The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1921, Page 30

Che ese Mig HD Borid, PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Published Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ] J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. FOSEPH PULITZER Jr., secretary, 63 Park Row. ' MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 7 Mae Associated Prem ts exclusively entiuiea to the use for republicat! end also the local news pubjishea herein, SUBWAY SARDINES NOT FRIENDLESS. N° “subway sardine” needs to be told of the shameful crowding in rush hours. A Transit Commission engineer has made a study of rush hour congestion which shows that trains carry nearly three times “capacity” for short periods —290 per cent. to be exact. The “sardines” have become so accustomed to packing they hardly realize what “capacity” is sup- posed to mean. The overload has been the regular thing for so long that a packed car is normal and riders do not complain until the guards begin “shov- ing ’em in” by main force. A seat is not the meas- ure of subway comfort. Sardines are normally contented if they have a “strap” and room to sway with the Jurches of the cars. This they have not had for some time. ~This is what Engineer Turner advocates when he speaks of the need for extending rush hours over a longer siretch of time by “staggering” working “hours, as during the infiuenza epidemic. By advancing the working hour fifteen minutes or half an hour in some businesses, retarding the opening hour somewhat in other businesses and making corresponding changes in quitting times, the subway rush could be stretched over more time and Overloading could be reduced to 182 per cent., which would represent comparative comfort for the sar- dines. This is a subject important in the city life. The commercial organizations should act." A, committee to work with the transit engineers should be appoint- ed. Workers should be educated to the desirability of such changes. No other immediate telief is in sight and conges- * tion is growing worse from year.to year. Before new subways can be built the present rush hours » will be physically impossible. ‘ Why not change now and enjoy a period of rela- tive comfort? Fa alee RS en Tend SES on veaders in Congress are considering plans to keep clear of measures or discussion that might + hamper the ‘Arms Conference. It is even sug- gested that when Congress assembles Dec. 5 | it had better take d recess till after the holidays. Have we got to admit that Congress cannot be trusted to tend to its own and the country’s business while this momentous conference is in session? When matters of highest import to the Na- tion are pending, is Congress only.a risk? GETTING FAT ON IT. ARSHAL FOCH is said to have taken on weight during his American tour of triumph. This is indeed a testimonial to the powers of endurance of the French Commander. No wonder he could “stop the Boche,” if he has such a superb ..gonstitution as to withstand the rigors of a public welcome by all of America, Any one who has followed the accounts of his progress from city to city and the close, schedule . Of appointments must marvel over his Fesistance and the way he thrives under the gruelling hard work of “what corresponds to 9 political “swing From morning till night, day after day, the Mar- shal is continually on exhibition, rushed from place to place, from rostrum to banquet, from parade to public meeting, from ceremonial calls to hastily im- provised’ visits. : , He has been untiring in his efforts, and in spite ‘of all he has gained ten pounds in weight! Perhaps the best explanation is the old maxim, “Laugh and grow fat.” No man could help being « happy over such a reception. It must act as a stim- ulating tonic. . The birth control meeting Friday hag been forced to seek larger quarters owing to the de- mand for tickets. This is the logical and usual result of attempts at suppression of a movement, ON THE GREEN TABLE. AST winter New York billiard fans enjoyed some wonderful exhibitions and matches. The play of Hoppe, Horemans, Schaefer and Coch- rane did much to popularize the game, There is interest now in the international tourna- , ment being played.in Chicago, The regret of the New York players is that the metropolis failed to get the match. But there is consolation in the fact that the win- “ner of the match is bound to defend the title, and " » New Yorkers will hope that the challenge match will * be played here. . «« The poor showing made by Horemans in his opening game was a surprise. In match play here - fast year the Belgian gaye evidence of marvellous ~skill. Unless he has suffered a serious slump he may be expected to “come back” and offer serious competition for the leaders, “Until Hoppe is defeated he will continue the ‘ PERL At: (Of all news despatches credited to {t or nov otnerwise creuitea in tam pape & continuing: THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1 92T, / competition very different from the kind he has met in the long period of his championship. With half a dozen stars of the first magnitude in - Fulfilling a Prophecy cetuttive, By John Cassel N opposition, anything may happen. The subsequent challenge matches imperil the stability of the bill- jard crown. THE ADVANCE. DEAL of water has gone over the dam since The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and A 1907. ‘The first conference (1899) got as following “wish”: The conference expresses the wish that the Governments, taking into consideration the Proposals made at the conference, may ex- amine the possibility of an agreement as to the limitation of armed forces by land and sea and of war budgets. As a matter of fact, the mere proposal for limita- tion of armament stirred up so much opposition and hard feeling at the first Hague Conference that several nations refused to come to the second con- ference unless they were assured no such proposal would be included in the programme. id Although Sir Edward Fry, with the approval of the American and French delegations, insisted upon introducing in the second conference a resolution favoring limitation of military charges, the formal programme of the conference made no mention of the subject for reasons which the Russian representa- tive, M. de Nelidow, set forth. *, Recalling the resolution by which: the first con- ference expressed a “wish” that Governments migh: think about limiting armed forces, M. de Nelidow said: : “But here, once more, practical experience was not destined to correspond with the ideal nature of the desire. Only two states—Ar- gentina and Chili—have been able to give effect to that desire by concluding a Conven- | tion of Disarmament. The majority of the powers of Europe had other preoccupations.” M. de Nelidow specified these preoccupations— the Boxer uprising and subsequent disorders in China, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War— far as the “The result was that the Governments, far from having been able to occupy themselves, in conformity with the desire expressed by the conference, with the means of limiting - armaments, had, on the contrary, to increase | their armaments. * * * : “It was in consideration of these circum- stances, gentlemen, that the Russian Govern- ment this time refrained from placing the lim- itation of armaments upon the programme of the conference which it proposed to the pow- ers. “To begin with, it considered that this ques- tion was not ripe for being discussed with fruitful results. . “In the second place, it did not desire to provoke discussions which, as the experience of 1899 showed, could only, in opposition to the aim of our common endeavors, accentuate a disagreement among the powers by giving occasion for irritating debate: From Eve..ing World Readers| What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand wort’s in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words Take time to be brief. In Wilson's Footsteps. | Te the Editor of The kreni ya World, Why all the credit to Secretary Hughes, when he is stepping in the footsteps of our Woodrow Wilson? The limitation of armament ts in the League pf Nations Article VIII, would greatly enhance the djgnity| of their office? Supposing that any one aspiring to such an office was obliged to pass a rigid examination by a com-| mittee appointed by the Bar Associa- | tion, They should investigate the ap- plicant’s fitness not only in his knowl- | edge of law, but as to his character as well. Don't you think that this would ob- viate the possibility of undesirables obtaining such offices? : Besides, were such offices made promotive only upon the applicants’ fitness, instead of elective, thus sub- Jecting him to dealings with men of} the criminal world, it would uplift the | office to its proper dignity, This is merely a suggestion, It would be practical and could be casily swept him into office? carried out. I am nota lawyer, there- You claim that they had a confused | fore not ifterested, except that 1 do ldea and that they were taking the| Mot care to see such levity being cir- *| ried on in our courts of justice, where only possible step to resist the en-\1 often have witnessed so-called at- ., A Ai . rae proac! blican Admin- r a in RIC about le lievine atone ritating debates” (croachment of a Repul |torneys almost openly flaunt. the int about its “giving occasion for irritating debates.” ("\""tion at Albany on the rights of judges, when the verdicts rendered That's what fourteen years and the biggest war in ee ea ee Ort history have done toward making the popular will re i: ni 4 Police Suppression. a factor in deciding whether war is worth while. If it isn’t progress, what is it? ‘ Whereupon the conference poliiely passed Sir Edward Fry’s resolution as a summary means of getting the whole irritating subject out of the way. That was in 1907. In 1921 the leading powers are considering, not a polite wish or desire that they may some day find themselves in a mood to examine the possibility, of agreeing to limit armaments, but a detinite, concrete plan of naval redugtion that has made the whole civilized world shout for joy. And not one delegate of the oldest and deepest diplomatic dye would dare so much as breathe a the greatest ‘document that was ever | written. Tney will not and cannot put the world on a peace basis without the League of Nations, and they know it, kK. H. E, College Point, 4 Hylan Majority. To the Felitor of The Evening World, By what right do you question the intelligence and ability of those people who voted for Mayor Hylan, consid- ering the overwhelming majority that te city You yourself condemned Gov. Miller in your past editorlats, * | I certainly think that a 400,000 plu- rality is a Hylan indorsement. I sincerely hope you will be fair- minded and sportsman enough to support and give credit to the choice of the people. | A DISGUSTED REPUBMCAN. To the Editor of The Evening World: The rules of the Police Department governing the holding of public meet- ings seem to be very unjust and dis- criminative. An explanation is prob- ably due elucidating the action of the Police Department in suppressing a meeting held in Town Hall on last Sunday evening ‘when the issue con- cerned was birth control, At tne | very same time there was being held Can you or any uf the people teil! in Harlem a meeting of radicals who {me why we poor women can't get @MY| were criticising and denouncing the suitable shoes for colt weather at @! eworts of the several Governments | reasonable pric concerned in the discussion on the I'll pay $10 or $12 a pair, which T'1m| imitations of armaments. Just why | willing and able to pay, but I cant) this first meeting held by veal Ameri- Jana any, although Ive been hunting | cans to discuss a morai issue of the United States should be banned while These are the days when every fat turkey is a fatalist. A Question of Shoes. Exening World TWICE OVERS, |Your valuable paver is always Cor 66] AM sorry for Chicago, for it is making a most | a she Eats. Se unenviable record throughout the country be- cause of the kind of leadership (or lack of leadership) you are giving.” Mayor Couzens of Detroit to Mayor Thompson of Chicago. * hi an aid a the public | the people. * . HE present system in the Police Department , see eee dress shoes since is more thorough and vicious than any machine | {0" | S\T*** nd Acta OF a gathering of radicals, loudly de- ade : ‘ tober houncing the Government of thé in the past.” —Former Captain Costigan. Do the manufacturers find it 8] United States and advocating a revo- * * * lution should be allowed to continue unmolested and undisturbed, is a puz- zie to me, Perhaps the Police Com- missioner can explain, JAMES V. Sov. profitable to make thuse silly little half-portions. that they den't intend to give us real rhoes, or ¢s it the fautt of the silly creatures ho prefer risk~ ing their lives by ge(t.ins pneumonia or rheumatism? | I have many friends who agree wita Tee 667 T has never been my experience that when I am sitting among friends they assure me from time to time that they have no desire to cut my, throat.” ~—Charles Cheney. EVERARD, Long Island Cit 14, 1921, = * + World In answer to the letter by a milk * se NE of my ancestors sailed with Christopher me and wish to prsrve their healsit | to rhe Editor of The brent and be comfortable % winter Let Me add we are aot mart coches | driver's daughter, published in ‘The | Columbus on his first coyage to America.” |‘ on allows. What's the a Evening World of Nov. 11, I under- —Gen. Diaz. We want high shoes; why stand that the milk drivers demanded 4s Gb AAR ar |an increase of $5 a week in salary | 4 SIDE and two weeks’ vacation, with pay, ce EITHER the President nor Congress has as ‘and that the milk companies offered Ae to continue with the same salary but yel done anything to place the Prohibition en- | ro ine raiior of Tae {a new arrangement, with the object forcement agents and What is the matter with our ju asing production te TY thousands of other positions Meine Spun tenians Cro ahian Lote ivers’, or Milk Union, met to exempted by Congress or excepted by President Wil- See itavae havelkie aaa ; the matter and absolutely ‘ a we to ame . arbtr on by vot to strike, son during the war in the classified service where they | u\ in the course his vocation he thine given > ain cnet wo belong. Scandal, extravagance ond even crime ceitre | #8 Wad Many “Opportunities in tie vive As vegaids the drivers offering to wrve the hospitals, has it occurred to you that they offered this service thiabine thaw had she anil anmmea. past few years to observe them Don't you think if We judges wer mromoted instead of being slanted about these spoils jobs.” — National Cioil Service Re- Sorm daagus. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copsright, 1921, by John Blake.) MAKE YOUR HABIPS FRIENDS— Good habits are your friends. Bad habits are your enemi Inasmuch as your body, as William James says, is “a bundle of habits,” you might as well make the bundle up of friends rather than of enemies, By habits we do not mean alone drinking, or smoking tobacco, or greed at the dining table, or the neglect of health. We mean the attitude ofsyour mind toward all that @om- poses your life. Good habits are as easily acquired as bad ones—if you begin early enough. 2 Also they are as hard to shake off. A man who by habit has become a goed husband and ‘father, a careful provider and a nioral force in the com: muni never likely to go wrong. His habit will be too hard to break. \ ~ A man with the habit of industry seldom loses it. Even in his ald age his body or mind, accustomed to exertion, ,craves exercise and finds it, If you get the habit of thrift it will stick to you, Sheer waste of money wiil be impossible. Many men have got rich merely because in youth the thrift habit was ingrained, and in spite of opportunities to become spenders it could never be broken Your habits ace servants, which from long use do your work for you almost mechanically. In one of Maupassant’s stories a sword thrower who has for twenty years encircled a woman with knives conceives a hatred for her and tries to kill her “by mistake” by mis- directing a knife at a public performance. . he land refuses to throw the knife awry, It cannot break its habit. Yeur habits wili be good or bad, according to the way you begin them. If you start with good ones, they will be excellent and faithful servants through life. If you ae with bad ones you are going to need many years to break th if, you ever do break them. pen Better start with gcod ones. But don’t despair if your start was wre By trying you can replace the inefficient oncs with’ those that are’ competent and helpful. NOT ENEMIES. Bi tacartacreeeeeebehedeieneaemeeaeoroeneamremmaraee oe OTTO nies by the throat and that not one| wheel would turn unless they so de- sired? The wheels did turn, and while the wagons were on the way to the hos- pitals, with a large notice cn said wagons explaining their mission, some were molested and violence committed I note she says the strikers did not molest the women, but what is the difference in molesting a man who is carrying milk for a woman or a baby’ I do not think any one begrudges the milkmen their salary, but I con- sider they are by a long way he best paid of unskilled labor. I may say that I do not think this lows, and it n@t only grieved but I thought it was a shame wh they fell for mistaken leadership. FORMERLY A: DRIVER YEARS. FOR lition of capital punishment well-established fact that capit of murders, but, on the contrary has a brutalizing effect strike would haye happened if the|the crime there is no benefit i members of the union had not been|death penalty, Men who enlict ine] not.—Simms. so cocksure. war know that there is great danger , ae : : Every one in the business, tromjof their being killed, yet we expect Virtue ang vice are. bead porter to pastuerizer, milk dr tolthem to cheerfully answer the call.| Prophets; the first of certain route rider, wagon washer to stable-|How can we expect hardened crim ood; the sece truckman to chauffeur, sald: | nais to abstain from crime th-ough| 20°%! aecond of pain or gyre { e one. Our will must be eat penalty? T ho have the companies York and all the | } we want them. We com-! ‘tutes of this) enilghtened co Time (# continuat over-drop = ~ [will abofish this barbaric and an.| Ping of moments, which “felt 1 am indeed sorry this strike oc-'tiquated method of dealing with| down one upon curred, as I have always found the crime, ADOLPH LDWISOHN, ‘pon the other apa en ned ned deduntetanye Aet ae ~ avanercter—Riebten, 89 en 1 am strongly in favor of the abo- It is a al pun-| ishment does not reduce the number Cireumstan- tial evidence is apt to be deceptive, but even when there is no doubt about the guilt of the person charged with pe the Foreign-Bortt Builders By Svetozar Tonjorof Copyright, 1! Min 208, Wedgie, Resid VI—ALEXANPER HAMILTON. To the Scotch race, with possibly = French strain, America owes ona-of the mgst eminent builders of jts:in- stitutions—Alexander Hamilton, Born on the Island of Nevis, in‘the West Indies, in 1757, he was sént!to Boston for his education when he was sixteen, studied a year in the gram- mar school in Elizabethtown, Nid. and then entered King’s College, now Columbia University. sit As a collegian in 1774, the young immigrant produced a profou' Pression on New York and Qn, the country by delivering an impassioged byt well-reasoned speech at a rable meeting called in the “fi now City Hall Park, to advocate’? calling of a general congress. After writing a series of striking articles supporting the right of the Colonies to adopt extreme measukes in their dispute with the ¢rbwn, Hamilton took up the sword on Mktch 14, 1776, when he was appointed) to the command of an artillery compahy. His servjce to the country as afi aide on the staff of Gen, Washington; his help to the Commander in Chipt!as his confidential secretary; his res}g- nation from the staff under the $t{ng of a fancied injustice, and his siibbe- quent achievements in command of an attacking column at Yorktown form an indelible part of the history of the Republic. ‘ But it was as a financier, a’ states- man, and a powerful influence toward centralization and hgrmonious co operation in national affairs during @ perfod when -centralization and co- operation were imperative condi- tiona to the success of the Republic, that Hamilton's name is written high upon the rolls of his adopted country. Not the least of his contributions to the making of America ae) participation in the conventidh'/ of 1737, in Pitiladelphia; his stromeygad- vocacy of the Constitution as adopted, and his feat in obtat ts ratification in New York in thi ace of a powerful opposition reprokeh ed by the initial adverse vote of 65 toa9. ff Appointed the first Secretary of fhe J Treasury by Washington in 1789, the young financier of thirty proved # pillar of strength in a Cabinet in- trusted with the task of building up the National Administration from,its foundations. aa Wheny Washington became ra: dent, th country’s credit waa a Such basic protigms d collection of-seve- menacing ebb. as the raisin) nue, the organization of a postal service, the framing of a policy to promote manufacturing, the mankg&e> ment of the public lands, the esti- ly mates of income and expenditures, and currency and navigation a blank page in even amilton’s reports to Congress as Secretary of the Treasury shaped the solution of all these pressing prob- lems. He was in a peculiar sense the builder of the working institutions of hig country, largely in the form in of 5 prevente » becoming Presie =) dent | It was by the hand of AaronaBurr that he t Weehawken on Jtty)11, J1so1,;in the historic duel thatg teok |place on the spot where Har i's 'son Philip had met with the bre | three years earlier, Alexanter umilton’s tomb in Trinity abarth- — \ | yard is a national memorial worthy Jof perpetual preservation. | VANISHED RESIDENTS | OF NEW YORK-# ~£ i. rod and Hin I The discovery of a primitive man, turied side by side with his f@thful dog, is a trequent occurrence injarch- gical or anthropological regearch old world. In the streats of York similar discoveries ;bave made in the past twenty-five . . discoveries in ManWattan » shown a difference betweén the, attitude of the primitive man tbward his four-footed friend in New, York in. Europe. Europe, the dog is invariably found buried with his master, as:his likely to be needed fer use nionsbip in‘the next phase of Manhattan dogs have been ir Indian masters with every evidence of sifecl nate and inconsolable mourning. first burial of a dog was un- t the summit of a ridge about 12 fect high at 209th Btreet néar the Harlem River, Other dia- coveries of dog burials have been tound since. . That these allies of men sacrifice is plain! d.tion of the relics, Dog lovers will be interested in the exhibits of primitive dogs in the American Museum of Natural His- | tory, ‘The man with the dog was aryl leature of Manhattan life centuries before the establfstment of the Bides || Wise einen turncoat—first @ From the friend und then an enemy, | ' Wine —Fielding. | all the maids ure goed and lovable, from whence come the evil wives?—Lamb. The miser is as much in want of whathe has as of what he has in the New been On found buried by thei tribute he earthed in faithful retainers and w not killed in shown by the con is a Since t of penitence—R. Venning.