The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1922, Page 22

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BRONX, 410 E. 140th St, Deer] CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bldg, 3d Aye, , ROORLYN, 202 Washington st.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opere. Bitnd aif koe St. LONDON, 20 Cockspur 6, * MEMBER OF THE ASSOCTATED FREES. ie eas ‘The ares, Press is exclusively entitl to the use republi- C ‘Dews despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in'this paper, and also the local news published hereto. SAFETY-VALVE MEETINGS. EPRESENTATIVES of the Allied nations are meeting at London in the latest of the long series of conferences since 1918. Many sneer at these meetings. They point to how little has heen accomplished in the past and how little is to be expected at London. Such remarks are generally true, but they are not the whole truth. The pessimists fail to con- sider the negative results of such meetings. While Europe has waited from one conference period to another the Allies have maintained some degree of solidarity. In many a historical example victorious Allies with less difference of opinion than exists between Britain and France have turned and fought each other. For more than three years the Allies have talked occasionally instead of fighting. The peace has been strained but has held. Confer- ence, talk, the safety valve of speech, has played its part. And mean time the inexorable logic of events has played its part in the performance. The views, the political issues, the prejudices of all the nations have been modified by passing events. Lloyd George is no longer hanging the Naiser. Poincare is blowing to keep up his courage and for political effect, but he has policies compara- ble to those that led to the fall of Briand. Talk is vindicating itself as a “cooling off” medium. But the volcano that is Europe takes a lot of cooling off—particularly where there is no temperate trade wind from across the Atlantic. OTHER SONGBIRDS TO SUCCOR. HREE crows—“‘and they were black crows could be’—having been shot in the White House grounds, the songbirds lately miss- ing from that vicinity may return now in safety. There is normalcy in the spacious surroundings of the Presidential residence. We should like to hear further news of the passing of birds of ill omen from their haunts in the Capitol City on the Potomac. Ravens that croak above the chamber doors of tariff com- mittees, vultures that wait prophetically to prey on the yield of Fordney-McCumber trade dere- licts, cuckoos that refuse to be driven from the hatching-nests of the Bonus Bills—are there no sharpshooters equal to the task of transferring these from the menace to the minus columns? The sweet singers of national safety, sanity and prosperity have been missing now a long time from the legislative reservation at Washing- ton. Signs of impatience over this fact are in- creasingly evident throughout the national do- main. If there are real marksmen in Congress they are reserving their shots on behalf of the songbirds till an hour painfully close to a new November election day as SECOND AVENUE’S NEW HIGH SCHOOL. N COMMON with the great Republic, its greatest city believes with Horace Mann in the indefinite improvability cf the human race and in education as the chie/ agency in this im- * provement belief in advertisement for bids on the construction of two large buildings in Second Avenue, O7th and O8th It is again evidencing the Streets, for the Julia Richnwin Tigh School The estimated cost of these structures alone ves essive testimony to the city’s faith in maintar an estended common-school educa- tion, But this is by no means all, It strives in- creasingly to make the ways of education attrac- ive hildren and helpiui to them as mem- bers of society The building fronting on the avenue is to be six stories high and to cost $55»,000, with offices, a natatorium and large swimming-pool and a gymnasium. ‘The main school building on the side sticcis is to be of five of $1,245,000. It will . ngs bank, a cafe- stories at an estimated cost contain the class-rooms, a teria to accommodate 900 ons and an audi- torium to seat 1,500 persons From the democratic state as such a school- master to the state in the first developments of the American common-school system is a far cry To provide a teacher and a gathering place, with- out text books, and rain and cold, was then in barely protected from the © common thought as much of public interference v9’ private and fam ily affairs as could’ be endured, and more than the sectaries and the gentry would have @ndured had they been able to prevent. But this ference’ goes on expanding and developin y exemplified on New York's east “inter- as here so striking side, and there is no one to make opposition or to question the bencficence of 1t all not only to the children but to our democratic society. ON THE MAIN LINE AGAIN. HE general merit of President Harding's latest plan for railroad peace is not affected by hasty and hostile criticisms from both parties to the dispute Mr. Harding proposes to 1efer the question of seniority to the Labor Board. Mr, Jewell calls this an “attempt to help the railroads break the strike.” Mr. Loree says the President “demands a complete surrender of the position of the rail- road Presidents.” The truth lies somewhere between. President Harding has finally got around to the position he ought to have been in some months before the strike occurred, Had he supported the posi- tion of the Labor Board then with the same language he now uses, the strike might never have occurred, President Harding now says what he should have said a week earlier at the latest. It is to be hoped that he will now hold to his position and rally public opinion to force a settlement on his own terms, A vigorous and forceful President of command- ing personality—Roosevelt or Wilson, for ample—would have no troubie in enforcing the present proposal no denying that President Harding weakened the prestige of his leadership when he threw the wrong switch a week earlier. But he is now back on the main line and deserves popular support. Vhe best possible outcome of the present strike would be a reaffirmation aid magnification of the powers of the Labor Board. So long as we have this agency acting in the name of the Nation its findings should be respected and obeyed. ex- There is had a haircut. Monkeys in ‘visit the barber. W. J. Bryan has the jungles never THE MERCHANDISE FAIR. we N the travelling salesman of a single mercantile establishment goes on the road with a line of sample trunks he calls on one or a handful of merchants to-day, pays railroad fare, hotel bills and baggage expenses and sees a few customers the next day ? In the course of a season many salesmen call on a retailer, and each call means a money ex- pense for railroad fare, hotel bills, baggage trans- fers andworst of all—lost time. Both buyers and sellers lose time. All this is charged to con- sumers iti the net of “overhead,” the spread of prices between producers and consumers This is the fundamental economic fact behind the merchandise fair in the Grand Central Palace In the long run it ought to be cheaper and more satisfactory for merchants to come to New York and buy in quantity than for salesmen to go out from New York and sell in dribbles. Manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers ought to be able to render better service in this way than by transporting huge sample lines. The chandise fair, expensive as it is to stage, should result in eventual economy to be passed on id the consumer. This is the immediate interest of the average man in the big wholesale shopping experiment now under way here. mer- ACHES AND PAINS Vow doth the Mighty fall again! Marcus Garvey, putative potentate of Africa, has taken unto himself Uganda and the Congo can breathe once She will absorb the millinery he has been using to garnish his chapeau and mitigate his mastery a wife more. of men . The British pictorials continue to portray Ambassa- dor Harvey in action at public functions. We notice hus developed a circular smile with a like that produced dropping a pebble vito a pond. that he facial effect something by . ve peer) Liovd George haa taken his pen in hand to tell us what now may ve told. Looks ominous. “My desire ¢ that mine adversary had written a book!” ejacu- uted Job, with no good will in mind for the adver sary afovesatd. ’ The common attribute of censors is luck of sense. . M. Poincare's poltey as a vill collector ix delicious. / Gallic. He seeks to shame the debtor by not pay tng the dues of France, Hope Germany will detect the wrist-stap, but have a doubt. The Teutons ave so dense. . Pity ‘tis that a blight should have fullen upon pie because of the villainous poisoning episode in a city estaurant. And of all pies that should have se. koted the most delectable—the blueberry! We elect to recite the refrain of an ancient comic song about the bashful swain who “put his nose in the b And sat ia the blueberry | Blueberry pie, oh, 9 He put his nose And sat in the biueber JOHN KRELTZ | THE EVENiNG WORLD, TU a From Evening World Readers Wh kind of ‘etter 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 me tal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying fo say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. e Vania To the Editor of The Who has noticed a very strange condition of our justly celebrated side walks—"the sidewalks of New York Few, I venture to say. 1 walked great many blocks, and, as 1am lame, must wateh my steps, so I am con- stantly looking down, and thus noticed that in all my walk 1 saw never hairpin Oh, you bobbed heads! you haye to answer for we poor bachelors get the replace our lost buttons? How much Where will material to A law should be passcd compelling our young hairle brainless and sometimes snappy flappers to in- vent something to take the place of our honored and beloved makeshite Pleasg give an assignment to some young reporter and instruct him te find out what the girls use now it stead of hairpins when they open balky doors, ete Scotty of Death Va to a block. He couldn't find one ir. twenty blocks now, Please look th's important matter up. JOHN HOL ey found twenty .Y WOOD. New York, Aug. 4 Soft Drink Profiteering. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World One of the evils of Prohibition is the encouragement it gives to profiteerin, in the sale of so-called soft drink especially in certain resorts, like those in Greenwich Vil One does not mind paying a high price in these places that serve liquor under a dis guise, since one realizes that the pro prietors are ne a risk in doing so, but one certainly does object t paying 50 cents for a small glass of seltzer not knowr water in resorts where one is Here the risks of Prohibition do not enter into juestion, for there is no law elling seltzer water ane other soft drinks, and there is no rea- son why one should pay such high prices for them simply beeause the proprietors do serve liquors to patrons they kt and enat them to thrive and grow rich with the ¢ ce of the igh teenth Amen The drys dout less approve them and of thet profiteerir he innocent public, since the owne of these resorts help to furnisl the minority that are in favor of the Volstead act! Poor Con- stitution United States, from what heigh ou not fallen! CYNIC, Brooklyn, A 2 1922. You tn Dark Ages. To the} Ryening World In ited July you print, 4 mperance We are not living in the Dark Ages now, when wire teldgri and other wonders are althost common- place, which in the olden days would have caused the de inventors as wizards The Prohibitionists, by their fanati- cism, have begun to destroy the re- ligion represented mainly by them by implying they know more than their Master, Jesus Christ, or at once show- ing us the not believe in Hi divinity If drinking these bigots assert), why did not Christ change the wine Qvhich was supplied at the beginning of the Mar- riage Feast) into water? The wine which it is claimed was made by Him proved to be more exhilarating than the first, thus showing it was wine, not grape juice, as these always trutn- ful (?) meddlers declare! Thinking people are searching fur- ther in that Book for evidence giving these meddlers authority to try and make this world a gloomy hell, ant the result of applying legal methods to the evidence (the name, address and characters of the witnesses 1n that story) and find tre evidence so lacking that fellows may have th by fire of the and witches! was such a curse (as these stirred a wasp's nest, and further in- vestigation make them go to work honestly to earn their livings. ‘These are not the Dark A as be. for uted, and this tuboo about re- ligious arguments by newspapers and others will, by the light of reason, have to be allowed, for it is a poor subject that won't bear discussion ot the light and proves it « “BROUGHT UP To the Editor of The Evening World Did you ever stop and ponder, And your thoughts begin to wander To the good old days when we had beer and wine? The bar, the rail, Are just a pass sublime! ten-cent pail, memory, Oh, ng How the boys at night would ramble Down to J mmy’s place and gamble, And play the old piano in the hall With voices loud and frisky, Drinking Jimmy's ten-cent whiskey, Sweet Adeline’ and other songs they'd baw1. If old George knew our condition Since his country went Prohibition, He'd grab his little hatchet with a rour. Volstead would get the devil, ‘Things would then be on the level, And we'd get our beer and wine for- ever more NAT Aug. 4, GILL, 1922 Newark, N. J Gasoline Pric To the Rditor of The Evening World On age I find an article stating “Gasoline Price Hearings" bogin next M y It may enlighten and amuse many learn that the further up ESDAY, AUGUST 8, New 1922, Copyrient w York vet by Press Pui. Co. mtg tere era UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (ce pyrigh| 2 by John Blake.) LUCK. This is an editorial on luck. It is not the usual assertion that there is no such thing Its purpose is to prove that there is luck in the world— plenty of it. Almost anybody can avail himself of it. Successful men have built fame and fortunes on it There is as much of it now as there ever was—more, in all likelihood—for there are more people in the world than there were in the times of our ancestors. The youth who is seeking luck need only to look about him—not much further than the next desk in the office or the next machine in the shop. There he will find a condition, in which he has had no hand, which gives him an opportunity to get ahead. That condition is the la being. It becomes his luck doesn’t happen to be la B motion is easy. Because more than half of the people in the world object to doing anything they are not made to do, the man who is willing to do things on his own initiative has a far better chance, If ev and his mself, It becomes his bad juck if he does happen to be laz3 use the man at the next desk or at the next machine doesn’t want to work very hard, his neighbor's road to pro- ve times the competition there is to-day. The industrious and intelligent business man is lucky because many of his competitors a nore effort than is necessary to hold their jobs. Energy and brains will go far to-day, and without much But that is because ener trouble tion are rare. Lucky indeed is the man who has them; but his luck consists largely in the fact that most men are willing to stand by and wateh him work- ness till they discover that they were the foolish ones, after all. aziness of the average human ry good luck—if he rybody in the world was up on his toes and doing everything he possibly could, there would be a thousand re inclined to take it easy. The youth beginning business is lucky beeanse the men who fill the positions he hopes to fill are disinclined to any gy and brains in combina- pitying him for his foolish | Blue Law Persecution HOW SOME FOLKS ARE TURBED." ‘The constable who arrested Mr. M. M. Jackson of Brighton, Ark., sald to him: "I will be disturbed as soon as I know you are working on Sunda: He much like the good woman who complained to some Sun- day ball players that they disturbed ber by playing on the block adjoining her house, The players then removed to another vacant lot several blocks But by going upstairs and ng her opera glasses the good wom- an could still observe the game, and again she complained that she was disturbed. Of course the disturbance was wholly mental. She felt that pla, ing bail on Sunday was wicked, and her moral sense revolted against i* This lady's state of mind was simt lar to that of certain of the Puritan in Colonial Massachusetts, The King of England ordered that one of the chapels in Boston be opened for wor- ship according to the ritual of the Episcopal Church. This order was Litterly resisted by the Puritan lead- ers, who asserted that they would be greatly disturbed by the knowledge that such worship was being conduct- ed in their colony. A number of people {n Colonial Vir- ginia were greatiy disturbed in ex- actly the same way by the Baptista, The latter held their simple worship and then, when there was occasion, repalred to some convenient atream rpose of celebrating the rite cf baptism. It seems that there wore seldom wanting “lewd fellows of the baser sort.” who by cat-calis, the throwing of bricks, stones, &c., dim- turbed the peace of the community. But instead of arresting the real cul- prits, the officers would arrest the Baptists and charge them with dis- turbing the peace. The charge made by the wolf thei lamb which was downstream om him muddied the water so that id not drink was not more ab- n is the claim that ordinary bIs- was very aw: t he surd Sunday work is any real disturbance that can be prohibited for any purely civil reason. Afier people have rested on the seventh day of the week, why should they be compelled to rest also on the first day of the week, provided th things they do are honorable and do cs not \interfere with the equal privi- leges of their neighbors Under the for the sake of the “public welfare” ind “safety of society’ termen have already rested on the seventh day of the week, they are being arrested and condemned before the courts for such acts as digging a mess of potatoes out of their garviens on the first day of the week for a Sunday dinner, They are being indicted for picking a few fresh, ripe tomatoes from their vines and a few luscious peaches and apples from their trees to set before their cueste at a Sunday repast. A Sabbath- keeping minister v arrested and up in prison for days because day he carried his pulpit from hurch to his gospel tent, a dis- tance of three blocks. All these things are done and defended under the “exercise of the police power of the State” for the public welfare and safety In the olden days, when people were extremely superstitious as well as re- t was customary, before ven- out upon the broad ocean, for the Voyagers to repair ta the chureh and commend their souls and the en- torprise to God for the general wel- fare and safety of all. The individual who neglected to repair to the chureh was regarded not only as a gracelesi wretch but as responsible for evel bad omen and misfortune which be- fell the voyagers on the way, and was punished accordingly, on the ground that he had, through his neglect te conform to the will of the Almighty, endangered the “public welfare and safety” as well as his own. History, informs us that this custom prevailed late as a hundred years ago tm almost all countries. Fines and imprisonment for a fail+ ure to observe Sunday and conform to that rest which the inhabitants of the graveyard have found, on the ground that the public welfare and safety of society demand it, is just as foreign and baseless as was the position of the old-time sea voy agers. : locked ons —_——— WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 198.—BISCUIT. Our use of the marks a wide divergen: word ‘*biscult™ ce from its use in the “mother-language If you ask a waiter in a London restaurant for an order of biscuits, as quickly as may ckers. If you ask he is very likely » at you and murmur apolo- lly, “Beg your pardon, sir?’ still have polite waiters t will bring you a plate of getic! fon) thes don. The origin the neh twice cooked But obviously American soda biscuit, is not twice cooked On tho other hund, in crackers are sold in ‘tins’ the bold sign, "Biscuit." Obviously the twice-cooked biscuit was culled a of the word combination biscuit uit, the for example, England bearing York State gasoline 1s. nd 26 cents, 28 cents bein est one goes the cheaper the It is selling for 2 cents g the high- Surely New York City, our Wonder y, being nearer to the stations than our country ¢ venders ought to be able low as 26 cents and make theirs. Haven't the gasoline station owners|the goddess of love, the courage to try it, or i distributi ousins, the to sell cents and still 8 it part of their contract to all ‘stick together’ ind put out the 30-cent shingle Isn't this a worth-while the thousands Jus A FORD New York Aug. 8, 1922. 2 cause for OWNER f “eracker"’ in America because it Copyright, 1932 (The In classic ‘yeina was mythology conferred the E derived from Mount situated in Maryland, on the Susque. “Matchless Orinda” was the fiatter-| hanna River where the P. 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