The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1921, Page 10

Incubus, the party could carry on the programme which won in 1912 and 1916. All the new voters, and many of the old, would flock to the banner of a New Democracy freed of Bourbonism. The best element in the Democratic Party wiil wish the Republicans well in their efforts. If they can join the Bourbons of the South to the Old { Guan, the country will be well able to take care of such a combination. ISHED BY JOSHPH PULITAER. Exoep: Sunday by ‘The Prem Publishing ompany. Now. 53 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZBR, President, 68 Park Ri ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, "ke Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 68 Park Ri MEMBER OF TAD ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Prem {9 exctusirely enciniea to the use for republication edited to t oF not oLmerwise oreuttea in tam apoE own pudlisbec herein, the local sud also 1T MUST CUT BOTH WAYS. IE railroad unions, having called off the strike, a excellent position, Whether the lead- ers so intended or not, the net result has been to magnify the authority of the Railroad Labor Board. President Harding has put his prestige behind the DON'T ASK TO SEE 'EM! HREE days ago The Evening World invit Mayor Hylan to state | ising him for such a statement all the prominence he miglit desire. is transit an, prom- pace and board. He rallied public of pport of the The Mayor has not chosen do re vis transit decision of the board. And, af! plan to The Evening World. ter, t epted Neither has he revealed it to citi of New York, Now it is me ding to play fair ar Board cut both ways whose votes he is asking on the bluff that he has @ transit plan. P; 4 a4 “ hi Every day is adding to the number of voters ready ‘ revious to the strike call by the union ¢ fee several railroads had defied the Labor Board. The | “ call that bluff. ae ; Pennsylvania was the most notable exanyple. Just Hylan wants to be 5-cent champion how the President will go about it to centre public What's his claim? What has he got to back it up opinion on the Pennsylvania remains to be seen with? Where are the goods? That is his problem—and his obligation. It is also the obligation of the public to keep an open mind, ready to react to any feasible scheme | shat for putting the screws on recalcitrant railroads | ue For the public, this is a matter of simple self- | M protection. Unless the President can devise meais of driving the Pennsylv o line, the strike will be delayed, but it will come. Unless railroads obey the Labor Board, pub- lic opinidn is bound to be against them in the next strike } Thousands of people in New York Ciiy are now paying fares amounting to 10 and 15 cents on trips cost them a kel before Hylan was Is that is claim to be S-cent fare champion? 'f nobody but Hylan had done anything to help transit situation, if his incompetence and inac-, tion had not compelled State interference, every iraction line in New York would have gone into the hands of a receiver, the systems would have split into more pieces, the elevated would now be charg- ing 10-cent fares under its franchise and transfers would be a memory. Is that his claim to be 5-cent fare champion? In the first year of his term as Mayor, when he didn’t need votes, Hylan flirted with President Shonts of the Interborough on the higher fare propo- sition, and got Hearst's lawyer, MacFarland, to show how it was done in Boston, where the people now ! pay 10-cent fares, Is that his claim to be 5-cent fare champion? Now, when he does need votes, Hylan is shout- ing “S-cent fares” until he Is red in the face, with- Subway riders are perturbed. ‘They are asking | out @ particle of meaning or the’ vestige of a pro- each other if it is possible that any part of a sub- | gramme behind. way car could burn with passengers inside, They are wonkd ing what to do in case they are caught. They don’t know whether it is better to stay in the | ¢ar or take to the tracks. To prevent panic these questions must be an- swered. Municipal authorities ought. to start an in: vestigation of idents. The publi ought to have an authoritative statement in regard to the degree of inflammabiliiy of all cars used in the subway. If a subway car cann stances, it is obviously safer to stay than to get out. Assurance on this point might save many from death or serious injury in case of another accident. Is t And while the investigators are about it, it would be well for them to find out whether it is not pos- sible to use insulation which makes a tess offensive and stifling smoke in case it burns: These questions should be answered, swered soon. ‘The public ought to know. be uneasy and subject to the pani It does know Lal + + tt The telephone rate in Buffalo has been cut. Now it is time for the New York telephone company to renew the application for higher rales here to cover the weaker sisters up-State, ALLAY PANIC WITH FACTS. N the course of the week two subway trains have met “with accidents which resulted in panic among the passengers. In both uccidents fuses blew out, flames were seen and the smoke from burning insulation frightened the riders. No one was serivasly injured by fire or smoke, Injuries resulted from panicky crowding and push- ing, from nervous strain and‘ from kicking and punching the windows and doo: If he were to be re-elected Mayor, the Transit Com- mission plan woukl go over him like a steam roller. ‘He hasn’t one constructive proposal or suggestion jo offer. Nobody would pay any attention to him. He woukl be only a funny little figure waving arms and aming about “interests” that would ask nothing better than always to have a se two his sere Mayor of his size to deal with, or about “courts” first dut juld be to uphold the State in straightening ot a traction tangle that he has made who: burn under any circum- worse. at his claim to be Sent tare champion? It irritates the Mayor to be asked to state his transit plan because he hasn’t got a transit plan. If you want him you've got to take him on faith. Applaud him when he says and an- got the goods, It will | npulse until but don’t ask to see ’em. President Harding saying “Never ‘a seitis America,” suggests the morning after with its “Never Again.” It must have given him a heat ache to read the Germany treaty. ay That Chicago professor who says it is neces sary to go to Africa or Korea to find beautiful girls had better be on his way. “s MOLLY G.’S DREAM. LETTER from Molly G. printed on this page A yesterday probably amused and ‘interested many readers. Certainly it was a change from dis ions of Hylanism, Disarmament, Political Cor- ruption, the Irish and other weighty questions, Perhaps that isn’t the fair way to put {t. Molly G. stated that by Christmas expects to have sayed $300. It has taken her three years to do She intends to spend that $300 for a fur coat and she asks advice as to what Kind. of furs she ought PUBLICANS expect to make a vigorous drive to break the “Sofid Seuth.’’ Whether it proves effective or not, President Hurding’s Bir- mingham speech was pening gun of the cam paign. Professional and pol! will resent such an effort. themselves to have a “vested inter south of the Mason and Dixon the 1 Democrat long believed est” in Democrats who do not make a business of poli fo buy for that sum. For Molly G. he tics need n él alarmed. A br the Solid veightiest question that exis Seuth—the bigger th er—would be of me It has been “the dream er life’ to possess a fenefit to the Democratic Parly than io ‘the Re handsome fur coat, and sh loes not want to make publicans—eventually, if not in 1924 a mistake.’ Since 1896 Democratic Par 1a on ihe Ti will be easy enough to advise Moll 2 y of ideals and progress. ‘I Bourbonism ot sught not to spend that money for a fur coat, that the South has been a hindrance rathe na helr some other investment would be better, But un- When the Democratic Par 4 ceeded. 1a less we read the letter wrong, such advice will be ucceeded beca its ideals appealed to forward futile. looking men and women of the North and Wes: After ail, the m of a lite’ is a pretty im- These have as litile use for Bi nism as for Old poriant thing, so we are only hoping that Molly Guardism. will not be disappointed in the coat she buys and The Solid South has been a that it will repay her for all the sacrifices she has The Republican Pariy is disintegrai J made in saving the $300. : riding for another split such as it suffered in 1912. A Democratic Party freed of Bourbonism could and would attract the progressive element of the G. O. P. The Solid South has been the barrier to a more general movement into the Democratic Party of all those who oppose the Old Guard. Freed of this A big week for—beer. 6e HE day is dawning when preparations for war mast cease, for the world can no longer endure the strain of competing armaments.” —Goo, Baxter of Maine. sean he THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 10981. |_Decoys! By John Cassel From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one | that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to | Take time to be brief. say much in few words. Amendment Vo. k of The Byentng World At forthcoming ele nientions, voters of New. York will de ticians, job-seekers and the Sl Apthar leit . : it Incumbent upon among othe mportant matters 2 Xnd will such | whether or not there shall be a con-| situation end the spasm of gloom into | stitutional amendment to give to the| which Mr. ‘Thomas has thrown him- Legislature the authority to confer) self? equity jurisdiction upon the Ch Wake up, ‘Thomas, und any others | dren’s and the Domestic Relations like you! Fight fire with fire, and a| Court i tted = vc with a genuin one, At the present time families having! and I'll wager your influence alone domestic troubles are thrown about intimates will haye a notice- | from court to court because of the equity jurisdiction of the arding Amendmen rho Weinberger has taken me a favoring the ange as it may assed over the tight so much iment, with- ‘Everything else © says, this would be 3 Support nus! pand husband i go to a family court; hu heats her, that court has no j being equal, tion, but it apply to idea! Yes, 1 agree with him. But trate’; as a result c who would read the proposed amend- conditions, th! hild becomes ment, and then openly say that it quent, only the Children’s Ci ives’ him the inference that every- Jurisdiction When finally the bh his obligations, journe State, the aid of the Court of Gen Sessions must be invoked. It has, ther thing else was intended to be equal? It certainly does not. T will agree with many, that our disabled veterana should have unquestioned preference. But I would not ask for myself or to evade fore, been proposed that the Mamily any other veteran absolute preference Court be given jurisdiction in cases) over every one else as long es I am of desertion and non-support, pater-| physically able to meet the competl- nity cases, all matte acts pertaining to t aris nder courts & if tion. will also agree that where ges and “everything else” are and all matters pert ve the veteran the prefer-| tion and uardianship hout any strings tied to it. 1 I ature can confer such equity can seo that there are personal | powers upon these vowever, reasons behind my remarks about the amendment to tution endinent for lim! must be submitted to the 7 approval, Such now before ‘Amendment zeme who can an ; language, write the book that I could wr this one point alone. My intention ie 4 No. and others interested i not to antagonize any one—merely to fare urge the approva state my own view learly, for what- | of this proposa ever valuo or interest they may hold | for your readers, Chief Counsel, A. J. SCHNEIDER Bureau Bronx, Oct, 28, 1921 The Value of the Vote. On the Strike To the Editor of The Byening Worl the Faitor of The Bre: I had thought, when writing my Recently The 1d asked etter published in your tssue of the cdftorlally what right the raliroad em- i Mua SHR made Toy letters ployees had to strike, To any one vot sufficiently brief that eve Coguizant of the colossal arrogance of ut going more tuto detail 4t was the Grand sachems of the Rails sue! afortunately, { flnd that 1 w & question divcloses a natvete that ‘s taken, and Uagsk your Indulgence ed exquisite, One might Just. as enou ce to set one or tw Well ask Why the steel strike of 1919. our rea t tracit Oe the receut demonstration down In t {8 (oo ? auswer is that men do J refer firat to my opposit essly subject themselves and John Thomas, And I will suy fr ndents to the privations and and jie elams, thet Cle ug) inguinal sequences which #tikes on T mada was’ directed more gemeat 1 without . het pointedly againat toss who approcl- made pacitio em ate the ww of ay yet stub. | ployera, R work- bornly and blindly refuse to exorelse cre were constrained to wait for thelr the greatest privilexe extended @! wage increases until the companics tigen of any try, And tho) were permitted to raise their nates, tek Thomas and othera who! Why, then, cannot the same prnoip!s are ng selfish personal mrivv-| be applied now in the matter of wage anoes realise that the surest and) reductions? Why not reduce ratey be- quickest way to remove the unpleas-| fore wages? Why §500,000,000 to the antneas he refers to, ts through (he| creat Chams of tho Tails and. leas ballot, the sooner tlie ideal status I] than nothing to the operatives? sure- touched upon will be realised 68 ly, ‘rhe Evening World is not blind to nearly as any idea! situation is At-| the palpably Gishonest representations talnable, of railroad offlaials (servants of prt-) But be tain, 1 will sunpose that | vate towners) who during the war my point ts wrong. Is it not true that, \ obeyed the mendate to make Gevern- OOOO TTA TTT ee UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtent, 1921, by John Blake.) DON’T GET SOURED We receive frequent letters from young wen who hayc ed on the world, Why,” said one of them recently, “do you continually preach that a man can succeed if he tries? I have tried for five years and never got anything but a poor salary as : bookiseeper.” Says another: 4 “You ought not to lead your readers to think that there is equal opportunity in the world. You know that there are many men who never have a fair show.” Another: ‘You make people think it is easy to get along. It isn’t. Thousands of men will tell you that they have worked all their lives and never even got out of debt.” We have not said that there was equal opportunity in life, or that it was easy to get along. We have never said that all men could attain success if y worked hard engugh. We have said repeatedly that men must expect both hard work and much injustice in the world. If they want to get along they must take these things into consideration and get along in spite of them. The fact remains, however, that most of the men who are in important places to-day have got there through their own unaided efforts. Neither Rockefeller nor Schwab nor Edison nor Ford ever had anybody to help them. They found the world full of injustice. They saw cp- portunities which passed them by go to others unsonght. But they became the more determined instead of the more discouraged because of these conditions. Perhaps three-quarters of the men whose names are widely known throughout Europe and America made them- selves. It wasn’t an easy job. It required more toil than any ready letter writer can imagine. ‘It also required a cheerfulness and determination which no hard luck could sour, You cannot be a brilliant success as a painter if you have not an artist's eye, nor as a pianist if you are tone deaf. But pick out a job you can do and yon will get along well in it. Thousands of others who have done so are all the procf you need that this is true, mei don't these cxtenslble 100 per oant. pa iriots emerge from belind thetr amug barrage of propaganda and eham and declare openly thet the Government) ation 49 the eMId of ambition; | aos ‘i in 6 cower eo eee ae| rivatry {# the unlovable daughter | every action flatly contradicts the! of envy.—Balzac. windy word, Ia it any wonder that men thre ten 1t ta actf-loce and tte offepring, G) he they see the One is to strike Wheancial prestidigttateura| #¢// @eoeption, which shut the working 60 ardently to aocelerate| gates of heaven, and lead mon as their Golden Millennium—a minimum | 4» 4 q dekotoue dream to hell, swage based on each applicant's par-| '’ eee tloular degree of starvation? | —Soriver, I next war jn proportion to what has to protect, ally exempt many gaunt medal hold-| ers J. New York, Oot, 19. nt ownere!tp @ costly flasoo? Why From the Wise EmulatiBn is not rivalry, Eniu- suggest that each man fight set | Truth ond fidekty are the pil- tle- | lava of the temple of the world; when these ore broken, the fabio faltg and crashes att to pieces, ~-Owen Fellham. Thia will automa whose sole ahattels the} ches in the pari AW LOR are TURNING THE PAGES DON’T miné writing pooma, For, as everyone nas sald, Your poems simply Come to You 4} midnight while in ded; Tou mover have to hunt for rhymes Or themes or enything— Just think of your woes or some soenery Ané open your mouth ané eing! T don’t mind writing stortes For, as everybody hnotws, You Just ait down with gen cid ink And the Inspiration Flows: They tell me so at afternoon teas — Just feed me an ink and a pad, And I roll my eyes and produce at once A tory that eells ike mad. T don’t mind detag en author, For, as anybody wil tell, All you do 4g to Write @ Book And send it along to sell. The only work about writing— It’a @ very terrible thing- 8 wrapping your stuff and stamping it And tying it up with string! We might have opened @ correspon. ence school on the arts of poetry an? authorship. Instead, we just quote Margaret Widdemer, as above, from Novembe: Harper's. * 8 6 Faith in the Future. --- Says President Butler of Columbia in bis “Scholarship and Gervice" (Scribner), a book of university ideals: : ‘The true fact {s that faith in th» future je the foundation, and pratt much the sole foundation, for all that we do and prepare to do. Education, for example, ts towari &@ more or less definite end, and tha: end ie always ahe: of us. ‘Work is undertaken for some eet ieee end that purpose {s always hoped f ways ahead of us in the future ts the oniy justification for human activity of ‘any sort whatsoever. It seems rather a pity, doesn’t it, that Dr. Butler was not in this fran of mind when the League of Nations was offered as hostage for the whole world’s future? as 6 Yhe Scholar's Business. - - - Words of Louise Imogene Guines poet, essayist and recluse, as quotec n the story of her iif@ (Macmillans) by Alice Brown: The main business of the echola is to live gracefully, without menta passion, and to get off alone into « corner for an affectionate view o! creation, Miss Guiney’s $dea would be that also of the practical ran in politics It would take the scholar out u the game. oo 9 Severities of Mr. George. -- - Turned off on various pages of "4 Tandon Mosaic” (Stokes),.by W. Le George: ‘Women are like cats; they have uo bones and easily sult theinselver to bell-mouth: skirts or hobble. If a woman has the wit to shun the he 6 can always be { ne dares, There {s no such thing as “good old.” There ts nothing but “bad Men do not fail, they at What is wrong with the drema !s that it does not hold an !dea tu the square act. Sometimes we wonder if Mr. Geore: would ever be rea were right with the w Cheese Vebbles and & Poet's Heart.- In “The Boets of th anthology of coll Press), we find: ” by Miss dean L. Vettig of Hollins College: My lwart was trauquit as a forest pool + Till you came singing doion the mooi lit wayr Filnging your careless words i pebbles Into its deptis. - Decp down they sank—and you tent ® gaily on, But where they felt Came little circles ever widening, Till they encompassed all my ha: eer aeen Sunshine of the Nineties. As @ foil to Mr. George's “bad old cynicism, cited further up this ¢o!- umn, we quote from E. T. ond's “Portraits of the Nineties” (Scrth ner’s), an impression of good o!d times, thus: The sun shone brighter {n those days, ‘The east wind was lees bit © wornen were certainly pretti: end (perhaps) more modest; ni steaks were Jutcler; the landiadles were a kindlier race. There was » to-day feat and flavor in life lack! Youth was emanclp: n the harsher kind of parental oontro! and had not yet found a stern step | father of the state. | The world wae all before tt where | {2 choose, and the future was velled Both the “bad old” and this “good oid" author being Hnglish— ‘We perceive instant evidence as +: which favors the sunny side of the | English street. | a nh Thor Gent. Josselyn and the Weed ‘We invite our readers to turn wit! us @ single page of @ reprinted ed tion of "An Account of Two Voyages to New England, made during the years 1638 end i663, by John Joe gelyn, Gent,” and which was fire: ‘Published in London in 1675. Here we read: ‘The Vertues of tobacco are these Tt helps digestion, the Gout, Toothache, prevents {nfection _b: aconta, it ‘heats the cold, ‘coals them that sweat, tesdeth the hungr; i pent spirits restoreth, pu: the omnach, killetty nite and fice; ee 0 Teen aleth gree: ‘aifnough poisoned juice wounds, ed; the ‘amo, Syrup for many diseases, Phthyaic, cough of the fungs 3 for | Aistillations of rheume, and all 4 | as of @ col ens Sold and’ moist cause good for all ‘bodies cold. and ‘mode: faken upon an emptie — stomach taken upon full stomach i pre- § tates @ Cigestion,, _ ,tmmed: hy on \t @ryeth the ‘body, enflameth | thw blood, hurteth the brain, weak- | ens the eyes and the stnews. | Having printed which, in defiance of Anti-Niootine, we hereby chal longe that blue-ribboned and reform atory creation to do {ts worat—or its best--with the ancient text. But always remembering selyn was @ Gent, he himse! said tt ‘ t Jor having