The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 10

Srey ee ete ras (it eI eg atieee. i d } } ey r ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH 1 on Pudlimed Daily Except Sunday py The Proae Publishing Companys. Now, $3 to 62 Park Row Now York ‘ SALPH PULITZER, Prowidont, @5 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 65 JOSEPH PULITAEN Jr., secretary, 6 MEMPER OF TI ASSOCIATED Pr (The Assoctated Pres te exci: all news despatches credited to it or not otherwis also tbe local news pubiisned herein, FILL THE STANDS. 2 iar Statement of earnings of the White Sox ball club introduced in evidence at the ( _ cago trial is wa fans than it was in Chicago. é less interesting io New York Now that the question has been opened, the want to know something of the earnings of the local teams. Managers of the New York and Brook: lyn teams should gratity that curiosily. Letters to the edilor The World Evening World have complained that prices at he Polo Grounds are too high. If the profits of the New York teams compare with the profits made by Comiskey, the complaints are well grounded and the scale of prices should be reduced, it is probable that lower prices would result in larger crowds and no serious shrinkage in receipts. If baseball has been profitable, is it any more than fair that baseball prices should come down along with other prices? The game is always better when the stands are full. tans Now we know the worst, Japan has stolen all the cool weather. Reports from Tokio relate that fires have been necessary and that the snow line on Fuji is the lowest in the summer Tecords. The cunning Orientals NOT INVESTIGATING. PPARENTLY the Rev. Mr. Whitehouse of Fort Lee doesn't believe in jazz theology as practised by some pastors. Mr. Whitehouse was arrested for the crime of involuntarily looking at a crap game in Pryant Park. He was in jail for several hours. Then he was released without being questioned by the Magistrate who interrogated the arresting officer. When questioned by a Tribune Mr. Whitehouse is. quoted as saying: “I hope you understand that it was in no wav an investigation. If I want to know anything about crime I can get inuch more useful infor- mation out of books by persons who have made @ study of the subject.” Mr. Whitehouse’s conclusions regarding the value Of book information on crime may be questioned. Many a pastor would be a better spiritual leader if he did more first hand investigation of the plague spots of humanit But Mr. Whitehouse certainly has the right idea in refusing to exploit himself on the basis of the wickedness of other mortals. Aftey some of the weird gyrations of some of the reporter egocepitric followers of jazz theology the modest and fretiring disposition of the New Jersey pastor is a Avelcome change. We hope he will resist any jucements to exploit his personal adventures for sake of notoriety. Also, we hope that when next he visits New York he will receive more courteous, just and lawful treatment ai the hands of the detective force In metallurgy heat usually promotes fusion. It doesn’t seem to work so in politics. WILL THEY CONFESS? Sagara ought to pass the Penrose bill giving Secretary Mellon a free hand in arranging the refunding of the billions of dollars other Governments owe to the United States But if Congréss passes the measure it will be a shameful confession. Congress will be admitting its own incompetency, It will be confessing that minorities, alien born or of alien sympathies, have the power to coerce Congress into doing what it ought not to do, or refusing to do what needs to be done. Congressmen know that adjustments must ‘be made which will be distasteful to many constituents. Congress, if it passes the bill, will admit that its members are afraid to stand the gaff of criticism from these minorities. Congress will be running to cover, will be “passing the buck” to the shoulders of one man, Mr. Mellon. Would this not be a shameful confession? But it is needed, as is often the case with confes- sions. Political cowardice rules Congress. Only a minority of the members have the courage to brave the storm. And because Congress knows this it will probably pass the bill—and confess, THE BOY ON THE CORNER. HERE is no doubt about the attractiveness of a city street corner under the bright lights. Nor can we doubt that the magnetism of the comer extends just as strongly to the innocent loiterer as to him whose lingering presence cunsti- tutes a nuisance. In City Magistrate Nolan’s gen- erafizing dictum, nevertheless—“Lei’s let the boys stand on the corners, out in God's open air’—we perceive too generous a disregard of accepted limi- tations. Lounging where one street crosses another is a proceeding which becomes readily an affair of pub- Ric offénse. A crowd at a comer trespasses on the fights of passersby. Too easily it may yield, as ely entitled to the use for repubiteatio® credited tm this papes { experience proves, to a contagion of impertinence, or of rough-housing. Any loiterer knows his own intent, which may twise. If it is otherwise, he is indignant when the policeman tells him to move on. But the policeman, too, knows what he is there for, and he has his orders We suspect that a City, Magistrate is letting his impulse to be human run a trifle beyond the limit | be mischievous or oth | if of magisterial discretion when, by intimation, he cresses the line of reasoned police procedure Very likely the young prisoner who was dis- charged in the cise in point was innocent of ili intent. But what of the crew of hoodlums tha might share his slanding-place wider a less rigid system of civil guardianship? We agree with the Magistrate that the bev in poolroom is, as a rule, in worse position than the hoy on a corner. But if he is a loafer in one place he is a loafer in the other, and the fact of his loat- ing “out in Gexl’s pure dir” does not qualify hi offense. in the ordinances differentiatin d There is nothin the hygienic loiterer from any other br NOW FOR CHILD WELFARE IN THE NATION. IVE YEARS ago The Evening World was insti mental in securing the so-called Widows’ Pen- sion Law to provide for the children ot widow methers. The New York City pensions are admin- istered by the Child Wellare Board. Now The Evening World is asking something bigger. This Widows’ Pension Law was a social experi- ment on a huge scale. The results of the test in the social laboratory of New York City have been highly successtul. It is time to broaden the scope of the work and make it national, either through the Federal Government or by general adoption in the several States A most convincing testimonial to the work the Child Welfare Board is the fact that in spite of the pressing need for economy in most fields of municipal endeavor the city officials unanimously supported the project for a Child Welfare build- ing to be used exchusively in an extension of this work. There is no longer a question as to the value of the work. As a matter of fact, the money spent for child welfare is not “spent” in the ordinary sense of the word. It is invested. It brings cash dividends as well as advantages to the children and their mothers. Widow's’ pensions enable mothers to keep intact families which would otherwise have to be sepa- tated. The children of these widows are cared for al home instead of in institutions. In. this way the city and State save money More money than goes for pensions would other wise be spent for institutional care. Mothers man- age to get more out of the dollar spent for ne 4 children than the State has ever been able to gét In addition, the home is preserved. In practice this has meant the preservation of the health and morals of the children. Another dividend comes in the money the city does nol have to spend tor correction in the courts and penal institutions. It is impossible to calculate this exactly, but some cammparative figures are suggestive. More than 20,000 chikdren came under the care of the Child Welfare Board last year. Of these only fourteen came under the probationary care ot the ‘Children’s Court. Only twenty-three children out of the more than 20,000 carne under the care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Compare this with the 645 children of widows not receiving pen- sions, and draw conclusions. Similar figures would show that the children are healthier and happier, that the city does not have to spend money for hospital care of sick children and funerals for child paupers. ‘Child welfare pays in cash, even if there were no higher motive for child welfare work. New York's experiment has been highly success- ful It is time to extend the work to all the country. President Harding has said: “If society is permitting the development of 4 system under which the citizens of to-morrow sut- fer real privation to-day, then the obligation is upon society to right the wrong, to insure some measure of justice to the children who are not responsible for being here.” “RIGHT THE WRONG,” President Harding, as far as wo are able. You can help. Call a conference of State and national officials and the social workers experienced in child-welfare administration. Have them plan a national pro- gramme to make the United States a better place for children. What the United States wil! be in the next gen- eration depends on the welfare of the future citi the children of to-day. ens, TWICE OVERS. “ HE men on the farms, in the factories and in the shops are the ones who feel the burden of armament.” —Senator Capper. + * * 66 GENATORS have repeatedly discouraged even such present-giving as the cigars."’—Senator Lockwood. * . . 66] THINK something should be done to curb the profiteers.”” —Mayor Hylan. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921, | | Coprrighst, 1921, The Brew Putian: ing Co ¢ New York Evening fori), By Rollin From Evening World Beaders What kind ef a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the ons that gives you the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundred? There is Ane mental exercise and a lot of antisfaction im trying te eay much in a fewo words. Take time to be briej. puxsard and Wheeler, tigator in the United States De- | Co the Pabitor of ‘Phe Benin World |bartment of Justice during the wa | United States Senator Hroussard | and to become familiar with the Ger orrectly states that Wayne B, ™@n and German-Sinn Fein propa 1 ganda then current; but it require: Wheeler brands every one who dis- jo expert to discern the methods agrees with him as an opponent of which are being pursued to-day, ap- law and order. Mr. Wheeler is that parently with strong financial back- funny little busybody who buzzes /D% to foment hatred of our ally, iround the United States Senate of- Great Britain OAT Mien tiee ina itdinedan Gane Some of this propaganda is of old He thinks Senator Broussard ought ROME: Ie GW eed: nou Agiciinc’ ier puttin a teal erman propaganda of former hain on the medical profession or to (ay8 brought resentment and suspi- Wiping out of existence ll household Con pon some Germanalorg oltizen medicines containing alcohol. The Of Sound American loyalty. | ‘The pres- Senator si te plausibly that the At Sinn Fein efforts bid fair to work | Teaveeniee ented eeg ne nae a |the same injustice upon those of Irish 4 stranglehold on industria} alcohol | (escent who are Americans ‘pease and’) through control of the Prohibition |S0Ul not “Irish-Americans.” As for | Ottice, others, our public opinion and Mr. Wheeler admits that he is the Ws will deal with them properly ‘in due time. vest lobbyist in. the aloon Li of the pay of the ue, and says that it nator’s business if YTI-HYPHE July 29, 1 TH New York Ci 8 none s es fit to pay him Rockefeller s Bonus Outcastas. | Te the Falstor of The Brening Worls | In the construction of New York State Bonus Law no provisions | jsardiand Mr. Wheeler, ‘have been made for former service win, She mean time the Rockefellers.) men of New York State who have | been compelled to move from the| nh the Anti-Saloon League and the Vederal Prohibition Office, are said to | State for reasons necessary to their month to look after the + Oil interests in the industria Otherwise, there the is per mony between Senator Brous- control the appointment’ of all en-|business, health and general welfare. | forcement officers and incidentally {What is to become of this ex-service | to be keeping one eye steadily fixed/man? He is refused a bonus from} on the proposed monopolization of in-|the State in which he was inducted | dustrial alcohol for fuel purposes. |or enlisted and then is refused also| This is more or less the substance of|by the State authorities in the Stat: nator Broussard’s charges, Alto-|in which he now resides, on the grounds that he wasn't enlisted or | inducted in that State, There are many men that were in- ducted and enlisted into the service jand discharged from the service in |the great State of New York that are! gether the situation appears to be full of dynagnite and ghe Senate is disposed to shelve further legislation on the subject. ADOLPH EDWARDS. New York, July 28, 1921, —" [entitled to this bonus, but from out-| The Spender Coming. ward appearances t will have to | To the Bihitor of The Brening World consider themselves “bonus outcasts” I see T for one kri®w that these ex-ser~ vice men do not fee} satisfied with the | that the “female Monte | Cristo,” who has monopolized all the atti the Legislature of New zobra skins on the market for hon) | Setuae. SR eacetouniiownes inam:, spring dress, is on the way here to | endured the hardships of the teach New Yorkers how to spend|World War and they want just a/ money. ‘That's easy enough; we want | little consideration ahown them. They | Ido not wish to be forgotten so easily some one to show us how to get it | py the greatest State of all in a ser) In France they laughed behind her|ous matter of this sort. It would back. In America they will laugh in | bri to many a boy that donned her fi at American business the khaki if this matter of impor- man hag tim just to laugh? ‘A person. who | spending money Perhaps she mind. If so, | wander fur to Bo around behind her | tance was taken up by the American |Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars| spends her time | posts in this vicinity. must be abnormal. | OVDRSEAS VETPRAN, is wandering in her | — : ¥ Help the Veterans. \ let her go; she F Bor ABO CANS | tae pice of Tee ening World What is this country coming to? | Would it pot be a good idea to raise | money for our American citizens in- Stead of worrying and sending money to Burope? Ie 18 an outrage to see our soldier boys sleeping on park benches at night, that being the thanks they get | for tighting for the country. In case | ried on by the same methods used | of another war breaking out God| by the Gen a ; |help this country. The only ones to! ta ee Pedied who Infested! dent would be the rata, such as Pro- | s country before and during | nipition officers, who would fight America’s participation m the late| among themselves. war All the old-time police think this It was my privilege to be an in-| Proiibition Law a farce. W. V. B. ERWIN P. VOULMER. Evergreen, L. 1, July 28, 1 Anti-Dritish Propagande, | To the Emar of The Brening World | The famous habit which history | |has of repeating itself is once more exemplified in the aggressive anti-| British propaganda now being car- |Mr. Balfour at Golf. - - - | diction, Andra: I never knew a gentleman w such a rich voice as Mr. Ballou When he would say “Good shot | ITTLE ROBE and her mothe, | from the boat where tt | Bantered each other in the | im et ne ee ‘@, ha, ha, sa, 3a, sa, sal, Bantered each other in the meAnist way! “No lover shall wed me—ne matter how bold— Till trees in the garden dear blossoms of gola” Ha, ha, ha, sa, sa, 80, sali) “Til trees in the garden bear blossoms i of gold,” From the porch thinks Hr. Peder, amused at her jest, “°Tts always the one whe laughs latest laughs best!” wer Ha, ha, ha, sa, ea, sa, sat “'Tis always the one who laughs fakese laughs best!” And when later they entered the ‘a den—behold ati From each tree was hanging @'An9 of bright gold! Ha, ha, ha, sa, sa, sa, sol ., From each tree was hanging @ ring of bright gold! These four stanzas of a Danish folk-song, arranged for Poetry, the magazine, by Antoinette De Coumey Patterson, are printed here for a special reason. i The idea is to show why, in the sixth stanza, Hr. Peder kisses little Rose, who has blushed prettily;én | the firth, + « 0 « The Rontine of Efficiency, --- An anonymous contributor to {he August Harper's, himselt an idealis', has an “efficient” friend, whose dally programme is this; He rises at 7.05, and, after gly his razor sharpen: tly fe Re turns, he begins shavins ut 7.10, Promptly at 7.49 he sits down, to breakfast and to the financlal page of the newspap his offi, ie it Then he hurries away to and then hurries futo and then ‘hurries {nto hurries (Combination No. 4, wir right away"), after whlch he awe tiedly makes some more money. hy Going {tall iy ne rush to the golf to hee i f BS and “tik He puffs in ne course In an eff cen holea_ in “ back to town by sfx-nft order that the evening may pass off on schedule so th tay at plenty of sleep and be ready to shat again at 7.10 the next morning Isn't it the Grand Old Life? And presumably he hae the right o e, and a Prohibition eyclonecced nd a favorite baseball team. ad everything, se In his book “Fifty Years of Gol?’ (Dutton) Andra Kirkaldy of St. Ay tells us of Mr. Balfour at t . “Rotheration.” we learn wos limit fr Balfour's and the richness + his voice made it sound like a ben UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) PICK A GOOD PACEMAKER. As Mr. Einstein has observed, everything is You do not know how slowly you are walking till other people begin to pass you. The boy in the country town may fancy he is a star ball player till he tries to play in a big league. Then he discovers he isn’t. In the days of bicycle races tandems were employed as pacemakers. The tandem, propelled by two riders, could go faster than the bicycle driven by one rider. But the man on the single machine strove to keep up with the tandem and greatly accelerated his pace in doing so. It is wise for men—especially for young men—to pick pacemakers. Select a successful man in the same business as yours and try to keep up with him You will fall far behind at first, but keep on trying. Strive at least to keep him in sight, and perhaps by and by you may overhaul him. It has been done Joseph Jefferson, the great American actor, well knowr: in England, picked for his pacemakers several actors whom $ | i | | | | If you have seen a long distance footrace you have $ relative, he afterward far outstripped. As fast as he caught up with one actor he chose an- other who was still ahead, When he arrived at the top of his fame there were no pacemakers left. But his pace was set and his career was won. After that he could afford to content himself with pacing other actors, Never be jealous of the man ahead of you. imitate his methods, but imitate his spirit. Emulate him. Resolve that you will work as hard and get as far as he does. When you have done that, select somebody else, and try to keep up with him. It is a continual struggle to do better that makes men better. All men desire to lead, but nobody can lead until they Never follo noticed that the winner usually lets somebody else pace him till the end, just keeping up. and takes his place in the lead. If you choose an intelligent and able pacemaker, and one whose success is based on honest effort, he will be a tremendous help to you, If you find, after a time, that he is a cheat, drop him. You can't afford that kind of success, At the finish he steps out ® “TL oF That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick | ruby. Its language is that it “dis- | covers poison; corrects evils result- ing from mistaken friendship.” o 8 The specific gravity of larch fir is | 56; of red or yellow fir, .57, and of | white fir, 47, ‘Phat of beech is .696 |and of ash, .76, while that of Ameri- \can yellow pine, at .46, is the lowest | of te woods | We think of Omar Khayyam only ag a poet, but he was also a cete- brated astronomer, the author of the | twenty to twenty-five miles an hour Persian calculations of 1079, and] is clamified as a “very brisk wind.” published his calendar | oe 8 ee 8 Magnolia, in floral language, the meaning, “love of nature.” + 8 8 strong breeze blowing from has ‘The precious stone for July is the |The Joyous Diver, - - | ferred to that of quantity. to me it w a bell in my ¢ ce somebody ringin r; and his smile at « food shot of his own was a grand thing to see. He always seemed play golf for the good he got out ¢ it, and his form was for that reas, most consistent, There are a bell—to the po : Leonora Speyer, writing the ve let “When Bi Dives" for her t of poetry, “A Canopic Jar” (Duttor presents this seasonable picture: The waters seem to ris To meet that little sprawt, That splash of resolution. " Of joyous leas and arms: The waters catch and play with h From out the foam a face blooms Pink and wet— Bud of my heart! «1nd there floats to me, Widening, ripples of her smic! ne Th The Socialism of Quality. - - - In his new book, “The reer Socialism” (Macmillan), Bertram Benedict declares; 16 Sa mae? it ads capil Ae and and polities! sent think and talk lass js terms of giving the worker the fr? product of his labor and more. in torms of building upon the found ; tion of material weilare a mecHe' culture, 2 In a ‘word, a Socialist state musi ask, “What kind of man is Jones? far more anxiously than it will hays Tt must previously asked, "How much dey Jones earn?” Mr. Benedict suggests, perhup the Socialism of quality as™ But first the Socialist has to bat: his state. < oo. * The Boy, the Girl, the Summer. ‘To Olof, the boy in the forest pears Annikki—as she is seen through the trees she reveals so4\: thing golden that flutters in th wind, and that is her golden hair and below the gold a white blouse, 1 slender waist, a blue skirt, We read of the meeting of boy and gin: "Look!" he erlod’ eagerly; " it just like a palace all round. Castle of Tapio, and I'm the jonni . and you're the forest ome to visit me. And clothes smell of the pine woods, and tof birch in your heir e playing on @ shep < music sweet as 1 looked up in astonisir w at makes you perplemity ‘0. Rut now nt in to the imlace,"” They went through to the of the clearing. 7p middle boy stepped on more briskly here! now we're in the palace the seat of honor 2. And here's a bench nt the master of or sked the girl, with 9 “Hell it on the bench, of course ‘They smiled at each ot This picture of woodsy cont 1 a dawning of love ix from 1 “The Song of the Blood-Re | (Moffat. Yard & Co.), from the Finnish of nankoski, There ia the spirit of eummer which is the very reai here on July's last Saturday A