The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1922, Page 20

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published dai Sunday, by, The Press, Publishing Me dally eaeen, BUM Thoms New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH P cretary, 63 Park Row. all commantes HE EVENING WORLD emit by Bi ed Letter jooks Open to Al MONDAY, JULY 24, 1922. Ai SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Senne ‘at the Post Office at New York ag Second Oless Matter. tage free in the United States, outside Greater New York, One Year Six Months One Month Erening World s+ $10.00 $5.00 ‘3. BS Daily and Sunday World... 12.00 600 1 Daily World Only ‘ 5.00 8B Sunday World Only 2.25 45 Thrice-A Week World World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents: by mall 60. cente. BRANCH OFFICES Wyatt Bide, UPTOWN, 1293 Bimay, cor ath. | WASHINGTON, HARLEM: Boma 7th Ave. near] lath and F te, th St. Hotel Theresa’ Bide | METR NT, 621 ie. Oe, | CHUACO, sete) Baia eee BROOKLYN, 202 Washington st.| PARIS, 47 Avenue pers. fad 17 Furor se ne" S| LONDON, 20 Cockepur MEMRER OP THF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use bil cane AN ee ere etter Att or ot othecwine credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. THE REAL NEED. HE appeal of the National Coal Association for a non-partisan, fact-finding tribunal is as fine an example of pure buncombe as ever was. The Coal Association is already on record, not by word but by deed. The Fegeral Trade Com- mission, a regularly organized, fact-finding tri- bunal, did its utmost to get the facts, and the operators prevented this by appeal to the_courts: A mere fact-finding tribunal is not enough. What is needed is a commission of constructive thinkers prepared to lay down a programme of far-reaching reforms for this anarchic industry. Most of the facts, with the exception of coal mine profits and secret agreements, are already a matter of public record. What needs broad ex- posure is the mistaken theory under which the coal industry muddles along with too many mines, too many miners, wages too high fog a day’s work and too low for a year's work. Premier Poincare is going to London to con- fer with Premier Lloyd George on the futility of uncollectible war debts. It has taken a long time, considerable travel and much beating about the bush at various august gatherings to arrive at last at fundamentals. HONEST AT LEAST. panel GOODING'S proposal for a tariff prohibitive rather than protective is not good, but it is better than the Fordney-McCumber bill. Senator Gooding said: “If I had my way, I would build a tariff wall clear around the country, so there would be no interference with American products.” This at least has the merit of frankness and honesty, which the so-called “protection” sched- ules do not. Otherwise there is no great amount of difference between the two plans. The lob- byists who have had their way with the Senate Finance Committee have done their best to in- sure against “interference.” Senator Gooding’s proposal ought to be in- Structive as to what extreme “protection” in- volves. Take sugar, for example: The United States produces both beet and cane sugar in consid- erable quantities, but the production is only a small fraction of the total demand. Suppose sugar were barred completely. Imag- ine the prices that would prevail! According to figures given out by, the Chief Medical Examiner, deaths from acute alcoholism, in New York in the ourrent year have increased nearly 27 per cent. over 1921 and nearly 89 per cent. over 1920. We are waiting for the Ant!-Saloon League to show that this proves the progressively in- | ¢reasing benefit of Nation-wide Prohibition. JOKICHI TAKAMINE. Fhe aee man as Well as a great scientist left the world Saturday when Dr. Jokichi {Takamine ended his earthly stay. Born in the Province of Kaga in feudal times, educated first in the schools of Satsuma under Japanese teachers, he selected chemistry as his field of labor. Succeeding, he made America his home. One of his discoveries, adrenalin, has made burgery safe. His development of ferments and fertilizers added immensely to the benefactions of mature. Above all, he did more than any other ome man to preserve friendly relations between structive blow to the theory and practice of his own creation—the Kansas industriat Court. Gov. Allen and his Attorney General have read into Mr. White's temperate judgment of the shop- men’s strike a “conspiracy. Gov. Allen main- tains that placards displayed in stores, offices and a newspaper plant consti‘: © unlawful picketing. No such doctrine can stand in the higher Federal courts, where the right of peaceful picketing has been upheld repeatedly The mere fact that Mr. White was only “49,” “50” or “52 per cent. in sympathy” with the shop- men disproves the conspiracy charge. White ex- pressed personal opinion, and nothing else. The only danger is that the Federal Judges may thtow the State of Kansas out of court by pointing out this fact, and so avoid decision on the funda- mental error of the Allen stand Meanwhile, Mr. White is absolutely right in believing that: “This poster down will speak vastly louder to the hearts and heads of wise men in behalf of the cause of freedom than the poster would speak exposed in defiance of the constituted authorities of the State.” BREAK THE BONDAGE! |‘ a message to New York State Democrats, Chairman Cordell Hull of the Democratic National Committee writes: “The Republican Party is rapidly disinte- grating, through total lack of constructive lead- ership. Its members are deserting it by thou- sands because in this critical period of the Nation's life it has shown a complete absence of ability to serve the people, even though they be in the throes of hunger, unemployment, unhap- piness, agricultural suffocatioh and industrial paralysis. “In a little more than a year the Republiaan Party has proved itself incapable of conducting the Government in any way except toward chaos, With these thoughts in mind, the people are turning to the polls in November to elect a new national House of Representatives, one-third of the national Senate and State tickets in prac- tically all the States. With these thoughts in mind, can the Demo- cratic Party of the State of Néw York think of nothing better than to deed itself over to William Randolph Hearst merely because he has money, newspapers, a strangle hold on the present Gov- ernment of New York City and ambition to en- large his grip to include the Commonwealth? Is that the best the Empire State can contribute to the Democratic line-up next fall? In the eyes of consistent, self-respecting Demo- crats, Hearst is notoriously neither fish, flesh nor good red herring. He has no political principles. He is anything that serves his own demagogic purpose of the moment. He may traffic with one party or the other. He may oil any political machine that consents to run as he directs. Yet the more he changes, the more he remains the same thing—a rich man who seeks power by posing as a friend of the poor, a capitalist who makes capital out of arraying class against class, a millionaire who exploits discontent by denounc- ing money. It is incredible that, through the awe he inspires in party bosses, such a man should be able to menace sound Democracy in this State by threat- “ening to impose himself upon it. It is unthinkable that because Hylan loves him and Murphy fears him, the Democratic Party must take him. "What is this servitude in which New York Democrats are held? Is there no will, no leader- ship, to get them out of it? » If the rank and file will speak out, the leader- ship will be found. In the interest of the Democratic cause in Nation as well as State, this is the year of years for New York Democrats to declare themselves free Democrats who cannot be deeded or de- livered. Break the bondage! Isadora Dunean says the Russian Com- munists have become timid and repressed and are “simply imitating the bourgeois.” The “bourgeois” hes his ups and downs. But in the long run he'y Bard to beat. THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1924, BEsiDes : EY Can You Beat It! THE LIMIT For THiS ELEVATOR IS 900 POUNDS NOT MORE THAN FIVE, PERSONS From Evening World Readers| What kind of letter dw you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. @2 eay much in few words. The Port of New York. To the Editor of The Evening World: Here is a hint for Mayor Hylan: The imports and exports of the Port of Montreal are only exceeded on the American continent by the Port of New York. The Port of Monireal is under the control of the Harbor Com- mission appointed by the Canadian Government and has always been han- dled in a business-like manner in the national interests and {s free from all political influence. Here is a hint for Eugenius H. Outerbridge, Chairman of the Wort of New York Authority: “The Port of Montreal, 1,000 miles inland and open seven and a half months of the year, has the second largest export and import trade on the American continent and 1s nex! to the Port of New York, open twelve months of the year. Its exports of grain for 1921 were 188,000,000 bush- els against New York's 84,000,000 bushel: ‘We are interested in developing the carrying trade from tho West through the New York State canals; but the question is, can the latter carry this trade with the present canal depth and low bridges? ‘We are investigating this entire subject from a first hand indepertient standpoint and not from jumped-at conclusions and creating the facts to fit the conclusions, STEWART BROWNE, Prestdent United Real Estate Own- ers’ Association. New York, July 19, 1922, Pusheart Graft. ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World: it would be, to say the least, sports- manship to give the other side also. I suggest that you advise your readers to read the article in Collier's of July 15, entitled, ‘Sober and Glad of It," or the article on the saloon by Dr. Woods Hutchison in Hearst's International Magazine —_(current issue), or, better still, the booze ques- tion by an ex-bartender in the maga- zine section of the New York Herald of Sunday, July 16. Be a sport and print this letter In order that the readers of The Evening World may learn some truths from disinterested persons from the other side on this terrible ‘‘llberty-depriv- ing” law that has been “inflicted” upon a nation. MRS. T, FINKELSTEIN. July 19, 1922. “Some Left Over.” To the Editor of The Evening World: I read about Edward Bailey's let- ter. Don’t you think it's about time to stop knocking the girls? Criti- cism of their lack of modesty, their abundant use of patnt and lack of brains is a reflection on the company the critics keep. There are girls who are brainy, modest and use rouge to a small de- gree or not at all in this generation just as in others. If you can't find them you're either out of luck or satisfied with the kind you criticise and don't look further, Such acidulated remarks remind one of the Fox and the grapes. Don’t you worry about the seeming degeneration of the girl. She's just as good as she ever was, if not better, and, incidentally, there are enough brainless fellows to meet the demands of the brainless girls, and in my opinion there'll be some fellows By Maurice Ketten UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1022, by John Blake.) RESPONSIBILITY. Well known to this writer is a young man of unques tioned talent and of spasmodic industry. He is not successful and he wonders why. Other men of less ability pass him on the road that he is travelling. He always manages to earn enough to feed him well and to clothe him comfortably, even tastefully. But that is as far as he gets. ° Men who started in the same business at the same time are making names for themselves. * Some of them are already independent. A number are in very big and important positions. And my young friend looks at them enviously and thinks ther is something the matter with the world. There may be something the matter with the world, but whatever it is cannot be blamed for his failure to get ahead as fast as he ought. That is wholly due to the fact that he has no responsi- bilities and will accept none. Engaged to a very charming girl, wedding for three years because he didn’t want to capped” with a wife. . Presently the girl very wisely got tired of waiting and married another man. When this youth was offered a really important oppor- tunity he declined it because it Involved travel in a part of the country he did not like, His journeys would have taken him too far away from his favorite golf club. Offered the temporary charge of another man's affairs, he refused because it would be too great a responsfbility. He has dodged responsibility always, being too self- centred to burden himself with obligations. He will always make a fair living because there is de- mand for his talent. _ But he will always be a failure, just the same—and be- . he postponed the e “handi- The Nations Their Music By AUGUSTUS PERRY Copyright, 1022 (New York Evening World), #8 Publishing Co. SPAIN. Fascinating beyond description ta the folk-music of Spain, To the Spaniards music and dancing are a@ important as food and air. Havelock Ellis says: “Dancing 1s something more than an amusement in Spalti, It is part of that solemn ritual which enters into the whole life of the peo= ple. It expresses their very spirit.” The Influence of the Moors ay other Orientals ig noticeable in mi Spanish music. The Fandango is @ lively dance in triple time, for two dancers of different sex. It !s accome panied by castanets and sometimes the tambourine. Ag tlie dance pro- gresses, the gerformers work them- selves into a frenzy. Cries of “Ole! ole!” are heard, It has been said that “the bolero intoxicates, the fandango inflames.” Other favorite dances the Jota, the Sevillana, and the Mi guena, all in triple time and usually accompanied by castenets' and gul- tars. Most of the folk-songs are intended to.be danced. If there {s no dancer some one taps on the ground with « stick in imitation of clicking heets. The most beautiful songs come from Andalusia (Southern Spain), In Nas varre and Aragon the Jota is the favorite song. From the Province of Galicia come most of the dance tunes, After the bull-fight, the most popu+ lar amusement in Spain ts the zar- zuela, a form of comic opera, 80 named because it was first played at the royal castle of Zarzuela during the 17th Century, New Yorkers were treated to a vivid and characteristic zarzuela several years ago when Joaquin Valverde produced “The Land of Joy" at the Park Theatre. A remarkable fact about Spanish dancing is that it is just as sponta- neous and fresh as it was a centui ago. That is because Spain hal changed so little in the past. Among famous musicians of tho Tberian Peninsula may be mentioned Pablo de Sarasate, famous violinist, psy Airs’? are universally In starting a modern national school of Spanish music Felipe Pe- drell, born Feb. 19, 1841, has been a pioneer. He has written much fine music and {is the author of marys scholarly books on the subject. very popular cothposer of zarzuelas | was Ruperto Chapi, who died in 1909. Thomas Breton is a distinguished com- poser and educator. To the outside world Spain's best known composer 1s Isaac Albeniz. His collection if twelve piano pieces, entitled ‘‘Iberia,"* 1s familiar to all concert goers. The visit to the United States of Enrique Granados aroused much In- terest. His opera ‘“Goyescas’’ wus produced at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1914. This eminent artist was born at Lerida in the province of Catalonia, July 27, 1876. At the Madrid Conservatory he studied composition with’ the afore- mentioned Felipe Pedrell. As a com- poser he was most successful with his piano works. His lovely ‘Spanish Dances” are played all over the world. His tragic death in March 24, 1919, while a passenger on the Susse: which was torpedoed in the Englis! Channel, was greatly lamented by él music lovers. This sketch would not be complete without mentioning that noted Span- ish musician Pablo Casals, who is fa- mous equally as a ‘cellist and con- ductor. Famous" Philosophies By LOUIS M. NOTKIN Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Co. XIL—KANT = (1724-1804—CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. Before Kant's time philosophy pur- sued two opposed paths—one of dog- matic assertion and of implicit con- fidence in human reason; the other of doubt and distrust of human reason. Neither dogmatism nor scepticism— for these are the two paths—proves {ts own assertion or absolutely dis- proves those of the other. There remains a third way; namely, to vestigate and survey—'‘to criticise’ the faculty of human reason as @ faculty for knowledge of that which transcends mere @xperience. ft Kant's philosophy {is based on tl following theory: ‘‘Though all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that therefore it all derives from experience.” There ts, in fact, an element in knowledge that is In a manner independent of ex- perience, an element that may prop- erly be designated as a priori, in| contradistinction to an element de- cause he is too much of a coward to accept responsibility. I praise your courage in letting the public know of the graft in the open air public markets. All of these supervisors and their assistants and their laborers are ap- pointed by the leaders of their As- sembly districts. I know of one market on the east aide where the income is about $400 & week or more and expense of the help is about $225 a week. Does the city receive any of the balance? The balance is kept by the supervisors. It is an outrage for these supervisors to hold up these push- cart peddlers. ‘There i6 favoritism played) with these supervisors. Lc New York, July 20, 1922, left over. OPTIMIST. New York, July 17, 1922. riving immediately from experieni itself—a posteriori. Every proposition of mathematios, for example, possesses a necessity and universality characteristic of a priort knowledge alone. And in phystcs such’ a proposition as that every change has a cause 1s manifestly universal and necessary, 1. e., a priorl, Kant claims that problems could be} solved In pure mathematics, pure nat- ural philosophy and pure metaphysics) without judgments of experience. 1s all a question of the proper meth The problems have to be solved by a stinct sclence—the Critique of Pure! Reason—reason, that 1s to say, which, though present in all experience, is} not derived merely from experience, This science thus outlined—Critt-| cism—may be termed Transcendental- {sm, as having to do with a priort knowledge or knowledge transcending experience. Kant was always a realist, yet by the single assertion that objects must conform to our knowledge rather than our knowledge to objects, he inspired the complete idealism that followed him, his country and this of his adoption. New York never had a nobler citizen. ACHES AND PAINS Bir Oharies Higham saye that Amerioang “adore” Htles just as the newe comes from Britain that most of the modern ones were bought, Why not adore the cash register? ee ee ee ee carmmmnpuenmemrummmmrn ames ee. WHOSE BIRTHDAY! JULY UTH=ALEXANDRE DUMAS was born at Villers-Cot- terets, France, July 24, 1802, and died at Puys, December 5, 1870, At the death of his father, Thomas Alex- andre Dumas, who was a general in Napoleon's army, the family was left in poverty and Dumas went to seek his fortune in Paris when he was twenty-one. His literary talent soon asserted itself, and he began to write plays, The most successful was “Henry II.,"”” which gained for him ‘a splendid reputation. The revolu- tion of 1880 diverted his attention for and he greatly dis- tinguished himself under Lafayette. ‘Later he became friendly with Au- guste Maquet, in collaboration with whom he produced a series of his- torical noyels. The most famous of these arex_ ‘‘Tho Count of Monte “The Three Musketeers,” Military Tra! at 6.0. N. ¥. To the Editor of The Evening World; The war 1s over. Yot C. C. N. Y,, @ city-owned institution of educa- tion, enforces military training, I know that the vast majority of the boys and their fathers and mothers do not want this military training forced on the boys; they've had enough of the World War, If I am not mistaken, Gov. Miller had military training discontinued in the high schools. Is there any reason why the same should not be done at the College of the City of New York? Why prepare these boys tn mill- tarism? So we can help England and France? Haven't we had enough of these parasites? Will they ever be satisfied? No! Never! This military training should be done a-vay with In the College of the City of New York. The boys don't want it. The mothers don't want it. J. RICE. New York, July 17, 1923, “The Black Tulip," and ‘Margaret of Anjou." He was very extrava- gant and wasted his entire fortune so that when his powers began to fail him he was at the mercy of his cred- {tors. Crushed and broken hearted, he died a wretched old man, in even Sreater penury than at the beginning of his career. From the Wise Woman's heart is like the snow: once sullied, it becomes mud. —G, de Cherville. Life is vain. A little hope, a little hate and then good night. —Alfred de Musset. Truth ts like the dew of Heaven; to preserve its purity it must be gathered in a clean vessel. Voltaire ON FIRM GROUND. ILLIAM ALLEN WHITE has raised his disagreement with Gov. Allen of @ansas from the comedy level where it started. Mr. White's withdrawal of the sympathy placard and his advice to the unionists to with- draw theirs pending the trial of his case is an example of clear and straight-to-the-point think- fog. Mr. White is appealing to the courts as a means of nullifying a bad law. Once the test is under way, abide by the law until the courts have decided, i Mr. White {s pointing the way that labor might Detter have taken earlier in testing the law in the “Twenty-two up-State delegates call on Mr, Hearst.” courts rather than by strike. g ‘ide glance end looks Gown, B. Gov. Allen has himself delivered the most de- oa, ‘ 70uN Kane An observing citisen says that the tarpayers are nover represented before the Board of Estimate, Nor anywhere else. ° The cost of Government ts the cost of indifference, . It te reported that the bean crop ts Boing retned by mold, Gue to the damp weather. How, then, shall we refresh our ontellecte? Hissoner may not be much of a Mayor, but he is certainty @ talented politician. . The “Other Side.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: All Prohibition articles In your paper favor booze. You give but one side of the question—the bootlegger’s sidé— ever mentioning the great good that the Prohibition Act has brought. ‘To be honest with your subscribers