The evening world. Newspaper, November 5, 1921, Page 10

eects sow mmm | She EGening Ctarlo, " ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER WuPiished Dally Except Sunday by The Preee Publishing ‘ Company, Nos Park Raw, Now Yo RALPH PUL! Row MEMIER OF TH (The Associated Prem ty exclusively ea tied to. thy Off ait news despatches credited to it oF noi otnerwise creuitea in tae papas O24 also the local news pubiishea herein ow. use for repubticatton ‘ planned to meet from current funds. Mr. Mellon, | } more frank than the President, said as much to | | Congress. What this »means. translated into the ordinary phraseology of business is that the Government Proposes to renew its notes and put off immediate payment of some of the money it owes. Then why not say so? Why try to make it ap- pear that this is a “reduction in expenditures” ? The present Administration has a great oppor- THE ASSASSINATION OF PREMIER HARA HE people of the United States were deeply shocked yesterday at the news that Premier Hara of Japan had been On the eve of the momentous Washington that means so much to the world, the death’ of Japan's liberal and Minister is a sad loss. At the present writing it seems possible the assas- sination may represent a blow struck by reactionary, Ol4 Guard militarisin in Japan against the new Movement toward international co-operation and * disarmament. Premier Hara was a commoner and a civilian. His proposal to act as Minister of the Navy during Admiral Kato’s absence at Washington had been deeply resented in both navy and army circles in Japan. Such feeling might easily have led some unbaianced mind, or group of minds, to think they were serving a threatened class or’ order by strik- ing him down. Whatever its motive, the deed should react in Japan and at Washington {to increase devotion to the great purpose toward which the liberalism of Hara was expected to contribute. The reactionary element in Japan did not like the dead Premier's policy of seeking ‘to meet the wishes and plans of the United States for the Con- ference on the Limitation of Armament. The’ progressive element in Japan is likely to take his death as a new dedication to the larger aims with which his character and career were associ- ated. May the results at Washington so prove. —— Trying to make campaign capital out of the milk drivers’ strike is what one would expect of Hylan, Anything that beckons a vote. assassinated. conference al gressive Prime e SHAKESPEARE FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. HOUSANDS of New York school children are to enjoy a free matinee performance of “Hamlet” next Wednesday as guests of E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. This is an undertaking that deserves praise. It shows that our leading Shakespearian players are as big as their art and recognize their obligation to the Shakespearian tradition. In recent years this couhiry and England have been ashamed to find that Shakespéare in transla- tion is more appreciated in Gerthany than is the original in the English-speaking nations. If there is to be adequate appreciation of, Shakes- Ppeare, it must come from the rising generation. Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe can hardly expect to profit personally by arousing childish interest in , Shakespeare's drama. The children of toxlay will be paying patrons of those who follow the present leaders. These two distinguished artists must be credited with unselfish concern for the future in giving New York chikiren an introduction to “Hamlet.” But if the artists draw inspiration from the audience, “Hamlet” will be at its best. The children will appreciate the treat. Tt 4s interesting to learn through the Chris- tian Advocate, in a compilation made by Dr. 0, 8. Baketel, editor of the Year Book, that the largest Methodist congregation in America is that of a colored church, Hast Calvary, in Phil- adelphia, numbering 3,420 communicants. St. Mark's colored chufch in New York has 1,946 members. The strongest white congregation, North Woodward, Detroit, has a membership of 3,117. THE PRESIDENT ON THE BUDGET. HE President's letter on the budget announces that the estimates for 1922 have been cut $94,000,000 since August. That $94,000,000 is a huge sum to ordinary folk. It staggers the imagination. It is intended to im- press the voter. But $94,000,000 represents a cut of less than 2% per cent. of the expected expenditures. Ex- pressed In percentages, it shrinks. Most business men expect to do business a good deal more than 234 pet cent. cheaper next year than this, Even. so, any Government must be allowed some credit if it does not plan to spend more than ever before. In particular, President Harding and Mr. Dawes will deserve credit if they stick to the estimates .and refuse to permit Congress to raise them. One paragraph of the letter is less than frank. Tt is positively tricky. The “aggregate reduction fn expenditures” is swelled to a more imposing total by “a reduction of $170,000,000 provided for out of public debt receipts.” This is obscure—probably by design. The aver- age reader will look at the total and will vot bother What this means. What it probably does signify fs that the Treasury plans to issue bonds or cer- Ufeates of indebleless to cover payments it had . | tunity to give the budget system a good start. If it is to have a fair show of gaining public confi- dence, the Administration should ‘be candid and ex- plain matters in language all can wderstand. Cer- tainly we should not be led to believe that we can save money by putting off our debts. AT THE CROSSWAYS. wows were able to do what men could not, Feminine volunteers were able to stand at the crossways of the city with placards exposing the absolute falsity of Mayor Hylan’s parrot-like | claim that he is the savior of the 5-cent fare. | ~ The crossways of the city are the transfer points. Four ago 2,365 free trinster points. To-day there are only 358 free transter years there were points. To-day there are 227 transfer corners where it costs 2 cents additional te complete the ri To-day there are 1,780 transfer points where passengers pay an extra ’nickel if they want to ride. | The place to brand the Hylan 5-cent fake is the place whete people pay the extra fares. The Coali- _tionists tried to make an effective appeal by sending out men with placards. Rowdyism by the Hylanites and persecution by the Hylanized police made this | ‘impossible. he men were not permitted to keep their placards showing. Phen women volunteers stepped in. They were more successful. The rowdies and the police didn’t | dare molest them. They kept the banners of truth flying where they would do the most good—at the ¢crossways where people are paying 7-cent fares and 10-cent Jares. Would there were 100 women volunteers tor every one now serving. If every 10-cent fare transfer point were placarded Monday, the 5-cent fake would be an exploded myth before the polls opened Tuesday morning. It would be a fine omen for woman's entry into municipal politics if women could drive home only one truth and brand only one fake in this election. Woman can do some things that man cannot Displaying truth at the crossroads seems to be one of them. Mr. Untermyer has findlly suggested the real significance of that mysterious middle initial in the Mayor's name. It doesn’t mean “Faith- ful." It stands for “Fake.” FOOTBALL'S EXUBERANT HEALTH. RANTING good, weather, most of the big | football matches are expected to draw larger crowds than ever before. There seems to be a rising wave of football enthusiasm. One athletic manager after another has been reporting applic tions in excess of supply for games to-day and | for the rest of the season. . When the various modern “bowls,” “stadiums” and athletic fields were originally built there were doubters who couldn’t imagine that sport lovers could ever be induced to fill such huge structures. But they are proving all too small. Football, at many colleges, provides a surplus to finance the less profitable athletic ventures, Open play rules, numbering of players and. the housecleaning that purged the game of profes- sionalism have popularized it until it runs an easy second to baseball in popular favor. Here’s hoping Suturday weather in November will be fair and with temperatures to suit both players and spectators, Mayor CURRAN or Mayor BARST *) ylan ‘ TWICE OVERS. “T HE (Transit) Commission's plan has noth- ing to do with politics, and its action will not be affected either one way or the other by the issue of the election."—The Transit Commission. * * * 66] T is a wonderful country—what a size. We travel, travel and travel, and still we have lots more to go.”—Marshal Foch. ~ * * “ce ORGET the vendetta. If you think you are helping me by knifing the ticket, foxget it, You will do me a big favor by voting the Coalition ticket from top to bottom.” — Aldermanic , President La Guardia to Italian voters. * * * 667 KNOW that the Prime Minister wishes to come to America.” —Lord Lee of Fareham. *_ * * ce E have indeed great problems yel to solve. We are dealing with questions of railroads, farms, shops, and of instruments of commerce and in- dustry, but in the background of every person's mind there is the fact that we are dealing not with mechanical i but that we are concerned with the problems of women and children.” — Herbert Hoover. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1921, | Rough Going! Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New Yor Brening World), m | | | | ; From Evening World Readers What kind ot letter do you find inost 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 briet. say much in few words. Catting Down he Schools. To the Jalitor of The Hyening World You, editor, and those readers who, {have read the figures of the budget; that was passed upon last week—is not your conscience stricken with the memory of the utterly insignificant | amount apportioned to the Board of Education? Do you ~feel an inward | jpride in being a resident of a city | that reduces an already small app'o- | priation to the educational depart- ment of a city of 6,000,000 people to | an 4mount that means the abolition of many of its edu 7 fons are asked in a si igning at the Harlem Evening School when word came that the class would have to be discontinued because of lack of funds aused by the action of the Board of stimate and Apportionment in re- ducing the appropriation for schoc Last webk, while attending a lec- ture at thé Woodstock Library, an- noyncement was made that because of ‘the action of the Board of Esti-, mate and Apportionment the course may have to be discontinued, to- gether with twenty-three other lec- ture centres throughout the city. And all because of a small sum of about $80,000 for the ensuing year. That amount, representing the reduction in the total amount asked for by the Board of Education, 1s a lopping off of one-third of the amount appor- tioned to the Lecture Department last year Before final action was taken upo! the budget I communicated with Henry Bruckner, President of the Borough of the Bronx, relative to the matter, but received little satisfac- tion, Realizing the futility of the ap- Heals of one citizen, 1 discontinued my efforts Is it not a poor commentary for a metropolis to attack the Educational Department in order to present figures, before election time, indi- cating a reduction in expenditures? Ig it not damnable, in the face of the recent graft exposures in the dock and other city departments, to effectively place education in this) ity beyond the reach of the average citizen because of. a wail of offictal | enury? | I sincerely trust that your paper, | in conjunction with others in’ this | city, will take up the cudgets for the | retention of sufficient educational centres in New York. It 1g @ matter that ought to be brought before the attention of the yoters of this city Yours very truly, ISIDORE GREENGOLD. No, 857 Tinton Avenue, Bronx itled to Service. To the Editor of The Brenig World Violence all over town in the milk | drivers’ strike. This fine bunch of unionized es (Mr, Strauss calls them yery “organized mumerers") promised men to deliver milk to hospitals, Instead, they drag people, who "dare" supply these in- stitutions from cars and apill the contents of the containers they are “a 1e are entitled to the service public of the most necessary food Just because they don’t care to work for a living wage and refuse to let others do it, then it is high time we get some laws with teeth e make them ave. If the can't handle t polic! e 9,000 roughnecks, get out the militia and Federal troops if that should prove necessary. We the com- panies are willing to furnish. LAW AND ORDDR. New York, Noy. 2, 1921. From a Former Driver. To the Editor of The Brening World: Where do you think the ‘public stands in the present milk strike? It seems to me that if the men win the public will have to “pay the piper” and stand for a “Sovtet rule” delivery kervice. The milk drivers are dependent upon public patronage, yet they abuse the public unmercifully for a few extra dollars in pay—wages which under pre! ranted, A In this strike ‘something should be done so that another one can never occur ugain, The only way to pre- ent conditions are unwar- I am an old-time milkman and went through what they now call the “hard times," 365 days of real ser- vice a year. I do not know the pres- ent condition of things, but | imag- ine that the staff consists of stable- men, porters, inspectors, route riders, route men, platform men, pasteuriz- ers and bottle washers. All these men are in one union, so it {s plain that they rule, A manager or “super” rule or order, even over a stableman, to say nothing of an inspector exer- clsing any wuthority over the men. They all stand pat. “One unit (unionized), We rule. We command! Our will must be obeyed or we will quit. The milk companies and the public can starve . BJD. Brooklyn, Noy. 921 The Milkma ‘To the Péitor of The Evening I have been a reader of your valu able paper for years and noticed your editorial in yeSterday's Evening World on the milk drivers’ strike May I say a few words? In the first place, I happen to be one of Borden's drivers, and never heard of any drive ting $8 or anywhere near it per week, including commis- sion, ‘The highest paid is at an aver- ‘age of $50, and that is not in all cages However, why pick on the milk men? There isn't @ man on the face of the earth who works any har The average man works seven or eight hours and gets a_ half day off Saturday and a vacation in the summer. The milk driver does not what a vacation els like. He works twelve to four- teen hors Monday and Tuesday, and from eight to ten hours every day in the week. One day a’ week off is a recent innov y in the year, Christmas and New Year's and carrying into the streets, They are being fined $10 and $16 in courts for disorderly conduct.» [f that is pur- ishment for people who deprive the , expect milk: delivered. Very little consideration the driver gets. Furthermore, the work cannot be called unskilled labor, and unless the vent another strike is an open shop. | is not able to enforce any | all holidays and Sundays, the public| much work or because they are not up UNCOMMON. SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1021 “KNOWLEDGE COMES BUT WISDOM LINGERS,” by John Blake ) Knowledge is not necessarily power, It is useful. essential, But without wisdom it is worthless. There are in the world hundreds of very learned men who do not contribute as much to its progress as the newsboy who sold you this newspaper. There are masters of many languages, men deep in mathematics and in the literature of the world, whose knowl- edge is of no use to any one but themselves. And knowledge which is only valuable to its possessor is not the kind of knowledge to get. Moreover going back to the quotation which we take for a tille to this article, knowledge does not endure. The profound student of law can learn the decisions ‘n y cases and make a decp impression on the court room ting them offhand, But his opponent who knows enough human nature to swing the jury is‘worth a dozen of him. The wise man gathers knowledge for the purpose of using it, not for the purpose of displaying it. He knows that no matter how much he knows, it is the use that he makes of his knowledge that counts. Abraham Lincoln was not a learned man, but he was a wise man, And because he was a wise man he did the must important piece of work in all American history. Epictetus, the Greek slave, was not profoundly learned though wisely versed in philosophy. It was his wisdom, not his learning, that made his teachings endure through the centuries. There are many men stuffed with knowledge who are tedious bores in conversation and who are avoided whenever possible by all their fellowmen There aye many men with little reading whose natural wisdom makes them much sought after as counsellors. To such men knowledge would be very useful, for they would know what to do with it. And most of them, if oppor- tuuity offers, acquire knowledge because of their interest in the world and their thirst to know about it and the people who dwell therein, But get wisdom while you are- getting knowledge. Puazzle out the problems as you go along. Keep your mind at work and profit by your experiences, It is the wisdom of the great soldier which enables him to meet a situation which has never arisen befgre. It is the wisdom of the obscufe man in the little town which enables him to find peace and happiness, There is nothing so valuable to you as wisdom—nothing for which the world will pay#so much when it discovers that you possess it. It is driver is a pretty good bookkeeper he cannot work for Borden, He is re- sponsible for every dollar in the book, and he alone loses out for any mis- From the Wise In the world a man lives tn his takes on his part. ‘There in a goon! own age; tn solitude, in all the deal more attached to being a mi uit driver than the public thinke, and 1| %¢%—Wm. Matthews, don't, see any men breaking thelt] yy gneir sfrat passions women necks looking for the job. Nine men out of ten aither quit because it's too] love the lover, in the othera they love tove,—La Rochefoucar:td. Marriage in haste we may re- pont at leteure,—Congreve. in thelr bookkeeping. Take {t from one who knows, DRIVER OF HACKENSACK, 19m Hackensack, Novy. §, URNING THE PAGES: —BY— . €. W. Osborn REAMS are wude in the moon, omnes, Hata Sces enue om On her shining hillsides ateep | Pleasant and ireadful and-gay aw! queer, They're piled ina silver heap. And many fairies with busting wings Are bi with hammers and wheels and things, Making the brings i To all littl: boys astecp, dreams that night-tine And tf a boy has been gtr When snug ty The fairies cone bright And slide him up to the skies. And there he sails as the Moon King’s Sill rebate his bed ne lies ieuth @ moonhea guest. And chooses the dreams he likes the best; Then slide him back to his nurs'ry nest And leave him rubbing his eyes. A eather neat cittle poem of eh{hi hood which we have slipped ont of “Youngsters” (Dutton), book collected verses by Burges Johns mn Vishnu-. "A Message Fri retold in “Taliput (Mitchell Kennerle of ypened to a message to earth from Vishnu, the G God, the leaves of which had heen scattered by one of India's mfghty tempests This is a legend, leaves” | Japan and Chin | . in the path o ugh t mail leaves o Visiin upon the earth two in one place, but ved so widely that they could hered together. ve would have Neept that e earth a strange heen en= each part thing each flutterin ground [tw ne the stone of a temple tallput leaf fell to the s transformed | the ‘bite of a. kings i the t of a j jother the laugh of in Japan So:me fell In cities, some on moun Lin tops, on the water and some in de nds. : Sweeter, thereafter fume of emine, was the per- more splendid Uie sun No leaf was lost, and there came ‘pon the people of the Orient a range nt, and Vishnu said, It is well We like to r the Bast an on’ lof the yest as | senttered by eon A temple wall of Peace laugh in a world free of w: these transformations | come! into this tayo! of hope for ideals written ‘on leaves eactionary gales after |The Dream versus the Strugele- | Writng of the future and fortune-tellers in his book of essay. \"1f T May” (button), A. Mil says: Tt tall dark man’ whlel) the + wants, He | ture Nobody ts going to pay two gut to he told that he will be “ft Saturday crystal doesn't guzer ren want the fy | it mts life a little mor | interesting to be told that he is go ing to be. © For the average man finds lif very uninteresting as tt is. And ? thinksthat the ason why he find it unin: sting he is always waiting something to happen him f being T hnagine that A oryst told that he would and gazer work desper vtely hurd for the next twent years, and would by that time hay earned (and saved) a fortune, a would be very disappointed. Prob. ably he would ask for his money ba Yo, the young man to the next fortune-tel ld merely go rand ask i* the crystal told the truth It the eternal procession of the’ fake prophets that keeps the gan going. se Glits for Social Clas: Outside of her novel, “The Mar- riotts and the Powells” (Macmillan), which she styles “a tribal chronicle,” Isabella Holt answers an English query as to American social distine- tions partly in thes | not of tts s rank: re moi hana reding in the other: » brains in one and a lit m in the other: 4 kindness. in. one Fi ameunt of heauty in the these are our m in one otlier mushroom coats-of 1 acsets can ne one hand; a man arn And inher! Mil more t | ‘riist bring his own gift besides, o: | he ts Neible.g The old Yani proverh of the “three from shirtsleeves Merives, of cour: frequency with which grand- sons neglect to maintain this two- handed social requisite, | Langhing Youth, Smiling Age--- Part of a page ot Max Beerbohm's “and Now" (Dutton), a book philosophies: e Is no digni hter eh of in smile ta joyous surrender ken of mature eriti- And you will have observed with me in’ the club room. that young men at most times look solemn, whereas old men or men of middle ake mostly mile; and also. that those men do often laugh | loud an among themselves, while we ora—the gayest and best of us nost favorable * achieve more act of smilin; of that laughter Does the s Jar on us? Do we liken it to the crackilng “of thorns under a pot’ Let us do x0, There ts no cheerler sound. But let us not assume It to ve the laughter of fools because we sit quiet I protest ti do still, at the age of forty- 1. Jaugh often and loud and long. Hut not, 1 believe, so long and loud and often ag in my less smiling youth, And I am proud, nowada: laughing, and grateful to who makes me laugh "That ts a bad sign | Ino longer take laugmwr «a» matter of course. I realize, iy after rending M, Bergoon on it, how: is Tam qualified nperunently, we ree | yay “smile, and smiie, and be a viilaju But the laughter the villain- ft not always holiow, oe io y the book?