The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1921, Page 18

aS eR SE TATABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITBER Jr. Secretary, 3 Park Row MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. Amoctated Prem ts exclusively eatiuea to the use for rrpification (Of all news Gempatches credited to Nt or wot cumerwise ereurtea In tas paper end also the local mews publishea herein. ONE JOKER IN THE PLAN. NTHINKING readers will probably approve the headlines which announce the Harding- Mallon plan for reducing taxation, Those who think will want to wait and see, Cats in departmental budgets are possible. But @o those announced represent real economies? The War Department, for example, is to save a lot of money—but only recently we learned that army aeroplanes are to be wilhdrawn from forest fire patrol service. That sort of economy we can well do without. By far the most surprising part of the programme is the cool way in which the Administration makes the proposal to let the Government run in debt and fund obligations which two weeks ago it recognized a Hue and payable in the current budget. "The proposal is to lop off $520,000,000 of money to be raised. But the departmental savings pro- jécted amount to only $350,000,000. The difference of $170,000,000 is to be covered by short-term se- curities. If the Government's credit were good enough it might even drop all taxes for the current year and run in debt for the whole $4,000,000,000. But every such example of unsound financing hurts Govern- ment credit. In simple language the Harding-Mellon plan is to go, in debt in order to relieve the wealthy of some of their tax burdens. This is good old line, orthodox, Republican doctrine. ut is it the kind the country will approve when it has had time to examine the plan—or after it has felt the effect? 5! Some of Wall Street's “passed” dividends are the result of hard times and low earnings. But a silver cloud on the inductrial situation «ima be discerned if we recall that the “passed” DSaividend is an old financial stratagem often em- *Iployed when the “insiders” know the turn has come and that stock promises to be a good buy if bought cheaply. JAIL THE SPEEDERS. \GISTRATE HOUSE of the Traffic Court has been bearing down harder on speeders of late. “More power to him! £3Vhen a man has been arresisd and fined sepeat- @ity he should face the certainty that his next offense means a jail term with no escape. Fines mean nothing to a certain class of offensive Speeders. They openly boast of the fines they have paid as evidence of the speed at which they drive. Jail is the place for them, with sentences progress ing in geometric ratio for every repetition ot the offense. "Yall the repeating speeders. Give them time te think about their criminal folly. o =. “My silence means non-participation,” George ‘Harvey told the newspaper correspondents after *‘a Supreme Council meeting. It is rather difficult to eat crow and then crow about it. A COMPROMISE NECESSARY. 1X Americans have been released by the Soviet Government and have reached the border. An agent of ine Relief Administration is conferring with anagent of the Soviet regarding the release of other ‘Americans not yet out of Russia. It is a telicate question to decide when the Rus- sians have carried out their part of the demand for * thé release: of Americans held prisoner. Russia is so-vast and so disorganized that with the best will ip ®the world the Soviet could not deliver every 1 over the border without a serious delay in the relicf work. On the other hand, the Soviet should be held to Ks word. Mr. Hoover has settled other knotty questions. Prebably he can settle this one. It would seem thar the best procedure would be to start relief as soon @8 ihe men are reported free and on their way. AS a practical matter, it will be necessary to take the Word of Lenin to that extent. Withdrawal of relief is a powerful club to holt Over the Soviets. The relief extended immediately should be provisional and dependent on continued good faith by the Soviets. , But relief should go forward while the Ameri- cans are being brought to the border. It should be checked as soon as the Soviets fail to keep the re- ‘eased prisoners moving toward freedom and home. THE HARVARD “GLEE.” * QWISS editors are thanking the Harvard Gle: 4 Club for having brought “gayety, merriment, fo ness” to Geneva. W be surmised that they looked up the word “giee” in their English-French dictionaries and found that it meant just those things. We see no reason to quarrel with this application of 1 literal translation. "he boys from Cambridge, sixty of them have been singing their way through the Grand Tou:. ___And song, as they provide it, is the messenger, or pe:haps we should say the missionary, of sweetness ani light, which in their tum are associates of “gavety, merriment, cheerfulness.” it is true that Harvard undergraduates, like the greater nin of college boys, are to themselves anc others glacaest when they sing. If the kindly Swiss had to bear with them all the time they might, as we do occasionally in América, wonder between songs what to do with them, and whether it is really profitable to raise them. Fortunately for all concerned, the boys them- selves are disposing to the general satisfaction, year after year, of both these questions After the campaign with the professors is over they demobilize gracefully. Then they lose them- selves speedily in the occupations—but a negligible number of them in the wastefulnesses—of ther post-graduate day. Probably none of them carry finer memories ot “bright codege days” than those who, with song. have carried “gayety, merriment, cheerfulness” to many hearers GET BACK TO THE LAW. i forcing through the Anti-Beer-for-Medicine Bill it begins to look as though the dry advo- cates may nave overreached themselves. On its face the bill seems to be the last expres- sioa of fanaticism gone mad. Indeed, it begins to Jook as though ihe unamended bill marked the high tide of fanaticiam and that the “Bill of Rights” amendment later adopted indicates a turn of the tide of Congressional sentiment. it looks as though some of the Senators had de- cided in their own minds that “this thing has gone far enough.” To get through the anti-beer pro- vision the dry element was foroed to accept aa amendment which more than counterbalances the gain to the professional reformers. The “Bill of Rights” amendment expressly for- bics search and seizure by Federal officers without warrants. It is a belated recognition of the consti- tutional guarantee of safety to the poor man and his “castle. In practical effect, this new amendment des'roys the effective value of the Federal Government’s “concurrence” in Prohibition enforcement. The bootleggers have every reason to be hilarious, for experience has shown the ineffective character ot any system of enforcement which does not violate the constitutional guarantee regarding search and seizure. The immediate effect will be to shift the burden of unconstitutional and illegal enforcament to the shoulders of State and local police, who cannot be included under the “Bill of Rights” amendment. Congress has, however, given as strong a hint as possible to the different States. It has manifested interest in Article 1V. of the “Bill of Rights,” which says: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against un- reasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but on probable cause, supported by oath or affirma- tion, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons to be seized.” How far Congress and the Executive may be pre- pared to go in the enforcement of constitutiona! pro- visions violated by State action is an open question. Southern States openly violate the Constitution. No Force Bill ever has been enacted. Probably it would be impossible to pass a Force Bill to require Staie enforcement officers to obtain warrants be- fore making arrests and to punish violations of the ruis. At least this would be impossible so iong as the Anti-Saluon League holds the whip over the cringing backs of the Congressional majority. In States where the Anti-Saloon League rules it wi'l doubtless continue to encourage law officers to violate the Constitution and get away with unlaw- ful seizures. But in New York—where the vast majority of the people resent iNegal interference by pofice—it should be possible to amend the Mullan-Gage act by writing into the law an express provision modelled after the “Bill of Rights” amendment passed Monday. Get back to the law and the Constitutions, Fed- era! and State One of the results of the Meyer investigation is to establish Mayor Hylan’s faith tn Duncan MacInnes as an “expert.” Four years ago Candidate Hylan was a caustic eritie of experts in office. TWICE OVERS. 667 T is better to raire too little (by taxation) than too much. Supplemental taxes, in case of short- age, can be lesied.”—-The New York Tribune. . . . AS PEEDING, especially by old offenders, must be stopped.” —Magistrate House in Traffic * * © “ OST of the taxes the Republicans propose to repeal are the rich man's taxes.” —Repre- sentative Garner. * * * “ UNICIPAL and especially State owner- ship can never have for its object simply economic adsardage.” —Tommaro Tittont. aon ag eammeo seer: From Evening A Good Deal Has Beem Dene. To the Lalitor of The Kvening Wortd : Why spend time in fighting the profiteens in ice cream and candy,, neither of which is necessary to any! one? ‘A roof over your head is as impor- curb profiteering in rents. A friend of mine whose lease ¢x- pires Sept. 30 is gong to leave the city, She has been paying $65 for five rooms; the landlord is asking $100 for the same apartment. If this ‘8 not highway robbery, I would like to know, yet nothing is done to stop it. I believe, through your valuable influence, the matter could be cor- rected. A READER. New York, Aug. 8, 1920. Peddlers’ Cards. To the Exiitor of The Evening Wortd. What is this new kind of graft that is going on with the peddlers? ‘A peddler is not allowed to stand on the curb with his merchundisé and sell it, without having a red card and paying a dollar a week. If an- other man gets there before him, he bas to leave the place and look for another spot. One man’s card was taken away from him because he did not make a dollar to pay for it. Il am not a peddler, but a citizen of this country, and curious to know. MAX KUHNBERG. ‘The Price We Pay. To the Exlitor of The Evening Work: Prohibition represents a financial tant as food, yet nothing is done to! | Joss to the people of the United States ‘of $8,059,000,000, according to figures issued by William L. Fish, Secretary of the New Jersey division of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. ‘Rather an expensive way of empty- ing jails and insane asylums and mak- ing everybody virtuous, as Prohibition was supposed to do. With Prohibition the rising generation will not see their parents drinking a glass of beer, wine or demon rum. Oh, no! ‘They will go them just one better. Half of the youngsters of the pres- ent generation of New Yorkers can now qualify as expert brewers and hooch ers, and for this we can thank a handful of well-paid fanatics —ask Anderson, he knows. Repeal the odious Bighteenth Amendment which 75 per cent. of the people don't want. Collect in the next three years over eight billion dollars which have been in the last three years a ead loca and the Govern- ment will not have to tax kiddies’ tollypops and ice cream cones (half of which tax the Government does not get). Give us back our beer and wine (not the saloon) and we'll all be happy. . ‘Or, if this cannot be done, employ a few million more Prohibition enforce- ment officers and jail every one (as the law says they ‘should be) who is making home brew containing more than 1-2 of 1 per cent. of alcohol. ‘This would keep builders, masons, carpenters, etc, busy for the next Copyright, 1921 The Eres Publishing Co, New York Evening World). By John Cassel + BiNvesr : 'GATion : Sam 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 ina couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te eay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. legislators can raise anything from a cent to any sum they choose. Our good citizens are so used to being soaked that they mind it not, I live in a Bronx flat, but judging by the odors about me it’s hard telling if t's a brewery or a distillery—thanks to Prohibition, which does not, never | did, and never will prohibit. C.R. | Bronx, Aug. 8, 192! The Nearer Need. ‘To the Kditor of ‘Ihe Evening World : ‘ As a true blue American, I write in answer to Robert J. Waddell’s letter) of July 81. | In uphobding the Sinn Feiners andj their activities on American soil, he! puts much stress on the noble way the | Irish have stood by America in times; ot her troubles, Does he forget that | America is inhabited by other than the Irish race and that the men of other nations who have made their homes here have done just as noble work and deserve just as much credit? Why should any man shout to the| world for recognition of the help he} has given the country that protects | him in times of peace and gives him his chance to earn his living? He has but done his duty. Does he also forget that the world has progressed and not stood still since 1775? Should any one with in- telligence hold hatred in his heart for the troubles that existed a century and a half ago? Are we not at this highly civilized age a different people? I am sure that any American born person like myself cannot look but with resentment upon the public Sina Fein peaking stands that occupy many of the street corners around our city, using American soil and the American as stanch protectors of their troublesome question. We are supposed to ever recognize the cry, “Help the Irish,” when all the money we can possibly spare should be going to our convalescent hospitals such as Fox Hits, which sorely need every penny we can give them. Do the Irish over here realize that there are many Irish right on their own soil that they can help without giving every thought and penny to those on the other side? ‘They must remember that while they are here America is their country. I would re. | | | | twenty years to come building jails} io put the violators in. Pitan eight billion dollars, anyway? ur UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrizht, 1931. by Joka Blake.) PAY AS YOU GO. You can usually meet your obligations if you know what they are going to be. Begin putting a mortgage on your future and you will never be sure how much you will have to pay off. The best plan for an individual is to pay as he goes. Incidentally it is the most economical plan. Your butcher or your grocer can afford to give you goods at lower prices if you pay the bills at the end of the week. ‘They can use the money you give them in their business and make it earn interest for them. If you keep it for six months it may not earn interest for you, but it certainly will earn none for them. Settle your accounts as far as po end of the week. Then you will alwa you stand. ble not later than the s know exactly where ; e Money put in the savings bank or into investments is not saved if you owe it to somebody else and must pay it out in the course of time. You will never know how much you have, or what you can afford in the way of luxuries or amusements, if there is $ an indeterminate amount of money to be paid to some one else when they get insistent about payment. The railroad policy of never trusting any one for a ticket, no matter how rich or influential he may be, saves a great deal of moncy for the railroads. This policy is invariably enforced. Not long ago a New York mi ionaire of unquestioned credit wanted to go to Washington on a special traia at midnight. He found that he would have to pay cash for the train. He was indignant, but his indignation did him no good, He hired a taxi and drove around to the houses of six friends before he got it. Afterward he adopted the same policy in his own hasi- ness and now he has less money owing to him than if he hadn’t been put to all that inconvenience. Most businesses, of course, must be conducted on eredit. But for the wage or salary earner the pay-as-you-go policy in all small matters is best. The pay-as-you-go man is never the victim of a loan shark and it is seldom that a mortgage is foreclosed on his home. eres fer to a sentence in of Theodore Roosevelt's speeches: “You are either an American or not an American.” JESSIE C, ASHMORE. Brooklyn, Aug. 7, 1921, Why Wom Are Acqaitted. ‘To the Halitor of The Erening Workd I beg leave to answer M. E., whose hot weather question asks “Why is a pretty woman murderer usually acquitted ?” Why, indeed? Because the speci- mens that call themselves men who sit upon such juries are carried away by their personal feelings instead of recognizing the fact that these “fe-| th male beasts” are guilty of bloody murder, and no matter what the/a cause may have been that leads up to|m such murders, they ought to go to la the electric chair just the same as any fe! m der. do not hear of taking a man’s life and glibly talk- ing about acquittal at her trial, for men only? just as loathsome in the sight of the Almighty as a murderer? comes sloppy nonsense be eliminated from realize that they are not judges at New City, Aug. 9 1 regards to woman yurderers. Hardly a day passes now that we some female fiend ‘Was the electric chair instituted Is not a murderess city, When it| matters to murder, let sentimenta. ne minds of juries and let them beauty show of vampires, but ad- inistering justice according to we ws of God and man to loathsome male, bloodstained fiends who do . 4 f Pipe Smokt To the Ealitor of The Evening World It is strange indeed that a man of the people, Mayor Hylan, wi indeed made good, should booked and roasted by every editor in the with few exceptions, But it little what these : 21, it. F Now York, Aug. 9, 1921, man who is guilty of deliberate mur- | not deserve the slightest Right now is a good time tolon account of their sex. pe gee start putting into execution the law as it stands as T. J. be knocked learned gentlomen may print, because Mr. Hylan stands Al with the common people and whether the “dig inter- esta” will it or not, he will be re- elected by an enormous majority. Stick that in your pipe and smoke S. DA) | Colleges and Universities Oi New Yor. By App eton Street. 2 few "tock rens No, 19—General Theological Semi- mary. ‘The oldest divinity school in Mew York is the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, It was founded in 1817, and during ite more than ope hundred years of uninterrupted service has graduated more than two thousand men into the ministry. The Seminary occupies the block known as Chelsea Square, bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues, Twen- tieth and Twenty-first Strects, in Manhattan. Its ivy-covered build- ings of red brick, built into a colle- giate quadrangle, offer a pleasing contrast with the surroundings—the elevated tracks on Ninth Avenue, and the industrial plants of the ncighbor- hood, The buildings include dormitories and class rooms, a chapel, library quarters, and administrative offices. They have accommodations for one hundred and fifty students. The chapel was gifen to the Seminary by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Verplank Hoff- man, and in their memory the chimes are rung every year on October 8, and February 18th, the anniversaries of their deaths. The chimes are also rung on March 21, the birthday of the late Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D. D. Dean of the Seminary for twenty-three years and its generous benefactor; and on March 15, the ‘irthday of Mrs. Hoffman, wife of the Dean, and also a benefactor of the school. The Seminary Library contains ‘more than 60,000 volumes, and is espectally rich in liturgicg, and the literature of the early fathers and the Old Testament. It is also strong in American and Anglican church history. It contains the famous Copinger collection of Bibles, unsur- passed in America in Latin texts, and collections of Biblical manuscripts and Babylonian tablets. By a recent arrangement the Gen- eral Theological Seminary {s affili- ated with Columbia University and New York University, so thet stu- dents in the Seminary may study either of the universities, or suitably- prepared students of the universities in the Seminary, without additionas tuition fees. Thus while pursuing academic studies in one of the uni- versities, a man may be taking theo- lagical training in the Seminary, Under this arrangement a man may be earning a graduate degree in Columbia or N. Y. U. while he is getting his divinity degree at the Seminary. ‘The administrative head of Seminary is the Dean, the Rev. Hughell E. W. Fosbroke, D, D. There are fifteen other professors and in- structors. The board of trustees is made up of representatives chosen by the House of Bi and the House of Deputies of piscopul General Convention alumni of the Sem Lines, of New Jerse the board. Among the lay members are George Zabriskie and Ralph Adams Cram. : Many bishops have graduated fre the } Seminary, including hops. Brewster, Burleson, Davies, Fiske, Gailor, Talbot, and Tuttle Among the New York clergyman, who are alumn’ Dr, William M Geer of St. Paul's Chapel, Dr. Milo H. Gates of the Chapel of the Inter- cession, and Dr. Leighton Parks of St. Bartholomew's Chureh. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 63—RIPARIAN. “Riparian rights” is a common cx- pression in law. It designates right on a river bank—from the Latin “ripa,” a bank. “Riparian nations” ore nations ewn- ing or inhabiting opposite banks of a river or different parts of the same bank. The same mixed ownership cr control applies to “riparian propri- tors.” ‘Some of the oldest quarrels between nations in history arose out of ripa- rian controversies, as witness the long-standing disputes that have made the Rhine River, the Danube and the Vistula famous. The Louisiana purchase (in 1803) fortunately excluded the Mississippi for all time from the category of riv- ers that have been crimsoned with blood for the acquisition of rights on their banks. From the Wise . Success serves men as a pedestal; it makes them look larger, if re- flection docs not measure them. —Joubert. He who trusts everybody is a fool; he who trusts nobody is a bigger one.—Pope Pius II. the pursuit even of the best of things ought to be calm and tran- quil.—Horace. i) thou art a master, be some- times blind; if a servant, some- times deaf.—Fuller. A husband ta a plaster that cures all the ills of girthood.—Moliere, Who is strong? He who subduee his passions.—Talmud. Life is a journey we all must travel, We can cut our journey short at any moment, but retrace our steps—never. Louis M. Notkin,