The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1921, Page 22

an ESTAWLIGHED PY JOERPH PULITZER. Petiehesd Vally Rroept Sunday by The Prom Publishing H ‘Company, Now, 58 ti Park Row, New York. { RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW, Tronsurer, 63 Park Row. Ro Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. 3OOHER OF THE ASPOCLATED PRES®. Fhe Associated Prem ty enetustvety entitied to the use fer repubtiontion SoS tes to roe Se “THE CITY LOOKS TO ALL ITS _ REPRESENTATIVES AT ALBANY. HANGGE in transit fares and readjustment of transit contracts in this city may be neces sary But New York does not propose to have these ‘eutccratically handed down from Albany if it can be prevented. a The way to prevent it is for Senators and Assem- Blymen to form a solid and cohesive opposition. The city serves notice on its representatives that ® expects every man to do his duty in this respect. To preserve any semblance of home rule, the city $s forced to resort to political action in the Legts- Jature. But there is no reason why this political setion should be in any way partisan. It matters not whether a New York representa- tive is a Republican or a Democrat, a machine member or an independent, New York expects hhim to act for the city and against any up-State organization seeking to dominate the city’s affairs. ” The New York City coalition should be formed for effective action and with absolute disregard for party. If necessary it should caucus and then unite fm support of the majority decision of the caucus. With the help of other cities similarly menaced, fhefe is a way to beat this unjustifiable attack upon urban home rule. Senator Sherman believes Members of Con- gress cannot live om their salaries, Few try to. Many work the clerk bire graft with “worthless secretaries.” . NEW YORK’S NEW BISHOP. HE Rev. William T. Manning, rector of Trinity Clurch, was yesterday elected Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York to suc- ¢eed the late Bishop Burch. Dr. Manning was elected despite a sensational campaign carried on against him by anti-British ele- who denounced his candidacy because he was bom in England. This anti-British campaign culminated yesterday in an editorial attack so imbe- eile, as well as unprincipled, that Dr. Manning’s ~ © election would be welcomed, if for nothing else, as "a tebuke to the newspaper that so far degraded __ itself in its efforts to defeat him. Dr. Manning was chosen Bishop of New York mot because he was born in England, but because he has proved himself an able worker and leader fm the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. As a clergyman he has been conspicuous fer his Miberainess, without sacrificing cither his dignity or his zeal as a pleader for religion. ‘ - It was Dr. Manning who recently explained his ¥ea of twentieth century religion as relfgion that stands for “gladness, personal rights and freedom and all that adds to the goodness and fulness of ‘human life.” A churchman with that idea ‘of religion is pretty | lose to New York's idea of a good Bishop, as far | | @8 fundamentals go. Dr. Manning’s distinguished career and notable | gifts of leadership are sound guarantees of the rest. In future when New Yorkers wish to convey Phe idea that some one worked a double-cross ‘hey can simplify it by saying he “Mewhin- pared.” > WHICHEVER SIDE GIVES THE BRIBE EW YORK is more disgusted than sur- prised at the revelations of police bribery. ‘But New York should not forget that there are twn parties to every crime of bribery. There can fe ino taking of bribes if there are no givers of “bribes. If the police have been taking money for their intercession in industrial quarrels, then one of the interested parties has been giving bribes. ‘The bribe-giver in such cases is essentially an Anarchist in his disregard for law. It ts certain that if unionists resorted to bribery of the police they would be roundly denounced as “Bolshevists” and enemies of good government. But where is the essential difference between bribery by an organization of employers and bribery » by an association of employees? Public opinion should be as quick to condemn essential anarchy of bribery on one side of the trial line-up’ as it would be on the other. ~~ Public prosecutors should be no less prompt with the prosecution in any case where it is possible to ‘¢stablish the facts. Make @ little more room for Samuel Unter- myer and Attorney General Palmer. They're } Jnet warming up to it. Bn 66QCV AP” STREETER, Chicago's squatter sov- ie i ereign, is dead and is to be buried, Py He was one of the most interesting characters in THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921. . fein | fought through the courts and he fought with bul- 4 : Boris, | who were willing to take a chance for the sake of lets. He recruited an “army” of down-and-outs a possible victory. Finally the courts decided that in the case of “Cap” Streeter possession did not constitute a claim to ownership. The old man died broken- hearted. Before he died he expressed the wish to be buried in the land he claimed as his own. There is a chance that his wish will be respected. Chicago can well afford to gratify the whim. “Cap” Streeter’s grave in the busy downtown section of Chicago would be a place of interest. Chicago's history has few incidents of more uml- versal human appeal than the struggle of old “Cap” Streeter which a suitable memorial might com- memorate. WIDENING THE BREACH. yal from the specific local matter involved, consider Gov. Miller’s attitude toward this city in another light: What's to be gained by strengthening the im- pression that up-State New York has no interest in Metropolitan New York beyond collecting 70 per cent. of State taxes from it and meddling with high legislative hand from time to time in its affairs? Why intensify the feeling that self-government in Greater New York is regarded with indifference, or worse, by government at Albany? Why widen a breach that ought to be closed? The State of New York is the most populous in the Union. In wealth, industry and progress it claims first rank. No Commonwealth ought to be more united in seeking the welfare of every part of its population. Half that population, in the case of this State, is concentrated in one city which is the greatest centre of business. finance and gommerce in the Western Hemisphere. Geographically considered as port and railway terminal, the City of New York is linked more closely with a neighboring State than with the greater part of the State of New York. Again and again discussion of port development has shown how naturally Manhattan Island, Staten Islind, Long Island and New Jersey group them- selves together in all plans for the future of the Port of New York. Is the city to be forced to the belief that some- thing other than geography tends to alienate its interests from those of its own State? Must it be more and more on the defensive against its own State Legislature? Must it more and more distrust government from Albany as government by representatives of sections whose aims are hostile and incursive? That 15 not a prospect one would wish for the Empire State. Yet Gov. Miller seams to think it natural and to be desired. A Sing Sing convict escaped from hts keeper in the subway jam yesterday. Anotber ex- ample of “owt of the frying pan into the fire.” ESTIMATED DEFENSE FOR HOME RULE. ‘To the Filitor of The Evening Wor Gov, Miller's ideas on rapid trausit im the cities of New York Stu@e seem certain not only of mighty rough treatment in the Legis lature but probable defeat. The Senate alone holds the fate of legislation along the lines indicated by the Governor through the simple and avowed expedient of having the three State Senators from Erie County (Buffalo) voting solidly with the dele; three from New York City, twenty-six constitutes a majority tn the Sen- ate, the full membership of which nuimbers fifty-one. It seems the height of conservatism to in- clude as possible allies in the fight against home rule on transit proslems the Senators from Utica, Syracuse and Rochester, which communities are bound to be affected as much by the proposed legislation as New York, It seems safe also to count upon the Senator from Westchester County, Thus there is a possible—or should I say probable? ~-vote of 30 against the tri-hoaded State Commission to 21 for, In any event, the 26- 25 vote seems as certain as one can figure, The proposition in the House is not quite 80 rosy, although control of the Senate will be sufficient to kill the Governor's ideas. The solid New York delegation numbers 62 out of @ total of 150. Two additional Democrats (Merrigan of Albany and Beasley of Erie) give @ start of 64 toward the needed 76 votes constituting the majori| ‘The up-State cities the following Re- publicans: Buffalo, 6; Rochester, 2; Utica, 1; Syracuse, 2, and Schenectady, 2, Added to the othe: , the combined city and Demo- cratic vote is 77, one more than a majority. The solid Westchester delegation of five Re- publicana probably can be counted on as ad- ditional support, I wish to make it clear that in arriving at this vote in both Houses I have considered only the largest cities. Such municipalities as Albany, Binghamton, Elmira and Troy I have fatled to consider, although {t is not at all certain their votes will go solidly against their own municipal foterests. VICTOR H, LAWN. . The Fordney Fake. ‘To the BAtitor of The Fveaing Word: I am reading with interest your articles with reference to the “Ford- ney Emergency Tariff Bil" and its effcots on sugar, and write to com~- mend you on the stand you have taken. |More power to you. GPORGE 8. BATON, 131 Edgecombe Ave., Jan. 23, 1921. The Plum Tree. To the Dittor of The Wrening Workd: Our National tree ts the plum tree. Uncle Sam shakes out ‘billions of dol- | lars’ worth of pluins every Tae 1 Brooklyn, Jan, 21, 1921, To the Kaltor of The Brening World: ‘This is in answer to one F. BB. of Eatontown, N. J. regarding the introduction of the automatic tele- phone to us “Easterners.” Docs F. H. B, know that we “East- ernora” use the telephone for other business than calling @ doctor or an undertaker? Special equipment had to be de- signed and made to meet thib ex- cess traffic, ‘Automatic service ts now used in Columbus, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and several other Western iowns and was ingtalled there more for trial than anything alse. 1 understany great in.provements have been made until now {t is ready to Introduce to us “Easterners” who live in a regular elly. CHARLES A. GILMORE. New York, Jun. 26, 1921, Good! Im All Vehicles, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: Whatever arguments can be brought forward in behalf of Workmen's Compensation Acts can also be urged for requiring every auto, commercial or pleasure, to be insured against accidents whereby any person sustains Injury; some outward, visible sign showing that guch peureays is carried, should be in jon, ME PRET caceh_ oon where victims of autos were severe- ly Injured—one was killed. At this ent time a man I know, whose jeg was broken over a year ago, and howe lost pay and doctors’ bills ampount to $1,000 at least, is suing the auto Owuer whose machine ran up on the sidewalk and injured bim at his own door, Having won a verdict of $2,000 in June last he finds it im- wivie to oollect anything, the nkruptey laws having afforded the arms oo fur 1s have suovocded, nt so far vo for relie¢ from all debts as well as the $2,000 judgement! In my opinion your paper should start at once an agitation for 4 Inw, Girte om the Square, fo the Hatior of The Brening World: ‘This tor the benefit of 8, J, B. and a few more like him: RE, in OAE SIE i, OM BLA a LS memaation e: amae ene From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't i the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te coy much in @ few words. Take time to be brief. Type;” third, the “prim, Old-Maidish Business Gtr." Why, you dear little boy! So much to learn yet! Take it from me, “she” is not the anknown quan- tity. I'll admit there are lots of your three classes, but you can find # You've “happy medium” if you go about !t) im the right way. May [ ask, Mr. 5. J. EB, where you've met the friends that have made you say what you've said? Tam a@ business girl, but I've never had @ fellow arrested for flirting with me (and lots of fellows have done 1t); I powder but I don't paint; I KO to basketball games once In a while and dances less frequently (mever to dance halls); I roller-skate, ride a bicycle and play the plano. I cook dinner every Sun- day, and the famiiy enjoys it, too. Still, I stay home two or three nights & week. My three girl friends are the wame and there are lots more like us. Don't forget, S. J. 1, that for every boy who's on the level there's a girl who's on the squmre. MARGY CULLEN The Prinan Gnard'a Job. To the Bditor of The Evening World: Your editorials for a food many years have dealt out columns upon columns of praise for the Police De- partment's work in different instances, I've yet to see an editorial of yours praising the prison keepers, who are more worthy of praise than the police are, Do you know that a keeper sometimes has as many as forty men to watch and keep from making an escape? A policeman makes an arrest of a notorious bandit and there are columns of praise written about him. and not a word of the keeper who keeps this man and thirty-nine others from escaping once he js arrested, How often do you hear of a pri slipping away from a policeman everyday oocurrence these days. A keeper is underpaid for the work he does and has more responsibility, and never a word is mentioned of his trustworthy work. Give the prison keeper a boost once in a whil ‘hey deserve it more than the “ A CONSTANT READER. New York, Jan. 20, 1921. A Solace mapiration. Fo the Batitor of The Brening World: Among the many good things that come to us through your invaluable there is nothing I prise more highly than the sermons of Thomas H. Gregory. ‘The world is wofully in need of such sermons to-day. There would be no empty pews, no millions unmindfut of the work of the churches generally either now or in the past, had we been treated to sermons of the Gregory type. In his Statesmen of the Bible, No. 12—Isaiah—we read that this famous | oppressed; deal fairly rophet lived somewhere around 750 BG. and the burden of his eloquence was ever the same—the righteousness and power of Jehovah flaming against And first among the wicked doings of men he the wickedness of man. tions the amassers of land—the wes of “covetous amasvers of land," aa the het pute tt. Then he attacks wuperstitions which the churches Gov. Miller’s Traction Commission i By Joh ‘(Coprright, 1971, EVERYBODY'S There are in the world reasons for it, These are the interesting |$ because they know what is going on. By Joh Contin n, iy “Poets of the Bible | | By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. Je 1921, i Tie Prom Putttabing Oo, | 0 ie New York Evening World), | No, 2: ECCLESIASTES. The wonderful prose poem known as “Woclesiastes" belongs to the series of go-called “Wisdom Books,” such a@ “The Wisdom of Solomon,” the “Wis dom of the Son of .” “Proverbs” and "Eoclesiastes,” dating from about 220 B, C, to 130 B.C. The date of Ex~ clesiastes is around 200 B. C. Its author, therefore, was not King Solomon, but some Hellenized Jew, probably of the City of Alexandria, | Beypt. By the third century B.C. the Greok cynical philosophy was firmly éstaplished In that city, and in "Bo~ clesinstes" the influence of that phil~ ovophy i# quite evident. ‘The subject of the book la Life— man's life here on this earth—and be- cause of the subject, together with the fact that the Unknown author was @ man of supreme genius, it is perhape the most fascinating composition Lp the world. In every whole man’s soul there 18 the permanent possibility of the ranks est pesetmism, and 5 ing forthoomi itself in unmistakable fashion. | We see it in Homer, in Shakespeare, |in ‘Tasso and Dante, in Carlisle, Schop- |enhauer and Leopardi, but in none of them does the disease take hold of us ag it does in Ecclesiastes. | As an artist—that is to say, in the | art of putting things— the “Great Un- known” of the city of the Ptolemies jovertops them all. For a long time \the authorities debated the question as to whether Heclesiastes shold be included in the Canon, as many being against it as for it, but fortunately it wae finally admitted. It would have been a calamity of the first order to have permitted this won- dertul work to drop into oblivion. It fills a place in the intellectuat world that could havo been made good by no other production of tho human ind. | As the duck’s foot fits the mud eo does this book ft our occasional moods. To every one who has any |brains at al there now and then |comes the bour when he feels like tak- ing a jump into the bottomless pit, or if that is putting it too strongly, when he feels like going off into the desert or the wilderness and kicking himaeif into fragments, Everything is wrong and nothing is right. ‘The whole |framework of things is out of jolot |The sun is not bright; the flowers are |not sweet: friendship Is a lie and love a cheat. The “mighty maze” seems to de going to the devil—and we are glad of it, for it should never have beem [started in the first place, And when such mood possesses us there is nothing like a good dose of the pessimism of Beclesiastes, At such times {t is just what the system calls for—vociferously, imperatively, un- comprom|singly! At much time to turn to the Beati- tudes and the twenty-third Psalm, or to Emerson's “Oversoul” and the “Im- tation” of St. Thomas a'Kemphy, would be mockery of the deepest dya ‘When the devils of despair are grin~ ning at us we are in no state of mind to enjoy the faces of the good angela. Devils and still moro devils is what UNCOMMON SENSE n Blake by Jokm Btaba) UNIVERSITY. people who talk interestingly and wisely, and people who talk dully and stupidly. There are people who know what is going on in the world and are intelligent enough to speculate about the There are people who take a live interest in their coun- try and its affairs, who vote wisely and who think wisely. people. They are interesting And they know what is going on because they read the newspapers: The newspapers are everybody's university. Nobody in \3 England or America need be uneducated if he will read the tee-skate, | newspapers carefully and intelligently. | They present to you eve | success. They tell you of all of all progress in science and The man who reads the is merely a knowledge of the men are careful students of studying. paper reader, ings and condenses them for ter university than any you a: ignorance. world, with comment on it if y what he reads will soon be an educated man, intelligently because he will think intelligently, Education which a knowledge of the world can be gained so easily as by discovering what is going on in the world and why. | All able statesmen, all interesting writers, all thoughtful papers, which are the record of life, that they do theit When a man tells you he merely skims the headlines of the papers and is wearied with the mass of details they print, set him down as a stupid man. 13 wisely about human affairs, set him down as a careful news- The agency that scours the world for its daily happen- of it and you will have no excuse for growing up in NAA RRA PN NON erence ry day the happenings of the you care for comment. They give Pou the biographies of all men who rise to the inventions that are made, in education. 6 newspapers and thinks about He will talk world, and there is no way in life. And it is in the news- When you hear a man talk $| your morning reading is a bet- re likely to attend. Make use palmed off on a credulous world to divert their attention from the true mission of those who came to save, to preach salvation all the way down the pathway of the centuries in these im- mortal words: “Bring no more vain oblations, Incense is an abomination to me, New moon and Sabbath, the convoking of assemblies I cannot en- dure, It is iniquity, even the Solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appoint- ed feasts are. loatheonse to ne——~ hb you; e you clean; pul away thevevll of your doing from before mine eyes Ceees, t0,9 evil * , Bee stice; relieve the bg ae with the fatherless; plead for the widow,” Continuing the Rev, Gregory says, “In the affairs of his time, both domestic and foreign, Isaiah took an active part, and always the keynote of his diplomacy and the touchstone ; of his objectives was sincerity versue hypocrsy, real righteousness versur the hollow symbolism thereof, ye the ancient seer gnticipare learn to | T™, who centuries later said, ‘A tree cannot bring forth ‘evil Frat | 4 corrupt tree bring forth good fruit, Therefore b; Ye shall know the saree ee emits ‘0 thone who, like the wrt not the privilege of hearing ‘cae mons every day, these statesmen of the Bible as given in The Evening World are @ constant golace and in- spiration. JOSIE THORPE PRIC: Inwood, Le L, Jan 23, 1980 ‘The Reason for Crime. the Eiitor of The Breaing Work: The Police Commissioner showed his ignorance in stating that the recent Christmas robberies were caused by the bandits wanting money to buy Christmas gifts for their gira. 1 notice that Christmas hae well passed and the robberies are still going. on, We wil have more rob- beries and bold hold-ups, for they are all caused by unemployment. Thus . Hew Yost, Jan, 33, 1931, wo need. What we NEED, I say, according to the old eternal truth that it is the “hair of the dog that cures the bite.” For, look you! After wallowing in his pessimism, and enjoying it as the cat enjoys rolling in the catnip, the author all of a sudden secs a stax blinking through the clouds and crica out: “This ts the end of the matter. Fear God “ keap His command- ments, for this is the whole duty of man.” LEARNING OUR LANGUAGE. Among the many non-English speaking foreigners recently regis- tered at the Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library is a girl just arrived from Brest-Litovsk. Although she could not yet read Eng- lish, she wanted a copy of a geometry. Her interpreter explained that she knew geometry tn Russian and could work out some of the English ex. planations, using the geometrical fig- ures 23 a Sort of Esperanto. She ex- claimed at our iavish use of paper for books and magazines, since in Brest- Litovsk it {s used for clothing ptr poses. Two other foreigners recently registered at the same branch library are Russian children who came te America by way of Egypt, where they waited six weeks to join an uncle who was returning with the Jewish Legion from Palestine, The boys, aged six and nine, wished French books, us they had learned that language in @ school in which they had lived for that short time, Thelr Engish was mere Bucnt (han casey to understand, it then, they Uved bi only @ month. = oT go og) That’s a Fact’”’ By Albert P. Southwick | ors Pa ah | U. & Grant and Theodore Roose velt wero both less than forty-seven years old when inaugurated, the lat- ter being six months younger than yp eee Roosevelt had served as sting President from September. 1901, to March, 1905. ee In the Frenoh dynasty the ruled from Hugh Capet “The Smee in 987, thre A A deaf and dumb asyium was founded in England in 1760, the first in the United States being at Harte ford, Conn, ie 1817, ‘The “Missourt Compromise.” re. stricting slavery to 36 degrees 30 minutesy was passed on March 8, 1820, and repesied on May 24, 1854, The Rialto (bridge) at Venice, Italy, ta said to have been built from the designs of Michel Angelo. It is a single marble arch, 98% fees long, and was completed in 1591. ‘The Bridge of Sighs at Venice, over which condemned prisoners were transported from the Hall of ent to the place of exec: wae built in 1589, alms ° ‘The Norman style of architecture, tn its ascendency from 1086 to 1156 consisted of round-headed doore ways and windows; the aisles di. vided from the naves by columns of vast size; mouldings accurate and scientific. Noted exampl Cathedrals of Peterborough Dee -haw, Norwich and Ely, in