The evening world. Newspaper, September 1, 1921, Page 18

Puritehed Datiy by The Prose Company. Nos. 58 to 68 Park Raw. Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 65 Park Row J ANGUS SHAW, Trongurer 65 Park Row JOSEPH PULITABR Ir.. Secretary, 60 Fark Row MEMIMEN OF THE AvsOrLArED PRESS The Arsocinted Prem le exctusteety encitiea t of aL news Aeapatches credited OF MOL CUREFW Ve creuilaa and also the local news publishea herein. A BELATED DISCOVERY. N holding the State Sohlier Bonus Act unconstitu- tional, the prevailing opinion of the Court of Ap- peals points to the restrictioms the State Constitu- tion places upon lending the State’s credit as a wise provision designed to protect later generations of taxpayers from the prodigality of the present. “Great expenditures may be lightly authorized if payment is to be postponed. To place the burden on our childrenis easy. * * * “Conscious of this human weakness, to guard against public bankruptcy, the people thought it, wise to limit the legislative power. The courts must see to it that their intentions are not frustrated or evaded. And this is true even ‘if the action questioned seems to be approved by the voters.” In the case of the soldier bormus there is no doubs as to the approval of the voters, They voied for the bonus by a majority of over 700,000. The question at once arises whether it would not thave been far better if some judicial test could have been applied to the bonus measure before an over- whelming popular vote had sanctioned it and ma- chinery had been put in motion to carry out its provisions. Apart from the wisdom or unwisdom of the bonus itself, it ts highly unfortunate that those who ‘were expecting K should see in the court decision a frustration of popular will and intent already plainly expressed. If a constitutional amendment is required to per- mit the payment of a soldier bonus in this State, the voters of the State should have had authorita- tive information of the fact in order that they might consider the proposed bonus from the first in that Bight. Oe question, what constitutional rights taxpayers of to-day have to be generous at the expense of taxpayers of to-morrow is always a serious and far- reaching one. It should have been’ thoroughly threshed out before voters in this State were asked to register material proof of their gratitude toward the State's sokdiers. O'MALLEY ON THE STAND. YOMMISSIONER O’MALLEY on the witness stand yesterday presented a typical picture of the Tammany idea—the old Tammany idea which was supposed to have been sidetracked when the leaders of the organization took up golf. As a witness Mr. O'Malley played the part of a ward-heeler engaged in a rough and tumble fight in the back room of a saloon, The sum and sub- stance of his testimony was: Of course I didn’t do anything out of the way, and (with a truculent air) if 1 did, what are you going to do about it? I’m a good guy, but | can lick you with one hand tied behind me back. It looks very much as though O'Malley played the investigators cleverly. He took time to present his whole side of the case in the best light he could. He made absurd charges without any substantiating evidence. Then he feigned an attack of temper in order to cover unwillingness to be cross-examined. Sure, O’Malley’s a gon guy—a good guy to have somewhere else than in the office he holds. FOR THE PAROLE BOARD TO EXPLAIN. HAT is the matter with the parole system W of New York State? This is a question forced to public attention by the surrender of William Hoey in connection with the murder of Patrolman Neville in “Hell's Kitchen.” It most certainly requires an answer and clear explanation. Hoey, whatever his connection with the murder of Patrolman Neville, is most certainly a dangerous character, with no reasonable claim to the parole privilege on his record either before or after his Telease from Sing Sing. In spite of this long, black record of juvenile de- Tinquency and crime, Hoey was released from Sing Sing long before he had completed his sentence and over the protest of the Warden of one of the insti- tutions in which he had been confined. He was able to get bail for a serious offense after his release, and it does not appear that the Board of Parole had taken any steps to insure his return after this breach of parole. It is most decitedly the chrty of the Parole Board to justify itself if possible. The explanation can- not come too soon. “ALL (?) PERSONS.” HEN Mr. Harding’s ultimatum expires at noon to-~tay the miner “army” in West ‘ Virginia may or may not have dispersed, The snipers may have accepted the Preskient’s descrip- - tion of them as “persons engaged in said unlawful and insurrectionary proceedings.” That the de- Scription is correct is not open to question. But the President's ultimatum specified “all per- sons.” This the miners indisputably are not. Oth- ers engaged in the unlawful proceedings are the _ Gepoty sheriffs paid by the mine companies who — Publishing the use for renubiieation tm tmr paper vioiate the law and terrorize men engaged in pur- suils which the highest courts in the country have recognized as lawful. “All persons” affected by the proclamation indis- putably inchide the Baldwin-Felts detectives, the espionage agents, the mine guards, the gunmen, the trouble-makers employed by the mine owners to perpetuate their lawless regime in defiance of State and Federal statutes and the United States Constitution. Is this feudal army of retainers employed by the coal barons included in the dispersal order? It should be. President Harding cannot justify his threat of force unless the force is used with even- handed justice. There is no expectation that this army employed by the mine owners will have dispersed. Then what does President Harding propose to do? He is in honor bound to send in the armed forces of the United States and rout out these inciters of disorder. Any action short of this will be a shame- ful perversion of justice, a scandalous misuse of the might of the Nation. President Harding must not intervene in belalt of lawless ming owners and against lawless miners who, whatever their sins, have had grave provoca- tion. Such action would be intolerable, QUITE CAPABLE OF IT. 1 ne appointment of Senator Lodge as a dele- gate to the Disarmament Conference is not encouraging. The Women’s Committee for World Disarma- ment is the latest organization to remind its mem- bers of the above fact and to recall to their minds recent utterances of Serrator Lodge which are any- thing but favorable to the purpose of the conference. “Lodge celebrated his selection by scolding Congress for reducing the appropriations for the army and navy, ‘which I regard as abso- lutely necessary expenditures for any Govern- ment which means to protect itself against dangers which may come to any nation.’” As further help toward answering the question whether or not Henry Cabot Lodge belongs in a disarmament conference, The Evening World calls attention to the following, which appeared under Senator Lodge’s name as part of a .Washington’s Birthday symposium Feb. 22, 1920: “We shall do well to follow the counsels of Washington rather than the unthinking babble of those who dwell in a world of fllusions and who, unlike Washington, have never looked facts in the face, . A s “This great lover of peace wished to assure Peace, so far ag it could be assured, by thorough preparation for a national defense, which would be notice to all the world that we could not be attacked with impunity. ° ¥ bd “Another policy which seems to have most immediate connection with our own times was regarded by him as essential to the future of our country. It was that ‘a free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined. “He saw nothing incompatible with the love of peace in the preparation for war. He knew that armaments in themselves did not mean peace or war, but that it was the purpose of the which determined its results. He knew that armaments designed for national de- armament fense were the greatest assurance of peace. Is this, or more like it, to be the best the senior Senator from Massachusetts can be expected to con- tribute to a twentieth century conference of nations ‘on the question of disarming? It is a sorry tribute to the mind of George Wash- ington to assume that it would have ignored the changes ami progress of a century and a quarter merely to stay where Senator Lodge might ses political advantage in keeping it. The Senator from Massachusetts felt no shame, however, in enlisting Washington to fight the League of Nations. He is quite capable of invoking the Father of his Country to spoil, so far as he can, the great project of disarmament. TWICE OVERS. 66 QC HOES to fit a three-year-old child cost the farmer more than he gets for the hide from his 1,300 pound steer.”—Vice President McClain of the National Live Stock Exchange. * * »* HE modern woman is too busy working and exercising lo have time to think about her heart, her stomach and their ills.’ Dr. Katheryn Cocoran, Medical Director of the Women's Catholic Order of Foresters. . * . “ee HE greatest indictment of the present age of mechanical power is that it has largely des- troyed the spirit of work.” —James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the United States. . 8 6 “ce EWARK is a pretty well governed city and can take care of itself in maintaining law and order without the assistance of the Ku Klux Klan.” Mayor Archibald of Newark. 7 8 8 “ee MONG the casualties of Peace, price-culting 3 resulted in very few fatal wounds to the Public." Mark Cross adcertisement. THE “EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 19?T.: | Armed for Disarmament By John Cassel hy oh Nee a cay, | fo say much in few words. Senator Reed and Volstend, em abroad | To tio xiuor uf The krening Work es is rete The peopie of this country who os “decadent |"100 per cent. Americans" sould Me (hat this lgive Senator Reed of Missouri a vot of thanks for the fight he has made]; against the Anti-Beer Hil now pend-| ing in the United States senate In speaking on / IS against this) seem vot Bur oa ‘From Evening World Readers; What kind ot letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a Jot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be briet Isn't it the one | | teil me that the Lmicd rred to all over Europe America.” It ms to is a rather caustic if state of mentary on the Sin this erstwhile “land of (he that We to t is only too true ate of decadence. ded straight ba | Measure in the Senate he ig uote ‘ bia of Puriian New ty saying: “1 never had the p England ve same old intolerince, of seeing until the other day th ey and fataticism are abroad in ‘inguished author of the Volst: land. Censors, blue laws and Act. 1 do not know whether he wis | Prohibition! born in the United States or not, b A curse upon them all! Wake up, 1 aim informed he speaks very little | Amer and crush e insolent English. Ido not know what his an-!Gusybodios, these ibsticus purieii- Jeestry may be, but I do know that 1 ers of your liberties, these twentieth have seon the pictur: of some of the ventury witch burners, Awake be- [Rave son in the past who have led fore it is too ‘ate! the fanatical revolt, the burners of A. 8. THWAIT {tion of the United States? witches, the executioners who applied the toreh, and 1 saw them all again when I looked at the author of this amendment.” ‘These words, coming from such 4 distinguished membev of the United States Senate, should at least arouse W'S Biven & the citizens that their rights are b She the people be bu rd that t dozed by suoh a fanatic as Congress- sed 10. man Volstead who is at the beck and but call of a lobby at Washington that ix a stench in the austrils of all t levers in liberty and the Constitu- When you choose the next Congress the people | should see that men should represent them who will vote to repeal the Vol- ion stead Act. Shall uhe country be muna | t would you have done? Tell by such a man as Volstead, who|the truth and run the risk of } speaks broken English? Why not/ perfectly cood job, or fool the submit this amendrwnt to a vote of} Incidentally the girl had resp the people and let then decide? bilities at home and w the slogan be Amer'c.. for Amer worth-while salar: Send Volsteads beek to the pli where their ancestors came from Gow Would v U. §. Shipping Board. see ls ot The Bees wee you print are alwaye worthy of deep I would like to know who are the| consideration. You ape a ape - ae 3.8 an, | “BRL in the publicatian thereof, Rel custodians of the U.S. 8. Leviatha alee a ad EP caazsmr ARC EPRI and also who pays for the vesse a areeh and tlhe wed’ (hs upkeep? criticism of the wai 1 would say New York, Aug 28, 192) that my employer in machinery whe Flag the Tomb. To the Rilioor of The Breaing Wort | barbers and tors. Assuming that a customer On Friday, Aug. 26,1 saw shown in| comes and buys a machine, it wouk {a motion picture Current Event reel| be just as much in order, however |a picture of the American Legion-| ridiculous, to expect the customer to | naires in France. One of the main| issist in paying my salary as to de scenes showed the ceremony at the|mand tips for barbering. Jt would romb of the Unknown Po.lu be just as reasonable for me to make Major Emory, head of the Ameri- uny can Legion, is shown placing a beau- | him if he fai tiful American flax on the cround at 1 can the tomb and placing a fora! tribute | manty on top of It 1, as a thorough Amer- | “earning” Di jean, would like to know why he jaid| through the our flag on the ground when it had a| practice lar staff on it, and then place a piece | by the exoti of flowers on top of it. It has al- | ways, to my knowledge, been con- sidered a disgrace our flag to touch the ground. Why Is this case an exception? ANNA BE. BRADY Brooklyn, Aug. 40, 1921 New York, Policeman ie death for his wife Bator of The Brening World kisses and Friends who bave recently returned wailing for Brooklyn, Aug. 30, we her features gave definite no questions we For a year she & itable came The Kvening Wo Ss fromm the people which business makes his pr imagine methods of 1921. 1 You Have Donet ing Workt king employment position by a Christian | us a Jewess, and had | © firm in question was mploying girl neither her pmployer nt. One She was day asked We Tip Salesmeat ad as do the restaurant propr the { and embarrassing for led to tip me fawnin, and un the waiter in of Ups per week Le stical A Aug D. J, Neville met a terri dong his duty, He lef nd three ehildren with goodbys, and all were his resjurn, _ Without en UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake . (Copyetemt, 1921, by John Blake.) THERE IS NO SECRET OF SUCCESS. Ask any successful man how he succeeded and he will tell you, Most of them will tell you without asking. They write for the magazines the stories of their success and how it was accomplished. They make addresses to gatherings of young men at churches and elsewhere. They talk about their stcccss to their neighbors, ‘They never are secretive about it. They are proud of it. You may read in almost any library, if you will take the trouble, exactly how every great man of history made his way to the top. You will find in the biographies and the autobiographies of men of our own time the rules that they followed while making their fortunes, Never does a successful man die but the newspapers print columns describing how he made his way from the bot- tom to the top. And yet most people think that there is some secret of success, If you are one of those who read biography and history read the story of Mme. Curie, who discovered radium, of James J. Hill, the railroad builder; of Theodore Roose- velt, of David Lloyd George, of Georges Clemenceau. These folk had no secrets. Not all of them had genius. They were shrewd enough at the beginning of their careers to observe that the majority of people do not care much for hard work, a condition which gives a tremendous advantage to people who do care for it and who are willing to do it. They kept their eyes and ears open, constantly obsery- ing. constantly striving to add to their knowledge and to adopt better methods of doing the work that they had in hand They thought hard and studied hard, without any fear of breaking down from overwork, And though they did ten times as much work as the average man, never one of them did break down from overwork. Success is the most public thing that there is, cessful men like to talk about it, truth about how they succeeded If you listen to them and heed them you will know all the secrets they have, and it will be your own fault if you do not profit by it. All suc And they always tell the eee warning he wa joken, Was that {than @ vindication of local : ‘| The Pioneers — of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroft 192), by The Preae Peb sw York Evening World). XLIIL—THE MEN WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. | The triumphant act of July 4, 1716, | has been called the “Magna Charta” of the New World.” It was, or rather is—for ene cannot \speak of the Declaration of Inde- pendence a8 an event beionging to the past tense—much more than that. In the Magna Charta a group of Englishmen, in conflict with King John, asserted thelr own rights and the rights of other Englishmen under the King. They attempted no basio definitic no assertions of general ~ principles, no setting down of the fun- damentals of political philosophy The Magna Charta was, in fact @ sertes of “don'ts” and “do's which affected mainly the interests of the nobility, with incidental guarantee of the rights of the common people un- der the Barons, and which the King waa enjoined to observe as he valued hie crown and his life. The Declaration of Independehée goes far deeper and further afield rights against royal usurpation. 1t puts in to glowing yet restrained words the high resolve of mankind, stecled and tempered by the sufferings, the as pirations, the exploitation and the Wwranny of ali the preceding ceuturies im all lands, At gives expression to the accummu- dated impulses of all races, uli men and all times toward the social, politi- cal and evohomic principles em- bedied in the ringing phrase, “All men are created equal.” The time and the place for the enunciation of these principles were dictated by local events. The edict of pulonists by a Tory regime in London. It was necessary for the colonists to lay their cause before the conscience of the world. This immediate purpose they ac- complished in words that will never perish. But they defined their cause in terms that appealed not only to the soldiers who were to fight the battles of the thirteen colonies under Washington put to the entire rid. A few years later the principles enunciated in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, flared out in tire and biood in Paris, ‘Then, a halt centur; }eared in fiery handwr ter, they ap- ing upon the’ walls of pi ically every throng room in the Old World outside ot England, during the period of politi- cal upheaval in 1848, It would not be too much to say that, so far as the enemies who con- fronted our soldiers in the great war were concerned, the appeal that the signers of had made to the can- science and the heart of the world was as potent morally as were our | battalions physically There are those who say that tho Declaration of Independence is “our of print” in these days of stress They are mistaken. The Declaration is graved deeply upon the hearts of mankind, not only of the nations that heard and read it fh 1776 but of peo- ples who have since been awakened to political life and thought by the which Jefferson, Paine and their fellow signers isened to all men. And the keynote of tuat message is ‘the solemn assertion that the up- builing, and not the exploitation, of the individual—or the mass of indt viduals that constitute the Nation—is the end and aim of government, oo ESS ‘Where New Yorkers Tread. BOWLING GREEN. O PLACE tn New York City ts richer in htstory and legends than Bowling Green. There is a belief that this was the spot where the first real estate transaction in Manhattan took place; that here Peter Minuit purchased the tsland from the Indians. There is npthing authentic to support this except that it was close to the water at that time and was open and by common con- sent has been considered as the most likely place for the purchase to have been made, But early {t was a bowling green and parade ground. The Dutch and English soldiers were reviewed here |and later on it was ordered fenced |and was leased for eleven years at one peppercorn a year to three citi- | zens as a private bowling green. The lease was even renewrd, but the city was a profiteering Iandiord at that |time and twenty shillings per year was \the new rental. | In 1771 there was an tron fence | placed about it and an equestri statue of George III. erected. Afte jthe Declaration of Independence patriots tore down the statue, It being made of lead was considered » | fortunate sireumstance, down into bul t the iron. bulla on’ the broken off, | Washington reviewed the 1 Procession he jeral Ship of nted by the ship: here for tw years, very 8 recently the ba “Reeruit” rested in Uni Perhaps of the idea of t old ship suggested the later one | Fourteenth Street, at the great kill (Harlem River) and the Akuahung (Bronx River).” ‘oe 8 The Hebrews are said to be tne de | seendants of Wher. json of Shem, one An paid enougt sry for the dan- | ’ Abraham. ‘The greatcr probability Je gers he had to go through? [ would | “Th t F, IN| however, that the t-rin has heen’ des hot want to inter tatather et | atsafrac rived from the native “ebhi at stated in a x: ' . Jregion on the other side, that is, of policemen shoud pay ear tare, |} ml Albert P. Southwick the Buphrates BS pom t told the taxpayers | 7 Fr ll ee and not give the po- orb J hreca Wort “Seissors-tail” is the name of » be His, three uniforms | ——_ South American bird which in. the st between anc a year. I) «ne frat settler of Bronx Bo course of its fights opens and shuts wonder if OMcer Neville was able to | | AN Hoary are aed ite tail for the purpose of entrapping lay away a few dollars from the big | #48 Jona‘ ‘onck, in July, 168%, who) the flies that constitute its prey salary he Was supposed to get for his| arrived from Hoorn, Holland, at New oe little” family Ask any policeman’s’ Amsterdam in the ship Fire of Troy,| The carmage called “victoria” was wife that has five to seven children) with his’ family, farmers, servants| introduced into England in. 18%, the how they manage. Any man at) and cattle, Seon afterward he pur-| coronation vear of Queen Victoria, raises an objection to the policemen’s| chased from two jadian sachema, 4 9 8 pay shows he is not thinking rigpt.| Ranaqua and Tackamuck, some 500 A DEVOTED RBADPR acres which became known as Bronx. New York, Aug. 31, 1921, land, described em “lying Lebanon is from tne Hebrew “las van,” white, and hence ex, ‘ white mountain,” ” i”