The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1921, Page 26

aaa enn enema te re THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1921 ‘She Coping Wiorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER” Pudlished Dally Except Sunday by The Press Puviishiug Company, Nox. $3 to 63 Park Raw, New York. } RALPH PULITZER, President, 6 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treamirer, JOSEPH PULITSER Jr., Secretary, An@ also the local mews publichea herein. AMERICAN-BORN ALIENS. N another column we print a letter from an “American-born alien,” a woman born in this couniry, a patriot, but deprived of the vote because she married an alien. It is an interesting and inspiring letter. It is a human document which presents the case as no mere man could be expected to present it. This cAmerican mother is deprived of her rights by a nonsensical and unjust law that ought to be amended. } Pledging allegiance to her native country, she jasks: j “Americans, tauve or naturalized, to use i their influence, their voices, thelr votes to gigthave this law modified so that every Ameri- ++! can woman who does not leave her own coun- ooetry may have her rights and happiness re- stored to her as an individual. 1} Men ought to heed this plea. Women are ‘honor bound to right the wrong. oe Such “American mothers” as our correspondent ‘were the reason for the Nineteenth Amendment. The country needs them at the polls. Until they can vote ‘‘as individuals” and without reference to the citizenship of husbands, the Nine- teenth Amendment is more or less a mockery. in ™ More evidence of Japanese influence on the _ Asiatic continent: «. The name of the new Chinese Premier {s p¥en! THE NEW FIFTH AVENUE HOSPITAL. "HERE is no better measure of the civilization { of a great modern city than its care of ithe sick. + In the last five years New York has fallen be- {hind in its hospital facilities. Its millions of popu- tation have gone on increasing. Few hospital beds ave been added. | The number of persons ill in New York every iday is estimated to be 180,000. There are less than +30,000 hospital beds in the city, which means that ithere is a bed for only one out of every six persons who may need hospital care. + ..As a high hospital authority puts it: i> “It ts a statistical fact that one-half of all {St people who absolutely ought to have hospital «= care every twenty-four hours during the year }, in New York City have to be turned away to take a gambler’s chance with life or death. *“Every hospital in New York has a wait- ing list, and any number of people have to vw be turned away, uncared for, from the door.” et is to help meet a very real and urgent need, Stherefore, that the great new Fifth Avenue Hospital jhas" been rising story by story between 405th and 106th Streets. {For more reasons than one, this lofty X-shaped ‘Tatliding, now nearly completed, is a tower of hope cand progress. . {With its wardless, single-room plan which gives jeach patient the blessings of privacy and peace jalong with air and sunshine, with its special floor sfor™ children, with its unsurpassed equipment and sstaff, the Fifth Avenue Hospital will set a wholly jnitty standard of hospital comfort. *The price of its rooms—all private—will be “from nothing up.” The pocketbook of the patient will fix the price. The sick man or woman of gder means who has longed for the privacy and quiet he or she could not afford in other hospitals may find them in this one. Here is a long and in@table step in hospital development. i—he Fifth Avenue Hospital is nearly finished. An endowment fund of $1,500,000 has already been provided to insure its maintenance. Of the $3,000,000 needed to complete the building, only $750,000 remains to be raised. Friends of the new Mospital are out to get the $750,000 this week. Phat last three-quarters of a million ought to come as easily as winking. With contributions large and small, the people tof New York should gladly help complete an insti- {tufion that brings credit to the city even as it brings inew comfort to the sick. ‘ ‘ The House voted to extend the life of Emergency Tariff Bill yesterday. The mem bers hate to admit they are in the gold brick game. They will plead “not guilty” until the aeiury delivers its verdict. the | © BETTER THAN FAKE TARIFFS. ("HE Central Labor Union of Willimantic, ‘ Conn., has started an interesting and prom- tising movement. It is pledging members to buy imathing but American-made goods in order to create femployment and foster American business. {The movement is said to be spreading. It de- serves popular support if not carried to unreason- able extremes. There is, for example, no reason for banishing the breakfast coffee cup because it is filled with a product imported from Brazil. i. Jt ls a natural sort of movement, It has eco- ——. for repuditeation Of all news despatches credited to It or nor otmerwine crewitea In tan page nomic foundations, It is the best and falrest “pro- tection” for the home market. It Is real “protection” where the tariff is a fake. | If in the last fifty years the G. ©, P. had put half the energetic campaigning into “America First” buying campaigns that it has put into tariff propa- ganda, our market would be better protected than It | is now or could be under any conceivable tariff bill. The tariff is a shibboleth, a doctrine of faith | with all good Republicans. Children learn the les- | son in the same way they do the multiplication table. The tariff must be taken on faith—and usually without understanding. | The politicians have never talked home-market- ing, the buying of goods made in America. There is “nothing in it’—for them. But there is for other Americans. The tariff is the reverse. There is “something in it” for the politicians—campaign funds—and for the beneficiaries of tariff favoritism. The rest of us only pay. LET'S FACE IT. | Y a vote of 66 to 20, the Senate yesterday rati- fied the separate treaty of peace with Ger- many by which the United States of America blots its war record, repudiates its pledges and skins its allies. Not a few Democratic opponents of the separate treaty gave up the fight out of a sense of larger duty to the country. To them the present position and strength of the Republican majority meant, as Senator Hitchcock put it, that the question was “not a choice between the Versailles Treaty and the pending treaty, but a choice between the pend- ing treaty and a protracted uncertainty without any treaty.” Thus is consummated the most disgraceful crime ever committed by a political party to feed its own spite at the expense of national honor. The blame, however, rests not alone upon the Republican leaders who engineered the wretched business. The blame rests also upon that considerable por- tion of the American people who view the attitude of their country toward ‘the rest of the world either with ignorance and indifference or with the crass belief that a shrewd American foreign policy must be mainly tail-twisting, insult and sharp practice. Let’s be honest. Save for this ignorance, indifference and worse among those ultimately responsible for the Nation’s good name, no party, no Administration, no Senate would have dared to do what the Republican Party, a Republican Administration and a Republican Sen- ate have done. - While we are facing the fact of this discreditable treaty, let’s face the whole truth about it—in its full meaning. If Lloyd George once called Sinn Fein a “murder gang,” where will he find words to describe the revival of the Ulster Volunteers at this time? Sinn Fein killed individual men The Volunteers are killing the hope of peaceful settlement. WHY BAIL FOR “REPEATING” CRIMINALS? OTH the Federal and State Constitutions pro- vide that “excessive bail shall not be required.” For practical purposes this is the only restriction on the discretion of Magistrates who fix bail. Several recent cases in the courts of this city in- dicate that bail has not been high enough. Crimi- nals have been out on bail preying on citizens and committing new crimes in order to get money to pay surety companies to continue bail on old cases. Bail shall not be excessive. But can any bail be excessive in the case of men with criminal records who are indicted for new crimes committed while on bail? ' If the question were put to the higher courts, would they not uphold the discretion of the lower court which refused bail to such offenders, or placed it so high as to be prohibitive? If a man on bail is indicted for-a new crime committed while on bail, he ought to be deprived of the right of bail unless special circumstances indi- cate that this would be unjust. The cases of Burns, Stein, Palmer and others now on bail for more than one offense, as listed in The | Evening World yesterday, indicate that the police, | the District Attorney's office and the courts have | not been working together efficiently in protecting | society from the criminal element. There ought to be a tightening up all along the line. Judicial “discretion” should have the full facts to direct it. Then Judges should be discreet and keep “repeating” criminals behind bars. TWICE OVERS. 6] BELIEVE very strongly that the discussion of a world peace at Washington must necessarily lead to entirely different results from those at Ver- sailles, It will be getting international affairs oul of the European obsession.” —H. G. Wells, A » iiniiihihitesieasotemteatanessl _Is He Worth It? From Evening to say much in few words. ative-Horn “Alle: To the Kultor of The Evening World: During the week I, an American ;Woman and mother, have with pain jand great diMculty passed the regis- tration booth in our city, Last year I dia! the same thing, although the booth drew me to it as to a magnet, but I was restrained most unwillingly from entering. Why? Because of one law that contains one clause that is imposing a most unjust and sorrowful punishment upon a small group of women whoyin |no way deserve it, I refer to the naturalization law, that deprives an American woman of her privileges of citizenship if she be (unfortunately) married to an allen who refuses, after remaining many years in the United States, to become naturalized. Why should an American woman be set aside as though she were an alien because the man in the case, to her great disappointment, turns out to be un-American in thought, feeling and action when she is a competent and intelligent woman, with beoad mind- edness, and most human sympathies |for al] other men and women? 1 rejoice with the women of for- eign birth who come here and have |the good luck to marry praiseworthy |Americans and who benefit by the \pelvileges of advancement and citl- jzenship and the many opportunities jfor happiness. All around me I see |these women, who are proud to be called Americans, take part in the activities of city and State, while I Jam the real American and must try to “jvok on,” be passive and content, It is impossible. Why should the allen’s selfishness jand indifference 1> the ideals of our country, to the wife's urgings, the child's pleadings to Lecome a citizea, pé allowed to be the overruling cause | of the injustice to her? ‘The hospitullty and generosity | shown to a man of this type, after he has resided here longer than ten, twenty, twenty-five or more years, are certainly not appreciated in the |right spirit, and when an American woman 1s the loser, it is a mistaken kindness, ig it not? Allowing him full freedom to re- fect citizenship, no matter if he re- mains here all his life, is most un- fair to the woman who married him expecting him to become naturalized, May | appeal to he Evening World, the men and women who are glad (o be Americans, native or na- turallzed, to use their influence, their voices, thelr votes to have this law modified, so that every American woman who does not leave her own country may lave her rights and hap- piness restored to her as an indi- vidual? What a Thanksgiving Day it would be if the assurance and hope could By John Cassel World Readers } or eaders| What kind of letter do you find most readable? /sn’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. | iberty one nation, indivisible, with 1. reader of both morning and evening editions of The World I feel privileged to point out what I consider some of its shortcomings. The World has got to be the champion “claime of the universe. No progressive or beneficial move- ment for the betterment of humanity can be exploited but that The World immediately claims credit for first] suggesting it, and forth comes a shower of flowers which The World proceeds to cast at Itself. It is so ridiculous that it is laughable. Its fight against the K. K. K. (which is laudable enough) is palpably merely a cover for a circwlation “booster.” This is apparent to any one who can read between the lines, The World asserts its political In- dependence, yet there isn't more |vicious partisan sheet in the entire | world. It constantly “heckles” Presi- |dent Harding because he disregards | the wild harangues in its columns. It refuses to let poor dead (politically) | Woodrow Wilson rest in peace. It even belittled the achievements of the late Senato: the nt) refus by World's superior (?) wisdom, {t| constantly raves over the League of Nations flasco and the German treaty, as if all it may say will alter facts, The World's attitude on Prohibition (especially the evening edition) is positively silly. Nothing you say or do can possibly make any ference in the matter, and ti ravings of the letters which appear in your correspondents’ column are positively irritating to an intelligent reader. They are either childish or in- ]sane. Yet you encourage the di respect for jaw and order by encour- aging the dolts in giving them space You inject your spirit of law defiance | even Into your news columns. You | we constantly (in the morning edi tion) throwing bouquets at yourself because of your employment of H. G. Wells as a member of That is an inconsequential business matter of little interest to your read- Jers. Mr, Wells is a fine weiter of fantastic fiction, but no better fitted to report t isarmament Confe ence than possibly several obs: members of your regular staff. the “love of Mike,” wak irritating your for yourself. elf praise is halt scandal,” Should you print this let- ter (which I doubt), for heaven's sake don’t Kill it by the use of a flip, and belittling caption, as wont. For | up and stop aders with boosts ‘two Men to a Car ‘To the FAitor of Tho Breaing World; Will you please publish a suggestion from an Evening World reader, which vf adopted will go a long way toward be given to those praying for it I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republio for which it stands, relieving the present lack of em- ployment. in this city? Pirst, if | Hylan is sincere in dis inter the unemployed why doesn't put two men on his cars in Staten Island? If he carries all the millions of passengers he claims to, on the UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) ARE YOU WORKING Achievement depends on purpose. If you want anything badly enough the chances ave that you will get iv. ; The degree of wanting, of course, counts heavily. If it is money that yeu want you must be willing to make sacrifices for it—sacrifices of time or comfort or pleasure, of most of the things that you will enjoy most in the early years of your life, and will have forgotten how to enjoy when the money comes. If it is fame that is your object your sacrifices must be still greater. On every hend are the homes and the automobiles of those who have made money. Fortunes are in evidence everywhere. Fame is more rare, That comes only to men who bring something with them into the world beside an inclination to hard work. It never comes at all without ycars of applica~ tion, é WaAT FOR? It is well to decide when you are beginning, just what you are working for. If it is wealth that you want make sure that you will still desire it wien you get it. Thousands and thousands of people have it, and get little pleasure from it. \ Z For, after ell, a man can only eat three meals a day, can only steep eight hours a night, and can only spend si teen hours a day in the pursuit of happiness, whether he has a thousand dollars or fifty million dollars. nd if in his quest for wealth he has destroyed his digestion, so he cannot eat a single good meal a day—if ve has ruined his rerve, so re can sleep but three or four hours —what have his toil and sacrifice brought him? Nothing. Every person should want independence, which means a reasonable amount of money, and the building of an ability to earn a satisfactory income. Beyond that. wealth is worth nothing, as many of those who have attained it will tell you. Fame is for the few. But happicess, which comes of independence and good health and the ability to do something for others now and then, is waitn everything. If that is what ycu are working for, work as hard as you can. If it asn’t, stop and analyze your motives before you make too much sacrifice of your youth. Onn Mayoralty Campaigns oF iF Greater N. Y. By Baldwin O’ Donnell Copyright. 1921, by lishing Co | (The New" Yor orld.) -—1909. Gaynor became Mayor of New York as a result of the fifth campaign for that office in the fall of 1909. Murphy turned to Brooklyn and took the selection of the Demo- rats there. Justice Gaynor had a reputation for probity and fearless- eee and a disposition that was like Ja buzz saw. | He came into prominence through j the prosecution of John ¥. McKane, jboss of the Town of Gravesend, for {political frauds and sent MeKane to | Sing Sing Prison, McKane was the [man who declared that “injunctions didn't go in Gravesend.” Justice Gaynor had kept+free from factional | politics and could not be considered a machine man. When nominated and making his first speech he looked about him and said this is Tam- many Hall." He never admitted he was the candidate of Tammany, The fight was for the control of the Board of Estimate, ‘The extension of the subways, the dual rapid transit system and other things were for the | incoming Administration, ‘Che lusion+ | ists put up Bannard, who was also tho | Republican nominee, and nominated | Willte - A. Prendergast for Comptrol+ ler and John Purroy Mitchel for Prest= dent of the Iyoard of Aldermen. | Mr. Hearst did not iove Mr. Gaynor, | but he loved Murphy less and decided to become a candidate again. He was dragged shrieking to the contest as the choice of the Civic Alliance. ‘Three y . Hearst had run for had been beaten by while the rest of < e ticket had beem elnet he Keneral bellef was that Murphy had nominated him and thi paid no attention to Hearst's reque to use no hooks. The editor took a leat from the book of politics as played by Mur- phy and placed Mitchel and Prender- gast on his ticket, He planned to trim Murphy out of control of the William J Board of Estimate and had an idea that wher the Republicans saw there were might three tickets in the field he become the residuary legates ampaign that would s the reverse yrnes move ma y in the first McClellan cam- It Was a success so far as Prender- st and Mitchel were concerned. Their Democratic opponents were snowed under, Mr, Hearst, who had been able in 1905 In a three-sided contest as the candidate of the Municipal Ownership Party to poll 224,000 yotes, ran a bad third. The esult on Election Night proved that jit Hearst had remained out of the fight Bannard might have beaten Gaynor, Gaynor received 250,000 votes, Ban nard 177,000 and Hearst 154,000. It wag believed that Hearst polled about 25 per cent. from Gaynor and 75 par cent. from Bannard, Gaynor went into office as Van Wyck did, a minor- | ity May He considered he owed Tammany | nothing, and s d to pay off what he owed soon alter he went Imo of- | five, Among the first things he did tras to start an investigation of the City Record in the hands of Patrick ‘Tracy, protege of Murphy, He re- moved Tracy, which was not pleasing to Murphy. Th» office didn’t mean much to the organization, but It was Gaynor’s method of serving notice on Murphy that he didn’t have a great amount of influence with the Mayor. While slapping at Murphy, Gaynor occasionally rubbed the fur the right way and let the Tiger hope. The or- eanization lived largely on hope for four yea Then Tammany, in turn, let the Mayor hope he might be nom inated for the Presidency at Baltt- | more when In 1912 the convention ver Wilson and Clark. | deadlocked 0 | The result was that the close of the Gaynor Administration saw the faith ful counting the days before they could put up a eandidate who would pe a blown-in-the-glass Tammany man, The organization had tired of reformers and Democrats from Brooklyn. ‘The demand was for one sf {ts own kind., Long before it came time to pick a man the decision had been made to win or lose with a straight organization man that every~ body called by his first name. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 89—BEEF, Reckless persons would be willing to bet a dollar to a raisin that there is no relationship between the word “peef—as in the famous phrase, the “roast beef of Old England” (im- ported mostly from Kansas)—and the classic name Bosporus or Bosphorus. In the two words are first Jcousins, ‘The Bosporus, according to some legendariins, obtained its name Hock (Latin n that body suburbs of nglish language the word was contributed by the con | quering (Old French “bocut”) Normans, thé Latin orig word commonly Tt garded as peculiarly English, definitely established. “Beet and Bosphorus are t en to have descended from t he huses, why not put two on them also | iike they have on Fifth Avenue? ‘As to the street railroads—why not put two men on the Second Av~ enu cars, and the New York and Harlem railroad and the Bronx and Brooklyn railroads. E 4y knows | that one man cannot operate a oa From the Wise loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angetic. —Lamartine. safely and change and issue trans- ters un one of the busiest lines in this city. The Unite States Steel Politeness has been well defined Corporation gave $10,000,000 last week | gs benevolence in small things, to relieve the labor situation, ‘The Pennsylvania Raliroad took 10,000) Macaulay. nen hey did not need to help aa a ee ee ee es it’ thess | Poetry ts the morning dream of corporations can do this, others| great minds.—Anonymous. ight to Wy to hely out a lit least, for few months until the, On! there is an enduring tender- spring, when the vonditions might be improved, 4 CITIZEN, ~ { ) To love for the sake of being | . ness in the love of a mother, to her, | be food for worms-—Levitas, \ceator In the great family of wo son that transcends alt other af- fections of the heart, It is neither | to be chilled by selfishness, daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by in- gratitude,—-Washington Irving. nor Passion 18 at first like a cob- web or a fragile thread; by de grees it becunes a heavy rope. Talmud, + Re cxceedingly humble of | spirit, for the end of man is to \