The evening world. Newspaper, September 3, 1921, Page 10

— 2 ee { _THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, _BEPTEMBER 8, orld, JOSEPH PULITZER ay by The Pros @ al! vews de and also the Publishing THE REAL QU pe ION. OLLOWING the decisi peals that the Sok stitutional, those who s + a bonus see two courses open to them: Dhe { * for an amendment to the State Constitution that will remove the present constitutional objection. The other is to persuade the Legislature to reter to the people some plan of direct taxation to provide the bonus money. he first method would take three or four years The second would force a frank answer to the qmestion'whether taxpayers of this generation favor the bonus if they have to pay it themselves, or only if they can pass it on to the taxpayers of another generation. Inasmuch as this is precisely the kind of question which, in the opinion of the highést court in the State, the State Constitution meant to have an- swered at any given moment with least possible prejudice to taxpayers to come, it would seem 4 good thing to get an honest answer. How much of this soldiers’ bonus are the people who now urge it willing to pay? The National Geographic Society explains that although New York City is more populous than the City of London, it is also true that Greater London is more populous than the City of New York, but that if Greater New York wi large in area as Greater London the Greater New York would be more populous than Greater London. And after you have figured out all that you may rest assured that whatever the sizes or the population of the two cities, “Little Ole New York” has more unsolved murders than London, whatever its size or population. This ought to be ggsource of pride to the local gunmen if not to the police. HARK TO THE OYSTERS! N the current press sheet, “News From Washing- ton,” issued by the Republican National Com- mittee, we expected to read just such an article as “No Congress Ever Made Better Record Than Ex- isting Body,” by Representative Mondell. 2 The headline “Shipping Board Saves Million by Selling Wooden Ships” is not surprising, even though the statement that they have been sold is disputed by telegraphic reports that Chairman ‘Lasker is considering advertising for new bids. Even at that, it is probably nearer the truth than Representative Mondell’s congratulatory laudation of the G. O, P. majority. It is perfectly orthodox partisan propaganda. Pap” is the technical term, we believe. But here is something else again of real interest _ this time. We hope it is true: as Prosperous Oyster Season Ahead, ! Gloucester, N, J.—Three hundred sloops and schooners are being put in readiness for the opening of the oyster season, Sept. 1. Tests of oyster beds show the stock to be the best qual- ity this year, and the oyster industry is looking forward to a very prosperous winter. This praise for the good G. O. P. oysters who fmprove their quality under a Republican Adminis- tration is a touching tribute. It suggests the sharp fesamblance of the tisan news from Washington to Lewis Carroll's “Through the Looking Glass,” for here we have reference to “shoes (Lynn fac- tories running at 80 per cent. capacity) and lasker's) ships.” The cabbages, kings and sealing wax will probably appear in the next issue. But to get back to oysters—what would little ‘Alice think of the cruel but prosperous Republican oystermen who propose to sacrifice all these good Republican oysters? It should be recalled that Alice thought she liked the Walrus best “beeause, you sce, he was a little sorry for the poor oysters. In another column we print a letter from the Secretary of the Bowery Mission. The five- word headline is an editorial in itself. It states the simple fact. The Bowery Mission must have funds. It must carry on jts good work. Few charitable organizations in this or any other city ean etretch a dollar to cover more than does the Bowery } on ‘The 1 A. M. breadiine at the mission, once } seen, is never forgotten. On cold nights ft is literally a life-saver to many an unfortunate. j The Bamery. Mission must have funds, actual need UNWORTHY OF A JUDGE. Kas A'W M. LANDIS, Federal Judge and Na- tional Commissioner of Baseball, got no more than was coming to him in the resolution an Bar Association, in con- adopted by the Am vention at Cincinnatl: ' “That the conduct of Kenesaw M, Landin in engaging !n private employment and accepting private emolument while holding the position of a Federal Judge and receiving a salary from the Federal Government meets with our un- qualified condemnation as conduct unworthy of the office of a Judge, derogatory to the dig- ers’ Bonus law is uncon: H insist that there must be t, which Gov. Miller favors, is to work nity of the bench and undermining public con- fidence in the independence of the judiciary.” It may ‘be true that Americans have not the awe and reverence of En theless, the av hmen for the bench, Never: ge American has not had to be Judge or lawyer to feel shocked at the spectacle of 4 man getting $7,500 a year as a Federal Judge tid at the same time collecting a salary of $42 for i impire of baseball as a super tiends of Judge Landis are indignant that the Bar Association passed its resolution without accord. ing him a proper hearing. How could a hundred hearings alier the plain ecinly fact? WHERE THEY ALSO APPLY. DDRESSING the ninety-six “rookie” polive- men who were graduated to regular duty Thursday, the Mayor warned them that “a police- man to-day is expected to be r as well as a policeman.” He congratulated them “on having completed the course and having qualified yourselves to become policemen.” He also urged the young recruits to the force “to give the city the best that is in you and the people will be satisfied with that.” New York voters might construct parallels to these utterances amd apply the same: A Mayor of New York is expected to he some- thing of a business man as well as a politician, But when Mayor Hylan was quizzed recently he showed absolutely astonishing ignorance of even the simplest matters of municipal finance and business. Mayor Hylan has completed a course which should have qualified him to be the next Mayor. But he has not learned. If he has been unable to learn to be Mayor in four years, he cannot ex- pect to pick it up in the next four. Some of the rookies in police school fail to make Sood policemen. The best that is in them does not measure up to the standard. That is the case with Mayor Hylan. He has never, as Mayors go, gotten out of the “rookie” class. His best is not good enough. amething of a laws Banditry in this city now shares the same hours with business. A SOUND RULE. R fight fans may think of the other tules promulgated by the State Athletic Commission yesterday, the one requiring the reser- vation of more space for the relatively cheap gen- eral-admission tickets will prove popular. At the same time the commission is fair to the promoters by allowing a higher charge for the best seats, Profiteering rules do not apply to those able to pay $15 for a ringside seat. They can pay the extra $10 or sit a few feet further away. But among the fight fans who cannot afford the higher prices the added chance to see the show fram general admission sections will mean more spec- tators and more frequeut attendance. This is all in favor of the promoters who intend to stay in the business and are looking for patronage over a series of years. It's all very well to talk about wircless signals from Mars, but how do we know we could have points of mental or physical contact with the Martians? Maybe to them we'd appear as un- communicative as fish, “MUTUAL ATHLETICS.” A" official publication of the Methodist Episco- pal Church is on record as suggesting “nvutual athletics” as a means of overcoming the old antagonism of the church to dancing and at the same time satisfying the demands of the younger element who see no sin in decent and well<onducted dancing. It would be interesting to be able to follow the smental calisthenics required to arrive at so ingenious a solution of the difficulty. Of course, if “mutual athletics” is to satisfy the dancers, it will be dane- ing. If “mutual athletics” is anything but daneing, it will not quiet the disagreement. Such a suggestion is not creditable. It is not honest or straightforward. It is hypocritical, but it is not new in “thou-shalt-not” creeds, “Mutual ath- letics” would rank with the games in whieh colors are substituted for spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs, and numbers for spots, These games follow the rules of card games, but t! 'Y are innocent and harmless because the players do not Play cards.” Self-<deception is as bad 4 any variety of deveit. Prop up the Interborough unt Commission reports. Maybe a fresh diagnosis will give @ new line on the treatment he Transit TWICE OVERS. ce E don't know how far wireless waves will travel, so it is not impossible that some planet, in which the wireless method has perhaps been perfected, may be trying to get into communication with us.”"—J. C. H. Macbeth, Marconi’s London Manager. + «© 6 66 (A HARITY can take no interest in internalional politics." — Secretary Hoover. o 8 6 “A POLICEMAN to-day is expected to be some- thing of a lawyer a3 well as a policeman.” — Mayor Hylan to the “rookies.” Se of nearly be when winter comes on? the panhandler, the prote gar, the petty larceny men ¢ seekin ~The Leash! By John Cassel Copyright, 1921. by The Frere Publishing Co (The New York Brening World) What kind ot letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 18 fine niental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Bowery Mission Must Have Funds. | the To the Faitor of The Eveniug World I need not dwell on the appalling |W situation of unemployment shown in the figures given out United States Government— But are the equally | destitution? Speaking of Bowery and for men only, a state of affai that has not been equalled 4-15 (the first year of the} proaches it; and this at a time when normally requests for as- tance re at a low ebb. For in- stance, in the last full week of Aug- ust, 192 responding pe other words, the week ending with last Sunday’ night's service, we i 20, we fed SSL men, and the cor- od this year, or, in sued meals to 1 n increas hat will nd what Bowery mi not of the Jewish pop living to the east of the Bow , nor do they belong to the Italid to the west, nor yet men whose stores line but are mostly un- skilled laborers men who have been h proper home straining amen who ndicapped from birth for lack of n only work with their nds. There are always more than 000 of them—this is no guess but is based on lodging-house accommo- ons from actual count—and at ast two-thirds of them are unem- ployed Dismiss from your mind the Bowery as pictured in’ Charles A. Moyt's| famous (now infamous) song, “The Howery.” The dum, the drunkard, anal bes woman of the els © take anythin at comes to hand. But there is no work to ad Our free labor bureau is at a standstill thelr lives. And whoever saw shevist, an Anarchist, Socialist, or] even a member of the LW. W's meng them’? And yet you would nk that they woul the very 8 rape for whe disorder wn by th ments, Not an outbreak Kind looking toward their ranks a hrough the per ast few years. that the Bowery Mission voting one night (Thurs¢ to Americanism: and some of th best minds in the country have come here to preach that gospel. We find them responsive to the spiritual teachings of this mission, and they | are appreciative as well as compre- hending {ts cultural work, such as concerts and its selected moving pic- tures, &e. can be cantly verified. Yast winter we should have had UNCOMMON SENSE John Blake t, 1921, by John Blake.) INHERITED DISADVANT ant to be a rich man’s son You can have racing motor ca y golf any afternoon you want to, and go . and spend your time de Isn't it the ons for a while. hampered by lack of funds. e have money enough, were so many drives to help our Tess | bulldogs, and pl: to all the t! atres and prizc |that the home institutions w If you go to college you can hire tutors to pee Ip you to pull ne You can spend Europe, or trout fishing in the (eran mountains. And nobody will ever boss you around, doing things their way, or make it unplea you blunder. Lead that kind of a life and you will be happy till you get old enough to discover that with all your money don't amount to anything, and then you are likely to be un- happy for the rest of your natural life, If you are poor don’t envy the rich, especially the rich of the second generation. What you serious disadvantage Bs e rich young man who overcomes they is entitled and winter we must have It. lare at our wit’s end to meet 4 | duirements of t and we need it a have $35,000 to carry ® you help us by putting this statement before the public? + Hot even the terrible win- | or insist on your ant for you when Secretary of the Bowery Mission. Bowery, Aug. 31, 1921, Doesn't Care for tor of ‘Tye byening Work! In The Evening World of Aug, 2 | we are told there is to be another | shortage of potatoes and we Ameri- advised ww eat rice inst: 1 prefer potatoes and do not for rice unless in pudding. George Perkins riced us nearly te death in war time ¢ other in authority tres that game on us again (sending our jeut of the country), consider their advantages rich young men do » eredit for his success than is the poor boy who has to bue! Ale down to aha ed good. potatoes earn his living, I hope whoever to death on the should stay at home ng and afo appreci- > not forced to take jon find Soavactt getting along without i And then your brain will be the muscles of the man who sits at a ne sk year in out without ever taping any exercise at Many a rich man hin tinallooke qwithlenyyen te nbertaherot ine naar uns who is beginning to ma ake his way. rich man would give with so fuck promise, but it is too ve now, wanted most, a son who would follow in his footsteps, tu himself piled up too it carly in life who does not 4 Brooklyn, Aug. 41, 1921, ‘To the Faiior of The Evening World the | Square world to have a son The thing ha: afford to ae nd So muc h food over never have, much money. Barned wealth is worth having if its owner knows how. Unearned wealth, only nBpaRpHe#s to those who are unfortunate anaek to pour (ellows hi | men are patriotic, They see srosperity all | to administer it. a general rule We can hi “To, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind” With stress on “untutored.” oe e \In the Day of the Grandmother - - - oe thing was being done to better the | present state of unemployment would be for hours a day, realizing that From the Wise. 1 am indebted to my father for fiving, but tow very married Bee | » women to be a sick husband, ‘| husband out of a J then it is ex cusable for a marr but when a de) husbanad in a good children to clothe teacher for living them off, then so a hand and girl get a square deal r hardest trial of the heart is ether it can hear a rival's fail- without triumph New York, Sept. 1, y) a week | and feed, then she “| is merely taking bread from girls who themselves and also from men who could easily fill ¢ ‘Take, for instance, Union Telegraph Company. their automatic operators . | ‘on half time, and others on six cards on the educational and patriotic lectures, ita) SM SP At’ enere are a great many other night, I read: Nine out of every married in, gis, department | ten (9 cut of 10) were, what ents are fact, who, with thelr husbands, are work- this mean 90 per cen at do Sey EN ile a that) re full time, while the other girls | §hiak? strive to exist on the ish Question. Tw the Faitor of The Prning Work! It has always been my els’ were sold. by Flattery is a sort of bad money | the Western in looking over the car| “L" coming home the| ea good nama ia ‘wages of four| New York, Ang. 31, wee. TURNING THE PAGES ny, W. te "T 18 not then Grief aits by my hearth. A guest, 1 need frienda most. But when, on some glad, radiant day, To Joy I am the hostt For Grief, a crone, in sombre garb Kits silent, bent, nor heeds That she unwelcome there remains; | Rut Joy, shy, wistful, needs The sumpathy of eves that smile, The clasp of friendly hands To crown my hospitality When visitor she stands Beside my door and hesitates Before she enters there— She's waiting for my friends to come That they her kiss may share. This cue for the entrance of the merry villagers is furnished by Lan- nlje Haynes Martin through @ page of the Nautilus, for September. e * Salvation by Will, Not Law-.-- From the depths of the Hasy Chair, in the September Harper's, Edward 5. Martin utters himself wisely and truly. thus: Some improvement can be worked in the conduct of man by laws if they are properly administered and enforced, but only a moderate im- provement Laws are for society more than for individuals. There is little sal vation in them, but some protec- tion Salvation comes by free will Tt is nobody's business to force his own ideas of good behavior on he general public. — Reformers never m to get that through their and probably never wil may be any o business to keep order, to dete urity and promote sifety so that people who know how to be gool and elect so to be, can be so with less discom fort; but it Is nobody's job to come | Bal other folk to be good. It 4s like the blowing of wind into the wastes to tell this to the profes- sional meddier, As well tell it to the marines, The Fatal Dive for Beauty Witter Bynner, whose “Three Hun dred Poems of the T'ang Dynast will be published by Knopf next ye: hag just brought back from China an | authentic portrait of the poet, Li Tai | Po, who was famous in the ‘Tlang period as the of the anyperor and the greatest wine- inker of his day. We cite a perti- Id of Li Pal Po that he 8 death by drowning while sn wit trying to sked by the ee why is, Li Po replied sth an only d toward beauty—but one may Cone which we point to the interesting t that in descending |for beauty the poet quickly got be | yonu his depth oe A Maid and a Bushiul Man... Glahn, in) Knut Hamsun's “pan” (Knopf), tells us of his awkward shy ess) at the house ty at the trader's, and of how the daughter of the house lifted him out of humilia- tion ~ at moment some one vam over toward us, All looking at her time T was fasei- ark eyebrows t reed forehead The Norwegian panacea for per} turbat if this is a fair working example, its points of persuamen | The Indian Place for Girls +--+ me domestic i tribe ni book a Sand do. the If you grow to 2 f you Walk around and do net do any ‘ork, people will think nothing of vou. They will sa wt for is to Walls frony re looking meals the road lere goes a woman looking for good Sos abou! for herself! ar the feminist respon: Writing of "My Grandmother's ‘Tas ble" for’ the William Henry van and the “hired tat bourd as mem er rising nove plates bebrush, in the refill the teapot dish that had or knocked at the door y uncle bade him Du ) replenish s emptied ar grasped the ide—of the deer e of his thump 1 h no locks on the doors exception—and, conse- were secured, if neces- ttons above the latches, and the one ex the door |! of a certain clos: cake was a precaution against placing lundue temptation before grandchil- dren of tender years, | Perhaps it was when grandmother ‘set her table that the country really was safe for di racy, | siodows and of lending existence to nothing,—Burke, Men wilt twrangle for religtom write for tt, night for it, die for # anything but live for it—Colton. Grieving one's self to death may be a lurury for the rich; a washer: got by many actions and lost by | woman with eight children to sup- one.—Jeffrey. Poctry t# the art of sustaining port cannot afford such a tweury, Anonymous,