The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1922, Page 26

( * ESTABLISHED BY JOsErH PULITZER. ‘POUeied Valiy Broept Pundar dy The Press Publiehiag Company, Now, 54 to 69 Park Row, New Yori, PLAIN STEALING, JURY in General Sessions has found How- ard E, Stanley, one of a firm of bucket- shop keepers, guilty of grand larceny in the first degree. “I have always said,” District Attorney Banton éommented, “that bucketing is merely a polite word for stealing.” The jury thought so too. This particular verdict, the first of its kind, gets a precedent. Other bucketing cases are to be pressed in the courts. In this case the theft scems to have been pecu- liarly bald and brazen. The bucketeers were operating on a “shoe-string” even narrower than usual. The firm did not have the price to put up so imposing a “front” as is customary. For this reason it was comparatively easy to convince the jury. Cases will come up in which the bucketing thieves have financed a showy “plant,” have stolen thousands instead of hundreds and have made off with enough plunder to pay the best legal talent. will be more difficult. Then the task of the prosecution In such cases this conviction may prove help- ful. the relatively obscure Stanley. « Bucketing is stealing. courts are getting it straight at last. WHAT DID LADY ASTOR MEAN? ADY ASTOR thinks Nation-wide Poe ~ may be all for the best in the United Sta’ but she is not going to advocate quite the same thing in England. It ought only to be necessary to show that after the mahogany desks, oriental rugs, lavish luncheons and prosperous trappings are removed, the sin of stealing is the same as in the case of It is fortunate that the “I shall support and urge the adoption of *© legislation giving localities the right or option of deciding by direct vote whether or not they want drink to continue, and also the extent and method subject to which it 1s to be sold.” Under older American theories of liberty and is the way the liquor question was dealt with’ in the United States. ‘local self-government, hg The system came to an end for two reasons: (1) Because it failed to satisfy the Anti-Saloon ‘League's craving for power. (2) Because a large part of the American {> can‘no see that it could get rid of the saloon evil without ‘a wholesale public was too bew!!dered sacrifice of personal freedom. Lady Astor ,will support the local-option plan in England because, she says: i “That seems to me to be demogratic, to allow local experiments to be made and to be suited to the present state of public opinion in Brit- ain, ‘Which is far less advanced than here in the United States.” “Less advanced” in the sense ‘of not the opposite of democratic. Was Lady Astor only trying to turn the cont parison into a complimerit to the land she was » leaving, or is all Anti-Sgloon League tyranny an “advance” and improvement on democracy? LET THEM DO AS’ MUCH FOR ‘CONSTITUENTS. tenants from the extortion of the rent hogs. The “explanation is comparatively simple. Congressmen and Senators have to live in Wash- ington part of the time, at least—and pay rent. It was ‘easy enough for them to see the “emergency” feature when the , “emergency” promised to hit Congressional pockets. Now is it too much for the rest of the country to expect that Congress give “emergency” atten- tion to housing conditions elsewhere? One spe- cific need is reduction of the tariff on brick. __ The Lockwood committee has shown that “brickyards in the United States are not operating to capacity, that there is a ghortage of brick, that the present tariff is prohibitive, that Ameri- can manufacturers are holding up prices far be- yond the cost of production and legitimate profit. The result is too few new houses and “emer- mncy rents” in all the principal cities of the |) as well as to their own? is made. teady to submit to a kind of Prohibition that is an eleventh-hour emergency rush Congresé extended the rent Jaw protecting Washington for a lower tariff, a fairly protec- force brick manufacturers to sell to the rent emergencies of their con- final result of the Republican primary gubernatorial nomination in Oregon is not likely to be settled until in favor Of the present Governor, who denounced the Klan and its kind. Oregen has boasted of its citizenship. One Oregon city proudly proclaimed that it had the largest percentage of college graduates in its pop- ulation of any city in the United States, Oregon was the mecca of “free soilers” in the “Forties.” That is not the soil in which the medieValism of the “fiery cross” should be expected to flourish, The only reasonable explanation is that the good citizens of Oregon were not sufficiently aroused to the campaign. The closeness of the vote ought to be a warning. Oregon must clear itself of Ku Kluxismi if it hopes to live up to its claims, DAUGHERTY SHOULD GO. TTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY’S statement of yesterday is no answer what- ever to the charges against him. The Attorney General dodges the documentary evidence. He denies nothing. He furnishes no support for the earlicr assertion of his friend Senator Watson of Indiana that Daugherty had no partiin procuring the pardon or commutation of sentence for’Charles W. Morse. The Attorney General's statement contains only evasive bluster to the effect that “the incentive and motives inspiring this and other agitation will not accomplish the results hoped for by those behind the scenes.” Mr. Daugherty takes cover behind thé explana- tion offered by Senator Moses of New Hamp- shire that the charges brought against the Attor- ° ney General in connection with the Morse pardon are meant to head off proposed prosecution of war fraud cases, " {t won't do. Mr. Daugherty can’t hide behind that screen. ‘Nor can he bank much on his declared “faith that the people of the country appreciate the situ- ation and have confidence in the Department of Justice being fair, judicious and effective.” The people of the country appreciate the situ- ation enough to expect more than shiftiness and evasion from an Attorney General confronted with such charges. “ They can’t continue to have confidence in a’ Department of Justice headed by a man who doesn’t-appreciate the need of clearing up serious doubts‘ as to his own fitness for the importaht place he. holds. Under fife circumstances, Attorney General Daugherty’s statement of yesterday is in itself sufficient ground -to warrant an immediate call for his resignation Mr. Daugherty may have been able to “put over’ Mr. Harding at Chicago. But the time has come when President Harding get “put over” Mr. Daugherty on the coun ‘ The Administration needs a new Attorney General. . en At EDGAR M. CULLEN. < Edgéf M. Cullen rounded out a full career in/his seventy-eight years. He lived a full and worthy life, As soldier, lawyer, Justice, Judge and Chie? Judge of the Court of Appeals, he proved a credit to himself an his profession, , Judge Cullen was a personality, a fine out- standing man. He looked every inch a Judge and bis appearance did not belie his worth. For more than fifty years Judge Gplleny en-~ joyed distinction as one of the first citizens of Brooklyn. He attained to enviable position aban early age. When the age of seventy forced him to retire trom the bench he main- tained his place in the legal profession as a Wise and venerable counsellor. f His retirement was a loss to the bench. His death # a logs to Brooklyn and to the State, ‘The sentence for contempt of court imposed on*Comptrolier Craig bids fair to set a record for reversals, reversed reversals and reversals ot reversed reversals. If the courts worked faster, Mr. Craig might get dizzy. ACHES AND PAINS By John Keetz, The Morse case promises to morsel Produce « tot of re “T” stands for tiger, Tammany's token. It_uses voters nly to vote ‘em. ° Lady Astor departe pleased with Prohidition. Peo- ple who work are perhaps debarred from the wastage of drink, but then, employers are far more extravar gant in its use than they ever were under old condi- tions, The workers need to work harder to keep the boss in hooch, . Bvplorer Stefansaon says @ man con live in the Arctic without working or cheating any one. Where ie all the joy of ving in such a placer . The newest idea in the map line shows the “bright spots” in the U. 8. Ay meaning those regions where collections are prompt and the outlook is rosy, New York, New Jersey and the eastern half of Pennayl- vania are included in the happy hunting grounds, Detroit and Minneapolis are Unked up tn a simitay radiant zone. There is a bright area in Washington home. The rest of our fair land is blue. . nor, Mayo” Hylan ta Mr, Hearat’s candidate, anaing de prettier in:the way of THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY “a6, 1922 and another itluminates Kansas, Nebraska and Oxia. Mr, Hearst is Mayor Hylan’s candidate for Gover. Could Sep A “Ringing in the E Unwieldy Chiaa By Maubert St. Georges ORY PR CI Sia tas LOANS, The straitened circumstances of China are mainty due to the fact that Bhe-has been trying to compete with the West by opposing our modern In+ dustrial and commercial organization with her own antiquated methods ef production, b Not many years aco China was! produélng practically all the world's supply of tea, To-day tea produced in India and Ceylon by scientific methods is being imported into China. Formgly, when fine silks and cottons were ‘required, they were Imported - from China. To-day the cotton ex- ‘ port him almost ceased and the na- tive workmen are being ruined be- cause of the manufactured goods im+ ported from England and Japan. The progressive element in China! realized that the only way to combat this was to develop their country and its resources along modern lines, But development requires mohey, and money is not lent witheut security, Foreigners demand that rgads, rail+ ways, canals, river transportation, labor conditions and the like shall be bettered before they begin operation, ind these things need money. the Chinese began to ask for loans. ‘The opportunity thus offered to ob- tain a hold upon China for future ¢= ploitation ‘was not overlooked, From 1898 until the floating of the interna- tional loan in 1918, China borrowed officially about $700,000,000, mostly tor railway construetion. As security for these loans she pledged the reve- nues of these railways and mortgaged them, and also surrendered the revo- nues of her cables and telegraph, of, her taxes on grain, rice, tobacea,' wine and certain surplus taxes, of the likin tax (a tax on inland commerce in ttansit) and finally of the land tax and salt monopoly, the main sources of revenue of the Government. It must be understood that these loans are not purely ‘commercial transactions, as ‘1s usually the caso between nations, “They are made by, firma subject to'the control of their Government, and many Governments have ‘allowed acquisitive instincts too much scope. Lenders have come forward with offers of loans but with the most oppressive terms, as for in- stance the Austrian loan of 1913 in which China accepted a loan of $3,000,000 at 6 per cent. in return for which sho agreed to spend $1,600,~ 000 of it in the purchase of eighteen torpedo boats and torpedo boat de- stroyers that she did not need. This period of competition for mortgages on the resources of China’ ‘was followed in 1913 by oge of inter national co-operation just as in« jurious to her, It prevents her from obtaining loans in the most rea~ sonable markets, and by imposing om her the demands of the. lenders destroys the activities of independent financiers, and may lead to an inter. national control of Chinese finances in a manner similar to that which took place in Egypt. It was for these reasons that the United States with. drew from the big loan in 1913. Sinco that time, dfowever, Ching has continued to borrow, principally, from Japan, amounts which not hav~- ing been made public cannot be com« puted. But it is certain that at the present time virtually every means of revenue in China is mortgaged to the uttermost and under the control of foreigners. For’ much of this the Chinese must blame themselves. Whether or not the lenders have be@g extortionate, Is not their fault if750 per cent, in the minimum leakage that is bound to show whenever money finds its way into Chinese financial channels, Also the business honelity of the westernized Chinese merchants has not always been equal to the tempta~ tion offered to it, and many sad tales are told of misappropriation of companies funds. This political dishonesty, the inse+ curity of investments and the inabil~ ity of law courts to give proper pro~ tection are the principal obstacles confronting industrial development, Until these defects are corrected it seems that the efforts of China to es~ tablish herself on a sound financial basis will continue to be futile, From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian't it the ene that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredP There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of sntléfaction in trying te eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE , By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) a OTHERS. The writer recently- attended a meeting of one of the thousands of Rotary Clubs which are seattered all over the world—even to Japan. All the talk he heard that evening was of work for boys. Avdozen high school boys who had won athletic competitions were guests of the club, and while they busily stowed away a very good dinner one of the, boys congratulated them on their success in the competitions and said a few words—not enough to bore them—about doing as well with their brains at the school books as they did with their muscles "on the track and field. The speaker of the evening told of a farewell by Gen. Booth to a Salvation Army party which was leaving him for work in another country. g The old General was too far away from his hearers to make a speech, so he merely waved his hands at them and shouted, “Others! Others!’ ’ Such of the talk at the meeting as was awt of boys was of doing something for the town—something for others— always others. It was heeding the admonition of Gen, Booth, though none of the members had ever heard of it before that evening. It was because of this talk that the writer began to understand why there are Rotary Clubs all over the world, and why, they are all flourishing and gtowing. bd For their work seems to be work for others—the effort of strong, successful and prosperous men to make others . strong and prosperous and successful. - Such organizations are bound to grow. Every com- munity needs one of them, and because it needs one it wel- comes and encourages the onc that is formed there. Business organizations are almost necessarily selfish, for the concern which does not look out for itself is not likely to find any one else togook out for it. ‘But a club of business men—done from each Misiness in a town—can afford to be unselfish and to take an interest in the general welfare, particularly that of young men. Nations which have such organizations in their life are not going to fall by the wayside, or run amuck and start world wars. The “boost” spirit is always helpful, but when it goes along with a spirit of doing something for others it begins to play an important part in the building up of a real civilization. * Revive Old Sports. ‘To the Editor of The Hvening World: Persons jn every walk of life praise. The World for having revived inter- est in the old game of marbles, ‘ There are other old outdoor, healthy; wholesome sports that I would like to see The Evening World or some other agency revive for the ‘benefit of old boys and old girls and everybody else. ‘The first and best is bicycling, and the second is roller skating. Both of these sports are healthy, whole- some outdoor exercises, and Greater New York has plenty of room for the exercise of both of them, despite the increase In the number of automo- dwellings about the city, exeept the “poorer class.” What is the “poorer class"? Can he honestly state that the people of modern means, saf, a bank clerk or an insurance clerk, can go out and find an apartment for less than $50 a month? And what can one get for $50 a month these days? Just about two rooms in the rear on the sixth floor of an apartment house housing about forty families. I suppose because people of these means have to live in these condi- tions they are looked upon as the “poorer class"! Every oné knows, of course, that a man is judged by tho friends he makgs, but in these times when you can find only trash, only the lowest class of people living in biles. these apartments, will Mr. Schwab The bicycle path alongside of the] please inform me how such a citizen walk on Riverside Drive has fallen| haga right or chance to live? He also into disuse, but it could be rejuve-| states that the emergency ts all over! nated with little effort. Along this|{ imagine he and his class are the path bicyclists could ride to their]only ones who think so. Please re- hearts’ content without fear of the|member not every one can live like demon automobilés. © cattle. As for roller skating, the Graha}| Any one can see the Wason for op- Concourse, from 163d Strect clear up, ition to the Tax Exemption Law. to Mgsholu Parkway, is ideal. The/ These real estate owners’ associates Grand Concourse haf three wide as=|have the public against them. phalt roadways, Every evening, say| We have had enough of this hous- from 7 to 11 o'clock, the centre read- 4/28 situation, and now as things are way could be given over to roller] besinning to right themselves some skating. Tho Grand Concourse one like Mr. Schwab and his crowd convenient to all New Yorkers. Gomes along and tries "te throw a can be reached by the Lexington Ave- | Wrench in/the machinery. nue subway, or the new extensions of}, Be on the constructive side and the Sixth and Ninth Avenue elevated|®*¥ to do that which is good. We: roads, or by.the 5-cent municipal bus|Americans have had our back up Tia thom\Gtaeh Biceet, against the wall just about long enough. CHAS, WILLIAMS, Jon eianatan ba thee nel Lome Island City, May, 1, 2923. ing better than the old-time outdoor sports. Nothing could help promote better citizenship than the revival of old, wholesome sports at this time, »A HIGH-WHEEL BICYCLIST. New York, May 20, 1922. Copyright, 1923 ON World) by Press ing Oo. ‘The word “cur,” applied to a dog, in a contraction of the term curtailed, Under old forest laws of Engignd all | dogs belonging to unqualified sports. | men or inferior persons had their tails cut short and were called “eur~ / tath This afterward became “cur« tall” (which in England is still ap~« plied to a horse whose tail is docked) and finally “our,” always used in @ oad or reproachful sense. @*. 20 Minutes—30 Ye: To the Editor of the Evening Worl In an article in this evening's issue you make much of thg fact that the recelvers who are charging an addi- tional fare in Queens are jail birds, inasmuch as they spent as much as thirty minutes in jail. In the same paper I read with much interest the varigus sentences being passed our by judges for attempted robbery, the! sentences in instances being over thirty years. ile receivers spent thirty minutes for actual robbery, and worse still, are still robbing, If the Transit Commission has wer to imprison these men why as it not the power to summon the force of the city to preverft continual robbery, for the extra fare is still very “Afrienn Golf.” ‘To the Wdltor of The Evening World: * “In answer to Mr. Bruce's question in your paper to-night, it may inter- est him to know that the term “Afri- can golf” was given to ‘shooting the dice’ ‘because of the fact that the game is largely played by the colored race who originally came from Africa. If he wishes to know any more terms for this “almost national pastime,” the following may explain: “Back alley tennis,” “cubical engin- eering, ‘Mississipp! marbles,” &c. “Buaziitd, called hawk by courtesy,** is a phrase meaning an euphemism, a brevet rank, a complimentary titlo- Dryden, {a the ‘Hind and Panther,"* wrote: “Of small renown, ‘tis true, for not to lie, by ercised lithe potent influence in Gov- ernment matters, leaving the conduct of state affairs largely to public Min- isters, Among the leading events of WHOSE BIRTHDAY? MAY 24.—ALEXANDRINA VIC- TORIA, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Pmpress of Indian, was We call your buzzard, courtesy.”" ‘hawk,’ her reign ate the aboliti Brooklyn, May 20, 192 H. J, L. | much in evidence. * born at Kensington Palace on eee ol rie of thet wagic Orator of Tennesseo” was a Not only that but the service has| May 24, 1819, She succeeded her a ption of the penny}, oyriquet gonferred upon Gustavus With Backs to the wal To the Editor of The Rr postege, the Irish Land Act, the rebellion in India, and wars tn Egypt, Afghanistan and South Afri Af Gemoralized. Coming in from Flush- ing You change at Woodside, and nine times out of ten, an empty car leaves Adolphs Henry (1804-1880), who od a great reputation us a pub-« je speaker throughout the Southern | uncle, William IV., on June 20, 1837, as Victoria I, and was crowned at 1s World: In a recent edition of The Evening World, Joseph 8. Schwab, Presl-| Woodside fof New York just as you} Westminster a year later. On Beb.}ter the death of her husband in 1861] states. dent of the state Owners’ Pro-}get off the Flu. is wait-|10, 1840, she married Prince Albert} she lived in o “0 wtivement ane? tective quoted as}ing ten or fftoon minutes” yoh get] or te: Gecman Houde of Saxe- nuary, 1901, ‘The most useful tree of the world | no emergency injaboard ® New York bound car and S-Gothe. The’ rove! couple sad # of longer) duration] is the h, Indity different arti. Ss of the city, }wait 0! the powers that be -Gothe. by than any other nglish sovereign, probably (urnishes man with tha nine ehildren and their private. life o tac A. A. RITCHE) was eaceodingiy happy. Vistorih ox- : " and haus been surpassed only by a New Xork, May 19, 1984. test numer of “useful products, is all over finding Gee any for a?tint, tend people oan and have been = tenon 2 ESS " Lys me ap