The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1921, Page 20

Ah eR Me me Oe ay te oe wy ais hos, ww wt Is right In demanding an ead to tax exempllon for Incomes derlved from natlonal, State and munielpal Securitles, Congress might better propose the neces- ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITEEN, Pxdiladed Dally Exoopt Sunday by The Prost Pubilshing Company. Now. 53 to @8 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 3 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer. @3 Park Row. | JOSEPH PULITBBR Jr.. Secretary, 9 Park Now. MEMPEN OF THE ASSOCLATSD PRESS. oe tte Rew ¥ WAN. Mayoralty Campaigns | sary constitu(lonal amendment than spend more time quarreling about the surtax rate, The country believes in the income tax principle of collecting revenue in proportion to ability to pay. It | took two additional amendments to make the Thir- ‘The Astociated Prem ts exctusively entiued to the wer for republication + Bea om maces id tae bo orn tee eat Doe teenth Amendment effective. It will take at least (nd also ihe local news publishea herein, | one amendment abolishing “exempt” security issues to make the Sixteenth or Income Tax Amendment TILL WE FIND IT. Greater N.Y. By Basen O’ Donnell LOPPPrURRS Wo: Fork “arentna Wort 1V.—1905. effective. |. The fourth campaign for Mayor of Congress cannot propose this amendment ea ITH 3,500,000 unemployed, with industry and business on an up-hill road, the threatened failroad strike would be a national calamity.« Some way must be found to avert it. This is the first, natural reaction of the public mind. Public influence, however, will be none the weaker for irying to get the largest possible grasp of the situation. From one point of view it looks simple enough: In four years, largely as a result of conditions brought about by war, railroad wages rose from’ a total of $1,468,576,394 to a total of $3,698,216,351. As against this increase of $2,229, 639,957 railroad labor has taken a cut of only $400,000,000 com- prised in the 12 per cent. reduction allowed by the Railroad Labor Board last July. Railroad executives contend that railway workers ‘must accept a further cut in wages before farmers and manufacturers can have the lower freight rates upon which depend lower prices and easier times for the country generally. The railway workers declare they will not accept another wage cut: (1) Because the cost of living has not come down enough to justify it. . (2) Because their gains during the war should not be regarded as temporary, but rather, in large measure, as a fortunate recognition and: establish- ment of wage standards to which they were in any case economically entitled. Here enters the complicating element: ‘If all railroad management in the United States could be shown to be as efficient and economical as human brains can make it, if all railroad finance in the United States could be shown to be based solely on honest capitalization and actual earning power past and present, the problem of fixing fair wages » would be easier. But railroad finance has never yet presented a clean slate. Nor has railroad management answered the specific charges of inefficiency and wastefulness brought against it. Grant that railway workers must still take wage cuis, There remains the question how much these cuts might be lessened if certain railroads revised their capitalization and bound themselves to new standards of efficiency and saving. On the oiher hand, what right has railroad labor to say these questions can not and shall not be settled save by a method which begins with a blow that wil! paralyze industry and stagger the whole country? What right has railroad labor to ignore the serious too soon. TO THE HIGHER COURT, acting in the name of the City of Fisher has reaffirmed and given new of the cardinal principles of m right and privilege of free critici in the public press. It is true this right and privilege may be abused at times, but the penalty for such abuse ought not to be administered through the legalistic mazes of court procedure. If democracy is to endure, the penalty must be inflicted by-public opinion. If a newspaper is unfair in its criticisms of public policy, time will reveal the errors. The public must train itself to remember and balance the accounts for or against the newspaper. If a newspaper is generally right, it deserves public confidence. If it is usually wrong and misleads the public, then it will lose the confidence and support of its readers. That is the supreme penalty which may he inflicted on a newspaper. Courts cannot settle such questions. verdict may not rest on any single issue, true or false. Not twelve men but all the readers of a news- icago, Judge fanding to one lern democracy, the isin of public policy The final efforts made in recent years to provide just arbiters | for its claims? What right has railroad labor to “take it out on” the public at a time when the public has never been so insistent that labor shall get its hearing and its due? Frankly, we cannot believe this threatened railroad strike is anything but a colossal piece of “publicity” designed to put the case of the railroad workers in big letters that every one can read, What labor still needs is an arena where it can have the satisfaction of seeing its struggles fought out without feeling it must periodically cripple the country. It needs a conspicuous court into which it can send as its champions the best and most brilliant lawyers for a ten-thousandth part of the money it wastes on strikes. The Railroad Labor Board has not supplied the kind of fighting place that will introduce labor to a different style of fighting. We must keep on till we tind the right tribunal. A SERIOUS FLAW. N Congress the income surtax schedule is the ogcasion of a lively political quarrel which threatens to obscure a deep-seated ailment in our tax machinery. Whether we tax large incomes at 25 per cent. or 50 per cent. doesn't make much difference if there are no big incomes subject to the tax. And that is a condition we are approaching. Unless Congress gets down to fundamentals we may have a high surtax and no incomes to pay the tax. Rich men are buying “exempts.” Mortgages, productive in- -vestments and constructive speculation suffer in the @ompetition to escape the surtaxes. The New York Association of Real Estate Boards ‘ | | | | a | | | | paper must bring in the verdict. “out.” While the issue is being decided the newspaper must be free to devote ils energies to newspaper making, not to defending itself against the politically inspired legalism of politicians who happen to con- trol in city, State or Nation. Between the Chicago Tribune and Mayor Thomp- son time and the citizens of Chicago must judge This may be hard for Mayor Thompson, but it is a price he must pay for living in a Nation which aspires to democratic government. The jury is always TICKETS FOR RAIN CHECKS. HE EVENING WORLD agreed with Comini.- sioner Landis that the World’s Series ought to be more of a sporting event and less a series for big profits. In line with this, we suggested that the World’s Series should be more in the nature of a bonus to the fans who support the winning teams in the race for the pennant. It would be perfectly feasible to issue a ticket for one World’s Series game to every fan who turned in, for example, a dozen rain checks from the games he had attended. This would be fair to the faithful fans, who would in a measure profit by the triumph of their favorite clubs. From the standpoint of the management, it might even be profitable in promoting heavier at- tendance during the season. If a team seemed to display pennant possibilities, every fan would be rooting for victories which would make his rain checks redeemable. Fans would buy more tickets if the rain checks had a redemption value in case the team won the pennant. Commissioner Landis would find the rain check bonus scheme popular inde JAPAN NOT OVERPOP (irom the Living Age.) Students of Japanese colonization are well aware that the race has hitherto thrived only in a limited habitat Possibly a Malay strain in the nation’s blood makes its people pre-eminently lowland and coastal dwellers. A large fraction of Japan Itself is uninhabited wilderness. Hokkaido, the northern is!- and, which has rich resources, including fertile agri- cultural lands, is still thinly populated. These tacts give point to the following comments from an au- thoritative Tokio daily, Chuo Some Europeans and Americans say (hat the settlement of the population question in Japan ts a condition precedent to the limitation of arma ments and the guarantee of peace. This plea {s presumably due to the preconception that a snr- plus population leads to the invasion of foreign lands. Let It be remembered, there is no population question of that sort in this coun- try. however, It is true that the population of this country shows a healthy rate of increas®, but it is wrong to think that this means a surplus population While the population is increasing, there is a constant addition to the wealth of the country, and ‘t would be proper to say that the population is short rather than that it is excessive, In fact, villages are suffering from the scarcity of farm labor. It is absolutely untrue that Japan is suffering from an excess of population, and there is no rea- son why the issue of our so-called surplus popu- lation should be raised by foreigners. especially by Americans. TWICE OVERS. “N OBODY can say we quit. Babe Ruth. ce E intend to go to it now, and put this thing (unemployment relief) over.” ~ Herbert Hoover, ye ' IRTUALLY disiissing a politically Insptred libel suit brought against the Chicago Tribune by Mayor Thompson and his political associates F Evening World Readers } What kind ot letter doyou find most readabler Isn't it theone ‘| z , that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | By John Blake There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | opsright, 1921, Uy Joan kolaky iausah tis kaw Warde: Take: 176 10 28 2k | WHAT COSTS NOTHING IS WORTH IT. | An Employment Suggestion, Bryant Park. If thege men are able|3 _ The most futile quest in life is the search for something To the Editor of T) > Evening World to pass a civil serv examination for nothing 1 read a lot about the solving of He surely are entitled to a consitera. | Purswng it is gambling, whether the pursuer is 7 busi- the unemployment problem. I am er men who remained out} é af service during the war. \$ ness man or a roulette addict, business agent of the Port Watch- |" i ‘conclusion: A preference to yet-| The pt thr t , ey, but he cannot give men’s Union, This union established, eran; that it is bound to her ve philanthr >»pist can give money, bu ie cannot @ |the eight-hour day for the port who did his bit—who|% cither success ov happiness. | watchmen in 1 an loved during whe These never come for nothing. ss = stantive | broad-minded people Thaw a oes ee ca ea | Now we have certain detective! (ie country, and who Is not now g0- They must always be worked for. | agencies trying to tear down those ing to be turned down by his Amei:-| It is harder work for the son of a rich man tu succeed conditions by qyitting watchmen on) can friends than it is for the son of a poor man. the twelve-hour basis. ie the | Ward the boys by thelr vote on the The rich man's son does not need to work, and! ein 1 ae Be acre We a meats al bonus, and this rit will just be a gets flabby from inaction | unemployment situation is, instead | repetition of the honus yore T i 's son, if he has any ambition, gets of making it a twelve-hour dé A PLAIN AMERICAN. | ai ay Liga eae y ay seh y » Bi | where the elght-hour day exists, why| New York, Oct. 13, 172 abundant mental exercise from the start. {not pay the employees by the hou He must earn first his living, then his education, then and make four six-hour shifts, and |, wi a place in the world. so give all hands an equal chance? a) ae ering on» Monday ‘wee | That takes work, and work means mental development. For instance, why do not the municl-| tea to me that the vote is the Many people to whom talent has brought early success pal departments start Us as an ¢ : se ie : Ae ONE e, = ample? Probably other concerns will|logical and best way to regain the have been w orthle ss aft ard. | follow their lead revenue lost as a result of the Vol- As soon as it became no longer necessary to labor the wie beeen DANTE FEOOD: Vstead Kot, labor was stopped ee It will be remembered that a year And an inactive mind will rust and become useless even A aBWerawalienmlee! Jago, out of a possible forty to ftty/$ quicker than aa inactive body. | To sue Tha Brenig World: jmallion, er tucrer|elgiple voters. only Make up your mind that you have got to pay in one way Join "Cassel “and “The vening muoue. many te se voted—|% oy another for everything worth having in this world, PAROLE See SRONE ERATE RES He ee sie Ee - No matter how talented you are, you ave never relieved cartoon “The Great Promiser.” been taught to consider my vote one t tic uikceanlty Of IAbor. i ' rom © | John sel shows it by drawing|of 2 most sacred privileges of an acai ee , Cc oi joy |: and ‘Phe Evening World ebows it} Ain but as each year | Enjoyment depends on the capacity for enjoyment, hy publishing it passes 1 more and more that which must be cultivated. | Mayor Hylan did make the promise | It is not yilege but an obligation Jt can only be cultivated by developing the mind. And ‘ at for ever but how|—a quty. And only through ‘ntelll- the mind cannot be developed without toil, ' of ¢ nse could|sent discharge of this obligation or Don’t envy the man who has been given a fortune by way the cost of labor | duty, will we ever have effective 60V-|)% others, It is a poor substitute for independence earned by during the war? | ernment himeslt: id expect him to) Now, iA the Ieht of this. instead We have recently seen a number of examples of it in the bankrupt t in order to keep|of a §2 poll tax for those who dis- Pt peiresetin nat promise haren)sielt ie Hate, Oe Rt y ind more, if we searched for them, in the in- Mayor Hylan knew better than that,| should be Jevied a tax of $5 per} We could f ? | He knew that when the war was over would start the construction of chools, And didn't he? No one can teny, Who is telling the truth, that shools are being occupied as fast as they can be put up. Mayor Hylan has 7 promise, and I am sure he will keep it If n had bankrupted the city: the pa would say that he coi save waited until the war waa o to construct schools, renewoe his 1 A Prediction, Editor of The Brening Work | May I respectfully request that you publish the comments concerning the Veterans’ Preferente Amendment to be voted upon at the next election in this State? ‘Those persons now against the imendment for preference were willing in the time of war to allow preference to the boys who ~ of the proper age and physique to go out and fight their batties. ‘Their preference then Was to remain at and wish the boys good luc hem with | | ites pre om their w= vem have now ree turned in the bread Line gt a i sane asylums. What you get for nothing is worth nothing. worth more. RRA AAA AAAI IAPR APPL head for each citizen who fails to discharge this duty, with graduating surtaxes of $1 additional for each succeeding year that the citizen is) {delinguent. ‘This surely would Pro-| rev- Tt never is | held of battle Greater New York was marked by the entrance of William R. Hearst. Tam- many Hall had sent Mr. Hearst to Congress, He had aspired to the Democratic nomination for the Pres!- dency and received no support from New York in the convention in 1904. Following the renomination of Me- Cletlan, the Republicans put up Will. fam B. Ivins. Mr, Hearst nominated himself on the Municipal Ownership ticket, going on the ballot by petition. It was a wicked campaign, filled with a great deal of mud, and left be- hind it a lot -of old wounds which every now and then reopen to this day. The newspaper owner was car- tooned as an Anarchist and denoun- ced as the man who instigated the assassination of President McKinley. The counter attack was none the less viclous. In Brooklyn, McCarren remained regular as man after man came in and told him he was off the roserva- tion and would not support Mo+ Clellan because of the latter's treat- ment of the Brooklyn organization. John McCooey had been removed as Civil Service Commissioner by Me- Clellan. McCarren frequently took the young Democrats aside and coun- selled regularity, pointing to Mo- Cooey and saying: “Look what hap- i John fsn’t bolting.” axhibit A in regularity. polls of factories and showed the voters were from McClellan. ‘The aders reported there was no organi- tion for Hearst but the sentiment was for him, McClellan was sur- rounded by a lot of “Yes, Yes" persons and did iittle to “lower his dignity” in the campaign, In the latter part of the campalsn Hugh Hastings, former State torian, who was friéndly with and fond of McClellan, went to htm, Hust- ings had been a political reporter and Albany correspondent and his lines of information were good. He said to the Mayor: “I want to tell pened to McCooey MeCooey was Tammany’s you, George Mo- Clellan, if you don’t get out and do something you're licked. You're beaten.” “You have seen that painting or an engraving of {t in the salon of '78,"" sald Hastings afterward, describing how the warning was received—“that pict re with Pharaoh cutting off the heads of the bearers of evil tidings? Well, that was it.” An organization man all his life, McClellan did not believe volunteer troops could do much against the dis- ciplined, well-commanded forces of Tammany. ‘Tammany never worked harder tn its machine way of handling an clec- tion than it worked for McClellan. Tt saw to the registration carly and the lower districts were taken care of by the Sullivans and that combination of leaders who rolled up Tammany pluralities fron lodging houses. What- ever was legitimate in colonization was attended to and no stone was left unturned. It was all needed. In a three-cornered fight McClellan got 28,000 votes, Hearst 224,000 and Ivins 137,000, It took a couple of years and an official count, with McClellan op- posing {t, to determine who was elected. Again McClellan broke with Me- Carren over patronage. Before his Administration was over he broke with Murphy. The break with Murpity came, it is said, when some one painted a picture representing McClellan in control of the Democratic Party and head of Tammany Hall. John O'Brien is said to have been the artist of this cubist iNusion which did not set well on the chest of Mur- phy, The break seemed final. But in the last couple of years McClellan has been back in the hall. Two years ago when Murphy lost the borough, the judiciary and the President of the Board of Aldermen, on the night of the election, almost alone, deep in the gloom of a cheerless Wigwam, Mur- phy and McClellan recelved the bad news together. Last year Murphy sent for him to preside at the meeting for Al Smith in the Madison Square Garden, eee WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 88.—CHAMPION. ‘To the superficial view there is no relationship between the words “champion” and “campus,” although championships sometimes are won on the campus. In point of fact, “cam- us" is the original ancestor of mpion.” ‘ampus” is the Latin word for field. From the place where contests were waged—the campus or fleld—the Low Latin derived the term “camplo,” or gladiator. From “campto” vw. “campion” in the Old French ant “champion” in the English speech of our forefathers, the step is both | short and obvious, ‘As contests emerged from the brutal phase of gladiatorial battles and ex- tended to such highly intellectual in- door sports as checkers, chess and intercollegiate debates, the old ides of supremacy by feats of strength survived, and the phraseology of the was applied to them, ct to speak of a “cham. It is cor pion liar. From the Wise Never hold any one by the but- ton, or the hand, in order to he heard out; for if people are un- willing to hear you, you had bet ter hold your tongue than them, —Chesterfield, Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Auerbach, Fashion i, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches,—Locke, A woman laughs when she can and weeps when she likes, vide at once a ready source of enue and the surest method of edu- They should be pela ia Browortion $9 stitution of the State, without Sreatly | ative the real worl ne arn OF be sessening his adaptabill as a cit- cating the unappreciative, unseru- | that Souantt be, they would alllisen p y pulous and disreputable citizens to|owe the State mor aso. Bul) Since I have already made this the proper r for their vote, and/as I see it, the ¢ promise ‘S/ rather long for publishing, 1 might by the same stroke eliminating the | vate Ae eal le ae fi or gra as welt pour out, some mare of my malaria nal 5% snine is ers along on whi thought (poisoned, some would say) efficiently controlled machine politics. | them, or set out and make vn election matters, Aren't things And speaking of politics, I am re-|a good man. quite retersed, when you consider minded also of the bulletin handed| Now amendment No, 3, ts the star] that a full week be allotted for the the regist~ation place, calling|chamber item; and it should have] purpose of registering, while a single heeded Sea eae enal mierda | the, careful consideration, of every | Gay Is ect ‘aside for every one who attention to toe si endments/ trie American, The only fault I] who has registered during the week upon which we are asked to vote.|can find with this amendment, is that] {o cast his vote. This+is especially In passing, not much need be sald|jt doesn't go far enough. In my|true when one considers that it takes about Amendment No. 1, as it stands| way of thinking, in addition to re-|almost twice as long to vote as it on ita face value, The truly patriotic] quiring # voter. to both read and] does to register. Why not split it service man asks neither favor nor| write the English language, it should! up, giving three days for each? Of preference, and is actively working|also require that each voter should| course, | know this seems absurd in to have this amendment voted down,| have memorized the Constitution of] the light of our election laws, but I cannot conceive of a reason for the|the Unit nd have written|why the cart before the horse? Ts activity of the so-called “friends of|it from | to end not less/there any one who would try to say the ex-service man” in their effort to|than ten tin am confident that|that it is more essential to’ register foist this amendment upon the peo-|if each vot so Imbued with in to vote? Oh, yes, I know it | f varticularly upon. r men|the spirit < . we should to ter to guarantee |who don't want it [have no *, nov but which can be elimin- And then we read ¢ Amendment} other ultra tadiea! outfits here. ited without seriously impeding the No. 2-to double the salaries of the}amendment could add, perhaps, that That is the true test. fakire at Albany, It ie to laugh. each votcr have read also tlie Con- AJ. ] ee reg er reg mater ae —French Proverb,