The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1921, Page 18

(a 5 am pees The Cvuepniw ESTABLISHED PY JOSEPH PULITZE! Published Daily Except Sunday by The Prose Company, Nos, 53 to 68 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Pow. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. —— MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Pres is exclusively entitled to the use for repabitestton OF all news despatches credited to it oF not otherwise credited is this paper and alto the lucal news published herein SWING THE AXE. OTHING is to be gained by quarrelling with the statement made by a large local manu- sacturer of candy: “Please do not confuse our announcement (of 331-3 per cent. price reductions) with * that of any other concern. Loft’s policy has been to return to normal business on normal business standards.” But it is interesting to compare this with The Evening World’s prediction printed Tuesday: “Candy prices will either go down about 60 per cent. to the standard announced Sunday by the Miller Bros. Corporation or the town will witness one of the biggest competitive fights that has been known in the candy trade in years.” The fight is on. The other candy profiteers will have to fall into line. The public, heartily tired of profiteering, will see to that. But the beauty of such 2 fight is that nobody loses. Everybody, including the combatants, wins, Lower prices will mean larger volume of candy sales, more enjoyment for the candy consumer, more work for candy workers, and moderate, liable and morally defensible profits for the candy manufacturers themselves. Swing the price-cutting axe. Hew to the fair- profit line, Let the molasses chips fall where they may. ~ THE BETTER VERDICTS. HE second and third verdicts in the case of the Chicago Black Sox are better than the first. The jury and the Judge said the players were not guilty of breaking the laws of Illinois. Judge Landis says they can never play Big League baseball again. Charles Comiskey says he could never trust these men again. The Supreme Court of Baseball is not governed by the same restrictions as a court of law. It is con- cerned primarily in protecting the game and not the technical rights of the players. Comiskey knows in his own heart, because he heard confessions by players. There are no two sides to the case. Where the far must stand is evident. If the crooks who were acauitted try to show their faces in decent sporting circles they should be boycotted and blackballed. “Regardless of the verdict of juries,” says Judge Landis, “baseball is entirely competent to pretect itself against crooks, both insile and outside of the game.” The public will indorsé this decision. Fans can help in enforcing the punishment. re~ AND PROBABLY MR. MEYER DIDN'T EXPECT THEM TO CARRY HOME THE SILVERWARE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-~“Social lobbying” @isturbed a number of Senators this afternoon. ‘They declared this form of approach more in- @idious and deadly than any other variety. It is tmpossible, they insisted, to break bread with @ man and then refuse him admittance when he knocks at your office door. Eugene Meyer jr., wealthy head of the War Finance Corporation, invited some prominent Senators to dine at his apartment to-night. Some refused, declaring it looked too much like “social lobbying.’—Special despatch to The World. THE POSTAL CENTRE. LLANS for improved harbor mail service and improved facilities within the city are a tardy recognition of the part the New York Post Office plays in the national postal service. Imposing postal building and equipment in most cities are principally for the benefit or to salve the pride of those cities. It is “pork” for Congressinen. An efficient equipment in the New York estab- lishment tenefits every part of the system all over the United States. The tentacles of the metropoli- tan influence reach to every hamlet and to most of the foreign area of the world. An illuminating sidelight on the part the New York mails play in the general scheme is to be found in the fact that the old, cramped, crowded Ciiv Hall Station handles more mail than the fifth postal city of the United States—St. Louis. The country as a whole cannot afford to have the New York offices hampered in their work BEWARE THE WORM. oat 2RY retailers meeting in Chicago have launched a dazzling innovation in merehan- dising. he news comes from Chicago— not from Paris e-that styes in feminine headgear are to singe, no: with the season but with the months. If such a movement succeeds, America should Indeed take the lead in millinery. Perhaps Chicago friends to wrest the palm of leadership not only from Paris but fram New York. | This innovation is intended to foil the clever copyists of the department stores. An “exclusive” or “imported” design in hats is “exclusive’’ for only a few days. Then the department stores have copies at reduced rates and tie the wife of the millionaire. Yo stop Practice the milliners hove change styles so frequently that the department stores, with their need for quantity production of cheap articles, will be unable to keep up the pace. It's a fine idea for the milliners—if it) works. But beware of the worm. The American husband is spending easy mark. turn on the enemy. shop girl can ape this to an easy-going, But there are limits. easy- He may ALL TOO HONEST. HE New York Herald comments on “Secretary Mellon’s Honest Taxes.” The comment is justified. That is why Republican criticism is so intense, Mr. Melion’s recommendations are an awful mess for Repuvlican Congressnen who hope to be re- elected in 1922. They are all too honest. Their effect is all too evident. Mr. Mellon is one of the richest men in the United States. His tax programme is exactly the sort of tax programme he and his friends would like to see adopted. He has gone at it in a frank and epen manner, as though he expected the imposing Repub- lican majority in Congress to give him wt wants. = he The Times quotes one of the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee as saying: “Most of the suggestions made by Mr. Mellon seek to relieve the wealthy of taxes.” The self-evident truth of this statement shows the tax proposals are honest. But the same committee member went on to say: “If his plans of taxation were accepted they would wreck the party.” That also is honestly said. Republican tax bills never have been honest. They have always sought “to relieve the wealtt.y of taxes,” but in an underhand and carefully concealed way. / In the long run Congress probably will accept the substance of the Mellon tax programme, but not until the politicians have exhausted every effort to hide the real object of the measure. A Republican Congress will never enact an honest tax programme if there is any way out, any way to disguise its intent. Wealthy persons with a feeling of gratitude are convenient friends when a campaign chest is to be filled. But they do not muster many votes. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS. HE announced willingness of the Shipping Board to consider a bid by the United States Maii Steamship Company for the vessels seized recently by the board only deepens the mystery surrounding the seizure. Chairman Lasker in announcing the seizure took pains to emphasize that the step was taken by the unanimous action of the board. We were led to believe that when the decisive meeting was culled the opinion was not unanimous and that some seve- lation was made which was conclusive to the dis- senting members. The logical deduction from the early statements left a cloud over the United States Mail Steamship Company. Propagandists in shipping circles were quick to hint at undesirable “German” affiiiztion. But if the Snipping Board is willing to sell the ships such suppositions must be abandoned. A “pro- German” owning company would be as undestrable as a similarly controlled operating company. The public has a right to know the reason for the hivh-handed action of the Shipping Board in seizing these ships. Chairman Lasker has refused to reveal his case before it goes to court on the ground that opposing counsel would be forearmed, This is yaltering and nothing else. If the Ship- ping Board has a case it need not fear publicity If 115 case is not clear—and the most recent develop- ments cast doubt on this—it had no business to over- ride the arbitration clause in its agreement in seizing the ships. TWICE OVERS. 66 T is my personal view that American soldiers will remain in Germany until we have adjusted our affairs with the country, which I trust will take place in the next sixty or ninety days.” —Represen- tative Porter of the Foreign Affairs Committee, < 12 “H* Caruso) had that inborn instinct of the true artist- the desire to aid some one else lo be as great or a greater singer than he was himself, No amateur voice of real merit which came to his atlen- tion was allowed to go unnoticed.” —Mme. Marcella Sembrich. rr “ ARK, you write, and I'll underwrite.” —H. H. Rogers to Mark Twain. coe fe “N ONE of the 2,500 men and women who do the work of my department need worry for a moment as to whetker their political opinions and mine agree.” Borough President Curran, * * * “ce LL thinking men recognize that business and diplomacy more and more are approaching each other.’'/—William Miller Collier, {? severe THE EVENING WORLD, THUBSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921, emer menecenenens “No Dirty Baseball!” 2) r Rowwint 8 From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words ina couple of hundred? Thore is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction wu Take time to be briof. to eay much in a few words. A People's Siate. Te the Tasior of The Eveniva World As the politics. sare about to ar- Tange their dates for the neat el tion, why shouldn't the people of this greatest and largest city in the world | Bet together and arrange one to suit themselves, not the gas, oil and trac- tion interests? 1 would suggest we vote against every man that is now holding down the “job of Assemblyman and Con- grossman, irrespectiver of party, us {they have done nothing for the peo- | ple who voted for th Teas is | New York, Aug. 1, 1 Low Baseball Prices, | Faitor of The Brewing World s a baseball fan and one who delights in playing the grand old national game I heartily commend | | your editorial in last Saturday's issue | relative to the prices charged at pro- jonal baseball games. Baseball should come down along with prices. Lower prices would in larger erowds and would | give those opportunity |to who otherwise count of the | present exorbitant prices priced would not p to the club owners, only be but the tier ame, for the simple rr aut players put forth their best effort jwhen a large attendance is on hand. The crowd makes the ball game—goes | without saying, JAM MeCOY | Hichmond Hill, Le Ty | Propaganda,” 1 ag Word As a so-called “hyphenate,” permit me to rep to the letter of “Anti- Hyphenate” regarding anti-British propagana claims to have heva Jan investigator in the United States Depurtinent. of Justice and to know thates ut i been fought b. tin which ble caplously for the | the Stars and Stri Only a few da Harding sent am vention of the An American loyalty by me British King ravaged our has: 1 the * language wh we of Ireland to- glorious Republic Brooklyn, In your issue of “The H ask hesitates profiteering landlo Not only haye 30 per cent in some more advance, nothing opinion, Thieves are ar Jail, and 1 profiteering} with the are robbing t flance They a tor he of the law, u jot about Sinn Fein activities here,| ‘The matter is all of Which may or may not be true.| yond endurance is undeniable, if yh yuntry have been s broken, by Sinn a Ise, it 18 the| to me ty : partment Of) your co: ond retinue of] states that alcohol rrest, indict and before American jury those they believe guilty Your correspondent should know this, and know as well that such lclong to our bederal Courts fund not to newspaper columns, tn any event he is simply reiteotng charges wich originally emanated or side. and which have been chai fom the} quote his wandte ¢ ordinary cent, ale Dr, Woods Hut Iphysician, stated | Now York, May their liberty, while from L bernians congratula is neither 1 no low the e who freed us fror [and gave us this ROBERT J any longer in an unmerciful way, of it they insist on asking fro: cases three months’ bumanit rested can't indlords: same puni. wuthority 4 contains of The Byening Worl | Aug. 1 appeared a andwriting on tie why the Legislature in checking but now on top UNCOMMON SENSE Isn't it the om o} sn'tit the one By trying 3v John Blake iE : \ THE WORLD WANTS PEACE | h “ 21 What the peoples of the world want now is to be let et Merican troops) ¢ alone, Could they be assured that for all time they would xing towed $ be free from aggression they would cheerfully abandon all their military es The gre proved a pod has 1 ronor and glory of ablishinents test experiment in world domination ever made ilure After forty years of prepa had spe quest w pes. i ys President essage to the con-{ cient Order of Mi-, ion a military ion which ialized in the art of conquest discovered that con- s futile. No one nation, no one race, will ever rule the world. Looking at some quarters of Europe to-day one would think that little Yet one telligent does not pay. We know arm and fight, ating them on their and on the "1 n of Irish plundered our se tf was learned from the war, lesson has sunk deep in the minds of all in- and ed our tow of our peo- ich exactly fits the | men That lesson teaches that strife women, day r And the writer | ashamed to f& 1-| of our forefathers, | m the British yoke | now that it is chiefly fear which makes men great, grand and of the West We know that the great mass of humanity would rather slong with their neighbors than quarrel with them, The discovery has been expensive- but now the profit by it. WADL get July 31, far too expensive, it has been made we believe that people will ‘The most hopeful thing that has happened since the ar- mistice was the general expression of good will and gratitude | which greeted President Harding's suggestion that the na- os tions meet and discuss disarmament. they kept up rents National opinion, expressed by statesmen, is but their guess as to the individual opinions of the people. They have to guess shrewdly or they do not long remain statesmen, A diplomat out of a job is no longer a statesman, It is clear that the world wants peace. It is plain that it orld than it was before the war; that it has sickened of killings and conquest and savagery, and that it looks to return to the paths of civil It will neve has not yet work 20 to on new leases and rent in| et that care| or public| re is a better wv to! why me nt, for the Ipless public i and sent understand not pation. in our time, be a perfect world. d out its salvation. But if you want peace and progress you can perhaps persnade your still belligerent neighbor to want them too. He in his turn can persuade others and soon there will an end to wars, The race n de-| | | getting to be be-| TANT READRR 1 | re a Poison, vg Wort ent Mr. rk, who is a poison, should | Do your share in the work. Keep your own temper. Keep rrels. out of aque Figure out what you ought to have and do not try to get any more by taking it away from some one to whom it You arc, in miniature, a-nation, Be pacifie and kin« standing on your rights, but only on your eights, and p. x Poh}, in belongs. demonstrated Ange- that per 0.075 haps your example may have a more powerful influence chinsc a arpat than, you dream in the work of ending war forever. at the leading sept lag of of oe ‘that the av sd jenged again and again. Lloyd George|age person of 150 ae in wei | sng alsin ie - made them in Parliament, but did not! eating a usual amount of food gen- | Cortlandt M ion by a t d- offer a scintilla of evidence in their erates r ly WV i a Th Mans HL by a bid “nti h Au. support; in war stated, he] Mr beer | “6 ’ ” bt TAS Oak s disappeared after Gare not; in the piping times of peace} drinking on the part of the Germans t t the sale of the property to the city he has not, and we can judgo what|lost them the wat is « refuted atsarac Washington occupied this house for Bua SIG Mee BiLARAS IDeA RG CAE UR ENG DY WRG AACE AK We BAIR Ra By Albert P. Southwick \ brief time, in 1781, prior to hia have been disseminated from} tons of beer per capita, where | % Pre {ublishing Co. Jim ureh to Yorktown, Va, and in o Pole, |‘ ink just) one-half Ta pussed m nig i ung before “hyphenates” have ever been pita as " rossing to Wing sri¢ on bis loyal to this country and its history progressiveness of the Two ev. urmounted the posts ofl triumphant entry into New York City this beyond cavil. ft “ arkey @nd China an old gateway i wecording t Be Meiers a Oe ee canes Bea Pi RETORT oholls Bolton's "Hi rn of Westehester.” | ne. shah of Persia visited London saorials to our forefathers FRED SCHWARZ, {Were Spoils taken from a Spanish (in 1873, This visit of the Asiatic po- death grapple with England nage York, Aug. 1, 1921, —————SS privateer and presented to the “Was was a great novelty, ~~ | Lut Linked Tonjoroft \ he Co, XXXIV.—THE MAN WHQ DROVE THE ENGLISH OUT OF FRANCE. An old English ballad contains the following lines, which cast a powers -ful light on a protracted phase of the history of England and of France; Agincourt, Agincourt, 4 Know ye not Agincourt, Where our best hopes were nought? ‘Tenfold, our. foemen, Harry led his men to battle, Slew the French like sheep and cattlow Huzzah, our bowmen! The state of mind indicated by these lines lasted on both sides of the English Channel from the time of | William the Conqueror until 1558. | Before the battle of Agincourt had | been fought the battles of Crecy and | of Poictiers. After the battle of Agin- | court were fought the battles of Om \ leans and St. Quentin. | ‘The upshot of more than two cen- |turies of fighting between the French and the English was that the Eng- [lish had been al but driven out of |continental France. All but—because they still held, in 1658, the Port of Calais, their last stronghdd on the | French mainland. At that time English stateman- ship regarded the possession of Cae lais as vital to Pnglish political and commercial interests. Strange as it may seem, the English mind saw nothing but ruin for England if the French should ever recover Calais, | ‘This task was intrusted to the Duc de Guise in 1558. This gentioman of France, by the way, was uncle to Mary Queen of Scots. Calais was regarded as impreg- nable, But Guise took the castle of Ruysbank by assault on Jan. 2, and thus cut off the approach by water, On the next day he took the castle of Newenham Bridge, and thus cut off Calais by land. On the 7th Calais itself capitulated after a bombard- ment of the citadel This ended English dominion im France, with the exception of con- tested islands, which remain in Brite ish hands. Guise’s exploit put an end to the struggle between I and Eng- 1, and made co-operation between two countries possible in the fue nee find the loss of an ir or even a seri- ous disaster? They apparently did not; for a few decades after the siege of s an English statesman said the En) ‘ow it has gone, let it go. It was but a beggarly town, which cost Wng- land ten times yearly more than it was worth in keeping thereof, as by the acc » Exchequer dotir plainly Which seems to show that states~ men differ at different p IS as to what constitutes an essential. ‘The fact is that the loss of ris brought wake none of tl and which | reac ted during two ‘on that it would inevitably bring Aud) tt would. not. be uch to that de triumph over and ind the Wrancos Rats Tantente of 184 pos WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 59--FLOUNDER. There is good ground for dissent | from the dictum of the dictionarians— \ pardon the word—that the flounder was so named because of “its flound~ jering or flapping about.” It is the universal experience of fishermen that flounders do not “flounder or flap about” until they are landed on the sible. beach or the bottom of the boat. Every fisherman knows that, until they are so landed, they pursue an leven, dignified and orderly course | close’ to the bottom of the bay with | out any indication of eituer tloundere ing or flapping. We prefer to believe that the ob= Ject preceded the description, and that the procceding of tit on who through was named for the fish, and he fish for the man who “flouae Where New Yorkers Tread. GRAMERCY PARK, Gramercy Park sounds like a staid old English name, Samuel J. Tilden was the Sage of Gramercy Park, John Bigelow lived there, Edwin | Booth died there and hundreds of others, more or less noted Ameri+ |cans, have made it their residence. Looking at it to-day with its pads ked gates and the favored chile dren of the residents undisturbed by |the little roughnecks coming from east of Third Avenue, unable to get into the railed space set aside for |the kiddies who live there, it still [looks English, | The transformation of the resie the quiet, the whole general » is decidedly English to-day, yet Gramerey was the anglicizing of |the Dutch word Krommorasje, whtch was meant to designate the place as a “crooked little swamp." It wus that when James Duane, @ “flounders or flaps about’ life Mayor of New York, purchased it The plot known ws the Duane farm comprised twenty acres. Samuel B, Ruggles bought it from Duane and decided it would make a nice semi- suburban development, with houses all about it the micdle, He set lots were to .n iron fene and which are, and then sold off the isty-six. lots’ surrounding for wiilding purposes. ‘Phe sixty-six lote carried with then a tax of $10 @ year euch to maintain the grounds, The old farm, with its crooked amp draining down into what ts the gas house district, became wamerey Park, the place where the novelist lays bis’ plots and the places tis studio