The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1921, Page 10

BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITARR | BPAihes Detiy Except Sunday py Tha Press ' Company, Nos. 53 to 68 Park Row, Nex York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row J. ANGUS BITAW, Treasurer, 63 Pack Fi 2OSEPH PULITZER sr. MEMPER OF TITRE ASSOCIATED PRES. Bie Aemeiated Prem is exeiorivety cniuce to Ube use fer republication GD gees despatches credited to it or noe ownerwine ted in ims paper eed also the local news pubiishea berein LABOR DAY, 1921. HE labor year of 1920-1921 has been a period of consolidation uf gains made during the war, rather than an advance of labor organization. On the whole, Organized Labor has been more @uccessful than was expected. The “open shop” Give openly proclaimed a year ago has not been eonspicuously successful even though favored by general conditions. For this public opinion deserves &s much credit as the “solidarity of labor.” The plaia fact is that the public is suspicious of the ambiguity of the movement. Its leaders do not say what they @ean, The public criticises and distrusts some labor leaders, but it distrusts even more the labor baiters who proclaim “Americanism” and wave the flag for @donomic gain. A recent statement revealed a considerable loss of dues paying members in the A. F. of L., but this was expected and had been discounted. In spite of unemployment the labor organizations are generally holding their own. Indeed, it is open to question whether the policy of “holding” has not been carried too far to be wise fm some cases. In some stagnant industries a will- ingness to make wage concessions would result in More employment and an increased wage total to the “lump of labor” in the industry. Where excess- fwe wages are retarding industry, the leaders who encourage “die-hard” tactics are open to criticism. Locally the most disappointing feature of the year bas been the failure of Organized Labor to rid itself | | | @ all connection and sympathy with Brindell and Brindellism, but even here there has been a healthy seaction and the end will be achiéved in time. It is odd that the Weather Bureau has not Tevealed the real cause of this unseasonable warmth. It is the result of the feverish inter- eat in the probability of a home-made all-at-the- PoloGrounds World's Series which causes the super-beating of the atmosphere in this imme- diate vicinity. THE LATEST IRISH REPLY. EDUCED to iowest terms, the position of De Valera and the Dail Eireann appears to be something like this: If, for the fraction of a second, the British Govy- émment will admit that Ireland is not and never hkas been a real part of the British Empire, there is every assurance that, in the remainder of the second, & free Ireland will consent fo enter into “a free and willing partnership with the free nations of the British Commonwealth.” This is a (delicate problem of form and phrase for experts in such matters to work out to satisfac- tory compromise. Solution should not prove im- possible. Much more important is De Valera’s assertion that the conditions unaer which Ireland is invited to enter this partnership with the other nations of the British Commonwealth ‘determine a status (for Ire- land) definitely inferior to that of these free states.” This is a question of plain fact—with the implica- tion that if the British Government will give more specific proof that the status of Iveland wil! not be im any just sense inferior to that of the other British dominions, Ireland will consent to that status. Obviously, therefore, as to both phrase and fact, the latest Irish reply leaves ground for further ne- gotiztéon. ‘Nor can we yet believe the Dail Eireann will ever @are to put an end to the parley without a refer- @adum to the Irish people. i Pickle fashion is at ft again. When the eotton crop bulged it reduced female covering almost to fig leaf dimensions; now that it is cut tm half, skirts and bodices lengthen! THE COMMUNIST CANDIDATE. E DOUBT that even the “luskers” were able to gain much more than a smile of amuse- ment from the news that Benjamin Gitlow of Sing , Sing and Auburn pnsons had been nominated for @ayor by the “Workers’ League” of Communistic wtaicts. ! Gitlow’s nomination is not a “menace.” It is not “an assault on the structure of our government.” tt is a joke. A year or two ago it might have re- , @tived serious consideration. Now it is to laugh. Experience in Russia, in Italy, and Germany tas pretty well cured the world of Communism for a generation at least. The sort of people who now profess Communism and demand Soviets in the United States are the kind who take themselves so Seriously that others are forced to laugh. , We hope the Communist campaign will have an winoe WHAT HAS AGED MR, ROOT?) open and unprejudiced hearing. Only can make Communism dangerous now. repression ERP and general regret is felt at Elihu Root’s decision that advancing years prevent his si ting as one of the eleven Judges Court of League of Nations. ot the great Inter- national Justice established under the There has been no sign of impairment in the ine tellectual force and energy brought by this ablest of American lawyers to the task of planning the court. That he should have a conspicuous place in it seemed the natural crowning honor of a career that has reached only the full ripening of his powers. We wonder if Mr. Root may not have mistaken for age a certain weariness and disappointment, rea- sons for which would not be far to seek. As one of the best intellects and heretofore strong- est influences in the Republican Party, Mr. Root can- not have been indifferent to the course to which the Harding Administration has committed that party in international relations where no living Republican has a broader grasp of the issues involved than Mr. Root, . Mr. Root was an advocate of the League of Na- tions with certain reservations, particularly as to Article X. under partisan pressure during the campaign, Mr. Root elaborated his criticisms of the Covenant—but never to the point of rejecting the League itself. On the contrary, only a year ago he warned Mr. Harding by cable that “it is very unwise to declare the League dead” because “it would not be true.” He strongly opposed abandoning the Versailles Treaty and assured the Republican candidate that “after March 4 a separate declaration of peace will no longer be justifiable unless other powers refuse to consent to moditication (of the Versailles terms) which I do not anticipate.” Even in his campaign speech at Carnegie Hall last October, Mr. Root declared: “The issue is not between a League of Na- The question is whether the agreement creating the League Subordinating statesmanship to politics tions and no League of Nations. shall be accepted absolutely unchanged or shall be modified to meet the American objections.” Meanwhile, sc far from accepting the Harding view that the League was dead, Mr. Root had gone straight ahead with his important work in helping to plan the Permanent Court of International Justice for which the League Covenant provided. Since Mr. Harding got into the While House, what has Mr. Root seen and heard? . One of the first things he heard was Ambassaior George Harvey proclaiming in London as spokes- man of the Harding Administration that the present Government of the United States “will not have anything whatsoever to do with the League or with any commission or committee appointed by it or re- sponsible to it, directly or indirectly, openly or tur- tively.” The next thing Mr. Root heard was the declaration of peace which he had told Mr. he believed would be unjustitiable. Following that, Mr. separate treaty of peace between the United States and Ger- separate Harding Root has seen a ! many which coolly and shamelessly appropriutes from the Versailles Treaty only “what there is in it” tor the United States, It may be that these events have not found Mr. Root as philosophic as Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hoover. The latter iwo gentlemen reversed themselves or saw themselves reversed from inside President Harding’s Cabinet. Mr. Root has only himself and his own convictions to consider. Mr. Root could of course become a Judge of the International Court of Justice without compromising the official attitude of the Handing Administration toward the League of Nations. The Court is open to nations that are not members of the League. The Government of the United States need have to do with the nominations. But Mr. Root has been a dominant force in Re- publican politics too long to be unaffected by what has happened since March 4. It may well be that his seventy-six years teel no lighter when he thinks of the foreign policy that has won out in the Harding Administration—and for which the Republican Party will have to answer. thing TWICE OVERS. 66 DDRESENT activities in this line (building) are greater than at any time since the Nation entered the war.” —Francis I. Jones, Dept. of Labor. os is “L ABOR DAY this year calls eterybody to work." —Secretary of Labor Dacis. conga power on earth can immediately restore pre- war conditions. The only way to come back to them is to pay back and work back.” —Vice Presi- dent ge. | to say much in a few words. Anything for t 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 hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. _THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, (1921, se Copsrigyt, 18h. “tym Brea Betinttng on New York Ereaing Worl), the Cau Isn’tit the one Westerners Co. To tue} /Eventox World | In the of Monday evening there was an interesting article Home Seeking in Automo. told of the auto tourists ne country for camping, é It also mentioned je fact that large numbers of Western farmers jamong the tourists and are ‘the East the “‘o nd. iving great 6 Ove many are teking up tern farms, so that many onc vt doned farms are now being worked uD The article 1 me wonder low long 1 will be before some of the Brooklyn party wno recently moved | by auto to Idaho will be headed back There were, 1 twenty-five families in tha lar party. Til give some of them two years to stay in Ida 1 wager | party will be back and in more than one-third of the original bunch Will be in Idaho wonder how many of the party lave been in the dry scction of the West. If they only knew before they went West what they are going to find out in the next year or two they would most likely have taken upl farms in ew York or the Néw Eng-j land where water naturally ndanee, and the finest at—not filled with alisall, much of the dry West that half of the disgusted in three, years, five years not for them and their ‘iden West.” Tam one who takes much at these land public, It place before looks very beauti- ful on their nicely colored advertis- ing booklets, but what a difference there is when you buy and then try }to farm it! Some have le a suc- at it, but how many? Men got in Alaska too, but what propor- tion of all who went up th My advice to any terner thinking of going V to study the thing out who st to farm it ts well before investing in these dry land farms. JAMES M'I’. 1921 is New York, S 1 , A Tribute to Courtesy, ‘To the Yeitor of The Frening World I have just finished a tour of New Mexico, Ari . Cali- Oregon, Washington, Idaho nd Wyoming lasting over four ny of your readers | th ( and hhwest mc idea! to do it, Kew people a tray now, and that makes for added man is almo and Where the tinployee seems ty be traveller with. » mendous linp do to im ts tre- the means being consisting of & ishness and ineivility, meantime | Ny Sight of the tact that in theory at least.he is a public servant Arne Bennett, in “Your United States,” has this to say of this road: “The trainmen were like admirals captains and first officers pacing bridges; cleariy they owned the train} und had ki lent it to the Penn- svivania Railroad. While rather pu lite, they condescended; strong contvust to the Huropean guar An equally strong contrast tc Santa Fe, of which Owen Wister say “Years in a it estublished ¢ vance of its imitators ong its cuurse hoteis and restaurants, where both architec: | ture and cooking made prt of an immense plan that was not far from! ration in America| Ie in its civilized! To any traveller) t way to go to California | comfort, pleasure and| ould answer, by all asking wt for scenery od food t means this way 1 should like have you publish this as a tip for any one who may be contemplating a Western trip and to whom comfort and courtesy are of some importance, H. New York, Sept. 1, 1921 A Vanishing Majority. To tho VAitor of The Prening World: I have just finished reading what Attorney General Daugherty has to Bay about enforcement of the Dry aa I don't believe it would be a hard matter for any of Mr. Daugherty’s friends to persuade him to take a drink, and I don't believe he would question whether the stuff was bought before or after the Dry Law went into effect, About 6,000,000 of Mr. Harding's 7,000,000 majority (out of work) are beginning to think Low they will vote next time, Does Mr. Daugherty think they will always allow the rich to drink the “good stuff” and be satistied with the “slops”* M McNALLY, 1, 1921, themsely New York, Sept Youthjal Girt Swimmers, ‘Vo the Editor of The kvontng World In your editorial of Aug. 81, “Youth- tu Girl Swimmers,” you convey the impression to readers that the con- testants in the recent long distance swimming championship tor women succeeded in breaking Miss Golding's vecord tor the course beca they were helped by the tide. from the ¢ Miss helped by the tide also. This is far Golding was ort and fre om from the bustie hurry inseparable from heavy he Western pouds ure far superior to some of our astern lines in com vurtesy, particularly thy nta Ve could well to a road such as the Pennsylvania, where a pleasant and agreeable conductor or brake- and In fact, the three and one-half mile swim from Point Breeze to Brighton only can be made with a favoring Copyright, U welter. ligh champion h feather and to tl = moon. junk. logarithms. to the job in hand. | | | to memorize them. hours acquiring. memories is something. world, memories for high place. in your brain, — = THE Ry Gn THE PEOpL TS oF E ro UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1. by Joan Blaie INFORMATION IS NOT WISDOM There are men who know who every heavy, midili bantam been in every year since 1852. This is information, but it is not valuable Jhere are men who can tell you how many toothpick + placed end to end, would be required to reach from here weight prize fightin. This also is information, but it is useless. Most of us spend our lives acquiring information, rave! reflecting whether it is worth anything or not. The result is that our minds are stocked with quantit! of utterly worthless truck and our memories, which ought to be stored with something valuable, ar overstocked with An engineer in computing most of his problems uee’'s But it is knowing how to use them, not try ing to remember the figures, that enables him to apply then: He might, of course. if he had a miraculously retentive memory, learn whole pages of logarithms by heart he would never be quite sure of them, and as | But ng as he eat find them almost instantly in a little book it would be silly So it is with much of the information we All that time is not Jost, for learning how to use out But it is the mind that can be used, not the mind that spend weary is stocked with facts, that docs the important tasks of the 3 In every law office there are clerks with wonderful es, but they are very seldom sent to court, and you never hear of them in important lawsuits, They have their place in the profession, but it is not a Reading is necessary and memory is useful always. But beware of loading yourself up with masses of heavy information that you could just as well leave in the referenc: books till you happen to need it. Learn where to get facts rather than store them away | Wisdom is built on information, but is a very different thing from information, which, of itself, is worth but little. York Buy. In 1918 when America's leading girl swimmers started in a race over the same route they were sent off at the wrong time and they labored for one hour and fifteen min- utes without advancing an inch. In- deed, they were driven back and the event had to be called otf. The twenty-four girls who beat Miss Golding’s record on Monday did So because the swimming stroke has been developed so markedly in the past few years that the child swim- mers of to-day are able to display greater speed and endurance than the full-grown stars of Miss Golding’s time. It seems only fair to call your at- tention to these facts. as your edi- torial unwittingly belitties the re- markable achievement of the young mermaids in the championship con- tide, No human ‘being can make headway against the tide in New ry pasa test. DeB. HANDLEY, American Swimming Association, New York, Sept. 1, 1921, ra From the Wise. To acquire wealth is diffcutts to preserve it more dificult; but to spend it wisely most dificult of all,—E. P. Day. The pirst step which man takes in life is also the first which brings him to the grave.—Mas- sillon, nearer The greatest thief this world hus ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large—H. W. Shaw. To have ideas is to gather flow ers; to think is to weave them into garlands.—Mme. Swetchine, + known as “the” Bastille. The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroft Corti: Woy Yor trees Worthen XLIV.—THE MEN WHO RAZED THE BASTILLE. The American Declaration of Inde- Pendence sent a spiritual Bastille in the New World tumbling to ruin. It also shook the foundations of tho entire system of physical Raatilles that dotted the map of Hurope, Like Plague spots, from Moscow, in the northeast, to Palermo, in the south, of Hurope, All these Bastilles had been centu- ries in building. In all these Bastilles sovereigns and statesmen had been making attempts for centuries to re- duce the human mind to acquiescence in the existing order. One of these many Bastilles was In that par- in Paris, since the beginning of its construction, In 1369, French Kings and their willing tools had been imprisoning, torturing and butting to death, from time to time, many thousands of Frenchmen who had dared to question the right of one man or group of men to impose their will upon the people of France. The Bastille, thirteen years after the Declaration of Independence had been promulgated, stood as the sym- ticular Bastille, bol and demonstration of the right of the Bourbons to govern as they pleased. f 1 the walls of the uis XIV. no of the iad been Hastilie, then, burst the accumulated imdignution —f Weeney nation, roarne through the throats of the Fs mob. Let us make no mistake about the ebaracter of that mob. it repre. sented the social and intellectual an- tithes: 1 the sober, earnest and re. men v rteen years had written the Declaration of Independence into the annals of nan. Tn the mass of that mob throbbed tite r the blood-thinst and the cupidity that were destined to make the Preneh Revolution a byword of } In the ranks of that mob some of the in appalling of the in nt in. history. he Bourbons tad governed by violence. They bad raised against themselves a whirlwind of violence, Rut that inob, on duly 14, 1789— the a esponds in Wranee th of July—per- marked the be- in Europe. command te ant De Lau- rw oup the structure It and everybody else in rather than surrender it 1 into the Bastille. rs held within its y razed it to the of the Bu dreamed of rebuilding WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD 72—SUPERCILIOUS natomy the word “supereiiuin” means eyebrow. “Superciliary” is ap plied in anatomy to the brow ridge curved elevation above — the c's: lary ane >t derived — tre the Latin (above) m” (eyelid) son loohe haughuly at an slie is usstimed to look upon the of disdain with raised object 6. Hence pe tUitude of sucl ts described ay of the lorgnette, involv the head to adjust S possible to empha- liousness of the gaz ut the. obje Hence, women whe us lorgnettes are sometime cused of imparting super ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. Comerigh!, 1921. ty the Pree Publishes Oo Pine Sow York Bronte Wordye THE ETRUSCAN CHARIOT. In the classical collection of the Metropolitan Museum there is one ject that is entirely unique. is the bronze chariot from Monte- leone, the enly complete ‘rongs chariot yet discovered and perhap the very finest specimen of antique metal work. This old chariot was one made by the Etrusca the only rivals the tomans ever had in Ita For sev- eral centuries these Etruscans re- sisted that growing city only to fall finally before the barbarian Gauls ‘rhe Etruscans made their chariots of ‘wood and then covered them with embossed plates of bronze and sur rounded the wheels with iron tires ‘The platform is so small that it seems almost impossible to believe that there was room for both a chariotec: | and a warrior, ‘The woodwork of the museum cha: lot is new, but the bronze sheathing is the old authentic one, 1. is im possible to look at it without con Juring up the images of Homer « of Achilles, Ulysses, Ajax, or Aeneas, the father of the Romans who fough* for their lives from such chariots Perhaps this very chariot ¥ used in se > War against those, mans who m almost inyths tan R us ‘Phe emt the bronze after the Greek style, and the work’ manship shows that those ancient people, the Etruseans, had become at least—the equals of the Greeks and perhaps even our equals im the working of metals, San