The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1921, Page 26

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Aye a Republican Governor and a Republi- can majority in the Legislature are jam- ming through a Traction Bill that is to take away the last vestige of this city’s authority in the settle- ment of its transit affairs, the following deserves thoughtful reading: “We favor granting to all cities and villages adequate powers of self-government and con- trol over their local affairs and property and the transaction of municipal business, subject to proper constitutional safeguards and the general laws of the State, but free from legis- lative interference in purely local matters.” The above was framed at Saratoga last July and put into the Republican State Platform. On this platform Gov: Miller was elected. . Would it work a second time? The British Government's approval of Col. Harvey as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's may be something more than formal. There is almost a competition among the na- tions of Europe to see which will be the first to discover the Harding policies. London is tm luck. If it gets Harvey it gets the policies— first hand. , ‘ THE HIRSCH HOUSING PLAN. ATHAN HIRSCH, Samuel Gompers and a rep- resentative group of public-spirited citizens and labor leaders advocate a plan for a $100,000,000 revolving fund to be advanced by the State and used in construction of houses. Nathan Hirsch’s record in smoking out the tax title frauds and his service as Chairman of Mayor Hyian’s Committee on Rent Profiteering assure him almost unlimited popular support. It was a sorry day for the Hylan Administration when politi- al jealousy led the Mayor to break with Mr. Hirsch and refuse funds for the work of the Rent Profiteer- ing Committee. Mr. Hirsch’s plan is not revolutionary. Neither it charity. It is a sound business The money-lenders fought the Farm They are pretty certain to fight the Hirsch Housing Loan Plan. It is safe to predict branded “Socialistic’—but it is noth- “In brief, Mr. Hirsch would have the State provide @ construction fund of $100,000,000, which woula On completion the building loan would be con- " verted into’a mortgage on the whole property and ‘sold in the form of the familiar mortgage bonds recognized as a high-class investment security. The builders would pay interest. The mortgages would bear interest. The difference of one-half of 14 per cent. between the loan rate and the bond rate would provide for administration. . The experience of the Federal Land Banks indicate that such a margin is sufficient. The only subvention or bonus to builders which the State would offer would be a fair interest rate such as builders have been unable to seoure from the money lenders. Mr. Hirsch’s plan is more than a house-building plan. It is a home-building plan as well, for he would provide for small one and two family opera- tions as well as the larger multiple family dwellings. ‘Compared with the steps Great Britain has taken to meet the housing shortage, Mr. Hirsch’s plan is conservative, but the fact that he advocates the scheme creates a strong presumption that it is work- able and would prove effeotive in giving new build- ing the necessary stimulus. MANY JIMMIE FOGARTYS. NE of the first “Swat the Fly” essays to reach The Evening World is from a youngster whe “would like to knock the fly for a goal.“ He gives several good reasons, but his first is: “Barly in the morning, when I would like to have a nice sleep, the fly comes along and tickles my nose.” The child is father of the man. There are a hundred charges against the fly more serious than his sleep-disturbing propensities, but nine-year-old Jimmie Fogaity probably spoke for the great ma- jority when he complained of the fly habit of tickling noses and destroying slumber. Bald-headed men cursed the ravages of the flies long before science discovered the fly was a germ tarrier. A personal nuisance usually stirs men more than a greater danger. This worki would be safer if all our germs and ; microbes were fly size or larger. If the deadly Pmeumococcus were as big as a bulldog, pneumon.a would be no more common than hydrophobia, be- cause the germs would be so great a nuisance thar mankind would rid the earth of the tribe. Because the fly is a nuisance as well as a danger, j the anti-fly campaigns of recent years have reduced THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAROB 17, 1921. _ the fly population. The life of the fly is precarious. There are some who comprehend the dangers the fly carries with it. But anti-fly work would languish if there were not many Jimmie Fogartys who do not like to have their sleep disturbed. THE TRACTION BILL. a deep laid plot to bind New York City hand and foot while State authority’ robs it of its traction control and sanctions an immediate boost of fares works smoothly toward its goal. With seven votes more than the twenty-six needed, the Senate yesterday passed Gov. Miller's Traction Bill, e isnot the smallest doubt that it will go through the Asseitibly—probably to-~d Thus is perpetrated under Republican auspices, by the power of the Republican organization acting through Republican legislative majorities, inde- fensible outrage upon the principle of representative government in this State. To claim that the passage of the Traction Bill is in response to public demand would be preposterous. Even the Governor and his obedient vote-casters in the Legislature have not dared make that pretense. A majority of the people of this city are against giving up municipal home’ rule to clear the way for higher fares, In other parts of the State no one professes to have heard the faintest POPULAR call for a programme to sacrifice local self-govern- ment in order that a State commission may fix higher uansit fares in the City of New York. This plot is in no sense of or for the people of city or State, * It is a plot of interests who want higher fares. It is a plot to which the inner organization of the Republican Party in this State has lent itself. It is a plot which begins to appear an all-im- portant, albeit hidden, factor in the nomination and election of Nathan L. Miller to the Governorship. Any party or administration that uses the legis- lative power in the name of the people for purposes that are the opposite of popular or for public good is running a grave risk. The traction plot may for the moment succeed. But what does Gov. Miller think will be the effect of such success upon the minds of an electorate that has not altogether ceased to expect true rep- resentation from those it elects to executive or legislative office? POLICE THE TAXI. HAT New York needs is a comprehensive modern motor vehicle code for the regula- tion of automobile traffic. But if the Legislature is not yet ready to provide such. a code, it should not fail to pass the Steinberg bill which transfers the regulation and licensing of taxicabs and taxi drivers from the License Department to the Police Department. Honest taxi drivers have nothing to fear from the change. No heed should be paid to the opposi- tion of dishonest and reckless. drivers who preter the divided authority which now exists. There is small consistency in keeping the Sullivar law on the statute books and leaving the predatory taxi unregulated. In recent crime news the taxi figures as often as the pistol. Police licensing of taxi drivers might not com- pletely divorce the taxi from crime, but it would at least destroy one of the alibis which the police now advance, THRIVES ON FINES. ~* HE Leo Newman Theatre Ticket Agency, which was one of those exposed by The Evening World campaign against ticket speculators, is in trouble again. Recently Newman was fined $75 for failure to stamp on the back of tickets the price at which they were sold, The present charge alleges that Newman sold four $3.85 tickets at $10 each. From which it rea- sonable to suspect that Mr. Newman takes his arrests and fines philosophically ghd merely adds the fines to the next batch of tickets he happens to sell. Mr. Newman should be warmed, however, that Federal Judges are not usually lenient to persistent law-breakers. Few who return therefrom recommend the At- lanta Prison as a summer resort. TWICE OVERS. “7 BELIEVE an immediate revision of our tax laws would be more helpful than any other one thing to start business along normal paths.” Senator Lenroot. * * * 66JN the present (naval) estimates we have set an example of reduction and taken risks and are prepared to go far in mutual agreement.” —Baron Lee of Fareham, First Lord of British Admiralty. * «ce ‘OU are putling into the hands of a commis- sion of three men the power of fixing rates, two of whom can increase fares any time they see fit.’’ —State Senator Burlingame. His Only Light! by ‘Toe Bien Pili (The New York Brening There is fine mental exercise to say much in a few words. Take Gov. Miller Is Tackling This. ‘To the Editor of The Broning World As a reader of The Morning and Evening World I wish to greatly ap- plaud your great victory in the rent cases. Would suggest that the next im- portant case to tackle should be the Consolidated Gas Company's new scale of charges for gas and stoves. New York, March 11, 1921. M. L. How About Itt ‘To the Filitor of ‘The Brening World Tam one of 50,000 to 100,000 Brook- lynites who now have to pay ten cents to come to Manhattan by trolley, owing to the location of old town lines and the unscrambling of the roads into their original corporate units, Under the corporation law, the Legislature cannot remedy that situ- ation, The B. R, T. an eight-cent fare € about it? Brooklyn, March 13, 1921, An Appreciation, ‘To the Batitor of The Rrening World Let me express my thanks to The Fvening World for the stand you have taken in support of Mr. Wii- son, In spite of the unfavorable comments ma against him by many citizens and newspapers, The Evening World has never wavered, but has stood up and fought back, the always side of noble retired F on our wonder is sick, tired ant weary; he ought to be, after such problems as he had face and solv for after all no Washing- ton, or in the United S 8, for that matter—could solve them He ranks 4» far above his fellow citizens in intell gence that he stands out like \ giant. His ideals are too much for the mind of the ordinary citizen to comprehend, and because of that looked’ down upon and con- ed; but the day will come n his name will be coupled with Washington and Lincoln and the day t his birth will be made a holiday Washington made t Colonics from England, Lincoln saved mn from separating | itse more nations, and Wi- saved the manhood which akes wp our nation from being killed and slaughtered by not going © the war too soon, and by stop- ng hostilities at the earliest pos.- act shows what was in his heart—he was thinking of the men who were suffering the agonies of war and made up his mind he would not have them endure it longer than was necessary. That He succecded in doing what hs set out to do, He showed Germany that we are to be respected and, secondly, he stopped hostilities by is suing his fourteen points, on which rested the armistice, Had the fourteen’ points ni beer issued there would have been no armistic no one knows how liong the’ conflict might have cou | tinued And yet he Is criticised! What \ greater act could man commit? How 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? and a lot of satisfaction im trying time to be brief. | many thousands of lives of soldieis did “he sa by suggesting the armistice? ‘The good that men do ays forgotten, it is only tne akes and errors that stand ou; and live long in the memory of man- | kind, | There are many! other good points which Mr. Wilson scored during those eight hard years, and he de- serves a world of credit in putting them over in spite of the opposition against him. My hat goes off to| him, Woodrow Wilson, “Savior of Soldiers’ Lives." | | MOUNT VERNON. | The Colombian Treaty. To the Editar af The Brening World: | During my perusal of The Evening | | World I came across an article re |garding the Colombian Treaty, which | lit seems is now again being dragged | wonderful character of your paper I fully believe the time is now ripe when this subject should be dwelt upon and the public enlightened re- garding this treaty. It must cer- \tainly go against the nature of an American to think that this country should have men in Congréss who are willing to back up the “Blackmail Treaty,” as it is indeed such, ‘The trouble with the average lay- man is that he does not take enough interest in the political actions of his country, and when after awhile |things are put over by a minority he howls. But it is too late, Theodore Roosevelt in his book, “Fear God and Take Your Own Fart,” discourses upon the Colombian Treaty, and I ceed ssured that if your readers and the public at large could read this irticle, comprehend its meaning and would take the proper action, the men s who are trying to put ty will realize their mis- take, if it is not t HE! lat RY F, HAASE, & last Word. To the Falltor of The Erening World I disclaim any intention of at- tempting a controversy through your columns, nor would you per- mit such a thing. When you printed | |my recent communication, I looked for some hysterical comments from disappointed “nuts” and I feel im- pelled to ask your indulgence to make some reply to the letters in your issue of yesterday gigned “Pro Bono Publico—Alias J. L, Seward’ Jand “Charity. | ‘The latter is beneath contempt jand shows the coward’s spirit of in- |dulging if personalities. The psycho- athic rd at Bellevue yawns for r displays the savagery of o UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1931, by John Blake.) AS TO OVERLOADING. Most of us whose days are fairly filled with work are prone to think of ourselves as staggering pathetically along under huge overloads. We see others setting out for the golf links or the trout streams when we have to work, and feel very sorry for our- selves, indeed. If we get a cold or an attack of indigestion we fancy it is because we are breaking down from overwork, and think sadly that if we were not driven so hard we would be in perfect health, As a matter of fact, there is probably not one-tenth of 1 per cent. of all the. workers in the world who are really overloaded, Now and then a man has heavy and crushing burdens thrown upon him and breaks under their weight. But if you will think of all the men of your acquaintance in that pitiable plight you will find that they are very few. Overloading is of course bad for men, as it is ‘bad for ships. But when there is important work to do both must td what in normal times might be considered an over oad. For example, during the war every ship that the Allies sent to France was overloaded, But none of them, as far as we remember, foundered because of their excessive cargoes of freight or fighting men. And if they had not been thus overloaded the war would never have been won. If you think you are about to suffer a breakdown it is more likely your stomach than your brain is overloaded. Most men could easily do about twice the work that they are doing, even in rush conditions, and the added mental exercise would be good for their brains. As long as you can get a few hours in the fresh air, and get yourself completely away from your work now and then, you are capable of carrying a bigger load than you think you are, The line called the “Plimsoll line,” that is placed on a ship to mark her cargo capacity, could be placed on the human mind, provided the mind were as substantial and tangible as a ship. But if it were so placed it would be placed far above the top of the load that you are now carrying. ‘ Overworry may hurt you and hinder your work. But unless you are doing at least the work of two average men you are not going to suffer any collapse because of over- loadi nnn) i | turies to come, ‘The Bible may well be Mhened @ mighty grove or forest, for it metaphorically speaking, full Trees are intimately Bible history, biography and ings. Especially is this true of which, at got after the grand old prophet Elijam and he “went for his life” or “day's Journey into the wilderness,” it was under @ juniper tree that he eat dowm to rest, and to think over his plane ong eer it was under that juniper that the weary and hunger- stricken prophdt fell aslesp and had the famous dream of the “cruse of water’ and the “cake baken on the emn covenant to remain faithful (: Jehovah, Joshua made them set up the witness stone “under an oak in The olive tree appears all through the Bible. In the story in the Book of Judges, where the trees are look- ing for a king, honored, and go to be king of the trees?’ The Psalmist likens the righteous man to a “green olive in the House of God;" and again he says, “Thy children shall be like olive plants round about thy table. Hosea, in vision, saw thy future glory of his people, which he de- scribed: “Hig ranches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the oliv: tree.” It was the olive tree that furnished St. Pau! his famous simile in the eleventh chapter of Romans; and it was under the béughs u: the great olive trees In Ge emane thal Jesus met and conquered his life's supreme agon: The palm is another great Bfble tree. The falm was a part of the carved ornamentation on the wall. of the Holy Place in King Solomon's temple. The Psalmist wrote of the righteous, “They sh. flourish Ii 1 ufee.” When Jesus was a) ing Jerusalem keep ti Feast of the Passover his friends “took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him, while they cried, ‘Hosannah!'" and the vision of the Apocalypist is thus expressed ‘Lo a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoplc:, and tongues stood before the throne, and be. or the Lamb, clothed in white robes and palms in their hands.” All through the Bible the fig tree is solidly in evidence. As Micah thought of the Good Time a-coming, he wrote of it: “They shall sit under their vines and fig trees, and none shali make them afraid.” Jesus drew from the barren fig tree the lesson that men have been listening to for more than twenty centuries, and shall listen to for more than twenty cen- to And, finally, we have the Tree of Life (Rev.: xxil,. 2), by the “River of the Water of Life," bearing “twelve manner of fruits, ylelding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the na- tions.” —<—_—»——_——— The Modern Movement in Art By W. G. Bowdoin. Many artists have “viewed with alarm" the modern movement in art Solidarity rather than aestheticism too often dominates it. ‘The Academicians have but Hittle use for the cubists, the futurists, the synchronists, the post-impressionists, the neo-impressionists, the decadents, the dadaists, the ultra-modernists o the ovists that have but recently come into existence, er any of the other art radicals. The late Carroll Beckwith repeat- edly expressed his pronounced disap proval of the modern cults. Louis C. Tiffany has denied that modernists are artists. Thomas E. Kirby ‘has prefaced certain of hia sajes by re- marks that were anything but favor- able to the modern school. But modern art is in our midst. protests, with all the strenth it can compass, against the established or~ der of things in art. It asks with impertinence, “What is beauty?” when objection is made to its motifs And so the Societe Anonyme, Inc., has been founded to provide a public, non-commercial centre for whe study and promotion of modern art The Daniel Gallery is receptive only to modern art. The Montross Galiery favors it. The Bourgeois Gallery opens its doors wide to it, and con- stantly sings its pratses. The game is likewise ‘true of the de Zayas Gal- lery, not to unduly multiply examples. But now, to crown all, the Metro- politan Museum of Art announces a Joan exhibition of “modern French painting” to be held at the Museun. the latter part of next month. The showing at the Metropolitan will in- clide the work of Cezanne, Pissarr., Renoir, Monet, Manet, Degas, Gau- guin and Van Gogh. The modernists score one and with the letting down of the bars of con- servatism the way is paved for the possible transfer of the exhibition ac- tivities of the Soctety of Independent -— Artists, from atop of the Waldorf Astoria to the galleries of the Metro- politan Museum of Art and the re- versa! of the Museum's former potey regarding the Independents, with tts slogan of “No jury and no prizes.” Who can tell? ments in The Evening World is mute testimony to the truth of my statement that your paper gives un- due prominence to communications which square with your biased edi- torial policy. The man who would wilfully violate one law would vio- late any other, and is a distinct potential menace to the country. In conclusion I may say to “Pro Bonehead Seward” that the Const “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1921, ‘Press Publishing Co. |__ (Tbe Now ealng Word), | me Peet ) West Virginia has a double-faced the deprived of its prey. unsatisfied. passion for alcohol ns to have submerged every jcther human desire, ‘To him; noth- |ing else matters but “booze.” I am | not a Prohibitionist, but 1 am a good nough American citizen to obey the ws, whether they please me or not. The law may be intolerable, yet it is the law The printing of the inane com- | Ip } State motto, On the obverse: Mon- tan! semper liberi (“Mountaineers are always freemen”), On the reverse: Libertas et fidelitas ("Liberty and fidelity”), tution does not guarantee personal liberty, but civil libe which is liberty within the law, and if he cannot submit to the laws his place is in jail or an insane retreat, and judging from his logic the latter Is proper place for him an4 hneck"” ik 1 will notice more OPTIMIST. first child born in America of The nglish parents, in 1587, the daughiex of John White, the eoloniae, him no New desk, March 9, ial - in 1867, was discontinued in about five was named Virginia Dare. She was born on Roanoke Island, N. C., then called Virginia. . With diphtheria, the symptoms usu. ly appear within two days; the anxious period ranges from two to five days, and the patient is infectious until fourteen days after the disap- pearance of the membrane, Nieves Ordinarily we. consume ebout 30 ounces of oxygen daily, requiring replace about 12 ounces of carbon to the waste, the equivalent of 8 pounds of ‘bread. see ‘The Freedmen's Burean,” onganized