The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1921, Page 26

; ee ESTAVLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Excopt Gunday by The Press Publishing Company, Now, 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER JIr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMITER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Associated Prem {s exclusively entitled to the use for fall news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited im this Set ats tbs local news published herein. GIVE THEM A YEAR. FTBR a campaign to clean up tre movies, in Ps which exposures by The Evening World played an important part, the Legislature passed a ¢ensorship bill. Censorship wouki put a heavy burden on the in- Gistry. But if Gov. Miller signs the bill, the pro- ducers and exhibitors will not deserve a particle of sympathy. Their punishment will not be out of Proportion to their offense. Nevertheless, speaking for the public and not for the motion-picture industry, The Evening World hopes that Gov. Miller will veto the bill. A censor- ship is odious in itself. A censorship is usually ad- ministered with a complete lack of common sense and judgment. The expense of the censorship eventually will be passed on to the public in admis- sion fees. There seems reason to believe that the motion- picture industry has learned its lesson and that re- sponsible leaders will exert effective pressure to eliminate objectionable films. This would be far better than censorship. © A year of delay will give the exhibitors time to @ean house and demonstrate that a censorship is unnecessary. If the movies cannot police themselves fh that time there will be no good argument against gw censorship even more <irastic than now proposed. We hope Gov. Miller will take this view and weto the present bill. THE HOOCH-HOLDER’S SHAKESPEARE, “Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.” ~ “The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.” “And now am I, ifa man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.” h: “O, monstrous! but one-half pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack.” A HALF-WAY MEASURE. HE Budget Bill vetoed by President Wilson is ‘ before Congress again. The objectionable provision making the Comptroller General, or budget-maker, responsible to Congress instead of to the President is retained. In the present temper of Congress, the mere fact that President Wilson ob- jected to that feature is reason enough for keeping it. Either the bill goes too far or it does not go far enough. It is a half-way measure designed to fool Whe country into the belief that it has a budget, but without depriving Congress of the political per- Quisites of spending. The budget-maker must ‘ good” or lose his job. President Harding advocated governmental econ- ‘omy in his message to Congress. If he was sincere hhe will veto this bill and insist on a budget prepared ‘by an Executive appointee. _ Jf Congress is sincere in wanting a budget offices responsible not to the Executive but to the Legisla- ure, then Congress will go all the way and demand -and enforce responsibility of Cabinet officers to the Dikiget-making agent. If Congress and the President are playing politics with popular demand for a budget, they will enact just such a measure as that now proposed, in which responsibility will be divided and it will be possible to continue passing the buck as at present. A LEADER THE SOUTH NEEDS. Georgia is responsible for OV. DORSEY of Georgia is responsible ¥ one of the brightest pages in the history of race relationship between whiles and blacks. It took the Williams case to arouse the better lass of Southem whites. But if Gov. Dorsey’s Jeadership is accepted the death of the eleven mur- ‘dered peons will be a small price to pay for the sesultant gain to society. Gov. Dorsey’s report, “The is a courageous public document. Gov. Dorsey is a Southerner. His recommendations are addressed to the decent citizenship of the South. He is calling for the reform that counts most—the refonm by voluntary effort and without coercion, Georgia’s record of lynching and mistreatment of negroes is black as sin. As the Georgia Governor says, “God and man justly condemn” such condi- tions. But if conditions are remedied from the inside, by Georgians, the State will again be able to hold up its head. Gov. Dorsey is not asking for an impossible pro- gramme. He does not ask Southerners to accept tthe negro as a social equal. He does ask protection ‘of decent, law-abiding negroes and the prevention of peonage, cruelty and terrorism by the “white- trash” element and the present-day Simon Legrees. Publicity, religion, education and co-operation of of both races sounds like the beginning of #@ constructive programme, «A State constabulary, assessment of arbitrary fines on counties permitting lynchings, judicial in- "westigation and nog ol removal of officials guilty ot and trials of lynchers outside their SPDs egro in Georgia,” republication paper own county constitute the Governor's programme for immediate protection. If Georgia will follow Gov. Dorsey's advice, the | State will eam the approval of all the Nation, If | other Southern States will do likewise the menace of Federal intervention in behalf of the negro may be averted. If the South balks, Federal legislation to protect the negro is as sure as to-morrow’s sunrise. DO IT WITH BUSES. HAT solution can be found for that part of the city’s transit problem which relates to broken-down surface lines? How can surface transit be set right and the pub- lic served as it ought to be served with least injury or injustice to companies involved? Answer: By a sweeping substitution of the motor bus, Not the bus used 1Mian-fashion, in competition with trolley lines. But by using the bus systematically to trolley lines under “existing franchises. Suppose, for example, surface car companies now operating south of 59th Street in Manhattan were required to replace their present trolley service with ‘bus service under corresponding franchise privileges ahanged or enlarged to meet public need. The companies would gain a larger and business, which they could carry on with much less costly equipment. The public would gain in immensely Huscrod comfort, convenience and safety. The advantages of the bus do not have to be demonstrated to the people of this city. The bus has been tried and approved. The time has arrived when it needs only to be multiplied and extended. Six years ago The Evening World began to urge upon New York the claims of the bus as a means of crosstown and—within limits—up and down ‘town surface transportation. The bus is adaptable. With a minimum of trou- ble or cost it can be routed and rerouted to meet transient or permanent need. The bus is flexible. It can move from one current of traffic to another with an ease and speed that make it a better carrier than the trolley car for city streets and, in the aggregate, of hardly less capacity. The bus is safe. It takes and discharges its pas- sengers at the curb. Whereas, getting on or off a trolley car in crowded Manhattan exposes the pas- senger to the worst perils of midstreet traffic A few years ago an engineer interested in transit problems figured from a comparison of accident statistics covering a period of twelve months in this city that on street-car lines one pedestrian was in- jured for evtry 17,000 miles operated, as against one pedestrian hurt for every 120,000 miles oper- ated by motor buses. For the miles operated and the number of persons carried, he estinvated the op- eration of motor buses to be from four to eight and one-half times as safe as the operation of trolley cars. replace At a second’s notice a motor bus can change both its speed and itS direction. only its speed. Crosstown surface transportation in Manhattan— and, we repeat, much up and down town surface transportation as well—can be best supplied by pre- cisely the kind of flexible routing, with possibility of frequent readaptation, to which the bus alone lends itself Don’t use the bus to ruin the suffering surface line companies. Make the surface line companies abandon their trolleys and use the bus for their own salvation, A trolley car can change WHAT CAN A DOLLAR DO? (From the Philadelphia Ledger.) From Chicago comes a story, with specific items, of the way in which the dollar is regaining its lost purchasing power, One does not have to go as far as Chicago to discover such a recuperation, We had begun to think rather meanly of “the almighty dol- lar” in America, but when we translate it into terms of the debased currency of the Old World we dis- cover what a tremendous purchasing power it still has. From time to time widely varying pear as to the minimum budget for a persons, It is impossible to’ pre, universally applies, One such programme, prepared by the Labor Bureau for a workman's family, arrives at the sum of $2,385 as a minimum. On this scale, rent is about $300, the husband's clothes cost $112, the wife's attire comes to $142, light and heat are less than $90, But one suspects sometimes that such estimates? large or small, are prepared in the Cabinet, not from actual contacts. ‘The cost of living upon what one is compelled to pay. If there are no houses to be had in a neighborhood where one is obliged to live, then it is of no avail to limit one’s appropriation for rent to $295, If lingering and seri- ous illness invades a household, the sum of $80 will not go far to pay the bills for treatment, A dollar is merely what a dollar will buy where it is spent, Those of us who can afford to take our dollars to the other side of the ocean will find them comparatively potent, But most of us have to spend our mofey here, where it has not yet regained its former purchasing power, stimates ap- family of tive are a schedule that is conditioned THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921. ~ ma ween: Wants Justice, To tin Kaitor of The Evening World New York papers have reported that the Department of Justice will} take over the Prohibition Enforce- | ment Act.’ I sincerely hope that| statement will prove true, for then | one and all will have an opportunity | to learn what the word “justice” stands for in the Constitution of t United States. The preamble of the Constitution states that “We, the people of these United States, in or- | der to form a more perfect Union, | first establish justice.” Wonderful words are these and | comforting to those who expect a fair | and impartial enforcement of tho aw” and not what these paid emis- saries of the Anti-Saloon League | would force upon a free people. What the citizens of this country want is “justice’’—just that, and| nothing more, New Brunswick, N. J., Apnli2 i 1 ‘The Grandson of an Irishman, "To tho Bxitor of The Evowing World I was much interested in the ar- ticle in your paper about DeWitt Clinton, I would like to remind your readers that De Witt Clinton, to whom New York owes so much, was the grandson of an Irishman, For that reason alone New ors should be grateful to that br little nation that is now appealing for ald. JOHN MORRIS. New York, April 25, 1931. ‘Too Many Notses, To the Halitor of The nag Workd, Isn't there an ordinance that for- bids harsh and unnecessary noise in the public streets of this town? If 60, why isn't it enforced? 1 refer particularly to the screeching of trucks week day morning, especially between the hours of 7 and 10, in the vicinity of Brooklyn Bridge. Lately the noise iy more discordant and car splitting than ever, re isn't the slightest necessity for such nerve-racking, dis- agreeable sounds as pedestrians and workers in office buildings are forced to hear any morning on Park Row. The officials of this town when it comes to making New York & sane, comfortable, reasonably quiet place to live in, are not one, two, three with the officials of certain other places, The police officials, the bosses, overlook many ordinances that have been passed for the comfort and well being of our citizens. On upper Broadway the police chase away groups of idlers, but down P Row they allow people to stop and staceato motor every police 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 ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. | nicely | continue gab and obstruct traffic and to loiter along the curb, even at the bridge | ' roadway, Why not keep people mov- ing in congested centres? Let them tell their gossip in side streets. Brooklyn, April 27, 1921. J. M It In to Weep. Tv the Rgitor of The Evening World: There are a million suckers born every day and an “Anderson” to catch ‘em.¢ This is about the size of the Prohibition law in effect to-day. In this land of the free and honie of the brave, where every one has a ‘ote and a say in the running of the | Government, we find a man who has the nerve and audacity to order 106 000,000 yeople in America when and what to drink and actually get away with it, and under the very nose ef United States citizens. Anderson has turned his trick very and unless we act now he can| to sing “Tt makes me laugh to see you cry. Yours for better days, AARON LEO BOULGACH. Bronx, April 26, 1921, ‘He Must Get a Divorce. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; If a wife leaves her husband, an¢é if the husband has not seen her for more than five years, must he ob tain a divorce, vorced? Brooklyn, April 26, 1931. or is he legally di- J, H “rhey WAIL Not Stand” ‘To the Exlitor of The Evening World And now they say “They will not stand For France making such harsh de- mand They talk as though they’d won the fight! They talk as though they'd fought things right! Grandly declaim against advance— sho Sought the North They wanted Brie With Holland view! ~Longwy, too— comprised in their ve us raw stuffs!” now they ery, tting how, a while gone by, smashed all manufactories nch and Belgie enemies! Customers’ lists they brought along, So after war they could be strong— And now they would, their shops omplete, zed France again compete! R. B. P, With New York, April 26, 1921, etter Late Than Never, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Mra. Brown may be old-fashioned | and her daughters may be living un- der the spell of the slipper, but I ven ture to belleve they are better off be- pause of It. = UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtaat, 1921, by John Blakny ONE DAY’S WORK. If you find you are running behind, experiment with a single day's work. Note in the first place where you are losing time. are like most people you waste at least two of the eight hours allotted to the average day's task. Learn where these two hours are and how they are wasted. As a rule idle and useless conversation will account for at least one of them. Some of this is with people in the shop, who waste both their time and yours. Part of it is with people outside the shop who for one reason or another feel that they have the right to take you from your work. Cut out this waste for one day and you will find that you are about twelve and a half per cent. ahead on the day’s work at the end of it. The other hour you probably spend hesitating to do unpleasant things. You can get over that by tackling the unpleasant things first and getting them out of the way. Congenial tasks always start themselves. ones, particularly those that are very tain a wearisome amount of drudgery, r Do that cranking up at the beginning of the mean job first. Pause as little as possible between tasks. They are done far more easily if you sail right into them, You will get interested pretty soon, and the trouble will be over, before you know it. Spend no time at all thinking that you are abused or underpaid, Spend no time envying men who seem to have it easier than you do. There will always be such men, There no such thing as absolutely fair play in the world, waste any time expecting it. By pitching into things and getting them done, cutting out unnecessary conversation yourself and refusing to let other people disturb you by it, you can save at least two hours a day. That is 25 per cent. of the day’ It amounts to twelve hours a week and nearly hundred hours a year. \ That six hundred hours ought to make the difference If you Uncongenial ficult or that con- ire cranking up. the day. Get rid is Don't s work, ix between success and failure, | te-dny needs taming, and if Mrs.|spected, loved and revered her, A Brown finds that she can secure the! majority of the girls of to-day are al desired result by the use of the|together too brazen and disrespect slipper, more power to her arm! ful and their dress is a disgrace. 1 Of course, it is nothing for mothers | believe with “Old Fashioned Mother’ to boast about when it is necessary| that the remedy lic an to spank children who have passed | that the remedy lies with the motn |ers of these girls, Your contributor's |Suggestion thar a good sound spank- ing would have a good effect their teens, but better late than never. Personally, I believe that there are few mothers to-day who are able to| is ne spank their daughters. ‘The grown- Up girl is the head of the house to- | amiss. It was the practice in ms day. MOTHIR, |girlhood. I am now the mother of ‘April 27, 1921. a seventeen-year-old daughter and |have already produced some satisty- The Gtrap Cure, ing effects with the old method. "To the Faitor of The Rrening World | After repeated lectures my daugh It surely is a pleasure to know| ter persisted !n returning home a tin some real good moth-(a night's pleasure after midnight shore ane stil: some ‘ ;| Decid ng that lecturing was usciens | ers like “An Old Fashioned r tried the sterner method left in this world, My mother of (No one can deny that the girl of NELLIE 5, ton eane. ype 084.3 AN ml Brooklyn, N. ¥., April 27, 1921, | seeth Women of The Bibl By Rev. Thomas B, oie | Copsright, LY21, by The Press Publishing (Tue New’ York Rveaing World). No. 4—"The Woman of Samaria’ The woman we are to thank for creating the occasion that led to Christ's most beautiful sermon (John, Chapter v.) is nameless to us. A uate she Unquesuonably had, but it has Dut come down to us, and We only know her as the “Woman of Sumava.” Un his way from Judea to Galilee Jesus passed througa Samaria and, being Ured and thirsty, sat down by, lie Weil vi Sycnur tov a Wute period of rest. woman appearing, Jesus asked her tor @ drink of waver, Being & Samaritan sie wondered at the re= quest, Since ue Samanitans and t Jows hud nouning w,do with ew viher. Paying no attention to ta gument tnus — inviced the nan, Jesus told her that if she 1d Known Who He was she would have asked drink of Him, and He Would have given her the water which would have been to her a well spring of eternal lite, and that she would never have thirsted again. ‘The idea of never thirsting again appealed mightily to the woman. It Would pe & ine whing, she woughy not to have to bobher about going to the well and lugging water homie, day aft y. "Give me this new kind of water, sir,” she said to ¢he stranger. Then came the little conversatton about the vinced he » husbands, which dgne r that the stranger k: abou duplicity and doub! i€ when she ventured the remaj her I perceive that Thou art! het.” ¥ ing a return to the subjec husbands, of which she wea whet cha the woman strugk out into the broad field of theology, ot reaching her climax with the state- ment ‘hat her fathers worshiped In this mountain. while the Jews claimed that the place of worship was in Jerusalem. There and then Jesus rose to the very empyrean of His spiritual grahe deur. Looking the woman in the eye He said: “Woman, believe te, the hour cometh when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shalloye worship the Father, But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the in spirit and in truth, for the such to be His worshippérs. gt God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit amd truth.” r the first time in the history of he proclamation was religion—the re! ee or time, of form or cefe- not of pli mony, of creed and dogma, but f the heart and soul of sincerity and truth. ‘The Kingdom of God is within yous and no matter whe yu are, if your purpose and desires clean id. noble, there with you is the kingd@ém —there, in the purity and sincerity of your soul, God and heaven and the life eternal, Pe w a divine fortune it was for hum that, as sus sat that day weary by the well at Sycher, He @n- countered this woman of Samaria, whose preach shallow words moved Himeto His sublimest sermon! | Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government 1921, ty the irae Publishing Now’ York Svesing Worst.) sO By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the sicty-seventh articlé of a series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New# York City Government DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. The Commissioner of Docks, ap- pointed by the Mayor at a salary of 37,500 a year, with offi t Pier A, has exclusive control of North River, ull waterfront property belonging to the city, though subject in certain particulars to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, He grants per- mits for of wharf and the r jon of wharfag dockage rat xcepting those fixed by law, He also has broad powers of cons trol over private waterfront prop= erty. He may direct owners to deepen the slips adjoining their wharves and bulkheads, may prescribe rules for the prompt loading and undoading and the moving of their gar and, subject to the approvat Sinking Fund Commissioners, plish bulkhead and pierhead of ship adopt and execute general plans for waterfront !mprovemens and regulate the use of marginal streets. The Commissioner of Docks had power to lease waterfront property velonging to the city to the highest ‘idder at a public auction, but must tain the approval of ‘the Sinking all leases Words From the Wise The the work of mothers. future of children apoleon, Obstinacy is the strength of the is | weak,.—Lavater. i Endurance is nobler thaw | strength, and patience than beauty, | Ruskin. } No man is always wrong; a clock which does not go at all is right twice in twentysfour hours.—J, Langford. We spend our years with sighingg life is a valley of tears; but deatiy { 4s the funeral of all our sorrows.—+ | R. Watson, 1 We should make the same usa of a book that the bee does of @ flowers she steals svweets, but does not injure it; and those sweets sha herself improves and concocts inte honey.—Colton —_y \ As gold is tried by the furnaca , and the baser metal is shown, sa | the hollow-hearted friend is knows by adversity.—Metastasio, ‘ Most people ‘would succeed tr small things if they were not trom | bled with great ambitions —Longe |! fellow. A dbeautiful woman is the hell of | | and the paradise of the the soul, the purgatory of the puree we Fontenelle, CO eg