The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1921, Page 22

moans + estetae-o. THE EVENING WO Biorld, ESTABLIGHED BY JOsEPH PULITZER. Pudiished Dally Kxcept Sunday br Tho Prose Publishing Compahy, Non, 52 to 68 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZEN, Prosidont. 62 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treamurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITBER Jr., sectetary, 6% Park Row ‘MEMBER OF THE AS#OCTATED PRESS. it holds the whip hand in negotiations. Once an | wee ease is gramed the compaiy has all it wants and loses interest in facilitating a satisfactory bargain. Also the city’s right to objection, a pensive veto on the acts of the Transit Board, will give time for public opinion to make ilself felt re- garding impending change in fares, and so influence the Transit Board, the Governor and the Legista- Mae Assoctated Press ty exclusively entitled to the use for republication (ure, tn thie despatches credited to te or not otherwise credited wad also the local nows published herein. THE “FIXER.” S the Harding Cabinet takes final shape the A country is impressed anew by the importance of one of its members. The spectacle of Mr. Harry M. Daugherty speed- ing to and from St. Augustine, straightening oul the selections, platating Senators Penrose and Knox on the invitation to Hoover and exercising the gen- seral functions of “high fixer’ is interesting and ‘instructive. This is, of course, the same Mr. Daugherty who made the famous prediction concerning the “per- spiring and bleary-eyed” fifteen who would gather in seclusion around a table during the Republican National Convention and at the proper moment “put him (Senator Harding) over.” Mr. Daugherty’s gifts of prophecy, like his “fixing” powers, come from long experience in poiitical manipulation. If Mr. Daugherty has made no predictions about the Cabinet it is only because he has been too busy helping on the job of actual construction. When it is all done he will know it from top to bottom, inside and out. He is going to be the handiest and, in many ways, the nrost important man in it. So high is the rating of an expert “tixer.” All the circumstances favored rapid disposal of New York's snow, But this does not de- tract from the creditable record made by Com- missioner Leo. His department was organized to take advantage of all the favorable factors in the situation. THE KEATS CENTENARY. DAY is the one hundredth anniversary of the death of John Keats, In this city a memorial meeting this afternoon at Hunter College and special meetings of ‘the Authors’ Club and the Poetry Society to-morrow night will mark the centenary. The Grolier Chub is getting together a collection of Keats manuscripts, portraits and other material relating to the poet, which «will he ready for exhibition next month. A memoria! | vokume dedicated to Keats and to which various American writers have contributed is to b2 pub- lished shortly in England. A committee in America with a branch in New York is co-operating with an English committee to raise money to buy the house at Hampstead where Keats lived during the last years of his life. It will be recalled that it was largely through the efforts of an American, Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, now American Ambassador to Italy, that the Kea’ Shelley house in Rome was purchased and dedica‘ed 8 a permanent memorial. So much for formal and public observances of a centenary marking the end of that brief life—only twenty-five years—that left its rare, undying liyht in English poetry. © Lovers of Keats will need no urging io read and resead him. But for those who do not know Keats or who have “forgotten” him, we suggest that [iis is a good time to make an interesting tes! of them- selves. . Let them find a quiet place of an evening and read the following: ~ The Eve of St. Agnes. Ode to a Grecian Urn. Sonnet beginiring: “Bright star would | were # steadfast as thou art Sonnet beginning T may cease to be.’ Only these four for a start. The last three are in “When J have fears that paper Such an amendment will not insure the | against increased fares, but it will put the Transit | | Board in position to drive a better bargain in return | | for the relief asked. TARIFF WHEELS. MERICANS never had so good an opportunity to examine and understand the machinery of tariff making as has been afforded by the tortuous course of the Fordney “Emergency” Tarift. Many of the voices in Congress and the press who now denounce the present bill are the very voices from which Americans have learned to expect | praise of anything labeled “protective.” How does this happen? Tariff making has always been a “yourscratch- my-back-and-I'Il-scratch-yours” aftuir. The Tariff Beneficiaries’ Club in Congress has fostered every “protective” tariff bill. The charter members of the Tariff Beneficiaries were the Senators and Repre- sentatives from the industrial East. Membership in the Tariff Beneficiaries’ Club has been kept as small | as possible because no industry has cared to have other industries protected except on a trading basis The tariff makers of the East needet a bare ma- jority to “put over’ their schedules, so some Middle | Weste tives were invited to join. The Ohio delegation has been lined up for steel protection, Montana votes were secured with copper schedules, Missouri and Kansas were lined up behind zine. This was the regular procedure until the tariff bosses got a ma- jority. ‘ Then the tariff was enacted and all the special intarests of the members of this majority got atten- ion and “protection”.in proportion to their power in party councils. The result was lariff discrimina- tion against the South and West. About the beginning of the present century. the | political balance commenced to shifl. Now instead of Payne and Aldrich as chief mechanics of {he | tariff machine we have McCumber of North Dakota and Gay of Louisiana. They have reorganized the club and logrolled a majority which has worked a squeezesplay on the god parents of some of the pro- Western and even Southern Represenut- tected infants of the East, particularly of New Eng- | land. Some of the older “infants” are left out in the cold and are wailing hustily. | Mr. Tready bill will “close every industry in New England.” Mr, Luce of Massachusetts denounces it as “iniqui- tous.” The Herald calls it a “moss-back tariff” and the Tribune explains that it is not a regular protec- tion measure bit was designed as‘a “relief bill.” As the Herald says, this-is a moss-back tariff. So were the other G. O. P. tariffs. But there is a new | shade of moss on the logs which have been rolled | for its construction. It is a “relief bill.” So has | every other tariff been in large measure a relief bill. | Tariff legislation is class legislation. A Republi- can tariff has always been a means of taxing one section of the country for special benefit and for the “rellef” of another section, This ts what any ong can see if he will examine the mechanics of the present tariff and compare it with the mechanics of past tariffs, Palgrave’s “Golden Treasury.” It woukin’t take half | There is no reason to commiserate with the New an hour to read them all. There's not much “punch” in them, no “free verse,” no “daring,” no “horrors,” no “grim, grip- ping ugliness,” no “experiments,” no “ip-lo-the- minute modernity.” There's only romance, passion, thoughl, imagi- | | England delegates who have been left out in the cold on a shrewd squeeze play by the farmers of the West and South. Turn about is fair play. But for the benefit cf the whole country this sort of clast legislation ought to be stopped for good and all. nation, sensibility, weaving English wonds into clas- | | Now that the country can see how tariffs are sic verse forms with some of the most supremely beautiful results ever achieved in the language, , If after trying these four poems on himself the 2 it reader “can’t see Keats,” we advise him to up and go to the movie’. The superstitious will observe that Mr. Hanging is to be inaugurated on Friday, Bul © one does not need to believe in the dad luck associated with Friday to feel sure the noxt President will have his troubles, ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT. RESENT ‘indications are that the Miller transit Programme will be amended to forbid fare increases until after the Transit Board has completed negotiations for unified control. This is a step in the right direction which The Evening World has urged from the first. The difference in fare for the period of negotia- made, it ought never to tolerate another of the old protective tariffs for the “relief” of any sections at the expense of others, , their strength. TWICE OVERS. “cc I T'S going to be a great fight.” —Hiram John- | son. 6 is “ce fe savings banks have no fear of an honestly intentioned, honestly conducted and purely business investigation into any and all of their financial tions'is important. But this is a small matter when | fyansactions.”—Manager Wheaton of State Savings Pee die to the gain in bargaining power which Board may exert under such an arrange- as the Transit Board denies jfare increases Banks Association, . 66 ZV ARUSO will sing again—as well as ever.” — A Physician in Attendance. ling asa sus- | at Massachusetis says the Fordney | the poor worker have the hour’ Why not let those boosters of da} }such a marked degree thi Mr. Fordney reports Mr. Harding as opposed to re-enactinent of the “iniquitous” Payne-Aldrich tariff schedules even as a temporary measure. No won- der. That tariff wrecked the Taft regime. It would | do the same for the Harding Adntinistration. It is even doubiful whether such a bill could be passed now that the MeCumbers and Gays have found / f ‘ — Clowning It! From Evening World Readers {~ What kind of a ietter do you find most readable? Isn't tt the our that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a coupte of hundred? There is jine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te gay much in a feto words. Take time to be brief. Daylight Saving. Yo the Editor of The brening World Lam writing to congratulate Vy. H. Ward of Brooklyn, N. Y., on his opinion of daylight saving. It {s only those who can He in bed and go to business wifen they please, after carousing late at night, th trying to make the working ¢ vp an hour earlier, Let them In bed as long as they want leep in the morning, It is a free country. Hight saving rise as early as they | wish and not try to make laws for! people, but let every one vote on the daylight question, then people will be don't know what th gle tax, but if the: would want tc work on land that belongs to all men? They cail this the single tax. J y mean by sin- y mean that my land will no longer belong to me as an individual but will in some man- ner belong to ali men, then T cali this Bolshevism, and our friends Messrs, - De Leeuw and Geiger should be writing for some paper in Russia 'p- stead of here in the land of the fi'ee | and the intelligent, ¥. DALY. New York, Feb, 20, 1921, Penal Commitments, ‘To the Kditor of The Brening World: It is a joke to read about the com- parisons of, penal commitments of satisfied to take that bitter pill that | to-day with the commitments of years has been prescribed to them agal nst thelr will. A. J. WEBDI Norwalk, Conn., Feb, 20. ‘Tax Syst Balitor of Phe Brening W. Vor ] agree with Messrs, Geiger and De Leeuw that we should adopt the single tx. As an employee in a} before Prohibition was put over on us. They don't give the’ law-abiding any eredit for the improvement as| hey see itr just the same, these sane law-abiding citizens are + wondering how it was done, as the: did not have a Word to say about the matter, If these pussyfooters want, to see firm of tax specialists, | am in a po-) how popular their Eighteenth Amend- sition to state what have been the effects of our taxes. ‘The income tax has been tried and found to be impractical, First, be- cause it discourages industry und enterprise. Second, because it forces | capital from productive to unpro- ductive flelds in order that the in- c Third, it has burdened industry men all over the country erously clamored for’ its repeal, Fourth, it has more than anything else degraded the character of the business men, It is impossible to es- timate the amount of perjury, lying, fraud and dishonesty due to the income tax. The opportunities for falsification increase proportionately with discovery of some new way of evading the law—so much 60 that our Income Tax Law might have rightly been entitled, “An act to pun- ish truthfulness, tnability to secure the advice of professional wuthort- ties and to promote lying, dishonesty | {hose minds o und evasion of Wixe: Let us not be afraid to admit that our present system of taxation ts wrong, and let ue seek for another system that will wbolish these evils, [ believe that onty the single tax can do this, PUBLICUS. “Don't Know What They Mean.” To the Hiitor of ‘The Brening World : You surely are more than kind when you permit such emanations as that of Murray De Lecuw to spread themselves all over your colunins, Quoting a certain to tle effect that “the land Ly ail men for all time," | erlaes this iden Jable for a “firm found | economic Policy of our Government What @ shifting foundation, then, our Government would rest ont i might be free from taxes. | | minded" people left New York is a fine fleld for grand ment is, just let them put it up to a popular yote, amd it would be de- Yeated at least 4 to 1. W. BURK, 1517 Pulton Street, Brooklyn, Suggesting a Conscience Fund, Lo the Rilitor of The Kvming World The present City Administration M. R. H." of Yonkers. What a amity if the traction interests should be turned over to Hylan, Hearet, Murphy & Co.! BfMficiency would then be measured by political falven though the writer is a Dem- klyn must feel they are "sneak- a ten or twenty mile jaunt A conscience fund “should ated for the IL. R. T. no doubt, there are 2 and rs of the Tammany va- | Zion City’e shining band that wil | soon invade our city, G. W, KIRBY. | New York, Feb. 17, Ho the Malttor Allow me a umn in regard 10 the article, “Woul by Marguerite Mooers Marshall, feeuw and Mr. Geiger mean all land belonge to all men, how could we get any men ww work and produce on. land which does not belong to such'wonld ever face that whioh it 18 fac- dn ing to-day, and that is. the voice and 7 eed ual men in partioulart SS aaeeet ate ay, TEBRU 2. Y¥ 23, 1921, ebb pe edhe By John Cassel Cope cia 1921. too Toe Ban Pralianing Co, Td New York Evening UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake TOO MUCH CONTROL. lf a pitcher exerts all the control at his command he can put the ball over any corner of the plate that he wants to. All he needs to do is to take plenty of time and throw the ball slowly. The batter does the rest, Having plenty of time to ob- serve exactly how the well controlled ball is approaching, he swings on it and knocks it out of the ball grounds. Control is good when combined with speed. Too much of it is useless, The average man is such a safe player that he never gets ahead. This is not an editorial in praise of recklessness. Recklessness is always destructive. But unless you learn to work rapidly as well as carefully your dependents are going to have a hard time. Any marksman can screw a rifle in a vise, aim it exactly at a target, and hit the target every time. But there are no vises in the trenches, and the soldier who cannot shoot accurately and rapidly is likely to remain in the trench after the engagement is ov Self-control is valuable—essential, in fact, But if you control yourself too much you are no better off than the gal- ley slave, who was a pathetic victim of over-control. You ought to leave as little to chance as possible. But you must not allow your every instinct to be suppressed for fear of making a mistake. Learn to do your work well when you are beginning it. That is the time to exercise control. Get rid of the bad habits at the start. Then put a little zip into what you are doing. Learn to think rapidly and to act quickly—and to think right and act wisely at the same time. The man whose self-control is absolutely perfect never called punch. He is surpassed every day by men who have less control but more speed. It is only a combination of both of these qualities that makes a good ball player, And it is the same combination that makes a live, energetic and progressive man. ie burlesque” has a good friend in| has much of the commodity ocrat, he believes that Goy. Miller's plan is the only practical one. The daily from upper prominence of clergymen. United States be ruled by its Govern- ment or by its clergy? In this article Wilbur Glen Voliva, ride when they pay their little Observant 7 Fs HAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY is THIS? Road the Answer in the Nead t | You stand on the Manhattan side| ie rolling over the world to-day; the and look over the bridge that goes| brazen iniyuity that. obtains in so east. On the other side the lghts| many of the modern Ninevahs, our terrace down| OWN sTeat metropolis included, should It is like a tt| serve to make Nahum mighty inter- run | esting reading to us. ‘, says that if be was Mayor of Now York Clty he would banish to- pacco in every form, medicine into the Atlantic Ocean and forbid physicians to riety, and oh! how gullible the public become when the wad is concerned, “M, R. H." and his clan had better not do so much loose thinking and also beware that he is not caught a assured that. Voliva very iN or he would not make this He is using the jron on himself by voving to banish tabaceo, music and deacing. who can feel himsely 1 man but what smokes, swears and dances once in vould denounce the te a salary, On The fresh air of twinkle ae the to the waters of fairyla he cars that over the bridge go on their way back nal forth, rf Lh. al forth, runn! across town and H i ss.” the| Words From the Wise connecting with cars running Horth and south make it a busy corner for trafic but not) War destroys man, but turury t rains the per-| if sons awaiting cars take shelter ‘uns | mankind ttle) At once corrupts, the body and the subways. it is. a good thing th Mke Wibtmur ¢ \Iie New York’s Mayor Under Christ,” {5 fortunate there is a Zion City tike of lien, ft the porch of shack that stands on the northwest Under the sheds there Ia a red Dutch tiling, while the smal! Where none admire, 'tis useless © panes of the doors and win- to excel; are an opaque blue, funn’ i little building, out of the picture now,| Where none are beaus, ‘tis vain but very much in it yonte BRO. 1a previous description i Naseau, Spruce and Park Row triangle,| Lard Lyttleton. if bis way ruled, Lincoln in tia tysburg Address New York would be a place of Ig- he land—and JT presume Mr, Delsaid “that government of the people, norance. by the people, for (he peaple shall not perish fram the earvh.” I fear My. ingoln had no idea the United States ‘never live to sée It in th) New York minus medi clans, fiction and art! \ Astoria, Web. 19, 1921, Men Who Mad New York :: | i ‘ovrtigh. Ne, 1—PETER MINUIT. HE first real effort to do some- thing permanent following the discovery of Manhattan Island by Hudson was the appointment of Peter Minuit to be the Governor of New Netherlands, His was » hard task, To him bad been delegated the work of firmly planting a colony in the New World for the benefit of the | Duteh, | Some historians say Peter Minuit | Was a Prussian by birth, Others place him among the Walloons. They do uot differ as to his eye for business aed his vision. t was Minuit who bought the | Island of Manhattan from the Indians for a sum equalling $4 in the money of our country. It has been sald he dazzled the eyes of the poor savages with the glass beads, red prints and gaudy trinkets. He at least obtained his title by barter. The land he bought was estimated to contain 22,000 acres, Minuit, who arrived here in 1626, brought with him an engineer, and the estimate of the acreage was un. doubtedly due to a rough survey, probably the first ever made of the ae that is now cut up into 18-foot ‘ots, Goy. Minuit laid the foundation for the trade of New Netheriands. He knew the value of the landlocked har- bor and had an idea of the wealth of |4he country that Iay beyond it. Pre- vious to his coming a very small boat had been built in New Netherlands. He built a ship of 800 tons that car- ried thirty guns. When she went to Holland the size of the timbers ex- cited the admiration of the shipping men. It was a way he had of telling the Dutch India Company what | there was here and proving it. | His first cargoes home established | New Netherlands as a desirable prop- jorty. He sent back a shipload of furs jand timbers. Two years later he sent back four shiploads of furs and two of ship-bulldimg timbers. Minuit called attention of the Old World to the oolony established here. | He excited the cupidity of men in Holland with money and great tracts of land were grabbed off. It wan during his administration that Killen Van Rensselaer, with Van Twiller, | got large tracts of land along the | Upper Hudson. It was the land grabs of bis ad- |:ninistration that caused his recall. ‘The Dutch company wished another policy puisued that would prevent jany trading except through it, He knew nothing of it, and the general | belief is the first Governor became a scapegoat because there had to be one, He was recalled. He had, how- ever, established the port of New Netherlands and the lower part of the island had become a commercial centre, (Te fork Srtning World), NAHUM, THE DOOM-SONG. Nahum's prophecy—which takes the form of the grimmest and most terrible doom-song in all literature-~ is short and sharp, like a flash of lightning, like a clap of thunder. ‘The propfiet stands before the walls of Nineveh, that greatest of the cities of the ancient world, and utters in fierce and nervous language ite de- struction, No pause interrupts the fearful sentence; there is no change in its tone; it ts a stern, remorseless war cry, the cry of the “evening wolf from the Lord,” smeHing the blood of the great city and uttering its fear- ful note—half of woe and half of joy —which is softened by distance into music, The big, brutal, material, bestiai- ized city seems to defy God, as though it were challenging Him to the combat. “The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one against the other in the broad way; The appearance of them ie like torches, | They run like the lightnings.” | But, mysteriously, the resistance collapses, the grandeur disappears The Lord on ‘high is mightier than proud Nineveh. The righteousness \of Jehovah is stronger than all tbe | chariots of iron. “Where is the den of the lions, And the feeding place of the young ions, Where the lion and the lpness walked, The lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?” ‘The prophet-poet strikes this lyre with fingers dipped in blood. Woe to | the elty of blood? She is afl full of | falsehood and violence! ‘The prey departeth not. There is a sound of whips, and the rumbling of the chariot wheels, and the clatter oj the horses’ hoofs—and then the aveng.ng sword of the Lord, and the lightning of His spears—and finaliy a heap of dead bodies—and Ninevah is no more. ‘The mighty walls are falleh. The proud palaces are crumbled into dust. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,” are no more. Ninevah defied God, laughed at Hig righteousness, cried “On with the dance” when He bid them fall onto their knees in repentance; and now the great city’ by the rivers le a deso- lation, and the fox and the Juckal | prowl midst her moonlit ruins. It was « terrible thing, that Doom- | Song of Nahum, but terrible as it a righteous song, and be- | cause it was that it has survived the | ages, while Ninevah has for centuries been clean forgotien. The tidal wave of materialism that the mind.—Crown, to be @ belle, !