The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1920, Page 16

Che BRTAPLISHED BY JOsEIH PULITZER. Publisping iden “3 . J. ANGUR SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Mo gosh PC UITARN. Yeu Secretary, 62 Park MEMBEH UF THF AKSOCIATED PRESS. . i. Any alee Une toe vebliahed Rerein IMPOSING ON THE CREDULOUS. R FERRING to the Cox and Roosevelt charges of Republican slush funds, Will Hays, in his speech at Augusta, said: p . “Their purpose ts Slain, ‘They can hardly hope Yo deceive the thoughtful, but they do * mean to impose upon the credulous. I do not believe they can do it.” ’ Goy. Cox promises to produce the evidence to back up his slush fund charges. If he is unable to do so, Mr. Hays, will have a valid ground for critl- cism. Candidates and leaders should not’seek to “impose upon the credulous.” But does Mr. Hays display good judgment in throwing rocks from the glass-inclosed conservatory he occupies? “In the same speech he said; s “The women of America will not consent to enter upon obligations which will require you «+ to send your boy to a foreign place to settle Ne foreign troubles under the order of foreign were.” ¢ ch a statement will not “deceive the thought- ful." It és an effort to “impose upon the credu- lous.” Mr. Hays cannot cite any passage in the Covenant of the League of Nations which confers , on any foreign power or combination of powers the right to “order” one American soldier to do any- thing. i is true Mr. Hays does not say in so many words that the Covenant does this. The inference, how- ever, js plain. It is an attempt to “impose upon the credulous.”” The statement is an echo of Hard- ing’s'echo of Lodge. With the exceptio® of Re- publican appeals to hyphenism this playing upon ; © thoughtless credulity has constituted the entire Re- publican attack. Ke a» ; DEMAND SAFETY. . ‘ec OTORISTS forget that it is the law of this $ M State that no person has an inherent right to operate a motor vehicle, It is a privilege, a license.” . ‘This reminder from Magistrate House of the Traf- »- © fic Court is timely. The roll of automobile homi- ia cides makes it so. , In the eyes of the law the motor car is prac- tically on a par with firearms, explosives and other deadly and dangerous agencies of destruction. The State. intends to keep motor vehicles out of the hands of those who cannot safely be trusted with them, sIniends,” it must be admitted, is as far as the ~ * State now goes. We have a beginning of the laws neéded to make the streets safer for pedestrians, but only a beginning, Magistrate House says, “We need more stringent laws.” : However, we have not the machinery to enforce ; the laws we have, The Traffic Magistrate states: 4 My own judgment is that no person shotld ‘be permitted to operate a motor vehicle unless he goes through a thorough examination to show that he understands something of the mechanism of his car and has some mental aptitude for running it. Many people come before the Traffic Court with licenses who, if I had the Meensing power, would never get them. : At present the license examiners are so overloaded with work that an adequate examination of appli- cants is impossible. Nor is the form of examina- . tion adequate to protect the public. f ‘New laws and new machinery for enforcing the Jaws are necessary if the motor car is to be a bless- ing rather than a scourge. It is the problem of the “public to make the demand for safety so over- that legislators will provide the safety taws and safety machinery. ‘WHICH STANDS? “In November next Lenine wit! have ruled Russia for three. years more powerfully than the Czar ever ruled it, And he rules by the consent of the péople in Russta.” “That the present rulers of Russia do not rule by the will or the consent of any considerable proportion of the Russian people is an incon- testable fact.” The above statements contradict each other. If one is true, the other is false, In deciding which to accept and which to reject, the American public must be guided by the relative esteem in which it holds the two sources from which the conilicting statements emanate. L The great majority of the people of the United States can have no first hand knowledge of condl- tions in Russia, They must depend upon the reports of observers fvho have been in Russia and they must appraise such reports in the light of the known character and sympathies of the men or women who make them. Equally to be considered are reasons why certain of these observers have been in Russia and the ‘dis- interestedness and responsibility of: th:-2 who may have sent ‘them there, If Lenine were ruling Russia by the will of a ma- Jority of the one hundred and eighty million people Russia, the fact would have profound significance - for this Nation and for the world. ‘The writer-in the United States who is quoted at ; ig of this article as declaring that Lenine ie Vor Anerates Pree! exctustvely entitled to the use for republication Al ahs Gewpatchee ereaiied te tt or mot otherwise eredited tn this part THE EV rules “by the consent of the people iri Russia,” that Russia believes in him and that 150,000,000 Russian peasants “send their sons to fight for him,” is Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst papers. “With what purpose or sense of responsibility Mr. Brisbane makes the statement, we do not pretend to say. The American who recently declared that, on the contrary, “the present rulers of Russia do not rule by the will or fhe consent of any considerable pro- portion of the Russian people,” is the Secretary of State of the United States. The Secretary of State speaks for the Govern- ment which is responsible to the American people. That Government has unlimited facilities for find- ing out the most that can be found out about what is happening in Russia, : nt assuredly has no reason to deceive the people of the United States regarding the result of in undertaken solely in the national interest. Which statement stands? POLITICAL CAPITAL. 66]N one country,” Ignace Jan Paderewski, recent Prime Minister of Poland, said to The World correspondent, ‘Poland's present position is being used to make political capital.” American comment on this statement cannot af- ford to overlook a country in which the whole world war, including its purposes, its sacrifices and the chief hope built on its results, is being misused to make political capital. u _ Before the armistice was declared the United States was fo all appearances a united Nation, spurning the suggestion of a separate feace with Germany, determined to stand with the Allies be- youd as well as up to the victory, eager to join in | a plan for permanently reducing the probability of war, , | When the fighting ceased and the great peril was over, what happened? The Day of Rest Bal | co BEGINNING To BITE A political party in the United States proceeded to tear the permanent peace project to tatters in the | hope that some of the rags might serve for party | capital in an approaching Presidential campaign, A Lodge rose up to confuse the American people as to what they had been fighting for. A Knox was ready to make a separate peace with | Germany pass for pure patriotism, And now a Harding asks to be elected President of the United States in order that a Republican Sen- atorial oligarchy may completely reverse the Na- tion’s foreign policy. Whatever Americans thought they were fighting for, a sufficient result will have been achieved if ‘the Republican Party is restored to full power! NEW I. R, T. LINES. XTENSION of Interborough subway service to Utica Avenue and the opening of the Nostrand Avenue line opens a great and populous territory which will now have access to the business centre of Manhattan at a 5 cent fare. Thickly settled as much of Brooklyn is, there is nothing like the crowded housing conditions that prevail in many districts of Manhattan. The better the transit facilities the more equal will be the distribution of population. Flatbush is now on a par with upper Manhattan in accessability to the business area of lower Manhattan. This ap- plies to time, fare, and directness of connections. Every development in transit connections means that business will continue to concentrate in Manhat- tan and that residents of Manhattan will be forced into other boroughs. The prospect of further subway development in- dicates that census returhs for Manhattan will con- tinue to grow smaller, even though the city as a whole grows as rapidly as ever. IN PLACE OF A PARENT. OT long ago The Evening World remarked © that many youthful transgressions which were formerly corrected in the woodshed are now taken to court, An incident in New Jersey last Saturday is an ex- cellent illustration, Police Recorder Lander of West-Orange impoSed an unusual sentence on six wayward lads who looted fruit stands in the town. Every evening for a month these youngsters are required to go to bed at half past six and stay there till morning. For a month at least these boys are reasonably safe from temptation. In the long twilight hours it is to be presumed that the youths will have oppor- tunity to meditate on their iniquity and suffer a change of heart. In another instance last week a court took cog- nizance of the boyishness of boys and handed down the opinion that a railroad company was liable for injury to a youngster who climbed a pole and came in contact with a live wire. It is boy nature to climb poles, the court decided, and the railroad company is in duty bound to take precautions accordingly. i It is by no means certain that the increasing at- tention which the courts pay to children is an un- mitigated blessing. Homely parental punishment of a generation ago was rather successful in correct- ing faults, But if we are to have the courts acting in place of | the parent It is encouraging to note the repeated instances in which judges exercise good sense and SOMEBODY HUST BE Sicc! [FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letter do you find most repdabie? Ten't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a cauple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Unresponsive Police, ‘To the Vidltor of The Krening World: As I was escorting two young la-| dies home last Sunday night in the vicinity of S® Mark's Avenue and Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, with @ friend of mine, we noticed a gang of young fellows standing down the street about five doors from where we were standing, Suddenly a fight started. Milk bottles were flying fround freely, somebody was blow- ing a polige whistle, somebody else Wag leaning out of a window scream, ing, and there was quite a commo- tion around there for about a half hour, During that time about three po- leemén came running up—NOT. All who heard the whistle must have run the other way, We were there for about an hour after that and up to the time we left there had not been 2°? in sight. If that is the kind of a police force the taxpayers are supporting in this city it would serve them right to have to pay taxed about twice ax heavy, 1 might mention that the fight did not stay on that block only, but tt went around on Classon Avenue for about ten minutes, and then went \ more of fighting around there. Whether you publish this or not just thought I would call your at- tention to this as the taxpayers in elty are getting stung on enough r things without the polite fore: cheating them at the same time. ARJASI. Brooklyn, Aug. 19, 1920, cae A Spank: To the Kalitor of The By ‘or! £ Now May of Weehawken has done quite some talkin’ About being spanked wil a brush, But it must be her mother the hair- brush must, cover, . With @ layer of velvet or plush. She says that the treasure which gives her such pleasul Has a sting that will last for a week. And upon mother’s lap ‘neath eagh wonderful slap, ~ She at once becomes humble and meek, Now my mother’s brush Jen't covered . With plush, It is made of hard wood ‘that is yellow, And It gives no sensation of mratifi- cation, But only with pain makes me bellow. May, though you like to be, spanked every night, ° hatrbruah Ami you’ welcome the vith Joy, would take a few lickings So | parental judgment In dealing witht juvenile cases, urs truly, 4 WoL SeaNkeD BOL, 1|mum amount of people.” Stadium Music. ‘T the Bilitor of The Brening World: Will some of your kind readers tell me why “The Star Spangled Banner” is not played at thy Stadium Con- cel by the National Symphony Or- chestra? I have attended most of the concerts, and it was played a few nights, then discontinued ‘again. I also note that there ts a Wagner selection on every programme and a Wagner night each week. Very little of Bizet, Verdi, Delibes, Drigo, Mas- senet, Mozart, Debussy, Tschatkow- sky, Gounod. Also a walta by Johann Strauss each evening, but Waldteufel aft Sette any WE NEED 201 uP UR JOHN . id i) UNCOMMON SENSE — By John Blake (Copyrteht, 1920, by John Blake.) YOU CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT ENERGY. ° In a very striking letter to his brother, Mark Twain, then a river pilot, stroagly emphasized the paramount need of energy. pk Mark Twain was a man who delighted to appear lazy and indolent. His drawling manner of speech, his habit of sprawling on chairs aad sofas, made him appear as lack- ing in energy as any man on earth, Yet his mind was continually active. At tweaty-taree he -had mastered the extremely diffieult profession of a Mississippi River pilot. the river backward and forward, day and night and at every stage of water. He learned that professioa in less than two years. And while he was learning it he was quietly and perhaps un- and Herbert strangely out hoo consciously making himself a master of English prose. He Saenaisa Fee | Bos oa bs died the ‘greatestof all American writers. A MUSIC LOVER. | Mark Twain Yoved to loaf, as do most mea. But he (Editor's Note: Review of recent | ri concert programmes does not bear out the statemgnts made by our corre- spondent:} | Comment on Mitten’ ‘To the Editor of "The Evening W: “They, should back Mr, Mitten,” your editorial of Thursday the 19) Ne doubt you Qnbiased opinion of Mr. Mitten, but it must be on account of your unfamil- larity with Mr. Mitten's “sclence of management” that you fail to do so, Mr. Mitten's theory is ‘the mini- mum, amount of cars for the maxi- \ Hijs surveys show the numbers boarding and leav- ing cars at all busy street corners during rush hours and the least auiount Of cars Unat will transport 1 ope he puts in operation. The “near, Mae’ care of the P. WT are the ,o! mostly in use, These cars seat about forty-five people and when ninety people are loaded tn they are uncomfortable. Yet Mr. Mitten’s hirelings jam 160 people or more In Service. each car. condition is Unbear- able. Yet this is only a part of Mr. Mitten’s sche: Another part is his. increased tare, Philadelphia never had a straight 6- cent fare. Even last year after Mr. Mitten had shortened some lines and rerouted others, the average fare (per revenue pascnger) was over 6 ccnts, His scheme now js for 5 cents, and the elimination of most transfer and exchange points, This simply means that the fare will be increased from 5 cents to 10 cents for a great number pf workers. The rest of the country is being misled as to Philadelphia's trolley fares. Mr, Mitten's thh Setter —_ agreement employees. Hid ea scheme whereby a certain percentage of the profits is laid way for meeting inet wages. iis agreement calls for SW suiomati| vy rease in wages in conjunction with is raises granted to car mon ie De- troit and two other Middle Weat cit- jes, In connection with thie he has a co-operative as@octation among the men, This assures him of depend- on his men and teas no, strikes. Dut, there are fewer conduc intend to give an| early keaew how to drive himself. If he had work to do he did it, putting into it an amount of energy that made its’ success certain, No matter how much talent you may have, without energy it will be useless. And if, like most of us, you have little talent, you will find that energy will carry you further than talent carries most of the men who possess it. Energy is the driving force within you. It makes tae great artist go through weary days of drudgery that are necessary to train his eyes and his hand to put on caavas the pictures that his brain conceives, It overcomes the love of sloth that is inherent in us all, It takes a man out of his dreams and puts him into action, Possessing aatural gifts. é Lacking it, though his natural gifts be great, he will die » failure. Cultivate it, if you lack it, for it canbe cultivated, Keep your body healthy, and it will be easier to keep your energy active. 5 Remember that with it you can succeed, and without it you are sure to fail. It is certainly woyh cultivating, it, the can accomplish mad with few This meant that he must know. tors and motormen employed by the P. R, T. to-day than when Mr. Mitten took hold. “This means that the men are in sympathy with the “Mitten” lan of jamming cara, They yoll at seengera as drovers at cattle, ahd it 4s not an unusual occurrence to see them hold up'a car until people cram themselves to the satisfaction of these carmen, You have only to look through Philadelphia papers to see they numerous protesting letters, You say that New Yorkers would gladly welcome Mitten managemont. Not after they got a taste of hia ser- tion of the city, starting from Market Street, between the hours of 4 and 7 P. M. One trip will convince you Copy sigiat, 1920, b (thie New fi “That’s a Fact” By Albert P, Southwick The 1" Dyyblieh tae estos Ss vari) ANSWERS TO QUERIES. What army officer, English or American, was captured at night, while abed or in his night clothes ?— Morris, New Rochelle, N. ¥. You have only to go to Philadelphia] ‘There have beén sevetat instances and take @ ride on the car to any sec-| of this nature in general history, but the twa noted ones during the American Reyolution were (1) when Ethan Allen, at the head of the what ‘Mitten service” rely is. Green Mountain Boys, captured iP. R. Capt. Delamere at Ticonde: . New York, Aug. 19, 1920. May 10, 1715. At about 4 o'clock In . “ 4 * Gomer. HE Grst, last and only time thas ® Woman's Infidelity to her husbaud ever inspired the writ« ing of Holy Scripture was in the case of the prophet Hosea, whose fiery and in many ways wonderful Production immiediately, follows the Book of Daniel {i e Old Testament. Away back some seven hun- dred and fifty years’ before the Chirise tian era Cupid was busy shooting hus darts in eyory direction, and pne of them hit Hosea's heart with such force that he wus never able to n= move it, although he would have given all he possessed to be freed from, the pain tt causea him. Hosea was a citizen of the Northern Kingdom and belonged to what ar@ known as the minor prophets. He wag contemporary with, and a worthy peer of Isaiah, His prophecy is ono ment, and to this day, wwenty-eigag centunies after it was written, is full Of the earnestness that burns like & raging fire, | Whether it was before or afier the beginning of his work as a proplet of God we cannot tell, he was come ,manded by the Lord to get married, He vbeyed the command, but evident« jly the Lord did not help him in mak jing the selection, for he married “Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim.” As ts too often the case with good men, Hosea loved “not wisely, but toa well.” Gomer led: him an awful life, and capped the climax of her un« worthiness by the marital unfaithfule ness which shamed the prophet to the verge of distraction. Tt appears that, unashamed and un- repentant, Gomer went on from bad to worse until she finally left Hosea’s home and sank down to the very bot~ jtom of the abyss of misery and jshame, but Hosea, following hor witt: |tender affection, brought her back and restored her to his house, where jhe kept her in seclusion and patiently | watched over ber for a considerable period Bu: the virus had done dts work in |Gomer's soul, and by and by in spite. of the falthfulness of Hosea’s love for j the idol of his heart, all was forever jover, The tragedy was complete and final. ore |. And then it was that the broken- |hearted prophet wrote the thrillingly [Interesting book In thi Old Testament known as foseg. He would anticipate Shakespeare, i"make a morul even out of the devil {himself” and find In God's chastine- ment the disguised ingtruments of «ood. In the great struggle between his undying love for Gomer and the heart-breaking sorrow the love had brought him, he found a new and dee insight into the dealings of God with man, It is possible that Gomer's devoted lover knew the story of Jacob, and how, when God had got all ready to show iim the glorious vision of the ladder and the angels, he made him full down weary by the roadside with a stone for his pillow, thus employ= ing the griefs and sorrows of earth as means of opening,up the |glorics of heavin. It was even 80 | with the prophet; in his new doe mestic infelicities ‘he found what a beautiful and precious thing real, j true love | And ju Hosea distilled from his individ ws the wine of comfort and something beau the faith in the | that should come up out of his bitter domestic experi- ences, ds the flower comes up out of the ashes—he was led, furthermore, te the conviction that Israel's many inndelities to the will and law of Jehovah must sooner or later result tn"their conversion to God and in the reception of the blessings and honors, and powers that Jehovah had prom- ised them through Abraham, Father of the Faithful. the mornimg Aften rapped on the bedroom door of the, English eom-* mander, who, dressed only in shirt and drawers, appeared with hit pretty wife, who looked with fright- ened face over her hnsband’s shoul- | ders, It waS there that Allen de- manded surrender, “in the name: of the Great Jehovah and the Con- tinental Congress.” The guard of forty-eight men were surrendered prisoners of war and with the wom- en and children sent to Hartford, Conn,, and (2) the capture of Major Gen. Prescott on the night of July 10, 1777, by Lieut, Col, William Bar- ton, Prescott was then quartered at the house of a Quaker named .Overing, five miles above Newport, RL, With about thirty-eight chosen men Barton passed from Warwich across Narragansctt reached the house, dashed Into the bedroom and without allowing the English officer to dress, burried hin away to Warwick. He was exchanged for Gen. Charles Lee in the April fol- lowing. } oe le ; i you please furnish the poem relating to "Malden Lane? | ELSIE B., Jersey City, N. J. ‘ormer The -Dutch name of thi shady lane was Maagde * Paatje, or “Maiden's Path." ‘The particu- lar verses to which you probably refer were in three stanzas, the first being: “Down Malden Lane Whore clover grow Sweet-scented in the early alr; Where sparkling rills went shining | "through Their grassy banks, so green, 90 fair: Buth@ little maids from Hélland land Went tripping, Inughing, each to each, To bathe ‘the flax or spread a band Of Iinen in the sun to bleach,’t oe 8 Note—Thomas Burke {s| advised in securing the information he de- sires to address the Hon, Secre- tary of War, War Department, Washington, 'D, C, Veterans? camps are ngually formed by vol- unteers and not by any member of the regular force in either army or navy, 1 A vie . Beckman Street, New York City, a-part of the old Beekman farm, ‘honors the name of William Beey- man, who came to New Nether. land with Gov. Stuyvesant, The “Beekman Farm" extended about a block north and south of the present Beekman Street, and | al Nassau Street to the a. { ai 4 of the most eloquent in the Old Testae , A ‘, : \