The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1922, Page 34

ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 68 Park Row. RALPH PULIT?: President, 63 2 J _ANGUS SHAW, Trossurer, 68 Park Row. 20SErH PULI' Gecretary, 68 Park MEMIFEN OF THE ASSOUTA The Arvoctated Pret ta exctasively entitled to the wre for republication Of all néws Geepatehes credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this paper Aid ett the Tore news published beret HAVE THEY COUNTED BOTH? ANY members of the present Congress are , no doubt convinced the flourish of a Sol- diers’ Bonus Bill, whether it passes or not, is a good bid for votes next fall. The American Legion has done its best so to convince them. Congressmen are susceptible to organized in- fluence. But what about the unorganized opinion that has been growing among disinterested voters who have watched the development of the bonus prop- osition without organized means of registering their Aisgust? Have Congressmen counted these votes? The bonus movement has progressed under the impetus of a sordid, calculating cynicism noth- ing short of sickening. It has abandoned the last shred of self-respect. It has lost the last vestige of sentiment or meaning as an honorarium to the Nation's heroes. It has become in the hands of Congress mere \\, vote-bait which Congressmen can dangle before their soldier-constituents. The average’ Con- gressman who is urging a bonus doesn’t care a fig whether a bonus bill passes or not, so long as he can point next fall to the fact that he voted for one. If one does get by, he hopes to reap the benefit while taxpayers shoulder the burden. That's the way the soldiers’ bonus has come | to look to more voters than the average Con- | gressman realizes. Has he any guarantee that the bonus won't lose him more votes than it brings him? The voters who have lost all respect for the bonus-pushers are not the voters who are doing most talking just now, i AND NO INCOME TAX! ISS GWENDOLYN THOMAS, winner of a $270,000 stake in the Derby Sweepstakes, is described in news accounts as “thirty, a-clerk in a Liverpool insurance office.” We also learn that she is the sole support of a widowed mother and that she proposes to use the money “use- fully.” ‘ A final touch to the brief story is: ; “As the authorities do not recognize income from such @ source, she will not have to pay any income ta: Yes, it has all the makings of melodramatic fiction, except that it is too improbable. It is so improbable that it should not encourage gambling at long odds. A fortune of $270000 acquired by a working girl of thjrty will seem fair. game to many a broken-down adventurer. Here's hoping Miss Gwendolyn Thomas does use her money “use- fully” and that the sequel to her luck will not rub off the lustre of her astonishing fairy story. George F. Baker is another of the wealthy men who have come to the conclusion that it is bet- ter to spend their wealth for philanthropy while they live than to leave it by will. Mr. Bakegs muni it million dollar endow- ment for the Metropolitan Museum will lose nothing in the appreciation of the public from the modest reticence of the elderly financier as he sailed for a holiday in/Burope. | WHERE RESPECTABILITY WINS TOO MUCH LENIENCE, T IS easy enough to understand Samuel: Un- termyer’s anger against the courts generally, and Justice Alverson in particular, for failure to imprison those who break the anti-trust laws. Mr. Untermyer knows these men for what they are. He knows that in unsocial effects, in harm to the community, these convicted conspirators wield an intolerable influence. Compared with the damage done by these business pirates, the takings of bandits and automobile thieves sink into insignificance. Judicial discretion has failed lamentably all through the history of anti-trust prosecution. There is where reform must come. It is a sub- ject on which bar associations and leaders of the bench should go on record: This promises better than laws making jail sentences mandatory. Judges are selected to exercise discretion. They Are supposed to be of the wisest and best of men. But they have failed to see the trust conspirator iw his true relation to society. The defendants.in such cases have the appear- ance of “gentlemen.” Their manners are correct, Their dress is impeccable. They are represented by eminent counsel. Their social position is as- sured. It is difficult to think of these men as common criminals. In fact, they are not—they are uncommon criminals and have earned un- common penalties. Once the real status of these malefactors is then as now, Were small cubes on} It would surely please me to see ent of a certain sum might r, M ted hi intat de ch a i ctability of ¥ cach of six siden of which was marked |these would-be saints compelled to|'he Pes PAS Ba MSEr OAR ae ee eee | tine wil tet in Re - made clear, the seeming respectability of these Nat MCA ATAARPaioM dave hel WhOleecHa €5 Raners Ga’ quel such na manner that} work at hard labor. I'm afraid they|tettle the dispute. "| the leaves fall, but likewise see | 1880, bul he remained in Rusala o .-crimes.will vainish and punishments will be made |)... young daughter, in after money, A frruncer | mumber opposite sides _alwaye{ would be shouting for som hing | nently relia hakerry nar es fruits ripen and new buds shoot Ceaenes in 1882, but died ch call ‘ : ed ide Up a ¢ igen oF lc phrabe.. " ver. 4 sideauate. Amprisopment, impoverishimsny and | rysuks * SOHN KEETZ | "Zuo Houmas soldiers ut we crom of! Gpring Lakes May 25, bd, tah tong adiarward. when Pinckney! 127th—oethe, pomenioe hacare Naima Als fae ‘THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, social degradation are the price suck men should ——— — pay, both as punishment and as warning. Judges ought to be better equipped that jurors System tow Seek Beat to see this distinction. Judges ought to have = a more judicial poise, more insight. : p 10 net BT mses A oy cayesaceeny If imprisonment were mandatory, juries would 6 disagree. As it is, the malefactors are passed along to the Judge. The Judge should use dis- cretion—and impose long terms in prison. , 1922, — Unwieldy China By Maubet St. Georges Copyright, 1922 (New York Hvening World) ‘by Proms Publishing Co, THE SYSTEM OF PROVINCI, GOVERNORS. Such a yast country as Chin cannot be controlled in all its detail by the Central Government. Fro very early times, therefore, much the labor was delegated to subordt nates in accordance with a care! worked out plan. The most impor~ tant officials were tie viceroys, who governed? more than one province, and the Governors of each province be- neath them. A Treasurer and a Tax Collector of Independent authority were also appointed to act as @ check upon the higher officials. This theory did not work well practicé, however, and most of {i rulers of China allowed the Governg ors to assume supreme power, as, for instance, when Yuan Shi Kat wa' permitted while Governor of Chi-il to train an, army on the European model with the provincial revenue: with the result that his influend grew to such an extent that th Peking Government was forced DE VALERA MUST CHOOSE, S Ireland slips further back toward anarchy, De Valera still loudly denies “the right of any English authority to prescribe what an Irish- man shall or shall not do.” : Yet, as the Daily Mail's Dublin éorrespondent points out, De Valera does not say he will not do what Winston Churchill says he should do. De Valera only proclaims that whatever he does will be in obedience to no Englishman, In the present crisis it mattegs little why De Valera does his duty provided he does it. Lawlessness is again rampant in Ireland, Re- publicanism is again a cover for what Winston Churchill pointed to as “a larger number of com- mon, sordid ruffians and brigands, raiding, mur- dering and pillaging for personal gain or private revenge.” The ruffians are glad to have De Valera make trouble. It keeps the pot of lawlessness boiling. Is De Valera secretly glad of the -ruffians and ready to encourage them? Do they aid his obtain his consent every time that | political plans? , i 4 desired to take any steps of inupor. That is the question the Republican leader must ee : v ¥S pancs, rs answer by his actions in this present emergency. 4 Tails een ae peer If he refuses to work with Griffith and Collins these promptly” overruled the clvi under the terms of the treaty in the only way that Governors, and the constant disturb: will insure co-operative repressidn of murder and ances in China have served to estab: brigandage, then he declares himself plainly lish their power more firmly. As enough. , result, the Central Government, wht " _? : thorit He is the friend of disorder and the foe of peace depends for its authority upon in Ireland. support of the Governors, is to leave them unrestricted in thi enjoyment of their power. Som times it is also compelled to acquit in the arrogant demands of one them, thus arousing the jealousy o resentment of others and in this man ner starting the feuds that later de-| velop into clvil war. As long as China remains a of practically independent states wit; militarists at their heads who each \j have varying ideas of what it is nec- essary to do to help the repubite, there can be no hope of unity or, prosperity. The whole problem lies in the ques: tion who shall collect the proving revenues, for the power of the Gov, ernors lies in the fact that they ha quite unlawfully assumed control this department. It is this finane power that gives them, or the p cal adventurers who bribe them, importance, for no army can maintained or expected to fight out financial support. So long as this usurpation of po is allowed to continue, the Cent With Secretary Hoover limiting the price of coal we suppose the next class of new indus- trial magnates will be the bituminous boot- leggers, SCANT APPLAUSE, HERE was no outburst of enthusiasm in this country for the Sbvious meaning of what Lloyd George said in the House of Commons re- garding the remission of war debts. The British Premier declared that England is ready to con- sider forgiving the £3,000,000,000 owing to her if she can be forgiven the £1,000,000,000 which she owes. A hint of this kind still causes large numbers of Americans to look down their noses. It is not likely to prove popular with Congress- gen while they are angling for votes with a ale t wes of es From Evening World Renders UNCOMMON SENSE What kind of letter do you find most readable? Tan’t jt the tare? . . 4 Government can have no hope of soldiers’ bonus and trying to quiet the country one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? By John Blake Jugating the military power. If t with the vague suggestion that the money can There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying (Copyright, 1922, by Jebe Blake.) Governors, however, carry, on th . eke is is Dit ft sacrificl: China for come out of foreign obligations. to say much in few wor Take time to,be brief. CHANCES. ; Beenie toveresths par ae Nor will other, yet plainer words from Lloyd “Do as T Say Jesus threw what we now call ‘‘dlo § | Chinese will finally rise up and be relish ae a hiner: 4 Yo the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The descriptive account of the game The man who SUR that Be Bes ig had « chance @| y them, It is more Ifkely,. by George be relished in Washington: Will you kindly reprint the follow-|as recosded by John says: ‘And they|$ might as well say that he never had a bath. ever, that before then one of th “There im no doubt that the absence of ing from the New York American of}cast lots for his raiment. A it Lagpid There are men who go through life without a chance, as will become ‘strong enough to May 30; bf peculiar workmanship and seamless thi bh. through life without 2 bath. ‘ control, and in self-defense will America from the machinery of the Treaty of = = é to fe ere are men who go F4 t - , Versailles has disturbed its equipoise, has made BUR TAND TRAV BSE? AW RI my ee Dot wanes oe ee er Neither of them are desirables. tablish an effective Ministry of MERS. “The future of the American Mer- chant, Marine js in the hands of you parts wut wished to preserve it whole, so they threw four dice and the high- est throw won it. army without whose permission the machine less effective, has made it work " No chance will come to you unless you seek it. Will he -impoasible to reérult fa with less precision—I will not say with more Even if you do seek and find it, it will be worth nothing buy war material. This will dus, th y In Ferrarfenton'’s complete Bible In 5 4 Injustice. It has created 4n amount of friction subline Ang teavalliaipaand at epee Repeat igal Aether unless you are ready for it. \ the military Savernes Waa fed that would never have existed had the United patronage on American steamers we| used by these gamesters at the Cross If Benjamin Franklin had waited for a chance, the be, top) uises fe es plas v4 States been present at the deliberation of the can give them so much business that|of Jesus, viz: ‘‘Do not let me teas world would have had to wait many years longer for some- Aopen daly pee ¢ League of Nations and of the Reparation peel rt Bee Abang oe Noe bape Agi rere egg Paes body to discover the use of electricity and the young Ameri- $]®nt importance for him to be Commission.” : More of the same followed, * |-racitus tells us that: ‘The Germi cay Nation would have been deprived of perhaps its most $|{o pouttical seduction, i i Ini But Mr. Hearst, who advocates this} were so passionately fond of the game valuable statesman. ‘ This means that if the United States had helped for other Americune, set the example|that after losing all their property, Seey: would Glad fon their liberty, be. If William Shakespeare had waited for a chance, the coming salatile slaves if they lost English language would have been without its greatest It is hardly conceivable that the works of literature. Romans and Jews, to whom this}; ~ It is only the lazy who never have chances. It is only Cinco hues oy lp goblet ean Si ak the incompetent who do not use them when they find them. of the times applied to it. ‘Casting Despite all the talk of orgapization and standardiza- tion, there are more chances in the woyld to-day than there Europe in the first place it could have removed |py going to Europe with his family which i ef; and a maid last week on the Aqui- some of the grounds on which it refused to help [tre ete Cunard Line, wa English Europe later. ship. f if ° 7 1 guess Mr. Hearst !s a believer in _We thought truth flowed only from West to | ine ‘good old proverb, “Don't do as I East across the Atlantic. do, but do as I say." What right has any one to reverse the current? WHERE DID YOU GE THAT WORD? 172—CHARACTER. ‘The word “character,” in the © inal Latin, means a sign or engray This is just another example of|lots'’ meant to both these peoples t four-flushing. what “throwing the bones" or 2 ; Hearst fou ete H. WAZEN. |cthrowing dice" means to us mod- ever were before f mark. The use of this word in y $0, 19 erns—a game of chance played for True, great business concerns employ hundreds of thou- English language and every ott New York, May 80, 192%. money or to decide a disputed ques- tion or to convict or acquit a person charged with an infraction of the law. The game is as old as the bistory of civilization and no race can wholly claim it as its own discovery. Regular schedules, comfort, maximum speed consistent with safety, and plenty of cars are suggested as means of populavizing surface car service, Could any one ask more? sands of men and women at clerical work, but every day some of these men and women are rising to boss the jobs in which they began as mere lowly workers. Your chance is waiting you somewhere—it may be right tion that what we designate as cha: acter is graven even on the face. And that is strictly true in th scnse that life reflects itself, impo “From the Wis r the Wine. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World I have collected from The Evening World ‘From the Wise’ clippings. % " . , the features, ti oa 1 roverbs, &c., express in afew A [3 at your door. i f 8 stamp upon, t i voreamtre:kcey sige than chesweane| UGG GER OSTOLE EE MINE Gace But you will walk past it every day and never see it a tie calle -pesesaoe ACHES AND PA INS age busy business man could gather|\; py that name. unless you keep your eyes open, and you will get nothing SRN De Tay apes bee er from book reading in five years. I think there ts no question but out of it unless you have trained your mind to work and have hin face The latest honor bestowed on Herbert Hoover is to H, F.G. |that the four Roman soldiers at the , taught your body how to keep in health. To say “I never had a chance” is the excuse of the fail- ure, and it is a very bad excuse because it is dsually a lie. Your correspondent, G, 8; A. in Eyen the incompetent have chances—usually plenty of your issue of May 25, asks me to ex-|‘Too Many Sal Caused Drought. them-—for competition for capable people is so keen that plain myself after saying that he used | To the Editor of The Evening World: nowadays big concerns have organized departments to look ’ » te es looking vord e with Wilbur B. Gr 3 up ten minutes looking for the wo! I agre n aham.}} ee them and employ them, “dice in John XIX., 28-24, With} yw: yay ‘dice’ What we.need {s temperance and not Or teak tie eghesicesik in She man’ who eaunie dir ie your permission I will try to do 80” | prohibition, But whose fault is it ree with G. 8, A. that thi . p wr 2 . ' ead cote net vert ast gh Hee hog that sbme people drink to excess? ,1o]§ World and who will count jn the reaming of the world that is it the people or politicians? now in process. The man, if he is the right kind, will find the chance Luke, Mark or John. It is a quite modern word and could hardly have} 1 was born and raised in the City ot Mew Form; On’, the went 168, and and use it, It is he that matters. The chance is merely an incident. Rutherford, NJ. May 21. 108% Conversely, a man of stron character shows the “engrave: marks'’ of self-resiraint, of concen tration, of serious purpose, in hi It is in the power of ever: man and woman to develop th ign or engraved mark of good con duct and fine thinking upon his | her features Croas of Christ played a stiff game of **dice."" JOHN E. BRUCE. New York, May 26, 1922. have a vacuum cleaner named after him—a tribute to efficiency, perhaps. ‘ing Lots.” ‘To the Editor of The Bivening World: . A Bolshevik humorist in the Moscow journal Isves- tia describes the Grand Entente as “a conspiracy of three whales who hope to be able to swatlow at least one Bolshevik Jonah,” and France as “a fig leaf out of which Europe is destrous of fashioning a garment for itself.” a WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JUND 2.—JOHN RANDOLPH wai born in Cawsons, Va, on Juno 3, 1173, and died in Philadelphia Juni 24, 1883. He attended school n Williamsburg, Va., and studied for short time at Princeton and Colum- bia, But although Randolph was well read in modern works bearing on ffoli- tics and philosophy he was in other s an ignorant man. He pos- sessed an ungovernable temper which destroyed his chances of becoming a Word comes from Japan that a company has been in- corporated in Tokio to make sake, the pet beverage of Nippon, out of limestone-instead of rice, Is there any hope in this discovery? heen used in those times in the sense that we know it I've seen as many as twelve saloons “Casting lots" was a Jewish cus-jon one square block. tom and was not infrequently re: Did the, people want them or put sorted to to decide the guilt er inno-|them there? No, But the cliy must cence of persons charged with infrac-Phave the revenue, so the more li- tions of the law The method em-] conses ed the more cash, But the ployed was to use sare cubes of va-|city never troubled to see what kind rious colors, each having a different} of stuff was sold in some of those meaning Or significance, These cubes|bars. That stuff (mot pure beer, ale, were thrown as dice are now threwn| porter, whiskey or brandy) was the by players at that game and if the} cause of giving some the “D. Ts," -* I was asked in his club whether he hal As the Saying ever uttered it, he replied: ‘No, My answer was not a flourish like MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE, BUT/irat tut simply, ‘Not a penny, not NOT ONE CENT FOB TRIBUTE. |a penny.’ When John Jay, in 1796, made his About 20,000 manuscript novels are presented to pub lishers each year by budding talent in the U.S.A. Yet in the face of this Harpers have the nerve to offer a $2,000 reward for more. Why pile up the agony? vi vat power in Washington. He color denoting guilt turned up and] A poor man that works hard all gre: fe ¥ showed ‘a certain mark, the guilt of|day must slack bis thirst at the hy-|famous treaty with England, whioh From the Wise serves | te Canigresy | for about twenty Pennaylvanta hunters are sald to kill 8,500,000 rab- | the accused wax cxiablished. It was}drant, and some of the water I'veltnreatersd to involve the United ve y more atten. tion than any statesman of his States in a war with France, the Di- Few men have any nest; they because of his decided views in Poses rectory, would not receive the Amer-| live from hand to mouth without | of State rights. He was a sincere ad- fean Ambassador, Charles Cotes-} plan and are even at the eng of | vocate of the abolishment of slavery. that] their line.—Eme: 5 He'opposed President Madison and the worth Pinckney, but intimated aOR: War of 1812. President Jackson ap- as much @ game of chance as is|xeen would make even a whale present day dice, It was the dice of | sneeze; but if he has to have some- that period. It was known also to|thing stronger $2 or more for a pre- the Romans, and from the days of the| scription and §5 or more for the liad in Greco-Latin civilization, dice, | medicine! bits per annum in that favored State, They kndw how to cook them, too, ce the Quakers esteem the snup ping turtle as a delicacy, Shows they eat something beside scrapple and scallions.