The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1920, Page 10

Ale |} //BSTERDAY’S adjournment of the Lower House of the Termessee Legislature semed to leave | the victory definitely with the Suffragists—the time in which Speaker Walker was privileged to call, up this motion to reconsider expiring last night. _ — Suffrage workers all over the country are there- fore justified in feeling that no further doubts need “delay the “shouting.” ‘There fs one note in the celebration which ought to sound there and which millions of Americans are The Woman's Bureau of the Democratic Na- tional Committee sent the following telegram to President Wilson : ‘The women of America will never cease to Donor the name of the first President of their country who, while President, took action in favor of their enfranchisement. The women of the Democratic Party are proud of their po- litical relationahip with you, and will go con- fidently forward into a campaign in which ~ their ideals for world peace may at last find full expression. Congratulations and grate fal appreciation. . ‘The essential facts and feelings expressed in this message are such as women of all parties may share. A non-partisan tribute from all the’ enfranchised women of the United States would be a fitting land- “mark in the last months of President Wilson’s Ad- ministration. Ay - EXPLAINED. ' ‘GOOD many people have wondered why the Republican campaign is permitted to be ‘what it is, Here is the reason: “A campaign,” according to Harry M. Daugherty of the Republican Executive Committee, “must be at all times in harmony with the candidate and the cause.” ‘That ts why the Republican campaign dwells heav- on the importance of theUnited States Senate, future memtbers of the Cabinet and of pretty everything and everybody except the Repub- | ig seem highly technical it cannot be denied that if this reasoning is sustained also in the First Public Ser- ~ Vice Commission District, it will result in ‘substan- to large numbers of commuters. Railroads undoubtedly need more income. Fail- ure to get the higher rates will result in money loss to the railroads. : . But commuters are in a pecullar position. Their Joss is not measured directly by the added rail rate. Ad Weamaed commutation rate has been capitalized. Many if not most commuters own their homes. increased ‘rate means a monthly expense. ven more important, it means a loss in prop- The increased commutation rate will and deducted from property valua- Railroads have been active in encouraging com-, It is only fair that the loss from the higher level should be divided, Not all the burden go on the commuters, Railroads will probably renew the application for higher passenger fares. The commission has left ei) the way open for such a move. » When the decision is made, the peculiar relation- Koo. ship between the railroad and the commuter sliould =. Mot be ignored. © An increase in commutation rates thas a very different effect than a general increase in _% tates. The com ion should not overlook the so- Be dial factors involv ; i TRUTH FROM THE FRONT PORCH. “I do not know that there is an instance in our history where the House has declined to appropriate money to make good a contract between our own and any foreign Government, but, literally and constitutionally, the House has the power to defeat the fulfillment of any compact which involves any expenditure,” This was one of Thursday's front-porchisms, Be In it Senator Harding gives the lie to all his prat- _ ling about “super-government,” “preserved national. co» lity,” and surrender to a “foreign council.” The Constitution of the United States is the one _ ‘> gil-embracing and all-inclusive reservation, + It Is there In spite of all the wicked machinations ot ! ety the Democrats, oo Kt will remain as reservation in the event that > Senator Harding should become Aresident Handing and endeavor, “by and with the consent of the Sen- _ Me," to sot up tim “association of nations,” Yet oven so lato ay Thursday Senator Harding A COAST-TO-COAST SKYWAY. ENERAL use of the automobile was the reason for highway construction in America, When the aeroplane is developed we shall find a demand for “skyways” for aeroplanes, In obtjer countries excellent highway systems had their origin in military considerations. America de- veloped highways for pleasure and for commerce. The Lincoln Highway was the parent of a multi- tude of excellent touring routes. It joins the Atlan- tic and Pacific Coasts and makes transcontinental travel a pleasure. Transcontinental aerial flights have become 4l- most as mon as coast-to-coast motor trips in the Kindergdtten days of the automobile. The recent mail-plane flight from New York to San Francisco was negotiated successfully. The race for the Pulitzer trophy is so popular that a second contest has been authorized. Although a sporting event now, aerial touring is only a matter of years and the flivverization of the aeroplane, Then will come the demand for a “skyway”’ which will make flying-convenient and safe. What will such a skyway be like? It takes no great stretch of imagination to sketdh a skyway of the next generation. The essential feature will be a continuous strip of territory on which it will be possible to alight with- out danger, perhaps a half mile wide. Poles, trees, fences and obstructions will be cleared away. The | surface will be smoothed. No ploughed fields, | ditches or marshes will remain to trap landing wheels, . A White lines by day and lines of lights by night will mark the course and guide the flyers. At con- venient intervals will be gasoline stations and repair hangars, , Such a skyway stretching frem New York to San Francisco will perform the same service for the aerial motorist that the Lincoln Highway does for the automobilist. The smooth ribbon of landing field will not be waste land. It can be used as pro- ductive meadow. An automobile highway will probably border the skyway, which will be a notable scenic feature. A skyway is only a dream, the unimaginative will objech It can néver happen. Frequent landing fields are the most that can be expected. Perhaps. And again, perhaps not. The Lincoln: Highway was a dream for years, with only occa- sional stretches of paved streets in cities, Now it reaches from coast to coast. . Dreams have a habit of coming true, always pro- vided that enough people dream the same thing. A coast-to-coast skyway depends entirely on the de- mand for such an accessory to aerial travel, Who is prepared to set limits to that demand? Hiram Johnson, it is reported, will soon take the stump for Harding. With interpretations? Or with reservations? Or without the crossing of a “t" or the dot- ting of an “i"? OUR OWN OLYMPICS. oo cables bring us a daily tale of thrills. Interest in the Olympian Games is intense. But at best the cabled story can convey only a re- flection of the events. : Not even the most gifted of writers can convey us to Antwenp and give us the thrill of the pounding feet, the straining muscles, the co-ordinated strength, skill and endurance, of the trained contenders in the games. But why repine? Not to-<day, nor next Saturday, at any rate. . This afternoon New York has its own Olympics. The Olympians-of “The Force” gather at Gravesend in the police games, Athletes they are, well trained and able. Stripped of their uniforms, the policemen will contend in friendly rivalry. The contest is of high grade, The entertainment, New York's Olympic Games, is well worth the price. TWICE OVERS. Many bankers in writing their checks to the Republican National Committee are simply making an inoestment.—Goo, Cox, * . 7 WOMEN'S quality of moral courage is essential in public life to help the growth of belter social and international relation—Lady Nancy Astor. * . * THERE ts no place for us to go. We cannot find an apartment to suit our needs at any price within reason—Mrs. Will Irwin and many others in New York City. W HEN the Germans have to choose be/ween Bol- sheolsm and the Treaty of Versailles they certainly will choose the latter as the lesser e0il— Premier Llayd George. [7 seems that the Republicans are urging Senator Harding to get out and make a campaign of it, while it requires all our efforts to restrain Goo. Cox. Sealer Herrivon of Misstesippt, — - * * ‘YOu HAVE ON THE WALL QUITE A COMPLINENT. IT'S THE ONLY PicTuREé SEELMA PuT IT THERE TO COVER A HOLE IN THE | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letter do you find most readablef Isn't it the one to say much in a few words, Tak ‘The Staten Island Buses. To the Editor of The Krening World: Referring to the article which ap- peared in The Evening World under date of Aug. 17 headed “28 Persons Hurt In City Bus Crash on Staten Island,” would gsk you if there is any way of preventing @ recurrence of an accident like this? The people of New Dorp, Richmond and Westerleigh have to use these buses to reach St. George. I am sure the people of these places would be willing to pay an Sc fare on the trol- leys rather than endanger their lives each time they ride on a-bus. * If you think this matter worthy of consideration will you kindly see if you can do 801 trolleys runnin; Westerleigh, British Labor Politics, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In your Gaturday paper I noticed an article by W. Anderson on- the attitude of the British Labor Party toward the Lioyd George-Milierand Polish policy. If the British Labor Party leaders’ protestations on the Millerand idea are due to their love of justice, then, why in the world Is {t we do not hear them raising a word of protest against the use of British soldiers in Ireland? Surely the soldiers sent to Ireland are of the British labor class. JOHN J, PREGOT. 215 Avenue C, Aug, 16, 1920. A Spank to the Wine. To the Editor of The Brening Work? Permit me to express my opinion relative to discipline for women let- \tera which appear from time to time in your columns. My last punishment was at the age of five, and I had reached the age of ‘twenty, a senior in college, with a |wuperior idea of a brilliant halo of | knowledge encircling my head, But iit was soon to be removed, as I will relate. I had met a man, a gay Lothario, whose divorce proceedings were pend- ing in court and whose gociety I en- Joyed because he could discuss with me anything from the cleverest play on the diamond to the action of a A life-long friend of mine, studying for the clergy, urged me to out from my new fancy as I would probably have my name unnecessarily dragged into court. But like all of my sex, I refused to lis ten to anything suggestive of com- mon sense and reason. One night I attended a dance with this young fellow at a road-house and ‘waa interrupted by the appearance of my seminarian friend, who asked me to take 4 spin down the road as he had some very important news to ‘tell me. To make a long story short, the news was 4 continuance of more weighty arguments and I told him In a few words that I would do just as I |. He replied that he re- tted the action which I forced him Lng | before I‘'knew what he was about I had been turned over his knee knoe and received the most anmero!- ful spanking ever given to any one, voltaic cell. that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exeréise and a lot of satisfaction in trying e time to be brief. Although I begged and implored him to cease, he kept right on until he Was tired and until he made me Promise to do what he advised. The result was marvellous, I was quite cured of my desire to attempt daring things, but my pride got an awtul fall. Iam now twenty-six, and I have always retained in my heart a sense of gratitude toward the man: who was man enough to forcefully apply the medicine that words and grsuments could not accomplish. COLLEGE GRADUATE. Depends On the Overhead. To the Exitor of The Bvening, Work! ; I would be pleased if you would decide the following business prob- lems: “Brown” conducts an automobile repair shop. He pays his mechanics hes per hour, he charges his cus- | tomers $2 per hour, A brings in a car for repairs, Brown's mechanic | spends one hour on job and furnishes @ spark plug. Brown buys this spark plug for 50 cents and charges A $1 for it. Brown rendere a (ill as follows: To 1 hour's work... To 1 spark plug.... Question: What percentage profit does Brown make on ‘this job? A, RC. Findley Avenue, Aug. 19, 1920, a i | Will you Kindly settle a dispute |by answering this question in your | paper? | A nays her husband becomes her uncle's nephew by marriage. B, who {8 her husband, says her uncle does not become his uncle be- cause he is married to her. ONSTANT READER. Street, Aug. 15, 1920, AC 494 B. 167th « UNCOMMON SENSE’ By John Blake. (Coprright, 1990, by John Biaka) EXCUSES ARE ALWAYS TOO LATE, Tt is easy to make excuses. When things have gone wrong we are all strongly tempted to make them. Often they are good excuses, too, but that does tact cure the mischief that has been done by making a mistake. The best and most ingenuious excuse makers devote so“much time to excuse making they are not worth much at any other occupation. ‘ A man does better to let others make excuses for him than he does to make them himself. He finds by and by that nobody pays much attention to his explanations of how he failed, although they will listen eagerly to his story of how he succeeded. Just now thousands and thousands of young men aad old are reading Babe Ruth's story, which is a story of success. Hundreds of other baseball players could write ex- cuses for not making home runs. And how many people do you suppose would pay any heed to them? Try to do what you are doing successfully, even though it is but a small thing. Thiak of the excuse you would make for failing be- fore you attempt a job. Then you will see the possibility of failure in advance, and avoid it. If you are too sick to undertake a task, let it alone. Then you won't need to excuse yourself on the ground of ill health afterward. If you do attempt something, you do so of your ow1 free will. If you fall down, don’t make excuses, even to yourself. : Take into consideration all the obstacles in the way of accomplishment. Then go ahead. It won't hurt you to fail. You learn by failures, if you admit that you have made them. But by excuses you refuse to admit that you have failed. You are tryiag to fool yourself while you fool other people. Once get into that habit afd you might as well give up trying to make anything of yourself, right at the be- ginning. t ee errereccnenninnorennnnay By Albert P, Southwick 1920, by The Pree Publishing Co, New York Evening World), ‘The first permanent wigwam of Tammany Hall was where the Tribune Building now stands; the second 6n the site of the old Sun Butlding, wbout 1830, and the third its present home in East 14th Street. Washington's Birthday is its annual day of commemoration, In 1808 Tammany Hall gave prop- er burial to the remains of the unfortunate victims of the prison ships, by having a vault built on Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn, and, in & notable funeral proceasion, the coffins were reverently deposited in that Tomb of the Patriots. ington, recalling to him viv: memories of war. Then there we: In 1900, during excavations in the | Brooklyn Navy Yard, « large num- ber of additional skeletons were Unearthed and, under the auspices of the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Aaso- lation and naval officers, on June 16, the remains were placed next to those previously interred. A memorial exists on the steps of the Park, facing the north, John Adams, joined the President month after his arrival, about ‘There ton of Lady” Washington‘ On April 13, 1897, was the final ’, Bington's passage of the Greater Now York charter, ‘The first election under thie Instrument resulted in the res- toration of Tammany Hail to po- litical power. Washington naturally preferred his beloved Mount Vernon, but, while in New York, he enjoyed go- ing to the John Street Theatre, j ident, wae elected a was fond of walking on the Bat- | the thirty-sixth ball tery and of taking horeaback rides | being people. there, visits to Richmond Hill, in Green- wich Village, where, in a beauti- ful rewidence/ lived Vice President to Harlem Heights and Fort Wash- id re Mrs. Washington, and her two children by a former marriage, a is @ celebrated painting by Hunting- first grand reception, containing sixty- four portrait figures of well known Congress decided before the end of the year 1790 to make Philadelphia the capital, and #o the reat of Government was removed Thomas Jefferson, the third Pres- Congress on it, there not any election by the people, True goodness is Uke water, in that it benefits everything and harme nothing. Continuing to fill a pail it d@ full, the water wasted. Continuing to age after it i# sharp, # will $00n wear away. \ When a ruler tacks faith, you ‘may seek in vain for it @ngong Mis subjects. he Arms are of all tools un- Dlessed, they are not the ments of a wise man. Ohl tad @ last resort does he use t He who knows others ts) in telligent; he who underetands himself is enlightened; he iho is able to conquer others has force, but he who is able to con- trot himself is mighty. Fragments, those, of” the fefsdom | of Lastzuf kindly old Chinesd #eholar of the Sixth Century, B.C. Théy are taken at random from a thin bodk of Dwight Godderd's translations (Bren- tano’s) from ‘tzu's presentation of the doctrine of Taoism—the doctrine that pervades Chinese ant, poetry, legendry and life in general. | ."By holding fast to the Tao of the ancients,” we are told, “the wise man may understand the present, because he knows the origin of the past.” la New Anthology of the Cup--- Under the title, "A Tankard of Ale,” @ fresh anthology of drinking songs,’ ancient and modern, is published (Stokes), as prepared by Theodore Maynard, the young English poet. Some of these songs are good and some of them no man could, would or should sing when he ts sober, Two questions suggest themselves. | Why rub in the hymnology of strong | Potions when the Volstead Act bas | rubbed out the source of inspiration? /And did Mr. Maynard stick to the letter of his anthological theme when |he included, “Drink to Me only, With Thine Eyes” in his collection’ As we understand it, the Eighteenth Amendment has no prohibitive,effect on draughts from the liquid eyes of | love, ic 8 : ‘A Great American Verb in Action +++ |_ In thetr book, “A Frenchwoman' Impressions of America” (Century Company), the Countess Madeleine de | Boyas and her sister have thia to say, tor one thing: One of our great surprises in the United States was finding ’-how much the young generation of the country loves to ge: a dipping in water, Americans are an amphibi- oe ee Semaine, ovine Pees lunging come to them instinc- Lively. “Never in my whole life or] i met so many people in bathing costumes. It is almost a summer uniform—and truly a very becom! one, In France we rarely swim ex- cept at the seaside, whereas here you almost fall into a crowded swimming pool at every step you take, ta bic parks, at coun! clubs, and very often In hotels Private houses. ‘What our Frenoh visitors witnessed, of course, was the active demonstra- tion of the great American “to clean up.” In a different a= tion—or should we 6ay conjugation?— this verb lately deft its Impress on Belleau Wood and the Argonne region, . . \ es Native Awe and the “Cop.”--- | No caller from France, hpwever, but Holman Day, plain teller of New England tales, puts into these. words some fruit, presumably of personal observation: 1 We're all native-born Americans in this room. Right down deep in our hearts we're not afraid of our soldiers. We | good-naturedly in: dulge the boys when they are dated on to exercise authority. aan trom iw | the time an American poe} balls and break windows be. “4 begins to steal apples ani throw snow! a healthy fear of a regular cop is i ed. him. Ita @ fear he dokan't stop to analyze, “Ite gust there, that’s all he knows. perfectly law abiding citizen eres ia aun when. he. mate! anxiety in when ycop, “Puts on an air as much : 4 hope you think I'm all right, officer—'tending right to my own ‘business.’ We quote from Mr. Day's latest lnovel, “All-Wool Morrison,” (Har- per’s) in which a young and reform- atory Mayor reads the lesson-of the day to a Governor and a United \States Senator and beats them at ‘thelr game of spoils, Mayon Morri- \son admits that he does not. .know politics. Does he really know. case of the average citizen amd the cop? of . Cupid and the Pil This year we celebrate.the three- | hundredth anniversary of the landing | of the Pilgrims, Fortunately, not by |returning to the rigidities of paternal ‘government as they apread out, from the Plymouth Rook vicinity... Running through the chapters of Mary Caroline Crawford's “The Days | of he Pilgrim Fathers” (Little, Brown & Co), we perceive for one matter | how: the code of the times bormiapon the case of young love. The ardent | swain ef 1620 simply had to see father Otherwdee It grim Fathers |—and to see him first, might befall him easily ag It befell ‘youth before the court in @ case! thus cited from the records: f Arthur Howland, Jun'r, or in= velgling of Mistris Elizabeth Prence and makiig motion of marriage. to ‘her and prosecuting the same con- trary to her parents likeing, and without their consent, and dineotly ntrary to thelr mind and wil was sentenced to pay a fine of five pounds and to find surties fo his oo behavior, and in speciall thet eo disist fram the vse of any means to obtaine or retaine her affections as uforesald. " ‘The condition, that whereassthe said Arthur’ Howland hath od orderly and unrighteously indae ored to obtaine the affections of Mistris Elizabeth Prence, against the mind and will of her parénts, 4f, therefore, the said Arthur slow- land shall for the future réfrgine * and desist from the vee of gny meanss to obtaine or retaine her affections as aforesald, and #ppeer att the Court of his ‘matie to:be holden att Plymouth the first Tues- day in July next, and in the mean- time be of good behaviour towards and abbehis the. . t thi . had their rewards even under Puritan han- dicaps, We read that Master Arthur eventually won out, and thatvhe an “Mistris Elizabeth” started fadety the way {0 a happy ever afters. f our sov lord the Ki leich people, and not Court without lyoence; t) Sethi, true love and lover's ph fi