The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1921, Page 16

tee ee Rae A Sm tices _TEE a ¢ CFERiy Caloris, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITBER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMIER OF THE ASSOCtArED Pri ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entiued to the ure for repubiiecation (Of all news despatches eredited to it of not otnerwise crewitea In tais paper Sad else the toca) news pebllsiee bern MANGLING AMENDMENT IV. AVING got something more than was bargiined for in the Senate, the Anti-6aloon League has turned to the House for correction of the Anti-beer- for-Medicine Bill. The Senate version contained an amendment re- stricting and penalizing search and seizure without warrants. The Senate bill is drawn in close con- formity with the fourth of the first ten amendmenis to ihe Constitution, the Bill of Rights, The Bill of Rights specifies: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath and affirmation, and particularly describ ing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” The House would shrink this so that only “pnvate dwellings’ would be specifically exempted from search without warrant. Persons and vehic!es are left to the tender mercies of enforcement officers, who would naturally interpret such a law as a direct invitation to “frisk” persons on the highway and t« stop private automobiles, open suitcases and searan other personal possessions. Once the House has amended the bill it must go to conference. Will Senators accept such a inodi= | fication? It is bad enough to deliberately disregard the plain larguage at the command of the Anti-Saloon League, as the House has done. But it is infinitely worse to mangle the Constitution after havifg deliberately and publicly affirmed it, as the Senate did when ‘i included the “search and seizure” provision ': st week. | THE BATHERS AND THE CENSORS. | TEST of the powers of the new Board of Filr: Censors was inevitable. The sooner it comes the better. It is rather difficult to imagine that the Yexa? bathing girls, ruled out of a news film as the first harvest of the censorial scissors, would have been a serious menace to public morals. Perhaps it wa: unfortunate the board did not wait until it had a betier case to defend in court. But the board probably will win. Censors in other States have been confirmed in their powers and have used them with little or no uniformity and a minimum of discretion. Some of the rulings of film censors hav been funnier than anything ever shown on the screen under a comedy label. But if courts are to uphold the principle of fil: censorship, it would probably be more satisfac- tory to give the principle general application. Court supervision of censorship through the medium of appeals to court from the findings of the board would - be unfortunate, + The literary censorship now exercised by cour's and juries is anything but satisfactory, and there is no reason to expect that courts and juries would du better by the films. Censorship is always in poor repute. The most we can expect from censors is a modicum of com mon sens and tolerance. Far more important that the legal status of the Texas bathing girls is the side- light on the intentions and habits of thought gov- ering the board. If these films are exhibited in New Jersey and Connecticut, some New Yorkers will find out what justification exists for the actions of the censors, If the censors have drawn too censorious a line, the truth will out and censorship will be in danger of repeal. SALESGIRLS AND THE STYLE. T IS something like seventeen years by the clock of Time since a department store in Chicago id that, for the young ladies of its selling force, the onspadour must go. And go the pompadour did—at first in business he >, afterward when the fashion changed. ‘We are moved to recall this little incident ot the salesladies’ simple life by the heralded fact that the Chicago siore, having barred bobbed hair some eeks ago has now extended its censorship to rouge, abbreviated gewns, spangles, short sleeves and rolled- down stockings. Largely in the retail business in general, this enter- prising house takes easily to the wholesale linc when dealing with dress reform, ‘fo the pompadour, as we remember, the store chiefs objected because they said the girls looked too jong and often to see if their hair lay straight. Pos- sibly the ubjection to to-day’s style in clothes is that it keeps people looking at the girls instead of 1: the gouds. Anyway, the new order is something to talk abou’, anj we do not doubt that the fair young atten ‘ants at Chicago counters are speaking their minds. freely out of store limits. Assuming, as some flies in the pulpit have done, that there is a moral issue behind short skirts, low necks and paint. does the utterance of a business regulation help to a settlement satisfactory te the censors? For the answer to this question we must refer earnest seekers to the young ladies affected by the or'er; to the manner of their apparel in evening hours of Windy City relaxation. The rignt of employers to demand that the ener: gies of their selling corps shall be directed to displays rather of stock than of persons has been conceded, We do not think they could be blamed justly for leaving the more subtle ethics of dress to ths girls, the professional censors—and the whirligig of fashion, WHY NOT WAIT AND SEE? LL the English-speaking world will await with deep concern each day’s developments in the Irish situation. Publication of Lloyd George’s offer, De Valera’s reply and the Premier’s rejoinder leave small reason for optimism. It is evident that there is not much of a meeting of the minds between the British Premier and the | spokesman of Southern Ireland, But the road to further negotiation is not com- pletely blocked. It is only possible to hope that after weeks of truce the people of Ireland and the people of England and Scotland will have so sick- ened of warfare that representatives will feel the pressure for further compromise and discussion. Lloyd George has offered more than the most vigorous Home Rulers of the nineteenth century would have asked. But it is difficult to see that all his six restrictions on complete autonomy are necessary and worth the rupture of negotiations. On the other hand, De Valera asks more than he may expect. Whether right or wrong, there is small doubt that British opinion and the British Parlia- ment would not now countenance the complete sep. aration which De Valera asks. It is conceivable that Ireland might fight on and eventually wear down British opposition. But Irishmen in Ireland and elsewhere must ask them- selves if the gain is worth the sacrifice. Would it not be better and wiser to continue negotiations, bargain and haggle for a diminution of the restrictions, and finally accept dominion status as a stop-gap policy? . Jan Smuts. was probably right when he wrote De Valera; “I don’t consider one single, clean-cut solution of the Irish question possible at present.” Would the Southern Irish not be wiser to accept the dominion status as offered? And then wait and see, It is not impossible that the terms would be supportable or subject to progressive modification. Northern Ireland might eventually join in. If noth- ing else caime of it, the Domirion of Southern Ire- land would be in better position a generation hence to revolt against any oppressive measures which might arise from the six restrictions imposed by Lloyd George. TICKETS FOR POLICE GAMES, OR the next month the police force of New York will be transformed into a begging or- ganization. Needless to say, the patrolmen, whose duty it is {ou protect the public from “panhandlers,” ‘0 not relish the idea of being ordered to do the same sort of thing in selling tickets for the police games. ‘There is interest in the police games as an atnuai event. If there were no organized effort to seli tickets, it is probable that tickets for the games woul. be in demand. But wher every motorist comes to hold the opinion that a failure to have a ticket sticker on his car means delay and dangers of a summons, the ticke! sale becomes a nuisance. Granting that the relief fund is for a good pur pose, wouldn’: it be better and fairer to New Yorkers to extend the provisions for police pensions to cover the service of this fund? If tickets were sol! only at the gate or in city box-offices, the coercive feature would be eliminated and profits could be contributes to the pension fund to reduce the amount to he ap- propriated from tax money. * TWICE OVERS. “A NY landlord can do it (put rents back to a pre- war basis). They are robbers if they don't.” Iva Shapira, Boston landlord. veer pees SJ OTHING could be more pathetic than the silence of Col. George Harvey and a certain contortion of the mouth which he made during the sittings, lacking the right to have his say." —The Paris Midi. Ay OFFERED the ships to Harriman’s company because it was the only one in a position to take them. If 1 did it for any other reason I am as rascally a crook as ever lived, and President Harding should be ashamed to have me with him.” —Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board. * 66 JN spite of excellent work done by the companies and by certain members of the Police Depart- ment, probably more cars were stolen the part six months than in any previous year,” —Courtney Conklin, Brace RARE MONDAY, AUGUBT 18, 1981 ae 6 Ve ls ‘From Evening What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that @ | to eay much in a few words. World Readers. Isn't it the ofe 8 you the worth of a thousand words ina couple of hundred? \ There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in t#ying Take time to be brief. From a “Good Sport.” To the Lultor of Tae Evening World: Mr, Thomas B; Wilson's letter is what you might call the summary !# ‘of the opinion of the vast majority | 5 New Yorkers, and the so-called | Pusionists ‘will find that out on elec- | |tion night if they do not “get wise” | before. It is indeed surprising to see a paper ‘like yours come out in support of the boss-picked candidates of @ party) | whoge administration of both coun |try and State you are daily rightfully | denouncing. They are now picking Judges, and It | would be cntirely in line with their ‘way of doing it if they ignored a man of the qualities possessed by Judge Joseph Mulqueen. But that 18 |politics or whatever you please to leall it. You must be splitting hairs to jfind tue difference between the G. 0. P. and Tammany Hall, ‘When | go to the polls on Election |Day, it will be a straight Democratic ticket for me. I have succeeded @n converting eight Republicans to my view and have plenty of time to con- vert many times eight more. However, as it is your privilege to support whoever you see fit and I am not a mud slinger but considered |a good sport. I wish you the best of | luck. DEMOCRAT. New York, Aug. 9 1921. The “Stay-Aways.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Your editorial “‘Dry’ Food for Laughter” is a masterpiece and covers conditions in practically every legis- lative body in the United States. Where are the men whom the peo- ple elect to rep t them when such measures Come up for action? Do the people elect them to off.ce merely to be addressed “Honorable” and then have them go gallivanting and attending to thelr own business and pleasures, or do they elect them to be present and represent (the people) in the legislative bodies rective and accept the honor embors of? p “stay-aways’ of poth Houses from New York recetved any part of the $5,000,000 that the Anti-Saloon League of New York spent between Nov. 1, 1918, and Marco $0, 1919, to stay away. JOHN J. CILLES. Now York, Aug. 10, 1921, ‘To the Editor of Tee Evening World A ‘The letter by Thomas B. Wilson in ‘The Evening World of Aug. 9 knock- Jug Fusion and certain independents of the Bronx shows his ignorance or them | 1 he ran in the primaries but ihe] vounty boss's district tuo; in fact he carried every district where he was able to man the polls. As to rumb- lings of discontent in tha city de- | partments against the Administra- tion—why not be honest? the big fel- | lows themselves are worried about It. | JOHN J. TURNER. Bronx, Aug. 10, 1921. | It bothers me not how dry you may | be, My cellar is stocked to the celling; With the coin in your jeans there are ways and the means To get all you want without squeal- ing; If so you are poor and know not the lure, Your portion will atay very thin; It's different with me, there's a rea- son, you see, It’s the magic I work with my tin; The beer they make now would strangle a cow; It fits in with near legislation; Dividing in classes the rich and the masses, To ponder in deep meditation. { j | e| i | It leaves you no choice fof Better or worse, You label your poverty crime; To me it’s a jest as I'm drinking the best To suit my convenience and time; If [ had to stay like a poor little jay In a land where the hypocrites ruie, I'd rather drop dead with @ sign on my head Branding the mark of a fool; But consitering my stock 1 don't have to hock My conscience or fear of the law: I've got all I need in spite of the creed And plenty of wealth for more. HERMAN BORSIG JR. New York, Aug. 10, 1921, at large as well as ‘The people the newspapers are protesting against heavy taxation, Now what's the use of talking and publishing protests ugainst this burdensome taxation when the powers that be pay abeo- iutely no attention to these protests? Let me say right here, without the fear of contradiction, that if we had the initiative, referendum and recail, the Dresident, United States Senate, Congress and every other official that the people could get at if they did not obey orders “would be falling all over| themselves" to do the people's bid- ding for their interests, you can ‘bet. Until then, any special interests malice, | In the first place Chris Becker is au independent with a preity good following. J. V. Sheridan not only’ wbou' carried big own election districs when ‘These i only, ame thing tos the: tive, that are in the saddle oi contro! will do as they like, while there is no cheek on them, no matter what the Remspapere, or people say or kick ¢ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake tGopyright, 1921, by Jon Blake COMPETITION WHETS ABILITY. All life is competition, Cave men competed with each other for small game, joining forces only when the game was large enough to provide food for more than one and too dangerous to be tackled alone. The cave women competed for the protection of the mightiest hunter, who of course was the best provider. The first thrones were established by competition—first through a competition of physical strength, later by a com- petition of brains. To-day nations compete for the, world’s trade, as they lately competed for victory in arms. Business establishments compete for markets and for customers. Ana individuals who hope to succeed must of necessity compete with other individuals who aspire to the same sort of success. For there is never enough success to go around, Always the applicants are more numerous by far than the ' prizes. The man who is afraid of competition has little chance in the world, If you are uneasy because you think the man at the next desk is trying to get your job, you are not qualified to hold it. hold it. Rather than resent his presence beside you, be grateful for it. If you have the right kind of stuff in you the very fact that he is after your place will make you keener and more alert, You will scrupulously attend to duties that you might neglect if you had no fear of competition, You will try to concentrate on your work, to think of new ideas, to prove that you are better fitted for your posi- tion than any one who may be after it. And beeause competition bas whetted your ability you will not only be secure in your employment but in all proh- ability will make yourself worthy of promotion, Competition for trade brought about the invention of the locomotive, the steamboat and all modern labor saving ma- chinery. Competition in arms resulted in the machines which may some day make war too terrible to engage in. Competition for advancement sharpens the wits, puts energy into industry and makes man doers who would other- wise be loafers. Be glad that other men are in the race with you. they were not there your faculties would rust from oe and Gesetecdiein ich amecntabs teen ciate arm would become a mere cumberer of the earth, people to do, and the néwapapers as/then we will see whether the tax “Take the bull| jugglers wil! beraye or not. rand bim “Initia- \\ FRE! G. W. SIGRIST. apd Recak” Scranton, ry a unit back them wy by the horns” and d Referendum iad Wal {Mercy to the apostle (Paul) and his , barians showed them no small kind- The Pioneers of Progress. By Kadina RAs ail Cnarige ASR. 92, $2.08, sere World). hos IXxxvill—THE MEN WHO SAILED | IN THE MAYFLOWER. ; ‘The recent celebration at Plymouth, in Massachusetts, recalled an event of the greatest significance In the \ | progress of America and of the world. The breadth of the men who cun- stituted the company who landed from ) the Mayflower in 1620 has been ques- tioned. But their depth cannot be fairly disputed, | William Bradford suggests thelr depth of purpose and their height of courage In his quaint description of i \the setting in which the Pilgrim Fathers found themselves at the end of the eventful voyage in a teaky, tnseaworthy ship, from the old Plym- outh to the site of the new: “It 1s recorded in Scripture, as shipwrecked company, that the bar- ness in refreshing them; but these Savage barbarians (the Indians) whem they met with them (the Pilgrims) were readier to fill their sides full of \arrows than otherwise. “And for the season it was wiater, ‘and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. * * ¢ “Besides, what could they See but a hideous and desolate wilderness tefl of wild beasts and wild men?” | Such were some of the hand caps ‘that the Pilgrim Fathers accepted ir, their search in the new world for tw liberty of conscience which had beeg {denied them in the of. Their landing completed the phaly of original ‘settlements along ths At: jlantic seaboard, from what is now Virginia to the northern part of New England. Pioneers, mostly classed as "gi tlemen,” bad begun eighteen yea: earlier the colonization of “Virtinia’ —a stretoh of territory extendhg at that time from what is nov the southern boundary of North Carolina to the coast of Nova Scotia. In 1809 Henry Hudson hac dis- covered Manhattan Island and @ened 4 the way for the colonization a) New York. The Pilgrim Fathers were ther own discoverers as well as colonize's, And their discoveries wer not ‘merely territorial. Before they landed, the pioneers of the May- flower drafted and signed, hh the cabin of the ship, a document whi ranks as one of the importan 4 larations of political principles b his tory, ‘The spirit of the “Mayflower Come pact” not only shaped the derelop- |ment of New England during itsearly |phase, but it left a profound inpress upon our national institutions. ‘Sturdy descendants of the ma and women who landed from the May- flower at Plymouth have playd an Important, if not the leading, sart in Ithe work of extending our wistern frontiers from the Atlantic t the Pacific. Many of the frontier commmities on the long trail from the estern |coast to the western originated n the Old Bay State Colony, founde: and ‘developed by the pas: TS on the Mayflower and their immediat: de- scendants. The fron in the soul of the Pilgrima has added much to the strengh of the Republic. Where New Yorkers Tread | THE BOWERY. After old Peter Stuyvesant buit his Bouwerte, about where St. Mark's, Church now stands, and where }e is buried, little settlements grew up, just \ ‘a house here and there. There was | road that led up to it, and it was the Bouwerle Road or path. The resi- dents of New Amsterdam came out ithe gate of the city and followed this path and were very cautious about | getting off it because tt was the trav. jelled road, and beyond it was geno- jrally supposed to lurk the noble |red man with a tomahawk. ‘Then came a settlement called Haar- lem, about 125th Street that now is, and the road extended through usage It was all the Bouwerlé Road from the gate in the | wall, and underwent many changes. A part of it later became Patk Row, a part Chatham Street, then a part the Boston Road, but it settled down finally and officially became Third to come and go by water ‘Avenue from Cooper Union north. igh Hell Gate thaa risk the trip ed after the jthe British vi When they | Murray that patriotic woman was 60 |@racious and pressed upon the of- s of the British Army such how ‘i 'pitality Im the way of food and drink jEhe delayed them for a. couple. of j to this settlement. The milastones marked this old road, For a long time the road to Haar- lem Was not greatly travelled except hy parties, the residents on the up: {per end of Mashattan deciding it wag safer When Washington's Army retreat« aittle of Long Island, hours. ‘Their army rested, and a part of Washington's Army parallelfing tt to the west had time to reach Harlem dig in. It was ave ‘Heights and from capture. From the Wise It is better to dwell in a corner of the housctop than with the brawling woman in a wide house. —Bible, It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles | of life—-Victor Hugo. He who serves his country wed hos no need of ancestora. { —Voltaire, The head cannot understand any work of art unless it be in come pany with the heart—Goethe,