The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1921, Page 30

r | \ Y | — | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Gunday by Tho Prose Pybitshing | Company. Nos, 58 to 63 Park Raw, New York. j RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS BHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULATZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMBER OF THY ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Ihe acociated Pres ts exclusively entitied to the use for republication | errors ee re eee ee the local news published herein. _ THE GOVERNOR'S “LOOSE THINKING." | a committee advocating the Hirsch Plan of Housing Loans, Gov. Miller objected, and | said: | The only practical thing that has occurred | to me—and I have considered recommending it | to the Legislature—is to raise the rate of in-~ terest and make the legal rate of interest on mortgages 8 per cent. or whatever competition would determine. And again the Governor stated: You have got to restore the operation of economic laws, and in my judgment the inter- ference of the State prevents their operation more than it helps, Here, then, we have from the Governor of the State of New York almost word for word the arguments against the Hirsch Plan which the rent Profiteers urged against the Rent Laws last year. But the Governor went on to say: j Take the Rent Laws. They were necessary because of the profiteering landlord. ‘They Decame necessary for the protection of the tenant, and you haven't, any of you, the sligat- est doubt that they are a very great check to bouilding, have yout e Gov. Miller expressly denied: any intention fnterfering with the Rent Laws. ' But when he described the Rent Laws as “neces of sary” he destroyed all the rest of his argument against the Hirsch Plan. He was guiléy of “loose | thinking.” The Hirsch Plan is necessary for the same reason the Rent Laws were necessary—to protect the tenant. The profiteering landlord has his counter- part in the profiteering loan shark. The Rent Laws were emergency measures. is the Hirsch Plan. It should pass. OUTGROWN BABY CARRIAGES. | HAT becomes of outgrown baby carriages in New York City? In New England the thrifty Yankee mother stored the baby carriage in storeroom or aitic until the infant passenger grew to manhood or womanhood and had use for the carriage for his or her own family. In New York, however, storage room and baby carriages are bulky. A baby carri scarce worth twenty years of storage. What becomes of them? Bailey B. Burritt, General Director of the Asso- ciation for Improving the Condition of the Poor, hopes to be able to answer this question within a few days. In an appeal to the press, he points out that 2,500 families under care of the association need baby carriages in which tired mothers can give the children a breath of air. In these families the mothers \are not strong enough tc carry the children far, and they never have enough money to buy a carriage. Mr. Burritt says: “There are many people in New York with carriages in their storerooms, people who would be glad to send the carriages, which | their own children have outgrown, to those ! to whom they would be a great blessing.” | Could any better use be found for outgrown Baby carriages? The Relief Bureau of the association is at No. 205 East 22d Street. So secant FISHIN’ TIME. N THE interest of conservation, it is handly fair I that the fishing season opens on Friday. With a whole week-end of fishing at the first of the sea- son the anglers have an unreasonable advantage ever the fish. ‘ When the first of April falls on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, would ft not be wise either to postpone the opening until the first Monday in April or ad- vance the opening date to allow a few days’ fish- ing before the week-end so the attack would not be so closely massed? With three or four days of open season before a week-end, the wise and wary parents of the younger generation of fish would have an oppor- tunity to instruct and warn their offspring concern- ing the dangers lurking in deceptively curved worms, flashing spoons and the seductive feathers and folderols so dear to the hearts of the fishermen. | If the season opened on Monday, the teacher fish would have plenty of examples from which to warn the youngsters, for your real fisherman is a fanatic and business runs a poor second in the com- petition with the lure of streams and lakes. However, business does limit the number of fish- ermen during the week. At the week-end opening thew is practically no timit to the number of young: Sters and oldsters who hanker for the pull on the rod and the run of the line. Perhaps the lion-like ending of March was Nature's effort to even up the advantage which {he calendar gave to the anglers. Inclement weather may have discouraged some of the less enthusiastic fishers, But your dyed-in-the-wool, year-in-and-year-out THE BYEEINE WEALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, unless it discourages the appetite of the fish. The fisherman's only serious complaint is the poor quality of the “bait” now obtainable. TWO TRANSIT DUTIES. OW that the Miller transit programme has be- come law, New York City has two distinct lines of action, AS a principle the city must fight the law to the last ditch. In practice the city should endeavor to co-operate with the Transit Commission and make the best of the situation. Every safeguard of the State and Federal Con stitution should be invoked to prevent the larceny of municipal powers by a Siate agency. Every at- tempt to exercise these powers should be thwarted by appeal to the protection of the courts. This is the manifest duty of the legal depart- ment: of the city. Civic organizations and public- spirited attorneys should volunteer aid. Even if Gov. Miller proceeds to appoint Transit Commissioners of the highest ability and the strongest sense of public responsibility, the fight against the principle of the Miller plan should be carried*to the courts. - In practice an entirely different situation exists. Until the courts find otherwise the Miller pro- gramme is law. The commission will be named and will begin work. Nothing is to be gained, and much may be lost, by a municipal policy of obstruc- tion and do-nothingism. The Transit Commission will have power ‘to in- vestigate the transit situation. Full investigation and revelation of all pertinent facts ntust be pre- liminary to any permanent solution of the fransit muddle. There is no ground to question the right of the Governor's Commissioners to make such an investigation. The city should take an active, constructive, help- ful part in the proceedings. The Administration should not seek to examination preparatory to aclion by the hinder com- It should present constructive suggestions look- ing toward a solution. It should stand ready to expose, refute and dis- prove unjust claims by the transit interests, Whether the courts uphold the powers of the Transit Commission or deny them, it will be well to have the results of a thorough investigation as a basis of future action by the Transit Commission or by another and better agency. This, then, is the policy which the city should pursue: To give every aid to the Transit Commis- sion in finding out the facts on which action may be based, but to fight to the last against any action by the commission under powers which cannot rightly be conceded to the commission. STRENGTH OF THE HAPSBURG. T WILL not be surprising if the former Emperor Charles of Austria proves to have a substgntial backing in his effort to regain the throne of Hungary. Such an adventure may even find support beyond the circle of the old Magyar nobles and their im- mediate followers. “Reaction in Hungary is an. echo of reaction everywhere. Atter-the-war Governments have not proved popular in any nation. Disarrangement of living scales, slow readjustment to peace and inevi- table hardships in a world impoverished by war waste have been reflected in ail countries. “Hard times” have been the rule all over the world. Whatever the form or policy of the Gov- ernment, the people have realized that prosperity and comfort have not been up to pre-war standards. The natural response has been to try a change, in the hope that another Government might bring better times. French and Italian Governments nave proved un- stable. Venizelos was driven from Greece and Con- stantine invited to return. Our own election was a similar demonstration against onerous taxes and high living costs. Only Lloyd George survived by the opportunism of a “khaki election,” and his hold grows precarious. Nowhere have economic conditions been more trying than in Central Europe, It would be human nature for the Hungarians to look with favor on any sort of change. “The good old days” will be the strongest appeal for a return to monarchy, TWICE OVERS. HAPSBURG in Hungary means a new Berliner Morgenpost. 66 ¢ war.” ee CACHES mean nothing the test of a food is i's digestibility.”--Dr. W. H. Porter. / te “e RIVATE ownership and operation of the rail roads is still on trial in this country.’ — Daniel Willard, rag ee ar 66 7N New York there is not much sentiment in favor of Prohibition.” — Prohibition Commis- sioner Kramer. 66] DON'T see any other wey lo regulate the movies except by censorship.’ —-Gov. Miller, LY | disciple of Walton cares not a whit for the weather | | sion, eke 2 | | | | | There is fine mental exercise fo say much in a few words. Take Girls and Jobs, To the Mito uf Tue Evening Work! Your correspondent, ‘ lle,” regards the use of female and Junior help replacing male as the cause of the present business depres- and he is evidently harboring other delusions. I find female labor is being used in the majority of cases where it has proved far more efficient than male, in such work us candy making, check- ing, &c. Junior help, I note, ix boing used at miscellaneous employment (on the whole), employment at which it would be a waste of money io pay a man's wage, such as automatic ma- chine operator, elevator boy, floor boy, &e. M. 1.” also states “These girls have no dependent which he disproves himself in a; previous quotation of his: “now de- pending on what a son or daughter brings home.” Furthermore, money x Months banked does help expedite business, for business in its pi form hi the banks among strongest foundations, A man whose use to industry s of such importance that he may be re- placed by a boy or girl cannot do much to expedite general business, employed or not. 8.5.R New York, March 30, 1921. Accused of Schoolboy Peevi To the Diitor of The Drening World May I again trespass upon your valuable space in order to reply to “Jerseyman,” who takes violent ex- ception to my letter appearing in ‘The Evening World of March 19? Like the majority of those why mourn to high heaven because the Government took away their right to soak them- selves in. poison, "Jerseyiman” lacks the manliness urage to sign his real name “It would undoubtedly be hurtful to my business interests,” he says. Of it would. The biggest and the nd cours best business concerns, long before | Prohibition arrived, weeded out the boczers from their empioy; the life nsurance companies looked askance at alcoholic applicants for insurani and then as now, repa |men wete wary in their d those whose brain pow of | will and physique were weakened and Jundermined by the poigon of aleohol A man” does not be- rages are polson- to body and spir i} at him read the very able letter © Evening World) of March sumed by Daniel Bartlett, in whicn i Mr. Bartlett que inions on beer (one of r aleoholte drinks), of Dr, Bugene Lyman Fisk, modical director of the n- sion Institute, and that of Dr. Howard A. Kelly of the famous Johns Hop- kins Hopital, Bailinure. ‘The latter in speaking of beer drinking eapecial- |ly scores the vice, saying “it is in- jjurious all the time, creating drunk- ix, disrupting homes and robbing shildren and mother millions |O¢ dollars wasted over the bar of the i reeyman,” if you have nor ‘mal intelligence you know absolutely ‘without doubt that the whole liquor What kind of a letter do you find moat readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? wl! ssi bs ‘tne me t rhe Ne joa «York Rvening From Evening World Peeaders|| and a lot of satisfaction in trying | time to be brief. traffic was demoralizing to body, mind and soul, but the Government acting according to our Constitution, | which specificially states that amend- | ments may be added when ratified by | the Legisiatures of three fourths of | the several States, the Goverment, | I repeat, took away your self-styled | “right” to imbibe harmful alcohofic , acting for the welfare of the majority of the people. ‘That is why you exh bit your schoolboy peevish- hens. H. M. CORIELL. Franklin, N. J., March 29, 192 Enforce—Then Repeal. | fo the Pulitor of Tue Bvening World One of the greatest injuries which Prohibition has inflicted on society | in general has been to take the spirit jout of almost everything. This is noticeable in many ways and mak>s |the fanatical enforcement of the Kighteenth Amendment an_ intoler- able thing to nearly everybody wno loves our Constitution. It has a0 Gistigured this noble document that even the spirit which pervaded it heretofore seems now almost lost The sooner statesmen recogn ze this fact and that most people will pay more for pleasure than any- thing else, the sooner they will be rendering a real service to their country, ‘The merry laughter of innocent and respectable persons returning to their homes after an evening of convivial enjoyment is no longer heard on the streets in the early hours of the morning. » Even the streets them- selves seem to have an overpowering atmosphere of Puritanical gloom and desertion, Furthermore, the soul of that delightful hospitality which is usually shown at the dimner table is almost no more, and the beautiful elevation of mind which actuated the lifting of the glass by a host whose heart went with it as he proposed 4 st to your good health and ha piness is slowly but surely on the wane, And lastly, Prohibition has destloyed the satisfled spirit of the nation, Perhaps the quicker our autho: tles enforce it to the letter, the better it will be for all of us, because it wl give us such a jolt’ that is hock will wake us up from our lethargic condition, Then we will to xet what we want and the spigit of the nation will be triumphantly ro- stored to us. JOHN LYNCH, March 28, 1921 Goodby, Caar Burleson, Yo the Iaditor of The Bvening Ward In behalf of all the postal em- ployees in tho city, and | may add|/ the country, | am expressing the feel- | ings of joy and jubilation over the UNCOMMON SENSE expiration of the term of one of the toughest and most economical Post- | masters that the service has ever | seen, There has veen nothing but | trial and tribulation ror aii the men in the Department during Mr, Burle- | son's reign, ! ‘The Post Office Department is still in the throes of @ system that ul (rust w hy Mr offedts Burie son's + still prevail and the shortening of carriers’ se and the lengthening of routes is still in vogue. Carriors By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) VAST TRAINS RUN ON SCHEDULE. When the passenger department of a railroad wants to cut down the running between two important towns the operating department makes out-a time schedule. Engineers and conductors know exactly when they must arrive at way stations, how long they must stop and when they must start again, Nothing is allowed to interfere. If there is a delay be- tween two stations iignust be made up as soon as possible. This requires more coal, more strain on the nerves of the engine driver and more aleetne ss on the part of the switch- men and yardmen. But that care has got to be expended. Without a schedule no express train could make fast time. And without 'a schedule you will never get where you ought to be in the time that should be allotted for the journey. Set yourself a goal you mean to reach at thirty years, If because of sickness or a mistake in your calculations you do not reach it in that time, set a goal for thirty-five years, far enough ahead to take care of the lost time. Make that if you can. It will require extra effort and extra nerve strain, but stick to the schedule. 3radually you will find that you are carrying your sehedule in mind and bending all your efforts to keep it. Sometimes you will fall behind, but you will always know it when you do and work hard to make it up. It is in making up time that all trains keep schedule, and it is in making up time that you will keep yours. Jog along without any particular running time and you will never know whether you are getting where you ought to get. Keep a time card in your head and you will miss every day that you lose—and put it into next day's schedule as ra time to be made up. Don't—if you are a freight train—try to run at express speed gure how fast you can go without Ooverstrain, pro- vide for rest and repairs, and then go ahead. It is the only way you will get where you ought to be at the end of the Lie ee train re confronted with a task of accom- py | a plishing what was formerly done e yy ore than the present number of ‘Th t’s then, “Carriers re being "reduced at’saFac ; regular delivery ro" to Wagons, and. from wagona to collec: By Albert P. Southwick ch degradation is entirely |) copvrias tions. Such deg it’s surprising that Tie Pg km Raising co unealled for, and ‘ h delivery | a the public stands for sucl he pions, Can you imagine that in| py neces : conditions. Tetropolis the iast deliv- | The Ailegheny and Ohio Rivers| uch A Me mata P.M. where for-| Ere regarded by the French as on | Satay ‘there were deliveries up ti[stream. |The nflme given by them d Lt Belle Riviere “(thet : 1 Soul river), is a peautifu 1 could write an entire day upon ranglation of the Seneca se oI term “Ho-he-vu,"" changed b ne injustices imposed upon the men "changed by the fe ray, who do their work diligently | whites, both Englieh and French, at aod faithfully without complaint, asa later date into Ohio they know that it is useless to offer atria ie est us they are not very we peat ice © pratene fay 7 strong union A “foot-ton” of energy means s rther trades have, I earnestly en- {much enersy o8, Buffices to ralse one othe 7 peat ton one foot. In walking a mle 4 5 | nvestigate the a a ‘fr both the employees in the ser- | {ns sixty pounds a mile. 2 foot-tons. and the people they se ‘sis d that the result of such invest A township” consists of thirty-six tion will Jead to a better postal sér-ysections, each a mile square (610 vice, acres), A quarter-section, half a mile AN BX-VETTPR CARRIER. eur: is, therefore, 160 acres. Get-Rich-Quick of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjorof Conn rigt:t. 1921, by The Press Publishing Oo, York Evening World), XIX.—THE EAST INDIA TRADING COMPANY. | Next to the Teutonic Order, the British East India Company was the greatest. most successful and most enterprising get-rich-quick scheneé in historic times. It enjoyed this ad- vantage over the Teutomic Knights t it carried on its operations in the |backyard of Asia, while the Teutonic exploiters were exposed to observa- ‘tion Inthe front yard of Europe. This ‘wonderful association of sea adventurers was chartered in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It began, 48 its name implies, by buying and selling spices, dyes, silks, tea and In the course of its mercantile ns, however, it found it nec- or convenient to engage in on a scale unpre- the annals of modern nized piracy cedented | times, The London traders entered the In- dian in field by leave of the Grand the original holder of the title ar-i-Hind, or Emperor of India, ld by George V. After dividing the spoils with the Mogul for a while. thes merchant pirates came to the conclusion that there were not enough spoils to divide. After Lord Clive, as the servant of the company, had demonstrated his superiority. over the French, under Dupleix, the middle of the eigh teenth century, and thus eliminated |French competition, the company turned its attention to the native power. Having defeated the armies of Be at Plassey and 7 and 1764, the Lon- established their right— or their ability--to impose taxes, exact indemnities, upset thrones or fill them | at their pleasure. | By the end of the eighteenth cen- | tury the British Government and peo- ple found this private corporation exercising more or less absolute ad | ministrative powers over a popula- tion and an extent of territory ex- | ceeding those of the crown. | Among the historic acts of the Bast India Trading Company wae the ac- quirement of a monopoly for the im- portation of tea into the American colonies, which brought about the | famous Boston “tea. part English and Scotch mi India complained bitterly that the [company’s officials not only did not aid them in their work, but that the “conversion” of the Hindoos was ac- jtually hindered by them. These same missionaries did a good deal to bring the aims and the methods of the corporation—this empire within a kingdom—to the knowledge of the English people, The misdee: jits employees ionaries in of the company and were twice made the | subject of parliamentary specu once In the case of Lord Clive, and lagain in the case of his successor, | Warren Hastings. It was not until after the suppres- jsion of the Indian mutiny, whier | broke out under the company's gov ernment in 1857, that India was taken out of the hands of the corporation and made a component part of the | British Empire. That put an end to a get-rich- quick scheme of which the workings read like the wildest romance, stained at frequent intervals with blood-let- tings on an enormous scale. All of which goes to show that even jin the backyards of the world irre- | sponsible exploitat’ a cannot be con- tinued indefinitely. _ WHOS WHO AMERICA'S | HALL &% FAME T gece JEFFERSON, born in Shadwell, Albemarle County, | Va., April 2, 1743, was the son of Peter Jefferson, an enterprising planter. In his college course at William and Mary, 1765-62, the future statesman acquired both literary and scjentific knowledge far beyond the ordinary, Shortly after graduation he entered the law office of George Wythe, an eminent jurist of his col- ony, and was admitted to the bar in 1767. His father having died in 1757, the son became financially independent at an early age. His practice at the bar was abundant and lucrative. From 1768 until the beginning of the Revolution he sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses and vainly tried to ameliorate the severe law of man- umission on the statute books of the colony. In 1170-72 he established his residence at Monticello, and on Jan. 1, 1772, married the wealthy widow Mrs. Martha Skelton In 1774, when matters were tend- and Great Britain were connected through the person of the King alone, but that the former were not other- wise subject to England. His views were embodied in a pamphlet entitled “A Summary View of the Rights of British America.” This was reprint- ed in England, On June 11, 1776, Jefferson, with Acams, Franklin, Sherman and Liv- jngston, Was appointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence, which was adopted by the Congress on July 4, 1776. The draft of the Declara- ucn was the work of Jefferson. A little later he entered the loture of Virginia. In 1779 he was elected Governor of Virginia, In 1781 he had to jeaye Monticello to escape from the British, He again entered Congress in 1782 and took a promin- ent part, particularly in regard to the coinage leagslation and the treaty of pence In 1785 he sucoeeded Franklin as Minister to France. In 1789 Jefferson s given by Washington the post of | Secretary of State, while the leader 4 the Federalists, Hamilton, acoapt- the portfakio of the Treasury, Jef- rson failed to induce Was! accept a pro-French policy, and 1 this ground he resigned (Dec. 31, 3), from the Cabinet. In 1796 he elected Vice President of the Four years later the triumphed over the wa United States, Kepublicans Federalists, and Jefferson was chosen \th.rd President and wae again elect. ted in 1804 He was mach concerned in his last rs with establishing the Uni- sity of Virginia at Charlottesville, became one of its Trustees. He lied on July 4, 1826, exactly helf'a century after ‘the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and but a few hours before hie friend, Joha expired, Adams, {ss