pr pressive natic Why doesn't he look the matter square in the fac Prance hasn't Yrohibition, but they fought for five long years and would not quit even when the going was rough. Germany was licked good and hard but be were is argu. res us weren't if they had Prohibition they would Luve ‘been licked long before they were, America had a preity healthy army and you can bet we all like our glass f beer let this sink into the reformers head: “We dont want U as a medicine; We want it to quench our thirst A.D. D. A Oharm Anninat Evil To the Faittor of The Hrening World Now that those Jnint at the pe teachers who sibility of inp ving xcellent economic sys- | n efiectually squelched joy the truly American Lusi hill, why | not our official attention. to those breedin es Of radicalism, the public Hbrar many \ dangerous be collection, | tions, books fairly acrilege, m, "and a nd hinations in the eyes of all t per cent Americans. What, for instanc ful sentiments of th saints on the sul fe the shame- ly Christian | solshevism. From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | There ia Ane mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Isn't it the one time to be brief. stripe, whieh may he obtained at any pubic library by uny scuvviboy tus the asking? What of the happily obsolete, though still obtainable, documents Known respectively as the De tion of Independence, and the C : stitution of the United States? What of the fantastic, and hitherto popu- lar, superstition that the majority should rule? What of the archaic and somehow touching notion that personal liberty is a good thing to! have, even if one has to break laws and incur the displeasure of the powers that be—il necessary lo die for it? AN these and many more mischiet | king concepts of a happily bygone | be uneartned at any pub- Shall we suffer them to hi brave fight) sof radicalisin, | we ure, I think, sidious germs of | As a precaution, how- | ever, L suggest vhat we utilize the vust’ sum of money that Prohibition has saved us in tae manufacture oi | Is bearing the likeness of Mr to be worn about our necks as m against the forces of ev® W. SCHOPENHAUEK. n, July 4 As for ourselve immune to the 14 thie Faitor of The ba I read with great interest the efforts of Dr. Wilbur Cratts and the national Reform Bureau to nave Gov Kdwards of New Jersey impeached solemn dec that of the Carpenticr-Demp and their wlions spectators ney fl © felons. AS a pean L have not much regard for boxing. In fact, a fis 8 of funke which either did I 1 nad an fight reminds me alway who scramble for a tp Feen thrown to them po to see the fight altho ition to a ring-side seat at majority of the peo- in this country like boxing and is no doubt that the American i have to thank boxing for the “push? which has made them the most powerful Nation ef the world. hing minority, crea- the kind of Wilbur ing to deprive the ma nething which the minor}- | approve of, They maky efforts to distunb the peace ur to insult a high ereign and independ- n 0 80 Mato! rmers” in this country have caused a jot of trouble, A number of people who violated the various Pro- | hipition te were felon recone that t were put in penitentiaries, where they were put in the company of thieves, robber ¢ xnm 1 8 were treated as if they themselves with the notion t, Thoy were sanet institution, private What of the malefie maunderin Paine, and 1 u, and Jeffers and Lincoln. innumerable ot! revoluuonary reprobates of the pi atig- ‘ice recov +a us Only Babural Uned ' inter- | . and men who could not| ake a drink is a fe'ony now, | x and murderers and received | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Join Hiake.) BF. A CAREFUL COLLECTOR We are all collectors of pictures. cameras, the nerve centres back of them as brain as a storehouse of our mental photog about much as does a camera man for the w supplement. And as the camera man has to be very ca selection of his pictures, so ought we to use our best judgment im the selection of ours. Everything that goes through the ey brain temporarily. But the brain retains think about for a little or for a long time. In takes the trouble to develop and print but f pressions that come to it through the eyes, or through the cars. The almost limitless storehouse called ni casily overloaded with worthless junk, as can ers plate rack, unless we are a little partic yictures that we place there, sis There are many of these pictures that we cannot throw have all witnessed accidents sudden and unexpected scenes, either of horror or beauty, if we away want to. We which will remain printed on our minds as lon, Yet these things happen but occasionally sidering the subjects our eyes are photograph are recording, and making a conscious effort to retain the im portant ones and to discard the unimportant ones, can we which will be serviceable and always build up a memory of use to us. When we reflect that perhaps a thousanc things we see and hear are worth preserving that securing a well stocked memory is not as it seems, Yet no brain operates automatically in Only by sifting the useless from the useful, what we see and what we hear, and trying to store it away ii is of value, can we train our minds to perf suliconsciously. A pilot, for example, has first to think about the marks in the channel and along the shore which enal Ius vessel off the rocks, By and by he will ¢ With our eyes as plates, and the rhs, we nictorial go eekly reful about the printed on the only what we other words, it few of the im for that matter lemory can be a photograph ular about the or g as we live. . Only by con ing or our ears dth part of the it will be seen hard a task as that respect. by thinking of if orm this offic: sle him to keep jo this without thinking, and his memory will go on feeding itself what it needs without any thought, "This we all do more or less in our voca the man or woman who always tries te pr pictures who has the most valuable brain gall tions. But it is serve the best ery in the long run, And these are the people whose memories pay the bes: dividends as soon as they begin to use them as capital. 8 nen | | i] |! Government By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the eightieth article of series dejining the duties of the ad- | d public nuisances The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff 1921, by The Pree Publishing Wan Pak renner XXV.—THE MEN WHO WROTE MAGNA CHARTA. | From the signing of Magna Charta in 1216 to the framing of the Declara- | tion of Independence in 1776 stretches la wide span of more than five and one-half centuries, And yet an unfroken line of politt cal tendency and a steadfly growing [respect for human rights mark the event of Independence Hull in Phite- delphia as the spiritual successor co \the historic gathering in the plain of | Runnymede King John was the immediate oc- casion for the framing of the Mu Charta. In the course of his varius quarrels with all—or almost all—iis neighbors on the Continent, King Jolin had subjected barons and People alike to more exactions of treasure and of blood than they would bear. So, after a disastrous expedition to Hrance, where he had been defeated sand his forces shattered by his some | bined enemies at the battle of Buu- vines, on the River Marque, in France, |his barons arranged a warm recepusn | for him at home. It has been said that aN reformers are young. That is true at least io | the extent that all reformers are far from spiritual dotage. | It was a reception committee of young or near-young barons—-the new |nobility toat had largely suppientea | the old Norinan barons in the North |--that waited on King John ow the |meadow of Runnymede on June 14, | 1215, Or, it would be more accurate to say that it was King John who waited on the reception commitee. They presented tw him the paper of forty-nine arti (acterward ex panded to sixty-three) and pointed to the dotted line provided for the King's signature. Abandoned even by the citizeus of London, the King saw no course open to him but the course of the dotted line, ‘The goose quill in bis hand aia | its work-—-but with @ reservation up ler the royal cranium which was des ned to vost the King dear a Uice later ‘That Magna Cha.ta was a pioncer- na ng stride in the world’s progress om the meadow of [tunnyinede, tor the first time in history, nobles) ond commen people —anelading the nen merchants of London—had comb ties make a King behave himsel? and spect his coronation oath, Cavillers have pointed out that the t Charter was an instrumert de lod by the nobility for their own cnefit in their contest with the royal power, That may have been true to ome extent But the wide scope of this refresh- ing document is shown by some of the things which it accomplished, and by others for which it prepared the «round and of which it plainly fore- shadowed the realization. Here are some of these imperish- able things: It established the right of lords and commoners alike to their lands and other properties. It established the Court of Common Pleas at tyrannical Westminster acts to guard by the King ed reasonable limits upon the s's power to punish By stipulating the Immediate tria of prisoners it furnished the basis for that mighty bulwark of individual rights known as the Habeas Corpus Act Ry forbidding the passing of tence except upon the verdict of a man’s peers, or equals, it enunciated the principle of trial by jury. | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City ministrative and and boards of Government. legislative sficers the New York Osty CITY SURVEYORS. The Examining Board of City Sur- veyo: isists of the Chief Engineer of the Board of Estimate and Appur tionment, two consulting or topoxrapa- ical engineers in the empioy of the city and two City Surveyors appointed by the Board of Aldermen, Candi- dates for appointment as City Sur- | veyor must pass an examination by this Examining Board ap by th Surveyors are for Aldermen, ity emy appointment City not y the practice for the and grades for street to make street open! work by offices: has bh the on topugraphica of the Borougit City Surveyors are private grading the deter. hut the vity any lines or City Surveyor. |‘That’s a Fact By Albert P, Southwick Nel Poet fventng Wordl these people cannot have res! for; should be Of the expression, “double or v jaws of this kind and the d roof}ond disturbers of the peace and it|able standard,” in money, the term the spreading of such @ feeling 18| should not difficult to find Judges |syariable” is erable to that of reat. r juries to conviet them _ 7" aie athe ‘blame for this Nation-wide | am a foreigner and cannot take | “douele” inasmuch as the doubie contempt of laws is to be attributed | such For 1 know that) Standard never exists at one and the to the “reformers” who in many cases | Wij, and his crowd would|same time, gold or silver becoming are but well-paid representatives 0f| , pg¢ tism,” the well alternately the standard as the state certain interests, as the number of} ing resort knavos, ind nim| of the exchange makes the one or the actual “reformers” who followed the| themselves “defenders of Amorican | other more desirable as the practical various movements for idealistic rea-|jsm against foreign ideas.” I hope | medium of ¢ ange, ts rather small, ey Reet to 8 doos not some American-| standing has t A nvohe tie low against to lush these Crete and of sai crowa? ‘Taey a some n the whip in hand hoy decerve ae PD de a American of} Minnesota was admitted to the Hion in 1858. the jPecame & Bute,