The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1921, Page 26

nn SORT eer A AR RTS 4 get ice cream in cold caves, and people don't do eD BY JOSEPH PULIT Published Datiy Except Sunday by Tho Pr Publishing os. 53 to 68 Park Row, New York LITZER, Preeident, 63 Park Row. 63 Park Row 3 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Pn! The Associated Prom te exclusively entitled to the use for republication GF all news deapatches crocited to ft oF not otherwise credited tn this paper ead also the local news published herein. . SENATOR LOCKWOOD'S SERVICE. ENATOR LOCKWOOD intends to subordi- nate his own campaign for Comptroller to a | follow-up effort to save rentpayers from extortion, } He proposes to help in the appeal from the recent Brooklyn decision which would allow 10 per cent. return on “market valuation” instead of on as- , Sessed value or the equity of the owner. | New York voters are not always keen to reward | Service, but in Senator Lockwood's case we do not | believe his campaign will suffer if he makes fewer Speeches and does less “glad-handing” than is customary. Senator Lockwood's service In the housing crists fias been invaluable. He was active in the fight | for the first set of rent laws. He led the fight frwhen the need for more “teeth” became evident. His investigating committee broke the building {wings and reduced prices on materials for homes. \ He is now ready to sacrifice his own interests to | uphold the rent laws and preserve the “teeth” “he , helped to insert. | It is no exaggeration to say that Senator Lock- wood has been instrumental in saving hundreds of millions of dollars to tenants. If any candidate had been able to put into the pockets of tenants as much money as Senator Lockwood has prevented from going out, he would be the most popular in- dividual in New York. What is the difference between a dollar saved and a dollar received? Certainly Senator Lockwood's interests should not suffer because he plans to stay on the rent law firing lines instead of devoting all his time to cam- paigning. “Roscoe Arbuckle has brought joy and pleas- ure to his fellow men. He is therefore more valuable in the scheme of creation than lawyers ‘and Judges, who but add gloom to existence.”— Police Judge Sylvain J. Lazarus of San Fran- cisco. Justice has long worn a bandage over her eyes to symbolize her absolute impartiality. Has she slipped the bandage to sec the movies? LICENSE NUMBERS BY COUNTIES. HE new plan to allot automobile license num- bers in blocks according to counties is so sensible that one wonders why it has not been done before. All the automobiles in any one county will be numbered consecutively. Policemen, State troop- ers, sheriffs and their deputies will have the high and low numbers for each county and can tell at a glance from what part of the State a car comes. Such an expedient will not end automobile steal- ing, but it ought to help in making the business more hazardous. It cannot inconvenience thé honest owner and will add one more obstacle to the path of the motor thief. The driver who failed to give a home address corresponding to the county indicated by the num- ber his automobile carried would be an object of suspicion and would naturally be held for investi- gation. Nicholas Murray Butler makes rather a strained effort to couple President Harding's invitation for the armament discusston with the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, in which Thomas Jefferson avowed a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. Will President Butler kindly tell us how much deference to the opinions of mankind he finds in a German treaty of separate peace and self- ishness? ROSY VISIONS OF THE COAST. HE tragic story of the killing of a Washington Heights schoolboy burglar is relieved in one place by a bit of comedy. This youngster was surprised in a robbery, the proceeds of which were to have financed a trip to California in an automobile which was to be stolen later. Here, according to the story of one of his young pals, was what the youthful trio of bandits looked forward to finding at the end of their journey: | “Howard Finley started talking to us about California several weeks ago. He sald that you can live in California on nothing. It is always warm out there and fruit grows wild, and you anything but play and have a good tim timely end suggests that even the most innocuous efforts of press agents may have unfortunate con- Sequences. The truth about C. Why paint the lily? A “VET” TO “VETS.” HE September number of the Tiger Bulletin, official monthly publication of Tiger Post 23 of the American Legion, contains. an editorial “growl” signed by “Boss Tiger’ A. L. Boyce, Com- mander of the post. follows: lifornia is good enough. Part of the “growl” is as The ex-service man who gets a job and then, through his own fault, fails to hold it, does his buddies a harm that he cannot undo. It is diffi- cult to get many an employer again to try ser- vice men. The following letter from ar employer who was an A. E. F. enlisted man is interesting. Surely this is an extravagant picture, but is it Mmreasonable that a bright youngster should pick @p such ideas? Between the movies and “the booming real esiaters of the Golden Gate and points south, we all have a more or less exirava- gant idea of California. nly thing to tone down such delusions is to go and see or take the word of some one who has been there. Finley first statement would be the first to fall, and ti others would follow one after another. + On its face, Californiac enthusiasm seems a fharmless form of insanity, but Howard Finley's un- He writes: “My experience in employing ex-service men has been quite unsatisfactory, as mahy of them are lazy, having @ good line of talk with nothing to back them up. There are a num- ber of exceptionally good openings in our in- dustry for men who are willing to work hard for a couple of years in order to get the neces- ®ary ground work.” This situation has to be faced. The lot of the Jobless ex-service man is made the harder by the actions of numbers of vets who think the world owes them a living and who propose to cash in on that illusion. The sooner that type of vet gets the crazy idea out of his mind that he can live without work indefinitely the better. The only ones who can help him get a sane view of his future are other ex-service people. The bum who wore the uniform works more harm to the honest vet who is out of luck and wants something to do than any other thing. The world {s sick and on {ts surface are coun- tries where the people are not only hungry but are starving and will die by the thousands this winter from Iack of food and from the cold—where the bark of trees and the roots of grass furnish the only clean things they can get to put in their mouths, where the garbage heaps and sinks are searched by children for food. Our jobless vets should not make capital of their service, but work like the dickens when they get a job. This fs stiff talk from a vet to vets. But it is what the best type of ex-service men are saying, and they are entitled to have the larger public know they are saying it. If every man in the American Expeditionary Force had come back from France with the fixed idea that—even though strong and well—he ought to be provided with soft going for the rest of his days, the whole problem would be a different one. That “if” happens to be a million miles from the truth. z A majority of the A. E. F. came back with no more notion of being slackers at home than they had of being slackers abroad. Nor is it fair to this majority to have so little relative publicity given to their views and efforts. Service men who were left by the war crippled or ill are in another class, Aid, public and private, should be given them without stint. It is a na- tional shame that so many of them have reason to complain. It is only to the able-bodied and husky that Commander Boyee addresses | growl.” These can only be helped to a sane view, as the Boss Tiger says, “by other ex-service people.” No man who did not do the fighting wants to lecture men who did. But give the vet who has earned the right to talk to vets every chance to help them think straight. The Evening World has received and printed many letters from ex-service men who are sore at the way the country has treated them. Yesterday it printed a letter from one who didn’t tely too much on the country “after the cheering died down,” but who decided to be “reasonable” and just try to “dig in’ by setting his price for labor “at a fair J, honest-to-goodness day’s work,” and by doing this work “just as thor- oughly as we had to do it in’ the army, at drill, in camp and up the line fighting the Germans.” He prospered, and in prospering forgo! to think so badly of the country. The American Legion can perform no greater service than to make sure no such example is overlooked. for a go “Conference, not correspondence.” Lioyd George has hit it there TWICE O+ . 66] CARE not who occupies the Michigan scat (in the Senate) so long as it is nol one of those directly connected with the late debauchery.” — Henry Ford. : « S for him (Hughes) saying he ever bought a dinner for me, I don't think he ever haa pockets in his clothes when he was out wil mea” — James Auditore. “ee GOVERNMENT reporls indicate a reduction 1 of more than 16 per cent. in the cost of living since the decision to cut your wages.” —W. G, Lee to Railrocd Trainmen. . . * “cs HE devil supervises our recreation.” —L Wilbur F. Crafts. ‘ THE EVENING WOKLD, aovbad, bbe EMBL eels & 29, 1921, “Your Favorite Dish, Si r!” By John Cassel is Pres (abiaaoe ke oe World) fh open TET Ree nn YR re Rae ae: nee ae ae SS So fay From Evening to say much in few words. ition and the Boy. raf The Evening World 1 am an ardent advocate of the principles for which The Evening World claims to stand, namely, the truth from both sides, and I cannot see where your paper is printing the truth regarding Prohibition, Your editorials seem to take gweat delight in ridiculing the Kighteenth Amend- ment. When a boy "TO the Kai has passed the stage of adolescence and is on the threshold of manhood he usually likes to in- Culge in little things which are not good for him. Until Prohibition came into effect the barroom yave him an excellent opportunity, You claim that er and light wines arg. beneficial n used as medicine. ' Very well. se tell me how many men who imbibe intoxicating liquor for the first tme do so for their health, Did you ever hear of any one being held in high esteem who was known to fre- | quent saloons? Would a mother urge a son to take a glass of be Not if] f1¢ was a real mother. Prohibition | has come to stay, and no amount of} ridicule will hinder it from its pur- ‘OF , BRINDLE, 1921 pose. New York, Sept Gas and Daylight Saving. To the Editor of The Bvening World: Will you kindly tell me through your | columns where the saving in “dav-! Nght saving” I think ft originated during the war to save gas, comes in? not for recreation. I am a house- Keeper who is obliged to rise at 6 o'clock every morning, two mornings 30, at 5, and once in a while at As we all know, the August and 8 ber mornings are very dark at those hours, I have to burn gas, which is a luxury now. Is there no consideration for the housewife? * New York, 8 .M In the Ulster Parliament, To the Editor of The Evening World: Allow me to reply to Fair Play and other numerous correspondents in re- gard to my letter on the Ulster prob- lem published in your issue of Bept. 14. I distinctly stated !n my letter that the Province of Ulster is neither Unionist nor Protestant, It was never my intention, as Pair Play unjustly accuses me of doing, to mislead fair minded and intelligent readers of Evening World by attempting to t a Catholic majority ex- ister. re the facts: Three counties, Cavan and Monaghan, are almost wholly Catholic, Catholics and Protestants are equally divided in Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Derry, and it is only in the two counties of Antrim and Down, the What kind of letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. World Readers isn’t it the one the total population of the province, that there is a strong Protestant) Unionist. majority. Unionist Ulster, | therefore, simply means two coun- | ties, Antrim and Down. If Ulster as a whole were present- ed with a Parliament of its own it would pledge its allegiance to the Re- public, But to obviate such a calam~- ity Lloyd George cut off three coun- ties from the province and estub- lished a Northern Parliament for the | remaining six by the redistribution of seats and the manipulation of constit- | uencies to the detriment of Catho- | lics, whereby a city having a Catho- lic majority is electorally merged with the county so that the rural vote may a the city’s Catholic prepon- derance. Notwithstanding the under- handed methods employed to divide in order to dominate, three of the six countl-s—namely, Tyrone, Fermanagh | and Armagh—are still’ republican.| Some mighty interesting problems are bound to develop in the near future, judging from the recent action of the County Couneils of Tyrone and Fer- managh, who have protested their in- clusion in the Ulster Parliament. JAMBS J. M’COY. Warders Complain. To the Editor of The Evening World | We apply to you, asking if you would be kind enough to print a few lines for prison keepers and matrons| in the Department of Correction. Keepers and matrons of the De-| partment of Correction are asking! the public for a little sympathy in regard to working hours, also the salary they receive, We are assigned to different city prisons and institutions and are over- worked. It is about time the Meyer committee made an investigation the Department of Correction of New York, ag tt is a disgrace the way th employees have been treated for the| past few years. These are ex-service men employed at different city prisons and institu- tions, men who fought for their! country, yet on their return are given no consideration whatsoever. | All that we ask is more time spend with our families, pers In the department r families for a days and are on five continuous nights’ reserve duty. We are housod like the criminals we are watening| 1 nt to Some, lo not see perlod of six PRISON KE EPERS, Recovered! |'t> the Bay The Preming World: | The people in New York City en- |foyed going to work Monday by our standard time, We were not faliing asleep in the} ears or trains, had plenty of time to eat our breakfast before going to busin did not feel all tired out . Be to it of Le no population of both amounting to ap- proximately 750,000 of one-halt of when we came home, long evening to enjoy gow. mothers are from the country, New Yors has to suffer with daylight Wwe got along without daylight sav- tng all our lives. are used to It hav summer. yr * Bice] Oiew ork, Bept. 21, 2031. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1931, by John Blake.) “SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD Do IT.” Into the loan shark's office come the thriftless and the unfortunate. They need money and need it right away. They get it for 8 or 10 per cent. a month—and become loan shark victims for life. “Somebody else would soak ’em if we didn't,” say the loan sharks, and’ dismiss the matter from what might have been their consciences. Into Wall Street come the innocent lambs who have money but no brains. “Somebody else would fleece ‘em if we didn’t,” say a few crooked brokers. And the lambs depart, shorn. Known to the writers a man who thinks he is per fectly honest. He was offered a used automobile at a very low price, Indications were that it had been ‘‘borrowed” by the vender in a distant town. “Somebody else would get the bargain if I didn't,” said the purchaser, and drove it away to his garage. “Somebody e would in truth do almost any criminal thing that there is to do. Yet because somebody else is dishonest is a poor and flimsy excuse for following his example. There are abundant ways to get along in this world without stealing anything or cheating anybody. More and more business men, even those who are not overstocked with scruples. have learned that a reputation for strict integrity pays the biggest dividends. The fact that dishonest people are about, ready to cheat and steal does not justify any other person to do the same thing. There is always ‘somebody else” who will rob banks Re! of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff 1921, by The Press Publishing New’ York Evening World). L.—THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE SEWING MACHINE. The story of the life of Elias Howe is an important part of the story of the substitution of machinery for tools and muscles in the performance of the world’s work. And it is a typical story of Amert- can ingenuity, American enterprise and those qualities of mind, soul and body which we call “grit.” ‘The inventor of the lockstitch sew- ing machine—that is, a sewing ma- chine whose threads would stay sewn ~-had lived the carly part of his life amid machinery of various kinds. As @ boy he helped his father, Mlias Howe senior, eke out the yield of the studging soil of a farm in Spencer, Mass., by grinding meal for his neigh bors, sawing and planing lumber and splitting shingles. In 1837, when he was twenty-six, he found employment with Ari Davis, a manufacturer and repairer of chro- nometers, surveying instruments and similar delicate mechanisms, who had a factory on Cornhill in Boston. The incident that instilled in his mind the dream of a machine that would sew was a conversation which he overheard between his employer and a visitor in the “shop.” ‘Why don't you make a sewing ma- *" asked the visitor, “I will,’ the eccentric Ari Davis—and then promptly forgot all about it. But the thought found deep lodg- ment in the imaginative mind of Elias ifowe. From that moment the farmer's boy devoted himself to the great task of devising a mechine that would make sewing easy, economical and rapid. In 1848 he began the work of realia- ing his dream in metal. Through a long series of vicissitudes, including periods of dire poverty for himself, his wife and his children, he worked —sometimes for days and nights at a stretch—on the undertaking which he hoped would make him rich. ‘When his model was finally fintshed, he lacked the money to go to Wash- ifgton to get it patented. For some time he ran a locomotive on the Bos- ton and Albany Railroad. After he had secured his rights in partnership with George Fisher, a fuel dealer who had inherited a small fortune, Howe discovered that his countrymen and women would have none of him or his machine—for the time being, at least. So to London he sent his invention. Here it found a welcome, but the piractes that followed upon the im- mediate transaction with one William Thomas deprived h'm of the fruits of his genius and reduced him to the necessity of working for his living a» a mechanic at the bench. ‘When his struggle with the pirates at home and abroad had ended in a complete vindication of his rights, the original patent had only a year more to run, But in that year his sewing machine wag taken up avidly in fac- tories and homes, and in the early period of his prosperity he was re- ceiving an income of about $200,000 a year. Worn with struggle and weakened by privations—to which his wife had succumbed before his brief years of prosperity came to him—Hilas Howe died in Brooklyn in 1857. But the, genius that freed millions of women’s hands and women's eyes from the grinding slavery of the needle won for him a high and as- sured place among the Pioneers of the World's Progr: WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 80—ASSASSIN. ‘The word “assassin” does not seam to bear any close relation tp the term hasheesh or hashish, And yet our designation of a killer 1s a direct de- scendant, slightly corrupted, of the Arabic name for a famous opiate. The way in which “assassin” crept into the English language, through the French, is an interesting story, harking back to the Crusades. When the Crusaders went to the Ori- ent they found there a sect of fanatics called Haschischin, who committed murders under the influence of the drug or liquid called hasheesh, or haschisch. The name of this sect the Crusadera applied to all Oriental killers, The word, in the form nearest to the orig- inal which the French ear could catcn, or the French tongue transmit, was brought by them to Europe and be- came incorporated Into the French language and thence into the English as : ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. norris Uo York"irene Words THE SUPREME APPEAL. and climb porches and institute get-rich-quick schemes like Ponzi’: Thousands of human beings are constantly ready to he ctimized by sharpers. But we know of no sharper who has been supremely successful, and we know of hundreds of straight dealing men who have. There is a very old proverb which for a long time fl into disuse that is coming more and more to be the guiding business principle in life. It is known as “Honesty Is the Best Policy.” Practice that and you will never need to salve your conscience with what “somebody else’ would do. Also you will sleep with less fear that a deputy sheriff or a policemar may look in on you the next morning. t made us sick to look at the clocks From the Wise | ae | with daylight saving nuisance, which You can imagine how prison! had us all tired out. We 40 mot] i i a nietonian, bul the keepers and matrons enjoy life work-| know how our little school children i ing such hours [Miod {te Now that it is over with.| passions are actors.—Rivarol bringing their children ‘Too bad all of Republics end with luxury; mon archies with poverty. vause the men want to go Because the men w gi —Montesquieu. | Ane. to suffer seo ball games we have Fools may ask questions, but takes wise men to answer them We can do without I hope we will have no more now {t as it does more harm than good Peenetarartin | t the foreigners have it, as they T would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. Henry V.)—Shakespeare. ide, but this on the other liked forelgners it (Boy in ener Cyrus E. Dallin | Brought up in the open, a true lover of the wilds, Cyrus EF. Dallin went to work at an as a miner. early age Very soon he becaine a great favorite w workers because of knack of amusing them with cs and small todels of the tas of hi th the India One day the minevs struck a bed of suft clay. While they were resting, Dallin started modelling as usual When he had finished the figure the struck te the levided vol in un tures that Was abl ene NiatBlar anonanl et ‘i a a deep insight into th neler of fect comprehension of the Indian's «rtrending condition he Sup Appeal” represents a mounted red man whose soul scems to speak through the | tion of his head and h tense hn desire and sup; art The ists of Boston, recognizing the genius of the Western. artiat and fear would b Y, a by application to the public the sum of $12,000, with which the work wag purchased for the City of Boston,