The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 14

| —————— ‘ 4 BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER 5 ‘The Pres 1 iow. 58 to 68 Park Raw, Now Y. RALPH PULITZER, Preaident, 63 Park Now. J. ANGUS SHAW, Troneurer, 68 Park Row. 63 Park Row Pudlinhed Datiy Compa! pt Sunday by JOSEPH PULITZER Jn, Secretary, MEMIFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Prew ix exclualvaly cntiuea to the use for republication Of all “news despatches credited to ft or nor ounerwise ereusted In tais payer oral news published herein, , WHOSE, MUSEUM? REAL tribute to New York comes from Joseph A. Maynard of Boston, who told an Evening World reporter: “My three-day vacation in New York bas been a real treat, and I must confess that I spent @ good part of it in the Mctropolitan Mu- seum. <A visit tothe museum is well worth a trip from Massachusetts, for its priceless treasures of such infinite variety are incom- parable, I wonder if you New Yorkers really appreciate your own marvels.” » We wonder too. Probably Mr. Maynard was led * & wonder because he observed, as every Metro- 4 politan Museum visitor must, that a large proportion | @f those enjoying the ‘art treasures are always per- ‘ sans who in one way or another betray the fact that tiley live outside New York City. It would be interesting if the museum could get _ Bomparative figures for a few days’ attendance and | find out the proportion of New Yorkers and out-of- owners who mike use of the museum. Would we find that the museum, like a prophet, is ‘S@onored more abroad than at home? i ¢ | ' ‘ @ appreciate their own marvels? a os Senator Lodge says: “There will be nobody who will labor harder for the reduction of ar maments than I; but | want a general disar- mament.” It looks as if the Senator might be preparing to want what he thinks it least possible to get. It has been so long since the senior Senator ‘from Massachusetts set any one a good example that he has probably forgotten how it’s done. THE BERGDOLL CONSPIRACY. 7 majority report of the special House com- mittee which has betn investigating the escape - of the draft dodger Grover C. Bergdoll is a scathing indictment of two Colonels and a former Acting Jadge Advocate General of the army. In the judgment of three out of five members of the commitee, Col. John E. Hunt and Col."C. C. ‘Cresson were participants in a conspiracy of which ex-Judge Advocate General Samuel T. Ansell was the “master mind”—the object of the conspiracy being to assist the escape of Bergdoll. {The country has grown sick of the very name of this wealthy slacker who now leads a contemptible :@xistence dodging about Europe and jeering ai the which is only too thankful to be rid of him. To most Americans the chance to punish Bergdoll Would weigh little against the relief of knowing that @imerican soil need never again feel his contami- mating touch. But the charge that men in fhe service of the Wwited States ranked the Bergdoll gold above the Bkation’s laws ts another maiter. The recommendations of the majority of the House investigating committee as to their punish- ment should have the prompt attention of the proper guthorities. Such conspirators deserve worse than contempt. And now we are to have a university oper- ated by the Ku Klux Klan. Will there be ‘courses on the application of tar and feathers? If so, will they be theoretical or will Yaboratory method of instruction prevail? THE MURDER INDUSTRY. < haw public should not be unduly alarmed by the confession of Fontano in regard to the mur- ders perpetrated by the gang of which he was ap- parently an obscure though deadly member. Except as the police are able to gather corrobora- It is easy to be- lieve that a mind affected by the ghost of a victim might conjure up more of a plot than actually ex- ‘sted, That type of mind frequently dramatizes itself and adds fiction to truth in an amazing and tion, his story is not conclusive. confusing manner. Nevertheless, the number of killings ai or near New York's latest “murder corner’ secret societies of Italy. Most of the recent killings have been explained as If the explanation is correct the bootlegging feuds. . average citizen has little to fear. PRISONER AND HEIR. HEN—and if—Bill Haywood returns to the United States from the Bolshevist paradise of Russia, it will be to face extremes of fortune—a prison sentence and a comfortable inheritance from an abandoned wife. The peril to Bill's well-established reputation lies © i the Probate Court rather than in the penitentiary, Some agitators agitate because they sincerely i a“ the Is New York + mudintaining the museum primarily as a show place * for visitors and not for the daily stimulation, enjoy- tment and instruction of New Yorkers? if so, can any one doubt that New Yorkers fail abundant evi- dence that dangerous gangs do exist, even though they may be home-made instead of extending to the These gangs have been preying on each other and have been shooting their own kind first. The ordinary law-abiding per- son has little to fear from such outbreaks. crusades to collect an easy living and to flatter thet self-esteem. 11 W. W.-ism, if it questioned his common sense. | his new capitalism. A GOOD PRECEDENT. AGISTRATE M’QUADE made short work of one “hooch’’ case that came before him yes- terday. The accused was arrested by a plain-clothes man who had made search without a warrant. Magistrate McQuade not only discharged the prisoner but also ordered a charge of oppression tiled against the arresting officer. Here is an excellent precedent for other Magis- trates. Magistrate McQuade is absolutely in the tight when he says: “In all these cases where the rights of citi- zens have been violated and the police have not acted in accordance with the law I am going to hold them. I am going to try to break up this practice of illegal search.” This should not be interpreted as hostility to the police force. It is in the interests of the policemen themselves that they be held to strict observance of the law. If police break laws it sets a doubly bad example. After De Valera has talked for his Sinn Fein followers, maybe he will talk fo them. Therein lies the best hope of the Irish situation. _ JAZZING UP THE MAILS. pesnusrer GENERAL HAYS is undoubtedly the best personal publicity agent who ever occupied the office. His advertisement of the new plan for “jazzing up” the mail service by means of ‘musical phono- graph records promises to be one of the best publicity stunts launched yet. Not a detail is overlooked, Postmaster Hays is even so astute and tactful as to credit a Democratic subordinate with invention of the idea. E. A. Purdy of Minmeapolis is the man, who is described as “‘a bird of a postmaster, with a batting average of 1,000—although a Democrat.” That, we assume, is intended to cut off partisan criticism in case Con- gress is asked to appropriate money for musical equipment. There has already been speculation as to proper selections for Post Office concerts, but it is a good bet that one of the records at every Post Office so equipped will be a new version of “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here,” the singer being none other than Postmaster General Hays himself. But, at that, the musical idea has a lot of merit. Any one who ever participated in a long Fifth Avenue parade knows how much longer the blocks seemed when the band was resting. Congratulations are due Mr. Adolph S. Ochs for something more than his twenty-five years of able management of the New York Times.¢ The sincere tributes and good wishes that have poured in upon Mr. Ochs and his staff yesterday and to-day from the Times's con- temporaries are high testimony to the kind of journalism that achieves success without losing the friendship and good Will of competitors. The New York Times is a great newspaper. Not the least evidence of it is the cordial! readiness of other newspapers to praise the standards and methods by which, under Mr. Ochs's direction, the Times has gained its present place of honor and influence. TWICE OVERS. ‘66 HAVE seen the pictures of some of the conspir- ators of the past, the countenances of those who led in fanatical revolt, the burners of witches, the executioners who applied the torch—and I saw all again when I looked at the author of this (Volstead) amendment."’—Senator Reed. *_ 8 © “ec HE British Empire as a whole—we all agreed in the desire to have complete friendship with the United States and to make arrangements which would remove every conceivable prospective obstacle to such friendship.” —Premier Lloyd George. * + « 66] NEVER did believe in carrying a gun. | only carried one once and nearly shot myself.” ~Attorney General Daugherty on disarmament. “ 8 6 66 TN politics ability is the only thing that should count.” —Mrs. Julian Heath. * 8 « “ E cannot have two Governments here, one at City Hall and another at Albany. This city should have complete control of its affairs,” — Henry H. Curran. * + * “cs UCH of the (Albany) Administration's ‘economy’ consists in failure to keep up proper geroice.” —Herbert C. Pell, THE EVENING WORLD, believe in the reforms they advocate. Others lead | A comfortable fortune, to be enjoyed after his release from jail, would be the test of Haywood’s If he continued as an agitator the | world would have to credit him with sincerily even However, it is possible that Haywood’s jail dodging trip to Russia would furnish Bill with a convenient alibi for a convenient change in faith. So many avowed extremists have returned from Russia cured of all admiration for proletarian dic- talorship that most people woul! be inclined to give Bill the benefit of the doubt if he renounced a good share of his old creed—and enjoyed the comforts of ir FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1921 ett retells Oe, ‘ow York Evening World), From Evening to aay much in a few words. Income Tax Exemptions, To the kiditor of The Brening Wortd : A few days since, 1 saw stated in the news that some Representative at Washington was advocating making medical, dental, nursing, and Prescription drugs, also funeral ex- penses, deductible from incomes sub- Ject to taxation. Surely these deductions should be made anyway on incomes of the in- dividual up to $2,000, and of the family man to $4,000—better this and retain some of the luxury taxes. We all know the exemption for each child should be at least $400 in- stead of $200, certainly in the large cities, where rent, food and clothing cost so, for each child Our Representatives and Senators have no way of learning our senti- ments unless we express them. Are we too lazy to write to them or even to the President, as I see he is being de more and more a participant in Raa terorms? ‘We should write, ad- Vocating these reforms in exemp- tions. Aiso, perhaps suggesting that there be a way found to round up the shirkers, who get low salaries and then bonuses and tips, equalling or exceeding them! Or who, as in one case of a hotel clerk I kpow, gets free room rent equalling $14a week, and meals equalling $2 or $2.50 a day, and counts his living expenses as worth $500 a year and never thinks of reporting tips, though he gets at least $100, and probably $300 a year that way. However, all this is not so im- portant as the exemptions referred to. f think if The Evening World could stir up the small income people About those, they would correct such injustice. A.B, New York, Au: 1. The Witch Burne’ To the Kditor of The Evening Work! In the early part of the last cen- when the railways of the pres- tury, ent day were in their infancy, a group of the “ignorant educated” gathered in a school house down South to protest the laying of a rail- way in the vicinity. On this occasion a most learned man made a more inteliigent state- ment to the effect that “God never put man on earth with the intention that he should travel at the terrific rate of fifteen miles an hour, ‘At later dates we see the same class of people acting the same way toward all “new-fangled inventions nd ideas." aMyhen daylight saving was pro- posed they raised the cry that It was Ryainst the laws of God and nature. Man divided the day into hours to suit his convenience, why should he \hot change them for the same rea- n? -|" Row there is a great ery about _ Drawing the Cork 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 hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | Take time to be brief. | toward the masculine,” rot! Is it natural for a man to have short hair? Of course not. Nature | gave man a long flowing mane and, also decreed that his face be cov- ered with a beard. As man grew civilized he found long hair and a! beard more or less inconvenient and | unhealthy, so off they came, At the present time long hair on| the male sex has practically disap- | peared and most of the men have taken it for granted that it is nat- utal for men to have short hair and women long, Now that some of the fair sex have caught on to the fact that} bobbed hair is convenient, cool and unburdengome and have ‘acted ac- cordingly, our old friends, the nar- low-minded howlers, who always pro- test anything that might make hu- manity more comfortable or happy, are at work again. A woman can be just as sensible and pretty with bobbed hair as with long, and she is a lot more comfortable, The men who discharge or refuse to hire girls just because they have bobbed hair ‘are in the same class as those old duffers who used to burn harmless women to death for being what they called witches. HARRY P. BRAISTED. Rents and Police Pay. To the ¥aitor of ‘The Evening World: In to-day’s issue of The Evening World I read Miss G. V. L's letter regarding the increase in salary which the firemen and policemen are looking for. It is evident that this lady has not felt the burden of high rents, decreased wages, dependents and profiteering hogs who are un- hindered. She is one of the few for- tunate ones. My husband is a machinist work- ing four days a week, with a 15 per cent, decrease in wages, has a wife and child to support and $30 per month rent to pay or get out. He ts in as great danger in a machine shop as ‘any fireman or policeman could be in his position, Why should they re- ceive an increase when everybody tise is getting a decrease? The city’s debt is great enough. We are tired of high rents, MAES. V. H. 8. ele, Such Barbering at Home. ‘To tho Fakiior of The Bening World: ‘To-day,1 noticed an article in your’ valuable paper protesting against the prices charged by local barbers. “R. R. L." has the right tea except where he says the “shave yourself movement” won't work My brother and I have carried that movement one step further, and now, after about one month of trial, tt has proved extremely satisfactory as well as economical, Our first step was to invest in a miniature barber's outfit, which con- sisted of one fur clipper (with inter. | iwomen wearing thelr hair bobbed. {it is unnatural for a woman to have q@bort hair, it will end 40 leap ber changeable tine and coarse blades), ope pair of barber's scissors and a per comb, This involved @ total. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Cassel By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, ty oun Blake.) WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS. Twenty-five years ago Caruso’s death would have stilled his glorious voice forever. A hundred—even a thousand—years from to-day it may be heard by all who will listen—perhaps compared with the voices of great tenors yet to be born. There are none who can Edwin Booth so that other men can gai pression of it. to-day describe the acting of an adequate im- To-day the acting of the greatest living players is re- produced by the moving picture camera—faithful to every gesture. The time will come, and probably within the life of the present generation, when voice and gestures can be repro- duced together, when not only the acting of a great player but the very tones of his voice can exert the same infuence on the people of the future as they have exerted upon tle people of the present. This phenomena did not happen by accident. Human minds toiled long and patiently that it might be accom- plished. We are progressing. The world has learned the priceless value of genius and is seeking to preserve that genius so that it may never be lost. The art of the painter he has always left behind; the words of the poet endure while his ashes moulder in the grave. If this were not true the‘world would be far poorer in intellect and in inspiration than it is to-day, But mnsic and histrionie art have been lost, and lost forever. It will not be so in after years, and more of the wealth of the world—the real wealth that is in the minds and powers of men-—will be continued for all time. It means much for the future of music that Caruso’s voice and the voices of all the great singers who shall follow him will be preserved. Tt will mean mach for the stage that the acting of future Booths may be reproduced while still the world rolls around, It means much to you that the great canvases of the masters of the brush never die and that the songs of the poets and composers still may ring in your soul, One generation can teach you little. When you can go to school to the great of every generation you may count” yourself a lucky human being. ‘ Geen expenditure of $6, or $3 apiece. We found that the tonsorlalist’s art waa not very difficult to master, and in this short time we are quite expert, each being the other's barber, Fur- thermore, we find that this inethod enables us to get our hair trimmed much oftener (thus looking neater) than would be permissible at the bar- ber shop because of the expense. In my opinion this is the one and only solution of the barber problem, and I am sure that if more men un- dertook this proposition they would find it so easy that the barber would soon be a thing of the past. Come on, men, let’s fool the barber! We must squash the profiteer now or never, In union there is strength, Let's keep the ball rolling. R. M.C, Jersey City, Aug. 15, 1921, ) se ry That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick A mass convention of Whigs and “Free Soilers,” the cali for which was signed by more than 10,000 yot- ers of Michigan, met at Jackson, in that State, organized a new political party with the title of “Republican Party” on July 6, 1854, and adoptad an anti-slavery platform. later the party, hotding The Pioneers , of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff XXXIX.—The Man Who the Osmanli Turks. ‘The dattle of Lepanto, in the mid- dle of the sixteenth century, had shattered the effort of the Osman!! Sultans to establish control of the Mediterrdnean. But they eontinued their march upon Westera Hurope by land, Lees than a century after the tril- liant feat achieved by Don Juan of Austria near the entrance to the Guit of Lepanto, a Turkish Army under the command of Kara (1. 6, Big, He- roic) Mustafa had overrun Hungary Jand swept up as far north and west \as the walls of Vienna. i He found the statesmen of En |stewing in their own fat. A wedse ened, heartless, mentally and physi ‘cally anaemic Emperor by the name | Of Leopold was rattling around on the ‘Austrian throne. | Western Europe looked on while ;Bastera Europe smoked under the jtorch. If the whiff of the charred jremains ever reached the west, the eovereigns smiled and said, as they eubbod their hands, “Very well, this will make the Hapsburgs ali the weaker and we shall be all tie stronger.” . But Eastern Burope was raising its jown defender. ‘The Poles had had the unexpected sagacity to clect a |man as their King. His name was iJohn (in Polish, Jan) Sobieski. Jan Sobieski was eyed askance by j Leopold because he wus only am Jelected King. When his Queen (# |Frenchwoman by the name of Mari Casimire de la Grange) visited Paris she was deftly informed by the | “Grand Monarque” that she need eat jexpect to be made much of, as ag [elective Queen could never be as {good as an hereditary one. |- But when Kara Mustafa began bombard Vienna the stpercilious Leopold appealed to Warsaw for aid, ‘and John Sobieski marched to_ hin | rescue. He was joined by a German | Prince, the Duke of Lorraine, a small contingent of troops thome. Rousing his brave Poles to eru- |@ading zeal, Sobieski made eo power- ‘ful an initial assault upon the Turks that the Vizier raised the stege, abandoned most of his camp equip- ment and booty and marched posl- hhaste toward the Danube. The starved population of Vienna kissed the hem of the Polish King’s | cloak and bung to his stirrups, weep- ing with gratitude, as he entered the icity. But the punctilious “divine right” Leopold spent sleepless hours trying to devise a method of meeting his benefactor in a way that would make | him feel that he was not @ real King but only a man. | Leopold rewarded the King e¢ | Poland by snubbing him. A few | years later a successor of his re- warded Poland by partitioning it. Among the decorations that were sent around by various sovereigns im recognition of Sobieski’s exploit wag a bowstring which the Sultan Mo- hammed IV.) conferred upon Kara Mustafa, who bad done his best to make him dictator of Europe, age, who knew no gratitude. the’ bowstring meant that Mustafa must die for his failure. But, with the memory of Sobieski's great service to civilization still green, Hurope sent the bowstring to the Polish nation, Where New Yorkers | Tread. WHITEHALL STREET. The Stadt Huyse, which was thé Governor's house built by Peter Stay- vesant, wag the cause of the street that many think should be calied Broadway, from the Battery to Bows ing Green, being named Whitehalt Street, It was a fine old three-etorieg white stone building with dormer windows and one of those Dutch roots that look as though they hide several more stories, The water came up to within a few feet of it, and overshad owing it was old Fort Amsterdam, It was guarded by ag circular little fort of its own, mounting three cannes that commanded the approaches to it ‘They were more to impress persona, however, that it was an official rest. dence than for defense, ‘There was no strect unti after the Pnglish moved in and renamed the town. The Stadt Huyse became White Hail, and as other places were built the ‘street became Whitehall Street. ‘The house from which it took its name probably not only named the street but had an influence in having the home of the President called the White House when the Executive Mansiov was built in Washington more than @ century later. It was not far from where the United States Army Building now stands im « Whitehall Sireet, Across the way was the fort. For years the centre of mif- tary activity in the colony until the time of the Revolution was in White- hall Street. And now it is there. More officers have walked along Whitehafl Street than perhaps any other in the United States except Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Nearly every great American soldier of the past or present has at some stage of hig ca- Teer walked along the old street, in Colonial days, to reach the old fort, land now for the Army Building and the ferry to the headquarters of the Department of the East. tional convention, nominated John C. Fremont for President. He was de- feated in November, 1856, by James Buchanan, the Democratie nominee. Jonathan Swift, poet, author and eccentric dear of St. Patrick's, Eng- land, died, aged seventy-eight, on Oct.’ 19, 1745, in a state of idiocy, Jeaving £10,000 to found a hospital for lunatics and idiots. eee On July 26, 1803, an iron rafiway from ‘Wandsworth to Croydon, im England, was opened to the public for the conveyance of goods, Jader Monis, an Italian Jew, died on April 25, 1764, at Northboro, Masa, aged 83 Baptized in the Christien religion he was the first Hebrew ige Harvard College tp Betas pracir t