The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1920, Page 30

Fg Nr eet Ns altel ee —_—~ irae 5 oe ESTABLISHED RY JOSE Pprdiished Dally Except Sunday } Company, Nos. 58 to 68 RALPH PULITZER, President, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer JOSEPH PULITAE ————__—_—___—_——_ Ged fio toe level ere pubuined deren, es a THOSE ENRIGHT POLICE POLICIES. fARS. BLLEN O'GRADY resigned yesterday as M Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner because H she found she could no longer serve in the Depart- 1 ment under Police Commissioner Enright and re- j tajn her independence and self-respect. } Be. cag Mrs. O’Grady’s resignation, Commis- Kee j @oner Enright said: ) |. “r haven't had anything to do with the Fifth ' ;Deputy for a long time. She had a “extra departmental’ office, many of the duties ‘of which did not pass through my office at all {1 do not care to discuss her work or her per- { {ponelly.” ¢ iYet iwo years ago next month, when he 1 ndunced the appoiniment of Mrs. O'Grady to the * office she has just resigned, Commissioner Enright Said sort of an- “My experience has demonstrated the abso- ' Siute necessity of having a woman as Deputy icommissioner. O'Grady has ime as of a particularly high type. ‘honesty, her experience and her fearlessness ‘make her particularly adept for the work sho ‘will be called upon to perform.” What the public wants to know now is this: 1 {Wherein have Mrs. O'’Grady’s “rugged honesty, ; experience and fearlessness” proved incompatible with the Enright policies in the Police Department? ] {Honest Dan Costigan was demoted before he had a hance to conflict with those policies. | [The honest and fearless Mrs, O'Grady struggled ‘ against theng as long as she could and finally gave * phin disgust. ] iMrs. O'Grady charges that close associates of f mmissioner Enright choked off her investigation ‘a particularly flagrant case involving’ an attack on two seventeen-year-old girls by two well-to-do niin jMrs. O'Grady also charges that her investigation af |conditions in moving picture theatres following Mrs, impressed Her rogged } '| thie New Catharine Theatre horror last month were } resented and blocked because certain of these mov- | ing picture theatre proprietors claimed to have pur- cliased immunity by subscribing to the Police Hos- Pital fund, {These charges are specific. }They should be thoroughly gone into by author- iebd investigators. eae aes Cty eens j int it takes a legislative committee to get it, the j people of this city are entitled to an early answer td, the question that has become more and more on inously insistent in the past two years: {What ARE the Hylan-Enright police policies? i GOV. SMITH’S NEXT JOB. AS HEAD of the United States Trucking Cor- A poration, Gov. Smith wif find a man-sized | jab which will demand all the executive ability he | Polssesses. j MiBringing orde: out of the trucking chaos which fhgs prevailed is a great business undertaking and a | Piiblic service as well. The possibilities of the job are practically boundless, | {New York has a truck traffic larger than that of migst railroads in the land. New York has long néeded a Harriman to do what needs to be done in the organization and co-ordination of intraity : frtight-handling. It is a task for a Harriman. ,All Gov. Smith’s executive ability will be wel- come. His pleasant personality will be an invalu- . in a troubled labor situation. : {it is hardly ‘necessary to say that while the Gov- efor’s political aptitudes need not atrophy, they j wilt have no proper place in the trucking business, , WHAT EVERY BUSINESS MAN KNOWS, N ITS leading editoria!, the Journal of Com- j))merce said yesterday: i To seek occasion to disparage the work jf the League of Nations is something more } than the mark of a weak mind. It suggests ' @ kind of mental perversity which, if uni- } Versal, would justify a feeling of blank de- Ppair of the future of humanity tl} would justify the same feeling regarding the /Antelligence of business and commercial interests in the United States. jUhere are few American business men—outside munition industries—who do not know in their “ hgart of hearts that the United States ought to be j in, the League of Nations and that things will not | bd right for them until it is there. 4} jAt the present moment Republican business men ,, Stould be putting extra pressure on the Republican President-elect to make certain that his foreign y shakes off the kind of irreconcilable, anti- we bitter-end-ism thai sefved ts purpose in the tial campaign, oe ts penn Pm, Jeague of Nations a bugbear while the fight for votes was on Lut with the great Republican victory won, sane American business, Republican. or kind, knows it cannot afford to have uncertainty and indefinitely prolonged by xisting League to please confusion the United Sta the bitter-enders Out of the League of Nations, tie country is now confronted with another three-year naval build- ing programme calling for battleships, cruisers, mine-laying submarines and whole new costly outfit for the sort of thing the last were supposed to have discredited. Are dreadnoughts betier than d isolation more profitable than partnership? es out of t Six years armament? — Is Are international and trade relations at loose ends good for American business? If not, American business should be demanding full part in the Marion conterences on foreign policy, THE ALTERNATIV pine new Immigration Bill passed is a stop-gap political measure. the House It provides It is for nothing except the immediate emergency. the result of political pressure, not of sound reason. In that respect it does not differ from past legisla- tion on the subject. If it ever became law, one desirable result might come of it: The one-year life of the measure might afford time for careful consideration of an immigra- tion policy such as the United States has never had The Evening World has pointed out the absurd- ity of permitting new immigration in a period ot unemployment. The present law is a confession of the absurdity. Dut the remedy is no less absurd, Neither Con- gress nor any other agency can say with certainty whether the bars should be kept up for one year— the term of this bill—for six months, for two or for five years. A The Evening World has suggested that immigra- tion should be put under a Federal Commission similar to That which regulates banking. Such a commission should have administrative power to vary restriction on immigration as the Federal Re- serve Bank varies the discount rate. In drawing new and permanent immigration leg- islation, Congress should lay down only a few fun- damental principles, leaving their applic: wisdom of the Board of Experts. Of these principles, one of the most fundamental is this: Immigration is a privilege. It is not a natural right of any person not a citizen, Because of this, the United States may properly lay down any rules it sees fit to govern admission of aliens. Whether to immigrate under these rules is the option of the prospective immigrant. Practical wisdom rather than principles of ab- Straot justice should govern the restriction of immi- ion to the gration. If the United States were to require every immi- grant to wear pink knee-breeches for two years it would be unwise. But it would not be an invasion of the immigrant’s rights, If the United States were to lay down a require- ment that all immigrants must work a term on pub- lic improvements before being permitted to share in the improvements, the requirement would be per- missible irrespective of its wisdom, This The United States might require that immigrants register and report at regular intervals, that they “learn English or be deported, that they live outside large cities, that they shall not live in a unit of administrative territory in which more than a limited percentage power has no bounds, of unnaturalized aliens are already resident, that they go to school Unreasonable restriction is a mistake, not a wrong. The test of immigration rules is the test of wisdom. ‘This test, it has been conclusively demonstrated, Congress is unfit to apply. Politics intervenes. Individual Congressmen have no op- portunity for adequate study of the question. ~ When restriction changes are necessary the need is immediate and pressing. Congress does not and cannot function quickly enough to meet the chang- ing conditions, The alternative is an Adminisirative Board. THE DEMAND FOR MUSIC. pene IN concert halls are booked ahead, afternoons and evenings To meet the demand for musi the managers have interposed a third music period be- tween the matinee and evening recitals, giving short programmes from 5.30 to 7 P, M, New York seems to be as music-hungry as any y could be, There never was such a musical winter. Why not late afternoon concerts here? As in London, the change in time would open a musical opportunity to thousands who are practi- cally barred. Commuters in particular would ap- preciate such an opportunity which would enable them to have the entertainment without the late ride to distant suburbs, months » some of THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1920, | iy. 1020. ean Pint York Evening World From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you fir that gives you the worth of a thous: There 4s fine mental exercise « to say much in a few words. Drivers Who € Lives. | To the Bator of The Broning World I have been a constant reader of The Evening World for the last twenty years. From time to time I read articles about careless driving, accl- dents, deaths, &c. I have never read anything about praise for the drivers of automobiles for the lives they save each day, or the accidents they pre- vent by their quick thinking and alert- ness, I am a private chauffeur and am speaking from our end of the game. ‘There is hardly a day goes by when I don't save at least a dozen lives or prevent that many accidents. If any one thinks driving a car around New York City in traffic all day 1s @ cinch they ougat to try it aud see what we have to contend with—the mope, the jay walker, the dreamer, &c, Here 1s my idea as to who is to blame for most of the accidents: 1, The Secretary of State's office, which issues licenses to any Tom, Dick or Harry who has $5 and can answer a few simple questions. 2. Some of the wild taxi drivers, ex- convicts, gunmen and chauffeurs, the | birds who tear up Broadway and dart out of side streets, the ones who are aii . Enforce the regulation about keeping slow moving vehicles to the right-hand curb and from shooting Cut of side streets and turning cor- ners without putting their hand out to eignal the driver behind. The rea- | oon they do it is because they know | that if You hit them you will get the worst of it, that's why they don't } care, or even try From my fifteen years’ experience, I have found the only ones who give people a chance, both on foot and in cars, is the private chauffeur. Years ago onw could drive down Fifth Avenue aud pretty nearly figure out what the driver ahead was going to do, but now, ye gods, one would | have to be a miracle man due to the nexperienced drivers of cars WALTER F. O'CONNOR. New York, Dec. 9, 1920. A Sensonal Question, ‘Lo the Editor of The Evening World What is preferable ag a Christmas gift for a young man whom a young woman has known for only two and | a half months? MINA. New York, Dee. 9, 1920, Snow and Jobs. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Iam a reader of your paper and al- ways admire it for taking a fair sta Iam a bricklayer and always have been a good citizen. I have a complaint to make, IT saw in an ar- ticle in a paper Dec. 6 that the city is| going to use police and firemen to clean the streets when it snows, and that they are breaking the men in to Tun streot cleaning plows, I and many others in the buflding line very seldom have any work to do during the winter and always plan that at least we could earn a few dollar to keep the wolf away from the door by helping to clear the atreets of anow. ‘they intend to put police and Now vd most readable? Isn't it the one ind words in a couple of hundred? nd @ lot of satisfaction in trying Lake time to be brief. firemen who have steady jobs to do the work. I am not blaming the po- lice and firemen as I am sure it is not with their free will that they will do it, but why stop others from earn- ing a day's pay? trom dll appearances this looks as though we were going to have a bad winter with ybody laying off mén. You can see all kinds of men out of work now and knowing you are just I hope you will find a little room in your paper to help the likes of me and many others by bringing up this subject. CHARLES J. HARVEY Bronx, Dec, 8, 192 To Fill the Pews, To the Eaitor of The Evening World: ‘To one who has been observing the antics of the new radical Sunday re- form group it is apparent that a des- | perate attempt is being made by cer- tain churches to abolish whatever re- | maining personal freedom is left to| us, Is it not a telling indictment of fail- ure against the heads of these churches? Does it not show that these churches are not functioning They cannot d their members to them on Sundays, and are willing to resort to Federal’ laws, oppressive te all, im the vain hdépe of coercing their members to attend Legislative tyranny will their vacant pews, Brooklyn, Dec. 12, 1920 properly never fill a Fair Play to the E ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Wherever reader signing himself “Cum on the Erie” gets his data from 1s more than I can figure out. His letter as to certain conditions exist- ing on the Erte Railroad is not only absurd but ridiculous, and I do not believe ten commuters on the Erie would concur with his views, as I know that in so far as the conductors and passenger officials are concerned I have always found them to be the most courteous and ellicient gentle- men I ever came in contact with dur- ing my extensive travels. Fair play | is a jewel, so give it where it is due; but I certainly cannot refrain from answering this gentleman in view of his attacks “as to riding on the Erte," FAIR PLAY, 18, 1920. Bardonia, N, Y., Dec. | Make the City Safer. To the Editor of ‘The Evening World I have a suggestion to make that would enable the Police Department of our city to safeguard the lives of the citizenry of New York City against gunmen, highwaymen, rob- bers and all others connected with this class, They have become so nu- merous in our city that, I have be- gun to regard them as a ‘pestilence Why not have the Police Depart- ment swear in as special deputies or officers (or whatever title the Mayor or Pollco Commissioner sees fit. to bestow upon these men) all the men who have been granted pistol or re- volver p-rmits, This could be done after cureful investigation of these men’s characters (this is dono by the Police opartment now to those that are granted permits), ‘These men are to act without pay, and are to have some badge or. shield to denote their euthonty. The expanse of (Copyright, 1920, It is a busy world you fir think, to pay any sire to get along in it. fersions that have taken long nesses and factories, and inte Everywhere success seems to to be captured. Who are you than you, are seeking to secur of the system, that the compet have the most advantages are form to tackle the game, For you, the beginner, wi perience, have really mar you have learned to work, and time-honored battle with the the mental and physical nvuse your heels you have small tim pick up bad habits Then, while you may hav you at the same time have | There-are no vicious habits « course of your life. You have acquired no exy no ideas of snobbery. have the right kind of an auto You can start clean and f appetite and enough physical what you find to do, You wi it, having no preconceived no’ think you are abused if your h small at first. You will want but you will not try to get it Really, young man or you ought to give them a handic fault if you do not beat them ALTH IS A HA perience, without influential friends, to undertake that which many have and many others, far better equipped advantages. mind and muscles to hold y long way ahead of the rich man’s son or daughter, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake by John ) YDICAP. nd yourself in—too busy, you attention to you and your unimportant de- Men are busy with trades and pro- to acquire. Men own busi- nd to keep on owning them. be entrenched too strongly ; Without wealth, without ex- to gain > e? It is a dismal prospect until you stop to look at it. Then it seems a trifle more cheerful. closer inspection and by watching for atime the workings For you will see, on itors for sfecess who seem to really the most handicapped, while you, who have nothing at all, are really in pretty good thout money and without ex- If you are poor work hard, for the poor who are also young can make a livelihood in no other way, The wolf is the best hardener of les that there is. Also it is one of the best preservatives of health, for with the wolf at e to stop by the wayside and ¢ learned to do nothing well, earned to do nothing badly. of half-work formed in your 6u back through the whole nensive tastes. You have got You do not think that if you cannot mobile to ride around in, and do not wear the right kind of clothes to an afternoon tea, that you stand disgraced before the world. fair, with good health, a good strength to do energetically Il take the world as you find tions about it. You will not ours are long and your pay what others want, of course, by devious methods, for you is will know nothing about such methods. ng woman, you are starting a You ap, for it will be own to success, your Dy eee ts to be detrayed by the men them- selves. This badge is only to be used when the necessary occasion arises, namely, to assist the victims of rob beries, &c, when a police officer Is not at hand. He may be of still fur- ther use to an officer of the law by assisting him to control a mob or dis- orderly throng. This shield of au-| thority is to be kept from the gon- eral view and only to be used as heretofore qxplained or when any other necessary occasion arias, There are times when a permit carrying man may bo in a hank, fac- ‘Shia badge tory, or on « public highway when.» e being no officer at hand, he of some valuable service to tim of the crime, If the neces- asion arises he may shoe to Kill, {f his life or the lives are in danger, This would, in my opinion, lessen ertmo to a great extent in our city, and the thousands of men who have these permits could be added to our fine police force, so that tn time,the necessity sina from the ne of such men would no longer be regarded as serious, AF, 2, Brooklyn, Deo, 11,1920, ’ ry 18 going on or has taken place | The World’s | Oldest | Love Stories By Maubert St. Georges. HERCULES AND DEJANIRA. UPITER one day fell in love with Alomene, the wife of Amphitryon, and had by her a son called Her- cules, Juno, the wife of Jupiter, being jealous, resolved to vemt her spite upon Hercules, All through bis life she worked against him,'making it one of misery, ‘The first érial she sent he overcame, so when ‘he mar- ried Megara, the daughter of, Creon of ‘Thebes, she drove him mad so that he Killed his children, sor this he had to serve Burytheus, and performed his famous twelve labors. Not con t with this she drove him into the ice of Omphale, queen of Lydia, where he lived in an gffeminate man- ner, wearing the clothes of a woman, while the queen wore his lion's skin, | One he met Dejanira, daughter jof Oeneus, King of Calfdonia.” He |fell in love with her and with this }love returned the manhood he had |forsaken. ile found he had a power- |ful rival in Achelous, the tutelary deity of the river of that name. They decided to fignt for the possession of Dejanir Achelous seeing himaelf |to be losing, changed himself into # white bull. But Hercules seized him by the horns and vanquished him, breaking one of them off, which Achelous, however, recovered by giv= ang up the horn of plenty of Amal. thea Happy in the possession of Deja: ira’s love, it seemed as if the fortune of Hercules was at last turning, But no! Juno, vindictive in her long lived anger, once more smote him with « fit of madness and he slew a -boy named Eunomus. Fearing the conse- quences of this crime, Hercules de- cided to fly, and Dejanira chose to #hare his exile, In their fight they came to « river they had to cross, but which could not be forde They were preparing’ to swim across when a centaur, by name Nessus, approached them and offered to carry Dejanira across on his back and thus save her the exer- tion of the swim. Hetcules accepted the offer and plunged in withows more ado. ching the other side he found ing back that nat only the | ae centaur was not se behind him, but that he and his wife had not yet deft the other shore, They were struggling on the bank and it was obvious that Nessus was attempting to carry off Dejanira. He had almost overpowered her when Hercules, see- ing that it would be useless to seek to swim back again, quickly strung his bow and sent an arrow through the body of the centaur. While he was crossing back towards them, Nessus spoke to Dejanira. He told her he must have been mad to seek to capture her, and that to make up for this he would tell her a secret. If she would take some of the blood that even now was flowing from his wound, it would, if ever Hercules should stray from her, jnfallibly bring back his devotion te her. When Hercules rejoined them, Nes- sus was dead and Dejanira alrealy | had collected some dried up blood and hidden it about her. Once more they settled down, and were happy, when for some reason Hercules had to leave his wife for a short while. Instantly Juno set to |Work agai. hinting to Dejantra that | Hercules was unfaithful. §o, melting and diluting the blood she had col- Jected from Nessus, Dejanira steeped a beautiful garment in it and sent it to Heroules. Unfortunately the arrow with which Hercules had killed Nessus was one of those he had dipped in the blood of the Hydra, and thus the poison had been communicated to Nessus and so to the garment. When Hercules put on his garment he immediately sut- fered terrible torture. Tt stuck to his body so that in trying to wrench {t off him he tore whole pieces of flesh from his body. So excruciating was the agony that, unable to withstand it, he built himself a funeral pile on which he burnt himself, He was car- ried to Olympus, where Juno finally pardoned him and he was made im- mortal, marrying Hebe, the Goddess of Youth, while Dejanira, unable to bear the thought of having brought about the death of Hercules, han; herself on the spot where he ——_ By Albert P. Southwick Jopyright, 1930, by Publishing Prem (The New York Byening World, ANSWERS TO QUERIES. (a) How many tubes are there m the Hudson-Manhattan railroad sys- tem which go under the Hadson River? (b) Is there a tube under the Hudson leaving New York at Chria« topher Street? (c) Was the McAdoo tunnel the first tube built under the Hudson? (d) Can you go from 38d Street, New York, via Christopher Street direct to Hoboken, to the Erie? E. M. CORCO! 583 59th Street, Brooklyn, N. ¥, (a) Two distinct ones—the McAdoo and the Pennsylvania. Two more double tubes are now contemplated, (b) Yes, (c) Yes, (d) Yes, to both, by the MoAdoo, starting trom 33d Street and Sixth Avenue. The Penn- sylvania Tunnel starts from the Hud- 1 Terminal, Church and Cortlandt Streets, New York City, and extends |as far as Newark, N. J rere Please decide a bet. Is Columbus Day a holiday? C, F. H., N. Y. City, | It is dn New York State, . | How jong has the outja been in existence? One answer has been 19 My experience dates back to 1886, when on a bark, Nellte Brett, from. Chili, a Finlander made me one of @ | piece of board. IW. No. 482 Hast 196th Street, N. 'Y, us The name oul, mean and the German |"fa." of the same signification) is comparatively reeent, but the object, in use between 1870 | was called “planchette,” . 46 T have @ Fronch-Pnglish dictionary of 1763, of tho old typo, heavily bound, |thick cover type. Is it worth any | premium? | THOMAS MACK, N, ¥, » | Only to the book-lover 2 biblio~ phile, and could possibly be old to one or more of the ni woconds and 1880,° ( \4 \ "y a { i : L /