The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 30

BSTAPLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Company. Now. 82 to €3 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOBEPH PUIATSER Jr., Secretary, 62 Park Row BP: je ‘% MEMBER OF THE AsSOCTAIED Press. Fe Avsoeteted Pree te ‘AE also the local mews published herein, MORE, QUESTIONS. * OV. MILLER’S, public utility programme is ie tow formatly before the Legislature. + Whatever legislators may think of the general Stheme, they must give careful consideration to the details. I any such bill is to pass, it should be as * good a bill as is possible. Legislators must consider not only the immediate effect but also the eventualities. These raise im- Portant questions. The bill provides for a Transit Board with the ‘Droadést power to function for fice years. Mem- ‘bers are removable by the Governor. The term Of the Governor is two years. Question—What is to prevent a new Governor, coming into office at the end of two years, from replacing the three members of the board and throw- ing the whole scheme into confusion again? Mier five years the Transit Board and its powers are to be merged with the Public Service Com- mission. “ Question—ts not the task too large for any one ‘Pomrd, and will ft not lead to a slighting of duties either in transit affairs or in other public utilities? The Transit Board is to exercise discretion in de- Giding on valuation of property. Question—Is it wise to allow any three men such uMlimited discretion in regard to the public purs:? The Transit Board is to set up a Board of Con- a {rol including representation of the city and of the s companies. Question—-What assurance have we that the Board @f Control will work in harmony with the Public Service Commission after the commisston succeeds the Transit Board? These are only four of many important questions which must be answered. Gov. Miller’s plan must be judged as a generat Proposition and also in detail. It is not enough to ask whether the Governor has the right general idea, Every contingency should be anticipated and provided for as thoroughly #8 lies in the power of human foresight. According to Inte reports from Petrograd, the Soviet Government is now “inviting” peo- to go to the theatre to see a series of plays under penalty of losing their food rations if the invitation is disregarded. To be free under the Soviet system you've got to be free in the Soviet way, even if it takes tyranny, threats, imprisonment and star- " vation to teach you that you are free. » WASTE STEAM. ways of Congressmen are passing strange. Here’s the House of Representatives stirred to the highest pitch of excitement over a Representa- tive fram Texas who charged his fellow members with grabbing for salary increases. Yet if the whole country charged Congressinen ~ with nol carning their present salaries the House of ‘Representatives would sit bland and unruffled. ‘The House seethed with energy yesterday over Representative Blanton of Texas. Suppose the House had got up one-half this steam pressure over neglected appropriation bills—not to _ ‘speak of tax revision, a national economy pro- gramme and other reconstructive needs to which ,this last session of the Sixty-sixth Congress has re- mained supremely and supinely indifferent. » When President-elect Harding urged the House the other day to “get busy” he was politely re- ‘minding Congressmen that they ought to be worth ‘their keep. ‘Were any Congressional consciences pricked to Instant energy and action? ‘New York's first State income tax, for 1919, will yield over $38,000,000, of which $6,500,000 ‘was contributed by women, What proportion of the tax Was paid by Prohibitionists whose theories of Federal Government functions made it necessary’? a CONDITIONS ALTER CASES. LEXANDER HOWAT, President of the Kansas Miners’ Union, has been semtenced to a year in jail for contempt of court in a case rising out of ‘the operation of the Kansas Industrial Court. This is the decision of the District Judge before whom Howat was tried, Presumably the sentence “wilt be sppealed. The miners and Howat will want fo know whether his conviction is constitutional. Legislatures in other States will want the highest opinion before they make any effort io adopt or to adapt Gov. Allen’s system of governing industry. Gov. Allen has support among many students of the labor problem, although most of the labor leaders are vigorously opposed both to the principle and to the workings of the industrial Court plan. An explanation of this conflict of opinion is to he found in the political factors of the phn. Such a plan might work well and deal substantial > justice, Say’ in. Kansas, Nebraska, California, Wis- “We? or Oregon, where the dominant political ele- Pibiianed Dally xoopt sunday by The Prem Publivhing exelostvely entitled to the use fer republication Bows dempatches credited to ii or not otherwise credited in this paper 4 unqualifiedly bad and a powerful agency of injustice amd oppression in other States. For example, in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Montana and Arizona if is well recognized that cor- | porations are dominant in politics, | In these commonwealths corporation policies are the ruling powers in State Government. If the cor- Pporations could dictate the appointment of the arbiters of the Industrial Court, any effort of work- men to better their condition would be under a seri- ous handicap. Gov. Allen nay be right in all his contentions. Samuel Gompers may be equally right in his oppo- sition. Not even a Supreme Court decision on Howat's conviction can definitely settle the moot } questions raised by an Industrial Court with power |. to punish as well as to investigate. | | Conditions alter cases. TARIFF RICKETS. Fr EXPLAINING why he refused to support the Serate vote on the Fordney Fake “Emergency” Tariff Bill, Senator Moses gave a colorful picture of the measure. It is at least accurate in spirit. Senator Moses said: | ‘It js the offspring of a union between the cotton field, the sugar-cane brake and the rice | paddy of one section of the country, and the | sheep run, the cattle range and the wheat field of another section. It is a misshapen brat at best. It is lopsided, it is blind, it is deaf, i Is bandy-legged, and it suffers from congenital economic rickets, It is miscon- celved, hag-born and, to complete the charac terization, ditch-delivered. Republican Sena- tors cannot go to the country upon such a proposition.” It is useless to try to improve on this character- ization, Nothing but indefensible log-rolling ac- counts for such a bill, Moses made a mistake in assuming that Republican Senators Inve any intention of go- ing to the country with the measure. They know that so conscientious an Executive as President Wil- son cannot and will not allow this case of “con- genital economic rickets” to infect the country. Republican Senators rely on a veto. Then they propose to go to their constituents with demagogic tales of what they would fave done had it not | been for Wilson. The Dutch Government is paying the rent for the former Crown Prince of Germany. That ought to be enough to offset a good many of the other deprivations Wilhelm suffers. THREE VOTES GAINED. THESE columns Wednesday The Evening It! N I World explained that it would be necessary to gain three votes in the Board of Estimate if the housing tax exemption ordinance were to have iy chance of passage. At that time Comptroller Craig was reported to be in opposition to the ordinance. Yesterday the Comptroller announced that he was for the ordinance. This statement assures the necessary votes if Mayor Hylan comes up to scratch. The same interests which the Mayor has de-/ nounced so often are fighting this bill, so it is rea- sonable to suppose that the Mayor will favor it. If, as scheduled, the Board of, Estimate takes up the matter to-day, there is no reason, unless the Mayor biocks the bill, why it shoukd not be law to-night. Then “full speed ahead” on a-housing construc- tion programme for 1924. Se coy much im « few words, Take Snobs at the Opera. ‘To the Editor of The Brening Workd: I wish to say @ few things concern- ing the Metropolitan Opera of this city, In the first place I think it a shame that @ mervellous city like New York should house which in point of architecture resembles a hay barn or a stable. But that is not the only thing. I am a man who goes three or four times a woek to the opera, The snobs and money aristocrats think !t smart, or in fashion, to come all through the first act, and leave be- fore the opera is half over, thereby not only disturting the other half, which consider an opera the house of prayers, but also showing their utter disregard for the artists. A ten-gallon whiskey still seized by Pro- { hibition agents blew up in the Brooklyn Federal | Hullding yesterday.—News item. Captured and committed suicide. England, Germany and Afistria- Hungary, and found that once the curtain ig up,on an opera people that come late have to walt till the act is over, no matter who or what they are, Please train those shobs to make a distinction between nd opera and the circus. BOLLER. New York, Feb. 16, 1920. TWICE OVERS. ‘“ HAT'S the use of pretty lege with bum stockings?” —Miss Teresa Rabasa. ee 66 ALL I want is good health and an eight-cent Sare.” —Job Hedges, Receiver of N. Y. Railways Company. a whole are to benefit by the forced measure of getting wp an hour earlier in the morning and, perhaps, retiring an hour earlier at bedtime. ¢ veloe ‘The best sleeping period is toward | the rising hour. 66°T HE attempt to make a modern Socialist stale | ™8"¥ of us will get up feeling insut- Neiently rested. out of an unorganized mass is like taking a ‘The State of Pennsytvania dectined babe from its mother's breast and entering it in a Marathon race,” —Samuel Gompers. to join in the move of “daylight saving.” Henee the Pennsylventa Railroad trains kept to rational time. But with the trregularity that fol- lowed, constantly confused travellers 66 N New Jersey women have been found assisting in violations of the law by riding in automo- biles which transported liquor.” —Prohibition Com- missioner Kramer. * * I am correct tn reporting that the lange majority did not want to be forced out of bed an hour earlier than had been their life habit. T truly hape we will escape a repe- tition of last year in this matter, ET, WELLS." New York, Feb. 16, 1921, “Politicians Put It 0 ‘VYothe Mititar of ‘The Braning Workd ; Many a line has been written as to how and why Probifbition was put over op us, Has it, however, oc- curred to any of your readers that it was not the Antidaloon League nor the employers, thinking to get better and more work out of sober nerp, or the clerical interesis, wir are directly Politicians . “ec IGH cost of loafing is the mother of high cost of living.""—Harry P. Strasbaugh, * © 6 66 JF Congress sees fil to advertise to the world that it has no judgment, no opinion, no conscience or conviction until the President-elect nods, the Congress can do so. 1 will not be a party to it.” —Senator Borah. reeroneinle for foie law? over on us, Rapub- ne and Democrats alike tor fi f a howling mob o celers, Tun rs are going j e court rulings so dr: appear almost comical Department of Just ontartiog fis. Cg OR ey je eS ment 90 yu thowe tears Whe bleed to these * “ce ‘OW HERE on the face of the earth will you find more optimism to the square inch then in Kansas." —Goo. Arthur Capper. “ wr we need in this country is not less politics but more attention to politica.” — {Will He. Haga have an opera | I have attended opera in France, | Cut this off and/ foolish’, From Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter do you find most reedabie? of nanareat | | | that gives you the worth of a thousand’ words im a couple of hundred? There 4 fine mental esercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying time te be brief. |Congrees, was it not only when it! came to the search of the home that the Senate voted 107 to 3 (or some- ike that) against it? For! | whose benefit? Your readers are in: telligent enough to krow the answer. | |, Gov. Miller needs votes for hia jtransit grab; State Prohibition en- |forvement act is to come right after! jthat, which means same more for those on the right side. It's a retty clumsy way of €oing about It. O88 up-Staters dont give us any credit at all, and if it were not for pa- 8 like ‘The Work! and The Bven' fortd, they would have it all their own way. However, as long as there are poll- ticians they will play the game and there is not muoh to choose between the two big parties. Are there no men who are above this game and \ts | bribes, men who have principles and arc willing to look after the people's interests at all times? It may sound like the millennium, but don’t forget |that we are at present living in an age of hypocrisy and fanaticiem. ‘The true American spirit is not dead, only dormant; and when {t arises in Ratiread ‘Tothe Miter of The Rrening World: I see by the papers that Warren 8. Stone, Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locamotive En- | gineers, will not allow the Railway | Labor Board to reduce the wages of li@ men tn railroad work He says: |"They have to pay jast us much as they ever did for what they get.” What about others? There are thousands working at reduced wages and just as many out of work, and all those unfortanate people have to help pay the terribly high wages of those selash and greedy railroad workers by paying the high railroad fares, Many can't afford it. Of all people whe have no comsid- eration for others, the railroad work- ers are the worst. Their families al) | travel on passes, whieh ought not to be ‘allowed, Warren 8. Stone and his men who want such unheard-of high wages are the worst rabberw of the people. A FORMER PASSENGER. New York, Feb. 11, 1921, | ‘The European Menace. | Tothe Mikor of The Breang Wert : Recerrtly an evening paper waxed witty at the of our distin- ru With that expense ished Serbian visitor, the discriminating senee of the fitnesa of | war insure its continuance at the first things which marks our American news reporter, the ftem {te labelled “Dead Yasue.” and thus does ft read: “Bishop Wicholaf of the Greek Chureh tells Columbia University students the Katser did not start the % colleges Md. ‘Too will reopen it! have made some mention of the in hia Columbia address, |. e., h vanished the war,” # |i oreaeneeenennanennnnannnananenel A) Every grent ctvilization that the w iritual ideals—a religion. wr very clviination w | abandoned Its basic id | to extatflim iteel! It would havo boen only fair per-| terial ideats has suffered quick decay ‘ th. Miao arade some tention ‘of ‘the ant) Touropean civilization has aban- Vary. ive lade raised by Ue Bishop | doned the Christian idcats that | it was based and t be ts!tape ; Us pets ey WT, By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE / By John Blake Copreidst, 1951, by John Bicka) POLITENESS AN INVESTMENT. An important railway system recently attempted to make a campaign for courtesy, The campaign failed, be- cause whoever was directing it went about it the wrong way. Instead of carefully instructing its employees in the value of courtesy to themselves and helping them to be cour- teous, it informed the patrons in many posters that they were courteous, and let it go at that. The patrons soon discovered that the employees of this railroad were not any more courteous than those of any other railroad, and they lost confidence in the posters. Pres- ently the gentlemen who inaugurated the campaign went to another railroad and that was the end of the matter. Now, had this campaign had the right start it would have done a vast amount of good. It is casy to teach men that courtesy is profitable, A very few lessons will serve. And once they make the discovery they will remain cour- teons. For, however high our ideals may be of our fellow- men, the fact remains that they are animated pretty largely by sélf-interest. An incident which the railroad company might have em- ployed occurred during the campaign on one of its own lines. An agent in one of the stations had by means of short answers and the withholding of small favors to passengers that might easily have been granted, made enemies for him- self and for the railroad. ‘ One day a man who had not come into unpleasant con- tact with him, and who supposed that as the agent he would have a wide acquaintance, offered him a position as publicity manager for another corporation doing business in the same town. The agent did not accept the job. He knew that his suc- cess would depend on his friendships, and he had made no friendships. Fifteen years of continuous discourtesy had un- fitted him for a promotion that would have doubled his salary. Had this man been cheerful and polite to the men who passed through his station every morning, not only this but many another opportunity might have come to him, for he met and talked with many important men every day. But his little troubles soured his disposition. He took his grievances, out on those with whom he came into contact. And his failure was an instance of why the railroad failed to inaugurate what might have been one of the most valuable campaigns ever started in America. | of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroft [ris ra a VUIL—THE DELPHIC ORACLE. Mankind from the very beginning has chown an, unmistakabie tendency © be impressed by that which It does not understand, On a mountain slope near the town of Delphi, close to Mount Parnassus, there was a deep help in the ground from which im ancient times there issued a stifling vapor that made people talk nonsense. AD enterprising gentieman whose name has been lost to posterity conceived the ingenious idea of making this hol: jin the ground a gold mine. Instead of issuing stock to be sold to the gulltble—wil stocks had not | been Invented at that time—this far- seeing gentleman announced to the Delpbians that the gibberish they jand from adjoining countries began to flock to the mouth of the hole in the ground to find out what the gods had in store for them. | Pythia, or the Pythoness, from 5 the name of the place—so far forgoi her eacred cheracter as to elope with a young man of the neighborhood The backers of the enterprise—whic! probably was in the control of « syndicate by this time—therefore ae | cided to appoint no maiden younger , than fifty to the position so roman. / the rudely constructed temple jointly with the Goddess Gaea, or Karth, the ortgina! patroness, When the effect of this publicity had worn off, after & thme, it was announced that a third divinity, Themis, had succeeded he: mother Gaea, | After this press-agent yarn had served its purposes and the revenue had once more begun to dwindle, the syndicate devised the most effective lure they had yet been able to con- trive. The story was published broad- cast that one of tie mest popular of the Olympians, Apolo, the god of sunshine, of happiness and of music, had made his way to the shrine in the disruise of a dolhin of enormous size and had declared his intention to make the temple of Delphi bis bome. This Intest scheme proved far more succeseful than any that had pre- ceded it Magnificent buildings be- gan to rise in the neighborhood of the hole in the ground whence the fumestissned. Voiaries from ali ove the then known world began to ar- rive in increasing numbers and with ° gifts of larger size than ever. Even the hard-headed Romans contributed to the coffers of the syndicate. ‘This coneefitration of capital made which were graved purporting to ‘be prophecies, whi the Board of Directors appropriate aml all the dividends. And this happy arrangement—onr! ousty modern in af its expentin’ workings—tasted unti] the Dorie: peradv: amass. ing wealth by exptotting the guilfbil- ity of mankind was not invented by Charles Ponzi by a margin of a good many thousands of years. The only difference is thet Ponzi has gone t. prison, while the members of th Delphi syndicate enjoyed conrple! immunity and were even acclaime as public benefactors, | ee WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY IS THIS? Read the Answer in the Next of the Beries. You stand and look at the clock. It is noon. From the doors of the big building with entrances on its fou | sides the young women are streaminy There is algo a fair percentage of mu but girls predominate, Tl. y dash across the street tor luncheon, avoiding the up and down town cars as well as the crosstown one, In a few hours the clock will be lighted. ‘The thousands of workers in the building will have come from it, Some wil have entered the subway on the corner. Others will have taken the other subway a block away, while still others will have gone to the ele- vated lines east and west. Some wili have made a short cut through thy park, perhaps to walk home least walk a along Broadwa Answer to previous Fifty-fitth Street and Madison € nue, where a, church hax been torn been largely mange, a8 & conneq\enoe. game causes which unless: terial aid we may give it means the death of Chi rid has seen has been based upon ip fully to hide our heads in the sand. i a other aad ma | now menaces Europe, soon be menacing America. of the territde straits upon which to materia? i. ‘the. tamed responsible for this ropean ¢.vitisation bas col- lapsed; tt is at the point of death. Without moral and spiritual help from us, die it wil, in spite of any ma. (e) ‘The death of Buropean civiliza- ristian civilization, in America as elsewhere. open to us, of course, cheer- Tt is also open to us to wake up and to realize that precisely as Russia Europe will down and a@ hbtel just erected, Words From the Wise Other men live to eat, but J eat to Hve.—Socrates. Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is stint old age,—Longtellow, When musing on companions gone, We doubly foet ourselves alone. —Scott, Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we owe AN the great its that mortate bear below,-—-Teckel. in