The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1921, Page 30

i ; i ‘ THE EVENING WORLD THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1921." | _» be | RATABLISHED NY JOSEPH PULITZEN * Published Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishlig Company. Nos. 0 68 Park Raw, New Tork. RALPH PULITZER, President. Park Row. chen credited to Qed also the lool news publishea berrin. , HYLAN. F less were at stake one could afford to be a littl sorry for Mayor Hylan. With such a formidable fleet of facts closing in + on him, it is pathetic to see him with no resource but smoke- Replying yesterday to the formal notification ot fis renomination, the Mayor blew the same old whorls—detiance of the ‘selfish interests,” denun- _ Gation of the newspapers: “If 1 were to allow the traction and other creens of words. public-utiilty interests that want higher fares, higher gas and electric rates to run the city; the underworld and gambling interests to ruo * the Police Department; the Gary school ring to run the schools; the dock combination to run the docks, and the Food Trust to run the Department of Public Markets, these papers would not be maligning me or my Administra tion as they are now doing.” In which 99 per cent. of the implication dissolves at the touch of truth: RATES. # Mayor Hylan has not kept public-utility interests from increasing gas and electric rates. As for fares on transit lines, thousands of people in New York are now paying double and triple fares—10 cents and 15 cents—on trips where four years ago they paid a S-cent fare and gol transfers. GAMBLING AND POLICE, . The Mayor made a slip in putting them in the same sentence. Stock-gambling in high police circles, as reveales by the Meyer committee investigation, has given the city a new and disquieting thought as to how . speculative gambling and luxury-seeking on the part = of a Police Commissioner and Police Inspectors may have affected police efficiency during one of the worst and longest outbreaks of banditry and burglary in the history of New York. } Gambling inside the Police Department can do as much harm as gambling elsewhere. SCHOOLS. One hundred and twenty-six thousand school children in the city began the fall term last month on part time—as against Mayor Hylan’s four-year- old pledge of “a seat for every pupil.” by School buildings that should have been built es were not buili. School buildings already standing » had become dilapidated, with no effort to repair Sa j At the beginning of the present term 7,353 ofti- \ ¥ cially reported violations of the fire laws in 496 ».out of 695 city school buildings were still uncor- rected, These facts about the schools stand out in indeli fo ble letters again$t the Hylan Administration. No amount of “Rockefeller-Gary-system” smoke . can cover them. ‘ s Docks. * For the way profiteers bh the municipal system of dock-leasing, Wayor Hylia cannot be held responsible, The prac fore his time. ; But no current improvements in the Dock De- partment can be shown to have originated in the sieebrain of Mayor Hylan. OD 2 made the most of ce began be- On the contrary, the present Dock Commissioner , has more than once complained that his plans were hampered and held up by the Sinking Fund Com- mission, of which the Mayor is a member. PUBLIC MARKETS, ¥ Grafting in the Department of Public Markets— # the sale of market-stand privileges—was one of the. _ first things the Meyer committee brought to light ee This graft was not due to the machinations of a “Food Trust” or any other kind of trust. ' was the natural outgrowth and ompani- icipal Administration—in this case Hylan Administration, The newspapers are not maligning the Mayor or nis Administration. They are simply wei in the scale of aceual accompliament. The balances will not lie. Grant that the Mayor means well. ? The government of the City of New York is too ' *» weighty a business to be given into the hands of a a man whose chief recommendation is that he is amiable and well-disposed toward his work. Hell ** ts paved with good intentions. John F. Hylan has had three years and nine hing both ae Months to learn the duties of a Mayor of New York the city \ and to demonstrate his special fitness to perform them. More than thaf, he has had one particular oppor- tunity as big as any that ever offered itself to a Chief Executive—an opportunity of such mature and size that it would be fair to appraise any Mayor by the way he treated it. We mean the opportunity to contribute towaré 4 constructive solution of the city’s transit problem. Here is a matter of deep and urgent interest to practically every one in a city of 6,000,000 people. It is a problem to whict capable, ambitious Mayor of New York would have been glad to give his days and nights, Of this great opportunity Mayor Hylan has made nothing. While traction companies have been splintering on the rocks, while transit confusion has become worse confounded, Mayor Hylan—beyond starting a few buses—has done nothing but sit by and shout against the State interference which his own inac- tion made inevitable. So far as “guarding the 5<cent fare” is concerned, the Mayor might just as well have kept an an- chored balloon marked “5-Cent Fare—John F. Hylan” floating over the City Hall and saved his breath. He has falked 5-cent fare—and while he talked, transfers were abolished and the 5-cent fare ceased to be a reality. He has talked municipal home rule—and while he talked, the State had to take charge of the situation and put a Transit Commission to work ona transit plan. All Mayor Hylan can do now is to shake his fists in impotent rage at a Transit Commission whose job be wasn’t big enough to tackle himself or even have somebody else tackle for the city. And there is the whole story. We don’t know what John F. Hylan would like to do if he could. But it has been demonstrated at expense what he can’t do—what he hasn't it in him to do Playgrounds, play-streeis, baths for children and the li ¢ are admirable and praiseworthy achieve- ments for a Mayor. But the point is the city is entitled to expect these things from any Mayor, ¢ des the larger constructive grasp and ability which are indispensa ble in any Miyor who measures up to the needs of New York As Chairman of the Selectmen in a New Ye about one-five-thousandth part as large as. this, Jobn F, Hylan might do well. But John F, Hylan chose to come to the test as Mayor ot the present New York. Four years of the test have proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Mayoralty of the present New York is much tou big for John F, Hylan. There is nothing malign in the verdict—only recognition of the city’s due. A THANKIESS JOB, The Federal Prohibition Director for New k State hus resigned, Two days ago the Chief Federal Enforcement Officer for the State of Connecticut was arrested and jailed. There has proved to be nothing but trouble and temptation in the job of enforeing a law taat has no sanction in reason, common sense or the principles amd traditions of American democracy The volt ‘ning flash, De. Stein 30,000,000: volts m ave The seientist who disco prs how to cate and piekle that energy for use in running ma- chinery, trolley cars, &c., is going to deserve exceedingly well of his fellow men The case avainst the weather is adjourned TWICE OVERS. “ P{4 TO and Aristotle, self-appointed teachers of mankind, full of wild dreams and mis- chievous theories, laid down the so-called laws of government, and from their speculations arose the fatal assumption thal politics is a science and not an art.”"-Oliver Brett. “ce CO" JOUSLY we cannot gain trade on the seas without displacing the existing trade enjoyed by foreign ships.” Chairman Lasker of Shipping Board. “ wite a perfectly balanced endocrine system one would live forever. In fact, your foun- tain of vouth lies within yoursel) Dr. H. P. Fried enberg. 66 AFTER all, Judges are human.” —Chief Jus- tice Taft. 66 WE have at times been painfully aware of cases of bank profiteering.” — Controller of the Currency Crissinger €6 TOR ten years I have been on record as oppor ing alviciel consi —Henty H. Curran. \ ip cf motion pictures.” |Tv “Ue Rakor of Tue Brening Word would, go a lung way to help pay ponsors have mad. Waders of tate, of religion, even cf the weather. Ward the abolition of the use of | From Evening World Readers | tubacce, | wish them luck, for "Us| make any differes Jari running, although In its tenth oifice witnessed him in an idle mo- Trackless! —_—swsftths, By John Cassel barre oH, NCOMMON SENSE hat gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? By John Blake There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ( s say much i few words Take time to he brie. @ 1921, by Jona Biaka) = YOU. Vicious Habits, : eiveur from tbe sie of beer and wine Education is a study of the world and the people init. You are likely to find a good deal the matter with bot! are highly critical. We are critical of people, m's bills, in addition to gIv- law | Unele $ yinent to countless thou- Most of u ( write to inquire if the t any progress to- prnec yuldin't 4 ity ui sen We are, however, seldom critical of ourselves. ean \ bad (very) babit, that of smoking! | Never was any beer, w | There is one person in the world, up to the time waoen may As faras 1am con 1 was pleased to see that tacing,| Sold, but several, yt 1) } you have a family of your own, who is supremely importance | drinking and’ other liberties lad been | and { drank quite a lot of it and T to you. . Abolished, Basebatl should be stop | was never in better health, It seems That person is YOU. E meine Rick |to ine the men who passed this Pro- Your uue " 1 s Z ‘ hibition will ta look at the | Ice means happiness or misery. cal performances. Sucli side of it. They were a lot] Your beta KF, ; And both youg success and behavior depend upon your criticism of yourself-—upon. your remembering that YOU While a baby can be are the person who is must in need of your study and your editor, we ure ding. w York, so it can be born in China, Asta, discipline and your help. rk to amass dollars. hi i i ‘ Africa, &e, While a child EDWARD SANDERSON. © see light under American so it can bea native of ior means the respect or the dislike of sour : the slave, Tt may Interest you to know that fam one of the many Ame ently residing in Fra If you find a fault in another man that is prominvat, ationality,|% jgok to see if that same fault isn’t in you. ; ind : If it is, wee rid of it. Tante. A “ Bee : ie ee ae If you find an admirable quality in another, examine ee ea one ene cl wetwern, thi_and) Yourself for indications of the same quality, have noticed that "Pie Deto Py ehaaniia sijty ab certain tinea? | If you eav analyze the reasons for success in people scribed by critics to be a wholesome) vee rompted to write this|$ you know, see if you cannot implant the same facturs in and human drama, closed last s at i bt | 9 day evening, after a run of only s from the close touch had with a|$ yourself few weeks. On the other hand "Get- 9 JOUR Than employed In Wi Of. It does not do to be morbid or to get yourself on your ting rtle's Garter,” adequately de- fice as porter. © has been doing | aa J eed as. disgusting. by Charles such work for a period of over tour) $ mind, — ; Darnton of The ening World, ts months and never has any one in the It is not wise to consider yourself too much or to be tou week lent, There. is not much work for|3 introspective, 1 reaiize that the runs him to do. It would not keep him But it necessary to know’ your own faults that you may plays eannot fairly be uy Cae Ciel oti Sy ee ene try to eliminate them, and to know your own good qualities Hae ne eos or {around the offices, sweep up and have that you may try to improve them, playgoer. NOEL BRINALE pihe aura ung ine fh et Ateia a Atel The shortcomings of others will have little effect on Appreciation of Kindness, Jundone, something to keep him oc- you. Yours may mean your ruin, To the Editor of The Evening World cupied You can applaud fine deeds and high thoughts in othega, id of other births, who) but you ought at the same time be sure you have a stuck ot Will you kindly convey a fan's! j thanks to the attendants at the Pol hough th e somet “ _ pent trom Charlie Dietz’ who their spare me are idle, these things in your own make-up, sells score ecards, to the gentlemanly | this human bein) does not You are you, and must rise or fall i police officer at the L road box office|idex of being la He doesn’t Rink wad eae ; q ll by what you are, who so kindly brought mea box to sit! be on the Jwnup all the time with a nin about yourself cnough every day to make your n while } was walting for a friend |pag to dust or ofl the furniture thoughts and your work and your attitude to othe t the Mathewson game, and when T/the walls, &c. He could, no ¢ i‘ ? ers count thanked him 5 hat {s what we | find time to rest, read a few pages out a little more heavily, e for, to help one another.” Ilota book or pick up the newsp: Nobody else will do that for you, Of this you may be c nearly every day.) sit outside the doorstep ands) sure. [tis ar job, and yours alone, season and never had a ecross|@c. But he de n't | ' L = word from any of the employees. He also is a very quiet youth, minds | 3 A. GOLD! and is y obliging. |* New York, Oct. 4, 1921 as noticed his conduct of his work and passed re- Prohibition and Un ‘To the Editor of Tai Some things Prohibi i - = e capital hole ployment. tinacks relative to his doings, yet he|ll¢ ¢ ) 99 | Mohanmedan wera. sleet a saate hidoiad |doos his work in a most conscientious Th t F t i ae nha we | way and puts al! his soul to it \ atsarac by Shahs, Naw: * s | It was a maelstrom of vice, so we: omplished ani si m sure| rhs only @ contrast to some shied in | ene SERA Onn | thie + Beal sther humar beings whe just hap- | By Albert P. Southwick lhe ee arene eaceanen 1h vai ee aaen sins ss bened to be bern whit Copmiight. W2t, by fhe Pees Publishing © yped dowr upon its carousing Seale . ue Of course, you will find many cases New York Reening World) and the neighbor : like this youthful negro, who dislikes oe nr one oF th likes work and buts every EY ‘a ot 2 his energy to do it and do it | Wer at met the Se ae hight ‘ the “kelek,” a Kurdish tavention, Tt dvent Garden, in Lon hundreds of millions in revenue, in, That's all. I've got this out of my i. 4 ratt made of inflated goatskins, | V/kINaly the garden of the Convent system 1 relieved. of St, Meter he square erect; addition to the millions it costa ty System as eit dQ tor all cone held together by poles, and covered | 2f in 168 ne square Was erect. ‘Tartar axe. Another strange craft at Bagdad \s oR A men — possibly vu but it has since been re. Ce ea aR ea eevee corned when ans individual can find with a platform of straw mats. These | puitt AP Ainge een its forced we tides from ebbing and fuw- gond words of praise for another jeleks comeNdown the Tigris Rive: ; ioe. human being. disregarding WS to pagded, in hundreds trom Mosul ag men have the prlee amd coins, bir " ‘ inging wool potter regula ng tie stle ut be cl wan Bagdad, 500 uiles trom cie aba ine se Uncle Sam wil get something aut tt 8 itying I of it? The revenue that could be dee &A READER POR TWENTY YEARS, | founded by Hl Mansur in 781, wan for| girded by @ fence, ' same verbal root Fa oj ed A ERR RR ens | gineer, “and the two artis nd garden | t é ait i The Great Teacher In Action By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory by the jew York |THE GREATEST THING IN THR WORLD. Matthew xxii, 1-* The Pharisees were the “orthodox” of their day, the “unco guid.” as Burns would have called them. Strict formalists, tireless in their devotion to the letter of the law, and of faultless circumspection as regards outward conformity to its requirements, they were at heart cold blooded, avaricious, domineering, and, worst of all, hypocritical, for they could only be likened to “whited sepulchres.” which were “falr with- out" but within were “full of dead {men’s bones and all uncleanness.” Now, said the Great Teacher to the plain people of His day, these | Pharisees sit on Moses’s seat. They love the chief place at feasts, ‘and |the chief seats in the synagogue. They love to be saluted in the market- place, and elsewhere in public, and to be call Master. But I warn you coneerning them. The things that they tell you to do out of the Commandments, do, but don't {mitate thelr lives. For they Say, and do not. They are good at Preaching, but when It comes to putting their preaching into practice they are sadly deficient. They pile great burdens on men's shoulders, burdens too heavy to be borne, and they will not touch them with even so much as one of their fingers, Everything that they do is moved by the spirit of vanity and the love of power. They delight in having people look at them decked out in their splendid rob strutting along with a lordly swing, as though they were super- men, invested by God with extraor- dinary privileges, powers and sanctities, I tell you, continued the Great Teacher, in substance, to stop calling these men Rabbi and Master and Father. One only ts your Father, and one your Teacher and Master, and ye Jare all brethren, Have done, continued the | Master, with adulation be- fore these these btind guides, who care nothing for the tem- but who swear like pirates by the ~ gold of the temple; who compass sea. and land to make one proselyte, only to make him twofold more a child of hell than he was before, I will tell you what: to do, He goes lon to say, get immediately interested in the work of loving service in be- half of each othgr. Put away fre you the old pagan fdea of pomp and power; we are not |maaters and slaves, we are brethren, and to help a brother man to be bet- |ter and happler is far better than to |rule over him like a tyrant, Do you really want to be GR" |ThenSbecome a willing worker (or human happiness and you will suc- ceed. It is not the vain Pharisee sit- |ting on Moses's seat, or the empur- pled king on his throne of power, but |the faithful servant of human neces- \sity who is great. The greatest per- json on earth Is the one who is doing the most for the promotion of the |true human welfare. | I give the reference once more— |Matthew xxill., 1-12. It will pay, you to read it over half a dozen times. Se gee | WHERE DID YOU GIT THAT WORD’? \ 84,—PRESIDENT. | Like almost all our political ot parliamentary term ‘he word “Pres- ident” is not only of Latin or@in but b-dily incorporated into the language from the Latin (“prae,” before, and “sedeo,” to sit—"praesidens,” or “presidente” in Portuguese and [tal- ian). r The word “Prestisut” ta close kin to the word “presidic’ (pertaining to a garrison, or having a gareison), Just as a President “presides over ot is others,” so a garrison in a sidial town or presidio, as in San Francivco “preside: over and con- trols others—as anybody {s likely to discover if he attempts to start some- thing on a sufficiently large scale in the city on the Golden Gate. | ‘Thus, it will be seen, a President's duties are not only to “sit before,” but also to “sit upon,” either individ- Jinally or through a garrison, when cumstances require such a ding. oS ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. Ocprrigtt, 1821. Press Pobii titee Now York Wrening Wont CENTRAL PARK. Frederic Law Olmsted. Central Park is undoubtedly the most wonderful specimen of the art of landscape gardening tn the world, and to Frederic Law Olmsted ‘muss go most of the credit for the achieve- ment of this masterpiece. Having been asked to participate in that gigantic work of laying oot Centra) Park, Olmsted went for «& t fh the Southern States, ana made sketches of the mos spots that he visited, Upon ‘eturn he endeavored to rep these scenes as exactly as he at his disposal would permit, The park was designed by ‘eut. (ater General) Egbert L. Viele, en- chosen, to assist him were Olmsted and Vaux. Work was begun in 1857, » few years before a start was mad ns Aid Indian Prine, {on Prospect Park, Central Park's only rival, Central Park was com~ by Its ow? excesses that vehen | pleted In 1858, at the cost of $415. 900,00. There are twenty-three gates, bies they fell stupid victims to his| thirty-six bridges, twelve tunneng; nine miles of carriage drives, six miles of bridle paths, thirty miles of wall and seats for 10,000, It exe on, was|tends north from 659th Street to | 110th and from bth Avenue to 8th Avenue. Its dimensions are two and one-half miles in length and ot half mile in width, Its area is § acres, which 286 are occupled by d reservoirs, in his endeavors to re- nature and,do away with» ct and formal broke away the old traditions, and thus bished a new school of land- inclosure, guarded or|scape gardening gvhich has made America foremost in aS ena oe |