The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1920, Page 30

Daily Bundey by the Press Publishing 17, Nos. 53 to 63 Row, New York. Ameectated Pros te exctusively entitled to the use for republication | Rows Goupatches credited to It or not otherwis credited im this paper the local news pubiished herein. | SPEAKER SWEET and Senate Leader Walters are) wn reported as approving most of the legislative pro- ‘§ramme outlined by Gov. Smith. Recalling the “hard-boiled” attitude which has pre- vailed in these same quarters during most of the ses- vend ‘many will wonder over the sudden change of > One explanation, which is plausible at least, would "fun something like this: _ Hem 4. Five Socialists have been expelled. Item 2. Gov. Smith threatens a special session if the essentials of his programme are not passed. 1 item 3. A special session would force special elec- Item 4. Speaker Sweet does not relish a popular ‘referendum on the ousting, which would probably re- | _ turm the five Socialists with overwhelming majorities. | Conclusion: Speaker Sweet is still determined to| Save his face. | a Under the new rent laws, the courts of this city are giving persecuted tenants quick relief and protection against profiteering landlords. | The deterrent effect is plain. One such case ‘puts caution into a dozen would-be rent- | gougers. “WEASEL WORDS.” ‘ | E*ASTERN managers of Gen. Wood have compiled | 4 =a selection of paragraphs from his campaign | ‘Speeches which they say may be regarded as the plat-! form on which he is running for the Republican _ Nomination. ( Politically speaking, this platform is “safe.” | _ As an example, consider the paragraph on capital "and labor which the managers have chosen: “We mus do everything we can to help on good business, for on it depends national pros- perity. Labor and capital in this country must work together in order to meet the problems which are going to follow this World War. We do not wish an autocracy of either capital or labor, but a real democracy in both, character- ised by a spirit of co-operation and helpful- ness.” But\what does Gen. Wood propose to do to carry ‘out this “policy”? Any conceivable course of action ‘could be instituted without violation of such an ex- ©. pression of opinion. | Any ome fs at liberty to read info it anything he or she advocates, We defy any one to read out of| it any Specific. thing that Gen, Wood advocates, And: atithat it is no more indefinite than his other * {in the world do you think I know about the price of gasoline?" John D. jr. asked Gansidering his ample income, it is barely Pérdidle that the question does interest him less thap it*tots the flivver owner, ) DAYLIGHT SAVING GAINS. : ASSACHUSETTS Legislators have passed a} Daylight-Saving Bill, which now goes to the | | vernor. ‘ tions to fill the vacant seats. | child. It fs extremely doubtful whether this ts a fair allowance, particularly when children are in school. A study of typical budgets in the income groups from $2,000 to $3,000 probably would reveal that actual expenditures devoted to children exceed $200. Such a study would indicate the actual exemption which should be allowed. A distinction should be made between children attending school and those employed, America is less concerned over the birth rate than is France, but not even America can afford to place an unnecessary penalty on large families, When income tax rates were small the differences in exemption did not result in a material burden. Ad- dition of a State tax to the increased Federal tax makes it worthy of serious consideration, TEMPER ZEAL WITH SANITY. ” in the interest of greater order and decency in | New York, Mayor Hylan appoints a committee {on public morals, he might recommend to each mem- | ber of that committee, as part preparation for the duties undertaken, the reading of a book published here some fourteen years ago, The book is called “Guarding a Great City.” It dis- cusses police administration in New York City, witie special stress on the problem of how to deal with vice. Among conclusions based on expert knowledge and observation, the author offers the following: “I think a careful investigation would show that gambling and prostitution * * * afb more widespread and cover a larger territory in New York than in those Buropean capitals where the vices are either regulated openly by law or confined by a sort of common consent to certain neighborhoods and places.” Asan American example, he cites the City of Washington, where “disorderly houses have for many years been confined to one quarter of the city.” “This is not law, but custom, This locality {s known to every one, and is carefully avoided by those who want to escape even suspicion. It is so located as not to interfere with the citizens in general; the neighborhood is iso- lated; instead of offering temptations to young people, it rather repels them, for to be seen there at all is apt to put one on the defensive.” “Any attempt to break up this quarter and scatter the vice throughout the city would be at once bitterly opposed by even the religious and moral elements in the community.” “All that the police do is to see that peace and order prevail, that larcenies and robberies are prevented and that the inhabitants are kept under careful espionage.” “A neighborhood like this is often most use- ful to the police, because it is there that they THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 192 v& hunt first for those dissolute and desperate men who are trying to evade contact with the law, and where much can be learned about the movements of criminals, either those who make their headquarters in the city or come from other parts.” “I never heard a whisper during a long resi- dence in Washington of any attempt by the police fo blackmail the women in this quarter, The neighborhood is specially policed. Street- |__FROM EV. To Rett To the Kalitor of The Evening World; Although Representative Louis A. ENING WORLD ReADERS | What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. the Saloons. walking in Washington is practically unknown, and professionally bad women rarely, if ever, are found in hotels, boarding or apartment Cuvillier's investigation ‘into the au- tocratic methods of the Anti-Saloon League is about to be pushed to she limit, no one hag come forward thus far with a solution for the so-called houses. “The confining of the disorderly elements to evil traffic. one quarter takes a great deal, too, from the blocks, let thi labors of the police.” As to the effect of this segregation on police morals, ~ “It is safe to assume that this would not have hap- pened had not New York set the example, | . _ It would be a sad state of affairs if the daylight) |, “wasters” at Albany should succeed in their effort now. | _\ Advance of the clock in Massachusetts will add to > the pressure for daylight saving in Connecticut and} P_-Rhode Island. These States are likely to fall in line when their Legislatures meet. | Every gain of territory in the industrial East will make jt easier to gain more. By another year it is not foo much to hope that all the territory ea:t of the line , which separates the Eastern and Central time belts will be saving daylight. | Such an arrangement would give maximum benefit with minimum inconvenience. A Warm Spring, Hurry the inauguration, THE TAX ON CHILDREN. RANCE is considering the imposition of a super- tax of 10 per cent. on the incomes of bachelors. | In France the desire for more revenue is reinforced , by the need for an increased birth rate. | The average American will regard a tax on bachelors | @ a rather humorous affair. , But as\a matter of fact we already have such a tax, | ) although we approach it from another angle and allow | » the married man an “exemption” of $1,000 for a wife | |) and $200 for each child. | The theory of our income tax is that it is levied ac- ©) \ cording to the ability to pay. This accounts for both <a exemptions and the gradations of the super-taxes. : Either before or after the next election it is highly Nominated, voted on and unanimously elected | | and in accordance with the theory of the tax. | | present a $200 ¢: the author expresses himself with conviction: | a foreigner’s ideas of what would be good for New York. cal knowledge or serious attitude toward the moral book he had been two years Police Commissioner of |New York City ao traie, and his name is William McAdoo, let's have “This can be said: That where there is neither license nor segregation by common consent * * there is very apt to be col- lusion between the police and those who break the law.” whose laws one. The man who wrote thus was not a foreigner with ‘ and ales. He was no easy-going theorist without practi-| which the An Take the saloon out of politics. Al- low one or 80 to every two or three mately, as they were in Europe, and under the direct supervision of a’ duly qualified analytical chemist on a par with the late Sir Charles A, Cameron. Then the poor man will get decent stimulants and beer when necessary. We should further keepers desiring to live up to the Liquor Tax Law, as in Great Britain, world, to open and close at regular hours and give gratis drinks to no For the sake of the sick that it ben- efits, this country could well afford to take the tariff off foreign stouts Contrary to the sentiments of some hypocrites regarding a em be conducted legiti- require galoon- are the finest in the traffic from ican Government de rived millions of dollars that the poor man is now paying to make up the Sha Ae i tetaniil deficit, the big majority of saloon} ide of his subject. i __| tien have lived up to the law. Not | When the author we have quoted published his} so with Ra y hotels, which mostly w 6 for any fault | He is at present Chief City Magis-] prooktyn, the ailor st to and m from an No public morals committee will be the worse for} a thoughttt . As the vice real te study of his views yblem begins to loom large again, |; mpered with all that sanity and ex- new to be found with April 4, regulation of liquor traffic, | JOHN J. M'BRIEN. | > en Protected? 1g Worid ot! the the view *ro Bono | look at new entirely different angle holding the sys. the hoy perience can contribute, ATTENTION OF MR. ARNSTEIN. Cc ALEXICO, Cal. Jack Johnson, former world’s heavyweight champion, sent for Sheriff Applestill of Imperial County yester- day and arranged to have the Sheriff take him personally into custody when Johnson crosses the international line to meet Federal charges pending against him at Chicago. Johnson said he hoped to be ready to surrender soon, The italics in this despatch are ours, inserted with of catching the eye of Mr. “Nicky” Arnstein, Fair warning, Nicky: Fame is a fleeting t Had Jack Johnson made a similar offer while he that there will be a revision of the schedules. was still undefeated champion, the news would have this occurs it would be well for Congress to been in headlines on the front page. Defeated, the whether the present exemptions are entirely story is condensed to a minor paragraph, If Nicky waits until a new “master mind” appears tion Is allowed for a minor ihe publi ing. notes of the reception will be curtailed. 4 9 ee pedestrians at bay on Fifth Avenue is for their own good. If at times th trattlc is ght, i does not mean tha the rules and regulations should be re- vised, but should be strictly enforced ie in comparison with time at a steam roller asphalt, or an automobi lost lookin: thing te truck or for the sake of a few seconds or per. haps minutes and also endanger the lives of the ones who might cross in the opposite direction, causing con- fusion at almost every crossing and ing columns to the long list of dents that occur thus too fre- quently? Waiting at crossing and ting elsewhere can be easily bal- anced. I do not want to discuss the ques- tion whether the Police Department has a right to hold back pedestrians ut Fifth Avenue crossings, but I am very much inelined to sanction the new system. Police efficiency is easily criti- cised. Experience will no doubt teach the Traffie Department in time to either continue or abolish the new system. In my opinion the new traffic the like meeting with some mishap.) Is time so valuable as to sacrifice life | The tnv Government. ‘To the Editor of The Lvening World: ‘The expulsion of the five Socialist Assemblymen is a blot on our State, @ blow to representative government and the greatest crime against the right of the people to rule since the expulsion of Gov, Sulzer from his of- fice by a similar boss ridden, bi- partisan Legislature. These so-valled trials were the farces of the tine—a travesty on justice. Everything was cut and dried. Everything arranged before the legal lynching began. The victims never had a chance. It is an- other evide: of the power of “in- vis‘ble government” in New York, which Mr. Sulzer fought and exposed when he was the Governor, and which ruthlessly ordered his expulsion just as it has now ordered the expulsion | of these Assemblymen, Iam not a Socialist, 1 am not a Democrat. I am an American. For over thirty years I have been a tax- payer and a consistent and conserva- tive Republican, but I can see no dif- ference at present in this State be- tween the two old political machines controlled by the big and little bosses and ever responsive to the dark and reactionary forces of the “invisible government.” As a patriotic citizen I again feel outraged and disgraced, The voters’ only hope agninst these evil and un-American forces seems to be in a strenuous demand for th: initiative, the referendum and the recall. How else can we protect our rights and defeat the menace of in- visible government?" EDGAR W, MARTIN, New York City, April 2, 1 The Police Reserve, To the HAitar of THe Exening World 1 have i with some interest an article in your paper of March 30 signed “Edmund §. Flinn," entitled ‘The New York Police Reserve." In- cidentally, 1 was greatly surprised at your editorial in relation to the arti- and am nning to _won- der if something has not finally been put over on your publication, which heretofore has been a pion in the field of activity opposed to any legislation detrimental to the public welfare Mr, Flinn has endeavored to show that the Mill now pending before the Legislature to make the reserve a permanent force has no connection with the so-called police bills that are meeting with such strennous op- position, and attempts to justify the enactment of the measure through certain reasons which he advances, but which are absolutely unsupport- ed by concrete facts.| Under existing laws, there is not only a sufficient force available to cope with disorder that may arise in the city, but in the impression of many would practically handle such a condition throughout the State. In addition to the present force, the Police Commissioner is empowered, under the Greater New York Charter, to swear in any number of citizens as special patrolmen, to serve with- system deserves the highest praise. 0. W. SMITH. Warren Point, N. J., April 4, 1930, out pay, in the event of any time of riot or great disorder, Besides thie, are | five counties in the city of ' and, UNCOMMON SEwSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) DON’T CHEAPEN YOUR SPEECH WITH PROFANITY. Men are judged by their talk. They have no other means of impressing those with whom they come into contact, Business men and: prospective employers are not mind readers. They form their opinion of you by the words that come out of your mouth. If you talk well and intelligently your chance of suc- cess is excellent. The Love Stories of Great Novels No. 69—DANIEL DERONDA, By George Eliot. Gwendolen Harleth was as selfistl and egotistic as she was beautiful, She was brought up to great wealth) and to a life of lazy luxury. ‘Then, when she reached womans hood, her father died, leaving her penniless. And she was confronted by the prospect of marrying for monoy or else of working for a living | She chose the former course; falsely believing it to be the easier of the two. At the gaming tables at Baden, shortly before this, Gwendolen had chanced to meet a dark and dis- tinguished looking youth who had perplexed and interested her strangely. He was Daniel Deronda, adopted son of Sir Hugh Mallinger, whe had brought him up in ignorance of his own rea} identity. Daniel attracted Gwendolen powers fully, against her will, But she knew he was a penniless dependent on Sif Hugh's bounty, And in her present financial straits she felt she had na right to let herse!f care for any one | but a man of wealth, Such a man she found in Henleigit Grandcourt, ward to Sir Hugh. Grand court was as selfish as Gwendolen |herself and was in every way un- thy of a woman's love. But ha money and high position. | So Gwendolen smiled on his courts ship, forcing herself to forget Deniel, who also came into her life again at this time. From the months of her inare ned Kite, Gwendolen reali terrible mistake she had. ma existence with Grandcourt was every bit us miserable ag so loveless « mar {riage deserved to be. | Daniel Deronda, by chance, jable to rescue from peril a ge | Jewish girl, Mirah Lapidoth. Throu her he met Mordecai, a Jew of es alted ideals and life. And Mordecai's teachings, Daniel to take a keen interest in Jewish tory and religion and racial t He wondered at his own keen inter ese subjects until at last he a that he himself was birth a Jew, Whereupon he cast in his lot, gladly; with his own people. Then it-was that he and Gwendolom lwerg thrown together again. And once more Daniel's high influence ine« gan to exert itself over the unhappy wife. Daniel used this strange influence enly for Gwendolen's good. By means ct it he pointed out to her—more by example than by words—that she owed most of her unhappiness to ‘er own selfishness and fack of care {or others, Under his teachings was the wilful orien Braden nirne, 2.2 bet ten to and unselfish life and sought atone for her earlier mistakes follies. But whatever love sh« Daniel felt for each other remained forever unspoken, as both of then know they had no right to a purt in one another's lives. ‘Airplanes Help in | Mosquito Hur When officials of the An Flying Club at No. 11 East asth Street were recently urged to adapt to the Jersey Meadows and ot'ier? local breeding grounds for the quito pest the plan of Lieut. Mc Sanitary Inspector at Goodman Ky, to hunt them with airpla they thought some one was trying to t If your speech is slovenly, ungrammatical, and above all profane, you will promptly be set down as a mucker. And nobody wants to transact business with muckers, or to hire muckers to transact business with them. Profanity instantly stamps those who use it as of in- ferior intelligence. More than that, it makes the cultiva- tion of correct speech impossible. Nobody will take the trouble to think of the right word to use if he has the habit of inserting an expletive whenever he is at a loss for the right expression. And only by searching for the right words to use can correct speech be formed. You do not swear in the presence of ladies. Unless you are utterly ill-mannered you do not swear in the pres- ence of strangers. It is easy therefore to keep profanity out of your speech, And you will find it as easy as it is profitable. Important men, it is true, are sometimes addicted to profanity. But they are not important because of their profanity but in spite of it. And more and more, intelligent men are abandoning the habit. Lincoln managed to get along without it. So did Washington, although both of them were subjected to vex- ations such as are utterly unknown to you, Keep your speech clean and straightforward. Be vigorous, but don’t be profane. Fight hard against the habit if you have it already, If you haven't contracted it, don’t. You don’t want to be known as a mucker, and you are certain to be if you substitute oaths and expletives for intelligent English. New York, each with a Sheriff em- powered to swear in any number of deputies should an emergency arise, und, to support these forces, we have n efficient State Guard, which can also be called upon under similar con- ditions, Why, therefore, should any emergency police force be especially created, supposedly to meet a situa~ tion that has not existed and cannot exist in the City of New York, whose splendid regular police force, irre- spective of things that may be said of it with regard to other things, are a unit when it is a question of the preservation of order and the protec- tion of life and property. It the officers and members of the present police reserve are so ready to perform a patriotic service at such great sacrifices as intimated in Mr, Flinn's letter, their fleld of en- deavor should ibe’ confined to enlist- ment in the State Guard, which would afford them a wide opportunity of making themselves useful to their city and State, Moreover, if by any mishap a permanent police reserve be established, the city will have on its discipline that 1s ¢0 essential to the efficient functioning of any organiza- tion, On the other hand, by enlist- ment in the State Guard they will be subject to its orders and thereby at- tain the discipline and training neces- sary for any outiit that is put to- gether for the express purpose of up- holding law and order. In conclusion, let me state that the police reserve’ would be about as valuable an adjunct of assistance to the regular force in a time of emer- gency as would be an abscessed tooth to a man suffering with the mumps. If their intentions are purely patriotic, let them prove it by en- listment'in the State Guard, where a call to duty would not consist of a polite request, if not incommoding or |, inconveniencing its members, but a stern command, with proper penal discipline to be inflicted in case of disobedience. ‘The Police Reserve BIN is a vicious measure, opposed by every policeman and the majority of our citizens, It should be speedily killed in the com- mittee of the Législature where it JAMES F. MARTIN. New York, of now reposes. “josh” them. But when they received official re= ports of Lieut, McNutt's experiments and learned the details of his plan, they revised their opinion and now are working on a similar scheme here. The Ideutenant induced Cupt, Arthur Thomas, at Goodman Field. to pilot the machine, while the Lieuten- ant charted water holes and bits of marsh visible from the maciing Each of these places was made point of attack by men who car out barrels of crude oil on land tri more prosaic than the Lieuter vehicle, but quite as effective their purpose. The result is dec! to have banished mosquitoes from 1) vicinity. a ’ ns 1 ° | | Roads for Japan, \ | A short time ago a $5,000,000 | corporation, which will accept ' contracts to build and repair | roads of any type of materia’. | was formed by leading business | men of Japan. At present there are no sidewalks and the roads | are very narrow, which makes ! automobdiling very dificult, everyone walks in the middle of the road. The ‘new project in cludes the widening of the roads which will no doubt open up a market for automobiles. The rickshaw is the most common vehicle in Japan, though there are thousands of bicycles. On account of the dense population of Japan, good roads are an ac. | tual necessity. ' ! as May Grow All Our Figs, It is not improbable that this country will soon produce all the figs it needs. This statement is made by the Chief of the Bureau of Plaut Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, in his report on the progress of Smyrna fig culture in Californin, Much of the success of this enterprise has been due to the fact that the Department hoy been able to maintain a caprifis orchard at Loomis, from wiiej; caprifigs have been distributed tree to grewere, }