The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1921, Page 38

. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlied Datly Except Bunday by The Pross Publishing Company. Nos. 58 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preeident, 63 Park Row. .J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. MEMBER ‘The Assoctafta Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication | of all news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper | end also the local mews published herein § HERE is food for many days’ thought in the | 2 . Transit Commission plan, but two questions ‘ will at once be asked: (1) Does it stick to the five<cent fare? a (2) Does it give the city full say in the man- agement of its own transit affairs? As to the five-cent fare, the Transit Commission Proposal is explicit in giving the public the benefit of all present doubts as to whether five<ent fares - are adequate. 1 ‘The five-cent fare is to continue, and the assump- ! “Gon is to be that, under economies effected by shaking out false values and consolidating man- agement, not only will it prove unnecessary to raise fares but it may even be possible some day to have 3 fates less than five cents. The plan also provides that low fares will be to the financial advantage of any operating personnel, j | while raising fares will progressively decrease the return such operating personnel may expect. As to municipal control, the whole Transit Com- mission proposal ‘rests upon the recommendation that all transit facilities, however operated, shall be meee absolutely owned by the city. i Control and supervision of the entire system ? {would be lodged in a Board of Control consisting ‘of seven members—three chosen by the operating companies, three by the Mayor, and the seventh by 1 the other six. As soon as this Board of Control ) was’ in full exercise of its functions the Transit Commission would itself go out of existence. Whatever defects careful study may discover in f the first comprehensive plan ever put forward for the solution of the city’s transit problems, the gen- eral purpose of that plan threatens neither the five- _ cent fare nor the principle of municipal control. ‘These two initial questions, therefore, need op- pose no stumbling-blocks in the way of sympathetic | consideration of the Transit Commission report. ~ i REFUTED AGAIN. HAT did the admirers of Hiram Johnson H think when they read the speech of Sir | | Robert Cecil in the League of Nations Assembly _. | taking England and other big nations to task for obstructing disarmament? Surely the Johnsonites have not forgotten that ~~ their idol dragged in the “six votes of England” as * the chief reason why the United States dare not join the League. The Assembly is the only place where six British votes may be used. Sir Robert represents South * ‘Africa and speaks the policies of Jan Smuts and , his Government. In the Assembly, Sir Robert car- tied the fight to the representative of Lloyd George and won. ei South Africa was leading the little nations and | the little mations won out. South Africa opposed | 4 England and the two votes cancelled each other. “ae The lesson from this highly important interna- tional incident is that Hiram Johnson lied in his campaign to create prejudice against the League. He created opposition by deliberate misrepresenta- a Hy tion of fact and by deceptive inferences drawn 7 therefrom. There is nothing to be said in favor of that kind : of leadership. The idol has feet of clay. t Gov. Miller asserts that he does not like the BHighteenth Amendment. "But he has seemed to think highly of the Mullan-Gage Law, which * bothers New Yorkers almost as much A FAIRER WAY. HERE is a way to provide emergency relief in the “staggered working week” or part-time anna fi T : plans which members of the Unemployment Con- ; ference have been discussing. But published re- & ports do not give any indication that the conferees H have been going at it the right way In simple language, the proposal is this: If a manufacturer did employ 100 men and has turned away fifty, it is suggested that he re-employ the fifty gnd put all his workers on half time. Fa This is neither fair nor practical. Under such | circumstances all the hardship and loss falls on the workers now employed. Fifty weekly pay en- velopes would be divided among 100 men and each gets half a wage. It is creditable that labor representatives are will- ing to approve such an arrangement, but this does not make it fair. Neither does it provide real relief. Part of the sacrifice should come from employ- ers. A fair way would be to re-employ the full working force, putting all on two-third or three- quarter time and dividing sixty-six or seventy-five weekly wages among &00 workers. This | il sme sacrifice on the part of > om Siebel ms i THE TRANSIT COMMISSION REFORT. employers, but not so much as the first plan out- lined would on the worke It would also result in more work and increased production, which must be the ullimate aims of any relief which will continue effective. WISE AND RESTRAINED. R ASONABLE discussion of the Harding sepa- rate treaty of peace with Germany is all Democratic Senators will insist upon. This decision arrived at by Democratic members of the Senate in caucus shows wisdom and restraint. There is plenty in the situation to prompt a fight. A turn-about policy would suggest every obstruc- tion, reservation, filibuster and delay that tactical ingenuity could devise. Poetic justice would ap- prove making the Republican majority swallow as much of its own earlier treaty medicine as could be rammed down its throat. : But poetic justice would not be justice to the country. For months the industry and commerce of the United States have been waiting for some sort of end to the chaos in the Nation's foreign relations. They cannot wait longer—which they would have to do if the Harding treaties with the Central Euro- pean nations are not ratified,” Confronted with two evils, Democratic states- manship must give the country at least the benefit of the lesser, That does not mean every Democratic Senator must submissively and without protest vote to ratify a sordid treaty that outrages his notion of national fairness and honor. That does not mean every Democratic Senator _ cannot put on record his view of an instrument that repudiates the obligations of the United States to its partners while appropriating everything the partnership has gained and made secure. Whatever can be done. to lessen the shameless- hess of the deal,’ Democratic insistence upon reser- vations should try to do. All else having failed, and directly it becomes evident that such action will not affect the necessary two-thirds majority, it would be entirely consistent and dignified for a certain number of Democratic Senators to agree among themselves either to vote against ratification or not to vote at all. Thus it would be forever clear in the record that only so far as they felt it a duty by réason of the country’s great immediate need had Democratic Senators who believe in the larger destiny uf the United States limited their opposition to the sharp- practice treaty by which the Harding Administra- tion has reversed Woodrow Wilson and “skinned” he Nation's allies. How many of “the Force” will consider the name Leslie an improvement on Dwyer? THE SENATE AND NEWBERRY. A! L indications point to the eventual seating of Newberry as Senator from Michigan. The Republican majority of the Senate Com- mittee on Privileges and Elections has submitted colorless report which whitewashes Newberry. How any Senator could sign the report and maintain his self-respect must be a mystery to any one who has followed the case: Newberry was convicted, but the law under which he was convicted was declared unconstitu- tional by the higher court. That did not make Newberry innocent of the corrupt acts with which he was charged. The decision merely passed to the Senate the duty of punishing those acts. Morally, Newberry is as guilty to-day as thougt he were in jail. No finding by the Senate com- mittee.can wipe from the record the evidence pre- sented to the Michigan jury. If the Senate carries through its plan to seat Newberry, it will be in contempt of popular opin- ion. It will justify contempt of the Senate by the Public. x If the Senate seats Newberry it will indicate that the Senate is the kind of place where a m@n like Newberry ought to feel at home. Christy Mathewson will be remembered as one of the greatest players and also as one of the straightest and cleanest athletes who ever played professional bajl. He was a credit to the game and was and is a credit to himself the human the who have beon the and he example of “Matty race. No one can count made better men by This afternoon's game at the Polo Grounds will be a “testimon n the best sense of the word, The fans have admiration as well as affection for the biz man fighting his brave battle at Saranac TWICE OVERS. “ce HERE axe 60,000 Kiwanians who could give employment to one more man if they would, and if these 60,000 do that it means peace and comfort to approximately 250,000 souls.” Karr, President of Kiwanis Clubs. * 8 * th], DON'T care what form disarmament comes in, but 1 want something done. We must do something. We are being watched by all the world, and reduction of armemorts is a test case for us." —Lord Led Odd ot ares of “Neti! gual Harry few aul 8 Copsriant. t be The Bree Be) (The New York Ere Fhe a Brevity In in a couple of bundr implies the highest can be paid to a wr tion of such Burr in a speech to asked him to teach the art of being so b plitd—"Your Honor me to teach them their part, the high! human mind—the what to leave unsai After Scott had rei he said: “The nine volumes time to wr! Emp becau words do full du script. to a fou friend, “Pardon letter, for I did not Evidently, it take to be brief and cle | weeount for the fac! us are So verbose. red-bloodness sald and | writing | single Jit bleed, Such hte plied to the produce trained writers wo single drop of blood. Recently an editorial of — "80 | Words” on brevity said that while | he \t | put all the essentic for all humanity mandments. This Jadded—but it took Joubert was such hthe use of words th inentators said, "J jalmost without words seven |" Hach of the }@reece put his ph the write a shorter one.”” that word from them would make laws of our State eral hundred volumes, What kind ot letter do you find most readable that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine, mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ¢o aay much in few words From Evening World Readers isn’t ste one Take time to be briet. Writing. To the Editor of the Evening World., When you ask your lett but “the worth of a thousand words -writers to ed,” your assump- tion that they possess that rare skill compliment that ster, Once, after an unusual exemplifica- literary excellence by a jury, the Judge the other law srief, and Burr r . you are aski what requires, on est faculty of the art of knowing a 1d Napoleon's nine | volumes he was asked his opinion, and peror had to write use he lacked the snly one,” and Greeley, | yjl1 impressed with the manner in which of six million soulless, struggling hu- Scott expressed the idea of making uid, in a poste age letter length of this have the time to s time and brains ar, and that m: t that so many of Emerson, in speaking of the vitality Montaigne's cut even a of to rary surgery ap tions of most un- uld ravely draw a would fill sev the Almighty illaws of conduct in his Ten Cont editor might hav 1 God to do it Dan nomist or rat one of his com oubert tried to di Wise iilosophiy Men of into ons | sentence, and at that in the shortest most simple form thyself; another, end,” &c. ¥ se twins ybably our ow plar of the literary To the Editor of The B In summing up 6 the Meyer +work, Senator reduced, and he sa. budget can be cut disaster, Department piactine eronomy investigating commit heads don't One said, “Consider “Knov, th idently wisdom and brevity are n greatest cxem- trinity of brevity, clearness and force was Abraham Lincoln, GEORGE PROPHETRR, 106 West 90th Street, Sept. 25, 1921 Senator Brown on Extravagence. vening World o far the result of e's Brown. expresse Jamazement that no department head Jsees where its special budget can be. ys that unless the down and kept down the city must end in financial exist to Nor do City Ad- to al ‘That road is political death, Extrav- | agance is the ony word they and the public know. Bat there will be no disaster us long as the realty as-| sed valuations can be boosted an- nually at will and the tax rate in-| creased to 3 per cent., 4 per cent. and] 5 per cent., which is certain before| long if home rulers and “Board of Education financial auton’ vocates have “their way, as | n likely; $40,000,000" isa Budget What wanted is neither home) rule by State nor city, but constitu- Uonal restrictions both uy State ind city and State legislative restric: | tiens upon city. Charter sion by | nake for he further the voters of the city won’ efficiency and economy,. the people and the polit.cians are a trom charter on the bet- ter," Let Gov. Miller appoint Leonard Wallstein to draw a charter and it will be a better charter for efficiency and economy than will otherwise be York is not a New England mit a Dante's seething inferno mans, 90 per cent, of whom capable only born, exi and dying. |S! RT BROW New York, Sept. 26, 1921 A School of Thievery. To the Falitor of The Erening World As we have a school of journalism an institute of politics and schools of political ecenomy, I suggest and ad- vocate the establishment of a school of thievery. The white collar youth, fed up on copy-hook mottoes, finds phazard job as office hoy, goes nusiness,” and valuable years of his blossoming life before he jolt » respectable, middle class small te wastes insurance, coal, commission, — broke others, with affairs 1 een intimately familiar, have owned usury, bribery, spiracy, coercion, intimidation, ness men, whose to collusions con- ulter- ation, adulteration, engrossing and forestalling, Caveat emptor. Cave canem, As nicely expressed by the Australian poet, Simpson Dibbs A tarantula sat on a centipede's chest, And he laughed in ghoulish glee, Vil skulldrag that pestilent son of a gun, If I don't he ldrag me. ABH d the red anteater, said the laughing jack- the band played armen- YIN BUTLER UNCOMMON S<NSE Ie y ‘ohn Blake (Copyrigm, 1921, by Joan Blake.) Perhaps you can’t CLOTHES. afford expensive clothes. But you can afford clean ones. You know, you say, that your clothes are not part of you. But other people They look at you They picture you, when they think of you afterward, in those clothes, If the clothes are slovenly they consider you slovenly. If the clothes are smart, they consider that you look “the goods.” Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison and a few other cele- don't. in the clothes you wear. brities are not particular about their clothes. If you look pros} are prosperous. ure, and failures get great deal. that gets the man his indulge a taste for do But you can't at Dress inexpens shabbiness and avoid collar. People dress bette o by. the years g get anywhere. The binding doc cover helps sell it. vely, if you like, but in good taste. But those men are made, If they had their lives to live over again in these modern times they would probably take a different view. »us people are likely to think you If you dress like a failure they will consider you a fail- few chances. Glothes, of course, ure not everything, but they are a It is not the coat that makes the man but it is the coat chance. By and by, when you have “arrived,” you may be able to wdiness. the start, flashiness at the same time. The man with the loud checks and the glass jewelry is just as repellant as the man with the dandruff on his coat er and better, in appearanc You must look clean and prosperous if you want to im press people, And if you don’t impress people you will nevee sn’t make the book, but an Chapter Rea pupils for ty stering to cover cost of text books a cal expenses. A competent vives the coarse in food which covers IN fifteeng less ibjects as care of "the said the horned] mechanism, food for the adult man nd and woman, food tur the | yrowing child, menus, food p | Gietaries, food for the yalescent and food costs. Instruction in home nur Bronx, Sept Red Croas Classes. 1 World ou be god enough | ce to ifis announcement? given by a trained nurse und covers} 4 Cltlven Wh fh fifteen lessons such sul t nbd spain Work recognition of symptoms. mn Alii fant ‘ |medicine and other remedies, | Kindl tile tl au jmaking and bathing the patient, sick} Says that as soon esa ‘diets, cure. of patients with cor s foot on United “ municable diseases, care of the igpy. | agaist cal ersonal hygiene. hysician 4yes ‘ pernoual In firet a? ¥ et says that this is entirely wrong t s classes in food selection, home nurs- evening ing and first aid, Gontis’ hecdannes These classes are practically free,| Avenue. As soon a a nominal fee of $2.50 being charged sick and ¢ Cross is] instruction etic diets, its fall} a are ing the day « nd cleri dietitian selectic ons such digestive ans sing tb | Avoid at least, as altraccve dur virth ‘Stories Told by th Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory loonyright. 1921, by tbe Press Pupliahiag On| Tom Ra Vlad eneatine Work.) THE CHIEF SEATS. ‘The story of “Phe Chief Seata” 1s told in Luke xiv., 7-11, Its up-to-dateness Is as pronounced ag though it he@ been told for the first time yesterday, und a thousand years from now ite subject-matter will still be contenie porary. “Those in authority’—the Lord only, sre most of them got thelr “authority"—are pretty apt to hold ® very lofty opinion of themselves. ‘Dhey, “maguity their office’ with @ vene geunce, and incidentally do not forget to swell themselves up personally @ bit it was to the high-headed, supers cilivus grandees of uld Jerusalem tbae the Great Teucher especially ad dresed hig story, speaking a word o@ two at the sume time for the beneae of thelr imitators lower down, it is 4 mighty interesting plev@rey and only a Supreme Artist could have at. the banquet hall the hidalee enters with a swinging stride whieh Jeays: "Get out of my way. Don't you jknow who Lam?" Over yonder 1a @ | seal higher thau those about it, and ot @ more imposing appearance them ers, and straight for it walke nas though it had been eapes iy intended for him, The hall gradually tills, and pres ently in comes the host, who, casting jbis glance around the room, notices the fellow in the elevated seat, Going Jup to him, the host says to him Ia | words’ which cut to the quick because jof the calmuess of tone and kindness | it in which they are spoken, nd, I am sorry to disturb yous but you have got into the wrong séaty This seat was reserved for a more |honorable’ person. I shall have to |ask you to Vacate it for another seat jlower down.” In meantime they don’t seem | to be able to find the “more honorable |person.” Where can he be? Abt | knows wh drawn there be is in that very humble seat in the last row, down by the door Walking up to him the host bows, shakes him by the hand and says td go up higher. Take hich was especially re e come to the modest gue: glory in the presence of all’ \t iat sat at meat with him,” while |he who would be the “chief toad im the puddle” had to squat in the shade ows, And so It comes about that every cne that exalteth himself Is humbled Jand he that humbleth himself is exe | alted. Sh Stoops to Couquer” ts not only |the title of Goldsmith's charming comedy, it is as well the rule of pro# |cedure with earth's noblest life sto- | ries. In spite of its modesty, merié |cannot escape the spotlight , and sooner or later the fitness of things jand the necessities of the case bring —_—-——-—| It to the centre of the stage, —$<<—<— WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 81—SPANIEL, There are, or used to be, many | kinds of spaniels, but their original y tree must have grown im Vor their family namo ie @ | corruption of the Spanish word Eee »1—Spanish, © forefather of English-speaking, or rather English-larking, spaniela made his way to England througt rance, perhaps in the suite of some nobleman eing Europe."”’ In France | this breed of dog was called “espane eul’ (modern French “epagneul"), @ Spaniard.” In England this immigrant wae called by the name of the country of his origin, a "Spaniel." The breed, especially In {ts come densed version, the toy spaniel, was {n popular member of the English Court. set, espectally in theheyday ot Charles IL, after Charles I, had | lost his head pases Spain, “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick 1921, by the Presa Publ Co. Now Yauk Brening World) Copy | On Aug. 26, 1629, twelve Engllehe men, ainong whom was John Wine throp, agreed to emigate to Amerioa, and in the spring of 1630 a parg of the | colony entered Boston Harbor, Mass | Settling first at Charlestown, those Jassociated with Winthrop soon rew | moved to Boston, to which they gave me of Trimountain (from Tremont), because of on Beacon Hill, eptember, 1680, to its ition after the Town of ption of St. Botolph’s in Lincolnshire, Englané WUnich many et thetonionina tad yy fon A sunecticnt from her sons’ shrewd siness sharpness (if she i nutmegs, It was swine 3 ived the nickname State.” From her t Constitution, she was Constitution State,” while splendid gifts of food to the hungry patriots of the Revolution she: for years known as “the Provise h pet ce ee ‘The "Three Tailors of Tooley Street who held a meet= Southwark, Lone ivess of popular grieve essed a petition to the while Canning Minister, beginning: “We, of Sngland.” Pui iia n | we household of the Moe especially, the Turks, y” pronounced Arabic, signie ‘pid increase in mow yivania, highwaye xe rcities may be exe ) 100 or 120 feet in width, tay ay Over 48 per cent. of all moter | cles sold in the United st jae morketed on a aystem of tite page