The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1921, Page 22

SETABLISHED RY JOREPR PULITZER. Dettemet Daily Kxcopt Munday vy The Prem Publishing Company, Non, 53 to Park Rew, Now Tork. RALPH President, 63 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row PULATSER Jr,, Secretary, 63 Park Row. a MEMPER OF TIP ASSOCTATED PRESS, OD pEuy-omlbagl qmititied to the wie for republiention me Oenont chen mle the focal to Mt of mot otherwise eredited tn this paper herein, _ LESS HEAT FROM THE SUBWAY SUN. Interborough continues to climb down from its high (8-cent) horse, J, The latest issue of the Subway Sun reads: BUSINESS, NOT CHARITY. 4 announced in a previous Subway Sun Ge Interborough does not ask a PERPETUAL Scont fare, but a FLEXIBLW fare. If in 6 cents—or 3 cents—is sufficient, we ‘will be for it. ‘The EVENING “WORLD, commenting that |, flexible fares have proved satisfactory to the { Public in Cleveland and other cit dds that ‘@ny Interborough proposition “must be a \! Business proposition, not a charity appeal.” * The Interborough proposes the flexible fare ‘G for exactly that reason. erri) ee arte good, ‘beds the Interborough now ready io make a business on the basis of decreasing costs and the Le eting buses of its newly opened lines? Jeasls it ready to discuss fares on the theory that fal may sometimes tive to balance lean ones, to admit that just now the _leanness is rapidly Nmaceding into the past? “ynils it propared to talk business in the light pt | President Hedley’s recent optimistic statement re- | farting the outlook for raising funds to pay Inter- }, borough obligations, and in the light of the Wall | s8treet Journal's coincident réport that “with the | trend of costs pointed definitely downward, . opera- oa | ations are expected to reach the stage some time next mr | aller (1921) where a profit can be shown after fixed “ | Charges, even under a 5-cent fare”? | “AcAs to “flexible fares” : her ‘Costs and conditions are also flexible, Maybe the situation has altered so fast that now 4 | the Interborough goes on making ils 8-cent-fare “A | {Pilea from force of tmabii, even though prospects just , 4 Mita assure easy going on a Sent basis. 1-9 4 habit of this sori should not become fixed, | “Flexibility “of its own adjustment to changes | amet prove as profitable to the Interborough as fares. Political leaders of both parties have urged eolthe repeal of all wartime measures and policies “wm order to get the country back to a normal peace ‘ge, basis. Yet the United States Senate votes, 53 cfm, to 5, to overridk the President's veto and revive ime ‘War Finance Corporation in order to coddle st ee the grain and cotton interests, How are the j=-words honesty and consistency defined in the Sep oonereonons! dictionary? 28 «HARD ENOUGH, TO GET THEM IN. 'WO weeks ago Henry Bitzberger was arrested, if charged with having robbed the Milltown ational Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., and com- } mitted*io the West Side Prison without bail. _..Yester¢ay, in broad daylight, he made a spec- y tasclar escape, presumably aided and abetted by vod first through a window the ne of been sawed, plus the fact that twenty- prisoners tried to rush the keeper, point to a plot to'rob the jail of, its chief - It may not be practical to make homes burglar- as long as Enright is Police Commissioner. may not be feasible to make safes burglar- as long as Hylan is Mayor. once a culprit is caught, it should be possible some way to make jails burglar-proof kleptomaniacs who can’t resist the tempta- ‘finn to steal prisoners awaiting trial and sentence, doubi the kind-hearted Police Commissioner attributed holiday thefts to the desire of gen- thieves to give their Molls Christmas presents ‘will explain Bitzberger’s escape to the natural desire i 7 ‘WMa geese, “deceived by the mild weather, ‘@re reported flying north again. Few humans , @f this generation are entitled to laugh at the gael | THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF INDUSTRY. N Evening World editorial of last week on “Peace, by Negotiation” contended that in _felations no less than in international matters in dispute should be “thought out wrougtt out, not fought out.” principle proposed finds practical application i al Reviewing Committee of the Penn- Railroad System.” "Beginning Jan. 1, the Joint Committee becomes established organ for an agreement between the ent and employees of the Pennsylvania “for the settlement of future tabor dif- er ee cone conto representation on the Pennsyl- Industrial Relations—for that in —— equal number of General Chairmen from the engine and train services, The monthly meetings of Superintendents “and Chairmen will constitute legislative sessions for the government of the industry, just as the decisions of the Reviewing Committee will establish the prece- dents of an industrial judiciary, In spite of the return of Constantine, the war has made absolutism in government obsolete. We have seen the last of emperors WAd czars, Hard on the heels of the democratization of politics is coming the democratization of industry, And democracy in both polities and industry is bet- ter than either autocracy or communism, FIRST AID! IGNS from Albany strengthen hope that there will be speedy investigation of the discredited Hylan Administration in this city, To that end legislative initiative is already in evi- dence both in the Robinson-Steinberg resolution reviewing specific charges against the Hylan-Enright regime and in Senator Meyer's proposal for a sweep- ing inquiry into all parts of the City Government. L: ought to be no difficult matter to weld various plans offered into one! keen, competent probe. The Lockwood committee has its hands full with its own investigations of graft It is for the Legislature to provide special means for uncovering the motives and methods of a munic- ipa! Administration that has set back twerlty years the standards of government in the City of New York “Let Hylan ‘lone,” “so that he that i is urged trom some quarters, supply more campaign material an be used against him.” That is politicians’ talk. Why shouki this great community, which com- prises lalf the population of the State, be left at the mercy of Hylan-Enright misgovernment merely to give party leaders additional ammunition for a, campaign nine months hence? “Must the demoralization of the city’s police ipree go on until it is complete? e Must municipal standards be further debased and degraded in the City Hall? Must both Hylan and his Police Commissioner do their worst to New York before relief comes? What this city needs is first aid—first aid that ought to be administered by the summary removal of Hylan and Enright, The Governor can remove the Mayor. The Governor can remove the Police Commis- siager whenever in the Governor's judgment “the public interests shall so require.”” How does Gov. Miller square Enright at Police ‘Headquarters with the public interests? First aid for the City of New York! LABOR’S LIABILITY. ty decision handed down yesterday by the Fed- eral Supreme Court, affirming labor's liability “under the Sherman Act, is both wise and just, If labor is to share more and more in the “gov- ernment of industry,” then labor must likewise share in the responsibility, This means equal ac- countabitity with corporations under the anti-trust laws which forbid conspiracies in restraint of inter- state commerce, r Special privilege is anti-democratic and inimical to the best interests of society. Labor organizations have no more right to expect immunity from pros- coution, when guilty of unfair practices, ‘than em- ploying organizations, Exemption was claimed by the International Association of Machinists under the section of the ‘Clayton Act which states that the “labor of a human being is not an article or commodity of commerce.” The two-thirds majority opinion of the Supreme Court, reversing decisions of two lower courts, and finding i@ favor of the Duplex Printing Press in its demand for an injunction,’ declares: “There is nothing in the section to exempt such organizations [of labor] or its members from accountability when {t, or they, depart from its legitimate objects and engage in an actual combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade.” The Clayton Act may be, as Samuel Gémpers has described it, “Labor's Bill of Rights.” But a Bill of Rights should not and, in the judgment of the highest court in the land, does not confer the tight to do wrong, TWICE OVERS. “cc ‘OMEN are not going to be mere adjuncts of political parties.” —Gov. Edwards of New Jersey. ee ee “ HERE do I hang my hat and coat ?”’—Ex- Goo, Al Smith gets back to business and re- ports on his job. < ' “ce E will keep our sword sharp and our shield untarnished.”—Major Gen. von Seecht. * 28 6 “ AM determined to keep out of politics. Ido * not wish to meddle in this dreadful mess,” — Psincess Anastasia, © THE iehains won . piel As Immigrant Who Loves America. To tho Editor af ‘The Evening World: ‘The more I read of yout paper the more I like to, especially the editorial page, including the letters from the people voicing their different opinions, The only thing I don’t like is that there are too many who complain about this country, They say it doesn't do this and doesn't do that. Well, why don't those people take the next ship to some other country and sec if they get treated any better? And they all seem to think that we don’t do enough for other countries. But just think, America is taking care of a million or more foreign born right here in this country now, and I am one of them. T landed in this counfry thirty years ago, just e slip of a girl seventeen years old, and all I had was a little bundle under my arm and 75 cents tled in my handkerchtef—and a debt of $26 which I had to borrow for my ticket. So I never had an easy time of it. The first night I landed I slept on @ fioot ‘The next day 1 got work and worked from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, | but after six months, if 1 had been given free a return ticket to the other fide 1 shouldn't have gone back. I have pever seen the other side since and Idon’t want to, But I didn't for- get, because I left a mother and two younger sisters and a brother over there, I was longing to eee them, so I start- ed to save enough to bring them here. Five years afterward I sent for them all, and to-day they are all loyal Americans, including my mother, who is eighty-three years of age, And none of them are kickers, and they had better not be in my hearing! SAND! No. 97 3d Place, Brooklyn, Jan. 2, 1921. Resents Knright’s Insult, ‘To the Balltur of The Brening World; ‘The statement issued by Commis- sioner Enright in to-day'’s World is absolutely an open insult to every law-abiding citizen. Said statement is ridiculous, con- temptible and above all un-American. Can, you imagine having a Police Commiasioner who apparently does not know when and why the Sullivan law went into effect? According to the Commissioner fircarms were un- known before the war, His statement is made more con- temptible because he hasn't the cour- age to say he means ex-service men Is our National Guard turning out thieves simply because it teaches the use of firearms? Should I deny I was 4 soldier because a small pi of former soldiers were gangsters and thieves? Let's get together ex-service men. A powerful nation could not insult us and get away with It, Can loner? ILLIAM REITH, New York, Dec, 29, 1920, Evenings at ‘Te the Editor of The Brenin Worl. In @ recent issue of Tho Evening from « letter sighed “George From Evening World Roeaders What kind of a letter do you find most readadie? Ien't 4 the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? Latah need scatoe becmapeiged ses pig ts i adeectcee SM cata $e coy much in @ few words, Take time to be brief. mportion4 rather spend an evening with a young man whose company 1s congenial and entertaining by staying at home with him. But young Yhen consider such a girl “mighty slow” and never appre- ciate true worth, We are not all “gold diggers.” ADELAIDE REGAN. New York, Dec. 29, 1920. Opposed to Military Training. To the Bititor of The Evening World: I write this letter because I differ | with “An American Woman” on the | subject of military training. In the | first place she doesn't know what she | is talking about, and in the second place she doesn't have to approve compulsory training just because | she's a “woman,” A few years ago there was no com- pulsory training and we managed) very well without it. “An American Woman” may be a reader of your wonderful paper, but so am I, and always will be. Let the “American Mother” think of “Peace on earth | and good will to men.” A. *E. PHILLIPS. Bronx, N. ¥., Dec. 28, 1920. Iu Wesly. te, “Another Americas,” ‘To the Baitor of The Brening Word In your Reader’s Column “Another American” recently said: “Ships built by Americans, for Americans and by American money have ‘and are being manned by crews of other nations,” and I add—will keep on be- ing manned by them. Do you know, Mr. Another Ameri- can, that (according to a statement I read in the Sunday World Maga- zine about a year ago) only about 11-2 per cent, or 2 per cent. Ameri- cans sail on American ships? If such is the case, how many Ameri- can ships covld be run by these 2 per cent.? Where would your suggestion of “a holdup of alien seamen's pass- ports and let Americans come into thelr own” hold water? No, Mr, An- other Kind of American, your sug- gestion woukl be a cyrse to the mer- chant marine, Now then, let us jump @ paragraph, and what do you do but say that the Shipping Board is no good. If it wasn't for the Shipping Board would we have even these 2 per cent.? The Shipping Board made the merchant marine what it is to-day, causing the raise in wages in 9, besides having ships built with better quar- ters for the crew, As to calling the aliens “Rol- sheviks,” why, man, how can you? It's real despicable of you. Have you ever been to sea? 1 doubt it, And to end it, who took the Amert- can merchant ships through the war? The 2 per cent, or these “Bolshe- vikes?” J, K. Bronx, N. ¥., Dec. 29, 1920, ‘The Heme Girl, ‘To the BAitor of ‘The Bening World: I read with considerable interest the article in The Evening World ot Dec, 29 by George Miller, and I aj thoroughly convineed that he is lots of Ca young men who seek ike Miller,” I take it the writer haa not met very many not make 80 statement, ‘There Gro Sanaa Sse poate ance ‘hale lends in cabarets me is and then condemn RY le sex because there isn’t ch pet da gl wih would em. cs UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Coprrieht, 1921, by Jobn Blake.) THE SPOILED CHILD BECOMES A SPOILED MAN, Thousands of parents, loving their children unselfishly, making for them every possible sacrifice and giving them advantages they themsélves were denied, succeed only in making their children sullen and unhappy and potter) Y un- fitted to wrestle with the world. The spoiled child cannot possibly be mereneertall resourcefulness is absolutely necessary to success. Accustomed to looking to his parents for whatever he wants, without a thought to what it may cost them, the faculty of taking care of himself soon atrophies. Hire a man to garry you wherever you go and in a comparatively short time you will not be able to walk alone. The child whose parents think for him, slave for him, provide for him, soon becomes unable to do anything for himself. He will realize this when he gets out in the world, But the realization will only make him unhappy. It will be too late to do him any good. For youth forms habits. They endure through manhood. Of course he will be “manhandled” by his fellas as soon as he is out of his home. His very selfishness will make that necessar; For the people with whom he comes in contact will have no natural affection for him. They will judge him only by the qualities he shows. And if these are purely selfish he will have very hard work going in a world composed pretty largely of more or less selfish people, Thus the very treatment the parents meant for kind- ness will in reality be the worst kind of cruelty, for there is no suffering a man can endure like the contempt of his fel- lows. And If you have a boy or a girl, now or hereafter, try, if you love them, to make them resourceful, Teach them. to do things for themselves, to wait on themselves, to think for themselves. Yield to them at first and you will always have to yield to them. And they will expect the world to yield to them later, with the result that they will get some rough, very rough jolts. Count up the failures of your acquaintances and you will find that most of them are failures because their parents tried too hard to make successes of them, thereby removing from them the necessity ef ever doing anything to make successes of themselves. tertain her men friends at home. Perhaps this type of girl is in the mi- nority, but gyhose fault is it? The men of to-May prefer the painted, “made-up” girl rather than the home girl every time. I know of several girls who can cook and sew and who would make wonderful wives for the right men, but are they popular with the men? Of course not. It is the “baby doll” who finds popularity with men these days. , In short, men are not looking for home girls, but seem to prefer those who can order a good dinner rather than thase who can cook it; one who oan pick out am expensive gown Father than one who can make it her- *dippoce for a change we ask the Jo Siete eneh 8 Deress ‘as a home ima 7* so, where be a RE ¥ p Words From the Wise A mere madness to live tike @ wretch and die rich.—Burton, The man that blushes is not quite a brute.—E, Youtig, Books should to one of these Jour ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight or use.—sir John Denham. All virtue Wea in d power of denying our oton desires where reason does not authorize them. —Locke, Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions but in the control of them—H, Ww. Shaw, |The Statesmen of the Bible By Rev, Thomas, 3. Giezory } The jm Korn Krening W No. 9.—Ezra, the Second Moses. With Esra—450 B. C.—we stand at the very cradle of Judaism. In Jow- ish tradition, ture is the second Moses As & high authority affirms, bis wi: the hand thet gave a new and lasting shape to the iqust plastic of all mate- riais that @ statesman ever had w work up—the character of the Jewis)) people, He was the man who set ai indelible mark upon the ancient fait! and worship of Israel. But for Bzra, or some one who , should have been equal to him im de votion, tact and perseverance, Juda- ism would have been a radically differs ent thing from what jt is to-day. It is not too much to say that but for Bara it ig more than probabie that Judaisn: wouki haye perished from the faiths of the warld The Jewish nation had been al- most destroyed by the armies Nobuchadrezzur at the close of the seventh century, B. C., the peopl were carried away captives to’ Baby jon where they remained for sevent years; and upon their return (he were at the lowest ebb of their nu tional fortune. For a time it seemed ag thougi their long detention in a foreign land had purged them from idolatry and religious indifference, and hv work of rebuilding the ‘Teraple ii. | Zerubbabel was begun, the + the old religion was restore: brief period of zeal lighted |nation; but & period of react lowed; long years of deter: came; and the people seemed drifting again toward apostacy dt was at this critical time Ezra stepped into the breach, ths and was his coming that saved the day Artaxerxes, unlike Cyrus, was lt lined to intolerance, but his intole: the masterly diplc st of Kara, By a combi mental qualitic ited in one ane Won the good will of the from him a royal edict clothix with full power and authority |¢ carry out the purpose that was ® Jose to his heart r With a leave of absence and hi lodict, Ezra set out on his journey lem. It toc n four mi h the Holy City, By perm sion of the King he took along wit! him from the Babylonian capital & ompany of priests, Leyites, singe ind workmen: Upon reaching Jerusniem Bui wasted no time in useless prelim but buckled himself down 1 ig task at once His arrival was like the falling « 4 bombshell into their midst. Th first thing he did was to break uj Ul the marriages of Jews with heat! en. He did propose to have thr blood of his race corrupted. He be i the pure strain. He believed was the busic consideration ng attended to the foundation he went on to the super structure. He founded the "Great Synagogue He established the local synagogu system, He studied the Canon of Scripture carefully editing all of the 5 writings that were extant time. He introduced the C! of the old extensively cording to the Book of Chagnicle miah and Esther The fine old priest-statesman of 1 is brought down to us of the ent day in a quite substantia There are thousands of Amer ter ing He wr suthor, way. jcans who, in touring the Bast, hay: sure of looking upo “Ezra's Tomb” on the Tigris, a state \iy structure which | withstood the ravages of | ries, and which, fortuns | Alenby’s big guns spar | fasht with th Turks in | 1 the ple yy Albert P, Southwick by The Prom Pubiisias Co, | ening Wor), Thomas Hunt 4th was a staneh patriot and adherent of the principles grandfather had Sharter of Liberties Bt vlally instru Company ich seven members of h jewn tumily enlisted. | The mansion, in th Point, was know) locally as “Whitlock’s Folly,” from |the builder, Benjamin M. Whitlor |and that designation clung @@til the building was destroyed ’ 8 In 1867, after Whitlock’s death, tir house was sold to Casanova wealthy ( ' and coffee planter, for $150,000, Cas amova was the leader of a band of Cuban patriots and hie place was th¢ rendezvous of them and their eym pathizers. = + The name Vanderbilt (van der Bilt, or van de Bilt) is taken elther - from the village of de Bilt. a suburb of Utrecht, Holland, or from the pay ish of Het (“the”) Bilt in Frisia, o even pessibly from one of the Bilts or narrow passages of the #ea b tween the peninsula of Denmark an: the island of Puenen, The Battle of Hanem Heights though sometimes referred to as “an affair,” was absolutely decisive in the beating given to Howe's troops, on Sept. 16, 1776. A memorial tablet is embedded in the wall of the Engineer. ing Building, Columbia University and faces the plateau Where the main action occurred. It represents the charge of the Rangers and Riflemen, near the Boulevard and 14th Street, New York City, eee ‘The views of the inhabitants of the Bronx, at the beginning of the Revo. jution, were much divided, and, if popular sentiment was not ‘absolutely loyal to the crown of Great Britain it was much more conservative thay in New England or in the Southerr colonies, Cr ee) ‘The largest one of the Kgyptian pyramids is 643 feet high, 693 Teet on the sides, and its base covers 34 acres. The layers of stone are 206 in number. paby s pues. Iemeh, } toh Geta eon