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SET THE BRAKES. next vear. An connection \ith this cheerful announcement from 4 ime o. of State Hugo there is interesting reading in H total of estimated State expenditures for the year | endin; Jame, 1921, as compared with the total of 1,000 for the year before that. 19917-1918 to an estimated $14,423,000 for 1920- . When we come to expenditures from indirect , the jump ts from $50,333,000 in 1917- estimated $101,850,000 from indirect income tax for 1920-1921. r ois extravagance. Repubficans and Dem- Sees at at Albany are ever ready to form an alliance for "raid on the taxpayer's pocketbook. New York City ‘#8 always here to yield 70 per cent. of the State tax <=: most luscious fact on the up-State legisla- © -ffthe State income tax is likely to prove one of the shrongest accelerators of legislative spending yet ~» @evised—uniess there is some prompt movement to _ set the brakes, » STRAIGHT INTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS © FICHE Grand Jury's indictment of a Deputy Police a8 Commissioner on charges of neglect of duty cider alleged ciroumstances which gravely reflect the real attitude of a certain element of the New police toward vice should promise a clearing up " of much current doubt and misgiving as to the present of. the department. - Such misgiving has not been allayed by showy raids 6 om all-night lunchrooms and zealous roundings-up of Mleged gamblers, most of whom have been promptly i b Gecareed by Magistrates, with sharp warnings to the [police who arrested them.on trumpery evidence. Nobody is going to be so foolish as to infer that the Of # are under suspicion. ~ It is the policies of the present police administration that the public is most anxious to be sure about. The et that the Enright policies required the demotion of robe tried and trusted Inspector like Daniel Costigan has tot been forgotten. * The trial of Deputy Commissioner Porter ought to “Jet needed light into dark corners at Police Head- SUGGESTED TO EDITOR LEE. NCE again it seems that Ivy Lee, editor of the \ Subway Sun, has been unfortunate fh his choice of sunbeams. Straphangers are requested to “look forward,” to consider the increased business which the company “must handle and the consequent advisability of paying ‘more than a 5-cent fare. " Most other business concerns look forward with sat- “YSfaction to the prospect of increased business—but perhaps the Interborough is different. Editor Lee’s psychology is all wrong. When he ‘suggests looking forward, the straphanger’s mind naturally looks backward as well. He recalls the “20 ‘per cent. porterhouses” of 1916 and 1917. « While straphangers are in,the mood for looking, it __ is easy to glance to the right and left. -4n Boston the higher the fare the less prosperous the transit company. Increased fares were not a Ih Philadelphia the company, whose motto is “Give « the people such service that they will like to ride,” re- + Ports a prosperous year at a 5~<ent fare, » May we suggest that Editor Lee reprint this motto ; ‘© im the next issue of the Subway Sun—and hang it in ; the Interborough offices iristead of in the cars? * FINANCIAL FOOTBALL. {LUMNI and friends of Harvard University have contributed so generously that the trustees are * able to announce an increase of from 40 to 50’ per ~ cent in the salaries of instructors. For the present, then, Harvard can pick and choose its professors. Higher salaries will attract the cream » of the teaching profession. Other things being equal, _ the ‘school that offers the largest salaries will attract * the best teachers. But Harvard's campaign for funds is not a novelty. ie HE rate of the State income tax may be tripled | The Evening World's analysis of the $16,000,000 If Harvard is | cheer. | the first quarter. g Extra.” sport. promptly taking graduate may even score a touchdown for his team against the check writers of the traditional rival. ahead now, it is Harvard's time to Alumni of other schools regard this as merely | Watch for the final in the “Sport- Financial football promises to be a leading indoor A LESSON? F SEVEN more Democratic Senators had joined the twenty-one who voted for the resolution of ratifi- cation, the Peace Treaty would now be in the Presi- dent's hands, with a bright prospect of the Nation’s its rightful place in peace and the League of Nations. 24,000 for the year ending last June and $60,-| That the necessary Democratic votes were lacking was due in large measure to what must be frankly He set his face set their faces likewise, defeat. fram direct tax rise from $10,548,000] termed the President's obstinacy, against the inevitable. His followers The treaty went down to Not that this takes away one iota of Republican re- issue. Not that reserv: long-sought source of plenty is found. The/sponsibility for the most despicable tactics ever income tax can be stretched to cover any reach| adopted by a political party in dealing with a great ationists and irreconcilabjes are the less to be condemned for cavillings which, to the last, came chiefly from malevolent determination to defeat the President’s wishes, The fact remains: The Senate is what it is. Sena- {ors who ‘make up its present membership are what they are. As The Evening World said two weeks ago: “Since only by the action of the Senate could the treaty be ratified, and since a vote for ratification could only be secured by permitting a certain number of United States Senators to scrawl into or across the treaty | their partisan prejudice and hatred of the President, the Nation should accept a profoundly distasteful necessity for the sake of the greater good involved.” Only statesmanship and patriotism of the highest order would have been credited to the President had he put himself at the head of a growing public senti- ment and declared: “Reservations or no reservations, the Treaty first. He could have trusted the moral will of the Nation ‘whole police force is corrupt because certain members to make Senatorial excrescences on the League of Na-{ tions covenant appear at their true value, Other nations concerned showed every readiness to understand, accept the preposterously and make the best of them. Even out-of-place Irish reservation might have passed as only a palpable last effort of trouble- makers. ’ One can only conclude that Senatorial opposition intensified the President's nerve crisis, embittered him and narrowed his view and purpose. His state of mind reacted in turn on the Senate to make matters worse. Where Democratic Senators might have been inspired and reassured by his leadership they were only con- fused by hig apparent rejection of all compromise. It is unlikely that the President will send the treaty back to the Senate. He has already put himself on record as ready for a “solemn referendum” to the people. The country had no wish to have the treaty thrown into the campaign. It had every reason to expect that, through compromise and concession, Senate and Pres- ident would be capable of serving its honor and its interests by establishing it in the new peace of the world without further delay. It finds its expectation vain. itself to settle the It must rely upon issue, if the latter is to be thrown back, as other issues have been, upon the indomitable good sense and the compelling force of the popular will. Fortunately neither that sense nor that will is easily discouraged. When delegated power fails them, both are stirred to exercise and taught to concentrate anew, It may be that the people of the United States were badly in need of a lesson, SPECULATION SOMETIMES KILLS. al was found HE tragic death of a New Jersey woman who dead with the gas turned on is only one more ripple in the murky pool of rent gouging. Mrs, John Tucker sold her home, then took a lease on it, $1,000. settled her mind. and firally bought it back at an advance of It is probable that the unfortunate deal un- Jat a time when his fall potato crop They Have Ears and They | Hear Not! ae ER aera eae Cakebiea teamanah RLD, “SATURDAY, wenee: Tne Be ae “¢ ae site 4 NP AN | Wi deepal te ALAR te (‘The New York Evening World ) eo: J. H. Cassel NEW YORK LEGISLATURE | The Interests in Control, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; The Evening World, 1 am sure, is aware that if any Presidential candi- date displays trust busting proc! ‘les his name will be “mud” at San ‘Francisco and at the Republican Con- vention in Chicago. H. M. KONWEISER. Now Yotk, March 17, 1920. On the B. R. T. ‘To the Editor of The Drening Work! In your letters from the people March 8 I notice E. W. C. has a kick about the B, R. T. service on Flush- ing Avenue. Let him>go to it and more power to him. I will go him one etter. I travel to work on the Wil- son Avenue line and I have to wait a good half hour for a car. When it comes along I generally have to hang on the strap if the motorman is kind enough to slow up. At Delancey Street I notice that there are always three to five Ralph Avenue to one Wilson Avenue car. ‘There is just as much traffic on the Wilson, as ‘on the Ralph Avenue line, but patrons have to get along with one-fifth as many cars. Hope this will wake up enough of the travellers on the Wilson Avenue line to business and better service. W. K. W,, Struphanger. Brooktyn, March 16, 1920. Modern Munchausen. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World I have read your articie “A Rapid Transit Dream.” Permit me to re- mind you that a similar rapid transit journey was performed some forty odd years ago, according to Ed, Mott. The Oki Settler from Pike County, Pennsylvania, had by some misfor- tune accidentally been dropped in the neighborhood of the North Pole just should be dug. Being a resourceful man ‘and having plenty of time to think out a pian to get home he figured thus: He had noticed that the moon in t locality was coming closer to the surface of the earth than anywhere else he had ever ob- served. ‘This seemed to be his only chance, He ascended the highest peak he could find and lay in watch for the moon. Sure enough it came quite close, He made one tremendous jump and caught on to the hook which turned, upwards. ‘The moon luckily was lying on its back He held on tight unti! the moon was travelling over Pike County when h let go. He landed in Milford square FROM EVENING WORLD READERS should be enough to disgust any true American, W. H. Anderson, whose flow of ob- scene Jan| » has never been equalled by a hu ing—who, despite his 6 feet and apparently healthy condi- tion (except the brain), was too much of a coward to go to war, Although the writer weighs only 137, he was in the trenches for twelve months. Billy Sunday's efforts to save souls seem to have stopped now that his in good shape. . ‘kefeller jr. teaches Sunday school on Sundays and on the other six days charges the poor man the price of 22 cents for a gallon of kero- sene. The New York Evening Journal, whose owner, W. R. Hearst, was pot wanted on the reception committee when we came back from France, If this is not the height of disgrace I miss my gu And there are other yellow streaked individuals too num- erous to mention, At last the ems to be something doing in Albany, started by A. E. F. men, who, it seefns, were good enough to risk their lives to save miserable puppets like Anderson, but not good enough to select their own drinks, It is not hard to find the real foun- dation of Bolshevism in this and other countries—take a look at the type of men like Anderson and you have the answer. When are the officials of the United States Government coming to life? SERVICE MAN. Brooklyn, March 16, 1920 Other Ren 5 ne Evening World: ngland passed a law for- bidding all rent increases, It is still in operation. If the District of Co- lumbia Rents Act were in operation here our rents would all be reduced, as they should be, not increased J, JONES. March 18, 1920, New York, Dust. To the Editor of The Evening Vorld For the past fow weeks we have been spoon-fed with the activities of our Legislature involving the “five Socialistic Assemblymen,” ‘The cur- rent news brings us lurid details of Mr. Cuvillier’s charges against the Anti-Saloon League. The dust is being raised higher and higher. To-day’ issue of The Evening World brings a refreshing light on the subject of the pre tos jon. Sophie Irene Loeb's art th “N.Y. Legish Hopeless Welfare Laws Doomed,” gives us 4 caption ¢ Ss UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ° (Soortea. 1998) FAST BUT SURE. A successful business man said recently rule of “slow but sure” dustry. that the old no longer applied in American in- man,” he said, “to succeed to-day do good work, but do it rapidly.” This is true in almost every business. And because it is true, preparation for a business career is far more diffi- cult than it ever has been. You can learn to work rapidly and accurately as. well, but to do so you must train very intensively. It is easy enough to make quick decisions. It is pos- sible to make correct decisions. But no man who does not know his business down to the last detail can make correct decisions rapidly. Industry in America is running at top speed. no time to be wasted. The executive who requires a week to make up his mind about a change in his plant will not hold his job very long. Important decisions are made almost on the instant. But they are never made on the instant and MADE right unless a man can carry in his mind all the data on which to base them. Bigger jobs with bigger salaries and greater responsi- bility are awaiting the young men now training for them. But none of them will ever be attained without the utmost skill and the most profound knowledge of the busi- ness that is to be followed. The work of the technical schools is harder than ever before, because there is more to teach and more that must be mastered clear Gown to the ground. If you expect to be one of the builders of the Nation pick out the business you want to follow, and learn all there is to know about Then when you are called upon to use your judgment you can use it swiftly, and not go wrong. Don't ever try to judge rapidly or to work rapidly un- less you know exactly what you are doing. Such judgment will result in a costly mistake, and one costly mistake will end your career as an executive—just one single mistake. must: not only There is hypocrisy of the shams that are sup- posed to represent the people of the great State of New York but who xo Up to Albany to misrepresent them. Be- fore election these selfish pawns of the bosses and capital promise us gold mines, and later hand us gold bricks, We hear of twenty-five bills know of suffering and pay the piratical demands of th sharks who are Atbany listen to the whip of bovses controiled by capital pinching in| many houses to make ends meet and bleeding us to death 4s our supposed representatives up in the One of Otis Peabody Swift Covent, Iya), py Ime Prem VaoLaning U8, (The New York Evening W | The Good Old Days--- “Melanch Accident: Citizen in Beekman Street. “On Thursday afternon as @ man of genteel appearance was | passing along Beekman Street he Cow Gores was attacked by a cow ani, not- withstanding his endeavors to avoid her and the means hw used » | to beat her off, we are sorry to | sy that he was so much injured as to be taken up for dead.” Valentine's Manual of Old New York, edited by Henry Collins Brown, clips the above extract from a newe« | Paper of 1802. It is evident that when Broadway was a pasture Beekman Street was a cowpath. Times hawe jchanged. But they have not changed jal. things, for on a later pago of the delightful collection of ancient an@ modern history of New York City we find an extract from a letter writtem during the War of 1812 that has @& distinct application to-day. “My dear Sister: The times are | very hard. Money ie almost an imposstbility. The necexsitics of life are very high. Brown sugar $%.00 per owt, Hyson tea 17 shillings (approximately $1.25) per pound. It'is high time that this cruel war was a! an end.” se Jazzed Philosophy--- “Where ignorance is not bliss, ! get wise.” ; | "It isn't how tong you stick around, but what you put over while you're her | _ “Every man is the architect of his own fortune, but the neighbors superintend the construction.” We do not entirely ‘agree with the enthusiasts who acclaim George Ade as the foremost exponent of the true spirit of America. We do not be- |lieve that any one ever thought or spoke in the syncopated language which he invented for his Fables. There is, however, much good phil- osophy in his amusing books. The above “morals” are taken from his latest series. Studies in American Vernacular, which carries on the | Spirit of tho “Fables in Slang.” ‘Advice to Politicinns..- | “Whenever you get up to make ® speech begin by proclaiming yourself the purest, the most dis- interested of living men, and end by intimating that you are the bravest—but—if there be any- thing on this earth that I despise it ts bluster," According to Col. Hen: Vatterson jin “Marse Henry,” thoes rules or Po- litical practice were given to him old. seboat a Texas politician of the when asked how he aobieved his wide popularity. A study of the Con- gressional Record will show that the | younger generation follows to the let- {tee this sage advice. | About Spirit Photographs--- | Sherlock Holmes has alws @ good friend of ours. We were par- ticularly impressed by a statement made by him early in his career that the human mind is a finite thing, can only hold just so much informas tion, and that we must fill it up very judiciously and not crowd valuable Space with non-essentials, We thought of this when we read Siz Arthur Conan Doyle's latest book |on spiritualiem, “The Vital Message,” which introduces among other psy~, chic data the fact that photographs have been taken of the dead, aninate and moving among their former friends, “I have seen scores of these Photographs,” says Sir Arthur, { s been “which in several cases -epro- duce exact images of the dead which do not correspond with any pictures of them taken dur- ing life, I have seen father, | mother and dead soldier son, uli taken together with the dead son looking far the happier and not the least substantial of the three. It is in these forms of proof that the impregnable strength of tie evidence ties,” A Prophet in His Ona Country +++ Apropos of Spiritualiem, it is said that Sir Oliver Lodge met Henry Cabot Lodge in Washington recently, and they discovered that they both belonged to the same family, a branch of which settled in Massachusetts 300 years ago. The gentleman from Massachusetts has made no special | study of Spiritualism, but since the arrival of his noted relative in this country has been deluged with letters from all parts of the United States asking his opinion on local miracles and seeking his advice on communi- cating with the dead . L, in the Small Town--- “I make the bold statement that a man with a wife and two children can | come back to a small town and live for exactly one-half of what it costs | him to live in the city, living cond- tions being equal.” The bold statement is made by william D. Pelley in the March nume |ber of People's Magazine. He con- | tinnes: “Authoritative figures | compiled proving that 90 the 100,000 familie. ordinary working Am a to-day drawing under $2, 00 r in Wages. More- over, th living on it decentiy nok, Nv unions to boost their| will be found many families where the Fo the Exlstor of he Brening World our Aldermen, who is a landlord and | 284 eaving money, Two thousand ie ‘ Pore 5 : in front of the Morton House, On| clearer view. ‘The dust seems not so | 0h. Be ee ee tate | eaten, ‘ ‘ 1} jess thun $40 a week. The secret ip * Most of the other educational institutions, great or| Shortage of housing, greed of landlords, the ability| entering the barroom he found the| blinding, How we are fooled by these | ROW Pending Wo five ribet Tuan the ls, Realiter Of, the fesk water, wis in to live In the coun “small, have turned to their alumni for the financial aid|to extort higher rents and so enhance the investment Bherit ne poh aide che aa eee Impeachments, |ins our life's blood Out OF Ue ae ine 7 Our great, constructive Eve- ae rete Ge fat note sounn/acee s a >rewident of ime! le. 8 ons, &c driving this country to the verge of|ning World and its great editor have | Clty reared or not, who is bound down required to meet the H. C, of L, | value of the property work in a vicious circle, with] bating the newly discovered method] | 1t 18 perhaps too soon to forecast | >’ ition, but if any of them are|a duty to perform in probing deeper| to the squalor, jazz, routine, monotony 4 fi ” of how to tan hides with wikow tree| the result of the present comedy in| enacted into law they will no doubt] the sinister influence up in. Albany | 28d hish pr is to make the break Here indeed is a great, new intercollegiate sport.! the speculator furnishing the motive power for the| bark, which debate efided by recourse woh “certains On, RIM RETR TOBel contain the sual Joker to trim the that holds our’ inisreprese nitatives | and Fe away pel ery : - ais ‘ad to a game of mumblety-peg on tbe a rs scalp Of @) dear “peepul.” Meanwhile the land-| under its thumb and allows a mise t develops that Mr. Pelley lives im The contests of the gridiron pale in comparison. The upward drive, © | top of the bar for the final round Phi ree ane won ine tient lords laugh up their sleeves, for they| able bunch of bloodsucking landlords | Such a small town as he advises the score is measured in absolute amounts, average gifts) Much the same thing has been happening with| sortenvitic, Marl QUANNSPN: [take hold of the aforesitd gentieman| Know, that, the real estate interests |to| bleed the people out of their lust) Young man te seek. He is nerhapa ‘ottenville, March 16, 1920 oy wil’ Gnd tha ‘ave crossed | ate powerful and tha ey it 5. * nfamiliar with city life. Certainly ~ and percentage of the surviving graduates who con-| fanm lands in the Middle West. Man after man has - ed Me hes a nays = 1) he Common Council here in Yonkers| I know decent men up here who|in New York and its environs there © ffute. Ii is recorded in alumni publications and in sold his farm at what seemed a high price and has re Air ine baeas Went ie y ; ; Wan Seog ere aay Bee ORInIOn AO] ae Bak Bo ae hold a public meeting to remedy con-| salaries who cannot buy clothes for| income is less than $40 a week, yet iversity “spirit,” i e sty vance. i ss| Have been reading the letters from “A Ho ke ditions after the people themselves | themselves or their families on account| they arc prosperous, happy, buyin; + the press. University “spirit,” team play, the debt of purchased it later at a substantial advance, Bitterness your readers with much interest for| Tothe nila tee oe formed a tenants’ protective associa-|of the exorbitant demands of the lund-| their own homes and saving mone, ffatitude to Alma Mater, all have their appeal. It is a and despondency have followed in the wake of the tion to assail the land pirates who| lords, Meanwhile, as Sophie Irena| Among @ number of years, but especially| Sophie Irene Loeb's article in fo- ‘ew York's 6,000,000 peuple sport in which every alumnus can participate. think that money grows on trees. The " A in. Lovb truthfully says, “the New York| there are relatively very few + i The speculator. lately, the letters from Prohibitionis:s| night's Evening World entitled “N. ¥.[rents up here have beon raised from | Legislature 1 a hopeless aftuit.’ "| down ‘to the squalor jase vaatiane ‘“ “, ” | Laat being very amusing, A glance at Legislature Hopeless.” wae a mastor- is to 100 per cent. and we are politely AP. monotony and bigd prin oe ‘panel too weak to “make the team” as an under | It is time to put on the brakes. [dow of the supporter of Frouibiues | pisve pensitaied” benesiis dold' wv migve i Wa dows Uke iy 4 = XomKenm Mane LA Anda - ew + * - —- . nee ‘ s fs “ ° 4 2 “ '

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