The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1921, Page 18

i \ i * “And now the card. tg Teturio, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PITLITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by Tho Preas Publishing Companys. Nos. 5% to @3 Park Raw New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Pow. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 6% Pak MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS (The Ansocieted Prem te exclusively entitled to the use for republicatto® Cf ali mews despatches credited to it oF not otherwire credited in tala pape: 32d also the local news published herein, SIDETRACKED! RESIDENT HARDING aad fourteen of the “Best Minds” of the Senate have deciled to sidetrack the tariff bill and go ahead with tax revision, The decision is in no way an indication of the Coliective intelligence of the filteen minds. If 4 moron were blackjacked until he saw stars he would be able to: conclude that something had hit him. That was what happened to the Republican organ- ization. The country rose up unanimously ant ordered the Republicans to forget tradition and party orthodoxy and get down to what needed to be done, namely, revision of taxes, and not the tariff. Any one of the “Best Minds” ought to have been able to discover the nearly unanimous condemna- tion of any taritf bill now—the Fordney monstros- ity in particular. But what will the House have to say about this favoritism for the Senate? The House has per- spired through several hot weeks of tariff-making only to have its work shunted aside until cooler weather and the will of the Senate and the Presi- dent permit of consideration. The reply to any such complaints should be that even the relatively mediocre minds of the House should have been able to discern the futility of their dog-diay work. | TAXI HOLD-UPS. Né T. Arthur Joseph, in letters to the editors O of several New York newspapers, has a | thought for the poor taxi passenger, the victim of “hold-ups” by taxicab drivers. He believes an ordinance should require every chauffeur “to give every fare engaging his taxl a card bearing the license number of the taxi and the name of the driver. The passenger could readily compare the number of the card with the license number, and then, if anything happened, the police could finish the Job.” \ It almost seams that this would introduce a ne&d- less complication into the art of the hold-up. After the driyer has taken over the valuables, wouldn’t he also remark, in the manner of the melodrama, 1 must have the card.” Perhaps a more efiective variation would be ta | require the taxi drivers to hand out a post card which the prospective victim could address to his home and drop in the nearest mail box. And when this is attended to, what shall we do for tle poor bul honest {axicab driver who picks up a fare only to tum around a few minutes later to see a gun levelled at his head and hear the order to fork over the day’s proceeds? ‘When the army cantonments were established in 1917 Secretary Buker was accused of playing politics in locating more of the camps in the South than in the North, Secretary Weeks will retain only four camps, in New Jersey, Kentucky, Texas and the State of Washington. The reason Maine, Minnesota and Massachusetts are to be disregarded is that the northern climate is unfavorable for year- round training. ‘That was what Secretary Baker and his ad visers knew in 1917, GOOD LUCK TO THE CARAVAN. 1O-DAY is the day of the great adventure for the Brooklyn ‘“Caravaners,” the twenty-five families who plan to leave on the pioneering ‘rip to new homes on Idaho farms. Today's caravan will be different indeed from the caravans that left this vicinity a hundred vears ago, and different from the caravans leaving the Missouri River towns no longer than forty or filly years ago. Brooklyn’s caravan will travel in automobiles, Their goods will be the equipment of the motor campers. They need not carry their tools and ani- mals with them as the earlier settlers did For a thousand miles these homeseekers can travel through a peaceful, settled country. The marauders of the trail will not be the copper-<olored savages, dressed in war-paint and hunting scalps. No, the enemy will wear blue denim overalls and will appear in the doors of garages to demaix! much money for gasoline, oil and tires. The travellers will rarely be out of sight of the ubiquitous telephone pole for more than a lew min- utes. They will travel miles over concrete road- ways, where the earlier pioneers struggled to help their faithtui oxen through maxi and sand. The trip will take days where it took weeks and months a hundred years ago. And in the towns and cities warm welcome will await the expedition, for whatever the personal practices of the urban dwellers of America may be, there is no doubting the warmth and enthusiasm of the sentiment for the ‘back-to-the-land” move- ment. isut for all these manifest differences. there is much that is common in ihe caravan of yesterday and the caravan of to-day. ‘There is the same en- terprise and ambition to better conditions, the courage to try the new and unknown. The pioneer spit that seitied continent of A is there in the caravaners ame the broad America the hearts ot trom Brooklyn And this pioneer spirit will be needed. It is no mean undertaking to leave the cily and go to 4 practically undeveloped claim’ in the West, and without experience to work out salvation and tinincial independence by hard labor and steady purpose, The leader of this band, William D. Scott, said earlier in the week: “I expect we'll have a preity contented party when Thursday night rolls around.” As we wish the Brooklyn Caravaners Godspeed aml good luck, let’s add the fervent wish that the venture will prove all that is anticipated and that six months or a year hence the Caravaners will he as contented as they will be to-night. STICK TO THE POINT. RIENDS of the disarmament movement will tind nothing to occasion concern in the Japa- nese memorandum which virtually accepts the in- vitation of the Unitad States Government betore it is sent. Imieed the Japanese attitude, if correctly ex- pressed by the note, is more to be commended than the stand taken by Congress and the Presi- dent. The Japanese Government reminds the Harding Administration that: he proposition of the American Govern- ment to discuss the Pacific and Far Kastern problems is based on the close bearing they have on the limitation of armament, which is the principal aim of the conference.” In other words the Japanese want Mr. Harding to stick to the point, to talk disarmament and not ramble over all creation until the disarmament ques- tion is lost in the shuffle. That is precisely what Senator Borah wanted when he forced some sort of action on a laggard Administration, That is what the thinking peace makers of the United States want to-day. A con- ference for limitation of armaments should be a comerence for limitation of armaments. — Every other question is secondary. Of course, it is inevitable that other questions will come out in the discussions, but the more com- pletely these are Subordinated to the main topic the better the chances of success. The great moving force behind the disarmament movement is the desire of the people of all the important military nations to cut down the fright- ful waste of productive eflort now going into the construction of big, competitive navies. There is no reason to think that other problems cannot te settled as satisfactorily after aavy build- ing programmes have been cut one-half or two- thjrds. There is every reason to hope that these troublesome. questions can he settled more satisfac- torily when the jingo elements in Japan, the United States and Great Britain have been deprived of a part of their trouble-making armaments. The Japanese are entirely right when they tell President Harding and Secretary Hughes to stick to the point, The only wonder about the wooden bathing tank near Jefferson Market Court, with its five feet of cool, refreshing water, is that there are not more of them in this big, hot city. THE IMPENDING. INVASION. AY THE end of July approaches, a fleet of ves- sels is assembling off Sandy Hook. The object is an invasion of the United States. But there will be no surprise attack. The time for the invasion is set, not by any foreign power but by the Congress sitting in Washington. he reason for the gathering of this fleet of pas- senger ships is the 3 Per Cent. Inwmigration Law. Each of the ships cruising off Sandy Hook has a passenger list which includes persons of nationali- ties whose entrance quota for July is already ex- hausted. Consequently the steamers will wait until Aug. 1 before they unload the invading immigrants. The natura! consequence will be that August quotas for some nations will be filled the first day. Is the time coming when steamship companies will campete in a race from Sandy Hook to Quar- antine in the effort to land their quotas in the sbort- est possible time after the first minute of the first hour of the month? Will the 3 per cent, law make it advisable for companies to have special speed boats to scud across the few miles of the Lower Bay? Will immigrants duplicate the mad rushes for free land which marked the opening of the rich Indian Ter- ritory, now a part of Oklahoma? To all these questions the answer is “No.” gress is going to have to repeal the foolish features ot this and provide a workable method of rationing immigration even if it preserves the ? per cent. principle Con- lay TWICE OVERS “ ANY of our citizens have been led to believe that the housing situation has been soloed; that an emergency no longer exists, and that rents will shortly begin to come down. I am exceedingly sorry for such, as the awakening will be tragic. The land- lord organizations have no notion of this kind.” Nathan Hirsch. oe 8 SET T is going to be a fight with the Indians right down to the wire.” —Miller Huggins. ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921. ~ By Rollin Kirby rane etrenentetere tdi eae aaa ehs aE ES or : ccording to Lusk! xvhtezhs, THANICS What kind of @ letter do you find most readable? Tan't {t the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is Ane mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te aay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. , Who'll De Rravet the premiums paid by poli ybold- To the Bijtor of The Byenis Worl $s whe tially in- Are there any Senators or Con-|demnitic If Rressmen brave enough to dare the Ihe Anti-Saloon League and W. C. T. U. Waitenes n introducing bills for a commission reduce fire through to be appointed to actually determine of prevention by reducing by tests the intoxicating properties of rate ping with Je meenedl 2:78 (or -4) per cont. Oeer, and: when the part of the insured, such is determined to allow to be are performing @ valuable ser- anufactured that which is not in- fo society and should be com- ‘toxicating, then scrap the Vols mended: ail GORESTER. law with its lies, and allow the beer) New York, July b ¢ past, tax each re ‘ fore Prohibition, " “Gone Dey: and license i same | 7 the Bhitor af The Breage World \ license should app! fi | dry This, Lady Astor's} ing soda water, ice cream and parlors, and thus gain revenue A CONSTANT READER. andy |laconic remark in the House of Com- | | mons, referring to an intolerable con- | Jdition under which the United siates | ss one an insight to the | of Buropeans in re- | The Chinaman’s Game. To the Fxiitor of The Byen.ng Wor now exists, giv mental attituc The editorials of ‘The Evening! gara 10 american institutions as con- World ure not only interesting but ar) [Vn jinstructive, comprehensive, to the “ro. g jacee nation, builded upon the point and generally correct, but | principles of life, liberty und the pur | tion to th And that) suit cf happiness, t so fallen | inee played a good same of pok« My version of Bret Harte shows the game referred to as having been euchre, The same he did not under- | stand. CHAS. W. JEWELL Woodhaven, Ls 1, July 25, 1921. | beneath the ‘of a famat | cal oligarehy as to deny to its cit: | }zens the immortal right of conducting |their own lives so as to accomplish | the fulness thereof, is viewed by the | wopeans with pity and contempt + | And in a measure they a thirattituae, A nation w her sons were Fire Insurance. To the Piiior of Mic bre I have just read in the advertising jon the fi columns of The Evening World an | peopies oi other ts of thet article signed by John B. Morton that | selves, de/ormine under what conc attracts my attention and arouses my | tions they snould live, allows a sma interest, His assertion that “fire in-|coterie of narrow-minded, bigoted surance only indemnifies; it does not | disciples of Puritanism to force legis | restore” gives food for thought. Fire|lation through the parliamentary ingurance, unfortunately, generally is} body which deprived these very men so that th |yisualized as a gamble concerning | of this same right for themselves, de only insurer and jpaured—society at| serves nothing but contempt |large being « disinterested observe: And is it to stop here? Bloated by | Meditation has convinced me that|their success, this group of fanatics no one wins if there be no fire com-|now aim to destroy what yttle pled petition, th of policyhold-| sure still exists for the working class | jon combine to|in this country, ‘They lay claim to the uch @ level a@ to pro-| Divine right of making hoiy the Sab- keep rates vide the insurance companies oniy| bath day. The age-long interpreta reasonable compensation for the ser-|tion of the First Commandment of | they render and enable them to bbath,” is not | God, “Keep holy the \sutticient for these e ld up reserves sufficient to mee tists, And if their obligations with normai aver-| this movement should mpet with su age fire louses When a fire oc-|cess they will further seck to enslave lours we are apt to ask if the prop-|the people ‘of this country in the yoke erty was fully insured, and if the/of their loathsome legislation, |reply be in {he affirmative we dis-| Bloodless, sexless cre miss if as a matier of no importance, | selves, thetr next st jyet “insur indemnifies; jt segregation of the The joss is ubso-|destroying of the family status, The lute possibility of accomplishing this last One bundred per cent. insurance | project may seem as far away as the lonly covers property value; it does | infinite stars, but 60 did nation-wide [pot indemnify the policynolder for |Prohintion appear ten years ago. loss incident to interrup oper W. B. McGEE, tions or loss of valuable records | Brooklyn, N. ¥., July 26, 1921 neither does it compensate the em- ployee who is temporarily deprived of earning capacity. "Insurance does not reswre.” When an elevator, contain jing hundreds of thousands of bush- The Comfortabl To the Diitor of The Brening World Recently I have read in your paper expressions of some of the mos? nar- Style. els of wheat burns society loses, Just row-minded, prejudiced, antiquated that amount of human necessities has |and silly ideas that It has bern my gone beyond recall] and no amount of | misfortune to encounter, IT refer to Indemnity will restore it. The logs of the present attack on bobbed hair the building represents much more In the first place, bobbed sai ja jthan values measured by de most practical and comfort represents bolls lobor and alwo gon that are utterly destroy be restored. This \" The insurance company mode o ot otner daye—waleriada oufla rails 4 From Evening World Readers f UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Jone Blake) “ALERT.” On the battlefield, when the hum of the distant air- plane was heard by the outposts, “Alert” was sounded. The anti-aireraft guns were made ready. Soldiers prepared to get under cover, The timely sounding of the call saved lives. There was never any disposition to neglect it. From one end of a command to the other there was scurrying and preparation, And if the “Alert’’ came in time the enemy flyer usually found it advisable to return to his own lines as speedily as possible. “Alerts” are sounding about us all the time, but few of us take the:trouble to heed them. We go our ways in our own fashion, confident that noth- ing can harm us. Neglect of health, neglect of business, over-indulgence, over-confidence, all are enemies which, while they may not be as imminently dangerous as an enemy airplane, still will “get us’ if we do not prepare for resistance, The old sound “Alerts” for the young, and the young put them down as of no consequence. Preachers, educators, philosophers, students of life, con- stantly sound their “Alerts” in spoken and printed words. We listen and smile, and do the things we have been doing. ; But there are those of us who know what “Alert” means, and those are the ones who are going to be ready when the enemies are in sight. They are going to protect their health from the raids of the many things that threaten it, They are going to protect their minds against the inroads of the hundreds of destruc- tive habits that will ruin in a little time if no defense is found against them. Life is and has to be a continual battle, a struggle be tween the good and the evil in a man or woman. ‘The good constantly sounds the “Alert” and the evil as constantly counsels inaction. Listen for the “Alerts” if you expect to be anything more than you are to-day, even much as you are to-day. Listen to them and beed them, and yon will live in far less danger of the common enemy. and false curts, and also the “puppy” cages used in the high ooiffures of|did during the war. to-da in iny own circle of friends, which | includes all girls, plain giris, sensible girls, frivol- ous girls and studious girls—I find that fully one-half of them have bobbed hair. They did not do it to attract the attention of men, which terrible crime a certain type of mildly insane people accuse them of. They did tt becauae it is the most becoming 4nd comfortable mode of hairdressing, New York, July 27, 1921, men wartime wages. called ,"“tonsortalists.” humming for the barbers. T. P. R, Arlington, N. J., July 26, 1921 Not Preas Reports, aes To the Piiar of The Breaing Work ne Barbers. ing Weld Proftte To the Pristor of The A recent letter struck me as having tn Southampton. Will the Sinn Fein the right tone, It wns A letter cre he accused of doub'e-crossin from “I. MOC pogarding a class of pjoyd George during the truce an pa Dhers=poofteers Is tuo good ped with setting Are to the t them, Hy thar mean] inert JAMES J. Mecoy, ihe barbers, who coptinue so charge) Atichmond Hulk duly 26, 1821, ° « 4 rie co ana street tees the same unreasonable prices as they |fume to drink deeper than the m It's no wonder that in this town that I live in they can afford to close their shops two types of girls—pretty| days weekly and still pay their work, What was done by the aid of your Paper to the @eoda water robbers I am sure can also be done to these 1 hope that belng that 2 ; ° Press despatches report the ateam- ship Mauretania burning at her pter | Stories Told by | |The Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Coppright, 1921. ‘The Pres Publishing Oe. ____{Tee_New_York Brening World.) ____|) THE BARREN FIG TREE. The story of the barren fig tree Luke xiil, 6-9—has but a single point, but that point is a tremendous one, furnishing us, us it were, with the “acid test” of the question of questions, What does your life amount to?” A "certain man" ordered his Se dresser to piant a fig tree in tHetvine- yard, It was his privilege to give the order, he gave ii und it was car ried out, This man did not happen to belong lo the class “absente jundiords." He (ook an interest | ois estate, and in due time he walked \hrough the vineyard to see what wc count his ig Uree had to give of it known as | | / at was nis fig tee was varven, It nad 1S wealth of foliage but no fruit, Amon V the innumerable beautiful leaved, ¥ there appeared not a single [x | “How ts Ubi wsked the man, "TC |{ come for and not a fig do 1 see. Cut it down, sir, immediately! ‘It is |} taking ot which itis not aded {he vine, dresser, ’ ne give tree | trial of just one more season? And | then if it fails to make good tf shall be cul down, fur it must either pros so the fruit or wet oul of UME Way.” Produce or perish somn thls Iihat is worth while or males: pour that w who: eration chor the purasite, is RO: i imate room in this’ world. We thet will not work, neither shall Nyowat. of doctrine, Uagsome= like the rafibow, Phere are theusands Joe ways iu whet in work forthe uy lift of humanity and the advancement Gods but am Bot s 1 must be busy or v he called ja pyen To do nothing, to be a dromels the p of life but never i to he se never to serve most despreable thing dim the orl One of the mosi delightful fegtu f Jot the used By World Wi rhation th val and, seuy Me * | \e Old Word, f | ind F eaters, who, ge | after gen ad eel lolling in the midst of their affluent doing nothing, lending no hand | sof helping humanity on- instead, hanging like jmany clogs upon the wheels of progress. Thank God are at inat op the | skedaddle, and lonz may they beskept supations Longtellow | has And to be a being busy in) some however humbie may be, that is helping the world onwaed in its struggle for the true and the eight, the beautiful and the — Where New Yorkers Tread. STONE STREET. TONE STREET, which has been S an important thoroughfareysince the earliest days of New Ams | dam, originally Steset. {That was in the Dutch days, and ib | received its original name because of the brewery that was on it. In fact, there were s er wa al in time Duteh in that eider day used to pk for along the old street | and it was quite a | It became stone ‘street when was payed with stone, and has t | ion of being ihe first stree | that was so treated. The paving un | doubtedly was the old styleecebh! for which New York later wag fa mous. The stones w like flint.) [seldom if ever wore ont, werd ‘ound, slippery and impossible. Un | til twenty yea of these old str ago Lhere were some els downtown, Street being one of the last weed with the anite blocks Stone Street was called. Hoc Straut. Probably ere full ot. | breweries to-d. wolild be | changed to Hoo ||| By Albert P. Southwick 1 cop: 1 by se Pre Prey | Now York Brening Worldne i In the centre of the Fort Jay, Gov- jernor’s Island, of 1801 was a sque | block-house of timber, two storics yhigh, but probably not cannon-pr: with a well under it, ‘This is un- doubtedly the building for which Con- gre ppropriated $500 in 1794 Aa 1 ' the supersiructure of the ned, requiring every, the quadrangle to fal ‘pump rr Who crossed | a detour . Kward (the y murdered by his 5 He was the son of. Kk |Fdgar, who enacted laws against jecssive drinking, ordaining a. si with pins in the cup and forcing! pe lalties on any one who showld@® p, On May 18, § tyr) /was mot Hence the phrase “drinking dee: . 8 q Sir John Franklin sailed tn ail tempted discovery of the North’. in 1845. \ o 8 v\ ‘War between the United States | |Mexioo began in 1846, the first \ | ee in furniture de) leign as the “Century English” migh |more appropriately te termed tha “Adam,” as i is the combined cfs forts of Robert Adam (1728-1792 and John Adam (1731-1794), These, drothers were not cabinetmakeray but were architects and decoratorss Robert, especially, was much ime pressed with the sptrit of Roman and classe Malian art, and the worie oe! of both is notewor for aknplleity * & jdelicacy, elegant slenderness and fine proportions, a By v