The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1921, Page 10

ey , Che the wrong? _dining-car service is ma ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (WPwiimhed Dally -Kxoept Sunday by The Press Publishing | Company. Nos. 53 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 03 Park Row: JOSEPH PULITER Jr., Secretary, 03 Park Row. | ! MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. | "Ths Associated Prem ts eqelusively enuuea to the use for republication @f all wewe despatches credited to 1 oF not overwise creuitea tm tas papee nd sito the iocal news publishea herein, o___ DESPERATE? 5 YLANITES are seriously concerned over the a “swing” away from the Mayor. Nothing else will explain the effort to line up the school principals in a Hylan Campaign Committee to join which a principal “must sign on the dotted line.” Only desperation would lead the Hearst-Hylan- | Murphy outfit to adopt such a desperate expedient. But will this sort of contemptible political tyranny _win its objects? Will it not disgust and alienate more voters than an organization of coerced school Principals could swing into line behind the Mayor's fanner? Such tactics ought to lose a good many votes. ‘ The school-building failures of the Hylan Ad- ministration are a proper campaign issue. Coercion of teachers ought not to be tolerated. This scheme Should be completely ventilated and exposed. The kind of Mayor who would resort to such tactics dur- dng a campaign would stoop to coercion afterward tf he were elected. INEXCUSABLE DELAY. LDERMANIC delay in settling the contested election in the 20th and 8th Districts two years ago is a public scandal. The Socialist candidates, Cassidy and Lee, pro- _ tested that they were counted out. The Aldermanic Committee on Privileges and Elections has dallied and postponed its report until within three months of the close of the terms for "which these men were , elected. Finally Alderman Beckerman has Tiled a report that Cassidy and Lee were elected and that Graubard and Sullivan, who have served for twen- ty-one months, are not rightfully members of the board. The other members of the committee still delay. The case may not be decided before New Year's. There is no excuse for such political sharp-prac- “fice. It is dangerous. How can the supporters of Lee and Cassidy be expected to have confidence in ‘governmental machinery that first counts out their Tepresentatives at the polls and then refuses to right Incidentally, what of the taxpayer who will prob- “ably have to ay double salaries—one to Grau- bard and Sullivan, another to Cassidy and Lee? Shouldn’t the Board of Aldermen feel some “man- datory legislation” requiring them to settle such dis- putes within a short time fimit? DINING-CAR COMFORT. INING-CAR superintendents from all over the country held a convention. in: New York this week. They reminded the public, among other things, that the railroads lose annually from $25,000 to $500,000 each on dining-car operation and that ined not for profit but for the greater comfort and convenienct of trav- ellers. Assuming this to be so, we should like to ask a question: Why have dining-car superintendents generally in the United S never taken kindly to the seat- | Check-in-advance-for - one - of - several sittings plan | which, on crowded through trains, permits the trav- | eller to go straight to his seat in the dining-car at a time he selects instead of waiting in a jam at the entrance of the car until table places are vacated? The system is perfectly simple. A dining-car | porter goes through the train and asks each pas- senger at which sitting (the times for which are | indicated) he. prefers to eat. According to his choice, the passenger is given a check which en- titles him to a reserved table-seat at the specified | sitting. He has thirty or forty minutes in which to | *eat his-meal, and he does not have to line up for + half an hour in a narrow, often stifling, passage to get His tum. If directors of dining-car service are mainly con- cerned in studying the convenience of the public, why have so few of them adopted this considerate seating plan which has long been the rule in restau- tant cars in Europe? MANHATTAN EXTENSION. “ ANHATTAN EXTENSION” is bound to figure in the news from time to time. When The Evening World published a map and details of Mr. Thomson's scheme several weeks ago, it immediately became a subject of general interest and popular speculation. Now the Broadway As- Sociation has approved the desirability of such an extension. From time to time it is probable that ~=-Other civic bodies will investigate and report The plan of filling the upper bay is so gigantic that it will not be undertake without a great deal of preliminary discussion and planning. But it has possibilities that must not be disregarded in the plan- ning of new subway and terminal projects. From the engineer’s standpoint, Manhattan Ex- tension is possible. The really big questions centre ; ct about the financing of so huge an undertaking. It goes without saying that no plan would be accept- able in which the city did not safeguard the prob- able profits. Mr. Thomson estimates that it woukl add $5,000,000,000 to the taxable values of Manhattan. This seems to imply private ownership of the cre- ated land by private persons. The city should con- sider the possibility of holding title to the land and leasing it under a system which would return to the city the full ground rent, the ‘unearned ipcrement”’ of development. Certainly the city should have a complete and farsighted “‘city planning” programme in case it decides to fill the bay. Ample provision for future parks, traffic ways, school and municipal building sites would be a necessary feature. The plan is so big it staggers the imagination, but it is not impossible. Every New Yorker will have an interest in every feature. “It is worth con- sidering, and experts in each special field must be prepared to give constructive criticism as the various Dhases develop. TESTING IT FULLY. HE Federal Government fs plainly not prepared to admit that the Railroad Labor Board is inadequate to deal with the present situation. There will be no such admission until the power of the board, reinforced wherever legally possible by the power of the Federal Government, has had a full and final test. That.is the meaning of the formal resolution of the Railroad Labor Board which summons “carriers and organizations of their employees” to a public hearing on Oct. 26 and warns both parties to the dispute that they must “maintain the status quo on the properties of said carriers until said hearing and decision.” \ By its attitude toward this summons each dis- putant will, so far as public opinion is concerned, be judged. P If railroad exeoutives follow the earlier example of the Pennsylvania in defying the Railroad Labor “Board, the public will‘lose all patience with them. If railroad unions take up the cry of President Timothy Healy of the Stationary Engineers, Fire- men and Oilers—We are going ahead with the strike if we have to go to jail”—the public can only conclude that they have prejudged their own case and are afraid to trust it to open discussion. “If the public knew of the list of grievances we have against the roads,” declares President Healy, “it would be solidly with us.” Then why not put the Ilst before the public in the way that will most surely impress the public? The Railroad Labor Board has not shut its ears to the grievances of railroad workers. It fs still the surest medium these workers have for securing pub- lic sympathy. Why clamor for strike and jail before the ful! list of grievances has even been finally reviewed— before the railroad workers have any means of knowing what ultimate adjustment will be made of their claims? The Railroad Labor Board has issued its sum- mons alike to both gides. Where either hangs back it will lay itself open to the suspicion of preferring the spoils of force to the awards of justice. The Railroad Labor Board may not be the tri- bunal that will some day dispense such justice. But the country can only find out how to im- Prove on the Railroad Labor Board by giving it thorough trial. TWICE OVERS. Ny VER was the popularity of Mr. Herrick better shown than by the expressions of grati- tude at his escape from an attempt made in hate which the human conscience fails to comprehend.” — Le Temps, Paris. * * * “6 THE schools do not belong to the cily and should nol be considered among its municipal expen- ditures. If they are to be classified in the general municipal budget, they inevitably get the small end of it.”"—Dr. F. P. Graves. * * * ee (THERE is no training in the world for public life. equal to the tyranny of the budget. — Nicholas Murray Butler. « . “ee you (Republicans) will never write a satis- factory tax bill until you are willing to assume your own responsibility.” —Senator Underwood. ‘ * « * ‘ “ec Wee politicians and statesmen vote credits for war munitions, they will have to reckon with the question whether the workers will produce and trans. port them.” —Robert Williams, Secretary of Britis} Transport Workers’ Union. 6 you can figure for yourself what ‘honey for money’ means in the high cost of living.” Henry H. Curran. . 8 « ce YLAN talks a lot about a 5-cent fare, al- though you people are paying more than a 5-cent fare now." —Vincent Gilroy. = _ * * ce Ww* expect to meet with success in putting new brains into the heads of subnormal children through the exclusive use of a sheep gland diet.”—Dr. Frank G. Bruner. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1921, , The Good Old Bunk! | that citizens should be fined pra. Ua ree Pixbl igh ing (°o, Tie New York Rvening World) . H, I have tived to be so glad You failed me long ago, So glad you cast away the love That I had lavished aa, 0 glad that you were dull and blind So glad you did not know! For in a way I had not dreamed T built my Ife anew, | And all the structure of my days | Into a wonder grew; And, oh, you left me free to love ‘A greater one than you! | It is “The Radiant Loss” which we | have quoted above, from “The Lifted Cup" (Houghton-Mifflin), a new lit- tle book of verse by Jessie B. Ritten- house, The poetess's pretty transcription of that old theme of “Just as good ‘fish in the sea,” | eee | Mere Man Is a Writing Pad. In his “Ursula Trent” (Harper's), |) W. L. George, the English novelist, permits Ursula thus to express her- welt: A man said to me once (Il was maniouring him then), “fo be a wo- man {s a whole-time job." Yet I am not sorry that 1 was born a woman, ! When I think how often some giri has said to me, “Oh, I wish I were a man," and how tt has never happened to a man to say to me that he wish- ed he were a woman, I cannot help feeling that women don’t understan: what they can get out of themselves They don't dare, 1 suppose. To an intelligent woman who's not too ugly men are the white sheet of paper on which we write our lives. And as w® understand the book. Ursula makes occasional merriment over men who cannot read the writ ing. Labor’s Dear Old Times. - - - | Getting material for his book, "Tie | Silk Industry of the |dom," Sir Frank Warner drew this | testimony from a woman of Spital fields, born about 1840: There were six of us children and we Were all taught to wind quills for the shuttles as soon as we could talk, and to weve as soon as we could sit in the loom. . My mother used to weave so well, and only left off to bring up our food to us #o‘that we should not lose more time than could be helped in eating. Sometimes I used to get fidgety and want to get up and move about | _ To prevent this, father used to tle | me to the loom im th morning, be fore he went out, and dure me to leave it till he came back | What a joy, to give a glance bu ‘| his— the good old days when !r was among the comforts of The Call to Breakiast, - -- From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words ina couple of hundred ’ There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief. say much if few word: Indifference in Congress. ‘Th the Dilitor of The Evening World I fead some time ago an article by our President in which he asserted {t is the patriotic duty of every citi-| x, zen to voice his or her opinion at the polls, and I heartily agree with him. Now, after the patriotic citizens have gone to the trouble ef perform- ing thelr duty so well in electing Con gBressmen, we wonder if it is not the Congressmen's duty also to vote on the issues as they come up and not to make a Milly Sunday speech or two on an issue and when it comes to vote absent themselves rather than go on record, Why should the people be so in- terested in voting to put them in office and pay them well while there if they are to show such glaring signs of indifference? FLOYD SHEETS Brooklyn, Oct, 16, 1921. A Suggested Strike Cure. ‘To the Batitor of The Evening World: In regard to your editorial on "Till We Find It,” may I suggest a com- mittee of eleven, including the chatr- man? Five men should be selected by the railroad officials. Five men should be selected by ratl- road unions. The chairman should be Woodrow Wilson, At this conference representatives of all newspapers should attend, giv- ing only facts of meetings, alwuys | neutral. The only statement to be published, for or against, to be given out by the chairman of the committee, Let the chairman have full and fina! decision, all newspapers to back up his decision. This is the only way KF, Discourawed Voter. itor of The Evening Wor! tter of A, J. Schneider nter lests me in so far as I do not agree with him with regaml to his stiggestion if they fail to use the privilege of voting. He also states that only half of voting public use their vote on 1 tion Day Let me say that Lam an American born citizen, forty years old, that 1 did not yote last year nor will [ yote this year, nor will I take the time or trouble for some years to come use what power there is in my vote to foster or Oppose the political situ ations or questions as they arise feel this 1s my privilege and I would not care to be charged $5 per ydar for not voting, but on the contrary feel that 1 should be paid $5 for my timc tu registering and voting may ask wih have 1 and why | f this wa is in four words—soldier bonus and Prohibition What the people wanted and voted for by large ma laid aside and ki post and many of our | Heed of a few dollars ani can find time and money the loan } #\ other countries and even go as far an | % to suggest the elimination of certain t | war loans to foreign countries, where- by concerted ‘effort in an early col- lection of these moneys could be put to good and needful advantages nong those rightfully entitled to me. | Prohibition—whtich our citizens did {not have a chance to vote on—was |put into effect over our hea So what's the use of voting? What we |vote and pass we can't get and what we don't want we get without a vote. | |So it's heads you win, tails I lose, If it 1s true that only half of the voting public use thelr vote on Elec- | tion Day it is only reasqnable to as sume that a good part of this voting s done by the ladies and young Americans who feel proud to stand in line to register their first or second vote, “the same as you and I, Mag- gle.” Unless something 1s done to rem- edy the conditions complained of, T am almost sure there will be a still greater falling off in the voting power |in our country, There are others who agree as well as disagree with me and, although T'll not vote again until something {8 done to change my pres- ent frame of mind, I hope it will be before the day when we will only see politicians, city, State and Na- tlonal office holders going to the polls doing their essential duties to them- selves, without regard to the rights or feelings of others. JOHN THOMAS, Brooklyn, N. ¥., Oct. 18, 1921. Rents and the ‘Ty the Eititor of The Brening World; Can you not see that high renfS are absolutely responsible for the !mpend- ing cailroad strike? The men can not live on less wages and pay the enormous rents they are being com- pelled to.pay. Get busy and put the landlords in thelr places. You can \do anything outside of hurting Mayor | Hylan, and you can never do that, for he {s here to stay as sure you are | horn ME New York, Oct. 18, 1921 ike. | Precision in Language ‘To the EMitor of The Evening World May I have a space of your column a few words in answer to J. G. | * complaint about the 1 ne By John Blake (Copyright, 1981, by John Blake.) BLAZED TRAILS. The wonder is that any one goes wrong. those who are beginning life. ceeded. Most of them tell the truth about it. piled. to take or the one we ought to avoid. life is half done, are easy. pleasanter to take them. will lead to misery we take them just the same, will journey a little way and come back, are all one way thoroughfares, If you are beginning life, follow it where it leads. It cannot lead you wrong. Often it will be hard gerous and wellnigh impassable. and smoother and easier to travel by and by. the equipment study has put into your brains. swum because of the lack of paved bridges. The right trail is never easy mazked and you alway. those who have gone | The blazes are follow the UNCOMMON SENSE The record of thousands of years of human experience | is available as a guide to tne men and women of the present. There is hardly a magazine of to-day which does not furnish in the biographies of the successful inspiration for Men who have succeeded are eager to tell how they suc - How human beings have made mistakes and how such mistakes can be avoided, is written in every history ever com- Every trail is blazed, whether it be the one we ought Yet despite these things men, and women too, continn- ally lose their way, continually flounder away from roads and paths and fall worn and helpless and exhausted before The reason is that none of the blaaed trails to success They all Jead uphill, The others are more inviting. It is Even when we know that if followed far enough they thinking we But there is ne coming back from Easy Streets. They take one of the sure trails and going. Sometimes it will be dan- But it will become wider Travel as light as you can. Take little with you save Don't be discouraged if there is climbing, if there aye obstacles to overcome and rivers that much be forded ov at the start. But it is always 8 know it is the right trail because »f before to happiness and Prosperity. | plain. It is your own fault if you do not Meredith Nicholson a opt in the Street* ») — Jon tl cay of a domestic institu tion, anxiety touel calendar is Abie proparation hones: work Maple syrup and flapjacks formerl were sufficient tu preserve the tegrity of the morning meal Is it not lime to re-Americanice the American breakfast tab) Dope's Progress. Brander Mathews descrives in “kissays on Lnglish'’ (Scribner's) evolution of “dope,” which be £ heard applied to certain drugs an! their vicious use Bays he; In ensuing years I begun to hea men assert that they felt aopy—t, e sluggish, as though they hud take. an opiate. A little iater the word took on a enlarged meaning, “1 doped it ou. hat is to say, "l'caime to # concl sion,” > After a while I noted that a perso seeking Information would aak to be supplied with tne dope. Whan we went to war with Ger many the American Ambagsado left Berlin carrying a smull bag which he held fast, because, as In explained, it cc the book ‘he inte 1 am watenfy tained the dope for vance that its fulure cannot be more surprising than its past. It's @ wise Mother Tongue, we infer, that can tell what her children are coming to, ee own verbal At Otlter People's Windows. - - - Writing out his “glimpses of 1 in his book ‘The Street of F (Dutton), Charles Vince obser It used to by a rule of c nat oth if It ts dui of the Subway Sun? In the first place, I would remind | the gentleman of the old ¢ ruction he ‘he who lives in a be itd know We judge ourselves viv what 2 ought never to throw stones, My conception of the word ‘con- we feel capable of doing while wontey Mr. Yenoe requests you to “eall the tain’ is such that if one thing were) others judge us by what we have mone" own train of thought, tt appears) yonoe saya tt Rhee Heraanar sane ; | Yenoe says that the “trains consist . to me that the subway is anjof or contain so muny cars” Why, | Money is power, and rare are . inanimate thing, having no “att then, the objection to the expression| te heads that can withstand the fron, the outelde ie teu ee hict ‘“ as 8 carr jo many care™ | i : on outside is frauent. idea Is that Mr, Yenoe wishes you How mar wer f ° f 1 uid never stay unt e attention pf the als of jpeading public. If various hypererit- pany whichrowns t [ical persons would direct some of| A good woman would rather editey sOwith these scones of the matter thelr excess n toward thelr] pe th gited windows. They huve all the Again, Mr i pupil | own faults and shortcomings and en- the mother of @ gentus than Fomence of unilnished play { lower grade primary schools vor to overcome them before cor-| he .ife of a hero.—Methuselah, 8 id know” &c, Maxwell's g states that the use of shall vuld i the second and third per- #, singular or plural, expresses de- mination or resolve, Is Mr. Yenoe re world would be happier and a better place to live tn. affords’ amusement to the ing those of other people, the pends on truth, MISS M. T. DOLAN. Richmond Hill, Oct, 15, 1921. \ ; From the Wise | —Beaconsfield. The stability of the world de- justice and peace—Simon ben Gamalieb. window {s th: These room plays would be The graceful confession of @ dis gracefully peeping Tom But at least his play may reach a crisis if the Man of the House comes home to catch him at his peeping post United King-