The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1920, Page 22

er ee eet ae ew one ee Set eae = —eeeteenssentnone ee 5 Te ts ema) ee eee eh eorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pubitehed Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 55 to 63 Park Row, New York. ; PULITZER, President, 6: ’ NGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 63 Park Row M_PULITZER, Jr., 8 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIA’ a 3088) : RSS, ‘The Associated Press is exctusively entitled to the use for republication 2 Gil news Gempatcnes credited to it or not otherwise oredited in this paper and also the local news published herein. A POSTMISTRESS GENERAL. HEN politicians advocate a Federal Depart- ment of Edacation, the Secretary to be a ~ woman and a member of the Cabinet. Why not?) Why so? i The Federal Government. is already committed to gn educational programme too comprehensive to re- main as a mere bureau of the Department of the In- terior. There is every probability that this new venture will continue to expand and will include the most valu- able part of any efforts toward “Am@icanization.” But this does not imply that the Secretary should— or should not—be a woman. There is no more reason that this department should require female leadership than that any other Cabinet office should be limited to men, ‘The best individual available, man or woman, should be chosen. The same applies to every other Cabinet place. If women aré anxious for Cabinet representation, we respectfully suggest that the Postmaster General: woman would be a desirable improvement on the pres ent incumbent. Why not a woman in the Cabinet now, without waiting for Congress to create a new department for her. Why not have a Postmistress General ? Prohibition Boss William H. Anderson doesn’t have to show why he would make a good Gavernor. Voters yearn to have him run on his record, just as he stands, ——————— ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLIONS. SIGURED at par, the value of the stocks traded in on the New York Exchange yesterday was $180,000,000. Can any one pretend that $180,000,000 of real \. money, or the part of it represented in actual values, was expended by investors? Of course not. It is simply another red-letter day in the history of the greatest yambling house in the world. by which the savings of the people and the fimances of the Nation are put in peril. How. much longér is the Federal Reserve Banking System to be allowed to be an adjunct to this reckless end unwarranted situation? How much longer can a country thrive upon margins and false values? FAIR RETALIATION. - ITH New York and Chicago committed to sum- mer daylight saving, it is obviously the proper thing for the railways joining the cities to adopt the summer schedule. The Pennsylvania has announced this policy, Comipeting lines probably will follow suit. Railway action will exert considerable pressure on the towns and cities which such railways serve. This suggests meaps by which the cities may very properly retaliate on rural constituencies which jammed through the repeal of the Daylight Saving Bill. In so far as rural objections were logical, they were purely selfish. Retaliation is entirely justifiable. * Mf urban railway centres generally save daylight, _¢ farmers may have to revise their schedules to fit the timetables, whether they like it or not. This they , could have done with less inconvenience and eonfusion had the national law been preserved. Rural schedules always are in process of revision, because farmers can- not control the weather, even though Congress is amenable. PROTECTION IN PSYCHOLOGY. ERTAIN aspects of the revolling and horrible murder of Ream Constance Hoxie are strikingly similar to the tragedy in which’ Thomas Fitzgerald, a degenerate, "killed Janet Wilkinson of Chicago last July. Piagerald was convicted and executed, although it seemed highly probable that his mentality was of such low grade that he was scarce responsible for his acts. . Investigation developed that Fitzgerald had been under suspicign before and had a court record as the result of his perverted instincts. Justice Harry Olson of the Chicago Municipal Court, an authority on pen- ology and crimjnology in their relation to abnormal mentality, took the opportunity to urge again the wis- dom of having trained psychologists in the lower courts to protect society against just such half-human beasts as Fitzgerald and the murderer of Ream Hoxie, After the fact, the psychologists were able to take tests which, had they been taken in advance, would have revealed the degenerate tendencies in Fitzgerald's mental development. Justice Olson’s views are the result of long experi- ence and study and deserve serious consideration. He believes that the police court grist of petty criminals should be exainined by competent psychologists as aids to the Judge who must pass sentence. He believes that psychology is sufficiently developed as a science to warrant laws providing for the segregation of moral perverts before they have opportunity to commit such crimes as occurred at the Hoxie home. Many, if not most, criminals of this.type have police court records, Degeneracy is often progressive. If examined for a minor offense the dangerous tendency would be revealed and the succeeding major offense might be prevented. + ' | insure Protection. Now is the time for the Legislature, |the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Estimate to consult with the best authorities and provide for pre- | ventive measures. Pubic opinion would approve. INDIFFERENCE COSTLY. T WILL be a poor sort of Reconstruction that does not hasten to bring the Government of the United States back to a peace basis of expenditure. | The present trend is the other way. The Evening World Sent its staff correspondent, Martin Green, to Washington to’ study the Federal finances with a view to giving the public fuller infor- mation as to post-war programmes of money-spending. Mr. Green's first report on the facts at once shows how great is the need of such knowledge if the country is to be saved the costly consequences of protonging ; War outlay in a dozen directions and departments, } With the certainty of a Treasury deficit of $3,- 900,000,000 at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and the probability of another deficit ex- ceeding $2,000,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1924, taxpayers cannot take lightly such estimates as $1,208,000,000 for a war establishment afier the army | has been reduced to 280,000 men. | Taxpayers cannot afford to be indifferent as to the exact meaning of Such items as $72,000,000 for the =, ship would make a good place to go after. Almost any Department of Agriculture, $42,000,000 for the De- partment of the Interfor, $500,000,000 for the Ship- | ping Board, $42,000,000 for the Vocational Board and ' $12,000,000 for new Government buildings in Wash- ton. Before the war $1,000,000,000 seemed a high cost |for one year’s government of the United States, Is the war to leave behind it a fixed impression that billions must henceforth be provided, where millions sufficed before ? War creates bureaus whose business is to spend money. Bureaucracy once established and backed with unlimited funds clings to its power long after the need that called it into being is passed. It Will never will- jingly give up its offices and sell its furniture—not as long as it can find aid and influence to keep up the illusion that it is still useful. The country was never more in need of wise checks upon national expenditure. That need js the greater because the people of the United State$ have lost touch with their Government. Centralization of power for purposes of war re- moved executives and legislators further than they had ever been before from the influence of public watch- fulness and criticism. The public itself has not re- covered from the war habit of resigning authority and trusting its representatives with the full exercise of sovereign powers. There is danger now in this attitude. Nowhere is the danger greater than in public ignorance or indif- ference toward the continuance of Federal expenditure on a war scale, The American people can well afford to provide every dollar that is needed for reconstructive pro- gramithes the wisdom and practicality of which can be demonstrated. They cannot afford to assume more tax burdens and buy more bond issues in order that war byreaus may retain power and prestige by prolonging war- spending into an era of settled peace. TAXING INTANGIBLES. | Badeatabll methods of taxing intangible personal property are highly unsatisfactory. ‘The State Tax Commission adds its testimony to the findings of the Tax Reform Association. Hit or miss, taxation with the present inducements to tax dodging and false assessments is no way at all. Coupled with a State income tax, it amounts tq double taxation of the few who are honest enough to report the intangibles. So common, is this sort of tax dodg- ing that it is hardly considered dishonest. Those who give full reports are commonly regarded as foolish. Either the present farcical system should be aban- doned and the expense of assessment saved or a method should be devised which would ensure equal and equitable taxation df stocks, bonds, moneys, credits and other evidences of indebtedness, Amminence of the first State income tax brings home the matter of taxation to a great body of voters who have not bothered greatly in previous years, It is time for legislators to investigate and reetify the faults in the present system. THE WINTER'S WORST, HE worst storm of the winter is with'us, Last night the weather experts who can tell a blizzard by the feel of the first snowflakes were shaking their heads and recalling “the way it started This morning found transportation in a bad way. Trolley lines were hard hit, train service demoralized and ‘harbor traffic threatened with a complete tie-up. To make matters worse, the city faces a serious shortage of ooal which may shut down part of the transit system if coal deliveries are delayed for many more hours, The stiow already fallen has drifted badly, Even if the weather clears by to-night it is going to be a big job to dig the city out. Unfortunately the Hylan Administration has given New Yorkers anything ‘but confidence in its street cleaning methods. Scarcity of labor is seized upon as an excuse for leaving the streets in the worst con- dition they have been in for years, A Citizens’ Street Cleaning Brigade seems the only Such a crime as the Hoxie murder shocks the com-|hope for a prompt clearing away of this present bus the effec has never been great enough to | snow. rae 2, THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY , Pech. , FEBRUARY 5, 1990.. B Corrine hee f . H. Cassel ‘The Pree Pubi ‘Co, ‘ork _Brening World.) vy ~ jas AP By | ‘To the Filitor of ‘The Dvening World: | As a constant reader of your news- Paper, a paper which stands for de- mocracy, liberty and patriotism, 1| would kindly request you to print the | following: i A. Where ts the President of our big U, 8. A.? B. Where stands the Constitu- tion of the, U. S, A.? C, Where stands the honor of the U. 8, A? D. Where and in what honor do we stand in the eye of the civilized world? . E. Where stand the people's contribution in the several big Liberty Loans? F, Where stands the Liberty of the U. 8. A.? 1, We pay income tax. ‘We pay personal tax We pay property tax, 4. We pay revenue tax, 5, We pay other taxes. G. What do the people in gen- eral get in return from our great Government? 1, Personal Mberty is denied. 2. Honest electors and poor taxpayers are defied at Wash- ington or Albany by damnable Prussian politicians, 3, We send oar boys to put an end to Kaiser Wilhelm, and now in return our capital Gov- ernment is controlied by those of the same selfish spirit, Are the peoplo going to stand for more Prussian politios? Or, are we going to get rid of all these monkey tyrants forever? .People, kindly wake up. | Tie THREE THOUSAND HONEST | ELECTORS AND TAXPAYERS, | New York, Jan. 31, 1920, | | More About Vices and Virtues, To the, baitor of The Brening Work: Referring to @ few letters in The Evening World of Jan. $0, I wish to make this reply: Tam not a member of ghe Prohibi- tion Party, neither do I believe that they mean to insinuate that people forfeit their self-respect by taking a giaas of beer, wine or whiskey. . Be- cauge if that was as far as people indulged, Prohibition would not de here to-day. If our men have to practise Moham- medanigm to make up for no alco- hol, I would suggest that such men put on the “ark” or shipped to muntries Where the harems exist and where the people are nearly one hun- dred years behind the times, We as Americans are supposed to be civil- ized. I am sure any mother who cares about the welfare of her sons, realizes what Probtbition means to the com- ing generation, Men and women who feel they can- not live without alcoholic indulgence otherwise than for medical purposes would do many other wives and mothers a favor by packing their trunks and travelling to Canada or| Cuba and remaining there. | A MOTHER. Obedtence Here and There, To the Kdltor of The Drening World; atlas ils Raa bat |@ complete ‘set of these questions. feod man from Georgia who has come | here to tell ‘New Yorkers what a| wicked lot of sinners they are, pre- sumably found no need of missionary | work in his own purified and highly moral State, } Perhaps Mr, Straton never heard of the Fifteenth Amendment to the| Constitution of the United States, | which is openly violated and spat upon | by all the good Prohitition Southern States. What has he ever done to pro- tect the right of the colored citizens | of the South to cast their pallot for the | candidate of their choice? Before he | wastes all his energy denoancing the alleged law-breakers of New Yozk the | Rev. Mr. Straton whould say some-! thing about obedience to law in Georgia. WHIDDEN GRAHAM, 839 West End Avenue, Feb, 2. Te Be Published Soon. ‘To te Editor of ‘Nhe vening World: I observe that Mr. Max Watson is the author of the questions “What Do You Know?" T should very much like to obtain Will you kindly tell me how L may dogo? MILDRED VAN WELDEN. ‘This AJbany affuir bas created a stir throughout the entire country, All the people have been dum- founded by Sweet's autocratic ac- tion toward the five Socialist Aseem- blymen. What did this litthe poli ticlan have up his sleeve? If be thought or imagined that he could gain the nomination for Governor of New York State by repressing and oppressing freedom of speech, then he has another guess coming. You could never check Itberal ideas, as long as they are spread through con- stitutional channels. We have done away with such autocrats as Kaiser Wilhelm and the Crown Prince. Why do the people of New York State tolerate such a picayunish’ insignifi- cant little autocrat as Sweet? Po- litically he has dug his own grave. We need capable men; men of vision and foresight; men who are broad minded enough to see the two sides of @ question, to steer the ship of state, I am a member of the Republican Party, having enrolled at last year's primaries, and am waiting patiently to see the outcome of this farcical mock trial. But if the Republican party leaders permit this faree to go on much longer, you will notice | > a marked decrease in the Republican vote this year and a proportionate increase in’the Socialist vote, ‘Tho Jews have been oppressed by all for hundreds of years, and. still they live and multiply. ‘The truth can never be The Christians have been tortured and oppressed by the Romans in the ancient times, but still they continued to spread their religion and multiply. Christ, the martyr, had given up his lite for the trith, For the truth can never be downed. Such philosophers and scientists as Socrates, Bruno and Darwin have bean oppressed, perse- cuted and some even burnt’ at the stake, but still their teachings took rectasonend and are bom seceuted by mperyaice, of Mr, rye Tale never be downed. teachings were was abolished. ‘The truth can never be downed, Es Assembly by ousting these five Fy hundreds of Socialists, would never have dreamt of becoming Socialists. j ‘The Hvening World upon the fearless | and upright stand it has taken in this 356 Bristol Street, Brooklyn, Jan. 81. + Sarcasm or Misinformation, "no the Editor of The Drentog World: from The Fvening World readers, I fing that Frances Griffin is a great deal mistaken in what she says about the Prohibitionists. knows what wonderful work the Anti- Saloon League has done under the SHYN amusements. He is given n UNCOMMON SENSE © By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) iSS IS A DISEASE—GET RID OF aT, The shy man never comes into his own. great ability, but it is useless. may have a heart filled to overflowing with kindliness. gets the reputation of being a sullen churl. Furthermore, he is, always unhappy. with half his capability do twice as weil. helpless bystander in all human activities. é He doesn’t get into the talk. He doegn’t get into the He may have Nobody finds it out. He He He sees men He remains a one of the important work. And all because he is afraid to show by his actions that he has confidence in his own abi lity. If you are shy by nature get rid of your shyness as you would a disease—for it really is a disease, and one which may do you great harm. It will be hard at first to other people, but you will have to do it. as you get accustomed to it. force yourseM to mingle with It will grow easier Don’t be “nervy” or boastful, but don’t, on the other hand, be afraid to tell people what you can do—or even what you think you can do. Very often the man who declares he can accomplish something learns to do it because he feels he has to make good his promise. . Talk to other people. Dispute with them if you differ. Exchange ideas with them. It may irritate them, but it will be far better than perpetually agreeing with every- thing they say. Think about other people and what they are doing. Don’t think so much about yourself, In most cases shyness is or of vanity. a form of. self-consciousness Even if you are shy in society, don’t be shy in business, Shyness will cloak all your good qualities and render them useless. Business men don’t buy “unsight unseen” and they cannot possibly see your value if, through shyness, you con- ceal it from them, wn’ William Lioyd still their Slavery and accepted. is those creating who alist Assembiymen . In closing, I want to congratulate HARRY COLLINS | In looking over some of the letters | 1 don't believe Frances Griffin This of hundreds, yes thousands, of desti- Garrison and his abolitionists have| tute families, consisting of broken. been persecuted both by Northerners | hearted wives and fatherless children and Southerners, The Anti-Saloon League has given the husbands of these people food, shelter, clothing and occupation. Tt has also taught these men the right way to live. “On the other hand, I do not see what good saloons are? During the wet period I saw scores of drunken nien on the streets; now I do not see any such thing. I shall feel greatly relieved when Prohibition come: effect. Iam a strong believer in I hibition. M. 8. TYNDAL Student of Bay Ridge Utgh School, Brooklyn, Feb, 1. ‘Speak for the Horne, To the Hatitor of ‘oe Evening World With the streets in an almost im- passable condition, the horse is mak- ing his @ilent appeal to every creature who will be his friend I wish every news spare enough space on ae to make this written appeal for him: “Lam a@ horse and dependent upon all readers you to #peak in my stitute a behalf,” M. J. BONNELL. Constitute a. wmengce from Mew Kerk, Jan, 60, 1020, 4 “i By George Eliot. MELEMA left his home Greece a humble secretary @ famous jeweler. He arrived Florence a rich man, with luxury : love awaiting him, For, on the voyagt — from Greece to Italy, tho shtp had gone down' in a storm. The jeweleg presumably, had ‘been drowned. Tit had escaped. And he had savea @ casket of rare geme which his had been carrying to Florence. As the jeweler apparently was Tito saw no reason why he should not get the benefit of thé casket’s precious stones, So he pre red to enjoy Ife, Peqlmost on his arrival at Floranc he met a renowned old scholar wha lived in a suburb of the city with his only daughter, Romola, and who mad¢ Tito welcome at his home, i Romola was unlike any , woman Tito had met. Beautiful stately, she was also grave and and highly educated. ‘Tito attract her by his youth and good looks. H¢ and Romola were married a few weeks after the Greek’s first meeting with her. The union was not happ’ Pitiably soon Romola was able to the shallowness and tricky unreliabils ity of the handsome youth she wed. Even sooner, Tito began to bored by his bride's gravity and bi studious mode of life. Both were disillusioned. But disilue sion took a different turn with them It made Romola more gentle and fore bearing with her wayward husban and to love him rather as a moth might love her child than as a wifé loves her husband, Tito, on the eons trary, sought amusement Dade when the dull atmosphere of his home began to pall on him, j He met and fell in love with a peas! ant girl, Tessa by name, who lived i# another part of the city. Tessa w childlike and innocent and was moi like a gentle young animal in he mentality than like a woman. “ worshipped ito—ignorant that was married. And to her he used t flee for recreation from hts scholart: home. At last Romola learned of her tru: band’s affair with Tessa. and indignant and afre with righteou disgust she vowed to leave Tito ford ever. ' ‘AS she was on her way out of Flor ence, in search of some hiding ylxo@ where Tito ¢ould never hope to dire cover her, he chanced to mevt th monk, Savonarola. ‘To him she forth her story of shame and hearts break. Gently but with infinite wiss dom, he advised her to return to het home and to her wifely duty. ‘The wn happy woman obeye She went back and tédk up agaid the purden of existence as Tito’s wife And the ordeal did not last long Tito's master had not been drowns Reaching Italy at last, he eame i search, of his faithless secretary—th thief Who had stolen his jewels. He found the man he sought tend ‘Tite and strangled him to death punishment for the ‘theft. News Flashes From Around The World Cotton No Longer King. The value of the corn, wheat and oat crops of the South this year will aggregate, based om Sept. 1 figures of prices on the farm, about $4,775,000,000. The three crops, corn, wheat and oats, alone will exceed by prob- ably half a billion dollars to three-quarters of a billion the total value of the South’s cot. : ton crop. eee A 12-Mile-a-Day Express. j The camel replaces the moter } truck for general hauling in Asia Minor. By this means — twelve miles @ day is traversed, but where the camel “has it om” the motor truck is in the wp keep. The great difficutty with the animal, according to Near East relief workers who are helping to save 800,000 persone from starvation in Turkey, is | that afl articles shipped by camel may be of such a nature that they can stand a long jour- ney without spoiling, see Grass Tree in the A peculiar product of the vegetable world is what 4s | known as the “blackboy” tree which flourishes in the state of | Western Australia. It is, tm fact, a species of the grass tree, and grows to a nurmat height of seven to ten feet, and te found to be useful for a variety | of purposes. can New Form of Mud Guard. i An effort is being made in Paris to require alt automo Diles, and especially motor trucks, to be fitted with fenders which shall prevent the splash- ing of pedestrians with mud, M. Georges Lemarchand, as re ported by the Paris corre spondent of the American Med- ical Association, telis the au thorities that the@e splashes not only damage clothing, ao expensive at this time, but alee . } s 4 q Y i