The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1921, Page 20

~<a ' EDN Biorld, ESTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PULITZER. PBiimred Detly Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos. $3 to 63 Park Rew, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, @3 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. ‘ark Row. JOSEPH PULITSEN Jr., Secretary, @3 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. The Arecctatec Preoe is exctusively emtitied to the ese fer repudlicatio® <All news despatehen credited to i or not otherwise credited im thie paper Roe = HELP FOR HUNGRY RUSSIA. ° ERBERT HOOVER spoke for the whole Amer- ican people when he cabled Maxim Gorky, saying: “The absolute sine qua non of any assist- ¢, ance must be the immediate release of the Americans now held prisoner in Russia.” / Indeed, Mr. Hoover would not have exceeded the Qroper limitation of his position as Director of the American Relief Administration had he demanded felease of all foreign prisoners held for political rea- sons by the Soviet Government. But not even the aid the Relief Administration an extend will be moré than a palliative in the Present condition of Russia. Humanitarians should take the same interest in a Russian famine that they have in famines in China, India and elsewhere. The political opinions of a Starving man should not cause any right-thinking individual! to withhold aid that will save life. But starvation in Russia has more than a humani- tarian appeal. It is of high political significance. in the present disorganization of Russian political life no prophet can foretell what effect famine may Produce. | Already there are reports of co-operative efforts the Soviet leaders and their political opponents in providing relief. There are also reports that Counter-revohutionaries outside the famine area are @oolly calculating how long it will be before famine Will so sap the strength of the Red Army that a successful offensive will be possible. it is entirely possible that a small White Army armed with bread as well as bullets might make a highly successful advance into famine-stricken Red territory by the simple expedient of bribing the in- habitants with food. Even a hungry Red Army would be likely to capitulate to a well-filled larder. ' But such procedure would be perilous. Hungry men are dangerous men, whether they aie in a bread-line in a capitalistic country or in the army in Communistic nation, j Any political deveiopmenis may result. Hunger may invpel the Russian masses to turn on Com- munism with a devouring fury. Or it may lead to an exodus of Russians and Russian ideas to other nalfons. It is not inconceivable that it might result ip fierce raiding expeditions into neighboring nations letter supplied with food. | for tle United States, simple humanitarianism Wifkout regard to political opinions is the only policy worth considering. A loaf of bread would exert great political pressure for the moment, but once the hunger is relieved the pressure is removed. Any atiempt to mix politics with bread would probably result in a reaction against the movement which sought to take advantage of distress. : MARY'S LAMB, OR LUCY’S? UT of a clear sky it comes, as such things will—the bolt of intimation that it was not Mary’s little lamb at all whose “fleece was white a5 snow.” | Appears one mysterious “M. S.” to quote trom "The Little Speaker and Juvenile Reader,” a pub- Ieation fathered by Charles Northend, Principal ot the Epes School of Salem, in 1863, whereby ail the chedit that has been Mary’s through long years is given unqualifiedly to Lucy. ; The lamb is Lucy's. It is Lucy for whom the lamb expeiled waits in the schoolhouse area. It is Lucy’s kindness, winning the love and trust of the lamb, which points for the teacher a little sermon to chis wondering pupils. ‘4f this newly revealed version of an oki classic ¢4n be confirmed, the bringing-up is overturned of generations of young Americans. Mary is convicted on the spot of having appropriated the quality thar was Lucy’s. Or at least, of having received stolen goods without protest. The thought is a staggering one for a hot day. There is no relief in the suggestion that Mary and Lucy may have been sisters or first cousins and that the lamb belongs, m any event, to the family. But of course Lucy’s case is not established by a single quotation. There must be an inquiry, inter- National if necessary. | We suggest a waiting reference to Mr. Harding’s agsociation of nations, with Mr. Harvey as a Sitter- in. It will help to keep the Ambassador fram a re- Japse into speech-making. ANYTHING BUT FRANK. HO will deny Aldermanic President La Guar- dia’s assertion that “the voters must have a'frank declaration of complete repudiation of up- late encroachment on purely local matters’? But what connection has this statement with the Mayoralty election? Mayor Hylan has a clean record of “complete re- pudiation” in a negative fashion. He “repudiated” up-State but did nothing to make up-State meddling unnecessary. No Mayor of New York in recent memory has sepudiated the iple of “Home Rule” for New York City. No Mayor is likely to. The fault with Mayor Hylan is his’ failure to practice “Home Rule” in an affirmative and effective manner. “Home Rule” is an excellent phrase. “Repudia- tion of up-State’ sounds well but doesn’t mean anything in the election of a Mayor. It may be assumed with any candidate. A “Home Ruk” fight should centre on members of the Legislature. The city should elect only non- partisan legislators who will stand solidly and tie up the business Of the State if necessary rather than permit any encroaching legislation. “Home Rule” pledges would mean something in a State election, but they are anything but a “frank declaration” from a candidate for Mayor. A POPULAR DISTINCTION. OME of the tax-reform proposals sponsored by Representative Keller of Minnesota are of doubtful wisdom, but he strikes a popular chord when he recommends a distinction between “earned” and “unearned” income for purposes of taxation. He describes “earned” income as the payments for personal service or the profits of business. Rents, interest, dividends and other income not the result of business personally conducted are classed as “unearned” income. From the standpoint of economics there is much to be said in favor of this distinction. There should be an incentive for personal effort. Indeed, the only arguments opposed are those which are now used against the surtaxes on large incomes which have been driving persons of wealth to invest in tax-exempt securities. In effect the surtaxes Aave distinguished between “earned” and “unearned” income, because compara- tively few great incomes are derived from personal service or personally conducted business, Tax-exempt securities form one of the greatest barriers to a justifiable tax system based on the Income Tax Amendment to the Constitution. Until Congress ceases to add to the flood with each new development of class legislation and provides for the retirement at maturity of the tax-free securities now in the hands of great investors it will be diffi- cull to devise any system which will tax. according to ability to pay and will also distinguish between “eaned” and “unearned” income. THE PEACE OF THE TRUCE. HATEVER the reports that come from Lon- don, Dublin and Belfast, it is unthinkable thar each day does not bring the prospect of Irish peace a little closer. Every day the truce, or “armistice,” continues must be strengthening the sentiment for peace\ and motferating the views of the elements not fanatically irreconcilable. With only one or two exceptions the truce has resulted in complete peace. There have even come reports of “fraternization” be{ween the erstwhile enemies. it any break develops the leaders responsible will, in truth, assume an awful responsibility. After an “armistice” the horrors of civil war would be more horrible than ever. One other hopeful augury may be found in the comparative silenee of the professional agitators here and in other lands, who seem to have sensed that the situation has passed beyond them and must be setiled without the aid of their voices, if at all THE A OF 1776. To the Editor of The Evening World: It may salve the ruffied spirits of the "100 per cent. Americans” who object to Baron Steuben’s name on one of our schools if they will but remember that there was no German Empire or Kultur in the time when Steuben lived and fought. What there was of Prussia then was in a struggle between Joseph of Austria and bis brother of Naples, and even then was weakened by the fight. which all but crushed her, against Louis XIV. and the war wizard Prince Lugene, the son of the Countess of Soissons, Ipdeed, one cannot but think that the very parallel between the stricken country be had left and the struggling colonies he came to led the great heart of Baron Steuben to drive him into the American cause, Tam no German apologist. I am an American of nine generations and one of my family has been in every war of this country from Pontiac's to and in- cluding the one just closed. I am also an officer in the American Legion, and I can only think it is lack of knowledge of European history of the time that ean arouse such feelings as have been expressed New York, July 25, 1921 LEGIONAIRE. PITIFUL BUT TRUE, (From the Dayton News.) There always has been a class of people in this country who have made a good living, that is “good” in the sense that it has been sufficient, through swin- dling other people. And, inversely, it is true taat there always seems to be komebody ready to be swin- dled, Out of some circumstances associated with games of this character have come some pitiful and heartbreaking stories, For exampie,, a farmer in New York State had saved up about $500 through his own hard work and his wife's needlework after farm hours. They expected to buy a farm some day and settle down to live a more comfortable and perhaps happier life taan had been their portion pre- viously. They had a young son and very naturally wanted to provide him with some of the interesting advantages in Hfe. One day a stranger came along. He painted an alluring picture of a cozy farm up State and Induced this man to part with his life sav- ings as first payment on the property. An tnvestiga- tion disclosed that the stranger was a swindler and had no possible right to dispose of the farm he had “sold.” Stories like this are pitiful, but taey are so universally true that one would think that the average man would exercise a little more common sense, especially when his means are limited. There's where | education comes in as an asset. The educated man uy gold bricks. The 1921 Sea Serpent _ Copyrteht, 199 hy The Brew Uitbli@ (The New York Event case nee AS OO 20 te eey much in a few words. Take migration Incquallt! To the Elitor uf The Byening World: With amazement I have read in the Papers how red tape is ap, lied in te | Immigration Department and how visitors honored in their own country are held up on board the ship and even are sent to Ellis Island just be- cause the number of immigrants al- lowed from that particular country is reached, T know of cuses where Germans in- terned during the war and sent back to their own country came past the | authori and back into America, 1 know even of a case where a Ger- man imprisoned at the penitentiary at Atlanta for treason came back here to America and is at the present time engaged in a stock and bond business. nthe Wall Street region Is it fair to make a whole lot of fuss and make it hard for men of prominence to land here, while we open our gates wide to let our proved enemies in? G. A. OBLSEN New York, July 22, 1921 4 Slandering Senator. To the Editor of The Hrenine World It is my understanding that Sen- ators and Representatives clected to Congress are duty bound to repre- sent the people and work in their be- half. When one of these representatives deliberately and maliciously uses his office to siander any race or creed T think it is about time he was im- peached or reprimanded. 1 refer to Senator Thomas E. Watson's out- bursts in his anti-Catholic publica- tion, the Columbia Sentinel ‘The office of United States Senator is for broad-minded, straightforward men and not for a bigoted, slander- ing person like this representative from Georgia. His attacks against the .priests and nuns of the Catholic faith have been going on long enough and it is time he was suppressed, as he was not put In Congress for that pur- pose W. D. O'CONNOR. New York, July 22, 1921. The “Vacation.” To tha FAitor of ‘The Breming World. I see by The World that the first detachment Vocational Training students left®City Hall for Camp Comrade, Fire Island, last week. The Mayor started his speech and at once got himself “in Dutoh” by calling it an “act of charity" to provide care and comfort for these men.” (I was going to vote for the Mayor as an act of charity, but don’t think T will.) ‘The movie and camera men then got busy, the Women's Committee distributed cigarettes, taking care that each man got a brand he didn’t use, the crowd gave three rousing cheers without any charge whatever, and several old ladies were heard to exclaim, “Isn't it grand the way Uncle Sam treats the poor fellows! Free cigarottes, free rides, vacations and everything!” ‘The Hvening World prints thie press agent stuff, which tends to give one who knows a pain in the neck Why not go more deeply into the Vo- cational Training jest promised this bonus, The majority In| this delay in ing the veterans| ¢he experience of others. Question the boys going in and out! both Houses of the Legislature yoted | what is due th —Louis M. Notkin. of the board's cffices. Find out how | for it. The people voted for it by a| I think another parade up Fifth ny had to tramp the streets look-| majority of over 1,000,000. ‘Avenue for this State bonus would It shows a great lack of intelli- for the job which is then kindly| More than twenty States have pald do good. BROKE, to tions | eebeoved ny Ue Ssainins odionan, ting ool dings ® java Boma of thom New York, July 2 wa; gence to find answers to ques . % = =3 [o} 3 ™ < Q 2. 2) ga (eo) ae Q. 0) » Q. a ss n What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hendred? There is fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be bricf. ot how many are in positions for) which they are wholly unsuited, and! for which thcy had absolutely no} desire, but only took to get away at! last from the red tape of the board; | find out how many have been laid off by the firms with which they were) placeg because business was slack; find “out how many were refused training in schools and colleges be- cause, seemingly, their local officer had orders to that effect; find out) why a man laid off as aforesaid is) considered to have had his vacation; | | (éderal training students are allowed | two weeks with pay if such leave will not interfore with their work or/ studies); find out why there is a well-| defined prejudice against service men | in general among a large percentage of business houses in New York. ‘As for “Camp Comrade,” each man) must pay his training officer $15 “at) least one day before departure for| camp.” the charge being ‘$1 per day | additional dollar for the two | weeks." Every man is requested to | pring, among other things, a “big straw hat"—perhaps to gather pretty | isea shells in, The Vocational Board | | also announces that a wrestling and | boxing platform has been built at the | camp, so that the boys may further disable each other. Mect me at the camp. ART TILLERY, AE. F. Freeport, L. UL, Juty 23, 1921. The Lynching Record. "To the Fistor of The Exening World As a constant reader of your in- valuable journal I have observed your negro. |if you could publish these facts, which affect the negro race in particular and also humanity. Asa humanist, I have been watching the increasing bar- darity of the “civilized” South with grief. I read m the New York News, a; colored newspaper, a letter written by R. R Morton that “according to the records eompiled by the Depart- ment of Records and Research of Tuskegee Institute, Monroe N. Work in charge, in the first six months of 1921 there were thirty-six lynch- ings. This is twenty-four more than the number for the first six months of 1920, and four more than the num- ber for the first six months of 1919. "Of those lynched two were whites and thirty-four were negroes. Two of the latter were women. Eleven of those put to death were charged with the crime of occurred and the number in each State are as follows: Alabama, | Arkansas, 4; Florida, 4; Georgia, Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 2; Missi sippi, 10; Missouri, 1; North Carolina, \3; South Carolna, 1; Tennessee, 1.” J. A DIAZ State Bonus Delay. ‘To the Pikor of The Brenig World: manifest open-mindedness toward the| [should therefore be delighted | ray Srhe States In-which the tynchings| ‘What is the reason for the frightful soldiers’ bonus? delay in paying the New York State /to go through the mill of hell that | The soldiers of the World War were J think UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copsrigut, 1921, by Jokn Blake.) BURIED TREASURE, Interesting, cxciting and probably profitless will be the expedition to discover the hidden treasure on Steven- son’s Treasure Island. Treasure hunts of that sort are full of thrills and of hardship, and one in many thousand has succeeded. The map that the modern treasure scekers are to use is the one that Stevenson saw, or heard of, before he wrote his romance, He too could have organized an expedition. But Stesen- son was of Scotch lineage, and he knew of a way of getting far morc treasure out of the map that’ he ever could have dug from the island in its centre. Stevenson's was buried treasure, too, and not easy to come by. But by hard work he dug it out, and when suc- cess had crowned his efforts the treasure was not only his but all the world’s, - There is doubtless much buried treasure in the islands of the East Indies and gold under the mountains in many parts of the world. F But questing for it is always uncertain—usually profit- ess. Spend half the time seeking for the buried treasure that lies about you and within you, as Stevenson did, and there is far less uncertainty about the result and far more value to the treasure that you find, for you can share it with the world and have as much left for yourself as you had when you revealed its hiding place. There are few people who cannot find at least some small store of treasure by digging. There is nobody who can find real treasure without digging. If it lies within you to do some great and important work, the digging is all the more necessary. The highly talented musician bas to perform prodigies of labor before he can reveal his treasure to the world. The literary genius cannot develop his particular treas- ure till he has read and considered and written, spending hours of toil to bring the wealth that is within him to the light of day. i You, perhaps, may not be a genius or even a person of talent, but somewhere there is a treasure that you can make your own by patient digging, persistent effort and by a genuine desire to be something more than a mere creature of circumstance. Dig and dig hard, and the treasure will be yours. ‘ Waste time and energy seeking for treasure that some one else has buried and you will finish as most treasure hunters do—a forgotten outcast on some desolate and lonely shore. States are very poor aa gompared F eo with the financial standing New Yor! t has. rom the wise If some of the people who now chal- lenge the legality of this bonus had an expensive tutor, was raging three years ago this time y would look differently at) ev * Experience is u distinguished but Therefore it's advisable to learn something from Stories Told by The Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas b. Gregory Copyright, 1921. by The Press Publisiing Uo, (The New York Evening World.) | THE TWO SONS. The parable of the “Two faas"— Matt. 21:28-31—hits us, as it were, “both going and coming.” The little story takes in every mother’s son of us. Not one of us escapes, ‘There are just two kinds of people in the world—those who talk and de nothing, the impulsive, full of prom- ises, abundant in bluster, but whose performances are few and far be tween—and those who say little, Promise little, but wind up by doing much—the silent folk, slow ef thought, slow in committing them- selves one way or the other, but desp natured, sincere, honest and, whet once fairly aroused and started, capa~ ble of the finest achievements. The husbandman referred to by Jesus said to one of his eons: go work to-day in the Vineyard,” and received the rather blunt and con- clusive answer: “I will NO’ That seemed to settle the matter, but later on the son, having thought the matter over,. “repented” of his curt and un- filial’ answer, and went to work, doing his duty like a man. ‘We are not told why he at first re- fused to go to work, we only know that, having refused, he later on changed his mind and DID what his father wanted him to do. In the mean time the husbandman, turned down by the first son, said to the second son: “Son, go work to-day in the Vineyard,” and quick as light- ning the son replied: “I go, sir”—cer- tainly I will go, and, taking my coat off, I will work like a trooper. You can trust me for that! But he failed to go. He didn't doe lick of work, but just loafed. He was all talk and no work. Possibly this son was quite sincere, fully intending to go to work, even glad at tne thought of doing his duty by the husbandman; or it may have been that he was simply a “blow- hard,” insincere, never meaning to work if he could possibly help it. Bat fbe this as it may, the vital point is this—that he DID nothing. Now, as has already been intt- mated, every one of us belongs in one Or the other of these categories—with those who do nothing or those who do something, those who loaf or those who work, those who in the final deal find themselves among the “harlots and pudlicans"—the ragamuffins and nobodies—or those who before the game is over are exalted to a place among the elect of the ages. “Not every one that said unto mec ‘Lord! Lord!’ but he that DOPTH the will of my Father who is in Heaven.” What we say, profess, confess, promise, amounts to nothing—it te but wind—vanity; it is what we DO that COUN’ The Christian is h: who ts DOING something for the material and spir- itual betterment of his fellow men and the completest Christian is he who is doing the most in that Ite. That is what Jesus meant to teach in the story of the “Two Sons” oe Where New Yorkers . Tread. PEARL STREET. | JD PARL STREET by no stretch of imagination would be named Pear] Street to-day. It is, how- ever, one of the few streets that |always has borne the same name in Lower New York. At one time a part of it was called t)¢ Strand. The street joriginally in its jower part was the shore front of the East River. ‘The Dutch name was Pacvel Street. The city historians say it received its name from the shell road that was very white and pretty. For a time Pearl Street, except for a small part of it, was a residential street. It has been more closely identified with the changes in Lower New York than most any of the Btrects. Beginning at State Street, it makes almost a semi-circle, runniwx. north and west and ending at Broed- | Way. |_.Most persons who follow Peart Street come to the conclusion it must have been built around an old race track, but it was not. It just grew north and west and was filled with old-time residences, and nally, ex- |cept in a few spots on Cherry Hill |now is all business. aif It is very hard to concetve of a \street between which: and the Hast |River there are three streets, Water, Front and South Streets, having once ‘been the East River boundary and to have been filled with sea shells. et WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD? | 6—PARASITE. Grave reflections on the dining habits of most living creatures, from man to jellyfish, is cast by the word “parasite.” Yet the origin of the word is free from sinister meaning. It is derived, through the Latin, by way of the French, from the Greek “para” (beside) and '“sitos” (food). Thus a parasite originally did nothing worse than to take his meais beside another. But the habit of taking one's meals beside another—and presumably not paying a share of its cost—got to be so prevalent that a man who made a practice of taking his meals beside another began to be looked at askance. Hence a parasite is a person who liyes at the expense of another with- oft’ making © proper return for it But, reprehensible as it may seem, the law of parasitism ts one of the most widely extended ordinances of nature. In one sense, it may be said that ail animals subsisting on animal food are parasites. Even the fact that some animals sometimes have to work hard to obtain the aforemen- tioned food @oes not relieve them of the odium of being parasites. But of all parasites the genus homo Is the most persistent and successful, which are unanswerable. —Fonteneile, Love is nature's material ew broidered by imagination. —Voltaire, No man is @ good physician whe has never been sick. Arabian proverb, Riches are often abused, never | refused,—Danish provers, +. ant