The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 12

ss me hasten eae RCT seen ene 12 She Ey Word, ESTABLISHED NY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlit@ed Dally Bacept Sunday by ‘The Prose Publishing Company, Nos, 89 to 68 Park Raw. Now Tork. RALPH PULITEER, President, 69 Park Row. ANGUS SHAW, Treusurer, 69 Park Row, i PULITBEN Jt eretnry, 63 Tack Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOctAreD Pet Che Avewctated Pres ts trely entitled to tH ews despatches credited to it or not otherwise credi ‘ind alse the local mews pubilahed herein “CUSTOMARY.” T is customary, according to Senator Lusk, tor legislators to accept presenis. It is likewise customary for them to throw up their hands and quit when they the goods ” And if legisiators fail to observe this second cus- tom, it is customary for their colleagues to rise up and throw them out at the first opportunity. If Senator Lusk were a Socialist instead of 4 “400 per cent, red-blooded American,” wouldn't i' even be customary as well as patriotic to call a special session of the Legislature to complete the throwing-out process with neatness and despatch? re “caught with GOOD TO LEAVE ALON APAN’S opinion that in the agenda ot the di J armament conference “problems such as are « sole concern to certain particular powers, or such matters that may be regarded accomplished facts, should be scrupulously avoided” is favorable rather than the reverse. Mt is assumed that the Yap controversy would come under the latter heading. as negotiations are going forward toward an amicable solution. One matter which from the Japanese would probably be regarded as of “sole concern to particular powers” would be the case of Shantung ‘Jn this particular instance the United States should take good care not to meddle. Shantung is not immediately of interest to the United States excep: as it provided a campaign talking point for dema- gogic moralistic opposition to the iniquity of the Peace Treaty. The Shantungers of the Senate have been silent since November, Moreover, China has been handling the Shantung affair most admirably and with good prospect of successful settlement. The Chinese boycott of Japanese goods has heen unbelievably effective. This boycott is a source of keen worry to Japanese statesmen, who are only too ready to make terms if only € will “save their s” hy negotiating. This China has reso- Witely refused to do. China's uncompromising de- Mand is that Japan get out with no “ifs,” “ands” om “buts.” China refuses to admit any merit in fhe Japanese side of the controversy and will not even discuss matters with the Loss of the Chinese market means more to Japan than any probable gain from Shantung for a long period. The result is that the commercial classes of Japan are urging a retreat from Siberia and Shantung with the idea of going to Washington “with clean hands,’ as one Japanese publicist recently expressed it. Japanese immigration to the United States would probably be another subject “of sole concern” to Japan and the United States. This the United States can well afford $9 pass over at the conference. even the professional exploiters of the “Yellow Peril” can hardly urge that Japan will be more likely to invade and conquer the Pacific Coast States wilh a reduced naval establishment. view anese. for a few years A COMPOSITE PIRATE. ORE than 221 years after his unfortunate death at the end of the hangman's rope, the memory of Capt. Kidd is vindicated by the State Archivist of Massachusetts. Capt. Kidd, according to Archivist Edmonds, was an altogether admirable character, the victim of the vile plot of Lord Bellomont, who sent him to privateer on pirate ships and then ‘“double- crossed” him with a trumped-up charge of piracy. In these days when we hear so much complaint of ‘histories revised to make more favorable the English side of the Colonial quarrel and the Revo- lutionary struggle, this exoneration of Capt. Kidd is refreshing in its difference. The “minion of the English King” appears in the orthodox role of the villain in the piece. ‘Capt. Kidd is dead and gone. Not even the re- searches of a Massachusetts Archivist can set his reputation straight. It is not as an individual that this privateer—or pirate—lives. It is, as Mr. Ed- monds remarks “The Capt. Kidd of to-day is a composite Pirate made up of all who frequented our hores from 1637 to 1837.” R is that composite whose spirit lives today. The composite deserves the punishment meted out to pirates. it is to that composite that Americans refer when they suggest that the commercial pirates and profitcers of today are “worse than Capt. Kidd.” THE G. 0. 0,? N the course of the campaign last year this news- paper suggested that a victory for the G. ©. P. would mean primarily a victory for the G. O. O., the Grand Old Oligarchy of the Senate. Up to date this forecast has not been fulfilled. "An oligarchy goes ahead and gets things done. It | for repubtiesttoa tm thle papat leads and rules. And thus far there has been little or no evidence of leadership either in the White House or at the Capitol. It is true that President Harding has been auto- cratic as ever President Wilson was suppose to be in ordering this and that measure passed or killed without much regard to the feelings of Congress, But Tuesday there was a new development, The President gave a dinner to fourteen Senators The host and his guests decided on the relative prece- dence of several bills. They constituted themselves as an unofficial steering committee. A safe majority of the diners were tried and truc Old Guardsmen. even though some have arrived at Washington since the last reign of the Ola Guard. Several well-recognized members of the Old Guard were not present. Some of the other diners ohe. orders. No one of the really independent Republicrs y cannot be relied on to be “good” under any circumsiances was invited. A trio of near-Progressives were at the diane It ‘s not impossible that they were invited for a loos over inte the Promised Land of Old Guardism. Mt the President collected a fine nucleus for a Grand Old Oligarchy. any MRS. CASSIDY PROTESTS. says Mrs. J. B alking to a committee of Con are sick and tired of this ceaseless agiiation abet legislating a. to what women can do.” vemen of this country,” Mr. Cassidy's husband is a Colonel in the army, an.! she sreaks with courage, as a soldier's wife should do. The sickness and tiredness which she voices for women, however, represent states of mind that per at large and are subject to no ¢, color or previous conditions o! vade the couniry limits of fatigue Every body with an initiative soul of his own and a will to self-respect is sick and weary of the efforts of pettifogging reformers and petty legislators to reconstruct the world of human custom according io \heir own narrow convictions or prejudices. 't happens that Mrs, Cassidy directs her opposi- tion to the bill to forbid the smoking of cigarettes by womer in the District of Columbia. She does nor smoke herself. She defends not the “coffin nail” but the principle of an absolutely persona! freedom of taste. After such a fashion, thousands of believers in real tenyperance condemn the present application of intemperate Prohibition—some of them being driven to drink by the circumstance. Great cmisades are not won by petty makings of law. It is the code itself which suffers when sight is lost of the fact that laws, to be substantial and effective® must rest upon bases of justice, rea- son, right and assured public approval. The prejudices of cliques and self-anointed leagues cannot be elevated into the ideal statutory estate by the securing of a “Be-it-enacted” clause from scared or scheming Legislatures. Repeal of all laws would produce, condition of anarchy. Confusion of codes, due to the interpolations of unwise uplifters, easily may lead in the same direction. We hail with hope the voice of Mrs. Cassidy protesting special legislation on the privileges of her own sex. May it so reach and echo, and may its message so expand with travel that it shall com- mand a hearing wherever a few lawmakers gathered together shall contemplate the remoulding of hu- man nature by the peanut code. of course, COMBATING NASAL SPEECH. (From the San Francisce Chronicle.) Before setting out to turn the current of American speech back from the tortuous bayous of the nose to the free channel of the mouth it is to be hoped Miss Dagmar. Perkins of Bryn Mawr has discovered the cause of this articulatory divagation. the obstacle would, it seems, be quite a help in blast- To know ing it out, might at least let us know if it is remoy- able. If the former If nature has decided to substitute, by evolutionary process, the nasal for the oral as the speech passage in her children of the United States, it may be hard to manage the wilful old dame, if not impious to try. Is it physiological or psychological? the matter may be difficult, However, since the anatomists have noticed no changes in the structure of American organs of speech tending to divert the word to the nose it is likely that the trouble is psy- chological, just plain habit. But why is it an American habit, so much more than an English or Irish or Scotch habit? If we knew that we might find a cure easier, Is it, as has been suggested, due to the high nervous tension of Ameri- cans? It seems hardly likely, since the Yankee twang originated in Now England, whose people were ever too cautious to be described as excitably nervous. Speaking through the nose seems to have no connection with nervous excitability. The first person to mention it, Chaucer, who was a good ob- server, gives us to understand that the Prioresse, for all that Ful wel she song the se: tuned in hir nose ful was @ rather solid kind of person, Whatever the cause of nasal utterance there is no denying that it is too common in the United States, May luck go with Miss Dagmar Perkins and her cam- paign. But we still think she would make the best possible beginning if she would tell us why we speak through our noses. Perhaps she has the answer ready but hesitates to tell for fear of hurting Amerl- can feelings, 4 livyne, ny Tye Pan Biol ehtng 00, 9 THe rhe New York Krewing Word), By Rollin Kirby | From Evening World Readers { Wheat hind of a letter do you find most readable? Ian't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand tcords in a couple of hundred? There ie Ane mental exercise and a tot of satisfaction in trying te sey much in @ few words. Take time to be brief. cause some people half a day or all day best excuse th | prices the remedy is absurdly 2% cents for the first hour, 50 ce vents per hou | The Simpler Way. Vo the Biitor of The Evening World While the Administration is spend- ing its precious time and the people's money deliberating and sending mes: sages described as “feelers' to powers suggesting an armament con- ference, it is a wonder some of thé best minds don’t stumble over a more | direct course, If President Harding is sincere in his efforts to cause a discussion of armaments, then there are thousands , who would like to know why the in- Vitation of the League of Nations was not accepted. This could have been jdone without the United States be- coming a member, it could have been done without any thought of Article| R—umbling fanatics, who think X., and it could have been done!Q—f nothing but trying to months ago without a single “feeler.” | H—oodwink law-abiding and The best minds have outlined an|!—ntelligent citizens tha ‘ economical programme impossible o1/B—eer and wine are fulfilment without a limitation of jurious to a man |armament. Instead of going about it; T--rying to quench his thirst, in the most practical way, they have | these invited a few members of the League | |—mpious, coer to join them at Washington in hash- | Q—nion-headed ing over the entire Versailles Treaty. ;N—umbskulls are drunk with THM- This conference is supposed to PORARY success. called for the purpose of discuss TOM PEELY armament, agd should be iimited 1921 that f any constructive programine can be outlined in| Washington 1 same can be done at Geneva, other place they may cho: the different represented by id men at Washington as use Ir their this 8 the y have to offer for higi easy. for three hours, and 25 over three hours ought to be a hi enough rate to pay if the present o ers are to be allowed to retain their business. BATH Brooklyn, July £ VICTIM Prohibition. ‘Yo the Hiiitor of The Prening Worl Having been encouraged \fearless fight against the Eighteenth ; Amendment, I hereby submit the only | meaning that I can derive from the | word “Prohibition:” P—eople protesting against a tew while ve ea rel New York, July 26. Mr. Sweet Appreciated. Yo the Biitor of Thr Brenig Worl The ex-scidier has cause Ten The | grateful to Br, Sweet, as he, for one, t :|is surely their friend. He not only they } y auspices the cause of their increase in fair to}, ion but has been thinking believe that they would have come to | mPEnfsale id | Pro maine manciusion there ne haw ag{up ways of extending additional the men who will speak for the vari-| senefit tof disabled former ous powers represented will no doubt | men ome with very defined ideas, it isn't | AEP RG ye er all likely that the congenial smiles | {ft Was let like 2 there would be no hungry ex- men walking the streets. to be same would have been under the of the League, and it is only service of Senators Borah and Johnson will have any marked effect in swaying their opinions. R. E. D. Where there's a will there's a way ean EE See of getting this long-delayed bonus | To the Hititor af Tae Evening World nstead of putting it on the shelf for | halle, seghabeips years and maybe forever How many more years will the|) "Takes some one like Mr, Sweet poor fish" of our great city have tol, qo something and not talk so ontinue to pay tribute to the “robber | much. | barons” who control the bath houses Here's RARIDE: to porns day ise Mr. . age gi SPN 7 Sweet in the Presidential chair, as round our beaches for the privilege | Vr teed some one just like him ot banging up their clothes while A VOLU TEER’S WIFR, they take a bath? 192 I understand that the Government owns the beaches up to the high water mark. If such is the case, they cer- miy ought to have something to sy Newburgh, July A Clean Beacht fo the Bi.tor of The Prening World Can anybody infor me if there is 1 bathing beach in New York thi bout what prices should be cha le to the people by the bath house own- | ot infested with a certain species of e much as the owners make} humans who talk and shriek in a th y from bathing on Govern-| sirange tongue nauseous to hear, ment property. ch, and litter the ad garbage? A undress on the be place with There ougit to be some way (by legislation, of courte) of the city ger ting control of all the bathing houses paper and running them for the benefit of Boosting Land Prices, the people at practically cost, The | yo the Binor of The Evening Wor privilege of taking a bath at the Your paper ha correcting many the writer bringing to your been very active in abuses in the past kes the lfherty of atrention a cond beaches is one thing that the public should be able to obtain cheaply. 1 read the other night @ letter in your paper defending the “harone" be-! 20 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) MEASURE YOUR LOAD. Painted on the sides of freight and flat cars are figures showing their carrying capacity, usually in pounds. The men who load the cars heed these figures. Over- loading not only puts undue strain on the cars but, if re- peated on other cars, would make a freight train too heavy for the locomotive to pull without an extravagant use of fuel. Men ought to know the lond they can carry easily, But their capacity is, as it should be, elastic. The man who can carry a small load to-day ought to be able to carry a ten times larger load in the next ten years. He will be able to if he measures his load, marks his» capacity and constantly strives to increase it. If you, as a beginner, can dispose of a certain amount of work in a day, observe carefully what that amount of work is, Add to it a little the next day, and a little more the day after that. If you find that you are worn out at the end of the third day, knock off a little of the load. could still lift it when it grew to be a bull is exaggerated. Bul you do not live by means of your muscles, And your mental capacity is far less limited than you imagine. Don't be afraid to work on it asa test. You can always take a little of the load off if you begin to stagger. Make the additions easy—just a little more every day-—- and note carefully what they are. Remember, it is the man who carries the big load, an carries it easily, who draws the big salary. The world pays workers and pays them for working. And, with some exceptions, it pays them in almost exact | } Proportion to the amount of work they can do, | 12 | tion that is preventing many peopte | | trom taking advantage of the new | lax exemption laws | | If you will take the trouble to in- | vestigate you wil! find that the prices of vacant land have been boosted to double and triple the original valuc Jas of 1919 or 1920, in anticipation of a demand for homes which the new jaws might bring about, which cer- tainly prevents the adjustment of the | housing situation, | | ‘The writer is not a believer in the) | single tax that has been Ady cated | ‘for so long@ time, bat thinks that \if the revenue lost to the city for a |time through tax exemption were J assessed on the owners of vacant land that is available for homes the double object would be accomplished of bringing down th. price of such land and at the same time lower the present tax on buildiags, This letter is by one who owns | netther land nor buiidings, but is | wrying to buy a plece of land to buiid ja home without giving the benefit of | the tax exemption to the land owner , at - From the Wise When Nature gets the upper hand of Wisdom, poor Wisdom is ez- tremely feeble. —Nericault-Destouches, Educate men without reliyion | and you make them but clever devils,—Duke of Wellington. As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. Italian proverb. Learning is the dictionary but sense the grammar of science. —Sterne. Happiness is unrepented pleasure, —Socrates. Married in haste. we may repent at leisure — Congreve. It is not wise to work until your nerves are shattered Histo ATOR AR LD Ne SS 4 3 racial ¢ tion to which R and your body exhausted. Some Russian autho It is not intelligent io work under a strain, w But by adding a little every day you will soon vastly of the Nor: increase your capacity and enjoy doing the added task that he Physically your capacity is limited. The story of the $ {4 Norseman phat man who began lifting a calf and lifted it every day till he angia s the Byy Sea dition, | belonged. |contend that he ‘ ling to one of the & !had migrated to the land |men, Others maintain Universities Of New York By App‘eton Street. prriebt, 1921 biiahing Cw Mina Rew Fort Evening Wi 15— WASHINGTON SQUATE COLLEGE About twenty years 4 ‘York University moved graduate college from its old Washington Square ’ beautiful campus acquired in the Bronx shown that there we: who could not oy its new home aptown \rmany demands tor coil tion in the old quarters the University establis | No. that ington Square Col there and in 191% this 1 raised to the dignity uf a sey | college. Washington Square Co of the ten coordinat up New York Univ a regular college cot the degree of bachelor of « addition to its academic courses & combination course with (lie of Law, Pedagogy und Comn }thus giving a liberal and spec's | training leading to the degr | bachelor of arts. | The enrolment totais abot jstudents annually, made up of distinet groups: (1) near'y 20 udents who take full @)a number of teacher jand private schools, who ternoon und Saturday ci. business men and women win 2 tevening classes The average jthese students is above (that y ute jusual undergraduate | Washington Squa especially to mature find in its convenience and of lecture and classroom hot siten opportunity to continue their ed on, Many who have had to ry grammar or high schoo ess, or into a professions! ‘without intermediate training, have found here an ‘ tunit: that they have \grasped. Not only teache)s business men and women, but vers, physicians, — clergymen others in professional lite tered its classes and won acace ‘honors. Washington Ww lege has graduated 790 students received ra 5.000 others have there, John R. Turner is dean of thr nd the teaching starr ve professors, professors. twenty-one tant 7 | |fessors and thirty-nine instru | Women are admitted to the colle fon equal terms with men In , of the fact that the student iy variously subdivided night courses and rare! day students, and others only in the afternoon and days, there is an activ The undergraduates newspaper, the V Dealer, and thi nities and other societ some a The Pioneers of Progres: By Svetozar Tonjoroff Coperigt?, 1921, by The Prone Publi ine ( (Tat New’ York rening Word |XXXIl.—THE MAN WHO FOUND | THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. | It is customary silusionment ian Empire | sion, ntl to reg 1 sym as corruption and sufte masses But there was a tims ago, when the Ru Jin process of bein, | the cessation of age trib der upon |word “c The Slavic what is now ten centu tribes Russia }ago that they could not gove |selves; that tt that inhabited i lor uthority tro heir frontic Some of these notably Sloveni and the ches—sert delegation to a ngian Princes Rurik, up in the to make a confi The confession, Russian traditic follows: ndinayian Ne ion to that effe as transmitte an somewhat “Our land is great t lacks order take po: Jealled a * \ ignated the Northmen "\ esag.” ns de epted the tempting of of himself and his | brothers, Sineus nd Truvor, w | ard were joined by a four brother, Oleg. Rurik crossed the Baltic i ing galleys in the ninth ce after a series of adventures e. lished his capital in the town of Nov gorod. Tribe after tribe accepted tl Varyag authority, either voluntari or after slight opposition, A notable feature of this ninth century peaceful—or semi-peaceful penetration was the rapidity wil which the Varangian rulers and thé Choud, Slav, Krivitch and other sub jects coalesced It was the Slavic majority—though a subject group—that did the absorb. ing. In less than a century we find the Norse ruler bearing, not a Nors 1 ut a characteristic Slavic name Sviatopolk. In the next two generations (hv Norse sovereign of Ru Vladimir, known in hist ai Vladimir.” The only ruler of a Norse name after Rurik was his widow, Olga (feminine for Oleg). The Varyags had become Russians ; In addition to restoring order and union in Russia, by persuasion n possible, but by the sword when per- suasion failed, the Varyag rulers gave a direction to Russlan policy whio® even the Bolshevik Government te + pursuing to-day. ‘That direction is the p. possession of Constantino |" Varyag galleys and | their assaults upo | most simultaneor | pearance in F ia. And events of to-day point to + | eonclusion that the Russtan offort ¢ ® ‘i tina y de. n for the mies beg. Constantinople a! with Rurik’s op