The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1921, Page 20

Ty Stari, ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITRER. Published Datiy Except Sunday by The Pre Publishiog Company, Now, 63 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preeident, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Tre JOSEPH PULITAER Ir er. 63 Park Row, oretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF TIE ASSOCTATED PRESS ‘oe Avscctated Prom ts exclusively entitled to the wae fer repubtioation of All Hews Grapatches credited to tt oF not otherwise credited in thie paper | apd alno the local news pubilaned beret PROPAGANDA. Che Real Estate Investors of New York, which the Evening Post describes as. “a newly formed organization,” is on record as approving the : Miller rapid-trarisit programme. Its resolution of approval inchides this statement: As no increase In fares will be authorized unless a thorough investigation by the said : commission proves such a step necessary for better service, we condemn the unwarranted and false propaganda that the creation of such a commission will result in §-cent fares. Such a statement is assumption pure and simple. t Its basis is not to be found in the Governor's transit ; qnemage. : 4 . Ox the contrary, Gov. Miller said in recommend- : fing the creation of the commission: In view of the time required for some rate determinations, there should doubtless be power to prescribe temporary rates pending such determination, with such safeguards as may be prescribed by the commission, and evmplete power should expressly be vested in the commission regardless of local consents ij or contracts. ‘ The italics are ours. A Yn the face of such a quotation from Gov. Miller A himself, it is difficult to discover where the Real Estate Investors can draw such positive assertions fhat “no increase in fares will be authorized unless”—— Some one recently defined propaganda as “any public statement with which you disagree.” February is a short month. This is prob ably a source of regret to Comptroller Craig, Aldermanic President La Guardia and Com- missioner of! Accounts Hirshfield. With four Sundays and two holidays deducted from the twenty-eight days, these worthies will have to work at high speed to produce their regu- lar monthly quota of mutual abuse, Per- haps this accounts for the super-sulphurous atmosphere now prevailing in City Hall. THE WOMAN PAYS—TAXES. NNOUNCEMENT that 144,000 women filed State income tax returns in 1920 will be sur- _ prising to many. This was a fifth of the total re- porting. The number would be increased materi- : ally if we were to inchude the feminine income in the { + 340,000 joint returns made by married couples, More than 100,000 returns were from single women not heads of families, Single mon report- ing numbered 190,000, materially less than twice the feminine roll. War years and war wages aftracted many women to industry. Perhaps the number reporting this year may show a decrease. But considering the comparative number of men and women gainfully employed, it is manifest that a creditable proportion of women had incomes larger than the mininnum exemption allowed by the Income Tax Law. Such figures indicate that women are moving toward the “equal pay for equal work” standard ‘witich has been their goal. They form a significant commentary on the economic self-sufficiency which women have attained. Nothing could estabfish more clearly woman's vital interest in economically administered State and city government. No wonder members of ius are asking what women can do {o make gov- emment better and cheaper. The woman pays—taxes. ° ote ow oa The Senate as well as the House has been hearing from the country on disarmament proposals. But the Senate refuses to bow to popular will in the matter of the Borah resolu- 4 tion. Popular opinion {s all well enough— provided it does not interfere with private political vendettas, BOYCOTT THE GAMBLERS. , T THE first conference of Big Boss Landis and his Advisory Council on baseball matters, one of the first things considered was the control of the gambling evil. eu, State laws to penalize baseball gambling and game-throwing will be pushed to passage. Public sentiment will back such a move. But this is not enough. No anti-gambling laws ever have been, or ever can he, effective. Judge ae ‘Landis and his council have a better and more ef- fective liné of procedure. F As The Evening World suggested at the time of the baseball scandals, the best and only effective way to get rid of public gambling and game-throw- ing is to appeal to the fans. Keep the game clean by vohintary action. Promote a boycott of profes- sional gamblers. Arouse the fans to the menace to the game until professional bookmakers see there Is no profit for them in the business, ut The game is worth the effort. Judge Landis has the magnetic personality to make such an *~ appeal. He also has the confidence of the fans. “at STILL AN EMERGENCY, NE day last week an important item of news was printed in the newspapers of this city. The first plans of 1921 for a new apartment house in Manhattan were filed with the Tenement House Department. ONE new apartment house for this borough this year up to last Thursday! And a day or two before, Health Commissioner Copeland estimated that 100,000 families In the City of New York were in need of homes. There are interests in this city, there are even Aldermen in this city who pretend to believe there is no housing emergency. Because rent laws prevented some of the acute suffering. from extortion and eviction that would otherwise have followed moving time last October, because relief applied to the surface kept the situa tion from becoming intolerable, the cily is asked lo forget the underlying fact of a housing shortaye for which no constructive remedy has been provide.|. What is going to happen next fall and in the tal! of 1922 when the term of the rent laws expires? A year ago the Housing Committee of the Re- construction Commission of the State of New York made a study of housing conditions. The said among other things: . To legislate against rent-raising will not help to supply the need of housing. Legisla- tion temporarily postponing the suffering of the dispossessed is desirable. It serves, as does arbitration between tenant and land- lord, to ameliorate the condition of some of the victims of the present emergency. These do not help in the slightest degree to meet the real present houbing needs, There is an insuffictent supply of decent houses, As a re- sult, a large part of the population fs housed in a manner detrimental to the health and safety of the community, The above is true to-day as it was a year ago. committee reported to Gov. Smith, and the report The special session of the Legislature last fall did next to nothing to encourage directly the building of new houses. The Legislature did, however, pass an enabling act which made -it possible for the ©ity of New York to induce capital to build homes by exempting from local taxation foreten'years new construction for housing purposes. What has the City of New York done about it? ‘Ask the Aldermen who have defeated one tax- exemption ordinance framed under the enabling act and who are scheduled to wrestle to-day with an- other which had to be pulled out of the General Welfare Committee with a derrick. One thing is sure, If we listen only to realty interests, savings banks and people who point out the few minor injuries that tax exemption for new building may cause, we shall get nowhere in our attempts to- relieve a housing shortage that is as serious a5 ever. To deal with an emergency in a way to secure prompt public benefit without causing some private inconvenience is impossible, The larger good gut- weighs the lesser objections. To deny that an emergency still exists in this city’s acute need of more homes is to confess either stupidity or deliberate determination to side with private interest against public welfare. “Simpler dishes, sinmpler services, and lower prices,” were the recommendations of E, M. Statler to the Stewards’ Association last eve- ning, = The public will indorse at least one of these. CRACKER BARREL TRACTION (Spectal Correspondence of the Jimtown Bi CURE, A special call by Chairman Corncob for Gov. Mfiter’s ‘Traction Board that runs the New York City subways to get together and see if they can’t help out some of our leading agriculturists to get hired help for the spring planting was sent out last week. for subscribers of the Bugle, It took Ye Seribe over to the County Seat to gather glad tidings Zeke Skinner, our well known local banker, who is a member of the Board, told the others that lots of farmers who put mortgages on their farms buy automobiles have been hit hard by the drap produce prices. to in He says they must get cheap labor if they afe golng to pay their mortgages, which he holds aewhole slew of. Mr. Guile, who says he used to work for the sub- way owners and !s giving Chairman Corncob advice, says none of his friends need.to worry how their mortgages will get paid, Member Hiram Waterfall saya when he was down to New York last fall the subways were crowded sonréthing awful. If folks would stay at home once in a while instead of going gadding it would solve the traction problem, he says. He s it would be good practice for them if the service was cut down a few weeks, just to let them see how casy they could ket along with less travelling. Also, he says, it would release some of the young fellere that run® | 4nd soldiers. Wh the trains to come up and help with the ploughing and_ planting, Chairman Corncob says it sounded Ike a real good idea and he will think it over, Whatever decides will be announced in the Bugle, ac a he THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, F pee _ A Pathetic Appeal! EBRUARY 8, 1991," 2g one eres By John Cassel —-e From Evening World Readers. , ad ~ away What kind of a letter do you fi There is fine mental exercise te aay much in a few words. Take ‘The Reform Agen: ‘To the Bilitor of The Mrening Work: How lug are the people, the Breat people of this great and glor- fous Republic of ours, going to stand for these cursed reform agents, who are really causing more discontent, wuisery, hoid-ups and even murders |by their misdirected efforts, and who are to-day making Bolshevists and causing unrest all over the country by their deliberate infringements on the personal rights of the people? We all know that their next victim is to be tobacco, and unless we all realize that it is time to be up and doing to stop their mischievous werk, we will ticle of comfort and solace also on their “verboten” list In my opinion all these so-called reforms are making undue headway owing to the delio¢rate apathy of the general public to its own welfare. Wake up! all ye good citizens of America and defend the rights that drought you the Constitution. COMMON LABORER, New York, Fet, 1921, Knocking the Knockers, the Pallor BY The Mvening World: I noticed in one of the columns a party who signa his name as “Sub- wayer” advises a ware cut, It cer- tainly is easy for some people to talk, isn't it?) But let this “Subw: teke the place of a guard, for in- ¢, and werk for a straight, sal- ry of $30 or $85 a week and he has 1 wife and a few kiddies running the house to’ support and worry ahout and have the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Company cut his wages 80 or 40 per cent. He wouldn't like it yery much, especially in times such as those prevailing, would he? To around Why not have some of these “knockers” get together and go arouwd to som these manufac- turers, profit: &e. come down on things that I'm quite different How would it be if the I. R. 'T. had 1 system like some other States ax Jersey? Hyery two or three miles you are obliged to pay another fare, Our new Governor, Mr. Miller, made and make Them If they tried sure things would be a tow state 8 Which were’ made public regare the 1. Ro 'T. 8-cent do some of these | now? Not Ne was elected ut before ‘@ fine man.” ‘This city is, surely, made-up fight for the bonus that has pe | and Is now forgotten? It y all ferod, said while most “knockers” of these ene morning wnke up to find that| of nothing but “knockers,” and it takes | |those who took liquor to try to put | the |the blue law Into effect jot mon does it produce? : J "Second, with to ex-sailors|. According to John Blake himself, n't home of these | for Whom I possess a deep veneration so-called “kilo ett rand (and whose articles are to me 4 never | for the service men in 1917, 1918 and | 1919 to fyrht and protect these people, making no mention of what they suf- ufore- stayed home and Ind most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. ;Made their easy $75 and $100 per week, with good food, clean beds, &c., while the soldier slept in mud and sometimes only trench rats for com- panions, and all this for month. Of course, these pe not worrying about anybody | the old saying goes in the | I'm afraid it's the same in ci to-day, “Rach and 'y one for him- | \self—to hell with the other guy." AN OB." “It Doesn't Seen Right.” To the Hiltor of The Brening Work’ | Tam a workingman with a large, rrowing family, I never drank any- |thing but a glass or two of beer in the evening, ‘This 1 can do wihoat; ‘but my poor old mother has ‘been an invalid, for & long time and bottled ale and stout seemed to help her so m) could get it for a while by |i law and paying a price | which made it necessary to do with- lout other things to get any and thy Is nothing going to done to change things/ It doesn't seem right to me or any of my friends, and they are not drunkards eithe LAW-ABIDING. New York, Feb. 5, 192 Afraid of Themselves, "Do the Wlitor of The Breaing Wo I not only think “Last Word” ts a grouch, but one of the many whose grouch has been brought about by the abuse of liquor, and can't dis- iminate between drinking as a entloman should and the regular drunkard. These drunkards are so afraid of themselves that they believe jould not be a drop of liquor yn existonee, elec they would fail again The hypocrisy of it all Is appolling! A CONSTANT READER 84 Hours for §31,92, ‘To tho Pitter of The Brening Warld : In reference to "“Subwnyer's” letter of Jan, 81, in regard to cutting the wages of the transit employees 1 would like to ask “Subwayer" if he ‘s working or would like to work 84 hours weekly for a wage of $31.92? FIVE SMPLOYEES OF I, R. 'T, Lieyd George as an To the Bilton ot The Bemning W This ambition, eMetency, hard work propaganda for which John Blake {s such an energetic spokesman—where does it all lead?) What is the end and jaim of the equitable system by which | the few grow fat at the expense of the many? What effect has it upon individuals involved? What sort ple. ling source of inspiration, Lloyd George, Premier of Great Britain, 1s the acme of all the virtues necessary to an ambitious, ¢ ciont, hard-work there ‘UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 19%], by John Blake) WHE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE. Frequently an idea crops up in your mind that seems ¢ worth developing. You can’t be sure, but it looks valuable. But to run it down means work and a Jét of it. It means mental work, It means taking it up at your first oppor- tunity and thinking it out, carefully and painstakingly. Now hard work is always easy to avoid. Hard mental work is especially so, And the chances are nine in ten that when you have the leisure to set your mind to work on that shadow of an idea you either do not think of it at all or, after a little thought shows you how much trouble it is going to be, you drop it. It may be, of course, that it would have been a waste of time to bestow hard mental work on that particular idea—as far as the idea itself was concerned. Again, it is quite pos- sible that your thought would have resulted in something very valuable to yourself and to others, But you followed the line of least resistance. You dis- missed it from yanr mind because to follow it to a conclusion was hard work. And some day you will read, perhaps, that another person who wasn’t so afraid of mental labor got the same idea, worked it out and added something to the world which it needed and which it never had before. ‘A number of men had been attracted by the possibility of the phonograph before Edison, who never was afraid of mental work, got the same idea and stuck with it till talking was done by machinery. Your ideas are not so important, perhaps, yet they are worth working. They come as mere glimpses of possibili- ties, seen through a mass of difficulties that surround them. You don’t want to clear away the difficulties because it is too much trouble, And to you, at least, the possibilities are lost forever. It is only the very human instinct of following the line of least resistance, the impelling force that takes human be~ ings, as it takes water, down hill, Get rid of it, You will not,need to work very hard over ideas that are of no value, You will soon be able to discover their worthlessness. But some of them are sure to be worth working on. There are few of us who do not have them now and then, If you glimpse such a possibility run itdown. The worl won't hurt you. And making something out of a single-idea may make a competence and perhaps a career for you. Surely a rich reward for a little mental labor, beeen | -eve! or boy ean accomplish tveryenio Ghat ia, fine. and noble, vided only that he follow the few ple rules of the game. Para not prepared to deny that Lloyd George bas had to work hard for what h got. I do not doubt at he ence a poor boy who ched his cap to the village squire, All this may very well be. | It seems strange, however, that this | man, whose one and only rule of con- duct. seenis to be expediency—"the nd justifies the m ‘should be held to the youth of this or any) work and all the rest of It—in a wo: nther country as worthy of emulation, |to borrow the cant word of the S¢ It scems strangy that a man whose | cialist vord apparently means > nothing | principled, should he pointed out asa man to be Inte bewailed Hohenzollerns, honor or common honesty, shatld to pattern himself after. thought of in such a light. And yet it Is not so strange as scems, The logical outcome of th present system of profits and wage and efficioney and ambition and } unserupulous ing, successful man. Ho is the very incarnation of the cheering doctrine, first promulgated by Horatio Alger, imitated, It seema strange that a man who, in his official position of| GEORGE W, SOHOPENHAUDR. chief apologist for an imperialiom ag) Brookiys, Fob, 1, 1921 blatantly militaristic as that of the evinces not the slightest regard for truth, be regarded as an example for any one It seems | strange that a man whose admittedly able péfsonality is prostituted in bold- ing such an empire together can be capitalism, is just such un-| uals or by erature: And John Blake is at least consistent, | He 1 not at all ashamed of his hero, jant, is recorded to have teen horn |m Oldest Love Stories ROLAND AND HILDEGRUNDE. The common tale both in history died at the famous Battle of Ronce- valles, But at Rolandseck, on the Rhine, they have a story that has persisted throughout centuries and which certainty would not exist with- out some foundation. Once when there was profound peace throughout Charlemagne’s king- dom, Holand, the courageous knight, who longed for naught but combat and hagard, unable to stand the quiet- ude of his Ife in court, begged per- nrission of his imperial Uacle to | wander forth in search of adventures | Across France he travelled, tilting | with knights, chastising rubuers, 10 jing the life that isfied his unquies pature. So he weed the Vos entered Germany and at last reached the Rhine, Before him he saw loastle of remarkable size, whose walls (and battlements glittered with gold. Approaching it'to request a night's lodging he “was broujlit "before the Knight of Drachenburg. ‘This huight, | Herbert by name, received him {heartily and bestowed upon his high |and worthy guest all the honors and |distinction he couid devise The next day he presented to Ro- land his daughter Hildegrunde. At j the sight of this beautiful maid Ro- land seemed enchanted. He who be~ fore had thought of nothing but ac | tivities and dangers found himself seized with a feeling for tpis girl thet Was entirely new to him.” From that day on he was changed, The battle- | scarred warrior ceased to converse of warlike deeds and took to praising ‘family life and the joys whioh the | possession of an affectionate wife must give. His love for Hildegrunde could net remain hidden very long and both Heribert and the maid became aware of it, With Hildegrunde herself Ro- land had found favor from the first |moment, nor had Heribert the least objection to having as a son-in-law uh Emperor's nephew, the renowned adin whose fame was sung byt very poet, Plans were already being made for the building of a wonderful castle in the neighborhood Drachenburg when a terrible message from Charle- magne changed all. | Moors who had been devastatfie northern Spain had broken into France, and the Emperor, collecting 4 force to repel them, desired his |nephew to be present in’ this struggle with the infidels. By the laws « jehivairy it was impossible, for Roland ‘to disregard this summons, ands after mutual oaths of fidelity they | parted, each keeping their secret fears in their breasts. |. During the war Roland greatly dis- |tinguished imself, but for a long while victory hung in the balance At last, in the Valley of Roncevalles in the Pyrenees, the French finally jconquered their enemies, but after |ward Roland was missing and, some ‘knights having seen him fall, he was reported dead. | The grief of Hilderrunde when the |news reached her wis impossible to describe, For a ois time she mained closeted in her room, and when, finally she did emerg: she gave out her intention of enty “ga convent Her zealousness caused her novitiate to be shortened and very soon she had \taken the irrevocable vows. | And yet tt was uscless devotion, for | Roland was not dead. He had miere- | | ly been stunned by a gicantic Arab, and his faithful squire had brought him to. As soon as he was able*to move he made his way to Drachen- burg. How quickly his joys changed to sorrow when at last Heribert mus- tered up courage to tell him what “ had happened! | Roland left the castle that moment and made his way to the neighbor- }hood of the convent. On a hill he built a castle, and he passed his days and nights watching the building that housed his beloved, sometimes even having the joy to’ behold her from a distance.* Then as the adored |one had not come forth for many days |he inquired and found that she was dead, Krom that day he spoke no more, Immovable, with pale fuce, he watched the convent churchyard, and so he was found by his squire early Jone morning dead, his half-closed eyes still direated to the place of re= pose of the dear departed. By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1920, by The Pup eros ©e, | {Tie New York Krening W: i North and South Carolina were named after Charles L of England, while Maryland was named in honor of his wife, Henrietta Maria. ee During the Revolution the British frigute Asia was at anchor in Long Island Sound, near the Hunt Mansion lof the Bronx. ‘The estate was devas~ tated and the family driven from their home, One of the cannon bas which was embedded in the west brick wall ts now in the possession of Harry 'T. Cook, author of the “Borough of the Bronx.” one Herodotus, who lived tn 484-406 B. C, called the “Father of History,” wrote of a period of 240 years pre- evding his own time. He has been ratirigally called the “Father of Lies” ° To Tacitus, living in $5-118°A. D., the greatest of historians, we are in- debted for much of our knowledge of the eurly Britons and Germans, ° On Sept. 5, 1774, was the first Con~ tinontal Congress. | . | %n 1890 the three principal events in the United States were the McKinley arifé Law, the Sioux War and the death of Sitting Bull. Not all of the States have popular names or nicknames, That of Maine is Pine Tree; of Maryland, Old Line; } of Massachusetts, Bay; of Michigan, Wolvenine; of Minnesota, Gopher, and in| of Mississipp!, Bayou, ne | 8 | 1 ‘The garden* cress, the onion, and peas all originated in Exypt. ee Many species of plants live only ong o> or two years; that is, they are an- ‘alas. Peter Cerartan, a Hungdrian peasy 1539 and to have died in 1724, thus living to be 485 years eld, eee aie eer La