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eas ai OE ACRE OEE ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. PuoWweret Daily Excopt Sunday by The Pros Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. OF THE ASSOCIATED PREss. $< MEMPER The Astoclated Prew le exctustrely entiued to the ure for repabtteation 4 also the local news poblishea herein, news despatches credited to tt or mot otnerwise erewtea tn tam pappe THE GREATER THANKSGIVING. >» F RESIDENT HARDING has proclaimed Nov. 11 a National Holi¢ay. Nov. 11 is the third anniversary of Armistice Day, the greatest day of thanksgiving the civilized world has ever known. Nov. {1 is to be observed more generally than in 1919 or 1920, because on this day the United States as a Nation is to honor all its dead heroes and its living veterans in the services at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In future Nov. 11 will be the Memorial Da§ for the veterans of the great war. The burial of the { honored Unknown makes it so. We shall do these heroes honor on Memorial Day in the spring, but Nov. 11 will continue to be ‘he Memorial Day for the veterans of the great war. This is inevi- table. The ceremonies next Friday will empha- size this fact. President Harding has also issued the customary Thanksgiving proclamation. Setting this date is purely a custom. President Harding could as well ; have advanced the date two weeks and have in- cluded Thanksgiving Day as a part of Armistic: and Memorial Day. By another year it should be so. One big, important, nationally observed holi day in November is enough. The big “day of November is the Eleventh, November Eleventh is a holiday which deserves to absorb all the associations that have always gone with Thanksgiving. November Eleventh is the Greater Thanksgiving. New York is learning to take election returns with a certain dry humor. TWISTED HONOR. ENATOR WATSON’S hearsay evidence is get- ting weaker every day. It is evident that the Georgia blatherskite who is so touchy re urding aspersions on his “honor” has made the most seri- ous of charges on nothing but hearsay evidence— and second-hand at that. Paradoxically, the nearest approac’: to real evi- dence in support of the Watson charges are the statements which prove him wrong. We are learn- ing that some mei were executed for proved crimes and that im‘.itary censorship denied us the right to know of the fate of these criminals who would inevitably be found in an army af 2,000,000 men. Even more p.radoxical, if possible, is the fact that the Georgia Senator should make the charges. Most of the men hung in France were negroes con- victed of crimes against women. The Georgia Senator condemns this, yet only a few months ago he was busily engaged in slandering the good citizenry of Georgia who had been outraged by peonage revelations. It appears that Senator Watson thinks it proper . for a mob to lynch a negro in Georgia to protect Georgia women but considers it reprehensible for a military court to hang miscreants, black or white, for similar offenses against French women. It is a perverted sense of honor the Senator from Georgia possesses. New Irish Crisis Thursday.—News report. What a happy augury for the Washington Conference if the Irish settlement were to sail into smooth waters by Saturday! IN JAPAN. HE assassination of Takashi Hara, Japan's lib- eral Premier, with uncertainty as to what | effect this loss will have upon the attitude of Japan | in the Washington Conference, intensifies interest in whatever shows the real feelings of the Japanese people about disarmament. The following first-hand information comes from the Rev. T. K. Dozier, D. D., President of a Baptist college in the south of Japan, who has lived for fifteen years among the Japanese. Dr. Dozier has Just returned for a vacation to his former home in Georgia. This is what he says: “I have talked with merchants, farmers and mechanics (in Japan) and without ex- ception they say they do not want war a “They are anxious to see the day come when Japan will reduce her army and navy. “I am closely associated with the educators of Japan in our sections of Japan. They want no war with the United States. I have talked with all these classes. All of them express } disappointment that the United States did not enter the League of Nations.” “Mr. Ozaki, at one time a member of the Cabinet of Japan, held meetings in different sections of Japan advocating reduction of arm- ement, Eighty thousand people attended these meetings. He made a postcard canvass to see how many people were in favor of re- @uction. Of the answers received, 98% per eent. favored reduction, 5% per cent. were egeinet and 1 per cent. were doubtful. That this spirit is abroad in Japan no man who reads the Japanese newspapers cen question. Mh is true the feeling was tense over the Yep { question, Out It was not a question to cause war, onl> friendly negotiation.” “But you will ask: Do the military men not rule Japan? Do they not do as they please, even at times reversing the decisions of the Cabinet? “We answer: Yes. Double diplomacy is a curse to Japan. But the Japanese are aware of this and opposition is growing againat it.” “Many prayers are being offered in Japan, not by Christians only but by men of all faiths, that the conference in Washington may accomplish that for which it is called; Dis- armament.” Overwhelming popular desire to see armaments reduced is making itself slowly but compellingly felt against reactionary opposition and the devious methods of an older diplomacy. Isn't the situation in Japan in all essentials pretty much the situation in most other. countries repre- sented at the conference? MILK A PUBLIC NECESSITY. HE present milk strike has cleared the mind of the public on one question: Another milk strike must be impossible. Two years ago The Evening World printed an editorial under the heading, “Put Milk in the Pub- lic Utilities Class.” Then the complaint rested on the findings of Gov. Smith's commission to in- vestigate the cost of living. Former Gov. Martin H. Glynn and State Commissioner of Education John H. Finley had reported: “A milk system that costs the people of the City of New York proportionately $6,000,000 a year more than milk costs the people of Philadelphia, $3,000,000 more than St costs the people of Chicago and $1,000,000 more than it costs the people of Boston needs either explanation or reformation.” New York is more concerned with side of the controversy. the labor The present milk strike Public opinion is with the dis- tributers in breaking the kind of union which made this possible. Breaking the union, however, isn't enough. Nor is the plan advanced by the milk distributers in their fight against the union. It would be not enough to have employment relations regulated by an arbitration board of three, representing the pub- lic, the employees and the distributer, Regulation should go further. Milk service should be made a public utility and governed by a commission authorized to set milk prices and wages. Milkmen should rank with public service employees who are not permitted to strike. The public cannot afford to rely on.an arbitra- tion board in which the public is in the minority and in which the representatives of employers and employees could get together and raise both wages and prices, Neither the employers nor the employees have a record which entitles them to any such measure of respect. was unjustified. New York women carry an extra weight of re- sponsibility to-day, NO THIEVES IN MAIL TUBES. HE Merchants’ Association is justified in call- ing to the attention of Postmaster General Hays the fact that the pneumatic mail tube system would frustrate such robberies as occurred on Leonard Street the other night. If New York had no tube system, such a daring and profitable robbery, would be good reason for recommending its installation. Currency and se- curities can be sent in small bundles which would easily pass through the tubes. They would be safe and not subject to robbery. It would not be un- reasonable to expect insurance companies to lower thelr rates on valuable packages sent by tube. New York already had a good start on a mail tube when former Postmaster General Butleson arbitrarily suspended its operation. The only ques- tion that need go before the department now is whether the tubes shall be operated and extended. Considering the time saved and the improvement in service, the tube system was economical and should be put to work again. The safety feature is merely one more important reason for making use of the tubes. ‘The weather got up early and put on its best to pring out the vote, TWICE OVERS. ‘ce Ww tn itself and for itself is the greatest crime in the world, and the glory of oic- fory pursued for itself is a crime. This world is made for peace and for work in peace time.” —Marshal Foch. * @¢ » ce HEN the aubmarine was first utilized, the Presidwet of the United States de- clared in effect that its use was contrary to ctvilized war- fare, and the whole Nation agreed with him. Now, we are heartily, noisily, boastingly perfecting it, mak- ing it still more barbarous and exploiting the fact upon the very eve of a Disarmament Conference.” — Senator Borah. . . ce EW YORK is not the same cs it used to be on Election Eve.” —C, K. Boyle of Philadel- phta, New Yorker for a Day er Two.” . 1AM FoR 1 $cenr F _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 8, ec) a ARE 1921. 1921, be The Terone Pawan the New! York Evening wort, By | John Cassel 1AM FOR A SCENT FARE AND TRANSFERS From Eve: ing Opposes Absuinte Preference. itor of ‘Ibe Evening World: Policeman Who Served Un- der Gen. O'Ryan" and “John Mathe- son” will send me their addresses | will mail them coples of my letter lo vou, printed Oct. 24, and I should be obliged to them for public answers. 1 have yet to hear any argument FOR absolute preference except that the soldier should get somethin Why should they get ABSOLUTE preierence? Had they framed their bill for EQUAL preference 1 should most certainly vote “Yes” (as Mr. Matheson usks the public to do), but when they want to receive absolute preference they show themselves (oo piggish. take exception to “Ex-Police- man’s” remark that it was only one month before the armistice was signed that the men were forbidden to enlist, He knows that |s not true The propasanda spread by those favor of this hold-up is given in such a way that most people who do not understand the measure are misled For one thing they say women do not compete with men’ in civil ser-| vice jobs. What about accountants, | bookkeepers, typists, stenographers, | clerks, telephone operators, women | police (for which an examination was | held last spring) and some few other | jobs? Women DO compete with men, regardless of what they say. Their whole argument ts that they wore a uniform—whether or not they wanted to nor how long they wore it, nor where they wore it. To any man who served his country certain recog- nition should be granted but when they feel that “the world owes them a living.” which is practically what they say, I am afraid they must “show me." And, mind you, should {t go through in New York State the next move will be to make it a Federal amendment My contention ts that a REAL 100 PER CENT. MAN 1s willing to com- pete with his fellow man and not seck favors, In private concerns such a thing would not be tolerated. Labor should be efficient in city and State jobs and 10 per cent, veterans wall) not give it. ANN D. POWER. 1817 Mohegan Avenue, Bronx, Nov. 1, 1921, An American and Can Vote. | To the Ediwr of The Erening World Would some reader kindly answer) the following: Is a child born in the United States | whose mother ts an Ameri: and | whose father is French (and not a citizen), recognized as an American | or a Frenchman? What country can claim tim when of age? Can he vote If the father | has not become a citizen when he ts of age? H. E.R, New York, Nov. 1, 1921 Unfatr to Widow of Veteran, To the Editor of The Dvening World Sinoe the death of iny husband, who was attached to Company D, g08th Infantry of the 77th Division, 1 have taken three examinations in civil service of this State. | am at prea- ent on two eligible lists. Should Amendment No, What kind of letter do you find .. that gives the worth >f a thousand words ina couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to ‘ay much in tew words. Lake time [0 be brivt, in|* World Readers 108t readable? Isn't it the one of the giving part State tu 1 regard to their any list, all yeteran widows and thelr chitdren would be discriminated against As 4 with twWo children, bund was kiiled in , widows of ve of late war g do by entiticd te consideration in the pr ment to be voted upon by the In this at Lin coming in order to provide » incans of In hood for the dependents of thase ves who made the supreme sacri- tice. 1 feel deeply concerned in this matter iny husband was druited trom Local Board No. 184, Dec. 9, 19, Although he was married two years and fad a child fourteen months old, be did not get a square widow, get no con- proposed amend ment neon drufted to pro- vide for able-bodied veterans, with no consideration for wounded, dis- abled or the dependents of those wh» fought for “democracy.’ I cos r the uinendment unfair, un-Amer, unjust and selfigh MR ZABBTH FF. MICI&NL, Plenty of Service Men. To the Editor of ‘The Evening W There has been quite a good deal of discussion for and against Amend- ment No. 1, which gives preference in civil service examinations to vet- rans of the late War, especially be- tween members of the Police and Fire Departments, and 1 am setting forth why the preference is tair and just and will not break the morale of either department, 1, War Was declared April 6, 1917, and on May 28, 1918, the Police Com- missioner issued the order restrain- ing the members from joining the military or naval forces, thirteen months after war was declared, Six months later the so it can readily be seen that with the inducement of difference of pay to enlist in the first thirteen months of war they had no intention to enlist in the last six months of war. ‘Shere js no excuse for their failing to en- lint In the next examination for pro- motion to Police Sergeant there will be about $.000 ecandiiates. Of that number nearly 2,000 World War vet- erans will compete, As a result of this examination 400 Sergeants will be appointed. Now, who will sa that 400 competent Police cannot be found in who have served five on the police force their country in Ume of nee the non-vete will say the of the d i be broken These ve not break the morale of the ariny or navy, go, In stead of breaking the morale they will strengthen tt Sergeants 2,000 patrolmen years or more the: Police. Departinent commendations or henorable men tion, Just think, for following a | thug and overpowering him and tak- ine a pistol from him at the risk of are awarded 1 = the officer's life, or stopping a runa a mat REN armistice was signed, | For, acts of heroiam, members of | UNCOMMON SENSE | By John Blake (Copyright. 1021. by John Blake.) USE YOUR OWN MIND. How many of your tnoughts are your own? How many of your opinions? How much of your conversation? Are you in polities a progressive or a reactionary b« you have thought about the difference between then ? Or do you tike your political opinions from friends editors or relatives ? Your mind may not be the best mind in the world. it is yours. It is all you have. Use it. Think things out for yourself, You can think them out better if you read the words of able men and listen to their ideas, But if you accept what they say merely because they say it, without reasoning it out for yourself, you are just 9 step more rational than the parrot who barks because he hears a dog bark. That mind of yours was given you to think with. You can fill it with other people's thoughts and oti people’s opinions if you want to. If you do, it will soon cease to be your mind. It will be fragments of the minds of people you respect or admire, and the fragments won't fit together. No real REASON will ever come out of it. | Askea for an opinion, you cast about in the darkness inside your head for what this man or that man said or |3 wrote on the same subject ‘ You will recite that mechanically. But you will not con- vince anybody. It will bé perfectly apparent that you ure not thinking for yourself. | Minds, like muscles, grow by exercise. The harder, the |$ more regularly, they work, the faster they grow. You would remain helpless all your life if you took your exercise by watching other people play tennis or golf or run or ride or walk, Your mind will be a thoughtless tangle if you seek to improve it by merely repeating what other people have sad. If you wart it to work you must make it work. Use it. It is your mird, not those of others, upon which you must depend foe your living. You cant seli the second hand thoughts you have got from others, You can’t pass off second hand ideas as original. Reading what others say and write may give you ideas. Bat it is your own working out of those ideas that makes them valuable. It was the telephone that suggested the phonograph to Edison, He used his mind to develop the suggestion. If he had merely put out another telephone the world might have been deprived of one of its most important inventions. or y But » way horse or oth@r heroic acts, mem- bers are awarded the above recog: nition. The rating given these awards n examinations practicaily assures appointment. Then, what award should be given to the veterans who) sea service. non-veterans t the The trouble with the hot the fairness uf amendment, but thelr personal greed, Which in the mud-slinging tac ties used by the organizations of poth departments against soldiers and sail Foreign-born Builders gp fos America By Svetozar Tonjoroff Rice: 1vai, by The Press etrmaae _(Thie New York kroning World.) 1IL—VON STEUBE™ Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Sieu- ben was in the vanguard of the Ge man inimigration tit has assumed such enoriious prapurtious since hi day. He was @ true immigrant in the sense Uhat, having cast ius fortunes With those of phe revolted colonies, le jSpent the remainder vt ais tie, une died, in the coumuy which he had belped to build, Like Lafayette, vou Steuben . 007 joorn and bred in tie uibtary cradi- bon. At fourteen Le served in th |tiussian Army ag a volunteer under ais vrague. AL seventeen bo Was mady a cause: of unuy, fought with distinctive. through Uhe Seven Years’ War aud wt the end of it wus ccoupying the vost of Grand Marshal of Prince Hvheulohe-Hechingen, It was French influence that sent von Steuben, as a seusoned soldici, to the aid of the colonies. He joined Latayetie's party at the instance of St. Germain, the French Minister of War, who is open to the suapivion of having considerably strained the royal procluiation of houtrality in the wai between Britain und the revolted col- onisis. in 1778 he offered his services as @ volunteer to Congress and was bromptly attached to’ the army at Valley Forge. In May of the samo year he was appointed Instructor General of thé Continental Army with the rank of Major General. Although yon Steuben played an importunt part in the field, participated with murked distinction |iu the operations that culminated in ihe surrender of Cornwallis at York- town, his inost significant services 10 the cause were those of an organize: As Instructor General, the soldle who had smelt powder and won bat- ties under Frederick the Great rer gapized the vevelutionary —arnay drilled and trained its raw levies and introduced system as the condition victorie ‘The Army Manual which be p. pared {n 1780 came into general ur as the military text bouw of the youu. republi After the triumphant close of ¢ war, the States vied with cach o' ko do him honor, He r of land from several comm Congress, then, as now, disposed t lag behind events, finally voted him & pension of $2,400 For several ye Prussian-born Now York City. ‘Then } his residence in Steuben granted him by York, In his retirement hu made his how in a log cabin near th: site of whs is now the of Ui ca, In that cit Aug. 3, 1914, statue Was UNV icd to him just afte” the guns that to sound the knel of Prusstanism had begun to reve: jberate in the international atmos phere. For, like millions of his race |i subsequent generat ons, von Steuben had cast in his lot with the peopl of his adoption and had served the supremely well in the decisive @erk. of thelr existence as an independes nation, ART MASTERPIECES j IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges OCapyright, 1921, the Pree wanieee o | Tithe New York Bracing Word GOLD ORNAMENTS OF AN AN CIENT SOUTH AMERICAN RAC‘ It is our habit to believe that wil the time of Benvenuto Ceilini them came the acme of pertection in tl soldsmith’'s art, Gold ornaments dit |covered in 1919 by miners in the neighborhood of the source the Rive |Nechi, in Colombia, South America must persuade us, however, that « }we could do in (hat line has bee equalled if not surpassed by the work ers of tribes whose very name ha: ween forgotten The Spanlurds made a’ very tho ough job of their conquest of South: |America. Ineaorably pursuing thei |search for treasure, they ruthless! Jexterminated the natives and calm): melted down thousands of tons o delicately carved ornaments for ship ment to Spain, completely overlook ing in their craze for the yellow metal the exquisite beauty of the things they were destroying. For this reason such @ collection as | that discovered in 1919 and which is | now in the Field Museum, Chicago, is of excoptional Interest, and Its rarity {makes {t of a value practically incal- | oulable. The collection consists of many jarticles, most of them of pure gold though some are alloyed with silver and copper. ‘There are rings, ear rings, breastplates, necklaces, collars jany many carved figures. Most o these articles were made by ham |mering the gold and are of exquisite | design: | ‘The collection 1s an actual proof of the artistic heights reached by the predecessors of the white race in America, and is.a reminder that per haps the achievements we are so prond of are not so great after all > “‘That’s a Fact’’ By Albert P. Southwick aa thins rs after the war th: Townshi; the State of New About August, 1701, in the present | Bronx Borough, New York City, a slave was valued at £16, a horse ai | £50, @ pair of oxen £40'and @ good jcow £80, while, during harvest, the day's wages of 4 common laborer ws | 80 cents. | se | ‘The Ursulines are an order of nuns named after St. Ursula, who suffered martyrdom at Cologne, in German; in the tenth century. ° . “Mountain Dew" is an Irishman's term for whiskey, in the Emerald I because it has ‘been often s distilled among the mountains + | faced a gun not merely on one oc-| ors whom the Government needed|der to escape excise duty sasion, but for months advanced | here, whose service they criticise, oe 8 uguinst high power-shrapnel, poison t who prevented the non-veteran| A man's children are designar |ons gas and e calibre guns?| from éntering such service? Let's|“olive branches" from the Hibic | Where would a non ran stand| hope that broad-minded voters will simile in Psalms caavili. 3: "Thy 9 against a veteran with sy a rating | give the veterans their just dues, hall be aga fruitful vine by the su ‘Gr awards? And two-thirds of the THOMAS A. NDFILSON, Jor thine house: thy children like olive veterans in the department saw over * A BP Veteran, | plants about thy table t j i Ly father at the historic siege & 2 { a