The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1921, Page 26

— > ee ae } RALPIT PULITZER, President JMANGUS SHAW, Tre PH PULITZER Jr ef all noms a uerelb, DOUBLING UP. AN OWNERS noted one important and sig- nificant feature of the Moving Day just passed. Many families sent their goods to storage and are “doubling ith friends and relatives In some cases a few pieces of furniture went into a flat already occupied by a family, the remainder going to storage The result will be an increased number of vacant apartments and further pressure for rent cuts. Unless the reasons for this are clearly understood, it may tend to discourage the building of ne homes. No one wanis to build when a surplus of houses exists. This “doubling up” should not discourage new building. “Doubling up” is a result not so much of high rents as of “hard times.” Families will not double up if they have the money to spend for separate homes. New York is underbuilt. There will be a good market—an excellent market—for good apartments at fair rents as soon as the present industrial crisis passes. Now is the time to build in anticipation of this demand. Structures started before the first of March will enjoy the tax-exemption privilege. The important thing to make plain is that present “doubling up” is a temporary expedient. It is not a fair measure of the future demand for housing. up’ Voliva of Zion City offers odds of 1,000 to 0 that the earth is not round. The only draw- back to a profitable wager is the fact thar Voliva also decides the bet. e WHAT MAKES THE GAME. T IS easy enough to wax cynical over a World Series such as opens to-morrow at the Polo Grounds. It is easy enough to explain how eighteen men, four umpires, a couple of managers and a mascot or two are down on the field engaged in a purely commercial undertaking of making money for themselves and the men who own the grounds. But the cynic overlooks another and more im- portant feature of the big spectacle, The crowd is one of the things that make the post-season game an event of magnitude. Whatever may be the attitude of owners, man- agers md players, there is no questioning the eager absorption and enthusiasm of the crowds that will fill the Polo Grounds and the overflow thousands who will watch bulletin boards and read columns and columns of description in the daily newspapers. These crowds are a part of the game. They affect the players. Their interest is not commercial, al- though it may have been commercialized. Most fans are enthusiasts because of a love for baseball which has survived their own playing days. Big games to-day carry the watcher back to his sand- lot days, when his highest ambition was to occupy the position of one of the eighteen men in the two championship teams. Without that feeling a World Series gale would not amount to much. The crowd makes thé game. Because the present series is to be played on a field which will accommodate a big crowd every day, this series is likely to be better than any before. The crowds will be bigger. Unless we have some chilly weather soon thcre will be no time for an Indian summer. COAL BY WIRE. AILROAD managers frequently quote James J. Hill's dictum that the railroads needed to spend a billion dollars a year for ten years to pro- vide an adequate transportation system. The railroads have not been able to do this. Mr. Hill’s figures would need to be doubled now to catch up with the demand. But if Mr. Hill were speaking to-day, his broad vision might cause him to modify his statement. Wf he doubled his original estimate he might specify the need for twenty billions invested in the trans- portation system without confining the expenditure to railroads. A recent volume, “America’s Power Resources,” by Gilbert and Pogue, the engineers who made a power survey for the Smithsonian Institution, pre- sents the strongest sort of case for a national trans- portation policy which shall regard coal as energy and not as freight. Coal constitutes one-third of the freight carried by the railways. About 10 per cent. of all the coal mined is burned in hauling the rest to the point of consumption. Most of this coal hauling could be done away with. The coal could be burned at or near the mines and transported—after it is burned—on high- tension electrical transmission lines. If the railroads were thus relieved of a third of their present freight, the present equipment might prove more nearly adequate to the demands. The Hill estimate presupposed a constantly increasing freight movement. But knock off the burden of nied to the ust for republication | oF not owwerwise creuitea fm tas paper pec <r coal carrying and the rail more confidently. It $20,000,000,000 are needed for improvements, it is high time the best transportation brains of the country decided how the sum should be divided ti get maximum results. invested in elect vested in railroad improvement, then we ought tc know it. There are other important advantages in burning coal at the mine mouth, but the relief to the rail- roads is So imporian: that the public ought to learn the possibilities of shipping coal on wires instead of in gondola ci ONLY MAKING IT WORSE. De show in advance the analytic power he meant to focus on the Transit Commission report, Hizzoner caused it to be announced three days ago: “We will oppose anything coming from the commission, no matter what it is.” To-day the city is treated to a more extended h display of the same earnest, constructive style of discussion it has learned to expect from its present Mayor: The Transit Commission plan is not the Transit Commission plan. ‘The real Transit Commission plan is known only to John F, Hylan and friends. Therefore nobody is so well fitted as John F, Hylan to tear that plan to tatters. When the Transit Commission proposes a five- cent fare John F, Hylan knows the figure 5 is camouflage for the figures 8 or 10, Where the Transit Commission proposes mu- pal ownership, John F. Hylan knows the real meaning is exploitation of the city. Wherever the Transit Commission says valu- ation John F, Hylan knows it means false valuation. Where the Transit Commission proposes that an operating company’s compensation shall decrease if fares increase, John F. Hylan knows the exact op- posite is intended. In short, Mayor Hylan’s entire line of attack upon the Transit Commission plan reduces itself to a bare: “Taint what you say you mean. say you mean.” As schoolboy aygument this might be amusing. It is anything but amusing from a Mayor of New York who has no transit plan of his own to offer, who never has had one and who never will have one, It is easy to see nothing rankles worse with Hiz- zoner than this: The Transit Commission report mentions buses without calling them Hylan buses. Of course it is well known that nobody ever use@ buses or thought of buses in the transit de- velopment of New York City until John F, Hylan rose up and imported them from London. The Mayor only makes a bigger fool of himself by trying to rig up a bogy Transit Commission plan that he and Mr. Hearst can heave rocks at. Constructiveness, even of the imaginative sort, is not in Hizzoner’s line. Much better just leave it that he’s against any- thing the commission suggests, “no matter what.” That saves brain action. ni It’s what 7 Even the loss of @ world's championship wil! have its compensations for either the Giants or the Yanks, DAVID BISPHAM. MERICA has produced more great women singers than men. But no American has put the qualitative standards of American vocal art on a higher plane than David Bispham, born sixty-four years ago in Philadelphia. At Covent Garden and at the Metropolitan Opera House in this city Mr. Bispham won his place among the foremost opera singers of his time. But in recent years it was as a concert singer that American audiences knew him best. He was one of the first rank lyric artists of this generation. No one of them combined more of finest artistic instinct and training with the natural gift of voice. There have been great opera singers. been great ballad singers. He had humor. He had the breadth and depth of tragedy. His Figaro was a delight. No one who ever heard him sing “Danny Deever” or “Edward” will forget with what simplicity of highest art he conveyed the stark tragedy of those grim songs. His interest in music, was broad and progressive. He was a moving force in the Society of American Singers, an enthusiastic promoter of opera in Eng- lish and the higher class of older light opera. He brought to his own art wide culture and knowledge of other arts. . As a companion and conversation- alist he was weleomed wherever he went. Fine singer, trug artist, genial and charming tleman was David Bispham. There have Mr. Bispham was both. ene €6 GO TUDENTS outside the dormitories (at Colum- bia University) are paying about 50 per cent. more for their rooms.""--Mrs. Susan H. Bliss. “ec W realize now it has proved impossibie (o refashion society at one stroke.’’-—M, Kameneff of Moscow Soviet. ads could face the future If a considerable fraction ical transmission lines would fur- nish more transportation than the same sum in- THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OOTOBER 4, 1921. ne) rie by The Prew (The New York Evening By John Cassel ‘Stories Told by th | Great Teacher i aaa | World’sSeries To-Morrow! a ~ — as =‘ . From Evening Spring in Kingston. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I am sending you by same mail, special delivery, a pair of sprigs of ap- ple blossoms which I picked from an apple tree in our back yard this after- noon. This tree had a full crop of early apples which matured in Au- gust. A. HOSSACK, Kingston, N. Y. Longshore Wages. To the Editor of the Eveaing World: The longshoremen, in thelr new agreement with the steamship own- ers, are asked to work for 65 cents an hour and all day Saturday for | straight time, which means a loss of $8.80 per week. This cut would not seem unreasonable if their work was steady. The busiest time they ever had was during the war, and the ma- jority of them averaged three weeks @ month, and are now lucky !f they work one week a month, Now most of the labor men who have steady work all the year round have not been asked to accept such a decrease as this, and the longshore- men would be justified In refusing this cut, as the cost of food and other necessities of life has not, by any means, come down. TI, McQ. | To the Editor of the Evening The shooting of a boy burglar gives you once again an opportunity to rap California, Well, we're used to it now and if love of one's native State and enthusiasm for its many worth- while things is a “form of insanity” I think it would be well for New York to be inoculated with germs which would produce the same form of insanity. Personally, I can find no “bit of comedy” to relieve this tragedy (but I am not a New Yorker), nor do I think that any Western paper would if the same kind of tragedy happened in their midst. ‘To mock another State, to attempt te find “comedy” ina tragedy involving a pitifully young boy, these things may be the essence of New York journal- ism, but I don't think they find response in the heart of a manly man or a womanly woman, and I have |tived long enough in this city to know that New York does contain these types of man and woman in spite of What kind of letter doyou find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredP There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief, World Readers Jan’ t it the one prevent another suoh tragedy instead of trying to find “a bit of comedy” in it and using editorial space to attack some of the things they don't like in another State. | If a little more manliness and fair play were evidenced in the New York papers, and a little more concern for the young boys of your oyer-crowded city, perhaps such occurrences would | not be as frequent as they apparently are; and perhaps your poys might not’ be #0 eager to leave this city and, to journey to other places whose at-)| tractive qualities have been so ad-| vertised. H. K. RUTTERFIBLD, | New York, Sept. 29. | Disgruntled. To the Editor of The Evening World In answer to the letter recently ap- pearing in this column regarding the returning of war medals, would say that this scheme has the approval of every ex-service man I have talked |with thus far. Why not send them back? What good are they? The highest decorations awarded to men who have rescued comrades under machine gun fire have been given to Directors of Food Supplies and wom- en who have taken care of orphan asylums far from the war zone, You have already noticed what your Presi- dent thinks of you, When he wanted youn vote he talked up the ex-service men, and when he was elected he killed all hope of the bonus. You have seen food and clothing supplies sent to Russia, China, Persia and Ireland, and you have read whero @ certain wealthy man has endowed a hospital in China and his wife has endowed a female college there, You have lately read that $90,000 has been appropriated to study the habits of the grasshopper, and a bill was almost presented to Congress to supply the natives of the Philippines with trous- ers—yet they are not worrying about you, whether you have trousers to wear or food to eat. You have watched Congress put over a joke law called the Prohibition Act which prohibits nothing and costs the country milliong a year and which no one pays the slightest atten- tion to, Food and clothing can be given an@ money appropriated for most any purpose at all just as long ay it is not for the men who fought and saved the country. Your Presi- lof those who go to make up New | York newspaperdem. | | wish that six-foot sixteen-year- old boy had gotten to California, 1 do not know whether we could have prevented a like tragedy (such hap- \hens in every community) but | « know that West (and any out of New York City) offers a better environment for the young boy than that which is his lot here—and in the case of a like tragedy our newspapers would concern themselves in trying to! that it would be unconstitufional to their apparent absence from the staff! dent stated in a recent speech that no Jone wants to see the able-bodied man | receive @ bonus. Have you noticed |him doing anything at all for the | wounded and disabled? You elected jhim on his promise to see that the disabled would be looked after. He {| now going out of his way to work | | against you. tr ‘ate medal! ts just as much of | | joke as the Government medal, The | people of the State voted you a bonus and then your politicians advised you | some joted By Rev. (Thomas #. Greger ht, by the Press Puolisbing vorrrien Wy Yok eveone Word) | | alacant THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. ‘The story of ‘the Pearl of Great : Price’—Matt. xiii, 45, 46—may be said to be the epitome of all that the Great Teacher ever said, the sum- ming up in” thirty-six words of the entire Gospel, The man who found the Pearl of Great Price dropped everything im- mediately and “went and sold all that he had and bought it.” Nothing eise in the world was to be compared with that pearl im beauty and preciousness, and the man could not rest until he had mado the treasure his own. And what WAS the Pearl of Great Price? Or, to be more precise, of what was the Pearl the SYMBOL” ‘The answer is close at hand. wy the Pearl the Great ‘Teacher meant manhood, simply that and nothing more. 1 do not say Christian but just plain, simple manhood, which is the same, when you have the real thing, among Christians that it is among ull others. There is but one truth, but one right, but one purity; and when you |find ‘the man who ‘lives for these things you need not bother about any | further inquiries, He may be a Cay tian, he may be a Mohammedan, a Buddhist or a Parsee or, finally, be may be of no religion, but in his myn= hood—his truth, right and purity of thought and life—he has the Pearl of Great Price, and that is all that should concern us, since it all that concerned the great teacher Himself, This life of truth and cleantiness, of high principles and uncompromising integrity, and of tireless love und good will, is the final cause of the entire machinery Of religion, the “one ent to which the whole creae tion moves,” | This manhood was the goa! of the great teacher's preaching, the sum and substance of his entire purpose and aim, and the measure of a man's success in life is determined wholly by the extent to which he has mad@ this manhood bis own. : One may be rich, distinguished, powerful among his fellow men, with @ palace to dwell In and the fat of the land to live on, but all this dues not constitute su Success consists in being a Rt AN, honest, kind= | hearted, clean of soul, firm in purpose for the true and the just, and outside |of this there is no success that is worth bothering with. It 1s this manhood that constitutes |the Pearl of Great Price, with which | the poorest are incalculably rich and | without which the richest ure but paupers In disguise, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 83.—CANNIBAL. There is a disturbing echo of the |Spanish Main in the word “canni- manhood, . UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1021, by John Blake.) TALK. By their words as well as by their works ye shall know them. No one can hear your thoughts. Every one can hear your words. Do not be afraid to talk. sarily the wise man, Sometimes he is silent because he cannot think of any- thing to say. The important thing is to think before you talk. i The chatterer has an idle mind. It hops from one subject to another, giving nothing any reflection. If you think over what sensibly, And if you talk sensibly you will get a reputation for intelligence, Don’t be afraid to ask questions, That is one of the best ways to get information, But ask them because you want information, not because $| you are curious about things which do not concern you. The amount of your neighbor's salary spends his evenings isn’t any of your affair. But i is, you will profit by asking him questions, Talk about things you understand, if you undertake to volunteer information. Don’t be positive or opinionated. Don’t be disputatious. If you happen to di to be offensive or deri: re about it. You get most of ths information that doesn't come through books or work in your talk. Make acquaintances and talk to them and with them, Listen a little more than you talk in every conversation, If you are talking with wise and well informed mer, listen most of the time. But never get the idva that talk will hurt you. Talk wel! and cheerfully, and, if you can, informingly, prove one of the best meuns you can find of helping you up in the world. The silent man is not neces- you have to say you will talk he can tell you how he manufactures tea kettles or what kind of a statesmen his friend Congressman Jones agree with a man it is not necessary bal.” In fact, the word came direct from the Spanish Main, or that part f-it comprised in the islands of /Caribbean Sea. The word is a corruption, com- jmitted in the Spanish language, of |the word “Caribal,” a Carib, As the Caribs, in the peciod when the Span- ‘ds discovered—and mercilessly ex- ploited or exterminated—them, were given to the practice of eating their enemies when they caught them, their racial name was applied to all savage eaters of human beings. It must be admitted that the word cannibal has a pleasant sound, Th scientific equivalent, anthropop g.s (from “anthropos,” man, a “phagain,” to eat), is neither so rest- ful to the ear nor so e: to the tongue as the word that came to us from the freebooters of the Spanish Main. ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. . Pi Publi Oo. norris. Sow York Erecing Worlds = THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD. John La Farge. John La Farge during was desirous of becoming a lawyer. Nevertheless, at his father’s request he agreed to take up painting and went to France to study. 3o great was his success there that he aban- doned his earlier aspirations and du- voted himself to art. At first no tried jandscape painting, but soon specialized in illustrating and mural decorations. His masterpiece ts the Ascension of Our Lord, which he painted when he was asked to join Stanford White |and Augustus Saint Gaudens in their | task of decorating the Church of the Ascension, in New York City. This painting, the sketches for which were made in Ja) is ar- ranged in two groups—one of Chrisb ascending amid the clouds with ‘angels on either side and below, Mary the mother standing among tho disciples gazing at the wonder which soon will pass beyond view, Every tone, every light or shadow, every detail of this great work, serves to focus the attention toward the cen- tral figure, the beautiful image of Christ. The painting was greeted by the artistic world as work of a great | | | his youth or where he ‘ and it will pay It. Why ts it not just as unconsti- tutional to give you a small piece of tin and brass called a medal? They can’t even make rent laws that will stand the test when they get Into court. Your politicians, female as By Albert P. well as male, are now getting up an erase organization to fight any claim for . tie 8 Peeks preference you might ask for In the municipal civil service. ‘As a soldier of fortune of twenty-| wo months’ service who cares nothing | for the bonus and does not need it, T/ would like to turn over my medals to organization who will collect these medals for the purpose of send- ing them back to the Government, <All J suffered from was the loss of in- Concatenat@n, or last “That’s a Fact’’ form of poetic ingenuity In which word or phrase forms the opening of the «1 line, as is illustrated in: Pho longer life, the more The more offense, the greater The greaer pain, the less defen: genius, for in it they saw greatness in religious art worthy of the Renaissance, a greatness which had long been mourned as having passed away. “clowntsh” still retains that signifi- cation. Southwick alg Workghits © . . Bagdad {3 in Turkish Arabia (Me- sopotamia, if you will), Asia, near the Persian frontier and. cl birthplace chain-verse, is a the in enc! tine| a Jand Opis once flourished, the pick of the human race, and there was tie |centre of the world’s wealth, power and civilization ar come, cold barracks, flatfoot and a Ph Sie Vee jana at Bagdad, on the touch of the influenza, but f am] The less defense, the lesser gain, Reposnttror ina ateaion i Padiied heartily in sympathy with the man! Its invention is ascribed to u/fah,” a queer craft in use tore # who lost a limb fightipg for “democ- | rrench poet. fan, eer orart in cre a racy.” The next time [ volunteer it Ae tas ee Gays Maen Ie woven frou wil] be in the service of some country | ‘The word clown is from the Latin | pi y circular or ait that can be trusted to take care of the|colonus, meaning “a husbandman.” [t|shaped, and coated outside with |. men willing to apt as a was form spelled “colone." “‘The|umen. ‘There is a tradition tit ' . H. BURBANK, |original mesaing was “one who tills|Moses was placed in a gosta New York, Sept. 30, 1921, ene Sone Sea’ the @Macliva Raves. cathe wi goofah, In