The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1922, Page 20

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LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, sort Prewe ie exclusively ontitied to the use for repubdt- ane a news eens ied 10, jt or not otherwise credited ‘al N, 202 Washington St 7 Puiton st PLAIN BUSINESS. FURTHER slump in the value of the mark, strikes, menacing moves against the pres- ent Government and predictions of national bank- ruptcy darken the horizon for Germany, : Can the Allied Nations of Europe persuade themselves that this is all German propaganda or that their own horizon is altogether distinct and + unaffected? “The fate of the German democracy is con- stantly jeopardized, perhaps unwittingly, by the arbitrary attitude of the creditor Governments as much as through the treachery of reactionary forces at home.” “Our task of co-ordinating the republic would be immeasurably lightened by modest apprecia- tion abroad of our many difficulties in trying to popularize democracy.” These reflections upon the situation are Ger- man. But do they carry no element of truth for the Allies? Do the actual facts of Germany's | spresent state belie them? Better a Germany left with enough order, en- ergy and courage to pay its debts than a Ger- -many plunged into anarchy and disruption that can pay nothing and that cannot fail to overflow ‘and spread confusion through the rest of Europe. That is not sentiment. It is plain business and ‘self-protection for Germany's creditors. Mile. Lenglen is evidently an example of the little girl who, “when she was good was very good indeed.” : TOO BOLD. HE list of officers and directors of the Davy Automatic Fire Escape Corporation as re- vealed Saturday by The Evening World kills as audacious a raid as any in the history of the city. ‘ Most of those interested in the company were identified with Tammany politics. Several were on the municipal payroll and a few were in posi- ‘tion to aid in gaining approval for the single design of fire escape approved and authorized by the’ Board of Standards and Appeals. Others ‘were expectefl to put the ordinance through the Board of Aldermen. The result would have been a $24,000,000 tax i} on householders and rentpayers, with the proba- | bility of a large part of the profit reverting directly | or indirectly to the “organization.” | The raid was too bold. Publicity was fatal. { It is just the sort of thing New York has reason to | expect from Tammany. The only surprising feature was the failure to make an effort to cover the tracks of the Tiger. 1 nn es oS Miss Harriet May Mills, Associate Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. reports that she has not found it difficult to get the women to take an interest in State politics: “We have gone into a county and on short notice have been able to get fogether from 200 or 300 to 700 or 1,000 women at a luncheon, tea or meeting, all in sympathy with the prin- ciples of our party, once we have had the opportunity to explain these to them in a con- genial environment.” Mere men may yet have to take lessons in elementary politics to find out how it's done. Appoint a few women teachers, L ITH an estimated enrolment of 12,000 and 3,000, respectively, the summer sessions of } Columbia and New York Universities open to-day The figures are a testimonial to the universi- ties—and also to the summer charms of New York City. It is no detraction from Columbia's claims to admit that summer attendance would be much smaller if the institution were not in and a part of New York, There will be many earnest and hard-working students who will seek knowledge first, last and all the time for the six weeks of the session, But there aro also many who will take light courses, spending all the time possible in explor- :. ing New York City, Holiday pleasures will come pete with aeadensic efforts And when the session is done some students will have gained one kind of education, others another kind, For those who plan to sjend only SUMMER SCHOOLS OPEN, | 8 single season at Colundbia's summer school it is THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1029, debatable whether professors and classrooms can provide more real education and culture than a six weeks’ introduction to the metropolis, “S HURT. directly out of our in- Fellow” By John Cassel | Copyright, 1022, (Xow York vening World) by Vrese Pub. Co. ‘The Nations Their Music By AUGUSTUS PERRY Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Publishing Co, WHY TAX Or way or another, comes and indirect] for things we must do or have, the Government | in the prices we pay ENGLAND. In “Merrie” England, centuries ago, takes taxes from pretty nearly all of us. ’ music reached a high state of de« Theoretically, the billions of dollars thus col- velopment. History tells us that mu- lected should come back to us in redistributed sic and poetry were cultivated by the money or in the form of benefits and savings that oon Their us| oe rattan - . played and sang in the houses an add to the comfort and security of our indi- castles, al lives. Theoretically, taxes should be like the water the Only a freeman could own a harp, and to be seen without it meant dis. grace. When the Saxons were en= ain with the Danes, King. Alfred, in the disguise of @ harper, entered the enemy's camp and learned their strength and plans, In 697 St. Augustine brought the Gregorlan chant to England. During mediaeval times a great school of # counterpgint was founded upon this chant. There is a wonderful song for sun draws from the sea, descending in showers warfare and finding its way back after refreshing the earth If it did, we could always regard taxes as our best, Theoretically, it should work that way. most highly productive investments. We could pay them cheerfully and without pain. Practically, however, that is not the way it ke W iltoo slnly ible noe th , six men’s voices called “Sumer is WOFKS: “We'see Gib too: plait aeey.e icumen In,” which dates from the We see a large part of the taxes that should thirteenth century. ‘The skill with come back to us in redistribution too often di- which it was composed proves that there was a flourishing school of mu- sic in England at the time. When the Normans conquered Eng- Jand a romantic element entered into Saxon music, The gay life of the French court was reflected. All the instruments were then imported from France and Italy, The Hlizabethan era, which was notable for the revival of literature, was also renowned for marked prog- ress in music, Ernest Ford, {n his hort History of English Music,” 8: “Music was everywhere appar- ent. Wherever the monarch (Queen Elizabeth) went it was made a special feature at all functions.” Shakespeare in his plays makes constant reference to music. He makes {t certain that it was an im- portant part of the court life. The most famous musicians of this period were Thomas Tallis and Will- jam Byrd, the teacher of Elizabeth. A beautiful song of the period was “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” Ben Jonson wrote the words, but the composer is unknown, Although about 200 years old, this song is still popular, ¢ The folk songs have that Jolly and 4 robust quality that is characteristio, of the English people. In the past the country dance was the main recreation of the peasantry. It is now belng revived, The morris danco is in {ts most popular form known a: the Maypole dance. Some fine old British songs are “Sally in Our Al+ verted instead into private reservoirs before it has a chance to reach us We see privilege and monopoly standing astride the return currents and taking inordinate toll. The incomes of most of us do not increase by leaps and bounds. Yet taxes claim an ever- increasing share of our incomes, while we see an ever-increasing part of those taxes failing to bring us any good at all Worst of all, there come times like the present when we see the power of the Government for whose support we are taxed, the legislative labor for which we pay, deliberately used to increase instead of lighten our burdens. We see the Congress maintained by our taxes proposing a tariff that can only enable the few to take more from the pockets of the many. We see the Congress maintained by our taxes recklessly ready to commit us and our descendants to the payment of more billions of dollars in order that Congressmen of this present Congress may make a bid for soldier votes next fall. We see the Congress maintained by our taxes prepared to vote millions yearly to keep up ships that cannot support themselves in sound economic nn ley,” “The Vi and the competition. dance tune, and J i j ith di Lads.” We see all this, and we reflect with dismay that The pioneer of modern English the taxes we pay instead of coming back to us are music was Henry Purcell (1658-1695). Many consider him England's great= est composer. A form f opera that he invented remained ‘n vogue for about two centuries. "Te wrote sacred works and songs that still retain their freshne During Handel's career In London paying the salaries and providing the machinery for so-called representatives whose purposes are not our purposes and whose ends are their own political profit. Do we maintain a Congress to saddle us with a From Evening World Readers What kind of letter dv you 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 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) 7 { i i the “ballad opera’? become known, tariff certain to subject us to Colossal profiteering? |\ % “&” much in few words. Take time to be brief. CALLING OUT THE RESERVES. The first of these, produced in 17 Do we maintain a Congress to commit us to Park Use in London. be so defined. Phot a monte tRES. Je Mr. Graham can easily see that the old booze hounds are violently opposed to the one-half of 1 per cent. limit and are eagerly striv- ing to have it raised, which is a good recommendation for said limit. In describing the methods em- ployed by the reform element, Mr. Graham intimates that they have elected men who “represent the ma- Opera.” It was based on popular alra and satirized the customs of the day. These productions interfered with the progress of more serious operatic works. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century English music was not of very high type. A new group of com~- posers arose who sought to raise the It is a poorly organized police force that cannot in- stantly despatch a considerable number of men to the scene of a riot or control gathering crowds in any part of a city. Police forces are regulated with an eye to maintaining a reserve supply. Trouble, unfortunately, cannot be foreseen. There must be men to cope with it, or it may grow into a To the Editor of The Evening World: It is all yery well to have a Central Park for rich folks to drive through when they are not in Newport or Tux- edo. Nobody is going to take it away from them, But let me tell you what I saw: In London; in the little park, much fresh outlays for which we and our children must bear still heavier taxes? No wonder the country is stirged to deep re- sponse by the accuracy with which Senator Borah put his finger on the prime cause of present dis- content: bs smaller, that corresponds to Central ‘ catastrophe. standards, Prominent among them “In my opinion, the source of this discontent | Park: in the heart of town; between Ihe bulidoses cnc’ brived by a heavily A police force with just sufficient men for patrol and }]were Charles Hubert Parry (orn 1s primarily in the intolerable expenditures of palaces and Park Lane and |supsidized minority,” and declares| detective duty would prove useless at the first riot call, The $] 15> eee wane theresa the Government and the constant increasing of in the good old days, Late 488)» that the wets are now going to adopt those methods. Allow me to con- gratulate the wets on their change of tactics. To date their polley seems to be disregard for the Constitution, violation of a qational law and en- couragement of disrespect for both law and Constitution in an attempt to discredit Prohibition. It will be nost welcome to all if they abandon these tactics and adopt the methods of the “reform element" so aptly de- seribed by Mr. Graham, }. e., direct appeal to the people in a legal and constitutional manner. ARTHUR BARNHART. Princeton, N. J instant patrolmen had to leave their beats to put down the riot, trouble which their presence keeps subdued would break out on the beats. This principle applies to armies and navies, and it applies equally to the little organization that is known as a human being. The man who has just sufficient strength for his daily work fails when that work is doubled or trebled by unfore- seen emergency. The man who has just enough will-power to drive him- self to his task every day and keep himself there from 9 to 5 is pitifully inadequate for the real trials of life which come to everybody uninvited and unexpected. It is reserve force which enables men to show, when opportunity comes, that they are capable of doing bigger things than they have been doing. It is stores of energy, untapped and unused, that carry them through the crises of their lives and Jeave them stronger and more fit when the crises have passed. Unless one steadily cultivates the ability to do moré than he is doing, to carry more responsibili to bear up under more punishment, he might as well make up his mind to fall back to the tail of the procession. He will certainly never get a place anywhere near the head of it. If he has the reserves, he can call them out when the need arises, as it is certain to do. If he has so neglected the building up of his organiza tion that no reserves are on call, he will cut a sorry figure when he has to face a real test. taxes, It is the one thing which causes criti- cism, dissatisfaction and loss of faith on the part of the people.” We see not only that we are being overtaxed. We see that we are being overtaxed in order that we may be still more overtaxed—and taxed not for the benefit of all but for the special ad- vantage of limited numbers. The taxes we are paying now will never come back to us either in money or benefits. On the contrary, they are helping to pile up new loads for us. That is why it is a double strain just now to give what the Government demands of us That is why taxes hurt. and Charles Villiers Stanford (born 1852). The fame of Sir ¢.rthur Sullivan (1842-1900) rests on the Savoy operas which he wrote in collabora- tion with Sir W. S. Gilbert. Sullivan wrote the famous 6ong, "The Lost Chord” while watching at the bed- side of his sick brother. Sir Edward Elgar may,be called the composer laureate of England. He stands in the front rank of mod- ern musicians, Among his works are many fine symphonies and the great oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius.” afternoon; Queen Victoria drives by, looking very little, with her old- woman stoop and a tall you \g prin- cess by her side, The carriage went past the Serpentine. A few minutes later two thousand men and boys | were swimming there, stark naked, It is their right, because it is their cus- tom, handed down for centuries, BVv- erybody understands it, nobody com- plains. The park is being used in the traditional way. Knowing the English as I do, I'll bet the custom still holds good. When ladies are in the carriage or auto the driver goes another way during bathing hours, That is all. Nobody wants Central Park to be treated to an innovation of this kind. The Serpentine bathers simply pee! and leave their clothes on the bank Here you propose dressing rooms and decorum, But 1 would like to see in New York a little of the bulldog Brit- ish grit in holding onto customary rights, among which I should hold the right of the p p to use thelr parks to the best good of the gr ber. TRAVE! New York, July 7. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 185.—CUCUMBER. The word cucumber does not look q it were of classic origin. And yet it 1s. Its original ancestor, once removed, {8 the Latin “cucumis,"" of which the accusative form is ‘cucumeren In all the European lansuages ex- cept the Slavic the same word, slightly varied in form, is used to designate the excellent vegetable. Western Europe probably adopted the Latin word because it was the Romans who, in their travels of con- quest from the boot of Italy to the British Isles, introduced the vegetable on their conquering way. ‘The cucumber is still very popular In Italy, where tt is served in highly ticing ways, judged when we consider that it ts|°” still the basis of modern law study. |= It transtormed law from an incompre-| root of the plant from which It is hensible maze of technicalities into] made to wounds caused by poisoned Te the Raltor of Ing World: Relative to the D. Fess Family Employment Bureau," we suggest that he be tagged and non de plumed as plain, everyday Con-Fess, THOMAS EB. BARRINGTON, Russells Point, O., June 30, 1 News from the Navy Yard at Bremerton is that they are washing the Stars and Stripes on the North Pacific ships to excellent purpose, We should like to see the Constitution follow the flag to the laundry. It would be interesting to observe how the Eighteenth Amendment would stand the test of democratic soap and water, The Nation Anthem, To the Editor of The Evening World: I wish to take exception to E. C. Dunne, who in The Evening World vf the 5th, under the heading, "A National Anthem," gave his ilea of what a national anthem should and should not contain. He states that it “should stress the spiritual and mention the name of God." I presume Mr. Dunne means the Christian God. If so, he evidently doesn’t know that the United States, in principle, !s no more Christian than Buddhist or Confacionist. In the words of George Washington, this iy The Why of One-Half of One Per Cen To the Editor of Th ening M In previous letters 1 have out that the people of States have given dry majorities in Statewide referendums and that, ir- respective of the Volstead Act, over 90 per cent. of the United States, con- taining 75 per cent. of the population was dry a8 a direct expression of the will of the people through local op- tion voting, &e. Mr, ( m appar- ently does not question the accuracy ACHES AND PAINS Do not find fault with weeds. They are nature's pioneers. They venture on sterile ground, cover the scars left by man, cloak the ash heaps and coax fer- tility back into the soil. Some men are weeds. . pointed twenty-elght WHOSE BIRTHDAY! JULY 10—SIR WILLIAM BLACK- STONE was born at Cheapside, Lon- The news that coat collars are to be diminished in weight and thickness will cheer mankind. Now if some vith bared h ; ° y founded upon » 10, 1728, and died at Wal-Jan accurate and logical : il only get a fit substitute for the linen acts, but intimates ny | country is “in no sense P don, July 10, . u logical science. Its| arrows. sabi ta Ge! es Mee ee ee ied Rene woe L the christian reltwion lingtord. Fepruary 14, 1780. His|simplicity obtained for it a wide sale Cn two may be happy yet. eetihat the burden of rae: mA. | ‘Then why, may T asi parents died while he was still ex-Jin this country and on it were based| “Finger Benediction” is thus de- oe am proof is upon | at of the Christian ceedingly young and the care of his}many of the principles of American|fined: In the Gr Catholic and The Scottish studente who shouted “two seats for | sy, Graham asks why one-half of | 1ned JH out national a bringing up and of his education was| jy isprudence, Roman Catholic Churches the thumb Pin when Mr, Taft arrived were more than redundant, |1 per cent. was made the jimit of al: | 2adnists, Taoists and Mohamme-|jo¢t to his uncle, Dr. ‘Thomas Diggs. 2 and first two fingers iepresent the ; * a ‘ Y : 3 Bia ey dans can all be citizens on equal|}ie studied at Charter House a Trinity. The thumb, being strong, Ho prevors enti se sting down, no matter how peas eee ee ihn? because ‘| standing with Christians? Pembroke College, Oxford, At first | (77 oS Ta), ~ Er ,?9]| [represents the Father, or God: the many chairs are proffered. eae 0 ol Can you {magine a Shintoist stand-|he was 4 ted in literature, but|]| Th t F ong, or second, finger Jesus Christ, 0 SoRé y and-|he was interes’ t |] } tong rist, . alcoholic poisoning by consumption of a s a ac beverages containing this amount. If| ‘0% ad and singing of |gave this up to devote himself en- and the fist finger, the Holy Ghost, , y new p y of God?” Such oom > profession of law, As erry Tie opening for new miltionaires widens again, On nour ‘be the “glory of God tirely to the pr \ ; rt mitiion Russian rubles can now be bought on the ae Ree Me avauae ae eect would be an obstacle to religions lib-]an advocate, however, he was a fati- Py Albert P. Southwick | The benshee (or banshee) is the for $1 . pixteen miles to be dangerous speed- | "Tt. JOHN WEBAIR. lure and in fourteen years was only mae 2 spirit of certain Irish tam- ot $ ‘ ing. ‘This would, however, nat featity| Brooklyn. July 5, 1922 tneaea in two unimportant cases = » bonshee takes an Interest sixiy miles on hour. Ia the’ same = He employed this considerable leisure!) 1) aronammedan my hrosperity of the household to New words Leen breaking in on us. Who ever heard |way, though Mr. Grahom may not He Vetoed tt, in studying and finally wave up atef | ATMO On npineeean a +h it is attached, and intimates to vegone before? conalder beverages conta ning Jight To the Editor of The Evening World tempting to practise law and became] 'holosy, ia HAMC Of the ang Dy iy hing disaster or death, by . ly more than cne-haif of 1 per cent Will you kindly aGvis=. through the!a professor at Oxford, It wae while]is to sound the Resurrection trumpet ve anes sr ue % ts also called ay nV a , his capacity that he s 8 the "White Lady of Ireland." The . lelane ta : to be intoxioating, he cannot claimlcolumns of The Evening World, lengaged in t ; - wo : ae SWhite Lag Iretan 3 10 tow and order if tt ree entiod THaht wine cae whfther President Wilson vetoed wrote his “Commentaries,” @ work’ Arrowroot is 50 named, because the Scotch Bodack Glay, a “gray apeqtre.® operates ba their intoreat, ing about 10 per cent, alcohol could the Volstead act? La, the importance of which may be South American Indians apply, the |1s a similar spirit,