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I NER TEED . | The conclusion ee ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pertiensd Daily Except sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 58 to Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 6) Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 3 Park MEMBER OF THE ASSO: Rr Associated Prem te exclusively entitied to the use fer republicatton POL news Geopatches credited to it oF not otherwise credited im thin paper (GBB alte the local mews published herein. PROOF OF THE NEED. F insurance and bonding of taxicab operators is to cost as much as $950 « year, this is in * itself ample proof of the need for bonded sate- guards. Privately operated cars can ge’ jull insurance— Mability, indemnity, theft and tire—for only a © fraction of this sum. is obvious. Insurers know from experience that taxi-drivers are bad risks and are involved in many accidents for which payments must be made. It is against such driv- ing that the public must be protected. It is possible that the present rates are not fair. Established good character and a long record of driving without accidents should in the course of time lead to a lower rate for good drivers than for bad. Careless and reckless drivers ought to find it impossible to get insurance at any rea- sonable rate. The bonding policy ought, in the long run, to make the streets safer. Some taxi drivers will prefer to put up cash security rather than pay for indemnity bonds. This too will tend to make for safety. The driver will not want to take the chance of losing his savings. Train Hits Auto in Jersey; Killing West Point Cadet.—Headline. “Cross Crossings Cautiously.” ANOTHER WARNING. HE extent of the disaster at Arverne is gen- erally attributed to the failure or low pres- sure of the water supply. Coming at the beginning of the beach and fesort season, this $2,000,000 fire should move other towns to take steps necessary for protec- tion. F Much of the construction in the resort towns is of the flimsiest possible character. In many cases frame bungalows are set close together for long Stretches. With even a moderate wind a fire spreads rapidly. The best of protection, with plenty of water immediately available, is essen- tial. Arverne's loss should result in a general in- spection with a view to correcting perilous short- comings in water pressure and supply. LAWYER'S LOGIC. FTER collecting $15,400 as his own share of the attorney fees involved in the settle- ment of an estate, Alfred S, Trude of Chicago retired from practice of law. In his “swan song” he advanced the engaging theory that lawyers ought to charge as much as possible in such cases in order to scatter swollen fortunes and put them to work. “Too much money in the hands of young persons has usually proved productive of dis- aster, and the act of distributing as much of the principal of an estate among the parents of caildren and the payment of large attor- ney’s fees is a distinctly beneficial act.” A more perfect example of what psychologists call “rationalizing” couldn't be imagined. Attor- ney Trude finds a good and noble reason for what he wants to do. Of course there are many instances in which inheritance has not proved disastrous. There is no evidence that attorneys invariably use their fees for the greatest benefit to society. If the distribution of the principal is the sole object, a high inheritance tax would serve the purpose and take some of the burden off other taxpayers. But to the lawyers, at least, Attorney Trude’s statement will seem the essence of logic It is mighty easy for humans to believe what they want to believe MUCH TO SAIL AROUND. UTRAGED by Chairman Lasker's view that American ships to survive must stay “wet,” the esteemed Evening Post witheringly demands: “Since when has the merchant marine be- come such a burning need that nothing must be allowed to stand in its way?” Alas, what hasn't been allowed to stand in its way? How can an American merchant marine sail around an American Seaman's Act that makes it impossible for American ships to compete with the ships of other nations on anything approach- ing equal terms? How can an American merchant marine sail around an American post-war foreign policy which has stood in the way of all co-opera- tive effort to restore international trade and exchange? How can an American merchant marine expect to attract to itself the carrying business of the world by waving a flag that stands only for self- protective isolation? These obstacles that block the way of an American merchant marine are quite as formida- ble as Prohibition, They are reasons why an American merchant marine, beyond a coastwise merchant marine, be- comes a luxury for which American taxpayers must supply the funds. If a tenth of the energy and zeal available for clamping Prohibition on the United States could have been used to clear the way for an American merchant marine that could hold its own eco- nomically with the rest of the world, we might now be facing lower figures for ship subsidies. EVERY READER A REPORTER, The “What Did You See To-Day?” Depart- ment, inaugurated this week by The Evening World, bids fair to prove one of the most in- teresting features in metropolitan journalism. The best news-gathering organization cannot hope to learn of every interesting event and incident in a city as large as New York, let alone have reporters always on the spot, By commissioning every reader as a reporter, The Evening World hopes to approximate that result. Evening World readers will get double ben- efits: F First, pay for their effort when successful. Second, a still better newspaper, living up to the slogan, “If It Happens in New York It's in The Evening World.” THE WEEK. ORE rare than a day in June are several in suc- cession, JUNE WEATHER did its worst last Gunday—then repented. Tae SUNDAY STORM broke the heat—but at the cost of scores of lives. The only relieving note was im the stories of heroism and sacrifice in rescues, In the ARVERNE FIRE Thursday, even this note seemed to fail. The police arrested looters. Looters deserve the limit from the law. It begins to appear that the WARDS are not likely to enjoy so much freedom as they have for the last month. Walter Ward ‘as been indicted. His father may be forced to return and testify as to what he knows of the mystery surrounding the shooting of Peters. The half-baked (by last week's heat) found tem- peratures coo] enough to encourage encyclopaedia bunting for answers to another EDISON QUIZ. Many now know that “How come he ain't seen you was not home?” is incorrect. What to do with “three eights” in a poker game was a puzzler. Now if it had only been pinochle— Congress learned officially that AMERICAN SHIPS @ELL LIQUOR beyond the three-mile limit. Some Congressmen are for personal investigation and veri- fication. The Anti-Saloon League says no subsidy for “wet ships.” Perhaps Mr. Lasker will compro- mise and close the bars in return for an increased @ubsidy. Climbers on Mount Everest set another NEW AL- @ITUDP MARK. It will take them longer to come down than it did the parachute jumper at McCook Field. He dropped 24,206 feet in half an hour, pass- ing from zero winter weather, through spring, into summer. Judging by the interest in radio, SIGNOR MAR- CONI may make himself the most popular of all the recent visitors from abroad if he will discuss his own specialty. A five-day-old BABY was FINGERPRINTED at a local hospital. If the practice becomes general a Policeman finding a lost child will need to wash the youngster’s hands as a preliminary to finding the parents by comparing loops and whorls. ADMIRAL BARON KATO assumed the Premier- ship of Japan. His policy is to secure ratification and observance of the Washington treaties When Republicans staged a TARIFF SHOW in the Senate, the $22 cuckoo clock was knocked off the exhibition table and couldn't participate in the debate, The YANKEES are finding that pacemaking ts dit- floult, even with Ruth in tae line-up. The GIANTS, however, seem to like it, FATHDPRS of Vassar College students beat their DAUGHTERS in the annual baseball game, but no one suggested that they substitute in the Daisy Chain march, where beauty is the first requisite. As usuel, the oath of allegiance seems likely to prove the rub {n the new Irish Constitution. But to- day should tell us something about the election, Oh, for a spell of midsummer mildness in IRISH POLITICS! ACHES AND PAINS. The Canadian legisiators are taking active steps to prevent the surreptitious erport of liquor into the United States. Do the selfish things want it all them- eetves? Zwo of Lord Northcliffe’s employees on the London Daily Mail have sued him for libel because he said some sarcastic things about them. If they win, bosses the world over will have to be careful how they speak to the help. ° A biologist who has travelled in the tropics says that millions of leeches perish because they never get @ chance to taste blood. Spme vic should organize a , s0eleiga to Alleviate their pot Why should we have a merchant marine thot has to be fed on a bottle? . There was ulwaya a mocking ring in the voice of a cuckoo clock. Senator McCumber is now hearing it, accompanied by jeers! : . Now comes a shoemaker who says the descent fem- inine from high to low Weels should.be made gradually. The sudden shift is bad for tootsies. In spite of its perilous took, the high heel 48 easiest on the pedal framework. Will the new Irish Constitution be a hamper be tiwcen friengs? Tim Campbell's immortal remark to Grover Cle a rises in the mind. JOHN KEETZ, ‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922. Copyrt (New York Prenine ‘oriay By Preas Pub. Co. pr eeree eae Rehr nor nine us: From Evening World Readers| What kind of letter doyou 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 Jot of satisfaction in trying to say much in tew werds. Take time to be brit. The “Stupids. To the Editor of ‘The E I had to read the letter from Jullis Friedel in your issue of this evening several times before I could convince myself it was not anti-Prohibition sarcasm so delicate I was too dense to grasp it. It seemed impossible that the smug “‘holier than thou’? opin- ton of our electorate in Mr, Friedel’s second paragraph could possibly be put forth in earnest. ‘Truly, ‘Gov- ernment of the people, by the people and for the people’ appears to be nothing in this gentleman's juvenes- cence. Mr. Friedel is a little vague as to who constitutes the ‘we’ who fear to submit a Prohibition referendum to the voters, Apparently he divides the electorate Into two parties, the ‘we’ party and the “stupid crowd’ party. Will he not enlighten your readers as to the personnel of the ‘we’ party? Undoubtedly all would like to be able to classify themselves. ' If our voters are not sufficiently in- telllgent to vote on a Prohibition referendum, by inference they are not intelligent enough to express their choice for President of the United States, or for any other office, or vote on any other referendum, for surely all these ‘touch their health and Uife."* Cc. H. B, F, Better Error Than Paternalis To the Editor of The Evening World This is in answer to the letter of Julius Friedel. As to my stand on Prohibition it 1s not my purpose to unburden myself at present While it is true that physicians of the country are best fitted to judge ‘as to the injurious physical effects of strong drink, it is, alas! highly im- probable that such a referendum(?) would disclose the true thoughts of our medical men, Would a doctor vote against Prohibition and so de- stroy a profitable income from pre- scriptions? Maybe, yes—maybe. Of course men of selence oyght not to be influenced by such sordid consider- ations, but that they are must be ad- mitted—witness the alienation of the New York medical societies’ from the A. M. A., claiming that the parent organization is absorbing itself in poli- tics not always able to bear the light of proper investigation ‘As to the “stupid American mob," First, such a mob does not exist. ‘he mob that Mr. Friedel speaks of is the mob who after hearing an impas- sioned orator immediately surges on to wreak Its vengeance, Such a mob will not .exist in this case, Voting will go on at least twelve hours after the speakers of the night before. The voter will have had a night's rest He will go alone into a booth and mark his ballot, The passion of the mob will not in the least tote affect ‘ his yote. And if perchance the entire Nation of voters should arise as a mob—nole the absurdity, sir—and vote one way or the other! We must distinguish between mobs and mobs. If twenty men hang a Negro the act violates the moral feeling of all their fellow men, and so this mob is stupid, criminal, impulsive and any other ad- jectives Mr, Friedel may choose, But if a majority of the voters of the Nation act one way, why, then, we have not the action of a mob but the expression of the will of the Nation. Who Is 80 exalted that he can raise his pious countenance to heaven and dub the action of the majority as the stupidity of a mob? The sovereign people cannot mob itself. Perhaps posterity will call such referendum a mistake, but such possibilities are the price of democracy, Better that the “mob'’ err than that it be ruled by a few self-appointed guardians of the right. ABR. CAHANOVSKY No, 520 Vermont Street, Brooklyn Stupidity of Voters. To the Editor of The Evening World In re letter in Evening World vo: even date, captioned “Opposes Referendum,’ and signed Julius Friedel, the writer says: ‘‘The stand you have taken on the question of Prohibition !s in direct contrast to and the very antithesis of your other- wise sensible policie: That is Julius's opinion. The rest of the great big horde of steady readers are solidly behind The World in a finish fight for speedy uncondi tional repeal of that utterly un- American, nation-wrecking Eight- eenth Amendment If the question of Prohibition ever placed before the people for a referendum there is no doublt that « great protest would be voiced. How ever, according to Julius, that would only show how ignorant the people are as a whole, The crowd voting, he says, would be a stupid crowd, and its actions would reflect its stupidity Knowing too well what {s in store for them this coming November, they are already perfecting their alibi, fo: in the coming election it will be the only issue, submerging all else, and if the two old parties try to sidetrack the issue the people are prepared to vote independently E.G. J New York, June 12, 1922 e Som In a Citizen Too. qo the Editor of The Evening World ‘An Englishman and his son, a boy fitteen months old, came to this coun- try some twenty years ago, The father became @ citizen as soon as possible ‘The son is now of age. Can he vote ‘on his father's papers or does he have to take out pupers of his own? R. AUSTIN, (Coprrisnt. 1 thought at a time. either begin ver: at least a part of the year. interests them. Th UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake by John Blake) THE MASTER THOUGHT. The gentleman of forty who takes up golf with the idea that he is going to ‘master the game will not have a great deal of time to attend to his business. In most human minds there is room for but one master The person who expects to be a champion golfer must young or else di thoughts from his mind while he is teaching a refractory body to do unaccustomed things. ° He can play golf fairly well and get not only enjoyment but mental discipline out of it even if he begins at fort:. But he mustn't hope to be a champion, ‘ The colleges turn out great football teams because the boys that play on them make football their master thought all other important While they are training, nothing but football really on y take no vacation from their pursult—allow them- selves little time to discuss other matters. The result is that they diseover powers in themselves of enduring pain and fatigue and overcoming bodily resistance that they little suspected they possessed, And they play good football when they get into a game. It is a curious and rather an unfortunate circumstance that that they regard their sports. so few people regar¢ their business in the same light If the gentleman of forty who has taken up golf would play it with only the expectation of being fair at the game and make his business his master thought, his children would have a better expectation of an inheritance, If he thought about his business while he was on the golf course instead of thinking about golf at his desk, his associates would be better pleased with the contributions he makes to the mutual success of the concern, If the boy who plays football would substitute his trade or profession in his mind for football, when he gets out into the world later on he would ahead, have little trouble in getting It ig the master thought that makes men what they are. They can’t be good at everything. All the brains allotted to them are needed for the mastery of the thing they want most to accomplish. WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JUNE 17—JOHN WESLEY born in Epworth, England, on June 1703, and died in London, March 2, 1791. He attended the Charter House School and was graduated from Oxford University in 1724, In 1728 he became a pastor and in 1735 he joined the colonists in America, where he devoted his time to miss- lonary work among the Indians. Upon his return to England he became in- terested in the doctrine of the sect of Moravians settled at Herrnhut, Ger- was many. He visited the settlement and founded Methodism upon certain of their doctrin Much of Wesley's success has been attributed to his pery sonal magnetism, powerful oratory and methodical plans and persever- ance in carrying forward his work. He wrote many works on religious themes, such as ‘Survey of the Wi dom of God in Creation, reserva tion Against Unsettled Notions in Religion,"" and "A Calm Address to Our American Colonies," > T hate ver woman; may there be house no woman who know © than a@ woman ought to k Euripides This life is the cradle in which ave prepared for the tise come,—Joubert, to TURNING THE PAGES —By— €. W. Osborn congas 8, ey att, rman | KNOW where I'm going, I I know who's going with me, I know who I love, But the dear knows tho I'll marry. I'l have stockings of silk, Shoes of fine green leather, Combs to buckle my hair And a ring for every finger. Feather beds are soft, Painted rooms are bonny; But I'd leave them alt To go with my love Johnny. A wee bit 0° the folksong out of the second part of the ‘Anthology of Tris! Verse’’ (Boni & Liveright), edited by Padraic Colum. Popularity and the Girl - - - From ‘The Training School of Por ularity’’ (Doran), a book of friend! counsel to girls, by Muriel White Dennis: Your popularity will not suffer with boys who are clean-minded @ honorable because your mother “strict” with you. It may make you more attractive, Not long ago Jack and I were re calling our “seventeen” and com paring it with these “latter days. It was before the days of the auto mobile in that community and our “dates'’ were mostly church and school affairs. When boys called for me, they came to the living room where the family sat. Like you, [ rebelled be cause mother would not “trust me,’ but Jack admits her jealous care aroused the chivalry within him. When he was with me he felt tha! he had a “trust” and was duty bound to protect me from criticism Do we hear, after this, young Mi Economic Independence laughing chivalry and the protective mascu line? The Perfection of Prohack - - + From chivalry and the old-fashtoni| girl, as above, let us turn to a modern note of breakfast table gallantry. M Prohack, of Arnold Hennett’s novel bearing his name (Doran), talks like this at 8.80 in the morning: “Eve, you are a confounded liar and you know it. You have never caused me a moment's unhappiness “You may annoy me. You may exasperate me. You are frequently unspeakable. But you have never made me unhappy. And why? “Because I am one of the few ex ponents of romantic passion left in this city. My passion for you trana- cends my reason. I am a fool, but I am a magnificent fool. “And the greatest miracle of mod ern times is that after twenty-four years of marriage you should be able to give me pleasure by perching your stout body on the arm of my chair, as you are doing. Marriage © failties Ask arg Prohack know. yay teawen eue A Song of Witui- - Wine may be x mocker but from : reprint of verses of a more genero. century we read how it inspired Joli Gay to these lines: Of Happiness terrestrial, Source Whence human Pleasures flow, sing. Heavenly Mus: Of sparkling Juic ing Grape, Whose quick’ning Taste adds Vigor to the Soul. eee Beauty and the Beast Vanity - - - From ‘My Years in Paris,’ & Princess Pauline Metternich, t! pen picture of Countess Castiglion a beauty of the Second Empire: I must frankly confess that whic I saw her for the first time her beauty really took my breath away She had the figure of a nymph her neck, shoulders, arms, hands all seemed to be hewn out of rose-colored marble of the most delicate shade. Though the bodice of her dres was cut extremely low, it hardly looked indecent, to such a degre: did this splendid creature resembl: an antique statue. And her face was equal to he body; its shape a delicious oval the complexion fresh and exquisite dark green velvety eyes: eyebrows which no painter could have inv proved upon: and the most beaut fal teeth it is possible to imagine We hate to spoil this picture + loveliness. But the brutal truth is that t Castiglione was so taken up with ti thought of her own looks that s/ cast no charm on others, Beware the Beauty that knows self too well! | and the » of th’ enliven- o Solomon Greets the Queen - + + A meeting of great souls, as de scribed in '’The Queen of Shebi’ (Putnam), a version credited to on: Phinneas A. Crutch: Solomon arose and went down the steps to meet her. For a few breathless seconds they stood face to face in silence, eaci no doubt revising previously con ceived estimates of the other, and then Abishal came forward “Queen,” he announced, abrupt, soldiery manner, hands with King Solomon !"' "So good of you to come," Solo mon murmured as he stooped 1 kiss her finger tips, “Hope de ferred maketh the heart sick, but when the desire cometh it is a tree in his “shake how sweet!"" “You must Balkia ext let me copy claimed. it down some time.” “Just a little thing of my own Solomon ingly, “But I think it's lovely,” Balk! insisted. "And your city 1s simp! grand! Of course I love Marib, bu if T couldn't live there I'd like to informed her deprecat live in Jerusalem, if you know wha 1 mean Queen,"' Solomon assured he you don't know the half of |t! and with graceful courtesy up to the porch. Every little history like this lei,» is to understand how Solomon, (in his generation, Was a wise guy, ghd graceful, too. he led eC.

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