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ght 1 we may begin to get a somewhat | less prejudiced view of Government operation railways. There is no denying that a general propaganda fa- voring return of the roads to private operation has ) © . tended to emphasize the defects and minimize the vir- | tues of Government operation. Even so, the defects, ~=5eem to be serious enough to warrant another trial of F initiative. It is encouraging to note that directing boards and extautives of several of the roads do not intend to re- vert immediately to the old ways of railroading. Somé eff the innovations which the Federal managers tried out are worth retaining. They are superior to the old Looked at from this angle, the experiment of taking the roads may be regarded as a rather expensive course for railroad Presidents. It must be d that the $600,000,000 deficit piled up is a ; tuition fee. But the railroad business is so tre- smmpendous that if the lessons have demonstrated any tial economies the fee may not be too high in Jong run. ze » Dut it is to be hoped that the railroad Presidents have not been the only students. Many of the innova- Sitions are such as the Interstate Commerce Commission s%Mas prohibited in the past. It is desirable that the com- ‘ihission give somewhat greater latitude in the future ‘Tele experiments in economy which the operators may Wesire to make. The increased measure of public con- Batrol provided for by the Railroaf Bill warrants the ex- et*ticise of discretion in the exercise of the control. ge One thing which it is believed will be retained is| aaghe consolidated ticket office, which has proved a} *Yfarked convenience to the public in the place where othe average man gels the most direct contact with the Beaeilroads. This will give general satisfaction. Despite the Anti-Saloon League's protest that William H. Anderson does not want to be Governor, The Evening World cannot bring itself to believe that ity pet boom mest die, Have New York voters no claim on the Prohibition Boss! \ Just let him RUN for Governor, all they ask. That's A SPARKLING LURE. : EWS of the discovery of a new diamond field in South Africa comes at a time when the world has an unusual supply of young and hardy adven- turers, youthful veterans not yet “reconstructed” and adjusted to peaceful pursuits, ready to play a manly part in a great gamble for great stakes. , Who can doubt that the opening of the new territory on March 20 will witness a “stampede” the equal of -the Klondike gold rush or the opening of Indian Ter- syritory? §=Mechanical development of the automobile gtd aeroplane introduces new features, which certainly seiwill add to the spectacular quality of the race for fa- ed position in the new Kimberley, The diamond market never has offered such re- Seetards to the fortunate. ¢ Will the present strike discover a new Cecil Rhodes? Kimberley rush in 1870 founded the fortune of this knight-errant of Bri imperialism, What- ever opinion one may hold of the desirability of the Rhodes. ideal of worki-domination, no one can deny the magnificence of his dream or withhold admiration fom the man who so steadfastly worked for what he ed. His is one of the strikingly romantic figures all history, an inspiration and incitement to ad- -—-venturous youth in all lands and climes. } 22D.0f many who heed the call of adventure, who fol- low the limpid sparkle of the diamond, only a tew will i succeed. Some will fall by the wayside. Others, dis- | i per , BRD ~~ } { appointed, will stop and settle ihe couniry they spurned during the rush, This has been the history "Of mankind's search for treasure. It is those who | SEdared but did not win who have settled waste fevqtaces of the world and have opened the way for tpcivilization, Disappointed ‘‘Forty-niners” caused the “Great American Desert” to blossom, They settled ~*Mlaska and india and the islands of the Southern seas. @&. Certainly the actual adventurers, even in failure, pre- gasent a happy contrast to the sharper harpies who fol- 290¥ in their wake and play on the credulous with oa pictures of the gains of adventure without the risk. The new diamond strike means much to South Af- | Bfrica. It will attract the sort of men South Africa needs seit open up the waste places which Rhodes spied out a eneration ago. — Iron County, Mich., furnishes the first ex- ample of what happens when fanaticism for ita own tyrannous ends pushes Federal authority across State lines, Will it be the last? ENEMIES WORTH HAVING | Boies Penrose does not favor the Hoover-for President movement, as he publicly declares ’ vA Os THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 From President Wilson’s Message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1919: 4, 192 “T hope that Congress will bring to a conclusion at this session legislation looking to the establishment of a budget system. “That there should be one single authority responsible for the making of all appropriations and that appropriations should be made not independently of each other, but with reference to one single comprehensive plan of expenditure properly related to the nation’s income, there can be no doubt. “Another and not less important aspect of the problem is the ascertainment of the economy and efficiency with which the moneys appropriated are expended. “Under exisitng law the only audit is for the purpose of ascertaining whether expenditures have been lawfully made within the appropriations. “No one is authorized or equipped to ascertain whether the money has been spent wistly, economically and effectively.” Taxpayers Still Carry a War Load: When Will Congress Lighten It? NO PARTY CREDIT. N HIS Washington's Birthday address at Johns Hop- | kins University, Mr. Hoover voiced the feeling of | Americans of all parties toward the proposal that dis- cussion of the Peace Treaty be prolonged into a cam- paign issue. Such a proposal, deciares Mr. Hoover, means that uncertainty and confusion shall go on accumulating | throughout the world until the Presidential election next November: “It means that we will obscure our pressing domestic issues by conflict over a question on which the country has already made up its mind. “This means that we will allow these things to happen simply in order that some advantage can be hoped for in domestic politics. “It is my impression that there is no party credit in this position.” That is also the impression of by far the greater part of the country. If it is not the impression of political leaders the fact is further measure of the extent to which party leadership has lost touch with voters, ‘An overwhelming majority of the people of the United States have made up their minds that this Nation is strong and self-reliant enough to enter the League of Nations with only such reservations as call | attention to the provisions ‘of its own’ Constitution. Ratifféd and inter preted in the light of the Consti- | lution of the United States would seem to millions of Americans admirable and sufficient indorsement for the Senate to write across Treaty and League of Na- tions covenant. As Mr. Hoover points out, “the nature of our policies under the League has yet to be developed.” We are not bartering away our birthright, our free- dom or our future. We are going into a partnership for peace with certain definite and immediate hopes: “We all hope for its immediate energies in the reduction of armament, the development of engines of conciliation, of arbitration and codex and courts of international justice. “We hope for its influence in the destruction of the economic barriers set up before and since the war, which stifle the recuperation and the free entry of our own commerce over the world.” These are not party hopes, They are peculiar to no class or group. They are all-American hopes, looking to the com- mon progress and prosperity of the whole American people in the reviving activities of peace, Why should such hopes be deferred on the chance that they can be exploited by political operators and made to yield campaign capital? The time to ratify the Treaty is NOW. The country should be tense with industry and far on in the race for world trade by next November, “Let no one,” says Machiavelli, “who begins an innovation in a State expect that he shall stop it at his pleasure, or regulate i according to his intention.” ESCAPED FROM BROOKLYN. ONSIDER the case of “Mike” McNamara and ad- mit that times do change. Mike was a runaway eight-year-old returned in good order after a two-day jaunt in the subway, during) which a pleasant time was had by all, particularly Mike. When father was a boy, when there was a great, growing Golden West, runaways always came to a bad end. Either they succeeded in staying away and became bold, bad robbers, with a shooting or hanging | ,, party at the end of a short but merry life, or else they began to hunger before they had proceeded far outspoken an, on their journey and returned home in penitence and tears to partake of mother’s well-cooked fare. According to the Oliver Optic school of boys’ fic- tion, only a lad with a cruel and overbearing slep- parent could run away successfully and become Presi- your evening issue of yesterday from dent of a bank, But Mike took it into his head to go West, so he headed for the subway, stole a ride and came to Man- same hattan. a money ahead by reselling discarded newspapers. came to grief, as do all good train robbers, because he went to sleep and allowed the law to creep on him Our whole civil fabric tr becom while he slumbered, with the result that he was re- | stored to the bosom of his family, well fed and with money in his pocket. Despite the moralists, the moving pictures seem to} be absolved from complicity this time. in the case does not show that Mike gained inspiration | than to create a rebellious spirit an ‘| for his desperate deed from any celluloid thriller that | escaped censorship. Mike was at least two jumps ahead of the imagination | Amendment. of the scenaria writers, ) For two days he rode the subway and had good time. Kindly guards fed him, and he was He The evidence In fac, it seems rather clear that m Some Baby! 1920, Re Re heen, | | Autocratic Antis, ‘To the Baitor of ‘The Krening Worid Your editorial, “The Great Awak- ening,” was indeed splendid. 1 bave |cut it out and sent it to a-lot of my | Canadian friends who are always laughing at our great democracy. Too old for the draft, but enlisted and fought with the old Second Di- vision in every batue they fought in ‘during the big war. That trip took |me through France, Belgium, Luxem- |burg and seven months in Germany, jalso a short time in England. Then |came back to my own country and | am denied that little privilege of having my glass of beer. ter seeing how autocratic Burope {treats her subjects, it makes me mu‘, | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS. | SUtution bequeathed to us by those who were, in the tormation and early lite of our Republic, the noble de- fenders of the principie of civil and persongl liberty and (reeaom. It 1s my earnest hope that Personal Lib- | erty Leagues may be organized throughout the length and breadth of our land in order to combat and coun- teruct legislation which aims to cur- tall and deprive us of rights and lip- erties as old as the human race itself. | REV. J. O. FERRIS. Ridgewood Manor, N. J. Feb./ 19, 1920, “Happy the Man.” fo the kiditor of ‘Phe kivening 1 orks In your edition of the 19th I no- ticed ‘a certain party by the name of K.-H, complaining about the subway | As one of your writers says, “God, jgive us men.” Unless there is a third party in the ring next election { yote the straight Socialist ticket, jand nearly all my friends say the same thing For men like Anderson and his unch I would get the old Buford in commission again for another trip with undesirables, I app: your d unafraid ed ials. WILLIAM RYAN, New York, Feb. 20, 1920 Personal Liberty Leagues. To the Editor of The Evening Workd I read with considerable interest the few extracts which appeared in the speech of Blihu Root before the | Bar Association, The pity of it is| that we have not many more men in- fluential in public affairs with the | analytical mind and breadth of judgment as exhibited by Mr. Root, | There is an old Roman maxim, “The! best governed people are those gov- | erned by the fewest laws.” There a truth and philosophy in that o maxim which we Americans wou. do well to consider and remembe topheavy by overmuch Inglelations \and at the same time there is a very | evident increase of disrespect for law Jamong our people, We are having | doled out to us sumptuary and pa- | | ternal logistation ad nauseam Laws which run counter to the fun- | damental rights and liberties of this | American peopie ean do but little cg breed a divrespect for law. To my mind, one of the most pernicious and |tyrannieal laws ever foisted upon a | so-called free people is the Eighteenth Iam too good an Amer- jean to believe that that amendment will remain « fixture upon that Con- : ! Ni a aac Ras it Sm a n \that Uncle Sam does not care to get us twice and that we are to be local service, In all probability he is right, the local is not a star us far as ‘service is concerned, but 1 would like him to take a joy ride ona, so-called express during rush hours. He can rest assured that by the time | he gets through with it he would not sare to have another ride ilke that | ain, First of all! he would find t how it feels to be packed like a rring. ‘Taen he would see hig local ss the express, which is enough to make anybody groan. ‘Then he would | find it a tough proposi:ion to read a| paper, He must be an expert in fold- | papers if he wants to read. When he gets through with all this he will | then want his local back again, word subway is too good ; I: should be called the H is the man useto H. LEVINE No. 14% Bryant Avenue, Bronx, | Feb. 20, 1920. | xury Tax Deductions. | itor of The Evening World dally Hor- ’ To the 1 wish to call your attention to an! ‘-artide which appeared in The Eve-| nine World on Feb. 18. You say credited with everything paid out} during the year in the form of luxury | tax. Further down in the article you say that the amount of this tax is to be deducted from the gross income, If this is deducted from the gross income it will really only a re- bate of 4 per cent. to the taxpayers whose income is under while those whose income ts larg will re- ceive a larger rebate, some running as high as 67 per cent, You can easily see that this is out of reason and that if a deduction of this kind is to be allowed it should be made from the amount of the tax instead of the gross Inne, . UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) ABILITY NEVER BLUSHES UNSEEN. Thomas Gray worked for seven years over his elegy. Every boy should know it by heart—as a study of beautiful English. It is full of poetry, in fact there is in it more poetry than truth, which was immaterial to Gray, who meant it only for poetry. In it there is one phrase and one stanza which have done a great deal to make people feel unnecessarily sorry for themselves. The phrase is “Some mute inglorious Milton,” stanza :— “Full many a gem, of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” Perfectly true of gems and flowers, but the implication of the preceding stanza is that it is also true of men, which it isn’t. Gray fiimself was modest and retiring, but his genius speedily disclosed his talents to the world. And in those days there were far fewer publishers hunting feverishly for genius whose product might be placed bétween covers and turned into money. If there are the to-day “mute Miltons” they will not remain inglorious inglorious for long, even if they re- main mute, which few who believe themselves neglected _geniuses ever do for ten minutes on end. Ability is hunted as keenly as are gems of purest ray serene, which, by the way, in these days of submarines and deep sea diving will soon be pursued even into, the “dark unfathomed caves of ocean,” A If you have ability, you will have plenty of opportunity to prove it. In fact the world is continually daring you to prove it. For ability is scarce shortage of it and recent experience has taught you what happens to values when shortages occur. It may be that it will not be recognized at once. employers will accept your word for your ability. any and valuable. There is always a Trew But in the very smallest job, which in these days is easily obtain- able, you can use your ability with telling effect, and if it is real ability you will get your chance. You need not blush unseen, Find out what you can do best, and do it. And if you have the right kind o' stuff in you it will count, And if you happen to have genius, and aren't too lazy or too procrastinating to develop it, you y will never need to worry about the future. RRR Rn nnn Where to Find Your Vocation By Max Watson 1920, by The Press Publishing (The New Fort Brening World.) Social Service—No. 25, Opportunities for entering this field. The field of Social! Service is opem to * both men and women, but about 75 per cent. of the actual field work is carried on by women. Men are most often engaged in executive capacities as head of a bureau or concerned with the financial end. This is an impor- tant branch, as many social service organizations are run by funds raised through public subscription The {whole field may be divided into six sroups as follows: 1, Social case work Here the worker deals with an individual prob- Jem such as a family in need, a sick mother, a child on probation or any social problem involving the indi- vidual case of a person or a family Social workers doing this work are known as case workers. The work of the associated charities or socie- | ties for the care of ihe poor is con- |fined largely to case work ¢ | 2. Social group work. Such aectivi- | tes as playgrounds, community en- | tertainments, and social work of all kinds where people are deait with in groups comes under this branch. 3. Soe! reform work. This deals largely with legislative proolems such as housing, public health, prison reform and the enactment of all laws | dealing with social service. “The edu cation of the public to socia] service | neetia falls under this head, He al research. This branch |deals with social statistics and the > | conducting of investigations in order jto secure data on which a social pro- | 8ramme may be based. A great do of research work is conducted by pr: vate or semi-private foundations, |such as the Russell Sage Founda- | tion. This branch makes a special appeal to the highly trained technical student. : 5. Industrial service. This branch |has been very much to the front jduring the dast few years. Nearly every large industrial piant main- tains social workers in connection with their personnel departments. |{ndustrial social work includes em- | ployment, working conditions, recrea- , tion, home visiting and education, 6. Specialists. This includes those who shave some regular profession and have gone into social work such as doctors in health departments, at- torneys in legal work, executive |directors of agencies and directors jof institutions, hooling. An increasing demand is being made for college trained social workers, It is difficult for a youne woman to secure a position unless she had college training, 1f jpossible a special course should be taken in one of the schools for social workers. The best known of these are the following: ‘ The New York School of Social | Work. ‘ Chicago School of Civics and Phit- anthropy. Boston School of Social Work. Philadelphia School of Social Work Many universities specialize in training in all branches of social | service. | Salary. |. Beginners who have had university ! training or its equivalent may expect from $85 to $125 a month as case ! workers or investigators. The aver age salary paid to well trained wome social workers is from $125 to $185 a month. Men receive from $150 to 225. Executive positions may pay - from $3,000 to $6,000. For _ the amount of training necessary and the type of person required, the positions are not well paid. This is offset by the opportunity to render a real ser- vice to humanity, Qualifications. First of all, successful socia® work- | ers must have the quality known as personality. They must be sympa thetic, tactful, unselfish, resourceful and cheerful. ‘The duties are com- , plex and often trying and they must hold to their faith in humanity, Un- | less a person feels that they have a real call for service and are willins | to work with a real purpose for the betterment of social conditions they ' have no place in social work. Remarks. Many excellent books have been written on social service. Among these are “Social Diagnosis,” by Mary FE. Richmond, of the Ruseeil Sage Foundation; “The Scientific Spirit and Social Work.” by Prof. A. J. Todd, of the University of Minne- sota, and a number of books by Dr. Edward T. Devine. The Survey is a publication which deals with subjects of social service. Positions are! seoured for social workers in all, |narts of the country by the National ‘ | Social Workers’ Exchange, located at | 180 East 22d Street, New York City, | Newest Notes in |-Fields_ of Science | | An Iowa inventor has obtained a patent upon a unicycle that is driven by an electric motor and prevented |trom falling by gyroscopic fly wheels. | : Industrial aleohol is being made from the waste fnom the Swedish |wood pulp mills that use the sulphite process, heretofore considered worth- less. An automobile speedometer {been invented that can be set to reg- ulate the speed of a car and prevent it being run more than a determined distance.