The evening world. Newspaper, November 7, 1921, Page 34

> i " PANY Slorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Published Datiy Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 68 Park n JOSEPH RULITPER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOULATED PRESS. The Associated Prem ts exciusively cnauea to the use fee republiestiog | (ef all news despatches credit ‘end also the loca! news pul 19 St or mot oinerwise creuitea in tase berein, WHEN ? HEN will the American Government begin f serving the American people? ‘! For months Congress has been playing with great * problems the failure to settle which has ground the 1 face of the country. Instead of economy we have tax juggling. Instead of opening doors for America we have throttling tariff schedules. Instead of our ships threading the Seven Seas they lie marooned in Jamaica Bay, where, by way of mockery, the city is spending money to create a great harbor. But worst of all, after inviting the nations of the earth to join in a conference for disarmament, we see the arriving delegatas greeted with an atmosphere of mistrust, sedulously created by propaganda put out from a concealed but easily located source, the purpose of which seems to be to halt the hopes and wishes of the people. Why is this done? Why should a smoke cloud be raised to obscure the rays of righteousness? Again, let it be asked, and with the mighty voice of the United States: i “When will the American Government begin serving the American people?” See Senator Watson “will not lower” himself “to the level of either Secretary Weeks or Gen. Pershing.” Not a chance. It’s contrary to the law of gravitation. THE. AMENDMENTS. ROPOSED amendments to the State Constitu- tion which will be handed to them to-morrow on a separate ballot should not be slighted by voters. There should be a clear exptession of popular will regarding the amendments submitted. Amendments Four, Six and Seven are not contro- versial. The average voter knows nothing of the needs for a reorganization of government in West- chester and Nassau Counties or the advisability of selling strips of the old Erie Canal. They have passed the Legislature, and the presumption is that they should be adopted. Amendment Five is a progressive, forward-looking measure and should pass. Amendment Three is misstated in the abstract by Secretary of State Lyons. It does not require 3 literecy test for voters entitled to vote this year or in any previous year. No voter can lose his vote by voting “Yes.” The amendment applies only to voters who acquire the right to vote in the future. ‘Any voter may form his own opinion of whether the ability to read and write English is desirable as a voting qualification, ‘Amendment Two would double the salaries of members of the State Legislature. The legislators favor this amendment. Each voter may ask him- self whether the services of a legislator are worth more than $1,500 a year and whether $3,000 will be likely to attract men worth the larger salary. It will mean a per capita tax increase of something less than 3 cents. Amendment One should be defeated. This is not to say that veterans are not entitled to @ preference in civil service appointments. But they are not entitled to the particular kind of preference sought in this amendment. Amendment One should be defeated to give opportunity for the introduction of a well-considered and fairer preference amendment at some future election. Many will hesitate to vote against Amendment One on the theory that some preference is due veterans and that even an imperfect amendment is better than ingratitude. ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1921.” | sort of barometer to guide Congress in increasing or | decreasing super-tax and excess profit schedules. | On the basis of this evidence the country could | decide whether an amendment to the Constitution | forbidding future tax exemption is required. At present no one knows the amount of tax-exempt securities in existence. No one knows definitely where and by whom they are held. No one needed to know until we adopted the Income Tax Amend- | ment. ! Now we need to know the exact facts if we are to | have an equitable and effective system which levies | taxes in proportion to the ability to pay—which the | present tax system does not. DON'T BE FOOLED. E retuse to believe that the people the Hearst papers call the “plain folks” of this city are all “easy marks.” .| We refuse to believe they can all be fed bun- combe until they lose the power of using their own minds to form their judgments. We refuse to believe théy have swallowed the Hylan 5-cent-fare fake until they actually think the 5-cent fare is the great issue in this municipal elec- tion, with Hylan defending them against a Transit Commission whose design is to pick their pockets by raising fares. We may be wrong. But we have more faith in the common sense of the average New York voter. In an announcement—wholly non-political—set- ting the first public hearing on the traction plan for Nov. 15, the Transit Commission reiterates in the | following plain words its purpose: 4 The commission, as it has already an- nounced, will require as a primary condition that the new system when put under opera- tion shall retain the city-wide 5-cent fare. It is moreover confident that if its plan ts adopted and the cost eliminations and econ. omies it has in view are made possible, the S-cent fare will be retained without future disturbance. 7 “City-wide 5<cent fare.” We can’t believe a majority of the people of New York are incapable of reading the words aright. We can’t believe they will troop after the first demagogue who tells them these words mean the oppesite of what they say. “City-wide 5-cent fare.” Have the people had that under Hylan—with only | 358 free transfer points remaining on surface lines | to-day as against 2,365 four years ago, before Hylan took office—with 2,007 points where a 2-cent trans- fer charge or no transfer privilege at all now make 7 AND 10 CENT FARES? Would Hylan have dared to stand ai any one of these 2,007 7 and 10 cent fare points and pose as the preserver of 5-cent fares? He would not. Even Hylan and Hearst rate popular intelligence higher than that, Mayors may come or Mayors may go, but transit reorganization has got to come if New York is to | have 5-cent fares. | Five-cent fares are not like Thanksgiving. Neither John F. Hylan nor President Harding nor anybody else can “proclaim” 5-cent fares in this city. Drastic readjustment and close figuring are the indispensable processes by which S-cent fares must be secured. Does New York want in its next Mayor an ob- stacle to that adjustment or an aid? No voter can afford not to be-honest with himseli and his own intelligence. | He is not voting for or against a 5-cent fare | to-morrow. | He is voting for or against the candidate best fitted by brains, experience and accomplishment to be the next Mayor of New York—a Mayor who will be | | Hylan, should have our sympathy | |letter written over his own signature ‘every family purse in the city. John Cassel that gives th: worth of a thousand say much in few words. He Has Failed, j To the Editor of The Evening World: Our present Mayor, Mr. John } rather than our criticism, At’ any rate, he should be given recognition for his courage, if not ments) perception, The best evidence of Mr, Hylan's courage is the tollowing extract of a his appearing in the People's Advocate which is being circulated arhong the citizens of Greater New York by the Democratic Party, It states: “The 8-cent fare on the transit lines. means $60,000,000 a year more| out of your pockets into the coffers of the traction companies. This means | an average of $100 per year eut of | “The gas companies are charging higher rates with the aid of the Fed- | eral courts; the electric and telephone rates have been increased through | court action, and these increased rates | mean an additional $40,000,000 a year) out of your pockets into those of ¢ utilities ring. “If the increased utilities rates be- lcome permanent, the people of York City will be out of pocket total of $100,000,000 a year, besides the} $250,000,000 they now pay each year} ane,| New) ay There is fine mental exercise and a lot of s: Take time to be brief, From Evening World Readers | What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn’t it the one words ina couple of hundred? | isfaction in trying to | this and words, have been blocked before made impossible, In other i they have failed in protecting the \n- crests of the people as pledged four years ago. Mr. Hylan, being the Chief Executive of the city govern- ment must therefore accept the re-| sponsibility, together with those elected on the Democratic ticket four yea ago. i With the facts revealed, would it) show good judgment on the part‘ of! the voters to re-elect Mr, Hylan and! his colleagues for another four years. It would seem they have been tried and found wanting. Mr. Hylan had} a man-sized job, but unfortunate! did not measure up to the re ments, A CITIZE New York, Nov. 4, 1921 6+2=—7, To the Editor of The Evening World ive-cent fare and 2-cent transfer. Where does Mayor Hylan “get off” with his 5-tent fares? When I went to, school 5+2=7, If the lines were owned by the city, transfers could be issued on all lines without additional charge. It is nothing but deception, pure and simple. If that is all he has to recommend him for re-election bet- ter try somebody else. y can't do much worse, JAMES R. LEE. New York, Nov. 4, 1921. Favors Amendment No. 2. fo the Editor of Tue Evening World As a public @pirited citizen I be- lieve that the public will derive con- UNCOMMON SENSE . By John Blake (Copyright, 1021, by John Blake.) WHAT IS WEALTH? Wealth 1s not money—not even physical wealth. You may take from a country all the minted gold and printed currency in its banks and in its treasury and still leave it perfectly solvent. But take from it that which that money stands for, its crops, its minerals, its iimber, its manufactures, and you leave it “fiat.” , The wealth that most men toil for they never attain. Perhaps the richest man in America is John D. Rocke- feller. He would gladly exchange half of his dollars for a good digestion. He would give’ them all for the opportunity to start the world over again, a lusty, ambitious youth, with a vision of what business brains could do in a modern world. Money that brings more than independence and an op- portunity to do good is valueless. It is not wealth, it is a burden, It chains a man to it for life. Its responsibility often sends him to the grave many years before his time. Do not understand us as preaching the nobility or neces- sity of poverty. Poverty is not noble. Unless a man is very badly handicapped in his youth it is inexcusable. It is to be avoided as any other plague would be avoided. The endeavor to avoid it is a spur to ambition and a force for good in the world. ‘ But the man who wants wealth for the sake of the gold and the securities that represent it never gains real wealth. That lies in health, in a clean conscience, the two things that alone can bring what we call happiness, | If you are in your youth able to get the education that \3 will make you appreciate the beauty of the world with an appetite that needs no stimulus, you are wealthy. The world may not be in your name, but it is yours, In Action By Rev. Thomas 8. Grego’ Copyright, y The Press Publishing Cai’ (Tne ‘ork Evening World). | | THE DEAD HAND OF TRADITION. MATT. XV., 1-14, The Sleuth-Houpds known as the ‘Scribes and Pharisees" were trailing | Him day and night, but somehow they always played into His hand@ and instead of catching Him were themselves caught, In this particular instance the Great Veacher and His disciples, tired and bungry, were resting by the wa: and partaking of thelr frugal ta, The tharp eyes of the Pharisees bad noticed the fact that the disciples had failed to WASH before eating, and that gave them the chance they were woking for. “See here, Master, why it that you and your disciples nsgress the traditions of the Lidera y eating without having WASHED yonr han , io The “washing” referred to by the Pharisees was not the ordinary abius tion that all of us resort to before cating, but a ceremonial washing, ate tended by certain RITUALISTIC fea tures, To omit THIS, no matter how clean the hands might have been washed in the common way, was Sin, ransgression of the tradition of the Elders. | Without stopping to argue with sed, Jesus asked them a question: You are talking about TRADITION, | but are you unaware of the fact that | your tradition makes you transgress the Commandment of God? God said, ‘Honor thy father and mother. Be ;kood to them and tenderly care for them in their old age.’ But what do , You do? When your fathers and ; mothers appeal to you for help im | their destitution you answer their piteous cry with the lying subterfuge |furnished by your tradition, You say, ‘Dear parents, Lam sorry, but all that I have is CORBAN (devoted to the service of God) and I cannot help you.’ It is but a hypocritical device | for enabling you to get out of ding your duty to father and mother, and you know that it is. You want my disciples and myself to follow the traditions in trivial matters, but you refuse to follow the Commandments | of God in the most important mat- ters, Well did the prophet say of the like of you, ‘They honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, teaching as their doctrines the pre= | cepts of men.’" Were ever men so dverwhelmingly, | so crushingly answered? No wonder they went away feeling their chagrin slipping into red-eyed janger. The simple truth made them furious. Noticing the high dudgeon in whieh the Pharlsees departed from the scene of their defeat, the disciples said to the Great Teacher, “Did you observa how deeply they were offendec Whereupon Jesus answered, ‘Let hem alone. They are blind guides; and if the blind guide the blind both shall fall into the pit. Don't worry yourselves about them. Every plant that our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be uprooted.” : Nothing but Truth endures. Error y flourish, like the trge by the ! f water, for a long time, but the days of its prosperity are num~ bered. and by and by “Ichabod” shalh ®| be written across its faded glory. | ‘The dead hand of feasivoD bhi H ways rest upon the free spiri Bae By and by it will be Falsehood in the “pit” and Truth upon the throne. || Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government Comias, Nah Hes nS WS By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the ninety-fourth article of @ series defining the duties of the dd« ministrative and legislat’ officera and boards of the New York Oity Government. THE JUDICIARY. Municipal Term gourt. The Municipal*Term of the Magis+ trates’ Courts has Jurisdiction over certain misdemeanors in violation of ‘city ordinances and the rules and regulations of any department of the ty Government, as well as viola~ tions of State laws enforced by the city departments (except the Police Department) and the State Labor Department, These cases are tried | in the Municipal Term by Magistrates sitting as Justices of the Court of Special Sessions. | The object in establishing a special ccurt of this kind was to relieve con- gestion in the District Magistrates* Courts and to facilitate the enforces ment of city ordinances and reguia= tions by saving the time of investi« | gators and inspectors, as well as to | give certain Magistrates opportunity to become specialists in this kind of them upon the point that they Had , \ \ Fy . Nie aaron jsiderable benefit by the passage of sea This is th , 4 himself the best argument for respecting the munic- | °F Utility service un React The ski h " he beauty of the aut: foliag: Bach department of the City Goy- is is the wrong way to look at the matter. 8 pecting the munic- | “31:4 figures represent a vast amount| Proposed Amendment No. 2, increas- | he skies, the streams, the beauty of the autumn foliage, h department of toe ey Tis Those who favor preference but oppose absolute | ipal rights of New York, including the right to take | one: 4 should be carefully | N& the salaries of our State legis-| 3 the song of the birds in the trees, the majesty of the moun- {| which to bring its cases into the s of money and ‘snot lators. ins and the sublimily of the ocean, all are wealth, All tha! Municipal Term Court, No person is nlimited and unreasoning preference should vote ee meer aw Oe sy Vconaidersd bythe: votora:: Br, Hein: mere tains and the sublimily of the ocean, all are wealth, "4 Municip Court, No p i) zp ould vote | every possible measure to make permanent the | considers ; ; If we expect honest and capable] $ wealth is yours for the taking brought into this court under arrest “No” H lthe S-cent Mayor, according to his i seal a 3 t a . he has failed to appear im No’ meaey: and then set pred finding a proper | 5 cent fare. lown figures based on an 8-cent fare eet gonrenenhi 6 ADO Bok Re aah | If you can—and you should be able to—add to ver to a summons, measure for favoring ve! iS wi oing injus- | 4 2 1 sit anditeeo ee * b nee aA © ability “554 ca a wey art L. of this court {s held on tha ‘ r ig veteran: thout doing injus: If the people take with them to the polls to-mor- for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and|tya: they are paid more than their} $ these enougl» ability to earn a living without the fear of firth’ oor of the Municipal Building, tice to others. A |Interborough lines has permitted the} pesent salary of $1,500 a year, more| $ dependence, you are as wealthy as you need be. Part TI, at No. 2 Butler Street, row their own good sense instead of the promptings | surface railways to take out of the | than halt of which is speut for fare| Don’t envy the man with the town house and the three 3 | Brooklyn iti r ee ~ {pockets of the people a great sum|and hotel bills. s . fi a lyase erie | eae o adaraan ia sicaadidatataniayarnat of political flim-flammers who try to fool them in |more than was taken four years ago.!/ ‘The salary is pitifully inadequate,| $ °F four country places and the yacht and the fleet of auto DID YOU GET mirc Na ¥ x ordag targa (heme tt Sra: , Perhaps more than $50 from oach/and consequently able men are no mobiles, WHERE $s rg! nis. 0, 0 not the Anti-Saloon order to’ use them, that Mayor will be: patron ag those who are compelled to] longer inclined to seek the nomina-| These things do not constitute’ wealth. They constitute $ | ? ea le) i vi y, 2 ae ; use the surface ra y ying| tion, and subsist on the honors, ? caer pateei That allriduay is W. H HENRY CURRAN, Se Aa ati) iPureetratiios pes tener rarer Crh independence, | $ care and trouble and probably the fear that some other mon THAT WORD § » & ports he was still Don’t be fooled. Even if it is the ele ltance that formerly cost 5 cents, however, are satisfied to be thus| 3 may have more than he. 96—STIGMA. : eoverning New York from his home in Yon- rn re led. ven if it is the eleventh hour, |'77e tet co inies, the electric and| honored, but invariably they repre-| tas 4 A ; . . kers. .W. H. doesn't run for office. H 1 | i Mk Galan as ee Ph sree ore ‘are charging| sent the sympathies and the will ef Your wealth is a clear brain and a sound digestion In its original meaning (he wor@ . » He only use your N brains and think better of yourself | {elanhone, call they did four years | large interests and the general pub- They are worth many times all the possessions of the million “stigma” was used to designate @ runs “he officers. + afterward ». ‘The combined rates as at pres-| lic suffers in consequence, sean Anat mark made with a red-hot iron, such . hacia nt charged, according to Mr, Hylan's MUEL H. BCKE: | as a brand impressed u . a brand imp pon the body ‘ot? 2 eb : statement, are $40,000,000 more than _ i eww aeenaceeneaeatateteaanaenaaanaaaaeienmaaaaaaeaa a i . i NEEDED FACTS, Vole for HENRY CURRAN, they were four years ago. If the in-| “Pit to Fight.” ® of a slave or a criminal. (From the : ‘ jcreased rates become permanently | ro the raltor of The Evening World | ] | Greek verb “stizo," to brand) ATI 3? al offective, a total of $100,000,000 a year, Noy, 2 was set aside ~larmistice was signed, how happy it|it then be a hard task for us to. When marking with red-hot irons ENATOR LA FOLLETTE’S amendment to the aa rtescaternes | {maiden the $280,000,000 now paid each|, NOY ae sot aide aa let-|riade us feel, and on that day we|remember the daya when we would| became obsolete, except on the dattle 7 5 NATURE NOTE, ter from the trenches day, 1 Revenue Bill requiring owners to list their tax- A x we | year, will be taken from the pockets| ay Un-| would have given our all to those|have given most anything to these! range or in tie etud, the word soft- ei i Me Dr. W. Hornaday, Curator of the Bronx of the people. All in-four years. |fortunately I was unable to be in| who wore the uniform of Uncle Sam.|self-same men, and on the 8th of/ened down to a figurative use, es- exempt securities when they make income tax re- Zoo, loves lions and tigers, but can’t abide a Was it wise for Mr, Hylan to be so|/the trenches during the war, my sex! Let us go back further, pone BS overber vote “Yes” for the Pref-| pecially in polities. J A ‘ tet : frank in his figures just prior to elec-|peing the objectio id have two |or two ye as our boys|erence Amendment? When an orator of any party “stig- turns is a wise provision. cow. ion? Mr. Hylan states that the In-| ed based evs md a ee two | arched down Avenue amid At a tiesiiue Iaal woel ii one ofl mintines® Ae Oocanent at Lees Congress needs to have the facts of exempt secu- | ee creases are ‘being opposed in the| thors yr ee ne he whan the cheors of the people, Even as | the Public schools our buys werg) party, or places the “stigma” of ine courts by his Corporation Counsel, {are now members of the rerican| we looked on, we would have given called “official bums and loa famy' upon the process may rity holdings to guide it in framin; isla- yy It would seem but one conclusion| Legion I am a member of the La-|them anything and everything, and|Are we to stand by and hear these|mean much—or it may mean ve: y V, gS $0 ul " i revenue legisla ce ONGRESS, speaking for the American peo- can be drawn. Mr. Hylan, together| dies’ Auxiliary of the same orgaa. | why? Becuuse they were about to go|things said, and pass on? little . Ju tion. Variations in the holdings of wealthy individ- I rfford to drit pes) . |with his Corporation Counsel and his| zation and fight for us, even lay down their} Let us, then, remember they were| But, in any event, the orator uals would show Congress ho oes ple, cannot afford to drive a hard bargain | jomocratic members of the Moard of | Sincd I could not fight for my coun-|Lves if necessary, that we might! fi: to t us. Now make it|spares his opponent the extreme palm Se ie gre w successful it had with those who were our assistants in the struggle in | Vstimate and Apportionment were nog | try I feel that the least Lean do is to | be free from the demon war. Now/|possible for them to work for us. | ta: would accompany a "'stigmatizas en an mentally equal to the occasion, of) fight for the men who so braveiz|as we look around us we see thes. | And how can this be accomplished?| tion” or the placing of a “stigma” ace Bi getting revenue from those most able to pay. which the whole world was involved.” —Representa- | the vast sums of money being taken| ceve all that We might enjoy out|same boys, minus a leg, an arm, or| By voting "Yes" on Nov, 8, cording to the original formula, And ; 4 ing, wo! A . . ‘ 4 cs i asalch inne