The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1921, Page 20

20 Che ESTABLIS¥ immed Dally Bx. Sunday b Company, No te 68 Park RALPH PULITZER, President, iy Giorld, BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pur MIVER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE Prem ip excieste! t! eepateher credited to Ito and also the local news publishea herein, tor republ SUCH IS HYLANISM! ONCENTRATING upon Hylan standards o saféty in the city’s public schools as measu by conformity to Fire Department regulations, the Meyer Committee elicits strange facts. Since January, 1918, when the Hylan Adminis- tration began, the Fire Prevention Bureau has filed notices of no less than 7,353 violations of fire pre- vention rules in 496 out of 695 public school build- ings. An expert estimate of the cost of correcting these violations puts the figure around $4,500,000. Not until April 22 of the present year has the Board of Estimate voted money for this purpose, and then the appropriation was only $250,000. The viola- tions have continued uncorrected. And note the irony of this: Records of fire pre- vention in the schools under previous administra- tions are not available for comparison because a fire in a Department of Education building destroyed the records up to 1918! Under the Hylan regime the Board of Education has left fire prevention in school buildings to the Superintendent of Schools, the Superintendent of Schools has left it to the Superintendent of School Buildings, the Superintendent of School Buildings has waited for the Board of Estimate to provide the necessary money and the Board of Estimate has apparently seen no reason why the city should be hurried into expenditures merely to obey the rules and regulations of ils own Fire Department regard- ing the safety of school children. Such is Hylanism! A FINE NEW FERRY TRIP. COMMISSIONER WHALEN has approved the application of a New Jersey company which offers ferry service between Manhattan, Tottenville, S. 1., and South Amboy, N. J. Growth of the motor-trucking business and the increase of automobile touring are undoubtedly the factors which warrant the establishment of such a service. But in granting the franchise, the Sink- ing Fund Commission should safeguard passenger rights and privileges. With a schedule arranged to bring passengers into New York in the moming commuting hour and back in time for dinner, a new commuting area would be opened if fares are reasonable, And if the ferries have adequate provisions for passengers’ comfort, the company could rely on a large sum- mer evening patronage for a trip more than twice zs long as the Staten Island service now gives. Good service to South Amboy would mean a big addition to the healthful and restful diversions of ferry-riding to escape city heat and noise, which is ene of the most popular of the city’s small-<ost amusements. SELF-INFLICTED DISTRESS. ‘N reply to Representative Siegel’s complaints in regard to the hardship imposed by the present (mmigration Law, President Harding wrote: “I fep! pretty confident that they (the hardships) are absolutely unavoidable under the law.” The President has here drawn a concise indict- ment of the statute he praised last week in’ his cam- paign letter to Senator McCormick. gh tariff mean good times.” In spite of solemn party pivamses oF 4 tariff higher than ever, times have not improved Normaleyv" } gone from bad to wo Under an quitous Democratic tarift” i dave fallen off steadily from the selection boom nonths of 1920—as have exports, i more than passing Ai the pres dictions of good times and an up-turn in the k market came immediately atter Will Hay cold w on the protective plank of plattorm The Elder Statesmen of party Know wh the tariff really is, They know that world condi- tions have destroyed the last excuse tor a higa tariff here, But many of the rank and file are thoroughly indo. ed h tariff fallacies. If the Elders had decided fo give their followers 4 hard lesson they could not have done to have engineered just such conditions a vailed the last year betier than have pre: Of course, no one engineered the lesson. It couldn’t be avoided. Economie law has no respect | for party traditions. But the lesson be made plainer for those willing to study it A GOOD DAY'S WORK. VERY friend of good government in the City of New York rejoices to-day, : The size of the victory won by Curran and the test of the Coalition candidates in yesterday's Re- | publican primaries is a bright omen of success ahead. If the new woman vote contributed largely to swell the Coalition pluralities, then the women voters have proved themselves a strong and intelligent force | in the fight for competent municipal administration. They have shown themselves good judges of ability and experience, capable of distinguishing between genuine and false issues. They have been quick to recognize the candidate and the kind of campaign needed to beat Hylan. The three defeated competitors for the nomina- tion—La Guardia, Haskell and Bennett—are to be commended for their prompt acceptance of the meaning of yesterday’s vote aml their pledges to support Curran, The anti-Hylan campaign this fall should be one of the most united and vigorous in the city’s history. The big job lies ahead. But the first step toward it has been taken and well taken. To get Hylan incompetence out of the City Hall is a task that calls for a candidate as nearly as may be the complete opposite of Hylan, with every anti- Hylan vote behind him. More than a hundred thousand enrolled Repub- lican voters declared yesterday that Curran fills the bill and shall be that candidate. A good day’s work, SEPTEMBER 14, 1321. HIS is Dante Day, the culmination of Dante Year, it being the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death. The whole intellectual world commemorating the day, for Dante, the first of Italian poets, has become the admired and beloved of all peoples. Even in far Japan they are erecting a temple in his honor! The universal reverence for Dante is explained by the fact that in that moving picture of eternity, the Divine Comedy, every man finds himself. It is the drama of the human soul, of every human soul, in the hell of sin, in the purgatory of repent- ance, in the heaven of beatitude. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1921, to say much in few words. A Statement From the Anti-yaloon League. \ To the Kalitor of 1 ng Worl Now that the supplemental Prohibi- tion enforcement legiskition has gone over until after the ressional re- 1 to put the Anti-Saloon League of New York pw on ree- ord in favor of leg ate well national, pr pun- ishment of offic ic! as as idin is who, for of the explicit terms of the enforee- ment laws, either to discredit Vrohibi- ton end its enforcement or for pur poses of blackmail or to cover up their complicity with violation of th law on a large seale, break dow protection of the home by unlawf ching homes without warrants in violation om nd vose who believed it existed will nv that doubt the Unionists dominate has within it, Quotin, id, uniform block, differin in religion and political outlov! the other inhabitants of the nine northern p What kind ot letter do you find most readable* | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying Take time to be briel, also believes that Ulster however, us in the nine W184 Catholic | 48.490 Methodi nina in re ‘From Evening World Readers, Isn't within which resides a people forming surprised to Kk counties Ir reland from B and ot tions ter 4 eountir it the one of is the resbyter her scattered | the | nat no which UNCOMMON SENSE John Bk ike be doh DON'T By Just spend it and it will be gone forever. and better something worth doing Men are to-day d-awing big salaries for work the twenty years ago. ‘Their time Now they are next pay envelope. But it General Manager of the years from now, «6 | « et Ish, INVEST TIME N’T SPE) A Invest your time wisely a and by. Time spent in study, in practice, 0 etter s f yr. is invested, Kt may not for many year: any 5 sure to bring them in the end. realizing on it. The hour you spend to-morrow working out a problem or mastering « difficulty may not bring any returns in the may concern rs bring any results, was worth just as much then as it is to-day, although it paid but little. SPEND I'r. it will pay dividends by in any effort to clo but it is , did to become the working for ten nable you are you | | | mont atrused words in the language. y y persons use “trite” to describe la saying or phrase that is put, appe- | site jor peculiarly fitting or descrip- uv | Such a misuse of the word cannot ‘Stories Told by The Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory coprright, Site! New Prem Publishing Yor Evening World). THE TREASURE HID IN THE FIELD. The ‘Treasure Hid in the Ficla"— Matt. xiii, 44-may well be called o gem of a story. Its light is finer than = { that of the rarest precious stone—the light that was never yet on land er sea, It is clear that the man who found the ‘treasure’ was not the owner of the ticld’in which it was tound, ‘bat an employee of the proprietor. Wind- ing the treasure, he concealed it, sold all that he had and bought the field Remembering that a parable is like a sphere on a table—touching it only at ONP point--we need not trouble ourselves about the man's sha method of getting possession of treasure. ‘The main point is not the’ man's deceitfulness and underhand- edness, but this only, that he was anxious (o secure the treasure and persevered until he obtained ft, To begin with, the treasure was HID, It did not lic on top of the ground; on the other hand the man had to dig for it. So is it, ever and uiways, with the “Kingdom of Heave the great prizes of life, the things that are really worth while, The to be had only as the price of struggle, carnest and long-sustained effort. 1t was said of the multitude of those who, in the apocalyptic vision had scaled the im- mortal heights—"These are they whe have come up through much tribula- tion.” | mverything that is really worth having in th costs sweat und very y sweat at that. (1 have left: behind ‘ords that breathe and the thoughts that burn--the great winged inspirations that are the life and letrength of the ages- “learnt in {fering what they tought in song.” | ‘To the jagy, lackadaisical ones no | n comes, The upper gle jrevealed ont jrevelation by And when o jotuer things pall {man who, finding the » those who carn the truggle jure, rested not until it was bis, the jmian once finds the nobler life june sincerity and truth, of de and pure affection, in a word, simple mantiness and good- Was Lived ty the Great s nothing else, and will » nothing else rest ts bat leather or only h The The prunelia. that really satisfies is the lite that gives one nscience, an abiding self= and the inner ghidness that s born of the consciousness of one one's duty to the last without flinching and without |plaint. | "Count up the we. pleasure gains ut what virtue turns { and disdains. { Such is the pl -|the story of the ja moral that |many only when [profit by it WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 75—TRITE Although statistics are lacking te sustain our contention, we hazard the assertion that “trite” ts one of the hit 1 com- ith that wicked Tis from in. letter moral of “Hidden Treasure,” is taken to heart by it is too late to because ort be too strongly condemned, “trite” means nothing oF | ‘The word “tr j the Latin word “tere,” exact) meaning |uerivation. A trite phrase is a phrase | that has been so often used that been worn or rubbed to a tra: | Misuse | ple of thas however, have thi of un excuse. Most of that are peculiarly pat, fitting have been so often v before » rights of indivi uals Ly within every rt of it, a minority That i r the dividends will begin. | that by this tune they certainly are ips ida ° i 2 in 1265. a youth ge with- | just as strongly opposed to union with LEE WEE OAL NE | “trite.” he hardships (ave unavoleple under she: law, Dantes was borin i iorenes in 1202.) As 4 yout nd un. Great Britait nioniste are in Lincoln, when a boy, invested his time partly in asso- But that is a reflection on the law, not on the “dis- | he wrote exquisite love songs to Beatrice, the lady nditions warrant favor of it, minority, too, | yetane | yar OE ciating with men and studying them, partly in reading books. honest steamship agents,” who have no means of | of his heart; fought in the battles of his city, took PGI, bes ager OtneR Cie dM attdne or ae tiie y aes The time he invested sitting about a country store | ART MASTERPIECES knowing whether a ship will reach Quarantine at | an active part in her savage politics and was elected that home brew should be from the rest will not (EE aa might have been idle time for others, For him it was time of IN AMERICA ad and. believes thay snot | shy 1.07 A. M. or 1.09 A. M.on the morning of the first day of the month. President Harding’s “own distress has been very great”—and we do not doubt very real—over some of the cases reported. In matters of the heart the present Administration is entirely human and hu- mane, but that doesn’t excuse blunders that cause such hardships. These are “unavoidable” under the law signed by President Harding. They would be avoidable under a more intelligently drawn law embodying the same general principle, President Harding ths ample cause for his “own distress.” It was stupidly self-inflicted. A LESSON MADE PLAIN. F a year ago the Elder Statesmen of the Repub- lican Party had deliberately ided the time had come to jettison Protection shibboleth, they could not have moved tively to wreck ars of effort. Nothing could be a deci a more what they had built through long effec. better argument against hig protection than the Fordney Emergency Taritf Under it farmers’ prices have slumped and continue to slump. Under it consumers’ prices have not shimped to the same degree. The “benefit” of the tariff has net gone to the farmers. It has not gone to the consumers. It has been absorbed in the “spread,” the toll taken by the middlemen who buy and sell both on the world market and the domestic market, > Nothing could fag a more effective argument what we should call Mayor. One of the frequent and bloody revolutions that mark Florentine history gave his enemies an oppor- tunity to impeach him on trumped-up charges of malfeasance in office, to banish him from the city and to sentence him to death at the stake. That was in 1301. From then until his death he lived in exile, almost on charity, and in his exile he composed that greatest of all poems which he called a Comedy and which the world has agreed to call Divine. | TWICE OVERS. 6 HIS is done, Next!’ — Henry Curran. “cc TR forces with the tupes of aircraft now in exis- tence or in development, acting from shore | hases, can find and destroy all classes of seacraft under | war conditions with a negligible loss to the aircraft.” | = Gen. Mitchell's report. i | * | * * “ce NY organization which holds meetings behind trees bu the light of bonfires and in secret places, and the members of which wear while sheets and masks and attempt lo prevent citizens from the en- joyment of their constitutional rights freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and trial by jury- is a Sit sub- ject of investigation by a Grand Jury.’ —Fedcral Judge Wm. B. Sheppard. * ’ | 66 OD gives corn to America but He gives none | | to Russia. He is a very strange God.” | Ruasifn peasant woman. 1 by the proposal adopted by a the more than two to one vote by | House of Representatives. However, | believing that the home brew proposl- jtion will have taken oc of itself the time big Hauor crimes are ste when the majority of those who try it | discover, they will, that it is neither pleasant ynor profitable, and has no spice of danger connected with il, the leascue is opposed to anything which permits the waste of any tae in the search of homes for home brow which js intended and used only for home consumption, when vastly more jimportant matters imperatively de |inand prompt, vigorous 4 The Anti-Saloon York keeping Jutely clear | uniawfl thin has refra faith York ¢ white to en- © public i that these al ire already unlawful, the jeves that Uh has come t d abuses league has come { will resist hone at individual hip-po jot eft in st nitted n hor at the expense ng the crooks nake fortunes ind thousand WILLIAM 1H. ANDERSON jean there, spring concept of an trish p | vince with Mixed bistorical bounue, Tammany | State Superintendent Anti-Saloon |. League of New York | Ulster Problem, | Pron ine Wor create t mnaority m ily country Jogi Sept To the Tal Here the benefit of of Labor problem Som work, work" trades, ents the farmer who gro: ainmen who en wh the e| helpers, for the the tr water, he pchanics ars to deliver the nd drivers, for the staring the ole t Americ the u f them said Well, wus right matke the hors: trucks, { ors, plumbers. . om [elans workers 1m Jinakers, boxmakers, aw vabinet make awd ust workers fc and ovision stand me | workers | ple ab upply men, w one cow 8, fishmen and plekle ers, managers and porters wletus have beer for the { work wh sewer diggers, ironwe unters, sign painters, lunch men, | graci-tul nickel work ¢ No Work.” & Worl 4 few lines you ean print for ome beer, some | an Federation nemployment ‘No beer, no We haye | the brew ublemen and mot he ¢ work makers, bottle makers, irror nake ning sel mops, rk- Dlateware kers workers sood | 3,010,000 pea~ | to work ® mentioned 10 appeared It What Is Landlord = World of the bat land. learned what they were fdends, and neither fire it away. if it is a wise your days. nor investment it close and sympathetic observation of his fellow men. thinking of, ¥ panic As 'ong as you live that investment will be safe, He they hoped for, nor even war can sweep 3) g.etehee, show. dhe gent and hand whieh was so prol ill care ‘ ducing masterpinces will care for you to the end of } ducing ™ Sani Bun By Maubert St. Georges. what they meant re be. Because eae “ me ie ung petane Creeriaght. 1993. ty tte Prem Pobliies On them he became the most successful of all the Presidents o 4 . ; : I i “NIGHT” and “FORTUNE the United States, the only man perhaps who ever liver : ; ee Mio, William Morris Hunt. who could have led it through the erisis of the Civil War. Mihai ee eure The time that yowr invest in study and in intelligent danorations ever nroduced by eh Am work may not seem to be valuable to you now. But it really $|erican were destroyed in the fire is extremely valuable, for it will begin to pay later on in your which burned the State Capitol at life, when you will have more and, perhaps, pleasanter ways Albany, N. Y., the Metropolitan to spend the time that you will have saved by using the $ | Museum of Art was fortunate enough i f your youth to obtain in 1911, thro the Rog- ours of } youth. n ers Fund, the two « al color Invest your time wisely and intelligently. It etches used as models by the artises™ S ; £ , ski better than money invested, for it pays surer and bigger div in the execution The paintings the ps career when plan active war tenants In the face of all these pacts, how in our Governor retrain trom tak ng im nd drastic measures to suppr bandits who, in my linind, are as bad or worse thau the Ku Klux Klan, Your valuable paper certainly ts do- ng ils share in exposing such dis- upon fighting | { conditions and it surprises | ne that other newspapers do not fully example B.S 1921 No Room for Wu Klas, ' Yo rhe talnor of The Exoaing Wo I congratulate you and 1 am with, as the Ku Kiux Kian in the United a nt people big city like this will not tolerate such lawlessness. Lara with you heart and soul AN PX-SOL’ Tei New York, Bopt 6 1921. ° of al From the Wise Give me the benefits of your con pictions if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.—Goethe. Tf we had no faults we would not take so much pleasure in no: ticing them tn others, La Rochefoucauld Vice stinys us even in our plea but virtue consoles us even in pain.— Cowper. sure, our If laughter ty the daylight of the | soul, a smile is its twilight,— B. Brandreth. We hate some persons becuuse we do not know them, and we wilh | some unknown r n, he eom mitted suicide by drowning in a | tank ‘of water in his home. It was only the year before his death that lhe completed these two famous dec- | now at the H represent. | pated on @ peries he other * showin « d female figure, holding in her left hand the ltiller of the boat in which Columbus | stands. | not know them because we hate them.—-Colton, Grace has been defined the aut ward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.—Hazlitt. It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.—Rivarol, He who is a slave to his belly scldum worships Gos,—GeadL ‘