The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1919, Page 22

“Ywyf SYS he ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | Published Daily Except Sunday by tho Frees Publishing Company, Nos. 68 th w, New FE LT er rascent So Rome aw JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Ba es ee el ‘SVOLUME 59. wes -NO, 21,028 NEW YORK’S FUTURE FIRST. 8 every project for the building of tunnels, vehicle or freight, to connect New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River to be viewed solely in the light of suspicion that special interests ate seeking to profit by it? Or has a New York-New Jersey tunnel system some claim to be considered from the point of view of the development and future of the Port of New York and an increase of commerce, business and pros- perity among the 10,000,000 people of this great metropolitan area? *= Up at Albany yesterday Senator Bernard Downing of Manhattan turned 0 distrustful eye on the Hudson River Vehicle Tunnel Bill: : “Putting all the tunnel appeals together makes me wonder if there isn’t a big real estate deal on somewhere in the neigh- borhood of Canal and West Streets, Manhattan, and in the old Horseshoe section of Jersey City, where real estate values are pretty low, These are the points the vehicle tunnel would * connect, : “When bankers and real estate men vociferously favor @ project, it is my custom to look for an ebony gentleman in the cordwood.” ; ‘A shrewd custom, no doubt. On the other hand, how many public improvements would this or any other community have to siiow if each improvement when proposed had been turned down the moment somebody raised the cry that private persons or interests might benefit? Asa matter of fact, the New York-New Jersey tunnel plan offers no exceptional allurements to real estate speculation. The strips of land which the tunnels themselves would take are small, while the experience of this city has not gone to show that either tunnel entrances or bridge approaches raise the values of adjacent and nearby realty to realize the hopes of operators, ‘The distrust with which Senator Downing and others profess to vigw the tunnel project should itself be viewed in light of the fact chat there is active at Albany @ robust lobby for the older project of a Hudson River bridge. As between the two plans, the weight of argument from experi- erie, cost, convenience and speed of construction is strongly on the side of the tunnels. + Those who want a bridge over the Hudson admit that it would e to have a single 3,000-foot span, with @ clear height of 250 feet above the river, in order to allow for the increase in the size of ships. When the Leviathan draws thirty feet of water, the top of her mast is, 211 feet above water line. There are only 133 feet under the Brooklyn Bridge. To withstand wind pressure, a Hudson River bridge 250 feet high would have to be built twice as wide as the Brooklyn Bridge. The approaches at either end must necessarily be enormously ex- tended, In any part of Manhattan such a colossal bridge approach would overtop and darken a considerable slice of the city. engineers are of the opinion that a Hudson River bridge could not be safely built south of Fifty-seventh Street, it would only indirectly relieve traffic congestion in downtown Manhattan, where such relief is most needed. ‘A bridge of the required type across the Hudson would cost at Yeast $75,000,000 and take many yeare to build. + On the other hand, it is estimated that $75,000,000 would build ix tunnels under the Hudson, build them exactly where they are most needed, and build them in far shorter time. Some of these tubes gould be used for freight, others for trucking and vehicles. Hach could be so located as to play the most directly eflicient part in facili- tating the enormous movement of traffic and freight eastward and westward between Manhattan and New Jersey, so much of which must now depend on lighters. The fact that Theodore P. Shonts, President of the Inter- borough, has made use of most of the above arguments in advocating ‘Whe tunnel plan need not weaken their validity or cast suspicion upon Lhe project they aim to advance, It would be quite impossible to suggest either tunnel or bridge ‘dt any point where transit or real estate interests of one kind or another would fail to see some manifest advantage to themselves. If the coldness or hostility of such interests is to be made the Aegt which proves the soundness of any given plan, New York is tfety to wait a long time before it finds itself linked more closely | @ith New Jersey. Growing realization that the Port of New York must make haste to get out of the back-number class if it is to compete for commerce in the immense revival certain to come with settled peace has led to the proposal for “a treaty between the States of New York and New Jersey for the comprehensive development of the Port of New York.” nn Legislative Commissioners representing both States have ap- proved the proposal. The approval of this city, followed by action of the Legislatures of both States and of Congress, will mean the creation {a port authority capable of tackling on broad lines the job of bringing traffic facilities in New York Harbor up to twentieth century piandards. i With this great purpose the New York-New Jersey tunnel project is intimately bound. ¢ + Both should be appraised not by the special reasons a few men amay have for supporting them but by the open and increasing benefits they can be shown to promise to ten million Americans and their descendants in helping the Port of New York to a commercial ascend- Since EDITO RIAL PAGE Thursday, March 13, n the Interests of by roe rate bul (The New York Krening Woriy The Call to Colored| The Jarr Family Chil By Sophie dren Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by the Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) A Newspaper of Reconstruction newspaper called Our Boys and designated as a medium through = which the budding gen- fuses of the negro race may express them- I HAVE been reading an eight-page Girls, This paper is permeated with the spirit of re- construction, It tells of boys and girls who have made good in several practical means of livelihood, as well as music and literature. The editorial sounds the big note in the interest of these colored chil- dren, “To ignore our children is to be indifferent to the progress and best interests of our race, Any scheme of racial betterment which does not take children into consideration is bound to fall, “Persons who are intercsted in racial solidarity will surely fail in their endeavors unless they see to it that the negro boys and girls of to- day think differently from the negro youths of other generations, Human beings are what their thoughts make them. “Our children must be made to realize that a’ members of the great dark-skinned family known as the negro race they have duties to per- eewie inere Lom form, ‘They must be made to un- derstand that they can best serve themselves by proudly and whole- heartedly serving their race. The trend of the time is certainly indicative of betterment all along the line, especially in the direction of the colored people. Neither white nor black men have yet forgotten the thrill of the home-coming colored troops, whose feats of fighting must prove a big incentive to the colored children who will be told the history of these black “hell fighters.” They will be inspired with the one big lesson that has been learned in this connection— that, given opportunity, the colored brother will take his place in the world’s work, in peace as in war, The big thing Is to give him the ae verity of its natural advantages, its opportunities and ite am- opportunity and the chance he seeks to make good, In order to make himself fit to play his part well, the fine effort being made in the direction of the colored boys and girls is surely to be commended, That this new effort in wisely directed in the interest of proper education and practical les- sons is voiced in the first-page letter and girls: ‘Dear Boys and Girls—Do you realize tht you are to be the future men and women of our race, and that what we older folk are doing now to Improve conditions and to uplift our race you will be called on five, ten, twenty years hence to do, but In a more intelligent, effective and prac- tical manner, because you will have had @ larger training and oppor- tunity for mental development than many of us who are now trying to show you the great need and valuo of education have had? “Cultivate your minds, read, think and make up your minds to be somebody in the world and remem- ber that ‘he can who thinks he can,’ and you can rise to any height to which your ambition soars if you will read and study good books and ponder over the useful and practl- cal lessons which these books teach. “The greatest thing in the world except love is education of the right sort, and by the right sort I mean education that broadens the mind, develops the intellect and the rea- soning powers, and makes you sce with clear vision and think sanely and rationally about things. “Bach one of you possesses some innate power, some particular talent or gift for doing some particular thing better tan gome other boy or girl.” ‘4 Nothing need be added to this en- deayor toward rec@nstruction, except that the white man give his helping hand ip the direction of opportunity for his blac her, > From an Inventor's Note Book. Spain ts building the largest eon- crete ships in the world, one of 6,000 tons having been Jaunched recently. The motions of an automobile in running pump oil from a new device between the leaves of the curs springs. occare Beacoant dwellers in one region in France claim to prevent seasickness by filling thelr cas with vaseling By Roy L. Copyright, 19 oe ELL, he's out of the navy W and he looks fine,” sald Mr, Jarr, knowing the husband 1s always welcomed home when he comes bearing gossip. “Jack Silver?” ventured Mrs. Jarr. “Yes. How did you know I was speaking of Jack? A lot of fellows are getting out of the service.” “Well, I saw you looking at the silk umbrella with the gold and smoked pearl handle that Clara Mudridge- Smith left behind her the last time she called here,” sald Mra, Jarr. “But I ciun't see how my looking at her umbrella would make you think that I was thinking of Jack Silver,” said the puzzled husband. “Well, in the first place, I knew you wouldn't think to tell me anything un-/ less something very strongly reininded you of it, You knew, of course, that was Clara Mudridge-Smith's umbrella, because I can’t afford one like that—it cost fifty dollars if it cost a cent and I feel sure Clara is going to lose it.| When you saw it you didn’t think of her, because you know I see her often, but you thought of Jack Silver, who might have been her husband"—— “Only he escaped,” said Mr. Jarr, completing the sentence. “Yes, and a sorry man he is about it now,” replied Mrs Jarr. “Well, thore's her umbrella, and if she doesn't come for it or send for St I'm going to put it away 90 It won't be stolen, then she'll forget where she left it and get an- other one. Of course, If she has an- other she won't need this ono, so I'll just keep it, That's the same as find- ing it, Although J could never carry it anywhere that she may be. Oh, dear! what's the use of being honest?” “But will that be honest?” asked Mr, Jarr. “What else will jt be?” was the re- ply. “You don't think I'd deliberately take her umbrella? But suppose she left it somewhere else and never saw itagain? Well, mightn’t I just as well have it?” “Don't you think she'd give it to you if she knew you wanted it?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Do rich people ever give you any- thing?’ asked Mrs. Jarr in return, “No, they patronize you and tell you their troubles, and expect you to run errands for them and get u scrapes for them, and then they repudiate you and blame you and tell people how kind they've been to you and how little you appreciate it But they give jy nothing—except, perbaps, some , by the Prew Publishing Co, It’s Very Curious How Curious Curious People Are McCardell (The New York Evening Work.) old thing they know they'd insult their servants with if they offered it to them. “But explain the Sherlock Holmes deduction that I was reminded of see- ing Jack Silver because my gaze res'ed on his former sweetheart's silk um- brella,” said Mr. Jarr. he's such a fool, she’s always talk- ing of Jack Silver, even if she did} marry another,” replied Mrs. Jarr. ‘So I knew her umbrella would remind you of iim. Don't you remember tow sur- prised I was when Madame Zin, the gypsy sceress, told me Mr. Pinkle was a married man separated from his wife, when we had known him for ten| and thought him a bachelor? “Well, he went with Cora Hicxetr, when he had been keeping company with her for eight years, to see Mme. Zingara, And she said to him, ‘You are married and can't get a divorce,’ Cora Hickett had known it ail the] time, but she and Mr. Pinkley were astounded that Madame Zingara knew. But, a» Madame Zingara sald to me, ‘What would a man and woman, both over twenty-five, come to an astrolo- ger together for If it wasn’t there was some REAL thing like that to pre- vent them from being married? It wasn't the woman that was married, I could tell that, so 1 knew It was the man,’ Madame Zingara said.” “Why did she know it wasn’t the woman who was married?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Because the man would pay her ex- penses while she went to Keno for six months and got a divorce, but a man is generally in business and can't go away that long.” Mr, Jarr held his hand to his head. It was all too deep for him “When is Jack Silver coming up to see us? I'll drop a hint to Clara,” Mrs, Jarr inquired. “Why, surely, you wouldn't bring them together here? Think of the scandal!" remarked Mr, Jarr. “I don't see where there'll be any scandal,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “I should be the judge of that. Don't old sweet- hearts meet fain every day?" “But it might make tulk,” sald the proper Mr. Jarr. “Good gracious!” ered Mra Jarr. “am 1 to sit alone in the house and see nothing of what is going on in the world? Won't it be much better for them to meet here, where I can worn them against anything foolish, such as crossing each other's paths again? Are| Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) You Know How It Ist I just want to sit In a pitch dark room, And gloom and gloom, and gloom and gloom! And I don’t care what happens To me—or YOU! Or whether the League Of Nations goes through, Or WHAT the Bol— Sheviki do! I've got the “flu"—— I'VE GOT THE “eLUI" sband appears to be just N the life of the modern successful woman, a bu: ] a “temporary weakness.” When Prohibition comes, and the “corner cafe" closes, a woman will no longer Suspect that there's ane other woman in the case, whenever her busba jtaye sn out late evenings—she'll KNOW it! a ‘ a few young No use painting the beauties of Natur girl nowadays, unless you can Paint in men in uniform in the foreground, e to a young \ " Reforms always hurt SOMEBODY. onaoanans Think of all the g (with starving families q eb Eve nilies) who will be thrown ut of a job, by Prohibition. And, if we ever DO get the Suffrage amend ment, Alice Paul, and her “little group of serious kickers” never have a nice, clean jail to get into again. “merry” in America, then? will never, Alas! Who'll put the ° After a bachelor has had the same solitaire returned t 0 him b; three different girls, he begins to look upon it as a ee “lucky stone.” The idealist thinks of his mission in life; the realist ot Lis commission. Sie ae How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, eta Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) |NO. 6.—HORATIO NELSON, Who Gave Britain the Ruler- | ship of the Seas. HE fate of England's finest war fleet and of England's naval prestige seemed doomed. It was the critical mo ment in a great sea fight. The time was Feb, 13, 1797. by the A British fleet, under Admiral Jervis, had just encountered a hostile Spaniss fleet off Cape St. Vincent. ‘The British ships num- bered fifteen; the Spanish twenty-seven, Jervis, adopting a favorite trick of his, drove a wedge through the Spanish line of battle, cutting it in two, The Spanish Admiral had been waiting for this move. For he had studied out @ counter-mov yo and smash ‘t. He signalled an order. Madore: At once the whole Spanish fleet manoeuvred in suoh the two broken halves together fleet. The English were neatly « no possible esceape. @ way as to bring and to encircle the bulk of the British ight in a trap, from which there seemed Several nations were Struggling in.those days for supremacy of the ‘eas. This impending crushing defeat threatened to put England out of the running. And there seemed no way to avert such defeat, Then it was that a one-eyed lit British Commodore took matters inte is own hands. He was Horatio Nelson—a man who was forcver getting into trouble for disobeying the orders of his incompe- Nelson { tent superiors and succeeding wh ‘ suc where they were abo Disobeys Orders.$ to fail. Nelson always h 5 5 on always had his own theories as to the way to m ke good. When those theories clashed with the man above him he followed out his own plans and Look me the commands the resulting Nelson, in the crisis of this present bat © proceeded to go agalmg niral Jervis's orders by dashing forward with @ single warship and ate cking the Spanish Ine at the point where it was just reforming, It chanced to be the one thing to do to save the day, Nelson's genius told him this, even though he had to risk court-martial and disgrace by doing it, His ship smashed into the newly-joined break of the Spanish line and shattered it He thrashed two Spanish ships—both larger than his « own—and gave the rest of Jerv fivet time to profit by his daring man- oeuvre, Not only did the B h escape from the trap, but they won @ tremendous victory over their stronger Spanish foes, All because one mam broke rules and d his own brain, Nelson paid dearly for his act of heroism, For, during the fight, one of his arms was shot off, (He had ulready lost an eye in an earlier sea fight.) For saving the day against the Spaniards he was promoted to the rank of Admira: : His next daringly original exploit was his handling of England's fleet against Napoleon's ships at the Battle of the Nile, By working out his own peewrnrnnrccep theories of war he destroyed the hostile fect, For Nelson H this he was raised to the peerage, Makes Good. Again, in 1801, he had another chance to lose @ Grrr ® battle by obeying orders or to win it by disobeying. He was ordered—as “second in command" to Admiral Parker—to sail against the Dunes at Copenhagen, The harbor of Copenhagen was heavily fortified and was, moreover, occupied by a strong Danish fleet, Parker attacked the harbor, ‘hen, seeing how mishty were the odds against 1 gave the signal to retreat, Nelson's attention was called Lifting a spygiass to his blind eye, he trained 4 Parker's Gaestin and announced to his officers” ned the glass os “I see no such sign di Then he drove his section of the fleet forward against the guns of the ! enemy and refused to turn back until he had won the battle By this time, Great Britain began to understand that Neison had an ime variable way of making good. And he was sent with twenty-six ships againet the thirty-four-ship French flect which was menacing Enyland with invaston, In battle with this larger foe, off Cape Trafalgar, Nelson won a victory which won for Engtind the sea mastery of the world—but at the cost of at gallant little Nelson's own life England's First Christian King, HE first Christian King of Eng-| pagan. ‘To increase his power he J land was St, Ethelbert, King of | married Bertha, daughter of the King Kent, Ethelbert reigned over|of Paris. Iis Queen was a Christian, Kent from 560 to nd he also held] and she brought with her to Eugland imperial sway over the other Saxon|a French Bishop, who held services monarchs as far north as the oanks| for the benefit of Bertha and her ate of the Humber. Like all his prede-|tendants in a small building near cessors on English thrones he was a|Canterbury, King Ethelbert was not pet — Very favorably impressed with bis py accident and perhaps do something] Wife's new-fangled religion and pre foolish? Besides, I'l have to stay in| ferred that of his fathers unt an the room with them for appe Italian missionary, st Augustine, are take and I'm just dying to bear what} tived in England, ‘The King and bls they have to say to each other, So I'd atalwart pagan warriors gave a better tell her he'll be here, so she 11) arly arasting. te the missionary, and irely drop in unexpectedly u ne soon convinced the Kents “Unexpectedly to whom?” asked Mr, | IR IAIng (hat Christianity was an le Jarr. bert was duly baptized, and the lesser “Oh, don't ask so many questions chiefs and common people soon fole , replied Mrs, Jarr, “You men are so} wod bis Ssarinle. HO Stans Ae the , curious about other people's affairs. religion of Christ thet on’ cae dae | we (o leave It to fate for them to uaect Jp slad Vim nett” 10,000 people were baptized.