The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 12

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, ESTABLISHED DY JOSNPH PULITEER, Dally Frcopt Munday by The Preas Publishing Compe n: tte @f Park Row, New York. RALPH Pr |. President, @5 Perk P J. ANGUS SITAW, Tresstrer. Park Ri JOSEPH PULITAEN Jr., Secretary, @2 Perk Row. h OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. . = the local mews pubiished bereity DISARMAMENT OR DEFEAT. DISPUTE between Secretary Mellon and the SX House Ways and Means Committee as to whether expenses of the Government. under present appropriation bills will be a half billion more or less is of comparatively slight interest to the people ‘of the United States. | °° “What interests the taxpayers is the saving pos- |" sible it executive departments do not spend the money already appropriated. ! Mr. Mondell declares the Government must make additional cuts if taxes are to be reduced. Con- _ knows taxes must be reduced. “Revision” ‘hich shifts taxes to those less able to pay will not suffice, Nor will the country accept reductions in the constructive services of the Government—good toads, schools, scientific investigation and experi- ment and the like. The debt service is approximately irreducible. Two and only two roads to expense reduction exist. One lies in more efficient administration, giving the same service or more service at less cost. The other lies in slashing reduction in the ex- penses of military departments. { The first may save millions. The second can “Save tens and hundreds of millions. In plain words, Congress is facing the alternative | of disarmament or defeat at the polls. } The prospect for Congressional approval of 4 | disarmament treaty is bright indeed. . BOS ‘The Republican members of the Senate sui- committee investigating the Ford-Newberry 14 election contest are firm of the opinion that ‘caged have heard all the evidence they care to ks i hear. That is not surprising. But now they have the evidence, what are they going to do with it? A Senatorial whitewashing of Newberry would be almost as convincing as the acquittal ‘of the Chicago Black Sox, and would reflect as little credit on the men who made the de- cision. 1 @ ‘' A HERITAGE OF GENIUS. \ “wx announcing a partial merger with the Collier | ~ Company the Harpers reveal that royalties to 97 the Mark Twain estate last year amounted to : $84,000. At 6 per cent. this is equal to the incom: *— from an estate of $1,400,000. » Poor Mark, with all his imaginative powzrs he could never have dreamed of such wealth for him. ' self. Most of his life he was hard driven to meet obligation: and find the money to support his family. His business ventures were anything but successful. ee tlt was a fortunate day for Mark when the late 4. 4. 1H. Rogers, who negotiated the agreement with “the Harpers, came to Mark and said, “Mark, you | { write and I'l underwrite.” 5 St was the Rogers business sagacity, not Mark “‘$wain’s, which has given to the heirs so magnificent Va : = a heritage ‘s No doubt there are many budding geniuses and + meur-geniuses of to-day who will read of Mark + “Tiwain’s good fortune and long for a Rogers to * underwrite their writings. i But perhaps there is an eternal balance which “°< Keeps the patrons and the geniuses apart. In re- ~ tent years Mark Twain has been the centre of one 4 of those fruitless literary disputes as to wheter he “» was happy cr unhappy in his lifetime. If those | © wto contend that his writings are the product of 4 | deep discontent are right, what would’ have been the effect had Mr. Rogers intervened early in | Mark's literary career? r Ir the later and more prosperous years of Mark Twain's life he was not so prolific as in the early _ days of struggie. If the commercial value of Tom. f Huck and the Connecticut Yankee had been fully 5 ~Y\galized, would the world have enjoyed Pudd'n- | head and Joan? “Commonsensical” is the latest word coined iiby President Harding. He had to get out of Wasbington to gain the inspiration. It's w good word and deserves a botter fate than 4 ——normalcy.” “THE GLORY OF LOS ANGELES.” EORGE BERNARD SHAW, who recently bid for fame with the statement that betting odds in the Dempsey-Carpentier fight should favor | *fhe Frenchman, has a new interest. He is opposing “t.' tfe proposed American tariff on motion nicture “American audiences must be deadly sick of seeing nothing but cowboys, American sol stuff and all (ue reat of it. They want French films, Italfan films, Engiish films and Sean dinavian films for variety. If they don’t get them the Americay fiims will drive the American public out of American picture theatres.” Shaw neglects to mention German fitms, al- though a few recent imporiations from Germany t 3 ‘Ths Aseciatec Pres ty exclusively entitled to the arm for repadiiceMed © All news cespat-hee credited to tt Or not etherwire credited im thle paper | have stirred up far more interest than any‘hing from France, Italy, England—or Scandinavia Nor is Mr. Shaw any more accurate in his esti- mate of the quality of American films. Comvpeting on equal tersas with all other nations, the motion pictures made in the United States have drawn the business pretty much all over the world. As regards the tariff on imported films, Shaw fs right, : The big home market for American films would be all the better for more competition. American film makers will be able to meet the competition if they must. It may mean something of a cut in film salaries and a general deflation of one of our worst inflated industries, but it need not be as Mr. Shaw predicts, that “the glory of Los Angeles witi pass like that of Babylon.” FUSION AND A HEARSTIAN FEAR. WIDENING breach in the Fusion ranks was perceptible yesterday morning in the col- umns of Mr. Hearst's Hylan American. So far as acute observers could see, the breach was neither wide nor widening anywhere else. Ex- cej:t in the immediate vicinity of Major La Guar- dia’s offices, the general atmosphere was that of a period of local good feeling and good cheer To those who join Hizzoner in the sweetly simple belief that Bushwick has furnished the city with the Best Mayor Ever and that it deserves, there- fore, the continuation of its red-star marking or. the municipal map, a Fusion breach is the substance of things ioped for; to citizens whose desire is for | the redemption of New York, it is the essence of things unseen and unexpected. ; Mr. Gilroy, whose name completes the ticke: offered by the Fusion Steering Committee to the voters at the coming primaries, supported Mr. Hylan four years ago. Like thousands of others who helped to lead the city into a slough of de spond, he has seen the error of his 1917 way. In his conversion we may read the augury of over- throw for the forces now in power at the City Hall. The incident chiefly under discussion’ yesterday was the sudden loss to the offices of the Presiden‘ of the Board of Aldermen of the services of two gentlemen who could not find it in their way to support the La Guardia candidacy for the primaries. “Both of these positions are confidential,” ex- plained the Major, “and it would be extremely em- barrassing for b&th of these gentlemen, as well’ as for myself, ': continue in that relationship.” Just so. Ignoring for the argument’s sake the mere fact that both men were working for the city, at no expense tu Mr. La Guardia. Yowever. other things aside—including Mr Hearst’s kind apprehensions in the matter of a break—the vital fact of the hour is that what th> Steering Committee has accomplished is merely the Steering Committee's business and is strictly pre- liminary. . The rext move belongs to the voters. The Fusion ticket as prepared has to pass the test of the primaries before ¢oming to the final test of the ballots. On primary day it may be beaten by neg- lect or indifference. For the fulfilling of the hopes that Mr. Curran and his associates represent, reliance must be placed on the citizens at large whose vital interests are concerned. It is up to them to carry on—for the primaries and after! MAN, THE RULER. T H IS oifice acknowledges receipt of what pur- ports to be an argument on one side of moot question. It is that—but which side of the question it best supports we leave the reader to decide. We regret that it did not arrive last week when the weather was so uncomfortably warm. “Gov, Miller was right, when he said That a woman place {s at home, for Since they bas come to bave legal authorities Man the ploneer of the world bas Become tool; it is an abnormal thing ‘To see and to know, man who god has Made ruler, Some Of the most inteligent Belesprit has to be treated like a dog For some no-count women And most especially the majority of ignorant foreign- ers, Women these Days have absolutely no respect for Man, if they did men would respect them, a great deal more than they do. “In foreign countries women are Not so fresh as they are here. Why??? because—ha ha ha— but here -Tiey thonght they ean nile men, why? Because the federal law protect them, “But I do hope the time will come When that portion of the law be change. and women wl! realize the fact Then, that Men are rulers, for when god made the world, He made man first. and declared him To be ruler. he did not intend for Woman to be boss for ‘f he did he Would Lave | make women firet | “The mass Of ignorance. women in the world | & especially in the U. S. ff they had self respect, They would know know to Respect men whem god has made to Rule over them. women, when ehe has come to have legal authority She at once be. comes so excited, that When a case of any kind comes before Her. She is at a lost to arbitration. “I have always oppose to an arbitress. or any other beven legal Authority Why? because their Places is At bome in the kichen I would never cast my vote for one if they Never get elected. why? because they thuught they are the bold world. * “Man are absolute ruler, he have power to make all laws and break them. whenever he ace’s fit to do so, women have not that power, and {f uy have, they ought nol to, that power should be taken away and send them back in the kichen A woman place {8 at home.” If this doesn’t help prove my ought to "| WNOW SOMETHING ABouT _- THE LEGISLATURE AND : Youn CMM/TTEE" | Back Fence Chatterboxes . «#2, By Rollin Kirby 1921, * | KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE Pouce AND ‘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 ina couple of hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te eay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Speeders and Children. d upon the conditions of home tn- ‘To the Exitor of The Evening World: vironment. ‘The preservation and I read with great interest the! progress of municipal, State and Fed- jother day in your exchange column fa! ernments are wholly depend nies Nn chil. | Bt,wpon home conditions. ‘The ho of the man who thinks that all chil- kes the system of law and o dren playing in the streets of the city possible, and law and order to exist should be spanked by the owners of must work for home advancement automobiles, Can you beat that? By | Undoubteilly it is banking m the manner Wit he expressus bimselt! {0 SRena. Money wisely, and the] }a stranger would think that the chil- | fundamental essential of Child Wel-| dren of this city have all the play- fare. | rounds they want and mothers don't “Preserve the home, |allow their children to go to these ‘That travels down from age to age; | parks but instead have their children Through days of darkness, fear and} play in the streets of the city, s \ Personally, I would advise our good, It marks the wisdom of the sa friend to visit the heart of the east! ‘To “right the wrong’ is truly the) uide and tell us whether he thinks | urgent duly of this generation of! there are playgrounds for all the kid-| American citizenry, No stone should | dies. Mothers won't allow their chil-| be left unturned that would benefit dren to play on the roofs for fear of|the children of to-day. ‘them falling off, and they won't allow WILLIAM REID. them to go to the docks for a simi-! Bronx, July 31, 1921. lar reason. But, of course, it is our LOS tals utmost duty, according to our friends | (he Poor Fan's Plea: i the automobile specders, to arrest our| To the kui children who seck some sort of rec-) | have noticed avileles | reation. | ney EBB TSNE 6 Tam certain that the writer of that | Of late regarding the falling off ot) the attendance at baseball games in) letter was no father, because he does | not know what it means to bring up4| the major leagucs. Some people at- | Raila se. Bp eee en Ainen | tridute the cause to the slow games and take his life away. The least that | Played, othors to the lack of scientific he gol was too good for him. Give| pitching, others to the new ball and also to the rule which prohibits the ttal n y the an urgent cry! of Toe Evening World H numerous our kiddies more strects to be used for playgrounds only and get after all these speed sharks with something | ‘that hurts, not mere fines, and as sure as there is a God on this eurth € won't huve so many second degres | murders MM p obali for the treak deliv- y opinion real caus chargec ebal by a law passed at A) that the playing of tx days would please the poor man whi had to work all week and could not find the time to attend the games, Hylan and Brackner. To tie Raitar of The Erecing World Greater New York's citizens should organize to renominate and re-elect | this plea Sune ma Mayor Hylan to continue his fight| .cArqugn, (nis, Pics Sunday rama against the raise of public utility) one of the poor men whonwthe advo- rates. ¢ of day ball referred to, Borough President Bruckner should Wala ‘see ie € toi see We a fe H also be re-elected to continue his! fie if the price of admission were |good_ work on the improvement of) ty yy pouch | the Bronx. . i 1 When T to the » Grounds, un ath mic ate Renee, capable and icss 1 am hours add of time and efficient, a nen pudlic "A din line, | cannot get a seat un- help themselves by Per clen rine eee ss I decide to pay $1.10 or $1.65. men. ‘i nase These amounts are too much for me Bronx, Aug. 1. as 1 ama marricd man with a family |as are thousands of other men. ! feel! | 1 speak for them when I state I can- not afford the price demanded ‘The Child and the Motor. | To the Kidtor of The Ereming World | JT have read with interest the letter’ The club owner up a ery that written by “FP. B. 1." in recent issue jhe contracts made with players, high of your paper, and I histrtily agree railroad fares and cost of hotel ac- with him. ‘commodations eat up a consid 1 have driven a car for several! mount of protits, but they do not tet years and know what it is to just the public know tlie large profits de- escape an elevated pillar in order to| yived trom their investments, T have avoid running down some child who! not heard of any of the club owners deliberately stands in front of the|going to the poorhouse, car regardiess of the continued blow-| As long as Sunday games were ing of the horn. | brought about en the “poor ma Tt it were lawful for the driver of! pleasure plea,” why not compel the \a car to spank a child who not only | baseball leagues to carry out lendangers hia own but the lives of contract and make baseball th: |many innocent people Tam quite man’ me, at least on Sunday? ‘Tie sure there would be fewer accidents. game was orighially supported by | Brooklyn, Aug, 1, tozt oor man aid fo} z time { sn i re "4 4 5 e wis sough ut now More Child Welfare, eae PECK Rat en Ble ius the ook ‘To the Editor af The Evening World ma is really an eyesore The Evening World is on the right When one goes to the Polo truck in advocating tho extension of Gomunds on woel.da Ie nat lee the Child Welfare moyeinent {Ve the thousands of empty ats whieh @lale of sociviy Lae ulwaye depeud: if a lower price were ushed go doubt | | | | : UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copsrisht, 1921, by John Blake.) A TIP FROM MR. HUGHES. When Charles E, Hughes was an attorney in New York his advice was worth a great deal of money. Important business men sought it and paid for it, and they made excellent investments in its purchase. Mr. Hughes is now Secretary of State of the United States of America. He gives to the President advice for which he receives a salary of $12,000 a year, only a fraction of what he was paid for advising New York businéss concerns. Also Mr, in addresses made officially, gives i yees of the Government. Recently he spoke to the young men about to be taken into the Consular Service. And because the advice he gave them will be worth as much to the readers of this newspaper as it was to thosé to whom it was given, we repeat a part of it here. . We hope Mr. Hughes will not aceuse us of stealing his wisdom. We feel at liberty to appropriate it because he is now a Government employee and what he says belongs to the people, “In ny experience.” he said (we quote from memory). “the rarest quality | found in young men was accuracy.” Continuing, he dwelt upon the necessity of accuracy in all dealings--upon the satisfactién every business mean took in finding a man upon whose word he could depend absolutely. He concluded by telling his hearers that accuracy, of paramount importance in the Consular Service, is exactly as important in business. The late Joseph Pulitzer expressed this same helpful opinion even more briefly when he caused these words to be posted prominently throughout his newspaper offices: ACCURACY—-TERSENESS—ACCURACY, Here, readers, is advice that is priceless, advice from two of the foremost successful men of America, Heed it carefully, Find out the truth and all the truth before you make a report or form an opinion, It will be diffienlt but it will be worth it, Vxact knowledge is the only knowledge worth having, Inexact knowledge is always confusing, often dangerous Get the facts. Get them in their proper order, Get all of them, & Then reason from them and you will not go far wrong. | SOPRA ERRAR RROD LLL LDL ILLIA LLL would be filled. Why don't the spb ducted from the State of New York carey © pla, and when tang yw 1 wax Se round. the Hiling of {284 ho, through reasons of his own, At popular prices will |/8 Now living outside the State is most roiusn—in faet, | certainly entitled to a bonus, the same ay ce grour them give Uelieve much more than they get] as those who still reside in the St now 5 ict some of your readers who like| However, in looking at the matter jthe game of baseball give their from every angle, I am convinced ‘lat opinions, and perhaps by so doing|we are all “Bonus Outeasts,” both in soften the thiek hides of the money] and out of the State. It will soon be wine baseball club owners and |one year since the bonus was voted bring them to their senses before it] on, and taking into consideration a too late for the game's sake. few more delays such as the last oni BASEBALL FIEND. | supposediy caused by an error a ew ¥ Nug t, 1927 print the forms or something ike that Whether the bonus is con- stiturional or not—a vote of 15 to 1 in x atc 4 A j layer of the bonus does not m to T hoartily agree with the letter from ‘ount—e ought to get our money by itle] 1923 at least ANOTHER OVERSEAS VETERAN. New York, Aug. 1, 1921, is Vete vat "Over an.” under the Any map who enlisted Joy wae in- | Stories Told by | |The Great Teacher ke Rev. Thomas B. Gregory peright. 191, by The Pres Publishing Os. (The New York Lycaing World. THE SOWER. The story of “The Sower” is found in Matthew xiii, 3-10 and 18-23, It is a great story, illustrating the whole of our human life from the dawn of reason to the “last scene of all that ends our strange, eventful history.” | Weare all Sowers, whether we want |to be or not, and according to our | sowing must be our reaping. We get what is “coming to us,” every tne. Nowhere in the infinite universe is there anything accidental or fortui- tous. Whatever comes to us comes ay the natural, legitimate, inevitable consequence of our action, Men and nations have been sowing | for we know not how many thousand of years, with the results that ar given us in the Book of Histor; These results are not as encouraging as they ought to have been, and i the Story of the Sower Jesus tells w why. Tue explanation is tound in versel 23: “And that which was sown upon the good ground is he that HHAR- Y | BTH the word, and UNDERSTAND / | ETH it, who verily beareth fruit, ar # bringeth iorth, some thirty, sor sixty, Some a hundred fold.” | it is TRUTH that saves us. It . |Truth planted in the mind and heart of man, like the seed in (he soil, thut ‘gives us the grand harvest culled civilization. But just tue seed | must have a certain depth and quality Jof soil before it can lake root and | grow up to the abundant harvest, so TRUTH must have its chance-—must be aided by the proper conditions— in order to do its perfect work among us. The tirst condition is that we shui HBAR it, for if we never hear ot iit can, of course, have bo effect upon us jAnd in the second place, we must UNDERSTAND it, li we fail to un- jderstand it we may as weil not bea: ‘it to begin with, | And this is precisely what was hap- pening in the Great Teachers da Truth, like seed falling on a rocky jedge, found no entrance into men's minds. And such being the case, men failed to understand the truth, since it is impossible to comprehend that which we do not even apprebend—to ; set the arms of the mind arouna that, | which has not as yet so much as ea- tered the mind, | And what was true in Jesus's time is true to-day. Truth 1s on the out- side of us. The housewife, in order to have her bread rise, must put the yeast IN THE DOUGH, not on a table. So truth, in order to do us good, must be within us, a thoroughly junderstood and deeply venerated {thing, a power in our hearts, the {master force in all our thinking and in all our doing. To know the truth simply as some- body else bas told you of it, oras it is sald somebody knew it ages ago, is not to know it at all. Such truth is a very faint echo, not the real voice; a dim shadow, not the old, eternal substance, To know the truth. to understand it, to love it, to live tor it—THAT is what the Great Teacher wanted of us His word was “Have salt in your- selves"—the great Saving Trath which makes us free from the forees | which would belittle and degrade un, which would weaken our manhood land prevent the proper development of our larger and better selves. If you will read and reread the | story of the “Sower” in the light of ‘the thought I have tried to outline | here, 1am sure it will take on for you a new interest. sa WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 60—HELL. Hel! is a term in theological geog- |raphy. ‘The general conception of jhell is to be found in all or almost jail religions, Among primitive peo ples who knew what it was to suffer | from the heat the temperature of the place denoted by this term was ex- tremely high. On the other hand, peoples accus- tomed to suffer from the cold con ceived the place to be excessively cold. The Icelandic “bel,” for in stance, was a Spot of ceaseless shiv ering, The Norse “hela” was ¢lut te: | up with rime and ice at alf*sea- sons of the year. With the passing of the years the conception of heil has been becoming more and more indefinite. Tbe word is sometimes used in conversation when a quick, emphatic sound of protest is being sought in the small- est possible number of syllables. Hel! as a geographical term has the dis- tnetion of possessing neither latitude | nor longitud: | se as The Prince of Wales | ward VIL) went to India in 18%, the (afterward Ba- |first visit of an En Asiatic possessions ee On Mareh 21, 1788, there was a com | fagration in New Orleans, La., by which seven-eighths of the city wae destroyed, linb ruler to the oe } On June 2, 193, Didius Julians, lemperor of Rome, was executed after ‘a reign of 60 days, having purchased the imperial right of the soldiers in | his command. On Jan. 31, 1616, Jacob Le Maire, a Dutchman, discovered Cape Horn, the southern extremity of the Amer- iean Continent. | On May 13, 1885, Hlizabeth Cook, {widow of Capt. James Cook, the cir- cumpay gate Jied aear London, wwged nincty-tour, urviving ber hus- nd fifty-five The death of Genghis Khan, a re- nowned Mogu! Prince, was on Aug. Hs rise from the lowest for- as rapid, and within the space twerty-aight years he subdued the greater part of Aga