The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1921, Page 10

' i ' | Oe Ac eC ee oe THE EVENING etaliny catorio, BsPVuswty BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by ‘The Prem Publishing Company. Nos, 58 to @8 Park Row, New Tork. RALPH PULITZER, Prestient, J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Ir., Secretary, 63 Park Row. ef all news Geepatches credited to It or not otmerwise creuitea and also the local mews publishea herein. WHERE DID IT FUSE? “THE political reporter of The Evening World finds that the prevailing sentiment among Republican district workers is: “No more Fusion. We will go it alone in future municipal campaigns.” To which the anti-Tammany Democrats may pertinently reply: {What do you mean, ‘No more Fusion’?” The plain fact is that for the last two campaigns “the Republican organization has not fused. It has sulked. It has not delivered the goods. It has de- manded spolls without working to win them. The Republican organizations in the boroughs thave played fast and loose with Coalition and Fusion. They have played in cahoots with Tam- @any. Even now there is City Hail gossip about Republicans who are IIkely to fare well in the next Administration. Fusion? When? How? Let us hope there will be no more “Fusion” as | f 1917 and 1921. The decision of the Public Service Commis- sion to base telephone rates on State-wide service may be expected to afford Mayor Hylan another opportunity to defend the people against the “Interests.” But if he duplicates his record in gas and surface car protection, we may expect an early raise in telephone rates, HAD A BETTER RIGHT TO BE THERE. HEN Woodrow Wilson followed the body of the Unknown Soldier down Pennsytvania Avenue yesterday, it was as a soklier who all but gave up his life for the very ideals President Har- ding eulogized at Arlington. The crowds cheered Wilson. On a day when the heart of the Nation was touched, it naturally turned to Wilson. H is only when the baser emotions of selfishness are in the ascendant that the Nation gets away from Wilsonism. That is the true interpreta- tion of yesterday's demonstration. The Evening World's correspondent, David Law- rence, wrote: “Mr. Wileon wanted to participate. There was hesitation about inviting him.” NO MAN Why there should have been hesitation we are | umable to conceive. If any man belonged in that procession, Wuodrow Wilson did. Of that there can be no question. If there was hesitation in Administration circles, ft must have been hesitation born of guilty con- science, unwillingness born of diffidence toward ong who was deeply wronged by partisan animus and partisan misrepresentation. Only those who can remember ihe death of Abraham Lincoin have seen this Nation as deeply and sincerely moved as it was yester- day by the burial of its Unknown Soldier. Nor was it possible when Lincoln was buried ‘to bring the country so together by telegraph and telephone. No one in this city will ever forget that solemn silence of yesterday noon. ENVELOPES THAT DELAY MAILS. STMASTER GENERAL HAYS is quite right in asking the public not to make use of those “oute” little envelopes so much in vogue for send- ing holiday cards and greetings. 1 you must use the small envelopes, they should he inclosed in standard-sized envelopes for mailing. In the Christmas rush the country is entitled to the best mail service possible. It should aim at the greatest good for the greatest number. It would be entirely proper for the Post Office to announce that small and inconvenient-sized en- velopes will be held over until the bulk of the Ohristmas and New Year's mail has been disposed of and delivered. ‘The inconveniently small envelope that does not fit into the postal machinery holds up mail that does fit. One small letter will delay several stand- ard-sized letters. It should not have the right of way. One reason for renewing your membership in the Red Cross is its employment service for ex-service men. The New York Chapter, the largeat in the country, hes found jobs for more then 4,000. OUTLAW EMPLOYERS. 'N a statement from the employers’ side in the garment-making controversy we read: “The manufacturers honestly fee! they are in the right.” “Honestly” is misused in any statement from the So-called “Protective Assoclation."” Individually the manufacturers may be honest. otlvely they are not honest, Their word, In welilng, ts “a scrap of paper,” gre ‘outlaws’ In precisely the same way ules. \ fer reputtieatlod ta tam Perm that the railroad workers were outlaws when they broke working agreements. These outlaw employers have forfeited every bit of public sympathy for the merits of their case against slacking workers. If there is any force in public opinion affecting industrial relations, now is the time for it to make itself effective. The public should punish outlawry by employers as vigorously as it did employee out- lawry. It is contrary to trade union policy to invoke the injunction in trade union disputes. But at times the Federal authorities have stepped in to ask for in- junetions. Why wouldn’t that be a good plan now? It is in the interest of workers and consumers that tens of thousands of garment workers con- tinue production. Why not enjoin the employers against increas- ing unemployment by breach of employment agree- ments? AT LEAST THIS. HE International Conference for the Limitation of Armaments opens at Washington to-day. From rendering the last solemn honors to Its Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day, the country turns to the one opportunity it has accepted to prove to itself and to the world that he did not die in After the war, forty other nations joined a League and signed a Covenant “to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to re- sort to war.” Forty other nations willingly took the risks of such partnership for the sake of the great end in view. The United States of America Sprank from the Tisks. It would have nothing to do with League or Covenant. It stayed aloof and alone. One of the aims of the League of Nations was and is the reduction of armaments. That ts a great aim. Realization of it will lessen one of the chief provocations to war and also lighten the load of taxation on overburdened peoples. The tangible benefits promised by a reduction of ammament appealed to the United States more than the larger co-operative purpose of the League. The people of the United States are deeply inter- ested In the disarmament proposition because they understand it and sce plainly what it will do for them. Popular desire for reduction of armament was what compelled the present Administration at Washington to call this conference. Popular desire for reduction of armament is what is going to compel the present Administration at Washington to do its utmost, honestly and above- board, to make the conference come to something. Over the grave of America’s Unknown Soldier, Presitent Harding said yesterday: ® “There must be, there shall be, the com- manding yoice of a conscious civilization @gainst armed warfare.” That is very fine. The chief difficulty so far has been nt for civ- ilization to find its voice but to find tones and ac- cents that would appeal both to the American peo- ple and to their present Government. This Conference for the Limitation of Arma- ments which opens to-day provides a comparatively simple and specific aim. It § an aim not too ideal to be grasped, not so unselfish as to Inspire misgiving. Yet, as we have sald, it is a great aim and an aim Yeading toward the realization of the larger aims professed by the Nation when it sent its Unknown Soldier to battle. God help the people of the United States and their Government if they cannot at least get to- gether behind this aim with all the strength of | genuine will and purpose! The Tiger and the Bulldog tn the how TWICE OVERS. a (i HE heart of Britain is deeply set upon the success of the conference.” —Lloyd George. ee E must keep the country (Philippine Is- lands) within its income. We are not go- ing to gamble on futures." —Governor General Leonard Wood. _ “= * tO ARMISTICE DAY, the eleventh of November, | should be made sacred throughout the entire civilized world.” —Marshal Foch. * ce HE people of New York do not like Gov. Miller's trend of mind.’—John Kirkland Clark. oe ONT let the word paternalism scare you, It won't scare any progresstoe public-spirited | dfietel."—F. H, La Guardia, ‘ pebeatier ss _ WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1921. “gn, COR io21, ny “The rat Bua inning Co. (iis New York Evening World) 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 in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Out-of-Date, ‘To ths Witor of The Brentog Wort: It seems to be rather the fashion these days to criticise The World. Listen. Your {deas as to Honor, Truth, Justice and Liberty are out-of-date. Your vocabulary contains many obso lete words of the “beer” and “wine” type; “demon rum" or “booze” seems to be the more elegant modern usag. among our “Best Minds.” You had the effrontery to say in an editorial last week that a beverage which contains one-half of 1 per cent. of alcohol is not an intoxicating liquor. The Supreme Court has held that It is. Some time ago you fell down miser- ably dn your definition of “concurrent | powers,” I even doubt whether you can at this late date define it clearly. | Judging by past performance, I am Positive you are wrong in stating that “intoxicating liquors for bever age purposes” doesn’t mean “intox!- cating liquors for medicinal pur- Doses.” Liquor is euch @ terrible poison that Congress in its wisdom found it necessary to amend the Constitu- tion in order to prohibit persons in good health from using it, and is e@pendirig milltons of dollars to pre- vent them from using it. Would !t be logical now for them to force it upon persons in weakened condi- tion, {ll and unable to resist? ‘Oh, it would be too horrible! HYPOCRITE. 1921, New York, Noy. 6, Not Drafted, To the Reeor of The Brening World: “Drafted Man” quite convincingly proves that the regular, the National Guardaman and the drafted man were all technically “drafted” men, but— he doesn't prove, as he says, “that all men in the World War were drafted men.” How about the men who volun teered after war was declared and before the draft was thought of. Personally I recognize no distinc- tion between volunteers and drafted men—we were all there for the same purpose, On May 22, 1917, at the age of sev or give him twenty-five cancelle | postage stamps, whichever he consid- ers the most val | ¥ enteen, I joined the United Statesttne past twonty Navy ‘and served two years, the] say Ld greater part of the time overseas. If ot “Drafted Man” prove me, tech- 1 ye man Who served three nically, legally or otherwise, a drafted | minal assault “coming man, I'll sign over to him all my rights |}, ” vathitie ie i Pal Meets 5 y | qcross” with $25 and getting a license to the Government and State bonu jt rough friends in Tammany Hall i ple. -COALMPAVER. “The Next Wai To the Editor of The Brentng Wald Although [am a steady reader and an admirer of your valuable paper, your interest and the space you give to armament Conference’ give ino severe twinges In tho very the “D! {pot where the chicken got the axe. It strikes me as the height of folly for our Government to spend so much time and money entertainin these foreignors-to mo end who ever the nama of | navy tn preparation for the next war, | which no man of intelligence can| deny will come, And come soon, in spite of the meaningless gas being | emitted by numerous politicians and pacifists of all nation | EX-SERGPANT "WAMPUS.” | 00 Low. ‘To the Eilitor of The Drening World: Tam an Evening World reader, also a taxt driver, I have always found | | this paper fair and just. | Miss Loeb tn the issue of Nov. 3 printed a letter ftom Mr, Otto Gut freund, wherein he claims the Twe tieth Century drivers are making I have to dispute Mr. Gut-! word. | tfreund quay ‘be making! t $100 a week and expenses, which he gets from the poor suckers out on the streets twelve and fourteen hours ‘after paying him $200 to join and $8 a month, but he does not hear the grumbling that these men are do- ing on the wtreet, Not every man driv- |ing has this money to give Mr. Gut- freund. His position seems to be to force the fares so low as to drive men out of the business unless they ive Mr. Gutfreund $200 to join and $8 a month for the privilege of driving « taxicab. If this 1s not what you call monopoly, I don't know, He olaims that in Chicago they are) running for 20 cents a mile. How can! a man live at that rate? In your opin- fon the further the fares drop the bet- ter for the public. This is @ mistake. | When a man invests every cent he has in the world and finds he cannot | make @ decent living he gets des- ‘erate, especially after twelve to fit- teen years in this line of work. Do you think the public is after this Ind of servieq? I hope Whe Evening World takes into consideration that everything in the taxicab business has practically 1 price., ‘The only solution fs ‘air rate for all to give a nt living, whieh the taxi men are hot getting now. BROWN AND DRIV mone} WHITE ‘TAXI ‘Too Basy to Get @ Taxt License. ‘tas the Editor of The Erentng World He and hundreds of others have Jeot past by handing over a Mttie graft. A lady came to me a few nights ago and asked me ff I had seen a cab in which she had left her hand- bag, containing $85. The driver, in- stead of waiting, had driven’ off, ‘This is the sort of thing that maices | {t bad for a decent man who ts trying | to make a living on the streets of New York. Bo longs there conditions exiat tn the License Bureau the public {s in constant danger of being robbed by theso gunmen and riffraft of all nationalities, The sooner we have a | change of administration in this do- | Universal | partment the better, Peace and Disarmament (ha! hal),| Take n wa'k down Broadway any When the tnoney thoy are thus wast-'nizht and look them over and yon ing could be advantageously used fy wil) find that Tam right, the building up of army aud AN OLD-TIMIS DRIVEN, | iS} Jaeqult betng an emerald-colored | the inountalna south of the Doad Bea AS to the Gulf of Akebah, ‘This region aucr, was called from him the Land of The dest absinthe made iM’ Edom, and was afterward mown as UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blak: Coprrigat, 1921, by John Blake. FOCH. Visitors to Washington this month are likely to see passing in a motor car a slender, rather diminutive French- man, dressed in the quiet horizon blue of the French army. There is nothing magnificent or awe inspiring about his appearance, He does not look stern or forbidding. Viewed from a distance you would say he was just an ordinary French officcr—one of many hundreds who have visited this country since the beginning of the war. If you are lucky enough to get a close up, however, you will see a keen eye under a shaggy brow, and a face that is expressive of high determination—not a handsome face, but the face of a man who “goes through.” The little man is Foch. He is nothing like as impressive as that other great commander of the French armies, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was even smaller ‘in stature. There is no pride, no ferocity, no consciousness of might in his face. And there is a difference in the men. For Napolcon fought and won battles for Napoleon. Foch fought and won them for France. When his job was done he was content to go back to the duties of a French officer. He wanted no titles and no crown. His modesty and his devotion to the good of others you may read in his face, At the first Battle of the Marne, when the whole world felt sure that von Kluck was going to break through the French defenses, sweep on to Paris and win the war almost at its beginning, Foch sent this message to Joffre, then his commander: “My right is crushed; my left is in retreat; I am attack- ing with my centre.” He continued to attack with his centre, despite what seemed almost certain defeat. He held the enemy till Gal- lienni brought ont his taxicab army from Paris, and saved the day. A quiet, unassuming man, Foch won his high place by sheer devotion to duty—a habit that was his from the days of St. Cyr. His has been a glorious life, because it was an unselfish He has had ambition, but it was ambition for his coun- try. And because he had the right sort of ambition, his coun- try honors him and will continue to honor him far more than $| it has honored the greater but far more selfish Napoleon. | one. manufacture being in the canton of | Neufchatel. It 1s chiefy used in | France. The drinking of this alcoholic stimulant, frequent intoxi- cation or moderate but steady tip-! | pling, utterly deranges the digestive | system, weakens the bodily frame, induces horrible dreams and halluot- nations and may end in paralysis or in {alocy, By Albert P. Southwick | ore ths eANata est ihe Ret Absinthe is a spirit flavored with the pounded leaves and flowering tops of wormwood, together with angelica root, swest flag root, star anise and other aromatics. This mix. ture !# macerated for about eight! Jaya {1 alcohol and then distilled, the | eo. Edom, which 4s Hebrow for “red,” was the surname of Tsau, Isaac's oldest son, derived apparently fron. | the current name of the food for which he sold hia Dirthright. Faau | settied in the country extending from Switweriand, (he chief seat wo) a the Iqumer. | cook's day out— TURNING THE PAGES —BY— 'M sittin’ on the doorstep And I'm eating bread an’ fam, And I aren’t a-cryin’ really, Though I speks you think Lam. I’m feelin’ rather lonely, And I don’t know what to 0, *Cos there’s np one here to play with, And I’ve broke my hoop in two. I can hear the child’en playing, But they sez they don’t want me, "O08 my legs are rather little, An’ I run so slow, you sec. 8o I’m sittin’ on the doorstep, And I’m eating bread an’ fai And I aren't a-cryin’ really, Though it feels as Uf I om. So runs the plaint of “The Littlest One” in the book of verses bearing that title (Stokes), written by Marion St John Webb, There 1s an age, it seems, when bread and jam do not constitute the whole: joy of life, ee Thureday Thrift--- ‘Turning the pages of the December (Delineator one may find these words by Letla W. Brecling on the value of an appointed Thursday: I was Ured of being constantly re- minded of my neglect of things sas- odd-job day for the eort of Jobs that hide io the corners or behind the day the garbage can is rinsed and put on the stove to boll with a half-cup of sal soda solution, and hung out to alr. ' The bread box 1s scalded end aired on Thursday. Every properly managed refriger- ator should be thoroughly cleane at least once a week, so I resolved to do it on ‘Thursday. The laundry goes on ‘Thureday, clothes are collected for the cleaner and rugs are thoroughly cleaned. Thursday being, of course, the How in time did this thrifty house- keeper find an hour to work up the ‘Thureday boiled dinner? . 2 8 Recalling a Time When --- We gather from Denis Maokail's “Romance to the Rescue” (Houghton- Mitfiln) this passing reference to a time that was: It was @ very hot er after @ very cold winter in ons of the years when omnibus conductors still wore billycock hats, when tradesmen wore still polite, when people stil sol funny stories about eye) and iaughed at the Germans, a were silghtly nervous of the French: when aeroplanes, taxicabs, prohibi- tion, bridge, revolving heels, polson , Dorothy Perkins, syndicalism, Scouts, atrap-hangers, _rels tivity, the North and South Pole. thermos flasks, Golders Green, thi dansants, dress-fasteners, Mine M. Dell, depth charges, pro- Boers, eupertax, scooters, wer strikes, Lewis guns, early closing, jitneys, Kingsway, | flashbacks —vorticism, rubber-cored golf-balls, safety rst permanent waving, and countle: other pleasures and refinements present-day life were atill undir- covered, Ain't {t wonderful, Mable, as dere TAeut, Edward Streeter might inquire, the things that have happened since before the high cost of living? eee The Pessimism of a Poet--- From “The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge,” works of a pens- ant singer commended by Lord Dun sany, we cte a single stanza to shov how ‘an excellent poet can set a bad example {n making the worst of things: A hundred books are ready in my head To open out where Reauty bent a lea}. What do we want with Beauty? We are wed ancient grief. And we ara changing with the hours that Like Proserpine to dismal iv, And growing odd and, old, my heart and I. . 2 Luxury as a Traffic Necessity --+ Some wisdom of the times from a page of the current New Republic: To support its own—that ts, to sustain the Increasing number of people who crowd into it and tive hy it—business unust extend itsel faster and faster by a law of pro- greosion, It extends itaelf rationaly so far an it can, then trrationally or by an: from necessity, and ends by {inducing an ficias, whimsical demand for a great v: riety of things that are necessar neither to the comfort of the fies! nor the saving of the soul, only to the vanity. Such demand {s easily 4 People discover how much do without and business tn disma: talks of a buyers’ strike. The making of non-essential things is perforce abated. Labor begins to be disemployed. nd the economic structure, so delicately and reciprocally ramified io nie ce ee wos! of thread ta on the 6 600 ‘care of raliroad. freight in a year, \s shocked at the top. Think of Miss Luxury deciding to cut down on embroidery silk in New York— And affecting the traffic receipts tn San Francisco. oe James James and Every Woman - From James James's “Guide Book to Women” (Dutton) these brevities Every woman when she knows that she is In the wrong will in- stinctively seouse the man of being at fault, Every woman's wristlet watch ‘s always wrong. Every woman for- gets to wind it up, Every woman wit! discuss every woman's husband, including her own Every, woman has three times comfortab! to ait down before she is quite Every woman gets the keenest pleasure out of shopping, Every woman is jealous of every other woman. Every Woman, sees herself more beautiful than she ts at her mi: Every woman refuses to cook meals for herself when there te man about, Every woman has moods wher she doom things which she wouldn't 4o when normal. Every woman's multitude of pins, punctual wn covers @ Overy woman is ivery woman spoila her firat baby. Every woman hates darning Every woman loves \ ig loved, nis to be either Kvery woman wat thinner or fatter, Every woman moons, And every woman ts « cht Whether the pen name Jamen James masks man, woman or sohoo)- wirl, nobody knows, Hivery woman will agree at that the of the “Guide Beek” is no