The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1921, Page 10

meet, aa dete oo ue py World, 2 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. is ‘Pudliehed Dally Except Sunday br The Préese Publishing Company. Nos, $3 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President. 3, ANGUS SHAW. JOSEPH PULITZER MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Phess. ‘The Ansociated Press te exciualvely ented to the ase for nd also ths local news publishea herein. : TRUE TO FORM. el ea developments in the investigation ; of the I. R. T. have exposed the feebleness of Mayor -Hylan’s “protection” of the people. Mayor Hylan now—too late in all probability— “gees, Wants prosecution of the Interborough directors. % It looks as though the statute of limitations would prevent effective prosecution. Two years ago, when the Hylanites determined to have “a *& comprehensive inquiry into the transit lines of New *. Yotk City,” it would have been possible to pur- Sue the same course the Mayor now advocates with ~ evastly greater ‘probability of success. This is typical of Hylanism. When we have not had bad government we have “almost-good” gov- .“emment. Two years ago the Hylanites investi- AS gated far enough to get a talking case. They |*=\ stopped short of a case for action. © The Mayor and his assistants may mean well. §2The Mayor continues to talk. He advises action— “Wien it’s too late to act. ” > Meanwhile the Transit Commission, which he Sehounces, is laying plans for action which his own estigation might have brought forward two years ‘ago and thus have forestalled the need for Gov. Miller’s ‘initiative in the matter. ~ Good intentions that stop with talk have not protected and do not protect the 5-cent fare. They do not disturb the “interests.” The Evening World is still waiting for Mayor Hylan to give the details of the plan which he be- Nieves to be right and practical. The city needs this plan as an aid in checking up the Transit Gommission. Will Mayor Hylan produce this plan—too late to be of ‘any service? Now that President Harding has expressed tolerant approval of a certain organisation, which -he describes as the “European League ‘ot Nations,” tt will no longer be polite for good ; Republicans to snort and fume over “Wilson's League of Damnations.” Friends do not use ‘such prefixes in speaking of friends. And how lerge Europe must feel now, t- cluding, as it does, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Canada, South America, China, India and other areas too numerous to mention. KEEP TO THE RIGHT. EW YORK may watch with interest Chicago’s experiment in guiding crowds of Christmas’ “Keep to the right” admonition, B* It is a good idea, if it will work. Maybe it will work in Chicago. But would it in New York? In many congested traffic wayseNew York has dividing lines far more substantial than white lines on the sidewalk. Many subway stairways have _ substantial iron railings dividing right from left and from wrong. How much good do they do? ‘ge To pass a charitable judgment, we might assume » that New Yorkers are largely of continental origin and accustomed to “turn to the left if you want to go right.” ‘ ‘But even that supposition breaks down, if we ‘consider the runways to and from the shuttle trains : yee Grand Central. There the routes are plainly ©" smarked with green and black signs and lines, and werin spite of this it is a common thing to see travel- Jue ‘ets breasting the crowd, jostling and interfering in “Sti the effort to go, the wrong way. =~ Not even the assumption that New Yorkers can- * mot read helps much, for at Times Square Station fn clatorate equipment of rails and chains, plus ~~ shouting guards, do not keep traffic streams mov- ing smoothly. | Nevertheless, keeping to the right fs a good idea. fee It is a practice which may be adopted by individ- 4 uals with benefit to all concerned. If it gets to be @ habit with enough New Yorkers, the rest will %* conform. Keeping to the wrong is no more than The sem bad habit which has grown to inconvenient pro- The poor we have always with us, and it is getting eo that we can say almost the same bout Congress. But Congress always adjourns fm time to collect mileage. be ? eae ef VOTE FOR VETERAN PREFERENCE. ‘(COMPLETE figures on the vote for and against the Veteran Preference Amendment: last ‘month make possible an interesting comparison. * fhe vo against the unlimited preference was 4,101,175. The vote in favor was 699,372. - In the World War the State of New York is d with having furnished 493,892 soldiers, and. marines. shoppers with a white line on the sidewalk and a_ | | =F reputttoatlod Of all news despatches credited to It or nor ownerwise ereuitea in tam papeg ber of veterans who would have been eligible for preference. These figures cast a grave doubt on the author- ity with which any organization, whether it be the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or any other of the many semi-military orders, may be represented as “speaking for the veterans.” If the service men had been unanimously en- thusiastic in favor of Amendment I., each veteran could have influenced at least one vote besides his own in favor of this measure. This cannot be doubted. The conclusion is simple: The service men were anything but unanimous. While the matter was under disoussion many hesitated to antagonize their fellows who favored the proposal. Organization after organization went on record with substantial unanimity as favoring Amendment 1. But when election day came the silent opponents either let the amendment lose by default or voted against it. The result ought to do a good deal in putting backbone in legislators who have bowed too low before a non-existent soklier vote. A TRY-OUT UNION. HE latest British proposals for a settkement of the Irish question are understood to accept the Sinn Fein condition of a United Ireland to start with—at the same time providing that after six months’ trial, if Ulster finds the union impossible, she may withdraw before the end of the year with her boundaries determined by a commission. It is hard to see how Ulster could balk at this plan if Sinn Fein were to accept it. Sir James Craig, the Ulster Premier, was quoted earlier in the week: “I do not say that Ulster will never accept an All-Ireland Council, though the Sinn Fein says it will never accept any other scheme. “Whet we say is let the Sinn Fein first Drove its ability to govern itself along con- stitutional lines. Let it win Ulster’s confi- dence by practical proof of its fairness and impartiality toward the Southern Unionists. Then, in the course of time, the two Irish Governments might coalesce of their own free wilts.” i There would be obvious advantages in having Sinn Fein, as part of a Government of a United Ireland, admittedly on trial. It would put Sinn Fein doubly on its mettle to prove itself capable of providing its share of fair and competent gov- ernment. Downright refusal of the plan would put Sinn Fein in the position of appearing to fear the test. On the other hand, ft hardly seems that Ulster would risk overmuch by agreeing to a try-out union from which it could withdraw in six months if t so elected. There still remains, of course, so far as Sinn Fein is concerned, the stumbling block of the oath of allegiance to the Crown. ‘ This is largely a matter of sentiment, a’Sinn Fein determination never to admit Ireland to be a part of the British Empire without having first tasted the joy of letting all men see Ireland—for an in- stant, at least—cut out of the British Empire, mak- ing its contracts as a nation among nations. Some formula that will cover this difficulty should be discoverable. Nor can we believe that Sinn Fein leaders will not aid in the search for such a formula rather than risk asking the Irish people whether they will give up peace and freedom merely to deny a British King. Wet and Dry. (From the Living Age.) In the overseas observation of the working of Prohibition in the United States, there is nothing half-seas-over. It is all extremely sober and serious, Two labor members of Par- Mament have recently visited the United States to investigate the actual processes of Prohibi- tion and have drawn up a report on what they - saw and heard. It contains Uttle of which most thinking Americans are not painfully aware and ends with the following sentences: “We have honestly endeavored to describe the conditions in America as we found them. We went with open minds, although we had been impressed with the idea gathered at home that Prohibition had proved an unmixed bless- ing to that wonderful country. With this we do not agree.” TWICE OVERS. MY desire is to get home for some plain cooking, | pies like mother makes.” —Mary Pickford in Paris, . 66 AS ¢ result of my ten days among the German workers, I believe the best assurance against war is not whether they are technically disarmed but whether they are spiritually disarmed.” —President Jouhaux of the French Federation of Labor. * * * se HIS conference is nol going to be wrecked over 10 per cent."—A British representatice at Washington. “ The younger generation has acquired a marked distaste for staying at home.” —Miss Amy Tal- bot of the Y. W. C. A, . * * «6 QUE has an American bar.”—A steamship ane nouncement. Missed the Ri He ght Road « = From Evening World Readers > TRANSIT paves TiGAaTIon What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te eay much in few words. Subway Sunbeams. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The Subway Sun is becoming quite brilliant. The latest bulletin states “No more standing in line” will be necessary to iprocure tickets. hay his suggestion might not be amiss: Add to the sign “Bring your own nickels with you.” If this precaution is neglected the only difference the installation of the featherweight turnstile is apt to make is that instead of standing in line to purchase a ticket to drop in the box, which {8 being abolished, you will stand in line to obtain a nickel to insert in the turnstile. Better play safe if you want to be comfortable and have your nickel ready. Perhaps the Subway Sun will some day shine even more brilliantly and read o more standing In our Why not? It is said mira- cles never cease, EORGE W. HOPPER. New York, Dec. 1, 1921. ‘Tribute te Dr. Lorem. To the Editor of The Evening World: I bow in reverence to a noble patri- arch and international hero, Dr. Lorenz. Let us hope the shags to the profession (in Philadelphia) will see my tribute. I happen to know one young lady whom ‘he saved from a Breat handicap. Let us hope he will Only see #ome and spare himselt for the rest. I must say he is lacking in only one thing, and that is a halo. MRS. M. J. M. New York, Dec. 1, 192 Comtract ak! i. To the Editor of The Evening Work’: Your lack of knowledge regarding conditions existing in the cloak and suit trade as revealed by your edi- torial of Nov. 29 is astonishing. While you suggest that the manufacturers, before coming before a board of arbi- tration, repent and honor their obliga- ou forget that these same who refuse arbitration be- cause of a breach of contract by pro- tective shops, have laid themselves open to criticism by breaking their agreement in a similar manner by calling out the workers of the Ameri- can Association shops on strike with- out any provocation. Surely the union has no more privi- lege to break its agreement than have the members of the Protective Asso- ciation. Perhaps in the Tight of this added information you will no longer lend your support to the union when they themselves feel under no obliga- tions, but expect others to keep theirs when it is to their advantage. J. BERINBAUM. 29, 1921. Wases. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World I agree with “Bookkeeper” in ber letter about employing married wo- men, but she has left out a very im- portant addition to this topic. I am @ young man, eighteen years of age, and have been seeking a post- tion for the last two months but have always been “turned down” be- cause I asked for a living wage. On the other hand, the younger boys Per-| Take time to be brief. have, been given the preference by these selfish employers because these same boys will work for indecently low wages. The city and the Depart- ment of Labor should stop this and thereby help relieve the unemploy- ment situation. Let's act, not talk. INSTANT READER. Pollee, and Open Shop. To the Editor of The Brening World; In reply to S. J. G.'s letter in Tues- day’s Evening World I would like to know how he is so sure J. Andrews was mistaken in ‘his statement about some of the police acting as strike breakers, Evidently He does not tra- verse the city very much or he would quickly change his opinion. I, my- elf, have seen policemen taking cans of milk from a truck and rolling them into a store, I haye seen police- men with route books directing the strikebreaker (who probably could not read English) where to go. Has he stopped to reason how .in other strikes you have always heard the police bemoaning their fate, of long hours of duty? I had one policeman tell me they didn’t care if the strike lasted all winter. I wonder why? It 8. J. G. has worked in the milk business for fifteen years and doesn't know he slaved previous to being or- ganized, why then he never ‘heard of Abraham Lincoln. Some of these men who are so anxious to return to work under open shop would be the first ones to bemoan their fate and cry organization in a very short time. I have been in the business eleven years and I can truthfully say I have made more money for my employer since we haye had an organization than I did before it, because I have had better conditions and have been more content, A man without a prin- ciple isn't worth anything to himself; surely he isn't worth a day's pay to an employer, and we are simply fight- ing for a principle. A MILK STRIKER. New York, Dec. 1, 1921. There Are Others. To the Editor of The Brening Work: In answer to W. Kirschner's criti- cism published in The Evening World ‘Tuesday in regard to our Government and Dr Adolf Lorenz, the noted Vien- nese surgeon, I wish to say I think he is all wrong. Would like to ask just why all this nolse and excitement over Dr. Lorenz? No doubt he is a wonderful surgeon, but in what way !3 he more skilful than our own orthopedic surgeons, who are continually performing mir- acles? They positively are not sit- ting with thelr arms folded and neg- tecting the crippled children of the poor, but are always on the alert and can be found every day, year in and year out, at the clinics of our hdspitals ready to meet all comers. I have yet to learn of any person who was ever refused treatment. Now, if the Government carried out your idea and gave Dr. Lorenz an in- come of $100,000 or half a million a year, don't you think it would be like slapping our own doctors in the face? GRC New York, Dec. 1, 1931. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1081, by John Blake) LIVING IN A TOWER. The widely. read man lives in a tower. From the tower he looks down on life. He sees the pust and the present—the activities of men from the earliest times to the present day. He observes the scientist and the inventor busy with plans for the good of the human race. ’ He watches the great builders, planning and construct- ing railroads, cilies, bridges, systems of waterways. He sees Governments rise or erumble into ruin. He can, if he will, take part in the activitiés that he be- holds. And he can take a far more capable part in them be- cause he knows as well as any man can know what is going forward in the whole world. To be widely read is to be educated. To be educated is to take advantage of the thought of other men, in all times and in all countries. | The colleges can direct reading. They can awaken the desire to be educated. But if you are to be educated you must do the educating yourself. Not all the college professors in the world can cram knowledge into your brain if your brain is not willing to do the work of digesting and storing it. In America and England are many libraries—none of them employed to more than 10 or 15 per cent. of their capacity. They are storehouses of treasure which men pass by unheeding, intent on affairs which are of infinitely less im- portance than the acquisition of knowledge. . At second hand book stalls you can obtain the work of the ablest writers and thinkers in the world—paying for a single volume about what you would pay for a cigar. The cigar may give you pleasure for twenty minutes. The book will give you pleasure and profit for a lifetime. Read if you would be well informed. Read if you'would be capable. Many widely read men are not financially successful. Many financially successful men are not widely read. But the man who is widely read has a better chance of success, for he knows more. He has lived in a tower, and from it seen the world. And if he adds wide reading to pros- perity he can get all out of life that it contains, which is a great deal more than the pleasure of piling up dollars. “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick “Mother Goose,” a name associated with nursery rhymes, was born in Boston, Mass., and he~ eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas Fleet, the printer, Motber Goose sang her child- Lady Loretto, eee where there ts a Virgin. called from the one, in her judgment, the less impor- ish songs and lullabies, to her grand-| Virgin. In the past, two pilgrimages! tani of the two, for’ whom she ay son, and Fleet published the first|*#v® Peem made to it yearly, or may not feel ‘affection? edition In 1719. She 8 tive and “camp,” meant dese! The house of Loretto is Ganta Casa, a rter from the field. Mary at Nazareth, It was miracu- St Se lously translated to Fiume, in Dal- matia, in 1291, thence to Recanati, in 12, and finally to Macerata, Italy, to a plot of lund belonging to the ‘The Loretto of Bavaria, German: (Altotting), !s near the river Ton, hrine of the Black The Loretto of Austria or Mariazeo (Mary in the cell”) is in Styria, so miracle-working image, very old and ugly, of the Scamp is derived trom “8” primi- , Originally, And one the reputed dwelling of the Virginjwho decamps without paying his debte, . a Play at it lightly, my dear! Play! No two days can be ever the same; Sunny or cloudy or clear, None but has something to love anu delight in, Laugh at and play with, see beauty end right in, Laugh with cach day! ‘Tis a step on + your way! Laugh! There is nothing to fear! Lafe is @ great big, beautiful tide, Bearing you home on its breast! Do not resiat ; let desire be your guide ; Trust in God's purposc—and resi! Love and enjoy; you will lose whet you cling to! Yours are the things that you play with and sing to, Smile at, and give. you live! Laugh, dear, and love, and be Dies! So writes Helen “Cowles Le Cron in the Nautilus Magazine, We offer her poem as a singing an- tidote for the state of pessimism nat- urally induced by Prohibition, Re-, publican politics and other transient ills, a) “Bat Thinking Makes It So.”--- We catch Edgar James Smith wo: ing on “Painful Thinking” for the December Scribner’s, and saying this But another obstacle to straight thinking hs the human inadility to see what happens. ‘Accurate facts are needed for ac- curate thinking. Sometimes expec- tation stimulated by desire distorts the facts. Hodgson has related an ingtance ob- [ IFE (a @ great big beautiful game! 'Tis by giving which he hlmeeif materialization seance give!) at which I was present,” ed apirit form ap- pea: in a semi-transpar ent flowing robe—so transparent, in | fact, that Fireman's bare arm was Visible behind it, waving it to and TO. | “When the figure retired to the | gablnet, the door closed upon a por- tion of the robe. ‘The door opened again slightly, and the end of the robe was drawn into the cabinet. Most of the sitters perceived this clearly, but one, a believer, insisted conscientiously that he saw it slowly melt away."" Well, did not the Congress of the United States adjourn, the other day, firm in the belief that it had revised the taxes downward? Not all the painful rounded up in the . su id, dra thinkers 21, seance. ary Genius and Necessity.--- Mary and Millie, in Hugh Walpole's The Young Enchanted" (Doran), ai speaking of Henry, thus: “He's only careless because he's « e said. “When's he going to begin hi« ked Mary. “He's “He has begun it. i ten chapters of a novel. “What's it about?" asked Mary, with an Irritating little sniff that she used on occasions. f eighteenth cen- | ‘about the | id Millie, “and a house in 's written something mor said Mary. t to think of what | people want,” answered Millie hotly | “He's got to write what he feels.” “Hes got to make his bread and ‘ said Miss Cass grimly. “Genius,” wrote Owen Meredith, “does what it must, talent does what it can.” But they meet upon this level: Tha both must eat or die. oe e ‘Love's No More to Give.--- A tender thought for Aurelia from the latest yolume (Dutton's) of Rob- ert Nichols's verse: Whatever substantes of love may dwell Within the passionate heart of such as I, Whatever waters of pure pity well In the dark orb of a most loving cy, I have yielded you. Whatever wer? the pain If power within me so to do did live, I, at your need, had made these yours again, But now I know I have no more to give. o ee Man’s Timeless Yesterday, --- “In the Story of Mankind” (Boni & Liveright) Dr. Hendrik Van Loon casts this bit among his other looks backward: Early man did not know what time meant. He kept no records of birth- days or wedding anniversaries or the hour of death. He had no idea of days or weeks or even years, ut in a general way he kept track of the seasons, for he had noticed that the cold winter was invariably followed by the mild spring—that spring grew into the hot summer when fruits ripened and the wild ears of com were ready to be eaten, anil that summer led when sudden gusts of wind swept the leaves from the trees and a number of animals were getting ready for the long hibernal sleep. It was all right for the train des- patcher to have no time either to loge ov to make up. But what of the sorrow of Jimmie, the office boy, with no calendar date for the Big League opening? le ee A Wife by Any Other Name, -- - St. John Ervine writes thus, in the December Bookman, of the married ‘woman who refuses to share her hus band’s name: It 1s when we consider the use of the husband's name by the wife as an outrage on her individuality that we discover how thin la the argument for a woman keeping her maiden name after her marriage. ‘Why should she refuse to be known ‘by the name of ber husband whom has chosen for herself, and con- dinue to be known by the name of ther father whom she has not chosen” Tf it {8 an o€trage on her spiritual nature to de called Mra. Richard Robins-Robinson when she has freely consented to love, honor and live awith Richard—is, in fact, most eager to do 90—how much more diabolical must be the outrage of having to endure the name given to her at her birth by one of her parents, and that Mr, Ervine's logic is far behind his times. Old marriage customs went by the beard when woman discovered that In {viduality could be spelled with @ capital “I.”