The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1921, Page 20

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Miche Daily Racopt Sunday by ‘The Proms Publishing Compan: RALPH 3. ANG MEMBER OF THE AS8OUIATED Pres Asociated Prem is exclusively entitled to the Also tho local news publismed herett. WORTH TRYING. HEN The Evening World sent questions to operating officials of the principal railroads + it hoped the replies would indicate an intention on “the part of the rofds to lower freight rates when i Wage schedules were cut. Ri, The replies printed yesterday did not bear out this hope. ; Few of the officials appear to have given any Consideration to the possibility of lower freight = tates soon, Few indicated a comprehension of the Public mind on the question. Few disoussed or even seemed to realize that traffic would increase under % ‘s lower rates and might even prove more profitable. | __~ Freight rates are too intricate a problem for the general public to understand. But what the public _ Knows is that rates went up when wages went up. _ Weis asking why rates should not come down along ‘As a matter of good business, ‘the railroads can- et afford to disregard this attitude of the public. Sor can the roads afford not to try to stimulate their business by lowering rates. _, Such a policy is worth a trial. The roads should | five themselves and the public the benefit of the experiment. Mf new and lower rates do not prove remunera- Be: tive, the public will then be in better temper to atept a restoration of present rates. ak ON TRUST. Mr. D. R. Crissinger, the new Comptroller of ' the Currency, is, according to the Sun, “a fellow townsman of the President, who thus has an in- timate knowledge of his history, his character ‘and his fitness for the duties which pertain to his new office.” _ After recounting his. years of experience as _ head of one of the leading financial institutions = (of Marion, Ohio), the Sun concludes With this _ gratifying blanket indorsement: “He is a lawyer and business man of tried ability.” ~ And we are plugged nickel that E . D. R. Crissinger lived until Mr. Harding nt) ided to make him Comptroller. ss € to wager a dollar to a San was unaware that * THE TIDE TURNS. NE of the best bits of news for some time is i the repoft the State Industrial Commission issued yesterday. | The tide has turned. Two per cent. more work- __ €f8_were employed in ry than in January. ) Two per cent. isn’t much, perhaps. Unemploy- ca ment still exists. But the fact that some employ- | @rs‘have found demand and a market for the goods these workers produced will encourage other em- ‘ to go ahead with production. F yyment and hard times are largely a state of mind. The worst is over when iit is possible to _ Seé better times ahead. Every employer who shows faith in better times e ‘Pnoouraging others to take a similarly optimiste wi. Every worker who is employed furnishes a market which other workers must satisfy with more A brutal murder occurred in Perth Amboy, . J., last Saturday night. The body of the fetim was not discovered until Sunday morn- ‘ * ing and yesterday morning the Perth Amboy ‘Police had the murderer. "The criminal caught inside of thirty-six hours after the crime. * Wouldn't it be a good idea for Police Com- oo joner Enright to get in touch with the Amboy police and try to find out how it's done? “ * BAD JUDGMENT IN KANSAS. ROM Kansas comes the report of a riotous dem- onstration against the Non-Partisan League which two organizers were tarred and run out F town and a former United States Senator es- ted to the city limits. } Apparently Kansans have no better judgment Oo more common sense than North Dakotans Minnesotans. Persecution and violence is not the way to fight th doctrines as the Non-Partisan League organ- preach. The league has always thrived on cution. Martyrdom is an asset to an organizer, > Mr. Townley and his crew of exhorters had things : ety much their own way in North Dakola until % time came to deliver the goods they had prom- “iged. Then they encountered Old Mr. Trouble. ) In Minnesota an autocratic “Public Safety Con- 3 ” persecuted the organizers until the league up a substantial minority vote. It was not Hil the failure of the Dakota experiment became ent that the league slumped in Minnesota. Sensiole Kansans have the best of material for iting the economic heresies of the Non-Partisan North Dakota's experience is enough to the most discontented farmer think twice be- eae se fh pews deanatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im thir paper THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH campaign effective they had betler call off the ex- uberant tar party element, NOT THAT WAY. HE Prohibition autocrats are still in a state of fume over the decision of former Attorney General Palmer permitting physicians to prescribe beer in unlimited quantities for patients. Threats to stiffen the Volstead act with amend- ments are flying through the air from Prohibition headquarters. The Prohibitionists talk confidently of what they will “have Congress do” if they find it necessary. We wonder. If the Prohibition forces tested their power to pul tighter legislative clamps on Nation-wide Prohibi- tion al the present time, what would such a test show? Would the Prohibitionists even risk one? Since the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect and the legalized saloon of low type ceased to be the standing Prohibition argument, there has been a good deal of sensible thinking going on among people who might once have styled themselves Prohibitionists. Today there are fewer persons in the United States than there were three years ago who would maintain that the regulated sale of beer and light wines for home consumption, instead of the present law-breaking, hypocrisy and stealth, would mean a more drunken and depraved Nation. There are fewer persons who ase perfectly cer- tain there can be no compromise with personal lib- erty without bringing back the worst evils of the There are fewer persons who would leave it to the Anti-Saloon League to dictate to Congress ex- actly what constitutes “intoxicating liquor” in the meaning of the Ejghteenth Amendment. Ultra-Prohibitionists will indignantly deny these statements. But are they not true? . Would not Congress or any other representative body feel them to be true? Commenting on the Palmer decision, Deputy Police Commissioner Dr. Carleton Simon, head of the Narcotic Bureau in this city, said the other day: “Anything that takes away legitimate socia- bility tends to promote crime. Beer is prac- tically harmless and ‘thas, in fact, more food properties than whiskey. When men were de- prived of it they left the influence of the home, where they were able previously to enjoy them- selves, and went outside to vicious surround- ings. “T am utterly opposed to the saloon, and the lack of beer has driven men to the saloon of to-day, or to worse places, I also firmly be- lieve that people should be able to buy beer for home consumption. Proper use of it in the home is a crime discourager, and the lack of it has produced a disrespect for law detri- mental to the Nation. “Mr. Palmer's decision is wise and good; 1 hope that the restrictions on beer may be even more liberally interpreted.” The same may be said for light wines. ‘ That nothing could ever again legalize the old type of saloon has become a national truism, But suppose the Volstead act came up for re- vision: Would the Prohibition forces find it so easy to make Congress stand for the absurdity that any beverage containing above one-half of one per. of alcohol is intoxicating? Even that part of the public whose well-founded loathing of the saloon made it possible to put over Nation-wide Prohibition will now be found to show less conviction in denouncing the temperate use of wine or beer at home. The trend is not that way. . A LESSON IN “INVESTMENTS,” (From the Minneapolis Joutnal.) The science ©: imuvesuug luvney, no matter how small the sum, is one that is usually learned in the sharp school of experience, and many are the hard knocks that that schoo! inflicts before the pupil learns a modicum of good sense and financial acumen, In no school, probably, is experience a dearer teacher, There is a story of one of the shrewd devices of a father to instill this modicum of financial understand- ing. The boy desired a certain fragile and passing plaything, the cost of which was to be $100. The sum was nothing to the father's purse, but the idea behind the expenditure was. He put up ail kinds of arguments to the boy, show- ing the foolishness and waste of the investment. He coaxed, cajoled and even threatened. All his talk was pushed aside with scorn and bitterness. Finally the father hit on another expedient. He said: “Son, which would you rather have, this toy that will be thrown aside in a week, or 50 cents a month as long as you live?” For some strange reason the boy was wise enough to choose the 50 cents a month, he father then in- vested $100 in a gilt-edged security yielding 6 per cent., and the boy was given an object lesson in thrift and in investment that was of untold value to him, for it gave him his first lesson in the science of in- vesting his money. It would be a valuable lesson for many of our older countrymen who are to-day either spending their money for that which is naught, or “investing” it in oil, gold mining or other stocks, of which they know, and can know nothing, certainly, ~ | Home | Rule! w The VP. STATE Pounics. 15, 1921, By John Cassel Cops right 1 Te Frew Py New York Evening to say much in @ few words. Take The Rent Law Victory. To the Falitor of The Brening Work): My thanks and those of every fel- jow-sufferer at the hands of the prof- iteering landlord are due to The Eve- ning World for the brave fight it has put up, winning finally to the goal—a knockout decision. Would it not be possible to organ- ize a great public rally to give credit where credit is due and especially to praise, in a way that would stand out, Messrs. Newton, Guthrie, Cohen and tie rest who, without compensa- tion whatever, fought so hard and so well for a sorely harassed com- munity? It was a whole community that suffered, and I feel positive that, should your valuable newspaper ini- tate such a gathering—a gathering of gratitude and esteem—the general response would be immediate and overwhelming. ROBERT 'T. STODART. New York, March 11, 1921. Ol Ve. Gas, ‘To vie Ealitor of The Evening World; As a newspaper you are 100 per cent. ‘As a fighter for the people, 100 per cent. ‘And, above all, 100 per cent. Amer- ican. Now for another victory. Let us all hear from: you about oil versus as. Congratulations and many thanks for the rent laws urged by your won- derful paper, The Evening World. B, M. P. New York, March 10, 1921 “Good Policy? | Do the Exlitor of The Breging World: I write to call attention to an edi- torial in The Evening World of March 4, entitled “Good » Policy?” Knowing that The Evening World always desires to present the facts | tairly, 1 am forced to the conclusion that the writer was misinformed as to the Brooklyn traction situation, at least so far as the Brooklyn City Railroad is concerned. The editor- ial commented on the decision of the Brooklyn City Railroad to cut off service over the Williamsburg Bridge. }it charged us with ingratitude for | “fighting the same City Government” from which we had “asked repeated | favors" and warned ue against a public-be-damned attitude. |Perne Brooklyn City Raitroad—which '\s about half of the surface traction system in Brooklyn—was leased to the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com- pany from Feb, 14, 1893, until Octo- ber 1919, at which time the lease was broken and the Brooklyn City Com- pany's property was returned to its {owners. Prior to October 1919 I had ‘no connection with the Brooklyn tras tion situation, but as General Man- ager of the Brooklyn City Railroad since that time I am familiar with the policy of that company and its | attitude toward the public. | "since October 1919 the company has not only never asked any “favors” from the City Government, but has received at its hands unfair treat- ment on almost every occasion, no- tubly in the City’s illegal operation iow bus lines in direct competition eompany, ~ From Evening Worid Readers } What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satis/action in trying Ten't it the one time to be brief. was giving the public adequate and convenient service. The company is under no obliga- tion to operate over the Williaims- burg Bridge and has been doing so at large additional operating expense, from which the only benefit it has | received is the comparatively small return from the operation of the local service and some highly problemati- cal credit which the public may have given dt for this voluntary contribu- tion to its convenience, Careful es- timates have been made as to the cost of this voluntary operation across the bridge, which indi- cate that it has cost the company in excess of $250,000 per year. | It does not seem fair to hoid the Brooklyn City Railroad Company re- | sponsible for what may have been | done prior to Oct. 1919 by the lessee | of its system or to blame it for con- ditions whieh it had no part {n creat- ng. ‘The constant and apparently de- liberate confusion by the New York | City Administration of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company with the “B. R. T.” system is, under the circum- stances, something I have learned to That The Evening World, is usually so well informed and which has an established repu- tation for fairness, should take thie attitude seems incomprehensible and I am calling the matter to your at- tention in the hope that the error may not be repeated in the future. H. HOBART PORTHR, Vice President, Brooklyn City Rall- road Company, Mareh 10, 1921 Theatre TraMe Rules, ‘To the Faltor of The Evening World: As a casual observer I sincerely believe the new traffic regulations in the theatre district are detrimental rather than beneficial to the general public. theatregoers. However, since their introduction accidents have occurred with surprising regularity, as the average New Yorker cannot. adjust himself to the one way street rule, It would be very unkind to censure the gent jan, Dr. Harriss, a sincere thinking and pub- lic spirited man, but let us consider the matter from’ both sides and offer suggestions, so that a solution of this everlasting eituation may soon be solved. M'GOWAN, i921, FRANCIS X, New York, Ma 12, A Js Right, ‘To the Exiitor of The Ivonne World: 1am a reader of The Evening World and wish you would decide a disputed question: Truly they are of service to | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) THINK OF TO-MORROW AND YOU'LL DO IT TO-DAY. The “manana” habit keeps Spain from ever becoming a great and progressive country, and sadly interferes with progress in. Mexico and the South American republics. The Latin races say ‘manana,’ which means to-morrow, not because they are thinking about to-morrow, but because they know that to-morrow never comes. “Manana” is the slogan of the procrastinator, and procrastination, as the proverb assures us, is constantly com- mitting grand larceny. The man who really thinks about to-morrow, instead of talking about it, gets done all that can be done to-day. He knows that this is the way to make to-morrow’s work lighter, and to provide for a safer and happier future. The fact that not even the wisest of men has the slight- est idea what may happen to-morrow makes it all the more necessary to get through all possible business to-day. Then, if the worst comes—such as a cyclone, or an at- tack of pneumonia, or a disaster that paralyzes business— you have at least a part of to-morrow’s duties performed, The “Do It Now” sign that you see posted in so many offices would be useful if anybody ever heeded it, These is nothing that can be done immediately that ought not to be done immediately. It is, of course, not necessary to work till midnight in order to get tasks performed ahead of time. Working too long at any job is not good for the job, although this thedry can easily be overdone. . But by working steadily at whatever is at hand for at least eight hours 2 day, and tackling something else when one thing is accomplished, you gain part of to-morrow’s time and gradually gain many a to-morrow which later can be spent, if you choose, in luxurious leisure. Systematic saving of time is just as important as sys- tematic saving of money. That can only be accomplished by keeping your eye on to-morrow and leaving as much of it as possible free for new work and for the formation of new ideas. ~ If you say “manana” with the idea that manana is an- '3 other day of opportunity,. ahd that you will need all of it that you can save by work to-day, you will find yourself, when the time for rest comes, in possession of very many ma- nanas of which you can make extremely enjoyable use. % uralized and has a son born in this country can the son vote? Some say that he can, as ho is a citizen and has all right if bora in this country and that it is not neces- | sary for his fatifer to become natural- ized in order for him to vote. Others say he cannot vote unless his s been naturalized. father hai Wee. ua, Words From the Wise The happiness of the human race in this world does not con- sist in our being devoid of pus- sions but in command them our learning to A says that if a foreign born man comes to this country and is here thirty years and does not become a citizen and a child is born to him that makes the child a citizen whether the father Is one or not. B says that the child is not a citizen unless the father declares his intention, A READER. A Child Born im ited States a Po the Editor o€ The Evening World : if 4 man born in Ireland comes to this oountry and bas never been —From the French, | You Are a Citizen, ‘To the Falitor of The Brouing World To gettle a dispute in regard to cit- izenship. My father became a citizen of the United States in the year 189 and two years later sailed to Ireland, I was born in midocean en route to Ire- We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such @ manner as to be greater than if we could. ~Landor. Revenge is an act of passion, | ot age, then I returned to the United| ‘revenged; crimes are avenged States. Am 1a clilgen us the United Sine. Sabmecd, j States or mot? 5 f ns | Sahara! '|'Nature in The Bib By Rev. Thomas B, Gregucy | } copyright, 1921, by the Prem Publishing pene Uine New York Evening World). NO. 2, Of all the objects of inanimate na~ ture trees are the closest to us in ad~ miration and affection. But that word “inanimate,” come to think, is sadly out of place here, Trees are very much ALIVE, they, have soul, personality, magnetism, and appeal to us in a most powerful and winning way. It is no wonder that one of the most popular poems in the world is that entitled Woodman, Spare That / Tree.” ‘Tro.slated imto a huudred languages, it touches the human heart | the earth over. Think of the treeless world, and there stretches out before you the vision of a blasted, lifeless, joyless When the Germans thought to do poor France the worst hurt possible they began cutting down its | beautiful trees. Deforestation is one of the arch crimes of man against man. Quite apart from all sentiment, the destruc= tion of the tree-life of the earth te» one of the major offenses against hue manity. The destruction of the grand pine woods that once clothed the Apen- nines has made vast sections of Italy regions of poverty, disease and wretchedness; in Greece the travel~ ler s in vain for the old legen- ivers, fountains and lakes with the classic poets had which him familiar, and Palestine come a parched land on account of the deforesting of its mountains ane hills by the Arabs and Turks, In the old Bible time: the Holy Land was full of the “trees of the Lord,” and from them riarch, prophet and psalmist drew their finest inspirations and their sweet~ est consolations. In their shude they ! | rested during the heat of the day, while they meditated upon the lit- tleness of man and the greatness of God. The trees of the Bible seem not only human but divine. «The palm preaches to us of the summer of God's love, and the pine of the pa= tience and endurance og His mercy. The oak, sturdy and fnassive, re= minds us of God's sure and unfail- ing providence, in which we can trust, just as we can trust the oak to weather the tempest that wipes out the weaker trees; and the stately cedar, deep-rooted and royal in the | spread of its foliage, fttingly pro- claims to us the attributes of the King of Kings, whose name is the Everlasting Righteousness. These Bible trees are indeed alive; and we are not at all surprised when we read, “The mountains and the hills break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field clap their hands.” It seems quite a matter of course that those Bible Trees should “go forth to elect a king over them~ selves,” and should say to the Bram~ ble “Come thou and reign over us,” that the Bramble, feeling that it had been insulted, should reply, in sub- stance, “All right; if you want me to be king over you, then come and put your trust in my shade;" as thoush the Bramble had eaid to itself, with a obuckle, “I've got ‘em now, for E have no shade!” Wo iderful—thore “Trees of the Lord.” How natural were the last words of that great Bible man, “Stonewall” Jackson: “Let us cross lover the river and rest under the | or brick house shade of the trees.” Men Who Made NewYork By Irwin Thomas. Cowie York orening Work) so No. 6—ABRAHAM DE PEYSTER (1658-1728), Abraham De Peyster, son of Jo= hannes De Peyster, became the Mayor of New York in 1691, The city was divided into factions due to the Leisier usurpation of power. Despite the fact he had been close to Leisler, De Peyster was appointed. He was thirty-four years old, a naw tive of the city, and planned im~ , provements with a lavish hand. One of the first acts of the new Mayor was the donation of a piece of land known ras the Smith's Vly. It was sold off,into lots with the un- derstanding that the purchasers should assist in building a couple of wharves, one on King Street and the other at’ Mrs. Van Clyffe's Slip. De Peyster saw the need for en- couraging shipping. At one time, it is reported, there were forty squares rigged ships and sixty-two sloops im the harbor, along with other boats. The little city under De Peyster was more prosperous than it ever had been, Great Britain was at war and privateers and pirates outfitted here. Following his gift of the Smith's Viy he gave a parcel for a city hall, It wae at this place Washington was sworn in ag President. The Dutch church laid claim to the waterfront from the City Hall to what is now fulton Street. De Peyster evidently was largely instru- mental in having the trustee sell off this frontage at about $20 a lot, every purchaser agreeing to build a stone at least two stories high and the full width ef his lot. That built Water Street. Pine and Cedar Streets were cut through the Damen farm, which ex~ tended to Maiden Lane, where in a m the washerwomen handied the week's wash, De Peyster agitated for many im- s that went into effect in the decade. ‘There were no street lamps. By order every seventh hhouse- holdef was compelled to hang out a lantern on a pole. The expenso was porne by the seven householders, so it there was a candle light about ry 150 feet, qvery householder was compelled to clean the street in front of his house. ‘The street surveyor wag to Femove ali noxious weeds by the roota. An at- tempt was made to clean the streets, and the first street cleaning budget was £2 ‘The lone city constable was supple- pro’ mented by four night watchmen, who | trolled with a bell and told the’ state the weather and the hour of 'Ybreak, the night from 9 P.M. until da: i ‘au Street was made a 1 along it was given for nent, De Peyster en- j eneral way to givo the city those facilities enjoyed b; poun cities so far as he bul.” impro’ vored in the ae wd ce ; i