The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1921, Page 18

sap Ba PSTAR Y Jost lished Daily Fxecpt day b hing Ko Company. Nos. 541 to 09 Park Raw, New York & = RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row S.J. ANUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row Se IDSEPH PULT Secretary, 63 OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE « exoiste rs eredhed to It oF no + publisuea herein, otnerwise crewtea to ti PATROLMAN NEVILLE. has remained for “Hell’s Kitchen” to pay the greatest tribute to gallant Patrolman Neville, was killed on duty. The “roughnecks” of the borhood in which the brave policeman did his K and met his death turned out in force and m to have been making honest efforts to help cover the killer. atrolman Neville was brave and intrepid. For yers he walked one of the most dangerous beats inthe city, scorning the offer of a partner on his toGr. But while he was brave, he was also just, kiGdly and courteous. He earned the respect of, a t6Bgh neighborhood, even of many he was forced rest. He was a “square guy.” When crimi- who had served their sentertce returned to their haunts, Patrolman Neville did not hound them il they went wrong again. ven “rougtinecks’ appreciate and respect the quillilies that distinguished Patrolman Neville. He is$noumed as are the kindly neighborhood cops in law-abiding districts. The gangsters have the unity to make tieir grief effecti¢e by discov- ef his murderer. It will be to their credit if make the most of the chance. ‘Patrolman Neville was typical of many police. men. He deserved all the praise his fellows in the department award to him. It is perhaps significant of what is wrong with the Police Department t agman with so long and honorable a record re- ined a patrolman, while others less deserving re promoted to higher ranks. & & William Jennings Bryan is tuning up for the Biue Law fall and winter campaign in which he to take a leading part. Sf The American people have never quite given Gthe Great Commoner his heart's desire. <= Remembering that, is his chief rematning ee bition to curtail as many as possible of their Giberties and pleasures? eS Sas BETTER THAN “HOME BREW” DANCING. 4 @™ of the leading social clubs of Pittsburgh has come out with a sharp warning to mem- and guests who have overstepped the line of priety in “modern” dancing. @ Supervisory Committee has banned the dis- tingly sensuous dances. Those who transgress be asked to leave the floor. We have heard a good deal of dances where “orsets are parked.” The names of many of the dances indicate their character. It is time to G@il a hait, and the Pittsburgh club has gone about ifgin the right way. = “Society” calls for a right about face, imitators Will follow the example. And how much better igethis sort of voluntary reform than the prohibi- istic edicts the blue-lawites would impose! With blue-law regulation of dancing we should five “home brew” dances worse than the worst f@xday. But if the dancers can be brought to a tAlization that such actions are not tolerated by ; lies and gentlemen, both public and private dane- will improve. a In Moscow one hundred American dollars can be exchanged for 4,000,000 rubles. But the Moscow “multimillionaire” pays 2,000 rubles every time he has his shoes shined. Here's a = sod chance to master the elementary economic proposition that money {s only a counter. HOUSING SHORTAGE FOR AUTOS. ORE garages than homes were built in the United States last year, the Federal Depart- Ment of Labor reports. e That the same is true of residential boroughs in his city the local Building Department ofticials fd real estate men have no doubts. SAfter all, such a condition only confirms what érybody knows. Following an ebb during the tr, the tide of automobile buying in ‘this country fE getting back to flood again. Leaving aside the er increasing demand for the auiomobile as an in business, the av rage American again sees no re attractive investment for savings than “a car.” Nor can you blame him. The widened range of Beis ire opened up by the prospect of owning even “flivver” is one or the greatest allurements that é: tried family prudence and self-denial. Small ander the temptation is often strong enough to puuea to the vse for tenubiication paper hat rapid! may happen when “the car,” bought by mortgaging the hame, begins to play fast and loose with the home and the happiness in it, One reason why this play is popular is because it shows a temptation many a household has faced and.a risk many a housetold has run. When people get interested in clear presentation of their own problems they are on the best road to dealing with them. The garage vs. home proposition will come right side up. develops into a serious lesson in what SOLVE IT WITH JOBS.” RESIDENT HARDING and Secretary Hoover are to call a conference on unemployment. Last week The Evening World suggested th: business men of New York City coukd deal with the unemployment problem and “Solve It With Jobs.” The same suggestion would be even morz pertinent in a national movement. “Solve It With Jobs” is the only real remedy for unemployment. Go ahead with faith and fore- sight and put those who are unwillingly idle to work. Get them {to producing, to earning, to spending. The unemployment situation is the biggest prob- lem facing this Nation to-day. It is at the root of all the other business troubles. It is big enough and serious enough to warrant big-seale national effort promoted by the same sort of organization that put over the Liberty Loans, and Yacked by puly- lic opinion, banking and commercial pressure and Government encouragement. “Solve It With Jobs.” Let every employer in- crease his working force by a certain percentage. Make it a “quota.” The idea is too big for indi- vidual employers to put into effect on a small scale. But as a national movement it would be positively and immediately effective. ne cnennane: wea The difficulties of the Thrift Bond Corpora- tlon—in the eyes of some of its wealthy di- rectors—seem to constitute merely one of those “short and simple annais of the poor.” FORD'S REAL ACHIEVEMENT. A’ a natural reaction to the perfervid descrip tions of the “miracle” Henry Ford worked as a railroad operator has come a chorus of criti- cism seeking to belittle the accomplishment. Undoubtedly there is some truth in the explana- tion that Henry Ford's rallroad is prosperous pri- marily because it is handling a great bulk of the Ford freight. But the critics go altogether too ‘far in attribut- ing all the gain to this new source of business. The significant thing Henry Ford has done is not the earning of profits on his railroad. “Nor is it either the higher wages or lower rates. The sig- nificant thing is that Henry Ford’s railroad is mow- ing a greater volume of freight at smaller cost than under the previous management. His working force has morale and the men are co-operating in making a record which warrants proportionate wage payments, Henry Ford is getting more out of men, ma- chinery and supplies than are other operators. This is his real achievement. THE HERRICK TOUCH, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World Is this Representative Herrick who wrote to the “Washington Beauties” the R. Herrick who wrote the “Counsel to Girls,” which reads as follows? “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.” . 8 8 # “Then be not coy, but wse your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but onee your prime, You may forever tarry.” ANOTHER REFORM ADDICT. Aug. 24, 1921 TWICE OVERS. 667 F capital wants to control the situation it must be on the level.” Charlie Chaplin, “ce HY, I remember as a boy seeing the first per- formance of ‘Lightnin’. —De Wolf Hopper. +‘ * 6 “ce HE Government will proceed with unrelent- ing secerity against any and every insurrec- ti n."'-~Proclamation by President Ebert of Germany. i AM afraid to go to the police because they'll beat me up.” 66'THIS is the first opportunity we women have had of helping to detkrone ‘this man Murphy William Hoey. Wrecking His Own House » keeps firing their broadside: oteowtih hd From Evening Wor ——1r—- What kind of letter do vou find most readable? Copvrtatys, 1841 the Paya Pri ti New York kiveniag World) Isn’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much m few words. Bread Prices. ‘To the Editor of The byening World In answer to Mre. B.'s letter in Che Evening World of Aug. 25, [ wish to point out to the Iady that she is wrong in accusing tne b of charging the wartime price of bread She admits that butter ang exxs going up in pri Flour is not cheap as she thinks it to b bakers are still paying wartime for their stores, gas and electric rent and wartime wages lo i help, ranging from $63 to $90 per wee) per 1 U Jnle: these conditions change prices can not go down. BAKER BOSS. Get Togethe' ‘T the Fattor of The Prening World: The big guns of capital and lavor now working overtime, Capital Wages are down.” Gompers, at with an equally must come Atlantic City, repli heavy broadside: “Not until the cost of living comes away down from where it is.” What's the answer? Let the newspapers and speakers ll over the land keep pounding at both aides: “The answer is- get together The World War is over. Why keep one another?” RW sete people of the United States, won the war, first by financing, feco- ing and arming the Allies, then by furnishing the ni) y man power to finish up quickly after the Allies had all but failed. In return we have practically all the gold in the world the surface of our enormous rT sources has not yen by and yet we have 6,000,000 men out of employment. Why? Is it becnuse the big fellows grabbed so much money that they feel that they can sit back and live off their fat and the devil take the fellow who has to work for his living? The majority of our workingn went willingly to the battlefields anc Camps to make the world a safe and n decent place to live in, while the ma jority of the men who employ tim Stayed behind in our own country and at the most were swivel chair officers. Well, the fellows who went over went at their job and finished it up in short order and saved our | Workman Take time to be briet. the careless, among us should his living and only folent and wortile have to scratch for One of the main causes of the con tinued “high cost of fiving” fact that the retail merchant hates to mark down his prices not- withstanding the fact that many lines of manufactures have been steadily just cduced in prices since tthe begin- ning of this year, He talks about) is stock on the shelf gh: igh prices for, but he als make you forget how prompt he was to mark up the prices on his stock on his shelves when the prices began | to sour at the beginning of the war The r merchant is one of the sore spots in the country to-day and old man “Public Opinion” ought to get busy on him quick and make him see that he is standing in the way of the! country’s progress. Capital says “wages must come down,” but the average worker can- not stand any cutting until the r tailer does his bit. Let capital abor get together—pull together. they should, get after the retail him do his bit and mayb might get better and those 6,000,000 unemployed might get their chance to work again and be decent zens and not a band of disgrun- tled, discouraged men whose des- peration might lead on to most any- thing, Let's all stand shoulder to shoulder | to help one another put some of the pep in the slogan “Get Together that we did in the Liberty loan drives, so that We may soon again hear those xrand old words, “I am proud that | n American.” Hopefully, OPTIMIST Ballad It at Home. To the Editor » Ryening World 1 would like, if it is possible, to an answer to this qu get ng on my mind Why is it that this country can jafford to buy a dingible costing $2,000,000, build a hangar and other things necessary to take care of it and at the same time have so man; x-service men over here waiting for a bonus which they de ve? In the first place, why is it that we had to call on Great Britain to buid r dirigible for us if we wanted it for experimental purposes? Wouldn't it Id Readers in-| is the! stion that :s ever, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Biske.) THOUGHT MAK THE WHEELS GO ROUND. No man was ever a loafer who used his mind. Hard thought means hard work. The tramp cooking his miserable stew in a tin can by the side of the river is not reflective, he is merely stupid. If he thought at all he would see that only by effort could he ever attain the kind of life he craves—life with the least amount of effort and care. To the tramp the millionaire floating by on the deck of his white yacht, smoking a fat cigar and perhaps drinking something with a kick in it, leads the idle life. But either the millionaire earned that yacht or some- body earned it for him by hard work, At some stage in the development of that pleasure cruise a man thought hard and saw that luxury and leisure were not to be attained without toil. The toil was accomplished, and done, and the leisure came. If you will only think about life hard enough you will see that it means labor, All the means to our existence are in the earth, but they must be got out. Somebody must get them out. Tf coal can be mined and harvests reaped by machinery i a large amount of toil has been saved. But somebody had to sit over a draughting board to plan that machinery for weary years, and thousands had to toil in foundries and machine shops to make it. There is thought in every machine—the hard, consec- utive thought of earnest men who are not afraid of work. If you are like most of mankind you are inclined to be indolent, ware of your indolenee, and eager to find a remedy for it. Well, thought is the remedy. Think what the future wil! be if you keep on as you ere to-day, Think how little the world would have to offer us if people had not thought i» the past. Keep your thoughts busy and you will keep your hands busy and your body busy, for you will see that there is no other way for the race to advance than through industry Incidentally, unless you prefer to rust idly through the vears and die unmourned and unhonored, you had better get busy in your youth and get the hard work habit yourself. and Italians who have only been in| — the country for a short time, while | our men here are starving. My hus- band isn’t the only American treated | ““That’s aFact’ | shrunken, | | feelingly | THE MAN WHO BURIED HI8 TALENT. The story of tle Talents, Matt., 14-29, was probably not filly appre- clated by those to whom Jesus told it ‘The truth It was intended to convey is mot one that appears upon the sur- face. As the lawyers would say, it is not prima facie—seen at the first slance—but appears only after close thinking and much experience. Passing over ‘the ether characters in the story as having no particular relevancy as tothe central idea, we come at once to the last one, the man who had received the ONE talent and who, in his stupidity, hid it away in. the napkin. Attention is called to verses 28-29, which read as follows: “Take ye away, therefore, the talent from him and give it unto him that hath ‘the ten talents; for unto every one tha: hath it ball be given, and he shail have abundance; but from Aim that hath not, even that whieh he bath not shall be taken away. Right here, let me give the re markable confession of a remarkable mar, Charles Darwin, the immorta! author of those epoch-making boeks, “The Origin of Species” and ‘The De- scent ef Man. Mr. Darwin, with 2 beautiful frankness, tells us that his spiritual faculties, from long dis- use, became ATROPHIED—dwarted, paralyzed—until, finally, they ceased to function. His spirttual light went out. The eye of his soul could no longer see, and the world in which he found himself was one in which he had brought himeelf, and no flash of the tdeal, no gieam of the poetic imagination. “The great scien- tist deeply deplored the condition into. which he had brought himself, and warned others against do- ing themselves a similar wrong. It is the old story of the man with the one talent who, because he failed to use the talent, had it taken away | from him. Diguse means atrophy. To not use the muscles is to lose them; to per- nit the mental faculties to lie inac- tive is to destroy the power of think- ing; to let the spiritual instincts lie fatlow is to paralyze them, leaving us in the shape of the butterfly with its wings pulled off. Use is life and growth, while disuse is death and decay. . To use what you have, whether it is money or brains, or soul, is to-add to it--to make the bank account more imposing; the brain more alert and powerful; the soul within us more re- sponsive to the prompting of the Father of Spirits. ‘The masters—Phidias and Michaet Angelo, Titian and Raphael, Caesar and Napoleon, Demosthenes and. Webster, Shakespeare and Emerson— reached the sublime heights of their mastery by using, steadily and as- siduously, the faculties that. had been committed to them. Hence, their tm- mortality. Because they used their tts, those gifts were constantly ugmented, while those who failed to use their (perhaps) equally brilliant jendowments they were made into the stepping stones along which the others mounted to their everlasting fame. Where New Yorkers Tread. BROAD STREET. ROAD STREET was built on beth B sides of a cana) that ran as fa: as Exchange Place, and theo led into a swamp which it drained. On oth sides of the canal wer» houses and because, prebably, it reminded the early Dutch ef bome it was @ great promenade at that early date. Where a bridge crossed this ditch was estaplished the first open exchange of the town. It was the forerunner of the big exchange of to-day. is Broad Street always has played an important part in the history of New York, and one of the terrible trag- edies, probably the most terrible in its history, had for its setting @ pub- lic house in the lower part of it. Here ft was alleged was hatched the slave plot to burn the city in the summer of 1741. After a series of fires, some of which were not incendi ary, a servant girl, fifteen years old. told of the meetings of negro slavne in the taproom and the plot to burn the city. Negroes were seized right and left. Under torture they confessed and im- plicated others. As rapilly as mew ones were named the girl who bed given the original information identi- fied them. At times she was the sol- witness against them: but 60 panic stricken was the populace that they were convicted. me were hanged and many were burned at the stake. The trials lasted al] summer. One of the last negroes ‘burned was a slave belonging to the oosevelt fainfly. ‘The trials and ex- ccutions furnished the darkest page in New York's bistory, equalled omly by the burnings at Salem and the treatment of the Quakers in New England. = IE cuphonised into Robin, and the second into Hood, omitting the Fitz, which ay country from ible German ibs been just as well to build it over ie Norman, tar 666 Gonder Orenes 3 Ps ¥ ts met L tn pee sta er that . There are plenty of others, | being “‘fils’), since having been de- ga forth more savi and abolish for all time one-man power in the Demo- poi erty Pn ie hove, relieving some unemployment Hany ct them ex-service Inen too. ||| By Albert P. South clared an outlaw, he wae not unwill- a year, what par r s savings that might F, Stewart. i iFarg wf and 4,000,000 men are out! Probably if the ZR: had been built There is a lot of graft behind it, of Huntingdon, as some historians t ve bu It homes? What part represents burdens f . ‘ one employment, Prohibition how. mre "HAROLD. Db SHER L Banana: te ae Deseo s en aa? ; The “ide” Bible was the name|°**'t cannot hed ser ; fon home eat) fling pe at “ce | OWN in the Bowery the bread lines are grow- | ani continued high cost of living las.| New York, Aug. 28, 1921 Why should longshoremen, who are ed as first edition of the Marabou feathers are those plucked mon homes ) rifling percent ’ voces ‘ \ he hand on our coun! supposed to be union men, get taken | ri version, containing from the underside of the stork o} Bes, be sure ing.” Major Under of the Salvation PE eaere tt Gael eabaes thar fon Wanted: Jobs. on in the warehouses (a non-union | typographical error, in Ruth iii, 15: |the same name, The stork being held | M ae ‘ Army. hear only too often used to be | To the Faitor of The Evening W job) at 50 cents an hour when there | and he peut into the ality.” ‘The| sored by, the Mohammedans, aa it In becoming a big economic and even moral ‘ . proud that I am an American, but! | also agree with Frank Smith that @re no ships in port and the regular ent edition bitah: | mee oy “aon ; : What is there in it now to be proud Americans don't stand a chance of Warehousemen told “nothing doing | sudsequen on, published in the/ name hea the same meaning as thar tor in the national life, the automobile has started | 66 HE Republican organization isin honor bound ot?" getting work al the docks. My to-day"? More graft same year. in which the Passage wou of the “Marabous." | 3 / . i He - . Prints Sapital and labor re absolutely husband had been working steady fo: I say stop immigration and give | rect i Ber vn as the “He :! jblems that already reach right down to where | to give ils support to Mr. Gilroy in this prim- |gepenient “one un. the other and «year tp to last. May. in one of the true Amoricans-a chance, ‘They | Bible, sade ecThe, meme Patagonia. from the ‘éstle with them 7. Maer MORuiph RRR COE OL DER how ae eck Th ne roan One Carn flop this counts. ifvever an-|guese navigators Thera Labrador, | country at Ube southern extremity ef 7 ‘ | ad have been, Good wages, a decent !).ece , wite and three ehildven on $4 other war breaks out If things don't| meaning “cultivatable Jand.”" South America because, seeing the of the most successful plays to appear on | 66 HE people canbe trusted with -all the news |home and a tuir share of the good |a week change. Wake up, some of you| 2 8 impressions of the great shoes worn , heat nat’ 4 the “\Senetor ‘Bereh, things im Nite should be the remard|. Instead of (aking on their steady bosses, and give the buddies a square The proper name of Robin Hood/ by the patives, he imagined chem to far this season is a comedy wo conference, Borah. of the good, willing and faithful men they are hiring 4 lot of Polacks deal. 4 BUDDY'S WIFE. wae Robert Fitaooth, The first he| be slant . ‘ ' ‘ ’ .