The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1921, Page 20

63 Park Now, . 63 Park Row. J, ANG HAW, Treasu JOSEPH PULITZER Ir. § MEMWER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fend also the lo= published berein, SOFTLY ! news gleefully over the commanding majorities in Congress, As a sample the Herald headlines read “G. O. P. in Congress a Steam Roller. €an Insurgency Is Not Likely to Be Safe or Pop- ular.” And the news account from the Washington cor- respondent says: } imes have changed, and while there are plenty of malcontents—quite a number of Re publican statesmen who are fond of tipping the old apple cart—they are not likely to spilt anything important because of these big and handsome working majorities at the command of the Administration leaders.” If the Republican stand-patters will tare the trouble to read history they will find ampye eeason to modify their glee. “Handsome majori are measured by the rule of “handsome is as handsome does.” This country is not normally reactionary. I! is progressive. And if, after promising all things to all men, the Admin- ~ istration leaders are unable to deliver the goods the country will be critical in the extreme. Nor does it follow that a big majority is ing majorit The very size of the majority is 4 constant invitation to factional division and intra- party strife. Party independence is a great and growing fact in American political life. A majority in the House y be overturned in two years. A Senate majority may be cut to ineffectiveness. Republicans have a stupendous job ahead of them, “It would be becoming,” as Mr. Harding is wont to remark, to approach the task in a spirit of prayerful earnest- ness rather than wilh a flamboyant spirit of Swatch our smoke.” D’Annunzio plans to go into politics again with a Hiram Johnsonesque policy of swatting every head in sight. The world will interpret this as another manifestation of spring fever in the poetic breast. THE CHESS MATCH IN HAVANA. bs HBSS devolees are watching the matches be- tween Capablanea and Dr. Lasker with in- terest. The general public cannot work up a great deal of enthusiasm for a game in which a single move may take a half-hour and which requires an adjournment in the middle of the game and renewed play at a second session. ; A person unfamiliar with chess cannot appreciate how four-tifths of the games are drawn and that it is necessary to play ten games io win—or losc— two. But Capablanea’s second victory with no game lost clearly gives him a big lead. However, as in any sport, the public likes to see the champion defeated. The chess experts doubled chat Capablanca had shown the “class” to entitle him to a match with Dr. Lasker and suggested that he ought to “go get a rep” by beating the rest of the near-great in the chess world. If for no other reason, this would give a winning Capablanca a certain following. Another forecast of the. match was that the Havana climate would work to the disadvantage of Dr. Lasker. If chess is really a sport, and not a study or Science, it will be in order for Dr. Lasker to “alibi shimself” if he loses the match, and then challenge the new champion to another series in Germany or on neutral ground. President Harding opened the United States to Cuba telephone line yesterday, A pipe line vould come closer to meeting the demand. t HOME-BUILDING. OMPARISON of building plans tor with the same weeks last year is reassuring. Borough President Curran notes an increase of this ordinance went into effect. ments were filed. Nearly 60 per cent. of the “construction from a social standpoint, of the situation, one-tenth of a year. homes for same 35,000 to 40,000 families, building season. even busier months for home planners. mer and autumn slump will certainly follow. ~) others lapsing into uninhabitable old age. 4 FSTABLISITED AY Jos PULITZER ‘ Pudlited Daily nday by Tho Prow Publishing F Company, Nov. 53 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH Pt Rs Prowident, 63 Park Row {Mee Associated Prom ls exclusively entitled to the use fer reablteation Of all news denpaiches credited to ft or not otherwise credited te this paper LD GUARD Republican orguns are gloating Republi- 76 per cent. over the corresponding period last year in the number of plans filed since the (ax exemption In five weeks plans for 3,584 homes or apart- ccom- modations for families were in small one and two family developments, the most desirable sort of * However, it will not do to take too rosy a view Five weeks are approximately If building continued ‘at the present rate for the whole year it would mean new Agaip, it must be remembered that not even 35,000 new homes represent clear gain, for every ‘vear sees thousands of old homes demolished and | | But that “if” may be a deceptive assumption. | For one thing, the spring months of February and March are the times when filing of building plans proceeds at the highest rate as a preparation for the If the year is to see 40,000 new homes in New York, April, May and June must be The sum- to amounts about families, After making these allowances and deductions, it is evident that building is not yet making material inroad on the shorta of homes, wi Commissioner Copeland estimates at 100,000, By all means let us be thankful for every new home started, but let us not lapse into an unwar- ranted confidence that everything will come out right without active and constructive measures further to stimulate building. 100,000 y WITH RESERVATIONS. FTER much backing and filling over the ques- tion, Goy. Miller's Administration — which can boast the special property of including the Leg- islature—has settled on a definite plan for a legis- lative investigation of the present Administration of the City of New York. A committee composed of five Senators and six Assemblymen is to be empowered to probe into the Police Department, the District Attorney's Office and each and every other part of the City Govern- ment, while a commission appointed by the Gov- ernor will use the findings of the investigating com- mittee to determine wherein the Greater New York Charter may be improved by revision. So far as method is concerned, the proposed plan is straightforward and logical. With the right mo- tive behind it and an thonest purpose pervading it, such a programme can do the city substantial ser- vice. Hylan rule has brought administrative standards to unbelievably low levels. Incompetence is rife. In some departments worse than incompetence is indicated. Stiff inquiry is clearly and badly needed. If Gov. Miller and his obedient Legislature had shown a will to deal with this city for nobody's gootl more than its own, the proposed legislative investigation might be accepted “without reserva tions,” But having deliberately used the city’s plight under Hylan to pet over the traction plan, backed by interests seeking higher fares, Goy. Miller and his Legislature will have to keep investigation on an extra high plane to convince New York that its troubles are not being exploited again—this time for the political profit of a party. A COMMENTARY. ; EARING on the difficulty of getting jury con- victions in liquor cases, the Times printed last Sunday some interesting statistics compiled by Chief Assistant District Attorney Banton, From Jan. 1, 1908, to Dec. 31, 1917, under Dis- trict Attorneys Jerome, Whitman and Swann, the number of convictions by jury in such cases was exactly three, There were 16,197 arrests for violations of the liquor laws in that period. Of these, 9,822 cases were tried before the three Justices of Special Sessions, of which 5,366 cases resulted in con- victions. In the remaining 6,275 cases, only sixty-two convictions were obtuined, or one in every hun- dred. Only thirty-four cases went to trial be- fore juries, The juries acquitted in thirty-one cases und convicted in three, Mr. Banton used these figures to support his con- tention that defendants in liquor cases under the new State laws should be compelled to go before Justices of Special Sessions instead of having the right of trial by jury. In what sort of light does this put present Prohibi- tion law itself? Have legislators enacted statates so repugnant to common instincts of justice that the difficulty of finding jurors who respect these statutes enough to apply them to given cases is admittedly too great to make jury trial feasible? Woull so few “good men and true” willingly see the new Prohibition laws enforced against others that jury panels henceforth would have to be of impossible size to yield even twelve men fit to serve in a liquor law case? Must such cases go only to’ Judges whose special training and mental habit of unmoved interpretation can be relied on to apply a law too unpopular to be trusted in the hands of the public in whose name it was passed? Here is a significant commentary on Nation-wide Prohibition, which the Legislature of the State of New York is supposed to be re-enforcing for the good and by the will af the people of this Common- wealth! TWICE OVERS. ce HE French girl simply doesn't like the ‘shim my! bécause she has her own way of yraking her shoulders behave." —Nina Whittemore. ¢ 6 « “ee OUR friendship is all we ask. —Rene Viviani. eo. “ee HATEVER may be done, I wish you every success in the handling of the boxing situ- ation. It is not easy.""—Joe Johnson to Gov. Miller. * * * “ec DRINK? Sure. You don't look like a cop." _ Finally, the normal population increase of the city | y r —Bartender Stengler to Policeman Henessy, i, ff congress + to The (The New York & ; By John Cassel ||| Nature in The Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyriebt, 1921, Q bai: 9 by the Prae Poti! py New York brrotee World). No. 1—GBOGRAPHY, Palestine, the Land of the Bible, te but little more than a dot upon the nap of the earth, Sts length north and south, “from to Beersheba,” is only 140 miles, and its average width ts forty miles, In other words, the Holy Land just about equals in area our two dtue | States of Connecticut and Ihode Lal- and, It was, theret + & mere pune tuation poin etween the enoruogus empires between which it lay, bigyp> nd Assyria, and in comparison with wine of the great modern states tts is almost negligible. A nign- powered automobile, with right of way, could make tie distance from Wun to Beersheba in two and a half hours, and run off the distance 0 tween the Mediterranean and the @® Thus diminutive is the land whose wenius sent {is influcnce out to the f p of the earth, and whose hets and teachers “turned the eam of centuries cut of its chan- nel, and still governs the ag All of Which reminds uy that life's 1) st. Krandest and most enduring things are not of the material order. In the last analysis, greatness is to be interpreted not in terms of the »hysically immense but in terms of the SPUUT, In the final show-down it is quality, not quantity, that tells, Take the little Greek state 4 State Just about the gize of ew York, its capital, Athens, never containing above 30,000 freemen, and reflect upon the fact that that little pateh of land reared the men wiw zuve us civilization, who first lighted torch of reason, wno save us ! the drama art, science, Jophy and every one of the b. ‘iples of enliglitened progress, Stop s think that that small Attic stat within the short period of a halt ozen decades, produced u score of the greatest artists and thinkers that the race has ever produced And + Palestine, cent in |aniong us Une ut mot! nnol corrupt not break }and Kome |nen gave snowledge, but infinis them, Holy Land } Rofore the Rible men had tnparte | their priceless mess men everywhere Heavenly pottomless Paul puta it ‘nally enme the w: put hape into man’s hi ng us from the despair that is born Jof the thought of living in a Godle: world, wher nt is right and What kind of a letter do you jind moat readable? to eay much in a few toords, Take time to be brief. Honus and Income Tax. | Vo the Kditor of Tue Evning World Apropos of your editorial in whic you stated that after the States had | distributed soldiers’ bonuses it might uffice for the Fed | Government to care for those men who had been de- prived of all State bonus rights under laws similar to those of New York State, had you reflected that many such men are New York State income young girls at bh the Smoking cigarettes, associating questionable characters, painted und short skirts should he taboo. daughter, whom [ consider to her family, recently took the erty of having a new skirt short by her dressmaker, saw it on her 1 made her ately take it off, after which she by understand that such inde York citizenship in 1919 and was raised” out of the city before Noy, 2u, 1920. My relationship to New York City is little changed except that 1 sleep and vote in New Jersey and can- | line. not collect a bonus there or anywhere| When is this going to stop? else. ast be thousands like| are being paid too much now. = are comine ere om J th down. me in Connecticut as well as in New from the discrimination, there) 50ing up. are entitled to for our length of ser-| put a stop to this? vice, crookedly In the event of your suggestion be- the high rents now Ing for small wages, while those Ing curried o e do net want to cer- ol ee tates i the Peateat Govern-| tain ¢elasses of uniformed men ,are | ment that we are not crooks after our| having their salaries raised. ‘They |honuses have been collected by im-| also ask the Legisiature to make them postors, Nobody nts to see a re) permanent, They are getting too tition of the pension frauds which much right now according to the lowed the Civil War. times; and after twenty years they | will you not put the t want to jelire on half-pay—$1, 250. re vehind a mov Pretty soft! |} you ‘olumns beliind a move Gate ele teenavaral wal = prevent thin kind of raft? Raton? as H. B. FARLEY, | quick they will have an expens dled upon them through the ture which they will to bear, never be (Monkey See, Monkey Do.” To the Halivt of The Tirrning World OR Reriiked I with Mra, Mary Brown wonta| Bfooklya, April 6. ome ott in the open ar Overpald Boxers. few pointers on Wort motel daughters. Ty fele dryis rder, tom large ig by san do without emergency, We can fi f hearing opera nt r any oth CITY GIRLS. New York, April 8, 1921 We oasu ing mo f amusement out our captains of indus' Short Skirts and Night Courts. Prening Works r of two daughters, sixteen and eighteen years of age, T wish to indorse the sentiments of Mrs, Mary Brown, whose letter in The Evening World to-night [ read with interest. It seems a pity that there ure not more mothers like Mrs, of “professional people. T believe that th Mr. Edgren to write his article not only attacking the boxing put other lines as well that more money than they're worth deciplinary + or Ani atthat, WILLIAM It New York, April & 1uak a a cl mi but when | immedi- passed the Assembly to raise the sal-| aries of patrolmen and firemen and} superior officers al) the way along the nd firemen’s salaries ig con le danger that our names 1 don’t know what ts the mat may be used by grafters with politiea!| with the taxpayers. Are they asleep? Influence to get whatever bonuses we| Why don’t they come together and Poor, hardworking men cannot pay They are work- prize fighters, ‘orego many whom do not recelye half of the pay rities who caused Prom Evening World PeBasers f Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying mother. with lips My redit lib- was soundly spanked by me and given to ecent tax payer clothes would not be tolerated by me Would not be a nice piece of! While still smarting from the rattan, courtesy, under the circumstances, for she arranged {to nave four Inches New York State to exempt all met added to the bottom of the dress. who are denied a bonus by New York she Grete: law from having to pay income tax in! Brooklyn, April 8, 1921 | future to the State which 6o discrim- idle inates against them? . ee cc el 1 went to Plattsburg in 1917 88 8) 7 ite ~ stor of “the Evening Wo New York resident, returned to New| Tye, oo tvs towns Words | hey All sad- hind. | purses | Toate urnings to those of opera stam. Manke Khdgren would have stopped to donkey | der the time it takes to make al ye old our hed opera star he would not have | une t Baw as Moon T made the ison, Then, aj Pen the reason of overpaying one line of y Y a vi does not excuse the over- FPASHIONDD COUNTRY YOR S i WITH TWO. UP-To-| DAY De of another, wore waine recelye The don RT, MOST “Pride,” says ders.” And he m ders, as well, and UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake the mould of the grave the end of (Men Who Made New York By Irwin Thomas, | (Copyright, 1921, by Joka Binks.) Cnurvient. 1001, ty Tos Prose Iruitiching Co, PRIDE IS MERE VANITY, — - ; : Ruskin, “is at the bottom of all great blun- po at refers ight have added, “And of most little blun- $) a. sy mes onus tne iret. Mavor of most failures, great and little.” foNew ork tonowiie the evadu What men call pride is usually vanity. It is the man 3) .jon of the vity by the British in who is ashamed to own his ignorance who makes rept Repeated mistakes make failure. A new boss comes into an office and settles on a policy. 3 that it is not a wise poliey, ashamed by abandoning it to admit that he was in the wrong. mistakes. Presently he se And if there is not a super-boss to take him out and put a more adaptable and less conceited man in his place the busi- ness will soon go Opinions carefully formed ought to be backed up. snap judgments and opinions which prove after a test to be ill-taken have got to be abandoned or something unpleasant to wreck. is going to happen. Most perman Both parties hate if they know it should apolo, conceit. to each other are The hardest afraid to own uw You can reason with an incompetent and gradualls incompetent. make him les You can ten lum. But the man who believes that he ought to be right and » which i nt quarrels grow out of th to admit that they are in th themselves. separated for all time. man in the world to teach is the m p when he is inistaken, hy a dull man who is not vain to be efficient in a particular line and make a fairly effective citizen out of will not confess to making a mistake is utterly hopele To take pride in a worthy achievement is jus To take pride in one's family or in one's ancestry ble, although it will never get you very far on yi But to be so proud of what you think is your own com- petence that you will not tolerate a contrary opinion, and st that you are right even when proved wrong, is will in merely intolerabl If you think that such pride sets you above your fe ren and destines you for a leader there \ with you, But if you will analyze your pride, find ont what per centage of it is conceit and yradualfy eliminate that per centage, your pride may yet prove a very valuable ¢ Words From the Wise I think the author about his own booka is almost ag bad as a about her own children. If you would aboi © conceit, is no use DLO OL LEOPOLD SEPA PLL PPL PLD PAPEL ILD ae lish avarice, | when it comes a stran you must abolish the parent of if, ueury.—Cieero. Wisdom which is only theoret ical and never put into practice is like a double rose; its color Gud perfume are de ETRE is OT I sort of vanity. » Wrong, even Each thinks that the not pride at all, but stupid self The quarrel continues and two men or two women, oraman and a woman, whose lives might have meant much s admissi- your own, ated of having rebullt New the British n ships with the in koes the | York board their Cence of the United States ac! redit aniline but he ged, New York was a jad no commerce. Two disastrous \fires had swept over a large part of it, Nothing had been it, It had |been an i camp since te Battie of Long Island, the base of the Brit- ‘and was filled with sick, wounded ind prisoners, What had belonged te | Americans who were in rebellion had been confiscated. When the loyallats who were afraid to remain followed the troops aboard the transporte the lelty was just an evacuated camp ot a defeated army, Duane was the son-in-law of Rob- Livingston. His country hor r what is nov But other Gramerey | wife bad be George ¢ \Mayor. to this time el: awyers had been allowed to pr in the Mayors Court, Because legal tangles over titles, confiscation and reclamation ac he Mayor's Court became the olexe ind most Important in the city. Ever \nwyer who had practised before the Supreme Court was permitted we | practise in it. Duane was Mayor, New Yo me the capital of the jtry. Washington was jhere and Congress Hall, at Wall and an who at Streets ‘Things were 80 busy that each of the {seven Aldermen had to have an us- |slstant. Then, as now, following the ql war there was a housing shortar ' Rents were doubled, Duane brought the city around. It took shape.‘ T) |harbor was filled with shipping. ‘There was great joy when a ship arrived from China, the first from the Fah- Wast, flying the American flag. "The that had be: eHow- arguing ting sort of May: 's College t a but had bee |the ‘new Government, had students. De Witt Clinton, fitte | years old, was leaving the State to gu to Princeton, Duane induced the youth's father to Jet him remain tn the city; had the Board of Regents d been allowed to f, me Columbia unde ni It set. a —= xamine him and the Rev, William | Cochrane to act ntor to him. it withers away and leaves no | Witt Clinton. bec the first studene seed,—Schopenhauer. Py |of Columbia through Puane's declare SO RUE RSs tion that no Clinton should have to 4 who speaka If thou expect death as a |jenve New York to get an education friends prepare to entertain it; | Although he Had. suffered himpoté 4 rom the vandatiem of war, 8 } mother who tulks if thou expect death ay ay ull well had the nertena ont } enemy, prepare to overcome it; | would have continued to suffer, Duane Disraeli. death has no advantage, bug Monk with others started immediately to make American citizens out of the ge Crown loyalists who remained here. Quarir He did much to have thelr disabilities . . removed and thelr property protected” { Pride ihut dince on va v Was @ great differonce of aups on coniempt, Pride break. opinion as to the better way) te. RN a hint nti, | handle the estates of the loyaltste te Hh Plenty, dined with \mnat ot Henry White, in Penrt Stree’ rin dnd supped with Infamy became lightiys, bus - a —Benjamin Pranklia,