The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1921, Page 22

- te te - eaten ee : had the entire fleet concentrated on the Pacific Coast. A Sun correspondent ‘adds a of an army concentration in the land of Native Sons. On the authority of an unnamed the Sun correspondent reports: controversy between the United States over several matters long ago stage where it became necessary this Government to assert itself unmis- How far the Sun reflects the atlitude of the Administration and how far the wish is ther of the thought we do not know. _ It was by precisely such gestures, such “unmis- | takable assertions,” that Wilhelm of Germany | “ept the peace of Europe’ by rattling the sword. + ofp Japan such an irresponsible statement: will be weed by the Japanese militarists to goad the Parlia- | mentary bodies into renewed military activity. It will be used to create fear and suspicion of the This Government has already “asserted itself » .waimistakably.” Secretary Colby left no doubt as _ to the position of the United States on the question ' of Yap. Mr. Hughes shows no disposition to mod- ify or weaken that siatement. Loose tatking on “unmistakable assertions” and _ Japanese-American “controversies” can only em- . barrass the State Department and make bad blood. » One individual, at least, would view such a con- . eentration with delight. Washington B. Vanderlip ’ is hoping for just such a “demonstration.” If the ambitious promoter of Siberian “concessions” could ‘ only collect a scrap-book of such comment and ' itresponsible forecast he might be able to return to and negotiate new contracts for Ahe ex- of several hundred thousand more square ES) i : iif | te “ASSISTANT GOVERNMENT.” C. & BARRETT is out with an interesting j statement attacking what he calls the ‘‘assist- ) ant government” in Washington. | “He names as members of this “assistant govern- _ ment” the legislative agents or lobbyists of the “Big | Five Packers,” the Chamber of Commerce of the : United States, the Association of Railway Execu- A tives, the National Association of Manufacturers and + a long list of other special interests having offices | and special pleadéts in the Capital of the Nation. | «Mr. Barrett waxes sarcastic and at times vitriolic in } to the activities of these agents who attempt | to direct legislation to favor special classes or inter- } ests. The Evening World agrees with Mr. Barrett | in believing that such influences are dangerous and + should be discredited by the force of publicity. __ Mr. Barrett presents a comprehensive list of these | nefarious organizations. But it is not complete. _ He intludes neither the National Farnters’ Union » nor the National Board of Farm Organizations. + Who, by the way, is Mr. Barrett? / ¢Mr, Barrett is President of the National Farmers’ * Union and Chairman of the Board of Farm Organ- : izations. ‘ Washington. r. Barrett looks after the special . tereSted in the Fordney Emergency Tariff, at least / umtil the politicians double-crossed him. _« If Mr. Barrett had only included himself in his list i his attack would have been a knockout. During the campaign last fall anybody would i “have thought the Republican Party had the Soe most carefully worked-out programme ever _ drawn up ready for a nation’s needs. »* Somebody seems to have mislaid the skedool, ee HARDY ANNUALS. i IS interesting to learn that Babe Ruth is “bust- ; Ay ing” the ball over the fence in the Louisiana _, training camp. + ®)As usual, we hear that the veteran “soup-bones” | at getting into shape and that the “charley-horses” _) ate limbering up. Winter accumulations of fat are nor less promising than usual. But from day to day we learn that this team or is hampered by bad weather. The profes- ball players are said to welcome bad weather _| interests of the farmers. Mr. Barreit urged the re- ' "vival of the War Finance Corporation and was in, | As a matter of fact, Mr. Barrett is himself a “lob- | byist,” a member of the “assistant government” in | THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1921," that are “working out” in the streets and play- grounds of New York. Go down on the east side, or over in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, or in Brooklyri, the Bronx or upper Manhattan and it is evident that weather makes little or no difference to the schoolboys who Sneak over a few practice throws with a watchful eye for “the cop” who chases them out of one street only to find them in the next. On the playgrounds ft is the same. Every free hour sees the “workouts” going on full swing. A drizzling rain scarcely interrupts the play. Cold fingers are warmed up by lusty swinging. “Al’a'boy” is the echo to every good catch or hit, If you are looking for real inside information on the opening of the baseball season, forget the sport- ing pages until after dark. Go out for a walk and find out from the boys who are rushing the season. MORE AND MORE PLAIN. OV. MILLER strains his case when he uses the argument for a Port af New York dis- trict as a prop for his proposal io destroy municipa! home rule in traction settlements. At a hearing yesterday on the proposed compact ‘between State authorities of New York and New Jersey to recognize the Port of New York as ati area of interstate interest and development, Gov. Miller pointedly dwelt upon “the inefficiency ant incompetence” of the present Administration in New York City as a special reason “for the Stale to step in and rescue people in their own interests,” He went on to say: “There has been a good deal of talk about home rule, and it has been made a fetish to cover misrule and misgovernment, and the peo- ple who are talking of it with respect to the municipalities of the State are looking at it from an entirely wrong angle. “The State is sovereign within its sphere The municipalities have been created by the State. They are the mere creatures of the State as agencies for local administration, and their justification or excuse for the exercise of power stops at the point where they cease to be able effectively and efficiently to handle the problems.” Obviously the Governor means this for the oppo- nents of his traction programme. ‘ But surely here are two different things: ‘The problem of port. development does affect, as Goy. Miller says, not only the 6,000,000 people of New York City, but the more than 10,000,000 people of the State and the many more millions of the entire country. Port development, partichlarly in the case of this port, is, indeed, more than a local matter. Is the same true in like degree of the reorganiza- tion cf surface, subway and elevated lines serving primarily the 6,000,000 people of this city? Are street railways no more local than shipping facilities for the commerce of State, Nation and world? At first it seemed that Gov. Miller's traction pro- gramme might be a well-meant, albeit taotless, move to do for this city what a futile Administra- tion had failed to do in getting at the facts of the transit situation and working out—with State and municipal co-operation—a remedy. 5 It is now evident the plan was much deeper, more definite and deliberate. In fact, it grows more and more apparent that to steady a Republican Legislature in carrying out orders every possible present condition, proposal or need in city or commonwealth is to be con- verted into argument and concentrated on the de- struction of whatever municipal authority stands in the way of immediate higher fares on transit lines in the City of New York. How many of the burglar brigade deducted fees to lawyers aa an expense of doing Business when they prepared their income tax reports? TWICE OVERS. “ec y lait (transit) bill has a most subile little joker. It says no plan is to be put into effect with- out permission of the local authorities, but don’t lose sight of the fact that the Transit Commission is the local authority.” —Senator Duggan. . . . wi AM glad to be back in America—the greatest place on earth.""—Archbishop Hayes. a er ' “ce E will not strike, whatever they may do, but will depend on justice from the Labor Board.” —A. J. Spair, spokesman for N. Y. Central Employees, . . * “ E spend $22,000,000,000 yearly for luxuries, and if this stupendous sum was splil in two ways we would have enough money to solee the world’s capitalization problem.” —W. M, Lewis, Director of Savings Department, United States Treasury. i ‘Taxes and Armaments. ‘Ve the Kaltor of Tho Wrening World Last Sunday I was a guest at a party of about twenty people, com- posed of men and women of affairs. During the evening tne main topic of conversation was taxes—especially in- | come taxes, If our politicians at Wash- ington had heard the remarks and, opinions of these people about the out- rageous confiscation called income | tax, they would have no doubt about what people are thinking and talking about most of the time. The Evening World was highly commended for the articles they continue to publish on the subject. All other papers seem to have got tired or for some other reason have stopped saying much about excessive taxes. At least since election. There's no doubt but taxes caused the Republican landslide last election. To-day practically every voter has his eye firmly on Washing- ton, and woe betide the present in- cumbents if they fail to stop the scandalous spending of taxpayers money and reduce taxes. We don't need a navy costing bil- lions in order to lick Hngland and “free” Ireland in order to pander tu ® handful of ignorant Irish here. No country is going to invade the United States. Supposing some country was insane enough to attempt the job and suc- -eoded in landing ten, twenty or fifty or a hundred thousand men on either the Atlantic or Pacific Coast, how jong would it take to annihilate or chase them into the sea. There's as much chance of the U, 8. A. being in- vaded as there is of the moon turning into green cheese, If, however, we organize and sup- port a huge army and navy we will have another war with somebody as sure as the sun will,rise to-morrow. M. J. BL New York, March 9, 1921, College Men Jobs. ‘To the Baitor of The Breaing World Referring to the letter from W. R 8., printed in this column on Thursday evening, March 9 concerning college graduates and their inability to secure employment and that it is a ‘riddle’ that has been puszling him for some time, would say that I can, in some measure, help him to solve this “riddle” has been so puzzling. Theodore Roosevelt cnce : “L graduated from Har- vard in the year ——- and then started my education.” I often think that he was more [n earnest when he said this than In jest. College men are not to blame for their self esteem—far from it. They are told by college professors that a man without a college egucation is doomed from the start, and at com- mencement day some individual who graduated from some college in the years gone by, but who has done nothing since, tells them: “I can see as I look at you that within ten years from now every man leaving hore will be a power in the world and 4 man among men,” &c. But will they? From: Evening World Readers What hind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it ihe one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ta fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfactio® in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. ‘Best Minds fine article for college men to read,! and Hammond is @ college man himself. ‘The college man is not discriminated against in any way when seeking em- ployment, The only individual who finds it hard to get work Is the college) man who insists on advising the pros- pective employer continually that he is a college man, I heard one in- dividual advise a prospective em- ployer three times in fifteen minutes that he was a college man, but he neglected to answer two very im- portant questions during this time. The average college man holda a very good job and it is only the in- dividual who goes out looking for work with the idea that somewhere in this or some other city there are special jobs at special salaries for college men. If they think this they certainly will not find them any more than they will find special seats in the subway for college men during rush hours, W. H. BURBANK. “Our Slang.” ‘To the Kalitor of The Bvoning Workd Fy Apropos the article under the cap- tion “Our Slang,” permit me to ob- serve that even such an undeniably capable critic and recognized au- thority as Geonge Bernard Shaw, in his “Captain Brassbound’s Conver- sion,” makes a mess of the “Ameri- can” language when he causes an American naval officer to eay “cawnt” for “can't” and “interdooce” for “in- troduce,’ Ce As for naking a date,” meaning “setting a date for getting married,” it certainly “is to laugh.” One of these fine days some En- slishman will write a book giving his honest conception of American slang and—awake the next day to find him- self heralded—"The Great Humorist.” MARTIN SHAPIRO. New York, March 13, 1921. The 1 is Are British, To the Extitor of The Wyaning World As a constant reader of leading jour- nals, 1 have read over and over wit! great indignation the proposals regard- ing the ceding of the British West In- dies to America. 1 think, as any other ers of this suggestion had better de- vine some other means. We of these islands are proud to be & part of the greatest empire the world has ever known, and enjoys rights and privileges that no other countries ex- isting are in position to render, have been propositions favoring reoi- procity agreements with other parts of our empire, but we even refused thie. Should the promoters of this sugges. tion learn a little about the devotion of these islands to the motherland and get the expression of their views on this subject, they would possibly see the nonsense of his suggestion, For England these Islands are of strategic importance, Should this ques- tion be put to her it would be an ex- ceptional joke for English papers. Do Why? Where did he get this informa. tion? About a year. I read an article John id nd en- sleds t the College Profeasor ‘This would be a's Now York, March 18, 1021, you really think she would even give it a serious thought? 1am ® Bahamian and am proud to Temain 50, GERALD JONES. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Btake.) CONCENTRATE ON THE BIG JOB. - It was Stevenson, we believe, who said that he liked to read the work of men whose feet got cold when they wrote. An American playwright who works with a cigar in his mouth is never sure that he is doing good work till the cigar goes out. If he gets so interested in the lines he is writing or the situations he is creating that he forgets to pull at the cigar, he is sure that he is putting a successful play together. Doubtless you have noticed yourself that when you were engaged on some particularly difficult mental task you for- gel to observe the passage of time, and it is 6 o'clock long before you thought it was 4. . We once knew of a crew of union labor men who were so interested in getting a refractory derrick to working that they had toiled three hours overtime and were fined by the union for doing it. The last time we met a member of this crew he was Superintendent of the plant the stones for which were hoisted by that derrick. All this goes to show that when really important work is at hand concentration is absolutely necessary. James Russell Lowell, after he began his poem, “The Vision of Sir Launfall,” shut himself in his study and did not emerge till it was finished. It was probably fortunate for Lowell that there were not telephones to jangle downstairs, making him wonder who was calljng,, and no automobile horns tooting at the front gate. These things are enough to ruin many masterpieces, unless the masterpiece maker is of a particularly phlegmatic disposition. We know of a man who can sit down in a crowded room and work out problems in differential calculus, But such men are few, If you have an important piece of work the best thing is to get into a bare room where there is not even a picture to distract your attention or a window to look out of and go at it. You ean learn to concentrate in that way and if you once learn you will presently be able to get sufficiently interested in your work to do it in noisier surroundings. But the chief thing is to get it done, and to insure that you should give yourself all the seclusion that walls can provide. The World’s Oldest « Love Stories’ By Maubert St. Georges a er York Bretlng Woes OO “HORN AND RYMENHILD” © ORN was the son of Mi King of Suddene. His having been killed by Sarac the boy, with some youthful oomp- panions, mado ‘his way to the dom of Westernesse, Here they found by Atimar, the King, who te@k charge of them and made them pages in his palace, Horn being made the King’s special attendant. uw se For six years Horn remained! et Britisher would think, that the promot-|~ There |. Words From the Wise The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the Jancy.—Bovee. We can all, when we are well, give good counsel to the sick.— ‘Perence. Aa the snow before the sun, even so (# @ polished lie before the naked truth,—Downey. “A wrinkled purse brings a wrin- kled face. When our money bag is nearly empty and full of wrin- kles, care {a apt to bring wrinkles in the face.”-—R. Whately. Men are porn with two eyes but swith one tangue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.—Colton, WHAT PLACE IN NEW VORK CITY 18 THIS? Read the Answer in the Nest of the Series. Answer to previous series—Union Square, one of No, 13. down or up five streets. i a a the | You stand on the corner and look | Two great tuildings, both marvels in their way, | occupy .corners. One takes In two! whole blocks, Through its arcade! goes traffic east and west. A cafe court, and he became the Kings favorite squire. In this position! saw much of the King’s daughtér, Rymenkild, and the two learnéd love each other and made occasib| when they might meet. Urged by his love, Horn travel the kingdom seeking adventures prove his worth. One day he yet a shipload of Saracens, and remenibes- ing his father’s fate, he set alot them afd, slaying their leader, dg- feated them, For this he was knight- ed. But one of his companions, jeal- ous of this, approached the King afid told him that Horn was plotting to kill him in order to marry Rymen- hild and steal his throne, ‘he King, finding apparent confirmation of this On surprising Horn and his daughter at one of their meetings, banisied ube young hero on pain of death. Horn made his way to ireland, and soon his courage und great deeds made him the favorite of Thu the King, and the sworn brotha, pf his two sons. Once the country invaded by Saracens, and both U King’s sons were slain, but Horn, 6r Cuthbert, as he was ‘called in Ire land, attacked them with a company of heroes und defeated them, slaying countless numbers of them. Upon this, since as the throne was without heirs, Thurston ordered Hom ' to marry his daughter Reynild, and to take upon himself the ruling gf Ireland. But Horn had not Ca Seen, iil ’ Rymenhild and persuaded Thues' to wait seven yeurs, In the mean time Rymenhild’ wes being wooed by 4 powerful ruler, King Modi of Reynes, and her father was using force to make her accept Rymenhild then called Athulf, Horn's special friend, and asked him to se Horn and ask him to help her. Athulf set out and at last found Horn in Ireland. When the hero heard of his love's plight he went to King Thurston and, telling him his whole story, begged for help which the King willingly granted. Starting off with a band of Irish knights Horn made his way to the castle of King Modi. Entering ip the guise of a holy palmer he siew Mod? then opening the gates lett his companions and by their help conquered the castle. And the next day Horn at last wedded his belov nor did the King of Westernesse dage to refuse his daughter to the victor, Then to pacity his father-in-law and prove himself worthy of his wife, Horn started out for Suddene to avenge his father an. reconquer his kingdom. This he did easily, bys the country was distant and he was forced to remain long away. oy When he returned he found Hint the traitor who had before actlisdd him of conspiring had stolen his wife, hoping thus to have a claim dn the throne of Westernesse, Horn, dis- guised this time as a minstrel and ' his companions as jugglers and fid- dlers, entered the castle once more { aS and slew the man who sought to steal nis love. This time no more trouble awaited him, He embarked witu his wife for Suddene, On the way th touched at Ireland, where Rey: was persuaded to look favorably gn the suit of Athulf, Then they con- tinued to Suddene, where Horn‘ and bis wife lived happily till their death. * | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government ~ Commits Now’ Yack ioraiina Werth) 3 By Willis Brooks Hawking, This is the sixty-fourth artwte of a series defining the dutics of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York Gity Government. 1 ———a ” BOTANICAL GARDEN. ,; ‘The New York Botanical Garden,ts part of the Bronx Park system.amd conaists of 400 acres of natural,wood- land and plantations of shrubs, trees and hardy herbaceous planta. wr ‘The main building contains a'sdl- entific and economical museuri, ao herbarium, a library and a lecture hall. A conservatory is provided for plants from tropical and warm tem- perate regions. 7 The grounds andbuildings are daily to the public without chi The museum building is open mbt summer from 10 A. M. to 5 Pew and in winter from 10 A. M. tow.80 || P, M. ‘The conservatories are open from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Free pab- lie lectures on botanical subjects given in the museum every Saturday afternoon from April to November, The Botanical Garden is under the control of a board of twenty-six managers,, of which the Mayor and lthe President of the Park Board are members, The expenses of the in- stitution are met in part from the city’s budget and in part from mem- bers’ dues, contributions and sncome from endow! famous even in Europe, You need |go to no height to see a long .dip- tance, because the cleared space that some time in the near future AML = > | noid a great building costing miNictha, permits you to look almost acrées country to a part of old New York once considered the wickedest in the city, It lives to-day only in story books and the old pi made ata time when men were jlc- tured Wearing plug hats and whigk- ers. The corner itself is historic, of the buildings bears on it the occupies a corner and nestling down ecomipgiy sheltered i @ ohureh nr wonerwe Roman numerals of the date of $s _ +i mane al