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\ Aorld, ESTABLISHED RY BPH PULITZER Podiimhed Deity opt Buaday br The Pree Puvlivhing Company. Nos, 63 to 64 Park Raw, Now York, RALPH PULITZER, Preeident, 68 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Pa: Row JOSEPH PULITZER Ir., Becret: tk Tow. P | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PHRte. ‘The Associated Prem ie exciustvely enuiiea to t use for republication ‘Af all news Gespatches credited to {t or not otaerwire creuitea in ins paper fend alto the local news publishea herein, REFUTED BY FACTS. MEN Mayor Hylan berates the uniruths in W the ‘hate-crazed newspapers,” his state- | ments exclude Mr, Hearst’s publications, because they praise the Mayor. From the Hylan standpoint, ' Hearst papers tell the truth. { Yesterday the American md this to say: ; “You pay 6 cents instead of 8 cents to ride on the cars because John F. Hylan has been Mayor of New York. “That's the reason, and the ONLY reason.” | "Falsehood. The claim that Mayor Hylan has kept the 5~<ent * fare in effect is best refuted by referring the ques- tion to the people who are to-day paying 7 cent, * 40 cent and higher fares in place of the old 5-<cent fares. Mayor Hylan hasn’t done anything to keep the 5-cent fare in effect. He has falked about doing something while the roads have gone into receiverships, have disinte- _grated and have been directed by the courts to sus- pend service or abolish transfers. In Brooklyn particularly many of the transit lines mow charge an extra fare whenever they cross an original franchise terminal. If Mayor Hylan is the “ONLY reason” for 5- cent fares, he is the ONLY reason for something that is not so. “GET IN AND HELP.” HE United Mine Workers of América were wise in refraining from a blanket condemna- tion of the American Legion because some of the members had been employed as strikebreakers. A resolution asking the Legion to “put its house in order” may not have much effect, but is less likely to arouse antagonism and widen the breach, Better advice came from John Wilkinson, one of the district Presidents of the union, who advised © the miners: “If you want to see them put their house in order, get in'there and help them put it right.” “That is the better course. Whether unionists like it or not, the Legion is generally recognized as the principal veteran organization. On the other hand, * the union ranks number thousands of veterans who are not members of the Legion. The better plan would be to join and push the reformation of poli- cies from the inside where votes would count. Not all the policies of the Legion have been such © as to escape sound criticism. But criticism would be much more effectiv> if it were advanced on the floor of the Legion convention rather than at the meeting of the miners. TRYING TO BOOST TAXI RATES? HE Greater New York Taxi League will bear watching. It proclaims a war on “taxi ban- Wits,” professes a desire to standardize rates and wants legislation to make standardization effective. The rate proposed is 50 cents for the first mile and 40 cents for succeeding miles. Apparently the aim of the league is to make this | the only legal rate, a minimum as well as a | maximum. The Evening World waged a long and successful campaign against the old “bandit” practices of taxi- cab operators and secured the present maximum- fare ordinance. New York City now has several responsible taxi companies operating at a fare lower than is required by the ordinance. Hundreds of cabs charge 40 cents for the first mile and 30 cents for succeeding miles, and competition is keen. The difference between the old “bandit” rates and the new competitive rates which cut under the legal maximums has popularized the taxi in New York. A 30-cent-a-mile rate means brisk business and many fares for the little cabs. It means comfort and economy for travellers willing to seek out the cheaper vehicles. There is a good reason for an ordinance protect- Ing the public from extortion. There is no reason and no demand for protection from competition in rates and service. THE CENSUS “FAMILY.” ENSUS figures seem to show that the Ameri- can family is running down in numbers. Figures for 1920 give 4.3 persons as the average family. This compares .with 4.5 in 1940 and tive persons in 1880. Perhaps this means what it seems to—perhaps not. The census definition of a family is so dif- ferent from the ordinarily accepted meaning that the figures may be affected by a change in social conditions as well as by differences in the birth and » death rates. » A “family,” according to the census, is a group ~ of persons living together in one household. Blood | relationship does not enter into census definition, although it is all-important in the common under- standing of the word, Of late years we have been reading much of the | drift of the country boys and girls to the cities. If these boys and girls all moved into hotels or board- ing houses it would be reflected in decreased family counts in the States from which. they came and in large “families” in the hotel and boarding house districts, On the other hand, if these unmarried residents of the cities all took small apartments of one or {wo rooms, we might have districts in which “fam- ilies” averaged little more than one member. All of which merely goes to show that a census “family” is not a family, and we shall have to have more figures before we can “point with pride” or “view with alarm.” IN THE EARS OF A PARTY. AVING first dimmed the prospects of dis- armament by giving the November confer- ence too wide a scope, the Harding Administration is now said to show signs of edging back toward the concrete Borah plan of trying for limitation of naval armament only. Evidently Republican leaders are beginning to take account of how earnestly the country looks for results from the conference and to calculate how failure to achieve results will affect the fortunes of the Republican Party. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, put it in plain enough words: “The Harding Administration has undertaken a great task In the Disarmament Conference. The United States should save half a billion dollars a year on its military establishments. The appropriations should be cut from $800,- 000,000 to $300,000,000. “The Republicans have an enormous job ahead of them. The savings that Charles G. Dawes can make in the budget are a mere trifle compared to what can be saved by a reduction of armaments. “If the Republicans can bring about an agree: ment and effect a saving of $500,000,000 a year, the people will laud them. “If not, the Democrats will be justified in charging them on the’ stump with throwing away an opportunity to save a half billion.” This is about the only kind of argument at present warranted to get under the skin of the G. O. P. That party has shamelessly ignored standards of national honor or statesmanship in its foreign pol- icy because it believed popular understanding in this direction to be confused enough to make it safe to follow the cruaest promptings of party spite and vindictiveness. But with the question of disarmament it is dif- ferent. Besides its larger meaning to the world, limita- ) tion of armament has a very distinct and clearly | grasped meaning for every. overburdened taxpayer tight here in the United States, where taxpayers are also voters. If a conference on the limitation of armament, held under the auspices of a Republican Adminis- tration, comes to nothing in the way of securing substantial relief to American taxpayers largely be- ; cause of Republican lukewanmness toward the movement, these taxpayers are going to have some- | thing to say to the Republican Party. Wint is more, they are going to say it with | votes. If this is the only reminder guaranteed to keep the Harding Administration rooting in dead earnest for limitation of armaments, the country should see that plenty of the reminder is delivered in Wash- ington up to and after Nov, 11. Make it the genuine voice of a people in the ears of a party—commanding—not to be ignored | CLEAR SPEECH. (From the Ohio State Journal.) English well spoken {s so rare, declared one writer i recently, that it has the savor of an old half-forgot- ten song. The truth of that will appeal to every one trying who in to speak our language correctly, Slovenly speech is the rule, not the exception, even among persons who are supposed whatever that means. to be educated, Besides all the common gram- matical errors and the other sad, ragged phrases that most of us have to hear every day, there are the sins of indistinct enunciation which blur even the English of those who may speak | —one doesn't know That Indefinite articulation which elides half the words and leaves sentences half Snished is annoying to listen to and very often be tokens an indefinite habit of mind. We have an idea that to faulty enunciation may be traced half of the more basic mistakes of speech. ' Bometimes ft is used as a cloak for ignorance. At mmatically | THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1921. Play Ball! By John Cassel to say muoh in few words. Are You Gulityt | To the Editor of The Evening World: Possibly the person referred to be- low might see this letter and improve his, habits. Yesterday, at noon, while walking along the east side of Church Street Just north of Rector, something (it never could have been a human being) [spit out of an office window, It happened to fall on my new suit. This habit indulged in by a certain type is about as filthy as anything can be. Should they who have the habit of spitting from office buildings or elevated structures be the ones to receive the spital on their clothes while walking in the street, I just wonder what they would say or think about the person who did it. F.C, Now York, Oct. 1, 1921 | Iu Prat Mayor Hylan, | | To the Kattor of The Brening World | As one of your ardent readers I am pained to state that I do not approve by panning one of the best Mayors this city has ever had This has been one of the most try- ing periods that any Administration has hod to deal with, I notice that | the three chief points that you. at- tack him on are, the condition of schools, city budget and crime wave. My answer is that the public is hav- ing just as much trouble getting enough houses bullt as the Mayor has in building enough schools. Labor and material are two and three times as great as before the | war, Increasing the budget in pro- | portion, The crime wave is due to after the war reconstruction perlod, Prohi- | bition, unemployment, and the fact |that right after the war practically |every State dumped some of Its criminal refuse here in this city. | think the pollee have done mighty | fine under the circumstances. | rhe fight Hvinn made to keep the | B-cent fare intact when other roads all over the country were increasing thetrs certainly proves that he ts the | man for the job. He has kept the atreets of this city, especially the Tenderloin, ‘“‘cleanor" than any Mayor ever did tn any other Admin- istration, So please stop that “mud slinging’ and give him a square deal. He deserves \t CHARLES LA SPINA Wet OWhytn” To the kavior of The Evening World | It was certainly very amusing as |well as interesting to read Goy. | Miller's speech at the Pennsylvania Hotel, when he came out wet and jagainst the Eighteenth Amendment. Yet why did he have framed his Mullan-Gago law? Because he and his up-State fanatics and his friend, Jof your methods of playing politics | From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Jen’t it the one | 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 | Take time to be brief, | rested under his Mullan-Gage law with a warrant? Why were homes searched and seizures allowed by his Mullan-Gage law? j Any American voter must see that this speech was political hypocrisy to get the wet vote, Until all these fanatic laws are repealed it must not be a question of party, but we must elect only men or women who are not hypocrites. WILLIAM OSBORN. White Plains, N.¥., Oct. 1, 1921. Favors High Taxes. To the Raltor of The Evening World In Friday's Evening World Stewart Browne says in speaking of our in- creasing budget that the tax rate will ultimately be 5 per cent. That would be a blessing, as it would stop speculation in land which | is the cause of high rents and unem- ployment. The greater the tax on land the the price of land, as it com- owners of idle land to plant, build or quit. By all means let us have a 5 per cent. tax on land and thereby get rid of high rents and unemployment. GEPORGE LOYD. Brooklyn, Oct. 1, 1921 Depends om the Weather. ‘To the BAitor of The Brening Work In what month do we have Indian summer? A bets it atarts In Sep- ber, Ib bets it does not. E. M. P. New York, Oct. 3. Americans in Cana To the Waiter of The Evening World: It might interest “Kenneth J. As- kin" to know that all the fair minded Americans must be staying in the United States because of all national- ities who emigrate to other countrics his fellow countrymen are always at the bottom of the list when returns are shown of the various nationalities who take out their citizens’ papers in the countries they live in after for- saking the States, In Canada there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who are stil! American citizens, and very few have become Canadian citizens. Fair minded Americans should make a thing work both ways. TER 4 Woodcliff, N. J. “To What Taskt" To the PAitar of The Brening World In a recent issue Thomas A. FPdison is quoted as offering “grit, determina- tion and hard wor! ® oure for the present depression. “Nothing to worry over,” are the E MAHONEY Bept. 29, 1921 @ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) WORK. The edict that man should eat his bread in the sweat of his face was a blessing, not a curse. None are so unhappy as the idle. There is no satisfaction comparable to that of accom plishment. There can be no accomplishment without work. Ask any important man what he has enjoyed most in his He will tell you it was his work. Listen to the conversation of men. It is chiefly about their work—cither work accomplished or work that they plan to do, If your work does not interest you, either something is the matter with the work or something is the matter with you. If you would not gladly lay aside everything else to get something done that relates to your occupation in life you had better look around for another occupation. Steinmetz, the electrical engineer who*has just founl a means of transmitting a million volts of electricity over a wire, got more pleasure out of that achievement than any- thing he ever has done. In the development of many inventions, Thomas A. Edison has found the highest pleasures of his life. There must be drudgery in all tasks. But if you bear in mind that the days of drudgery are merely days of prepur- ation for achievement, they will not seem nearly so tedious Disinclinution to work makes more failures than liquor or gambling. It keeps snore men down than ill health or poverty. The vice of the human race is laziness. And no man is so unhappy as he who is constitutionally opposed to any form of toil. No recreation is worth while unless it involves work. The man who plays chess toils ten times as hard over a game as the average man does over his daily task. Neither baseball nor golf nor tennis can be played suc- cessfully without long and hard work in preparation. Look at « football squad in training and you will sce how necessary work is even to successful fun, You have got to work in this world whether you like work or not. So you might as well learn to like it, You will get far more enjoyment out of it and stand a life. far better chance of succeeding in it if you do. hag ceased to be a fact and becomes a F t < memory, even hope loses some of the h W sprightiiness of its early springing and rom e tse {1s eternal qualities feel the effects of Yen have been wise in very s‘if time. 1. “Grit, determination and hard /°rent modes, but they have alwuye work.” But grit and determination laughed the same.--Johnson. require nourishment and hard work presupposes something to do. Encouraging woras come Washington. Many men risk their lives, fool Of! ishty, for an empty prize—the ap- out The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroft Caperrisgte., ‘Lsstving Co, . 1921, by The Press Pu! (The New’ York Evening World) LIlk—THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE TELEGRAPH, Many near-celebrities have touted Greenwich Village. But the real celebrity who left the record of his achievements on that faubourg of New York was neither a long-haired man nor a short-haired woman. His name was Samuel Finley Breese Morse. He half-starved and then finally triumphed in the first half of the nineteenth century—that famous age of Inventions. It was Morse who found a way to flash words not only across contt- nents but also under oceans, Upon his discovery of the electro-magnetia telegraph, made workable by his other invention, the Morse code, hinged an even greater discovery which he did not exploit—the dise covery that makes {t possible to transmit electric light and power over enormous distance. This Incidental discovery opened the way for the vast enterprises in the transmission of electricity that have contributed so richly to the ma< chinery of our civilization. S. F. B. Morse thought he hed found the right path for the expres- sion of his gifts and the achievement of his dreams when he became @ painter. His “Dying Hercules". won @ gold me@al in the London Roya Academy of Art In 1818. One of his portraits, the portrait of Lafayette, now hangs in City Hall in New York, He was an internationally recog- nized figure in art before he even touched the great task with which his name was destined to be associat- ed in history, He was one of the founders and the first President of the National Academy of the Fine Arts of Design. His work is to be seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery. But the thing that made Morse one of the greatest men his country ever has produced tuok shape on a voy- » which he made from Havre to New York in the Sully, one evening in the scientists and artists the conversa~ tion turned Morse's attention to the jinstantaneous transmission of mes~ sages by electricity. To the subject of that dinner con- versation he turned the capacities of {his mind to such good purpose that |wWhen the ship arrived off Sandy Hook, Morse said to her commander, | Capt. Pell: “Well, Captain, should you hear of jthe telegraph one of these days as the wonder of the world, remember | the discove: | ship Sully. But between the end of that voyage and the triumph of the telegraph lay @ stretch of years beset with disape pointments, with faiires and with poverty bordering upon starvation. Asan art teacher in University Place, Morse confessed to a pup one day that a proferred part payment of $16 would “save my Ife; that is all it would do.” Recognition, long delayed, came at last. After heartbreaking delaya Congress in 1843 voted a subsidy of $30,000 for the construction and opera~ tion of a telegraph line between | Washington and Baltimore. That was !the modest beg’nning of an industry that linked up every community im America with every other, and made practically {netantaneous communica- tion all over the world a fact withim la few years. Europe did its part to reward an Amer.can inventor. From the Euros |pean countries, including Turkey, the \{nventor of the telegraph, which had |become universal by 1858, received in that year a jointaward of 400,000 france. Even his collaborator of a later date, Alfred Vail, proved generous Although Vall made many improve- ments !n the equipment and methods of the Morse telegraph, the univer- sally accepted means of communica: \tion by the electric spark continue to bé known as the Morse telegraph. —— Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government | Som Ma aaa ecam a OS By Willis Brooke Hawkins, This ia the eighty-ninth article of a series defining the duties of the ad- |ministrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. | PLANT AND STRUCTURES, , Miscellaneous Duties. In addition to duties of the Departs ment of Plant and Structures already jefined In this series, this department executes designs. plans, specifications, &e, ald supervises the construction of buildings for use by various de- of the City Governments operates with other departments in At dinner company of was made on the good ments tne stucy of such problems as snow romoeval, collection vf garbage and refuse, &c., works oul the develops ment of a marine plant with a mu- nicipal dry dock at St. George, 8. [3 plans and executes the conversion of steamers Into fire boats, and many other similar activities This department also is charged with the duty of establishing and maintaining m bua service on utes abandoned by surface car lines; the maintenance of the municipal ga~ rage wid the establisninent of @ taxi- ab system to overcome loss of time, lack of service and vartous abuses of the automobile privilege accorded to the several departments, and the op~ | «vation of the trolley jimes abandoned | by the Staten Island M and Railway. 4 ray on, who rules in Als The investigators have | fies J ee tailed 4 any rate, it is better to speak clearly, even if incor- | William Anderson. whe mies in A "| words of Mr. Edison, “if we set our-|found that we number only 8,500,003, | plause of the moment See or the ceneiiarien oth rectly, than to slur everything together as if you Washington, considered. ‘bai. tn] selves resolutely to the task.” |inatead of 5,000,000, Which is a turil- Louis M, Notkin. | power plant, and a general reorganis were ashamed of your own voice or words. The cul- Bightosntn Amendment and the ‘o what eae? Tae OF wee are sepuane oO) SLED. SICIIAS) . zation of the forces ter the operation act were no sti and des- y a oO: ove ways q a 7 of the es. Uivation of the definite habit is sure to result in bet- ,buite enough ‘ priately $ |Bdlson, “if we set.ourselves resolurely T/¥e merit. like @ iver, the|Ofthe lines oo in the terment in all ways of speech if a person wants to | Nathan L. Miller mu ian ; now lady, and how reso | to the task.” . decper it is the less noise it makes, | disposs! of leases of land and space wet é asa great lawyer w ped his |lutely would we ourselves to the! To what task? c under bridges and ut ferry ter improve; whereas, the slovenly, agglutinative, inartic- |\fuenciage pill t hited | task if the task could be located, Rut! 1 suggest that Mr. Edison include AUER» 1 Se BCE Be ay Sateeloenaae ulate bgt lays one liable to the suspicion a: jase [Article LY. of our original Constitu-] att weeks of futile framping of the the query in bis next questionnaire, Wealth is not his that has tt, | vantageous to the city is still another ot not/ mowing the t fo: |tion, Ss veets in pursuit of leads that prove for college graduates. j ; mie of the duties of tie Department of Y ng the right form of speech. | Why were American citizens ar- (no ‘and illusory, when the last dollar | ONE OF THEM, © Dut Mis (hat enjoys it—Franklin, | Diant'and Structures { , mae | a: ee " pwr Ours | . eee een RN ie LE ts. CN OP Mt NT a