The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1921, Page 18

ESTABLISHED HY JOSEPH PULITZER Pudlimhed Daily by The Press Publishing Company. Raw, New Tork. 63 Park Row. r. 03 Park Row . 63 Park Now. ep PRESS. exclusirely enuuea to the use for republication espatcher credited to ft or not oinerwise ereuitea in tow paper news publishea bet AN AIR-TRAFFIC CODE. HE suggestion that the American Bar Associa- T tion approve a uniform code to regulate air traffic is a good one. The sad tangle of automobile laws in the forty- eight States of the Nation shows how desirable woukl be uniform statutes governing aviation. In the case of the automobile, any attempt at uniform regulation was delayed so long that con- certed action has proved impossible. As yet there are few air laws, even where they are needed. If the Bar Association can formulate a good workable code which will safeguard citizens with- out imposing undue hardships on flyers, State Leg- islatures will not need to repeal old laws and re+ verse old customs in order to adopt it. Unless a standard code is proposed soon, we shall have inexpert legislators tinkering with the subject. Neither the aviators nor the public will benefit thereby. Secretary Hoover is right in telling the coun- try that in the forthcoming conference on un- employment the discussion will be restricted to the immediate problem of getting jobs for the unemployed and that broader questions of anionism, collective bargaining, working cond!- tions, wages, seasonal employment and labor turnover are to be shelved. There is no time to debate while the ship is burning. Congress can do enough of that, any- how. The thing to do immediately is to go ahead and find jobs for those who are not working and who want to work. Set the unemployed to working, to produc- ing, to earning, to spending. “Solve It With Jobs.” THE BELOVED BANK-WRECKER. ARELY do the newspapers have opportunity to tell a more interesting story than that of Fred H. Claridge, the banker of Blair, Neb., who fled before his bank failed and returned Monday to be greeted after the fashion of the Prodigal Son. The news accounts report the end of “Fred's” wanderings something after the stage fashion of the return of the wayward son who gets home just in time to foil the hard-hearted banker-villain who is about to foreclose the mortgage. But that does not appear to have been the cir- cumstance at all. In fact, “Fred” doesn’t run true to the orthodox stage conception of a banker. His bank-wrecking appears to have been the result of kind-heartedness and inability to refuse loans. Stockholders in his bank are reported to have lost all their invesiments. Depositors did not lose be- cause gther banks dhartered by the State had to make good the losses. Other residents of the little town of Blair loved “Fred” because he had strained a point now and then in extending credit and in being a good fellow and a cordial friend. It is easy to see how it happened that Blair wel- comed the Prodigal Banker. Few in Blair lost be- cause of Fred's misdeeds. Small banks rarely have large lists of stockholders, and the kind of people who own stock in small banks are not always popular. Maybe if “Fred” went into other Nebraska towns where the banks had been forced to make good his losses he would not be so popular. One effect of bahk-guarantee laws is the robbing of Peter to pay Paul. Paul may continue to greet the robber with a shining and happy face. But Peter will put the robber in jail if he gets a chance. ‘Whom does President Harding include in bis warning to “all persons engaged in said un- lawful and insurrectionary proceedings” in West. Virginia? If this phrase is interpreted to in- clude law-breaking miners and to exclude law- breaking “deputies,” mine guards and Baldwin- Felts “detectives,” then President Harding will himself become a party to the same sort of mis- government of which Govs, Cornwell and ‘Morgan have been guilty. : YOUTHFUL GIRL SWIMMERS. HE three-aad-a-half-mile ocean course from Point Breeze to Brighton Baths is a stiff test for swimmers. The record made by the sea nymphs who swam the course Monday was surprising. Even with the help of the tide, it was remarkable to cut a third frem the existing time record made in 1912. ‘One significant thing was the proportion of starters to finish. Only one of the twenty-six con- testants failed to finish the course, and she was a mere infant of ten years, Even more interesting is the y. testants and the accomplishm yet in their “teen of the con- f youngsters nol Kathryn Brown, ten years of age, finished cighth, just bellad thirteen-vear-old Margaret Ederle. An eleven-year-old swimmer, Ruth Morgan, finishing next to last, beat the 1912 recotd. The winner, Miss Bleibtrey, is not yet Out of her “teens.” At is evident that American girls, and particularly New York girls, are “going in’” for swimming, but * it is surprisin ¢ that an endurance swim should re- sult in so rer, sarkable a showing by the so-called “weaker sex.” New strokes and the tide may have helped in setting a record, but a generation ago it would have been impossible 1 © have gathered more than a score of girl swimmers who could have kept afloat and moving for an ho. ar or more. CURRAN KEEPS TO THE ROAD. N answering a req west for his views on Prohibi- tion, Mr. Curran has let no one beguile him into side paths. The reply of the cc wlition candidate for the Re- publican nomination fi w% Mayor is the reply of a man who means to bi 4 for no votes on an issue which has no proper pla ce in the municipal election. Mr. Curran’s stateme of avoids hints or implica- He holds Prohil Xtion law to be law that the Mayor of New Yor & must enforce like any other law. The Mayor is ‘equally bound to uphold the Fourth Amendment ti» the Constitution of the United States, which gua tantees citizens security against unwarranted search and seizure. Mr. Cur- ran would violate neither of | these laws for the sake of the other. That is his sc #e concem, as prospec- live candidate for Mayor, w ith Prohibition. As Mr. Curran says: “Any one who tries to f 301 the people into thinking that if elected Ma; ©r he can change the Federal law because he is Mayor is prac- tising a deception that has no: excuse,” The Evening World’s opinion of Nation-wide Prohibition is well known. But The Evening World has no use for a can- didate for Mayor who seeks to make anti-Prohibi- ation, for the*chief mu- tions. tion views count as qualifi nicipal office. Judge Haskell sneers at the. Curran statement and asks for votes in the comilag city election that will rebuke United States Senators and Congress- men and make them change fhe attitude toward Prohibition, ' The election of a Mayor off ‘New York is too important a business to figure chiefly as a rebuke to legislators in Albany or Washington. A man's fitness to be Mayor of the higgest city in the country is measured’ by something more than the effect his election migitt have on State or na- tional issues. The City of New York is nat fighting Prohibi- tion from the City Hall. Its job this fall is to elect not a good anti-Prohi- bitionist but a good Mayc:. Mr. Curran does well to insist that his candidacy shall rest squarely and exclusively «yn the experience and capacity that fit him for the duties of the office for which he is running—not on the appeal he might make with his personal views on Prohibition or any other extra-municipal matter. The coalition candidate has already shown marked ability to steer straight and. keep to the road. A man arrested in the Bronx for vagrancy described himself as “a landlord out of work.’ Let every rent booster read and reflect. “IF THE INSTRUMENT IS READY.” “The mast hoary-headed We which ever tor- mented the human race is the old worn-out ie— proved false a thousand times—that great armies and great navies are assurances of peace. It ought not longer to ver the ears of the people or disgrace the lips of leaders. Armées and no vies are incitements to war; are, in fact, if we judge the future by the past, assurances of wur. As Gon. Smuts, the finest mind and the best heart in Europe at least uncovered by the great war, has nobly said: ‘If the instrument is ready for use, the oecasion will arise and men will arise to use it.’ "—Senutor Borah, TWICE OVERS. “cc WE want to pay you what we owe you. The only way we can pay you is in trade, is in goods. This we are very anxious to do.” —Arthur Balfour, British steel manufacturer, to Senate Finance Committee. * 4 * 6 T# appointment of Lodge is not encouraging, and his recent utterances on reduction of arma- ments make it all the more imperatioe that the confer- ence shall be open.” —Mrs. W. A. Atkinson of Michigan. “ 8 # “cc W #4 the unemployed want is work, not more talk." —Daniel J. Tobin. * 8 66] CANNOT resist expressing my very cordial congratulations.” —President Harding to the mother of nineteen children. * * @ 66 ITHIN another generation the allotted three-score years and ten will be a thing of the past.” —Dr. George W. lan. * * 8 66 TF women would wear low heeled shaes their back- bones would not be thrown: out of alignment.” — Robert Nelson Gray. c | and After CAMPAIGN PROMISES aay en ferment THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1921. Pwera), ty 5 (the Rew Yorn Bn 2 't UNEMPLOYMENT , CONFERENCE <-ieeios meta he gee nee | FACTORIES CLOSED -. SPR What kind of letter do you find to say much in few words. The Community Sings. | ‘Te the Kdisor of The Evening World: | Would you allow me space to say a few words in regard to the New York community singing in Centra! Park? The last eight Sunday nights! I have found it most beneficial recre- ation, Thousands of hard-working people congregate every Sunday night and enjoy themselves. Mr. Harry Barnhardt, the con- ductor of the Community Chorus, de- | serves credit for the way he tal an interest in those sings. Mrs. Shan- non, the Secretary, is working very hard to make these sings success. It is very hard to accomplish these entertainments without funds. It is said that funds are on hand for next Sunday, but they say they have not got any for the last one. Let us get together and see if we, the public which attend th sings, cannot con- tribute enough pay the expenses for the last one. Let us all give a! we can, F. c, D. Thank Y. ‘To the Editor of The Dreniog Your recent cartoons and editormals concerning the separate peace with Germany are disgusting to every loyal American. When will you stop lauding our Allies at the expense ot this glorious land? You are so wor- ried about their feelings. If they worried a little over the millions they owe us, it would be better. E. TAYLOR. New York, Aug. 1921. “Velvet To the Exlitor of The Evemag World It may Interest the tenants of Greater New York to know that there are three items in the rent they pay to the landlords—namely the taxes to run the city, the rent of the rooms and the rent of the land. The rent of the land amounts to $400,000,000 every year, but the landlords do not provide the land. The $400,000,000 ground rent is “velvet.” Hi ST GRAFT. Brooklyn, Aug. 28, 1921. Tested Thrift. To the Rattor of Toe Eventze World If employers would recommend something of real benefit to their em- playees instead of many schemes which are merely experimental they would do them considerable good in the direction of thrift and owning their homes. Savings and loan as- sociations have been successful fo; more than seventy years and are the only concerns af a co-operative nature that have stood the test of ume. I have just received a lette H. D. Haight, Manager Indu: lations Department of Kaatman Kodak Company, Rochester. Your readers will be interested in an ex- tract from it; “Our (savings and loa) associa- tion has done remarkably wel! an infant less than nine mont Since we started we have tina homes for 130 members and from al Re- From Evenin5 World Readers } most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s tine menta/ exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying Take time to be briet. problem for their employees. It also demonstrates a practical Plan to encourage thrift and pro- mote stability, comfort and hap- piness.” The money for these mortgages comes from more than 5,000 saving members, and of course the mort- |gages are limited only by the amounts these other employees save. There- fore these savers get at leust 4% per cent, on theiy money and at the same time this money goes for an ideal Purpose—providing homes for per- sons of modest means. ARCHIBALD W. M’EWAN. New York, Aug. 29. | Tighe's Pull. To the Raitor of The Evening World I have noted The Evening World's comment on the Tighe case and its good advice to the Police , Depart- ment, that jt eliminate the clubbéer from its deck.. The Police Depart- ment is mot concerned in protecting: itself and its members from the wrath of respectable citizens, which, no doubt, the attitude of Commissioner | Leach will tend to foment. | Commissioner Leach is in charge of the investigation for the Police De- | partment of Tighe's conduct and is! hearing only testimony highly favor-| able to Nghe. Therefore, when Al- | fred Delgrosse, a cook employed in the lunchroom of Cohn's saloon, tes- | tifled that he did not know what was} going on at the ticker, although he Was only two feet from it, Commis- sioner ach became very excited! and demanded the witness get off! the stand, calling him a liar, Com- missioner Leach is trying to prove! that Tighe was sober and not yio-| lent, and that he was justified in! clubbing any one with whom he came in contact In Cohn's saloon. If the! Police Department is trying to plac a halo around Tighe before he is tri in court they had better save their efforts, Tighe’s record shows that he has a tremendous “pull,” and this pull was in evidence at the hearing of the Police Department, but let's hope that it does not extend to the court where the clubber of children will he tried. F. G. CHRUVREUX JR. New York, Aug. 25, 1921. | “What Would You Dot" To the Editor of The Evening World With apologies to Richard S$. Uhr- brock, whose articlks on “What Would You Have Done?" set one hinktng, T ask “What would you do in the position we printers and proof- readers find ourselves?" Working for a printer doing mostly Jaw print- | ing, at intervals “rush” briefs and| cases come into the composing room which must be set up on the lino- types, pioofs taken, read, corrected, , and revised proofs sent out e lawyers, vo printe to carn to do fair and proofreaders! an honest living, and fair . work for and Now, lesire so want equally solve lint of our 1 ne work in han | a larwe number of applicati | file for our « eration, Our ex perience points the way tor other large concerns to solve the housing because there is no job to be done on which we can be kept at work, By John Blake (Copyright, 1931, by Joma Blake.) YOU CAN'T TELL TILL YOU TRY. Eight men out of ten offered larger responsibilities will refuse them. Perhaps of these eight four would be incapable of the more complicated duties. The other four could discharge them if they tried. But they won't try. ea Sn By John Cassel ” Con aed UNCOMMON SENSE | * [Cotte ge | during \printer absolutely depends, Employers find that of the men to whom they would think of offering promotion to they learn that the promotion shoulders. all, many are hesitant when means greater loads on their Naturally, fools and ineompetents will willingly under- take anything. But fools and incompeten promotion, Men in their hearts all want advancement. confidence is a very common ts are seldom considered fur But under- failing. And the man who for an instamt expresses a doubt of hin capacity to take a more important job isn’t likely to get it. The highest essential to suceess is confidence—con- fidence that is built on the knowledge that you can do the work, f you are even sure that you can learn to do it in time, never heaitate to take promotion that is offered you—even to ask for one if it is not offered you. Your confidence alone, will earry weight. The boss knews he will find out very speedily whether you can make good or not, Do not think that you are care whether you make mistak: Everybody makes them, make the same one twice. Tackle anything that is at doesn’t mean that you ought Caruso left vacant, but it does ing to accept anything in your If you fail ‘in it, what’s th five won't hurt you just so you profit by each and make »good in the end. | | | sure to make mistakes. Don't 8 OF not, but competent people don’t all within your powers. This to go and apply for the job. mean that you should be will- line that offers. je difference? One failure or we are laid off for over two months, ich our wives and children are in want. Bur, instead, if we do as many do, “soldier,” “stall” or slacken up on our speed, and thereby delay work on these “rush” jobs, we are enabled to continue at work for a longer period of time than we could if we exerted ourselves to the limit or did our level best. Now, which would you do? Would you work yourself out of a job, as I did in June, 1921, and remain idle, I must do untt! Sept. 25, 19217 Or would it have been fairer to work- men, on whom in emergencies which come during the busy season this if busi- ness could have been adjusted #0 as to protect honest, industrious em- ployees in earning a living the year round? And all this applies with equal force to ail kinds of labor hired by the day which is at the mercy of the pitiless rule of “supply and demand.” T hope this will be printed and that some one will answer my queries. | am a free jance—unprotected by any| union. .CA GOLA Brooklyn, Aug. 27, a From the Wise Society is composed of two large classes, those who have more din- neva than appetites, and those who have more appetite than dinners. —Chamfort. The first half of our life is spent in longing for the second, the sec- ond half in regretting the first. —A. Karr. Happy is the man who rever ences al women Because he frm learned to worship his mother.— Richter. Ideas are like deards—women and young men Rave none.—Vol- taire. Never trust people whe look through the keyhole.—Rabelais. Oniversiti Of New Yuk By Appleton Stres t it, 1081, by the Pr (The Tab ing Oo ‘World — NO. 23. PROFESSIONAL SCI {00L8 ‘kT COLUMBIA, Columbia is certainly entid cd to the name university if it is \ meant by the title a collection of cof exes Perhaps no univers;ty in Ana ‘rica embraces in its organization so oa 2¥ spocialized schools In addition to she unucr,saduaie departmunts, G ol- umdia College for men and Barna “ad for women, and the Collen ® of Physiciang and Teachers College, which have already, been described in this serios, and! besides the non-professional schools: of political science, philosophy, and pure avience, there are seven profes- sional schools, each with its own organization and history. ‘The Law Schoot, the oivest of themy was fouaded by ‘Lhesdere Dwight in 1859. it ollers a three yeais Course, leading to the degree of bachelor of laws. Less than half its students come from New York City; (ne others are drawn from ail over ‘he country. The living graduaies nuiiver more than 5,00, and wue Siaie and Federal Judves, college professors, andi many leading attorneys at the bar Wormer Gov. Charles’ W. Hughes iss The scuovl is yussessed. an especially valuable library ef more thaa 64,000 volumes. The School’ of Mines, founded im }1883, and the School of b.uxineering: jand Chemistry, founded in invé, were jréeently grouped ‘ogctier uuder the: ucy of Applied Suence. This Cully ls iaue up os sure than fifty nists and engineers. The School of Architecture was wginally a department of the School of Mines, but a few years ago Was sy 2 arated and made a school in ite owa mght. Lt is housed in Avery Hall with the Avery Architectural Library. The New York Collece of Phar- |macy was an independent inst.tution bitore it was merged into the umi- versity in 1904. Tt still has its own Board of Trustees and occupirs its own buiiding on West sth Street, near Columbus Avenue. The Schoo! af Journalism wamp |foundea by Joseph Pulitzer in 191%, who left a bequest in his will to pro- vide for its equipment and endow- ment. Th ool gives practical i es of newspaper and its graduates in many editorial cities, L br gazine we be fouad es of New York and other Members of the administrative board. are tu And facuity of the school are in- trusted with the duty of making nom- ina tions for the award of the Pulitzer prizes in journalism, offered annually. The Ol of Business, established im 1915, provides a complete profes- Sional course In business to all prop- erly qualified persons. Not only the college student preparing for a busi- ness career, but many already en- waged in business have enrolled in the school for its specialized training. Students may prepare there directly for the State examination for the cer- tifleate of certified public accountant. ‘The youngest of tle Columbia pro- fessiona] schools is the School of Dentistry, established four years ago. To secure its degree, one year in medical school, followed by four years in the School of Dentistry, is re- quired, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 70—GRAFTER. Up to twenty years ago the word “grafter” was thus defined in the dictionary: “One who propagates shrubs or plants by grafting.” Beck of this definition of the word tiere is an interesting story. The classical words ‘“‘graphion™ or “graphium” meant a style or pened for writing. As the slip of a plant to be inserted into another in the tion was shaped style or pencil, it came to be a “graffe,” as im the old French. It took a lexicographer of the un- derworld to give the word its de is open to the suspi: contributed a much needed term to Process of pro) somewhat like a even prac- tines the meaning of—the word in its debased sense. ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. Prem Cnr etn los Yor irene Words THE ROSPIGLIOS! COUPE— BENVENUTO CELLINI, One of the greatest treasures in the Metropolitan Museum is a cup called the Rospigliosi Coupe, in the Altman Collection, This cup, a salt cellar of gokd and enamel, brings home strfkingly the almost unbe- lievable value commanded these days by antiques. True, it is a large salt cellar, perhaps six inches wide by eight inches long, but even 60, it seems incredible that Benjamin Alt~ man paid $250,000 for it, as much as the Freneh nition paid Bartholdi for the wonderful Statue of Liberty. Why was Uma price paid for it? Because the man who fashioned it was Benvenuto Cellini. This may not mean much to the layman, but to the collector tthe name is a magic one, speiling perfection in the gold- smith’s art. Benvenuto Cell tni, goldsmith, jew- eller, sculptor, pampered by Popes d Princes, ranks as the equal of faphael, Titian, dv Vinci, among the great Italian artists of the Renais- ance, and the Rowpigiost Cup is @ masterpiece worthy of him. The cup, a beautiful ornamented ghell of gold, rests on a dragon, And has a turtle for a pedestal. Upon the shell is a sphing upon which Cellini has lav- ished the utmost nesources of his art and has produced a masterpiece, In the Rospigiiosi Chap America oer- tainly possesses oie. of the finest works by the old mister, Surgesns ana’ \ She