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Cbe esainy GHorti, ¥ ESTAPLIEHED RY JOSEPH PULIT RE Published Daity Exoop: @endar br THe Pree Potlintor ‘Company, Nos, 62 te 63 Park Raw, New Torts RALPH PULITAER, President, 66 Park Row J, ANGUS BAW, Troamurer, @: ke Row JOSEPH PULATAER Jr., Recretary, ‘ork Row MIMIER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESA Geapatehen credited to M1 or met etherwler cerdited tm tte the lotel news pubitshed bereim ¥ OVERLOOKED. b, HERE is not the slightest doubt that up-Siate New York has an interest in the transit sys- i tem of New York City. This interest is similar f. both in degree and in kind to the interest the city takes in the highway system of the State. The transit system of the city presents a close amalogy to the highway. system of the State. The transit system is an everyday business necessity to by “the city dweller. So is the highway system to the farmer. The highway system is a part of the vaca- | __‘tion or holiday pleasure of the motorist from the ~ ety, just as the transit system is a welcome addition ‘ to the delights and convenience of a visit to the city. © «At seems strange that so striking an analogy has v0 It is odd that up- ‘Stax members have not sensed the obligation of State to provide subways for city dwellers on Same terms that the State provides highways fonthose in rural districts, pi Ne York City needs more subways. As the _ Pell Sun ims pointed out, the city cannot build ubways because of tie constitutional debt limit. _ New York State has no debt limil. Here is.a ’ way out of the difficulty. Let the State build the it ‘new subways that are needed. For some time the State appropriations for high- ‘way construction and maintenance Have ranged be- $ween $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 a year, The i enditure has been necessary and in the public a rest. But New York City has paid 70 per cent. the rest of the State 30 per cent. of this sum. equitable division of expense would be to confine the $20,000,000 for highways and add $50,000,000 a year to provide new subways for ‘the city. - _ Under sucth a programme Gov. Miller and, the uf-State ‘solons would have reasonable groupds on to undertake regulation of urban subways. "Bust until the Legislature embarks on such a pro- ffamme of building the highways of the city it has, § reasonable or logical ground for excluding the from participation in the management of the highways the city has built and is | ‘not impressed the legislators. THE SECRET IS OUT. ISN'T ‘the initial ‘cost. It’s the upkeep.” is, bromidiom .must have occurred to ‘than Who ‘has stood in line at a subway mirror while several have been powdered. (A man, mérely waits to’ Straighten his tie.) *e But what the actual cost of upkeep might be has Hiways been’ more or less of a mystery. @°Mow the secret és out. With the help of the Fetleral Government and simple arithmetic it is easy to arrive at the approximate cost of powder- ing one feminine nose for one year. From hixury tax payments the Collector of In- fegnal Revenue is able to say that it cost $50,000,000 all the feminine: nose$-in the country. Census Bureau: is authority for the state- that there are in the United States 35,000,000 above the age of fifteen years. |g Tough guess classifies 10,000,000 noses as un- ; | Pawrered or shiny, leaving 25,000,000 to pay for A 4 these figures it is evident that $2 is the ‘average cost of a powdered nose. : Mere man’s curiosity ough to be satisfied with 0 close an approximation. Both men and women ‘will agree that the expense of upkeep is fully justi- ‘= «AN ANCHOR TO WINDWARD.” IS fellow countrymen may not be unanimous in indorsing all the opinions vigorously ex- mhased by Thomas A. Edison at the beginning of his seventy-fwth year. “Few of them, however, will differ with iim as to the desirability of freeing industry and business iar shackles of war bureaucracy for which there : eno jonger need or excuse. Most of them will heartily concur in his wish to see Herbert Hoover in a Government position | where the latter's executive ability can be utilized jas “one of the greatest assets the country has.” American fathers in large numbers will soulfully assent to the Edison dictum that “no amount of advice, example or experience will ever change ia fhe Slightest” a young man who has not seen some Wgotof ambition or life-interest before reaching the age of twenty-one. suas. Edison's cure for Bolshevism is sound: “If Bolshevists orate from soap boxes, We can put in opposition soap boxes.” © {Thereby doing infinitely more for the cause of “Yaw and order than can ever be accomplished by Doane Bolshevists on their soap boxes and mak- martyrs of them. f 0 he believes in disarmament, the great entor holds that “as an anchor to windward, lated and inexpensive experimenting should go atly to have up-to-~date models, for every Asmocteied Prom te emetmatvety entitie’d t@ the mar for repuibticnsion ie Branch of war, so Mf things should not turn out as all nations haped they would, cone wouki have the advantage.” There might be no objection to this, and, in fact, much is to be said for it if the expense of the ex- perimenting continued relatively small. Suppose, for example, nations bound by a dis- armament agreement as to thelr actual navies were nevertheless individually free to perfect the most efficient and deadly models that national skill could devise, ; This would supply a constant outlet for the in- stinet of rivalry and develop a comforting sense of polential power—for, if worst came to worst and a fight was on, the contestants would begin buikding ships from approximately the same starting line. AN AMAZING ATTITUDE. HAT is behind the failure of the Legislature to grant adequate support to the Lockwood commilice ? The public wants to know. It does not know. i, cannot even conceive what the reasons for delay and obstruction may be. The public is literally astounded by the attitude of the Legislature. Wf the Lockwood committee had not achieved such notable results the explanation would be ap- parent. But Brindell has been convicted. Het- trick is on trial, The building “rings and com- binations are either indicled or running. for cover by means of dissolution agreements. Material prices have slumped and price-fixing conspiracies have been broken. That is the record of the commitiee, Contrast this with six weeks of legislative inaction. Whal has paralyzed the Legislature? No force which works in the open las opposed the Lock- wood committee, No fair fight has been stayed on the floor of the Legislature, No good reason for throttling the committee has been advanced, But the committee has been throttled. The work has been done in the scrzey of committee rooms. What is the explanation? JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER. EITHER as critic nor man is there any one to take the place of James Gibbons Huneker. In his death the country has lost one of the most acide, cultured and versatile talenis that ever widened and deepened the appreciation of music, Titerature, painting and sculpture. From a mind stored with all that is best in books amd art, a taste inhenited and trained, and an ex- perience enriched by travel and contact with every- thing and everybody worth knowing, Mr, Huneker poured out the marvellous flood of vivacity, humor, ' reminiscence, interpretation and keen appraisal which made him the most enteriaining and stimu- lating of American critics. The man was like the writer. No better com- panion, no more fascinating talker, no livelier raconteur, no sounder adviser on books and reading could be found. James Gibbons Huneker may have been best known as a music critic, But there were few cor- ners in art or literature that the brilliance of his ex- traordinary mind did not help to illumine for this generation, GREAT REVENGES, Alexander the Great conquered the world, bringing long misery to the Bast. John Bar- leycorn killed him, Julius Caesar was Alerander's successor as an organized slayer of men, He was assassi- nated in the Forum at Rome by a group of politicians headed by Brutus and Cassius, Prutus himsel/ later committed suicide. Napoleon Bonaparte outdid both Alerander and Caesar, He died a British prisoner on the Island of St. Helena from cancer of the stomach at fifty-two. The 100th anniversary of his death will fall on May 5 neat. William Hohenzollern essayed to outdo these as conqueror, He is an outcast dog in Holland, with his destiny yet incomplete, CRACKER BARREL TRACTION CURE, Svecial Corrmpontence of the Jimtonn Bugle.) There was much wit and merriment to edify Ye Seritic at (ye meeting of Gov. Miller's Traction Board called by Chairman Corncob over to the County Seat before we raise the subway fares te 8 cents, Mr. Guile, that says he used to work for the sub- way folks, told Chairman Corncob you can ride twenty miles, from one @nd of the subway to the other, for a nickel, the way things be now. A city feller that came up to kick says he don't want to ride from one end to the other; ali he wants is fo ride home from his job, and a nickel is enough “Well, you city folks don’t care whether you get your money's worth,” says Member Hiram Water- fall. “My nephew down to New York took me to lunch in a place there last fall and the bill was a dollar and a quarter and he give the waiter twenty cents, If you city folks can waste money that way, and be cholcy about only riding part way when the company is willing to let you go the whole route, you hadn't ought to kick about three cents extra.” “Who be you, anyway?” Chairman Cornoob want- ed to know, “I'm a taxpayer,” says the city feller, kind of huffy “Have you paid your taxes?” Chairman Corncob asks, kind of sly. "You bet I have,” says the city feller, getting huffier, “Well, then, that let's you out,” says Chairman Corncob, “We'll help spend ‘em,” Mr, Guile and Members Waterfall, Spry, Woodiot and Skinner, not to mention Ye Seribe, were like Lo fall off thelr chaire with laughing. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1921. (The New York Bresing Word) By John Cassel | G.0.P LEGISLATORS to say much in a few words. No New 5 ‘To the Witter of ‘The Breming World T wee. no new lights that make me discover the wisdom of Gov. Miller in any attempt to deprive the people of this great city of 6,000,000 inhabj- tants, more than half of the popula- tlon of the enlie State, and pa ‘over half of the taxes of the State, of the right of self-government in its lca affairs, of home rule, and especially where its wealth Is in- | vested, as It is in the city transit | lines, | | The sense of those who follow such | ‘lead “must be apoplexed” or else |they have “eaten of the root that, | takes the reason prisoner.” | Give the city's investment every | | protection, The toiling masses, who do not ride in luxurioys Limousin \are not under the powerful influe |o@ the ‘Transit Trust, and will not fight under any anti-New York City flag, will not tame sabmit to any questionable authority to crush their rights, and will not without vigorous piolest and contest consont to any measure 80 destructive to the in- (erests of its citizens. | very man and woman who is not | tied to the chariot wheel of the \traction monopolistic politicians Jahould arouse to the necessity of fighting this 8-cent monater and its political sponsors to ignominious | political death, Every member of the Legislature, every seeker after political prefer ment, whether in high place or low, who chanypions the 8-cent fare should be buried so deep on Blection Day that Gabriel's trumpet will not awaken him. | Short condemnatory speeches be tween the acts S theatres, faahes of ition on the screen in moving are houses, dentinciation by lead- ers in Inbor and other organization meetings will bury the fare grab so ignoriniously that there will be “none so poor to do it reverence.” Remember that any commission appointed by the Governor to fix transit or light rates will but obey the yolce of ita master, “Eternal vigilance is th Woerty.”. New York City, Feb, 4, 1921, ‘When Books Are Dan: ‘To the Bitluw of The Drening World ‘The Gret of February is the begin- ning of a new term im our public schools. Recently a member of my family was .romoted, ated the books he came home with were a dingrace to this olty of ours. ic seams to me the Board of Health wonld be doing justice to the pupils tf our schools, aa well as the parents and other mombers of the families, if they would eee that the books (which Are collected at the end of each term Rha “distributed to the promoted Scholars) are examined before pass- ing them out to*some other children | *Saost of thess books are in a dilapl e price of | eu TH. K. From Evening World Readers { What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental erercise and a lof of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. Ten't it the one . schools and prevent disease being carried to the homes in “dirty” and “filthy” books. dren should re- term, but the I don't, say the eh ceive new books ey Gvoks should be examined and fum - ie gated, if necessury, before be passed out to other child ig of disease to mily, J Brooklyn, 5. 1921 members of in f " fo Relieving His Mind, Tw the Editor of The Brening World Just a few words to relieve my mind in these days of «proposed 8-cent!,! street car fi | The transfer point Brooklyn, connecting nd th 1 Subway, oh d Y Of pec This morning at about 10.30 the West | ‘End and Culver trains arrived al-| most simultaneously. Most of the passengers changing from Culver to West End had made the transfer when the West End guard shut the door in the faces of the others, re- marking that “I gucss we've got enough,” ‘This in face of the fact that this particular car was only about palf- | filled (the writer wos Inside), Sand also despite the additional fict that | the trains on these two lines run} none too often | ‘This Incident is typical of this crans- fer point at least—the same thing oc- | curs at all hours. Whether ov not this is done by order Tdo not know: but this | do know- that this oft-repeated occurrence daily entails a burdship upon a great many people, J. PHILLIPS. Brooklyn, 1 i Commendatory. To the EA tore’) a World Miller should be w mended for bis stand the traction mixidle Tt ia distix * the inter ests of the rity that the transit be erip- pled wy way by an inadequate fare, he S-cent tar and a delusion, for while we save a few cents from one pocket we are paying out dollars from the other in higher rents. taxation, &c "The fare should be Increased, not only to put the companies on a solid, rerviceable basin, which Is’ very im: ing taxed to pay the interest on, both could be lowered if would amend the contract, wowd assure it a guaranteed come to wipe out its huge debt. J. F. ORYAN. Now York, Feb. 7, 1921, “Wanted = Change.” ‘To ane FAltor of The Brening World Tat us take off our hats to Mr. Ruckley, whose letter in a recent edl- tion of your evening paper sald them stew in thelr own juice, mei the city that in- \dated condition and are “dandy” | germ-carriers. \" Hvery so often we reed articles in the pape) m “Health,” “How to Keep We Tt would benefit many if the Board ing those gallant Republicans whi howled for & shense in adininistra- are still howling because of Health would start right in ourowa' ton and UNCOMMON SENSE By Johh Blake (Copyright, 1741, by Joun Blake) GET RID OF THE HURRY HABIT. Never get the idea that you are working fast because )ou are working in a hurry. The hurry habit has done more ly not hu do: ru fig qu blight promising careers than the liquor habit—which is ving anything in defense of the liquor habit. | Absolutely nothing worth doing was ever done in a rry. Haste destroys the thinking ability as completely as «s rage, You can do nothing whatever when you are in a sh to get it over, Begin at the lowest form of human exertion—prize rhting, Watch two men ina ring. One tries to get it over ickly, to rush his opponent into a corner and give him the knockout blow, The other bides his time and watches his opportunity. And the man who was in a hurry soon finds that he will have no occasion for haste until the next fight, bi ho pr th. The hurry habit is easily fixed and difficult to get over. it you must get, rid of il if you want to succeed. For try forbids co-ordination between the mind and muscles, events the planning of action, and the careful thought at is behind all great effort. And it is absolutely useless of itself, for the people who have it seldom know what they are in a hurry about and never use profitably the time they gain by getting something done more quickly than it ought to be done. th ar fa re au has spent long years in doing it more slowly, till he has learned to el ph fa by. in st an They hurry rough their play exactly as they hurry through their work, nd get as little enjoyment out of it. The people who work st have learned not to hurry. Their speed is merely the sult of conservation of energy, due to getting rid of lost id useless motions. The man who does his work with amazing rapidity now do only what is necessary to accomplish his object. That iminates wasted motion and insures speed, And there is enty of time to do the necessary things in a leisurely shion if-you do not do any of the unnecessary things. Work slowly at first and you can work rapidly by and But never work in a hurry, or think in a hurry, or talk a hurry. It is a vicious habit and one that will utterly de- roy whatever hope you may have of being an important id snecessful citizen by and by. they only a snare | working part time or have had their wages reduced WAY, ery of the G, O, I. Trish-Americans Americans, who went to the polls on by electi wond portant to the welfare of the city, | how the Republicans appreciated the but also to pay off the huge sum | country's efforts to make the victory the city owes, and which we are be- | yo overwhelming they started to close \down mills High taxes cause high rents, and stopped till they reached California, ‘Alter seven years of real prosperity all we woul derful Republican prospe: ago \ proof of the pudding is in the eating of it th Peop! are lack road working the men part time. But never mind; years more to gO. Ry that time the county y are here have lost ; their Jobs, are/administrution they want, and when they go to the poils again they will forget Europe and think of America only, J.J, H Broad Channels, N. Y, Why Stop at Albany? ‘To the Editor of The Brening Wortd: Mr. Semple, a very and former counsel of t vier Commission, undertook ¢ want_a change,” was the battle It was taken up and German- on day and gave the G.O. P.a erful majority. And to show to. ex- plain to the audience at the Town Mall why the peonle of New York City should have wo say in the op- in Maine and never eration of the city transit lines, The gentleman pointed out since these lines are used daily by people who come from up-State and from aM parts of the United states, and by the alin from Europe, these named should have an equa! say in the matter, \ ’ Viewing the situation in’ much a light, why confine the question to mere State legislation? In the interest of the natives of Mozambique, I would suggest that the matter be referred to the Su- preme Counol] at the next meeting in Geneva, ‘ALTERS, thought we that, that won- ty of years But the got tired nd id like a few years o “the $1.50 a day kind, Rad times are with us and to stay for a_ time, le are getting hungry and homes being broken up on account of of work. The Long Island Rail- has increased its fare and is we've only four have ali the Republican Gallery Always Critical, Says Augustus Thomas, Urging 25c. Admissions UGUSTUS THOMAS, dean of American playwrights, favors the return of the 25-cont gal- lery for the theatre, "I have talked bringing back the gallery for years,” said Mr. Thomas. “I have suggested it to managers. Every argument is in favor of it. My liking for the theatre was due to the fact that 1 saw about everybody worth seeing and, like the boys of my time, I saw them from the galery. “Some one has compared the gal- lery to the vacant lot where the boys play ball. 1 may have used it my- self, ‘The ball players come from the vacant lots. It's u training ground. So it is with the gallery, as has been aptly sald. ‘The boy in the gullery to-day in a few years is ip the pare quet, “The great actors I saw from the @allery baye remained an inspire- tion with me. We have no great tragedians now—that 1m, none that compare to those who. have sone Our syatom of the theatre does not muke for it Just offhaml, some of the men I saw trom the gallery were E. Le Davenport us Macbeth, Junius Brutus Booth as King John, with his wife, Agnes Booth, Lxtwin Booth, Barry Sullivan, Edwin Adams, Charles Fechter, Charies Keane—all great Haaniets, and all Hamlets of my gallery days. Later I saw some of them from the parquet, but 1 went downstairs because my liking for the players bad been fostered with Lhe two-bit fellows. “Take some of the women, Mrs, D. P. Bowers, in Lucretia Borgia, & wonderful ' performance, We boys used vo eat it up. ‘There were mauy others—Laura Keane, Matilda Heron, Charlotte Thompson, and well I re- member Ada lsaacs Menken i Muzoppa! “Then the singers—there were Patti, her sister, Carlotta Patti, and Parepa Rosa, and @ jot of others. "L recall Lester Wallack in *Rose- dale,’ Ben De Bar as Faistaff, Joe Jefferson in ‘kup Van Winkle,’ George Fawcett Rowe as Micawber, the elder Sothern as Lord Dundreary, Dion Bouuicault doing his own Ftank Mayo in “Davy Crockett, Frank Chanfrau in ‘Kit, the Arkan- mw ‘Traveller, John Dillion ip ‘Dearer Than Life,’ and ‘His Last Legs,’ Barney McAuley in ‘The Messenger From Jarvis _Seotion,’ George L. Fox in ‘Humpty Dumpt “The gallery isn't mare up entirely of boys. There are a lot of men who love the theatre and app. cciate goud acting, who in the okl days went to the gallery every night, secing a dif- ferent play, bul primarily its the great place for the youth to acquire lis liking for the theatre. “Gallery audiences were critical, juet as the pit was in the days be- fore the gallery. Take the expres- sion, “Wake me up when Kiroy dies.” That came from the pit. Kirby was a New York actor with a following. He had a great death scene in one of the plays and when it was done the pit was there, The boys hud scen itosten, but they went again, They were the New York boys of the period—newsboys, boot- blacks and so forth. The rest of the show tired them and they frequently went to sleep, leaving the Injunction to some one near by to wake them up when Kirby died. “L think the bringing back of the gallery god by the reduction in price x one of the wisest things managers can do if they want two live, A good gallery is a great help to an actor. He knows thal, if he is a heavy man, there is real resentment against him to be shown in hisses when he takes a curtain call, The stuff is real to the gallery. It {9 a great responsive audience fo play to, “Prequently on a first night | have gone to the gullery. At the produc- tion of ‘Arizona’ Kirke da Shelle and I had some doubts as to just how certain things would go, and we saw the greater part of the play from that vantage point until our i anxiety was over as to how certain | scenes would go. The gallery knew it was a play before the rest of the house did. { “Charlie saeaeeah and T used te sneak up in the ery occasionally and see part of a first night. A, M Palmer did the same, But that isn’t to the point. The gaMery is the place to educate the theatregoer, and in a few yeare he is downstairs with his fbest girl and a knowledge of pluys and players.” “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick The three leading ltatan dis- coyerers are Christopher Columbus (1435-1606), who first saw America on Qct, 12, 1492; John Cabot, a Vene- tlan (died in 1498), who first looked tupon the American continent in 1497, and Gasparo Aselli (1580-1626), who located the lacteal vessels of the hu- man body. i, ‘The percentage of oll in black mus- tard seed is 15; in wild mustard sced, just twice as much; in lemon seed, and In camelina seed, 28, oe @ The madder and the poppy are tn- definitely stated to have originated In “the East." . * Humboldt sets down the Dracoena Draco (a tree) at Orotava, in Tene- riffe, as one of the oldest inhabitants of the earth. ‘The elephant, camel and horse very seldom produce more than one at a time; the lion one, often two or three, sometimes five or more, ‘The fecun: ity of the domestic rabbit is marve fous, It begins to breed at six months and has seven litters a year, each from four to twelve and even upwanl. It !s caleuvlated that the descendants of a single pair of rab- bits, if allowed full scope, would in four years amount to over 1,360,000, * 8 Planks are eleven inches wide, deals nine Inches and battens seven inches, «s soe Water that boils violently is otter than that boiling or queiee