The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1921, Page 10

{ SSTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwliched Dally Except Sunday by The Prom Pudlishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, Presiden. 68 Fark ae, J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer. 63 Park Row. PULIT@ER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLAPED PRESS, ‘Ths Amoctated Pro to exctustvely entitled to the use fer republication Of atl news Geapatches credited to ft or not otherwise eredited ta this pager find also the local news publishe? herein, AYOR HYLAN'S veto of the Water Meter Bill is a typical example of what New York has come to know as “Hylanism.” Said the Mayor: “The so-called Water Meter Bill, amending section 475 of the City Charter, had for its Purpose the taking of the power at present lodged in the Board of Aldermen, composed of sixty-seven members and five Borough Pres!- dents elected by the people, and placing the arbitrary power of approval in the hands of one man, the Chief Engineer of a department under my jurisdiction.” This is a perfectly accurate description of what the bill attempted to do, which was to divorce the Water Meter Ring from politics and to substitute engineering judgment for political log-rolling. But the Mayor continues: “in my judgment, no such arbitrary power should be lodged in one man. Therefore the veto.” “No such arbitrary power,” indeed! And this in the face of a bus policy, a dock policy, a street- | cleaning policy, all of which give arbitrary power to subordinates chosen for political reasons and with- | out regard to their engineering knowledge. The real reason for the veto as brought out by the Lockwood committee was that the Water Meter Ring was politically useful when control was exer- cised by seventy-two politicians, no one of whom needed to know the difference between a water meter and a gas meter. Had the “arbitrary power” been vested in one man and misused as it was by the Aldermen, the excluded manufacturers might have brought suil against the engineer for unjusti- | fiable exclusion. Therefore the veto. Hylanism in action. More Politics. More opportunity for graft. Less efficiency. FROM THE FADING PAST: “Hail! sacred thou to sacred joy, To mirth and wine, sweet first of May! To sports which no grave cares alloy, The sprightly dance, the festive play!” WHY NOT INCOME FINES? INES for automobile speeding have proved in- | F effective in stopping reckless joy-riding. { Magistrates are loath to impose prison sentences, even when they realize that in many cases drivers consider fines as a mere incidental expense along with tires, gasoline and lubricants, Fines of $40, $25 or even $100 do not curb the wasters who drive | for the sensation of speed and without regard for | the safety of pedestrians. | In a traffic case last week a defendant admitied his guilt, paid his fine and left the court room with a genial “See you again soon.” When a dollar a day was the prevailing wage rate there was some reason in the “ten days or ten | dollars” formula. But isn’t it out of date? Since that time we have enacted the income tax. Might not an adaptation of the principle be effective | in assessing fines for misdemeanors? If Judges were empowered to say, “Ten days or ten days’ income,” it would tend to equalize pun- isaments, although penalties would vary widely SHAKESPEARE FOR POLICE REPORTERS, (For the Enright Day Book ) “Pruth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.” “There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward pares.” “I would the gods had made thee poetical, “I do desire we may be better strangers.’ “BACK TO WELLS-FARGO DAYS.” N THE days when Drake and Capt. Kidd sailo' the Spanish Main there was loot in gold and jewels to be had for the taking. Again, in the early days of the West tie “gold coaches” and the mine trains carried precious bur- dens as @ bait to the lawiess, Those days are gone. Credit instruments have largely superseded gold in the business world, In a credit operation a single piece of paper may rep- resent more value than a heavy box of gold. A mail pouch may contain a fortune in negotiable se ties. And at the same time the automobile has given ers a new advantage over the law. In announcing his policy of arming postal em- ployees Postmaster General Hays gives some ex- traordinary figures concerning recent mail rubbe: In thirty-three major robberies in the last year there have been known losses of $6,204,000, with about half recovered. The average, then, was $187,000 per ro bery Gold is valued at approximately $300 per pound avoirdupois, If the express robbers of the gold coaches had made such hauls they would have had to carry away each time about 600 pounds of looi. The mere mechanics of transportation would have prevented sudh rich as the automobile bandits Net | | | | ment would have abrogated his pension rights. | Commissioner was under fire. of to-day can effect with no more than a small Suitcase to carry negotiable papers. Such a comparison is interesting and lends point to the effort Postmaster General Hays is making to put an end to the robberies by arming postal em- ployees. “We simply have to go back to the old Wells- Fargo days and shoot to kill,” the Postmaster Gen- eral says. In truth, the Post Office must expect to surpass the Wells-Fargo protection, for the treasure in the mail-bags to-day is far greater than the treasure the old Wells-Fargo guards protected. CHINA FAMINE WEEK. AMERICANS have contributed generously toward the relief of the famine-stricken provinces of A China. But a time of year is at hamd when extra help and effort are needed to carry the big task through. Five million out of the 15,000,000 Chinese af- fected by the famine have still to be saved, and the six weeks that come before the June harvest in these provinces are the most critical of the year. The famished people have eaten leaves and bark. Unless food is provided to keep them from starving through next month, they will eat the growing grain, the harvest will be lost and the famine horror will spread again. To save the situation until the ripening crops can be gathered, the American Committee for the China Famine Pund will make a special appeal through- out the United States, beginning to-morrow and lasting for eight days. The millions of famine sufferers in China already saved by American aid are the strongest possible argument for further American help to tide the re- maining over to safety. What is given goes directly to save men, women and children from certain death. The Central Government of China is doing all it can with the means at its disposal. But in this sore strait China is forced to look to nations of the West that call themselves her friends. As Americans watch their own immense crops grewing and ripening toward abundance, will they not help to do what must be done to save Chinese harvests from being devoured in advance by the starving? This new appeal of the American Committee | should not go unheeded. The headquarters of the committee at Bible House in this city ought to be busy receiving New York contributions during the next eight days. Attorney General Daugherty says there is “nothing to fear’ from May Day disturbances in the United States, and the country will be glad to agree with him. The threatened sea- men's strike has been the only one that loomed formidably. Labor generally is defending its rights and urging its demands by intelligent, law-abiding means, with no thought of ter- rorizing the public, Further off than ever ts the day when the people of the United States must meet May Day in the state of fear and suspense that has sometimes marked ita ap- proach in Europe. THE ENRIGHT PENSION. N DENYING that Police Commissioner Enright is entitled to a pension as a retired Chief In- spector, Justice Finch seems to have foiled a deep laid and cleverly executed plot against the public treasury. The Enright pension bill was enacted without os- tentation in 1918 and kept under cover until the Last winter Enright decided it would be wise to cinch the pension be- | cause there seamed to be danger that he might be removed by the Governor or indicted for nonfeas- ance during the crime wave. If Enright had been a member of the uniformed force, either removal or conviction under the indict- But by voluntary retirement he hoped to secure his pen- \ Sion whether he continued as Commissioner or not, In the light of Justice Finch’s decision, it would seem that this is a case where shrewdness and cupid- ity overreaghed. Even though Enright did not re- tire under fire, it is possible—even probable—that at the end of the Hylan regime he could have re- turned to active duty for a few days and been re- | tired on pension without challenge. In seeking a larger pension and a “sure thing,” Enright runs up against a decision wh says, “When the defendant on Jan. 24, 1918, was ap- pointed Police Commissioner he ceased to be a member of the fore. for any pension at 4 and is consequently ineligible The Prov liquor bus: nce of Quebec has gone into the ess, providing sufficient opporiun ity for the purchase of pure wines, beer and spirits, and at the same time allowing com munities to decide for themselves whether they shall be locally dry or wet tan't this the justice and common seiuse of liquor regulation among self-governing people who know they can get rid of the saloon with- out setting up a tyranny of Prohibition? TWICE Ob ! kad a good lark.” year-old runaway. "ERS, —Ruth Wk “ce 'e, fourteen Ty is time for international negotiation or confer: ence for stopping this mad rush for the construc- tion of frmaments "—Represeatatie Burton. = "THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 80, am Rete eee, From Evening World Readers What kird of a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise te sey much in a fow words. Take and a lot of satisfaction in trying time te be brief. eee An Admirer of ‘De the Editor of The Brening World: Prohibitionists can tame Legisla~ tures, violate American traditions and attempt to brand millions of temper- ate American citizens as drunkards and Bolshevists. However, they can't bulldoze Mother Nature, ‘As long as grapes grow on the vine, as long as apples dangle from the tree, as long as raisins, apricots, peaches and other fruits continue to ferment Highteenth Amendment, Americans should cease to worry about such a thing as Prohibition, { bear no malice toward the Pro- hibitionists. My wine but tastes the sweeter for the ravings of W. H. Anderson. I punctuate each sentence of Bryan's speeches with soothing draughts of home brew. I hiccough my delight at Wayne B, Wheeler's amusing utterances, Mother Nature stitl loves Brooklyn, N. ¥., April 2% 1921 Note the Signatare. ‘To the Paltor of The Evening World: After reading your editorials I would be glad if you would enlighten my mind by answering my questions. In the great war to make the world safe for democracy, the actual fight Ing was discontinued after accept- ance of the Fourteen Points by the Allies and by the vanquished, Later on the glorious work was crowned by the peace treaty, But why is the treaty so long, fill- ing a whole book? Would not a tre containing only three points be Melent? everything: Devasta gium, Shantung. the dead king’s skull, rm repudiations, &e, Nothing ts doubt- ful and even the common mortals would understand the meaning. parations and tell me whether T am right PSTED PHACE TREATY 4 ermany ant * pant Ter. | | ritorles, calont other val table wae the vangitehed | have got to be Wrongolng tn \the future by it ine os Arevaa hin With wrong done by France and her] mien in the pret ti d lated me Minister to decide A SLETON, More “Not According to Law." To the Falitor of The Rvenieng Worlt Anent the missing tag ‘Disco! tented Labor,” the working people are | in the majority in this and every) other country, but they do not stick together on such issues as the Bight- part of society. They are the pro ducers, the makers of the wealth that ig used to oppress them and deprive them of thelr personal liberties, to make them more efficient (?)to make In® violation of the sacred)slaves bf them (even though slavery has been abolished by law), to allow themselves to be dictated ‘to as to their personal habits by a powerful minority of un-American commercial- ized reformers hiding behind the Christian churches, Do these reformers think that the thinking people will attend the ser- vices of commercialized religion such as the Dry advocates represent by foisting such a law as the Bighteenth Amendment on the public that sup- ports the churches of these adyo- cates? 1 for one was a contributor to practically every good cause that was presented to me, but since my personal liberty has been taken from me decline to contritute to any cause, no matter how deserving it may be, I have read letters published from time to time asking “Where are the flags on holidays?” I am an ex- service man having served in time of peace, volunteered and was rejected for the late war. 1 am also ac- quainted with another who served thirty years in the United States Navy, who was asked why he did not fly the American Flag from his win- dow, replied: “It doesn't mean any- thing and will not fly from my win- dow as long as the Eighteenth Amendment remains a part of the Constitution, for the Plag has always been the emblem of Liberty and Lib- jerty died when the Bighteentn | Amendment was passed.” JOHN J. CILLES. New York, April 29, 1921 | Prohibition a In New York, ‘To the Balitor af The Brening World The sniffing cop! the sniffing cop! From table to table see him hop, jim search of an alcoholic drop; | When is this sort of thing going to stop? lon, land of the free and home of the brave, Are you going to be the home of the slave? ARTHUR J New York, April 27, 1921. n Buntnens. LAMB | Women 85 | "To the Falltor of The Evening Work: Replying to correspond business men replacing men, espe | chatty ex-service men, with boys and | woman ibecause a woman of boy can |do the work at less wages, I would eenth Amendment, even though it af- | fects them more ‘so than any other | cloaks of several denominations of | 6 who nag | have commented on my criticisms of 192" By John Cassel ‘UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtaht, 1021, by John Blake.) ELGHT HOURS WORTH SAVING You work eight hours, You sleep cight hours, leaves another eight at your disposal. What do you do with them? If you are tremendously interested in your occupation you can borrow three or four of them for extra work. But don’t do that too often, Eight hours of intensive effort ought to be enough for any job. And you need that extra eight hours for recreation, which means literally the re-creation of your tissues and your energy supply. Your happiness and your progress will depend pretty largely on how you use those eight hours. Americans, who are usually in a hurry, have little un- derstanding of recreation as an art. They waste more money than other peoples, they waste more energy and they waste more time. They can afford to waste more money, for they have more of it. They can afford to waste more energy, for they have more of it. But they have exactly the same amount of time as other peoples, and as a rule they do not put it to nearly as intel- ligent use. If you will plan your recreation as carefully as a busi- ness man plans his work you will soon begin to make it count. You need the theatre and the movie shows but you don't need too much of either. You need some outdoor occupation. If you cannot afford golf you can always afford walking, which is just as good exercise and exactly as profitable. You need a definite amount of reading—but not too much, There are many over-read people in the world, and most of them are not very important. Divide your eight hours of time and see that none of it is idle. An hour spent sitting just thinking over the day's work is well spent. And another hour thinking of life and the world is useful now and then. But try if you can to have some regular light employ- ment on certain days of the week, a fad if you like, that you can turn to when you are tired, and follow with enjoy- ment, Recreation is as necessary as food or drink, Use the eight hours you have for it so they will do the most good. That » when there to spend for Guess again A SIX MONTHS’ ert PATHEE. Brooklyn, April 26, 1921, » no men with money clothes, hat, shoes, ete? A ivise man pana aie dignity with- out pride; a fool hag pride with out dignity.—Confuclus, To overcome evil with good is marke! fox oar bricks" aod ta reniet oul RGA ds the recent lamentful appeal of Dorothy Miller touched the usual| ¢vi/.—Mohammed, spot of the citizens or The eye of @ man is a window through which may be seen the thoughts which enter into and y two or three dollars a head at one of our theatres to ylew this genius of modern press agenting, whose ef- Your editorial “It Dies Hard’ is the| like to ask which is better, to hire] forts along that line earned her a fat deste from his heart.—Victor |best I have read in many a day and| women who merely place their sav-|theatrical contract. Could there boa Fiygo, jyour accompany cartoon, “Phe | ings in banks or to have men wars mare worthy Suariiy? eraly. eat Seed and What Comes Ip," isa good| ing whase money 1s spent to buy] No one I hope misconstrue this Most persons do not seem to ilustration of the results of Prohtbi- food, fuel, ete. for their|letter as one written in reproach, Lord » tion, but there were two tags that you falled to include and both very im- rtant, and they were: “Discontented sa and ‘Radicaliam.” | clothes, families as well as themselves? Wil banks loan the money depos- ” who supply furnishings for men - Ww (So >... & i > Seater ET wa by girls and women to business know why they were born into the world until they are ready to leave it.—Sir T, Smith. forbid! We whose clients are in the most sophisticated community in the world would hate to gO wrong, Words from th the Wise TURNING THE PAGES a a T was only a decade ago That my furniture filled me with pride. It was simple and rich, with a style to it whic; ih No critic could justly deride, My rugs were of Orient weave ; My tables and chairs had an air Of sumptuous Class which it's hard to ‘surpass. I rise to remark they were THERE! But then my apartment was sold (They made the place into a loft). I moved. ’Twas a feat I was doomed to repeat Quite frequently, not to say “oft.” For the roofs that were over my head Refused to stay over it long. With my goods and my gear I have ‘moved every year, Along with the flat-hunting throng. ' Now my tables scratched, And my chairs are extremely unsafe, What's not broken is bent to a fearfud extent, Yet I do not perceptibly chafe, For, because of their rickety state, Their dirt and their scratches and streaks, The worth of my pleces fades not, but increases, And some day they'll sell as Antiques. These lines are appropriatad, be- cause of a looming May Day and for other pertinent reasons, from a “Sal- vage" poem by Berton LBraley in the current Harper's. eae are wabbdly and The Pace in Smart-Setting--- From a letter of the period quoted in “The True Story of the Empress | Bugente” (John Lane). tie new book of the Count de Soissons: | ‘The Princess von Metternich | made fashtonable dances given. In gardens transformed into ball- Toons, lighted by thousands of multi-colored lamns, ‘Trees, houses and dancers are enveloped in a blaze of Bengal lights, which give to certain places ¢] sometimes the tof true par- “ infernad it of this new fashion is Who have no drawing- ne the | ground floor are | sixty to eighty to build up an aerial gunden, on a level with the first oor. This was the Paris of 1857. And little old New York conceived the idea that it had set a new p smart-setting with the fashionable dance cabarets of the earl oe 6 | The Blessing of Few Rules--- | From the book “Discipline and the Derelict” (Macmillan), the wisdom of Thomas Arkell Clark, Dean of Men jat the University of titinois: 1900's! ‘The greatest handicap ir perience to successful colle cipline is the number of rul down by the collec authorities for feel that only a rem lation against the evil or the cua- tom, dnd the matter is settied T have found that I can in the 8 of the students concern it is possible to hw that they have done Generally the more rules an in- stitution ‘has, the more difficulty oMigers find ‘in’ maintaining good order and in keeping the young people within bounds, Phy is that college nem feel it_ themselves. whioh How much : that nation wi | regulations by |: | duct and custom: ater in happiness 1 suffers fewest: { personal con- Besincre Verena Friendly World--- | Writing of friendshtp as it appearp db to him ring: fellows { “An C doubledaye Page), W n my mind dozens of men whom I know. men of age, ex- erlence and weaith, who almost demand that 1 ahould envy them by h y way th lk the city You human beings— fied them, and said to myself, Are not 1 would tell them this: they would not understand, though ty of occasional lucid will admit, in a su- thuit business Guts them no. frlendeig could not afford re they to know them or bor- you won't of them? 0, No. ‘The world. for them, ts a where they have a chance of Ing you and me, of getting more than you or I, of ers s they call it; at another's herein our by philo~ true sig~ petive “tired.” © the business man m the hand-shaker. nificance of th As it is appli in distinction A Fat Man All the World Loved. .- Recovered from the writings of the Joyce Kilmer and into “The Cir nd Other Essays" (Doran), there cus is this tribute John Bunny had as good a right to turn his atriess into dramatic capital as Sarah Bernhardt has to lo same thing with her sten- 4 pr © artistic expres ple ag tat by » of sub- his little made son great woes, But the physical peculiarity alone is not ch De perhapr, of motion plow Taft se routely have watehed Mr, the screen or make a speech. have’ thereby th 5 enely seom to they Undoubterily., t After: burst of mirth at the ment ni oh: President's iresque forma mitted to various of Yor ¢heir It and nt aughed at him b was fat humorously, be from vehicles humorous! he was a Brent clown—chat is, & q master of @ leult and branch of dramatic art. 2 portant So John Bunny, long passed from the eyes of the cinema public, lives in the applause of a poct-philosopher who also bas sought the Elsewhere. flash of fellowabip @n the fil of ‘Time, bad vate