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RATA VEN ATZER, by Tho Press Publishing 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. ITZER, President, 63 Park Row qa TAW, Troasuror, 03 Park Row JOSEPH PULITAER Ir + 03 Park Row MEMBER OF THE aseoctarecD PRE (Of All news despatches credited to It oF noe oimerwise ereuitea Ln and also tho local news pubiishea herein. FEAR. ESTERDAY’S best editorial was half written by Mr. Arthur Brisbane of W. R. Hearst's staff. Mr. Hearst ought to read this bane ought to reread it and discover “Of all weaknesses, the Worst, most dau- gerous is fear. Miss Mary Lichsgraf deter mined that no automobile bandit should take her by surprise, She went motoring with Mr. Brodeck and held a pistol ready in her lap. There came a mysteriouv sound and Miss Lichsgraf instantly shot her host, Mr. Bro- deck, in the head, Mr. Brodeck, who will probably recover, has learned about women what he didn’t know before and would rather have the bandit hold tae revolver.” Mr. Hearst and Mr. Brisbane assume to fear the Japanese. They endeavor to inspire similar fear in their readers. As Mr. Brisbane so truly remarks: “Of all weaknesses, the worst, the most danger- ‘ous is fear.” But he does not apply his generalization, That is why his editorial was only half written. Mr, Bris- application: article. "One need not picture a world-soveretgnty,” said President Harding in his Yorktown speech. No, the need for the picture passed nearly a year ago when the election was won by the display of that sori of a camouflage canvas. If the Pres- ident and his Secretary of State could only for get that phantasmagoria of campaign balder- dash their way would be easier than it is. THE PUBLIC AND THE LABOR BOARD. RESIDENT HARDING is reported to favor strengthening the Railroad Labor Board. It is to be hoped he will succeed. But the President alone cannot strengthen the board. He can help. Congress could make the board strong by investing it with the power of a court of law backed by the same Federal might which the Supreme Court may invoke. Or Presi- dent Harding can recommend the board to the think- ing people of the United States as a Supreme Court of Equity in Industry, drawing its power from an active and informed public opinion which will rely on the findings of the Labor Board and enforce them by the might of moral sentiment. This second course would be better for the board, for the country and for the transportation industry if the end can be attained. But it will not be easy. President Harding will work under a handicap in so recommending the board to the country. His record is against him. He did not discover the Labor Board’s need for power until its influence ‘was cast against the railroad unions. When the Pennsylvania Railroad—to mention only one of several similar instances—defied the Labor Board and “struck” against its decisions, President Harding did not rush to the defense of the board and call for united public condemnation of the Pennsylva If the Labor Board is to function effectively as a Supreme Court of Equity with findings enforce- able by public opinion, then public opinion must function all the time in support of all the decisions of the board, If a railroad system defies the hoard, it must be forced into line. The public must find a way to make its will effective before either party to the dispute gets it by the throat. The dismissal of a dozen Prohibition agents has been recommended at Philadelphia, Commis- sioner Haynes announces, Still they come and go. Some day the hard sense of the American people will ask whether a law that gives such unprecedented trouble in the attempt to enforce it can possibly be a good Taw, a THE GIRL SCOUTS’ NINTH. T IS a pleasure to congratulate the Girl Scout organization on its ninth birthday and to wish every Girl Scout many happy returns of scouting joys. The ninth of the Scout Laws is: “A Girl Scout is thrifty.” The organization is observing the week of the ninth anniversary with particular emphasis on the Ninth La The € are on the tch this week to pick up m hat contribu tions to Scout funds will not have to come out of the pockets of parents. We need the Girl Scout organization as much as —perhaps more than—the Boy Scouts. Boys have always had a good deal of the Tom Sawyer in them. A generation ago Elsie of the multitudinous Elsie books was commonly held up as the guide for grow- ing girls. A lively creature such as Jo of the Little Women series might be tolerated but not en- cour, But about ten 5 ii} int agitate for equal rig Nfrage. Like mother like daughter. The girls looked on the Boy and wanted equal privileges. Girl Scout troops re- sulted. The “Ja’ type of girl has gained new. ap- Scouts THE EVENING W preciation as a more useful and completely de- veloped individual than an Elsie, What a fine sort of Scout leader Louisa Alcott’s Jo would have made! And she would have been needed and would have heen welcomed in the or- ganization. The lack of scout leaders, Captains and Lieutenants, is the principal hindrance to growth of the organization. By no means every woman, or young woman, can qualify as a leader. But for those who can there is an opportunity for pleasure and service hard to beat. Interest in the movement is so strong that Co- lumbia University has opened a course of training for Scout leaders. The young woman who can satisfy National Headquarters that she is qualified for leadership will find immediate opportunity. Other girls who realize their lack of training would do well to prepare themselves for the work, Learning to be a good Scout leader would lead to real accomplishment. Scout leaders will make good wives and mothers—and good citizens. It ts worth looking into. The National Headquarters is at No. 189 Lexington Avenue. “NEGATIVELY HONEST.” OBODY has ever quite understood why Mayor Hylar Major Frederick H. Bugher, lasted only twenty-three deys. The Mayor confided the secret to members of the Kiwanis Club at luncheon yesterday: “When Commissioner Bugher told the Meyer committee recently that he had resigned as Po- ice Commissioner he sald what was not true, I fired him. Mr. Bugher was honest, but he was. negatively honest. I saw that he was a man who would not do anything.” “Negatively honest”? ‘ A “negatively honest” Police Commissioner is first’ Police Commissioner, one who can’t attract $12,000 windfalls from Wall | Street. A “negatively horiest” Police Commissioner is one who wouldn't think to suggest “flourishes and ruffles” for the Mayor. A “negatively honest” Police Commissioner is one who might become sensitive and uneasy while citizens of New York were being held up, pistoled and blackjacked during one of the worst eras of banditry the city Ifis ever known. A “negatively honest” Polic ohe likely to forget that his principal job is to keep bouquets moving between Police Headquarters and the City Hall. That's a “negatively honest’ Police Commi sioner, Now we'll ask one: What's an “honestly negative’ Mayor? Commissioner is For debate in every happy home: Would we hang the Gainsborough “Blue THE CITY'S BEST FOP EW YORK'’S welcome to « 4 Italy’s armies was all th to the beautiful Italian wether. It was a warm greeting n the heart and must have, penetrated even the itary reserve of the distinguished guest. The city has heen eager to get a look at Gen. Diaz. It has long wished to shake the hand of the great Italian soldier who became a tower of hope and strength in his country’s darkest hour, who re- trieved the Caporetto dis organized the Ital- jan armies, revived Italian cor(dence and rallied both with glorious results to hold the Austrians at the Piave. The war is over and, as the It said yesterday, progress and work.” The solid friendship and understanding between America and Italy need no “cementing.” They are as firm as a rock, and must continue so despite the vagaries of American foreign policy in the hands of a party whose chief concern is to repudiate the pledges of ils predecessor in power New York was not thinking of treaties and diplo- it hen it cheered ( Diaz. It Sing its hearty admiration and good-will DIAZ. amander of yesterday—even Army Chief re for peace, Tian “both our countries a macy yes only expr for the First Soldier of an Italy so many of whose sons are its sure and valued friends. The best the city has for Gen. Diaz! Some passages in President Harding's Yori- town speec! well study wit uggest that budding orators may care the “r" section of the die tionary will discover many words which t he sirung together to make rare and roll ing reverberations, For example, consider the toriea! porsibilities ¢ hralled in retro ect and rey reverie.’ nt TWICE OVERS. 66] IKE America, Italy made war, Italy won war, Like America, Italy wants peace and realizes with America that to make world peace we muist disorm not only weapons but the spirit and pros- slene Wha hone Tor ide es Gont Dias 6e COURAGEOUS days pass a just law Federal tribunal before which the laboring man mighl receive justice without warring on the public.” —Gov. Allen of Kansas. } Congress creating ¢ ORLD; THURSDAY, OOTOBE to America R 20, 1921. Cay 1081, ! ‘by The Brews Publishing Uo, . (The New York Evening World), ight, 1081 | | | | | | | | ‘From Evening World Readers Se gis | | What kind or lette: doyou find most readable: /sn’t it tha one 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 © say much 11 few words Take time to he briet. ’ evidenced by and children. Live Wires. his attacks on women To the Editor of The ug World SUBSCRIBER. | One woid to the Prohibitiontsts.| New York, Oct. 17. 192 The land of grapes and wine has | One ‘ iibiell e e Fr Police Veter produced Galileo, Galvanus, Volts | ay en pan ‘ and Ma BL ROGGAV S| | ate er eiaue Byetina Ward |” New ye ‘i | I note a veteran of 165th Infantry | writes regarding the veterans’ pre Native Born and Nataralized. | ehee amendmen nd states that a To the Editor of the Ivening World “man handed a pamplilet In a In answer to Mr. Shanley's “Native | Subway train which to his con- nt tained a uid h | Born” in The Evening World of Get | 13, 1 questioned of bur the and the writer] lieve that he Americaniam oj } W« the American Association | the police and firemen sought exemp- because, according to its published | tion and were a lot of slackers, and pronaganda, it secks to bar natural-| that the patrolmen and firemén ized citizens from American ships, a) | talked of nothing but getcng this ex- though these same ption the: service during It's more than evident that that aE ed veteran doesn’t know what he is tail Shanley says native born first, Information:twa'p mphlets di | by firemen, stributed nen and ot N they did not tell us that in the earl poli | part of 1917, when the “tin fish" were | doubt our friend received ci entiful rt ther, and I as a vete Penhie . . Spanish-American V The A. S.A, may, as Mr. Shanley | anytiong unfay in it uralized citizens in our merchant | tember how many times the service, That seeme strange, fur any My i nN let | Nie time it mentioned such citizens in = Commissioners, ption or def fication for flremen and policeme’ well remember the talk in station houses, The men wanted the same break as ¢ 1A or any- ved that. By] thing. Thi me privi- « to the land | lege to enlis' the civilian, and they punish them | wanted to do tt right, and this was nda it advocated driving them nfortunately, it is true that Wization does not always make zens, but then neither does ail means send them ba of thelr birth (or bette: | here) if naturalized citizens are false | denied them, M police and fire- | 1 do not mean tq ta © part offand had oppe mimis, on United States ships whol sions, but « not hecome cit n years’ service, i foreign-born eitizens go to look for a | \ ship if denied work on their _own| work wd against the ad (American) ships. [am not an of that amendment as an: lishman, Mr, Shanley, but I haveleran ever dared. It's sailed in lime juice ships and found several Americans and Scandinavians in their crews, Germany allowed aliens to hold any position in her ships if they could pass the examinations, which, of course, were conducted In German. May I say n that my argument that our friend hasn't used his brains for to my mind no man would seck a law for himsel¢ which would injure his offspring. I've got a couple of youngsters that L am nmiore than proud of, and [ dare say that I'd | be lower t un animal if T did any- they did war 1 1 tha ' i Why not be men and take the ex- amination like men? Who wants to be a 70 per cent, man or boss? Take hope and have brains for your side ism? New York, Oct By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Jobn Blake.) * DIFFERENCES, Look at men at work. Two men in an office both occupy similar desks. Both read about the same amount of mail, write about the same number of letters, / Both keep the same hours. Both apparently are doing the same thing. Yet one of them n be getting fifteen hundred dollars a year and the other fifteen thousand, In a stage company are two actors. One plays perhaps the part of a millionaire—a shrewd, He astute man of business. He looks importe nets ‘n- port Another plays the part of a poor dilapidated, perhaps little more than half-witted, loafer. crious mistakes, and ought to carry you far on the road you are going to travel. The man who plays the millionaire gets perhaps eighty dollars a week, The one who plays the part of the loafer gets eight hundred a week. Differences are inside men, not outsid: ‘To horses all of us look pretty mu: .ke, and all Chinese look pretty much alike to Americans wt Europeans, The difficulty is for the observer to note these differ- ences, to deduce them from a few words, a look, a gesture, perhaps a manner otf speaking. Men are » fascinating study. It is important and interesting to learn the difference between them by what they say and what they do, and how the. ay and dc it. ‘The biggest part of an executive's business is in pickirg out men, and fitting each to the right task. Many men talk well who are worth but little. Others talk haltingly, or hardly at all, who are extremely able, Study them, and think about them, You can never find out what is inside their heads by looking at the outsides, Neither can you copy their accom- plishments by copying their appearance and manner. But if you learn to put correct values on them you hava learned an important lesson—one that will save you maay UNCOMMON SENSE eee nade 5 cea aia ay out of every ten th their famil at home woud in- 1 have been he |to raise millions of dollars for te ven on earth, |Liberty loan and Red Cross. Prior to the declaration of war the firemen of tle in the A. B. F. and the percent. of killed and wounded to the number Beat “Red Mike.” To the Kaitor of The Evening World: Give us a little more Curran—and ‘New York City were receiving one something from, some one you will be |twenty-four-hour leave of absence proud to confer with; a man and alevery fifth day. But during the war partner, some one you may learn Clark for District Attorney, and less of other stuff, We must : Mike.” JOHN W | New York, Qet, 17, 1921 | May t ntence be carried ott in | full ‘The police force is well rid of such @ member, whose lack of manliness is 100 per cent. man. Vote no on that|tney were allowed only one day off Craristic measure, | dee | Compare the number of men in bat- of men in the New York Police and Fire Departments and the percentage of killed and injured, Then you will get the answer as to whether or not there are any greater risks in war ; A PATROLATAN. *{n every ten days. They clatm th@reltnan those necountered by the novne - are no greater risks in war than those! oz 2 e i ere encounte i oby firemen 1 the __ For Veterans! Preferen aeountersd en wo t .. np . Tires Se “ c 4 » an ed trom them. 1 . nbria and Soulasons. Look eereeine : jow in at andes on Fif Avenue was|f et our gallant ealleg upon Jo Put damn Y not halt 48 difficult as lookout duty! Vote yes on Amendment No. 1, police duty was necessary because of On transports and destroyers in the parades aud palslotia gatherings, North Sea, The men in the Argonne Oct, 16, 1921, 165TH REG'T, A.B FP, ‘The Great Teacher In Action By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. Coyrright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co, othe New Yorn Evening World), _ SWEEPING OUT VESUVIUS. \ Matt. 5:43-8. | A great Italian scientist once satd, “It [had a son who was a chimney- sweep I would not be satistied until he had swept out old Vesuvius.” Here we have an explanation of the hardest of all the Great Teach~ er's sayings—that saying about lov~ ing our enemies. How can we do it? It simply cannot be done, It is as [natural for us to hate our €nemies as It ts fur us to love our friends, We cannot help lov yse who love and ng t y teu « mut it for a His ima on the {Mount the ‘Teacher went through the whole gamut of big ideas, and closed with the biggest of all—that about loving our enemies— the paradox of paradoxes, the very Pinnacle of the impossible in human thought and actioa. And why did He lay upon us the Quixotic command? By a long call anticipating the Italian sa- was commanding us to Vesuvius,” to undertake stich a contne > quest s answered ii 4 Rifort! str ! no particle of effort to love tho: jlove us. vxdy can do that Apest, ‘most Jejune and spineless of |mortals ‘can manage very casily (0 love those who love him: The poor despised publicans can do that. To love those who love us Is as easy aa slipping down a greased pole. All that you have to do is to all But to love those who hate you, ta feel kindly toward those who perse~ res the hardest con- —AND IT I8 FOR +LH 3 oO THE STRU |} THAT THER COMMAND Is LAID UPON US. The chimney sweep will never sweep out Vesuvius; but all the same he will become a much more efficient sweep by thinking ever of the big job that is practically impossible, We may never be able to love our enemies, in the same way at least that we love our friends, but the steady, persistent EFFORT to love them wiil result tn our becoming very much noble characters than we could poss stbly have become WITHOUT THB EFFORT. Now, It ts the effort that the Great Teacher has in mind. Not the moun= tain height so much as the , per= ‘ring climbing up the mountain Not perfection (which, humanly ing, is but a dream), but the endeavor after it. re is but one infinite and eternal and thero is no likelihood of there ever being another; und yet the command comes to us, “Be ye, there» fore, perfect, event as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Was the Great Teacher beside Him- self? On the contrary, He was the vanest and most level-headed being ever on this earth. And here is wh He meant: “Strive after the perfe tion of God, and while you will ne reach {t, you will most certainly be- come purer and nobler for the strive ing” By Maubert St. Georges. Om is New York Brenig Won. = ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Gutzon Borglum. Every sculptor at some time during his career has tried to represent Abra« ham Lincoln in some way, whether in full length or bust. Of all thes undoubtedly the most famous, the most lifelike, 1s that which was made by Gutzon Borglum, and which |be seen on the plaza of the {County Court House of Newark, N. J. It was the bequest of the late Mr, Amos Van Horn which enabled tha City of Newark to purchase for §25,4 000 this magnificent piece of sculpe ture. This statue is considered the most original of all the representations of Lincoln, and 18 acknowledged to bi the finest likeness of him in the coun« try. He is seated on a long bench with his famous plug hat beside him, The pose 1s suggestive chiefly of the isolation and loneliness always ass0~ |clated with his life, | Part of the strangeness of the fig- ure is due to tho lack of a pedestal, [Bur this lack ts Instrumental In givs ing an added appeal—the sight of lit. tle pickaninnles climbing upon his knees and clasping their arms around the neck of the man who gave them freedom. Another thing that makes for effecd is the tablet at the back just m tioning Lincoln Post No. 11, G. A. and saying nothing of the great represented there nor of the man whe created this most perfect reproduc tion. “That's a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick Coorrit Yoek heats Work e on Since 1880 there have been 810,« 000 miles of surfaced thoroughfares constructed {n the United States and Canada, and $3,000,000,000 has been spent for highway improvements. | It was on Jos 1, 1898, that the lot ‘ r New is went e entire an nm north o e Martens 1 part of Westchester Count becam officially known as tie Bo ough of the Bronx. It 1s nove, add tionally, Bronx County, New York, eer) The florin is a silver coin of the value of half a dollar, originally coined at Florence, Italy. It still bears on {ts reverse side @ repre. sentation of a lily, symbolical of the City of Flowers, as the name Flora ence indicates, | On the spot in Rome where Man- Oupit had for himself the Romans no Moneta, Manlius had Gaul's invasion cackling of the sacred ubsequently this temple of Both the come, th