The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1922, Page 26

POE ITI TO ENR Cm ne meee pega URE RR MS uO J. ANGUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Bddress att com EVENING WORLD, Paliteer Butiding, w, New York City. tt by. Money Order, Dr Post Office 01 ter. Be is Open to Al SS aces = ease TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922. - 7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. at the Post at New York as Second Claas Matter, Beceaos tress ee Uianeat ace, oct. tt, ere Clgee Mesner, Ope Year Six Months One Month $10.00 $5.00 8A 12.00 600 10.00 5.00 4.00 2.25 45 BRANCH OFFICES. WN, 1302, Bway, cor. ath. | WARHINGTON, Wyatt Bidg., 4 ve. neat] 14th and F Bta 25th St, Hotel Theres Bldg. | peTROIT, 521 Ford Bldg. Ba NX, 410 E. 149th Bt. near! CHC AGO, 1603 Mallers Bldg. th ‘Washington st. | PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opera, BEN a "| TONDON. 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. en Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republi- of all news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited paper, and also the local news published herein. WHERE THE I. R. T. STARTS WRONG. } HE I. R. T. says the $174,221,056 valuation H placed on its properties by the Transit Com- mission appraisers “looks like an attempt to take ‘advantage of the company’s unfortunate tempo- }rary financial situation, for which the management tis in no way responsible. Right there the I. R. T. makes its first mistake. | ls a management “in no way responsible,” for linstance, for a policy under which it pays 18 per Seent. dividends in fat years, regardless of possible ‘lean years ahead? ‘| 4n the first outline statement of its plan Jast fall, ‘the Transit Commission declared that in readjust- i traction securities on a basis of honest values ‘it meant to insist upon “frank recognition of a ‘depreciation that investors have long since difcounted.” ! Would the I, R. T. maintain that investors have ‘wiewed its management as “in no way responsible” ifor the depreciation in I. R. T. securities? Jf so, its whole brief starts wrong. Hy The Washington Conference didn’t disarm the Navy racing shell, The latter was driven to victory by sixteen uncommonly husky arms. “CRACKING.” *ISTED supporters of the Anti-Saloon League hereabout are receiving the following circular letter: ‘THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF NEW YORK, William H. Anderson, State Superintendent, 16th Floor, 906 Broadway, at 20th Street, < New York City, June 23, 1922. Dear Friend: __.. It you had Bought a home and paid all it “ought to cost you, and it began to crack and threatened to cave in, you would prop and pro- etect it even at additional cost. That would be | an “emergency.” Further, it would be cheaper to prop it up than to wait until it fell apart and collapsed, and would do less damage to the contents. = Prohibition is cracking in some places under “violation and lack of enforcement designed to dis- credit it in order to weaken the law. If beer eoand wine are legalized, that will be collapse of the Prohibition reof that now protects thou- sands of women and children, + New York is so far behind most States that there was not time to enlist enough people to furnish adequate support for the work now “heeded to hold the line. ~~ The only alternative is for the friends of Prohibition to prop it financially or let dis- aster come—like the choice of a man who can protect his home or let it wreck, Such prog- ress is being made in widening the support that ‘we hope alter two years it will not be neces- | sary to call for extra help to keep up the . fegular work. { It is not our intention to ask the same person ; for more than one “extra” during the year. If | there is any mistake, please tell us. If you Dositively cannot make an extra contribution, Dlease tell us so we can mark the stencil to pre- vent your receiving further requests. We are receiving wonderful letters hun- dreds of the League constituency. Others just _send the money. A few send five to ten times | as much as their regular contributions, This splendid response keeps the organization fit and tuned up and our faith and courage high. Will you not, by as large an “EXTRA” as possible, help to win the fight this summer and | fall, to prevent the wets from blocking en- , forcement by capturing Congress? Yours to stand and hold. WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, : State. Superintendent. | This letter is an eloquent editorial presenting Anside evidence. It tells its own story. We see mothing to add to it. | “Prohibition is cracking.” + Hf William» H, Anderson doesn’t know, who does? MOUNT EVEREST UNCONQUERED. FTER making three plucky attempts, the British party bent on climbing Mount ‘Everest have about decided to abandon the effort, for this year at any rate. The hardships and difficulties of the climb are tnconceivable for those who have never ventured polar regions. And in addition to glacial these adventurers on the top of the world thave had to combat wind and storm as well as ithe extremely rarified atmosphere at the height ‘of nearly five miles. ‘| For those of us enjoying mid-summer weather @M may be well to be reminded that Mount Ever- _@mt is in the Northern Hemisphere and that the THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922, TT ET ' climb was abandoned because of the “certainty of worse weather conditions Now is a good time to lay in winter coal if you can get it. Now is a good time to bring pressure to bear to end the coal strike. Mount Everest weather in’ the home next winter will be as serious here as there. CLERK-HIRE GRAFT IN CONGRESS. HE EVENING WORLD prints to-day a list, admittedly incomplete, of salary collectors on the Congressional payroll A year ago this newspaper exposed the clerk- hire graft and some few Congressmen were— temporarily, at least—shamed into reform. The clerk-hire graft has only one defense. It is old enough to command respect and veneration, if it deserved them. Such a list as The Evening World prints is not a blanket condemnation. ‘There may be wives, daughters, sisters, sons and nephews who earn the money paid to them. A Congressman must have a secretary on whom he can rely: But no Con- gressman is entitled to draw the allowance for work that is not done for the Congressman and for his constituents The Evening World prints this list so that voters and taxpayers may interview’ their own Tepresentatives and discover for themselves the sort of man who is representing them. If he can explain and justify the salaries of his clerks, well and good. If he cannot, if he is a grafter, he is not the tight man for Congressman. One other use of such a list is as a reminder to Mr: Dawes of the budget office. Mr. Dawes ought to investigate the list and draw the line between the workers and the salary collectors. There is no reason in the world why the tax- payers should pay for clerks who do not earn their pay. Such should be stricken from the payroll. It is particularly appropriate that a New York newspapef should print this list, because when it comes to grafting on clerk-hire the New York delegation has a record and reputation second to none. STIFFENING. Y a vote of 342 to 75, the British House of Commons yesterday approved the policy of the present Government toward Ireland, after Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill had issued a_plain warning that, if the strengthened Provisional Government in Ireland fails to do its utmost to suppress murder and outrage, the British Government will regard the treaty as vio- lated and “resume full liberty of action.” Mr. Churchill said: “The presence in Dublin, in violent occupa- tion of the Four Courts, of a band of men styling themselves the headquarters of the Re- publican Executive, is a gross breach and defiance of the treaty.” Michael Collins's answer to that is the prompt arrest of Michael Henderson, leader of the band that seized the Four Courts. The head of the Provisional Government in Ire- land seems convinced the time has come to show Rory O'Connor and the rest of the rebels that rule in Ireland is not rioters’ rule. To-day sees a needed stiffening of purpose on both sides of St. George’s Channel. THE PRINCE OF MONACO. The Prince of Monaco is dead. Strange that a man who owed the largest part of his income to the famous gambling halls of the most frivolous resort in the world should have been himself a serious-minded scientist, a recognized authority on ocean- ography. The only occasions on which this Prince visited the Casino at Monte Carlo were gala opera nights when he appeared in the cere monial box. Nobody ever saw him in the gam- bling rooms or at any of the revels for which his principality is noted. Rising from the steep outer cliffs of the promontory of Monaco, with only the waves of -the Mediterranean for company, is a massive structure of dark gray stone. It contains one of the finest deep-sea scientific collections ever made—most of it gathered by the Prince him- self on his long yacht cruises. That Museum is the monument of Albert of Monaco, who has just died. It's a far step from the roulette tables. ACHES AND PAINS The Telephone Company advertises an “oppor- tunity” for its subscribers to become stockholders, This is very hind, but what most of us want is an opportunity to get the right number ut first calls ° Holland is quite sure the Kaiser cannot get away and set up shop again in Germany. The shop would not last long if he did. A much abler personage, Napoleon Bonaparte, once tried it with very un fortunate results for himself. Second hand Kings do not amount to much. Bome of the magazines complain that their sales are dropping. Perhaps their readers are bored, . The clam crop is reported large and excellent. This comes from the habit of keeping still ana minding its own business. . According to the news from China, Sun Yut sen seems to be setting again, . Nothing is found fault with so much us the weather and nothing ts so quickly foryiven when dt emiles. i JOHN KEPTZ, | +S Some Family! By John Cassel ||| Unwieldy China Ite gs i! i ' : By Maubert St. Georges A i 4 Copyright, 1922 (New York Bvening ew Fork mine Wort World), by Prese Publishing Oo. LANGUAGE. Education in China consists prin- cipally of learning to read. Barely, one In twenty achieve this and the vast majority of these, after years of labor, only succeeded in reaching the stage where they can recognize a few terms necessary to them in their business. \ The written and spoken languages ant in China are totally different. This means that when a Chinaman wants to learn to read he has to learn 4 totally new language. There are as many languages spok- en in China as there are in Europe, and many of them are as different as English and German. They are all descended from the “me @ stock, however, and are all com- posed of words of one syllable. Chinese is above all remarkable for the limited number of words of which it is composed. The Northern, or Mandarin language, 80-called because it is the official language and there- fore the one most commonly learned by foreigners, has only nine hundred separate syllables. Cantones®, the principal language of the South, has less than five hundred, As a result, each word is compelled to serve to express many totally different things, and this leads to confusion in spite of the various efforts made to counter- , act it. One method is to duplicates the word with ome of almost the same meaning. Another is to vary the sense by the use of different tones. This usually spells disaster to the * foreigner. For instance, a person trying to ask the way to a house could just as easily, by unconsciously raising or lowering his voice, talk about a dead dog or something to eat. The written language is common to the whole country. Its origin, like that of all others, was the drawing of pictures, The next step was the combining of several of these pic- tures to represent something als stract, such as a mouth and a doo* to mean begging. These pictograp! d ideographs, as they are called were not enough to form a satisfac medium of expression. So 4 nie i third metho’. “phonograms,” . was ~ ye i nl ken into the language. The sounds ie a eee gt that have so many meanings in the 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 a few words. Take time to be brief. Smoking Motori whiskey and stand by and watch our To the Editor of The Evening World: fellow men drink a substitute that is I wonder if any one in investigat- | gradually killing them? ing automobile accidents nas looked | Some solution should be worked out for the cause of any accident being |Whereby the health of the public due to the driver having a cigar, | WOU be considered. Never mind WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? © NO. 181.—"HELLO.” It was Thomas Alva Edison whu gave America the word ‘Hello’ as used at the telephone. Frederick P Fish, President of the American Tele. . phone Company, has told the story spoken dialects were represented by a conventional sign, and confusion was done away with by prefixing 7 another word that would denote th» followed by one word, and the sign for earth followed by the same wor! By Jolin Blake J the same but mea: o inquire” and “place (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) This, while making for facility of ex pression, makes the language impos THE ONLY EXCUSE FOR CONCEIT. sible to understand except by sight " sincs the determinative signs are not It is true that many of the great men and women of the pronounced. world have been conceited. A new alphabet of thirty-nine pho, A s netic sounds is now being taught in... Julius Caesar was one of the greatest boasters of 3] Chinese schools. It is intended to de all time. away with the present cumbe: a keeping the doctors amd undertakers é ‘ : y ent ¢ rsom elgaretto or pipo in his mouth and ne Napoleon’s best known photograph is that of an ex- stem, for by it reading ‘can be probably removing same from his , Jovi all t ey E i taught In a few weeks instead of PEM LMiwero pane eda Gueine pare Gerace! is going fallow tremely yell man who folds his arms and frowns at an }$} Of.” ‘Similar attempts, however with the other. would it not be of advantage to teach necrion Word: have fatled before through the hos I think it would be a good thing to] the people how to make a pure drink Thackeray frankly admired his own genius and rather 3]tllity of the educated classes, wh» sonct & law pronibtting any one from | rather than to watch them drinking] $ looked down on people who were less gifted. Gh ae cele Grek ea leaae a filthy, pot liquids? i ’ i aMtaty bank, A walt: be cee nee thy, Polsonaus’ guide twa th stake In the acquaintance of almost everybody are a number Even if this system Is successfully from rivers of cars who probably | care of ‘our hucith but let us drink| % Of conceited people, many of them people of intelligence }]taught, it will not do away with the enjoy a cigar while sitting at the | ooison, FAIR PLAY. and importance. problem of the numerous spoken lan- acer ‘art Rp gine sou: Perhaps these people would be better off if they lacked guages ee have been an Impor:; i i Fight With “Reform” Method conceit. Perhaps it would be easier to live with them if fae st his, OFSYRRHNS Kae unity ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: they were not qyite so appreciative of their own ability. Replying to Arthur Barnhart's ‘ * ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: latesteletior in The Sivéntag: World But they at least have an excuse for their good opinion eaines an interested Teader of Your | ee ne lsth inat aes ere of themselves, They have accomplished something worth letter columns but only rarely a con- “* vhi i he w i tributor, I note with amusement Mr. | considerable space this time trying to ue secpmip ering: ans t orld admires them as they Chamberlain's reply of criticism to} prove that the peoplesof this country 2 THEMselyes, eh | ay peanut leteay on “An Autemobile| have yoted on the question of Prohi- wa 4s in staple Peop le, who are often conceited, that this bition, but I can safely state that quality is unendyrable. ee a to my that Ed snows every broad minded person who read If Edwin Booth or Thomas Jefferson had’ been con- Bi le cism he) it agrees that you failed just as mis- a hich h f th 5 seems to indicate, he should know] erably to state the facts as previously. ceited-—which neither of them were—they would have been better than to make It. ; doned i. You dwell only on one point and pardoned. . See ee a eat eee leave the two very important ques- If a moving picture actor who because of some physica! a T used the former advisedly, As aj tons! have asked you purposely un- 1% adaptability gets an important part begins to think that the Ble een ee nee oe tele G s N ®. peo} ‘ matter of fact for any one who knows] at all in beer or wine trae Bretatie{¢ World should bow down to him, he soon makes a nuisance $ {accustomed to ting a bell and. then or desires to know, the definition I 4 f hi If. « tio, and Is beer or wine having a of himself. say, ponderously: ‘Are you there? Are Lisi deh ral AR cltak Nee tei Uttle more alcoholic content than one- It is natural for people to desire to admire themselves, 3 | ¥° yendy, tit acceleration from which either force ee calm one ae erie ie And it is justifiable if, before they begin their self-worship, $l enat awkward aa Anarien ware may be calculated in a specific cate bY ented people who are growing capiaiy | they do something that is admirable, doing things. He caught up a receiver retersnse to Newion's second Taw, Hoh “preaching’’ it,wand those ences The self-made man who, without any start in life, be- 3 |one day and yelled into the transmit- TIN MEYER Ph. Di |eharacters haven't ine strength to re-]$ comes a painter or a novelist or a great statesman, has a } |? one word—a most satisfactory . Ct * |sist consuming intoxicants to excess. i ited i 7 capable, soul satisfying word—‘Hello!° New York, June 19, 1922, Because of financial profits and arnt |} Tight to be sqnneiiog Af he cheoang to. He will not have so “It has gone clear round the world. ness by a few the people are deprived much fun as he would otherwise if he is conceited, but no The Japs use it; it is heard ' a ng Bis MAATat te weeae thea of pure, wholesome beer and wine! one will deny it to him. Turkey; Russia could not do without me iv ‘orld: in the very near © you will " y i i 5 th tae I would like to add my name to the] reallze that red-blooded Americans But the youth who thinks he is good looking or the girl pega, Base could Patagonia.” 62 who fancies she is beautiful soon becomes intolerable if they parade their vanity in public, rowing list of real Americans who are protesting against Prohibition, are going to apply some of the meth- ods used by the reform element. In ——.]S+—- Let Mer, Volstend and his ellauel the. coming’ clestion®, they ere olny Piece Leitiome thar youll pacha WHOSE BIRTHDAY! ~ 3 tty the take notice. . to elect,men who will represent the 4 7 lowever -protty JUNE 27—HELEN ADAMS <EL- You can't mako every one good by| majority of the people; men who can.|$ itl, they will find, if they look about them, others whose $| rir was born at Tuscumbia, Alo. on Taw not be bulldozed and bribed by a personal attractions are greater. the 27th of June, 1880. Keely You can’t control peovle's desires} heavily subsidized minority; men who by law. openly stand for the repeal of the One of the largest countries In the] yolstend act and favor State rights consumption of beer and whiskey was|as to Prohibition, What beauty they have is not their doing—it was con- ferred upon them by nature, as, for that matter, was the talent whieh many geniuses are conceited. over, was about two years old she was « :- prived of sight, hearing and smell! through an attack of scarlet fave; Her parents, learning of the remark- ernest yok ieee picuces che sr WILBUR B, GRAHAM. Better not be conceited at all, but if one must be con- }Jable results Miss Anne M. Sullivan, he most wonderful armies histor: ‘i 4 Lae even uaman woth ti {hin ligenee Raa ceited he will do well to do something. that will make his 3 |sraduate of the Perkins Institute at . not ti entio ; Curve. conceit less offensive to others. Boston, had accomplished with such pee nit Gencan: SURES ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: cases, placed the child in her care ‘Will we ever have another war? Regarding the automobile round- and from that day on Miss Sulivan It is well to keep that in view andling a curve, I would like to ask D, pen been s Seve pompanien ont be prepared. . BE. in to-night’ . iss Keller This s what i@ happening every| ~~ aye night's paper, which way learned to rend, write and use the, éay under Probibition: he would be thrown if he were riding finger alphabet. Under the instruc- dover 90 per cont. of the people |!® #8 automoble and rounded a curve tion of Miss Sarah Fuller, a former making home brew and bootleg whis- [9t & speed sufficient to upset it. student of the Horace Mann Sehvol key do not know how to make it prop- | Would he be thrown toward the our- of New York, she learned to speak erly. What i# the result? They are|side oF the Inside of the curve? natural forces that make the out-| truth, but submission to prejudice. |intelligibly. In 1900 she entered drinking stuff that is not fit for] He 8 cocksure that the outside | aide wheels go up, . Bo, Scoorilng to —Locke. | Radcliffe College, and in 1904 received human beings. Their health is being | Wheels 60 UP because he cam see that|/him, in spite of the natu reese her degree of A. B. Unfortun. ly var pot ane ET ney do. He cares nothing about} that make the outside wheels go up,| | OPposition may inflame the en- uadermined, an accurate record of the steps in her Are these the people we are going |theory, he can see them go up and|it is necessary to bank the track on thusiast, but never converts him. education was not kept, but a general it 1s to counteract the natural tan- dency of the inside wheols to go up that It Is done. He says that the track ‘s made in the shape of a bowl to nvercome the From the Wise Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to to call upon to defend our country in|calls !t @ fool business to believe!the outside to accomplish this pur- —Schiller. idea can be obtained from several case of wart? otherwise. The reason he sees the|pose, What kind of fool business do The cup of joy 4# Reaviest when |POOK# written by he such 43 ‘Are we going to allow a Prohibition outside wheels go up is because wie you call that? GEO. JACKSON. i vy Ad “The Story of My Life, tines’ law that eliminates good beer and track i# banked for that purpose and New York, June 22. _empty.—Marguerite de Valots, and ‘The World I Live In,* a