The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1921, Page 12

: i meee EME ES ae aeeenses rem - ESTABLISHED BY JOSEDI ? + Padilehed Dally Except Sunday by Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preeident, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Kow JOBEPH PULITAER Ir., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. 8 all Dews despatches credited to it oF not otherwixe credited tn end also the local news published herein, CALL IT OFF. NE YEAR ago to-day newspapers printed news of “Overall Clubs” in the South, ohe Evening World neither mocked nor derided the movement at that time or when it moved north F the custody of a group of hilariously inclined agents. Under the title “Almost Ready for Fads,” The €vening World said: In a Southern town an “Overall Club” has deen formed as a protest on garment prices. The “beat dressers” have adopted blue denim H for business and social wear. A letter printed in another column sug- gests that men substitute the middy blouse for the conventional coat, vest, shirt, collar and tie. Another letter issues an invitation to join the “independent bare-neck crowd.” Grant that such proposals are frivolous, freaky and trivial. ‘They are straws that show the current, The facts are that Americans are exas- perated almost to the limit by clothing costs. “This was heresy when it was written, The i siness to- iteers refused to see the straws. Business Se i suffering the results of the blindness induced % oe 00, are the strikers suffering from lack of business ihat méans lack of employment. The strike has gone far enough. The gougers have earned their lesson. It is time to call off the strike. ¥ % TO HIS OWN UNDOING. HE former Emperor Charles is reported ready to get out of Hungary provided he is per- mitted to explain publicly why he has to go. Meanwhile, the Allied Nations have tried to save Charles the trouble of making personal explana- , tions. Through their Ambassadors in the countries § surrounding Austria and Hungary the Allied Powers ' flave issued official warning that “restoration of the ‘ Hapsburgs would imperil the very foundation of * the peace, and that it coukd be neither recognized © nor tolerated.” ql Ht begins to look as though certain reactionary elements in Hungary had been beguiled to their own undoing, so far as Charles is concerned. Mili- «taristic and monarchic influences in and out of Hungary that have no enthusiasm for Charles as the head of restored monarchy seem to have wel- *comed a way to put him out of the running. The longer he held off the stronger he might become. With a rash and premature attempt he could be trusted to do himself irreparable damage. That apparently is the trap Charles has fallen imto, atc he will be lucky if he gets out of it with- out having to sign his final abdication of all claims to a throne. Z U If Sarah Bernhardt files to England to-day | ft will mark another milestone in the ad- i vance of aerial passenger travel. ‘ ‘When speed has been the paramount need, ‘we have become accustomed to use of the aeroplane. But the passengers have been regarded as more or less daring adventurers. Mme. Bernhardt, however, is seeking neither speed nor the thrills. She wanta to fly to England because it would be more com- fortable than the trip across the Channel, with a railroad journey at each end. The opinion of the great French actress will be an eye-opener to many. It is alsd an Indication of the superior development of 2 passenger aviation in Europe. DUE THE LABOR BOARD. HEN railroad wages were going up, there was ° no grand rush to make the changes. The * Lane Commission and the Labor Board took time for adequate survey of the situation. Now, when wages are going down, the railroad managers and owners are in a hurry. They want reductions and want them quick. They are resort- tng to much the same tactics that were bitterly re- sented when the railroad uhions forced the passage of the Adamson law—although the unions waited Jong and patiently before they swung the political whip. Rush tactics are even less defensible now than ‘before the war. The Labor Board is a quasi-judicial body set up expressly for the settlement of wage and working condition disputes. Moreover, various organizations not directly in- terested in the disputes are seeking to exert their influence to hasten decision, As an example, take the protest the Merchants’ ‘Association of New York sent to Chairman Barton of the Labor Board last Wednesday. Such action vis entirely out of place. Protest and resolutions to fife Labor Board are no more suitable than they _#ould be-ta the Supreme Court. A spokesman of the Merchants’ Association migitt properly volunteer as a witness before the Labor “Board. He might explain the need for lower rates wen give facts. But when such organizations urge, tL , , they show scant re | judicial function of the Labor Board. So long as Congress vests judicial pow Labor Board it should have the respeci due a court and should have opportunity to establish the facts and make its rulings without regard to public clamor or political pressure. er in the | | A GOOD WAY TO BEGIN. ales conference between M. Viviani and Senator Lodge should have beneficial results. M. Viviani has come.to this country, we are told, to learn as weil as to inform, To Senator Lodge more than to any other one man is due the present position of the United States as a sulky, inactive power in the presence of great international needs, a doubtful friend of the Allies with whom it fought, a disrupter of the unity it once demanded, an indifferent onlooker at political and economic disturbances for which its own inac- tion is in large measure responsible. The partisan perversity and cantankerousness which produced this deplorable situation can be no- where better studied than in the mental attitude of the senior Senator from Massachusetts. Therefore, if M. Viviani wished to tackle first the toughest part of his job as an inquirer into causes, he did well to have an early conference with Senator Lodge. By the same token, if this unofficial envoy from France is to make headway in persuading the Har- ding Administration into a larger view of the rela- tions and obligations of the United States toward world politics, he did equally well to practice on a Senatorial mind compared with which he is likely to find others as open as hawthorn buds in May. INVITING MORE PROHIBITION. SUBWAY SMOKER paid a fine for his offense yesterday. Magistrate Nolan took occasion to read a lecture no less applicable to other inconsiderate smokers: “It is men like you who brought about liquor prohibition in this country. You don't consider the rights of women and children, and if millions of men who enjoy smoking are restricted in the pleasure, it will be brought about by men doing what you have done.” But decent smokers need not stop with mere ap- Proval of such a judicial lecture. Any smoker who values the right to smoke may well appoint him- self a vigilante committee of one to remind incon- siderate smokers of Magistrate Nolan's statement. Cut out this editorial and hand it to subway smokers with the request that they read it. A sug- gestion will usually suffice. If suggestion fails, a few public-spirited complaints and prosecutions will do wonders, Will the smokers police their own ranks, or will they wait for action by the Anti-Tobacco League? TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS. To the Editor of The Evening World: + Over a century ago Franz Joseph Gall wrote that the measure of culpability and the measuring of pun- ishment cannot be determined by a study of the crime, but only by a study of the individual commit- ting the act. And yet criminal procedure is Ppracti- cally the same to-day as it was then. In the administration of the criminal laws we move in a vicious circle from which we shall not escape until a less harsh routine handling of prisoners gives way to a more spirited experimental approach. Criminals are sent to different prisons according to as they are felons or misdemeanants, purely a legal distinction. The law seems to differentiate between degrees of crime and sets a maximum sentence ac- cording to the apparent seriousness of the offense and not according to the mental and physical char- acteristics of the offender. The method of treating the incorrigible, the acct dental offender, the pervert, the insane and the phys- ically diseased by a mass method ts a penological survival of the principle of treating all or most dis- eases out of one bottle of medicine and trusting to Providence and to luck for results. A recent study of 600 consecutive admissions to Sing Sing Prison over a period of nine months re- vealed the fact that not less than two-thirds had already served one or more terms in prison or re- formatories prior to their present confinement. There can be no abstract legal procedure for han- dling a situation that is primarily medical that is incapable of either effecting reconstruction of the individual or protection for the community. Some individuals, because of their psychological make-up, are absolutely and permanently incorrigible and can be dealt with only by permanent segregation and iso- lation from society, Therefore I think that there should be created as an arm of the court a psvchopathic hospital that would receive for examination persons already con- vieted of an offense and who would upon examina- tion be sent before the court for sentences, together with a report on their mental and physical condi- tion sufficiently exhaustive to enable the court to pronounce a proper sentence, The insane delinquent would then be confined in an institution for the insane until he is cured. The defective or feeble-minded delinquents would be con- fined in institutions where they could have self-sup- porting, simple work that would cause them to lead satisfactory lives without being exposed to the vicis- situdes of a complex social order and without expos- ing society to the menace which {s inherent in a de- fective inclined to behave in an anti-social manner, Studious men and women will realize that this ts probably the only method that will ultimately solve the problem of decreasing crime, thereby effecting a great saving to the taxpayers—affording a greater security to society and benefiting rather than caus- ing harm to that unfortunate who comes in contact with the law, PAUL MOSS, Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Grand Jurors, Mareb 30. No, 12 Hast 12th Street. that gives you the worth of a thousc There ia fine mental egercise a Most Likely There Woald Be a Smash, To the Daitor of The Pyening World Kindly answer me this question: Supposing a United States mai! wagon, an ambulance and a fire en- gine going at full speed all came to @ crossing at the same time, which of the three would go ahead ‘first? New York, March 31. M. M. od Night!” ‘To the BAitor of The Bvening World As yet I have to find one good rea- son why an increase of fare is neces- sary in New York City, particularly in Manhattan, In a large city where so | many people must use their lines and where so much money is taken in daily, cannot this money cover all ex- jpenses and allow “shareholders an | enormous profit on their stock? ‘The junk printed in the Subway | Sun is certainly one big joke. A five- cent fare is sufficient when it is taken into consideration how many people must ride, There is no reason why employees of these roads should be underpaid, First Prohibition, then the $1.50 gas bill, now the eight-cent fare grab. “Good night,” what next? How they get away with it I can’t understand, oN: Marine Recruiting. To the Diitor of The Brening Wort I notice Uncle Sam is again looking for recruits for the marines and that ating 42d Street, ex- ntages of service in Marine Corps at $40 a month. If it's absolutely necessary to have more marin why not transfer a few thousand men from the army to |the Marine Corps? There are, admit- tedly, 75,000 too many men in the ny just now. This plan would poor taxpaper the expr ning new recruits and halp to re army. Per Per Diem Park Employees, To the Kdltor of The Evening World The Park Department of New York does not regard its per diem em- ployees as equal to other per diem other city departments. diem park emplo: y minutes to the hour in dition, days in the y {deducted from each in making an economy showing, and such deduc- tions should apply to all the depart- ment employees, They are also laid off on rainy days, which reduces sal- ories and makes it dificult for them to support their families. On legal holidays all other city employees are granted a day or half a day off with pay. se of emergency work in an- tion certain per diem men !are instructed to leave their sections jand report elsewhere, and pay |the extra carfare. | "The section foreman laid off cer- tain per diem men, but in case of 8 they ‘must report or they will ‘be sent up on charges. The per diem employeos perform) From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one | to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. NE Se ol tas Se tes (THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, r9at. By John Cassel i and words in a couple of hundred? ind a lot of satisfaetion in trying the hardest and filthiest work, therefore they ought to be reec uized as equal to other city em- ployees. Why not have all the civil service mployees governed under one rule? The Board of Estimate should reg- ulate the per diem man who is in vice no less than one year on a ly basis, payable weekly. ie per diem men of the Park De- partment sneerely hope that you will expose this injustice in order to solve this problem in ‘behalf of the per diem employees PARK EMPLOYEE. Why Lament? | To tho Biitor of ‘The Some of the letters appearing in The Evening World are very interest- ing, particularly those in which the writers express their opinions con- | cerning Prohibition. Every one who possesses an ounce of common sense knows, or at least ought to know, that the Bighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitu- tion has come to stay, It appears very doubtful if the Volstead Act will ever be modified, But the fact of the matter is: had the people at large who, no doubt, op- pose an absolute “dry” law displayed as much interest before the Prohibi- Act was forced on an unwilling and given the Anti-Saloon to understand that they will be dominated and ruled by a not handful of knownothings and narrow- 1 doubt very much !f Congressman Volstead would have been in the limelight as he is to-day Our lawmakers in Washi not to be condemned, for the bunch of helpless tools, ‘Then why ament over a law created indirectly minded fools, by the people, who ra ever know how to vote, was clearly demon- strated at the last OSI AT March Yo the Plitor of The Brening Word Who should hold the job? | A man is earning a good salary, say $65 per week, married, an¥ has yet his wife goes to business and earns $50 per week. They go to cabarets and theatres nearly every night in the week, Her clothing is that of a wealthy woman. They even have an automobile. Does have to work? Yes, if she must have such luxuries. two children, The other man, a bookkeeper, has been out of work for months, the same as many another man, He too has two small boys, Their existence is a struggle, yet he can find nothing. Seems strange, an all-around Ameri- can cannot find work to provide a shelter and proper living for his fam- ily re all but the dependent woman from the business world, Give ue more women with common sense and love for domestic affairs, and there will be many more eligible girls for the man who would care to marty if he only had a decent income BA. —— ianpeenenansennte | Words From the Wise) “22R= DID You Ger ° UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Joka Blake.) BAD HABITS SOON SET. Men who have won their way in wholly new fields after forty, or even after fifty, prove that age does not necessarily kill adaptability If a man forms good working habits when he is young he will keep those habits through life. And he will be able to turn his energy and ability into new channels when the new channels are opened to him, he reason many men are wholly useless in new lines of acti after they are old is that they have formed bad habits, and those bad habits have set. Age is likely to be reactionary unless it is agcompanied by a determination to keep up with the times. There are still business men who will not have tele- phones or typewriting machines in their offices, But they are not doing very well in their business. There are firms which refuse to advertise, but there are more cobwebs than customers in their offices. The man who insists on doing a thing the way his father did it has worn a line of habit in his mind which nothing can efface. He will follow his father’s working methods to the grave and probably leave very little behind for his children, which will not hurt the children any, for they will have to Jearn to keep up with the times. Walt Mason, whose work is read by almost everybody in the United States, might still be a journeyman printer if ‘he had allowed his early habits to set. But he was adaptable. And when he discovered that he had a commercially valu- able talent he bent all his efforts to making it pay. Gen. Grant had almost forgotten all he had learned of the art of war when the South seceded. But he had not made fnilure a habit, and because he hadn’t he taught the world many new things about fighting. The habit of failure is easily contracted and is hard to shake off. Don’t form it in youth, and it will not make a failure of you in old age. o THAT WORD? 6—VEGETABLE. There is a vast amount of ph'l- phy behind the word “vegetable.” mes from the Latin “vegetabilis’ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward dur- | ing the time, and a courageous person afterward.—Richter. Dance, dance, as long as you but why should we muke a dead CL excite « 4 ?—E n this it will b march of it?—Bliza Cook. thie Fel mi It is far better to have a red to live the a ve {3 one of the i! tl vagaries of face than a black heart. \iauwanas —J. Auchieta. | Vegetarians firmly believe that no . reietas food is so animating and full of life If alt mankind feared hell as jus a vegetable dicey Some vegetarie they fear poverty, every one uns, it cannot be denied, have proved 5 the soundness of their be by ¢ would enter the gates of Para- M $ veloping constitutions of extraor dise,—Yahya lion Moad, ruggedness and stren. 1 themselves and their progeny by a A golden key unlocks every (1 easy door save that of heaven. } —Sir Robert Ayton. er That laughter costs too much ar ful that is purchased by sacrifice of products I u’ h his Seconcy.—Quintilian, ine smatver with thea. stent a t sprung hat is TURNING THE PAGES = €. @, Ostern a OTHER, my thought of you | Goes up about you As her own scent Goes up aboul the rose he bracetets on my arms Have grown too large Because you went away. | think tha sun of lowe Melted the snow of parting For the white river of tears has overs flowed. But though Iam sad Lam still beautiful, Whe girl that you desired In April Brother, my love for you In this letter on a palm-ttof Brightens about you is her own rays Brighten about the moov An Asiatic love poem from ‘the arden of Bright Waters” (Hough- M showing that the way turns ia the spring is 4 r of West nor Kasi, but of all the world, The translation is by E. Yowys Mathers, +658 Hasband Strongheart - - - A little conversation betwee. the good Padre Columbo and the giv! Fidesia in Tawi Tawi" (Scribners), a new romance by Louis Dodge: mrightly she aske y 4 girl to love a rich 1 “Yes, but he ought to be her fath- er. “phen ie it well for her to love poor m: 3 “Of a surety, but he ought to be her_son."* “But ‘suppose she wishes a hus- band? T! m she should choose a strong mi ‘A strong man—strong of strong of mind?” Strong of heart.” Than which many essayists o: success of marriage hi more while saying much less bis George Does it Prettily --- Back in his own England, Auinor W. L. George nevertheless leaves these bright words through Harper's Magazine: I love New York. I think T un derstand it. It is in America the arm or the only female city, a city of cynicisn Baris, Y of lace, a more intense va disguised in the garr respectability. It is al the c! Where Chicago offers energy York offers splendor. It is the American city where pec and play; in the others the Perhaps that is why most of the other cities call New York dexener- ate, because {t is not so much an in- dustrial city as a city of comm 5 and a place on Satuniay a city of financiers, which people de mornings to play golf. That is not degeneracy. me New York is the contrary. regenerate; it is the microc the new civilization of Ame which the Middle West is t and the South the memory. Chicago papers, of course, will not copy. | But Mr. H. I, Mencken, who boost« | Cook County, Llinois, while maintain- ing headquarters in West 45th Street, has a good chance here to explain why he hates the English idea, oe Blue Eyes for Black -- - the Dial, Ezra Pound, from the French of Remy de Goncourt: Let one attribute what importance one will to the fact, it is neverthe- less certain thet all men of genius and all those who have had the most xtraordinary influenc destinies of humanity country have had Men with black eye Indeed, to it is Translated for 8 are too vio- lent and too nervous to command ,- well. The chief ought calm, reflective, energetic, equitable, to be a man able of pardoning 4 negligence but never a breach of discipline. ‘These qualities are most often found In blue-eyed men. This Is the secret, or at any rate the symptom of the secret, which enabled the Barbarians to dominate and regenerate the Latin world, Assuming that Remy was right about optic hues and the man, how about eyes and the minx? Would he tell us that among the world’s fair mischief-makers one blue- eyed Nell outgoes a score of biack- eyed Susans? oe The Joy of Throwing "Em Away --- Writes the “Point of View” editor in the new Sembners; I love the semi-yearly ogy of housecleaning, with its charming possibilities of elt There, is t + last last 90] and the stamp box and botite that have desk since Christmas, and now Joytully diweard- ks I cannot never use ed; there are the gift read, the workhags I cannot ¢: all the things that ery, "Come and ne," Come and dust me," 1 ‘most desirous of being hen left capable of sensuous delight things 1 chosge to keep, but I adore the brief freedom that follows voluntary relinquishment, How that glorious old before-the- war feeling comes tiding back with a rush at this confession of one who still has things to throw away! her ° The Oneness of American Speech - «+ Writing of the national scope of the Yankee tongue in his “American finglish” (Knopf), Dr. Gilbert M, Tacker says: Trifling variations in| pronuncia- tion and in the use of a few particu- lar words certainly exist The Yankee “expects” while the V. the — iNitera: ‘and the War cliss by w very of the blunder * It is still Washingtor Ks" on thei ¢ but 6 to plac. are mos y squares’ in Baltimore, by “blocks” in Chicago. But put all ‘these variations to and iow fur short they anything like of Speech thal till, if we had a greater contusion of tongues we might afford less easy jokings for pernickerty uplifters,