The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1921, Page 20

Boris, ESTABLISHED PY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Kacopt Sunday by The Proms Publishing Company. Now. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. | RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row | 4, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr.. Secretary, 63 Pack Row. MEMIER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. re Assoctaten Prem ws exclusively enuitied to tne use for rerublicsttee | Of ali Bows despatches credited to it or not otherwise credived tm thly papas! and Alto the loca) news publianed herein THE BINGVILLE IDEA. HEN the Bingville Boosters, the progressive element of the Bingville Ghanrber of Com- merce, wanted to “do something” for the town, it has been quite the custom to invile the neighboring farmers to a dinner in the town square and an auto- mobile tour of Bingville The Boosters have followed this procedure be- cause it has proved effective in creating good-fellow- ship and mutua! understanding. Bingville ventured on no untried ground when it offered hospilality to the men and women who grew the crops on which the prosperity of Bingville depended Somehs New Yorkers got the idea that New York was 1 bit too big for this sort of thing. Un- doubtedly this is responsible for a lot of the misun- derstandings that divide the State politically and economically. In the last few months political disagreements have divided the State more sharply than ever. But economically the signs are more favorable. Dairymen are using newspaper advertisements to tell city peop': that milk comes from cows. And that t good. This week a group of “middlemen” and some rail- toad officials have adopted the Bingville Boosters’ fdea and have been entertaming representatives of all the farmers of the State. These men have en- joyed several regular Bingville banquets, and the _ middlemen have been exhibiting the actual mechanics of the “middle,” the marketing system of New York. * ‘And that is even better. vtLet’s have more of the Bingville idea on a New York scale. ECONOMY THAT ISN'T. Fr OV. MILLER’S programme of economy was well advertised and well received. Indeed, the Govemor deserves great credit for the checks’ he put on an always wasteful Legislature and for iS efforts toward internal reform of the executive departments. But appropriation cuts do not always mean rea! economy. Recently we had a “house-cleaning” in the local division of the State Automobile Bureau. ‘The. wogking force was reduced nearlysa half. Now complaints aze heard. Automobile owners Object to spending long hours in waiting for a license. We hear the head of the bureau complaining that he has only six examiners to give road tests to 300 drivers a day. If the examiners were in cars every, minute of the day, this would allow less than ten minutes per applicant, which is evidently not enough time to establish the competence of drivers. Economy is entirely a question of how much mecessary service we get in return for the money spent. If scrimping in appropriations means. un- economical wastes in service, then saving does not mean economy. PASS VACATION JOYS AROUND. HESE paragraphs are addressed to vacationists, week-enders, summer cottagers and visitors to.1esoris and to any one else who may be spend- ing money for his or her own pleasure. Those who have the money to get out of the summer heat of the city usually try to do so, either for a regutar vacation stay or for several short trips even more refreshing than a single two-week period. But what of the thousands who cannot go to beaches, mouniains or camps for cool breezes and fresh air? What of the less fortunate mothers and children of the tenements? Where will those whe cannot afford an outing find the strength to survive the heat? “Fresh Air Work” is the only answer to these troublesome questions. By caretul administration a litte money will go a long way in providing rest, Change and cool, fresh air for the poor of the city. Mothers and children can enjoy real vacations for only a few dollars. Several organizations maintain summer camps for tose whose only sin is poverty. The Henry Street Settlement and the Association for Improving the Condition’ of the Poor are only two worthy ex- amples. ‘a Those fh touch with the work report that contri- nitions this summer have been lagging isn’t, it Hp fo vacationists who have enjoyed tresh airvand cool breezes to give heed and “pass the hap- pinéss acound” 2 ads tithe of Vacation expenditures will be no more than a war tax. But such a tax will mean life and health for (He 1és'Tortunate. How many vacation- will assess'such a “Health Tax” against them- > w3QlIM selves? ist "KNOCKOUT GAS” IN POLITICS. HILADEUPHIA'S' experiments with “knockout! gas’ Seent.to fave heen highly successfut * Two hundred policemen simulated a riot and THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, “took the count” at the hand@by a few opponengs armed with gas bombs, The possibiliiies of the knockout bomb, which paralyzes without permanent injury, are enormous | —particularly in the fields of polit In heated campaigns in this city political strategy has demanded that loud-voiced orators of one party should be smothered by louder-voiced spellbinders of the opposition. This accounts for heckling and opposition meetings on the same street comer a3 election time draws near “Knockout gas” would simplify matters. In- stead of trying to outtalk a rival faction the astute campaign manager would equip a speeding auto mobile with a gas battery. When a stump speaker waxed vociferous it would be a simple matter to toss a gas bomb into the audience and cause a thirty: minute suspension, Doesn't it seem possible that the invention of “knockout gas” will drive politics from the stump and force a wider use of the printed word? TOWARD THE COMMONWEALTH? “ORTS toward peace in Ireland present many E interesting angles. None is of greater interest than the silent—almost mysterious—activity of Jan Christiaan Snuts. We read of a conterence with the Prime Minister, a conversation with a leader of Irish opinion, a flying visit to Ireland, an informal talk with the other Dominion representatives. That is all. But when negotiations slacken and there seems danger of a hitch, the name of the South African Premier appears in the reports. Readers of the news of the world get no hint as fo what Jan Smuts is saying, for Smuts, an accom- plished linguist, has the reputation at home of being able to keep silent in more languages than any man in South Africa. All the world knows is this: When Smuts has ex- erted his influence it has been followed by action, first by one party, then by the other. When the history of the Irish negotiations of 19214 is wrillen, it seems more than probable that Premier Smuts will yeceive the bulk of the credit. Until then we can only guess, for Smuts does not appear to seek the limelight. In these negotiations we may be watching another of the “bloodless revolutions” which English consti- tutional history boasts. Jan Smuts regards Gret Britain and the self- goveming Dominions not as an empire but as the British Commonwealth, a composite of nations. The Irish situation has opened a way for a demonstration of this view. Smuts has embraced the opportunity. establishment of a self-governing Ireland within the British Commonwealth would add strength to the view held by most of the Dominions and their representatives. If Great Britain is reduced to Eng- land and Scotland the proportional importance of the Dominions would increase correspondingly. Nothing in the British Constitution would forbid achange under which all the Dominions would share in Parliamentary representation. Or the present Parliament might resign its Imperial functions to a new super-Parliament of the Commonwee!th If such a change should come, would not Jan Smuts be the logical choice for the Premiership of the Commonwealth? Great Britain has called him repeatedly, and may again. THE ARMY OF THE SPECTACLED, @rom the Philadelphia Inquirer.) What did people do berore Alessandro di Spina—or, as some would say, Roger Bacon—-invented specta- cles? There were plenty of defective eyes, of course, before the thirteenth century, But were they as fre- quent as they are now? The optometrists, meeting in convention in New York this week, naturally uave much to say of the importance of treating faults of vision from the very beginning. So thoroughly has the lesson been taught that it almost seems as if the number of spectacled eyes were greater than the num- ber of unspectacled. As recently as fifty years ago a child w ing glasses was an exceptional sight. Now it is common everywhere. There is no doubt that neglect of the eyes is the origin ef many evils, There are those who contend that departures from the normal in vision have been inereased by the increase of the reading habit, by in- dustrial conditions, by the use of artificial light. It may be that we “try our ey as the phrase goes, more than our ancestors did. On the other hand, they may nov) be? defects in vision which they did not recognize us suci. There are people now who ought to wear glasses but do not, and who are quite oblivious of the fact that they do not see as well as anybody else. No one can miss something he does not know about, Before spectacles had been invented people took de- fective eyesight as a matter of course and worried no it tan they could help. The theory of spectacles as a preventative is comparatively modern. One reason why we see so many of them on children cly fitted lenses will eure defects in vision before they become and thus make needless artificial aids in later life. It may be partly for this reason that the dislike for spectacles, which kept so many people who should have worn them from doing so, is diminishing these days. They no longer seem “unbeco: ” Young women have ceased to re- gard them as a blight upon their good looks. There is ne way of discevering whether or not the people who lived before the thirteenth century needed glasses as much as we do. If the slaves of the lamp are natural victims of eye troubles, the {luminators of the exquisite missals and other manuseript volumes of an older time must often have looked upon the world | darkly, though not through a glass. was made to use, and it does not follow of necessity | that the professor “tries” his more than the plougb- | man. We are a Nation of spectacle-wearers, no doubt because we are getting to be very particular in al} ern more over is that accurat incurable Still the eye |tive Committee rare HS Ed asia nari rere es enmenr ene sontiib ian ttshs tesserae JULY 21, 1921, ~ to eay much in a few words. Take Approves Mr. Nudd's Report. To the Hiitor of Tae Brening Wor! Statements have appeared in a cer- tain section of the press, quoted as coming from President Prall of the Board of Education, & effect that the Public Hducation 1 does not approve of the work of its direc- tor, Mr. Nudd, in exposing the de- plorable conditions in the older public school buildings of this city, An as- sertion of our confidence in Mr, Nudd is not needed with those who know hs long and effective service to the association, He hus our unqualified and hearty support in his efforts to create public support of measures for the improvement of the schoo! His action has been based on the official programme of the ussuciation and on constant conference with the Execu- Every taken has had our approv has acted, not as an individual, but as the official representative of association. Statements have also appeared in the same quurter in which this asso- ciation is made to appear as actuated by political motives. Such a state- ment can be plausibly addressed only to persons ignorant of the attitude f the association. We d solely in describing conditions as they are and in point- ing out ways in which they o remedied, irrespe power. If we suc i to put out helpful and accurate state- | ments in ald of fmprovements in the schools, We cannot concern ourselves with their use or distortion hy one or another political faction for its ad- vantage in the forthcoming municipal campaign. The publication of the facts?is uhe limit of our duty as an association. CHALUES P. HOWLAND, President Report nto the 1. R, ‘To the Dito Of The Evening World To-day at about 11 o'clock A, M. I went into an east side LR. 'T, sub- Way station and happencd to give five pennies to the ticket agent, who refused to hand out a ticket After I had repeatediy asked him for the ticket, which | had paid for, he threatened to wring my neck off tor using pennies. Will you Kindly advise me how to protect my neck from being wrung off in case | again use pennies to obtain a subWay' ticket CHARLES RAND. A Mourne! Yo the Biitor of Mae Prening Worle “Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn Yes, countl thou: ds of Ameri- cans ‘are mourning to-day since the few invested with a little brief au- thority passed the inhuman law on an unwilling people prohibiting the use of spirituous liquors because thou: over middle t of their ne nds of men and women surely dying for essary stimulant, the land of liberty! t? Now that the Statue of Liberty has served its day, why not Ket the fanatics to remove it out past the three-mile limit | But the end is not yet. Smukers \beware! Your turn next The thin the | What were the prophetic words of | Patrick Henry? “Give me liberty or give me death.” [ say “prophetic,” | 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 is fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Isn't it the one time to be brief. end of the wedge has been inserted in some of the States and the use of cigarettes is prohibited. What next? Sunday blue laws, no | baseball, no picture shows, no smok- © to church twice. Hoping all | law-abiding and weak-kneea cans will caltnly submit. REX jood Times” in New Vork. e Halitor of The Broning W Will you permit a recent addition to your teeming millions to compliment you on your editorial as to what the visitor may get for his money in New York? I am surprised that such a | statement as you quote should come from one residing so close tu this won- derful city. | It would take a book to recite the many interesting things that the vis itor may have With the expenditure of a tew cents, if he has eyes that see, It does not cost him anything to sit in’the parks and view the won- |derful architecture. Viewed from the | park just opposite, the Woolworth | Building alone should absorb his at- tention for an hour or more; and, of course, there are thousands of others, Towering to the vefy clouds and at the same time embodying the lines of a beautiful cathedral, it pr spectacle of the most magnificent piece of architecture ever reared by ©} the hand of man, To travel over and view the most wonderful city in the world for a cents is what the aver ‘« citizen should consider getting a Breat de for his money, Of course the exp! sions “good time” has as many pretations as there are human be- . but things of interest in New York are so varied and numerous to cover the whims of any one, When all is said and done, it appears that the gentleman in Hoboken with the ready “hammer and anvil" does not to live in such close proximity rful, most magni ARLES BE. BRUCE. sth Street cent city. No, 101 West No Ch To the HLior of The Why are So many people trying to stir up class hatred at this particular attempted during Wash- ington’s time, and he quickly put a stop to it. When Washington went to New England in 1775 he found there a kind of narrow-mindedness whieh © people, who for motiv. best known to themselves and un- measurable by the compass of rea- son, proposed one night to hold a saturnalia ef bigotry, a festival of ra prejudice, To this proceeding Washington put an end by his fs mous general order of November }1775. In the course of that order Washington said; “Such a demonstra- tion would be an insult to their re- ligion, So monstrous as not*to be suffered or excused; indeed, instead ot offering the most remote insult it time? It wa is our duty to address public thanks jto these, our brethren, &s to them we are indebted for every late happy success over the common enemy in Canad I should like to cail the attention| of your readers to the following from \the pen of George Washington him- | se he was inaugurated ae hgton was pre ed wtb an addr i Catholics of the Luited States, This meri- | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtemt, 1921, by John Blake) WORK ON A BUDGET SYST. Not only hard work, but systematic work is necessary to progress. Not even a ditch digger does exactly the same task all the time. Work that is planned ahead counts. Work on the catch- as-catch-can system is better than no work at all, but tbat is all that can be said for it. If your job calls for various kinds of tasks arrange it on the budget system. Decide in advance the order in which it ought to be done to get the best results, Allot a certain amount of time to a certain part of your daily duties, according to their import- ance, If you know before you begin just how you expect to progeed, and approximately what results you hope to ac- cofiplish by the end of the day, you will get far more done than you would if you tackled the job haphazard. It is a good plan to get rid of the drudgery first. Dis- pose of the duties that are disagreeable, as some duties must inevitably be. Then you will reach the enjoyable and the more im- portant tasks with a clear brain and be able to get pleasure as well as profit out of their discharge. The office man who has a fixed time for going throngh his mail, another for dictating letters, another for receiving and giving instructions to subordinates, and still another for talking to business callers, usually has a clear desk by noon and plenty of time to think over his big problems. The man in the same job who begins with any task that happens to be-at hand is usually half done at the end of the day and wonders what has become of allehis time. There is nothing in this world that cannot be done better if it is planned than if it is not. Begin your life by planning each day's work, and plan ning will soon become automatic, Tasks will arrange them- selves in their proper order and you will soon be enjoying. You may be in a very small and unimportant position, but reducing your duties to a budget system will save tine and energy and help you to acquire the competence and ef- ficieney that will lead to better positions by and by. eer! 1 the Revolution and the establishment EDWARD NAGEL. The ice cream ba d wonderful body of men. . sou; 10m per ecnt. on each soda TAXPAYER. The coul user who tries ty New York, July 18, 1921, Stories Told b ‘ The Great Teacher||~ By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Preea Pu “ THE MUSTARD SEED. The story of the “Mustard Sted*™— Matt. xiil,, 31, 32; Mark Iv, 31, st— serves to show the foolishness of him who would “despise the day of mall beginnings.” The talk that we give to the chilt dren in the nursery about “little drops of water” and “little grains of sand” lies as the foundation of life's deepest and most priceless wisdom, The Wisest Being ever on this earth knew that we are all children when it comes to understanding the pro- foundest truths of life, and therefore it was that He talked to us in a way that was so simple—like a father talk- ing to his Tittle children, With Jesus's story in mind, we seo @ man, away back in the long 29, go= ing out toward a field or garden, He doesn't seem to be currying anything. There is nothing on his shoulders er in his arms or in his hands. He is just walking along toward the field. And when he reaches the field he stoops down and with the forefinger of his left hand makea a little hole in the | earth about half an inch deep, into [which from between the tips of the | thumb and forefinger of his right hand he drops a solitary mustard seed, one of the tiniest of ail seeds, covers it up with @bit of soft carth and gocs ‘hia way, That is all. A yery small task for # full grown man to be enguged*with, It seems like child's play. But by and by up out of the little hole made by the man forefinger there comes a tiny shoot, which grows and grows until it is the greatest of ail the shrubs—a shrub so large that It may fairly be called a tree—in the oute stretching branches of which the fowl ef the air tind a resting place. Whatever you do, never despise the day of small beginnings. Out of such days, so inauspicious and unpromis- ling, have come the bigzest and most glorious things in fhe world—the big- ‘gest men, the biggest events, ihe biges est victories of the human mind and hand. Jt is with the big men and mieas- ures growing out of the humblest be- ginning that the most thrilling pages of history deal, In art, science, lit- erature, biography, we are reminded |on every hand of the great oaks coin- ‘ing from the little acorns, the mignty, |continents growing from the little |grains of sand, the “greatest of all .|the shrubs” coming up out of the very small mustard seed. The mighty Roman Hmpire—from the tiny sheep-fold on the Palatine; , the creat United States of America— from the little handful of men and wemen at Jamestown and Plym- outh; Lincoln's Presidency—from the squalid log cabin; Franklin's diplo~ matic and social triumphs in Parls— from the back room of the candle- maker's shop; Livingstone's glorious work in the Dark Continent—from a | fleeting, fugitive thought that struck jhim one day in a London sweatshop; jJesus Christ Himself, whose pierced hand, lifting the gates of empires off their hinges and turning the streana jof centuries out of their channels, Roverns the ages—from the manger- jeradle and the very midnight-of ob-" | scurity! It is all shown to us in the story of the mustard segd- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? NO. 54—TEMPERAMENT. We hear much about “temperm ment” these days. Conspicuous for the possession of the quality called [temperament are actors, artists and |especially singers of either sex. ‘The | application of the word to describe |persons who are in the habit of throwing an occasional fit shows how \far some words have travelled from their original meaning. ‘The word “temperament” js derived |} from the Latin “tempero,” to moder- Jate. The combination of feclinga, and peculiarities of physical, mental, (moral and artistic attitude that dis- | unguish the work of the artist came to be called “temperament,” doubt- |less on the assumption that thes | qualities were moderated or balanced jto make a delightful whole. But the outbreaks of peculiarity commonly designated as “tempera- ment” in artists—and especially prima donnas—present the distress- ing opposite of such a careful batane- ing of qualities. The shorter and uglier spelling of the word describing these outbreaks would be" temper.” ——_—— “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick | Compright, 1921. by the Prem | the N enn Word New York Qn July 1, 1690, was fought the Bat- tle of the Boyne in Ireland, which decided the fate of James IT. and es tablished William III. on the throne of England. The Duke of Schoberg, one of the ablest Generals of the time, was killed at the age of eighty- ltwo, a¥ was also the Irish rector, iGeorge Walker, famous for his bero- | ism. | eo 8 address was signed by Bishop John | create a coal shortage and then jacks distance c ow Y Carroll, Daniel Carroll, Charles Car-/up his price, e eee lteam the {aot Of Bad. Btreek, Brooke, voll of Carrollton, one of the signers! 3—The landlord who would rather|jyn, N.Y. to Greenville, N. J. 1s of the Declaration of Independence; |have his tenants keep dogs than|,bout fifteen and three-quarter Mik Thomas Fitzsimmons and Domintek | chiidren het En oRnee Lynch, and to them Washington sent| 4—Phe hypocritical prohibitionist | start fand, is 114g n a reply, in the course of which he|who preaches temperance and keeps | niin iestunementa. aid a well stocked cellar. tance to st “I hope ever to see America among| $—The traction trusts that think joned at 10 mil the foremost nations as an example |they're not getting enough moncy to! frooklyn,” answered of justice and Nbarey. ner Cas spend on a 5-cent fare and sive such | see sume that your fellow-citizens willlinefficient service that the public has| 4. y of Eng not forget the patriotic part which |to pay the other few pennies if they |p, eins Wy Wiha ge pene and, was you took in the accomplishment of|want “service.” tae oye Vdauahiantet |by Mary, who was the daughter of hut |Charles 1. Mary Il, was the eldegs of thelr. Government oF she Moranent Lawrence, L. ¥., July 19, 1921. daughter of Jamen Ii. while het sisterg 4 assistance they ——— Queen Anne, was the second daughter professed.” FL. 'S. | To the Biitor of The By w PMjrooklyn, N. ¥., July 18, 1921 A headline in your valuable papor aaa ‘ your valuable pape ‘The English monarchy was restored — oar A reads “Downtown Biase Knocks Ou. when Gen. Monk, the commander of In Need of Reform. | Pity: One May Die.” Tam phoud of Bichard Cromwell's forces, “asked Jand feel like doing > useful work |Pire Department. 1 have travelied in ss ‘ eae i eee ae tow. worthies they migh:|Hurope and in a great many citics in ‘The English Parliament elected - here are a few the United States and | can safely William and Mary as sovereigns in reform say that I have not seen such a brave 1689. . . The repeal of the “Corn Laws” ta England was on June 28, 1846, t ‘ \I 1 be