The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 38

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OoTOBER 28, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by The Preas Publis! Company. Nos, 68 (0 63 Park Raw, New York. ! RALPH PULITZHN. President, 69 Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 03 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITSEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. — a MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, S he Associated Prem te exctustvely Of all news deepeicher credited! And also the local news publishea bereia FOCH—THE MAN. HEN Marshal Foch steps ashore to-day he will walk into the opened heart of America. Marshal Foch’s relationship to America is unique. He is a Frenchman, but he is also a former Grand Commander of the American Expeditionary Force. In the critical moments of the war he was the Su- preme Chief of the military machine, with power 3 to give orders even to Gen. Pershing. Other dis- . tinguished visitors have claim to warm welcome. | But Foch is one of us as no other visitor can be. } When. Foch visits the American Legion convention tt will be as a comrade. The A. E. F. was once a part of Foch’s great and triumphant army. But a though Foch is one of us, he is also a stranger. To, introduce him it would be hard to { 5 find better diet than Stephane Lauzanne’s ac- oa count of how it happened that Foch became the i Grand Commander, as told in his “Great Men and Great Days.” It was that critical March, 1918, when the Ger- mans were hammering hard. The French Govern- ment, relying on the advice of Petain, considered ; withdrawal and even faced the probability of leav- : ing Paris. Clemenceau, Poincare and Loucheur went to Doullens to meet the English chiefs—Haig, Milner and others. j The English were in conference, and this gave , Foch the opportunity to talk to the French Presi- dent and explain the plan id prospect, of which he disapproved. Here is Lauzanne’s report of what Foch said: “Paris! Paris has nothing to do with this matter. Paris is far off. We oug. © to stop the Boche right here. We have or y got to say, ‘He shall not pass!’ and he will not pass. We can always stop the Boche. We have only got to give the order. It is only | necessary to say, ‘Retreat no further.’ I will ? guarantee you that three-fourths of the bat- ¥ tle {s won when we know we are not going to retreat. France is France, and France / does not die. Haig and Petain are two men who are keeping a door closed, each one by —s pushing on a eeparate bolt, ‘The door has , * been broken down, There they are, both: of them, each one at his own bolt, watching the enemy pour in and not knowing how to close the door and who ought to make the first move. ; “You know my method, I would drive a nail in the door, here; then one at that point; then at this one. The Boche would be almost stopped. Then I'd drive another one in here. And the Boche wonld be stopped. We can always stop the Boche.” Meanwhile, Clemenceau had come up. He was / impressed. Lauzanne says Clemenceau “did not j like Gen. Foch very much.” But Clemenceau said to Loucheur: “That's a man.” In the conference Foch had opportunity to repeat his plan. Lord Milner heard and beckoned to Clem- enceau. Lauzanne reports that Milner was over- heard saying several times, “There's our man.” Foch’s eloquence of conviction had saved the day a —and the world. “That's a man,” said Clemenceau. “There’s our man,” said Milner. Foch had converted the doubt- ers. Foch had his way. He was “a man,” then “our man” and, finally, “the man.” America welcomes him as all three af once Isn't Congress straining at a gnat and swal lowing a camel in disciplining Blanton if follows by seating NewBerry? t FOR THE LEGION TO CORRECT. T IS hardly probable that opposition to Amend- ment No. 1 was the sole cause of the action by the New York County Committee of the Amer- ican Legion in voting to recommend the suspension of the charter of the Willard Straight Post of the organization. Willard Straight wasn’t much of a patriot, ac- cording to some standards of measurement. He only died for his country. But he wasn’t orthodox. He was a “liberal.” He believed, among other things, in free speech and free opinion. He believed that the best way to combat a wrong opinion was to discuss it in the open, find out both sides and then trust to the good sense of democracy to find the best way out. Naturally the group of young men who chose the name of Willard Straight for their post ad- mired the man. Most of them were “liberals.” Many had decided ideas, and they have been ex- pressing them. The post has differed with the majority of the Legion on other issues. The action of the County Committee looks very much like an effort at suppression. It is a foolish sort of action. The American Legion is too big and strong an organization for such tactics. It can afford to encourage criticism from within its ranks. It cannot hope to set up a successful censorship of opinion. It ought not to try. It is to be hoped that, the Legion as a whole wil! the lacal o its mistake. Such criti- ul catiued to the uss for repabiieatiom JC of nos otnerwive crewitea to tats page | i | cism as the Willend Straight Post has advanced trom time to time would be a credit to, the whole organization, even if the post had been wrong on every question. ‘CHIEF DOCTOR. ilroad strike is off, aes try. That is the best possible news for the coun- It is also one of the wisest decis! rived at by unionized railroad labor, But the matter does not end there. There will be neither wisdom nor Justice In a public attitude ns ever ar: which regards the outcome as a victory for public opinion, a surrender of the railroad brotherhoods am! a quietus upon all the claims and issues that railroad labor has raised, \ ‘That Is no fair estimate of the situation, ,lil-advised as were the railroad brotherhoods in threatening to paralyze the country to enforce de- mands only half formulated and upon which the Railroad Labor Board had not had reasonable op- portunity to pass, the fact remains that open discus- sion has brought the brotherhoods to a larger sense of their responsibilities. President L! E. Sheppard of the Order of Railway Conductors frankly admits: “As the situation developed wo found that in striking we would not be hitting the people we wanted to hit, the railroads, but would be fight- ing the Government. “Wo could not strike ment.” The Raltroad Labor Qoard emerges with greaily increased prestige. “i s duty is also plain and urgent: The Railroad Labor Board must further consoll- date lis power and influence by prompt, impartial dealing with the working conditions, rules, wage scales, &¢., which were the walla lil promptings to the strike. The railroad workers should be made to feel that their case is not one whit the worse presented or pressed because they have called off the strike. The railroad workers should be made to feel that the public does not forget them the moment it ceases to fear them. Therein lies one great cure for strikes. The Railroad Labor Roartl ‘Chief Doctor. gusts the Govern is more than ever Has success gone 19 the head of the own of the local club of the National League? The boost in prices of the Army-Navy football tickets allotted to the club suggests the ques- PTB, tion, Profiteering is one of the very most ef- ,fectual methods of alienating the favor of sportsmen. WHERE THE HOME RULE ISSUE BELONGS. HE issues of “home rule” and “transit” are featured in’ the Mayoralty campaign where they ought to be subordinated. Both these issues are properly a part of the Assembly campaign, but no one hears much of them in this connection. Both these issues are in the hands of the Legis- lature and the Governor. If modification of the Miller transit programme paramount the place to fight it is in picking Assemblymen. Any Mayor is helpless before mandatory legisla- tion from Albany. The Citizens’ Union has published a list of forty- one candidates for the Assembly, from all political issue, parties, who oppose the present transit plan. If New York cares about modification of the transit plan, the way to have gone about it would have been to have formed an all-party Home Rule Coali- tion, pledging every candidate to the Assembly caucus rule on that subject. If all the New York City Assembhymen, Repub- lican, Democratic or Socialist, would get together and agree to work first, and all the time for a common Home Rule programme, they could exer- cise almost unlimited powe i : A New York City “bloc” in the Assembly could bring any Governor io terms with a home rule ultimatum, refusing to consider ot this was satisfactorily disposed of, Home rule and the tra in the Mayoralty campa only candidates up for elec actual power to force mo. ‘ last t business until sit issue is largely bunkum Assemblymen are the jon now ifications. who will have TWICE OVERS. ce HE Stars and Stripes are flying from the flagetatfs of more American schoolhouses than eser before.’'- American Legion. Americanism Commission of * 66] ET the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he unfit to cote.” President Harding ©6 ALL truce negroes are against social equality® believing that all races should develop on their own social lines.’’—Marcus Garvey. 2 6 HE decision with regard to Upper Silesia Chan- is a great injustice to Germany.” Wirth, 1921. ‘From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words ina couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a Jot of satisfaction in trying to | yy much in few words. Take time to be brief. Furs for Molly. fof The Evening World. fon status 1s that it gives Ire ctical independence, nd freedom in all ening World readers help| the essentials of nationhood. It is me solve this problem? I am saving ae what ppeangl wil Livi up to buy a fur coat and expect to| 1a, but what they will accept, Fur- | thermore, there 1s no euch thing as have $300 saved by Christmas, It has} practical independence. There is in- taken me three years to save this| dependence or subjection | much, ever since I went to work.| ‘The sacrifices demanded of the fu »w I would like to know what kind ture generations who will free Ireland coat would best to buy | will be greater should De Valera and en the dream| his cabinet accept a dishonorable one and. I d0| peace. In 1914 Redmond com- | not want to make # mistake promised the unity of Ireland. 'To- | MOLLY @. | day that unity might have brought Bayonne, N. J, 0 1921, them independe} , J. M'COY. | SE Met Richmond H 1921. To the Faitor of The Eve seals What kind of police -“efficiency’ Pertinent Comment. {can the Hylan Administration claim in the case of the theft of $12,000 worth of els from an apartment ast May without the slightest trace being found of the criminals nor any report being made by the detectives to the citizen who Yo the Editor of The Evening World: I, prospective polce sergeant, am satisfied to have any veteran who saw actual combat service and com- peted with me in the last test to havo preference in promotion, But, ye gods! in the name of justice | where do the following classed vet evans fit in? (a) Drafted men assigned to coast defenss (>) Drafted men assigned ham Bay. @ (c) Drafted men assigned to M. P. duty at Hoboken and camps. (d) Enlisted men in Naval Reserve. (e) Men drafted into Army Intelll- gence Service, domestic duty, such as bomb squad. Why should these classes be given something at my expense? ‘They are the ones who are shouting they won the war and are trying to reap the harvest ret . as reported in Miss F ‘inita de | ve, Who s robbed . and although three detectives were supposed to have} n assigned to the job of tracing} thieves she never heard an; om from that day tc It seems to me a peculiar t “efficiency” that neither protects the 1 home from robbery nor cares enough to report what progress, if any, has {been made in bringing the criminals | to justice. 1 L New York, Oct. to Pel- To A little advice to these An article in The Evening Wor ld} par of the ie nd anene et, 20 says Buropo has a problem| lobbying to have legis! fratee tart weiue ie 8 Oe benefit the disabled s . aan oo own | Veteran. 1 mean 2 toward our own) Tam a non-veteran, but @ man who Sees ener or 1 am at} was awaiting his turn and ready to | AMOR Pa BrHOEn myself and) go without pulling wires to be placed are about ‘us men in tne | !2 any of the above 2 | United States why not have about] ey ATROLMAN 2,500,000 of eltiest English girls | Dangerous Carelessnens. between tho ages of elghteen and) +. 4. prior of The Evening Worl twe -two picke rr ds er pas Le eee et aria? Leca| X would lke to call the attention of certain officials, who may read this to a condition existing at present on some of the trains operating in the even matters up a little on both sides of ie big pond, right, girls, now all together~ | nia! bla! Hudson tubes: | J. M, WISE. I have seen countless violations of New Yc 1 rules that employ are supposed to obey, both for their own safety and promise, that of the assengersa, but one took | Po the Lauit mags World place to-day that beats them all. ¢ an | ‘The Irish people stand face to face} anybody !magine | with their destiny, A decision 1s] trolling fast moving a while about to be taken which will affect} smoking a cigarette and reading a the honor, not only of the present| newspaper at the same ti race, but the generations who are to| {1s exactly what took ple follow. The British Government de-| noon on a train bound for New York, | clares it will not deal with the repre-| leaving Grove Street. I do not say sentatives of Dail Eireann as an in-| that this occurs often, and let us dependent republic, but only asa part| hope it doesn’t, but it seems to me} that the brainless idiot who operated this train should be guilty of a felony Jin the first degree. We will always of the British Empire, The Irish nation, through seven | centuries of intense suffering, has not j once voluntarily submitted to the have accidents, no matter how many hority of the foreigner, If they safety devices are employed, when their nationhood, however they bene-|trresponsible men will toy with the fit m they are lost, not only| lives of hundreds of people; and no tot t d. That} mat lenient we may be, an and » other ssue that is to carelessness or idiocy now being decided Dominion home rule is the mit Let us hope that the « mpany will | Eneluna will ever give, some will sf, | enforce all the rules nece: a, for the while others will argue that «doi protection of human lives, If the meg a Semmes UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtent, 1921, by John Blake.) LEANERS, A young man was in here the other day asking us to help him find another job. If we tried to find Jobs for everybody who a we should soon be running.an employment agency, That isn’t in, our line, so we don't do it. In a moment of weakness, however, we did ask a friend to give this youth a chance. It was a very good chance, indeed. If he had worked hard at it he would now be in the place occupied by the man who succeeded him, who is one of the directors of the business. But he didn’t work hard. He began, plaining that th® pay was too poor, ed us to at first, by eom- | Then he wailed that the work was too hard. 12. Then he got to taking days off because he was sick, and some of his office mates saw him at the ball game. | He made frequent mistakes because his mind was not on his business. This couldn't go on, so his boss fired him, as he should have done when he first began complaining about the pa} and the work. | He came back to us, but we declined to help him, |$ he went to another man, who got him another job, He worked a few days in this and showed indications of ability, which he really had. Soon he fell into the old way and was fired again He was dismal and low in his mind when he appeared in our office the third time. “A fellow has got to have help or he can’t get along,” said by way of apology. “You are the only lean on, But we declined to be leaned on any longer. In the first place, we don’t like to be leaned on. In the second, holding up a leaner doesn't help the leaner any. He gets the leaning habit, and, after that, has to be held up or he can’t stand straight. This young man will, we hope, find no further chance to lean. If he has to hustle for his, living or starve, he will hustfe. He is intelligent and bright enough, It is only his re liance on others instead of himself that makes him worthless. | fat Then | he man I have to so nnn. Mayoralty Campaigns OF Greater N. Y. By Baldwin O’ Donnell Copyright. 1921 by the Prem Publishing Oo (ike New York Evening World.) Only one candidate nominated by Tammany of the five that have been elected to the Mayoralty of Greater New York recetved a majority of the votes cast. one was George B McClellan in his first campaign in 1908, At that time McClellan headed @ ticket upon which were Grovt ‘and Fornes for Comptroller and President of the Board of Aldermen and th were © holders at the time under a fusion administration. In every other contest for Mayor ep | bed tho oppysition been united Tam- many’s candidate would hive been Both M. ora elected by fue ice beaten, y were Low and Mitchel. Only one M has been re-elected. That was McClellan, who scratched | [through by a few thousand plurality with 86,000 less votes than the first time he ran Except Seth Low no man before the people a second time for the office ever received more votes on th second venture, Low ran three t and was elected the secong Hearst ran twice and was Yeon | both times, the second time, receiving 50,000 votes Iess than he regetyed the | first time ‘ | Ye rors in 1807 ens Vann Wy , (Tas bie Mylan’s pura Mayor Hylan, although ho rece! the highest plurality ever given to a jeandidate for the office, 1s Mayor by minority vot His vote was more than 44,000 than that given to Mitchel four and thut in face of the fact that there had been an inerease in the total vote cast of more than $7,000 over the vote of th | previous Mayoralty election in 19 | Hylan received a thousand less votes |than were cast for McClellan tn 1905, fourteen years before. [No Mayor ever was stronger in his |run for re-election, An analysis of | the figures holdano comfort for Tame many if the people turn out to vote. WHERE DID YOU G. THAT WORD? 94—IMMACULATE. There is no valid reason why the | English-speaking person should not luse the word spotless instead of tm- rs befi |maculate, No reason, that 1# to’gay, lexcept custom. For the Lat jrora jhas become cry zed into, the Henguage. t, the word “immacu- liate’ not only means precisely what “spotless” means, but is also derived jin exactly the same way. In Latin “macula” means a spot. “Maculatus” means an object that ts spotted. ‘“Immaculatus” means with~ out a spot, or spotless. Obviously, however, No one would think of using the word “spotless” in stead of “immaculate” in the sense in which the latter word has obtained historic sanction through ecclesiastic use through the centurles. In point of fa ‘That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick commit PE Ee eS “Not worth a rap" is now regarded, jas slang. A rap was an Irish coppei |cotn, issued early in the eighteenth century to supply a long-felt need for very small money. Nominally worth half a penny (one cent), its met | was so thin and base that it nev! | passed for more than a farthing (one: half cent). Its infinitesimal value | consequently gave rise to this exprea- sion. led in the na~ | tongue, meaning the |North Kingdom. This country was long thought to be wholly surrounded by water, on which account {ft Tre- Jeeived the name of Nordee, “No-th Island." Thiq the Saxons ‘modified that run trains now are unsatisfac-!are not asking for a raise in ri tory, let the proper authorities get a] They asking for a fair rate to| “Bad Old Man" was a nickname new collection, regardless of the cost.) be by rd of Alder-|given by the Confederate soldiers to | WALTER KEMPNBR At tho , military lender, Gen, Jubai sent time it is very confusing— 1816-1894), during “Avil! |fo the kuitor of The Evening W of the rainbow. ‘The ‘Object of ‘ask so I have been a reader of your paper| for one rate and one color is t “The Higher Law" was an expres< for years and always gave you credt|men sav ng a few hundred dolla for fairness and justice. Iam a tax!/and buying a taxicab on time are|H. Seward (1801-1872), in his spesch, driver and owner of ono of the lowest] forcing the rates so low that it is|in the United States Senate on March) rate cabs in New York City, Pwene almost tmpossible to give the public| 11, 1850, on the question of admittin, mn. jtieth Century Brown and White. |der this rate I find that I can hardly! make a ving. |have been between $6 and $7 a day) fam lies under after being on the streets for twelve) only remaing From hearng other drivers| whether a few |the service that it expects. Men wh those a conditions question as | hours. same, [ have also talked to a lot of| line. |drivers driving for the Yellow Cab| 1 hope you will be as fatr to ¢! Company, and their day's work does|cab owners and drivers as you a |not seem to be much better, to the public. I find this a fact after mingling with | TWENTIETH CENTURY TAXI these men ten or twelve houts. The| DRIVER. taxi ewnera Agen SATS HE MEE Tae (Twalve years on the atresia) _ have been in the bus ness for twelve My average bookings | or fourteen years cannot support the:r thousand more men talk I find they are running about the!are going fo be driven to the bread {nto Norea and, r, Norway, . | ra|sion first used by the Hon. Wijham no| California into the Union. Ae em ployed by him on that occasion, the phrase denoted a law higher than her It| Constitution, viz, “a law of Gi nd to|this saying was used by the "Aboll. tlonists with telling effect. - « 6 “Alaric Cottin"” was the sobriquet @) given to Frederick the Great (Fried. re|rich IL, the second King of. Pruasta from 1740 to 1786), by Voltaire, Th meaning was that though Frederic! [Bove a Pied soldier be a