The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 30

=e La Bn og ON ey Bee a ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN MPudiished Daily Rxcop: 8 by The Prose Company, Now, 53 (0 6 Park Raw, New Yo. RALPH PULITZER, President J. ANGUS BAW, T 1 PULIT@ER J: 308! | Associated Pres le exah 1s dewpaiches er 1t oF not ounerwine erewteo in tag pagey local mews publisuea herein ‘The au WHY THE DELAY? 1 ie Transit Committee of the Hylan Business Men's League has made a great discovery. stague are now opened to the The eyes of the faci that “the people of New York paid last year $9,000,000 more than a S<ent tare through the elimination of routes and the abolition of transfers.” | Bravo! But what kind of spectacles were members of the Hylan Business Men's League wearing last fall? Four months ago The Evening World exposed the 5-cent fare claim as the prize fake of the Hylan | campaign. It was clearly shown then that only 358 free transfer points remained on the surface lines’ of this city as against 2,365 when John F. Hylan first became Mayor. i There were shown to be 227 points with a trans- fer charge of 2 cents, making a 7-cent fare, and 4,780 points with no transfer at all, making a 10- cent fare. c These facts and figures were fully established when the Hylan’ Business Men’s League was boost- ing the Mayor for re-election as the protector of thé S-cent fare that had ceased to exist. Why has it taken the League all this time to discover that there has been “too much talk of a 5.cent fare and too little talk of improved service?” | These Hylan business men are to be congratu- lated on arriving at a straight business view of transit conditions. | But why the delay? | Republican Senators are discovering that | seating Newberry has not settled the question. | “Vilification,” says Senator Spencer, “is not evidence.” | Quite true, but evidence did not govern the | Senate's action. “Vituperation,” Senator Spencer adds, “can- not be substituted for facts in the Senate.” | Again true—because facts never found lodge- | ment in the minds of the Newberryites. | THE NOTABLE EXCEPTION. 66] T IS about time,” says H. Edmund Machold, Speaker of the Assembly, “these investigat- ing committees quit. They have been a consid- erable cost to taxpayers.” As a general proposition, this is unassailable. The Meyer committee is a Weautiful example with a deficit larger than the original appropriation and a record as valuable as a cancelled 2-cent stamp. There are others little, if any, more serviceable. | The rent gougers and leasters, the crooked labor leaders, the building material conspirators and the pawn-broking mortgage lenders would agree with the showing he has if he had not perjured himself. Conspiracy proceedings also look proinising. “Shenking” is so intricate a process that the cleverest of lawyers cannot cover the trail the Judges ought to follow in punishing Shenk. Shenk, millionaire as he is, has a criminal record He was tried, convicted and served a jail sentence for renting property for disorderly purposes. Almost any oné would imagine that.a man could | nol sink Much lower. But Shenk seized the first opportunity to “shenk” his tenants. He goes from bad to worse. WHERE TO FIND IT. the soldiers’ bonus would cost’ $425,000,000 a year for the first two years, Secretary Mellon tells the House Ways and Means Committee. The only practicable way to raise the money is by special taxation. The Secretary of the Treasury indicates a possible list—mostly increases of present jaxes. He expressly states that he does not “rec. ommend” any of these taxes. He adds: “I should say that we cannot incre: the | taxes already in existence, as they already are as burdensome as should be borne. We THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922, Rest From the Tre should go further and find some broad class of commodity on which reasonable taxes would not be too great a burde Secretary Mellon does not specify ‘here we can look for such a commodity. But it is easy to think of one. Legalize the sale of light wines and beer and the bonus ‘tax puzzle is solved. No repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is nec- essary. Lt Congress merely interpret the term “intoxi- cating liquors” in the light of reason and truth. | Here is a chance to get back to respect for law, promote true temperance and provide for a soldier .bonus—all by one simple act of honesty and com- mon sense. The country should demand that it be done. It certainly cannot be the weather which has driven Mayor Hylan to Palm-Beach. INQUIRY OR INQUISITION > 66] AM going to conduct this hearing in my own way,” was Commissioner David Hirshfield’s preface to resumed inquiry into reasons for police | interference with the birth control meeting in Town Hall Nov. 13 last. | We note, however, that Mr. Hirshfield’s way has changed from bluster to blandness. Instead of try- ing to frighten the birth control advocates to death, his present plan seems to be to beguile them into admitting that they are all disciples of Emma Gold- man and—to put it delicately—of a certain age. | This may be better than storming at them, But | just what has it to do with determining the specitic grounds on which the police broke up the Town | Hall meeting of Nov. 13? If Commissioner Hirshfield desires to tight birth control, he is pertectly free to hire the Town Hall Speaker Machold. They would like to see all leg- | or any other hall and pulverize the movement to his islative inquiries suspended—and most particularly the Lockwood committee. This is the reason the Speaker's generalizations on this question are disturbing to New Yorkers. They fear a covert attack on the Lockwood cam- mittee under the guise of an attack or all com- mittees. The Lockwood committee should be an exception. But Speaker Machold need not reverse himself or be inconsistent. All he needs to do is to modify his generalization to except any committee not ex- pensive to the taxpayers. That lets the Lockwood committee continue, for it is the agency for saving the money of the tax- payers. The fines and penalties collected from evildoers discovered by the committee amount to a good deal more than the expenses of the com- miltee. The Lockwood committee makes money for the State and for the taxpayer. Motion picture press agenis are wise in stressing the puritanical aura which is to sur round the model movie village projected foy long Island. New York has enough of a crime wave without Hollywood trimmings. “SHENKING.” VER reading The Evening World's exposure of the business policies pursued by Joseph ¢ New York public will have no difficulty Shen in understanding the meaning of a newly coined word—"shenking.” I is imperative that “shenking” shall be treated asa crime. It includes all the deviously dishonest devices by which Shenk and his colleagues have harassed the tenants of New York for the last two or three years “Shenking” has erir T aspects which should be punished by the courts. An owner we impossible to “shenk” his tenants if he gave honest and truthful information to the Justices trying tie rent case, Shenk and his partners washed sales, juggled foans and valuations, traded back and forth, schemed, conspired and contrived to mulet tenants The honor of the courts demands that should be punished. Skenk could not have mad¢ hent Shenk heart's content. But why should his personal opinions on the sub- ject enter into his investigation of « detinite act of the police, ‘the justification of which act must depend upon simple evidence as to whether or not a law was broken? The Commissioner stili seems to think that what he is conducting is not an inquiry but an inquisition, ‘The success of Nationa! Smile Week will de- pend largely on the preposition. here is a world of difference in smiling with, smiling to and smiling at. ¢ ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. We wish Mr. Volstead or somebody would stop ladies from wearing pheasant tails in the queer con traptions they use to cover their chignons. Hvery time they turn their heads, which is quite often, they threaten the adjacent eyesight. kok of ‘The straight-line Brooklyn trolley benches are de- signed to seat seventeen passengers eighteen inchea wide, So many of our citizens exceed this spac: limit as to frequently overcrowd the situation, thus more folks have to stand. #4 Amy Lowell writes “A Bird’s Eye View of KE. 4. Robinson” for the magazine called The Dial Amy is a plump bird, weighing over 260 pounds oe re We wish the clothing makers would settle their troubles and then begin sewing buttons on so they stay pul. Ever since the industry became “or ganized” buttons have been unreliable. Of what use are suspenders with nothing to hitch them to? eerie will street farmers’ bloc must be Grange Hall on Main The holes in Swiss cheese are much larger than before the war and the price of the delicatessen j\s 45 cents a pound. Why? Used to be 29° Ifa Senator buys a seat doesn't he own it?) Why a:l the fuss? ae . Our own Samuel Peeps says he never sets a to admill By John Cassel Copyright, 1922, (New York ing World) by Press Pub, Co. From Evening World Readers What king of letter do you find most readable? Ien’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 ay much in few words. oR Flickeritis. To the kx ‘Die Evening World Why can’t the Interborough officials | cause their subways to be better illuminated? It is practically impossi- | to read. The lights constantly flicker, and in some cars the occupants even ride in total darkness. The average person hasn't much time to read his morning or evening paper and has to depend on his jour- ney in the subway to do so. Perhaps the I. R. T. officials may say it is impossible to illuminate their cars better, but I think such a state- ment would be false. The B. R. T. cars are much better illuminated, and the lights hardly flicker at all Why can’t the I, R. 'T. cars be the same way? — BRICE B. GOSLIN. Brooklyn, N. ¥., Jan. ble The cruel beating received by Peter Carmichael and other World War vet- ans should not go unchallenged by ne American Legion. There is some- thing of the low animal in a man who deliberately beats another who vannot offer any resistance. He should be tried by an unbiased tri- bunal as to his fitness tor t force. The present custom of lettifig he Police Department try “their own is not justice. The decision they \and down would always up department ‘ld the The city should be more careful whom it clothes with a police uniform. A little authority, a blackjack, a club and a revolver are liable to make some men feel desperate, but not des- perate enough to hunt che “lion in his den.” Bubbling over with this bra- vado spirit, on the slightest provoca- tion they bring the “arsenal” into action, We want the spirit that would go over the top in the gark of night and hunt the enemy invhis trench. Go after the real culprits, the desperate stick-up men, murderers, and put the “devil's fear” into them FE. GEORGE CHEVREUN JR The Remedy tn Education Vo the Editor of The Evening World Permit mc to add my feeble voice n the hope that, with others, the darkening clouds of resentment will gather the more quickly and hasten the storm which shail break the| hackles of Prohibition. Surely, never in the history of @ sreat, mighty and industrious people, eady ever to fight for righteousness, freeme1 respecting and upho ws of the Nation, has t such @ travesty on to rights of man. We are not a nation of dyinkunds full of profaneness t ch laws as Prohibition and the coming « l.ws are justifiable. Sine ¢ e devil entered Eden and ¢ world tempt jon w 1 damnable, tools! | Brag Whiskey anu Like spirits shou.d in ed yn, nvt legisla cor Take time to be brief. be under the ban and their sale controlled the same as dangero:s crugs, but give us back our ligh wines and beer. < Laws are made in this country, sup- posedly, for the good of the many, not for the benefit of a misguided few who, are unbarring the gates of pundemoni- um and letting loose upon our land such crimes and corruption as never before existed. I challenge any one to establish the fact that Prohibition has made our people better, Their arguments are answered by the daily press. Only good laws will eam the respect of people for our institutions, Successful attempts to make us trembling slaves and sneaks by force will destroy our faith, which, once broken, how shall we gather the frag- ments and rear it again? F. A. ARNESEN. New York City, Jan, 30, 1922. ‘axes for the Bonus. To the euitor of The Evening World In one of your recent issues appears the statement that the people of the United States are to be taxed for the soldiers’ bonus in addition to the stag- gering imposts levied on them as a result of the late world war Don't you think this is an inoppor-» tune time to burden the American public when business is in a state of demoralization, when thousands are out of work and are barely able to eke out a living? ‘There can be no doubt that if the bonus bill is carried into effect the people will be unable to pay it, and even if they were in a position to do \ so they would be justified in refusing to be taxed, because the work our sol- diers did was their plain duty and | should require no reward from a peo- |ple Who have given to every cause \under the gun and who can give no | more. cf. | Brooklyn, Jan. 31, 1922 | Give Her a Chance. | Po the Editor of The Evening World |" what's the idea of abusing, scold- ing and nagging the modern girl? She is called flapper, flirt and other names and made a@ subject for daily discussion. Do you notice who does the scolding? Most likely it is some one who in her younger days was | \Obliged to git in one corner of the | parlor while ber “beau” sat in an- others Don't nag the modern gir! living at a fast pace. It Is the times that make her act as she does, She ig called frank. Rather have a girl be frank than a “prize-bag” wTose contents are unknown ‘the modern girl has much noe and iy better able to tal jerseif than the girl teu ye Give her a chance S. EDWARD N New York, Jan, 81, 1922. | exper vont a UNCOMMON SENSE By Jonn Blake by Joho Blake.) YOUR BEST PROBLEM. Never was a time when more problems confronted the world. Peace has not vet been established on the earth, It is filled with warlike if not actually warring people. Credits have been annihilated, Great nations are facing bankruptcy. The best minds of the world are appalled by the erate of the work before them. Your préblem, Fowever, is much the same as it was ten Years ago, It is you and your own future, If every one of the more than one and a half billion people on the earth solved that problem there would be no work of any consequence for the statesmen of the world to do. If every man in this country decided that from this time forward he would put forth his best efforts toward prodvc- tion, the production problem, one of the most baffling of them all, would be settled. If every man decided that he would thenceforth peac- tise intelligent thrift --not by hiding his money away bu: by putting it safeiy to work—the financial problem would be solved, u In 1870 France, confronted with a seemingly crushing debt, started to worl to pay it. And it was paid in an aston- ishingly shore-time ‘The statesmen of the world cannot solve world problems satisfactorily tillthe citizens of the world settle satisfactoruy their personal problems. If you, as an iadiviaual, will begin to plan out your future you wilt do much toward aiding the settlement of tne questions that are ‘now perplexing the world, You cannot, by what you do, pay Germany's debt or make Germany pay it. You cannot relieve the nations of the burdens of arma- ment, rina. But you can make it necessary for your Government to look out for you or to devise ways and means to get out of you what you owe it for income tax, It is your ewn personal problem that concerns you most. Solve that you must if you are to promote your own: happi- hess, If you solve it well you will help to solve the big prob lems, For you ean clothe and feed yourself and many others by steady, productive laber; and, after all, the world problem is most conecrnea with the clothing and the feeding and the protection of thy people who are a problem because they are sure of none o- these things. Settling yous own troubles is not going to make a statesman out of you or get your name written in the Hall of Fame, But it is your jol and you have got to do it. If you slo it well you will not need to trouble about the rest of the world. | horses."" or wee “That’s a Fact’’ the German tongue ‘the language of MUSICAL CLASSICS How and Why They Were Written By AUGUSTUS PERRY. Copyright. 19% (x THE SONGS OF FRANZ SCHU- BERT. (Born Jan, 31, 1707.) Franz Liszt calfed Schubert “the most poetic of musicians.” Schu- mann, the greatest of the romantic- ists, said that “Schubert could turma wall advertisement into music.” Yet, despite his. wonderful talent, Schu- bert Was a pitiful figure. He led an irregular life: and never really knew the blessings of a proper home. Hib modesty and timidity were great hin- drances to, his career. He was, not understood by the musicians and was ‘unknown to,the publishers. He is the Robert Burns of music, The careers of both are similar, 7 In 1816 he composed ‘his ftamoun song, “The Erl-King,” a setting of Goethe's poem. The next year he sen} it to Messrs, Breitkopf and Hartel, music publishers of Leipsig. The fol- lowing incident shows ‘how little sig~ nificance was then attached to the title, “rranz Schubert of Vienna”: When the publishers saw the com- poser's name and address they ex- claimed, “Franz Schubert? Vienna? Evidently there is some mistake here, Franz Schubert lives in Dresden. He is the royal church composer and is an eminent, respectable, middle-aged man, What has he to do with Vienna or Erl-Kings?” They sqpt the curi- ous manuscript to Frapz Schubert of Dresden and ed for an explan: tion, The musician replied as fol- lows: “About ten days ago I received your letter, with which you forwarded to. me @ manuscript, ‘The Erl-King,’ that professes to be by me. With the utmost astonishment I inform you |that this cantata was nsver com- posed by me. I will use every en- deavor to discover who has so dis- courteously sent you this bit of patchwork and expose the scoundrel | who has so misused my name.” | The song is now considered one of [the finest ever written. It’ is a standard concert number. It was published in ‘February, 1821, in the first part of the “Lieder” (Songs), There is another anecdote that ts interesting in connection with his songs. One Sunday afternoon, during the month of July, 1826, Schubert with some friends was returning from a stroll. While passing through the village of Waring, they came to a beer-garden where they met some ac- quaintances. The friends sat down to have some refreshment. One of Schubert's companions -had a volume of Shakespeare with him. The youthful composer took up the book and began to glance casually through it, Suddenly he pointed to the beau- tiful selection, “Hark! Hark! the Lark!” from “Cymbeli: “Oh!” he exclaimed, “Such a lovely melody has come into my head! If [ jbut had some masic-paper.” None beipg available, a member of the j|company rapidly drew some staves on the back of a menu-card. Then amidst the noise and confusion of the beer-garden, the genius wrote his ex- quisite song, “Hark! Hark! the Lark!” That same night, being in the restaurant again, he composed the lovely song, “Who Is Sylvia?” He usually carried a notebook with him wherever he went in order to jot down his ideas. By reason of his poetic tempera- ment, Schubert was particularly well fitted for song composition. His genius found greatest expression in this form. Other great songs of his are, “The Wanderer,” Maiden,” “Mignon's Song, die Rub.” and “Gretchen at the Spin- ning Wheel.” Schubert died at the untimely age thirty-one, His contemporaries undoubtegly expected much from his future, for the insoription on his tombstone read: “Music hath treasure, ‘but hopes.” of ‘¢ entombed a rich still more glorious | WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD? | 131—CREOLE. The question is often asked, whether the word “Creole” applies to colored persons, or whether it ts restricted to white persons. The answer is that 4 Creole may be either white or colored. The primary definition of the word is: native of the West Indies or of Spanish America, but not of native parents.” The secondary meaning 1 “One of any color born within om nej the tropics of America.” Accordin| ly: you have your choice. The derivation of the word tends to imply the wider application. Its root is the Latin “creo,” to create or bring up (raise). The Spanish form, “Cri- ollo,” is a derivative of “orlado,” one brought up or bred, or “raised.” The looseness of definition, how- ever, does not necessarily mean that the Empress Josephine was not 100 per cent. white LINES TO MY LADY'S EAR. ‘Tis hard to sing my lady's charm So many charms hath she. But I like most her dainty ear As she turns to welcome me! dts lines ave the lines of beauty " Southwick “Land of the Morning Calm" is a . By Albert P poetical name given by the Coreans| 8 drawn by the artist old, OPT the Drees Publisting ¢ jo, thelr ‘country, Corea or Korea. | J¢ reate behing @ dimple | The nese who have seized this| ssia hair of chestnut atic pe a ha old. OEdipus, in mythe lore, was | Asiatic ninsula have renamed it} 9 nosen | e hero of a celeb nd which - 88 | though of the most revolting No shell of chambered nautilus n itself, supplied both Euripides jeskin” was the satirical sur- With its whisper of the sea Sophocles with themes for celeb given to Joseph Blake, a noted | Hath half the grace adorning gedics lish highwayman, executed on| pny eqr be Nov. 11 His complexion was| 7"¥ ear doth lend to: thee! Chasles V. of France nicknamed | very dark, JOHN KEETS. . 4 2m