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¥ “a “THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1921. 1TZER, Preeldent, PY , SHAW, Trea 6 EP Secretary MFMIER OF THE ASSOCLAreD Phi Press {s etelusteely entitied to the u Me Areoeistec Of ah new: dean: fer repubite and slvo the local news published herein ASSURED. HE disarmainent conference is a certainty. T While Japan's official acceptance has not, at this writing, been received, it is understood to be on the way. Great Britain, France and Italy have @ach and all formally recorded their readiness + foin the conterence, and China is asking to come in Particularly reassuring is the answer of France, as voiced by Premier Briand in the Chamber ot Deputies: “France will go to the conference without mental reservations or ulterior motives, She will seek every means to limit armaments, mili- tary as well as naval, in order to diminisa the “frightful charges that weigh upon the peoples, at the same time safeguarding, it is well under- stood, our own national security.” French views as to national seourity are bound to Concern themselves chiefly with the size of armies. There is no reason why France should not come into cordial agreement with a programme of naval disarmament, or why one of the first results of the Conference should aot be a plan under which the three great naval powers—the United Sta Great Britain and Japan—can proceed with immediate can cellation of costly naval building projects. It should be understood from the first that the peoples concerned expect the conference to be some thing more than prolonged discussion of questions sp broadened as to put off the time for concrete aétion. The conferees should meet under the heaviest con- céntration of popular will the world has seen. ‘They must feel that their whole business ‘s to find not obstacles to disarming but practical encouragements and imucements straightway to disarm. to HOOVERIZED REPUBLICANISM. N THE pre-nomination period of 1920 more than a little doubt was expressed as to Mr. Hoover's Republicanism. Not even his own statement was accepted fully by many orthodox party members. These doubis certainly will be renewed by Mr. *Hoover’s statement that tariffs cannot protect us from hard times. :Republican or not, Mr. Hoover ought to know that this is heresy from a Cabinet member in a Republican Administration. ‘Nevertheless, it is good to read such advice as he gave at the National Shoe and Leather Exposi- tign yesterday. If President Harding listens to the advice (and acts on it as he did in objecting to the crude oil tariff proposals) he will be on firm ground. The Republican Party may have to reverse some of. its campaign pledges to carry out a Hoover pro- gramme of reconstruction. By all means let the reversing begin with the iff plank. “The slump which is now upon us is an in- evitable part of war's aftermath,” President * Harding told the Senate. © This was an historic statement. It is the first time on record tha any responsible leader of the G. 0. P. ever admitted that anytaing resem- bling hard times could exist under a Republican Administration or could result from anything except Democratic misrule. BRONX CHILDREN SCORE. T REQUIRE “Children’s fruit. Ice cream prices took a drop as soon as the Bionx ice cream men had time to meet and take stock of the situation. ‘With such an example, it is more than probable that children in the other boroughs will take the hift and do some crusading too. Soda prices have not dropped along with the ice cream, but the Bronx campaign is only started It is'a good guess that soda profiteers will not be able to hold out. If Borough President Bruck- ner does not cut wholesale prices, is dikely to do so. threatening > less than tort in ight hours tor the the Bronx to bear Crusade” me competitor It not, some of the muithers competition. home-brew” 2, Mr. Bruckner ground. His r tion calling for assistance. make a clear and simple stat “prices cannot he reduced. His mere say-so will not satisfy the dissatistied. He facts and figures to prove his case. as a ious The Ast he ot ment why will need to cite THE CASE OF JACK MUNSON. tragic circumstances surrounding the death ete of Jack Munson, member the Lost Bat- talion and recipient of the decorations of honor a soldie int action Munson lied in Bellevue from tuberculo tracted in service, was removed to the M narrowly escaped burial in the Potter's Field ‘Almost by ident the facts were discovered and one of America’> most deserving war heroes est may earn, should shock the country s con gue and ys ereditrd to it or not otherwise crfdited im thip paps: will have suitable military honors and a grave in the National Cemetery at Arlington. Jack Munson, ‘most ¢ Uhe case ot meant death with and then won through in spite of the odds, attention once again to what the United States is mot doing to take proper care of disabled erans, Perhaps the death of Jack Munson may prove the final shock that will break Congressional and departmental inaction. If so, he will deserve one more medal of decoration. It is almost unbelievable that after nearly three years the Federal provisions for the disabled are stili ina tangle of red tape which absorbs money without getting results. There is no denying the Wilson Administration failed in this direction. So, tor, have Congress and the present Administration. The sad end of Jack Munson’s life will focus at- tention ‘because his record was conspicuous. But there are literally thousands of other cases no less deserving. Care of the wounded and disabled is on an entirely different footing from bonus pay- menis to the able, There is no exception to the demand for adequate care in such cases as Jack Munson’s. The Government should do more than be ready to care for these cases. It should seek them out. CONGRESS MUST HEED. | his message to the Senate yesterday President Harding presented, with a that ought to prove final, the unanswerable arguments ti lacome will draw forcefulness against a soldier bonus measure at this time. att expect a business revival and the resumption of the inthinkabl. the President declared, “to hormal ways of peace while maintaining the ex- cessive taxes of war.” “It is quite as unthinkable to reduce our tax burdens while commiting our Treasury to an additional obligation which ranges from three to five billions of dollars “If it is conceivably true that only two hun- dred millions a year will be drawn annually from the Treasury in the few years immediately before us, the bestowal is too inconsequential to be of real value to the Nation's defenders and if the exercise of the option should call for running finance and industry would be so marked that cash into billions, the depression in vastly more harm than good would attend.” !n other words, it would be empty gratitude and false bounty for which the recipients themselves must pay in a retum of inflation and high prices. Moreover, as the President points out, “a modest offering to the millions of service men is a poor palliative io more millions be employment.” The Evening World has never believed the proved who may out of patriotism of a majority of the Nation's soldiers is of the sort that would exact compensation at the expense of the Nation's recovery from the dire effects of war. Nor does it believe sound and healthy soldiers would knowingly demand a general distribution ot gratuities which, as the President says, will “im- peril our capacity to discharge our first obligations fo those we must not tail’—the maimed and disabled. Vhe leaders of the American Legion should be quick to indorse President Harding’ i same time starting a campaign to convince service men that national gratitude cannot be conveyed in national ruin. It is the duty + its lar patriotism—and also a truer respect tor the soldie Congress to show ger vote—by putting asi all thought of a present bonus bill. Bidding on a construction contract for the New York-New Jersey Tunnel! has been compli- cated by daylight-saving time The low bid would say 12 per cent. compared to the closest competitor, but it was entered an hour late according to daylig saving time. The unsuce that the commission reject 000 oF ul bidder demands To save $50,000 it might even prove wise to advertise for new bids. MARRIAGE AND NAVY PAY, ‘To the Editor of The Bvening World I see in your paper that some woman says no naval off v “under the rank of commander can afford to act married.” A lot of us do, and manage to keep tac wolf away from the doc The same woman s Why, the pay of a lieutenant, Junior grade, is only $2,000 @ year.” This is not true, and has not been true for two years, and, counting light and heat allowance, has not been tru The base pay of lieutenant, junior grade since 1908 was $2,000 a year, Two years ago this was increased by $60 4 month, or $720 a year. ‘This raises the base pay to $2,720, An officer in this grade has either no rent to pay. and is supplied with light and heat gratis if he lives on department grounds; or, if at sea, his wife draws a good equivalent, while his own pay is in- creased by 10 per cent Iv he does not live on department grounds, his rank entttles him to commutation of quarters, light ana heat for three rooms, amounting in this zone to about $859 a year. So with his poor wife he must stagge* along with only $3,570 a year! If be has been five years in the service he draws a ‘longevity fogey” of 10 per cent.; and if he is a “two striper,” as the officer whose engagement was broken off, with $%.170 base pay and nearly a thousand for commutation, the girl must love him part with him rather than force starvation upon him’ July 12, 1921. NAVAL LIEUTENANT, supremely to | ene | |_A Couple of Invitations Copsrigh by The Prone Pub (The New York Ee From Evening World Reader: What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be bricf. Building ‘Trades Wager. Louis Clinton Hates, Hua. Joho To the Biter of Phe Evening World Bigelow and Sidney George Fishe 1 note that the Building ades Nae Meee ie ede eet oe Ben ! , » York Jamin Franklin, who failed to - Employers’ Association of New York {imin Eranklin, who failed to rene ‘ity Is asking the mechanics of th€ iq any of them know that ther Wilding trades to give up the extra were 12,193 enlisted men of Irish} |dollar per day that they exacted in descent ‘or birth and 544 of whom jthe spring of 1920, and Mr. Crowley, Were, oMicers in the Revolutionary Tspeaking tor the Building ades At the battle of Bunker Hill the Employees’ ¢ saying if the de- second highest officer to fall was an cremxe is deme that they wiil qrishman, Major McClary. How demand an iner » dollar a3 many have read the beautiful tribute i reprisal, Mr y further’ paid to him by Daniel Webster at the states that (he agreement now in dedication of the Bunker Hill Monu- force cannot be broken without five! ment? In the Batue of Bunker Hill | months’ notice on either side, there were also hundreds of Irish- 1 would k Mr. Crowley what) men from the State of Massachusetts | sbout the agreement made in De-|who took part in this battle. | cember or 1919, in which wages were |“ 1n a report of the debates of the! [to be $1 per hour until December, | Engiish House of Commons in Octo- | 1921, unless it was that the cost of | per, 1775, » Johnston is quoted | |living should’ so advance that the | as saying “three to one in Ireland are | jsuestion should be reopened five |on the side of the Americans.” When months prior to Dec. 81, and | the war broke out Cork sent a vessel adjusted accordingly? Does he with provisions and clothing for Ww that the employees broke | Washington's army and Dublin voted agreement in April the thanks of the city to Lord Etfing- Vand demanded anoth ham for having thrown up his com- fay, practically sandbagg: mission rather than draw his sword ployers into” paying it” or have LanTHet A INGnLAne strike on ir hands? Does he t¢ | JOHN T, M'CAFFREY. jihis agreement? Employers do noty! ygrooklyn, July 11, 1921. neither does the public Baas : A. CONTRACTOR s * ina aii i i uperior Feminines. Iriah Coloniatn. 1 saw among the Evening World's Lo the Rito of Pyening World able litorials to-day an account of How many of your readers have] some young bobbed-hatred blonde tak- yer seen an article which was pub-| ing a verbal wallop at a bald-headed Atlant Jiished in the ., Monthly in| man who made an unwise and wholly |October, 1606, entitled “Five Contribu-| unnecessary remark ubout “bobbed one to Amariogn Oiviixatio| ;|ind blonded business giris,* and it lten by President Hilot of Harvard| Sng, cu ts ms 7 recormiand the tne of University, who sai at t the . sirl who handed out the wallop. mistake to suppc neess ‘ te AUREONS sees)" V've travelled much and ['ve seen assimilating fore an in them everywhere, but far from im- he nineteenth century he eighteenth ¥ wressing me as mere man's mental entury provided the colonies with al ! i superiors, it rather seemed to me that reat mixture of peopl ugh the UNCOMMON SENSE | By John Blake. (Copsright7"1921, by John Blake.) NG IS MERELY GAMBLING, It is possible, of course, lo guess how many times 7,008,- 4.576 is contained in 56,897,803.779,0.608. It is even pws- sible Lo guess it correctly, But you are not very likely to do it In fact you are not very likely to guess anything right. although sometimes you have a two to one chance. Yet a very great number of people go through life guess- ing at half the answers to the problems they have to solve, and being continually surprised and grieved because s0 many of their guesses turn out wrong. Just now in the world there are many thousands of peo- ple who guessed that the price of securities was going up as soon as the German people promised to pay the indemnity hey owe. Most of these people are wondering how they are going to pay the brokers what they owe or who is going 0 buy their food and clothes till they can find a way to guess back the money they guessed away. Gue x would be bad enough if all guessers were to le feund in the stock market and at the race track. Unhappily for the guessers and their dependents they not. You will find them in all trades and professions and businesses—imen who guess at little questions whose answers could easily be determined by calculations, men who guess wrong oftener than they guess right. We can only guess what the weather is going to be next July, or who will be the golf champion in 1927, But we can calculate exactly what we will have at the end of the year if we figure our expenses and our income, and that is what a very large number of people guess at regularly. In fact, in the conduct of personal business hundreds of matters are left to guess which could be estimated to the last penny, which is why very few people ever know whether they are getling ahead or going behind, or whether it is wise or foolish to remain in the same line of busine: Guessing is gambling. It gets the same results, which are usually kankruptey in the end. The man who means to get GU are 1 he 1 they are a petty, hypocritical, abso- long can do it if he tries hard enough > can’ i English racg then as now predomi-|iytciy selfish lot, who had an idea|$ “OP8. ugh. But he can't do it by Hit ie Revolution broke out tnere| mt thes. knew everything there was] @ucesing. If that were the case there would be little work jen the Revolution broke out there at all i i jow and that all men were their " B erely e e: were already English, Scoteh, Duteh, Ho ne BAS Bal 08 Leone te done in the world, for all of us would me rely guess the trend | German, Froneh, Portuguese : and] {sk themselves by what process. of of the stock market and by playing it amass fortunes with- dull 0 K iy. apaeat Nios oe the | weasoning they hac reached this] out effort. 0 AIRIBAION OF 8 PHONO ©) mazing eonclision < . Irish ax an element in the mixture.) “It tnewe young women aro the in-| As to what the people whose fortunes we should take ee a Senet of AVeAnIA ALOR WrOlE | ollectual superiors of the male of the] $ a¥%ay would be doing—well, we shall leave that for you to [resident Eliot calling bis attention | spocies, Jet them show it ina aub-§ xvess for yourself, i to the ; range MNT 4 A i i ape antial way and he make the world is nell'a letter was so fillod with historic! 4" hotter 5 live in, Actions $ vets tha could not be contra | oa tude Wa 9 a is Y jYerted and President Eliot was come eonak, Louae = ng ors ; re pelled to acknowledge his ignorance, A WESTERNER,. | fore the Congress. li needs no rec- . ‘T shall have to confess," he wrote to! Jersey City, July 9, 1921 ommendation. Its good, common} rom the Wise Mr. O'Connell, “that L omitted the} meds ee i sense character speaks for itself. | Irish because I did not know they | Doenn't Meet the Point. ‘A VOLUNTEER VETERAN.” Friendship improves happine were an important element in the} yo tie biter of Tue Brening World Lincoindale, N. Y., July 10, 1921. | Lai ugRpiNEee populition of the colonies in the| Please publish the following reply to ate | and abates misery by doubling our eighteenth century, My ignorance | your editorial, “A Self Eat onus J |Goubtless due to provinelalism." lit we had, this country wouldn't be} 1 Would like to know where they | Addison, he Springfield Republican, com-'yich enough to pay us. No amount! get the idea that Dempsey upheld | ting on this omission, eaid that {or money would be big enough to) America’s fighting record. Ninety] Every real need is appeased and lent Eliot confessed to an ex- equal the pain and. suffering and ‘ ; , of ignorance which was amaz- blood which young America offered t aH HARD mae vans plainly told the} every vice stimulated by sutistace z for a man in his position and/that good Old Glory might wave World he did not x tion.—Amie! which must have cost him) courage |hig Yet | agr with you again) Why does Dempsey differ from Les to admit It is almost impossible to when you that the losses of war arey The vers sport weitera that The concessions of the weak are conceive that the President of Har-| are permanent losses, that is, to some! razzed Les Darcy into the grave are yard Collexe was so densely ignorant |people, and liy to the ones trying to justify Dempsey’s war rec- | the concessions of fear.—Burke as he etended to be | wonder if; who were eng or the ones who ord me of these sport writers had ‘ OR ita Tere tuba ah ake “ hand they tie old ©. D. on themselves. 1 don't Vain people are loquactous; und an fs ‘ ; J. THOMAS. q fia neater n Ea aral \ have a chance. ‘The Bonus Bil get it J TH proud, tacidgn.--Schopenhauer, ‘game mot.ve which caused Bancioli, is the most wesw Bil ever gidb wep die ooklyd Jere addy 1921, \ ’ ' ) ' \nity knoe! | To-morrow | | Copts, his life is a \down the kindly | Stories Told b y | | The Great Teacher, j | By Rey. Thomas B. Gregory) Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co. | (The New York Evening World.) THE GREAT SUPPER. The story of the “Great Supper" Luke xiv., 16-24—deals with a truth as appalling as it is unchangeable— the truth of lost opportunity. To the hearty invitation to the Great Supper there came nothing but excuses—a great basketful of them, of every conceivable variety. One had to look after his oxen; another had to look over a new farm that he had just purchased; another had just got married and couldn't leave his bride; and so on, The host was naturally this careless turning down of his proffered hospitality and forthwitn took Steps to “get even” with the boor- igh set who had so unceremoniously spurned his invitation, He said to the servants, “Go out into the streets and fields and bring in the poor, the lame, the halt and the blind, That supper is going to come off, no matter what happens—and not @ one of the crowd that so curtly doubie-crossed me at the start shall be permitted to enter the banquet hall.” And they didn't, ‘There was a great hurt at time at the tables, which groaned un- der the weight of the good cheer; but the senders of the “re &picuous time ts" were con- ence, The glad Had no part ip passed and the. tever. is long call from the Great ‘Teacher to the (¢ at Dramatist, but Jesus in this Story of the Supper had jn mind the same thing that Shake- spe. was thinking of when he wrote the famous lines, “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries,” The tide of the ocean comes and goes—and comes again, but the longer I live the more firmly am | fixed in the conviction that the tide of su- preme fortune never returns. More and more am I a believer in the truth of the ancient ada that “opportu- Sat @ man's door but once.” The little opportunities may tap at the door over and over again, but the Grand Opportunity comes but once. Like the finger which writes and then moves on to write elsewhere, he Great Invitation calls at our door being spurned, never calls aguin Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.” Now © never! — Yesterday is gone forever is a myth. ‘To-day’s the thing! Strike while the iron’s hot or strike not at all In the one thing that a man can do best something that he was “made to do,” and b's genius invites him once, and once only, to follow his star; if he o uceess; if he turns all, he is a miserable faflure, In the great conflict between Good and Evil the Eternal Righteousness sends its bugle call to every one of us, calls on us to swear allegiance to the Good and do battle for it, and if for any reason we refuse the sum- mons, our life will have been lived in vain, will in the end prove to be full of “shallows and miseries,” of nausea and hell For I say unto you that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my suppe \ Ten-Minute Studies | of New York City | Government | | By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the eighty-first article of @ | series defining the duties of the ad- | ministrative .and legislative sficera and boards of the New York Oity Government, VOLUNTEER LIFE SAVERS. The United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps was formed in 1890. Since 1904 the New York City Depart- ‘iment of it has been supported by the | ‘The work is done under a paid super | state of two persons, is by volunteers rand a paid The corps main- | tains: J50 stations on the city water front with 6,000 members. Its work | consists in organizing and drilling life |saving crews and supervising their | Work at the public beaches and swim- jing places. The supervisor instructs the members in first aid work and in \the treatment and resuscitation of | drowning persons. He Bives free ion in swimming and first aid es. Part of his duty is to give first aid to any city employee or visitor in the Municipal Building, where he | maintains an office on the third floor, | In 1920 members of the corps res- cued 400 persons from drowning, as- ted 303 boats and removed 836 persons from disabled boats, . First aid was rendered to 6,149 persons: 11 bodies were recovered from the | water; 8 animals were saved and five | fires were extinguished. The mem- jt removed 38 barrels of broken | and took out rs ass from the heaches jof the water 288 pieces of wreckage | sufficiently large to damage a boat | Commodore Charles FE, Raynor, who s had forty years’ experience as a Wimming instructor and life-saver, |is the supervisor ae WHERE DID YOU GET * THAT WORD? 50—HUSBAND. | A body-blow at the theory of the equality of the sexes is delivered by the original meaning of the word usband.” But the blow 1s only a fein. Husband" is derived from the Ice- landic “husbondi,” the head vf the house, But “husbondi’ itself is de- rived from “hu (a house) and buondi" (to dwell in). So the theory that the husband is the he f the nouse, instead of only dwelling in it | was an afterthought on the part of he Ieelander In point of fact, in its secondaey ining the verb. “to husband” | means to. cultivate Lhe soil Hence jit is a word denoting hard work for Jitttie pay as is the lot of the hus- bandman , farmer, So, in reality, feminists have little to fear from the argument against them confdined in the derivation of line word “husband”