The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1921, Page 10

| ESTABLISHED NY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily wacent Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Now. 53 (0 62 Park Rew, New Tork. RALPH PULITZMR, Prowldent, 68 Park Raw, Lan SHAW, Treamirar 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITBEN Jr., secretary, 3 Park Row. MEMIEN OF THY ASSOCTATED PRESS Mee Arwctated Prem le exchuriee’y encities to the we for repubtiesttee Fall news Genpatches ereditrd to i. of not otherwise credited im thy page Ed alto the local news publisbed bereun MR. COOPER'S CASE. MONG notable arrivals in town this week was Noah W. Cooper of Nashville, Tenn., who says the whole country will crash down to ruin in twenty-five years unless it adopts his law to make Sabbatly observance compulsory. Mr, Cooper wishes it understood that he is in no sense a fanatic. All he aims at is to prohibit all interstate commerce, all movement of the mails and all business for gin on Sunday. When Sunday comes round, Mr. Cooper explains, “every time I hear a train thundering across the country or hear the whistle of a locomotive it sounds worse to me than a German bomb explod- ing from overhead.” Mr. Cooper's case is interesting but comparatively mild. ‘There are persons to whom a child’s laughter on the Sabbath brings thoughts of eternal damna- tion and who regard a Sunday picnic as a shocking violation of Divine law. AVork rather than enjoyment on the Sabbath seems to be the primary cause of Mr. Cooper's spiritual disquiet, and we are inclined to believe that trying to prevent other people from working may be a somewhat nobler aim than trying to keep them from enjoying themselves. There is another thing we like about Mr. Cooper. He says: “T do not believe in passing a law that is not backed by public opinion. Such a law cannot be enforced.” That shows that Mr. Cooper has had his eyes open of late. Maybe what he has seen will make it easier to convince him that public opinion is not bounded on all sides and forever by the zeal of a limited group thai contrives to get a stranglehold on cowardly legislators. We have hopes of Mr. Cooper. Is Japan's attitude toward the disarmament conference so different from the attitude of the United States toward another great invitation in the interest of world pea FRAZZLED BRITISH TEMPERS. OT WEATHER and the accompanying silly season are not confined to the United States. England has been experiencing a prolonged drought —meteorologically, not alcoholically—and torrid weather. This may help to account for the action of Lloyd George and Lord Curzon in barring reporters of the Northcliffe papers from the Foreign Office be- cause of criticism levelled at the two Ministers by the Northcliffe press. Hot weather and hot words, temperature and temper, often appear together. It is not surprising that Lloyd George and Curzon are affected with “nerves” after going through a reparation settle- ment, an Imperial conference, Anglo-Japanese nego- tiations and an Irish crisis. ‘ Put their action is not only foolish but futile. The Northcliffe papers will get the news, if not di- tectly, then from competitors jealous of the pre- rogatives of the press. It is to be hoped the British Premier is not meet- ing Eamon De Valera and Sir James Craig with so short a temper. On the other hand, if his outburst against Northclffe was im the nature of a safety- valve release under high pressure, the world should be thankful that it came before he met the Irish representatives. “Never Again, War” leagues are reported nu- merous in Germany. A far safer, more lasting growth than the Hohenzollern “Der Tag” s0- cleties. WHO WAS ASLEEP? bf lair ‘ner parents and a considerable part of Yorkvilke—inchading the police—were hunt- ing for little Catherine Sands, the two-and-a-half- year-old girl lay in a hospital as the result of a traffic accident. The police had record of the child's disappearance tn the East 88th Street Police Station. The traffic accident was recorded in the neigh- boring 104th Street Station. But no one put the two records together and found the girl. She was discovered through a news- paper story and picture. Question: Who was asleep in those East Side > Would alarm clocks help? WORTH $150,000,000 TO HENRY. USCLE SHOALS development has been held rs wp as a classic of Government incompetence and waste, Ii fas been exposed as an awful ex. ample of the “fool things” a Government gets into when It trles to do something for Itself instead of depending on “privaic Initlative’ for everything. Henry Ford's offer must come as something of @ shock to this class of critics. The Muncle 5! Project has cost $80,000,000 Ls ° | THE EVENING WORL to date. It is expected that $28,000,000 will com:- plete it. Congress has been debating whether it would not be wiser to write off the $80,000,000 as a war loss and abandon the. whole thing. But Henry Ford offers $150,000,000 for a long lease on the property. He is also willing to go through with the nitrate-making project and sell the fertilizer at a limited profit under supervision of a board of representatives. In time of war the Gov- ernment may have the nitrates for explosives. Many question Mr. Ford’s social philosophy. Few deny his shrewd business sense. If Mr. Ford can see $150,000,000 in Muscle Shoals, what has been wrong with the evesigh! and bus’ness sense of Con- gressinen who wanted to abardon it? Maybe it was not such a “fool thing’ after all. ‘The steamship Leviathan was to be looked over to-day by Chairman Lasker of the Ship- ping Board, with a view to deciding whether abe can be restored to the transatlantic trade. ‘We recall no more depressing spectacle of monumental waste than the Leviathan as she now looms patntless and dirty in her Hoboken dock. CONGRESS WOULD LISTEN. HE recommittal of the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill in the Senate yesterday by a vote of 47 to 29 shelved, ai least for this session, a measure bound to have the direst effect in retarding the country’s economic recovery. Following President Harding's earnest request for such action in his message of last Tuesday, the Senate vote is strong testimony that his influence with Congress is by no means slight when straigit- forwardly exerted. The country would gladly see it exerted further. As for example: Ontlining the “great economic programme of our Presidem” in an address before the National Associ- ation of Real Estate Boards in Chicago yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Hoover put. significantly first and foremost: “Revision of ovr lax system.” So far, Congress has not chosen to take up the programme in that order. Of late, however, Congress has been hearing di- rectly frora business men and bankers who want to know why the tariff is crowded ahead of tax revision and who believe with President J. W. Har- riman of (i Harriman National Bank of this city that “there can be no improvement in the business world until taxes are reduced.” President Harding has shown leadership in re- spending to popular demand for a disarmament conference and in waming Congress against the soldier bonus. The moment has come for him to clinch that leadership with a vigorous plea for an immediate start on tax revision, He would have business and finance behind him Signs are that this Republican Congress would listen. A New York County jury yesterday rendered @ verdict of guilty against a home distiller, the first conviction of the kind. Considering the number of followers of this indoor sport, convictions are considerably below the orthodox “dry” standard of one-half of 1 per cent. 5-CENT SODAS. ye the Bronx children paraded last Satur- day demanding S-cent sodas some of the local profiteers in ice cream and soda soothed them- selves with the hope that the demonstration had been promoted for political purposes in order to “put Borough President Bruckner in a hole” be. cause of his interest in the soda-water business. This view is subject to a liberal discount. The children, anyway, were in eamest. Boston children staged a similar demonstration yesterday, presenting petitions to the Governor and Mayor. When will the children in other boroughs of this city follow the example of the Bronx kiddies and those in Boston? When will their parents back them—with a buying strike if necessary? In one respect the Boston youngsters were scarce- ly fair. They carried banners reading, “Jesse James Is Dead.” Jesse James deserves better. He was a bandit and a bad man but he never gouged pennies from children. TWICE OVERS. 46QJOU cannot have great appropriation bills without adding to the taxes which burden us, and you cannot add taxes without increasing the cost of lieing.” —Senator Pomerene of Ohio. eae ‘ ‘BE very carefal what you say. J think you want to start something.” Mayor Hylan. ees 6 7 has always been a fact that city groups mingle in church more easily than those in the rural districts, It is easter to bring together Fifth Avenue and the East Side than it is to mix the farmers and city Jolks during the summer.” —~Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin ef Ae Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, D, SATURDAY, JULY 16, There ie Ane mental exercise te cay much in a few words. Protectionisn, ‘To the Binor of ‘The Brenna World I wish to commend you for your fight against protectionism. Tariffs enable the rich to rob the poor, with most damnable results Robbery alone is criminal, but when it leads to monopoly of land and to murder then it is hellish indeed, By favorable trade balances, so called, we add to our billions of dul- lars of foreign loans, the payment of which will raise land values beyond the reach of wonkers and the repudi- ation of which will cause war. ‘Tariffs must go, for under them In vain the embruted workers toil; For loans men send their work abroad; Phe loans repaid, Wealth takes the soil; : ‘The loans unpaid, War slays their blood. CHARLES SMITH. No. 330 Hust 41st St., July 13, 1921. “For and Against It." To the Hititor of The Prcning World 1, have been comparing the letter in your columns of the readers who are “for and against" the Prohibition Law. The letters of the Prohibition- ists are very weak and without any real logic. They just harp on the evil effects of drink, using the unde- sirable and habitual drunkard as a theme for ranting. The mode and law-abiding citizen who kno how and when to take a drink of beer or wine with his family or friends in private or in public is not considered by the raving band of long-haired men and short-haired women fanatics Must we believe that we of this glori- ous United States of America had been a nation of drunkards and we were retrograding instead of progress- ing in the past? Are we to think that if these reformers had not come to our rescue we would all die in Pot- ter's Pield with the stigma of a dis- graceful drunkard’s death as an obituary? Who are these twentieth century saviors? Look up their past records. Ascertain what they did during the war. Did they buy more — Liberty Bonds than those that helped until it hurt, and stood the pun unfiinchingly? Did their sons make the noble sacri- fices as many of our boys did? Did | the uplifters of humanity neglect their business to serve Uncle Sam in his hour of need at the compensa- tion of $1 4 year The writer was a “dollar-a-year| Used Ht would do more harm than n? and was glid to serve his | VetUnten aod caine paar the eniisting| ‘The value of the services of the age, remained at | and gave all; men who went to the war he could afford financially and physi-| be measured by money, and y \cally toward the maintenance of our] received an adequate compensation boys over there t would rin up into such large Now, what ght has a smali[ figures that 1 would — seriously | minority of raving fanatics to dictate) he financial condition of the ‘and hold such a whiphand over al ywever, should it finally respectable, God-fearing and law decided te grant the bonus then I abiding nation as ours? As for whis- | propose Mit be paid in’ install- [key and such liquors they should be] ments running, say, over a period of | gold on the advice of the doctor. This| twenty-five vears, There is no rea- Jcountry never was a “hard drink’/}son why the present gener country, Statisties prove that the| should assume the whole burden a consumption of heer exceeded the} why it would not be fair and advis- drinking of whiskey, &c. able to spread it over a number of What noticeable iN’ s| New York. July 13,1 improvements toward the welfare of our county 1921, a 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? Tan't it the one and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. jhave the Prohibition laws created? Have they increased the standing o! | this count Hardly. We are the | laughing stock of the world, as i | well known fact that there is plenty ‘hooch" to be had, ‘The only d |ference is the quality and the price Those who Jrinkers (mod- erate drinke nless beer now drink the night-manufac- tured poison. Many who had never 1 any ntoxic Nquors, now at every opportunity, they t, but just pecause they have no regard for an obnoxious law that deprives loyal and law-abiding citizens of their God- siven rights CHARLES W. GITTLEMAN Brooklyn, July 12, 1921 “Uncommon Sense.” ‘Yo the Ealitor of The Brening World Tt is hard for me to express my admiration of the wonderful articles written by Mr, John Blake. I am wondering at his broad- and Iris wonderful knowl- uman nature. So many of s apply direc:ly to me. I guess it seems that way to most people, and they nearly always have the effect of soothing me if I feel discou A recent article called was wonderfully true and ‘here is much good to be derived from his pra ‘advice A FERVE DMIRER Help Those Who Need It. To the Pitan of The Brening World I would recommend that everything possible be done for those injured soldiers who need help or who have no means of their own to enable them to take care of themselves, and to find employment for those who are unemployed, but I am not in favor of an indiscriminate bonus such as has been proposed, as it would f ther upset the fing condition of the Government and 5 ‘ range all plans for y would not be of much benefit to any- rge number of those who eive the bonus are not in need of this money, and for those who could use it, it Would only afford rary relief, If, in order to get F © out of it, the money re- ceived would be invested, the amount of Income derived would only be very smal] and would not be of much help. If, on the other hand, the years. ADOLPH LEWISOHN, 61 Broadway, July 14, 1921, \ nit a UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake KEEP YOUR BRAKES IN WORKING ORDER At the approach to every dangerous turn of a State d is a sign which reads: Go Slow! ‘The automobilist who has good sense and good brakes heeds the warning. He gets around the turn without any- thing happening to him. The speed maniac, or the man whose brakes are out of order, keeps right on. And we usually read of one or both in the accident columns of the newspapers sooner or later. The road we all must take is pretty well marked with warnings, although it takes experience to read some of them. If we have the brake called will power, and keep it in trim, we have nothing to fear from the dangerous places. If our judgment is bad and our will power likely to give wey we never get where we are going, except in a very tvadly damaged condition, There is no occasion for such great hurry that the warn- ig ing signs must be overrun, On the road to wealth, and especially the road to pleas- }% ure, the warnings are very abundant. | Yet thousands and thousands of people run past them every day, with the usual disastrous results. H There is little enough time in the average life. We must '$ all work rapidly if we are to get a good lifetime's work ac- |$ complished in the working years that are allotted us. But we can always slow down at the risky corner, pro- vided we keep our will power in condition and use the judg- ment that ought to be a part of our make-up. The “too much plry’ turn in the road is more danger- ous than the ‘too much work” corner, but it is well to slow up at both of them. Then the “over indalgence’ and “late hour’ spots call for almost a halt. i Read all the signs and observe them. | It is delightful to speed along the road and feel that we \$ shall get where we are going in jigtime. | But many speeders who do not see or lmed the warn- ings never get where they are going at all. i And when they are piled up in the hospital, or the sani- '$ tarium, or told by a grave faced doctor to bid their families 12 a last goodby, they begin to see the sense in stringing these | ns along the road and to wish they had kept their brakes | | | people. ing the limits of mortal performance. “Beating the Dutch” has be- come a familiar by-word for express- N what sueet danke were ¢ Bure fancies fear What world of smiling tigi has been thy homer In what fair land of rainbows we thou bred? From what orcen land of cuckoos a thou comet By all that great blue wonder in th eves, Baffled and vered I stand before ¢ smile ; ry Thy thoughts, like angels, guard § from surprise, We see them not, yet feet tham the while. 7 That smile which, like the'l sun Must either go behind a cloud bring ‘ Death to my hopes, or give my Jj | more Nght. | Thus, in the current New Repu | Wiliam H. Davies addresses some real girl or the girl of dreams. Anyway, lucky girl! for the p | is very real. ‘8 The Game,--- Wilbur C. Whitehead's “Au Bridge Standards” (Stokes) hap to open to us were it says: Game, and nothing short of gam is the object of Auction. Considerations of whatever nm ture, other than those leading up geing game, or saving game—or scoring or incurring the cquivate| penaities, are of little or no impd tance. Big Business, Big Politics and tion Bridge! A blessed trinity For each of them, “game and n ing short of game,” and other con: erations at zero. An American Exodus. - - - From the “Federal Administra’ and the Alien” (Doran), by Frat] | Kellor: | | We face a period in the wort history when the migration of pe | ple will be the phenomenon of t} world, The United States itself és becoming an emigration aa well an immigration country. It Is time when the lure of f eign markets and ease of transp tation will lead Americans to go t¢ all parts of the world. It is for the American well as the alien in tl treated abroad, All ight about the Golden between nations. But as for Americans leaving h |—Hasn't a constitutional drought us In the position of assisting of &ration? se 8 Tarning the Valves om the Shark, « A passage from “Taming Guinea” (John Lane), an interest] new book by Capt. C. A, W. Mon{ ton: | _ The shark at best is a most co ardiy scavenger of the sea; mud | preferring, even when huni gorge on carrion than to | own prey. And of alr bubbles from the valve in an A diver, when approached b; large shark, seldom troubles mul so long as the fish does not get tt near to his air pipe. Should a shark's attention, ho ever, prove too persistent, the divd signais for the fullest possible pre: sure of air, and then either wall toward the fish. or, if It 1s high and interfering with his aj rises in the water and denty ‘turns on lis valves. Read fmmediate Might of Mr. Shark. So the sea diver has the the man who meets his sj ashore. Wouldn't it be great if we co just turn on the valves in the ff of the gouging landlord? o 8 4 Love as It Softly Steals... John Fennel March, in J Huntly MecCarthy’s “The Go Shoe" (John Lane), waits for q thia Moon. And waiting, reflec: Why, then, had he found hi entangled in the clear depths of cousin's eyes, without the power the wish to disengage himself? W did a thrill of joy go through 4 being when his hand had rested hers and when ho had seen i charming embarrassment? she deligntful, lovely sweet.” he thought, “and if I'm very ‘careful, I shall be falling love with he Kut then came thought. why should he be careful “Ass that I am to talk of being danger of falling in love, with he: he thought. "I beileve I've been love with her from the first mo I saw her sitting alone by the in that little black dress with white frill round her neck.” Something had happened tom: life very desirable and wonve; He felt most gloriously happy. “God's in His Heaven, all's ri with the world,” he shouted aloud an astonished blackbird, whose son however, seemed to be saying mu the same thing, A pretty way of finding out. And absolutely new to every who goes through with it. Nothwithstanding (hat ever-yol Mr. Cupid has been putting 'em d that way since somewhere Mr. Noah's boom in ark-buildiny se 8 Once a Woll, Always a Wolf--- Thinking of many things in ‘Books and Folks" (Putnams), ward N. Teall thinks also this: Myriads of animals draw tl sustenance from the earth and swallowed up in the endless cyd of its chemistry ; and what has b achleved? They receive nothing from tl ancestors, they leave novaing to t deacendants, ‘The breed evolves, physically: survive, and the brute 2 fittest ude an . * eo h tor “Old t keen sight and scent, st ude rp (the nate! lor or etrength In attack or defense, By Albert P. Southwick Town") was tie name of the first! preserved and Imnnroved ‘ settlement by Europeans on Staten But wolf ts wolf and ton ts \Island, in the summer of 1641, It was shaven arons pass; and wit probably located northwest of the] lien can find Aba ait an a The first possessors of Dutch soil present site of Fort Wadsworth, In| ‘aie ‘histor’, or away to At (Holland) like those who settled here,| Close proximity to the block fort) physical world to the mould of which stood on the heights, were a branch of the German race, Ae |who, driven by circumstances from! a. notea Gunpowder Plot, their homes, settled upon a vacant| made ‘the natarone Guy ¥ and in the River Rhine called| known to the world, was in 10(6. \ietamo, or “Good Meadow,” Rone oo 8 Gibbon (1787-1794) is regarded as Holland, sma. as is her area in|the greatest modern historian. "What- Europe, has in the authority over st Indies alone ever else is read, more than 30,000,000 read, too," wrote Freeman. Gibbon must be sire. ‘To one animal it was gtven to yanee from Intellizence to intell from yolce to articulate eneech; that animal shaped tie soul of universe, A fine tribute to Man, the Phos sive, Which he deserves so long i does not try to shape souls by to his individual prejudieia,