The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1921, Page 16

A } | } } THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1921, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | Pedilmmea Dally Except Sunday by The Prom Pobiihing Company. Nos, 63 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preatdent, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasur: JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secr ‘alto the local news published herein, EVEN PROHIBITIONISTS BALK. HE expected has happened. By overreaching to a point where its tyranny becomes absurd i the Anti-Saloon League has split even the Prohibi- tion ranks. When it comes to preposterous regulation that would further restrict the use of alcohol for indus- trial and medicinal purposes, temperance advocates themselves are ashamed to abjure intelligence. The Volstead Supplemental Prohibition Bill goes to silly extremes that no sane man could support. President Harding is known to be ready to veto it if it carries certain of its present provisions. A former leading Prohibition lobbyist has advised the House Rules Committee that the bill as it now stands is impossible. The Eighteenth Amendment itself prohibits the “mamufacture, sale or transportation of imtoxicating liquors” only where such manufacture, sale or trans- portation are of alcoholic liquors “for beverage Purposes.”” Are trades to be disrupted, chemists ignored and doctors bullied and hampered merely that the Anti- Saloon League may pursue its fatuous purpose of banishing alcohol from all human contact? _ Americans are not yet ready to admit that the | whoie Nation is marked for the madhouse. ‘The Veterans of Moreign Wars are planning to sell red tape at a dollar a foot to raise a fund for loans and advances to needy buddies. Tf the Veterans could only find a market for half the red tape already used by bureaus au- thorized to care for soldiers the demand for a bonus would go glimmering and all the Veterans could revel in luxury, A CHOP AT THE RENT SPIRAL. N deciding a rent law case last week the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court seems to have laid down a new rule in the game the profiteering land- lords have been playing. Landlords are not going to enjoy the following Paragraph from the decision: “The proof admitted as to the present mar- H ket value is largely based upon excessive rentals charged by owners of similar property which led to the emergency the statute de- } clared existed, and which the statute was } intended to remedy. In other words, to per- ' mit this line of proof would be to justify extor- tionate demands on the part of landlords by Proof that the extortionate demands had re- sulted in an increase in the market value of similar property.” “The admission of such proof,” the court held, “was highly prejudicial to the defendants.” A Here the court points directly to the essential feature in the rising spiral of housing costs. _ Prof- iteer A justified a gouging rent raise on the ground “that it was not much more of a raise than Profiteer B had made. In turn, B made the same claim in regard to the higher rents charged by A. And so on up—and up. | The pity is we could not have had such a decision immediately after the rent laws were enacted, and ~ so chopped off the spiral before it rose so high. ‘The country {s still waiting more or less pa- tiently to learn how the Administration recon- elles disctpline for Admiral Sims and toleration of George Harvey. Any sort of an answer may ¢ be better than none. And few continue to ex- } pect consistency in what President Harding's Administration says on any question. WOMAN RULE WINS OUT. YBAR ago American newspaper readers read columns and columns of comment on the experiment in government made by the rough, heanan, away-from-the-railroad hamlet of Jack- son, Wy Jackson elected an all-woman Municipal Adminis- tration and turned the men out. Then, like other » seven-day wonders, Jackson dropped out of the public eye. But it appears the petticoat administrators of | Jackson’s destinies did not drop out, They went to work. And after a year Jackson is so well pleased that the women have been re-elected, and by sub- stantially increased majorities. Meanwhile the wild and woolly element of the “town has been “tamed and taught to stand without hitching.” All of which may be only another example of Burke's observation that almost any form of gov- ernment will work well if intelligenty administered. , Petticoat government is no exception, “THE AXLE OF MANHATTAN.” ORTY-SECOND STREET is “the axle of Man- hattan,” So says Expert Louis Saxby, over- hauling figures compiled for the Public Service Commission, In support of his proposition Mr. Saxby notes | that persons using the subway entrances in 42d . Street in a year outnumber by 34,000,000 the toia! population of the United States. This should be one sazering fact for those kindly Gempatches credited te It or not otherwise credited in this paget rural politicians to face who insist that, for the city’s own good, all laws regulating New York's transi sysiems, administration and personal habits should be made and amended by up-State wisdom. Up there men can think free of rush hours and of an embarrassing knowledge of what it means to live with a crowd of many minds, manners and tastes. Outside of Mr. Saxby’s figures and the subways— and also affecting 42d Street—there is the problem of surface congestion. We observe talk of a theatre- hour trafficcode for the Long Acre vicinity to dis- place one only a few weeks old. We read also of a proposed ordinance fining Mr. Manhattan $25 for crossing one of his own streets, on his own feet, at great traffic centres, except at the. corner crossing. Albany should see about this last and outrageous idea. Obviously a town cannot be in so plagued much of a hurry when it means to forbid the short cul to its citizens. On the whole, we think it is more trouble for 42d Street to be the axle of Manhattan than for Boston to be the Hub of the Universe. UNLESS VOTERS SPEAK UP. F a visitor from Mars---or perhaps better say from Saturn or Jupiter—were to visit the United States to-day, he might be pardoned for supposing taxpayers were to be congratulated that the army and navy aviators are to test the power of the aero- plane against the battleship while the Naval Appro- priation Bill is still in conference and subject to change, Such a visitor might reasonably assume that the Appropriation Committees would watch these tests and modify appropriations accordingly. But one who has watched Congresses—and _par- ticularly the present Congress—would be less opti- mistic. What is going on in Washington to-day is ihe popular legislative game of staging a fake fight to becloud the real issue. The House volubly protests that the Senaie bill is too big. If this way it obscures the fact that the House bill itself is far too big. Three times greater than ten years ago, two and one-half times ‘as large as five years ago, the navy appropriation ‘recom- mended by the House is only 8 per cent. smaller than last year. The job of an Appropriation Committee is to appropriate. The Senate and House will haggle and bargain. The outcome will be an appropriation stil! altogether too large. If the flying bombers should be able completely to destroy battleships, that would not indicate to an appropriation-bent Congressman: that battleship- building is wasteful. It would rather show that more money must be spent on aeroplanes. It would open another avenue for spending—that is, unless the voters make it evident that they do not propose to stand for such nonsense. THE RALLYING LINE. ANUFACTURERS and merchants who see the shortest road to confidence, production and prosperity in a quick turn-over of stocks on hand have organized a Sell Now League. The purpose of this league is to stimulate in- tensive selling and thereby put new hope and energy into productive industry. The first corollary of Sell Now is Make the Price Right. Where the price IS right the Sell Now League should find its efforts powerfully seconded by a Buy Now League, The Buy Now League should be a league of consumers. «It ought to extend over the entire country. Its object should be to persuade people to buy confidently and steadily where prices have been honestly and consistently reduced. With a Sell Now League and a Buy Now League meeting and oo-operating at the rallying line of Fair Prices, production and prosperity can be trusted to take care of themselves. New York might be more excited over the ‘Coney Island school site scandal if it had not been through so many similar experiences, But a sale of land by the city for $8,200 just before the city prepared to buy it back for $75,000 certainly requires investigation and ex- planation by every one involved. DOES THE GRADUATE THINK HE KNOWS IT ALLY (From the Kansas City Star.) It is a common remark {n every commencement season that the great trouble with the new graduate from the business standpoint is that he thinks he knows it all. If only he were willing to start at the bottom, men say, he would be all right. But he thinks his diploma entitles him to start at the Lop, though he isn’t fitted to, This is the conventional talk. But is it true? There are conceited fellows with a diploma just as there are conceited fellows without one. It is doubt- ful whether experience will bear out any generaliza- tion as to the conceit of graduates, A recollection of the closing days of college a few well, several—years ago chiefly centres on the humility and trepidation with which the seniors faced the world. They knew they had thelr way to make. They hoped to make good. But they re- garded the world as a hard-bolled place which was waiting to be shown. All they asked was a chance to go to work, no matter how near the bottom, That has seemed to be the attitude of the bulk of college graduates, They haven't any exaggerated idea of their own importance or their competency to un- dertake work in which they haven't been tra‘ned, ‘They believe in themselves, But they don't ask any- i body else.to do so except on the basis of work done. “by The Co. (The Nes York Exoning World). to say much in a few words, ‘The Age of Dignity.- ‘To the Editor of The Evening World One of the pet theories of to-day is that there is “no age.” Grandmothers should dress do, talk like girls, act as girl Once there were “ages"—for in- stance, the age of innocence. It seems to be passed at five or’six now. Pre- cocity {s the fashion. Yes, once I remember the some child took on a more at sixteen—a more charm, The matron of thirty dr a litte older, but more in keeping with a mature figure that added ty her charm, And the graceful lines of the gown that “trailed” in the home are not to be laughed at—they were sweetly feminine, as git's rollick- and reserve that was admired and emulated by other grandmothers, al- could be interesting, too. - She didn't show her legs or paint her face. Wasn't it funny, girls? Giggling and prancing in abbrevi- ated skirts and rouge and a plaster of vivacious and Paris nose cannot make a grand- mother like a girl in the least, Ob, you do find them here and there, a white rose in a huge bouquet of gaudy red and scentless flowers. You find the modest maiden (modern- tzed). She wears » her sklet is seven inches chest is covered, but is bare. Her elbows a Few elbows are ly worth showing, and for the matter of that, few adutt knees. Moreover, she neither swears nor smokes, and does not say “Hully Gee!" Yes, you find her, the little rose, here and there in the flampcyant bou- quet, but seldom—you haye to look and look, Where the grandmother (the one with only feet and not legs) steps from her limousine or, more generally, from the trolley car, you see a well- clad gentlewoman, and you say “Ah, thank God, the of dignity Is not quite passed a BELLA Bi Rayenhurst, View. To the Kalitor of The X: I am a student of the Washington Irving High School and 1 positively agree with Dr. Warren of the Save- a-Life League, I am only a seven- ten-year-old, eighth termer, and per- haps of little account, but there are hundreds of boys and girls in the ffect of the hard exam- ve received rience the Inations we Just stop and try to reason if it is faly that a pupil's standing for the term or haif term should be reckoned on one or From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one i that gives you the worth of a thousand words'in a couple of hundred? | There is fine mental ezercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | Take time to be brief. Grandmother wore an air of dignity | though her eyes sparkled and she|op New York State same position who know from expe- | two exams, Such is the case in most high schools. | I do agree with Dr. Bttinger’s | Statement that the. school of to-day | sives more interesting pastimes and | pleasure than the little red school | house, But through all these amus- ing features shines the ghost of the “Regents.” Many a sleepless night has been passed and many a tear shed, if not quite a few suicides committed by disappointed would-be high school graduates. I should like to know why it Is that New York State and New Jer- sey (which hag lately installed this foolish system) are the only two States to foster this system. I am sure that the high school graduates from the forty-six other States are just as learned even though they do not have this haunting feature in their education. It_is about time for the taxpayers to investigate and find out where their money goes. All the money that is wasted on the paper, the cost of printing question papers and the lack of a whole week's work for the teachers is a crime. If this farce were done away with, the money could be used to better advantage by building the much-needed schools, And, furthermore, who makes up the Regents’ questions and who re+ corrects the papers at Albany? Most of these people are college under- graduates. Why should they have the privilege of criticising the correc- tions made by our faithful and expe- rienced teachers? This foolish system has been going on long enough without Interference and itis about time that it be stopped or in the near future the high schools will be empty and this country will be overrun with as many illiterate natives it is to-day with illiterate foreign A TRUE AMERICAN STUDENT, Driving in the Schools, ‘To the Exlitor of The Evening World: 1 have read with much interest your article and editorial on child suicides. I have known of none per- }sonally, but it is true thet New York City children are very temperamental, not only the foreigners, How could they be otherwise with the perpetual noise and clamor and the automobiles they must constantly dodge? Life in New York is far from an anodyne, But I think Dr, Ettinger is very much mistaken when he thinks there is no driving in the schools, There 4s, | indeed, and we teachers know it full well, Ask a few. The Principal ex- pects high percents. of our classes and we have to expect it too, even when we have delicate little children to deal Twith, We may feel it wrong, but there that cl is expreted of us. Maybe gui the Principals feel the same way, su Also the number of subjects upen of s the foree behind us of feeling pe proficient UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by Jokn Blake.) ENERGY IS CAPITAL. A lake cannot turn « turbine, though it contains more water than a cataract. All the knowledge you can accumulate in a lifetime will do you no good unless it can be translated into energy. The difference between doezs and wishers in this life is a difference of energy. The wishers want things. The doers get them. It is hard work getting them, but energy is the force that can accomplish hard work, The reason you see so many men succeed whom you know to be no better fitted mentally than failures of your acquaintance, is because: the successful men are energetic. Energy is the driving force behind everything that is done. All of us have some of it or we could not live. Those who have a great deal usually get along, unless they constantly misdirect it. There are, of course, energetic people who never get very far. But even they get further than they would if they were content to still still. If the maxim “Everything comes to him who waits” were amended to read “Nothing comes to him who waits” it would be true. As it stands it is one of the most misleading and dan- gcrous falsehoods in existence. Your energy is your capital. Use it wisely and econom- ically and it will pay you an almost usurious rate of interest. Half use it, or waste it on things that are of no value, and you will just about make a living, which is a thing ne man of ambition wants to do. Education teaches us to use our energy profitably, An educated man can, or should, get more out of the same amount of energy than an uneducated man, exactly as a tur- bine gets more out of a column of falling water than the old fashioned overshot wheel. Yet the energy must be there or the education must be uscless. There must be driving force which will apply what you have learned to your problems. Nothing important was ever accomplished by education alone. If you haven't got energy, cultivate it. Put your health in good condition and your physical energy will improve, and with physical energy you will gain mental energy, Be careful how you use both. You can't settle a business tangle if you have been playing tennis all the morning. The exercise will use up the energy that ought to be expended on the job, Your brains can't use what your muscles have used already. Energy is always capital, but it must be well and pru- dently invested. Take care of yours, Add to it by care of your health and by abundant mental exercise. They expend it on im- portant matters and don’t be afraid to expend it liberally, It is one thing of which the more you spend the more you wili have, provided, of course, it is not foolishly wasted. {9 astounding. pervisor is tempted to think his|thought of as visitations-—though pject the only one (we have four}am eure he does not intend it, these), and fpr the other sub- VERA, + wpleb small children are expected to jects the periodical visits of the Dis- New York, June 16, 1931. Fach | trict Superintendent to "mark" are The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff Omari: Won’ Vern henlng. Werte XVIL—THE FIRST OF THE RE- FORMERS. Tt is a far cry from the human life of the cave period, when man thought only of material things, to the con- ception of man as a spiritual being. The wide gulf of many centuries was bridged by the Aryan Hindu Gautama Buddha. Buddha, the teachér, was born in 623 B. C,, the grandson of a Rajah named Sudd- nodana, Starting in life amid surroundings jof Oriental luxury, he found himselt face to face with the problem of human life when he was twenty-nine. The contrast between the life of ths privileged fow and that of the un- | privileged many came to his reallza- | tion in this wise, as related by Bud- | dhistic chroniclers: | On his pleasure ground in the giant shadow of the Himalayas, he came |upon an old man broken down with | | age and destitute, Then he saw a man suffering with @ loathsome disease. And then, in his path, he found the | body of a man long dead and utterly neglected. Leaving his wife and‘eyild and the luxury of his father’s house behind |him, he set forth a penniless wanderer to grapple with the problem of life. |For six years, isolated with five | disciples in the Vindhya Mountains, | he lived the life of an ascetic. Falling near unto death from starvation, ho modifieM his regime to the extent of | taking food as regularly as he could get it by mendicancy, His disciples, shocked by what they vegarded as his return to luxury, jabandoned him, On the banks of the Nairanjara, in the shade of the great “Bo” tree, he continued his reflections and his seeking after Buddhahood, or En- |lightenment. Out of this retirement he issued with the “Four Great | Truths: 1, That misery always accompanies existence, | “3. ‘That all forms of existence result from passion and desire, | 3. That there is no escape from ex- istence except by destruction of de- | sire, | 4. ‘That this may be accomplished by following the fourfold way to Nir- | vana, or the cessation of existence, (The first of these “Four Paths" in | the awakening of the heart.) This was a pessimistic view of |lfe. But it appealed strongly to @ jpeople of whom the vast majority found few attractions in life. | It appealed so strongly that dis- ciples flocked to him in the Deer Park near Benares, and by these disciples his teachings were propagated all over India. | Gautama Buddha, the “Enlight- | ened," evidently had no thought of | founding a religion, but his philos- ophy promised to the masses freedom from the bonds of caste and op- pression. It radiated the glow of philanthropy in deed as well as in | thought. Tt offered a vigorous pro- j test against the p alent ma- terialism of the time. | Buddha's teachings were a groping jafter the truth, an effort to lift the ‘human mind from the visible and the | tangible to the invisible but none the less real. So, although he denied the exist- ence of God and preached the trans- migration of souls, he was unques- | tlonably a noted pioneer of progress. | And, so far as about one-fifth of jthe human race Is concerned, he was | right, Super Business Women| By Helen Page 1921, by The Press Pablishtng Co. jew York Evening World.* badd 314 MISS ELIZABETH COOK, Bond Expert. One of the most successful women ia Wall Street is Miss Hlizabeth Cook, bond expert, From the statis- tical department of a big concern Miss Cook a few years ago went to one of the largest stock and bond houses, where her position makes her a unique figuré in the Street. Her work is chiefly concerned with what might be designated as that of “first aid” to bond salesmen which the house employs—to the whole group of them, Because of the broad knowledge and the unerring judgment she has shown in handling huge amounts of business, Miss Cook has been pro- moted so often that she now occupies this most important post of an ad- visory nature. If a salesman js in doubt about some phase of a particular bond it is wo Miss Cook he goes; if a clieat re- quires some detailed information about his investments he asks Miss Cook, for he knows’ that offhand she can enlighten him on any point in question, This young bond speclalist—for Miss Cook is still in the thirties—at- tends to the arrangement of infurma- tion concerning the ‘bond issues her firm handles. For this purpose sha often goes over a property after th» experts have decided to handle the business. She gathers this way first hand information, and so ts able to present it in the most intelligent man- ner. > Often she is at her desk as early as 8 o'clock, and frequently remains till after 7 in the evening, but ‘it is tun every minute," she says. In financial returns Miss Cook is most fortunate, for besides having gained a substantial place in financial circles she enjoys a salary that many men older than she might envy. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 39—GORMAND. The word “gormand" is too fre- quently confused with “gourmet,” of exactly opposite meaning. A gor- mand i defined in the dictionaries as a “glutton, a greedy person"—that is to say, a person of industrious but undiscriminating appetite, The word “gourmet,” on the other hand, is defined as “an epicure; a | dainty feeder; a connoisseur in wines (boy, page ex-Representative Vol. | stead of Minnesota) or meats; a man of keen palate.” Both words were appropriately borrowed from the French, as the French borrowed the art of cooking and eating from the Italians, who in I| thelr turn inherited it from’ the old Romans, the greatest eaters in his. tory, whether as gormands or gour- mots. 2 et, Pgh A SSS