The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1921, Page 22

¢ EFM arin, 9 ‘ SSTAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. WPudlidhed Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing . Now. 68 to G3 Park Raw, New York. H Seed PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. : i ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. 3 osnrH ENRY WATTERSON is dead. The last of the stalwart old leaders of ‘American journalism has passed on after eighty-one years of as virile, vigorous, trenchant a life as ever @ man ted. Soldier, editor, legislator, orator, political coun- sellor—the Colonel was all these, with the charac- teristic Wattersonian energy put into each But it was as the tireless wielder of one of the most powerful pens that have ever left a mark upon puiblic affairs in this country that Marse Henry wis "best known to his fellow Americans. They loved him for the glorious knockout blows he Gould deliver with that pen. They loved him for * the Homeric cursings, the epic slashes, the devas- 4 tating satire with which he cut a path for truth, as ye he saw It, through the shams and hypocrisies that senrgged his brave old soul. ** “They loved him for the valiant way he strode on, Seve in his declining years, with his sharp eye ever ready to blaze scom at liars, his hand ever ready to catch up its best weapon and send falsehood reeling. “Hé was a grand old Titan—was Marse Henry. Memory will need a big niche to {it his stature. a Only iast week the Commander of the Aimer- fean Legion told his comrades: “We have got to build up a spirit in the Am- erican Legion and do the right thing alwa! Now another responsible leader of the Legion telegraphs to President Harding: “The release of Debs would be an absolute disgrace.” ‘ It is @ pity the American Legion cannot be 4 right “always”—or at least tolerant more fre- aa,» Queritiy, ois Ie. WHY SURFACE CARS ON BROADWAY? _ SP THE revision In surface car service proposed for were discussion by Engineer Turner was admitted “as a tentative plan and subject to revision. =<... A-detail that will surprise many is the failure to _. leat Broadway of surface cars. _ = This has been urged in the past and with con- ~« Siderable reason. There have been several serious Proposals looking to bus lines as a substitute for | Broadway cars. | 8%./ Broadway is an important traffic street. For ad Practically its entire length it runs over one or the ae other of the subways. It is a diagonal street, and .. Where Broadway crosses the avenues the Broad- ~~-way cars cause interference with traffic. ,", Perhaps there are good reasons for retention of “surface car service on Broadway, but they will need to be explained. “When the days begin to lengthen, ‘The cold begins to strengthen.” ‘The weatherman's forecast couldn't have been : Ge-v setmed More accurately than the old couplet. we bas y bwans— BLOCS ON THE BRAIN? = Mees of Congress are not likely to pay poe, serious attention to Representative Ansorge’s sipbill which would levy a $5,000 fine against any igang ber of Congress who joined a “bloc.” | Get sor one thing, the Agricultural “bloc” would de- | py feat such a bill if it ever came to a vote. = exe) But if it could be passed, and particularly, if it g Sips be made retroactive, it would go a long way 5; ward providing revenue for the Treasury. _ G8 Every tariff bill has been passed by a “bloc.” i The Eighteenth Amendment was submitted by | 08.an Anti-Saloon League “bloc.” | *°°The anti-lynch bill was laid on the shelf by a Sop thloc.” “Aux Representative Ansorge seems to be unable to ‘see that the present ruling “bloc” is different from ‘past “blocs” only because it is out in the open in- Stead of under cover. S*Maybe Mr. Ansorge has been letting the “blocs” yo B° to his head. ay NO IDLE THREAT. N REPLY to the demand of the Lockwood Com- mittee that building unions reform their prac- Wicés or stand liable to prosecution, Hugh Frayne, rganizer of the A. F. of L., said: ws “We can and do and will take care of our ) . Own affairs.” ‘his aggressive assertion is not backed up by The A. F. of L. did not approve Brindellism, the situation has revealed that neither the A. F. Jé. nor the local Building Trades Council has fact the rules would work to correct abuses and to improve the general building situation. In several instances the changes recommended are directly in the interests of the individual members of unions. The record of the Lockwood Committee has been one of getting convictions when prosecutions were instituted. The whole investigation has been marked by a high degree of impartiality as regards employers and employees. The investigators have sought abuses affecting housing and have moved to remedy them. In the light of this record, the demands made Tuesday cannot be regarded as an idle threat. The presumption is strongly against the unions accused of operating under unlawful by-laws and local tules. THE OBLIGATION. LL this new pother over whether the Four- Power Treaty does or does not safeguard the territory of Japan itself is as unnecessary as it is unfortunate. There was no earthly reason why the President of the United States should be put in the position of having to reverse himself to accord with the views of the American delegates to the Arms Con- ference. Elementary foresight and co-ordination could have prevented such a mix-up. The worst thing about the occurrence is that it plays straight into the hands of irreconcilables who are whetting their knives for a good treaty that starts the United States in at least a: limited part- nership for the maintenance of peace. Suppose the Four-Power Pacific Pact is inter- preted to include the Japanese homeland. What then? It has been pointed out over and over again that in case of aggressive action on the part of any other power’ the parties to the treaty are pledged only “to communicate with one another fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly cor separately, to meet the exigencies of the par- ticular situation.” Lven if the particular situation were one in which the territory of Japan itself’ were menaced, the United States would be bound only to recognize that the occasion called for an interchange of views with the other three parties to the treaty as to what should be done. So far as the United States is concerned, armed action to meet the exigencies of the situation could only come, under the Constitution, by vote of Congress. Such a vote of Congress would be only in response to aroused public opinion.: Public opinion would be formed, as it is always formed in such cases, by study of the rights and wrongs of the situation as it developed. The direct obligation of the United States would be not to declare war to save Japan but to show itself sensible of a special duty to weigh the cir- cumstances and decide what it owed to its partners, to peace and to itself. Moderate as such an obligation may seem to many, there is no need to belittle the effect it would have as a moral deterrent upon a would-be aggressor calculating how much he might find against him if he started something in the Pacific, When the timid shy away from “moral obliga- tions” they conjure up hypothetical cases in cold blood, They take no account of how the wrongs of a real situation can stir and have stirred the people of the United States to a point where they talk not of “moral obligations” but of plain duty. There is too much stress on “moral obligation” to use force. : There is too little stress on what even a pact like this Four-Power Treaty can do toward dis- couraging the development of situations that call for the exercise of force. Defenders of peace will rally to the support of the Four-Power Treaty without measuring just how many square miles of islands in the Pacific come under its terms, The Pact is more than a matter of shrewd surveying. TWICE OVERS. A fin social lobby has been active in this (the Newberry) case—more active than in mosi matters, and the social lobby is effective. No agree- ment here is going to change any soles. It is unfor- tunate that on any question of public morality there should be a dividing line of politics in the chamber.” —Senator Kenyon. +| they were dry -by local option. == THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22,1921, eee An Appropriate Gift Coppright, 1921, (the, New Nort Eyeting World). by The Pros Publishing Oo 4 Foreign-Born Builders DL naa N LB REO EPA at ME OR mrt re Sear tice EPO ET From Evening ey much in few words. The Goat Getter. To the Editor of The Evening Wor) One of the misstatements of tho “drys” that never fails to get my goat is: “National Prohibition is the will of the majority of the citizens of the United States.” The only political party that favor- ed Nationa! Prohibition In the Presi- dential election of 1916 was the Prohi- bition party. They were defeated by 8,909,100 votes. Even the Socialist party received more than two votes to thelr one. Then came the war, and our “repre- sentatives” hastened to write the Pru- hibition party's pltform Into the cou- stitution. Some States were dry before Na- tional Prohibition was put over, but Many people who would vote for a dry county or State would not vote for National Prohibition. How can one otherwise account for the extremely poor showing the Rrohibition party has always made? If further proof were needed that [National Prohibition is not the will of the majority, one has but to r member that Bryan refused the nom- ination for President on the Prohibi- tlon ticket in the last Presidential election, That he was wise is shown by the fact that, even with the ladies voting for the first time, their candi- date was defeated by 15,946,476 votes, 3ERGASTED, 19, 1921. FLABL Astoria, N. Y., Dec, Corporal Pun ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: One of the most noticeable traits in the children of this city is their disagreeable behavior when riding .n public railways or on the streets, ‘They think nothing of running pell- meli through a subway train jostiing passengers and using vile language. It seems to me the fault lies oot only with parents’ indifference as io whether their children conduct them- wlves like little gentlemen or ladies but with the training in public schools, What is needed badly is the restoration of corporal punishment not only at home but in the school. ‘That is what is needed to-day. Pons a law which will allow a teacher to #pank an unruly child, and the chil- dren of to-day will respect the rights of their elders, JOHN CALHOUN New York, Dec. 18 SvuNEe, Never Say Quit. ‘To the Extor of The Evening World: When you think you're in hard luck don't start to whine and to duck. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: jcident he blames it on union labor. , |The only time the public ever hear World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Ian’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 te Take time to be briel. but prove you're made of the proper stuff. Never quit, but show your grit. GEORGE W, HOPPER. New York, Di a 21, American-Bor' rem Are Citi- Asarcader of The Evening World, I would like to know if a child born in the United States is an American citizen and may vote at the age of twenty-one. His parents are foreign- born, MRS. FL. | The Bows the Unions, | To the Editor of The Evening World: t Landlords Lay Blame for High Rents on Labor Union Extortion. This misleading statement appeared ! in The World on Sunday, Dec, 11. Why all the noise about a few unton members who have sold thelr honor? Who tempted them to be dishonest? What about the boss builders’ union? Few people know the boss. builders have a union, and that the bully, Brindell, who is now in prison, was | selected by tho bosses to rule the! building trades. Few people know! also that the bosses’ union has aj) large sum of money put aside to fight | organized labor whenever the bosses | fee] like breaking an agreement with the trades unions, My husband is a plasterer and has| been inthe business over twenty years, He gave four years’ time at ® per week to learn his trade. At present his wages are $35 per full week, but there are few weeks, even now when the building trade is good, that he gets in a full week. In order that we may live half-way decent I am compelled to go to business every day. A plasterer must buy all the tools needed to work with. He re- ceives no pay for Saturday afternoons or holidays. Nor does he receive pay when one job is finished and he is compelled to lose time looking for an- other job. Should material be de- too cold tw work on, again he is the loser. Now for the boss builders: How much time have they ever given to learn the trade? What do they know or even care about the safety of a building or of the men on a bulld- ing? If a mechanic on a building dared to do the work as he knows it should be done he would lose his job at once. Then when there is an ac- of an accident is when there is a collapse like the one in Brooklyn about a week ago, although there layed on the job or the building be! RRR, honest member is walking his shoes off looking for a job. who understand UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921.-by John Biske) MEN WHO HELPED THEMSELVES. Of the important figures at the Disarmamcut Confer- ence in Washington nearly every one is a self made man. President Harding, who called the conference, began life as a poor boy, and paid for his education by hard wo.k. Secretary Hughes was the son of a poorly paid minister. He contributed largely to his owh education by tutoring and school teaching. A few years ago Le was a lawyer with a small practice— with apparently no more future than 5,000 or 6,000 uther lawyers in New York City. Briand, French Premier, was born and reared in Brit- tany, of middle class parents. He has no powerful influ- ences behind him. He fought his way to the Premiership and, by dint of his ability, held it seven times. Even Kato, the head of the Japanese delegation, in a country as closely caste-bound as any country in the world save India, made his way to his high position by his own in- dividual energy. ‘ Of all the leading characters in the conference only Bal- four had the advantage of high birth and powerful backing. And Kalfour's success is the more remarkable because of these. For if he had chosen, he could have lead a life of leisure, with no exertion on his part. Lloyd George, whose coming to the conference was still problematical when this was written, is, as all men know, the preduct of his own mental energy. His way was made with- out help. . Here are men from all the nations of the world, engaged in its most important work, and nearly every one of them self made. There is stili talk of influence and pull, and money backing, and favoritism. There is still an almost general be- licf that the man who is helped is more certain to get along than the man who has to help himself. Yet at one of the critical periods of the history of the world, we find that the history makers made themselves he- fore they began to make history. It is needless to draw a moral for this editorial. Thg_men who sit about the table at Washington are ex amples for every young man in the world, © What they have done can be done, provided those who choose to do it have the gift of brains, without which nobody can do anything really worth doing, or rise in the least above his fellows. Why don’t the bosses hire only men and would follow “That’s a Fact’ I} | are accidents on buildings every day plans and specifications? Then the | elie | America By Svetozar Tonjorof Copyri 5 Prem Publidhing 09, mis ew Yor “evening World). [eet ‘ XV.—ANDREW CARNEGIE. “The Autoblography of Androw Carnegie” {s, In many respects, one of the most remarkable human docu- ments ever written. It is safe to say that it could have been written only in the evening of ua life spent in America, For the achievement It re- cords is peculiarly, if not exclusively, American, When Scotland's notahle contribu- | tion to the builders of America began | his bustr »ybin boy in a Pittebureh at the muntfl- cent salary of $1 he seemed | to be cont 5 stone wall of | dete] opportunity, advar nt from the | bottom rung of the ladder through suc ve stops t top Is a ro- mance of absorbing tian his Even more remarkabie achievements in establishing the steel industry in the United Stutes—the Ife work with which U © Is credited as his main contribution to the coun- try gave him opportunity—are the moral and mental processes that show the growth of the direction taken by hls mind and heart. Shortly beture his death Carnegie said that the triumph that gave him man and the the keenest satisfaction of all his jBenefuctions was the gift of Pitten- crieff Glen, which his great wealth enabled him to make io the people of the town of his birth, Dunfermline, As a boy Carnegic had becn ex- eluded from Pittencrieff Glen by the will of the Juird, who had inherited that beauty spot from a long se of ancestors. In later years, the Seotch boy who young life in rn! of $1.20 a project of open- men and womer, und especially to the children, of his birthplace fur all the generations ty come. ‘That dream he made a reality by patient work, whieh finally enabled him to purchase the property and place it ut the perpetual disposal of | his former townsmen, | Anoth sode of Carnegie’s early | | youth in America explains the di~ | rection which his ty took in the establishment of jibraries, beth In j America and abroad. | When Andy was a telegraph ’mes- senger boy in Pittsburgh, Col. James Anderson of that city threw open his library to the working boys of Pitts- burgh on Saturday afternoons. But, as a me: regarded asa vung Carnezia found himself excluded from the | privilege. His protest through the press against this discrimination, Cul, An- derson’s prompt re 1 of his own ruling, and the voracious advantage | which’ the messenger boy took of his | new opportunities form a thrilling chapter of Andrew Curnegie’s life story. This episode explains Carnegie's munificence in building and equip- ping: libraries, The Scotch buildef of America was determined, when he found himself ip command of large means, that 09 man or woman, and especially ro girl or boy, in American should lack the means of self-education, which he strove so pluckily to acquire in bis own boyhood. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | | 116—PUDDING, | One of Smollett’s characters, pedantic Dr, Wagtail, is made to say in a coffee house discussion that tho | English word “pudding” is a corrup- * tion of the French word “boudin"— which means the same thing. In point of “pudding” has a | derivation nearer home. It is prob- ably related to the word “pod,” mean- inga paunch. It was first applied to | an intestine of an animal, stuffed with chopped meat, | and spices, for | preservation, (Consider the word | “blood- pudding.) Subsequently, as the art of cookery developed, Ul m “pudding” was applied to compounds of flour, milk, eggs and fruit, cooked in a pudding cloth or pudding bag, much as chopped meats are ‘stuffed into an In- testine or casing. It is possible that the pedantic Dr, Wastall was right to the extent that |"pudding” may be related to “bous | ain.” | VANISHED RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK Copyright, 1921 (New York Evening World), by The Press Publishing Co. EACH MAN HIS OWN “WHO'S WHO?" Before the when “Who's Who |in New York” was published, our In- dian predecessors on these premises \carried their own titles to distinction of achievement painted thetr breasts, For instance, the warrior who had been so close to the enemy that the enemy had placed a hand on him depicted a crimson hand-print on his the on Jbreast. Perhaps, if blood had fol- |lowed the touch of the enemy's hand, the war hero commemorated the event by gashes of crimson color on his breast But tor the insignia of heroism tho former br resident of Now Yori to s the proper authority, duce witnesses to prove zed into the white of : that he had a } erate as Be % instead of a mark of honor, In the Levent ot false pretons ig demon- jStrated poor Lo was a man marked [im another sense than he contem= plated from 1830 to as a Temple of EEP the Christmas mail moving.” —Post- master General Hays. * 8 @ Throw out your chest and button up your vest Make up you're mind to @o your best. Show people you'll Fame for all € an eminenc jube, near R | . By Albert P. Southwick Capris 19, ut rmany. It 6tands on feet above the Dan. bon owner, the boss builder and the me- chanic would be fair to each other. But then the boss could not make over through the carelessness of the bulld- ers. Why is this? Perhaps owners would appreciate “K p able to break the Brindell system in the build- eld. , ‘ play the game, even if you can't win | is — = * . q y battle tha 2 union labor if they knew that the!50 per cent. profit, I would suggest The Yotlow. flower ‘Phe nineteen demands made by Mr. Untermyer | ¢6 7 HAVE never been able to understand it (the Bate, eee pee that tries your| inion fines a member caught using that a boss builder be compelled to] In Scandinavian mytholosy Val- Was yaied ty honor the marigold, f 7 of Queen Mary from 1553 to 1558) of England. oe : f@ drastic, and it may be that in some instances would work unreasonable hardship on union- In such cases the committee would probably to discuss modifications. But in general, | poor material, He is expected to re- |pert to the union if he Is asked to \Work with inferior materials. True, Jsome members do not live up to the {complete & job whan te Aged fen] halla is the abode of the fallen in ract and not be vad to peddle t! | work toa lot of sub-contractcrs, Thi-| battle This name has been given to | would cut down some of the high cost! Magnificent marble structure of ), hiles, but you may be sure that they of building. nearly the same proportion as the |yle (1795-1881) lane tools of the bosses, and that they| A UNION PLASTERER'S Wiv8. | Parthenon, which was erected by long residence in ve steady work whem ap New York, Dec. 14, 1921, Ludwig L of Bavaria, who relgned | sea, London, a ke American valuation tariff plan) and never |‘) He bitter tot . heard anybody on the floor who did understand it, in- |t0 You te bt with all you eluding the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Fordney).” [ae ta win (yen ene uh & grin All you need Is the will to go through the mill The going may @rulin on account of hi Cheyne Row, Ch '