The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1921, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER (Published Datiy Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 68 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 1 HYLAN WINS. AYOR HYLAN has been re-elected by a plu- tality of some 417,000. It will be claimed, of course, that this means an indorsement of all the Hylan policies—whatever they may be—and an expression of complete con- fidence in the Hylan Administration. We do not think it means that. Thousands of voters voted yesterday for Mayor Hylan from a blurred notion that they were voting the only way that would safeguard 5-cent fares against the dire designs of a “traction trust.” Thousands of voters voted yesterday for Mayor Hylan with a confused idea that they were thereby taking the only possible step to resist the encroach- ment of a Republican Administration at Albany upon the rights of this city. The traction settlement should never have been : an issue in this municipal election. } It is useless to deny, however, that it was made into an issue, and a big issue, in order to bedevil voters into crediting to Hylan what now survives \O£,fiie Scent fare in Greater New York. ~Fhe traction problem is too complicated to be i ; readily grasped. | Tiiat made it the easier to create a “traction ; trust” bogy, rig up the Mayor as sole champion of the 5-cent fare and at the same time paint the Re- publican-Coalition candidate with the colors of the “interests.” Republicanism in general is in anything but high popular favor at present. Promised Republican { blessings have not showered upon the people of the Nation—or of New York. “Yesterday’s vote in this city was not a blanket indorsement of the Hylan Administration. In the main it was only a falling back—mistaken ‘and by'no means mentally clear—on a Democratic , Mayor as the likeliest people’s friend and 5-cent- dae hope. to ‘The election is over. The Transit Commission will get down to business. The people of this city will soon learn much more than they yet know about the traction problem and the only practical 1 and constitutional methods of attacking it. They will learn how little Mayor Hylan has con- tributed, or can contribute, toward a traction settle- | went on the city-wide 5-cent fare basis which the “Transit Commission has declared to be the primary condition of its plan. This will be good education. It will clear the auinds of citizens for a more careful appraisal of Mayor Hylan. The result should be to raise the standards of Hylan Administration. : The Evening World is not going to cast sour «looks at the result of yesterday's election. At ought to be possible to choose a Mayor of New York on the basis of competence. Some day it | Mill be possible. ‘ 4 Meanwhile, Henry Curran has made a valiant fight, but Mayor Hylan has won. ; 7 a We wish the re-elected Mayor and the city every forward lift they can give each other. Marshal Foch probably enjoyed lection Day more than any other man in the public He celebrated it as a vacation from being entertained. That undoubtedly was better than golf for others less eminent. eye. AND SO TO CONFERENCE. HE House passed a hastily drawn and poorly considered Revenue Bill. The Senate has not improved it as much as the Hause expected it to. ? Now the Conference Committee has it. If the conference took all the best features from the two measures, we should still lack a good Revenue Bill. And to make the matter worse, the record of past Conference Committees makes it probable that when the bill is finally reported for joint adoption it will have most of the worst features of both bills. Conference Committees always bear watching. A GOOD INFLUENCE. N THEIR first municipal election women voters seem to have had more effect on the manners of Election Day than on the result of the balloting The polls yesterday were quiet and orderly. Elec- tion officials found it easy to keep order. There + were few controversies or disputes. The police had little trouble. Political leaders sensed that plug- i ugly tactics would lose more than they would gain. ; It fs probable that women voted preity much the JOSEPH PULITZEN Jr., Secretary, 6 ee — MEMBER OF THE assoctareD Press, Prem ls exclusively enciviea to the use for republication: (OF All news Geapatches credited to ft or not otmerwise creuitea im tam papey nd also the local news publishea herein, ° —_ same as the men In this election, If there is any | | formula for attracting the feminine vote the poli- ticians have not found it. The danger of women voting as women is undoubtedly a myth. A heavy feminine vote did not even congest the polling places as much as might have been expected. Most of the women’s vote was cast in the morning and afternoon hours, which in other years have been the slack times of Election Day. If “votes for women” satisfies the women who wanted the suffrage and adds to the good order and good manners of our political life, it is certainly worth the added expense of polling and counting the vote. WHAT CURRAN HAS NOT LOST. Be CURRAN was beaten at the polls, but he has lost not one iota of the esteem of his fellow-citizens, : Mr. Curran’s record of faithfulness and efficiency in the city’s service remains the same. His grasp of municipal problems, his constructive vision of future municipal development remain the same. His quali- fications for the office of Mayor remain the same. The qualities that make the best Mayor are by no means the qualities that make the best’ vote-getter. Mr. Curran is not the first candidate to discover this fact in a municipal election where the minds of the electorate have been confused by false issues, Nevertheless, the intelligence of city voters will in the long run turn more and more to men of Mr. Curran’s type as the safest municipal managers— particularly when lessons of mismanagement have had time to sink into the popular mind. Mr. Curran is comparatively a young man. His capacity for usefulness to the city is too well recog- nized to be forgotten, He made a good fight and a clean fight on a plane worthy of himself and the city. He has added an- other high mark to his record, There was some dizzy Republican skidding on wet spots in New Jersey. NOT A REBUKE TO VETERANS. MENDMENT ONE seems to have been de- A cisively defeated. This should not be regarded as a rebuke to vet- erans generally. It is not an evidence of forgetful- ness or lack of appreciation. It is only a common- sense verdict on an unwise proposal. If Amendment One had been more carefully drawn, if it had discriminated between veterans most worthy and veterans least worthy of preference, if it had provided for reasonable preference and not for absolute preference, we believe it would have passed. It is probable that a certain noisy element in the veteran organizations will be bitter in their resent- ment. The move enlightened service men will prob- ably reform their proposal and submit it again. The vote on Amendment One was no less than a mandate to draw a more discriminating rule for preference, a rule which will discriminate among veterans applying for preference and one which will not discriminate against women and men who could not have served in the army had they desired to do so. Anyhow, nobody's going to ask for a recount. Postmaster General Hays wants mail robbers to “tell it to the Marines” when. they “Hands up.” say, Indianapolis elected a vaudeville Mayor, Babe Ruth may be interested in this. ormaley” yesterday. is wearing thin, the country said THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. O unknown soldier, gorgeously conveyed With muffled music and parade, Bomewhere an aching heart, all unaware, Abides unnoted by the Nation's care! DON ©. SEITZ. TWICE OVERS. T is now more than ever our duty to engage our- selves seriously with the problems of city govern- ment.”—John J. Lyons. * ce * 8 ERHAPS I am a bit tired, but I must keep going.” Marshal Foch. + * & ey ad ERY third man in Germany to-day is either an official or civil servant.”—Dr. Carl Helferich. * “ce T HERE is no yen fo which the department will not go to prevent these mail robberies.” —Postmaster General Hays. ’ cs -« “ee HE cost of milk is bound to come down.” — Borden Co. advertisement. s 8 ce OU can't get together several million saints Sor war purposes.” —Walter Brower. ‘ ce ETWEEN France and the United St.tes of America there is no room for any difference, however slight. —Premia Briand. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1921. Kill It! sre! Cop: 921 by ‘The Brens Piblihti (The New York Evening may ey John Cassel From Evering World Readers that gives the worth ~f a thousand | €@y much in few words. Smokeless Coal. To the Editor of The Evening World: sue, entitled, sance, "The Soft Coal Nui- strikes a responsive chord in that soft coal need not be a nui-| sance. ‘To many persong soft coal] is understood to be a pasty, black massive fuel which gives off gt volumes of black smoke; possibly so considered when looked upon as black | marcel-wave emerging from the stack or chimney. This may be so in New York, in some localities, for buyers and pur- chasing agents are yrone to seek and place orders for the cheapest grades of fuel, and in consequence the great amount of intensely biack smoke vitiates the atmospheve and begrimes the citizens’ faces and the fronts of gur public buildings. But all this 1s bvercome in the principal cities of New Jersey by the selection of a suitable fuel, for indeed there are tain bituminous cual seams whic! oduce absolutely smokeless n fact, | have used it and know vhere I can get more. ‘There are certain sections where | smoking stacks are seen in great umber, but the murkiness in New York City will soon disappear through ie education of the chief enginecrs, who, Interested in the welfare and better action of the boilers, witl in- struct their warchasing agents to buy smokeless bituminous coal. Not on! s this grade of coal smokeless, as di scribed, but it produces 40 per cent or more greater heat units than an- thracite and from one-third to one- | half the ashes. This must be taken | into consideration in the economical eration of a plant; every point of saving must be investigated, and in no better way than by the substitu- tion of smokeless bituminous coal | In its use as explained, it gives | far more heat, and on account of the (ies ash content no difficult problem presents itself to the steam superin- | tendent to find an outlet for the daily | accumulating ashes. How often in | our trips around town (in every town, 48 a matter of fact) do we see signs, Ashes Given Awoy — Free, and after patiently waiting for callers to remove the ashes the sign owners | must relieve themselves of their bur- \dens by having the ashes hauled | away to some more or less distant |dump? Cam glad I found tt possible tg do away with the cheerless anthra- cite coal and substitute the high- | power, heat-giving bituminous, which | neither smokes nor is obnoxious in any way. Being a good citizen, it meets every one more than half way and establishes a fe comfort. No more smoky bituminous for me H. F. FRASSE, | Glen Ridge, N. J,, Nov. 2, 1921 “Squetch Them.” To the Kéitor of The Brening World: | 1 was pleased to, read your edi- {torial regarding the milk drivers’ |strike in The Evening World of | Nov. 1. Tf ali the other newspapers in this town would immediately make a de ind upon the City What kind of letter do you find :aost The editorial in last evening's i8-| ing of general] « Government to. t furnish protection to the milk com 20d te the neonle wha Meoosiua Din be sadable? Isn't it the one words ina couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in grving to Take time to be bret. — them the weak ut at the Willing to work for: and helpless woul mercy of the un: labor agi- | ators who have created this strihe. It is the duty of the authorities to thoroughly squelch them with all possible de&pateh. GEORGE WALKER Bronx, Nov, 2, 1921 Abuse of Power. | To the Editor of ‘The Evening Wocid In regard to your editorial of Oct. 1921, calling attention to another| ‘Clubber Tighe case.” I wish to call | your attention to the ignorance of an| officer on our city payroll, | When an officer patrolling a beat) for four months on the lower east) side cannot use common sense in making an arrest it is high time for| action to be taken against that offl- cer. An officer should know the good element from the bad element after patrolling one section for four months, but when he makes an arrest of five young men whose case is dismissed, and the officer is reprimanded, then the officer should be sent back to school to acquire what he lacks-— common sense in distinguishing be- tween good and bad, |. It is a shame that a wonderful po- lice force like the one we have’ in our city should be slandered and spoken of just because of a few men on the oree Who are not capable of properly using the power placed in their hands. ‘ B.C The Smoke + To the Editor of The Evening World Your editorial on restricting the use of soft coal in this city was very interesting to me. I have just cleaned my home to free it from the grime * just that nuisance and I find it |has left its prints to such an extent that only renewing will help it. | Another nuisance I wish to write of is the ships that anchor in the river and are oll burners. 1 have wakened many nights with the sen- in but why use the Hudson River for a ships’ lounging place and to ttre away the only air that comes to us? [seems that Uncle Sam might anchor his ships in a more spacious place. After the ships have smoked up a few hours the spreads on the bed look as if I had berately shaken a dust cloth on them. This may r may not interest The Evening World, but it does interest those upon, whom falls the duty of keeping homes |clean. This is now impossible. MRS. C. J West 118th Street, Nov. 1, 1921 P. Chief Justice of the United States, To the Fditor of The Bening World Would you please let me know the | oMotal title Hon. W. i. T: says Chic istice of United bof America. $ saya Chief Just yted Statcs Supreme ( HARRY COHAN, aea, sation of choking, «nly to find the entire place filled with the sicken- ing odor~and no relief anywhere, [ could add the complaints of many of my friends who also suffer from tits nuisance, | Warships are imnosing to look at. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake i (Conyriaht, 1021, by John Blake.) ; PUBLIC OPINION, You may hot be in accord with public opinion. You may think that your ideas are more advanced than those of the majority. Perhaps they are. Perhaps in the course of thirty or forty years you can persuade people to your way of thinking. But don’t try to do it all at once. And don't, in the mean time, run counter too violently to generally accepted notions. You would have a perfect right to walk down the prin- cipal streets in the middle of January with a straw hat and a linen suit on, By so doing you would harm nobody. You might be perfectly comfortable yourself in such an array. But you would run counter to the popular idea of how people ought to dress in midwinter and become a joke to the neighborhood. Thereafter you would have a great deal of difficulty in making people believe that your mind was sound. In a world in which the composite ideas of the majority make conventions it is better to accept conventions, at least outwardly, than to try to defy them. You may think them stupid. Doubtless many of them are stupid—such tor example, as the wearing by men of silly stiff collars and derby hats that promote baldness. Yet if you sought to abplish these customs you would soon get a reputation as a troublesome agitator. fhe reason that civilization has not progressed faster than it has is that custom requires years of patient effort to modify in the least degree. If you want to be helpful to your fellow beings go about the job slowly. Don't try to rush them off their feet. It can’t be done. . No one reformer ever accomplished a reform. The men who have got the credit for important reforms builded upon the work of many, other men who went before them, The abolition of slavery required many long years and the thought and labor of many minds. Had these factors not entered into it Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclama- tion could never have been written Inasmuch as many other people besides yourself live in the world with you, you owe something to their methods of thought. Do not despise them because they disagree with you. They will despise you in return, and to be despised by the ity is very dangerous. © mer who mean to do good go about it slowly the main respecting the opinions of their fellows and abiding by them, They may desire to change stupid customs and they may intend to change them, but they know better than to render themselves ineffective at the outset by getting the world “down on them.’ Agitators and martyrs are useful, but the reforms that they visualize are usually accomplished by some moderate man who comes along after them, Customs, hab:ts, ideas, conventions have been built up through thousands of years of advancement. Many of them are bad. But you can't tear them down and set up others in their stead, You can only seek gradually to remould them without exciting popular derision by defying them, | The Great Teache In Action | By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory * ty the Frese Publlsaing York Bvent AN AMBITIOUS MOTHER ASP bla te te ENT. + 20, Those who are honestly stoking an answer to the question “What think ye of Christ?” would do well to read and re-read, study and “inward- ly digest” the passage indicated above. As an eye-opener regarding the character of the Great Teacher and the purpose for which He lived, la bored and died, it is worth more them all the thousands of bulky tomes that have been written about Him by the theologians of the ages. Let me tell the story in the ¥ar nacular, and yet without departing am iota from the record. The “Mother of the Sons of Zebe- dee,” a hustler for her boys and tully convinced that nothing was too good for them, came to the Great Teacher “worshipping” Him and “asking. « | FAVOR," the worship being a sort of stepping store to the favor. It was us though she had said, “Teacher, you are great, you are wonderful and we want you to know how highly we esteem you. We adore you. And, by the way, Teacher, can’t you take care of us in a little matter that we have in mind just now?" “What is it that you want of Me? said the Teacher, and quick as @ flash and without the faintest intima- tion of a blush, the woman replied: “Your pull is unlimited; what you say goes, and I want you to tssue the command that these my two sons shall sit one on thy right hand an@ one on thy left hand in thy kingdom.” If Jesus had been an ordinary mor- tal He might have turned from the woman in deep disgust, but He didn’t do that. Mastering the unpleasant feelings induced by the gall of the woman's request, He calmly sald; “You don't know what you are talk- ing about. Can you endure what I have to endure?” “Of course we can,” replied the woman: ‘it ts di easy.” "Maybe s0, maybe so,” con tinued Jesus, “but the truth of the matter is, the places you want for your sons are not mine to give. There 1s one higher up, and He will fill those places to suit Himself.” The woman, failing to get the “fa- vor" she was after, disappeared, and her sons became the target of the hot indignation of the other disciples. “Can you beat {t?” they shrieked in their anger. “The impudence of it! Put ‘em out! They are unfit to be among your followers, Master.” But with unruffled good nature the Great Teacher called the ten to him id said to them: “Don't be ‘téo severe on James and John. In thefr foolish ambition they are but reflect- ing the opinion of the world. You know how it is among the nations, how the great ones strut around in their authority, imagining that their. |GRBATNESS ‘comes from the fact that they LORD it over men. “They are not to blame for feeling as they do; it Is the way they have jbeen educated. But there should be no such thought among us. great are those who minister to the happiness and well being of their fellow men; whose hands are buay doing good; whose lives radiate tone and good will among men. The only glory I care for {s the glory of loving service to humanity.” | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD?.’ { 97—STYLE. | ‘The, word “style” in all its medm lings runs straight back to the Latin | “stilus,” an tron-pointed pen used for | writing on wax tablets. “Stilus” atso came to mean the manner of writing Jon the wax tablets. ‘ | Prom the name of this primitive {netrument for recording facts oF fancies has sprung, through the cen. ‘turies, or crept into the language by |way of France, an astonishing | progeny of varied meanings. | We have the style in which a court |transacts its business; the style in | which a woman wears her clothes, dr has them cut and sewn together; the style in which the author writes or @ (musician or painter interprets his )art: the style with which an engrayer or manifold writer does his work; the style in which an oarsman rows ora pedestrian walks, and ao forth. We owe the substitution of "y™ “yin the word to its travels through France on its way to England, a ee A POET HAS HIS USES. (From the Living Age.) PD’Annunzio is reported to be lend- ing a life of leisure at @ vila placed | at his disposal by a wealthy admirer. | It 1s suggested that, if Lenin visits \italy—as rumor reports his inten- |tion—the two fellow Bolsheviki may | spend some congenial hours together. | Among the bizarre appeals whieh have reached the former dictatof lof \wiume since his retirement is ‘one from the President of the Itallan die \tillers’ association, asking him to | suggest an Italian term for cognad— a word that might become as dia- .tinctive of the Italian product as thie word is of the French product. The poet at once suggested arzente, an old Italian word designating the spirit distilled trom grapes, and also “the idea of ardor.” From the Wise: In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, in old age prudent,—Socrates, A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well | educated family—Thomas Scott. | Passions are like fire and water, | good servants but bad mastere, Anonymous, Girls we love for what they gre, young men for what they | #2 b¢e—Goethe, *