The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1921, Page 10

Che EHeMiRy Gaiori SSTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. am : INADEQUATE FINES. PPHE epidemic of confessions of guilt by the ee 4% indicted members of the building material * sings points to a serious defect in the Donnelly ‘Anti-Trust Law. For example, the thirty-three individuals in the ‘marble ring confessed yesterday. They are subject to Sentences of one year’s imprisonment, a fine of $500, or both. In such cases the courts have usually imposed fines in preference to jail sentences. t For a corporation the maximum fine is $20,000. {A corporation as such cannot be jailed. i } Such fines are manifestly inadequate. In the * ©ourt House conspitacy last year the excess charge for limestone planned by the ring of conspirators * amounted to approximately a million dollars. What * is a $500 fine, a $20,000 fine, or several of them, compared with such loot? j Such rings do not dread fines of that kind. They could well afford to pay the fine as a part of the . “overhead.” It would merely be a cost of doing busin a Fines should fit the crime. Js there any reason for any limit except that im- posed by judicial discretion? Would it not be wiser to lay down the principle that convicted conspirators were fiuble to a minimum fine of all their profits from the unlawful acts? Or, better yet, their profits plus an equal sum for punishment? ‘The Senate has passed the Anti-Beer Bill. Prohibition is still bigger than Common Sense, Congress, Constitution, Creation. * TRENCH-RAID BURGLARY. HE latest wrinkle in’ organized crime is what might be called the “trench-raid” system of burglary. Its success depends on the same sort of organ- ization, preparation and daring that characterized successful trench-raiding in the war. In the dark hours of the morning (the favored time for irench-raiding) the squad sets forth into “no man’seland” (the streets of the city). In place of wire-cutters, trench knives and grenades they carry sledge-hammers and crowbars to make quick and forcible entry. The first attack on the door sends an alarm, as in the trenches. But before the enemy (policemen and detectives) can come the taiders have done their work, snatched their booty and gone. Their safety depends on knowing how long it will take the nearest police to reach the spot. If this is determined to be two minutes, the raiders * must be. in their waiting automobile and away in that brief time. If they have planned correctly ‘and execute the plan faultlessly, it is possible to » steal much valuable merchandise and escape in two i 1 One gang of daring fur thieves have done just . rt. It is now up to the police and the protective * organizations to devise a counter move to this sort, of offensive. 4 promises to present a serious problem. Private advices from Bermuda state that a drink costs 40 cents, but the barkeeper gives » the customer the privilege of pouring out his portion. 2 1 VOICE AMPLIFYING. BRITISH journalist in Washington learned of A: the part the new voice-amplifying apparatus played on Armistice Day. He learned that audi- ~ ences in San Francisco and New York had “listened in” when the Unknown Soldier was buried. | This journalist manifested concern over the de- - velopment and its effect on “writing men.” He re- flected that it might “put the talking fellows back in the saddle.” There is no occasion for such fears. Whatever ‘the development of the amplifier system, the “writ- ing men” will continue to be needed. They are not in competition with the “talking fellows.” "This world of ours is now so infinitely complex that newspaper-making hinges principally on what “an be left out. And even there, voice amplifica- tion would not help. It is well known that the per- son who attends a big public meeting is the one most certain to look for and read the account of the meeting. This helps him to recall his own sen- ) _ sations at the time, fixes telling ‘phrases in his mind 7 ~ and re-creates the atmosphere of the meeting. That is the real advantage of this large-scale amplification of voices for reproduction in public halls, It enables the individual to get an effect such ) @8.no written account can produce. There have been experiments in reading news bulletins over telephones in country districts. They ~ have failed, not for lack of interest, we believe, but ather because the hearers were not in touch with er. The crowd psychology did not have Dally Except Sunday by The Pros Publishing | | it does a musical composition, but records of this kind have not proved popular. More persons might turn out to hear President Harding speak than would to hear Galli-Curci sing, but phonograph records of the speech would not sell. The songs would. The reason is that music is enjoyed in solitude or in small groups. The output of the “talking fellows” is largely a matter of crowd-reaction, The hearer feels because he is one of many—arid wants to read the speech next day to renew that feeling. This is one reason why voice amplification would help to draw the people of the’ Nation together. Each auditor would be one of a crowd of millions, What a fine thing it would be if every school audi- torium in New York City—in the Nation—were equipped with voice amplifiers, so that huge crowds everywhere could listen to the same message at the same time. It would be a unifying influence such as the press cannot provide. It might inspire the “talking fel-, lows” to new heights of leadership. PRACTICE IT. F OR an alleged friend and protector of the trae- tion interests, the Transit Commission is be- having strangely. The kind of friendship and protection the com- mission has been showing the Interborough at this week’s hearings on the transit plan is enough to cause each particular hair of a “traction trust” to stand on end, : Maybe Clarence J. Shearn, the commission’s counsel, meant to be kind when he brought out the fact that among its assets the Interborough had set down at the cost price of $19,000,000 stocks of subsidiary companies that were not even able to pay: their bills and whose securities had taken tragic tumbles. Maybe it was in a spirit of tenderness that Mr. Shearn showed the Interborough had taken this means of figuring a $2,242,878 surplus that would permit payment of dividends. Maybe Mr. Shearn was only yearning over the Interborough when he made clear that from 1904 to 1919 it paid cash dividends of $65,625,000 on stock which cost shareholders $21,620,000—a re- turn of three times their investment in sixtecen years. Maybe the commission was only displaying its gentleness toward the Interborough when it gave the latter’s auditor, E, F. J. Gaynor, until Monday to decide whether he will stop trying to evade questions and give straightforward answers as to Interborough finances. Here is a sample of Mr. Gaynor’s reluctance: Q. If your account on the asset side includes among the assets stocks to the extent of mill- ions of dollars which are in fact worthless, then so far as that ‘tem is concerned, the ac- count does not truly set forth the condition of your company? A. I cannot answer that ques- tion. . The old plaint of the aggrieved lover ran: “Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But—why did you kick me downstairs?” In some such fashion the Transit Commission may be dissembling its love for the Interborough. On the other hand, it is not beyond human cred- ence that the Transit Commission may be simply living up to its own plain statement of purpose: “In readjusting securities on the basis of honest value the Commission has in view, and will insist upon, the elimination of ‘water’ of every description and the frank recognition of a depreciation that investors have long since discounted.” Why not practice thinking that, after all, this Transit Commission may turn out to be én the level? MOVE UP! There's room enough in the world for ali Tf men will only obey the call: Move up! Don't stand in line and hamper the way, Remember each dog should have his day Move up! 7 Give every one @ taste of the sun And a little share in life and fun: Move up! So help yourself and help mankind By clearing the road for those behind Move up! . DON C. SEITZ, TWICE OVERS. 6e I ‘D rather have a hard-boiled old man than a halj- baked youth." —A Chicago flapper. oe 8 ce OU can never reform a ‘rummy.’ " —Magistrate Brown, ‘ * + 6 EW, if any, persons die of overwork, while thousands lose health and die by the slowly disintegrating process of idleness.” —Dr. Stephen Smith. * * 66°T~ HE Constitution does not protect any place but * where I sleep and where I eat. That might h as well as | satisfy a hog but not a man.” —Senator Stanley. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1991, els i DISARMAMENT , CONFERENCE | | | ‘Outside Where From Evening Hope and felp. ‘To the Bditor of tho Brening World: After reading Ex-Sergeant’s and “Wampus's" letters in the issue of Noy. 12, I would like to say to them that their letters seemed very frivolous ‘and lacked a deal of high-mindedness. It is yuch individuals who would cause this great conference to fail if people really took note of their humor- |ous_ remarks. | We must be optimists, not pessi- mists, for great and lasting good is to be derived from its outcome. We do not know the conclusion and can only hope in all sincerity for its suc- cess and lend our support to a great endeavor instead of mocking at it. Brooklyn, N.¥., Noy. 15. A.C, A Crowded Field. To the Battor of The Wrening World, I see that the so-called reform movements ,have ‘been started with renewed vigor by the professional re- formers, well organized and _ well financed. It is time to check these self-appointed dictators before they pbarass our law-making bodies into forcing the views of the rather small but loud-mouthed class: upon the body of freedom-loving citizens. ‘The bu ies opp: to any- thing the other fellow enjoys are aligning themselves with other or- ganizations, each trying to push his own petty wishes upon the Legisla- tures; the anti-card crowd, the anti- dancing bunch, and the anti-tobacco leaguer are each insisting that his cause ts the right cause and is clamor- ing for suppression of its particular vice. I would like to say to the brofes- sional reformer that the reform game is getting too old and the field is.too overcrowded. We «re getting tired of |their impudence. Why not start a | movement to change the climate of the Arctic regions? You would then still be enabled to do something and wouldn't annoy us. A. F, BELLIN. “Te aT.” {To the Editor at the Brening World: |__I think that last Saturday's Evening | World story Was very good. It illus- {trates the modern young man “to a 'T.” After he (the young man) spends jall of his money on the frivolous girl \by taking her to all the shows and dances, she is ready to marry, ‘Then of marrying her. |" In nine cases out of ten at least the girl who doesn't show her knees, rouge or smoke and takes an interest in worth-while things is more intel- lgent than the more frivolous type. I've noticed a lot of knocks a your paper, Not being old enough t vote I don't know about the political \he does the quiet girl the great favor 10} consumer will benetit He Belongs ty Toe Pron bublehlig Co (Toe New York Evening World), By John Cassel | World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to «ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. I consider myself pretty lucky to do 80, I get up at 1.30 A. M. and go to the eairy, load up my wagon and start out on the route. It makes no dif- ference to the milk wagon driver whether it rains, hails, snows, or if it is zero weather or blood heat. He must go and serve his route. He must run up and down many filghts of dark stairs, go into dark cellars and alleys to bring milk to your door. The milk wagon driver is certainly @ poor dub, as you say, to do all that work for the small sum of $35 per week and take a lot of abuse when he gets there late. A ROUTE RIDER. The Garment Strike. |Yo the Editor of ‘The Evening World, | During the past week I have read with interest the arguments put forth by the manufacturers, employees and union officials in the garment trade quarrel. The manufacturers, after two years of 2xperimenting with week work, now stand out for the adoption of piece work, while the employees and union heads demand a weekly wage and insist that the agreement entered into between both parties as to wages and hours of labor should not be broken. According to the manufacturers, week work has proved a dismal fail- ure and a costly experiment, not only to themselves but to the cont sumer and worker also, Production was cut down to a very low level. The union forbade bonuses to good and conscientious operators, and even workers themszlves, we are told, dared not produce more than the pro- fessional idlers, of which there were many. The union saw to it that they were secure in their jobs and their weekly wage forthcoming on pay- days, regardless of whether thcy turned out one or ten garments per day. It does seem a pity that after a man invests a large amount of money, a life's earnings in some cases, in this particular business, the union steps in and takes cortro! of his plant, Many times T have soon delegates come into a shop and take operators out of it simply because they were cutting forty-two instead of thirty-eight, the the union, The woe in 4 most cases, used to stack the cloth above the limit intentionally,and then phone the union while out to lunch. The manufacturers should refuse to allow the week work system to con- tinue. The workers should be paid for what they produce, This will stimulate production greatly, result in lower prices, and both worker and alike, J.T. M. section, but 1 think your paper Long Island, Nov. 15, 1921 : surpasses any other newspaper. Brooklyn, Noy, 15, 192) Birth Control, -_— No the Editor of The Hrening World } A Dificult Jon. Now that the subject of “birth von- \ ro tao Eaitor of Tao Evening World trol” is in the limelight, would it not Kindly put these few words in your]}be well to give this important matter precious ¢ ns+to the person whol|the fullest’ consideration and »pub- signs F, A. Neity? cannot agree with his letter In] Many thinking people are convinced | regard to the milk wagon driver mak-|that only birth contro! can save the ing 80 much money for doing so It-| world from disaster. There are at tle work. Joel BM route rider and make $44 per week, I must take out a differ- lent route every day of the week, and present altogether too many people, not only in European countries but also in the United States. Why continue the insane effort to UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) LISTe YOUR ADVANTAGES. If you are beginning to feel sorry for yourself, make a iiltle list of your advantages. Compare ycurself first to the people of a hundred ye rs u second) to the people in less favored sections of ‘he world, To-day you may think that there is no opportunity. Yet all around you men are finding opportunities, xelling rich and famous out of them. University extension movements have brought educa- tion within your reach, Benjamin Franklin had to dig his out of books, and it cost him a hundred times the effort that your education will cost you, no matter how hard you have to work for it, , To-day you can, if you choose, live well at almost any price. Reedy rade clothes and shoes can be had for what you want to pay for them—-if you are not too particular. There is not a city or-village in this country where enough food to support life cannot be had for a very few cents a day. Books in libraries are free. Travel costs little in either money of time compared to its former cost. A few years ago a well-known writer toured the world for a little over $100, working his way as he went. That would have been impossible even fifty years ago. You tive in « well-governed, civilized country, where the climate is invigorating and conducive to effort, and where on every hand there is incentive to honest labor. No ®ppressors are set over you. Your toil cannot be bought and sold. You can quit any job you don't like. You do not have to submit to abuse or to ill treatment, Almost any of the maladies that once brought certain death can now be cured by medical skill. You live in an age of wonders, like the telephone and the airplane and electric light and power. Compared with your great-great-grandfather, or with the people who populate the slopes of the Andes or the Malayan Peninsula, your lot is a pretty easy one. Don’t complain about it. Make the most of it, increase the population? The more people there are in any country the harder it becomes for the individual to make a living. Look at China and India, with their hundreds of millions! Compare these countries with the happy lot of Aus- tralia, Canada and New Zealand, with heir sparse populations, Modern hinery has eliminated 50 to 75 per cent. of the need of work- ers. Modern machinery in the years to come will come pretty near doing away with all need of workers. From the Wise Those who love with purity consider not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. ~—Thomas a Kempis. Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversa- tion.—James Hervey. This condition has been brought about largely by the unreasonable de- An honorable death is better mands of the bor unions. Walk ‘pan @ dishonorable life. along the streets of New York and examine the mens of humanity : —Tacitus, pe to be seen th If you de this with Tt te the tale of fowan an unprejudiced mind you will be \ ole of Cowardios, wot convinced that birth control is asim-| Of courage, to go and crouch portant as disarmament. The bringing of children into the yorld is the most solemn obligation a man Or woman can undertake, and should be undertaken only by those mentally and «physically fit to take proper care of their offspring. ‘New York, Nov, 15, 1921, down in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of for- tune.—Montaigne, I hasten to laugh at everything, Jor fear of being obliged to weep. ; —Beaumarehais. virtue in the face sebastien i snesiaeteaialte alesis scancccA TURNING THE PAGES —BY-— everyone meant all that everyone r says, What a dreary old world this twoould bet ‘ Tf everyone knew all of everyone's ways, / Why, everyone always would be in @ ace Of doubt and distrust, don’t you seef If everyone tore away everyone's mask, $ What a sorry awakening, dear! If everyone worried thro’ everyone's La Why, no one would dare aught of any- one ask, For doubt is the nestling of fear. If overyone were but to everything true, Why, there'd never be need of ale: If everyone everyone's faults could | undo, Then everyone's kiss would drown everyone's rue, | And all the world’s sorrows defy. ‘These three stanzas are from Page 33 of “Verses of Love, Sentiment and Friendship,” a_ volume _ privately printed in San Francisco of Clay 31 Greene's writings in verse. The poem points the terrible conse quences of a Disarmament of Poli- ticians. + 9 8 Io Praise of Jealous; In E. V. Lucas's “Rose and Rose” (Doran), Mrs. O'Gorman impresses upon Dr. Greville her idea of the plain truth, thus: “Listen to the man!’ she mocited “As if jealously had any logic, any rules or reason! Every | one's Jealous—not only lovers. “It's one of the impulses of’ life; it's # part of all kinds of honorable respect- able emotions that every one praises, such as ambition, “Possessivences “always leads to it—and that is why you'd aute Rose’s lover so, because ‘ied be taking her away from yo ui first her thoughts, and then herself, $0 should 1 be’ jealous if you. simmt more time talking with that nin- compoop, Mrs. Galloway, than with no use being ashamed of | Jealousy, and it's no use belleving people when the: they are su- perlor to the feelin, It anything could turn the green monster into a pink blush, sure wouldn't it be the blarney of Mrs. O'Gorman? But try to think of the jealousy © elder statesmen as an impulsiy fa world crisis o 8 @ The Selfish Single File--- A thought from “Life's Minor Co! lisions,” tlie friendly little book o Frances and Gertrude Warne (Houghton-Miffifn), on the unfriend lness of going it alone: * Now and then there is an extreme individualist who 3 is to through life absolutely unmolested, single file. He is impatie of col- lisions, and collisions certainly do occur through one’s proximity to one’s kind. . But even the most arrant individ- uelist can hardly go single file al! by himself-—not without making hard work of it. at least. And even if such a thing were possible, it would not be a natural or kindly way of ilfe. We therefore keep up the hearty old custom of going through life |r ups of families and associates and friends—even though, inadvert- ave metimes do collide. speaking of them who & And, : through in groups. there are also, of a those associates who keep uv the he rush hour. ° Uninspiring Woman--- Women readers who t 184 of James N. Wood’ and the Will to Power’ mise these lines: It is a favorite vagary of the superficial to speak of woman as an Inspiration to the man of gentus ng could be less true, | “Phe introspective faculty is, to | her, an enemy agalnst which she brings to bear all the weapons with which Nature has armed her. She perceives in it something that makes _ man {Independent of her. ‘Achievement she sires, but thd achlevement of the average, something less than herself. dreads a passion that leads man to pass over the point and circumstance ‘of ordinary things, to reach what to her seems nothing less than a shadow. t Woe to the man of talent who permits himself to enter into an alliance with her! Seems almost a sure thing, doesn't it?— past page s “Democracy (Knopf) will That the Nineteenth Amendment marched past to no applauding hand of James N. Wood. | Keauty Above Books--- In his book “Elizabeth Inchbald and Her Circle” S. R. Lockwood quotes concerning his titular subject from an old writing by Mary Shelley: I have heard that a rival beauty sof her day pettishly complained ‘that when Mrs. Inchbald came into ar and sat in a chair 4 middle of it, as was her wont, every man gathered round {t, and it was yain for any other woman to at- tempt to gain attention. Godwin could not fail’ to admire her; she became, and continued to be," a favorite. He used to describe her as mixture between a lad: iticmaid, and Sheridan declared ehe was the only authoress whose society pleased im, Mrs, Inchbald’s eighteenth century plays and novels are forgotten. Her charm lingers in legends. So does a shining example rebuke the bluestocking scorn of “beauty that’s born for an hour.” eee Youth's Newly Opening Door--- Sir Philip Gibbs's “More That Must Be Told" (Harpers) has this inspir- ing close: The youth of the new world that is coming need have no fear that eace will rob it of romance and adventure. The building of that new world upon the ruins of the old; the re- shaping of social relations between classes and nations; the pursuit of spiritual truth and beauty; the killing 4 cruel and evil powers; the conquest of disease; the resurrec- tion of art and poetry and handicrafts; the calling ba. song and laughter to human tite; the joy of flight made safe from h: the prolongation of human life by new discoveries of science; and the reconciling of life and death by faith re-established in the soul of the world, will be adventure enough to last, let us say, a thou- lovely sk of standing now at, the open, door, wonderin, o Which way” to take to imest ‘the future, at whic! ir Philp might add, leads to airy helghta out of the eulnes of poison gas. .