The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1921, Page 22

NY orld. BETADLIMGED HY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwithed Daily Bxcevt Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Fhe Amoctated Press ts exclusively entitled to the wse for repuditeatics @ GM mews Grapatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im this papay ‘wed ade the local news published bereim ORGANIZE FROM THE BOTTOM UP. HE EVENING WORLD deeply regrets the abandonment of the Citizens’ Protective Hous- ing League plan. Tenatits need this organization or one similar in Purpose. It is umfortunate for the rentpayers of New York City that political opposition and a dog- day slump in imterest have convinced Mr. Hirsch and Mr. Untermyer that it is not practical to proceed with the project now The affairs of the temporary organization are to be wound up. Checks for the provisional mem- bership fees will be returned to prospective memn- bers—at the expense of the organizers. No better evidence could be asked to prove the disinterested motives of Mr. Hirsch and Mr. Untermyer. But dissolution of this league should not mean the end of tenant organization. As Senator Lock- wood pointed out yesterday, the housing crisis is by | fo means ove? Landlords are conspiring to evade and mullify the protective rent laws. Vacant apart- ments, of which there are a considerable auniber, | are generally beyond the means of the wage rs whose incomes have shrunk in the last year, If New York is not to have one great central or- ganization of tenants, there is all the more reason for continuing work in the organization of local tenant leagues in the various neighborhoods, With Mumerous small organizations in the field, there is always the chance for federation ard united action in a crisis. If New York cannot have a league organized from the top down, then let the tenants proceed to organize from the bottom up, There is need for organization, THE PRESIDEN1’S SIMPLE. ESIDENT HARDING has a queer way with words. “Normaley” and “becoming” are ) familiar examples. Yo these ast add imple.” While a candidate he described the process of government as “a simple thing.” Yesterday in his address to Congress he recommended the umplifi- cation of the powers of the War Finance Corpora- tion as “the simple remedy proposed for the relief of the situation.” ‘Nobody knew just what Candidate Harding H meant by “normalcy.” The “normalcy” we are getting is not entirely satisfactory. There is also uncertainty as to what the Presi- dent may mean by “becoming.” Perhaps it may describe the most recent action of the revised an! Republicanized Shipping Board. And what does “simple” mean? The dictionary doesn’t help much—unless we get down to the subsidiary and archaic detinitions, such as: we ow “Weak of intellect; not wise or sagacious. “Not worth much consideration; insignifi- cant, trifling, ordinary.” Or perhaps we should seek the definition of “simple” as a noun used in apposition with “remedy.” In this sense “simple” is defined as: “any medicinal plant or the medicine ex- tracted from it; from the former supposition that each single herb was or provided a spe- cific for some disease.” If this is the sense the President used, he is mis- taken. There is no “simple” for “relief of the situation.” There is no law-made specific for the cure of financial ills. Hard work and straight think- ing would help. But, most certainly, a policy of Federal financing of railroads, farmers, exporters and every other special interest capable of applying pressure to the Government means anything but a remedy for the manifest ills of “normalcy.” Just as the verb “to lusk” was coming to have @ definite and established meaning along comes a new lusking committee and discovers a silver service. Question; What does “lusk- ing” mean now? A POET OF HASH. the current I Saturday Evening Post ‘we read: “It was not merely bash, not merely good hash; it was art. It was made of the choicest meat, corncd by Maggie herself, and shredded to a silky fineness by her skilful hands. In it were combined exactly the right proportion of vspecialry prepared potatoes, just the perfect €-vor of osion, which under Maggie's bestowal became a perfume as well as a savor; and it was cooked to a deep, gorgeous, reddish drown—+ rich, shimmering rubescent brown— nd served in symmetrical on great platters. “The aroma of it filled the was brought in. The taste of it lingered on the palate. And with it came hot biscuits— not the minute, meagre hot biscuits of some kitchens, but big, luscious, browned hot biscuits with crust that was a poem and crumb that was @ song. The fragrance of the biscuits | made richer and more appesiatng the fascinat- | Ing redolence of the hi Here ts more than mere prose. Divide it into mounds room when it lines of half a dozen worgs or so—then compare ) id THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921. it with most of the “new,” “free,” istic” verse, if you plea Here is “new” poetry and at the same time the oldest of poetry. ’Twas thus the first minstrel sang long before the age of chivalry introduced romanticism. For men ate before they loved. They had to. Yes, this is poetry, the poetry of the “easy feeder”’—to introduce a more modern phrase. This gustatory poet was Samuel G. Blythe, an “easy feeder” without a doubt—for only an “easy feeder” could write so fervent a description of corned-beef hash. Mr. Blythe it was, as we recall, who not tong ago revealed his weight reduction system to a wait- ing and adipose world. In brief, tis secret was to eat about half what the average man deems nec- essary. Any man who “reduces” for the sake of his health and his figure deserves credit for a Spartan quality. Mr. Blythe was never properly appreci- ated.» An “easy feeder,” a gustatory poet who bants and sticks to his banting is no less than heroic He deserves to rank with Odysseus, who resisted Circe’s gastronomic spell and so escaped transfor- mation into the form of a pig. JUDGE HASKELL MEDDLES. age “opportunity” which Judge Reuben L. Haskell thinks he sees to strike for At Prohibition and personal liberty in New York’s Mayoralty campaign is an opportunity to meddle and muddle; quite possibly to spoil the autumnal chance for municipal redemption. Nobody has any reason to doubt the position of The Evening World on the subject of autocratic “dry” laws and “blue” laws. ft is, indeed, because of the clearness of its con- victions as to Prohibition and related propositions in oppressive restriction that this paper can see how completely the “blue” and “dry” issues are out of point in tke local Government contest. Hylanism furnishes the sole and sufticient issue for the approaching city campaign. : The fight is to be directed against Hylan and the forces that foisted him upofi us in the election of 1917; against the man and the methods that have afforded us a horrible example in place of an ex- emplary administration. Anderson and his Anti-Saloon League, quite rea- sonably detested by Judge Haskell and many others, have had nothing to do with the executive bungling and inefficiency under which New York has suftered for three years and seven months. They and their present dominance would not be affected by the city’s ever-so-loud a speaking at the local polis of the Anti-Dry mind which the whole world knows it possesses. Prohibition is an issue so far removed, in truth, from the matter of choosing the next Mayor of’ New York that to suggest its consideration in thet connection is an inppertinence and a just cause for public impatience. Sane foes of Volsteadism well may pray for deliverance from the zeal that would tush this issue to such futile purpose. There is Hylanism to beat, and only by a con- centrated opposition can it be beaten. There neither time nor argument to waste on questions out of the frame. ‘impression- It seems almost like old times to learn that John McGraw has been arrested as the conse- quence of an alleged assault [ut why in Pitts- burgh? A LESSON FOR REFORMERS. ONEST supporters of the various brands of sumptuary legislation designed to make peo- ple good by legal fiat ought to read anJ ponder well a report from London. The professional reformers, who protit by the reforms they advocate and live as secretaries and promoters of associations for the suppression or/] abolition of this, that and the other thing, will not be interested. The meat of the despatch is first sentence: “Smoking has become such a bourgeois habit that many women of the aristocracy who have been using tobacco are now shunning it.” Women of the upper classes in Englahd started the smoking fad. The “bourgeois” followed the style. If the aristocrats stop smoking the “bour- geois” are likely to do likewise. The power of example and growth of informa- tion did far mere to promote real temperance in America than the Eighteenth Amendment. Legal prohibitions, at the best, are poor sub- Stitutes for voluntary abstinence, which builds character. mained in the TWICE OVERS. “ce EARLY every Senator and Assemblyman has received presents from his friends. tor Lusk, —Sena- * . . “oe HE King can do no wrong’ is an ancient doctrine, but in this Republic it has never reached the application that an elected official can do no wrong.” —Judge Ernest S. Smith of Illinois. * . * 66 ANYBODY that passes a sales tax is dead un- Ul Gabriel blows his horn,” —Benjamin C. ‘ \ Marsh, Couldn’t Hurt His Feelings By Rollin Kirby Corrie New York Brealng Workho O From Evening World Readers 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 hundred? There is fne mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. mothers, and trounce your children if they play in the middle of the str. where motor cars belong and chil: do not. Start right makers, an tor car dri off their c Panish: the Pirates. To the Biitor of The Brening World We have our own way of bringing to terms profiteers and pirates of al: sorts. Since May, 1919, we have steadily gone without many articles we would buy were they sold at a reasonable price. We saw no reason use there was a war tax nt on 10 cents, dealers shoul:l my ou law. wed mo the right to get down and trounce every ch.ld that they ch hanging on the spare tires in’ th of motors, every youngster that stands out in the mid- die of the street and spreads out both > the price of a S-cent ar- yreago the price Of ‘cents eo uaihands, jumping to safety when the to collect the war tx and as well,| Give him the right to spank every youngster that takes a stick and e deavors to hold it along the pave ment go that the oncoming car will cun over it. | Make it lawful for him to arrest | every youngster on roller skates that | go of a car and dar J of submitting to extortionate prices for sodas and other drinks, we have spent our money for spring water at 75 cents for a_five-gallon bottle, At least the spring water is) palatable, which is not the case with | Croton water out of the faucets. suddenly leaves ES directly in the path of motors ANTI-VOLSTHAD. ANTEY, goming in the opposite direction, Brooklyn. July gti Start right in now, you police offi- | “Then What?” cers, and shoot to kill when you ‘ind| re the sauce ee UH ing ar [eA eo EEL REM licestamtalerastimactancuenetcnrel| thoughts on personal) oe yn and help if he could, T have driven a car for years in the streets of cities and figure that I have aved hundreds of children's lives by prompt application of the emer- a few if there is any such thing. the Kighteenth Amend- come no smoking, and then what? | ote ‘ars old, work hard | BH aautCoute aa Buy eorBue Sun- | geney brakes, many times at the risk days. After working for nine and a|of “skidding” and rear-end collisions, haif hours daily what is better than) thus endangering my own life to pr a bottle of good old 4 per cent, beer?| tect children who were in pla T have to be contented with near beer| where they had no right to be and and tny pipe. Next we will be taxed) where motor cars are licensed to ope- on our leisure moments when we rest | rate. on a couch or chair in the evening. I make these suggestions for two New York, July 921, 8.1. |reasons—for the protection of thesc children, so dear to us all, and for the | punishment of those beasts that have | only the courage to attack and eatisty | ther lust for blood and_ brutality | when the odds are overwhelmingly oy their favor. The Police De} Just liberty, We ment. then the b A Street Riot, ‘To the Blitor of The Evening World There appeared in The Evening World and several other papers of July 21 a news item that should dis- antmantiot aun ernat Kvst your Tenders With 407 called “DU city should leave no stone unturned | man_ beings.” in their endeavors to locate and sum- I refer to the item setting forth [int CEOS AHA ayeurea eal that a driver of @ motor truck Knocked! man and woman who participated in | down-and killed a six-year-old ehild,| That (utterly diszracetMl outrage. of but when the covet aemene*e Fone | aa one paper had it “2,000 men and eat to do at the driver’ inta insensi- ee upon by several hundred be ee one tyme. ‘Their bravery was of such | ters and editorials each night an order that their numbers made it fectly aafe for them to beat up a| ‘The letter published July 21 about Moor delenseless man shocked by the | removing the Statue of Liberty was Reeident that was impossible for him fine. L myself think it ought to be | to avotd, but that gipt body of brave given back to France. ‘There is n so called “men and women" were *UC in America as liberty or cowed by one policeman with a club. CITIZEN, | Understand that I and many others " ad were heartily in sympathy with the Edaren's Articles, bereaved father and mother of this To the Biitor of The Drening World poor child, but if in the past the) I have been a constant reader of | father had soundly _amanies the| your valuable newspaper, and al- youngster every time “St_him | though I enjoy all sections of it, | ing in the stree th. : “sea_ig one thing I take great in Bave been alive to-day, ( in, and that is Robert Ed- Btart in right now, fathers Saturday articles on sport with UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921. by John Blake) KEEP AN OPEN MIND. The mind which is not open to ideas will be barren of ideas. If you think you know enough, that settles it will never know anything moze than you do. Men feed their minds on ideas work. ther Benjamin Franklin nor Abraham Lincoln tried to supply himself with all the ideas he needed. Most of the Greeks that followed Socrates took their ideas from him, and by and new ideas, Take it for granted that no one is right about any- thing but yourself and you will deprive yourself of a great deal of knowledge that you ought to have. To argue with others is beneficial, provided you are willing to be convinced if you are wrong. To argue merely for the purpose of making the other fellow believe as you believe, regardless of what he may have to say, is the most futile of all occupations. Keep your mind open on all subjects. A little while ago many important engineers refused to be convinced that flight was a possibility, or that the Wright Brothers were anything but a pair of half demented theorists. Now these engineers have been convinced, but (.ey were too late to get any share of the credit for the marvel ous development of flight. It is not wise to be incredulous of anything until , have tested it to the best of your ability. When men for years have sought something that they cannot find, such as evidences of ghosts or spirits on ea-th, it ising them constantly developed new angles just as well to conclude that that particular quest is idle. But to deny that men cannot cross the ocean in a day, until many men have tried it and failed, is merely closing ibilities, Keep an open mind in politics and business as you would in science, As well zht a theatre shut its doors and expect to sper as a man shut his mind and hope to have it stoced your mind against po: 1 pr r t Suez Canal on the sea road to India is only an improvement on the pio neering work accomplished by Magel- lan. Despite his numerous quarrels, the é peppery Portuguese mathematician and navigator is entitled at least to the credit indicated by the act of pos- terity in fixing his name to the fa- mous strait through which he first fought his against difficulties it. Y. that sent two of his ships slinkins A ou) home from terror of the enterprise. . No one brain was ever 'D fertile enough to invent all the ideas it needed for its life's WHERE DID YOU GET pO OOOO OEE OL DAL DDL EPL OILY The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozur Tonjoroft XXXI—THE MAN WHO FIRST SAILED AROUND THE GLOBE. It was a quarrel that brought about the first voyage around the globe. In the first place Magellan—or Fer- |nao de Magalhaes, to give him his Portuguese name in full—quarrelled with the King of Portugal, renounced his Portuguese nationality and offered | bis services to Charles V. of Spain and a few other countries, In the second place, Charles V. back from his campaigns in Flanders, resumed his quarrel with the King of |Portugal over the question of the | frontiers between Spanish and Portus Buese outlying possessions. At this psychological _ moment |Magellan, who had knocked around the Far'East to some purpose, in \formed Charles V. that Portugal hae no right to the Molucca Islands, ana |that they lay on the Spanish side of | the line drawn from pole to pole at | the suggestion of Pope Alexander Vi. and afterward shifted to 370 leagues west of the Azores. Out of these two quarrels Magellan wrested the opportunity to achieve a feat of navigation second in impor- tance only to Christopher Columbus's performance in discovering America. ‘The Portuguese expatriate, who had delved into the higher mathematics, informed Charles V. that he could sail Jaround the southern end of the newiy | discovered continent and thus proceed. | to the Moluccas and straighten things out in the archipelago. | Supplied with five ships, of which ‘the flagship bore the auspicious name of Vittoria, he picked up 4 few hundred thousand square miles of new possessions for the King of Spain {on his way to the southern end of the | western continent After he had staked out these im- peril claims Magellan entered the strait thut now bears his name, sailed through it for thirty-seven days, and | on Noy, 27, 1520, emerged at its west- The man who had owed the origin of his enterprise to two intertwined | quarrels lost his life in a third quar- | rel on the voyage home. Having converted the King of Zebu |(Gebu in the Philippines) to the | Christidn religion, he served an ulti- matum on a neighboring potentate to submit to the baptized King or fight. ‘This chief politely but firmly elect- Jed to fight. In the fighting Fern: {de Magalhaes lost his life, as did all | but a handful of his followers. ‘The survivors sailed into the port of San | Lucar three years, less fourteen da | after they had mentous voyage. Magellan not only contributed vant | dominions to the King of Spain but ‘he also found a breach in the con- | }tinental wall that separated the eastern half of the world from tho western—except by laborious toil over towering mountains and desert dis- | tances. | Incidentally, he made the develop- {ment of the west coast of Norti as wel] as South Amer more feasible | by establishing a route from the Atlantic to the Pacific ethals and his predecs onstruction of the Panama (ea end. started on their mo- G ors in the Canal cut off a whole continent from the Jength of this route. the Panama Canal, like the THAT WORD’ 57—EXAGGERATION. “Exaggeration” originally meant the act of piling up. Hence, in its cur- rent use, it means piling up the agony, making things or emotions, or quelle, look or feel bigger than they ar When the old Roman said “exaz- gero” he meant that he was heaping something up (from “ag” or “ad,” to, and “gero,” to carry), When the old Roman piled up too many words, or whether of he was said to be qualities, or assertions, good or of evil, exaggerating. And when in modern spoken language we ask a man (and perhaps more frequently a woman) gerator to “stop piling it up,” classic authority for an expression that may smack of slang to the sen- sitive ear of the puri Generally speaking, branded as “slang” by the purists is only a shorter, common word corre sponding exactly to the longer Latin equivalent. exag- we have many a word “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick | co ies 1921. by the Press ing Co. | 4 Yors On May 24, performing serted and 1430, prodigi alone, Joan of Are, after of valor, de- was taken prisoner Inglish after her horse was Mayoralty Insaes, Yo the Fulitor of ‘The Evening World ‘The issues of the coming Mayoralty d. The old defeat the again been The article :written by Tonjoroff concerning Columbus, recent issue of your paper, tirely misleading, bus was no worldly adventurer, had a definite he ventured to find the path to India. in a election are rather cor y of united action Tammany candidate sounded. But why? any more of a machine candidate t! wiil be the figurehead that a small coterie of Fusion bosses will pick? Why is this same group of bosses working so, strenuously to prevent La Guardia frém receiving the nomina- tion? Is it because of their disin- terested public spirit and their unself- ish desire for the people's welfare? to has is Mayor Hylan in general and India in particular. | not for himself, heathen from Spain. went and the manner of his death. zx Svetozar | 4 was en- Christopher Colum- He mission in view when His one desire was to spread the light | of the true faith throughout the world; He also desired to obtain treasure, | but to drive the|time during the Civil War. This is amply proved by the sufferings he under- erroneously styled “men and women sine my heartfelt: sympathy with anything but profitless vacancy a sally from Compiegne, and beaten into Jnaonalbility, ts the | fF Sergt. Dooley in hie bereavement Can you wonder tat } and the utter contempt and disgust ae | natural impulse for & ayiver 36 apres for the filthy hounds who beat up a} May 24, “John Randolph y and get away when he takes his »solutely innocent of any care- Naa onastoon ati eke (so he always signed his | jife in his hands if he stops to ascer- Pins seaaiaiely inncoge: OC ane Pere an itiuatreted cartoon itiached., I} It seems to the writer that a leading name), Va. died. Disterguished for tain if the vietim of an accident 48) poor child, 1 am, re Bt NOW MANY od to read Bagren's | nowsbaper such as yours is should at genius, eloquence and eccentricity, ke seriously hurt? | 4 | Evening [World to read | idgren’s/ this time enlighten the people of New was a descendant in the seventh gen- Every beast that participated in rty or i jarticles. I i Nee ahae Sah Etta a York as to what is actually going on eration from Pocahont the Indian that w holesale display of cowardice | a) i. a my [area time | Shamplonship ‘Sg ates and what it may all Mian, 16, them, Princess. shamed of “its” e Bilis Lot old r 8, ADER. | see eiThey were the greatest assemblage able paper! Go to it! You certainly j this PAL LE Christopher Columbas. | 1807 und com- of cowards that T have ever seen at are publishing some very good let-| To the biAitor of ‘Mae Brening World | Jonathan Wil- | The material of this fort is Newark red sandstone It rests on a bed of rock at the ex- treme northwestern part of. the island. In form it is three-fifths of circle, 200 feet in diameter, with walls 40 feet high, 8 feet thick in the lower | Yer and 7 feet in the upper one. | For many Williams has been used as a military prison, 11,500 being confined within it at ono rs Castle | In the French Thevniution of IWt8 |Louts Philippe was driven frum | throne, ’