The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1921, Page 20

RSTABLISHED NY JORMPHT PULTTA! blishéd Dally Exeept Sunday by The Prem Podlishing Company, Now. 53 to 68 Park Rew, New York. RALPH PULITZER, J rowtdent, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Now. JOSEPH PULITAEN Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMIMER OF THE ASKOCIATHED PRESS, “also the local news pubilsnea herein, LET IN THE LIGHT. - ET in the light at Albany. At a meeting of the Finance Committee of Senate last night Senator Lockwood had a hand t to gain permission for Samuel Untermyer and to be heard in public om the reasons for inuing and extending the scope of the Lock- ‘ood Gommitiee investigation. He did not win on his proposal to make the tire hearing public and so force the opposition ito the open. © ‘This is the more important nratter for the people New York. The people already know why the mittee should be continued and Its good work uraged and supported. be oor New York wants to know is the reason opposition to the Lockwood investigation, Who are the opponents? Why are they fighting? | Why do they insist on fighting in thé dark? ‘These are pertinent questions. A public hearmg help supply the answers, The Senate Com- tee and the members of the House Ways and , i Cemmittee have an opportunity to rectify a stand they Have taken. ‘Let the hearing be open to the public and to the Let in the light. BUSINESS. NOT POLITICS. F THE Interborough is sincere in its professed de- sire for a flexible fare, its present course at iy is most unwise and impolitic. fs A flexible fare is not a political question, It is business proposition, a subject for negotiation be- n the municipal administration representing the LN ee Se on St ee ee st vee resenting the investors and managers on the ‘An S<ent fare bili might be engineered as a ical grab. A flexible fare should be a home- measure which will warrant the approval of all ened, Last year the Interborough organization at Albany ade a bitter fight for the Jenks tigher fare bills. Just as it deserved to lose, A month ago the Subway Sun announced tint interborough favored a ‘flexible fare.” This wekome news, a much to be desired conversior a fair and business-like attitude. But since the opening of the Legislature it Ins evident that an even stronger lobby has mi lining up for the fight. The committees of Senate and Assembly which will deal with trac- matters have been “packed” with even more sight and thoroughness than in 1920, Up-State slators with no legitimate interest in traction fairs are firmiy in control. Such preparations cannot hut cast grave doubts the sincerity of the Interborough programme as ined in the Subway Sun, in a political settlement, a source of future un- inty and trouble and swiect to political over- when the opportunity offers. What New York wants and what the Inter. rough professes to want 13 a business saitlement. mt should come from the next city administration not from rural legislators. Mf the Interborougi: wants a flexible fare, there mo oocasion and io excus: for aay political imble-rigging at Aibany. CHIVALRY BREAKS 01°. MOOT question in pre-Suffrave days was a woman's entry into publi 'd have on the customs of the day—and on the ‘women. ‘WSome insisted that it would brotalize and degrade woman to the low estate of man, Others, more optimistic, believed that women maintain their serene superiority and raise the standard of public manners “rhe first wedding before a feminine Justice of ¢ Peace in Greenwich seems to give support to optimistic view. @AS bs well known, the J, P. has always cherished Ome prerogative of the office—that of kisving the Justices of our “Gretna Greens” have at- U matter. Greenwich wondered whiat procedure Just O'Neill would adopt. ‘1 was wondering which one | should kiss,” Miss ice ion for me by kissing my hand.” “ould any solution be more acceptable? It de- es to become a precedent, Revive courtesy and elry. | FIRST AND BEST BELOVED. | N THE tariff plank of its Chicago platform the Aj Republican Party “reaffirmed its belief in the pitective principle and pledged itself to a revision tariff as soon as conditions shall make it pos- for the preservation of the home market for trons of the service on one side and the officials | Mee Associated Prem Is exclusively entitied to the usr fer reubilentten ‘news despatches credited to {t or not ovkerwiae eredited tn this pager Any political settlement of the fare question will | | | i wd no small fame for their skill amd experience | i! confessed, “when Mr. Ogden settled the | turns pp in the fipal session of the present Republt- can Congress is the Fordney Emergency Tariff Bill, which, as amended by the Senate Finance Commit- tee, was yesterday presented to the Senate by the committee's Chairman, Senator Penrose. The measure itself is the kind of econoi ics that always results when a political party sets out to coddile some particular class in the commuuity. No sensible man can see how the farmer himself is going to profit in the long run under this tariff proposed for his benefit, The whole country stands together In the nead of a gradual but steady descent from high war prices. To arrest that descent for the benefit of the farmer will relard him as well as the rest in progress toward a bigger buying power for the dollar around the whole circle of necessities, A long tussle over the Emergency Tariff Bill is expected in the Senate, There it is again, the old Republican shibboteth that always takes precedence—“the protective principle,” Tax problems may press, a programme of na- tional economy may be a paramount national need. These things must take their turn, But time can always be found in the Republican present for tariff-tinkering and political net-casting in the sacred name of Protection, JUSTICE. RIGHTENED ‘by the batteries wheeling into Position against them, Mayor Hylan and Police ‘Commissioner Enright thave’ made a hasty and abject surrender of Police Department Rule 184, Policemen aiding.the Whitman investigation will no! be required to report in detail to the Police Com- missioner whatever they see or hear, But fs this all? Is the Hylan-Enright regime io be permitted to cover a strategic safety movement by the belated yielding of a position it finds untenable? Is Baright to be allowed to resign, so that Hylan may capitalize necessity into virtue and make a bid for popular approval by appointing a better man? That is not the. justice the situation requires. The Greater New York Charter provides that the Goventor may remove the Police Commissioner of New York City “whenever the public interests so require.” Goy. Miller shoukl remove Enright. Mayor ‘Hylan should trave-no chance to extract one iota of credit from a change of Police Commis- sioners. The Mayor has stubbomly kept Enright in office against public protest while the city has seen its police force mishandled and demoralized. The Mayor should bear his full share of the odium of Enright’s removal. That is plain justice. , BEN FRANKLIN THOUGHTS FoR THRIFT WEEK. “Agriculture ts truly productive of new wealth; manufacturers only change forms, and, whatever value they give to the ma- terials they work upon, they in the menn time consume an equal value in provts- ions, é&e.” . STARVING HERE WON'T HELP. SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD ‘girl in New York has gone on “starvation diet” so that the under- fed children and omphans in Europe may have more to eat. The spisit is commendable, but the application is worse than foolish. Europe’s food problem is not America’s. Starva- tion in’ America’ will not remedy starvation in Europe. Vie problem is one of exchange aad transporta- tion, not of supply. America had bounteous crops and has a surplus for export, The problem is to get this foad to where it’s needed. ‘ This sixteen-year-old can do better than to siarve for Europe. She can work for Europe. Thousands of housewives and mothers woukl gladly give employment to a sixteen-year-old girl for a few hours a day, the earnings to be tumed over to the Hoover fund to buy food and ship it to Europe, where it is most needed, ROM THE OITY OF HI LAN 10 the Heaven Born Mayor of Pekin, China Liven as we of China in former times had the custom of sending the Silken Cord to toilful ones that they might convenicntly strangle themselves, 90 here in the Oity of Hi Lan they have message of power cousing even the mighty Hi Lan to vow his head. This message is sent by John Dav, who lives in Grand Jury. T have not found hin, but his name #8 upon all these mexaages. which bring quick resutt, Thus, Jolin Doe secking tu Isnow why Hi Lua fails to cast omt One Dick, Overlord of Police, vad Hi Lan vefusing audience to tell why, John Doe has sent his Sitken Cord even to Hi Lan. Then Hi Len, and One Dick also, went hustity to John Doe. Your servant, Commissioner Hong, observed then and saw how Hi Lan in Ris excitement and wisdom, shone even us the sun, And they went before John Doe, adaving ond Kow towing and promising that all things should be as he commanded, O Heacellency, inaugurate this, pawerful method of dealing with haughty ones, But be careful that the Mayol shall also be John Doe who dwells with Grand Jury, For when this power Be in the hance of another it fo hard for erg @ Mayer, to'save his Jace, . _» HONG, Commissioner, | | | | | | | Tl | Backin to say tauch in a few trorde, The Ne "Vo the Iititar of The ting Ame: Yroening Warid: D, TUE g Off What kind of a tetter 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 is fine mental exercise and a lot of sctisfaction.in trying Take time to be brief. the greatest pleasure | . nome one to love. Married I note with interest the letter pub- | men de not marry to do their neigh- shed on Jun; 18, 19m, ta your column entitled “From’ Evening World Read- om,” from B. ¥. A. He takes excep- tion to f previous editorial published in one of your tasues, He certainly strikes the nail on the head when he uses the worl “nause- ating.” The Bighteenth Amendment as it now stands ty nauseating to all 100 per cent. Americans, Our friend states that this war measure never would have been were it not for the fact that the mmfority of the American people wanted it, Pease tell me, my good man, at what time did any of the American pasving of this imme. I woukl like to stand with you on Broadway and Street, any tinro ut your leisure, and the opinion of the people, us they pass, on this subject. Mor every on consulted who is In favor of the law ay {t gtands I will give you $1 if you will give me a Ike amount for every person who {s agalmit tt, Here ts a good chance for a goed Probibitionist to make a little easy money. States ‘are. not | priced officials on the payroll of Mr. | Rockefeller, much longer, the quicke American citizens will a: in the affairs nu Inside of a court room tn my Ife, never been under the infinence |}, The quicker we realize that the broad-minded people of the United) going to stand for |mohkey business of this nature, ad- | Vocated by gentlemen of the type of | Mr, Anderson and Mr. Wheeler, high- 424 Street or at Wall and Broad | fet us have a disinterested purty asi | | to satisfy their own deelre. From Evening VVorld Readers | people have one word to say in the! tis woman's privilege? He would be | of liquor, and am deprived of a ginsy | of wine or be does not still aay Free and the ecause my nextdoor The old war slogun “Wake merica” should be resurrected and put Inte effect. 8. .W The Bachetor Tax. | Te the Moliar af The Dreotng Wortd: | pachelors’ | Clara Scare Taylor. Allow me a few lines in regurd to tax suggested by Mrs, As a single man I think thie is a bigoted and unfuir suggestion, single men are already taxed far be: yond iarrled men. Take, for in stance, were culled to make the supreme sac: ‘ritice or suffer the privation that | tices, goes with war, Under: the tux they are allowed tlon as es , Then again man, {noom. 1,000 exemnp: than as during the war single men arparcd with a married 909, * Many «ingle incn ure taking Garo of gldowed mi od single men are | inarried ber a favor or just for the sake of supporting some one's daughter, but So Why burden the single men, many of whom cannot find a girl to marry. ORGE M. REDDING. Should Men Powdert ‘Yo the Kilitar of The Wrening Wark; | In answer to Miss K. C. concerning | women smoling, I would begin by saying that {f It should become a tad emong certain men to edupt (te me, of the powder juff the question would orise, ‘Shoukl men use powder pufis?” | Could a man keep his sel and the r et of right people of bof f-respect | thinking sexes by indulging exited from the company of real men, The right thinking man ad . woman for her 100 per cent. ninity, and that includes modesty and 1 that goes to make up a. virtuous oman. I would suggest that Miss K. C. look tn the Webster Dictionary for the definition of feminine [ might add that there are thousands | of smokers who would like to rid themselves pf the habit, because of the injurious effect. i Smoking for men is bad physically. Smoking for women is bad physi- cally and morally. THOMAS GRIFF! Brooklyn, N. Whe Military Training Law. To the Militar af The Wrening Work! T have been a reader of your paper a number of years, and” have found it to be a sturdy upholder of truth and righteousness, 1 have read plan and Y. But in your plan why not begin at ome? By this T do not mean the United States but New York State. New York State has the blac pr A.B. what we preach and to begin ing what we preach at home Brooklyn, Jan. 15. Seda Water. To the Maitvar of The Kwening Wor) Mr, John Marxeon’a |to the exor! | and ice creas meet with t gener! public. Our wondurtul Highteenth Ainend- ment is responsible for many injus- and the profiteering on temper- beverages {s only one of them, If our prohibition friends are in the righteougness of the ment they would do wel! b, to lower the @ost of temperat ages. In thia way it may be possiis | yi for thom to sean some Of U4 awa; ! from ‘ge terrible wines.and yjoot t eration of Ube 0 rs bever- wood berrs ca Corrie : (tin Naw FoR Wrealng Woda), woward will of the people, but f will never re- | japect the Highteenth Amendment be- under tive cents wi t, 192t, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Qopyrtatt, 1921. by John Brake) DON'T BE PART OF THE NEW CROP. Mr. Ponzi, whose financial net caught, thousands of foolish people, will be in jail for five years. When he comes out, as a paragrapher observed lately, there will be a brand new crop to harvest. We donbt if Mr. Ponzi takes his seythe to the fields again, Five years in jail is a long time in which to reflect on how hard is the way of the transgressor. Still, you never can tell. A gentleman who was sent toa penitentiary for a somewhat similar crime is now back in the game, and it was not long ago that a District Attorney had him under surveillance, So gullible ure the people that the temptation to fleece them {s wery great. A new crop spring’ up after every reaping. Credulity and cupidity afte twin vices. Together they soon divest a man of all that he hath. The victims of the financial schemer, while they always get sympathy, seldom deserve it.. There is greed behind the desire of everybody who goes into a get-rich-quick scheme—greed to get something that isn’t carned, to profit by somebody else's loss. ° It is folly to suppose'that greed is not just as common among the ignorant as among the cducated—just us present in the poor as in the rich. It works more havoc with the ignorant because they are not so able to see the tricks of the crook who tempts them with their own greed. It is more dangerous in the poor because they cannot so well afford the losses incident to wildeat gambling. When Mr. Ponzi’s successor comes along—as he will in a little while—don’t be numbered among the new crop. There are plenty of legitimate ways to make money, plenty of honest and safe investments. None of them pay great returns, for that is not the nature of business. Unless you personally strike oil on your own land, be- ware of oil stock. If somebody clse has struck oil, he is not going to sell you any of the stock cheap. If anybody has a plan whereby a little money-can be made to pay a thousand per cent., he will make the thousand per cent, himself, Why shonld he let you share it? Bear that in mind when the sharpers talk to you or send you their literature. Look out for the big profit invest- ments. The fact that they offer big profits should warn you away from them, You have earned what you have. Keep it. Invest it in legitimate enterprises that offer a reasonable return. The other kind ure only traps. Keep out of them. The next crop will grow, to be sure, but don’t you be a part of it. st, Gur convent and it $3 uny co-aperation from logisiators Prohibitioniats the remedies for the eyils by it, therefore we may still | our choice, Personally Lam 4 law-abiding citi-| n, and € will always abide by any | ‘ ws that am brought about. by the | 1 nation isa thing that tives and acts like ' Words From the Wise A wife is a yift bestowed upon a> man to reconcite him to the Tosa of paradise.—inethe. a man, and nen ave the particles powd, ~J. G. of which it is com- » Holand, pack t we had A good ring ua 1 | thing | avs of be ~An. obstinate docs uot ioldwpinions, ong they hold him, bit da TD mai cure id Prati teers on | ich-Quic 8 of The Ages . By Scvetozar Tonjoroff. Comntight. 1981, ty the Prew Publabing ahe vening. W orkd, 1—MIDAS. ‘ Midas, King of Phryglu, is the great ‘original ancestor of al] Get-Rich~, Quicks, Tradition says that Midas was born, with a gold spoon in his mouth, Bus inherited wealth did not satisfy bim,, Ho wanted all the gold in the world., And there was not enough of the yel~~ low metal in the then known world, to satisfy his cravings for riches rapidly acquired. Long after Midas was dead the wise men of Europe spent lifetimes i the attenypt to find a way of trans muting base metal into gold. Midaw' had not the patience for such slow, and Inborious methods, He longed for the power to chafige overything ho touched into gold by the simplo! process of touching it. To the search for that power we may believe he dos. voted a good deal of his time withous. avail, But bis opportunity came at last. The King’s men one day came upon ' Silenus, the spiritual ancestor of all wine-bibbers, asleep in a forest of Phrygia, captured him and brought him a prisoner to the court of Mida», It Jooked like a long and dry tims ahead for Silenus, for Midas did mee. approve af wine-bibbi But Silenys had a powerful proteftor, the Dionysus, known to the Romans der the alias of Bacchus. To pl Dionysus, Midas eet old man Silenys at liberty. Dionysus, overjoyed, asked Midas what he could do for him in retwrk for his Kindness to his protege, “Give me the power to turn into gold everything 1 touch,” responded Midas promptly, “It is yours,” rejoined Dionywus, grimly smiling at the joker concealed in the now legislation. That joker did not cealed more than a few hours, may imagine the chuckles of Joy which Midas, carefully tucking hia asses’ ears under his Phryxtan cap, emitted when the first clod of eart) to which he laid his fingers slowfy |turned yellow, hard and mlieamitie, and he behold a nugget of gold wort about $6,000 where a moment ) there had been nothing but garde. poll, The disiflusionment came in- ner time. Midas had handily picke up a slice of bread when i |tnto gold while he wits tryi a bite of it, A cold perspire have beaded his brow at |eovery, The drops must hs when he carried a cup of wine w trembling eagerness to his lips, on!s to discover that the wine ndgo turn: {nto gold, Poor Midas was almost dead wit hunger and with fear when he sour!” out the god Dionysus and begsed } with tears. in his eyes to take baci the gift he had so readily beatowe upon him. : | “All right," said Dionysus, smiling [with an “I-told-you-se expression. “Go down to the river Pactolus, take a dip in # and you will lose y | power to turn everything you touc into gold.” ¥ Midas did as he remain con We id and after @ was he had come out of the he had « his first 1 in many a day. Ail of which teac us that ge! rich-quickness carries its own pu {shinent. But perhaps Midaas’s inié- adventure ia explained by ths fact that he had asses’ ears—awhich is another § Ten-Minute Studies _ of New York City | | Government | ve 5 York een ing Woria). By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This ia the jftioth article of 'e series defining the duties of the ad~ ministrative Get lepisiativ and boards of the New Yo Government, ’ DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. © High Schools. an ‘There are twenty-eight high schoo!) in the city, nam The De Wi Minton, Julia Richman, Stuyvesan Wadleizh, Washington Irving, Geo: Haaren and Hig mmerce in Manhattan Bvander Childs n the t sinus Mall, Distric in Bushwick, Ba: , Commercivt Bryant, Newiow Rockaway, Jamualc chmond Hill in Queens, anc Jurtis High School in the Bor ough of Richmond. Admission to these high gseloolt 8 by certificate in cases of puplis who have satisfactort course of study of mentary the din some of thos weing eliminated 4 msible in favor of the irae, which prevails at schools, The four prepares pupile for udt legos, to training sche and to neurly all is ™ ering and pre fewsional xchools. Ht offers specie} and metals and Ine |machine shop practice, The acientitt sourse provides training In applied: P| physics, applied chumistry and ap- 2 */plied mathematics and ix expecial'y | designed for boys who Intend to en. jter the en, the dental oy |. Tho manual training course ¢ iris in different Ligh schools cover such studies us sewin, millinery, | costume | desizn as well jezaens work in woo | the medical -professto | cookin, naking, 4s 0 course for library In ertain of the high schools therc perative classes made up o, students who “alternate school anf Industry and are . try and are patd for the thie ure 6