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OF ca eM Wiorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pudlished Dally Exoopt Sunday by The Prese Publishing j Company. Nos. 53 to 68 Park Row, New York. { RALPH PULITZER, Preaident, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOKREPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, ¢3 Park Row. ‘Th MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. @t all vews Gexpatches credited te ft or mot otmerwise oreuitea im tam peggy nd also the local news pubilshea hereim A BETTER WAY. ECORDER CAESAR WALTERS of West Ho- R boken has a better sense of justice than Presi- dent Harding, Attorney General Daugherty and District Attorney Hayward combined. Ifa guilty business conspirator lke frank H. Nobbe, Vice President of the Tile Trust, is ‘r poor health, wouldn't it be better to let him finish his term piecemeal when his health permit‘.| ‘han to turn him loose after serving only a littie more than a quarter of an Over-light sentence? Recorder Walters sentenced a masher to serve thirty Sundays and work on the week days Great Britain used the “cat and mouse” act in dealing with hunger-striking suffragettes. The same principle could be fitted to tic case of Dusiness malefactors who plead poor healin The best time for business conspirators to con- “ Sider their health would be before they enter into erooked ‘conspiracies. i “These luncheons,” observed Hizzouer at the | mid-day meal of the Fifth Avenue Association yesterday, “brings men of brains together.’ | « * They does! * KEEP THE LOCKWOOD COMMITTEE. | 27 HE fight at Albany against the Lockwood Tr committee and its counsel, Samuel Unter- Zmyer, is not going to be waged in the open. ** ‘The real opponents of this activity will not show their hands. Specious pleas that the committee has done its work, that its counsel has exceeded his rightful powers, that the emergency has passed, will be entered. +Behind all this smoke screen the real opponents ‘will be working silently and skilfully. These are the’ conspiring rings and the crooked union ieaders, the gouging landlords, the usurists who collect bo- s.nuses in advance of,loans and the furtive and wolf- esh lawyers who aid and abet these schemes. 4; Some of these hate Mr. Untermyer and the com- Bimittee for what they have done. Some fear what | $'may be done in the future. But all agree that Strooked business would be easier and safer if Sam Untermyer were not on the job. i Suppose it is.true that Mr. Untermyer has ¥ stretched his authority to the limit in searching out ithe parasitic rascals who have preyed on this com- 'y because it is in urgent need of homes. *© What then? “<The reasonable answer would be to extend the «powers of the committee so that it could ferret out Sfhe-rascality now beyond its reach. : ©. @ne thing the Lockwood committee has proluced "Ys resiilfs. No legislative committee has ever pro- duced more results iri proportion to the money S-spent than has the Lockwood committee, It shoul 2%. If its power is revoked, the mice will come back t g fo nibble. It’s better to keep the cat on the job. MAKE IT A BROAD FOUNDATION. OL. WILLIAM H. HALL, a Republican politi- cal leader of Willington, Conn., subscribed the entire quota of his town for the Wovurow Wilson Foundation. When the roll of the Foundation is made up, “many Republicans will Have'buried party prejudices J.avd will be, as Col, Hall sald, “glad to have a part ‘in commamorating the great work Woodrow Wil- + son has done.” “ But how abour the other Wilson admirers in _ Willington? It is to be hoped that they will not “permit Col. Hall's generosity to prevent them from contributing their mites to so good a cause, The “quotas” in the Woodrow Wilson Founda- tion Fund are on a different basis from Liberty Loan and Red Cross quotas. In wartime the prin- cipal effort was to “go over the top” or “finish the job.” The underlying idea in the Wilson Founda- tion Fund is to make it a great popular testimonial to the greatest cause in the world. The great ob *fect is to enlist active participating interest among Jas many individuals as possible. +» A million one-dollar subscriptions would meay vastly more than a thousand pledges of $1,000 each Completion of the quota in any town or city should not deter any Wilson admirer from having his share in the Foundation. The National Headquarters of the Foundation is fiat No, 150 Nassau Stree!. Small checks are » welcome. ras . STATE INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS. T(CMHANGES in the Federal income tax make im- perative certain changes in the State income tax, + Some critics believe the State should follow pre- cisely the exemptions allowed by the United States. It is argued that no one should be required to Keep a double set of books to help him account for his income. This is true for the larger income-tax payers. It is less applicable for the great majority of those Hiable to the Federal tax in ihe lower brackets. The difference in the rate of taxation marks ¢ Anvoctated Prem ls exduslvely entivea to the use for revublicattod | distinction between the national and State taxes The lowest rate in the Federal schedules is 4 per cent. The corresponding rate in New York is 1 per cent. Experience shows that raising the personal ex- emption by $1,000 would eliminate approximately one-half the income-tax payers. Ata 4 per cent. rate, none of these is paying more than $10 tax. The probability is that these taxes would average less than $5 each. There comes a point when {he value to the Stats of the small sums collected is out of all proportion to the bother, inconvenience and expense to which the taxpayers are subjected. If the State can possibly spare the income as the result of economies at Albany, it would be both wise and politic to exempt all whose incomes are less than $4,000 or $5,000 from making tax retums to the State. On the higher income groups it is evidently wis: to adopt the Federal scale of exemptions for tne sake of uniformity in accounting. WARN HIM. O amount of loud talk from Mayor Hylan is going to move the Transit Commission one inch from the solid foundation of authority upon which the decision of the highest court in the State has left it. “If that decision stands,” fumes the Mayor, “we can never have home rule until the Constitution o* the State is amended. 1 hope no court will hold that the people of New York and other cities cf the State can be shot at sunrise.” i The decision will stand, and the only thing that will be shot at sunrise is the fool notion that this city’s urgent traction problem can be settled in a costly fight with the Transit Commission, If the Mayor wants to begin a drive for munici- pal home rule, let him begin it. But if the Mayor spends one more dollar of the city’s good money on a vain attempt to put the Transit Commission out of business the city’s tax- payers should rise up and denounce him. The municipal election is past. The-Transit Act has been tested to the last State court. There is no longer the shadow of an excuse for appraising the Transit Commission by anything save the actual work it is doing. The Mayor's great “protect-the-5.cent-fare-against- the-interests-and-the-commission” issue is dead and cold. . The commission has done nothing that threatens the S-cent fare. On the contrary, it has become more and more clear that the best hope of getting a S-cent fare, as against the 10 and 15 cent fares that thousands of New Yorkers are now paying each day, is to help the commission forward on its job. One thing is certain. The people of the city will not get 5 cents’ worth of value in return for $100,000 paid to Hiram Johnson or any other lawyer in fur: ther legal assaults on the Transit Commission’s im- pregnable position. Are New York taxpayers .so flush that they are ready to furnish the Mayor money to go on fight- ing against traction settlement instead of for it, merely to indulge him in his hobby? If not, it is time they took steps to warm Mayor Hylan, His duty to them is to get in touch with the Transit Commission and. work with the Transit Commission to a sane solution of the traction problem. If he fails to do this he fails them doubly: (1) He's a costly block to traction settlement. (2) He's an argument against home rule, Does the President of Harvard University ex- pect to depopularize football by insisting that it's a “rough sport"? ——— It costs a lot to hear grand opera stars, But think of the wear and tear of managing them! TWICE OVERS. 6s HE man who has the largest bank account is always the one who deposits small amounts in the bank at stated intervals.” —Henry A. Schenk, President of Bowery Savings Bank. » * « 66 HERE may be depression in some lines, but the pocket flask manufacturers are doing plenty of business.” —A New Yorker For a Day or Tuo. ‘ vA N awakened public opinion will force the surety companies to decline gioing bail bonds to professional criminals.” —Judge Talley. * * * * * * 66 JT seems to me that now we may look forward to real constructive work in our industry.” —Louis Lustig, President of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufac- turers’ Protective Association. * * 8 ee HE bituminous coal miners expect nol only to hold what they have gained bul will de- mand an increase in their basic wage rates.” John L, Lewis. we . 4 ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1922. f , ’ Hea > ——_ - ded Wrong! © (New York Evening World) Copyright, 1922, by Press Pub. Co. a - Nica Sag III. ee eta pene Ph Ne smmememeemned toe acta we Tote ayo 5 Cure for Snoring? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Will some one kindly inform me if there ts any cure for snoring’ This has caused me mortification. I have been told that I snored so as to keep folks awake, so they were sorry, but they would have to leave me out of their week-end party. This has grieved me, for I know they like me. CONSTANT READER. ‘Th: Stigma of Landiordism. To the Ediior of The Evening World: J. A. M.'s letter wants ‘a law at once to compel house owners tu re- duce thuir charges to 1914 rentals. ° And how about 1922 expenses? J. A. M, ts very generous—to nim- self. I wish he (or she) owned an apartment house with 1922 expenses and 1914 rentais, then he would find out. For a plumber's job paid in 1914 by $3, he would have to pay $10 now. Coal costs about three times as inuch. Taxes are about double. Interest is umber: Bonuses are required on joans. And I read in the papers that the cost of living is still 78 per cent. higher than in 1914, Is housing ex- cluded? And what is it worth to be always cn the defensive against all kinds of enemies, such as tenants, reformers, philanthropists and newspapers? Don't you think that to bear the stig- ma of being a landlord is worth some remuneration? EX-LANDLORD. Tombstone for the Saloon, ¢ Editor of The Evening World Epictetus,” in his letter in your issue of the 14th inst., In one breath bewails the Eighteenth Amendment and in another avers that the saloon still beams in all its glory. Webster defines the saloon as a grog-shop, or a place for the sale of Nquor, and again Epictetus errs, in- asmuch as the hip-pocket bootleg stuff that !s vended to-day is any- thing but frog or liquor. Again be inquires, who ts the ma- Jority of the people, and in answer— not the ex-suloonkeeper, the free lunch advocate, the rowdy or the man who spent his money with his foot on the iron rail, endeavoring to make a@ good fellow of himself, but those of good morals und respectability, who have the welfare of their fam- ilies and others at heart. The Eighteenth Amendment, in the manner in which it is to-day inter- preted by those iu control, ix decid- edly unsatisfactory, and indications portend an early return to sanity in the matter, but, Epictetus, what the saloon is in need of at tombstone. To present Is a P. EL Self Destroyed, To the Editor of The Evening World: I have watched with interest the wrong trail on the liquor ques tion, It Was not the Anti-Salon ‘League nor the hosts of mytitcal Turitans that ma bone dry. tor months past the public yapping a! ms From Evening 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 hundi.d? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. was brought about by the salcon- keepers. They over-stimulated their trade to such an extent that they became a public menace, and aot satisfied with treat profits, they strove to make these enormous by adulterated — stuff. nearly every four-corners was beauti- fully adorned with saloons and cafes During the war many of these were centres of sedition and at all times were hatcheries of rotten politics. When anything gets too rotten to live it dies of its own poison, and tha is what happened to the liquor trad} la the United States. Like the tent-| caterpillars that for four years de Youred the green of the country side ond then in the fifth year swarmed in uch profusion that they killed theim- selves, so it was witl tle suloonkeep- ers, T am not a member of the Anti- Saloon League or any kindred organ- {zation, just an ordinary citizen wh does his own thinking and who has become wise to propaganda when he eves it, therefore he finds himself in a grandly {solated position on this subject. G. H. Getting Confessions. To the Editor of The Brening World I was glad to read that some people have the courage to censure the method of obtaining information or “confessions” from prisoners who come before the toughs who admin- ister the “third degree.” ’ I have spoken to several victims who have been through the torture or beating up that is administered to all suspects whether they be guilty or innocent. Of course, when the cops are told to go out and “get” somebody, so as to provide a “goat” to protect some official higher up from public criti- cism, they do their duty and “get” one. The ‘third degree," as admin- istered to-day, will wring a ‘‘confes- sion’ from any innocent man, whether he knows what it is about or not, 5. M. New York City, Jan. 17, 1922. The Death Roll, To the Editor of Te Evening World Reports of the motor death roll of 1921 are staggering indeed. Between 12,000 and 15,000 persons were killed in the United States, Only nine’ less than 2,000 were killed In the State of New York and 685 were killed in the City of New York What grim figures; and every year more and more! No matter how drastic the law for those who drive, the pedestrians are nover safe MF. New York, Jan, 17, 19 How Shoald We Knowt it the United States This sad state of affairs Po the Editor of The Brening Wo: Will you please state how the stil explodes? What is the cause of tie ie ~plosion? Fowonld hike ty know au A JS Bronx, Jan. 17, 1922, | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtaht, 1932, by John Blake.) INSTALMENTS. You owe many things to yourself, and most of them are difficult to pay. In the first place, you owe yourself an education. In the second, respect; in the third, a life of reasonably hard work, You cannot pay all these things at a time. aré able to pay them all in a lifetime. But you can at least make an instalment arrangement with yourself, and get most of the debt discharged while you still have the will and the energy to make the payments. Begin with education, If you haven't got the college sort, pay off an instalment every day by reading good books, by talking’ with intelligent people, and, above all, by think- ing about what you read and hear. * You will find that these instalments will be increasingly easy to pay as you go along. f The gaining of knowledge becomes a very fascinating occupation, once you have made a start. At ‘the end of a few years you will see a possibility of paying yourself all the education that was a debt to you at your birth, and it will not be nearly as much trouble to pay it as you may fancy. The labor which you owe yourself will have to be paid whether you want to pay it or not, unless you are one of the very few unlucky enough to have so much money that they do not need to work tor a living. But you can make those labor instalments larger right along. You can pay yourself MORE than you owe. And labor performed accumulates, It accumulates in better mental and physica! development, and in knowledge and wisdom which will be eapital by and by. There is not a large-salaried man in business who is not drawing a very important urt of his salary because of work he did years ago, when he was, he imagined, underpaid. Pay yourself 1espect—self-respect in regular instal- ments, You have to have self-respect to have self-confi- dence. If you have no regard for yourself others wi!l have no regard for you. You can overdo self-esteem, but you cannot overdo self-respect. Begin this partial payment system early in the year, and it-will have become a habit by 1928. You may discharge the whole debt in the end. And that will be profitable and com- forting in your old age. : Indeed, few WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 126—F AIR. Our word “fair,” meaning a stated market held at regular times and places, generally once a year, is lineal descendant of the Latin word “feriae,* meaning a holiday or festival, travelled through France, in the form of the words “feire” and “foire,” to find a place in the English dictionary. The institution originally known as the “fair” dates back to the gather- ings at church festivals, where the faithful selzed the opportunity. to | bring with them articles whieh they ued to dispose of and other arti- wished to sell. ‘Thus bined with plety and | pleasure in the order named, ‘The aunual recurrence of fairs, Uke From the Wise The complete poet must have a heart in his brain or a brain in his heart.—G. Darley. If you run after two hares you will catch neither.—Proverb. The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has.—Talmud. You are ubliged to your imagina- tion for three-fourths of your tm portance.--Garrick The first forty years of life ture | nish the text, the remaiiting thirty the commentary. Schopenhauer, } ite, TEE Liberators =—OF— Ireland By Bartlett Draper pacino Some V.—THE REBEL OF TYRONE. It took Shane O'Neill, the son of Conn O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, fifteen years of Intermittent fighting with Dublin Castle to demonstrate his right to the inheritance vouchsafed to him» by his father. The fightmg began in 1551, when his father, ou- ticed to Dublin, was imprisoned there. These tactics the Lord Lieutenant pursued in an effort to prevent Conn from bequeathing his estate and the title, Earl of Tyrone, to his yout son Shane, instead of to the ol Matthew, who was the English favor- Checked by two defeats in the first two years of “Shane's Rebellion,” Sir James Croft, the Lord Lieutenant, rested on his laurels—if any—for aix years following. Matters came to a head with the murder of Matthew—probably at the hands of a Shane partisan—and the election of Shane as Earl of ‘Tyrone, in accordance with the old Irish cus- Crpft countered by recog! ‘8 gon as his successor. * picked up the gauntlet i? out a moment's delay. After int ing defeats upon several separate bodies of English troops before they could combine, Shane in 1561 joined issue with the new Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Sussex. ; After he had administered a dect- sive check to the Earl of Sussex, § ‘|Shane O'Neill obtained control of all Ulster, Then the “Virgin Queen” stepped in. Elizabeth decided to see what kindness would accomplish where harsh measures had failed, e _invited—"summoned” is the. ct word—Shane to court in Lon- q After an interview with Eliza- beth the young rebel offered to recog- nize her as his liege if she wo admit hie right of succession, But it remained for the statesmen to pub| the bargain into writing. The instrument which the Irigh| visitor finally signed included pledges| on his part which he regarded severe and tyrannical. One of thes pledges imposed upon him the duty¥ of driving out the MacDonuells of} other Scottish settlers who had com in considerable yolume to the North of Ireland. The MacDonnells and their coun. trymen were hated as well as feared by the Earl of Sussex. But a suc- J ssion of severe blows dealt to the ‘ots by Shane gave Sussex a new arm as , he contemplated — the) strength that would acerue to thi victorioug Fatl of Tyrone. The upshot of these doubts and fears was a battle on the Done side of the Swilly, where Shane s1 fered a crushing defeat at the ha of Hugh O'Donnell, Disheartened, hq threw himself upon the mercy of his) late enemies, the Scottish leaders who at first received him cordially and then killed him in the course of staged Sight im their camp at Cush i endon. 4 In One respect the “Shane Rebel lion” was the outcome of a clash be4) tween the English law of primogeni ture and the Irish custom of inheri tance dating back Into the centuries In another it was a retort to th efforts of Queen Elizabeth to maki Catholic Ireland a Protestant coun ery, for tbe Irish people rallied wit! zest to the standard of rebellioi raised by 5! Ten-Minute Studies of New York City ‘ Government | Copyright, 1922 (New York Brening Worlds by Press, Publisting Co, | By Willis Brooks Hawkins. | This ts the 108d article of a # defimng the duties of the admi: trative and legislative officers an, boards of the New York City G ment, THE JUDICIARY. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the State divided into four judicial depai ments, the first of these containt New York and Bronx Counties; tl second embracing Kings, Queens Richmond Counties in this city otber outside counties. The infor tion contained In this article relat only to the counties within the cl Supreme Court Justices are elect ,) 000 from the State and an additl $7,500 from the city. The work each department ‘is _apportio among the Appellate Division, ti Appellate ‘Term and the Special Trial Terms. ‘The Appellate Division admits aj torneys to the bar and may sus; or disbar them. It may remo Magistrates, Municipal Court J tices and Justices of the Court on charges ant Special Sessions It grants writs after hearings. habeas corpus, mandamus, tion and certiorari. Next Court of Appeals the Appellate vision is the highest Appellate Co inthe State. Except where judj ment 1s of death all cases must heard by the Appellate Division bj fore they can reach the Court of A peals. The Appellate Division hears a peals from the Appellate Term aj the Trial und Special Terms of tf) Supreme Court; from the Surrogat Courts, the Co sions, the Court o} the Child Courts. f Supreme Court hears appeals fre the City Court and the Municigy | Court. The Special Terms respective transact ex parte business, hear Il} gated motions, try issues of law ar | generally, issues of fact not triable 5 jury, as well a8 actions in which jury trial is a matter of right, inclu ing criminal cases, The Trial Tert respectively try issues of fact with, jury and actions in which a ju trial is a matter of rigttt, includi ciiminal cases. i our county fairs, 18 embodied int German word “Jahrmarkt," w t Russians borrowed with the tnattt tion it describes, and corrupted in “jarmarka." The wide range of cor) modities bought and sold ted by the modern Gree! lent “panaghir’ in whies pan” seen, the waa! (all or everything) Is plain, | ——