The evening world. Newspaper, November 10, 1921, Page 20

u ii MRNA aH ESTABLISHED BY JO Tadtiahed Salty Except sunday Company, RALPH J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 JOSEPH PULITIEN Jr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Abortated Prem fe exciaalvely cnutiea to the use for repubitestion ean ‘and also the local mews publishea “WET” GAINS IN NEW JERSEY. HE Prohibition issue was greatly to the fore last Tuesday in the State elections in New Jersey where the Democrats made their campaign on a platform calling for repeal or modification of the Van Ness Enforcement Law. Though the Republicans retain majorities in both Houses of the Legislature, they were given a hard run, The “wet” Democrats gained fifteen seats in the Assembly and one seat in the Senate. Mrs. Jen- nie C. Van Ness, member of the Assembly and sponsor of the attacked law which bears her name, was defeated—the only one of twelve Republican candidates in Essex County to lose. These substantial and significant Democratic gains in New Jersey on an avowed issue of “wet” or “dry” ought to have a marked effect on Congress- men who will shortly be expected to carry out the dictates of the Prohibition loblty by passing the Anti-Beer Bill No wonder the Prohibitionists were keen to have he hateful Treasury regulations licensing medicinal beer voided by Congressional action before the State elections. Between the Prohibition whip and signs that stringent enforcement of Prohibition is alienating votes, Republican members of Congress may soon hesitate. Even the lash of the Prohibition masters may seem less to be feared politically than the con- sequences of a popular reaction against tyrannougy enforcement of Prohibition. Election of members of Congress—including a Senator from New Jersey—is only a year off. The time is coming round when, for a Congress- man, it is quite as important to know how the peo- * ple are thinking as to know the laiest orders of the Anti-Saloon League. Optimistic estimates as to the percentage of normal deliveries attained by {he milk dis- tributers mean nothing to the milkless cus- tomer. What she wants is milk on the doorsill. That is the fact by which consumers judge the progress of the controversy. _ TOO MUCH MOSCOW? EMOCRATIC leaders might easily claim the vanished Socialist vote on the ground that a Republican Legislature under Speaker Sweet had de- prived Socialist Assemblymen of their lawful seats ‘in that body and that Socialist voters had decided * to rebuke that high-handed act by going over to the Democratic Party. ) But the Republicans could counter with an equally plausible claim to the Socialist vote on the ground that Tammany had kept Cassidy and Lee out of office for twenty-two months and the Socialists had chosen the Republican emblem as a rebuke to the Democrats. ws Seapatchen credited to It @r noc otnerwise crruitea in tam papee heretm, Charles W. Erwin, editor of the Call, seems to ° advance the best explanation—that the usual Social- ist vate is about 80,000 and that the larger votes polled by Hillquit and Panken in previous cam- paigns include 60,000 or more “independents” with socialistic leanings. It is easy to see how the lesson from, Russia would have alienated most of the in- dependents. But even this does not explain the full slump. If the normal vate in other years was 80,000 with- out the women voting, it should have been some- where in the neighborhood of 140,000 this year even if the “independents” had deserted. It almost looks as though some of the real dyed- in-the-wool Socialist doctrinaires had been reading bulletins from Moscow. What are we to think of theatres in this city that go out of their way to give an exira mat inee to-morrow on one of the most solemn days \ in the Nation's history? HARDING'S MAD DOG. 1 acute case of diplomatic hydro- phobia in the American Embassy at London. George Harvey has had another relapse into mad- ness. ar loose, poisoning the The Ambassad admonition Lord read very much as though Harvey were und Derby marting icism of the American Legion and wa dering” the President to remove him What do President Harding and Secretary Hughes propose to do about latest outbreak? They can't expect to go on forever denying and smooth- ing over Harvey’s mad outbursts There are only must be recalled ‘9 courses open: Either Harvey and Henced, or the Administra must accept Harvey's rabid utterances as the Har- ding standard of Americanism. Unless the tration does or the oil the public must conclude that it is so weak and pusillanimous that it fears Harvey's pen on.this side of the-Atlantic more than it values America’s good name abroad. What would be the policy of ja man Who chases a mad dog into fhe yard of his neighbor It would be hard io find a better augury for the success. of the Armament Gonference than jan Executive order removing ey from the place he does not honor. Oss SWINGING AROUND. ELEGRAPH wires were the ctrings of a mourn- ful harp to Republican ears yesterday. In New York State the municipal elections out- side New York City are an even clearer referendum on the Miller brand of Republicanism than the land- slide in the metropolis. Albany and Syracuse were the high spots in a Democratic sweep which included Rome, Yonkers, Oneonta and other cities where Republican majori- ties were turned to minorities. Buffalo gave a decisive rebuke to Millerism and the Mullan-Gage law. Democrats have added more than a score of votes to their stremgih in the Assembly. If the urban Assemblymen from up-State read aright the verdict of the voters, there appears the possibility that New York State may witness the creation of a “home tule bloc” pledged to put a non-partisan ourb on the centralization of local government in Albany. Gov. Miller’s home district in Syracuse went Democratic. President Harding fared mo better. Marion elected .a Democratic Mayor. Reaction from Republicanism is, in fact, by no means confined to New York State. New Jersey Democrats made notable gains. Kentucky got back to its traditional Demoeratic “normalcy,” as dis- tinguished from the Harding brand of the same. Virginia rejected the campaign of the G. O. P. to break the solid South and elected a Democratic Governor by the usual majority. In municipal elections in the Middle West the “swing” was evidently in favor of the Democrats. All these gains are the result of Republican neglect or maladministration. They are not the result of enlightened leadership on the part of the democ- racy, local, State or national. But they should prove a tonic to leadership shaken in the Harding land- slide of a year ago. The country is swinging around. It is dissatisfied with “normalcy.” The voters are in a frame of mind where they would be quick to grasp at new and enlightened leadership. Perhaps it is fortunate the National Organization of the party has been revised at the time it has. Chairman Hull has a great opportunity. A programme of constructive opposition to trembling and vaccilating Republican- ism would fall like seed on fertile soil. That should be Tuesday’s message to Democrats. A statistical fan informs us that Mayor Hylan now has 1,512 days to serve as Mayor of New York. This includes the extra day for leap year in 1924, GET B:HIND AND PUSH. A MEETING of college graduates is to be held in\the Town Hall to-night to pass resolutions in favor of limitation of armaments. Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton; Prof. Franklin H. Giddings of Columbia and Miss Julia Lathrop of Vassar are among those expected to speak. Twenty-two colleges will be represented, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Co- lumbia, Brown, New York University, City College, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. This is a first-rate matter for college graduates to be thinking about at the present moment. It is an excellent use of the Town Hall. Such resolu- tions are just what organizations and communities all over the United States should be drawing up and passing at this time. ig The nations’ representatives about to confer in Washington should be left in no doubt as to the earnest desire of enlightened Americans, individually and collectively, to get behind the purpose of the conference and push it to succes N should be: “Resolved, by 100,000,000"-—— yy mark” has a new meaning « change at 360 for $1 h Gey ma No suspense, No doubts. No excuse for not settling bets. No reprieve for peanut-pusners. TWICE OVERS. 66] CAN say unreservedly that | know that no American s ldier in France was eter hanged upon a scaffold without trial and conviction by court martial.” -Representatice Royal C. Johnson. * * * “ce (O me the present tax bill is a disuppointment,” — Nicholas Murray Butler. * ¢ 66 FrIGHTING Democrats, who captured numer- ous Republican outposts in Tuesday's elec- tions, have given evidence that the spirit of the party is still militant.” National Chairman Hull. _ % 66] CAN sce nothing in the election results to the disadoantage of the Republican Party.” Penrose. * * Senator ty | PROPOSE to give the people of New York City the same hind of honest administration that has characterized my jirs! tom es Mayor.’ John F. Hylan, . THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1941, made A eae SWorla: By John Cassel | What kind 0/ letter do you find ..108t readable? isn’t it the one | that gives the worth of a thousand words 1n a couple of hundred? | There is fine mental exerciso and a lot of satistaction in trying to | ay much a tew words. Take tame to be dries. | eS The Opem Door and Taxatiom. | keeping busy. | To the Eattor of ‘The Evening Wozld: No. A. L., you have the wrong idea. “Disarmament success depends on| Yeu might just as well have a law i \ | of ” d preventing Jolin D, \Rocke- {oben door in rich, helpless China” = | renior et al. from mats ng more tnone | Mr. David Lawrence has an inter \uink if you look at this issue san |esting“article under the above title in| !y you will agree with me that a re- a Fecent issue of The Evening World (red fireman or policeman has the and the crux of it lies at the end ight to juouey if he wants to. the last paragraph, He says: “Amer-| Ad while you are right in saying jicans have been complaining for| "uy of them don’t need to work, years that they were not given the are many of them who do, same backing by their Government| | imagine trom the tone of your lin the Far Bast as is given to the| ‘etter that you've been running in citizens of Great Britain or Germany | !rd luck and I do {cei sorry if that or France. The new compact with | !5 the case, but why pick on the re- respect to the Mar East is designed| tired fireman and policeman when to remove inequalities and give the| ‘here are plenty of moneyed men American an equal chance.” actively engaged in business? I believe that all other countries | “MRS. FIREMAN.” exempt their citizens from paying jhome taxes on capital invested in As a Token of Esteem, Caina, It we follow their ex r of The Brenig World no one need worry about the open who says he door or the abrogation of the Angio- {Japanese Alliance 8 @ poor tax- payer, wants to know what President | Harding is going to F. M. BARBER, ish Rite Masons in re: : | Captain U. 8. Navy (retired). 100 seal coat they presented to his wire. The Scotch-Irish. Is it necessary that President | ipo the Rithor of The Evening World Harding should give anything in re- | 1 visited the “America’s Making (Uri) and if lie did. ud Exposition" last might und noticed AI EIST 2 |that both the Scotch and the Iris ‘claim that Presidents Polk, Jackson, | Buchanan and McKinley, also Robert |ituiton, were descendants of their Will you please tell_me how rich ean claim them? Their an- tors came from Scotland, they emi- grated to Ireland and then on to | America. They came from Scotch stock, not Irish: A. GELLIES. ottish Rite Harding is himseif a s Mason and that in "0 seal coat to Mrs present to the ned brother ne their € m | Brooklyn, Nov, 1, 1921 Brickley's Football Articles, Po th Pensione and Jobs. Editor At The Evening World Lo the Editor of The Evening World | vead with w great d y to A. Ih I. should say be descriptive at doesn't know that police- | Mlickluy of the Venn = c er cent. taken off their aKING | c ppo ks for this pension. }iremen d pe ing However, he Is presumably quite Ulleve this to be t satiefled have these retired espeoeere ‘ e‘ther receive their pensions or mplified for tt ae ea job, but not both. Hig rem. |finhuded for the as would be to pass a law forbidding |'l') intricacies of the | them to receive both. 1] y no’ ateaon a 6 Beet ave all business men for peeee ieted on yuu Raleal tre after they have made an amount |{°" . of money which wil! yleld them $700 y ‘per annum, which ts the amount a |Jot of policemen and firemen retire a] ae Ne will strike an average of $1,0008 In reply to the Driver of Hacken- per year as the pension the retired | sack, | agree with him nat fireman and policeman receives, and!a driver on the milk. rc s if A. L. can tell me how any man can | over $700 in dairy prof i support a family on tt T shall be! jy ‘ atween $850 and $000, grateful nd ou figure It out thyir sa ra nm $41 to $47, and that the married women working and the |; retired fireman and policeman work-| troup), ing, but never a thought about the|iiia py : girl who {s not married and who ts/ °°) 7%)) not forced to labor, There are many lof them who work in order'to add tu| |thetr allowance. Waat they do with)! 5" | | We hear all kinds of growls about thy driv to’ get ¢ weather is their own business so| “ ie and rola brought this money 4 He and elle brought |tar ax I am concerned. | doo some In this world it | » case of look} * (sa . \ out for yourself an¢ vide for your! srouml ze fi r mnilkr ant own future, [am married to to-day. 1 won't go. man and 1 WORK and furth 6 Mint work rogandicus }1 am proud of It. We are ch able | oe a he ts whenever the occasion is wo: \ © time he, gets © best of our ubility, ed In its and we \ ' 4 y a | wits the idea of making money and! the companies are so anxious to From Evering World Readers | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrtsat, 1901, by John Blake.) COMPETITION IS A BLESSING. Colleges in every country in the civilized world are crowded. In America the number of <tudents is limited only by the capacity of the aelccle Almos: every college turned away hundreds of appli- cants lagt vear, Nearly al! these will enter, if possible, next year. This is a cheering indication of progress. Also it serves notice on the indolent that there is going to be more competi- tion in the future. The more widespread training becomes the harder it is going to be for the untvained to get along. In the old ‘days, when there were few in the profes sions, those wh» had taken their degrees had a comparatively easy time. Those days are gone. If you are a law thousands of young lawyers to compete with a mechanical engimeer, for every job for which you may ap- ply there will probably he a couple of hundred other ap- plicants. Making a living will always be comparatively cas) rising to the head of a profession is going to’be harder here- after than it has ever been. This is not discouraging. It merely means that the men who get alung have got to work harder and to think harder than they used to. If there were one lawyer and one doctor to a town they wouhl get sll the practice, whether they were good or bad. When there is one of each to every forty or fifty of the population the good ones are going to prosper and the im- different ones fail. This is a good thing for the professions and a good thing for the population generally, It will force the men who can do good work to do it. It will keep them digging at their jobs, which is all they need to develop their latent ability, Of course college training is not absolutely necessary but if it is the right kind it helps. It not only helps those who have it but it helps those who must match wits with them You have still as good a chance as you ever had, per haps a better one, Vor if you realize that you must extend yourself to get anywhere you will exereise your mind stead- ily from force of necessity and it will grow and expand with the exercise. r, there are why don't they give the Y Amendment." a book by Charles the benefit of the milk thes are Taben Stout, publishea by Mitchell Kennerly, a most interesting account it costs at an average|of some of the forces be the 3°cents to deliver milk to| movement that intimidated Corkress your door, and yet the public is pay-| and the State Legislatures, and com- reduce prices ing full price of cost for delivery. | pellgd them to approve of a measure They are out to break the union | that’ they knew would be a failure. and they don't give a darn about| It is every day becoming more evi- bable the sick. The people who!dent that instead of settling the buying from these companies are than the milk barons that wg problem, national Prohibition d to create many new nd it is certain (hat the trying to squeeze penny ¢ the publ iluré to prevent the sale OM A DRIVER OF BORDEN'S. ft liquor by prohibitory jaws Brooklyn, Nov, BI it necessary that the whole hss question shall be reviewed in the of common sense, one who wants to know the fal tacts concerning the falsity yet of the dry propaganda can them in this book. WHIDDEN GRAHAM ‘ghteenth To the F f Ese dering how national F put over will find ia “The E onl (Tee if given to a | combination of short, bright dramatic . ! Foreign-Born | Builders oat fom America By Svetozar Tonjoroff y agit, 1B2L, by Te Pubilshing Co peda for Evening ori) IV.—L’ENFANT. If Paris had its Haussmann, Wash- ington had its I'infant. The enginew ‘who beautified Paris and practically (rebuilt a large part of it came more than half a century after the Frenoh- man who planned and rebuilt a good deal of the American capital. Like Baron de Kalb, Pierre (or Peter) Charles PEnfant came to America with Lafayette, It was a jdistinguished and history-making company of fourteen men that landed on these ghores with the French champion of American independence. A Lieutevant in tte Pench pro- Visional service, he jomed the Con- ‘tinental Army in the autumn of 1777, was promoted to 4 Captaincy in the following year, and at the siege of ‘Savannah was wounded and left om the field. The best evidence that he escaped from his embarrassing position ie the fact thet, after that exploit, be served under the immediate command of Wi . Promotion to the rank of Major came to him on May 3% 1783. |" After service as engineer at Fort Miffiin, he was eppolnted in 1813 to the chair of engineering at West | Point. The theory of his science failed to appeal to him, however. He declined the appointment and devoted himself | to the creative task of making Wash- [ington a “capital beautiful.” To wha | degree he succecded in his aspirations | is indicated by the present appearance of Washington—and especially the of- | floial part of ft. Reclaimed by Major 1'Enfant from the prospect of merely “growing up,” jlike Topsy, Washington took on the |impressive aspect of the capital of e great nation, He not only planned the show part lof the city as*a whole, but designed {some of the most impcrtant public | buildings. | L'Enfant was an engineer of targe |views. So large were the views he |@pplied to his plans for a home for Robert Morris, in Philadelphia, thet jthe work proved too ambitious to be |completed by Morr Major ]'Enfant was the pioneer in jcity buikling in America. work outside the National {was the design of the City Hall in |New York, which stood on the ores- jent site of the Sub-’ 8 It ts interesting to note that by way of a fee the architect received an offer of several lots at the corner of Canal Street and Broadway. This compensation, now amo to ;many hundreds of thousands dal- \lars, Major I'Enfant declined to ac- cept, on the ground that the land was of no value, that it was unsalable and that it would eat up more im taxes than it was worth. | When Hagesmann took up the task ;of rebuiiding Paris, he had behind | him the entire resources of the em \Pire. Some‘of his wholesale destruc: tions of buildings brought Paris to the point of revolution. In a democracy the man who nned Washington had no such e hand. But he did his work well. He 4s amply entitled to be remem- \bered es cone of the foreign-born builders of America. | WHERE DID YOU GET _ THAT WORD? 96.—DEGRADE. Like many other words adopted by | the English language from the Latin |the word “degrade” has become soft- [ened In meaning in the course of its | travels. “Degrade” is made up of the Latin Particle “de” (away, from) and “gradus” (rank), An old Roman who was “degradatus" was deprived of his rank. Originally, the word was used with the same meaning in English ‘To “degrade” an officer or an o' meant—and still nieans—to deprive him of his rank or his standing. To the average person, however, “to degrade” means to lower morally or intellectually, to debase or to sink. ‘That means the same as to deprive of intellectual or moral rank. “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick Corr tion Neve York trentng Wont ns Vaudeville, the mame | interpretations with songs, new or set |to familiar airs, dancing and other jnovelties, comes trom the village of Vaudevire, !n Normandy, France, where Olivier Basselin, the first to originate such exhibitions, was born. eee The phrase “set her cap at him" | arises from the comparatively anctent tom of @ young woman putting on most becoming cap, of lace or | silk, to attract the male visitor whom | she most favored. Now that caps are 'not generally | other devi survives, worn she resorts to S, but the old expression oe {| «pighting Fitzmerala” was the | given to George Robert noted gambler and duelist of the elghteenth century In Gres: Britain, his antagonist invariably beiig killed A sure shot and an expert swords- man, he Was a man feared by all. oe e “Tustrious Infidel” was a title con- ferred upon Robert G. Ingersoll (18%3- 1°90), the famous American agnostic. cee Sthe ‘13th Apostle” was a sobriquet conferred upon St. John Chrysostom (347-407), Patriarch of Constantinople and the greatest preacher of his time, a te 6 name werald, a | Chemists have proved that vinegar will not dissolve pearls nor, cleave rocks, despite the tabled expfoita e¢ Cleopatra and Hanniba or “See, the Conquering Hero Comes” is a popular song found in Natl Lee's play of “Alexander the Gi and said to be an intepolation ip stage edition, It was set to musi ty Handel for his oratorio of “Joshua, and was afterward tranferred by him. to his “Judas Maccabeus,” an earlieg production.