The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1921, Page 10

a ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Excopt Sunday by The Proas Publishing Comp&ny. Nos, 54 to 69 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preaident, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Troamurer. 68 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr. Secretary, €3 Park Row | MEMIFEN OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS, ‘The Arrociated Prem te exctustvety entitled to the nse fer repabticatton OF all news Genpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn thin paper Bnd also the local mews published herein REASON STILL AT WORK. HAT threatened to be a Black Friday in British industrial history developed a rift in the Triple Alliance of labor, and the rift averted & iriple-headed strike. The railway and transport workers refused to stand with the miners in repudiating the offer of Secretary Hodges of the miners’ organization to dis- cuss the question of wages without insisting on the national pool issue. The result was a breach which left the railway and transport men declaring for conference and compromise, while it revealed the miners as more radical than their own Secretary. The hopeful sign in this is the indication that British labor is by no means solidly for throwing away reagon and staking all on a fight. The most serious aspect of the situation was the tendency toward a general drawing. together of all kinds of workers for a test of strength that must sooner or later have become a class conflict. A dis- eee pute over miners’ wages threatened to grow into a social struggle with Government itself involved. A sonse of justice, quickened no doubt by the attitude of the British public, brought two member groups of the Triple Alliance to a realization that fair play for the third might still be secured by betier means than paralyzing the whole United Kingdom. The danger is not over. The miners seem still bent on fighting it out. But at least other British workers are showing themselves ready to say whether they think a given proposition reasonable of unreasonable and to act accordingly, even though they go against affiliated organizations. That is something for the miners to ponder be- fore they decide to ride rough-shod over their own representatives unless the latter stick to an iron- policy of “no compromise.” Senate and Assembly having both passed the Mayer resolution, legislative investigation of this city’s affairs is assured, That such investigation is needed there is not the small- est doubt. That it shall be the right kind and not mere indoor sports for a group of party politicians ought to be the insistent demand of city and State. BUY NEW BOOKS. One of the causes of decreased circulation 4s the lack of funds with which to buy new books and replace old ones, The book stocks of the branch libraries have become depleted and badly worn and the cost of pooks has increased enormously in the last few years; and the appropriations in the City Budget for the purchase of books have not been sufficient to enable the Circulation Department to keep pace with the demands upon it. These sentences from the report of the Trustees @f the New York Public Library tell a story which ought not io be repeated another year. The mere fact of the high cost of books is the est reason for liberal expenditures by the Circula- won Department. If book costs have increased enormously, there is an added incentive to borrow. Persons who would otherwise buy are forced to borrow. Ten dollars spent by the library will permit per- haps fifty persons to read a good book, while the same sum spent by an individual may provide read- ing for only one. The book-buying list of the Circulation Depart- ment of the Public Library is one place where penny-pinching in budget«making is the worst sort of false economy. If Mayor Hylan were asked to comment on these sections of the report he would, very probably, reiterate his now famous reply, “Don’t ask me nothing.” Few will weep over the cruelty of harassing | the mind of Mr. Brindell in Sing Sing with | the prospect of a greatly extended stay there if he fails to produce the “little black book. THE RUBBER STAMPS REST. HEN the newspapers announce to-morrow that the Législature has adjourned, it will not have the usual meaning. It will merely signify that the Chief Executive of the State has stopped legislating. Never in the history of the State has there been a time when the Governor ruled the State more absolutely and openly than for the last three months. Whatever the balance of debit and credit for the laws written, the praise or blame does not belong to the Legislature. It belongs to Gov. Miller. The legislative programme has been the Gov- emor's programme. He has not been an “easy boss.” He has been strong to the, point of ruthless ness, In the majority there have been none to say him nay. ‘Consideration of measures in committee has been perfunctory. There has been comparatively little _“eg-rolling.” Measures have been prepared in the —— Executive offices and sent a curt order to “pass and return.’ Private bills have been enacted or rejecied at the discretion of the Governor. Little bosses from up- State have made no combines. When they got what they wanted it was as the result of earning the good-will of the Governor by their own obedience. For all practical purposes, the Legislature might as well have met and adjourned, leaving the Gov- ernor a blank check to use at his discretion. Whether the record is good or bad, it is Gov Miller's. As for the Legislature, most of the majority members are worthy only of contempt. They were not representatives. With few exceptions they were “rubber stamps.”” ° The Legislature and Gov. Miller easily straightened out the little mix-up between the new Rent Laws and the Civil Practice Act, The Rent Laws were saved because there wasn't a scintilla of a doubt that they must be saved. WHY NOT BY FEDERAL BOARD? RESIDENT HARDING'S message to Congress contained no word of advice on immigration policy. Omission of so important a subject probably means that Mr. Harding proposes to study the mat- ter and supplement his opening recdmmendations with a special message. Immigration policy is certainly one of the half dozen most momentous and far-reaching questions now before the country. Present restriction is satisfactory to no one. It does not restrict immigration enough to satisfy the restrictionists and exclusionists. It does not select the immigrants according to the idea of the selec- tionists. 1M does not throw open the door to satisfy the exploiters. It does not even afford adequate safeguards for public health. The literacy test is a purely mechanical agency. It is the result of unintelligent political compromise. This lack of intelligence and the oversupply of poli- tics have been the principal faults of all our ad- ventures in immigration legislation. Congressional direction of immigration Nes back of all our failures. Congress from its very nature cannot be expected to manage immigration control in an effective and sensible fashion. Congress cannot know about the immigration problem ‘because the problem changes from day to day. Congress itself changes from year to year. Intelligent regulation of immigration requires ex- pert, up-to-date information and a continuous but flexible policy of control. In most Congressional districts there are small hamogeneous groups of voters who themselves emigrated to this country. These in general have definite views on immigration in its relation to their friends and relatives in other countries. These groups exercise an effective control on members of Congress. In districts where foreign-born voters thokd the balance of power Congressmen are not permitted to consider immigration as a national problem but only as it relates to this compact group opinion. ‘Congress has a way out. The Evening World has suggested the creation of a Federal Board to govern immigration with powers as broad as those of the Federal Reserve Board. Once Congress delegates its powers of investiga- tion, regulation and administration of immigrant control to such a board, the question will cease to be political and may be handled intelligently and fram the viewpoint of national advanaage. WOULD UNCLE TOM “GET BY”? N THE current issue of the Saturday Evening Post, L. B. Yates has an entertaining narrative on “Tom Shows,” the lineal descendants of the touring companies that played “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” How many of the older generation in the city thave witnessed a performance of “Uncle Tom’s ‘Cabin,” and how few of the children have thrilled over Eliza crossing the ice before the pursuing bloodhounds ? Mr. Yates says, the years went by this force- ful play reached the end of its tether, so far as the sophisticated audiences of the big cities were con- cerned.” But is Mr. Yates right? Isn't there one more length of the tether even in the biggest of big cities, New York? Wouldn’t a revival of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” on Broadway take as a novelly, as some- thing new because it is so old? Wouldn't fathers ami mothers attend “for old times sake”? And wouldn't they take the children for the same reason they take them to the circus year after year? Twenty or thirty years ago “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was more than a stirring drama. It was an Ameri- can tradition, ditions die hard even in America. Would a revival of the original and unmodified “THE desi WORLD, SATURDAY, APRYL 16, 1921. ~ | Re-Naming the Old Gold Brick! eu ee See Pefiishine Co. ja Rene Norn Rrcning. A Wonderfal Phrase. To the Editor of The Evening World Acting District Attorney la reported as having said: people don’t want prohibition, by strict enforcement it will prove so objectionable that they will rise up and vote it out.” “Vote it out” is a wonderful phrase, Ny when heard from a prohibi- tion enforcer, but in this instance it is, like sentencing an innocent man_ to prison for life and advising him that he may get out peaceably by walking | out, or violently by breaking out. Thera is not much walking out peaceably. there much chance of the people vot- ing out prohibition, when this right and opportunity has (been denied them. One other recourse ix left to the innocent convict, the same recourse left to the to use violence in regaining t This seems absurd to those who can only look as far ahead as the coming midnight. 3, discontent is the seed n grows revolution, and such sceds have been scattered about in abundant quantities, not free of charge, but in exchange for hard- earned dollars, ‘W. BROOK. April 13, 1921, Banton “If the A Willing Taxpayer. To the Faitor of The Evening World I read the cynical letter of a Brook- lyn taxpayer, who complained about the firemen’ salary. ‘This person does not think of the time when every common work- man earned more than they did, He does not realize that their lives are always in danger, It is true that they have a home to sleep in, but when they leave it, God only knows if they will return, No person with the smallest atom of feeling and self-respect would com- plain to pay a bit more who ar the first to be when danger is near Tam alse a taxpayer and a poor wh but my last thought would not make me com~ plain of such a thing when there are 0 mnany other things to be complained about CITIZEN, wlled upon A Matter of Style. To the Falitor Wf The Brening World Mrs, Mary Brown and Mrs make me tired. Short skirts « ‘The trou- 8 out that tary, grace nd stylish, bie indecent have onty |never was new F mselves to be will be 80 n then nd policemen’s raiso of | surely are mistaken. to ald those! jonly thought is that he must pa From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in a feio words, Take time to be brief. arreste a day would soon put an ll to this law. I have a very and do a good deal of U sting all classes of peop! not as yet met one who is ip favor of this new Miller law. A. B.C. wide acquaintance ‘To the Editor af The Evening I want to contradict PD who complains that the raise in flre- men’s and policemen’s salaries is too much, Does this critic realize the danger that a fireman or policeman dares? An ordinary workman go home to his family after his day's work, but a fireman or policeman is always on duty, whether in mere or civilian dress, He is al risking his life in herole effort to, save others, 1 imagine this taxpayer ts always first to call for aid when tn trouble Yet he does not consider this, His yan) extra bit in addition to what he is paying, What is tax money in com- parison to a human life? iB ‘The Matter of Wake-Up. ‘To the Bilitor of The Evening World; I would be very interested in know- ing why the average person of to-day is so narrow minded. Do they think that if a girl dresses attractively, rouges, powders and us@ other cos- metics, she isn't respectable? They) lama yours lady twenty-one years of age. I use all sorts of cosmetics and also wear | short skirts, because they are the | style. I work from 10 to 7 and then 1| go home to cook dinner for the other six members of my family and do house work. Iam in bed every night at 10.80. Does it mean that because L dress attractively I am not respect- able and nothing on my mind but my Appearanc Pad oxealient parental training as \a child, judge o-up" irl by her appe: does York, Abril 1 1921, Not a “Monkey” Trainer, To the Balitor of The Evening World: In reply to “Old Fayhioned Seance | Mother,” I'll inform ‘her with pleas- are, Iam a mother of six girls, from |sixteen to twenty-five, I raise them | by good example, education, Jove and home influence,” I did not form pine, as many slacking mothers do to-day. T will ask, Are you the “monk whom your two up-to-date daugh- ters imitate? If you have a regular ine of your work you will have time for leisure and a t No, do not blindfold the daughters (monkeys). Get them to pitch in and help with your we after meals. = e who|Then you will be doing yourself a jus- n law | tice You say a senathle pe | < % SPI as sta that ao many cases on! that with “most girls it case “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” get omy ieers from New | the calend: r that they will never be of monkey . monkey does.” Weil, York? tried and the ve will then be tired I am thankful to God T did not raise of arrests, A few thousand monkeys instead of ‘The ’ . sr ar a waiieiamnidiisinniaianaianant om wise aru theatre |/F knows |! UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) EVEN GENIUS HAS LIMITATIONS, There are things you can do in this world and things you cannot do. The sooner, you find out what they are the more likely you are to accomplish something useful, Science first discovers where are the stone walls beyond which no human mind can pass, then proceeds along path- ways not thus obstructed. And science is steadily progress ing. But even genius has distinct limitations, and knows them. “The ouly way to argue with the east wind,” says Lowell, “is to put on your overcoat.” And the only way to argue with the hard facts of the world is to adapt yourself tc them. If you find that by making effort, almost superhuman effort, make men better or happier, the effort is worth making. There would have been no progress in the world if such effort had not been put forth, But all the effort you could summon would not stop the world from revolving on its axis, or turn back the tides, or stop the steady movement of a glacier toward the bottom of the valley in which its course is laid. It is not needful to think that your limitations are less than those of other men of like talents. But it is needful to know what human limitations are and not strive to pass beyond them. Men by unflagging effort have found that it was pos- even colossal and you can sible to fly, to talk almost around the world without wires, to travel from one place to another as easily as do the birds. But they have never learned to curb earthquakes or to turn the courses of rivers against the pull of gravitation, There is no arguing with a mad dog. There is no teach- ing a congenital idiot. There is no persuading a man like the former Kaiser of Germany that he was not born to rule the world, He can and has been persuaded that he will not be al- lowed to rule the world, but he destiny. still thinks that was his Find out the things you can do and try with all your But when you find one of science’s stone walls ahead, turn in another direction. You will injure your head severely by butting it and you will never loosen a rock in the strength to do them, wall, TURNING THE PAGES €, W. Osborn »RINGTIME in our village! Between a dawn and night The orchards gray but yestor- day Came out in pink and white, Like little bridesmaids all bedecked To give the bride delight. Ss Springtime in our village! Through all the countryside From bough and wing the rovins fig A carol glorified, Like lusty little choristers Who sing before the bride. Springtime in our village! Oh, heart of mine, be gay! The lass that frowned round Hath found her mirth in May, And all of Spring is but the ring About our wedding day. the seasen So sings Theod ing “A Wedding § Larks Rise" ume of pub la Garrison, offer- mg in “As the (Putnam), her latest vol- shed verse, The Freudian Way in Polities - ~~ In a chapter on “Sublimation,” tn his new book on applied psycho- analysis, “Getting What We Want" (Harpers), Dr. David Orr writes The respectable citizen who profane and purple of face over deplorable condit nt Administration Is*forcing his y, State or Nation is not of neces- sity an Anarchiat ar an enémy to the Republic, His wife, or his frien office boy, or his empl blocked him in his strux; Great rea hives & hammering not the re but thowe set in government over Were he una le taxe of the Kk into the are and eventis lower order of greatness by beating his wife or assaulting his employer. We used to call it letting off steam when we called the other fellow names according to his politics. t does not sound simpler raised to Freudian terms, Laughing the Raven Out of Gloom when Herbert W. Collingwood, entertain” ing a rural audience in the district school house one J j | ure a, to earn his hter from ac He worked in he recited Poe's poem * In his book “Hope F Note tells what fol No one, not , Brace & Co.) he 1: considered "The | Sw racked jokes in and out of dialect. I had “made tases” and played the clown generally with affecting the hired man. Ye the third repetition, of “Quoth ts Raven—Nevermore !" the hired mon r that shook the tainment was one long laugh for him. The rest of the audience Joined with him, and long after the me ing closed and the lanterns twink down the dark and muddy ronda, uld hear roars of laughter e farmers as they journeyed home, ‘The minister told me In the aD te that his people had recelved spiritual uplifting during the int ‘He gave no ¢redit whatever to Poe and the hired man. The hired man, of cours was a Pollyannistic optimist engaged — in laughing the “Nevermore” off the horizon. | Industry needs more of his kind. | oe | The Birth of the Peach | "The thamboo-cutter, in far-off In- dia, sits by the river to rest and sum- mons to him the beautiful pink peach | that floats on the stream. Lis! to p rest of the tale as it is told in and Oth nam) by arjonic To his surprise peach seemed to he v ts; it floated tows art him and 4 soon able to take it from eam immediately prepared to cat | fteand pulling out his knife cut it | in half, when to hix amazement he Giscovsred that tn the pl the stone should he ny child, beautif ng forth a dazzl Enchanted at his discover: immediately, warrying the ure as earefully as he ental t and Intrusted her to his wife to fee and first. she had to be placed | ket to keep her safe, | Fut sho sunprisingly fast, ‘and in months—wonderfil to Was as tall and well de’ girl of sixteen, Nor could the whole world wer equal; for there was no « in any corner of the house which her brightness did not dispel, aid no angry Word was ever spoken in It while she Was there Her, beatty increased every and the old bamboo-cutter her Kaguya, the Precious Slend Bamboo of the Field of Autumn So here we have the miracle story | of the origin of that princess of girls |the Peach, as she is known ani adored to-day by men of many land jand, not least, by those of Manhat- tan. o 8 Beauty and the Beast Education... Arnold Bennett, having discovered a certain school for girls of caste, in Jaondon, writes of it, in "Things That | Have Interested Me" (Doran), as fol- ” | lows: | This: school, Which moved | here from Paris during the and will shortly move tb kK again. ts among the most fashionable biishments of the kind. It ha wenty-elght pupils, | Miranda told. us } that over war that there I discovered, there . ~ nage was at an: —_a | Namet; that Pupils, cad Fay auestion 4s up to you and a thousand | ge salutes tr mottere in ae Sy id gore WOFdS Krom the Wise daughters?= {€ not, then you a What makes old age so sad is, p would not slacker You neglect a duty most im- . F GHE80: 805 0; Mistresses and pupils _risc at portant in instilling discipline in your] "0 ¢hat our joys but that our A. M,, but Miranda rises |homo. hopes then cease.—Richter. r to pra 1 did urge mothers with flighty The greatest luxury of riches i a to take them acros cir) is that they enuble you to escape | Fr spank them, Wiltu ‘: yu! ie | nent girls ht to be spa y $0 much good advice, The rich | unts are full of] are always advising the poor; | * girls ul] man tub de Ia e nos ane} but the poor seldom venture to * » the slippe uently in spank- return the compliment. Sir Arthur Helps, Steam is no stronger now than 5 up ins it was a hundrce years ago, bus Ne wane Geown w is put to better use ae an —Emerson, | New York, April 14, 1921, tonal system would do 1 Empire t would have by | good But how }Te-Day of the militant