The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1921, Page 22

J ANGI'S SHAW, Treaguri JOBEPH PULITHER Jr.. Secretary. 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOULATZD PRESS. ‘The Asecctated Prees ls exclustrely entiuea to the use for republication to ft or nov etnerwise creuitea tn tas paper Iahea herein, MACHINE SHIFTS. HE Calder influence in the Brooklyn Republican machine has placed Boss Livingston on the skids and given him a shove toward the jumping- off place. It is now, more than ever, up to the machine to demonstrate good faith and good works in an active campaign in the Republican interest. Brooklyn Republicanism has been generally recog- nized as a close counterpart of Manhattan Tam- manyism. It has been generally believed that Liv- ingston and Murphy have been closer to each other than to the best interests of the city. There is ample opportunity for a change for the better if Senator Calder so wills. But his protestations will be measured aini judged by actions, not by words. Incidentally we wonder what Boss Murphy will think of the deposition of the Brooklyn Boss. Will he have uneasy dreams concerning young Mr. Himes? Will the thought that “youth will be served” cause him to miss a putt or dub a drive? Happy the Police Commissioner who can count on his Deputies! DISCOURAGE EXPLOITERS. HOSE in charge of the City Employment Bu- teau are certainly right in refusing to accept applications from employers offering what are de- scribed as “outrageously low wages.” The' case cited by The Evening World yesterday in which an employer wanted an expert stenog- Tapher te assemble electrical machinery in his spare time at a wage of $14 a week was a good example of what employers should not attempt merely be- cause they have the whip hand. It is possible this employer may be able to get such @ worker, for anything is better than nothing to some who are out of work, but the city cannot afford to lend approval to such shyster methods of employing. Nor can the employers afford to pay such wages. Such a policy would certainly create distrust and resentment in the mind of the worker employed. The cumulative effect of anger and dis- Satisfaction is dangerous both to the individual em- ployer and to the community. A municipal employment service cannot hope to Protect employers from their own folly, but it should do what it can to protect the community, The perjury charge against a Brooklyn land- lord accused of ousting a tenant on the false plea of wanting the apartment for personal occupancy should be pushed to the limit. This is not the first case where such sharp practice has been charged. The rent laws should be protected against such perversions. SAVINGS AND EXPERIENCE. PECIAL effort to increase the number of sav ings bank depositors may seem inappropriate at a time when so many wage-earners are out of work. {* may seem centrary to reason to expect savings when wages are declining instead of when the Increasing. But human nature is a contrary and unreasonable thing at best. The savings bank propagandists are banking on the old and reliable rule that hindsight is more likely to influence men than foresight. Experience is the only teacher many men will heed. It would have béen wiser to have banked war wages—but many failed to do so. Now they see their mistake and, as the industrial seas become calmer and men get jobs, they will be more in clined to listen to counsels of prudence and save for ¢ presence of the tribe and passing the pipe wound. Is the banquet an improvement? Meanwhile Marshal Fool deserves: our sympathy as well as our adiniration, It is a man-sized job to eat one’s way through an American welcome. It may well daunt even the conqueror of the German hordes. “FLOURISHES AND RUFFLES.” UGLE flourishes and drum ruffles—if Hizzoner had adopted the suggestion of his devoted Police Commissioner-——would have been but trifles into light as air in th Administration. The trouble with Mayor Hylan is that he has made his flourishes and ruffles in the far more seri- ous form of empty pledges, unkept promises, dem- agogic appeals designed to tickle the ears of “the ¢ hervy balance against the Hylan people.” Flourishes and ruffles about new school con- struction “to seat every pupil in the city”—whereas this fall at least 126,000 school children are on part time, school structures now standing are shockingly out of repair and 7,353 officially reported violations of fire laws in school buildings remain uncorrected. Flourishes and ruffles about a model police ad- ministration—when the people of this city have less faith in the administration of the Police Depart- ment at the present moment than they have had at any time since the Van Wyck regime. Flourishes and ruffles about municipal home rule and the injustice of up-State interference in the city’s affairs—whereas nothing ever furnished Al- bany better excuses for such interference than has Hylan incompetence. Flourishes and ruffles about protecting the people from “the interests’—into whose hands a weak Municipal Administration like the present constantly plays. Flourishes and ruffles about a 5-cent fare—which Hylan inability to grasp transit problems has done far more to endanger than to defend. Flourishes and ruffles about economy and reduced taxation—mere flourish of words, leaving taxpay- ers with heavier loads to shoulder because of mud- @led finance and bad management. ‘ Frills of bombastic talk to cover incapacity and | lack of accomplishment—these are the frills that must be charged to Hylan, They have been a million times more costly to the city than a few bugle saluies. Three years and nine months of Hylan have brought the City of New York to a pass where, if ¢ it could have a competent Mayor, its rejoicing tax- payers would think they could well afford to pay tor flourishes and fanfares every time he went up or down the steps of the City Hall. | GIVING LEDOUX A CHANCE. E hope the police of this city have made up their minds that law and order are not wholly incompatible with efforts to help the unemployed Yesterday anybody would have thought that Ur bain Ledoux with his bread and meal tickets for the needy was some super-bandit whose designs upon the city must be foiled hy stern police measures. To-day it seems to be agreed that feeding the hungry and trying to help those who are out of work is not necessarily a menace to public welfare in New York, and the police are to aid Ledoux in- Stead of obstructing him. This is a welcome change of police policy. Order must be maintained. But at the present moment private initiative that seeks to do something for the unemployed should not be discouraged until its methods have plainly proved themselves pro- ductive of disorder out of proportion to the good | achieved Give Ledoux and every other earnest worker in | the next rainy day. Certainly those who have jobs now should learn the same lesson from the experiences of their neigh- bors. Their turn may come next. Returns from the Senatorial election in New Mexico will not flustrate the Tribune. It printed an alibi for Republican weakness two days ago. IN TRAINING FOR A WELCOME. ARSHAI FOCH, who confesses that he is in training for the banqueting “Battle of Amer- ‘and fears he may not survive his approaching calls attention again to what is a serious matte: for distinguished foreign visitors. The “banquet’’ is a formidable thing in American life. It is as much a bore to the diners as to the guest of honor, particularly since Mr, Volstead re- moved the “mitigating circumstances.” When Prohibition arrived it was predicted that the banquet would decline in favor. If such were the case, foreign visitors might almost forgive Pro- hibmon. But as yet no substitute for the custom has been inv: . The parade and the banquet persist as the principal means of honoring guests. Original Americans may have done the thing better. The Indians were accustomed to honor their guests by sitting on {he ground, escorting the guest i his cause at least the benefit of the doubt TWICE OVERS. 66 R. CLARKE (of the Ku Klux Klan) hes gone beyond most drive promoters in being SES SVERING and to aay much in few words. When "Fanny" I t To the LAltor of Tae Eveniug World A “Where Did You Get That Word?" article in your edition of 14th Inst, reads, "'Trite’ is one of the most abused words tn the language.” How about the word “funny,” used In the place of singular, strange or ts almont remarkable? This misuse universal. For instan “Mrs. I dled of blood poisoning Waan't that funny? “So-and-So broke his ler Wasn't that funny?" “Funny” is something to cause | langhter. 0, GET New York, Sept. 17, 1921 A Foreign Picture of Ellis Island, To the Falitar af The Brenig World | As I was a prize winner in The) Evening World foreign-born contest | two years ago and an American citi- zen, I take the liberty to send you an article I have cut out of a Belgian newspaper concerning the treatment of the emigrants at Ellis Island Mr. Harry an official Ellie Istand, de after a yeur of persona! investigation “Foretgne res men, women and chil dren, are treated more like cattle than human beings Conditions at the island are more like a prison than a home of welcome for the future population of America “The poor itr together, beaten, and and towels are not known girls are left in the ced are pal in need able to sell religious bigotry and race hatred at the cost of $10 per bonehead.” The New Republic. | * * | SCT T is essential, if you are going to get anything | like a dollar's worth for a dollar in taxes or rent | money. that you change the Administration. If you don't this town will go bankrupt." - Senator Charles C. Lockwood. . . . | Lf HE newspapers are just kidding Mr. Hines along.” George Olocny, Tammany Counsel. “ce ANY mothers and fathers have left the church | to listen to such things as Dr. Straton drags into his | pulpit."—The Reo, Dr. John D. Calvert. upon our children depends the fture of the . “ I periodicals to give special emphasis to the aub- because they would not permit their children | condition.” As an American citizen I ask you whether there is no chance that the | American Government will investi- gate this dreadful condition, If this is true how can we Americana expoct these people to become good citizens when they are treated that way? Iam proud to be an American citt- zen, but feel sorry and sad to read such an article in a foreign news- pap It is a pity ! se do not think that all the foreigners who arrive in the U. 8. A are ignorant or nc ed. More than ever I do understand them, 1 was once a foreigner myself. ve learned English, | am proud to T hope that in the tmiture we shall understand and trent the im granta better. M Py New York, Sept. 17, 192 How One Bonas Wan Used. To the Raitor of The Evening W ! ymi- I am Inclosing a clipping telling how one veteran in another State used his bonus paymert “Twas in my third year in college when the war started and I was studying electrical engineering Af- ter being discharged, I decided to go {nto business instead of gving back to school, and I got an agency for a Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch. | Jeet of fire prevention, so that its importance may be | iS CHOOLS would be first with me, because city and of the country.” STRONGLY urge the daily newspapers and brought to the attention of all.""—Mayor Hylan. ‘ From Evening World What kind of letter doyou find mobt readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words ina There 1s ine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. |Short of capital and one day found rs Rea de isn’t 1t the one of hundred? that I owed $950 on shipments, which was a great deal of money at that time, and I could only scrape to- gether $675. I needed the extra money before 2 o'clock. 1 went to a town eleven miles away to try to get a loan froin a cousin, 1 didn't get it You can imagine how T wan fee! Ing. T got home and found awaiting me a check for $330, my compensation from the State of Minnesota. I tm- mediately went to the bank, took out the bill of lading, and received the batteries, Some squandering!—I. me Sher, Hibbing, Minn. How many of New York State's boys could have employed thelr bonus equally well! Is \t not sinful the way the insults have been heaped upom the ex-ser- vice men? One learned gentleman | in glving his opinion on the national bonus stated it would finance the greatest “crap game" in history. Is not that a fine tribute to pay to the boys who left home and loved ones ty do and die for their country? Wo. H, 27th Division New York, Sept. 17, 1921 FY Criticiamt 9 Ewening Wor! In this evening's editorial oF, To tha Extitor of column | was more than surprised at the article headed, “Fair Play for Col Cresson." I never knew The World was guilty'of fair play 1 know for years it has never shown t fine quality in city affairs. For r three years you have pounded Hylan and the Administration. You don't know how to say a good word for this city that has made you pros perous, But where did you ever hear of a Mayor that blocked off some of our side streets #0 that the children could have some recreation? Again, where did you ever see shower baths in the streets for our children? Who was the first man to take up the cudgel for the 6-cent fare?) Oh, no, Mr 3 : ACRES eRe ce, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1901, by Joan , perlan THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF SNOBBISHNESS. All snobs do not live in big houses and ride around in yachts, Some of them don't know where their next meal is coming from—yet they are snobs nevertheless. A snob is a person who, for some reason best known to himself, thinks he is better than other people. Necessarily he has to admit a few others to his society Man, even when he is a snob, has to have company. Bat there are snobs who are coal miners and snobs who are hod carriers, and hundreds of thousands of snobs why are hotel clerks and butlers and head waiters The little colored boy who gets an old vest to wear he comes instantly a snob and is intolerant and haughty in his manner toward all the little colored boys of his acquaintanc> In a little Western town three boys who had been ti Chicago beeame hopeless snobs and looked down with pity ing contempt on all the other boys in town because none « them had ever been more than fifty miles from their village. But presently another boy went with his parents to California and thereafter he became the chief snob of the place, There is really no reason at all for snobbishness, neither the ordinary kind which comes with wealth, nor the particu larly stupid sort called intellectual snobbishness. The educated man cught to know better than to be a snob, But he very frequently doesn't He despises the man who pronounces a French word in American fashion. A person who doesn't know what 1 logarithm is excites his dersion. He laughs himself ill because a neighbor thinks the inventor of the wireless telegraph was named Macaroni the The snob gets very little vut of life compared to what he ought to get. He misses the wisdom that resides in hun dreds of his betters who do not happen to have lived the same life or to have done the sane things that he has done, The city man is a snob at home too often, and when he gets to the country he discovers that it is the countryman who is a snob and he is regarded as the inferior, Tt will pay you to take stock of yourself and discover just why you think you are better than other people before you put on airs. If this cures you, so much the better for you. were Irish. But skirmishing storage battery company. My ship- ments began coming C. 0, D, 1 wa ” Ue | It [Colleges and _| Universities Of New York’ By Appleton Street tne New York's No. 25, COLLEGIATE ARCHITEO- TURE OF NEW YORK, Few of our natives seem to realize the beauty and significance of New | York's colloga hulldings and the age questered greens which many of them nelos If 0 guest ts to be shown the town we take him to the Woolworth tower and have him crano his neck at the structures that make lower Broadway « shadowy canyon. We ride him down Fifth Avent bus, pointing out the te trade, the Library, St. Patr St. ‘Thomas's, Millionaires Row |verhaps the University Club, which we read somewhere that Arnold Ben. nett pronounced tha most perfect | piece of architecture in New York. Unless we are interested in univeral- es it is rare that we seek out the h town or the quiet $ have estab- w and planted their and Normandy popt there are no building I ins mlike brilliance soaring spac fa Byzantin Just across 1 the distin sof New ¥ in Where New Yorkies Tread. COOPER SQUARE. ~-@ Sauare ly the eit of Cooper Union was whe A a Tncoin made his first sp in N York. Hera Wendell 1 yorn Garrettson, He Ward er and other n i palitias ts made common cause against slave Across the street waa the oll Tomp kins Market. ‘To the son Union was the Hay M 4 farmers above 4241 § i not so farn rand ¢ ud fromm ft into the equa > tion, Jn a t marching down ity Hall and the with all New York clieer even years later anc dear to the heart of N ne out of the the hand played “Garr the 69th was off answer President McKinley, wi to do it age : Cooper Union, with a great * zens banked outside that & the call the answer was given to the tnso- lent question of Bors T: What are you gol do about it?” It was with that wonder- sm , who gave the t was to be done about it, that endured until answer, and told with Editor, it's not in your makeup to be | LUT (ort Fis Faraet Chek ths taae Se Rn aAy fair. 1 don't belong to any political : party, but try to be a fair cltige a By Albert P, Southwick Reena aneraca | _ OL Br. Comerinit, 1920, 5 The Prema Po eligible a ected 1 Fite New York Rronine The Dance Cap. ave ia hundred. A_ bro} To the Ealitar af The Evening World bit ! name of each p In those good old schooldays the | Per all 1 know to The English authorities issued, on} i. Mi ha teachers, when exaaperated’ at the oe ot col Mareh 31, 1665, an order to imprison + 2 8 achers, n ! ‘ e| wade kn Fox, the founder of she Qua-| Just elghty days after the tatetut stupidity of certain scholars, would | but th Ker weet, for his sermon agalnat the| July 2, 1881, and about lx and a half escort the latter to corners of the LS earns ae weft orime of building f ting nths after t Jnausuration, Preas slassroams: place ecnice) shaped hate (AMmOn 2 AeAunie a houses" (churches) witli steaple ent James A. Garfield dled ‘at Ble on their domes and make them stand |them MGR AAA Lis knGra he GARe HEME Thattlavoe Gre ee there and study their primera for| Apr and he “alec here he had bravely faced death the edit fon of their ow stu. [Dis Views stat ht Li *, dents. To-day those honeheads wear Nainpang fist ateeat (7 |the same headgear, but who'd think h i) ctlannacthout, at| becan operation ‘ there were 60 many of them? ¢ near Albany, N.Y en | The Ku Klux affirm that 99 per , * |teertemn( Road ry cent me Sur pales ane At per ee of H e r Hail of Fame for great|and constructed by our criminals are Catholics. I do not ings rieans was formally opened on|of Ney York was p = question the former statement and cause Tam an 3 fc May 8), 1901. It is a building on the|horse, and ran from she City Heit, would even go 80 far as to state that JAY ©, O'BRIEN. | grounds ot New York University, pro- | New York City, to lith Street, a die: 90 per cent. of the New York Finest’ New York, Sept. 16, 192! vided by funds given by Helen M. | tance of about 1% miles. watt fom contecaimne iar PPIs 50 BANOHR, ming fy SreeE| t