The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1921, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, shed Daily Exovpt Sunday by ‘The Press Pudi Company, Now, 50 to 63 Park Raw, Now York RALPH PULIT: President. 63 Park Row ‘4 x, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Now JOSEPH PULITZER Jr.. Secretary, 63 Mark low Pot hing MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED Press. al news demparches credited Ghd also the loca! news publlebed herein, ¢ A FULL-SIZED HOOVER. ‘ R. HOOVER'S manner of accepting the in- vitatlon to become Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet of the President-elect is delicate. It is aiso pOinied. Mr. Hoover does not flatly lay down conditions, But ,he makes plain his views as to the enlarged functions of the Department of Commerce in this post-war period andthe scope of the duties which Should devolve upon the head of the department. Unless Mr. Harding withdraws his invitation, it may be assumed the President-elect is ready to see _. Mr. Hoover taking a very large place, indeed, in the > Cabinet, a place second only to that of the Secre- : ' tary of State and with responsibilities closely re- _ © lated to those of the State Department. No one is better fitted to deal with the great post-war problems of international trade than Mr. Hoover, whose grasp of present international con- ditions cons from an experience no other living - = Man can match. ‘ If Mr. Harding: really wants Mr. Hoover in the Cabinet, the President-elect—and the United States Semate—must be prepared to take a full-sized Hoover, with all that implies, IT SHOULD PASS TO-MORROW. 'O-MORROW the Board of Estimate is sched- uled to vote on the tax exemption ordinance. ‘The ordinance could have been passed last Friday had it not been for an objection by Mr. La Guandia. if the Aldermanic President-has any explanation or excuse for his obstructive effort, he should not fail to make public the reasons al to-morrow’s Last Friday the ordinance was apparently assured of passage. Did Mr. La Guardia hope or believe that the iaterests opposing this measure woukl be able to persuade away, some of the votes this week? Mr. La Guardia has paraded himself as a great “friend of the peepul.” Where do the 90 per cent. and more who pay rent profit by even a week of » Geigy in getting the 1921 housing programme "started? Mr. La Guardia has made explanations of a sort. fle thas asserted that no housing emergency exists. He has not advanced a single objection to this ordi- ~ mance which stands the test of reason and_reason- ailleness unless he frankly admits that he speaks for those who profit by housing age. The housing shortage exists. Mr. La Guardia’s denial does not alter the situation. Every one in the city who has moved or wants to move knows ‘this by personal experience. This tax exemption ordinance is not a cure-ali for the housing shortage. But it will help. Tenants ‘expect it to pass to-morrow without fail. 4 ' The Evening Post thinks that “in popular estimation and in fact Hughes and Hoover would be Mr. Harding’s right and ieft ‘Dands.” Which raises an interesting anatomical speculation as to what member of the body political Mr. Daugherty would be. The head, perhaps? FOOTNOTES OF HISTORY. N Col. Harvey’s North American Review, which for many years has been industriously smooth- ing the path of its editor to the Court of St. James’s., Mr. William Roscoe Thayer, a member of that | malevolent Roosevelt cult which can only exalt its idol by aspeérsing others, remarks: ae Accociated Prem le exclusively entiied to the use for tepudiieation ft oF not otherwise credited im this payer of William Roscoe Thayer. in the light of history. OH FOR A PALLADIUM! of our liberties,” courage to ask: What is a palladium? tionary answer; Palladium: Any statue of Pallas Athena; especially the famous statue ou the preservation of which was supposed to depend the safety of Troy, which fell only after Odysseus and Diomedes had carried the statue off, : Hence: That which affords effectual pto- tection or security; a safeguard. mouldy for present needs. an old Greek image? holding and defending ’em since childhood! history. their brains and energies for the city’s good! Now, if ever, is the moment for up a palladium as és 4 palladium Who'll submit plans? MECHANICAL SNOW CLEARING. FIRST test of a mechanical Tuesday. , Politicians believed that it couldn't be done. gineers simply went ahead, and did it. the economical loading of wagons. If the first trial doesn’t succeed, ‘t to try again. street car tracks. river. loading would speed this sort of work. Tt fs, perha ing service. street car streets by efficient mechanical means. the cleared tracks. THE QUESTION. (From The Evening World of Tuesday.) “Fate assigned to Wilson, the most in- competent President in foreign affairs for half a century, a six years’ task which wa: almost wholly occupied with foreign affairs President Grant was not qualified to shape our national policy in this field, but Grant recognized the necessity of taking advice. , and he appointed as Secretary of Siute Hamilton Fish, one of the three or four fore- } most experts who ever held the portfolio of our Department of State. President Wilson chose for the head of bis Cabinet Mr, Will- fam J. Bryan, which was like choosing a blind man for jockey in a horse race.” Tiws does an “historian” pervert history. Mr. _ Fish was no such personage when selected by Grant Listen to a few words written by John Bigelow, Yate Minister to France, to his friend Huntington, ) right after Grant’s first Uabinet had come out of the box: “If he (Grant) wants responsible Ministers "> m he bas not got them. Hamilton Fish is my 7 hbor in the country—an amiable bui be man, who at tho bar ranked as a mod- erate attorney, but whose name I suspect does not appear in the book of reports once. He inherited and married great wealth, and ‘was wise enough io invest a portion of that fo a house for- Grant and afterward some * more in a fund to buy it back and present it to Gen. Sherman at a price just twice an large as ils coxt and @ third wore than Grant had authorized bis broker to sell it for." In short, Fish was a dullard who bought his piace _ Cabinet ! Yel Grant, who has never been Tribune correspondent in Paris, March 16, 1869, | tee aty-and-tionorably, out of bas been restored to pre-war quality, The public has become accustomed to similar statements as a preface to renewed pressing of the demand for higher rates, Do we guess right? THE ANSWER. (Despatoh from Albany Wednesday.) Request for a temporary raise in rates in New York City was made to the Public Service Commission to-day by the New York Telephone Company, TWICE OVERS. “ec HE all-night flight is the most momentous step in cioil aviation,” Assistant Postmas- ler General Praeger. 66 ABOR not only insists upon maintaining the present standard of wages and working conditions but declares its solemn purpose to further improve those standards,” —A. F. of L, Declaration of Principles. ny the law." —Goo. Miller. 6€P DON'T care a rap about politics.” —Hiram Johnson, 66 F I take the post 1 made,” — Herbert Hoover, the dispute with England over the damages done by the Confederate. cruisers, avoided a war with Spain and exercised a degree of common sense in the con- | duct of affairs that deserves the highest apprecia- | tion—while Fish succeeded in winning the approval | There should yet be hope for Wilson and Bryan EBPLY impressed by the announcement of the Hylan Administration that it has brought California Hi to New York to “uphold the palladium an Evening World reader tas the We hoped everybody knew, but here's the dic- the goddess Every New Yorker will instantly feel that this definition of a palladium is far too ancient and Is the Great Twentieth Century Progressive ot the Pacific Coast to fight for no newer symbol than Come, citizens of New York—something up to date in the shape of a patladium, something worthy of the champion from the West who has been up- Let’s have drawings and specifications for a pal- ladium adequate to this great moment in the city’s Hylan and Johnson, to say nothing of Hearst, the greatest living authorities on palladiums combining ew York (o cet snow-loader showed encouraging results on Fifth Avenue En- For years grading contractors have been using power loaders with an endless apron conveyor for Engineering skill can adapt such contrivances for snow-loading. will be necessary Even more promising would be a loader arrang to load power-propelled flat-cars running on the At present the street car streets are cleartd by the sweepers, but the space at the side of the tracks is blocked by great piles of snow. How much better it would be to have this snow loaded direct to flat-cars which could be switched to a dock or bridge and the snow dumped into the The B. R. T. already does this on a smafl scale with hand-loaded cars, each of which carts away as much snow as a dozen wagons. Power- too much to require the street rail- road companies to provide this type of snow-fight- It is not too much to require that the companies co-operate with the city in clearing the If the city provided the machinery the companies would undoubtedly be glad to use if and prevent the traffic blockades caused by vehicles that crowd J, 5. MeCulloh of the New York Telephone Company believey telephone service in this city 2 0: F tie short of standalous the way the Labor Department has been loaded up with people for purposes absolutely ulterior to the enforcement of expect the President to sland by me in all the constructive propositions I have THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEB i RUARY 24, 1921, 0 Minute & ht, 1931 ty The From Mubtiah ng Co.” (The New York Dreaing ford), ) 510m HY SUBWAY TENSIONS CONSOLIDATION ® acT { WoADING ' COMPANIES k BRT. EXTENSIONS, PUBLIC \ po 1 it voi DERVICE i} j 5 ‘ LAWS })) peeves Sesion 4 | ConTRACTS h 1 } hh & iN te say much in a few words. ‘The Gaoard To tae Biter of The kerning Work! How much longer are the Payers of New York going to put uP their good money to have able- bodied policemen in plaix clothes) stand in front of Ruines Law hotels| to see that no couple enter and se-} cure a room unless the * bag or suileuse? ‘There are three men! @ day, cach being puid full police salaries, stationed at these places. | Say, for example, there are 100 such | places; three men (eight-hour shifts) at each place—that means 300 men.) That amounts to quite a tidy sum to wwe the purchasing of hand- y the borrowing of same from jendly barke Looking at! it from iu morai standpoint, 1 really | jeannot see where the carrying of a | baa lessens the offense, Then, again, supposing they do de- tect a couple (of course it never hap- | pens) securing a room without bag- | emge, do they make an arrest and have the hotel keeper's license re- voked—or do they hold court them- welves and settle the question of fines on the spot? My reason for asking s because I never read of any such arry arresia or revocation of licenses: Still, the “Dicks ure on the jab, watching and waiting, but, unlike the crooks, never working. Cc. R. Cliffeide, N. J, Feb, 20, 4921 What Is « Contract! To the Editor of The Brening World : The latest piece of flandoodie trom the Subway Sun is that a contract will not work well unless it is fair to | both, and that if same is unjust both | will suffer. Suppose the city wished to change the terms and make them advan | tageous to itself, what would the sub: | way profiteers say? In fancy can't y hear them howl that a contract | contract, that they took a risk in making it, and that the city would have to stand to it no matter how it might hurt? Goods are sold for future delivery any day of the year, and no matter which way the market goes business men of honor do not squeal, Nobody could have been stronger for the five-cent fare than the trac- tion profiteers when there was a@ chance of its being lower, and no- body dreamed that it could over be higher, Then they were for the pres- ent rate, and for fixing it where it is; even though the heavens might fall it should not be different. Nobody foresaw an opportunity to make it more Just let the city propose to take the subways away from the present oper- ators and Jease them to others on bet- ~l ter terms for the public, and it is evi- dent that these corruptionists would sing a different tune. Then « contract would be « contract, and it must stand aa {t reads. Rut when they want to better thenwolves, It is a gray From Evening World Poeaders What kind of a letter do you jind most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. a bought or sold in advance und the Open market has gone aguinst him, even admitting for the suke of argu- ment that he has a case, which he has not. And yet it would be “p-eposter- ous” for them to give up. No wonder, when there is such a loot in prospect. S. REID SPENCER. New York City, Feb. 1931 Respect for the Flag. ‘To the Editor of Tue Evening World ; 1 am a constant reader of The, Evening World and I want to say| that 1 think it is the cleanest, fairest Paper published. I nave noticed that the readers ‘have an opportunity to express their views concerning dif- | ferent questions and problems of to- | day and I would like to have a little! space to relate to some of the readers | an incident that occurred yesterday aNd one that occurs frequently. 1 was carrying an American flag well | rolled up ar? ..zo foreign workmen) saw it and remarked to me with | sarcasm “That flag;” and hissed. Now I don't think that we ought to tol- erate such remarks about Old Glory! but what can a school girl do bat walk on in silence when alone and men like those speak to her? ‘They may find fault with the dif- ferent political parties, &c., but when they find fault with the flag that protects them they should be sent! back to the land from whioh they came. America is too good for such people. We have thousands of fas- eigners that have the same “respect” for the flag our fathers fought and died for. It fills an American with fighting epirit when he hears such remarks. T think that the American people ought to see that the flag is respected by workmen as well as school children. Ido not mean to {nsinuate that all | foreign people are like the above! mentioned, but many of them are and | we ought to do something to make them understand that they are wrong when they hiss at the Amertean flag 186 Bast 60th Street, Feb. 19. | Thank You Uxceedingly. | ‘To the Editor of The Brening World The world do move. We have a re- freshing improvement on “Thank You Very Much," to be heard on the steps of the Library. A lady collector there at 446 P. M., Thursday, 17th inst, en- joyed a chut with a friend while hold- ing forth the Red Cross box for Hoover's Children’s Fund, A passerby with a Mexican silver dollar ta his pocket, boping to get credit in heaven for 100 cents Ameri- can and some 500 kronen Austrian (it would be interesting to Sgure just how much credit heaven will grant) dropped his pocket piece into the open box, hplding tt concealed a little like they do who put a cent in the box at chureh. It dropped in with a satisfi thud and the kind lady sald you exceedingly,’ ' Now that you very much” has become some- horse of avother color. Heads, they win; tails, we lose. All talk of amending the contract {i pub the whine ef & man. who tae what thrgadbare, I move that this lady's substitute be put in circulation. RP, Gi . Bias Fark, mM, 20, 1991, ' UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1021, by Joho Blake.) GEORGE WASHINGTON. Had George Washington ever faltered during the seven years’ struggle for American independence he would have been hung as a traitor and the future history of the world would be entirely different. But he did not falter, and he was not hung as a traitor. And now that ‘years have blurred the bitterness of war, George Washington is almost as much honored in Great Britain as he is in his own land. Perhaps never were the efforts of a military leader beset with so many troubles as were those of Washington. His army was small and inadequate. Some of his own Generals, jealous of his position, were constantly plotting against him. . So hostile to him were many members of the Continental Congress that support was often refused. In fact, he never was certain that Congress was behind him. If Washington was irritated by these difficulties, which would have driven almost any other man to despair, he never showed it. At Valley Forge, in the very darkest hour of the Revo- lution, he was cheerful and serene, an inspiration to the men in the ranks and an example of fortitude that won the ad- miration even of his enemies. Possessed of a temper that in youth was often un governable, Washington kept it under perfect control when {here appeared to be most occasion for its exercise, He well knew that plots were on foot against him in Congress and in distant departments of his own command, but as far as can be learned he never took part in uny counter plot. He felt that the job he had undertaken was big enough to enlist all his energies. He was as free from malice as v Lincoln, as unruffled by adversity as a philosopher. Washington’s success and the success of his cause was due to his unfaltering purpose. There must have been times when he himself despaired, but none of those under him ever suspected it, Perhaps no future times will afford an opportunity for such @ man, but George Washington's example will serve as‘an inspiration for all men in all ages. Convinced that his cause was right he never had any thought but fo fight for it till he won or died. . Gann the Rocking Stone in the Bronx, that the combined efforts of twenty-four oxen could not dislodge it from tits bed, notwithstanding the fuct that By Albert P. Southwick Cwvrritt, Wow York breatas Werth = | In early times there were many waye of preparing grains and meals, euch as “frumenty” and the good direction, can easily swing it buck and forth. The test was mude but the rock was not movad. . Quiros, 4 Spaniand, circummavignted Arthur's famous “bag-pudding.” | tbe globe in 1606, but the first Mag- Kiog om ahd kod and rendy-to-c.t|liseman to do eo was Sir acls The partly cool Drake in 1677 cereals have become so popular in re- Senet s cent oyears that the old-fashioned| Of the Rocking Stone, just west of the Butfale rango In Bronx 1 |New York City, tradition aay \sachoms and medivine men of Sis Dahle Various Indlan tribes built the’ caun A wager was onve made between | oi) fires about this colovsal cube of cu farmer and the foreman! pinkish granite. methods of cooking grains aro now less common 1) of Yhe Lydig estate, upon which was | single person, pushing from the right | c Get-Rich-Quic of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjorof ce it. 198), Pree | cores am, wag ies ata Om X.—THE POWER OF TABOO, Capt, Cook found one of the mne® ancient and simple methods of ex~+ ploitation and oppression on record tm full working order in the Sandwiok Islands when he stumbled across thas archipelago in 177% That metho@ was the power of Taboo. The name of the man who first at’ tered the word “Taboo” in an autbori« tative tone and put the fear of it inte the hearts of the surrounding pay~ ages has not been preserved in the memory of tho rave. But he rants high among the statesmen of the old school, . Under this direct and unanswei system of government all that the Chiet, or Old Man, or Boss Hunter had to do when he wanted his tribes= men to refrain from consuming, touching or appropriating an article or @ commodity was to point to ip and say “Taboo,” That meant that nobody could cone ume, touch or appropriate the article thus designated. For instance, if the cocounut crop was ruined and there were only a few cocoanut trees on the island yielding fruit, all the chie¢ ha@ to do to conserve the limited yiekd for himself was to announce thad covoanuts were taboo. Or if the game bad vanished aod there were only a few wild left on the hunting grounds, and the Chiet or the Old Man wanted them aft for himself and his household, he could make the requisite provision fow himself by putting the taboo on games, Or, if the stream that ran by obeyed. obeyed because the Chief, or the Man, or the Boss Hunter, told that if they did not obey someth: unspeakably terrible would happen them in the H kf not in the Here. For many enerations—nobody haa even tried to estimate how many—+ this obedience to the power of Tab was maintained and no savage in of the Pacific islands where % ob~ tained ever dreamed of ramming the risk of breaking the Finally, in quite possibly since the Declaration of In dependence was signed in —some savage of incredible courage or ignorance risked bis happiness br both the Here and the Hereafter by breaking a taboo. We can imagine the astonishment of this primitive man, and of all his fallows, when noms of the terrors with which the inventor ofthe taboo had invested it camw to ‘pass, That astounding discovery ended the power of taboo as an individual weapon, Since that time no individual bes attempted to wield this euperbty simple and ef ive weapon of e=- ploitation and oppression. The growth of democracy even among savages has relegated the taboo, as the e: of an individual will, to the museuns of antiquities. But the taboo was too valuable » weapon to be thrown away. Demoo- racies have shown an bie tendency to adopt it as an instrament of government. Having wrested the taboo from the hands of any minority of men, majorities or ler pyro are availing themselves of i for own purposes. It would be a mistake to 4 for a moment that the Chicf, or Old Man or the Boss Hunter used power of taboo exclusively or entire! for his own benefit. There is sive evidence that in many things or practices were tabooed the benefit of the people But the fact remains that the instrumentality of the talboo thi Chief was enabled to dictate what the other savages should eat what they should drink, how should play, or whom they marry, All of which teaches us that taboo is a dangerous weapon, wheth wielded by @ savage chief or by wy ee | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government Comms eR Wea By Willis Rrooks Hawkins. This ts the sixty-first erticle of a series defining the duties of the | administrative and legisiative of- ficers and boards of the New York City Government NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, The American Museum of Natural History, whieh was incorporated tm 1969 as an educational institution to encourage and develop tho etudy of natural science, is governed by a self- |perpetuuting board of twenty-tve _ trustecs Who serve without salage @# \ and by jand the Pre as ex offic the Mayor, the fi Jomptrolies \" dent of the@Park Board | q wT } dowments, contr. and appropriations © permanent en- includes a $5,000,000 is supported by & butions and due from the city. dowment fund members, ‘The museum bequest made by the late Morris Jesup, |” ‘That the collections may be kept \.x complete as possible, the trustees apport ™ field parties exploring ris of the world and a scleptisis who rscon- ts of apeci interest from other fragmentary remains, 6 purpose of interesting chil< jdren in natural science and of ine structing them therein the museuns co-operates with public schools by lending lantern slides and collections lof nature study for schoolroom une, | Also, for the instruction of the blind, it maintains a collection of large relie# globes, showing the physical features Jof the carth and special casts of many , / important specimens of animal tite, / in various large struct | fossil a The mu is he (; bus Avenue al 77th Street Te ioe to the public without charge °o iat workdays und holidays from 9 A. Mf te PM Sundays, 1PM tos P. and Tuesday and Saturday Z | pines trom’ P't0"t0 welogk 7 SY = | Z