The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1921, Page 22

a JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, tg BSTABLICHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pusiiered Daily Lxcopt Sundar by The Preas Publiniing Company. Now, 65 to 62 Purk Raw, Now Tors. RALPH PULATZER, Preetient 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 6 rk Row. Park Row ———— MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED Pri The Associated Prem ls exctusivety entitled to the us ‘GBA also the local nwa published hereia. _ A*GENERAL WELFARE''(!) COMMITTEE i ITH the City of New York in dire need of more homes—100,000 families homeless is > Health Commissioner, Copeland's estimate—and ‘with practically no building in progress or in pros- pect, The Evening World has repeatedly asked: + Where is the tax exemption measure the Legis- lature empowered the Board of Aldermen to pass as the first means of attracting capital to “home building? Alderman William T, Collins, Democratic Leader ) > Of the Board, gives the answer: “There is an ordinance whose provisions for | tax exemption would relieve this disgracefal, fntolorable condition, but the Republican mem- bers of the General Welfare Committee, where the measure now reposes, positively refuse to Toport it out.” “It is time to line up and call to account Akiermen Who are blocking this measure. ‘Here is a serious and still acute emergency. The one immediately available remedy is held up by members of a city legislative committee whose functions come under the head of “General Wel- fare!” Force these Aldermen to, explain. - Mabel are their reasons? Who are their ad- ? ‘ % After a ten-day survey a Prohibition En- ’ foréament officer is said to have reported that » many violations of the law are committed {n New York. } ‘Theres speed for you. Many a visitor ha* made the same report the morning after the firet evening of his visit. NOT OMNIPOTENT. OCORDING to the New York Herald: -* The State Government can throw the (rapid transit) companies into one unified sys- tem. It can fix a single fare. It can put the whole on a sound business basis, It can make it earn taxes and intorest. ' More misinformation could scarcely be packed into so few words. AS a matter of plain fact, the State Government -€annot do any one of these things. For one thing, the “obligation of contract’ clause of the Federal Constitution forbids. Furthermore, the superior . ie © ower of the Federal oourts intervenes, as in the present B. R. T. receivership. What the State can do is to bargain with the transit companies. It can take advantage of the Present emergency to negotiate a bargain looking to abrogation of present contracts and so gain future benefits in return for immediate relief. ' New York's €xperienice is that public representa- fives can drive a better bargain if the transit offi- dats know that the new contract must be approved by public opinion before it will become binding. Here, in a nutshell, is the case against the Miller plan which concedes nothing to public opinion or Public “representation. Today's visitor is sometimes referred to ' politely as the woodchuck. But to-day he's just plain groundhog. OUT OF ECLIPSE. EMININE ears are “coming in again”—mean- ing they are coming ou. Authority for the statement comes from the ies’ Hair Dressing Association now meeting in Boston. . : ig Journeyman Poets’ Union is expected to in- ‘ the action, as it restores to currency one of the good talking points in their trade. » >) Mere man has long wondered where and why inine ears went. With the forecast of the end f the eclipse before us we may perhaps find the answer to the first part of the question. The “why” is another matter. Men will prob- ably continue to grope in darkness, But, anyhow, it will be good to have ’em back. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever’—until the next _ @lipse is ordained by the Ladies’ Hair Dressing Association. t ‘The Supreme Council settled the German in- demmity terms. But it remains do be seen + | whether Germany will settle according to t! | settlement, * FARM HANDS EXEMPT. ] HE Wisconsin Legislature is to consider a law : requiring employers to make unemployment Payments to discharged workers for a period not to exceed thirteen weeks. , AS an effort to mitigate the hardships and mis- éries of unemployment the measure is worthy of tion. Irresponsible hiring and firing of workers is a social evil well recognized. | The brief press despatch reporting the introduc- ag thon of the bill does not give delails to warrant Nevertheless, one sentence, the | ls fer repubticauion ‘all ews Geepatches credited to I oF pot otherwise eredited tm this paper ‘ political expediency in getting such a bill through a Legislature of farmers? Farm laborers form one of the groups which suffer most from the “hire and fire” policy. Every winter the cities are thronged with out-of-works discharged for no fault ot their own but solely be- ause of weather over which they have no control. Farm laborers in the West have formed the backbone of the I. W. W. The seasonal character of the job has been one of the principal reasons for the discontent. But another which might be urged with perfect justice is the legal discriminations against farm laborers at the hands of rural Legis- latures. But if farmers would grant to their amployees some of the safeguards which urban workers enjoy they might have less difficulty in finding ,workers to fill the jobs. ‘m laborers usually have been “exempt” fram any sort of welfare legislation. TO CITIZENS OF GREATER NEW YORK: EAR in mind one thing about this fight to save the City of New York from being ruled out of the settlement of ts own traction affairs, It is YOUR fight. Your municipal officiais and your representatives in the Legislature who defend the city on this issue cannot see it through without your help. IT IS NOT A CONTEST THAT CAN BE FOUGHT OUT AND DECIDED IN YOUR FAVOR WHILE YOU SIT BY AND SAY NOTHING. The whole principle of municipal home rule presupposes a strong majority of citizens who are actively interested in their municipal concems. You, the citizens of Greater New York, have not yet spoken as you are entitled to speak and as you dught to speak on this question, If you fail to speak, Gov. Miller can repeat with reason that municipal home rule is “loose talk” and a myth, since the 5,500,000 people in this great community for which home rule is claimed have pirit enough to give it popular support. Don’t leave to public servants and newspapers 4 task that cannot be performed without your aid. Bul, many of you will ask, what can we do? HERE ARE THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO: not (I) You can individually write or telegraph to your Assemblyman and Senator in the State Legis- lature. If, in either case, he is a Democrai tell him you are behind him to the last ditch in defending municipal home rule. Uf he is a Republican tell him you regard his duty to uphold this city’s right to a ovice in its own trac- tion affairs as paramount to party obligations, and that you expect him to act and vole accordingly. (2) You can be present in force at every public meeting, rally and debate on this issue. You can shdw your approval of those who stand by the city and your will to see the home rule principle prevail. (3) You can organize smaller meetings of your own where by discussion and resolution you make your wishes known. And you can enroll in any organization of your special business, trade or profession or in any larger civic organization that takes steps to make New York City’s claim to self-government felt at Albany. To-night a meeting takes place in Manhattan's new Town Hall in West 43d Street, at which Borough President Henry H. Curran and Edward M. Bassett will speak against Gov, Miller's proposals, while Job E. Hedges and Oliver C. Semple will support the Governor, Citizens of New York should show their interest in the issue by filling this meeting to overflowing, The new Town Hall could be put to no bigger, bet- ter or more fitting use. From now on such meetings should :multiply and grow until Madison Square Garden cannot hold the mililant defenders of’ municipal home rule. EVOKE THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY SPIRIT OF THIS GI ClTY, Let Albany see that half the population of the State is not so absorbed and indifferent that it is ready to be driven in harness by thg other half. Prove that citizenship in Greater New York is something more than an inert part of a gigantic revolving wire! of business, finance and commerce, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLBCTIVELY— COME TO THE RESCUE OF HOME RULE! TWICE OVERS. “ HE power to be conferred upon the new tran- sit commission will be a power to surrender the city’s rights without power to compel the com- panies to give up anything except by negotiation.” —The City Club Committee. * « * “cc HERE are thousands of cilizens who want a a drink and are determined to have it, The illegality of gratifying this desire will be used by the police as an instrument of corruption.” —Raymond “} now Hi ais He THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBR VARY 2, Coprrient, 192, Some Pusat tn The ig C0, (a'% Rew York Brening Word), Gov. Miller's Attitudes. ‘To the Haltor of Tee Breaine World: In outlining his programme for the relief of the transit situation in this elty, Gov, Miller states that the Pub- lic Service Commission should be em- powered to preseribe temporary In- and determination, Governor believes, Sun, that the in ation wurrants an i Strangely, the Governor's ideas ip this matter are in direct contrast to his answer to the requests of various State Departments for budgetary in- creases for their omployees, whose ries are the 80 tus th eases fo wause of the downy coet of living. it fact that the Legislature re-| Subway | of the duced the salaries last year by elimi-| nating the 10 per cent. bonus granted to meet the Increased cost of livin during the war. Thus, we have Gi y. Miller's attitude | In dealing with capital In one case and with labor in the other. | Perhaps we shall see more of Mr.| Miller's subserviency to the will of the money powers New York, Jan, 3 The First Commandment. To the Faitor af The Myening Workd: The most important local question | to-day is—the 8-cent fare. How does Goy, Miller get that way? Who'll feel the effects of this raise? It will be you and myself and millions of others. Most of! us pay 20 cents fare a day| and it surely is high enough Contracts must be lived up to, If the fare ts once rai elephants will fly before the nickel ride comes back again, ‘The subway and 11 goon be using tuxime Ww en strap- hanging long enough. Now it's our necks they're after. Away with graft, bum serv nd up-State legislators New York's first commandment is— & B-cent fare. CHARLES B. 1 KIRSCH BAUM. Brooklyn, Jan. 1921 There an Answert { ‘The Byeaing Work) } all the te boozer any more of their grunts? Prohibition was ratifi by forty-five of the forty. Only thirty-six to approve the Federal before such ratificat counties in forty-four States b y by popular vote use to| disgusting | separately | ht States. | 1 gone} | fifths of t ing in Pr entire population was | | hibition territory | Now | ton was * met were awey. fighting?+ Prohibl-* da were ioe the ma one creases in rates pending a hearing | ¥! Evidently the like the aged Ci So, of thi em, say criticism The ‘Nest of a an. he Talitor of The Brening World: praising, I stydy his biceps and chest. Some choose a man wise cious, And melt at the glance of his eye; I Warm-to an aspect pugnacious, And all head, Or its co and other types T pass by. ylor some wom and brown men; There are good men and bad men, I know; There ar rough men and bandboxy| town-men, You can find them wherever you go. With these other types I've no quarrel, ‘They all have their use, it may be, & tan who can deal with the But landlo: For me! rd, From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Lan't it 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 say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. jority, and any other attitude toward it is encouraging violation of the law. It is the duty of the States, each to get down to brass tucks and enforce the Federal rman- date and put a stop to all violations, And I would amendment is an encourageme: ate the law. A. 3 abeth, N. J. Jan. 31, 1921. of the mt to .P. ‘0 the virtues of masculine beings Each woman applies her own test, so, while others mere beauties are eaga- ‘he drift of lis hair from the fore- | y thrill, But the thrust of the chin from the rt with wild rapture can! There are white inen and black men MISS DOCK HENDURSON New Yor ‘To the Editor of I would like to call your attention to the fact that during the period of the war the barber Industry, from the supply houses to the themselves, raised the cost of every- thing on various occasions, and even went so far as to hint at tho dollar hair cut, I believe that If you will investt- yate this matter you will find that inasmuch as they were ready to ac- cept the raise, they should be ready at this time to reduce their prices, especially when every industry is do- ing it Up to now they ela tarily reduced any prices, and I be- were required | lieve that unless you take umendment.| +9 fonee them to recosn tive of nee fit te Low: | a great rellet does this look like Prohibi-} home girh ut over” when our young | Stop now before it Is too date, child the Eititor of The Rrening World: In veply to "M, K," the unhappy wrong, suelo thet Lew asp” rk, Jan, 31, 1 Calls for Reltet. Toe Brening World &e. reduction, jo it themselves, es certuinly you started all boaring and rearing boss barbers haven't yolun- some steps the jus- they will never wouk! to the average man. CONSTANT KRBADER. The UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrtgnt, 1921, by Jonn Blak) LIVE WIRES DISTRIBUTE ENERG A live wire is one which conveys energy from a dynamo to a light or a motor or a furnace, or to any apparatus which may be vitalized by electricity. A wire to be a live wire must have contacts at both ends. If it is attached to only the dynamo it will be useless. If it is attached only to the apparatus that consumes the current it will be dead. We speak of men as live wires who carry energy and distribute it where it will do the most good, We speak of them as live wires always with admiration. In fact, there is no term to-day so generally used to describe valuable per- sonalities as the term live wire. | Men who are live wires must be vitalized by reservoirs of power, exactly as are the copper cables that carry the energy that drives the great electric locomotive. Also they must have the ability to vitalize their fellows, to set in mo- tion everybody with whom they come in contact, either with ideas or with the power of accomplishment. A great executive is a live wire because he gathers en- ergy from his reading and his thought and his experience and transmits it to the men under his direction, so that they are stimulated to work and produce and to add to the wealth of the world. The vital aptlor is a live wire, because from his reading of books and of tite he acqutres a current of thought which he can carry to those who read him in a form they can un- derstand and apply to their own problems. The great soldier is a live wire, because he can trans- form the patriotism that fires him into e vital'tide that will carry his armies across the field to victory. Every man of purpose and of action is a live wire. He maintains his contacts unimpaired. He receives his store of energy from one place, he deposits it at another, and the part of the world in which he moves is quickened to achieve- ment because he exists. It is for you to say whether you will be a live wire or not. If you are you must mamtain your contacts, for unless you give as well as receive the current that makes you alive wire will refuse to flow. best way you can serve your ohil- dren and lrusband is to care for your own health, In this way you will be spared to care for both, I knew a wife like you who, after doing ber own work, worked for her husband until 12 at night. She is now in the cemetery and her little girls have passed through hard> ships. \) Her husband was not poor, He tad $25,000 on interest. Her bed was kept together with cords and she was olfiiged to dress herself and chil- Gren on the income from $2,000 left her. Her successor lives in ease—$10 and be] $15 shoes, all-linen towels, beautiful rugs, &o,| Hubby pesis vegetables 60 Wwitey will not stain her hands, And he thinks more of her than he did of the poor misguided ulave of @ first wife. I know another similur case. ‘The first wife is in the cemetery aud No. 2 is favored in every way, A man advanced in years has often nothing but his age to show that he has lived for @ long period,—Seneca. In every breast there burns an active flame, The love of glory or the dread of shame.—Pope, Kindness by secret sympathy is tied, . For noble souls in nature are allied,—Dryden, To follow foolish precedents, and wink i ride and self-respect, Don't’ With both our eyes is easier is a eats ‘he man. Your husband wil bs to Bik ot. X00. __. ee ; bhink,—Cowper, pnp errr caaeeaeenenaanaareasacenacsachaseeaaciseaanacneanaeiaee Words From the Wise Poets of the Bible By Rey. Thomas B, Gregory. on i, Wg ite Genet No. 3—THE BOOK OF PSALMS. The Book of Psalms is a collectiom of religious poems from all ages and atyles of Hebrew literature, critically and motrically edited for use tn the service of song u ac Second ‘Temple. ‘The work is divided into five se- tions and contains 150 psalma, ox poems, epic, lyric, didactic, all cen- tring in the one great theme of God and man’s relationship to Him. ‘These Psalms were not collected simultaneously, but separately, by it~ ferent hands and at longer or shorter intervals, during a period of sume 200 years, between B. C, 637 and B. C. 337, As to the authorship of the Pealma, the world’s greatest Biblical sobulare are in doubt. To begin with, we have the thirty-fourth “Widowed” or “Be= reaved” Psalm, ouncerning the au. thorahip of which we have no knowl- edge, Many of the others ure of une certain authorehip. To the very natural question, “How muny of the Ps. .us did David himself write?” the auswer is best given bs the words of Prof, Murray, a very high authority, who suys, “Of the geventy-thres Pains borrowed by, our Psulter from the ‘Duvidie Coltec- tion,” the mowt conservative attribute to David bimwelf between Hifty and sixty, the more radical no more thaa eight oF tem. ‘The midrash to Psakn IL. tells v4 that when Kabbi Joshua Ben Levi wus looking ity the authorship of the Peulms he wus arrested by # voice from Heaven saying to bim, “Wuke pot thuse who have fallea asleep; disturb not the grave of ous King David.” Heeding the injunction, 1 sunply remark that the Psulms thas had been used in the Solomonic Tem- ple service was culled the “Davidto collection,” not because they were written by Duvid, but because he had inaugurated tke cullection. Like human nature itself the Paaltet varies in beauty, reuobing all the way jfrom the terrible “imprecutery * |Paalms to the noblest Mighis of api itual perfection, | "In all the range of fterature, sacred jor profane, there can be fousd er ing to take the place of the following \ Pyulms: VIIL, XLX., XXL, XXVAL., XLIL, LXU, XC, OUL, CIV. and CXXXIX. F ‘These ten Psalms sound the whote 4 gumut of the soul's aspiration, Our |grandest flights toward God, our deepest fears as God recedes from us, our desolation and despair as wo stand in the black night, our rapture countenance upon ue and gives us |peave'-rall this le in the ten Psalms J have cited. Read them-—read them when the high tide of joy rolls In upon you, o* when the biackness of despair bas you in its clutch, and see whet the effect upon you will be. ‘Aside from the charm of these gre~ ductions {m the fact that tley 90 per- fectly fit in With life's supreme ex~ periences. They will be sung until the intest time, Wherever man in his lone~ |{Inesss reaches out after the Wternag Being, Into whose nature and relatiom to us it penetrates deeper than ame vtber book in the world, Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government cosoright, [eal te ag te Week | By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This ta the fifty-Afth article of @ eertes defining the duties of the administre tive and legislative efficers and boards of the New York City Government. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Bureau of Attendance, ‘This bureau of the Department of Education ts charged with the duty of enforaing the Compulsory Bduce- tion Law and the Newsboy Law (with the ald of the police). Tt alae takes the school census and conm- cerns itself generally with matter affecting child welfare. a ‘The city is divided into thirteen ‘at tendance districts, each in charge of a supervising attendance officer. & chief attendance officer is in gea- eral charge of the staff. He and two supervising attendance officers ually conduct hearings for the Umiiment of children to the consent of \truant schools with the ae parents, though the director of the bureau has sole power to commit or parole truant or delinquent ohil~ dren as the result of such hearings. If parents refuse tq consent to such commitments they are prosecuted for failure to exercise proper parental pons bility, ‘erhis bureau tmaintains a register of all children between four and elgh~ teen years of age, showing residence, names of parents or guardians, schooi attended, or reason for non-attend~ ance, and place and nature of em- ployment, if employed. ‘The bureau, besides acting on violations of the compulsory education and child labor laws, reports to the children's socio ties cases of parental neglect, to the charitable organizations cases of pov- erty and to the proper educational officers cases of chiidren physically or mentally defective, ‘The bureau issues permits to ohil- dren to sell newspapers, and main taing @ street. patrol to prevent un- authorized selling. All boys between twelve and fourteen years of age re- quire permits, No girl under sixteen. or boy undyr twelve may sell news papers or magazines in any publi¢ lace. PMA children between veven and fourteen years of age are required to attend school throughout the schoo! year. Thos between fourteen and wixteen who have completed the work of Grade 6B, or an equivalent course, may, when certified by the Department of Health, leave schoot and obtain omployment, ‘Those, how- ever, between fourteen and eixteon who are employed, but have not been graduated from an elementary school, ihust attend evening school not logs than six hours a week for at least weeks, or & continuation class ie a week for not Yeas than the seahoed as God “lifts up the light of His”