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ey vi ESTAPLIGHED DY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pubiihed Wally Bxcept Sundar by The Proas Publishing t Compan: on, 63 to 69 Park Row,'Now York. 4 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. RALPH PULITZER, Proaidont, 63 Park Row. Park Row. © JOSEPH PULITZEN Jr,, Secretary, 63 Park Row. ‘ fa pet. I ‘ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. fund also the local news published heroin, Sanaa a ema eane A HIGH SCORE FOR THE LAW. tM year is still young and both Robert P. Brin- dell and John T. Hettrick have been convicted after fair trial with able defense. The Brindell verdict would have been incon- clusive without the verdict in the case of Hetrick and his three co-defendants. What Brindell did to labor in the building indus- try Hettrick did on the side of the contractors. Between them they built up a system of two- 2 time when that industry was the one thing that could relieve an unprecedented crisis. The Lockwood committee, under the guidance of Samuel Untermyer, set out to find some of the con- ditions underlying the housing shortage it found Brindell and Hettrick, Investigation and justice never worked to betier or speedier results. WE BET Hi HAS SEEN IT. New Yorkers generally have not yet glimpsed that “palladium of our liberties” which Hi Johnson is in our midst to uphold. But Hi himself is a connoisseur of paliadiums and the Belief is that he has had a private view of this one. The dictionary says a palladium is a statue of Pallas Athena. Rumor says this palladium is the image of a Mayor of New York gazing to- ward re-election. GOOD FOR BATAVIA! PEAKING for Batavia, county seat of Senator J John Knight’s bailiwick, Corporation Counsel Laseur said of the Governor's transit programme: “This is another’ Boston Tea Party with the munidipalities playing the role of the Colonies so fer as the autocratic and revolutionary leg-, islation is concerned. Batavia is opposed to the Transit Bill in its present shape. It means. taxation without representation.” ‘Perhaps New York City has been a trifle too * egotistical in believing that it must shoulder the whole burden of opposition, Gov. Miller's special Transit Board of three members is of direct con- cern only to this city, But the general provisions of the Miller programme, with its denial of the prin- ciple of local self-government and its autocratic power over franchise contracts*ts of prime interest to every up-State city. Yesterday's conference of Corporation Counsels was decidedly encouraging. The sentiments ex- can hardly fail to haye effect on up-State legislators. What Corporation Counsel LaSeur says | in behalf of Batavia will have a great deal more with Senator Knight than the eloquence of The Amoctated Pres te rxchurively entitled to the wet for republication (GE Gl news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper | ae THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921, Bitter Pills! revenue. protective. The rates become prohibitive tather than MR. DAUGHERTY SPEAKS. EGINNING his work as spokesman for the Harding Administration well ahead of time, the efficient Mr. Daugherty warns the job-seekers in Washington ‘that policies must come first and appointments afterward: “What the country wants and what the country expects is some relief and some sub- stantial steps toward correcting things, as the people indicated by the result of the last eleo- tion.” | After Republican leaders have repeated this sort of statement a certain number of times, maybe they will convince even themselves that it means some- thing. . What the people indicated by the result of the last election was their willingness to give the Repub- lican Party a chance with policies it professed to for a sign that the Republican Party had or has any policies at all. ‘ With Republican majorities in both Houses, there was no reason why this last session of the Sixty- sixth Congress should not have laid substantia! foundations for and even. made a fair start on the constructive programme of the coming Administra- tion—provided it had any such programme. Toward two recognized and imperative nationa! neeis—tax revision and the establishment of 4 budget system—President Wilson stood strongly committed. Yet, with the whole Nation waiting for relief leg- islation, the best use the Republican leaders in Con- gress could make of this session was to muddle away the time on a miserable fake tariff bill ab- solutely certain to receive the President's veto. It has begun to dawn on the country that the great programme with which the Republican Party pledged itself to bring first aid existed only in the oratory of the campaikn. Beyond a confused notion of working the taritf for all it can profit the party, the « IS no Republi- can programme. j . Now the country has found it out, even Mt. Daugherty, whose best work is done in quiet rooms, sitting secluded with other gentlemen round tables deems it wise to come out on the balcony and assure the public that Mr. Harding is presently going to find some policies for his Administration even if he has to keep the office-seekers waiting for a time while he does it. This ‘assurance from Mr. Daugherty himself will, of course, be sufficient to satisfy voters that they are getting all they wanted or expected last November, Hearst—Hylan—Hiram. Turn on the current. The demagogic circuit ‘is complete, A RAY OF HOPE. EPORTS from Chicago indicate that the voters there have administered a slap that will make Mayor Thompson writhe. « by The f (Thin New York & opr etait, 1921 ree 1p 'UP-STATE Pohirics From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There te fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Fares and Rents. To the Haitor of The brening World te sey much in a few words, Take time to be brief. —- them? Not that that always makes UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake . (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) EASY TO DESTROY BUT HARD TO HIDE. This is an editorial on talent. It is written partly for the benefit of those who think they are unappreciated geniuses, JOEL IN THE VALLEY OF DE CISION. 1 Homer, Dante, Tasso and Milton all rolled into one do not equal Joel when it comes to tha Moral Sablime, Brief .as woman's love is Jor immortal epic—only three’ chapters, which can be read in twenty minutes —dut preased and compressed into the short work is the sublimity of thought that can be matched in no other production of the mind of man, In your mind's eye behold the biggest, blackest storm-cloud that ever flung itself athwart the sky all rimmed round with gold, and you haye an image of this wonderful boo of Joel—gloomy grandeur, desolation, mourning, woe, followed by the light of God's mercy and love. : Blow ye the trumpet in Zion! The headed graft that bled workers and employers alike. have ready for the country’s relief. Locusts are coming! (Read Joel, ily They kept a strangle-hokd on a great industry at Since the election the people have waited in vain 3-10.) Alas for the day! The meat \é cut off before our eyes; the seeds rot in the ground; the garners are desolate; the corn is withered; the beasts groan; the cattle are per- plexed; the flocks of sheep are deao- late; the fire devours the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field! Desolation desolate. Belgium and Northern France four years after the German invasion were) Paradise in comparison with the land that the locusts left behind them. “And what are you going to do about it?" inquires the Prophet. The locusts came because of your iniquity: turn from your iniquity, and floor shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil, and I will restore to you the years which the locusts have eaten, But Joel is not through yet. im the third and closing chapter we have the greatest scene in all Iitera- ture, the Supreme Act in the world’s mightiest drama—the scene in the Valley of Jehoshaphat—"multitudes, multitudes in the Valley of Decision!” —all the nations gathered toxether in the Battle of Armageddon, the final battle between Jehovah and His people on the one side, and the enem¥ nations on the other. ‘The battlefield is darkened; the # moon and stars withdraw from | sky; “the sea of heathen fury is ad- vancing, and the people of God, in deop suspense, await its first break= ing Suddenly the Lord “roars from Zion" with the combined noise of all the thunders, a great light shines over Jerusalem, and out | of the radience comes the Lord him- | self with victory. h has triumphed, and fs a the triumph the mountain “drop down sweet wine, the hills flow | with milk, the torrents of Judah tlow with sparkling water, and God dwells with them forever” midst | peace, pienty and gladness. In a word, Joel v sualizes the ages. long conflict between truth and false- | hood, justice and injustice, the | righteousness of God and the wicked: of men, and in the "Valley of« ion” He foresees the result— | Victory for God and the Right, | re 0. 2—PETER STUYVESANT. ‘TER STUYVESANT had a ree * ord when he became Governor u as pr it them better fitted to rear them than { New Netherland: { 1646. ‘special counsel” of the metropolis. : py e e ° etherlands in ‘ on New York, it is true, may not have a profound pared ie wae hee ged does a tactle gift for creating aimos- $ partly for those who have talent and don’t know how to $|He had been Governor of Curscuo, interest in ‘the governmental troubles of the Windy duce rents in Yonkers,” @tory writer of one. it is a well, $ use It. | tawen! trons Sei Hpaeish -Peined lay In the light of recent events we are awaiting known fact that the institutional child Yes, de- | wy ” . ent, which A A ‘ * | leg trying to wrest St. Martin from City. New York has plenty of troubles of its own. | ., But '8 New York City! does not thrive as does the home- The possession of talent, which is'a native/gitt of doing: § | ss with breathless interest the comment of Will- cldedly so, for it would decrease tax- foured one So tmee hug it been % Something supremely well, is more common than is generally §|the Portuguese. His coming had jam H. Anderson on Commissioner Enright’s - But Chicago has been suffering from very much |ation. ieee trea Caen the acy Proved that one well known child supposed. : . been heralded to the little colony, as specialist puts the former in a class by itself; less is expected of it in development jhan of the latter. When it comes down to the crux of the matter, the home is the unit of society, A marriage that cannot stand the test of propinguity can scarcely be called a complete one. Some el order that patrolmen must wear two and one- half-inch cuffs on thy trousers of their sum- ‘mer uniforms. Commissioner Enright may expect a com- munication from Yonkers suggesting the need for an additional hip pocket in the uniforms of Police Lieutenants. he was nearly a year on the way. \There was an official welcome when he arrived. He established the fag he was Governor and never let afy one forget it. Autocratic, a religious enthusiast, the company had to hold him down and caution him a dices, He was brutal in his tr the same sort of unintelligent incompetence m municipal administration as New York has been burdened with for three years. Mayor Thompson has played politics, talked demagogy and quarrellal with his associates. The newspapers of Chicago receives no income; but money has to be paid out of the city treasury to pay the interest on the bonds, A definite loss to taxpayers right there, which makes a S-cent fare a snare and a delusion. Further, we read in the papers, “The Board of Estimate appropriates $300,000 to run the cars on Staten and." The same for It is a precious gift, and, like all things precious, is very casily destroyed. In fact, most of its possessors destroy it before they ever have much of an opportunity to employ it, which is one of the reasons why it is so rare among the $ | adult population. But never imagine, if you have talent, that it is hiddtn have been the pet aversion of the Mayor. ment of attraction essential to a re: from a careless and unobserving world, |ment of Quakers exiled from New & aie : Williamsburg Bridge. marriage must be lacking. Witne: Ti Paras: iJ ? England who sought refuge here. He # Finally the citizens of Chicago have said their || The huge sums of money the Boar the KATE ME CHAgen tiie, Hate en The world is looking for talent; it employs scouts for 3 | PDEIAMA WI iimel tor style, wore : $350,000,000 MORE? say and have retired a majority of thé Thompson |the taxayers’ pocket to enshare and dufed years under one roof, Having 3 that very purpose, exactly as baseball managers employ 3] the best, and his wooden leg was ,000, been afforded a view of a photograph of the parties to some of these de- natured marriages, one is tempted to azard the opinion that one of said contracting parties realized that dis- tance was likely to lend enchantment and that the proposal to live sepa rately came from the man in the case! Every woman who has brous child into this world, who ix endeay oring to direct its interests and ene gies aright, feels that she is just surely working at her masterpiece as those who ply their lesser arts, and that her opportunities to attain are as great! = MURIEL M. MITCHELL. New York. Jan. 1921, bound about with silver bands, He literally put the town on the map, because he had a map made of it in 1661. Previously he had given \it a charter and called it the City of |New Amsterdam. There were 1,000 | persons here, a large proportion of being slaves. . Stuyvesant in making bis city the streets paved. He completed chureh and built a schoolhouse. delude the public on the pretense of giving a S-cent fare were intended for better purposes—namely ,the Po- lice, Fire and School Departments. Let the fare be Increased, not only to wipe out the elty debt but also to give the investors, who made real rapid transit possible, thelr just due. | ivic pride tells me we had before the war and will have, after an In- creased fare, the best and cheapest transportation In the world. |. F, ORYAN, New York, Feb. 21, 1921. | The Homemakers Say. ‘Ty the Fetitor of The Brening Workd: Is it not time that the opinions of the homekeeping woman were aired? Having read the Interview with a certain woman writer which was published in The Evening World Saturday 1 feel that we so-called shackled ones should have our say, we who have taken -our husbands’ names (and not in vain), who main- tain our dwelling under the same roof with them, who have borne and are rearing our children. Why must it always appear to the woman who has chosen a “carver,” literary, artistic or what-not, that the woman who has married, as- sumed her husband's name, and ac- cepted the care of a home and chil dren is not socially and economéecally independent? According to G. K. Chesterton, nowhere is a woman more important than as a wife and mother in her own home. She is queen of her domain, small though it is, She ts far more independent than the woman who works in a fac- tory or office, belng abler to adjust her work to her own schedule, She has much more opportunity to assert her individuality, to give vent to her personality, And she feels that the work she is doing is just as im- portant as that of a writer reeling off stories of interminable length which are forgotten almost as oon as they are read. Washing dishes is often as sacred as typing story after story with very little variation from each other, ‘As for the “mother instinct,” what does a woman who has never had scouts to find good players. These seouts are keen and far-seeing. If you can write or paint or make’ useful invertions you will have trouble to eseape them. They are so eager in their quest that they are constantly dragging mediocrities from obscurity and vainly trying to make celebrities of them. a If you have a tulent that is unrecognized, all you need to do is to tell somebody about it. The chance to prove your as a brewery and he imposed assertion will be given you, jan tax, upon ihe, st ere “of But remember that talent is very fragile. It must be $ | liquors, In aagition. oe nid, better nursed at first and exercised afterward. Bad physical habits, }|piaces for the carrying on of their excesses of all kinds, will make your circulation sluggish, } |PUSRCS oa was north of tite 13 and your brain, which is the seat of talent, will soon refuse 3 |getticments about where Worth Street to act as it ought. Laziness will prevent the proper exercise } |now 1s, Ho ordered all goats and hogs of your facility to do something well, and it will atrophy and $ |", 8C2,"\n" two hundred yeara disappear, e later, Charles Dickens wrote of hogs No talent is ever developed without hard work. The $|i2,.(°¢ (Buc tiey were kept out it genius of Paderewski could never have been made known to 3 |Stuyvesant’s time. ase aim, cmab the world had he not spent long years in training his fingers {| ished the {HC tm tint nad a’ ferry to express it. between Manhattan and Brooklyn. He of his art before his tatent will be apparent. It isso in all the $ |‘tasa% {D'oh lines in which talent makes itgelf known. Don't be afraid that your talent will not be discovered, if you have it. The thing to fear is that you yourself will destroy it, either before or after the world has discovered it, The discovery itself is almost absolutely certain, lthe trade of the other settlements, } ROvOuT TT aeneneeeetenananannnannannnananannnnnnnananenanannad Ready to fight the demand of the Words From the Wise British that ne turn the elty over to them in 1664 he had but twenty guns to the British sixty-two, He yielded to a petition of the citizens, who saw that resistance was useless, and haujed down the flag of the Nether- Ambition has its disappoint ments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us; its appetite grows keener by indul- gence, and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the an eturned to Holland and came more to inflame its insatiable de- sires—Benjamin Franklin, back to what had been rechristened New York, and lived his life out ow Man is the will and woman the sentiment, In this ship of hu- tools. The inference is that the Mayor is likely to be retired when his time comes. In which the diligent seeker hereabout may find a ray of hope. 4 GOES without saying that any programme of tax Tevision which would do away with the Excess Profits Law, transportation taxes and soda water tax will meet with a measure of favor. These are three proposals made by Representative Longworth of Ohio. He has introduced a bil! to that effect, not with any expectation of getting ac- ‘tion in this session, but to allow opportunity for discussion during the Congressional recess. These three items, together with a reduction of super-taxes on incomes, are,expected to result in the loss of nearly a billion dollars in Federal receipts Mr, Longworth disregards both the sales tax and the tax on undistributed profits and proposes to make up the deficit by a Corporation tax and by increased tariff receipts. Mr. Longworth estimates that “a tariff based on "the protective principle” will produce an increased reverwe of $350,000,000. if Mr. Longworth seriously believes that the next Congress will pass such a law, the country ought - to know what such a tariff means, Mere figures in Government receipts and ex * penditures have ceased to mean much since the war "accustomed this Nation to talk in billions, But it 4 new tariff is to raise $350,000,000 more than the | > present revenue, it will have to raise more than iho: twice as much as any tariff this country ever had. Under such a revenue bill the customs receipts ‘would have to amount to more than $650,000,000, | ‘The Payne-Aldrich bill at its high-water mark in 1910 raised $333,000,000. While the Longworth revenue measure is under | it will be well to bear these figures in It's settled, The Hoover In the Harding Cab- {net will be in no sense de-Hooverized. THE WISER WAY. HE minority demand that the Daylight Saving Act be repealed passed triumphantly in the House, but in the Senate is encountering stiffer op- position than was anticipated. From a flat demand for repeal, Senatorial opinion seems to have shifted toward support of the Dueli bill, which continues the present statute but permits local ordinanges in communities where standard time is preferted. If we are to have variegated and assorted chro- nometry, this is wiser and more economicai than the local option idea as applied to the clock. It is hardly possible that opponents of Daylight Saving would be so foolish as to make a serious effort for repeal in the larger centres of population. In the less populous communities ordinance-making is com- paratively simple and inexpensive, The Duell bill seems to be the best and most ex- pedient way out for Republican politicians whe pledged themselves to tinker with the time. If there must be further tinkering, the Duell bill would benefit a clear majority of the people of the State. had t Paying for It. To tho Bititor of Tae Kveving World T have a family of five children and have had a hard struggle to raise them. Three are of school age and the other two make their own living I have worked hard and put in twen- ty-five to thirty hours per week In overtime during the last year. Now| 1 am compelled to pay an income tax} on some of this hard-earned money This year Tam not xo prosperous and | \t works a hardship on me to pay {t I think the Government would do well if it would tell us just how a person can maintain a child on $20. per yeur, which tho Government al lows, especially during the year o, 1920, w the purchasing power o: fn dollar was about 2c. Since the Volstead Act went into effect the Government has lost about $800,000,000 per year in revenue and twice as much to try to enforce a law no one is in favor of except, u few fanatics, who have been joined by bootlesgers and the riffraff of the country. If the Government had that $2,400,- 000,000 it would have if these cranks and kiNjoye had not stampeded and coerced the Legislatures at a critical war-time, the Gqvernment would not need to ask the poor man of family who is struggling for existence for a few hyrd-e ned dollars, Congre: s put this country on the “blink” right. Its the major | cause of unrest and dissatisfaction, These good United States should be his farm, a regular New Yorker. Ho died in 1672 and was buried on his farm. His bones are in St..Mark's jn the Bouwerle, om the site of his old r Stuyvesant had played his in the making of the City of New re You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY 18 THIS? ) Read the Answer in the Next of the Seri from them \s the great home of cul- ture in the city, While thousands pass them every day only a few stop Lo gaze on them, and then it Is usually vnvse interested in arboriculture. A. fence with @ sign announces the ground is for sale, Some day, perhaps, 4 millionaire may build a palace on the plot of ground which Answer to previous description 181st Street and Amaterdam Avenue, TWICE OVERS “6 HERE should be an American physician at each foreign port to inspect, delouse and disinfect emigrants before they embark for the United NO. 6. Cedar trees growing in the city and not in @ park are not common in New York, When you have eight of them , Anything but a cockatoo (singularly! yery prosperous emersing victorious| manity will is the rudder and | O'S so 4 bigg a : e " , p standing on a piece of jenough for that, or big enough possible, ‘even if the country woult | States, A law mohing this mandatory was passed in | propriase 1B some cases) know from the gre en ind eines Rv’! santiment the sail, When woman | ground ‘abubly worth & quarter of a| apartment. house, Tis aeuat tee a ai 1893, but i has never been enforced.” —Dr. William T._ } sumptuous ign Ret bari to tay down reavosable coat and welt fe kage affects to steer, theg rudder. 49 ocean ee wr sb aust ore niche fof other for the raining of chi} 0 cry thing seems tow! W great ' ru Jenkin seems es | Slama who. have, yen Mia bo, SS only a masked sail Emerson. itu itamtion, arom Uh siren | paw tam Bas “