The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1921, Page 10

Vhat i 10 — ee — -_ : Ry 2 great hecause the experience i Weg t fiuiman life Che EGeNHg Gloria... YSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITAL Published Daily Except Sunday by The Press Pup Company. Nos, 58 to 63 Park Raw, Now York RAL Rr 3 Park Row Ht MEMRER OF THE ASsoctareD Press ‘The Associated Prem ts exeluat ented to the use for republication a All news espatcnee credited to It or not oinerwise ereuitea in tais paper and tiso the local news publishea herein A QUESTION OF FITNESS. “LETTER typical of several to reach The Eve- A ning World comes from William Magee of Brooklyn. Mr. Magee expresses approval of the general edito- tial policy of this paper and closes as follows: “But your inexplicable and virulent attacks upon a man who is honest and sincere, cheer- ful and industrious and well meaning even in his blunders, are more than I can fathom, and, to put it strongly, most disgusting. Why not give John F. Hylan, the best Mayor that ever sat in the City Hall, a decent chance: Here is an example of a type of thinking which is & real menace to the welfare of New York City. It ts the effect of a kind of propaganda which Tam- many Hall is most assiduously spreading. } The Evening World does not attack the honesty, sincerity, cheerfulness, industry or good intentions of John F. Hylan. He may be all his friends say of fim in this respect. But it cannot be emphasized too plainly that these are not enough to qualify a man to head the great business undertaking which is the Government of the City of New York. | They do not make “the best Mayor.” If they did, New York would need a Mayor far better than the best yet. ‘New York needs a man of intelligence, of broad vision, of administrative ability, of a constructive turn of mind. These qualities Mayor Hylan has not shown. The Evening World sincerely hopes John F. Hylan will always have every “decent chance” to serve in any office for which his capacities fit him ‘ Such an office the Mayoralty of the biggest city in the Western Hemisphere is NOT. i i Tt will be stern joy to robust reformers to learn that 61,859,900,000 cigarettes and 8,720,- 750,000 cigars were manufactured in this still unregenerate land last year. ROUGH GOING. ENATOR REED of Missouri asks a highly perti- nent question : “Have we three bodies of legislators, one the House, another the Senate and the third the Anti-Saloon League?” Judging by the present status of the so-called beer bill, the tast named, self-appointed legislative body has already stubbed its toe pretty badly. If the fall that cameth after is proportionate to the Pride that goeth before, the Anti-Saloon League is due for some of the worst bumps on record. By the way, what has become of the “by and with” clause of the Constitution? Did the Senators exhaust the supply of .‘advice” during the Wilson Administration? Have they nothing but consent in stock? NORMAL INVASION. YONGRESS is getting back to “normaky.” It must seem just like old times to the clerks and messengers. A Congressman wants the President fmpeached for invading Congress and usurping the sacred rights of representative government. It is recorded that the Democrats cheered and the Republicans laughed. For the country at large it is no such laughing matter. For the fault is not with the President, whether he be Democratic, as for the last four years, or Republican, as for the four years to come. Invasion is possible only because it is essential. To be a President, Mr. Harding or any other occupant of the White House must be more than a President. The President, whatever his party, is drawn into Congress instead of intruding. “Congress is remiss in its duties. It wanders with- out leadership. It thinks in Congressional districts, not for the Nation. The President is the only official directly elected by and representative of the whole Nation, and until Congress changes tactics the President will have to continue to “invade.” ‘The size of the country as compared with the siz of Congressmen has made this normal, When it comes to city finance, Comptrojler Craig seems pretty well equipped to cxamine himself and Senator Brown also. BROKEN STEP. N an alimony hearing this week, a Brooklyn court listened to real tragedy. The husband said “The house was bought against my wishes. * ¢ © I bad no desire to become a social lion, * * * J had seen my children grow wp and develop talents I could neither ap- Prectate nor understand. My wife craved fecial advancement. * * My children eame in contact with a different class of people. © * I, not knowing the usages of polite society, became an encumbrance ° © © a stranger in my own home.” Here is heart-rending human tragedy. Here is the raw material and plot for a great tragic novel, } i] x | time allowed for patent jinige this particular case for the courts. But suviety should recognize the less particularly for young people starting life together. Similar conditions are responsible for a large pro- What makes this action dis- tinctive is that the real reason is given frankly and humbt In most cases it is hidden under “incom- pati .” “cruelty,” “desertion” and the hundred otfier reasons the divorce Judges hear. One of the greatest tragedies of married life occurs when one of the partners develops and the other does not. Life is growth. Both partners to a marriage should seek to develop—on different lines, perhaps— but with mutual interest in and appreciation of the strivings of the other. Happiness is not to be found in stagnation. the time to discover this is early in life. Oftentimes the wreck of happiness does not reach the divorce court, but that may mean only an intensi- fication of the real and underlying tragedy of mis- mated qaarriage. WHAT DOES IRELAND WILL? LOYD GEORGE and Lord Curzon declared to the British Parliament yesterday, in almost the same words, that the Government's offers to Ireland have gone to the utmost limit short of disruption of the empire. “Rejection,” Lloyd George told the House of Commons, “would be an unmistakable challenge to the authorily of the Crown and the unity of the empire.” “We have offered,” said Lord Curzon to the House of Lords, “all that is possible without com- promising the safety of the realm, the sovereignty of the Crown and the unity of the empire.” Irish Republicans can come back with the hot re- joinder that for them the unity of the empire weighs less than a feather. But at the present moment, even leaving Ulster out of agcount, would that reply represent the true feelings of a majority of the Irish people? No sensible Irishman can deny that there is now open to Ireland an opportunity for freedom and peace such as the great Irish leaders of the past would have hailed as beyond their highest hopes. To accept that opportunity means immediate entering upon the most propitious and prosperous era in Irish history—an era in which Irish self-gov- ernment can steadily develop until it commands the respect and admiration of the world. Would a true majority of the Irish people back the Republican hotheads in blotting out that pros- pect? That is the crucial and urgent question in the Irish situation. If self-determination means anything anywhere, it means samething in Ireland. The British offers have unquestionably had an effect upon the Irish popular mind. The Irish pronouncement as to their offers should be something broader, deeper and more con- vineing than the excited oratory of leaders or even elected representatives in whom are concentrated the extremes of irreconcilable Irish hatred and resent- ment. It would be unthinkable crime and folly for the British Government to attenypt tricks in working out the details of a momentous Irish settlement upon which the attention of the whole world is centred. Irishmen should try to clear their minds of suspi- cion and believe that this time Brilish statesmanship can risk no other course than strict adherence to the letter of its pledges. If, as Lloyd George says, the issue—as between a united and a divided empire—has been more clearly defined than ever before, the time has come to give the Irish popular will full play in deciding it. It would be a colossal and irreparable wrong to both Ireland and Great Britain if the British offer were rejected without a referendum to the Irish people. portion of divorces. ity But THE OUTSIDER, (From the Living Age ) The Zealand Court of Appeals has recently decided in a final judgment that as “the United States has not assumed any of the obli- mations of the Treaty of Versailles, it cannot claim for jiself or its citizens apy of the rights conferred by it.” The court thereby denied the claim of a Bos- ton man for patent protestion “in respect of a new safely razor.” The treaty provides for an extension of the claims where these were delayed on account of the war, Such an extension would have been granted to a German or a Japanese, but it was denied to an American. THINK you are right.""--Senator Brown to ce I Comptroller Craig. ‘ SET UNGER does not merely cause physical suffering, it sears the soul.”’—Chaliapine, Ruastan singer. New TWICE OVERS . * Planning Ahead! Bore ome TE PROFITEER THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921. so oft repeated in | BS ieee, ww, Rae SESS ~ Sk to eay much in a few By as a Speo ‘To the Extor of The Braning World Your correspondent S$ idently ragards Hylan “rethroned."according io a8 found expressed on p: pothing which wi!) sustal made good.” It Layid Hearst papers, that no de his attitude, T agree with David that made good; but not as M wonderful bedlam. Hnen); incidentally the ple” are the payees of a the expense which this in SAMUEL , Barber Bandit > used but As to Lair-cutting, when ar the average barber up cheaply [ was ne siting him every and let him week sume I found many city sum for service bandits with w their athe ave played n speaking | nt ndits Ten cents for a shor ment, “Mayor Hylan, who h Iwo shave me time, but when during the war| barbers develop- words. Isn't it the one Take time to be brief. der. David, As al aper n he sta my Op! good boat Politician. Politi i for publicity agent inn and Hylan certainly is 4 city agent, ic: Police F. Hylan, the opening of a new city utility (Awtoria Ferry and various bus “common peo part uf vol REDBEARD. To the Exktor of The Brening World three other pattern before would t at averse at w the elally ow incapable of speak ahino his thoug ndeet 1 explains an has three | Tee Oregon tne sue ing Fame ake are of the equally ¢ for the comina United States nspiration to mous Granite § Commodores of . Which wil be an 203 West New York, Aug. 18, 1921 To the Editor of The Wrening World I am a reader of The Evening employ of the city Personally 1 would not object to this if they would deliver the goods. It is common knowledge that holdups, burglaries, &c., oocur in the vicinity of the station houses as well as other Do they the rim| to} the line Put another one over on nen you os Rrenx. Aug What is a Prohibitionisi? a hu man being who made a hog of him self in the use of intoxicating bev- No orages and had to forfeit 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? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | Those who, like myself, object to) World for the last ten years and I) handing over hard earned cash to|was very much amused by a letter the modern highwayman, the bar-| rite Ean ber, should quit visiting’ them and| “atten By Miss G. V. Ta hee do the necessary themselvee She advocates a raise in salari 1 haye been a selt-shaver since| for policemen. earty youth and have never used| Enddently Miss G. V. Ia ts not at but the safely. | Safely taxpayer. If she were observant she verte, my first being an {ould know that they are already 1 England,|the highest paid class of, men in the UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprnsht, 1921. by John Blake. ) PRACTICE DOES IT. The profe cause he practises more. ional athlete beats the amatcur athlete be- He gets his livelihood from play ing baseball or golf or by boxing. Let him get stale and his bread and butter are gone. So he either practises or stops being a professional. He can't keep the pace without knowing how. Your livelihood is probably not carned by athletics. But practice is just as necessary to you as it is to the pro- fessional boxer or golfer. You must exercise enough to keep yourself fit. But remember you are not making money out of golf or boxiny but out of your professional trade, That is what you need to practise, Demosthenes had a bad voice and an impediment in his speech. He got rid of both by, practice. Going down to the shore, he talked against the roar of the surf. When he was able to make people hear him above the nois of the waves he put pebbles in his mouth and practised again. After his voice overcame the handicap of both pebbles and waves he began to speak as an orator. was not done. But his practice He had to learn to choose words and sen- tences then, and that too required practice. It is better in practising minor things to do so in pri- vate, If your English is bad, don't try to improve it while you are wri ng business letters; write letters that will not be read and go over them and correct them. Stevenson wrote | | Save his skin and soul? Or a de-| jscendent of a drunkard who vay off for fear of giving in to the same 4 | weakness? cause [ pletes the coward? Envy; be-| . thou must not, com. ul creature | By making Prohibition our law, we have officially declared ourselves as feeble minded, as cowards. How can we resent the stinging sneer, having ~|thus branded ourselves? »- | places. ever get the erim- ing into veritable pirates, who were | inal? Rarely This ts only one form not even averse to skinning a poor of their inefficiency, and Miss ¢ ‘3 soldier, | concluded that after bein, lthinks they should get more 1 demobilized, T would not only cut my | Wynn are two boys’ ‘hair, but my own alsi tT cacaus NRntre ma tor this. Jatter, pUrpone 1 pure | teuck drivers, plunibe helpers, &e chased a hair pruner. | There tcland are setting mor. money than Several patterns, nowadays, costing |e. “ver dreamed of geltine. Not | WEN GONE cian the mly this but it costs them nothing wie ts Sep for eur fare. If the companies would Earbar,_eepeciatly | oir compel these free riders to pay car ble. 6. plese. tOun {are the same as other riders it would sample Indnitely wo fare Che seme ae other Fidere | oule ey & Re th ‘all|s cent fare. Think of @ young man hie Bay z working for a business house where om: Biuine 300) ‘ brain, and geting dollar, plus tip. True, my hair : geting trimmed in the Andalusian eh 4 Police: style, bub it is good enough for me, yy ® a and as 1 observe many men sund | college Vie nf a course i ny own age who are not ay to) ® eeu hours 2 n having moderately long hair at the Lae al! Hite expense back, { fee} Tam not entirely @ freak.) stndy. he comns out and lakes an ox With the pruner and s iaisined |ATHnAt OR fF LORGnINE, Seis ARECInt- once a week, and the 4 in use| ANC 8 r and ai every day, I calculate I have saved| Wrecking tia) ne mete about m1.000 net a few dolians during my eighteen ae where a policeman gets 1 is’ slay in the United St 7: bat ay Ser in EF ana Se Arr al Tink this over, taxpayers, and get am not averse ng 1 reasonable torether, or this political gang them te) Better hang all the drunkards and their breeds than deprive one free |born man of his liberty and dignity. J. FOX. New 1921. York, Aug. 17, Wages and Living Expense To the Editor of The Breninz Work | [notice in The Evening World about | the high wages paid to city employees | since 1915, 1 claim | am not getting, is much as [ Was in 1917, according to living expenses. | should Kk city expenses Would have to go up aceord- ing to everything else ASHCART DRIVEit. New York, Aug. 17, 1921 thousands that no man ever saw but himself merely to make his sen- tences flow more smoothly. The results of his practice may be found in his collected works. You know the things in which you are deficient; prac- lise doing them till the deficiency disappears. lime and patience, but your success depends upon it. If a ball player can afford to spend and thousands of words It will take ve or six hours a day throwing a ball merely to carn a livelihood for a short space of his life, surely you can afford to spend the same amount of time in the job that you must depend on till you die or acquire your fortune, . . From the Wise Recollection ts the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out,—Riehter. Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave ts but o plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.—Fuller. We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of ma- ments.—Bulwer. He knows not what love ts who has no children ~American proverb. The pleasure of playing games comes from the amall vanity of bcating our opponents.—Bovee, IFT up the veils! Cast them away! L Unfold the black, the dusk, the grey, Unwind the mauve and violet That shimmering say, “Forget .. , forget...” When I lie down to sleep at night, Now lift the innermost veti of wntes. Sheer blanched oblivion lift from me That my reviving soul may sce The world of amber and of rosc Where, flower-like, thé morning grows, 1 till lift up my hands on high, Saluting morning in the sky; Oh, I will pluck it out of spave And in tts beauty hide my fave! Marguerite Wilkinson'y “Waking Up” song, as printed in the Measuw for August. Everybody who feels that way the first thing in the morning will kind! signalize the fact by raising the ri, band, But whatever the outcome of vote, it will uot spoil the poetry. the se Drink and the Unprohibited Rich A thought on Probibition, gathered for the New Republic by Robert Morss Lovett from a conversation overheard: Liquor has always been a prom) nent sign of that conspicuous waste upon which Mr. Veblen ¢ the position of the leisure pends, but whereas formerly” thi Prestige Was”a matter largely of connoisseurship and was expressed in qualitative vonsiderations, in th: Present situation ho fine-spun distinctions have been lost sight af and quantity alone count Hence, whereas 4 cocktail used to be an appropriate iperitit now the hostess is blackballed who does not serve three or tour Similarly a dance could be floated on a supply of liquor which wouls powadays be accounted niggandls Whether or not the poor a drinking too little, itm certain tha: the rich are drinki too much. An irreducible conclusion draws from the inevitable fact that Prohily tion is class legislation oe Love Versus the Big Idea - - . We borrow a section of timely co yersation from the pages of “Ther | Young Rebels” (Appleton), a novel by Frances R. Sterrett: “Are you engaged to Arthur Par hyn?" she asked: bluntly Kitty hesitated between a desir to tell the truth and claim the ta. cinating Arthur and a yearning to ask Sybil what difference it’ mad | to her whether she was or wasn't “Not exactly,” she said slowl) “Just what do you mean that, my dear?” questioned A Susanne, the chaperon. “We probably would be engaged if we could think alike on the biz vital questions. But I never would marry a man who doesn't agree with me on the most important things in the world!” Uncle Albert looked grave. So did Aunt Susanne. What did Kitty mean? Sybil asked her, “What on earth do you mean by that?" she demanded “He doesn't believe in the {ree dom of women!" Kitty flushed as she told them what she meant “He hasn't a single modern idea! tresh by unt She was so ashamed for Arthur that_she blushed. “God bless my soul!" mutiered Uncie Albert Does anybody blame Uncle Albert" We ask you, os 8 8 Air Fighting and World's End - -- In his book, “The World in Revolt @iacmilians), Gustave Le Bon writes thus of perfected warfare through the ai With aeroplanes covering 140 miles an hour, such as we have to day. a country which had declared war in the morning mignt destroy the enemy capital with all its inhab- itants a few hours after the declara- tion. Rut what would be the advantage to this ephemeral success, since re prisals would be immediate, so that Its own great cities would be de stroyed the same day by Identica methods? The recent improvements in avia tion of which Iam speaking would also be followed by the unforescen result of rendering our costly stand- ing armies useless. Moreover, the small nations could acquire weapons of warfare as de structive if not 45 numerous as those of the great powers, so that the weak would be atmost equal to the strong. and far more effectually protected than by the most solemn treaties. ‘The interesting possibility is thus presented of a whole world reduced by the aerial siege to the position of those Kilkenny cats, of whom, when the fight was over, “instead of two cats there weren't any. see Florence Bmgham Livingston's “The Custard Cup” (Doran) is the story of a big tenement. group aver- looked by Mrs. Penfield of the biz heart. In its pages we read of a meddler's assault on little Thad, the tenement waif, and of how it was re- pelled: “Well, Ben says this Ind didn't have no fam'ty he could be proud of, Seems his mother run. off somewhere and died af it, and his father was ‘rrested for somep'n and” — Mr. Whopple was gazing at_t st, and therefore did not sre ‘enfield's reception of his speech He looked up in Injured bewilder ment. Mrs. Dei ns standin= in front af him. The calor was high in her cheeks; her dark eyes blazed dangerously. “You stop!" she repeated in a low rou look so small to me that T can't scarcely sae you 't all But if you're still there, you'd bet- ter lay hold of one Caaf you let Thad alone. Ain't nobody's busi- ness where he came from, nor who his folks were. And if you can't find nothing hatter to do than to tear little children to pieces, you'd better sleep twenty-four hours a day stead Mr. Whopple dropped his shears and assumed 4 reproachful attitude “T jest *hought you'd want to know what's bein eaid” "Well, T don't.” she “And if you've cot a grain of serient you'll put your mind on. other things Ev'rybody lives in his own generation; he ain't just reflecting what's been lived before him. 1 now where Thad came from, and it's all right. Do you think you can remember that, Mr. Whopple?’" We have seen much in print about how the other half lives. Hore, it appears, is a marked in- mance of how, an cocasion, & de ds. terrupted.