The evening world. Newspaper, November 5, 1920, Page 38

# SSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULIEzER. oi Published Delly Except Sunday by the Peds Publiehing * Company, Nos. 53 to 63 irk Row, New York. w . 4 RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, a 3 308 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PNKsS, of All news de yy beret, ‘also the local news publi _NEW FACTORS. ° NGURES covering exports and imports for Sep- tember and for the nine-month period are available. America’sytrade balance against the rest of the world continues to pile up. South America and “Asia haveismall- balances in their favor, but where they have tens of millions, Europe runs hundreds of milliohs behind in its account with the United States. Nevertheless, it is gratifying to note that the = talance is*by no means so great as for the same months of last year, Europe in the nine months of this year shipped more than twice as much in ne value as last year, or nearly a third of the value which the United States shipped to Europe. This is the movement of trade against which Re- publicans have propoted to erect a “protective” tariff. And this in spite of the cold, hard facts that Evrope owes the United States annual interegt i on $10,000,000,000 in Government loans and prob- ably half as much more in private loans. rope can pay this debt only in commodities or oo } service. All the gold in the world wouldn't wipe ; \e out the indebtedness. A prohibitive tariff now > ih s would be as reasonable as if a merchant were to re- 1 fus2 to accept payment on goods sold on credit. . Agy meichant who adopted such a policy would soon find himself involved in trouble with his bankers. So too will any political party, the bankers tn this case being the thillions of holders of Liberty fonds, amd the taxpayers who do not favor high tax®s and high living costs when lower taxes and lower living costs are the alternative. IF ROBBERS MUST ROB. ‘AR be it from the intention of this newspaper to approve the business of highway robbery, which so frequently gets the better of the police force of the city. The’ Evening World unreservedly condemns the actions of the daring hold-up who escaped with $10,000 of the receipts of a firm of theatre ticket speculators. We hope that the police will capture the robber and that he will be punished by the courts. But—if the robbers must rob and If the police continue to be unable to apprehend the hold-ups, as happens in so many other cases—if such wickedness is inevitable—it must be admitted that the robber showed consideration for public opinion in his choice of a victim. It is a fair guess that the majority of the persons who read of the loss by the ticket broking agency said something very much like, “It served them right,” cr “Turn about is fair Play (3 Theatre ticket speculation, according to the gen- eral run of opinion, is one small degree removed from highway robbery. THE BONUS APPROVED. N THE hasis of fragmentary returns on the State Soldier Bonus proposition submitted to © fie voters, the “Ayes” seem to have it by a large ‘majority, and the veterans will presently receive the bonus for their services. ~/ There will be no grumbling over a burden of tax- ation imposed in such a manner. This $45,000,000 increase in the Indebtedness of fhe State means that the taxpayers will foot the bills for years to come. It means an indefinite deferment of the hope that the State income tax may be abolished. It means that economy in the “State Gavernment is more essential than ever be- fore and that a budget system gnd reorganization of the exeoutive departments will be even more im- erative under the coming State Administration than ever before. The bonus measure was non-partisan. It was referred to the voters, and thelr decision must de- cide. But there is no question but that it will add to the perplexities which Judge Miller will fave when he moves into the Executive office. ee: P34 ek * . of OR POLITICAL ZEAL? * 66D ELIGIOUS zeal,” according to Mayor Hylan, “should not be measured in dollars and _fents, and sacrifices incident thereto should be ‘borne personally.” ’ As applied to the City Government, this prin- ciple means—according to Mayor Hylan—"those of any denomination who find it necessary ta observe their religious holidays at times which necessitate their absence from their dutles must not expect the ‘city to pay for the loss of time incurred.” But to follow the principle to its logical con- Gluston, why restrict the scope of the idea to “re- ligious zeal”? Why not include political zeal under “the same general rule? . As applied to the City Government, such a rule “might be interpreted to apply to the “cat and dog fights” in the Board of Estimate. When Mayor Hylan, Comptroller Craig, Borough President Cur- fan and Aldermanic President La Guardia forget pe re Asiociatid Prem le excinsively entitled to the uw for revublicarton apatckes credited to it OF not otherwise cr@ited in this paper : THE £ the busingss of the city and conymence to burl verbal brickbats back and for y should not such @ performance he considered a “political holiday”? Why should the politicians the city to pay tor the loss of time incurred” Perhaps the suggestion is impractical, It would mean another job, the duties of which would be similar to those of a football timekeeper who takes “time out” when a player is injured or when there is a dispute over the rules. Another difficulty would be the appointment of an impartial timekeeper, Mr. t.a Guardia, for in- stance, could hardly consent to penalization by a Hylan appointee approved by Mr. Craig. It is certain that such a move would meet stren- uous opposition in the Board of Estimate. The mombers would be unwilling to suffer such an exfreme cut in salaries. WHY MARK TIME? HE Republican platform adopted at Chicago last June contained the following: Sound policy demands the early accom- Plishment of that real reduction of the tax burden which may be achieved by substitut ing simple for complex tax laws and proce- dure, prompt and certain determination of the tax ability for delay and uncertainty, tax laws which do not for tax laws which do excessively mulct the consumer or need- lessly repress enterprise and thrift. We advocate the issuance of a simplified form of income returns, authorizing the ‘Treasury Department to make changes In regulations effective from the date of their approval, empowering the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the consent of the tax- payer, to make final and conclusive settle- ments of tax claims and assessffents bar- ring fraud, and the creation of a Tax Board consisting of at leaat three representatives of the taxpaying public and the heads of the principal divisions of the Bureau of Internal Revenue to act as a standing committee on the simplification of forms, procedure and law and to make recommendations to Congress. In his message to Congress last December, Presi- dent Wilson said: “Simplification of the income and profits taxes has become an immediate necessity. hese taxes performed indispensable ser- vice during the war. They must, however, be simplified not only to save the taxpayer inconvenience and expense but fn order that his Mability may be made certain and defi- nit. * ¢ © “The Congress might well consider whether the higher rates of income and profits taxes can in peace times be effectively productive of revenue and whether they may not, on the contrary, be destructive of business activity and productive of waste and inefficiency. “There is a point at which in peace times high rates of income and profits taxes dis~ courage energy, remove the incentive to new enterprise, encourage extravagant ¢x- penditures and produce industrial stagna- tion, with consequent unemployment and other attendant evils.” Here is something very close to actond regarding the country’s imperative need of tax revision, Of that need the country itself has been for months acutely conscious. The present Congress meets In final session next month, Why shouldn't this Sixty-sixth Congress. act be- fore the end of the year to provide tax relief? The Republican Paity has won an overwhelm- ing victory. Its return to power is assured, So far as the election is concerned, it has nothing further to gain from a general policy of obstruction in the present Congress. So long as this Congress lasts Republicans should “see only credit for themselves in co-operating with Democrats to put through such practical legislative measures as are admitted by both parties to be of pressing public-importance, There are few reconstructive needs that weigh as heavily on the country as the need of tax revision. To wait until after March 4 and the calling of the Sixty-seventh Congress can serve no purpose from a Republican standpoint. ° The election is over. When Congress convenes next month it is free to perform in the public in- terest any urgent business that presents no real party Issues. Why mark time? WIEN WOMEN SERVE AS JURORS. (From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) New Jersey is to the fore with juries of women. One wholly made tp of the newly enfranchised sex decided with promptness a case in the District Court at Orange, The serious manner in which the jurors performed their duty impressed all beholders, The conclusion of the court was that women are.especially well fitted for the task which {s so new for them, and that they should Be called to serve often, Their willingness to serve 1s creditable, But it would be premature to. arsume that fn the long run they will be more willing than men. Nog, though thelr judgment in this Orange cose was commendable, doco 4t follow that women juries will always be satisfac- tory. No law can obliterate the distinctions of sex. ‘Women, as a rule, have neither the experience nor the temperament to qualify them for quasi-judicial tune- tions. Their ability as jurors is likely to be demon. strated only in @ limited crass of cases. There will be mixed juries, of course, under the new conditions, Many believe that these will be superior to those made up of a single sex. The unton of the masculine and the feminine point of view will greatly help, it ds argued to reach just verdicts, That, too, is an assumption, So few things work our precisely as logic expects, It might be that the men and the women ju would often find It very difficult to come to any agreement whatever, | = «ahs, operat, 1920, Pobtlehing Co, wn York Brentng Word), > | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS| What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia jine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying + to say much in a few words Take Take Care of the Children, — | ‘To the Extitor of The Rreaing World Dr. Copeland's report on housing conditions in New York calls to mind @ condition which should and I am sure could bo overcome if the desire and the will to do 90 existed. | We will not dwell on the living eon- ditions of adults, But we cannot dwell too impressively on the sleeping quar- | tera of some children, It 1s a known fact that many children do not know the feel of @ warm bed under their Ut- tle bodies at night. Goveyunent or the 6 thombelves to soe tha citizens have at least a fighting chance to grow into healthy men and women? ‘The winter is coming on ana coal 18 not cheape The outlook ts any- thing but cheerful.for some little ones. Would it not be possible to work out a plan whereby the schools could » take it on utilize thelr lecture halls, ete., by putting up army cots and bunks with warm blankets, etc,, for the li who might otherwise have to s dirty floors and be covered with old clush¢s and rags? Also a plan to give these same little bodies a start on the day with a good meal of cereal and bread and butte There may be o ttle wisdom tn the method of a government that looks after the children while ignoring the adults, Have we not some philan- thropist who will his hobby giving to the children? Or must we sit idly by and wait for such? Please try jani make somebody think on things. LILLIAN MAYHE 221 Sherman Ave., N Chrintened Thoman Woodrow Wil- A aon, ‘To the Pilitor of "The Brening World At a recent civil service exa tion I was asked what President Wil- son's middle name was, and, net know. ing, { @tarted to inquire but could find no one who knew. Will you Kindly answer the question? < 0. W. REICHTER, Gaugerties, N.Y “In “Nefence of Frieda” Dirvet for Defendant, ‘To the Maitor of Tho Prenicg Woakt “Telling her if whe dit net go @ip would have the same gnini@ment 1p out to her as a boy of ber own ade, mh the casn of Wriwle Bane antl Now 18, YOUR HONOK: This girl sevs day Should not the, ‘these future/Conclusion that ‘the-man is j time to be brief. after day in the Criminal Courts the hewspapers, magazines, public li- braries, political speeches and else- where the crimes, the misdemeanors, the profiteering, the Inhumanity, the selfishness and the ignorance of the highly educated, and she refuses to take eny chances, Your Honor, She's stubborn, so please let her buy her own clothes, | YOUR HONOR—Frieda has rend! your decision of Oct. 13 that—"she Would have the same punishment meted out to her as a boy of her own age—and she congratulates Your Honor and says—"if it took two thousand years of higher education | for you (the Courts) to reach the st as | guilty as the woman’ then what good would four hours.a week more school- ing do for her short life." Frieda 1s no dummy, Your Honor, She should get @ wold medal, Your Honor. YOUR HONOR—In summing wp, Frieda wishes to sny that—"'The most terrible of all confilets which thrent- ened to engulf civilization itself, coming after nineteen centuries of higher and higher education, both re- Ngioys and otherwise, ts an indict ment against the rch as well as the Sehool." Fr doesf't ask for a pistol permit, Your Wonor—she just wants to buy her own clothes, like the little blue bird that ‘8 and dances in the garden, she !s watching her step now, Your Honor, and she es that there are too many coll too many high set and ?—an says a shy little mind her own busi wM, 1 upGH, » Defendant, Bronx County, Ni 1920. Adding Machines i the Frac- tlon| To the Ealltor of ‘Tie ng Wert Just to show how popular the Pro- hibition candidates ~were, will you their total vote and f them were elected? TNQUISITIY 1920, Flowers. To the & Phe Evening World 1 shall appreciate hearing from any of your readers who are famiiar with [the “language of flowers" what flow- and friend- BROWN. New York, Noy. 1, YOUR In defense of] In Memory of Dr. Leipziger. Frieda: he litle girl criminal who To the faltor of The Boning W has violate the compulsory “higher| ‘The coming Dec. 1 will mark the ecupalos Law MeN bedi is a third anniversary of the death of that Wall’ nnd’ te fainigcunetiolent in) er distingulshed educator, Dr, Henry M ing, arithmetic grammar, She is] Lelpaiger, the man who has done ambitious, honest and reliable, and|/inore for the education and enlighte n-| any girl to-day, Your Honor, regard-[ment of the masses than any other | ¢» loss of age, Who ts willing and anxious] one person. His work has earned the to buy her own clothes has» xood,|love and honor of the millions who sound Common sense and needs no col have benefited by the institut.ens | lege degree nor high school diploma, which he bas founded. Bealdes spending over twenty years UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake di (Copyrigut, 1920, by John Blake.) MAKE YOUR BUSINESS YOUR HOBBY. It is well enough to have a hobby, if you don’t over- work it. A very eminent lawyer made clocks in his spare time, and got rest and recreation out of it. Many prominent men play golf to keep their bodies in good condition, - Fishing is a hobby that almost any one would indulge in if he had the time. Amateur photography is another hobby which fasci- nates many men whose business activities lie in an entirely different direction, All these are good and usefal, but they all must be practiced sparingly, ‘ 4 The people who get*furthest are those who make their business or professions their Aobby—who would rather do what they do to earn their livelihood than anything else on earth, These people are able to concentrate, because the job absorbs them. are not likely to be distracted. Watch a man who is running a race and you will find ample“Proof of that. It is certain that you will do best the thing you most want to do, You will not have to drive yourself; you: will not find yourself making excuses for not wanting to do it, or procrastinating. Even the drudgery that goes with all important work will be welcome, for you will know that this must be done in order to get the results that you want to get. Have all the minor hobbies you want, but make your main and important hobby your every day's work. If you do that you will soon begin to make such prog- ress in it that you will have hard work getting away from it, even to spend time on tite exercise that you need to take,» erent If you want to do a thing badly enough yoy! of Dis life in the services of the! already secured the great hal tlon, he was the heart | College of the City of New York ee Board of E And core of what Is now the greatest | thls memorial, évening lecture system in the world.| _ Dec 1 will soon be here and imme- Without untiring and ceaseless | diate action is necesary!’ Wi! efforts the publte lecturo system that! those organisations, “he, wie aut has popularized education would have| engaged in any field of ‘educational been Impossible. work, please send in their lists of In order to crystallize the love and | delegates at once, as we must set devotibn we all hold for this great! an early date for ‘the conference, man @ memorial meeting will be held ¢ at the Great Hall of the City College | dressed to of the City of New York on Dee, 1,| President h Federation of ous expression, so great and rye helming 4s to be an inspiration | Suggesting a Bent Seller, to others to fullow in Dr, Lelpziger's | ™ the aitor of The Kyeutng World ‘of all cham erence of all those doing edu take place in this f fons, sity tional work t at an early of! in book form. Thelfeve it would be a making. ¢ ry. | beat seller if he wrote JQ. Mott The Pres un is| New York, 3. theo. anxious to other club, = ty, Kanization engaged in Lny sort of educational work, COM" | py tho patitorae ae muinicate with m and designate a | 7? 10" Milter commnitioe v6 ning. then tovat| — Will you kindly the following tend this. conference,” Dr. Finley, | distzreoment? A x ational i ef the University of the | *eldier is entitled to 4 in time of New York, bas gladly pevee, He denits this 2S s Note n s Not disqualify - likely to conflict with r on Arrangements. | quirements. Some States. pi The Foderation of Cultural Clubs has | woldiers vouua by maibl 1 his ership int 4 soldier, but All communications should be ad- ALBPRT SONBERG, , Cultura memorial should be a| Clubs, No, 225 West Broadway, N. Y. footsteps and thus do fitting honor to| We are slad to have Robert jails memory,» |Edgren’s articles on boxing again, The Federation of Cultural Clubs | He ts the peer in that line, Would has taken the initiative in culling alike to su est he write the life story H from Sullivan ity | down to the prvsent, and you issue it! Colleges and Universities | Of New York By Appleton Street Copyright, 1020, by the Prem Publishng Oo. (The New York Evening World.) No. 7—New York University. EW YORK UNIVERSITY fs type ical of the metropolis, Sprawled all over the city, with collegiate activities in four centres ranging from Wall Street to the Bronx and from Washington Square to First Avenue, {t impresses one at first glance a9 essentially practical, a university with the furbelows left out, concerned not #0 much with appearances as with the solid educational needs of a great commercial city, ‘The University was founded In 188ty five years after the University of Lone don. The first president of its council was Albert Gallatin, friend and ad« viser of Thomas Jefferson. Gallatin had high hopes of the new institution, but apparently he was longer on hope than on faith, for after a few yeare he withdrew from the council and hia Dlographer writing in 1854 made this commen The history of the University, through ita preearto; fatence of half # century, amply jus- tifles Mr. Gallatin's preyisions and retirement. Instead of the American Sorbonne of which he had dreamed, it has never been more than a focal Institution, struggling to hold a place in a crowded field.” It would be interesting to have Gallatin’s opinion of the University as it is to-day, It can hardly clalm recognition as the American Sor~ bonne—but then, nefther can any other institution. America is too big for any one university to be pre- dominant, the University of Paris’ {a in F e. But New York Untver- sity has become a truly great educa- tional centre, with an enrollment ex ceeding 10,000 students, with extensive graduate and professional schools in addition to its undergraduate college, and with a prestige in certain branche es that Is unimpeachable, Perhaps its most conspicuous and distinctive work has been in the fleid of business education, where it has been a pioneer. The School of Com+ merce now enrolls 4,000 students an- nually in its classes at Washington Square and in the Wall Street branch, More than 2,000 have been graduated from the school, and 26,000 others, part-time students, have been trained there in various branches of business. Yast year a School of Retail Sales- manship was added; here teachers of Jesnanship and retail supervisors are trained for store work, This year, to crown its system ot commercial education, the University established a Graduate School of Business for post-graduate students. The University has an {mportant en- gineering college tn its School of Applied Science. (And it is interest- ing to recall in this connection that in the old University Building on Washington Square 8. F. B, Morse, then a professor there, invented the telegraph instrument, and Draper, another professor, first photographed the human face.) The School of Ped= agogy is the oldest American gradu- ate school for teachers. The Law School in Washington Square and the Medical School and Veterinary Col- lege, near Bellevue Hospital, are all famous in their lines, The under- graduate college occupies on Univer- sity Heights in the Bronx one of the most beautiful sites of any college in the country. It ig the core of the University, degcribed by Chancellor Brown {n a recent address In the following words: “There is an old-time country col= lege, true to American college tras ditions, There the A. B. ds not to be had without the study of Latin or Greek. There compulsory attendance at chap@ still survives, There the sophomores compel tha unlicked freshmen to learn obedience and fear of the law. There ts the Hall of Fame for great Americans, and it takes {t® piace with us ag a provision for th teaching of the American spirit at its finest and best.” New York University has several noble buildings, many of them gifts of generous friends. Amohg its most notable benefactors are Mrs. Finley J, Shepard, Mrs. John S$. Kenedy Frederick W, Deyoo and William Havemeyer, It has only a meagre endowment tn proportion to its #era vice to the community “That’saFact’ By Albert P. Southwick t. 1920, by The Pree (The New York Breure On Nov. 1, 1765, Act was to go Into effect, handbille when the Stamp mysteriously appeared — thro: New York City forbidding any aheas eril, to us the st. x gp s the stamped paper, ‘The town of West Farms, Bronx, was formed from the Manet Westchester by Act. of Assembly (New York) on May 18, 1846. It ine cluded the villages of Fordham, Wille jamsbridge, Tremont, Falrmount, Bela mont, Monterey, Mount Eden, Mount. Hope and Woodstock. eee Morrisania was originally of Weet Farms,-but on Dec. 7, 1820 14 was formed into a separate township f and in 1874 annexed to New York City, ee 8 ‘The first ship built in New - dam and the third on the Pees continent was the Onrest (usually called Restless), in 1614, on the alte of wae is now Fraunce's Tavern, the southeast corner of Hrow Streets, New eCliy, An Tear ~ The plot of ground where Fy across the way f¢ i ] sit original Stadt Huy yew Aine sterdam, and was aw gran to Col. Stephanus Vi the Mayor (Nich Costlandt. fa « Bayard a dermen of the City of > ene Nov. 19, 1656, Tt was then deseri as bounded westerly by Prine Street (now Broud) and north Strand Street (later Dock, Queen and finally Pearl) On every March 26 the rent was to he one peppel 4 sume be lesuliy demanded Yt One Ne New York City in 1680 had tully 0 inhabitants und contained about hor es, many of the families have vera] children, Strand Stir the river, | ted by ite as is indicated by its ¢ ‘