The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 30

—— ye Or oar ey tk i } aevesrenemmreidienes = — She Eheniny World, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Poudiiwhed Daily Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Now. 53 to 43 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. en etree nent MEMMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, A ~The Anoctated Prem ts exciusively ented to the use for republicattod | ‘ef ell news despatches credited to It oF noe olnerwise ereuitea In tems pagan head rothaeliuecseeolicate 9 WIDE OPEN? URING the municipal campaign last fall Mayor Hylan waxed indignant over charges that organized efforis were afoot to assure lim the teachers’ vote. Politics and the public schools were a thousand miles apart in the Mayor’s righteous scheme of things. This week, against the protesis of Superintend- ent of Schools Ettinger, the Board of Education Suspended its by-laws in order to elect to the post of Associate Superintendent of Schools Mrs. Grace Strachan Forsythe, one of the most zealous work- ers for the Mayor in the late campaign. Before the vote was taken Superintendent Ettin- ger expressed to the board his honest opinion that , in her services, “‘and more particularly in her late services,” Mrs. Forsythe does not rank with the other Associate Superintendents. He added: “There is no doubt about her achieve~ ‘ments in other directions, but that particu- DY PCIE POOLE NE Sb | Income super-taxes so high as to be unproductive lar type of service, if pushed to extremes, sometimes results in neglect of duty.” Mrs. Forsythe’s political activities here and at Albany have been conspicuous enough to make @lear Dr. Ettinger’s meaning. The fact that in the next two months the terms of three more of the seven Associate Superintend- ents of Schools expire gives an extra significance to Mrs. Forsythe’s election. When it comes to rewards, politics and the pub- fic schools are not so far apart in the Hylan scheme. The public school door is already more than ajar. There is a big Tammany foot in it. Is the door soon to be kicked wide open? It is strange that thugs try to hold up theatre ticket offices instead of the ticket brokers. Perhaps they fear competition. WHAT TEE PLELIC WANTS. F Secretaries Davis and Hoover investigate the garment industry they should not ignore the tecommendation of Benjamin Schlesinger. As leader of the garment worker unionists, Mr. Schlesinger asks a full inquiry, to include whole- sale and retail selling prices and profits as well as labor efficiency and wages. The public will be inclined to echo this demand. The public believes it has been the victim of profiteering in the garment industry. Reluctance of manufacturers to open their books when chal- lenged by the unionists has strengthened this opinion. The union leaders have repeatedly offered to -accept wage cuts or to increase efficiency if the employers would prove from their own books that cuts were essential to continuing prosperity in the trade. : In effect the unions charged employers with Profiteering amd advised them to “live on their fat” until they were ready to prove they no longer possessed profiteering gains. Manufacturers de- clined the challenge. ; The sincerity of the unionists may be questioned. On the other hand, the secrecy ot the employers is almost a confession. The public may conclude that both sides to the dispute are wrong, but it wants information on which to apportion the blame. More than this, it wants definite information as to what is a fair price to pay for clothing. It wants assurance that it is not now a victim either of profiteering by manufacturers and retailers or of soldiering by the workers. Senator Lusk's silver has a rival. The Meyor committee seems to have been gold plated. NOT YET RADICAL. HE HERALD professes to see what it calls radi- calism in the political insurgency in Wash- ington. Whether the Herald is trying to damn the efforts of the farmers by a demagogic and erroneous use of a good word, or whether it is merely ‘mistaken in its analysis of the farm bloc policies, is not apparent. “Radical” is a good word to describe what the farm bloc has not been—yet. There is all the dit- ference in the world between surface insurgency and real radicalism, Radical is a good word, a strong word, a word for exact description, According to its derivation, radical has to do with roots. A radical is one who goes to the roots of things, attacking effects through their causes. A radical digs deep. That is precisely what the farm bloc has not done—yei. The Fordney Emergency Tariff was not radical. are not radical. They are only a heritage of class hates. Freight-rate cutting is not radical. It, too, is a relic of a movement of retaliation against the old. “public-be-damned” policies. A few really radical tendencies have appeared in farmer organizations. Co-opefation is radical. Direct marketing goes to the roots of distribution evils. Another radical move is likely to come out of the growing realization that American economic affairs are intertwined with European conditions and that national isolation is costing the farmer dear. The systematic improvement of agricultural Processes through the aid of county agent instruc- tion is radical in a most desirable way. But these truly radical proposals have played a small part in politics, and none as yet in the in- surgent movement. They may come to the sur- face in time. If so, they are likely to engulf some of the trifling insurgency now evident. If the farmers ever become politically radical, this non- sense legislation will have short shrift. WORK IS DIGNIFIED, TOO. AYOR HYLAN had it all his own way yes M terday at the Board of Estimate’s hearing on the port plan. The Port Authority stood on its dignity and re- fused to have anything to do with the Mayor, just as the Mayor had previously stood on his dignity - | and refused to have anything to do with the Port Authority. The Mayor was morally wrong, even if he was legally right in refusing to co-operate with the Port Authority. In tum the Port Authority had the opportunity to show that it was big enough to stoop and perhaps conquer. Legally the position of the Port Authority is unimpeachable. As a practical matter, its refusal was a mistake. Meanwhile, port development drags. That is the important point, infinitely more important than the combined dignities of Mayor Hylan and Chair- man Outerbridge. Now that both parties to the dispute have had their time to be dignified and get nothing done, we suggest that the time for dignity is past. Why not hire a hall in neutral territory and have it out?) Why not compare notes and find a path of compromise? Why not work together and get something done, even if it proves necessary to doff silk hats and get into overalls? WHERE IT IS MOST NEEDED. N his address at the Merchants’ Association luncheon in this city yesterday, Gov. Miller said: “I want to disabuse the minds of anybody that the up-State has any desire to jam some- thing down the throats of the poople of this elty that they do not want. * * * I want to leave the thought that the people of this State, all within its four corners, should seek to co- operate to do those things which are in the interests of all the people.” It is a good thought. But it is a thought that needs to be impressed not so much upon this city as upon up-State legislators to whom the City of New York has come to rep- resent chiefly the unfailing source from which the State of New York can always, get at least 70 per cent. of the money it spends. Each and every Governor of New York might well make it a rule to put into every message he sends to the Legislature a fin reminder that Greater New York is a part of the Commonwealth and not merely the financial backer of the rest of it. Albany needs this thought more than New York. The Belgian town of Waterloo proposes to change its name so as not to remind French- men of a famous defeat. Now will the German town of Pilsen be as kindly disposed toward Americans? nner ACHES AND PAINS A Dis‘ointed Column by John Keetz, The bakers in lower Washington Street, where Arabs live, build a Turkish ple that is three foot in diameter, Must have been designed originally for the harem. our A Jersey giant rooster at the Poultry Show weigns eighteen pounds. | He has something to crow over, | 8 A friendly philatelist tells us it takes 6,000 kopecks | to stamp a letter in Russia, The system ts to bundle | up the kopecks and send them along with the letter | by parcel post. Orange, N. J., has a community chest suppofting twenty-one charities and uplif's, There were 13,000 contributors to the last annual call, chipping in $363,000, Some juice in that orange! cs #8 e Secretary Hoover promises each and every one of us a comfortable mattress to sleep upon. will provide a universal foot-warmer, all of us mar. ried men will be proud tO be Americans, oe i} They came to scrap warships, Brother with brother— It did not attack any underlying ills of the farm- er’s economic problems. Appointment of a “dirt farmer” as a member of the Federal Reserve does mot go to the roois of the farmer's credit problem, ‘ Now they are scrapping | One with the other, | * 8 A tobacco sharp says that the smoker's average for the U. 8, A, is three cigars a day and some matches, rts” Reaching Out! _ SF OTR TELE YE TN erreneeernes ° ——— ‘THE. EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27,.1922,” From Evei.ing World Readers | Comtight, 1029, Sor York BYata ena) By John Cassel Press Publishing Co. What kind of etter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gu the worth of a thousanc words in a couple of hundred? There 18 fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying te ay much in tew words Take time to be briet. France and Impert: To the Editor of The Evening World: Of late, in your various editorials, you have been picturing France as being unreasonable, narrow, e+ !fish, |ambitious, imperialistic; unmindiu' of the consequences of her foreign pol- ley. What moral right has a country tc pass judgment on another when that country has refused to co-on ate further than her interests warranved Is France more capable than Ger many in rehabilitating her devustated regions and meeting her burde.some foreign obligations? You consider France too exacting in the question of repurations, believing Germany incapable of paying them in full. fs America willing to remit ance the equivalent of what she es down in her claims against ermany? Must It always be F\ called upon to sacrific As regards imperialism in Franco, you are poorly informed as to the at- titude of the people. Do you think for a moment that the “man on horsepack’* has an opportunity In the France of to-day, the France of a million and a half dead? J, E. MEYLAN. , 1921. ance who is New York, Jan. No Eskimo Menace, To the Eaitor of Thr Ewning World I read John Phillips's letter of Jan 15 over and over, trying vainly to find a reason for the author's state- ments. To that a peaceful race such us the Eskimos, numbering less than 2h,000 souls (about 1.240 per cent. of the population of New York City). would ever join with a foreign power in fighting against the United is ridiculous. In 150,000 years, the time Mr. Phillips gives them to do it in, they will undoubtedly have inter- married with other races to the extent that most traces of their Eskimo lin e Will be lost. Many of the Eskimos have beer demoralized, disea’ stricken and killed the white fr and it | not for us to misrepresent theta by jsuch statements as that of Mr Phillips's. W. FROTHINGHAM JR. Jan. 23, 1922. The Star im the Window, ‘To the Hair of The Hvening World. I understand that there is a move Now if hg |ment on foot by the W. ¢. T. U. ti have all the people in the Unite ates haye a bluo star in their Window to denote that the oceupants of that house do not touch intoxic: ting liquor, So far so good, but about the poor birds that make hum. | brew; that is, those that make non ntoxteating Hquor? Are they in ied tout Ef they (think tha 1h uhat tl 5B ey piay their star, artiele whic s- | oy ol Divine you printed im your paper about the movement on foot by the W. CG. T. U. you quoted them as saying that under their star hey would have the words: “We are \mericans. We support the Consti- tution." ‘That may be all right, but— did those at Washington support the he Constitution that ntly amend with darned foolishness and which they don't even uphoid themselves? Are they Amer!- cans too? If the W. U. C, A. or the Ww. C, 'T, U. want to do something let them get jobs for the men that fought for them; or if they don’t want to do that let them go home and look after that. ‘There is where they ure needed instead of going out and making the worst of a job that could not have been worse if William J. Bryan had pulled the trick Galveston, Tem, Jan. America Discovered! To the Falitor of The “vning Word , The letters which are appearing in the press giving emphasis to the dis- the Icelandic (pilgrim) child of par- ent Norway, are a beautiful and en- lightning “sign of the times.’ The press is doing a great work for pure Americanism in printing the truth about America’s discovery. All who have made deep, consecrated research on this subject are holding up your hands in this issue, which, however, is no longer an issue but an acknowl- edged fact based on scientific under- standing. Lief Ericson was obeying a Divine command when he set sail for these shores. His landing, in the year 1000, near what is now known as New Bed- ford, Mase., was not a chance hap~ pening but an actual unfoldment of spiritual propheey ordained by Go As a child little Lief heard God's voice, as did little Samuel, and hrough boyhood and in young man hood his mission of discovery of the young child, Ame: in him, He followed the star (of his wn Divine impuision) which ni leads astray those who seek its un- erring radiant guidance, He followed the star to the promised land (Amer- iea), whose ultimate revelation by God, through His messenger, was foretold by the prophets of old. ‘Touch not Mine Anointed’ (Amet- ica) “and do My prophets (the raak- ers of America) no harm," (I, Chron. ‘ ) oO prophets—Franklin, who pre- pured the way; Jefferson, whose mot- ion to tyrants Is obedience was a beacon ght in the hington, the father of our country, and Lincoln, the revela- of the "Union—all these s of new era fought and were relent iled by ecclesiastical tyrar eratie despotism, the demoera yonents KITTY CHEATHAM, New York, Jam. 22, 1922, covery of America by Lief Ericson, | “burned with- | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Oopyright, 1°22, by John Blake.) HUPRYING NOWHERE, It is well enough to hurry if you know where you are going, why you are going there and how to get ther Otherwise hurry is merely a waste of valuable energy. The aveiage man hurries out of bed, hurries through Lis dressing, hurries tu his work, and hurries through his work—- all to save time which will be utterly wasted when his work is done, The working pace of the world has ‘increased out of all proportion to the rate of production, The man who rvshes about his office or shop, or rushes frantically through the streets, imagines he is a hustler e he is a hustler, Yet he usua'ly * does not get as much accomplished at the end of the week as his more casual neighbor. The object of a!l hurry ought to be to save time—bat there is no use savinjs time unless it is put to use once it is saved, As well save a great sum of moncy which you would im- mediately toss into the street as to save time for no purpose but to let it slip through your fingers. Saving ume is as difficult as saving money nd making it count wheu you hove saved it is far more difficult. For the store of tine you accumulate, unlike money, cannot be piled up in a bank in the form of frozen energy. It must be used imtaediately or it will be gone. Every ounce of energy you have is valuable. You canvot realize on all of it in actual productivity or saving, but you can, if you are carefw, get a far higher percentage of value out of it than you are getting now. If, in hurrying throuyh your work to save time, you ase the time saved only for loafing you have foolishly neglected your work and done a very poor stroke of business, “Before you hurry think why you are hurrying. If it is to gain time that you expect to use, well and good, If it i merely to give yourself a few hours to idle away stop huery ing. It will only harm you, “That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P Southwick loougright, 1944 (Tae New Zork Evening Worle) 1 “ar the Press Publishing Co. WHERE DID YOU GEi | THAT WORD? 129.—"ROSBIF.” In any Freneh dictionary you will |fnd the word “Rosbif.” translated as “The White Caps" were (1) @ re-! ‘roast beet.” hellious party of zealous Mohamme- dans put down by Kienlung, the Chinese Emperor, in 1758; and (2) vigilance organization, similar to the prior Ku ‘Klux Klan, which appeared in several of the Western States of English word you will find on almost iny French bill of fare with any pre- tensions to cosmopolitanism, From France the facile adaptation travelled throughout the Continent of y @urope, In the Russian dictionary this country tn AAGG~ 1580, ‘Rostbif” occupies a — recognized rhe “Prince Always in Front’? (in| Pl#tee, and the corruption of the Eng- sh word ig to b German, “furst allezelt | voran"),| “St nn act sound on bills of nd the “Red Prince’? were nick- | i F > Constanti- given to Prince Frederico ; | (1828-1885), u gallant com ie A . s} of borrowing! ander puse of Hohenzoliern, [for which no ¢ tion blushes; imander of the House of Hohenzol aan arcrserareeereurany cea oe vbowe eritielsm in this eur the ter (one of four 1 1 id n) ef OEdipus and Jacosta, Roast woung Kan: was famed for her fillal devotion, mean, es This corruption of an}, Blue Law Persecution By Dr. 8. E. St. Amant. Nore eae Peles Oe world) \l—THE CASE OF MRS, DELLA POST. In the year of grace, 1921, Mra Della Post, a faithful Christian, whe obeys the words of the Bible as she understands them, was returning @ wagon and mute which she had bars rowed frim a neighbor. She thrown a few armfuls of fire into the wagon to give to that neigh bor, Her course lay from Fannitt County, in northwestern Georgia, t@ Isabetla, Tenn, over a two-and-oned half mile stretch in North Caroling ona publi, highway"In a mountainous region. Ty reach her destination sh@ had to ores the corner of Nor Carolina A deputy sheriff who, for perso! reasons woe anxious to arrest persons whe keep « day other thank Sunday, way jying in wait. Stepping from ais icing place, he placed the woman, ths wagun and the mule der arrest and ordered the woman drive to the nearest justice of the peace. After three-quarters of @ mile, the 1oad becoming too rougi, for further progress, he hitched thé animal to a fence and compelled Mra Post to walk with him over the mountain, a distance of three or four where he swore out a warrang inst he, the charge being “breake ing the Sabbath.” The Justice ro= fused to try the case, upon which the deputy sheriff let her returm home by rersel: in the night over @ lonely and dangerous mountain way, The Superior Court was in session at the time, but the Sclicitor General fused ts prosecute cue case and ore dered it sent back to the Justice of the Peace. After two weeks she was taken betere another Justice, who also Jeclined to sit on the ease, She then c.mpelled to go to Murphy, Where no trial was secured. hereupon she was returned to the nd Justice, who ended the game of battled. ce and shuttlecock by go ing through a farcical trial and finde ing her enitty An appeal was taken to the Crinad inal Court at Murphy. spent two weeks attending Ausust term of court, and much ad= ditional time at later terms of the same court, awaiting trial, The case was called for trial at the winter term. The evidence reveal that she was the breadwinner for aged husioand and a family of chile dren, and that malice and bad feels ing had prompted: the prosecution: The first ballot of the jury resulted in nine for acquittal and three for conviction. In a few minutes the three joined the majority, and the accused was set free and sent back to her home and friends 1 's sald that the deputy sheriff who arrested her has left\that part of the country, The miners of that section do not keep the Sabbath, and few obsorve Sunday. This persecution took place in a State where the Sunday law isp universally violated by steam cars, automobiles and other kinds of noises making vehicles, ‘These are driv over the thoroughfares in congest centres where there are many. churches. Churchgoers pay no ate tention to the general disregard of the Sunday Law The history of this case gives mistakable evidence of a persecuting spirit manifested against a poor, d fensciess woman who, against ab religiously obeys the Commands ments of God and is willing to suffer for conscience’s sake. Though classed among the humblest, her endurance 1s commendable and her case hag doubtless been the means of preach4 ing the Integrity of God's law to the highest in the State of North Careg lina. i Ten-Minute Studies of New York City _Government Copyright, 192%, by the Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World). 1 By Willis Brooks Hawkins. ' This is the 104th article of @ scries defining the duties of the ada ministrative and legislative officerg and bourds of the New York City Government, THE JUDICIARY. Probation. Probation officers, appointed toni lists promulgated by the Civil Service Commission after competitive exanuns ution, are connected with the Court of Special Sessions, the City Magi trates’ Courts and the Childrea'g Court, In the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court, as well as in the Court of General Sessions —probatiog ‘york 1s done by designated represents atives of the various religious denome nations. In the County Courts of Bronx, Kings and Queens employees known as “county detectives"? pers torm the probation work. In tue |Pichmond County Court this work L9 |done by probation officers. connected | with other courts, ‘These officers are the confidenttal agents of the Judges, the Justices and the Magistrates, Their duty 1s to as« certain facts in cases coming up for judgment and to keep the court In. formed as to the actions of each In« ¢ividual placed in their charge. Thes} ‘re also expected to advise and help their probationers. The City Magistrates’ Courts have central probation office with @ arge staff under the control of tne Isoard of Magistrates. All probattos cases of female defendants are ty charge of woman probation officers, The Children's Court probation staff consists of a Chief Probation Officer, two Deputy Chiefs and & Inrge number of officers, Each etl¢ 48 faith who acts az ite adviser, visiting «ts m6 of fle giardian choot {than half we iren furnd g tity ir th uy ep tae probatt obtain the court tt formstory ” ty assigned to a probation officer c£* its own relig and commit the child to a penal or sme Anti othe 4