The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 20

‘nee me ee OL CAN EH i y ' . ; hob wie ji fel eS { , ee fo Le et EO i ; { : } hes ered And aly the local news pul a beretn CURRAN STUDIES HIS JOB. HE Evening Post has discovered that borough President Curran has actually studied the business of running a great city; that he has been keenly curious about such things as what a Mayor has to do with his Administration. There are quarters in which these tidings will be received with amazement. Somewhere they will arouse the indignant wrath of practical men. “Look at Hizzoner!” the cry will rise. “He has beci for four years the Best Mayor Ever. He wili hiinself admit it. And what has he learned about his office before or since he took it? We ask you.” What in such a case can the answer be, Mr. Curran’s guilt as a student of municipal affairs be- ing assumed as a thing established on impeccable testimony? ~~ Preparaiion was not the Bushwick means of per- petrating a Mayor. It has never been the way of the Wigwam. It has never entered the minds of the Boys to conceive that the city’s chief distributer of jobs needed so much as a correspondence-school course in the*higher prerequisites of office. It may come about that the exposure of Mr. Cur- ran’s studious habits will fail of blighting effect. The city may, in its temperamental way, decide to take once more the risk of intrusting its affairs to 2 man who knows its business. In such eveni, the voters never can complain that they were not told. FREED TO DECIDE. >REEDOM for the members of the Sinn Fein Parliament marks another important advance toward *peace in Ireland. It is an earnest that the British Government is willing to go a long way in meeting ‘se demands of the Irish revolutionary The British Ministers well know with what pains these leaders of the Dail were captured and how infinitely more difficult it would be to effect their recapture in case the present negotiations come to naught. . On the other hand, the British Government woukl be mocking the Sinn Fein organization, which it has recognized in fact if not in formal style, if'it askel the Dail to consider ‘peace’? terms when a part of the membership lodged in the “enemy's” iniernment camp. What the reaction of these Irish patriots may be remains to be seen. That they should be resentful over their long confinement would be only natural, but that the, should permit this resentment over personal discomfort to influence their attiude toward a settlement which would make al! frish- men more comfortable and safe is unthinkable. Ti.ey would torfeit the right to the leadership they now hold. 4 GRAFTED VISION. F Dr. Koppanyis of Vienna fs righi in believing | that he can transplant eyes from one person to another as he claims to have done in the case of ani- mals, it may well be that blindness may become a passing thing to people of the next generation. If a rich man were blind and a poor man had two good eyes, it might easily happen that the two could make a mutually satisfactory comprom and this in spite of any legal restrictions on;mashem by physicians But surgical science would not need to depend on the vigorous and healthy for the supply of raw material for eye-grafting. ery day men and women are mortally injured without injury to eyes. Criminals sre condemned to die. If it were per- missible, many of the sightless could be supplied from these sources. Many a person about to die would be only too glad to grace his last hours on earth with a gift of such infinite value to the re cipient. e— ree A CANNY SHERIFF. PPARENTLY the Mlinois Sheriff who holds 4 warrant for the arrest of Gov, ot a diplomat Small feft Springfield and the jurisdiction of the Sheriff. He fled to Chicago with culors flying ani a grand aititude of “You just come aad ost ime.” Rut the Sheritf did nothing ot sort The Sheriti waited for the courts to decida tl he had tne right to serve the warrant. Now that the Governor has returned to the capital wit! less of the brass band effect, the Sheriff continues to wait. In accordance with the suggestion of the court, he awaits the convenience of the Governor, Ler. Small can come in, give himself up and ar-ange for bail wheneygr he wants io. 'The Sheriff is taking all the medieval glory out of the business of bringing a high Government offi- to triai fur his crimes. He atfects not a vestige “@f the pomp which once accompanied the H A t Small is some ( amie Cie to St OF not otnerwise ercuitea In tais paper | | SonPe > Sheriff of England as a retainer of the King It is the Majesty of the Law, not ihe vengeance of the ing, h Gov. Small flouts. MIL the while the inexorable pressure .of public spinion must be bearing heavily on Len Small. The longer the Governor delays the harder his position comes So long as the Sheriff does not serve thz warrant the Governor cannot escape the fact that he is, in effect, a fugitive from justice by the solemn edict of the courts. len Small probably would be far more com- fortable in jail, where he would occupy the spot- light and discuss political plotting to the exclusion of the crimes with which he is charged. But the Sheriff is not giving him that s sfaciion, THE ONLY WAY OUT. N his New England trip President Harding seemed to be trying to make up in enthusi- asn for armament limitation what he lacked in foresight regarding the issue. There is no blinking the fact that the President was an cleventh-hour convert, but his aid and assistance will be none the less welcome on that account—providing always that his zeal results in effective action. A humired years hence when the historians ot the twentieth century seek to account for this sud- den change of front they will find interesting ma- terial for conjecture as to the reasons back of They will note that the churches are backing armament limitation. ‘They will also discover that business generally favored disarmament. armers favored They will add organized labor to the list of ad- veeates, 2 They will discover a uniformity of opinion in st and West, in North and South. They will be hard put to explain where the op- position came from in a Nation assuming to have a representative form of government. But opposition—etfective opposition—was pres- ent Perhaps by 2021 the devious machinations of the armament makers will be better understood Perhaps the historians writing in 2021 will better understand the “fear psychology” so prevalent even after the lessons of four years of terrible warfare. But if the historians of that’ ¢ still use the system of “economic interpretation” so populzr to- day; they will have small difficulty in understanding the sudden change of front by President Harding. The President has three and one-half years to serve. That means that he and his advisers mu face three more tax bills. The present budget is giving too much trouble. It is splitting the Presi- dent’s party. The country is crying, “Reduce taxes.” So the President is turning to thesonly way out— reduction. of the cost of the military establishment and naval construction. That, in brief, seams the most logical explanation of the President’s sudden enthusiasm for disarma- ment. It is an enthusiasm the country has had for some time. Whether President Harding wll have wise fore- sight in making his enthusiasm effective remains to be seen. His first gesture of opening the conference to a general discussion of all the problems ef the Pacifle was noi reassuring. The Nation must hope that the President and his advisers will have another eleventh-hour conversion and come to the conclusion that a disarmament erence should concern itself primarily with the business of limitation of armaments. MORE HONESTY NEEDED, (From the Rochester Post-Express.) Revelations made in various vestigations held recently have given rise to many comments adverse to business morality in this country. It must be granted that most business men are honest at heart, but it must also be granted that many practices sanctioned by these same honest men are dishonest in their nature. ‘The business man when algne is not often dishonest. But he will often become dis- honest in company with others. This is due to false standaras of honesty No business man of standing would claim that rob- bing people is honest. But when business men in a certain line combine to keep prices at a figure which is not justified by conditions, that gives them a profit greater than the conditions and fair dealing justify, then the business men are, in a sense, robbing the people, When business men, in order to conceal the fact that they are charging too much for their wares, pad expense accounts and payrolls and do other ) THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY » things of the kind, they are stealing from the people | to whom they sell as much as if they picked their pockets. During the recent debate on an appropria- tion for the Shipping Board, Senator Kenyon of Towa exhibited several telegrams of a private nature sent by Shipping Board officials or employees at public expense, The telegrams cost only 25 cents apiece to send. But it was petty thieving if looked at in the light of proper moral standards . One reason why this sort of robbery of the people prevails is that it is condoned by the people, The men that combine to put up or keep up prices are looked upon as clever business men, If they become wealthy through this robbery of the people they are received in the high cireles of business, society and church They are looked upon as leaders in the community. If we had proper standards of morality they would be regarded the thieves they are and ostracized by decent people. We need more honesty in business We need men that will be honest when conferring with their kind on business matters as well as when they are acting for themselves, We need a people with strength of mind sufficient to enable them to snub the menu that have made money by devious business prac tices. Until we have these things we shall have busi~ ness methods that are tainted, , AUGUST 9, 1494. There is fine mental exercise 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? and a lot of satisfaction in trying UNCON Isn't it the one a, f aid ned AR ta A SAE ON SENSE By John Blake v. rs ee The Pioneers. of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroft Coperight. 1! . |. by The Prone Pett tne New’ Tare Brenint_ Work XXXV.—THE MAN WHO CRUSHED THE TURKS AT LEPANTO. In the middle of the sixteenth cen- tury the Mediterranean was in a fair way to become a Turkgsh lake. ‘The Turks—meaning the worst of their Kind, the Osmanlis—were salling what was then the main waterway of Europe, levying tribute on come merce and setting up a reign of ter ror from which even vessels flying the flag of the most powerful nations were not exempt. The question that confronted the “great powers" of the day was whether they were to have free seas or Turkish seas in the great streted of waters that washed the shores of , Europe, Asia and Africa, | In 1565 the Turkish Sultan, Sotete man the Magnificent, made a bol@ bid for complete mastery of the Mediterranean by striking at Malta, the formidable stronghold of the | Knights of St, John. He failed by a close margin in re- levine one of the main obstacles to |Ottoman domination—a domination that would have controlled communi- cations with the New World discov- jered by Christopher Columbus. ; But although at the end of Solet- man's great expedition the cross af St. John had been restored to the | ramparts of St. Elmo, Osmanli ships | still harried the Mediterranean, while ‘the “great powers” contented them- nelves with talking it over and frus- trating each other's plans for action through motives of mutual jealousy. While the “great powers” talked {and plotted, Mustapha Pasha tight- ened the Osmanli grip on the Medi- terranean by attacking Cyprus, cap- {turing it and sailing triumphantiy home with the stuffed skin of its ‘brave defender, Bri on the ction on three of the “great ne Doge of Vi pain and the Pope. ‘They jorganized a fleet of 214 vessels and |sent this armada against the Turks under an interesting historical char- acter |" ‘This man was Don Juan of Austria, | a son of Charles V. by a left-handed jalliance with a German woman, On Oct Don Juan performed Ja significant at of history by de- | feating and rly crushing, off the | Gulf of Lepanto, a few miles from \the place where the battle of Actium had been fought centuries earlier, jthe Osmanl. fleet of 275 ships under |the ‘command of Ali Pasha, the | Scourge of the Mediterranean. | Don Juan cnacted a drama of wae which was destined, centuries later, jt be re-enacted by an Americas naval officer who freed Europe from | the exactions und the cruelties of the Barbary pirates, the spiritual de- | seendants of the Osman pirates. : # It remained for ahother man of another race to beat back the power of the Turks on land as Don Juam had beaten it back on the sea. But Don Juan's performance justiy entitles him to am honorable place im the list of men whose achievements have changed the course of history for the better. to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief 2 VORK AND WORRY ARE BAD TEAM MATES nen for ttounitals ti Naurencin i i crvidont work at the same tine. Work } Where New Yorkers my ie ai es ma Hele Nees Fonstitution, A ' ind worry are by a niates. They pull in opposite dir | lwrite to thank you fof your cours) are permicted only under licens dn one linge progress iinpossible Tread |teay in publishing my letter request- | igsued by. the litern Ree ; ; CUPPA Aaneateaiien , : ling a piano for the men’s psycho-| partinent of the United State PE DELCCR NOU LOU WOKEY: 6 ia a BA PASIAN BOD) : BANK STREET. | pathic ward at Bellevue H a It ts no justification of wroL to grieve js nol Lo worrs | Benk Street owes its name to the On the date the letter appeared in Hts eG BS nb oe Unless you are singular ves worry wil! tavt that the banks of the city for a ‘your ps William Knabe & Co. of “"Ay" dew at law of nature. igs g come to you and will not lime occupied that little west side No, 439 Fifth Avenue eame forward » the manufacture and use ¢ But when the worrying time comes postpone work. De street, For a time it was iad ainan- {with an offer to lend,a Knabe Am 1 have been more or ies: NGeUCou ie be Ou Monroe CITC id ot at. which 1 centre of the metropolis. 1: pico reproducing grand piano, which any OUNEEY, Bonurass FTO PeGATI i" ; ms strange to think that the rutefully received, ‘The piano is RHEINIUAIne ono ATES © cit ewes Gndent : j i street should have becn the home of | now installed Me psychopit A he Mid notin has ease : > Wd never une ta 1 iinportant iad on ow Lose Issite | the fil neces of the city and that liward\ ¢ r it a very val-| preservation your future in any way depends while you are worrying about 3| Greenwich Village held the strong | vable to the ther aay I H . ‘ anything wider the sun boxes of the New World, but it is 60. ng conducted for the pa- x ’ ‘ . " ‘The yellow fever was responsible eas B " Meutal hazards in golf illustrate the impossibility of state of affairs a century enty-five other y worry and accomplisiiment in the same second the city was Sulid oF P came forw ff Fj Tey alawean Aeht ORME. AOURU LHe 4 shi ot 2 brought in by sbips ce ed ; The player who is worrying about the difficulty of 3) the scourge. brought tn by atipe puted throughout thie and bi jumping a ard or a ravine thinks about that and points south, There appeared to be ARION R14 miunner Intely with 1 forgets how lo make the stroke | cure for it. Practically all that pretary N« York City streets of this cit He lands 2 eet tl | tl ter or A contracted it died. The water sup- Committee. JOHN P. DAVIN, Moby | e tands asa result with a plopiin the water or witha 3% | oiy tn the pity was bad, in fact too sas | ehug in the raving 5 frightful to contemplate in these 4 summested © | Kven an experienced bookkeeper cannot add up a ${4aysof sanitation. | oo oe ar vin one ee trea natant reader « 1% column of figures if his mind is on some trouble that monon- ¢]town, going way up to Yorkville or 2d ORE Rey ndly allow me to say one or|$ olizes it Murray Hill or some other out of the | jon by Kirby on “Rent Gou | kl u i ; ‘4 ; baad 1 ral way place. enwich Village was \Gandiords? It's splendid, So are} 'Wo things about your t edito Che mechanic adding machine, which cannot worry, fur out of town too, and it became a Lockwood's words rials and the person wt tes them. }$ never makes a mista haven of refuge for the merchanta | Please, ple instruct Kirby to get} ‘ ; ; t \ must naturally think Bi transact bus The banks, to fa- Jup a cartoon showmg two gallows,|that he know ue uy t about them and try to solve m. But make that a separate de- cilitate matt b evidently Cant ip | 1 . ging | the feel nd sentiment ot the fs jone place, in the Dlock extending one with a shyster*tenant hanging me ; partment of your da o the river, and it ° Jpy the neck, and the other with 4, yates a as : a If you find tl ling in your regular work banish Sauk Recet eee Nh We |shyster landlord, also hanging by the]O! New é them if possible y absorbed in what you are In that same epidemic the Scotch neck, You might also have me of-|that they do not want | eh 7 ; kd idea weavers, driven out, settled between | Maso {$ doing that you will forget them for the time imisth and Seventh Avenues, of 1aih \fl as hangman, which 1 will de ) |si , of | The organization is solidiy behind Then buckle into the job and tit done Steoot. and that became Paisiey |with ‘much pleasure and without Maa fon vacelection whist i tl Wie k off alt j Pace and was Paisley Place for Jcharge. ‘Then show Lockwood with {John P. Hylan for re-el , tis impossible knock off alfogether or employ 3] years, Tt was a row of two-story © same warning as in your ¢ know: he has made good yourself on routine matters whieh require little mental ef frames reached by an alley in’ later und then t be are with him, aid with) $ fort, These can sometimes be attended to, even if worry is f) Yours from 16th Btreet. Tv no longer sto all tenants he easy winne , ; s listed as a strec 5 Bene dne ae Se oR ENB Chet 1{$ harnessed with work. They will not be done well, but they $| 20 per gent of the people, and now, after serving |$ can be done | ; Ue Ge woud. he stk reluins a. manof the Vor tie, big job, however, you need concentration, which $} WHERE DID YOU GET treased cost of Bas, world, he stil reThains a man of the ; con. telephone. and. instinance people and for the people means the centring of all your mental faculties on it. “Peving THAT WORD? over lati year, mo reduction in] | When your editor writes that i ti it when you are harassed or annoyed or afraid is ut ‘ es or cost of repairs (i demon-|about Vin) G beating Mu } » rable fact) the lature will au-]and leaving Hylan beewuse he could yond ye Mh or vill butt in and the task might 62—RIOT. thorize ull lan who have not stand for the way [he have becn Iptt undone fara results are cen- ‘The origin of the word “riot” is ume ceived not over 12's per cent, net beta run, The Evening Wo a must Beta false cararda) aka aia ue Mig sk ee ee utes ake cauaty: real Ie he | found in several languages (Proven- a eee moat. New York City folk.| emer see ie “* | cal “rita,” dispute, strife; Italian Is. Tenants are n. w that lroy “and a W more “riotta,” a quarrel, a dispute). Jangels and landlords are not ight ones” left, Hylan when they jon aocour 1. hep f . It is a well-established rule that it devils. Believe me, there are 1,000]could not land a job, b F h W 3 a patet tenants for every shyster| God help “Fusion” when it has to! ‘ e rom the ise talon ture to make a quarrel. Hut in landlord, and both should be hung as|depend for its success on such Inde mother “ons given to man to |law It takes three or more persons disturbers of the public peage. yendents as Gilroy, J. V. Sheridan, . i less tan three—to ¢ Lis Pe OF ULWVART. BROWNE, ria een ammnen whon in the reconcile him to the toss of immor- one of ine culminating manifestations New York, Aug. 1, 1921 past have tried and failed to carry tulity, for it is i her love that we |r AU ieiane ? “ ) rhe: e ve popula ry find cternity.Louis M. Notkin, stone is broad a 2 ce raakture and Vatnten selves, ‘They are very popular | N conception of the word in ordinary Dr. Woods Hutehinson in reportea| Bronx, Aus. 5 192 i Happy is the man who rever: dove Blagkatane; WA rietie etiare! by a correspondent of The Evening Subway Manners, of the eseulat ‘é wort) enced all women becuse he first | three or more actually do an unlawful orld te ve said before edicat }'po the i te Evening Worl: he peor neh in .ct of violence either with or without Word 30 Whde) HAIG perene. & /esiOa), ito Mex Ballon oC ve Meshing Dorit spent it pan , ried to worship his mother, ommon cause or quarrel; as if they society that a man weighing 150] Tam a residen, e Upper Wes iN ; sari Best Arian ap cuct en illeaentin pounds manufactures absorbs | Side and am compelled to use 1 lanother's park," &e, about 2 ounces of aleohe TSeventh Aven ey 0 eee fo nother’ flowe \alihter, this “definition three men We manufacture, trans mana ing to ! ft a A f snipe out of season may be y : ; ki © them into 1to ting or shooting any- absorption of wleohol in this country tork 1 Htation. The \W . ' . thing unlawfully is "an act of view [te diecuy comtrolied by Jaw under escalator Ieuding to tho street, und | New Yovln dus iy Lie, gurlunds,—Mine. Swetchine, ences ft A «