The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1921, Page 14

VETABLISHED AY JOSEPH Pi Publisbed Day Excop: Sunday by Oorspeny. Nos, $2 to @3 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Pow. 4, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSuP'| PULITBEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Now. MEMPER OF THY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Prem (x exelusieely entitied to the for repabiication STICK TO THE POINT. APAN’S way of approving President Harding's proposal for a disarmament conference need Mot cause overmuch perturbation. On the contrary, the silence of Japan as to the ' suggestion that the discussion include Pacific anu Faz Eastern problems may serve as a salutary re minder to President Harding and every one else ., that the primary purpose of the proposed conferenc t» is the limitation of armaments and that other sub- f jects should be discussed only as they prove neces sary or inevitable in pursuit of the paramount object. H It will be a good thing if the conferees gssemble with a feeling that they have got to begin with the paint and stick to the point. They would be less likely to have that feeling if the mations represented had eath cordially agreed tv discdss anything and everything under the sun that could be dragged in as remotely related to dis- armament. Get the conférence started as a DISARMAMENT conference. Once the discussion is under way, neither Japan Mor any other participant will find it expedient tu disappoint the hopes of its people by blocking or Sideiracking the main purpose. sccaakaisaaatigeumnoanrsctem “Profiteering retail confectioners will be forced to reduce their prices or retire from business. Their merciless and selfish gouging has been permitted long enough.” The above is from a statement made by the head of the National Confectionery Salesmen’s Association, The candy drummers know better than any one else the relation between whole- sale and retail candy prices. When they say “the average large confectionery store could slash prices squarely in two and still make @ substantial profit,” it is worth the attention of TZER | The Press Publishing | chee credited to {t or not otherwise credited tm thin page| candy eaters. \ No one will unge a “buy now” movement in candy until the advice of the salesmen is heeded, $10 WORTH OF NEW YORK. 66] D like to know how she had that good time on $10 in New York.” Thus The World quotes Recorder Carstens ot Ho- boken in his comment on the case of Mrs, Marabella of Riverhead who abstracted a $10 bill from the trousers of her sleeping husband and came to the city to enjoy herself. | Recorder Adolf has a lot to leam about New York. It is easy enough to find places here in which a $10 bill will not go far in providing amusement A luficheon and a matinee might easily leave 4 Riverhead visitor without change enough to buy a return ticket. But there are ways of enjoying New York in which $10 will take a visitor far. Turn to the ad- “vertising columns of any newspaper. There are the movies, of course. Even though the movie magnates fail to recognize that the war is over, $10 would provide days of entertainment. A sightseeing trip around Manhattan Island, a ‘voyage down the Bay and ‘return, the low-priced excursions to Bear Mountain under the auspices ot the Interstate Park Commission and, finally, the | many terry trips available, all give pleasure to many visitors without extraordinary outlay. Several 10-cent bus rides are well worth the while | of the visitor. A nickel invested in a subway ticket Includes a perusal of the Subway Sun, which sug- gests places of interest to visit. New York has museums, parks, libraries and 4 great 200 to help in the making of a “good time” ‘on $10 or less. Good music at the Stadium concerts is available for as little as 25 cents. Other concerts are free. And such a list only scratches the surface. It does not even mention Coney Island and the other amusement parks and beaches where $10 will go a “Yong way if spent with caution, Finally, it makes no mention of the streets of the | city. The discriminating visitor finds it a treat merely to watch the cosmopolitan crowds of the metropolis and to explore the racial neighborhoods scattered here and there. Thousands of visitors at the summer schools at ‘Columbia and elsewhere could teach Recorder Car- stens that much money is not essential to a good time in New York, \.. Probably these visitors could teach many a New Yorker how much enjoyment $10 will buy in “the | greatest summer resort.” HE “all-the-traffic-will-bear” price policy at ay most soda fountains these days is likely to ead to unexpected and unpleasant results. } Many soda fountain patrons once leaned on the. ; Mahogany bar and rested their feet on the brass | rail. When these patrons are charged 20 or 25 i cents for a mixed drink—without a “kick”—their INVITING IT. ~ minds revert to the days when they could tuy a ‘similar drink for 15 cents or two for a quarter, in- | cluding a comparatively expensive ingredient to pro- vide the “kick.” I gp a meme ete eevee ; THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 15, sail for a dime, the proprietor was wont to explain, was the heavy rent and the high license fee. The explanation was truthful and’ convincing. It is evident that many patrons have remembered. Talk to any male soda fountain customer who for- merly patronized the saloon and he is likely to ex- press amazement that city and State do not make up for the lost saloon license money by requiring licenses for soda fountains. If the soda fountain proprietors were not so evi- deitly profiteering, this question would not come up so often. - But they are, and every one knows they are. City and State are always hard pressed for new sources of revenue. The time will come when some politician will realize the popularity of such a licensing policy a8 a\revenue-producer. And with a record of shameless profiteering be- hind them, the fountain proprietors will have few friends to oppose such a measure, TIME TO STIR. O I want four more years of Hylan incom- petence in the City Hall? yi Every thoughtful voter in New York ought to begin to himself that question and be on the watch for ways to make his NO tell. It is an unfortunate fact that a large part of the city’s most intelligent vote sleeps silent and inarticu- late throvgh all the pre-election manoeuvrings of party organizations. The very voters who ought to have most to say about these preliminaries, who are in their quiescent fashion most interested in having the standards of Municipal Government what they ought to he, are voters who are never heard from until long after the political managers have plotted the campaign and picked the candidates. If fusion is to defeat Hylan this fall, the fusible elements ought to present themselves with a breadth and depth that will bear along the organization lead- ers instead of leaving the latter free to steer devious courses in which the whole purpose of fusion may be wrecked. Unless {rom now on the rank and file of voters, Republican and independent, take an interest in what is going forward and make themselves felt as ready to become an underlying but alert force in the municipal campaign, there is no telling what may happen. New York isn't goihg to be delivered from Hylan- ism by those who merely sit back and hope for the bes. THE FORDNEY BOOMERANG. HE loss in value of the country’s exports for the fiscal year just closed amounted to almost exactly the same amount as the decrease in imports. The figures should be of interest to the tariff tinkers in Congress, = That is always the tendency of imports -and ex- ports. Losses in one column usually result in losses in the other column. Mr. Fordney avows a purpose to keep out im- ports. Every dollar’s worth of merchandise kept aut by the tariff will be matched by an approxi- mately equal limitation of the export demand. An embargo on American exports would meet violent opposition. But that, in effect, is what the Fordney tariff means. “SPEED TRAPS.” 2 lle State Automobile Association meeting at Saratoga Springs advocated a law requiring that all muney collected from “speed traps” on highways be turned over to the State and noi, as under the present law, retained by the villages. Grant that automobilists are prejudiced against “speed traps.” Nevertheless, the point is well made. “Speed traps,” in which a motorist is timed over a measured stretch of road, are higily desirable .as a check on reckless driving. Probably it would be wel! if there were many of them and the traps shifted so often that the speeding motorist would always be in danger. : But “speed traps’ should be a means of punish- ment, not a source of revenue. As it is now, it is easy for a Justice of the Peace and two constables to enforce arbitrary village ordinances so as to bring in substantial revenue for the village—or cor- ruptly for themselves. An additional reason for “speed trapping” by the State would lie in collection of all speeding records in one office, making it easy to detect the habitual speeder and revoke his license. Well Take Anything That's Different From Tho Past Week. “Bt, Sucthin's Day, tf thou dost rain, Por forty days it wtll remain ; St. Swithin's Day, 1f thou be farr, For forty days ‘twill rain nae matr.” TWICE OVERS. a HE weather is affecting your head, isn't it?” One Stillman case attorney to another. se HE first promise to pay (a bonus) should not become due just before the elections of next Those days the only A these drinks did not | yeori'—Smnater. Kelloggs oreo a ‘Ss bs (The srieht. 1921 Cons 2 The Pree Pibiishing On New York Evening World) uth \) By John Cassel that gives you the wortR of a thous te coy much in a few words. Take The Fraits. To the Bititor of Tae Drening Worl Prohibition has actually accom- plished or brought about the follow- ing: 1. Corruption of public officials. 2. Tremendous increase in Gov- ernment expenses. 3. Enormous decrease in Govern- ment revenue. 4. 8mi decrease in petty “crimes and tremendous increase in felonious crimes. 5. Large increase in gambling, vice and drug consumption. 6. An attempt to create religious | strife in America. | 7. Encouragement to corrupt mi- nority organizations to seek through Congressional coercion and corrup- tion further enslavement of our peo- ple by blue laws, &. 8. Universal, daily, undetected and unpunishable violations of Prohibi- tion laws have encouraged genera: disregard for all laws. 9. Removed friendly intercourse between workmen and created Nu- tion-wide labor and social unrest, 10. Reduction in moral standard as shown by increasing reform move- ments and scandalous divorces. ' 1. Has deprived the poor and middle classes of good liquors and substituted easily obtainable wood alcohol whiskey, drugs and other poisonous concoctions. F, A. AUFFERMANN JR. Flushing, July 9, To the Bititor of The Dreming Worl | About eight years ago I saw a pic- | ture on the screen of one of the} stories of the Jarr Family, by Roy | L. MeCardell. I have searched since then to see another one, but to no avail, | I enjoy redding bis stories every! day, and no doubt many others} do also. Can't we again have the pleasure of seeing the Jarr Family on the screen? . CHARLES SCHLAM, Adamoon for Nay To the Miitor af The Dreoing World The time is rapidly approaching | when all thoughtful citizens must unite to consider the qualifications of available candidates for the Mayor- alty, following the term of our,present Mayor. In the consideration of avail. | able candidates no discussioh is com: | plete without presenting the accepted qualifications so eminently possessed by Robert Adamson. If ever in the| Gty of New York a candidate re-| ceived a training which better fits him for the office of Mayor the writer does not know his name. ‘As secretary to Mayor Gaynor, Mr. Adamson was in the strategic posi- tion of having an unequalled oppor- tunity to observe, to become familiar with and to study the great problems confronted by the various depart: | menis of our municipal government, How well he flled that position ‘s too well known by the citizens of our city| to require restatement here, | Week to increase their rates ater in- The Jarr Family. |the salaries of the em | Why should they be allowed to grow| From Evening World Readers Wheat kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one and tords in a couple of hundred? There ia fne mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. t himself to bis new duties and n enced rare executive ability the handling of his department. 4 no time, certainly within the histo: of the consolidated City of New York, was the Fire Department better or more ably managed than during Mr. Adamson's administration Since Mr Adamson relinquished this last office he has kept in con- ouch With the problems that pressing olution to-day. Adamson has the added quali- jon that other ndidates do not 1 would be uni- itizenship of the His candidacy 1id appeal both to the crganization nN aS well as the non-partisan who is interested solely in securing, for the City of New York a Mayor who will in every regnect measure up bo the magnitude of its responsibili- | You are in a better position to know of the sterling qualities possessed by Mr. Adamson than most individuais or institutions and your invaluable sup- port would count a ereat deal in help- ing to give New York the kind of aj Mayor it deserves, a man of the high type of Mr. Adamson, HERMAN MORRIS. No. 305 Broadway. July 14, 1921. Ci wou auentian? | To the Editor of The Exening World | If it took the railroads in 1920 one creasing the salaries of their em. | ployees, how long will it take in 1921 to decrease the rates after reducing | plovees? ; INTERESTED. New York, July 14, 1921. ; From a Grammar School To the Bitor of The Brening World T have read in the paper acco accounts of the so-called “Revising of rey can History.” 1 was graduated trom grammar school this year and studied €nough about my country t | ) 'y to rea! that almost every mae aduate, fact in this ’ book is wrong. Wane The great Revolutionary | which meant so much to both BEN nists and colonies and which. freed the nited States from the tyranny sland, together with the War| 1812, have been classified by our new historian as grave mistakes. Every English victory has been glori- fied to the greatest extent. The t viser of the history has explained every English failure to be caused} by some unforeseen accident. Ac- cording to his=statements, they are always on the point of victory when something unexpected occurs, thus causing their defeat The Americans are belittled to the lowest degree. No mention is made of Nathan Hale, Mad Anthony Wayne and other patriots who helped’ to make our histor Why should such poison be instilled into the hearts of the rising genera- tion? Why should their minds be stunted and stultified by falsity? up in ignorance of the true history | of their glorious country? How can they be expected to defend it when Fire Commissioner, Mr, Adam- gon showed signs of adaptability to they are taught that their forefathers were smugglers and thieves who (Copyright, 1921 NEVER BORROW TIME. You can replace a borrowed ten dollars, little the worse for the borrowing. You cannot replace a borrowed hour, for that particular hour will never come to you again. The amount of money a by his energy and acquisitiv known as his financial genius. The amount of time he has has a definite limit. The bi!l- tonaire has no more of it than the longshoreman—usuaily not nearly so much, When you put off to-day’s job till to-morrow you are Lorrowing time from yoursel practice. To-day’s job har got to be done some time. You can do it better in the time in which it was intended to be done thany in the time that belongs to to-1 The time borrower is always behindhand. accumulates until much of it 1 His affairs become involved for lack of time to attend to them. For that borrowed time is gone. There is no power on earth that can restore it to To take for idleness the to work is borrowing either from to-morrow’s work or to- The recreation is as important as the work. You have no right to borrow the time that should be ght's recreation. given it. Apportion your time carefully, sort of a person you consume it as you need for a given amo’ Use it intensively and ge be packed there. Use every hour effectivel never borrow any of it ahead. hours of to-morrow or of next And, being careful not to be just as careful not to bor others by dropping into offices for idle chats, or interrupting friends when they are at wor Time is the one thing in ‘That which is borrowed is lost that we can lose it without di UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake by John Blake. man can make is limited only e ability, which is otherwise f, which is a very dangerous morrow’s job, His work nust be left undone. him. time that ought to be devoted If you are the average about three times_as much of unt of work, t all the work into it that can y, either in work or play. But Never put a mortgage on the week, borrow any of your own time, row any time that belongs to kk. the world with a fixed limit. and none of us have so much sastrous consequences, ee fought against justice and authority? In general, what kind of citizens will they be? I am sure that every loyal Amer- jean citizen who studied the real history of the United States of Amer- ica will agree with me in the belief that this new history should noe be published because its poisonous, ma- licious. matter sows and will sow seeds of the spirit of hatred and febellion in the hearts of the chil- Gren, the future citizens of the coun OROTHY KUNSPMULLER, Yonkers, Juiy 12, 1921 “Disarm! Disarm ‘To the Frtitor of ‘The Preming World The World Almanac showe us that Twenty-three countries were at war in the great World War. $186,433,637,007 was the net coat, {i P 13,990,570 men were killed (approxi mately). 20,681,257 men were crippled for life, scarred, or otherwise disabled, What could be a stronger argumen: for disarmament? of humanity, DISARM! ROBERT RAYMOND Raj New York, July 14, 1921 sais Locked to the Val To the Pitivor of The Broning World : If two men engaged bles, themselves to a bag or grip of stew of it being stolen to the lowest d gree. Duplicate keys of shackles wor be held at either end of the journe: I would willingly volunteer for sue work myself, Po Brooklyn, July 12, 1921, If not for God's sake, for the sake in carrying money or valuables were to shackle construction it would reduce the chance | Stories Told by The Great Teacher | By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory) Copsright. 1921. by The Press Pubilsbing Co. | (Tae New York Evening World.) THE FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT. The story of “The Friend at Mid- night” ig found in Luke, chapter it, verses 5-9, It is a striking instance of what the old Romans called multum in parvo, “much in little.” The story, like most of those told by the Great Teacher, is short and pithy, its few words being packed with truths that abide forever. Upon reading the story we find that the Friend at Midnight was not an ideal friend. His triendship was not real and hearty, but was of the bogus variety, as is too often the case in this perverse old world. He heard the cry of distress raised by his neighbor, but fur u long time | pretended not to hear it, and when at jlast he granted the favor asked, he did so simply to get rid of the neigh- bor, The importunate besceching ot his caller disturbed not his s but his slumber, and when « gave the man the bread he | he did so not because he wanted his neighbor to have the loaves but be- cause he wanted to get to slecp again. “For God's sake, butler, uke a basket of bread down to that fellow or I don't get a wink of sleep to-night.” Of course, that bread didn't taste very sweet to those who ate itp) vided they knew a tho spirit out of which it was given. The Midnight Iriend did not dic in the time of Christ. He still and |his name is legion. You tind him everywhere; a@ friend in only, whose so-called friendly o in- | sired down at bottom by pure selfish- ness. But as we read furih' ony in the story we find one of the great basic truths of all successtul «ndeavor-—ths key-truth to the secret of ail nobl> achievements. The man GOT THE BREAD—ind he got it through his “IMPORTU- NITY"—by hanging on, dy steady, persistent pounding aw‘ty on the door, and by repeating over and ov the ery for what he was atter. No matter what it may chince te be that we are after, w Lit, as a rule, only by and through our own importunity, our determination to get it, our dogged persistence, our uncon- querable perseverance Faint heart never won f again ‘ir lady—0 | anything else thar was "hy “king of beasts,” whose courage knows no wavering, has the pick of the antelope, while t cowardly | jackal must be satisfied with what the }lion does not want In the world of tone | way of the professions, in the fivld of politics, it is the man with decision of character, firmness of purpose and | an inexhaustible fund of perseverance that wins out in the end. | And along the wiy of | living, in the struggie for t | of all prizes—a noble minis character — it is by IMPORTUD | by sticking to it and | face of temptation | make good and hes done, good the bette reatest ! Ten-Minute Studies | of New York City | | Government By Wiilis Brooks Hawkins. | ‘This is the eighty-second article of q senes defining (he duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION. This department is under the contre! ‘of @ commissioner appointed by the IMayor at an annual salary of $7,500 |1t has jurisdiction over practically ail city institutions for the care and cus- |tody of committed or convicted crimt |nals and misdemeanants, and persun held as witnesses in criminal cases | who are unable to furnish bail. | UDhe several district prisons are used | only for the care and detention of pris- oners from the varioux Magistrates’ | Courts who are held for trial, or are | serving sentences of ten days or less. The city prisons hold prisoners on Grand Jury indictments or for trial by |the Court of General Sessions, Court of Special Sessions, Sup Court and Federal! Courts, They also hoid pris- oners on short sentences for misde- | meanors. | ‘The workhouse on Welfare Island. | (formerly Blackwell's Island) receives) | misdemeanants from both Magistrates’ Courts and the Court of Special Ses: sions on short sentences and on inde: terminate sentences not exceeding tw years. The New York City Penitentiar; | also on Welfare Island, receives pri oners on vagrancy sentences fro Magistrates’ Courts and prisoners con, victed of felonies and of misdemeanot trom the Court of General Sessioni the Court of Special Sessions, County Courts and the Supreme Coui Jusually on short sentences. Eixor workhouse and penitentiary male pri oners are transferred to the brane! penitentiary on Hart's Island. ‘The New York City Reformatory at New Hampton Farms, Orange County, , receives male first offenders be- tween the ages of sixteen and thirty ‘on misdemeanor sentences. These som tences are indefinite, with a maxim’ of three years. These prisoners mi be paroled at any time by order of | Parole Commission. From the Wise Physicians, of all men, are moat happy; whatever good success so- t| ever they have, the world pro- claimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth, —Quarles. A veauttful icoman is never with out wit; she hus the wit to be beau tiful, and I know none equal to that.—Gautier. When my friends are one-eyed I look at them in profile. ~-Joubert, He who would cure his (gnorance n| must begin by confessing it — Montaigne,