The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1921, Page 10

. “ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN. Daily Except I JIr., Secretary, A MFAOFER OF THE ASSocLAreD PhEss, Amociated ‘Prose ix exclusively entitied to the use fer republication I inews Aeepatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited tm this paper, the local news published herein, HE HAS ANSWERED HIMSELF. HEN questioned as to his attitude toward an investigation of New York's Municipal Ad- ition, Gov. Miller was noncommittal, He “1 certainly should not oppose one, and it there is reasonable ground 10 think that it is needed I would favor it, of course.” No one has scored the Hylan Administration Ore scathingly than Gov. Miller. He has himself fiven a truthful and affirmative reply to the ques- raised by his “if,” let the Governor continue: * “By ‘needed’ I mean if there is « situation | that ought to be disclosed, The greatest rem- edy is publicity.” ‘the last month Gov. Miller has repeatedly that the Hylan regime was incompetent. tas also charged by inference that it is corrupt. Fa. Tuesday he ‘referred to those who “use official not to perform public service but to keep ives in office.” Speaking of “the ‘gentlemen who do most to down constitutional restraints’ he charged the, port situation “enables the people engaged the lighterage business in the City of New York, @ people making profits out of the pier privileges the City of New York, to ‘continue to levy upon the inhabitants of the City of New ‘ork and upon all thé people of the State as well a great many in the entire country.” ‘Gov. Miller draws'a true bill. There is a “situa- that ought to be disclosed.” If Mayor Hylan ‘not guilty of malfeasance, hé i$ guilty of non- e in office. Gov. Miller is not willing to use his power of he shouki at least act on his own view that ‘greatest remedy is publicity.” We Americans are no international . thieves—thank God) We have no Ire- land, no Egypt, no India, no Tunis, nor « Morocco to trouble our dreams of nights. The New York American. f “Beyond the Alps lies Italy” and beyond the Rio Grande lies Mexico—and its oi] wells. \ | ! RELEASE DEBS. RBSIDBENT HARDING is to be congratulated ‘on taking a step which will probably result in release of Eugene Debs from prison. _ Heyhas requested the Attorney General to in- te. the Debs case and recommend what be done. “A. Mitchell Palmer could find ground to rec- id the release of Debs iis reasonable to an- a similar report from Mr. Daugherty. + President Wilson was unwilling to acoapt the recommendation, but inasmuch as President i has taken the initiative, it is probable: that Debs will be released. 5a practical maiter Debs had far better be out prison than in, His influence will be less danger- as an ex-convict than as an aspirant to a crown rtyrdom, * is ie SAID “FICKLE”? GOORDING to Webster, ‘the definition of Mable to change; un- sot a changeable mind.” ‘the nexteexhibit we quoie. from Justice Will- ) Morris,, The time is Wednesday: “AM brunettes I see! Good ehough!, They Thake the beat fare Blondes are too ‘hekle. i ja as Thursdas ys 4 1 my family are blondes. I have been blondes are fickle? des?” this we submit the case. Who is fickle Mi?” Certainly not Justice Morris, for he is blond pil has been married for forty years. An excellent race, POLLYANNA SCORES. YOLLYANNA stuff” is like a red rag before ao the bulls of literary criticism, It is so “un- pai so untrue io life, they object. ra ee Nery possibly the Pollyanna motif has been over- . ee ‘by American writers. Not every child who is » good and kind and honest and cheerful and happy tives just treatment at the hands of the world. / But just as the scornful men of letters have ished off the latest manifestation of the “Glad ” spirit, along comes some touching little story Show how kindness ani a good heart may some és bring their own reward, the reward being col- in highly realistic cash. now we have the tale of the kind-hearte! ‘husky who shared the hospitality of the ers’ Lodge with Mayor Peters of Boston. aegis the middle-aged Mayor was hess i quota gf wood than was his husky SA Sot ee “down and out” companion, The younger man offered. to do part of the Mayor's stint, and in re- turn the Mayor suggested that the youth call at City Hall. The older gentleman in Wayfarers’ Lodge “had a pull,” it developed, and got a job for the younger man. All of which is precisely according to the formula of the Pollyanna philosophy. One incident doesn’t prove a general rule. I takes all sorts of people to make up a world, and Pollyanna has a place as well as her high-browed and supercilious critics. A MIGHTY FAMILY. _ a monopoly of the telephone business in the greatest metropolitan area in this hem- isphere, with 80,000 would-be subscribers waiting for instruments and service, it would seem that the New York Telephone Company might find i!- self in the class of public-utility corporations that, with prosperity and expansion of business, progress toward lower rather than higher rates. As against this, it has been explained that the telephone business differs from other lines of busi- ness in that increased magnitude means also in- creased complexity and increased umit costs, since each mew subscriber puts an additional burden of service upon the whole system. The New York Telephone Company, however, itself reckons the inereased unit cost of new busi- ness as insignificant compared with the increased cost of labor and materials upon which it bases its chaims to the higher return now granted it by the up-State Public Service Commission. It has made the most of the higher wage argu- ment in explaining why at the rates hitherto charged subscribers it could make no headway in taking care of its 80,000 applicants for service and why, ir short, “the more business the company is requirad to do the worse off it must be.” What bas not yet been satisfactorily explained is this: The New York Telephone Company is both an operating company and a holding company. It owns practically all the capital stocks of the Bell Toddlin ae Telephone Companies operating in 'New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the | District of Columbia. ‘At the same time, all the stock of the New York Telephone Company is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a powerful parent with some $440,000,000 outstanding stock of its own and ownership or control of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the ‘Chicago Telephone Company, the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, the South- western Telephone and Telegraph Company,’ the ‘Northwestern Telephone Exchange Conmpany, and the Pacific Telaphone and Telegraph Company, to say nothing of a substantial interest in the Bel! Telephone Company of Canada and ownership of most of the capital stock of the Western Eleotric Company. Exactly what are the relations and obligations of the New York Telephone Company as an importan: member of this gigantic telephone family? How far is it independent and self-determining in the sense that a just proportion of its earnings can be applied strictly to the development of its own business and the advantage of its own sub- scribers? To: what extent are its finances involved in or dependent on the policies of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company as they concern other telephone territories? As a hokling company itself, in what measure does the New York Telephone Company consider its owt business and earnings in connection with those of its subsidiary companies in nearby States? In short, what part does the telephone business of the City of New York play in this huge inter- weaving of telephone interests embracing most of this country and Canada? These are questions that have never been full answered. Until they are answered there will be only haif- answers to the question what the New York Telz- phone Company should be entitled to establish 9 fair and just charges for its service. TWICE OVERS. “ HE excess profits tax must be repealed and the income surlax must be modified if we are to get back to normalcy.” —- Henry W. Taft. ewe UR foreign policy can be accused of two main mistakes. First, we have not recognized what of the a hae. ae Bernstein in the Reichstag. * * * now that I can look every man and woman in the | ow | ive a ”—Clara Hamer. most of the world and most of our people believe—the guilt |66 AM going through life with my head up, knowing | w: From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you fi Ind most readable? Ien't it the one that gives you'the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? to say much in a few words, Take An Appreciation of Mr. Hirsch. To the Matitar of Tho Urening Work! : I read with great interest the let- ter to your paper written by Mr, Robert T. Stodart, suggesting a pub- Lic rally to honor the men who helped the public over the recent rent crisis. I think his plan is a wonderful idea for the citizens of New York) to be given an opportunity to show their appreciation of these efforts in their behalf. I want to suggest to these families, who are so comfortably settled in their homes to also remember the | man to whom they owe an ever last- | ing debt of gratitude, who not only gave his valuable time to the cause, but at great expense to himself to} fight the profiteering landlord. ‘This man is Mr. Nathan Hirsch, the originator of the Mayor's Com- mittee on Rent (Profiteering. A man who rendered such a public service should never be forgotten, and | I feel sure the public would welcome a chance to show their sincere grati- tude to Mr. Hirsch and the others who made such a victory posaitle. G. O1.L When Bathing Was Ulewal To the Wditor o€ ‘The [Brening Work You published an interesting edi- torial a few days ago about the de- velopment of the “Bathtub” in Bos- ton. I guess the Bostonians would be surprised to ‘know that in 1845 Boston made bathing unlawful, ex- cept when prescribed by a physician, T am enclosing you copy of an article that ipped from the Rock Hill, 8. C., Record, of March 8 I think it was. ‘They copied it from some other paper, but failed to give the name of the paper from which | they copied it | A. J, SMITH, storms, physical athti had to and upward in s of mankind. “ancient Roman as lost out in civilization, the Dark has ever deen a natural « d water in combination im the n family stronger the further north peoples have lived. ‘The first bathtub in the United States, an exchange says, was built in Cineinnati and installed in a home there in 1842. It was made of mahor- any and lined with sheet lead, and was proudly exhibited by its owner at a Christmas party, Next day it was de- nounced in the Cincinnati papers as a luxurious, undemocratic vanity. ‘Then came the medical men and declared it a menace to health, In 1843 Philadel- phia tried to prohibit bathing between ov, 1 and Mareh 15 by ordinance. Vinginin taxed bathtubs $30 a year, In 1643 Boston made bathing untawful ex- cept when prescribed by a physician, age when transient hotel a tions Include a bathroom, bat sanitation {x a recent development. puthern Ohio lawyer went to Columbus a few Years ago, ana when he registered at the fhotel the clr asked him It he du room with a bath. ‘Th mmoda- There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. friend of her days of poverty the very ckvborate bathroom in her new home. lt was a sizzling hot August night. “La, how you must enjoy that tub!" she ‘exclaimed, “Indeed I do,” was the response. "I ean hardly walt for Sat- urday night to come!" We are sufficiently civilized to be for the athtub—with reservations; the | chief one being an instinctive sympathy with the Frenchman who tha: he had never insulted his skin by put- ting cold water on it John leycorn im the Country. ‘To the Editor of The (ivening World: Tam a daily reader of your paper jand like many of its features, but certainly do not agree with your edi- torial stand on the prohibition ques- tion, Naturally, your viewpoint is your own business, but as you print many Jetters from city people sound- ing the praises of booze and deploring the passing of the corner gaioon, per- haps in fairness to the millions of people outside of Gotham you will make room for a jeter taking the op- posite stand, According to newspaper reports, gin was responsible for the fiendish mur- der of Mrs. Edith Wilson at Perth Amboy, and whiskey was ¢he prime cause of the Jake Hamon shooting. Yet rum hounds long for the days when hese polsons were freely and openly dispensed from every sadoon. While doubtless Many people could and did drink beer without injury to anything except their own kidneys, thousands of others swilled it in lange quantities, ibecame drunk and fell heir, together with their families, to the many ills of body and spirit that | follow in the wake of drunkenness. Outside the larger cities, few long for the return of John Barleycorn. passing of the saloon in the smail towns has worked such splendid changes and improvements as to con- vince even former drinking men. The farmers are practically unanimous in favor of prohbbition as witness the articles in the Country Gentleman and Saturday Evening Post, written by men who circulate among farmers all over the U. 8, A. HAROLD N. LORD Franklin, N. J., Mareh 16, 1921, Are They , Overpaid? ‘To the Biliter of The Brentug Work) ‘The railroads are now planning to} reduce wages of all their employees, something they should have done a year ago, which will In turn reduce freight and railroad fares, It is now time the street car companies of this city start to do the same thing, 6o they in turn can continue to ¢ Sroant fare itsead of & higher rate, which is bound to come, ‘These men ag a whole are paid en- tirely too much for the work re- and President Fillmore installed the|Guired. Imagine @ man gaying in- first one ever in*the White House, come tax who merely opens and ‘These things seem incredible in an} closes doors. Anyhow, they. never welfare, going out on strike as they feel, so why should the public in re- turn care for theirs? All we want is a6-cent fare, which ranted Frou efay rubbed the nd led: No. Sata day,” newly-nich “atubhle ' A Vil he , D) Another stovy is that of @ lady who was showing & ;{| cannot last much longer uniess ‘the jrate | of this class of labor is on a [level where it should be, There are thousands of good men have had any regard for the public \ the word “ Thus when the Repub! affair. Yet the word in the sense in which it is too of the language. « and then if po: be in it. in business. ling other people on you. Now you will never fool y product. you, But both are necessary. high price. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1981, by Joho Blake.) SELLING YOURSELF TO YOURSELF. We will begin this editorial by expressing the belief that selling” when employed as a synonym for “ vincing” or “persuading” is used a little too often of late. ‘con- an National Committee an- nounced that they intended to sell Mr. Harding and to unsell Mr. Wilson they made a solemn referendum a very vulgar t falls from the lips of advertising men has a distinct value, and it is easy to:see that it is destined, often used, to become a part This being the case, we shall employ it in this one article, ible cut it out of our vocabulary, When you go to an employer for a job you are, in the phrase of the advertiser, “selling’’ yourself to him. You are selling yourself literally too, for your services are a commod- ity, which he is in the market to buy. If you are a good salesman and can make a good selling talk you make the sale and get a good price for the goods. If you are an indifferent salesman you get a poor price. If you are a bad salesman you don’t make any sale at all. But before you can be a good salesman you have got to “sold” on your merchandise yourself. lieve in it you cannot honestly make anybody else believe And honesty is more and more becoming the fashion If you don’t be- ’ So before you go about hawking your services in the market it will be worth while to sell yourself to yourself. Once “sold” on yourself you will have less difficulty in sel- ourself very much about your industry and capacity. If you know that you are the sort of man who will stick to a thing till he accomplishes it, if that is humanly possible, you can put up a good selling ‘talk. If you can’t do that the only thing to do is to improve the’ You can’t build self-confidence on weakness or inef. ficiency. You have got to. KNOW that you can deliver the goods before you can persuade others that you can. only way to know that is to do it and do it repeatedly Hard work and courage will make a valuable man of The | Practice them till they become a habit. Then go and sell yourself and you can be reasonably sure of a quick sale at a bey of work to-day who would only! ‘be too glad to work for half pe met | (New York, March 16, 1921." | 7 21 Are With the Fat To the Eiktor of The (Peening Work! ; | { am a reader of your paper and/ would like to have you settle @ dis- | ute. A says that if a foreign-born comes to this country and becomes a citizen it wil make his children citizens, a!- though they were born in a foreign jeountry. B says children mur take out papers. ‘ew York, March 16, 1034. Children jaturalized| | “ = sesaerspets Words Dick a Wise! The grave is a very sniall hil- lock, but we can ace further from it when standing on it than from the highest mowntain im ali the world.—A. Tholuck. A friend whom you lave been gaining during your whole life you ought mot to be displeased with in @ moment. A. stone is many ‘years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another atone,—Saadl ERD'g a path that leads to Nowhere In @ meadow that | know, Where an intand isiar.2? rises And the stream is sili and slow; There it wanders under witlows, * And beneath the silver green Of the virches’ silent shadows Where the early violets lean. Ail the ways that lead to Somewhere Echo with the hurrying feet Of the Struggling and the Striving, But the way J find so sweet Bids me dream and bids me linger, Joy and Beauty are its goal, On the path that leads to Nowhere I have sometimes found my soult So we join in singing the first and last stanzas of “The Path That Leads to Nowhere,” as found among: the collected poems of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, just published by the Soribners, It's a gong fit to soothe the spring feverish with its charm. a Deep Breathing Is Not Love --- In his “Human Psychology” (Houghton-Miffiin), Prof, Howard @, Warren writes: ‘The specific systemic abd arise from the ualities of ion of the “the jar motion which as- soclates: emotion of love with the heart is not #0 far wrong: cate- ful observation ‘shows that sensa- tion is located somewhat above the heart, but that it is due to the cir- culation and not to breathing. Love in the circulation explains the blush that paints a courted maiden’s cheek. But if the young lover's ardor ie in no train to his breathing, how comes he “sighing like a furnace"? We ask you. . . . A Refuge From Blue Reform -- - A holiday term at the capital of Cuba induced Joseph Hergesheimer to write “San Cristobal de la Habana” (Knopf), from which book we quote: But more than those, 1 should ayiss was the atmosphere of Havana lesek the gay uroenity ane festive Uehtnies 04 tone. d_almost whol the moter paasion for retoren ef America pretty much el tye Wests ern world, into @ desert of procert and co: jon; in many senses H. vane | ant cess in ‘an aridity spreadiny y Lnprovement, wouldn't ovcur during any Pikemahewbabie of lies and self-delusion become a funda- Temlal part of f enciety and ail I ft] (les) for was the discovery of individuals and cities in whica existence was more than a penatty for having been born. It i¢ not the Girst time that the Havana example hes been cited in preference to the Prohibition pre- copt. But Mr. Hergesheimer is jess pro- fane and by that much more tem- perate than the commentators who cannot go to Cuba. see The Obedient American - - - Stephane Lauzanne, brilliant edi- tor in Paris, having been among us Men and Great Days" (Appletons) taking notes, writes in his “Great thus: The great and immense virtue of the American people is its spirit of discipline. American obedience to orders coming from above is instinctive and immediate, The American obeys just as the horse gailops, the ‘vir ies and the Swiss i# neutral e for example @ subway sta- tion in Paris with its two doors, above one of which is written the word “Entrance,” with the word “Exit” above the other. A French crowd uses both emtrances indis- criminately, It will use even more willingly as an entrance which is labelled exit. ‘Take the case of @ simflar station im New York. The American crowd conforms scrupulously to the direc- | thong that are indicated; it doesn't evan thinic of alesobeying: them The principle which directs the American is simple. Every man ne: “ince they, tell ws to the right and to go out at the feet there Ie a gogd reason for it, ‘They know b We hereby nee M, Lauzanne to come back and have another look. ‘We will show him the subway stair- way divided into two parts by a midway railing obviously designed to separate the folks coming up from those going down— | And we will point to seven people in ten going out of their way to use the wrong side of the stairs, . |The Jazz as It Is E hed - - - A passage written by A. P. Herbert in his novel “The House by the River” (Knopf) affords this English appreciation of the jagu band and itw output: rom the door of the galleries where the dancing was done a con fused uproar overflowed into the passages, as if several men of powerful’ physique were banging o twmber of pokers against a num- ber of saueepans, diowing whistles and occasional catralis and now and then beating a drum and several sets of huge cynmals, and ceaselessly twanging at in- umerable banjos, and at the same time singing 4n a’ foreign language. and shouting curses or exhortations or streét cries, or imitating hunt- ing calls or the cry of the hyena, or uniting suddenly in’ the ‘final war whoop of some pitiless Indian tribe. It was a really terrible noise, Tt hit you like the breath of an ex plosion as you entered the room ‘There tune. noise. savare made 1 Was no distinguizhatte It was simply an enormous But there was a kind of rhythm about it, which Jobn think immediately of men and the na And this was not surprising, for the musicians Included one genuine three men with their fas ked, and the noise and the rhythm were the authentic | music of a negro village in South America, and. the words which some genius ‘had once set to the noise were an exhortation to go to ‘the place where the negroes dwelt. According to our ‘blue-law exhort- ers, however, it is not to South Amer- fea that the jazzer is likely to go