The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1921, Page 18

ESTABLISHED RY JOSBPH PULITZER Pudlished Dally Exeep: Sunday by The Prose Puviishing Company, Nes, 53 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZBR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. HM PULITBEN Jr. Secretary, MEMPER OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Avociated Pree is exciualeely -eneied 10 the use fer repatication fof al) news despatches credited to ft or noc otnerwise ereuiiea in tase paper And Also he local mews published berrin. Park Row A CARELESS OLD CUSS. Ps it about time somebody spoke plainly to Uncle Sam? The Old Cuss is gétting careless, costly and in- competent. One day last week saw the smash of his $2,000,000 balloon, which he now admits he knew was defective, killing some two-score of men and wasting a $3,000,000 hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Where 300 sailors had been in training for days to catch the gas bag when it arrived. The same day saw the burning of $5,000,000 worth of his piers in | Hoboken, imperilling at the same time a $40,000,- 000 ship. Ten million dollars’ loss in one afternoon is qoing fast. *Yet the Shipping Board appears to have even ‘Greater speed. “Sink, burn and destroy” is its @otio when applied to property which it cannol give away. asHuge battleships which Uncle Sam scorns to Salvage are taken to sea to be destroyed by bombing | airmen, when a plank target would tell the story, with a few figures on explosive power added. | + The old man also proposes to turn the deficit of | his railroading into capital, and thus achieve pros- | perily. =All is to be done by magic, nothing by industry | @reconomy. Wages are coming down for warkers, but not for soldiers, sailors or Government em- Ployees. __ If the head of a family were to take on the habits | of Uncle Sam, his heirs would be looking up an | asylum for him. *Can’t something be done by the people to curb the Careless Old Ouss? When men or nations possess either Pride or Shame, they usually preserve théir honor. When they possess neither, anything is possible. FINISH THE JOB IN WEST VIRGINIA. HE civil government—or rather misgovermment —of West Virginia confessed failure last week. An army of 5,000 marching miners was too mach for Gov. Morgan to handle. He called for Federal aid to enforce law and prevent crime. Gen. Bandholtz was able to turn back the miners use he used the threat of force. _ The miners were lawbreakers. But so are the Mine operators of the Mingo district. with their system of espionage, armed guards, detectives and Sheriffs and deputies, paid by the mining corpora- fons. These are lawbreakers which the State of West Virginia can not or will not curb. President Harding did not have the right to inter- vene until Gov. Morgan requested. Now that he has intervened in the person of Gen. Bandholtz, hz | should finish the job. Federal intervention should be impartial. The United States ought to disarm both the contending factions and keep them dis- armed. Even military law is preferable to the sort of feudist anarchism which has prevailed. | Isn't ft about time the Anti-Saloon League | 1s protected by refusing to pay an ad- Beigotvat, where Deter Zrinyi of the A hundred years ago people fancied that everything = In recent years West Virginia has not had the put @ stop to theso foollsh followings of |Yance over $8 per ont, (it guaran: /noble Hungarian family held the) } had been discovered that could be discovered, that ther: republican form of government which the Constitu- tradition? has reasons for mcving into another ! Jugo-Slavia. could be no more inventions because every possible inyen- roots being ignorance and insularity. He deserves the thanks’of the world both for what he has done and the way in which he has done il. A PROGRAMME? T would have been less surprise eight months ago at the news that creditors of the Interborough had moved to put it into the hands of a receiver. Since the first of the present year declining cost of coal and supplies, distinct improvement in the company’s reports of operation together with re- cent wage quis have encouraged belief that the Interborough had every chance to pull through. A transit corporation that can look back to divi- dends of 15 per cent. on its capitalization in 1918, 20 per cent. in the two preceding years and 22% per cent. in 1915 ought to have been able to weather a couple of lean years, and even the consequences of past misfinancing, when it has the enormous and constantly increasing patronage of 6,000,000 people to count on. By arranging a further extension of maturing notes during the twenty days the company has to file its answer, President Hedley professes to believe a receivership may be averted. It will nevertheless be noted that he adds: “If, however, it shall necessary ultimately to have a receiver, the filing of the bill ts forenoun (Saturday) confers juris- diction upon the court which is now adminis- tering the affairs of several other traction companies. It is belicved this course will be of advantage to all interests involved.” This sounds exceedingly like the hint of a pro- gramme already worked out. Do the plans of Gov. Miller's Transit Commis- sion, now working in silence, start with a complete relegation of New York traction companies to the control of recéivers—all but the Interborough and the Third Avenue Railway Company being already thus relegated? Has what Mr. Hedley calls “advantage to all interests involved” already been agreed upon be- tween the Interborough and the Transit Commis- sion? This is not the first time the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company has started a suit designed to give a shake to snarls in New York’s traction tangle. : One thing is certain. Receivership or no receiver- ship, the all-important thing is to keep the Inter- borough operating with no new falling off in stand- ands of service or safety. However the situation may shape itself—with or without the assistance of the Transit Commission— the first duty of all authorities involved is to con- sider the needs of the public. There must be no slump in Interborough service during a reconstruction of Interborough’ finance, however complicated or prolonged the process. become When the new United States dreadnought Washington is launched at Camden, N. J., next ‘Thursday the bottle breken across her bows will contain champagne. ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921, 9 ane ree (Pie New York What kind of letter do you tind to say niuch in few words. Rents of Vacant Flats. To the Editor of The Erenins World | |. What redress bas @ person desiring ;to rent an apartment trom being | asked 50 to 80 per cent, more than the | | present tenant is paying? Landlords are willing to release old tenants sim- ply to ask such advance, average person cannot afford. 1 refer to apartments now renting for $80 and $90; the rents demanded) are $180 and §150 respectively. | I believe there isa flaw in the new | law, as a tenant not desiring to move | From Evening World Readers most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words ma couple ot hundred? There 1s fine mental exercse and a lot of satistaction in trying Take time to be briet. tions, Then commenced a new era born through Hungarian hospitality in inviting their less martial neigh- bors to the idle lands and which onded in blackest disaster for Hungary. To- only the Great Plain is hers, for there encroachment was uot tolerated. ‘Transylvania the golden least half the territory had bi habited by Houmanians. —‘Transyl vania, with whose fertile valleys and laughing streams are connected the greatest names in Hungarian hi 5 the Bathorys, Bethiens, Bocskay, and the greatest of all, Bako which the) WS ceded to Roumania becatise at) UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Biake.) NO SHORTAGE OF OPPORTUNITY. If there had ever existed a shortage of opportunity we would all still be back in the eave days. In every .ge since man first came down from the trees there have been chances to rise by doing thi igs that had never been done before. Hundreds and thousands of years people lived on the Eastern Hemisphere and called it the world, It remained for Columbus, in comparatively modern times, to see the opportunity to enlarge the world. And, be it carefully temembered, he didn't sce it till he had looked for it for a long, long time. By John Cassel | The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff IN THE AGE OF STEAM. The span of civilization may be di- vided into two parts—tye long age of muscular energy and the shorter age of mechanical energy. The age of mechanical energy may bo sald to have been ushered in by the discovery of the expansive power of steam and the invention of ways to make that powor available for mvu- tive purposes, This double achievement the world owes to @ Scotchman—James Watt of Greenock. Something of the power of steam had been known and utilized before Watt. In fact, we first hear of Wat! as one of the world’s pioneers of progress when in 1763, he was callea upon to rep: del of Newcomen's ‘atmospheric’ ne—a mechanigns operated partly by steam and partly by atmospheric pressure, and used im draining mines, raising water to turn water wheels and blowing smelting furnaces. Watt saw that the Newcomen en- gine was beyond repair; that it burned four thnes as muoh fuel as was necessary to generate the amount of steam required; that what was needed was a real steam engine. This engine he finally evolved in his mind during a solitary walk. In his endeavor to reduce this men- tal picture to terms of steel, power und money, James Watt discovered that the way of inventors, like that of transgressors, is hard. After long delays, involving the constant necessity of earning his liv- ing while he was endeavoring to pro- duce his great boon to mankind, he obtained the interest and co-opera- tion of Matthew Boulton, a manufac- turer of Birmingham. But he found that, even with Boul- ton's powerful aid, his epochal inven- tion was impeded by a barrier of prejudice. .When the engine had finally been produced, in 1774, and its efficiency had been demonstrated, it took all of Boulton’s enterprise and Ingenuity to sell his output in the be- ginning. Some idea of the indifference of the British mind to the steam engine is corveyed by the fact Boulton con- tented himself with a royalty on the amount of fuel which the invention saved. That was equivalent to mak- ing a gift of the engine and paying a handsome bonus in addition to the user. In the course of the next ten years, however. manufacturers began to tumble over each other in their de- mands for the Watt-Boulton saver of muscle, money and time. As the patent was on the point of expiring, establishments for the manufacture of the steam engine began to crop up Parliament now intervened by pro- Jonging the lite of the patent another ten years in order to reimburse its inventor and maker. Otherwiac, {t would be safe to assume that Watt would have reaped no benefit from the triumph of his brain and will. It took’ time and additional effort by other workers to develop the steam engine and adam it to the various ses of industry. But to Watt belongs the honor of furnishing to Great Britain and to all the rest of the world the power that sent argosies over the oceans at amazing speed, and substituted for slow, wasteful and unsatisfactory processes of industry and land transportation the mighty power of steam. Watt was not only the inventor of a device for the production of ent en He was the initiator of an energy. epoch—the present epoch—in the his: tory of mankind. ——_————_—- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 69—ERRATIC: off the handle” means In “To much the same as to be erratic. its origin the word bears out strik- ingly the idea conveyed by the slang phrase. It is derived from the Latin fly apartment? Munkacs, where the Duchess Aslen) 3 tion had been made, A knight errant was @ gentleman im tion guarantees, President Harding may never have another opportunity so good. Now is the time to be as severe with the mine operators as he has been | with the marching miners and use all the force | Necessary to enforce peace in the United States as well as in Panama and Costa Rica. , Would a majority of Irishmen agree that the | only essential article in an Irish Declaration of 2 Independence is an assertion of Irelend's eter- ; nal and inalienable right to hate Hngland’ 2 A FINE CHAPTER. N announcing that Bernard M. Baruch had financed the first meeting of the Institute of Politics at Williams College, President Gartield tokd how Mr. Baruch was attracted by some of the early political | speeches of Woodrow Wilson. “Sinee then Mr. Baruch has devoted himself chiefy to the realization of the ideals which came to him from his association with the writer of ‘The New Freedom.’ It is an old story and adds another to the long list of inci- dents by which the torch has been handed on to succeeding generations.” > It is an old story, but Mr. Baruch’s gift, which is to continue to provide for the Institute for two more Sessions, is one of the fine chapters in the story. ‘Lord Bryce sumwmed up the need of the world to-day, saying: . “What all the nations now need is a public | ** opinion in every state which shall give more thought to international] policy and lift it to a higher plane.” This also sums up the purpose of the Institute, Those in attendance at this unique educational ex- periment were teachers who teach the teachers who | help to form public opinion. The man who-made this meeting possible went to the roots of much of the world’s trouble—those REACTING ON THE JUNKERS. eds seems to be exhibiting a healthy reac- tion to the muner of Herr Erzberger. The Pan-German group, the members of which do not appear to be directly involved, are immedi- ately forced to the defensive. The public protest against the’ killing can hardly fail to convince the Junkers that they are anything but high in popular esieem. Whatever the attitude ot the Administration in negotiating peace with Germany, there can be no question that public opinion in America continues to hope that Germany has learned the lesson of the war, that the countzy will forsake the false gods of Junkerism and will develop genuine democracy. If the assassination of one who displeased the Junkers will focus German opinion on the dangers from the Pan-German agitation, then the death of Erzberger will have done more for Germany than bis somewhat checkered politizal career. TWICE OVERS. “ E have heard much, criticism of the pre- vieus Administration for its sale of war material, but I submit there never has been a sale made in the histery of the Government when property costing the amount these ships cost was sold at a price 30 ridic- ulously low.” —Representative Byrnes, . 28 6 1S is our family question: Do we want four years more of the present Administration or do we want a new deal?”— Henry H. Curran. se ee “ THE unemployment situation is mearing a hie Fase crisis.” —Executioe Council of the 7 “ * ** HE only rule 1 have is moderation in every- thing.” —John A, Stewart, on his 99th birth- ‘Landlords offering apartments with Zrinyi held the castle for two year= such excessive increase should be | against the imperial army, is now a made to go to court and show the | Czech city, together with Poszony, the reason for it before renting to a new | ancient capital, where all the corona- tenant, ax they are proving themaciyes | usurers, which ts not legal. YOUR CONSTANT READER. Hungary. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World 1 am writing to you in the cause of lw woble nation, to cast some light) (on a situation that is pregnant with| danger—that is, Hungary. | The New World knows little of Hun- gary, and yet has not Hungary been called the “America of the Old World?” She was not named as that by Hungarians but by non-Hungarian authors, some of who are F. E, Clark and A. B. Yolland, both of whom | Nave studied the ancient privileges and constitutfon together with her history, Which spans one thousand ye rs, What a colossal crime was en- wineered by the enemies of Hungary lat Trianon, where the articles of peace | were dra | What a singular way to reward a nation which bad kept the Turks from sweeping over Europe, and which hud drawn her sword whenever the light of Wherty was in danger! ‘When the other European powers were developing their present prestige Hungary was fighting to keep her na- tional integrity, and the fight lasted 400 long years, during which the flower of Hungarian chivalry died in the de- fense of the mother of civilization, Europe. One million and five hundred thou- {wand Hungarians had died the heroes’ death, the country was poor, the na- tion sadly depleted; but, Hungary hud beaten ‘Turks. Even if the cost had heen twice that, Hungary would not have lost her heroic courage, which she still possessed afte: the final victory. still lived, and then commenced the immigration of the Siav, Walloon and German peoples to the kingdom of Hungary to take the place of thone who had died fighting to save Chris- tendom. The ancient spirit of the Magyars| [ichmond Hill. tions take place, Ka many others. The ancient castles, proudly oceupy- ing the summits of steep cliffs, synibol of Hungarian greatness, centre of hal- Jads and chronicles, must see the hated alien flag fly over her ramparts, afte: she has known none other then th red, white and green, together with tie flag of red. used in mediaeval times to denote to the besiesing enemy that the garrison was to fight to the death. Only Budapest, probably the most beautiful city in the world, militant, proud, conscious of her beauty and her thousand-year existence, anil of her ultimate success in righting the wrongs of the glorious old thousand- year country of which slie Is the cap- ital. PANDAI New York City 1921 Losconz and a, » AUB Bulld Them at Home. ‘To the Editor of The Prening World The collapse of the largest airship ever constructed, the ZK-2, built by Great Britain for the United states, has brought forth expressions of deep regret from Government officials and those interested in ae autics, ‘The loas of life is appalling and the actual cause of the tragedy may never be known, It would be unfortunate indeed if the accident to the giant dirigible should interfere with the development of rigid airships for this country. —[ believe, however, with all due respect to the British mechanics and offieers and men of the Royal Air Foree, that if the Navy Department contemplates having a dirigible similar to the ZR-2 for use in connection with the navy it should be constructed in this eoun- try. Americans have never shown themselves inferior to any race when it comes to doing something worth They emigrated everywhere, Only the great plain was not open to them. for there still fived the Magyar, ‘The land was safe from further depreda- while JAMES J. Mccoy. Aug. 26, 1921 w To the Vaitor of The Bve nine Wor Where does the Shipping Board got off--selling slips for $2100 per ship rating $700,000 to $800,000 to build? “Ve botlers re worth more than 92.100, for they aye all new, some of them never used. How about the remains | After that came the electric telegraphy, the trolley car, the phonograph, the airplane, the moving picture camera, ihe typewriting machine, the cotton gin, the turbine water power wheel, the modern screw steamship, the sleeping car and the automobile, There is no reason to doubt that there will be just as many and just as important inventions in the next century, for men are just beginning their education in engineering. Within the last few years the discovery of radium bv Mme, Curie has revolutionized many theories of the uni- verse and has incidentally proved of vast assistance to medi- cine, The City of New York has in it the largest and perhaps the most beautiful building in the world, which is a monu- ment to the energy of a mgn who, beginning poor, found the opportunity to become rich and successful. The entire modern world has been made by men for whom there was never shortage of opportunity. They never waited for it to knock on their doors. If they didn't meet it casually on the street they went out and hunted till they found There may be shortages of food and goal and even of energy in this world, but there will never be a shortage of opportunity. If you haven't found yours it is because you haven't been looking for it hard enough and long enough. | | | | word “erro” (to wander). | A man given to unexpected and junexplainable action was called by the countrymen of Caesar “errati- cus’—given to wandering. Our word “err is allied to the Latin “erro,” ing around. But a patrolman cannot be called “errant,” although he wanders around; for his strictly confined to stretch of pavement. Another equivalent to erratic is the vivid phrase, “apt to jump off the track.” But “erotic” quite different thini means a ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. et Yac reclas Woks CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE. Cleopatra's Needle, which stands in Central Park, is a fine specimen of the art of a nation that for over 4,000 years held a position something similar to that of the United States to-day. When Thothmes III. erected this obelisk, about 1,500 B, C., to com- memorate his victories over the ene- mies of Egypt his country was the richest and most powerful in the world, the great centre of trade and the leader in letters and arts. The le independent ruler of Egypt, |armor who spent his time | main engine, main shaft, propeller, | ser, dynaino, steering | hor chains, anchor | fue the Wise. The seat of knowledge is in the head ; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong iJ we do not feel aright,—Hazlitt, . davits, bloc! eas outfit, all the electric fixture furniture in officers’ staterooms, the 8, portlights, &e., and nu- eC. merous other articles? I am sure every ship has @ bell, Is not the hull nagiad ote worth anything af olf. How about! , 2¥ brooding o'er owr'site we make the deckhouses, all good for bunga-| tem greater.—Judelle. lows? ‘The hulls could be used for the storage of coal in different ports. 1 wish 1 had the money and influence to get these ships, I'd be a millionaire Men are like tops; we have only to find the string with which to over nignt. But as I have neither 'i| wind them.—Balzac. slay a poor SHIP am. — js the time s pia A Content tne Courte. Youth is the time to study wea dom; old age the time to practise it.—Rousseau. To the Editor of The Evening World What is holding up the payment of the New York State bonus? fam sure that this information is interesting to thousands who are expecting it HENRY VINCENT. The wife of a coal heaver ts more respectable than the mistress of a Prince.—Rousseau, opatra, had the obelisk trans- ported from Heliopolis, the old capi- ial, to Alexandria, thereby giving it its’ present name, With the fall of neient siviliza tions the old buildings of Egypt de- cayed and everything about that country was forgotten. Finally, at the instigation of Napoleon, scten- tists undertook to solve these secrets and aroused interest in that long for- gotten country. ‘The Needle was given to the United States by Egypt and was trana- ported here at the expense of the late W. H. Vanderbilt. It was erectad in 1881. The crabs it stands upon are replicas of the originals, which are in the Metropolitan Museum. In the mu- seum too a model is to be seen show- ing how the obelisk wag lowered and reised into position. [t ia 67 feet Jhigh and weighs 180 tons, Gazing at it, it is Nard to realise that when it was erected Mowes had |not been born, that not one being in Furope could read or write, in that Greece, Rome, England had never even been heard of,