The evening world. Newspaper, October 7, 1921, Page 38

eee on ee er eee ee a a I ett ae rg ee ee a Ee ee ee 4 S PUY CAorid., ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Excopt Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITSER Jr., secretary, 63 Park Row. a MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Prose ts exclusively entiviea to the use fer republication @f AD news despatches credited to tt or not otnerwise creuitea In tas papee fend also the local news pubilshea herein. ' “HYLAN RENT LAWS"(!) N his speech accepting the renomination the Mayor made this amazing statement: \ “Thousands of tenants were safeguarded by the law passed at the instance of the Mayor’s Committee on Rent Profiteering.” Sheer impudence is all that can back either the Mayor or his Rent Committee in such a claim, it is a matter of public knowledge and record that the Rent Laws were passed as the result of a de- termined and forceful campaign started by The evening World. At this moment there hangs in the office of the Managing Editor of this newspaper the pen with which the Governor signed the Rent Laws. Gov. Smith gave this pen to a representative of The Evening World in recognition of the services of this newspaper in mobilizing public opinion in support of these bills. “With the help of Henry H. Curran, The Evening World again mobilized public opinion behind the one constructive measure in the interest of hous- ing—tax exemption. Toward this measure the Mayor was lukewarm until there was no escape. He voted in favor of the ordinance only after The Evening World had made it plain that his vote alone stood between tenants and this promise of relief. That is the record. The Giants and their supporters cannot get consolation from the score of the first two games. Any way they look at it, zero plus zero equals zero. THE KIND THAT COUNTS. Ope supplementary report by a committee of - the Unemployment Conference has been made public. It recommends cuts in building wages as one means of reducing unemployment. It is to be hoped that other similar reports will follow. Such a recommendation will not meet with universal approval, but it will at least give the coun- try something to think about—which the formal re- port of the conferees did not. The report of the conference was as good as could be expected under the circumstances, President Harding asked a large group of intelligent persons to get together and discuss a question on which sharp differences of opinion exist. Then he imposed the condition that the findings myst be unanimous. The result was inevitable. We got a report such as any intelligent high school student might have made. Unanimous it was. Harmonious it was. But it didn’t mean anything. It was only a restate- ment of what every one knew. It wasn’t worth the time and effort. Now let us have some of the theories on which experts disagree. Maybe the public can get some good out of them and come to conclusions which may be helpful even if the sweet concord of Har- ding harmony is absent. The only sort of ideas that ever get anywhere are the sort that triumph over, opposition. English golfing circles will admit that Mr. Kipling was right. The female of the species as it exists In Amerjca is deadly when attacked in its accustomed haunts. BRIBE PROOF. EY good citizen will be glad that Senator Kenyon of lowa has refused to be “kicked upstairs” and has declined the offer of a Federal Judgeship which he could have had if he had been willing to resign. \ Senator Kenyon is one of the outstanding per- Sonalities of the Senate. He is honest and fearless. The Nation would be better served if there were More men of his calibre in the Senate. One need not agtee with all his policies to admire his sturdy independence and his honorable intent. : The members of the Old Guard fear Senator Kenyon. In particular they fear he may expose the dirty linen of the Senate when the Newberry ease comes to a vote. He earned his spurs -in a similar case when" he led the fight against Lorimer of Illinois. , Senator Kenyon would make a good Judge. But he will add to his fame and reputation by serv- ing where he is needed more. He is a young man, as Senators go. He has useful years ahead of hira and will go the further for having refused what was no less than a bribe offered by the Old Guard, not because they loved him but because they feared him. lr IS encouraging to learn that several large rail- toad systems are planning to add to their work- ing forces. They are going ahead with repairs which THE CIRCLE OF ACTIVITY. tight be left until spring. By doing this they in- THE BVLSING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCLOBER 1921. sure the comfort of thousands of families. These will not freeze and starve, because the wage-earner in the family will be able to provide coal and food. This is the only kind of policy that promises real relief from unemployment. “Solve It With Jobs” is the only solution of the problem of the unem- ployed. The men employed will be doing useful and nec- essary work in preparation for the impending revival of business. They will help business by making a market for products other workers will manufacture, The circle is completed because the railroads must haul these products and will so get increased revenue with which to pay these employees. The same circle of business activity exists in other lines of production. WHERE MR. HOOVER HALTS. ISCUSSING the present state of international commerce and finance at the Manufacturers’ Export Association dinner in this city last night, Secretary Hoover said: “So long as acyte economic instability exists in these areas of 200,000,000 people (in Europe) there is no hope of stability in the rest of the world, nor of our commerce.” “AS to present state of the commerce of the United States, Secretary Hoover said: “Except for our forelgn business {n agricul- tural produce there 1s little satisfaction in the position of our foreign trade, “I do not propose to enter into even a cata- logue of the obstructions to its recovery.” * * ® If Mr. Hoover had started to catalogue the ob- structions, would he have gone back to the message he addressed to the country from California on the eve of ‘the Presidential election last November? That message was as follows: “The stability of the whole of Europe hangs upoh the maintenance of the (Versailles) treaty, and the economic situation in the United States depends upon maintaining the stability and gradual recuperation of Europe's buying power. ‘Therefore, the logic of the situation drives this constructive programme to the necessary modification of the present covenant and ulti- mate ratification of the treaty with modification or amendments.” After the industry and commerce of the country have waited through another year of delay and un- certainty, the Harding Administration, of which Mr. Hoover is a part, offers the first of what bids fair to be a sugcession of separate treaties with Germany in’ order to avoid ratification of the treaty which Mr. Hoover himself declared a year ago to be necessary to the stability of Europe and the improvement of the economic situation in the United States. No won. President Harding’s Secretary of Commerce declines to enter into any catalogue of the obstructions to the recovery of American foreign trade. The Harding foreign-policy looms too large. Sewers in Queens seem to acquire the charac- teristic odor even before they are built, MANY EXAMPLES ALREADY. ' gis may beautify certain buildings, but coal smoke doesn’t. In the uptown office zone several property own- ers have realized this and have had their buildings cleaned. They look like new and are better able to hold their own with new neighbors. It is more than likely the owners have found the cleaning a good investment. It is to be hoped this is the case and that other owners will be moved to do likewise. The dirty buildings suffer by contrast. It is the éasier to see how much better they would look if they were clean. Fifth Avenue in particular is the national show street. Building owners on the avenue have un- written obligations. One of them is to keep the avenue looking its best. Many of the buildings are unsightly for no reason other than the accumulation of years of smoke, soot and grime. Why not clean them? . No time could be better than a period of indus- trial depression, when many men are looking for jobs. : TWICE OVERS. ce LL 1 asked for was a car that would run. The one I had was in the shop three months and the day it came out broke down again. The detectives had been using it, and they're pretty hard on automo- biles.’"—Mrs. Ellen O'Grady. * * “cc HAT boy (Hoyt) is the second Mathewson.” Bobby Gilks. ‘a pee ay f N my thirty-seven years al sea I have never known of any master’s ship, mail or otherwise, refus- ing to stop to save life. Certainly I would have stopped if I had observed any distress signals. Capt. George H. Williams. * * * (CINE and the public are the only two factors that can determine who will be Caruso’s successor.” —Mr, Gatti-Casazza. “ier eee" S67 'VE lived through the saddest month of my life.” —Albert A. Johnson returning from Russia, AB 1921, dlishinig Co. ening World.) From Evening ‘What kind ot letter do you fin There is fine mental exercise a: A “Vet” to “Vet To the Editor of The Evening World: I want to thank you for your edi- torial on last Thursday evening, Sept 29, entitled “A ‘Vet’ to ‘Vets.’ We of Tiger Post cre rather proud of our post, our Commander and, if I as editor may say so, of Tiger Bul- letin, Werfeel that we have a goodly share of serious minded and right thinking men in our organization, and I assure you it is rather gratifying to have some of our serious thoughts receive attention at the hands of The Evening World, The problem of unemployment 1s very ditfeult; it Is hard to work out even a temporary solution, but it anything can be done to give the ex- servi an the right point of view, then something, at least, is being ac complished, Work, at all times, is a solution for many of the troubles, and this is of course especially true in_ these. times, Thanking your agai for giving wide publicity to some statements we feel every ex-service man should ee. CARL W. SUDHOFF, Editor of Tiger Bulletin, New York City, Oct. 4, 1921 All in the Family. To the Editor of The Evening World David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts, in a statement given out recently, declared that if public of. ficlals continued to be hounded by the “controlled press” It would be dfficult to get self-respecting men and women to accept public office and it would be necessary for New York City to advertise for Its Mayor, In the opinion of the writer, it will never be any more necessary to ad- vertise for a Mayor of New York City than it was to advertise for the jobs in the offices of Hylan, Hirsh | field, Sinnott and a good many other ninissioners, for they m quite capable of handling th fat plums to members of their faml- lies or relatives. I apply this to all city departments Democratic organization workers who gave their time gratis to help elect Hylan and the rest of the ticket last election have been handed prom- ises and peanuts for the last three years and nine months, while certain families have been living on the tat of the land So, 1@ closing, will ask you and your gentile readers to watch for the sur- arty on election day. Democratic organization workers who have got out a large vote in the past are going to hand John F. Hylan and his political fam- ily the “raspberry” on election day and hand {t to them proper. So Hylan, Hirshfleld & Co,, fs you who will do th 4 after election and not 1° bocker. Therefo r surprise vote that Is goin: appoint you. v Brooklyn, N. ¥ Veteran Prefer: the Editor of The Evening Wo | 1 think more attention |given to the veteran amendment, 1 do not think t should ferener aver- | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | | to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Al rt » | To the Editor of The World Readers | id most readable* {sn’t it the one ind a lot of satisfaction in trying his mark down without thinking it) over seriously, | Let them read “Nothing But the Truth,” a pamphlet issued by the P: trolmen’s Benevolent and the Uni- formed Firemen’s Association: Vote “No” on Amendment Nov H. W. FR 8 New York, Oct. 4, 1921, A To the Kaltor of Please settle this question: A says that Columbus Circis has more v hicles passing over it in one day tha 42d Street and Fifth Avenue, Bs that the latter is more important. Which ts right? Thuaking you in ad- vance, JACOB SAMPEN. New York, Sept. How the Money Rolls In. | To the Editor of Th ng We Referring to Mr, Bootlegger, we have heard how much he made. Now, let's |hear from Mr, Enforcement Agent. How much has he made? B. W. R. Only a Bookkeeping Reference. ‘To the Editor of Tue Byening World A receives a printed form regard- | ing his United States intome tax ob- jon for 1 He claims number (126109 S) in upper left hand corner indicates wages for the year. B says no, What is it? RAILROAD MAN eting. | ning World ! Kealizing that the columns of your paper are not open to personalities, 1 will begin by stating that G. O. L, is far from logical in his article In your paper of Oct. 8 Let us first take the proposition re- | warding the workers’ right to picket | Mr. G, O, L, does not realize that it is | tor the benefit of his kind that picket- is done. No one will deny tne sment that there is no limit to low UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) TEACHERS. ‘Teachers, more than poets, are born and not made. It is unfortunate that there are so few of them while the world needs so many. Most men of education will tell you that they have never had more than five or six real teachers in all the yeurs they have spent at school, If you have the gift of communicating what you know to others you will find teaching a fine profession, inspiricg and remunerative. If you turn to teaching merely as a means of earning a livelihoad till you can find something else to do, you do a great wrong to thousands of pupils whose interest in educa- tion'you will soon absolutely destroy. The trouble with the public schools, and they are far from what they should be, is almost altogether in their teach- ing staffs. Buildings are as a rule adequate, equipment is all that could be asked, But the old Greeks could teach more in a garden than the average modern college instructor can in a splendidly equipped building and with all the wisdom of the ages gathered into books for his use, Boys and girls hate school because school is never made interesting to them, If it could be made inveresting their minds would supply the curiosity required to get information. But it is difficult for a man or a woman who has no curiosity about mathematics, for example, to make any one else curious about it, If they have learned it painfully and by rote they will attempt to teach it in the same way, and will fail. Education will never be what it should be till the pay in schools and colleges is sufficient to attract able men and women, and plenty of them. Our greatest failing to-day is in education, which is the most important duty of our Government. This may be disputed by poor teachers. It will never be disputed by able teachers. They have always known that it was true, even if policy may have prevented their say- of strike and picket will such a wage survive. For the benefit of G. O. L. I wilt endeavor to make it simple-—A man Is working for $40 per week, There are plenty of workers who would accept $380 for this same work. Many would be satisfied with $20 and perhaps some with even less if they were in a bad financial state and had dependants to support. The employers are quick to take advantage of such a situation and were !t not for the unions they would succeed in every case, In view of the fact that G i OL every possibility of bis r ambition and rivalling Rockefeller and M van in the near futu it he they too would like to go in business. Do you think they can provide for a family and still save some money for a business of their own, all on three dollars a day? You we, Mr. G. O, L, how utterly foolish are your remarks about let- ing people run their own business as hey please, It is true that the Constitution guar- yntees a man freedom of his property and business, but where this property sr business interferes with the rights of others, it must be regulated to do justice to all HERMAN RILANDER Oct. 6, 192 nx, Amerh To the Editor of The In the interests of fair play and of the officers and men of the American merchant marine who are Americans by instead of Americans of by Cholee. ening World lives long enough, ust take Jinto consideration that there are }some who are not as intel r poised as he is. Not all can }ecome burinass men, there some must re- main workers ir. G. O. L. do you know (iat to go in business you will need money? age citizen knows about this amend- Where will you get this money? Do ment, but will go to the polla and put you know that there are thousands of birth permit me to state: I declared intentions in 1907, became a citizen in 1912, entered the naval service in April, 1917, Ihave kept the ernment bf the United States should limit the activities of the so-called American Seamen's Association. In an evening paper of Oct. 4 this American (?) organization says: “Alien officers must go, it does not matter whether they are naturalized or not.” I have been unemployed for five months, but do not mind competing with all seafarers, native, naturAlized, ex-service or not, for a living. This propaganda has been going on for almost a year. JOHN PARE Master Mar New York, Oct, 4, 1921 | Not to Our Knowledge. to the Editor of The Eveniug World Has the Government passed a jay pardoning deserters who have lived in | the United States for two yeans after |the time of desertion? Ex-soldier suys yes and sailor cays no. HS8.C, New York, Oot, 8, 1931. The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff . Peblishing jew York Evening World). LI—THE MAN WHO MADE FARMING BY MACHINERY A FACT. There were reaping machines be- fore Cyrus Hall Md¢Cormick. The earliest of them known to history is shown “in a harves} scene at Thebes, dating back to 1460 B. C. Reaping machines of precisely the same type are still In use among the Fellaheen of the Nile Valley. Similar implements are the main instrumentalities of harvest gather- ing in nine-tenths of Asia and one- halt of Europe—the halt that lies east of the Baltic and south of the Dnieper. : But even in these back~ard regions the name and enterprise of an Amer jean are fast penetrating and mo- bilizing for the world’s great work of bread production, (It is remark- able that in the Russian language the word for wheat is identical with that for bread.) That American, leading a distin- guished company of other Americans performing the same mission in the world, is Cyrus Hall McCormick. To ‘say that McCormick invented the reaping machine, perfected into the wonder of modern invention known as the harvester, and per- forming under the guiding hand of single driver the task of a battalion of men, would be too much, There were reaping machines in England and France before McCor- mick. But his achievements even before he had combined into a single machine all the processes of reaping, binding, threshing and sacking @ crop at one simultaneous process, are shown by the record of a competition between an American and an Eng- lish machine, on the one hand, and an American and an_ Algerian (French) machine in 1856, In that competition the McCormick machine cut an acre in 22 minutes, the English in 66 minutes, and the Algerian in 72 minutes. McCormick patented his first reaper in 1831, and his first im- proved reaper in 1845. But his coun trymen were slow to adopt the m: chinery that was destined to strike practically every worker in the pro- cess of harvesting, except a driver, from the payroll, and reduce the cost of producing wheat by 72 per cent. between 1831 and 1896. In 1840 McCormick succeeded in selling one machine. In the following year his sales sank uninterruptedly to zero, Then they jumped to the grand total of seven in 1842—at $100 apiece. And then, after many {mprove- ments had been incorporated in the machine and printer's ink had been consumed in large quantities In newspaper advertising, the sales swelled to 60,000 In America in 1860 and to 250,000 in 188! By the time the Civil War broke out the Virginian inventor had thrown in his lot with Chicago, and from Chicago his machines were rolling to the conquest of the great Western prairies. A revealing footnote to the record of the life’s work of this enterprising jinventor-financier is furnished by Edwin M, Stanton's comment: “The reaper is to the North what slaveryais to the South. By taking the plkce of regiments of young men in the Westorn harvest fields it re- leases them to battle for the Union at the front and at the same time keeps up the supply of bread for the Nation and its armies. “Without McCormick's invention f fear the North could not win, and tho Union would be dismembered.” ‘And what was true of the value of farming machinery In the early 6!x- ties of the nineteenth century wan largely true in the second decade of the twentieth, WHEN THE ENTENTE WAS FORMED. Edward Vil's “Right Away” Diplo~ macy With the President of France. (From the Living Age.) In a recent issue of Le Figaro, Mermeix describes the negotiations which gave birth to the Entente Cordiale between Great Britain and France ten years before the outbreak of the war. He details at some length the preliminary conversations be- tween diplomats and Ministers, which paved the way for @ complete under- Standing between the two Govern- ments, and describes the visit of King Edward VIL. to Paris in 1903, ‘As the latter was leaving, he said to the President of France, who was at the station: “When are don?” “The members of the Cabinet will decide,” replied the President. “No, no,” said the King with a laugh. ‘These Ministers always waste time. They think {t necessary to draft a protocol in order to drink a cup of tea together. Let us settle ‘these things right away between our- selves. You owe me @ visit. I'll ex- pect you in July.” ‘And on the 3d of that month the President and his Foretgn Minister were in London as guests of their royal host. The three documents upon which the Entente rested were not actu- ally signed until the 8th of August, 1804. They contained agreements set- tling pending questions between the two countries, relating to Newfound- you coming to Lon- ay condi ing a0. land, Senegambla, Egypt, Morocco, & Due to present day condi- and, i 6 tions, there can always be found {| Siam, Madagascar and” the New workera who Are willing to. work fon | rece RRN RRR enmnnnenenn ee? | Hebrides. ; 1 of tedl pentane encarta ncandaed Kers In the steel mills receiving §3joath I took when naturalized. It ° union has brought about the standard | ‘vorkers in the steel m cel’ E d. Wage, and only through the weapon | for @ ten-hour day of toll? Perhaps | therefore seems to me that the Gov- rom the Wise Death is the most democratic in- stitution of Nature, It favors and spares no one,—Louis M, Notkin, The way to gain a good reputa- tion is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.—Socrat Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors than from his es.—Longfellow He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. —Arabian Proverb. Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a deautifut dream, and not, as it too often ds, the end.—Karr, A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the pole tician—G, 8. Hillard,