The evening world. Newspaper, August 3, 1920, Page 20

ee ew YT eS | | and the long trip home midst the crowds and the heat 's forgotten. “ By Thursday or-Friday plans are made for the next week-end. By Saturday afternoon or Sunday Dat: Haoest Senter by 4! orem bifabing Cemnpany, Noa 53 to 63 Row, New York. ee President, Park fh meet | ita. Park 1 U PUL 3 Park Row, evening the subway is filled with a crowd that is so very, very tired and,so overwhelmingly sleepy that it just simply cannot stay awake until it reaches home stations, After all, people do survive these strenuous one- day vacations for which they are physically unpre- pared. Probably they are all the better for having enjoyed—and suffered from—them. A TANGLED WEB. T HIS country had no alternative but to experl- ment with increased rates for the railroads, Whether the new rates will prove an unmixed blessing even to the railroads is open to question. Not even the shrewdest and wisest students of transportation affairs can hazard more than a good guess as to the final effect of the higher schedules. Railroad rates and their inter-relations form one of the deepest puzzles of modern civilization. The average reader has small conception of the fractional freight margins on which many great industrial op- erations rest. As a comparatively simple example, take the New England boot and shoe industry. e It has been able to compete with the manufac- turers of the Mississippi Valley in supplymg shoes to that region. Superior organization, experience, a great overturn of goods, &c., have enabled the Eastern manufacturers to pay freight on Western hides and returp the-finished products by freight. Whether they can continue to do so in face of a higher rate remains to be seen. Fs MEMEER OF THE ASSOCIATED raees Pres te cctustvety qntitied to the ao for repubtication Gewparches credited to it or net otherwine credited tm thle ape ise the loca! mews pubitsned herete. _. ONE MORE JOB AT ALBANY. HE longér a special session of the Legislature is delayed the more evident becomes the need, __ Business continues to pile up. The session prom- Ises to be important and may demand considerable time. . . It is significant that most of the imperative busi- |" mess is not new. It is work which the regular ses- sion neglected or did in slipshod fashion. fF } A case in point is the pending proposal of the i New York Telephone Company for increased rates. " Under the Jaw as it,stands the company may ifn- pose and collect higher ¢olls subject to eventual re- wision by the Public Service Commission. But the commission cannot suspend the rates until it can B= discover whether they, are reasonable. Telephone patrons have no safeguard against illegitimate charges during the period in which the ognmission is investigating. Last winter a bill to correct this abuse failed of passage. In a special session a measure of such ob- vious justice would have such public support that legislators would not dare to sidetrack it. -~- RESURRECTING THE “OBS.” a MERICAN political discussion hag: always | A proved a veritable gold mine for lexicog- raphers. F It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that we need @ new dictionary after each campaign. Scores of words in common use are of political ancestry. Candidates and partisans are prone to coin new words and phrases, to develop new mean- ings for words in common use. In the heat of the ES campaign Whese ate fused into the language and he- come part of the national tongue, The present campaign is no exception, “Normalcy,” which Candidate Harding used in ‘his acceftance speech, is the best example so far. The dictionary labels the word as “obs,” but it is rapidly tosing that label. Editors and speakers are using it without quotation marks, Senator Harding has revived it, even though there may not yet be complete agreement as to'the precise definition of the term. z In the next editions of the dictionary the “dbs” label will be obsolete, Normalcy will be in good standing as a resurrected word, Perhaps as good a guess as any is that the definition Is likely to relate “normalcy” to the act of retrospection, of looking /~ backward to the good old days. Perhaps it is typical of the difference between the men, that where Roosevelt was distinguished for his readiness to coin new words, Harding is _ turning to the obsolete list for means of expression. ) But it is well to wam the Republican candidate ~ that he is getting out of his period. Most of the words marked “obs” in the dictionary went out of | @urrent use long before the era of Mark Hanna and ) ‘ Lexicographers are nothing if not cofservative, gad rarely write the obituary of a word unless i} has 4 ‘been ctend for more than. twenty-four years. zi Writing to the editor of the Tribane, Mr. R. W. Anderson of Pittsburgh comments on possible effects. They have observed the effect of higher fares on street railways frequently resulting in lowered receipts. The Boston elevated lines are a conspicuous example. * Certain materials such as ore and sand could be hauled only at a low rate. Ata high rate the rail- roads could not get the business becausé the com- modities would not be worth hauling. The railroads could afford to haul these low-rate commodities at a bare fraction more than the actual cost of operation. This tiny*fraction helped to keep equipment busy and to reduce by a small margin the inevitable heavy overhead which had to be divided among commodities which could bear a heavier freight rate. This was the reason for the “‘classificailon” of freight: It was economically sound. Higher freight rates will disturb the balance be- tween the railroads and other modes of transporta- tion, such as the coastwise shipping, the canal and lake traffic and—the present great rival In short- haul traffie—the motor truck, It is conceivable that railroads may lose an ap- preciable share of the tonnage they have handled, and loss of tonnage means loss.of earning power, Each alteration of freight rates means a rearrange- ment of jobbing centres In the Natlon, The jobbers’ business Is governed by very slight differentials In freight, time and overhead. A few cents change In frelght charges may wipe out all the advantage of superlor organization, and business sense, The whole question ls one of unbellevable com. plexity, Those best versed in the subject best ap- preclate how little they know of the matter. The Interstate Commerce Commission orders are subject to modification as the need appears, , gests, “I voted ‘Wileon; My i a od el regres oe The Commisstoners and the rallroad managers ; to consider the award of a prize to a reader can but walt and see, and remedy defects as they iy Who subsite (te effort tm Go roundabout © appear with a maximum of Justice to all concerned, THE WEARIEST CROWDS, "TERE EA DISCRETION. GUOWAY cows vary from hour to hour ‘nd UDGE M'INTYRE yesterday charged two Grand from day to day. Jurles witly the duty of finding some remedy Once each week in summer the underground for the prevalling carnival of reckless, motor driving | trains carry one certain sort of crowd that Is seen _ at no other time of the week or season of the year, F: Sunday evening from about 11 until midnight we see the wearlest crowds, Not even the shopping " crowds of the holiday rush hours are more thor- fo oughly exhausted. i } Young folks, old folks and familles with children Re sink into the seats with a sigh, or stand first on one “foot and then on the other, Sunburned, dusty, footsore, wrinkled, hot—and oh, so tired—they are returning from beaches and excursions, summer picnics and steamer rides, the and the resorts. “I'm just about dead” and “I'l never do that is the tenor of the song the crowd would if it had the necessary ambltlon—which it and automobile homicide, Judge Melntyre recommends {all Sentences Instead of fines which “will not deter speed maniacs.” This recommendation {s valld, but does not cover the ground, according to Chief Magistrate McAdoo, whose experience leads him te belleve that nelther Jall sentences nor fines will serve as a preventive, ‘The only feastble plan ts revocation of the driving Ncenses of those who show disregard for public safety, Pa Drivers “under the age of discretion” are a menace, Judge McIntyre belleves, Perhaps this In- dicates essential agreement with Justice McAdoo. In all protmabllity tt wold not be diffled® to prove that few of the speeders have arrlyed at the “age of * cretion,” even ghough they may be gray-halred, Absolute age Is relatively unimportant, Discre- tlon {fs vital, On this basis the Legislature has every reasoW to provide a statute empowering Magistrates to suspend or revoke the driving license of any per- son who proves intiscreet No lobby of the/automobile industry should, have power to prevent Zenactment of such a:law at the next session of tt Legislature, M9 + t, ' Tired and sleepy they are—too tired and sleepy be ready for work the next day—but work they However, it is a healthful weariness. After a od niet of sleep Monday the unpleasant features outing’tend 16 4 p from memory. The 4 ue lived over | SpA TORTI 2. NR ROO mo these plans go into effect, and by 11 o'clock Sunday | | The railroads themselves af In the dark as to ; DOESN'T THE SAUT WATER TAKE THE WAVE YYou ARE FORTUNATE EVERY TIME 1 GO/N BATHING | HAVE TO 0 Te THE HAIR DRESSER NEXT TIME You TELt A iE. 1th SPANK Yu - No, MY HAIR IS NATURALLY THESALT / WATER Doesn'r HURT NY HAIR 4 LET'S Go IN BATHING | HAVE ALWAYS, HAD WAVY HAIR THE TRUTH 1S MA HAS TWO TRANSFORMATIONS AND SHE LEAVES ONE AT THE HAIRDRESSERS WHEN SHE GOES IN BATHING ‘Odd Queries Puzzle Staff At Public Library , Big Organization Is Called on for Facts, Figures, Dates and Advice. T would be hard to prove whether lending books for reading at home or providing them for study and reference within the building {s the more important duty of a public Ubrary, saya a writer in “a recent number of the Library Bulletin of the New York Pubile Library. Few per- sons, after reflection, would contend that answ.iing questions is more im- portant than either, but no librarian wil deny that it is a notable part of his work, and that the demands made upon him by inquirers are in- cessant and of the most extraordi- nary variety. A question brought to @ library, either by letter or by word of mouth, may bo anewered in @ sec- ond, or it may require hours of re- search by the librarians and weeks or months of study by the questioner, There is no satisfactory way % count the number of questions exied, im any given time, of the New York Public Library. Whether the Inquirer agyplies by letter, govs to the informa- tion desk, to any of the reading rooms of the reference department in the Central Building, or to one of the numerous agencies of the circu. lation department outside that building, his question falls into ofhe of three classes, First, there are simple questions about the library and {ts books, which are answered at once without reference-to any book. Typical of these inquiries would be & question about the resources of the different parts of the library; a re- quest for the title of a good book upon @ subject which bas a great body of literature—as Napoleon or the American Civil War. Second, there are questions to be answered not in- etantly, but in a moment or two, by consulting one of the obvious books of reference. Third, there are difh- cult problems which require research. Probably the library succeeds in an- sweting at least 90 per cent. of what may be called the important and legit- tmate questions. Inquiries that le within the fleld of rational eclence, of literature in ite widest sense, of bin- tory, or of the known record of man's thought may fairly expect an answer. It Is the “freak” question in science, the dubious by-path of history, the stray quotation which present difficul- m ties. These and the “fugitive” poem-— There t@ fine mental emercise Chelsea Village. 'T) the Militor of The Dvening Work! ; As you have published the sur- roundingw of the Chelsea Village, I wish to place before you something that might interest you in regard to old Greenwich Village. Boys, four years ago, on my trip to Panama Ca- nal, I stopped at the Colon Sporting Club ty see the bouts, To my sur- prise 1 saw an ok Ninth Warder, Owen Hernon, tn the ring, with 3 ma Joe Gans and Kid Norfolk as seconds, fighting George twenty rounds, Hernon, who was fifty years old, surprised every one by ‘his’ cleverness and eness, and fought until he had five ribs broken and was stopped by the police, This 1s only one of the game men from the old Ninth Ward, B, J. PERKINS. New York, July 27, 1920, “Uncommon Sense.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Your article in_to-day’e World oy John Blake on "Why Refuse Promo- tion?" sounds good in some cases, but not in all, How would that notice look hunk up on the wall of 4 firm in whose employment I am at the present time? . 'Thia concern hed a bookkeeper, one of tho best in hia Hine, by name of Mr, B—, who, after thirty-six years of honest and energetic work, wes laid oft so that a cheaper and younger man could fill his place, I suppose thie la not the only firm where such stunts are pulled off, WORLD READER. New York, July 26, 1920, it ‘Te the Editor of The Brening World: In hts Jetter criticising a recen: Evening World editori@, Mr, Wood of the Anti-Baloon League points out that the prohibition of marriage to cure divorce is pot a parallel cas with the probibition of drink te cure drunkenness; but lt would be a para- Nel care with the prohibition of mar- riage to cure polygamy, Let us then take Mr, Wood at his word, and admit cheerfully the ac- curacy of big logicy and ask him, since the latter cages are parallel, why not make the remedies paralle! also? Why not ebolish marriage by means of a Federal statute, and thus automatically do away yiln all this naughty polygamy that ls undenmin- ing the Nation? The ine the wives of a modern Solomon, EDWARD OSTROM, JR. N, J, July 24, 1920. De the Biitor of Lhave read your editorial in Friday’ July 23, tasue, “Harding Acvepts,” party and good wishes for hopes to and “le weet FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letter do you ‘ina most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Eases ® i | that article and make ft 1-Poly, League would make Fy ger bag and [| must confess, as an intaillgent Democrat, hat it ts a disgrace to our does us'more Injury ‘than You know as wall ta Tao, or any Democrat of intel nee, that to PMhardalty consider it, Mr. Harding "iid to and a lot of satisfaction in trying | Fathers of the Repubite,”” from which | for the past ten or twelve years we | have been drifting, ag*Mr. Cox him- eelf knows better than either you r I And, honest a» he ts, he will agree | with me that you deléberately te. an | untruth when you say ‘he (Mr. Hard- ing) merely continues the wicked, ma- | Helous, shameful campaign of decep- | tion which his magters of the sena- | torial oligarchy have waged for more | than @ year,” and @ malicious mis- | representation when you assert “hon- | esty and truth are not in him," i To change the fourth paragraph dl agree my contention, it should read: “If this | editorial (of platitude upon platitude) ean awaken amy enthusiasm among your readers it must be accepted an a tribute to your skill as a falelfier of self-evident trutheand “that honesty and truth are not in you” and that you should not criticlee under “the mask of hypocrisy,” but in « maniy, open, fair, square and just manner, RY PERCY, Crescent Beach, Conn., July 24, 1920, Render Know Anevwert To the Witter af The Rvening World: Will you kindly advise a constant reader of your paper the definition of the phrase “subject to tariff regu- lations,” ' The reason I ask is that | am a traveller on the N, ¥., N, H. and H.R, Ki, from this city to New Haven, and nine times out of ten there are in- sufficient accommodations regarding seats, I have asked the luctors of the trains why they do not put on more oarg and they state that te all the cars are permitted to carry, If such {# the fact, should there not be some means by which more treing should be run or passengers told when they are purchasing tickets the ossibility of Paving. to stand from Rew York to New Haven, a trip of about two pours, whioh js absolutely exhaustive during this hot weather? 0, H, PALMDR Does Any the Brooklyn, July 26, 1920. He Finds the Times Geod. ‘To the Diitor of ‘The Brening Werkt: Fleaee tet “"loeland” look thie over says he padd $50 for a eult end Casein per show off, I earn week, pay @ good rent, buy §80 sults, $6 shoes, keop @ wife and boy well dreaved and well fed and well satisfied with life. And the best part of It ls, 1 am say- {ng money; not much, just the same, Brooklyn, July 28, 1820, The Bunes. ‘To the Blitor of The Breuing World Allow ine, who has never registered a kick through any newspaper, pro- test against the highway robbery sys- tem of Mr, Hylan's bus system. It was my misfortune to got wedged into one of his buses on ‘Thursday night, at the time of the Willams, burg. Bri fire, On this bus was tunates like myedif, we were com- palied If this hd, yee of gotting etuck up and saving, | robbe: SHLRAY. from a few more suckers like my:elf; proper relief by our wonderful oity oMfciais, Thanking ron Brooklyn, July 20, 1920. ‘To the Bilficr of The Bvening Workt ‘This morning [ had the misfortune to travel on the Broadway “L” of the Re, reed, There being a fire on "6 cents,” but when I got| dreds of ethers with ee ‘untae Merey Avenue UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Comright, 1920, by John Blake.) LEARN THE TRADE OF OPPORTUNITY BUILDING. There iy one valuable trade that is not taught in schools. Neither can you find any treatises on it in the library. But {t can be learned just the same, and the man who learns it will save himself a lot of wage slavery by and by. i This trade is Opportunity-Building. We prosper or fail according to our opportunities. To some opportunities come ready made, F. O. B., at our doors. If we are wise enough to go out and take them in, the rest of life is easy. But opportunities come thus to few. And while those few are waitiug for them the wolf is growling at the door and now and then stepping into the pantry to remove some of the food supply, But opportunities are not all ready made. They can be built—built at home, with no tools save your eyes aid ears and your brain. And home-made opportanities—like home-made ple—surpass all other varieties. E. H.-Harriman made his own opportunity as a rail- road builder. Interested in railroads, though knowing nothiag of their practical operation, he set himself to the task of learning more, In order to try the experiments his brain suggested he had to get control of a railroad. That was not easy, but he did it. Once in control he convinced the world that he knew how to use the oppor- tunity he had made. Mavelest made his own opportunity—thongh he built an opportunity so vast that he was unable to handle it when it was folly coastructed, Your opportunity may not be so great as these, But you can make one if you go about it. And in most cases the self-made opportunity is the only one a man ever has. Study this trade. It is a difficult and complicated one— far harder than the most difficult trade or professioa that is taught in any of the colleges. But it is well worth learn- ing, even though you have to spend ten or twenty or thirty years of your life at the task. : For without opportunity you willbe just one of the or- dinary ran, Arad if Sap wait for opportunity to knock, even once on your door, the grim reaper is likely to find you still waiting when he comes to remove you from a world where opportunity builders have taken most of the prizes, ticket agent handed us transfers and We proceeded on our trip via trolley to Delancey Street. Here we got off with the expectation of getting an- otwer tranafer to the trains, but were F) told’ by a brass button special that “unless we paid another fare we would have to hoof it." How does the B. R. T. get that way? Are they #0 low financially that this is their only means to raise funds? If they expect the paasengers to pay an- other fare for every block, fire, or any other accident which is thelr fault, it sure would pay them to have an acoi- dent like this a few times a month, to pay from 16 to cents, the proposed bus system, give us care with a uniform d by bus drivers. Let us hi ups then we may accidentally get this ARRIS. The H.R. T. thing to them. 11 Shemicld Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, air’ sae. Williamsburg Bridge T and bun- were told to ba <4 Btation, so-called, perhaps, because it Is a fu- gitive from the justice which it might receive from a competent oritic—often go their doubtful and anonymous way, with their mystery, whatever it 1s, unsolved, Perhaps the sum of the world's knowledge is not seriously lessened. Here are a few unanswered ques- tions, sent by letter to the New York Public Library in the early months of this year: “Will you kindly give the name of the publication, as well as the purb- lsher's name, of a book of diagrams | and charts showing wiring systems: ct all cars, including 1920 models?” Can you give me any information author—publisher — date abou. « | book on the San Domingo revolution? |My customer * © © thinks it was published thirty or forty years au, and that the title may have been ‘Evenings in Boston.’ ” “I ghould be greatiy obliged if you | Would let me know in which volume of Jerome K. Jerome his ‘A Most in- common Patient’ appears.” “Kindly advise me if you havo the | following work: Bibliographies de ta | Papeterie, by Charles Dumerey, Brux- elles: F. Lareier, 1888. Tf not, could you direct me to an American library where this bibliography could te | found? “About twenty-five years ago there a@ppeared in some magazine or nows- paper a poem entitled ‘Jonathan Jay.’ It was about a pr little boy who had to wear his father’s big boots to school, and the other boys made fun of him. I want to get a copy of this poem, and write to know !f you can tell me where I can get it.” “One of our newspepers has beca asked for the author of the line: ‘How to the line, let the chips fall where they may.’ Can you, out of the wealth of your department, dig it up?” i, ‘About two months ago I rad, either in the New York Evening Post me other newspaper or perioili- among the book reviews, an ar- ticle reviewing a book on Parlia- mentary Form of Government, by a French author, member of the French Chamber of Deputies * * * Tshould like to have the accurate title of the book, with name of author end pub- Usher * * * I remember that tt* had been translated from the French and that the English version had beau © published.” “Ths “‘That’s aFact”’ vA By Albert P. Southwick . Copyright, 1020, by ‘The (Phe Ni Press | lew York Brening | In 1689, Innocent XL, who has been called the Protestant Popo, died on Aug. 12, Delancey Street, New York City: recalls the name of Lieut, Gov James De Lancey, the original Duilder and owner of the house that afterward became Kaunce'e Tavern, at Pearl and Broad Streets, He gave the city its first town clock. The De Lancey family played an important part in New York's his. tory for a long period. Their farrn covering about 120 blocks of the present New York City, extended from Division Street to Stanton and trom the Bowery to the Bust fuven Minetta Btreet, New York City, derives its name from a Daten word meapdng “little one*—that is the small creek, to distinguish tt from a larger one that was tear. The gectionsof New York City near Cohvent and Amsterdam Aye- nues, between 188th and iasth Streets, was originally owned by Alexander Hamilton, “He built « house there in.1802, naming it ‘The Grange in honor of his ancle's estate in Seotland, He planted thirteen trees in a semicircle, to represent the original States