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ig Tarld, ESTAPLISHED AY Js Published Daily eM PLT Except Sunday by The Pr Vuolithiog Company. Nos. 85 to 63 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, Preaidert, 6 k J, ANGUS SIAW, Treasurer, 62 Pa: JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row — , MEMEER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. + The Asvoctaied Prom ls exclusively enviuea to the use for repubtieation @F aD) news Geapatches credited to tt or nor otmerwise crewtea im tas paper nd also the locsl mews pubilshea herein. UNTIL AFTER ELECTION. HE Transit Commission announces that it will postpone public hearings on the traction plan until Nov. 10 in order that discussion of this im- portant and non-political question may not be dis- torted and narrowed in the stress of the Mayoralty campaign. The decision is wise. Although there ought to be no needless delay in getting to work on the transit programme, the city has had ample indication of what the job can expect from Mayor Hylan. As the Transit Commission announcement says: “There has been a pronounced disposition in gome quarters to make the transit plan a foot- Dall of politics, employing prejudiced misrepre- sentation and abuse in piace of dispassionate inquiry.” . From now until the election, Mayor Hylan can be counted on to shake his fists and jump up and down whenever the Transit Commission plan is mentioned. ' He wil! denounce it, lie about it, declare it means the opposite of what it says—in short, do anything but discuss it like an intelligent citizen. After Noy. 8 things will be different. Wf Mr. Curran is elected, the Transit Commission plan can look ahead to no worse obstacle than the jeonstructive criticism of a Mayor who sees the future ‘of New York as something too big to trifle with. | af Mavor Hylan is re-elected, the Transit Com- mission plan will simply have to roll forward over a fuming little figure that thinks a noise can meet the city’s need. At the moment when the United States is about to ratify a “peace” treaty with them, the Germans are selling marks for any old price that looks like real money. Apparently the Germans*can’t see anything but a hole in the doughnut of Harding peace normalcy. RED CROSS PREPAREDNESS. HE annual report of the local chapter of the American Red Cross lists many. accomplish- ments. As a comparatively minor feature, we learn that the chapter has on hand 12,250 garments and 406,723 surgical dressings ready for use in case of disaster in this city. Nearly 17,000 volunteer workers have spent more than 450,000 hours In preparing these and other sup- plies for use at home and abroad. This emergency store ready for use in case of feed isn’t one of the biggest things the Red Cross fs doing. It is mentioned b> because it ig’ the one activity that touches the f every individual in the city. No one can be sure tha; some colossal mischance may not some time bring tragedy, that some act of God or the carelessness of man may not Cause ¢atastrophe. No one is secure from such events, and it is comforting to know that some one, somewhere, is alert and ready, hoping for the best and prepar- ing for the worst. If the Red Cross did nothing but this work, it would be a cheap and necessary form of insurance. It is “preparedness” of the best kind. It is only one phase, and a minor phase, of the work the Red Cross does, but it cannot fail to appeal to every one in the city. “The situation,” according to Presiden’ Un Aerwood of the Erie, is that the unions are striking on the ‘umpire’'—the United States Raliroad Labor Board.” To keep the balance even and the blame dis- trfbuted evenly and where it belongs, Mr. Un , derwood should also have mentioned that the Pennsylvania Railroad recently defied the | Labor Board or “struck on the umpire.’ SERMONS WITH COLORED LIGHTS. | ‘ec RISMATIC PREACHING” was bound to come. But who would have expected it at Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie? In recent years St. Mark’s has figured in the news as a sort of informal clearing house for many of the ideas of social experimenters and so-called radicals, Many members of the congregation have seemed to divide allegiance between orthodox socialism and unorthodox Christianit Socialist talkers pride themselves on the cold and relentless logic of the doctrine they profess. In ap- pealing to such a congregation one might expect the pastor to prepare rigorously logical sermons appeal- ing to reason rather than to emotion The reverse seems to have happened. Dr. Guth- ‘rie proposes to make use of the psychological effect of colored lights in rousing different emotions, mak- ing his hearers more susceptible to the emotional appeal of his words. Psychologically his idea is sound, as Mr. Belasco will testify, but whether it will appeal to the “economic determination” advo- cates remains to be seen. In any case, it is doubt of “chromatic discourses For one thing, they are which condemn the th $t. i] whether the example ill be followed widely. a nat? “iy 4 ‘Geeatrical for the sects | SENT ot ba Bt quire a high order of intellec effects and and help each other A chromat woukl have to be rehearsed with great care. POOR POLICY. N VIEW of the whole present trend of economic thought and endeavor in the United States, how in the name of justice can railroad labor think to advance its cause by a knockout punch at the public? Never in the history of the country has public opinion backed so many constructive efforts to secure to labor its due. Never has more earnest study been concentrated on the economic claims of workers. Never have there been so many serious experi- ments in setting up tribunals before which the working man—and especially the railroad worker —can contend for his rights. Particularly just now are problems involving the future of public utilities claiming the best thought Labor's part in these that can be broughi to them. problems is large, Heritage from past fimancial recklessness, over- capitalization, wastefulness and inefficiency in pres- ent management—all these things so often de- nounced by labor as depriving it of its just share— are now in many instances being subjected to un- sparing scrutiny in behalf of a public interested in low rates. Even the bigger question whether adequate ser- vice at fair rates is compatible with leaving certain classes of public utilities to private ownership is be- Experts are frankly recom- mending public ownership, with private operation ing deeply probed. under public supervision, for great utilities upon which millions of people depend—with a drastic squeezing out of all fictitious values as the indis- pensable preliminary. No one can miss the parallel between certain aspects of the transit problem in the country’s big- gest city and the problem of the country’s railroad stem. Many of the differences are only in scale. The plan put forward by the Transit Commis- sion for solving New York's traction problem is an example of present thoroughgoing effort in the United States to get to the bottom of such problems and build on a surer foundation. Does labor see no promise for itself in such attempts? see in them nm progress toward a fairer, more accurate det ition of labor's share of earnings? If not, fabor must confess itself wilfully blind. It must answer the charge that it would rather grab more than belongs to it by force than be as- signed its just share by reason. It must admit that it expects more trom brow- beating the public than from fighting on with the public’s support. We cannot believe that is the real attitude of the railroad workers, The willingness expressed by their union officials yesterday to confer with the President at Washing- ton gives additional hope that the threat to strike is less a fixed purpose than a means of assuring the fullest possible consideration of their claims. Labor is no longer an unwelcome, unheeded knocker at the doors of courts. Public opinion has opened door after door to labor and is still calling for a tribunal where the work- ing man can at last see tis battles fairly fought out for an infinitesimal fraction of what it costs him to strike. Y Poor policy, with such a trend, for railroad labor to blackjack its best ally. The Meyer committee's final “examination” of Commisstoner Enright’s $100,000 bank de posits wax about as silly a performance as ever was staged. ‘The pity ix that the Hylan petti foggers can drag in this performance to help diseredit some of the serious and valuable work of the committee. TWICE OVERS. 6e HE mails will be moved.” —Postmaster Gen- eral Hays. oe ce Witun a few more months photographs will be sent (by wireless) and received with the same ease and over as great distances.” Edouard Belin. “7 HAVE been in Congress a long time, and I don't remember another witness who made so much parade and vouchsafed so .ittle real informa- tion (as “Col.” Simmons of the Ku Klux Klan),”” A member of the Rules Committee. 6] F the strike ts called, New York City will be glad New York Slate has a barge canal.’ "WR it will re Gow, a ual ability to. plan word effects which will blend |] 66 | “Wa vould have to be an artist as well as a writer and speaker, and his sermons ~ pci A a i REE A RRR one a iidieendinstiaetienananeee ee ‘THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1921. it! 'm Up to My Neck Now” By John Cassel | eDlie Pres Pwblinhing Co, Fvening World.) —_ to say much in few words. More Disgusted "1 n Evel ‘To the Editor of The Evening World After recovering my breath, I rise to respond to the fiery John Me- Kenna, defender par excellence of Major Gen. O'Hylan, savior of the peepul,” I must plead guilty to his scathing arraignment of ignorance, as dis- closed by my manhandling of the Queen's English (aha, a Black and Tan, hisses the Hearst-fed Mr. Mc- Kenna) but must patiently wait for intellectual improvement until I can get a seat, or standing room in one of the public schools. If I should study on the job, as Hizzoner did, 1 would get fired, as he did. I at least know enough to profit by other's mis- takes. As Mr, McKenna, in this blast, in- sists that Herr Hearst's papers are the “peepul's” papers, I must cede the point. As the only papers in the United States that persistently preach class hatred, it is well that their sponsorship can he fastened upon somebody, and who better than the “peepul,” who are powerless to resent the ignominy? I still maintain that both “grossly Ignorant” and “blind- ly stupid” and hold that the mere fact that he is a Hearst tool proves this. His independence has hurt no Hizzoner is e. I am neither a son-in-law or blood relation to Hylan. While Mr. McKenna might also defen: is about it, he our Mayor's dis- ajor Gen, O'Hylan at some time when that doughty warrior is resting from slaying the &-cent fare dragon and is basking in rays of the specially trained flourish- | ers and rufflers may be dignified by the peepul” and thus be entitled t and ruffles for himself. “BROOKLYNITE, MORE _ prs- GUSTED THAN BEFORD.” Oct. 15. 1921, Sty and Three-quarters Acres. ‘To the KAltor of The Evening World From Evening World Readers | What kind of letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredP There is fine mental oxerciae and a lot of satisfaction in tsying Take time to be brief. If he ever departs from the straight | the difference. Then you will also and narrow path lald down for him] some of the profiteering landlords | by his social and political sponsor creop. and mentor, Hearst, Heaven help| 1 have five children—three go to Hearst, Murphy and the Sinn Feiners. | business, one to high school and the Have not endeavored to land @]other to elementary school, and not janitor's job; indeed, have not even| one of them Is on part time. Tama sought the lowly position of deputy | pyian yoter. 1. ¥. NICHOL: cuspider custodian. Why? Because] Brooklyn, Oct. 15, 1921. graceful prostitution of his office for the purpose of vote gettir That Mr, MeKenna’s labors have not been in vain, I sug that a clipping of his letter be presented to the harmonious Perhaps Field Mar- shal yon Hearst willing, Mr. McKenna bestowal of Corporal’s chevrons in the “army of draw his modest ration of flourishes Isn't it the one | | | of New York City by such @ majority |as to make the opposition really dizzy. I like your paper and dislike to see you wasting valuable space. How about those wonderful times our! friends now at Washington promised us before election last fall? Get back to “normalcy,” with a few broads'des at the slackers in Congress. The voters of New York will take care of the City Hall by sending Mayor Hylan back for four years more. | N. M. H. | New York, Oct. 15, 1921. | r the Mayor's Home. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Just a few words in regard to the | knockers kicking about the schools. 1 ; Wonder many a time what they would | do if they were in the Mayor's posl- tion, Would they be at the City Hall every day as promptly as the honor- able Mayor, or would they be in bed, taking another turnover? On Monday morning I went to the Bushwick High School (I did not know It was parents’ week), and was taken from the cellar to the top floor of the building and in and out of the class rooms. I was surprised to see tho school in such a nice and good con- dition. My highest praise is for Hy- lan and the way he is conducting the schools. How can the schools be other- wise than overcrowded when they allow all the immigrants to come over? They are the ones that are to blame. Stop them all from coming over for one year, then you will Veteran Preferenes. ‘To the Kelitor of The Brening Work! In answer to a letter headed “A Fireman's View,” In an edition of Oct 13, 1921, is it not true that the oppo- nents of ‘Veterans’ Preference” strenuously urged the passage of the Duell Bill, which gives preference to men who were wounded or disanled, and shortly after this bill had been placed on our statute books one of the organizations who pleaded hard for the passage of the bill commenced ,}court action to test the constitution- ality of it and carried it to the Court of Appeals, where it was declared un- constitutional? This ts only one of the hypocritical acts of the opponents of Vets’ Preference. It seems hardly necessary to advance any reason 4s to the justice of Amendment No. 1, other than gratitude for services 50 so “A” says Madison Square Park has| gallantly and patriotically rendered ten acres. “B" says six acres. Who| “Fireman” evidently forgets the iscorrect?. THOMAS HIGGINS. [fact that the World War was not a | New York, Oct. 15, 1921 priv affair, and he could also have been in the service. 1 aan sure ulder 4 Snewestion. men than himself w there and 10 the Fattor of The Ereoing Work numerous of n were married { suggest you apply your editorial]. Firemen and policemen make the talent and space to something holding} claim that they were forbidden to out promise of accomplishment. . John | enlist or be drafted. That is an utter Mylan will succeed himself as Mayor and I might add that it en, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) BRAIN INSURANCE. You insure your house, whose loss would be but a tem- porary inesnvenience. You insure your iife to provide for your family whe you are gone. But what do you do ebout insuring your brain? If it fails, house, life, everything you have becomes sud- a future of look forward to brain insurance. your brain, and upon whose health your brain is dependent. self-indulgence covered by physicians, : The brain that works hard in a body that works hard is pretty well insured, An idle brain in an idle body soon gives way. Carrying brain. insurance is well worth your while. And your dependent Better far for béth that you quietly dropped out of the There are no companies that we know of that write You can, however, carry your own, which you must do You can do that without paying dividends, without see- You can dc it by taking care of your body, which houses More brains are destroyed by bad bodiJy health than by And more bodies fall into ill health through neglect and han by all the maladies that have been dis- The Great Teacher In Action’ By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. Covsrigiyt. 1921, by ‘Phe Pras Publishing Oo, | OE thio Now’ York Breaing World). THE GIFT AT THE ALTAR MATT. 6: 23-4, The question, almost as old as humanity itself, “WHAT IS THR TRUE RELIGION?” is answered here in these words of the Great Teacher once and for all. In trying to settle the ancient ques- tion millions of God's children have been murdered, and that too since the true answer was given by Him who is accepted by all Christians ae the final authority. The Pagans of the first century often exclaimed, “See how these Christians love one another!" and there would have been no break im the good will of the early years had men continued to be impressed by the teaching laid down by the Master as per Matt, 6: 23. Standing upon the mountainsid and looking squarely into the faces of the polyglot assembly before Him, the Great Teacher said to them im substance: ou are much given te worship, Religion la your constant study. Everywhere I behold you at the altars offering to God your sacrie fices. lambs, bullocks, turtle doves and the fi rults of your flelds, And it Ie all very beautiful, Keep it wp. Keep {t up. But I must tell you some- thing and I want you to listen to me. When thou art offering thy gift at the altar and there remempberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, or that thou hast aught against thy brother, leave there thy gift before the altar—drop it like a hot fron—and go thy way, running as hard as you can; first be reconciled to thy brother, getting every drop of the bad blood out of your hearts, and then come and offer thy gift.” THEN—when you have ceased to hate your brother and he has ccaso@ to hate you, when between you there is © and good will—THEN offer your gift to God And so we have the answer to the question “What is true religton? Tr the religion that te born of LOVE—love to God and love to man, No matter who you are, or what name you led by, your religion is absolutely orthodox If down at the base of it, supporting it, and ener- gizing It, and beautifying It, is the spirit of love, totem-pole inthe ley north, the palms of the tropics, in the hume ‘ple country chapel, In the magnifice: ty Cathedral-the worship has the Great Teacher's O, K. if it 1s inspired by the sentiment of gratitude to God and good will to men. But {f that divine sentiment ts ab« sent, the so-called worship is a piece of mockery that makes the angeis sick. Worship 1s tmportant, and the fact 1s not to be overlooked; but of more importance is the duty of loving ons another as the days are slipping by. ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. Overt No York reine Wend. PETRUS STUYVESANT. Toon Dupuis. Down in Lower New York City in a place where few people would think of looking for a masterpiece of sculpture, there {s to be found the bust of a man important in the his- tory of this city, of this continent im fact. It is the remarkable statue of Petrus Stuyvesant who fas Intrusted with the affairs and government the Dutch possessions in the New World in the time when Manhattan still belonged to Holland, Wishing to present to the people of New York a worthy representation of this old hero, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland commissioned Toon Du- pus, the famous Dutch artist, to make a bust of Stuyvesant. Dupuis, lavishing his greatest skill upon this piece of work, produced a bust worthy to be called @ master- piece, for in it he succeeded in repre~ senting not only the stern official but the man loved and trusted by all, whose calmness, jJustness and thoughtfulness have made of him « great historical figure. ‘The bust was presented on the afternoon of Dec, 5, 1911, at the Church of St. Mark’s-in-the-Bou- werle where the body of the hero is now lying. ala “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick | L It means that your earning capacity will be as great probably far greater—at sixty than it is at thirty. It means that when you are old enough to understand life you will be independent enough to enjoy it. The dividends you pay are merely in a little self-den in a little added effort of mind and body But they sceure to yeu the future, and that is all that any of us can expect in a world where nothing is easy and happiness must be earned. , 1 | n deniy worthless. misery. | struggle we cal. existence. | if you are fo have any. | ing an agent or having yourself overhauled by a doctor. any other cause. | eee? would be a sad case indeed where any on Nov. 8 This is @ bill to give ex- yor or Police or Fire Commis |geryien ine Bee ae sioner could tell any red blooded man |"°'* n a preference on the wait just how much of a patriot he| 2% sts after they have successfully should be. |passed the examination, This applies Were It not for the sucrifiees of our|to all men who wore the uniform of soldiers, sailors and marines there 3 seek - eee en antions for [te United States in any of her wars, Americans in this State As| Js It not fair that the man that to-da O'Ryan's regards Major Gen. shouldered a gun for Uncle Sam when ments, I might not be ami: jhe nceded him snould be given a that these statements are | Re ret eh ong *Mis Upshaw. Ant 6 |preference over the one who stayed Major Gen. O'Ryan did make these|at home and reaped a harvest? The statements and cast a slur on some|men on the Police and Fire Depart- who were “forced to go," he evidently | ments who are against this bill hdd a forgeta that hundreds of thousands |chance to go to war. Mayor Hylan could not be forced to go. did not issue an order preventing He might just as well say that|them from going until a month be- Sergt. York was forced to go. fore the armistice. And those who was he can show something t jwere too old for this war could O'Ryan will never be able to show.|/have enlisted in 1893. There have And I might further mention that|been enough black eyes handed the Gen. O'Ryan never slept in a mud|pboys. Don't let this amendment be hole nor ate cold corned beef of the | Kile Therefore I want to ask you army kind, nor was he ever punctt ry fair-minded who with vermin bites your paper ¢ boys FROM AN EX-POLICEMAN WHO|put this amendment o it is |SERVED UNDER MAJOR GEN ii! means that t ve t ORVAN take their time with aliens, slaeke \x did not care enough for the Amendment No. t country to sacrifice anything. Vote Crucifixion was a mode of execus tion common among the Assyrians Egyptians, Persians, Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans, King Anarathes 1. of Cappadocia, Asia Minor, aged eighty, after being vanquished by the Persians was discovered among the prisoners. He was flayed alive and nailed to a cross, when eighty- two, with his principal officers, im the year 3f2 B,C. Christ died on April 3, in A. D. 83, se oe and Castle was @ mark tn South London, eriving Its sign from the a f the Cutlers’ Company tavern in St. Pancras Parish, London, took its sign from the skeeton of an elephant, beside which was a filnte headed spear, excavated in the neigh~ borhood. The connection between these two relics and the battle fought by the followers of Queen Boadicea against the Roman invaders was un-~ mistakable, «8 Very bad wine many decades ago waa called “Three-Men Wine,” be cause it required one man to hold the victim, a second to pour the wine down his throat, and the third was the victim made to drink {t. Abra~ ham Santa Clara, the preaching fri gave this name to the wine of Alsa France, but the quality has certaint improved since his day. oe 8 Tie religious proclamation of Queen Elfzabeth in 1565 had the efe fect of bringing} into existence » religio-political party of protest composed of fearless, fanatical, or extremely progressive Puritans, ‘whe To ths Editor of The Erening We If you want to help the ex-service man vote yes ob Amendment Ni yes on Amendment No. 1 JOHN MATHESON, Bronx, Ooty 18, 1921, separated from the “moderate Purl- as the first dissenters from Senate the Establishea Church of re ‘were called, eof!