The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1920, Page 18

— me e eeee ) a r er Tre ene eee ee Se ae KILL THE JENKS BILL. F = DWARD A. MAHER, President of the New York Electric Railway Association, has taken excep- n to The Evening World's editorial “Kill the Jenks which said: Ne detailed analysis of the Jenks Traction Fare Bill ts required. The circumstances of its _ @leventh hour introduction alonr are enough to A safe rule for legislators to follow that legislation which cannot bear the light i Ld Maher protests that “it is not fair to call it an sed fare bill;’ it is a flexible fare bill. Upon the n of an era of lower costs; fares under this bill fall below five cents.” further says: “Loss of service or bad service 4 cost a community far more than a small in of fare.” ‘We gladly grant the truth of these statements, But they do not modify our contention that this tar bill ought to be killed. ~ It is a famentable fact that in the past the traction have not achieved an entirely creditable legis- record., They have been known to do in the dark ‘witat would not be approved in the light. They have ! “jokers” into Jegislative enactments, Fran- chises have been obtained by bribery. Perhaps the present generation of traction men must ‘suffer for the sins of their predecessors. The fact remains that the traction desire for a flexible fare” is not precisely new. They have been advocating it ever since the rise in prices decreased _ the profit in the 5-cent fare, The Jenks bill was not hastily assembled to meet “a sudden emergency. There seems to be no good ‘teason wiry It should not have been introduced on the | first day of the session, when it could have had the benefit of public analysis, discussion and criticism. ‘At was left uniil the last. There has been relatively If such a bill is to be effective and is not to be re- “garded 2s a “grab” there is absolute need that the blic be informed and educated as tp its merits. _ Whatever the merits of the Jenks bill the public ould view with justifiable suspicion its passage under ms circumstances. * -—— om | This alone is a sufficient reason for killing it. ANSWERED IN PART. ‘ HY is a Public Service Commission?” The Evening, World asked Priday evening. ' Part of the answer appeared Saturday with the an- nouncement that the Interborough had beén ordered to ‘restore some of the service withdrawn from the Third Avemue Elevated line. Restoration of the Sec- ond Avenue service is under consideration. Not evenva complete restoration of the service with- “drawn will answer the question. An adequate increase in rush hour’ service is the <nly answer that will be fully satisfactory. __A seat for every passenger whenever possible is the only real and ultimate answer. On the west side subway this is impossible until more subways shall have been built. The 96th Street _ “bottle neck” will not pass sufficient cars to provide stats for all _ In the case of the elevated the situation: is less complex. More rush hour trains are possible and should be required. ‘ ; BUILD THE TUNNEL. + [VENTS of the last week are clinching arguments for the vehicular tunnel to New Jersey, In case of transportation strikes, whether of marine ‘workers or railroad workefs, the motor truck becomes an essential. . If ever the “one big union” idea should prevail on \ both railroads and ferries New York would be cut off from the mainland except for the long detour via Poughkeepsie. _ New Yorkers are not competent to judge between the merits of the steel tunnel and the concrete tunnel. to decide this question. want it buflt, one way or the other. They want the tunnel, hearing to-morrow, tthe expense, New York should not lag behind ‘ 3 Ss” x, eee» AALAND unday. A WOMAN'S STANDARD. oct ttic National Convention, sald: “Ladies, there is something 1 want you to do P th ap the utterances ot Gen, ‘mtelliganca, and if tat ic you can show me one that ainounts to a hill ot beans I will give you a prize. Show me any- ‘thing that an intelligent boy of fifteen could not say better.” This is unusual talk. Polilicians are not given to asking voters to think for themselves, Politicians | usually ask the voters to accept what the politicians | say about the opposition, Having applied this test to Gen. Wood, Miss Mar- bury is in duty bound to support a candidaje on her own ticket who can stand the same test of intelligent In truth, they are not greatly concerned. They must and do depend on the engineering talent they employ They are deeply concerned in the tunnel. They This ts the princiral fact which the members of the Joint Legislative Committee should remember at the , is immediate prospect of an increa New York faces a similar situation, If New Jersey-has a'reaty provided for her share of nts or the Yanks are victorious it means Women have not jumped to leadership as many) imagined they would. Where ihey have, it must be| admitted that the leadership has been rather more desirably intelligent than the average among men, “GETTING READY TO SWARM"! OSELY following public measures of self-protec- | tion against railroad strikes comes the swift! spread of a Nation-wide overalls protest against the high price of clothing. | This overalls movement has already far outgrown} the proportions of a spring fad. It has gone all over the country, hold on millions of Americans who have only been! waiting for some clear, concrete way to express their! consciousness—intense but, so far, inarticulate—of a/ pressing national need, Once this popular consciousness begins to feel its poténtial power, let profileers beware. Those who boost the price of clothing are not the only price boosters who can be brought to terms by concerted refusal of the public to buy. Up’ to this time consumers have had no rallying points from which to make an effective defense. Now they begin to see their common interests and how they | can get together for the c Cynics picture the people of the United States as hunting profiteers around a circle made by their own mon good, This is far from just. It is safe to say that eighty, perhaps ninety, million of the present population of the country neither are nor have been in any true sense profiteers, That does not mean that some of them have not increased their pay or profits. ‘To strive to maintain former standards of living instead of falling lower—to®struggle to keep one’s head abovg levels that others are recklessly lifting— cannot in fairness be called. profiteering. 4 Ruthlessly to push demands that can only be satis- fied by forcing some one else downward, adding to pay or profits in order to set up new standards of liv- ing in which extravagance and self-indulgence are first manifestations of change—that IS profiteering, whether it be labor or capital, worker or employer, whose \policy and practice are judged. For the deliberate price boosting which has made a hundred times worse the inevitable effects of inflation, not above fifteen or twenty per cent. of the American people are to blame. But where the blame rests it rests heavily, The eighty per cent. begin to be aware of the heari- less policies and methods by which greed has been turning to its own extra profit economic conditions that were the heritage from war. The eighty per cent. begin to understand the kind of selfishness that has been forcing the whole country to join, in spite of itself, in the wild climbing contest between prices and wages. The eighty per cent. begin to see that if they refuse to buy prices will fall; that they can bring greed to terms in no quicker way than by getiing together to}: The overalls movement is a significant sign that public exasperation has reaghed a point where resoltite team work promises relief. As a New Yorker put it last week: “The American people are getting ready to swarm” FANS AND FARES. INCINNATI finds itself with a practical and finan. cial as well as a sentimental and sporting interest : in the success of the recently all-conquering Reds. On the success of the Reds may depend the rate of fare for street car riders. ; If the Reds are successful, the Cincinmati public is told, so many fans will flock to the ball park that the profits of the traction company will increase and the fare need not be raised, If the Reds fail, then there sed fare, in what are ordinarily non-rush hours, The better the earnings of the subway and the L the less likelihood that the Interborough will be able to ‘convince legislators or Judges that a fare change is ME rather unusual political advice was offered to required, political women by a political woman at the | One more reason to do your “pulling” for the home of the Women’s Democratic Club on Sat- team. One more reason to roost in bleachers and Py ) grandstand, One more reason to “pay respects to} Miss Ellsabeth Marbury, Delegate at Large to the grandmothers” and arrange “business conferences” at | the Polo Grounds, Good reasons—but superfluous. A smooth working ball team ts Its own best and sufficient reason, i It has taken quick | that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of huncred? What «tna of letter do you Jind most readable? Len't ts the one | there i# fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Tuke time to be brief. Food for the Brain. To the Editor of The Eveaing World: I have been a reader of your valu- able paper for the last fitteen years. 1 would like to ask you to print the answers in “What Do. You Know?" cn the same day with the questions, instead of printing them a y later. I consider your paper as food for the brain. If a man went to eat a din- ner I am quite sure he would not want the knife and fork to be served to him a day later, If I tear the questions to match them with the unswers the following day, nine times out of ten I elther mislay the paper or lose it. HR. “ity April 12, 1920, Note; The change recom- ‘oes into effect to-daya men Hylan’s Inconsistency, it ning World; that Mayor Hylan seems to ne to the conclusion that the hs of a mor increase than the higher graded ones, It would be in- leresting to know why he did not act accordingly when he was considering the rais »men and policemen. It nearl his heart when the most of the Hoard voted for $1,900 per year, He was strong for $1,800 and ho more. At that time he talked a lot about keeping the budget down, These deserving men asked for $2,000. which is small enough during these of skyrocketing prices, yet they only given $1,900, On the ocher the Lieutenants made a re- ) $2.660and were granted $2,- she in favor of the extra these men instead of the and by far the most de s these men have to pay very high prices for uniforms and arc out in all Kinds of. weather, which is a big item for shoes alone. 1am the wift of a fireman, with three children, and have been trying to get shoes for them for the past two months, but as som as the money comes in I owe so much of it that I find it imposstble to lay a few dollars aside to get anything Lately we are going without butter, and soon the potatoes will be missirg from the table. With best wishes for all lower grid- ed underpaid city employees, T am WIFE OF A FIREMAN. New York, April 14, 1920. My de to see fair play prompts me lo make a public statement re- futing the false and malicious state- ment of two vice crusaders, in so far as they relate to George D, Grundy of the St. Nicholas Dancing Hall, IT and my wife have on many oc- casions gone to this place of amuse~ nt for an hour or two of dancing. e the Grand Central Palace was converted into a military hospital,we enjoyed many a pleasant evening at the dancing carnival, also under the management of Mr. Grundy. Never aye I seen a public dance hall, or |for that matter any public place of amusement, where the supervision of its patron’ were under closer scru- + |tamy than at these dance halls. to | St, Nicholas and ee ee duvest, rushing to mest AI Met ap — never sold any intoxicating drinks. “Picking” partners was always for- vidden, Improper dancing was imme- diately stopped by supervisors -who were stationed about the dancing floor. In fact, I know from good au- thority that the instructors and in- structresses were at all times under close scrutiny, and only those of un- questionable character could hold their positions. I believe that the citizens of New York should feel indebted to the management of the St. Nicholas for setting an example of a wholesome dance hall, a place where a respect- able man may go with his wife or sister without fear of embarrass. ment. LEO GOLDFINGER. i} 1081 Teller Avenue, April 10, 1920. The Stave of Ma To the Editor of The Evening World: I merely wish to rémark that sev- eral of your correspondents. “anti- daylight savers,” seem to be grossly misinformed as to the habits and cus- toms of the sun. They state (and it is most interesting) that “you can’t fool old Sol,” and that the sun wil) rise and set cach day at the specified tme (old time they say) in spite of anything we little mortals may do with the clock. They do not seem to realize that the clock !s merely a map made invention—made by man for his own convenience, and to measure “time” for him to run his affairs and business by, A ciock is merely a me- chanical contrivance, and even if moved out into the void, where, we are told,-there is neither time or place, faithful old “Big Ben" would atili continue (if kept wound up) to tick off the minutes end hours for eter- ity—where euch man-made conveni- ences as minutes and hours do not exist. The sun runs on schedule, it is true, —caused by the revolution of the earth ag everyone knows. As far as we know, it has always done so, and un- less some catastrophe occurs, whl al- ways continue to do 80, As to hours and minutes, as I said before, man has merely divided up the day into twenty-four hours of sixty minutes each to suit his conveniences He could just as well have made it twelve hours of 120 minutes each, or forty-eight hours of thirty minutes each, It would bave made absolutely no difference in the scheme of things. The planets would continue to move in their orbits, and the Almighty woud not throw up his hands in horror—as several of your correspondents bave intimated is the case in moving the clock ahead an hour. Why don't these “anti-daylight eav- ers” raise @ voice of protest to heaven ning the numbers on their clocks from one to twenty-four instead of from one to twave as we do? STANLEY SCHENDEL, 633 West 124th Street, April 12, 1920, Explains Heasing Shortage ‘Te the Eilitor of The Bvening World: \ e morning and evening, and have al- ways enjoyed your letters from Even~- dng World readers. This column, be- yond the shadow of a doubt, reflects the sentiment of the people. It shows, to (raat oF year housing ahort- jong can she carry UNCOMMON SENSE By John’ Blake. . (Copyright 1920, by John Blake.) HARD BLOWS TOUGHEN GOOD METAL. Poverty is far from pleasant. Yet most successful men take more delight in talking of their early struggles than in anything else. _ ‘ Shipwreck is horrible. Yet the shipwrecked sailor, after his rescue, dwells fondly on all the details of his bitter experience. . ‘ Every man who amounts to anything has troubles. They seem great while he is having them. But time softens their ¢error. And he soon finds himself talking of them almost with gratitude. An experience that is really dreadful is the little child's first day in school. The strangeness of it all, the sternness of the teacher, the demoniac grins of the other children all burn into the sensitive soul. Three weeks later the little sufferer has not only for- gotten all the torture of that first day, but is actually help- ing to inflict the same tortures on the new children who came late to the session. Hard blows temper good metal. They are not pleas- ant, but they are necessary. If you could go through the world with no rough experiences you would be of little use when you were put on your own. * The battle that we all must make to get out of trouble, and to keep out of trouble, is mentally and physically strengthening. It puts all the faculties on the alert. It stimulates the imagination, and it wakens DETERMINATION, that qual- ity which above all others is necessary to success. The shipwrecked steamship passenger who, because of necessity, has built a raft and propelled it to the beach, is a better man forever after because of what he has done. The soldier who has fought his way out of a cul-de-sac is a better soldier and a better man than he was before Troubles are often very thoroughly disguised blessings, but they are blessings just the same. Great troubles teach us to regard lightly little troubles which before were tor- tures to our life. No man who has starved on the desert would get into a fury because he was suffering from ivy poison. Meet trouble when it comes, not as a bugaboo but an enemy to be conquered, and you will gain in mental stature by the battle. Run away from a big trouble and. little ones will con- tinue to pester you. Face and beat the big trouble and the little troubles will cease from troubling. Furthermore, you will be in much better shape to overcome the next big trouble that comes along. ———— etant reader of The World, both|you cam notice with the naked eye. Japanese Mill Run by Women, only temporary. Oh, yes, the Anti. its effect on the country: |,United States out of New York, Agr M4 120, Nobody knows better than they it is The shoriage is caused by ths thousands and thousands already here waiting for steamers on which ie leave ‘ose and steamship Sina the wicked Hureopeans run. |@t! co plainly, how very unpopular | T2t “in Maaring Op funds doing the ds that most despicable Wighteenth| patrons that all of Europe is drop- Amendment, which has been foisted} ping everything else and is buildin; on a clean living, loyal public in one | ships. . of the dirtiest games of politica ever \-Galoon League Glayed. and its dupes, prohibition is putting busines. How JY. HART By Dinah Mulock. Bernard Rivers, a young English clergyman, was placidly happy in the love of his prettyyoung wife and of thetr one baby daughter, Rose. Sudden death took the girl wife, Yeaving the wretched widower alon# and loveless in 1:fe except for mothe less little Kose, Rivers knew he could not bring up the child as well as could a woman He was not minded to leave her to the care of servants. So he hit upon the idea of sending for his dead wife's elder sister, Hannah Thelluson, |to come and keep house for him and ;to superintend the upbringing and | the educating of little Rose. It was a simple plan and o wise lone, and the arrangement was no- body's business but his and Him- |nah’s, But the whole parish and the Rivers family as well began to gds- sip about it. Hannah was a noble and gentle woman, whose only interest in com~ ing to live at the rectory was to care for Rose and to make her sis- ter’s husband a little more comforta- big im his desolate house. . When people began to talk, she paid no heed to their slanders, nor did Rivers, And so for a time lifo went on at the rectory. But, at lest, Hannah diseovered to her horror that sho had fallen in love with Rivers, And she ‘ound that he had fallen in love with her. Now, to modern American readers, there is nothing astonishing or re- volting in this situation of a lonely man and a good woman falling ™ love with each other and of marry- ing. But in Engtand at that time (and indeed until lately) the mat presented a very different aspect By ancient English aw a nan might not marry his deceased wife's sister. Such a union was not only regarded as illegal, but as positively criminal. Hannah was the sister of Bernard Rivers's deceased wife, As such, the law solemnly forbade her to marry him. And this accounted in a large measure for the, neighborhood gos~ sip about the innocent couple. Hannah endured the imposgibis situation as long as she could, and tried to deafen herseif to the slits and veiled insults that met her every hand. But the time came when she cou! face these no longer. So, tuk Rose along, she left the rectory and went to France to live. Bernard tried in vain to live wii: cut the woman ho had learned (to love 90 devotedly. But he fuiled to | put Hannah out of his heart. Cross- ing to France he joined her. There they were married, even though the union made them forever outlaws from their own native land. a0 The Earth's Crust. The most important scienti/. fe investigation of the past year in any country has prop ably been the attempt to meas ure the earth’s crust, says Boys’ Life. We know very Uttle about the shell on which, we live. Beientists have deen” atudyiny the problem in Howatt, Tus. cany, and in Salvador, where the opportunities for investiga ton are especially favorable. Much data new to science has been collected concerning the shell, its composition and prod. able age. 8till other tests have been made in New South Wales, where @ great reservoir con centrates an immense weight of water on a limited area, and in- struments have been devised to measure the movement of the earth's crust under this weight. | New light has thus been thrown on the action of volcanoes. eee The Birth Rate. The normal birth rate of New York State has been reduced by 36,000 since Jan. 1, 1918, bde- cause of the war, a statement issued by Dr. Herman M. Biggs, State Commisstoner of Health, says. Taking the war and the influenza epidemic into consid- eration, New York State to-day has @ population of 87,000 less than it would have had under | normal conditions. e 6 2 A new silk mill, to be oper- ated by the Kawakami Silk Company, is shortly to be estabd- lished by the Japanese actress, “Sada Yacco,” which will be op- erated and managed by women exclusively. It will be built near Nagoya, The company {s,, to be capitalized at yen 3.000 000. The company toil bear 1) name ef the well-known avi Shee ogress wemrien,