The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1921, Page 22

PSTAPLISHE! R « Pudlioned Daily cpt Sunday by The Press Publishing Company 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. . Preaident, 68 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Becretary, 63 Park Row. cD PRESS, MEMBER OF THE assoct. The Associated Pree le exclusively entitled to the tse for republication ef all news despatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited tm this paper end Also the local news published herein | lca neRocae “SOLVE IT WITH JOBS.” NE of the suggestions made to the Unemploy- O ment Conference by the Economic Advisory Committee was: ‘ “Persuade each industry to absorb definite quotas of unemployed.” This is the idea The Evening World advanced under the slogan “Solve It With Jobs.” It is a highly practical suggestion if it can be applied. The Unemployment Conference has the backing of the Government end of its own ability. It could apply the necessary « persuasion” better than any other agency—the same sort of persuasion which forced Liberty bond sales “over the top.” The idea is fundamentally sound. The United States is suffering from unemployment. At the same time it is suffering from both under-produc- tion and under-onsumption. Put every one to work and increased consumption will virtually take care of increased production. As an emergency tonic for business, this policy fs hard to beat. “Persuade each industry to absorb definite quotas of unemployed.” Solve it with jobs. “FULL OF HOLES.” The German Government presents the Ameri- can treaty to the Reichstag with the comment that the instrament ts “full of holes” and that further negotiations must follow at once upon ratification in order to make the treaty workable, In short, the Harding separate peace with Germany is full of holes that German diplo- macy can try to plug up for German profit. Mr. Harding never denied his election would ‘be a good thing for Germany. On the contrary. POLICEMEN AND WATCHMEN. HE testimony of James Auditore before the Meyer Investigating Committee emphasizes The Evening World's suggestion that policemen drawing pensions from the city should remain under Official control of the Police Commissioner if they continue to work as watchmen, detectives, guards and in other quasi-police occupations. The exact degree of truth in Auditore’s testimony fegarding a “50-50” partnership between former Police Inspector Hughes and Commissioner Enright need not be considered. The fact that such charges could be made is enough to show that something fs wrong with the present system. It is perfectly natural that retired policemen should supplement their pensions with work for which they are so well fitted. But if we are to have policemen working as guards and watchmen, they should be responsible to the Commissioner and the Commissioner should be responsible for their activities. Without such responsibility, suspicion of favorit- ism is bound to be general. We shall have recur- rent scandals such as the present. The ties of depart- mental friendship and fellowship are bound to give tise to ugly rumors, however circumspect the active police force and the retired policemen may be. The ties had far better be acknowledged and openéd to public supervision and criticism. It looks as though the Republican Party might have to turn Protection into a sacred relic and keep it under glass, NEW YORK’S LOW DEATH RATE. EVEN days ago New Yorkers were happy to read that the mortality record had for the week before reached a new low mark. Now even this has been surpassed. Last week was healthier than the one preceding. Commis- sioner Copeland is looking forward with confidence to a year’s record which will show an improvement over the best in the fifty-odd years for which statis- tics are available. All this is highly satisfactory. But it should not cause us to become complacent. It is highly prob- able that to-<day’s low death rate is in considerable degree due to the abnormally high mortality ac- companying the “flu” epidemics of recent years. Not so many people are dying now as in other years because “flu” took many of the weak ones who ordinarily would have died a few years later. This helps to explain a fine record made in the face of intolerable housing congestion. COLUMBIA IN STEP. OLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York's biggest and most important educational institution, opens its doors to-day. Classes open to-morrow, and by the first of next week the academic year will be in full swing. Unless experience reverses itself, the university could justly advertise itself as “bigger and better than ever before.” Its history has been one of con- tinuous growth and expansion in service to the students who attend, 7 * Columbla 1s nowpape of ihe truly cosmopolitan THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER universities. It draws to it young people from every State in the Nation and most of the countries of the world.. New York City contributes heavily to the enrolment, but even if the local students were excluded, Columbia would have enviable place as one of the world’s big schools, And as it draws students from everywhere, so also is it preparing to send graduates everywhere. One of the notable additions to the curriculum this year is the increased number of courses in foreign languages, designed to prepare young Americans to go to the far corners of: the earth as missionaries of American ideas and American trade. This sort of activity is visible evidence of Amer- ica's new place among nations. It is encouraging to note that our largest university is in step. THE PARAMOUNT HATE. T was bound to come. A mere hint that Woodrow Wilson might be actively inciting opposition to President Harding’s Separate treaty of peace with Germany would, of course, be thought enough to stampede balky Re- publican Senators back into the party line-up. That rumors of such activity on Mr. Wilson's part are baseless does not matter. The bare men- tion of his name has long served as the one chal- lenge with which to rally Republicans and furnish them,a common purpose. The Republican Party has not forgotten the an- tipathy that Has been its political meat and drink for the past three years. The Republican Party has not lost sight of the only sentiment that gave it a semblance of coherent purpose during the campaign—or since. In his speech as Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago in June, 1920, Senator Lodge sounded the real keynote: “The defeat of the present (Wilson) Admin: istration and all it means transcends in {m- portance every other question and all immedi ate and dominant issues are bound it, © e @ up in ‘To this end Mr, Wilson and his dynasty, his heirs and assigns, or anybody who with bent knee has served his purpose, must b driven from all control, from all influence upon the Government of the United States.” To this formula of vindictive opposition, fittingly phrased by its bitterest and narrowest exponent, the Republican Party was tied. And to this day the Harding Administration is turning and twisting in the same bonds. Desperate struggles to keep out of the Harding Programmes and policies anything that Woodrow Wilson had at heart haye made constructive pre- tense a farce. They have shattered party unity, they have discouraged leadership, they have more than once turned the huge Republican majorities in Congress into a mere babel of tongues. And now, when the Hardiny foreign policy— twisted and tortured to the same end—comes to the final test, the old hatred must once more be invoked to stiffen the Republican ranks in the Senate! From the first, the Harding Administration has had this ominous, palsying blight: Instead of coming into power with a paramount issue, it had only .a paramount hate. Can it build constructive service on that? Jn another column we print a letter which is ® human document on the unemployment situa- tion. It is a valuable contribution—more valua- ble, we venture to believe, than President Har- ding’s statement to the Unemployment Confer- ence—because it is built on personal experience which has proved successful and satisfactory. As far as this New Jersey painter is concerned, there is no unemployment situation. But read the letter. It is worth the time and attention of every one of the unemployed—and the employed as well. TWICE OVERS. THE cls people rented place lott ears Sor October so that they would have the entire month to look for apartments when prices went down.” —Charles Galewakt, er (6 BUSINESS will get back to normal only when prices are cul sufficiently.’’ —Henry Ford. * * hf CRAVE in the name of all I represent that there may be revival of learning, a modern re- naissance.” President Hibben to Princeton students. * 6 + “ee Ti hour has come when man must choose if he will become a demigod or return to the bar- barism of contemporaries of mammoths.” —Prof. G. V, de Lapouge at Eugenics Congress. ._ *« & “cs T HERE are two outstanding features in liqui- dation that are not yet materially touched. These are coal and transportation.” —W. W. Atter- bury, Vice-President of the Pennsyloania Railroad. « eo 6 “e UDITORE'S statement that I told him Com- . missioner Enright was associated with me tn business is absolutely false.” —Edward P. Hughes. >: Picea et as ep et tle yay a6, 1091,-: att aye re slit ‘York Brening Co. vorld) New ford). co aay much in few words THE EA IEST WAY OUT. To the Editor of The Evening World: After having served three years in France, being wounded and invalided home again, I began to wonder what the future held for me and mine. Look- ing about, I saw the conditions that would prevail and the afterwar read- justments in wages, employment and general getting back to pre-war stand- ards. » Things did not look very rosy for the returning man, who had given up everything to stem the tide ‘of Prus- slanism. The cheering had died down, and the promises that had been made when we went away had become some- what hollow and were only, mere whis- pers now, I had a trade. 1 had worked hard in the army all hours of the day or night, as duty called, and ¥ did not came back with the idea that the world was mine. But I was glad to be back in “God's country again with three meals a day in sight and just a chance to work. I went to work and sized up the sit- uation, and decided to set my price for labor at a fair one for a good, honest to goodness day's work, and to do this work just as thoroughly as we had to do it In the army, at drill, in camp and up the line fighting the German, This plan has paid wonderfully well. 1 have worked every day except our holidays since being discharged from the army. My work is in demand, be- cause 1 have made my price within reason and have not waited for the Government to help me, or let any one organization dictate what 1 should work at and at what price. mine by my own endeavor and good, honest workmanship, I took a wife and also a new partner and we went into business for ourselves at the price 1 had set, have waited and we would have been {dle and out of work if we had fol- lowed the crowd and looked for the stars we could not reach, The army gave us an initiative and ambition to go out and seek that which We need and give a good re-| turn for what we are paid to do. If! every one else would do as we have Being satisfied that success was From Evening World Readers | What kind o1 lette: do you find most readable: that giver you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | Take time to he briet. isn't it the one going akead and life would be worth as much as it was to the men who went through hell in France, and we reallze that to live and let live and give and take In this world are the greatest principles. When every one realizes that to be reasonable is the key to all our troubles and comes down to earth and digs in as we have done, then we all will go ahead and the business of this jcountry and the welfare of all the people. will be secure. N. D, ALLEN. Bogota, N. J., Sept. 24, 1921. w on's Crown, To thie Baditor of the Evening Wald. Reading the statement of J. Wil- son's manager, Martin Killilea, to the effect that the “middleweight cham- Bion" fought to the best of his ability on Labor Day, makes me wonder why people insist on calling “Champion” one who isn’t. Webster's Dictionary describes champion as "a successful competitor against all rivals.” And how few of Wilson's rivals can be beaten by him! G. CAMARGO Jr. New York, Sept. 24, 1921, a Pantshing Witches. To the FAitor of The Erening World: A correspondent of your paper on the evening of Sept. 24, 1921, in ridi- culing the Puntans of New England refers to their burning of witches. As 1 have several times seen similar statements, it seems proper to try to correct the wrong impression pro- duced. The New England Puritans were anything but conservatives and rep- resented the adyanced civil and re- gious thought of their day. They had much to do with laying the foun- dations of what is best in modern democracy. I have investigated the subject with care and I can assure your cor- respondent that there never was @ witch burned on New England soll. | Therefore his statement, “One old! lady was burned at the stake becau: she predicted the weather correct} is absolutely without foundation, During the first sixty years Colonial life in of New England there were less than ten executions for witchcraft, all of them by hanging. ‘Then came the unfortunate craze at Salem in 1692. At that time nineteen persons Were hung for witchcraft and one man, because he would not plead to the indictment, was crushed to To-day we ase booked up for six|aeath, This cruel act waa strictly months ahead to paint people's|/in accord with English legal pro- houses, and those same people would|cedure at the time, During all that period there were many persons who strenuously op- posed witchcraft prosecutions, and even some of the principal actors re- pented of {t and publicly acknowl- edged their error, Men should be judged by the stand- ards of their times and, thus judged, these Puritans were very moderate nd free from bigotry, At that time jn the continent of Europe, in regions letter In the interest of historic truth. untouched by Puritanism, executions UNCOMMON SENSE - By John Blake (Copyright, 19m1, by Jobn Blake.) BEST TIME FOR A NEW START. The business year really begins in the Autumn, It is after you have rested that you are best fitted to plan. School children and college work in September. Courts begin their fall terms. houses arrange for the winter campaigns. * In the spring you will be worn with winter. be looking ahead to vacation time. Now the year is before you. students take up their Business You will If you try to make it count you will be well on your way toward progress by next suin- mer, Even the air of autumn is stimulating to harder effort. Sharp, ‘snappy days are the best for work. No longer do human beings hole up in the cold weather like bears and squirrels. momentum will carry you through. Get a good start this fall and your If you do not like the job you have got, now is the time to learn to like it. at present, when new jobs will not be easy to get. That is by far the best thing to do just Set yourself a mark to reach by spring. Plan to put in the time you have been putting in at play to hard and pur- poseful effort. Learn more about your own business. about what is going on in the world. Learn more Count the days between now and next vacation time and plan to make every one of them help you along. Fight hours a day, six days in the Week and fifty weeks in the year comprise a long working time. If you employ it intelligently you can accomplish three times as much as you did last year. Your job will be harder to hold than it has been, for there will be more people outside looking in and willing to undersell you in wages. So you will have to be worth more. To be worth moro you will have to know more, Also you will have to keep your eyes more on the job and less on the clock. Lay your plans now. afraid to include a heavy working programme. hurt you. It may, on the contrary, make you, Lay them carefully. Don’t be Work won't Then when rest time comes again you can look back and discover that you have progressed, instead of drifting. Form the work habit this fall, cultivate it through the wir- ter and it will stick to you through life. enn R tories Told by th Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory it. 1921, Si ite Rew Yon™ovenine Wonas THE WEDDING GARMENT. The story of the “Wedding Gar ment"—Matt. 22: 11-14—is one that brings the flush of deepest mortifica~ tion to our cheeks, but it was hece: sary that it should be told originally, and its repetition, over and over again down the ages, ts necessary also. The fellew who sneaked mtd the wedding ceremonies on that night of the Jong ago was simply trying to do what thousands of others Haye at- tempted in all climes and tin He was blutfiing—trying to make hig.eheelk _. take the piace of the true credentials. It has been said that “fools rush im where angels fear to tread,” but that fellow was not a fool—he was a nervy gambler, who figured on going through ‘| ready to offer suggestions that smack on the strength of his brazen impu- dence alone, These gamblers are to be found everywhere, in all societies and or- ganizations; interlopers; self-invited; and, strange to say, always in evi- dence, never lacking in modesty or reserve, but on the other hand} ever strongly of commands. One of the saddest of the many sad sights In this world is ‘the spggiacie by no means uncommmun, of theat blu! fers in the front pews in God's Mous yes, and even in the pulpitqy@gt t churches. ‘ They are on the benchés of our courts and at the bar, “guiltier than those they try.” They are to be found in the profession that Gomes closest to us of all, the medi¢ay and even into that charmed cirel& the “best society,” these sleck tgcksters frequently snoot their way. into hundreds or even thousands, and | many of them were by fire. here is, however, great excuse leven for this when it is remembered that many witches freely confessed |to the most horrible things. Such |confeusors at the present day would |probably be rushed to the nearest fnsane asylum as dangerous lunatics. /At that time the psychology of self- deception, &c., was not at all under- stood and their stories were believed. ‘A thrill of horror ran through the community at the gruesome tales, the witches were hurried to their death and their confessions reacted jto the disadvantage of other persons | 7, who were suspected or perhaps ac- cused by them. I hope that you will publish this { CHARLES E. CORWIN: done this old world of ours would be for witchcraft were common, running| Rocky Hill, N, J. Sept. 26," yo2k. me pee ot ng ere ‘. _— . Sg oe . 7 reenter ceanetetiae eens ie a ES OTL 7 gl hat’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick The New Among curtous records {s that of |Capt. Agar, a celebrated English pe- destrian, {ditions ‘of a wager of 200 guineas | (about $1,000) to walk fifty-nine miles in eight and one-half hours, on Sept. who unaertook, under con- 1812. He won the match in three minutes under the stipulated time. oe On May 18, 1494, Columbus discoy- ered @ great number of smail islands in the West Indles, the ‘Queen's whioh he called " In bis opinion But there is alwaya a day Stare oning for these impostors. THéte a limit to the distance their Mmpu- dent cunning is able to carry them, In such an hour.as they think not the lightning. strikes. “When the King came in to behold the guests he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment, and he said unto, him, ‘Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding gar- tent?) AND HE WAS SPEECH~ LBSss.” That was all—just speechless, par- alyzed, down and out tor godd! and for all! The Great Teacher's appeal was to the CONSCIE! S of his ayditors— the invisible Monitor that has the word. There are just two who unde stand the hypocrites—tho liypdcrite and God, The hypocrite often d ceives his fellow-men, for a longtime at any rate, but_he cannot for one moment fool the Old Incorruptible I tegrity, and sooner or later Nemesis catohes him. . “You know,” says the Great Téach- er, “whether or not you have of the wedding garment, and if you /ha not when the King comes in every~ ly else will know it.” = be congratulated is he whg has on the wedding garment. It is in- visible to all but God and the one who wears it, and for that. reasont you are apt to be misunderstood and ma- ligned: but YOU. know something, and you are sure that God. knows something, and there you rest. © ep acai aees a st | Ten-Minute Studies | of New York City Government , 1021, the Py P ioe Now’ Yorn rentne W By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the eighty-eighth article of @ series defining the duttes of the adminivtrative and legislative Yew officera and boards of the York City Government. PLANT AND STRUCTURES. Ferries. In addition to duties of the Mepart~ ment of Plant and Structures qs de- fined in previous articles Of this se- res, this department has been, f the present year, charged with th® fol- lowing activities in relation t@ fers ries: é 1, Construction of a roadway on the viaduct approach to the Muni- cipal Ferry at St. George, 8. E, for the accommodation of vehicula® trate * Opening of ‘ roadway through the easterly end of Battery Park to relieve traffic congitions, Si rae hites Street Ferry terminal. ve Operation and maintenante ot the Staten Island Ferry and the 39th Street (Brooklyn) Ferry. 4 4. The development of plans for ad- ditional municipal ferries from*Co! landt Street, Manhattan, to Stapleton, §. I, and from Grand Street, Ma hattan, to Broadway, Brooklym $. The establishment of a municipal ferry from College Point, Queens, ta Clason Point, Bronx. 6. Acquisition of waterfront prop- erty at and adjacent to the foot of Fulton Avenue, Astoria, reconstruce tion of terminals at Astoria and at the foot of 92d Street, Manhatta,y] and the acquisition of boats for the re-opening of the ferry between these ts. poe Designing and preparing plans for a new boat to augment the pres- ent Staten Island Ferry fleet and for a new ferry boat for the Department of Public Welfare. » $. Examining, surveying and pres paring estimates for the restoration of various abandoned East “River ferry terminals, and continuatice of the work of rehabilitating the jgeveral ferry racks, structures and boats, which have deteriorated greatly im the past. 9. Acquisition of title to waterfront roperty at Dyckman Street, dNorth iver, for a ferry terminal to structed by this departmeni leased on a basis of 7% per en of the total cost of investment, ahd 10. Supervision and regulation off all privately owned ferries operatin, within the city limits. these were the 5,000 isles degeribe by Marco Polo and Mandeville, a cer tury or two before, as the boundar of India, oe Governor's Island was visited hy epidemics in 1854-'51-'63-'67-'68, and y the yellow fever in 1856 and These epidemics were general In thei; character, affecting not York but adjacent fact of the Island being a recruiting station during that former period o: ne served to explain the failu: @arrison, quarantine the