The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1922, Page 22

¥ ee ORTON SIE % ‘ f i ; ; a ae nay ee cay JOSEPH PULITZER. "ho Nena Pyblishing ie Fark Row, Soe CBS Whom J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurery PH PULITZER, Secretagy, 63 Park Row. ing, Park Ro’ Money, Order, Bsc Post Office Oude tion Books Ov. WEDNESDAY, AUGH'ST 9. 1028, bic oce in SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Post Office at New 88 Becond Cl ter. Fomee Hoo tats United ‘states, Ptalde Grmtes Net bees Six Months One Month $5.00 $85 6.00 100 BS 4b 338 Werld Almanse for 1023, 38 cet ta; by mail 60 conta. BRANCH OFFICES. REE: Bimey,.cor seta. | Ny ae, ‘Wyatt Bide ‘DETR UT, 621 Ford Bide i pCHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bide = 9 Neale PARIS 47 Avenue de Lopers MEMBER OF THE [ASSOCIATED PRESS. pags coat "i news Geopacches ty ite a ft Ge noe otherwise encdived Paper, and also the joc: 's published herein. A RUN OF THREE. UPERSTITION Itolds that calamitous events ‘tend to run in segjuences of threes. New York hopes this will proveg.true in the case of drunken policemen running :trouck. In as many days ave have had reports of three hooch-crazed police aien making trouble for peace- ably inclined and | ew abiding citizens. A drunken Policeman is worse than the average drunk be- cause policemen ape chosen and trained for com- petency in comlgit. In addition to physical equipment they Ipa.ve the weapons of their trade. The ordinary citizen hasn’t much chance when a cop goes wrong. One of the pchicemen has a police trial record of a previous ‘gonviction for drunkenness. The records of the sother two should be made public to show what ‘kind of men Chief Enright keeps on his force. “The police force is no place for a Man prone to ‘intoxication. Three ins'pnces of public disturbances by hooch-crazed cops do not mean that the other 10,000 polic:y.nen are to be judged by these three bad exampl gs. But unless the Commissioner im- poses rigor gus discipline—including dismissal— on erring igiembers it will reflect on the leader- ship of thg department. The friaizy inducing qualities of Prohibition ; booze majxe it more necessary than ever that policemegy and liquor should not be permitted to mix. It fis about time for the annual story of the clope ment of an heiress and her swimming in- stretor. Safety first suggestion for parents: Keg ‘em away from the life guaré TRY THE PEPSIN CURE. STORY in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post deals with a two-family quarrel in a dead-and-alive country town. ‘Whe son of the Judge clainis that his father had most to do with establishing the character Of the town. The son of the banker makes the game claim. A son of the town returning after a long ab- sence and seeing the town in a larger view can't set that either has much to beast of. So he sets up as a third candidate the over-economical vil- laye baker who saved as much gas under the ovens as was possible. The iesult was bread, the erygt well cooked but with the heart of the loaf heavy and soggy. This caused community in- digestion. and this common malady in turn led toa moribund condition of growth and develop- meni» Other towns went ahead because they had bettey bakers. Tire idea is capable of wider application. We wond sr, for example, how much of Prohibition- ism, Blue Law fanaticism and the censorship complex is due to improper cooking. It is sig- nificant that the typical conception of the Blue Lawyer might also be used for the “before tak- ing” «advertisement of a “stomach complaint” remedy; How many, we wonder, are opposed to one kind of fermentation in fruit juices solely or largely because another kind of fermentation is responsible for personal bodily discomfort Tariff making seems to be just one scandal after emother. IN RESTRAI.IT OF TRADE. NE of the real leaders of the Republican Party is Reed Smoot. He is next in rank to the already discredited and defeated Chair- man McCumber of the Senate Finance Commit- tee. Senator Smoot is an able individual and he knoavs just exactly what he wants. Reed Smoot is the Sugar Senator. It is this Smoot who calmly admits that he hopes and expects sugar will seli at a higher price in this country. To this end he is willing, even anxious, that Cuban growers restrict production to force higher prices. As an inducement he offers “support” for a lower tariff than he other- wise would favor. In other circumstances the law prohibits such practices. A punishment is provided for “gen- tlemen's agreements” to restrict production and $0 restrain competition. Probably the penal laws cannot be applied in this case. Nor is it to be expected that Utah voters will punish Smoot. [le is representing the Utah beet sugar industry. The blame must be placed with the Republicin organization that tolerates and defends such a raid on the sugar barrel. NOT THIS TIME. FTER a break « than a: third of a the the more year, operators and bituminous coal miners are ready to talk terms. There is a prospect of early resumption of work on practi- cally the same terms that the miners would have been willing to accept last March As a practical matter, it is to be hoped that be concluded speedily, that mines will be reopened that the railroads the wage agreement will will be able to supply cars for the movement of a record-breaking output of cowi In connection with the peace negotiations there is some talk of the creation of an “advisory committee” to settle disputes without strikes. And that, too, is all well cnough as far as it goes. But it does not go anywhere near far enough. When an advisory committee has had its say, the old conditions are likely to persist. Too many mines, too many miners, irregular employment, wages too high for day work and too low for annual earnings wil’ persist as sources of future trouble in the coai fields and of exces- sive prices to consumers. Surely by this time the public has learned the lesson that coal supply is a public utility; that it is amenable to control and regulation as a mat- that the public pays for continued anarchy in mining and transportation; ter of public policy; that basic reforms intelligentiy considered and fairly administered are esser to a condition of lasting peace and economical production. The coal operators and the mine leaders are getting together not because of pity for the public or because they realize an obligation to serve the public. They are getting together because they see opportunity for mutual profit and because they had rather get together for a truce than to have the Government reduce their war powers by drastic and radical legislation. The situation sizes up in ths way: The coal reserves are gone. The operators have sold at advancing prices all the coal in reserve when the strike was called. With smal! reserves they see every prospect of continuing bigh prices and a good demand for all the coal that can be mined before next spring. They can now afford to pay the wages they refused to pay last spring, be- cause the public has been scarea into a properly submissive mood. The public will pay and be thankful to keep warm at any price A settlement is equally good policy for the After lay-off, there is every reason to expe-t regular work for most of the men belonging to the union. The check-off is preserved and the union can con- tinue to collect dues from mere men than ought to be employed in the industry While the men have been on strike the union leaders have not been advising the surplus mem- bership to look for other jobs and drop the union. Not at all. That would have meant a smaller treasury balance for the union and the hierarchy of heads. An occasional strike isn't bad for the union leaders. Jt may not be a losing proposition for the operators. The losers are the idle miners and the consuming public No patched-up truce of mutual advantage be- tween union leaders and operators should serve this time. The game was played too far. No “advisory committee” in the industry ought to be allowed to prevent a thoroughgoing national readjustment that will get down to fundamentals and by some system of licensing, taxation, super- vision or regulation get rid of the basic evils that permit the operators to fatten on the public and the union leaders on the union members union leaders. a third of a year ACHES AND PAINS The “did Roosevelt swear!” controversy continues, Again, what of it? “How now, you swear, Friar John, said Ponocrates in a dialogue of Rabelais. “It is only,” said the monk, “but to grace and adorn my speech; they are colors of a Ciceronian rhetoric.” . See the fine lady leading @ pup Nowhere to go and all dressed up! * A prominently displayed advertisement announces that there is plenty of alebhol for erternct se. The vacuum, we believe, is interna?. . France's greatest care seems to be Poincare! . The Fascisti are the Ku Klux of Italy. * The purblind mole Lives in a hole, And when you try to capture lin Ho pulls the hole tn after biy . The platypus in the Zoo has yatned ten ounces in weight since he America, He is a greedy thing and eats half his own avoirdupois every day. JOHN KEETZ. arrived in - oe opemerT THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, FOIL AERP be NR sonst AN Oy ime 1922. “You Tickle Me, I’li Tickle You. By John Cassel right, 1922, (New vor’ tng World) uy. Co. by Pre From Evening World Readers, What kind of letter de you find most readable? I[en’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exer © eay much in few words. Take ind a lot of satisfaction in tryin# time to be brief. If Wishes Were Cracks— To the Editor of The Evening World: Some time ago the undersigned happened to see in your paper thay W. H. Anderson, Superintendent of, Anti-Saloon League, wanted lots of money because he said the A. 8. L. was cracking. I would like to put another erack in it WET VET. Staten Island, Aug. 6, 19 The Sentority Question. To the Editor of The Evening World The railroad executives at their meeting Tuesday, Aug. 1, flatly re- fused President Harding's plea for a settlement. They have taken their stand on seniority, but when we con- sider the railroads’ scheming and un- lawful method of farming out their work to contractors during last year, throwing thousands of their former employees out of employment, a glar- ing injustice and an effort to thwart and defeat the Transportation Act. Note also the arrogant and despotic action of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in discharging men over forty-five years of age, who are far more competent and efficient to do the work than young, inexperienced men. Is it any wonder that men who are discharged under the above condition: are dissatisfied and a reaction occurs Brooklyn, Aug. 4, 1922 M. B reveat editorial praise Senator, Charles ©. vice and conclude with: ‘New York can ill spare Senator Lockwood, but it would be ungrateful to grudge him time for business and family." Here is one of the sources of our troubles—that anable and honsst man can make a better living by going into business for himself or serving some corporation than by serving the pub- ite, If the public would (like the suc- cessful corporation) pay fair compen- sation to their able and honest ser- vants, keep them In office and pro- mote them, discharge and punish the neglectful and dishonest ones, we would have a better Government. In your tasue of July 12 there was a news item stating that a seventy-one: yeur-old man, who for the third time was led to a cell in Sing Sing, sald’ “I'm us well off hore as 1 would be outside at my uge."’ Here ts another source of our troubles, As long a8 people are as well off in prison as you Lockwood's ser- they are when fres they cannot be blamed for taking a chance of getting omething easy by committing crimes. Prison xhould not be a place of hor rors and torture but outside should fanse that they are down and out cout aby ‘ that tn prison, ‘The old saying that everybody who tvellhood better than d work is tommy- wants to can get E y rot. After the war the industries in| y were at a standstill - ; ‘ged their employees by the thousands and Uncle charged his soldiers by the millions How could it be expected that those men who had earned only a meagre ying could start in business and compete with old established firms? It was impossible. The result was that those young men we had called our heroes were called bandits, &c. Those young men made the world safe for democracy. Now let us make it fit for democracy to live in. It surely 1s not fit when honest and cap- able men cannot afford to serve the country for pecuniary and health rea- sons, nor when people are just as satisfled to live in jail as to be free There is something wrong, and I re spectfully suggest that a Jaw be passed compelling all employers to give from a week to a month's notice to the Government, as well as to the employees, before discharging them (disobedience, gross neglect and a small percentage excepted), and time of notice according to percentage dis- charged; also employers should, as far in advance as possible, notify the Government of help wanted. The Government should then, when an overflow of labor is in view, encour- age developments and improvements and even go so far us to employ the thugs, overflow of iabor. Wages and work- {ng conditions nhould also be regu- ated GEORGE W Jersey City, Ayg. 4, 1922 MOHR Why @ New Bridget To the Editor of The Evening World Why all this talk of a new bridge to relieva the Brooklyn Bridge? If this new brilge really materializes it will Plunge the people of New York into taxes above their means. Brooklyn Bridge is as sound as it ever has been except for propaganda talk spread by people, who feel it would be for their interest to have this plan put into force. The mafority of the people ridicule the idea of a new bridge to’ help the traffic and other crowded conditions “as reported’’ on the Brooklyn Bridge at the present time. When the leaders who havo started this movement see its effect on the people the talk will be immediately dropped so that they can keep ulong with the home rule of the people, NE OF THE PEOPLE Aug. 6, ride To the B ning World The report about the Brookyn Bridge being unsafe is all a take. { have been a bridgeman for forty-two ars and I claim the old bridge {x the best. The worst one ts the Will jamsburg Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge will outlive all of them, as . UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) * NOTHING BUT WORK. White House that plans included nothing but It was recently announced from the President: Harding's vacation work, This is a good thing to remember when one gets to envying the occupant of a high office. Once in the service of the people, and in an important position, a man ceases to be master of his hours. They be- long to his employers, who number in the case of the Presi- deney some hundred millions of people. The concern of those people becomes his concern. If their peace or their prosperity is threatened by a great strike, there is no rest for the man at the head of the Nation until the strike is settled. Tf foreign affairs become complicated and a situation arises that may lead to misunderstandings, and possibly to war, no vacation is possible till they are straightened out Any man holding a very great or important job exn never get very far away from it; Questions arise that he alone can settle. Men in lesser offices refuse to take responsibilities that belong to the man in the greater office. Whether he is at home or seeking some sort of rest in the mountains or the seashore, every considerable happening in the country must be reported to him. Hundreds of thousands of people aré always seeking to see him for one reason or another, must see some of them every day. His mail alone-is a task that would stagger an ordinary business man, and it must be attended to, wherever he hy up pens to be It is a laudable ambition to aspire to be at the head of a nation, but no man who is not willing to work harder than he has ever worked in his life before should harbor any such aspiration. Through the whole term of office there can be no rea! vacation—no getting away from wear: an ordinary man can sometimes enjoy, It often happens that men with no particular eagerness for heavy labor are elected to important office, But, once elected, they have no choice but to serve, and serving the people is the hardest work that any man can do—-and usually the most unsatisfactory, tae 0 pete AAA AAAAACASAAAY AARP ARAAAAA AAA rrr’ and wherever he is hi ng routine—such as you cannot duplicate her towers. These towers are good for 500 years. Where they need a bridge is from From the Wise Most people would succeed in South Brooklyn to the Battery, which would relieve the old bridgo| mall things «f they were not from a big load. troubled with great ambitions. You can take {t from me this is Sree nothing but a money-making affair. I have helped build bridges from New York to Frisco and I know what I am talking about. Or run a tunnel from South Brook- lyn to New York. Connect ft at South Brooklyn with a tunnel to Staten Island, [f this Commissioner of Bridges. knew his business he wouldn't say what he has, [ sup- pose they need the dough. JOHN O'BRI Now York, Aug. . Ex- Bridgeman. 6, 1922. There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. J. H. Vincent The trouble with men of sense ts that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while Dov ee. Display is like shallote where you can see the muddy bot- tom.—Alphonse Karr. 4 water, Unwieldy China By Maubert St. Georges Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening Pu Oo. WOMAN. As with everything else tn China, the position of women has been an In- comprehensible mixture of the high and lowest standards, This contra- diction 1s due, as usual, to the inability to carry any theory into ractice. Confucius taughi that from the Emperor to the lowest commoner the wife of each was his equal. In fact the relation of husband and wife Is considered by him as being in the class of brothers. Another thing showing the absolute theoretical equality between man and wife is the fact that a woman is allowed to re- tain her own name. She ts supposed to keep her individuality and not ber come just a dependent of her hus- band as is the case with us. Finally, both theoretioally and practically in this case, theres the proverbial filial piety of the Chinaman. No one who has ever travelled through China can possibly doubt it. The country is crowded with monuments vaunting the extreme devotion of some son or Chinaman’s daughter. Were these the true facts instead of the theory, women in China would be in an ideal position. But, alas, real- ity is very different. Though nomi naliy equal in the house the wife is practically always dominated by the mother-in-law, and by the grand- mother if she still lives. This equal- ity is also challenged by the open practice of concubinage. The hus- band, too, though he is expected to treat his wife with due respect, never- theless holds the whip hand over her because of the ease with which he can obtain a divorce. Barrenness, lasclvi- ousness, disrespect toward her hus- band’s parents, talkativeness, thiev shness, temper or infirmity are the seven grounds for the putting away of wives. Finally, the tatal lack of education, which was purposely insisted on, the absolute segregation of sexes which forbade all social intercourse, and the binding of feet which placed women at such a physical disadvantage, brought things to a stage where the true merit of women was forgotten and where they became scarcely more than chattels. With the advent of poverty the sale of daughters into slavery became recognized us an ordi nary method of raising money In those places where Western civil ization has penetrated, some of the thitigs have vanished. Mootbindin, diminishing, se stion hus ces and education 1s quickly spreading. With these changes the women are rapidly becoming impatient at the old restraint. The cry for suffrage which started with the Revolution was dropped in 1912. But their fight for education and against concubinage and slavery has been so effectively and courageously carried on that tt is bound to be successful in the end And it is not only for themselves that these modern Chinese women are striving, but also for r for a strong and unifi pendent and free from and preju: ex that ut holding it buck If China finally reaches that stag will be most of ull to the efforts of her women tha the achievement will be duc a ( th When You Go to the §&, Museum | A HORSE SHAPED LIKE A. WHIPPET. Another ancestor of the extinct Ainerican horse bequeatfied his bons in the Bridger Badlands + Wyoming. Walter Granger of tl Museum of Natural History exped tion of 1906 dug the skeleton up, anc contributed a distinet link to the chain )f evolution that finally produced the horse as we know him between the shafts of an almost equally extinct hansom cab. at animal was about the size of a whippet. It resembled in size and proportions some of the pygmy ante- lopes, called duikerboks, of South and East Afric But this little chap, yielding to the conditions of life, had already begun to shape his teeth to the cropping of short gr the pruirle, and Ia (¢ nd feet one toc short of his - four-toed fore feet The hoof that supports the body of — | the modern racehorse as he gallops r the track was in process formation in a period before man came | along. of ! ——E WHOSE BIRTHDAY ¢ AUG. 9--FRANCIS SCOTT KEY was be » Mary- land, and died in Balti- 1842, After com Saint in Frederick County Aug. 9, 1780, Md., Jan. 11 his studies in more, John's College, Annapolis, he studied law and entered upon the practice in Preder ick City, Md. His ability soon recognized and he was appointed Dis- trict Attorney at Washington, D. When the British invaded Maryland, in 1814, a planter by the name of William Beanes was made a prisoner. Key, upon learning of this, resolved to secure his release, but in the at- tempt was taken prisoner himself and detained on a British man of war. It was while he was confined there, dur- ing the bombardment of Fort Me. Henry, that he wrote the famous ay r-Spangled Banner," inspired ty the sight of the American flag whieh tit the fort after the night's heavy bombardment. James Lick of California gave $60,000 to build a monument in memory of Key which was erected {n 1887 {n the Gade den Gate Park, San Franetace, pleting hung over