The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1921, Page 26

E t ye She Eve) World, Rerapirswep ny sosern buutzeR. Dames Gale except sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 52 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS BHAW, Treasuror, 63 Park Row. POSEPH PULITZER Jr., Socrotary, 68 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. he Amociated Prem lc exclusively entiuea to the use for repudttoation FB Dews Genpaténes credited to tt oF ot otmerwise crewitea tn taus paper GBB also the Weal news published bereta. WHEN IT COMES TO EXAMPLES. PEAKING at the opening of the Unemploy- ment Conference, President Harding told the @onferees: “If it be true that no citizen is without ex- ample to some one among his fellows, which | believe to be everlastingly true, then nations, great and small, are influencing others in all they do.” Contrast this admirable sentiment with Henry Eabot Lodge’s description of the peace treaty nego- fleted by the Harding Administration: “T think the Secretary of State is to be con- gratulated on the work he has done in secur- ing the treaty now before us, under which, It seems to me, we secure every advantage that the United States desires to secure, and have mot been asked to make any concessions that will be. embarrassing.” No more selfish, no more cynical, no more sor- @d statement of the facts in the case couki be fmagined. Under the treaty we take all and give gothing. This applies not only to Germany but to eur allies, for Republican statesmanship proposes tu participate in the Reparation Commission “without making any concessions.” “Nations, great and small, are influencing others fm all they do,” the President believes. What does he think of the example set by the great and pow- @xful United States? How would a Hardingized and Republicanized “association of nations” function if every nation, great and small, tried to “secure every advantage” and tried not to “make any concessions”? Rioting in Belfast has not subsided. Hurry the conference. When there is something to Haten to there will be less scuffling. AN OPINION WORTH HAVING. “A FTER her experience as Commissioner of Correction, one might imagine that Dr. Katharine B. Davis would have formed rather a few opinion of a considerable part of mankind. But such is not the case. Read what Dr. Davis ald the other day: “My experience in the Department of Correc- tion leads me to believe that, no matter how Jow a man may be, there is somewhere in him ® spark of chivalry.” This is the opinion of a woman who has had an wnrivalied opportunity to see the other side of the Mate. It is well worth recording in the city where men ride in elevators with their hats stuck fast to their heads and allow women to stand in the subway. ‘ “There are no problems affecting our na- @onal life and the welfare of the American people which we cannot and will not solve. 3 we fail to-day, we will try again to-morrow,” @aid Presidedt Harding to the Unemployment Conference. No, the President didn’t say Congress would wolve the problems. And if this Congress will’ @ot we shall have to try another Congress one @f these days. » CASTING DOUBT ON HIS CASE. IE defiant letter which Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, addressed to the Railroad Labor Board lacks a good deal in eandor. Mr. Rea wrote: “The carrier notes that it is referred by the Doard to its decision 224 (Docket 426), in which fe board arrogates to itself the right to ignore the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States determining the respective rights of em- ployers and employees and decides that hith- erto unquestioned legal rights must give way te the board’s view of what is just, fair and rea- @onable as between the parties and the public. “The carrier cannot accept these views of the board, nove! and even startling though they may be and if followed to their logical conclusion, revolutionary in effect.” There is no excuse for such a misinterpretation @f the board decision in question. As The Evening "World pointed out at the time, this ruling is not gontrary to Supreme Court decisions but is sup- plementary. The board did not “‘arrogate to itself” because it confessed it had no power,to enforce the The Pennsylvania has the legal right to defy the Qoara. it has the legal right to bargain with its men on any terms it can enforce in a period of depression. But if returning prosperity strengthens the hand of organized labor and the Pennsylvania suffers a disastrous strike it will have no claim to public sympathy or Federal intervention. Fhe board's handling of the Pennsyivania dispute fhas been open to criticism, but it should be honest ¢riticism. When Mr. Rea stoops to drag in the charge that the board ignores Supreme Court de- distons and airs views which may become “revolu- tlonary In effect,” he casts doubt on all the rest of his case. As usual, the public gets nothing out of such a ee SEPTEMBER 27, 1921, THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, dispute except an uneasy feeling that it ts likely to suffer when the next labor war comes. HAS HE THOUGHT OF IT? T was Blue Monday yesterday for Hizzoner. Before the week had fairly begun the malevo- lent “interests” and “hate-crazed newspaper pub- lishers” were busy pulling off‘ robberies and hold- ups to worry the Hylan police. By noon yesterday highwaymen in various sec- tions of the clty had held up a bride and groom, shot at a bank depositor, attacked and robbed a taxicab driver, raided a garage and choked and robbed a woman. What is more, at 9 o'clock in the morning, in no more secluded a spot than the Grand Central Terminal, three men armed with revolvers tried to wrest a bag containing $75,000 from a New York, New Haven and Hartford ticket office cashier. The robbers were foiled only by the bravery of the cashier and the special policeman who accom- panied him, after a pistol fight that filled the cor- ridors with din and smoke and startled the crowds in the big station with one of the boldest hold-up attempts the city has yet seen. Railroad “interests” own the Grand Central Ter- minal. Newspapers are unquestionably sold there. These two circumstances should go far to per- suade Hizzoner that the Grand Central Terminal is a special breeding place for crime, which spreads therefrom over the rest of the city and makes it harder still for him to pose as the strongest guard- jan of safety and order New York has evér known. Again and again Mayor Hylan has made it clear that without “interests” and without. newspapers that criticise him he could turn the city into a stronghold of righteousness and respect for law. Into such a citadel of virtue no crook would wish to enter. After yesterday's discouraging outbreak at the Grand Central, we wonder Hizzoner does not think seriously of shutting up that and other terminals. He could then proceed with a systematic roping off of all premises where corporation offices and newspaper stands combine to incite crime. The Harding separate treaty of peace with Germany is a kind of Deacon Skinflint’s con- tract. It has certainly put one over on the Deacon's partners, but the family can't be proud of it in public, . “IT PAYS TO COME TO NEW YORK.” S AN example of how the press is—or is not—trying to injure New York as a busi- ness place, the Times yesterday printed an inter- view with a Mrs. Olsen of Rockford, Ill., who said: “I find that it pays me to come all the way to New York to buy winter clothes for my three daughters for the schoo) term and for myself.” Mrs. Olsen quoted prices to show that costs in New York shops were lower than at home, which Jed her to deny any obligation to aid the home-town merchants, The three paragraphs are an interesting com- mentary on Hylan newspaperphobia. They are also reassuring to the buyers of New York, who learn that they can buy stylish and serviceable gar- ments for less than those who buy in the smaller cities where a small turnover inevitably leads to high pricing. Mrs. Olsen’s observations also help to explain the fact that New York entertains a visiting popula- tion of from 100,000 to 200,000 the year around. The shoppers come to the metropolis because they can get what they want and save money while they enjoy New York. Ministers of the Camden District of the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference have deen told that boys in Y. M. C, A. camps actu- ally play mumbiety-peg on Sunday! Some- times the future of the country seems well- nigh hopeless, TWICE OVERS. “cc T STOPPED registration because I will not ask my teachers to handle more than fifty children in a class. This is the most overcrowded school in the city.” — Principal John J. Loftus of “The Nep- tune,” Coney Island School No. 80. 2 *“ * »® “cc Te moment you stack any arms the Treaty of Versailles is as dead as Julius Caesar.” —Senator Borah. * \e » LOVE: past experience has been that 98 per cent. of the men will always vole to strike.” —Vice President James Murdock of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. + * SE COHICAGO is like a dry farm needing water, and the Prohibition Enforcement Office is as futile as any group of men would be who tried to stop the rain and prevent the ground from soaking up the moisture.” —Police Chief Fitzmorris. 8 & E’LL take that (65 cents) too. We spent a lot of money and will need it during the —A bandit to a taxicab driver. ‘ ._ * * 66] GUESS that Washington Heights balances Fifth Avenue and that New York has as many babies as any other cily.”"—An Obseroer. 4 Me “ week, Anti-Hylan Propaganda! xs, By John Cassel From Evening to aay much in few words. What Next? ‘To tho Kditor of The Exening World I wonder what next for the com- muter. When are the commuters go- ing ta, wake up? Now we have to have a photo (35 bents please, pay first). This is all for the company's benefit. Why should we pay this? I'm no sorehead, but what's right is right. The company has reduced wages all along the line. Why not have a little consideration for the commuter and show some generosity by helping to reduce his or her ticket and not add more expense to it? When you talk to any one who is employed by the company they say “We don't have to have our photos taken. We work for the company or have a pass.” All that is left for the rest of the commuters to do 1s try to get jobs In the company. FJ. 5S. Now York, Sept. 23, 1921, You or I. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Please advise which is correct: “Who |s running this department, you or 1?” or “You or me.” +H, F. New York, Sept. 24, 1921. The Chili ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: If a child te born in the United States of parents who are not citizens, itizen? seine onne #2 BE. KNUDSEN. New York, Sept. 25, 1921. e Actors. Brening World 1 protest against the way actors are being treated It has long been the policy of newspapers to continually nag at actors and to pick up every little bit of gossip and carry It to the extreme, Just why I have never been able to find out, Countless crimes and xcandals are committed daily, but if they are not committed by an actor they are soon forgotten. Granting that Artuckle and his crowd are guilty of holding these or- gies, why do the newspapers drag t other actors who do not attend thes parties? Surely all the papers have heard by this time that the police in vestigators have found out that there are only about one hundred people. “Phe Live One Hundred" who are at tending these parties and who are causing all the trouble in and around Hollywood. If they have heard of this, and It 1s doubtful that they haven't, then why aren't they falr eno to point out that ft te this “hundred” and not the entire Alm colony who are the trouble mukers, instead of thelr articles In such a way as to make the unthinking public belleve that all | the actors are immoral? | In this instance The Evening Worlt has been very fair, The Evening What kind of lette: do you find most readable: that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 10 ine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to he brief, wording | ‘ World has been pointing this out tn each article and Nas peen specifically | stating that {t does not condemn the! decent “movie” people, If The Dve- World Readers ian’t it the one ning World is decent and fair toward actors, why can't other newspapers be fair also? Again J say: Be falr—don't con- demn the innocent along with the+ guilty. B. FATRE. Newark, N. J., Sept. 21, 1921 To the Baitor of The Evening World I noticed the letter commenting on the misuse of the word “funny” in common conversation, I have two pet aversions that I hear continually. “Nice” and “quite” are rarely used in their proper meanings. In fact thelr meanings are frequently reversed by the speakers, who over- work these perfectly good words, Frequently we hear them used to- gether, as “We had quite a nice ume," or “She seems to be quite nice. | The speakers of course do not know what they are saying, and it is only through common ignorance of the meanings of the words that they con- tinue to be useful at all, Sor more of my pet aversions are | “refined,” and the use of “atmosphere” in describing @ book or | ay. ite” and “nice” y lead the list, ey Tt will be “quite nice" of you to al- low me to get rid of my grouch in your columns, and perhaps it will lead some of my offending friends to| consult the dictionary and find how wrong they have been. M. B.S. New York, Sept. America’s Debt, Have we forgotten what they did for us ‘The boys who went to war and forced a he Of which description fails, when like a mighty knell The words “"Tis war" rang through whole Europe? Is it thus That we reward the boys, we praised as brave? An accusation of us is their present ir fate, 8, swallowing their pride, the; to ingratiate eu Themselves with the “dear public” As a slave They bare their backs on markets, pe show how strong eir muscles! Promise wor! . Lanes Ti Smte ik for it America, wake up! Let no one have to say That you ignored your greatest debt too long! MRS A, PFANSTIBHL, N. J. sia According to Eeclestnatticrs, To the Eititor of The Evening World The tollowing graphs trom p XXXI, asticus,” are joyfully offered to the Prohibitionists vor thelr perusal: 22. How sufficient ts a little wine for| a man well taught, and in steeping thoy shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain, Just now, in sleeping most of us are not_uneasy with it $2. Wine taken with sobriety te equal do your own: travelling. there is a best one for you. Get on that and you will prosper—provided you spent! enough hours a day in going ahead. Get on the wrong one and you may still prosper—yet it will take you longer and you will not get so far. Take the little alluring by-path that looks easy and you will have a pleasant time for a while. Then you will be hopelessly lost and never get any- where. If you get no school education, your natural inclination ought to guide you in road selection. You can never be sure, however, without some sort of And if it is impossible to get it from schools, you will have to get it in your hall bedroom or your back- woods cabin or wherever you happen to be. Education begins in the minds of men. the minds of men they put into books. education. more trouble and a little more effort you can find it there by yourself. When you know what there is in the world that meu can do, you can pick the road that is best for you to travel. Find out what you like best to do and do that. first be sure that you will like it best ten years from now as well as now. probably on the wrong road. If you think it is aucborship or painting, consult some body who knows and can tell you if you have talent in either line. women because they help them to find themselves, are fine guide books to the right roads of life. But they are by no :neans necessary. The main thing is to be sure the road is passable, and then bend all your energies to travelling on it. No right road is easy, but they all lead somewhere, and if you follow them long enough and hard enough you will be sure to arrive. life to men; if thou drink it moder- ately, thou shalt be sober. It is pretty yard to be anything but sober, ‘34. What taketh away fe? Death. The answer to this paragraph 1s evidently a mistake. ‘The Good Hook must have meant Prohibition. 35. Wine was created from the be- ginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk, Even the hand of God ts In it 34. Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart, There must be an awful lot of joy at the present time, $7. Sober drinking (s health to soul and body. We are all so healthy that the doctor will soon be put out of business. yl. Rebuke not thy neighbor in a banquet of wine; and despise him not in his mirth, Were we ever praised for being gay? JOHN LYNCH. Brooklyn, Sept. 24, 1921, ‘UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) GET ON THE RIGHT ROAD. Education teaches you to know the road. Right roads are plentiful. If you haven't, you have picked another wrong road. If you think it fs movile acting you like best, you ar which few people possess. Colleges are excellent starting places for young men and & You have to But But the best in And with a littl But That needs a special talent, They From the Wise. Truth is the root, but human sympathy t# the flower of pructi- cal life-—E. H, Chapin A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. Montaigne. A beautiful woman by her amiles draws tears from our puree. —Veneroni. Absence ig like a wind which fans @ conflagration but which ex- tinguishes a candle.—M. Tinayre.« One tongue is sufficient for 4 womgn.—Milton, The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff’ XLIX.—THE MAN WHO Anousge ASIA FROM ITS SLEEP. * Marco Polo “discovered” Asia in Ghd lanace century. He found Aa asleep, ft remained for Matinew wal |braith Perry to awaken it six com turies tater, Sal Tho Western world is still won@as- ing whether Commodore Perry and his Commander tn Chief, Presidéat Fillmore, performed a service ore ieee: ce to it when they orought Japan—and the people of the conkipy nent behind {t—within the scope” of» Caucastan endeavors, umbiuons an aspirations, = When Commodore Perry cust an- chor, In 1853, in the Harbor of Uragay, in the Province of Sagami, with the steam frigates Susquehanna and Mississippi, und the sloops of war Plymouth ‘and Saratoga, he found Japan a hermit nation, desiring only to be left Incomunicado. oe The appearance of the “barbarinagat’ caused the liveliest commotion ag Yeddo, the seat of the Shogun maa shi. It was typical or conditions Japan at that time that a Chir scholar instead of a Japanese datiho Was sent to Uragn to find out t Perry wanted “~ Perry's reply to the savant might be summarized In the words: "1 want to come in, and if you won't let the, Tl pound my way ir The Chinese sc * scurried bae® to Yeddo, and the upshot of his regert was a rejoinder from the Shogun Bi this was a serious matter, and thae he insisted upon time enodgh to thinig it over. ¢ A Japanese account of the courgil, of state at which this decision w reached records the information (! “the assembled officials were exceed? ingly disturbed and nearly broke thet? hearts over consultations which lastet all day and all night.” i Politely informing tha ShoeuR's spokesmen that he would call agaso* the next vear, Perry heaved us an- chors and steama! aways t When he returned the followings spring, the Shogun Iyeyoshi had died, —perhaps opportunely—and had beén’ succeeded by his son Ivesada, thir- teenth of the Tokugawa line. f Perry's mission was accomplishéd on March 31, 1854, when the treaty} he had been instructed ,to negotiate, was signed. i Under the provisions of this his toric document the pofts of Shimoda, and Hakodate were opened to Ameri+ can ships secking sup Americaty shipwrecked crews W sured 0 good treatment and Am obtained a favored nation standing, with rights of trade and consular representation in Japan Perry found Japan a senile Infant in Its swaddling clothes, in a military ‘a senile, beequse Japan was y old, and an infant because its attitude toward the wor and its own problems was childish. Now, three-quarters of a cer y after—all within a span of a@ sin lifetime—Japan stands out on ¢ foot- ing of equality with the four remain- ing great powers of the world And behind Japan all of Asia is stirring, with vast human and materint yures yodigious romance Western eyes raly a ¥ life such as read before! i _——<»————— ° | WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD’ 79—CONTRABAND. is sf the subjects to be dincussed disarmanien* One ut the may be the question of contraband 67 war. Just what does the wyrd “cons traband” 2 It has beeh adopted into the » from py Italian eaning Itt erally conference on contrary, pro! » bringing dt goods acry without the payment of ditty ontrary fo proclamation called “contraband was smugglers were ists.” . By common consent Governments pave decided to treat supplies of mu nitions of war during hostilities 4 “contraband,” or contrary to procia- mation, Statesmen, Parliaments and pri gundists during the great wat Voted much ingenuity to the defini: tion of the phrase “contraband ¢ "Phe efforts of these lexis rwphers culminated in a wider mls! understanding than had ever existed before. ‘ If the conference on disar) viment succeeds in writing a correct leGnt tion of the expression into th. ingery national dictionary, it will p ‘form a valuable service, at least !¢ students f languag °. Es ART MASTERPIECES | | IN AMERICA - By Maubert St. Georges. ¢! Ps Poblihing On mri 8, Yel EI a JEANNE D'ARC. Bastien- Lepage. It was brooding over the cullar malady troubling his mot}g: a nervous, sensitive womup BUDS gee to frequent illusions, that recalled ye e- story of the “Mald of Orleans’ g4+ Tiaatien-Lepage, and Inspired him, his greatest masterpiece, ‘Je ‘a ge d’Arg.” ; This represents a simple peaddit girl leaning against a tree, nd spellbound by one of those vision which constantly haunted ler, amt finally impelled her to the saving of her country. The vision show dim figures of St Tin arm holding a sword toward her, St. Cath- Wie erine with clasped hands and Margaret, who is weeping The artist was barely thirty-is when death cut short his remarkable career, For such a short period of work Bastlen-Lepage painted many canvases, “ll of which may be cated masterpieces, though the greatea 's this ono, which was brought to New Yorn. To the artist's picture was greet: when it was exh in 1880, Its value was amply pr howeve by tte Immeante when it was shown In The painting was pure lsappointment, ty the artist by Mr. Edwin Davis, wt presented it to Metropoliian Mf seum in 188%. The French, reali the value of this canvas only whem had left their hands, obtained loan for the World's Exposition at Paris in 1889.