The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1921, Page 18

em emonannanrirae enter . THE EVENING WORLD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1921. _ { ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER @Pudlished Datly Except Sunday py Tho Pross Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ] J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Patk Row. | ‘ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Prem ts exclusively entiviea to the use for republication (Of all news despatches credited to {t or nov otmerwise creuitea in tnis paper fend also the local news publishea herein. A BADLY TIMED BOUQUET. HAT Vice President Coolidge should have noth- | ing but praise for the record of the Harding | Administration is perhaps natural enough. But in the eulogy he delivered last Friday at a Republican rally in the Massachusetts Sixth Con- gressional District the Vice President must wish now he had suppressed one phrase. Said Mr. Coolidge: “There is leadership, there is adyice, but | there is no system of rewards and punisb- ments.” The same day was made public President Har- ding’s astonishing personal letter to 1. C. Thoreson, Surveyor General of Public Lands in Utah, asking the latter, as “a practical man,” to resign the office so that the President might put in a Republicaa aspirant. | And the following day came the news that, as | Mr. Thoreson refused to resign, the President had | removed him—the only explanation offered ii Washington being ‘that the President intended to romove any office holder who was “insolent.” (Mr. Thoreson’s letter to the President was éertainly Not insolent. On the contrary, it was a notably restrained and courteous protest against the inde- fensible custom of turning experienced, efficient men out of non-political positions merely to provide berths for party office seekers. It was a bad moment for Mr. Coolidge to throw that bouquet about “no rewards and punishments” when the President had just been discovered in a particularly bald and ruthless act of patronage. CHALLENGING A BAD LAW. HE Rand School proposes to defy the Lusk law requiring it to obtain a license before opening its doors for instruction. Algernon Lee, the Director of the school, waxed somewhat humorous Saturday when he told re- porters that: “We do not feel that there is much chance of Senator Lusk sending a uniformed police- man around:to close our door, particularly in view of the fact that he has already had so much publicity concerning his new set of eflverware.” The Rand School ought not to wait until Senator Lusk Or any one else sends around a policeman. , The ‘school is perfectly right in defying the Lusk law, because it is a bad law and of most questionable ¢onstitution:lity. But to keep its record clear the school should notify the District Attorney of its pur- pose to ignore the law. If this does not bring action, it should induce a friend to enter a complaint and force the issue in the courts. Senator Lusk’s silver has no place in a controversy over the School Licensing Law. It has passed be- | yond the Lusk influence. It is a law, and if it is to | be ignored it should be ignored only to test the validity of the law. It cannot get to the courts too | quickly. The school should not be open twenty- four hours before the first steps are taken, Which is the more cruelly misunderstood—- Mayor Hylan or Dr, John Roach Straton? HUMAN NATURE CROPS OUT. WO HUNDRED women have been nominated T for offices to be filled next week in Connecti * cut’s municipal elections, This, we believe, surpasses | the records of even the most populous States. Con- necticut women are “going in” for office as in no other State. The reason for such a condition is not hard to find. Human nature is cropping out. Connecticut was a “erucial State’ in the campaign for the ratification of the Suffrage Amendment. In spite of the most vigorous efforts, the Governor thwarted the Con- necticut Suffragists and refused to allow Connecticut to become the “‘perfect thirty-six” of Suffrage. So human nature crops out. The age-old desire for forbidden fruit is as strong as ever. Having been repressed, the women are naturally out to make the most of their opportunities. Probably in the course of time Connecticut women will be neither more nor less active than their sisters in other States. Just now, however, the impulse to “show them” is irresistible, THE FLEA. LEAS having been sighted and felt in various parts of New York, as noted by a vigilant Health Department, it is the duty of every alert citizen to inform himself more thoroughly concern- ing the character of this insect. In ordinary language the name (flea) is used for any species of Siphonaptera (other- wise known Aphaniptera), which, though formerly regarded as a suborder of Diptera, are now considered to be a separate order of insects. All Siphonaptera, of which more than one hundred species are known, are parasitic on mammals or birds. The majority of the species belong to the family Pulicidae, of which the Pulex Irritans may be taken as the type; -but the order also includes the Sar- copsyllidae, the females of which fix them- selves firmly to their host, and the Ceratopsyl- lidae, or bat-fleas. The foregoing from the Encyclopedia Britannica makes clear as day the ancestral dignity and distine- tion of the flea and explains why we find him in history on intimate terms with Kings as well as commons. Be it noted no living creature is more cosmo- politan than the flea. Long journeys by sea or land are his delight. He is at home everywhere, under all forms of government. Languages never bother him. His taste adapts itself to his entertainer— regardless of race, color, religion or social standing. There is hardly any being in all creation with fewer prejudices. The plain truth is there are only three things against the flea—he jumps, bites and carries germs. Cure him of these three habits and he will make a charming and constant companion to bear man com- pany anywhere on earth, HASTEN THE CONFERENCE. RESH rioting in Belfast violates the truce and, if it continues, may seriously affect the progress of negotiations between De Valera and the British Cabinet. Whether the blame for the new disorders rests upon English or Irish, the disturbance is strong argument for hastening the conference by evéry means open to statesmanship. In the preliminary diplomatic skirmish over the question of Irish sovereignty, Lloyd George has scored so definite a victory as to the facts to be recognized that he can well afford extra care and even concession as to the phrases. It ought to be possible to bring a majority of British Tories to see that this is no time to over- stress the British point of view at the expense of Irish feelings. Make conference certain before new menace the truce. outbreaks Discussion and debate will certainly not make the Harding separate peace treaty with Germany look any better. Shut eyes and hold noses until it has gone by. “THE GREATEST GOOD * TO THE GREATEST NUMBER.” OW is the time for every one to get behind the movement to make daylight saving more con- venient next summer, Bo.nersome local differences ought to be straight- ened out. There is no need for the confusion whic! has prevailed in the season just closed. State and local regulation is unsatisfactory, even though it is better than none. Federal regulation over broad areas is the most practical means for “saving daylight.” A general Federal daylight saving law is impos- sible» Whether right or wrong, the farmers are convinced that daylight saving is contrary to their best interests. Farmer representatives would block any general law to set the clocks forward. But it so happens that a large proportion of the urban population—which derives the most benefit from daylight saving—lives in the Eastern standard time belt. The practical, common-sense way of get- ting the extra hour of sunlight is to adopt the slogan, “The greatest good to the greatest number,’ and urge Congress to enact daylight saving for the States in the industrial F Failing in this, it will he necessary to resort agai to local ordinances and State laws, but Federal legis- ‘ation is far more desirable and deserves vigorous support. Against such a law we shall have the organized lobbies of the lighting companies, the nloving picture industry and others who profit from dark But if all the persons who favor daylight saving would write to their Congressmen, Senators and to the President, asking for Federalized daylight saving in the Eastern time belt, they would have more influence than the lobbyists could muster. hours. Maybe, unbeknownst to Police Commissioner Enright, some friend of his has staked in his behalf a hundred thousand frances on winning numbers at Monte Carlo and is bringing him home 3,500,000 francs, Of course, if the bank had won the Commissioner would never have heard a whisper about it all. Who knows? Aue Ei TWICE OVERS. 66] FIND that it pays me to come all the way to New York to buy Winter clothes for my three daughters for the school term and for myself.” —Mrs. | M. L. Olsen, Rockford, Ill. +. * 6€ (COLLEGES and universities have not suc ceeded in recent years in drawing as large a proportion of high school graduates as they formerly did.” — H. R. Bonner, * “ce HEN there is hunger, misery, unhappiness, it is the business of the Christian and the Christian church to give intelligent and generous help and to give it quickly.” Dr. Ernest M. Stires. 66170 require a warrant before searching a suspected automobile would practically nulliyy the ‘ (Prohibition) law.""—W. J. Bryan. ‘ 4 : _Home to Roost! | Commtight, 1921 bs The Pen Pubiisaing Co, ‘ (Tie New York Evening Word), tax | REDUCTION Nearly Two Centuries Ago An- other Pompous Proclama- tion Writer Tried to Muzzle Truth - Telling Newspapers in New York. THE FAMOUS ZENGER CASE. HEN sir John O' Bushwick W sallied forth on his verbal Joust with the “disloyal, hate- crazed newspaper publishers” who “yesmear New York” in a “mad fury"? lo “wreck the town commercially” in “their political spite,” he stirred up echoes of an historic event in this city 187 years ago. On the sixth of November, 1734 (election this year is on the seventh), “His Excellency, William Cosby, Captain General and Governor it Chief of the Provinces of New Yori, New Jersey and territories there depending in America, Vice Admiral of the same and Colonel in His ‘ Majesty's Army, &c., issued a props lamation which resulted in the ime |prisonment for libel of John Pewee Zenger, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal, the second news+ paper in this city. This was the first action for newspaper libel on this continent, and His Excellency then sect an example which Hizzoner now seems desirous of following, for Zenger was kept nine months in Sait vefore trial. The text of Gov. Cosby’# proclamation is so like that of Mayor Hylan's that a few quotations from the historic document—we mean Sif Cosby’s—are interesting. It opens: } “Whereas by the Contri- vance of some evil Disposed . “ and Disafected Persons, di vers Journals or Printed News-Papers have been caused to be Printed and Published .... in many of which are contained divers ‘ Scandalous, Virulent, False and Seditious Reflections, not only upon the whole Legisla- ture, in general, and upon the most considerable Persons in the most distinguish’d Sta tions in the Province, but also | upon his Majesty’s lawful and | . rightful Government, and just { Prerogative. Which said re- | flections seem contrived by | the Wicked Authors of them, } not only to create Jealousies, y | Discontents and Animosities in the Minds of his Majesty’s Liege People of this Province to the Subversion of the Peace and Tranquility there- of, but to alienate their Affec- tions from the best of Kings, ‘From Evening | |e \ What kind of 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 lot c. satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief, to aay much in few words. World Readers | t | | isn’t it the one ike Hopper in the Primaries, j that if a man comes to this country, To the Kalitor of Tho Evening World to live here, raise a family here and| After a most vigorous campaign|qie here he should still remain | throughout the city, backed by all"joyal to the country he quit to come} the metropolitan dailies, — which | printed his talks and speeches, day after day, using up columns of spac | daily with the doings of “Little J |mie’ in his fight on the “Bos with the added stance of two other Tammany district leaders, who Jalso had “axes to grind,” “Little Jimmie” Hines, with red fire, parades jand the attractive and seductive {“Down with Murphy" slogan, man- lagea to “garner 20,000 votes in the Democratic primaries—and “Little Jimmie” wag running as an organi- zation man, If after such powerful support with- in and without the Democratic or- ginization, The World considers “Little Jimmie's” vote startling, what does The World think of the vote of jJohn EF. Hopp running both on | tickets for Register as an independ- | ent, without any campaign, not a line jings unrecorded, no “Little Jimmie appellations, no “down with tite bc slogan, the added | running on both tickets which natu- | rally prevented “regular” voters on | both sides from voting for him? Still jwith all this handicap, Hopper polled | atmost as large a vote in the Demo- jeratle primaries as “Little Jimmie” ja, and stranger still, he polled an equally large vote in the Republican piimaries—and running against two organization ladies te boot. Such a wonderful showing as Hop- | made in the primaries, without the use of clap-trap, or campaign of any sort, has only one meaning—the | certainty of his clection as Register should he run asan independent can- | didate—provided he made some kind of a campaign to let folk know he “gad his hat in the ring." ROBERT LIVINGSTON, w York, Sept. 22, 1921 Natural To the Rajtar of T ¥. BC, 8 and a aiton and Loyalty, vening World craved your indul yester Ke space in made s¢ Even ng World, Ks that “The man at the country of his birth ts veral rema eem to me ver He think t ys, who does not the most wonderful, whether it be the! biggest or the smallest on earth, is nothing but a man without a coun- 1 Jew born cuted by the it h nd sworn try he mean that it was wrong Russia and perse nanofts to have come n oath of allegiance fo bhis Government? Docs he mean saree n the press concerning him, his do- | disudvantage of! y foolish, | here? Does he think that such peo-| ple are entitled to the protection this| country gives them if they do not in} return give the country their s0p-| port? If that'is what he means (and I am pretty sure it is, for his meaning is very plain in the sentence I quoted and in Several others), then my ad-| Vice to him and to others like him js | that they should very speedily get rid of that idea, for I do not feel as sure} B. that “all fair-minded Americans’ Vi Brooklyn, Who Invented the Steamboat? ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worle | Ple. allow me to point out to j that most interesting writer, Svetozar Tonjoroff, that it was not Fulton who invented the first steam | vat, but William Symington of Lead- shire, Scotland, at n imposing monument ed to his memor A. M'D GRANT. |owhich pl vas been er | Rye, Sept. To tho Ealitor of The Evening World As cold weather js drawing near, |we should be mindful of the unem- iployed who are now sleeping in the parks and other places. to inelose tb gation piers and provide shelter for them? If the army could not furnish cots I am sure there are enough generous people In this large city who would be glad to contribute to such @ worthy cause. What say you? ALFRED D, STAFFORD. Inviting Crime, ‘To the Eatitor af The Evening World Any bank that intrusts $10,700 to two boys ought to lose the money and the bank’s President ought to get | tired DEPOSITOK, Robert | Dormitories on the Piers, | Would it not be possible for the city | UNCOMMON SENSE y John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) BEWARE OF SNAP JUDGMENTS. We are most of us amateur jurors. We bring in many verdicts daily. Our opinions are easily formed—usually with little regard to the evidence. If we don't like a man’s eyes or his voice, we conclude he is not worth knowing. If some one tells us that an office holder is not all he should be, we come to the conclusion that he is a thief. We read of important trials and form our own opinions of the guilt or innocence of the defendants, Seldom indeed do we even read the evidence—much less weigh it. Snap judgments have resulted in many tragedies and in many failures. aie Some of the greatest stories and plays have been based on the refusal of uther people to reserve judgment before coming to a decision, The benefit of the doubt, which the law is supposed to allow, is seldom taken into consideration, Yet we always expect it ourselves. We always feel that people ought to make especial exceptions in our own cases, to learn all the facts and hear all our excuses befor: deciding against us. Here is a splendid opportunity for the good old Golder. Rule, which, although almost a dead letter, has never been repealed. Don’t be too sure that a man is either good or bad till you know more about him than the fact that his eyes are too close together. ; Don’t make up your mind that a man must be clumsy at |} everything because he plays a very inferior game of bridge or golf. It is not necessary-for.you to sit in judgment on any one. But if you must do so, take a little care to see that your judgments are carefully formed. | Conclusions are usually within easy reach, and it is no 13 trouble at all to jump at them. But you will generally reach’ the wrong ones if you do. What is called woman's intuition is not intuition at Il, It is a mental habit formed long ago, when women were helpless, of deciding who were their friends and who were not. Get the evidence before you make up your mind and you will not have to keep making it up over and over agaia. the theory of the Incarnation ot} (“without birds’), is a lake situated power will not be able to stop Christ, | Those accepting the full doc-/amid woods and mountains, and the people's mouths when [pane et oe Noy jformed in the crater of an ext they feet oppressed—I mean hodox voleano north of the Bay of N ree ” By Albert P. Southwick The “Elgin Marbles," beautiful ex-|Ttaly.: The n Ame was given it be in : free Government, ° eecar eat * rail ° yelief that its sulphurous “It is a right which al Copyright. 1921. by the Press Publishing Co, || | amples of sculpture, are so called b as A r ; _{the New York Brening World). It'| couse they were brought trom Greece| hated theoe at aon einen noth freomen claim, and ore ons \by the seventh Parl of of Enz-| Virgil, who wrote hrineer epee titled to, to complain and “Gone to rack and@ ruin” is a core|land. They were acquired by the|Averni” (easy is the descent to Aver publicly to remonstrat ruption of the proper phrase, gono| British Nation for the British Mu-tnus), that is, going to the bad, ae eaten (ol en to wreck and ruin | MA R oiee og quiring a wicked habit, or sinking against abuses of power tn rulo. Reet (eater ees oe | ee dante, of ay, the strongest terms, “Naso” waa the nickname given tol given to artificial ringlets, a century cs 8s “The laws have given us Ovid the Roman poet on accoynt of | £6 by ladies to en.| The oldest ruin in Rome, Italy, 1s the liberty both of exposing the unusual gize of his nos Hence! hance t 18 a fragment of the wall which Ro; | q »posin . eo. } woman. t proof against |The most int weeount of it cr, at least by apeaking and The Iie F nls, 0; ssitos,; the allu attraction of the heart-| given, with p. upuic pictures of| wetting truth.” . ure those — followers | among the| break he characteristic ts, in John| ‘The verdict of Not Gu He "Nhe a . y i € dict ¢ ot Guilty, retu; Quakers of Elias Hicks of Hicksville, . Henry, Parker's “Archaeology of,i a few minute: ae red ‘A f 8, WAS greeted Jong Island, who in 1627, discarded Avernus, from the Greek aornos Rome. ‘ a. boule dyside aud outalde the court, ™ AD: pr se amReemes reste, ce CE REN Ns ee 4 and ratse Factions, Tumults and Sedition among them,” ion then called upom et accordingly with |the promise of a £50 reward for the arrest and conviction of the authors of the article By merely changing, ‘His Majesty” in the original proof jamation to “Hizzoner e “the best of Kings” to the “best of Mayors,” and with a few oth similar altera- tions to bring it up to date, we have Mayor Hylan’s proclamation of Sept. specific libel complained of against Zenger was that “the people this elty (New York) and province stand, that carious, and that slavery is likely ‘be entailed on them and their pos terity if some things are not amended” |—which sounds perilously like some things The Evening World and other papers which have incurred the wrat : John O' Bushwick have be. the past few y ating now. Appropr nent on a writ of habeas 1d Hall when pd to prison inde- ars are reit enough, ling, which ment between | Gazette, which ministration, T pris onment did Journal, which was issued my prison.” To the contrary, it became more and more popular and influential, The second polnt Hizzon looked is that afte a trial, Zenger was defended by Hamilton, the Phil elphia j publisher was acquitted, and’ the | freedom and liberty of the p were lestablished within the shadow of the building from which the proclama- tions of 1734 and 1921 were issued. Hamilton, Ben Franklin's friend and stanch supporter of the freedom of the press, admitted in court pub- Hieation of the alleged libels and of- fered to prove their truth, but the court wanted none of this testimony. There being no evidence, Hamilton immediately began summing up to the jury. Among the points he meade vhich are commended to the atteme_ tion of Sir John O' Bushwick were “The suppressing of evi- dence ought always to be taken for the strongest evi- dence.” When a ruler brings his personal feelings into his Ad- ministration, and the people find themselves affected by them. . aul the high things said on the side of ir over- in whieh Andrew st, the