The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 10

10 | She EFEHNy Borin, , Pustianed Dally Brees? rita fe Preat Putisbiag | Company. Nos. 58 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOBEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES, Fee Ammoctatec Pree tr exclusively entitled to the use for repudtteattes OF ak mews deepatenes credited to tt or not otherwis: credited tm thls part: md also the local news publisned herein IRELAND AND BRITISH DAYLIGHT. N England, as in most other countries, people talk about the weather, And English weather in this summer season has been evidently some- thing to talk about. | There come to hand July tales of remarkable brightnesses by day and color effects by night in London; of upper airs free from dust and dirt; of sunlight strength that causes photographers to speed up their camera shutters. Nature, it seems, is sparing no effort to make the British capital a brighter dwelling-place. She is not saving but is squandering daylight. Scientists talk gravely of comets, solar activity and other manifestations on high in seeking to ex- ! Plain world weather conditions, of which England appears to receive the atmospheric best. Plain peo- ple are content, doubtless, to let their wonder serve as background to their content. Is it mere coincidence that this period of surpass- ing British weather is that also of the greatest hope- fulness the generation has known over the matier of an Iris) setilement? Have smiling skies really nothing to do with the sunnier possibilities in this : particular? F Be the answer what it may—certainly there will } be argument that such questionings are fanciful and futile—there is no problem of peoples in the world which points more imperatively than the Irish prob- lem the desperate need of seeing daylight. ‘ THE MUSIC OF MEMORIES. ; HE New York Community Chorus invites all ' New York, or as many as can get there, to the Community Sing and Band Concert on the Mall in Central Park to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The band and two soloists promise an interest- tng programme. But in particular the numbers selected for community singing will bring poignant * memories to many. Here are the titles: “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Sweet and Low,” “Mammy,” “Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms,” “Long, Long Humming,” “Carry Me “Nancy Lee,” “My Old H Back to Old Virginny, } Kentucky Home.” Every song in the list will evoke fond recollec- tions in many hearts. Old, or not so old, the tunes are favorites and so well known that almost any one can follow the melodies and even the words of most of the selections. The programme has variety and is singable. Un- trained voices make real harmony when numbers are sufficient and the spirit of nrusic is present. If this sort of list will not draw crowds, no | selection would. But it will. The Sunday evening { crowds are growing as New Yorkers discover the pleasure of reviving the old favorites under such | auspicious circumstances as prevail on a moonlit | evening in Central Park. Te ee ee ee ay, a i Mca Oe OE 10-CENT ICE CREAM. | Fifty soda fountain proprietors in one group have surrendered and agreed to restore 10-cent ice cream. Immediate credit goes to Mrs. Welz- | miller, Deputy Commissioner of Markets, but the ice-cream eating public has done its share. | Mrs. Welzmiller’s hand was strengthened by the general public sentiment aroused by the | figures which P. Q. Foy has presented in The } Evening World. } With so promising a start it rests with the } public to finish the task by discriminating be | tween the stores that continue to gouge and the fountains disposed to be fair in prices. | ‘Walk a block or two out of the way if neces- } vary for a week or a month and patronize the | tair-price establishment, This will bring the | gougers to terms. No argument ts go effective im bringing down a profiteer’s prices as an empty shop when a fair-price competitor's es- tablishment is doing a good business at a rea- FS sonable profit | THE WORST YET. | F Bill Burns told the truth, the indicted White Sox | deserve even less sympathy than has been ac- corded to them. The tearful confessions of last fall were the rankest sort of cry-babyism. For if Burns is telling the truth, it was not the } wicked gamblers who undermined the virtue of bon- j orable ball players with the insidious lure of easy money. Unless Burns is lying, the ball players planned the whole filthy betrayal and went seeking 2id to put the deal across on a remunerative basis. The revelations at Chicago make every fan sick at heart and despondent. But while the story is coming out. let us have the worst and have it over with. The ‘worse the scandal proves to be, the greater the reac- tion likely to result. The most encouraging thing about the whole affair § that the crooks inside and outside of the game seem to have quarrelled and lost most of their ill-gotten gains. RESISTING ARREST. 'N llinots Gov. Small has invoked the aid of the military to preserve himself from arrest. He fhas been indicted for fraud and embezzlement while Si ATTN DAIS AES RRO THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1991 he was State Treasurer. He denies the charge in general, but offers no denial in particular. “1 will use all of the power I possess to resist arrest,” Gov. Small announces. His supporters point to the precedents set by Govs. Tanner and Altgeld, who resisted arrest when indicted. One important distinction is evident. The acts charged against Tanner and Aligeld were performed while they held the office of Governor and arose out of their executive duties, They were subject to impeachment. Gov. Smiall's offense antedates his election. By constitutional provision, members of Congress are immune from arrest except for “treason, felony and breach of the peace.” Is it possible thal a Gov- emor has broader immunities and, in the words of royal prerogative, “can do no wrong”? It is entirely possible that politics is primarily responsible for the troubles of the Illinois Gover- nor and that the best plea he could make would be that he had merely followed custom in his guardian- ship of State funds and that the profits from mis- use of funds were the sort of “honest graft” once recognized and defended by a Tammany chieftain. lilinois is not alone in providing insufficient safe- guards for public moneys. New York has not reme- died the weaknesses in the system exposed in the sinking fund scandal of last autumn, WHAT'S HENRY UP TO? ENRY FORD'S proposal for developing the Muscle Shoals nitrate project seems to grow more interesting as it is discussed. His idea of manufacturing the fertilizer under a limited profit agreement to be enforced by repre- sentatives of farm organizations is so different from the usual run of commercial propositions that it cannot fail to challenge attention. in brief, he is willing to guarantee a price on the fertilizer which will allow him not more than 8 per cent. on his investment. If the demand for nitrates increases, it is to be expected that production costs will decrease, but this will not result in an increase of profits for the manufacturer. One explanation is that Mr. Ford realizes the nead for ferlilizer on the farms of the United States and expects to profit indirectly by their general use of it. Increased prosperity of the farmers would result in a greater demand for automobiles and tractors. Another reasonable interpretation is that Mr. Ford appreciates the increasing importance of water power in large-scale manufacturing. He is known to have been studying this phase of industrial development for several years. ‘The Muscle Shoals project is expected to develop more power than would be needed for nitrate manu- facture. Mr. Ford’s offer may not be altruistic at all. He may be bidding for a big supply of “white coat!” in an era when the black coal coming from the earth is expensive to mine and even more expensive to transport. Or perhaps the Ford offer is a combination of altruism and sound business sense. Before it is ac- cepted or rejected it should be analyzed with care by Congress and by business men. Perhaps Congress can discover a way of reaping public benefits from development of natural resources without the dangers of Government operation. Perhaps business can learn of an improved plan of bidding for the right to develop resources without exploiting the public. ASKING FOR PUNISHMENT. What does the City Administration hope to gain by & policy of ignoring the work of the Port of New York Authority? It ts true that the Port Authority was created by legislation which the Hylan régime opposed with its usual lack of intelligence. But is this any reason for denying the acts of the State and refusing even to diseuss matters with the members of the bi-State commission? ‘The attitude of obstruction assumed by the Board of Estimate is not only unwise and il!- considered, but it is also i!l-mannered and dis- courteous. It is thoroughly Hylanesque. Does the board intend to wait for mandatory legislation from Albany requiring it to submit to the Authority which It now seeks to flout? TWICE OVERS. S667THE new theory of evolution is by jerks.” — Dr. Edwin E. Slosson. 66 QPAIN is not, and does not desire to be, impe- rialistic.”— King Alfonso. 66 HIS country (Great Britain), with heaviest liabilities, has found more money for housing its working classes than the United States, or any other country in the world.” —Lloyd George. * . * 66 Y FIRST wife was pretty good, my second was just medium, and the third no good at all,” —Ambrose V. Rice, 91 year old Chicago divorcee. 66 F 1 EVER have a son I'm going to raise him in the city, where it costs $100 for the same wicked- ness you can get in a small town for a gallon of gaso- line" —Mrs. Lucy Ostrom of Monticello. TET TRL SEITE a EE ee eee TEEN PAYNTER INL Bm er OPEL AE NP ra te say much in a few words. Take Barley for the Russians. To the Biitor of The Evening World: Now is the time to save the barley crop by having the Prohibition gang buy it up and send it to the starving Russians. They did it for the others, why not for the Russians? They ere human beings and it would help the American farmer. ¥. BR. New York, July 21, 1921. Tobacco Prices. To the Bitkor of The Drening World: Permit me to answer G. V. S. re- garding “Profiteering in Tobacco.” He states the reduction in tobacco th's year compared to last year, &c, &C Does he know the tobacco industry, or is he merely a chatter box repeat- ing everything some one else says? Cigarettess sold this year are made) with tobacco bought by manufactur- ers two years ago, at which time they were paying high war prices The tobacco bought this year at greatly reduced prices cannot be put before the public prior to 1923 owing to the drying and curing process it is put through. Did “G. V. 8." offer to pay more during the first years of the war for his tobacco—where to- bacco manufacturers were already buying at increased rates and still selling at pre-war prices? IH ven- ture Dot. to why ask them now to suffer a loss by selling this year's cigarettes made from 1919 tobacco at a price far below the price paid by them for the loose tobacco to make the cigarettes sold this year? Why not get Congress to remove the tax of 6 cents on each pachage of thirty? A SMOKER, Brooklyn, N. Y. July 2 Bonus Payments. To the Eitar of The Dreaing World: Mr, Adolph Lewisohn’s letter pub- lished in a recent Issue of your paper anent the soldier bonus question in- terested me very much, Being the Wife of an ex-service man, I may be pardoned for holding views in op- position to those advanced by your correspondent, One of the main reasons why Mr. Lewisohn objects to the bonus js be- cause of the possibility that it would hamper the Government's status at the present me. Mr. Lewi- gohn is not consistent. If I remember correctly, only a few short weeks ago | he was publicly urging the paying of | 1931, $25,000,000 to mbia, in settlement | of what many nsidered an ambigu- ous claim, In this case he wasn't notably perturbed as to what effect the payment of so large an amount of money would have on the financial condition of the Government, But large holder of mining property Colombia, Anothar point whieh he makes 1s that the small amount resulting from the bonus would not be of much use to thore receiving it. I feel quite sure that it would be of material help in all, and of great assistance in nu- financial | | From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one thet gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying time to be brief. Dusiness of his own, or be used to- wards the purchase of a home, or in a dozen other beneficial ways, It certainly would not be squandered in any event, as Mr. Lewisohn fears, for those who were considered the flower of the nation when they marched to the front—and rightly so —have not in the brief space of three years suddenly’ become flagrantly improvident and dissolute. There is still another phase of the matter upon which your correspond- ent holds erroneous notions. He be- Heves that If a bonus is finally given, it should be spread out over a period of twenty-five years. This, I feel, would be a grave injustice to future generations. We have no right to shift the burden to those who will Joy some of the things for which we fought. We should not enslave them through the moral and con- tracts which we primarily and es- sentially made in our own behalf. MRS. RW. B. New York, July 20, 191. The Trouble With Baseball. To the Extitor of The Brening World: I have been an enthusiast for base- ball for a number of years, but tt now appears that “there is something the matter” with the national sport, Pleaso let me give my bumble opinion in which I em eure many others concur. It's the price of ad- mission to the games that is cutting down the attendance and not the pitchers or the ball being too lively. It is surprising that the far-seeing business men who control the game cannot see this for themselves instead of advancing the theories they do. I hope that the price of eeeing a game of ball will come down the game as all other things. x 8," 1991. New York, July 1 Boxing and Fighters. To the Fititor of The Dreamg World: Last Tuesday night I was one of the 9,000 (3,000 were deadheads) who paid out $3.30 cach to witness the Bob Martin-Frank Moran boxing exhi- bition, with the understanding, ac- cording to the newspapers, that the entire proceeds were to be devoted to the Ex-Soldiers’ Employment Bureau. day morning I read that the bureau would appear in court that morning to claim the 60 per cent. as per an agreement with the promoters of the fight. Had I known that I woula not have paid a cent to see it. And also [don't think Frank Moran would have contributed the $500 which he did, but would haye given it direct to the bureau, Inelosed you will find a clipping. “A Canvas Tragedy,” re- lating how the management of the arena discovered that it was possibie then, I understand Mr. Lewisohn is a|{g gee the ring from the upper win- 10} dows of the hospital for wounded soldiers overlooking Boyle's Acres at Jersey at the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, and a double width of canvas was strung between the flag poles to shut off the view. In Friday's World I read with dis- gust that "Governor's Island ean't merous cases, It would enable many @ young fellow to start in some little f * provide military funeral” for Lieut, Charles Cusick of Union Hill, whose follow us, even though they may en-, ih, Ies1. oy Pi ii Coreriehy EE Ba mnall New X¢ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copgright, U7H1, by John Blam) THE CLOCK IS YOUR FRIEND. You cannot see time, but you can see the clock, which is the measure of time. Watch it and keep up with it. Watch it not with the de- sire to see it point to a “quitting time” but with the fear that the hands will point to “quitting time” before you have done the work you ought to have done in a stated period. Allot your hours of work liberally to yourself. By liber- ality to yourself we mean with a liberal allotment of work. Say that in an hour you will get just so much accom- plished, and more, if there is any spare time at the end of that hour. The clock is your friend. It tells you just how fast your life is slipping away. You can decide whether you are doing or have done as much as you ought to in the spaces between the hour marks on the dial. When the real time for rest comes, rest—or play. But while you are young you can well afford to postpone that time, to put in an extra hour or two every day, and to use the time for working so that no more of it is lost. Most of us dispose of about 30 per cent. of our working time in talking or idling or doing things that are absolutely useless, Yet these all take part of our time, part of the life that is given to us, and in this world at least we each have ene life. The man who is economical of time is the man who has both time and money when he wants to retire. He is the man who can enjoy a longer vacation and yet more out of it because he has not taken his vacation piece- mea] during his working hours. He keeps an eye on the clock and notes the passing hours. If one of them, or a part of them, slips by without accomplishment he seeks to pack more accomplishment into the hours of the next day. He knows that time lost must be made up immediately or it will be lost forever. And he knows that little time is given to any of us to be lost. The clock ticks off the years as it ticks off the minutes. It is the friend and monitor of us all. Watch it and use it, and it will prove one of the best friends you have had in this life. © body was returned on the Wheaton from ce. Fran‘ Also the article in Saturday’s World of the three soldiers who were buried in one grave is morale destroying. Also the lamentable case of Private John J. Munson, hero of the Lost Battalion, whose case has shocked Kipling bit the nail on the bead in his poem “Tommy,” which can also be applied to “Sammy”: For it’s Tommy this, an' Tommy that, An’ chuck him out, the brute! But it’ “Savior of ‘is country” When the guns begin to shoot; An’ it's Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, An’ anything you please; An’ Tommy ain't a bloomin’ fool— You bet that Tommy sees! Watch the “better treatment for ex-soldiers, especia)ly wounded ones,” at the next election. ; AN EX-SOLDIOR. From the Wise He who buys justice wholesale is entitled to sell it retail. ~—Cardinal Richelieu. Drive prejudices out of the door and they will come back through the window.—Frederick the Great. Nowadays we work for a livelt- hood and the arts have become trades.—-Alfred de Musset. A little thing consoles us because G little thing afflicts us.—Pascal. Judges should have two eara, voth alike.—German proverb. TURNING THE PAGES: 'Y heart's the field 1 sow for thea. For thee to water and to reagrt My heart's the house [ ope fot thee, For thee to air and duat ané sweep; My heart's the rug 1 spread for thee For thee to dance or pray or sleep; My heart's the pearls I thread for thee For thee to wear or break or keep: Ay heart's @ sack of magic things Magic carpets, caps and rings— To bring thee treasures from afar And from the Deep. “A Sufi Song,” these lines form, ar Printed in “A Chant of Mystics anc Other Poems,” (James T, White 4 Co.) by Ameen Rihani. The Sufi being a Persian sect Biven to ecstacies and introspections eee Remombery and Forgettery. « « « From one of the 130-odd | vers clever pages of “Queerful Widget,” (Bont & Liveright) an extravaganss for young readers, by Willis Brooks Hawkins: On either side of the shaded path leading from the dell stood a pretty Ute house, costly tucked in among the trees and shrubs. “This one, on the right, is. the membery," sald Queertul’ Widget. “If you forget anything, all sou have to do is to go In there and open your mouth and shut your eyes; then the thing wil! pop right into your head. This one, over on the left, is the Forgettery. If you go in there and open your eyes and shut your mouth, you'll forget anything you want to. But we keep that Tocked now, because so many boys used to come here, whenever the weather was good for fishing, and forget to £0 to school,” The Remembery, tor Congressmen to make ‘em remember the poor taz- payer. The Forgettery—well, let's try il on the United States Senators whe still are hating Wilson. eee ‘The Dotted Map in Pugilism. « + « Harry Elton, the lost heir in E.R ‘Punshon's story “Old Fighting Days” (Knopf), explains hin case in fisti- cuffs to Lucille de Thierry thus: When the butcher boy hit me, little red spots came down out of the sky and were all about his head and I saw him—how can I ex- plain?—1 saw every place where I could hit him, and 1 saw them very plain and near—near—] knew in my mind just when and where and how to hit’ him; it was lke having it all spread out on a chart. when I have the mufflers on with Mr, | Holme it is the same. A point the sporting writers have misned. Imagine tt! Not onty @ bors fighter, bunt being born yous foeman’s map already dotted for dot- ting. see In the Garden of the Mind. « Lines by Pettis Lewis Montgomery, in the August number of the Nevius! I have a little garden (in @ corner of rere) lege often wi T'm lonely, wandering through it I find A straying bit of gladness, Uke om Al- pine flower rare, ‘ And often bits of wisdom, that I dsdn't know were there! et ee Man-to-Man Morale. Edward L. Munson, a worker om army morale in the late war, writes in his book, “The Management of Men” (Henry Holt), these lines: In any organization, efficiency re- lates to that subtle but mighty in- fluence which passes from man to pasi man, spirituaiizing and energising the whole. dominate matter, superior to obstacle. The stirring painting “The Spirit of 1776 deplots no material strength or physical power, but ex- Presses the mental harmony, con- yiction| and determination “which brought success to the Colonial Anny. It bared the soul and not the body of the newborn Nation, And the “Spirit of '76" contem- Plated, Prohibitionists and ultra-blue Sabbatarians to the contrary not- withstanding— The control by each and every map of bis own intelligence. That way lies efficiency. eee Putting Ignorance on Limita... Turning the pages of William H. McMasters’s “Originality and Other Exsays” (Four Seas Company, Bos- ton), we are struck by this severity of jadgment: I feel that ignorant je pe + lene people should te om if thelr ‘bands and tace hare room eir hands an been ed; “a a owed to tall everybody bow muoh money they have made tn selling clothes, or autom: in the stock market, or their ignorance commands the highest market But they should not be allowed to enter into discussions tn which telligent analysis may help to Mu- minate a truth or n the scope of some public question. Another and an tnhuman blow ’ freedom of speech! ‘What should we do for State | islatures of the Board of Alders, under such « rule of limitations? The Boy, on the Burning Deck. - .- In the couree of “A Plea Cap Collier” (Doran). Irvin takes up the case of the stood on the burning deck, wii ticular regard to the question, F boy—Oh! Where was he? Says Cobb; Ask the waves. Ask the ments. Ask Mre. Homans, one save time. inquire of me. ‘He has become totally Be s no more and he never was very much. Mentally he must heve been from the very outset a Tability rather than an asset. Hed he lived, un- doubtedly he would have wound up {n'a home for the feeble-minded. It is better so, as it is; better he should be spread about over surface of the ocean by rs ex him up and buryi: | aNombstone over Nitsa” Herpes ane of the incurables, ‘The boy, we reflect, did not have, for being blown up with the deck, the excuse of being Captain of the ship. | But won't Mr. Cobb be bard on thi minstrels if he insists on the here who points a purpose while adorning poem?